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Link to Part 1- https://www.reddit.com/ShahRukhKhan/comments/1cvqb95/how_i_would_change_dunki_copypasta_from_my_post/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
ACT 2:
This chunk of the movie is a bit tough for me to completely crack. However, I have a solid idea of how it would play out. Basically, till the interval point, we would see the gang's dunki journey intercut with the modern-day scenes. When the gang is about to set out on the journey, they are part of a large group of a dozen people. Here we get a moment where some people collect the Indian soil in small containers. This confuses the gang, because they personally don't really have any positive feelings towards their country. The journey starts. In the actual movie, this whole portion is covered in just 20 minutes. In this version, atleast 40 minutes would be devoted to this portion.
When we cut to the modern day portions, we learn that the prime minister of the UK is on a visit to India alongwith some delegates. Hardy has been persistently trying to meet the PM, but due to security concerns, he is denied repeatedly. Eventually, a large group of people start protesting with Hardy to meet the PM. They use taglines to protest that as of now, the audience doesn't understand (this will get fleshed out in the second half).
The dunki portions will initially be on the humorous side, with the gang and the rest of the group escaping dangerous situations that are presented in a funny way. However, things get dark quickly. A lot of the members die due to exhaustion, thirst or starvation. They also encounter a group of donkers who capture them. Here, more members of the group die but our core gang manages to escape. Throughout all this, the dynamics will be fleshed out, especially Hardy and Manu's love story. Lutt Putt Gaya can be inserted into the eariler parts of the dunki portions. Sukhi understands that Hardy loves Manu, and the two men have a conversation. Here, we can establish that Sukhi gives Hardy the idea of proposing to Manu at the Big Ben (establishing Hardy and Sukhi as best buds). We get the same sequence with the border patrol, but this is where Sukhi's death happens. The film takes a more emotional note. Hardy, Manu and Baggu eventually complete the jouney, and reach London.
INTERVAL
(Disclaimer: Things get a bit messy here. This is where a strong screenplay would be needed, so imagine that only Hirani and Joshi wrote the screenplay, and Kanika Dhillon was not a part of the process. Also, in act 1 in the Laltu portions, through satire, we would establish how stupid the conditions to get visas are (I forgot to include this in the prev. post))
The gang goes to Big Ben, there they meet Balli like the actual film. Here, we see in detail the hardships the gang faces, ranging from unemployment to racism. This would need the Hirani magic, so we can establish the character arcs. This is where Hardy starts understanding the value of his own country and starts longing for home (insert an emotional song sequence). The rest still want to stay in the UK, however. Eventually, we get the whole church sequence, just with better screenwriting and pacing. Things go the same and the gang ends up in court. Here, when Hardy has a convo with the judge, he doesn't say that visas are stupid, he says that the terms and conditons for visas are stupid. Just like the film, Hardy refuses to take asylum, and we also see him explaining to Manu that his whole life he has been abusing his country, even to justify his own flaws, he is tired now.
We then see a sequence of Hardy reunitng with his motherland after a full two years(one year in dunki, one year in UK), intercut with Manu suffering in London. A nice 10-15 minute sequence is needed to establish Manu suffering in London and realising the importance of her home alongwith the mutual longing between her and Hardy. This would make their reunion at the airport much more emotional
Cut to 15 years later, Hardy is gearing up for a race, when Manu calls. Things play out like the actual film, where Hardy goes to Dubai and gets the gang back to India. That whole reverse-dunki sequence was great on paper, it just needed better screenwriting and pacing to make it more thrilling and humorous. We get the Nikle The Kabhi Hum Ghar Se song here, with the gang reuniting with their motherland.
We cut to the interrogation chamber, where Priya asks Hardy how did he get into this mess again. He starts explaining, and we go into flashback again.
5 years after he brought Manu back home, Hardy and the gang now run an old-age home for people whose children have gone to foreign and are now alone. Here, a lot of the people have children who went the dunki way, and are desperate to come back. but cannot due to several foreign countries passing severe laws like extended prison times before deportation. The leading country in all of this is the UK.
Hardy wants to help, but is also reluctant to get into this mess again. He goes for a race to another city with Geetu, and during the race, collapses, experiencing severe chest pain. After some checkups, Hardy and Geetu learn that it is a heart tumor, and Hardy only has 6 months left. The rest of the gang are purposely kept oblivious to this entire incident. Hardy sees this as a message from god, that he must fight for the illegal immigrants before dying.
Hardy and the gang set out on their journey, carrying out protests. When the UK's PM comes to India, they get desperate to meet him, carrying out rallies for the same. When the UK PMO digs up some old files and learns that Hardy was supposedly ousted from the UK as he was an illegal immigrant, they strictly deny him a meeting with the PM, fearing security risks. Eventually, the protests keep growing, with hundreds of people joining and Hardy even challenging the PM and his delegates to a live TV debate. They demand the UK to abolish its new severe laws. Throughout the protests, Hardy's situations keeps worsening and it becomes tougher for him to hide his condition from Manu. Geetu also wants Hardy to stop all of this, but Hardy isn't ready. After this latest protest, he was finally arrested.
There is a solemn silence in the room. Priya receives a call, and she tells Hardy that not only has he been bailed, but the PM has also agreed for the debate.
END OF ACT 2

