Have you ever felt chills from good stimuli?
That ability can be learned to be activated with just the elated feeling, whenever you want, without any stimuli.
That's not why I claim that it is a secret being hidden from us, though.
The ability to activate this is your golden ticket, which is being swept under the rug as something unconscious and unimportant. With info on this purposely being spread as an ability available only to a few; however, it is one of the only things that every single human can access, regardless of their physical abilities or conditions.
Why is information on this being manipulated? Let's see.
Ever felt overwhelmed by stress or anxiety? This ability is a switch to manually induce the release of positive hormones.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-12135590
Just imagine how being able to use it when feeling overwhelmed could benefit you.
Don't believe me? In the eastern part of the world, Tibetan Monks know about this ability and use it differently. You can find more information on this in this Harvard "Tummo" experiment.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2002/04/meditation-changes-temperatures/
"During meditation, the monk's body produces enough heat to dry cold, wet sheets put over his shoulders in a frigid room."
Since our internal body temperature is regulated by the hypothalamus, the same part of our brain that deals with positive hormone release, this proves that this ability can be used to consciously activate your positive hormones.
Ever wanted to travel virtually in an instant? People who astral project or have out-of-body experiences use this ability to trigger the "Vibrational state" right before the "take off."
https://en.iipc.org/vibrational-state/
These examples are just the tip of the iceberg of what you can use this ability for. In fear that my post won't be read, I won't write a book here about all the incredible things that we can do by being able to consciously activate this ability.
For now just understand that many different cultures observed this occurrence thousands of years before the Western new world became aware of it, and their discoveries did not stop at simply recognizing it as a physical response to music.
Eventually, you can learn how to bring up this wave of elated energy without the physical reaction of goosebumps, feel it throughout your body, and increase its duration, just like many others have succeeded in doing.
This ablity has been researched and documented under many names, by different people and cultures such as Bioelectricity, Life force, Prana, Chi, Qi, Runner's High, Euphoria, ASMR, Ecstasy, Orgone, Rapture, Tension, Aura, Mana, Vayus, Nen, Intent, Tummo, Odic force, Kriyas, Pitī, Frisson, Ruah, Spiritual Energy, Secret Fire, The Tingles, on-demand quickening, Voluntary Piloerection, Aether, Chills, Spiritual Chills and many more to be discovered hopefully with your help.
If you're interested, here are three written tutorials with concise descriptions on how to control this for your own benefit.
If not then I've put enough information for you to research this topic, develop this ability and bring in new techniques to the world.
P.S. Everyone feels it at certain points in their life, some brush it off while others notice that there is something much deeper going on. Those are exactly the people you can find on the subreddit community Spiritualchills where they share experiences, knowledge and tips on it.

Looking for advice . Please be kind to me. I’ve posted on here before and have been met with not so kind comments. I don’t mind honesty I just prefer if people were not rude as I’m going through a really rough time.
I found three pictures of my husband’s penis in his recently deleted photos, and one picture of a girl naked in a mirror. The top dated May 16, 2024. However, I was unable to go to the more info tab so that I could figure out exactly WHEN the pictures were taken. As I know you can do on an apple iPhone . he snatched the phone out of my hand and deleted the pictures prior to me being able to do this. I will provide more context as to our relationship and the situation below. I am sorry for the lengthy post. I am not very concise and do not know how to be in the situation as there are many factors involved.
For context, I have been with my husband for 11 years, married for two. The very first few years of our relationship my husband had a Sexting problem where he would sex people compulsively behind my back as well as other things. This was 2014/2015 However, he has said it’s never been in person. He got help for this, sought out a therapist.
As a result of this, obviously the trust has been broken despite how long ago it was. We never saw couples therapy, which was a huge mistake,
and I never saw therapy myself until recently, for other issues were going through. As a result of him cheating, our solution was that I could go through his phone unrestricted whenever I wanted. As somebody with a history of being cheated on, I’m very good at going through a phone and know pretty much every trick known to figure stuff out. Up until I found these pictures, I haven’t really found incriminating evidence. However, there were instances where I questioned if he was able to hide some thing from me. for example, he’d have logins into a Snapchat, even though he never sent pictures or any snaps, he would get spam messages, which to me seemed like he was maybe doing online chats and as a result, getting spam messages at times, and he has acted weird and just off.
For more context, my husband is a very good liar. He can look me in the eyes and lie like there’s no issue. I have caught him in multiple lies not related to cheating. He is a compulsive gambler as well (as am I but I’m currently in help and getting better). There have been many instances where he has lied to me and made me seem crazy for me to only find out hard proof evidence later that he was not being honest.
His argument for the current pictures found on his phone is that he recently restored his iPhone to an old iCloud. This I know is true. He did Switch phones because his broke. his current iCloud backup wasn’t available and he had to restore his phone to an older version. However, like I said, I regularly go through his phone, including pictures. I have gone through his phone since this back up, I have not seen these pictures in his phone before.
Also, the pictures in his phone only go back until 2017. This includes on his photos app, on his Google photos, on his Snapchat, and pretty much anywhere else you could find photos. Any information on his phone actually only goes back to 2017 which makes me think that the iCloud back up is from 2017. Like I said, when my now husband cheated on me, it was in 2014 to 15.
I have regularly questioned him how pictures from this time could be on his current iPhone when it’s only dating back to 2017. He cannot provide me with more information than that “ they are old photos”. have brought up that there are no other photos from 2014 and 15 or even 16 and that it doesn’t seem likely that the only four old pictures on his phone from 201415 or 16 are sexting pictures.
Now for my evidence that they are new. The pictures of his penis are of him in underwear I literally just folded, it’s in a room that indicates he was at work, he’s in a shirt that is likely his current uniform (this has been his uniform since 2017-2018), he was away the weekend before working, I regularly go through his phone and haven’t seen these pictures, and his phone only goes back to 2017.
I will say that the picture of the girl in the mirror naked does remind me of an old picture I found on his phone in 2014/2015. It actually even looks like an old picture. However, the pictures of his penis 90% look new per what I said above.
What are your thoughts? Is it likely that these actually are old photos? I honestly feel like I’m not getting the full story. I’m not even saying that he cheated on me the weekend he went away, but they definitely seem like photos that are AFTER the cheating period Of our relationship.
I have told him time, and time again that I don’t care about the cheating. I mean, obviously I care, but it’s more about the fact that he cannot be honest about the situation. usually with our fights, he just waits until I forget it, and forgive him. But these are usually related to gambling not to cheating. I have told him that I really cannot move past this until I get the truth. I feel that there might be a partial truth that these are old (although again, I really do think that this happened the weekend he was away at work), however, I’m not getting the FULL story because it really just doesn’t make sense how they’re on his phone now. I keep asking him to make it make sense but all he can see is that they are old photos.
I am really thorough on how I go through his phone but there are some options that I feel like I could be missing. Such as he has a undercover Reddit account that I can’t find or isn’t currently on his phone, he’s on a website that’s not trackable and it’s just texting random people, or he has an email I’m on aware of.
Thank you in advance. Again, I know the cheating is a problem but I’m really willing to look past this if I get the full truth.

MAIORES. IV, CAL. IUNI. FORTUNA PRIMIGENIA.

