My LO is 6.5 months old and a serial catnapper in the crib. I know she can connect cycles - for the first nap of the day, I will sleep next to her and she'll nap 1.5 hours but when she's in the crib, only one cycle - even with crib hour for weeks, she just hasn't done it - it makes me think she needs longer WWs but that's hard to do on 3 naps as we've stretched the schedule. Her wake windows for carrier naps are 2.25/2.5/2.5/2.75 with about 3-3.25 hours of day sleep. I've tried extending the second wake window to 2.75 to see if she'll take a longer nap in the crib and she woke up after 40 min. The other day we were delayed at the pediatrician and her second WW was a little over 3 hours and she napped for 2 hours (she had a crappy first nap that day). She seemed okay on the 3 hour WW too. It makes me wonder if she's ready for a starter 2 nap schedule but I'm also scared to push her to it too early as I hear it can lead to EMWs and overtiredness. I've been trying to extend the WWs and using the 3rd nap as a micronap but that's led to variable results where she gets harder to put down for bedtime as it's such a short nap, she fights it and it gets hard to pin down what the WW after the micronap should be.
I understand a starter 2 nap schedule could be 2.5/3/3 - however, that's less awake time than she's currently doing. Is that the right schedule to start with? How quickly are people expanding wake windows after starting on the starter 2 nap schedule to 3/3/3 or some variation of that?
Is it too early for me to do this? How did you know you were ready? Would love your tips/experience on this transition as I hear it's a really messy one!!

Hello,
My husband, 2 kids (7yr old boy, 12yr old girl), and I are seriously considering a permanent move to OBX from central CA this summer. My husband makes surf movies (has been doing this since he was a teen, he works for himself), I am a dental hygienist.
The cost of living in our current town in CA has become absolutely outrageous (average monthly rent $4,400 for a 2 bedroom apt, houses cost on average $2M here). We are not millionaire folk and are really struggling here as we have outgrown the current apt we are renting and just want a decent house for our family so our kids can have their own rooms, nothing fancy. Moving in our town is no longer an option for us as the prices have increased so much in recent years. We are hoping to relocate to a more middle class, down to earth area but also due to my husband’s line of work we need to live where there is great surf. We lived in a rural surf town on the coast of Australia for 2 yrs and loved it; we are not high maintenance people. What we are mostly concerned with is finding a family friendly, affordable (compared to central CA) area with good schools, a happy place to raise kids.
Would anyone have any insight into if OBX might be a good fit for us?

Was riding my bike westbound on Dundas St E when a car cut me off to hop onto the DVP N entrance, locked up my brakes trying not to get hit and fell. Lots of people stopped to make sure I was okay and one guy gave me lots of paper towel to soak up the water from my crushed bottle.
I was more irritated that the car was in such a hurry they were willing to risk running me over to save 4 seconds…
My MacBook got soaked in my bag so I’m hoping it’ll be alright after a few days of drying but no use stressing about it now since what’s done is done.. careful riding our there people!

My bf and I are both studying the same courses, right now there is a class that’s very time consuming and it demands almost all your attention in order to do well. I consider myself a very good note taker seeing as all of my class notes are very complete, this is because everyday when I get home I spend hours (yes, hours) replaying the class audio and adding to my notes. I feel like that’s very necessary bc in this class it’s more important what is said in class that whats written in books. However I also revise some bibliography and add a little more to them.
my bf always asks for me to send him my notes because mine are better. I send them to him bc I don’t know how to deny him without it being a problem (I’m afraid I would seem as stingy or something). Granted, he also shares with me what he does, but frankly it just doesn’t seem of use for me, so it’s like basically as if he sends me nothing.
I feel like I’m “wasting” my time spending all of those hours into my study material for him to just get them in a second… in addition, I found out that he got notes from people from other semesters and is also getting information out of it and didn’t care to mention it to me (that information could be useful to me), idk I just feel kinda used ngl.

And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth

Aside from it not being a true retelling I always think of it as a modern AU. But we (we as in modern folk, lovers of fantasy, myth etc) look at the myth differently than what the actual myth says and what it represents.
We look at only the lovers point of view like power house king and queen who actually love each other and treat each other like equals. Because that was a huge part of the myth is that Hades promised/gave equal rule of the Underworld to Persephone and didn’t SA her (I will say though it is called the R@pe of Persephone but r@pe meant more kidnapping back then and not how we use it today) AND depending on which version of the myth she either are the seeds willingly or he gave them to her without saying “hey you’ll be tied to the underworld if you eat these. Like you can’t leave” (which is another thing in and of itself. She only ate them after Hades offered her equal rule so she would know right? Idk depends on which version you read)
ANYWAY, it’s okay for people to look at it that way ( I know I do) and people are also a sucker for dark broody man is in love with sun shine flower girl.
But there’s a whole other side to the myth that I think other Redditors touched on in comments or other posts is that Demeter LOST her daughter. Well technically Persephone father gave her to Hades and didn’t really tell that to Demeter or Persephone because that’s what they did in Ancient Greece (which Rachel couldn’t have done LO with the issue of inc3st) but in the Hymn of Demeter where it talks about her rage and anger for losing her daughter and doing everything in her power to get her back. Is the other part of the myth which is empowering to woman at the time and still is. But that’s where the issue in modern retellings of the hades/Persephone come in. In almost every retelling or meme or something of this myth Demeter is depicted as the bitter and angry mother in law and helicopter parent to Persephone which kind of undermines the original myth a little bit.
So because of that I think it’s hard to find a balance in what you want to highlight in retellings or au’s of the myth which is where LO and other retellings/AU’s have issues with.
I might edit this tomorrow because this was messy lol but wanted to get my thought out there

