im looking everywhere and i cant find any information about the mummy in S23Ep4 ??? did the body ever get identified?? i read that mark twain made a hoax about "the petrified man" but that doesnt seem to be related. i wanna know what the deal is with this freakin mummy

Zak and the crew open a terrifying new chapter in Virginia City, Nevada, a haunted town that’s kept the crew coming back again and again. This time, they are focusing on two places in town, the Territory Enterprise Building and the Knights of Pythias building. Locals suspect the town’s connection to a secret society may have opened a portal to the netherworld.

Hi, I am in Enterprise sales with a $2mill quota OTE is 250k I overachieve to $350k. One of my colleagues in the West coast role has left for a competitor. He was escorted out of the org fairly quickly.

It being Q4 my RVP wants me to take over his territory including some of his Q4 deals (amazing) but also some of his customers sat issues (not amazing) as well as additional renewals (not amazing) that I had not planned for. Our comp package gives us like 30k for hitting our renewal on time as an AE I have to inherit 2 of his Q4 renewals now. Should I be pushing for additional comp for taking over that renewal? I also inherit his one Q4 big bet deal which is nice. Thoughts are appreciated!

I am new to ETM and wishing to use it to also assign the Account owner. Wondering if anyone here has had any success in doing so. Ideally a declarative solution. We have an idea to:

1. Create a Role picklist (including "Owner") on User Territory Association (UTA) which is a junction object of User and Territory.
2. Have some ground rules for the admin or documentation or Validation Rules perhaps to enforce that only the child territory assignment rules can use the "Owner" role picklist option
3. Run a Flow (Scheduled batch or upon edit/create?) to compare Account Owner to the User in the UTA and change ownership if not the same

Poke holes in it please.... and/or let me know if you have a more elegant solution. Much appreciated!

Anyone know how to deploy Enterprise Territory Management objects like the models and the territories using Gearset? I'm not seeing Territory2 or Territory2Model. I can retrieve and deploy using VS Code but not Gearset.

We have a very small company. Less than 50 users and only seven sales reps. All accounts, contacts, and opportunities are assigned to these seven sales reps. These reps only cover the United States and each territory is based on groupings of states.

When our org was set up, workflow rules assign accounts, contacts, and opportunities based on the billing state. Because of our size and simplicity of our territories that do not change, is enterprise territory management overkill for us?

Should a workflow rule or process builder be used to assign records? Are there any performance gains with switching from workflows to Enterprise territory management, process builder, or a flow?

Thought I’d share this resource for those of you looking to jump in 2021 and possibly not sure where to go.

link to Rankings

I realize my question asks two related but distinct concepts, but I'd like to combine them, considering that I can't think of many instances of Starfleet coming off better in battle against the Klingons, much less winning an entire war-and this is across all live series/movies/books. In universe, the Klingons really shouldn't have any respect for humans and/or Starfleet.

Lucky enough to have offers from both for an enterprise bdr position. Which one would you take? Pay is roughly the same.

After the pandemic began and lockdowns bound many of us to our homes, interest surged in kitchen knives and Japanese ones in particular. Increased demand strained an already limited supply. Forum chatter increased as searchers cast their nets wider in response to shortages. On KitchenKnifeForums (KKF), a user named Omega rose to prominence thanks to a series of posts about the Konosuke company. His intensive research put him in contact with vendors and craftsmen in Japan and North America - that combined with exhaustive data collection made others look to him as an expert and his article on Konosuke is still cited today across KKF, Facebook knife groups, and even here on Reddit.

But in late 2020, he was publicly chastised for his research on social media. In response to clarifications about a knife’s steel provenance, a respected North American vendor stepped in to transmit a clear message from Japanese craftsmen and industry professionals: knock it off. From the post comments, “If you don’t speak the language well…you should probably refrain from making public comments about [this]...please moving forward, try to avoid posting about things you don’t truly understand or grasp. It’s important for all of us to know our limits.”

To knife fans, the Omega melodrama lands somewhere between confusing and fascinating. In an arena with such demand for information and commentary, his contributions seem like some of the few resources that combine factual data and citations with actual narrative commentary. So where did the backlash come from?

I want to shed some light on the story. My aim is to answer three questions:

1. Why do forums care so much about brands, craftspeople, and secrets of tradecraft?
2. Why such a harsh response from the industry?
3. Is enthusiast investigation of knife production ultimately a doomed enterprise?

One last thing before jumping in - those familiar with the Omega controversy tend to feel quite strongly about it and already have an opinion. If you feel the same way - either righteous fury toward the craftspeople/vendors or schadenfreude that a naïve forum poster got his comeuppance - I invite you to put aside those feelings and approach the story fresh. You may be surprised.

Part 1: Why do forums care so much?