This subject follows along from the general conclusion of infantilism, i.e. if we agree that infantilism exists in a culture that therefore all aspects of (such a culture) must be examined as to how they are impacted ‘by’ that infantilism, as: infantilism constitutes an undeveloped form of a thing; here (without covering absolutely every single aspect of it, as this could be a book in and of itself) we explore ‘sexual immaturity’ and its promulgation and consequences (of which we could easily make the case of the consequences as to be the cause of ‘all social ill’).
In an anthropological view; as if like we are looking at a chimpanzee colony, both procreation and familial-tribal child-raising takes place in our contemporary Western societies in a very clumsy sort of way; with the latter (i.e. the actual raising of children) not occurring at all, with the consequence of ‘arrested development’ – usually we would recognize and name it as that, if we ever thought very deeply about it:
However, the notion that all of this could be reduced to and fathomed as ‘sexual immaturity’ is an interesting (and unexplored) avenue to approach these matters from; certainly the act of actual procreation is deliberately accidental (I mean here in the contemporary West) in that a Woman does “not seek a mate” and then become pregnant, i.e. she does not even consider the sexual act to be procreative, rather: she accidentally becomes pregnant (“it was a miracle”), having beforehand and all throughout the duration and beyond it a culture which is far detached from the physical reality of things and thus a new human is created with no forethought for its care or provision and no security net in place to provide for it and ensure its prosperity and intelligent up-bringing, and increasingly there are fewer and fewer intelligent older persons around who are capable of providing the education and care for that child as would naturally exist in the large familial-tribal unit of an extended family where, historically, we all came from and of which is still the norm across much of the world (i.e. village elders who would otherwise raise the children up to be intelligent even if the Mother herself is too young to be a real parent - if we imagine as the species norm would be that most Women historically had their first child at around the age of fourteen or fifteen). Without, then, that familial-tribal unit to instruct and care for the child’s intellectual development and without either land to make a living from to provide for it's economic development then we find a cursed life, that is: a life far more difficult than it otherwise ought be had it been born in a more wisely chosen environment.
My point here is that ‘procreation’ is considered almost never at all by our society as being the most basic step in the creation and promulgation ‘of’ a tribal unit; with procreation itself being left down to blind chance and more often either legitimately accidentally or feigned accidently so as to attempt to cement a relationship (see: divorce and break-up rates in the West), either way this is the material circumstance into which children are born.
To say, then, that not grasping this reality ‘is’ itself a product of sexual immaturity; i.e. a Woman who does not understand what a new human is, seems to me to be far more of an accurate view of the thing than to declare it as ‘sexual immorality’ as it is usually insisted by the Abramic types, as: rather obviously it is ‘Sexual Immaturity’ rather than ‘Sexual Immorality’ that is the really cause of (the above scenario), that is: it is not Men and Women knowing too much about sex but of Men and Women knowing virtually nothing at all and therefore absent of a practice and familiarity necessary for Sexual Maturity, with Sexual Maturity itself being the very thing declared to be Immorality - an irreconcilable paradox.
It seems to me, then, that the habits we observe of ‘accidental pregnancy’ are the natural occurrence in such an unnatural society; that is: a consequence of misplaced moralism over the vital mechanical sexual functions of the human body (a thing which may well dominate and drive our unconsciousness entirely) have been rendered so alien to our expression and consideration but of which are so incessant and irrepressible; that sexual release is habitually denied, I mean here societally (i.e. “it is not polite”), and only finds ‘permission’ to appear in extreme drunkenness in fits of frenzy, and so on, so that when procreation actually occurs it is sporadic and neither at that moment nor before it was the adult rational mind involved – again, this is plainly a consequence of ‘sexual immaturity’ ‘before’ it could ever be said to be a consequence of ‘sexual immorality’.
It’s worth considering, of our own society in contemporary times, how far removed we are from most of the world which practices arrange marriages in one form or another (i.e. whether we are speaking of large tribal units or smaller family units) and what the consequence of this is on our own communities being absent of that; that is: the most fertile years of our lives are not spent having gotten procreation out of the way by having five or six children by the age of twenty or nineteen (so that when the child is fifteen you might be thirty, which seems to be the age where the sexual drive begins to dissipate or has anyway lost its novelty), and instead (i.e. without of being match-made far earlier in life) procreation instead occurs – if it does at all – accidentally and well-past the most fertile and healthy years, with such children being often quite sickly and the strain on the body being significantly more risky to the Mother (haphazardly enabled only then by massive external resources which would not have been required at all beforehand). I do not mean to seem as if I am advocating “having five or six children by the age of twenty or nineteen” only that in our natural environment this has always been the way of the thing due to natural sexual exploration when we are at that age.
At the same time, at the beginning and at the end of this “waste of time” (as I would say) of those most fertile years in which our sexuality is forbidden to us; that culture which we examine here as being simply Sexual Immaturity, it has been the case that that “Immaturity” persists well into later life by those afflicted adults who were forbidden to practise their natural sexuality when they were at the age where they wanted to, that is that the culture and mentality of such persons subjected to such restrictions quite demonstrably can be shown to have regressed them to the point that, as then as adults, they dress as children, speak and think as children, shun adult responsibility and seem altogether to have matured intellectually no further than the age of twelve or thirteen years, despite physiologically and neurologically having surpassed far beyond that early almost larval-like stage of our development where the body and mind are both only partially formed.
Instead it has been the “dragging-out” of that childlike insensibility, again: to no useful outcome, which has by that point in time essentially mitigated most of their procreative potentiality in that 1) physically having children is then far more difficult for them, and 2) they are now twenty-five years behind where their familial-tribal unit might otherwise have been, i.e. they do not have five or six twenty year old children bringing in incomes to the Household (to purchase a Household in the first place if they did not possess one before) or working the land (or likewise to purchase land) so that their prosperity will not have developed beyond mere subsistence off of the external labour market so as to escape the poverty and dependency traps inherent in the cities – which nominally constitutes their entire existence ‘to’ escape such miseries. All in all it is a lot of hard work by that point and I could not help but notice, of my own generation and those slightly older, how this outcome would have been entirely altered and set on a more prosperous trajectory if, say, at the age of sixteen a couple had been put together and had a few children, as: by the age of twenty the best seeds would have been sewn and they would not have to even think about “having children” ever again which is itself a thing, I observe anyway, that is so daunting and bothersome later in life that it really is something better gotten out of the way as early as possible in the manner that we would have done quite naturally otherwise.
If the idea here is to build up that familial-tribal unit then this methodology serves the purpose in the most optimal manner; the adults are freed up and enjoy their liberties, the younger adults (i.e. the teenagers) are preoccupied quite happily fulfilling their single greatest biological urges to have sex as much as they like, and the population figures begin to climb up at a rate of replacement which is far superior, e.g. a thirty year old parent of a fifteen year old only has five years before that fifteen year becomes a physically matured adult ready to contribute to the unit, whereas by contrast a thirty year old parent of a five year old has a great longer time to wait for physical maturity so that the distance between the two age groups becomes fragile and thin the further it is stretched with a concurrent loss of replacement manpower by a space of ten additional years.
There is something to be said for the older more experienced Father, of course, I remember quite well that the children I grew up with whose Fathers were in their forties and fifties and whose Mothers were in their twenties or very early thirties were quite better-off in their disposition and intelligence (whilst those with older Mothers tended to be sickly in one way or another); simply put though I think it is more to do with the experience of age as the influencing factor than anything else and a functional familial-tribal unit would have this influence in far greater capacity.
If we add to this factor the notion of polygamy (something shunned as ‘pagan’ by the Abramic religions yet advocated for in their own holy books, indeed: it was the universal norm) then we find the whole circle being completed in that young teenagers do as they please with each other, becoming familiar with relationship and their sexuality, and then when they reach a more mature age they might marry each other or other people properly so as to begin families of their own; but that by that age they may well have produced several children already via multiple partners so that the actual ‘legitimate children’ (in the sense of inheriting land and titles) of a more formal marriage is superfluous to population replacement insofar as the tribe is concerned, as: they have already increased the headcount quite massively by comparison. It is worth mentioning here the legal problems of land inheritance and the seeming inability for people to ever work this all out amongst themselves as being one of the most desirable points of the introduction of some of the Abramic religions, when they first appeared, as rules were laid out of who could inherit (some rules more effective than others, some quite ruinous in fact) which provided a framework in perpetuity (but on the other hand, with all children being considered legitimate in some instances, i.e. the children of concubines, this produced the problem of “all children” being in competition for the single title or, in turn, a vast spread of land, i.e. a Kingdom, being broken apart “to make it all fair”: this did not differ in form from, say, Imperial China to the late Ottoman court whilst the European Monarchies to their credit, somewhat, temporarily solved the matter by the allocation of specific titles to be given to the first born, second born, third born, etc., and then bouncing back to the Monarch upon the death of that Duke to be allocated again – although some would say this is a feeble manner by which to govern large polities it differs not very much from the essential ‘oversight’ duties over local governments as practiced in the Roman Principate rather than direct-governorship over those provinces themselves).
The tribal influence in real terms upon children cannot be understated in its superior effects upon the character and long-term capacity of the children themselves (when compared to others); I have some experience in my own up-bringing with this and really the outcome (again: compared to the infantilism, i.e. arrested development, you will almost always find in the nuclear family type, which we might easily compare to factory farmed within four walls and a hen-pecking parental authority vs. free range) is a quite more matured and capable disposition (call it “street smarts” if you like; they follow what actually works rather than what is ‘pretended to them’ to work, which is typically nothing more than the parents own whimsical desires of the moment) amongst all the children when they are simply freed up from the poor influence of an unfit parent even without the good influence of a more fit parent of which, then, the fit parent itself could be determined to be largely superfluous, as: of their own accord they learn amongst themselves and become naturally fortified against being instructed into error by a witless or ill-inclined adult, whereas a child stuck under the thumb of a witless ‘parent’ has no means to disobey that witless parent without facing severe punishments and so there the child is sculpted into a helpless fool, later embittered in life and at the tender mercy of their peers, as: even as they might innately know-better (than to do the foolish thing their parent demands they do) they are forced nevertheless, either physically punished or emotionally coerced, into adopting the ‘silly walk’ and ‘dress’ of the witless parent, which is to say: they are forced into conforming toward the cultural idealism determined by the parent with no thought whatsoever for the practicalities of life, e.g. the matter of “how will my child earn a living” is addressed neither by parenting nor by schools thus begrudgingly selling themselves auction block of the labour market turns out to be the only method, whether they were deluded into thinking that their aspirations to be a professional athlete or an astronaut were entertained and encouraged for them at the expense of informing them about any other means of paying the rent or not.
I should say here that when I say “familial-tribal unit” I am broadly referring to any number of groupings, in whatsoever local forms they may take shape, but that the decisive factor, most chiefly, will be a large extended family network of which, if it ever needed to pool its resource together, would constitute a decent size force in land, resource production and manpower – but chiefly it is the possession of land which enables everything else:
More ideally, to my mind, it would resemble (or be very close in composition to) that Roman ‘Familia’ (the origin of the word ‘Family’ in our English) where a fairly large blood family of at least five generations inhabited in and around the same House or group of Houses (see: Palace, Villa and Manor Economy), with servants and adoptees and associates (business partners) likewise being considered as extended kin; altogether forming, as it were, a little nationality. In the sense of ‘Nationality’ it is, it ought be said, more a return to how we actually were prior to the ‘naming conventions’ of the 1700’s or so where the stupid surnames made up on the spot of many Europeans were forced into Law over what would have originally been clan and tribal identities and from which there came that fake sense of disparate ‘Nationality’ (i.e. cut off from tribe and forced into atomization; identity through a very small family unit alone) from which the misnomer of ‘Race’ would be made-up to lend credibility to. In many ways a great deal of the urbane ‘neurosis’, let’s call it, stems really from this absence of ‘true tribe’ with it having been eradicated either by the fecklessness of urban societies; societies of strangers and thieves, and also more directly via those religions which pretend to fill the void of ‘true tribe’ with their witless rituals and effete pretences – things which are a wet-blanket over true fellowship wrought in such a manner as comes in all reality perfectly naturally the moment the screws holding foolishness in place are undone and cast away – and really here, when we stack these observations together one upon the other, we are really speaking of a sound and strong society certainly immune to the shallow perversity created by denialism toward the basic mechanics of the human body – in addition to any other considerations which follow from that.