I learned something from a buddy of mine that's a postal worker, that kinda blew my mind. He has to call in wellness checks....fairly frequently. And really only for one reason.....Apparently, if you die in your house without a caretaker or spouse, it's the boys and blue who figure it out. The real boys in blue. The ones who are actually probably doing more protecting and serving than the cops. My friend told me there's obvious signs, the smell of a corpse being the most dastardly and cring inducing, but simple things too. I mean, the freakin mail-meister prolly knows more about the average person on their route than their wife or parents. They notice when an old timer consistently grabs the mail 20 seconds after it's delivered, like clockwork and then all of a sudden doesn't for 4 days. Or perhaps hear the ruckus of animals inside that haven't been fed for a couple days..(let's be real here; I am cat lover but mittens prolly starts eating your face within 6 hours of your bucket boot) I'm curious, seeing as how this SR is well populated with wonderful mail carriers, (seriously, I appreciate ya'll. The USPS is the only govt entity worth the money we don't give it) ((We gave Ukraine more than the USPS last year O.o )) Anywho, any of you mail workers got any crazy stories about this subject? Or can confirm or deny it? If you're willing to talk about it on the phone briefly, DM me and i'll give ya the #. I can play it for my tiny audience and maybe some other people will learn something crazy and appreciate ya'll some more.

Greetings. My son got into this sport about 15 months ago, is now in a decent club, and can hang with lots of kids that have been playing far longer than he has... sometimes. Last weekend he did a tourney with his brand new team and got MVP his second game. Played really well all 3 games, and was on top of the world.
Fast forward to this weekend. He took lots of shots and missed most of them, some by a big distance. His ball handling, aggressiveness, passing, etc are always on, but weekends like this there was a lot to be desired w his shooting.
We did discover that he needs glasses recently, but I'm hesitant to point to that as it wouldn't explain why he has some good weekends. It will also be pretty devastating to point to that and then have it not be the culprit.
I realize people will have off games, but this was seriously a really good weekend to a really bad weekend. How can it change this much so quickly. It's also important to note this is how it's been on the other teams he's been on. Real highs and real lows.
Any pointers?
Thanks!

Contest Rules For Best Song Of The Month • Updated May 19th, 2024

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Best Song Of The Month Contest

Music Or Lose It hosts a monthly Best Song Of The Month contest at this musicorloseittv subreddit community. There is no cash or monetary value prize at this time. This contest is simply just for fun. Winners earn the enjoyment of being voted the best. Winners may cite the win in their biographies and social media posts.
The moderator (mod) is available to help music creators with the entry process, eligibility requirements, and deadlines. Music creators are allowed to contact the mod to ask questions about the contest anytime and mod will reply as soon as possible.
Definitions
Music creator: refers to a solo creator, band, group, choir, orchestra, or duo.
Brand identity: refers to how a creator presents themselves as an entertainer making music for the general public. For example, Simon & Garfunkel as a duo is one brand identity. Paul Simon solo is another brand identity.

