** Going on a rant. It might be long, might be short, but it will be full of cursing.

Right now my Father-in-law is fighting for his life. He has Covid and was put on a ventilator this morning. We are understandably worried and hoping for the best, but know that it is 1/x

an uphill battle. He has been battling it since Jan 1st. He did everything right. Distanced, sanitized, stopped working (renovation contractor) as did his g/f.

All of that went out the window b/c of a selfish, ignorant asshole that was one of his best friends. This guy is 2/x

a huge piece of shit. He was sent home from camp b/c of a Covid outbreak and called the one person that he knew would give him a ride home from the airport, my FIL.

B (FIL) is one of the most selfless people I have ever met. He always gives 110% of himself and never asks 3/x

anything for himself.

This "friend" did NOT tell B why he was home early and we didn't find out until it was too late. B felt off on NYD and got tested. Found out he had Covid on the 3rd of Jan and has been sick ever since. Monday he went to the hospital and was addmitted 4/x

THREAD: Lesson time about speaking up & allyship

My Dad once told me something that has stuck w/ me & applies to so many things (as those sorts of truths do). You see, I had this old beat up car that was handed down to me. I hated it. 1/25
#academictwitter #blacklivesmatter

We didn't have much, but I still got an old car handed down to me. I wasn't grateful. 2/

My parents worked so hard & made due w/ this little thing for years. When I was in college my Dad gifted me that car to get to work & school. It was an '84 Chevette. It was literally called a scooter. I hated it. I wasn't grateful. 3/

Not mine but it looked like this:

The car was white for starters.😩After a short while the car really started to break down cause it was close to 20 yrs old. The inside light broke. The radio was broken. The AC was broken so it was stuck blowing heat at me year round. One windshield wiper didn't work. 4/

The antifreeze or window washer fluid would squirt away from the windshield cause that was, you guessed it, broken. There was a huge crack in the windshield. I had to replace the timing belt. The tires. The side of the car got hit in a parking lot & something (axel?) fell off
5/

My friend @riir52520747 made a Argument against The Trinity, Here goes:

P1) God is triune. (Assumption for Reductio)
P2) The Son, The Father, and Holy Spirit are not identical to each other. (From, "Trinity")
P3) The Son, The Father, The Holy Spirit are each God (From, Trinity)

P4) Only The Son has the essential property of being identical to the "Son." (From the definition of "Essential Property", and Haecceity.)
P5) Only The Father has the essential property of being Identical to the Father.

P6) Only the Holy Spirit has the essential property of being identical to the Holy Spirit.
C1) Therefore, each member of the trinity are identical in quiddity, but still differs haeccetistically. (From 3, 4, 5, 6.)

C2) Therefore, each member of the trinity is essentially non-identical. (From, "Haecceity")
C3) Therefore, there are 3 distinct entities which each have the property of "Being God"
C4) Therefore, There are 3 Gods.
C5) The Trinity affirms there is only one God.

C6) Therefore, the Trinity is contradictory.
C7) Therefore, God cannot be triune.

Justification for 4, 5 and 6:

Another day, another Wirecard story!

Seems German prosecutors chose not to get warrants to arrest the executives when news broke that more than $2B in cash was missing from the company. #ButNothingsHappening
https://t.co/ifPU4HatIU

One of my favourite parts of AAS meetings is attending plenaries way out of my subfield. Pleased to be able to still do that virtually #AAS237 -in "Comets, Unseen Planets, and the Outer Fringes of the Solar System", by Scott Tremaine.

I never thought about how comet brightness depends on distance^4 - 2 powers from the Sun to the comet, and 2 powers back to us on Earth.

Short period comets (P<20 yrs) are mostly found in/near the plane of the Solar system, while long period comets come from a roughly spherical blob around the Sun. Cool.

I enjoyed the G=M=1 explanation of Orbital Energy = 1 for the Earth (in theorist units!).

