I'll tell you a story about new years

when I was 19 one day I woke up and there was a hole in the knee of my jeans and when I got up to walk my hip began clicking with each step, a problem that would continue for years,

and I didn't know how long I had been asleep, which is to say, passed out, knocked out, I had a vague memory of the drugs I'd taken just before vanishing into the darkness but that was it. I spent weeks asking people what day it was

calling people up from a pay phone -- "Can you tell me what day it is?" And them, audibly upset, sad, worried: "John, you called and asked me this five minutes ago" "I know but please. I think it will help"

but it didn't help, nothing helped. my brain had taken a hard hit from something somehow. I would leave the apartment to look at the newspaper machine to see what the date was. I thought if I could keep that straight maybe I'd be OK.

1/Officers, veterans, undoubtedly active duty folks, have fallen prey to propaganda. The military is a reflection of society, and as such, we get these weak-minded individuals. It cannot overshadow those who serve, have served honorably.

1. .Military Intelligence Contact Update: He confirmed many of Mr. Fleming's sources and said that over the weekend much happened to keep the RV/GCR roll out going ushering in the gold-standard (Judy Shelton confirmed by the Senate Banking Committee to the Fed board last...

(1) When you don’t communicate policies effectively, somebody else will, albeit incorrectly. This is called rumours. This is made worse during information vacuum, the period between saying you’ll announce something, and actually announcing it.

(2) Content - The government is in a position to control the narrative, avoid panic, minimise misinformation - how rumours starts. Govt also controls most media machinery - this should be simple.

(3) Audience - Govt must understand that vase majority of population are common people who are earn wages. They want to know how closures will affect them, their wages, their families. It’s day by day survival for many.

(4) Coordination - If you’re announcing something, make sure you know how to explain other aspects of life that is affected. What happens to schools? How will syallabus will be continued? How about kids with no laptops? Daycare? What if my employer refuses to allow WFH?

(5) Explain - articulate how you arrived at that decision, what considerations were taken, and ways to fix that. Assure people who are daily wage earners from their concern about loss of income. For many, not going to work daily, is a death wish itself.

If you're currently working in Retail and you'd like a change in career but you're not sure where to go, I encourage you to check out a career in Tech. How you might go about doing that? Check the thread below for a quick guide for Retail workers to transition into Tech.

Before we actually get started it's important to get an idea of what your value proposition is. A Value Prop is a summary of what you do best and what you bring to the table as a professional. Break your skills down into two categories. Subject Matter Expertise & Transfer Skills.

Subject Matter Expertise (SME) refers to the retail knowledge you've gained over your time in that space. Things like Major players in the industry, trends, customer feedback, and experience. For example, I used to work at Future Shop (Canada's version of Best Buy)

When I was in Uni in their Entertainment and Games section, the knowledge I gained about the Games and Entertainment industry just by working retail was unreal and at the times felt useless. But I was wrong, understanding an industry is to understand what appeals to consumers.

And if you know what appeals to consumers, you know what it takes for them to buy from that industry. That's important. Next, I'd figure out what my transferable skills are. Skills that I can take with me no matter where I go or an easier way to think about them is as

It never happens. A thread.

Many must be familiar with "it never happens". When you bring up women having concerns about Self ID and allowing potentially abusive males to have access to female spaces and that it will lead to violence or worse "It never happens".

When evidence is shows "It never happens" MAY turn into "It's an isolated incident" before defaulting back to "It never happens" for the next time the argument crops up. This complete apathy for a very real concern is deliberate. It's framed as if having these concerns...

makes a woman illogical. Because "Trans Women are Women" it's just another woman being excluded. Not an intact male, not just any male who decides to identify as a woman. I've watched women point out the percentage of sexual abusers who "transition" to be in women's prison.

