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2024.06.01 14:11 adulting4kids Prompt Poetry
- Imagery: Prompt: Choose a setting (real or imaginary) and describe it using detailed sensory imagery. Imagine the sights, sounds, smells, and textures to create a vivid scene, just like a painter with words.
- Metaphor: Prompt: Compare a personal experience to an everyday object or phenomenon in an unexpected way. For example, "My heart is a compass that always points to the north of your laughter."
- Simile: Prompt: Write a series of similes to express intense emotions. For instance, "As brave as a lion facing the storm, as fragile as a petal in the wind."
- Rhyme: Prompt: Craft a short poem or lyrics with a consistent rhyme scheme. Experiment with different rhyme patterns (ABAB, AABB, etc.) to enhance the musicality of your writing.
- Meter: Prompt: Compose a poem with a specific meter, such as iambic pentameter. Pay attention to the syllabic beats in each line to create a rhythmic flow.
- Alliteration: Prompt: Create a tongue-twisting line using alliteration. Focus on the repetition of initial consonant sounds to add a playful or musical quality to your writing.
- Assonance: Prompt: Write a passage where the vowel sounds within words echo each other. Experiment with different vowel combinations to create a melodic effect.
- Personification: Prompt: Choose an inanimate object and personify it. Describe its actions, thoughts, and emotions as if it were a living being.
- Symbolism: Prompt: Select an object or element and explore its symbolic meaning. Connect it to broader themes or emotions in your writing.
- Enjambment: Prompt: Write a poem where the thoughts flow continuously from one line to the next without a pause. Explore how this technique can create a sense of movement or urgency.
- Repetition: Prompt: Repeat a word or phrase throughout a poem for emphasis. Consider how repetition can enhance the overall impact and meaning of your writing.
- Free Verse: Prompt: Embrace the freedom of expression by writing a poem without adhering to rhyme or meter. Allow your thoughts to flow organically, exploring the beauty of formless verse.
- Stanza: Prompt: Divide your writing into stanzas to create distinct sections with varying themes or tones. Explore how the organization of lines contributes to the overall structure of your work.
- Theme: Prompt: Choose a universal theme (love, loss, freedom, etc.) and explore it through your lyrics. Delve into the nuances and perspectives associated with the chosen theme.
- Tone: Prompt: Write a poem that conveys contrasting tones. Explore how shifts in tone can evoke different emotions and responses from the reader.
- Connotation: Prompt: Select a word with strong connotations and use it in a poem. Explore the emotional baggage and cultural associations tied to the word within the context of your writing.
- Irony: Prompt: Craft a poem with elements of irony. Create situations or lines that convey a meaning opposite to the literal interpretation, adding layers of complexity to your writing.
- Allusion: Prompt: Reference a well-known song, book, or historical event in your lyrics. Explore how the use of allusion can enrich the depth and meaning of your writing.
- Syntax: Prompt: Experiment with sentence structure to create different effects. Play with word order, sentence length, and punctuation to convey specific emotions or rhythms in your writing.
- Diction: Prompt: Choose a specific mood or atmosphere you want to convey and carefully select words that evoke that feeling. Pay attention to the impact of your word choices on the overall tone of your writing.
2024.06.01 14:09 dominic_e Eonon X3 (Plus) / UA13 (Plus) - CarPlay / AA and FM radio simultaneously?
Hello, recently I bought a Mazda 6 GH 2010 with Bose. Sadly the built in bluetooth module does not work correctly. So I want to remove the factory head unit with a new one with built in CarPlay and AA.
But one thing I cannot find out, is it possible (with the mentioned devices) to listen to the fm radio and be connected to CarPlay/AA the same time (and use navigation)?
Thank you and best regards
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But one thing I cannot find out, is it possible (with the mentioned devices) to listen to the fm radio and be connected to CarPlay/AA the same time (and use navigation)?
Thank you and best regards
2024.06.01 14:07 WebSearcher___ How to know if you’re the runner?
I thought she was my soulmate because of how easy it was at the beginning. She isn’t a karmic for sure because she’s never hurt me. I felt really cared for and loved. I never ran away from karmic’s. I usually am the one chasing the karmic.
Background
I met a woman on a dating app. At first she wasn’t really my type. I almost swiped left but I gave it a try. She was definitely more “into” our connection than I was at the beginning. I eventually came around within 2 weeks and realized I felt a connection to her.
A month later, we did get closer. She often expressed that I was her soulmate. I never really entertained the thought of her being my soulmate. I’ve always had a hard time with karmics so I never got my hope up in this connection. In fact I had just got over a karmic about a year before I met her. She definitely might’ve been more spiritually in tune than me. I began to let my guard down. It felt nice to know that a person unconditionally loved me.
She continued to express that she wanted to spend more time together, go on dates, etc. I ultimately wanted to spend more time with her, but her expectations triggered my avoidant tendencies. I began to feel smothered even though she was asking for the bare minimum.
I told her I didn’t know what I wanted and it was best that I leave her alone. I can’t stand the thought of hurting her so I left. I did come back and apologize in an attempt to be friends. That didn’t end up well and she ghosted me.
Before I became triggered things were so good. We were so similar in terms of religion, music, etc. our personalities weren’t completely the same. She was more organized than me which helped me find balance. She felt safe and like I’ve know her forever. I know she’d never intentionally hurt me. She never once hurt me. Her heart is beautiful. I feel so sexually attracted to her. She’s all I think about. The last time I looked into her eyes my heart started racing.
It’s been a year now. I still miss her. I don’t want to reach out because I feel smothered. I don’t want to feel tied down or dependent on. I’d rather be alone than to have someone dependent on me. I’m just so tired and drained. I wish I never met her sometimes. I have thought about blocking her and deleting every trace of her to forget. I want to get far away from her, but be close at the same time.
We’re now mirroring each other. I don’t want commitment, she doesn’t either. We are both afraid of commitment. I will never commit to her because she scares me. I’m more likely to commit to someone else that’s not her.
She posts stuff on her social media like “Right person, wrong time”, “I feel like I’m crazy sometimes”, “I just want peace”…I know it’s about me.
What’s funny is I had a karmic reach out after I had split with the person in question. This karmic would only reach out to me to use me as a rebound. I didn’t entertain them this time around and they ghosted 😂.
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Background
I met a woman on a dating app. At first she wasn’t really my type. I almost swiped left but I gave it a try. She was definitely more “into” our connection than I was at the beginning. I eventually came around within 2 weeks and realized I felt a connection to her.
A month later, we did get closer. She often expressed that I was her soulmate. I never really entertained the thought of her being my soulmate. I’ve always had a hard time with karmics so I never got my hope up in this connection. In fact I had just got over a karmic about a year before I met her. She definitely might’ve been more spiritually in tune than me. I began to let my guard down. It felt nice to know that a person unconditionally loved me.
She continued to express that she wanted to spend more time together, go on dates, etc. I ultimately wanted to spend more time with her, but her expectations triggered my avoidant tendencies. I began to feel smothered even though she was asking for the bare minimum.
I told her I didn’t know what I wanted and it was best that I leave her alone. I can’t stand the thought of hurting her so I left. I did come back and apologize in an attempt to be friends. That didn’t end up well and she ghosted me.
Before I became triggered things were so good. We were so similar in terms of religion, music, etc. our personalities weren’t completely the same. She was more organized than me which helped me find balance. She felt safe and like I’ve know her forever. I know she’d never intentionally hurt me. She never once hurt me. Her heart is beautiful. I feel so sexually attracted to her. She’s all I think about. The last time I looked into her eyes my heart started racing.
It’s been a year now. I still miss her. I don’t want to reach out because I feel smothered. I don’t want to feel tied down or dependent on. I’d rather be alone than to have someone dependent on me. I’m just so tired and drained. I wish I never met her sometimes. I have thought about blocking her and deleting every trace of her to forget. I want to get far away from her, but be close at the same time.
We’re now mirroring each other. I don’t want commitment, she doesn’t either. We are both afraid of commitment. I will never commit to her because she scares me. I’m more likely to commit to someone else that’s not her.
She posts stuff on her social media like “Right person, wrong time”, “I feel like I’m crazy sometimes”, “I just want peace”…I know it’s about me.
What’s funny is I had a karmic reach out after I had split with the person in question. This karmic would only reach out to me to use me as a rebound. I didn’t entertain them this time around and they ghosted 😂.
2024.06.01 14:03 goodformstark Recommendations for USB-C Hub with DisplayPort support
Looking for recommendations for a USB-C hub that supports all of these ports:
My external monitor also supports HDMI, however I am not sure if the HDMI ports of some of the hubs can support 1440p 60hz. Looking for any actual experience with this.
I don't really need PD support since I will charge my laptop via one of the two USB-C ports of the Macbook Air M1. The other port will obviously be used for the hub.
Hopefully something not too expensive and can be purchased via Shopee/Lazada since I am not living in Luzon.
Thank you!
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- at least 2 USB-C
- DisplayPort or USB-C port that supports DisplayPort 1.2 (since I already have a DisplayPort to USB-C cable that I am using right now)
- at-least 2 USB-A 3.0
My external monitor also supports HDMI, however I am not sure if the HDMI ports of some of the hubs can support 1440p 60hz. Looking for any actual experience with this.
I don't really need PD support since I will charge my laptop via one of the two USB-C ports of the Macbook Air M1. The other port will obviously be used for the hub.
Hopefully something not too expensive and can be purchased via Shopee/Lazada since I am not living in Luzon.
Thank you!
2024.06.01 14:03 fundamentallycryptic Leaving a Startup Company - Need Legal Advice on Non-Compete Agreement
Background:
I am currently working for a startup company registered in Uttar Pradesh with its office in Hyderabad, Telangana. The company focuses on reusable launch vehicles. My role involved working on two main projects: a vertical takeoff drone and an Engine Control System Avionics, both of which I have completed and deployed.
After nearly a year of employment, I submitted my resignation letter and it has been accepted. I am now in my notice period, transferring knowledge, data, and completing the final documentation formalities.
Recently, the company sent me an NDA and a non-compete agreement. Here are a few things to note about these documents:
Thank you in advance for your help!
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I am currently working for a startup company registered in Uttar Pradesh with its office in Hyderabad, Telangana. The company focuses on reusable launch vehicles. My role involved working on two main projects: a vertical takeoff drone and an Engine Control System Avionics, both of which I have completed and deployed.
After nearly a year of employment, I submitted my resignation letter and it has been accepted. I am now in my notice period, transferring knowledge, data, and completing the final documentation formalities.
Recently, the company sent me an NDA and a non-compete agreement. Here are a few things to note about these documents:
- I had already signed an NDA upon joining the company as a Graduate Engineer Trainee (GET). This new NDA is different from the initial one.
- The non-compete agreement was never mentioned during my hiring process and has only just been introduced.
- The company, established in 2021, is a startup and has only recently filed for a single IP.
- The non-compete document is vaguely worded, with terms that are not well-defined but raise serious concerns.
- Lack of Definitions: The document lacks definitions. Is this advantageous or disadvantageous for me? Could the company add definitions later to frame me in a specific way?