THE OVERALL INFLUENCE (OR LACK THEREOF) OF A TRIBAL-FAMILIAL UNIT

It must be considered quite seriously by the reader as to the overall influence, or lack thereof, of a tribal-familial unit as to what fills its place in the education of people otherwise and, as I began this text by considering for myself, how much of the ‘dysfunctionality’ can be attributed to the “lack thereof”.
Along with the cultural instance on sexual immaturity as to produce the consequence of delaying and drawing out for decades a fetish of normal sexuality which ought naturally be done with by a person after reaching the age, say, of maybe seventeen, there is the greater point which I am trying to relay here in this text of how many other aspects of ‘bad culture’ are singularly anchored to and thusly totally dependent upon that sexual immaturity – that is: we would be hard-pressed to imagine how really many of the pernicious scenarios in our contemporary society would even arise if that foundation stone of ‘sexual immaturity’ were removed from the equation:
For instance, how much of a ‘relationship’ is spent and sculpted (either by the Man or the Woman or both) on jealously and worry of the other ending the relationship for having found another person or another means to fulfil their sexual gratification? If a ‘relationship’ is based upon, let’s call this, “mutual masturbation” then at the heart of that is sexual immaturity of the mental age of maybe fourteen years whereupon a person has been sort of coaxed into dependency for orgasm on a third party; they are fraught and fearful that this should be taken away from them – it being so vital as like a mechanical necessity for either sex – that the entire content of their ‘relationship’ revolves around it; seeking it, coaxing it, demanding it, guarding it from be lost, and so on, of which I think it is not exaggeration to say that such concerns constitute 100% of the verbal interaction in such a ‘couple’; either outright or in the back of the mind so as to reinterpret all scenarios and verbal expressions as being related to that end-goal of maintaining the “mutual masturbation”.
Simply put this ‘relationship’, then, revolves around twenty minutes of sexual activity in a day – if that much (or even if every day), yet dominates the entirety of the mind; that is: the entirety of the ‘relationship’, when this action itself is something that a servant or a slave or a prostitute would be used for in many societies, with the ‘content’ of the marriage, say, being concerned more with running the business of a Household or concerned with procreation to produce legitimate children to inherit the business, the title, the land, whatever. My point here is that neither Man nor Woman are elevated or their dignity improved, somehow, by this absence of sexual maturity but rather that both are reduced; i.e. greatly lowered, to the cognitive and social standing of the “servant, slave, prostitute,” in that as far as they think of and conceptualize themselves as part of a Household at all it is singularly the concern with simple sexual acts which dominate their interpersonal interactions and their ideas about their own self; it is their ‘social currency’.
If this seems alien – I mean my observation on this – consider how much neurosis goes on in the daily grooming rituals of Women or those sad excuses for Men who “lift weights but cannot fight” (not to mention the ease at which a thin muscular physique bleeds out at the slightest of puncture wounds, see: Roman Gladiator training), i.e. whose only concern is that of admiring their own bodies in a mirror, this being intellectually identical to young Women. Is this not the mentally of a slave? If so, even if we shy away from saying it plainly, then we must ask “what forms the mentality of a slave (i.e. where does it come from)” – in the above equation a slave in a Household is more like an object fulfilling a function than He or She is a person with any autonomy (well, obviously there is no autonomy for a slave) so it is almost to be expected that in such an environment that the intellectual trajectory of an object-person goes away from externalities and becomes entirely absorbed with self-presentation and equates their social status from that, and if groups of such persons will set this to be the common culture; deriving status in that manner among themselves – although still these are slaves possessing no ‘status’ to speak of, as being object-people. This is evidenced also in victims of sexual abuse or those, in general, suffering at the hands of third parties whose autonomy is in some way or another restricted; that their singular focus becomes that of sexuality as like depression is “rage turned inward”, thus too it seems for sexual infantilism.
I cannot pass up this subject without mentioning a series of interviews describing, a thing quite novel to me, the notion of American Christian ‘Purity Culture’ from the point of view of those heavily indoctrinated into that; instilled with Catholic levels of guilt over the normal function of the body, who have then left their small churches or megachurches, or whatever, and spoken plainly about the mentality of those inside of it as relating to sexuality. It is a thing I think long suspected but seldom expressed that, as it was described, the mentality of such persons is that they are “horny all the time” due to the relentless guilt inculcated into them; that due to denialism of sexuality their ordinary sexual impulses are magnified to an incredible degree and that, consequentially, their entire being is animated by repressed sexuality so that their thoughts are ‘impure’ all the time whilst verbally they express strong denialism and shame over the thing. I think this is no real difference to any such religious malinstruction; be it Muslim, Jewish or Christian, in that the perpetual infantilism of their surrounding society stems first of all from their own bedrock religious culture (i.e. whatever religion which is at odds with the human body, etc.) were due to such ‘culture’ they never really get over, say, an early adolescent view of sexuality where they are driven entirely by it and never learn to overcome it, no pun intended, but utterly unrealized – which would take them leaving their religion – is that this process demonstrably brings out the absolute worst in their character and disposition with the process itself being the promulgation ‘of’ those very “Viceful thoughts ” that they claim to be “at War with in the world”, in other words: it is just they themselves who, for example, look at a young teenage girl (or god help us, a small boy) and thinks all manner of sexual rapacity – and that this animates them politically to campaign for restrictive legislation to be put into Law to police “all society” as if “all society” existed at their low level is an incredible thing to consider. But I do not think their broader societies are any exception to this, rather point here is that their broader societies are comprised of persons exactly like them; that the Christian or the Jew driven by a lifetimes shaming over their normal sexuality adopt, in turn, the most depraved expressions ‘of’ sexuality as a self-affirmation; that is: the extreme self-identification with a simple sexual action, for example, came to literally define a persons personality in such places to the point that (Americans anyway) seriously put out the notion during the late 1990’s and 2000’s that a fleeting sexual act 1) defines a persons entire character, and 2) it is also inborn, e.g. as like to say that whether you prefer this or that on the menu at a restaurant is something determined genetically; this is utterly stupid and utterly, in my opinion, a consequence of society which has not wanted to evolve beyond the ‘sexual immaturity’ of which physiologically seems to occupy a very small window of the middle to late teens and of which repression during those ages quite demonstrably creates madness and retardation – I mean that if their culture did not peripherally do this to them then the manner by which swathes of their cultural-historical institutions do this to them ‘outright’ by inculcation into this process in particular certainly does it to them, and merely it is the unwillingness to fully condemn these Religions and relegate these influences to the dustbin which keeps the entire thing ticking along with “just enough” of the population bent out of shape by it to present those same persons, seemingly confused as to where they came from, lumbering through the broader society and serving as examples of lunacy and degeneracy.
