#Conditions

ISW's #Russia team (@georgewbarros & @Mason_R_Clark) has been tracking the unfolding Russian intervention in #Belarus since August 14, when they caught & published the first warning indicator. They're hitting it
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Things are obviously horrible re COVIDOur 7-day moving avg # of infections now 130K, 11.2% positivity, 60k hospitalizations 1050 deathsBut two of our largest states are still keeping things under
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There seems to be a large difference in the mentality of Burmese vs Philipino domestic helpers in SG.Burmese look to work a few years to save enough money to buy
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Today seems like a good day to recount the horrors faced by the 82nd Airborne Division as they, in May 1945, aided the release and care of prisoners at the
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The same people who said "It can't happen here" and then "No one could have seen it coming" will now say "It wasn't really that bad." It was. Do not
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Serious thread for a moment, regarding mental health. Early in the new year are several months where typically, incidence of depression increases. In 2021, these months will coincide perfectly with
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I am looking again at the rest of Europe, starting with Portugal. Exactly the same picture as England. I estimate net 1,400 deaths postponed in Spring but it would have
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Rapid decarbonization will almost necessarily be experienced as an economic boom. Renovating buildings, investing in new structures and equipment, building infrastructure, etc. add to demand; decommissioning existing stuff does not
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Like much of the country, my kids' school district has confirmed it will be virtual-only for the first semester.Under present conditions I think this is the right call, but it
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Both sides of this debate is wrong and chauvinistichttps://twitter.com/Punished_Mansi/status/1360543400622235648 On the one hand, you have western chauvinism applying a blanket lens of nationalism, while ignoring all the actual national lib
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These are house tickets bearing the cubic contents of a tenement flat and the maximum number of occupants allowed. From 1866 onward, Corporations in Scotland sent their sanitary inspectors to
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Buying records is a privilege that a lot of people can't afford. Shaming people for using streaming platforms is boring and elitist.I need a coffee Shaming people into buying from
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A thread re: "properly basic beliefs." The idea is that there are beliefs that we form w/out making some explicit inference, and that under certain conditions (when our belief-forming processes
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Thread: Trade Plan - My thoughts and experience. You must have heard “Plan your trade and trade your plan”. #tradeplan #trading #investing #definedge Many experienced traders, authors and analysts keep
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Our new theory of #photosynthesis is up on bioRxiv! “Towards a unified theory of plant photosynthesis and hydraulics”https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.17.423132v1 Expand thread for an explainer @LabPrentice @SteniBocker @a
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0/ The FT published some excerpts from Seth Klarman’s latest investment letter “With so much stimulus being deployed, trying to figure out if the economy is in recession is like
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