Hey everyone! I’m tired of applying to jobs that turn out to be scams/super sketchy. My mom works as a house cleaner so she actually makes quite a few connections and there’s a lady that said she’s willing to help me (and potentially have a really good job/connection in ATL for me) but she hasn’t replied back. I keep applying to jobs and putting myself out there but is there anywhere specific that I could try networking other than career fairs? I need to get an above $20 job and I’m shocked at how many low paying jobs there are in my state. Any help is appreciated bc it’s a nightmare :(

Hello All.
I just graduated with my MPH. I have been looking for work but it seems like all the jobs are paying 15-18/hr or require a whole bunch of certifications and experiences, or they are jobs that seem to be something an 18 year old with a diploma could do.
For context, I completed a 3 year program which covered epi, biostats, environmental justice, program evaluation, CBPR, grant writing and research. The program focused more on program implementation and evaluation and research. We only had one class for epi and one class for biostats. In bio stats we learned how to work with STATA ( I am very upset after finding out that STATA is kind of irrelevant compared to R or SAS).
I have two years of internships. First one was with a well-known organization in the US and was focused on CBPR, program intervention, evaluation, and very basic data analysis( not through software) and research. Second one was a research driven internship which I created the research project from scratch, completed an IRB, data analysis through excel and qualtrics, and wrote a report on the findings which was about female immigrant health.
Now that I have graduated I am looking for jobs but I have not had any luck. I have come to enjoy the data analysis/epi part of Public Health but I have very little knowledge on the programs and would probably need some kind of training as part of the job. But I am also open to all jobs as long as they earn me livable wage.
It seems on paper I have alot to offer but I feel like my program didnt make me ready for post graduation. I also didnt have time to network with classmates to learn from them. Does anyone have any advice on where to look for good jobs at my level? I know classmates who were earning at least 70k while still in the program. I would like to earn around 60-70k with my starting job and earn more as time passes. Any tips, tricks, special method of wording, etc?

I recently re-bought one of my first smartphones on eBay, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2. For now, the phone still works perfectly on my providers network. so I could technically use it as my main phone. I have decided to challange myself to put my Samsung Galaxy S23 in a drawer and use only this phone. My main uses and impressions after 1 day are:

• Connectivity
  • This phone doesn't support the bands used for long range 4G (most importantly B20). I live in a somewhat rural area, so the phone will be using 3G most of the time. 3G is still fully operational in my country (Belgium) untill at least september 2024, but after that the phone will become a lot more painfull too use. So this is really my last chance to use this phone properly. Some of my neighbouring countries have already shut down 3G fully, I might visit the Netherlands or Germany in the following days or weeks to see how painfull this phone is without 3G. WiFi and Bluetooth work perfectly fine.
• Calls
  • This phone doesn't support VoLTE at all, but calling over 3G sounds just fine. The earpiece seems a little quiter than my S23.
• Software&Performance
  • This phone never got updated past Android 5, so you'd have a hard time getting any apps on this phone. Luckily there is a custom rom available with Android 9, which is new enough to install most apps. The rom feels reasonably snappy.
• Design
  • I really don't like large phones. I even think my S23 is a little too large. This phones screen is only 5,5 inches, but the 16:9 aspect ratio makes it quite wide for it's screen size. The side bezels aren't actually that thick. It's not that bad too hold because it's really light. It's the same thickness as a modern phone. The back is removable and the battery can be taken out.
• Battery
  • I haven't been using it long enough to have any conclusions about the battery, but it doesn't seem to drain abnormally. I have a second battery if I need it. Right now I'm busy fully draining and charging both batteries to decide which one is the best.
• Streaming video
  • The YouTube app is pretty laggy, but once the video is playing it works just fine. I watch video files stored on my home server with the Jellyfin app. Jellyfin works really smoothly. I haven't tried streaming over mobile data, but I assume 3G should be fast enough to stream at 480P.
• Streaming music
  • I used YouTube Music on the 3G network and it works perfectly fine.
• Camera
  • I've only taken images in not-so-ideal lighting situations so far. Maybe the camera will be decent in good lighting. Maybe it's the fault of the custom rom. The pictures I have from this phone from 7-8 years ago actually look really good. Maybe I can find a good gcam port that works on this phone.
• Reddit
  • Reddit feels a bit laggy but works just fine.
• Banking/Authenticator apps
  • With how outdated this phone is, I'm not even going to try to put my banking apps on it. A bit anoying, because there are some places that accept QR code payments, but no card payments. I'll have to carry a little bit of cash for those cases. Google authenticator works for 2FA codes.
• Google Maps and Android Auto
  • My car does not have independent GPS so android auto is usually essential for me. I don't have any crazy plans for the next 3-4 weeks, so I could live without navigation if needed.

I will post updates when relevant! If you have any ideas on what I should test on this old phone, let me know.
Pictures from 2016-2017 (Xiaomi camera, MIUI Android 5): https://imgur.com/a/i3wMiWf Recent pictures (OpenCamera, LineageOS Android 9): https://imgur.com/a/qhv0NFV Pictures of the phone itself: https://imgur.com/a/8xerRDt