I've seen them told they're being hysterical, that they're endangering trans people. The argument is very clever, they frame it as an attack on what most people think of as trans people ie someone who has transitioned completely. They never frame it as some...

bloke with a beard, a cock and balls and a history of wrongdoing. "IT NEVER HAPPENS". So recently something very interesting happened on Twitter. I saw @helenstaniland responding to a post

For us to get through what needs to happen next, our society and we as individuals need to learn how to accept feedback that our behavior needs change and sit with the discomfort of being wrong.
I see over and over again that people are so uncomfortable with this idea that they

distance themselves from reality when others make complaints. You see them question if you're sure that is what happened, they make excuses and wonder if you maybe interpreted it wrong, or maybe you invited it all because if YOU did something wrong here then they can distance

themselves from the idea that similar abuse might occur to them. Instead we need to be supporting people who are speaking truth to abusers. We need to not tone police them, gaslight them, or diminish their stories. But this is exactly where people go first because they are so

unable to sit with the discomfort of reality. They would rather denial that anything happened at all. Then they are safe from it too.

The problem is that this mechanism provides cover for abusers and gives them the space to abuse. It discourages people from coming forward.

And if you try to talk to an abuser about their behavior they won't hear it either. There will always be something wrong with how you phrase your complaints, purity tests, gaslighting, and further abuse.

But there is a moment between the complaint and the response where a breath

How do some sections of society constantly try to attack and defame Hinduism ??

Let's talk about this :-

#THREAD

They use several ways to create a negative perspective of people towards Hinduism.

One of the method is to target Hindu festivals & rituals.
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How they do this ?
Let's talk about some of our festivals -
- On Shivratri, they will say that rather than offering the milk to 'भगवान शिव', distribute it among the poor.
- They will raise the issue of water conservation on Holi.
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They won't say about water conservation and feeding the poor the whole year but suddenly awakens during Holi and Shivratri.

- They say that Karwa chauth is a patriarchal and misogynist festival!
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- On Diwali, they will ask people not to burn crackers but they will not ask people to avoid burning crackers on New Year day, may be because according to them crackers burnt on New Year day doesn't causes pollution!
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On diwali 👇 On Christmas 👇

-Those people won't talk about women empowerment for the whole year, but their selective activism starts during Navratri!
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Feeling cute, still mad at cis gay white men, idk, might still be mad at them later.

For the straight folks out there, feel free to observe, but for a lot of you this probably isn't your lane, but just from my personal experiences, here's why a lot of people are mad about it.

Seems silly, right? Just a bunch of mostly white gay guys saying they'd let a white supremacist hate fuck them and expecting to get no pushback on that statement.

Your non-white gay friends see you and remember that, in most cases, you'd want to hit that before you even see us.

We shouldn't be surprised though, we see your online crushes and thirst posts. We see you fuckability rating the "White Chris Squad". We see your profiles saying how you "love guys with blue or green eyes" or "if you look like [insert popular white actor here] front of the line!"

And we see the other profiles, the ones that even you'd scowl at, the ones that specify non-white guys shouldn't even bother saying hello. We see the porn, the party fliers, the magazine covers, even the gay magazine covers that will put straight white men on before any gay POC.

We've been out to bars and parties where we're one of the few non-white people in the room. We've been equally ignored or fetishized. We've watched your uniform/cop fetishes. We've had to fight to get fetish spaces to even be inclusive. We've constantly had our concerns ignored.

" All about BULLISH and BEARISH ENGULFING "
~ This pattern is one of the most common candlestick pattern yet sometimes people are not able to trade it properly.
~ They both are the trend reversal candlestick pattern.
~ It is a two-candle pattern.

Bullish Engulfing
~ In this pattern, a large bullish (green) candle completely engulfs the small bearish (red) candle

~ This pattern is credible only when it is formed at the bottom of the trend

~ Prior trend should be downtrend before the formation of this pattern take place

~ Generally, I have observed that downtrend should be of at least 12% to 15% before the formation of this pattern.

~ I never initiate the trade on the bullish engulfing pattern if the prior trend is bullish. I don't trade bullish engulfing as trend continuation pattern.

~ The accuracy of this pattern is nearly between 70% to 80%

~ Most of the time I trade bullish engulfing on daily chart.

~ Stop Loss is 1% below the low of bullish(green) candle.

~ SL is on the level basis not on the closing basis.

~ Sometimes a trader needs to use critical thinking skills while placing stop-loss and that comes with practice and time.

~ Target : I booked 30% of the quantity as soon as I achieved 6% to 8% return. My ultimate target is not more than 12% to 15%.

1 - Today marks the fifth anniversary of the mass sexual attacks in Cologne.

