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2013.07.10 22:21 Dvdrummer360 Medical Questions

Having a medical issue? Ask a doctor or medical professional on Reddit! All flaired medical professionals on this subreddit are verified by the mods.
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2012.07.30 01:04 So many numbers, so little time

Many physicians, mid-level providers, practice managers, administrators, billers and front desk staff members have questions about coding. Today's demand for certified professional coders (CPCs) is growing as many jobs in the coding and billing field now require certification. Health care professionals involved in coding, compliance, billing, administration and reimbursement aspects of medicine should be certified as part of a compliance program.
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2014.09.05 04:41 ohgodthellamas Dangerous Design: When Bad Designs Can Kill

A subreddit for design that can kill or severely harm people.
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2024.05.03 00:24 Cpt_Cabbage Letter from a friend. I am supporting all you amazing people in the fight against the Russian law. საქართველოს გაუმარჯოს!

გამარჯობა საქართველო!

I am watching and following closely the heroes of Georgia in your fight against the Russian law and everything it will bring.
I wish you all the strength, resilience and victory in this. On your path to a more free, fair and prosperous Georgia!

I want to share with you some hope and maybe to inspire you even more (if that is even possible), as you have inspired me.
From research presented in the book "Why Civil Resistance Works - The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict" there are good news,
peaceful protests that have engaged more than 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
In that book one of the examples is the Rose revolution from 2003.
In Georgias case this means ca 130 000 people. I feel you have already exceeded this amount with all the people that have stood up for freedom last year and especially these past weeks.
And that the oligarch and his corrupt politicians still ignores you, lies to you and use every other dirty trick there is and tries to silence you with violence.
They still want to sell Georgia to Russia, to set it on the same path as Belarus, no matter how loud and many your voices are.
Don't let them! The true power is always with the people! Strength in numbers! United!
ძალა ერთობაშია!
You are on the right side of history, and you will win!

I count myself lucky to have made Georgian friends who I love greatly. (I still can't believe I went more than half my life without knowing about ხაჭაპური)
You are a wonderful people, you have a rich and amazing culture and history and you have and a beautiful language!
You deserve a bright, free and happy future!

I am trying as much as I can to report bot-accounts and comments spreading misinformation and lies.
I am sharing and spreading all the amazing things you are doing with everyone around me.
If I can do more I will.

And I am cheering you on on every protest and gathering!
Keep protesting everywhere in and every peaceful way you can!
Keep blocking streets and squares!
Keep showing everybody and this totalitarian government what the people of Georgia wants!
Continue showing them in every peaceful way that you will NOT obey a system that they have broken and corrupted.
Keep spreading the protest to every part of Georgia so that their riot police cannot be everywhere at once.
They can never withstand a united people.

Protest everywhere and at everything where this oligarch has gotten his long and greedy fingers, and where these corrupt politicians
take your hard-earned money and use it to further their own interests.
Bring everything into the light.
Continue calling out their lies to help me each other to stay informed.
And keep protesting every bought media spreading their lies and misinformation.

Its wonderful to see the creativity and energy of Gen-Z, finding more ways to protest and getting your message through
And it is just as wonderful to see the experience of all the mothers, fathers, and grandparents to unite together
You are one people, one big family! You are a true inspiration, all of you.
Make it known from every village and from every street that you don't want this path!
Let it echo through every valley and be heard from every mountain!
Protest outside every government building and organization until they join you and then walk to the next!
You are reminding your politicians and politicians everywhere that they should serve the people and not themselves!
That politicians are nothing without true support of the people!
That oligarchs have no power over the people no matter how much they try to corrupt and buy!
You are showing everyone that they cannot control you by trying to divide you.
You are showing that you can be divided on issues but staying united as a people! As one big family!
You are more! You are Georgia! ძალა ერთობაშია!

I know how you started creating your own prosperous future when you won true independence in 1918!
You gained it again but the corrupt soviet system was still there. You have been fighting against it and removing it step by step since then.
Keep going, it is time to be completely free from it.

I am not one of your great writers or football players and I am not speaking in ქართული ენა but I hope my words reach and inspire at least one.
And know that you all are inspiring me. When you are protesting and shining a light on those who do not represent you,
when you are jumping over water jets, waving flags in front of water cannons, when you are dancing in the streets, when you are singing together,
when you are united and filling the entire Rustaveli street day after day. You are amazing!
The world is watching, bring the light and don’t let them spread darkness.
I believe in your future, the Georgian people have shown time and time again they want independence and freedom!
I wish you all the strength and unity needed to keep it and to ensure it for the future, even though I know you already have that strength in you!
Stay safe all of you.

საქართველოს გაუმარჯოს!

Sincerly
A friend from Scandinavia

P.S.
I will welcome you with open arms when you join us in EU and together we will celebrate with the biggest სუფრა the world has ever seen
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Purtle's Internet Lineup for May 2nd, 2024 6:23pm
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2024.05.03 00:17 vegetasmacksgoku Because im deemed mentally il nobody believes me, even reddit shut down my previous post all because i (Suffer from severe depression im bipolar 2 where i am 99% severed depressed and 1% im happier than your average joe) so now tell me, ASSUME this case is 100% real, what would you do?

April 1st I go to the dentist to put a bridge on my teeth, after getting same day I decide to go to McDonald’s at 11h30 pm but as I’m going there I see its closed already, so I decide to go to a Walgreens and I see a homeless man, since I have been homeless before I decided to help him, we both go in the store and the police officer there tells him to leave, and then the manager of the Walgreens tells me to leave as well, I proceed to ask why should I leave and she tells me “because I said so” , I proceed to keep asking why since I was a loyal customer there, and there must be a reason, and she keeps repeating the same thing saying “because I said so, and because I want to, leave immediately” as she is screaming in my face, there I was furious and I told them I was just going to go in and buy my usual candy and also omega3 since my doctor April 1st I go to the dentist to put a bridge on my teeth, after getting same day I decide to go to McDonald’s at 11h30 pm but as I’m going there I see its closed already, so I decide to go to a Walgreens and I see a homeless man, since I have been homeless before I decided to help him, we both go in the store and the police officer there tells him to leave, and then the manager of the Walgreens tells me to leave as well, I proceed to ask why should I leave and she tells me “because I said so” , I proceed to keep asking why since I was a loyal customer there, and there must be a reason, and she keeps repeating the same thing saying “because I said so, and because I want to, leave immediately” as she is screaming in my face, there I was furious and I told them I was just going to go in and buy my usual candy and also omega3 since my doctor Jerry Jurado at 253 Lafayette St, Newark, NJ 07105, had recommended me due to my high cholesterol, she tells me the pharmacy is closed even thought I told her I wanted a supplement not a medication and it was available on the aisles…

But she doesn’t give a shit and demands me to leave the establishment. There was a security guard and he proceeds to push me and I fell to the ground, I get up and I’m so pissed off that they think I’m going to rob the place that I even throw my debit cards to the floor asking them to buy it for me the stuff I needed so I could go back home and play my usual videogames , the manager of the Walgreens then comes to me and says she wants to hit me ,outside the wallgreens by the doorway, and then I say “why” and she proceeds to punch me, a black obese lady joins in and starts beating the shit out of me, other black people join in and start beating me up as the only white guy there…. and they start beating me up, at one point in on my knees surrounded by them and she brings a baseball bat of some sort, the fat lady tells her not to do anything and tries to stop her from doing it, but the manager of the wallgreens or so she claimed, doesn’t care and she hits me with the baseball bat in her hands, in my right arm , and then she hits my head on the left side, I am now on the floor crying and begging for anyone to help me… by trying to help someone of their community I now get beat up for it…. As im groaning in pain and to somebody call an ambulance but they were all just cursing me and telling me that I deserved it… even though I did nothing wrong but try to help a black person who was homeless! but nobody helped me me….

I knew I had to do something so I gather my last strength and I stand up and I run for my life, I lost my Samsung galaxy s23 fe that I had bought at metropcs, my wallet and my debit cards from td bank, as im fleeing the scene, in despair asking help to every person I meet on the street ,but nobody cares….,I even lost my bridge tooth that I had made that same day at Salinas & Ventura The Family Dentist Newark Dentist in Newark, New Jersey I was incredibly dizzy but nobody helped me… I knew I could find police in the Newark train station which was close by so I go there and the homeless man gave me my wallet back but it was emptied out and he helped carry me to the train station where I ask for the help of the police officers, they check me out and call an ambulance ,ln the hospital I told them what happened to me in Walgreens being violently attacked and they did not believe me again, they thought I was having delusions… so they did an xray of my arm and saw nothing even thought I was in incredible pain and having difficulty doing anything, they then decided I was having hallucinations about getting hit by a wallgreens manager and they put me in the psychiatric ward even thought I was just brutally attacked.


