18 EVERYDAY ITEMS YOU DIDN'T KNOW THEIR PURPOSE

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1.The Mini Pocket On Your Jeans

When you buy a Jean trouser, don't you wonder what this pocket is for? Well, today is your lucky day! It's where you were supposed to keep your pocket watch when jeans were first invented

2. The Hole In Your Pan Cap

Kids might likely put this covers in their mouths so manufacturers took measures to prevent them from suffocating by placing a hole in the cover so that if it gets stuck in someone's throat, they'll still breathe air into their lungs

3. The Hole In Your iPhone

You'll notice a little hole next to the camera on your rearfacing camera. It is actually a microphone. It allows you to record sound when your camera is turned around

4. Hole in padlocks

The hole is made for pouring engine oil inside the padlock to enable it to be lubricated if rusty

5. They basicaly let your fingers know where the home key is without looking down so you can type quicker than usual

THREAD: Effects of lockdowns & restrictions on kids and teenagers.
There's many amazing representatives of young people on here but as a young person myself seeing much of this daily, I thought it would be good to make this.

Firstly I think the underlying theme is just the destruction of livelihoods. The phrase 'let kids be kids' seems to have been forgotten about this year. Millions have missed out on experiences, events, friendships, socializing, education and just some the care free times of life.

90,000 London children homeless. This is very distressing.

Child sexual abuse raised but is under reported.

Mental health worsens among young people, at the lowest risk from COVID.

What happens on the day after Section 230 is repealed? I'm going to prognosticate a bit in today's Section 230 thread. The tl;dr is that we'll likely see a lot less speech, especially if the speech even borders on being controversial.

Recall that Section 230's core immunity says that platforms shall not be treated as the publishers of third-party content. So unless an exception applies, a social media site, for instance, cannot be successfully sued for a user's post.

The user who posted it always could be sued, but not the platform. This provides platforms with great flexibility to set their own moderation standards.

Recently, many people have criticized platforms for preferring particular political viewpoints in these moderation standards, and for not being very transparent about how they develop and implement those standards.

We can set those arguments aside for another day (basically every day for the rest of my life). What I want to talk about right now is how moderation would change on the day after Section 230 is repealed.

I've also noticed that it's often that cheating is what women do when they don't want a divorce but, for a ridiculous number of reasons (most of which are probably ad hoc rationals) are upset.

>Why did you cheat?
>"I don't want to feel equal I want to feel special and I want dick."

>Don't you have a dick?
>"Oh he's so wonderful, so sweet, so kind. He is the greatest man in the world...but, I'm bored."

Welcome to the void.

And so the older study that concluded that "Women cheat because they love their husbands" is only getting more "correct".

This is not a world I was made for.

Ten years.
That's it.

I'm about to say something some of y'all aren't gonna like: a thread

If you're gonna question the "motive" of a charity organization or those who are committed to helping them, DON'T GET INVOLVED. Especially when it comes to someone who has proven TIME AND TIME AGAIN how loyal he is to this cause.

The workout/gym community is hostile enough as it is, with people who are gonna judge you no matter how good you're doing for yourself or others. People avoid the gym because of this. MPC IS THE LAST COMMUNITY THAT NEEDS THAT.

If you don't like the charities that MPC is supporting this year, there's a very simple solution at hand.
Don't join. Don't give MPC your money. Move on.
Don't sit there and complain about it.

Go give to the charities you DO support. Go give to the causes you DO enjoy helping, or have a cause close to your heart.

The most frustrating aspect of working in computational probability/statistics is that it's basically impossible to construct algorithms that actually return well-defined probabilistic quantities and this results in no end of chaos.

At best algorithms can return approximations with quantifiable error, but to understand when approximations are useful you have to learn enough math to understand the exact result and how the algorithmic approximation relates to that exact result. Many do not do this.

More commonly programmers project the heuristics that prove successful in other computing problems -- pattern matching, type consistency, unit testing, relying on compiler errors, etc -- but these test only the algorithm and not the relevance of the algorithm to a stats problem.

Unaware of these subtleties many end up conceptually replacing the algorithm for the output being approximated, assuming that algorithmic properties are inherent and well-defined features of the underlying probabilistic/statistical system.

Needless to say this generalizes...poorly. Even worse: without formal knowledge of what is being approximated the poor generalization performance itself is easy to ignore and naive applications drift ever so steadily away from any well-defined mathematical objective.

