2020

Jan 1st - Australia’s fires (impacting nearly 3 billion wild animals)
Jan 3rd - US military killed Irans’ General Qasem Soleimani at the direction of Donald Trump
Jan 7th - Chinese authorities identify a novel coronavirus

Jan 8th - Both Prince Harry and Megan Markle stepped down from their position as senior royals
Jan 9th - China recorded their first coronavirus death in Wuhan, China
Jan 20th - USA recorded their first coronavirus case in Washington state

Jan 25th - Australia recorded their first coronavirus case in Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Jan 26th - Kobe and Gigi Bryant were killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California
Jan 28th - Worst locust swarms in decades hit east Africa destroying crops

Jan 31st - The UK leaves the European Union

Feb 8th - First American Citizen died of the coronavirus in Wuhan
Feb 9th - Parasite wins the Best Picture Award, making it the first non-English making film to win the award

March - Panic Buying
March 1st - Australia records 1st coronavirus death
March 9th - Stock markets crashed, suffering its worst single day joint drop ever
March 11th - WHO (World Health Organisation) declared coronavirus a pandemic

I'll not leave Riddlersworld. But I'll redefine the notion of riddler. A riddler is a person who doesn't know about specific dates and even about dates in general such as the year things will happen. He only knows, in general, some of the events that will take place,... 1/*

a kind of general history, a plot. In this sense continuing in Riddlersworld goes through an approach of minimums, taking riddlers as what gives an outline of some of the events that could happen at an always unknown date. 2/*

Sure, riddlers intend to convey the idea that they do know the dates, or at least the year, but they don’t know them. 3/*

Take 2020 as an example. At this point of the year you can make so many ad hoc statements as you like, but guys, 2020 clearly meant year 2020. 2020 was the year of the visible "outcomes". 4/*

On November 4, 2019 Mr Pool suggested that outcome of action Plan B is what you have been waiting = price increase. It should have happened in November and December 2020, as Plan B ended on November 7, so the outcome should be those months. 5/*

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Earlier this year I found myself cooking for a woman I'd never met before who lived on a local estate. She was a single mother, her teenage son had picked up Covid from school,and given it to her. She had a zero hours contract, and had run out of money to feed her family /1

They'd been surviving on tinned soup for three days, but that was used up. So she put out a call on social media and I got in touch. I have never heard anyone apologise more, she was utterly humiliated to have to beg for help from strangers. As *you* would be. It was horrible. /2

Now,this woman happened to have become very sick with Covid too.And I often wonder-if she'd been one of the many who only had mild or no symptoms,what decision would she have made?Would she have isolated to the point she had to beg from strangers?Or would she have gone to work?/3

I mean,it'd be easy for me as an epidemiologist to bemoan the fact that not enough people are isolating after testing positive or being in contact with a positive.But I have money in the bank,I work from home,I can afford to have online shopping delivered.I can stay home, easy /4

We know how Covid works by now.We know the epidemic is being driven by close contacts,+we know that those contacts are very often driven by having a lower socio-economic status.People living in crowded households.People with public-facing jobs that can't safely be done at home /5

Feeling apathetic, lethargic, or unmotivated? Or, have someone on your team who feels that way? We're always looking for ways to stay focused, but sometimes life can get in the way. Read on for 4 psychological models of motivation👇

Left to fester, loss of interest or job satisfaction can affect the culture of the whole company. So, how can leaders and HR managers motivate an apathetic member of the team?

In this article, we explain four major concepts in psychology: The Motivator Hygiene Theory, the Job Characteristics Model, the Hierarchy of Needs Model, and the PERMA Model.

Theory 1: Motivator Hygiene Theory. Hertzberg claimed that the most important question to ask when trying to ascertain what motivates employees is: “What do employees really want out of their work experience?” He divided motivators into job satisfiers and job dissatisfiers.

Motivating factors (job satisfiers)
are intrinsic motivators, like enjoyment or a sense of accomplishment: achievement, recognition, the work itself, responsibility, advancement, professional development, personal growth, or the flexibility to work from home.

THOSE WHO KNOW US
30 Dec 2020 - 11:40:11 PM

Will Understand This Thread.
Those That Don't -- Soon Will.

#WWG1WGA #TheGreatAwakening

Cons in other countries don’t separate comics people from the celebrities. So you often spend a week between two cons, getting to know actors, wrestlers, and other famous people.

We always found nearly all of them lovely people.

Guess which group consistently wasn’t?

:)

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It wasn’t actors. In general, they have nearly all been really sweet people.

Guess again.

2/

It wasn’t wrestlers. I have had zero bad experiences with any of the wrestlers I’ve met and quite a few were above-and-beyond lovely to their fans.

Guess again.

3/

It’s not musicians. They always seem anxious, and they keep to themselves, but I never saw any being jerks in a green room at a con.

Last guess.

4/

It’s not novelists, artists, or comedians. Good guesses, but no.

One group has been so consistently loathsome, have so tortured staff and promoters, that I would say it’s probably a 90% likelihood that any con guest in this category is just awful.

Ready?

