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2024.06.02 20:14 ThrowRA4ro3gwfizg My In-Laws (f62 & m68) hate me (f33) and it is making me so sad. How should I cope?
My fiancee (m35) and I (f33) have been together for 7 years. we have a son (6), who is on the autism spectrum.
It has been a long road to figure everythung out but we are a great team.
My In-laws have been so hostile to me from the beginning.
They didnt believed me when I told them the their grandchild has something. They insisted that it was my mediteranian heritage that infuenced his upbringing (for example he couldt eat with utensils for a long time because he had hypotension in his muscles but they said it is because my people like to eat with their hands.)
They would constantly ask me when I would finish my Masters Degree, even if I told them I would, it just takes too much time with all the therapies son is getting and fiancee working. No daycare would also take him in.
I did finish with the highest marks (thanks to my fiancee and best friend, who would watch the little one for 4months, so I could focus) but they are still not satisfied. There is always the next step: "why dont you have a drivers license?"
The have a lot of money and last year they offered us money (downpayment 50000€) to buy a house. They constantly told us we should buy a house with 2 floors, which we told them is very dangerous for our autistic child, we want to buy a bungalow, so we can always have him near us. They told us "our money, and we should have a say in what you buy". We told them that it is very generous, but with the situation right now, we dont want to buy a house in general. They agreed, suddenly the father asks us, in what name the lease would be. When my fiancee said both, his father disagreed:
It is their hardworked money and if we divorced I would get half and I dont deserved it, since I am not bloodrelated to them. My finacee lost his shit and told them off and they backtracked and gave some bullshit excuse of the father being a child of divorced parents and being traumatised, not before telling I would be a stranger to them if we ever got divorced.
The worst part: they never remember having done those things. They apologise or gaslight me of misinterpreting things, because I am also autistic (diagnosed) and after 6 months find new ways to insult me.
The problem is: my son loves his grandfather. They are decent grandparents, when they see my son. They dont want to see us often because they want to enjoy their pension (totally fine by me!) but whenever we visit them or they see us, my son is thrilled. He thinks they are always nice and calm like that.
We have tried cutting contact, but they always persist and cry and apologise.
It is the same pattern: We visit them, have a great day, the boy goes to sleep at 9 pm and they grill us with questions on their couch or when I walk the dog.
" What job do you have? Why are you earning so little money with your jobs, both of you? Why this? Why that?"
They dont ask us because they are interested in what we have to say, they want to know if we follow a life in their rules.
When we tell them is it insulting, they bargain, they semi-apologized, they cry (mother does) and then they forget and that we imagined everything.
My whole life, I avoided things or people that didnt feel good to me. It is the first time in my life, where I keep contact to people, that belittle me or insult me.
I told my husband I cant anymore, but if we cut contact our son would be devasted What should I do?
Thank you for reading this far and any advice is aprecciated!
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It has been a long road to figure everythung out but we are a great team.
My In-laws have been so hostile to me from the beginning.
They didnt believed me when I told them the their grandchild has something. They insisted that it was my mediteranian heritage that infuenced his upbringing (for example he couldt eat with utensils for a long time because he had hypotension in his muscles but they said it is because my people like to eat with their hands.)
They would constantly ask me when I would finish my Masters Degree, even if I told them I would, it just takes too much time with all the therapies son is getting and fiancee working. No daycare would also take him in.
I did finish with the highest marks (thanks to my fiancee and best friend, who would watch the little one for 4months, so I could focus) but they are still not satisfied. There is always the next step: "why dont you have a drivers license?"
The have a lot of money and last year they offered us money (downpayment 50000€) to buy a house. They constantly told us we should buy a house with 2 floors, which we told them is very dangerous for our autistic child, we want to buy a bungalow, so we can always have him near us. They told us "our money, and we should have a say in what you buy". We told them that it is very generous, but with the situation right now, we dont want to buy a house in general. They agreed, suddenly the father asks us, in what name the lease would be. When my fiancee said both, his father disagreed:
It is their hardworked money and if we divorced I would get half and I dont deserved it, since I am not bloodrelated to them. My finacee lost his shit and told them off and they backtracked and gave some bullshit excuse of the father being a child of divorced parents and being traumatised, not before telling I would be a stranger to them if we ever got divorced.
The worst part: they never remember having done those things. They apologise or gaslight me of misinterpreting things, because I am also autistic (diagnosed) and after 6 months find new ways to insult me.
The problem is: my son loves his grandfather. They are decent grandparents, when they see my son. They dont want to see us often because they want to enjoy their pension (totally fine by me!) but whenever we visit them or they see us, my son is thrilled. He thinks they are always nice and calm like that.
We have tried cutting contact, but they always persist and cry and apologise.
It is the same pattern: We visit them, have a great day, the boy goes to sleep at 9 pm and they grill us with questions on their couch or when I walk the dog.
" What job do you have? Why are you earning so little money with your jobs, both of you? Why this? Why that?"
They dont ask us because they are interested in what we have to say, they want to know if we follow a life in their rules.
When we tell them is it insulting, they bargain, they semi-apologized, they cry (mother does) and then they forget and that we imagined everything.
My whole life, I avoided things or people that didnt feel good to me. It is the first time in my life, where I keep contact to people, that belittle me or insult me.
I told my husband I cant anymore, but if we cut contact our son would be devasted What should I do?
Thank you for reading this far and any advice is aprecciated!
2024.06.02 20:04 SadCat162 Dedicated Transport Rules
I had a question on if the units that are inside a dedicated transport confer rules to the vehicle such as outflank or deep strike. I ask because a friend of mine believes that the unit gives the transport their rules if a Rite of War were to give it to the unit. An example of this is his Sons of Horus Long March RoW giving terminators Outflank, so to him if he were to buy a dedicated transport land raider proteus, the vehicle would obtain Outflank as well. However he believes that if a unit already a rule like deep strike or outflank, example my crimson paladins, their dedicated transport would not get their deep strike rule since it is baked into their datasheet. I have tried looking for a ruling in the core rules under the dedicated transport section but I don't see a ruling saying that a transport would even get the units rules, only that the transport gets the units role. Is there somewhere else in the core rules that I am missing? I'd appreciate if I could get a page to look at, thank you!
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2024.06.02 19:58 LAWriter2020 If you are writing a screenplay, you might want to write it as a novel.
(EDIT: I have had 5 spec features optioned, and been hired to write 3 features, a comedy short and a corporate 'image ad'. I directed the short and the image ad, and my first feature as a writer-director will go into production early next year on a multi-million dollar budget. I wish I had spent the time and effort to turn some of these stories into novels.)
Screenplays and novels are very different formats, but in Hollywood a published book author is held in high esteem, even if they aren't very good writers. As an author you can completely control the outcome of your work - no one person can make a movie by themselves. And if the novel has any success - even self-published success, you now have "IP" in the eyes of Hollywood. (Yes, I know screenplays are IP too, but what investors, producers, studios and distributors want most are scripts based on already proven stories - ideally high selling novels or big magazine or newspaper stories.)
I've seen some people on this sub make comments to the effect that is not a good idea, or that there is something wrong with writing novels instead of screenplays. That is ignorant, in my opinion.
For example, Iris Yamashita writes both screenplays and novels. Iris was nominated for an Academy Award for her first produced screenplay ("Letters from Iwo JIma"), and has been hired to write other features and TV pilots (unproduced for now), and taught screenwriting in the graduate film school at UCLA and the American Film Institute MFA program. She has recently written two crime/mystery novels.
If Iris Yamashita feels it is OK and desirable to write novels instead of or in addition to screenplays, then everyone should consider this. Instead of slogging it out writing spec scripts over and over that go nowhere, why not adapt you own stories into a novel? Even if you only self-publish, at least people will have a chance to read your work! The only people outside of production companies and contest readers who are going to read your screenplays otherwise are some of your friends and family.
By the way, Iris is currently working on an audio drama that is in production for the BBC. Once again, expanding her mediums for storytelling. This one is about the famous 442nd Regiment of the US Army during WWII. This regiment was almost 100% second generation Japanese-Americans, many of whom had been interned or whose families were interned. They were the most decorated regiment in the U.S. Army in WWII. They fought in Europe - their motto was "Go For Broke", and they did, because they really had something to prove - that they were just as American as anyone else: 4000 Purple Hearts, 4000 Bronze Stars, 21 Medals of Honor. It is an amazing true story that deserves to be told again and again.
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Screenplays and novels are very different formats, but in Hollywood a published book author is held in high esteem, even if they aren't very good writers. As an author you can completely control the outcome of your work - no one person can make a movie by themselves. And if the novel has any success - even self-published success, you now have "IP" in the eyes of Hollywood. (Yes, I know screenplays are IP too, but what investors, producers, studios and distributors want most are scripts based on already proven stories - ideally high selling novels or big magazine or newspaper stories.)
I've seen some people on this sub make comments to the effect that is not a good idea, or that there is something wrong with writing novels instead of screenplays. That is ignorant, in my opinion.
For example, Iris Yamashita writes both screenplays and novels. Iris was nominated for an Academy Award for her first produced screenplay ("Letters from Iwo JIma"), and has been hired to write other features and TV pilots (unproduced for now), and taught screenwriting in the graduate film school at UCLA and the American Film Institute MFA program. She has recently written two crime/mystery novels.
If Iris Yamashita feels it is OK and desirable to write novels instead of or in addition to screenplays, then everyone should consider this. Instead of slogging it out writing spec scripts over and over that go nowhere, why not adapt you own stories into a novel? Even if you only self-publish, at least people will have a chance to read your work! The only people outside of production companies and contest readers who are going to read your screenplays otherwise are some of your friends and family.
By the way, Iris is currently working on an audio drama that is in production for the BBC. Once again, expanding her mediums for storytelling. This one is about the famous 442nd Regiment of the US Army during WWII. This regiment was almost 100% second generation Japanese-Americans, many of whom had been interned or whose families were interned. They were the most decorated regiment in the U.S. Army in WWII. They fought in Europe - their motto was "Go For Broke", and they did, because they really had something to prove - that they were just as American as anyone else: 4000 Purple Hearts, 4000 Bronze Stars, 21 Medals of Honor. It is an amazing true story that deserves to be told again and again.
2024.06.02 19:55 LAWriter2020 If you are writing a screenplay, you might want to write it as a novel first.
Yes, they are very different formats, but in Hollywood a published book author is held in high esteem. As an author you can completely control the outcome of your work - no one person can make a movie by themselves. And if the novel has any success - even self-published success, you now have "IP" in the eyes of Hollywood. (Yes, I know screenplays are IP too, but what investors, producers, studios and distributors want most are scripts based on already proven stories - ideally high selling novels or big magazine or newspaper stories.)
I've seen some people on this sub make comments to the effect that is not a good idea, or that there is something wrong with writing novels instead of screenplays. That is ignorant, in my opinion.
For example, Iris Yamashita writes both screenplays and novels. Iris was nominated for an Academy Award for her first produced screenplay ("Letters from Iwo JIma"), and has been hired to write other features and TV pilots (unproduced for now), and who taught screenwriting in the graduate film school at UCLA and the American Film Institute MFA program. She has recently written two crime/mystery novels.
If Iris Yamashita feels it is OK and desirable to write novels instead of or in addition to screenplays, then everyone should consider this. Instead of slogging it out writing spec scripts over and over that go nowhere, why not adapt you own stories into a novel? Even if you only self-publish, at least people will have a chance to read your work! The only people outside of production companies and contest readers who are going to read your screenplays otherwise are some of your friends and family.
By the way, Iris is currently working on an audio drama that is in production for the BBC. Once again, expanding her mediums for storytelling. This one is about the famous 442nd Regiment of the US Army during WWII. This regiment was almost 100% second generation Japanese-Americans, many of whom had been interned or whose families were interned. They were the most decorated regiment in the U.S. Army in WWII. They fought in Europe - their motto was "Go For Broke", and they did, because they really had something to prove - that they were just as American as anyone else: 4000 Purple Hearts, 4000 Bronze Stars, 21 Medals of Honor. It is an amazing true story that deserves to be told again and again.
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I've seen some people on this sub make comments to the effect that is not a good idea, or that there is something wrong with writing novels instead of screenplays. That is ignorant, in my opinion.
For example, Iris Yamashita writes both screenplays and novels. Iris was nominated for an Academy Award for her first produced screenplay ("Letters from Iwo JIma"), and has been hired to write other features and TV pilots (unproduced for now), and who taught screenwriting in the graduate film school at UCLA and the American Film Institute MFA program. She has recently written two crime/mystery novels.
If Iris Yamashita feels it is OK and desirable to write novels instead of or in addition to screenplays, then everyone should consider this. Instead of slogging it out writing spec scripts over and over that go nowhere, why not adapt you own stories into a novel? Even if you only self-publish, at least people will have a chance to read your work! The only people outside of production companies and contest readers who are going to read your screenplays otherwise are some of your friends and family.
By the way, Iris is currently working on an audio drama that is in production for the BBC. Once again, expanding her mediums for storytelling. This one is about the famous 442nd Regiment of the US Army during WWII. This regiment was almost 100% second generation Japanese-Americans, many of whom had been interned or whose families were interned. They were the most decorated regiment in the U.S. Army in WWII. They fought in Europe - their motto was "Go For Broke", and they did, because they really had something to prove - that they were just as American as anyone else: 4000 Purple Hearts, 4000 Bronze Stars, 21 Medals of Honor. It is an amazing true story that deserves to be told again and again.
2024.06.02 19:38 TheSamGrain Why Do So Many Shows and Movies Have Characters With Names That Share the First Letter in the First and Last Name?
Hey there! I'm new to Reddit, so please let me know if this post should go somewhere else! Although considering this happens in a lot of media and I've had this question for a while, it felt right to come here. If I can get any heads up on proper Reddit adequate, I'd love to hear.
Alliterative Names (from a quick Google search) are names with the same first letter in their first and last name—for example, Peter Parker, Lois Lane, etc.
Growing up, I never really questioned this. I always thought it was just something that could happen. Not to mention I only ever saw it a few times in Marvel with Spider-Man and his villains, barely watching any other shows that have it and refusing to at all indulge in DC (Save for the 2003 Teen Titans show). Well, I've grown up since then and broadened my horizons. I gave more DC shows and Marvel content a chance, learning the characters better, including their real names.
Lois Lane? Lex Luther? Billy Batson? J. Jonah Jameson? Peter Parker? Otto Octavius? Etc, etc.
I never understood why, and I couldn't get a good answer from Google, which led me to get Reddit and ask.
If anybody has some form of answer, that would be amazing! Thanks!
Honestly, My only theory is marketing, but I don't know what that'd do since most fictional characters are mentioned by their aliases (Superman, Spider-Man, etc.)
Thanks in advance!
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Alliterative Names (from a quick Google search) are names with the same first letter in their first and last name—for example, Peter Parker, Lois Lane, etc.
Growing up, I never really questioned this. I always thought it was just something that could happen. Not to mention I only ever saw it a few times in Marvel with Spider-Man and his villains, barely watching any other shows that have it and refusing to at all indulge in DC (Save for the 2003 Teen Titans show). Well, I've grown up since then and broadened my horizons. I gave more DC shows and Marvel content a chance, learning the characters better, including their real names.
Lois Lane? Lex Luther? Billy Batson? J. Jonah Jameson? Peter Parker? Otto Octavius? Etc, etc.
I never understood why, and I couldn't get a good answer from Google, which led me to get Reddit and ask.
If anybody has some form of answer, that would be amazing! Thanks!
Honestly, My only theory is marketing, but I don't know what that'd do since most fictional characters are mentioned by their aliases (Superman, Spider-Man, etc.)
Thanks in advance!
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2024.06.02 19:17 nandake What items/customers etc should I try for during the event?
Hello, does anyone have a list of letters, items, customers etc that can only be obtained during the children's day event? For example I think I need to get little giraffe to get a letter? This is other than the restaurant facilities etc. Those are clearly set aside with the new layout. It's more just if there are things that I should be trying for that are limited.
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2024.06.02 19:15 thesefloralbones Mom isn't coping with diagnosis, making extremely bad choices
My mom was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in late 2020. My family describes her cancer as "treatable but not curable" with no further explanation, my dad and grandparents give me conflicting answers when I ask if that means terminal. I was freshly 18 at the time of her diagnosis and I think my family hides information from me due to my age.
She isn't coping well. Before her diagnosis she rarely drank, even when my grandparents broke out the fancy expensive wine at holidays. She didn't use drugs and she was an incredible parent. She loved kids and almost every job she ever had involved kids, ranging from daycares to being a substitute teacher. She was studying to become a midwife when she got diagnosed.
