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We make that here,🇨🇵, put a camembert cheese in the middle when you bake it. Instant cheese dip. Hits.

Some of them are smiling. Sort of.

They're a bit unpredictable north of the border 😂

Also the nations of the united kingdom are there individually and collectively 🤔

Approx €300m in non lethal aid.

Combusting?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Love this film. A lot.

30 years ago, Katherine Bigelow made a sci-fi flop that changed her career for the better Strange Days is a noir-soaked science-fiction thriller set against a backdrop of racial tension, police brutality, sexual assault, and disruptive tech

It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.

www.polygon.com/strange-days...

If you call yourself Christian and believe Christ would be ok with someone’s execution- anyone’s- you might be doing Christianity wrong.

Stand up and fight for democracy and human rights, damn it. People will respect you for it.

Statement by 4400 scientists on the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza
sites.google.com/view/stateme...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis) Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%) Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis) New mothers extend their maternity leaves Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%) Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%) Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%) Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people) Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%) Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%) Savings go up, debts go down Source: scottsantens

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.

This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