Unit 13 page 100 vocab answers
scifi
2008.01.25 07:31 scifi
Science Fiction, or Speculative Fiction if you prefer. Fantasy too. Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, Dick, Heinlein and other SF books. SF movies and TV shows. Fantasy stuff like Tolkien and Game of Thrones. Laser guns, space ships, and time travel. etc. Star Trek, Battlestar, Star Wars, etc.
2014.11.18 15:13 LGHyourinmaru Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
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2024.05.15 09:20 lil_obosen Is it possible for at least partial refunds for motorloans because I got a defective motor?
Ako po ay isang private corporate employee na kumuha ng motor sa isang motorshop. Isaysay ko bullet for bullet ang timeline ko.
- On February 28, inalok kami ng isang bank managers at agent na kumuha ng motor sa kanilang motorshop, naginqure ako via text and na answer naman on the next day.
- Between February 29-March 2 nanood ako ng review vlogs ng motor nga gusto ko. pinapanood ko kung paano magcheck ng motor.
- March 3 nag submit ako ng application form na may kasamang unit na gusto ko. 2 days after partially approve lang kasi lagpas 40% ng sahod ko pinadown ako ng 3k para ma approved ang loan application ko.
4.March 8, 8am pinapunta ako ng isang branch ng motorshop para sa final processing, bayad at pirma. nagtaka ako wala dun ang unit pero sabi ng branch manager andun pa daw sa kabilang branch.
- March 8, 11am andun ako sa kabilang branch at ready na ang unit sa harapan namin sinaksak ang battery. pag On ng motor may trip odo na ng 0.4km na pero hindi ako nagmind. chineck ko sa may radiator pero the moment na papunta ako dyan pinapaalis nila ako. it was done 2times.
- March 8, 9pm after yung party umuwi ako napansin ko namula yung temp keys icon pero nawala din. tapos bumalik nanaman at nawala din kinabahan ako kung ano na ito.
- March 9, chineck ko yung radiator at tumpak may leaks nga. nag msg ako sa kanila at ang sabi ifoforward daw sa manufacturer.
- May 11, 1day after lumabas ang web version ng CR ng motor pinuntahan ko yung motorshop nila andun yung mekaniko around 11am pero nagwait ako until 2pm pero di ako sinipot sabi daw umuwi na sa bahay
- May 13, maaga ako pumunta sa shop at nagdahilan day-off raw. nagpatanto ko tuloy alam na pala niya na defective yung motor ko at di siya bihasa sa manufacturing warranty.
- May 15, sinauli ko na at nagabiso sa bank A and B. ok naman si bank A, si bank B lang maghahanap ng paraan.
nagcheck ako kung anong available na laws at di pala pasok sa lemon law kasi 2 wheels lang. ang na isip ko ay fraud kasi alam ng mekaniko na lemon yung unit kasi may 0.4km na sa odo e. hanap sana ako ng tulong if possible may refunds. andito naman yung resibo at remote codes sa unit na ito. sana may makatulong sa akin salamat~
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2024.05.15 08:29 OkWorld180 Pandit Samarth Swami Ramdas and Shivaji Maharaj.
| Samarth Ramdas, the guru of Shivaji Maharaj, advocated a combination of devotion, meditation and military training. Like many of his contemporaries, he did not believe in pacifism, but he believed in social, political and martial activism. According to him, even saints and other renunciants should not withdraw from society or become indifferent to their environment and surroundings but positively engage in reforming the lives of the members of the society actively and, if necessary, even take to violence for its moral transformation. Shree Samarth Guru Ramdas Swami was a sage of the highest order known for his knowledge of the Parbrahma, his unflinching worship, his unparalleled status as a Guru, his literature, and the tremendous adulation he received from the masses not only during his time but even now. He was born in a village, Jamb, to Suryaji and Ranoobai Thosar. His original name was Narayan. He lost his father at the age of eight, which turned him into an introvert. He became spiritual at a tender age. Then, at the age of 12 years, Bhagwan Sri Ram himself appeared in front of him and advised him to count the 13-lettered Ram tarak Mantra 108 times at least once a day. Then, Bhagwan Sri Ram is said to have accepted him as his own disciple. The former gave him a new name by which he has been known ever since- Ramdas. Such a thing had never happened ever since Bhagwan Sri Ram, who was an incarnation of Bhagwan Vishnu, had left his mortal body thousands of years ago. In his adolescent years, he decided not to get married and went to the holy city, Nasik, where he started his worship of Bhagwan Sri Ram which lasted for 12 years. He did it the hard way, many times remaining without food or water for days together. Every millisecond of this time he spent in the worship of Bhagwan Sri Ram. During this time he was constantly guided from within by Hanuman, the greatest disciple of Bhagwan Sri Ram. After 12 years of extensive Sadhana, he got the blessings of Bhagwan Sri Ram again, and through him, he also got real knowledge. Then, he embarked on a pilgrimage to most of the holy places of India, which he completed in 12 years. During this time, he travelled barefoot. After finishing the pilgrimage, he went back to Mahabaleshwar. Then, at Masur, he celebrated the birthday of Bhagwan Sri Ram, wherein thousands of people took part in religious activities. He started gathering people around him, which was essential for his ultimate goal of establishing the Hindu Dharma in its original form, which was in a shambles because of hundreds of years of Muslim rule in the country. Next year, he found the statues of Bhagwan Sri Ram in the deep waters of the Krishna river near Angapur. He built a temple at Chafal and installed it ceremoniously according to the Hindu tradition. He celebrated the birthday of Bhagwan Sri Ram that year at the newly built temple. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, who had spent his whole life fighting foreign Muslim rulers, Shree Shivaji Maharaj, requested Shree Samarth to accept him as his disciple and knowing him thoroughly well, Shree Samarth immediately consented. Shree Shivaji Maharaj, from this time onwards, always took Shree Samarthās advice in all the important matters. Then Shree Shivaji Maharaj, as a token of respect towards the Guru, offered Shree Samarth his whole kingdom, saying that he would look after it as only a caretaker, but it would belong to Shree Samarth. Shree Samarth was moved by this gesture and praised Shree Shivaji Maharaj but told him that anyhow, he himself, as Parbrahma, was the Atman in Shree Shivaji Maharaj, and hence, this wasnāt required at all. Meanwhile, according to the wishes of Shree Samarth, 11 temples of Sri Hanuman had been established, and the Head Pujaris were appointed. Shree Samarth then went to Jamb as his mother had passed away. After returning back, he went to Karnataka on a Dharmic renaissance mission. On his way to Karnataka, he established a Math in Miraj and appointed a woman disciple, Venabai, as the head Priestess. On reaching Tanjavar, he was received by Vyankojiraje, the King of Tanjavar. He also told Shree Samarth of his desire to become his disciple, to which Shree Samarth consented. At Tanjavar, one of the very revered religious figures, Pundit Raghunath, also became the disciple of Shree Samarth. After coming back to Sajjangad, Shree Samarth started writing his epic, āDasbodhaā. He also established a temple of the Goddess at the Pratap Fort. Shivaji Maharaj used to visit him frequently for advice, and seeing this discipleās qualities, Shree Samarth told him the crux of the ultimate knowledge that one has to acquire to merge with the Parbrahma. He then completed the remaining chapters of the Dasbodha. After the death of Shivaji Maharaj, he wrote a letter to the heir to the throne, Sambhaji (Shivajiās son), which is considered a milestone by even todayās political scientists. With his job of the Hindu renaissance done, Shree Samarth left his mortal body and finally united with the Parbrahma, ending a life which was so multifaceted that without his mention, almost no field can be considered as complete. He left his mortal body at Sajjangad at the age of 73 years. He preached activism for both the saints and the laity and upheld the view that laziness leads to temporary, ephemeral pleasures, but hard work leads to perennial happiness. He encouraged the youth to revolt individually and collectively against the prevalent ills in society, such as oppressors, aggressors, and looters. He cajoled them to exercise regularly and become physically strong, as the weak are incapable of purging the evils from society. He argued that only the strong and those with a fighting spirit would be able to establish the rule of Dharma or righteousness. They alone can perform their duty towards society, its culture and values and gladly accept martyrdom if need be. The aim of the army of such a youth would be to establish a free and independent society, ānot for narrow selfish individual gains but for upholding the moral and spiritual principles of societyā. These teachings were based on his observations of the conditions, lifestyle and mindset of the then-Bharatiya society. After attaining his emancipation, Sant Ramdas undertook extensive travels to various pilgrimage centres all over India for twelve years. During these travels, he closely studied the social, political and economic conditions of Indians and noticed their utter helplessness in life. He observed that āthe frequent floods and famines and the attacks by the Muslims whenever they wished, which were actually helped by our own people, had destroyed the society and social life of the people. Everyone was scared and depressed. From his experiences, he realised that there could be no healthy growth and return of Dharma in society until foreign rule persisted. Based on these experiences, he wrote two books, titled Asmani Sultani and Parachakraniroopan, detailing his minute observations about the common man. These are the only two books in the whole of Sant literature in India which describe and record the condition of the people in those times. It is reported in Panjah Sakhian and Ramdas Swamichi Bakhar that during his travel through the Garhwal hills, he met the sixth of the ten Sikh Gurus, Shri Guru Hargobind Sahib. In his conversation with the Guru, Ramdas asked, āI had heard that you occupy Guru Nanakās gaddi (seat). Guru Nanak was a sadhu who had left all material things, a saint who had renounced the world. You possess arms and keep an army and horses. You allow yourself to be addressed as Sacha Patshah, the true king. What sort of a sadhu are you?ā Hargobind replied, āBatan faquiri, zahir amiri, shastar garib ki rakhya, jarwan ki bhakhiya, Baba Nanak sansar nahi tyagya, maya tyagi thi.ā In other words, āInternally a hermit and externally a prince; arms for the protection of the poor and destruction of the tyrant; Baba Guru Nanak had not renounced the world but renounced maya (wealth/luxury).ā It is claimed that these words of Guru Hargobind earned a spontaneous response from Ramdas, who reportedly said, āYeh hamare man bhavti haiā (This appeals to my mind).ā The above meeting is probably the reason Swami Ramdas highlighted the warriorās role in society. When he finally settled down in Chafal, he engaged himself in the resuscitation of Hindu culture and values, which had deteriorated owing to several centuries of foreign rule. To bring together the Hindus and spread his teaching among them, he installed a statue of Shri Ram and started celebrating the festival of Ram Janmotsava (birth of Bhagwan Ram) on Ram Navami. He established temples of Hanuman in towns and villages to convey the importance of exercise to the youth and taught them to get together and fight the enemy. He firmly believed that whenever the nation is in peril and the cultural, moral and ethical values of its people are in grave danger of extinction, spiritual leaders must put their spiritual aspirations and individual effort of personal salvation on the back burner. Till the time such threats are over, they should direct all their efforts to meet the challenges confronting the nation. He started Samartha, a sect of sannyasins with high moral character and no personal ambition. These sannyasins had an intense desire to change the prevailing conditions of society through political and belligerent means. They were first answerable to God, and then to the society or their nation. He argued that āsaints were not those who prayed silently but those who with their piety, knowledge and strength would cast aside their aloofness and help people in distressā. He established mathas or holy places for them. These mathas provided an atmosphere which synthesised social work, politics and spirituality for the benefit of society. Samarth Guru Ramdas worked actively for the equality of all ā men and women. He abhorred the distinctions based on caste and creed and vigorously engaged himself in the task of abolishing the fourfold classification. He reprimanded those who opposed the participation of women in religious, social and political work. He chided such men by arguing that everyone came from a womanās womb, and those who did not understand the importance of this were unworthy of being called men. He upheld that respecting the role of women and giving them equal status was good for the growth of a healthy society. According to him, granting women equal status as men is a prerequisite for social development. In the mathas established by him he encouraged the participation of women and offered them positions of authority. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was one of his ardent disciples. Shivaji wanted to leave his kingdom and devote himself fully to the service of Swami Ramadas. Once, when Ramadas was on his regular begging sprees, Shivaji dropped a letter in Ramdasās begging bowl, giving his kingdom to Samarth Ramdas. However, Ramdas told Shivaji that his duty was not to become a sanyasi but to serve the people, rule his kingdom according to Dharma, and protect temples and people from the atrocities of foreign rulers. He asked Shivaji to rule as his regent, to take the gerua chaddar for his banner and defend its honour with his life. He had to think of himself as a trustee and not as an owner. For his acts of commission and omission, he was accountable to God. Shivaji, as a faithful disciple, took the padukas (slippers) of Samarth Ramdas, kept them on the throne, and followed his instructions to the core. submitted by OkWorld180 to Brahmanraaj [link] [comments] |
2024.05.15 07:57 TwoToOblivion Data Management - Applications - D427 (Dan's Guide)
Start Date/End Date: 4/19/24 - 05/13/24 (~3 Weeks)
Study Time: 10-20 Hours
Coaching Report Overview:
As many of you probably will, I took this class immediately after D426. I thought I was gonna finish this class much quicker than I did. Most of the reason it took me longer was due to unrelated things occurring in my life, but I digress. If D426 is the "why' behind SQL, this class is the "how." The exam is 25 questions long and more than half of those questions will have you actually writing SQL statements. This was a big adjustment because when studying for D426, I didn't do any labs. Writing SQL statements was something that took a while to "click," but when it did, things got a lot easier. Knowing when to use quotes, parentheses, and commas was my main issue.
Studying:
I recommend using the Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 labs in Zybooks. If you need to, you can also read over Chapters 1 & 2, but the labs should be your main focus. These labs are very similar to the questions in the Pre-Assesment, which was similar to the Objective assessment. When I first did these labs, I would look over the corresponding lesson and try to answer them on my own. 9/10 times, my statement was wrong. I then checked
this quizlet for the correct statements (since Zybooks won't tell you). I would review it and try and figure out why their statement was correct and why mine was wrong. I went over all the labs at least 3-4 times before taking the Pre-Assesment. Once I took the Pre-Assesment, I used
ChatGPT to get the correct answers for the questions I missed (since once again, you can't see what the right answers are). Be aware that in my experience, there are a couple of questions on the PA (and probably even the OA) where you can answer the question 100% correctly but still be marked wrong because you didn't do it the way
they wanted you to. This is my biggest issue with this class and I really hope this gets fixed.
Exam:
As for the exam, my biggest piece of advice is to run a second statement to check your answers. If you have a question where you need to create a table, add columns, or update data types and need to review the Columns/Data types, run a second statement where you type
DESCRIBE
table_name If you have a question where you're inserting/changing/updating rows & values and want to see the data within a table, run a second statement where you type.
SELECT *
FROM
table_name You can also do this before and after your initial statement to ensure that the data actually changed. If you do this,
MAKE SURE TO DELETE THE SECOND STATEMENT AFTER TESTING IT. I also ran my code again after deleting it just to be safe. If you don't delete your statement, the question will probably be marked entirely wrong. Also, don't worry about this taking up your time, you get like 4 hours for this exam.
In addition to what's in the labs, you should how to write different aggregate functions (Min, Max, Sum, etc.) and how to delete a table entirely. There are also multiple-choice questions, but it's probably less than 10. If you passed D426, these shouldn't be a huge deal. They'll probably be similar to the ones that appeared on the PA.
Conclusion: I actually grew to sort of enjoy writing SQL statements after this class. However, the questions can be very tedious and I don't believe there is much partial credit. You have to be very careful not to make any typos and to answer the question how you think they want you to answer it. I think this class would work far better as a Performance-Assesment rather than an objective one. Something where you have to create a project in SQL would be much more enjoyable in my opinion. But as of right now, as long as you review and understand the labs and Pre-assessment, you should be able to pass this one.
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2024.05.15 07:56 readingitnowagain Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott defeats former Mayor Sheila Dixon in primary contest, making Mayor Scott the foregone favorite to hold the Mayorship against African American Republican Shannon Wright who's barely pulling 1,000 votes.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/05/14/scott-dixon-campaigning-primary-maryland-baltimore/ By Emily Opilo
eopilo@baltsun.com PUBLISHED: May 14, 2024 at 3:51 p.m. UPDATED: May 15, 2024 at 12:56 a.m.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott declared victory in his bid for reelection Tuesday after opening what appeared to be an insurmountable lead over his chief opponent, former Mayor Sheila Dixon.
The Associated Press called the race for Scott at 11:24 p.m. Taking the stage minutes later at his South Baltimore election night party, Scott thanked Dixon for running a hard-fought campaign, but said it was time to āturn the page.ā
āI think itās safe to say weāre destined for a second term,ā Scott said, prompting loud applause from a celebratory crowd.
Dixon, who left her party before 11 p.m., said before her departure that the race was too close to call.
After Scott declared victory, Dixon spokesman Luca Amayo said that āregardless of how the votes fall, there will always be people in the city who consider Sheila Dixon the forever mayor of Baltimore.ā
The race pitted the first-term Scott against Dixon, the cityās mayor of three years, in a rematch of the 2020 contest that put Scott in office. Both are Democrats.
This time, the field was half the size of the crowded 2020 race and the upper tier of candidates shrank. Former prosecutor Thiru Vignarajah dropped out of the race in the first week of May, less than 24 hours ahead of the start of early voting. Businessman Bob Wallace, an independent candidate for mayor in 2020, ran this time as a Democrat, but failed to gain traction.
Returns from the early voting period, mail-in ballots cast ahead of the election, and almost all of the cityās 295 precincts showed Scott with 50.9% of votes cast to Dixonās 41.3% ā a difference of about 6,200 votes. Vignarajah, who exited the race too late to remove his name from the ballot, still received 3% of the preliminary vote. The returns do not include at least 13,500 mail-in ballots that have yet to be counted by the Baltimore Board of Elections.
When early returns first became public, Dixon jumped to an early lead. However, Scott quickly became the frontrunner and continued to widen his margin Tuesday night as additional returns from primary day were posted.
Cheers broke out at Scottās party at Baltimore Peninsula earlier Tuesday as initial returns hit two television screens showing Scott slightly ahead of Dixon. Diana Turner danced joyfully as video clips of Scott played on the newscasts. Turner admitted she was unnerved to see the numbers so close between Scott and Dixon, but said she learned from Scottās previous campaign that initial figures donāt tell the whole story.
āItās going to fluctuate depending on where the polls are,ā she said.
Dixon supporters said they expected the race to be close and the early returns gave them hope that she could, unlike last time, end up victorious.
āI think it was too soon last time,ā said Kim Bangs, 64, of Canton said of Dixonās 2020 bid for the office.
The city board of elections tallied about 11,700 mail-in ballots from Democratic voters ahead of primary day. The canvassing of remaining mail-in ballots will not resume until Thursday.
The 2024 mayoral contest, like many before it, focused heavily on crime. Scott touted the cityās reduction in homicides in 2023 ā fewer than 300 people were killed for the first time in nearly a decade. Dixon argued Scott focused only on the homicide rate, allowing quality-of-life crimes to go unaddressed and chasing residents from the city.
Scott, 40, and Dixon, 70, represent different generations of City Hall leadership, but at times, their plans converged. Dixonās crime plan, rolled out in January, called for a focused deterrence model of policing which would attempt to identify violent offenders and offer social supports in an effort to redirect them. Scott implemented a similar program, known as the Group Violence Reduction Strategy. That approach, piloted in the Baltimore Police Departmentās Western District and since expanded, aims to intercept those vulnerable to becoming shooters or victims and provide social supports. The mayor credits it in part for the reduction in homicides.
Both Scott and Dixonās housing plans call for tax increment financing or āTIFsā to be used in various neighborhoods to address vacant properties.
Dixon and Scott opted to cast their ballots in person Tuesday morning, Dixon near her Hunting Ridge home in West Baltimore and Scott in his Northeast Baltimore neighborhood. Dixon said she was āat peaceā as she entered her polling place at Thomas Jefferson Elementary. Scott carried 5-month-old son, Charm Scott, nestled in a car seat into his polling place at Engine House 56.
Some heavy-hitters threw their support behind both candidates, wagering political capital on the close race. Democratic Stateās Attorney Ivan Bates joined Dixonās cause, endorsing the former mayor and calling Scott out for what Bates said was a lack of partnership between the prosecutorās office and Scottās City Hall. Sheriff Sam Cogen, too, said Scott has failed to be a partner to his office.
