While covering a Nov. 10 protest led by @copsoutofNU, I spoke to an Evanston resident who experienced an easy relationship between EPD and Evanston residents. He put NIPAS in a different category, saying they appeared "dangerous." 🧵:

As of yesterday, we learned EPD police chief is responsible for all NIPAS calls and behavior, including calling for the firing of pepper balls on NU students on 10/31. Some of these students needed medical attention.

And while NIPAS, with their numbers and ammunition, appears chiefly responsible for larger, crowd control activities, EPD typically handles arrests.

I've spotted EPD arrest vehicles present at almost every NUCNC protests, big or small.

While covering NUCNC, I've noticed esp. in higher-income, White parts of Evanston that residents see the police relationship as peaceful.

( I work at a a local Evanston restaurant, and customers will often offer to pay for EPD officers meals when they eat at the restaurant.)

The idea, it seems to me, is that many residents in these higher-income, predominantly White parts of Evanston see the community as a gold-standard, liberal community where police and citizens get along.

When police are recorded engaging in violence, the blame shifts elsewhere.

Staying well out of this beef, but I've spent the last 48 hours in hysterics since I learned that an influencer has been getting fans to give her money by calling it "individual reparations."

That's the joke line I use when I want one of my white mates to get a round in!

I get how this dynamic emerges. Social media blurs the distinction between influencer and activist. Individuals are seen as totemic of a wider political struggle, so you want to see them succeed. And of course, supporting people's work is meaningful.

But it's not reparations.

Reparations isn't an individual white person giving money to an individual black or brown person (apart from when I'm broke and want a cocktail, in which case it's very much that).

It's about recognising that

a) colonialism and slavery have had a lasting economic impact

b) this impact is not just a legacy, or a long tail.

It has been reinforced by the underdevelopment and debt servitude of the Global South, and the exploitation of labour and resources from the Global South.

And unless you're a billionaire or a central bank, it's unlikely that your PayPal activity is going to make much of an impact on the root causes behind the Global Movement for Reparations..

#amberenterprises Q2fy21 concall transcript

Q2 went well for Room AC industry,uptick retail demand, pent up demand
Overall electronic & consumer durables witnessed a good quarter
Inventory levels back to normal
Anticipate better H2fy21
#stock #StocksToWatch #Nifty #sensex

GOI banned import of refrigerant fill ACs, approx 30% of fully built RACs were imported mkt size 4000 crs , atmanirbhar bharat initiative,oppurtunity for domestic RAC players
Not easy for OEMs to import non-refrigerant fill ACs,unpack,gas fill test,negates cost advantage

#amberenterprises completed QIP 400 cr in Q2fy21, money used for debt repayment,capex,WC ,acquire additional 20% stake in Sidwal,company ready to grab mkt share in RAC
China plus 1 unfolding,global MNC enquiring about RAC & components
Amber started export of components to US

Launched wide offerings of commercial ACs
Strengthened portfolio in Sidwal for railway,metros,bus ACs
Revenue 408 cr in Q2fy21 vs 623 yoy
RAC 36% ,components & mobile apps 64% contribution to revenue
Ebidta Q2fy21 22 vs 39 cr yoy
Sidwal business to focus on metros & AC coaches

PICL widened portfolio from PSC to BLDC motors,in discussion to launch washing machine & higher voltage motor for commercial AC
IN JIN & EVER to focus on inverter ACs,post development of own inverter PCB board,expect to add more business in IN JIN & EVER

#amberenterprises

It was commonplace experience growing up in Ashraf-majority village to hear slurs like "musalman hai to kia hua, hai to badzaat hi nh". once I heard someone say "jis gaon me Syed hota, us gaon k aas paas koi shaitan nhi aa sakta". But the most flagrant but less obvious ways

Casteism is perpetuated, I have witnessed and continue to, is via religious gatherings-Juma khutba, Milaad, Jalsa etc- where Ashraf Maulvis indulge in direct casteist slurs like "badzaat"(while referring to lower caste muslims) and not so direct like-

Ek "Ahmaq(idiot) dhobi", "Nafarmani Julaha", Bedeeni qasab" etc as part of their anecdotes/quips(Notice here the particular quality of individual is not his quality it represents "caste quality"). And how one Awliya/Buzurg (of course Ashrafs) rescued/saved those Ahmaq/Bedeen...

