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I have no words.
Sadly @ezralevant needs someone to help him understand more about the US/US politics and what has been unfolding for decades.
Call me Ezra I can help.
1/ The history of and threats to scientific publishing
2/ the reality of fact checkers
3/ How we got here (work in progress)
I have no words.
Half the @CPC_HQ issued press releases yesterday denouncing Trump as passionately as any Democrat did. For some reason it hasn\u2019t stopped the Media Party from hanging Trump around their necks. https://t.co/sp0biQEyGp
— Ezra Levant \U0001f341 (@ezralevant) January 8, 2021
Sadly @ezralevant needs someone to help him understand more about the US/US politics and what has been unfolding for decades.
Call me Ezra I can help.
1/ Everything that is happening is linked back to the #ClimateCrisis I have been a lifelong #environmentalist & have a #carbonfootprint that would be envy of 99% of greens - I don't subscribe to the Climate Cult. This is why pic.twitter.com/T04GIzr46M
— \U0001f603 unspinthespin \U0001f603 (@unspinthespin) July 20, 2020
1/ The history of and threats to scientific publishing
(Thread) the History & Threats to Scientific Publishing https://t.co/OZCYGD2y3E
— \U0001f603 unspinthespin \U0001f603 (@unspinthespin) October 11, 2020
2/ the reality of fact checkers
(Thread) PolitiFact. So let's take a look at this "venerable" fact checking site to see what we can find.
— \U0001f603 unspinthespin \U0001f603 (@unspinthespin) September 21, 2020
Because goodness knows we can all use some help sifting through the "Fake News"
So is this the answer we have been looking for... or a crock? pic.twitter.com/dNctIwJZs5
3/ How we got here (work in progress)
(THREAD) Henry Kissinger
— \U0001f603 unspinthespin \U0001f603 (@unspinthespin) November 23, 2020
I spoke to my Momma and she said she never suspected that Kissinger was one of the bad guys. She is in her mid 70's.
So let's take a peek at this monster's history pic.twitter.com/CSMPT6Z5Ka
So after the @WeHaveWaysPod on Gold Beach, a question relating to the Sanatorium came up. It got me thinking so I decided to look at the targets designated to Force D, Sword to see exactly what was in the plan for the most eastern landing beach.
Video- IWM ADM 1258
With the use of the 27th Armoured Brigade HQ Diary '44, I had documents of the proposed targets and timings on Force D and how the pre bombardment would go. Its worth remembering Force S could also have their own plan on targets and timings. There is also evidently an overlap.
So which vessels formed Force D and what were there main armaments?
HMS Danae and Dragon both with five 6-inch guns and a 4-inch gun.
Photographs from https://t.co/TLuLXokg0T
HMS Ramillies with four twin 15-inch guns and fourteen 6-inch guns. Image- IWM FL 9004
HMS Roberts with two 15-inch guns and over 40 anti aircraft guns. Image- IWM FL 3787
HMS Frobisher with seven 7.5-inch guns. Image- IWM A 24099
HMS Mauritius with twelve 6-inch guns and eight 4-inch guns. Image- IWM A 10614
Video- IWM ADM 1258
With the use of the 27th Armoured Brigade HQ Diary '44, I had documents of the proposed targets and timings on Force D and how the pre bombardment would go. Its worth remembering Force S could also have their own plan on targets and timings. There is also evidently an overlap.
So which vessels formed Force D and what were there main armaments?
HMS Danae and Dragon both with five 6-inch guns and a 4-inch gun.
Photographs from https://t.co/TLuLXokg0T
HMS Ramillies with four twin 15-inch guns and fourteen 6-inch guns. Image- IWM FL 9004
HMS Roberts with two 15-inch guns and over 40 anti aircraft guns. Image- IWM FL 3787
HMS Frobisher with seven 7.5-inch guns. Image- IWM A 24099
HMS Mauritius with twelve 6-inch guns and eight 4-inch guns. Image- IWM A 10614
I don't know who needs to hear this (wypipo), but this is classic casual racism practiced by White people who refuse to listen to the concerns of Black people.
Y'all haven't earned our trust, that's why we don't trust you.
What Dr. Fauci said may indeed be correct (they've lied and flip-flopped so much, stood by in silence to let liars, protecting their personal interests), but using the race of the Black doctor to try and convince AA the government and medicine is safe is SO casually racist. I...
The reason many Black people don't trust the vaccines or the government is because America has NEVER made right what its done wrong to us African Americans as a group collectively.