Let’s begin by reviewing common knowledge about production. In general, there are separate entities involved in the production and sale of your knife. Common entities are as follows:

1. Steel manufacturer:

To my recollection, Star Trek: Picard is noticeably mum on the cause of the Romulan Supernova, likely in order to leave open future story possibilities. Some, including the writers of Star Trek: Online, have suggested that the supernova may not have been naturally occurring. (STO suggests it was the Iconians, if memory serves.) For its part, Picard (and to a less extent 2009’s Star Trek) vaguely imply that it was a natural catastrophe.

We know that Captain Picard left the Enterprise and was promoted to admiral expressly in order to deal with the pending Romulan Supernova. Background materials date his departure to 2381, although the show itself does not specify, and the tie-in novel The Last Best Hope actually does a couple of small acrobatics to likewise avoid specifying a date for his departure (which suggests an editorial directive to leave that part of the story vague and open for future stories), although it is clear that it is sometime in the early 2380s.

We may assume that the Federation learned of the Romulan Supernova shortly before they promoted Picard. The Last Best Hope makes clear that Romulan officials knew about the Supernova by that time as well, although the on-screen material is a bit less precise on this point.

In short, we actually have very little evidence to draw on to answer my title question. But I think it’s worth further consideration, and an examination of the possibilities.

One conceit I will draw on here – I will consistently assume that “the Romulan government” refers to the individuals and groups in the Romulan power structure who were both senior enough to know top-secret information and influential enough to direct Romulan political and cultural forces alike. It is of course possible that the supernova was known by marginal scientists (for example) long before word made its way up to the Praetor. But for simplicity’s sake, I will operate under the simplifying conceit.

So: how long did the Romulan government know about the pending supernova?

#A) Only once the Federation told them.

Under this interpretation, we have a pretty damning indictment of the Romulan scientific community – an ultimate case of Romulan society reaping what it sows, perhaps prioritizing the military above all else. Picard also deepened the depiction of Romulans as deeply secretive and suspicious. This interpretation could also be used to comment on that secretiveness: “The Federation was able to detect this collapse throug

Hello beautiful apes!

I have 2 points to show you. First is that Yahoo is showing completely different values depending on your IP. Try using a VPN with a different country and you'll see.

Second is that I stumbled upon the ENTIRE FUCKING GAME PLAN of the naked shorting scheme. I guess an insider spilled the beans anonymously on some forum in 2004.

What is going on with GME over the last 9 months is a game plan called "Cellar Boxing".

The link is at the end of this post. If you don't give a FUCK about the Yahoo data, then just skip to the end and read that. Seriously EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THAT POST. It is like the holy grail. I got emotional reading it as it confirmed all of our combined DD about naked shorting, rule exemptions, dividends, zombies, even talks about shills.....EVERYTHING... in one fell swoop.

I wrote all this Yahoo stuff before I found that link and I just had to stop and stare at the wall for a bit.. This was going to be a much longer post, but I decided to just stick to the facts without speculative walls of text so you're not overwhelmed.

Because trust me, reading that post from 2004 is going to blow your fucking mind. It blew mine and everyone I showed it to.

Okay so first point:

Here's the Yahoo data from my IP in the USA

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Here's the data from a European VPN

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First thing that stands out to me is Enterprise Value.

According to

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/111414/whats-difference-between-enterprise-value-and-market-capitalization.asp

Market capitalization is the sum total of all the outstanding shares of a company. Enterprise value takes into account the debt that the company has taken on. Enterprise value, therefore, can identify strengths or weaknesses that market cap cannot.

And https://www.arborinvestmentplanner.com/enterprise-value-ev-calculating-enterprise-value-ratios/

A company with more debt than cash will have an enterprise value greater than its market capitalization. Companies with identical market capit

This post will NOT cover everything that took place in GamerGate. That simply isn't possible here. GamerGate wasn't one drama, it was many small and large events that unfolded and built upon each other over a period of years, and took place in every part of the internet at once. My aim here is to lay out the key figures, and give a general understanding of what happened and why. There are resources linked throughout the post which can expand on events I mentioned, but there are many more that I left out.

Come with me as we explore the dark corridors of the internet that gave birth to the modern alt-right. I'm going to try and keep this gaming related, because this isn't a political discussion board, but references to greater political movements are unavoidable.

Be warned, this post contains basically every ism and phobia that you could possible imagine. Tread with care.

Also, when I refer to 'gamers' with a lowercase G, I just mean normal gamers as a whole. When I say 'Gamers', I mean Gamergate supporters.

#Anita Sarkeesian - Sexism in Gaming

This shitstorm began in 2013, though its roots trace back far earlier, and while it would come to suck in thousands of pundits, politicians and thinkers from around the world, it began with one woman: Anita Sarkeesian.