Last year, when my ten year prison "stint" was finally up, and I re-entered society, I encountered some... obstacles.
Obstacles like.. Lack of upward mobility. Prejudices and stigmas. Wages and earnings lower than the general population. Undesirable and oftentimes dangerous jobs. And lack of protection from wrongful termination.
Not to mention, an already tough job market, and the fact that my parole required that I maintain steady employment, or face re-incarceration.
Which is why, when I finally got a job offer, after six months of aggressive job hunting, I jumped at the opportunity, giving absolutely no fucks as to how I was actually making ends meet.
"Ever operate a freight elevator before?" Mr. Winfred, the manager of "The Cornelius" and my new boss, asked me my first day on the job.
"No, sir." I replied honestly, as I ran my fingers along the doors of the antiquated contraption, the only remaining evidence of the recently renovated luxury building's ancient past.
"Normally these old things aren't used for passengers, but the building's pretentious designers thought it might add a certain charm to its otherwise sterile decor. Which is where you come in." He continued, as I heard him slide open the freight elevator's outside doors...
SLAM!
...Followed by its scissored metal inside doors.
SCREEEECH!
I heard Mr. Winfred step inside and, using my cane, scanned the interior of the rather large elevator, which must have been eight feet by eight feet, and followed him in.
Instantly, my nose was hit with an overpowering, musty scent, like the kind you'd smell in a basement, combined with your grandmother's attic.
He then closed both doors behind us.
SLAM!
SCREEEECH!
"Now this here." Mr Winfred added, taking my hand and placing it on the handle of a lever, "Is how you move the elevator from floor to floor. Up for up. Down for down. You'll hear a click when you reach each floor, which will be helpful for someone like yourself." He said, clearly calling attention to the fact that I'm blind.
Someone like myself? I scoffed internally. You ignorant, entitled piece of shit.
Truth is, I've always had a bit of a short fuse. Which I guess, looking back on it, is what got me into prison in the first place.
But in my ten years of incarceration, I was given tools to combat my anger issues. Tools like reminding myself that it was nothing new. Assholes like him were always dropping unintentional microaggressions. It had been something I'd grown used to, and given my probation, wasn't a battle worth fighting.
"Yes sir." I replied through my teeth, as I begrudgingly swallowed my pride.
"Now, why don't you spend today practicing. Our first residents don't move in until tomorrow."
—
In just a matter of a week or so, as the doors of "The Cornelius" opened to its new tenants, I learned pretty much everything I needed to know about the job.
Said tenants were rich. Very rich. And most of them acted as such. Entitled. Obnoxious. Holier than thou. Especially given my own social class. But a few of them weren't so bad, and tipped well.
Mr. Winfred's assistant, Jane, was a lovely human being. Patient, kind, thoughtful, understanding. Especially when compared to both the building's uptight residents, and Mr. Winfred himself. It had been years since I had dated, and the very thought of meeting a partner stressed me out to no end, but if I was to find someone, I hoped she'd be like Jane.
The elevator didn't open on the basement level. As I'd learned countless times, it was possible to go there, but the doors simply wouldn't open.
The old freight itself was finicky as fuck. Stop the lever one second too early, or one second too late, and when the doors open, you're halfway between a floor. But eventually, I got used to it, to the point where most of the building's tenants assumed the role of freight operator had always been my job. And when you're good at your service job, and do it with a smile on your face, the tips start flowing.
And so, all was well for the first couple weeks on the job...
...A seemingly refreshing return to normalcy, after ten long years...
...Until...
...The disappearances started happening.
—
I was just arriving to work one day, when I heard about the first disappearance.
"Have you seen - I mean, have you been in contact with Elizabeth Davis? From room 401?" Mr. Winfred asked, after correcting himself. Something he did often, which continued to annoy me.
"Um." I replied, unsure of where he was going with the question. "Not since yesterday. She got back from work, and I brought her up to the fourth floor. But come to think of it, I don't think she rode the elevator down this morning. Like she usually does."
"Interesting." My boss replied, before continuing. "She disappeared yesterday."
"Disappeared?" I asked.
"Yeah, husband said she never came home last night."
"Hmm. Well I know for certain that I brought her to the fourth floor. Did you check the hallway surveillance footage?"
"Not yet. Unfortunately the building inspector's in today, and I won't have time until tomorrow. Let's hope she just went somewhere, or got lost. In the meantime, keep an eye out - I mean - just, let me know if you hear of anything suspicious."
"Yes sir," I replied, once again resisting the urge to snap on him, before heading for the elevator, where I started the day's shift.
SLAM!
SCREEEECH!
That day, I did my best to do as Mr. Winfred had asked, and listened carefully for any signs of mischief.
But the day went on, business as usual and by the end of the day, I hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary...
...Except... The only thing of note was a difference in Mr. Lawrence's demeanor. The tenant of room 805, he was a salesman, and acted like one. When I say the man could talk, the man could talk. To a point where whenever he was a passenger in the old freight elevator, despite the long ride from floor one to floor eight, I'd rarely have a chance to get a word in.
But this time... was different. This time, Mr. Lawrence entered the elevator chatting away, just as he always did. But about halfway up, he just... stopped talking. And the thing about my job is, if someone chooses to talk or not talk, it's their decision, and none of my business. So I left him alone, and when we reached the eighth floor, I simply said goodnight. To which, he didn't reply.
Must be going through something. I thought to myself, having been unable to truly get a sense of his composure, without being able to see him, before closing the double doors and heading off to help the next passenger.
SLAM!
SCREEEECH!
—
Later that night, Mr. Winfred called me into his office, and asked me to take a seat beside his assistant, Jane.
"Mr. Owens. Are you aware of the situation that's going on in the building?" He asked, in an interrogating tone.
"Um... yes, you told me about it yesterday. The disappearance, sir." I replied.
"Disappearances now. Plural." He said sternly.
"But... who else?" I asked.
"Mr. Lawrence."
"What happened to him?"
"Well, to be honest, I was hoping you could tell me. Cause much like Ms.Davis, the last place he was seen was going into your elevator."
"What about the cameras in the hallways?"
"I'm afraid that after reviewing the tapes, after stepping into your elevator, neither Ms. Davis, or Mr Lawrence, ever stepped out."
"But that's... not... possible."
"Mr. Owens. I'm going to give you an opportunity. Is there anything you want to tell me? I know you have a sordid past."
"Mr. Winfred!" Jane interjected, clearly offended by his words, and implications.
"Quiet, Jane." He scolded, before continuing. "Answer the question, Mr. Owens."
I didn't know what to say. I was so shocked, so flustered, by what he was implying, that I simply froze.
"Mr. Owens!" He screamed.
"I... I... don't know!" I cried out, as I heard Jane squirm in her seat. "I'm telling you, the last time I heard from either of them, I took them up to their floors. But I'm-"
"You're what! Blind?"
"Well, yes sir. I don't see what goes on inside the elevator. I just let them on and off."
"Mr. Owens. If they got on your elevator, and never got off, where could they possibly have gone?"
"I... don't... know." I replied, at this point, wanting to grab him by force, demand that he never speak to me that way again, and scream out my innocence. But my next parole appointment was the following week, so once again, all I could do was just bite my tongue.
Mr. Winfred paused for a moment, took a deep breath, and regained his composure.
"Mr. Owens, I could go to the police now. And that would be very bad for someone like you."
Fuck. He's right. I thought to myself, realizing, that if he went to the police, and I was even remotely suspected of what was going on in the building, it was back to prison for me.
"But lucky for you," He continued, "There are things going on in the building that I wouldn't want to bring unwanted attention to. And for that reason, I have decided not to go to the police... yet. But consider this a warning. And know, that I have a repairman coming first thing tomorrow morning to install a security camera inside the freight elevator, so I can see what exactly it is that you're doing in there."
I had know idea how to react to Mr. Winfred's continued accusations. So I simply remained silent.
"Now get out of here and go home! We'll reconvene on this tomorrow." He said dismissively, before Jane walked me out of the room, down the hall, and outside the building, where I planned to return home for the night.
—
Fifteen minutes later, we were at a bar down the street, where Jane apparently frequented.
"But where could they possibly have gone?" I asked her, my hands trembling at both the thought of people disappearing in the elevator, and that it was happening under my watch.
"Thing is," Jane said, as she finished her beer. "There's something you should know about the building."
""The Cornelius"?"
"No, from before it was called that. It used to be a factory of some kind."
"Is that what Mr. Winfred was talking about when he said that there were things going on in the building? That he didn't want to bring unwanted attention to?"
"Well, yes and no. Yes, in a sense, that Mr. Winfred cut some corners, and rather than fully renovate the entire warehouse, he simply walled off entire sections of the old structure. Like the basement."
"And no?"
"No, in a sense, that even Mr. Winfred doesn't know what's really going on in the elevator. Sure, it'd be easy to pin it on you, especially with your criminal record - no offense... but even he knows that it's probably something... else."
"Something else?"
"See, that's where things get hazy. Because no one knows what exactly went on at the factory, before it became "The Cornelius." But rumors have it... it was laboratory of some kind, and some fucked up shit went on inside there."
"Like what?"
"That, my friend. I don't know. But what I do know is... I better be getting to bed."
"Fair enough. Well, thanks for the drink, and the support." I said with a smile, as we made our way out of the bar.
"Yeah, don't let Mr. Winfred get to you. And try not to worry too much."
—
Contrary to Jane's suggestion, that night I worried... a lot. About the disappearances, what might be causing them, whatever may have gone on in the factory, and most importantly, about everything getting pinned on me.
I couldn't fall asleep, tossing and turning in bed as my mind raced. And each time I finally passed out, I'd wake up in a panic attack, my heart pounding, short of breath and in a cold sweat.
But it didn't stop there. The uncomfortable feeling of terror and fear, accompanied by the vibrating sensation of adrenaline pumping through my body, remained well into the next morning, when I stepped back into the elevator, terrified by what might be going on inside there.
Please don't leave me alone in this fucking thing. I thought to myself.
And within a matter of minutes, my prayers were answered.
"How goes it?" The surveillance installation worker called out, his cheery disposition contrary to mine.
"Um... not too bad." I replied, lying through my teeth, as he stepped inside.