- Use of the Term "Technology": The document mentions "technology" broadly. Does this mean I would be barred from working with any company involved in reusable technology?
- Competitors Clause: The document prohibits working with competitors. Does this imply that I cannot join any other company working on reusable launch vehicles?
- Non-Disclosure During Hiring: Since I was not informed about a non-compete agreement when I joined, am I still obligated to sign it now?
- Consequences of Not Signing: If I refuse to sign the non-compete agreement and the company retaliates by withholding my experience letter or creating other issues, what legal actions can I take?
- Defamation Clause: The defamation clause seems designed to silence me under threat of a lawsuit. Is this enforceable?
- Overall Concerns: Are there any specific aspects of this non-compete agreement that should concern me?
Thank you in advance for your help!
2024.06.01 14:02 guiltyofnothing “DEI is the new fascism” “Just so you know, I read most of post modernism general theories.” /r/silenthill reacts to a redesigned female character model in the Silent Hill 2 remake
The Context:
Silent Hill 2 is a 2001 psychological horror video game from Konami. A trailer was recently revealed for a remake of the game, with updated graphics and gameplay.Angela Orosco is a character in Silent Hill 2. She is 19 years old, suicidal, and implied to be the victim of sexual assault by her father.
With the release of the trailer for the remake, some have noted changes to character designs and models — specially Angela’s.
Our drama begins when a user posts a screenshot of a reply to a tweet. The original tweet includes Angela’s redesigned model and a “non-woke” edited version. The reply tweet points out that the character is a 19 year-old sexual abuse victim.
Our drama spans over two threads as the new trailer and changes have sparked debate in the sub.
The Drama, Pt. 1
One user objects that the character isn’t real:She's not real[Continued:]
so ?
So that's not a picture of a 19 year old abuse victim. The outrage isn't based on reality
it IS the picture of a 19 year old abuse victim FROM silent hill, just because she isn’t real doesn’t mean she doesn’t signify or carry a message from the real world
Silent Hill isn't real. The events in Silent Hill 2 never happened
u really are close minded.. sexual abuse and people dying from diseases, depression, etc does happen irl[Continued:]
I never said that doesn't happen in real life. I said angela sn't real, silent Hill isn't real, and all the events that take place in silent hill 2 are a work of fiction, it's made up, it never happened.
Sure, but that's no reason to justify people reacting like they are. One cannot argue 'None of it's real' while also arguing 'these characters are important to me' or 'I want to invest in this series/game' because the point of the game is for you to immerse and invest in it. You're meant to care about the characters intrinsically, and not about 'what they do for you'. It's absolutely fine to be upset if some 15 year old idiot 'consoomer' whose first thought when he becomes upset about how a female in the game looks responds with "You want my money~! I am your demographic!" makes such an ignorant, room-temperature IQ take like this, and it's fine to let them know why.
I didn't say these characters are important to me. Real people who exist are important to me. People who get emotional about other people having opinions on made up characters must have some deeper issues. This is a subreddit for discussing a video game series, it's not Doctor Phil.
You don't seem to understand the concept of context very well
The context is that you and some others don't like anything I've said because it hurt your feelings. I understand the context that you are implying, but I want you to find a way to say it before I go on[…]
It's story telling, dude.I say this with relief, but most people have not expirienced sexual abuse. Obviously, this is a good thing. However, it's pretty clear these days that empathy for people who have isn't wide-spread. The point of storytelling is broadening horizons, through different perspectives. It should not just be about catering to the audience.
Storytelling is that means of spreading empathy. There is value to the experience it has to share, and regardless of if Angela is real, the experiences she's there to portray are not without inspiration sourced in reality. If your argument is "She's not real. It's not real. Why care?" then you don't get the point of the whole of storytelling. Not just games, like, all of storytelling.But what about word choice?
I just want to draw you attention to the OP's post, the original commenter in the image said nothing about SA, it's not mentioned instead the OP brings it up as a shield to prevent any criticism of the characters redesign. That's manipulation, and only an idiot wouldn't see it.
Calling someone a “fucking worm” is just as childish as the post they’re criticizing”Vulnerable beauty”:
if someone doesn't want to be called a worm they shouldn't act like a worm. even the engagement bait excuse doesn't work, it's gross behavior.
I would never call someone a disgusting worm but that’s just me 👌No calling someone a worm is objectively hilarious tbh
lol ok snowflake
Boo hoo
it's very noble of you to come to the defense of some insane misogynist on twitter
She was still the poster girl for the original SH2. Yes she was a sexual abuse victim but there was a certain vulnerable beauty to her that Team Silent/Konami wanted to convey in that iconic knife closeup shot as well as using her face for the actual cover art of the game.[Continued:]
"abuse victim"
"certain vulnerable beauty"
You actually wrote those two things together mate. Get therapy.
a lot of people who apparently have played and think they like silent hill 2 completely lack the maturity to handle any of the themes of the game apparently. angela's attractiveness should not be part of the discourse around her character at all.
A base level of attractiveness is relevant for almost all characters except Eddie. Thats the uncomfortable truth of human nature.
Attractiveness enhances a character’s charm. It enhances melancholic and profound musical performances, it enhances melancholic and profound movies. See Mazzy Star. See 500 Days of Summer. It wouldn’t have been the same if those musical artists and actors had unappealing annoying faces.
just because you are too shallow to empathize with people you don’t find attractive doesn’t mean everyone’s brain is broken in the same way man.
This isn’t about me. This is about human nature. Look at the top YouTube comments on a Mazzy Star performance. They are praising her visual beauty. And we all know it feeds into the tenderness of the song. Nobody goes “Wtf is wrong with you- her face has nothing to do with the artistic value of the song!!!” You might call it shallow but it’s nothing to be faulted for. We are human.[…]
Angela’s story is melancholic and profound. But Konami wouldn’t have made her the cover art had she been morbidly obese with a pudgy unappealing face. Nor would we SH2 fans hang the game poster of her on our walls if she was morbidly obese with a pudgy unappealing face. That knife pose shot wouldn’t have been nearly as iconic.
Saying all this stuff is very not PC. But there’s a difference between being bothered by the truth and refusing to accept it as the truth.
You misunderstand the term “vulnerable beauty”. You’re thinking about it negatively in terms of being taken advantage of. It’s not that. Im talking about tenderness and sorrow that is enhanced by natural beauty- and vice versa.
Go on YouTube and look at all the musical performances of songs about melancholy/ vulnerability/tenderness played by legendary artists. Like “fade into you” by Mazzy Star. The top YouTube comments are full of praises on her natural beauty. We know that aesthetic beauty enhances the artistry and vice versa.
Human nature tends to gravitate toward certain types of faces. It wouldn’t be the same if she had a derpy face. There is a reason why Konami decided to use Angela’s face as the cover art for the original SH2 game. Because her vulnerable beauty is a key component of her character. And her character is a key component of the game.
Even for James. The artistic value would be diminished if James had an ugly douchey and generally unlikeable face.
The Drama, Pt. 2
In a second thread, it is confirmed that this is the character’s final design.DEI is blamed:
i vision apparently given by a DEI consultancy group named Hit Detection.[Continued:]
Holy shit you people treat DEI like it’s the fucking boogeyman. You realize that most games hire DEI consultancy, and they’re not some evil org pulling the strings changing the game, they almost always just check the game to ensure there isn’t any content that will unintentionally offend people?
It’s not some crazy scheme, it’s literally just checking that the writing has the intended response. It’s proofreading.
Because it is. Go actually read the ideology they are based of. DEI is the new fascism
Jesus, you have no idea what fascism means.
Just use pornhub man, this isn't something to go to war for lmao
You know, I was gonna debate you and use logic and sense, but the moment you threw out “facism” because it’s the buzzword of the day, I knew I’d be trying to debate someone with the IQ of a single cell amoeba
Insult to the single-cell amoebas tbh
Sure. Insult the person and not the argument.
Just so you know, I read most of post modernism general theories. It is amazing how it resembles fascism but just much better worded.
So, if you feel so insulted maybe go actually read the texts about DEI,instead of going hating on people.
They insulted your argument too though. It's just the same basic rhetoric that everyone who thinks this way speaks. It's like you all subscribe to the same newsletter and read the weekly approved script. It's tiring and a waste of everyone's time, including yours.[…]
Dudes never had an original thought in his life, if he didn't just parrot what the other incels say he wouldn't speak at all and the world would be all the better for it.
Or you could stop being incel[…]
You didn't make an argumeny. You basically said "DEI is fascist go look it up". I looked it up ages ago when all these gamer dudes started scaremongering and it was the biggest non-issue I've ever seen. Like the whole SBI thing that got debunked fucking instantly. Outrage youtubers just found their new target to farm clicks, that's all.
User from kotakuinaction probably gonna link Jordan Petterson video if you ask for links
Just say the n word, man. We all know what you meanThere are allegations of gaslighting:
Yup. People can stick their heads in the dirt and pretend these firms don't affect character designs but it is what it is.
Oh boy. Fuck DEI. Those people came to ruin games. The same way they ruined the other media.
I cant with so many people gaslighting themselves into liking this design, OR the horrendous voice acting. So many of you guys are in pure copium mode right now, Just like with the trainwreck that is SH short message. This game looks worse and worse every time they show more of it, and everyone sticking up for the hideous character design and pretending the game looks good only because some of you compare it to the miniscule ps2 era gameplay of the OG isn't going to change how crap this remake's vision is. As someone who encourages people to take risks when it comes to remakes and reboots, I will be open minded. But it’s not looking good.Comparisons are made:
This sub is deleting any comments or posts that even slightly suggest there is something weird with how she looks. Her face does not look like a normal 19 year old girls and if you think it does your on some of that high dose copium.
People on the sub won't take any form of criticism, they'll just downvote you to doom. Her face is rather uncanny imo. I feel like they could've done it better
I don't mind being down voted. I've expressed my opinion and anyone who disagrees is welcome to express theres. What I do find amusing is the "you're just an incel" cope. These are supposed to be people against sexualization but make fun of other people's sex lives. But this is Reddit, so I'm not expecting anything better.
I agree. If they feel inspired by Quagmire from Family Guy, then they should stick to their vision.”Hideous:
Bait used to be believable
I swear Silent Hill “fans” have to be the most obnoxious, I kinda see why we got nothing for such a long time.
Make Genshin fans look almost sane.Denial used to be believable. Hit Detection worked on this game and that explains a lot.
She looks hideous. Can't believe this is what Blooper is doing.
Trust me brother you absolutely look worse than her
Yet you don't know what he or she looks like.
Stand on business and post yourself then lil bro
Sad to see people lack the critical thinking to critique this game. Blooper gave this woman a man jaw and it looks downright ugly. How does a character model from 2001 look better than one from 2024? Goes to show how much team silent cared about their game while blooper is just trying to make a quick buck.