5/

1. Thread about Cross-over services.

Some have asked is December 31st really a special day and what about cross-over services? This they say is a Nigerian thing. There is nothing sacred about it some have said
This may be true however let's read from the words of Apostle Paul.

2. Paul in his day must have faced a similar challenge as some must have still observed days in the Jewish calendar. When he was asked about some people who were still observing certain days as being more important than others and they criticized those individuals Paul's response

3. Romans 14:4-6King James Version

4 "Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand."

4. Romans 14:5 "One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind."

5. Romans 14:6 "He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks."

Times when Rajnikanth stood with bjp:

Caa ✅
NPR ✅
NRC ✅
Tuticorin ✅
Thiest politics ✅
Surgical strike ✅
Against protest ✅
No elegible leader in TN✅
Against periyar/Dravidam✅
Don't cares about rajiv murderers release ✅

Videos of these speech ? Here you go, thread👇

Rajinikanth:

NPR- Essential and is just population ✅
NRC- To know the people inside ✅
CAA- CAA is not against Muslims ✅

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Rajinikanth:

Tuticorin shootout:- Tuticorin riot done by anti-nationals. ✅

3/n

Rajinikanth:

Thiest politics- Dravidian party is anti-religion, but we are for all✅

4/n

Rajinikanth:

Surgical strike:- Surgical strike and 370 abolishment is right and now everyone knows that Amit shah is the boss✅

5/n

As 2020 is ending, I want to share a true story with you all. A story that has saved, changed and touched a soul. Little long but a MUST read for everyone.

Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison.

He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience!

One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in restaurant, a man at another table came up and said: "You're Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier. You were shot down!"

"How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb. "I packed your parachute," the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said:"I guess it worked!" "It sure did," Plumb assured him. "If your chute hadn't worked, I wouldn't be here today."

That night, Plumb couldn't sleep, as he kept thinking about that man. Plumb says: "I kept wondering what he had looked like in a Navy uniform: a white hat; a bib in the back; and bell-bottom trousers. I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said

We need to talk about @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell and how he is MURDERING THIS NATION. And we need to talk about it RIGHT NOW. Yesterday he killed the only chance for a nation hanging on by a thread to receive ANY economic relief. HE MUST BE REMOVED FROM HIS POSITION (Thread)

Over his 30+ YEAR tenure in Congress, McConnell has used his power to turn the GOP into a cult of spineless obstructionists who spit on the American people. Who cover up and "acquit" criminal Republican Presidents while launching baseless illegal investigations into Democrats.

Who invent fake "precedents" to block black Presidents from appointing Supreme Court Justices and then revoke them when the table turns. Who pass no bills but pack the courts. Who care about nothing but MAINTAINING POWER AT ANY COST. Well the costs are too damn high, Mitch.

Over 341,000 Americans ARE DEAD because YOU refused to remove a blatantly guilty treasonous mobster criminal from office in early February. The economy that Obama and Biden recovered from the Bush recession lies in ruins. Millions are on the brink of eviction and bankruptcy.

And you couldn't even give a paltry $2000 to Americans? That was too much to ask? Billionaires got 2 TRILLION. You yourself are a multi-millionaire. The rest of us get NOTHING. So what can we do? HOW DO WE REMOVE THIS ABOMINATION? G-E-O-R-G-I-A. That's how.

THREAD: Boris Johnson has a problem named Joe Biden: Democrats are ☑️ on UK climate leadership and ☑️ on UK defense spending increase, but in no mood to prioritize the relatively small trade deal Johnson wants to agree in Biden’s first 100 days. 1/

My new article puts the much more likely timeframe for the U.S.-U.K. #trade deal as 2022. It’s not punishment for #Brexit per se, but Brexit means the U.K. has complicated Washington’s relations with Europe, and dropped it down the global pecking order /2

I interviewed 16 senior officials and former officials on both sides of the Atlantic, and it’s clear that despite the new EU-UK settlement, Brexit will continue to change the transatlantic dynamic under Biden /3

“You’re still going to call London, but that call will be lower down in the queue,” thanks to Brexit, said @CFR_org's Charles Kupchan, former Obama/Clinton National Security Council official, and author of a new book "Isolationism" /4

Here's more: “Biden is seeking to strengthen and renew ties with the EU - Britain is not going to be a part of that,” said one person familiar with President-elect Biden’s thinking. “Boris Johnson needs a trade deal to show the domestic utility of Brexit.”not Biden’s problem /5

A lot of people are asking about @NightingaleLDN and the current response. Having spent a lot of time there during the last wave, we are proud of all the energy that went into the response. The NHS in London has adapted and changed since the first wave, with hospitals such as 1/

vastly increasing critical care capacity. It was always clear that care would be better delivered within the confines of an established NHS hospital although at the time this capacity was just not there. With the creation of a 170 bed critical care unit 2/

the current efforts are in bringing all that new resource online to help people needing critical care, and this is progressing. One of the challenges @NightingaleLDN was around public information, and this was tricky to overcome. The other challenge in 3/

providing staff was also well documented. NHS staff, especially in the numbers needed to staff a critical care bed are not ‘spare’ when an incident hits and all hospitals, Nightingale or not, are grappling with the staffing challenge. This current wave is huge, and who knows 4/

if the resources of @NightingaleLDN will be needed, even if in a different operating model. It would be silly to say this won’t happen, as the new variant wave is shocking for us all. But the focus on firstly using the additional new capacity within @NHSEnglandLDN is the 5/

Sources : DMK President MK Stalin is completely under the control of the senior Maran, Kalanidhi. Kalanidhi, with an intention to get total control of the cable distribution business, is manipulating Stalin 1/n

that he was the one who ensured Rajini doesn’t enter into politics.