Anita is a Canadian-American media critic. She started her Youtube Channel Feminist Frequency in 2009, analysing portrayals of women in pop culture. In 2011 she worked with feminist magazine Bitch to create a series of videos titled 'Tropes vs Women', which examined the damaging cliches and stereotypes against women in film and tv. It did pretty well, but she was still a small voice in a small circle. The natural next step was to talk about games, and that's what she did in 2012. 'Tropes vs Women in Video Games' criticised the sexualisation of women in games, the way they are treated as helpless damsels in distress, or given to the player as a reward. As Sarkeesian herself points out in her first episode:

>"It's both possible and necessary to simultaneously enjoy media, while also being critical of its problematic or pernicious aspects'.

The videos were pretty even handed, and never really took the 'rabid angry feminist' tone that people ha

This timeline is for the fanfiction, "Summoning India", which is currently being written. It does not describe what is going to happen, but what happened before the teleportation event. This would help give anyone a brief understanding of this Alternate India from 2000, so that no one gets confused with the IRL one.

And yes, I know this is like a bio chapter but hey, I don't want people coming to me and being like, "Hey India had Su-30MK in the year 2000, not the F-16! And why is India using the M113 and not the BMP-1/2!!!"

Link for my fanfiction's cover art

Also sorry for any mistakes, I am new to Reddit and still figuring out myself.

Time line starts from here.

1947- After 200 years under British rule, British India gained its Independence. As per the Indian Independence Act passed in the Westminster Parliament, the British Raj was partitioned into two separate independent nations, Secular Dominion of India under the elected Prime Minister Vallabhai Patel and Muslim dominated Dominion of Pakistan.

(Change of leadership - Vallabhai Patel was a man of action and known for his support for his armed forces and a strong united nation, both internal and external power projection. Thus Nehru becoming his deputy here instead )

1947/48- First Indo-Pak War. Both nations were still suffering from the communal violence that had ensued following the partition when an armed conflict arose on the question of who will take the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir. The war began with a surprise Pakistan sponsored raider attack, overwhelming the State forces.

The ruler of the state, King Hari Singh signed the instrument of accession, which allowed the Indian Army to move in and fight off the raiders. Consequently, regular Pakistani Armed Forces entered combat and, after a year of intense fighting, the United Nations brokered a ceasefire. They left Pakistan with a third of Kashmir and India the rest.

[The Point of Divergence]

August 1950- India answers the call to arms by the United Nations and sends 6 Battalions (4200 soldiers) of the 1st Gorkha Rifles and an Army Medical unit 60th Parachute Field Ambulance to assist the Republic of Korea (South Koreans) in the Korean war. This act puts India to be seen in a better light by the United States and its allies. Indian troops would go on to fight commendably in the war, gaining widespread recognitio

There have been multiple claims against socialists that the Nazi party were socialists, due to their full name—the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

This argument has been used to attack socialism through association with Nazi policies. It has also led to confusion, as Nazism is normally associated with fascism and far-right-wing views.

So then what actually is Nazism ?

Well it's actually a form of fascism with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, scientific racism, and the use of eugenics into its creed. Its extreme nationalism originated in pan-Germanism and the ethno-nationalist Völkisch movement which had been a prominent aspect of German nationalism since the late 19th century, and it was strongly influenced by the Freikorps paramilitary groups that emerged after Germany's defeat in World War I, from which came the party's underlying "cult of violence" . Nazism subscribed to pseudo-scientific theories of a racial hierarchy and social Darwinism, identifying the Germans as a part of what the Nazis regarded as an Aryan or Nordic master race. It aimed to overcome social divisions and create a homogeneous German society based on racial purity which represented a people's community (Volksgemeinschaft). The Nazis aimed to unite all Germans living in historically German territory, as well as gain additional lands for German expansion under the doctrine of Lebensraum and exclude those who they deemed either Community Aliens or "inferior" races.

The term "National Socialism" arose out of attempts to create a nationalist redefinition of socialism, as an alternative to both Marxist international socialism and free-market capitalism. Nazism rejected the Marxist concepts of class conflict and universal equality, opposed cosmopolitan internationalism, and sought to convince all parts of the new German society to subordinate their personal interests to the "common good", accepting political interests as the main priority of economic organisation which tended to match the general outlook of collectivism or communitarianism rather than economic socialism. The Nazi Party's precursor, the pan-German nationalist and antisemitic German Workers' Party (DAP), was founded on 5 January 1919. By the early 1920s, the party was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party to attract workers away from left-wing parties such as the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Communists (KPD), a

There was an essay (referred to as OP from now on) posted to this sub recently that got quite a number of things wrong about Fodlan and its political situation (ironically, in a post that claimed to address misconceptions), and so I have risen from my reddit dormancy to correct the record. I will start with a discussion of the state of Fodlan and the crest system, move onto the role and power of the Church in all this, and end with a discussion of Edelgard and her partnership with the murder muppets.

