Milked like a cow

Im heart broken playing diablo 4. My long list of confusing questions I have and seeing the game in this state... I needed to vent this someplace. So bare with me and maybe some of you can relate.
First the new item system they over hauled is mostly just the same system with a different setup. Same spells now organized with a search function. Same limitations on how you can use em. You removed a few options and allowed us to add THE SAME options just in a different way also having the same limitations.. This of course is more fun?
Second the Tempering system is not only confusing both in name and purpose. Just an example: I find an AWESOME ITEM! i go to temper it... i get the same attribute i didnt want 3 times in a row.. it is now bricked.. This is not tempering.. its gambling. How does this make it ANYMORE fun?
Would the player not enjoy it more if they could just PICK and be proud of their decision? First why is it setup as a gambling mechanic? I've bricked many items in the opens of getting 1 out of 5 options presented to me. So why not call it Iron Roulette?
I know since the options are nothing new.. why couldn't you just add in an ability to add attributes like Intelligence? Is having such few options of use on even fewer pieces fun? Am I the only one that sees this system as... If we give you abilities you need to make items when we want you to farm them... Is this more fun?
Why does the rifting system use its own upgrade money? Why do i have to race and kill things to earn money to be able to fight duriel alone? Why cant i find these objects in the world? Why do I have to do this one thing every time to earn money to do the thing I want to do? its an open world? Cant i find it else where? Is this more fun?
This may sound rude but there's no way to phrase it other wise. I watched the camp fires and I understood then why Diablo is how it is.. I saw 4 men Id say 40 and up closer to the end of their careers then starting them. What I didnt see is creativity. Passion for new ideas or youth enough to understand why games are fun. Clearly they are very well educated with a rich history of experience so why is it I play diablo 4 and left so puzzled to decisions this game has made in its creation? I am 40 years old myself and Ill admit as much as games are my life they are not now my only life. Hence why directors, artists of all sorts can pass their prime in life at what they once did best. I of course speak from experience so I see myself in those same men during that camp fire. I did learn in my years that a pay check can be blinding when you arnt focused on the road.. The titanic had a full crew of the most talented people and yet hit an ice burg and sunk. So when is too old too old?
How does one make this season about the Iron wolves and yet you cant have a partner follow you around like you did the construct.. It was in diablo 2? Is diablo 2 less fun because of this? Is not giving us options we once had more fun?
That brings me to Diablo 2... Why did a game made so long ago.. Have more items, more combinations of items, a system you could craft what you wanted and simply find during regular game play. Is having multiple systems making it far more complex more fun? Is a map filled with talking cows more memorable then anything in this game? Is this more fun and I didn't realize?
Why do i have to Summon every boss in this game? IS COLLECTING many many parts fun over and over again? Is.... is this fun?!
It brings me to Identity. Diablo 2 and 3 had an identity. They knew what they where when they came out. This game tried to... well I dont know what this game tries to be now let alone then. These seasons seem to be like adding random things into a cooking soup in hopes it will taste like chicken noodle.
I finished almost everything in this season... Well as much as i could anyhow. I got bored to the core of my soul trying to go down the check list of things i needed to do in order to get iron wolves to give me a gift from the season pass check list. For me the killing blow was when 6 of us in a pvp section had to blood mark ourselfs and fight one boss who appeared every 20 minutes. We had to kill him 5 times. NOT ONCE.. 5 times each each. So for an objective I dont even want to but must... Is this fun? Waiting around trying to be the first one? I got to 3 out of 5.. and said... nope. its yours guys enjoy fighting over scraps. My time is better suited else where.
It is very common for modern games to be made today using what I call this making a game in Excel spread sheet. Its when one day a producer asked me if x task was done and I said no because of this and that was blocking it. They looked at me confused and said. Its written down here its to be done now? what do i do? This game is that.. Ideas on an excel sheet not connecting to a single purpose but there. Of course what no one put on that excel sheet was to ensure the game was fun.
I've loved diablo since i was a kid. It was one of my driving factors that got me into the industry. Diablo 1's town music when i hear it played live still brings a tear to my eye because of the joy this game / title has given me over the years. Maybe its me? I written many questions here Im very curious to the answers to. maybe Im not alone?
Diablo was never only about only the loot so the title " Loot reborn " was never the issue. It should have been called Vision reborn or Vision achieved and the loot would be part of this.
I never posted on reddit so sorry if i messed anything up.

So I am 6 weeks post partum and the last week have needed to supplement with formula (ie 3.5 oz bm with 1oz formula) . I had been doing a combination of nursing and pumping, but LO was still acting hungry after feeds (both from nursing and off the bottle).
At this point I don’t have any breast milk stored up and with pumping at immediately feeding it, as in I’m not even one feed ahead.
This is mentally draining me because I feel I can’t leave LO for more than a 2 hour stretch and I’d like to be able to do a few activities with friends soon.
So is this “normal” to not have more supply at this point? Am I officially an under supplier? Maybe my supply can still increase in the next few weeks? Any advice or personal anecdotes would be appreciated.

