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WinstanleyRT @LesGillon
Why is it that a pay rise for a teacher causes inflation, but a bonus for a banker doesn't?
Why is it that a pay rise for a teacher causes inflation, but a bonus for a banker doesn't?
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We all die at some point, what else is there than to try and make the World a better place? https://nathanlewis4congress.wixsite.com/ind-tx19
david robertsInduction stoves are the fastest, safest, healthiest, and ✨fanciest✨way to cook. @[email protected] donned his finest electric purple attire to show off just how fancy this technology is.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/rewiringamerica/status/1620117467011125248
Rohan GreyInterestingly, if you go to the law and scroll down on the same page, you'll see the other statutory provision where they limit the TsySec's authority to mint coins based on what the Federal Reserve decides is appropriate.
jk jk, there's nothing of the sort.
Strikes me that arguments over whether structural racism "caused" this or that event mirror arguments over whether climate change "caused" this or that event.
Wrote about that way back in 2012. https://grist.org/climate-change/did-climate-change-cause-the-colorado-wildfires/
Most people intuitively understand this difference, but lots of the discourse around both climate change & structural racism involves people pretending you're talking about proximal causation when you're talking about distal causation.
Oh wait, one other note. Earlier in the piece: "To my mind, the role and responsibility of a columnist is to always write what you think."
Let me just suggest that a prior responsibility, in line before "write what you think," is ***inform yourself about your subject***.
https://twitter.com/lara_korte/status/1618044738632056832
One of the people injured in a mass shooting this week told @[email protected] he was trying to get out of the hospital ASAP because he couldn't afford the medical bill.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lara_korte/status/1618044738632056832
I find this so frustrating. America's ignorance & neglect toward public transit long predate the push for EVs, so how on earth could the push for EVs be *responsible* for it?
The push for zero-emission cars has frustrated public transportation advocates, who say that the US needs to focus on greener alternatives to driving https://trib.al/gOKhAka
One of the most significant costs to Biden of the documents case is the opportunity cost: Democrats will now have a hard time using Trump's mishandling of classified papers against him, even though the particulars of the two cases are markedly different.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/us/politics/biden-trump-documents-special-counsel.html
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1618008524549767168