All quotations are sourced from https://fedatamine.com/en-us/. The location of the quote (explore chapter, battle, or event name) will be provided for reference.

The Aristocrestocracy

The OP makes the argument that because Crests are not uniformly and consistently a requirement for a person or family to be noble, they are not intrinsically tied into the aristocratic power structure of Fodlan. This is laughable considering how much of the game focuses on Crests and their impacts on characters and power. Just because an exception exists does not mean that a consistent pattern is invalid. For instance, to argue that the Victorian era was not a restrictive time to be a British woman because the monarch of the time was female would be idiotic.

Starting off at the Kingdom, there are seven major families listed in the Register of Kingdom Nobles – Blaiddyd, Fraldarius, Gautier, Charon, Galatea, Rowe, and Kleiman. Of these, Blaiddyd, Fraldarius, Gautier, and Charon have always held significant power in the Kingdom, and all of them have crested bloodlines. Galatea defected from the Alliance with a Major Crest and a Relic and was instantly granted land and status in the Kingdom. Notably, they brought no land and were given some, showing the importance of a crested bloodline. The two major houses without crests essentially bought noble titles through the addition of land to the Kingdom (through deceit or outright murder) – Rowe with Arianrhod and Kleiman with Duscur.

If this isn’t enough to show the overwhelming dominance of Crests over Kingdom politics, we have two families where the secondborn crested son was made heir over the firstborn crestless son, explicitly because of his crest – the Blaiddyds and the Gautiers.

>Dimitri (Crests: The Good and the Bad): It’s far from uncommon for someone to lose their ability to lead their house because they don’t bear a crest. Just like Miklan. It happened to my uncle as well. The

Meme here

Oh, and some fan-art of Elias (note: costume isn't exact- it's a re-work of the original image, so don't mind if it's not precisely as-writ.)

Next

(I Promise this is the end of 'Award')

#Alien-Nation Chapter 78 (Award IV)

Amilita led me from the bathrooms, back outside to where the catering was, and true to our prediction, the cameras followed closely, bobbing along as we walked down the front stairs together.

“So what now?”

She said a word I didn’t recognize, not even looking down at me, instead forward as we strode past where the cameras were waiting, and back out into the sun.

“Sorry, what was that word?” I asked politely.

“I’m told it’s like your version of ‘Smile and wave’,” Amilita supplied, stopping at last once we were on the steps, looking out over the enormous grass lawn and the afternoon’s proceedings. I made a quick note that the table of books had been completely picked through. “I think Natalie just ate too much and got nervous. She doesn’t have the…” The Officer searched for words before settling on: “...the toughest constitution. I’m sure she will be fine.”

I forced myself to calm down, and gazed down at my new omni-pad. I wanted nothing more than to run back to the bathroom, to hell with everything else, but… it was kind of true. I wanted to point out how she’d trucked Jordan way back at the track party, but it was true that she was absolutely dwarfed by almost every other Shil’ in attendance. Was she naturally given to panic? How much did I really know about her?

I felt a little warmth in my chest, remembering how she’d held me at the covered bridge.

I know enough.

I spoke the words ‘translate Smile and Wave’ in English into my omni-pad, holding down a button to activate the microphone. I watched it automatically pull up its ‘translation’ feature, and the device pulse in its bright, rainbow colors from the center. The information came up much faster than on the one I’d been given by Talay, and even more impressive, the translation was fully nuanced, rather than a direct series of translations of ‘smile’ ‘and’ ‘wave.’ The middle framed a phonetic sounding for me, with all the little nitty-gritty details of the word’s etymology underneath. This was all way, way more information than I’d had access to before.

I experimentally tried the word out silently a few

One of my favorite fan theories revolves around the fate of the Enterprise. While we've been lead to believe that the fleet was lost in 2374's Delta Quadrant, we know they were still working together within the Dominion (and that the Dominion has taken out numerous Federation vessels). In the same episode, Picard was able to escape from some Dominion ships, and from what we've seen of Starfleet, and the Federation, it seems that they might not have been the only ones to lose their ships.

So what happened to the Enterprise in 2374? How did the Federation and the Klingons manage to win the war? We've seen the ships from the Klingons and the Cardassians, which we know are the only ones capable of fighting the Dominion. We've seen other ships from the Federation and their friends, which we know aren't in the war.

