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AToken Report | Bitcoin Price is Expected to Break $8,800 SOON
By: Atoken Official
Tags: Eth, Bitcoin, Wallet, Atoken

BTC firstly led the mainstream coins to fluctuate and present a horizontal price movement at yesterday night, and then rose from 8 am with a maximum increase of nearly 9%. The current BTC price is around $ 8,500, which has exceeded yesterday’s price $ 8,450. If there is no retracement below $ 8,200 in the short term, it will continue to rise. Seeing from the quarterly line, it is hard to break out $ 8,800; while as per the MADC of BTC in the past month, it is of great possibility to break out $8,800.

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1. Among of top 500 coins, 362 of them is prone to jump, while the rest down.

2. Crypto greed & fear index is 56, indicating most traders are prone to invest much more in crypto market.

3. OTC Premium Rate is -2.11%

✎ BTC Analysis

BTC price now is $8525.06 with the moving average +5.41%. BTC price continued to fluctuate last night, and it hovered around $ 8,100. Since 8 am, it has started to rise and has increased by more than 5%. BTC trend can no longer be estimated by the monthly line, while can only be analyzed by daily candlestick chart of the quarterly line. Looking at the quarterly line, BTC has stepped out of the “basin” trend, currently in a rising range, and the transaction volume is relatively dense. As per the yesterday’s analysis, $ 8,450 was a resistance position that has been broken out. The next resistance position is $ 8,800, while the support position is $ 8,200.

First support position: $ 8,200; First resistance position: $ 8,800.

✎ ETH Analysis

ETH price now is $135.82 with the moving average -1.72%. Yesterday night ETH upward trend is a little weakened and slightly prone to decline; while, starting from 8 am today morning, ETH is increasingly rising with the broader market. In general, ETH growth trend is not as strong as other mainstream coins, with the growth range of less than 5%. From the perspective of ETH trendline, the support position is quite important; ETH rises accompanied with some fallbacks. It will continue to rise if the price is not close to $140 in the short term.

First support position: $ 140; First resistance position: $ 155.

✎ EOS Analysis

EOS price now is $3.28 with the moving average +6.67&%. Yesterday EOS trendline is similar to BTC, first fluctuate and present a horizontal price movement, then start to rise with the range of 6%. The MACD7 is divergent from the MACD30, while the retracement adjustment is a good trend and the support position is $3. As long as ETH fallback does not approach to $3, it will continue to rise.

First support position: $3; First resistance position: $3.4
What is Eth.limited ? What is ELD ?
By: Eld
Tags: What Is Eld, What Is Ethlimited, Eth, Eld, Eth Limited

#ELD #ETHLIMITED #ETH #Crypto

☑️ Link to register for free ETH LimiteD:

https://bit.ly/2yKCDWx

Referral address: 0x2e45d3f79775a2f17259e32c9a85755dd80b8d3e

🔥ETH.Limited — Staking, Dapp Gambling, BO Trading platform

💢FEATURES💢

ELD is an encryption currency and smart contact that will be created with full compatibility with the ERC20 standard.This complete ETH.Limited is implemented as a dAPP, a smart contract within the Ethereum network.

🔒DAPP CHAIN, DECENTRALIZED APPLICATION SIDE CHAIN

🔒KYC ( KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER )

🔒ACQUISITION WITH MOBILE APPLICATION POC ( PROOF OF CERTIFIED EMISSION REDUCTION )

1.To commemorate the birth of ETH 2.0, ETH.Limited was born with a total supply of 1 billion tokens, symbolized as “ELD”.

2.ETH.Limited is a node on Ethereum that belongs to the ERC20 platform.

3.A special feature here is that ETH.Limited has implemented a time-limited staking model aimed at raising the scarcity in the market and avoiding inflation.

4.ELD supported by Trust Wallet, imToken, Metamark.

….

ELD INVESTMENT

👉1ST PACKAGE👈

💰$300 — $3,000

🎁3% — 6% per month

👉2ND PACKAGE👈

💰$5,001 — $10,000

🎁8% — 10% per month

👉3TH PACKAGE👈

💰$20,001

🎁10% — 15% per month

🆘Note: Number of months unlock staking: 6 months. From the 7th month open 10% of the tokens each month.

….

☑️ Link to register for free ETH LimiteD:

https://bit.ly/2yKCDWx

Referral address: 0x2e45d3f79775a2f17259e32c9a85755dd80b8d3e

More information about ELD:

👉Telegram: https://t.me/ETHlimitedChannel

👉 Support:

https://t.me/ETHlimitedchat

👉 Medium: https://medium.com/@ELD_EtheXCommunity

👉Youtube: https://bit.ly/3cTbnUU
All infomation about ELD — ETH.limited
By: Eld
Tags: Eth, Eld, Infomation About Eld, Eth Limited, Crypto

#ELD #ETHLIMITED #ETH #Crypto

🔥ETH.LIMITED was born to represent blockchain 3.0 technology

TOTAL AMOUNT: 1,000,000,000 ELD

🔹10% for dev

🔹30% Stacking

🔹10% Bounty & Airdrop

🔹50% Stacking issue

According to our team strategy, every year in January, we will reduce the amount of staking by 20%, which promotes the long-term development of ELD

ETH.Limited — Staking, Dapp Gambling, BO Trading platform

💢FEATURES💢

ELD is an encryption currency and smart contact that will be created with full compatibility with the ERC20 standard.This complete ETH.Limited is implemented as a dAPP, a smart contract within the Ethereum network.

