My point: Airtel refund takes 30 days!
I paid to get an Airtel DTH and Fiber connection. Apparently, you've to pay upfront for installation. After the team visited, after 1 hour in calls (at my residence) they said DTH is yet to be configured in my building. So since the package was DTH+Fiber, I paid 3300. They said I'll get the refund in 6 days. That's also long imo.
After the 6th day, they said since DTH was possible and not fiber. The refund will only happen after 30 days since DTH and Fiber departments are different.
This is not a rant but a friendly info for you guys to be aware before choosing a provider.
Funny thing is I asked the guys before paying if it is viable. I guess tough luck!

Unfortunately, I failed a class this spring semester, which means I will fail my second SAP attempt. As a result, I have to return over $11,000 for the Spring semester, which I currently do not have. It's sad to leave NOVA, but I need to transfer to another school to regain FAFSA eligibility. There are no nearby community colleges in Virginia that are not in the VCCS, so I plan to move to another state. I am considering California, but I will need to wait a year to qualify for in-state tuition status.
What steps should I take now to prepare for this move? How does the transfer process for classes work? Are all classes transferable, or can I choose which classes to transfer or even opt not to transfer any? Will my GPA reset? Should I retake the class I failed this spring before I move? I am looking to start everything again and begin a new chapter at De Anza or Santa Monica Community College in California.
Will the mentors at California universities give me a chance? Financially, I only have a couple of thousand dollars to my name. What can I do to avoid homelessness in California? I know for transfer, universities will look at all my transcripts, and some universities will give me a chance if my grades show an upward trend. My biggest worry is that I will not have the chance for them to look at my extracurriculars and essays because they will recalculate my GPA, which means adding all the Fs and Cs to find an average. I'm worried that even if I have a 4.0 at a California Community College, I will still have a sub-1.0 GPA if they do recalculate and do not meet the minimum GPA qualification. I'm afraid of repeating another two years at a California community college, only to potentially face transfer rejection due to my grades at NOVA.

This is the third time in the past few months where they claim to have attempted delivery but no one was home. I have THREE doorbells (my family is on the first and third floor) and I guarantee he didnt ring any of these shits.
I’m working from home today, listening out closely for my package with my dog, and even my sister is home today. My doorbell is in the kitchen, and I was eating lunch at the supposed time of delivery. I heard my front gate though. Ran to check, only to see the USPS guy getting back in his truck. I figured i would give him a moment to update the delivery status. It goes to “attempted delivery.”
The amount of time he spent writing the note, he couldve just rang the bell and waited a moment, cus i wouldve flew down the steps.
I called my local post office and told them to stop doing this dumb shit and they just told me to schedule for redelivery or come pick it up.
How the FUCK am i supposed to trust the guy will ring the doorbell this time? And im bot going in there to pick that shit up because i didnt choose pickup. Honestly I wanna go to that USPS and beat the shit out of all of them.
What should I do? I kinda wanna call the police on them.

Unfortunately, I failed a class this spring semester, which means I will fail my second SAP attempt. As a result, I have to return over $11,000 for the Spring semester, which I currently do not have. It's sad to leave NOVA, but I need to transfer to another school to regain FAFSA eligibility. There are no nearby community colleges in Virginia that are not in the VCCS, so I plan to move to another state. I am considering California, but I will need to wait a year to qualify for in-state tuition status.
What steps should I take now to prepare for this move? How does the transfer process for classes work? Are all classes transferable, or can I choose which classes to transfer or even opt not to transfer any? Will my GPA reset? Should I retake the class I failed this spring before I move? I am looking to start everything again and begin a new chapter at De Anza or Santa Monica Community College in California.
Will the mentors at California universities give me a chance? Financially, I only have a couple of thousand dollars to my name. What can I do to avoid homelessness in California? I know for transfer, universities will look at all my transcripts, and some universities will give me a chance if my grades show an upward trend. My biggest worry is that I will not have the chance for them to look at my extracurriculars and essays because they will recalculate my GPA, which means adding all the Fs and Cs to find an average. I'm worried that even if I have a 4.0 at a California Community College, I will still have a sub 1.0 GPA if they do recalculation and not meet the minimum GPA qualification. I'm afraid of repeating another two years at a California community college, only to potentially face transfer rejection due to my grades at NOVA.