Best part, is now because of my “delusions” of getting hit by a bat, my arm suddenly dislocated as I was going to my bed on the 18th of April… just 3 days after leaving the hospital, apparently I researched the internet and it shows (Research indicates that traumatic impacts can predispose individuals to delayed shoulder dislocations, often due to overlooked soft tissue injuries or minor fractures initially., and now best part is because of my “Delusions” also, I have to be in a mandatory outpatient treatment for 1 months from 9am to 3pm and if I don’t I will be put in the psychiatric ward again.

In the psych ward they also made me sign papers under duress ( I mean the manager Immanuel I couldn’t even speak to him properly, he came to me and said I would have to do a mandatory 6 month outpatient treatment at community psychiatric institute, I of course said hell no, and they came back with a paper and it said 1 month only… but I spoke to the program about this, and she told me its always 1 month… so now I understand that they give a 6month and obviously the patient always gets mad at it, and then they come back and say “hey look its now 1 month this is a great deal take it!” so people take it…. Again deception by the psychiatric ward manager Immanuel.


I do an online police report but then I go in person to go file a police report at 649 Market St, Newark, NJ 07105 , and I tell my story of what happened to me about the wallgreens incident to the inspector, at first he tells me to bring papers showing documentation, the next day I show him the papers but he is doubting my case of how this could possibly happen, I spend some time after 5 days or so I come back monday April 29th but hes not around so I leave my phone number in hopes I would get a call.

Tuesday April 30th I go to the psychiatric institute, where I left at about 12h30 , I went and in an spoke to the city hall of Newark , room 304 outside of it where I told the story about the wallgreens, first I got a call about my online police report and they tell me there’s no CC or a case number, they tell me to go to the police station on 22 franklin st where I tell what’s happening me to a police officer and he again also doubts of me, when I suddenly get a call from the detective and he tells me he saw the video footage and as he tells me that I was lying on speaker phone that no bat hit me as the police officer that is listening to this tells me to shoo away from the station…. but the problem is the officer only saw part of the video where I enter the store and then I try to enter and then I get pushed back, he did not see the part where she goes to hit me and then when other people join in and the baseball bat incident, this investigator essentially only saw what the wallgreens manager showed! … So this is my life… nobody believes a word I say all because I suffer from severe depression and am consequently mentally ill and everyone belives mentally ill people just lie..…

Thursday may 2nd at about 12 am I go to the police station to show my further proof… they tell me the inspector saw the full video even thought he clearly did not due to making his job easier since im mentally ill, they don’t even want to show me the full video even thought I KNOW they didn’t watch it, and my councilman told me to go to internal affairs for the police where they conduct supervision of police wrongdoing, but he told me he is going to call them and if I appear there and im gonna be arrested for “False reporting”

So now I cant get a lawyer because I don’t have a criminal case from the police, the police do their job poorly (they screw up all the time Newark is filled with crime after crime) I cant file a report against the police.. I contacted 7 lawyers and they all tell me not without a report…. What do I do?Jerry Jurado at 253 Lafayette St, Newark, NJ 07105, had recommended me due to my high cholesterol, she tells me the pharmacy is closed even thought I told her I wanted a supplement not a medication and it was available on the aisles…

But she doesn’t give a shit and demands me to leave the establishment. There was a security guard and he proceeds to push me and I fell to the ground, I get up and I’m so pissed off that they think I’m going to rob the place that I even throw my debit cards to the floor asking them to buy it for me the stuff I needed so I could go back home and play my usual videogames , the manager of the Walgreens then comes to me and says she wants to hit me ,outside the wallgreens by the doorway, and then I say “why” and she proceeds to punch me, a black obese lady joins in and starts beating the shit out of me, other black people join in and start beating me up as the only white guy there…. and they start beating me up, at one point in on my knees surrounded by them and she brings a baseball bat of some sort, the fat lady tells her not to do anything and tries to stop her from doing it, but the manager of the wallgreens or so she claimed, doesn’t care and she hits me with the baseball bat in her hands, in my right arm , and then she hits my head on the left side, I am now on the floor crying and begging for anyone to help me… by trying to help someone of their community I now get beat up for it…. As im groaning in pain and to somebody call an ambulance but they were all just cursing me and telling me that I deserved it… even though I did nothing wrong but try to help a black person who was homeless! but nobody helped me me….

I knew I had to do something so I gather my last strength and I stand up and I run for my life, I lost my Samsung galaxy s23 fe that I had bought at metropcs, my wallet and my debit cards from td bank, as im fleeing the scene, in despair asking help to every person I meet on the street ,but nobody cares….,I even lost my bridge tooth that I had made that same day at Salinas & Ventura The Family Dentist Newark Dentist in Newark, New Jersey I was incredibly dizzy but nobody helped me… I knew I could find police in the Newark train station which was close by so I go there and the homeless man gave me my wallet back but it was emptied out and he helped carry me to the train station where I ask for the help of the police officers, they check me out and call an ambulance ,ln the hospital I told them what happened to me in Walgreens being violently attacked and they did not believe me again, they thought I was having delusions… so they did an xray of my arm and saw nothing even thought I was in incredible pain and having difficulty doing anything, they then decided I was having hallucinations about getting hit by a wallgreens manager and they put me in the psychiatric ward even thought I was just brutally attacked.


Best part, is now because of my “delusions” of getting hit by a bat, my arm suddenly dislocated as I was going to my bed on the 18th of April… just 3 days after leaving the hospital, apparently I researched the internet and it shows (Research indicates that traumatic impacts can predispose individuals to delayed shoulder dislocations, often due to overlooked soft tissue injuries or minor fractures initially., and now best part is because of my “Delusions” also, I have to be in a mandatory outpatient treatment for 1 months from 9am to 3pm and if I don’t I will be put in the psychiatric ward again.

In the psych ward they also made me sign papers under duress ( I mean the manager Immanuel I couldn’t even speak to him properly, he came to me and said I would have to do a mandatory 6 month outpatient treatment at community psychiatric institute, I of course said hell no, and they came back with a paper and it said 1 month only… but I spoke to the program about this, and she told me its always 1 month… so now I understand that they give a 6month and obviously the patient always gets mad at it, and then they come back and say “hey look its now 1 month this is a great deal take it!” so people take it…. Again deception by the psychiatric ward manager Immanuel.


I do an online police report but then I go in person to go file a police report at 649 Market St, Newark, NJ 07105 , and I tell my story of what happened to me about the wallgreens incident to the inspector, at first he tells me to bring papers showing documentation, the next day I show him the papers but he is doubting my case of how this could possibly happen, I spend some time after 5 days or so I come back monday April 29th but hes not around so I leave my phone number in hopes I would get a call.

Tuesday April 30th I go to the psychiatric institute, where I left at about 12h30 , I went and in an spoke to the city hall of Newark , room 304 outside of it where I told the story about the wallgreens, first I got a call about my online police report and they tell me there’s no CC or a case number, they tell me to go to the police station on 22 franklin st where I tell what’s happening me to a police officer and he again also doubts of me, when I suddenly get a call from the detective and he tells me he saw the video footage and as he tells me that I was lying on speaker phone that no bat hit me as the police officer that is listening to this tells me to shoo away from the station…. but the problem is the officer only saw part of the video where I enter the store and then I try to enter and then I get pushed back, he did not see the part where she goes to hit me and then when other people join in and the baseball bat incident, this investigator essentially only saw what the wallgreens manager showed! … So this is my life… nobody believes a word I say all because I suffer from severe depression and am consequently mentally ill and everyone belives mentally ill people just lie..…

Thursday may 2nd at about 12 am I go to the police station to show my further proof… they tell me the inspector saw the full video even thought he clearly did not due to making his job easier since im mentally ill, they don’t even want to show me the full video even thought I KNOW they didn’t watch it, and my councilman told me to go to internal affairs for the police where they conduct supervision of police wrongdoing, but he told me he is going to call them and if I appear there and im gonna be arrested for “False reporting”
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2024.05.03 00:09 OrganizationLow9442 Need help with check engine light!!!