🔒DAPP CHAIN, DECENTRALIZED APPLICATION SIDE CHAIN

🔒KYC ( KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER )

🔒ACQUISITION WITH MOBILE APPLICATION POC ( PROOF OF CERTIFIED EMISSION REDUCTION )

1.To commemorate the birth of ETH 2.0, ETH.Limited was born with a total supply of 1 billion tokens, symbolized as “ELD”.

2.ETH.Limited is a node on Ethereum that belongs to the ERC20 platform.

3.A special feature here is that ETH.Limited has implemented a time-limited staking model aimed at raising the scarcity in the market and avoiding inflation.

4.ELD supported by Trust Wallet, imToken, Metamark.

….

More information about ELD:

☑️ Link to register for free ETH LimiteD:

https://bit.ly/2yKCDWx

Referral address: 0x2e45d3f79775a2f17259e32c9a85755dd80b8d3e

☑ Link to learn projects for newbies

https://bit.ly/3bOp3z4

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☑ News channel ETH LimiteD

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Support:

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Escrow Account in MTC Wallet
By: Mtc Mesh
Tags: Eth, Digital Asset, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Escrow

Transactions through escrow account charges no fees,that is the reason it exists.

Here are the tips to sign up escrow account in MTC Wallet,and transfer coins through escrow account.

Download MTC Wallet on app store or our official web: d.mtc.io Create new wallet or import an old wallet Click the menu icon on the upper right of asset page

Click “login”

log in or register an escrow account with your phone or e-mail

Click the menu icon on the upper right in the asset page and click your escrow account that you just logged in

you will enter your escrow account page

Click one of the tokens on this page,take MTC as example

Click MTC,and click the icon on the upper right,and click “deposit”to transfer coins from your ETH account to the escrow account

Now that you have tokens in your escrow account.

Click “Send” on the same page,you will send coins to other escrow account.

You will get more chances to do the lucky draw!!!Every one will get 4 more chances through transaction with the escrow account in maximum.
ENS setup, a visual step by step
Tags: Whois0x, Ethereum, Eth, Ens, Metamask

Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels

Since the launch of the permanent ENS registrar, Ethereum domain names, .eth are getting increasingly popular. They are are really easy to buy, big thanks to the ENS domains team.

While integrating ENS domains in our search engine, we browsed through already registered domains. We notice that many of them were missing some important setups to be functional. There are 5 steps to buy and setup a domain with an address.

First four are mandatory for anyone wishing to allow anyone to interact with an address trough a name.

Domain Name → Address

The reverse setup is highly recommended as it allows an address to be linked to a domain in search engines.

Address → Domain Name

One more thing. Setting up your own Ethereum domain name might not be enough. First, you’ll probably face domain squatting, people buying names to resell them. Second, we recommend to view your digital identity globally, eth domains as a part of it, alongside verified and signed social identities or your website. It will allow anyone to interact with your address confidently and avoid scamming around your address. To see how to protect you with whois0x, have a read at Alice in Etherland.

Here is the plan to our journey, it will take 15 mn to go through all the setup.

We will show you how we bought ellis2323.eth with ens.domains website and Metamask.

First and foremost, check the availability for the domain you want to purchase.
Saying “Yes” Builds Your Brand
By: Erica Kuhl
Tags: Life, Entrepreneur, Positivity, Solopreneur

I had lunch with an old friend yesterday and while talking about my transition to solo entrepreneurship he asked me a great question. “How will you keep your brand present when you’re highly unscalable?” I didn’t have the answer when he asked me but it got me thinking. How will I do that when I don’t have the big power of Salesforce propelling me forward.

I’m so lucky to have a powerful in-house guide that I go to when I have tricky questions to address….it’s my husband. He asked me a similar question when we moved to Colorado from the Bay Area 6.5 years ago. “How will you stay relevant and present now that we live in Colorado?” I also didn’t have the answer then so he gave me a suggestion which was very simple but impactful, “you’ll say yes to everything.” I scratched my head and wondered what on earth that had to do with staying relevant? Up until that time I was notorious for saying no to anything outside of work. Work itself was all consuming at the time so the thought of saying yes to things sent me over the edge both personally and professionally. I had the luxury of being in San Francisco so staying relevant wasn’t as hard. But in Boulder Colorado, that wasn’t going to be the case. So I made a commitment on the spot to make that year the “Year of Yes”. I said yes to all requests for authoring blogs, speaking on podcasts, being interviewed, presenting at meetups, and keynoting conferences. Suffice it to say it was an EXHAUSTING year but guess what…he was right! It worked and my brand was nearing an all time high even out in Boulder Colorado.

So now I’m at another turning point contemplating that same question but in a different phase of my life. Now that I’m out on my own, I realize that my personal brand is even more important than ever. A zillion questions came to me that I needed to answer like:

“what makes me unique from others in this field?”

“what type of clients do I connect with?”