Process & Deadlines

🟡 Round 1
1) Discovery ◦ Each month, moderator keeps track of songs shared at this musicorloseittv community.
2) Notifying Music Creators ◦ When a likely eligible song is seen, the u/musicorloseittv profile or u/themusicfanman profile will notify the music creator of likely eligibility within the qualifying song’s post. The reply will indicate, “⏳ This song appears eligible for the Best Song Of The Month contest. Please provide the following information…” If the song is confirmed to be eligible by a mod, the mod will make a reply “🟨 This is confirmation notifying you that this song is eligible and in consideration for the Best Song Of The Month contest…” within the qualifying song’s post.
3) Determining Contestants ◦ The Music Fan man will evaluate all eligible songs by the month’s eligibility deadline. He will then at his discretion choose up to 5 songs to compete.
3) Finalists Post ◦ At this musicorloseittv community, the musicorloseittv profile will announce the top finalists (up to 5) in a post tiled “Contest: Best Song Of The Month Finalists (Insert Month & Year).” This announcement will be done in a post made 4 days before the final day of the month. The post will be made sometime in the morning. The songs will be listed within the post in a manner most representative of music diversity as determined by the musicorloseittv profile mod. All songs available on YouTube will be included in a playlist titled “Best Song Of The Month Contestants • (Insert Month & Year)” hosted by the musicorloseittv channel on YouTube. Songs not available on YouTube will be excluded from the playlist. The playlist will be mentioned in this post. The available playlist will help voters get familiar with the songs.
The u/musicorloseittv profile or u/themusicfanman profile will notify the music creators of qualifying for the contest in their post of the song. The reply will indicate, “✅ Congratulations. Your song qualifies for the Best Song Of The Month contest…”
4) Voting ◦ The “Contest: Best Song Of The Month Finalists (Insert Month & Year)” post will specify a duration of 3 consecutive dates during which music fans can vote for only 1 of the top finalists. Voting occurs by the voters making a reply to the post in the following manner: “🗳️ I vote for….” Failing to vote in this manner will result in vote not being counted. To best ensure vote accuracy, voters must not use the “🗳️” emoji anywhere else in the post’s comments section. Music creators may vote for another music creator yet may not vote for themselves. For music creators, it’s “word of honor” voting. The top vote earning song within these three days will become the winner.
‣ Community moderator profiles musicorloseittv and onesongoftheday will abstain from voting. Also, themusicfanman and any special judge involved will also abstain from voting - unless they’re needed to serve as a tie breaker, in the event of a tie preventing a clear winner. If themusicfanman and any special judge involved are needed as a tie breaker, they must come to a consensus to achieve tie breaking. If no special judge is involved, then themusicfanman alone will serve as the tie breaker.
🟢 Winner Declaration!
Declaration Post ◦ At this musicorloseittv community, on the final day of the month, the musicorloseittv profile will announce the winner in a post tiled “Congratulations! 🎉 Best Song Of The Month Winner (Insert Month & Year)” in a post dedicated to celebrating the song. Using the sticky-post feature, the post will be prominently displayed the home page of the musicorloseittv subreddit community for ≈ 24 hours.
Achievement ◦ The contest winner may promote their song as:
My song “Song Title” won:
🏅Best Song Of The Month By Community Vote
(Insert Month & Year)
At The Music Or Lose It Community
The winner may promote themselves and the song as the winner at venues like X/Twitter, Facebook, Threads, or their YouTube channel’s Community feed. The winner may also cite the win in their biographies online including their personal website.
🏆 Song Of The Year
A similar Song Of The Year vote will occur in December. It will be similarly organized and scheduled to conclude on the final day of the year. To determine a Song Of The Year by the end of the year, December’s monthly contest will only be ≈ 2 weeks. Why? Because we need time to conclude The Song Of The Year vote by the end of the year. Additionally, this is a busy time of year for many people. What’s more, non-Christmas music released in December is typically overshadowed by Christmas music. It seems to be a bad idea to release new-original music in late December. See opinion commentary: The Best And Worst Months To Release Music.
Achievement ◦ The contest winner may promote their song as:
🏆 Best Song Of The Year By Community Vote
(Insert Year)
At The Music Or Lose It Community
The winner may promote themselves and the song as the winner at venues like X/Twitter, Facebook, Threads, or their YouTube channel’s Community feed. The winner may also cite the win in their biographies online including their personal website.

