—— Feedback from a 90S Buddhist practitioner who shared her experiences with tears at the Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door Website.
Gratitude to Namo Sakyamuni Buddha!
Gratitude to the Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva!
Gratitude to all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from ten directions and three periods of time!
Gratitude to the Dharma protectors!
Gratitude to the benefactor and benevolent father Master Jun Hong Lu!
Gratitude to my fellow Dharma practitioners!
I am very happy to share with you my path to learning Buddhism in a healthy state. I am a post-90s person, and I am also a devout Buddhist. Previously, I just believed in Buddhism, burned incense and worshiped the Buddha, but I did not know I should recite Buddhist scriptures. In my consciousness, reciting Buddhist scriptures is the business of a monk or nun. It was later when I became acquainted with Buddhism formally that I realized that monks, nuns, laymen monks, and laymen nuns can all recite Buddhist scriptures if they are willing to do so.
I came into contact with Buddhism in the summer of 2018, the year I gave birth to 2 children in a row. My physical state was particularly poor. I suffer from insomnia almost every night. I often got to bed around 10:00 p.m. and woke up around 1:00 a.m., and I was then unable to sleep. During the day, I had to take care of the children and do housework. I often felt physically exhausted.
One night, I remembered that my cousin transcribed Buddhist scriptures. I thought that it would be better for me to do so at home so that I would not be wasting sleepless hours. By transcribing Buddhist scriptures I could cultivate my mind and improve my handwriting. Then, I searched the Internet. They said that transcribing Buddhist scriptures disrespects the Bodhisattva, so I gave up this idea. Then I thought of reciting Buddhist scriptures. The several Buddhist scriptures I found online were not suitable for me.
It might be my affinity with Buddha is ripe, or it is the Bodhisattva's compassion for me. Not long after I saw an article online that said reciting Buddhist scriptures could change one's destiny. I just casually left a comment below:“Can reciting Buddhist scriptures really change destiny?”Back and forth in this way, I added that Buddhist practitioner to my friend list.
What impressed me the most was that practicing Buddhism and reciting Buddhist scriptures are free of charge, and there will be no fees. On the Internet, she shared with me a lot of Buddhist scripture information. Later, she mailed me the Dharma Gems. After receiving the Dharma Gems, I began reciting the Buddhist scriptures, and I kept doing so until my children started school. I became very busy after school started. I did not want to recite Buddhist scriptures anymore. I recited a few Little Houses but did not repay my karmic creditors. Perhaps that is why my karma was activated early.
In the winter, I found that I had a high frequency of headaches, and also suffered left migraines. The left side of the body was soft and numb, especially the left toes and the hand. I wondered if it was the same as my mother's disease. Until December, when my mother again went to the provincial capital hospital due to health problems, did I realize this was a genetic condition. Further, the probability of female inheritance is very high. Then, I searched the Internet for primary multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms and compared them to my own physical condition. I broke down. I was 26 years old at the time, just entering the age of predestined 369 calamity.
I had just been married for 2 years. I didn't dare tell my husband because I was afraid the family would be broken up. Since I had 2 daughters, I was afraid they would inherit the disease. I didn't dare tell my parents either, for fear of causing psychological pressure on my mom. I bear it alone. My spirit was in a state of collapse every day.
One day, I suddenly remembered a cancer case that was cured by practicing Buddhism, which was shared in a WeChat moment. Why not MS? Again, I contacted the Buddhist practitioner who transformed me. I cried and told her what had happened to me. I asked her if reciting Buddhist scriptures could really heal me. I remembered that she replied to me very firmly, saying it would definitely cure me. That's how I returned to the path of reciting Buddhist scriptures. This time I was with hope and determination in practicing Buddhism. MS can't be cured medically, only managed. I have no way out. I want to change my destiny through Dharma.
Since then, I have frantically read the shared presentations and referred to those practitioners’cases. I want to see how to do merits and virtues by making vows and releasing lives. Once, I made a vow to the sky to release fish worth 1,000 CNY and recited a number of Little Houses. Right at that moment, the left side of my body became much lighter and less numb. I thought it was amazing. It gave me a little more confidence in reciting Buddhist scriptures. When I saw people sharing that vegetarian is good, I made a vow to be vegetarian 2 days a month, then 10 days a month, and then a full-time vegetarian.
