阅读，探索，思考，写作。注重事实。观点均为个人看法。转推≠赞同。 Reading, exploring, thinking, writing. Stand with the facts. Opinions are my own. RT≠Endorse.
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1. Pic on the left shows a water canal in Epidauros, which is in Greece.
2. Lots of places in Africa today have modern plumbing, lots of places outside it do not.
3. There's been water management & plumbing in Africa for 1000s of years.
4. Unfollow.
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I can tell you some of the reasons. Source? I'm Dominican.
🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹
- 🇩🇴: an actual society since pre-Columbian times, independence was just a change of management.
- 🇭🇹: just a plantation filled to the brim with slaves. once independent, they had to start from zero.
- 🇩🇴: influx of migrants across centuries. Jews, Italians, Lebanese, Spaniards, Syrians, Chinese, Japanese, Germans, Americans, Venezuelans.
- 🇭🇹: Nobody really goes there save for some Polish soldiers.
- 🇩🇴: Just part of the Spanish Empire, abandoned for greener pastures in Mexico and South America.
- 🇭🇹: The most vital French colony in terms of revenue, thus forced to pay reparations.
- 🇩🇴: good environmental policies prevented total depredation (not for lack of trying by corrupt elements)
- 🇭🇹: terrible environmental policies wrecked the environment.
- 🇩🇴: mid-20th century dictator deposed, democracy installed in the 60s.
- 🇭🇹: mid-20th century dictator left his idiot son for 20 more years. democracy still to gain stability there.
leonson retweeted
Bei Zhenying had no interest in politics — until the police barged into her home, arrested her husband and accused him of secretly plotting to overthrow the Chinese government. She was left to try and uncover his hidden life.
My story: nytimes.com/2023/07/05/world…
leonson retweeted
If, however, I told you that *these* photos are also from Oman, you might perhaps express some surprise. Enter the Khareef.
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Yesterday, I got to virtually take the stage to talk about CodeCompose, a GenAI-powered code authoring tool we have developed internally at Meta. In this 10-minute talk, I discuss the model & architecture, give a demo, and report on our progress to date: youtube.com/watch?v=ANDJ0TKj…
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The World's Youngest Sports Photographer, 9-year-old Mamzelle Fleurranda from Cameroon.
She learnt photography from her father, who is also a Sports Photographer.
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Y’all. This Bay Area storm ain’t a joke. Stay safe out there. 🙏
#Bayarea #BayAreaStorm #Bombcyclone #storm
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If someone gives you a CSV file with 100,000 rows in it, what tools do you use to start exploring and understanding that data?
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I'm getting a lot of questions about these photos, so here's what I've found;
The photos show Евгений Степанович Кобытев (Evgeny Stepanovich Kobytev) and yes, it's the same man in both photos and yes, before and after his experiences during WW2.
But there's more.
Thread;
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Between the 1890s and the 1930s, staged train crashes were a popular attraction throughout the United States. Tens of thousands of people would gather to watch two old trains be smashed into each other
