Emil Panzaru

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Emil Panzaru

Emil Panzaru

@EmilPanzaru

Research Manager at Consumer Choice Center, PhD in Political Economy, Soulsbourne-fan.

London Katılım Eylül 2022
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Egle Markeviciute 🇱🇹🌐
Egle Markeviciute 🇱🇹🌐@markeviciute·
My colleague @wirtzbill at CCC has recently launched a new podcast - "Fun Police". The first episode explores the history, ethics and the mixed reasoning of prohibition policies across the world. Thought provoking, recommend.
Consumer Choice Center@ConsumerChoiceC

How did we get to this point? Follow our podcast now, a profound dive into the dark realm of public health advocates advocating neo-prohibitionist policies.👇 🎧Apple Podcasts → apple.co/3MPDAjr 🎧 PodLink → bit.ly/3uomvXl 🎧Spotify👇 spoti.fi/49V2eZV

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Emil Panzaru@EmilPanzaru·
@Otto_Lehto "Capitalism is whatever I dislike about my life and modernity."
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Arto Bendiken
Arto Bendiken@bendiken·
Decels of yesteryear: the Red Flag Act of 1865 limited automobiles to a max. 2 mph speed in towns, and required a man carrying a red flag to walk in front of the vehicle. The law "effectively stopped innovation in powered road transport in Britain for over a quarter of a century" and was not repealed until 1896. Subsequently the speed limit was raised to 14 mph and the rapid development of cars as we know them followed. HT to @Falkvinge for originally telling me about this way back when. #19th_century" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o…
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Allison
Allison@alli_vapes·
Interview with @wirtzbill of @ConsumerChoiceC about his new podcast series Fun Police. Fun Police is an original podcast series produced by the Consumer Choice Center. They take a look at the perpetrators of neo-prohibitionism, the movement that attempts to ban "vices" such as vaping, smoking, drinking, gambling, and others. I highly recommend tuning in to this weekly series. New episodes dropping week by week, starting November 15, 2023. Podcast Link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fun… t.co/DxkkLEZXMD
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Ruxandra Teslo 🧬
Ruxandra Teslo 🧬@RuxandraTeslo·
As someone who was born and raised in an ex-Communist country, I am always surprised how little regard young Westerners have for their magnificent civilisation. There were a lot of mistakes, indeed, but I FIRMLY believe all alternatives are worse. Romania is a small country... we did not have the luxury of being in charge of our own destiny. Our political systems were subject to the vagaries of fate and to the whims of the greater Empires that surrounded us: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire for most of middle Ages and until 20th century. And the Soviet Union after. When you are in this position you realise the choice in the real world is never between perfection and a flawed system, but rather between a flawed and a less-flawed system. You also quickly realise that there is no "God": the bad guys often win. It is strength of the Good guys, and not some providential force that stops the Bad guys from being in power. It was the comparative strength of the democratic, free world that led to the collapse of Communism and the rebirth of Eastern Europe. I want this world to continue being strong. And I can say that 20th century Western Liberalism is the least flawed system that humans created. We should not take it for granted just because we see flaws in it. The alternatives are much, much worse.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yashar

Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous "Letter to America," in which he explained why he attacked the United States. The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds. Many of them say that reading the letter has opened their eyes, and they’ll never see geopolitical matters the same way again. Many of them — and I have watched a lot — say it has made them reevaluate their perspective on how what is often labeled as terrorism can be a legitimate form of resistance to a hostile power. This is not limited to TikTok; similar videos have been posted on other social media platforms. The Guardian had a copy of “Letter to America” posted, but once these TikToks went viral, the Guardian took it down, which has only led to more interest in the letter and conspiracies from TikTokers who say this is part of the media and the powers that control it trying to silence the truth.

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Works in Progress
Works in Progress@WorksInProgMag·
Most European states that existed in 1000 AD were wiped out. In order to survive, states had to evolve and improve – introduce parliaments, property rights, and adopt military technology. Competition bred improvement. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-entr…
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Emil Panzaru@EmilPanzaru·
@Tectonicplato You are not Conan the barbarian. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
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TP@Tectonicplato·
Came across this gem from someone I was seeing last year
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David Clement 🌐
David Clement 🌐@davidclement·
“The Federal Court just overturned Ottawa’s single-use plastic ban” The plastic ban was a huge net negative for the environment. And now the courts have ruled Ottawa went too far. 🍾 globalnews.ca/news/10096664/…
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Lionel Page
Lionel Page@page_eco·
One of my favourite examples of how people react to economic incentives: Architectural tax avoidance👇 🇬🇧 UK : tax on windows 🇻🇳 Vietnam: tax on frontage 🇫🇷 France: tax on floors (roof exempted) 🇧🇷 Brazil: tax on church construction (when finished)
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Science girl
Science girl@sciencegirl·
A restaurant in Prague where food and drink orders are delivered to your table by train
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Egle Markeviciute 🇱🇹🌐
Egle Markeviciute 🇱🇹🌐@markeviciute·
My op-ed on @Euractiv on the EU’s #DigitalDecade: ▪️165bn commited, >250bn+ needed ▪️Ambitious EU’s tech regulation agenda is hard to keep up with for smaller bureaucracies ▪️ICT markets are overheated - efficient cross-border procurement is still theoretical @ConsumerChoiceC
Euractiv@Euractiv

EU’s Digital Decade: Europe’s big ideas mean nothing if they are poorly executed dlvr.it/Sys2qv

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Nicholas Grossman
Nicholas Grossman@NGrossman81·
Sad and messed up how people who didn't care about violence harming Syrian civilians—or even excused/defended it—lie that evidence of Syrians suffering happened in Gaza, because now they can use the Syrians as props. Innocent civilians have suffered from violence in both. A lot.
Kareem Rifai 🌐@KareemRifai

This is an image from Homs in SYRIA after the ASSAD regime's siege. It is not Gaza. This user is an Assadist who has routinely denied Assad's war crimes for the past decade. She does not care about Palestinians. She wants to protect the illegitimate Syrian regime's image.

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Emil Panzaru@EmilPanzaru·
@Stephen_Kent89 @FrankelGarion @JonHaidt People talk about "American intervention" in Ukraine and Israel, use the "shiny rocks" theory to explain why wars happen, and call for ceasefires in the US as though Biden can punch a button and stop everything because it's just the Iraq war again and again in their minds.
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Emil Panzaru@EmilPanzaru·
@Stephen_Kent89 @FrankelGarion @JonHaidt Not sure I'd even psychologize the answer the way Haidt does with "fundamental moral orientations". Most Millennials grew of age during the Iraq war, so their model of any war (Ukraine-Russia, Israel-Hamas, Sudan, you name it) is premised on that.
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Stephen Kent
Stephen Kent@StephenKentX·
something long form I have wanted to write but don't know where to begin -- is how America has been shaped by its most popular stories told post-Vietnam, colored by shame and the inward gaze pondering, "maybe we're the bad guys in the grand story" -- what fruit has it bore?
hasanabi@hasanthehun

america IS bad. there’s a mountain of evidence as to why. we live in a world where the us is the hegemonic power. it takes tremendous amounts of violence and coercion to get there and keep that power. you think that’s good. i think that’s bad and america should change its ways.

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