Task A: You already know the drill by getting the Gitlab repository if you've done the past two courses of Java.
Advanced Java Walk through Guide
Advanced Java Additional Tips
Req B1: The Java walkthrough guides help provide you further insight on what you should be doing. Now I'll give a few more details about it. It's important that the html file is edited and it uses the array method or list to display your welcome messages on the main screen. It's best to build a rest controller on the backend, so that you can link it to the frontend for Angular on the app.component.ts file. You can create a second file that implements runnable and this is used to retrieve the two different locale messages from the resource bundle. And then you can use this class on your controller file which can then be used for the Angular front end. Just be sure to start the threads on the SampleCodeApplication if you go down this route. You can look at the Java guide for more details about this part. I believe that this is the hardest part of the entire project.
Req B2: You can use the documentation cited in the Java guide for B2 if you want to learn more about how to do this. You just need to edit the App.component.ts file and the html file. Add in two more prices one being CAD and the other being EUR. They can remain the same and there's no need for currency conversion here as they don't require it, but it's important to simply add these two variables to the room class. And then create a simple forEach loop through these two variables you added for the room class. You then add these beneath the price object that is on the html page and you can follow it exactly how it's done with the first price. Just use windows + . to get the emoji keyboard if you use windows and there's a symbols tab at the top and there's a currency category below. This part is the easiest one for writing code here.
Req B3: You can follow the same route as you did in B1 by creating a rest controller. You need to create three timezones and all three of them are displayed on the page. So the page should show ET, MT, and UTC. You just need the hours and the minutes for the time format. I recommend you to use the resources provided by the Java guide. This should help you out with what you need help with.
Req C1: Right click on the root folder and create a docker file. Click on the target folder and you should see a JAR file in there. You want to copy the file path and just paste it into the docker file's file path. Then just keep target/JAR file because that's all you need. For the entry points, just copy it from the link in this article exactly the same way. Note: there shouldn't be a maintainer because there's no reason to have one for this project.
Req C2: You need to open up the docker desktop app and make sure that the setting "expose daemon" is enabled on the docker desktop app. The okay button is on the top right corner in case you didn't see it. Then you use the command "docker build -t [d387_student id] ." Just remember that this is done on IntelliJ using the terminal which is at the bottom left corner of your screen. It should successfully build it and you can verify this by using "docker images" in the terminal. Then use the command "docker run -p 8080:8080 [name of file]" to run it. It should work fine as long as "expose daemon" is enabled.
Req C3: You can use the Java guide and follow it exactly. You're simply describing how you would deploy your current application to the cloud using AWS or Azure. But Azure is more simplistic and easier to explain if that's what you're looking for.
D: You just need to print pdf the Gitlab branch history, a file for the screenshots and a file for C3 which can be done on Word, and then the Gitlab repository link.
That's all you need for this course right here. I think it's less work than D288 and even D287 once you understand what you must do. However, it takes time to learn new concepts like multithreading. I've completed this course much faster than the previous two courses. You could get this course done in a matter of days if you focus and learn what's needed. You can use ChatGPT to help you understand Angular and Spring Boot concepts as well. It can help you understand the code that you're reading.

I really like the Coros Pace 3 for all it's runing applications. But it bothers me how "unpolished" some a LOT of things are. In light of constructive criticism, here are some of the most annoying things:
-Toolbar -> I have to scroll through everything, and for SOME REASON they can't show all the options at once because it's sometimes obstructed by the title of the currently selected tool. There's so much empty space on the screen, it's just a wasted opportunity that would be so easy to fix.
-"Satellite Signal", "Location","Navigation" and "Compass" apps -> These 3 apps are very useful and I can see the potential, BUT. They all have terrible lag (especially when trying to navigate the map). I'm not sure if this is an issue with the display or the software. Also, I feel like they could be consolidated into one or two apps instead of four. It would also make sense if the "broadcast HR", "Oximeter", "Resting HR" and "Wellness Check" were put together.
-Music: yes, I know you're working on it -> The current music app is kinda shit. I understand it's a difficult feature to implement. I think the music app is a little band-aid to allow people who desperately need music to use Coros. Essentially, it's a temporary thing to allow you to kinda sorta listen to music while the developers work on Spotify, Amazon Music, Tidal, etc. integration. Still, it's unacceptable how laggy and glitchy the music app is. (Not to mention the fact that I have to upload music files with a cable instead of Bluetooth like it's 2003.)
-Control Center -> I love the new "control centre" it's literally just a folder that groups common apps. This is great, but I think you should be able to do this with all apps, and choose which apps go in which folders (if the user wants).
-The "back" button -> Sometimes I want to reverse something I did or go back to the previous screen, only for the "back" button to take me to the watchface. Please, fix this.
-Unlocking the watch -> It's a very important feature. Without it, I would be constantly turning on the display with the sleeves of my clothes. It just needs to be executed better. Why are the only options "scroll to unlock" and "hold to unlock" why can't I just press the bottom button? It never gets accidentally pressed and it's much faster than having to watch the stupid unlock animation while pressing the crown or scrolling the crown.
-Disabling the backlight -> There should be an option in setting to allow the user to disable the backlight completely to allow them to save battery life. It makes sense, because most of the time you are in a well-lit environment and the backlight is just wasting power. I understand that this could pose a problem for when you are actually in the dark and now you can't use it. There could be a "keybind" of sorts. For example: clicking the crown and bottom button at the same time, which would enable the backlight.
-Notifications -> It's such a basic thing that must be improved and will bring so many users from Garmin. You should be able to reply to texts with "preset answers like "yes", "no" and "ok", answer calls, and be able to have all apps on my phone show their notifications on my watch by default (instead of having to select all of them in settings.) I was hesistant to upgrade from my 100$ Fitbit because of the lack of robust notification support. It is unacceptable that a crappy Fitbit can do so many things better!
-THE TOUCHSCREEN EXISTS! -> It really bothers me that the UI is clearly meant to be used without a touchscreen. A lot of the "clunkiness" stems from the fact that you can only select one option on the screen at a time. This is why the touchscreen exists. Except, it is not used to allow you to have more options on screen to allow for a quicker and more fluid experience. To put it simply, the touchscreen is useless right now. You should remove it for the Pace 4 OR change the UI to make it have a practical use! (As far as I can tell, the only use for it is to move your perspective in the navigational app, a function which is so laggy that it hurts my soul.) I have put in a poll to help you decide.
I hope the lovely Coros development team is doing well and is able to handle the workload and high demand for features and polish. This is not meant to put them down. I just want to make the Coros experience better for me and all other users. I also want to clarify that this is not all the issues I could think of and are bothered by. These are simply the ones I figured I would start with and are worth sharing. Please let me know if you have any ideas on the topic and if any of this is being fixed.
Thanks,
-A random Coros user.

