1/ People often ask if it's worth it for companies to have an HQ in Silicon Valley. Real estate is crazy expensive here, salaries are astronomical as a result, there's heavy rush hour traffic, and so on. Why do companies put up with this??

One answer: an abundance of top talent.

And there it is. The next step in this lunatic Democrat scheme to stop Kavanaugh: throwing the FBI under the bus & attacking the agency for hiding monster Kavanaugh's *real* past.

Dems claim FBI knew the truth about alcohol/sex abuse all

The Democrats on the committee - minus Klobuchar and Coons - are claiming the FBI background file on Kavanaugh contains EVIDENCE of sexual & alcohol abuse and this is from BEFORE the latest background investigation this week.

This is literally the last lying gambit the Democrats have to try to force a delay of the vote - claiming there is info in Kavanaugh's background file that can't be shown to the public that demonstrates he shouldn't have passed the 5 previous investigations.

It's absurd.

This letter is claiming the FBI has had this evidence all along that Kavanaugh is some kind of raging drunk sex predator and they've sat on it and approved him anyway.

Make no mistake: this is the Democrats throwing the FBI under the bus.

And Orrin Hatch's office wastes no time in calling the Dem's out on this:

Hey @F1 you still have something special in your archives - Kubica's onboard from Q3 recorded during Japanese GP in 2010. Maybe it's a good time to release it? 🤔

diving into Tencent Music's IPO filing, and one huge takeaway for me—which I've sensed from Asia's wider entertainment-tech scene too—is that Spotify's long-term vision of a "two-sided marketplace" for artists and fans on streaming has already been happening in Asia for years.

AND GET THIS: In Q2'18, "social entertainment services" (e.g. virtual gifts, tipping) accounted for 70.4% of Tencent Music's revenue—but only 9.5M users out of 800M total paid for those services. this means that 1.2% of Tencent Music's users accounted for over 70% of its revenue.

^^those sound more like the stats for a mobile free-to-play gaming app, not like your standard music subscription service as we know it today. says a lot about where the future of music consumption may be going...

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.

Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.

Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture.

In 1984 people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World people are controlled by inflicting pleasure.

This is my son, Sam. He’s 5. And today he learned how shitty and harmful #ToxicMasculinity is. My rage meter is spiking right now so excuse me if this is a little raw but there are some things I want to say about BS #gender norms (a thread)

Sam is my middle child & he’s a terror. A “boy’s boy” as so many (not me) would say. He’s rough and tumble, he’s loud, he’s always dirty, loves trucks, plays sports and knee drops me from the couch. But he also loves a lot of “girl” things.

Sam has a collection of purses because he likes to carry things around. And he also loves to have his nails painted bright colors because he thinks they “look beautiful.” And he’s right – they are beautiful…

So he proudly wore his red nail polish to kindergarten this morning because Sam has absolutely no concept of nail polish only being for girls or reason to think anyone would possibly have a problem with beautiful nails.

But his classmates did have a problem. A big one. Sam was ridiculed for being a boy with nail polish. They called him names and told him to take it off. This lasted the entire day.

Stories of Guruvayurappan
Shri Krishna Leela

This is a beautiful story of Guruvayurappan. Once there lived in Guruvayur a poor family. Kitta, his wife & kids were struggling for their daily needs. With only a coconut tree in house, he earned a living by selling coconuts.

Kitta was from a low caste family. He was a great devotee of Guruvayurappan. Everyday before going to work he always prayed infront of a picture of Guruvayurappan in his house. His only wish was to worship at Guruvayur & have annadanam in temple. But he was not allowed there

It was Utsavam time in Guruvayur. From far behind kitta and family worshipped Guruvayurappan. Annadanam was given daily and no one was left empty stomach. Only Kitta didn't receive. That night, it was only Kitta's family who was sleeping without food. After temple nada closed

Shri Krishna, dressed himself as a Brahmin went to temple Kitchen. He packed food and went directly to kitta's house. Reaching Kitta's house, Shri Krishna told he was sent by a cook of Guruvayur temple and gave them the food he packed. Kitta and family was very happy seeing food.

When Kitta finished his food, Brahmin asked it will be better if he get a tender coconut( karikku)to drink. Kitta climbed the tree and gave all coconuts to him. After having 1 tender coconut, the Brahmin asked to bring remaining coconuts to Guruvayur temple the next day.

Please please please take your cyber security seriously even if you don’t consider yourself a high risk person. Here are a few easy things to start with. 1/n

Switch from WhatsApp to Signal and enable disappearing messages. Most of us cannot stop using WhatsApp entirely but at least turn off back ups to Google Drive or iCloud. 2/n

Do not have private conversations using the messaging service on any social media platform like Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. 3/n

Switch from Gmail to ProtonMail or any other secure email service provider. 4/n


Switch from Google Docs to CryptPad or RiseUp Pad.

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