“what makes me happy?”

“how do I stay relevant when I don’t scale?”

“what does success look like?”

I don’t have all the answers yet. It would be naive of me to think I could have all the answers just 1.5 months into this new solo entrepreneur journey. Asking myself those questions though, kicked me into high gear. It reminded me of those wise words from my husband to “say yes” and since it worked before, I reinvested in the advice again. To keep my brand fresh, relevant, and aligned with my core values I said yes to:

Hosting one of Jake McKee’s Community5 dinners at my home with fellow local community professionals

Co-hosting a FY20 Planning workshop with Maria Ogneva at the CMX Connect meetup

Keynoting Bill Lee’s Summit on Customer Engagement

Being interviewed by MomRelaunch Founder Reena Gupta on the power of hiring moms that are re-skilling and re-entering the workforce

Creating my own business brand with the talented Mayumi Yamamoto and even got my own stickers!

Finally, I’m writing a blog weekly and that’s just me getting started!
What should you be doing?
By: Neil Harwani
Tags: Productivity, Motivation, Positivity

Over the initial years of my experience in Information Technology industry when I worked with various large and medium sized organizations, I programmed, worked in solutions / sales engineering and more. Learned many things across various domains and technologies. Met and built a small network. Then I transitioned to multi-tasking around Education & Information Technology.

Did I face roadblocks, yes — many !!!

People

Lack of opportunities

Lack of resources and more.

Here is what you should be doing if you want to overcome similar roadblocks that you are facing:

Build weekly, monthly, yearly and long term goals

Have ToDo lists

Build priorities & alternatives

Plan what you will do and what you will not do

Learn to say no and push back on things that don’t resonate with you. Saying yes to everyone does not solve the problem, that will increase your problems

Build small steps which you can repeatedly do on daily & weekly basis mapped to small outputs

You need to go step by step

Many people make a mistake of making a grand goal and struggling on next steps

You won’t reach your goals in one shot

It’s a step by step journey which you have to go through with struggle each day & week meeting deadlines, completing work, interacting with people and building your network.

Learn to create / write articles, websites, blogs and goals — nothing helps more than building goals and writing them down

Learn to give more than you consume especially in knowledge areas. People value others who share and discuss knowledge without expectation. That builds your genuine network which is where your success is. Collaboration and sharing with others to enable their success with no expectations is key to authentic network building

Every 3 to 6 months pickup something that you don’t know, learn it, teach it, discuss it, work on it

Volunteer for more than what is expected out of you — go an extra mile in your tasks

Learn to thank those who helped you on your journey

Email me at: neil@TechAndTrain.com

Visit my URLs:
That little unrest in your heart
By: Keerat Jaura
Tags: Mental Health, Anxiety, Positivity, Healthy Mind, Stress

Talking about your mental health, your feelings, emotions and your unwillingness to feel anxiety is really important today. But, all we so called wise humans do is keep ignoring it until the pressure in our brain is about to explode our positivity. We keep cultivating the belief that anxiety will just fade away like it never existed.

How long will we ignore, a day, a week, a month or a year or even years? The longer you ignore the worse it becomes. All the time you are ignoring your feelings, you are just creating more obstacles for yourself. You let the anxiety grow more stronger and affect you worse.

Talking to people made me realize that most of them are suffering with their feeling just because they think they are weak to face the reality.

hear me out…if you have the power to suffer the suffocation. You definitely have the power to go face the emotions that are trying to rule on you. ACE THEM BY FACING THEM…..

It starts affecting you slowly and then gets worse overtime. There reaches the point in your life where you feel suffocated of the anxiety you are feeling. And I am sure there will be many present here who would love to feel the way they used to, like when they were kids, free from the world traumatic stress. But you know whats the coolest thing? You can control it like a BOSS but slowing moving towards the process of listening to your feelings and treat them as you would treat you loved ones.
How to deal with rude people (in a classy way)
By: Sally Simon
Tags: Your Beautiful Life, Rude, Positivity, Politeness, Deal With Rudeness

Some of us may have to deal with rude people like that a lot more often than we’d like…

Maybe it’s a horrible boss or even worse, a family member that we can’t get rid of..

Whether it’s a stranger on the street that cuts you off or a dreaded co-worker that you have to see every day, we always have to control over how we respond to the rudeness.

Let’s learn how you can deal with rude people in a classy way.

1.IGNORE THEM

The simplest way to deal with rude people is to flat-out ignore them, but depending on the situation, it may be easier said than done. Generally, it’s a lot easier to ignore strangers because you’re most likely not going to see them again and it’s probably not worth your time and energy to react to them.

2.CALL THEM OUT

You don’t want to let people walk all over you either, so if someone does something that really bothers you there is nothing wrong with calling them out, but you have to be strategic about how you do it.

3.SHOW COMPASSION TOWARDS RUDE PEOPLE

There is so much truth in the saying “Hurt people hurt people?”. If rude people intentionally go out of their way to treat others like crap, then that’s actually really sad. That’s because they’re hurting inside and they’re in a lot of pain. Instead of responding them with anger, show them some compassion because they’re clearly hurting and in need of love.

