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 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

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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

Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, 2021 tarot reading -

2020 was a year of rebirth and awakening for you. A lot of you went through a massive change, which lead you to discover who you are on a deeper level, and open your eyes to a whole different side of life, and what you want from it

I see a big change happened for you last year. Something that you thought was going to be in your life forever, or someone, wasn’t anymore. There was a certain direction you saw yourself going in, but last year caused you to have to re-evaluate that, and that wasn’t easy for you.

I see here a lot of you could have dealt with a break up. This person could have lacked emotional maturity when handling this, therefore causing you a lot of pain. I see this whole situation triggered a lot within you. A lot of fears, and negative behaviours came to the surface.

This may have highlighted some of the aspects of yourself you did not want to see or face, but ultimately you had to. I do see this is something you’re still working through, which there’s nothing wrong with of course! Everything, especially healing, takes time! And that is okay

I do see that last year you spent a lot of time analysing your thoughts. You may have spent a lot of time alone, going through this rebirth and transformation. You should be proud of yourself for this, as it wasn’t easy, but you got through it!

We recently announced a license change.

Blog: https://t.co/DwokGSwilX

FAQ: https://t.co/FCrovhQ0J0

We’ve also clarified the license change here: https://t.co/Cbnk3wlr77

I wanted to share why we had to make this change. (1 of 22)

This was an incredibly hard decision, especially with my background and history around Open Source. I take our responsibility very seriously. (2 of 22)

And to be clear, this change most likely has zero effect on you, our users. It has no effect on our customers that engage with us either in cloud or on premises. Its goal, hopefully, is pretty clear. (3 of 22)

So why the change? AWS and Amazon Elasticsearch Service. They have been doing things that are just NOT OK since 2015 and it has only gotten worse. If we don’t stand up to them now, as a successful company and leader in the market, who will? (4 of 22)

Our license change is aimed at preventing companies from taking our Elasticsearch and Kibana products and providing them directly as a service without collaborating with us. (5 of 22)

The Purleighan Realms: Dragonfall

Darsyx held him, but only just. Part of the God of Protection understood exactly what his friend was going through, and refused to bring his full strength to bear, but he worried that might have to.

Vrayl was not himself.

"WHO FUCKING DID THIS, NERMAL?! WHO!?" Vrayl lunged, and Darsyx slammed him to the tiled floor of Nermal's throne room. Vrayl let loose a strangled roar as Darsyx expertly wrapped one arm around his neck, locking it in.

The throne room shook as a pulse of Vrayl's power sent tiles flickering away like leaves in the wind. Even with Darsyx's arm around his throat, Vrayl still dragged himself back to his feet, another step closer. "SHE'S DEAD, NERMAL. MY TENLEE IS DEAD!"

"Vrayl," interjected Darsyx, trying not to snarl. "You need to calm down. Dont make me end you. Please."

Darsyx moved to tighten the choke, but Vrayl spun and dropped, neatly slipping free of the choke.

He whirled, claws alight with divine energy, the spectral form of his true self crackling around him. "WHO KILLED HER, NERMAL?! WHO FUCKING KILLED HER?! I TRIED TO BRING HER BACK, NERMAL. I TRIED TO BRING HER BACK.

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.

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

So I have been briefly looking into how OCD is assessed. I came across this image. Crikey, it just makes me think even more that PDA should be viewed as an OCD & related disorder.

I do not have time to explicitly how PDA matches up this, but if one looks at the work of Liz O'Nions

One should see that the model she is describing matches up to the OCD cycle.

So demand = obsessive thought.
anxiety = anxiety.
Demand avoidance behaviour = compulsion.
Temporary relief = temporary relief.

It is acknowledged that demand avoidance behaviours have a loose hierarchy, so the more anxious (distressed) the PDAer is, more extreme behaviour they display to assert the self-agency. This is covered in the work of @Allison66746425

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.

Good Morning Pristine Sovereign Paradise, StarSeeds, Earth & Galactic Guardians, Protectors, Exchequers
Executioners, Enforcers, Diplomatic Guest & Loved Ones

Anyone know what an Estate is? Besides the oversight fiduciaries of the Chancery probate courts?
https://t.co/LwordekVU3

This is why they kept these datasets hidden for so long. (notice how there were no original format nor there were any date of original data deposition from the SRP or the Run Selector.) They altered the ACE2 gene on these datasets. it took them a month, and no dataset deposited

before this date have evidence of "RaACE2" 1-85.
this is found in the Jul.01 dataset (altered).

While none of the datasets published before 01/07 (this is published at 01/06 have this "ACE2 1-85". nothce that this study itself does not contain any ACE2 fragments in all it's probe capture studies published before 01/07/2020. the most logical explanation is that they simply

took the fake Shi "clones" and spiked them into the 01/07 datasets. unfortunately, the methodology and the early R.Affinis sneak peak (XGD01) lacked the ACE2 mRNA fragment, which tells us that these datasets have been fraudulently altered ("salted"). that is why it took them

over two months to "publish" the data, and why they have withheld the ability for BLAST analysis on these datasets for over 6 months. They must have worked overtime to alter the ACE2 gene on these datasets to fit Shi's narrative.

