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23 Apr

When I was in sixth grade my school hit up on a brilliant idea. They would categorize all students into 4 equal class size quartiles based upon scholastic accomplishment.
The top 25th percentile would be class A, the next 25th percentile would be class B and so on, class A to D

Ostensibly the goal was to enable teachers to focus on academically weak students and give them extra attention time and resources.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
(For context, this was an all boy's school)

I was in class C, not the bottom of the barrel, but definitely not on top of the heap either.
Our class was pretty rowdy. And sixth grade was the poorest scholastic performance of my life.
I was constantly distracted by disobedient assholes who I had a natural affinity towards.

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@rising_serpent

21 Apr

1. Widespread manufacturing issues including contamination found during FDA inspection of factory J&J contracted facility manufacturing their COVID vaccine.

2. Baltimore factory contracted to make Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine was dirty, didn’t follow proper manufacturing procedures and had poorly trained staff, resulting in contamination of material that was going to be put in the shots.

3. Inspectors said a batch of bulk drug substance for J&J’s single-shot vaccine was contaminated with material used to make COVID-19 vaccines for another Emergent client, AstraZeneca.

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@rising_serpent

20 Apr

1. The number of virus "Variants"is a function of time.
This is a biological & virological phenomenon.
A variant is a virus that has genetic sequences with enough mutations to make them distinct and detectable by genotypic testing.
Viral mutations are the norm, not the exception

2. Viruses are the most primitive of semi-living particles. In fact many scientists debate over whether they are living or not.
They lack sophisticated genetic machinery and are comprised of very rudimentary genetic sequences.
Some contain RNA others contain DNA.

3. Because viruses lack their own cellular machinery to manufacture RNA or DNA, they need to hijack the host cell's manufacturing apparatus..
When viruses multiply, they replicate the genetic material but lack proof reading.

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@rising_serpent

23 Mar

Thread on the real racism
With receipts.

Kamala's neice

Virginia Senate Democrat candidate.

Denver public School education board director, and of course, Democrat.

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@rising_serpent

28 Jan

What's a short?
Short-sellers borrow shares of an asset that they believe will drop in price in order to buy them after they fall. If they're right, they return the shares and pocket the difference between the price when they initiated the short and the actual sale price.

If they're wrong, they're forced to buy at a higher price and pay the difference between the price they set and its sale price.
Short sales have an expiration date, so when a stock unexpectedly rises in price, the short-sellers may have to act fast to limit their losses.

What's a Short Squeeze?
A short squeeze occurs when a stock jumps sharply higher, forcing traders who had bet that its price would fall, to buy it in order to forestall even greater losses. Their scramble to buy only adds to the upward pressure on the stock's price.

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@rising_serpent

11 Jan

It's been a long time since I said it, and who knows if there'll be a chance to do so in the future. So here goes:
I've learned more by being on Twitter than I could have imagined, and it was possible only because so many excellent people say so many amazing things. So thank you

https://twitter.com/rising_serpent/status/1010270775239217154?s=19

I had absolutely no intention of using social media when I started. It was just a way to defray and externalize internal angst while having to forgo the almost always painful work of personal reflection.
I wrote about it a year after I joined.

https://twitter.com/rising_serpent/status/1010270775239217154?s=19

It was nothing more than a sojourn into the septic tank of human behavior that was supposed to make my station in life feel better by comparison.
Then the inconceivable happened.
People said stuff that made sense, resonated and instructed.

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