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Like CB Radio, Twitter isn’t an end product. It’s infrastructure that plays too socially and politically useful a role to be left in the hands of investors and stockbrokers. Whether it’s through state nationalisation, some sort of global governance framework or a user maintained co-operative, it’s time to take Twitter out of the world of finance and put it firmly in the hands of the public – before it goes broke, or wrecks its user experience entirely, or both. The 'hearts' are the final straw: it's time to nationalise Twitter | Osman Faruqi | Comment is free | The Guardian

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The title of this piece made me skeptical coming in but I’m almost convinced and this argument makes a lot of sense. I read an article last year about Twitter’s struggles to monetize and how each social network that spawned from taking one part of a social media (Twitter with the feed, Instagram with the pictures etc.) eventually becomes more and more like Facebook. I know this isn’t exactly measurable but the “coolness” factor of Twitter goes down with each move towards a more FB style platform.

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A user-maintained co-operative would be a great model. State control would be just as bad as Wall St control. Imagine someone voting in a politician who wants to privatize Twitter and sell it off or wants to track every single thing that users do and hand it off to police. shudder

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Skepticism about religion is especially evident among young people. The Pew study found that barely a quarter of "millennials" (born between 1981 and 1996) attend church services on a weekly basis, compared with more than half of U.S. adults born before 1946. Only about 4 in 10 millennials say religion is important in their lives, compared with more than half of those who are older, including two-thirds of those born before 1946. Poll Finds Americans, Especially Millennials, Moving Away From Religion : The Two-Way : NPR

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I’m surprised it’s even a quarter tbh. On the other hand, the old people stats are surprising no one. I started working at a church a few months ago (I’m not religious though) and the only people I see there are seniors or kids that are forced to go to Bible School/Confirmation.

How much of an impact do you think the internet has had on this? It provides a much easier way to spread information, and also realize that you’re not alone.

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Here’s the entire uncomfortable interaction, if you want to check it out for yourself: Fox News Features Cringeworthy Panel of Dads Talking About Leggings - Law Street (TM)

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why does this exist?

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After a breakout performance in the second debate, Carly Fiorina largely disappeared after earning laughs early on by saying people had told her she needed to smile more. (She greeted the laughter with a sustained ear-to-ear grin.) She did deliver a lengthy attack on “crony capitalism,” saying that pharmaceutical companies and banks were consolidating as a counterweight to “big government,” while “the small and the powerless” a... How They Did: A Breakdown of the Republican Debate on CNBC - The New York Times

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/29/carly-fiorina-and-the-problem-of-smiling-while-woman/

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...v. Chris Christie rallied with a series of well-received interjections. He jumped in on a question initially posed to Mr. Bush about sports betting to dismiss the idea of regulating fantasy leagues. “We have ISIS and Al Qaeda attacking us, and we’re talking about fantasy football?” he said, to loud cheers. And he did not miss a chance to scold the moderators when he thought he was being interrupted. “John, do you want me to answer or ... How They Did: A Breakdown of the Republican Debate on CNBC - The New York Times

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are they actually though? or are they just defending themselves? that’s not to dismiss the human rights violations of the two groups, but we mustn’t ignore our own atrocities in the process. we’re not being bombed daily in the u.s. so who’s really doing the “attacking”?

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