"I had learned too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. I knew that the same voices which yelled “Heil Schuschnigg” today would thunder “Heil Hitler” tomorrow."
- Stefan Zweig

“The herd instinct of the mob was not yet as offensively powerful in public life as it is today; freedom in what you did or did not do in private life was taken for granted...toleration was not deplored as a weakness & debility, but was praised as an ethical force”
- Stefan Zweig

“It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.”
- Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday

“How Lilliputian all those anxieties were, how serene that time!”
- Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday

“For a society is always most cruel to those who disclose and reveal its secrets, when through dishonesty society itself has outraged Nature.”
- Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday

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Anyone want to help me play yarn detective? I...picked up a couple more balls from the box upstairs (it's been there for days, apparently, so people have Had A Chance) but they have no labels.

Ok, mystery yarn A has clearly been knitted before, and this is several balls of it. Between about 12 and 16 WPI, single ply, but fairly tightly spun. Burns like it's a wool/acrylic blend; self-extinguishes quickly. Colors are very short—often only ~1"

Mystery yarn B is 20 wpi on the nose, is mostly wool, three-ply, very round. Reminds me of Happy Feet DK but has way more of a sheen than I remember HF having.

Mystery yarn C, 14 wpi. I was sure that it was going to be a weird soft acrylic, but the burn test makes me think it's another acrylic/wool blend. The color's a gradient and each shift lasts about 6". I don't even know where to start with this one.

It's worth noting that in A, the colors are very distinct—there's nowhere that the colors were blended in the spinning. (There are lots of single plies that are almost right, but were clearly dyed before spinning, and this was not, imo.)

@jay_21_ So far...

(1) Shorts must always be very small. Max 1.5-2.0% for large cap structural decliners. 20-40bps for frauds and promotes.

(2) No hero shorts.

(3) Wait for things to crack before putting a position on in any type of size (which for a short, is still very small). $700 to $0 and $200 to $0 are both 100% returns.

(4) Must be willing to cover aggressively if going against you. After cracking, need to be willing to add on the way down (particularly for promotes or frauds).

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I've got some great news on how to get #clout with #MatthewTabor and #JohnSwan

Please take note....

It's a really a very simply process.

1.

This is what you need to do....

a. Appear on my TimeLine. make sure you are gamer and you are using an anon Twitter account with an avatar that is pretty wet.

2.

b. Than be as rude to me as you can possibly muster.

And I mean really, really rude...

So you need to use some reallu, really nasty put downs.

I will give you some examples...

3.

These are techniques worth trying...
i/ use misogynistic slurs. These must allude to sex. So use sexual references and put downs.

ii/ Move onto addressing my age. You know the sort of thing...mention my looks and how I'm not very attractive etc.

4.

And then build up to the third and most revolting cr*p you can think of...

iii/ Target mental health. So call me 'crazy,' unhinged' etc.

Those three techniques should be adequate.

But this is race to the bottom so...it may not quite be enough.

5.

ok this one is pretty bad

omegaverse where alpha shido keeps omega goro around not just for metaverse hits but because shido is one of those alphas who likes to breed their omega and refuses to wear a condom. goro lets his own father knot and impregnate him every few months to keep him happy

every two months or so shido will get increasingly irritable and goro will know that he needs “stress relief”… when shido calls him to his office during those times goro doesn’t even ask, just comes in and waits for shido to tell him to take off his clothes

shido likes to keep goro on his knot for hours. doesn’t even take his cock out so that he can keep the cum inside goro. the second his knot goes down enough shido just flips goro over and starts fucking him again

worst parts are when goro’s omega instincts take over and he slips and begs shido to impregnate him, to fuck him so full of cum that he’s bred full of shido’s children, how much he wants to be shido’s knot warmer

I don't discuss my projects on Twitter but this is an exception because it is epic.

TLDR: food will follow retail, cloud kitchens will level up local restaurants & Gary V is a genius.

Here goes

👇

In 2019, I got a chance to see a functional @cloudkitchens facility. My immediate reaction was holy s*** this is going to change EVERYTHING.

If you don't know what it is -- here's a feature I

You can now build & launch a delivery-only restaurant within minutes -- like you'd do with a DTC store on Shopify today.

Food was going to follow retail.

The next obvious idea was celebrity food brands!

So I hit up up the two ppl I thought would GET it. @nasdaily & @garyvee

Thread: I compiled all D1 team stats listed on the NCAA site from the last full NCAA softball regular season and here’s what I found from 297 teams.
⬇️

1/

Let’s start with the most important stat of all: Winning.

The two stats correlated most to Winning% are Runs Scored & ERA.

I think most of us could have guessed that scoring more runs than you’re allowing is a good recipe for success.

2/

What is the best way to score runs? A high OPS.

I also added the correlation between Stolen Bases per Game & Runs per Game. I was surprised by this, are you?

3/

Winning in the regular season helps set up a chance for the postseason. The NCAA loves their RPI metric for determining their postseason qualifiers and here’s how Wins, Losses, & SOS correlate to RPI.

4/

Here’s how the postseason looked based on RPI & SOS. I’m not going to elaborate on this. We’ll continue with something more fun.