U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen both backed Scott, as did numerous unions that represent city employees. Some, like the unions representing the cityās firefighters, took shots at Dixonās treatment of the fire department during her time in office. Unions backed a PAC that supported Scott with voter outreach and online advertising.
Scott led in fundraising and spending, dropping almost $1 million on the contest since the start of the year. Dixon has spent $653,100 since January. A PAC supporting Dixonās campaign (funded in large part David Smith, a co-owner of The Baltimore Sun and chairman of Sinclair Broadcasting Group) supplemented Dixonās effort, running ads that tried to paint Scott as an inexperienced leader. Scottās ads sought to remind residents of Dixonās criminal past. She was forced to leave office in 2010 after an embezzlement conviction.
The results of the race showed Vignarajahās exit did little to tighten the contest. Running his fourth campaign for citywide office in the last seven years, Vignarajah threw his support to Dixon after conversations with the camps of both leading contenders. Scott said afterward that Vignarajah asked to be named police chief or CEO of city schools in exchange for his support. Dixon said no deal was made with Vignarajah for a job, although she declined to discuss potential positions in her administration that he may have suggested. Vignarajah said he offered to be āhelpfulā to the Dixon administration.
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2024.05.15 07:32 Scared-Confusion1407 my letter
believe it or not, i dont want to die sad. but how does one die feeling happy? feeling at peace? i too do not know how, but i want to try to find the answer today. i want to sleep forever, now. so i want to try my best to give you a brief recap of how ive been suicidal and depressed till now.
to be honest i didnt know how it exactly started. when did i feel depressed? no, scratch that. when did i feel sad for no reason? ninth grade. i cant remember the specifics now, but i do remember trying to drown myself, my first attempt of suicide, because of my grades. i was 13, i felt hopeless, my mom got mad at me, and we didnt have the closeness of our relationship that we have now. i became more sad when i reached my senior year of high school, grades 11 and 12. i had my first heartbreak (cliche as it sounds) and i sabotaged all my friendships. i was a bad friend, i was getting into smoking and drinking--i made both of them my coping mechanism. i spent my days lying in bed, crying in the mornings before school started inside the bathroom stalls, i skipped classes and traveled on my own and smoke and drink--people believed i was 18. but i was 16. i was 16, but i felt like my inner machinery was already tarnished. i chased love but turned away the second they showed me that they liked me. i ran away from my friends and used them for my own benefit because i was 'sad' and that they should 'know' that because they were my 'friends'. but no. nobody deserves that kind of treatment. i was never saved that time, never told anyone how i truly felt. but when i did tell i immediately regretted it because they never understood my weight of emotions; i felt invalidated.
freshman year of college rolled through and i thought i was doing fine, but i wasn't. i wanted to be so much that i ended up overexerting myself. when it finally became too heavy for me i stayed out late, drank again, spent the night with my friends and didn't come home. the next day i told my mom that i had this urge to be alone, to disappear, and that my emotions were all so heavy that i was becoming more sad everyday that even i didn't know the reason. before i could say i wanted help, she told me instead the opposites of what i have been saying. 'ah, this must be what invalidation feels like' i thought, and thats when i knew that really, no one will understand what im going through. its the pandemic now, 2020 and im turning 18, the age of adulthood. funny enough months before that i told myself that i wanted to die, and that there was a bleach ready in out bathroom for me to try out. i thought back then, dying at 18 would be nice because it would spare me the pains of adulthood. my birthday came, i felt heavy when i woke up; i finally decided, you know. my mind was made up. but then i woke up and i hear my dad calling my mom on the phone and asking her if i was already awake, my mom sounded giddy, excited, and told my dad that i haven't woke up yet and that there's too much food on the table she's excited on how ill react. i cried. they were downstairs celebrating my birthday but i was stuck in bed thinking of ways to unalive myself. in the end i came down, wiped my tears, celebrated my birthday normally, posed for some pictures, and called it a day. that was the day i started dreading having to celebrate my birthday. same year, october, i called the suicide hotline with pills in my hand, ready to end it all. long story short, more shit happened. called the hotline, texted my cousin i was gonna die, she then called her parents then said parents called my mom. mom caught me, we cried so hard, i told her everything. we became closer then. she was my best friend and still is, and it pains me that im not the best daughter and friend she has. i wanted to take a break from school then, i wanted to see a shrink, but guess what, nothing happened. i went back to classes like nothing happened. my emotions werent compensated. i was doing everything with a broken mind. no one around me talked to me about what happened, only i relived it. i preferred if they talked to me about it, i preferred if i took a break for a while, it would have been nice to talk to someone about, talk about this unending sadness that im feeling; if i did then maybe i could be a tiny bit better. but no. i gave every feeling i had for free.
4 years passed and im still here. what am i now? things were good two years ago, but how about now? i still sabotaged everything, while trying to fix things aside. i tried to live life, but my anxiety just got worse; heck i didnt even have anxiety before. i had everything planned out three years ago, now im lost again. i dont have someone to talk to, i ruined the friendships i built with trust. i ruined my relationships with everyone and i act like the victim in my head. im a fucked up person and i wonder if my sadness and melancholy justifies all this. everyday i live with a weight on my shoulder. id say i want to try my best today with a lump on my throat. i tell my mom im having fun but then i turn to a socially awkward girl alone. i tell her im doing fine but i really want to jump off our unit. im becoming a threat to myself, im becoming so lost that i need something to believe in again. im so lonely, im so alone, but i pushed away everyone else. maybe this is all im meant to be, really. i dont think the blues will ever me leave me, ive been accustomed to feeling sad and hurt all the time that im scared of being happy. does it even suit me?
i need help. i really need to figure out whats wrong with me. ive always yearned for help. i gaslighted myself a year ago that i didnt need it anymore, i still do. but what will i do when no ones listening to me? when my parents care about imagery rather than my wellbeing? when they care about other people telling them that their daughters 'fucked in the head', well i am. and to the people who tells me that i am, well i am, and probably you guys are and your children feels the same too.
what will the girl who dreamed of becoming a beautician think about the girl who i am now? what will my other selves say about me? ill forever mourn the girl who i wanted to be. the writer, the poet, someone who writes for a living and just sits down in her room with a view. i could also work in a library or in a museum, where i could stare at art and write about it. i want to write. and im sorry lola that i didnt get to finish the story i was writing for you. im sorry im not becoming someone you wished to be. im sorry to everyone who i let down. to my mom, you really are my best friend and im thankful to everything youve done for me, and the little things youve done to make me feel better. to my dad, thank you for the sacrifices you made for us, for my education, despite not being there physically. but you know, i had a lot of trauma growing up and carrying them now because of you two. my social anxiety, the way im afraid to speak up, when im asked about something i dont respond, because everything feels like a wrong answer. and a wrong answer always equates to screaming and shouting and punishing me physically for discipline. but dont worry, i guess, i tried to accept it with love. love equals hate, after all. the two of you did your best, but im sorry. i just want to sleep now.
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2024.05.15 07:01 DocWatson42 The List of Lists/The Master List
My lists are always being updated and expanded when new information comes ināwhat did I miss or am I unaware of (even if the thread predates my membership in Reddit), and what needs correction? Even (especially) if I get a subreddit or date wrong. (Note that, other than the quotation marks, the thread titles are "sic". I only change the quotation marks to match the standard usage (double to single, etc.) when I add my own quotation marks around the threads' titles.)
The lists are in absolute ascending chronological order by the posting date, and if need be the time of the initial post, down to the minute (or second, if requiredāthere are several examples of this). The dates are in DD MMMM YYYY format per personal preference, and times are in US Eastern Time ("ET") since that's how they appear to me, and I'm not going to go to the trouble of converting to another time zone. They are also in twenty-four hour format, as that's what I prefer, and it saves the trouble and confusion of a.m. and p.m. Where the same user posts the same request to different subreddits, I note the user's name in order to indicate that I am aware of the duplication.
Thread lengths: longish (50ā99 posts)/long (100ā199 posts)/very long (200ā299 posts)/extremely long (300ā399 posts)/huge (400+ posts) (though not all threads are this strictly classified, especially ones before mid?-2023, though I am updating shorter lists as I repost them); they are in lower case to prevent their confusion with the name "Long" and are the first notation after a thread's information.
See also
The List of Lists/The Master List of recommendation lists.
- "Good military sci fi books or series like Starship Troopers or Old Man's War." (scifi; 8 July 2013)āextremely long
- "Space Naval Combat Suggestions?" (printSF; March 2014)
- "Medieval/fantasy war" (booksuggestions; August 2021)
- "Series similar to Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet or William R. Forschtens Lost Regiment?" (printSF; 1 February 2022)
- "looking for recommendations" (printSF; 7 April 2022)
- "Looking for books about Modern military against magic" (printSF; 13 April 2022)
- "military scifi without the alpha male b.s ?" (printSF; 25 April 2022)āvery long
- "Books about training kids for war?" (printSF; 15 May 2022)
- "any good post-apocalyptic military stories?" (printSF; 16 May 2022)ālongish
- "Smart military leaders in fiction?" (Fantasy; 8 June 2022)āextremely long
- "Thalassocracy SF?" (printSF; 21 June 2022; i.e. maritime/naval)
- "Looking for military SF that features a siege" (printSF; 22 June 2022)
- "Stories about conflict between Dwarves & Humans?" (Fantasy; 9 July 2022)
- "Military fantasy suggestion rome/dark ages, little to no religion" (Fantasy; 13 July 2022)
- "Any military sci-fi by people who understand the military? Preferable Stand-alone." (printSF; 21:01 ET, 23 July 2022)ālongish; standalone works
- "Any good fantasy books about army building or leading an army?" (Fantasy; 16:45 ET, 23 July 2022)
- "Glen Cook Appreciation Club" (Fantasy; 2ā3 August 2022; three-post subthread)
- "Military Sci fi but i read most of the well known ones :S" (booksuggestions; 27 July 2022)
- "Read a Man in a Powered Suit Series and Can't Remember the Title or Author." (printSF; 09:34 ET, 4 August 2022)āpowered armor
- "Fantasy book with magic and large-scale medieval war in a realistic-ish setting." (OPost archive) (Fantasy; 18:34 ET, 4 August 2022)
- "Books where mc is a new recruit" (Fantasy; 6 August 2022)
- "Space war book with ships based on purpose, not size?" (printSF; 10 August 2022)
- "Military Sci-Fi recommendations?" (scifi; 16 August 2022)ālongish
- "Recommendations for Mercs/mechs/power armor" (printSF; 17 August 2022)
- "Series with a human-dwarf war?" (Fantasy; 24 August 2022)
- "What's the best space-ship battle you've ever read?" (printSF; 08:50 ET, 25 August 2022)āvery long
- "Unconventional military sci-fi?" (printSF; 10:18 ET, 25 August 2022)ālong
- "Any near-future military science fiction that doesn't involve aliens?" (OPost archive) (printSF; 27 August 2022)
- "Anything out there that portrays realistic military life?" (Fantasy; 18:34 ET, 4 September 2022)ālong
- "What are the best fictional military units?" (Fantasy; 01:17 ET, 4 September 2022)āhuge
- "MilSF for my dad undergoing chemo" (printSF; 20 September 2022)ālong
- "Looking for Military Sci-Fi that isnāt totally mindless or really problematic" (printSF; 17 October 2022)ālong
- "Sci-Fi/Fantasy War Novels?" (booksuggestions; 17 October 2022)ālong
- "Fantasy series with well-written battles and impressive/unexpected tactics and war strategies?" (Fantasy; 30 November 2022)
- "SF story recommendations" (printSF; 06:35 ET, 2 January 2023)ā"epic space battles, especially big fleet vs fleet combat"
- "Recommendations for military fantasy" (Fantasy; 12:52 ET, 2 January 2023)āvery long
- "ship to ship battles" (printSF; 7 January 2023)ālongish
- "Looking for some heroic military scifi" (suggestmeabook; 10 January 2023)
- "Culture or Xeelee with action" (printSF; 11 January 2023)
- "Communist Military Scifi?" (printSF; 13 January 2023)ālong
- "Military sci-fi recommendations? (Star Wars, Halo, other alternate sci-fi universes)" (booksuggestions; 19 January 2023)ālongish
- "SciFi books like Red Storm Rising and Team Yankee" (printSF; 21 January 2023)
- "Military Sci-Book Recommendedations? (Other than Starship Troopers as I've already read it)" (scifi; 24 January 2023)āhuge
- "Military SciFi Books Recommendations" (scifi; 0:18 ET, 6 February 2023)ālong
- "Best military and military themed fantasy series written by authors who have actually seen combat?" (Fantasy; 09:53 ET, 6 February 2023)ālong
- "Hard SF about the very early days of a space Navy?" (printSF; 28 February 2023)
- "What to read - I'm a bit lost" (printSF; 1 March 2023)
- "Books with good battle scenes?" (suggestmeabook; 1 March 2023)
- "Military SciFi where two human factions fight against each other, but with both factions being relatable to" (suggestmeabook; 06:31 ET, 12 March 2023)
- "Are there any modern WW3 books?" (printSF; 22:27 ET, 12 March 2023)
- "Mil Sci-Fi with common Gigaton weapons" (printSF; 22:27 ET, 12 March 2023)
- "Military SciFi recommendations?" (printSF; 12 April 2023)ālong
- "Looking for a Sci-fi fantasy book very similar to the Gears of war series" (booksuggestions; 27 April 2023)
- "Mil Sci fi with horror elements." (printSF; 30 April 2023)ālongish
- "Fantasy-Based Military Books?" (suggestmeabook; 6 May 2023)
- "Looking for specific kind of military fantasy" (Fantasy; 11 May 2023)āWorld War II or similar
- "Searching for an alien invasion book mil sci-fi where the humans are willing to fight dirty." (printSF; 18 May 2023)ālongish
- "Interesting(?) space battles" (scifi; 19 May 2023)
- "Looking for military SF, but not..." (printSF; 23 May 2023)ālongish
- "Military fantasy recommendations" (Fantasy; 24 May 2023)ālongish
- "Best reluctant military leader in fantasy?" (Fantasy; 12:59 ET, 4 June 2023)āvery long
- "Space opera and/or military sci-fi that have an emphasis on the emotional impacts of the conflict." (printSF; 16:13 ET, 4 June 2023)
- "Looking for some light military sci-fi or fantasy recs." (printSF; 20 June 2023)ālongish
- "Fantasy books with charismastic, genius leaders like Napoleon?" (booksuggestions; 23:35 ET, 20 June 2023)āu\Hiretsuna_Ketsuruki
- "Fantasy books with charismastic, genius leaders like Napoleon?" (suggestmeabook; 23:34 ET, 20 June 2023)āu\Hiretsuna_Ketsuruki
- "[REC] Fantasy books with charismastic, genius leaders like Napoleon?" (Fantasy; 23:38 ET, 20 June 2023)āu\Hiretsuna_Ketsuruki
- "Any good books like the Mass Effect series?" (printSF; 22 June 2023)ālong
- "Recent events of the western world notwithstanding, what are some of the best rebellions in fantasy?" (Fantasy; 24 June 2023)
- "Any WW1/WW2 inspired fantasy recommendations?" (Fantasy; 25 June 2023)
- "Books Where Following The Chain of Command Is a Good Thing" (printSF; 8 July 2023)ālongish
- "Looking for a Sci-Fi book where Humans are at war with terrifying aliens" (printSF; 11 July 2023)
- "Story about rebellion or overthrowing an empire like Andor?" (Fantasy; 16 July 2023)
- "Hopeless War books?" (printSF; 31 July 2023)
- "Recently blew through the Honor Harrington series and loved it. Looking for similar." (printSF; 1 August 2023)ālongish
- "Book Advice: Looking for military sci-fi" (scifi; 1 August 2023)ālongish
- "Looking for military SF with marines inspired by Roman legions" (scifi; 1 August 2023)āidentification request
- "I've finished Shadow Campaigns, Powdermage + Sequel, Guns of the Dawn, any suggestions for what to read next?" (Fantasy; 8 August 2023)
- "Military Book Recs" (scifi; 9 August 2023)
- "I want to get into reading again! Suggest me some good rebellion stories please!" (suggestmeabook; 27 August 2023)
- "Military/general sci-fi with tragic themes or tones?" (printSF; 29 August 2023)
- "Stories (preferably on KU) where humanity genocides back" (printSF; 10 September 2023)
- "Looking for a book example of realistic space battles" (scifi; 27 October 2023)āextremely long
- "Best Fantasy Series with brilliant strategist/military general MC?" (Fantasy; 6 February 2024)āvery long
- "How would you do war against a post scarcity civilization?" (scifi; 25 February 2024)ālong
- "Books with a war against extragalactic invaders" (printSF; 20 March 2024)
- "Standalone military sf book" (printSF; 26 March 2024)
- "Books about human rebellion after Earth has been conquered by extra terrestrials?" (printSF; 25 March 2024)āextremely long
- "Need book recommendations" (printSF; 14 Ma7 2024)
Related:
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2024.05.15 06:57 RedditVaccineInjury More evidence that pro-vaxxers are some weird cult of sadomasochistic doofuses
Per the CDC, the vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission, after
lying several times about that issue. You are
trading natural immunity for temporary ersatz immunity that will likely lead to other autoimmune issues on a long enough time line.
Vaccinated died more in clinical trials than with a placebo.
In the modern era, it is rare to suffer permanent disability or death from measles in the United States. Between 1900 and 1963, the mortality rate of measles dropped from 13.3 per 100,000 to 0.2 per 100,000 in the population, due to advancements in living conditions, nutrition, and health careā a 98% decline (Fig. 1).2,5 Malnutrition, especially vitamin A deficiency, is a primary cause of about 90,000 measles deaths annually in underdeveloped nations.6 In the U.S. and other developed countries, 75ā92% of hospitalized measles cases are low in vitamin A.7,8 https://physiciansforinformedconsent.org/measles-disease-information-statement.pdf Be Very Afraid? CDC, Big Media Drum Up Fear of āDeadlyā Measles Outbreaks
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defendecdc-big-media-fear-measles-outbreaks/ An Italian study found that if you get measles, your immunity is lifelong, whereas your immunity after getting the two doses of the measles vaccine declines within 10-15 years. This paper looked at the recent experience with measles in the U.S. (2002-2016) and reported there were 1,018 measles hospitalizations over that 14-year period. That is 73 hospitalizations per year. There were a total of 34 deaths or about 2.4 deaths per year. That is out of a population of 327 million people. So your chances of dying from measles in the U.S. were about 1 in 136 million. We are told that globally measles is a huge deal. Like any disease, itās certainly a bigger deal if you are poor and donāt get enough to eat. However, in 2019, the World Health Organization reported 839 cases in 23 states comprising 328 million people, thus making the rate about 1 in 391,000. Itās true that kids in poor countries can die from measles, yet they also die from everything else that kills poor, malnourished people living in countries without clean water, sanitation or functioning healthcare systems. The amount of cases of measles
declined by 98% before a vaccine was ever introduced in the 60s.
Unvaccinated children are healthier across the board. Flu vaccines do not prevent transmission or infection There is
study after
study after
study finding that children without vaccines are healthier.
Elaborate breakdown of how widespread vaccination data is misrepresented in scientific papers.
Peer-reviewed studies on Mercury Aluminum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSgk5m3tds0&t=1387s (explanation of the research, essential to watch if you want to dismiss scientific articles for not being big enough)
https://aacijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13223-018-0305-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep31578 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep06287 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0946672X21000523?via%3Dihub#tbl0005 https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/imaging-aluminium-in-human-brain submitted by
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2024.05.15 06:55 RedditVaccineInjury More evidence that pro-vaxxers are silly
Per the CDC, the vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission, after
lying several times about that issue. You are
trading natural immunity for temporary ersatz immunity that will likely lead to other autoimmune issues on a long enough time line.
Vaccinated died more in clinical trials than with a placebo.