The Flairs:
2024.06.01 14:00 AnActualCriminal EON Polls/Discussion; Worlds, War Crimes, and Gods (Kind of a serious /uw one at the end)
 | EON submitted by AnActualCriminal to wizardposting [link] [comments] Hello. Blake here. Not really a politician but since Ithacar holds the seat and not Riva and she had business to attend to, I'm filling in. If you were unaware of this, our bylaws do allow trade-outs like that. Bombast could, for example, cede the floor to Mastadon as rep of the Council lands and John Hellfire could cede the floor to... Ith'Raal I guess. The Agent is also currently filling in for the Herald in the Mercenary Guild (read: fictional character trade-offs are of course, also acceptable). #1. The Demi-plane:Now that I've explained my presence, on to business. We have two main items to discuss.We had a draw in the vote between the Ocean and Dreamscape demi-planes as locations to build our meeting hall/fortress. Jungle is out and we're having a runoff. Aside from personal or aesthetic tastes, Bombast, our resident expert on demi-planes and the person who provided these options, personally recommends the Dreamscape, while Guardian Logos of the Astral Assembly, who has been particularly active in suggestions for construction, speculates that we could use the ambient lightning of the Ocean plane's forever-storms to power the facility. Water World? Both realms are cool as fuck. I mean interesting choices. Poll here: ( Link to Demi-Plane Vote ) - 24 Hours #2. Humanitarian Aid:due to it being a particularly divisive issue, the poll for whether EO N will interfere in affairs as a singular force was left open for a whole week. If you haven't voted, here's me reminding you it's still open. Poll Here:( Humanitarian Aid Link ) - 3 Days Left Divine Intervention? #3. On the Issue of Gods:How much power do we want literal deities to have over our organization? This will be the focus of discussion today. This matter was always on the itinerary and actually came up in our very first meeting, but it is becoming increasingly apparent that this needs to happen sooner rather than later.(I ask that everyone please try to remain calm and polite and consider feelings of the person you're talking to.) uw/ Alright. This one can kind of only be talked about in uw because so many things related to this are meta. It's divisive for out of character reasons whereas #2 is divisive for in character reasons and if we don't square this away quickly, it'll lead to more grief for everyone. So let's get this resolved now in an open and productive way so that from here on out, we can just tap the sign. I'll try to present both sides here as best I can. AGAINST: The EON Compact was created primarily for collaborative worldbuilders, people who want a little more involved wizard politics than what the council offers, and people who want to have interactions with their (hopefully) in-character foes in a way that isn't Wizard War #145. Im going to use a comment by Aldin here as an example. This is not to pick on him. I respect very much what he does in this community, his writing, and the support he was trying to show. I especially enjoy his tournaments and how they've brought people together. I really want to stress here its not a callout. In fact I chose this comment specifically because it is a great example that was resolved in character with no drama, so we can look at it with clear heads. ( EXAMPLE CASE ) In the collaborative construction of the Fortress, we all get to contribute little details that later become established lore for everyone to interact with. If a god comes in and simply provides a fortress that cannot be harmed by anything and solves all of our problems, the collective game we all showed up to play is now over and only one person got to contribute. If a god simply wills a civilization, fully-formed and populated, into being, they will technically qualify as members, but many would consider that to be violating the spirit of what we're doing here. Finally, if a god is so strong that the entirety of the EON Compact could never subdue them, then functionally they get to propose in-character rules that only they can get away with not following. FOR: There is also an argument to be made for allowing gods into EON. It is brief, but it is important. Turning people away is generally considered to be rude. It's not a very nice thing to do and creates a rift in the community. We are, after all, each here to pretend to be silly wizards. Or serious wizards. Or both. But the point is, as passionate as I am about EON and as much as I want it to succeed, it is still worthwhile to take a step back, consider everyone's feelings, and acknowledge that this sub is supposed to be a fun and inclusive wizard zone. So, do we allow gods to be participating members of EON? I'm proposing two options for the god dilemma.
( Link to god vote ) - 48 Hours Thank you for reading all of that, if you did so. We can get back to fun silly wizard politics as God intended once this is squared away. CURRENT DELEGATES: - (Queen Rivamar Blake of Ithacar) - (Paleomancer, Atlas and Pact-controlled lands) - (Bombast, The Citadel and Council-controlled lands) - (Sorcella Ravine, court wizard of Cat Tail City) - (Lapis 3, Administrator of The Bismuth Realms) - (Samael the Wizard King, The Nephilim Realms) - (Lucian and Eve, leaders of the Star Republic of Magic) - (Kaelis Maz, Lord Protector of Yulash Kor) - (Vulkan the Red, defacto dictator of Lemarcia) - (Agnur, rep for the Tortugara) - (Shrax, King of Raesteria) - ( Jash the North Star, representing the Citadel of Cryomancers) - (Mikhail, Archdruid of La'Shima) - (Xerxes, Regent of The Holy Kingdom) - (Marenoxus, Provost of Asfelaeia) - (Lord Carrion of the Skaven Council) - (King Carmine of the Claret Isles) - (Agent, City of Kabaheim and the Northern Territories) - (Emissary of the Sun) - (Guardian Logos of the Astral Assembly) - (John E. Hellfire, Ruler of Hell's 4th Circle) - (Leo, King of S.P.A.D.E.S.) - (Teknika, Leader of Katafýgio) - (Emerald Ferguson, Queen of Magnesia) - (High Necromancer Bishop, Lord of the Throne World) - (Pilot, representing Mount Mor Joint Dwarf-Human Aviation Facility) - (Burger King, Burger City) - ( Falâerin, delegate of the nation of Cyria) - (Lars, City 17) - (Krygin the Crude, representative of the Spirit Realms) - (Vesian, Paragnostic Assembly) - (Lady Aliah Mistwalker, Fausarte's Shogunate) OTHER: - (Crimson Paragons, spectator) - (Spectator) - ( Arch Biomancer Nhak, Elected Official and “Frontline Tank” of the SGA, Spectator) - (Anvir Selensky, the Sigilite, spectator) |
2024.06.01 13:57 wontbowdontknowhow A friendly reminder to ALWAYS test for LADA
Just a few days ago, as a newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic, I asked about your experiences with the rate of improvement after diagnosis. I was surprised to see significant results after just a few days (keto, IF, metformin + sitagliptin). My doctor was almost certain I was type 2, but ordered a GAD antibodies test and C-peptide ‘just to be sure’. I also did a lipid panel, amylase, lipase (pancreatic enzymes related to pancreatitis), fasting insulin, and fasting cortisol (to get a fuller picture of my insulin resistance).
For a few days before testing, my glucose was steadily 81-99, with a maximum of 120 after a meal. I was so happy to get this under control so quickly! When my lab results came back, I was even more reassured (and confident it wasn’t LADA). The fact that I was overweight/obese my whole life, the rate of improvement after the diagnosis, and the results indicated I was type 2.
All these lab results came in quickly, but I was still waiting for the GAD antibodies, which take a while to process. But again, based on my C-peptide alone, I was quite sure it wasn’t LADA.
A few days later, the GADA results finally came in. And, lo and behold, they were off the scale, ≥ 2000. So there is no question—I’m a LADA undergoing an aggressive autoimmune process.
My first reaction was shock and disbelief. I dug deep, reading all the studies available. I even checked out the manufacturer’s instructions for the ELISA method GAD antibodies test using EUROIMMUN equipment, to estimate the chance of a false positive.
This is additional information, but maybe it will help someone: official instructions recommend re-running the test if the results are off the scale. Lab technicians are supposed to do this not to rule out a false positive, but to get the exact amount of antibodies using a diluted serum. My test wasn’t re-run, so I cannot be sure about how many antibodies I actually have—it may be 2001, but it also may very well be 25,000.
According to the manufacturer, the test has an 82% sensitivity and a 99% specificity. That means (thanks, ChatGPT) that in 50 patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes, approximately 41 would be correctly identified as positive and 9 would be false negatives. Additionally, in 90 blood donors, approximately 89.1 would be correctly identified as negative, leaving approximately 1 as a false positive. Based on the data provided by the manufacturer, false positives can amount to approximately 0.71% to 0.93% and false negatives anywhere from 2.33% to 18%.
However, there are at least two independent studies providing evidence that false positives are quite common in patients with very low GADA titers in their serum—something to keep in mind when testing. On the other hand, not all LADAs will test positive for GADA; there are other antibodies the diagnosis can be based on.
And don’t get me wrong, I am very well aware that there are overweight/obese LADAs (approximately 30%, and the number is rising), and that in the early stages of the disease, some patients may have relatively normal C-peptide levels. However, in all the studies I reviewed, I haven’t found a case where the C-peptide and GADA levels were as disproportionate as mine. I’m still puzzled by these results. I have an appointment with my diabetologist on Wednesday, and I’m very curious about what she will have to say.
Here in Poland, I could do all the tests for free. I know that many of you are not so fortunate. However, I still encourage you to test for LADA, as there is some evidence that starting low-dosage insulin therapy early can help preserve some beta cell function for a longer period, prolonging the LADA honeymoon.
I hope this helps someone.
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For a few days before testing, my glucose was steadily 81-99, with a maximum of 120 after a meal. I was so happy to get this under control so quickly! When my lab results came back, I was even more reassured (and confident it wasn’t LADA). The fact that I was overweight/obese my whole life, the rate of improvement after the diagnosis, and the results indicated I was type 2.
- Amylase and lipase: Normal.
- Cortisol: High, not surprising (fasting norm up to 18.4 µg/dl, mine was 23.6).
- Insulin: At the upper limit of normal (fasting norm up to 24.9 µIU/ml, mine was 20.3).
- C-peptide: Very slightly above the norm (normal up to 4.4 ng/ml, mine was 4.46).
All these lab results came in quickly, but I was still waiting for the GAD antibodies, which take a while to process. But again, based on my C-peptide alone, I was quite sure it wasn’t LADA.
A few days later, the GADA results finally came in. And, lo and behold, they were off the scale, ≥ 2000. So there is no question—I’m a LADA undergoing an aggressive autoimmune process.
My first reaction was shock and disbelief. I dug deep, reading all the studies available. I even checked out the manufacturer’s instructions for the ELISA method GAD antibodies test using EUROIMMUN equipment, to estimate the chance of a false positive.
This is additional information, but maybe it will help someone: official instructions recommend re-running the test if the results are off the scale. Lab technicians are supposed to do this not to rule out a false positive, but to get the exact amount of antibodies using a diluted serum. My test wasn’t re-run, so I cannot be sure about how many antibodies I actually have—it may be 2001, but it also may very well be 25,000.
According to the manufacturer, the test has an 82% sensitivity and a 99% specificity. That means (thanks, ChatGPT) that in 50 patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes, approximately 41 would be correctly identified as positive and 9 would be false negatives. Additionally, in 90 blood donors, approximately 89.1 would be correctly identified as negative, leaving approximately 1 as a false positive. Based on the data provided by the manufacturer, false positives can amount to approximately 0.71% to 0.93% and false negatives anywhere from 2.33% to 18%.
However, there are at least two independent studies providing evidence that false positives are quite common in patients with very low GADA titers in their serum—something to keep in mind when testing. On the other hand, not all LADAs will test positive for GADA; there are other antibodies the diagnosis can be based on.