My physical conditions were not always as good as I wanted them to be, sometimes good and sometimes bad. I often dream of the dead. Once I dreamed that I had caused a car full of people to fall into the river and die. When I woke up, I hurriedly made a vow to ascend them using the Little House. Master Lu enlightened us that everyone comes into this world with karmic obstacles. Only by constantly reciting Buddhist scriptures, performing merits and virtues and repaying debts can these karmic obstacles be dissolved. Therefore, I knew that my karmic obstacle is from my past life, and I either have to repay it with my body or with reciting Buddhist scriptures. I chose the latter, by reciting Buddhist scriptures to repent of my past sins. Thereafter, whenever I dreamed of the deceased, I would make a vow to recite the Little House for them.
I have also deeply repented gossiping behind people's backs, saying too many bad things about them, and doing too many things behind their backs. Due to unknown the cause and effect, I advised people to divorce. I have been obsessed with worldly love and watched too many romance novels and TV dramas, which has led to my blessings loss. I have taken advantage of small gains and committed very petty thefts. I have deeply repented to this now. I am willing to spend the rest of my life cultivating my behavior and mind! I will recite the Buddhist scriptures and recite Little Houses to pay off my karmic debts.
With time, my symptoms improved: from the 24-hour constant numbness in my hands and feet in 2018, to a little bit lighter in 2019, to 2020 when sometimes these symptoms disappeared for a period of time, to 2021 when the symptoms nearly disappeared but the feeling of recurrence still came back at times, and then to 2022 when I had almost forgotten about MS because the softness and numbness in my hands and feet had completely disappeared. It is only now that I dare to stand up bravely and say I am really cured. This is because I have been free of the MS symptoms for >1 year. I am really grateful to the Bodhisattva! Buddhist scriptures have created miracles for me.
Maybe readers will think I have not done diagnosis tests. How can I tell if I have MS? First of all, my physical symptoms are the same as my mom's. Secondly, this disease is divided into hereditary and non-hereditary forms. Unfortunately, my mom's is hereditary, and she has test results for it. Furthermore, I've googled too much information just hoping it's something else and my faulty senses. One article had a message conversation that caused me to fall into the abyss. That person had the same disease and had been diagnosed, and mine was exactly the same. Honestly, I couldn't go to the hospital for a checkup, because I really couldn't face this reality.
Even though I had already practiced Buddhism, any time I thought of having MS it literally broke me down. Sometimes I would wonder why my hands and feet were still numb and weak after reciting Buddhist scriptures for so long and releasing so many lives. Why is it still not healed? This type of thought made me collapse. After collapsing, I decided to continue practicing because of the fact that this disease cannot be cured medically. Reading Buddhist practitioners’ shared presentations is my only motivation. So many rare and intractable diseases were cured, I firmly believe that the Bodhisattva will save me, too. I don't think words can really express my inner world. My heart always experiences breaking down and healing itself over and over again; then breaking down again and healing itself again.
I am grateful to my cousin for accompanying me all the way and listening to me pour out my sufferings. I am also grateful to Buddhist practitioner Liren for always encouraging me and telling me that this is karma and that reciting the scriptures can eliminate karma. It is only by reciting Buddhist scriptures properly and persistently that I have become the person I am now.
I have changed the most in 2022. This year is also the year of the greatest vow power. After I studied Buddhism in Plain Terms, I understood many truths. Before 2022, I used to recite Buddhist scriptures without understanding why. My mind was not cultivated well, and my merits and virtues were leaked. Before 2022, I ate vegetarian food with five pungent spices. In 2022, I made a vow to be a full-time vegetarian without five pungent spices, be one of the hands and eyes of Guan Yin Bodhisattva to widely transform sentient beings, release 100,000 fish, and recite 1,200 Little Houses specifically for my MS.
As my Master taught, the greater the vow, the greater the merits and virtues, and the faster the karmic obstacles are cleared. Today, sitting here and reminiscing, I am fortunate. This is because I met the Dharma before my karmic obstacles fully flared up. As a result, I was able to pass a major calamity in my life.
