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"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." - John Muir
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DuckDuckGo looks better every day
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No, this is not the base rate fallacy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_ra...
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While I’m sympathetic, note that it’s an online poll, so the results should be taken with a grain of salt.
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I have no idea how any of this will work out in the end, but it’s clear that over the next while ordinary people will suffer.
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And of course Seldon is a reference to Hari Seldon, the Wizard-of-Oz style manipulator (or saviour, depending on your viewpoint) in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series.
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You’re always welcome! I have family in the U.S. and everyone is unsettled to say the least. I suspect that as the consequences of all this reckless behaviour inreasingly impact upon the general population, there will be more pushback. Eventually, sanity and decency will prevail!
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Apparently it was from 2019 www.usatoday.com/story/news/f...
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You can read our explainer on STV and why it would be a great electoral system here! www.fairvote.ca/stv/
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Great to see you too! Yeah the tariff thing has been really weird. Everything is so chaotic with you-know-who (and his billionaire best buddy). Sanity will return … eventually.
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A reference lexicon bsky.app/profile/nbar...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakisto...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoc...
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My 2018 long read might be of interest: www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
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www.politico.com/story/2015/0...
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I largely agree with the article, but as is so often the case, the title dials up the drama with the claim that “You’re being lied to”.
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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...
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www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...