Previously, on Stranger Things. The season opens with Mike, Dustin, Lucas and Will playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons and offending off a monster they called the Demogorgon. However, on his way home, Will faces a monster of his own and is abducted. The next morning, Will's mum Joyce and his brother Jonathan realise he's not there and start to panic. At school, the boys also realise Will is missing while being bullied by a couple of mouth breathers. We then meet Mike's sister Nancy and her best friend Barb, who's concerned about Nancy's new relationship with the school heartthrob Steve. We're introduced to the local sheriff Jim Hopper, who Joyce talks to about Will's disappearance. Meanwhile, a local government facility is suiting up and venturing into an alien looking gateway and we learn that a young girl recently escaped the facility. Her name is Eleven. Eleven sneaks into a nearby diner for something to eat and makes friends with the owner of the establishment. We learn that Eleven has special abilities before the owner is murdered and Eleven escapes once again. The boys are told not to go looking for their friend as the search escalates. Joyce receives a shocking phone call from Will and the boys go looking for Will despite their warning but come across Eleven instead. They take Eleven home to Mike's house where she sleeps the night in the basement. Mike learns of the bad men coming after Eleven and Eleven learns the basics of modern life before recognising Will in one of Mike's pictures. In a flashback, we're showing the awful test that Eleven has been put through because of her powers and the leader of the operation, Dr Brenner, is seen as her fatherly figure who she calls Papa. The boys then learn of Eleven's powers as Hopper continues searching for Will, who Eleven explains is in a place known as the Upside Down, being held prisoner by the Demogorgon. Elsewhere, Nancy and Barb attend a party at Steve's parents' house which Barb does not approve of. Nancy then ditches Barb before she is photographed by Jonathan and disappears into the night. Joyce receives shocking phone call number two and discovers that Will is talking to her through the electricity and let's just say her household gets pretty lit. Hopper starts investigating the government facility and Nancy realises that Barb is missing. Joyce meanwhile makes progress contacting Will before the Demogorgon reveals itself to her. Hopper discovers the facility is caught up in multiple lawsuits but all hope is soon lost when Will's dead body is recovered from a river. However, Eleven manages to tune into Will's singing on Mike's walkie-talkie. Joyce and Jonathan identify Will's body but Joyce refuses to believe the corpse is her son. The police start looking into Barb's disappearance and Nancy and Jonathan admit to each other that they saw a faceless creature the night Barb vanished. The boys prepare Eleven to be taken out in public and they all attend a school assembly for Will, where Eleven teaches the mouth breathers a lesson. Hopper starts to connect the dots and discovers Will's body is a fake. He breaks into the facility and discovers what is really going down there, then suddenly wakes up in his house where he finds a bug in his light fixture. Nancy and Jonathan go looking for the faceless creature and the kids go looking for the entrance to the upside down which Eleven stops them from finding for their own safety. Nancy finds the entrance before confronting the Demogorgon then is saved by Jonathan who Stephen is getting jealous of. After sabotaging the boys' plan Eleven runs away and steals some egos which is her favourite food from a local grocery store. Hopper confirms Joyce's suspicions and they talk to a severely disabled woman who lost her daughter to the government facility. Nancy and Jonathan equip themselves to fight the Demogorgon before Jonathan is arrested for fighting Steve. Hopper and Joyce then team up with Nancy and Jonathan as they are looking for the same enemy.  However the bad men track down the children who are now on the run and Eleven saves the day again by flipping one of their vans. Steve ends up being one of the good guys and Hopper finds the kids. Eleven tries to communicate with Will to no avail however she thinks she could do it if her senses were blocked out and she was submerged in water. She then finds Barb's dead body and encourages Will to hold on a little longer. Meanwhile Hopper and Joyce break into the facility to find Will before they are captured by security. Hopper then makes a deal with them to allow Joyce and him into the upside down. While in there we see flashbacks of Hopper's daughter who died of cancer at a young age. Nancy, Jonathan and Steve lure the Demogorgon to the house and try to trap it but fail. Mike confesses his true feelings for Eleven before the bad men arrive to take her away but are interrupted by the Demogorgon who kills them all. Joyce finds Will on the brink of death but Hopper resuscitates him. Eleven grows weak but uses her last ounce of strength to disintegrate the Demogorgon taking her with it. Will recovers in hospital when Hopper is seen getting into a government vehicle. One month later and we again see the boys playing but Mike still misses Eleven. Nancy ends up back with Steve and Will is still suffering from his experience in the upside down. Hopper is then seen leaving Ego's in the woods.


Welcome back to The Breakfast in Plastivia Africa. Time for us to head straight to our second conversation. Now we will be looking at the federal government's restricting airlines from the United Kingdom, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and to help us understand the dynamics surrounding all of this elitist Amadou will be joining the conversation. Good morning, elitist Amadou. Good morning. Alright, so let's just get straight to the crux of the conversation. Now we remember that not too long ago, the United Kingdom put Nigeria in that red list. I mean, if you look at the entire continent, Africa was almost represented. And if you want to begin to compare the number of countries that have actually had the cases of the Omicron variant, some of them were not on the red list. And that has generated a lot of conversation within the continent and also in Nigeria. Now some peasants on the other hand also said, well, the federal government should also be looking at retaliating this particular gesture. And not long again, we have actually seen the government retaliating. You'll also have people saying, this is totally unnecessary. It is uncalled for. And why should we be acting at this point in time, knowing that we are a developing nation, and we understand the dynamics of losing all of these peasants coming into our country. But I'd like to share your thoughts on that. First, what do you make of the ban, you know, restricting or the restriction by the federal government? Well, thank you. Good morning. I think the whole thing is connected with the new wave of the COVID virus, which is the Omicron variant. I want to align myself with other international players who have called for caution in the ban of international operations into countries like Ayata has won, because the industry is barely coming out of a difficult situation after the first second wave of COVID and we're in the process of recovery. So a ban of this nature without actual empirical scientific data to prove that the measures that have been put in place for the first and second wave to combat the first and second wave are insufficient. In the absence of that, I think the ban is more of a knee-jerk approach, response to issues of international issues like this. For me, Nigeria is merely reacting to, I think, what it felt unfair international diplomacy by those nations that have banned applied operations from Nigeria into their own territories. But if we are to look at it objectively, aero politics aside, we should be driven by data, scientific data, rather than this knee-jerk approach to the management of the current crisis. So what would be the implication of all of this now to our economy? Well, it's a very sad situation because you know we are in a very peak period of operations as the December period, people will be travelling all over the globe into and out of the country. They are the ones to be at the brunt of this decision because you can imagine a lot of them might have fixed their flights several months back for this period and with the current ban let me speak about the situation between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates. You know the market size of Emirates Airlines, it's a big size chunk of the market it currently occupies and like I said with this current ban it's going to be very difficult for a lot of Nigerians who are scheduled to come home to make it this December. So for me it's a minus to the economy on the brink because of recovery, minus to the industry and it would cause irreparable damage to the travelling public. All right, like you rightly said in the wake of the COVID-19 and all of that, one sector of the economy that came crashing literally from the skies is the aviation sector. In 2020 it was really, really down completely. Aviation is supposed to stay afloat and fly above. That's just to put it literally. But then again, from what we understand here right now, before this particular development we saw UK flights coming into Nigeria, did they really have enough moral grounds or rights to actually fly the airlines into Nigeria when they actually had restricted them to Nigeria? Well, you must know that this flight operation is regulated by the existing bilateral air services agreement between Nigeria and the respective states, including the UAE. For me, I think there's something happening