I saw my ex after 7 years, with his son.. And I felt idk.. meh .. For context We we’re together for 4 years and may anak kami, 7 years old na rin. When we broke up, 3 mos pregnant ako because nahuli ko siya with another girl which is yung nanay na rin ng anak niya right now. Nagsusustento naman siya, kahit maliit lang. Hindi na ako nagaask na dagdagan kasi may anak na rin naman siya. Anyways, hindi niya ever since nakita yung anak niya sa akin. And kahit nagsusustento siya hindi siya namimilit na ipakita ko kasi I know alam niya maling ginawa niya.. so back to the story, tumalikod ako kaagad pagkarealize ko na siya yun. Because I hate drama lalo na in public pero grabe kaba ko. But I believe he did see me. Ang strong ng feeling ko na nakita niya ako. Buti he ignored nalang rin my presence. He didn’t texted nor chatted me about the incident though. Funny how yung taong binigay mo yung buong ikaw, and kilalang kilala every inch of you, ngayon kahit makasalubong mo, wala na. Strangers nalang kayo kahit may anak kayo. lol. Yung gusto mong kausapin pero hindi nag-end yung relationship niyo ng maayos and you don’t want to go through the whole drama kaya you both choose to ignore each other nalang. lol. Just wanna let this out. Hayyyy.

I am thinking about opening a reformer pilates studio in my home city in Germany. I am not an instructor, meaning I would have to hire instructors/trainers and I have a couple of questions which might vary as this sub is international. - what does an reformer instructor make per hour on average?

• Mostly freelance in different studios or employee in just one?
  
• What makes you choose a place as an instructor, what makes the experience great?
  

I would like to attract great people and offer a great work environment and would be very grateful for all tips/insights on the status quo and potentially what could be done better.

I came to US on F1 Visa, F1 Visa on - Dec 2019. H1B got picked - March 2022 and have Approval also.
My Employer filed for I-797B (no change of status yet)
I used my OPT even though having an approved I-797b notice. (Haven’t got I-94 in approval notice) I am currently on my STEM-OPT. My employer has now filed for my Amendment, Change of Status and Extension with premium processing, and it is still under case is actively being reviewed.
What is the convincing way to say why I choose counsellor processing during the interview?

Being publicly against AI image generation and then secretly using it anyway seems to be the next step in this journey between trad-artists and AI users, and honestly it's kinda funny to see:
https://twitter.com/Viexi_YT/status/1790411437786993084
I find it kind of funny that people will absolutely swear blind that they do not and will never use AI, only to then do it anyway. Bonus points to them for also using this to fool people into following them and bragging about it 😂

Hello all,
I recently went through a very costly divorce process in the USA (the jurisdiction wasn't my choice by any stretch of the imagination). I am an EU citizen currently resident and registered in Germany. I am known as "married" in a few population registers at this point. I have been doing some research (including a few consultations with EU lawyers) and since the divorce decree is from a third country, I can only change my marital status in the population register after going through the courts to obtain an exequatur for the decree and doing so isn't particularly cheap, involving translations, court fees, potential lawyer's fees since I anticipate I might make a mistake or two if I choose to do this myself (I am trained in a very different field from the law). The costs would mount rather high, especially since I would have to do it in more than one country, and might need to continue to pursue this route if I relocate to another Member State. I am not an expat (I am on a local contract, and I am not particularly wealthy), but moving between EU countries is in itself actually as easy as the Treaties promise it to be, and I would really like to get to know more of the European Union. My preference would thus be to do nothing. I am not interested in ever marrying again; let's say that I learnt my lesson. I am aware that there might be certain consequences of keeping the civil status of "married", but none of the possible challenges seem particularly problematic in my case. My question is whether I would be comitting any adminstrative offence if I were to choose not to undertake any action and leave the American divorce decree unrecognised avoiding the current and future need for additional expenses? As one attorney I spoke to put it, "it's money you have to earn first".
Thanks for the help LegalAdviceEurope!