Task A: You already know the drill by getting the Gitlab repository if you've done the past two courses of Java.
Advanced Java Walk through Guide
Advanced Java Additional Tips
Req B1: The Java walkthrough guides help provide you further insight on what you should be doing. Now I'll give a few more details about it. It's important that the html file is edited and it uses the array method or list to display your welcome messages on the main screen. It's best to build a rest controller on the backend, so that you can link it to the frontend for Angular on the app.component.ts file. You can create a second file that implements runnable and this is used to retrieve the two different locale messages from the resource bundle. And then you can use this class on your controller file which can then be used for the Angular front end. Just be sure to start the threads on the SampleCodeApplication if you go down this route. You can look at the Java guide for more details about this part. I believe that this is the hardest part of the entire project.
Req B2: You can use the documentation cited in the Java guide for B2 if you want to learn more about how to do this. You just need to edit the App.component.ts file and the html file. Add in two more prices one being CAD and the other being EUR. They can remain the same and there's no need for currency conversion here as they don't require it, but it's important to simply add these two variables to the room class. And then create a simple forEach loop through these two variables you added for the room class. You then add these beneath the price object that is on the html page and you can follow it exactly how it's done with the first price. Just use windows + . to get the emoji keyboard if you use windows and there's a symbols tab at the top and there's a currency category below. This part is the easiest one for writing code here.
Req B3: You can follow the same route as you did in B1 by creating a rest controller. You need to create three timezones and all three of them are displayed on the page. So the page should show ET, MT, and UTC. You just need the hours and the minutes for the time format. I recommend you to use the resources provided by the Java guide. This should help you out with what you need help with.
Req C1: Right click on the root folder and create a docker file. Click on the target folder and you should see a JAR file in there. You want to copy the file path and just paste it into the docker file's file path. Then just keep target/JAR file because that's all you need. For the entry points, just copy it from the link in this article exactly the same way. Note: there shouldn't be a maintainer because there's no reason to have one for this project.
Req C2: You need to open up the docker desktop app and make sure that the setting "expose daemon" is enabled on the docker desktop app. The okay button is on the top right corner in case you didn't see it. Then you use the command "docker build -t [d387_student id] ." Just remember that this is done on IntelliJ using the terminal which is at the bottom left corner of your screen. It should successfully build it and you can verify this by using "docker images" in the terminal. Then use the command "docker run -p 8080:8080 [name of file]" to run it. It should work fine as long as "expose daemon" is enabled.
Req C3: You can use the Java guide and follow it exactly. You're simply describing how you would deploy your current application to the cloud using AWS or Azure. But Azure is more simplistic and easier to explain if that's what you're looking for.
D: You just need to print pdf the Gitlab branch history, a file for the screenshots and a file for C3 which can be done on Word, and then the Gitlab repository link.
That's all you need for this course right here. I think it's less work than D288 and even D287 once you understand what you must do. However, it takes time to learn new concepts like multithreading. I've completed this course much faster than the previous two courses. You could get this course done in a matter of days if you focus and learn what's needed. You can use ChatGPT to help you understand Angular and Spring Boot concepts as well. It can help you understand the code that you're reading.

I’m not happy with this JBL system, so decided to upgrade. I figured I’d start with the speakers, see how it sounds, then go from there with an amp & DSP if wanted. I haven’t kept up with car audio brands for the last decade or longer, as all my previous ‘premium’ systems were satisfactory to me. So instead of spending my time researching, I just hit the cheat button and called Crutchfield. They recommended:

• Front: Rockford Fosgate Prime R165-2, a 2way component set (woofer in door, tweeter up high)
• Rear doors: Rockford Fosgate Prime R1675x2, a 2way 6¾ in the doors

Of course the stock JBL door speakers are riveted in, so I had to drill those out. Not a big deal for those with a normal complement of tools.
Rears: these were easy, but did require a bit of thinking, it wasn’t simply a drop-in replacement. Crutchfield did send the speaker brackets for the door (and they bolted onto the doohole just fine), but the RFord 6¾ speakers didn’t line up with any of the pre-drilled holes in the speaker bracket. So I had to lay the speaker on the bracket, make some marks on the bracket that align with the speaker holes and drill them out. There were plenty of screws included, so this worked just fine. Again, not a huge deal, but it wasn’t a drop-in replacement like I expected. So connect the speaker to the factory wiring with the harness Crutchfield included, screw the speakers in, and done. Those took about 1.5 hours total to do both doors. And 30mins of that was making completely sure I wasn’t just being dumb and not aligning the brackets properly LoL.
Front: This took waaaayyyy longer than I expected, due to a couple snags. So first off, the JBL is a 3-way speaker system up front (door woofer, dash mid, and A-pillar tweeter). And the RFord speakers Crutchfield recommended is a 2-way system (door wooofer, and tweeter somewhere else). This will become important later. But anyway, simply drill out the rivets for the door speakers. No big deal. Remove the mids in the dash; 2 bolts, no big deal, socket fits (barely). Remove the A-pillar trim piece, sort of a big deal if you don’t know how to do it (watch a youtube about it - it only has two clips holding it on; pull it out with force to get it loose where the entire trim piece is hanging, then use needle-nose pliers to compress two tabs on each clip to free it from it’s captive frame hole. Not easy, and is a PITA, but doable with a bit of patience). I disconnected this factory JBL tweeter. I ended up placing the RFord tweeter where the dash mid was. Crutchfield supplied two adapter plates to do this. Where the adapter plate goes is abundantly obvious, but I’m embarrassed to say it took me almost two hours to figure out how to mount the tweeter to the adapter plate. If you flush-mount the tweeter to the adapter plate, it will sit too high for the dash trim piece to fit back on. So what I had to do was take a 2” hole-saw and cut a hole in the adapter plate, then mount the tweeter so the bulk of the tweeter sits below the adapter plate, in the dash hole. There is a compression ring in the RFord kit that makes this possible. But between figuring that out, and not wanting to cut the adapter plate (because I didn’t want to wait until next weekend for more parts if I got it wrong), it took me way longer to do this solution that it should have. The way the RFord 2-way system works is the tweeter comes with 6ft of speaker wire attached, and this connects to the door woofer. The HPF is inside the either the woofer or tweeter. So the signal goes to the door, and the highs get passed on to the tweeter from the door. Not a big deal, but this means you have to fish that tweeter cable down to the door. Getting the tweeter wire down the dash and to the boot that connects the body to the door is easy. But getting it fished from the body thru the boot and into the door is… an exercise in patience. One door I got it fished thru in about 15mins. The other door… about 2hrs. But ok, tweeter is now mounted in the dash space where the JBL mid was. And the wire is fished thru the doors. So I connect the tweeters to the woofers, and connect the factory harness to the woofers using the supplied adapter harness from Crutchfield.
Moment of truth….. Turn it on, and I only have sound from the rear doors and the JBL subwoofer in the back. No sound from the fronts. At this point it’s been a long day and I don’t want to do anymore, so let it for the next day. Overnight, thinking about it, I suspect the car brains are not happy going from a 3way system to a 2way system. Maybe something with the differing resistance?? Anyway, today I called Crutchfield for support, and they say the factory JBL tweeter either has to be connected, or the pins have to be jumpered. It seems the JBL system sends the audio signal to the tweeter first, then passes it to the doors. So you either have to connect the JBL tweeter, or splice pins 1&2 and 3&4 of the tweeter factory connector. And of course Crutchfield has a jumper connector that plugs into the JBL tweeter harness (effectively splicing those pins). But I wanted to get this done today, not wait a few days for that connector to get here. So I opted to connect the JBL tweeter in the A-pillars back up.
Moment of truth #2. Now I have sound from the front RFords, the rear RFords, and the JBL sub.. And it sounds much improved over the JBL system. I get adequate bass, and the highs are not near as harsh as the JBLs (even with the JBLs tweeters connected, which I figured is driving the harshness 🤷🏼‍♂️). And when I turn it up, the bass doesn’t ‘pull back’ like it did with the JBL system. There is one thing - the soundstage has definitely moved backwards. The stage is now decidedly behind the driver, instead of in front of the driver. I can move it forward using the native fader controls, but doing so feels as if the entire system amp/power is diminished. I wonder if having the factory JBL tweeters connected is impacting this somehow? Maybe I’ll get that plug from Crutchfield, remove the JBL tweeter from the equation and see how that goes.
Verdict - as of today, I’m happy with this. I’ll let it break in for a couple weeks then reassess. But as of today, I don’t see a need for an amp or DSP.

