What's up YouTube? Welcome back to the living room. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Whatever you guys choose to celebrate from the October's It's a great time of year, man. We're getting into some MCU today It's a Christmas special apparently and his guardians of the galaxy. So I'm really stoked for it. Mrs. October Tell us something about this little special welcome out in 2022 and I was directed by James Gunn who's seen multiple times Love him. Let's go. All right. Well, we're gonna get into this. I don't know this is gonna be about I'm gonna try not to jump the James Gunn and And Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what this is about to be guys. I'm excited to watch it Yeah, I'm like subscribe hit us up on patreon if you guys want more content. All right, baby Got anything else you want to say nope Merry Christmas. Let's get into it. Let's go. I'm honestly excited about this Oh, there's cat the throat cat in the drunk tank Oh, it's a cartoon that's kind of cool What y'all think you're doing hey, I think I wear on my head Yandu's in the house We have once a year on earth where everybody gets presents for each other All that's a repeater made this tree and we got gifts for everyone.  Hey on here before I get back You both gonna be cleaning the latrines for the rest of the damn year, but that's Jeff's favorite job It sounds just why do you have a temper tantrum on this? So yandu's a great exactly that's what I was thinking. Yeah, Peter. Oh He sounded just like him to I Anyways, I just saw on the multi-calendar that right now on earth. It's almost Christmas time. Yeah, kind of brings back some memories We don't have time for trivialities like Christmas. This place needs a lot of fixing that place has no spear Oh, so that's their town now when yandu died and that guy's just like so emotional Peter what is his hair right now? It's so wavy. They're signing contracts that were over there. The dog here Is there about to be a talking dog in the MCU I love it that's cool Oh She's on Russian What are they doing getting contractor jobs, they're just doing big business you see that he went And I thought you might be able to help us out about one of your earth traditions all right what you got Everything I know about Christmas. I learned from rocket who learned from Cosmo who learned from craglin who learned from you This is gonna be crazy They call Concert he had like the solo at the beginning. Whoa, he's stacked up. He turned into a They don't understand no, no, they don't play telephone and then traveled all the way He just looks a lot different from the other He looks like the group whole mix right I was thinking She's missiles at your toes Why is this so funny is guarding to the galaxy Group is vibing with it Oh He said that's cool Good question I know Spotify I'm weird y'all I might I'm Just Other instrumentally inclined are they You know That you ate the entire bowl of zorgnats in the commissary That you're cool sister.  No Zorgnuts Should give Peter a happy Christmas. Oh sad about Gamora being gone We could give him those zorgnuts except you ate a mom Something special he will never forget. What about someone special over the years cool has talked about one person more than any other Legendary hero was safe countless lives. We can give him the quill as a present Oh, no Kevin Bacon I don't even know Kevin Bacon is the whole time. I was just like oh, but now I can't wait for you guys to get back from New York Everything is set in the perfect family Christmas. I don't know why I know Kevin Bacon I was like sitting there.  I know who Kevin Bacon is I've heard of the name because his last name is bacon I mean He let her drive there on earth wonder which one belongs to Kevin Bacon a really nice the nicest of ones Why are they staring you put the cloaking device on like he said you did, right? Yes I Will go down into the city and ask people where Kevin Bacon is do you think Kevin Bacon is the leader of the world or just in most people They're just about to capture Kevin Bacon. Oh my lord Everyone's like what are y'all doing the cosplay And then they just dropped it See you'll get tricked up in New York like that They just made all this money real quick It's hilarious because they're like, you know I'm saying on earth and they just have so many superheroes and stuff down there like mimics of them They just have no idea. What are they gonna buy? Know that no one knows no one knows who they are babe, not the guardian of the no Yeah, not them, but they have like Tony starts. Oh, yeah, it's like just superhero. They do that in New York I told you I almost got caught up taking a pic with the door of the Explorer No, they're just walking around the city looking for Kevin Bacon, and they have money in their hands I don't know in a pocket where I could bump shoulder-to-shoulder with them in there All they got knows him look at her with all that money Oh Give us your finest libations. Have you seen Kevin Bacon anywhere? Why would I know what Kevin Bacon's located? So just go straight clubbing up they went in there as we're gonna make it wasn't then just got drunk There's no shot if I do now, right? Yeah, no shot Believe not a single All right, they've been drawn some out.  Oh, they spent it at the bar John Cena Who else I didn't really see anybody else they went to their house And realize it wasn't him whose house they went all those houses. I think oh No, she works the pole Can y'all comment below your favorite Kevin Bacon movie if he's in movies For the legendary Kevin Bacon. I'm sorry guys. I can't help My no, he's like called the exterminator Why would even the buzzer not gonna be so casual about that though? He thinks her cosplay and I think Toss you over the gate. Don't toss you over the gate make up your mind. Good job. Drex. What the heck? Earth gravity must be light. I want this funny man. Don't just but I guess that's what it's here for They are just ruining Kevin Bacon's Christmas This is kind of terrifying if you're Kevin Bacon though. He don't seem scared at all I will be scared. There's literally two aliens outside the door. He's showing I'm calling the police right now. You're coming with us as a Christmas present Oh What's that gonna do? He's like on screen. Yeah, exactly. I think they're trying to recreate that looking he's popping up now He's going up the stairs push your grandma down Or a dresser. There's one right there. Oh my god. Oh my god. If you're him, are you terrified now? Yes, dude. That's a nightmare He's gonna eventually He's gonna eventually have to go with him. He must really be scared. You know how much fear you have to have to They just landed that But you still have your swirly red like curly man, how can you possibly think this is a man? Well, how is it fair you get to keep it and I don't Because I was responsible and held on to it. Do you love Peter and want to save Christmas or do you want a little funny man?  