Let's start off with defining eugenics: The practice of attempting to improve the human gene pool by encouraging the reproduction of people considered to have desirable traits.
Hmmm... That sounds familiar. Selective Breeding: The practice of breeding the best specimens of a given organism to encourage certain features.
Every single organism from dogs, cats, cows, flowers, mushrooms, bacteria, mold, etc. have all been selectively breed (by humans) to become healthier, stronger, have a longer life span, be more intelligent, preduce more fruit, and the list goes on. But the moment we talk about selectively breeding each other, it becomes taboo. Even though the evidence is clear that it works.
Let me ask you this, if you where born with an extreme deformity or mental disorder, why would you want to force that illness onto another person? That's pretty inhuman and selfish if you ask me.
The only semi responsible answer I've heard is history. Historically speaking eugenics has been used for racism. But then we need to ask, are we still racist? Have social beliefs not changed over the last 300 years? The reason you can't use history as an argument is because it's just that. History. We used to have slaves, women didn't have rights, child and pregnant womem where given heroin for headaches. This isn't reality anymore. We don't have slaves, we don't give pregnant women heroin, and people don't view minorities as sub human anymore. If we're gonna say "well historically speaking" then by your own logic I can say black people are the real slave owners because the first slave trader was black. Historically speaking women belong in the kitchen because that was "the good ol days". You see how ridiculous all that sounds? It's because history isn't today. What happened 300 years ago happened 300 years ago.
Your probably saying "well it takes away peoples reproductive rights" and your right to an extent. There's 2 things to say about that. 1) if your pro-life than your a hypocrite, because clearly your perfectly fine removing the reproductive rights of women. And 2) its not about the parent in this situation. Its about the unborn child you are forcing into this world against their will, all the while knowing the disadvantage your forcing them to have. It's selfish to believe you have a right to force a child to be born with a genetic disability.
By now your probably grasping at straws saying "so OP doesn't think that people with genetic disorders deserve child" which isn't true. There are currently 400,000 children in America alone who are currently alive and being mistreated in foster care and orphan homes. Why not rescue one of them? What's wrong with saving a child from the neglect of not having a loving home? But instead you want to force a person who doesn't even exist yet to live a life of misery just so you can say that it came out of your balls.
The only way you can honestly say you don't believed eugenics is ethical is if you are pro-choice, never eat meat from factor farms (not so fun fact: 99% of farms are factor farms) never eat vegetables or fruits from big farmers. Never own a dog or cat. And NEVER touch a vaccine or any form of modern medicine especially antibiotics like penicillin. Because whether you want to acknowledge it or not, ALL of those are because of eugenics.

The life coach thing??? He’s been meeting with someone, a woman, for 6 months for life coaching. Yet never told Contessa.
Then told everyone else (when they asked him about it) that’s he’s been seeing/talking with a man, Kevin (or Ken) Johnson and never said he said he’s been seeing/meeting with a woman.
And now at the reunion when asked how long since Contessa filed for separation, and he said 1 month.. only to be corrected by Contessa who said it’s been 6 months….. like huh?
I’m sure there’s many more times I’ve missed as a viewer, but holy cow. He just lies so easily even when there’s no reason to lie or the lie can be easily disproven.
I know Contessa isn’t perfect, but being married to someone who just lies like that, constantly, would drives me insane or break down my sense of reality quickly.
I completely understand her comment now when she said “I don’t know what’s real or not” (when it comes to Scott).
Holy holy crap.

I visited New Delhi for the first time last week, and boy was it a shock. Nothing could have prepared me for the experience. The most unbearable thing about Delhi is the climate. This is the only city I have been to where the wind is *hot*. The temperature feels like an oven. I think I now know what the chicken feels when it is made into Tandoori. Every breathe I take feels like I am breathing in sand. The air smells like sand. My lungs hurt. Mosquitoes are everywhere. I do not exaggerate when I say that I will have very little desire to visit the North again in the near future. In fact, the experience has inspired me to write a backrooms (Frontrooms?) level based on the city:
Frontrooms Level New Delhi
Survival Difficulty: Class 3e Environmental - Unsafe - Stable - Moderate Entity Count
Level New Delhi is a sprawling urban agglomeration in the Frontrooms that is the capital of the Republic of India.
Like Level 11 in the Backrooms, the scattered cityscape of Level New Delhi appears to have been haphazardly constructed and added onto with little regard for aesthetic uniformity or habitability. Thankfully, the level has a Euclidean geometry, like any other Level in the Frontrooms.
The climate of Level New Delhi presents a severe environmental hazard in the form of very high temperatures. Wanderers must take care to stay hydrated throughout their stay in the Level. It is especially easy to get dehydrated when you are outside, and heatstroke is a condition which may lead to death.
While there is abundance of Rickshaw and cab service available, traffic in the Level is very heavy and include entity hazards such as stray cows. It is advisable to instead use the Delhi Metro which is convenient, reliable and safe. For as little as 9 rupees per trip, it is also cheap compared to other methods.
Entities in Level New Delhi include mosquitoes, stray dogs, and stray cows. Mosquitoes are present throughout the Level, including on public transportation. While most mosquitoes present a mere annoyance to wanderers, some mosquitoes may carry the Dengue virus which may lead to severe disease. Stray dogs may be carriers of rabies. Stray cows may impede traffic.
Entrances and Exits:
Delhi Railway Station - One may avail themselves of the many trains which stop in Delhi Railway Station. This wanderer recommends the Rajdhani Express AC First Class to arrive and leave in style.
I.G.I. Airport - A slightly more luxurious option than the railways, one must be prepared to show boarding card to the Security Officer at the doors of the airport within 4 hours of departure time. There is a large number of flights available to Frontrooms Levels both inside and outside of India. Even though airport is very crowded, one can still feel safe because of large number of jawans with automatic rifles patrolling the terminals.
Noclip - Like anywhere else in the Frontrooms, one can exit into the Backrooms by No-clipping into Level 0.