In short - and I may as well add this here also, the aim to abstain for a while from sexuality was a custom introduced by the Ancient Romans and was designed to heighten sexual pleasure; in effect, then, foreign barbarians coming to this culture much later on with nobody to really explain it to them ended up unwittingly engaging in what they would probably have recognized as ‘sex magic’ whereupon the denial of their own mechanical sexual function was ‘abstained’ by them; i.e. they saw the value in holding off on doing drugs or having sex for a while, – but they did not understand what the effect or the outcome of that was ‘intended’ to be in that one would abstain specifically ‘to’ heighten the senses toward that pleasure; and this is evidenced chiefly in the Lunar Orgies and the Fast/s of Ceres. Interestingly, Jesus himself in (i think the Gospel of Thomas?) mentions to his followers that “they will hate him for what he says now,” and that he says that “fasting brings out all the worst in them” – in other words, engaging in periodic abstinence will turn them all horny. Knowing this from a relatively early age it was no surprise to me at all why celibate priests ended up diddling children or member of their own congregation or why the most outwardly pious zealots proved to be the most morally weak people to be found as even with the most ‘clean’ example, let’s say, of a person who has never drank wine, for example, they have not ‘overcome’ that thing but have rather avoided ever experiencing that thing so that it will always be a novel temptation to them of which they will have no understanding of and which they can be leveraged by in various ways primarily due to their ignorance of which ‘experience itself’ would otherwise render them far more fortified against:
A good example here is the ‘pot scare’ of the early 1930’s in America when it was seriously believed by a wholly ignorant chunk of the urbane voting public that smoking cannabis (and drinking alcohol, for that matter) would turn a person into a serial killer, this is totally bizarre to us now, but notice that this was the same society whose moral standard was that “a table leg” should not be uncovered because it reminded them of a Womans bare leg – although here we might better understand why they were so preoccupied by thoughts like that (I think very seriously in their heightened state of perpetual arousal any little thing would send them to buggery of a farmyard creature)! Hilarious. But – notice also that this was the same society which was engaging in some of the most casually egregious inhumane criminality that history had ever seen, as if they ‘were’ high on narcotics and their rational senses dulled; I do not mean here to bring American notions of ‘Race’ into this as to be seen to ‘condemn Black Slavery’ in the fashion of my own day (although we mentioned family-tribe as a better form of so-called nationality earlier) but the ghastly images of actual Country Fairs where smiling families with children by their knees would pose for crude photographs with the charcoaled or bloated rotting carcass of a burned or lynched Man is beyond my ability to play-down or normalize. I mean here to say, that: far from the pretense of ‘clean mindedness’ of such persons about themselves that we find these same persons are the filthiest and most depraved characters around, being those few persons who walk amongst us who are actually capable of doing those inhumane things (again, see: Banality of Evil) as would be unthinkable to a person of normal rational healthy conscience. We might connect this, also, to the historical BDSM extravaganzas which took place in the Christian monasteries and public squares for many centuries where young Women were sexually tortured by celibate clergymen as to recognize how deep and quick a plunge it is from a person or their culture going from the denial of normal healthy sexuality into the kettled and sadistic gore fetish of outright murder.
It is always worth reminding the reader who wishes to minimize these more egregious aspects of the subject (as rape is still rampant among the clergy); which are consequential of sexual immaturity, that it was not ‘reason and rationality’ per se that stamped this out from European society but soldiers kicking in the doors of such Churches, Town Halls and Houses with muskets, rifles, long knives and grape-shot and physically eradicating the perpetrators and their willing congregations from America and France for the practice itself of sexually torturing a Woman and then burning the evidence on the fake pretexts of obviously made-up accusations of “she turned me into a frog” to actually be ended. That is to say that the ‘mentality’ and ‘culture’ which provided the framework for such inhumane activities was never formally realized or educated-out of a people, so to find it lingers along into contemporary times; animating the otherwise dormant farmyard animal-like character of such persons “like powers of evil”, is not surprising to me in the least. What was more surprising to me is that as so much of these religions are so obviously outright ‘evil’ that more persons do not speak of the intricacies of the things in such necessary detail these more ‘egregious’ cases would qualify, and then to spool back to discover the cause of every evil action in the mentality of every perpetrator – generally speaking, for instance, it will be a character with a disposition of infantilism and perhaps this is more easy to understand without needing to connect it to sexual immaturity though, to my mind, these are not distinct enough to warrant any separation; as: infantilism is always going to be immaturity and immaturity is always going to run concurrent with a lack of adult intellectual development where a mature and experienced view of a thing, sexuality in this case, has likely been within the powers of a person to have gleaned naturally through experiences – in which case there would be no argument with anything I say here, or of which such experiences have been prevented by external powers from being gleaned by the person in question; in which case they remain ‘as if’ they were fourteen years old with the allure of mysterious unknown sex acts utterly dominating their consciousness at all times and yet physically being thirty, forty, fifty years old – well past the age (certainly physiologically) where they should have gotten it all out of their system but of which they have not, chiefly because their experiences have been rather dull and monotone and so much social currency has been valued by it ‘being’ dull and monotone, e.g. monogamy, legal repercussions binding two people in place, the atomized kettling nature of the disconnected nuclear family unit, living amongst strangers in large cities where it not so simple as just going topless to change the local culture, control through the selective denial of the sex act itself (as William Reich and Esther Vilar both write on), the sexualisation of young people by adults, the accidental ‘perversity’ (in the real meaning of the word) of unfulfilled (or poorly fulfilled, or repressed altogether) sexuality and its effects on the brain and society, and so on and so on.
I am always inclined to think when considering this subject, and I may as well end this text in conclusion with this recurrent thought of mine, that ‘sexual perversion’ really begins in the mind of ourselves as young teenagers when the normal human body is leeringly presented to us as being something ‘illicit’, e.g. the breasts of Women are concealed in our society and so due to ‘hiding them away’ they become objects of mystery and fetish which they otherwise are not. I do not think this is deliberate reverse psychology (as god help us few enough people even understand the concept to understand what they do inadvertently) but it produces the same consequence of reverse psychology, whereupon quite arbitrarily a certain piece of the body, say, an ankle, is all of a sudden declared by a mad Adult to be “evil, sinful, lustful, of the devil,” when no such notion existed in the minds of people otherwise, as then: their natural curiosity is piqued by this imposition and so they develop a perversion dervied in chief part – as a sense of lewd pleasure – from bucking the arbitrary nonsensical imposition forced upon them by that dictate of which such a scenario never would have had cause to occur if not for that imposition having created it. I feel that this ‘perversion’ (again, in the real meaning of that word) stands in the way of a fully realized and fully pursued sense of actual sexuality and, from it, of a more resonant concordance between Men and Women whose interactions are otherwise thrown off balance by such impositions as they are dragged back down to sexual immaturity all the time; or into fear and jealously etc., as like a dozen avenues are presented in any conversation and virtually of them are strewn with piss, vomit and polyfoam which had no reason to be put there in the first place, or more accurately: it was put there through the carelessness of an atomized and witless peoples who knew no better than to do this to themselves but of which a familial-tribal unit would have drummed out of them quick sharp if for the actuality of nothing else than “we are all in this together” being something that is tangibly true and not merely shallow political rhetoric when it is said of a tribe vs. when it is said of a state polity comprised of countless strangers.