that is outside of the norm. When there are issues connected with the implementation of the BASA, usually there's a clause there in the agreement that makes for states, one state, to call for discussions with a view to resolving that particular problem. But here we are, it's a BASA issue and states are taking positions that are outside the prescriptions of the BASA with regards to dispute settlement. So for me it's a BASA issue and if you read the letter the Emirates wrote to Nigeria, the Nigerian authorities, they referred, they did state there in that this is a BASA issue that they thought is within the BASA framework and that mechanisms are there in for the resolution. But here we are, they were the ones that first started rescuing air peace to making one flight into Dubai and they are the ones now resorting to mechanisms within the BASA for dispute resolution. But that's a head start, it's a very important letter, the route. So my mind is that we should leverage on that letter and open up discussions with the UAE authorities with a view to resolving this problem. Alright, you have mentioned that Nigeria is just merely reacting and we shouldn't have taken that position by restricting airlines from these countries to Nigeria. But what approach do you think Nigeria should have taken or should take, I mean being that this actually came first from these countries? Let me put it in perspective. I didn't say Nigeria was wrong in reacting. I did say this country's other countries started first rather than follow the normal channel for resolving issues of this nature. It started by placing ban on Nigerian Airlines, which Nigeria to which Nigeria responded. So I'm not saying Nigeria did wrong. We have a duty to protect our airlines, to give them every necessary support to fly to whatever these nations are designated to operate under the BASAs. What I think is that what I'm saying essentially is that decisions of this nature should not be taken without scientific proof. There are well laid out measures internationally or operations of airlines under COVID and I have not seen any publication. Nobody has come out to tell the world that the measures that have already been put in place are not enough, or that the Omnicron variant is resistant to the measures that have been put in place, i.e. you must have a PCR negative to fly or you are fully vaccinated. Two, you must use hand sanitizers. You must use face masks while onboard the aircraft. And several health measures that other health measures have been in place, unless this is proven to be inefficient or inadequate in addressing the new variant. I think states should have taken up the positions they have taken now. This is the root cause of the problem. And I think it's high time in view of the calls from IATA and other international airline organizations for states to sit back and review their pronouncements. In the interest of the development of international simple aviation, because if we don't do that, I can assure you this is going to affect the global aviation industry in the negative. Amado, let's look at this holistically, just the Putin aviation industry perspective. Do you think that with all of this development, it's high time Nigeria reviewed some of this pact, the ministerial pact. For instance, all that is happening with the Emirates airline and of course Airpeace and all of that. If I have to put it right or carry the entry into Nigeria and to their country, because most times we seem to be under their beck and call when they are not given as a commensurate right like we deserve. Don't you think it's high time some of this pact has been reviewed? From what we know now, this particular ministerial approval granted Emirates have been taken away. So what do we do going forward? Yeah, Justin, I think if you look at the bilateral deeply, there's this thing that a lot of commentaries that Nigeria had aired in granting these nations the respective frequencies they have under the buses. I think that is incorrect because the buses are reciprocated, what is based on reciprocity, whatever they give to us, we give to them. Now, the problem has been this. We've been able, we've been unable as a nation to develop or evolve strong airlines to utilize the bilateral rights. And once there are no airlines from the Nigerian side consummating these buses, what you do as a state, you create excess load factor on the foreign carrier that is doing its own consummating its own rights. And that in essence creates a problem because most of those who are traveling are Nigerians. In the absence of the reciprocal flights, are you going to stop the other carrier from coming or asking for additional frequencies? And these requests for additional frequencies are scientific in air transport economies. The factor of the matter is that once an airline is averaging 70, 80, 85% load factor, there's a tendency that is doing full flights most of times. And when they come asking for additional frequencies, you have to grant, you are under obligation to grant because it is your people who are traveling. And the fact is that you don't have any airline to do these reciprocal flights. You recall that Virgin in Nigeria started the Dubai flights and stopped Emirates, even I think Arik started and stopped. The reason is that if you are not fully prepared in terms of a fully grown airline with commercial arrangements with other airlines like Co-Chair, Interlines and other things, I can assure you the Middle East routes are not your top because these airlines, the Gulf carriers and other international airlines that operate through that route, have network of arrangements and you cannot between point to point from Lagos to Dubai and expect to have a good size of the traffic. Because most Nigerians who pass through that route are either businessmen who go to Asia Pacific by their cargo, their goods, they put them on board the airline straight to Lagos. Would you want a Nigerian to buy his stuff and come to Dubai, stop in Dubai and then fly in Nigerian carrier? I think it is not feasible. So we need to do a lot and this is high time for us to invest in strong national airlines, whether fly carriers or national carriers as it were. And it has become more challenging with the signing of Aftar and Satim. Satim has today, when fully implemented, would open our skies fully like the Eastern North African variant of open skies agreement. There wouldn't be any restrictions, there wouldn't be any capacity restrictions. You can designate as many airlines as you can as a state. The markets become a common single domestic markets for all carriers. So I think the challenge before Nigerian carriers or Nigeria as a state is to invest or create that enabling environment for strong airlines to evolve to be able to compete with their international counterparts. There has been calls that airlines should merge. The laws do not allow NCA to coerce airlines into mergers. Mergers are regulated by other entities settled by law in Nigeria. And usually you force mergers when airlines are on the stock exchange market and they are not performing very well. You now step in to intervene to get them to come together to be stronger so that investors' monies do not go down the drain. So how many of our airlines today are on the stock market and even those that have gone to the stock market, how have they fare? So I think our problem is more of a national issue than blaming the international carriers for the frequencies that they presently operate into Nigeria. There's another issue we should look at, the conflict of laws which is impeding the flow of FDIs into our sector, the aviation industry. The NIPC Act says a foreigner can own a business 100% in Nigeria, but the sectoral legislation like the Civil Aviation Act says for you to do business in Nigeria as an airline, majority stake should be held by Nigerians or its nationals, by Nigeria or its nationals. Now the question is that how many people have a deep pause to invest in airline business? Are they ready to do that? Do we have the capacity considering what they experience in the industry today? So we need to review some of these laws so that we can encourage foreign direct investment into our nation. Because these are some of the laws, legislations that are restricting the entry of capital for investment in our sector in Nigeria. So with all of this now, what would you say is the effect of ticketing and orders in the aviation sector? I think ticketing is a product. It's a product and the regime of ticketing in Nigeria is deregulated. The authorities do not regulate tickets, but then I think what? All right, we seem to have lost the... What the... Yeah, illiterate. Hello, illiterate, if you can hear us. Yeah, basically the question would be since the whole travel restriction, what has been the multiply effect as regards to ticketing and of course order, value chain that has to do with aviation, since most people are actually stranded here in Nigeria and of course those who should have been coming to Nigeria for transaction. Oh, I get you now. So the fact is that like I said, it is the passengers, the Nigerian passengers, those who have scheduled their flights into Nigeria within this period and would bear the brunt. You know, it's a supply and demand thing. Where the demand is higher than the supply, the fares would go up and more so at this peak period. Any airline ticket you are buying at this period certainly will be near twice the amount you would have bought before. So and with the reduction in this supply, that is the stoppage of Emirates and other airlines into the country, you know the supply, the size of airlines coming into the country would shrink. So certainly it would affect fares at this period regrettably. So with all