Oh, no They're gonna arrest him. Look how quick they come for Kevin Bacon though. You gotta get these things away from me Hey, you need to back up or I'll shoot I've never seen her like this man. She's got hostages and everything How am I supposed to know the rules if no one tells me? Are you okay? Oh, we are not doing anything wrong. We are just taking the legendary hero Kevin Bacon here Thanks I really wanted this, but we're even now, okay What are you saying?  Hey, where are we going? First there Cool Oh, they decked it out, but how'd they get money Kevin Bacon? Oh, we done split the credit card fame, huh? Or split the bill with him because Nancy's got some money from that lady friends with the funds the funds He's the principal on scream, right? Oh, oh, well the funds is real name is Henry Winkler. Yeah That's my principal or president.  Oh, well that wasn't me That was a character that I played in the movie footloose What what about when you fought and defeated the super strong masked killer Jason for he's in the woods Yeah, what is that? Uh, by the 13th machete.   He doesn't remember things, right Kevin Bacon, you have to pretend you're an actual hero or else. Christmas is doomed. Oh, hey Blimey, mate. I can't wait to storm them Nazis on the beach What are you doing? My hero, you know, I've had my private No, just your regular voice. Yeah, sure fine. Hello. I'm the Batman. I let me know. Hello. I'm bruce wane Who's bruce wane? No be kevin bacon, but like if you didn't suck That's Weird I just feel really great about all of it Oh, what is going on, bro? What's in peters hand? What is he doing?  Why does he look kind of like the michelin man? I know Oh, no Oh my god, she's so she's so excited In position Whoa, they did a good job. That's crazy Wow She's like annoyed about it. She doesn't want to do it Oh That would just be enough. He didn't have to get him kevin bacon. You really didn't but that's such a good gift But i'm so glad they did that'll be the icing on the cake He's gonna freak out when he sees them and then really you'll have to take him back right now Man, that's such a good sentiment though. Good for you, peter. You would miss that if you weren't on her, right? Because what he was eight right? He only got like eight of them and he only remembers like probably three Yeah What a good reaction. That's cool Who are all these? Oh the town they started a new tradition. That's so cute. They spread christmas Man, they really showed up for a minute. I know.  That's that small refrigerator at home depot. Yeah, the cheapest one poor peter Look at group with the with the antlers on I'm about to pass out Merry christmas. It's kevin bacon.  It was mostly drax's idea it was I'm totally stoked about the whole thing You used your powers on him, didn't you kevin bacon out of the trance now.  You'll pull this strap out.   Don't run. He's running. Yes.  I've got him This is it and bro. I like this. I love this. This is the best christmas like related. Oh my god This is the thing I've watched on tv. This is working my stomach out Groots just a kid What's that on your head? Oh this thing on my hand is a device for controlling a flying arrow I ain't quick at the hang of it yet. Don't pull it out then. I know this must all be a shock to you But uh, it's only because you mean a great deal to pete that they've done it pete didn't have much to love growing up But one thing he did love was telling us all stories about you You saved a town for dancing Saved the whole galaxy with dancing for real. He taught him how to be a hero. He did Yeah, that is true. Might just be the greatest hero alive. Oh, they love star lord Man, they just blew this guy's ego though He's like screw you sena joy of christmas back into his heart as all Okay, but take me home, bro But like you needed to do that He has service there. That's my phone. This one sounds like how on earth you get reception up here A couple of good satellite dishes out front will get you anything within about 400 million light years Yeah, no, I'm instantaneous radio wave travel. Would it be okay if i'm just a little bit late? Oh, he's gonna be friends here that kind of needs to learn about christmas Oh, hold on if I called you was like, baby, is it okay if i'm late? I got some friends here You need to learn about christmas. You need to learn about christmas. You'd just be all right with that If you said rocket was there. Oh, no Man, it's cool there. I know they did a good job I like the way that town looks it's just so intimate and close. I know It doesn't kind of look like tom brady. Nope, not at all. It was like they got from 24. No idea They should have got him the little led screen light thing that you plug in So I don't I had a game boy color as a kid Saturday my mom was purple. My was green.  Yeah, we're just like random because he likes to have people's body parts So they can wonder where the heck it went. I just couldn't believe she had bucky's arm. I guess they got more christian spirit there than on earth Dogs think that that's such a good thing Thank you. Thank you kindly I Love nebula. She was in a western or something. I know what the heck was she doing? I love her a little outfit too. She looks so cute I thought it would be like a knife or something. He wanted that so bad that we wanted to be there to have a concert This is year one of christmas He's gonna look at that planet and say it has to be just as good every other year though To be honest, I didn't know Me either Look at their faces the cops It's kind of like our obs window A mirror within a mirror within a mirror group is so hype at the concert. He's in like high school right now He just started weight training. I don't know Oh, that dog is so cute his name is cosmo. Love you guys. Bye kevin bacon Hey, I'll see you at easter.   