Eligibility

Here are the rules for the Best Song Of The Month contest organized by Music Or Lose It just for fun. The eligibility rules are intended to make this contest as fair as possible to the music creator participants.
**👤 Personal: **
Requirements:
✔️ Must be an actual human.
✔️ Must be 17 years of age or older.
✔️ Must be a music creator abiding by the rules of this musicorloseittv subreddit community.
✔️ Must be a music creator posting using either your personal profile or your brand profile as a music entertainer.
Ineligible:
🚫 Profiles run by publicists, music labels, or channels hosting performers.
🚫 People posing as other humans using imitation avatar type creations by artificial intelligence (AI).
**🗿 Music creator’s stature status: **
Eligible:
✔️ Unsigned amateur or unsigned professional yet lesser known.
✔️ Lesser known music creators who have not yet achieved two different songs with over 500,000 views/listens and are signed to deals with small to medium-sized record companies or seeming one-song-per-time type distributors.
✔️ Lesser known music creators who have not yet achieved two different songs with over 500,000 views/listens and are signed to deals with to a major label.
**📅 Release date: **
Eligible:
✔️ Your song must be published and accessible to the masses anytime between November 15^th of the prior year and 5 days before the final day of the current month.
**💽 Songwriting, singing, & recording: **
Requirements:
✔️ You must be the copyright owner of the song (lyrics and sound recording) or authorized/licensed to perform the song by the copyright owner as the first original performer.
✔️ An exception is made if your song is an authorized/licensed remix or includes authorized/licensed interpolation or sampling content by the copyright owner in collaboration with any other amateur music creator(s) or unsigned professional yet lesser known music creator(s). The aforementioned release date also applies to any remix, interpolation, or sampling content.
✔️ Collaborations within the aforementioned rules are allowed so long as the song is entered into the contest by the lead. Lead refers to the first person named in the collaboration.
Ineligible:
🚫 Copyright/trademark violations.
🚫 Songs written by artificial intelligence (AI).
🚫 Songs primarily generated artificial intelligence (AI).
🚫 Cover, parody, nor artificial intelligence (AI) imitation.
🚫 Songs likely to be very divisive for political or religious/anti-religious reasons.
🚫 Collaborations within deceased music creators akin to “Unforgettable” by Natalie Cole featuring Nat "King" Cole.
🚫 Interpolations, remixes, or samplings of a song by a creator signed to a record company of any size or signed to a one-song-per-time type distributor.
🚫 Song with hard cussing. No variations of F word, S word, C word, D word, N word (er or a), ahole word(s), or sexually vulgar words.
🚫 Extremely sexual, gang promoting, violent, or especially scary/gory/maleficent/evil aesthetic content.
🚫 Songs primarily about brands. For example: “I Love Driving Such-And-Such Brand Name Trucks.”
**👂 Recording quality: **
Allowed:
✔️ Professional quality recordings (live or studio).
✔️ Amateur quality (including songs record in a bedroom, car, outdoors, etc…) yet reasonably pleasant sounding.
✔️ Demos are welcome.
Ineligible:
🚫 Live records with too much interfering audience noise.
🚫 Recordings with excessively poor sound quality (abrasive on the ears, difficult to hear).
**📏 Song length: **
Requirement:
✔️ Minimum of 01:15 minutes up to 10:00 minutes.
**💻 Distribution venues: **
Requirements:
✔️ A song published and accessible to the general public masses at a well-known music website such as YouTube, SoundCloud, or Bandcamp.
✔️ A song uploaded to a channel hosting live performances is allowed so long as the song is entered into the contest directly by the creator and so long as the creator confirms permission by the channel. Confirmation can be done in either your original upload URL link source or at this community within your posts’ body-text section or a reply to the post.
✔️ The song’s upload date must be visible at the distribution venue website.
⚠️ If you enter this contest with a Spotify or TikTok URL link, ensure you’ve provided a link for the entire song (not a teasesampler) in a manner that does not require login; ensure the publish date is visible; and be weary of looping flashing visuals necessitating a “⚠️Possible Seizure Trigger Risk Warning.” Failing to do this will result in ineligibility.
Ineligible:
🚫 Login required to access the song.
🚫 Payment required to access the song.
🚫 Uploads of songs directly to Reddit.
🚫 Links not fully available to the public such as an “unlisted” YouTube video.
**🖼️ Song’s artwork: **
Definition: artwork refers to the image/drawing/photo/visuals accompanying your individual song at a music distribution venue such as YouTube, SoundCloud, or Bandcamp. It is sometimes referred to as “cover art.”
Requirements:
✔️ You must be the original creator of the song’s accompanying artwork.
✔️ Alternatively, you must be the copyright owner of the artwork if you paid to have it made. Otherwise you must be authorized/licensed to publish the artwork as part of the presentation of your song.
✔️ Artwork primarily generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is allowed so long as you are authorized/licensed by the AI source to publish the artwork as part of your song’s public presentation. However this is advised against because public sentiment may be hostile towards AI generated content.
✔️ If your song’s artwork uses aspects of copyrighted, creative commons, or “free” material content, you must confirm you’ve got authorization/licensing to use the content as part of your song’s public presentation. Confirmation can be done in either your original upload URL link source or at this community within your posts’ body-text section or a reply to the post.
✔️ Your own logo that you own the copyright to may be displayed in the song’s accompanying artwork (including on a person wearing a hat or T-shirt).
Ineligible:
🚫 Copyright/trademark violations.
🚫 Parody notably displayed in the artwork.
🚫 Visible logos of any brand other than your own logo as a music entertainer.
🚫 Extremely sexual, gang promoting, violent, or especially scary/gory/maleficent/evil aesthetic content.
**🎥 Song’s music video (optional): **
Including a link to a music video is optional.
Requirements:
✔️ You must be the original creator of the song’s music video visuals including: animation; moving graphics; prominently featured still artwork or photos.
✔️ Alternatively, you must be the copyright owner of all the video’s visuals if you paid to have them made. Otherwise you must be authorized/licensed to publish all the video’s visuals as part of the presentation of your song’s accompanying music video.
✔️ Visuals (including: animation; moving graphics; prominently featured still artwork or photos) primarily generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are allowed so long as you are authorized/licensed by the AI source to publish the artwork as part of your song’s public presentation. However this is advised against because public sentiment may be hostile towards AI generated content.
✔️ If your song’s accompanying music video uses aspects of copyrighted, creative commons or “free” material, you must confirm you’ve got authorization/licensing to use the copyrighted material as part of your song’s public presentation within the accompanying music video. Confirmation can be done in either your original upload URL link source or at this community within your posts’ body-text section or a reply to the post.
✔️ Your own logo that you own the copyright to may be displayed in the video (including on a person wearing a hat or T-shirt).
✔️ Allowed music videos include “Official Music Video,” “Live Performance,” “Dance Video Version,” “Animated Video,” or “Lyrics Video.”
✔️ If you opt for an “Animated Video” or a “Lyrics Video,” you must be authorized/licensed to publish all the video’s visuals as part of the presentation of your song’s accompanying music video. If you hire an animator or use AI or an app/software designed to create music video lyrics, you must be authorized/licensed by the animator or AI source or app/software creator to publish the animation and/or lyrics as part of the presentation of your song’s accompanying music video.
✔️ If you opt for a “Dance Video Version,” the dancing and/or choreography must be originally created for your song’s accompanying music video. If you hire a choreographer and/or dancers or collaborate for free or for barter, you must be authorized/licensed by the choreographer and/or dancers to publish the video’s dancing/choreography visuals as part of the presentation of your song’s accompanying music video.