of this restriction, do you think that we have lost money in terms of revenue and how much have we lost or how much are we going to lose? Of course we are losing money and we are going to lose money until this situation is restored. Recall that Emirates has not been flying into Nigeria for some time. For each flight that comes in, there are lots of payments that are made to relevant authorities, landing, parking, handling ground handling charges, air navigation charges, ticket sales charge and all this. So you can imagine with the stoppage of these operations, the industry regulator and service providers would fill the brunt in the negative. So for me... How many liters can you hear us? A lot would be lost in three charges that would have come to the airline and other... Can we actually estimate? Can we put a figure to it? Can we estimate any figure? Well, I don't want to play with figures because you know the industry is in a recovery state. Most of the airlines are just throttling to capacity after the negative reduction of flights over time. So I don't think I'm in a position to play with any figures here. Alright, let's still talk about what we have as per capacity COVID-19 arrivals to Pacha as we round off this particular session. COVID-19 has been around for over a year and indeed, like I said before, the aviation industry actually came crashing last year. So far, how would you say we have done vis-à-vis protocols for our arrivals at the Pacha, bearing in mind the pandemic and so far? How would you say we've done? Well, let me see. Nigeria has done very well. In fact, Nigeria was recorded to be the first African country to put together a protocol, detailed protocol for the combat of COVID-19 virus. In fact, Nigeria got recommendations from IKO. Nigeria, the regulatory authority has gotten several recommendations and awards for studying performance in the management of the COVID-19 crisis. So for me, the protocols, if you look at recently, the Civil Aviation Authority published new protocols for arrivals and departures from Nigeria.  It's still the same old protocols that have been placed that have been reinforced. The only new addition is that there is an option as to some jurisdictions. If you are fully vaccinated, you may not need a PTR. Other jurisdictions would require a negative PCR plus evidence of full vaccination for departing passengers. On the other side, the protocols that were relaxed in regards to arrivals have been reinstated. So when you arrive, you have to go through quarantine and do another test before you can be allowed to come out of isolation. Don't you think Nigeria should take the Civil Aviation sector that these are still on arrivals? Because most of them have had cases of when Nigerians travel abroad. Despite the fact that they present COVID and vaccine certificates, they are still required to quarantine for some days before they could actually get into the main flow of the state. A school of thought believes that in Nigeria, it's as though that whatever you come with, you'll just be allowed to ensure that requisite tests and other requirements. What are your thoughts really? I think that is incorrect. I don't want to make generalisation on this issue. Nigeria is associated with everything that is negative. Can I show you that the authorities are doing their best to ensure that the sky is safe in terms of a reduction of the spread of COVID to the barest minimum? I can share with you a personal experience. I went to one of the labs to do a test because I needed to travel just recently. I met some passenger who came there. He was denied the right to board because they found that his test code on his results did not pass through their system. So it's incorrect to say to make a generalisation that people just come in and out without going through the necessary protocols. However, there have been reported cases that offer some untoward practices by some of the authorities, which I believe the government has taken adequate measures to ensure that only passengers who will fill the requirements for entry and exit are allowed to come in and fly as it were. So for me, the measures are working. We want to encourage Nigerians to be patriotic. So you don't have to go and forge a negative PCR because you want to travel. You should be able to subject yourself to the necessary examination before you head to the airport. Alright, we must say a very big thank you to you. We have been speaking about restriction, redness and of course omicron, the fate of the Nigerian aviation industry. And we were joined by Elitius Amado. He's the President of Air Transport Services, Senior Staff Association of Nigeria. We do appreciate your time, Mr. Amado. Thank you, Justin, and good morning. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. Alright, it's still the breakfast and plus TV Africa. We'll take a quick break away from aviation. We'll be focusing on the Election Act Amendment Bill, which reports saying that the President has actually refused to sign it. And we turn it back to the National Assembly. We're no more going to do journals again.


In this video I'm going to be talking about when the Narcissist keeps coming back. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you would like to donate my PayPal links in the video description. If you are interested in one-on-one coaching you can email me at narcfivercoaching at gmail.com. Check out the new merchandise in the Narcissist store. We have new designs in our t-shirts, tank tops and mugs. The link to the Narcissist store is in the video description. When the Narcissist keeps coming back. If they keep coming back to you it's only because they know that somewhere in your mind you still want to believe in them. You don't want to accept the reality that they're nothing, they have nothing and everything that they tried to get you to believe was nothing more than a fantasy. You don't want to accept the truth of what they are. That's why they keep coming back because you still believe in their lies. You still believe that maybe they do have something to offer you.  Once you've figured that out and they know that you accept and realize this you will never see them again and you will never hear from them again. They initially wanted to be around you but that was only so they could trick you into giving your power to them. They wanted to be around you and extract everything that you had to offer while making you feel as though you are not good enough and you have nothing to offer. They have to do this to keep you around.  They're not going to want to be around you. It's shameful embarrassing for them to accept that they spend all of their time and energy trying to suppress you and prevent you from coming to the realization that they have nothing to offer and you are greater than them. Once you've realized this they can no longer manipulate or control you. You will never see them the same way again because it becomes obvious at that point that if they really believe themselves to be above you why would they ever need to put you down why would they ever need to suppress you or prevent you from discovering the truth about them they know that you are greater than them that's why they spend all of their time effort and energy trying to bring you down that's why they want to manipulate and control you that's why they want to suppress you from being who you are meant to be because they're envious jealous and they feel inadequate whenever they are around you so they have to contain you domesticate you keep you in a box to prevent you from realizing that you never needed them and they knew all along that they were never good enough for you they just tried to trick you into believing that you needed them so they could extract whatever it was they needed from you they had to trick you into giving your power to them so that they could have power over you and then they could control you because they knew all along that if you were to know your true power and your true value over them you would never want them you would never stick around that's why they had to trick you into giving your power to them so that they could get the admiration and respect that they craved once you've figured this out they will leave and not come back because they know that they cannot be around someone who doesn't value them they are desperately seeking attention, approval and validation they want to be recognized as something great but they don't want to put the work in they want to create a false sense of greatness through lies and deceit when you realize this and you understand and accept that they are nothing special you accept that they have nothing to offer you accept that they're nothing great when you finally realize and feel this way about them they will leave on their own thank you for watching I hope this video resonated with you please like, comment, share and subscribe click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos if you are likely to donate my PayPal link is in the video description coaching enquiries you can email me at NarcisfiberCoaching at gmail.com check out the new merchandise in the Narcisfiber store where you can purchase your own Narcisfiber t-shirt, tank top or mug the link is in the video description thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss a question which says that, find the focus of the point of intersection of two perpendicular tangents to the circle x square plus y square is equal to a square. Now before starting the solution of this question, we should know our result. And that is the equation of every tangent through the circle, square plus y square is equal to a square is y is equal to mx plus a into square root of 1 plus m square. Now this result will work out as a t-idea for