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Title explanation: Lilia lost her airpods at school but found them the next day.
Today is Lilia’s very last day of middle school ever. Her 8th grade graduation is tomorrow. Today is her last in service day of school. Jess is so sad dropping Lilia off. Jess sent her first born off to her very last day of middle school. The next time Jess drops Lilia off it will be at high school. Lilia’s graduation is not until tomorrow. Today is Lilia’s last academic day of school. Jess can’t believe that this day has come. Jess came to home depot because she will finish the bathroom this week. They have been doing it themselves. It is taking quite a while and is low on the priority list. Jess wants to finish it this week. On the way to home depot Jess remembered when she had Lilia. Jess was pregnant at 17 and had Lilia at 18. Even something as simple as calculating how old Jess would be when Lilia was 10. Jess feels like everyone does that when you first have a kid. Jess has always known that when Lilia graduates high school she will be 36. Jess was thinking about all the memories of Lilia. It dawned on Jess that she is 32. Lilia only has 4 more years left of school. 18 year old Jess thought that that moment was so far away. However it is here and not so far away. It was a blink of an eye. Jess will be a mess tomorrow at Lilia’s graduation. Jess already feels it. Jess is not a crier. (I already knew that. She fake cries all the time but no actual tears come out.) In The last 2 years Jess has gotten more emotional because she realizes more how beautiful life is. Everything is making Jess emotional. Even some movies Jess watches are making her emotional. Jess hates watching people cry because it is so annoying. Jess can’t believe that she is here and that this is happening. It goes by in the blink of an eye and then it is over. Jess still has so much time left. Jess is going to focus on the bathroom because it is getting out of control and is sad.
Jess is wearing Landen’s crocs because they were the only shoes she could find and they fit her. Kyson and Kaden’s shoes are too big. Jess wants to do a retro curvy strip across the bathroom wall. Jess is going to do 5 colors that complement each other and go with the theme. Jess doesn’t know how this will turn out. Jess is winging this. Chris had to come and save the day because they don't take apple pay. After Chris dropped the little kids off at school he came and met Jess at home depot.
Jess doesn’t have too much time because Lilia has a minimum day. The guys are working on the ADU today. Lilia has a minimum day since it is the very last day of school. Jess doesn’t have too much time. The rest of the kids are not out of school today. It is not their last day of school. They have a whole week left of school. They are on a very different schedule. They still have a solid week and a half. Today is Lilia’s last academic day. Tomorrow is her graduation. The following day is when Lilia leaves on her 8th grade trip to washington dc/new york. Jess is excited for Lilia but also nervous. Jess finished all of the cabinet doors and put the paint away. However she forgot a door so she had to put everything back out.
Jess is going to attempt the very first line of the bathroom. The wall is just so plain. Jess wants a little something to go across. Her vision is for it to go up the wall and over the other wall above the light fixture. There is so much space. Jess doesn’t know. She is going to completely wing this. Jess needs to finish off the wall paint. Jess ended up sticking with the darker pepto bismol color on one wall, and the lighter one on the other 2 walls. Jess went back and forth but she decided to try it like that. If she hates it she will repaint it. Jess does hate it but she didn’t want to repaint it and then she liked the contrast. They will see it with the strip on it. The strip will add another element.
Jess just came to Lilia’s school to pick her up. Yesterday they had a picnic outside for lunch. At some point in the day Lilia realized she was missing her airpods. She doesn’t know at what point she lost them. Lilia thinks she lost them somewhere out in the huge grass area. They checked lost and found but no one turned them in. They are hoping they are in the tall grass area. They are not catching a signal through the find my iphone setting. They are still not connecting. It is not looking good. They found them. Jess is shocked. They were buried in a patch of grass. That is a miracle. They were exactly where Lilia’s phone said they were. Jess can’t believe it. What a way to kick off summer. Jess is shook. Jess knew they could do it. Jess is so happy.
Addie has cheer today. Today is going to be a crazy day for Addie. Addie has cheer, then straight to dance for pictures. Landen got his hair repermed yesterday. Jess is confident about it this time because they cut it shorter which Jess loves. The guy that they take Landen to get his hair permed. The guy is so amazing that they started taking the rest of the kids to get their hair cut from him. Chris started getting his haircut from him. This was a really good find. The downside is that he only works 3 days a week so you have to plan for those days. Those days are the days that they have soccer. Landen goes from getting his hair freshly permed straight to soccer practice. Jess feels like it isn’t good but they don’t have any other options. This week their soccer schedule has completely changed because it is the end of the season. Jess feels like it will stick better this time because Landen wore a bonnet to bed last night. Jess is going to get Landen one for himself. Everyone should wear them. Landen isn’t going to practice and sweating it out and he is protecting his hair at night. Landen just has Jess’s hair texture which never has held a curl. Jess got a perm once or twice but it didn’t stick. It went straight immediately. That is exactly what Landen’s did. Jess thinks it also might be a hair texture thing. Even to this day Jess’s curls won’t last all day. It is flat by the end of the day. Even if Jess puts certain products in it it still doesn’t hold like others do.