✔️ “Official Audio” type music videos are allowed so long as an accompanying still image complies with the aforementioned “Song’s artwork” rules. Alternatively, if the “Official Audio” music videos has moving visuals, it must comply with these above-mentioned “Song’s music video” rules.
✔️ “Live Performance” music videos may be made from your home/cafield (pretty much anywhere decent and reasonable) or from one of your well-recorded performances from a show. Be sure to avoid copyright and trademark violations in the video.
⚠️ Brief uses of music distribution venue logos at the end or start of a music video may be allowed at mod’s discretion, when the intent is to inform the viewer of venue availability of the song. This is however discouraged unless the distribution venue, at their website, specifies this is allowed. Music videos that display any trademark logos (other than the music creator’s own copyrighted logo) entirely throughout are ineligible.
Ineligible:
🚫 Copyright/trademark violations.
🚫 Notable use of virtual reality program recordings.
🚫 Notable use of filters from apps/websites similar to Snapchat.
🚫 Parody of intellectual property characters prominently displayed in the video.
🚫 Notably visible logos of any brand other than your own logo as a music entertainer.
🚫 Notable display of brand products with visible logos including but not limited to toys, stuffed animals, autos, hats, T-Shirts.
🚫 Extremely sexual, gang promoting, violent, or especially scary/gory/maleficent/evil aesthetic content.
🚫 Limitations on involving minors (under 18 yo): no minors doing dangerous stunts; no depictions of minors participating in drugs/drinking/smoking or very sexual behavior (including sexual dancing); do not prominently feature children that are not your own in the video (exception may be made if a relative only allows you to involve their children).
⚖️ Quantities:
Requirements:
✔️ One song per music creator’s brand identity.
✔️ If a music creator uploads more than one of their brands’ potentially eligible songs, the music creator must inform mod which song they prefer to be included in the contest.
✔️ A music creator may win this Song Of The Month contest up to three consecutive times. If this happens, thereafter the creator must abstain from the contest for the next month and then may return to the contest after that 1-month eligibility hiatus.
Ineligible:
🚫 Every collaboration will not automatically be considered a new brand. For example, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss collaborating one time should not be considered a brand. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss making an entire album together should be considered a brand. Music creators attempting to enter multiple songs under multiple brand names will be scrutinized. If there is no social media presence for any additional brands, their songs will likely be rejected as “also eligible” by mods. If this happens, the music creator will have to enter only 1 song.
**🖱️ Accounts you may post from: **
Requirements:
✔️ Your post must be made directly from either your personal Reddit account profile or your brand’s Reddit account profile.
✔️ If you have a medical condition necessitating aid, on your behalf, you may appoint a publicist, manager, caretaker, helper, spouse, partner, friend, guardian, or family member to post from either your personal Reddit account profile or your brand’s Reddit account profile.
✔️ If your song is from a band, group, choir, orchestra, or duo brand, the post must be made directly from either from one of the members’ personal Reddit account profiles or from your brand’s Reddit account profile.
✔️ If your song is collaboration, the post must be made directly from either the lead’s personal Reddit account profile or from the lead’s brand Reddit account profile.
✔️ If you want another song to be a part of the contest from another brand identity you are involved with, the song must be posted by a Reddit account profile for that separate brand – or one of the brand collaborators’ personal Reddit account profile.
👩🏾‍🏫 Presentation at this musicorloseittv community:
Requirements:
✔️ You must post a link to the song at this musicorloseittv community by tapping “+” on smartphone or clicking “+Create a post” on desktop/laptop. You must select the “My Song” flair.
✔️ Your post must be done by the “Title & Link Share Only method.”
✔️ The song’s URL you provide must be of the standalone song upload - not part of a playlist URL link.
✔️ You may post an audio only upload URL link (such as an individual song published at SoundCloud or Bandcamp). Alternatively, you may post a music video link from a venue like YouTube.
✔️ You may include a smartlink for the individual song (not album or playlist) within your posts’ body-text section or a reply to the post.
✔️ You may title the post whatever you want within the community’s rules and the contest’s rules. Remember: no vague titles; limit post title emojis to no more than 2 (if you decide to use them); and don’t request feedback.
✔️ Your post title may be done in the style of “Entertainer - Song Tile” (or something similar). Alternatively, the post title may be more elaborate. For example: “This Is My Latest Song. It’s About A Wonderful Time I Fell In Love.”
✔️ In your posts’ body-text section or in a reply comment, optionally you may share details about the song that you feel the audience would enjoy knowing.
**📝 Needed information: **
Requirements:
✔️ Within either your posts’ body-text section or within a reply comment at your post, provide the following information – as is:
❇️ Contest entry for your consideration:
• Entertainer's Name - Song Title:
• Published on: [Insert date & year. Refers to date published at your URL link source]
• Genre:
• I am an independent creator unsigned I am signed to [insert label name]
• Interpolations/remixes/samplings disclosure: N/A this song contains authorized/licensed interpolations/remixes/samplings [specify] of another song released since 11/15 of the prior year in collaboration with other unsigned music creator(s)[specify]. The link to the original song is [insert URL link – publish date from URL link source must be visible].
• Al disclosure: N/A. A portion of this [song/artwork/music video] is created by Al. Explanation: [specify if this applies to song/artwork/music video].
• Copyright disclosure for song: I confirm I’m the copyright owner of all the contents of this song (lyrics and recording) as it is presented including the artwork [(if applicable) and music video]
Copyrighted content I am authorized/licensed to use commercially in the promotion of my song include: [insert details]
• [optional/voluntary] Confirmation of substantial human involvement: A real human substantially arranged/compose this music. [Note: This type disclosure is strongly encouraged by creators who use instrument sounds and beats from apps/software in substation of instruments played live at the time of recording. This is especially encouraged for music creators who do not show their face and/or don’t show themselves creating the music in a music video or behind the scenes video. For music fans opposed to music primarily created by AI, this type of disclosure can be helpful and assuring.]
• Lyrics: [insert URL link or embed URL link into “Lyrics” text] [note if the lyrics are available at the upload source] [only if you're the copyright owner of the lyrics, you may entirely include them] [type “vocalized” or “instrumental” if applicable]
Ineligible:
🚫 Uploads of songs to Reddit.
🚫 No engagement pleas disguised as feedback requests in post titles nor in your posts’ body-text section. No feedback requests.
**👨🏼‍⚖️ Copyright/trademark compliance: **
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Kizaru is of course extremely powerful and very durable but people should stop like anyone would get one shot by that.
You think Luffy is already at the level where he can inmobilize someone Primebeard or Roger right now? I just don't see it,Luffy needs Bajrang Gun to take down those guys.
Considering that both armament and conqueror's boosts durability then I don't see a reason why someone with insane haki shouldn't be able to keep fighting after recieving it. No, don't get me wrong, no one would be able to tank it without any serious damage but many should be able to keep fighting.
Guys like Shanks, Roger, Garp and Whitebeard should be able to keep fighting considering their insane haki level which should give them way better durability than Kizaru. Then we have the obvious option which are Kaido, BM and Lunarians who should also be able to do it as well.
Guys with much better armament and that have conqueror's should be capable of keep fighting after tanking the attack. People always say Kaido got floored by a similar attack which means everyone else gets one shot but that doesn't really work because Kaido got up in 5 seconds and he was already severely damaged by then. I'm sorry but an attack that didn't do much to Kaido isnt one shotting everyone in the verse.