She started dating someone soon after diagnosis and he got her into drinking. She was going through a six pack a night a week after getting a third of her liver removed. He bought her a home bar for Christmas. Eventually she started doing cocaine (which my family never bothered to tell me about) and that caused fights in her relationship. He kicked her out multiple times and eventually it ended in domestic violence charges. I'd begged her to leave the relationship for years before it escalated to that.
She's also starting to be, quite frankly, a shit parent to my younger brother. Recently she vanished in the middle of the night during her custody day and did not come back in time to take him to school. She gave him weed and is being criminally charged for child abuse because of it (or because of something else, it's not like anyone fucking tells me anything).
I've been begging her to get mental health support since this started. Therapy. A support group. Friends that aren't just her drinking/coke buddies. She won't listen and now she's being legally registered as a child abuser.
She's still alive, but the mom I grew up with already feels dead. She's not the same and never will be again. I don't even know how long she has left.
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She isn't coping well. Before her diagnosis she rarely drank, even when my grandparents broke out the fancy expensive wine at holidays. She didn't use drugs and she was an incredible parent. She loved kids and almost every job she ever had involved kids, ranging from daycares to being a substitute teacher. She was studying to become a midwife when she got diagnosed.
She started dating someone soon after diagnosis and he got her into drinking. She was going through a six pack a night a week after getting a third of her liver removed. He bought her a home bar for Christmas. Eventually she started doing cocaine (which my family never bothered to tell me about) and that caused fights in her relationship. He kicked her out multiple times and eventually it ended in domestic violence charges. I'd begged her to leave the relationship for years before it escalated to that.
She's also starting to be, quite frankly, a shit parent to my younger brother. Recently she vanished in the middle of the night during her custody day and did not come back in time to take him to school. She gave him weed and is being criminally charged for child abuse because of it (or because of something else, it's not like anyone fucking tells me anything).
I've been begging her to get mental health support since this started. Therapy. A support group. Friends that aren't just her drinking/coke buddies. She won't listen and now she's being legally registered as a child abuser.
She's still alive, but the mom I grew up with already feels dead. She's not the same and never will be again. I don't even know how long she has left.
2024.06.02 19:15 tempmailgenerator Iterating Over Arrays with JavaScript's forEach Method
Exploring Array Iteration in JavaScript
JavaScript's flexibility and power stem from its ability to manipulate data structures efficiently, with arrays being among the most fundamental. Understanding how to iterate over arrays is crucial for any JavaScript developer, whether for manipulating data, generating dynamic UIs, or handling complex logic. The forEach method, specifically, offers a concise and readable approach to array iteration, diverging from traditional for loops by providing a more functional programming style. This method applies a function to each element in an array, allowing developers to execute code for each item without the boilerplate of setting up loop counters or conditions.The elegance of forEach lies in its simplicity and the clarity it brings to code. By abstracting away the mechanics of the loop, developers can focus on the operation they want to perform on each element, leading to cleaner and more expressive code. Furthermore, forEach integrates seamlessly with other JavaScript features, such as arrow functions, to create even more compact and readable code snippets. Despite its benefits, understanding when and how to use forEach effectively is essential, as it behaves differently than traditional loops, especially in how it handles asynchronous operations and modifications to the array during iteration.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| array.forEach(callback) | Executes a provided function once for each array element. |
In-depth Look at Array Iteration with forEach in JavaScript
Array iteration in JavaScript, especially through the use of the forEach method, marks a pivotal aspect of efficient data handling and manipulation in modern web development. The forEach method provides a straightforward, elegant way to traverse arrays, applying a specific operation to each element in the sequence. This approach significantly deviates from traditional for-loop iterations by abstracting the complexity of loop management, counters, and conditional exits. It enables developers to write cleaner, more readable code by focusing solely on the function to be executed for each element. The functional programming paradigm, which JavaScript partially adopts, is well-reflected in the forEach method, showcasing its ability to handle functions as first-class citizens. This method enhances code readability and maintainability by encapsulating operations within discrete functions, thus promoting a more modular, testable codebase.Despite its numerous advantages, the forEach method is not without its nuances and considerations. For instance, it does not inherently support asynchronous operations within its callback function, which can lead to misunderstandings when dealing with promises or asynchronous code blocks. Additionally, since the forEach method does not create a new array but rather iterates over the original array, developers must be cautious when modifying the array within the forEach loop to avoid unexpected behavior. Understanding these subtleties is crucial for developers to leverage the full potential of the forEach method in their projects. Moreover, the advent of newer iteration methods like map, filter, and reduce alongside forEach presents a rich toolkit for developers to manipulate and process data in JavaScript, empowering them to tackle a wide range of programming challenges with more expressive and functional code constructs.
Example: Using forEach to Log Array Elements
JavaScript Programmingconst fruits = ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry']; fruits.forEach(function(element) { console.log(element); }); Exploring the forEach Method in JavaScript
Within the realm of JavaScript, the forEach method stands as a cornerstone of array manipulation, offering a streamlined approach to iterating over array elements. This method invokes a provided function once for each element in an array, in order, allowing developers to execute side effects or apply transformations. Its design is inherently aligned with functional programming principles, emphasizing actions over data rather than the manipulation of array indices directly. The simplicity of forEach facilitates clearer, more readable code by abstracting the intricacies of loop constructs. This shift towards a more declarative programming style not only enhances code readability but also reduces the potential for errors associated with traditional for loops, such as off-by-one errors or cumbersome loop management.However, it's imperative to recognize the limitations and appropriate use cases for forEach. Unlike map or filter, forEach does not return a new array, making it purely side-effect driven. This distinction is crucial for understanding when to employ forEach, particularly in scenarios requiring transformations of the original array. Additionally, forEach's behavior in asynchronous scenarios—such as invoking asynchronous functions within the callback—can introduce complexities, as it does not await these operations. Mastery of forEach, therefore, necessitates a nuanced understanding of its synchronous nature and side-effect implications, underscoring the importance of choosing the right tool for the task in JavaScript's versatile array manipulation toolkit.
FAQs About JavaScript's forEach Method
- Question: What is the forEach method in JavaScript?
- Answer: The forEach method in JavaScript is a higher-order function that executes a provided function once for each element in an array, in order.
- Question: Can the forEach method modify the original array?
- Answer: Yes, the callback function executed by forEach can modify the original array, although forEach itself does not return a new array.
- Question: Is it possible to use async/await with forEach?
- Answer: While forEach can execute asynchronous functions, it does not await them, making it unsuitable for handling asynchronous operations that require sequential execution.
- Question: How does forEach differ from map and filter?
- Answer: Unlike forEach, both map and filter return new arrays. Map applies a function to each element and returns the results in a new array, while filter returns a new array containing elements that pass a specified condition.
- Question: Can forEach be used with objects?
- Answer: forEach is an array method and is not natively supported for iterating object properties. For objects, methods like Object.keys, Object.values, or Object.entries can be used in combination with forEach to iterate over properties.
- Question: Is forEach available in all JavaScript environments?
- Answer: forEach is widely supported in modern JavaScript environments, including browsers and Node.js, but may not be available in very old browsers without polyfills.
- Question: Can I break out of a forEach loop?
- Answer: No, you cannot break out of a forEach loop using break or continue. For scenarios requiring early termination, other looping constructs like for or for...of should be used.
- Question: How does forEach handle sparse arrays?
- Answer: forEach skips missing elements in sparse arrays, only calling the provided function for elements that actually exist.
- Question: Can I use forEach to iterate backwards over an array?
- Answer: forEach iterates over the elements of an array in ascending order. To iterate backwards, you would need to use a different approach, such as a reverse for loop.
Mastering Array Iteration with forEach
As we wrap up our exploration of the forEach method in JavaScript, it's clear that this array iteration tool is indispensable for modern web development. By enabling concise, readable, and functional code, forEach significantly simplifies the process of working with arrays. It encourages a declarative programming style, allowing developers to express what should be done to each array element without diving into the how of loop management. Despite its advantages, it's crucial to understand forEach's limitations, especially regarding asynchronous operations and its inability to terminate early. Knowing when to use forEach, as opposed to map, filter, or traditional for loops, can greatly enhance the effectiveness of your code. The versatility of JavaScript's array manipulation methods, with forEach at the forefront, empowers developers to write more maintainable, expressive, and efficient code. Embracing forEach and its functional programming roots will undoubtedly make you a more proficient JavaScript developer.https://www.tempmail.us.com/en/foreach/iterating-over-arrays-with-javascript-s-foreach-method
2024.06.02 19:13 LawyerVet36 Here's Where It All Begins - all in one spot (Part 2)
*** Update : Reading of the Will Part 2 - The Drama Begins **\*
I’m going to try and get this out quickly and maybe a little more briefly because honestly things are happening so fast now that I don’t think I’ll be able to keep up with these posts.
Before I pick-up where I left off yesterday let me just share that the Chief of Police has been out to see me twice, two of my relatives are facing charges, and more than half of the family has been raging. More on that later.
Not everyone has been toxic though, I’ve had calls and visits from several relatives that told me they were happy for me and offered their support and my father has been there every step of the way. More on that later.
Sam has been the bright spot in all of this, her schedule at the hospital is crazy but when she isn’t there or at her house sleeping or changing, she’s been with me. She and I were together all the way through junior and senior high so she was basically part of the family but now she’s getting to a whole new level of insanity firsthand. She's remained supportive during all of it. When I told her last night about what Joe had done, well - that's a whole nother story!
Anyway – back to The Reading:
As soon as JA put down Joe’s letter and reached for a file, my aunt Patricia and my sister Sarah both started yelling, my cousin David stood up looking furious, jerked the door to the conference room open and left, slamming it behind him and my cousin Steven started coming around the conference table, not sure if he was coming at me or JA but he didn’t look happy. My uncle, Emily, and my other cousin were just staring at everyone in disbelief.
My father jumped up to get in between Steven and JA / me but the gentleman in the back was already on him. At this point it was obvious why he’d been brought in, turns out he’s a sheriff’s deputy from a neighboring county and the JA and Joe had wanted to err on the side of caution by having someone there. As soon as he grabbed Steven my Aunt and sister immediately shut-up to see what was happening. Steven was frog marched out of the conference room and JA followed him out along with my father. A few minutes later they all came back in except for the deputy who remained outside the door for the rest of the meeting. While they were gone everyone was completely silent and JA walked back in to a much more attentive group.
Obviously annoyed, he grabbed his file and asked everyone to wait until he was finished before anyone asked any questions. He explained there while he had been instructed to open the meeting by reading Joe’s letter there had been some updates to the will since Joe’s wrote the letter. Cousins who did not live within 100 miles of our town would receive the $100,000 even if they didn’t attend the reading. Joe had evidently also amended the will at some point after the letter was written to gift members of the family that did not attend $50,000.
JA went on to clarify that while Joe’s will had no conditions on the use of the money it did stipulate that should there be any challenge to the will or attempt to interfere with the orderly estate closure the individuals involved would not receive anything at all.
He wrapped up by explaining that there was adequate cash in the estate to pay any taxes associated with he estate and inheritance in addition to the cash gifts given to each of the family members. All property taxes had already been paid on the real estate and that was no debt associated with the estate. As a result, he expected an uncontested and simple probate period, despite the size of the estate. He shared that he hoped to see the funds distributed in a few months and asked if anyone had any questions.Patricia and Susan started to speak at the same time while Emily raised her hand. JA waved for my aunt and sister to be quiet and asked Emily what questions she had.
Emily just wanted to know if she had to wait until she was 25 to receive her inheritance since she was under 25 but over 18. JA explained that she was under 18 when the will was written but since she was now an adult there would be no waiting period. He did caution her to be careful with the funds and offered to assist her in handling them at no charge. He told her they could either be a a lot of fun for a short period of time or could make a big difference in her life in the future if she was careful. Emily thanked him and said that’s all she wanted to know.
My sister raised her hand next while Patricia sat there looking annoyed. She asked how new the will was. JA explained that while this version was written two years ago it had basically been the same for almost 18 years with changes mostly just reflecting increases in his gifts to the family. Answering the unasked question, he added that I had always been the primary beneficiary and that Joe’s intentions had always been crystal clear.
JA also shared that during the 18 years that this version of will had been in force Joe had increased the value of the estate by well over $175 million dollars, and that his mental health was never in question. Finally, he looked directly at each of the family members there and told them that if I had passed away before Joe the entire estate would have gone into a conservation trust, there would have been no gifts to the family at all. As an attorney I thought his point was crystal clear, you were never considered, don’t make trouble, you won’t win.
Patricia evidently didn’t get the point, still refusing to wait to be acknowledged, she jumped in and asked whether he was he sure this was the only will, was there maybe one somewhere else? She said she couldn’t believe her Uncle would leave them out like this. I wanted to roll my eyes but just kept a straight face, she hadn’t bothered to speak to him for at least as long as Debbie had and probably significantly longer. She lived even closer to her than Debbie and it’s not like we lived in a huge city.
It was when she said “I think WE need to go through his things, he must have changed his will and just not told you. Alex obviously manipulated my dear Uncle Joe.” (yes, she actually sounded just like a soap opera cliché’) that my father had evidently heard enough.
He slammed his hand down on the conference room table and in a voice that was as commanding now as it likely was 30 years ago declared “You absolutely will not go through his things. You’ve squandered everything you’ve ever been given, you know it, Joe knew it, and you’ve made sure I know it because for the last several years you’ve had me supplementing both your income and your sister’s. Don’t even think about making trouble over this, not only can you not afford an attorney, if you do contest this I’ll cut you AND your sister both off. That goes for all my children as well.
Turning to his brother he look at him pointedly and said “Rick, I trust I don’t have to worry about you or your children doing something stupid.” Rick looked down at the table for a minute and then looked back at my dad before saying something to the effect of. “No, I know what happened between Dad and Joe, and looking back Joe was right. I understand why he did what he did and have known for a long time that we screwed up. I’m not going to make it worse, and neither will my children if they know what’s good for them.” He also looked at Patricia and told her that she had treated Uncle Joe terribly, just like everyone else, and that she needed to shut up before she made things worse.
After a moment of general quiet JA asked if anyone had any other questions. No one said a word so he said that we were done for today and that if anyone did think of more questions to just contact him at the office. He told everyone what the will was filed with the probate court that morning and that we’d all receive formal notices shortly. He offered to provide everyone with a copy of the will or told them they could request it directly from the probate court.
With that everyone stood up to leave he asked me to stay back and said we had a lot to cover. I turned to my dad and asked if he’d stay as well. He agreed, JA had lunch brought in and that’s when we really started getting into the details, which I’ll have to share as appropriate but suffice it to say that it’s a complex estate.
Other than that, there is SO much going on. Someday I’m going to be glad I wrote this all down, right now it’s just overwhelming. I may make an update about the family drama that’s unfolding, plus some more about Sam and I. I do think it’s worth sharing what Joe did to hold the family’s legacy together and to build on it. They say still waters run deep… I think I understand that expression better now. I hope I can do half as well as he did.
So much for making this brief!
*** UPDATE: Joe’s Legacy ***
I’m going to summarize what was a three hour initial meeting with JA, my father ,and a series of managers that oversaw Joe’s holdings. The bottom line is that Joe and his brother (my Great Grandfather) had a serious difference of opinion about how the land should be handled. Since the land was easily divided they split the tracts and each went their own way. Enough of the land was already producing revenue from land leases that the family lived very comfortably and didn’t even bother to push for more to be leased out. My Great Grandfather didn’t want to mess with the leases or see the money come in a little at a time, he wanted a lot of money and he wanted it right away. As a result he eventually started selling it off, just smaller parcels at first, but over time he started selling larger and larger tracts.
Joe couldn’t have been any more different but he couldn’t stand the idea of someone else owning our families land. He actively began marketing leases and finding users until about 80% of the property was producing revenue. That gave him the cash flow to buy the land my grandfather was selling. It couldn’t have been easy at first and JA said that in the beginning he had to take out loans to buy the property, but over time he was tucking away so much money every year that he was able to simply pay cash whenever his brother sold off a piece. By the time my grandfather died about 20 years ago he had consolidate 45,000 acres under group of holding companies, a large portion of it producing.
Joe never married (in fact he rarely dated, although I think there may be more to it that simply his desire for privacy) and maintained a simply life, He simply socked away all the revenue from the land and held it to buy more real estate as the opportunity existed. When the Great Recession hit in 2008 he had so much cash on hand that he was able to not only purchase the rest of the land that had ended up with my father and his siblings, he also was able to extend the land holdings significantly beyond that.
He had done something similar in the 70’s and 80’s when the small towns across the U.S. saw businesses closing and buildings sitting empty on Main Street. As those buildings sat vacant Joe purchased them for pennies on the dollar. Among the real estate held by the estate are dozens of buildings and parcels, primarily in our town but also throughout the rest of the valley. All are now occupied although many are rented far below market rates to local business owners. JA said the journals would explain that.