But after a minute or two of sharing the elevator with him, my fears lessened and my body relaxed, comforted by the positive conversation, and the metallic, clinking sounds of the installation.
Everything's okay. The doors are open. And he's talking. I thought to myself.
But eventually, the man finished installing the camera, and began wrapping up the job.
"Well, that's it! Camera's all installed and running now." He called out. "Let's just take the elevator for a spin and make sure we don't lose the signal."
"Yes, of course." I replied, before reaching for the double doors...
SLAM!
SCREEEECH!
..And moving the lever up.
We started moving.
"Fascinating job, I must say, elevator operator. But I suppose you could say the same for mine."
"Pays the bills." I replied, feigning a chuckle.
If he's here, and he's talking, then I'm safe. I continued to reassure myself.
But a few minutes into our ascent, just like Mr. Lawrence... the man... suddenly stopped talking.
"Alright, looks like it's working fine. We can head back down and-"
SILENCE.
"Hello?" I asked.
But he didn't respond.
Fuck. I thought to myself, realizing that whatever caused Ms. Davis, and Mr. Lawrence, and seemingly now the repairman to disappear, could still be in the elevator with me.
Standing there, shaking, sweat rolling down my brow, I backed myself into the corner of the elevator, as I reached for the lever, pressed it down, and the elevator began to make its descent back to the ground floor.
When I finally reached the lobby...
DING!
I scrambled to open the doors...
SLAM!
SCREEEECH!
...And darted out, gasping for air, expecting to find a safe haven.
But instead, all I heard was the sound of Mr. Winfred's voice. "Where is the repairman?"
—
A few minutes later, I was once again sitting in Mr. Winfred's office, next to Jane, this time attempting to explain what had happened.
"...And then he stopped talking! Just like Mr. Lawrence."
"You know what, Mr. Owens. I'm tired of your excuses. And now that we have a working camera in the elevator, it's time to find out what's really going on inside there." He threatened, as I heard him clicking away on his computer, clearly reviewing the footage.
"Please do!" I cried out, "I'm telling you, it's not me."
That's when... Mr. Winfred, and Jane, both went silent.
"Hello?" I called out, unable to see what was really going on. Given the fact that my passengers had recently been going silent, the thought crossed my mind that they too had disappeared, but I could still hear their breathing in the room. Breathing, that sounded like it was increasing rapidly...
...Until they broke the silence.
"Oh... my..." Jane said, struggling to catch her breath.
"That can't be. Let me rewind the tape." Mr. Winfred mumbled, the most scared I had ever heard him.
"What is it?" I asked, as they seemingly played back the video.
I would later find out from Jane that the footage would show myself and the repairman in the elevator, as a slithering, grotesque, humanoid figure, suddenly climbed down from the roof of the elevator, wrapped it's slimy arms around the repairman, then somehow hopped back out of the elevator, and pulled the man up with it. Leaving me standing there, completely unaware of what had just happened.
But in that moment, Mr. Winfred must have realized the... complications associated with reporting such a bizarre phenomenon, and instead decided to finally pin it on me.
"Mr. Owens, you shouldn't have done that!" He cried out.
"Mr. Winfred, what are you talking about?" Jane asked, "You and I just watched the same footage."
That's when I heard him drag a file to his computer's trash and delete it.
CRUNCH.
"Stay out of this, Jane. This man has killed three people in the elevator. I knew I shouldn't have hired an ex con!"
"But sir, I didn't-" I tried to reply, before he interrupted.
"Mr. Owens, I'm picking up the phone, and calling the police. I'd suggest you just stay put."
"But Mr. Winfred, I'm telling you, I didn't do anything!"
"Yes, is this 911? I'm the manager of "The Cornelius" and I'd like to report three murders in my building."
"We'd better go." I heard Jane say, as I felt her place her hand on my shoulder.
"And yes, I have reason to believe the killer is our elevator operator, an ex convict, who is sitting right in front of me."
"Come on, let's go!" Jane screamed, as she tugged at my shirt, I hopped up from my seat, and she led me out of the office, down the hall, and into... of all places... the old freight elevator, as she explained to me what she had seen on the surveillance tape.
—
SLAM!
SCREEEECH!
"Take us to the basement!" Jane called out.
"But the basement is walled off." I replied.
"Just do it!" She insisted, before I moved the lever down and the elevator began to move.
I spent the ride catching my breath, until we finally reached the basement level.
DING!
"Now what?" I asked.
But Jane didn't reply.
"Jane?"
Oh fuck. I thought to myself. The monster.
That's when I turned to the center of the freight elevator, where Jane had been standing, reached out into the unknown...
...And sure enough, felt the cold, slimy, skin of the creature, wrapped around Jane's face, preventing her from making a sound.
Not knowing what else to do, I gripped its disgusting appendages with both hands, and slowly pried it off Jane, as she let out a...
...SCREAM..
...And the monster's arm quickly slithered away, back up through the roof of the freight.
Jane dropped to the ground, coughing violently.
"You okay?" I asked her.
But rather than responding, she simply handed me something...
....I opened my fist, to find a pair of keys.
"The lock above the lever. Unlock it." She instructed, still coughing, as I felt around the lever, found the lock, inserted the key, and unlocked it.
CLICK.
"The doors. They should open now." Jane said, as she stood up, having finally caught her breath.
SCREEEECH!
SLAM!
—
We arrived in the dark basement to smell the same, musty odor from the freight elevator.
After her eyes adjusted and she scanned our surroundings, Jane informed me that this floor looked nothing like the other eight, newly renovated floors, with their modern feel and minimalistic designs.
Instead, the basement was a window into the building's former self, when it had been a factory. Its walls brick and crumbling, its floors concrete and cracked.
And scattered everywhere, were the dusty remnants of laboratory equipment. Devices, machines, tanks, most of which were destroyed, or disconnected, or both.
"What went on down here?" I asked.
"From the looks of it, something inhumane," Jane said, after she picked up a few tattered pieces of paper from one of the lab stations, and told me what was on it.
"The first page looks like some sort of a diagram, of a man being pumped with chemicals from tanks. And the second, a drawing... of the creature from the elevator. In pencil beside it, someone appears to have labeled it "The Silencer.""
Silencer. I thought to myself, before remembering that the creature seemed to always silence the sounds of its victims, and to have been repulsed by Jane's scream. At the same time, it had never bothered me in the elevator, as I tended to stand there in silence.
But before I could dwell too much on the thought, Jane interrupted.
"If you don't mind my asking. What did you go to prison for in the first place?" She asked.
"It's okay," I said, surprised she had waited this long to ask, before contemplating the best way to explain what had happened. "’Cause of my temper. Some guy was being a dick on the train platform. We got into a scuffle, and he accidentally fell into the tracks."
"Over what? Did he insult you? Your blindness?"
"No, I'm afraid not." I replied, "We were drunk... and arguing over... a basketball game, of all things. He was... my friend."
"Oh my God. I'm so sorry."
"It's okay."
Jane put her hand on my shoulder, and we stood there in silence for a moment...
...Until suddenly, we heard the sound of Mr. Winfred, and the police approaching, as they ran down what must have been a hidden set of stairs from the ground level to the basement.
"Come on, follow me!" Jane called out, as she took me by the hand and led me into what I'd soon discover was a labyrinthian network of old passages, while the police and Mr. Winfred both called out to us.
"This is the police! Put your hands on your head, and turn yourself in!"
"You're trapped, Mr. Owens! Just confess your crimes, and you'll simply go back to jail!"
We continued to run deeper and deeper into the passages, as our pursuers began to close in on us, their footsteps getting closer... and closer... and closer...
...Until suddenly, the sound of their footsteps was replaced by that of...
...SCREAMING...
...And they suddenly went...
...SILENT.
"What the?" Jane whispered.
"The creature." I whispered. "It must be down here."
That's when we hatched a plan.
—
Having found our way out of the labyrinth and back to the entrance of the laboratory, where we had arrived in the old freight elevator, I found myself standing alone, waiting, as I nervously tapped my cane on the basement floor, Jane having gone off on her own.
That's when I heard Mr. Winfred emerge from the passages, alone, and call out to me.
"Mr. Owens! There's nowhere to run! Even your beloved elevator is gone. You're cornered." He taunted, as I backed towards the elevator and tapped at it with my cane, its doors open, its shaft empty.
"What did you say?" I asked, encouraging him to talk louder.
"What are you, deaf now too?" The ignorant old man snapped back. "I said, you have nowhere to run!"
"I'm sorry, you'll have to forgive me," I said sarcastically, pointing to my ears. "Can you repeat that again?"
That's when Mr. Winfred began approaching and screamed, "You worthless, ex con! I knew I shouldn't have hired you in the first place! And now, you'll go back to where you belong!"
But suddenly...
...Mr. Winfred went SILENT...
...As the creature must have wrapped its slimy tentacles around his face.
That's when I seized the opportunity, ran over to Mr. Winfred, gripped the cold body of the creature, which was indeed wrapped around him, turned, and flung them both behind me, into the hollow elevator shaft...
SLAM!
...Before hitting the "Up" button on the wall, and calling the freight elevator down.
Suddenly, the gears of the elevator above could be heard turning away, and the machine began its quick descent down.
"Mr. Owens, no!" Mr. Winfred cried out, clearly now separated from the creature.
I froze for a moment, as my mind raced back to the night of the tragic accident, when my friend called out to me from the train tracks, and I was unable to save him in time...
....Until I eventually snapped myself out of it, and willed myself to save Mr. Winfred, no matter how evil the asshole's intentions may have been, reaching out my hand out, and pulling him up and out of the elevator, just as the freight car came crash down to the basement level.
SLAM!
CRUNCH!
"RAAAAAAAARRRRR!" The slimy beast cried out, as it was crushed under the old elevator's weight.
DING!
The basement fell SILENT for a moment, until...
SCREEEECH!
SLAM!
...Jane stepped out and said, "Going up?"
But the joke was met was silence. I simply stood there, shaking, as Mr. Winfred did the same, clearly shocked by the events that had just occurred.
—
A few weeks later, after the authorities had done a full sweep of the basement, and cleared out all traces of the building' old laboratory, I found myself once again back in the manager's office.
"Mr. Owens. This is the last time I'm gonna tell you this!" Jane joked, as I heard her recline back in what was once Mr. Winfred's chair, having been named interim manager since her boss's recent and... ironic... prison sentencing.
"Who's the convict now?" I said with a smile, before making my way out of the office.
"Wait." Jane said, stopping me at the door. "You sure you want to go back to operating the elevator? After all that's happened? Like I said, the doorman job is yours if you want it."
"What's the worst that could happen?" I replied with a smile. "There's another one of those creatures in the building somewhere?"