Here again saviourship is estblshd as "caste quality" of Ashrafs). In Ashraf Maulvis' sermons, casteism peppered anecdotes abound where inferiority of lower caste muslims(badzaat, badmaash, bezaat, Bedeen etc) and corresponding superiority of upper caste muslims(wherein They

would refer certain upper caste individual past or present in grandiose and patronising tone and tiltle eg Auliya, Murshid, ek Buzurg, Sahab-e-qalam etc.)is very skillfully estblshd.This work of normalising casteism in two-way traffic has very real cnsequences. I heard once my

The MD guide to the top 40 household ornaments of our youth. In order.

Number 40.

The onyx cigarette box and matching lighter.

Box always empty. Lighter never worked.

Number 39.

The sinister mantle clock.

Number 38

The wondrous motion lamp

Number 37

The flintlock pistol lighter. Always going missing from the stand. Always found in the toy box.

Number 36

The curious castanets hung on a big hook.

Hello and thanks for joining us this morning. We are excited to worship and fellowship God with you on this special day.

#ChurchGRA #GRAService #Restoration

Now leading us in praise and worship is The Royal Ambassador. When praises go up, blessings are sure to descend

#ChurchGRA #GRAService #Restoration

🎶All the days of my life I'll praise you
Everything that I have now you give to me baba
Lord I say for your love I'm grateful
Jesu you love me plenty you came to die for me🎶

#ChurchGRA #GRAService #Restoration

🎶Jehovah rapha Jehovah rapha
Jehovah nissi Jehovah nissi
I am that I am I am that I am
The great provider oh uh yeah
I searched around there's no one else like you
Lion of Judah you're the mighty man in battle🎶

#ChurchGRA #GRAService #Restoration

🎶Aiyee God has given me victory he has given me victory
Aiyee he has given me victory God has given me victory
Aiyee God has given me victory he has given me victory
Aiyee he has given me victory🎶

#ChurchGRA #GRAService #Restoration

I will be live tweeting starting in a few minutes. Follow here. Background on Fulton below. SCOTUS arguments are livestreamed here: https://t.co/lRlq9udKyB.

Argument is underway. CSS is claiming that applying non-discrimination law is interfering with agency's religious practice. Total distortion of what is happening.

Breyer asking what is the religious objection to just evaluating the families without taking into account whether family is same or different sex couple. CSS claiming it cannot make statements validating LGBTQ families because it would violate their religious beliefs.

Breyer again explaining that the agency doesn't even have to consider the marital status of the couple.

CSS is saying it burdens their religious beliefs to even assess the homes of LGBTQ families.

So let me put my narrative jerk hat on for a sec and talk about something I think might be the most commonplace way to fuck up the storytelling of your game. It's a tiny thing, it makes perfectly serviceable scenes kind of suck, and you see it ALL. THE. TIME.

(A thread.)

As an example, I'm going to use a bit from Cyberpunk 2077. Please don't think I'm trying to dunk on the game. I promise I'm not. You see this in games everywhere CONSTANTLY. I chose this simply because it's a loading screen, so I could very easily find it and capture it.

Okay, now, what we have here is a segment from a talk show. It kind of speaks for itself -- take a look:

If you have any kind of ear for this sort of thing, you can probably tell that it's... not very good. Doesn't flow very well, feels stilted and unnatural. You'd be forgiven for thinking it's badly written or badly acted. But it isn't! The content and performance are both fine.

This is a question of implementation. The problem is the pacing. Before I get into this, I should briefly explain how your typical dialogue system works. Essentially, somebody puts the recorded lines into a script file in the correct order, and then the system plays them.

I don't like quote-tweeting for the purpose of argument, but I want to quickly push back against an apparently popular tweet saying people don't want to come to America. This is, of course, nonsense.

The US remains the most popular destination of choice for immigrants, though we take far fewer people per capita than e.g. Canada or Australia.

To use an overused word, it's a sign of privilege that you think there aren't people who'd love even a lower class American lifestyle.

The groups least likely to immigrate here are the ones with the least to gain. If you're a wealthy European, you've got to have a pretty good offer on the table to come. Or a loved one you want to be with. Or you really like American cheese, perhaps.

It's just another face of American exceptionalism to think this country is especially bad. We didn't invent corruption or bad leaders or prejudice. We've excelled at a few forms of evil no doubt, but do you think that really deters someone from wanting their income multiplied 5x?

Put it this way - suppose there's a Mars colony run by a crazy billionaire. You despise Martian politics, and you know some Martians would look down on you for your appearance and accent. But, by going there, you take your current income and add a zero to it.

