⚠ The Texas electric system is facing an unprecedented power shortage situation due to the extreme winter weather impacting the entire state, including Houston & the region. Texans’ electricity consumption needs have far surpassed current power generation. #houwx #hounews 1/10

Early this morning, @ERCOT_ISO declared a statewide power generation shortfall emergency and asked electricity delivery companies to reduce load through controlled outages in an effort to bring the supply of and demand for electricity back into balance. #houwx #hounews 2/10

As CenterPoint Energy made preparations to follow @ERCOT_ISO's directive to reduce load, we were anticipating outages of 15 minutes to more than an hour. #houwx #hounews 3/10

This morning, conditions for power generation were, & continue to be, very serious; @ERCOT_ISO needs electric companies to reduce their load at a higher level & longer than they originally thought, which in turn is resulting in longer outages for customers. #houwx #hounews 4/10

Unfortunately, if you are a customer who is currently experiencing an outage, you should be prepared to be without power for at least the rest of the day. #houwx #hounews 5/10

The focal S:N501 build is now updated with data from 13 Jan!

There are a total of 247 non-UK & non-South African sequences in 501Y.V1 (B.1.1.7 #b117) & 501Y.V2.

I'll do an additional thread later on, covering S:E484 & the 'Ohio variants'.

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https://t.co/3bdttjKVl4

There are 244 new sequences in 501Y.V1 (B.1.1.7) from Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain & USA, as well sequences as from Ecuador and Greece for the first time.

2/18

Greece has 3 new sequences in 501Y.V1 for the first time. They indicate 2 separate introductions.

Ecuador has 2 sequences for the first time. They also indicate 2 separate introductions.

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The USA has 61 new sequences (orange), from Florida, Minnesota, California, Pennsylvania, & New York.

A few of these represent separate introductions. Others form distinct clusters that may indicate ongoing local transmission.

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Israel has 35 new sequences (orange). Some of these show separate introductions, but many link with older sequences, indicating ongoing local transmission.

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Lots of folks say “you must be brave” when they find out I work in the ER.

It’s true that I don’t (usually) get upset at the sight of blood. But there are plenty of things that scare me.

A non-exhaustive list of things this emergency physician is afraid of:

Choking

Because I’ve seen a child choke on a hot dog or grape that wasn’t cut lengthwise.

Door slamming

Because I’ve had to repair way too many fingertip amputations in little kids.

Throwing sticks

Because one time I saw a kiddo lose their eye after an innocent game with a sibling.

Jumping on the trampoline with your dog

Because...just don’t do it. It’s a bad idea.

1. "The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves;...

"Is juju real?" now you have a bunch of Christians in a room telling you juju is real because of course Christianity is real. I find these questions to be a waste of time.

"juju is real because how do you know juju isn't real. You need to open your mind". Very sound argument.

This one said even plant has spirit. What Albert Einstein did is also written in the Bible. E = MC square. Now he's talking about holiness and removing slippers, I don't know wetin concern this one with "is JuJu real?"

Apparently Africans have the strongest resistance to JuJu because our dark skin colour reacts to dark magic.

Someone has finally asked if JuJu is real why is the black race still at the bottom of the barrel?

Getting ready to hear the juju is only good for bad things like.

Ulcer: what you should know.

Peptic ulcer (generally known as ulcer) is a sore/wound that develops on the lining of the stomach or small intestine.

There are two types of (peptic) ulcer:

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1. Stomach ulcer also known as gastric ulcer is the ulcer that occurs in the stomach while
2. Duodenal ulcer is the ulcer that occurs at the first part of the small intestine.

There are two major causes of ulcer:

1. Helicobacter pylori (a bacterium)
2. Chronic use of NSAIDs like aspirin, diclofenac, ibuprofen etc.

This two accounts for over 90% of all ulcers with H. pylori having a higher percentage when compared to the long term use of NSAIDs.

Other causes of ulcer exist but the account for lesser percentage of ulcer, they include:

-Stomach hyperacidity (Zollinger-Ellison syndrome)
here the stomach produces abnormal amounts of gastric acid. It is a rare condition.
-Weak gastric lining
Here some people are born with weak gastric mucosa as such, even small stomach acidity can result in ulceration.

Personal thoughts on how to choose Vaccine as of date in India given tremendous uncertainty about approval/availability of Vaccines.

If you can get it "somehow" .Get a Pfizer/Moderna Vaccine . Previously it appeared that Pfizer Vaccine would come in Private Market and will be administered in Metros.

