What's up, y'all? Oh, I guess what's the word is the intro for this channel. This is not the ramble today. It might have a ramble feel, but it's not the ramble. I've been seeing a lot of my YouTube, other YouTube friends out there do these daily NBA talk where they basically, they kind of ramble. It's usually unscripted and everything. And they talk about things that are on their mind and I'm like, why can't I do that? And I'm not saying this is daily because I promise you it's not. Y'all know I got this thing with commitment. Ha! That's actually hilarious to say because I know people in my life would probably agree with that statement. I can't guarantee you daily, but as I'm recording this, the Houston Rockets were just eliminated from the playoffs and I want to talk about the Houston Rockets specifically in today's video. I've been having a lot of fun at the expense of Houston Rockets fans lately and I'm sure they don't... Should I sit up? I'll sit like this. I'm sure they don't enjoy that. Being a fan is heartbreaking, especially being a fan of a team that's good but just not good enough. That's probably even more heartbreaking than being a part of a team like mine that just sucks because at least I know every day we're going to be bad. If you're a fan of a good team, you have some aspirations to some extent and to see them not reach that probably hurts. The Houston Rockets are gonna have are in the weirdest position in the NBA? Do I want to say that?  And they may have kept out that one year where they were this close from being the Warriors. This off season, they made some significant things happen. They traded Chris Paul for Russell Westbrook, they traded Chris Paul and some picks for Russell Westbrook to try to get a new field to the small ball. Oh no, this is before small ball, to get a new field to the team altogether. Though we can agree James Harden and Chris Paul didn't completely mesh on court, it was way better than what we got with Russell Westbrook and James Harden, right? And then halfway through the season, they realized that. They are more realized that in order for Russell Westbrook to be effective, he can't play in our current system and our current team.  And shout out to PJ Tugger for accepting that and being great at it. But they had to change up the whole way they played basketball, not the whole way, because they're still running this five out, but they had to open up space for Russell Westbrook to do Russell Westbrook type things. And for like a two to three month period, Russell Westbrook was doing exactly that. He was averaging 27, 28 points per game for multiple months.  And then he hit that and then he got into the all-star game. So shout out to him for that. So it started to look like something cool, right? They were running a small ball and I was rooting for it because I think the evolution of basketball every year, every couple of years, we see something new, right?  We see everybody starting to shoot threes. These small ball lineups, small ball closeout lineups is something we saw with the Warriors, but the Daryl Mori and the Houston Rockets had decided that we don't want to just end the game that way. We want to play the entire game that way. And it was Dre Ma Green actually about a week or so ago when this series started between the Lakers and the Rockets. He tweeted something along the lines of like, every center in the NBA better hope the Lakers win this series because if they don't, then we're back to see some change in the NBA because of the Houston Rockets were successful in their small ball lineup. It's a GG for the Javale McGee's of the world. It's a GG for Rudy Goh Bear who's up for an extension because every team will look at that and be like, okay, we can mimic that. We won't have a PJ Tucker, but we can mimic that with somebody else. And unfortunately, they fell short. They fell short. And now that they did fall short, they got people on Twitter trying to figure out, okay, what is next? Because Russell Westbrook in this series was awful. He had one game where I was like, okay, that's the Russ we know. But overall, he was awful.  And I commend him a lot for even coming to the bubble and playing because those are two significant things. But I still have to look at the results on the court and just analyze it. And my analysis is that he was bad. You know, the LA Lakers looked at game one and was like, okay, we're just gonna not guard him unless he's within five feet of the rim. And it worked to a T with a quad injury and coming off COVID-19 that hits like, I don't know, I'm not a COVID expert, but I know it hit the lungs. I know it hit the blood. Like players that have tested positive for COVID-19, this would actually be a really cool study that somebody could do. Players that tested positive, I would love to see how they play before and after, right? Mamba is a player that tested positive and really couldn't even play in the bubble because he was still rehabbing. I know everybody has read, everybody that has had a case of this has reacted differently, but I would love to see the numbers on before I tested positive for COVID and after because it does impact people differently. And you can tell it impact the Russell Westbrook. I think the reason why people on Twitter are laughing at Russell Westbrook or saying certain things about him is because even in games where they were down by 25, he was barking. And that's just, you know, like why? Like why? Especially when you really realize your impact because he even said it in the post game interview after the one game where he turned the ball over at the end of the game, trying to throw it to him and Eric Gordon and Robert Covington, whatever. He said like, I'm just running around out there. I gotta figure out what I'm doing. So he realizes, he can realize, and that's one of the great things about Russell Westbrook, I guess, is that he could realize when he was not being an impactful player. And yet he was still yapping at the mouth down by 20. And I'm not even just talking about the Rondo thing. I'm talking even before that. Anyway, so with that, you have Russell Westbrook who again, I just mentioned, he has, I don't wanna say anybody has an untradable contract because the world has seen people, we say untradable contracts and it's somehow we get a team that's willing to accept that contract. Russell Westbrook, I'm looking at it here. He is 31 years old. He made $38 million this year. He's guaranteed 41, 43, and then a 46 player option. You think he gonna turn down a 46 player option at the age of 35? No, he will not. You're guaranteeing him all that money. You're also guaranteeing 31-year-old James Harden that money, Eric Gordon just signed an extension where he'll be paid $20 million in the year 2023. They just don't have room to maneuver. And because of that, this small ball lineup that had been unsuccessful this year will probably be back next year. And I was just talking, and listen, if you're watching this video, please understand that my Twitter account for the most part is normally for jokes, especially like you should be able to gauge when I'm joking, like when I put up a tweet that says Westbrook for Blake Griffin, I'm obviously joking. Even though I think that Blake Griffin with a small ball lineup would be interesting, that's not a trait that I would see happening for either side, you know what I'm saying?  