Need help with check engine light!!!
I had a check engine light on, brought it to autozone to get it scanned and report said code P2096(post catalyst fuel trim system too lean bank 1) I bought the part and got it installed and driving after 5 minutes the damn check engine light came back on. Got it scanned again and this time it says code P0057 (HO2S heater control circuit Low Bank 2 Sensor 2) and a few other codes that I will attach in a picture. Basically it’s all pointing to Bank 2 Sensor 2. I’m really fed up with this, is the oxygen sensor really the problem or is it something beyond that? any help or advice would be appreciated thanks!
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2024.05.03 00:08 Ambitious_Bird434 teacher looking to transition to coding

Hello everyone, so I'd like to ask if you think going to a coding bootcamp could be a worthwhile choice for me and I'll list some key facts about myself so that you can have some context and understand who I am, what I've done in my previous jobs, and what led to me thinking about this.
TL;DR: I'm a teacher and I don't like teaching anymore. Too much burn out. I am in a lot of debt because that's life. Bad things happen to people and sometimes pure grit isn't enough to keep up with inflation and other things. I want to make a career transition and change to my salary. I've recently been considering coding but I also have to work a full time job and pay the bills and all that stuff. Moving back home isn't an option because my dad died in a house fire when I was a teenager and that same house ended up being foreclosed in 2018 because my mom couldn't keep up with mortgage and I had to move out. I want to help retire my mom and I want to live a better life than I am right now. Could coding bootcamps open up doors and opportunities for me? Or am I better off learning for free? Is it even worth making a full switch to tech because the people I'll be competing against will be super young and have 4 year computer science degrees? (My degree is in psychology)
Thanks!
Long version:
-I'm currently a 31 year old technology teacher and technology coordinator. I have been teaching tech for 4 years since 2020 and have stepped up to add tech coordinator responsibilities for the past 2 years. Part of my job includes teaching tech curriculum to grades K-8 and also to help manage everything related to technology for my school site. I teach very basic (I suppose to tech savvy people anyways) concepts related to technology and computer science. I know enough to make me smarter than a middle schooler but not enough to be employable in an actual tech coding position. For tech coordinator, this includes but not limited to: IT support, device repairs, replacing projector lamps, troubleshooting peripherals, managing Google Admin Console, etc. I'm just barely scratching the surface here but just to give you an idea.
-I landed in my current position because in 2020 I was let go from my teaching job due to COVID. I was job searching and fortunately an edtech company took a chance on me and hired me.
-Before I was a classroom teacher, I worked in education as a paraprofessional, after school teacher, and summertime aide. Most of my professional working life as an adult is from the education field outside of small time cashier and cooking jobs.
-Although I would love staying as a teacher, fact is I'm burnt out. Teaching is hard work and anyone who has ever worked with youth K-12 can probably attest to the grind. Teaching doesn't pay me enough to want to continue staying.
-The main reason why I want to switch into coding is because of money reasons. I guess its a controversial opinion to have because many people will say things like "do what you love, forget about the money" or "don't do it for the money or you'll be even more unhappy" but in my opinion and from my own lived experiences, the fact is having money changes your life a lot. It doesn't mean it should be the source of happiness but it sure can make life a lot easier and grants you more opportunities in life. I basically got screwed over in life several times and as a result I've accumulated a lot of debt over the years due to different things outside of my control. Not to make a sob story but just to illustrate a few examples: Losing my home and my father in a house fire when I was 13 years old was hard. We were already poor, now I'm just more poor and my dad is dead. My mom was always busy working so I'm basically just raising myself as a teenager until now. We lost that same home again in 2018 permanately to a foreclosure because my mom as a single parent couldn't afford to keep up with the mortgage over the years, so I had to start borrowing loans to live out on my own because relying on family wasn't an option. Mind you, I wasn't just living at home doing nothing and being a bumass. I tried to contribute as much as I could, I worked long hours to help pay the bills as soon as I graduated college. I wanted to go to go on to graduate school and study but I never got the opportunity because of all the extra jobs I needed to take to help my mom with bills. When COVID happened, I didn't have a full time job for a while and lived off credit cards. My mom to this day does not have a place to live and she lives with my grandparents. Meanwhile I'm just kinda fucked by rent and loan payments and poor paying education jobs. I'll admit I contributed to some of my debt due to trying out gambling but quickly learned my lesson and stopped.
-The last reason I want to switch to coding is because after my edtech company hired me and exposed me to the world of tech, I quickly found out this could be a viable out for me because I found myself eagerly looking to learn and grow and get better at all things tech related and coding as well. I don't have a limited mindset anymore as I did in undergrad and I have a growth mindset now. Although granted, that one time I took an undergrad comp sci class in college, I didn't do so horribly. I think I made it out with a B+ or B- at least. But I used to be scared of coding and now I'm not. I'm sure there will be frustrations and challenges that come with learning it but I mean I'd be disgracing myself as an educator if I told myself now I can't do something after years of telling my students they can do and become what they want to if they work hard at it.
-The conundrum now is I have to keep working full time as a teacher to keep myself a float and pay off all these loans and to pay rent. I just don't know how I can kickstart myself into a boot camp anyways. I know there are free options out there but I'm someone who needs structures and goals set for me. I like to know I can access people to talk to and they'll be ready for me and to be able to network after graduating a boot camp too. In the meantime all I've been doing is self-studying as much as I can.
But anyways with that said, does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions in good faith? Thank you for your input. I don't think I should treat a single forum on reddit as gospel and I'll certainly plan to talk to more people about this but I figured it'd be good to reach out to some kind of tech community out there and start seeing what people have to say. The goal for me is to figure out a decision regarding if a coding bootcamp could be worthwhile, and if not (in your opinion) what then is the next best option for my situation?
Thanks in advance.
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2024.05.03 00:07 Potential_Tale_7922 How do you create and maintain connections with people? I am struggling with the feeling of being a burdden

I shutdown when life gets too chaotic and that's whats happening right now. I was so happy 2 weeks ago but suddenly my PTSD was activated because, honestly, its been one bad thing after the other and I just can't make sense of it. Too many triggers all at once. I need time to process everything that is happening and it's all happening too fast.
I have several messages from friends that I haven't opened yet, they have been waiting for days. Some people have given up on me already. I don't want to bother people, they will either pity me or tell me I'm being " negative" and the truth is that even if I try to vent, no one understands. My ex told me he was tired of hearing me talk about the medical trauma I experienced for example. But I don't have the energy to pretend I'm doing alright either
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2024.05.03 00:05 Fragrant-Weekend-149 Thoughts on ‘Less Litter’ litter box

Hello! I’m about to be a cat mom soon and am thinking about getting the ‘Less Litter’ litter box. I don’t like the idea of plastic both from an environmental perspective as well as the fact that plastic traps odors and bacteria more. It’s veryyy expensive due to the medical grade steel, but has a lifetime warranty. I am also torn because I hear so many people LOVE their litter robot. However, I don’t see many posts about Less Litter box, anyone willing to share about it if they have one? Also anyone have a referral code they want me to use?
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2024.05.03 00:03 First-Time-Bi-er Validation is Bittersweet?

I had an appointment in therapy today where I really laid out the extent of the neglect I experienced as a kid for the first time in my life.
My therapist looked genuinely distraught as I told him about it - the years of not being taken to a dentist/doctor, being given 2 sessions of therapy after being SA'd as a kid and thats it because "I was doing fine", being made to feel like a burden constantly because I was dealing with intense bullying and needed support, etc. After I finished my umpteenth loop of giving my parents a pass for stuff they did wrong to me because of their issues/struggles, he stops me and as gently as he can drops on me that what I have been describing sounds like criminal emotional and medical neglect in many cases.
That if he was seeing me when I was a minor he would have been mandated to report a lot of this.
That there are some things parents just need to do and there's a reason that we have laws for it.
That it doesn't matter why my parents did what they did - it was their obligation and they failed.
That it's not only ok to be upset at them for stuff like this, because it had lasting painful impacts on me to this day, but would be more concerning if I wasn't.
I broke down then and there. I have been oscillating wildly between joy of vindication, deep mourning and sadness, bitter resentment, and somehow still questioning if my memories were real or if I made this all up.
I think the well of emotions tells me I am getting to the root of some of my issues but only time will tell. I really hope this is the start if my journey to actually healing. Please wish me luck 🩷💜💙
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2024.05.03 00:01 Keisil Need some help with non blocking read pipe ends in my program

Hello
What i want to do with the program is to create 3 child processes from one parent . Each child will have 2 pipes connecting to the parent so it can write to the parent and read from it. With this i want the children to communicate with each other trough the parent for example child 1 decides to send a message to child 3 it will first send to the parent then the parent will send it to child 3. To do that i need to make the read pipe ends non blocking. When no massage has been send it works fine but when i try to send something it still writes that pipe is full. My questions is what i am doing wrong?
The example i am following is from geekforgeeks site . Note that my code is nowhere near finished . I still have a lot of work but i have been stuck on the non blocking. The write at child A near the end is just a test to see if it will send it.