So, where did the Enterprise go? Well, we've seen the Klingons and the Dominion send out scouting parties, and we've seen the Dominion's willingness to give away a large portion of their territory. In the end, the Klingons and Dominion were unable to take the Enterprise, and the Dominion decided to end their war. Why would they give away a large portion of their territory, when they were already at a huge disadvantage? Also, if they had lost the Enterprise, they would have been cut off from the Alpha Quadrant, and from the Romulans, and the Klingons would have been cut off from the Federation. The only other plausible conclusion is that the Klingons and Dominion were either able to successfully hold off the Dominion long enough to get the Enterprise, or that the Dominion was destroyed in the battle, and the Enterprise was lost in the process.

So, what happened to the Enterprise? Was it destroyed by the Klingons or the Dominion, and if so, where is it?

So i saw another post link a post about an guy say fascism and socialism are the same shit. And i wanna build off it. Whenever people make this claim i hear the same rebuttals. Good rebuttals but im surprised no one has ever talked about a country that went through fascism and socialism. Germany. Nazi germany and the DDR or GDR are living proof that fascism and socialism are very different. For starters before i go into history lets set some definitions.

Fascism- as an ideology is an Ultranationalistic right wing authoritarian chauvinistic ideology that promotes rigid hierarchy and the scapegoat of others. Mussolini desribes the system as corporatism. Where the state and corporations combine. This means mass privatization is key to fascism.

Communism/socialism/marxism leninism- since this is a socialist sub im sure we all know what socialism is amd how its people owning means of production and sure thats a milquetoast definition but is like to go further. Theres a reason why the 2nd international split themselves from socialists(reformists) and called themselves communists(revolutionaries). So most of communism is the doctrine and theory of Marxism leninism. 2 stage theory. 1 stage of capitalism to build wealth(productive forces) and stage 2 to use the wealth to build up industry and the people by socializing the economy. Essentially what a leninist government looks like is the state being made up of trade unions of people who voted for representatives to represent them in office. Its where the industry is made public for social good.

These are 2 diametrically opposed systems. While some leftists dont like having the state owned enterprises do stuff and prefer coops and shit. But Its much more stronger and effective to socialize the economy as a unit rather than a decentralized fragmented economy. Compare that to fascism where the core tenant is privatization. En masse. Keep that in mind. So how did fascist germany work?

Fascist germany

For starters lets talk about the economy of nazi germany. For one there was a worldwide great depression. 30 percent of people were unemployed.(stalins ussr did not have as much unemployment and was booming despite a famine). They relied heavily on slave labor. The racism and nationalism was an excuse to exploit labor heavily for corporations. On the note of corporations, like hitler there was was privatization. Railways, roads, weapons, welfare(to garner support), banks, shipping lines, electric and construction. Hi

The Russian Communist Workers' Party (RKWP-KPSS) expresses class solidarity with the striking workers of Kazakhstan
Statement of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the RKWP-CPSU
The beginning of 2022 in Kazakhstan was marked by a workers' strike in the Mangistau region. The reason for the speech was a shock jump in gas prices - two times. And the real reasons are that the 30-year domination of capitalism in Kazakhstan has led to an enormous growth of social contradictions. The luxury of the elite is side by side with the poverty of the working masses. People are especially hated by the prosperity and reign of the Nazarbayev clan, the former secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, who turned from a comrade into a master and guarantor of the exploiting class
The strikers' first demands were purely economic - lower gas prices for consumers, higher wages and better working conditions. A strike began in the workers' town of Zhanaozen, well-known to us and to the whole world, where in 2011 a many-month strike of oil workers took place, brutally suppressed by the authorities. The protesters were shot at. Dozens of workers were killed, hundreds were arrested and imprisoned. The RCWP, ROT FRONT and many communist and workers' parties of the world then expressed fraternal solidarity with the strikers, an angry protest against the inhuman reprisals, and carried out numerous support actions. Representatives of our party, with a real risk to their lives, went to the scene of the events, where they met with workers' leaders, handed over material support, and expressed a strong protest to the regional authorities.
Events unfolded rapidly. Since the authorities as usual did not react in any way to the protests of workers, in just a few days the strike covered the entire region, and then escalated into mass unrest. The workers were supported by city dwellers, then workers in many regions of Kazakhstan went on strike in solidarity with their class brothers. The authorities indicated their readiness to make partial concessions. But the workers and the rising people were no longer satisfied with pitiful handouts from the master's shoulder. The authorities began to pull troops to large cities. And then the protesting masses of Kazakhstan literally revolted, already putting forward political demands for the resignation of the country's government and the departure from power of the hateful Nazarbayev clan.
The a

>Hello. A little while back I wrote about why bananas are so cheap. I wanted to share it with this sub because researching this article really made me reframe how I think about cheap products and resource allocations. I also love bananas, as you will see. Hope you enjoy!