Somebody replied like, Kenny, you sure? And I said, no, I'm just talking. I'm just having fun on Twitter. That's what Twitter is for. So now the Houston Rockets have to figure this out because not only do they have these guaranteed contracts and they're still paying players like, they're paying Jeff Green, right? But they're also paying Jeff Green from a previous time he was in Houston. They're still paying him from that. So you have all of this money. They're sitting at like 13th in the NBA as far as overall payroll. None of the money comes off the books this season except for Tyson Chandler, who will probably retire. It was sad to say. Thabos Evelosio probably retired was sad to say. And then the rest, these are guaranteed contracts across the board for most of these players. So they don't have any wiggle room. So you're gonna bring this team back. Or if there is a GM willing to take on Russell Westbrook, you're not gonna get your value for it. So think about this. And I think it was click production. Shout out to my boy, Click, because he reminded me, I'm gonna go look at his tweet. He reminded me of something that like, I completely, completely, completely forgot about. And it had to do with what this team looked like like two, three years ago. It had to do with this team, what this team looked like just a few years ago. And it was along the lines of like, hold on, here. The tweet was something along the lines that they had Lou Will, Montrez, Harold, blank and blank. They turned it into Chris Paul. And then they turned Chris Paul into Russell Westbrook. Overall progression sounds terrible. Sounds terrible. And Daryl Morey is my guy. Because I, Daryl Morey is my guy. I think he's a genius. He may have just struck out on this one. And that's part of the job of being a GM. There's no perfect GM. As much as we love Sam Presti, he gave James Harden to Daryl Morey. You know what I'm saying? So there's no perfect GM out there. And I appreciate him for experimenting. Because, again, he could have evolutionized the game of basketball again, just by testing things out. But here's Clicks tweet. If they go from, it was Pat Bae of Montrez, Harold and Lou Will. I imagine all three of those players right here, right now on the Houston Rockets. To Chris Paul, to Russell Westbrook and then in this hypothetical situation. Again, I was just throwing out the tray, Blake for Russell Westbrook. And he said, if they go from Westbrook to Blake, that would be incredible. And it would have been incredible in the negative aspect of it. But it's just such a weird situation, because Mike Dantoni was on the last year of his deal. And they're early in the season. They basically have said they weren't going to bring him back.  We might bring him back. And I just don't, I can't imagine another coach coming into this team with what they have now and making it better or doing anything with it. And that's the today we saw, or not just today, but this entire series, we saw the problem with going all in on one scheme. Because once that scheme is broken up like the Lakers had with Russell Westbrook and the Houston Rockets, then you have no place to go.  They don't have anything else. The great teams are able to read and react, right? Like the greatest teams of all time. Oh, you're going to take this away? Okay, now this opens up. And maybe that's Dan Tony. Maybe that's just a roster they constructed. But when you're doubling James Harden, he can't create for himself or anybody else. And then you let Russell Westbrook just do nothing on the court. Who do you rely on? Eric Gordon is cool. But I'm okay with letting Eric Gordon do his thing. Nobody else in this team is like creators. And that's a problem. And that's a problem. They have players, man. And I've been having a lot of fun reading the tweets and going on to Reddit just to see what the Houston Rockets fans have to say. Daryl Morey ended up tweeting. And boy, his mitch has got blew up. He tweeted saying like, thank you to everybody. Congrats to the Lakers. Thank you, Disney and the NBA employees who work long hours to make the bubble possible. Which is yeah, shout out to them because the fact that we've had zero cases is still kind of wild to me. Shout out to all the people that's working in the bubble. And then the replies came. The replies came. Get rid of Dan Tony and Wes Brick now is one reply. Trade for Al Horford, I'm begging you. The small ball experiment has to stop. Trade everyone except for Harden and Coveton. Literally trade everybody. Coaches staff has to go too. Yeah, yeah, and that's just the way it goes. And then I think it just goes on. Trade Harden, he's predictably bad when it matters the most. He has proven year after year what he is when it's time to win. He is not a winner. He's a stat, sheets filler, nothing more. Fans are hot and if somebody replied to it, we'll take him on the Chicago Bulls right now. He said he's the best player that Houston Rockets ever had. Okay, all right, Mr. Guy. We're gonna have to relax. You not know the name Hakeem Elizawan. Let's relax. You're making those Bulls fans look bad here. But yeah, I mean, it's a very interesting thing. I'm sure we're gonna see a lot of players pop up in a trade finder. Actually, the Al Horford thing is something I've seen in a trade finder for a couple weeks now so people are gonna start throwing that out even more because obviously what we have on the court right now just isn't working out. So that was cool. That's what I have to say about the Houston Rockets. It is a ramble shout out to the Lakers for making it to the Conference Finals for the first time in a long time. It's cool to see that. Shout out to LeBron for still looking as great as he does. Is there any silver lining to the Houston Rockets experiment or anything? I mean, like if we were to solve somebody blossom, there would be a silver lining. I mean, I still believe that the Robert Covet to trade was a huge W. He definitely plays his role very, very well. Other than that, there's not really that many great things to say about the Rockets right now. I'm very interested to see if they're able to do anything this off season. If anybody is, it's gonna be Dara Mori. So I'm interested in that. And that's it. This is kind of, it was kind of a ramble. I wasn't scripted or anything. So leave a like. Let me know if you want more of these. I'm going. Peace.