MAIORES. IV, CAL. IUNI. FORTUNA PRIMIGENIA.

TLDR:

Initiated a swap using the in-app swap feature in ELLIPAL for $10K+ worth of $XLM to $DGB that remained “in-progress” for 9hrs during which I went through the 5 stages of grief, contacted ELLIPAL support, bought an equivalent amount of $DGB through my CEX (since I wanted to capitalise on the market dip), and ended up having 2X amount of DGB than I initially wanted.

The Story:

So I’ve been using the ELLIPAL Titan for close to 2 years now, and never once had any issues/complaints regarding anything, granted I’ve never used the Staking feature, or other DAPPS via in-app (nor do I plan to) so can’t comment on those specifically.
But my world was recently shaken up, and my life flashed in front of my eyes for 9 hours straight.
I’ve used the in-app SWAP feature before, but for only $20 - $30 transactions. Recently, the market correction on June 8th provided a good opportunity for me to restructure my crypto portfolio, which I had been planning for a long time. I didn’t want to use a DEX/CEX because of the spreads and liquidity issues, which is why I decided to use the in-app swap feature by ELLIPAL.
I wanted to swap $10k+ worth of $XLM to $DGB. I started by conducting a trial swap of $100 and in about 5 - 10 mins the equivalent amount of $DGB appeared in my wallet. Since everything worked out fine, with no issues or hurdles, I proceeded for the final/main swap.
I initiated a swap of $10k+ worth of $XLM to $DGB for which it initially showed me the accurate equivalent amount of $DGB that I would receive.

The Good:

The in-app swap feature has an option in the upper right corner where you can choose whether you want the swap to proceed at the fluctuating market rate or the option to complete the swap only at the market rate initially quoted to you before confirming the swap, & in case of failure to match the order, the funds would be refunded back to the wallet along with the network fees. In my previous adventures, I had experienced the importance of selecting the 2nd option first hand.

The Bad:

As soon as I confirmed the swap and went into the swap history option to check on the progress of my swap, I was shocked to see that the resulting amount of $DGB that I would receive (once the swap would complete) was close to $2K less than what was initially quoted. Seeing this literally broke my heart, and I cursed myself for choosing to swap on ELLIPAL rather than doing it on a CEX. But since the swap had already been initiated nothing could be done now, than just looking at the screen and seeing my money vanish into thin air.

The Ugly:

Since nothing could be done now about the $2K difference the only thing to do was to wait for the swap to complete. I expected it to complete in just about few minutes, since all my previous swaps had always completed within 5 - 10 minutes sometimes even quicker. But man, I was in for a surprise.
After about 10 minutes passed, I started checking the progress on my swap every 5 minutes. May be I might have done something wrong, may be the swap has already been completed, but not showing up properly in the progress bar?
10 minutes turned into 60 minutes, then 2 hrs, then 3, and I was in full panic mode by then. Checking the progress on the swap every 30 seconds & contemplating my life decisions and choices I’ve made that resulted in this outcome. Cursing myself for choosing to save a few $100 on a CEX vs SWAP and potentially losing $10k+ in the process.
The swap transaction ID that was provided, proved useless (maybe because I didn’t exactly know how to look for the transaction on the blockchain with the help of the swap transaction ID). I tried searching endlessly on the internet using the transaction ID but couldn’t find anything anywhere relevant regarding it.
By this time, 5 hrs had passed, the SWAP was still showing “in-progress” and I had completely become numb to anything and everything around me. Never had I thought that such a thing would ever happen to me.
I thought, I was very careful with everything regarding crypto & follow all the GOLDEN RULES of crypto while also having redundancy upon redundancies to Iron Clad my funds and protect my assets. But never had I thought that I would be my own wealth-destroyer trying to save a few hundred dollars on a transaction worth 5 figures.
Having lost faith in my abilities, I had almost accepted my fate. I decided to send an email to cs@ellipal.com regarding my issue, and explained the problem as best I could, but secretly I knew within me that nothing could be done now, atleast not by me. My FATE was not in my own HANDS for the first time, in a very long time.
Having accepted my fate, I had started to make peace with it, but the buying opportunity was still there, and I wanted to capitalise on it. An opportunity is an opportunity only until it is acted upon. So I decided to buy the equivalent amount of $DGB that I wanted via the swap on my CEX account and had it transferred to my ELLIPAL wallet for safe keeping.
By this time 9 hrs had passed since I initiated the swap. Although I was checking on the swap progress (which it was still showing as “in-progress”) there was nothing I could do.
What I feared the most was, that this SWAP would remain pending forever, (even though I selected the 2nd option) because I realized that other DEXs have a time limit for their swap transactions to process. For example, Uniswap has the feature to select the time limit of 10min upon which if the swap has not been completed, it would return back to your wallet. Such a limit is not available in the in-app ELLIPAL feature.
Sometime during the 9th hour I checked the progress on my swap transaction and suddenly I was amazed to see that the “in-progress” was changed to “completed”. I soon opened my $DGB wallet and there it showed the swapped $DGB was added to my wallet. And to my surprise there was no difference of $2K that it was showing while the swap was in progress. The amount of $DGB that I received was exactly the amount that was quoted to me before I initiated the swap.
There was no difference in the quoted amount and the final amount & no loss of funds, except for the fact that the swap took 9hrs to complete during which I went through all the 5 stages of grief - Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression & Acceptance.

Conclusion:

1> The in-app SWAP feature works.
2> It works for $10, $100, $1000, & $10,000+ swaps. (Should you use it for large $ transactions? Certainly I won’t !)
3> It may take anywhere between 5mins to 12hrs to complete your swap at your desired market price (or you could swap it as per the fluctuating market order).

