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I thought he was going to say that each new person goes in front of the person currently being served. This would motivate people to complete their orders as fast as possible.
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The argument that we can’t judge people in the past for their roles in slavery because it was acceptable in their time is based on a flawed assumption that humans have changed how they feel about slavery. They did not. No one ever thought i
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In NYC, Hasidic men speak in Yiddish while the women speak in English. They both can use the other language of course, but as a second language and with different accents.
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The concept behind Georgism is ancient. In Biblical Israel all land was redistributed every 50 years. The exact implementation probably wouldn’t make sense in our times (they divided the land initially by lottery, and all land sales reverte
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> How many people understand the converso crisis and its antecedents that threatened the very existence of Spain? > Rather, it was the widespread fear of feigned conversions, to obtain high offices, among the general populace that led
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This isn’t a comparison of Israel vs Bhutan with regards to Syria. The is comparing Israel with the rest of the world combined , across all global conflicts and human rights violations.
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There are biases on all sides, and it’s often hard to extricate oneself from them to see the facts as they are. You could flip the question and ask why is so much of the world anti-Israel, no matter what? The data on this is that in 2020 th
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The rational answer is, of course, that ultimately there is no point. However, there’s also no rational reason why this question should bother you - that is an emotion. In a normal hormonally balanced brain, endorphins encourage you not to
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The Politicisation of the Plague in the USA is the real story here, and I think many in the US are unaware that it’s not like that in other places. For example in the UK vaccination rates amongst Conservative and Labour voters are the same.