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Year 2 of Lockdown, Day 53
Good political thread:
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And for something completely different, a video relating to the aftermath of the Beirut explosion, via Kerk:
I also came across this the other day, which just made me happy:
Tor: What Really Happens After the Apocalypse
Money quote:
Humans do not, under the pressure of an emergency, socially collapse. Rather, they seem to display higher levels of social cohesion, despite what media or government agents might expect…or portray on TV. Humans, after the apocalypse, band together in collectives to help one another—and they do this spontaneously. Disaster response workers call it ‘spontaneous prosocial helping behavior’, and it saves lives.
Okay. Let's talk incumbency and why Johnson isn't cursed with.
— John Bull (@garius) May 7, 2021
For a new PM of an existing government party to be seen as an incumbent government, they have to represent some kind of continuation of the ideas and policies of the previous PM. https://t.co/ST0afbo14i
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And for something completely different, a video relating to the aftermath of the Beirut explosion, via Kerk:
I also came across this the other day, which just made me happy:
Tor: What Really Happens After the Apocalypse
Money quote:
Humans do not, under the pressure of an emergency, socially collapse. Rather, they seem to display higher levels of social cohesion, despite what media or government agents might expect…or portray on TV. Humans, after the apocalypse, band together in collectives to help one another—and they do this spontaneously. Disaster response workers call it ‘spontaneous prosocial helping behavior’, and it saves lives.