Astrology in Tibet and its influences, follow the thread below:

1. Tibetan Astrology is a diverse and complex phenomenon. Tibet, as an ancient kingdom of monarchical regime before the invasion and Chinese domination in itself, was isolated due to its location inaccessible by the predominantly mountainous relief.

2. Tibet received many influences from other peoples, as it was parallel to the "Silk Road", which went from Europe (in the Italic Peninsula), crossed the Mediterranean, and reached China. It received a predominant influence from Vedic culture due to Buddhism and, amalgamating +

3. the local shamanic culture and its local religion later suppressed to conversion (the ancient Bön, currently the tradition "Yungdrung Bön"), also incorporated Chinese elements of Astronomy, Astrology and Medicine Traditional Chinese.

4. The fact is that, roughly speaking, Tibetan Astrology is not unified, but composed of three systems that work in parallel:

Much confusion has arised about what #SlimeMoldTwitter (🟢) even is about, and it's really funny. I have no interest in controlling the meme, but I have an interest in clarity, so I will detail, once, how this came to be, the questions no one asked.
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The whole thing is rather non-linear, but it could be said that it all started with Black Cat (For a while known as The Anarcho-Accelerationist) pondering on wheter capitalism could become Conscious.
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Cyborg Nomade stepped in and that, eventually, leads us to this:
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Consciousness could be a phase, a blink of self-awareness surrounded by two cones of darkness extending towards the deep past and future. Seriously consider it.
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🚨Analysis Thread🚨

As we've reached the half way point of the season, inspired by old posts on @FFScout & @KaramTayser I've done a half season analysis📊

This analysis will look at two things:

❤️Consistency v Explosiveness🔥
✅Reliability v Risk🚫

#FPL #FPLCommunity

1/20

🚨Season Analysis Thread🚨

To do this, I've split it into 4 categories:

👑Premium (MID & FWD above £9.5m)
💎Non-Premium (MID & FWD £9.4m - £6.2m)
💰Budget (MID & FWD below £6.2m)
⚔️Defenders

I've used the 10 highest scoring from each category📈

#FPL #FPLCommunity

2/20

🚨Premium CvE🚨

First is Premium assets, looking at Consistency v Explosiveness for top 10 highest scorers. Games showing 1 & 2+ return & points.

Criteria to meet:

🔥 Explosive: ≥ 25% 2+ returns
❤️Consistent: ≥ 40% 1+ returns
❌Risky: ≥ 50% Blanks

#FPL #FPLCommunity

3/20

🚨Premium CvE🚨

🇵🇹Bruno highest explosiveness
🦊Vardy 2nd
🛡️Kane & Son joint 3rd
🔥Kane 3 Legend hauls😍
🇧🇪KDB just meets explosive criteria
🧿Sterling most consistent
🇪🇬Salah very consistent
❌Rashford & Mane risky
❌Auba high risk

#FPL #FPLCommunity

4/20

🚨Premium Reliability🚨

Reliability v Risk, I look at how often the player made any return v blanking in the first half of the season.

Criteria to meet:

😍Very Reliable: ≥ 60% any returns
✅Reliable: 51-59% any returns
🚫Risky: ≥ 50% Blanks

#FPL #FPLCommunity

5/20

My friend Larry King has died.

It is literally true that thousands of us can make that sad statement this morning. While he was easily caricatured, I’ve never known anybody who made a bigger deal out of the slightest kindness afforded him.

#RIPLarryKing

1) 25 years ago...

1/13
I don’t know how many GOP members of the House and Senate watch @VelshiMSNBC so I have a favor to ask of you: If you know any, or know anyone who knows any, could you pass this message on to them for me? #velshi

2/13
While the GOP is busy trying to tear down democracy, there are some difficult realities facing America right now that could really use their attention. We are starting 2021 off in bad shape, considering that this is the most prosperous country on earth. #velshi

3/13
America is not the most populous nation in the world; it’s only about 4.25% of the global population. Yet America accounts for nearly a quarter of the world’s coronavirus cases and deaths. #velshi

4/13
55 million Americans are living in poverty. You’ve seen images of cars lined up at food banks. 1 in 6 Americans are now food insecure, meaning they aren’t certain whether they will have the resources to put food on the table for their next meal. #velshi

5/13
In America, most people’s health care coverage is, stupidly, tied to their job, so 29 million Americans now don’t have health insurance. Up to 40 million renters are far enough behind on their rent to be living in fear of eviction. #velshi