I thought I would make a new end of year CHOOSE YOUR OWN RADIATION ADVENTURE, except I realized I kept running face first into "All Of The Above".

So instead, I want to discuss archetypical accidents to try to encourage you to not be the cause/victim in one.

As we approach NYE 2020 with restrictions in place and limited staffing, on top of the usual ghost towns that institutions become during the holidays as the older staff members take use-it-or-lose-it vacations, we are particularly vulnerable to the first archetype: Work Alone

As a general rule, when you are doing particularly nasty things, high power laser alignment, critical lifts, easily dispersible radioactive materials, high voltage, etc. you don't do it by yourself.

The counterpoint is "I always do this by myself to minimize the number of people exposed to $HAZARD" is valid, but more you're the hands up close and personal. But you aren't alone. Someone's in shouting distance.

This time of year, you may be the only person in the building.

For better or worse, the holidays are when people try to do some of the most hazardous work or long delayed maintenance that makes everything else more dangerous, like repairing fume hood motors, because the number of other people whose work they could impact is reduced.

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time for a little bit of a bragging thread

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in hunter gatherer societies, male speed, strength and dexterity peaks in the mid 20s, but hunting success peaks closer to 40

the difference is decades of acquired wisdom about all sorts of tiny things

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In infoworker economies I think something similar happens. Fluid intelligence peaks in the 20s or so, but graybeards have seen all manner of complicated Charlie Foxtrots and can start to predict where they're going to happen.

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I build this complicated app that communicates with Vast Third Party via three different APIs, a mix of XML, JSON, etc.

Two of these APIs are outgoing / push (from my PoV), one is inbound.

Three weeks ago Third Party pinged us and placed an order. We responded "ok".

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Then, apparently, Third Party pinged us again and placed a second order... and is now upset because second order didn't ship.

We have no record of a second order in our system, and we don't have enough inventory to fulfill it.

Wangxian post canon where one night, Lwj is late home. Wwx knows Lwj has been teaching today, so he goes to find his husband instead. When he reaches lwj’s classroom and slides open the door he sees Lwj, and in his arms is a gently snoozing baby disciple

Lwj blinks slowly in a gesture to tell Wwx to move quietly, but Wwx is already barely breathing in fear of waking the sleeping little one.

The little body rises and falls with each slow breath, and lwjs hand is a cradle on the back of the child’s head

‘How long have they been sleeping?’ Wwx mouths at lwj, who replies ‘since the end of class’

The child’s breath catches and they both freeze, then let out a silent sigh when no further reaction happens.

Wwx treads carefully over to the pair

As he kneels, he catches sight of a chubby cheek, smushed against the shoulder of his husbands white robes. His heart clenches. “Hello little one,” he reaches forwards and with one finger gently strokes back the hair from the child’s face. Big eyes blink open sleepily

“Morning,” Wwx smiles, and the child stretches out two chubby arms towards him, a silent demand to be carried. Wwx accepts, of course he does. He lifts the Lan disciple into his arms, shifting to lean against lwjs side

Downplaying your Intelligence

In the hierarchy of conceit, intelligence reigns.

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If you want to soften people’s guard, the evident faculty to downplay is intelligence, but the other two facets to downplay are judgement and experience as both draw up close to intellect on the hierarchy of conceit.

Make them feel superior to you in these faculties, and you will have them at the tip of your fingers.

It is the ideal camouflage to seem less clever than you are and at times, somewhat of an idiot to confound people.

The sense of intellectual superiority you can induce in people by means of cognitive reassurance through indirect modes will lay down their doubt and suppositions and will be coerced easier to your side.

Do not communicate this implication through direct means, though, utilise concealed and roundabout methods as these are more subtle and potent.

A gesture of admiration at their intellectual ability, for instance, can go a long way.

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Dear @RobertWrighter:

I have benefited in past from @BloggingHeads, so it is disturbing that the platform was handed over for 90 minutes to an activist pushing misinformation on #Syria, primarily to attack #WhiteHelmets and to deny #ChemicalAttacks.

In 90 minutes, the activist offered almost no reliable information. Instead, he used @BloggingHeads for a series of misrepresentations and sometimes falsehoods.

1. He claims "journalistic malpractice" in BBC Radio 4 documentary #Mayday w/o citing single example.

#Syria

2. His only "evidence" on #Douma #ChemicalAttack is a misrepresentation of tweets by @DalatRM and an incorrect claim about Robert Fisk.

3. He misrepresents creation of #WhiteHelmets

4. He falsely claims WH "took part in executions".

#Syria

5. He misrepresents #WhiteHelmets "celebrating w Al Qa'eda" in a "town in #Idlib Province" (not realizing that it is Idlib city)

6. He claims WH "ties with jihadists" w no evidence

7. His claims are ill-informed, at best, about start & course of #Syria conflict.

8. Specifically, he is ignorant re intervention by #Iran and #Hezbollah & how and why it occurred.

9. He distorts audit findings re #WhiteHelmets and #JamesLeMesurier (adding ad hominem v. LeMesurier).

10. W no evidence, he claims 2013 #EastGhouta sarin attack was "false flag".