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Extremists Find a Financial Lifeline on Twitch – The New York Times

QAnon adherents and other far-right influencers are making thousands of dollars broadcasting election and vaccine conspiracy theories on the streaming site.

Watch “GOVERNMENT MAKE LIST OF ACCUSATIONS THAT YOU EXPECT TO RECEIVE IN CPI” on YouTube – Mágica Mistura✨

Continuing the saga of “ridicule that never ends” … the mismanagement of this “gentleman” passed his receipt of incompetence once again.

Let’s see this tragicomic video from Meteoro Brasil… since laughing is the best medicine… or anesthetic… I don’t know 

Source: Watch “GOVERNMENT MAKE LIST OF ACCUSATIONS THAT YOU EXPECT TO RECEIVE IN CPI” on YouTube – Mágica Mistura✨

2nd Vaccine Dose

By Hook Or By Book

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I’m relieved to say that my husband and I have received our second vaccine doses. He of course is feeling no side effects. I however have a few. In addition to a small rash again at the injection site and feeling like someone punched me in the arm, I got a vicious migraine about four hours after getting home from the doctors, which thankfully has lessened quite a bit today, and I’m a bit achy and extremely tired. Honestly though, I’m not complaining. These are side effects that I don’t mind at all as opposed to getting Covid-19. I’m sharing Chris Mann’s latest parody where he’s embracing his inner teen girl who’s just been vaccinated. While, I’m far from my teen years, and I’m definitely still going to be wearing a mask and social distancing indoors, I can definitely attest to the relief that two little shots can bestow.

 

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Confronting Uncertainty – CRAIN’S COMMENTS

This perhaps is the jarring lesson of COVID — nothing in life is certain, including death and taxes. Will you wake up tomorrow? Or will you wake up in a hospital bed with a tube jammed down your throat?

Frankly, you don’t know the answer to those questions. If you think you do, you’re lying to yourself.

The insurance industry hates uncertainty. That’s why they think in terms of groups, not individuals, and rely on the Central Limit Theorem to make accurate projections of risk. The CLT simply says that the larger the group, the closer any estimate will be to the “true” result. Underwriters want to calculate risk as finely as possible to estimate expected loss payouts, and then price policies to make their target profit margin. When they can’t calculate risk, the reaction is close to panic.

Source: Confronting Uncertainty – CRAIN’S COMMENTS

In Hot Pursuit

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She is always in hot pursuit of a poem to write
Silent words speak, thoughts take flight.

When her imagination runs riot
She loses her feelings of disquiet.

She does not seek friend, foe or gobbledygook 
She seeks only her pen and scribbled handbook.

She can sit forever by the gurgling brook
Sometimes,  she takes her place by the inglenook.

She seeks not hope, wealth or love
She cherishes nature and the warm sky above.

Poetry is the light that she can read
Splash of blue to golden to knock Em dead.

Her healing is found in these offerings 
When a verse is inked, know that her soul is flying.

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Why do Social Changes & Movements Matter? — Beyond The Lines

Source – the conversation What is social change? Sociologists characterize social change as changes in human communications and connections that change social and social establishments. These progressions happen over the long run and frequently have significant and long haul ramifications for society. It is the changes in social foundations, social practices or social relations. Source […]

Why do Social Changes & Movements Matter? — Beyond The Lines

Beauty

Lignes invisibiles

A fast poem I wrote in two minutes after starting singing alone the lyrics inside my room, out of nowhere.


What is beauty?

Everything that falls

breaks and crawls

everything, which can not be fixed

but when you look at it

you still find the trick

to enter everything in it

What is beauty?

Everything that falls

invisible airs

and things one never knows

There is no beauty

that can not be serene

and if you see something

peaceful and at ease

maybe you have found beauty

just for once

and please

do not hesitate to try and touch it

but be sure that

is hard to reach it

What is beauty?

I do not know

and the lyrics I am writing

are the result of a mind

which high on some sort of flow

/inner flow.

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16 Books To Declutter Your Home & Spring Clean Your Life – Invisibly Me

Spring cleaning isn’t just about getting rid of stuff & cleaning the house. While tidying your physical space can have a positive knock-on effect to your motivation levels and sense of mental wellbeing, you can spring clean other areas of your life too, like decluttering your mind, decluttering your emails and computer files, organising your work life and so on.

Whatever you’re tackling, the aim is to declutter, make more space, get organised and let go of what’s not used or helpful. This should make life going forward a little bit easier and more manageable, freeing up time so you can have more of it to spend on the other important things in your life.

Source: 16 Books To Declutter Your Home & Spring Clean Your Life – Invisibly Me