But Pfizer developed cold feet and Govt seems not interested (as Vaccine requires -70 degree for storage and distribution difficult/price high-> could precipitate health iniquity).

As a compromise ,if you are very high risk(>50,comorbidity, elderly in family). Consider taking Covishield. Hold off/get Antibody titres if you have autoimmune/neurological disease or history of severe allergic reaction as here the Vaccine has higher risk of side effects

While approval in Clinical trial mode is granted for COVAXIN . Wait for phase 3 data . (don't get sucked in by "indigenous" tag yet).

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hahah I love this energy I'm seeing like a masculine who is waiting and day dreaming and very sweet and it's like they are both the knight of cups and the emperor but what's fascinating is the feminine is also the emperor? lmao so the way it's playing out is the masculine is

kind of like off waiting for the feminine to get their work done I see this feminine being really focused, sitting working at a computer, writing in a notebook, or a sketchpad, i'm seeing a red pen/marker, I feel like the whole month of october the feminine was very busy and this

masculine was like no it's okay I know you've got stuff to do I'm going to just wait and do my thing and I know you know I'll be here when you're done and it's kind of funny I think this feminine doesn't even realize hahaha The empress also came out 🌚 I do feel like essentially

whatever this like big push to do all this work was is coming to a place where yes like it's still there that "down to business' energy is there but this empress / emperor feminine is very balanced and it feels like someone stepping into a place of creation and manifestation and

phewwwwie that hard work has paid off with the ten of pentacles I tell you. I'm seeing that this feminine is also walking away from anyone who is like I guess not picking up the phone let's put it that way like if someone is sleeping on them or like the knight of cups can be kind

Ok, holidays and coups are mostly over, so back to threads.
There was some recent talk about pompeii because they dug out some more of it.
🍆A TERRIBLE PERSON'S GUIDE TO POMPEII🏛️
Including, but not limited to, SO MANY STONE DICKS.

Like, seriously: CW for *very old* porn.
Also, I will speak of the casts of dead bodies in pompeii. That can be disturbing.
(also, I've already posted some stuff on pompeii recently, but I'll repeat it because I'm deeply unoriginal, sorry)

- As a physicist, I'll start with an incredibly boring things that brings me tears of joy: THEY KEPT A PUBLIC SET OF STANDARD WEIGHS IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE. The Romans were big on standardization.
Truly, civilization never recovered.

- You might know of the "Cave canem" mosaics, this is the most famous one but there are a few.
Literally "beware of the dog", so it's easy to think it's like our modern similar signs. (1/2)

...except *this* was probably the breed of roman pet dogs. Basically a rat walking on sticks. So, it's likely they meant more "CAREFUL, DON'T STEP ON MY DOG!". (2/2)

#nofgm thread about getting period for the first time. Trigger warning. So in our communities no ones discuses period or sex. So you don't know that .you are suppose to get period and its part of life. You truly have no idea

The first time I got period. I freaked out . I thought, I was dying literally. I told my cousin I am dying
She asked how .I said I am bleeding and my abdomen is on fire 🔥. First she said you are not dying . You have become a woman .

There its my panic gear goes into overdrive. She mentioned the word woman. The source of my pain. I associate the womanhood with something terrible will occur again. Before the Mutilation. They throw you a party and what everyone says to you is. You are going to be a woman.

For me at that time .everytime I heard the word woman. I panicked and literally scared. My cousin explain abit more. She said now that you have your period
You are a woman. That means you ready for marriage. You are not dying. Its a celebration for the family .

She must have told my mother and other aunties. All of a sudden they were whispering and I can see in their faces the happiness. I dont trust them. I am extremely wary of been hurt again. They are truly happy.. my aunty says. Mashallah( praise the lord) you are a woman

WHEN ARE MEN GOING TO HAVE FREE SCREENING FOR PROSTATE CANCER?

HON. ILLOS NYONI: I heard the Minister saying the facilities are there for screening from 40 years upwards, where they are screened for cervical cancer and other cancers but for men you have to pay through the nose.

HON. NYONI: What arrangements or facilities are you putting in place for men to get this screening for free? You highlighted that this has to be done annually. Thank you. @healthtimeszim @theNCI @AmericanCancer @SU2C @BidenCancer @CR_UK @MoHCCZim @WHO

MINISTER MANGWIRO: Yes, screening of cancers in general is quite expensive for prostate cancer. Government policy is that anyone can get this screening done.

