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#dd_EssayLink has been discontinued. #dd_deprecated
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❶ These ⵌs indicate a visual backup of my own text preserved as screen-capture photos on 🐦. By source:
#gpc_AcvIG Captions on Instagram (that may also be duplicated on FB)
#gpc_AcvFB Text ONLY available on Facebook
#gpc_AcvBlog My blog post
#gpc_AcvYT YouTube description
@juliagalef I don’t understand the whole concept of “wedding”. Why should you have to promise in public your lifetime dedication to someone? It seems like you’re killing free will in a single stroke. True dedication is something you can only practice day by day.
@juliagalef I disagree. What "most readers" think is irrelevant (#ArgumentumAdPopulum). If a comment bothers you subconsciously in real time, it's a tickler that it needs to be looked at. If a complaint was truly baseless, you could snicker and blow it off in an instant. #ScoutWisdom
@juliagalef@mattyglesias 🤦♀️ Are you going to repost 𝗔𝗟𝗟 ***256*** past ⚖️🗣🎙 #RSP episodes to cover up the gaff of wiping out all their URLs on June 11? 🤯
By popular request, my latest podcast guest is Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias)! Audio + transcript:
https://t.co/5FxpAtvpb7
I had a blast with this one. Some highlights:
1. Matt talking about how he is trying to be a better rationalist (be still my heart!) ...
🤔 Research confirmation for something we already knew: People who signal their victimhood are often amoral jerks.
🕺🏻 #dd_jerk#dd_study#dd_personality#dd_p
Bulgaria battles to stop its brain drain - A high death rate and low birth rate have worsened the population decline | Financial Times, Jan 2018 https://t.co/B0yoWG8r57
𒁂Europe Index𒁂🇪🇺
The 🧵 below is a ⛓list of #gpc_TweetAlbum’s of my own videos & photos from Europe, usually by country.
The heyday of my overseas travel was 2008-19. I visited every country in Europe except Russia.
🏷#de_EuropeIndex
🕺🏻 #dL_MyStuff
🇨🇳⑦ A passive-aggressive rebellion in China: Young people fight the system by #tangping or "lying down"—not cooperating with the plan 🗞 Wash Post https://t.co/jzueFPjBRM 👹👼
📣GC: Not at all surprising, and there's little the gov't can do.
🕺🏻 #dd_cn#dd_wapo
🇯🇵🏊 You'd think bankrupt countries would learn by now: The last thing you need is an #Olympics to drain your country's finances and put the nails in your coffin. First Athens, now Tokyo. Others: https://t.co/S53Nako2ky 🕺🏻 #dd_jp#dd_footshot 🤦
Only LA 1984 broke even.
𒁂UFOs Are Back!𒁂🛸
Monitoring the skies for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena⸺20+ years after I got out of the field myself.
🧵🏷#de_UFO
🕺🏻 #dd_TweetEssay#gpc_ufo