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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 7
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    Looking for a thing I saw about a dog that learned to push kids into the water so it could save them from drowning and be rewarded with steak or something. Anyone remember this? Can’t find the link/tweet

    10:08 PM - 7 Jan 2020
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      2. Charles Neill  🥴‏ @ccneill Jan 7
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        Charles Neill  🥴 Retweeted Tina Jordan

        https://twitter.com/tinajordannyt/status/1183082845356613633 …

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        Tina JordanVerified account @TinaJordanNYT
        Front-page NYT story, 1908 pic.twitter.com/RyoufFJAPo
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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 7
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        Yes! Thanks

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      2. Meng Weng Wong‏ @mengwong Jan 7
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        You know this already but just in case it’s relevant https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100404/2112388868.shtml … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect …

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        Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Nicholas Kristof

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        Nicholas KristofVerified account @NickKristof
        My own realization that we were over our heads in Afghanistan came when I interviewed farmers who pretended to set up Taliban camps that the US would then bomb. The farmers would collect the remnants of millions of dollars worth of bombs and sell them for $100 as scrap metal.
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        This one?https://iheartdogs.com/clever-hero-dog-faked-emergencies-to-earn-treats/ …

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