Cool - Tremaine explaining that the existence of the Oort cloud (as a set of comets bound to the Sun by gravity) rules out some alternative models of gravity! I love things like that.

true TIs...

the saga of slander attacks in shite gobbles continues...time and again; i stated TRUTH in solid rebuttals that not only prove i am not anything perps LIE smearing campaigning me as but contained solid evidence sustaining that truth. i want to make a few things...

very clear 1. under NO condition, i do not and will not ever accept any "terms" irrationally demanded by a perp. 2. as of present day, i have NOT execute/done/committed any hurtful and/or harmful act towards a perpetrator. 3. i maintain my innocents, character, integrity,...

and genuinity in my self as a individual human being and in my work i did on behalf of true targeted individuals. 4. it was i; myself and me alone; whose originality of solid work; authenticity of thought; and credibility of morals helped induce the exposure of war crimes,...

atrocities, genocide program, technologies, and warfares for true targeted individuals. 5. my work on behalf of true targeted individuals did cause me to be targeted with extreme,severe targeting in me being "singled out" by perpetrators who infiltrated the TI community. ...

6. i maintain my right to freedom of speech, right to defend myself, and right to exercise solid judgment in who to help and who to not help due to preposterous fabricated LIES via perps' flying monkeys who seek to further in the smearing and slander attacks against me. ...

Thread - When in doubt, just move

In this thread, I'll discuss one of the major issues I had a couple of years back.

The issue of staying still when there's no reason to.

The issue of not actively doing something and thinking I could think my way out of problems.

Let's get into it.

I've always been thinking too much for my own sake.

I like to break down complex ideas, look at them from a bird's eye standpoint.

This is cool, but only to a certain extent.

It starts being very problematic when it comes to practicality.

What would happen is, every time I came around a roadblock, I would try to think harder (thinking that it would lead me to a solution)

It doesn't.

All it happened was I was left feeling more overwhelmed and with no answers.

This is what I would call "Living life passively."

When I look at unhappy people, there's usually a common denominator in them.

They're letting life happen to them.

They've settled for the "comfy" job, for the "stable" relationship, or they just straight-up haven't achieved jack shit and yet they don't do anything about it.

5 ways to succeed in your youth

- Thread -

I- Investment

Investment is a necessary factor for your good development.

If you want to grow your income, you will have to invest.

This step is not optional.

You are often told to save money, this is bullshit.

The value of your money will decrease every year.

II- Be fearless

Fear is man's worst enemy.

It gnaws at him until it makes him a docile person.

Risks must be part of your daily life.

If you don't take them, you don't move forward.

The best way to learn is to fail.

A list of questions and checks to help you see if you should automate a process or not.

I've had a lot of people asking for this.

This is just what I use.

1st half are open-ended questions for exploration
2nd half are rankings for prioritization.

Hope this helps you!

1. Do I understand what I am automating?

Often times we think we are automating a process, but instead, we may be automating a destructive pattern.

Do it manually for a few weeks.

Dont perpetuate bad actions.

Go through the learning as a person, automate what you learned.

Example:

If you are filtering people for hire, and you automate right off the bat, you may automate based on the wrong criteria.

Its better to filter manually, do some calls, have some interviews, and adjust the process a bit until you are automating the right thing.

2. What do I gain?

Automating, just to automate is not useful. It just creates another system to maintain without any upside.

Each automation adds to the complexity of your business process. As complexity increases, so does areas for breakage and unintended consequences.

3. What do I lose?

Every automation results in loss.

Proximity to the process.

You may miss a "regime shift" as things change.

You may lose closeness to your customers and personal interaction.

You miss an understanding of your operation as it grows or changes.

Since "at 22" is trending and I coincidentally changed my profile picture to this on facebook yesterday, here I am at 22 back in 1984 and in my final year at university. 1/14

Earlier in the year I'd dyed my hair pink and yellow as a rag week stunt, and then all pink so as it wasn't quite so crazy. In a way, dying my hair like this may have helped determine the course of my whole subsequent life. 2/14

A few weeks later, with the hair dye still very much showing, I landed a job at a small software company based in a farmhouse near #Peterborough. I turned down an interview for a job with a big company, Ferranti, because I'd become aware of its links to the defence industry. 3/14

My mother thought I was making a big mistake, passing up the chance to work for a famous and long-established blue-chip company, and choosing a company that would probably go under quickly. 4/14

The software company often struggled. Sometimes when we got our pay cheques we were asked not to pay them in just yet, until those who were married and had kids had got their pay cheques cleared, in case some of the cheques bounced. 5/14

#HOPEPORN+

RT != Endorsement

PRETEND THIS IS MAKE BELIEVE!!!

I ONLY LIE

Any more disclaimers??? It's a screen play, writers notes...

SO, I hear from a friend who heard from a friend... vvvvv see thread