I woke up the other morning pretty pissed. A letter about code enforcement from the county bitching about my yard. The land has grown steep in parts, and i my attempt to mitigate damage done by previous owners, I ended up with a mound of debris that likes to grow weeds as well. I called them. Take down the weeds, they say, they will work on me with the debris.
I cannot seem to keep a string trimmer. I am less affluent than my neighbors and can only seem to afford weaker electric ones, and their batteries or really any part of them dies within the year. So, I decided to look into unconventional methods, and found how I might to take up scything.
I did a lot of research, and romanticized the idea of restoring a 100 year old American scythe like the men doing so on youtube. I immediately, late at night, searched up anybody selling some locally on FB marketplace. A man was selling two, for very cheap, very nearby. I messaged him and worked out the purchase. I fell asleep thinking of restoring the old instrument. I felt calm.
In my dream, I was bowing before three figures. One, a female, who was peeling a fruit that looked like a honeycomb full with red droplets of blood. One, a naked male with what looked like a viking helmet and a long, golden horn in one hand. The last figure I could not make out, just a scuffy, charcoal-like image on the edge of a shadow. I wept when I saw the second figure, begging him to interject on my behalf. I seemed to have entered the dream mid-conversation.
The two other figures looked to him, the woman looking on me with an almost doting expression of pity. The shadowy figure seemed to be whispering to them both in a language I did not know. Both the helmeted man and the woman nodded to it. The woman looked on me with a charitable sort of smile.
"You will have to give some token of your appreciation later." she says. Then there is a conversation I still do not remember. And I wake up. I forget the dream.
I am 34. I have several children. My two older kids want to go get the scythes with me. We hop in the car, and I drive around, getting tools to use in the restoration.
The man lives in a remote part of the next county over. It takes a while to find his house. He is waiting in his driveway. When I pull up, I immediately start feeling dread. I can't figure out why. He seems like a nice guy. Yet I feel something is off. I do some meditative breathing and calm down. I get out.
He tells me where he got them, and we talk a little. As soon as I pick up and hold one, I feel a brief moment of shock. Like in my legs and arms. I insist on ignoring the stupid feelings. I dismiss it as me being reclusive and not feeling social today. After putting the scythes in the hatch of the van, I come around to the driver side and stop dead.
The man is standing there with a piece of paper in his hand. It's a "million dollar question" he says. It's some kind of religious pamphlet on a fake million dollar bill. The man talks for a moment about death, about how we aren't going to be here forever, about how Jesus Christ is the only thing that will keep our souls from going to hell.
The whole thing redoubles the dread I feel. I am very polite and talk my way back into my car, feeling the dread mount more and more as I drive.
We stop at a light after an onramp. I am coming off an interstate turning left onto an intersecting highway. I try to breathe, feel very sick. While the light is red I for some reason decide to turn on some music, maybe it will calm me down. I get the urge to fiddle with spotify on my radio screen. I hear a loud beep. The light is green. I hesitate only a split second and then I start going.
Suddenly, a vehicle goes screaming in front of me. A red and white pickup truck. Has to be going 55 if not 65. It's a blur basically, even if I do make some of it out. I screech to a halt and then once the truck clears, complete my turn and immediately pull into the nearest parking lot, which turns out to be a bank.
My kids didn't even notice. Nobody seems to have appreciated but me how close we were to serious trouble.
As background. "Skeeters" in pickup trucks are a real pain here. They drive like dickheads, they are stereotypical as hell, and often I find that they instigate road trouble a lot. I don't know what it is about this area, but the "muh trukk" people seem to be way more prevalent than anywhere else.
Of course my reaction is rage. I wish I could have found this idiot who ran a red light and almost killed me and my kids. We were feet from a rather brutal collision.
I am exhausted by the time I get home. I disassemble the scythes and put the metal parts in a rust solution. I think about taking a nap and that is when the dream comes back to me. I remember the figures. And in my waking mind, I have theories on who they are. I do read a lot of old greek poetry and philosophy, so it could just be a coincidence.
However. If three greek gods were indeed discussing my fate in a dream, and one decided to intervene on my behalf, thanks a lot. I will find some "token of appreciation" to give.