Mango has been extremely happy. His beard isn’t black, his appetite is back and he is eating normally. Mango started dribbling from the side when eating. The lump has gotten bigger. (Well you decided to stop all meds and let nature take its course. Nature is taking its course.) His mouth is open on the side that has the lump. Jess doesn’t know why. The lump is getting bigger. However Mango is really happy and in good spirits. Mango is eating normal. Jess doesn’t know what to do. (How about going back to the vet and resuming the meds?) They are taking it day by day. Mango is happy and that is all Jess cares about.
Addie has flight school today. It teaches how to do lifts in cheer. Jess isn’t a seasoned cheer mom yet. Then they have to go straight to her dance dress rehearsal.

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I plan to run a Krait with all 5 hard points as burst lasers. Don’t try and dissuade me from that. What I’m wondering is: How is the heat management with all the burst lasers having short range and inertial impact? Right now I’m leaning towards all efficient but would go short range if the heat won’t be an issue. I just don’t want to waste the mats and have to farm them again if the heat management sucks. I won’t use heat sinks as my utility slots are all engineered boosters.
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I hope I'm posing this question correctly, but here goes. I have voice recordings that I am having the damnedest time tuning in, equalizing, compressing, limiting, you name it, I'm having trouble!! I've used low-pass, high-pass, shelves, Denoisers, only to make the sound worse, but I've had nothing but chirps, whistles, high scratching, static, and hisses.
At the moment I'm using n-track studios mainly because I've got so much time invested in it and I guess an unreasonable amount of stubbornness, but I REALLY NEED THE AUDIO off of these recordings as there is incredibly sensitive material in these voice recordings. I cannot stress the importance of these audios, and the necessity for me to render these audios clear.
I don't know who is or if anyone is using n-track, but I know the audio is good because I can hear voices, I just can't clear them up well enough to make out the words. But without sharing a clip it sounds like high-pitch screeches and chirps that I know are clipping, but if move a high-pass node it makes it worse, or a low-pass node it makes it worse. I know that anyone with any audio editing experience would have this figured out quick style, but due to the sensitive nature of the recording, I haven't shared it with anyone. I just need to be pointed in the right direction. Any help would be SUPER APPRECIATED!!! Thank you!!

The idea that humans in large numbers lack competency, and so therefore a conspiracy would be practically impossible completely misses the point. Actually, the fact that humans are insanely incompetent and low-information is why conspiracies are everywhere and almost never go noticed. In fact, people DO speak up often and whistleblow and NO ONE LISTENS.
Part of the issue here is epistemological. We think we know about the world. Why do we think that? First of all, human brains are built to conceive of about 150 people around them. Urbanization breaks our brains, and because we're not built for it, we consistently process our impression of society wrong.
School and media are huge and very simply blunt instruments to provide us with a better impression of the massive urban society around us. Most of what we think we know comes from here. Yes, it's true that false information can be contradicted and humans actually can be quite logical with plain, clear facts. However, we have other social instincts which prevent this from happening.
We humans mostly tend to intuitively perceive what kinds of beliefs others have and give massive weight to that while filtering possibly complex or confusing facts in our heads. While some of us and some cultures are much more sophisticated and cynical about media, there are TONS of demographics (i.e.: young women) who psychologically interpret literally anything the media presents as representative of the actual tastes and preferences of that abstract 150 people the brain is built to perceive. Simply because the media exists and promotes one point of view, it means that this must be the position of those in the tribe with power.
