@OliviaMesser It will be a raging pandemic for at least six more months. I would explain why, but I’m not giving away free info any more. National politicians know who I am & continue to steal my arguments. Moreover, Twitter censors me bc I want expose corrupt Republicans. Til I have a (1)

sufficient follower base & can get the exposure & recognition I deserve I’m dumbing down my arguments. Difference with me is I don’t use the same recycled, bland arguments as is often the case with many people who don’t deserve the media attention they get. My arguments are (2)

Powerful, hard-hitting & on-point. Go back & read my Tweets over the last 3-4 mos. & you will see. Tho, I have much more proof of this than my tweets & will release this at the appropriate moment in time. With me pulling back. You will Democrats are going to get shredded by (3)

the Republicans in the next few weeks w/o me to prop them up. You steal & don’t give back. Then, that’s what will happen. Nothing is free in this world. The Democrats have things they need to learn about how to deal w/ the Republicans. Moreover, Twitter let Trump & Co. spread (4)

false, dangerous, blatantly-evil lies that divided the country the last 4 years. Now, I want to hit these Republicans back after 4 years & all of the sudden Twitter is worried about furthering to divide the country. Well, you should of thought about that 4 years ago. Now it’s (5)

Seeing lots of explainers about the reddit/hedge fund drama right now, and as someone who worked as a quant for a big fund for 7 years, figured I'd chime in. This whole situation is pretty much why I quit. Big thread.

First, what's happening? At the simplest level, hedge funds "short" stocks. That is, they borrow stock, sell it, and have to buy it again later to return it to the borrower. If the price falls during that time, they make a profit.

It's an effective way to make money from falling prices. But it also has enormous risk. Normally, if you put $100 in a stock, all you can lose is that $100. But if you short a stock and it goes to the moon, your losses are unlimited.

Consider $GME, Gamestop. Let's say a fund shorted it when it was $40. When the price spiked to $470 today, they'd be facing a LOSS of $430 on that $40 investment. If they shorted it for, say, $10M, they'd be facing a loss of >$100M.

But it gets worse. Let's say an institution BORROWED money and then used that loan to short the stock. That's called leverage. Before the GFC, banks were running at ~33x leverage ratios. For every $1 they owned, they'd invested $33.

@Pady_oFurniture @TadeuszBorowski @AnnaPembroke @pritipatel @UKLabour Talk about hypocrisy!

THAT is some turning of the truth!!!

So he didn't have a visa for the *#USA*

And used someone else's real passport

Yet *#WE* prosecuted him

The point you are "rebutting" is how many illegal immigrants to *#THIS* country do "#WE" prosecute FOR THE SAME?!

@TadeuszBorowski @AnnaPembroke @pritipatel @UKLabour We don't prosecute people entering THIS country using a relatives passport "accidentally"

We don't prosecute people for ADMITTEDLY DELIBERATELY entering THIS country without the right passport to "test" the system

In fact #Channel4akeNews had a whole programme (series?) of it!

@TadeuszBorowski @AnnaPembroke @pritipatel @UKLabour Was anyone at or on the #Channel4 programme prosecuted for illegally entering the country

Attempting it

Or aiding & abetting it

And that's ON TOP of the THOUSANDS of illegal immigrants who illegally enter the country without the correct or even ANY legal travel documents

@TadeuszBorowski @AnnaPembroke @pritipatel @UKLabour Or through correct legal entry points

Illegal immigrants don't just enter country without correct or any travel documents

Many (most?) don't go through customs or passport control

And not only do they not get prosecuted for it

The "liberal" left insist it's not a crime either

@TadeuszBorowski @AnnaPembroke @pritipatel @UKLabour Similarly the "liberal" left in US insist if you enter US illegally it's not a crime

But also dispute authorities claim any illegal immigrant trying to get through immigration hasn't "entered" the USA yet & so not entitled to US constitutional rights

AIUI #TommyRobinson hadn't

1/ Today is Winter Solstice. We
WAKE UP to the DARKEST DAY of the Year.

2/ but hey, it’s 2020! So?

