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Hi guys, massively desperate to squeeze the maximum of my pro’s life left before I buy a new one in a month.
As we all know the touchbar has been acting up and up until yesterday my laptop was running even though the touchbar was black. As of yesterday evening I’m stuck in kernel panics because I’m getting no successful check in from the touchbar daemon - I was wondering if renaming/unloading the touchbar deamon will resolve this issue? I just need a temporary fix. If yes, has anybody had any success with renaming/moving the .plist file? I’ve logged in through recovery, sudo doesn’t make a difference since recovery logs me as a root user, I’ve mounted on the target disk, tried mount -uw / but the .plist file won’t budge from being read only.
Any help is appreciated, surviving a month without a laptop isn’t the worst but if I can I’d love to avoid that scenario

Hello guys,
My main role is P1. It's what I enjoy the most, and since last september I've gained over 1000 MMR playing this role. But I think my laning stage is consistently bad, although I understand basic concepts of laning. Creep equilibrium, Trading, Resource Management. Unless I get an extremely easy lane, I will often end up having less than 60 cs by the 10min mark. I will almost always have lower NW than what Dota+ shows me. Although I have this feeling of being a bad laner, I win more than I lose on this role, but I want to really improve as a player and watching pro players play carry I'm really impressed with how they play their lanes. I think if I can improve this aspect of my gameplay, I can truly step up and improve a lot as a whole.
Regarding creep equilibrium, I feel like I manage it pretty well. But sometimes, I will trade with the enemy and by right clicking him, I will aggro their creeps and mine will push more than theirs. Or I will have my support who will harrass the enemy by standing in the creeps and fuck up the equilibrium. How do you deal with that ? How do you deal aswell with support who only single pull the camp and therefore make the lane push as fuck ?
For the trading side of thing, I think this is where I really misplay. Last few games I've been noticing how I die a lot early by trades who dont go in my favour. If I don't die, I compensate by sending regen, or using what I have already in my inv obviously. Honestly I'm clueless if I do good or bad or very bad here.
I will link in addition to the questions link 3 games, if someone experienced can take the time to look at laning stage I will greatly appreciate it !
Match 1, playing PL support CM, enemy off Void sup BH : 7770602069
Match 2, playing WK, sup HW, overly easy lane, easy game : 7766442354
Match 3, playing Jugg, sup Io, enemy DK and SB, lost lane lost game : 7765877976
Thanks!

Hi all,
Leaving the U.K. in Sept/Oct sorta time. I’m about 90% decided on Bangkok. 29M moving out to lock in on my agency business and to improve my health. Gonna stay on a Muay Thai student visa / the new DN visa and will be going out with at least £12k/$15k. Budgeted for at least six months stay, but obviously ideally I’ll be making more than enough money by then to not need my savings. Whilst I’m set on Bangkok, I know nothing about the different areas! Please help me :)
Here’s what I’d like: - To spend ~£500/25000thb a month on rent. Swimming pool & gym are important. To have both in the apartment complex would be ideal, if anybody knows of any good developments. Open to a bigger, older style place if there are good amenities close by

• A safe, slightly greener area of the city if they exist. I’m autistic and whilst I find city life invigorating, it can sometimes be a little much so I’d appreciate a more chill area. I’m not regularly doing luxury shopping or eating at top restaurants regularly at this stage in my life, I’m happy to live further out and travel in for that type of thing.
  
• Good Muay Thai gyms
  
• Ideally somewhere that is local enough to get the feel of the place, is decent for networking but not a complete DN enclave.
  

TLDR: All I want to do in Bangkok is wake up, go boxing, go for a swim, get my work done then hit the town for some dinner. Repeat until I’m rich and healthy. Best areas in Bangkok for this?
Thanks 🙏🏻❤️🇹🇭

I just finished rewatching EA S2 and I had forgotten that they had lost the escape room challenge. Now I’m wondering what will happen in the seasons to come.
I think it has potential to become another NJTW. I was reading another thread somewhere and a commenter mentioned that the repetitiveness of NJTW is why it got boring (going to a random country and getting the dragon balls and all of that jazz). While I enjoyed all of the seasons of NJTW and even the spin offs, I do agree that it did get a bit stale. In comparison, EA feels like a breath of fresh air.
I don’t want that to happen to EA because I think we need more women led variety shows and while I like Kang Hodong (to an extent), his character is a bit stale. The relationships in EA feel more natural and although they have traits that repeat obviously,
it doesn’t feel like a bit. It’s just who they are as people.
So I’m thinking that next season will open with them having to do a part time job (hopefully this takes up an episode max) They work and then Torong will make mess of things and blame it on them. This will lead to the Jade Emperor basically telling them that if you don’t catch Torong then you’ll have get whatever penalty. This will lead to them having to go another country to catch Torong.
I think this will give it a bit of a boost. They can also get someone to play the Jade Emperor and use that to make his character more popular. Maybe they could rent a rice cake shop for a day and say it’s a branch store of the one of the moon and the girls will have to work.
I’m going to organize this post later. Anyways, what do you guys think?