4.REFLECT BEFORE RESPONDING

Before you react to rude people, take a moment to reflect on the situation and respond in a mature, composed way. You definitely don’t want to react to rude people because that only gives them more importance and adds fuel to the fire.

5.ASSESS THE SITUATION OBJECTIVELY

It’s easy to create a dramatic story in our heads about what happened, but it’s best to assess the situation objectively to assess the facts about what really happened and see if we’re blowing things a bit out of proportion.

7.BE POLITE TO RUDE PEOPLE

Confronting someone in a polite and decent way without needing to get back at them. If you want to be respected, it’s best to show respect to others and yourself by being polite courteous.

We all face rude people from time to time. Sometimes we’re even rude to others too.

And that’s okay….

We’re all humans at the end of the day and I like to believe that we’re all trying our best.

Whether it’s a one time encounter or we have to deal with rude people day-in and day-out, we always have complete control over how we respond to rudeness and that can make all the difference in the end.
Are you suffering from thinking positive?
By: Swapna Sitaraman
Tags: Positive Thinking, Positive Attitude, Positivity

The symptoms to look out for are excess consumption of non-essentials, extended hours of meditation, pre-occupation with good & bad, attachment to having a perfect body, status, lifestyle, procrastination.

The origins of this disease can be traced back to the origin of our existence and language. Our ability to hold polarised viewpoints and manipulate it for money, power, support.

When asked “ how are you doing” ? Most people would say “I am doing ok” or “I am not ok”

Have you ever tried saying “I am ok and not ok?”

Have you ever felt “I am ok and not ok?”

As a shortcut to making quick decisions humankind may have adopted this approach of focusing on one over the other, but both realties exist at the same time. There is a thriving industry which has constantly motivated you to think and feel better

You are made to feel thirsty to sip coke

You are made to think poorly about yourself to hit the gym

Your attention is on your unrest, when you meditate

You wait for that perfect moment

Its an awareness that has been taken away from us, but the truth is we are always ok and not ok at the same time.

This disease of thinking positive costs us precious time, money and awareness.

CURE: Hold viewpoints without polarity. Hold yourself without polarity
Editor’s Note:
By: The Bridge
Tags: Coronavirus, Editors Note, Positivity, The Bridge, 2020

By Anahita Singh

Greetings, dear readers!

Welcome to a very special edition of the Bridge. You see, this is an edition like no other, for this entire edition was made completely virtually! That’s right- the Editorial Board met through Meet, compiled the magazine through Google Docs, and is now presenting it to you online as well. This, dear reader, is our way of exemplifying a very important point- nothing is impossible in today’s world. Through the wonders of technology and 5G Internet, we can accomplish anything- this includes, but is not limited to, surviving this pandemic. Yes, this disease is strong, but it can never rival the sheer strength of the human spirit. We are thus bringing you this edition to both remind you of this inherent strength, and to show you that the people you love are never too far away. Remember, we are all in this together.

I also want to take a moment to talk about the theme of this edition- 2020. 2020-such a nice, round figure, isn’t it? Almost auspicious! And yes, the irony of that statement is not lost on me. But, here’s how I see it- 2020 has two pairs of repeating numbers, right? Well, maybe these numbers represent the two sides of life, and how the good must always go with the bad. Take the coronavirus, for example- on one hand, we have this debilitating disease on our hands, one that is wreaking the human world, while on the other hand, it is very Disease that is helping restore the world too- we are finally becoming empathetic towards the environment, are mending bonds we had torn long ago, and are finally learning the art of peace. Like a true Pandora’s box (or pithos, for all the purists out there), the Coronavirus has brought with it great tragedy-but also things to be thankful about. Look, I know that it is difficult to keep your spirits up during this time, but I implore you to look at the positives too- that’s all that any of us can do at this time.

And, how could I end this without mentioning the impending IGCSE results? At the time of writing we are 3 days away from D(Dreaded)-Day, (oh my god, just 3?) and I too am experiencing that anxiety is very commonplace in a student’s heart. I will thus not give you a hypocritical speech about how this is not a big deal (because I know it is difficult to believe that it isn’t). Instead, I just want to remind all the students out there that you are not alone- I feel your worry, and so do the others. This, like all other days, will also pass. Just remain sure of your abilities, and we’ll hopefully get through this day together.

Stay at home, Stay safe, and, as always, Live Long And Prosper!

-Anahita Singh
A Letter to myself from me...
By: Keerthana Hari
Tags: Quarantine, Myself, Positivity, Letters, Motivation