3/ this year, for the first time in 800 years, we have the same SKY EVENT that WISE men traversed and followed in ~4 BCE.

The CHRISTMAS STAR illuminating our way....

4/ ... seeking, with COURAGE, to find WISDOM.

5/ Many of us have been AWAKE for several years, AWAITING the BIRTH of a NEW NATION...

an END to the Corruption, and a Govt once again By the People, For the People, Of the People.

HOW LONG do we WAIT for a BIRTH?

Ob/gyn's inform us it's
9 mo.
280 days.
hmmmm⤵️

Since my original account got suspended due to an idiot I won't mention the name of, I will post what I have of DeWine and you can all make up your own minds.

DeWine, Acton, Clinton, Haiti, DeWine Family Foundation stocks. Also Hands Together, linked to Haiti/DeWine. (1/11)

@DonaldWelsh16 Oh hello.

I knew Dr Rorabeck. He was a wonderful guy. @SchulichMedDent does have much to be proud of. Like any institution, it has its warts.

@SchulichMedDent But to respond to your comment: I think you’re referencing the concept of balanced pathogenicity, which probably will will, over the longer term, favour less virulent strains.

@SchulichMedDent The difficulty we have with VOC is that they appear to bind better to ace2 (as a vascular biologist I bet you’ve heard of that!) and that may underlie their increased infectivity and increased

@SchulichMedDent propensity to cause outbreaks among kids, which has caused the UK to do a u-turn on schools.

You seem to fancy yourself a bit of a quant (math! So great!) so you can probably figure out what happens if you get an increase in R resulting in increased attack rates, while virulence

@SchulichMedDent Remains constant. Yes! You get more people dying that way!

You got it! Gold star ⭐️!

And we have no evidence of diminished virulence for VOC as yet. What we do have is evidence for increased virulence.

1. Oh shit, he’s done a thread
Yes, and it won’t be the last. Put them all together, and they might make a roadmap. You can guess what the destination is. Just start reading it, don't worry about how long it is. It's not that long.

2. So here’s step One on the journey I think we should take. If you want to take a different route, fine, but naturally, I think mine is the best, and I will tell you why.

3. Lots of people hurting right now, and emotional reactions to events are normal and natural. Hard to process what has happened. First acknowledge the fact. We have been dragged out, against the wishes of the majority.

4. No quick easy route back. Why not? Two reasons. British Politics, and the EU itself; both equally important, but one is something we can do something about directly, the other is something we can now only influence indirectly.

5. British Politics. The 2016 referendum scared British politicians shitless, and the division in the country still scares many. The Tory Party has given in to a coup by those who think they can use this to stay in power.

Proceedings resume
Mr Fitzgerald rises
#Assange

Says that Assange's experience in the Equadorian embassy was not one he would want to repeat, also says Mexican president was misquoted on asylum offer

Fitzgerald his client is aware: "He is safest and best in this country, with the protection of the rule of law and the cloak of this courts judgement."
#Assange

Defence end by formally asking for bail, ends.

Judge asking about costs, both sides agree this can wait

#ClariOnHEMA getting theoretical again, this time on armour.

—Is leather armour historical?—

CW // none apply //

Short answer: Yes, but not the way you might think.

1/16

There have absolutely been armour in which leather was used as material, but the RPG leather armour is mostly fictitious.

Leather armour is not flexible and supple. That's just leather clothing and protects about as well as an overcoat.

2/16

Leather that has been treated (boiled or baked, we don't really know the exact process) is hard and resembles ceramic plates or hard plastic more than the flexible leather we use in clothing.

But hard plate sounds good for an armour, right?

Well, yes and no.

3/16

Hardness is definitely a merit, but leather as a material poses some serious limitations.

1) You can't really repair leather armour

Cloth can be sown, metal can be welded and reforged, but apart from some very dubious glueing, there isn't much you can do for leather.

4/16

You'd have to replace entire sections of the armour in their entirety, so field repairs are out of the question. Not a great feature for any professional soldier at least.