In the modern era, it is rare to suffer permanent disability or death from measles in the United States. Between 1900 and 1963, the mortality rate of measles dropped from 13.3 per 100,000 to 0.2 per 100,000 in the population, due to advancements in living conditions, nutrition, and health careā a 98% decline (Fig. 1).2,5 Malnutrition, especially vitamin A deficiency, is a primary cause of about 90,000 measles deaths annually in underdeveloped nations.6 In the U.S. and other developed countries, 75ā92% of hospitalized measles cases are low in vitamin A.7,8 https://physiciansforinformedconsent.org/measles-disease-information-statement.pdf Be Very Afraid? CDC, Big Media Drum Up Fear of āDeadlyā Measles Outbreaks
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defendecdc-big-media-fear-measles-outbreaks/ An Italian study found that if you get measles, your immunity is lifelong, whereas your immunity after getting the two doses of the measles vaccine declines within 10-15 years. This paper looked at the recent experience with measles in the U.S. (2002-2016) and reported there were 1,018 measles hospitalizations over that 14-year period. That is 73 hospitalizations per year. There were a total of 34 deaths or about 2.4 deaths per year. That is out of a population of 327 million people. So your chances of dying from measles in the U.S. were about 1 in 136 million. We are told that globally measles is a huge deal. Like any disease, itās certainly a bigger deal if you are poor and donāt get enough to eat. However, in 2019, the World Health Organization reported 839 cases in 23 states comprising 328 million people, thus making the rate about 1 in 391,000. Itās true that kids in poor countries can die from measles, yet they also die from everything else that kills poor, malnourished people living in countries without clean water, sanitation or functioning healthcare systems. The amount of cases of measles
declined by 98% before a vaccine was ever introduced in the 60s.
Unvaccinated children are healthier across the board. Flu vaccines do not prevent transmission or infection There is
study after
study after
study finding that children without vaccines are healthier.
Elaborate breakdown of how widespread vaccination data is misrepresented in scientific papers.
Peer-reviewed studies on Mercury Aluminum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSgk5m3tds0&t=1387s (explanation of the research, essential to watch if you want to dismiss scientific articles for not being big enough)
https://aacijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13223-018-0305-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep31578 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep06287 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0946672X21000523?via%3Dihub#tbl0005 https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/imaging-aluminium-in-human-brain submitted by
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2024.05.15 06:54 RedditVaccineInjury More evidence that pro-vaxxers should be sterilized
Per the CDC, the vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission, after
lying several times about that issue. You are
trading natural immunity for temporary ersatz immunity that will likely lead to other autoimmune issues on a long enough time line.
Vaccinated died more in clinical trials than with a placebo.
In the modern era, it is rare to suffer permanent disability or death from measles in the United States. Between 1900 and 1963, the mortality rate of measles dropped from 13.3 per 100,000 to 0.2 per 100,000 in the population, due to advancements in living conditions, nutrition, and health careā a 98% decline (Fig. 1).2,5 Malnutrition, especially vitamin A deficiency, is a primary cause of about 90,000 measles deaths annually in underdeveloped nations.6 In the U.S. and other developed countries, 75ā92% of hospitalized measles cases are low in vitamin A.7,8 https://physiciansforinformedconsent.org/measles-disease-information-statement.pdf Be Very Afraid? CDC, Big Media Drum Up Fear of āDeadlyā Measles Outbreaks
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defendecdc-big-media-fear-measles-outbreaks/ An Italian study found that if you get measles, your immunity is lifelong, whereas your immunity after getting the two doses of the measles vaccine declines within 10-15 years. This paper looked at the recent experience with measles in the U.S. (2002-2016) and reported there were 1,018 measles hospitalizations over that 14-year period. That is 73 hospitalizations per year. There were a total of 34 deaths or about 2.4 deaths per year. That is out of a population of 327 million people. So your chances of dying from measles in the U.S. were about 1 in 136 million. We are told that globally measles is a huge deal. Like any disease, itās certainly a bigger deal if you are poor and donāt get enough to eat. However, in 2019, the World Health Organization reported 839 cases in 23 states comprising 328 million people, thus making the rate about 1 in 391,000. Itās true that kids in poor countries can die from measles, yet they also die from everything else that kills poor, malnourished people living in countries without clean water, sanitation or functioning healthcare systems. The amount of cases of measles
declined by 98% before a vaccine was ever introduced in the 60s.
Unvaccinated children are healthier across the board. Flu vaccines do not prevent transmission or infection There is
study after
study after
study finding that children without vaccines are healthier.
Elaborate breakdown of how widespread vaccination data is misrepresented in scientific papers.
Peer-reviewed studies on Mercury Aluminum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSgk5m3tds0&t=1387s (explanation of the research, essential to watch if you want to dismiss scientific articles for not being big enough)
https://aacijournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13223-018-0305-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep31578 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep06287 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0946672X21000523?via%3Dihub#tbl0005 https://drchristopherexley.substack.com/p/imaging-aluminium-in-human-brain submitted by
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2024.05.15 06:37 ButteredPickle Joker Idea: The Inverter
Effect: Inverse the effect of surrounding jokers (immediate left and right)
Below is a list of how this joker would effect other jokers. I have bolded the changes to each effect to make it easier to see what is different.
I have italicized the effects that are only negative effects, I am not sure these effects should be included as a way to make this joker have downsides or not. On one hand its a cool idea because you need to manage the placement of this joker, but on the other hand this may be a very shallow complication to the gameplay of this joker and may not even be worthwhile. I would love to hear your opinions on this.
Also if there are (???) next to the effect I am unsure if this should be the inverted effect or not. The food items in particular I am unsure if they should get better over time instead of getting worse over time (and maybe if they do get better over time they should start as debuffs aka negative modifiers).
I will update this list with your ideas if they seem more cohesive or well thought out.
Also if anyone is interested in helping me turn this into a mod, please reach out. This idea is probably not going to leave my head until it gets implemented in some fashion. I have experience with coding and game development, but have never used love2d or looked into modding balatro) Compatible Jokers (and new effect):
- All first page jokers would be negative mult or chips
- Half Joker(+20 mult if played hand contains 4+ cards)
- Joker Stencil (x1 mult for each filled Joker slot)
- Ceremonial Dagger (Generates a Joker to the right that costs the current mult to generate)???
- Banner (+30 chips for each discard used)
- Mystic Summit (+15 mult if no discards used)
- Raised Fist (Adds double the rank of the highest ranked card held as mult)???
- Abstract Joker (+3 mult for each empty Joker slot)
- Delayed Gratification ($2 per used discard)
- Pareidolia (No cards are considered face cards)
- Even Steven (Played cards with odd rank give +4 mult when scored)
- Odd Todd (Played cards with even rank give +31 chips)
- Scholar (Played aces give +20 mult and +4 chips when scored)??????????????
- Bussiness Card (Played non-face cards have a 1 in 2 chance to give $2 when scored)
- Ride the Bus (This Joker gains +1 mult per consecutive hand played with a scoring face card)
- Space Joker (1 in 4 chance to downgrade played poker hand)???
- Egg (Loses $3 of sell value at end of round)???
- Burglar (When blind is selected lose 3 hands and gain 3 discards)
- Blackboard (x3 mult if all cards held in hand are Diamonds or Hearts)
- Ice Cream (+100 chips +5 chips for every hand played)????????
- Blue Joker (+2 chips for every card used this round)
- Sixth Sense (If first hand of the round is a single 6, duplicate it and add it to hand)???
- Constellation (This Joker loses x0.1 mult for every time a planet card is used)???
- Hiker (Every played card permanently loses -5 Chips when scored)???
- Faceless Joker (Earn $5 when 3 or more non-face cards are discarded at the same time)
- Green Joker (-1 mult per hand played +1 mult per discard)
- Card Sharp (x3 mult if played poker hand has not already been played this round)
- Red Card (This Joker gains +3 mult when any booster pack is not skipped) [needs better wording]
- Vampire (Adds random enhancement to non-scoring cards in played hand)??????
- Hologram (This Joker gains x0.25 mult every time a playing card is removed from your deck)
- Vagabond (Create a tarot card if hand is played with $5 or more)
- Obelisk (This Joker gains x0.2 mult per consecutive hand played that is your most played hand) [probably too broken]
- Midas Mask (All played non-face cards become Gold cards when scored)
- Photograph (Last played face card gives x2 mult)???????
- Turtle Bean (+5 hand size increase by 1 every round)??????????????
- Erosion (+4 mult for each card above 52 in your full deck)
- Reserved Parking (Each non-face card held in hand has a 1 in 2 chance to give $1)
- Hallucination (1 in 2 chance to create a tarot card when any booster pack is skipped)
- Juggler (-1 hand size)
- Drunkard (-1 discard)
- Lucky Cat (This Joker gains x0.25 mult every time a lucky card is played and not triggered)??????
- Baseball card (Common and Rare Jokers each give x1.5 mult) [broken?]
- Trading Card (If first discard of round has only 1 card duplicate it and add it to hand)???
- Popcorn (+20 mult +4 mult per round played)????????
- Ramen (x2 mult gains x0.01 mult per card discarded)???????????
- Walkie Talkie (each played 10 or 4 gives +4 chips and +10 mult)???
- Castle (This Joker gains +3 chips per played [suit] card, suit changes every round)
- Smiley Face (Played non-face cards give +5 mult when scored)
- Campfire (This Joker gains x0.25 mult for each card bought, resets when Boss Blind is defeated)
- Acrobat (x3 mult on every hand besides the final hand)???
- Sock and Buskin (Retrigger all played non-face cards)
- Troubadour (-2 hand size, +1 hand each round)
- Certificate (When round begins add a random playing card with a random Enhancement to your hand)???
- Smeared Joker (Hearts and Spades count as the same suit. Diamonds and Clubs count as the same suit)???
- Throwback (x0.25 mult for each Blind selected this round)???
- Hanging Chad (Retrigger the Last card used in scoring 2 additional times)
- Glass Joker (This Joker gains x0.75 mult for every Glass Card played and not destroyed, loses x1.5 mult for every glass card destroyed)???
- Flower Pot (x3 mult if poker hand contains no suits) [I'm thinking all stone cards]???????
- Blueprint (Copies ability of Joker to Left) [This would be fun, but honestly confusing]?????
- Wee Joker (This Joker gains +8 Chips when each played 2 is not scored)???
- Merry Andy (-3 discards each round, +1 hand size)
- Oops! All 6s (Halves all listed probabilities (ex: 1 in 3 -> 1 in 6)
- Seeing Double (x2 mult if played hand does not have a scoring club card, but two still has at least two separate suits)??????
- Matador (Earn $8 upon completing boss blind without triggering its effects)???
- Hit the Road (This Joker gains x0.5 mult for every Jack in hand)
- Stuntman (-250 Chips, +2 hand size)???
- Brainstorm (Copies the ability of the Rightmost joker)???
- Shoot the Moon (Each played queen card gives +13 mult) [or maybe discard]???
- Driver's License (x3 mult if you have no enhanced cards in your full deck)
- Cartomancer (Create a tarot card when Blind is skipped)
- Astronomer (All Tarot cards and Arcana Packs in the shop are free)?????
- Burnt Joker (Upgrade the level of the first played poker hand each round) [broken?]??????
- Canio (This Joker gains x1 mult when a face card is added to your deck)???
- Triboulet (Held Kings and Queens each give x2 mult)???
- Yorick (This Joker gains x1 mult every 23 cards played)???
- Perkeo (Destroys 1 random consumable card in your possession at the end of the shop and generates a random planet, tarot, or spectral card)????????????????
Thank you for your time lol
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2024.05.15 06:31 DoublePromote Confusing Character Usage
I just finished First Law Trilogy. Overall I thought it was very good- I especially liked how the characters we were conditioned to think were the protagonists (Logan, Bayaz) were actually both villains. Then the people we were set up to hate (Glotka, Jezal) were the ones with redeeming qualities. Really good writing and subtly shows thereās no such thing as a purely good guy or bad guy.
But all the painstaking character development made a few characters usage confusing to me:
- the witch- donāt even remember her name, but they build her up as the power behind Bethod and Fenris. I kept expecting her and Bayaz to cross paths. But she was killed off in a quick fight scene with dogman/Dow/Grim? Felt like a waste of an interesting character. She probably said less than 100 words.
- Khalul- after talking about him as Bayazās only true rival through all three books we never even saw him??? This actually upset me when I finished LAOK.
- the hundred words- described as this fearsome unit but gets basically wiped out over 10 pages by Bayaz. Actually felt very similar to the white walkerās end in GOT. Killed in a quick battle after we waited for this fight through three books.
Did anyone else feel this way? Overall I really liked the books. But for all the character development and length of the books, these are a few examples that felt like they could have been used better.
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2024.05.15 06:20 ExtensionMajor2916 Neotonics Reviews: The Truth About Skin & Gut Health
| Neotonics Reviews: Unveiling the Truth About Skin and Gut Health https://preview.redd.it/hbtcecawii0d1.png?width=1350&format=png&auto=webp&s=e83618e65ad3666d6bd652c177aacfdf8e3c2842 Navigating the fusion of skin and gut health , Neotonics emerges as a natural supplement tailored to enhance skin health, ensuring a youthful glow by promoting skin cell rejuvenation and minimizing wrinkles, dark spots, and other aging signs. Its unique approach targets gut health as a pivotal factor in skin care, emphasizing the gutās significant role in managing the skinās aging process with its all-natural, toxin-free formula. Moreover, the Neotonics reviews highlight its efficiency and safety, backed by a 60-day money-back guarantee that underscores the brandās confidence in their product. With Neotonics, consumers delve into a blend of probiotics and advanced formula capsules captured in convenient gummy form, designed to not only support gut health but also contribute to overall well-being. Neotonics customer reviews often point to its ease of use, with the supplement being available in bottles containing 60 gummies exclusively on the Neotonics official website, ensuring a secure buying process. This commitment to quality and consumer satisfaction, combined with its manufacturing in a GMP-certified, FDA-registered facility, positions Neotonics as a standout choice for those seeking to integrate a skin and gut health supplement into their daily regimen. Free training YouTube. How to make money on YouTube WITHOUT recording videos What is Neotonics? Neotonics is a dietary supplement specifically formulated to enhance both skin and gut health. Hereās a breakdown of its key components and functions: - Composition and Form: Neotonics comes in a gummy form, making it easy and pleasant to consume. Each bottle contains 30 gummies, with a recommended dosage of one gummy per day.
- Ingredients: The supplement is packed with a blend of natural elements, including Babchi, Inulin, Fenugreek, Lemon Balm, Fennel, Organic Lionās Mane, and others. These ingredients are chosen for their effectiveness in supporting gut health and enhancing skin condition.
- Probiotic and Prebiotic Support: It contains 500 million units of beneficial bacteria along with prebiotics that help in maintaining a healthy gut microbiome. This is crucial, as a healthy gut contributes to improved skin health.
- Targeted Benefits: Neotonics aims to reduce fine lines and wrinkles, support healthy skin cell turnover, promote blood flow, and assist in achieving an overall healthy body weight. Additionally, it supports the digestive system and boosts energy levels.
- Safety and Manufacturing: Manufactured in an FDA-registered facility, Neotonics adheres to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). It is designed with safety in mind, containing no GMOs or toxins, which makes it suitable for regular consumption.
This comprehensive approach to both skin and gut health, encapsulated in a convenient gummy, makes Neotonics a unique supplement in the wellness market. Click Here To Know Who Developed The Neotonics Formula If you donāt Want to Open your Third Eyes THEN DONāT READ THIS How Neotonics Works Neotonics operates on a multifaceted approach to enhance both skin and gut health through a series of interconnected mechanisms: - Probiotic and Prebiotic Synergy: The supplement combines probiotics and prebiotics to balance the gut microbiome, which is crucial for overall health.
- Skin Health Enhancement: By promoting optimal gut health, Neotonics supports healthy skin from within, which includes promoting collagen formation and enhancing skin elasticity.
- Digestive System Support: It aids in balancing beneficial bacteria in the digestive system, which is instrumental in improving gut health.
- Comprehensive Health Benefits: Beyond skin and gut health, Neotonics supports digestive health, empowers the immune system, and maintains gut health balance.
- Nutrient Absorption: The unique blend of ingredients enhances nutrient absorption by promoting a healthy balance of bacteria in the gut.
- Vital Nutrients: Incorporates essential vitamins and minerals that aid in skin cell turnover and collagen production.
- Overall Wellness: Additional active components in Neotonics work synergistically to promote overall gut and skin wellness.
- Cellular Turnover and Inflammation Reduction: The supplement enhances cellular turnover, reduces inflammation, and rejuvenates skin cells, contributing to a fresher, more radiant complexion.
- Energy and Vitality Boost: Neotonics may also enhance vitality and boost energy levels, further improving skin health.
- Gut-Skin Connection: Targets the direct impact of gut health on skin health, promoting processes like skin cell turnover to reduce aging signs.
- Cell Renewal Process: Improves the effectiveness of cell turnover in the body, a process influenced significantly by the gut and its microbiome.
- Barrier Function and Immune Support: Enhances gut barrier function, supports immune health, and balances the gut microbiome.
- Hydration and Antioxidant Protection: Supports skin health by promoting hydration, moisture retention, and antioxidant protection.
This comprehensive action plan ensures that Neotonics not only targets skin and gut health individually but also enhances their interdependent functions for overall well-being. Click Here To Know Who Developed The Neotonics Formula Free training YouTube. How to make money on YouTube WITHOUT recording videos Key Ingredients and Their Benefits Neotonics is enriched with a variety of natural ingredients, each selected for their specific health benefits to both the skin and gut. Hereās a detailed look at some of the key components: - Babchi: Known for stimulating collagen production, Babchi enhances skin elasticity and reduces signs of aging. It also helps in skin rejuvenation and evens out skin tone due to its anti-inflammatory properties.
- Inulin & Dandelion: These ingredients act as powerful prebiotics, nourishing the gut microbiome and aiding in digestive health. They also protect the skin from external factors and support overall wellness.
- Bacillus Coagulans: This probiotic ingredient modulates the gut microbiome, promoting the growth of beneficial bacteria, which is crucial for both gut health and skin appearance.
- Fenugreek: Rich in antioxidants, Fenugreek supports skin health by aiding in tissue repair and collagen production, which improves skin elasticity.
- Lemon Balm: Known for its soothing properties, Lemon Balm reduces skin redness and irritation while also fighting acne-causing bacteria and promoting clear skin.
- Organic Ceylon Ginger: This ingredient boosts beneficial bacteria in the gut and offers protection against environmental skin damage, thanks to its anti-inflammatory properties.
- Slippery Elm Bark: It supports the stomach lining and helps in conditions like eczema and psoriasis by forming a protective barrier on the skin, which locks in moisture.
- Organic Lionās Mane Mushroom: Offers long-term anti-aging effects by stimulating collagen production and improving skin elasticity. It also nourishes the skin with essential vitamins and minerals.
- Fennel: Aids in repairing body tissues and calms skin irritation, while also improving skin elasticity and reducing the appearance of fine lines.
Neotonics Key Ingredients and Their Benefits These ingredients collectively contribute to Neotonicsā ability to improve gut health and enhance skin quality, making it a comprehensive supplement for overall well-being. The Science Behind Neotonics The scientific foundation of Neotonics is robust, focusing on the intricate relationship between gut health and skin aging. This supplement is formulated based on extensive research that confirms the pivotal role of the gut microbiome in skin health and overall well-being. Here are the key scientific insights supporting Neotonics: - Probiotic and Prebiotic Synergy: Neotonics contains 500 million units of beneficial bacteria, specifically designed to optimize the gut microbiome. This significant concentration of bacteria is essential for promoting gut health, which in turn supports healthier skin and enhances general vitality.
- Targeting the Root Cause: The aging of skin is intricately linked to gut health. Neotonics addresses this connection by targeting the gut microbiome, which plays a crucial role in the turnover of skin cells and the overall aging process.
- Scientific Endorsement of Ingredients: The formula includes a blend of nine powerful natural ingredients, each scientifically proven to support gut and skin health. This combination not only helps in treating the skinās microbiome but also in slowing down the skinās aging process.
- Enhanced Nutrient Absorption and Metabolism: By optimizing the gut microbiome, Neotonics enhances nutrient absorption and improves metabolic functions. This optimization is crucial for maintaining vitality and improving skin health, as confirmed by scientific studies.
- Cell Turnover and Gut Health: Research has shown a clear link between the health of the gut microbiome and the rate of cellular turnover. This relationship is fundamental to understanding how Neotonics works to improve skin health by influencing these underlying biological processes.
- Inulinās Role in Gut Health: The effectiveness of Neotonics is further supported by evidence from the National Center for Biotechnology Information, which highlights the benefits of inulin. Inulin is a key ingredient in Neotonics that supports healthy gut bacteria, which is crucial for maintaining skin health.