Experienced, educated professionals will constantly filter inconvenient information in favor of adjusting to what the group believes. Smarter, 110-130 IQ "midwits" will actually recognize something is wrong, but will rationalize the emotional inconvenience and build explanations or narratives so they can cope. <110IQ people can't construct these rationalizations, and if they're low-IQ enough they can't even understand them, so this is why dumb people often perceive conspiracies that highly intelligent people observe, because the layer of rationalization doesn't appear to them. >140 IQ literally cannot use these rationalizations because their brains see right through them and you have to be a psychopath to ignore what you see. 110-130 IQ people ACTUALLY BELIEVE these rationalizations, that's the point. They ego invest in them and will fight their own kin to squash anyone noticing malicious behavior systemic to institutions. This is partly because, these midwits as the supreme managerial class, so effectively rationalize, they can operate in corrupt environments without being aware of the corruption. Thus they are rewarded immensely, given titles or big salaries, and become personally invested in the fraud while also consciously believing there's no fraud.
As an adult who has noticed all this from experience in the military, ecclesiastical, academic, corporate (never medical sadly) sectors, these patterns seem universal. You know the store manager who has the keys to lock up? Well, when they open up to their buddies and drink a little of the merchandise and throw a little party or whatever, if corporate can't tell, then why wouldn't they? Not everyone who has power will abuse it, but anywhere power is held, someone will abuse it. Abuse of power is a very casual thing, and at a minimum, some percentage of human personality types will always do it. The go-getters and doers especially trend toward a willingness to abuse power, and that's part of the problem. Other humans have specific instincts to submit to the powerful and almost take pleasure when they are on the good side of a psychopath who is abusing a third party.
Here you might say, "Gee, you have a cynical view of humanity." Sorry, the day a college kid can stand up and assert a point of view that's not social consensus, and have even 10% of the class change their minds and support him merely from considering the argument, then maybe I'll be more optimistic. No, people are cowards who are constantly trying to fit in, mostly most people are pretty dumb, and actually most people disdain those who refuse to fit in and don't care at all about the group's corruption. See, kids who are instinctively socially breaking from their parents will oppose the society of their parents. But kids will never oppose, not ever, not at scale, the social momentum of other kids unless there are other kids of clear divisions like racial or religious.
Therefore, I would propose that not only is society full of conspiracies at every level, but actually society functions on the basis of conspiracy. Small group loyalties and hierarchies form nodes around which institutional structure can build larger organizations. I was in the military which is full of formal authority, laws and rules. The reality of it is all that was a distraction to make people put up with a system that is more about little cliques among officers and so forth that sort everything out behind closed doors. Sure, norms, laws, rules, training smooth things out, allow interchangeability, but real decisions are made selfishly by some leader and they have quidproquo with colleagues and that bubbles up to the top. So whatever stupid beliefs they have about their organization or its values, they take with them to the top where someone like a general wields real power. Yet, such a person is sort of "endowed" with that position by his clique-community, and so they must fight for that community's values in the confines of that community's worldview, which might be totally inaccurate.
With this in mind, here is your final graduation thought experiment.
I've tried to understand the Ukraine war.
Right now Russia is playing on its former Soviet era diplomatic network so it's leaning into "white neocolonialists who think they have superior values exploit brown people because of theft and racism." But they're also simultaneously playing the newer, libertarian narrative of a progressive managerial elite which has hijacked the Western bureaucracy. It's sort of insane how they do this. Like how they exalt Orthodox religion but also insist Stalin did nothing wrong, which not even the post-Stalin USSR believed.
The anti-neocolonialist narrative says that rich whites want to steal resources from poor browns. This is factually what's happening, but the tragic irony is that many third world countries probably couldn't develop or benefit from these resources without first world help. So, there's both an argument against neo-colonialism, but also an argument that it's not like this big scam so much as a natural consequence. What it boils down to for me is where war, jackal economics or espionage is used. That's clearly wrong, and I think a lot of poor countries would be doing a lot better without these interventions, although I don't think they'd be rich and developed.
Well, the West actually is anti-neocolonialist too. Globalists want smart cities, AI economy, UBI, CBDC. They want rural white Americans to be the same level of poor as rural Africans, and for the gains of exploiting natural resources to be concentrated among a global elite, which although unfair, is not exclusive to borders. The geopolitical unfairness of neocolonialism will be addressed by Globalism. And its elite will be very small compared to the global proletariat they intend to have.
This is all very ironic since the globalist machine is playing the Euro-chauvinism card to appeal to Euro elites, and also the American exceptionalism card to appeal to American nationalists. They're playing whatever cards they have, like Russia.
So this is all I know: the West is lying to some of its lesser elites by paying lip service to their values. Russia is playing its old USSR geopolitics card while also playing a trad Orthodox card, while also playing an anti-globalist card.
I KNOW that the West is globalist, the leadership that is. So NATO must lose, because the globalists will certainly win if NATO wins. However, I fear the other side might also be globalists and the whole conflict is an anti-white, anti-Western charade meant to displace the old Euro elites and American nationalists.