5/

For years, people would ask me how I do my research. Online and in radio interviews I always gave basic, vague answers because I was trying to protect my small market share. I didn't want to create my own competition because I was being selfish. It was a mistake. [Today's thread]

Market share is not the right term, really. I never received a dime for my years of conspiracy debunking and putting out truth to combat the world of lies people encounter online. Perhaps it is better to call it my niche.

I did it for free, in my spare time, while working two jobs and writing novels when the urge struck me. I did it because I was extraordinarily concerned with people being manipulating by the BS the find online.

So people often asked how I figured it out. How did you dig that up? Why wasn't that in the article I read? I've never seen that before! WHY haven't I seen that before?

I would give answers like..

You didn't look in the right places.
Or,
You need to double-check your sources.

Those sorts of answers.

"It's just a thing I do. I probably couldn't even show you how to do it."

The evidence is in, and the UK variant does appear to be of great concern. The viral load of infected people is higher, and it seems to be about 50% more transmissible. It doesn’t appear to cause more severe illness, but more cases will unfortunately result in greater mortality.

The estimated viral load of people infected with the new variant is substantially higher, although it is not yet clear why. Further laboratory studies will hopefully explain

In contrast to early speculation, children do not appear to be markedly more susceptible to the new variant.

An investigation using NHS contact tracing data found 15.1% of contacts of people infected with the new variant became infected, compared to 9.8% of contacts of people infected with an older

Mortality does not seem to be substantially different.

In an analysis of 2,700 people followed for 28 days, 0.89% of people with the new variant died compared to 0.73% of those with older variants. This was not statistically

January 6, I will be watching the Republicans in the House who plan to try to overturn the Electoral College and when they fail, will completely support those Congressional districts succeeding from the union as they threaten.

Best of luck.

It’s tough starting a new country under any circumstance. Having Mo Brooks instead of Thomas Jefferson and a handful of proud boys instead of Washington’s Army will add to the challenge.

(This is a rant, not a spelling bee.)

Secede, succeed.

All the big talkers like Ted Cruz will likely down posture in their chairs when they yell “who’s with me?” Marco Rubio will be reciting enigmatic verses.

The tea party will be like “just joking. We kind of have to tax you” because all that’s left is a factory Trump promised to open but never did & the Museum of Creation which hasn’t been a big money maker (but is highly interesting if you’re in Northern Kentucky).

Those long awake are weathered and weary of everything. We feel as if we've been trapped in dystopian nightmare. A split reality. We've put on our "masks" and have assimilated to the false reality over the years, whilst still holding on, hoping the illusion is about to crumble.

I've been feeling this way for over a decade myself. I never wanted to make an attempt at a normal life, because I understood it was all a lie. You try to be a good member of society, and they crush you for it. Corruption pays off well, while honesty gets you entirely destroyed.

I had almost given up hope. After watching the election of 2016, and seeing blatant corruption from the left go unnattested; I looked into what Donald Trump was actually doing. I realized, this man gave up a luxurious, easy life. He gave it all up for us. All to save humanity.

He knew of the shadow they cast on the entirety of society. He saw how they kept us in the dark, whilst bleeding us dry. Not just America; the whole of the World was under their reign, and a large portion of the populace had fallen for the illusion they perpetuated repeatedly.

I realized for once, we have someone in Office willing to fight with every fibre of his being, with the entirety of his soul, to shine a light in a society that has been clouded by darkness. We who had been awake and masked, were finally given a voice. He guided us the whole way.

This was before I "met" someone who actually knew what was going on but I was close. I am only pouring all of this out in one day and not slowly because I have been compromised by K8. A friend who wasn't.

Top 10 Crusader Kings III patch notes, that could just as well act as advices about life in general:

10. ‘No Beard’ is now the top option in the barbershop

9. You now get a toast when you change your primary title

8. Characters are no longer angry at their new friends

7. People will now be a bit miffed if you raid them

I JUST CAME ACROSS THE MOST ADORABLE PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH I HAVE EVER SEEN AND HAD TO MAKE A THREAD ABOUT IT HAVE AN AMAZING WEEKEND!!!!

Every intro to cognitive psychology course has at least one chapter where we ask how people know that dogs are dogs - after all, they look so different from each other.

This research one-ups our question and asks: HOW DO DOGS KNOW THAT OTHER DOGS ARE DOGS??

First, let's meet our subjects in Figure 1 of this article. LOOK AT HOW CUTE THEY ALL ARE! THEY ARE ALL SUCH GOOD BOYS AND GIRLS AND CUSCO IS ABSOLUTELY SERVING!!

Next, let's see how they were trained to identify other dogs. They would sit and see pictures of one dog and one not-dog. If they poked the dog picture, they got a treat. LOOK AT BAHIA CHOOSING CORRECTLY BECAUSE BAHIA IS VERY GOOD AND VERY SMART!!!

AND BY THE WAY, IT SEEMS THAT THE PICTURES OF THE DOGS AND NON-DOGS WERE SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR HIGH LEVELS OF CUTENESS AND HUGGABILITY!!!

(except for the cat.)