Around 1000 Muslim men, most of whom had only arrived in Germany a few months before, claiming to be refugees, subjected 100s of German women celebrating New Years Eve to savage racial + sexual assault

2 - Working in groups, the men systematically encircled and separated their prey – the white, Christian women that their religion and culture deem racially and religiously inferior – from their

3 - Once isolated, they tore at their clothes and groped them.

They stuck their fingers up their vaginas and anuses, and inside their bras.

They shot fireworks at them.

They robbed them.

Some were raped.

4 - It took days for the attacks to come to public attention as the authorities and media scrambled to downplay or lie about them.

The truth came out on social media + when the scale could no longer be denied, they tried very hard to pretend that it was nothing to do with Islam

5 - Some of the most revolting excuses came from feminists – those ‘wh*res for Islam’ that @patcondell so aptly describes - insisting it was all about ‘toxic masculinity’ and ‘patriarchy’ and all the other meaningless mantras they use.

[1/x] Happy to announce the publication of “RETROFIT DECARBONIZATION of COAL POWER” (open access https://t.co/JxrMtLS9gf, @energies_mdpi). A riveting 39-page article (+ 44p S.I.), obviously makes for excellent holiday/wknd reading :) Here's an attempt at a tweet-summary-thread!

[2/x] Out of ~2 TWe of coal power plant capacity, more than half is less than 14 years old. Can this infrastructure play a role in decarbonized power systems or must it all be stranded? We try to look at ALL options in this work, supported by @EnvDefenseEuro & Rodel Foundation.

[3/x] Capacity-averaged age of all coal power in operation today is ~18 years. Committed emissions from existing and under-construction coal power is ~300 GTCO2-eq (294 is our central estimate, IEA say ~328). Each new 1 GW-plant commits to ~0.2 GT additionally.

[4/x] We define the term RETROFIT DECARBONIZATION to include _anything_ done to keep existing some coal plant equipment in operation (>5 % of org. plant capex), approx. maintaining its function (>50 % of org. annual generation) while eliminating emissions (<50 gCO2-eq/kWh).

[5/x] Many retrofit options were assessed (some shown here). Emissions reqs. put tough pressure on biomass & CCS. Putting wind & solar at former coal sites is a great idea, but power dens. diff. mean they don't qualify as retrofit decarb. What really works? Geothermal & Nuclear!

Who are all the hypocrites who voted against abolishing the Tampon Tax back in 2015 but have had a sudden change of heart? First up, Steve Baker, Conservative MP for Wycombe.

Next we have Bernard Jenkin, Conservative MP for Harwich and North Essex. The patronising way in which he calls Stella Creasy "feisty" really shows his commitment against sexism. Nice job!

Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor and Conservative MP for Richmond, Yorkshire, also voted against the 2015 motion to abolish the Tampon tax. What's with the autographed graphics, Rishi? Do you think you're some kind of rock star?

Harriet Baldwin, Conservative MP for West Worcestershire has posted the lie that it was EU membership which prevented us ditching the Tampon tax. Harriet, you voted against the 2015 motion to abolish this tax. Have you forgotten?

James Cartlidge, Conservative MP for South Suffolk didn't post his own tweet. But he did retweet Rishi Sunak. James, how soon you forgot your vote in 2015 against abolishing the Tampon tax!

@danielpunkass Fair warning, this might get long:

The most obvious aspect is that the time drawn out supposedly "teaching" was really not worth it in proportion to the simplicity of the task.

The first thing I noticed reading that thread was that she was already hungry at the beginning.

That would have been my first clue to go, okay, hm, maybe another time. You could always demonstrate the use of the can opener (observation is one really great way to learn, after all!) for the child, and then get into the mechanics once tummies were filled.

Let's say we missed that chance, though, and were deep into the question-and-answer session. At that point there's a good chance I would think 'Well, there's no going back now' and let my stubbornness see this through, as OP did in his thread.

But that's very much based on *my* reactions and urges as an adult, not what is best for the child. This might be a cultural difference, but in New Zealand (where I live) we try to put the child first.

The OP's daughter clearly communicated her needs (and her frustration) -

sighs, asking politely, rolling her eyes, removing herself from the situation to avoid esclation... When those were ignored, she had to resort to yelling and tears (fair enough, if you ask me!). It really sucks that the adult in the situation decided to steamroll ahead,