Question is as raised in the title bar.
Why I am raising this question is this - in my many conversations and exchanges with Calvinists, they can be a pretty slippery lot in discussions.
And that's because I suspect there is a cognitive dissonance inherent within Calvinist/Reformed theology, which many of its adherents are not willing to recognise.
Cases in point of this slipperiness (and cognitive dissonance) -

1. In discussions on predestination and free-will, many Calvinists/Reformed folks will yo-yo between these positions as illustrated - "God actually does not predestine anyone for condemnation, but He actually does because He has no way, but it is human responsibility, but God is still the one who determines who gets condemned for eternity, but I am not a believer in double predestination, but God still does choose whom He wants to save and by virtue of that, if you are not chosen, He has chosen you for condemnation, because being chosen is the only way to be saved, but oh yes, double predestination is heresy."
2. Cessationism - "Oh, I don't believe that God still speaks actively through His Holy Spirit and heals today, but I have friends who have been healed through prayer, but I believe its wrong to teach that healing is normative for today, but it does not mean I believe the Holy Spirit is not at work healing people". I mean, if you believe that supernatural works of the Holy Spirit are not normative today, why do you often have to caveat something that "I know people who have experienced healings etc through prayer"? Funny thing is, many Reformed Cessationists, including hard core MacArthurists, always insert this caveat, if you get what I mean.

The above points 1) and 2) show the mishmash of contradictions that often emerge, w/o fail in conversations with them.
This makes it very difficult to sustain an effective convo with Calvinists to try to pin down theologically problematic areas or issues in Calvinist/Reformed doctrine. As such, how do you or have you successfully navigate this slipperiness?
Also, am I right to say that these "cognitive dissonances" happen is because deep down, most Calvinists (except for folks like John Piper who would preach double predestination with a smile on his face) know that if their theological positions are taken to its logical conclusion, it deeply imputes on the character of God in a manner that cannot be defended/sustained even using sound exegesis, or at the very least, there is still a witness of the Holy Spirit that is gently calling into qs their positions through prompts of the conscience?
Help me try to understand what goes on the thought process of Calvinists, when confronted with these issues, too. Thanks!

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!!

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Hey all, back with some Send-it Sunday goodness:
GUN STUFF

• Agency Arms EDC Glock 19 Gen 3 Magwell - Also fits Glock 23 and 32. Used but in great shape, but it's missing the hex keys to adjust the screws. It's a quality product, I'm just more of a Sig guy, no matter how I dress up a Glock, lol. - SV $65/TV $75
  
• Magpul Glock 19 Gen 3 Magwell - This was a bit of a disappointment. There's nothing wrong with it, and it works, but it just didn't actually seem to improve loading the mags for me, at least not without a bit of fitting that I wasn't interested in doing. - SV $5 with any other purchase/TV $10 with any other purchase
  
• Clakit and OneTigris Black MOLLE Phone Holsters - Decent pouches, but I run my kits in OCP or Green. Both have a soft liner inside to protect the phone, and both are pretty decently sized, should hold all but the biggest phones. - SV $20 for both/TV $25 for both
  

KNIVES

• Boker Magnum Drop Point Automatic Knife - This thing is actually pretty sweet! A classy little discontinued Auto in AUS8 with a good action and great centering. Has a couple minor scuffs, but is overall very clean! Feels great in the hand, and carries well. - SV $25/TV $30
  
• Buck Trio Pocket Knife - Brand new in the box. I'd sent an older discontinued model in for repair, and they replaced it with this one. - SV $15/TV $20
  
• 4 Pack of Goofy Carabiners - These came as part of a bundle I picked up a while back. They are trying to be Swiss Army Knife carabiners, and all sort-of succeed. I wouldn't trust my life with them, but I would trust my keys, and the tools on them are fairly useful. - SV $15/TV $20
  

MOVIES/TV

• A big HD-DVD Bundle (12 Titles) - This is going to appeal to a VERY specific person, lol. I present to you, a bunch of HD-DVDs! Titles are in the pictures, but some highlights are Apollo 13, Constantine, and U571. All are in good overall shape, but the cover for The Departed is pretty rough. Discs are all in good shape. - SV $30/TV$40
  
• Bundle of Disney Blu-rays (14 titles) - A bundle of newer Disney movies; there's a mix of traditional animated, CG, and live action. All are in great shape, and all include both their blu-ray and DVD, except for Nightmare Before Christmas, which is only the blu-ray. None have any digital codes. - SV $40/TV $45
  
• Hanna-Barbera Complete Series: Speed Buggy and Josie and the Pussycats on DVD - Two DVD collections: the complete series of Speed Buggy and Josie and the Pussycats. Speed Buggy is in great shape, and Josie is still new in package. - SV $15/TV $20
  
• The Magnificent Seven Collection on DVD - A collection of the original 4 Magnificent Seven movies, in a nice DVD boxed set. - SV $5 with any purchase/TV $5 with any purchase
  

VIDEO GAMES

• Skyward Sword (Wii) & Splatoon (WiiU) - Two more classics together. Skyward Sword is in good shape, includes it's manual and soundtrack, and plays on the Wii and WiiU. Splatoon's case is rough, but the game is in great shape! - SV $20/TV$25
  
• Iron Man VR for PS4 - Bought a PSVR recently, and in my frenzy to snatch up games, ended up with two copies of this. It's pretty fun, and as close as you'll get to being Tony Stark this side of the MCU! - SV $10/TV $15
  

TRADE INTERESTS:

• P320/P250 Safariland Level II holster
• A decent minimalist plate carrier in OD or OCP
• Mags (P365, P226, P320/P250, 10/22)
• AR Lower Parts Kit
• NRA National Match type service rifle sling
• A Kershaw Emerson CQC-7B
• Gerber Covert Auto

And, that's all I've got! All prices include shipping, like they should. You must speak up in the comments to call dibs! Once you do, we can switch to PM, and go from there. Thanks for looking!