Coming up on DTNS Samsung's almost indestructible Galaxy phone get a free upgrade to Windows 10 force GDP are compliance from websites And do we need a troll score on Twitter? This is the Daily Tech news for Monday, January 13th, 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom errant and from studio Redwood I'm Sarah Lane and I'm Roger Chang the show's producer We were just reminiscing about Star Wars and where we saw the first movies and what we thought about them And what order people should watch them in on good day internet get that wider conversation become a member and support DTNS at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know Instagram updated its video loop maker boomerang to now include editing options users can now trim clips as well as add slow-mo Echo blurring and rapid rewind special effects to videos once a video is captured in boomerang users can click on a new Infinity icon to select the editing options one plus CEO Pete Lau announced the new fluid display It's a Samsung built 2k AMOLED screen with that refresh rate that everybody was saying it was gonna have a hundred twenty Hertz Buttersmooth the display promises a thousand nits of brightness support for 10-bit color and we'll use motion smoothing MEMC technology loud didn't announce which device will be the first to get the new display But it will go into something ASUS also announced an Nvidia RTX 2070 graphics card specifically designed for Intel's NUC Ghost Canyon platform, which was announced at CES The ASUS graphics card package is just shy of eight inches long Features a dual fan design to keep it cool available worldwide on January 8th ASUS says the new GPUs shroud heat sink and heat pipe layout were designed to make the most out of the mesh side panel in Intel's chassis All right, let's talk a little bit more about a couple of things one official one not from Samsung Oh boy Samsung announced a tank of a phone the galaxy X cover pro a ruggedized mid-range Android phone with IP68 and MIL STD 810 G certifications That means it can withstand dust water extreme altitudes temperatures humidity and more This is a rugged phone. It also includes a removable 4050 milliamp battery the phone features a 6.3 inch 20 20 by 1080 display Exynos 9611 processor for gigs of RAM and 64 gigs of internal storage with a micro SD card slot It also includes two rear cameras 15 watt fast charging two programmable buttons that can be mapped to push to talk apps like teams and EV EMV level one certification to accept NFC credit card payment with the phone accepted into visas tap to phone payments pilot program The phone ships with the Android 10 in mid 2020 for $499. Hey in related news XDA developers published images that says they are of the Samsung Galaxy S 20 plus expected to be announced on February 11th The images show four cameras a microphone and a flash on the rear no dedicated Bixby button though Yeah, I know this XDA developers leak was on top of every Page today and it's a I know people are excited and like oh it really is the s20 I guess and to me I think you know what I'm fine waiting till February 11th to find out all the details about it But I get that the people are excited and it's like oh it looks interesting They're gonna have a microphone in the back that might make it so you can do that zoom-in sound that Samsung's been talking about I'm way more excited about the Galaxy X cover pro if you didn't catch it what Sarah said was EMV levels of one certification Let's you accept NFC credit card payment so you can use this as a point of sale out in the field This is definitely being targeted at industrial workers field workers that sort of thing because it's super rugged and I Kind of want one honestly.  I was emphasizing that because for all of these specs Given, you know what the the ruggedness of this phone. This is a really good price Yeah, I mean, it's not great on the internal specs, right? They have four gigs of RAM It's fine 64 gigs internal storage fine 22 20 by 1080 display, you know X and those 96 fine It's all fine. But what they did on the outside for the extreme altitude the extreme humidity the IP68 You can drop it from I think four meters. I might have that wrong, but you can drop it pretty far And and and man, that's just not having to worry about whether this phone's gonna break on you And the fact that it can take payments You know, I mean sure you can take payments with lots of things with a dongle and everything But it's just it's built in that. It's just makes it nicer I don't know. I'm I'm very curious. I just want this because it looks rugged and looks cool I bet we have people in the audience who want this because it solves an actual problem for them out in the field And I'd love to hear from you at feedback at daily tech news show.com because that That's that's where this sort of thing really starts to make sense to all of us. I think Yeah, absolutely Well folks a survey of consent management platforms or cmp's by mit ucl and arhus university Found that 11.8% Met the minimum requirements of gdpr if you're like, wait, what's a cmp? It's a it's basically a piece of software sold by a company. There's about five major companies that say, okay Your website needs to be gdpr compliant. We're going to sell you this platform Which will make all those pop-ups happen Like do you want cookies to comply with the gdpr? You know, select your options here so this Research team looked around at 10,000 uk websites And found they were only 11.8 percent in total compliance That meant no pre-checked boxes Making rejecting all the cookies as easy as accepting them and when you gave consent it was explicit not implicit gdpr requires the consent be informed specific and freely given without pre-selected boxes well 32.5% offered consent by user action like scrolling or not responding. That's not explicit. That's implicit consent 56.2% offered pre-clicked consent boxes went right there in the gdpr. It says you can't pre-click the consent boxes 50.1% of sites did not offer a reject all option you would have to go dig through into the settings and reject them all individually Of those that did offer a reject all button 74 percent Buried that reject all two clicks away Whereas accept all was always available on the first thing you saw In their study they found that having the opt-out be on the second page increased consent to tracking by 22 to 23 percentage points if I had to dig into click it that was less likely to click it They also found an indication that Presenting the option when you wanted to get on with something else like I want to read a story. Oh wait. I got this pop up And and that in addition to seeing options over and over and over on multiple websites It makes the user pay less attention to their choices and they're not necessarily making the best choice so To solve that the authors have designed a plugin that works for firefox and chrome and they have the open source code on github Called consent omatic that lets you choose What your consent choices would be in general and then it can automatically apply them for you So that you don't have to get upset about a cookie banner and you don't have to worry about digging in to find out Where all the option is because they took the five biggest suppliers of these consent management platforms and coded The extension to work with them and do it all for you. I think that's great I do too That said if for whatever reason you don't know about the plugin. Maybe you haven't heard of it. Maybe you don't care Maybe you don't you don't wish to um To to to give folks an option What is going to be the recourse for websites who are not gdpr compliance based on you know These stats, which which lead us to believe that many many are not You mean what's going to happen to the people who aren't in compliance. Why aren't they getting busted? Yeah, right? Like who's going after them besides yeah tools to make you ggr complain. That's great But if you don't if you if you don't take advantage of it, like are you in trouble? Who's going after you the regulators say that they are uh, they're trying to figure out the best way to go after this and and target Websites that are causing effective harm So I think what they mean by that it sounds like it's kind