They say none knows you better than yourself, I feel its true most of the time. All the years you’ve lived in this earth struggling sometimes and giggling most of the time, I would say you’ve come a long way. But this is not the end of your learning, there's a long way to go. I could see how many times you wanted to give up on yourself, on life, and every other thing stressing you at the last moment of giving up, you decide not to. That's how you become stronger. Confused on what's there in store for you in the future, you decide not to think of it and still try to enjoy life by putting a smile on others' faces. By now, you should have learned the purpose of your life, if you’ vent its okay. Yes, you heard it right, it's okay to not be productive for some time and feel numb about it. Life changes for you the moment you realize that you are not in a race with others but with your own self. The humiliations you faced in every form in your life shrinks you down but I hope in recent times you have realized that's the mantra that keeps you going to prove others wrong. I know times where you feel you want to change your horoscope to have good times in your life and was with you, seeing you wide awake at 2 in the midnight trying to change things that you don't have control and failing terribly while your parents think you are texting friends at midnight, it's okay if your parents don't understand you. Your life will be a strange and cruel mix of wonder and despair. Your love for learning will be a beacon to illuminate the way through your troubles. All said and done, you need to accept that you are really proud of what you are now and no regrets. Time has proved to you many times that you are the only person that you want for your entire life to shine but that doesn't make you lonely or weak, that is the only driving force that pushes you to do things you would not even think of doing otherwise. I’m not going to sugarcoat or flatten you with words, there are going to be many dry, difficult, sleepless nights and days you want to pass over. There will be situations where nothing will work the way you wanted it to be. Yes, you’ve to face it all with a smile in your face and hope in your heart that this too shall pass and that you’ll shine brighter in real soon.

Remember to be grateful for everyone that's helped you in this broken yet memory worthy life. Be there for them during their difficult times and it's your responsibility to put a smile on their face. Forgive those who backstabbed you not for them but for your own mental health. Choose quality over quantity in friendship. More importantly, Be happy with what you have. What you have in hand now is a dream for those who don't have. Hope this comforts and soothes you. As you turn 24 in another two months, I want you to: Stop complaining and start living, Embrace failure, Never stop being a good person because of bad people.

There’s miles to go before you sleep...

From you,

To you.
SUB-EDITOR’S NOTE
By: The Bridge
Tags: Coronavirus, Schools, Editors Note, Positivity, 2020

By Ipshita S. Srivastava

“‘Hope’ is the thing with feather

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all.”

Hope. This four-letter word has never held more meaning in our lives. We have never gone to bed before, hoping that the world won’t fall apart tomorrow. Nonetheless, it has also taught us that ‘hope’ is what binds us together, even in this time of social distancing.

So, dear readers, even in this pandemic, we bring to you another issue of The Bridge: 2020 edition, in hope that this will cheer up your lockdown (possibly) 4.0. If you have been a regular reader, and enjoyed every bit of it, you are going to, without a doubt, love this edition, because we have compiled for you everything that you will need to get through this quarantine (well, not everything because, we checked and it’s not really possible to virtually send hand sanitizers).

These are unbelievably, well, unbelievable times and we are all in this together. One day we were having our morning assembly in the activity area and the next day we were forbidden from even stepping out of our houses. We went from carelessly celebrating the end of our examinations (especially the former class 10th) to compulsively cleaning our hands every 20 minutes. The transition from being ‘social butterflies’ to being ‘bored in the house and in the house bored’ hasn’t been an easy one but, as I said earlier, I hope that when the pandemic ends, we still remember to be there for each other and truly appreciate the power of human touch. I hope that we won’t forget how essential it is to acknowledge the little things in life. I hope that we will forever remember “how rare and beautiful it truly is to even exist.”

Team Bridge hopes that you are safe and sound but, at the same time, strong too. Stay home, stay strong, stay safe!

-Ipshita S. Srivastava
I Have Some More Misinformation about Global Warming to Share With You
By: Fred Ermlich
Tags: Technological Solutions, Global Warming, Misinformation, Petroleum Industry, Cognitive Bias

I Have Some More Misinformation about Global Warming to Share With You

I’ve gotten to be more than just frustrated. Assorted scientists and engineers worldwide have solutions for ending global warming, and so do I. Fred Ermlich Aug 15·4 min read

Just like this, aimed at blue sky — sunlight that doesn’t warm the Earth, we’d need a few thousand earthbound arrays to get started. . . . By Amble — Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37624786

We really do have solutions. And they would work — some are no-brainers, and are not too expensive either — considering the alternatives. I’ll tell you the problem right now:

We could begin deploying land-based mirrors today, only there is nobody to approve the project or to finance it. But there are hordes of people ready to shut us down immediately. Angrily. Saying we could destabilize the weather or climate irreparably.

(Is that true, are they right?)

Well, yeah, in a way. They could be right and I could be wrong. It’s a genuine mess because our human cognitive biases make us lie to ourselves and to each other. A true mess. How dare we take such risks at a time like this, when the world is dying from fires and floods and plagues. Isn’t that right? We should just step back. (Watch out! Don’t step back into that volcano.)

Oh, I should explain the misinformation remark in the title first, shouldn’t I.

I can’t deny that I’ll be misinforming you, but I’m up against a general negativity bias as far as deployment of these technologies, and I’ll be fighting your negativity bias as I suggest taking a few risks in the course of reversing global warming.

It’s misinformation to claim with certainty that mirrors would do the job. It’s also misinformation to fail to give the caveats — that I could make things worse with my efforts. That could happen.

I’m going to give you links to some excellent articles that explain the different kinds of biases, and hopefully help you see right now why everything is so fucked up about fixing global warming and also about stopping this coronavirus epidemic.

So let’s do those articles first. If you could spend a little time reading up on these biases that we inherited through the cruel process of natural selection, a lot of weirdnesses in our societies will begin to make better sense.