Conclusions
In conclusion, our study suggests that higher levels of ARA may reduce the risk of BPD. Preclinical models and randomized clinical trials are needed to rigorously assess a potential role for ARA supplementation (and other PUFAs) in facilitating BPD prevention and treatment, particularly in individuals who carry BPD risk alleles at the FADS1/2/3 cluster. More broadly, our findings also support potential avenues for precision health interventions focused on early-life nutrition to ensure that infants and children are receiving enough ARA and other PUFAs to support optimal brain development, which may also reduce the risk of BPD.
Discussion
This 2-sample MWMR study revealed 33 circulating metabolites associated with BPD, most of them lipids. Chief among these metabolites was ARA in its free form along with several complex lipids containing either an ARA or LA side chain. We showed that most of these metabolite associations were driven by genetic instruments at the FADS1/2/3 cluster, which encodes a family of fatty acid desaturase enzymes responsible for the desaturation of omega-6 PUFAs in the LA to ARA pathway as well as omega-3 PUFAs in the αLA to eicosapentaenoic acid to docosahexaenoic acid pathway (22). Taken together, these findings suggest that the conversion of LA into ARA by the FADS1/2/3 cluster genes may play a key role in BPD etiology. A potential role for PUFAs in BPD has been widely posited over the past decade, although attention has primarily been focused on omega-3 PUFAs such as eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid (22). A key finding from this 2-sample MWMR study suggests that increased synthesis of ARA, an omega-6 PUFA, may lower BPD risk. Although the ARA pathway has previously been implicated in the pathophysiology of BPD (23), to our knowledge, ours is the first study to highlight a potential causal role. Additional work is required to uncover the relevant downstream mechanisms, although studies have shown that ARA plays a vital role in the central nervous system, both as a major phospholipid constituent of neuronal and glial cell membranes and as a signaling molecule (24). Given its presence in human milk, ARA is considered to be essential for infant brain development and is added to infant formulas in many countries (25). Therefore, ARA may exert an effect on BPD risk by affecting neurodevelopmental pathways, which would be consistent with contemporary views of BPD as a neurodevelopmental disorder (26). In children and adults, ARA can be sourced either directly from meat and seafood products or indirectly by de novo synthesis from dietary LA (e.g., nuts, seeds, oils) via the FADS1/2/3 cluster genes (21). Conversely, infants lack the ability to synthesize ARA from LA and so are completely reliant on human milk or formula for their ARA intake (27). Therefore, future studies to assess ARA supplementation as a potential preventive strategy for BPD may be warranted, particularly with children or infants with poor natural dietary sources of ARA. A GWAS of fatty acid levels in breast milk from >1000 Bangladeshi mothers revealed that the FADS1/2/3 cluster was the primary driver of fatty acid levels and that of the 33 fatty acids measured, ARA was the primary fatty acid influenced by this gene cluster (28). Specifically, the authors found that the sentinel variant at the locus, rs174556, was associated with a per major allele effect size of 17% higher ARA levels (28). This is a large effect, and so lower levels of ARA in human milk due to genetic variation at the FADS1/2/3 cluster could play a role in modulating BPD risk. The sentinel variant associated with ARA in breast milk is in moderate to high LD with the BPD sentinel rs174592 (r2 = 0.67, 1000 Genomes Project [European Super Population]), which suggests that the 2 signals do overlap. However, if the levels of ARA in breast milk were a driver of the BPD signal, then the mother's genotype at the FADS1/2/3 cluster would be more important than that of the infant. Thus, a hypothetical cross-generational effect like this would suggest that the FADS1/2/3 cluster exerts a larger effect on BPD risk than current data suggest. In this study, we have shown that the BPD GWAS signal at the FADS1/2/3 cluster is likely driven by PUFA metabolism, suggesting that ARA may be the primary effector. Although the liver is generally considered to be the central organ of PUFA metabolism, the FADS1/2/3 cluster genes are expressed widely across human tissues and cell types, including in the brain (29). Therefore, it is unclear whether this cluster impacts BPD risk via distal mechanisms either in the liver or another peripheral tissue or by local activity in the brain. A recent study using a Fads1/2 knockout mouse model of BPD showed that peripheral, but not central, Fads1/2 gene knockout was necessary to recapitulate the BPD-like phenotype, as evidenced by a loss of the phenotype after conditional knockout in the brain (30). ARA and other PUFAs are actively transported into the brain across the blood-brain barrier (31), and recent GWASs have uncovered genome-wide significant associations between variants at the FADS1/2/3 cluster and several brain imaging-derived phenotypes including cortical thickness and surface area (32,33). Taken together, this is all consistent with peripheral PUFA metabolism having the potential to impact central mechanisms. A major clinical implication of the associations observed here between circulating metabolites and BPD relates to the search for biomarkers. There are currently no clinically approved psychiatric biomarkers, although predictive modeling has been widely applied in attempts to identify biosignatures of different psychiatric disorders. For example, a recent study identified a lipid signature for schizophrenia that also translates to both BPD and major depressive disorder (34). High-resolution profiling of circulating PUFAs in psychiatric patients may therefore prove to be crucial in facilitating psychiatric biomarker discovery. There are several potential limitations to this study. First, although we observed an inverse correlation between the BPD and lithium response GSMR estimates across the 33 BPD-associated metabolites, the lithium response estimates were based on a GWAS of only 2039 patients with BPD (2). A potential role for these metabolites in modulating lithium response should therefore be considered suggestive at best, although several previous studies have shown that lithium and other mood stabilizers impact the ARA pathway in animals (35,36). Second, it is unclear to what extent patients from the BPD GWAS by Mullins et al. (5) who participated in this study had been prescribed lithium. Although MR studies are more robust to confounding from medication and other lifestyle factors than observational studies, it is possible that the signals detected in our study reflect a lithium-responsive BPD subtype. Therefore, additional studies to explore this in more deeply phenotyped participants are needed. Third, because our findings were based on GWASs of European participants, the extent to which they are applicable to other populations is unclear. However, the GWAS signal for BPD at the FADS1/2/3 cluster was originally identified in a Japanese population (37), which suggests that the relevance of our findings likely does extend beyond Europeans. Fourth, although we found little to no evidence to support a role for these 33 BPD-associated metabolites in other related psychiatric disorders, it is possible that they may be relevant for certain psychiatric subtypes. For example, the depression phenotype used in the Howard et al. (38) GWAS was very broad, and so MR studies utilizing future GWASs focused on specific depression subtypes that adhere to more uniform and clinically relevant diagnostic criteria may yield different results. Finally, our replication efforts were hampered by differential metabolomic coverage between the metabolomic discovery and replication datasets. Future studies should therefore focus primarily on replication and validation. Studies that apply the Metabolon HD platform and other high-resolution platforms to independent population cohorts will be crucial to enable comprehensive replication analyses. Moreover, the application of platforms with ever-increasing coverage of PUFAs will help to pinpoint the most relevant metabolites involved in BPD etiology. We propose that future validation studies should utilize the Fads1/2 knockout mouse model of BPD (30) discussed earlier. These mice may represent a suitable preclinical model to assess the efficacy of PUFA supplementation (including ARA) in treating BPD-related symptoms, thereby highlighting specific PUFAs for subsequent randomized clinical trials.