Fun fact:

1> ELLIPAL support replied to my email within 24hrs, but by then the FIRE IN MY HEART was extinguished.
2> I now have twice the amount of $DGB that I was initially planning to hold & still contemplating on whether to sell the surplus or just HODL it through!

Thoughts?

If you made it this far, thanks a lot for reading this through. I just wanted to share this experience with like minded people who may or may not have gone through similar situations in life, and would like to know your thoughts/suggestions on what I did wrong, or what I could have done something differently to avoid such a similar situation again in the future.

After reading from Alex Finn, who managed to quit his job to go full time into building his newsletter. That's what led me to start my newsletter.
A newsletter, is something unique, unlike any other social media, when you have a newsletter, you own your audience. Why? It doesn't matter what happens to your newsletter provider, as long as you have your mailing list, you'll always be able to communicate with your audience, while on Twitter or any other social media platform, you can get banned and lose all your audience with ease.
After trying both Substack and Beehiiv (actually I use both), I'm going to explain why I strongly believe you should start a newsletter in Beehiiv.
Beehiiv, has many great features, it doesn't only work as an email provider, but you can also build a whole business, just with Beehiiv.
I created my newsletter, where I share tips to grow on Social Media. I've actually managed to make some good money by using it, over $500 in the past 3 months, not bad, but, what makes Beehiiv unique?
I've analyzed on this blog post, what are the key features that make Beehiiv incredible as well as what are the key features that make Behiiv as incredible revenue stream. If you don't want to read the long post, don't worry, here is a summary of the key points to consider:

Boosts: you can make a lot of money by recommending other newsletters. By every new subscriber that subscribes to one of my recommended newsletter, I make something in the range between 2-4 dollars, which isn't bad.
Ad Network: every now and then I receive offers, from businesses that want to include an ad slot on my newsletter, I make around $2, for every click people make on these ads.
Automations: I am able to automatically send a post to my audience. For example, to the most engaged people, I may send them some promotions, while less active groups, I'll try my best to grab their attention.
Design page: Unlike other newsletter providers, Beehiiv lets you design your page as you wish, what's more you can create a whole website on wordpress or wherever you like, and include a built in sign up page, which is completely customizable.

After reading from Alex Finn, who managed to quit his job to go full time into building his newsletter. That's what led me to start my newsletter.
A newsletter, is something unique, unlike any other social media, when you have a newsletter, you own your audience. Why? It doesn't matter what happens to your newsletter provider, as long as you have your mailing list, you'll always be able to communicate with your audience, while on Twitter or any other social media platform, you can get banned and lose all your audience with ease.
After trying both Substack and Beehiiv (actually I use both), I'm going to explain why I strongly believe you should start a newsletter in Beehiiv.
Beehiiv, has many great features, it doesn't only work as an email provider, but you can also build a whole business, just with Beehiiv.
I created my newsletter, where I share tips to grow on Social Media. I've actually managed to make some good money by using it, over $500 in the past 3 months, not bad, but, what makes Beehiiv unique?
I've analyzed on this blog post, what are the key features that make Beehiiv incredible as well as what are the key features that make Behiiv as incredible revenue stream. If you don't want to read the long post, don't worry, here is a summary of the key points to consider:

Boosts: you can make a lot of money by recommending other newsletters. By every new subscriber that subscribes to one of my recommended newsletter, I make something in the range between 2-4 dollars, which isn't bad.
Ad Network: every now and then I receive offers, from businesses that want to include an ad slot on my newsletter, I make around $2, for every click people make on these ads.
Automations: I am able to automatically send a post to my audience. For example, to the most engaged people, I may send them some promotions, while less active groups, I'll try my best to grab their attention.
Design page: Unlike other newsletter providers, Beehiiv lets you design your page as you wish, what's more you can create a whole website on wordpress or wherever you like, and include a built in sign up page, which is completely customizable.

After reading from Alex Finn, who managed to quit his job to go full time into building his newsletter. That's what led me to start my newsletter.
A newsletter, is something unique, unlike any other social media, when you have a newsletter, you own your audience. Why? It doesn't matter what happens to your newsletter provider, as long as you have your mailing list, you'll always be able to communicate with your audience, while on Twitter or any other social media platform, you can get banned and lose all your audience with ease.
After trying both Substack and Beehiiv (actually I use both), I'm going to explain why I strongly believe you should start a newsletter in Beehiiv.
Beehiiv, has many great features, it doesn't only work as an email provider, but you can also build a whole business, just with Beehiiv.
I created my newsletter, where I share tips to grow on Social Media. I've actually managed to make some good money by using it, over $500 in the past 3 months, not bad, but, what makes Beehiiv unique?
I've analyzed on this blog post, what are the key features that make Beehiiv incredible as well as what are the key features that make Behiiv as incredible revenue stream. If you don't want to read the long post, don't worry, here is a summary of the key points to consider:

Boosts: you can make a lot of money by recommending other newsletters. By every new subscriber that subscribes to one of my recommended newsletter, I make something in the range between 2-4 dollars, which isn't bad.
Ad Network: every now and then I receive offers, from businesses that want to include an ad slot on my newsletter, I make around $2, for every click people make on these ads.
Automations: I am able to automatically send a post to my audience. For example, to the most engaged people, I may send them some promotions, while less active groups, I'll try my best to grab their attention.
Design page: Unlike other newsletter providers, Beehiiv lets you design your page as you wish, what's more you can create a whole website on wordpress or wherever you like, and include a built in sign up page, which is completely customizable.

After reading from Alex Finn, who managed to quit his job to go full time into building his newsletter. That's what led me to start my newsletter.
A newsletter, is something unique, unlike any other social media, when you have a newsletter, you own your audience. Why? It doesn't matter what happens to your newsletter provider, as long as you have your mailing list, you'll always be able to communicate with your audience, while on Twitter or any other social media platform, you can get banned and lose all your audience with ease.
After trying both Substack and Beehiiv (actually I use both), I'm going to explain why I strongly believe you should start a newsletter in Beehiiv.
Beehiiv, has many great features, it doesn't only work as an email provider, but you can also build a whole business, just with Beehiiv.
I created my newsletter, where I share tips to grow on Social Media. I've actually managed to make some good money by using it, over $500 in the past 3 months, not bad, but, what makes Beehiiv unique?
I've analyzed on this blog post, what are the key features that make Beehiiv incredible as well as what are the key features that make Behiiv as incredible revenue stream. If you don't want to read the long post, don't worry, here is a summary of the key points to consider:

Boosts: you can make a lot of money by recommending other newsletters. By every new subscriber that subscribes to one of my recommended newsletter, I make something in the range between 2-4 dollars, which isn't bad.
Ad Network: every now and then I receive offers, from businesses that want to include an ad slot on my newsletter, I make around $2, for every click people make on these ads.
Automations: I am able to automatically send a post to my audience. For example, to the most engaged people, I may send them some promotions, while less active groups, I'll try my best to grab their attention.
Design page: Unlike other newsletter providers, Beehiiv lets you design your page as you wish, what's more you can create a whole website on wordpress or wherever you like, and include a built in sign up page, which is completely customizable.

After reading from Alex Finn, who managed to quit his job to go full time into building his newsletter. That's what led me to start my newsletter.
A newsletter, is something unique, unlike any other social media, when you have a newsletter, you own your audience. Why? It doesn't matter what happens to your newsletter provider, as long as you have your mailing list, you'll always be able to communicate with your audience, while on Twitter or any other social media platform, you can get banned and lose all your audience with ease.
After trying both Substack and Beehiiv (actually I use both), I'm going to explain why I strongly believe you should start a newsletter in Beehiiv.
Beehiiv, has many great features, it doesn't only work as an email provider, but you can also build a whole business, just with Beehiiv.
I created my newsletter, where I share tips to grow on Social Media. I've actually managed to make some good money by using it, over $500 in the past 3 months, not bad, but, what makes Beehiiv unique?
I've analyzed on this blog post, what are the key features that make Beehiiv incredible as well as what are the key features that make Behiiv as incredible revenue stream. If you don't want to read the long post, don't worry, here is a summary of the key points to consider:

Boosts: you can make a lot of money by recommending other newsletters. By every new subscriber that subscribes to one of my recommended newsletter, I make something in the range between 2-4 dollars, which isn't bad.
Ad Network: every now and then I receive offers, from businesses that want to include an ad slot on my newsletter, I make around $2, for every click people make on these ads.
Automations: I am able to automatically send a post to my audience. For example, to the most engaged people, I may send them some promotions, while less active groups, I'll try my best to grab their attention.
Design page: Unlike other newsletter providers, Beehiiv lets you design your page as you wish, what's more you can create a whole website on wordpress or wherever you like, and include a built in sign up page, which is completely customizable.