And when they do apologize it's decades, sometimes centuries AFTER the harm has been done.
In the meantime, White racists be out here conjuring up more shit, schemes and scams to harm us with instead of reparations.
It's the classic abuser gaslighting his/her victims.
Black folks ain't falling for that anymore, nor should they. Nor should anyone be asking them to.
Y'all haven't earned our trust, that's why we don't trust you.
Dr. Anthony Fauci: "To my African American brothers and sisters ... this vaccine that you're gonna be taking was developed by an African American woman. And that is just a fact." pic.twitter.com/LsBqdsLXjB
— The Recount (@therecount) December 10, 2020
What Dr. Fauci said may indeed be correct (they've lied and flip-flopped so much, stood by in silence to let liars, protecting their personal interests), but using the race of the Black doctor to try and convince AA the government and medicine is safe is SO casually racist. I...
The reason many Black people don't trust the vaccines or the government is because America has NEVER made right what its done wrong to us African Americans as a group collectively.
And when they do apologize it's decades, sometimes centuries AFTER the harm has been done.
In the meantime, White racists be out here conjuring up more shit, schemes and scams to harm us with instead of reparations.
It's the classic abuser gaslighting his/her victims.
Black folks ain't falling for that anymore, nor should they. Nor should anyone be asking them to.
A very interesting perspective from @jbralston. While I understand and respect Dr Ralston’s experience, I feel that it requires redress. I’m usually loath to making these kinds of interventions, but this is a subject close to me both personally & intellectually. 1/
I hope this thread is taken in the spirit decorum, respect, & admiration with which it is intended. Disclosure: My forthcoming monograph is an intellectual-historical study of the Syriac & Christian Arabic apologetic tradition, focusing on the Trinity, Incarnation, and cult. 2/
Now, Dr Ralston has said that although he is a Christian, the arguments of classical Muslim theologians against the Trinity & Incarnation win every time (though he allows that some medieval Christian Arabic thinkers had their moments). 3/
A solution, he proposes, is to write more theology in dialogue with Islam. I wholeheartedly agree. 4/
But I also think that this assessment (no doubt limited by this platform) rather diminishes the contributions of Middle Eastern Christians who have been theologising in the context of Islam for centuries (though I'm certain that was not Dr Ralston's intention). 5/
I'm still a Christian but also am sure that the classical Muslim mutakallimun pretty much win every argument about the logic of the incarnation and Trinity
— Joshua Ralston (@jbralston) December 14, 2020
I hope this thread is taken in the spirit decorum, respect, & admiration with which it is intended. Disclosure: My forthcoming monograph is an intellectual-historical study of the Syriac & Christian Arabic apologetic tradition, focusing on the Trinity, Incarnation, and cult. 2/
Now, Dr Ralston has said that although he is a Christian, the arguments of classical Muslim theologians against the Trinity & Incarnation win every time (though he allows that some medieval Christian Arabic thinkers had their moments). 3/
A solution, he proposes, is to write more theology in dialogue with Islam. I wholeheartedly agree. 4/
But I also think that this assessment (no doubt limited by this platform) rather diminishes the contributions of Middle Eastern Christians who have been theologising in the context of Islam for centuries (though I'm certain that was not Dr Ralston's intention). 5/
Thread.
The UK's street address data is one of our most important, and problematic, public datasets.
Now, an opportunity has arisen to do something about it. Read on.
(1/10)
Here's why it matters.
Let’s say you’re creating a service that uses addresses.
Perhaps you’re building the next Deliveroo. Or organising emergency food parcels.
You need a way for users to enter addresses; to locate them; and probably to match them with other data.
(2/10)
It's as fundamental to public and private sector services as the periodic table is central to science.
For these reasons, other countries have official, freely available address and location data.
But the UK doesn’t.
(3/10)
This causes us innumerable problems.
Whether you’re building a business, and spending endless time wrangling with what should be simple data issues...
https://t.co/swmaVj4qnS
(4/10)
...or you’re a civil servant trying to deliver emergency support services at the height of a
The UK's street address data is one of our most important, and problematic, public datasets.
Now, an opportunity has arisen to do something about it. Read on.
(1/10)
Here's why it matters.
Let’s say you’re creating a service that uses addresses.
Perhaps you’re building the next Deliveroo. Or organising emergency food parcels.
You need a way for users to enter addresses; to locate them; and probably to match them with other data.
(2/10)
It's as fundamental to public and private sector services as the periodic table is central to science.