Outside of the real estate, Joe made investments in businesses that he thought had merit. His estate has interests in over 20 locally owned successful enterprises and a couple that eventually moved out of the valley and went public. He stayed away from most stocks, saying he didn’t know much about “big business” (ironic) but did invest in and hold blue chip stocks when the real estate market wasn’t offering “good deals”.
About 35 years ago though he stopped buying anything except for the a few properties that were particularly important to him, other than the land that his father had once held. He avoided making business investments or buying any stock that had any hint of instability. His focus was on building adequate cash to cover estate and inheritance taxes that couldn’t be mitigated or avoided completely by proper planning. As a result he was able to fund trusts establishing a community foundation and a family trust. In fact, both of those already exist outside of probate and will require some immediate attention.
At the end of the meeting JA passed me back the box of journals and the rolled maps he had laid out on the table. The maps contained detailed notes about the properties and the circumstances of their acquisition. It will take me quite a while to get familiarized with them as we didn’t touch on any particular parcels or buildings during the meeting, save one notable one.
After my recovery, but Joe asked me if I wanted to live with him while I figured out what I was going to do. Since the university where I was going to be going to law school was not far from town, I took him up on it. We lived together for nearly two years before my graduation, although I spent my fair share of nights staying at friends’ home after late night study sessions. Joe had a converted apartment above the barn where he kept the Jaguar and a couple of other cars and I moved into it, so we both had our privacy. Going up and down the steep stairs felt like an easier version of rehab and the quiet of being in a barn overlooking the woods was the perfect transition back to real life.
After I graduated, I made the decision to hang out my own shingle about a year after passing the Bar and working as a junior associate at a larger firm. Being older than all the other junior associates was fine but being with a large firm just wasn’t for me. Joe asked me if I was going to continue to stay with him but I told him I planned on moving closer to town as soon as I could find something cheap enough. I explained that I felt like I needed to get back into the community to start building the practice and be more accessible to clients. He thought that was a great idea and I started looking around but wasn’t in a hurry.
About a month later I “ran into” JA and he mentioned that he heard I was looking for an office. He said he had a client that had just renovated one of the downtown buildings and was looking for a tenant. His client didn’t want to give anyone long term lease and so he knew he had to make the rent cheap enough to accept the risk that they might have to move out on short notice. There was an apartment on the second floor and professional offices on the first floor. Once he told me how much the rent would be I took it sight unseen and have lived there for three years.
JA had a smile on his face when he mentioned that my home was now literally “my” home. Evidently, as soon as I told Joe I wanted to move closer to town he had contractors begin rehabbing the building as quickly as possible. Two crews had worked for a month to turn it into an incredible apartment for and the perfect office for a small town lawyer. I have to admit that for the last three years I had been keeping my fingers crossed that I wasn’t going to lose my “too good to be true” rent deal. There is no doubt in my mind that Joe had did more to influence things around this town than anyone, save a select few, ever knew.
JA said we had a lot more to go through but that it had been a long day for everyone. He suggested we pick up the conversation next week, at my convenience. He told me to call him anytime over the weekend if I had any immediate questions. He reminded me that in addition to being one of the firm’s largest clients Joe was also his best friend. He said he’d like to talk soon more about Joe – that there were things I needed to know that probably weren’t in the journals. I thanked him and asked if my dad and I could use the conference room a little while longer. He said of course and started gather his things up.
Before he stood-up to go he paused and with a look of momentary discomfort said: “One last item. The “assistant” we had in the back of the room is a sheriff’s deputy one county over. We felt it best to have security due to the size of the estate and the circumstances of the distribution. We’ve retained him along with several other deputies from nearby counties to maintain 24-hour security over the next several days, just until tempers cool down.”
I was shocked, I hadn’t even considered that someone in the family might want to harm me. I started to shake my head, getting ready to object, certain that it wasn’t necessary, when my father put his hand on my arm and spoke first. “That’s a great idea – I’m sure it won’t be needed but given the circumstance you can’t be too cautious, for Alex AND for anyone that might be around him.”
As he said that my thoughts went to Sam, and I felt guilty for not thinking of her safety. I just nodded and said thank you, that we’d revisit security needs next week after things cooled off.
With that, JA got up, shook our hands, and left. Dad and I sat quietly for a moment, looking at the papers in front of me. Dad spoke first. “You gave Joe something no one else in the family did and he gave back to you in an equal way. Don’t question this and don’t let anyone else cause you to doubt whether this was fair. You’re the only one in the family that Joe could count on to respect his life’s work. If it had been handled any other way his years would have been wasted and he knew it.”
Dad was right, Joe had instilled in me the same respect for our way of life and our family’s legacy that he had. I knew that it was up to me to pass it on. The money was a huge life changer, but the responsibility he had passed on to me was what really had me thinking. Protecting our family’s legacy and preserving our community’s heritage and way of life, he had spent a lifetime building the resources he knew I would need if I was going to honor his vision.
I hope I’m able to make him proud. I told Dad I’d appreciate his help navigating the situation and told him how unprepared I felt to take this on. I asked him how much he knew about everyone’s (our relatives) financial situation and whether he had any idea how people were going to react. He shared that both his sisters had been reckless, they were living on a minimal income, supplemented by him. That their kids had drained them over the years and were themselves, for the most part, overextended. His brother had been more careful and didn’t have to worry but that his divorce had cost him and that when he died there wouldn’t be much to leave the children.
I didn’t ask, but he told me that he was better off than the rest. Even though he had been married three times he and his first wife (my oldest brother’s mother) divorced after just a couple of years and it hadn’t been very costly. It was quite a few years later that he married my mother, we lost her to cancer around 15 years ago. Dad said that when he sold the land it wasn’t because he wanted to live it up, he just didn’t want to deal with the property or manage the leases anymore. He had invested well over the years and didn’t need the headache as he got older.
He also told me that he had a very clear prenup with Jessica and that if they remained married she would receive an allowance after he passed and have a condo in a nice resort community in the area to live in for the rest of her life, but that she was not going to be receiving a sizable portion of the estate. He told me that as immature as could be sometimes that she was well meaning and that after the loss of my mother she had brought him happiness again. He said she forced him to stay young in order to keep up with her.
He told me she felt horrible about the way she handled the call with me, she was trying to be helpful and went about it horribly wrong. She wanted to try and get in front of it with the family because she knew I would want the car. Evidently, she had also told Dad he needed to buy it for me if I didn’t have the cash. I guess I misjudged her as badly as Joe misread the situation with Dad. I’ve got to do better if I’m ever going to be able to bring the family together.
Since he and Joe didn’t speak anymore he never knew Joe had held onto his land (and he’d certainly never told me) or that he would have wanted to buy it, so he put it on the market and reinvested the proceeds of the sale. His investments had done well and although his estate was nothing like Joe’s he didn’t need to worry about money, could help his sisters, and expected each of his children to helped well along in their retirement planning when he died.
I couldn’t believe how much I’d mistaken I’d been about Dad’s financial planning – maybe I picked up on Joe’s disdain for what he thought everyone was doing or maybe it was because, as a family we really didn’t talk much about money.
Dad and his siblings never really had normal careers so us kids money just “was” – it wasn’t until later that you really got to understand how hard most people worked for it. I know that my oldest brother and some of my cousins had struggled to put together normal lives, lacking much in the way of an example from our parents.
Joe had assumed my father had as little regard for the opportunities he had been given as his brother had had. I can’t believe that my father and Joe shared so much more in common than they thought. I immediately realized unless we wanted the family’s “legacy” to be misunderstandings and unrealistic life expectations the first thing that would have to change was going to be how we communicated.
I feel like Dad was thinking the same thing I was. It had been a long and emotional day, it was almost 4:30 and I knew that most people had probably already left the firm’s offices for the day. I didn’t want to take advantage of anyone and suggested we talk over the weekend. Dad agreed and said he’d be making some calls this evening to talk to other people in the family and would update me.
Both of our phones had been on silent, and when he mentioned making calls I looked down to see I had 37 missed calls and over 20 new messages I noticed Dad looking at his and the expression on his face told me that he was seeing the same thing. We stood up and hugged before gathering up our folders. I grabbed my backpack and Dad packed his briefcase (I just can’t bring myself to carry one or an attache) and we headed to the door.
Leaving the conference room we found the deputy waiting outside the doors, waiting to introduce himself. Dad gave him his number and asked him to call if he needed anything. I explained I was going to be meeting a friend for dinner but that first I was going to go change. He said he’d be posted outside my building or wherever I went until 7:00, after which he’d would be changing places with the next deputy. I asked Dad not to say anything about the security since I didn’t want to drive a wedge between myself and the family and he agreed. In hindsight me might have avoided some drama later if I hadn’t asked that, but I still think it was for the best.
I had about two hours to kill before I was going to meet Sam and share what happened that day. I knew she’d be happy about the property and the car but I didn’t know how she’d react to the news. I will share that it wasn’t what I expected.
Sorry – this is long again. I’m going to have to try and catch-up at some point but I’ll have to save what happened during my talk with Sam and the first of this weekend’s “family issues” for the next post.
Thanks again for all the well wishes and for giving me things to think about.
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I’m going to try and get this out quickly and maybe a little more briefly because honestly things are happening so fast now that I don’t think I’ll be able to keep up with these posts.
Before I pick-up where I left off yesterday let me just share that the Chief of Police has been out to see me twice, two of my relatives are facing charges, and more than half of the family has been raging. More on that later.
Not everyone has been toxic though, I’ve had calls and visits from several relatives that told me they were happy for me and offered their support and my father has been there every step of the way. More on that later.
Sam has been the bright spot in all of this, her schedule at the hospital is crazy but when she isn’t there or at her house sleeping or changing, she’s been with me. She and I were together all the way through junior and senior high so she was basically part of the family but now she’s getting to a whole new level of insanity firsthand. She's remained supportive during all of it. When I told her last night about what Joe had done, well - that's a whole nother story!
Anyway – back to The Reading:
As soon as JA put down Joe’s letter and reached for a file, my aunt Patricia and my sister Sarah both started yelling, my cousin David stood up looking furious, jerked the door to the conference room open and left, slamming it behind him and my cousin Steven started coming around the conference table, not sure if he was coming at me or JA but he didn’t look happy. My uncle, Emily, and my other cousin were just staring at everyone in disbelief.
My father jumped up to get in between Steven and JA / me but the gentleman in the back was already on him. At this point it was obvious why he’d been brought in, turns out he’s a sheriff’s deputy from a neighboring county and the JA and Joe had wanted to err on the side of caution by having someone there. As soon as he grabbed Steven my Aunt and sister immediately shut-up to see what was happening. Steven was frog marched out of the conference room and JA followed him out along with my father. A few minutes later they all came back in except for the deputy who remained outside the door for the rest of the meeting. While they were gone everyone was completely silent and JA walked back in to a much more attentive group.
Obviously annoyed, he grabbed his file and asked everyone to wait until he was finished before anyone asked any questions. He explained there while he had been instructed to open the meeting by reading Joe’s letter there had been some updates to the will since Joe’s wrote the letter. Cousins who did not live within 100 miles of our town would receive the $100,000 even if they didn’t attend the reading. Joe had evidently also amended the will at some point after the letter was written to gift members of the family that did not attend $50,000.
JA went on to clarify that while Joe’s will had no conditions on the use of the money it did stipulate that should there be any challenge to the will or attempt to interfere with the orderly estate closure the individuals involved would not receive anything at all.
He wrapped up by explaining that there was adequate cash in the estate to pay any taxes associated with he estate and inheritance in addition to the cash gifts given to each of the family members. All property taxes had already been paid on the real estate and that was no debt associated with the estate. As a result, he expected an uncontested and simple probate period, despite the size of the estate. He shared that he hoped to see the funds distributed in a few months and asked if anyone had any questions.Patricia and Susan started to speak at the same time while Emily raised her hand. JA waved for my aunt and sister to be quiet and asked Emily what questions she had.
Emily just wanted to know if she had to wait until she was 25 to receive her inheritance since she was under 25 but over 18. JA explained that she was under 18 when the will was written but since she was now an adult there would be no waiting period. He did caution her to be careful with the funds and offered to assist her in handling them at no charge. He told her they could either be a a lot of fun for a short period of time or could make a big difference in her life in the future if she was careful. Emily thanked him and said that’s all she wanted to know.
My sister raised her hand next while Patricia sat there looking annoyed. She asked how new the will was. JA explained that while this version was written two years ago it had basically been the same for almost 18 years with changes mostly just reflecting increases in his gifts to the family. Answering the unasked question, he added that I had always been the primary beneficiary and that Joe’s intentions had always been crystal clear.
JA also shared that during the 18 years that this version of will had been in force Joe had increased the value of the estate by well over $175 million dollars, and that his mental health was never in question. Finally, he looked directly at each of the family members there and told them that if I had passed away before Joe the entire estate would have gone into a conservation trust, there would have been no gifts to the family at all. As an attorney I thought his point was crystal clear, you were never considered, don’t make trouble, you won’t win.
Patricia evidently didn’t get the point, still refusing to wait to be acknowledged, she jumped in and asked whether he was he sure this was the only will, was there maybe one somewhere else? She said she couldn’t believe her Uncle would leave them out like this. I wanted to roll my eyes but just kept a straight face, she hadn’t bothered to speak to him for at least as long as Debbie had and probably significantly longer. She lived even closer to her than Debbie and it’s not like we lived in a huge city.
It was when she said “I think WE need to go through his things, he must have changed his will and just not told you. Alex obviously manipulated my dear Uncle Joe.” (yes, she actually sounded just like a soap opera cliché’) that my father had evidently heard enough.
He slammed his hand down on the conference room table and in a voice that was as commanding now as it likely was 30 years ago declared “You absolutely will not go through his things. You’ve squandered everything you’ve ever been given, you know it, Joe knew it, and you’ve made sure I know it because for the last several years you’ve had me supplementing both your income and your sister’s. Don’t even think about making trouble over this, not only can you not afford an attorney, if you do contest this I’ll cut you AND your sister both off. That goes for all my children as well.
Turning to his brother he look at him pointedly and said “Rick, I trust I don’t have to worry about you or your children doing something stupid.” Rick looked down at the table for a minute and then looked back at my dad before saying something to the effect of. “No, I know what happened between Dad and Joe, and looking back Joe was right. I understand why he did what he did and have known for a long time that we screwed up. I’m not going to make it worse, and neither will my children if they know what’s good for them.” He also looked at Patricia and told her that she had treated Uncle Joe terribly, just like everyone else, and that she needed to shut up before she made things worse.
After a moment of general quiet JA asked if anyone had any other questions. No one said a word so he said that we were done for today and that if anyone did think of more questions to just contact him at the office. He told everyone what the will was filed with the probate court that morning and that we’d all receive formal notices shortly. He offered to provide everyone with a copy of the will or told them they could request it directly from the probate court.
With that everyone stood up to leave he asked me to stay back and said we had a lot to cover. I turned to my dad and asked if he’d stay as well. He agreed, JA had lunch brought in and that’s when we really started getting into the details, which I’ll have to share as appropriate but suffice it to say that it’s a complex estate.
Other than that, there is SO much going on. Someday I’m going to be glad I wrote this all down, right now it’s just overwhelming. I may make an update about the family drama that’s unfolding, plus some more about Sam and I. I do think it’s worth sharing what Joe did to hold the family’s legacy together and to build on it. They say still waters run deep… I think I understand that expression better now. I hope I can do half as well as he did.
So much for making this brief!
*** UPDATE: Joe’s Legacy ***
I’m going to summarize what was a three hour initial meeting with JA, my father ,and a series of managers that oversaw Joe’s holdings. The bottom line is that Joe and his brother (my Great Grandfather) had a serious difference of opinion about how the land should be handled. Since the land was easily divided they split the tracts and each went their own way. Enough of the land was already producing revenue from land leases that the family lived very comfortably and didn’t even bother to push for more to be leased out. My Great Grandfather didn’t want to mess with the leases or see the money come in a little at a time, he wanted a lot of money and he wanted it right away. As a result he eventually started selling it off, just smaller parcels at first, but over time he started selling larger and larger tracts.
Joe couldn’t have been any more different but he couldn’t stand the idea of someone else owning our families land. He actively began marketing leases and finding users until about 80% of the property was producing revenue. That gave him the cash flow to buy the land my grandfather was selling. It couldn’t have been easy at first and JA said that in the beginning he had to take out loans to buy the property, but over time he was tucking away so much money every year that he was able to simply pay cash whenever his brother sold off a piece. By the time my grandfather died about 20 years ago he had consolidate 45,000 acres under group of holding companies, a large portion of it producing.