This might just be a semantic question, but are new "openings" and "variations" still being created these days? It seems like novelties still show up fairly often in the engine age, but all the openings with proper names (think Sicilian Dragon, Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack) are old and/or reference players from older generations. Of course, all the best openings have seemingly been played already, so that explains the lack of new overarching openings, but are subvariations still being named, especially after people? Or is it just a bunch of unnamed novelties which will never pick up steam and become full variations?
The only "new opening name" I've heard of recently is The Cow, and that's because it's a meme.

I just recently decided to try out Sip Club and I was trying to order a coffee through the app earlier today. I wanted to get just a regular iced coffee with a little bit of milk and sugar and it doesn’t seem possible to do this? I’m asking here because I feel like I have to be missing something incredibly obvious, right? I tried adding several different kinds of coffees to my cart and none of them had the option of adding milk or sugar- only syrup or an extra espresso shot. I’m literally baffled that they expect people to pay $15 a month and you can’t even get milk in your coffee…

Trigger Warning: eating disorder.
(Long) Backstory: I (38F) have dealt with weight issues since I was a child. Looking back at pictures of myself I wasn't actually big, just not a stick-figure, and probably would have lost most of my baby-fat with age. Unfortunately starting at around the age of eight my family decided that I was obscenely fat, and being entrenched in 80's diet-culture started withholding food from me/not having food in the house (I was a latch-key kid and often home alone after school), which led me to binge when I DID have access to food, and develop very bad food-insecurities. This, combined with the familial disappointment that instead of losing weight I was actually gaining, resulted in my developing a raging case of body dysmorphia and Atypical Anorexia where I would starve myself for up to days at a time, then binge everything in sight, feel guilty for "failing" and eating, which started the vicious cycle all over again. Unfortunately as a result no matter how healthy I eat and how much I work out, my body now perpetually thinks I am in a famine situation and holds on to my "fat reserves" in anticipation of another "famine"
In my late 20's I started working on modifying my behavior and recognizing my triggers myself, and about five years ago I started working with a team of ED specialists (Doctor, Dietician, Therapist). As a result, I have not had an "episode" in more than five years. In that time my weight has leveled out and I'm a size 20 (I'm 5'11, and *shocker* very physically active). The voice in my head that tells me I'm "failing" for eating anything at all is still there, but I have better coping mechanisms now to deal with it.
I was in the process of becoming a bariatric surgery candidate when the weight-loss drug Wegovy became available again. My Doctor was happy to prescribe it to me as an alternative to major surgery, and it's been nothing short of miraculous. I'm down 25lbs in 10 weeks, which is a loss rate I'm very happy with, and I am feeling great. I have had to work with my ED team on working out a way for me to modify and keep track of my diet without hitting any of my triggers (the consensus is I'm allowed whatever sounds good to eat, but I need to focus on protein. It's been working great so far)
Now, on to the part where I may be the asshole:
My mother has lived with me for the last several years. She is mostly financially-dependent on me, and I'm not going to lie but we often do not have the best relationship. Unfortunately, her only other option is to live in her car, so here we are.
She has always been critical about my appearance, always under the guise of "concern", and still likes to give unsolicited diet-advice even though I have told her until I'm blue in the face that many of her "suggestions" are either insanely unhealthy (only eating eggs and getting only 400 calories a day), or massive triggers for my ED, which she believes I am "making up for attention".
Since starting the Wegovy she has actually been very positive and supportive, and notices the changes in my shape before I do. However, she has recently started getting very critical again about what specifically I'm eating, and she doesn't believe me that my meals are dietician-approved because they often contain things like carbs, or because I'll drink milk as a post-workout drink.
Last night my mom started ranting that she's been on some of the Wegovy-support groups on FB, and I'm not losing weight as fast as many other people (This is true, some people are losing 20+lbs a month, but they are also having more issues with loose skin which I would like to minimize if I can), so I must not be dieting right, and I need to start doing X, Y, and Z, otherwise I'm going to fail and stay fat forever.
After a long argument where I reiterated that X, Y, and Z are major triggers for my ED and that I have told her countless times these are major triggers, I finally yelled at her that if she keeps doing this she will have to find somewhere else to live. My mom started crying, saying she's only trying to help me, and that it's not fair that I threaten her home when I know she has nowhere else to go.
Today she's been acting like nothing ever happened, but her BFF called me and told me he understands where I'm coming from, but I'm still an asshole for threatening to throw her out.
So, AITA?

like I built a house, and when I see a patrol I just hide, or I'm just out. what are they gonna do if I'm never home or don't answer the door. what if they just see a bull monching on suspiciously well maintained greenfruit field. What are they gonna do? Hurt the cow? (also my bad for title typo idk how to edit it)

Hey everyone!
Welp. I have sensitized my skin + destroyed my skin barrier. I thought I could beat the elements in my outside job - but alas, I fought a hail storm and lost the other day. The dirt in the wind exfoliates my skin a little too well.
Existence is pain - my skin burns just sitting on the couch, no products on.
Enter skincare. I'm overwhelmed. I would like to be whelmed.
I managed to start an extremely simple routine and now I'm ready to add in more products but want to heal my skin barrier before breaking out the Vit C and exfoliants.
Skin background: dry + dehydrated in a hot + humid environment (southern USA) and a lot of allergies - almost all nuts, shea, pineapple, benzalkonium chloride.
My routine:
AM: water wash, Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Ampoule, alternate between Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun: Rice + Probiotics & Neutrogena Sheer Zinc Mineral Sunscreen Lotion SPF 50. i guess my sunscreen is my moisturizer.
PM: Vanicream Gentle Facial Cleanser, Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Ampoule, Purito Dermide Cica Sleeping Pack - I really like ths, but definitely need a moisturizer under as this.
Tried:

• Cerave moisturizing cream - caused my eyes to swell.
• TirTir Milk Skin Toner - made my skin feel very dry. smelled like rubbing alcohol.

