Im the quintessential middle-class man of this country!
1. I pay my taxes even when I see influential people avoid it
2. I follow all the rules even when I see influential people break/bend it
3. I pay my EMIs even when I see scamsters and frauds willingly default..

4. I turn-up and vote even when people sell their votes for cash
5. I give up my subsidy cos a leader asks me to give it up even when the majority lives off it
6. I stand in traffic blocks in sweltering heat as VIPs pass me by
I'm the all singing all dancing doll of this country

So,hear me out!
1.I buy movie tickets only for entertainment & all you moviestars are nothing without me, so know your place & don't pontificate
2.I pay taxes so that the govt can subsidize a few people and I get good services so without my taxes people who avail subsidies are..

Nothing.. this includes farmers, so know your place and don't pontificate
3. I watch cricket for entertainment so all you asshole cricketers know your place, with your fancy wives, cars and houses, and don't pontificate
4. All you politicians i elect you.. do you job and don't..

Pontificate!
5. All you NGOs i don't even care if you exist or don't so don't even think about pontificating
6. I dont give a rats backside about environment etc. I want what someone in a "developed" nation has, so "environmentalists" don't pontificate

The most frustrating aspect of working in computational probability/statistics is that it's basically impossible to construct algorithms that actually return well-defined probabilistic quantities and this results in no end of chaos.

At best algorithms can return approximations with quantifiable error, but to understand when approximations are useful you have to learn enough math to understand the exact result and how the algorithmic approximation relates to that exact result. Many do not do this.

More commonly programmers project the heuristics that prove successful in other computing problems -- pattern matching, type consistency, unit testing, relying on compiler errors, etc -- but these test only the algorithm and not the relevance of the algorithm to a stats problem.

Unaware of these subtleties many end up conceptually replacing the algorithm for the output being approximated, assuming that algorithmic properties are inherent and well-defined features of the underlying probabilistic/statistical system.

Needless to say this generalizes...poorly. Even worse: without formal knowledge of what is being approximated the poor generalization performance itself is easy to ignore and naive applications drift ever so steadily away from any well-defined mathematical objective.

18 First Date Rules that'll improve your results with women

1. Never compliment her appearance even if she asks

2. Avoid saying anything outside a brief interesting story about yourself and simple questions for her

3. Let her do most of the talking my brother

4. Never lie. You don't have to answer every question directly.

1) Top US intelligence expert on China explains how CCP combines spying with political influence operations by targeting "soft targets" like politicians. @neftimiades

2) The Chinese op against @ericswalwell "showed how the Chinese regime is willing to invest in the long game—targeting local officials who might become state or national representatives years down the line. It’s a strategy ... that 'can really be devastating to another country.'"

3) "By targeting politicians, Fang was gaining access to those who might shape the United States’ policies toward China.

"'When you have access to that, why do you need classified information?' @neftimiades said."

Some preliminary thoughts and questions about policing. All thoughts welcome, but especially thoughts from professional police officers, criminologists, sociologists, and people who've studied policing around the world:

I take as given that we need the police and will need them so long as the human species remains recognizably human. For any population x, some percentage will be dangerous predators, and without the police, we'll all be the prey.

We need the police. In principle, everyone should feel grateful to the men and women who do the difficult and dangerous work of finding and apprehending predators and bringing them before a court of law.

Yet in practice, it seems there's an immense public uneasiness with the police that it by no means confined to the US. The attacks on the police yesterday in France shocked and disgusted me. There's no possible justification for it.

Yet it's important to understand what the perpetrators were telling themselves about why they sought to kill the men who in principle protect them. The scenes represented a breakdown of some kind in both public trust and public discipline.

Q's mission has always been clear. [THEY] programmed us into living distracted lives through entertainment, technology, and media. It's effected the way we perceive the world, one another, even reality. Critical thinking was lost and Republic almost was. We needed to wake up.

"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.

THREAD
We have been sent these screenshots from a Facebook group of teachers unofficially affiliated with a major union.

We are disturbed to see this misinformation and lack of understanding of safeguarding being circulated.

We agree that it is important for school staff to be mindful of any trans-identified student in their care, suffering from mental distress (or any students experiencing mental distress for whatever reason).

We understand that the #KeiraBell case will have caused distress to some, especially given the dangerous narrative being irresponsibly pushed that this will make children suicidal and was an attack on their rights, not an action to safeguard and protect them.

The opening paragraph displays bias and a lack of knowledge of latest scientific discussions.
This latest critique casts serious doubts on ‘affirmation’ and “Puberty blockers” being in children’s best

There have been many calls for reviews. The review headed by @Hilary_Cass is finally getting underway. We are awaiting to see what is revealed, particularly in regards to the causes of the exponential rise of young girls wishing to identify as boys.

Dear all pl pay attention to this thread, I received an article on whatsapp sent by my friend @Qamarcheema Sahab, written by Major Adil (@soldierspeaks) about Sikhs & 1984 State Sponsered Genocide by the then @INCIndia Government, below are my observations and Questions.

Thank you for sharing @Qamarcheema.
Your Major needs a good reality check. His observation are devoid of facts and appear more like a propaganda. Is this guy appears to be disillusioned.

Questions to Adil:
•Name one Non Muslim Prime Minister in Pakistan.

• Name one Non Muslim President

• Name one Non Muslim Chief of Army Staff.

• Name one Non Muslim Corps Commander

• Name one Non Muslim Chief Minister of a Province

• Name one Non Muslim Governer of a Province

• Name one Non Muslim Policy Maker in Pakistan.

• Why are Non Muslim Businesses being targeted in Pakistan?

