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How to capitalise during covid-19 - The hoarding tutorial

Hoarding and capitalizing during a pandemic is not really a good thing to do, ethically and legally, both. Yet there is a way we all can use this time to capitalize the most and that is the capitalization of words. Words get together and form information, which later translates into knowledge and skills. The best way we can collect capital during this hard time is by utilizing the time for the best of our learning. Here, we've devised a few things and a few ways which you can best use to learn the things which you can spread further for the benefit of others and also, get some monetary reward out of it. ‌Social Media Skills; Social Media is the new normal of 21st century. We should now start calling it the real life instead of the virtual life. Learning Social Media for personal branding and for the best building of your online reputation if the key to success in thia modern world, because the amount of connection and the impact of online reputation is almost 5 times the offl...

Music is Always there for Us

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Music is always there for us in happy, sad, and difficult moments. We hear what our heart wants to hear because there are some feelings we can not express but music helps us to relate to them. music is not for our ears it is for our souls and in these difficult times of the global outbreak we must have a good playlist to survive.   The previous decade will be known for the time that transformed how music was consumed all around the world. At the beginning of the decade, MP3 formats were all the rage but as soon as the decade progressed, huge leaps in technology has brought us all in the time of streaming exclusives and music developed with it too. There can’t really be a way to judge a song. Music does different things for different people and everyone has their own choice and taste of music genres to listen to. According to billboard, here are the top ten songs that defined the decade. Somebody That I Used to Know  – Gotye Ft Kimbra Released in 2011, th...

State, Clerics and Pandemic

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(2 mins read) A few weeks ago, one of the most famous religious scholar, Maulana Tariq Jamil was again in news. During the PM Imran Khan’s live telethon on the national television, he had held women of Pakistan responsible for the corona-virus pandemic. This invited a great wave of outrage a cross Pakistan.  It’s not the first time that Tariq Jamil(or any orthodox religious leader for that matter) has blamed the women for bringing in a disaster. Earlier women were responsible for earthquakes and now a pandemic.  Their version of religion starts and ends on women’s bodies but sometimes it serves as a mirror when you realize how women’s bodies have historically been used as a political tool against a whole segment of society.  When Tariq Jamil or any religious/political leader calls women the nation’s daughters and puts the burden of modesty on their shoulders, it’s a reminder that the state has created an idea of womanhood and failing to adhere to that will resul...

How bad is COVID-19 for our mental health?

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(2 mins read) There are a lot of reasons that are cause of major stress all around the world like misinformation about the virus on the internet, rise in the number of cases, changes in our lifestyle, staying home alone, social distancing and many more. If we try to list down the causes there will be huge list of the stressors because of COVID-19. All of the us are focused on erasing the virus and we are not seeing how it’s affecting the mental health of the people. Everyone has a fear of going out in public and getting exposed to the virus. Once the virus is eradicated from the world the new problem is of the psychological issues that people are going to face. As all of the governments have ordered their people to stay at home and stay in isolation is going to affect the mental health of the people a lot. Longer periods of physical isolation, especially if experienced as involuntary, without an adequate and convincing explanation, or accompanied by financial losses can c...

Facebook can Locate Users Who Opt Out of Tracking

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(2 min read) Facebook can determine where users are even if they opt out of having their whereabouts tracked, the company revealed in a letter sent to US Senate. In the missive, which was widely shared on social media Tuesday, Facebook explained ways it can still figure out where people are after they have selected not to share precise location data with the company. The social network, which was responding to a request for information by two senators, contended that knowing a user's whereabouts has benefits ranging from showing ads for nearby shops to fighting hackers and battling misinformation. “ There is no opting out. No control over your personal information ," Republican Senator Josh Hawley said in a tweet. Facebook said that clues for figuring out a user's location include being tagged in a photo at a specific place or a check-in at a location such as at a restaurant during a dinner with friends. People may share an address for purchases at ...