solving out this question. And now we will start with the solution. Now here we have to find the focus of the point of intersection of two perpendicular tangents to the circle x square plus y square is equal to a square. Now let a t and a t dash be two perpendicular tangents through the circle with center o. And let the point of intersection of a t and a t dash be x from y 1. Now using the result which is given in the key idea, the equation every tangent through the circle, square plus y square is equal to a square is y is equal to mx plus a into square root of 1 plus m square. Now if this tangent passes through the point that is this point, which is a x-ray ribbon then now here says x-ray and y as ribbon as this tangent is passing through this point. So we are getting y1 is equal to mx1 plus a into square root of 1 plus m square. This implies y1 minus mx1 is equal to a into square root of 1 plus m square. Further this implies on square both sides y1 minus mx1 whole square is equal to a square into 1 plus m square the whole. This implies y1 square plus m square x1 square minus 2 y1 mx1 is equal to a square plus a square m square. Which further implies y1 square plus m square x1 square minus 2 y1 mx1 minus a square minus a square m square is equal to 0. Now this implies on combining these terms we get m square into x1 square minus a square the whole minus 2 into x1 into y1 into m plus within brackets y1 square minus a square is equal to 0. Now this is a quadratic equation in m and m2 is equation b1 and m2 are the roots of 1. Therefore 2 over a which implies m1 into m2 is equal to c which is this that is y1 square minus a square over that is this that is x1 square minus a square. Now let us name this as 2. Now suppose on the quadratic equation the slopes a t and a t dash to each other a t and a t dash are perpendicular each other. Therefore product of the slopes is equal to minus 1. Now let us name this as this is the equation number 2 and this is the equation number 3 from t and 3 y1 square minus a square whole upon x1 square minus a square is equal to minus 1. Which further implies y1 square minus a square is equal to minus x1 square plus a square plus y1 square is equal to 2a square. Therefore the layer cost x1 y1 that is the point of intersection of the perpendicular tangents to the circle is plus y1 square is equal to 2a square. So this is the solution of the given question and that is all for this session. Hope you all have enjoyed this session.


Welcome. Thank you very much. This is the Doc's office hours for Jenkins, European, and it is Thursday of May 19. For today, we've got an agenda already planned out. We have localization and internalization with Alex, he ends up joining us. We have the June LTS change log, an upgrade guide and blog post, which I've added, and we will discuss further. The require Java 11 Epic and the tasks associated with that. Basil's done a great job of compiling all that, putting that together and creating the tickets for us. So we'll go over that and see what else we can do for them. And finally, our she code after Africa contributes on. It's getting close to wrapping up Mark way it'll tell us more about that. So first off, it doesn't look like Alex is here yet so. I'll give a quick status report Kevin, if that's okay and then. So this, this can be really a nice story to tell that we now have eight plugins on crowd in dot Jenkins that I owe that are managing their translation process with crowd in. And Bruno has been a great contributor there contributed translations into French language for many of them. It's looking really good. I've got an open question that I need to discuss with Bruno further, because this is a great way to contribute to an open source project and would be a really nice story for Hacktoberfest, however, the Hacktoberfest counting system requires that they be done by pull requests, and the pull requests here are being submitted by a bot that collects multiple changes for multiple contributors into a single pull request so as it sits now crowd in is not a great choice for a hacktoberfest hacktoberfest contribution. But I want to talk to Alex about it in case he's got some idea of ways that we might be able to make it fit better. And that's in part because of this how to encourage translation contributions. I'm wondering as a separate story, is there a way we could motivate and inspire people to contribute some form of leaderboard or some form of thanks thanks to our top five contributors showing in the crowd sourcing ideas so those are topics for then as the very last point, Darren Pope and I are going to do a live stream probably one hour on internationalizing Jenkins. I've learned some things about what it means internationalize a plug in, and we'll use those to talk to people about how we used to do internationalization and how there are slight refinements that we can do now to make it work better with crowd in. And he and I will probably do that within the next one to three weeks. That's it for me. Great. Thanks Mark. Any questions on that for move on to the next topic or. Okay, I have a question. Very basic one maybe that's regarding internationalization and localization. When I used to do some internationalization with Java only, we could go up to internationalizing images or HTML files, not just with, you know, the sentences translated but also the look and feel and some will Jenkins go up to that, you know, maybe changing the images if that ever makes sense, or, you know, changing the way it is read from left to right or right to left. Good question and as far as I can tell right now there isn't. So HTML files can and are included in the translation process so so that part yes, but in terms of images, or, or what what I might call deeper, deeper changes behavioral changes Jenkins doesn't really have support for right now. Okay, thank you. Any other questions before we move on regarding this topic of how do we encourage translation contributions. I really liked the way that the old translation support plugin worked in the sense that it provided a link at the bottom of every page to submit translations. And at the time, they were collected with a central server which is no longer active, but the brilliance of that was that if someone had this translation support plugin, I think it might have been called translation assistance plugin and I don't recall the exact name, but the brilliance of it was that it had a link that you could click on from the Jenkins UI that would immediately allow you to start filling in translations and submitting them to us. So, I think it would be, it would be cool to kind of take to think about that idea and think about how we might be able to apply that to crowd in, in a way that we could maybe put a link at the bottom of the Jenkins UI that might direct people to crowd into just immediately start filling in their translations because that kind of lowers the barrier to entry and I think that was one of the reasons that the old system is very successful, because it lowered the bar the barrier to entry in that way. And for the timing, we only have some plugins, some Jenkins plugins available that we can translate for the time being, the core is not yet entered into the crowd in system. And the thing is, we could have a link, as you say, for existing plugin which are already registered within crowd in and for plugins which are not yet we could add some kind of another link that could start something at desk or maybe that's not such a good idea because of the spam we could get that triggers something that we know that somebody wants to help with the plugin which is not translated yet all the parts of Jenkins, which is not translated yet. That will be really helpful I think. Thank you for this suggestion Basil. Yeah, so, so to work off that idea. Could you envision that this, this facility were somehow detecting hey I'm running in non English language. And I'm this message that I'm seeing on screen is in fact still the English language version show them a choice to go somewhere to help convert it I think I see your point, muscle. That sounds very attractive. Yeah, I mean if you, if you look at the plugins, you don't have to do this right now but if you look at the plugins website for the translation assistance plugin or whatever the name of it was they have a screenshot. And the screenshot shows the kind of the old UI so there's a link in the footer you would click on the link, and it would give you a bunch of strings, kind of like the crowd in UI does, you can just hit submit to submit them to a central server, which is now shut down. So I think, you know, the idea would be we just give people that link but instead of our own user interface, it would go to the crowd in one, and then they could do the same thing. But you know we'd have to be able to detect whether that plugin is using crowded and where to direct them and things like that. And though but those are in fact solvable solvable I mean in context I know that the little subsection of help that's being displayed is coming from a specific plugin because it tells me the plugin that contributes that. And so that kind of information's got to be available I think it sounds very interesting. Yeah. Good. Alright, thanks. Back to you Kevin. Okay, so if there are no more questions on that move on to the junior LTS change log upgrade guide and blog posts. So I submitted the public quest last week for the junior LTS. And I'm currently putting it together for the blog post about the SVG replacement based on Basil's feedback in the request itself. I'm going to be going over that with Mark a little after this to just get some more structure to it and take a look and see what else I can add. There's still a little bit of the format that