• Why are Non Muslim Girls abducted and forcefully married?

• Why are Non Muslim families deprived Basic Citizens Rights in Pakistan?

• Who is Mian Abdul Haq, AKA "Mian Mitthu" ? What's his role in Conversions

"Mitthu Mian", of Bharchundi Shareef Dargah is he not notorious for forced conversion and abduction? Was he not a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013?

You made him a law maker? Isn't that astonishing?

The Seven Schools of Feminist Ideology

1. Liberal Feminism: Also known as mainstream feminism. Believes women’s oppression is rooted in legal structures. Strives to attain gender equality through legal and political reforms. Notable figure: Mary Wollstonecraft.

2. Radical Feminism: Believes women's oppression is rooted in patriarchal gender relations. Strives to attain gender equality by destroying patriarchy and revolting against social norms and institutions that ensconce male privilege. Notable figure: Shulamith Firestone.

3. Socialist Feminism: Believes women’s oppression is rooted in class conflicts imposed by capitalism. Disagree with radical feminists about patriarchy as the cause of women’s oppression. They blame wealth disparity and financial dependence on males. Notable figure: Heather Booth

4. Cultural feminism: Believes there are essential differences between men and women in terms of biology, personality and behavior. Women are seen to have different and superior virtues that provide the foundation for a shared identity, solidarity and sisterhood.

Cultural feminists view women as naturally kinder and gentler than men, and argue that if women were in power, the world would be a better place. In the 1960s and 70s, some cultural feminists supported the idea of forming separate women-only cultures. Notable figure: Mary Daly

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

THREAD: Effects of lockdowns & restrictions on kids and teenagers.
There's many amazing representatives of young people on here but as a young person myself seeing much of this daily, I thought it would be good to make this.

Firstly I think the underlying theme is just the destruction of livelihoods. The phrase 'let kids be kids' seems to have been forgotten about this year. Millions have missed out on experiences, events, friendships, socializing, education and just some the care free times of life.

90,000 London children homeless. This is very distressing.

Child sexual abuse raised but is under reported.

Mental health worsens among young people, at the lowest risk from COVID.

Thread:
What does State Sponsored Genocide on ethnic #Amharas and #Agaws in Metekel Zone in BSG look like?
Representatives of ethnic #Amhara residents in Metekel have travelled to #BahirDar to raise the ff grievances:

Ato Ayal Engide

“In April 2011,Ethiopian Calendar(1/)

[two years ago], right after Ethiopian Easter, they(ethnic Amharas and Agaws) were forcibly chased out of the rural parts, before they could even finish their Easter celebrations. When we knew we were next, then those of us who were in the urban areas, ended up moving to (2/)

Amhara Region. In May, there was a reconciliation between Mandura Woreda in BSG and Guanga Woreda in Amhara RS. All of us that were displaced believed that this was a true reconciliation and moved back to BSG. But those from the rural parts were still not allowed to go back. (3)

“Targetted killings of ethnic #Amharas and #Agaws has been happening for a while now. But recently, it has been out of control. For example, three brothers who were my neighbors were killed in 2011. Their names were Habte, Ayalew and Yeshewas and are all buried together. (4/)

After the reconciliation, the BSG administration started bothering us again. 12 families were killed in Banjimago. We can tell you by name who are doing these killings and it’s the Zonal administration. (5/)

You maybe asking why no arrests. Why if all this evidence is collected and true we are not seeing justice.

Simply put this is on scale so large, it could topple Governments.

Including the United States of America.

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Issues of Sikh Identity: Sanatanist-Sikh Debate (Sheena Pall):

The earliest known leader of Sanatan Dharm movement in Punjab, Pandit Shardha Ram Phillauri did not show much concern with Hindu-Sikh identity in his Sikhan de Raj di Vithya (Story of Sikh Rule) published in 1865.

The Bharat Dharm Mahamandal did not show any interest in the issue of the identity of the Sikhs in its first report of 1889.

In 1897, however, in a large public meeting at Lahore the Sanatanist Hindus passed a resolution that the Sikhs were a part of the Hindu community.

Question of Sikh identity became a legal issue when Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia died in Sep 1898 and his widow contested his Will, claiming that "Hindu law of inheritance under which he had given his property in trust did not apply to a Sikh".

The Chief Court of the Punjab ruled that Sardar Dyal Singh was, in fact, a Hindu.

The Bharat Dharm Mahamandal took notice of this issue and passed a resolution in a meeting at Delhi, asserting that the ten Gurus of the Sikhs from Guru Nanak to Guru Gobind Singh were Hindus.

Furthermore, "Baba Khem Singh Bedi, a descendant of Guru Nanak", and "Bawa Sumer Singh (Bhalla), a descendant of Guru Amar Das", subscribed to the view that Sikhs were Hindu.

One of the most remarkable things about #Jews is that they are vocal enough to not let their history disappear from the worldwide narrative. A majority of the world’s population is taught about the #Holocaust, and how evil Adolf Hitler was.
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But, figures like Stalin, Lenin, Churchill, Akbar, and Nehru are still glorified. They were no less than Adolf Hitler.
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Being case-specific here, as per various estimates, Hindus have been wiped away from their native land of Bharat in a huge number, it ranges from 300-400 million.
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Hindus are much larger in population as compared to Jews but are not united enough to be vocal about their past. Okay, for a moment if we let go of everything till the 19th century, there still is a lot that Hindus have been suffering in their own land.
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Our curriculum doesn’t even mention the #KashmiriPandit exodus of 1990 which is a recent major event. Even the horrific tales of partition are sugar-coated with the Charkha-Khadi-Ahinsa narrative.
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