This first one is from one of ours, on Medium:

This one tells us how mother nature tricked us into making three mistakes:

This one explains why I’m thinking I can sell you my misinformation and that I can’t possibly be wrong and also why I have no doubts about your faith in me:
Polar bears confused why everyone keeps saying their numbers are going down
Tags: Environment, Climate, Global Warming, Climate Change, News

One of the angry polar bears © xrayspx, Flickr

Polar bears confused why everyone keeps saying their numbers are going down

The Polar bear Interest Society Scheme (PISS) has expressed its surprise that they are still being used as the poster child of climate change despite their numbers being at record highs Freditor Follow Nov 15, 2019 · 2 min read

Reporting by climate expert Gerty Tunnsbug

Paul Urber, PR spokesbear for the Polar bear Interest Society, has said that the reputation of the polar bear community has been seriously damaged by the decades-long campaign portraying the species as perpetual victims of climate change.

The global population was thought to be around 5,000 in the 1950s and today it is believed to be upwards of 30,000.

This isn’t something you’re likely to hear about, however, as the environmental activist media rightly prefer you to believe every single bear out there is a skinny, beleaguered runt of a beast desperately grasping onto the last bit of melting ice they can find.

To go against this prevailing message is blasphemy and one Canadian academic was fired for bringing up the inconvenient truth about how well polar bears are doing around the world.

“At first the community was happy with all the extra media attention as we got to show how good we are at ripping apart small animals and blood on our fur looks brutally photogenic,” said Urber.

“Then after a while the tone really changed. Videos started popping up following some of our worst hunters and swimmers slipping around on bits of ice. Suddenly the worst of our species defined the rest of us.”

Urber has said that polar bears are now regularly mocked online by other apex predators with crocodiles, sharks, cheetahs and eagles being particularly mean on Twitter.

Rocky O’Dile, a 23-year-old saltwater crocodile from Queensland, said: “Polar bears these days could barely hunt and kill a fairy penguin. They’re so weak that it’s time they’re removed from the predator club. Pussies can’t even handle a slight increase in temperature.”

Urber is now at the head of a new campaign by PISS aiming to emphasise how vicious, muscly and empowered the species really is.

“We won’t be taking any shit anymore. It’s time our public image reflected what we’re actually like out in the wild. We’re here, we’re white and we’re coming for your seals,” said Urber.

“It will be tough for environmentalists to find a new cold-environment poster child for their activism as penguin populations are skyrocketing, elephant seals are very hard on the eyes and you can hardly have krill on the cover of a fear-mongering Time magazine issue.

“Whales might be a good option as their numbers seem pretty squiffy but they’re already preoccupied with their commitments to being the face of eating sea plastic alongside the turtles.”
Ms. Knight, YOU hit the proverbial Nail on the Head!
By: George Trudeau
Tags: Parenting, Future, Children, Global Warming, Climate Change

Ms. Knight, YOU hit the proverbial Nail on the Head! — — This is what I have been writing about since I discovered, Medium & Word Press; We all Profess to Love Our Children, yet what kind of Future are we bequeathing to them?…~~~~~Maybe take a Look at the Craters of the Moon that we have Created here, on our only livable Planet, mining for everything, especially Gold!……~~~~~One ton of Ore, crushed to dust, poisoned forever, to extract 1/6 ounce of Gold!……Forest’s turned into mud-slides by human’s seeking out a single flake of that use-less ore…………………………………………………~~~~~What use is it? To sit in Steel-door Vaults until Infinity?…..One cannot burn it to make a fire, One cannot Eat it, it is Inert and therefore indigestible….Of what use is Gold? Maybe to make Pretty Trinkets, Rings, & other useless things? Why would One want to make a Toilet out of Gold, if not to show it’s Worthlessness?……..The Price of Gold is determined by those Countries and Rich Men who Hoard it for themselves……In the last Gold report I received from the “Debt Clock” the demand/supply was 159,000,000 million ounces, think of how many tons of ore had to be converted into 1/6 ounces to provide for that demand?….. China in 2018 ordered 25 Ton’s of Gold to stick in their Coffers……I think, I think, that Greed = Stupidity! …~~~~~When the old Gold Hoarder dies, the Gold is still in the Vault, who owns it now?…….When the last Human Being has departed this Earth, the Gold will still be sitting there in that Vault, buried, to be dug up^ and wondered about, if any future generation has archaeologist’s who are interested in History! ……Done Here!……
What Does Hijab Literally Mean?
By: Niqabi Writer
Tags: Muslim, Hijab, Feminism, Reason

Often when we want to understand something, we look up for what the word means, and for further information, we go deeper into its etymology and the root of the word. Same way, before trying to find out what Hijab is in its truest form in this little series of #onislamichijab, we will start with the word HIJAB.

Literally speaking, HIJAB has different meanings:

i) Covering: For anything, as long as I am concerned.

ii) Diaphragm: Yes, an actual body part.

iii) Seclusion.

iv) Separation.

v) Curtain.

What kind of impression did these words make on your mind? It did to me like being a mothball. Covering ourselves with curtains and staying secluded, and somewhere in my imagination, there was also a stomach surgery.

Maybe that is why many women object to the Islamic hijab.