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 (on a weekend), but by then the FIRE IN MY HEART was already extinguished.
2> I now have twice the amount of $DGB than 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.

Unraveling Script Trigger Challenges

Automating tasks with scripts in spreadsheet applications like Google Sheets can significantly boost productivity and streamline workflows. Particularly, using scripts to send emails when certain conditions are met, such as filling specific columns with data, can be a game-changer for efficiency. However, the technology is not without its quirks. Users often encounter a puzzling scenario where, despite the trigger being activated, the anticipated action – the sending of an email – fails to materialize. This inconsistency can lead to confusion, missed communications, and a pressing need for solutions.
The complexity of this issue lies not only in the mechanics of the script itself but also in the myriad of factors that can influence its execution. From the nuances of script triggers and the permissions required to send emails, to the reliability of the network and the specific conditions set within the script, each element plays a crucial role. Understanding these components, diagnosing the problem, and implementing a reliable solution requires a deep dive into the script's workings, a task that can be daunting for many. Yet, it is essential for ensuring that your automated email notifications work as intended, every time.

Command	Description
SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet()	Retrieves the active sheet in the spreadsheet.
sheet.getName()	Gets the name of the current sheet.
sheet.getDataRange()	Returns the range that covers all the data in the sheet.
range.getLastRow()	Finds the last row of the data range that is not empty.
range.getValues()	Gets all values in a range in a two-dimensional array.
string.split()	Divides a string into an ordered list of substrings.
range.setValue()	Sets the value of the range.
GmailApp.sendEmail()	Sends an email where the script is authorized to do so.
range.getValue()	Gets the value of the top-left cell in a range.

Delving Deeper: Trigger-based Email Automation Insights

Trigger-based email automation in Google Sheets can significantly enhance operational efficiency by automating communication based on specific actions or conditions, such as updating a spreadsheet. This approach leverages Google Apps Script, a powerful tool that bridges the gap between your data in Google Sheets and Gmail's emailing capabilities. The heart of this system lies in its ability to detect changes or fulfillments of conditions within a spreadsheet and respond by executing predefined actions, such as sending customized emails to a list of recipients. This automation not only saves time but also ensures that critical communications are dispatched without delay, enhancing the responsiveness and reliability of processes that depend on timely updates.
However, successful implementation of trigger-based email automation requires a thorough understanding of the Google Apps Script environment and the specific APIs involved. Challenges often arise due to script permissions, the setup of triggers, the handling of data within the script, and the nuances of email delivery systems. For instance, the execution of a script could be flawless in terms of logic, but emails may not be sent due to insufficient permissions or incorrect trigger configurations. Furthermore, understanding the limits imposed by Google, such as daily quotas for sending emails, is crucial to prevent unintentional disruptions. Addressing these challenges involves meticulous script testing, proper authorization of script actions, and, if necessary, adjustments to the script to accommodate the complexities of real-world data and workflow requirements.

Automating Email Dispatch with Google Scripts

JavaScript in Google Apps Script

function checkSheetAndSendEmail() { const sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet(); if (sheet.getName() !== "AUTOMATION") return; const dataRange = sheet.getDataRange(); const values = dataRange.getValues(); for (let i = 1; i < values.length; i++) { const [name, , email, link] = values[i]; if (name && link && email) { sendEmail(name, email, link); markAsSent(i + 1); // Assuming status column is next to the email } } } 

Marking Emails as Sent in Sheets

Utilizing Google Apps Script

function markAsSent(row) { const sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet(); const statusCell = sheet.getRange(row, 15); // Assuming the 15th column is for status statusCell.setValue("Sent"); } 

Enhancing Efficiency with Automated Email Notifications

Integrating automated email notifications into Google Sheets via Google Apps Script presents a potent tool for enhancing efficiency and communication in various workflows. By automating these notifications, organizations can ensure that stakeholders are promptly informed about updates, milestones, or required actions, directly contributing to more streamlined operations. The customization capability of Google Apps Script allows for personalized emails based on the data within the Sheets, making the communication more relevant and actionable. This level of automation and customization helps in reducing manual intervention, thereby minimizing errors and ensuring that the information conveyed is timely and accurate.
Despite the apparent benefits, the path to effective automation is fraught with potential obstacles, including script errors, trigger misconfigurations, and limits on email quotas imposed by Google. Navigating these challenges requires a solid understanding of both the Google Apps Script environment and the specific use case requirements. It involves careful planning, script testing, and continuous monitoring to ensure that the automated system remains effective and efficient. Additionally, staying informed about any updates or changes to Google's services and limits is crucial for maintaining the functionality and reliability of your automated email notifications over time.

Frequently Asked Questions on Script-Based Email Automation

1. Question: Why isn't my Google Apps Script sending emails even though it runs without errors?
2. Answer: This issue could be due to several reasons, including exceeding Google's email quota, script permissions not properly set up, or incorrect email addresses. Check the quotas, ensure the script has authorization to send emails, and verify the email addresses in your script.
3. Question: Can I send emails with attachments using Google Apps Script?
4. Answer: Yes, you can send emails with attachments. Use the GmailApp service's sendEmail function and specify the attachments parameter with a blob or array of blobs representing the files you want to attach.
5. Question: How can I schedule my script to run at specific times?
6. Answer: Use Google Apps Script's time-driven triggers to schedule your script to run at specific intervals or times. These can be configured in the script's Triggers page in the Google Scripts Editor.
7. Question: Is there a limit to the number of emails I can send with Google Apps Script?
8. Answer: Yes, Google imposes daily quotas on the number of emails you can send through Google Apps Script. These limits depend on your account type (e.g., personal, G Suite/Workspace).
9. Question: How do I debug a Google Apps Script that's supposed to send emails?
10. Answer: Use the Logger.log() function to log variable values and execution flow steps within your script. Check the logs in the Google Scripts Editor to diagnose issues.