Heiii, maybe someone understands this situation and can help :) So my boyfriend is studying in Germany at a university for his masters. He took a little longer but still never had any issues with his aufenthaltstitel. So this month his aufenthaltstitel expired but he already had an appointment in February to extend it again. When he went there the guy that worked there didn’t understand why he takes so long for his masters, but he explained that there where several incidents that happened, and also that he is now really focused on his studies and passing all of them ( or at least it looks like he’s doing that so far) he also mentioned that he will take a German intensiv course in summer semester (so now). The guy from the Ausländerbehörde said that he will check up with the university and if there’s no problem then he will be able to come pick up his Aufenthaltstitel. My boyfriend also checked with the university and they said there’s no issues, cause he’s visiting all his classes and also has good grades. So we thought everything is fine to get the aufenthaltstitel. But it’s been 3 months since the appointment to extend it and still we didn’t receive any information if he will get it. Instead he received a letter yesterday, that his Fiktionsbescheinigung will expire in august with an appointment the exact same day that it’s getting expired. We don’t understand why. Because if the guy from Ausländerbehörde wants to check up on his grades and classes at university, then it doesn’t make any sense cause in august he won’t receive his results yet. Also he would have a problem with work then because with a Fiktionsbescheinigung they block you from working 10 days before expiration date. We really don’t understand why he still didn’t hear anything about his aufenthaltstitel, especially cause he also paid the 106€ for it in February already. Maybe someone knows more or had a similar situation

I'd expect the vast majority of the people who oppose what Israel is doing in Palestine are not loudly chanting at protests.

Again, you're entirely ignoring the point. If something is chanted by thousands, it's either a common belief, or at least one propagated by the leaders of the movement. Just because it doesn't fit with your perspective doesn't mean you can dismiss it.

Then why does the article I linked clearly show leaflets advising civilians to evacuate to the area where the strike occurred?

Did you look at the map? The leaflet very clearly says The Humanitarian Area, which extends into northern Tal As Sultan. The map pretty clearly shows that.

Do you not think it at all suspicious that Israel have a recording of the event that would very clearly exonerate them, and yet have not released it or even claimed that their recording shows this?

Jesus christ my guy, they literally did release the footage. Just because you refuse to look it up doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
They literally did release footage of the strike itself. Footage in which you can see that the aerial map they released is correct, as the buildings surrounding the area in the video are the same as the ones for where they claimed the strike is in the map they released. In the map, btw, you can see that the area of the strike is removed from the tents. All of this is in the articles I linked.

don't think you've quite appreciated the difference between "footage" and "footage that shows X".

Just because you refuse to do any sort of personal deliberation and expect to be handed every piece of information on a spoon doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

We do know it was one of those small munitions, as I already said. Another thing we simultaneously know is that those small munitions could start a fir

And another thing we know is that the area where the strike occoured is removed from the tents. In fact both claimed locations of the strike are removed from the tents; both the IDF's and even Hamas' claims for where the strike occoured show them over 100 meters from where we know the fire started. Why do you drop that piece of information?
The IDF's claimed location is even entirely removed from the tents by an open area, and Hamas' claim has the entirety of the UN facility between the strike and the tents- a UN facility which didn't catch fire. So unless the fire somehow managed to spread across 100 meters of open field, or go around an entire aid distribution facility without anyone noticing, it's pretty safe to say that the bomb didn't start the fire.
Again, all of this is in the articles I linked. Just because you refuse to do any deliberation of your own doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

From where those tents were, sure. That doesn't mean there wasn't flammable material lying around that could have triggered a fire that reached those tents. Fuel, for example.

For 100 meters straight? And around a UN facility- but without it catching fire? And no one thought to mention it anywhere? That's some amazing fuel!

Then why have you decided that it is true, when the footage from those Palestinians does not show a secondary rocket explosion, and when the Israeli footage would show this if it had happened that way?

The footage from the Palestinians only started after the fire. And I'm not claiming it's true, I'm explaining to you why Israel is still investigating the matter, because you claimed that "if they claimed this then they should have all the footage!" When they aren't the ones who made that claim. Just like you and I, they are also investigating the fire.
Also, I brought them up because you were literally just dismissing that information because it came from Israel, even when it literally came from Palestinians.

Not even the Americans trust Israel to deliver aid

I'm sorry but you seem to have an entirely incomplete image of how the aid distribution works in Gaza. No, the Americans do trust Israel to coordinate aid. But that's just that, Israel doesn't deliver the aid, it coordinates it. What does that mean? Israel gathers all the aid donations, loads them unto trucks, and brings those trucks to Kerem Shalom or Erez. From there, the trucks are picked up by the UN and NGOs who then distribute them.
The problem with Gazan aid was distribution, as a lot of aid failed to reach its destination, and Israel refused to get involved in distribution. Israel literally had a backlog of hunderds of trucks which they already vetted, but we're waiting to be picked up by the UN.
The pier was opened because the US believed it would make distribution easier. But what happened after it opened? Did you intentionally leave that piece of information out?
I'll tell you.
70% of it was stolen.
Because the problem wasn't with Israeli coordination, it was with distribution. Those are two different things.

Yes, the conditions the population of Gaza were forced into for the past eight months were indeed extremely bad

Again, are you intentionally ignoring the point or are you just missing it? Yes, the situation of Gazans is dire. You still fail to explain how Rafah having houses for 171k people somehow makes it better for the remaining 1.5 million over a zone specifically designed to house large numbers of displaced people.

A few ideas - instead of bombing absolutely everything, focus attacks on clear military targets.