Oh, let's go Oh, this is yonder. Did you see tazer face? tazer face aw One of those little trinkets always smiling. What is it? He always puts a little trinket in his dashboard or whatever Oh, is that what it was? Cool Whoa, so that's where you got him the origin story. That's a good gift.  That's so weird people aren't gonna believe that that's the greatest christmas gift i could ever get Poor man says because she's just so rejected like drax was telling her she was just so it hit his That's crazy. So this whole thing was basically put together to tell us that their brother and sister Yeah, I know and i'm about to cry over it. That's fantastic. Yeah, that was good stuff I felt a little something coming up right here But then how you know what i'm saying that was like a little baby yoda I think that she's like i'm gonna cry in every guardians of the galaxy movie regardless you should Like I said, man, i'm feeling you know, I felt it I felt the same felt the same, you know emotion. That was good, man. I love that great state. Okay, should we see if there's a Oh, that was short birds are gonna talk a lot I missed the mcu guys. I'm so ready to get the x-man these last two spider-man movies But i'm so excited to hop back into the mcu. Yeah, me too because in game They decorated grew that's the best christmas tree He got tired Christmas again. He's tired Yes, you do. Hey Where's it at? It's been what two years. No, it's not 2024 yet Oh, this has been here. Are you saying came out and and then this one then we gotta watch this one and it's in phase four or five five, I don't know Wow, well, why is she in this? I don't know spoilers. No spoilers out peace All right guys, that was the guardians of the galaxy holiday special. That was really good, man That was definitely necessary a very shocking revelation.  Remember literally he was planting those seeds Cosmically. Yeah, man. That was a really good feel-good movie Uh, definitely what we needed personally because we've been so busy with everything and as you guys know We haven't really watched anything christmas related on the channel We needed to sit down and watch something that had some it was good christmas spirit in it Don't get me wrong guys christmas has been popping over here, man. We've been really celebrating the holiday We've been seeing family We've been making time to visit loved ones that we haven't seen as much as we should just like you guys should definitely take Time to do but we just haven't really seen the you know the movies that we need to get to So mainly it's because we don't really watch anything now because we want to watch everything with you guys So yeah, that was really good, man. I loved it. It was hilarious Drax was funnier than i've ever seen drax in this movie. Yeah, he was great This was just funny the first like 15 minutes my my mouth was hurt, right? I don't I don't think i've smiled like from a movie consistently that long like ever That was good. That was really good. That was that was 45 minutes 50 minutes of just like your cheeks hurting Absolutely wild so they wanted to bring a little christmas spirit back to peter Which I thought was a beautiful sentiment I mean you could imagine right like imagine leaving earth and going to a new planet with No traditions that you're used to so you can imagine how that would make you feel Right if people cared enough to do that for you and I thought that was a wonderful thing to put on film I'm glad they've done it. Uh, and don't trust craglin's story I love when they put stuff like this out there for people to see because The meaning of christmas isn't just giving gifts and it's not all commercial like that You guys know that but I love when they put things like this things that make you feel good Things that make you just want to call your mom and call your dad just thoughts of family I had a lot of fun watching it man. I hope you guys did too. The story is what it is We're gonna see more about that brother sister dynamic. Yeah, obviously that was setting something up Did it feel empty without gamora? Yeah, it did it was sad wasn't it but nebula was She wasn't very in this but she was hilarious. She was so funny, but she's funny in general Yeah, her personality is great. Rockets is great. I just love I love guardians of the galaxy Like of that whole MCU I would say um, I know that that doesn't count as a trilogy But the two movies are my favorite too. I would think I really under so after watching an end game I can really understand now how like, you know, the guardians of the galaxy in a way are standalone films in a way I was watching them all in the under the filter of like, oh, these are all like really connected and we're gonna have to Like I was waiting for them to be an avenger Right the whole time exactly and if I would have just like not done that and just like took them for as they were I think I would have appreciated them more but Which we appreciate them so much guys if you haven't seen them I genuinely think those are some of our best reactions. They're so great. They were emotional. They were funny Rollercoasters emotionally like they'll make you like this one just did it made me crack up and then I had to cry at the end This was as good as like a lot of movies and stuff we've seen on this channel I know it was a little special but maybe we're just biased because like, you know, we really have become fans You know, we really appreciate the MCU at this point Now we got to check out some Kevin Bacon stuff though. Yeah, we need to see some more Kevin Bacon You know, we don't have Robert Downey Jr anymore, but at the end of day, we still got Chris Pratt So we're gonna be okay and rocket. Yeah, we got rocket. She loves rocket I like Groot. Groot was looking like that that 10th grade kid who just hit weight training. You know what I'm saying? Sorry, eating all that protein. Anyways guys, it's been the octobers Merry Christmas again. Thank you so much for everything your support means everything to us I could not wait to get into 2024 and have you guys like with us is so exciting Right. One thing I do want to say you guys right before we get off This is just a little tidbit We've been getting so many comments lately asking us why are we wearing jackets and hoodies while we record these videos And the funniest comment we saw was someone said I think it's an American thing to wear jackets But actually the reason is actually a lot crazier than that. The reason we're wearing jackets in here is because we're cold So it really is that like but no like we have heat and there is central heating and it is in the center of the house This is used to be a garage. This used to be a garage. So it is ice cold The floor is basically a concrete foundation and it's not very well insulated because if you know anything about construction It used to be a garage turn studio. So and we would put a heater, but that's kind of noisy. So yes noisy That's why I got sorry not to annoy you guys, but I can understand why see, you know It's like seeing someone with glasses on in a bank. It's just weird. Really?  