brace yourself for some serious banana talk

Before we get down to business, literally, please allow me to knock you on your ass with some banana facts. Actually, these will be facts about the musa acuminata, (for real aficionados, the Cavendish), which we call “the banana” but is actually one of more than two hundred varieties of bananas that exist. That’s right, there are more than two hundred types of bananas. The politicians have been keeping them from us! Surely this is not what Friar Romas de Berlanga, the Spanish Catholic missionary, intended when he introduced bananas to the New World in 1516 [1]. “Wait, bananas aren’t indigenous to Central America?” you must be asking, jaw agape. It’s not surprising that you’re surprised. Over 95% of bananas sold in the US come from Central America, so it’s a natural assumption that bananas have always come from there. Globally, though, Southeast Asia grows the most bananas. That makes sense, because bananas originated in those rainforests, in what I can only assume was the true location of the Garden of Eden. As you can tell, I’m a big banana guy. And I’m not alone. Americans on average consume about two bananas per week, making it the most popular fruit in the country. Fortunately, our love for bananas doesn’t break the bank. A banana costs about $0.25 (national average), which translates to about 400 calories per dollar. That’s a better deal than pretty much anything on the menu at McDonalds. Nutritious, delicious, and financially propitious! All this raises two obvious questions. First, why isn’t Friar Berlanga in our history books? Not only did he introduce bananas to the two continents, he discovered, by way of enchanted accident, the Galapagos Islands, which basically means he came up with the theory of evolution himself.

how I picture Friar Berlanga discovered the Galapagos Islands

Make him a holiday! I’d be comfortable adding him to Mt. Rushmore. The second question, and

During the lockdown, things got rough. Blah blah blah sick parent blah blah blah lost my job. For almost two years, my wife and I stumbled from one financial disaster to the next.

And then, right when it looked as though the bank was set to repossess our home, she made a strange suggestion.

“An OnlyFans account?” I asked, completely bewildered.

She smiled. “Yup. I think we could make some serious cash.”

She showed me articles about women who hit the jackpot posting racy photos online. And these weren’t your typical 'influencers' either: they were middle-aged mothers of two, former lawyers desperate for a little excitement, and even an ex-nun for fuck’s sake!

“I guess we could try it,” I said, not expecting much.

Within three months we’d paid off the mortgage. Seriously.

We both got super into our little enterprise. After consuming countless Youtube tutorials, I had the lighting/photography down pat while my wife brainstormed ideas for costumes and themes. Since she always covered her face, we figured there was a 0% chance anybody who enjoyed her content could figure out her identity or where we lived.

We were wrong.

At this point, I should mention my wife has a birthmark. A very unique birthmark. It’s a wine-colored blemish the shape of a four-leaved clover on the inside of her right thigh.

Now, anybody involved with the Onlyfans community will tell you creeps come with the territory. That’s part of the job, and the best thing to do is simply block or ignore them.

But this one guy by the name of GreenDude420 was worse than most.

First, he promised to pay extra if my wife fulfilled oddly specific requests—like spray-painting herself gold or acting like a shoemaker. And he demanded her birth-mark be clearly visible at all times. I figured he was a weird guy with a weirder fetish and blocked him.

Not long after, a new subscriber by the name of GreenDude421 sent a message, indicating we’d be sorry for denying his request. He said we had one week to comply or face a deadly curse.

I messaged back, Whatever loser.

Over the next few days, we had the worst run of luck imaginable. My wife dropped a glass which shattered across the kitchen floor, our cat stepped on a shard of said glass and had to get rushed to the vet, and on the drive there we were rear-ended by an elderly lady with bottleneck glasses.

As if that weren’t bad enough, there were endless bumps, trips, and bruises, along with a busted sewage pipe and several shattered mirrors.

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The case for DS9 as a commentary on the vision of the Federation presented in TNG is fairly well-established here and somewhat infamously described in Quark's Root Beer monologue. To summarize it quickly: DS9 shows both the strengths and limitations of the Federation's cultural influence in the galaxy as it struggles to maintain its values in service to the recently-victimized and sometimes radicalized Bajorans, the territory-hungry-but-mostly-controllable Cardassians and the existential threat that comes from the do-anything Dominion. Along the way, we see Kira struggle with dual loyalties, Bashir having to tamp down his almost Heart-of-Darkness level colonial paternalism, Sisko make moral compromises with bad actors to make the peace, and the like. This can all be seen as a commentary on the underbelly of what's described in TNG: a post-scarcity Utopia where most civilizations are pretty happy to be in the Federation all things considered, and Starfleet gets to spend its time benevolently exploring the universe making lives better. It's in many ways a political commentary both on TNG and on how a post-Cold War US imagined itself operating in the world, and DS9 is at its best when it wrestles with those themes.