Joe never married (in fact he rarely dated, although I think there may be more to it that simply his desire for privacy) and maintained a simply life, He simply socked away all the revenue from the land and held it to buy more real estate as the opportunity existed. When the Great Recession hit in 2008 he had so much cash on hand that he was able to not only purchase the rest of the land that had ended up with my father and his siblings, he also was able to extend the land holdings significantly beyond that.
He had done something similar in the 70’s and 80’s when the small towns across the U.S. saw businesses closing and buildings sitting empty on Main Street. As those buildings sat vacant Joe purchased them for pennies on the dollar. Among the real estate held by the estate are dozens of buildings and parcels, primarily in our town but also throughout the rest of the valley. All are now occupied although many are rented far below market rates to local business owners. JA said the journals would explain that.
Outside of the real estate, Joe made investments in businesses that he thought had merit. His estate has interests in over 20 locally owned successful enterprises and a couple that eventually moved out of the valley and went public. He stayed away from most stocks, saying he didn’t know much about “big business” (ironic) but did invest in and hold blue chip stocks when the real estate market wasn’t offering “good deals”.
About 35 years ago though he stopped buying anything except for the a few properties that were particularly important to him, other than the land that his father had once held. He avoided making business investments or buying any stock that had any hint of instability. His focus was on building adequate cash to cover estate and inheritance taxes that couldn’t be mitigated or avoided completely by proper planning. As a result he was able to fund trusts establishing a community foundation and a family trust. In fact, both of those already exist outside of probate and will require some immediate attention.
At the end of the meeting JA passed me back the box of journals and the rolled maps he had laid out on the table. The maps contained detailed notes about the properties and the circumstances of their acquisition. It will take me quite a while to get familiarized with them as we didn’t touch on any particular parcels or buildings during the meeting, save one notable one.
After my recovery, but Joe asked me if I wanted to live with him while I figured out what I was going to do. Since the university where I was going to be going to law school was not far from town, I took him up on it. We lived together for nearly two years before my graduation, although I spent my fair share of nights staying at friends’ home after late night study sessions. Joe had a converted apartment above the barn where he kept the Jaguar and a couple of other cars and I moved into it, so we both had our privacy. Going up and down the steep stairs felt like an easier version of rehab and the quiet of being in a barn overlooking the woods was the perfect transition back to real life.
After I graduated, I made the decision to hang out my own shingle about a year after passing the Bar and working as a junior associate at a larger firm. Being older than all the other junior associates was fine but being with a large firm just wasn’t for me. Joe asked me if I was going to continue to stay with him but I told him I planned on moving closer to town as soon as I could find something cheap enough. I explained that I felt like I needed to get back into the community to start building the practice and be more accessible to clients. He thought that was a great idea and I started looking around but wasn’t in a hurry.
About a month later I “ran into” JA and he mentioned that he heard I was looking for an office. He said he had a client that had just renovated one of the downtown buildings and was looking for a tenant. His client didn’t want to give anyone long term lease and so he knew he had to make the rent cheap enough to accept the risk that they might have to move out on short notice. There was an apartment on the second floor and professional offices on the first floor. Once he told me how much the rent would be I took it sight unseen and have lived there for three years.
JA had a smile on his face when he mentioned that my home was now literally “my” home. Evidently, as soon as I told Joe I wanted to move closer to town he had contractors begin rehabbing the building as quickly as possible. Two crews had worked for a month to turn it into an incredible apartment for and the perfect office for a small town lawyer. I have to admit that for the last three years I had been keeping my fingers crossed that I wasn’t going to lose my “too good to be true” rent deal. There is no doubt in my mind that Joe had did more to influence things around this town than anyone, save a select few, ever knew.
JA said we had a lot more to go through but that it had been a long day for everyone. He suggested we pick up the conversation next week, at my convenience. He told me to call him anytime over the weekend if I had any immediate questions. He reminded me that in addition to being one of the firm’s largest clients Joe was also his best friend. He said he’d like to talk soon more about Joe – that there were things I needed to know that probably weren’t in the journals. I thanked him and asked if my dad and I could use the conference room a little while longer. He said of course and started gather his things up.
Before he stood-up to go he paused and with a look of momentary discomfort said: “One last item. The “assistant” we had in the back of the room is a sheriff’s deputy one county over. We felt it best to have security due to the size of the estate and the circumstances of the distribution. We’ve retained him along with several other deputies from nearby counties to maintain 24-hour security over the next several days, just until tempers cool down.”
I was shocked, I hadn’t even considered that someone in the family might want to harm me. I started to shake my head, getting ready to object, certain that it wasn’t necessary, when my father put his hand on my arm and spoke first. “That’s a great idea – I’m sure it won’t be needed but given the circumstance you can’t be too cautious, for Alex AND for anyone that might be around him.”
As he said that my thoughts went to Sam, and I felt guilty for not thinking of her safety. I just nodded and said thank you, that we’d revisit security needs next week after things cooled off.
With that, JA got up, shook our hands, and left. Dad and I sat quietly for a moment, looking at the papers in front of me. Dad spoke first. “You gave Joe something no one else in the family did and he gave back to you in an equal way. Don’t question this and don’t let anyone else cause you to doubt whether this was fair. You’re the only one in the family that Joe could count on to respect his life’s work. If it had been handled any other way his years would have been wasted and he knew it.”
Dad was right, Joe had instilled in me the same respect for our way of life and our family’s legacy that he had. I knew that it was up to me to pass it on. The money was a huge life changer, but the responsibility he had passed on to me was what really had me thinking. Protecting our family’s legacy and preserving our community’s heritage and way of life, he had spent a lifetime building the resources he knew I would need if I was going to honor his vision.
I hope I’m able to make him proud. I told Dad I’d appreciate his help navigating the situation and told him how unprepared I felt to take this on. I asked him how much he knew about everyone’s (our relatives) financial situation and whether he had any idea how people were going to react. He shared that both his sisters had been reckless, they were living on a minimal income, supplemented by him. That their kids had drained them over the years and were themselves, for the most part, overextended. His brother had been more careful and didn’t have to worry but that his divorce had cost him and that when he died there wouldn’t be much to leave the children.
I didn’t ask, but he told me that he was better off than the rest. Even though he had been married three times he and his first wife (my oldest brother’s mother) divorced after just a couple of years and it hadn’t been very costly. It was quite a few years later that he married my mother, we lost her to cancer around 15 years ago. Dad said that when he sold the land it wasn’t because he wanted to live it up, he just didn’t want to deal with the property or manage the leases anymore. He had invested well over the years and didn’t need the headache as he got older.
He also told me that he had a very clear prenup with Jessica and that if they remained married she would receive an allowance after he passed and have a condo in a nice resort community in the area to live in for the rest of her life, but that she was not going to be receiving a sizable portion of the estate. He told me that as immature as could be sometimes that she was well meaning and that after the loss of my mother she had brought him happiness again. He said she forced him to stay young in order to keep up with her.
He told me she felt horrible about the way she handled the call with me, she was trying to be helpful and went about it horribly wrong. She wanted to try and get in front of it with the family because she knew I would want the car. Evidently, she had also told Dad he needed to buy it for me if I didn’t have the cash. I guess I misjudged her as badly as Joe misread the situation with Dad. I’ve got to do better if I’m ever going to be able to bring the family together.
Since he and Joe didn’t speak anymore he never knew Joe had held onto his land (and he’d certainly never told me) or that he would have wanted to buy it, so he put it on the market and reinvested the proceeds of the sale. His investments had done well and although his estate was nothing like Joe’s he didn’t need to worry about money, could help his sisters, and expected each of his children to helped well along in their retirement planning when he died.
I couldn’t believe how much I’d mistaken I’d been about Dad’s financial planning – maybe I picked up on Joe’s disdain for what he thought everyone was doing or maybe it was because, as a family we really didn’t talk much about money.
Dad and his siblings never really had normal careers so us kids money just “was” – it wasn’t until later that you really got to understand how hard most people worked for it. I know that my oldest brother and some of my cousins had struggled to put together normal lives, lacking much in the way of an example from our parents.
Joe had assumed my father had as little regard for the opportunities he had been given as his brother had had. I can’t believe that my father and Joe shared so much more in common than they thought. I immediately realized unless we wanted the family’s “legacy” to be misunderstandings and unrealistic life expectations the first thing that would have to change was going to be how we communicated.
I feel like Dad was thinking the same thing I was. It had been a long and emotional day, it was almost 4:30 and I knew that most people had probably already left the firm’s offices for the day. I didn’t want to take advantage of anyone and suggested we talk over the weekend. Dad agreed and said he’d be making some calls this evening to talk to other people in the family and would update me.
Both of our phones had been on silent, and when he mentioned making calls I looked down to see I had 37 missed calls and over 20 new messages I noticed Dad looking at his and the expression on his face told me that he was seeing the same thing. We stood up and hugged before gathering up our folders. I grabbed my backpack and Dad packed his briefcase (I just can’t bring myself to carry one or an attache) and we headed to the door.
Leaving the conference room we found the deputy waiting outside the doors, waiting to introduce himself. Dad gave him his number and asked him to call if he needed anything. I explained I was going to be meeting a friend for dinner but that first I was going to go change. He said he’d be posted outside my building or wherever I went until 7:00, after which he’d would be changing places with the next deputy. I asked Dad not to say anything about the security since I didn’t want to drive a wedge between myself and the family and he agreed. In hindsight me might have avoided some drama later if I hadn’t asked that, but I still think it was for the best.
I had about two hours to kill before I was going to meet Sam and share what happened that day. I knew she’d be happy about the property and the car but I didn’t know how she’d react to the news. I will share that it wasn’t what I expected.
Sorry – this is long again. I’m going to have to try and catch-up at some point but I’ll have to save what happened during my talk with Sam and the first of this weekend’s “family issues” for the next post.
Thanks again for all the well wishes and for giving me things to think about.
2024.06.02 19:10 Magicmurlin Amira Hass - The Israeli Norman Finkelstein - asks if “armed resistance” has made Palestinians better off. Should any future political success emerge from genocide, will it have been worth it worth it?
 | I respect Israeli Jew, Amira Hass, because Norm Finkelstein calls her his equal. And she lived in Gaza for 10 years. submitted by Magicmurlin to BDS [link] [comments] However sharp this obtusely titled essay, I cannot help but note her omission of the US role and acceptance of the expected “Israeli response”. Not does she include the return to “peaceful protest” during the Gaza Right of Return March and how it was met with bullets from the IOF and indifference from the west. So much of protest strategy success depends on a struggle’s affirming reception by the world. In all these matters I cannot help but wonder what would have come of the largely peaceful first intifada without the over represented bias of the last world superpower. Full article pasted below: 👇 ********************************** 👇 s a 'Day After' – Just More War and Suffering Armed struggle has failed to stop the ongoing theft of Palestinian land. The destruction and death wrought by Israel in the Gaza Strip calls for a different kind of struggle – one that takes into account its people's right to live Amira Hass Jun 2, 2024 12:37 pm IDT In Israel, the slogan "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is perceived as a call for the eradication of the Jewish state. As is the way of slogans, it doesn't specify what will happen to Jews in the newly freed Palestine. If we asked every protester in the United States and Europe what they mean when they shout these words, we'd probably get a variety of answers, ranging from "the Jews should return to their countries of origin" to "a secular and democratic Palestinian state will be established (under the leadership of the Islamic Movement?), where people of all three faiths live in equality." One thing that is certain is that the shock from seeing the carnage and destruction wreaked by Israel in Gaza has led many young people around the world to view Israel as a settler-colonial entity, and thus an illegitimate one. They see Hamas' attacks on October 7 – its targeting of the military, for sure, but also the massacre of civilians – as part of any people's legitimate struggle against a colonialist entity. A vast chasm lies between those who see October 7 as the starting point or as evidence of Palestinians' innate murderous tendencies and those who are aware and understand that the main explanation for what happened lies in Israel's occupation and oppression. There's also no common ground between those who believe that the atrocities committed by Hamas and its accomplices justify the horrific mass slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians and the starvation of two million people, and those who acknowledge the fact that the only solution is political and diplomatic – a recognition of the Palestinians' rights as a people. Another significant gap stretches between those who automatically approve of any use of arms and any killing in the name of liberation and those who disagree, while they understand the context. But it's exactly those protesters calling out "From the river to the sea" and adopting the historiographic analysis behind the phrase who must consider the strategy of armed struggle by Hamas and other Palestinian groups in relation to its success or failure in stopping the dispossession of Palestinians and the looting of their land. The question answers itself. Armed struggle has been and continues to be unsuccessful in impeding the Israeli project of dispossession and colonization. The best starting point for examining Israel's policy is the early 1990s, a time when the Soviet Bloc – then the main supporter of the Palestinians' demand for a state – had disintegrated; when political (but not economic) Apartheid approached its end in South Africa; and after the first intifada led to the multilateral Madrid Conference, with the participation of a Palestinian delegation that was formally not subject to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Amid the atmosphere of change brought by the end of the Cold War, the Palestinians and international community, as well as many Israeli peace advocates, expected that the settlements would be dismantled, that Israel would withdraw from all the territory it occupied in 1967 and that a Palestinian state would be established in an area comprising 22 percent of British Mandatory Palestine. The multilateral talks in Madrid led to bilateral negotiations between Israel and the PLO in Oslo. The Palestinians' expectations remained the same: that Israel end its military occupation begun in 1967, that Israel respect their right to self-determination and that the parties continue the historic process of reconciliation between the two peoples. But Israel had no intention to stop building new settlements, let alone dismantle them. And, as has been proven by statements and speeches by its leaders (most of all former prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres) and by the actions of every Israeli government, it also didn't consent to the establishment of a Palestinian state. Moreover, Israel further entrenched and expanded its settlements while cynically taking advantage of the PLO's willingness to postpone any discussion about their future to the of negotiations over permanent status. Using a mixture of bureaucratic/military regulations such as movement restrictions, bypass roads, zones closed to Palestinian development, checkpoints and closures, Israel cultivated and accelerated the fragmentation of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, shredding it into isolated enclaves. So, quite justifiably, supporters of the Hamas attacks on October 7 and armed struggle in general emphasize that the strategy of negotiation and diplomacy conducted by the PLO and the Palestinian Authority – as well as unarmed popular struggle – have failed and must be abandoned. But if failure to stop the dispossession and land grab is the correct criterion for choosing a tactic or strategy, the same must apply to armed struggle. Why, then, should it receive a sweeping exemption from the judgment of history? After Hamas was formed in 1988, its military wing focused on armed attacks within the Palestinian territories Israel occupied in 1967. This deviation (shared later or simultaneously by other groups too) from the initial consciously unarmed character of the first intifada. To this day, however, the impression that the uprising left on the world – and on the Palestinian collective memory – is that of a popular, democratic struggle seeking the concrete goal of Palestinian independence. This objective seemed within reach, as evidenced by the preparation of educational, economic and cultural foundations for the future state. Hamas started to attack civilians within Israel after Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein massacred Muslim worshipers at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron in February 1994. What was initially perceived as revenge attacks turned into a deliberate policy to sabotage Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's negotiation tactics and diplomacy. Hamas boasts that with its suicide attacks in the 1990s, it managed to stop the Oslo process, which it considers traitorous. This bragging plays into the hands of Israel, which had no intention of allowing the negotiations to result in two states. The militarization of the second intifada wasn't caused only by Hamas, but the group continued to upgraded its armed capabilities. It deployed suicide bombers, killed soldiers and settlers in the Gaza Strip and launched rockets from there. Hamas attributes Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 to the group's armed struggle. From a political perspective, however, Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza allowed it to further develop the reality it had designed for 15 years: severing Gaza's population from the West Bank's. In the West Bank, the suicide attacks let Israel build the separation barrier that stole tens of thousands of dunams from the Palestinians. Those claiming that Israel anyway intended to grab more and more land. But is the purpose of the Palestinians' armed struggle to make it easier for Israel to loot land and expedite that process? Within the Palestinian internal discourse, it is said the second intifada (whose armed nature kept it from becoming a general popular uprising) was a disaster. But this conclusion is somewhat played down, almost hushed out of respect for the dead, the many Palestinian prisoners held in Israel and their families. "Lone wolf" attacks on Israelis that were committed in settlements and are deemed justified, even heroic, by Palestinians haven't deterred settlers, but on the contrary: they encouraged and expedited the land theft. To take one example, on July 21, 2017, a resident of the Palestinian village of Khobar, northwest of Ramallah, stabbed and killed three members of an Israeli family from the settlement of Neve Tzuf, established on land seized from the villages of Nabi Saleh and Deir Nidham. Since the attack, Neve Tzuf has accelerated its takeover of more Palestinian land in the area. With the help of the Israeli military and authorities, it has established new outposts and blocked Palestinian access to the road that connects the area to neighboring villages south of it. The result is the same after any attack, whether committed with a knife or a gun and whether organized by a group or a lone individual. People are correct when they say that even before October 7, organized, state-supported settlers' violence had led to the expulsion of Palestinian farming and herding communitiesfrom their land and to the seizure by ostensibly illicit outposts of hundreds of thousands of dunams in the West Bank. Reports by Israeli rights organizations and independently researched articles detailing the process have consistently been published by ths paper over the past 30 years. The land seizure has only accelerated since October 7 and the beginning of the war in Gaza. The only ones trying to stop it are groups of volunteers who accompany the Palestinian farmers and shepherds to their lands. Most of them are Israeli, but some volunteers come from abroad (including many Jews) and there are the occasional Palestinian participants. The Palestinian organizations that advocate armed struggle, led by Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, rarely join public resistance actions against settlers' and state's takeover of the land and make it clear it is not their preferred strategy. The organizations' armed members in the refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarm and Nablus are willing to sacrifice their lives when they choose to take arms against Israeli tanks and drones. There's no question that these youths feel they have no future anyway. Each of these refugee camps has become a mini-Gaza in terms of the devastation Israel leaves behind after each of its invasions. Unarmed civilians are killed in each of them. How is it that all the courage and strength demonstrated by armed young Palestinians against a sophisticated military, all the money invested in their weapons and the endurance of residents of neighborhoods that are destroyed time and again aren't channeled to a popular initiative to protect Palestinian land and the dozens of communities that are subject to constant terrorism by settlers? If the problem is indeed colonial dispossession and settlement, why don't Palestinians' efforts focus on its most prominent manifestations? Those who favor armed struggle say its success shouldn't be measured by points, as in a boxing ring. They also say that ever since October 7, Hamas has shattered Israelis' sense of normality, dealt it defeat after defeat, exposed its government's indifference toward the fate of the hostages held in Gaza, further proved how pathetic Israel's politicians are and widened the country's internal social rift. Hamas, which has proven itself to be an army that has a political wing and not the other way around, obviously didn't plan to have those achievements. But it did plan everything else very meticulously. It concentrated its efforts on augmenting its military strength, digging the sophisticated labyrinth of tunnels that continues to surprise and confuse the Israeli military and its intelligence, obtaining and producing arms and ammunition and training thousands of young men who are ready to die in combat. All this is true. But as they say in Arabic, wa ba'adein? What next? First, what's next is what's happening now: The death and grief in Gaza, whose residents have had nowhere to hide from Israeli bombardments, which do not distinguish between an armed man and his son, between a Hamas-run Gaza Health ministry official and a Hamas military commander. The community we knew in the Gaza Strip has been wiped out. The dead have already been relieved of it all. The tens of thousands of wounded, disabled and children who are the most affected by starvation and malnutrition face many years of physical and mental rehabilitation, and it's hard to say how successful that will be. The rich, those with connections and desirable professions, have already left Gaza, leaving behind their elderly parents and other less fortunate family members. Many more are expected to emigrate when the Rafah border terminal reopens. Gangs that take advantage of the calamity that has befallen Gazans have emerged. Alongside expressions of communal solidarity, the social fabric is showing signs that it is starting to disintegrate. It will take decades to rebuild the Gaza Strip. Do the achievements that Hamas supporters outside of Gaza admire outweigh this terrible suffering? This destruction and carnage are indeed a decision that Israel made. Israel could have reacted differently to October 7. It could have prevented the attack not only from a military and intelligence perspective, but from a political one. Israel could have chosen to respect international resolutions concerning the Palestinians' right to self-determination. Now we see, however, that Hamas has prepared itself for a prolonged military campaign, ignoring Israel's proven drive and ability to destroy, without considering the fate and wishes of the Palestinians. It's not possible to debate the distant future . Will this Hamas strategy lead to the desired result expressed in the slogan "From the river to the sea" in 20, 50 or 200 years? We don't know. But we arent talking about clinical labratory procedures. The two million tortured, bombed and starved Gazans aren't mere extras in a forward-looking historiographical analysis. The right to armed struggle isn't more sacred than their lives. Many Palestinians have indeed said, and continue to say, that death is better than life under oppression and occupation. But the fact is that every day, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank prove that actually, they want to live very much. When the means of the liberation struggle may lead to mass slaughter and the erasure of the oppressed people – as is happening now – it is accurate to blame the oppressor, but its not enough. It is a must – and it is possible – to come up with and develop means of struggle that take into consideration one's own people's right to live. |
2024.06.02 18:26 Giant_Acroyear Random Bits of NoP Fanon Lore Scraped up from the Discord
As discussed on the discord a while back... shout out to my fellow idea-mongers! Sharing here, because there is some good stuff in there...