I mean, I don't really love when people wear sunglasses indoors. It's kind of oh sunglasses Oh, no, no, I can't discriminate. I have I was like, why is that weird? It's like a bank teller they can't glasses discrimination But yeah guys, that's really as deep as it goes. So it's been the october's like subscribe Participant patreon. Thank you guys so much for the support as always I say it guys and it almost sounds like I'm reading it off a script, but I'm telling you guys man I'm not talking to y'all like, you know as a mass as like a mass audience I'm talking to you guys individually you the viewer man you personally Thank you so much for viewing this video It really does take every single one of you guys to keep our channel going and we're honestly We're the luckiest people in the world. We'll never forget that I don't feel like I don't feel like we're smart or you have a great. I did nothing like that guys We just we put on the thing we hit record We just watch it and you guys are watching it and basically supporting it all So all the thanks goes to you guys man. It really does take this You know it takes the team. So thank you guys man I can't say it enough happy holidays call your family call your loved ones and let's go We'll see y'all in the next one. Peace


Boo. Hello everybody, Ian here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we are talking about Floating Dragon by Peter Straub. This one, whoo-la. All right, so the issues I had right up in the forward section of this review is the first 200 pages seem superfluous. There seems to be no point whatsoever to them because not even the character development really gets ramped up until after the 200 page mark. You don't really start caring. I didn't start caring about anyone until about the 500 page mark. Um, it, well no, probably 400 page mark. For some other reason I have it in my head. This book is 700 pages and that's not true. This, this copy of the book is 596 pages. But, um, I didn't really start to connect with everyone until people started dying off. And then I started to see what people meant to the characters, which is an odd way to go about a story like this, a book this long. It seemed, seemed backward to me honestly, especially when those first 200 pages are so utterly boring. That's my feelings on it, of course. Uh, the whole reason I read this one at this time in my life is because numerous people brought up, um, the fact even though I mentioned in the video that, uh, that floating dragon is supposedly a inspiration for Stephen King's it, I had several people in that video saying, hey, floating dragon was an inspiration. I, I know I said it in the video. But that the whole reason I did it was to compare the two. And if I'm honest, I saw some themes here and there, but it was nowhere near as glaringly obvious as it was with phantoms. We'll go over all that in a separate video. Um, but of course you have the the hibernating monster or whatever the creature, the the evil in the town, that kind of thing. That's pretty much where the similarities come in, the history of the town and whatnot. Other than that, if you were going to go into this book reading it solely because you want to find the inspiration for it, I suggest you go read Phantoms by Dean Coons instead. Um, oddly enough, um, and where I'm going with this is oddly enough with all the people saying that this book had to have inspired it, there is a lot of stuff in this book inspired by Stephen King. There are notes of Carrie. There are notes of the shining. There are notes of the stand, especially the stand. Um, there's whole sections that they're not carbon copies. Don't get me wrong. This isn't a theft of services or anything like that, not theft of services, but this isn't plagiarism or anything like that. But there are notes in there that harken back to King's work before that. Um, and I guess you could point to other authors as well. So, but, but there were very strong similarities between these. And if we're talking about, uh, uh, comparing the two authors together, I guess because, you know, they work together. So everybody always compares these two. Um, Straub is the more literary version of Stephen King, and Stephen King is the more genre version of Peter Straub, which brings me to another point of mine, which is this is Peter Straub's most genre book. Um, this, it's a horror novel from the get go. Whereas Ghost Story is more of a character piece. And so is Shadowland to an extent in Julia. And if you could see me now, we're definitely more character driven pieces. Um, it's, by the way, I've written, I've read all the way from Julia all the way up to this one so far. If you want retro reviews of those other ones, let me know down there in the doobly-doo. But this one feels like an absurd horror novel. Like he was writing for fun from most of the book. There is some, some seriousness there toward the end, but most of it is just straight up horror shenanigans. Um, like there's, there's one scene, and this is maybe a slight spoiler.  