I want to make sure I understand and have ready to go outside of that though. Thanks. The feedbacks being given. We're getting a lot of traction. There are a couple of other tickets that are linked to the SVG replacement item. So, just looking through those getting further information from there as well and making sure that I have a full comprehension of everything prior to writing. The change like PR needs review and refinement. Yeah, that that was sort of my my voice on the my concern that it's if you if you let's see and I don't think you can even view visualize this one but if you go to the. Oh, I'll have to put it into it. If we were to look at this in the visualization view were it available what we would see is 1520 or more UI improvement items as individual line items that are each one by itself doesn't look terribly interesting the bigger picture is that there's a major UI improvement and I'm not not yet settled on what the best way is to express that in this in this change log. Okay, great. Thanks for clarifying mark appreciate it. Would it be good to just group them into themes and write one paragraph about each theme for maybe a handful of things like three to five themes for example plugin manager improvements. Configure project improvements or things like that. Yeah, that that might be that may be the technique because what I detected three or four themes, and actually group them in the poll request by those themes with a comment above each so I may I may experiment with that just as an alternative Kevin because I'm wrestling with this one. The, this is a cool release it's got some brilliant functionality in it and the change log sometimes obscures it by being too detailed. Got it. Can we add screenshots to it because that would make it even more. Well, it might not be possible. We, I don't have a way to do screenshots but if we want that we could certainly do a blog post that highlights this and then, then we can do the full story right and that maybe we've certainly done. We did a full webinar on 277.1 when we did the tables to divs transition, and we could do the same thing here as a blog post and a webinar on. Hey look what's coming and then we can talk high level we can show pictures we can demonstrate. And that may be the thing to do here is just admit this one is large enough that it really needs a separate webinar. That makes sense. Any other questions for move on to the next item under the June LTS change law. Okay. So, again basil created the required Java 11 epic and documentation related tasks. So right now the first week releases scheduled for June 21 and the first LTS to require Java 11 looks to be September 2022. And, and in that regard, these are the four document tasks that basil created. He's assigned them to himself, but there are a couple here that I might be able to take over or help with just due to what I'm going to be doing my experience and everything else. So I was hoping that you'd be able to kind of just take us through those. And if there, once we get through those, just, if I have questions or anything like that I can ask them for and get some better insight. Yeah, absolutely. Sounds great. Great. So Kevin if you'll just click the links for each of those. I think that'll give us a vehicle for Basel to get and start from the very top. Oh, yeah, okay. Bottom one is fine too but for me that top one. Yeah. So, so this, this is referring to the changes in the packaging repository. And these pages are visible. If you go to Jenkins.io and click on the download Jenkins link it'll take you to a list of packages that we build and publish. And in the footer of, or sorry, the header of that page is header dot HTML. And the link has a list of releases and the minimum Java version that you could, you could also find it in the UI and on the actual website there. Yeah, exactly. So somewhere on this page. I think might be, it might be if you click on one of the, one of the packages like, like for example I think if we, if we can't remember where to find it. Kevin, going up to going up to Ubuntu slash Debian on either the left or the right hand side. Yeah, yeah so on this page at the very bottom it says, you know 2.164 requires Java 8 or Java 11. So, basically that list needs to get updated to show the new requirement for Java 11. So there's a complication with this page in that the code you're looking at to generate that text. It's currently the same HTML file for both the LTS and the weekly. So that's really the difficult part of this task is to figure out how to show something different for the weekly compared to the LTS so the URL we're looking at right now is slash Debian. But there's another, there's another URL mark probably remembers offhand that shows the LTS download link. For example, I think you could get to it if you go back up and then go to the page for the stable. Yeah, so left hand column. The left hand column. Yeah, there's a button to slash Debian. So on that link that shows you the setting that shows the same information down there. So the challenge with this to figure out how to keep that the same for this page but to change that text for the other page for the page for the weekly release. Do you see the point. Yeah, because the LTS is going to come out after the weeklies have already been coming out. And so we have to make sure that the weeklies get updated and show the relevant information but at the same time the LTS will be able to require that until it's released or until we get to that point. Yeah, so I think this would have been a trivial, just updating one string in one file, if it weren't for this complication. So, I think it could just be done by, you know, copying and pasting the text or finding some way to include a different string a different page. I haven't looked into it very closely. So something to that effect. And actually, there is a little bit of JavaScript available that would apparently allow a page to dynamically change its content based on its URL. So we may actually with a little bit of JavaScript embedded have a facility to do this. Wonderful. I have no idea if it works I'm not a JavaScript coding but Mark is it something that we'd be able to work on together or check out or I think so. We can certainly toy with it to see because you need to know how to how to modify this and and Basel's right on the weekly side we on both sides we want to accurately describe what the version requirements are it would be better for this page the stable one. If it gave stable version numbers instead of just giving weekly version numbers right the reader of this page doesn't know that 2.54 was some was followed by some LTS sometime later they're they're thinking LTS. So it's a good, good excuse for us to do it in general. Great. Thank you so much. I appreciate walking through that one. Is there anything else on this specific date or on this one that you want to mention or is that everything. That's all. Okay, great. Thank you. Okay, and then we'll take a look at the user documentation updates as well. Yeah, so this, in this ticket I went through basically did a grep through the entire Jenkins.io repository looking for any place where I found the string Java aid JDK aid jre aid, anything Java related and the number eight. At a high level that's not, maybe not the best way of going about this because what that shows is things that are incorrect that need to be corrected but that doesn't, that process or that methodology doesn't necessarily highlight things that need to be added to explain new things. So that's the same methodology I used for system D. And once I worked on that mark very correctly pointed out well it's not just matter of correcting the now incorrect pages but also adding new pages about the system, the new system D functionality. So we worked on that together to not only go through this process but also to add new content. I don't think it will really need any new content about Java 11. I don't think Mark has a different opinion but there aren't really any new installation requirements or management requirements so I don't believe that we would need to write any new content here apart from just how to upgrade and we already have a page for that. And it's even linking to a YouTube video about how to upgrade. So, I think that all that's needed is to just update everything that's going to be wrong to the correct values rather than ready new content. What about that Mark or did you think that we need new content here. No, I think you're right. In the main, if we discover something where we're missing content. We should be ashamed of ourselves because we've been shipping Java 11 support for over two years. Right, so if we find something missing it's not a new missing it's wow we should have had this for a long time. Yeah, so with that point aside, all these bullet points are just going through the existing content and finding any places that need to be updated. And the, the, the general theme here is, if it says Java eight or 11 to simply change that text to say Java 11 and there, there are some places where there's two sections, a section for Java eight and a section for Java 11 so the Java eight section can just be deleted in those cases. And, and what one thing I noted in this ticket is that a lot of the times the wording is set up to introduce a contrast between these two sections. So, a mechanical removal of one section might still result in an awkward flow of the text. If the text is setting you up for a contract and then you only get one half of the contrast rather than the two, the two sides of the contrast so one thing I noticed as I was reading the messages was that if I was going through and mechanically deleting the Java eight sections that I had, I would probably need to reword some