With all the new players entering the game as of late, a lot of the same questions get asked - specifically, ones like "How can I make the perfect team for classic/endless/etc.?". The guide ahead is an attempt at answering more common questions on the former end, from the perspective of someone who almost exclusively plays Classic and many wins under my belt in doing so. Community feedback welcome; hopefully something like this can expand into something like a wiki/full guide so we can help new players down the line, too!
Classic and You: Starting Out
So you just picked up the game, but not sure where to start. "Which starters are best?" "What team should I go with first?" "I unlocked [x] - can I beat Classic with this?"
Let me reassure you: you can beat Classic with anything. (Yes, even something like Caterpie.)
That said, it's understandable to not know where to start, especially if you don't know all the starters, or maybe haven't played all the various generations of Pokemon through the years. Many of them have their own strengths and weaknesses, and some are built stronger than others. For example: Fuecoco is commonly the #1 recommended starter out of the base selection you get when first starting the game. Why? His final evolution, Skeledirge, naturally learns Torch Song, which is a hard-hitting fire move that guarantees a Sp. Attack buff each time it hits. This lets you snowball fairly quickly, as each attack makes you stronger and stronger during battles. Many starters have "specialty" tricks like this that give them an edge - Sprigatito's final evolution, for instance, gets Flower Trick, a hard-hitting grass move that always crits (and therefore always ignores opponent defensive boosts and/or your own negative debuffs). Even with all these being the case, though, there's no "perfect" team to start with that will guarantee a win - and in fact, getting a win on your first run can be exceedingly difficult. Your starters all only have 10 IVs, neutral natures, and no egg moves - they're the bare bones minimum to get going. And that's okay. But it means you need to temper your expectations.
Pokerogue is a rogue-like - and in classic rogue-like form, you build upon what you start with little by little. Your primary goal shouldn't be to get a Classic win at the start. It's certainly doable, but even if you win, you're still likely without any reliable starter to take on Endless just yet, so there's no sense in rushing there. Instead, focus on that concept of building - specifically, building your starter pool. Every time you catch something, you unlock it as a starter (if you don't have it yet). You also get candies, which can be used to power up those starters by either unlocking a passive ability (unlocking additional features) or reducing their point cost, letting you bring more starters to each run (or more powerful ones!). Catching things with higher IVs also make your starting stats better - catching a 31 Speed IV Pidgey, for instance, means your Pidgey starter now permanently has 31 Speed IVs. More stats = more power, and getting higher IVs on your starters is probably the biggest early jump you can get on pushing your team further.
With this in mind, making a "perfect" team is less important than just making A team, so that we can go out and catch some things. As for what to catch, though, here's a list of things I'd keep an eye out for:

• Anything with a missing and/or "dark" pokeball under their name. Just like in some of the main Pokemon games, Pokemon in Pokerogue will be marked with a pokeball if they've been captured before. If it's missing, and you want it as a starter, catch it! More importantly, though, is the "darkened" icon of the pokeball - this indicates that you've unlocked the starter, but this one has something you don't have yet; maybe a gender, or maybe an ability you don't have yet. For instance, a Meowth starter that you have may only have Pickup, but the one in battle before you now has Technician. Catching these "darkened ball" pokemon will unlock more options for your starters, letting you switch between these unlockables at the pokemon select screen when you start your later runs. I generally recommend catching as many of these as possible - in the beginning, it'll seem like every pokemon has a dark ball, but that's because you don't have many things unlocked yet. As you unlock more things, they'll get rarer - and more importantly, when you start looking for those elusive Hidden Abilities (HAs), these darkened balls will help you discover them more easily when you have everything else already unlocked. Remember, this is a rogue-like - we're building our starters here for future runs!
• Anything "rare". This is somewhat subjective, because "rare" can mean anything from "hard to find" to "legendary". In general, though, I recommend keeping an eye out for things you don't see often - starters, for instance, or legendary/pseudo-legendary/ultra beast/etc. "boss" monsters at the end of every 10 waves. But catching duplicates serves a secondary purpose - remember, it also gets you candies, which you can use to power up those rare pokemon starters you have later. Getting candies from friendship is certainly doable, but especially for rarelegendary pokemon, this can take a loooooong while. Catch them if you can to make it easier on yourself later. (A sub-point of this: If a rare or starter is available in a daily run, consider "farming" the daily run over and over to catch them again and again! Many of the daily run guides point these out intentionally for this reason - daily runs can sometimes be the best way to target farm candies in this way.)
• Anything you plan on using a lot. Somewhat of another sub-point of the above, catching duplicates of things you know you'll use often can be useful for candy collection. Specifically, this works well for things you know you'll use often - your first few shinies, for instance, or general-use pokemon that have Pickup. Build your Zigzagoon army! Candy collecting is especially useful for these to reduce costs, letting you take more of them with your legendary into Endless mode when you get to that point.
• Any shiny. This goes without saying for many, but shinies are the lifeblood of Pokerogue. You need them...a lot of them. They come in three flavors - starting from the weakest, a yellow shiny (Luck 1), then blue (Luck 2), and finally red (Luck 3), with the color being the "star" marker of the shiny pokemon on their HP bar. Eventually you'll want as many Luck 3 shinies as you can get your hands on, but when you're starting out, you're building from 0 - so catch any you see, even if it means failing your Classic run to do so. A new run takes an hour to start back up; a new shiny could take days or even weeks to find in Classic. (Ideally, though, don't be afraid to refresh/"save scum" to try and find a way to catch it without sacrificing your run if you can, and if you're willing. No sense in wasting all that work.)
• Don't neglect your team. Remember, our eventual goal is to win Classic...but more importantly, we're hoping to get as far as we can, and 190 if possible. The sprint from 180-190 is the most profitable floor in Classic for egg vouchers, with each Elite 4 member & the Champion at 190 giving them upon victory (Plus, first time wins get you bonus achievement vouchers too - two for one!). With this in mind, you want to make sure to balance your team out as you go, and don't neglect it as you progress. Perhaps your team needs a good rock-type wall to throw in the way of hard-hitting trainer pokemon. Maybe you're looking for a Ground-type to soak all those electric moves you keep running into in the electrical biomes. Good team building will carry you further than any IV or egg move ever could. Even the strongest legendaries can fold to a weakness.