include

include

include

include

include

include

include

int main()
{
int pids[3],id[3];
int pipes[6][2];
int i;
for (i=0;i<6;i++)//Creating the pipes
{
if (pipe(pipes[i])==-1)
{
printf("Error in pipe %d\n",i);
return 0;
}
else
{
printf("Pipe created!\n");
}
}
for(i=0;i<6;i++)//Here i call fcntl for all the pipes
{
if (fcntl(pipes[i][0],F_SETFL,O_NONBLOCK)<0)
{
printf("Error in fcntl:%d",i);
}
}
for(i=0;i<3;i++)//Store child process id on array
{
pids[i]=fork();
if(pids[i]==0)
{
id[i]=getpid();
break;
}
}
if (getpid()==id[0])//Close pipes that are no neede in child A it keeps 0 and 1
{
for (i=0;i<6;i++)
{
if (i>0 && i>1)
{
close(pipes[i][0]);
close(pipes[i][1]);
printf("Ola kala sto klisimo sto A:%d\n",i);
}
}
close(pipes[0][1]);
close(pipes[1][0]);
return 0;
}
if (getpid()==id[1])//Close pipes that are no neede in child B it keeps 2 and 3
{
for (i=0;i<6;i++)
{
if ((i>2 && i>3) (i<2 && i<3))
{
close(pipes[i][0]);
close(pipes[i][1]);
printf("Ola kala sto klisimo sto B:%d\n",i);
}
}
close(pipes[2][1]);
close(pipes[3][0]);
return 0;
}
if (getpid()==id[2])//Close pipes that are no neede in child C it keeps 4 and 5
{
for (i=0;i<6;i++)
{
if (i<4 && i<5)
{
close(pipes[i][0]);
close(pipes[i][1]);
printf("Pipe has close in C:%d\n",i);
}
}
close(pipes[4][1]);
close(pipes[5][0]);
return 0;
}
if (getpid()==id[0])//Child A trys to send a massage
{
int l=4;
write(pipes[0][1], &l,sizeof(int));
}
if(getpid()!=0)
{
sleep(3);
int nread,buf;
nread = read(pipes[0][0], &buf, sizeof(int));
switch (nread) {
case -1:
// case -1 means pipe is empty and errono
// set EAGAIN
if (errno == EAGAIN) {
printf("(pipe empty)\n");
sleep(1);
break;
}
else {
perror("read");
exit(4);
}
// case 0 means all bytes are read and EOF(end of conv.)
case 0:
printf("End of conversation\n");
// read link
close(pipes[0][0]);
exit(0);
default:
// text read
// by default return no. of bytes
// which read call read at that time
printf("MSG = %d\n", buf);
}
}
if(getpid()!=0)//The perent waits for all the children
{
for(i=0;i<=3;i++)
{
wait(NULL);
}
printf("PARENT:%d\n",getpid());
}
}
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2024.05.02 23:59 Remarkable_Read_6615 Starting a marijuana grow center

Has anybody here opened a marijuana growing business/facility? What are some examples of laws/obligations in your country you needed to fullfill to start a growing center. Obviously to sell medical marijuana the obligations and bylaws are mouch tougher to reach, but what are some examples of bylaws your company had to achieve in your country to start a growing center for dispenseries?
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2024.05.02 23:59 Southernbound13 Teacher Rant

To preface: I absolutely adore all of my kids teachers and teachers in general are the salt of the earth, not paid enough and my favorite people.
I am so. Freaking. Sick. Of teachers making little passive aggressive comments to kids about what their parents should be doing differently. Like do they not expect it to get back to us? Or do they expect it to get back to us and think we'll take it well and not be instantly filled with the desire for absolute petty retribution?
For example, my kindergartener is TINY. Like the weight of the average 2 year old and has seasonal allergies but she's so small not a lot of allergy medicines on the market that actually work are available for her. She had a runny nose one day and she came home from school and was like "Mrs F says you need to give me better medicine or keep me home".
Yes. Because schools DEFINITELY don't blow your phone up with threats if your kids are out sick too much. It's absolutely smiled upon to keep them out for allergies. That's totally reasonable.
My oldest son's teacher will read out loud to the class whose parents haven't read a message posted yesterday and tell him that "his mom needs to check classdojo more". Inevitably the message is always something I didn't bother to check in on because it's been on our calendar all year like testing dates.
Now, the school is pushing to have everyone registered for next year before summer. I get that. They need to plan, finances are involved. That's cool. Which is why I registered all 3 of my kids last week and confirmed yesterday with the office that everything was in order.
So what do I hear from my child when she gets in the car today? "Mrs. F says I can't go to movie day tomorrow because my mom hasn't registered me yet".
I admittedly lost my shit and left a probably slightly more passive aggressive than necessary message on classdojo but this has been an all year thing and I'm so over it.
All of my kids go to the same school and are, according to their teachers, the highest performing kids in the school. None of them have ever had behavioral issues. We donate anything the classroom needs no questions asked all year long. We volunteer for events. My kids have never been tardy. They have never missed a deadline to turn anything in. We do our shit as parents. They do their shit as students. We're doing our best and having my kids get in the car at least once a week to report some stupid little snide comment a teacher made about our failings makes me want to explode.
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2024.05.02 23:59 ChockFullOfIrish How important is a diagnosis?

My mom is 84. She knows what day it is, the year, who the president is, who the governor of our state is, and can chat about local sports teams with other people. She still drives short distances. In other words, she appears pretty sharp to other people. But damn, can this woman get confused!
She recently had a minor medical procedure, and she received some instructions in the mail to contact her primary care doctor two weeks before the procedure to see if any medication adjustments needed to be made before the procedure (the main concern was blood thinners).
So she called her doctor but she was still waiting for a call back. I was talking with her on the phone, and she casually mentioned that she stopped taking her Metformin the day before. I was perplexed because I knew she hadn’t spoken with the doctor yet. She told me that the instructions she received said to stop taking Metformin two weeks before. I asked her to read me the instructions, and she read aloud “please contact your doctor two weeks prior to the procedure to see if any adjustment to your medications are needed.” So I ask her why she stopped taking the Metformin, and she repeats the same line to me, getting more and more frustrated and annoyed with me. It’s as if she thought that the line she was reading to me actually said to come off Metformin. It was so bizarre. Then probably realizing she was backed into a corner, she changed her story to “I remember the last time I had this procedure they told me to stop Metformin for two weeks before.” Also untrue. I could not convince her to go back on her Metformin that day.
The next day I went to visit her so I could look at the document in person. I looked at it and calmly told her that she needed to take her Metformin until otherwise instructed, and she was just like “okay”, and didn’t resist. Complete 180.
Sorry for the novel, but this is just an example of the cognitive problems she’s been experiencing. She seems to have “bouts” of confusion and then gets better. I have expressed my concern to her primary care doctor, but he says it’s just normal aging.
My questions are: does this sound like normal aging? If it’s not normal aging, how important is it that she is formally diagnosed?
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2024.05.02 23:58 ManTheMythThe- Log one two and three (Force Of ?)

 (This is a separate series from the other one I am writing and posting here. But they DO take place in the same collective universe.)
1: ≈ 180 hours after excavation
 The subject seems to show no hostility. It moves slowly, most likely a side effect of being suspended in stasis for a long period of time. We are led to believe that, despite finding our few subjects frozen and encased in ice, they had not been unconscious throughout their ‘stasis’. Which would of course mean it's NOT a type of stasis, nor is it to be considered hibernation. After inspection of their casing, one of our less experienced archeo-biologists is led to believe they were surviving off of the ice itself. This theory is backed by little evidence, other than seemingly, entirely coincidental air pockets around the arthropods ‘feet’, which are more accurately described as the ‘ends of their legs’. We are currently stumped.
[We have made the executive decision to call them 'Stumps']
2: ≈ 220 hours after excavation
 One of our subjects has fortunately passed. We have begun examinations of the body, and minimal incisions have displayed the ‘arthropods’ adeptness at storing liquids. Beneath the Chitin, or the shell of the insectoids is a casing, flexible and pressure resistant. We have attempted opening the casing with surgical equipment Similar to that of ‘LASIK™’. It is, Intensely heat resistant as well, incredibly so.
3: ≈ 245 hours after excavation. 
 Within the casing (we have decided to refer to it as the creatures ‘cast’), is a clear liquid, which we theorize is simply just water. However, upon closer inspection we have found this liquid is a breeding ground for water-based bacteria, microbes, etc, etc.
[5 Hours after breaching the ‘cast’.]
 Three of our scientists have reported feeling nauseous after exposure to the solution within the creatures cast, and have promptly been sent to a nearby medical outpost. They are currently in quarantine, their symptoms are standard for bacteria.
Including
Coughing, runny nose, trouble breathing, seizures, simulated hemophilia.
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2024.05.02 23:56 EnvironmentalAd6029 First 2024 Election Prediction