of the text a little bit to now read smoothly under the, under the assumption that there's no contrast being made anymore or something now. So, so at a high level it's a very mechanical change but then at a more low level I think there might, there might be some areas that just need to be phrased more smoothly to deal with this lack of two, two items being contrasted and that, that's probably the most objective part of this, this change. And the other subjective part of this is this. Again, this perennial issue with LTS versus weekly, because there's only, we don't have branches in the Jenkins.io documentation and there's only one primary branch that shows the latest version of the docs. And I think for system D, we kind of took a compromise approach where in some cases we just changed the page to refer to the weekly version and decided okay, we're all right with this not being very accurate for a period of three months until the LTS is released. And if the, if it's some very minor section of a minor page, it might not be worth spending too much time to, you know, write the page for to describe both weekly and LTS and then go back in three months and revise that again it's a lot of work to do that. If it's a section of a minor page, that effort may not be the best use of time. But I think for system D for the, there's one major page that we, we did, I think edit that to describe both weekly and LTS, because in one case, and in the main page about managing Mark felt that it was important to have that page remain accurate for LTS, since it was the primary discussion of that topic. So that might be necessary here as well if there's, I think there is one primary if you scroll up. There's one primary page about Java. Yeah that the very first link, you know requirements slash Java dot a doc. I think that's really the main primary documentation page that describes Java support. If any, if there were any page where we do that extra work of describing LTS and weekly and then going back and revising it, it would probably be that page, rather than for example these other obscure pages like Jenkins command parameters dot a doc which has a section of the very one about these old Java versions that might not be the highest priority to go and rephrase that for LTS and weekly and go back and update it in three months will we probably be okay living with that page just being slightly inaccurate for LTS users for for two to three months or three to four months. But to to further support what Basel is saying, I think it is perfectly okay for us to just like we're doing with the screenshot project. We're taking screenshots from a weekly version to 346 or later, because that will be what LTS looks like in the future. And we've accepted for the screenshot project that for from now until the June LTS that screenshot is not quite accurate. In most cases it's actually still better than what we had before than what it's replacing, because what it's replacing was so old and in this case, most of these with with a notable exception that that Basel noted maybe the first first one. I think it's perfectly fine if they just act like Java eight is no longer supported, because we don't want people doing new new installations and new works with new work with Java eight. Even if it is still supported we don't want to inspire them to use it. Right and where the end goal is to have everyone on Java 11, pushing a narrative where we're kind of still supporting that is just going to send the wrong message. Exactly. Yeah, so I think it's, it's safe. Kevin, when you start looking at this one if you're willing to look at this one that that there are places there where you'll just delete entire chunks that are referring to Java eight. And we accept that in the short term. Hey, we're not admitting that we still support Java eight in this aspect. Yeah, no, and I feel absolutely capable and comfortable taking on those two documentation tickets helping out updating that stuff no problem at all. One question I did when I asked Basil, as far as the original value versus new value stuff. I mean, is this kind of just where you were marking down what changes you found needs to be made or are these the exact changes that should be made, I guess. No, this is the, this is the edit history of the, the JIRA ticket itself. I basically, I wrote, I wrote this issue description, and then after I had finished writing it. I wanted to add an additional note at the bottom about this, this perennial issue of LTS versus so I went back and added some extra text, and that's, so that's what you see there. So when I'm when I'm browsing JIRA, I usually hide that view and just look at the comments view in order for me not to say I'm normally not so interested in the edit history of the description. But it's useful for me when I want to go back and see someone made an edit what the original version is. I don't think in this. I might have done better in this case or just add a comment with my note whether it's edit the original description but either way I don't think it matters too much. Yeah, no, and that's fine. It was more my curiosity since I was just looking at the ticket really kind of in depth for the first time off Jenkins JIRA. So, yeah, so I was more my curiosity of what the all meant in this case and if those were actually part of the needed changes or not so thank you for clarifying that I appreciate it. And GitHub to there's a way to look at friendly comment and get up this way to look at the edit history for that comment as well. So, I think that that's mostly just a matter of the tool, allowing you to look at the edit the edit history and sometimes that's very valuable valuable for me because people will sometimes paste stuff into JIRA and when people go and edit it they sometimes lose the formatting. So it's sometimes valuable to be able to go back and see how it was originally formatted before someone made an edit and messed up the formatting so that's what I that's what I use that feature for the most. Got it. Thank you. Appreciate it. Okay, and then the other two tickets battle where the upgrade guide and the was the last one the blog post that I have. I didn't fill in any descriptions in these yet or it's not yet, because I was fighting on writing them myself, but few, if you want me to discuss what I had in mind that could do that. If that's, if you wanted to use this meeting for that purpose. Mark, if you want to feel that when I'm not sure on that case. So I have no objections Basel but I trust also what you're going to describe will be. I've loved your past blog posts, the guava post and the system be posts they were both brilliant. For this one I'm going to try to talk about the nature of this migration because it's not it's not a it's not the usual Java upgrade for like we've done for Java seven to eight and before that six to seven. You know Java 11 introduces a lot of incompatibilities. So I think I'm going to try to explain what those are and what that means to administrators. One of the big ones is this removal of Jack's be which affects Jenkins the most. But more generally kind of reflecting on the, the, the evolution of the Java community and how 11 was a release that broke compatibility and some ways that were unprecedented. And the same will be the case for 17 so kind of explaining to administrators who might not be familiar with Java programming on a day to day basis that you know this is not, you know that the community has gone in the direction that is different from some of the past releases and I think explaining that in a to a target audience of Jenkins administrators who might not necessarily be Java developers themselves. I think that's probably the goal of my blog post. So I'm hoping to kind of cover that, that topic, as well as the usual how to file issues and how to upgrade your plugins and things like that. So, great. So for the for the upgrade guide it's just going to be the, the how to file issues and upgrade your plugins portion of the blog post. Just repeated. So that's what I'm going to start writing that today, hopefully, but I plan on sharing a draft in these tickets, I'll probably write it in Google Docs and then share the draft here. And, you know, I'll be happy to get some people to read the draft and to leave comments on it. So instead of getting this information to the users, the blog post will can certainly be highlighted to the users as a link from the June 21 change log saying hey here's this. We don't really have an upgrade guide for weekly so I'm prone to say we'll point them to the change log from the change log to the blog post for the weekly and this upgrade guide will be mostly for LTS is that does that work for you. I think that's what we did for Guava, but if we didn't then we should have because it's great. Okay, great. Thank you. Thanks for the clarity. Thanks so much. I appreciate all of that. And I know we're running up against time. So, Mark, do you want to just quickly go over those you go to Africa. Yeah, this is a one minute update, it's that the screenshots update project project, the screenshot updates project has surveyed the Jenkins.io website, www Jenkins.io looking for what pages that need a screenshot update and identified them and they did a lot of them, and the ones that they didn't do are still in our list. So we know to do them. So nice, nice help there. The inclusive naming project had actually already touched the Jenkins documentation long ago, well before she called Africa, most of the all the pull requests from this change, this particular project were to specific plugins. So, good work. Thanks to them. That's it for me. Does anyone have anything else before we wrap up for today? Nope. All right. Thanks we can wrap up now Mark for end recording.