Mastering Automated Notifications: A Strategic Approach

Implementing automated email notifications via Google Sheets and Google Apps Script represents a powerful strategy for enhancing communication and operational efficiency within organizations. This approach not only facilitates the immediate dissemination of crucial information but also significantly reduces manual effort, thereby minimizing the potential for error and ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of communications. Successfully navigating the complexities of automation, however, demands a comprehensive understanding of the scripting environment, a meticulous approach to script testing and monitoring, and an awareness of the limitations imposed by service providers. By addressing these challenges proactively, users can leverage the full potential of automated notifications, transforming their workflows into more efficient, reliable, and effective operations. As technology continues to evolve, staying updated on the latest developments and best practices will be key to maximizing the benefits of automation and maintaining a competitive edge in the digital landscape.
https://www.tempmail.us.com/en/triggesolving-the-mystery-when-script-triggers-don-t-send-emails

Gm Prom Community!
It’s Savage a.k.a. CakeKeepers, your fellow Prom community degen and current top competitor on the Prom Zealy leaderboard with 230K+ points!
I've been actively involved in the Prom ecosystem for a long time, engaging in testnet missions, and staying involved in our amazing community.
Today, I’m here to share some tips and tricks on how you can excel in Prom Zealy and become an integral part of the Prom ecosystem.
Let’s dive in!
First things first, Understanding Prom Zealy and Its Importance:
Prom Zealy is our interactive questboard where you can participate in various tasks, earn points, and climb the leaderboard. It’s a fun and rewarding way to engage with Prom and make a real impact.
The Value of Prom’s Zealy Tasks?
The campaign has been successful because many frens are completing these social-based tasks and spreading the word about Prom.
Here’s what you should do:

• Earn Enough Points! After the campaign, aim to become a member of the validators or delegators, and be a part of our growing, engaging community. Consistency is key here.
  
• Be Active! Contribute, produce content, gain visibility and credibility within the community, and make your social presence more active. Let everyone know about you and your value.
  
• Help the Ecosystem! Assist new frens in the community by actively participating in quests and missions. Become a community leader!
  

Create a Solid Profile on Your Socials:

• Set your profile up. Use a clear profile picture and write a short but detailed bio to stand out and be recognized for your efforts. If you’re known in the community, maintain your profile identity and awareness.
  
• Always stay updated! Regularly check community channels, Twitter announcements, and all updates. Stay ahead of the curve and digest everything from your community.
  
• Explore quests daily! Get familiar with different types of quests available,social tasks, testnet missions, image creation, article topics, etc. These are the tasks that might make you learn new stuff about any new partners or tech base.
  
• Choose your strength wisely! If you can’t do everything, pick topics you like and have digested, and choose quests that align with your strengths. If you're good at social media, focus on those tasks. Love tech? Dive into the testnet missions. Are you great at narratives? Jump into deep dive creations.
  
• Use multiple channels! Never use just one channel to spread your content. Be active as much as you can on all social media. One is never enough.
  

Get Prepared Before You Start:

• Keep yourself updated daily with the latest news, community chats, and conversations. If there are any new tasks, campaigns, happenings or events, always read the conversations first and jump into the quest details carefully. Understand what’s required before you begin to avoid retracing points you lost.
  
• Use documentation tools to become better. Utilize your phone’s note app, or your favorite document creation tools like Notion or Google Docs for automation and note-taking. Keep all resources in your stash; you might need them later. Never create or try to produce something that you might already have in your case.
  

Execute Like a Pro:

• Break it down first! Tackle tasks in smaller steps. For example, if you need to create a social media post, plan your content, create visuals, and schedule your posts. Use automation tools if you’re not available to post manually. Make your twitter posts your drafts for you while you have other tasks in your daily life. Never miss a shot.
  
• Avoid rushing. Double-check your work to avoid mistakes or missing out on rewards. Always be prepared and have a plan.
  
• Provide clear evidence On Zealy for your completed tasks. Use crystal clear screenshots, links, detailed descriptions if required. Remember, while you might submit 8-9 contents, Prom Admins review thousands of tasks, so make your content and sources crystal clear.
  
• If you don’t get feedback or rewards, politely follow up. Sometimes a little nudge helps in getting your work reviewed. Take feedback, evaluate it, and improve your work.
  

Excelling in Testnet Missions:
What is the Importance of Testnet?
Testnet missions are crucial for testing new features and providing feedback to prevent major errors or bugs on the mainnet. Nobody wants to see any problems on any network’s mainnet. So be sure that you are indeed active on this side.

• Ensure you have the necessary wallet application, correct RPC, and testnet tokens. Get your daily faucet tokens regularly.
  
• Engage with all testnet features, try to find bugs, and provide constructive feedback. Avoid vague reports like “ADMIN I CAN’T GET MY TXN DONE, HAAAAALP!” This is not cool or beneficial for anyone.
  
• Document everything! Keep a detailed record of what you did and any issues you encountered. Provide screenshots, transaction hashes, wallet addresses, and clearly explained steps about what you tried to do, and what you got with it!
  

Share your knowledge with others!
Write tutorials or guides from your experiences. Include clear instructions and screenshots. Mentor newcomers and answer their questions. Respect each other and be nice to all. There is no stupid questions.
Leveraging Community Resources:

• Join each of the official channels, be active on Prom’s Discord, Telegram, Medium, and Twitter. These platforms are invaluable for updates, support, and community interaction.
  
• Participate in discussions, ask questions, and share your experience. The more you engage, the more you learn and grow, and help others do the same.
  
• Always listen and share! Experienced members might share valuable tips. Listen to them and apply their advice -Not the financial ones-. Share your experiences to help others and strengthen the community.
  

Maximizing Rewards and Building Reputation:

• Understand the system and the campaigns, know how the points and rewards system works and what are the validators and delegators in Prom ecosystem. Aim for high-reward quests and bonus opportunities. Dedicate yourself to each task and try to complete them daily.
  
• Build a reputation for yourself! Consistently complete tasks, provide valuable feedback, and help others. This builds your reputation and earns you respect.
  
• Adapt and grow all together! If you face challenges like not having enough friends for Discord invites, focus on growing your socials and completing other tasks efficiently or focus on article and guide creations which fits on many tasks on Prom Zealy.
  
• Always participate actively! Mentor others and share your knowledge. Leadership roles often come with additional perks and recognition.
  

So, the conclusion:
Becoming a top competitor on Prom Zealy and a leading community member involves active participation, being dedicated and consistent, strategic quest completion, and continuous learning and sharing. Not only completing some simple tasks daily.
Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Every contribution helps build a better Prom ecosystem!
That’s it from me, Savage. Keep pushing folks, stay engaged, and let’s continue to make the Prom community stronger together!

Yesterday, I woke up to a text from my ex. I had them blocked on literally everything immediately after our tornado of a breakup. We were together for 2 years. We broke up 7 months ago. However, my phone broke 2 weeks ago and I had to replace it. Blocks didn't transfer over to the new device.
The text said, "You still have me blocked?"
I sat there for about 30 minutes just staring at this text contemplating what I should do and what they wanted. I eventually responded to figure out what they wanted. We were originally planning on adopting two cats from a mutual friend of ours and were gonna get our own place together. They ended up inheriting both of them but one of has been a challenge. So they wanted to know if I still wanted this cat because the cat really liked me and he was gonna end up being mine anyway. I expressed interest in taking the cat.
Of course, the conversation didn't end there and we spent the whole day catching up. We even decided to meet up at a bar. Apologies were had, things were talked about, stories were reminisced over. It was nice. I stopped drinking, went to therapy and did a bunch of other stuff to work on myself and they're on a similar path. So we talked about our paths post breakup. We also talked about how wildly incompatible we actually were as a couple and laughed about it. I also admitted I never actually unblocked them and we laughed about that as well. There's zero chance/desire to get back together. But it seems like we moved on to being friends and I'm cool with that. I hated how everything ended. So it's like a small burden has been lifted from my heart. Kinda cool. Totally unexpected. So I guess talking to your ex doesn't always have to be terrible. I am probably getting a cat out of it as well. :)