of gobbledygook But I think what they mean is there are way too many for us to go after at once So we're trying to figure out Which ones will have the most effect if we bust a couple of people will that cause others to get in compliance? You know, which ones are causing the most harm and are being the most egregious About not following the rules, but it's a huge enforcement problem because you have So many sites that at least according to this research do not appear to be in strict compliance that I think what's happening Is the EU saying well, it's better than it was and we just need to figure out a manageable enforcement mechanism that will move others into becoming compliant because they just don't have the manpower to try to bust 90 percent almost 80 88.2 percent that aren't in compliance Yeah, um, I predict that uh If if enforcement kind of comes into play a little bit more a lot of sites will be like Oh, well, thank you firefox for your wonderful plug-in to make us more compliant because it it it helps take the pressure off of the developers on that side Yeah, it's firefox and chrome if anybody chrome managers wait wait I don't know you get it either of you get it and I highly recommend it because that way you're exercising your rights You're you're effectively answering the question properly and it lowers your frustration so that you're not just clicking okay Because you're tired of it. I think it's super good option for people Uh liverpool based gamer aiden jackson Was talking to a fellow gamer deal lathora who lives in texas in the united states When jackson experienced a seizure now lathora knew jackson's address But didn't know his phone number So she tried the emergency number of the eu but that didn't work So she found the non-emergency number and she called that police in an ambulance did appear at jackson's family front door in liverpool Jackson's parents said when the police arrived, they had no idea why he was upstairs. They were downstairs They didn't realize what was going on But their son was indeed unresponsive. He was experiencing a seizure and lathora In texas of all places was the one who alerted the entire family to this fact I love this story because it's an example of uh gamers being good to each other People on the internet being helpful with each other and someone going above and beyond I mean lathora would I think be forgiven by most of us if she just said Oh my gosh, uh, I I don't know what to do. I I can't hear I can't hear you It sounds like you're having a seizure and just and just hoping for the best Uh, but but she didn't she went above and beyond and and did did research and tried to get through now I mean, I think that's a testament to how well these two people like each other and and the kind of relationship they have Uh, these aren't just, you know fly-by-night gamers who happen to meet today. They are they obviously have shared information Because yeah, she knew the address and everything so that helps but uh, yeah I you know, we don't get enough of these kinds of stories and I and I think they happen more often than people suspect And you know as somebody who I have my own uh experience with epilepsy this sort of stuff If if you know how it it does tend to happen, you know when you're alone a lot and nobody knows and you're either okay or you're not um, but it is very serious and the fact that um, Mr. Jackson was you know having a seizure. He was in the house with his parents Paris didn't know, you know He's upstairs playing games.  I'm gonna do everything in my power and in in in in order to make that happen Is yeah, it's very heartwarming And I think it points out that there and again, I'm not going off the deep end and saying there ought to be a law but I think it would be great if somebody came up with a solution. Maybe it's a plug-in Maybe it's just a standard that that sites like twitch Could could put in or gaming sites could put in to be like hey if I if I need Emergency services make it easy for me to figure out what emergency services And I know the immediate objection would be like well that could be misused because of things like swatting and all of that but but obviously, you know, lathora Had a little difficulty and spent a little time trying to figure this out It would be it'd be nice if there was an easier way To be able to to call in a report like this I'm not saying there should have been or that anything's wrong because there was it but it shows that there might be a good use for that absolutely Official support for windows 7 ends tuesday january 14th. That's the day after rear recording this episode That means no more security updates. That means you should not be using windows 7 After tuesday january 14th and you may say tom. That's great. But I don't have the money for a new windows There are ways to extend Now if you're a big enterprise with a contract, uh, you can probably get some new security updates You can probably get all kinds of help from microsoft But if you're a home user the windows 10 home operating system costs $139 for the upgrade However, you don't need to pay the hundred thirty nine dollars legally. It's this is not an illegal thing There is a free upgrade tool from microsoft now officially microsoft stopped distributing the tool in 2016 But they haven't stopped it from working To get it you go to microsoft's own site on a windows machine Uh, you go to the download windows 10 disk image page Is a legal page on microsoft's website that they are still supporting you find Create windows 10 installation media And choose to download and run that tool Then once you've got it running You choose upgrade pc now and that will upgrade the pc that it's running on when the update is done You go into settings update and security choose activation and you will find your new Legitimate digital license for windows 10 cnet has all the steps on this if you're like wait say that again I want to write this all down. Uh, go go to cnet.com. We'll have a link in our show notes at daily tech news show dot com Uh, keep in mind if you have windows 7 or windows 8 Home you have to update to windows 10 home and if you have windows 7 or 8 pro you have to update the pro They won't let you cross that is blocked Uh, but it is perfectly legitimate for you to go and do this and save yourself 139 dollars Did you have anything running on windows 7? No, I do not I actually I do I I was almost hoping I'm like, there's gotta be some windows 7 something around here No, that's all windows 10 at this point at least in my house But I think that this will apply to you know, some folks, especially with you know, some older hardware And yeah, save yourself some money. Yep The competition commission of india ordered an antitrust investigation into amazon and walmart owned flipkart Looking into allegations from a group of small and medium-sized businesses that the companies promoted preferred sellers Who were either affiliated with or controlled by the companies themselves? The investigation will also look at the company's discount practices and both companies deny the allegations Yeah, I mean in some ways you're like this isn't new I've heard of amazon being brought up on this before but uh, it's happening in india right before jeff bezos is visiting to meet With government officials there to help try to open up that market for him So he's gonna have some awkward questions. I'm sure uh, and it's happening to flipkart Which is a local indian business even though it is owned by out walmart walmart bought it But it grew up in india It's just a matter of size once companies get these this size They want to start using that size to their advantage and when they think it's fair Some small and medium-sized businesses don't think it's fair and that's when you need to have people investigate and decide whether it's fair or not And you know, we're talking about relatively new business You know companies right the idea that you know, somebody is going to be delivering food Or you know that that kind of gig economy type deal You're going to see more and more situations like this where it's like well that companies domain really well Are they you know, I is an abuse of power You know or you know, are they within their rights to do so and I think that uh