But there's another side to the Utopianism in TNG: life for individuals. Free from material needs, Picard tells us, humans are now free to become their best selves. Throughout TNG we see men and women who are accomplished scientists and officers by day who are amateur musicians, actors and scholars by night. Just about everyone seems fit as a fiddle, spiritually fulfilled (okay, maybe not Barclay), and otherwise growing and maturing into self-actualized beings. This is the aspect of Utopianism Lower Decks tries to tackle head on, considering the kinds of pressure it can put on individuals who try to live up to that lofty vision. A few examples (I'm sure there are more):

• Mariner: It's hinted at time and time again that Mariner has had a fairly accomplished career, but she routinely shoots herself in the foot by going off-script an

Have you ever been interested in the various forms of government across RuneScape’s major cities and territories? Have you found yourself wondering whether or not your own politics align with King Roald the 3rd? No? Okay well I’ve made a short reference guide anyway.

Few things to note here. I based the political ‘lean’ off of a left to right segment with communism being the most radical on the left, and fascism being most extreme on the right. Many governments in the game are transitional and certain quests effect the way that they are structured (Prifddinas, Keldagrim, Ardougne, and others). I tried to interpret the cities governments at a time before pivotal quests - how most players would experience them but with some exceptions.

I pulled information from OSRS and RS3 Wiki detailing the facts of the various kingdoms and the attitudes of specific leaders. I’ve played RuneScape for 16 years, so I’m also amassing some of my baseline knowledge of quests and areas into this post. Still, a lot of political context is missing from the game, and many of my choices were educated guesses.

DISCLAIMER: I am not endorsing any politics in this post. This post is only meant to relate to RuneScape and its narrative and lore - not real life. I am open to being challenged on this list as I am no expert.

Al-Kharid

Government: Monarchy

Monarch: The Emir (officially)

Lean: Right

Al-Kharid is a conservative desert town led by The Emir, however, Chancellor Hassan is the present ruler as The Emir hides away in his chamber. The city has a large fence around it and charges travellers to enter.

Kingdom of Asgarnia

Notable cities: Falador, Port Sarim

Government: Stratocracy

King: Vallace (officially), Sir Varze (present)

Lean: Fascist

Asgarnia is run by The White Knights with Sir Amik Varze at the helm. It is said that Varze, along with the White Knights took over the kingdom from King Vallace by forcibly removing him from power overnight in a military coup. The White Knights also removed their opposition, the Black Knights, from the capital city of Falador to ascertain complete and unchallenged control of the kingdom. Their righteousness is mearly propaganda spun by Varze to create favorable optics amongst the citizens of Asgarnia.

Brimhaven

Government: Plutocracy

Leader: Scarface Pete

Lean: Libertarian

Wealthy Scarface Pete leads the pirate villa but government is extremely decentralized here. The current government is likely a provisio

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This is one of a series of posts where I will apply my fast and dirty historical fundamental analysis to some of the biggest dogshit stocks of the ASX. If you are interested in the process I use below to evaluate a stock, check out How Do I Buy A Stonk???

The Business

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Zip Co Limited is an Australian financial technology (fintech) company based in Sydney. They were founded in 2013 and since then have grown to operate across several countries, including Australia, the USA, and the United Kingdom. As a “Buy Now Pay Later” service, they work with tens of thousands of retailers and millions of customers to provide a flexible payment service that is interest free.

The Checklist

• Net Profit: no year w/ positive net profit. Bad ❌
• Outstanding Shares: a capital raise practically every year L5Y. Bad ❌
• Revenue, Profit, & Equity: R&E growing rapidly, NP consistently neg. L5Y. Neutral ⚪
• Insider Ownership: 20% w/ $66m+ worth of shares sold down L2Y. Bad ❌
• Debt / Equity: 182% w/ Current Ratio of 15x. Neutral ⚪
• ROE: -(57.1)% Avg L5Y w/ -(25.7)% FY21. Bad ❌
• Dividend: no dividend yet paid. Neutral ⚪
• BPS $2.08 (2.0x P/B) w/ NTA 31cents (13.5x P/NTA). Bad ❌
• 10Y Avg: SPS 25cents (16.8x P/S), EPS -(12.9)cents (#N/A P/E). Bad ❌
• Growth: +123.2% Avg Revenue Growth L5Y w/ 151.8% FY21. Good ✅

Fair Value*: $1.69

Target Buy: #N/A

^(*I’ve used a modified formulation to determine fair value, given that this is a tech stock focused on growth. As such, I’ve incorporated a weighting for cashflow based on gross profits per share, rather than including a dividend valuation.)