Thank you man! Why didn't they think of that?
I swear that people with no military experience will act like they're the chief of the Pentagon when it comes to this conflict.
I actually was in the military, so let's set a few things straight. when fighting guerilla warfare, there are no clear military targets. That's literally the definition of urban guerilla warfare. Embedding yourself within the urban environment and within civilians to fight against a stronger enemy. It isn't like there's buildings marked as "HAMAS HEADQUARTERS" that Israel can just attack and leave everyone else alone. Hamas very intentionally and very openly hides themselves within the civilian population and areas, hence why to attack them, you have to remove the civilians from the region via evacuation. That's literally how every urban conflict against a guerilla force in history was done. It was how the US fought against the Taliban in the cities of Afghanistan, it's how Iraqi forces fought against ISIS in Mosul, and its how the coalition fought against ISIS in Raqqa.
In fact, Raqqa and Mosul both saw far more destruction than Gaza did; with Gaza's figures suggesting 70% of the buildings were damaged to some capacity, where in Mosul some estimates go up to 80% or even 90%. When an enemy embeds themselves in a civilian population, there's no easy way of fighting them. Urban guerilla warfare is quite literally the ugliest form of combat.
As you mention the bombs, you seem to be under the impression they are just dropped for funsies. Like, "Oh, I feel like dropping a 2000 lbs bomb today! How about we do that here?"
It shows complete ignorance of military doctoring and combat. 2000 lbs bombs are also known as "bunker busters". Can you guess why? Because their impact is powerful enough to burst through the ground and collapse underground bunkers. Which might be useful when, oh, I don't know, your enemy has 500 Kilometers of tunnels weaving under your feet?
Lastly, you bring up the World Kitchen strike as some sort of Gotcha, but it perfectly encapsulates your cognitive dissonance. You're amplifying one incident over thousands of other successful strikes, and an incident even the head of World Kitchen said was a mistake. A mistake for which two of thw IDF's top generals were fired.
You're not the first person I say this to, and sadly, you won't be the last. But if you have no knowledge of military, don't try to act like you do. It just makes it seem like you're under the dunning Kruger effect.

The things that defines Kanye, or his thesis if you will, is that he does whatever the fuck he wants and that he is unique, for better and worse. He would rather be a leader than a swallower.
The College Dropout is Kanye going against the grain of rappers being drug dealers and murderers from the ghetto. Kanye grew up in a middle class suburb. He still dropped one of the greatest rap albums of all time. Late Registration was him backing up the claim he made in Last Call: "...and come back next year with the whole fucking game." Graduation was his victory tour during a time of great popularity for Kanye.
808s was not a rap album at all, it was synth-pop; Kanye singing over melancholic beats about past relationships. And he blew it out of the water, and influenced multiple artists and hip hop music as a whole. MBDTF was his magnum opus during a time of despair, sure you may have hated Kanye, people did back then including Obama, but after that album, could you truly say he made bad music? After listening to Runaway?
Then came Yeezus. Yeezus is Yeezus, I don't think I need to explain. TLOP was a schizophrenic album at its core, with heartbreak and sadness and bragging and anger and happiness. No one expected it. Ye was a slow theraputic album. Then Kanye decided to make a gospel album. Why? Fuck you, that's why. Donda was a horrid mess of an album that somehow was great. No one expected it, Kanye didn't bow to anyone during the making of these albums. Kanye did as he fucking wanted.
Kanye is also unique. Who else can make Runaway? Who else can make Last Call, or 30 Hours? Only Kanye can, there is an aura of uniqueness around him. When he retires; there won't be anyone near his level of uniqueness or skill for years.
And then comes Vultures. I listened to it when it came out. It was okay. BURN, BACK TO ME and STARS were my favourites. I would give it a 6/10 on the whole.
It was also the antithesis to Kanye. It was bland, commercial hip hop at its innermost core. Kanye didn't do what he wanted - he made a rap album that stuck to a list of checkboxes, focusing on making radio hits that bowed to the mainstream of trap music. The album didn't feel like Kanye, it felt... bland. Vultures could be made by someone else. That can't be said for the other albums he's released.
When I listened to the drums at the end of KING; I felt something in my heart. It was sadness, disgust, apprehension. The album was okay, but this wasn't Kanye. It felt like some skinwalker, taking his body and voice and using it to create a mediocre mainstream trap album.
This wasn't him. Kanye would not create Vultures, not the Kanye of old at least.

Talk to a kid. Why do I say that? I teach elementary school music in a very Haitian dominated school. And the girls are obsessed with my skin texture and hair texture.
Always hated my hair because Hashimoto’s messed up puberty’s transformation of it leaving it dry, frizzy and uneven curl wise. Now I don’t mind it so much and that’s just because the girls I teach are obsessed with it. My skin too…..they love pointing out how you can see my veins or how red my hands get after playing rhythm sticks with them compared to theirs. Oh and don’t get me started on how obsessed some of them are with my visible, four of them, tattoos.
I started acknowledging my confusion when they change hair styles, especially when they go from braids to natural hair or change up their braid styles. It takes me a minute or two to recognize them but I am getting use to it after 3 years of teaching here. But I never realized how much of a self esteem boost they in return give me. Especially when they throw out how they would love to see me wear braids like them. The boys on the other hand are all about the tattoos or my eye color, blue.
The other day one of the younger siblings I have never met stopped dead in his little tracks, stared at me, tugged his mom’s pant leg for her attention then pointed to me and said very loudly: Mommy that her! That the pretty lady who (enter sister’s name) wants you to do braids on. I think she look good in them! Then proceeded to run my way to hug me while his sister cringed at his over excitement.
Self esteem boost if I ever needed one right now. Now that is not to say all kids will boost you up self esteem wise as they do have a habit of gaslighting us or humbling us but the ones that do actually make my day when I am overwhelmed or not feeling good.