So far the products in the list below look super promising for hydration and skin barrier repair.
But, do you think any of them are redundant? Minus hyaluronic acid, that’s in everything.
For instance, do I really need that Tiam B5 Toner if I have the Purito B5 Re-barrier Cream? Or a dedicated beta glucan serum if two products already contain beta glucan (Skinfood Propolis Serum, RNW Ceramide Plus Serum)? Is a daytime and a nighttime moisturizer overkill? Should I just get Stratia Lipid Gold?
any + all help or recommendations is greatly appreciated. My skin will forever be in your debt <3
Products:

• Muji Mild Oil Cleanser
• Vanicream Gentle Facial Cleanser - own + best cleanser for my skin!
• Tiam My Signature Vita B5 Toner
• Aprilskin Artemisia Rice Toner
• Make P:rem Safe Me. Relief Toner
• Pyunkang Yul Essence Toner
• Vegreen Fragrance-Free Nature Mucin Serum
• Iunik Beta Glucan Power Moisture Serum
• Benton Fermentation Essence
• Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Essence Water
• Dr. Ceuracle Vegan Kombucha Tea Essence
• Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Ampoule - own + adore - redness who?
• Skinfood Royal Honey Propolis Enrich Essence
• RNW Der. Concentrate Ceramide Plus Serum
• Cosrx Full Fit Propolis Light Cream (day)
• Purito B5 Panthenol Rebarrier Cream (night)
• Purito Dermide Cica Sleeping Pack - own. like but need a moisturizer under.
• Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun: Rice + Probiotics - own.
• Neutrogena Sheer Zinc Mineral Sunscreen Lotion SPF 50 - own. no white cast. i'm still pale somehow.

I have a doctors appointment Wednesday, so I am being checked, but wanted to ask if others were having this experience to get a more rounded view as I do not want to jump to conclusions.
3rd week of 5mg.
Weeks 1-2-3 of 5mg I inject Saturday morning.
Sunday morning, after breakfast, I am having pretty strong pain the very top of my stomach. lots of noise and can feel movement in the area like little gurgles, it is filling me with wind and I am burping gassy burps (not sulphur) a lot, after this the pain eases slightly, but then builds again. I also get pretty severe acid reflux and usually an upset stomach. This pain I am having is bad, it goes on through Sunday night so I do not get a lot of sleep. It is usually there on Monday and eases off on Tuesday, then I am fine again until Sunday.
I do not have a temperature, and it isn't stabbing pains.
I have suffered with Gerd for 21 years and take 40mg esomeprazole daily, I also use Gaviscon and have milk of magnesia here.
Do these sound like symptoms of pancreatitis? I am hoping not as Mounjaro is working well for me. I just wonder if I am having a severe acid reaction after the injection. I have just had a cup of tea, skimmed milk, no sugar and I can feel it getting a tiny bit worse again, but this can also happen with reflux.
I know none of us are medical professionals here, so not asking for medical advice, and as I say I am at the doctors on Wednesday, I just wanted to ask if anyone is experiencing anything similar.
EDIT to add I had my gall bladder removed in 2020 so not gall bladder related.

Hi! We recently bought a Philips LatteGo 5499 superautomatic coffee machine. I’ve had a Starbucks Athena Barista from back in the day, & more recently a DeLonghi Dedicated Deluxe, which died during the pandemic. I made really good drinks on the Athena & decent drinks on the Dedica, but the Dedica died during the pandemic. We thought maybe a superautomatic would be fun & save my getting-older hands a bit of work.
So far, the Philips is underwhelming. The espresso produced is a bit flat, & maybe watery? It’s not tasty & full-bodied. IDK if that’s b/c it dispenses an 11-gram dose of espresso as opposed to other machines, if it’s b/c the Philips‘ automatic grinder doesn’t grind as fine as my burr grinder or if we just haven’t found the magic combination of buttons & beans to produce a decent espresso.
The rinsing before & after every drink is okay, but when another drink then begins to brew, a little bit of water goes into the cup before espresso or milk.
The milk drinks I’ve made have produced okay foam, but obviously part of it being all automated is that there isn’t much variance. It’s..one size of foam. That’s it.
I’m going to try again tomorrow with beans that are definitely espresso roast, in cause my regular medium-dark roast isn’t robust enough.
Does anyone else have a Philips LatteGo 5400 who likes it? Are there setting nuances we haven’t gotten to yet?
& also, if you have a different superautomatic - or not, why limit ourselves - espresso/coffee drinks machine that you love, what is it, & why do you love it? We’re still in the return period for the LatteGo so..your input is appreciated, & TYSM in advance. I’m also Googling reviews/watching videos

I’m an under supplier and have twins so they had been getting just 1 breast milk bottle and the rest formula since birth (3months now), so I obviously don’t have a freezer stash. I am wondering if it would be worth it to freeze some bags now that I’m weaning down to give them if they’re sick or something over the next year or if it wouldn’t really help because it’s not like I’m sick currently and wouldn’t be producing anti bodies?