These points collectively demonstrate the scientific rigor behind Neotonics, emphasizing its potential to significantly impact skin and gut health through its carefully researched and proven ingredients.How to Use Neotonics for Optimal Results To achieve the best outcomes with Neotonics, adhering to the recommended guidelines is crucial. Below is a concise guide on how to effectively incorporate Neotonics into your daily health regimen: This Secret 3-seconds NASA Methode UNLOCKS THE GOD WITHIN YOU Recommended Dosage - Daily Intake: It is advised to consume one to two gummies daily.
- Consistency: For optimal results, Neotonics should be taken consistently every day.
- Duration: Noticeable improvements in skin texture and overall health may be observed after 3 to 6 months of regular use.
Usage Tips - Flexibility in Consumption: Neotonics gummies can be taken at any time of the day, with or without food, offering flexibility to fit into any schedule.
- Health Consultation: Always consult with a healthcare professional before beginning any new supplement regimen, especially if you have pre-existing health conditions or are on other medications.
- Monitoring Effects: If you experience any adverse reactions while taking Neotonics, discontinue use immediately and consult medical advice.
Packaging - Bottle Contents: Each bottle of Neotonics contains 30 gummies, sufficient for one month of daily use if following the standard dosage of one gummy per day.
https://preview.redd.it/601d9go8oi0d1.jpg?width=780&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a51d07a7b8e61296ef323b0a54b6d491f5a4c763 Neotonics Skin & Guts By following these guidelines, users can maximize the health benefits of Neotonics, effectively enhancing both gut and skin wellness. How Neotonics Promotes Skin and Gut Health Neotonics has been formulated to target both skin and gut health, offering a dual approach that enhances overall well-being. Hereās how it works: - Comprehensive Formula: Neotonics employs a holistic formula that not only improves digestive health but also enhances skin appearance and texture.
- Digestive Health Benefits: It supports the reduction of symptoms associated with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and helps to reduce constipation and intestinal gas, promoting a healthier digestive system.
- Skin Health Promotion: By nourishing the gut microbiome, Neotonics positively impacts skin health, leading to increased radiance, hydration, and elasticity, as reported by users.
- Energy and Vitality: Users have noticed improvements in their energy levels and vitality, which contribute to a healthier appearance and enhanced well-being.
- Natural Ingredients: The inclusion of all-natural ingredients ensures that the product protects against skin and gut damage while promoting a healthy gut microbiome.
- Skin Rejuvenation: Improved gut health directly contributes to skin rejuvenation, helping maintain a flawless and youthful skin appearance.
- Overall Health Benefits: Neotonics also aids in improving nutrient absorption, supporting cellular turnover, and contributing to hormonal balance, all of which are beneficial for both gut health and skin quality.
This multifaceted approach ensures that Neotonics not only targets specific health issues but also enhances the interconnected health of the skin and gut, leading to better overall health outcomes. What Makes Neotonics Stand Out Neotonics distinguishes itself in the market through several key factors that contribute to its popularity and effectiveness. Here are the notable attributes that make Neotonics stand out: Unique Formulation and Safety - Natural Ingredients: Neotonics is crafted using only natural ingredients, ensuring it is free from stimulants or major side effects, making it a safe option for daily use.
- Certified Manufacturing: The supplement is produced in an FDA-registered facility, adhering to strict Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), which guarantees the high quality and safety of the product.
Affordability and Value - Cost-Effectiveness: Compared to similar products like My Way Up Skin + Gut, Neotonics is more affordable, providing a budget-friendly option without compromising on effectiveness.
- Additional Benefits: Unlike YourBiology Gut+, Neotonics offers extra advantages such as stress reduction and focus enhancement, all at a lower price point.
Exclusive Availability and Support - Direct Purchase: To ensure authenticity, Neotonics is available exclusively through the official website, which helps prevent counterfeit products and ensures customers receive a genuine product.
- Educational Resources: With every purchase of three or six bottles, Neotonics provides two free e-books, adding educational value and supporting users in their health journey.
Environmental and Health Standards - Eco-Friendly and Safe: The product adheres to environmental and health safety standards by being free from GMOs, harsh chemicals, and banned substances, which appeals to health-conscious consumers.
- Allergen-Free: Ensuring wider accessibility, Neotonics is formulated without common allergens and is non-GMO and hormone-free, catering to individuals with specific dietary restrictions.
These features collectively position Neotonics as a standout choice in the crowded market of health supplements, particularly for those prioritizing safety, affordability, and comprehensive health benefits. How to Integrate Neotonics into Your Daily Routine Integrating Neotonics into your daily routine can be a seamless and straightforward process. Here are some practical steps to ensure that you make the most out of Neotonics supplements for optimal skin and gut health: Step-by-Step Integration Guide - Morning Routine: Start your day by taking a Neotonics gummy with your breakfast. This helps in establishing a consistent routine and ensures that you do not forget to take your daily supplement.
- Set Reminders: In the initial days, setting reminders on your phone or using a pill organizer can help you remember to take your Neotonics gummy. Consistency is key to achieving the best results.
- Incorporate into Dietary Habits: If you have specific dietary routines like a smoothie for breakfast or a mid-morning snack, you can take your Neotonics gummy during these times. The gummies are designed to be easy to consume with or without food. Follow a stick diet like The Mediterranean Diet the best Diet for the past 10years and also The Keto Diet are 2 BEST DIET.
- Evening Routine: Alternatively, you can take your Neotonics gummy in the evening with your dinner if mornings are too rushed or if you prefer to space out your supplements throughout the day.
- Monitor Your Progress: Keep a health journal to note any changes in your skin and gut health after you start taking Neotonics. This can help you track progress and adjust your intake if needed.
By following these simple steps, integrating Neotonics into your daily routine can become a natural part of your day, supporting your health goals without disrupting your usual habits. Comparing Neotonics to Other Probiotic Supplements Neotonics stands out in the competitive market of probiotic supplements through several distinct features that cater to consumer needs and preferences. Hereās a detailed comparison that highlights its unique offerings: - Exclusive Availability: Neotonics is exclusively available through its official website, ensuring that customers receive an authentic product directly from the source. This exclusivity helps maintain quality control and customer satisfaction.
- Pricing Strategy: Priced at $69 for a one-month supply, Neotonics is positioned within the premium segment of the market. However, the brand also offers significant discounts on bulk purchases, making it more accessible for long-term users.
- Customer Assurance: Offering a 60-day money-back guarantee, Neotonics provides customers with a risk-free opportunity to try their product. This guarantee reflects the companyās confidence in the effectiveness of their supplement and enhances customer trust.
These points illustrate how Neotonics differentiates itself from other probiotic supplements, focusing on quality, customer satisfaction, and accessible pricing. Free Ebook Bonuses? Along with every purchase of a set of 3 or 6 bottles of the Neotonics formula, you will get two different bonuses, which will help you enhance the different effects of the supplement. Here are the complete details of the bonuses provided along with the bottles. #1 Cellulite Be Gone: How to Banish Cellulite Naturally & Effectively at Home Justice the name suggests, the ebook contains different tips and tricks that will help you to get rid of cellulite in your body effectively at the condor of your home. Cellulite Be Gone: How to Banish Cellulite Naturally & Effectively at Home #2 The Great Haior Reset: How to Grow Thick, Full, and Lustrous Locks If you are looking for an effective way to ensure the health and proper growth of your hair, then this ebook will help you to get there faster. The Great Haior Reset: How to Grow Thick, Full, and Lustrous Locks Neotonics Price And Refund Policy Explained! The Neotonics price details are as follows; https://preview.redd.it/3mogzpl0ji0d1.jpg?width=780&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9dbdbf8e298e00a3b34c5d09b0df5310f3edcb32 https://neotonics.com/video.php?affiliate=fanfan67 Neotonics Price According to the Neotonics official website, all the purchases made from the website are covered by a 60-day money-back guarantee. This means that you are free to return the bottles within 60 days of the original purchase and receive a full refund on the amount that you spent on the purchase if it isnāt giving you the needed or claimed results. Click Here To Buy Neotonics From Its Official Website Conclusion and Recommendations Through a comprehensive exploration of Neotonics, itās evident that this supplement stands as a significant innovation in the pursuit of enhanced skin and gut health. Its unique formulation combines natural ingredients with scientific backing to target the intricate relationship between the gut microbiome and skin health, ensuring a holistic approach to wellness. The plethora of positive reviews and the robust scientific foundation not only underscore Neotonicsā effectiveness but also solidify its position as a must-consider option for those seeking to nurture their skin and gut health simultaneously. In wrapping up, the multifaceted benefits of Neotonics, from promoting skin cell turnover to enhancing gut health, highlight its role as a key player in the wellness market. Its ease of use, combined with the assurance of safety and quality, make it an attractive choice for individuals looking to integrate a skin and gut health supplement into their daily routine. Encouraging further research or a personal trial could offer invaluable insight into its effectiveness, potentially paving the way for improved well-being and a better quality of life for its users. FAQs Currently, there are no questions listed in the āPeople Also Askā section for the topic āNeotonics Reviews: Unveiling the Truth About Skin and Gut Health.ā If you have specific questions about Neotonics and their impact on skin and gut health, please feel free to ask, and Iāll do my best to provide you with informative answersNeotonics Reviews: Unveiling the Truth About Skin and Gut Health Navigating the fusion of skin and gut health , Neotonics emerges as a natural supplement tailored to enhance skin health, ensuring a youthful glow by promoting skin cell rejuvenation and minimizing wrinkles, dark spots, and other aging signs. Its unique approach targets gut health as a pivotal factor in skin care, emphasizing the gutās significant role in managing the skinās aging process with its all-natural, toxin-free formula. Moreover, the Neotonics reviews highlight its efficiency and safety, backed by a 60-day money-back guarantee that underscores the brandās confidence in their product. With Neotonics, consumers delve into a blend of probiotics and advanced formula capsules captured in convenient gummy form, designed to not only support gut health but also contribute to overall well-being. Neotonics customer reviews often point to its ease of use, with the supplement being available in bottles containing 60 gummies exclusively on the Neotonics official website, ensuring a secure buying process. This commitment to quality and consumer satisfaction, combined with its manufacturing in a GMP-certified, FDA-registered facility, positions Neotonics as a standout choice for those seeking to integrate a skin and gut health supplement into their daily regimen. submitted by ExtensionMajor2916 to u/ExtensionMajor2916 [link] [comments] |
2024.05.15 06:16 superhoffy We need to wake the hell up
Social Media and smartphones are warping how we see the real world and our reality is losing nuance rapidly.
Take the man or bear debate as a recent example. The whole premise is unhelpful and based on a glaring falsehood. It's like a 13-year-old's first essay on a topic they know next to nothing about. I'm pretty sure actual survivors of sexual abuse don't give a single damn about this "dilemma". They have real issues to deal with that those of us who are engaging in this discourse have the privilege of not having to deal with. All this fad is doing is spread the paranoid notion that there are male predators waiting around every other corner. How is that helping survivors of abuse with real trauma and fears that they carry with them in public places on a daily basis? It is absolutely not a show of solidarity to those who have actually suffered, yet people do genuinely believe they are "raising awareness", or "taking a stand".
I mean it's a far-less improbable yet ironic scenario to imagine someone walking the dim city streets at night alone with their necks bent square over their smartphones, going round corners oblivious to their surroundings while texting "I'll take the bear lol". Those same people will say they're afraid to walk alone at night and they yeard for the bear. I made that scenario up, but I've literally seen people bumping into walls and into other people in a smart phone-induced trance and just continuing like nothing happened and I've also seen people gleefully (not ruefully) opt for "the bear". What I mean is a lot of people are claiming to be terrified when they're not.
Like with the Tik-tok trend that's been dangerously telling people they have "high-functioning anxiety" without professional diagnoses, where if everyone is mentally ill then no one is mentally ill
1, it also stands to reason that if everyone is afraid, then no one is afraid. It's a dangerous way of "showing solidarity" to let pervade through society. I'm no Jordan Peterson fan, but this is a good example of the dangers of fake solidarity*. It's not just fake; it's damaging.
The whole bear vs man thing just seems to polarise people into two camps who perceive the other either as man-haters or rape-apologists. But you know what? it's not even close to being real and does absolutely nothing to bring people of differing views any closer to understanding each other. I also 100% guarantee you that those who "choose the bear" don't actually practise what they preach in their lives to even the slightest degree. One example I witnessed was at a recent social occasion where a female high school teacher whom I know quite well told her boyfriend and father to ask her if she was alone in the woods, what she would prefer... Before she even said the words "bear", or "man", I knew where where we were heading and intuitively knew what her answer was going to be.
It wasn't a debate from the very beginning. It was more like a joke - a weird joke about sexual assault told in the first person. Before she'd even got to her supposedly mind-blowing punchline (which was, in case you're a bit late to this party, "I'd choose the bear because the bear won't rape me!"), everyone seemed to know what it was going to be. Given the expectant grin on her face when she said these impactful words, It didn't turn out to be the āgotchaā she thought it was going to be. This was quite an awkward experience. I can only guess that the "gotcha" aimed at the men in the room was supposed to educate them to be ashamed to be male on the spot. It didnāt. I explained why I thought the whole thing was flawed and I was informed I needed to lighten up. I was definitely mistaken in thinking that it was a chance to talk philosophy (is it ever these days?), but perpetuating the idea that "male rapists are everywhere" while simultaneously trivialising real suffering of abuse goes completely unchecked because when we engage in this form of discourse we reduce ourselves to vacuous, infantile creatures who ironically think they're acting like fully-developed adults. Rape is light-hearted; yet - and this is where the cognitive disonance gets really odd - you're either standing up for it or you're standing up against it, but no matter what side you're on, it's funny. Instead of thinking, "why is she grinning?!", we're thinking, "what side am I on and how can I also somehow make it funny?". When in reality, it's surface-level shock-value statements with zero nuance that we allow to insincerely represent us (the wide-grinning rape denouncer doesn't practise what she preaches: she isn't a raging man-hater; she's a decent person, but for some reason, she's adopted an inane comic-strip view on something as serious as rape - and incredibly, it's all in the defence of victims!).
And this way of engaging in discourse is everywhere. On Reddit, Facebook, Twitter etc., the finger-pointing and artificial coralling of all of us into fake dualities of misogynist vs virgin-for-life simp, misandrist vs patriachy-enabler, racist vs communist and many others are rife and it's finding its way into real-life discourse at the dinner table, the classroom and the office.
If we artificially and insincerely self-separate into these 1s and 0s, are we making it easier for the A.I. on our devices to "understand" us, classify us, manipulate us and ultimately annihilate us?
OK, maybe I went too far there, but is this jarring lack of nuance really the only way we want to "talk about" serious topics now? Is it only going to get worse? I feel like it wasn't long ago you could have real discussions about issues, but this art is dying - and rapidly. You can probably sense my frustration at how society is organising itself right now and I'd love to know if anyone has any suggestions on what we can do to encourage healthy conversations and debate with each other. Maybe I'm the problem. I used to be surrounded by people who took part in stimulating, nuanced debate and now I'm not. We used to tolerate different viewpoints and we didn't confront and "block" each other on a hair-trigger. Maybe I'm old and the kids are actually all right. Let me know.
1 ~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5MCw8446gs&ab_channel=TheNewYorkTimes~ *I couldn't find a good quote for this, but similarly, he terms it "narcissistic compassion"
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2024.05.15 06:15 Ruri_Neko Nayeon THE 2nd Mini Album [NA] Pre-order Information and General Question Megathread
WELCOME! This is the Official Twice Nayeon THE 2nd Mini Album [NA] Pre-Order and General Question Megathread!
I apologize for any formatting oddities, this was made on Old Reddit using a Desktop. Mobile version does look a little wonky since the listing isn't tabbed over like the desktop version. - Common questions can be found at the bottom.
What is the pre-order benefit?
- All Pre-orders come with a Photocard Set and poster (some shops ship it unfolded in a tube) depending on version.
What is in the album?
- Photobook (Each version has a different photobook)
- Photocards(Random 4 out of 15)
- CD-R (3 types, version specific)
- Hangtag (1 random out of 3)
- Mini Book
- Track Sticker Pack
- Postcard (1 random out of 3)
- Folded Poster (1 random out of 3)
Album Preview Limited Details Please remember that if you want it to count towards the Billboard charts you will need to order from one of the stores listed under the USA section EXCEPT YESASIA. YESASIA COUNTS FOR HANTEO CHARTS.
USA
CANADA
- Amazon CA
- Website not updated yet via the Official Twice Store on Amazon
- LightupK
- Includes all normal inclusions and Pre-Order Benefits.
GLOBAL
KOREA
JAPAN
CHINA
EUROPE
AUSTRALIA
- Kpoptime
- Includes all normal inclusions and Pre-Order Benefits.
- Iheartkpop
- Includes all normal inclusions and Pre-Order Benefits.
- Kpopbazaar
- Includes all normal inclusions and Pre-Order Benefits.
INDIA
IF YOU HAVE ANY POPULAR STORES THAT YOU THINK I SHOULD ADD PLEASE DM ME OR POST IN THE THREAD AND I WILL TRY TO UPDATE IF ITS A LEGIT SOURCE. Especially other foreign shops.
Please also use this thread to ask any questions you may have regarding the album, pre-orders, or anything of the like and I as well (at least I hope) the community will try to answer the questions to the best of our abilities. I can always add a question/answer to this post if it becomes a common question as well!
Common Questions
If the signed version SOLD OUT, will it restock??
- Sometimes they do a quick restock with cancelled orders but they are usually gone very quickly. Consider checking back every so often.
The website I went to only has a "Random" version option for the album. Can I pick which version I want?
- Not usually. Most sites at least on the Korean side like Withmuu and places are usually pretty good at giving you 1 of each if you order one of each version. They tend to "try" to give you an even amount of each version if you bulk buy. For Target they were bad about giving you duplicate albums for Formula of Love so order at your own risk if you buy multiple copies. Can always go to the store and try to exchange if you get duplicates.
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2024.05.15 06:15 vren55 [A Fractured Song] - Chapter 217- Fantasy, Isekai (Portal Fantasy), Adventure
Cover Art! Just because youāre transported to another world, doesnāt mean youāll escape from your pain. Abused by her parents, thirteen-year-old Frances only wants to be safe and for her life not to hurt so much. And when she and her class are transported to the magical world of Durannon to fight the monsters invading the human kingdoms and defeat the self-titled Demon King, Frances is presented with a golden opportunity. If she succeeds, Frances will have the home she never had. If she fails, Frances will be summoned back to the home she escaped.
Yet, despite her newfound magic and friends, Frances finds that trauma is not so easily lost. She is dogged by her abuse and its physical and invisible scars. Not only does she have to learn magic, she has to survive the nightmares of her past, and wrestle with her feelings of doubt and self-loathing.
If she can heal from her trauma, though, she might be able to defeat the Demon King and maybe, just maybe, she can find a home for herself.
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Frances and company catch up before the final battle. ***
āHold on. How would he win this battle if we outnumber him and surround him?ā Ginger asked.
āHe could target our leadership. Focus on killing Titania, Antigones, you and Martin,ā said Ayax.
āOnly, heād have to kill Sebastian and Megara, as well as Edana and you too, Frances, along with a whole list of targets. Iām not sure how he could pull that off,ā said Elizabeth.
Ayax grimaced, brow furrowed, but Frances knew the answer to that question.
āThorgoth doesnāt need to find half the targets heās after. Myself, mom, Titania, our strongest mages and the rest of the people that will be on his list have leadership positions. Like it or not weāll be involved in the battle and he just needs to find us on the battlefield. A well-placed spell and heād snuff any non-magic person out,ā Frances said.
āSo what do we do then?ā Martin asked.
Francesā heart was pounding, for she knew the answer, but was afraid to give it life. Yet what could she do but tell what she knew was the truth?
āTake the battle to him. Thorgoth will have to operate by himself with maybe just his Royal Guards. We need to hold him and his escort and defeat him before he hurts everybody else.ā
āSo, all the Otherworlders, our best mages?ā Ayax asked.
āNot all of them. But my mother and I, Jessica and Leila, Dwynalina and Jim and Nicole, with a few Otherworlders holding off his guards,ā said Frances.