So if Hijab literally means these things, then what is the thing we Muslim women wear? The word for that is ‘satr’ or ‘satir’, but it is rarely used, if used at all. I don’t know why our religious jurisprudents and other people do not use it. Maybe they like a word of two syllables. Who knows.

But I do know that the word Hijab used in the sense of ‘covering’ gives us the idea of women being placed behind curtains and to be imprisoned in the house and not to leave it.

The duty of covering for women given in Islam does not necessarily means that they cannot leave their homes, recieve full education and pursue their careers and dreams. Islam does not wish to imprison women — that was the intention of the pre-Islamic past of some countries, for example, Iran and India.

So what does Islam tries to achieve with Hijab? Hijab has not one or two reasons, but a lot of them categorized in different areas such as philosophical, social, psychological, ethical and economic reasons. We are going to discuss all that in #onislamichijab series (at Instagram), IA, so stay tuned!
A Headscarfed Day in Warrensburg, Missouri
By: Noorj Jemaa
Tags: Muslim, Muslims In America, Missouri, Hijab, Short Story

She puts her veil on last thing. She has to make sure that it covers the back of her neck. She wraps it twice so it covers her double chin. But, she fixes it so it does not look like it is covering a big part of her face.

Now, she is ready to leave. She looks at the mirror again. This is a ritual. She asks herself the same question every day: “Do I look friendly?”.

It is silly. She tries to convince herself that she does look friendly. She makes sure her smile is extra big.

She is feeling a bit sick and tired today. But, the moment she leaves the building, she puts her chin up and makes sure to smile.

She hopes that by doing this the answer to her question is positive. That people, when they see her, they would not think of her as a stereotypical hijabi and instead as a friendly person.

She sometimes has her earphones in. She hopes people think she is normal: she listens to music like everybody else. She is not that different. How different can you be if you have Spotify?

If it is a cold day, she puts on her pink hat with little pearls and her pink gloves. She wants to look approachable even when the temperature is below zero and she might not be able to move her lips to smile.

It is hard for her not to focus on these details when she sees someone losing their smile when they see her. She cannot help but blame herself. “Did I scare them? Was it my resting face again?”

She notices every single detail. She can see that you looked up from your phone and stared at her. She can also see you when you slow down your car to look at her. She sometimes wishes she was not so noticeable. But, she is the happiest when after all that staring, you decide to smile back at her.

She tells herself for the millionth time not to overthink and overread people's faces, but she can’t. She covers herself with her fluffy, red blanket and promises herself not to think about this again, like she does every night. She promises that tomorrow she will not pay attention to anything.

Her alarm rings in the morning. She wakes up and goes to her closet. She remembers her friend's comment about how dark colors make her look a bit scary. She takes out her pink sweater.

She feels sad she can't wear her blue sweater. Her friend told her many times that the matching headscarf makes her look like a typical terrorist. She tells herself that it's okay. She tells herself that the pink sweater is better anyway.

She reminds herself to look cheerful and happy, forgetting the promise she made to herself the previous night and all the nights before.
Move Your Money Like a Criminal, So You Never Have To Worry About Retiring
By: Rocco Pendola
Tags: Saving, Budget, Retirement, Personal Finance, Money

Move Your Money Like a Criminal, So You Never Have To Worry About Retiring

After you find the right work for your lifestyle, managing your money gets pretty easy Rocco Pendola Mar 20·6 min read

Photo by Alexandre Lallemand on Unsplash

I like finding myself in places or situations where it feels like I’m doing something illegal, even if I’m not.

Maybe it’s the child in me. I just love turning to the person I’m with and saying it feels like we’re doing something illegal. It’s even better when it is sort of illegal and the person you’re with is right there with you. They’re not like we shouldn’t be doing this. Instead, they encourage the unfolding of events.

I look for a similar synergy in my work meets money life.

Sometimes when I look at how I manage my personal finances, I feel like I’m doing something wrong. Not incorrect, but wrong in the way others perceive it. Like it’s somehow illegal to eschew the conventional advice most people tend to not think twice about.

For example, I write extensively about not investing for retirement and banishing the traditional conception of retirement from your vocabulary.

Focus on a low cost of living, generating cash flow, and allocating that cash flow to live how you want to live now and into the future. To execute this cash-focused strategy, you need to be nimble.

Nimble like a high-end criminal. Like you’re laundering money. Except you’re not.

We can’t stress this combination enough:

low cost of living

ample cash flow

smart and effective income allocation

If you can tie these things together, you’re gonna set yourself up for today. You’re gonna set yourself up for the duration. Couple this with work you love and can do for something like, if not forever, and you’re really set up.

Here’s one way to do it.
This Millennial Couple Is Doing So Much Wrong With Money
By: Rocco Pendola
Tags: Saving, Budget, Life, Personal Finance, Money

If you buy into the idea of home ownership being the end all and be all — as this couple apparently does — you still have to think twice.

As they position themselves financially to become homeowners, they decided to increase their current rent by $1,550 a month.

It almost makes irrefutable, objective sense to strongly prescribe staying in the studio apartment a bit longer — or for however long it takes — and save that $1,550 in addition to whatever they’re able to save aside from this massively increased housing payment.