Hi there I am 4mpp and have been considering weaning more and more every day. I feel like my life revolves around the pump and I’m getting so tired and angry at not being able to live outside my home. I also feel so sweaty all the time and gross and I think it might be due to the breastfeeding however that might just be a postpartum thing.
Those of you that weaned and moved over to formula, what changes did you see in baby? Also, how did you feel once your body stopped producing milk? And lastly, do formula fed babies take in more milk? I have been feeding my bub 4oz which hasn’t changed since she was about a week old. She drinks even less now as she sleeps through the night and only does 6 bottles. Will this amount change if I switch over to formula?
Sorry for the long post, I’ve never done formula so don’t know what to expect. Im trying to make an informed decision so any information I can get would be helpful.
Thank you all so much!
You ladies are amazing doing EP, it is so hard!

This is my first time here. Situation I am describing is a very known situation at many households. But this is happening to me AGAIN and AGAIN.
So, I have an ailing Father in law, completely paralyzed with tracheostomy tube, feeding tube and a catheter, whom we are caregiving in a Tier 2 City since 5+ years, I work from home . I have suffered a missed miscarriage and had a D&E after that in September 2023 at around 12 weeks marks. SInce then we are trying and not had a success. My sister-in-law lives in same city so she comes to support the care. I am a secondary caregiver as I am the only one who is earning. My husband is on career break as the Staff is not permanent & load of caregiving is huge. My mother in law expired in 2020.
My sister in law since marriage was a person I always had doubts on. I make friends for life once I get to know them, but here even if the dynamic was weird, I gave her lots of benefit of doubt & she proved me wrong always. She and my MIL were best friends. They had never included me the way a daughter in law should have been included. So because of my mothe r in law, the home was always under her control. Whenever I used to come, I was being indirectly commented on our stuff lying here and there(we were not having any room, so obv it was to be taken in and out of bags), SIL used to say in a really really bad tone blabbering and going here and there " why do people bring stuff if they don't know how to place" the etc. in short I was never allowed to even touch or know things in house. It has to be done by my sister in law always. For smallest of things, she was always given preference. Please don't take me wrong, but I am from a home where we are 2 sisters and obv I was being trained to handle all the things so that I never ever become dependent. And here I am in a household, where I am being told, "you won't be able to do this" to everything I wanted to attempt. All what I had to do is cooking, which I didn't know much. Btw I was the only working lady that time.
Anyway I don't want to go to my MIL's drama because that was HORRIBLE and I thank God every day for relaxing me!
This is not the first time SIL has done maligning/ bitching, she has been involved to malign the image. It has never happened anywhere that people don't come to talk to me, because I generally listen to the problems and I am amicable! I have lived in Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, but it is only here that I couldn't foster any relationships with anyone! It always was a thought in me which I didn't know had a solid cause. I caught her tarnishing my image on camera (we kept it for FIL) blabbering things like : "She has eaten crab" (Kekde khati hai) which I haven't, I have had fish 2-3 times in my whole life, these guys are purely vegetarian, which I was as well, but I had just shared it with her as a thing! "She is putting pressure on my brother so that we have a fight, and now he came to beg sorry that I did a mistake"(Ary masi, ese hi koi nai karta, jab tak upar se pressure nai aata , and aaya tha maafi maangne fir, ki mujhe maaf kar do, ye to chahti hai ki humari ladai ho jaye and toot jaye relationship) (which I never ever do, I come from a joint family and such adjustments are inbuilt in my nature)
When my husband and herself caught covid, they were isolated, I was at my mother's place and rushed back to support them and fully supported them for 2 weeks managing my work alongwith. Later on during 3rd wave of covid, I had covid and I didn't even was asked for! I missed my parents a lot! She gave the most vile response in that conversation with her Masis. "She got Covid!, She got covid!, Now she will make sure to come to our father's room" (That had broken me that time) (Ab ho gaya usko!, ho gaya!, Ab to aur ayegi papa ke room me) (with an intention to kill him)(I have been dealing with a tough situation where it affected my marriage the most and I had to voice my needs to them as noone was paying any attention to my needs and I wanted to have a family of my own during that time. It was 2020-21, I was 33)
