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LESS IS MORE?

Fishing Opportunities

1. I'm reading the summary on the UK/EU trade agreement & have some concerns. It's not the full blown text, just an outline of the negotiated agreement so I may be needlessly cynical, we'll have to wait & see.

2. The 25% UK uplift of the value the EU member states catch in UK waters.

I see difficulties with this whichever way I try to spin it to myself:
a) The EU are reducing quotas in fishing waters for some species due to issues with sustainability.

3. So our uplift could cause over fishing of stocks in our own waters. The summary doesn't mention if/how EU access to our waters will be reduced?

b) But assuming the quotas are reduced in line with other member states waters, we could have a reduced income rather than uplift.

4. The 25% uplift is implemented over 5 yrs. So for the sake of argument let's assume it's 5% per yr. But if EU quotas are being reduced by an average of say 10% by weight, that 10% has a value attached to it & our annual uplift will be calculated in line with the lower quotas.

5. Although in theory there'd be a point in 2 yrs where our 5% increments would match the reduced EU quotas, the scientific advisers are calling for greater reductions in quotas to allow stocks to recover, so it's likely quotas will be cut again.

I’m going to reproduce @3days3nights posts here for backup and to do a full unroll afterwards. All credit goes to him! - P1

Here's my 2018 rendition of The Twelve Days of Christmas:
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me . . . A Bao Bao in a hemlock tree @pinkypanda0823 #12DaysOfChristmas

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me . . . Two love birds @tiantianpanda97 @MommyMei98 #12DaysOfChristmas

On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me . . . Three window escapes @pinkypanda0823 @houseofcubs #12DaysOfChristmas

On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me . . . Four honey crates @tiantianpanda97 @houseofcubs #12DaysOfChristmas

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me . . . Five gold rings @tiantianpanda97 @houseofcubs #12DaysOfChristmas

To: Freshmen GOP members, 117th Congress
Subj: Protecting Our Republic

REPLY REQUESTED

Dear Senators and Representatives:

Please accept my brief but sincere congratulations, and wish for success in your new office.

WE ARE IN A CRISIS.

@POTUS @realDonaldTrump has...

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... won reëlection in a landslide, and it is being stolen. We believe even California probably went red in 2020.

It is IMPERATIVE that he take his rightful place as Commander in Chief for another four years.

Despite this crisis of CERTAIN FRAUD, some previously elected...

2/13

...Republicans have been silent, lukewarm, and possibly even COMPLICIT in an effort of running out the clock, foot-dragging, and deliberately undermining efforts to retain his office and continue his success.

We believe this is tantamount to TREASON, a word we do not...

3/13

...use lightly. We are counting on you, freshmen GOP members of the 117th Congress, to stand up loudly, firmly, and resolutely in support of all efforts to keep Donald J. Trump in office, and utterly reject all claims by Joseph R. Biden, Jr. to the office.

We believe...

4/13

...@JoeBiden is acting as an agent of the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) and that the #CCP have helped plan this scheme to steal the election, which they have referred to as the #AssassinsMace, an act of asymmetric warfare that allows even a small, weak enemy to take...

5/13

Kicking off WW84 and listen it starts with showing me Connie Nielsen and Robin Wright and Doutzen Kroes so whatever else happens that can’t be taken away from me.

Gotta say this obsessive lesbian erotic thriller vibe coming off Kristen Wiig is a lot of fun as a WW84 bonus item

I’m absolutely loving the rejection porn in WW84 of Diana just telling men no ☺️

Watching WW84 not thinking “please step on me Diana!” but instead thinking “please step on ALL MEN, Diana!!!”

L O L the Internet is so weird!

In my quest to write a fast IPv4+6 parser, I have written a slow-but-I-think-correct parser, to use as a base of comparison.

In doing so, I have discovered more cursed IP address representations that I was previously unaware of.

A thread!

We start out simple, with IPv4 and IPv6 in what I'll call their "canonical form":

192.168.0.1
1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8

Various specs call these "dotted quad", dot-separated fields each representing 1 byte; and "colon-hex", colon-separated fields each representing 2 bytes.

The first bits of complexity come from IPv6. In canonical form, common addresses would end up with long runs of zeros in the middle. So, "::" allows you to elide 1 or more 16-bit blocks of zeros:

1:2::3:4 means 1:2:0:0:0:0:3:4

Next up, for cursed historical reasons, IPv6 permits you to write the final 32 bits of the address in dotted quad form. Effectively, you can splat an IPv4 address onto the end of IPv6 addresses!

1:2:3:4:5:6:77.77.88.88 means 1:2:3:4:5:6:7777:8888

And of course, you can combine the two!

fe80::1.2.3.4 means fe80:0:0:0:0:0:102:304

Rig Ved 1.36.7

To do a Namaskaar or bow before someone means that you are humble or without pride and ego. This means that we politely bow before you since you are better than me. Pranipaat(प्राणीपात) also means the same that we respect you without any vanity.