Hello everyone!
It's our last watch survey before Census season begins!
Our Netflix survey closed with 1501 of you responding! Our tvN survey and Disney+ survey are still open and slowly ticking away.
Our fourth installment in the survey series is all about JTBC Dramas -- meaning the dramas that JTBC produced and aired originally on the Korean cable network, JTBC
The survey has two sections, a basic demographics section at the beginning to give some context about you as a viewer, and then then a selection of the JTBC dramas released between 2011 and 2023 organized by year of release (most recent to oldest).
Not all JTBC dramas were able to be included so dramas were selected based on an evaluation of factors including viewership ratings, activity on on-air threads, accolades. If a completed JTBC drama you love that aired between 2011 and 2023 isn't included, don't be offended, it may be included in a future survey. Watch statistics for 2024 dramas such as Doctor Slump and The Atypical Family will be evaluated in our end of year survey.
For each drama you can rate it on a scale of 1 (Not Good At All) to 5 (Perfect) if you completed it or select options of 'Did Not Watch' or 'Dropped' depending on what is most applicable for you.
We know that people rate dramas differently, for the purposes of this survey we ask you to rate the dramas while considering all of the following aspects of the drama: (1) writing/script, (2) production quality (ie. cinematography, sound mixing), (3) acting, and (4) your enjoyment while watching the drama.
If you are currently in the midst of watching one, we ask that you either come back to edit your response (be sure to save the personalized url at the end in the submission acknowledgement page) or wait until you have finished it to take this survey.

Survey Link

FAQ:

Q. Why haven't you included a plan to watch/ in progress / on hold option?
A. For the purpose of this survey we are simply seeking to find out how many users have or have not watched them and if they have how they rated them, not whether they plan to watch them.
Q. What do you plan to do with the data?
A. Share the results with the community. Use it to further hype the upcoming census for those who love data.
Q. A part of the survey is not working for me, can you help me?
A. Google forms can have their moments, either try again later or use a different browser.
Q. Why isn't [drama] on the survey?
A. It either isn't a JTBC production or we excluded it on purpose.
Q. When will this survey close?
A. In around two months time.
Feel free to discuss dramas in the comments but keep it spoiler free. We especially encourage sharing thoughts about how you rated certain dramas so that hopefully we can see the variance of approaches amongst us.
Finally just a reminder that is for fun and not something serious. Let's not engage in fanwars, that just sucks the fun out of things and I really don't want to write another apology statement because a ratings survey gets taken far too seriously than necessary.

A lot of kids in school are pushed to study widely and engage in many different extracurriculars. Parents and teachers say this is to make them "well rounded" - but many scorn this. Peter Thiel characterises this as "just mediocre in many things." I can't help but agree with this. At the same time, the ways of the Polymath are very appealing to me.
So what's the difference?
To a casual observer both involve, simply put, knowledge in a wide variety of areas and proficiency in many skills. But not everyone who reaches this level is, in my opinion, a Polymath. There is something that makes a Polymath distinct from someone who is "well rounded" - and that's focus on and utilisation of the brain's natural connection forming tendencies; the inclination to see analogies in everything, to actually link this dispersed wisdom together in pursuit of a higher perspective. Many who are "well rounded" still buy into the stringent segmentation of knowledge into neat boxes in the forms of different subjects, the rejection of which is essential to the journey towards Polymathy. They "know a little about a lot." But the great Polymaths of history, from Da Vinci to Benjamin Franklin, focused on the interconnectedness of everything. They, in the words of Robert Greene in Mastery (which I highly recommend), use these connections as a means to "get closer to nature and to reality itself." For Da Vinci, a network of streams, branches on a tree, the human nervous system - they were all inextricably linked - aesthetically, mathematically, connected in essence. For a more contemporary example, the controversial tech CEO Bryan Johnson, who is trying to reverse his ageing, argues that the approach of outsourcing of his health choices to an algorithm would work on the scale of climate change if only we could organise the global economy and political system accordingly. Analogising the ecosystem of the human body to that of the entire Earth. To me, these connections are where the modern Polymath must focus. In an age in which it feels like everything has been discovered, there is no land left to explore, and corporate monopolies are of unprecedented size and power - the ability to see through the noise is more essential than ever to creating or doing something truly meaningful and unique.
What do you guys think? Do you agree these are two very different things? How important is the interconnectedness of knowledge to you?

Yeah yeah, an old saying, reproduction isn't the purpose of life and doesn't determine value, but let me explain...
So, I am a 16 Year Old, who was introduced to ""feminism"" somewhere in 2022 (I think), thanks to a friend of mine. It turns out, this was actually Mysandry, in the sense that he shared how some of these "feminists" were trying to get rid of men in reproduction, one example being the "fact" that their vaginas will evolve into penises and clone themselves, except that would probably make them hermaphrodites and should happen with men too...
Nonetheless, I was "invested", since this gave me an idea about the two sexes (which would be used for a fictional piece in the end, just with a bit of spiece from our Universe, lol), since I am quite the brain stormer, not bragging or narcissism, I just come up with a lot ideas in general. But as time went on, I started to suffer from overthoughts and the amount of information I've found, including myths like "We were all Female", "Females came before Males", "Women have stronger legs", "You're Genetically Superior and Flawless due to XX", "Men are the weaker sex", "You were inside your Mother who was inside your Grandmother", "Inteligence is Mother Only", among other things, although that last one wasn't as common though). There are still fools, especially on Quora, who believe that all embryos start out as females, and just look at some individuals on that site like Anonymous04, horrors! I also tried to ask ChatGPT, but it's pretty much declining and INFURIATING! SO MANY WRONG ANSWERS! SOMETIMES IT'S OUTRIGHT LAZY!
These moments got soooo BAD, that I: -concerned my parents -made my dad think I was... drugged (since I acted blank when I was working with him once) -wasted my school-off week by overthinking -replied to many answers that ANNOYED me (arguably still do, and embarrassed myself, perhaps) -kept talking to my online friends-couldn't change the topic and basically made it my entire personality or routine for like the past few weeks (maybe even months!) -had an existencial crisis, outbursts, screaming, $u!c!d@l thoughts, etc. -and evenbecame skeptical and "mad" at God (yes, and screw off with the atheism)
Needless to say... It's quite complicated with me and I could go in-depth a lot more, but I managed to recover from most issues. However, before I settle things up, I need to settle one more thing, and that is reproduction. As far as we know, both Males & Females exist to reproduce genetically diverse offsprings, the only difference is their investments, Females for Offspring Support & Males for Competition or Attraction.
While I've noted and saved many things to read later on (like Seminal Fluids doing much more than just transfering Sperm Cells), I am still a bit concerned, stressed and annoyed, cause it just feels like females are the more favored sex in like existence (oversimplication to say it like that, really), and so, I'd like to ask some few things... Although I am definitely gonna give a lot due to overthinking and concerns:
1.Nucleous: So, as far as we know, both Ovum & Sperm Nuclei fuse to form a Zygote, a new life. Both parents guide the development of the child's characteristics and functions, however, APPERANTLY Ovum Cells have been illustrated to have a 'Nucleous' in their 'Nucleus', and turns out this is some sh!t that Zygotes "apperantly need". It's from this jackshit article from 2008: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2265587/#:\~:text=Sperm%20have%20no%20nucleoli%2C%20so,oocyte%20for%20its%20nucleolar%20beginnings. But allas, does this really make sense? No other information has been found or mentioned anywhere else. There's the "Germinal Vesicle" (Nucleus) and the "Germinal Spot" (Nuclelous), but apperantly when the Ovum goes through M II or however it was, the Germinal Vesicle breaks down and dissolves/mixes with the Cytoplasm or so. So is the Germinal Spot the actual Nucleus, and the "Germinal Vesicle" is just one of the ""expensive ingredients"" of the Ovum? Sperm Cells apperantly have Nuclear Vascoles, are those influencal?
2.Cytoplasm: Upon researching more and talking to some Chat Bots (for thes sake of sanity... or INsanity), does the Cytoplasm actually create and give rise to our cells and tissues or is that an outdaded misunderstanding, and it's main & actual function is to SUPPORT the development of the cells created by both parents? ChatGPT has also said that it also gives Building Blocks, Energy, Cell Growth & Differentiation or some confusing crap, but are those words actually referring to the processes of the Zygote's more stable and rapid growth? Is it true that this Cytoplasm is the Cytoplasm in our cells, or since it decreases, is it easily replaced by the production of our cells (combination of mom and dad, as we know)?
3.Organelles: Cytoplasmic components that are apart of the Cytoplasm' support, but again, are those organelles still the same as those in our cells? Shouldn't they decrease like the Cytoplasm and be created by our cells again since (and I am using Google Searches, cuz yes): ---Ribosomes apperantly originate from our Nucleo-lus? ---Lysosomes are formed by the fusion of transport vesciles budded from the trans Golgi network with endosomes ---Endosomes form by the inagination of the plasma membrance and are trigger by the activation of cell surface receptors ---Golgi Bodies originate from the endoplasmic reticulum ---The endoplasmic reticulum originates from the outer membrance of the nuclear envelop during cell division and among other things, but is Mitochondria the only organelle that manages to stay in by it's high number and self reproduction? Is Mitochondria like 90% of the Ovum's organelles hopefully thinking and the other organelles are a small amount compared to the Mitochondria?
4.Cytoskeleton: Apperantly, that is also a thing and it's not an organelle, but apperantly it also has evolved from prokaryotic cytomotive filaments. Even then, Sperm Cells apperantly have a highly specialized cytoskeletal organization or cytoskeletal proteins (like actin, tubulin and spectrin), so?...
5.RNA: Do we inherit more RNA from mom due to the freaking egg, or is it irrelevant because it is transient as the embryo starts to produce it's own RNA and proteins? But ChatGPT has also said this crap: "This maternal RNA helps to jump-start the developmental processes until the Zygote's own genome can take over". It has been said that Sperm has "vanishingly small" amount of RNA compared to the Ovum, but then there have been studies that Non-Coding RNA or so can influence Embryo Development or that Sperm delivers a complex population of RNAs to the Oocyte. Based on a Google Research, I've found this: "6871 proteins have been identified and reported in Sperm, 1376 in the Oocyte and 1300 in the Blastocyst. With a deeper analysis of the sperm proteome, 103 proteins with known roles in the processes of fertilization and 93 with roles in early embryo development have been identified." Can the RNA in seminal fluids/plasma be influential or inherited too? Isn't RNA small?