Elizabeth pursed her lips. āAyax and I can go after Queen Berengaria. I canāt imagine her going far from her husband.ā
āThis is assuming we can at least split the attention of the dragons and keep them occupied of course,ā said Martin. He touched Gingerās elbow. āNot that I donāt trust you dear.ā
āOh I know, but it is a consideration.ā She swirled the wine in her cup. āThat means Martin and I will be directing the battle with Sebastian and Alexander.ā
āItās likely youāll be the overall commander with Martin. Alexander and Sebastian would then take charge of their own contingents,ā said Elizabeth. She bit her lip. āDo you feel up for it?ā
Ginger shrugged. āI mean, we have toāā
Elizabeth reached out to pat her friendās shoulder. āMartin, Ginger, you know we have every faith in both of you, but if you need help, there is no shame in asking for it.ā
āBesides I think weāre all scared. I know I am,ā Ayax said with a smile. Even so, they could all see how her tail looked like it was trying to twist itself into knots. Frances figured her cousin wasnāt trying to hide her fear, just trying not to alarm or panic them.
Martin sighed. āI think thatās the problem, Liz. Duty compels us. Love binds us. So I know no matter what happens, I know weāll stand together to face him. Still, we are afraid and while I know I wonāt run, I worry that fear may cloud my judgment at a crucial moment.ā
Ginger wiped her eyes, but her tears now flowed freely down her cheeks. āHow do I know I wonāt panic, and make a bad call? How do we know we are all coming back? We canāt. Iā¦I guess we have to accept that, but I donāt want to lose you. Any of you.ā
Drawing her friend into a tight hug, Elizabeth gently patted Gingerās back. āI donāt either. I suppose that for me, Iāve always looked to my faith in God, and in you all. Have we not triumphed in all weāve faced?āā
Frances found herself nodding, her throat unclenching and the tight nervousness in her shoulders and neck fading. What remained was a faint feeling of lightness that lifted her chin.
āYouāre right. We should believe in ourselves, and hope. Hope for a future when we win this war. Hope that our good will triumph over Thorgothās evil. Hope that in a few days, weāll be home with our family, and our friends.ā
Martin gave Frances a wondering look. āHow are you able to hope that?ā
Frances smiled. āI think that I have always been good at having hope. I didnāt realize it until now, but even in my darkest moments, I always hoped that I would find a place where I could be me.ā
Ayax stood up, raising her glass. āTo faith, friendship and hope. May it see us all through our final trial.ā
Rising to their feet, the five touched glasses and drank deep. They all were smiling. The pain and fear in their hearts soothed by the hope they held and the determination to see each other once again.
***
āFrances, can I walk with you?ā
Frances would never have said no to her best friend, and she could tell that past Elizabethās bright smile, her friend was worried. There were just too many small signs learnt from years of friendship. She was scratching behind her ear, and her eyes were narrowed just slightly from the tension in her face.
āOf course,ā said Frances, falling in beside the tall Otherworlder. āHow are you and Ayax?ā
Elizabeth giggled. āWeāre great! Fantastic even. She and I are even talking about what we might do after the war. We have so many plans and well, I kind of wanted to talk to you about that.ā
Frances waited as Elizabeth continued to walk beside her, lips pursed.
āI know that after the war, Iām choosing to stay here with Ayax, with all of you. I justā¦ā her voice trailed off, and her walk slowed to a crawl.
Taking a slight breath, Frances touched her friendās hand. āLiz, you know itās okay for you to doubt that.ā
Elizabeth stopped and shook her head. āOh no, I donāt have any doubts about my decision. At the very least, Iām past the point where my doubts arenāt going to change my decision. I know Iāve changed too much in the past seven years. Iāve come to terms with my sexuality. Iāve fallen head over heels in love with a woman who loves me just as much. Iāve commanded armies, led soldiers into battle and helped to make decisions affecting hundreds of thousands of people. I canāt go back pretending Iām Grade 8 and neither do I want to.ā She squeezed Francesās hand. āMy decision is the right one. I know it in my heart and Iāve prayed about it. I can do a lot of good here and me going back? That wonāt just hurt the people I love here, but itāll hurt me and my family at home. I canāt hide who Iāve become and Iām proud of what Iāve grown into.ā
Frances closely studied her friend knowing Elizabeth wouldnāt mind her staring.
āSo what are you feeling, Liz?ā
Closing her eyes, Elizabeth sniffled. āGuilt. Itās stupid. I know Iām making the right choice. Iām sure in my heart that God is encouraging me to make this choice, but I still feel guilty.ā
āHow could you not? You know your family loves you.ā
āAnd Iām abandoning them. I know Iām doing the right thing but I still feel like Iām doing something wrong,ā said the Otherworlder.
Frances hugged her best friend, squeezing her tight, hoping that her warmth and touch could comfort the woman who sheād trusted as much as her own mother.
āLiz, if they are everything you told me, theyāre going to be alright. Have faith in them, like your faith in me and your friends.ā
Elizabeth let out a sigh, but returned the hug. āThank you, Frances. Ifā¦if the worst comes and you are sent back without me, go to them. Tell them I love them.ā
Tears in her eyes, Frances nodded. āI promise. If you are sent back, I will take care of Ayax.ā
Elizabeth let out a gurgly hiccup. āThank you. I know you will.ā
***
The historic coronation of King Martin and Queen Ginger would found what would be known as the Congrey dynasty. Con for Conthwaite and Grey for King Jeromeās dynasty.
It was an unusual coronation as King Martin and Queen Ginger were long-betrothed but not married. Yet King Jerome and Queen Forowenaās wills had been clear. Apart from that, the coronation involved as many of Eridale's traditions as possible in light of the circumstances.
Down the parade route attended by all those that could be mustered, King and Queen marched in at the head of an honor guard composed of their closest companions. These included Frances, Elizabeth, and Ayax, who held three poles of a crimson banner that hung over the pair. The fourth corner was held by Martinās sister Mara, who wore a slightly undignified grin. Yet, nobody could really blame her.
Martin wore a black-white checkered tunic with red-gold trimmings and shoulder epaulets. His trousers were dark gray with again red-gold tassels. Ginger did wear a dress. It was of a dark maroon with silver lacing. A bejeweled gorget studded with emeralds hung from her neck and her ears sparkled with dark blue sapphires.
There was one minor alteration. As the procession marched up to the entrance of the old Goblin Empire palace, on a raised wooden dais dressed with elaborately embroidered carpets stood the attending dignitaries. They included all the other Erisdalian lords and ladies such as Viscountess Katia and Lord Tarquin, dressed in all the finery they could muster. Other notables such as Prince Timur, representing the Kingdom of Alavaria, Grandmaster Edana of the White Order and Alexander and Eloise of Erlenberg stood proudly side by side.
Towards the center of the dais were three figures. King Sebastian and Queen-Consort Megara, and the former Queen Janize. Sebastian and Megara were standing, holding Queen Forowenaās crown, whilst the heavily pregnant Janize sat, holding King Jeromeās crown. Thorgoth may have taken their decorated helmets, but he did not have their ceremonial attire.
Martin and Ginger stepped out from under the awning, giving their bearers a brief nod, before taking the last steps up the dais.
Whistling a spell, Megara touched her throat with her wand. āWho stands before the crowns?ā
Martin knelt to one knee. The bearers of the awning followed. āSir Martin of Conthwaite. A Knight of Erisdale.ā
Ginger curtsied low. Frances nearly split her lips as she grinned at her friendās perfect form. āGinger. Just Ginger of Erisdale.ā
Janizeās expression was unreadable as she rose to her feet. There was a slight archness to her features, and yet that could just be how she lifted her haughty cheeks.
āAs witnessed by all, and by the King and Queen of Lapanteria, do you swear to defend Erisdale with all means at your disposal including force of arms?ā
āWe do.ā
āDo you swear to uphold the laws of the land and the rights of Erisdaleās citizens?ā
āWe do!ā
āDo you swear that until your dying breaths, to govern and reign over Erisdale not for your benefit, but for the benefit of the people and for their future generations?ā
From her kneeling position, Frances frowned. That wasnāt quite the right oath. The wording was āDo you swear to govern over Erisdale wisely and justly?ā She supposed that she might have missed it, or maybe there was a variation.
Yet as she noted her fianceās face, she noticed his eyes were wide and her motherās eyebrow was arched.
Not skipping a beat, Martin and Ginger bellowed. āWe do!ā
āDo you swear that you will do your utmost not to make the same mistakes as your predecessors and do whatever it takes to preserve Erisdaleās peace, even if it may cost you your lives?ā
Frances blinked. Janize had gone completely off script. There was no fourth oath.
However, Martin and Ginger only hesitated for a moment as they exchanged a glance and looked up to meet Janizeās gaze.
The blonde womanās eyes were bright and the hands holding Jeromeās crown were trembling ever so slightly. Frances had wondered why sheād insisted on doing this. Martin and Ginger had wanted to approach her to ask if she was willing, but the enigmatic former queen had surprised them by demanding they allow her to crown them. She now had an idea as to why.
āWe do,ā said Martin, smiling.
Ginger returned that smile. Blinking back her own tears, she took a breath. āIn the name of Queen-consort Forowena and your brother, King Jerome. We solemnly swear.ā
Janize closed her eyes, a single tear running down her cheek.
āThen as the last heiress of House Grey, I pass the crown of Erisdale on forever. Long live the Congrey dynasty. Long live Martin the Hero of Erisdale and his queen to be Ginger, whom I dub Erisdaleās Burning Heart.ā
Lifting Jeromeās crown high, she set it onto Martinās head. Swiftly taking Queen Forowenaās crown from Sebastian, she set it on Gingerās head.
āHail King Martin and Queen Ginger!ā Janize bellowed as Martin and Ginger rose to their feet.
The crowd chanted back, their voices filling the great cavern. āHail King Martin and Queen Ginger! Hail King Martin and Queen Ginger!ā Frances could barely hear her own voice over the crescendo. The call that they all raised. Like the sound carried up into the void, she could feel herself be carried up. It was like she was floating on the power of their united song.
Turning around, Martin and Ginger smiled at Frances. Their eyes were wide, and she could see them clasp each otherās hands tightly.
Frances found herself standing on her feet, the pole to her awning in her hand. Without a second thought, she stabbed the poleās spike into the ground. As her hand dropped to Alanna, she paused for a moment before her mind caught up with her body, and she nodded as if to herself.
Drawing the estoc, Frances raised her blade high, saluting her two friends.
āLong may they reign! Long may they reign!ā
Elizabeth was right behind her, hammer raised high. Ayax followed suit with her staff and Mara and the rest were soon drawing their weapons. From the corner of her eye, Frances even spotted Morgan and Hattie raising their wand and staff.
āLong may they reign! Long may they reign!ā
***
Helias glanced over his shoulder toward the accursed city. Despite the distance, there was a tremble in the air of Kairoun-Aoun itself.
āHelias?ā Sara asked.
āSounds like they crowned Martin and Ginger. Theyāre going to attack soon,ā he said.
Sara nodded, her tense jaw the only sign of the worry that had seized the harpy-orc. As gently as he could manage with his rough, scarred hands, he wrapped his arm around her waist.
āSara. Weāre going to be fine.ā
āYouāre lying,ā she said with eyes fixed forward.
The general couldnāt help but wince. āSorry.ā
Slowing in her stride, Sara placed a hand over Heliasās. āI still appreciate you trying to comfort me but I would prefer you to tell me the truth. How bad is it?ā
Helias looked around. āThorgoth may pull off a miracle and get himself and Berengaria out. However, a lot of Alavari are going to die.ā
āWhat are you going to do?ā Sara asked.
āIāll have to attend this meeting and see what Thorgoth is planning. Weāll make a plan after that.ā
āYou and I know itās not going to change anything,ā Sara said, looking up at her husband, who could not meet her gaze. Yet, she didnāt push him away. Instead put her hand around his waist, drawing him closer.
āI know, but I want to be sure,ā said Helias in a low tone.
āI understand. See you soon,ā said Sara.
***
Helias found himself exchanging side-long glances with Glowron. The pair sat, both leaning forward toward King Thorgoth and a pacing Queen Berengaria, whoād finished explaining tomorrowās strategy.
āDo you have anything else to add, my good generals?ā Thorgoth asked. The king still smiled easily as he swirled a cup of wine in his hands.
Glowron shook his head. His tone was short but he kept this expression neutral. āNo sire.ā
The goblin general was Heliasās superior in rank and social class. The fact of the matter was that if Glowron had no objections, then there was no way the tauroll could object.
And still, Helias felt bile rise in the back of his throat. He froze, ever so briefly. Closing his eyes, he shook his head. Nothing mattered, except for Sara and Gwendilia.
āNo sir. Iāll have my troops ready for tomorrow.ā
That should have been that. They would have been dismissed to prepare for tomorrowās suicide mission, but the kingās whims had other plans.
King Thorgoth put his cup down and leaned forward. āOh come on my good generals. Surely you have something to improve on this plan.ā
Glowronās expression remained blank, whilst Helias smiled. āYour Majesty, you were the one who taught me everything I know. I can think of nothing I can add to your strategy.ā
Queen Berengaria strode toward him. āYouāre usually so talkative, Helias. Are you sure you have no other thoughts?ā
āI beg your apologies, but I do not have any further additions to your plan, Your Majesty. My lord Glowron?ā Helias asked.
āI do not either, my liegeāā Glowron fell silent and Heliasās tail stiffened.
Thorgoth and Berengaria were no longer smiling and with a few more steps, the harpy queen had put herself behind the two generals.
āLet me be plain, we are now not asking you about how to improve the plan. We are asking for your thoughts. Give them.ā
The Demon Kingās remaining dark eye was narrowed. The other was now covered with a black silk eyepatch, the remains of the scar that Queen Forowen had given him, a discoloration scouring a line along the side of his face and right over his ear. In spite of the kingās injury, Helias felt nothing but cold dread dry his mouth.
āYour Majesty, my only thought is that we have no option but to follow your plan. No matter how we got into this situation, the only thing we can do is go forward and try to win this day,ā Glowron said.
āAnd do you blame me, Glowron?ā
Helias watched, eyes wide as somehow the much smaller goblin general continued to meet the kingās eyes. āI would be lying to you if I said I didnāt assign some responsibility to you at all, but I believe we ought to have thought of the possibility of such a trap. So the responsibility is mine as well.ā
Thorgoth nodded. Out of the corner of his eye, Helias saw the slightest of nods that Berengaria gave to her husband. Alarm shooting his gaze back toward the Demon King, Helias found the full attention of his sovereign and sometimes uncle directed right at him.
āAnd you, General Helias?ā
Lie and he might not be able to make it convincing enough. Tell the truth about what he thought about this war and he was never seeing Sara and Gwendilia again. Thorgoth hadnāt just been hurt, his pride had been wounded and he was now backed into a corner. It would be unwise to anger him, but what to say? What could he say?
All he could think of, and see was his child and her adoring gaze. All he could feel was the touch of Saraās hand against his. Theyād become closer than he could have imagined and were more than just companions with mutual goals now.
If he was to die, then maybe he could tell this truth.
āI am mostly thinking of my wife and my child, my king. The coming battle has me greatly concerned with how dangerous it shall be.ā
Thorgoth narrowed his eyes at Helias for a brief moment. The tauroll, staying very still, waited for the presumed reaction by Berengaria.
Whatever Berengaria did made Thorgoth arch an eyebrow.
āI thought you didnāt consider your wife to be worth much,ā said the king in a mild tone.
His mind racing, Helias ran with the idea. āShe has responded well to the constraints and discipline Iāve enforced on her. She does nothing but facilitate all my needs and has served me well.ā
He could feel Berengariaās eyes narrow, but Thorgoth was already leaning back onto his chair. āGood for you. You are dismissed.ā
āThank you, sire,ā said Helias, almost unable to hide his sigh of relief.
***
Authorās Note: While I wish I could have spent more quality time with Martin, Elizabeth, Ginger and Ayax, I do love the best-friend/team that I created for Frances. This chapter and the last was my little way of giving each of them a bit of time with Frances before the final battle.
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2024.05.15 05:45 b3njil Reporting bad faith trademark registrations and the Burden on the Public
TL;DR: USPTO wants the public to report fraudulent trademark applications but charges them $50 to do so.
It is a known fact that, for some years now, there has been a rise in bad faith trademark registrations originating from China
(1). Through a subsidy scheme, individuals and companies in China are able to get a payout for successful trademark registrations in foreign countries, including the United States. This payout amount exceeds the trademark registration fee
(2). For example, a person can register a trademark in the US for $250. Upon successful registration, the person can then apply for the subsidy and get a payout of RMB 5,000 (approx. $700). It's easy to see how this is an appealing and easy way to make money. The registrant, in this case, has zero intent to use the mark in commerce. Most of these fraudulent registrations are canceled when Sec. 8 declarations of continued use are failed to be filed.
To combat the rise in these bad faith registrations, the USPTO has implemented various policies and measures in recent years. In 2018, it initiated a pilot program enabling the public to report fraudulent specimens via a dedicated email address monitored by the USPTO. This pilot program effectively allowed brand owners to identify problematic specimens, leading to refusal of the trademark application, all without the time and expense of a formal opposition process. However, the USPTO discontinued the pilot program on February 16, 2021.
In lieu of the pilot program, trademark owners can now report fraudulent specimens by submitting a Letter of Protest (LOP) to the USPTO, incurring a $50 filing fee. Despite this fee, filing a LOP remains a cost-effective method for brand owners to address fraudulent specimens without resorting to a formal notice of opposition, which carries a $600 filing fee.
I came to learn about this whole fraudulent registration scheme after I started my own application process for a trademark for my brand. Let's call this brand MYBRAND. As I did a search on the Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) system, I found that MYBRAND was already registered in the same class of goods that I was intending to apply for. The TDSR showed that the registrant was an individual in China. The application was submitted late last year and hasn't been assigned to an examining attorney yet.
By looking at the specimen of use in the application, I was able to find the website where the purported specimen is in use in commerce. Without going into too many details, this website is evidently being used to facilitate fraudulent registrations from China. A search of the website will yield various identical items, albeit photographed with very subtle differences, with different marks that have been applied for registration with the USPTO.
In the case of MYBRAND, I found 3 other registrations with pending applications with the USPTO that used the same item. Each registration originated in China from different registrants. I've found that another common characteristic of these registrations is that they all form non-sensical words with jumbled characters e.g. FOAJTNA, EAODJT, AJEHFJK, etc. (note: these are not the actual marks). Somehow, they chose a word that unfortunately (for them) coincides with MYBRAND.
To make a long story short, I was able to submit a Letter of Protest that was accepted by the USPTO after a second try due to my first submission containing some mistakes. For these two letters of protest, I had to pay a total of $100. The letter of protest submission has some strict guidelines which I only became aware of after the refusal of the first submission. When I go to the TDSR, the application page for the fraudulent mark now shows a new document entitled "LOP Memo to the EA" which includes the evidence that I submitted. In the submitted evidence, I was sure to include the links to the other fraudulent registrations that used the same website and specimen in their applications. However, looking at the other applications for the other marks, there is no LOP memo to EA.
Therefore, the other fraudulent applications will be permitted to go through successfully unless there is a Letter of Protest submitted for each one. Having already spent $100 to file a LOP for MYBRAND, I do not find it a viable option to file LOPs for the other fake brands even more so as I am not affected directly.
As far as I know, the Letter of Protest is the only way to inform the USPTO of fake registrations. I suspect that they are already understaffed and would be over-burdened if there was a need to investigate every claim of fake registration if reporting was to be made free. But by requiring a fee for the LOP, they have transferred the burden to the public.
In conclusion, the USPTO needs to open some other lines of communication for the public to report fraud without incurring significant financial burden if they are serious about combating these bad faith registrations.
