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We have media houses divided and audiences "affirming." I love reading comment sections below videos or articles, but as media outlets get increasingly polarized & ideological, so do their audiences resulting in comment sections that are filled with consensus.
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is it my imagination or has 'latinx' been totally stolen by the rightwing so that it's only used ironically on the right now?
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it is kind of annoying sometimes that i say 'americans' for citizens of the USA when contrasting them with other citizens of american nations, like mexico or something i do it, what else am i supposed to do? but it feels ludicrous
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"Thatโ€™s right: Two different people independently faked data for two different studies in a paper about dishonesty." The start of what promises to be an eye-popping investigation into data fraud in studies by a big-deal Harvard Business School professor:
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this is completely reasonable though UK government is famously good at efficiently investigating crimes committed by niche groups
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Replying to @rSanti97
OMG what naivety. Obviously managing communities of tens of millions of people is beyond your imagination. Of course there are plans in place, and of course there are crowd control elements. If you donโ€™t preempt the immediate post-trauma narrative, someone else might and theyโ€ฆย Show more
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SCOOP: In 2021, you may recall a famous study about honesty getting retracted due to fraudulent data (ironic). But that wasn't the end. An author now says that per a Harvard investigation, the study had even more fraudulent data than previously revealed
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Very pleased to release FlexSweep and some new summary stats, designed for versatility in detecting selective sweeps of different types and robustness to background selection, demographic model misspecification, and recombination rate. 1/n
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genetically russians without much east asian ancestry are not that different from 'anglo-saxons.' the big diff in europe is btwn north and south, not west to east, partly cuz all europeans of the northern have substantial corded ware ancestry
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Russian scientists must develop a biological weapon that would only work on Anglo-Saxons - says Lieutenant General Andrey Gurulev, member of defense committee in Russian parliament. "Since such a situation has developed, we ourselves need to sit down, our scientists, and developโ€ฆย Show more
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i mean this is how it's going to happen. progressive south asians will historysplain to me and tell me to "educate" myself as they mindlessly repeat blatant propagandistic lies with no shame or awareness ๐Ÿ˜‚ it's going to happen...
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ngl, vivek ramaswamy is a master of what some of my friends call "throwing meat to the animals"...
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The fact that this is easily shown to be wrong doesnโ€™t matter, progressive south Asians will co-sign out of allyship and the lie will become truth. But no truth no progress. It is how it is
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i mean the issue was naturalization, not immigration quotas, with thind. naturalization was given to white people and after the civil war to black ppl. local courts decided who was white often; arabs tended to be allowed grudgingly. indians were on the other side...
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it didn't happen in a 'big bang' in '65, it was gradual nationality by nationality en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_imm indians were allowed to naturalize in 1946 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luce%E2%8 facts matter. even if they make narratives more complicated
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That precedent stood until 1965 when LBJ signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Why did he do it? Because BLACK PEOPLE had fought for civil rights. Because of desegregation and other civil rights laws, Republicans fled the GOP
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I did a pregnancy portrait shoot and one of the takes had a nipple slip, which would require me to censor before posting to Instagram. Can Adobe's AI Generative Fill save the day by "covering" the nipple with an extension of the model's shirt? No. The AI is also censored.
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If even young conservatives support Labour, is this not a case of brand damage as much as (or more than) "deep culture"? Consider Scotland where many right voters won't vote Tory for brand reasons.
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the reason hamtramck is playing out the way it is is that the muslim community there is heavily immigrant and a social/cultural ghetto. most american muslims are way more normie...
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i should say i think overestimates the rigidity and orthodoxy of american muslims. surveys from the 2010's indicate they're btwn evangelical protestants and the mainstream on stuff like gay rights; a large socially liberal contingent exists
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Muslim-Christian Alliance Against #Pride , by @SarahTheHaider open.substack.com/pub/sarahhaide
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