This "starting out" phase doesn't have a specific length of time to get past - everyone progresses at their own pace, and some will get luckier with egg pulls and catches than others. Don't get discouraged. Just keep building on what you have - that's your initial goal, and it only gets easier as you do it.
As you start going through your Classic runs, the main resource you're looking to accumulate at first is egg vouchers - as many as you can get your grubby little new player hands on. Beating gym leaders, Elite 4 members, the Champion, and beating Classic all reward you with them. Doing the Daily Run each day also rewards you with a 10x pull voucher. Rarely, they can even show up after beating a stage in the item choice rewards - if so, pick them, usually over most anything else. Eggs build on your starters, and usually with either massively boosted IVs or egg moves to give them considerable bumps in power. Rarely, you can even get shinies from them.
And speaking of the egg gacha: only pull from the Shiny gacha at first. The entirety of your goal as a new player should be accumulating shinies. The legendary gacha is misleading - you only get increased odds for the shown legendary, not all of them (at least as of this post), and even then legendaries often have a huge starter cost tacked onto them, making teambuilding difficult early on. Once you build up your starter collection with a good few handfuls of shinies, and are cruising along in Endless vacuuming up vouchers, you can spend some on the other gachas for specific niches if you like (move gacha for egg moves, legendary gacha for legendaries), but for the most part the shiny gacha is where the money's at. Besides, the shiny gacha can hatch legendaries, too - so you're not missing out on legendaries by not hitting its specific gacha.
I Got a Few Shinies And Legendaries - What Now?
Alright, so you've been cruising along, catching everything you see and building your starter pool like the rockstar rogue-like player you are. Keep building from here, but now you have more options - you can start bringing shinies on your Classic runs to improve the quality of item rewards you get at the end of each floor; you can maybe even bring a legendary/ultra beast along to have an easier time against the end boss and get that first win. At this point, if you haven't gotten that first win yet, now's the time to start knuckling down and making a serious go at it. Some general points of advice for Classic success I haven't yet covered:

• Early on, focus on 1-2 pokemon. Ignore the rest. Same advice as in Endless works here. This perhaps sounds counter-intuitive, but until at least floor 30-40, try your absolute hardest to only focus on leading with 1-2 pokemon (and that second one should ideally only be necessary to cover the weaknesses of the first). Your immediate early-game hurdles are the two rival battles at floors 8 and 25 (and maybe a Gym Leader battle at 20), and if you try to level everyone evenly you're going to find it harder to win. The Exp All and Exp Charms you get from rival battles and item rewards will more than catch your team up later even if you don't ever use them...so don't worry about them for now. Right now, you're creating the Ultimate Early Game Juggernaut(s) to get you through the initial hurdles.
• Be frugal with your money in the beginning. In Endless, it's common practice to reroll often to look for specific items - candy jars, rare candies, etc. That's because in that mode, once you get set up you have almost unlimited income. In Classic, your income is much more limited (usually hovering ~$100k or so by the mid to late floors), and you don't have the luxury of blindly rerolling for optimal results. The option to "save scum" your re-rolls exists, if you were willing - after winning a floor, check the rerolls, and if you don't like any of the offerings, refresh the page. This will "start the floor over", resetting the rewards and refunding your money. This isn't really necessary, though; in fact, I rarely reroll rewards at all until floors 180-200, and often settle with generic healing/item rewards. Why? You'll notice through your runs that in the midgame (floors 50-150, mainly), you'll accumulate quite a bit of gold; instead of using this gold for rerolls then, where it doesn't help much, you should instead wait for the later floors where you start to take on the toughest opponents of the run - the Elite 4 and Champion on floors 180-190, the final rival battle at 195, and the final boss at 200. Specifically, 180-190 is where you'll buy more healing items than perhaps the rest of the run combined (to keep your team healthy in between each Elite 4/Champion battle), and 190-200 are where you really want to look for things like X [stat] items to give your team that extra "oomph". Even the strongest legendaries fear a Butterfree packing +4 X Specials and an X Speed. Money saved early on lets you dump it into rerolls later where it matters most. (Don't ruin your run by being *too* frugal, though - if your party is near death early on, spend it. You can't spend it later on if you're dead.)
• Pickup is NOT necessary (but it is helpful). I see a lot of general advice in posts on pokerogue that tell new players to stack Pickup team members on Classic. This isn't necessary, or even arguably desirable past maybe the first 20-30 floors unless you're running a very strong carry that can solo all 200 floors (which is extremely unlikely, and far more difficult to boot). I've won Classic many times without using Pickup at all, and I can't say as I miss it when I don't have it. More importantly, you need to be cautious which items you're picking up - the end boss can and WILL use them against you, so things like Sitrus/Enigma/stat boosting berries that you picked up along your 200 floors suddenly seem a lot less useful when they're in enemy hands. That said, if you bring someone along with Pickup, be generous with handing out berries and other items to your party regularly using the "Transfer" option, so you can reap the benefits all throughout your 200 floors. Sitrus, Enigma, and the speed/attack boosting berries in particular are great in trainerival battles where you expect to take hits and want to revenge kill things. In the endgame against the final boss, though, perhaps load everything on a party member you hope never to bring out (such as your Pickup mon) so they don't get stolen. (Hot take: I prefer to use no berries at all in my Classic runs if possible, with one exception: Lum! Lum is amazing for healing status effects, especially when it feels like some trainers have all the hacks against you, and it doesn't feel bad if/when it gets stolen later.)
• The same goes for Pokerus. The biggest advantage to having pokerus is capping out your levels faster; even without it, in the later floors you'll still cap your levels by each final stage so long as you pick up a charm or two along the way (which you'll usually do, pokerus or not). It's also a decent help for that floor 11-25 range where you're at your weakest and that second rival challenge comes knocking. In Endless it's common practice to take a pokerus pokemon so your carry can keep up with the level gains of the floors until you get fully set up; in Classic, the scaling doesn't feel nearly that punishing. If you can bring a good pokerus pokemon, though, it's more helpful than not - just don't go out of your way for it or feel like it's "necessary".
• Understand how biomes work, at least somewhat. Many of them chain into each other naturally, which is part of where the memes come from regarding "endless water biomes" or similar. As you start to expand your starting 2-3 into a full 6, know what biomes you need to look for and what to avoid. This is part of why the Map is one of my favorite item rewards to pick early on - it lets you target farm the remaining members of your team much easier, and towards the last 50-80 floors you can choose the easier ones to coast through while you finish building your team. In particular, routes you need to keep in mind:
  • You always start in "Town" and move into "Plains"; this is 100% guaranteed in every Classic run. This means the first 20 floors are always weighted heavily to normal- and grass-types. When building your starting team, it's helpful to keep this in mind - for instance, picking up things strong against these two types (shoutout to Flamigo/Hawlucha!) and maybe not bringing a grass type knowing that you're likely to catch one early on if you're desperate for filler.
  • "Metropolis" vs. "Lake" vs. "Grass": Moving out of Plains, these are your three options available if you have the Map by now. The biome you leave Plains for is the biggest observation you can make for your run - it will dictate how you form the rest of your team as you progress into the midgame. If you get diverted to Lake, but need an Electric-type (for instance), you need to find a way to get the map to divert to "Construction Site" or loop back to Plains, or you may be hard pressed to find an Electric-type at all in your entire run. The same goes for Fairy- and Steel-types - "Fairy Cave", the biome with the largest quantity of fairy types, is only accessible through "Meadows", which requires you to go through the forest biomes first. If you're not looking like you're going through those areas, you'll need to be less picky about what fairy-types you come across if you hope to snag one. (I recommend visiting the wiki for their nice little flowchart diagram if you ever want a more nuanced look into each path and where they can potentially lead, along with what spawns in each.)
• Build a well-rounded team. Building mono-type teams is cute, but ultimately extra work. Focus on coverage and being able to handle anything that comes along - remember, the last floors feature a variety of Elite 4 members and the Champion, all of which will require a varied approach on what types of Pokemon to bring for best results. By floor 100, you should either have most of your team set or a plan to fill the rest out by the time you reach ~170. By 180 it's likely too late (with the exception of maybe getting a last Mushroom or TM to fill out a moveset).