Okay so it’s been a long ass journey with this console. So im just gonna load it all on here. I’ve had the console since I was young. Google and Xbox support didn’t really help, so I’m taking to Reddit. I know the people of Reddit never disappoint with solutions.
(With a heavy heart) Deleted all my data to have room for some updates which the console said it needed. So I did just that. The first update failed like 2 times but eventually it worked. Now the second update is failing no matter what I do. I have enough storage, and it’s connected to the internet, but im not signed in if that even helps. But I can’t sign in unless I have the update.
I’m not much of a console expert to be quite clear; im more of just a nostalgia sucker. (im sure you can tell by the way I describe the problem) but I have high hopes to some who read this will help me. I’m not even sure what I’m saying, or doing at this point. So please, help? :)

This is a bit of a longer post so stay with me here. This is really only a chunk of my overarching belief on how pretty much all things metaphysical work, including reincarnation, gods/angels/ghosts/all spirits, manifestation, witchcraft, and so on. But I'm sharing the part of the theory that specifically relates to Astral Projection for this sub. I have been sitting on this for a couple of years now without telling anyone, but I started writing it for my Book of Shadows (I am a witch), and I wanted to hear your guys' thoughts. I'm not claiming to have come up with these theories AT ALL but I think it's an interesting topic.
Regardless of religious beliefs, or whether God has what we would call “sentience”, there is no undeniability that God must be math itself. Now, I am not referring to deities (which many witches including myself work with, and I will delve into what these deities are and where they come from a different time), but GOD. We constantly refer to God as “omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient.” That’s what math is! Math dictates the laws of the universe; it exists in every atom and is the precursor to knowledge itself. Astrophysics is ultimately math– it is truly the LAWS of the Universe (and likely beyond). 1+1 will always equal 2, a complicated calculus equation will always have the same answer. No matter how a species were to write or perceive math, the math itself will always stay the same. Consider the famous Golden Record, aboard Voyager 1 and 2, a disk plated in gold that is traveling through space as I write this, and as you read this. Along with other information about humans and Earth, it contains a translation guide of our numerical system which can then be interpreted by any intelligent life who comes across the disk. By understanding our numerical system, they can then read the information in the disk, including coordinates to planet Earth. Math is the only language that all sentient beings can understand. And yet, Math will never be truly understandable to any being, at least in this plane of existence. What else could we call such a thing but God? A math equation could hypothetically be written for all conceivable and non-conceivable things, from the curve of your eyelashes to a wormhole. Math is perfect, always chaotic but never without structure. Now, I don’t want to offend any religious people; in theory, your God could still be real, but the physical manifestation of any all-powerful God that COULD exist is Math. Again, I’m not referring to deities that are not believed to be all-powerful (for example, the Greek pantheon: Greek gods are NOT all-powerful, all-knowing, or always good), I believe these deities are something different entirely which I will explain another time.
Let's tie this notion to the idea of the fourth dimension (and higher dimensions). The easiest way I can explain this theory is by comparing our relationship with time to the relationship between a 2-dimensional being and the 3rd dimension. So, we are 3-dimensional beings. We have height, width, and depth, as do all things in this plane of existence. But we can only exist at one point in time. This “point” is only hypothetical, though– we measure time through manmade inventions such as clocks or calendars. But time does not physically exist, even though it dictates all things in our lives. Time causes the birth and eventual death of all life. It moves along a linear line, meaning to us, all things happen in chronological order. The Big Bang happened first, then the creation of planets, solar systems, water, life, and so on. The birth of your grandmother happened before yours. Now think of how a 2-dimensional being would perceive the 3rd dimension, and it will be quite similar. A 2-dimensional being only has height and width, but not depth. It is probably aware of depth, but can never see depth, or feel depth. It, and everything else in that dimension, can only exist at one point of depth, which would move forward in a linear fashion, and no being in that dimension could ever go back to a previous depth, or see the “future depth”. But of course, to us, this is inconceivable to understand, because we live in a dimension where an infinite amount of depths coexist all at once. You may see where this is going. Perhaps someone would like to ask a fourth-dimensional being, “What is it like being a time-traveler? Can you change the past/future?” But how would you respond if someone asked you: “What is it like being a depth-traveler? Can you change previous depths/future depths?” This question doesn’t really make sense because not only do we move depth-wise (on the Z-plane if we are thinking in terms of a x-y graph) when we walk, drive, even breathe, but all of our organs and cells and atoms have a depth, which change without us thinking about it. This is probably very similar to how a fourth-dimensional being would view time. The Big Bang did not happen first, nor last. It is always happening, as are the births of all who came before you, as are the deaths of all who come after you. Just because we view time linearly doesn’t mean it IS linear. Our brains were not built to wrap our heads around this, but all things that could ever possibly have happened, or could ever possibly happen in the future, are currently happening. This ties to a philosophy that has existed for thousands of years and shows up in witchcraft often: the idea of Oneness. That one is all, all is one, that all things are connected, As above, so below… The microcosm is the macrocosm, the macrocosm is the microcosm. This completely throws the conversation of free will, and the butterfly effect, out the window. “Do we truly get to choose our actions, or is everything predetermined, due to God or timelessness, or whatever we want to call it?” We wonder, “if I had chosen XYZ differently… if I had chosen to buy a different drink on February 18th, 2016, would my life be completely different now?” But all these questions have no real weight when time is NOT chronological. You can’t choose or NOT choose anything, because all things, all results, all causes, simultaneously exist. I like to believe that all things exist as one big jumbled math equation. This equation is constantly changing due to every individual and even non-sentient object in the universe. All things affect this equation, and yet it is always dictated by the same mathematical principles. Again, I do not think the human brain can truly comprehend this, but this means “free will” and “predestination” co-exist, if we MUST think in those terms (but I have already said I think those terms are 3-dimensional bologney). You can already guess that this, of course, means the multiverse exists.
Your soul is essentially a concentration of this mathematical life force that exists in all atoms and therefore all things– this is not unique to my theory. You have probably already heard the phrase “You are a small piece of the universe experiencing itself.” Again, this is how you are connected to all things, and how you exist aside from your physical body. This aligns with the commonly accepted concept that when you astral project, you are shifting your consciousness to a different plane of existence. But what if we bring this idea of timelessness and the multiverse theory into the conversation? If all I have said is true, there is an infinite amount of alternate universes. Let's say you had an OBE where you went to Mars. But there’s an alternate universe where you really did go to Mars in the future, and if all possible futures are simultaneously happening, and you are connected to all of these events due to this “big jumbled math equation”... that is how you can experience going to Mars, or going in the past to see your mother as a child, or to see a concert from 5 years ago. You have your “home” universe, and your “home” body, and your “home” time, but our souls are 4-dimensional beings that transcend the 3rd dimension and can become one with God. This would also make sense with the idea of “raising/lowering your vibrations”, since vibrations are waves which are just mathematical equations (think y=sinx or y=cosx). You are mathematically aligning yourself with the part of the “universal math equation” that is also on that vibration, resulting in common experiences such as AP, manifestation, encounters with good and bad spirits, chakra balances/imbalances, and so on, because as with the laws of physics, math demands balance/symmetry (like when you probably heard in algebra: “what you do on one side of the equal sign, you must do on the other side).
Hopefully this is digestible enough. And if anyone is curious, I have never done drugs before lol

