This is an illustration of why teaching well is an underrated skill. You can’t explain something clearly if you don’t understand it!

The other problem is that “billionaires will pay” means you need to make taxes on high earners revenue-maximizing and not inequality-reducing. Or: “billionaires will pay” levels of taxation mean you have to *have* billionaires to pay.

In 🇳🇴, platform information screens show you when the train will arrive. This is socialism.

In 🇺🇸, platform information screens sell you stuff. This is capitalism, obviously superior.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social make sure you include the ski trails, that part is very important

Cricket is baseball for people with fully-developed cognitive abilities.

Quite a lot of historians do this!

No American says “advert”, should be a big clue.

“[I]t was not the harassment from the Russian army that claimed the lives of about 300,000 men, but rather the harsh cold of the Russian winter, coupled with hunger and diseases.”

I’d like to know how this is possible when Napoleon only had c. 100,000 soldiers when the retreat began in October.

They should have watched Patton

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPiH...

(Also why being an academic for extrinsic reasons is bound to end in disappointment)

My high school was 10 and…when you have 5 minutes to go from the first to the ninth floor 😬