1. Is most of our makeup matrilineal and are we therefore more related, connected or like our mothers???!!
   
2. Epi-Genetics: Is it true that epi-genetics tend to favor mothers more? ChatFuckingGPT has said that RNA can influence certain aspects of cellular function and gene expression, and that pregnancy and even nursing can cause genes to be expressed or some sh!t, but aren't there studies that say that Mammals are more like their fathers (even if outdaded) and that the sex determination & even seminal fluids can cause gene expression too? Do mothers give us more gene expressions? Are we more like our mothers because of the gene expressions? Or are these outdaded myths?!
   

8.Paternal Genetic Speciality: If we happen to inherit the mtDNA from Mom, is there anything genetically special about fathers? I know that children inherit more mutations from their Fathers, which would be variable and probably lead to gene expression & epigenetics, but what else can this bring? Even if these mutations can be harmful or neutral, could they be repurposed and changed for future generations? Is there anything unique about inheriting more mutations from Dad? I have heard that male reproductive genes (including expression or specific function) also evolve faster than any other type of gene, including female reproductive genes. How does this help? However, if the Mitochondria Genome is said to evolve faster than the Nuclear Genome or something among those lines, does this abandon the special features of fathers and most mutations don't come from dad, OR as I decided to copy from a helper of mine: The percentage of mitochondrial DNA in the cells is2.5% of total cellular DNA1% of total cellular DNA10% of total cellular DNANone of the above (toppr.com). There's also this, but I think it's quite the manipulation since every mitochondria is still a copy of each other, right? https://www.quora.com/Do-you-get-more-of-your-mothers-genes-or-fathers-genes/answeTim-Eck-3?ch=15&oid=327935038&share=dea75d62&srid=uk6F9W&target_type=answer
9.Paternal Contributions: It has been depicted and said that only the head of the Sperm gets delivered, but apperantly there are articles that say that this is also a misconception that the entire sperm enters the egg, with the assumptions being that the Paternal MtDNA not being transmitted, but apperantly, the Sperm Mitochondria actually enters the egg but needs to be destroyed to prevent issues like the Mitochondrial diseases. With this in mind though, what else does the Sperm contribute to the embryo? Centrioles, Centrosomes & the Microtubule System & Microspindle-... Apperatus needed for mitosis? are done by the Sperm too, and it also brings the Chemical Signal for the Egg to activate it's metabolism and complete meiosis? Does this chemical also do anything like give calcuim to the Egg or anything else too? If the entire sperm enters the egg, what else could it bring to the embryonic development? Can there be any paternal contributions to milk like the Y chromosome presence in women bodyparts due to boy pregnancy and the high estrogen, prolactin & a bit of progestertone in seminal fluids? Are there more Sperm components and organelles that we can't easily observe? Is it possible that the absorbtion of all Sperm Cells can benefit the cells of females if the tail has more than 1000 proteins? Does the Journey, Agility, Adapatations, Variability, Motility & Penentration of the Sperm influence the Nucleus (therefore Embryo) in any way? What about the penentrations of multiple sperms (even if they won't enter or mege with the egg)? Or am I just fantasing, and reality is cruel? What about the chromatin condensation sperm? Are sperm cells, and therefore males, just doomed to be not helpful and more limted?...
10.Male Investment: We know that Males invest time into various behaviors, but how exactly does this help the species? Do they optimize & improve their genes? Do they evolve new traits? Do they mutate more? Are males a great investment for evolution or adaptability? Anything else unique? If more females than males have reproduced, does that mean that males are inferior or not helpful and that nature prefers females more? If males and sperm cells are simpler, does that mean they are inferior, disadvantaged or not special? Do non-reproducing males still help with something (assuming they haven't died)? Do you need to almost always (excluding species like Orange Cats and Calico Cats) have a 50/50 amount of both sexes so you don't cause genetic problems even if fewer males will pass on their genes?
That's all I really have to say, I probably sound like I am being dramatic, impulsive and immature, but I really have been overthinking and so, I'd like if some help could be given. This sure was long, but I think I might have given something interesting and such. I thought this could be used as a last resort to settle this before I grow up more. I hope I didn't seem bad or anything like that. I am just in a "scared and confused" situation from the amount of stuff I've seen. ChatGPT really isn't good when it comes to mental health, lol

I have a cheap Beelink NUC with 32gb ram and a single nic. I installed proxmox and have got a few VMs running.
I want to get better at networking and security, and to that end I want to stand up a small AD environment as I study for the Pentest+.
After reading as much as I could yesterday, I may have confused myself lol. My home routewifi is Deco X55 mesh, which apparently doesn't support VLANs. In the basement one of those x55 is plugged into a SG105E switch, which does support VLANs. This is where the NUC lives, connected to the SG105E.
Since I'd be running insecure things deliberately on proxmox, I figured I should learn how to properly segregate them. Once I started looking into it though it seems most people use multiple NICs and much fancier networking equipment.
Can I create and manage VLANS just on the Proxmox host, behind a virtualized firewall, effectively preventing any of the VMs or containers from reaching other devices on the home network except my laptop? I'd have to have pfsense or whatever also act as a DHCP server as well right?