VIZZINI: So, it is down to you. And it is down to me.
The MAN IN BLACK nods and comes nearer.
VIZZINI: If you wish her dead, by all means keep moving forward.
VIZZINI pushes his long knife harder against BUTTERCUP's unprotected throat.
MAN IN BLACK: Let me explain...
VIZZINI: There's nothing to explain. You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen.
MAN IN BLACK: Perhaps an arrangement can be reached.
VIZZINI: There will be no arrangement [pauses, deliberately] and you're killing her!
VIZZINI jabs with his long knife. BUTTERCUP gasps against the pain. The MAN IN BLACK stops quickly.
MAN IN BLACK: But if there can be no arrangement, then we are at an impasse.
VIZZINI: I'm afraid so -- I can't compete with you physically. And you're no match for my brains.
MAN IN BLACK: You're that smart?
VIZZINI: Let me put it this way: have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
MAN IN BLACK: Yes.
VIZZINI: Morons.
MAN IN BLACK: Really? In that case, I challenge you to a battle of wits.
VIZZINI: For the Princess?
The MAN IN BLACK nods.
VIZZINI: To the death?
The MAN IN BLACK nods.
VIZZINI: I accept.
MAN IN BLACK: Good. Then pour the wine.
VIZZINI fills the goblets with wine. The MAN IN BLACK pulls a small packet from his clothing and hands it to VIZZINI.
MAN IN BLACK: Inhale this, but do not touch.
VIZZINI: I smell nothing.
MAN IN BLACK: [Takes the packet back] What you do not smell is called Iocaine powder. It is odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more deadlier poisons known to man.
VIZZINI: Hmm.
VIZZINI watches as the MAN IN BLACK takes the goblets, turns his back. A moment later, he turns again, faces VIZZINI, drops the Iocaine packet. It is now empty. The MAN IN BLACK rotates the goblets in a little shell game maneuver then puts one glass in front of VIZZINI and the other in front of himself.
MAN IN BLACK: All right: where is the poison? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right and who is dead.
VIZZINI: But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you. Are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet, or his enemy's? [pauses to study the MAN IN BLACK] Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I'm not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
MAN IN BLACK: You've made your decision then?
VIZZINI: Not remotely. Because iocaine comes from Australia, as everyone knows. And Australia is entirely peopled with criminals. And criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me. So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
MAN IN BLACK: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
VIZZINI: Wait till I get going! Where was I?
MAN IN BLACK: Australia.
VIZZINI: Yes -- Australia, and you must have suspected I would have known the powder's origin, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
MAN IN BLACK: [beginning nervousness] You're just stalling now.
VIZZINI: You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong. So, you could have put the poison in your own goblet, trusting on your strength to save you. So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But, you've also bested my Spaniard which means you must have studied. And in studying, you must have learned that man is mortal so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
MAN IN BLACK: [nervously] You're trying to trick me into giving away something -- it won't work --
VIZZINI: [triumphant] It has worked -- you've given everything away -- I know where the poison is.
MAN IN BLACK: [fool's courage] Then make your choice.
VIZZINI: I will. And I choose [stops suddenly and points at something behind the Man in Black] what in the world can that be?
MAN IN BLACK: [Turns, looks] What? Where? I don't see anything.
VIZZINI quickly switches the goblets while the MAN IN BLACK has his head turned.
VIZZINI: Oh, well, I-I could have sworn I saw something. No matter.
The MAN IN BLACK turns to face him again. VIZZINI starts to laugh.
MAN IN BLACK: What's so funny?
VIZZINI: I'll tell you in a minute. First, let's drink -- me from my glass, and you from yours.
And he picks up his goblet. The MAN IN BLACK picks up the one in front of him. As they both start to drink, VIZZINI hesitates a moment. Allowing the MAN IN BLACK to drink first, he swallows his wine.
MAN IN BLACK: You guessed wrong.
VIZZINI: [roaring with laughter] You only think I guessed wrong... [louder now] ...that's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned. Ha-ha, you fool.
The MAN IN BLACK sits silently.
VIZZINI: You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." But only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!Ahahahaha, ahahahaha, ahahaha--