That's the irony. Globalists control the West, but have to constantly deal with these older elite factions, so they could be using the war as a purge in a way.
It's hard to explain why the globalist-American leadership needed this conflict so bad. Probably it's all a shitshow gone wrong. This is where my explanation of how conspiracies function comes into play.
Neocons thought the would reinvigorate interest in the military but it hasn't. Like a new patriotism and interest in military power and funding.
Ukrainian Jews might have thought they could purge the Slavs and make a second Jewish homeland but that's probably off the table due to the failed counter offensive.
Russia's hopes of exercising their historical and cultural hegemony to settle the conflict have failed, when Ukrainian deep state operatives assured them they were still on the same old team.
Stupid nationalists who are somehow blind to the globalists and think the American economy is "doing great" probably thought this could be a knockout blow to Russia's meddling in certain geostrategic resource deals that affected American hegemony over Europe. This is a legacy of the British "can't let Europe become a world power" prerogative. The kind of dumb monkey legacy deep state geopolitical prerogatives that these idiots cling to while ignoring the other players around them.
So there are members of the British and American diplomatic-military-intelligence communities who are seemingly oblivious to what globalism is, or the imminent collapse of the Anglo-American financial hegemony. They actually believe the financial journalism. They are playing out a specific strategy from their class or clique or culture's history which is about keeping Europe down. So they are acting from that vantage and are acting as a conspiracy.
There are Euro elites acting from the vantage of actual vestigial colonialist attitudes where they actually think that Europe of all places is a bastion of Western values. While this class is completely morally degenerate, what they really mean is there is a class of elites in Europe that actually thinks the whole world outside of white Europe are actually just dumb monkeys. Not metaphorical. They are committed to all this, as a conspiracy that exercises influence as a conspiracy, because of this idiotic, low-information attitude.
Then there's the globalists who have all kinds of plans, and have even got Russia and China and India to adopt some of their financial technologies in preparation for their Great Reset. And this is done because of their massive influence over global business. As a conspiracy. And yet, while massively influential, they don't outright control Russia or China and their plants are constantly falling short. I'd say the globalists are trying to act as a conventional "illuminati" style conspiracy.
But the point is what I said in the beginning. Even these powerful, highly competent cliques have huge blind spots and huge power gaps because humans are in fact highly incompetent in large numbers.
I get a clique trying very hard to influence things and just falling short of being able to do it, but what boggles my mind is that a lot of these conspiracies who KNOW they are conspiracies who KNOW the world is a stage for the common sheep and KNOW the basic nature of deep state and intelligence games that are played. Even these people will not see past their own biases or egos, and fail to see lies in front of their own faces.
Because conspiracy is natural to humans. We do it naturally, so we engage in illicit collusion and cliquishness, but we don't necessarily see or realize where it's happening outside of our brain's 150 person social perception. Which to me is the oddest thing.

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Pag nag divorce kayo ng asawa mo, masakit din naman sa part mo, masakit din sa part ng mga anak. Walang isa sa inyo na di nasaktan. Pag kayo ay nagsasama parin, nasasaktan ang babae o ang abused partner titiisin nya lagi, at ang mga anak habang nakakakita ng violence parang nakakaranas ng mental torture.
So there's still pain mag divorce o hindi. Pero agree ka man o hindi sa divorce alam kong agree ka na dapat mapigilan ang abuses, dapat mapigilan ang sakit na nararamdaman ng mga anak pag naghihiwalay, alam ko na agree ka na wag na sanang umabot sa sakitan at hiwalayan.
As the old saying "PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE"
Well I'm not saying that divorce is the cure, as I said there's no cure or antidote for abusive marriage. So then how can we prevent it? It is upon the responsibility of the parents na turuan ang mga anak nila, dalaga o binata na ang pag aasawa pag di ginawa sa tamang paraan nakakasira ng buhay. As in sirang sira at parang di na maaaring ibalik sa dati. Bigyan natin sila ng tamang paraan, that's why dapat ang pag aasawa ay nasa ilalim ng gabay ng mga magulang, right discernment. Kaso ngayon sa panahon natin, parenting palang di na maayos, dun palang sa parenting naaabuso na ang bata, lumalaki nang may hinanakit, naghahanap ng sense of importance kaya napapariwara nagkakaroon ng maling desisyon. So komo di maganda ang relationship ng parents sa mga anak ang mga anak ayaw nilang makialam ang parents sa buhay pagibig nila. I BELIEVE AND STRONGLY BELIEVE na oras na para maging matured ang parenting style ng mga Pilipino na dapat parents must make a way na hindi mawawalan ng tiwala at openness ang mga anak nila sa kanila. GUIDANCE OF PARENTS TO CHILDREN CONSIDERS THEIR MARRIAGE at para mabigyan ng parents ng guidance ang mga anak nila dapat maayos ang kanilang pagpapalaki at pagdidisiplina sa mga bata.