flipkart As successful as it has been In that particular market is just you know one of one of many companies that will be looked into Well, and you'll also have situations where small business Takes advantage of an open platform like amazon or flipkart And then as that platform grows and its own homegrown stuff starts to do better And the small business isn't growing as fast. They'll look at it and say wait. Is that fair? They they're not helping me the way they're helping themselves and that's what that's what's an issue here Hey, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines.com Wired has a publication of a q&a with kvon bakepour He is the founder of periscope and the head of product at twitter Wired talked with him at ces last week and in this q&a sara He goes over a lot of interesting things about how twitter is managed how twitter's trying to be A better citizen how it's trying to make a better environment for people who use twitter The the story is titled it's easy to be a jerk on twitter and twitter wants to fix that yeah, um twitter is It's almost sort of like our best use case of a platform that works well But also hosts a lot of abuse And that's because of the way that the platform was set up before it had the the you know the As as many people who use it as they do now and and and and and the way that they've It's because of unanticipated consequences. They didn't know they were going to get people in this amount of of this number Using it in this way. Exactly. I mean even back to like the The you know rt feature like that that that wasn't even a twitter thing That was something that somebody just came up with and then everyone started using it was like this is great And then the company had to deal with it and the company still has to deal with a lot of that stuff What they have done as a company as big poor describes Hiding replies as a new feature. We've talked about this recently if if uh, if if there is An incendiary stuff that's going on within a conversation on twitter You you now as a user have more options to hide those replies Quoting tweets however and and big pour is is quick to point this out They serve their own purpose quoting tweet if you're not familiar or If you don't use twitter a lot is I you know if tom says something and I want to respond I could at reply to him or I could Quote tweet it which actually breaks the conversation and starts a new conversation That's what this is in reaction to not only hide reply, but also the new threaded conversation options We talked about last week where you can say well the only people who can reply to this are the people I mentioned in the original post right, but if you quote retweet anybody can comment It basically it breaks the conversation and starts a new one. Yeah, and twitter and twitter says we don't want to stop that That's okay. You don't have to you know It's sort of like if if tom's have you tom and roger are having a you know a christmas party and I knock on the door And they're like you're not invited. You know, I could still talk about it. I'm not invited I'm not in the original conversation Exactly, we would always and that's not always some nefarious reason for doing so It might be because you don't follow me or I don't follow you or you know that sort of thing So twitter has said okay. We we understand that conversations are hard to follow We're trying to make them easier to follow We're trying to give their original poster of a conversation more tools in order to Control the conversation, you know, so it doesn't get hijacked by a bunch of trolls At the same time We understand that that's not how all conversations work and it's still okay for other people to Start their own topic of conversation About an original poster's conversation Even if that's a different twitter conversation Well, and and there was there was a point where begpore said, uh, you know, we know that it's easy for people to become jerks Uh, he says here there really isn't a disincentive today to being a total jerk on twitter And that's a product problem And then he and and from the guy from wired nicolas thompson Started comparing it to ride hailing and they said, you know in ride hailing There is a disincentive to being a jerk because every rider has a score that the drivers see every driver has a score that the riders see Yeah, like if you may decide I don't want to take a ride with somebody with only two stars So nicolas thompson from wired suggested Do we need a troll score on twitter that that shows? Just how good or bad you are on twitter And you know My my initial reaction to that was like, oh gosh, this is a yelp. Come on man But at the same time the more I think about it the more I think this actually might be a good thing You, you know You in the in the sense that on linkedin the people that you are connected to the people who give you nice accolades who give you nice reviews, you know who who who Who uh, you know are are are Talking to you online on that platform that's sort of like a That's a really good indication of kind of who you are as a person in the in the corporate world On twitter. It's a very different game. I mean and we all know this like, you know, half the time on twitter I'm, you know, trying to make jokes or you know, I'm lacking other people's jokes and I'm not necessarily Doing my Day job kind of thing But if I were acting inappropriately on a regular basis I think it would be in everyone's best interest to know that I was doing that Even if it doesn't I don't know like even if I don't You know get features taken away from me just to just to have some sort of like it's like an asterisk, right?  I think that that that would be helpful to what it's so Because a if it's done by users then it's open to be gamed by users people will start Organizing to label someone as a troll who's not being trolly. Yeah, that's a problem and If someone's a troll and they got a troll mark and they just keep trolling They can be seen as a badge of honor But what if the troll score is only determined by machine learning within the company? Well, okay, then it's a matter of how is that machine learning work? And they actually talk about this in the wired article Bakepore says the way they determine what's toxic right now is they have very clear rules about what's allowed and what's not And then they have a very large amount of sample data of tweets that violate the rules that they can use to train machine learning It's easier to find rule violations than it is positivity But if you're going after violations and toxicity then machine learning is pretty good. It's not perfect yet It's pretty good at finding that so yes Maybe you let machine learning do that and it's resistant To the gaming of the system, but then you deal with the small percentage Even if it's small of people who are incorrectly labeled by the machine learning because it isn't perfect Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I mean it it's I don't I don't exactly know how twitter intends to make this Work they don't bakepore said like that's a really interesting idea And he never commented on whether they'd they'd explore it or not But I think I think I as much many objections as I'm throwing in front of you, Sarah I'm kind of doing it because I'm with you. I think it would be interesting The reason it works on uber and lyft is everybody has a stake in it, right? You tend to want to give honest stars Because you don't even though they can't really do this you don't want people to downgrade you as a writer Like everybody's getting graded and it can mean you don't get a ride There's a driver as well. Yeah. Yeah.  What is the consequence of you saying to me, sarah?  Yeah, what happens to the amount of tweets that you can post? Yeah, like it doesn't it doesn't you know, it doesn't affect my bottom line necessarily It's it's it's not sort of an economic You know tit for tat type thing, right? But but at the same time I think that There are especially because I have so many people who are following lots of accounts that I don't follow and and I get You know, I forwarded, you know a tweet that's kind of out of thin air that I have to kind of Try to parse and figure out where it came from and who's this person and oh, let's look at the bio and all of that stuff If there was a rating system that worked and I'm not sure how it would but if there was I would welcome it Because there, you know, it is still the wild west out there Yeah, and the key the key is making it work because I still see twitter On my on my mobile app where it blocks sensitive content blocking things that I darn well know are not sensitive So it's it's not quite there yet Well, thanks everybody who participates in our subreddit. 