have you realized how much battery power must go into each item and gadget that V uses throughout the game like for example every smart gun just has a (as the game says) an “8k 120 fps” camera running a targeting algorithm constantly streaming to a data center and into your optics ready to be brought up at will and you never see a battery low indicator or any of the helmets being plugged in or charged even though its basically like running a bullet proof vision pro i just like to imagine somewhere in V’s apartment is a mess of cables and left over parts for all their gear

Hi, I purchased the game a couple of days ago and have put a fair few hours in so far. Of course, the factory is a complete mess, I'm just muddling through and experimenting, learning as I go. I've stayed away from guides and tutorials, even though I know this will result in countless base teardowns in the future (which I'm looking forward to).
I'd already guessed it however it became apparent, as soon as I started feeding the assemblers that need two input items, that my mighty iron smelting array (four smelters no less!) isn't going to cut it..... I've just unlocked Steel in the tech tree and am at a point where I'm of a mind to go back and rework all of the iron/copper based things. I can already see that the ratios are way off and I suspect that if I don't fix what I've done, plus scale up, issues will just compound if I keep going before doing that?
Anyway onto the question! Although I can see there are more tiers to unlock I'm wondering just how big the game is in terms of tech tree / research path is compared to Factorio (in which I have maybe 1500 hours)? Not looking for any spoilers, just some idea of how big the game is in that respect, if that makes sense? I guess I'm hoping that there is a lot more to come.

Heiii, maybe someone understands this situation and can help :) So my boyfriend is studying in Germany at a university for his masters. He took a little longer but still never had any issues with his aufenthaltstitel. So this month his aufenthaltstitel expired but he already had an appointment in February to extend it again. When he went there the guy that worked there didn’t understand why he takes so long for his masters, but he explained that there where several incidents that happened, and also that he is now really focused on his studies and passing all of them ( or at least it looks like he’s doing that so far) he also mentioned that he will take a German intensiv course in summer semester (so now). The guy from the Ausländerbehörde said that he will check up with the university and if there’s no problem then he will be able to come pick up his Aufenthaltstitel. My boyfriend also checked with the university and they said there’s no issues, cause he’s visiting all his classes and also has good grades. So we thought everything is fine to get the aufenthaltstitel. But it’s been 3 months since the appointment to extend it and still we didn’t receive any information if he will get it. Instead he received a letter yesterday, that his Fiktionsbescheinigung will expire in august with an appointment the exact same day that it’s getting expired. We don’t understand why. Because if the guy from Ausländerbehörde wants to check up on his grades and classes at university, then it doesn’t make any sense cause in august he won’t receive his results yet. Also he would have a problem with work then because with a Fiktionsbescheinigung they block you from working 10 days before expiration date. We really don’t understand why he still didn’t hear anything about his aufenthaltstitel, especially cause he also paid the 106€ for it in February already. Maybe someone knows more or had a similar situation

Hi guys, I have a question about travel insurance. I had to cancel a trip last year with a family member due to illness that ended up being long standing. We were going to share a room. I have managed to claim back the cost of my flights and the full cost of the room (with deductions). Can my family member (who is hard up right now) also claim the full cost of the room on her insurance? I know all insurance companies share a database of claims, but since they are under different names, could she get away with it? (U.K based).

Hi, i grew up in the philippines for a little pero i left at an early age and wala talaga dating exp galing PH. Gusto ko lang malaman kung bakit ang daming tao nagsasabi na if may kadate ka na wala na dapat guy/girl bestfriend? Kasi here sa country im in pretty normal sya and wala naman masamang ideas and etc. may mga times pa nga na this persons bf/gf would hang with his/hers bestfriend and normal lang naman mag ka bestie na ibang gender? And yes gets ko yung idea na best friend mo dapat yung gf/bf mo but cant u have more than 1 best friend? What if u had been friends with this one person before u even met ur current partner ano yun drop mo yung friend mo??
Pls enlighten lang po im just wondering cause of the things i see🙆‍♂️