I hope my sharing will bring hope to more new Buddhist practitioners! Studying Buddhism and reciting Buddhist scriptures is not superstition. It can really help us dissolve all the problems on earth.
My sharing has come to an end. If there is anything that is not rational or in line with the truth in the presentation, I'd like to seek forgiveness from Namo Sakyamuni Buddha, the Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva, all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and Dharma protectors. I’d appreciate my fellow practitioners' critique and correction!
I, not my fellow practitioners, will be responsible for my own karma!
Presenter: Dharma Practitioner LanLan
Posted: 2023-07-27
Translator: Frank
Published: 2023-08-25
Statement by translator
The story was translated from Chinese into English by meaning, not word by word. If there is anything that is not rational or in line with the true meaning of the Chinese version, I pray for forgiveness from the Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva, all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Dharma protectors and Master Jun Hong Lu.
Propagation
It would be greatly appreciated if you would forward this presentation to all sentient beings you know, sick or healthy. You will accumulate immeasurable merits and virtues. Saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda!
Would you like to change your destiny?
We will show you how to do the Five Golden Buddhist Practices of Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door: (1) making vows, (2) reciting Buddhist scriptures (sutras and mantras), (3) performing life liberation, (4) reading Buddhism in Plain Terms, and (5) repenting. You will personally witness how you and your family can achieve physical and mental stability, relief from illness and grievances, wisdom growth, academic progress, career advancement, and family happiness through Dharma. It’s free of charge.
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原文如下：
90后师兄含泪分享：医学无法治愈的多发性硬化症通过学佛念经彻底痊愈
——心灵法门网友反馈
2023-07-27
感恩南无释迦牟尼佛！
感恩南无大慈大悲救苦救难广大灵感观世音菩萨摩诃萨！
感恩十方三世一切诸佛菩萨！
感恩龙天护法菩萨！
感恩恩师慈父！
感恩师兄们！
很高兴能在身体健康的状态下和大家分享我的学佛之路。我是一名90后，我也是一名虔诚的佛教徒，只不过，我只是信佛，会烧香，会拜佛，却不会读经。在我的意识中，念经是出家师父的事。后面接触佛法才明白，只要愿意，在家出家都可以念经。
我是在2018年暑假的时候接触佛法，那年我是连着生完两个孩子，身体状态特别差，几乎每晚都失眠，经常10点左右睡，1点左右醒，然后就开始失眠。白天又要带孩子做家务，整个人经常觉得体力不支。
有次晚上无意想起表妹会抄经，我想着自己在家没事这样失眠浪费时间还不如也抄经，既可以修心也可以练练字。然后就上网搜索，网上说抄经对菩萨不尊敬，然后又打消了这个念头，又想着读经，结果网上搜索了几种经文，都觉得不适合自己。
也许是佛缘成熟，也许是菩萨慈悲我，没多久我在网上看见一篇文章说念经可以改变命运，我就随缘在下面留言说：念经，真的可以改变命运吗？这样一来二往，我加上了那位师兄。
印象最深的是，学佛念经都是免费的，不会有任何费用。在网上她给我分享了好多经文资料，后面也给我邮寄了法宝，我收到后就开始念经，坚持到孩子开学，孩子开学后每天很忙碌，就不想读经了，经文组合小房子读了几张，也没有烧送，就这样一直放着。也许是这个原因提前激活了业障。
到了冬季，我发现我头痛的频率高了，而且有些奇怪的还出现左偏头痛，还有身体左边有些发软、发麻，特别是左边的脚指头和左边的手，当时也有怀疑是不是和我妈妈的病一样，但也只是怀疑，不敢过多地想。直到12月，我妈又因为身体原因需要去省城住院，结果这次住院的经历让我发现，我妈这个病是遗传病，遗传女性的概率很大，然后我在网上搜索多发性硬化症的初级症状，再对照自己的身体状况。整个人都开始崩溃了，那年我是26周岁，正逢“三六九”关劫。
那会我也刚结婚两年，我不敢告诉我先生，我怕这个家会散，而且我生的是两个女儿，我也怕她们会遗传。我也不敢告诉爸妈，我怕给我妈造成心理压力。就这样一个人扛着，精神每天处于崩溃的状态。
回到家后，我就突然想起师兄朋友圈分享的癌症都能好，我又联系度我的师兄，哭着和她说了我的事，问她我念经真的能好吗，记得她非常坚定地回复我说一定能好。就这样，我又开始了念经的道路，只不过这次带着希望在读，更加坚定了一些，因为这个病在医学上无法解决，只有控制，我没有任何办法，想通过佛法来改变命运。
此后，我疯狂地看分享，参考大家的灵验分享，看大家如何许愿放生做功德。有次我对着天空许愿放生1000元的鱼，念诵多少张经文组合小房子。当时这个左边的身体发软发麻的状态就轻了许多，我当时觉得好神奇，也给我增加了一点念经的信心。此后，我看大家分享吃素好，我就许愿一个月两次，再一个月10天，再后面吃全素。
我许愿吃全素这个过程很短，因为我想早点让自己好。可事情总是不尽人意，时好时坏。在念经这段道路上，我也经常梦见亡人，有一次还梦见自己把一车的人弄得掉进河里死了，醒来后赶紧地许愿给他们读诵经文组合小房子。师父说过，每个人都是带着业障来到这个世界，只有通过不断地念经做功德还债才能化解这些业障。所以，我知道这是我前世的业障，要么用身体还，要么用经文还。我选择后者，用经文去忏悔我的过往。所以此后，只要梦见亡人，我都会许愿读经文组合小房子。
我也深深忏悔，我曾经背后乱嚼舌头，说了太多人家的坏话，做了太多背后阴人的事；曾经不明因果，劝人离婚；曾经迷恋世间的情爱，看了太多的爱情小说和电视剧，导致福报尽损；曾经爱占小便宜，做了很小偷小摸的事；我现在都深深地忏悔，愿意用我的余生好好地修心修行，好好地学佛念经念经文组合小房子还债。
经过我不断地读经消业，我的症状也有所改善，从2018年的24小时手脚持续发麻，到2019年的症状轻了一点，再到2020年有时这些症状会消失一段时间，再到2021年，症状可以说消失，但有时还是会复发的感觉，再到2022年，我几乎把这个病给忘记了，因为手脚那些发麻发软的感觉都消失了。直到现在，我才敢勇敢站出来说，我真的好了，因为我已经有一年多没有这些症状了。真的感恩菩萨！经文的灵验在我这里创造了奇迹。
也许大家会觉得我没有做任何检查，如何判定自己就是这个病呢？首先，是身体的症状和我妈妈的一样；其次，这个病分遗传和不遗传，很不巧，我妈的是遗传，这个是有检测报告的；再者，我上网搜了太多的资料，就希望是其他原因，是我的错感。尤其有一篇文章的留言对话，让我跌入深渊，对方也是这个病，已经确诊，而我的是一模一样，说实话，我真的没法去医院检查，我真的没法面对这个现实。
虽然我已经念经了，但一想到这个问题我真的每次都是崩溃。就这样我抱着念经的信念，坚持了一年，有一点点地改变，有时候也会怀疑，我已经读了这么久的经，我放生这么多了，为啥还是手脚发麻发软？为什么还是不见好转？崩溃之后依旧是继续，因为这个病真的医学上没法解决，看着师兄们的分享，是我唯一的动力。那么多的疑难杂症都能好，我坚信菩萨会救我的。我觉得文字真的无法来表达我的内心世界。内心总是反反复复地崩溃，自愈；再崩溃，再自愈。
这一路感谢我的表姐，一路的陪伴我，听着我倾诉苦水；也感谢丽人师兄，一直鼓励我，告诉我，这个就是业障，读经就能消业障，好好读，坚持读，才成就的现在的我。我在2022年变化最大，这年也是愿力最大，我学习《白话佛法》，明白了很多的道理，以前就是一味地读经，根本不明白，心没修好，功德有漏。我之前吃素都是吃带五辛的，2022年我许愿全素，许了做菩萨的千手千眼广度有缘人，许了余生放生10万条鱼，还针对这个病许愿1200张经文组合小房子，已经烧送了一部分。就像师父说的，愿力越大，功德越大，业障也消得快些。所以今天坐在这里回忆过往，我是幸运的，在业障还没全面爆发，我遇见佛法，让我化解了人生的一道大坎。也希望我的分享能给更多的新人带来希望的光！学佛念经不是迷信，是真的可以帮助我们化解人间所有问题。
我的分享结束了，分享中如有不如理不如法的地方，请南无释迦牟尼佛慈悲原谅，请南无大慈大悲观世音菩萨慈悲原谅，请十方三世一切诸佛菩萨和龙天护法菩萨慈悲原谅，请师兄们批评指正。我自己的业障自己背，不让师兄们背。
分享人：蓝蓝师兄
来自：师父博客
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I just started this week, wonderful game.
So I've been checking out other people's camps to get an idea of what I want to build in the future. Some camps have really neat stuff that lets you take some purified water, food, popcorn and what not.
Anyway I stumbled upon a player camp that was magnificent, after I've been roaming in it for a while it just disappeared whilst I was exploring it and grabbing free stuff. What happened? Is it possible to hide your camp from others?

