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Radical Phase Transition (my term): Extremist movements can behave like solids (tyrannies), liquids (insurgencies), and gases (conspiracy theories). Pressuring them causes them to go from solid => liquid => gas. Leaving them alone causes them to go from gas => liquid => solid.

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@G_S_Bhogal on Twitter

I see this mistake so often. Someone puts together a great thread, but starts it by tagging someone with an @someone Starting a tweet with an @someone will make Twitter think it's a reply and hide it from your followers. Find a way to start your thread or tweet differently.

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@dickiebush on Twitter

But if life were climbing a mountain in order to reach the top, then the greater part of life would end up being “en route.” That is to say, one’s “real life” would begin with one’s trek on the mountainside, and the distance one has traveled up until that point would be a “tentative life” led by a “tentative me.”

The Courage to Be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

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