• thud *

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2024/05/14/no-easy-answers-lds-parents-wonder
Might be behind a paywall, I have JavaScript turned off on the page so I can read it anyway 😅 I'll put up some quotes and give a tl dr: basically tons of research shows that waking up early as a teen is extremely bad for your mental health, but the church doesn't care.

A mounting body of evidence indicates that teens not only need more sleep than adults but also that hormonal shifts make it harder for them to go to bed before 10 or 11p.m. At the same time, researchers have gained a clearer picture of the risks associated with teenage sleep deprivation, among them serious mental health issues and substance abuse.
Tired teens, recent studies have discovered, are more prone to major depression and risky behavior, including drug experimentation. One study, published in 2023, found that sleep-deprived adolescents were about twice as prone to suicide ideation and consideration, even when adjusting for sexual identity, trauma, bullying and other related factors. Another, published the year before, suggested a possible link between poor adolescent sleep and an increased risk of schizophrenia.

The church won't make any changes, and the parents and kids are brainwashed into thinking it's worth the "sacrifice". They have other options, like online or late night classes, but since they're not the norm kids and parents still feel the pressure to keep the status quo and do regular seminary. It's a classic "cultural" problem where the church refuses to acknowledge the influence it has on the problems it causes.
My two cents: I definitely don't have any lasting sleep disorders exacerbated by seminary /s 🙄 Jazz band at my high school was before school, my freshman year I just went to seminary instead, but then we tried having seminary just for a handful of band kids after school. For whatever reason by my junior year we switched to extra early seminary at 5:45am (I know a ton of people that had it that early as well in other districts and states). I slept through every class that wasn't active (like band or drafting) every single day of that year and the next. I even had to drop out of honors pre-calculus because I just couldn't stay awake.
The kids in most classes referred to me as "that sleeping kid". Though to be fair it was pretty funny when I got the second highest score on the practice AP physics test and the guy who sits next to me was like "what?? He's asleep ALL THE TIME" (I didn't do as well on the actual test though 😅).
And now in my thirties it's almost impossible to even get out of bed without Adderall or a large amount of caffeine, and it's impossible to get to sleep without Ambien or a large amount of weed (and yes, that includes days where I didn't take stimulants, and vice versa). This research on how much sleep teens actually need is almost a decade old, and some high schools have even pushed back their start times because of it (and consequently saw a noticeable bump in their test scores). And the church still won't address this issue that's actually harming kids. They either don't care about the kids outside of Utah or really appreciate how much easier brainwashing is when you're sleep deprived.

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To clarify, here are some details:
I am working on a short film for a uni assignment and need as many answers to this as possible.
Let's say, there is a person you know, who is facing a major decision. This decision would have a big influence on their happiness, with no information that would favour either choice. They could choose to pursue their desire and get a possible positive outcome, but with high stakes and the risk of making everything worse. Otherwise, they could choose not to pursue and leave everything at status quo. Nothing would change, everything stays as it was and no one would hurt, except for the person making the decision. (From their point of view at least)
If possible, I'd also be happy if you could include if your answer would be different, depending on, if they are more masculine or feminine representing. Of course there will be no judging of you or your answer. This is for research purposes only.
Every answer is very appreciated.
Have a great day! :D
(If this kind of question already counts as a survey, I apologise and will not oppose a deletion of this post)