The Knife

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Z1P had quite the year last year. Prior to the Mar ‘20 crash, it fetched a price in the $4 range, and after a pretty brutal fall relative to the market (reaching $1), it recovered… and then some. On the first trading day of June, the stock gapped up 33% from $3.75 to $5.01 at the open. It was on the basis of an announcement that it would conduct a capital raise to acquire Qua

While not all explicitly from anarchists but anarchist, here is a collection of ones I like:

Errico Malatesta

>Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth. The common interpretation of the word does not misconceive its true etymological signification, but is derived from it, owing to the prejudice that government must be a necessity of the organization of social life, and that consequently a society without government must be given up to disorder, and oscillate between the unbridled dominion of some and the blind vengeance of others. (Anarchy)

>Man, like all living beings, adapts himself to the conditions in which he lives, and transmits by inheritance his acquired habits. Thus, being born and having lived in bondage, being the descendant of a long line of slaves, man, when he began to think, believed that slavery was an essential condition of life, and liberty seemed to him impossible. In like manner, the workman, forced for centuries to depend upon the goodwill of his employer for work, that is, for bread, and accustomed to see his own life at the disposal of those who possess the land and capital, has ended in believing that it is his master who gives him food, and asks ingenuously how it would be possible to live, if there were no master over him? (Anarchy)

>And even if there existed men of infinite goodness and knowledge, even if we assume what has never happened in history and what we believe could never happen, namely, that the government might devolve upon the ablest and best, would the possession of government power add anything to their beneficent influence? Would they not rather paralyze or destroy it? For those who govern find it necessary to occupy themselves with things which they do not understand, and, above all, to waste the greater part of their energy in keeping themselves in power, striving to satisfy their friends, holding the discontented in check, and mastering the rebellious. (Anarchy)

I just want to share some tools I’ve used as I am building my fintech company.

Must-have tools:

• Software development - Designing, programming, documenting, testing and bug fixing are necessary processes to create and maintain your software. You’ll need several tools to assist you on this.

  • GitHub - Public APIs is a collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development. The list has been compiled by 800+ contributors and has free APIs for finance, open data, machine learning, cryptocurrency and more.

• JetBrains - is a software development company who makes tools for software developers and project managers. The platform offers free access to developer tools, team tools and learning tools. They offer many integrated development environments for Java, Groovy, Kotlin, Ruby, Python, PHP, C, C++, C#, Go, JavaScript and SQL.

• OpenCV - is a library of programming functions. The library is cross-platform. C++, Python and Java interfaces support Linux, MacOS, Windows, iOS, and Android. OpenCV is open source and released under the BSD 3-Clause License.

• Open banking - is a banking practice that securely shares financial information such as consumer banking, transactions and other financial data to third-party financial service providers, like your startup. Sharing data is done through the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) and only with the consent of customers. Open banking is the drive behind both innovation and competition in the financial industry.

  • Nordigen - is a freemium open banking platform that provides free access to open banking data and premium data insights. They have a free API that connects to more than 1,000 banks. Nordigen is a licensed Account Information Service Provider (AISP), regulated by the The Financial and Capital Market Commission of Latvia and authorized in 31 European countries.

• Payment solutions - Every fintech startup has the goal to generate revenue in order to grow and become successful. It’s important to choose the right payment processing solution for your specific needs. It is one of the first decisions a startup will need to make. The purpose of payment solutions is to provide a smooth transfer of funds.

• Stripe is a financial services and software as a service company. They offer payment processing software and application programming interfaces for

PART 2: THE LONG AND TUMULTUOUS SHARED HISTORY OF ROMANCE AND GERMANIC NATIONS

This is Part 2-D-ζ, the direct continuation of 2-D-ε, which you can find here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AttackOnRetards/comments/rg7hri/continuation_of_my_previous_posts_about_the/

2-D: THE OTHER ROMANCE AND GERMANIC NATIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

2-D-ζ: ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL SWITZERLAND

ROMAN ERA (read more here)

In 58 BCE, the Helvetii tried to evade migratory pressure from Germanic tribes by moving into Gaul, but were stopped and defeated at Bibracte (near modern-day Autun) by Julius Caesar's armies and then sent back. In 15 BCE, Tiberius and Drusus conquered the Alps, and the region became integrated into the Roman Empire: the Helvetii settlement area became part first of Gallia Belgica and later of the province of Germania Superior, while the eastern part was integrated into the Roman province of Raetia.

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The following 300 years saw extensive Roman settlement, including the construction of a road network and the founding of many settlements and cities. The center of Roman occupation was at Aventicum (Avenches), other cities were founded at Arbor Felix (Arbon), Augusta Raurica (Kaiseraugst near Basel), Basilea (Basel), Curia (Chur), Genava (Genève), Lousanna (Lausanne), Octodurum (Martigny, controlling the pass of

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

Really interesting watch about how the writers wanted to do some cool stuff with Enterprise, but the studio pushed back

Part I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYGGXRNvR5Q

Part II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D23amX0oSe4

Do your worst!