I have decided I've had enough with R6 Siege for many reasons. I started playing the game during Year 1 Season 2 (Dust Line). Over the years, I've played a total of 1600 hours. Many people probably started after me, and I'm sure some began with the recent seasons. Let me tell you, the game is totally different now, and not in a good way. Stick to the end of the post because I have a solution for it.
Here are the problems I have with it:
Theme: The old R6 had a darker theme overall. Operators were very iconic, more realistic, and distinct.
Operators: There weren't a lot of operators initially, but each one served a specific purpose. With all the nerfs they did, many operators have been ruined. Now we have a lot of operators that do the same thing, and none of them do it well. I'll explain more below.
Game Speed and Balance: You’ll probably hear that the game is more balanced now, but that’s just not true. They introduced operators with unoriginal or even useless abilities, nerfed many aspects, and changed the game speed. On paper, we have many tactical operators, but in practice, they don’t work because the game speed doesn’t allow it. Many core changes turned R6 into a fast shooter like CoD with hardcore mode. For this reason, and because every operator is nerfed to the ground, people just run into buildings, and the first to shoot wins.
Map Reworks and Night Maps: Most of the reworks are simply horrible, though some are good. Every map used to be distinct and played very differently. While some were not balanced, with teamwork and skill, winning was possible. Now maps don’t even look like real buildings. They added hundreds of rooms and walls that don’t make sense, removing every bit of soul. Every map now plays exactly the same. There is no more room for expression, no more fun, and no more strategy because lots of operators are poorly suited for them. Night maps could return given improvements to the lighting system. People have been asking for them for years, but Ubisoft refuses to listen.
Removed Content: The game used to have Situations, Article 5, and T-Hunt, all of which were fun and contributed to the storyline that the multiplayer was tied to.
Removed Game Modes: Hostage and Secure Area? Gone. Quick matches don't count.
Unwanted Changes: Nobody asked for Ranked 2.0 and the rework of casual matches. Nobody asked for Quickplay and TDM; they all suck really bad.
Battle Pass: This isn’t a free game, so the Battle Pass doesn’t belong here. But I guess it's not that big of a problem.
UI: The new user interface is bad and cluttered. It looks like it belongs to a mobile game.
There are a lot of things I haven’t talked about, but these are the main ones. This game has lost its soul and its fun. I’m not saying everything they changed is bad; I'm glad they fixed bugs and game-breaking glitches, but they did more harm than good. This is not what we veterans wanted, which is why a lot of old players left.
But there's a solution for this: it's possible to play old Siege on PC. We can form teams and play together. If you want to know more, let me know in the comments. I'd also like to know if people agree or disagree with my opinions.