My friends groups are a mix of guys ranging from super attractive to mediocre,, and one thing we've all realised is how much women generally ruin group interactions to the point where we don't bring our partners or women we are seeing to group outings unless for the rare occasion. It's not just that they're boring which some are not, but they can be a real buzz kill with how judgemental and neurotic they can be in group situations. You can't be chill with most women.
It's like they don't try to add anything to a group dynamic that enhances the enjoyment of the other members, other than make themselves the centre of attention and over estimating how endearing they are.
I mean I keep hearing about how men have to be better at social skills, but in my experience, most men who aren't your typical shutin have a lot more social skills and experience and ability to have fun than the average woman. And we try to make others around enjoy the experience. Some of us try to one up each other in making people around laugh or feel something other than the misery of the 9 to 5 grind, whilst others just take a backseat and enjoy the vibes. But women I know just don't seem to feel the urge to make those around them feel joy or comfort and will 9/10 be the ones who will make things uncomfortable or awkward or create drama.
I hear from the partners of friends of their complaints about how guys don't seem to spend enough time with the women in their lives. But women don't realise how much mental energy we devote to them in those moments to make them enjoy their time us since men are kinda always the hyperagents in those situations. Sometimes we just want to relax with our friends, who can often make us laugh, or forget our problems with no pressure to fulfill some gender role or to tippytoe around the neurotic nature of some women who seem to think all men are rabid bears who want to fuck them and gavebto be constantly on guard. Theres no pressure with group male interactions.
Honestly, I just don't see the appeal of most women in social settings unless you're only interested in getting into their pants or if shes the rare girl who can actually fun . Many women are full of judgement and neurosis than ruins the fun in most group settings.
I think it make sense that most men men are homosocials, even if they're still attracted to women. Men objectively make better company. So it makes sense that so many men who can get away with it will only use women for their bodies and then retreat to the broship for emotional connections and fun.
I think women being over valued for their sexuality contributes to this as most women just can't seem to feel like they need to act anything other than constantly on guard which is fair when some men seem to think a smile is an invitation to sex, but man does it really cramp up their style and make basic social interactions less enjoyable than with your bros.

Context: This was one of my first online games as a DM. I ran a campaign with the typical "necromancy magic is seen as bad" trope due to massive events in the campaign world (that led to the first Lich being created and using the war between 3 nations to fuel his undead army, until all 3 nations realized the threat and banded together to defeat the army of the dead and supposedly destroyed the Lich). With that knowledge in mind, one player asked to create a school of necromancy wizard (tiefling). I said sure, but let them know that if they were to use necromancy within a village, town or captial city that it would draw attention to them and most likely result in their character being arrested, or even attacked. The player said they were fine with that, but asked if they could be Lawful Evil. Now, this should have been the first red flag for this player, but I said that I would allow it but only if their actions didn't directly target or effect the other player characters. They agreed.
Now to give some more context, the other players character's consisted of:

• Protector Aasimar, Oath of Ancients Paladin, Lawful Good.
• High Elf, Wild Magic SorcereOath of Devotion Paladin, Neutral Good.
• Human, Gloomstalker Ranger, Neutral Good.
• Halfling, Circle of the Moon Druid, Chaotic Good.
• Wood Elf, Assassin Rogue, Chaotic Neutral.

I mentioned to the Wizard player that the paladins might not be pleased with their character if they witness them using necromancy, again, to which the wizard player said that would be fine. The second red flag was the wizard's backstory. One of the major NPC's in this campaign was a High Elf Prince, who was a powerful Archmage and a hero to the elves (inspired by Teclis from Warhammer), and the player wanted to include this NPC in their backstory, but frame the elf prince as a villian, having him mysteriously kill off the tiefling's adopted father. Now, I should have suggested perhaps another NPC of less significance to the world to take his place, but I thought, "what the hell??", I could throw an interesting twist on it and have the wizard's foster father actually be a bad guy. So, I let it be.
Onto the story: The party were in the Elven captial city when the wizard asks me as one of their "errands" that they want to visit the slums of the city. So they travel there and the wizard sees a bunch of dirty kids playing together. The wizard then walks over to a halfling girl, and begins to mesmerize her with prestidigitation effects. He asked about her quality of life (I thought he was going to give her some money or something like that), so she shares with him that she is an orphan and lives on the street. The wizard offers her food and says that if she comes with him, he will give her a better life and teach her how to use magic. Now at the time, I wasn't sure what his intentions were, so I was being very cautious in this moment, so I asked him to roll an insight check as she was looking at him with doubt in her mind. He succeeds and I share that she has doubts about his sincerity. I ask him to roll a persuasion check with a 20 DC and he makes it with a high roll. So, she agrees to go with him on the promise that he teaches her magic. When the wizard returned to the party, they were surprised and not very keen on having a young girl accompany them for their next adventure, but they allowed it after they made the wizard promise to keep her well out of harms way when danger arises.