Um, so if you're looking for a more easily accessible Peter Straub, I know there's gonna be tons of people who disagree with me here, but if you're looking for a more genre accessible Peter Straub, maybe this one, because there is a, after the first 200 pages, there is a lot that happens, and there's a lot of extended horror tropes that you're probably gonna have a lot of fun with. The problem for me is that never really, this book never really gelled. It was not coherent to me. There was no, no cogent, uh, glue that held everything together that made it feel like a complete story. Uh, unlike, uh, his books like Ghost Story seem to come full circle, Shadowland seemed to come full circle. Julia was a little off on its rocker, and so was, if you could see me now, but I would rather talk about those in those individual videos. With this one, it literally felt like he was trying to take everything that he had thought of in the horror genre to get it out, because after this, from what I understand, he did mostly thrillers, or supernatural thrillers, and got far away from that stuff. I even saw one time on, uh, Twitter, because he's very active on Twitter. If you tweet at him, he's likely going to respond to you. And he responded to one person who was talking about Floating Dragon, and he said exactly this. He said, I wrote the book to get that out of my system. So I'm thinking that's exactly what happened here, um, is that he wrote this horror novel to try and kind of put a period at the end of his horror novel writing base. Now I, I read Coco a long time ago. Coco is the book after this one. I don't remember a thing about it, uh, but there are several other books, and if you read the, the descriptions of them, they, they do seem a little more literary on that side. So I'd love to hear what you guys, uh, think about where Peter Straub went from this. If his style changed after this, or whatever. I plan to read Coco eventually, but, uh, with this one, it's kind of put me off Straub for a while. Uh, kind of like, if you can see me now, if you could only see me now, something, something like that. That one put me off of Straub for a while too, um, because I didn't understand the ending. The funny, funny thing about that one is nobody understood the ending until we asked him on Twitter, and then everybody popped up on Twitter going, oh, I thought so. Sure you did, sure you did. But have you read Floating Dragon? Uh, let me know down there in the comments below. Over, I'm going to give it three stars. Uh, I'm not hugely impressed by it, but, uh, it's some people's favorite Straub book. So definitely rage at me if you want to down there in the doobly-doo. But until next time, I have any, you have any, this has been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye! Oh, and one more note. You can expect the breakdown of all the stuff back here that I wrote down that might have been, uh, it related. You can expect that video next Thursday. Sorry there was no Thursday theorist today, but I wanted to get, I'm so far behind in my reviews. I gotta get these things out. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye.


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Many of our survey data sets include survey weights. This video introduces what we need to know about survey weights when using survey data. Surveys usually collect information from a sample of the population with the aim of inferring information about the population as a whole. Survey designers use rigorous sampling techniques to try and generate a representative sample. Survey weights are also used to adjust sample data to make it better represent the population. One reason for weighting data is that common sampling methods can mean members of a population have different chances of being selected to take part. For example, surveys in the UK often draw a sample from a list of addresses called the postcode address file to get samples of individuals with their sample addresses, and at each address select an individual at random.  Using the known differences in the probabilities of being selected, we calculate design weights to adjust the sample. Weights can also help compensate for survey non-response. Not everyone sampled will take part in a survey, some people cannot be contacted and others refuse. Response rates can vary systematically across groups. Non-response weights use information about response rates for subgroups to adjust data and limit potential bias. We can also use weights to adjust a sample to reflect key population proportions. Known as post stratification or calibration weights, they use information from sources such as the UK Census to improve the accuracy and precision of population estimates. Let's take a closer look at how weights work. Usually data producers combine adjustments into a single weighting variable that you'll find in the dataset. The weighting variable will contain a value for each case, which indicates how each case should be weighted during analysis. Higher numbers indicate that the case will count for more. For example, we'll find higher weights for people who live in larger households, and for those coming from population groups underrepresented in the sample, due to either chance or non-response. Methods for using weights vary by statistical software package, but involve indicating the name of the weighting variable before or as part of the analysis. Importantly, results can vary between weighted and unweighted analyses. Here we have the frequencies for a variable indicating household size. The unweighted results indicate that nearly 30% come from a one person household. In contrast, the weighted results suggest it's near a 17%. If we do not use weights when analysing survey data, results might not relate to our population of interest. Weights can also be used to make the sample look the same size as the population. Known as a grossing weight, they can help us describe the prevalence of social phenomena. For example, the crime survey for England and Wales to help us describe rates of crime. These can be useful, but we need to remember the sample is much smaller than it looks, and to check how the statistics software is calculating the precision of the estimates. You will find information about the weights in the documentation that comes with the data. Sometimes you'll find multiple weights in need to establish which to use for your analysis. For example, health survey for England data sets contain a weight of use with core interview data, and weights for the follow-up stages of the survey. However, as you can see, the user guide gives details about which weight to use when. This video is given an introduction to survey weights. To explore the topic further, you can read our more detailed what is weighting guide. We also have guides to the main statistics software packages, which include instructions for applying weights.