So, we need a scenario, where some Skalgans are rescued before the Federation gets too far into their plan.
Suppose there is a faction of Farsul, The Hidden Path, that disagrees with the Kolshians' plans for the galaxy, after observing the activity performed on/with the Krakotl.
This faction goes into silent rebellion, and works in secret to preserve all sapient cultures, as they are, by abducting just enough of each to ensure genetic viability and delivering them to hidden colonies.
And they have been doing this ever since.
Now you have a viable undiscovered source of many of each type of every race, with pre-federation culture intact.
...commence with the hijinks you envision.
I made that sht up. No one has ever described the surface of Mileau except me. Hah!*
uktabi (Clear Skies, Foxholes) — 02/29/2024 1:08 PM It's canon now mileau has a thin atmosphere and a fast spin. it throws off basically all atmosphere except for what gets trapped in the slot canyons. (idk anything that im talking about...)
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:13 PM THe canyons are 2-3 km wide, and like 10 km deep; agriculture happens in the canyons that run "east" to "west". Most of the food grows on Giant tree vines that climb up the walls of the canyon; these have trunks bigger than redwoods at the base. When you look at Mileau from above, the entire surface looks like a dried lake bed.
uktabi (Clear Skies, Foxholes) — 02/29/2024 1:15 PM If there is photosynthesis, plant life in the canyons would probably have HEAVY bias toward evolving to compete for sunlight.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:15 PM Hence, the growing up the walls. There's more sunlight higher up, due to angles of incidence.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:16 PM the north south canyons are dark and barren. Most of the water lies underground, and it's movement forms huge cave systems at that level.
uktabi (Clear Skies, Foxholes) — 02/29/2024 1:16 PM they'd probably have all sorts of like, choking out competitors. specialized tendrils that try to choke out competitors. The evolutionary arms race and all
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:17 PM So, there is also cave ecology going on at a grand scale as well.
uktabi (Clear Skies, Foxholes) — 02/29/2024 1:18 PM hmmm are dossur adapted to low light environments?
The ☴☴° — 02/29/2024 1:18 PM I think that they would have some.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:19 PM Yes. But also... Mileau's star is a very large one, so the habitable ring is 5 times further out; the cycles are 5 Earth years long, and winter is a full year,. so the Dossur have a long hibernation period every 5 years.
uktabi (Clear Skies, Foxholes) — 02/29/2024 1:20 PM a cave system being a consistent environment despite seasons might help temper that though
The ☴☴° — 02/29/2024 1:20 PM Large stars have exponentially shorter lives, just a warning.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:23 PM It's not like it's Y-Scuti.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:24 PM They evolved to remember everything they hear while they "sleep" so, if you were to search the ventilation systems at the School of the Flora on Aafa, you'd find Dossur sleeping near every vent by the lecture halls. "They are in the walls" is a true statement.
The ☴☴° — 02/29/2024 1:26 PM They'd better have good taste in poetry. As they drive next generation's minds into predator disease.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:26 PM This is how and why they've come from stone-age to space age in under 100 years. They pick up every class held in that room, all day long. then they go test out at the end of the semester, CLEP style, and run off with a degree after 8 months. They also record everything, and take the recordings back to Mileau; the next round of sleepers is in a cave containing thousands of Dossur there. It's a knowledge factory, on a thousand to one ratio.
Mecha Kid (Solar Wind, Spec Ops) — 02/29/2024 1:31 PM Suddenly happy I never defined the surface features of Mileau in Spec Ops Also, concussions are a bitch, right @Julian Skies (Blackriver Cases) ?
Julian Skies (Blackriver Cases) — 02/29/2024 1:33 PM Acroyear's version of the dossur would find like souls in the Consortium
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:34 PM Since Mileau has so little livable space (from the Federation's perspective) the Federation ignores it. Most of the land receiving sunlight is completely dedicated to raising the crops, and the Dossur live in "tiny" caves networks drilled deep into the mesas.
Ben_KenoBEEG (NoA) — 02/29/2024 1:38 PM I just realized, could the Dossur possibly have a planet with over 100 billion people on it, considering their size and how little of a carbon footprint they leave
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:40 PM they've only come up from the stone age in the past 100 years or so... having spent most of that time eliminating the natural predators of Mileau... (which happen to look a Lot like... Krakotl).
"The silver mountain descended from the heavens on pillars of white fire... and death himself rode in it."
dankboy9000 — 02/29/2024 1:43 PM Ah yes, the Man on the Silver Mountain
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:43 PM More like the Bird on the Silver Mountain. In any case, the Dossur have harnessed the winds that flow through the canyons as an energy source, and have started building Giant solar farms on the mesa tops, now that they have space technology, and can work in the vacuum up there.
dankboy9000 — 02/29/2024 1:46 PM Arizonacore
Spectralstorm — 02/29/2024 1:59 PM Dossur "re-education" programme where they just yell "predators are bad" over and over while the dossur are hibernating
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:59 PM It's another fic, that's all. The Feds don't know that this is how it works. It's part of the Dossur conspiracy. That's why no one has ever seen a Dossur that's not ginger colored. In my head-canon, there are also white ones, brown ones, blond ones, spotted ones, roans, and of course... black ones! and... Flying ones!
The ☴☴° — 02/29/2024 2:08 PM This is why they attacked Mileau.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 6:12 PM I have this image of the Dossur colonizing every park and forested area throughout the federation... ...totally in secret, of course.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 6:09 PM Have we been told how many colonies there are? I know of at least one, where Veln originated from.
Thirsha (Tight Money) — 11/30/2023 6:10 PM no
Killsode-Slugcat — 11/30/2023 6:26 PM the planetary thoughts Egg has is that there's big oceans on the dayward side that evaporate and then send water back to the nightward side where its then frozen, depositied on glaciers that then progressand melt, creating rivers that feed back into the oceans thus sustaining a full water cycle of course, there's also spots of rain along the way, and if there was a mountain range in the right spot it'd be rained on nearly non-stop on the dayside
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 6:23 PM I also Recall a beach scene from another Fic I read recently, but I don't remember it. It was up near the burning.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 6:29 PM Yeah, based on pure physics, the twilight and green likely get a ton of precipitation from the night. The day and burning get few to no rainstorms and are probably sustained by the rivers and desalination of the oceans
Killsode-Slugcat — 11/30/2023 6:29 PM well, not sure if they'd get it from the night god the weather patterns would be alllll over the place @Brick we really need your help on figuring those out.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 6:30 PM I think there's mention of Heavy Monsoon activity due to the wobble.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:17 PM What was the question
Killsode-Slugcat — 11/30/2023 7:17 PM ah, the weather patterns of VP, and how the hell the atmopshere moves
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:18 PM My god
Killsode-Slugcat — 11/30/2023 7:18 PM since uh, if there's constant wind coming from the sunward side, atmosphere somehow has to get to the sunward side to replace it.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:18 PM Without geography Uhhhhhhh
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:18 PM Not quite according to the paper I posted earlier the surface flow would come from the night rather than the day
Killsode-Slugcat — 11/30/2023 7:19 PM going with the idea that the water cycle is power by oceans near the sun side the bring water to the night side where its then deposited and flows back to the oceans?
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:19 PM Surface flow favors convergence at the hot side ad divergence on the cold side meaning the surface flow overall would be from the cold to the warm but at upper levels it's reversed But this is overall geography, location of oceans, planetary rotation and more would make this much more complex
OmegaMon02 (NoC,TTS,MiM,GE,PoT) — 11/30/2023 7:20 PM Air cools on night, blasts the venlil, warms in the day, travels on top of cold wind, big wind storms deep into the day and night
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:20 PM Were it so easy...
Beyonce what I can think about without a pencil, paper and other things.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:21 PM SO, on Skalga... not much daily rotation.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:21 PM In terms of tropospheric dynamics I really can't say right now On the other hand If VP is on a tilt That raises a whole set of other issues For example places where the sun sets for half a year and raises for the other half It is not easy to make any educated judgments without having a cannon geography.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:23 PM THere's the whole Paw wobble bit, but I don't think you'd get much variation off of it.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:24 PM Yeah axis wobble is something on MUCH longer time scales up towards thousands of years iirc
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:24 PM it feels like the axis of the planet points at the Sun for the most part.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:24 PM Meanwhile a tilted spin axis will cause seasonal sunsets that last different amounts of time beyond certain latitudes The axis of the planet has nothing to do with the sun, at one point it will face away from the sun and half a year later it'll.face towards That's why we get seasons and differential day length on earth
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:25 PM right, but with Skalga being tidally locked...
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:25 PM Nothing to do with it That is a manner of rate of rotation not axial tilt The rate of revolution is equal to the rate of rotation meaning one side faces the star at all times But a tilted axis can cause the area to essentially shift up and down
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:28 PM so depending on the tilt of the access, those parts of Skalga would have day, and night cycles that last for about half the year.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:28 PM Yup Think of how the solstices work on earth. Provided you're at a latitude that experiences them just, more extreme The further into the light side you go the shorter the "night" lasts
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:30 PM 👍 We were considering what the sizes of the oceans were.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:30 PM Weather is dictated a lot by geography as well as overall circulation I haven't figured out if there would be a jet or something different
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:31 PM yes, windward and Lee sides of mountain ranges would make a difference. I was thinking heavy monsoon winds.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:32 PM Yes while the windward side would be very dry the leeward side would experience in my current opinion almost constant rain It really depends on how well heat exchanges But I can't get too deep into this now. Btw this is what I study at university.
Btw this is what I study at uni
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:32 PM Perhaps I got my terminology backwards I am become atmospheric scientist.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:33 PM Good chat sorry to jet.
Julian Skies (Blackriver Cases) — 11/30/2023 7:35 PM Bahaha, jet!
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:35 PM Hey, being near water is not the same as being IN water.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:35 PM I mean the planet is like this ☀️ 🟥🟨🟩🟪🟦 (I'm trying my best) cold weather brings rain or snow. So @Brick is right, lots of rain moving from twilight to green. Less in day.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:36 PM depends on what the source of the water is. if there are oceans on the day side, that would provide moisture in the upper levels. where the convection moves in the opposite direction.
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:37 PM oceans have to exist at some point if there's enough water to sustain global-spanning life.
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:38 PM Also, I have a reason for each of the coastal locations. Muller's Bay is found upon illict activities. Stepping Stones basically had no choice but to exist due it being an island chain. Mellowgale is an rare mountainous type of coastal, hence the Greek vibes.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:39 PM the day side may have giant, untapped aquifers. not much written about it, so I don't really know. but I could see the venlil living under ground in the hotter parts.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:41 PM I can see that a nice portion of the rivers from colder half flow underground. Could sustain lots of people and crops
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:41 PM sort of a Coober Pedy situation. for about the same reasons.
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:42 PM imagine having the Green double in size during the timeskip due to humanity interventing. oof, both good and bad.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:42 PM depends on what kind of geo-engineering is done, if any.
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:43 PM mostly geo-engineering for preventing Sahara-ification.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:43 PM yeah, permaculture water harvesting would definitely be a thing. if they can build a planet encircling maglev, they could build some major pipelines runninlg along the meridians as well.
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:45 PM They DID build an maglev ring, you're right.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:45 PM with the right kind of valves and insulation, they could use antifreeze to act as a giant heat pump.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:45 PM I bet they have biiiig wells to use for cities or for watering plants.
Animesh — 11/30/2023 7:46 PM Wait. Is the entire venlil prime just The Line (tm) project?
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:48 PM Possibly. I don't know the full particulars on the Line, so can't answer that. but I could see them doing a lot of Al Baydha-like projects. btu again, that is dependent on the landforms, and where the water flows to and from. I mean, BiasMushroom has Frozen Mountain set up as a city in the Nightside, close to the terminator. it you get some form of heat loving trees with deep, deep roots, then it's possible that they might shade areas of the burning enough to be survivable. so that gets back to the questions about where the water bodies are.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:56 PM I think they could form in the day but dry up in the burning.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:56 PM yes, but what about under the dayside, where the aquifers may be.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:57 PM Probably near rivers but could realistically be anywhere I mean, there are aquifers all over earth so really it's hard to disprove any specific location
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:57 PM a lot of it depends on how the water flows, and what geological formations there are. a karst type of situation could lead to lots of caves with chimney windows and underground jungles.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:58 PM Hell in the southwest US, sandstone cliffs and mountains are aquifers. They are stuffed full of water. Without specific info, it's really up to us to decide. Which is neat!