For these reasons, other countries have official, freely available address and location data.
But the UK doesn’t.
(3/10)
This causes us innumerable problems.
Whether you’re building a business, and spending endless time wrangling with what should be simple data issues...
https://t.co/swmaVj4qnS
(4/10)
...or you’re a civil servant trying to deliver emergency support services at the height of a
Another day unpicking the consequences of different datasets using multiple, different methodologies for matching an address to the local authority. People are falling between these gaps.
— Paul Downey (@psd) April 2, 2020
the absence of private demand makes government expenditure necessary. It repays itself by creating a stronger economy than would have otherwise been the case. For me that is the macro - non-household budget - reasoning. (1/13ish)
Making G contingent on a ultra low government rate of interest (ULGROI) seems household budget thinking: lower expenditure on interest payments is being portrayed as permitting the higher expenditure on G. (2/13)
All fine that this is permitting those who think in a household budget way (OBR, IFS etc) to support spending (or rather not prescribe austerity) but it is not the macro of the situation. (3/13)
As an aside I'd rather call out the household budget mob for prescribing austerity last time, not least in the week that the OECD publicly acknowledged austerity was overdone. Parotting their present argument seems to let them off the hook. (4/13)
As you know the low rate of interest - in advanced economies on government debt - is not a matter of chance but a consequence of a decade of reliance on QE and a wider global retreat from risk. (5/13)
I\u2019m not clear what you are arguing about the rate of interest\u2014you only mention it in passing here?
— Jo Michell (@JoMicheII) December 3, 2020
Making G contingent on a ultra low government rate of interest (ULGROI) seems household budget thinking: lower expenditure on interest payments is being portrayed as permitting the higher expenditure on G. (2/13)
All fine that this is permitting those who think in a household budget way (OBR, IFS etc) to support spending (or rather not prescribe austerity) but it is not the macro of the situation. (3/13)
As an aside I'd rather call out the household budget mob for prescribing austerity last time, not least in the week that the OECD publicly acknowledged austerity was overdone. Parotting their present argument seems to let them off the hook. (4/13)
As you know the low rate of interest - in advanced economies on government debt - is not a matter of chance but a consequence of a decade of reliance on QE and a wider global retreat from risk. (5/13)
Few comments since this topic is as perennial as the AIT issue among internet H -- of course you may not like it, so don't @ me. The domesticated Bos was a central animal for the subsistence of the Indo-European pastoralists on the steppe. It was also a major domesticate for the
the pre-IE Indian peoples like the Harappans and the neolithic Ash Mound culture of southern India (i.e. the bUti-palli/halli-s; early Dravidians?). What is clear is that these pre-IE & circum-IE entry peoples of India consumed the flesh of cattle. However, it is like the female
animal (henceforth cow) was also valued for milk->curds/cheese(?) among both the Harappan and Ash Mound peoples. The former probably also used them as draught animals. The situation was similar with the IEans on the steppe with their version of Bos cattle playing a major role in
food (both diary and flesh) and as draught animals. Given their value for the IEans, the idea of the protection of cattle was central to their culture (independently of them consuming their flesh). Thus, the cattle raids& countering such were very central to their imagination.
Hence, we may infer that the concept of cattle-protection, emerged entirely independently of their consumption among the steppe IEans. For a IEan king whose wealth was animal herds such protection was a central role. Hence, the ideal of go-pAlana emerged long before beef-taboo.
When did gau hatya become such a universal taboo among H? I recall to my shock it being mentioned in the agnicayana documentary as an offering.
— rahula (@pashyaka) January 3, 2021
the pre-IE Indian peoples like the Harappans and the neolithic Ash Mound culture of southern India (i.e. the bUti-palli/halli-s; early Dravidians?). What is clear is that these pre-IE & circum-IE entry peoples of India consumed the flesh of cattle. However, it is like the female
animal (henceforth cow) was also valued for milk->curds/cheese(?) among both the Harappan and Ash Mound peoples. The former probably also used them as draught animals. The situation was similar with the IEans on the steppe with their version of Bos cattle playing a major role in
food (both diary and flesh) and as draught animals. Given their value for the IEans, the idea of the protection of cattle was central to their culture (independently of them consuming their flesh). Thus, the cattle raids& countering such were very central to their imagination.
Hence, we may infer that the concept of cattle-protection, emerged entirely independently of their consumption among the steppe IEans. For a IEan king whose wealth was animal herds such protection was a central role. Hence, the ideal of go-pAlana emerged long before beef-taboo.
