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Looks like this particular bot doesn't understand that Bloomberg Opinion and Bloomberg News are two different organizations within Bloomberg! :-)
This bot thinks it's one of the Knights Hospitaller, apparently
This bot apparently thinks that someone will be blocking the word "Bloomberg" in some algorithm
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One thing I think would help reduce elite Millennial burnout/disappointment/rage is for people to stop thinking that their job should save the world.

"Save the world" and "make the world a better place" are probably just things employers tell you to get you to work for cheap.
Maybe your job will give you meaning and purpose and a sense of doing good for the world.

Or maybe it'll just make you some money so you can raise some kids, have some pet rabbits, and be active in your local community.

There's more than one way to get meaning in life.
Also, people glorify saving the world when it probably just gives you PTSD.

We like watching Star Wars and Lord of the Rings and whatever, but we wouldn't want to actually fight Darth Vader or slog through Mordor. That would cause major burnout!
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1/Since Trump's demand for his Wall is in the headlines, I thought it would be a good time for a thread about a history book I just read:

"Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America", by Daniel Tichenor (2002)

amazon.com/Dividing-Lines…
2/The book starts out with a chapter or two of dense, unnecessary political science jargon, saying that - essentially - U.S. immigration policy tends to move very slowly, because powerful politicians and officials resist the tide of public opinion.
3/But most of the book is an extremely readable, eye-opening history of U.S. immigration policy, from the founding through the 1990s.

It shows how the immigration debates we're now having have been with us, in some form or another, for a very long time.
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Thread about why very high tax rates on very rich people don't raise much revenue (or reduce inequality much, even within the top tier).

Our system has a million loopholes. Closing them is more important than raising top rates.
That's not to say there's a trade-off between raising the top rate and closing loopholes! They are complements, not substitutes.

But if you just raise the top rate without closing loopholes, you'll likely be disappointed.
The fact is, raising effective taxes on the very rich will require a comprehensive sustained push on a large number of policy fronts. There is not going to be one silver bullet.
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During the last 3 hours, @DuPouvoirDachat had 227 interactions (post, retweet, reply, quote) on Twitter. It's 1,26 interactions per minute. This is the most active Twitter profile during this time. Obviously, this account is a #bot #fakeNews #misinformation
Worth to say, I'm capturing only the tweets with "Gilets Jaunes" or "GiletsJaunes" in the text. So the total number of interactions is bigger than that.
He joined Twitter in August 2018 and his tweet counter is 98183.

98183 tweets / 150 days ~= 654 tweets per day
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#Breaking: French state TV station @France3tv in #France caught altering Signs of protestors on pre recorded footage when they were protesting at the "opera garnier" previous Saturday. Credit who saw it and pointed this out: @JOHNMEY28401489 #GiletsJaunes #YellowVests #Acte5
#Update: More Close up of the Sign! Shows that they cut the finger tip of the protestor to alter the sign! That is why we don't trust the Main Stream Media! #FakeNews #GiletsJaunes #YellowVests
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One of the messages that changed my approach to life and my life itself was by Pastor Poju a few years ago and it was titled “How Your Thoughts About Others Affect Your Own Life.”

For the past few years, that teaching has shaped my attitude towards others and changed my life.
I was born into a church where the mantra was that for it to be well with you, it must be woeful for someone else - and this is reflective of African society where people believe that their inadequacies are the fault of someone else blocking them or taking away their shine.
I must have listened to that message over 100 times since then and internalised the lessons to a point where I now find it difficult to wish ill on anyone else, even when the person clearly manifests to me as an adversary.

A heart filled with hate can rarely make progress.
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Ready for a blast from the past? Here, in chronological order, are pictures of various TF2 maps I started years ago, all but one of them unfinished and unreleased:
November 8, 2007. One month after the release of Team Fortress 2, I started working on ctf_coret, an adaptation of the map of the UT99 map of the same name. I made radical changes to the center to support TF2's gameplay. The only screenshot I can find is this, the red flag room:
That screenshot is actually from my submission to a March 2009 TF2Maps "intel room" detailing contest, but as far as I recall, it is entirely unchanged from the last alpha of ctf_coret in December 2007 or January 2008.

Someone else adapted ctf_coret later deviantart.com/aniukha/galler…
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It pains me to observe people (mis)use the word identity, robbing it of nuance, as if it’s something obvious, well understood, and simple. It is not <thread>
Identity could mean:
1. Sociocultural category (white, gay, nerd, progressive, etc.), such as what many in marginalized communities are robbed off by the mainstream society. In this context identity is a drive and is inalienable.
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It's #day3 of the Kavanaugh hearing; I'm watching so you don't have to.

Catch up on #day2 below and follow this thread for a play by play.

dailykos.com/stories/2018/9…
@ChuckGrassley's mouth is moving so you know he's lying.

He's caught Kavanaugh's repetition bug. Complaining about Ds wanting to see Kavanaugh's record. Belly-aching about how senators wouldn't want their emails exposed either.
@maziehirono has a response to the claim that she should have asked Obama appointee Judge Paul Watford, not just Kavanaugh, about affiliation with sexual predator Judge Kozinski.

It's a doozy.
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