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:59 PM a hard layer of earth over a soft limesone layer, with water flowing, would lead to huge cave systesm. there could be entire, undiscovered biomes like that, possibly housing pre-federation Venlils.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 8:03 PM Perhaps. Though I worry for how they'd live
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 8:04 PM if there's flowing water, then there's probably fungi, and things eating the fungi. Anyway, I leave the speculations here, for your consideration.
Thirsha (Tight Money) — 11/30/2023 9:08 PM massive cave systems with underground rivers and a lot of life that lives in the dark but due to the presence of predators, venlil are afraid of them and since they are hell to clear out, the exterminators try to keep the predators in the caverns instead only killing them when they wander too close to the settlements.
I hope you have enjoyed this as much as I have!
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Suppose there is a faction of Farsul, The Hidden Path, that disagrees with the Kolshians' plans for the galaxy, after observing the activity performed on/with the Krakotl.
This faction goes into silent rebellion, and works in secret to preserve all sapient cultures, as they are, by abducting just enough of each to ensure genetic viability and delivering them to hidden colonies.
And they have been doing this ever since.
Now you have a viable undiscovered source of many of each type of every race, with pre-federation culture intact.
...commence with the hijinks you envision.
What is Mileau like?
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:00 PM Mileau is all Mesas, with Slot canyons in between; the mesas all extend above breathable atmosphere.I made that sht up. No one has ever described the surface of Mileau except me. Hah!*
uktabi (Clear Skies, Foxholes) — 02/29/2024 1:08 PM It's canon now mileau has a thin atmosphere and a fast spin. it throws off basically all atmosphere except for what gets trapped in the slot canyons. (idk anything that im talking about...)
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:13 PM THe canyons are 2-3 km wide, and like 10 km deep; agriculture happens in the canyons that run "east" to "west". Most of the food grows on Giant tree vines that climb up the walls of the canyon; these have trunks bigger than redwoods at the base. When you look at Mileau from above, the entire surface looks like a dried lake bed.
uktabi (Clear Skies, Foxholes) — 02/29/2024 1:15 PM If there is photosynthesis, plant life in the canyons would probably have HEAVY bias toward evolving to compete for sunlight.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:15 PM Hence, the growing up the walls. There's more sunlight higher up, due to angles of incidence.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:16 PM the north south canyons are dark and barren. Most of the water lies underground, and it's movement forms huge cave systems at that level.
uktabi (Clear Skies, Foxholes) — 02/29/2024 1:16 PM they'd probably have all sorts of like, choking out competitors. specialized tendrils that try to choke out competitors. The evolutionary arms race and all
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:17 PM So, there is also cave ecology going on at a grand scale as well.
uktabi (Clear Skies, Foxholes) — 02/29/2024 1:18 PM hmmm are dossur adapted to low light environments?
The ☴☴° — 02/29/2024 1:18 PM I think that they would have some.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:19 PM Yes. But also... Mileau's star is a very large one, so the habitable ring is 5 times further out; the cycles are 5 Earth years long, and winter is a full year,. so the Dossur have a long hibernation period every 5 years.
uktabi (Clear Skies, Foxholes) — 02/29/2024 1:20 PM a cave system being a consistent environment despite seasons might help temper that though
The ☴☴° — 02/29/2024 1:20 PM Large stars have exponentially shorter lives, just a warning.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:23 PM It's not like it's Y-Scuti.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:24 PM They evolved to remember everything they hear while they "sleep" so, if you were to search the ventilation systems at the School of the Flora on Aafa, you'd find Dossur sleeping near every vent by the lecture halls. "They are in the walls" is a true statement.
The ☴☴° — 02/29/2024 1:26 PM They'd better have good taste in poetry. As they drive next generation's minds into predator disease.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:26 PM This is how and why they've come from stone-age to space age in under 100 years. They pick up every class held in that room, all day long. then they go test out at the end of the semester, CLEP style, and run off with a degree after 8 months. They also record everything, and take the recordings back to Mileau; the next round of sleepers is in a cave containing thousands of Dossur there. It's a knowledge factory, on a thousand to one ratio.
Mecha Kid (Solar Wind, Spec Ops) — 02/29/2024 1:31 PM Suddenly happy I never defined the surface features of Mileau in Spec Ops Also, concussions are a bitch, right @Julian Skies (Blackriver Cases) ?
Julian Skies (Blackriver Cases) — 02/29/2024 1:33 PM Acroyear's version of the dossur would find like souls in the Consortium
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:34 PM Since Mileau has so little livable space (from the Federation's perspective) the Federation ignores it. Most of the land receiving sunlight is completely dedicated to raising the crops, and the Dossur live in "tiny" caves networks drilled deep into the mesas.
Ben_KenoBEEG (NoA) — 02/29/2024 1:38 PM I just realized, could the Dossur possibly have a planet with over 100 billion people on it, considering their size and how little of a carbon footprint they leave
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:40 PM they've only come up from the stone age in the past 100 years or so... having spent most of that time eliminating the natural predators of Mileau... (which happen to look a Lot like... Krakotl).
"The silver mountain descended from the heavens on pillars of white fire... and death himself rode in it."
dankboy9000 — 02/29/2024 1:43 PM Ah yes, the Man on the Silver Mountain
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:43 PM More like the Bird on the Silver Mountain. In any case, the Dossur have harnessed the winds that flow through the canyons as an energy source, and have started building Giant solar farms on the mesa tops, now that they have space technology, and can work in the vacuum up there.
dankboy9000 — 02/29/2024 1:46 PM Arizonacore
Spectralstorm — 02/29/2024 1:59 PM Dossur "re-education" programme where they just yell "predators are bad" over and over while the dossur are hibernating
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 02/29/2024 1:59 PM It's another fic, that's all. The Feds don't know that this is how it works. It's part of the Dossur conspiracy. That's why no one has ever seen a Dossur that's not ginger colored. In my head-canon, there are also white ones, brown ones, blond ones, spotted ones, roans, and of course... black ones! and... Flying ones!
The ☴☴° — 02/29/2024 2:08 PM This is why they attacked Mileau.
Thirsha (Tight Money) — 11/30/2023 6:10 PM no
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 6:23 PM I also Recall a beach scene from another Fic I read recently, but I don't remember it. It was up near the burning.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 6:29 PM Yeah, based on pure physics, the twilight and green likely get a ton of precipitation from the night. The day and burning get few to no rainstorms and are probably sustained by the rivers and desalination of the oceans
Killsode-Slugcat — 11/30/2023 6:29 PM well, not sure if they'd get it from the night god the weather patterns would be alllll over the place @Brick we really need your help on figuring those out.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 6:30 PM I think there's mention of Heavy Monsoon activity due to the wobble.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:17 PM What was the question
Killsode-Slugcat — 11/30/2023 7:17 PM ah, the weather patterns of VP, and how the hell the atmopshere moves
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:18 PM My god
Killsode-Slugcat — 11/30/2023 7:18 PM since uh, if there's constant wind coming from the sunward side, atmosphere somehow has to get to the sunward side to replace it.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:18 PM Without geography Uhhhhhhh
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:18 PM Not quite according to the paper I posted earlier the surface flow would come from the night rather than the day
Killsode-Slugcat — 11/30/2023 7:19 PM going with the idea that the water cycle is power by oceans near the sun side the bring water to the night side where its then deposited and flows back to the oceans?
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:19 PM Surface flow favors convergence at the hot side ad divergence on the cold side meaning the surface flow overall would be from the cold to the warm but at upper levels it's reversed But this is overall geography, location of oceans, planetary rotation and more would make this much more complex
OmegaMon02 (NoC,TTS,MiM,GE,PoT) — 11/30/2023 7:20 PM Air cools on night, blasts the venlil, warms in the day, travels on top of cold wind, big wind storms deep into the day and night
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:20 PM Were it so easy...
Beyonce what I can think about without a pencil, paper and other things.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:21 PM SO, on Skalga... not much daily rotation.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:21 PM In terms of tropospheric dynamics I really can't say right now On the other hand If VP is on a tilt That raises a whole set of other issues For example places where the sun sets for half a year and raises for the other half It is not easy to make any educated judgments without having a cannon geography.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:23 PM THere's the whole Paw wobble bit, but I don't think you'd get much variation off of it.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:24 PM Yeah axis wobble is something on MUCH longer time scales up towards thousands of years iirc
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:24 PM it feels like the axis of the planet points at the Sun for the most part.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:24 PM Meanwhile a tilted spin axis will cause seasonal sunsets that last different amounts of time beyond certain latitudes The axis of the planet has nothing to do with the sun, at one point it will face away from the sun and half a year later it'll.face towards That's why we get seasons and differential day length on earth
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:25 PM right, but with Skalga being tidally locked...
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:25 PM Nothing to do with it That is a manner of rate of rotation not axial tilt The rate of revolution is equal to the rate of rotation meaning one side faces the star at all times But a tilted axis can cause the area to essentially shift up and down
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:28 PM so depending on the tilt of the access, those parts of Skalga would have day, and night cycles that last for about half the year.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:28 PM Yup Think of how the solstices work on earth. Provided you're at a latitude that experiences them just, more extreme The further into the light side you go the shorter the "night" lasts
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:30 PM 👍 We were considering what the sizes of the oceans were.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:30 PM Weather is dictated a lot by geography as well as overall circulation I haven't figured out if there would be a jet or something different
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:31 PM yes, windward and Lee sides of mountain ranges would make a difference. I was thinking heavy monsoon winds.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:32 PM Yes while the windward side would be very dry the leeward side would experience in my current opinion almost constant rain It really depends on how well heat exchanges But I can't get too deep into this now. Btw this is what I study at university.
Btw this is what I study at uni
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:32 PM Perhaps I got my terminology backwards I am become atmospheric scientist.
Brick — 11/30/2023 7:33 PM Good chat sorry to jet.
Julian Skies (Blackriver Cases) — 11/30/2023 7:35 PM Bahaha, jet!
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:35 PM Hey, being near water is not the same as being IN water.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:35 PM I mean the planet is like this ☀️ 🟥🟨🟩🟪🟦 (I'm trying my best) cold weather brings rain or snow. So @Brick is right, lots of rain moving from twilight to green. Less in day.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:36 PM depends on what the source of the water is. if there are oceans on the day side, that would provide moisture in the upper levels. where the convection moves in the opposite direction.
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:37 PM oceans have to exist at some point if there's enough water to sustain global-spanning life.
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:38 PM Also, I have a reason for each of the coastal locations. Muller's Bay is found upon illict activities. Stepping Stones basically had no choice but to exist due it being an island chain. Mellowgale is an rare mountainous type of coastal, hence the Greek vibes.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:39 PM the day side may have giant, untapped aquifers. not much written about it, so I don't really know. but I could see the venlil living under ground in the hotter parts.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:41 PM I can see that a nice portion of the rivers from colder half flow underground. Could sustain lots of people and crops
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:41 PM sort of a Coober Pedy situation. for about the same reasons.
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:42 PM imagine having the Green double in size during the timeskip due to humanity interventing. oof, both good and bad.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:42 PM depends on what kind of geo-engineering is done, if any.
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:43 PM mostly geo-engineering for preventing Sahara-ification.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:43 PM yeah, permaculture water harvesting would definitely be a thing. if they can build a planet encircling maglev, they could build some major pipelines runninlg along the meridians as well.
DankTerminus (SINYL, NOPAW(?)) — 11/30/2023 7:45 PM They DID build an maglev ring, you're right.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:45 PM with the right kind of valves and insulation, they could use antifreeze to act as a giant heat pump.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:45 PM I bet they have biiiig wells to use for cities or for watering plants.
Animesh — 11/30/2023 7:46 PM Wait. Is the entire venlil prime just The Line (tm) project?
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:48 PM Possibly. I don't know the full particulars on the Line, so can't answer that. but I could see them doing a lot of Al Baydha-like projects. btu again, that is dependent on the landforms, and where the water flows to and from. I mean, BiasMushroom has Frozen Mountain set up as a city in the Nightside, close to the terminator. it you get some form of heat loving trees with deep, deep roots, then it's possible that they might shade areas of the burning enough to be survivable. so that gets back to the questions about where the water bodies are.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:56 PM I think they could form in the day but dry up in the burning.
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:56 PM yes, but what about under the dayside, where the aquifers may be.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:57 PM Probably near rivers but could realistically be anywhere I mean, there are aquifers all over earth so really it's hard to disprove any specific location
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:57 PM a lot of it depends on how the water flows, and what geological formations there are. a karst type of situation could lead to lots of caves with chimney windows and underground jungles.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 7:58 PM Hell in the southwest US, sandstone cliffs and mountains are aquifers. They are stuffed full of water. Without specific info, it's really up to us to decide. Which is neat!
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 7:59 PM a hard layer of earth over a soft limesone layer, with water flowing, would lead to huge cave systesm. there could be entire, undiscovered biomes like that, possibly housing pre-federation Venlils.
Verified Threat to Fish (LiH) — 11/30/2023 8:03 PM Perhaps. Though I worry for how they'd live
Giant_Acroyear (Dossur?) — 11/30/2023 8:04 PM if there's flowing water, then there's probably fungi, and things eating the fungi. Anyway, I leave the speculations here, for your consideration.
Thirsha (Tight Money) — 11/30/2023 9:08 PM massive cave systems with underground rivers and a lot of life that lives in the dark but due to the presence of predators, venlil are afraid of them and since they are hell to clear out, the exterminators try to keep the predators in the caverns instead only killing them when they wander too close to the settlements.
2024.06.02 18:06 mimajneb A love letter to the Kindle
In an age when Amazon is swallowing up the world and facing backlash (on a number of fronts) the humble Kindle increasingly stands out. Don’t get me wrong, Kindle's closed format and Amazon's antagonistic actions toward competitors and libraries are despicable, but I'd like to put that aside and focus on the hardware for now.
You see, the Kindle might be my favorite piece of consumer electronics hardware—and one of my most satisfying purchases—ever. Why? The Kindle is everything my various iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and MacBooks are not. Let me explain.
It has long life I’ve had this same Kindle Paperwhite since 2013 and it's just as good as the day I bought it. Just as fast, looks just as good, and works just as well. Software updates arrive silently and never seem to slow things down. It's never been deemed too old to update and as far as I know, it’s running the latest version of Kindle's software. Indeed, it’s great that I don't really know and don't have to care. Can't say the same about the iPhone 5s, iPad, and Macbook I bought the same year—all of which long ago stopped getting updates.
It's made to be used I’ve dropped my Kindle countless times and routinely thrown it into a bag without much concern before heading out the door. It's not just that it can take a beating but that it's designed to be durable with materials that can absorb some neglect. In that time I've picked up a small scratch on the screen that I can't even see while reading and the plastic, soft-touch body has a few dings and scuffs but they hardly detract from its appearance.
It's quite freeing to own hardware that isn't precious. I've never considered putting a case on it. My six-months old iPhone 12 has more damage and looks worse than my 7-year-old Kindle even though I treat the latter fragile bird. Apple's products somehow resist the usually attractive effects of patina which might make them feel more alive and organic. While materials like wood, cloth, and leather become more attractive with age, Apple's hardware designs made of glass and coated metal seem to wear imperfections like scars of disease, cutting your heart with every glint.
It inspires no envy The worst day as the owner of any Apple product is the day the next new model comes out. Suddenly over the course of a 60 minute keynote your stuff becomes old and obsolete. This is no question, by design. I couldn't tell you how many new Kindle models have been released in the last 7 years. I've certainly heard about them, compared them to my 2013 Paperwhite, and decided not to buy them. And I don't feel bad or like I'm missing out. I shudder to think how many Apple devices from 2013 are in the trash today.
It's doesn't care what I do Sure my Kindle can connect to Goodreads to share progress and asks me to write a review after I finish a book but those are humble asks in today’s world. Try using your iPad without network connectivity or without an iCloud account. Heck, last year a whole population of developers on MacBooks couldn't work because of a network glitch on Apple's developer servers. My Kindle doesn't care if I'm on wi-fi, never nags to sign-in to anything, and isn't trying to coerce me to use social features. If I never connected it to web again, I could happily keep reading the books I have and even load new ones outside the ecosystem via USB.
It's content to do one thing The Kindle has one job: reading books. It never pulls me away to read a notification, doesn't beg me to look at what someone said on Twitter, and it isn't trying to trick me into using it more. It's not even showing me ads (to be fair, I purchased the ad-free version) or suggesting more books. Just like my toaster isn't telling me the weather or suggesting other kinds of bread I might be interested in. And that's the key: it's an appliance.
