#Climate

There is no such thing as a natural disaster. Natural hazards like hurricanes, earthquakes, extreme temperatures become human disasters when they interact with unsafe housing, poor drainage, lack of savings,
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Tomorrow is this talk by talented Paul Magwene. He is one of the deepest thinker of my former trainees.@lpachter kindly pointed Paul, Paul Lizardi, and I conceptualized pseudotime and I
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The Grand Thread of my ideas to improve society. Hopefully worth reading. Employment cannot be judged as a choice. It's that or the benefit/food bank life, which, let's face it,
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When you talk to your family and red-leaning folks in your life, I'm sure you've noticed they live in a completely different reality. They talk about news and conspiracies that
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In April 2020, the Special Committee on the #COVID19 Pandemic, held it’s first meeting. Since then, they have met twenty five times to discuss our nations response the pandemic. My
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Strange and funny first-principles-y conversation with wife: if you wanna fix problems, you need to have some kind of model in your mind for how problems get fixed. I think
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Here's a thread documenting the epic incompetence of the Trump administration + the GOP in dealing with the pandemic. Some Democratic politicos deserve severe critiques also (Cuomo and DeBlasio being
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Can an electric car do all the things a conventional car can? Are they really a silver bullet for fighting #climatechange. We spent 20 hours on the road to find
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Well that’s it. I am quitting @UKLabour. I don’t expect anyone to care, but let me explain via this thread why, so as to act as a cathartic cleansing for
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“Big picture” observation - a Biden win isn’t even the ultimate goal. A short (cynical) thread. 1/x What’s more aggravating - the fraudulent votes, or the systematic suppression of any
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To my fellow Canadian farmers, we have all undoubtedly seen the chaos of yesterday in Washington DC. Rioting in response to anger whipped up by a petty looser, but stoked
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Help thread for those who are thinking about when to sell:- Nobody really knows where the top is- Those who draw lines on charts are generally clueless, don't trust them-
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#EconTwitter I want to take a moment today and list all the topics that economists study that aren't the stock market:- student debt- racial wealth gap- prison industrial complex- sex
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"Klaus Schwab is a child of Adolf Hitler’s Germany, a police-state regime built on fear and violence, on brainwashing and control, on propaganda and lies, on industrialism and eugenics, on
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Thread. India Farmers Protests Goes Vogue.Celebrities, influencers – & British Vogue - suddenly interested in #FarmersProtests that began in Nov. Despite MASSIVE resistance, the protests have been largely ignored by
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Democracy is promoted as the gold standard of governmental systems, compared favourably to oppressive regimes the world over. But is democracy truly democratic, or is it an illusion designed to
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