#Theory

Ok this is kind of too sad to be funny. One of the things going around the internet right now is this theory that 100's of thousands of dead people
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Now that I'm comfortably behind a keyboard, let's take on this nonsense. First, I seriously doubt Sullivan could define "critical race theory," or even "critical theory" in general. It's become
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*Everything* in psychology has a cognitive dissonance angle. Like, I'm reading up on Reactance right now, where we humans will lose our shit if we think a freedom is being
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Ok hear me out. I actually have a theory on why there's so many dildos near garbage cans and in alleys in Cyberpunk 2077. A thread. 1/4 They only use
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By coincidence I was reading an article by Nicholas O'Shaughnessy when I learned that a QAnon believer is likely headed to Congress. It reminded me that to grasp the nature
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Having dealt with Ohio 2004 election truthers for many years, I find the revisionism about Sen. Boxer and the 31 House members who voted to reject Ohio's electoral votes to
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There is a bad (academically lite) article claiming that “comfort women” are “prostitutes.” It oddly relies on game theory and ignores international law on forced labor & trafficking.The journal is
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You can't just say "restorative justice" as a way of having people avoid the more brutal consequences of crime without a baseline understanding of what that means and the concept
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leaving aside mask efficacy, will these folks (whose model famously missed by 10-100x on hospitalizations) ever tire of making circular arguments that literally say "our model assumes X does Y,
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Today is the 60th anniversary of the first tied test match held at Brisbane. This test brought cricket back from the doldrums of the boring 50's and gave us this
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I'm tired of listening to conference sessions on Intellectual Freedom. I don't want to hear a discussion; I want to hear a brave & open debate that gives me the
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This is a great listen on tech stock picking. TIL that there is a theory of General-Purpose Technologies (@ 50 mins): - steep cost declines- cut across sectors- platform of
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Apropos of nothing, I've got an assignment in The Writer's Practice where students have to unpack a conspiracy theory to uncover its origins and its allure. My experience is that
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This is a really good example of what it's like dealing with many of Jeremy Corbyn's supporters. Someone tweets on a subject, the response brings up a comment about Israel,
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Banning Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from Instagram should slow the spread of his dangerous lies and disinformation. Some publications politely call him an "anti-vaccine activist" but he's a conspiracy fantasist
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I would say something about irredentism, because u can not reduce what Israel has done post 1967 to other acts of irredentism in post-colonial countries (even though there are plenty
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