I've gone through spurts where I prefer real printed books and set the Kindle aside where it happily waits until I come back—often with the battery still charged even. It's not sending me texts or emails say, "You know, you haven't read a book in awhile." My Kindle doesn't need me and isn't trying to manipulate me.
You can imagine all the things it could to: check Twitter, manage to-dos, show me my calendar, check email, organize my Amazon wishlist, suggest products based on my reading, etc. I have to imagine those ideas, and more, have come up inside Amazon HQ so hats-off to whomever said "no" to them.
The Kindle is a rare beast in the world of consumer electronics and I find it increasingly hard fit it into Amazon's apparent values. It's not so hard to imagine that it was born when Amazon was a different company but that doesn't explain why it still exists or why it's still good or why Amazon seemingly isn't following Apple's consumer products model. Lord knows everyone else is. My friend Dan's washing machine is even gamifying his wash cycles!
The Kindle stands apart from Amazon's ethos. Even more so, it stands as a rare example in the entire consumer electronics industry as a single-purpose device that is durable, meant to be used, non-invasive, un-precious, and refreshingly off the gear lust conveyor belt.
It's not perfect but it's my favorite.
via Jason Zimdars
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You see, the Kindle might be my favorite piece of consumer electronics hardware—and one of my most satisfying purchases—ever. Why? The Kindle is everything my various iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and MacBooks are not. Let me explain.
It has long life I’ve had this same Kindle Paperwhite since 2013 and it's just as good as the day I bought it. Just as fast, looks just as good, and works just as well. Software updates arrive silently and never seem to slow things down. It's never been deemed too old to update and as far as I know, it’s running the latest version of Kindle's software. Indeed, it’s great that I don't really know and don't have to care. Can't say the same about the iPhone 5s, iPad, and Macbook I bought the same year—all of which long ago stopped getting updates.
It's made to be used I’ve dropped my Kindle countless times and routinely thrown it into a bag without much concern before heading out the door. It's not just that it can take a beating but that it's designed to be durable with materials that can absorb some neglect. In that time I've picked up a small scratch on the screen that I can't even see while reading and the plastic, soft-touch body has a few dings and scuffs but they hardly detract from its appearance.
It's quite freeing to own hardware that isn't precious. I've never considered putting a case on it. My six-months old iPhone 12 has more damage and looks worse than my 7-year-old Kindle even though I treat the latter fragile bird. Apple's products somehow resist the usually attractive effects of patina which might make them feel more alive and organic. While materials like wood, cloth, and leather become more attractive with age, Apple's hardware designs made of glass and coated metal seem to wear imperfections like scars of disease, cutting your heart with every glint.
It inspires no envy The worst day as the owner of any Apple product is the day the next new model comes out. Suddenly over the course of a 60 minute keynote your stuff becomes old and obsolete. This is no question, by design. I couldn't tell you how many new Kindle models have been released in the last 7 years. I've certainly heard about them, compared them to my 2013 Paperwhite, and decided not to buy them. And I don't feel bad or like I'm missing out. I shudder to think how many Apple devices from 2013 are in the trash today.
It's doesn't care what I do Sure my Kindle can connect to Goodreads to share progress and asks me to write a review after I finish a book but those are humble asks in today’s world. Try using your iPad without network connectivity or without an iCloud account. Heck, last year a whole population of developers on MacBooks couldn't work because of a network glitch on Apple's developer servers. My Kindle doesn't care if I'm on wi-fi, never nags to sign-in to anything, and isn't trying to coerce me to use social features. If I never connected it to web again, I could happily keep reading the books I have and even load new ones outside the ecosystem via USB.
It's content to do one thing The Kindle has one job: reading books. It never pulls me away to read a notification, doesn't beg me to look at what someone said on Twitter, and it isn't trying to trick me into using it more. It's not even showing me ads (to be fair, I purchased the ad-free version) or suggesting more books. Just like my toaster isn't telling me the weather or suggesting other kinds of bread I might be interested in. And that's the key: it's an appliance.
I've gone through spurts where I prefer real printed books and set the Kindle aside where it happily waits until I come back—often with the battery still charged even. It's not sending me texts or emails say, "You know, you haven't read a book in awhile." My Kindle doesn't need me and isn't trying to manipulate me.
You can imagine all the things it could to: check Twitter, manage to-dos, show me my calendar, check email, organize my Amazon wishlist, suggest products based on my reading, etc. I have to imagine those ideas, and more, have come up inside Amazon HQ so hats-off to whomever said "no" to them.
The Kindle is a rare beast in the world of consumer electronics and I find it increasingly hard fit it into Amazon's apparent values. It's not so hard to imagine that it was born when Amazon was a different company but that doesn't explain why it still exists or why it's still good or why Amazon seemingly isn't following Apple's consumer products model. Lord knows everyone else is. My friend Dan's washing machine is even gamifying his wash cycles!
The Kindle stands apart from Amazon's ethos. Even more so, it stands as a rare example in the entire consumer electronics industry as a single-purpose device that is durable, meant to be used, non-invasive, un-precious, and refreshingly off the gear lust conveyor belt.
It's not perfect but it's my favorite.
via Jason Zimdars
2024.06.02 17:53 farscode Junge went clubbing
Inspired by this post (codename Junge is chosen as an omage to 'Baby') I finally popped my clubbing cherry yesterday. I understand much now. But also have follow-up questions.
TLDR: wow I totally get why now. Some questions about how: 1) Clubbing & drugs: what's a sustainable way to do it? 2) How do you solo outside of the dancefloor? 3) Coming soon
Backstory: Nerdy, but devilishly handsome (hi, I'm a Caucasian male, unearned confidence is the name of the game) 30M, moved to Berlin 2 years ago, spent the last 7 years in a beautiful loving relationship, which made me perfectly content and therefore not evolving much - probably why it fell apart a few months ago, but we're not here to analyse my breakup, this is just for context. Anyway, so I also wasn't going clubbing in my content, thinking like hell, I'd rather drop some MDMA here at home and spend some quality time with my girl, what could be better than that, what is the point?
Now I understand the point. It's insanely electric. Like wow guys I guess I just never heard good techno. You become so completely immersed, just like everyone around you, becoming one with the crowd. I see now why it is treated almost religiously around here. Before I was like 'well this repetitive music without words doesn't stimulate my brain much'. It doesn't need to. It hits the soul directly. Drugs help with that of course. Which brings me to my first question.
1) Is everyone on drugs? I myself was on LSD and weed, which is probably why I got so many thoughts haha, but 2 different random people I talked to were on MDMA, and I mean, also you can see it in the crowd of course. Dear people who go clubbing all the time, what is the deal here? Do you always go on drugs or do you alternate, and if so, how is the experience different? Do you drink instead or stay completely sober? Or do I just have too little faith in techno as a fresh convert, and you don't even need no drugs? But if so, why is everyone on them? I myself don't have any problem with drugs as you see, I just want to understand how do you make it sustainable :)
2) wtf are you talking about, solo clubbing? Like ok, on the dancefloor there is no 'I' anyway so who cares if you are solo or not. But what about everything else? The standing in line, or taking fresh air, or a smoke break, how do you spend it if not with your friends? Do you just talk to strangers? How do you know (especially if you are on drugs, see Q1) that you are not bothering anyone? Sure, my personal experience is that I love people and talking to them, but I can't just extrapolate that on others, can I? Is it just reading the body language? How do you do that reliably when everyone is on drugs? But beside these brakes, there is also, for example, a beautiful walk at sunrise after the party - having someone to share it with makes it so much better, doesn't it? And the general feeling of being safe next to someone you know and love - with or without drugs, that's pretty important, no? With emotions so heightened stuff can get overwhelming, what is your safe haven if not your friends? I myself went with a friend who was pretty hard to convince in the first place and even though he loved it, he's, quote, 'too old for this shit', so I don't imagine him joining me as often as I would want to go now, so hit me up if you are looking for a clubbing buddy! Apparently I have a gentle soul, if you are to believe one of the women on MDMA I talked to haha
Alright, this is already waay longer than I thought, 'if I had more time I would have written a shorter letter', right? Sorry for the rambling. Question 3 is so big it deserves its own post anyway, coming in a few hours/days.
Oh right, you probably want to know where I went. It was Club der Visionaere, not too big and with zero door policy, but you got to start somewhere, ok? I loved it. The tiny crowded dancefloor, the cool breeze of the canal, and the music, oh my God. Like I said, I am a believer now.
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TLDR: wow I totally get why now. Some questions about how: 1) Clubbing & drugs: what's a sustainable way to do it? 2) How do you solo outside of the dancefloor? 3) Coming soon
Backstory: Nerdy, but devilishly handsome (hi, I'm a Caucasian male, unearned confidence is the name of the game) 30M, moved to Berlin 2 years ago, spent the last 7 years in a beautiful loving relationship, which made me perfectly content and therefore not evolving much - probably why it fell apart a few months ago, but we're not here to analyse my breakup, this is just for context. Anyway, so I also wasn't going clubbing in my content, thinking like hell, I'd rather drop some MDMA here at home and spend some quality time with my girl, what could be better than that, what is the point?
Now I understand the point. It's insanely electric. Like wow guys I guess I just never heard good techno. You become so completely immersed, just like everyone around you, becoming one with the crowd. I see now why it is treated almost religiously around here. Before I was like 'well this repetitive music without words doesn't stimulate my brain much'. It doesn't need to. It hits the soul directly. Drugs help with that of course. Which brings me to my first question.
1) Is everyone on drugs? I myself was on LSD and weed, which is probably why I got so many thoughts haha, but 2 different random people I talked to were on MDMA, and I mean, also you can see it in the crowd of course. Dear people who go clubbing all the time, what is the deal here? Do you always go on drugs or do you alternate, and if so, how is the experience different? Do you drink instead or stay completely sober? Or do I just have too little faith in techno as a fresh convert, and you don't even need no drugs? But if so, why is everyone on them? I myself don't have any problem with drugs as you see, I just want to understand how do you make it sustainable :)
2) wtf are you talking about, solo clubbing? Like ok, on the dancefloor there is no 'I' anyway so who cares if you are solo or not. But what about everything else? The standing in line, or taking fresh air, or a smoke break, how do you spend it if not with your friends? Do you just talk to strangers? How do you know (especially if you are on drugs, see Q1) that you are not bothering anyone? Sure, my personal experience is that I love people and talking to them, but I can't just extrapolate that on others, can I? Is it just reading the body language? How do you do that reliably when everyone is on drugs? But beside these brakes, there is also, for example, a beautiful walk at sunrise after the party - having someone to share it with makes it so much better, doesn't it? And the general feeling of being safe next to someone you know and love - with or without drugs, that's pretty important, no? With emotions so heightened stuff can get overwhelming, what is your safe haven if not your friends? I myself went with a friend who was pretty hard to convince in the first place and even though he loved it, he's, quote, 'too old for this shit', so I don't imagine him joining me as often as I would want to go now, so hit me up if you are looking for a clubbing buddy! Apparently I have a gentle soul, if you are to believe one of the women on MDMA I talked to haha
Alright, this is already waay longer than I thought, 'if I had more time I would have written a shorter letter', right? Sorry for the rambling. Question 3 is so big it deserves its own post anyway, coming in a few hours/days.
Oh right, you probably want to know where I went. It was Club der Visionaere, not too big and with zero door policy, but you got to start somewhere, ok? I loved it. The tiny crowded dancefloor, the cool breeze of the canal, and the music, oh my God. Like I said, I am a believer now.
2024.06.02 17:43 Status_Plantain8560 How do I leave a job I have for a better offer?
Hi, I just graduated last week and I got a job offer back in March that starts in August. I signed with the company and have attended new grad check in meetings and everything.
I’ve now received a better offer that I definitely want. I’m just not all sure how to go about getting out of the first job. The offer letter I signed does say that me or the company may terminate employment at any time for any reason.
I’m just not sure what the standard for who to reach out to/what to say is. I’d really appreciate some help!
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I’ve now received a better offer that I definitely want. I’m just not all sure how to go about getting out of the first job. The offer letter I signed does say that me or the company may terminate employment at any time for any reason.
I’m just not sure what the standard for who to reach out to/what to say is. I’d really appreciate some help!
2024.06.02 17:37 mimajneb A surpresa do Google+
No final de 2012 inscrevi-me inscrevi-me no meu primeiro curso online organizado pela Google in Education. Inicialmente estava céptico em relação ao que podia aprender num curso online. Mas qualquer dúvida que existisse, ficou aniquilada poucos minutos depois da inscrição. Recebi um mail que continha a informação horária das aulas e um resumo alargado do seu conteúdo. A primeira surpresa, surge quando encontro no mail que vou ser avaliado duas vezes durante o curso e no final, se tiver uma aprovação positiva, recebo um certificado. O primeiro dia de aulas começou com uma pequena avaliação que serve para ver o estado em que nos encontramos. Depois é nos apresentado o professor e a totalidade dos conteúdos programáticos. E é neste momento, em que olho para o meu professor, que tenho a minha segunda surpresa. Sem dar conta tenho alguém a falar directamente comigo, e, compreendo a verdadeira força do Google Plus. Criei uma ligação entre a minha conta, Google Plus, o curso que estou a tirar e todas as ferramentas que o Google disponibiliza. Assim, durante as semanas seguintes usei o Google Plus como nunca pensei ser possível.
Entre aulas, discussões, foruns e avaliações fiz o meu primeiro curso online onde aprendi a ser um "Power Searcher".
E o que é ser um "Power Searcher"?
Um "Power Searcher" é alguém que sabe fazer uma pesquisa no Google. Este é o momento em que tu dizes:
Um "Power Searcher" é como um detective da internet, uma bibliotecária se o preferirem, é alguém, que sabe encontrar respostas a perguntas que inicialmente parecem impossíveis de responder. Aprendes a usar as ferramentas que o Google actualmente disponibiliza de uma forma única, construtiva e muitas vezes, surpreendente.
Agora que acabei o curso, sei que num futuro próximo, terei que ensinar o meu filho a ser um "Power Searcher", não o fazer, seria semelhante a pensar que aprender a ler é menos importante. Pergunto-me até que ponto não devia ser obrigatório para todos os estudantes, independente da idade e área de estudo.
Isto para não falar nos jornalistas actuais, espero vivamente que não pensem que podem continuar a exercer actividade sem conhecer a força de um motor de pesquisa quando bem utilizado. Se ainda restarem dúvidas sobre o potencial deste curso, então faço um pequeno desafio às vossas capacidades de pesquisa.
Estas duas perguntas fazem parte do exame final. E é aqui que surge a minha terceira grande surpresa. Antes deste curso era-me totalmente impossível responder de forma acertada a qualquer uma das perguntas. Mas no dia do exame fui capaz de responder com uma facilidade estranha e até assustadora.
Muitos outros exemplos como este fazem parte do curso em que aprendes a ser um "Power Searcher".
Update:
Em Outubro de 2012 aprendi a ser um "Power Searcher" e no início de Janeiro de 2013 passei a ser um "Advanced Power Searcher". O curso começa com um desafio muito simples. Depois relembramos alguns dos processos de pesquisa e podemos assistir à forma como o Dan Russell, o nosso professor, encontra as respostas. A partir deste ponto são apresentadas as datas de entrega dos 12 desafios, divididos em três categorias: 4 (E) easy, 6 (M) medium e 2 (H) hard.
Os desafios são os seguintes:
Across the top are three cities. Research the climate for each city and decide which city fits the graph. What is the Köppen climate type for the city that fits the graph, as expressed in letter symbols? Which of the city choices has a climate influenced by the southeast trade winds? Make a similar graph for a city or region near you. Using Creative Commons, pre-approve sharing in any way you choose. Then, share the graph in a social network of your choice.
You sketched it out so you could identify it later. To what kind of bird did it belong?
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Entre aulas, discussões, foruns e avaliações fiz o meu primeiro curso online onde aprendi a ser um "Power Searcher".
E o que é ser um "Power Searcher"?
Um "Power Searcher" é alguém que sabe fazer uma pesquisa no Google. Este é o momento em que tu dizes:
- Mas este tipo droga-se?
Um "Power Searcher" é como um detective da internet, uma bibliotecária se o preferirem, é alguém, que sabe encontrar respostas a perguntas que inicialmente parecem impossíveis de responder. Aprendes a usar as ferramentas que o Google actualmente disponibiliza de uma forma única, construtiva e muitas vezes, surpreendente.
Agora que acabei o curso, sei que num futuro próximo, terei que ensinar o meu filho a ser um "Power Searcher", não o fazer, seria semelhante a pensar que aprender a ler é menos importante. Pergunto-me até que ponto não devia ser obrigatório para todos os estudantes, independente da idade e área de estudo.
Isto para não falar nos jornalistas actuais, espero vivamente que não pensem que podem continuar a exercer actividade sem conhecer a força de um motor de pesquisa quando bem utilizado. Se ainda restarem dúvidas sobre o potencial deste curso, então faço um pequeno desafio às vossas capacidades de pesquisa.