Ok so OpenAI just announced GPT-4o, a new model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time (unheard of for a model of this intelligence for those unfamiliar). According to OpenAI, GPT-4o "accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs". (See OpenAI's demo on YouTube)
Recently, I released an open source library so you can extract data in multiple modalities to feed your AI-based Python projects. In this post, I'll show you how to use it alongside GPT-4o with the OpenAI API to build multimodal apps with it. I've got nothing better to do right now, so I'll walk through the steps of extracting all multimodal content from different sources, preparing the input for GPT-4o, sending it to the model for processing, and getting our results back.
before getting into the code, let's just stop and ask ourselves why we'd use GPT-4o over previous models like GPT-4-turbo:
Multi-modal Input and Output: GPT-4o can handle text, audio, and image inputs and generate outputs in any of these formats.
Real-time Processing: The model can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, making it suitable for real-time applications.
Improved Performance: GPT-4o matches GPT-4 Turbo performance on text in English and code, with significant improvements in non-English languages, vision, and audio understanding.
Cost and Speed: GPT-4o is 50% cheaper and 2x faster than GPT-4 Turbo, with 5x higher rate limits.
Ok, let's get to the code lol:

Step 1: Extract!

This can be done using The Pipe API which can handle various file types and URLs, extracting text and images in a format that GPT-4o can understand.
For example, if we were analyzing a talk based on a scientific paper, we could combine the two sources to provide a comprehensive input to GPT-4o:

from thepipe_api import thepipe # Extract multimodal content from a PDF pdf = thepipe.extract("path/to/paper.pdf") # Extract multimodal content from a YouTube video vid = thepipe.extract("https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ") 

Step 2: Prepare the Input for GPT-4o

Here's an example of how to prepare the input prompt by simply combining the extracted content with a question from the user:

# Add a user query query = [{ "role": "user", "content": "Which figures from the paper would help answer the question at the end of the talk video?" }] # Combine the content to create the input prompt for GPT-4o messages = pdf + vid + query 

Step 3: Send the Input to GPT-4o

With the input prepared, you can now send it to GPT-4o using the OpenAI API. Make sure you have your OPENAI_API_KEY set in your environment variables.

from openai import OpenAI # Initialize the OpenAI client openai_client = OpenAI() # Send the input to GPT-4o response = openai_client.chat.completions.create( model="gpt-4o", messages=messages, ) # Print the response print(response.choices[0].message.content) 

All done!