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What's up everybody Jason here for Jasper's case breaks calm We just sold our last R&B randomizer which fills up in Mac in the baseball figure to number six Which is the Dodgers Mariners brazen Padres? And again you get a piece of all these teams for a fraction of the price We go by random number blocks down you get a random number from zero to nine If we go by the first number on the left side of zero number dash There's your examples there and again all redemption cards go to spot zero automatically And then of course if there is any non numbered cards, let me run a mice of the group of customers All right, so here's a dice roll there's a customer names Chris Walker down to Martin and zero through nine Roll six and one seven times one two three four five six seven Martin down to Martin one two three four five six seven five down to three 6, 7, 5 down to 3. So Marnia, 5 and 0, any of our redemptions, as well as 7. Chris Walker, any 1-1's will be yours with spot 1. Mark, with 8. Brian Frank with 4. Zach Dewan with 6. Marn with 2, 6 and 3. So there you go, guys. And again, coming up next now in a separate video is the Mac of the Baseball.


ten things you didn't know about Malawi. Malawi is often overshadowed by its neighbors Tanzania and Zambia due to its modest size. This tiny country, on the other hand, offers a unique experience rich in culture, history, and breathtaking natural beauty. Malawi is a lovely country with a lot to offer visitors. Malawi is a republic with a population of more than 19 million people. The official language is English, however Chitua is spoken by the vast majority of the population. The capital is Lailangwe while the commercial center is Blantyre. The country is almost half the size of the United Kingdom. This landlocked country has a rich and ever-changing scenery with it comes a plethora of activities to partake in, sights to view, and fascinating information. It may be one of Africa's smallest countries, but its very geography, which ranges from forest reserves to spectacular mountain summits, contains an astounding amount of diversity. Its tiny size makes it simple to travel, which is made further easier by its reputation for kind and generous people. Do you want to learn more about this unique vacation spot? Here are a few intriguing Malawi facts. 10. Malawi is rich in rock art. The richest concentration of rock art in Central Africa may be found in Malawi. It can be found all over Malawi, although the most of it is in Central Malawi, near Mozambique's western border. The Chingoni rock art area, a cluster of forested granite hills totaling 126.4 square kilometers and home to 127 sites of rock art, dating from the late Stone Age to the 20th century, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The majority of paintings may be traced to one of two groups, hunter-gatherers or farmers, animals, anthropomorphic beings, and geometric symbols make up the majority of the photos. To this day, these continue to play a vital role in ceremonies and rituals. 9. You can find a piece of Scotland in Malawi. Blantyre is a city in Malawi's south that was built by Scottish settlers in 1876. It was called after David Livingstone's birthplace in Scotland, Blantyre. Livingstone was a map maker who created a map of Lake Malawi. He also resisted the country's slave trade. Blantyre is home to some of the Scottish landscape's highest points. The climate here is cooler than the rest of the country, which is one of the reasons why Europeans picked this location. 8. Tobacco counts for a lot of its exports. Malawi's raw tobacco exports make for about 70% of the country's total exports totaling $584 million. Tea is worth $83.4 million, whereas raw sugar is worth $75.2 million. Malawi's top importers are Belgium, the United States, Egypt, South Africa, and Germany. Malawi, behind Kenya, is the continent's second largest tea grower. The seeds from the botanical garden in Edinburgh Church of Scotland Mission in Blantyre were used to start the tea industry in 1886. The ancestor of the original tea plantation may still be seen in Mulanj today. 7. Malawi is one of the safest places to visit in Africa. Africa is a large continent with a justifiable reputation for violence and criminality. There are pockets of war, terrorist-controlled areas, and mega cities where being a foreign solitary female traveler will be disturbing at best. Malawi, on the other hand, is a small, rural country that is relatively safe. According to Answers Africa, it is Africa's sixth safest country. 6. Malawi is one of the poorest countries on earth. As far as Africa goes, this is a little country around the size of Bulgaria. It is, nonetheless, one of the poorest countries on the continent, severely reliant on international aid. Malawi also produces tea, coffee, and a variety of other products, but not in sufficient quantities to make the country affluent. Wood scarcity is also common in many poor countries with much of the forest being cut for firewood. 5. The largest elephant translocation in history happened in Malawi. In 2017, 520 elephants were successfully relocated from Magi and Lee Mung National Parks in Malawi to Angkada Kota. Poaching had drastically reduced the population of elephants and other species in Angkada Kota National Park. This elephant relocation was intended to aid in the park's repopulation. 4. Malawi is the first country outside of Denmark to have a factory for brewing Carlsberg beer. The factory first opened its doors in 1968. The Danish foreign minister disliked the beer given to him on his visit to the country. Therefore, he proposed that a brewery be built in Malawi. You can obtain a cool Carlsberg beer for a very low price in the country thanks to him. 3. Lake Malawi is a magical lake in the country. For a very interesting and strange reason, it is known as the Calender Lake. The lake bears a striking resemblance to the yearly calendar. The lake is 365 miles long and 52 miles wide at its widest point and it is fed by 12 major rivers, hence the name Calender Lake. Lake Malawi is Africa's third largest and the world's ninth largest lake, a vast uninhabited expanse bordering Mozambique and Tanzania. The lake covers over a fifth of Malawi's total land area. 2. The wildlife of Malawi is quite impressive. While most people focus on the big five, the country's little five will amaze you. Among them are the elephant shrew, buffalo weaver, leopard tortoise, ant lion, and rhino beetle. Malawi's wildlife is comprised of a country's vegetation and animals. Malawi is a landlocked country in southern Africa, with Lake Malawi occupying roughly a third of a country's surface area. It has roughly 187 animal species, 648 bird species, and around 500 fish species, many of which are indigenous in its lakes and rivers. Approximately 20% of a land has been designated as national parks, game reserves, and forest reserves. 1. Malawi is UNESCO protected. Lake Malawi National Park, which was first listed in 1984, and the Chingoni-Rockar area, which was listed in 2006, are both UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Malawi. The Chingoni-Rockar area is made up of 127 locations, the House Central Africa's most extensive collection of rock art. They provide a fascinating look into the hunter-gatherer and agriculturalist rock art traditions from the late Stone Age to the current day. Malawi is a small country. It may be unsatisfactory, and the infrastructure may be inadequate. It is, nonetheless, warm, accepting, and full of individuals who are ambitious. It's the ideal place to visit if you've never been to Africa before. Thank you for tuning in. If you like the video, please like, share, subscribe, and set on notifications to receive updates on new Africa-related videos.