Kicking off the afternoon session of the #RewildingSymposium is @JCSvenning talking about 'restoring the role of megafauna in European ecosystems'

He begins by highlighting that current megafauna is unusually poor. Last at this level >30 million years ago. Historically, super diverse megafauna was the norm.

He points out that most current species are 100,000 to >1m years old. Meaning they have a complex evolutionary background with the landscape and complex ecological characteristics

The presence of megafauna promotes biodiversity and provide crucial ecosystem services and trophic effects through, predation, seed dispersal, grazing, browsing, carbon diversification and non-trophic disturbance. Promoting heterogeneity both vegetation and abiotic

The absence of large herbivores is also threatening species depended on open and semi open habitats in Europe. Including species which are specifically adapted to megafauna effects. Europe has a far lower levels of herbivore biomass compared to what would be considered normal

2H Pluto people do you have a fear of poverty?

Do you have a fear of wealth, in some way?

What are your experiences with both? Your opinions?

This is a daunting placement but because it’s not a romance house or an angle it gets overlooked.

There’s usually a real deep rooted trauma associated w not having what you need.

Sometimes the 2H Pluto person is the only one with any financial stability and they can be very stingy with what they have because they’re so afraid to lose it.

The thing is tho, once they’ve gone through an evolutionary period (usually going from poor to stable to rich or skipping stable altogether

It’s very rare that they go back. They never lack again.

But the mindset of being without is sooo deeply imprinted into their minds that they don’t want to let go to anything they acquire. This backfires so.

Your mind has to evolve in the same way that your material circumstances have. Otherwise you never reach full potential—

Now onto a astrological point. The GREAT CONJUNCTION what a time to be alive‼️‼️ Dec 17th saturn move into Aquarius and Dec 19th Jupiter followed behind. Then finally these 2 giants planets will connect as exactly 0° Aquarius tomorrow. This will free the 3d world from us that has

Here's the gig from what I can make out.. #1, The majority of the masses failed the initiation test miserably... I mean, if there could have been a little bit of a whimper, or somebody yelling at the top of their lungs... But nothing... The test scores are in and the ...cont

Governments have won rounds 1-6. Because of that, a scared and frightened public, is now even more scared, frightened and confused. The way they see it, best to go with the flow for now until "THIS STUPID COVID BULLSH#! PASSES. Not so fast. That's because nothings passing..,cont

They moved into position quickly as soon as the Bullsh#! was in peoples head about a deadly virus.. Complete makeovers featuring facilities and safety equipment for Covid19.. I kept telling you to pay attention, now they've infiltrated this stuff into everything...cont

At this point, they have successfully removed anything and everything that made life worth livin.. THINK ABOUT THAT !!. I find myself getting highly frustrated when talking to people, and they have no idea whats going on.. Vaccine?? what vaccine.. If they hadn't seen me ...cont

By chance, and knowing me, if I find someone who'll listen I'll talk their ears off. Not trying to be rude, it's just to me, the information is something they need to know. Problems arise when it's discovered they have zero knowledge about any of it. Information is being withheld

The Government is forcing Australians who have lost their job to eat their superannuation before they can access unemployment support.

On 25 September the Government reinstated the Liquid Assets Waiting Period for Australians with liquid assets applying for unemployment support.

In question time today, the Minster representing the Minister for Social Services Stuart Robert confirmed that superannuation withdrawn early is considered a liquid asset for the purposes of triggering the waiting period.

With the Government encouraging out-of-work Australians to access up to $20,000 of their superannuation early, many have been subjected to the Liquid Assets Waiting Period.

The Minister also confirmed that the Government has plans to double the waiting period to up to six months, which would cut $10,600 in unemployment support to Australians who have lost their job.

We could make our Defense cheaper. We could reinstate conscription. We could transfer large portions of our standing forces into guard and reserve units. We could stop invading central and southwest asian countries. We could increase direct military aid to our allies.

The other good ideas include more unmanned and uninhabited systems (WHERE APPROPRIATE, and nobody has convinced me yet that naval presence is worth a damn unmanned), as well as investing more in the dark arts of gray zone warfare.

Now, all that wouldn't be very efficient were we to need to go to war in a hurry. But maybe... And this is crazy... We shouldn't be in a hurry to go to war?