South Africa's supermarkets dominate the region. In South Africa, just like anywhere else in the world, supermarket shelves are stocked with locally produced goods and imported goods. But when it comes to those imported goods, it is often cheaper to fly and ship goods from South America than it is to drive goods from neighbouring countries in Southern Africa. Even when the goods are made cheaply in the region. Why is this? Researchers from the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development in collaboration with the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, U&U Wider, are trying to find an answer to this question. This is part of a U&U Wider project across countries in Southern Africa to identify key areas for win-win policies in the region. Over 70% and some estimates are even higher of goods transported within Africa and in Southern Africa are transported by road transport. Supermarkets matter for South Africa and Southern Africa from the perspective of shoppers, U&I, but importantly from the perspective of suppliers and developing capabilities of suppliers in the region. Supermarkets offer a pathway through which suppliers can supply their products not just in their local respective countries but throughout the Southern African region. Researchers spoke to dozens of transporters, tracking associations and agents operating within the Southern African region. This work pointed them to one of the central problems, border controls. My name is Chris Ruit from Wirtan Ruit, a market agent. I've been on Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market for over 40 years. We sell for producers on a commission basis. Mostly vegetables, fruit, potatoes and onions. Unfortunately at this stage very little of our produce do live in South Africa. The problems is the logistics. Transport and border control is a problem. Getting the produce in a fresh state into those countries quick enough. My name is Wayne Smith. I'm from International Runner Services. I opened my business officially in 1995 so 23 years we've been in business trading as transporters in the region. Covering Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia. We've done them all. Delays at the border are currently regulations, the documentation process. There's no uniform agreed principles in dealing with any border posts. It's a day-to-day Russian relief basically where we're sitting and we're going, okay, we need to get through this border but the procedure at the border is flawed. We can spend anything from two to eight days on the current routes that we are applying. The delays are there. My name is Kainos Maranda and I've been driving starting from 1993. Driving to Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana. By the border I wait for a long time. You delay while you're on the queue to cross because there'll be a lot of tracks. It's frustrating because one of the borders there is notice in a place where you can hide for the sun. Most of the borders, they are very, very hot. Transpor cost between, say, for instance, Zambia and South Africa are around double what they should be compared to benchmarks around the world. The truck standing idle at the border gates between South Africa and Zimbabwe costs around $400 to $600 per day standing still. This translates then to around $20 per tonne that is then loaded onto the price of transporting those goods. You remove that $20 per day and you have goods that are suddenly far more competitive when sold across borders within the South African region. The delays that we are having at the border, the cost of it is between $200 and $300 a day but the real cost that we can't recover is the $400 to $500 that we could have made out of that vehicle on the current routes that we are applying. One key proposition that emerged from the research is the idea of a one-stop border post across the South African region. Currently we have two countries with two border posts. Double work, duplication of immigration, duplication of customs functionality. We've got agricultural duplications on both ports where it could be controlled and contained in one border post. They should have made a one-stop border from SSI to just go to the same side and close. But this is not happening. You spend a day at SSI, then Zimbabwe inside again there is another day for new things but the same documents that has been done from this side to the other side again. The research also points to another reason why trade in Southern Africa is less than it could be. Many of the trucks that leave South Africa hitting North come back empty. We care about growth in South Africa and in the Southern African region but at the moment it's too much of a one-way street. What we see is value-added products leaving South Africa to get onto supermarket shelves in Zambia. Where the opportunity lies is to get those trucks to come back carrying output that's been produced in the partner countries. For South African supermarkets to source products from the region, from suppliers in the region, put them on trucks and sell them in South African supermarket shelves. Most of our loads are coming from South Africa. So in Zimbabwe we don't have much loads. Maybe it will be some boxes, maybe 5-10 boxes. Not that much. 99% of our loads return empty. If we came back with cargo from the regions that we've just delivered to, we would be able to reduce our costs between 20 and 30% of our current value going to the destination. That will be the exciting thing for us. There are opportunities here to load goods onto those trucks and bring them back into the South African market which would have the effect, importantly, of reducing the cost paid by your South African exporter as well as enabling opportunities to access the largest regional market for your exporters in the different countries. Which is really the end goal in terms of achieving greater regional integration but also industrial development. If trucks come back from the Southern African region full to South Africa, we move from being a one-way street to a two-way street where growth benefits both South Africa and the Southern African region.


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So already, I guess if you're keeping tally, that's two wins for the other guys and one for Nintendo. But see, I'm not talking about who is going to win the next generation of gaming. Nintendo's technically already off to a great start and it gets really confusing when you throw the Wii U in the mix, but who knows. Winning is often just determined by sales figures. PlayStation 5 could outsell the Switch at the end of it all. It could have more software sales as well. So could the Xbox Series X for that matter. But seeing being in position to compete doesn't really mean you're going to win in the classic sense of the word. What it does mean, however, is you're not going to be forgotten about or left behind. See, Nintendo already owns this year. Did you know they have seven published games in 2020 for Switch through the month of July? Ha! I bet you didn't even realize they had that many Well, I guess that big of an output this year. 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In the age of social media content, the online autistic communities are getting more and more popular by the day equally. The exposure of mainstream individuals to said content is becoming a lot more prevalent. It's undoubtedly going to land pretty poorly for many outside of that community. I mean, terms like neurodivergent and internalized ableism and sensory joy are all going to seem a little bit absurd or at least a little bit strange to the majority of people. Autistic creators receive a plethora of negative judgments and comments by general Joes outside in the mainstream communities. The autistic community is becoming more and more polarized by the day with lots of infighting, lots of disagreements. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. Autistic creators are stuck in a little bit of a paradox, being criticized for presenting themselves as stereotypically autistic on one hand and not autistic enough on the other hand. But I think even as an autistic individual or a disabled individual, you will understand this concept quite well. It happens both in the online world and in real life. The first point of contention is this idea of infantilization versus normalization. If you don't know infantilization means it's basically the act of treating or referring to an adult as a child, as an infant, or treating them that way. It's something that we experience both in the medical setting, in social settings, both in friendships, familial relationships. How lucky I am to be loved by such a simple, honest, simple man. But in the online spaces, this idea of sort of widespread infantilization usually comes in the form of criticising individuals for displaying traits that many deem to be child-like. You may be thinking, well what's so bad about trying to reduce the perception of autism being child-like? And a lot of people may agree of you on that front. The thing that I've realised on TikTok is autism is highly presented in an infantilising way with traits that are often child-like and associated with QT terminology, making it appealing and like a club where people submit applications to. The problem is autism isn't commonly like this at all and it shouldn't be rebranded into a safe haven for quirky behaviour. I think it's a lot more nuanced than that. When autistic people express themselves, they want to try and paint a realistic view of what they are like and try to encourage others to feel not so much shame that it's a very common experience for a lot of autistic people in their daily life due to their autistic traits. You may see individuals posting about TV shows that they like, which do particularly have a very very strongly geared demographic of young people, but it is something that some autistic adults find to be their special interests, something that sues them, something