PS:
If you have literally no idea what I'm talking about, check out the OpenAI GPT-4O announcement!.
If you're a developer, feel free to access or contribute to The Pipe on GitHub! It is important to note that OpenAI's GPT-4o model is only accepting textual and visual modalities at release, however we will be carefully monitoring the new modalities released for GPT-4o in the coming weeks and updating the library accordingly.

Hey, I've been working on this for some time now and I think its time to finally post it somewhere so it forces me to work a bit more on this.
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Calisthenics App mainly for beginners that are looking for some advice and potentially even a community. App includes educational videos, short form videos, workouts and courses. Also many other features + I am still building new ones. If you would love to try, there is 3 days free and since the app is new 3 days is enough to go thru everything :D If you spot ANY bug or crashes, please report to me I am fixing all right away or in the next update.
Thanks!

Hello group. I’ve recently left the military and have a little over $30,000 in my TSP account that’s purely Roth. I have no idea on how to get started other than reading different forums and watching videos. It all seems like that I have to do my own due diligence, but I’m still too ignorant that it’s pretty much overwhelming. If this is the wrong group to post this in pls forgive me.
Would any of you recommend me to keep my funds in TSP or to make the switch over to my Fidelity Roth IRA? Should I also hammer down on something like VOO (for example) with all of my extra money, or split up my investments? I’m mainly interested in saving just for retirement, but I’m trying to learn about other investment opportunities.
With that, could anyone point me in the direction to where I can learn about investing with more less than not biased information?

with the summer approaching fast, i was thinking of what there is to do for a group 19/20 yr olds, Any recommendations on what to do or where to go, we’re interested in road trips, going to beaches, bbqs etc. Also if anyone knows of any local events that are on like free festivals or stuff like that would be a good idea too or where has waterfalls and open water that you can go for a swim in, thanks :)

I'm in my 30s and I've noticed a trend my whole life. Whenever there's a social event, friends hanging out or family getting together, if someone has "work", it's people usually just shrug and accept it. If a plumber is working overtime on a Saturday, "Hey, it's time and a half, I'd take that opportunity too". If a teacher is tutoring a student for extra money, "Man, teacher's don't get paid enough, gotta take every opportunity you've got". If an office worker needs to crunch for a big proposal, "Hey man, corporate pulls the strings, we just have to listen".
But if I want to start a business, program an app, design a website, people look at you funny for saying you can't come. "Why can't you do that any other day?" Meanwhile, the business, entrepreneurial, and motivational subreddits and online communities push this idea of "No Zero Days". You need to use every sliver of free time to achieve your goal. If you push off work on your passion to "another day", then "another day" will never come and will always be filled up with things in the meantime.
I feel like the things I'm pursuing are more riskier, but have a higher potential payoff. It's the stuff that people admire. I've often literally been at backyard barbecues where I have an exchange like:
"Man, Elon Musk is something man. I'm glad there's people like him in the world. He didn't get all that money by sitting back drinking beers, did he? But now he gets to write history and change the world. Takes a lot of discipline, wish there were more people like him than lazy people on welfare".
Hearing about that makes me want to put down my beer, and run home and continue working on my business idea to join the elite ranks of those who get to decide the fortune of our world. But that would be considered highly rude. Even after a conversation in which the person literally expresses a wish for a world where more people were willing to eschew backyard parties and idleness for productivity.
Maybe I sound autistic, but I genuinely don't understand this dynamic. I feel like my friends and family look up to these activities when it's successful people they read about. But they look down on me and discourage the time I put into it when I try to emulate those successful people. Can someone explain how this works?