I mean, $1,550 a month is nothing to sneeze at — no matter how much money you make or how privileged you are. It’s $18,600 a year. If nothing else, it could cover the couple’s eventual mortgage payment for a few months.

Or it could cover some of the travel the couple says they’re “cutting down” on so they can “save for a mortgage.”

What worries me is that they’re splurging and sacrificing in all the wrong places — and here’s the key — “until (they) have to be homeowners.” The upgraded apartment functions as a way for the couple to — in their own words — “enjoy themselves” prior to home ownership.

So they’re more than implying that home ownership — something they “have” to do for some reason — will be a chore that lacks a sense of enjoyment. The way to enjoy yourself ahead of this is to live in a more expensive apartment with more space and luxury amenities.

Maybe I’m being too judgmental and overly critical. But I don’t think so.

Different preferences and subsequent priorities and outlooks on life — or something more? But who wants to jump willingly into such an expensive chore of an apparent rite of passage?

This couple might be a red flag we can all learn from within the context of the discussions we have that focus on the intersection between money and lifestyle. It sounds a lot like they’re setting themselves up for a lifestyle disaster.

And it’s not about their decision to buy a home rather than continue to rent an apartment. All else equal, this comes down to personal preference.

However, in this case — using this couple’s own words — all else doesn’t appear to be equal.

Is it just me or are the words they use and the actual way they’re going about the transition to home ownership dysfunctional and emblematic of many of the money-related problems we spend so much time discussing?
10 Painless Ways to Live Below Your Means
By: David Asch
Tags: Wealth, Saving, Materialism, Economic Freedom, Frugal Lifestyle

10 Painless Ways to Live Below Your Means

Photo by Vicky Sim on Unsplash

From nearly our first moments of sentience, we’re subject to the siren call of consumerism. We’re bombarded with pleas to acquire bigger, better, shinier things. We’re urged to measure our place in society by our material possessions.

My wife and I combatted the pull of materialism. So can you.

This isn’t about becoming a hairshirt-wearing ascetic, shunning all material goods. Nor is it about renouncing capitalism. It’s about developing a mindset that favors saving over spending, less over more, prolonging over replacing, giving over acquiring.

As my wife and I approach retirement, I can attest that a lifetime of living below our means has left us wanting for precisely nothing. It’s like dieting. Losing a fast ten pounds for an imminent beach vacation is doable, but you’re likely to regain the weight because dieting is no fun and is, therefore, unsustainable. It's better to develop healthy eating habits over time so instead of dieting, it becomes the fabric of your lifestyle. Ditto with living below your means.

These are ten of the methods that have helped us to live frugally and achieve financial freedom:
The SHAVING Story
By: Avinanda Bose
Tags: Choices, Life Lessons, Storytelling, Philosophy, Dreams

This might be called the second chapter of Is it one life? Choices and Dreams.

I will tell you few stories. Fact or Fiction? You can decide it, after reading. So let’s begin.

Rahul. Well, like Karan Johar says you might have heard his name. But do you know his story? So, Rahul in our story is a Chartered Accountant. Big family, secure job, happy parents and a lovely wife. Seems an easy life, isn’t it?

But Rahul each day morning goes through a routine that no one knows. Each morning he wakes up. Sees himself in the mirror. Exact 2 minutes which counts something like 2 seconds. And at the fastest pace, he shaves his hardly seen beard.

With his compulsion shaving done he moves towards his too good to be perfect day.

Completes all his responsibilities and greatest performances of acting for the day and tugs into bed for a sleep.

Before closing the curtain for the day, he takes his mobile. Reaches the music player button. But never touches the play button.

The linear placed Play Button haunts him. Nights passes by. But the Play Button haunts him.

In his dream he is forced to press the Play button. But he never can. He falls in the pit of darkness. The PLAY button follows him.

It seems it will follow him to his grave. Over the grave of nothingness, there is a world. A world that takes him back 13 years back.

The room is filled with happy faces. A crowd surrounding something or someone. He moves through the crowd. At the end of the gathering is 17 year Rahul sitting. But wait. What is this? Why does he have this sparkling eye? Why is the beard grown like a messy coil?

17 year old Rahul is happy. His face is filled with a beard and an infectious smile. Then suddenly, he did something that one can ever think about.

No! No! This can’t be true.

He smiled broadly and started playing his guitar. He is singing. In the audience is a 30 year old Chartered Accountant grinning with pain. The button he could never play is right in front of him.

The crowd is cheering the young singer who is immersed in his song. Eyes closed.

Back in the crowd is a still eye. The brim is filled with tears. The throat gets choked. The sound of the music seems to hurt his ears now. It’s screeching. It’s a shrill of cry.

And he wakes up. The alarm is ringing its daily morning call. Switching it off, Rahul sprang from the bed.

Dream, was it? He rushes to the washroom for his daily routine. Standing in front of the mirror once again. Making an attempt to shave his already clean cheeks. He takes 2 minutes like 2 sec like every other day.

Should he shave or let it grow? The choice needs to be made. Yet again. Like once again like every other day.

What if he loses the job? What will his wife say when she doesn’t get the diamond set she wished for in her upcoming birthday? Can Aman join the violin lessons in his school? The registration fees date is due next Tuesday.

Should he shave?