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\U0001f92fRalph D. Winter has written the best short explanation of the 2020 polarization within Calvinist & conservative circles over CRT, race, Marxism, etc. If you want to know why many blacks who were involved in the TGC world in '05 no longer are, read this! https://t.co/PvrzxzLjUr
— Anthony B. Bradley (@drantbradley) November 9, 2020
Oh well, you are supposed to recruit.” Then they recruit more and more people, and set them also to recruiting still other people. Some day someone says, “Aren’t we supposed to be fighting a war?” “Oh yeah, there’s a war.” ... 2/
Church Mission-which is absolutely basic & absolutely valid-is to extend the faith & transform people into reliable people of integrity. Kingdom Mission is when the church stops thinking abt itself & its members & pursues God’s will in this world, not just pursues more members.3/
In his book Church Shift, Sunday Adelaja, the pastor of the largest church in Europe, says that when members do things like help in the nursery and direct traffic on Sunday, that’s not mission. It’s church housekeeping. 👀 4/
The church exists to extend the glory of God & His will in society whether or not it makes advances in church membership. Many are leaving the church today because what secular people are doing is more exciting, more relevant, concrete, & may seem to be more Biblically valid. 5/

Recent experience with historical sex offence cases show how far the most motivated serious offenders are prepared to go- including getting specific lifetime jobs and volunteering positions. These are a relatively small number of men. Indecent exposure however 2/
Is a crime that roughly 3 MILLION women have experienced since age 16. Well over 100 THOUSAND offences were committed in the last year (official gov stats https://t.co/FxTUosXaFj )
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What percentage of these offenders would pretend to be trans in order to offend? Well, you might argue that a very large proportion won't, but what is the barrier proposed under self-ID? Filling in a form. There's no commitment to a process required 4/
And (this is key) there are women's spaces where it is normal to be unclothed. So these men can indulge their offending without any realistic possibility of conviction, AND 5/
Yes. I wore a mask while running earlier. pic.twitter.com/KMQf6pkf3V
— Bill Hanage (@BillHanage) January 15, 2021
First I posted the photo after a couple of interviews this week in which mask use outside was discussed in the context of surging infections due to the variant B.1.1.7. Here's one
Great conversation between @BillHanage, @j_g_allen and @writtenbysalma about masks and other measures to improve safety during the pandemic. Starts at 2 hours 4 mins. https://t.co/6sACsU3mCI
— Adam Hamdy (@adamhamdy) January 14, 2021
And then this with RTE where were talked about mask use in the context of the situation in the Republic of Ireland, where cases are surging. I commented that I run with a mask. Hence the
Dr. William Hanage, Associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard University discusses whether we should wear masks outdoors & while exercising due to Covid-19 variants#RTEPT | #Covid19 | @BillHanage | @franmcnulty pic.twitter.com/8VAPaReczG
— RT\xc9 Prime Time (@RTE_PrimeTime) January 14, 2021
Some asked “why are you doing this outside?” – I know where they’re coming from. Risk of transmission is MUCH lower outside. If all contacts were outside there probably would not *be* a pandemic. But it's also not nil
While running outside? \U0001f928
— jenny t. jackson \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 (@jmomteague2) January 16, 2021
and remember this is also about solidarity. Seeing a person wearing a mask is a sign that they are looking out for you and not just themselves, because masks greatly reduce the risk of transmission
It's not unusual here in NYC. Not all runners, but many. Most bicyclists. Almost all pedestrians on the sidewalk. Like that since the summer. I assume it's not strictly necessary in lowering the spread, but it seems a show of solidarity as much as anything.
— Rick Bruner (@rickbruner) January 16, 2021
Confidential info from a market participant in ERCOT: As of ~10 AM Eastern time, the system has ~30 GW of capacity offline, ~26 GW of thermal -- mostly natural gas which cant get fuel deliveries which are being priorities for heating loads -- and ~4 GW of wind due to icing. https://t.co/Bfpn0WeRIq
— JesseJenkins (@JesseJenkins) February 15, 2021
1/ As Jesse notes, natural gas is somewhat unique in that it is both a power plant fuel and a home heating fuel. When cold weather comes, regulators bias in favor of heating rather than power generation.
2/ New England - a region that is both cold and has long been more reliant than others on natural gas for power generation - has had to grapple with this for a long time.
3/ In most of the country, the tightest times for power markets are during hot summer days when demand peaks to run all that AC. In New England, the tightest times are often cold winter days when supply gets constrained as the gas is redirected to heat
4/ Texas isn't used to planning for cold snaps, but they are gas-dependent on the power grid. So they are, in essence, acting like New England right now.
A thread in which I prove (using ONLY published Pfizer trial data) that the UK CMOs and JCVI have not so much ignored the science, as left it bleeding at the roadside.
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The trial data said that after a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine coverage was 52%. Six days after the second dose that rose to nearly 91%. The new policy to delay 2nd dose is based on the idea that the 91% was in fact due to the first dose. We must hope that is true.
— Krishnan Guru-Murthy (@krishgm) December 30, 2020
From the moment, the decision was announced to delay 2nd vaccine doses, I've felt uneasy.
This is not my field of expertise, but I trained as a scientist (two chemistry degrees), worked professionally in IT, and understand the importance of testing.
My principal concern was about the Pfizer vaccine.
As vaccines go, it's "new tech", the first mRNA vaccine and the results are stunning.
Perhaps one should be cautious about deviating from a clinical trial procedure, at least until there is greater experience of mRNA vaccines?
I've been investigating this for over a week and haven't been able to sleep properly since I started.
At best, the 12 weeks strategy was based on one critical assumption, namely that the 2nd dose has NO effect on efficacy in the first 7 days after it is given.
And if it did?
My journey started with a friend pointing me towards an article in @bmj_latest which indicated that a single dose of @pfizer vaccine had an efficacy of
📌 Informative Thread
⛔ The fate of corporate farming. (Claims v reality) ⛔
🔴 Claim 1 : This would lead to better prices to the farmers as well as to the consumers. Better farm to fork availability as well as better farm prices for the farmer.
⛔ Debunking the claim : So this article by P Sainath, brings to light what the reality is for the small farmer in USA]
https://t.co/qcZyfEQWUd…).
📌 From the article : “The size is set by the retail chain stores. They dictate almost everything.”
The Word “almost everything” includes prices. While the Walmarts, Shop Rites and other chain stores sell his kind of onions for $1.49 to $1.89 a pound, Pawelski himself gets no more than 17 cents. And that’s an improvement.
#FarmersProtest
Between 1983 and 2010, the average price he got stayed around 12 cents a pound ".
⚠️ So what we see, is that neither there has been significant penetration of price benefits to the farmer, nor has it improved the availability to the consumer.
#FarmerBill2020
🔴 Claim 2 : Corporatization would lead to better capital investment and infrastructure, Bihar model is a success.
⛔ Debunking the claim : The reforms did not result in any significant private investment in new market infrastructure and a missing floor price due to the...