I was a scared bird, I was so so scared of confrontation previously that she exploited a lot out of me. Their home is in a place where people have never gone out of the city so the thoughts are so weird when they see me doing it! For example : employing a maid! Now Imagine ! Her masis are equally involved. When my mother in law was dead, and the rituals were happening, people flocked and populated our home. MIL had 5 sisters, all of them bombarded in the tiny home! and then one of them started saying, "We didn't even get tea! She gets up at 7!"
I am harmless creature, who has never picked up fights, She is argumentative and of a nature where she has to win always which is through talking. I avoid it. If I talk, by hook or crook she will manipulate so that things are in her favor and last sentence is hers. She even called my parents and said "aap logo ko thoda encourage jitna karte ho aur karna chahiye" without my knowledge , and they were speaking for me! and I was at a different city. That was my tipping point! I came back, ignored her for 3 days finally bursting on her. She argued that "are they nothing for me", I said you are not allowed to call without my knowledge, you have to go through ME!!
Coming to problem:
My sister in law just had a baby who is 6 months now. after my miscarriage! 2-3 days before, she left her phone at our place,and asked to forward a number from her mobile. My husband forwarded it and then sifted through her chats. He got into a chat with their cousin sister where my sister in law described me as
"I stopped you to go and made her (me) to go because she puts evil eye on my kid and my baby has stopped drinking milk, you are of pure heart, but not everyone is like that, we dont know what's going on in other's mind"
"Ary behna! Bura mat maniyo, wo nazar lagati hain HAMESHA, Ab bechari doodh bhi nai peeti dhang se, tera dil to saaf hai, lekin sabka nai hota"
I was aghasted by this chat comment. All I gave was a genuine love for the purest soul who is infront of us!
All I do is my job in the only room at this house. Previously I was so disturbed that I took psychologist's support! Can you believe it! SIL problems to psychologist!! And After she had a baby, she became better I thought so, so I forgave her and interacted, went to her home as well. Then I backtraced and found another incident where I could connect the dots:
I was deliberately asked to prepare tea while at her home, her masi were also there, and her masi said, Let me prepare the tea, and she said I want to have her from only her hands!! (While in kitchen I found it weird but I gave her space and didn't come out), Later in remembered that she was feeding her baby! HOW PATHETIC! I am so so hurt by such things happening around me! One of her masi, couldn't bear children and "her nazar" has been talk of town always, another masi she was seperate from all sisters and minded her own business, she has "money" according to all of them(which is for sure hard earned and they are jealous that she earned, kept up with sasural, she didn't give a f**k to such chalak sisters ) her nazar is considered "killing/deadly"! She has been a very kind person when I met ! So when I heard about them from SIL I couldn't believe she is saying all that about her own masi! and now when I heard something about me all I could think of is 20 years in future people will still not talk to me because I put nazar! I thought of confronting her husband as he is humble , talking to her is exhausting and I feel talking doesn't bring any conclusion. I thought of never going to their home, I don't know how feasible that is, so my action plan is to never handle her baby and comment on her like : "dont put your baby with me, she will get nazar" . Or if her husband asked why are you not coming, then I will reveal. But I don't know I am getting anxious, something has shifted inside me for good.
I know this is a difficult phase of my life and I am trying for pregnancy can't leave this place until his father's death. I had been away from family in past and that made me more depressed and abandoned as my husband is crazy for his father and he left everything for him! So I couldn't even ask him during all these years of my needs. He was faced by his mother's death and an ailing father so naturally he had a reaction. I had survived a very very difficult phase alone, we both had different journeys for past 4 years. God has been very kind that my job was there throughout to support my family!
Any suggestions on how to deal are appreciated.