And don’t get me wrong, I am very well aware that there are overweight/obese LADAs (approximately 30%, and the number is rising), and that in the early stages of the disease, some patients may have relatively normal C-peptide levels. However, in all the studies I reviewed, I haven’t found a case where the C-peptide and GADA levels were as disproportionate as mine. I’m still puzzled by these results. I have an appointment with my diabetologist on Wednesday, and I’m very curious about what she will have to say.
Here in Poland, I could do all the tests for free. I know that many of you are not so fortunate. However, I still encourage you to test for LADA, as there is some evidence that starting low-dosage insulin therapy early can help preserve some beta cell function for a longer period, prolonging the LADA honeymoon.
I hope this helps someone.
2024.06.01 13:57 BestKirby How do you even start to heal?
These days I have shit days and almost ok days though those are a lot more rare. Today is a shit day and I need to get this out of my head.
Everyone tells me to move on and that I'll meet someone new eventually but how am I ever meant to move on from things when her reason for ending it was that she didn't want a relationship right now? We'd met on a dating app and both wanted a long term relationship at the time. I'd honestly rather she'd said something hurtful, something critical, something I can understand as a reason for not wanting someone anymore. Tell me you hate me, tell me it's me, tell me I'm not good enough. Don't tell me we would be a great couple but it's not what you want right now.
For the first time in 32 years I felt like I had found someone that I could actually connect with. She knew me well enough in 6 months to read me like a book, better than anyone I'd been "close friends with" for over 2 decades. For the first time in my entire life I felt seen, understood and most importantly wanted. I didnt come from a wonderful home so I didn't even feel that from my own family.
How can I imagine ever moving on when I don't even have any negative feelings towards her? There was nothing I didn't like. Sure she had her own issues but they made her who she is. I saw them and they didn't matter to me. None of them were "deal breakers" or things I couldn't see passed. Everyone has flaws, hers were part of what made her beautiful.
We shared every interest I have and now that she no longer wants to be with me I can't even escape the thoughts of her no matter what I try.
We gamed together. We played boardgames together, we played tabletop games together, she read the same novels, she used to be involved in publishing and writing while living in the UK. She lived in Japan and enjoyed anime. She watched the same series, enjoyed the same memes. I feel like I can't do anything to escape the thought of her and it just hurts. I feel like I have nothing anymore. She even worked in IT. Mental health? She had similar diagnoses to me so I can't even involve myself with that without thinking about her.
The social activities and geeky things around town that I felt comfortable enough to engage with and start dipping my toes into the water in the social scene? Guess who is already a big part of that?
Now I get to live with feeling that someone that understood me to that degree rejected that, that understood so much about who I really am and decided that wasn't what they wanted "right now".
How do I move on when every part of who I am/was just reminds me of her? One of the last things she said to me when we broke up was "If I could feel what you feel, I would. We’d be such a great couple. I hate that I don’t." How do you move on when someone you were falling in love with acknowledges that you'd be great together but doesn't want you anymore? Maybe she was just trying to be kind and let me down easier but this isn't working for me. I honestly feel like the only way forward is to change who I fundamentally am. How am I ever meant to deal with this pain if everything I enjoy that should take my mind off her just reminds me of what I lost?
When people tell me I'll heal in time, maybe, but why would I ever think that this kind of thing won't just happen again? I feel discarded and unwanted. I feel hopeless. Why should I continue to fight this when it's just going to happen again? If the only person that I connected with to that degree doesn't want to be with me then how am I ever meant to believe that it won't just be exactly the same with "the next" person if I'm even ever able to get there?
Everytime I get a notification I hope it's her, even though I know it's not and that I was the one that said I needed to go no contact as I can't handle just being friends and watching from the sidelines. I want her to be happy more than anything else but it would legitimately kill me to see her flourishing in a relationship with someone else. I know she probably will and I hope she finds happiness but I can't be around to see it. I see her smile everytime I close my eyes. I remember how happy it made me to make her laugh. I remember supporting her when she was going through tough times and her telling me how lovely it was to not feel judged and that she didn't have to mask around me.
My world has been crumbling around me and those I thought I was close to before have shown me that the other connections I thought I had are shallow and superficial. In the weeks I've been like this, only one person has actually reached out and tried to be supportive. I know that it's a two way street but I just can't deal with this much longer. I feel so absolutely alone and trapped with my thoughts with no outlet that doesn't just amplify the pain. I feel like I have no real connections and only came to realise that now. When friends tell me that things like I'll heal or it will be ok all I can see is hallow platitudes meant to make them feel like they're helping.
I'm not ok. Don't tell me it will be ok.
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Everyone tells me to move on and that I'll meet someone new eventually but how am I ever meant to move on from things when her reason for ending it was that she didn't want a relationship right now? We'd met on a dating app and both wanted a long term relationship at the time. I'd honestly rather she'd said something hurtful, something critical, something I can understand as a reason for not wanting someone anymore. Tell me you hate me, tell me it's me, tell me I'm not good enough. Don't tell me we would be a great couple but it's not what you want right now.
For the first time in 32 years I felt like I had found someone that I could actually connect with. She knew me well enough in 6 months to read me like a book, better than anyone I'd been "close friends with" for over 2 decades. For the first time in my entire life I felt seen, understood and most importantly wanted. I didnt come from a wonderful home so I didn't even feel that from my own family.
How can I imagine ever moving on when I don't even have any negative feelings towards her? There was nothing I didn't like. Sure she had her own issues but they made her who she is. I saw them and they didn't matter to me. None of them were "deal breakers" or things I couldn't see passed. Everyone has flaws, hers were part of what made her beautiful.
We shared every interest I have and now that she no longer wants to be with me I can't even escape the thoughts of her no matter what I try.
We gamed together. We played boardgames together, we played tabletop games together, she read the same novels, she used to be involved in publishing and writing while living in the UK. She lived in Japan and enjoyed anime. She watched the same series, enjoyed the same memes. I feel like I can't do anything to escape the thought of her and it just hurts. I feel like I have nothing anymore. She even worked in IT. Mental health? She had similar diagnoses to me so I can't even involve myself with that without thinking about her.
The social activities and geeky things around town that I felt comfortable enough to engage with and start dipping my toes into the water in the social scene? Guess who is already a big part of that?
Now I get to live with feeling that someone that understood me to that degree rejected that, that understood so much about who I really am and decided that wasn't what they wanted "right now".
How do I move on when every part of who I am/was just reminds me of her? One of the last things she said to me when we broke up was "If I could feel what you feel, I would. We’d be such a great couple. I hate that I don’t." How do you move on when someone you were falling in love with acknowledges that you'd be great together but doesn't want you anymore? Maybe she was just trying to be kind and let me down easier but this isn't working for me. I honestly feel like the only way forward is to change who I fundamentally am. How am I ever meant to deal with this pain if everything I enjoy that should take my mind off her just reminds me of what I lost?
When people tell me I'll heal in time, maybe, but why would I ever think that this kind of thing won't just happen again? I feel discarded and unwanted. I feel hopeless. Why should I continue to fight this when it's just going to happen again? If the only person that I connected with to that degree doesn't want to be with me then how am I ever meant to believe that it won't just be exactly the same with "the next" person if I'm even ever able to get there?
Everytime I get a notification I hope it's her, even though I know it's not and that I was the one that said I needed to go no contact as I can't handle just being friends and watching from the sidelines. I want her to be happy more than anything else but it would legitimately kill me to see her flourishing in a relationship with someone else. I know she probably will and I hope she finds happiness but I can't be around to see it. I see her smile everytime I close my eyes. I remember how happy it made me to make her laugh. I remember supporting her when she was going through tough times and her telling me how lovely it was to not feel judged and that she didn't have to mask around me.
My world has been crumbling around me and those I thought I was close to before have shown me that the other connections I thought I had are shallow and superficial. In the weeks I've been like this, only one person has actually reached out and tried to be supportive. I know that it's a two way street but I just can't deal with this much longer. I feel so absolutely alone and trapped with my thoughts with no outlet that doesn't just amplify the pain. I feel like I have no real connections and only came to realise that now. When friends tell me that things like I'll heal or it will be ok all I can see is hallow platitudes meant to make them feel like they're helping.
I'm not ok. Don't tell me it will be ok.