I am having a horrible day so apologies if I come off as throwing a tantrum. I’m a second year who clerked, so I started in November.
I was “ramping up” in November and December, but since January, I’ve hit 200+ every month. This month has been even more brutal, I’m already at 155 hours for the month, coming off two 60+ hour weeks, and I feel like I’m dying with no signs the work is gonna slow (and in fact, people keep mentioning each matter I’m on is just gonna get more busy). People have suggested my hours are abnormal, and I even had a partner on my favorite matter call me last week asking about my hours and if I’m doing okay/taking care of myself, but none of this helps me work less lol
For one of my matters which I really don’t like, I’ve tried to disengage where possible and they’ve mostly been respectful of my time. But we have two juniors leaving (trial, paternal leave) and they expect me to step up to cover. I told them that I couldn’t take on more, though the partner expressed that she still expected I’d still keep setting aside at least a third of my time (currently this matter is maybe 15% of my time).
For my other two matters, I actually really like the teams and the substance, but the staffing is tough. I’m the only junior (and for a while, was the only associate period) on a DOJ investigation that keeps expanding; the partner is taking me to Asia next month for a week (sick) to meet our client, but it’s gonna be a ton of work in advance. On my other matter, there are two juniors and two seniors (4 associates total, plus one of counsel) servicing seven partners across multiple government investigations and multiple follow-on class actions. For the latter, a senior is off on vacation and delegated us an insane amount of work that is all due next week, and I’ve had to punt working on a lot of it bc I’ve been providing coverage to the other junior who was in depositions and then had his parents visiting. It’s really hard with these leanly staffed matters too bc saying “No” means fucking over my teammates who I adore and who I also know are really swamped.
Idk even at 200 hours/month, I’ve been okay and tried not to complain. But today, I’ve just felt like I’m gonna cry all day, knowing that this week is gonna be busier than the last two, and that this is gonna be life for at least the next few weeks.
Lol maybe this is stupid, but is this normal? I look around and I feel like a lot of people aren’t overloaded like this, but I’m not sure how I’m supposed to get there from here.