As players we see our fans online marching down to the games and you know we'll see it when it's a bit closer to the stadium or we see them in numbers and everyone's everything's red and black and yeah the city being painted red and black is huge for us. It's a huge honour to play for this club. Obviously a different feeling. It's very intense. It's a game that everyone's ready to play for on midweek when we're training you know we're all we all want to play and it's a big game to play in. It's always a different atmosphere. It's always more or less a sellout and you can't hear sometimes on the field you know your teammates and everything so yeah it's definitely a game you need to concentrate in and be ready to play in. It shows when our fans come out in full numbers you know at the last game in back west it was massive when they came out and supported us and means a lot to us. It's loud and if you're going to hear Sydney chants and that you know you want to hear your own team chanting and your own fans and them getting behind you and you want to win the game. Sometimes even away games feel like home games and home diabetes because of how good our fans are and how loud they are at away game. Yeah even in the changing sometimes it's a different atmosphere because you can hear more you can you can feel it more and you can hear the march and hear things that you wouldn't in a normal game or sometimes don't but you want to as players you definitely want to hear more and you want things to be loud and you want the atmosphere there. It's a game that everyone wants to play in and you know you want to win so from the moment I started mine it was a bad result but from then on I wanted to win them and you know and I think that's it's been good at the last two seasons I think we've been undefeated against Sydney so that's cool for us.


Hey guys, welcome to Archland. So we're here to talk about Valak, not Balak. We're talking about her build guide and we're starting off with a couple of details and with her strength and weakness. Okay, strength-wise, she heals, um, has damage particularly on the ignite side. So again, she's going to be very, very nice in close quarters. Once you get to heal your front line, then the enemy gets ignite. And again, she also puts out a big buff. So again, it will depend on how you build her. We're going to be discussing more of that later. Next is improving her weakness with regard to physical defense and her HP. So those are the areas that you need to improve on. And going back to her equipment, I've equipped her this way because I wanted to emphasize more. Again, you have physical defense of course with the, with the, um, the robe. And more or less, HP is what I want to emphasize here because you can add more HP in terms of percentage, depending on, again, the accessory and also depending on the equipment. Okay. So the equipment is going to be crucial as well in terms of HP. We'll go to her unique equipment later. So those are her strengths and weaknesses and what to improve. We will have to go back here. This is going to be her unique passive. It's about, it's quite a bit long. Okay. She starts off with four stacks of star fragment on herself after casting a skill on an ally. So grants her, grants that ally a power of life for two thirds. So what is power of life power of life is before the battle recover HP equal to a certain percentage as you rank up the percentage, you know, grows up, depending on, um, melee attack, sorry, magic attack. So again, magic attack of her, not the allies. So again, there is, it's, it's, it's going to be a good, um, good compliment because again, um, it's going to compliment her actual healing and also heal over time. So power of life. So the star fragment, of course, is going to be diminished. They are stacks when she, she casts a skill. Okay. So increase it. Okay. Going back to the star fragment, the star fragments are there. Those are stacks because it increases melee attack, um, depending on again, her rank, three, four, five, six percent per stack. So when you lose one of the buff after casting a skill, and there is no skill cast during a certain term, you gain one stack back.  That is the mechanic. It's kind of complex. You'll get used to it. Then when you don't cast something, you gain a stack and after enemy dies instantly gain up to four stacks of the buff. The buff can't be removed or stolen. So again, stacks are there. They're used to increase magic attack, not melee attack, sorry, magic attack.  Okay. That's simple. Kinda. Okay. So next we're going to explore her traits here. Okay. For traits again, you will have to prioritize whether you're going to take the top row or the bottom row or tree. So we call it a row. We call it the tree. It really depends upon you. So we're talking about the top tree first or the top row. Okay. So after using a skill, this one, after using a skill, you're going to have a self heal here. I don't think she needs this because she heals a lot already. And the next one is for me, most important of the top because she can heal. This is what I mentioned earlier. She can heal your front row, remove a debuff from them. Then if there are enemies attached to them in the front row, they also get ignite. It's nice, right? So this one is going to coming handy, especially if you are in bottleneck, especially in PvP. This skill is for me is going to be handy in PvP. You have to take note of that if you want to build the top tree or row. Okay. So moving to the bottom row, bottom tree again, this skill. So heal one and damage to the enemies around. So this is going to be kind of a mini, the mini version of this one, this skill. So heal and damage around. The next one is this one. So the fires of God. This one gives three buffs to one ally. Okay. Take note of that. This is one of her important skills to consider when you want to choose top or bottom. So three buffs, the three buffs here to one ally, it's going to include increase in physical attack and magic attack by 20%. That's one immunity to debuffs that affect physical attack and magic attack. And after receiving an attack, additional damage if the target survives. So that is based on the ally that you're going to be, you know, they're going to be giving this buff too. So if that ally attacks, it gives an additional damage if the target survives. So it's a very, very nice skill to have, especially if you have a very powerful beat stick, let's say a DPS unit or a hero that you want to further enhance the damage that, you know, if you can one shot