So to start off, I'm a Jeep guy, and have been for the last roughly 30 years. In that time, I haven't not owned a Jeep, regardless of whether it was my daily driver.
My kiddo totaled my 2018 Grand Cherokee Trailhawk last month and I've really really struggled to replace her. I know I want another Jeep, and I actually thought about going out and finding another 2018 Jeep GC Trailhawk. My two boys and I travel a ton together - concerts, zoos, outdoor stuff, and we go out West once or twice a year to Utah/Idaho/Wyoming/Montana. The Trailhawk was perfect for that - great on the highway, super stable, fast, enough punch to pass anything, but comfortable enough for my kids or my wife to take a nap in in the back at night. My kids and I have probably been to 100 concerts in that Jeep, and we had lots of really great memories in that thing. I know; it's a hunk of metal, rubber, and plastic. It's stupid to get attached to it, but I did.
So yesterday, my youngest and I were out and we decided to test drive a few Jeeps., and we ended up driving this 2020 Gladiator Sport around town for a bit with the sales guy and I liked it a lot, so I bought it. It was close to closing time, and so I went and picked it up this morning and drove it home. As soon as I got on the Interstate, I thought, "Holy cow, I'm gonna end up in the other lane if I hit another bump." I was doing 72 MPH. I'm normally a 80-95 MPH driver on the Interstate, traffic allowing. You couldn't pay me to do 85 in a Gladiator.
Is it normal for a Gladiator to feel so "floaty" and bounce around? She's got aftermarket tires and rims - maybe 31" or so. They're grippy offroad tires in almost new condition, but I had virtually the same tires on my Dodge Ram Quad Cab a few years ago and they didn't feel floaty and unstable like that. I have bumper to bumper warranty on it, or worst case, I can take it back and get something else - or even nothing at all. I work from home and the only time I really drive is to go to shows and out to the desert or mountains, but holy crap I cannot imagine driving the Gladiator across the country.
Is my expectation unrealistic? I think it probably is. I think I should just probably suck it up and buy a newer Jeep or see if I can find an older Trailhawk again. I don't know.
Thanks in advance for help, advice, mockery, or you're welcome to laugh along with me at me.