Hello and welcome to Nicola tries to convince you yet again that is indeed a useful developer to KDE. Today we are taking a look to these two bags. The first one is dragging a window in the pager may not work good and believe me he's right. They are totally right. And secondly, dragging thumbnail in pager flick. So both of these people actually included a screen recording of the bag, which is super appreciated. Let's quickly take a look at what was wrong, why it was wrong and how it got fixed. So this is the first one. You can see that when you try to drag it, this happens. And I actually lost a lot of time trying to fully understand why. Even when it got fixed, I wasn't still sure why and then finally I just got it. So I'm going to explain to you why this mess. This is the second one instead. So you can see here that is trying to drag and drop stuff. And it's not quite working. Yep, that doesn't look good. So what's up with that? Well, let's look at the code. The code for the pager is actually rather simple. I've got it here. The pager you can see that you can drag and drop stuff. Now it actually works fine. And I've actually made the size super big. So you can actually see it. But let's pick up the code. The directory we are looking for is KDA stuff, source code, the repository. These are all KDA repositories. The pager is within Plasma desktop. And then applets, applets here. Yes. And then we have somewhere pager. So this is the code package contents UI, pretty much everything is UI config is, you know, stuff to customize pager. So we are not interested in it. So there's just one file we're actually interested in. And that is main.comon. It is not a small file, to be honest. It's 600 lines. But we are only interested in the drag and drop behavior of, you know, the pager. Let me actually revert from before the fix so you can actually understand what was wrong. Okay, so I'm back. First of all, just scrolling through the file, you will sooner or later notice that what we are interested is this element, which is called windows window wrecked. And it is the rectangle that actually it's this rectangle here. And it's literally just a rectangle. You have it's x y properties with height and the color, which of course depends on whether the window is active or inactive, stuff like that, nothing particularly surprising. So what are we interested in? Firstly, let's give a look to the x coordinate. The x coordinate is the geometry x of the window of that rectangle multiplied by the scale factor. So nothing particularly surprising here. So what is interesting? Sorry, I actually hadn't reverted. But now it's reverted. What is interesting is this behavior on x. So behavior on x number animation during a long duration with this is incurred. What does it mean? Whenever we set a new x and y coordinates, then run an animation with this duration from the start from the previous value to the new value of x. And we have that for x, y, width, height, color, and border color. So everything is animated. Sounds right then. What is actually handling the drag and drop behavior then? It's this windows mouse area. And you can see that you have a series of properties that actually handle drug dragging. So the first one is this one on active changed, which is called when you start or end the drug. So if drag is active, which means that you're starting to drag, then what we do usually you can see that these rectangles are within a bigger rectangle, which is the virtual desktop. So what we do if you want to drag from one to another is we reparent them to the root element. So instead of being inside of the rectangle of the virtual element, we make them inside the whole pager so that you can freely move it around. That's the idea. However, you can see here the issue. It's actually pretty simple. We are setting the x and y coordinates to be exactly where it was before, but with a different parent, which means that it's going to have different x and y properties. Because the root element coordinate system starts from the top left part of the root element, whereas the previous coordinate system was the one of the rectangle of the virtual desktop. So we are changing the x and y coordinates after changing the coordinate system. However, the animation of changing the coordinate coordinate system isn't there. There's no animation when you change the coordinate system, but there is an animation when you change the x and y values. And even though here in theory we are just setting exactly the same x and y as compared to before, because there's a change in coordinate system, what the behavior here notices is that we're changing the x and y coordinates. He doesn't know about the new coordinate system, so what he does, he animates it. So that's the first cause of flickering. Also, in general, drag and dropping something will set its x and y obviously, and behavior and drag and dropping at the same time might clash together. So my fix in this case works very simple, and that is let's not try to art. Let's just get rid of the x and y coordinates x and y animations. We don't need them that much. They cause a lot of graphical issues, and yes, I could spend hours trying to work around the fact that we have to change the coordinate system without doing an animation. But why when it's not particularly necessary to animate the x and y coordinates of these little boxes, the user is not going to notice it. So just get rid of the x and y animation. And that actually helps a lot already, but it's not enough. So this actually stops the flickering when you move this around. However, when you move the mouse to the very bottom, you see here is flickering just a little bit before my patch, it was flickering a lot. So you might ask, why? And the answer is complex. Okay, so there is the panel. Inside of the panel, smaller, there is the pager. Okay, pager. What you're doing is you're dragging that window outside of the pager and inside of the panel, because the pager is smaller, the panel is bigger, and nothing prevents you from dragging and dropping something outside of the pager. What happens when you do that? Well, the mouse events that are done on the panel, but not on the pager. Well, the panel knows that you're meant to be dragging and dropping something in the pager. So it takes those mouse input and gets them back inside of the pager, but the panel doesn't know where you are dragging them.  