After reading from Alex Finn, who managed to quit his job to go full time into building his newsletter. That's what led me to start my newsletter.
A newsletter, is something unique, unlike any other social media, when you have a newsletter, you own your audience. Why? It doesn't matter what happens to your newsletter provider, as long as you have your mailing list, you'll always be able to communicate with your audience, while on Twitter or any other social media platform, you can get banned and lose all your audience with ease.
After trying both Substack and Beehiiv (actually I use both), I'm going to explain why I strongly believe you should start a newsletter in Beehiiv.
Beehiiv, has many great features, it doesn't only work as an email provider, but you can also build a whole business, just with Beehiiv.
I created my newsletter, where I share tips to grow on Social Media. I've actually managed to make some good money by using it, over $500 in the past 3 months, not bad, but, what makes Beehiiv unique?
I've analyzed on this blog post, what are the key features that make Beehiiv incredible as well as what are the key features that make Behiiv as incredible revenue stream. If you don't want to read the long post, don't worry, here is a summary of the key points to consider:

Boosts: you can make a lot of money by recommending other newsletters. By every new subscriber that subscribes to one of my recommended newsletter, I make something in the range between 2-4 dollars, which isn't bad.
Ad Network: every now and then I receive offers, from businesses that want to include an ad slot on my newsletter, I make around $2, for every click people make on these ads.
Automations: I am able to automatically send a post to my audience. For example, to the most engaged people, I may send them some promotions, while less active groups, I'll try my best to grab their attention.
Design page: Unlike other newsletter providers, Beehiiv lets you design your page as you wish, what's more you can create a whole website on wordpress or wherever you like, and include a built in sign up page, which is completely customizable.

And that was back in March 2024. Since then it's been nothing but back and forth of the same exact email from "support" with trouble shooting tips along with how to reset password. At this point I have thrown in the towel because this has shown me that I'm not talking to anyone other than a computer. And the computer can't even do simple tasks. For example, If a Driver no longer uses the email they used to sign up a few years ago and needs to update. Driver can simply go to the DDI workforce page to login to their driver account, to see and set up info such as tax info, emails, contact info, car insurance and that's about it. I was able to change and update my email here but not for the app. So I've been logging in with my old email to work and login with different email to do books. My problem is I lost my phone that I had spark on (oh yeah and you can only be logged in to one device at a time, smart! Yes!) but in order to change the device you must log out of the old device first. And I kinda forgot to do that right before I lost my phone. After months of emails a couple calls and trying to figure out the code my self. I. Was lastly informed I had been deactivated. Like out of the blue! The first support agent didn't mention anything of it and neither did this new agent until 20 min in to talking to me. I also was never or still have yet to be informed...unless they send to email address not in file anymore .anyways, for basic app such as this Spark driver app, customer support can, had and confirmed me to me, there is no way I change /update my login credential and can only change my password. But if I only had access to this email address not in use for 4 years nows, fine no problem. So There is no way I am the only one who has this same issue; Lost or new device > change password to gain use of app on new device > enter secret code > change password > Enter > wrong code. Give up How ever out of the blue last week I got a email from support informing me that I was deactivated because I had been logged in in over a month and that that was removed since I've had a supports tickets for many months by now. She activated me and gave a a different way to try. Instead of email try username and when then the code will get sent to email and text.....still waiting for either those to arrive. What I want to know now I where do I got to apply to work for support so issues can actually get solved and app gets better while customers and drivers are satisfied with the whole process!
I've even tried to re-sign up and nada!

My brother owns a restaurant here and I am helping him screen applications. I cannot believe how terrible they are! Considering how badly people need work, you’d think there would be some effort put into the application process.
The job posting was for two positions- server and dishwasher, both $19/hr. Two different skill sets. Hardly anyone has specified which role they are interested in - are we supposed to guess?!
Because this whole process has flabbergasted me, I will share what the first 50 applications looked like.
First, the posting requested a cover letter and a resume. 3 people sent both. 15 sent just a resume. And 32 SENT NEITHER. Literally just an email with a sentence or two. Some of my favourites (I’ve left original spelling and grammar):
“Hello I am looking for job.”
“Hi Gud morning Dear Hiring Manager Hope u r doing well”
“Dear sima’am I am international student right now I am full time available. Can you please hire me.”
One literally just had a phone number, nothing else.
I am blown away by the poor grammar, spelling, lack of capitalization and punctuation, use of “texting” language, etc. My (female) name was in the job posting. Multiple people called me “sir” or “to whom it may concern.”
Out of the 50 applicants, 39 mentioned being international students (all from India or Nepal). One specifically asked to be paid in cash only.
I just wanted to share this partly because I had no idea it would be this bad but also to tell people who are looking for jobs that you need to actually put in some effort. These 50 applications were received in the first 36 hours of posting. I expect there will be hundreds to look through.
If you take the time to follow the instructions in the posting, specify the job you’re applying for, make it clear how your experience is relevant, and ensure that your communication is free of grammatical and spelling errors, you will be ahead of 99% of applicants.

I want to sort a list of numerical emails automatically when dragging down the handle like it does for literal numbers.
Say I have email.1240@example.com, the next one should be email.1241@example.com and so on.

Hello everyone My husband and I were facing a problem with my mother-in-law. She is divorced, a narcissistic and violent person. She focused on the life of her son - my husband, so he took the role of the man in her house and becoming a mother's boy. The rest of his relationships didn't last because, when my mother-in-law didn't like something about them, she made him choose: 'either me or her. if you choose her you are dead for me' and he always chose his mother. He was beaten a lot as a child by her until he was in his 20 years old. I could say she canceled his manhood. When my husband tried to have a word she threatens him and say that she will kill herself and he will not know anything about her or most of the time she would insult him that he is shameless and embarrassing and doesn't appreciate all her efforts and sacrifices. As revenge, she didn't talk to him for months, even if they lived in the same house. She doesn’t accept her mistakes so she wait for him to apologize and please her. She acted much worse with me, 5 years ago my husband and I had a separation because of some words thrown by her, we resumed contact and started seeing each other again and when she heard this she told everyone that she going to catch me and beat me. I was insulted because I couldn't compare myself to one of her exes and because I tried to tell her to respect me the way I respect her. There were also good things she did for us, for example bringing us food made by herself, but then when we couldn't do something for her, we were reproached for being parsimonious and profiteers. We haven't seen each other for 1 year because we found out a nasty gossip from her about us and we tried to confront her in the nicest way. She continues to spread gossip to family and friends about us. They told us we should to accept her like that, that she is like that because of her hard life, and 'she's your mother'. To other people she displays a mask of the best possible person and to the family she reveals himself as he really is. I had panic attacks that I hardly got over, every time she called us to get ready and wait for her visits, I had panic attacks. Now I feel guilty, I have stomach pains, because she is spreading rumors that I turned her son against her and I know it isn’t true. I always wanted a big family. What do you think? I look forward to any advice from you.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are putting together a book for game makers that aims to show how we can sustainably make games for sustainability. All perspectives and authors are welcome and we can offer support with writing as well as potentially expand the deadline somewhat. There is less than one week left until the deadline for the cfp below right now.
Patrick