- USPTO: Trademark Public Advisory Committee Meeting, 02/09/18, Page 35: "We have an influx of Chinese applications, we're having some specimen issues, we've got counterfeiting issues, we have bad faith filing issues. So let's just talk first about the influx of Chinese filings. It appears that there are subsidies being given by one or more provincial governments and those are one of the reasons for the influx." - USPTO Commissioner Mary Boney Denison https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/TPAC_Transcript_20180209.pdf
- USPTO Report: Trademarks and Patents in China, January 2021, Page 3-4: "The first of these non-market factors is subsidies. China has reportedly adopted more than 70 subnational trademark subsidy measures, including measures for domestic and foreign applications and registrations.11 Because the amount of these subsidies often exceeds the cost of registering a trademark, a rational economic actor in China may choose to pursue a trademark application without any intention to use the mark in commerce. [...] The particulars of the Shenzhen situation are instructive. In 2013, Shenzhen issued operating procedures that allowed applicants to seek a subsidy of RMB 5,000 (approximately $750) for trademark registrations in eligible foreign countries, including the United States.12 After the USPTO lowered the fee for its lowest-cost, fully electronic applications to $225 in 2015, the cost to file at the USPTO was substantially lower than the amount of the subsidy." https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USPTO-TrademarkPatentsInChina.pdf
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2024.05.15 05:38 No_Atmosphere_753 Basic FIF Guide
From what I have seen on this sub, there seems to be a lot of questions around Foreign Investment Funds (FIFs) and the way that income is calculated.
I am providing what is hopefully a brief, simple and easy to understand guide below and is applicable to individual investors only.
This is also only a basic guide, for more complex situations a discussion with a professional may be warranted.
I hope this helps answer some basic questions people have about FIFs and the way they are treated for tax purposes.
How do I know if my investment is a FIF investment? A FIF investment is an offshore investment that is either:
- A foreign company
- A foreign unit trust
- A foreign superannuation scheme
- An insurer under a foreign life insurance policy.
Am I required to make a FIF income calculation? A De-Minimis exemption exists for Natural Persons (Individual Investors), if the total ~cost~ of your FIF investments does not exceed $50,000 during the year, you do not need to calculate FIF Income. Instead you just return the actual dividends received (if any) from the FIF investments. This amount can be $100,000 in the case of joint ownership as the $50,000 would then apply at an individual level.
Please note that the De-Minimis exemption only applies to ~individual~ investors, other entities (companies, trusts etc.) are required to calculate FIF Income regardless of the overall cost.
If your ~cost~ basis is >$50,000, then FIF income needs to be calculated.
Example: Individual Investor A Total ~Cost~ of FIF Investments: $45,000, Market Value: $60,000
Individual Investor B Total ~Cost~ of FIF Investments: $55,000, Market Value: $40,000
Only Investor B would be required to make a FIF calculation as the De-Minimis exemption does not apply because their cost basis is >$50,000. Investor A could, however, elect to treat their investment as a FIF and return income under the FIF rules.
Another exemption that exists is for ASX-listed Australian Companies. It is important to note that there are some that are still regarded as a FIF Investment. You can check if an Australian investment is exempted via the IRD website:
https://www.ird.govt.nz/income-tax/income-tax-for-businesses-and-organisations/types-of-business-income/foreign-investment-funds-fifs/foreign-investment-fund-rules-exemptions/foreign-investment-fund-australian-listed-share-exemption-tool How do I calculate my FIF Income? I am only going to discuss the two most popular methods for FIF Income calculation that would apply to 95% of people, the FDR (Fair-Dividend Rate) method and the CV (Comparative Value) method.
The calculation that provides the total lowest value would be used. The method you choose must be applied to all investments, you cannot āCherry Pickā based on what is lowest at an individual investment level.
1. FDR Method: 5% of the Market Value at the beginning of the tax year + Quick-sale Adjustment
The quick-sale adjustment is not discussed. The quick sale adjustment applies when a FIF investment is purchased and sold within the same tax year.
2. CV Method: Closing Market Value + Gains ā Opening Market Value + Purchases
Example: Investment Cost: $50,000
Market Value as at 1 April 2023: $45,000
Market Value as at 31 March 2024: $55,000
Dividend Issued: $500
FDR Method: 45,000 x 5% = $2,250
CV Method: 55,000 + 500 ā 45,000 = $10,500
Assuming only this investment exists, the lowest value would be used, being the calculation under the FDR method. $2,250 would be returned as Income, the $500 dividend would be excluded income for income tax purposes.
The above calculations would be made for each of your FIF Investments.
If you end up with a negative value (loss), the loss cannot be claimed and your FIF Income would be $0. If a loss is incurred where you are forced to use the CV method, then this can be claimed.
Example: Total FIF Investments - FDR method: $10,000
Total FIF Investments - CV method: $9,000
You would still use the lowest of the two values. $9,000 under the CV method would be returned as income in your tax return.
There are also investments where the FDR method is prohibited and you are forced to return them under the CV method.
Example: Total FIF Investments - FDR method: $9,000
Total FIF Investments - CV method: $10,000
Total FIF Investments ā Forced CV: $500
You would return the FDR Calculation + the Forced CV calculation, total income $9,500.
As mentioned above, there are other methods to calculating FIF income, only the two most common methods have been discussed and would likely apply to 95% of individual investors.
FIFs can be a complex area of tax and if you are unsure, you should seek professional advice.
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2024.05.15 05:30 delibirdguy Top 500 Songs Ever (Subjective)
Over the course of the past few months I have been working on compiling a list of my 500 favorite songs. It was sort of challenge that I gave myself and I'm super pumped with how it turned out. There were a few rules (only 5 songs per artist being the big rule, among a few others), and here's the list I came up with. Thought it was fun, so wanted to share here and see if it might spark any discussion about song placement, lack of songs/artists, or see if anyone had any similar lists. All thoughts are welcome! (and if you don't care to comb through all 500 songs for your favorite song or artist I'm more than happy to help you track 'em down)
- Trash Panda - Aging out of the 20th Century
- Djo - Roddy
- The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down
- Snail Mail - Heat Wave
- Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex
- Joji - SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK
- The Shins - The Fear
- Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
- The Cranberries - Linger
- Post Animal - Ralphie
- Hop Along - Not Abel
- The Beach Boys - Heroes And Villains
- Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing
- The Monkees - As We Go Along
- Blondie - Heart Of Glass
- The Strokes - Oblivius
- Chet Baker - It's Always You
- The Beatles - Rain
- Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line
- Husbands - Must Be a Cop
- Faces - Ooh La La
- The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
- Frank Ocean - Nights
- Harry James - It's Been a Long, Long Time
- The Turtles - Happy Together
- Etta James - At Last
- The Zombies - The Way I Feel Inside
- The Beatles - Here, There And Everywhere
- The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
- Kanye West - Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1
- Briston Maroney - Sinkin'
- John Lennon - Oh My Love
- Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Ladyfingers
- Squirrel Flower - Headlights
- The Backseat Lovers - Maple Syrup
- The B-52's - Rock Lobster
- George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
- Snail Mail - Ben Franklin
- Laura Elliott - Grass Stains
- Djo - Chateau (Feel Alright)
- Tame Impala - Eventually
- The Backseat Lovers - Snowbank Blues
- Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune
- The Weeknd - Save Your Tears
- Talking Heads - Thank You for Sending Me an Angel
- The Zombies - Time of the Season
- The War On Drugs - Nothing to Find
- Queen - Brighton Rock
- The Dream Academy - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
- The B-52's - Strobe Light
- The Cranberries - Dreams
- Fugees - Killing Me Softly With His Song
- Molchat Doma - Š¢Š¾ŃŠŗŠ°
- Tyler, The Creator - ARE WE STILL FRIENDS?
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2024.05.15 05:23 PLUTO_HAS_COME_BACK VibhajjavÄda and SarvÄstivÄda: Analysing the Heart Sutra from Theravadin PerspectiveāPart 8
3.4. Mahishasaka or SarvÄstivÄdis
[wisdomlib.org:] [Mahishasaka had the doctrines] similar to those of the Mahasanghika. [Mahishasaka] denied reality to past and future, but maintained the reality of the present. Similarly, the school rejected the doctrine of the void and the non ego, the production of taint by the Five consciousness, the theory of nine kinds of non activity, and so on. They held that enlightenment came suddenly rathern than gradually.
Mahasamghika split from the SthaviravÄda (Theravada or Dhamma-Vinaya) and produced many schools.
According to the TheravÄdin DÄ«pavaį¹sa, the SarvÄstivÄdins emerged from the older MahÄ«ÅÄsaka school, but the ÅÄriputraparipį¹cchÄ and the Samayabhedoparacanacakra state that the MahÄ«ÅÄsaka emerged from the SarvÄstivÄda. [Sarvastivada (wiki)]
Some Vajjian monks, who were possibly the followers of Devadatta, established the Mahasamghika after the schism after rejecting ten Vinaya rules. Like a few other monks, a Vajjian monk complained about the Vinaya rules. The story is recorded in
Vajjiputta Sutta, which was utilised to support an argument that the Dhamma-Vinaya tradition added new rules. Indeed, the Buddha, the founder of the Dhamma-Vinaya Sasana, added new rules as required. However, before His passing He let the monks remove the minor rules, but the monks kept all the 227 rules. Only some Vajjian monks once again attempted to remove ten rules and split the Sangha after their attempt failed. These rebel monks founded many schools that united into Mahayana. The SarvÄstivÄdis wrote many famous Mahayanist scriptures.
GandhÄran MahÄ«ÅÄsakas are associated with the Pure Land teachings of AmitÄbha Buddha. [Seated Buddha Amitabha statue.jpg (wiki)]
- MÄdhyamika Also known as: ÅÅ«nyavÄda, Shunyavada, Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Sarvastivada Also known as: Sarvastivadin, Vaibhashika, Encyclopaedia Britannica
MahÄsaį¹
ghikÄs revised the Dhamma and Vinaya in their own way. The revised collections were known as ÄcariyavÄda as distinguished from the TheravÄda of the First Buddhist Council. DÄ«pavaį¹sa says, that the MahÄsaį¹
ghikÄs did not stop after changing the Vinaya rules. They went further by laying down for themselves new doctrines contrary to the established ones. They recited for their purposes the sÅ«tras and Vinaya, they made alterations in the texts and their arrangements and interpretations.
There are four kinds of teachings, that can be accepted as the Buddha's words ā sutta, suttÄnuloma, ÄcariyavÄda, attanomati. In ParinibbÄna Sutta there are other four kinds of teaching ā BuddhÄpadesa, Saį¹
ghÄpadesa, SambahulattherÄpadesa, EkattherÄpadesa. They are not contradicting each other.
They also replaced portions of the text by others according to their liking and even rejected certain parts of the canon though they have been accepted according to the tradition of MahÄ Kassapa's council. They refused ParivÄra and Abhidhamma Pakaraį¹a, Paį¹isambhidÄ, Niddesa and JÄtaka.
MahÄsaį¹
ghikÄs divided their canon into five parts: 1. SÅ«tra, 2. Vinaya, 3. Abhidhamma, 4. Miscellaneous, 5. DhÄranÄ«s. [ Notes from BPU Sri Lanka - Third Year ]
According to Sibani Barman in
Dipavamsa (study):
Chapter 2d - The Third Buddhist Council,
the VibhajjavÄdins claim that their theories and Canon are same as the original Sthaviras (the elders).
- But that statement is untruthful. KaccÄnagotta Sutta is a living proof. This is explained in 3.3.
SarvÄstivÄdis Doctrines
[
David Bastow. The first argument for Sarvastivada. Asian Philosophy Vol. 5 No. 2 Oct.1995 Pp.109-125 Copyright by Asian Philosophy]
[Bastow:] The argument is two-fold: that past states of mind can be directly perceived; and that the temporal and causal context of these states of mind, including their karmic future and the possibility of an alternative saving future, can also be directly perceived.
In demonstrating their belief, the SarvÄstivÄdis attacked, the Venerable Maugdalyayana in the Maugdalyayana-skandhaka, the first chapter of the Vijnanakaya (200 BCE?):
[Bastow:] The sramana Maugdalyayana says: The past and the future do not exist; the present and the unconditioned (asainskrta) exist.
- Atacked: Singled out a thera, ignored the Buddha, and attacked the Dhamma;
- The Venerable Maugdalyayana represents the Sakyamuni Buddha.
- The past is memory, not the present dhamma. The past as memory is perceived, not lived nor imagined. The past as perceived is not lived, but it was lived, so it can be perceived.
- The future is yet to be lived, so it cannot be perceived, but it can be planned, expected and imagined.
[Bastow:] Section 1: [The SarvÄstivÄdis argued based on] probably Anguttara Nikaya III section 69 (i.e. A i 201-3). "There are three akusala-mulani (roots of ill, roots leading to bad consequences). These are lobha, greed; dvesa, anger; and moha, confusion." From this agreed premise the argument proceeds, first taking the case of lobha. There is no doubt then that there has been, is, will be a seeing that lobha is akusala (otherwise translated: a seeing of akusala--presumably meaning akusala-dharmas--in or through lobha). The lobha that is thus seen--is it past, present or future? If it is past or future, then it must be admitted that past or future exist. So could it be present?
- Lobha (greed) which existed in the past does not exist now, nor will exist in the future. When the object that caused that state of mind dimished, that greed also dimished. For example, one ate a certain food with greed. After eating it, greed was replaced by another state of mind, sleepiness, which was about sleeping and delusion. Sleepiness is different from craving for food. One does not get sleepy for food.
- If the same greed were to exist until now, one must be greedy the same way one was greedy for that food. Then one must not have different states of mind, anger and delusion.
- Greed cannot liberate anyone from anger and delusion.
- If that greed and all other greed must exist right now, greed must be accumulating and becoming too much to handle.
- And there were times of anger and delusion.
- Can anyone proove they are suffering from all the greed, anger and delusion which they had in the past?
[Bastow:] To allow this would involve admitting that there are in one pudgala two simultaneous cittas, states of consciousness; but this cannot be admitted. However, there must be seeing of either past lobha, or future lobha, or present lobha; otherwise it could not be that someone sees that lobha, akusalamula, is akusala. And in that case it would not happen that someone becomes repelled by lobha, detached, freed from lobha, obtains nirvana (or has obtained or will obtain nirvana).
- Hetu paccaya (root condition)
- Root (anusaya) exists but not as a plant (lobha).
[Anusaya Sutta:] its root destroyed, made like a palmyra stump, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for future arising; [Thanissaro Bhikkhu] [Anusaya] are identified or associated with kleÅa, paryavasthÄna, and Äsrava, and they are the ārootā of bhava [Dr. Ari Ubeysekara:] The seventh and the last of the latent tendencies is [obsession with ignorance (avijjanusaya)] which can be considered as the root cause of all unwholesome actions.
- Root (obsession) of greed is not greed.
- Nibbana is realised by exhausting the past kamma committed based on greed, anger and delusion.
- Anusaya Sutta: Obsessions (1): the seven obsessions
[Bastow:] The same argument is then applied to other things that can be seen with respect to lobha: it can be seen that lobha is a fetter, a bondage, an anusaya; and further that lobha is to be rejected, to be left behind, to be abandoned, to be fully known (prajna).
- SarvÄstivÄdis knew about anusaya, but they might not understand it as explained by the Sakyamuni Buddha.
- Lobha comes into being when consciousness comes to contact with a sight, sound, smell, taste, touch or thought of an object/subject that is alluring.
- Dosa comes into being when consciousness comes to contact with a sight, sound, smell, taste, touch or thought of an object/subject that is agitating/annoying.
- Moha comes into being when consciousness comes to contact with a sight, sound, smell, taste, touch or thought of an object/subject that is difficult, mysterious, deluding...
- Lobha, dosa, and moha cannot exist at the same moment of consciousness, nor unconscious-ness.
- Lobha, dosa, and moha are cetasika.
- Citta and cetasika need each other's support to stand like the two sheaves of reeds.
- Lobha, dosa, and moha cannot be abandoned, but they must be eradicated by digging out the roots.
Devadaha Sutta (2)
[SN 22:2 Venerable SÄriputta explained to a large number of monks:] āWhen one is not free from passion, desire, love, thirst, fever, & craving for [rÅ«pa], then from any change & alteration in that [rÅ«pa], there arises sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, & despair. When one is not free from passionā¦ for feelingā¦ for perceptionā¦ for fabricationsā¦ & despair. When one is not free from passion, desire, love, thirst, fever, & craving for consciousness... & despair. Seeing this danger, our teacher teaches the subduing of passion & desire for [rÅ«pa]ā¦ for feelingā¦ for perceptionā¦ for fabrications. Seeing this danger our teacher teaches the subduing of passion & desire for consciousness.ā
by Surendranath Dasgupta 1922 212,082 words ISBN-13: 9788120804081
Quoting
Vasumitra (100 A.D.), Surendranath Dasgupta presents three major Mahayanist groups as doctrinally not very different, and the Hindu authors ignored their (minor) differences.
- MahÄsaį¹
ghikas: the body was filled with mind {citta) which was represented as sitting,
- PrajƱaptivÄdins: no agent in man, no untimely death, for it was caused by the previous deeds of man,
- SarvÄstivÄdins believed that everything existed.
We can observe how all these doctrines are presented in the earliest Mahayanist sutras, particularly the MahÄprajƱÄpÄramitÄÅÄstra, the PrajƱÄpÄramitÄhį¹dayasÅ«tra, the Lankavatara Sutra, Saddharma Pundarika Sutra (the Lotus Sutra).
the PrajƱaptivÄdins had inaugurated the ÅÅ«nyavÄda by drawing up a list of ten emptinesses. In the MahÄvibhÄį¹£Ä [...] we read [...] there are many ÅÅ«nyatÄs [...] Were the PrajƱaptivÄdins the inventors of these ten ÅÅ«nyatÄs or were they borrowed from the MahÄyÄnists? [II. Emptiness in the HinayÄnist sects]
Gelongma Karma Migme Chƶdrƶn asks that question. The Hindu writers seem to have the answer:
[Dasgupta] When the Hindu writers refer to the Buddhist doctrine in general terms such as āthe Buddhists sayā without calling them the VijƱÄnavÄdins or the YogÄcÄras and the ÅÅ«nyavÄdins, they often refer to the SarvÄstivÄdins by which they mean both the SautrÄntikas and the VaibhÄį¹£ikas, ignoring the difference that exists between these two schools.
NÄgÄrjuna did not consider the PrajƱaptivÄdins as Mahayanists. Mahayana did not exist when the MahÄsaį¹
ghikas was formed after the second schism (Devadatta's schism was the first), so they are considered as
SthaviravÄdis, who produced
PrajƱaptivÄdins and
SarvÄstivÄdins. By AD 5th-6th, Bodhidharma arrived to China, and according to him, Mahayana was well-established as the Yogacara school, which adopted the Lankavatara Sutra.
Bodhidharma was believed to have introduced the Lankavatara Sutra to Chinese Buddhism. This sutra was a development of the Yogacara (āMind-onlyā) school of Buddhism established by the great masters Asanga and Vasubandhu, and Bodhidharma is described as a āmaster of the Lankavatara Sutraā. [ Bodhidharma ā the founder of Gongfu (Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor Adeline)]
The authors of the Lankavatara were the
SarvÄstivÄdins.
[Bodhidharma:] the only reason Iāve come to China is to transmit the instantaneous teaching of the Mahayana This mind is the Buddha. (Bloodstream Sermon)
[Bodhidharma:] "This nature is the mind. And the mind is the buddha."
[Lanka:] this triple world is nothing but a complex manifestation of oneās mental activities."
Bodhidharma, known as an expert in the ten-stage sutra, was a zen master, from the Yogacara school. He did not know vipassana, as he condemned arhats. He was clearly a follower of Mahadeva, who authored the five points downgrading the arhats.
[Bodhidharma:] Among Shakyamuniās ten greatest disciples, Ananda was foremost in learning. But he didnāt know the Buddha. All he did was study and memorize. Arhats donāt know the Buddha...
Bodhidharma did not know the meaning of arhat. NÄgÄrjuna defines arhat in
MahÄprajƱÄpÄramitÄÅÄstra as follow:
[quote]
1.
Ara means enemy (
ari) and
hat means to kill (
han). The expression therefore means ākiller of enemiesā.
\1]) Some stanzas say:
The Buddha has patience (kį¹£Änti) as his armor (varman), Energy (vÄ«rya) as his helmet (ÅÄ«rį¹£aka),
Discipline (ÅÄ«la) as his great steed (mahÄÅva),
DhyÄna as his bow (dhanus),
Wisdom (prajƱÄ) as his arrows (Åara).
Outwardly, he destroys the army of [MÄra] (https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/mara#mahayana) (*mÄrasena*).
Inwardly, he destroys the passions (kleÅa), his enemies.
He is called Arhat.
- Furthermore, A marks negation and rahat means āto be bornā. The expression means, therefore, āunbornā. The seeds (bÄ«ja) of the mind of the Buddha (buddhacitta) ādo not ariseā in the field of rebirths (punarbhavakį¹£etra), for ignorance (avidyÄ) in him has been dissolved.