And that causes the flickering. You try to drag something outside of the pager, the panel notices and throws you inside of the pager. Again, that's it. That was untoward. So how do we avoid this? Well, funnily enough, we just make sure that you cannot drag something outside of the pager. You can do that by properly setting the minimum and maximum yx and y coordinates of the drag and drop. So currently, to make an example, the minimum x of the drag and drop is minus half of the window, which means that currently you can drag and drop this little box even outside the pager on the left, if it's just by half of the size of the window. And I thought, why? Why would you ever, why would you ever do that? So this change is pretty simple. Instead of allowing the user to drag and drop something outside of the pager, but just for a little bit, you just say, don't. Now you cannot drag and drop something outside of the pager from the left and right parts. So we need to check the maximum x and y. Also, this is very similar. We are seeing that the maximum is the width of the root with half of the, with of the small rectangle that can still get out. And in this case, we just get rid of the divided by two to make the maximum x even smaller, which won't allow you to drag anything outside. So just this way, you can see that now you cannot drag this little window outside of the pager. Is that it? Almost. I have my patch here. I also changed a couple more things, but you can see that mostly it is taking off the x and y animation, making sure that you cannot drag anything outside that that you were, you wasn't meant to drag and drop outside of the pager. I added a column because, um, yeah, just for style. Last line. I added drug threshold is one. The threshold is how many pixels do you have to be dragging something before it's actually considered a drug? And my answer is just one. One is fine. If the user starts dragging something, the pager, it's clearly going to be a drug event. Whereas currently before this merger quest, it was higher, which means that you started dragon dropping and nothing would happen for the first, I don't know, five pixels. And then immediately the pager jumps to the mouse. That was so this fixes a bit of stuff too. And that's it. So as always, I'm a userful developer. I make Katie Plasman better, apparently. And I want to thank all of the patterns. And currently I'm receiving a lot of new patterns. I'm very happy. I'm still very far from my goal, which would give sense to everything that I'm making. Because to be fully honest, working at five euros every hour is not enough. It's mostly still mostly something that I do in my free time. But you know, I'm trying to build something and make sure that I can still work on this, even if otherwise I would have to, you know, get jobs and become a serious person. I guess. Thanks everybody for following. Can see you tomorrow with another video. So become a patron, donate, subscribe. Bye.


I'm Zeke and welcome to the dream green show. In this episode we're going to be going over one of the largest electric vehicle charging station companies in the world, ChargePoint. They just had an earnings report and it blew everyone out of the water where ChargePoint was viewed as a SPAC and when it asked all SPACs was out there was getting killed. ChargePoint emerged out of all of these SPACs to be a very successful company. If we're thinking about the future, ChargePoint is an electric vehicle charging station, one of the largest charging stations companies in the world. Now that is like us investing into Exxon, Shell, all the oil companies went forward built the first combustion engine car. That is like us investing into the oil industry then knowing that hey in the very future we will be only a piece of every gas station that Shell and Exxon and all these other gas companies have built. So us investing into pretty much any charging station company right now, if we're thinking 10, 20 years down in the future, we will be very rich. But the one that I like the most is ChargePoint and in this video I'm going to go over the earnings report. We're going to do a technical analysis and why I love what this company is doing right now to make me pick them over all the other electric vehicle charging stations out there guys. So make sure you stick out the entire video so you don't miss any important information. But before we dive into this video, this video is brought to you by Weeble. Sign up now by clicking the link down in the description to $100 and now you can receive two free stocks value up to $2,300. With those two free stocks you could keep them inside the platform and decide to use it or you could sell those two free stocks and withdraw all of your money. It's literally free money. Also there's a brand new broker shop up there called Moomoo. And we all know when there's a new broker shop they're giving away tons of free stocks just to get users to sign up. So right now if you sign up with Moomoo the $1,100 you'll receive all kinds of free stocks just from joining that platform as well. And I have a ton of other ways that you could earn free stocks on that app. So don't miss out on that great opportunity while a company is so giving guys. But enough talking, let's go ahead and dive straight into this video. Welcome back dreamers. Here we are on ChargePoint tick assemble CHPT. So let me show you guys exactly what happened after ours when they had did the earnings report for Q2. Here we go guys. So ChargePoint was around $21.09. Now when we do our technical analysis we know that ChargePoint has almost quadrupled bottom at around $20. So we expected them to shoot up during the earnings report but not this much guys. That went from being down 1.4% on the week to being up 9% on the week. So a 10% difference in the earnings report. So that had a lot of great things to say about this company. A lot of people were wondering if it's overvalued at $20. Well no as you guys can see it shot up. A lot of people started to collect profits and it started to pull back. So it's ChargePoint at a fair price right now for us to get in at $22.11. Well let's take a quick look at the earnings report and try to figure a little bit of this out. Here we are on Yahoo Finance. They pretty much did a summary over ChargePoint's earnings call. Okay so here we go. The quarterly revenue increased 61% year over year. Alright so that's amazing guys. ChargePoint have over a $7 billion market cap and for it to still be increasing 61% year over year that is amazing. Alright so the full year revenue guidance raised 15% to $225 to $235 million. 