2024.06.01 13:56 genericusername1904 H.G. WELLS’S, THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME (1933) VS. 1984 AND BRAVE NEW WORLD
 | ID, IX. MAIORES. V, CAL. IUNI. FORTUNA PRIMIGENIA.I discovered this book by complete chance last year – a very old hardback copy was given to me as gift (in a situation which was certainly weighted with the most unlikely of synchronicities), “huh,” I thought, “it’s a first edition of H.G. Wells,” the book itself almost cannot be opened because it is so old and falling apart so I procured a text and audio file of the thing relatively easily and began to read. In hindsight not only for myself but I fancy for the generations of the last fifty years - in all totality, it is deeply strange that this book has not been more widely recognized or taught in schools, as like 1984 and Brave New World, as being the third contender (although technically the second, published one year after Huxley – seemingly written at the same time interestingly enough) in “visions of dystopia” – except that the book is not so much a vision of dystopia tomorrow but a vision of dystopia ‘today’ or rather ‘life as we know it’ of the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries (endless war, endless pandemics, economic and logistic chaos), narrated from the comfortable and reassuring position of a society far far in the future who have long since revised their culture and solved all of the causes of the problems and become a society of genius polymaths “with (every Man and Woman) the intellectual equal of the polymaths of the ancient world.”Now, I do not mean here to seem to ‘sweet-talk’ the reader into rushing out and buying this book or to hold it up in the manner of those other books as if it were some ideological blueprint but instead to assay the thing in the natural context which seems to me to be universally unrealized and which presents itself to us as a thing which is plainly self-evident, that is: that in the depressing and miserable dichotomy of 1984 and Brave New World; two extremely atomizing and miserable narratives, that there is also – far more empowering – The Shape Of Things To Come wherein the miserable protagony and antagony of both 1984 and Brave New World might read as merely a footnote somewhere in the middle of the book as an example of the witless measures mankinds old master undertook to preserve their power in an untenable circumstance. In other words, we know all about 1984 as children; we have this drummed into our heads and we glean our cultural comprehension that dictators cannot be cliques of business people but only lone individuals, usually in military uniform, and then we graduate from that to Brave New World to gain a more sophisticated comprehension of the feckless consumerism and ‘passive egoism’ by which our society actually operates, but then we do not – as I argue we ought – continue along in our education with this third book which actually addresses the matters at hand at a more adult level. For instance, here, from ‘The Breakdown Of Finance And Social Morale After Versailles’ (Book One, Chapter Twelve) addresses in a single paragraph the cause of our continual economic chaos (of which all crime and poverty and war originates from) and highlights the problem from which this chaos cannot be resolved yet could easily be resolved, “adjustment was left to blind and ill-estimated forces,” “manifestly, a dramatic revision of the liberties of enterprise was necessary, but the enterprising people who controlled politics (would be) the very last people to undertake such a revision,” …the expansion of productive energy was being accompanied by a positive contraction of the distributive arrangements which determined consumption. The more efficient the output, the fewer were the wages-earners. The more stuff there was, the fewer consumers there were. The fewer the consumers, the smaller the trading profits, and the less the gross spending power of the shareholders and individual entrepreneurs. So buying dwindled at both ends of the process and the common investor suffered with the wages- earner. This was the "Paradox of Overproduction" which so troubled the writers and journalists of the third decade of the twentieth century.It is easy for the young student to-day to ask "Why did they not adjust?" But let him ask himself who there was to adjust. Our modern superstructure of applied economic science, the David Lubin Bureau and the General Directors' Board, with its vast recording organization, its hundreds of thousands of stations and observers, directing, adjusting, apportioning and distributing, had not even begun to exist. Adjustment was left to blind and ill-estimated forces. It was the general interest of mankind to be prosperous, but it was nobody's particular interest to keep affairs in a frame of prosperity. Manifestly a dramatic revision of the liberties of enterprise was necessary, but the enterprising people who controlled politics, so far as political life was controlled, were the very last people to undertake such a revision.There is a clever metaphor I fancy that Wells worked in to this for the ‘actual’ defacto controlling class of things, that is: not really the politicians (sorry to disappoint the Orwell and conspiracy fans) but instead the ‘Dictatorship of the Air’ which might easily read as the ‘Dictatorship of the Airwaves’ – in colloquial language, that being radio and then television. Certainly we might imagine Rupert Murdoch or Ted Turner or Sumner Redstone (of yesterday) entering into honourable retirement as like the ‘dictators of the air’ of the very last days before the establishment of a one world state – in any case that is how things would work out, as the power of, say, Ted Turner to eradicate a political party in the United States – at any time he wishes – by simply green-lighting coverage of their bad actions relentlessly for months until revolution occurs is a real power of which no other institution possesses nor possesses any means of defence against, i.e. the ‘real power’ in our world to end a war or begin or war or end this or begin that is that power held by the organized press. This metaphor is somewhat of a more mature view, I think, than Wells earlier conception of the press in The Sleeper Awakes (1899) where the press of a dystopian future is visualized as a “babble machine” spreading circular nonsense to preoccupy the citizenry (although this is arguably a true representation of the mental processes of the Twitter and Facebook user, or of the general baby-speak and extremely infantile form of the news reports on the front page of the BBC News website) which is more or less what the press depicted as being in Brave New World also.However the construction of sudden new realities (or sudden ‘actualities’) presented by the equation of interdependent technological innovations (i.e. the radio and the television in this instance) is mentioned early on in The Shape Of Things To Come in ‘How The Idea And Hope Of The Modern World State First Appeared’ (Book One, Chapter Two), The fruitlessness of all these premature inventions is very easily explained. First in the case of the Transatlantic passage; either the earlier navigators who got to America never got back, or, if they did get back, they were unable to find the necessary support and means to go again before they died, or they had had enough of hardship, or they perished in a second attempt. Their stories were distorted into fantastic legends and substantially disbelieved. It was, indeed, a quite futile adventure to get to America until the keeled sailing ship, the science of navigation, and the mariner's compass had been added to human resources. (Then), in the matter of printing, it was only when the Chinese had developed the systematic manufacture of abundant cheap paper sheets in standard sizes that the printed book—and its consequent release of knowledge—became practically possible. Finally the delay in the attainment of flying was inevitable because before men could progress beyond precarious gliding it was necessary for metallurgy to reach a point at which the internal combustion engine could be made. Until then they could build nothing strong enough and light enough to battle with the eddies of the air.In an exactly parallel manner, the conception of one single human community organized for collective service to the common weal had to wait until the rapid evolution of the means of communication could arrest and promise to defeat the disintegrative influence of geographical separation. That rapid evolution came at last in the nineteenth century, and it has been described already in a preceding chapter of this world history. Steam power, oil power, electric power, the railway, the steamship, the aeroplane, transmission by wire and aerial transmission followed each other very rapidly. They knit together the human species as it had never been knit before. Insensibly, in less than a century, the utterly impracticable became not merely a possible adjustment but an urgently necessary adjustment if civilization was to continue.In other words, then, a global state (or, rather, such power in general held by the press as I see the analogy extending to them as being the ‘Dictatorship of the Airwaves’) was impossible to imagine and completely laughable before the technologies had stacked together to reveal as like in a simple piece of arithmetic which produced a single outcome of the equation; that no sooner had the technologies existed then the thing had become an actual reality – in that 1) unassailable political power had been unthinkingly dropped into the lap of the owners of the press, but that more importantly as consequence that therefore 2) mankind was subject to that power, that is: the situation existed the moment the technologies did – and this whether any living person had even realized it, as I think quite naturally all the time Men and Women invent things that they really have no notion of the fullest or most optimal uses of (“nothing is needed by fools, for: they do not understand how to use anything but are in want of everything,” Chrysippus), e.g. in no metaphor the television was quite literally invented as a ‘ghost box’ to commune with ghosts imagined to reveal themselves by manipulating the black and white of the static until someone else had the idea that there was at least one other use for that contraption.It is quite strange, also, that in contemporary times we have for ages been heavily propagandized ‘against’ the idea of a “one world state” as if, say, all the crimes and fecklessness that have gone on in our lifetimes are somehow secretly building towards the creation of such a thing – not a thing you would naturally conclude from an observation of those events nor a thing advocated for by anybody (insofar as I have ever heard) but it is a thing which would be the first logical response to ‘preventing’ such crimes from ever occurring again – such as like the already widely practiced concept of a Senate-Style Federation of Sovereign States rather than a hundred or so mutually antagonistic polities capable of bombing themselves or screwing up their economies and creating waves of refugees or mass starvation or pandemics, and so on. For instance, All Egypt is dependent on the flow of the Nile which originates in what is today another country, that other country recently decimated the flow of the Nile by gumming up the Nile with a Hydroelectric Dam; such an outcome would not occur if the total mass of the land itself was governed as the single interconnected economic and environmental system that it is in physical reality of which, when divided along arbitrary borderlines, there is no means to govern the entirety of the region in an amicable and prosperous manner for all as a whole and no recourse to the otherwise intolerable situation but War which is unlikely to occur – as most Nations are comprised of civilized peoples who rightly loath the concept of War – but it is the single and unavoidable outcome to resolve such a situation until that situation has dragged on for decades, causing immense suffering, until it reaches that point of desperation – the matter of Palestine and Israel, fresh to my mind in these days, raises itself also. Of the matter of War itself, in ‘The Direct Action Of The Armament Industries In Maintaining War Stresses’ (Book One, Chapter Eleven), Wells relays in 1933 what United States President Eisenhower would later remark in 1961 in his farewell address of the dangers of the Military Industrial Complex; albeit far more analytically on Wells part, that: it is not so much the ‘desire to harm’ on the part of the armament industries which sees them engage in unnecessary build-up of weapons stockpiles but that it is simply their business to produce, to stockpile, produce more deadly variants and stockpile the more deadly variants and sell off their old stockpiles to whomsoever rings their doorbell; for instance the on-going War in Ukraine is no different in this regard to the Viet Cong and NATO Warfare in Vietnam in that massive quantiles of cheap munitions were necessary for the war to be fought in the first place and massive quantities of munitions happened to exist as a by-product of the Armaments Industries to be dumped onto the warring parties in order to facilitate their macabre impulses at the expense of the citizenry; both at their cost in terms of the debt taken on to procure the weaponry on the part of their governments and in terms of their lives when the weaponry was unused to the outcome of massive loss of life of a single peoples within a bordered space – a thing of no value to themselves. Simply put, albeit in a very simplistic reduction to the bare basics: the War would not reached such catastrophic inhuman proportions without massive quantities of cheap Armaments that otherwise sat taking up warehouse space for more valuable Armaments on the part of the producer and seller. In a perpetual progress in the size and range of great guns, in a vast expansion of battleships that were continually scrapped in favour of larger or more elaborate models, (Armament Firms) found a most important and inexhaustible field of profit. The governments of the world were taken unawares, and in a little while the industry, by sound and accepted methods of salesmanship, was able to impose its novelties upon these ancient institutions with their tradition of implacable mutual antagonism. It was realized very soon that any decay of patriotism and loyalty would be inimical to this great system of profits, and