First 2024 Election Prediction
​
Pop vote: Biden+2.7
I will provide some analysis on the states below
​
​
Biden+0.7
Trumps rural support stagnates except for the southwest Pittsburgh exurbs and some suburban gains. Biden marginally gains in the southeast region of PA around Chester and Montgomery. Biden stagnates/drops the further north you go up east PA. Trump manages to flip Northhampton back, a county that moved nine points to the right for him in 2016, and then five points left in 2020. Trump also manages to flip Erie by a thin margin, down from his 2016 numbers in the county.
Trump makes some gains in the Philly area, with decreased black turnout as well as making inroads with the groups there. Philly probably moves about 1-3 points right from 2020.
Overall Trump comes up short in the state, and with PA staying in the democrat column, Biden wins a second term.
​
​
Biden+1.2
The GOP is in disarray in Arizona, and with the more social liberal slant of todays AZ, we see significant backlash against Trump. Arizona's GOP is probably a shining example of an out of touch party. Trump makes gains in Yuma, Santa Cruz, and some of the more rural ancestral democrat areas in the southeast, however gets kicked hard in Pima and Maricopa. Maricopa probably tops out at around D+4.2 and Pima at D+22.
Due to Trumps and Bidens unpopularity in the state, the turnout decreases for both sides, with the state having a portion of the electorate backing various third parties. Bidens win turn out to be a plurality somewhere in the mid 40s.
The border issue does benefit Trump, but Maricopa county is much more concerned about abortion and entitlements. The GOP shot themselves in the foot here and 2016 truly was the states last hurrah. The Arizona GOP needs to reinvent itself in order to win anything in the future, since 2022 saw a blue sweep of most statewide offices.
Trump does not push Santa Cruz to likely D, as the 2016-2020 shifts are not going to be as drastic across the board this time.
Biden also improves in the Flagstaff area, winning more of the upper income liberals.
​
​
Trump+5.5
I roasted the Arizona GOP so now you guys are getting torched too. Texas Dems have been the "nothing ever happens" party for nearly a decade now. Abortion proved to be a non motivating issue in 2022, with Abbot banning forms of abortion on the campaign trail. So the question is, what the hell does Biden have to run on here? Trends?
The Texas dems are unpopular, and Democrats themselves need to admit the border situation is NOT good for Biden. I constantly see folks talking about Trumps PA primary performance, but y'all never yap about how atrocious Joe did here. Trump got more raw votes for the first time in Republican primary history than Biden in certain counties in the Rio Grande area such as Cameron. The pan handle was more pro Biden than the Rio Grande.
There is a reason that the Texas GOP is more popular than it was even years ago. Abbots approval is 55% (https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/greg-abbott-job-approval-trend) because he is defying the feds and being a border hard liner. Cruz's approval is at 49% (https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/ted-cruz-approval-april-2024). Not bad approvals by any measurement.
Keep in mind these polls also include the suburban voter. The Texas suburbs do not hate Abbot putting razor wire on the border.
Sure if 2016-2020 trends do what they did in 2020, it can be a significant Biden gain. However they will not. In fact, I do not even have to say anything more. Because when it doesn't happen I won't let this place hear the end of it.
I am giving this place hella grace by even implying a 0.1% leftward shift when it could easily shift right too.
​
​
Biden+1.4
Nevada GOP is also the "nothing ever happens" party. Republicans I am going to torch you guys now too.
Trump is just not the guy for Nevada. It has rejected him twice now and it is obvious it is a Trump thing more than a policy thing even. Lombardo ran on anti lockdown ideals and rode a wave of backlash that only gifted him a 1 point win against an unpopular governor. Trump ran on anti lockdown policies DURING the lockdowns and Nevada gifted Biden a 2 point win. Trump no matter what he runs on here just isn't him yall.
Nevada shifts a bit rightward but not by a huge margin. Where are Republicans going to make up these votes? The cope I have been seeing is "Clark is the next Miami Dade" which is just stupid. In fact I don't even need to say much more. Trump will shift Vegas like 0.6% right again but that is about it. Biden improves in Reno but even then that is just a drop of the electorate.
You notice how when the Nevada GOP runs competent and moderate candidates they win. Sandoval won by like 40 points. Populists and Flopulists are just not nevada canidates.
​
Trump+0.2
An extremely narrow Trump win, which means I think Trump pulls it off, but I would not be too surprised if Biden wins it.
Overall I do not have too much to say about this state. The corridors that are majority manufacturing jobs continue their shift to the right and some union support backs Trump. Biden has turnout issues in Madison and Milwaukee sees Trump inroads with black folks and just less turnout in general.
Although I do not think the margins will be hugely drastic, IMO WI will be decided within a few thousand votes, or possibly hundred. So I do think every movement here counts.
Biden makes small marginal gains in the WOW counties but the southwest rurals and the driftless area continutes its shift towards Trump, but not Republicans. Trump could outrun Hovde by double digits here, while Hovde outruns Trump in the WOW area.
Overall it was always going to be hard for Biden to keep such a narrow won state in 2020 in a rematch scenario. If RoJo pulled a 1 point win in 2022 with a Biden+1 electorate I think Trump will pull the state.
​
​
Trump+1
Uh oh.
The discourse around this state has gotten so toxic that I don't even want to comment on it that much.
What some do not realize is that a 0.3 decrease in turnout in heavily black counties of Clayton and Dekalb would've given Trump the state in 2020. Obviously I believe it will be a lot more than that. Abortion is not that effective of a campaign here, and I think Biden comes into the state a lot weaker than he did in 2020.
Biden probably improves in the whiter areas of the Atlanta suburbs. Pushing Fayette to about trump+4. There are no double digit shifts in suburban Atlanta though, for either candidate. I believe Trumps rural turnout will fluctuate by region, but will turnout in a much larger number compared to black people in Fulton and Clayton.
We can play the number game all day, but come election day one side is going to be humbled and the other will be the correct predictor.
Bidens approvals and numbers have dropped by double digits in the state, while Trumps on a bad day is about -3 if what it was. There is also consistent polling that shows that Georgia has changed its tone on Trumps presidency (https://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=2d4f47b8-3454-44f1-a9b3-9f10928797d5) where they see the job he did as good.
Overall this community is going to disagree with me hard here, and I think you guys have good ideas on predicting the state. But I also do not think Biden being a lot more unpopular now, and Trump being almost the same discounts the idea that he could win the state.
Georgia polling also has only slightly overestimated Republicans in recent years. If the polling shows a Trump+1 win, I might change my tune come November. But so far Georgia has not had huge polling misses.
​
Trump+2.2
Trump improves by less than a point in the state. Biden swings some of the suburbs leftward but nowhere near the margin of 2016-2020. The northeast ancestral dem white areas, and blacker areas, also marginally swing to Trump with lower turnout on both sides.
The eastern coastline in general will probably see universal rightward shifts, along with the border of South Carolina. This is something I do not see discussed too often when discussing the state. Trump flips Nash and Wilson county, as well as the border county of Anson which moved 8 points rightward due to minority shifts.
Overall things do not move too much in the state.
And, for the record,,, Stein wins by about 3-4 points. And no, I do not believe gubernatorial races make more dems turnout than the literal president does.
​
​
Biden+1.5
Macomb county is not safe, error. Probably around R+10
Currently I think Biden faces an upward climb here, however this could change come November. Trump improves with auto workers and union members, as well as wins some of the rurals in larger numbers. Biden improves on the suburbs, but has a substantial drop in turnout in Detroit and not just the city, but the cities inside Wayne county. Trump flips Muskegon as well as Saginaw narrowly, and has a bit more exurban appeal and probably wins more WWC voters over in general this time.
The abortion talk as well as Whitmer benefits Biden for sure, but there was also a massive crossover support for Whitmer in 2022 along with a hugely favorable Biden+7 electorate in general.
Trump improves in Macomb county, a WWC that shifted hard right towards him in 2016 and then bounced a small margin to Biden in 2020. (I do not believe a 15 point shift right in 2016, and then a 2 point shift left in 2020, is a leftward trend). Oakland county, gets pushed to about D+16, an improvment in a used to be ancestrally republican county. Biden faces turnout issues with white college voters in Washtenaw, which will cut his margin possibly more than the muslim backlash.
Overall, Biden wins the state by somewhere from 1-2 points. A rightward shift from 2020 but not the narrowest win possible.
​
​
Overall Biden wins the EC and the popular vote, but both shift right from 2020.
​
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2024.05.02 23:55 Positive-Turn376 It can't be that hard...Split number of days into the months they belong