So I'm currently enrolled in a Canadian MA program in philosophy. Started out fully set on an academic career and couldn't imagine a life outside academic philosophy. However, I started having doubts about this pretty much in my first sem here. Seen my fair share of hypocrisy here: philosophers preaching about justice and equality and what not, while pushing extra admin work onto new hires and lying to students about 'transferrable skills' and the non-academic job market. Our program is very focused on placing students into philosophy PhDs which is less than half of every cohort. Some of my friends live in shared basements without light and are still determined to make whatever sacrifices it takes to get into academic philosophy.Because of this cultish focus on academic philosophy, it seems that many graduates from our program who can't get into Philosophy PhDs just end up working odd jobs in Walmart or are sessionals with dismal pay in Canadian diploma mills.
I've honestly lost all my interest in philosophy. Sometimes I feel that this entire discipline of academic philosophy itself is a scam--people ignoring the real world and labeling as 'odious' anything they find unappealing. It is sickening being around some of these out-of-touch philosophers for whom working for industry is "selling your soul" or "commoditizing your mind". Used to get all excited by philosophy in my undergrad, but now all I can think about when doing my coursework is how I'm wasting my life on useless philosophical nonsense and how dull my non-academic job prospects are. I put all my effort into academic opportunities during my undergrad and did not do any non-academic internships or coops. Feel like I fucked up my life by getting persuaded by this "follow your interests' rhetoric.
Anyone here who could offer me advice? I've already put so much effort into this degree and feel that I should perhaps at least finish my MA. Should I drop out from my program? Work on some in-demand skills on the side while I still have the TAship? The job market here in Canada is just so depressing right now. Anyone here from Canada who switched to a well-paying industry job from the academic humanities?

This may end up a little long, I feel like this seems like a good place where I can post my experiences and the community here seems kind, but the TL/DR of it is:
-How do y'all stay grounded in the mundane when working with entities that can be so intense?
-As of right now I've only been making offerings to Lucifuge Rofocale, I used the Dukante sigil once, which felt interesting, and I've been getting a lot of synchronicities in every day life.
-The connection has started off intense out the gate, but I am fighting a people pleasing nature and the ecstasy of feeling connected to my spiritual side again. From what I've reading about Lucifuge, he is demanding of those he works with in that he doesn't like his time wasted, and it's bringing up old fears of being good enough and worry about disappointing him/losing the connection. No one is really specific about what demanding means.
-I had told my boyfriend about Lucifuge the other night, and he had made some somewhat disrespectful joke about his name and a similarity to Lucifer's name, and when he was in the living room while I was in the bedroom a short while later, he was trying to clean his Mary Jane pipe by smacking it with a lighter (something he claims he had done before) and the side of the lighter blew out and made a huge bang. Yes, there was a mundane explanation for it, but the timing felt like a "I don't suffer abuse." I ended up apologizing for what my boyfriend said and so did he, and things seemed fine after that, but it was still a very intense moment.
-If any of you happen to have a history with PTSD and abuse, how do you let yourself be vulnerable with such a powerful spirit when old fears (and maybe old behaviors) keep cropping up?
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Background info if y'all so desire, as well as other little points and maybe some questions thrown in:
I have been inclined toward witchcraft for about 20ish years since I was 11, started getting a bit more serious about it the last few years but not as serious as I would like. I had a negative experience in 2017 when I was working with Lilith (I was SAed by a man who I had considered a friend at the time) that sent me into a mental health crisis and I cut off my ties with Lilith poorly after that. The way I handled it sucked, I blamed the experience on her even though it was 100% the man's fault (obviously, looking back I was not well mentally for obvious reasons, but even still). I plan on giving her an apology offering soon, not so much to work with her again but because it feels right. Her energy was always wonderful, albeit a little intense, and I feel like I messed things up bad. But, I digress from my point.
After that whole thing, I never thought that I would end up drawn to Demonolatry until the last 6 months, really. I started researching Infernals for a personal project of mine and wanted to know more about them to make certain aspects of it more real, and I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole.
It feels like a whirlwind, but I got a message from Lucifer sometime at the end of 2023 through a reader that I've gone to before and it seemed really positive. Fast forward a little, I had seen Lucifuge Rofocale's sigil months ago and thought it was weird how it was the same that Mephistopheles uses, but then didn't think any more of it. That was the extent of that.
Maybe a month ago, I had been reached out to by Belial, but didn't feel inclined to work with him so nothing came of that.
This week on I wanna say Wednesday, I decided to contact Lucifuge Rofocale and Lucifer (because it felt right at the time), and the energy was *intense*. I had been getting some signs to do this, and it felt right at the time. There was an intense feeling of heat and some clairaudience involved. I had a really positive tarot reading as a means of divination, BUT I did pull the three of swords for working with Lucifuge, essentially that working with him might involve pain. I also got a reading from a reading who I regularly get readings from (who has been wildly accurate before), and he said something to a similar effect. He mentioned that Lucifuge has been around my energy before, and that working with him will center around finance and duty (two things I need to work on), but that sometimes entities will mold people as though they are clay into an image that they see fit for them, and to be aware of that because it doesn't work well for some people. He also mentioned that there would be pain. (I want to believe that that is shadow work, as I had a shadow work experience that evening and a reading that indicated as much.)
I think between some old people pleasing tendencies, and seeing what everyone has written about him not working well with beginners, despite my experience (I do have experience in polarity therapy and reiki too, so I'm not new to energy, at least), I've been riddled with self-doubt and the need to prove myself even though it's only been three or four days. To the point that Loki (who I work with here and there) popped up to remind me to relax and mellow out (and to make me laugh).
I also got some pretty immediate small results without even asking for anything, like someone randomly sending me a little money and a check I've been waiting on finally getting printed. I had a deep emotional release that felt like shadow work. I got guided to go on a walk in the woods and had a beautiful experience. I've had some visuals and been woken up. I had a beautiful experience sitting with his energy with the Dukante sigil last night. But again, it's been like 3 or 5 days. I'm simultaneously thrilled, but I hate the anxiety cropping up that I'm not going to be good enough and that I have to follow the signs to the letter to please him, even when those signs might actually be me reading them wrong. (Example: Getting signs to look into a school when in reality it might be for something else that is *related* to that because I don't even know that that type of school is a career that I would want.)
I felt very ungrounded a lot of today, and I just wanna know what y'all do to ground when you form a new and intense connection, and how to let yourself just enjoy the ride and not get too wound up. Also, if any of you happen to have a history with PTSD and abuse, how do you let yourself be vulnerable with such a powerful spirit when old fears (and maybe old behaviors) keep cropping up? I honestly think these are cropping up to teach me to work through them, but that doesn't stop the feelings.
Anyone who has had experiences with Lucifuge Rofocale, thoughts would be welcomed. What has happened to me so far has felt very protective, very boundary pushing, and very beautiful, but it has also been very intense and a little intimidating. When you read things about a demon like "*any* distrust can be taken as a deep disrespect, which he does not tolerate" and you have C-PTSD from abuse, sometimes those statements hit really hard, probably harder than they might mean and it makes you a bit skittish that you're about to fuck up at any second. (I have stuff to work through and a road ahead of me, I know, which is why I want to stay grounded because with the triggers has come beauty so I don't wanna just give up on this.)
Related but unrelated: This morning in my head "Valak" kept coming up when I was trying to think of Lucifuge's name as I was just waking up/half asleep. I don't entirely know how to take that. I don't feel as though I would gel with Valak's energy at this time, so it was very strange to me.