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I have decided I've had enough with R6 Siege for many reasons. I started playing the game during Year 1 Season 2 (Dust Line). Over the years, I've played a total of 1600 hours. Many people probably started after me, and I'm sure some began with the recent seasons. Let me tell you, the game is totally different now, and not in a good way. Stick to the end of the post because I have a solution for it.
Here are the problems I have with it:
Theme: The old R6 had a darker theme overall. Operators were very iconic, more realistic, and distinct.
Operators: There weren't a lot of operators initially, but each one served a specific purpose. With all the nerfs they did, many operators have been ruined. Now we have a lot of operators that do the same thing, and none of them do it well. I'll explain more below.
Game Speed and Balance: You’ll probably hear that the game is more balanced now, but that’s just not true. They introduced operators with unoriginal or even useless abilities, nerfed many aspects, and changed the game speed. On paper, we have many tactical operators, but in practice, they don’t work because the game speed doesn’t allow it. Many core changes turned R6 into a fast shooter like CoD with hardcore mode. For this reason, and because every operator is nerfed to the ground, people just run into buildings, and the first to shoot wins.
Map Reworks and Night Maps: Most of the reworks are simply horrible, though some are good. Every map used to be distinct and played very differently. While some were not balanced, with teamwork and skill, winning was possible. Now maps don’t even look like real buildings. They added hundreds of rooms and walls that don’t make sense, removing every bit of soul. Every map now plays exactly the same. There is no more room for expression, no more fun, and no more strategy because lots of operators are poorly suited for them. Night maps could return given improvements to the lighting system. People have been asking for them for years, but Ubisoft refuses to listen.
Removed Content: The game used to have Situations, Article 5, and T-Hunt, all of which were fun and contributed to the storyline that the multiplayer was tied to.
Removed Game Modes: Hostage and Secure Area? Gone. Quick matches don't count.
Unwanted Changes: Nobody asked for Ranked 2.0 and the rework of casual matches. Nobody asked for Quickplay and TDM; they all suck really bad.
Battle Pass: This isn’t a free game, so the Battle Pass doesn’t belong here. But I guess it's not that big of a problem.
UI: The new user interface is bad and cluttered. It looks like it belongs to a mobile game.
There are a lot of things I haven’t talked about, but these are the main ones. This game has lost its soul and its fun. I’m not saying everything they changed is bad; I'm glad they fixed bugs and game-breaking glitches, but they did more harm than good. This is not what we veterans wanted, which is why a lot of old players left.
But there's a solution for this: it's possible to play old Siege on PC. We can form teams and play together. If you want to know more, let me know in the comments. I'd also like to know if people agree or disagree with my opinions.

I got carried away at the blackjack table last night…
I put 10k on a hand and lost it all.
Only kidding, I’m not that much of a degenerate …
But if I was, here’s the step by step process I’d follow to make that 10k back
I've spent the past 3 years becoming a master at cold email & copywriting...
So I'd easily be able to turn around and sign 5 clients to get back to 10k/month.
Once you learn a skill, the hard part is done...
And you can find clients on command.
But if you're just starting out, the FIRST THING you need to do is learn a skill.
Whether that’s email marketing, cold email, ads, short form videos, TikTok, the list goes on…
Pick a skill you’re interested in and naturally talented in, and learn all you can about it.
If you have NO IDEA how to learn a skill

• Not sure where to find content
• Not sure which skill you'll be best at

No worries...
I'll show you how later on in this post.
Keep reading.
Once you develop a baseline skill set, it’s time to form your offer and send some emails!
You’re probably thinking…
“What about my landing page, my VSL, my logo, etc…”
All of these things can be done AFTER your email campaigns are live.
For your offer, you’re gonna want some sort of guarantee or performance basis since you’re just starting.

• “10 calls a month on a pay per call basis”
• “50k from your email list or you don’t pay”
• “10k followers across your socials or you don’t pay”

Once you have your no-brainer offer, write some outreach scripts around your offer.

“Hey NAME, as the founder of COMPANY I’m sure you’re looking for more leads. Curious, would you be interested to learn how we can book you 10 calls each month or you don’t pay?” 

Once your scripts are done, get your leads list from ListKit, buy some domains, warm them up on Smartlead, and start sending emails!
While your campaigns are running, THEN you can build a landing page, record a VSL, and start growing your presence online (twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube)
After the first week or so, your first replies should start to come in.
When you’re handling cold email replies, the # 1 rule to keep in mind:
Get prospects booked in as few emails as possible.
If they ask for a call, ASK them what times work for them and book manually.
If they have a question, answer it briefly then push for a call.
As your cold emails get dialled in and you book your first few calls, you can put your focus towards taking the calls.
Since you're just starting out, I'd highly recommend working on some sort of performance basis, or offer a free trial.
You'll have a much easier time converting your first few deals and getting some experience under your belt.
Offers like

• "10 sales calls booked from your email list in 30 days, or you get your money back"
• "1 million views in 60 days or you don't pay"
• "15 sales calls on a booked appointment basis"

All will convert well on a sales call.
So you close your first deal…
Time to celebrate right?
Of course, but your work is just getting started.
Now it’s time to onboard your new client and leave a great first impression on them.
From here on out, you should be focused on 3 things:

1. booking meetings
2. closing deals
3. fulfilling on your work.