The party arrive at the entrance to a long, and fairly dangerous dungeon crawl. In the first battle encounter, the wizard tells his "apprentice" to attack the nearest enemy instead of running away, like the party had agreed on. Now the "apprentice" isn't able to do much (as a lvl 1 wizard), and is subsequently attacked and falls unconcious and the party began to panic. The party were able to swiftly defeat the remaining enemies and heal the halfling girl. Now, when she came to, she was terrified and had a full on panic attack and wanted to leave after almost dying. The party agreed that she should not be with the party and should return to her home. This angered the wizard (and the player), who was not pleased when the party all voted to send her home. They were able to do so as another NPC was accompanying the party, and they escorted the girl back.
Now comes the kicker. The wizard player dm's me and says that he is not happy with what happened. I tell him that I had already spoken to him about the other player characters possibly not agreeing with his decision, and that the wizard was "okay with that". The wizard player doesn't reply. So I thought that the matter has been resolved. NOPE!!! Out of nowhere, the wizard states that during the night whilst on his "watch", he casts mold earth multiple times during the night and burries the oath of ancients paladin alive (as he was the voice of reason that was consistantly raising the fact that the halfling girl would not be safe). Now by this point in the session, the majority of the players as well as myself were quite frustrated with this player, as he had tried to meta before and say things like, "it would work in real life" when he attempted to turn events in his favor over and over again.
I told the group that we're going to take a 10 minute break before anything else happened. I spoke with the oath of ancients paladin player and asked him what his opinion is on the matter was and if what he thought I should do/should I even allow the wizard to attempt it? The oath of ancients player says that he was happy for me to let the wizard try as if they failed and the paladin would quickly "solve" the issue.
So I messaged the wizard player and confirmed that they're certain that they want to still try it. They agreed confidently and stated that mold earth was "a somatic only cantrip" and that the paladin "won't even know that I'm casting it until their suffocating under the ground".
I messaged the group and asked them to come back to the discord chat and we jumped back in. I asked the paladin to roll a perception check, setting the DC at 10, as I reasoned that the paladin would still feel the earth being molded over and around them. The paladin rolls a natural 20. So the paladin awakens, and sees that the wizard is trying to smother them. The paladin player attempts to intimidate with the wizard and convince them not to "test his patience", but the wizard player was furious and was trying to make up more excuses on how the perception roll should have been at disadvantage.
I stated that my ruling stood, and asked them what they want to do, to which the wizard left and never returned.
I had a long conversation with the wizard player after the session and explained that I did warn them in advance that the other player characters might not agree with their actions. The player seemed strangely calm and collected and asked if they could create another character to replace the tiefling wizard (this should have been the 3rd red flag). I agreed but specified this time that necromancer and evil alignment was off the table this time. The player agreed and then createed a high elf blade-singer wizard (and min maxed it as much as they could). They gave this new character a compelling backstory and I was pleased with it. So the next session, I introduced their character to the party (the party had left the dungeon to find safety and heal the halfling girl before sending her home), and the first thing the player does was declared that they moved to attack the oath of ancients paladin, as soon as they saw him.
Dumbfounded, I ask him why? He respond with, "the paladin threatened (name of the tiefling character) and I take threats deadly seriously".
IMPORTANT NOTE: This was not in the backstory that they provided me with! And I mean, not even the slightest hint, nor was it eluded to!
I pause the game and ask the wizard player to join me in a seperate chat, and asked them how could their new character possibly know who the paladin was and how they would know the tiefling, as the two characters had never met. He said that they would have passed each other and he would have shared it with this stranger. To which I said, yeah no that's not what you sent me and you're not just gonna change your backstory on the fly just so you can attempt to kill the paladin. He got incredibly angry and started yelling about me not letting him play his character how he wants to play them.
The conclusion: So to wrap up this long post. The player apologised to the group, asked for one more chance as he like the group. I asked the others individually what their thoughts on it were, they agreed to give him one more chance, so I did. And then 3 sessions later, that same player attempted to attack the ranger because he made a funny comment about the tielfing wizard (all in character). After that final straw, the player was subsquently removed from the campaign.
On a happier note: This campaign has been running for almost 5 years now and is beginning to come to a close as the players are level 19 (soon to be 20) and have accomplished incredible feats in the world.