Stalin, a gullible person, has taken the bait say sources. Kindly recall Rajini’s press meet on 3rd December 2020 when he said, he will start a political party. 2/n

He said, “he had commitments of film production”. The upcoming movie “Annatha” is a @sunpictures production.

Sources add, two months back, Kalanithi Maran had assured MK Stalin that, he will ensure that @rajinikanth will never start a political party. 3/n

Rajinikanth’s Annatha movie shoot was held at Ramoji Rao Film City, Hyderabad a heavily guarded place. It was sanitized several times, before the shooting commenced. 4/n

It perplexes medical experts, how one would get infected with Covid19 when, persons who were not tested for Covid are never allowed inside the shoot spot.

Senate Democrats just killed the push today for $2000 checks.

A few Senators--namely Sanders and Markey--wanted to hold up the NDAA as leverage to push for a vote on $2000.

Democratic leadership rejected this--including Vice President elect Harris.

Let’s be real: McConnell is the one at fault for refusing to put a vote for the $2000 on the floor in the first place and being fifty shades of hypocritical along the way.

But Democratic leadership has, once again, folded to Republicans without attempting to fight for us.

If Democratic leadership is actually serious about getting $2000 checks to people, they would do one of two things:

a.) Find another leverage against McConnell and Senate Republicans

b.) Take McConnells offer on the combined bill of $2000 checks and Trump wishlist items

McConnell has made it clear today that he is not interested in putting a vote for $2000 checks on the floor unless it’s through his bill—which includes repealing Section 230 and putting together a committee to study “election fraud” in the 2020 election.

The argument that Dem leadership will make is that getting this NDAA through is vital, and can't be held up as leverage.

This is precisely why Sanders & Markey wanted to hold it up as leverage.

Dem leadership better have a Plan B if they are serious about helping people.

All the books (all 34 of them) I read this year and a one-line review on them!

My last thread for 2020 🧵

#Books #Reading

Let's get started 👇

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Alibaba - The house that Jack Ma Built

Rejected 10 times in Harvard, rejected in 30 jobs, first 2 businesses didn’t work out.

This book is extremely motivating as it tells how a man from humble beginnings built Alibaba into one of the largest internet companies

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The Peaceful investor & Company Analysis Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4 (covers 40 stocks in total) by @drvijaymalik

After reading these, you learn the fundamental analysis process completely!

@drvijaymalik is rightly called the Doctor of stocks, he is the best in fundamentals!

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Ode To Geniuses

The book discusses philosophers and poets from the Renaissance era - Epictetus, Euclid, Horace, Nikola Tesla, and a few more

It's fascinating to note how they started out and the way they ended up in their respective fields to make a big mark!

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Beyond the End

This is about unfinished masterpieces of art -This is also very interesting as the stories of incompletion and the artists behind them grip you completely!

Note - This book + the one before are private publications, they were gifted to me by @Sharad9Dubey

So glad this year’s almost over. Honestly, 2020 sucked. From the Chinese Virus, idiots breaking the rules during a pandemic, especially a certain far left cult that’s been around for years and coming out of the pedo closet whether it was fraud or not.

Friendships were ruined over political differences. One being heartbreaking, one leaking one of my DMs and is a traitor and one I cut ties with. Two of them were talented, but they wasted it by selling their souls and going woke.

I also unfollowed a ton of YouTubers and content creators I used to like who sold out and bent the knee in late May and early June, the latter being my worst month this year. One of them blocked me, but I won’t apologise for what I said about him being a sellout.

For decades Volkwagon Beetle pulled off the biggest marketing hoax. The car has been in existence since late 1930's when Hitler came up with the concept of People' Car. Remember that those days, the cars were like boxes, crude and no one was even thinking of aerodynamics. 1/n

Why do I call it the hoax?

Because VW somehow was able to drill into the customer that Beetle was an UGLY CAR.

In reality, it was not (I can vouch for it, because it was my first car/my sibling and still the best). 2/n

The Beetle was an aerodynamic marvel and absolutely beautiful. It is one of the reason, it is the largest selling model the world has seen, and why it was being marketed till recently, though only the jelly bean shape was common with the original Beetle. 3/n

There are many such hoaxes. VW was a pleasant hoax. There are unpleasant ones

Secularism in India is one such. Secularism means everyone has a right to practice the religion of his choice and NO State interference in Religion. 4/n

In India, Secularism has become a tool to pamper minorities and to send Hindus on a Guilt Trip.

That Western Countries are the benchmark for development and better standard of living is another hoax. 5/n