MINISTER MANGWIRO: Yes, some people pay but our aim is to make sure all men get screened at reasonable prices especially if its done in our central hospitals. There might be slight a difference if its done privately but testing in our Govt hospitals must be quite reasonable

MINISTER MANGWIRO: The chief method is advocacy so that people know this disease exists because besides testing, if one is tested, its cheaper than waiting for the disease itself to crop up when you have to now diagnose it & you have to be treated with chemotherapy, radiotherapy

A few thoughts:
- It’s all too convenient for Christians to look at this video & say “These are not real Christians!” And to move on without self-examination or acknowledgement of the church’s failures in the last 4 years (or 400 years for that matter)



- I don’t often see this same energy when it comes to antebellum slavers, I hear “They were men of their times!”🤷🏾‍♂️

- These people in the video may or may not be “real Christians.” The Lord allows the wheat to grow up with the tares, he will separate sheep and goats in the end.
- Regardless, All Christians must find their voice when self-identifying Christians misrepresent Christ and Kingdom.

- Dude’s prayer makes clear that he was either raised in Church or has been around church a long time. IOW he was not discipled away from his views. He was discipled either toward his views or he has apparently been in a church whose teachings are toothless re: this syncretism.

In the eyes of our neighbors, this brings shame on the whole church, not because the church has told inconvenient truths, but because these people have supported politically convenient lies.

0/ When large eng orgs rely on metrics for both monitoring *and* observability, they struggle with cardinality.

This is a thread about “the two drivers of cardinality.” And which one of those we should kill. :)

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1/ Okay, first off: “what is cardinality, anyway?” And why is it such a big deal for metrics?

“Cardinality” is a mathematical term: it’s *the number of elements in a set*... boring! So why tf does anybody care??

Well, because people think they need it, then suddenly, "$$$$$$$."

2/ When a developer inserts a (custom) metric to their code, they might think they’re just adding, well, *one metric*. …

3/ … But when they add “tags” to that metric – like , , or (shiver) – they are actually creating a *set* of metric time series, with the *cardinality* of that set being the total number of unique combinations of those tags.

4/ The problem is that some of those tags have many distinct values.

E.g., when I was working on Monarch at Google, there was a single gmail metric that became over 300,000,000 (!!!) distinct time series. In a TSDB, that cardinality is the unit of cost.

So again, “$$$$$$$.”

I think there's a lot of general confusion over that "conservatism" is.

First, it's not "evil" or even "bad". It's a legitimate political philosophy that boils down to minimal possible intervention in society, including but not limited to the economy.

Liberals and moreso progressives, believe that the state can/should if not "engineer" society, exercise its power to shape society and use its machinery to level the playing field. To address inequalities that arise from an insufficiently regulated free market system.

If you buy into the notion that these are the primary, functional differences between liberalism and conservativism, you cannot escape the conclusion that a part of the reason for the rise of the hard right is the "gains" made by the liberals towards their "better society" goals.

These liberal "gains" include state intervention in free speech, reduction of personal property rights and freedoms, so-called political correctness, identity politics, redistribution of wealth via taxation and a slew of other things cheered by the left and reviled by the right.

Every time there is a gain that the left cheers, the right moves a little further right and gets a little more angry.

Every time the right gains or undoes something the left feels a deep existential angst and loss of optimism.

When she was a child, her dream was to be an artist. She would chew her lip, and grip her crayon far too tightly as she tried to stay within the lines.

“Be practical,” her father said.

“Enjoy art in your spare time. Work hard. Then, maybe someday.”

Maybe someday. 1/

She puts on the vest that completes her uniform. At her last job she had a name badge, but not here.

Just the words “ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES” in block letters.

Her granddaughter once asked her if that meant she was saving the environment.

“Sort of, mija,” she laughed. 2/

She has been “Janitorial Staff,” “Hospital Housekeeping,” and “Cleaning Crew” over the years.

The job remains the same.

She gets the equipment ready on her cart. She is detail-oriented. Everything in its place.

The little walkie-talkie on her cart crackles to life. 3/

Her first assignment is a room cleaning.

It will be the first of many.

She is often under immense time pressure, as rooms must be cleaned before a new patient can use them.

It’s a time-consuming process, even though she has become extremely efficient at it.

Laborious. 4/

She makes her way into the elevator, maneuvering her equipment cart and the trash container on wheels.

There are two other people on the elevator. She says “good morning.”

One nods hello. The other doesn’t.

She’s learned not to expect thanks, but a hello would be nice. 5/