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Surrendering False pride is Namaskaar. Even in devotion or bhakti we say the same thing. We want to convey to Ishwar that we have nothing to offer but we leave all our pride and offer you ourselves without any pride in our body. You destroy all our evil karma.

2/9

We bow before you so that you assimilate us and make us that capable. Destruction of our evils and surrender is Namaskaar. Therefore we pray same thing before and after any big rituals.

3/9

तं घे॑मि॒त्था न॑म॒स्विन॒ उप॑ स्व॒राज॑मासते ।
होत्रा॑भिर॒ग्निं मनु॑षः॒ समिं॑धते तिति॒र्वांसो॒ अति॒ स्रिधः॑॥

Translation :

नमस्विनः - To bow.

स्वराजम् - Self illuminating.

तम् - His.

घ ईम् - Yours.

इत्था - This way.

उप - Upaasana.

आसते - To do.

स्त्रिधः - For enemies.

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अति तितिर्वांसः - To defeat fast.

मनुषः - Yajman.

होत्राभिः - In seven numbers.

अग्निम् - Agnidev.

समिन्धते - Illuminated on all sides.

Explanation : Yajmans bow(do Namaskaar) before self illuminating Agnidev by making the offerings of Havi.

5/9

Today is Jayanti of Udham Singh, the man who assasinated General O Dwyer, responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and the atrocities that followed, a true hero.

His real name was Sher Singh, born on Dec 26, 1899, to a poor peasant family in Punjab’s Sangrur district. His father, Tehl Singh, worked as a railway gate keeper at a level crossing in the Uppali village of Punjab.

Having lost both his parents when he was small, he along with his brother Mukta Singh, grew up in the Central Khalsa Orphanage in Amritsar. Following the Sikh initiation rites, he got the name of Udham Singh.

In 1919, he left the orphanage after passing the matriculation exam. In that year Punjab was in turmoil, with massive protests breaking out against the British rule.

Around 1500 Indian civilians, in Amritsar, protesting against the deportation of nationalist leaders, Dr.Saifuddin Kitchlew and Satyapal Dang, were brutally massacred at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. While Gen Dyer led the carnage, he was backed by the Lt. Governor O’Dwyer.

PEOPLE ARE DYING IN #TIGRAY: #HumanitarianReliefNow
A Thread

It’s almost 2 months since #WarOnTigray was waged. Since then, much of #Tigray has been under a complete blockade of all life supporting services, including medicine, food, & access to cash. 1/17

It’s also almost a month into an agreement for ‘unimpeded’ humanitarian access to #Tigray the #AbiyAhmed regime signed with the @UN. Yet, even a needs assessment is not conducted to date. 2/17



In the meantime, people are actually dying of hunger in #Tigray. These past 2 days, I had calls with some people that made it to #Mekelle from Wukro, Edagahamus, Abi-Adi & Hagereselam and environs. The stories are similar and harrowing. Words cannot express the desperation. 3/17

On top of existing poverty in #Tigray, production was particularly hit this season owing to an invasive locust & #COVID-19. Worse yet, the war came at a time when whatever is left could be collected. More than a million are internally displaced. 4/17

Even more tragic is that in many of the towns and villages I heard about, vengeful #Eritrean troops have looted private possessions, including food. Some of the stories I heard shocked me to the core. Innocent people are dying, from bullets, starvation and curable diseases. 5/17

Issues of Sikh Identity: Sanatanist-Sikh Debate (Sheena Pall):

The earliest known leader of Sanatan Dharm movement in Punjab, Pandit Shardha Ram Phillauri did not show much concern with Hindu-Sikh identity in his Sikhan de Raj di Vithya (Story of Sikh Rule) published in 1865.

The Bharat Dharm Mahamandal did not show any interest in the issue of the identity of the Sikhs in its first report of 1889.

In 1897, however, in a large public meeting at Lahore the Sanatanist Hindus passed a resolution that the Sikhs were a part of the Hindu community.

Question of Sikh identity became a legal issue when Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia died in Sep 1898 and his widow contested his Will, claiming that "Hindu law of inheritance under which he had given his property in trust did not apply to a Sikh".

The Chief Court of the Punjab ruled that Sardar Dyal Singh was, in fact, a Hindu.

The Bharat Dharm Mahamandal took notice of this issue and passed a resolution in a meeting at Delhi, asserting that the ten Gurus of the Sikhs from Guru Nanak to Guru Gobind Singh were Hindus.

Furthermore, "Baba Khem Singh Bedi, a descendant of Guru Nanak", and "Bawa Sumer Singh (Bhalla), a descendant of Guru Amar Das", subscribed to the view that Sikhs were Hindu.

Weekend Musings

Step by step guide on how to prove via SM photographs that you have embraced Class and crawled out of your Indian middle class origins and are ready to look down upon fellow Indians with that high society subtle and pretentious scoff and ‘OMG’!