that brings them joy. You all know him and you all love him, feel like he's the most important character we have in the show Bluey and it's all about the key word of the video, neurodevelopmental condition. Another really really prevalent thing which people do pick up on quite a bit is when autistic people show themselves steaming on camera, something that is very heavily characterised in terms of the autistic community as being a pretty repetitive, self-regulatory, stereotypical behaviour. It's something that everybody does to a certain extent, you may find yourself sort of as a neurotypical person, biting your nails, the skin around your nails or pen lids or twizzling or bouncing your leg up and down, these are very very common things that people do and they do provide us with input which can be quite regulating for us. But in the autistic context, steaming are these very repetitive things, you might see people who like visual stimming, having their hands flicking in front of their face, you might see people flapping or rocking. For me, a really really big one that no one really notices is that I very much changed my head position quite a lot because I really like that vestibular balance-based input. On the other side of the coin you have people who are trying to sort of reframe autism into being something which is a little bit more mature, a little bit more akin to sort of social normative values and these individuals mostly get quite annoyed or quite upset when they are portrayed online or in the mainstream media as being somewhat childlike when they're not. I can understand the sentiment there and people with a perhaps less progressive, more kind of conservative mindset might find themselves in this camp. When they see people who in their eyes are somewhat infantilizing autism as perhaps being sort of age-regressive in certain ways, they might become slightly disturbed by feeling like this is the representation that their group is having. There's a fine balance, I think. The balance there is that every autistic person is different. For me, I have some things which are pretty sort of mature interests that are considered to be age-appropriate in people's eyes or socially normative. I also have some things that I do like which, you know, to be honest, a lot of individuals on the earth enjoy, which are generally geared towards children like Pokemon. Obviously, there have been communities which have off-shooted from each of these different sort of groups, created more sort of mature content, more sort of in-depth. There's a lot of progression in that sense in those communities, but it comes down to the same idea that just because most people like it who are adults does not mean that it's age-appropriate necessarily, and do we really need to be applying what is age-appropriate to certain activities that people do? If people enjoy something and they want to share it online on their own profile, which is something that everyone should have the capability to do to a certain extent, obviously, then what's the harm? When you look at the autistic community, you have to remember that everyone is very, very individualistic. You're not really going to get one autistic person who's the same as another autistic person. As long as we have a clear idea and everyone's sort of being themselves, I think that's okay. It doesn't really matter which way you go on this. People are always going to have something to say.  On the other side, if you never show stimming, people are going to be like, oh, are you actually even autistic? Do you actually even have any autistic traits, any stimming, any sensory differences? There are massive amounts of people who will sort of call you out on this, but there is a significant amount of people, especially when videos or pieces of content tend to become more popular and have a little bit more outreach into the mainstream spheres. Warning. Yep. It's fake disorder cringe time once again. Sorry, Gabby. I know it's your birthday when we came to the trampoline park to celebrate, but honestly, mommy couldn't figure out how to make sure you were jumping neurotypically. And it would be very ableist of you to jump on the trampoline when that's obviously a neurodivergent stim. Come on now, dawg. Come on, man. Perhaps the biggest issue that a lot of autistic creators that I've talked to, including myself, have online is that when you speak about autism in general, or when you speak even about your own autistic experiences, people are always going to disagree in some sense due to the nature of autism. You might find that in a lot of my videos, I have caveats at the start which say not all autistic people are the same. You may not identify with every single part of this kind of concept. And this is something that is pretty much replicable in all of the autism content which is online. To create content which isn't solely about your experiences, you need to be somewhat general. And when you are general, you are inevitably going to cut out other people's experiences.  It doesn't even matter if you are talking about your own experiences. Even if you highlight that you are generally talking specifically about your experience with any said autistic trait or any autism experience outside in the big wide world. People are going to point to the general findings or the general norms that autistic people follow. Although not particularly bad, not particularly sort of harming your ability to create, it surprisingly does get a lot of people commenting. Everyone likes to think that they have the best sort of conceptualization of what autism is because everybody has, or at least autistic people have, their own lived experience. You can try as you very much can to talk about autism in general and people are going to highlight individual differences and you can highlight individual experiences and people are going to talk about general differences. And this isn't necessarily just talking about autistic creators. This can mean anybody. This can mean any social circle. The last point of contention, you can talk about autism negatively and people will get upset at you or they will say that you're trying to victimize yourself. You're trying to grift. You're trying to appeal to the masses by painting yourself as a very damaged victimized individual.  You also encourage the sort of mainstream mob coming over and saying that you're glamorizing autism as some form of like fashionable label.  Everybody has their own lens. Everybody has their own experience and way of thinking about their experiences. I know some people who see it as a complete negative thing. I still follow them. I still listen to them. I see some people who have a complete positive regard for autism. It's a superpower and our kids be like, oh, daddy, I've got a superpower. I'm the same as Tom Stokman, you know, and it's really cool to hear they're not autistic. They're not disabled. They've got a superpower. So and some people who kind of sit somewhere in the middle, like myself, where I see it as more of a difference. I see it as quite individual. Some people need very, very high supports constantly sort of around the clock. I've worked with some of these individuals and some people find that it is somewhat annoying. It's somewhat kind of holds them back and some people have an even more sort of positive view where they see, you know, the real positives and they take that for what autism is. And they see the negatives as sort of being a little bit more in the background, but still sort of there. Whatever frame you take, whatever stance you take, when you're delivering autism content, you're undoubtedly going to get some people who don't agree with you and saying that you're doing autistic people a disservice for any view that you may have, which might differ slightly to their perspective on autism. There are people out there who very strongly sort of enforce a particular way of looking at autism. They do so in a very sort of social dogma like fashion, where anybody who doesn't use the right language, anyone who doesn't have the right opinion or perspective is immediately going to be labeled with all sorts of horrible words over the family, Morty. And if you tell your mom or sister, I said any of this, I'll deny it. And they'll take my side because I'm a hero, Morty. And now you're going to go and do whatever I say, Morty. People very much overrate the influence that influencers have. I don't think that we necessarily have the power that a lot of people think we do. I think we can offer some insights for people to think about. We can provide some arguments in a sense, unless we're like telling people what to do or like shaming people or like criticising people for having different opinions in a very non-constructive way. In the same vein as we kind of overrate the influence of autistic influencers, autistic creators, we also underrate the ability for other people to make their own decisions. Like I don't think that I think there's probably a very minority of people who are just immediately convinced by anything that they see. I think a lot of people take into account other content that's being created, their own experiences. I think when we put sort of influences up on a pedestal and say that, you know, their word is so impactful, we're very much undermining the ability for individuals to make their own decisions, their own opinions, have critical judgement. A lot of these things will be applicable, I think, to a lot of the social conversations that we may have outside in the big wide world. I haven't been outside in days and I'm not looking forward to it. Oh God, natural light. I'm joking, I'm joking, not really. Do you see these paradoxes being replicated in the online spaces that you're a part of? It's been lovely to have you here. I hope you'll join me for another. You can hang around if you want. Probably just going to chill for a bit. But alternatively, you could, you could check out this video. It's a pretty good one. Yeah, pretty spicy.