It can't be that hard...Split number of days into the months they belong
Okay folks, I'm no expert but it should not be that hard. I have a start date and an end date. I can calculate the number of days between the two, but I need those days to split among the months. I have a calendar table connected, but when I use the calculated days it shows the entire duration in one month.
Calculated Days: = Table.AddColumn(#"Filtered Rows", "Days", each Duration.Days([Project End Date] - [Project Start Date])+1, Int64.Type)
Example:
StartDATE: Monday, August 5, 2024
EndDATE: Saturday, May 31, 2025
Calculated Days: 300
So I should be able to see that in August there are 26 days, September should show 30, October should show 31, etc.
However, when I pull this into a table and split by month, I get all 300 in August.
https://preview.redd.it/px6yqrbb43yc1.png?width=560&format=png&auto=webp&s=6c8a2817efc324ffe7f6910504ed74664970931b
So then I changed and said, okay, I'll create a table that gives me a row for each day between the start and end dates. I got the table to work, but can't get any useful data out of it. The table is just either all the same number or blank.
Any suggestions? I'm all ears, I've spent WAY too much time banging my head on my desk.
Please be kind, I don't have a coding background and picked up work that had to be done and I've learned some but don't have a good coding base so to speak. THANK YOU!!
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2024.05.02 23:54 lyfisshort Improving Model Accuracy with Small Dataset: Fine-Tuning Llama3 with Custom Data

Hi All,
(Newbie question)
I am trying to fine-tune Llama3 using unsloth the alpaca template (template is given below). Below is a snapshot of the prompt I have created using my own dataset about people, their responsibilities of my team, such as[ { 'Instruction: Who is XYZ?' and 'Response: He is an admin, etc.' }]
Question: My dataset is small, around 50 records. The loss in the training is near "0" (with default parameters as listed below), but when I ask about XYZ, it responds with details about other people as well. It's totally mixing up multiple people's responses and forming the answer.
How can I improve this situation? do I have to change dataset format? Any help is much appreciated.
An also I would like to tune some "code and error messages" and snapshot of java code related to that code. Can I achieve this using same template ? -- THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.!!!
alpaca_prompt = """Below is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request.
### Instruction: {}
### Input: {}
### Response: {}"""
EOS_TOKEN = tokenizer.eos_token # Must add EOS_TOKEN def formatting_prompts_func(examples): instructions = examples["instruction"] inputs = examples["input"] outputs = examples["output"] texts = [] for instruction, input, output in zip(instructions, inputs, outputs): # Must add EOS_TOKEN, otherwise your generation will go on forever! text = alpaca_prompt.format(instruction, input, output) + EOS_TOKEN texts.append(text) return { "text" : texts, } pass
from datasets import load_dataset dataset = load_dataset("yahma/alpaca-cleaned", split = "train") dataset = dataset.map(formatting_prompts_func, batched = True,) --params trainer = SFTTrainer( model = model, tokenizer = tokenizer, train_dataset = dataset, dataset_text_field = "text", max_seq_length = max_seq_length, dataset_num_proc = 2, packing = False, # Can make training 5x faster for short sequences. args = TrainingArguments( per_device_train_batch_size = 2, gradient_accumulation_steps = 4, warmup_steps = 5, max_steps = 60, learning_rate = 2e-4, fp16 = not torch.cuda.is_bf16_supported(), bf16 = torch.cuda.is_bf16_supported(), logging_steps = 1, optim = "adamw_8bit", weight_decay = 0.01, lr_scheduler_type = "linear", seed = 3407, output_dir = "outputs",
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2024.05.02 23:54 Remarkable_Read_6615 Entrepreneurship in marijuana business

Has anybody here opened a marijuana growing business/facility? What are some examples of laws/obligations in your country you needed to fullfill to start a growing center. Obviously to sell medical marijuana the obligations and bylaws are mouch tougher to reach, but what are some examples of bylaws your company had to achieve in your country to start a growing center for dispenseries?
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2024.05.02 23:54 savvylikeapirate The Ways a Human Loves (pt. 1)

