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#548 - Tim Harford - Why Is Thinking Clearly So Difficult?

Modern Wisdom

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Is Twitter a Dunk-Pawn Fest?

Twitter is just a dunk-pawn fest, for the most part. Very rarely do you see it's something interesting I noticed online. If somebody crosses a line with the type of language that they're using, the insults that they draw... No one ever seems to say that on Twitter. They want to continue playing this sort of dry, side-eye, satirical debate. That's the game of tennis that appears to be being played. It may just be there's more ways to be wrong than to be right.

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