- Olhem bem para esta imagem
- Qual é o título do trabalho onde esta imagem foi pela primeira vez publicada?
Estas duas perguntas fazem parte do exame final. E é aqui que surge a minha terceira grande surpresa. Antes deste curso era-me totalmente impossível responder de forma acertada a qualquer uma das perguntas. Mas no dia do exame fui capaz de responder com uma facilidade estranha e até assustadora.
Muitos outros exemplos como este fazem parte do curso em que aprendes a ser um "Power Searcher".
Update:
Em Outubro de 2012 aprendi a ser um "Power Searcher" e no início de Janeiro de 2013 passei a ser um "Advanced Power Searcher". O curso começa com um desafio muito simples. Depois relembramos alguns dos processos de pesquisa e podemos assistir à forma como o Dan Russell, o nosso professor, encontra as respostas. A partir deste ponto são apresentadas as datas de entrega dos 12 desafios, divididos em três categorias: 4 (E) easy, 6 (M) medium e 2 (H) hard.
Os desafios são os seguintes:
- Challenge 1 : Mimicking presidential voices
- Challenge 2 : Turtle fossils
- Challenge 3 : Festival challenge
- Challenge 4 : Humongous fungus
- Challenge 5 : Salman Khan
- Challenge 6 : Scrapbook enthusiast
- Challenge 7 : Mystery music
- Challenge 8 : Climate graph
Across the top are three cities. Research the climate for each city and decide which city fits the graph. What is the Köppen climate type for the city that fits the graph, as expressed in letter symbols? Which of the city choices has a climate influenced by the southeast trade winds? Make a similar graph for a city or region near you. Using Creative Commons, pre-approve sharing in any way you choose. Then, share the graph in a social network of your choice.
- Challenge 9 : Name that notebook
- Challenge 10 : Who done it?
- Challenge 11 : Feather identification
You sketched it out so you could identify it later. To what kind of bird did it belong?
- Challenge 12 : Where in the world?
2024.06.02 17:29 UnDead_Ted For It Is Written
 | Today's Verse1 Corinthians 2:9 (NIV) - However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him.1) DesignKJV
2) DevelopIt is written/What the Scriptures mean:The word is trustworthy and true (Rev. 21:4)What no human mind has conceived/Entered into the heart of man: This phrase suggests that the wonders of God’s plans and blessings are beyond human sensory experience. No one has seen or heard the full extent of what God has prepared. This emphasizes that even the human imagination or understanding cannot fully grasp the greatness of what God has in store. It transcends our thoughts and expectations.Things God has prepared/Hath prepared: This part highlights that these extraordinary blessings and plans are specifically for those who love God. It underscores the relationship between God's love and human devotion. 3) ActionsWhat actions develop the story in this verse? What is happening? To whom?Answer: To understand the development and context of the story in 1 Corinthians 2:9, we need to look at the surrounding verses and the overall message of the chapter. Here’s a breakdown of the actions and the narrative flow: Context of 1 Corinthians 2
Actions and Development
What is Happening and To Whom?
SummaryIn 1 Corinthians 2:9, Paul is explaining that the amazing things God has prepared for those who love Him are beyond human comprehension and can only be revealed through the Spirit. The actions developing this story include Paul’s humble preaching approach, the contrast between human and divine wisdom, the quoting of scripture to illustrate the point, and the ultimate revelation by the Holy Spirit to believers. The recipients of this message are the Corinthian Christians, and the overarching theme is the reliance on spiritual wisdom over human wisdom.4) OutcomeWhat is God saying to you today? How can you apply this to your life?Answer: Reflecting on 1 Corinthians 2:9, the message God conveys is one of profound hope and assurance. The verse reminds us that God's plans for those who love Him are far greater than anything we can perceive or imagine. Here’s a personalized reflection and application of this message: God's Message to You Today
Application to Your Life
Verse Thoughts....
Practical Applications
Reflective QuestionsQ-1) How does recognizing the limits of your understanding change your perspective on current challenges?Answer: 1. Promotes Humility
2. Encourages Trust in God
3. Reduces Anxiety and Stress
4. Enhances Patience and Perseverance
5. Improves Relationships
6. Inspires Hope and Positivity
Practical Steps to Apply This Perspective
End Q-2) In what ways can you seek to deepen your relationship with God to better understand His plans for you?Answer:1. Prayer
2. Bible Study
3. Worship
4. Service and Ministry
5. Spiritual Disciplines
6. Guidance from Spiritual Mentors
7. Reflective Practices
8. Reading Christian Literature
9. Community and Fellowship
10. Attending Conferences and Seminars
ConclusionDeepening your relationship with God is an ongoing journey that involves intentionality, discipline, and openness to the Holy Spirit. By engaging in these practices, you create space for God to reveal His plans and guide you more clearly. It’s through a committed and growing relationship with Him that you can better understand His will and purpose for your life.End Q-3) How can you remind yourself of God’s promises during times of doubt or difficulty? Answer: Scripture Memorization
2. Prayer and Meditation
3. Journaling
4. Visual Reminders
5. Worship Music
6. Christian Community
7. Reading Devotionals and Christian Literature
8. Attending Church Services
9. Creative Expression
10. Personal Testimony
Scripture MemorizationEnd
2. Prayer and Meditation
3. Journaling
4. Visual Reminders
5. Worship Music
6. Christian Community
7. Reading Devotionals and Christian Literature
8. Attending Church Services
9. Creative Expression
10. Personal Testimony
End Q-4) Who in your life could benefit from hearing the message of this verse, and how can you share it with them? Answer: Reflecting on 1 Corinthians 2:9 and its message of hope and the incomprehensible nature of God's plans can be incredibly uplifting. Here are some ways to identify people who could benefit from this message and practical methods to share it with them: Identifying People Who Could Benefit
How to Share the Message
Example Scenarios
Reflecting on 1 Corinthians 2:9 and its message of hope and the incomprehensible nature of God's plans can be incredibly uplifting. Here are some ways to identify people who could benefit from this message and practical methods to share it with them:End Identifying People Who Could Benefit
How to Share the Message
Example Scenarios
Let's Pray: Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You for Your incredible love and the promises You have given us. As Your Word says, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him." We are in awe of Your plans, which surpass our understanding and imagination. Lord, we come before You with hearts full of gratitude for the assurance that You have great things prepared for us. Help us to trust in Your divine wisdom and timing, especially during moments of doubt and difficulty. Remind us that Your ways are higher than our ways and that Your thoughts are higher than our thoughts. When we face uncertainties and challenges, let us find comfort in Your promises. Strengthen our faith so that we may walk confidently, knowing that You are guiding our steps. Help us to be patient and to wait on You, trusting that Your plans for us are good and filled with hope and a future. Holy Spirit, fill our hearts with Your peace and joy. Open our eyes to see glimpses of Your marvelous works and our ears to hear Your gentle guidance. May we continually seek Your presence and be sensitive to Your leading in our lives. Lord, we lift up our loved ones who may be struggling or feeling lost. May they also come to know the depth of Your love and the greatness of Your plans for them. Use us to be a source of encouragement and hope, sharing Your promises and love with those around us. We surrender our worries and fears to You, trusting that You hold our future in Your hands. Thank You for Your faithfulness and the assurance that You are always with us. In Jesus' precious name, we pray. Amen. |
2024.06.02 17:16 kurta999 3 éves C++ side projectem - CAN Sender, Modbus Master, 2. billentyű makrókra és egy csomó egyéb dolog
 | Szeretném megosztani a side projectem, amin szabadidőmben 3 éve dolgozom, egyszer már kiposztoltam, de aztán levettem a netről privát okok végett. A dolgok megváltoztatak és szeretném újra elérhetővé tenni, hátha valakit inspirál valamilyen része, netán fel is használ belőle valamit. Nyugodtan lehet kritikát írni, kérdezni. submitted by kurta999 to programmingHungary [link] [comments] GitHub oldal részletesebb leírással, bináris fájlokkal: https://github.com/kurta999/CustomKeyboard This is a personal project for myself to improve my daily computer usage, particularly with programming and testing. I've implemented things what I really needed to be more productive and accomplish things faster. It's open source, because why not, maybe somebody will benefit from it one day. If you want to use/resuse some part(s) of the project, you have a question or an idea, feel free to open a Pull Request. Bugs can happen, as this is just a side project beside my full time job. I do not have the time to always retest everything when I change something how it's done in a proper managed company. Unfinished, abandoned Qt port of this application is available here, has no meaning to port everything to Qt from my perspective: https://gitlab.com/kurta999/QustomKeyboard If the project is useful for you and you're able, please consider small amount of donation over PayPal: [nmsstulaj@gmail.com](mailto:nmsstulaj@gmail.com) 1. For Automotive development:
2. For General development:
3. For Personal use:
In depth details of implemented features1. For Automotive development:
2. For General development:
3. For Personal use:
Modbus Master Data Sender CMD Executor Macro editor Main page Graphs generated from sensors measurement Sensors Second keyboard for macros CAN USB Transceiver |
2024.06.02 17:13 Groblockia_ change the look of windows?
Hey, sorry if that's the wrong sub but i didn't find any relevant one when searching so thought i'd ask here. Basically, i want to know if it's possible to change the look of windows, not just the color but like the shape of certain buttons, layout, etc... i know rainmeter exists, but that's only for the desktop itself, not the taskbar or the file explorer for example. i wanted to have a windows that looks like a cyberpunk2077 terminal cuz i love the way it looks
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2024.06.02 17:00 littlemrsking Help with toddler speech please!
Hi all,
My son is 2 years almost 5 months. He has just under 200 words and has been picking up new words daily. He has always hit speech milestones but on the lower end. He knows almost all of his colors, can count 1-20, can identify the alphabet letters and the sounds they make (but doesn’t like say the abcs in order or anything), and knows a lot of animals and nouns in general. He does also have verbs and uses them to communicate his needs (ie: “eat food”, “open playdoh”, “draw {insert animal}” “play outside”), putting the 2 word phrases together started recently and he’s getting better. He greets everyone with hi or bye and their name. He also responds to his name, follows directions really well, and loves to play with other kids.
We’d like to encourage more phrases and conversation and he’s not saying yes/no or using pronouns (only “mine” if we say something is ours first) so we want to work with him on that too. We also want to help him pick up more verbs to help with conversation. Are there any tips or techniques we can use to help with that?
He can have little exchanges with us like for example: him: “eat food” while opening fridge, me: “you want to eat? What do you want to eat?”, him: “applesauce”, me: “you want to eat applesauce?”, him: “eat applesauce!”… or him: “mommy draw”, me: “you want mommy to draw? What do you want mommy to draw?”, him: gives me blue marker “blue!”, me: “ok I’m going to draw something blue… what did mommy draw?”, him: “blue whale!”
He doesn’t qualify for speech. We just want to make sure he doesn’t fall behind. We are first time parents and we also both educators so we are hyper aware of him learning and picking up skills. He is in preschool, but the 2 year old class teachers speak Spanish and we talk to him in English- I’m not sure if that matters.
Thank you in advance!
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My son is 2 years almost 5 months. He has just under 200 words and has been picking up new words daily. He has always hit speech milestones but on the lower end. He knows almost all of his colors, can count 1-20, can identify the alphabet letters and the sounds they make (but doesn’t like say the abcs in order or anything), and knows a lot of animals and nouns in general. He does also have verbs and uses them to communicate his needs (ie: “eat food”, “open playdoh”, “draw {insert animal}” “play outside”), putting the 2 word phrases together started recently and he’s getting better. He greets everyone with hi or bye and their name. He also responds to his name, follows directions really well, and loves to play with other kids.
We’d like to encourage more phrases and conversation and he’s not saying yes/no or using pronouns (only “mine” if we say something is ours first) so we want to work with him on that too. We also want to help him pick up more verbs to help with conversation. Are there any tips or techniques we can use to help with that?
He can have little exchanges with us like for example: him: “eat food” while opening fridge, me: “you want to eat? What do you want to eat?”, him: “applesauce”, me: “you want to eat applesauce?”, him: “eat applesauce!”… or him: “mommy draw”, me: “you want mommy to draw? What do you want mommy to draw?”, him: gives me blue marker “blue!”, me: “ok I’m going to draw something blue… what did mommy draw?”, him: “blue whale!”
He doesn’t qualify for speech. We just want to make sure he doesn’t fall behind. We are first time parents and we also both educators so we are hyper aware of him learning and picking up skills. He is in preschool, but the 2 year old class teachers speak Spanish and we talk to him in English- I’m not sure if that matters.
Thank you in advance!
2024.06.02 17:00 littlemrsking Help with toddler speech please!
Hi all,
My son is 2 years almost 5 months. He has just under 200 words and has been picking up new words daily. He has always hit speech milestones but on the lower end. He knows almost all of his colors, can count 1-20, can identify the alphabet letters and the sounds they make (but doesn’t like say the abcs in order or anything), and knows a lot of animals and nouns in general. He does also have verbs and uses them to communicate his needs (ie: “eat food”, “open playdoh”, “draw {insert animal}” “play outside”), putting the 2 word phrases together started recently and he’s getting better. He greets everyone with hi or bye and their name. He also responds to his name, follows directions really well, and loves to play with other kids.
We’d like to encourage more phrases and conversation and he’s not saying yes/no or using pronouns (only “mine” if we say something is ours first) so we want to work with him on that too. We also want to help him pick up more verbs to help with conversation. Are there any tips or techniques we can use to help with that?
He can have little exchanges with us like for example: him: “eat food” while opening fridge, me: “you want to eat? What do you want to eat?”, him: “applesauce”, me: “you want to eat applesauce?”, him: “eat applesauce!”… or him: “mommy draw”, me: “you want mommy to draw? What do you want mommy to draw?”, him: gives me blue marker “blue!”, me: “ok I’m going to draw something blue… what did mommy draw?”, him: “blue whale!”
He doesn’t qualify for speech. We just want to make sure he doesn’t fall behind. We are first time parents and we also both educators so we are hyper aware of him learning and picking up skills. He is in preschool, but the 2 year old class teachers speak Spanish and we talk to him in English- I’m not sure if that matters.
Thank you in advance!
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My son is 2 years almost 5 months. He has just under 200 words and has been picking up new words daily. He has always hit speech milestones but on the lower end. He knows almost all of his colors, can count 1-20, can identify the alphabet letters and the sounds they make (but doesn’t like say the abcs in order or anything), and knows a lot of animals and nouns in general. He does also have verbs and uses them to communicate his needs (ie: “eat food”, “open playdoh”, “draw {insert animal}” “play outside”), putting the 2 word phrases together started recently and he’s getting better. He greets everyone with hi or bye and their name. He also responds to his name, follows directions really well, and loves to play with other kids.
We’d like to encourage more phrases and conversation and he’s not saying yes/no or using pronouns (only “mine” if we say something is ours first) so we want to work with him on that too. We also want to help him pick up more verbs to help with conversation. Are there any tips or techniques we can use to help with that?
He can have little exchanges with us like for example: him: “eat food” while opening fridge, me: “you want to eat? What do you want to eat?”, him: “applesauce”, me: “you want to eat applesauce?”, him: “eat applesauce!”… or him: “mommy draw”, me: “you want mommy to draw? What do you want mommy to draw?”, him: gives me blue marker “blue!”, me: “ok I’m going to draw something blue… what did mommy draw?”, him: “blue whale!”
He doesn’t qualify for speech. We just want to make sure he doesn’t fall behind. We are first time parents and we also both educators so we are hyper aware of him learning and picking up skills. He is in preschool, but the 2 year old class teachers speak Spanish and we talk to him in English- I’m not sure if that matters.
Thank you in advance!
2024.06.02 16:56 lmapper Does this exist? Looking for an all-in-one macro, market, and options information platform.
I'm looking for a website, service, or app that provides the following information all in one place:
And if it doesn't exist, what vendors would I need (and at what cost) to pull these myself through APIs on a semi-regular basis (e.g. hourly updates)?
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- Volume Profile for various US securities and ETFs
- Configurable relative volume (to self) and relative strength (to a baseline index) (alerts and filters)
- US Security and ETF HV and IV over time as a graph
- Individual strike prices and greeks over time as a graph
- Customizable filter and alerts for unusual options activity (for example, a large volume of a single strike transacted at bid or ask, over a certain time period relative to historical averages)
- Various Fear and Greed indexes and their components (CNN, gold, crypto, etc.) and macroeconomic info (btw, any good alternatives to macromicro?) and calendars
- As a bonus, I'd love to be able to integrate positioning on futures to get a combined view of overall market money flow.
And if it doesn't exist, what vendors would I need (and at what cost) to pull these myself through APIs on a semi-regular basis (e.g. hourly updates)?