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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

I'm very very excited about this book. https://t.co/GRtAfCKx5m — PolitiTweet.org

A.J. Jacobs @ajjacobs

The Puzzler Hunt is a masterpiece. I can say that because I didn’t write it! A bunch of brilliant puzzle-makers did… https://t.co/X9Kg1CpA75

Posted April 20, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

https://t.co/wdGZnEFiTy — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 20, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

More people in Tokyo metropolitan area than New York and Los Angeles put together https://t.co/SfCQSYhYEX https://t.co/ydqgKPrFlg — PolitiTweet.org

Chuck @soda_cookie

@waitbutwhy https://t.co/jN1wHcaZq6 I visit this every so often, azed at how fast some cities are populating.

Posted April 20, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

@CamAdelipour Nope. Somehow have still not gotten it. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 20, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

@singh_ketan9 https://t.co/q6CQQiTETU — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 20, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

@FRibersson Bizarrely delightful and delightfully bizarre are basically the two things I'm going for — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 19, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Getting Covid in 2022 is so retro — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 19, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Mine is https://t.co/ZfpBX7QaOh It blew my mind so much I wrote a whole post about it. https://t.co/qXzZ0qmqSg — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 19, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

What's your favorite Wikipedia page? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 19, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

19th century windmills were A) very cute, and B) still incredible technology. https://t.co/oNVaZVrV6K — PolitiTweet.org

Massimo @Rainmaker1973

The evolution of wind turbines in height and output [source: https://t.co/dv31cqOJGv] https://t.co/lUs8G3x8rb

Posted April 19, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

RT @wonderofscience: Sunflower timelapse🌻 Credit: Boxlapse https://t.co/s0F1eyIrlZ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 19, 2022 Retweet
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

@SteveStuWill That little dude didn’t put up much of a fight — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 18, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

.@JonHaidt talks about how American children born before 1982 were typically allowed to play outside with friends,… https://t.co/57wIZZFZon — PolitiTweet.org

Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt

What we do to American children -- depriving them of autonomy until they are past the main period of culture learni… https://t.co/WupoZSjWPm

Posted April 17, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

@mattyglesias There’s something even worse (and maybe more common) than being consistent with positions at the expe… https://t.co/zIcHwVRjRg — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 17, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

https://t.co/5zL6Y3EwlC — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 17, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

@elonmusk I made this to try to illustrate how recent "ancient history" actually is. Human history as an 800-page b… https://t.co/C3MzStwlWI — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 16, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

AD is about 2,000 years, which seems long until you remember that humans have been around for 2,000 CENTURIES. AD is just 1% of our history. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 16, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

@Sams_Antics @SahilBloom 1/3 of the way through book 2 is about where it gets incredible and then is amazing all th… https://t.co/2qTrPoYmVQ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 16, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

I guess they haven’t read The Three Body Problem. https://t.co/Df0eyrYwTg — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 16, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

@HafniaKbk He explains his reasoning around the 12 minute mark here: https://t.co/inuOf7H6NC — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 16, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

@ARTexplains @yishan I guess I could have said, “I’ve seen about 100 reactions to this, from people with all kinds… https://t.co/vActTJ5A4y — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 16, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

In other words, maybe Elon is in for a world of pain should he become head of Twitter—but keep in mind that everyon… https://t.co/smvEqoLiaO — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Two quibbles with this super interesting thread: 1) Just because a problem has so far gone unsolved does not make… https://t.co/4trpnElCaL

Posted April 16, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

@dapperestdog @yishan Sure, but they don’t control what’s being censored on Twitter, which is what the thread was about. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 16, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

2) I agree with Paul Graham about this blind spot in @yishan’s thread (supported by the fact that the hostility to… https://t.co/CqmmaCtpPF — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Graham @paulg

Where I think he's mistaken is his claim that the left and right both want to ban each other roughly equally. Among… https://t.co/ipqBgYdkZV

Posted April 16, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Two quibbles with this super interesting thread: 1) Just because a problem has so far gone unsolved does not make… https://t.co/4trpnElCaL — PolitiTweet.org

Yishan @yishan

I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter. So fine, this is what I think about th… https://t.co/wasCL2RYJQ

Posted April 16, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

What century is this? https://t.co/of3Ef1lqaN — PolitiTweet.org

The New York Times @nytimes

Richard Moore, a condemned South Carolina man, chose to be executed this month by firing squad over electrocution,… https://t.co/Dni4DKQ3JV

Posted April 16, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Taxes blow — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 15, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Children seeing a camera in 1901 https://t.co/matfhAUWSD — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 15, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

When 2016 ended everyone was like “can’t wait to be out of the year from hell!” 2017 then became the new “worst yea… https://t.co/vvnxT5AiY3 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 15, 2022
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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

@EvosBlockchain I’m not mad. I just prefer that today’s version of a town square is run transparently. Weird that a… https://t.co/AJU60ZMS7i — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 15, 2022