Call for Abstracts – Towards Sustainable Game Design: The Game Needs to Change
Book chapter for an edited collection
Publisher: CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group)
500 word abstract deadline 15th of June 2024.
There are NO submission or processing fees for accepted manuscripts.
Mission:
Join us in contributing to a groundbreaking collection of research and white papers aimed at exploring the intersection of games and sustainability. We invite abstract submissions from both industry professionals and academics passionate about effecting positive change in the gaming sphere. Together, we’re making a book about moving beyond mere greenwashing to collectively work towards systemic solutions. Let’s make games toward a sustainable world, sustainably!
In this upcoming publication, we seek to distinguish genuine sustainability efforts from mere green-washing tactics prevalent in the industry. Our editorial team will meticulously review abstract submissions, selecting those with potential to offer substantive insights and practical solutions to the pressing challenges of sustainability in gaming and a compelling vision for how we can achieve a sustainable future.
Our goal is to empower individuals and organizations across the games industry who are eager to make meaningful contributions towards sustainability. Through a blend of industry expertise and scholarly research, our book aims to provide actionable strategies and real-world examples to guide readers in integrating evidence-based sustainability principles into their professional endeavors and work for real, systemic change.
Possible Topics Include but are not Limited to:
• Systemic approaches to sustainability
• Production, processes and material conditions
• Telling Stories for a Sustainable Future
• Integrating Environmental Messaging and Learning into Game Mechanics
• The unique challenges of games
• Stories and visions of a sustainable game industry and future
• Discipline-specific methods and practices
• Impact-focused research on games and sustainability
• Analyzed experiences or stories of designing for sustainability
• Retrospectives on industry practice for sustainability game design
• Collaborations between research and industry teams
• Design theory or design practice theory
To have your essay or research considered, please submit a 500 word abstract by 15th of June 2024. Email abstracts with the title “book submission” to Clayton_Whittle [at] outlook.com
The Book:
For industry professionals, this book is a way to highlight both the challenges you are facing and your approach to them, to connect it to evidence-based research. For researchers, organizers, and activists, this offers the possibility for real-world impact and a chance to apply your findings in a concrete and impactful way. For all of us, it presents a chance to work with like-minded individuals on suggesting pragmatic solutions and to build a community for sustainability in the games industry.
As a book aimed at advising practice, essays and research will be organized into topic-focused sections. The editors will work with authors to organize essays appropriately. Editors will also provide a structure for each topic-focused section that frames the work of authors in the context of real-world stories, practical examples, and actionable advice. To facilitate this connected organization, and to also make sure that each contributor knows what is being said in the chapters before and after their own, we are planning a digital meeting between the editors and the contributors for each topic. In this meeting, we will give feedback to each other’s draft texts, find connecting points, and strengthen the argument of the book, while meeting the people who are working in our exact field.
In order to respect your time and work, and to make such a meeting possible within the time-frame of the editing process, the editors are aiming for a fast turn-around for submissions within 2-3 weeks.
Contributions:
Chapters will be max. 8000 words written in accessible language. Shorter contributions, especially practice-based and design work, are also explicitly welcome. Specialist terms and concepts will be explained and there will be no assumption that the reader is a researcher or specialist in a given development field. That said, it will be possible to use scientific and other references. About 50 illustrations in black and white are available for the entire book. We accept submissions with multiple authors as well as more than one submission per author.
Given that we are expecting contributions from a variety of fields, chapters can look quite different from each other. Some might be academic text while others can be an explanation of a successful organization process or advice for impactful design. We strive to accommodate these differences in the structure of the book and encourage submissions with practice-based topics. The editors offer support to contributors who are not necessarily used to writing in order to support such submissions and help you tell your story. What exact form this support will take will be based on the need of contributors in collaboration with the editor team.
We’re very interested in contributions and perspectives from those actively working on game development projects, and we also recognize that game industry professionals may not have as much experience with the writing and editing processes involved with this project compared to contributors with a more academic background. As a 15-year game industry veteran who has more recently learned to research, write, and publish work in this space, editor Trevin York is on hand to support contributors who are similarly interested in sharing their processes through these types of written projects.
Editors and Publisher:
The book is to be published by CRC Press, in the Tyler and Francis Group, in 2026 with a release during GDC. The printed book will have the following ISBN: 9781032836195. It is edited by Dr. Patrick Prax, Dr. Clayton Whittle, and Trevin York. Patrick is Associate professor of Game Design at Uppsala University and has been working with sustainability in game design education and the game industry. Clayton is the co-chair of the IGDA Climate SIG and Ph.D. research consultant for transformational games. Trevin is the founder & director of Dire Lark, a game design for change studio. Clayton and Trevin are also the first authors of the Environmental Game Design Playbook by the IGDA Climate SIG.
Timeline:
• Submission deadline for abstracts: 15th of June 2024
• Submission format: 500 words excluding literature
• Editor feedback: acceptance within three weeks, 7th of July
• Peer feedback on in-progress chapters: 15th of October, submission 10th of October
• Full chapter submission deadline: 2nd of December 2024
• Feedback within six weeks, 15th of January
• Final submission deadline to editors: 15th of March 2025
• Final Print Deadline: 01 May 2025
• Publication: GDC 2026
Abstracts with the title “book submission” to be emailed to: clayton_whittle [at] outlook.com
Please do not hesitate to contact us if there are any questions at all!
Thanks,
Patrick, Clayton, and Trevin
Editors
Patrick Prax
Associate Professor at the Department of Game Design
Uppsala University, Sweden
patrick.prax [at] speldesign.uu.se
Latest Publication:
From Talking about Loot Boxes to Discussing Political Economy: Conceptualizing Critical Game Literacy
gamevironments No. 17 (2022): Special Issue "Social Justice"
https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/180

Should I leave my low paying job with great benefits?
There’s no other job yet, but I am actively looking. I’m only applying to jobs that pay what I make or more (about $20/hr or so) and offer fully remote options. The reason why I’m looking for fully remote work is because whenever one of my children is sick, they cannot go to daycare. That leaves me to have to call out and because I’ve exceeded my sick time/pto, I now get my pay docked for the absences. Plus they’re holding the fact I call out for my children being sick against me for the fully remote position my job offers, which I’ve applied to 2 times and been rejected both times due to the attendance. Even when I explained the attendance issue would stop if I was remote. The remote job also comes with a $1,000/month raise. In addition, I am salaried and paid on the 11th and 26th of each month, which means there are times I go 2.5-3 weeks between paychecks. That’s very hard to do when you’re living paycheck to paycheck. I’d prefer a standard biweekly pay period.
My pre-tax income is $1,776 2x monthly. After taxes, pension, deferred income, health insurance, and union dues I take home $1,222.26 per paycheck. Once again, this is sometimes supposed to last me 3 weeks. I own my car outright, but the lowest insurance I could find was $102/mo. I pay $1,275/mo in rent and that’s the cheapest in the county. Electric is my only utility at about $100/mo. I pay about $200/gas per month depending on cost ($3.85 /gal currently). My car also has issues which I take care of monthly. Currently, it’s the alignment and ball joint (quoted $210). The way I see it, a remote job paying the same would minimize the cost of gas as well as allow me more time to save up for my car’s mechanical issues without simultaneously adding to the wear and tear. However, I’m afraid to lose my super affordable and high quality health insurance. I only pay $410/mo for dental, medical, and vision for myself and my kids. At my last job it would’ve been $1,600 for the same plan!
I haven’t had much luck on my job hunt, but I’m still going at it. Would it be better to just give up and learn to deal with where I am at? I have the option to email the head of where I work, should I email them and see if that’ll help me get the remote job? It’s open currently and I did apply only to be told I’m not qualified (when my last application with an identical resume scored me as over qualified) and my job counselor for my position has ghosted me. I’m a single mom trying to do right.
Any advice appreciated.

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The interviews that will get you Hired!

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