15% guys just last year alone they expected it to be around $198 million which is important in the company because you don't have your CEO out there overvaluing, overestimating your company. In fact they're underestimating their company. Last year during this time they predicted that it should be around $198 million was actually around $235 million so it's very important that they're underestimating their company and not having a bad CEO out there over hyping the company, over doing everything just to raise the stock price of this company. In fact they're low-balling it so when great things happens like this earning reports the price of the stock goes up guys and this is going to be very important to us in the near future. So the activated ports exceeded over 118,000 as of July 31st with over 5,400 in Europe and over 3,700 DC fast charge reports. So in the next 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years there's going to be more and more and more electric vehicles out there on the road every single year it should probably double every single year from here on out to where there's eventually more electric vehicles on the road than gas combustion engines and we're going to need places to charge them the infrastructure is just not set up yet. In fact President Biden he has set up a bill a trillion dollar bill to where the infrastructure of electric vehicle charging stations need to be increased by the year 2030 and it's a trillion dollar deal so once they get passed the biggest charging station company in the world aka charge point is probably going to get most of that money in order to set up the charging station infrastructure throughout all North America. Another great news source about charge point is that they are actually acquiring smaller companies so a company that was just suspect is now out there acquiring other companies. They acquired a company in Astridam V-Re City and they allowed them to get an extra 2,500 network points set up over there in Amsterdam so with a company like this already acquiring other smaller companies and acquiring different building companies in order to build more of their charging ports across the entire world this is a company I want to be invested in and this and that's why I invest into charge point over some of these other companies so let's do a quick technical analysis over charge point to see if you guys would like to get in at around the $22 price point. Okay here we are on charge point this is the four hour charge so pretty much the entire year of charge point being public let's pull out the box so I can show you guys the bottom. All right so when I say that it had a quadruple bottom right in this zone right here there we go guys it came down bam touched right here at 1950 touched right here at 1974 touched right here at 1950 touched again right here in 1962 came all the way back down touched that $20 came back down touched again at $20 so that's one two three four five six times it did not want to fall below the the $20 ish price point and I told you guys if charge point do fall below $20 that would be a great buying opportunity for me but it just do not want to fall below $20 so me seeing charge point at the $20 price range might be a good thing for me but there is a little bit of a resistance zone right here if we draw this out this line right here bam bam all right so this was a resistance zone it had a downtrend pattern right here but of course when it came out with the earnings report it shot all the way up from $21 to $23.89 and then and people started to collect profit in the pullback so if it does pull back to the $20 price point you would see me buy in but if you're a swing trader and you're just trying to get in I will wait until it breaks above the 180 day EMA which is around $25 that way you could start swinging it back all the way up to around the $36 price point in fact let's pull out the short term Fibonacci sequence right quick all the way down from the bottom and put that thing on up to the very top so I will wait until it breaks above the 180 day EMA and probably takes some profits around the $29 price point but I would say this if charge point does pull back around to $20 to our $19.89 $19.99 I'm going to buy a bunch of more shares but if it doesn't pull back I will wait until it starts to trade above the 180 day EMA line and then just dollar costs in and swing traders bad boy all the way back up to new all-time high around $36 hopefully we could get there by the end of the year rq1 of 2022 and there we go guys let me know what you think about charge point down in the comments section they had a killer earnings report they're acquiring other companies they putting out charging stations all over the world it's all of a matter of time before there's more that your vehicles on the road than there are gas combustion engines on the road so let me know what you think about this strategy right here we got to think about the future and this is us thinking about the future right now what we what can we invest in today to where when we look back in the past 20 years from now we've been like dang I should about that of course we've seen all of these companies coming out with electric vehicles and we should have got in on charging stations so of course we should have done that don't let opportunities like this pass you by but once again I am not a financial advisor do your own research but before we go out of this don't forget to pick up your two free stocks from Weeble deposit $100 sign up for Momo get your free stocks from that as well don't miss out on free money guys it's free money but that's all I got to say leave a thumbs up if you made it to the end of this video and subscribe to the channel other than that I'm Zeke bring you to dream green show and I'm out peace