We can prevent na wag nang hahantong sa abusive marriage ang lahat. And parents have the big responsibility to guide their children na magdesisyon ng maayos tungkol sa pagaasawa. The topic of marriage is also a topic for the significance of family and all issues surrounding it such as the importance of parents and the importance of right parenting. Piliin natin yung wag nang hahantong sa situation na we have to make a painful decision and hurt others and our self and then after all memories are bitter. Simulan ng maayos para matapos ng maayos, there's no problem if we don't do something that will create a problem and that is to abide upon what is right from the first until the last.

So, I am a 58 year old female and dell in a rain divot in our dirt driveway at like 1AM on May 5, of COURSE I did, as we were leaving on the 8th for our 1st real vacation in 10 years, a condo at New Smyrna and 4 days at Welcome to Rockville. We had to call the Ambulance as I could not get up, and my husband couldn't help me as any movement caused nausea. At the ER the doctor said I had a trimalleolar fracture as she saw a chip in the back but the radiologist said no, just bi They splinted me up and I went home, saw the surgeon on the 7th, he confirmed trimalleolar but didn't think the one at the back would need help but as i was unstable wanted surgery ASAP. Just peachy Surgery was the 9th (missed our check in date) after surgery and that amazing nerve blocker we got the dogs and ourselves and drove the 2 hours to our condo rental. I had very little pain, I had bought a knee scooter and on Friday the 10th and Saturday the 11th we went to Rockville. (DEF GET THAT KNEE SCOOTER!!+) also I saw someone say don't buy the Cast cover for the shower, honestly 2nd best purchase for 12 bucks from amazon, easier to use and cheaper in the long run than bags and tape. And if I had to do it again, I would def recommend spending the money on the pillow wedge. after vacation I have been pretty okay, not much pain, discomfort usually in the evening and man I regret not buying the wedge pillow Went to a mall, do most of my chores, I rarely use the crutches. Except.. I live in a mobile home on a horse farm, I go out as little as possible as it's dirt everywhere and there are steps in the door. I work from home already so things have been okay Today was my post op, so 19 days post surgery. Removed the sutures I have a plate and screws on the outside and one screw on the inside. And gave me a boot, this thing is enormous and heavy, I am non weight bearing for 4 more weeks at least. But the shower!!! Being able to get my leg wet, so much nasty dry skin, and lotion and even shaved some. Was incredible But I guess I was spoiled as I have had so little pain, because man I have more pain tonight than i have had since before surgery, some is because it is 98 degrees here in FL and obviously some sweat I believe and getting jn the edges of my wound, while the stitches were removed it's still not totally closed and I have a few butterfly strips. Sleeping in this beast js not going to be fun. I had 2 oxycodones left and had to take one tonight. Anyone else have this kind of pain still at 19 days? Or after you went feom splint to boot? It is snug so it's not an issue of moving. I am so frustrated as I have tickets I paid alot for to see a baseball game July 8, right by thr visiting Yankee dugout, and I don't know how the heck I am going to do that as I assume there are quite a few steps to get to my seat. Probably 20 steps and f I csn barely get in and out of my house with 4 stairs. My 4 week appt and xray will be June 25, so 2 weeks before the game,. Who has made it to this point as to how much weight bearing we may start with? 10%?

Hello! I’m a slightly experienced solo traveler (mostly European countries), and I’m planning a trip to Argentina in September. I’m only able to spend about 7 days, and I’m looking for some advice on “must see” spots. I know that’s pretty general and most of the country is probably fabulous, but I’m looking for destinations that are easy and affordable to travel to from Buenos Aires. My travel style is to embrace my surroundings instead of trying to pack in a bunch of activities to simply “check off”. I want to explore without stressing over a tight agenda.
From what I’ve read so far, lots of folks recommend Mendoza and Puerto Iguazu vs the Patagonia region for 7 day stays in the country. What I’m trying to find out is if I should go North or South as a first time visitor?
Any recommendations about anything would be helpful and greatly appreciated!