[end quote] Nevertheless, the Flower Sermon, which was composed in 1036 states that Mahayana comes from
Kashyapa, whom Bodhidharma mentions in the Bloodstream Sermon. Based on Bodhidharma's attitude to the arhats, that Kashyapa could not be the Venerable Mahakassapa, the father of the Sangha who established the Theravada. However, that Kashapa appears in the Lankavatara Sutra:
Kashyapa (fl. 400 B.C.) . Also known as Uruvilva Kashyapa or Mahakashyapa, he was the eldest of the three Kashyapa brothers and among the Buddhaās earliest disciples. He was also Indiaās First Patriarch of Zen. [Lankavatara Sutra: Glossary. Page 458]
The Mahayanists expect they could become Buddhas by following these individuals.
The Flower Sermon (1036 AD) : the Buddha gathered his disciples together for a talk on Dharma. Instead of speaking, however, the Buddha simply held up a lotus flower in front of him without saying a word. āI possess the true Dharma eye, the marvelous mind of NirvÄį¹a, the true form of the formless, the subtle Dharma gate that does not rest on words or letters but is a special transmission outside of the scriptures. This I entrust to Mahakasyapa.ā
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2024.05.15 05:22 featherwinglove I did it again, a new Trimps novelization (more faithful to story messages than the other one) Tightniks Run Zero
[OC Intro: The game is modded to increase basic jobs cost, seasonal events are disabled. Much of the crash details are based on NASA/SP-2008-565 Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report recommendations especially Chapter 3 "Occupant Protection".]
The ship is without power, and Tightniks can't run the radar much without draining the batteries. He has only a few minutes of APU power left, goes over the best clearing he can find, and radars it. It varies by only a few feet from the aerodynamic glideslope there. He spots it out on the cameras and circles to go after that spot. He's only at two hundred feet now. With one hand on the stick, he uses the other to open the pressure equalization valve on the side hatch, then at one hundred feet, gets it undogged. Depending on how much damage he's going to get, it's less likely to be stuck closed and trap him. The dynamic vacuum this pulls in the cockpit rips most of the survival pack data cards from that rack and scatters them across the landscape. Crap, I'm gonna need those! Refocusing on surviving the next few seconds, he turns on the radar for the final approach, takes a last look around, then straight ahead at his forward camera and PFD, he clicks his HANS and shoulder strap locks in; after that, he can barely move, but that now is better than dying in this crash with a broken neck. He's a decent pilot and brings up the flare gently. Bringing up the alpha on this delta-winged ship, he balloons a little, but keeps the nose going up and restores a zero aerodynamic sink rate just above the highest terrain indicated by the radar altimeter. The ship bumps a little in the ground effect, and he can see the radar altitude cycling irregularly up and down about five feet at a time. Rougher than it looked from higher up! The body flap protecting the dead engines hits first, and the nose comes rapidly down. It hits, the screens go blank, and Tightniks is surrounded by airbags, some lifting his feet from the rudder petals and his hand from the control stick. It's blinding, it's disorienting, it's noisy, and, to his relief, it's long! It takes several seconds before the crashing cockpit stops moving. How many times did he flip over? Did he go sideways and roll? Am I rightside up? Are we really stopped on the ground? The airbags deflate, and he can move his arms. He gets his restraints loose and inspects himself. "Uck!" he says out loud (without the 'f'). No broken bones. His pressure suit can take his blood pressure. 116/81, pulse 112, blood oxygen 99 reads off on his left arm, I'll friggin' take it!
The ship is amazingly intact from what he can tell. He can't get any readings. The systems test meter seems to be working, but can't find any voltages anywhere. The ship seems to be completely dead. Behind him, 10 passenger seats are all surrounded by airbags and the back of the cabin ends in some sort of dirt-and-gravel and there's a bit of daylight seeping in around the edges. He was the only one on board, though, so their deployment was mostly academic (they might have stiffened the structure a little during the crash, but that's probably trivial.) Tightniks gets out of his spacesuit. The air on this planet is actually breathable. He gets the hatch open, steps outside and-
"A green shimmer erupts then disappears, and you hit the ground."
The human emerges from the glowing green mist and hits the ground. Groans. Pushes against that ground, trying to get back up. Where am I? What's my name? I remember nothing. Aren't babies born naked? He's got a dark blue button-down shirt on. A uniform? A shoulder patch. Gets up, looks around. I feel really heavy. I'm not that fat, am I? He picks up a small stone from the ground, this also feels heavier than it should. He rises to his feet and holds it out somewhat (he's unable to fully extend his arm) and lets it go. The stone hits the ground near his feet quickly and with remarkable speed. It's the gravity, it's greater than it is on- ...where am I from? This is- ...not my home planet? "Oooh..."
"Ka?" it says.
What is that? It's cute, at least.
It is not tame. He has no hope of catching it on foot. The creature seems to like the berries. Maybe if I gather some of those into one place and set some kind of trap...
33s: First trap.
I got one! The human lumbers up to the trap and gets the catch open. Do you bite? It doesn't matter much to me; I'm so friggin' screwed.
It doesn't. It looks at the human with a sense of wonder, actually. A blink and tilt of the head. Seems almost to be asking, Is it you? My purpose? My savior? Once out of the trap, which is totally wrecked, he has to make a new one from scratch, it follows him around like a imprinted hatchling bird.
Wiry little fella, you are. You're going to need some bulking up to do anything useful. The- ...'trimp', I guess... The trimp seems just barely able to feed itself. The human lets him into the broken ship's intact cabin, and it curls up comfortably in a passenger seat for a nap.
1m03s: Second trap.
"Apparently the Trimps breed if they're not working. Doesn't look pleasant."
What are they doing?
The trimps appear to be androgynous, and these two have paired off in the back of the ship. They're holding something carefully within a few hours, feeding it berries, grass, and- ...corundum.
Corundum?? Whatever that is, it isn't a baby.
1m35s: Third trap.
Only it IS a baby! The third trimp he trapped immediately joined the other two in raising it. They have a strange diet of food the human has found compatible with his own body, but they also eat rocks! They're careful to crush and sort aluminate minerals from silcate ones and only eat aluminate. Actually, they don't eat aluminate, they're only feeding it to the baby.
2m06s: Fourth trap.
All four are raising the same child, who is just starting to toddle. It seems these fellas have alumina or maybe even aluminum bones. The human takes a nap and wakes to find the first child grown up and they're starting to raise a second child, all five of them.
2m46s: Huts.
The human found a working bit of electronics. He calls it a pad, but maybe it's more like a smartphone. It has plans for two residential structures. The first, the smaller one, he can build right away, but the second one needs something called "drywall", and he has to figure out how to make that before he can build it. Huts and houses, apparently.
3m13s: 10 pop, full, first farmer.
The trimp he trained to farm and make paper took an incredible 50 units of food to get bulked up to do the work, and now it's not participating in rearing the child. But less than an hour after the trimp started farming and pulping, the child was out on its own, and the trimps did not start another. The ten seats on the ship were all full. Well, eleven counting the one up front that the human sleeps in. The pilot starts exploring the area.
3m28s: Battle.
Wait, what are you do-
The hostile roars and charges at the human, but one of his trimps jumps in front of him with a stick and they fight. It started right when the human got far enough away from the ship that the hostile non-trimps away from the ship began to regard him as leaving his own territory. After the trimp defeats the first enemy, it continues after other hostiles.
3m53s: Shield I in Z1c5.
The human is easily able to recover the loot in the territory cleared by the fighting trimp. Then he sees something glinting in the- That can't be! What the heck is that? It's a data card that fits his pad. It quite clearly regards trimp combat. He gets it loaded into his pad and studies it. I can do this, it just takes some wood. He returns to the ship to discover that they had already started on a new child before the fighter had even expired in battle. The human concentrates on his research.
4m38s: Mskel in Z1c11 defeated.
The remains of this one seem rather white and shiny. It's titanium! This enemy had titanium bones! He'll store them away. They'll be useful someday, I'm sure.
5m52s: Dagger I in Z1c20.
Where are these data cards coming from? The human wonders as he loads this one into his pad, It's for a weapon it calls a dagger. He blinks. I don't know what a dagger is. I'll take your word for it, data card. Needs metal. He has gathered some, but ore is plentiful. He can just dig and smelt it whenever he wants. For now, I'll continue researching.
6m18s: Arable in Z1c21.
It's an old cave that trimps like to live in. Why weren't they able to live there before? How could these friendly critters be confined to only the exact spot where THAT thing, he looks back where he came from, not remembering that he piloted the wrecked ship to its current resting place, crashed? This is really strange. I'll let them fill up this cave before advancing further. Wait, what about defenses? The hostiles never try to reclaim territory that they've lost, so he stops worrying about that fairly quickly.
8m22s: First hut is 0.3% first ever AP.
The trimps seem fairly easy to please in terms of living quarters. Two move into his first hut and start raising a child. The human has his tent, uniform, and the heater pilfered from his space suit. Not much of a mud fan.
9m59s: Miners in Z1c30.
Oh, what's on this data card? Sl3niw? Oh, I'm holding the pad upside down. Miners. I can teach trimps how to mine ores and smelt met- 200 units of food? Each job is getting more expensive to train a trimp for. He puts his bee nickels to his eyes and spots another data card probably 10 enemies away. "Sc"? Does that means science? I can teach trimps to do science??
13m57s: Scientists in Z1c40.
Due to the expense of training trimps, the human couldn't afford to build them shields until now, he's got Sh1-3 made for the fighter to capture the science training data card. 14m02s: One head went into that turtlimp shell, that of his fighter, but two came out: his fighter still has his head on, and he managed to get the turtlimp's head off. It rushes off after the deadly penguimp in the next cell. The shields are not doing all that much good, actually, but they're better than nothing. The human picks up and loads the science data card and- Holy runny sugar-free fudge crap! 1000 food units, but it'll endow them with the ability to speak. Good. I'm getting bored with no one to talk to.
14m28s: Bloodlust purchased and AutoFight enabled (that delay after getting it is an effect of jacking up the job cost.)
As the human buries this expired little trimp warrior, he comes to the sobering realization that he has more trimp graves in his growing trimp colony than he does live trimps. And yet they seem more hopeful now than before I got to know any of them. They seem to think I'm the solution to all their problems or- Those two look east somberly, then notice that he's watching them and smile back and wave at him. ...one problem that is specific, but very, very huge for them. [The only reason I say 'east' is because that's right on a map, and the game advances right across a row, then up. I might say 'northeast' on occasion for that reason.]
20m47s: Z1c73, Miners taken.
Are you my new mining foreman? The trimp who took to the mining training has dark brown fur that lays flat on its head. It's unusual in not having any bits that stick out from its head, ahoge or whatever. This one is relatively quiet, and while it has assimilated the mining and smelting knowledge, it needs to bulk up to do any mining. Smelting is relatively easy, and getting a strong natural draft going in a furnace is almost trivial with the increased gravity. This trimp builds furnaces like nothing. And likes to nap in holes it digs right on the spot; it's weird that way. [Puchim@s Yukipo, and furnaces are not explicit in Trimps.]
21m58s: Farming in Z1c80.
The resourcing "books" are not data cards but paper scrolls, apparently lost to the trimps. It seems that they were civilized in the recent past and some calamity swept over the planet to reduce them to this. Did I have something to do with it? Amnesia sucks harder than a Dyson- ...what's a Dyson? Whatever, it sucks. This disaster happening just before I crash in the only spot with trimps still alive would be a seriously crazy coincidence! Something is really, really wrong about all this. [The author has not sought or received product placement permission or fee from Dyson Technology Ltd. or any resellers of their stuff, just they literally suck balls and made my favorite vacuum cleaner.]
23m50s: Builder in Z1c90.
They've rescued an, I dunno, gelding trimp? It just started to build a shed around the piled lumber I left to build one. It's really slow compared to me, and just banged its thumb, but it is super cute with that long reddish head fur. That particular trimp is also fascinated with pink ribbons and likes to decorate its head fur with them. Because of its inherent inability to participate in rearing children, it isn't counted in the population. [Puchim@s Io, builder on the basis of Iori seen building in 1x10.]
26m02s: Zone 2, 44 pop, 5.5s RC with Z0/1.
It's some sort of tactical manual - tactical coordination. Coordination! He's starting to sort out some trimpese on the research he has done so far. It needs a lot of metal, so they won't be able to implement it for some time. Hopefully, they're still good one at a time, but these enemies seem to be getting bigger as we go along. Uh oh!
27m33s: Gym in Z2c5.
It's some sort of training dojo or sporting arena. The human examines the ruins, I think I can back-engineer drawings for this, get one built, and see what happens.
29m02s: 1g, 47 pop, 10.8s RC with Z1/2.
The two fighting trimps now with their gym and coordination are dodging and blocking enthusiastically, and making much faster ground against the bad guys then a little while ago when it was just one trimp fighting at a time and unable to avoid the enemy hitting back.
40m46s: Fresh turkimp in Z2c74, 63 pop, 7.9s RC, Sh1-10, Da1-5, Bo1-3, Ma1-3, Hm1-3, 6g.
Oh, wow, the laborers seem really hot after this turkimp. He cooks it up and tries a slice. It's really awesome! I have to work alongside his laboring trimps to share it, but I'm getting used to the gravity now. That scroll we found back in Z2c10 really helped. Trimps' techniques and appliances for handicapped individuals, and I'm really handicapped in this higher gravity. He joins the woodcutters with the turkimp; they're the most numerous resource laborer right now, building more gyms, enough that the block/dodge ability of the fighting trimps is almost caught up to the enemy's ability to cause damage.
43m15s: Zone 3, 63 pop, 7.9s RC with Z1/2.
I'm neglecting my science and trimp scientists are really expensive. Curiously, that grey-haired one can't speak all that well, only says "Tai" and "Shijou", but it can write and draw like nobody's business. It's the only scientist so far. [Puchim@s Takanya: Online references probably still claim that she can utter the first two syllables of any word, but she can actually utter only the first two kana syllables of someone's name, most often the given name of basis human Takane Shijou, who also has that habit. (All the utterances of the puchidoru are based on the speech foibles of their basis humans except maybe Piyopiyo, where I haven't seen anything match up so far.)]
47m32s: Finally, we can make drywall and houses. 59m30s: Z3c77, 94 pop, 7.8s RC.
Oh, those poor things are really struggling up at the front. These trimps are enthusiastic and know no fear, but I still feel like telling them to stop for a while. I don't have the heart to keep them from trying while they're still doing some damage.
1h05m24s: Zone 4, 107 pop, 9.3s RC with Z3/4. 1h15m26s: Zone 5, 120 pop, 8.2s RC with Z3/4.
"What is that?" the human asks. He has three scientists. His first does all the writing, but the other two can actually speak. One of them hops up on a rock spire beside the human to reach his eye level.
At the next ridge line, over the lowest and most passable gap in the terrain, this really mean looking hovering sausage monster.
"I dunno," the scientist trimp shrugs, "But it's making me hungry. Looks like a perfectly cooked frankfurter from here." [John Morell's dubious dirigibles.]
"Oh, yeah," the human nods, "that's a blimp."
"A blimp?" the trimp tilts its head quizzically at the human, "How could you know?"
"I wish I could tell you, little buddy," the human extends his arm braces to descend the pass on the side of the zone boundary in the boss enemy's direction, then grunts, "Let's go kill it."
1h16m11s: Z1c9, 120 pop, 10.3s RC with Z4/5. 1h33m34s: Zone 6, 151 pop, 7.4s RC with Z4/5.
1h33m54s: TP in Z1c3.
"What's this?" the human asks, having picked up the little square document with the curling corners.
"Oh," the hungry scientist looks at it, "It's a garden path, follow me."
"You want to lead me down the garden path?" the human says.
"Yeah," the scientist says.
"Are you kidding?" the human asks.
"No," says the other scientist, "We don't get human humor. Listen, these fighters can't go, let them wear themselves out here, then we'll take the next group through this garden."
"Okay," the human nods, watching two more trimps join the fray as he issues the Z5 coordination orders, "they're doing pretty well after all that block training research we just wrapped up." [That's a common artifact, even in normal games, Z5 Traintacular combines with many gyms, enough population to add several trainers, affording Blockmaster, which is expensive on a run zero, plus a break on Tion Z5, a 40% all-stat increase. I don't think Zach designed it into the game on purpose, it just worked out this way.]
1h34m07s: 151 pop, 10.5s RC with Z5/7. 1h37m44s: Drop from Z6c39, TP for 3.
"Now we have these access map frags we can use to route through the old trimpopoli," the scientist explains, "Atlimpis for food, Morimpa for gems, Everimp for metal, and Impazon for wood."
"What about the garden?" the human asks.
"Well, we got lucky with Tricky Paradise," the scientist says, "but you can randomize the route and maybe get lucky. What's with that look?"
"Somehow, I'm remembering 'frag' as something that blew up with deadly pieces," the human says. [Different video games - ones with better graphics and worse gameplay ļ¼Æ(>ā½<)ļ¼Æ]
1h39m59s: Blues back up to the top on series I...
"Tai, Tai!" the first ever trimp scientist stops the human just before he upgrades the mace and dagger to Mk.6 and Mk. 8 respectively. It has a note for him.
"Why do you keep calling me that?" the human asks, "Do you think that's my name?"
"Shijou, Shijou," it nods as though to indicate, I KNOW it is. Then it proffers its note again. The human takes it and reads, "Don't upgrade the first row equipment right now."
"Why not?" the human asks.
"Shijou," it points at the end of the mapped route, where there's a scroll sticking out of the thistles.
2h24m07s: Zone 8, 224 pop, 12.2s RC with Z7/12.
"Your settlement is getting crowded, there's Trimps in the streets, and you're taking heat. You feel a sudden strong desire to create a map, though you're not quite sure how that would help."
2h49m10s: Zone 9, 357 pop, 9.5s RC with Z8/15.
"You can't shake the feeling that you've been here before. DĆ©jĆ -vu?"
The trimps really seem to like the new high capacity mansions, and the village has rapidly expanded since they started building them.
"There's something familiar about this," the human says.
"Tai," the grey one that writes clings to his arm and shows him a note that says, "Don't give up now."
"We must persist," says the yellow one has found a foothold it can grab onto and grabs the human's shoulder gently, "If you give up to early, we'll never solve this. You'll be stuck here forever."
The human puts his hand over the trimp's paw on his shoulders, then looks at him, "I can die, too."
"No, you can't," the trimp says quietly, "Please don't test that, tall one."
"Death is just another path..." he remembers.
"Gan," the grey one squeaks. [That's the first two kana syllables of "Gandalf"]
"...one that we all must take," the human continues, "The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it-"
"A green mist," the yellow trimp interrupts, "flash of fire, we're all gone and our progress forgotten. The wandering stars return to that day, and you again crash that ship- ...a little better every time."
"Wait," the human looks around, "have I been here before?"
"I-" the yellow trimp tries in futility to share what little it knows, "...or... somebody got just a little coolant into the-"
"Into the what?"
"This side up," the grey one's note says.
"Into the that," the yellow one points at the note, "It really helped. You- ...I don't think we've ever had mansions before."
Well, of course they didn't have mansions before. That was one of my ship's data cards. How did it get way out here? Will anything start to make sense?
3h02m13s: Zone 10, 387 pop, 8.7s RC with Z8/15; '28s: 11.1s RC with Z9/19. 3h16m41s: Tough snimp after food book, L10 rand dept from lo-hi-med 118/25/96, 4 Items.
"That's twice our frags led us to gem-rich Moria," the human says.
"Morimpa," the new red trimp scientist corrects, there now being 5 scientists. [There'd be more if there were more turkimp.]
"The question is how do we use all these gems?" the human looks at the village zoning plans again, "I like those mansions and all, but they use hardly any gems compared to, well-" he gestures at the pile of over two dozen thousand gems they've gathered, "-that! And still a lot of wood and lumber."
"I think there's something," the yellow one sighs, "I wish I knew more."
Quite some time later, after they're done looting that route for equipment plans, the trimps are again advancing through Zone 10, and he hears it.
"Tai?" the grey one wonders.
"Where are you going?" the yellow one asks.
"To the farm," the human answers.
"Whatever for?" the red one seems exasperated.
"Shijou?" the grey one sighs, then looks at the fighting front. It's been around long enough to remember, "Shijou!"