I am going to start getting a magic mirror working to use as a display in my kitchen and I was wondering if there is a way/if this makes sense to develop the MM on my local (MacBook) and then transfer the files over to a raspberry pi to run it. My thought is my MacBook is obviously much more powerful and will run better when trying to get it up, try out modules, make tweaks, etc.. then doing it either on the less powerful raspberry pi or by doing a VNC into the pi and do tweaks that way. Plus I'd rather use VS Code as opposed to nano inside terminal. I am a developer anyways so I'm very comfortable with VS Code and JS so another reason why I thought it might be easier to do in VS Code
My thought is I clone the MM repo to my MacBook, do all the config, updates, npm start to see it and do the work and get it setup to how I want locally and then I would (in theory) do 1 of 2 things:

1. zip up my MM file and send it over to the PI in whatever way makes sense either via email, VNC, whatever
2. create my own repo with my MM files and then on the PI just clone that repo and let the MM run based off those files I have cloned on the pi.

My thought is the second approach is preferred so that I can a) easily get the files onto the PI by cloning the repo and b) whenever I want to make a change I can easily make the change on my MacBook, push the commit up to my branch, VNC into the pi, stop the MM, pull down latest from the repo and then re-start with all the applicable files
Just wondering if anyone has done something similarly or what people think about this approach. Thanks in advance!

There was a flash game (I think it was flash, like 90% sure), where you played the captain of a space ship. As you made FTL jumps between star systems, little extra dimensional space ships would come at you from the top of the screen. As you navigated the stars you negotiated between a number of alien species and could send explorers down to planets and control them in a platformer type minigame. The story starts with the home planet being destroyed by these extra dimensional ships, and the story ends with the discovery that the FTL travel itself causes the extra dimensional invaders to appear, so everyone agrees to stop it. Also, if you lost too much of the crew, the remaining ones would mutiny you and game over. Please help me find what this was, please and thank you!
Edit 1: your second in command was a bald woman? Like, no hair or even eyebrows.

Welcome to my (Probably bad) guide on getting started with fitness, as I learn more I will update this post and admit where I was wrong for others to know what I used to think was true/good. I always emplore you to check out subs like fitness if you want more complete/more in depth information. I am also not a professional and only 13, so there’s likely to be plenty of wrong/bad information that I’ll have to edit/remove.
First off, goals. Every fitness program is going to be based around a few things one of which is your goals. Are you looking to build strength and muscle or are you looking for stamina and endurance? Are you looking to gain muscle mass or lose it? Are you only going to be improving small sections of yourself or is this a full body transformation?
Think of yourself critically for a moment, ask yourself what you want to improve about yourself. Ask why you want to improve yourself. Is it for looks or for a job, a hobby or a passion? Are you slightly changing your arms or massively changing your legs, questions like this to more refine your goals can help decide what you should do to improve yourself, this doesn’t apply to just fitness btw and can be a good way on figuring out how to improve yourself as a whole.
Once you have your goals you’re gonna need to figure out how to get those goals, this is focused more on the process rather than the end result and is more like “I want to have more toned legs!” Alright then, how do you get those toned legs? Is it workouts or yoga, personal hygiene or diet that has to change? What does the particular thing have to focus on to get the changes you want?
The last step is about finding and applying an exact process to follow. Let’s say you wanted more toned legs, alright then. What workouts do you have to do to get there? Maybe you wanted smoother skin, well then you’re gonna have to change some things about your personal hygiene to say, add lotion after you shower. Once you have a process you can apply it.
As for keeping track of progress it depends on what you’re changing and hoe much. In the case of building muscle or losing fat this is fairly simple, just keep an eye on your weight and how much you can lift respectively. If it’s a case of more flexibility then you can see how much further you can get into different and more complex poses. In the cases of smoother skin, better hair, better silhouette, ect it’s a lot more about just personal preference and feel. These are less objective measures and can really only be decided when you’ve achieved them by you.
As for once you reach your goals there will almost always be some sort of maintenance routine to stay there, or you can set new goals and work towards them now.
Again, I am not a professional and mostly restate what I know and have heard for other people to know. As I learn more I will update this guide and state my errors in a pinned comment. I highly encourage you to check out other subreddits if you want to learn the specifics on a particular topic like fitness for fitness and other similar subs. This guide is meant more to give you a thought process on how to start and what to research rather than outright tell you what to do.
With all that being said, I hope you found this helpful! I wish you the best of luck on your self improvement journey.

Just started taking melatonin to help me get to sleep when I need to go to bed earlier than usual.
I accidentally bought 10mg gummies without realising they’re the highest dose suggested. They are the “time release” version with supposedly some standard and some “time release”.
I constantly wake up at 3, 5, 6 & 7am before getting up at 8 so I was hoping taking this might also help me stay also longer.
First night I took half a gummy and it didn’t change my sleep at all. Second night I took another half (probably slightly larger half tbh) and slept until 5:30 so that was some success.
Considering I’ve had no nausea and none of the scary dreams people describe, do you think taking 10mg is okay for me?

Just checking in to see if anyone is experiencing this with me, or perhaps knows something about it to clue me in.
I own almost every season of Frasier on Apple TV, and watch daily.
But lately — all these new lines and jokes I’ve never heard before! It freaked me out at first and felt like misremembering, but I am 100% confident now that my episodes have been extended from perhaps the network versions to the full length or extended editions?
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The Office launched an entire second program and called them Superfan Episodes so they could advertise heavily. So I’m not at all surprised if this is in concert with New Frasier or something.
With Friends, I had to buy both a special medium and a player to watch it on in order to get the extended editions, so this feels honestly like I won the lottery! ℎaℎa