To avoid a ton of headaches, cap your initial client base at ~5 clients and dedicate your full focus towards fulfilment.
With 5 clients, you should be able to hit that 10k MRR mark…
And make up for a terrible night at the blackjack table.
Hope this helped!
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Three main interpretations of BLOOD MERIDIAN have been the Gnostic, the Judeo-Christian and the Pagan Platonic. All three have a dividing line separating the Realm of God, or the Realm of Light from the this dark fallen material world in which the Judge or Devil is Archon. In the case of Plato, the Other Side is the realm or dimension of perfect forms.
Plato said that all things in this material world are imperfect copies of the perfect and eternal things in the realm of forms, and he used the example of the horse in his argument, one reason we might look at ALL THE PRETTY HORSES for this idea.
But let's stick first to the Coldforger in BLOOD MERIDIAN:
This other man he could never see in his entirety but he seemed an artisan and a worker in metal. The judge enshadowed him where he crouched at his trade but he was a coldforger who worked with hammer and die, perhaps under some indictment and an exile from men's fires, hammering out like his own conjectural destiny all through the night of his becoming some coinage for a dawn that would not be. It is this false moneyer with his gravers and burins who seeks favor with the judge and he is at contriving from cold slag brute in the crucible a face that will pass, an image that will render this residual specie current in the markets where men barter.
If McCarthy looks at Plato's perfect form realm, or dimension, as the sourse of the imperfect copies of all things including fire (which is where phosphorus comes in) in this material vale, then his metaphor of the Coldforger is the counterfeiter who passes those copies into this flawed world, allied with the Judge. If we look at this in terms of set theory, the master set is on the other side, and the copies slough off into this material world much the way that metaphors sloughed off from the original word, the original language. The Coldforger would then represent the transformer, the joker in the deck, the transfinite zero that shape-shifts copies between the dimensions.
I think that this was McCarthy's idea, though of course not his only idea, and I am not discounting the many other fine interpretations I have read.
Copied from an earlier discussion on this, from a poster whose name has been deleted, there is this on the coldforging of coins, from ALL THE PRETTY HORSES:
In the latter two, they are more involved in fate. In ATPH, Alfonsa talks to John Grady about her father’s theories on coins and fate, that a coin flip is a coin flip, but not everyone’s metaphorical coins are the same. That the metaphysical minter of these coins is perhaps not impartial or perfect and the blanks from which each person’s coin is made from may have irregularities that follow them through life. Grady tells her that the negative things that have come to his life were not his doing, but she doesn’t give that credence. That they happened to him suggests he is a person that these things happen to, perhaps the blank from which the coin of his life was minted from was imperfect in some way.
There are many other interpretations of the Coldforger. What's yours?

Hello, folks!
I'll build a PC for SimRacing (Assetto Corsa Competizione for now) and Truck Sim (ETS2). The last time I built a PC was in 2008, so I no nothing about modern CPU, GPU and chipsets. Below I'll detail what I want the PC to be capable of and what is my budget.
What I want
I want a PC that is capable of running ACC and ETS2 on a 3440x1440 monitor at 144hz. It would be nice, but not mandatory, to be capable or running ETS2 on VR (I know ACC performance in VR is not good).
What I don't care about
How it looks. I don't care about lights, glass panels or anything like that. It could be an all black tower from 2008 and I'll be fine with that.
Budget: between 1200€ and 1500€ (or maybe more, I don't know)
My main concerns: Processor and GPU
In ACC's community the AMD 5800x3D is very famous for delivering a good performance, so my initial idea was to pair it with a mid range modern GPU, like a 4060Ti, the cheapest motherboard that would not cause an issue, some NVMe SSD, and a just-good-enough 32gb memories.
My questions
1- Is the 5800x3D still a good option?
2- Is the 5800x3D worth the extra money compared to a 7600x?
3- Is there any good Intel option in the same price range?
4- Is it better to buy a Nvidia 4600Ti new or a used 3080?
5- What is a equivalent AMD GPU? Is it a good option?
6- What is the power supply necessary to run this build?
ps: I'll decide on cooling solution later.
Thank you for read this long post and I appreciate any help and opinion.

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