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

got yelled at today because a customer demanded a military discount on already discounted bulk priced items. i dont understand how these old men think that they can get whatever they want because they served in the military a million years ago. he kept yelling over and over that military discount is ALWAYS offered on everything (not true) and that he was able to do it last time (a new associate helped him last time and didnt know the policy).
im so fed up with people thinking theyre entitled to a discount

Hello, This is my first post on reddit and I need some pointers on developing a good pipeline for my multiple items forecasting.
My situation: Right now I have created a code to run best fit ML forecasting using scikit-learn based model. There are about 500 of items to forecast and some of the item's features are generated by other item's features. i.e: The forecasted demand of item A will be impacted by the sales of item B, because those items are closely related. To deploy my model into production I need to develop a pipelines to handle the processing from raw sales into weekly features that can be feed to the model for training and inferencing.
I did build a custom pipeline that turned out to be quite a hassle because they are hard to maintain and looks messy in general. I need some pointers to create a multiple items pipeline to process the raw data into features to be fitted into my model. I did research on using SKLearn Pipeline but I'm open to any suggestion on how to use it properly for my case or other tools
Thank you!

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!

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.

I really hate getting into a match and fighting with people that barley know how there class works and are just learning how to aim. Not to say its a bad thing. After all they have to start somewhere. But at least pair them with players of a similar level. Its prob not super fun to pick up the game for the first time and be match with a 2000 hour flank that solo's half your team because your tank is too busy fighting there tank or any one on the front line.
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The number off times I have gotten into a casual lobby and gotten top dmg, kills, and shield as a tank. Dealing more dmg than anyone else in the match only to still lose is dishearting to say the least. Like i wanna fight players of similar skill. I know people will say "just play ranked" but ranked is way slower to get into a match where as a casual lobby is well casual you know. Sorry for the straw man. But it just kills me man. The other solution to this is to have a group of people get together but again its not fun just to roll a bunch of lobby's with players that just installed a day ago.
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I can whine all I want but I wanna at least though up a solution or at least what people have to say about it.
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1. My first idea is get people in range of current level of about 10-20 levels of each other in a lobby then if there is still empty slots then work your way down the que. As far as I know paladins just pics whoever is quied up after a min. Id say maybe add a extra min to give it time to fill up. Of course it would take averaging out all players in que and if a player shows that more fits the average level of the lobby the lowest level player gets up into the next lobby down on the average.
2. The second idea is more similar to the first one but instead of player level it goes by the average of all charters that a player has.

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I have no idea how this would work or effect how long it would take to get into a lobby. I'm hoping for more like wait 3 mins and then get into a match. After all I would gladly wait a extra min or two in que then get paired with fresh players. But i can understand why someone would not want that. As they just wanna get into a match and just shot things. I also know me writing prob wont solve anything as this wont go anywhere but its still more fun to think about a better system. Any discussion is welcome and if you think there is a very big flaw with this idea also let me know. I have no idea on coding so there might be something obvious im not seeing. thx in advance if that is the case