something, why not? So again, this is going to be very good. The 20% increase in physical and magic attack is going to be very, very, very, very nice. So highly consider this. And this buff is going to be available for three turns. Take note of that. Three turns. Three turns is a lot. So this skill and this skill will rival, you know, your choice because both of them might be important in PvP. But again, the bottom row for me is has some uniqueness to it that I think it's a must that you go with the bottom row. I'll, you know, I'll, I'll discuss more on which row should you choose in a while. So it, they have other skills or she has other skills, as you can see here. So this one, so he'll all reduce physical damage by 20%. Not sure. I think it's 20%. I think so. So this one, if they encounter physical damage is going to be reduced by 20%, which is a lot as well. Okay. The next one is going to be passive recovery of allies heal. And yeah, passive recovery of allies for this one. So passive recovery, I think this is going to be recovery over time. And the last one, which is the first one is going to be heal and debuff removal. So again, she has a lot of heals in her kit that I don't think she needs this first skill for the top row. That's only for herself. That's selfish. Okay. So based on all of the discussion, I am actually building her with the bottom row. And I'm recommending the bottom row as well. Now here we are with the rune, rune equipment. I would suggest again, because she's a healer, you have to have the cross, of course, since she does secondarily magic attack. Therefore, you need to have the eye for magic attack. Other options for the eye would be the staff, because the staff is also magic attack for two sets. Of course, for the, for this one, this is going to be surely for four sets for healing. Okay. So this one magic attack. So you need to have a magic attack for a secondary set. I don't think the eye and the staff are going to be, you know, going to be replaced. If you're going to use this one, this is going to be magic penetration. I'd rather that you use magic attack instead of magic penetration. So there you go for your equip rooms. My recommendations. So far as her unique weapon, so it's ashes of salvation. So additional stats for you guys. Ashes of salvation also plus four melee attack. Sorry, not. I always tend to mistake M for melee. So magic attack. Magic attack plus four plus one percent magic defense. Okay. This is the special activation by Valak. Increase the healing done to allies power of life by three percent. So it's an additional three percent. The existing one is going to be power of life. Let me see. It's, it's, it's okay. It's a based on melee attack, but this one has an increase of plus three percent allies with power of life will remove one debuff from self before the battle. Again, this is also going to be good because this is providing you an additional three removal of debuff. So take note of that. Take note of that. So again, the unique weapon is also a must for her because this really enhances what she can do. So removal of debuff and giving of, you know, healing her allies. Okay, guys. So for the hero experience, let us sample this and what she can do. First, you have to move forward here. And this one is, this is a single character recovery. This one is the one that I mentioned that inflicts ignite. So you have to move forward because it's a grid based. If you don't move forward, not everybody will be affected, especially the back enemy there. So you have to move forward inflicting heal, I'm sorry, putting heal and putting ignite. How good is that? How good is that? Okay, so let's finish the action out with the allies participating in this battle. So we have Tito, Vic and Joey on the floor. For Filipinos, you'll understand who they are, but it's going to be Tito, Vic and Joey. Okay. So next up, see, they're healing. They're healing power of life. That is why you have power of life because your frontline can withstand a lot. Okay. So next up, this one is going to be recovery again. So recovery within range. So do the recovery. This is going to be, I think, her ultimate skill. Wow. So they're going to be very, very pissed. Nice with all of those shards. So as you can see, she can really, really hold the line depending really on what tree you're going to be getting. We have one left and we'll see what we will do. So allies earn. So again, lots of heals for her. This one, let's go back. Vic's damage. Let's heal this guy here. There you go. Another damage. Another round. There you go. See, that was easy. She's actually fun to use given the right build, given the right situation. But again, I think this one was based on the build on the top. So that's the showcase for you guys. Okay. So final thoughts for you guys. Preference for me is the bottom. The bottom, you know, the bottom straight, as you can see here. The bottom straight is nice because for me, it, she, depending on which, how would you use her, she will be my secondary healer. Neck first will be Glaphaire. So Glaphaire will be in charge of, if you need to bring to healer, she'll be the second one. Glaphaire is overall healing for her. She's going to do debuffs and healing.  Me personally, I would recommend the bottom because I would want her to dish out that very, very big of a buff. And overall, her kit would not be as bad as a healer. So again, recommendation will be the bottom, but both kits, both trees, or both rows are not that bad. They are good. It really depends on your preference. Okay. I'm giving you the option to choose, but again, my recommendation is the bottom tree preference based on what I'm going to build. Okay. So that is it. So again, she's really fun. I think she's going to be the second best healer to Glaphaire overall that I've seen. And hopefully, you can also build her. You can also summon for her. By the way, for those who were shocked that I have already, I pulled her off camera and it took me probably 7 single pulls and 110 pull. So I just had fun with it.  And you know, who knows, I might get her, but in the end, I did. So sorry, I wasn't able to create that video and wasn't able to share that with you. But again, I have her. I'm going to build her up as global comes in. The builds might change because by the time I could probably use all the skills up to the last one. And there might be changes. There might be not. So look forward to that. So thank you very much guys for staying this far. Take care. Stay safe. This is the Warden and I'm out of here.