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I am aware of the market and the economy not being the exact same thing. For the purpose of this post I will call the market as if the economy was totally intertwined because in many ways in a capitalist system it actually is very much intertwined. We are seeing in 2024 the reality of what a capitalist world has brought us. We have over $30 trillion in national debt and have it appear everything is on the up and up. People are in fact making more than they were 4 years ago. The price of most things we need has outpaced our wages but we are certainly making $26 an hour when we were making $18 an hour 4 years ago.
I see the collapse of the USA's market probably in the following order:
(1) Workers (*the bottom 60%) will not be able to sustain the standard of living they are adjusted to without a substantial increase in wages to make more than the other people in the country (mathematically impossible to do this if everyone gets this). The demand for increase in wages will become great and will cause a transition of people leaving their job to find a slightly higher paying job and will force employers to increase wages while more than increasing the cost of goods and/or services which are passed on to the consumer. This will cause small businesses to collapse and cease to exist and the only companies to survive will be those who can sustain a low enough cost of goods and/or services by having additional funnels of capital (i.e. the corporations who have the ability to be listed on the stock market). Small businesses that do not go extinct from this happening will go extinct when enough workers demand a full time position which requires health insurance - and the cost of health insurance will go up far above the cost of already high inflation. That is unless the health insurance companies are willing to take a loss (they are not btw).
(2) One way to offset no. 1 from happening and causing a collapse too quickly is to increase the population enough to create enough consumers of capital goods and to have enough low paid workers for the corporations. This will not happen because as we have seen since 2020 many do not see a benefit of working an $8 an hour job and are better off not working if the wage is too low. If I was given the choice of working an $8 an hour job or not working at all right now I would choose the latter. You are better off not working and trying to get the skills and education to make a $30 an hour job even if it means not working for an additional year than working for $8 an hour. These corporations will turn to robots doing as much work as possible and there eventually will not be enough jobs once robots take more than just the low paying jobs. For the sake of this post I will call AI and robots just robots.
(3) As no. 1 and 2 unfold the reality that capitalism is a self destructive system will show more as more capital will be needed to return enough revenue to those who are not in the workforce. This would include people who are in retirement and those who cannot work and are on programs such as SSDI. It is not the fact that a program like SSDI can go bankrupt that I am talking about. Instead it is the fact that we will see the cost of everything - because the cost of everything is connected in a capitalist system - go up so substantially that those who are in a fixed income setting that are no longer in the workforce will face high levels of homelessness. This could lead to many different things happening: People being forced to put as many expenses as they can on credit to be able to use actual capital to pay for rent and other needs they cannot put on credit - which we are seeing now. It also could and highly likely will cause a capitalist "crunch" of the bottom wealthiest bourgeoisie to exit being landlords and corporations that can be on the stock market to take over renting. Once this occurs and the monopoly begins of only a few big players owning too much of the rental market the prices of rentals will in fact drop until there are not enough renters to sustain profit, from what I covered in no. 2 regarding the population not going up enough. People are not having kids because... They cannot afford them. The number (percentage wise) of bourgeoisie will decrease substantially since real estate is one of the ways to sustain bourgeoisie status.
There are a no. 4, 5, 6... I have a list of over 15 things and I feel they are in order of what will happen. No. 1, 2 and 3 are basically already happening. No. 15 is the final stage of capitalism that I expect to see in/around 2035-2045 which will be when enough people realize capitalism was always unsustainable and the debate is over if we can utilize a capitalist system. By this time AI and robots will be performing enough of the labor that a transition not a common sense system will be possible. That is if global warming (caused and accelerated mostly by capitalism) has not caused enough damage by then to even live normally anymore.
*I am dividing the USA into the 5 categories of net worth (these are not what you have probably seen for net worth categories in the past but this is a more accurate grouping of net worth ranges since more people now than ever have a negative net worth and this pulls the bottom 20% down from most graphs shows since most graphs assume those with a negative net worth as having a zero dollar net worth):
The bottom 20% being people who have a net worth of below $5k;
then the next 20% being $5k-$60k net worth;
then next 20% being $60k-$200k net worth;
then next 20% being $200k-$1.5 million net worth;
then next $1.5 million+ as the last 20%.