**WARNING** long post. Feel free to skip the background information if need be
BACKGROUND:
I am a software engineer at a major bank. Relative to my counterparts on my team, I am the "most junior", but I have three years of experience. This is important to know as it may offer some insight to our team culture. I landed this job in November 2023 and was placed with my team in January 2024. The team consisted of two women, including myself and five men. I work at our NYC office with three of the other men, one of which is our team lead, let's call him Anderson. The other woman coworker lives in FL and the other two men are in India. I am the only black person on the team, and the rest of my coworkers are of Indian descent. This, too, is important to note.
From day 1, I was intentionally assigned low level administrative tasks while my coworkers were purposefully trained and briefed on other, technical tasks. The first week with my team, I mentioned to my team lead that I felt it important to learn the technical tasks that my teammates were learning, even if these technical tasks were not going to be my responsibility, because there would not be anyone to take on the technical tasks if someone was on vacation. My team lead told me to focus on the work he assigned to me.
Still determined to learn the technical tasks, I scheduled trainings with my offshore counterpart so that he would train me instead. This meant that I had to sign in to work after hours to be trained. I was now trained on what my "work buddy" knew, but still not fully trained on what the rest of the team knew how to do. Suddenly (not suddenly), my other woman coworker, let's call her Sandra, went on maternity leave and I was assigned her work. My team lead expressed his frustration with me not knowing how to do her job, and told me to figure out how to learn the things she was doing.
What is interesting to point out here is that during the first few weeks on the team, my team lead would assign our other senior engineer to train Sandra and answer all questions that she had. I was not granted this opportunity. Instead, my Slack messages went unanswered (I have all of this documented) when I had questions and after another two weeks, my team lead quietly reassigned Sandra's work from me to another senior engineer instead. He never explained why he did this, or gave me feedback on the work I was doing.
As the weeks went by, my team lead called me into a meeting to gauge my knowledge on querying our databases. He asked me to find a few items, which I could not find because for one, I had NEVER interacted with the databases before, and for two, I had no understanding of the database architecture or the data flow for our app. Nevertheless, I decided to ask clarifying questions to help me better understand the data so that I could write appropriate queries. My team lead responded to this with yelling "you are an engineer and you don't even know SQL", to which I responded that my knowledge of SQL was sufficient (part of my technical interview was based on writing complex queries), but I needed to understand exactly what he wanted me to find. He ended the meeting and never followed up on the information he was looking for. I still do not know what task, if any, that he was trying to assign to me.
I decided to follow up with him and explain to him that I could sense his frustration, and I asked him to define clear expectations for me and the team, and provide official training that focused on our application architecture and other technical areas that we needed to focus on. He told me that no amount of training would fix the "fact" that I did not know SQL and that it is the team members' job to train themselves.
Nevertheless, after that meeting, he assigned me with handling all onboarding for new projects moving forward. I have taken the liberty of advocating for my team members to ensure that we are all properly trained and provided with ALL resources needed to do our job well. Since then, the team, and myself has expressed more confidence in our ability to do our work. We are even at a point where senior team members reach out to me when they cannot find resources and either ask me to provide documentation, or ask me to reach out to other engineers to schedule meetings to provide trainings. Here is where I am concerned that I might be experiencing hostility at work. Please provide objective feedback and even constructive criticism if need be:
MAIN POINTS:
-my team lead uses language in his interactions with me that creates a false narrative. For example, he accuses me of "not caring" about my job, not "being collaborative", and not paying attention. One example is where I was tasked with migrating a google guice project to springboot. We had four weeks to get the work done and each week during standup, I brought up to my team lead my plans to make changes to the service. Each time, he would redirect my attention to administrative tasks. The third week of the sprint, literally in the middle of a Slack conversation of me telling my team lead that I planned on making some code changes and him instead telling me to do something else, our senior manager called a meeting with the team and yelled at my team lead for not getting any work done related to the code refactoring. After the meeting, my team lead followed up with me and berated me for not having work done. This is all documented in Slack and I remember being very confused as he had literally told me to do other tasks. As a result, my team lead removed me from the code refactoring project and used this to further justify his belief that I do "not care" about the work. Keep in mind that these interactions are documented.
-my team lead constantly verbally berates me in my interactions with him. One example is when I was typing up a document on a zoom call and I was sharing my screen with him. He kept rushing me and was saying things like "come on man I have other things to do", "ughhh hurry up", "you need to move fast!". Two things here: he yelled at me for moving fast because he said he could not see what I was clicking on when I moved fast. Then he yelled at me when I slowed down. There was one time he yelled at me for clicking a back button instead of the home button on the screen...he told me that I was not listening to him or paying attention...I am confused by this because the point of his instruction was for me to return to the home screen. There was another time where I misspelled a word in the middle of him berating me, and then he berated me even more for misspelling the word...
-my team lead has unclear expectations and gets angry at me when I do not do things he wants me to do. One example is when he wanted me to watch a 40 minute training video, summarize the points in the video, and schedule a follow up training with the person who lead the training so that the team (me) could ask questions. He asked me to get this done within an hour. He also wanted me to upload some recordings to Sharepoint. But this task was just another task to complete and not time-sensitive. After the call, I watched the video and made a summary and got back to him with an update in 45 minutes instead of the hour. He responded to my message 20 minutes after I wrote him by hopping on a call with me and yelled at me for not having the videos uploaded. Again, he accused me of "not caring" about my job. When I explained to him that the videos were not uploaded because I was focusing on the other, time sensitive task, he said that that task was not as important as having the videos uploaded and "people" were asking him about the videos in the Sharepoint space....this was a lie because it has been a week and the only person who accessed the uploaded videos was...you guessed it...me :)
-my team lead just berates me in general. He berated me for collaborating with a team member to explore a new internal application. He said that there was no need to get on zoom with the coworker because we should have already known everything...the app was new and I was the only one who understood how to navigate it after exploring it with the team member...oh...need I mention that he then asked me to train the other team members on the new app's UI next week?
-my team lead expressed his frustration at not having access to certain resources when I was on bereavement.The documentation was incomplete and I had to take a sudden leave due to a death in the family. Upon my return, he asked for the documentation and said that he find an "excuse" to tell his manager as to why the documentation was incomplete and that I was "on vacation"
-my team lead "warns" me not to "disappoint" him when he assigns me with tasks. When I ask him to define what a "disappointment" is and for us to agree on what is acceptable, he ignores me.
-my team lead tells me that "people" ask questions about my work and one day he is going to make our department head "deal" with me. The department head is known for being a hot head who yells at people. But he (department head)has NEVER yelled at me in any interaction I had with him, no matter how frustrated he may have been.
I want to make an important note here that my team lead does NOT speak to other people like this and he ONLY does this over zoom. I work 3x days in office and on the days where he speaks to me in person, he does not even make eye contact with me and he speaks so soft I can barely hear him sometimes. My team lead has never provided any feedback on my work. As a matter of fact, he uses my documentation and my explanation of technical tasks as if they were his own.
I am considering taking my concerns to our senior manager, who apparently is a well respected, "big boss" at work, but also MY direct manager and I happen to have a great relationship with him. I want to be as objective as possible in my complaint but in the meantime, I would like to explore areas where maybe I can improve to minimize my team lead's verbal assaults on me