I'm hosting a Jellyfin server for a few work, family, and internet friends and I wanted to upgrade to the arr stack so users can add stuff they want to see.
Installation of the stack went fine, the stack was runninng, with jellyfin, jellyseerr, radarr, sonarr, jackett, and transmission all running behind a reverse proxy with nginx on a raspberry pi 4 running bookworm (debian 12).
Even figured out how to get jellyseerr setup on a subfolder (which was difficult). As soon as I got it all set up, I learned I would need an indexer manager like jackett or prowlarr.
Installed jackett, made a request, it started downloading and was imported and everything was fine.
Then I needed to reboot the rPi and I lost everything. The pi would no longer connect to the network and it's headless. I can't access it at all.
No worries, I will just wipe and reinstall which will give me more practice with setup.
This time I choose prowlarr instead of jackett. Start telling everyone to go make a request, series are downloaded and imported properly, everything's fine.
Go to reboot and again, I lose connection and can't access the pi. Try to connect to my pi via the mac 2-3 different ways and nothing, no connection, router homepage does not see the server, cannot access rootfs on the sd card with disk utility either. Add a wpa_supplicant file to bootfs and still nothing.
Can't really find any help on this anywhere. I don't even know how to begin to troubleshoot this issue.
Ever seen anything like this?

One morning, I was on my usual route, riding the subway to work. Amidst the daily chaos and humdrum, my mind was wrestling with a problem. My team and I had been struggling with a project at work for weeks. Our usual methods seemed ineffective and the team was starting to get frustrated.
As I was sipping my coffee, I noticed the subway map hanging across me. It was an intricate network of lines, each representing a different route, but somehow, they were all interconnected, forming a complex yet organized system. And then it hit me like a lightning bolt! All this time, we had been treating our project as a straight line, going from point A to point B. But in reality, it was more like the subway map, a system, where each component affected the other.
That's when I decided to approach our problem using the concept of Systems Thinking, viewing our project as an interconnected set of elements rather than isolated incidents. Back at work, I shared this with my team and we began to see our project from a broader perspective. We understood how one decision in one area could impact another, creating a ripple effect through the entire system. Applying this mentality, we could make improvements across the board, instead of compartmentalizing issues. This realization was not only a game-changer for our project, but it also improved our adaptability as a team.
We started to notice patterns, understand how elements influence one another, and anticipate how changes would affect the system as a whole. This didn’t only help us solve our immediate problem but also equipped us with a tool to tackle future challenges. Our work improved significantly and we could adapt to the constantly changing requirements of our project with relative ease.
This subway ride possibly changed the way I look at problems forever. The world isn't a series of unrelated incidents, but a network of systems. And understanding these systems, using them to our advantage, can make a world of difference in how we solve problems and adapt to changes.
P.S.: Yes, this subway epiphany is a hypothetical story. But isn't it interesting how the framework of Systems Thinking can be found in something as mundane as a subway map? You never know, your next breakthrough could be lurking in your morning coffee or even the crossword puzzle in your evening newspaper! So, keep your mental models handy. You never know when they might come in use...or even change your life!
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a subway ride to catch. Who knows what problems I'll solve today!

I’m in my late 20s and my partner is 30M, his friends are 30-32M and their girlfriends/fiancees/wives are prob like 30+F. They were all a tight knit group until people started planning weddings and getting married etc. I get how that would just naturally change things and also just growing up and dynamics changing so I didnt think much of it. The ladies have always been a little “ladies who lunch” who wish so badly to be a country club trophy wife (but none of them are… and I thought well yes, a lot of us arent nor do all of us want to be??). They are very obsessed with keeping up with the jonses and do the whole “only hang with a group just one on one” thing which has always been odd to me bc its just hard to coordinate with like 3+ couples from a logistical standpoint! I find their conversations to be boring (always about people their wedding, husband, kid, house… how they want to be a SAHM but they cant so theyre upset about it, not being able to afford a house so asking husband to work harder lol, expensive memberships/vacations/purchases etc) just bullshit i dont liek to engage in. Im 28 (really not that much younger) and they always say “oh, youre so young you have time to figure it out” and I thought it was weird how that was “noticed” ?? They bore me and rub me the wrong way so I stopped going to events unless it was a big one like a wedding or my bf really wanted me to go with (he doesnt like the girls either so he usually goes to guys nights).
After I became disconnected, one of them literally made up rumors about me hahahaah and spread it and my bf shut it down and confirmed it was not true but I just laughed at how juvenile the situation was. They refuse to go to dinner with us but they only want 6 people to go on someones boat or 10 people to go to a birthday party where everyone pays for their own tab/services (bowling, golf, ticketed event). Another one tells me God wants me to have kids (gross) and how “your mind will change when youre older” ( HIGHLY doubt that a 2 year age cap would make that huge of a difference but okay).one couple joined a yacht club and invites people every weekend (and if you say no, they will ask someone else after 5 minutes haha) and they will not do anything other than the yacht club (maybe bc its pre paid?) or brunch at the country club. Not my scene and I get motion sickness and I hate golfing so I just dont go bc why would I waste my time and Energy haha and they decline dinner invitations. I get that we all work and are busy and are looking to try to save money in this economy. They then complain they cannot afford to buy a house bu then the wife will say “oh but you know we’ve been working with loan office and realtor and” and its like okay but its been 2 years of this just dont even bring it up if you cant afford right now bc most of us cannot? Then she will say they found a bigger and nicer home to rent for 4000$ (WTF more than a mortgage!). Like an hour outside the city we live in (fine but dont tell me you flush 4k down the toilet every month and cry about the country club and no house. She will say snarky things to her husband if he says they are saving money and say “but you have to pick ONE country club for us still” and it makes me so uncomfortable bu also I judge them for over sharing haha My bf said he thinks that the girls are offended I dont take interest to their invites and what they have and he thought it was funny. It is funny but also kind of a wtf moment
I do not think I’m better than them but I realize how different we are? We all legit grew up in the same county, went to a network of private schools, and this area is very affluent and our parents worked HARD but no one is really the 1% in the group. I moved home with my family bc I was in grad school last year and I am a nurse so I’m literally busy dealing with other people’s crap/personal problems all week so I dont have time to deal with other people’s personal crap on my off days. They’re so appalled that I work a job like that when they all work as well (respectfully, we all work in traditionally pink collar woman jobs like I’m a nurse, the others are admin assistants and teachers so its not like any of us are climbing the corporate ladder) I went to school out of state so I have a lot of wonderful friends who live all around the east coast so they visit here or i sometimes visit them. My job, friend group, is completely different from all of theirs and they all went to school in state and never left. Our lifestyles are different, and im focused on career right now and not marriage and boat/countryclub/vacation/designer bags at this moment. A few of them are genuinely really nice and some are fun at times but in small doses. The yacht girl had an accident and needed urgent surgery on her arm so i reached out and offered to drop off groceries or meal prep company since they have food allergies inthe house and she responded as if she was offended “no its fine my husband just will buy us something every night bc we live new a lot of new restaurants now” HAHA
Not that I’m particularly pressed, I know they will prob stick around since we are talking about getting married. How do you respond to mean girls? Are they jealous? Do I continue to be unbothered? Do i reach out to show I dont hate them? Kill them with kindness? Fly under the radar? Clap back? I take it that mean girls don’t change after 30 either

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Hey all. Getting my Proxmox server configured this weekend and I'm trying to figure out how VLANs work. I have some basic IT knowledge but am not very experienced when it comes to networking etc.
I realized this morning that what I'm attempting may not even be possible. At the moment, I'm still using my ISP combo box, so there's not going to be any support for VLANs on that end. I was under the impression that I could have the proxmox host act as a switch and have a couple VLANs for my different VMs etc. but I think I now may have been misunderstanding things.
The reason I even want a VLAN in the first place is to make sure my VMs cannot access the management interface - which I believe is best practice? But does it even matter - every device on my network can currently access the management interfaces on all my servers.
I have heard of setting up all the VMs behind a NAT? Maybe this is a better option for me? Or maybe I don't even need to bother with all this? Maybe this is what I'll have to do regardless, just wondering how I'll even access each VM if they share the same host IP.
Thanks you all. I feel like this is a dumb question so apologies, I'm having to learn a lot setting this up haha.