the selling branch of the industry either bought directly or contrived to control most of the great newspapers of the time, and exercised a watchful vigilance on the teaching of belligerence in schools. Following the established rules and usages for a marketing industrialism, and with little thought of any consequences but profits, the directors of these huge concerns built up the new warfare that found its first exposition in the Great War of 1914-18, and gave its last desperate and frightful convulsions in the Polish wars of 1940 and the subsequent decades.Even at its outset in 1914-18 this new warfare was extraordinarily uncongenial to humanity. It did not even satisfy man's normal combative instincts. What an angry man wants to do is to beat and bash another living being, not to be shot at from ten miles distance or poisoned in a hole. Instead of drinking delight of battle with their peers, men tasted all the indiscriminating terror of an earthquake. The war literature stored at Atacama, to which we have already referred, is full of futile protest against the horror, the unsportsmanlike quality, the casual filthiness and indecency, the mechanical disregard of human dignity of the new tactics. But such protest itself was necessarily futile, because it did not go on to a clear indictment of the forces that were making, sustaining and distorting war. The child howled and wept and they did not even attempt to see what it was had tormented it.To us nowadays it seems insane that profit-making individuals and companies should have been allowed to manufacture weapons and sell the apparatus of murder to all comers. But to the man of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it seemed the most natural thing in the world. It had grown up in an entirely logical and necessary way, without any restraint upon the normal marketing methods of peace-time commerce, from the continually more extensive application of new industrial products to warfare. Even after the World War catastrophe, after that complete demonstration of the futility of war, men still allowed themselves to be herded like sheep into the barracks, to be trained to consume, and be consumed, by new lines of slaughter goods produced and marketed by the still active armament traders. And the accumulation of a still greater and still more dangerous mass of war material continued.The book is, if the reader has likely already gathered from the excerpts, not written in the style of a protagonal narrative; i.e. not as a story, i.e. no hero and no villain, but as a sort of a Historia Augusta – that is really the most fitting comparison I think of when trying to describe this to a new reader (or perhaps J.J. Scarisbrick’s Henry VIII), that is to say it is written ‘as’ a History in the classical style we are familiar with from the better of the ancient writers, as like Appian or Cassius Dio, but unlike Suetonius or Tacitus it is absent of the sloppy hinging of all bad things on the highly personalized propaganda ad hominem (i.e. blame the fall of empire on one guy) that goes in those narrative works as we are typically familiar with them.It is, of course, a work a fiction; although Wells did predict World War Two beginning in late 1939-1940 (although he had Poland putting up much better and longer of a fight against the Germans) and various other innovations, beginning from his own day with a true account of events prior to his own day – giving us a valuable account of affairs and actors prior to 1933 which would otherwise not come easily to any of us to discover. But the book, ultimately, is vehicle for the transmission and discussion of these societal (i.e. social, economic, industrial, logistic) matters presented to the audience of the day fresh, in their own minds, from the abject horror recently witnessed in World War One – and the economic catastrophes of which Roosevelts reforms had not yet come into tangible reality (i.e. relief for the poor, public works projects such as the motorways across America) as is discussed in that other seemingly little known H.G. Wells literary offering in his face-to-face interview with Josef Stalin the following year in 1934 (something which I think is of far more historical value than say, Nixon and Frost or Prince Andrew and Emily Maitlis), so as to ‘avert’ another crisis and pluck from the ether a seemingly alternate trajectory of where Mankind might at last get its act together. This ‘novel’ (thought it seems strange to call it that) ought be read, I would advise, in conjunction with ‘The Sleeper Awakes’ (1899) and also the (actually very depressing – I would not advise it) short-story prequel ‘A Story Of The Days To Come’ (1897) – set in that same universe – which, perhaps it is because I am English, seems to me to be a black horror show of the reality that we actually find ourselves living in this far into an actually dystopic future – or perhaps yet with the ‘strange windmills’ powering the mega cities that this a future yet to come (no pun intended); the broken speech, the babble machines, the miserable condition of the Working Class and their consumption of pre-packaged soft bread, the desire to flee the urban sprawl into the dilapidated countryside and make a little life in a run-down house with tacky wallpaper peeling away … ah, forgive me, my point is that ‘our condition’; i.e. those of us literate in English, is quite analogous to the condition of the central characters in those two stories; a culture dulled intellectually to the point that they can barely speak or think, being appraised and assayed by ourselves; those of us simply literate, as to render our commentary stuck as to seem as mutually alien as like Caesar in Gaul. However, it is in the context of the frame given to us in ‘The Shape Of Things To Come’ that we might gain a degree of sanity about this self-same situation; to study and lean into that dispassionate quality as to discern the nature of things as they are and recognize how important this quality is in relation to Well’s ultimate outcome for the best possible position of Humankind far far future, that is: that of Humankind’s vital intellectual capacity, and that the most striking message of STC, beyond all we have mentioned in this little overview, is that intellectual capacity in and of itself. For example, when we consider the ‘actuality’ of the power of Turner or perhaps Zuckerberg in his heyday, for instance, we consider a power fallen into a Mans lap by an accidental stacking of disparate technologies created not by himself but of which possess a power utterly dependent in that same equation upon on a population being ‘witless’ in the first place and so led slavishly by the “babble machines”. However you cut it, reader, the great uplifting of Humankind to a standard of autonomy and intellectual prowess – not held by an elite but possessed by All People – is a thing both intrinsically self-sufficient within our grasp for our own selves and is certainly the prerequisite for political matters in that intellectual capacity of the voting public determines entirely whether a public is tricked or foolish and gets themselves into trouble by undertaking some obvious error or whether they are immune to such trickery and foolishness in the first place and that their energies and time are spent on more valuable pursuits. It seems to me that our contemporary society has done away with the notion of good character through intellect and that we live with the outcome of this; being shepherded by emotional manipulation and brute force because our society at large is treated as if we lacked the verbal and intellectual toolsets to understand anything else – moreover possessing no means to discern whether or not what is forced onto us is right or wrong; truth or lies, and so on. Such a society as this, again it seems plain to me, is ‘any’ dystopia because it is the baseline composition for ‘all’ dystopia; as like the foolish dogma of an out-dated ideology for example rests itself upon a large enough contingent of the public being either treated as if they were or in fact are “too foolish” to discuss or think a thing through, so a dogma is poured over them like concrete creating, in turn, intolerable circumstances as the dogma, tomorrow, becomes out-dated and suddenly instructs them to do foolish things, as like in the “Banality Of Evil” (read: Hannah Arendt) as the character in all serious perpetrators of inhumanity who insist, with a confused expression on their faces, that they were just doing their job – and this ‘quality’, of extreme ignorance, is the composition of the culture where such ‘evil actions’ occur. I mean here that in STC we have on one hand a very in-depth account, very serious reading, to graduate the reader out of the depressive, atomizing, disempowering, conspiratorial milieu and mire of ‘life’ presented to us in 1984 and Brave New World, but that we have at the same time the very resonant harmonics that one does not need to “wait around for a distant future utopia” to “solve all the problems” but that the tools to do so are well within our grasp at any time we so choose and of which such an undertaking constitutes the foundation stones and tapestries of that future utopia which, I think, could be said to “meet us half-way” in many of these matters, as like we reach forward and they reach back and then those in the past reach forward and we in the resent reach back; that is anyway what it is to learn from the past and anyway the answer to “why the Grandfather sews the seeds for trees from whose fruits he will never eat.” Valete. ID, IX. MAIORES. V, CAL. IUNI. FORTUNA PRIMIGENIA.FULL TEXT ON GUTENBERG OF H.G. WELLS ‘THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME’ (1933)https://preview.redd.it/9l7yl9hx8y3d1.jpg?width=490&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d5a4109fb8e2193b94a6e244d92d4ec5b7b84a7 https://preview.redd.it/37vvsroy8y3d1.jpg?width=740&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e62ef5e11c1c4222d6f99ffebe82b3dd706cbc2f |
2024.06.01 13:55 Li0n_m log4j properties file not working in maven project
I'm going crazy, I created a maven project and wanted to start logging simple things for debug purpose, so I added the log4j dependency and created the logger in my main class.
It's working fine EXCEPT I cannot configure it. It only logs from ERROR level (I think it's the default option) and no matter what i put in my log4j.properties file, i cannot change it.
I'm using log4j 2.23.1 version and my properties file is under MyProject/src/main/resources. The resources directory is in classpath.
What can I try to be able to use the properties file?
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It's working fine EXCEPT I cannot configure it. It only logs from ERROR level (I think it's the default option) and no matter what i put in my log4j.properties file, i cannot change it.
I'm using log4j 2.23.1 version and my properties file is under MyProject/src/main/resources. The resources directory is in classpath.
What can I try to be able to use the properties file?
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2024.06.01 13:48 GameKingSK Review of the game after almost 2 weeks
 | XDefiant has been out for almost 2 weeks now so I’d like to share some general observations I’ve made over the pre-season period. I have a little over 11 hours of pure in-game time, while Ubisoft Connect shows a little less than 20 in total. submitted by GameKingSK to XDefiant [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/p8ei6wig7y3d1.png?width=1720&format=png&auto=webp&s=bd14474018ba5365ec45d1059f7093b8cf0d880a I’m not a pro or anything, but I think I’m decent enough to provide good feedback. The positives:
Overall, I enjoy the game a lot and if the devs can support it, I will keep playing for a long time. Other notes and observations:
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2024.06.01 13:47 Silent_Ad379 New factions and operators shown in PV4
This is a new faction we know almost nothing about with a possible Cautus operator. Now I have a theory based on another theory I saw on this sub.
Ok The other theory states there are 3 pure pieces of originium one of them is in the hands of the Sarkas, one of them is used to power Aegir, and the last unknown one is under Rim Billiton.
My theory based on this is that this new faction is a faction in Rim Billiton that has the pure originium and maybe has some connection to priestess (They use a version of her callsign)
People already seem to know who this is... Tho idk
New Kazimierz event?
Looks very much like Suzu's mother which could mean siracusan event is lappy alter and suzumum. So we can finally see what the relationship between the two are (Why can't suzu meet lappy?)
Same bunny as the first image (Look at the ears) If my theory is correct this should be Rim Billiton (It's possible as we do know Rim Billy nomadic cities are like concrete jungles) but I don't know... it's looks a bit chilly in this image...
Apart from all the shown ops we got a lateran event with hints at Cecilia being important (I would say she's too young to be an op, but Rhodes has a history of child soldiers)
A Kjerag/Kazdel/Rhine labs event(?) With the possibility of Nasti being an op and Maybe Kjerag alter?
Something something infy icefield event, Kal event 2, victoria arc epilogue etc etc
We got a lot coming
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Ok The other theory states there are 3 pure pieces of originium one of them is in the hands of the Sarkas, one of them is used to power Aegir, and the last unknown one is under Rim Billiton.
My theory based on this is that this new faction is a faction in Rim Billiton that has the pure originium and maybe has some connection to priestess (They use a version of her callsign)
People already seem to know who this is... Tho idk
New Kazimierz event?
Looks very much like Suzu's mother which could mean siracusan event is lappy alter and suzumum. So we can finally see what the relationship between the two are (Why can't suzu meet lappy?)
Same bunny as the first image (Look at the ears) If my theory is correct this should be Rim Billiton (It's possible as we do know Rim Billy nomadic cities are like concrete jungles) but I don't know... it's looks a bit chilly in this image...
Apart from all the shown ops we got a lateran event with hints at Cecilia being important (I would say she's too young to be an op, but Rhodes has a history of child soldiers)
A Kjerag/Kazdel/Rhine labs event(?) With the possibility of Nasti being an op and Maybe Kjerag alter?