This doesn't preclude ceremonial use, but that takes it out of the realm of real armour altogether.

5/16

THREAD

Nginx has a service mesh too. Is it any good?

Let's find out.

1/

Most service meshes use Envoy as a proxy and for good reasons:

1. It's fully open-source
2. It can be customised on-the-fly via an API
3. It can be extended

2/

Is there a service mesh without Envoy? Of course!

The best example is @Linkerd that uses a custom proxy written in Rust.

Linkerd is smaller and more focussed but it is also slower to add features.

And now there's a new entry: @nginx

3/

But isn't Nginx one of those products not fully open-source proxies?

Yes it is, but they made an exception.

When you run the Nginx Service Mesh you can use Nginx Plus (the paid product) as a proxy for free.

Great isn't it?

4/

How does the meshwork?

There are four main components:

- The API
- SPIRE (cert authority)
- NATS (message broker)
- Nginx Plus as a proxy

Grafana, Prometheus and Zipkin are automatically installed too.

A few paradoxes or philosophical ironies I have observed on this Bird Street:
1. Idiots have devised effective strategy to get under the skin of intelligent people:
E.g: Class A says he will unseat Tinubu in Lagos for N100m. Class B, gets riled up. Ought we not to just waka pass?

2. Second irony:
The illogical person makes illogic sound logical and incredibly many people retweet and like the illogic. The logical minded is now thrown into arguing that a clear illogic is illogic. Ought the logical minded person not to simply waka pass?

3. The third irony:
Tinubu owns Lagos. 2 businesses were burnt down (Nation and TVC). Those 2 media houses have not in the past 3-5 years done anything to support Tinubu's party, the APC-they have been largely opposition media. Who did the arsonists punish? Tinubu or Insurance?/

4. Tinubu and the ABC and the money laundering allegation: If people were rational, they would have done this:
1. Scrutinised the MEMART of the ABC company registered with CAC? Is Tinubu's name featured there?
2. Is the LASG operating an opaque contract with ABC company? /

5. The rationale mind would find that there just may be a substantive contract between the LASG & the said company. There may well be a LAW of the LASG supporting the ABC's operations in Lagos. So accusing Tinubu may not go anywhere in the face of the Law. Nut changes can happen?

It's time for another rendition of "why Sam Heughan is not responsible for your actions!"
- a thread -

I rarely use the term "hate" for obvi reasons. But there are two kinds of people that I ABSOLUTELY loathe with a passion: liars and thieves. I've realized through my course of adulthood that there's a third category:
those seemingly allergic to personal responsibility

I read the article that the d*ily rec*rd put out and I noticed one things all these women have in common (aside from their audacious gullibility) none of them acknowledge they were duped.

"He should be doing more than putting up a temporary story on IG" CHILD HE'S BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEEEEEARS WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN?!

These bitches are acting like Sam is ONLY NOW acknowledging that scammers are going after his fans in this way. They're acting like he's the first one to be involved in this, like this is some new concept. Honey, no. Not even close.

@imaginejim Strangely enough, I can kinda relate to him on a certain level. He's a wise cracking tough guy, but once you dig deep enough you start to realize he has a big heart. He makes the wrong decisions sometimes but it's hard to blame him considering what he's been through.

I love Deadpool for the same reasons. Him and CGR are very similar, but CGR cannot break the fourth wall, so his story feels more contained, serious and real. There are times to be serious (just read Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys Marvel History).

In the end, he's just a man who's suffered incredibly terrible loss, and instead of fighting for revenge, he fights to prevent others from suffering the fate that he did. For justice. Justice in his own, dark and twisted way, but justice nonetheless.

That is until Thanos kills everyone and he lives on Earth alone for many years. He becomes the Spirit of Vengeance. He's lost his marbles. For the first time in a long time, he had wanted company. Someone to love or to kill. But there was nobody.

And when Galactus arrives, he takes his chance for revenge. He fails, but he later succeeds. He is killed though, and sent to Valhalla.

Odin sends him back in time to when Thanos is an infant. Frank has the intention to kill him. To prevent the deaths of millions.