The profusion of identical green tents at this spring’s anti-Israel protests struck many as odd. “Why is everybody’s tent the same?,” asked New York mayor Eric Adams. Like others, the mayor suspected “a well-concerted organizing effort” driving the protests. More recent reporting shows a concerted push behind the Gaza protest movement. But it is not as simple as a single organization secretly rallying protesters or buying tents. Instead, the movement’s most determined activists represent a network of loosely linked far-left groups. Some are openly affiliated with well-known progressive nonprofits; others work in the shadows.
The movement also draws on diverse but generous sources of financial backing. Those funding streams may soon be augmented by the federal government. As I chronicled last year in a Manhattan Institute report, “The Big Squeeze: How Biden’s Environmental Justice Agenda Hurts the Economy and the Environment,” the administration’s massive program of environmental justice grants seems designed to prioritize the funding of highly ideological local groups. The Inflation Reduction Act, for example, earmarks $3 billion for “environmental and climate justice block grants” intended for local nonprofits. Today, hundreds of far-left political groups include language about environmental issues and “climate justice” in their mission statements. If just a fraction of planned grants flows to such groups, the effect will be a gusher of new funding for radical causes.
As the Gaza protests spread across U.S. college campuses, many observers noted an eerie uniformity among them. From one campus to the next, protesters operated in disciplined cadres, keeping their faces covered and using identical rote phrases as they refused to talk with reporters. The Atlantic noted the strangeness of seeing elite college students “chanting like automatons.” Students held up keffiyeh scarves or umbrellas to block the view of prying cameras and linked arms to halt the movements of outsiders. At Columbia University and elsewhere, protesters formed “liberated zones,” from which “Zionists” were excluded. Around the edges of the encampments, the more militaristic activists donned helmets and goggles and carried crude weapons, apparently eager to mix it up with police or counter-protesters. We’ve seen these tactics before—notably during the “mostly peaceful” Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, when full-time agitators helped ignite riots, set up a police-free (and violence-plagued) zone in Seattle, and laid nightly siege to Portland, Oregon’s federal courthouse.
In a remarkable work of reporting, Park MacDougald recently traced the tangled roots of organizations backing pro-jihad protests, both on and off campuses. These include Antifa and other networks of anonymous anarchists, along with “various communist and Marxist-Leninist groups, including the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and the International ANSWER coalition,” MacDougald writes. Higher up the food chain, we find groups openly supported by America’s growing class of super-rich tech execs or the anti-capitalist heirs of great fortunes. For example, retired tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, who is married to Code Pink founder Jodie Evans, funds The People’s Forum, a lavish Manhattan resource center for far-left groups. As the Columbia protests intensified, the center urged members to head uptown to “support our students.” Following the money trail of other protest groups, MacDougald finds connections to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, and—surprising no one—the George Soros-backed Tides Foundation.
Of course, the current wave of anti-Israel protests also involves alliances with pro-Hamas organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine. Last November, Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies testified to the House Ways and Means Committee that SJP and similar groups have deep ties to global terrorist organizations, including Hamas.
For many keffiyeh-wearing protestors, however, a recently professed concern for Palestinians is just the latest in a long list of causes they believe justify taking over streets and college quads. In Unherd, Mary Harrington dubs this medley of political beliefs the “omnicause,” writing that “all contemporary radical causes seem somehow to have been absorbed into one.” Today’s leftist activists share an interlocking worldview that sees racism, income inequality, trans intolerance, climate change, alleged police violence, and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts all as products of capitalism and “colonialism.” Therefore, the stated rationale for any individual protest is a stand-in for the real battle: attacking Western society and its institutions.
In the U.S., this type of general-purpose uprising goes back at least to the riots at the 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. In those protests, mainstream liberal factions—including labor unions and environmentalists—were joined by “black bloc” anarchists and other radicals eager to engage in “direct action” against police. That pattern—relatively moderate demonstrators providing a friendly envelope for hard-core disruptors—formed the template for many later protests: the Occupy Wall Street encampments in 2011, demonstrations following the police shooting of Michael Brown in 2014, 2016’s Standing Rock anti-pipeline movement, and of course, the calamitous summer of 2020.
These uprisings were not entirely spontaneous. In some cases, activists spend months planning mass actions—for example, against economic summits or political conventions—and can recruit street fighters from across the country. In others, an event, such as George Floyd’s death, sparks popular protests involving neophyte demonstrators. Those attract far-left activists, who swoop in to organize and expand the struggle, often tilting it toward more radical action.
That has certainly been the case at the college Gaza-paloozas. At Columbia, the New York Times spotted a woman old enough to be a student’s grandmother in the thick of the action as protesters barricaded that school’s Hamilton Hall. The woman was 63-year-old Lisa Fithian, a lifetime activist, who Portland’s alternative weekly Street Roots approvingly calls “a trainer of mass rebellion.” A counter-protester trying to block the pro-Hamas demonstrators told NBC News, “She was right in the middle of it, instructing them how to better set up the barriers.” Fithian told the Times she’d been invited to train students in protest safety and “general logistics.” She claims to have taken part in almost every major U.S. protest movement going back to the 1999 “Battle in Seattle.”
America’s radical network has plenty of Lisa Fithians, with the time and resources to travel the country educating newcomers about the “logistics” of disruptive protests. And these activists appear to have played key roles in the college occupations. The New York City Police Department says nearly half the demonstrators arrested on the Columbia and City University of New York (CUNY) campuses on April 30 were not affiliated with the schools. One hooded Hamilton Hall occupier—photographed scuffling with a Columbia custodian before getting arrested—turned out to be 40-year-old James Carlson, heir to a large advertising fortune. According to the New York Post, Carlson lives in a $2.3 million Park Slope townhouse and has a long rap sheet. For example, in 2005, he was arrested in San Francisco during the violent “West Coast Anti-Capitalist Mobilization and March Against the G8.” (Those charges were dropped.)
For a quarter-century now, Antifa and other anarchist networks have worked to refine tactics and share lessons following each major action. At Columbia, UCLA, and other schools, authorities found printouts of a “Do-It Yourself Occupation Guide” and similar documents. The young campus radicals are eager to learn from their more experienced elders. And, like the high-achieving students they are, they follow directions carefully. MacDougald asked Kyle Shideler, the director for homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy, about the mystery of the identical tents. There was no need for a central group to distribute hundreds of tents, Shideler said. Instead, “the organizers told [students] to buy a tent, and sent around a Google Doc with a link to that specific tent on Amazon. So they all went out and bought the same tent.”