But our adversaries -- Russia, China and Iran -- all invest heavily in the dark arts, all use conscription, are all investing in unmanned. They ain't crazy. They know if WWIII was about to kick off they'd need time to boost readiness and train conscripts.

And I know what folks would say: "Sometimes you don't have a choice of when you got to war. Think of 9/11."

And, good point. But my recollection of that time period was that in Afghanistan, the CIA and SOF had the Taliban and al qaeda just about licked within a few months.

Ok, time for a big thread on a general theory of history and society.

Every human society has to navigate the relative importance of the individual versus the group. You can think of every society as being placed somewhere on a spectrum between "Everything is about the individual" and "Everything is about the group."

Human society--tribal society--starts out at the extreme "group" end of the spectrum, because the overall imperative is survival. The individual needs to defer to the group because that's how the group survives. Natural selection means we're all descended from such a society.

Then over time society generates some surplus and there's more scope for the individual. And I do believe that the particular genius of the West is that it decided, earlier and more firmly than the rest, to shift the cursor further to the side of the individual.

First with the Greeks, then with Christianity, then with Modernity, we collectively pushed that cursor further away from the "group" end and towards the "individual" end. And lo and behold, each time we did, amazing things happened!

The truth in Black and white: An apology from The Kansas City Star. In a six-part investigation, @KCStar finds it "scorned generations of Black Kansas Citians and...robbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice and recognition."

As floodwater upended Black lives in 1977, Kansas City newspapers fixated on Plaza, suburbs and all but ignored how the flood destroyed the homes of Black citizens -- part of @KCStar investigation of itself in, "The Truth in Black and White."

Charlie Parker? Jackie Robinson? For The Star, Kansas City Black culture was invisible

When civil rights movement marched forward, @KCStar lagged behind. The newsroom was run by white men. They overlooked the protest the way they overlooked nearly everything else involving the Black community in the mid-60s

‘Brutes’ and murderers: Black people overlooked in KC coverage — except for crime. Rarely, even up into the 1960s, did the papers doubt, challenge or investigate the police version of events, or interview Black victims.

My grandparents were very poor. My dad was ashamed & created dumb tension about it. My grandma though always took me aside to give me a chocolate orange after Xmas gifts were unwrapped; she’d make me crack it and eat a slice before going back to Xmas fun.

Did their poverty matter? No! Everything was out of love. My grandpa made us things from his workshop. One year he said, “We try” and 14 yo me said laughing “I know”. Gramps gave me a 1 arm hug & slapped my back with a grin. That did not go over well with dad.

He chewed me out for making them know I knew or something gay like that. My grandparents didn’t have hot water. They knew I knew. They were why I tried hard at college. My grandma came to my campus only once and gave me the “ya done gud, anon” line when she left.

Once I graduated & had a job, I got a case of Sam Adams for Xmas day with my grandpa because I wanted to drink with him when he went out for his Xmas cigar. My treat. I felt like an adult not just his grandson. We talked for an hour in his workshop with the space heater on.

Close my eyes: I can see the Adrienne Barbeau poster, the 10 hand planes on the wall & cigar boxes holding screws, nuts & nails. We started real talks then; he told me his war stories & life before grandma. We had more in common than I thought. I later named a son after him

Currently ministering is our father in the Lord, Pastor E. A. Adeboye.

December 2020 Thanksgiving Service
#VictoryAtLast

I am sure that by the first Sunday of the new year, I will see many of you in Jesus Name.

- Pastor Adeboye

December 2020 Thanksgiving Service
#VictoryAtLast

Text: 2 Chronicles 20:20-23

- Pastor Adeboye

December 2020 Thanksgiving Service
#VictoryAtLast

Today is a great day of thanksgiving.
I’m decreeing to everyone of you that your victory will be absolute. That the Almighty God will give you victory and it will be complete.

- Pastor Adeboye

December 2020 Thanksgiving Service
#VictoryAtLast

Are you sick? Are you in debt? Call in an ally.
2 Kings 4:1-7
Don’t let pride come in between you and your breakthrough.
Acts 9:35-41

- Pastor Adeboye

December 2020 Thanksgiving Service
#VictoryAtLast

Humanity is good, but, when we let our guard down we allow darkness to infiltrate and destroy.
Like past battles fought, we now face our greatest battle at present, a battle to save our Republic, our way of life, and what we decide (each of us) now will decide our future.