"You guys already get so much to eat this doesn't do you much good," the human explains.
3h32m33s: L11 112/35/78 rand sea, dropped from Z11c6 with disband, 4.
"What's wrong?" the red one asks.
The human comforts one of the wounded. Once trimps start into a zone fight, they have to finish before they bleed out. He's really bothered making them desert in front of that second turkimp. "They had a lot left in them," he sighs, rubbing his eyes, "but we can't keep that much dead turkimp at once, we have to leave it alive to use up all of this one."
"Shijou," the grey one presents a note, "We need this map right away, anyway. Don't worry about it, Tightniks."
"Tightniks?" he looks at the grey one, "Is that me? How do you know?"
"Tai," the grey one points at the top of the human's left breast pocket.
"Ah, crud," the yellow one curls its tail around in front of itself as trimps do when they're embarrassed, "Is that really a name tag?"
The human hadn't even noticed it since the green flash blew up his memory as he was stepping out of the ship.
4h04m22s: Block (sub-8h AP is only 0.3%), taking it, 504 pop, 9.8s RC with Z10/24.
It's a pretty thick book about using shields for block instead of hit points. The pad has the stats analysis. Sh3-1 is only giving us 9% of our hit points. Turning to his trimp scientists, he says, "It seems to me to be worth it."
"Let's," the yellow one nods.
"Shijou," it hands him a note, "It scales badly, but that won't matter for a long time. I think there's a way to undo it before it matters."
"Doing it." The human takes out his pad and starts scanning.
4h29m05s: L14 rand moun 137/26/80 is really good for a lo-hi-med. 4h30m52s: Hotels.
"Ah," the yellow one says, "I knew there was something. That must be it."
5h08m09s: L15 lo-hi-hi rand gard 129/28/82 (just got explorers). 5h09m32s: Picked up Wall.
"Dam," the human says.
"Damn?" the red one chuckles.
"No," the human says, "Earthen wall dam; it's a thing that makes artificial lakes by holding rivers back."
"Lakes?" the yellow one asks, "Rivers?"
"Oh yeah," the human says, "This planet doesn't have enough rain for those..."
5h48m21: Leaving Wall from about c70 to fetch Tion Z15.
"You can't resume the map from the same point if you start another," the human reads the grey one's note.
"We can go back to the same point on that route if we hold there and finish Zone 15, right?" Tightniks asks.
"Shijou!" it seems to be saying yes.
"Yes," the yellow one adds, "but we're out of Series III upgrades, and you need a fresh map route to start up Series IV."
"We should be okay," Tightniks says, "but if we have to start it over, I don't see that being a big deal." As they advance through the rest of Zone 15, Tightniks resumes his usual duties at the research desk instead building and running traps like he was before.
The trimps seem hopeful at this decision.
5h49m10s: Fresh turkimp. 5h50m16s: Zone 16, 1071 pop, 13.4s RC with Z15/75, 13m43s turkimp (skel in c1.)
"Z:16 Seriously? Another Blimp so soon?"
"So," Tightniks lowers his bee nickels and looks at the red one, "is it going to be boss fights at the end of every zone from now on?"
"Hmm," the red trimp looks up past the human at some random rock spire or cloud.
"Well?" the human persists.
"Yup," he says.
"Hmph," Tightniks grabs a Sw3-1 of the rack and advances towards the front, "Before then, we have another Mister Titanium."
"What does he like about skeletimps?" the red one asks the grey one as the human marches off.
"Shijou?" the grey one seems just as confused by that.
"He's not going back to the ship, and he's not getting himself killed," the yellow one smiles, "so I'll take it."
5h58m32s...
"Hey guys, go for the mortar!" the human suggests to his 75 fighting trimps in the Wall's boss fight.
"I can tell from your bedtime stories that you're used to the artillery in that other place," the yellow one gripes, "but fighting works differently here, there's no artillery."
And the human instantly collapses laughing, the scientists a little worried he might have injured himself in the planet's severe gravity. But he's okay, at least physically, "Mortar is the stuff between the bricks, fellas. That's is a brickimp, right?"
5h59m18s: Wall, 1076 pop, 13.3s RC, 1% AP for sub-8h finish, first L16 roll good 156/35/84 moun, 10 for the metal.
Beyond the Wall was a more edenic section of the trimpolis ruins, doubling the production of the lumberjacks. The trimps are actually really happy with the mode of all of the laborers moving between the three big jobs, along with the turkimp, except for the foremen specialized at leading the job. It isn't enough to boost their productivity, but the human goes to them with trays of sandwiches.
6h06m52s: 50 map run 0.3% AP...
6h19m13s: Zone 17, 1141 pop, 16.0s RC with Z16/94, no turkimp.
"Z:17 You climb a large cliff and look out over the new Zone. Red dirt, scorched ground, and devastation. Is that a Dragimp flying around out there?!"
"Hmm," the human surveys the new zone with his bee nickels, "Looks like crap. Any ideas?"
"You're the idea man," the yellow one groans.
"Set the map flag," he puts his bee nickels away, "We'll run a depth for practice and to load up on gems for more hotels."
"Righto," the red one gets to work.
6h44m34s: First DCP. (Draglimp Care Package; I refuse to call it a tribute.)
"Oh," the human says, "It's tame now, so it brings back gems in exchange for food?" He looks at his gaping scientists, "That's what it looks like, huh? Guys? Yo!"
"Tai..." the grey one sighs.
Draglimp, the dragimp imprinted on Tightniks, lands beside the human, drops some gems at his feet, and accepts some scratching behind its horns before diving into the food bowl.
"You tamed a dragimp???" Grey's note says.
"Well," the yellow one huffs, "I guess that happened."
8h18m53s: L20 depth of 154/27/79.
"Mapping up here?" the red one half closes one eye and tilts his head.
"Yeah," the human says while fitting together the depth map fragments, "With the coordination book not right at the end, we have an extra mark of coordination to take advantage of. Let's take our housing up to 2000 or so, shall we?"
"Okay," the yellow one says from a pile of logs, "What's all the wood for?" They had been collecting it for days now.
"The series upgrades follow a rather specific pattern," Tightniks explains, "Just on the other side of this blimp is Zone 21, where we should be able to find the Shield series V, right?"
"Shijou!" the grey one nods.
8h56m17s: 1% AP for 100 map runs, leaving it, 1751 pop, 24.8s RC with Z20/232. 8h56m54s: Zone 21...
"Ooooookay," Tightniks growls, "There is something off about this thing."
"Shijou?" the grey one looks at the yellow one with concern about their human starship pilot friend.
The human stoops, picks up the little green gem on the ridge between Zone 20 and 21, looks at it, huffs, and asks, "Any idea where this comes from?"
"Err..." the red one seems hesitant to say, "I think you made it."
"Really?" the human huffs, "How could that be?" Then he tosses it at Red, "See if anything reacts to it. It might be radioactive, so we should take turns to minimize exposure."
"Really?" Red's holding it now, "What makes you say that?"
"Because I'm pissed off for no reason I can figure out," the human says, "I think it's coming from that."
"Frags," the red one says quickly, "I think it's arranging a route. You're good with maps," it tosses the gem to the grey scientist.
"Shijou," the grey one says hopefully, and has a map drawn within a few minutes. [Whether it looks like the one in Puchim@s 1x61 is anyone's guess. That one annoyed me as well as Chihya.]
9h02m37s: L21 moun first roll was a decent 160/26/84. 9h21m00s: Starting run 5 of that map...
Tightniks had taken his anger out on some food and wood to build about 8000 traps. Now he's leaning against a rock spire in his increasingly tattered uniform. A nap begins, perhaps unintentionally.
Wild trimps are examining the pile, finding it unwelcoming, and also finding no place in the town, just mill about. It looks like they want to help.
"Ku?" it's a blue trimp, probably a farmer waiting for stuff to grow, climbs up on the rock spire the human is leaning against, starts patting him on the head, "Ku. Ku ku." [Puchim@s Chihya.]
9h23m09s: Still working that lap...
Tightniks wakes up from that nap, and the grey one is standing there. "Shijou," it says with a note of concern, although not much of one. The note it holds says, "It wasn't me."
"Oh, what wasn't you, buddy?" He stretches out a bit, feeling somewhat refreshed. It feels like somebody washed his face and hair while he was sleeping.
The grey one is also holding a small mirror, apparently broken off from a larger mirror and with the sharp edges filed down to make the edges safe.
The human takes it from the grey trimp and holds it in front of his face to discover that somebody has bound up all his hair into about twenty little pigtails. He touches them with his other hand to confirm. "Eh, whatever." He hands the mirror back and goes back to sleep. [Puchim@s Koamimami.]
9h30m08s: The following run...
"He's not throwing stuff every which way yet," the yellow one whispers to the red one, watching the human snoozing with his pad on his knee.
"You remember that, too?" the red one asks.
"'Remember'?" the yellow one turns to face the red one, "I s'pose that's better than imagining it."
"I remember it, too," the grey one says via a playing card sized note.
"If we're stuck in a time loop," the yellow one sighs, "maybe this cycle will be different."
"Tai..." the grey one admires him for a moment. Then thumbs in the direction of the mountain, "Heh, Shijou!" it laughs.
9h35m58s: Run 8, c9 of that map.
The scientists nap and take notes, and meditate and take notes, and draw stuff. The grey one often storyboards for the other nine because it's the best at drawing stuff. They have come up with a list, and most probably "order" (they're debating whether their ranking means "order" (sequence of things happening over the various loops) or "frequency" (what proportion of previous loops they have happened in). But they've come up with this, from first (or perhaps most often) to most recent (or perhaps least often):
- The ship crashes (they're pretty sure that happens every loop) - The human builds huts - The human teaches some of his trimps to speak and do science - The human builds houses - The human makes maps - The human builds mansions - The human blows up and gets himself killed somewhere around Z17 to Z21, often on a dragimp - The human only recently/occasionally builds hotels - The human only recently/rarely tamed a dragimp - The human only recently/rarely maps the Dimension of Anger
They're all agreed that that they have never finished the Dimension of Anger. What they are not all agreed on is that they've never done this conference to figure out whether they're in a time loop or what that might mean. [See also Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Cause and Effect" ...which was sort of a time loop but they weren't going back in time. It's very interesting, but its meta makes no sense - no one ever went looking for the Bozeman in 80 years? No one who went looking for the Bozeman also got stuck? No one noticed the passage of time outside the little area of space where the not-quite-a-time-loop was happening? Errr... sci-fi writers, don't be half-assed about your time loops, lmao! Be like Harold Ramis- ...what am I saying?? (That would be Groundhog Day, which grafted a time loop into a romcom; there are no other sci-fi elements. But it was a full-blown time loop and not half-assed like "Cause and Effect".)]
9h54m06s: Dropped from Z21c95...
I think it would be a bad idea to bypass that green area, as much as I'd rather not face it. Both his domesticated trimps, which are breeding up a new group of fighters, and the wild trimps he has decided just now not to open the traps for, stare at him and point in that direction. He shoulders a huge Shield V-3 and grabs an Mace IV-2 as well and announces, "We're doing it." Thus equipped, he marches off into the Dimension of Anger.
10h27m53s: Taking Pi4-2; recently had taken Pa4-2...
The group at the front had expired, and the snimp in DoAc95 glares at the advancing colony of trimps, which had halted only because of it. It refuses to counterattack the vulnerable colony and its human, instead snorting and huffing, waiting for the next bunch of 232 fighting trimps to come in range.
Tightniks runs along the line of traps, releasing the recently tamed trimps, singing a song that he doesn't remember the meaning of, that he doesn't remember was crafted by an ethnically Chinese guy out of an African language, and later mastered by two caucasians over the internet before they ever met in person. "Baba yetu yetu uliye, mbinguni yetu yetu amina..." because it just happened to be stuck in his head. [Because the Doylian author decided on a whim to. Christopher Tin got it into Civilization IV and at the time (2010 July), I made the best video for it on YouTube, which got subsequently blown to shreds when Peter Hollens and Malukah re-recorded the song from scratch in their own voices and instruments in 2014, pity with no English translation, the purpose of my video.]
Noticing the last batch of metal he needs coming out of the furnace, he waves the waiting grey scientist to fire up the forge [to use the term properly and not as the game does], for it was time to wrap up the forging dies for the Spetum IV, Mark 2 pike heads.
"Shijou!" the grey one cheers, setting aside a snack that looks like maybe ramen, and starts jumping up and down on the bellows handle.
It takes a while for the human to chip out the tip in the two halves of the forging die, and then polish it, and then heat it up in the forge, and then quench it, inspect it, and put it into service crafting thousands of new pike heads for the fighting trimps.
But only one second passed on the map frame clock (10h27m54s) four cells behind that snimp, in the case being brooded over by this huge, and if it's honest, rather concerned megablimp.
10h35m45: Portal PB, 45 He, 4.247 He/hr, 1891 pop, 22.7s RC with Z20/232, no turkimp.
The last head of the map's boss monster goes limp as one of the fighting trimps' mace heads bounces of it, and the huge thing settles on its tail, resting on the package that seems to be the prize of this map. And there's a popping sound, and then something mechanical.
Is that a scroll compressor? Tightniks looks at the package. The deflating monster's lifting envelope material drapes over everything underneath it. "Red, Shijou!" he snaps and points, "roll up that side of it. Keep this part from sucking down on the extractor nozzle!"
All ten of the scientists jump in, literally, pushing the gas in the bag towards the compressor. Tightniks as well, rolling up the front.
Until he kicks, and nearly trips over, a smaller package that might be the explanation for the reason why the center of the monster's defense seemed to be a little away from the big package he could see. It's in the right place, he realizes. He gets it uncovered and reads stenciled-and-sprayed block letters on it:
"DT TIME PORTAL / THIS SIDE DOWN"
Perhaps the Dimension of Anger is so named because of the rage suddenly rising up in Tightniks' throat. It isn't so much as the free-floating aggression suddenly has an answer, there is definitely a fresh batch of rage and anger as he grips the nearest Mace IV, Mark 3 with both hands and gets it over his shoulder, its target obviously this object, anger at the realization he screams at the top of his lungs, "We are stuck in a mutha FAH-king time loop!!" His swing begins. [Tightniks almost never cusses, unlike Snugniks.]
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2024.05.15 05:12 Moocao123 Clover vs AMC vs GME -- Moocao version
| Good evening Clover Health investors As the markets are now closed, and after hours markets are closed, I thought I would take some time to discuss some of the discussions that have occurred throughout the day. I would like to assure all of you that what GME and AMC experienced is definitely a meme rally, but what Clover has experienced is most definitely not. For Clover, it is a reversal to the actual bankruptcy peg of 1:1, which is an astonishing improvement and tells you the power of maniac retail short sellers. I will explain below, but first, our disclaimers: We strongly recommend against investing into Clover Health on the basis of a meme rally. *** Both RainyFriedTofu and Moocao123 has positions in Clover Health. The information provided is not meant as financial advice, please be advised of the potential bias and decide whether the information provided is within your risk consideration. ** *** This is not financial advice, nor is there any financial advice within. Shout-out to the AMC/GME apes for having me to write this *** *** Please do not utilize this content without author authorization *** Clover Health - stock price reflected for 05/14/24 https://preview.redd.it/kzfc3tos4i0d1.png?width=1709&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c638191da51282eae80784e72312fea1e72e621 I have previously already released this chart within my Clover health DD, I have included now an updated price per share, and highlighted the important section in RED. As you can see we are finally at exactly market cap 1.13 to cash on hand ratio, or in another way of saying it - we are priced slightly better than bankruptcy, similar to Dec 31 2023. If you instead listened to someone else/another subreddit, you would have thought we had a meme rally. We most assuredly did not. Let me show you what the meme rally did to AMC and GME. I have constructed the following Excel, but since they are not my target DD I skipped over some parts: AMC: https://preview.redd.it/yepocbae5i0d1.png?width=1528&format=png&auto=webp&s=b93611a7ce9866bd7686f9bdfbfaa10c707ff05d I have taken the liberty to highlight the relevant parts in red, however if you look at the financials, AMC has an overall worse economics in FY 2024. The market didn't care though on 05/14/24, and pushed AMC from bankruptcy pricing of Market Cap to Cash on hand ratio of 1.16 to 2.89 within a single day. It also never had a positive shareholder equity, in fact in the 10K they are all called "Shareholder deficits". Never mind AMC has a big bomb strapped to its chest: https://preview.redd.it/ijegq9up5i0d1.png?width=1140&format=png&auto=webp&s=d83791f9470105645bd7bfaca1116537857ab395 Yes you are reading this correctly. 2.9 BILLION dollars is due on 2026. In addition, 118.3 million dollars is due in 2025 and 25.1 million in 2024. Guess what? Aaron Adam sold $250 million dollars worth of equity this past Monday! Are you an AMC ape holding a bag? https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/14/amc-raises-250-million-in-stock-sale-during-mondays-meme-rally.html. Hooray! AMC can extinguish that 2024 and 2025 debt immediately. Now Aaron will have to roll out AMC Preferred Equity #2 for 2026... How many shares do you think he needs to sell? GME: Did you know if you held GME when it was in the lowest of lows and rode Roaring Kitty/Keith Gill's GME wave, you would make better returns than the S&P 500 index? It's amazing really. Personally I haven't set foot in a Gamestop store in decades, and last I remember I stood in a Gamestop store it had smelly carpets and teenagers who didn't want to be working there. "He likes the stock" he says, but probably not the company itself. But hey, the stock is doing great! https://preview.redd.it/m45dqw7r6i0d1.png?width=944&format=png&auto=webp&s=8ca574fe4207c75eb24adf0d73574e45890608d4 Did you see 2021? Holy shit. Anyways, shall we look at their finances? https://preview.redd.it/5jy7hmva7i0d1.png?width=1199&format=png&auto=webp&s=52d445819bb3d736047004a468a2f677e6895ebf I heard they pulled a profit in 2023, but you wouldn't see it by looking at their store operations. In fact GME got into profitability by cutting SG&A and will continuously cut to make their earnings look good. Did you see their revenue per store? It dropped. Did you see its profit margin per store YoY? it is negative or zero, choose which is less worse. Meaning any store they have remaining would be negligible in moving the profit per store needle. They already cut the under performing stores, and they are now cutting into useful ones. On 05/14/24 though, GME pulled a rabbit out of its hat. It's Market cap to cash on hand ratio jumped from a static ~ 3.25 - 3.50 to a whopping 12.40. Congratulations Keith Gill. As a conclusion, both Rainy and I have used different methods to come to the same conclusion: Clover health is still being shorted to bankruptcy ratio, but the boot is less tight at the neck, now at 1.16. That being said, Clover still has ways to go before they can state they are no longer BK pegged. Again, Clover has plenty of room to grow and re-invigorate itself (Clover Home Care, Clover Assistant, and Clover Medicare Advantage), has adequate cash on hand, is cash flow positive, and is $100 million away from profitability (CA SaaS anyone?). This is why Rainy and I choose to invest into Clover. This is why the shorts are afraid of DD - it blows up their nonsense and makes their actions seem foolish. I am sure the shorts will keep mentioning that Clover is riding a meme wave, and once Clover gets under $1 the FUDs doom train will start. It is predictable and comical. AMC definitely is heading towards BK by 2026 (almost guaranteed), unless someone does another Antara capital and exchanges the lien note as a rollover in exchange for AMC Preferred Equity units 2.0 (since retail likes holding bags). Despite this, Market has pegged AMC temporarily to a ratio of 3. AMC cannot reinvent itself, it is still losing money per screen, but someone still is trying to meme it to viability. GME is not heading to BK, but it is definitely very very richly valued at ratio of 12.40 on 05/14/24. I do not consider GME a good investment, as it still needs to re-brand itself and re-invigorate itself (say, what happened to the NFT marketplace?). GME is memed up in value, but we do not foresee immediate bankruptcy concerns. I would also like to reiterate again what our subreddit stands for: We do not provide financial advice, nor do we intend to do so. Do not invest into Clover Health based on meme stock valuation, and we will be the first to tell you to stay away from Clover Health stock if you do not understand the financials of this company, its goals, and the obstacles facing this small cap company. Thank you for taking the time to read through this. I hope this provides you with a better perspective on what happened today. Sincerely Moocao submitted by Moocao123 to Healthcare_Anon [link] [comments] |
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