Something something infy icefield event, Kal event 2, victoria arc epilogue etc etc
We got a lot coming
2024.06.01 13:46 normalSkystrikerRaye I want more ritual monsters
 | Do you guys think Konami gonna give us any cool ritual archetype soon? submitted by normalSkystrikerRaye to DuelLinks [link] [comments] |
2024.06.01 13:46 Ordinary_Concept_308 UFO Sighting (REAL) Avenal Cutoff Road, CA USA
 | Look…. I am a tow truck driver, I was driving through here tonight on my way back from Hanford and I recorded some shit that I can’t really explain. It baffles me, I’m gonna explain what I seen & recorded without jumping to any conclusions on what I believe it may be: submitted by Ordinary_Concept_308 to UFOs [link] [comments] There was a flying object circling my vehicle, normally I don’t get nervous over planes or helicopters but I noticed this was extremely low to the ground & had the ability to turn off all lights, and reappear in a new place. The flying object circled my tow truck twice before I got my phone out, and mind you, I’m driving around 55-70mph. In my first video, the flying object appears over the fields to my right, it had flashing lights almost like a plane but I already determined it wasn’t. It flew over to the left side of the road and then the lights changed from flashing to solid & multiple, it then seemed to gain enough speed to turn itself around to face me. It then turned on what appeared to be a headlight as it flew towards me, and when I got close it flew over the fields. Now this part is one I cannot explain, when it went over the fields, it then turned off its lights and flew at speeds I’ve never seen a plane fly before and disappeared behind me. I started recording the video again (tried to keep them short because I was sending them on IG and messages), and it was because the object was following me. You can clearly see the object behind me in the air, as well as a single light following what appeared to be near the roadway. Both never got too close even when I slowed down speeds they kept their distances. I have a couple more videos of them just moving around behind me and this went on for about 20 miles. Now, I am not one to believe in conspiracies. I try and deny all superstitions & go with what I can prove to be facts, but that’s where the problem is: there are some maneuvers this object was doing that a plane absolutely cannot do. 1) the object was very low, like under the telephone wires low at times 2) the way it cut & darted around was extremely fast, absolutely no way any plane could make those moves, not even a fighter jet could. 3) the speed in which it took off over the crops seemed to be well over 400mph, and I’m not sure exactly how fast it really went this is an estimate. Yes, a jet may have that ability but you would certainly hear the engines roar if it was. 4) the object is small, not as big as a plane at all, you can hear me in the video question if this was a crop duster but there’s absolutely no way. Not only can a crop duster not move that fast, but the object was far too small to be one. It wouldn’t be able to hold any liquid at all at that size to do anything. 5) I have NEVER seen a plane able to disable & reconfigure its lights in the way this object did on video, at times it appeared to even move backwards while facing me, meaning it had to at least be matching my rate of speed. 6) one major thing bothering me is how long it followed me until it disappears. It followed me through the whole road, and at first I was wondering if it was possibly the prison there monitoring the area, but I soon realized I was far away from the prison and it was gone before I got there, meaning it chose not to fly over the prison for whatever reason. I do not know what I saw & recorded tonight, what I do know is I have proof of it all & I’m willing to share it. I’m going to attach a picture of where I was located while recording the video because I managed to get a decent recording of my GPS on the tablet I use & it sort of shows my location. I am curious if you know what company might be out there using high grade military drones to monitor the area. Yes, I can say without a doubt that if it is a drone, it has to be something that the public could never get their hands on. It followed for 20 miles at least, I did not think this possible for drone technology. I am not sure what it was interested in or why it decided to get in front of me with a spotlight, & I am not even certain it was a drone. What it was doing broke all knowledge I thought I had on drone capabilities. I am more than willing to share these to you all & I hope you might have more information on what exactly I saw tonight at around 2:30am - 3am, which even though I already know that isn’t a crop duster, no fuckin way it was out dusting crops at 2:30am. |
2024.06.01 13:45 nira_7 Are these characteristics of an ISTP or not? And what is an enneagram if you can guess
1) I hate restrictions. I hate things and relationships that make me unable to act naturally and freely. 2) I am suspicious of most things, and cannot quickly trust people or information, even if it is from fairly reliable sources, etc. 3) Confidentiality. 4) I love to learn a lot, especially if it is related to topics that interest me. 5) I always like to think rationally and logically, and I always try to be logical. 6) I am able to relate events well. 7) I don't like to depend on anyone or anything. I like to rely only on myself. 8) I prefer to be alone and do the things I love alone. 9) I like to learn through my previous experiences. 10) My style of discussion is: I listen to the other party and wait for him to complete his point of view, even if his point of view conflicts with mine. I try to understand his point of view and see the evidence and arguments. If I am convinced, this is normal, and if I am not convinced, this is normal. I am one of the calmest people in the debate and the type who does not attack, does not rush, or gets angry because the other party does not resemble my point of view. 11) The first impression of me is always that I am quiet, I don't talk much, and I am somewhat serious, and people almost avoid me at first because of my semi-serious appearance. 12) People call me cold.. 13) I don't take the initiative. 14) If I'm with people I care about, I'll talk and laugh normally, but if I don't like people, they'll see me as cold and not talking much. 15) I ignore a lot. 16) I do not like for anyone to praise me because I do not know what to do or what is the appropriate reaction to give, so I try to ignore the praise and treat myself as if I do not hear it, and if I want to say something, I will just say thank you. 17) I always hide my feelings, I do not like to show them to anyone, and I always suppress them. 18) I value personal space very much, and I do not like anyone to enter my life, nor do I like to enter people’s lives. 19) I like to help people I care about. 20) I am afraid to show people facts about me because I am afraid that people will use them against me 21) I do not like to be a leader, but if there is no leader and I see that everyone is not good at assuming the leadership position, then I donate and take it and be strict and harsh because I believe that the quality of strictness should be in a leader. 22) Care a lot about how some things work. 23) I love sports. For example, I love martial arts, I love running, I love playing football, etc., but I do not practice them because circumstances do not allow me. 24) I love scientific things such as mathematics and physics, and I love learning them and delving into them. 25) I don't make detailed long-term plans for the future. If I want to make plans, I'll make plans with bullet points or simple details, but more often than not I make plans with bullet points to the point that it's very natural for me to keep them in my head, and not have to write them down on notes or paper so I can remember them. 26) I hate emotional talk. 27) I hate physical contact. 28) I like to take things apart to see how they work and what they are made of. I don't fix it, but I would like to know how it works. 29) I don’t like compliments, so I don’t always compliment and be honest. 30) I get bored quickly sometimes. 31) I don't care about people leaving my life, this is very normal for me and I get over it very quickly. 32) I don't think about the future or the past much. Mostly, I focus on the present. 33) To be honest, sometimes I like rules and follow them, but not always. 34) I always like to search for the exact meaning of words. 35) I am always interested in developing myself scientifically. 36) I like deep and realistic thoughts. 37) I love and appreciate respect, and if I respect someone and he does not respect me, I will get angry and perhaps hurt him. 38) I do not like when others underestimate my abilities, and if someone underestimates my abilities, I try to prove my abilities to him. 39) I show my interest in a person through actions, not words. I show this by encouraging and supporting him with what he does, sharing tips, sharing my knowledge with him, asking how he is doing, helping him when he needs me, but I never like emotional talk. 40) I'm not a bit of a nervous person. 41) I know a lot about my surroundings without any effort on my part, but I do not talk about it. 42) I like to go to the library and read books there, but circumstances do not allow me to read books on the Internet. 43) I can do things even if I don't know how. I mean I can draw even though I don't know. I mean my senses are almost ready to do anything, even if I don't know. 44) I prefer to learn by myself. 45) At first people are always afraid to approach me because I look serious and sharp, but only when you get to know me. If people I feel comfortable with and care about. I will be helpful, I can be kind, I will joke with them and laugh. I'm the exact opposite when I'm with people I don't feel comfortable with and I don't care about them. 46) If someone asks for an opinion on something, I will give him my advice based on my previous experiences, analysis of the situation, and the information I have on this topic. 47) I hate being controlled by people. 48) I have good self-confidence. 49) I love realistic and tangible things, and I can use my senses with them, and I love applying them to reality if they can be applied to reality. 50) I like isolation and do not like meeting people. 51) I don't laugh a lot, but I smile and not a lot either. 52) Almost everyone around me says I'm complicated. 53) I do not like noise, loud voices, and screaming. 54) I don't cry much and it's rare for me to do so. 55) I have a kind of apathy. 56) When I am with myself, I feel comfortable, entertained, and happy, unlike when I am with others. 57) I don't care about the things that surround me if they don't interest me. 58) I hate memories, and if people give me a memory, I will throw it away. The thing is, I hate memories and I hate making memories in general. 59) I have a fairly good sense of humor, but it doesn't show to anyone and doesn't always show. 60) I don't complain, I hate complaining, and I hate people who complain a lot. 61) I have an obsession with education and knowledge. I'm literally afraid that I won't be able to think logically and correctly because I don't have enough knowledge, so I love learning and I love knowledge. 62) Maybe I am mysterious and I keep many things in my life and do not reveal them. 63) Not committed most of the time. 64) I don't care about criticism. 65) I never, ever give up, whenever I fail, I try again. 66) I have a little bit of narcissism and a little bit of paranoia to a degree that is not always obvious. 67) One time a family member told me that you always answer me (it's normal, it's not a problem, I don't know....) My answers are like this because the topic does not interest me. This means that if something doesn't matter to me, I can't pretend that I do. 68) I was described as not caring about people’s feelings, cold and very frank, not interested in relationships, quiet, mysterious, flexible in speech, with a courageous personality, good at school, intelligent and introverted.
Note: I will take your opinions as a guess only because no one knows themselves better than themselves.
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Note: I will take your opinions as a guess only because no one knows themselves better than themselves.
2024.06.01 13:43 parametricroll Jack post?
 | I braced the cantilevered roof of this old cabin, and tore out the deck and posts which were completely rotten. I opted to upgrade from 4x6 posts to 6x6 and decided to go all the way to the 2nd story with the 6x6's. Now I am having trouble with the decision of how to do the post to beam connections for the new deck. Code requires a fully supported beam but I really don't want to notch these 6x6's. Thoughts on using another 6x6 post, sistered behind each of these posts lagged or thru bolted to the existing posts, to support the deck beams? submitted by parametricroll to Carpentry [link] [comments] One concern would be the potential for rot with a sistered posts trapping moisture between them. I had the idea of leaving like a 2-washer gap with thru-bolts between the posts to allow for drainage. Thanks |
2024.06.01 13:42 nira_7 What is mbti? and what is the enneagram if you can guess according to the aforementioned words.