Ji'nur'kakf’Eng had worked with humans before. He served on a multi-species science vessel for six standard months. To his pleasant surprise, he had been enfolded by the strange, new species. The few that spoke clicking languages could say his full Name. The rest called him nicknames like “Vamps” and “Batman”, with a strange accompanying song that followed him through the decks. There was some sort of cultural thing about his appearance that nobody had time to explain. Of the nicknames he had been given, he honestly just preferred “Jin.”
This new vessel was a promotion, being the Head Medical Officer of a ship was something he had wanted as soon as he realized his calling to heal. But the ship itself was… very different. Unlike the vast and nearly spherical Galactic Federation ships, this one was a smaller reconnaissance-class gunship from the Terran Union. She was shaped mostly like a triangle, with actual wings (wings!) for in-atmo flight. The front came to a distinct point, with another point on either side sitting more towards the wings and coming less far forward.
“She's a Falconidae model,” Captain Ntuli said, seeing his confusion. “Terran designers will go on kicks and design things based on Earth animals. It's a type of hunting bird.”
“Oh, I see,” Jin answered quietly. He was a man of science, but being on a ship designed to look like one of his species’ major predators made him quickly chitter to the spirits that it wasn't some kind of omen. “What’s her name?”
The captain grinned, her teeth incredibly white in her dark brown face. He didn't shiver at the sight, having forced himself to get over the teeth thing within the first month of his previous post.
“Her name is T.U.S. Kissimmee Asp.” She said proudly. “It's a pun in English, so I don't know if it translates to K'ohe'la.”
Oh! She could use the clicks of his tongue! That was a pleasant surprise.
A tall, red-haired female in grease stained coveralls leaned out of the ramp hatch. “We call her Kissy when she's being nice, and Asp when she's throwing fits,” she interjected, wiping her hands with a rag.
Captain Ntuli sighed, gesturing towards the other woman. “This is one of our Engineering officers, Miss Josephine Drakonos.”
“Just call me Josie! There's another Drakonos on board and it could get confusing as hell otherwise.”
Josie offered her hand with a smile. Jin knew this bit of human greeting. He unclasped the wings around his shoulders and stood straighter, offering his own four-fingered hand to shake hers.
“I'm Dr. Ji'nur'kakf’Eng. Most humans prefer to call me Dr. Jin.” He finished with a greeting click that may have been out of her hearing range, but it was polite.
“Oh, you're the new doc? Cool. We, uh, might get kinda familiar. Engineering can be rough some days,” she said sheepishly.
Jin laughed lightly at that, a crackling sound in his lower throat.
The captain led him onto the ship, Josie scurrying off to yell at some Ensign. She toured him through the slightly cramped galley, letting him nod and click his hellos to the personnel there. (“Oh my God, he's Batman!” “More like the man-bat.” “Could you assholes not be racist for ten fucking minutes?”)
Jin was pleasantly surprised that he wasn't the only non-Terran on board. There were a few Ryeté in the rec room, making humans shriek when they extended their second set of jaws to quickly snatch food out of their hands. A Shex sat in the navigation seat, adjusting things with their tentacles. There was even an Ah'gua as the communications officer.
“The humans call me Penny,” she said, returning his greeting click with a hiss-click of her own. Her feathers were a purely tropical shade of yellow with bands of cobalt blue. “You have no idea how nice it is to actually use my upper voice box to talk. Finally! Someone with working ears!” she whistled.
Jin sent his own click-squee-chirps, quickly arranging for the two of them to commiserate over lunch after the first few shifts.
Captain Ntuli led him out of the bridge towards a small office towards the point of the left wing. “You'll need a quick debrief with our security officer before setting up shop in the medbay,” she said. “Meanwhile, I'll be on the bridge. We're launching in 45.” She gave Jin a firm pat on the back, and he tried not to wince. That was uncomfortably close to his wing joints.
He reached out and knocked on the door, a clipped voice replied, “Come in.”
Sitting behind the desk, in a neatly pressed uniform, was a dour-looking version of Josie. Same red hair and dotted skin, only this one wore her hair tied high on the back of her head. She also looked decidedly less friendly.
“Have a seat, doctor.” She waved towards one of the stools in front of her. Jin was briefly glad that they didn't have those silly chairs with backs.
“I am Head Security Officer Marinne Drakonos, and I have a few things to go over with you.”
She pulled something towards her that looked like a list, but he didn't try to read it first. He didn't want to be impolite.
“Let's go over your credentials here. Honors Graduate of Xinfuah medical school, residency at the refugee hospital on Queree IV, and a six month tour on the GFS Chordata. I take it you have experience with all of the species aboard this ship?”
“I do, yes.” Jin answered with a nod. “My concentration was Aviary and Mammalian medicine, but I have worked with Cephelapods and Reptiles.”
“Good. You were hired before I could go over your file, and I would truly loathe to have someone unqualified,” she said quietly.
He noticed that her eyes were gray, like steel, that there was something hawkish about her profile. The fur on his back rose. All humans were predators, he knew, but this one seemed more predatory than he was used to.
“This vessel will have a large number of ground missions, and something always goes wrong, no matter how hard anyone tries to prevent it. It is the nature of such things,” Officer Drakonos continued. “The cases you get may range from crushed limbs to quarantine level 4 decontamination. I must do my due diligence and know you are prepared. How sensitive is your hearing?”
The question took him off guard. “Um, slightly above average for my species.”
“Hm.”
Her gray eyes roved over the fleshy dish around his nose, his prominent and ridged ears. K’ohe’la had the best hearing above water in the galaxy, with the nocturnal subspecies of Ah’gua coming in second. Jin’s ears twitched under the scrutiny. They were rather attractive by his own kind’s standard, but she surely wasn't admiring them.
She huffed a breath out through her nose. “If you do not have earplugs, they can be provided. At 1400 tomorrow, you will attend the ship-wide briefing and walkthrough of evacuation, crash, and hostile boarding procedures.”
Jin’s ears twitched in surprise. “Do you expect these things to happen? I thought this was a reconnaissance vessel doing planetary surveys for a mining company?”
Officer Drakonos shrugged. “I always expect the worst and believe in being prepared. There will be drills for all of these scenarios, and anyone not following procedure could face disciplinary action.”
She said those last two words with more glee than Jin thought was appropriate.
Three weeks had passed, and Jin had grown more comfortable with the crew, his few fellow scientists, and Penny. O’Donnel played some strange instrument called a Violin. Korfin was the fighting game champion in the rec room. Reyes had a truly delightful collection of poetry. Even the Captain had surprised him with her melodic singing voice during karaoke night (an event he swore to never attend again).
The first survey went off without a hitch, and so far he had only treated a few burns and joint sprains from over-eager engineers and security personnel. Nothing had seriously gone wrong.
He heard the echoing voice of Officer Drakonos in his head say “Yet.”
True to the earlier predictions of Josie, he did see her regularly for small things. Right now, that was a small second-degree burn on her forearm.
“I didn't know it was still hot!” She whined.
Jin crackled in his chest and twitched his ears. He heard something like that from her almost every three days.
“You need to be more careful,” he chided, applying the disinfectant spray. “Otherwise you're never going to take over from Jerimovich.”
“Sweet Christ, you sound like Marinne. It's always 'think of the performance review Josie', 'show qualities of leadership Josie', and 'you're lucky I don't report the still in the bay, Josie'. Ugh.”
Jin jerked back. “There's a distillery in the engine bay?”
“No,” she replied too quickly. “And there isn't a shrine to Danny Devito either.”
“Who is-?”
“Don't worry about it.”
He sighed, reaching for another nozzle to apply the spray on bandage.
“Out of curiosity,” he asked, “How are you and the Security Officer related? Unless you aren't and I'm just being racist.”
“Oh. Yeah, I guess you wouldn't realize. She's my twin sister,” Josie answered, sighing with relief from her burn.
“Twin… oh! When single-bearing mammals have two at once?”
“Yep. It's not that uncommon these days, and our mom is a twin herself.” She shrugged. “Anyway, I'll head back to-”
“JOSEPHINE, MOVE!”
They both jumped and spread apart from the door, and Officer Drakonos burst in with the shex navigator, Firek, on her back. His color was a muted gray instead of his normal shifting chromatophores.
“Set him here,” Jin jumped to attention and guided her to the water tank he had just for Firek. “What am I looking at, illness or contaminate?” He asked, placing electrodes and setting an intravenous patch on the unconscious male.
“Contaminate. Some jackass snuck some blue rass on the ship and smoked it next to a ventilation shaft. Went straight into the bridge.”
Jin nodded and prepped to flush Firek’s secondary lungs and gills, then paused for a brief moment. “Get Penny out of there. She won't be as sensitive as him, but she takes in a lot more. And put out an alert for the Ryeté and anyone with allergies. If anyone starts hacking or having swollen eyes, send them here immediately.”
She nodded, then quickly strode out of the room, her comm already in hand.
Jin adjusted the salinity in the tank, and prepped an oxygen station for when Firek could breathe air.
“Hand me that,” he gestured at the frozen Josie. “I need the beak-appropriate mask, and go push the blue button next to the door twice. It’ll turn on my extra oxygen supply. Don't bother with the yellow one unless Korfin or Kurlok show up.”
“Uh, yeah!” Josie shook out of her surprise and moved quickly.
Officer Drakonos surged back into the room, with a coughing Penny hanging onto her shoulder. “I cleared the bridge, just in case. At least until the filters pick it up.”
Jin got Penny settled, checking her vitals and pressing one of her small pseudo hands over the mask to hold it down. Her lungs were rasping, and there was a faint whistle that told him her upper and central voice boxes had a bit of damage. His ear twitched, picking up the repeated pings of the officer’s comm.
“Fuck!”
Jin flapped for a moment and looked behind him. Officer Drakonos’ face was red, and he could hear her heartbeat pounding in her chest.
“Josie, tell me to not make an example,” she growled.
“Marinne, you’ll get fired if you airlock an idiot for smoking rass.”
“I didn't say anything about airlocking.”
“No!” Josie shouted. “Whatever weird, evil thing going on in your head is not worth it.”
Officer Drakonos inhaled deeply and shook her comm towards her sister's face. “I have now thirteen allergic or adverse reactions out of a crew of thirty people. That is forty-three percent of my charges. For at least two of them, this could have been fatal. Someone is going to pay for this.”
She turned on her heel and marched out of the medbay. Jin swore that the air was colder in her wake.
He glanced a Josie. “Does she normally-?”
“Act like that? No,” she replied. “If anyone had died it would be worse. If something this bad had happened to me? There might be bodies.”
He shivered. “Why would the captain have chosen someone like that to be a security officer? Sounds like an incident ready to happen.”
“Nah, that's what makes her good at her job.” Josie looked at him with the same steel colored eyes as her sister. “Marinne cares. A lot. She puts herself in the position of a mama bear who would do anything to protect her cubs.”
“So this is a… protective anger? Even for those she doesn't know? Those not kin or even the same species?” Jin's people only had something like that on an individual basis. Or a colony would feel emotions as one. One person acting like this for near strangers seemed too much.
“Oh yeah. And she was serious about making whoever did it an example. Humans pack bond, remember? If she thinks they're hers, then they are.” Josie shrugged. “Vengeance is one of her love languages.”
When the next roll call came, they were now a crew of twenty-nine. (“I bet she airlocked Talley!” “Not until he was in pieces.” “Shut up, she is our boss you chucklefucks!”)
Jin watched her, sitting at the back of the mess hall. Her eyes scanned and assessed everyone. Firek was colorful again, sipping his fish paste through a straw. Penny spoke with a slight rasp that only he could hear. O’Donnel’s eyes were still swollen, but he'd be okay. Korlok was already back to snapping up his lunch with both sets of jaws.
Her eyes, cold and metallic things that they were, touched him in turn. They were possessive. Satisfied.
Jin hadn't ever felt anything like this, been subject to a care that was coupled with rage. It was uncomfortable, but something in his chest settled. He was, at least, on the shield side of that care.
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2024.05.02 23:53 Consistent_Clue1149 CMV: By definition the 2020 riots was the largest domestic terrorist attack in US history.

I want to start off with the definitions to lay out a frame work for what I am talking about.
Per Oxford Languages domestic terrorism is defined as, "the committing of terrorist acts in the perpetrator's own country against their fellow citizens"
The definition of terrorism is also defined as, "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims."
For the entire definition of , "the committing of unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims in the perpetrator's own country against their fellow citizens."
Next I want to get into Jan 6th since every single time I have this discussion Jan 6th is brought up. Yes, Jan 6th was an act of domestic terrorism, and should be and has been treated as such. There is no if and or buts about this. If you want to go off about how it wasn't this isn't what this post is about.
During 2020 the ACLED cites as many as 570 riots. I will give it a NICE range of 400 riots I don't want to include random people causing random violence, so taking away 30% of all riots should be a large enough buffer for anyone please give me a better citation if you have one.
During these riots I am going to break down a few points
  1. the violence by early June 2020 had resulted in two deaths, 604 arrests, an estimated $550 million in property damage to 1,500 locations, making the Minneapolis–Saint Paul events alone the second-most destructive period of local unrest in United States history, after the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
  2. According to Axios, "he protests that took place in 140 U.S. cities this spring were mostly peaceful, but the arson, vandalism and looting that did occur will result in at least $1 billion to $2 billion of paid insurance claims — eclipsing the record set in Los Angeles in 1992 after the acquittal of the police officers who brutalized Rodney King."
  3. According to the FBI, "Regardless, last year 2,444 assaults on officers occurred during incidents described as civil disorder, according to the FBI’s report on law enforcement killings and assaults. In 2019, that number was just 488, a 400% increase.
That rise would account for nearly half of the reported increase of 4,071 assaults on officers last year. Total assaults numbered 60,105, the first time since 2017 that assaults on officers rose above 60,000."
  1. We saw for the first time in recent history the take over of a portion of one of the largest cities in the US called CHAZ/CHOP. During this time we saw segregation implemented, the passing out of weapons across the area, and the stopping of emergency services into the area.
Here is a source for each of these if you want more sources I am more than happy to provide such.
Implementation of segregation
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-state-of-chaz
Passing out of weapons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSAecJTjvlI
I can no longer find the video of them stopping the ambulances, but if you really want I could look deeper here is the source on it though
https://www.firehouse.com/ems/news/21142977/medics-cant-reach-shooting-victims-in-seattle-protest-zone
  1. 25 Americans were killed and 2000 police officers injured
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-killed-protests-political-unrest-acled
https://www.policemag.com/patrol/news/15311242/more-than-2000-officers-injured-in-summers-protests-and-riots
The next part of this is tying it to a political goal. I don't believe I have to spell it out as it was a political protest, but if needed to I will break it down if asked.
Also I don't consider the Civil War domestic terrorism as they were another country that separated from the US. Thus that was an act of war. Maybe there is another piece in US history where we saw larger domestic terrorism, and I am more than happy to have my mind changed.
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2024.05.02 23:47 Schlickbart Finding Zen in modern pop culture - Lil Wayne