In other words, America’s radical class has gotten very skilled at recruiting and instructing new activists—even from among the ranks of elite college students with a good deal to lose. How much more could this movement accomplish with hundreds of millions in federal dollars flooding activist groups around the country?
From its first week in office, the Biden administration has trumpeted its goal to funnel more environmental spending toward “disadvantaged communities that have been historically marginalized,” partly by issuing grants to grassroots organizations. Previous environmental justice (EJ) grant programs were small in scope. But, with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August 2022, a huge pool of grant money became available. EPA administrator Michael Regan told reporters, “We’re going from tens of thousands of dollars to developing and designing a program that will distribute billions.”
More than a year and a half later, it remains hard to nail down just where the Biden administration’s billions in EJ grants will wind up. Money is being distributed through a confusing variety of programs, and the process of identifying recipients is ongoing. To help outsource the job of sifting through proposals, the EPA last year designated 11 institutions as “Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmakers.” These groups are empowered to make subgrants directly to community organizations, under streamlined EPA oversight. In all, the Biden administration has entrusted these outfits with distributing a staggering $600 million in funding. The money is expected to start flowing this summer.
The EPA’s grantmakers include a number of educational institutions and left-leaning nonprofits. For example, the EPA chose Fordham University as its lead grantmaker in the New York region. Fordham, in turn, lists as partners two nonprofits that oppose immigration enforcement. (One, the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, states on its website: “NJAIJ believes in the human right to migrate, regardless of citizenship or political status.”) Neither group claims expertise in environmental issues. Given that the IRA’s eligibility requirements for EJ grants are extremely vague, however, perhaps that’s not a problem. Almost any activity that could help “spur economic opportunity for disadvantaged communities” (in the words of Biden’s EJ executive order) might qualify.
Perhaps the most prominent—and problematic—EPA grantmaker is the Berkeley, California-based Climate Justice Alliance. The CJA is a consortium of mostly far-left activist groups. It describes its mission as working for “regenerative economic solutions and ecological justice—under a framework that challenges capitalism and both white supremacy and hetero-patriarchy.” The group is a vigorous proponent of the omnicause, embracing almost every left-wing concern as a manifestation of climate change. For example, the CJA website proclaims: “The path to climate justice travels through a free Palestine.” MacDougald notes that the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, one of CJA’s affiliated groups, “organized an illegal anti-Israel protest in the Capitol Rotunda in December at which more than 50 activists were arrested.”
The CJA website also includes a section dedicated to the cause known as Stop Cop City. It refers to an effort to halt the construction of an 85-acre police and firefighter training center outside Atlanta. Rag-tag activists from around the country have gathered around the facility since 2021. They have repeatedly battled with police—sometimes with fireworks and Molotov cocktails—and used bolt cutters to enter the site and torch construction equipment. (CJA’s Stop Cop City page features a cartoon illustration of three childlike activists; one brandishes bolt cutters.) The group also backs a legal defense fund for activists arrested in attacks on the training center or in other protests. For those looking for more inspiration, CJA links to an interview with former Black Panther and self-described revolutionary Angela Davis.
The Alliance is not an ideological outlier in Biden’s EJ coalition. On the contrary, when the White House assembled its White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC), a panel of outside experts meant to provide “horizon-expanding EJ advice and recommendations,” it chose CJA co-chair Elizabeth Yeampierre to help lead the committee. Like other members of the panel, she sees environmental issues through an ideological, not a scientific, lens. “Climate change is the result of a legacy of extraction, of colonialism, of slavery,” Yeampierre told Yale Environment 360. As a group, radical EJ activists tend not to focus on pragmatic ways to reduce pollution and carbon emissions; for them, the real goal is overturning what they see as an exploitative economic and political system. Since these are the voices the White House chose to help shape its EJ policies, we can assume this worldview will dominate grantmaking decisions.
In February 2023, House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer, along with fellow committee member Pat Fallon, wrote to EPA administrator Regan asking for more information on the EPA’s grant programs. They noted that the EPA’s own studies of EJ grants issued in previous years showed sloppy supervision. According to an EPA report, an earlier version of the program funded projects that did “not logically lead to the desired environmental and/or public health [result].” Without better oversight and more clearly defined goals, the congressmen wrote, the EPA’s EJ grant machine risks becoming simply a “slush fund for far-left organizations.”
Since then, the administration has done little to reassure skeptics. To the contrary, the EPA has put at least one far-left organization—CJA—in charge of distributing $50 million in grant money. No doubt, many of the EPA grants will go to worthwhile projects. But money is fungible. A group that gets a large grant to, say, clean up dirty parks or teach children about recycling will also be able to hire more staff and divert more resources to political action.
With graduation behind them, most of the anti-Israel college protesters have stowed away their keffiyehs and moved on to summer vacations or internships. But the peripatetic activists who helped guide and intensify those uprisings are doubtless already planning their next actions. After all, two political conventions are looming. This fall, the college protests will likely flare up again, though by then perhaps focused on a different facet of the omnicause. And, with hundreds of millions in fresh funding flowing through the activist ecosystem, the groups that quietly nurture extremists—like those who firebombed “Cop City,” or who chant “Intifada Revolution!,” or who block bridges in the name of “climate”—will be more emboldened than ever.
A Slush Fund for Radical Protesters? City Journal (city-journal.org)
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A few days ago my laptop randomly shut off even though the charger was plugged in and the battery was 100%. After this, the laptop would not restart at all. Initially, I got a message on the screen saying "EFI PXE 0 for IPv4 (00-2B-67-4A-F5-95) boot failed." This only lasted a few minutes and then I couldn't get the screen to turn on anymore at all. The power button lights up when I click it and the keyboard lights up as well for a few seconds before turning off. The fans also spin for about 2 seconds before turning off as well. Eventually, the laptop will "turn off" completely with the light from the power button fading after about 20-30 seconds.
I have looked through tons of posts but posting my own in hopes of what steps to take next.
Things I have tried:
-removed all usb/externals and disconnected battery + charger - held down power button for 30s, 60s, 90s, up to 5 minutes at times
-clicked the novo button on the right side multiple times, held it down a few times as well
-removed ram 1 stick at a time, tried to start with just 1 and without any at all
-connected external display to check if it was the screen having an issue
-most recent "progress" was laptop trying to restart on its own over and over and over until eventually the fans began to spin. I got hopeful but the laptop was extremely hot to the touch and still didn't power on. After this I haven't messed with it any further.
Any help or advice is appreciated immensely, thank you for your time.

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