Let’s go -

1. ‘The book I’m reading’ photograph isn’t about the book. It should have a frappe, cappuccino, anychino..basically any Barista level fancy stuff. Coz honestly neither you nor your friends understand or use French press or Colombian beans. An eatable, casually thrown around, but

make sure the label is visible. And it HAS to be some foreign brand of cookies, cheese, cake you picked up at your last Khan market visit and we’re saving for this photograph. Try Scandinavian brands. No one understands what’s written and everyone will assume it’s really fancy.

And all this should cover not more than 30-40% of space in your photograph. Rest should be of the ‘view’ of the localé which ‘ OMG I wasn’t even aiming at but it just came in picture’ kinda stuff. An opportunity to show your house, garden, hotel etc. Make sure the beverage is

in a big cup. Never China. That’s Middle class. Go for those heavy stone/ Earth shade ones that prove how you always prefer staying connected to ground but everyone know they are pretty costly at those fancy stores. You can also buy them from road side vendors and fool everyone.

#TATAMOTORS (TM) Analysis in weekly and daily time frame chart:

In this thread I have tried to capture,

a) How is journey of @TataMotors till date
b) What are the possibilities ahead
c) The possible trade plan with logic

What weekly chart is conveying :

a) Stock is in pure downtrend as it is making lower high (LH) and lower low (LL).
To understand HH HL LL LH, read #Dowtheory and refer tweets of @Rishikesh_ADX & @Jitendra_stock .(also watch @elearnmarkets F2F video of @Rishikesh_ADX )

b) As per weekly chart, to make the higher high (HH), Stock has to cross the level 200 and then when it retrace (pull back), Stock should not fall below 69. (To understand pullback, refer tweets of @sanstocktrader )

Now look @ #Tatamotors daily:

a) Immediate support is @ 150.
b) Immediate resistance is @ 198-200. (as we discussed in weekly chart analysis)
If it manage to cross 200, it will form it's first higher high (HH) on weekly tf.
c) If it manage to cross 200, then 240 is on the card

Possibilities ahead :

a) It may trade in channel before it make the HH in weekly TF chart.

In this case we can buy at support and sell at resistance.

Support is 157 & resistance is 200.
i.e 27% target from buy level)

Refer image.

Let's call the Nashville bombing today what it is: a domestic terrorism attack on our telecommunications infrastructure.
That much is clear on the basis of facts in evidence even at this early date.

Vehicle shows up in the wee hours.
Parks directly in front of the AT&T transmission building.
6:15-blares music from loudspeakers (gets attention), and verbal warning that there is a bomb. 15-minute 'get clear' countdown commences.
6:30-bomb explodes and devastates AT&T bldg--

and the server farm it houses, along with switches, trunk lines, and much more. AT&T telecomms go offline throughout the Nashville region. Phones down, wifi down. Nashville airport cancels flights because comms are affected by this outage. Even in Murfreesboro, ~50 miles away...

(and other places around the region), there are widespread outages. I discover this personally when we fail to have Christmas dinner as planned. I'm just outside Murfreesboro, but suddenly Grubhub cancels our order: they suddenly can't communicate with local restaurants.

Restaurants can't be reached by phone, and can't access the internet--so companies (and individuals!) trying to do business remotely via AT&T services are SOL for the duration.
We have a lot more to learn about this event, but the above facts are already in evidence. They..

Quick Thread on the Gut Microbiome

Hippocrates said: “All disease begins in the gut.”
While there is significant truth to this, in my personal view of health, it is a little more complex, but it is largely true.

The gut affects the rest of the body, being the gateway to what is absorbed, via the gut-brain axis (directly affects the brain), and due to the metabolism, absorption, detoxification and immune system (70% is in the gut) which takes place/resides in the gut, etc.

This is why it is so critical to take care of our gut health, because once it is negatively affected, it may never be the same again. What affects the gut microbiome? There are over 100,000 trillion microorganisms working together in the gut.

There are 10x more bacterial cells than human cells. Usually, we focus on the bacteria, although there are other species.

Currently, out gut microbiome is less diverse than historically, which can have a negative impact on our health as various species have distinct functions (metabolizing food, producing vitamins like B12 – which we have lost, among other functions).

Traditions vary, but you'll be faced with about 2 ounches of a brown fluid.

A typical batch tastes like you'd imagine motor oil would.

If you're lucky, it will taste like espresso that's been left out overnight.

You take a drink, wait.

The longest 30 minutes of your life....

If it's your first time, you've read blogs and listened to some podcasts. But you're about to learn that you're not prepared.

If you'd gone under before, you may be more on edge than the newcomers.

You know *something* is about to hit, and don't know what.

You sit and wait...

"The fear of the thing is always greater than the thing itself," is true 99% of the time.

You dread asking for something, because you fear rejection. But the rejection is never that bad.

As you're sitting, waiting, wondering, you brace for the thing you fear.

Before experiencing ayahuasca, first-time users obsess over whether they will throw or take a crap.

Going in, that's what you're afraid of. "Will I shit my pants?"

You have NO IDEA how trivial such banal concerns are about to seem...

When you're hunched over a bucket, yes it hurts. Puking like the worst food poisoning you've have.

And you're so grateful.

Because you're back in your body.

You're alive.

You may have felt like you'd never return.