1) I hate restrictions. I hate things and relationships that make me unable to act naturally and freely. 2) I am suspicious of most things, and cannot quickly trust people or information, even if it is from fairly reliable sources, etc. 3) Confidentiality. 4) I love to learn a lot, especially if it is related to topics that interest me. 5) I always like to think rationally and logically, and I always try to be logical. 6) I am able to relate events well. 7) I don't like to depend on anyone or anything. I like to rely only on myself. 8) I prefer to be alone and do the things I love alone. 9) I like to learn through my previous experiences. 10) My style of discussion is: I listen to the other party and wait for him to complete his point of view, even if his point of view conflicts with mine. I try to understand his point of view and see the evidence and arguments. If I am convinced, this is normal, and if I am not convinced, this is normal. I am one of the calmest people in the debate and the type who does not attack, does not rush, or gets angry because the other party does not resemble my point of view. 11) The first impression of me is always that I am quiet, I don't talk much, and I am somewhat serious, and people almost avoid me at first because of my semi-serious appearance. 12) People call me cold.. 13) I don't take the initiative. 14) If I'm with people I care about, I'll talk and laugh normally, but if I don't like people, they'll see me as cold and not talking much. 15) I ignore a lot. 16) I do not like for anyone to praise me because I do not know what to do or what is the appropriate reaction to give, so I try to ignore the praise and treat myself as if I do not hear it, and if I want to say something, I will just say thank you. 17) I always hide my feelings, I do not like to show them to anyone, and I always suppress them. 18) I value personal space very much, and I do not like anyone to enter my life, nor do I like to enter people’s lives. 19) I like to help people I care about. 20) I am afraid to show people facts about me because I am afraid that people will use them against me 21) I do not like to be a leader, but if there is no leader and I see that everyone is not good at assuming the leadership position, then I donate and take it and be strict and harsh because I believe that the quality of strictness should be in a leader. 22) Care a lot about how some things work. 23) I love sports. For example, I love martial arts, I love running, I love playing football, etc., but I do not practice them because circumstances do not allow me. 24) I love scientific things such as mathematics and physics, and I love learning them and delving into them. 25) I don't make detailed long-term plans for the future. If I want to make plans, I'll make plans with bullet points or simple details, but more often than not I make plans with bullet points to the point that it's very natural for me to keep them in my head, and not have to write them down on notes or paper so I can remember them. 26) I hate emotional talk. 27) I hate physical contact. 28) I like to take things apart to see how they work and what they are made of. I don't fix it, but I would like to know how it works. 29) I don’t like compliments, so I don’t always compliment and be honest. 30) I get bored quickly sometimes. 31) I don't care about people leaving my life, this is very normal for me and I get over it very quickly. 32) I don't think about the future or the past much. Mostly, I focus on the present. 33) To be honest, sometimes I like rules and follow them, but not always. 34) I always like to search for the exact meaning of words. 35) I am always interested in developing myself scientifically. 36) I like deep and realistic thoughts. 37) I love and appreciate respect, and if I respect someone and he does not respect me, I will get angry and perhaps hurt him. 38) I do not like when others underestimate my abilities, and if someone underestimates my abilities, I try to prove my abilities to him. 39) I show my interest in a person through actions, not words. I show this by encouraging and supporting him with what he does, sharing tips, sharing my knowledge with him, asking how he is doing, helping him when he needs me, but I never like emotional talk. 40) I'm not a bit of a nervous person. 41) I know a lot about my surroundings without any effort on my part, but I do not talk about it. 42) I like to go to the library and read books there, but circumstances do not allow me to read books on the Internet. 43) I can do things even if I don't know how. I mean I can draw even though I don't know. I mean my senses are almost ready to do anything, even if I don't know. 44) I prefer to learn by myself. 45) At first people are always afraid to approach me because I look serious and sharp, but only when you get to know me. If people I feel comfortable with and care about. I will be helpful, I can be kind, I will joke with them and laugh. I'm the exact opposite when I'm with people I don't feel comfortable with and I don't care about them. 46) If someone asks for an opinion on something, I will give him my advice based on my previous experiences, analysis of the situation, and the information I have on this topic. 47) I hate being controlled by people. 48) I have good self-confidence. 49) I love realistic and tangible things, and I can use my senses with them, and I love applying them to reality if they can be applied to reality. 50) I like isolation and do not like meeting people. 51) I don't laugh a lot, but I smile and not a lot either. 52) Almost everyone around me says I'm complicated. 53) I do not like noise, loud voices, and screaming. 54) I don't cry much and it's rare for me to do so. 55) I have a kind of apathy. 56) When I am with myself, I feel comfortable, entertained, and happy, unlike when I am with others. 57) I don't care about the things that surround me if they don't interest me. 58) I hate memories, and if people give me a memory, I will throw it away. The thing is, I hate memories and I hate making memories in general. 59) I have a fairly good sense of humor, but it doesn't show to anyone and doesn't always show. 60) I don't complain, I hate complaining, and I hate people who complain a lot. 61) I have an obsession with education and knowledge. I'm literally afraid that I won't be able to think logically and correctly because I don't have enough knowledge, so I love learning and I love knowledge. 62) Maybe I am mysterious and I keep many things in my life and do not reveal them. 63) Not committed most of the time. 64) I don't care about criticism. 65) I never, ever give up, whenever I fail, I try again. 66) I have a little bit of narcissism and a little bit of paranoia to a degree that is not always obvious. 67) One time a family member told me that you always answer me (it's normal, it's not a problem, I don't know....) My answers are like this because the topic does not interest me. This means that if something doesn't matter to me, I can't pretend that I do. 68) I was described as not caring about people’s feelings, cold and very frank, not interested in relationships, quiet, mysterious, flexible in speech, with a courageous personality, good at school, intelligent and introverted.
Note: I will take your opinions as a guess only because no one knows themselves better than themselves.
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2024.06.01 13:41 ParsleyOwn8257 My Friend's Success is Becoming an Obstacle for our Lifelong Friendship. And that's destroying me
I'm writing this while having tears running down my face from both anger and sadness...I'm still friends with the first person who became my first friend in preschool. We've been through so much things together... And even though we aren't related by blood it's literally like we're real brothers. And I always looked up to him because he always had initiative.
We always had to stick up for ourselves since our parents weren't really present most of the time due to having to work 2 jobs (we both lived in a low income neighborhood) so we were the ones fending for our own selves. We grew up learning all kinds of things to survive since cash was always scarce.
But about 2 years ago, my friend found some kind of method to make a way for us. I tried asking how he did it but at the time he wouldn't get too deep into the topic so I never understood how he managed to show up with all those stacks. Nonetheless we were living a completely different life, we were buying all sorts of things and hiding those things in a rented apartment (we couldn't just take them home like that). And. so. much. more.
Fast forward to this thursday... I've finally found out the method he uses... And I'm feeling destroyed inside to discover that my friend is engaging in unethical acts... We've always been really religious and we know that God cannot bless those who walk along the shadow but he still chose to walk that path. And that has been messing with my mind since...
It's true that he's changed a lot of people's lives since then... it's true the cash made us become alive and feel life like never before... it's true that it does make a difference... but at the same time I can't stop feeling that success is created upon lies and bad acts.
But at the same time... that's my brother... he's always been there for me man! I'm so mad at this that I can barely breath. I'm so depressed... I've barely eaten since... I wanted to vent with other people but I didn't feel anyone would understand this so I just came here...
I hate how these methods of getting rich are brainwashing people by making them successful by tantalizing them with unethical acts... I hate that Crypto Swift thing and I hate all of these stupid ways to get rich. God is the only way to find true success.
I just need to find an answer. What should I do to solve this? pls I just want my brother back...
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We always had to stick up for ourselves since our parents weren't really present most of the time due to having to work 2 jobs (we both lived in a low income neighborhood) so we were the ones fending for our own selves. We grew up learning all kinds of things to survive since cash was always scarce.
But about 2 years ago, my friend found some kind of method to make a way for us. I tried asking how he did it but at the time he wouldn't get too deep into the topic so I never understood how he managed to show up with all those stacks. Nonetheless we were living a completely different life, we were buying all sorts of things and hiding those things in a rented apartment (we couldn't just take them home like that). And. so. much. more.
Fast forward to this thursday... I've finally found out the method he uses... And I'm feeling destroyed inside to discover that my friend is engaging in unethical acts... We've always been really religious and we know that God cannot bless those who walk along the shadow but he still chose to walk that path. And that has been messing with my mind since...
It's true that he's changed a lot of people's lives since then... it's true the cash made us become alive and feel life like never before... it's true that it does make a difference... but at the same time I can't stop feeling that success is created upon lies and bad acts.
But at the same time... that's my brother... he's always been there for me man! I'm so mad at this that I can barely breath. I'm so depressed... I've barely eaten since... I wanted to vent with other people but I didn't feel anyone would understand this so I just came here...
I hate how these methods of getting rich are brainwashing people by making them successful by tantalizing them with unethical acts... I hate that Crypto Swift thing and I hate all of these stupid ways to get rich. God is the only way to find true success.
I just need to find an answer. What should I do to solve this? pls I just want my brother back...
2024.06.01 13:40 parametricroll Jack post?
 | I braced the cantilevered roof of this old cabin, and tore out the deck and posts which were completely rotten. I opted to upgrade from 4x6 posts to 6x6 and decided to go all the way to the 2nd story with the 6x6's. Now I am having trouble with the decision of how to do the post to beam connections for the new deck. Code requires a fully supported beam but I really don't want to notch these 6x6's. Thoughts on using another 6x6 post, sistered behind each of these posts lagged or thru bolted to the existing posts, to support the deck beams? submitted by parametricroll to Carpentry [link] [comments] One concern would be the potential for rot with a sistered posts trapping moisture between them. I had the idea of leaving like a 2-washer gap with thru-bolts between the posts to allow for drainage. Thanks |
2024.06.01 13:39 delliamcool She got a DUI
My sister who I’ve posted about in this subreddit before got a DUI this week. It’s her first one. I saw her the night it happened, I was over at my family’s house watching a movie with my other sister on the couch. Q sister came in and said goodnight to us and that she was going to bed and upstairs.
My sister and I woke up to her calling our phones from jail at 2 AM, but when the recording said press 1 to accept this call it would say she didn’t have any money in her account and so it couldn’t connect, so we didn’t actually get to talk to her or find out what jail she was in, and what happened until the next day. She was pulled over for reckless driving in a suburb 40 minutes away from the house (we still have no idea why she was up there) failed her sobriety test and blew a .17 on the breathalyzer. She could have killed herself or someone else. She’s out of jail and waiting to be arraigned. My mom wanted to pick her up from jail and tell her she could go directly to rehab or that she’d drive her to any drop off spot of her choosing but she could not live at the house anymore if she did not go to inpatient rehab. My sister agreed to go to rehab, but it has been impossible to find her a spot that her insurance will cover. She’s been out of jail for two days now and we still have not been able to find her a spot anywhere. So she’s just at the house watching TV. From what I googled she’s definitely going to have to pay thousands in fines and could get up to 90 days in jail in our state. I’m terrified for her, she’s a very sensitive and anxious person and I can’t imagine her being in jail.
My family’s house is old and creaky and it is impossible to come downstairs without the entire house knowing someone is on the stairs, there’s literally no way she could have snuck down them and we never saw her come downstairs to leave, which means she must have snuck out on the roof. She’s 26.
For some reason I can’t get the image of her deciding to climb onto the roof and shimmy down to sneak away out of my mind. What kind of grown adult does that? She used to pack my lunches for me when we were kids and I had a field trip. She used to drive her car close to where I exited the building after high school and wait for me so I wouldn’t have to walk around looking for her car in the line, even though this put us at the back of the line every day and meant we got home 20-30 minutes later. I feel like I don’t even know her anymore.
I’ve spent every free minute I have had over the last 3 days trying to find her a rehab spot. I have 6 college assignments due tomorrow at midnight and haven’t started a single one and my apartment is a wreck but I can’t think about anything else other than her.
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My sister and I woke up to her calling our phones from jail at 2 AM, but when the recording said press 1 to accept this call it would say she didn’t have any money in her account and so it couldn’t connect, so we didn’t actually get to talk to her or find out what jail she was in, and what happened until the next day. She was pulled over for reckless driving in a suburb 40 minutes away from the house (we still have no idea why she was up there) failed her sobriety test and blew a .17 on the breathalyzer. She could have killed herself or someone else. She’s out of jail and waiting to be arraigned. My mom wanted to pick her up from jail and tell her she could go directly to rehab or that she’d drive her to any drop off spot of her choosing but she could not live at the house anymore if she did not go to inpatient rehab. My sister agreed to go to rehab, but it has been impossible to find her a spot that her insurance will cover. She’s been out of jail for two days now and we still have not been able to find her a spot anywhere. So she’s just at the house watching TV. From what I googled she’s definitely going to have to pay thousands in fines and could get up to 90 days in jail in our state. I’m terrified for her, she’s a very sensitive and anxious person and I can’t imagine her being in jail.
My family’s house is old and creaky and it is impossible to come downstairs without the entire house knowing someone is on the stairs, there’s literally no way she could have snuck down them and we never saw her come downstairs to leave, which means she must have snuck out on the roof. She’s 26.
For some reason I can’t get the image of her deciding to climb onto the roof and shimmy down to sneak away out of my mind. What kind of grown adult does that? She used to pack my lunches for me when we were kids and I had a field trip. She used to drive her car close to where I exited the building after high school and wait for me so I wouldn’t have to walk around looking for her car in the line, even though this put us at the back of the line every day and meant we got home 20-30 minutes later. I feel like I don’t even know her anymore.
I’ve spent every free minute I have had over the last 3 days trying to find her a rehab spot. I have 6 college assignments due tomorrow at midnight and haven’t started a single one and my apartment is a wreck but I can’t think about anything else other than her.