This is a subjective, personal interpretation. Reminders of this will appear throughout the post, but even if the language used doesn’t specify this again and again, it wants to be understood as a perspective. One of many.
 
A little context: I seem to have made a relatively sized and weighted faux-pas when nonchalantly suggesting that Socrates, Meister Eckhart and Lil Wayne may be considered Zen Masters. With that I didn’t mean to claim their connection to any linage, but rather throwing them out there for the purpose of an entertaining discussion. Alas, zen, didn’t accept this honest and rather serious presentation of my perspective.
 
Since I don’t mean to ridicule, I have put some effort into some sourced and commented content regarding these Masters.
 
I have chosen to only look at the least likely to be such a Master. Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. aka Lil Wayne.
 
 
 
Furthermore, I am daring the orouboroesque feature of comparing the quotes of Lil Wayne to those of Meister Eckhart. The one rather pragmatic reason being that German is my native language, so that the available source material is, quite literally, perfectly understood.
 
A few relevant words to Lil Wayne’s persona: He is known for his attitude, usually playful, but also unapologetically honest. His label is called “Young Money”, as in opposition to ‘old money’. He is widely considered as one of the most influential artists of this millennium's rap game. The man got bars.
 

On to the first quote:

Hello may I speak to Tuneci, may I ask who's calling? Everybody got the juice without a glass to pour it.
Nicki Minaj ft. Lil Wayne - Good Form (3:08)
 
Additional information for the layman: Juice can be understood as influence, respect, but also energy or ability. This term, as many others used in US Rap, is not officially defined and is usually highly dependent on context. I would like to add a quote from Kendrick Llamar regarding the spoken language of afro-american youth in the streets of Compton, USA.
 
“Speaking a language only we know you think is an accent”
Kendick Lamar - The Art Of Peer Pressure (1:47)
 
Tunechi is another name of Lil Wayne. The name originated from their Grandmothers nickname “Tune” for them, to which the -chi was added. “Like Gucci”. The full name was Tunechi Lionches (spelling unclear) [For the interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtU1mwcrYYM https://www.socratic-method.com/lil-wayne/meaning-of-tunechi-intro-by-lil-wayne ].
 
What I get from the first two lines is that the one who is spoken to depends on the one who is speaking. Name (and by this form) are interpersonal, or intersubjective. A possible idea being that Tunechi doesn’t speak to fans, but only to peers who are able to understand what will be said.
He then goes on acknowledging that everyone has “the juice”, the ability, the inherent energy, but no one is able to give form to this. I want to relate this to the idea that everyone is already ‘there’, but lacking the understanding, the realization of this, lets the form seem unfulfilled.
 
"And this you must know for sure: when the free mind is quite detached, it constrains God to itself, and if it were able to stand formless and free of all accidentals, it would assume God's proper nature."
Meister Eckhart - On Detachment (https://german.yale.edu/sites/default/files/meister_eckhart_on_detachment.pdf)
 
 

2nd quote:

And I call it like I see it, and my glasses on, but most of you don't get the picture, less the flash is on, satisified with nothing, you don't know the half of it,
Lil Wayne ft. Cory Gunz - 6 foot 7 foot (2:23)
 
I will let “And I call it like I see it” stand for itself.
 
He goes on stating that for his ability to see, he got his glasses on, but “most of you” need an additional source of light, an “enlightenment” to see what’s really going on.
 
I was unable to find an accessible english translation, so I translated it myself. For questions or critique of this translation I stand readily available.
“It’s a difficult position to be in, when God leaves humanity (the human) without divine presence, when God stretches humanity's loneliness, so that it is empty of him (God), without (God’s) light or sound or action, as you here teach and interpret. When the human stands in naught but nothingness, wouldn’t it be better, that they (humans) do something about it, to dispel the darkness and alienation, for example, that they pray or read or listen to a sermon or engage in actions which are virtuous, which should be helpful.”
Eckhart goes on to say that remaining completely empty and in stillness is most favorable.
 
German source material: Das ist ein schwerer Stand, wenn Gott den Menschen so ohne seinen Aufenthalt lässt, wenn Gott der Menschen Verlassenheit so dehnt, dass er nicht in ihm ist, leuchtend oder zusprechend oder wirkend, wie Ihr hier lehret und meinet. Wenn der Mensch so in lauter Nichts steht, ist es dann nicht besser, dass er etwas tue, um diese Dunkelheit und Entfremdung zu vertreiben, zum Beispiel, dass er bete oder lese oder eine Predigt höre oder andere Werke tue, was doch Tugenden sind, mit[37] denen man sich helfen soll? Meister Eckhart - Von der Dunkelheit (On Darkness) [ http://www.zeno.org/Philosophie/M/Meister+Eckhart/Predigten,+Traktate,+Spr%C3%BCche/Predigten/3.+Von+der+Dunkelheit ]
 
The last two lines complete the picture for me, so to say.
Satisfied with nothing, wanting ever more, is not even half of it. Lets say, the other half is being satisfied with everything. Both of them together don’t complete the picture (to ride this horse a little longer). Perhaps pointing at the futility of depending on things, be it no-thing or all the things.
 
Therefore the masters declare that the blessed in heaven know creatures independently of any image of those creatures, knowing them in the one image that is God, in which God knows Himself and all things, and loves and wills them.
Meister Eckhart - The Book Of Divine Comfort
( https://german.yale.edu/sites/default/files/meister-eckhart-maurice-o-c-walshe-bernard-mcginn-the-complete-mystical-works-of-meister-eckhart-the-crossroad-publishing-company-2009.pdf )
 
Reading this as “being satisfied with nothingness”, or the void, does not point to full realization of ones true nature. And surely the void is not even close to being half of the absolute and true experience of this here moment, the utter fullness of here and now. Of being one with God.
 
You should know, God cannot leave anything void or unfilled, God and nature cannot endure that anything should be empty or void. And so, even if you think you can't feel Him and are wholly empty of Him, that is not the case.
Meister Eckhart - Sermon 4
( https://german.yale.edu/sites/default/files/meister-eckhart-maurice-o-c-walshe-bernard-mcginn-the-complete-mystical-works-of-meister-eckhart-the-crossroad-publishing-company-2009.pdf )
 

Completing the trinity:

Okay, you want me up in a cage, then I come out in beast mode, I got this world stuck in the safe, combination is the G-Code.
Eminem feat. Lil Wayne - No Love (1:35)
 
A personal favorite of mine, I have to admit.
Relating the state of ignorance to a prison needs no further citations.
Likening the freed to beasts, behaving most naturally, yeah, ok, why not.
But I would rather liken these first two lines to a possible motivation for the emergence of Zen, but also of Meister Eckhart. Zen and Eckhart seem to have partially developed because of the at the times prevalent doctrine of their respective parental figures. Buddhism and the catholic church. An act of rage against the machine (rage is perhaps a strong word, but Zack de la Rocha does rap). It feels a bit silly to invest time and energy in yet another sourced explanation of how Zen does not adhere to Buddhist, or any other doctrine or ritualisation of practice. Sources for Eckhart's heresy, deemed so by the catholic Church, are many and readily available to the interested.
 
The last two lines: To have the whole world “stuck away safely”, unreachable and for it having no means to reach out, does remind me of detachment from worldly affairs. But to have access to it, at will so to say, the code is needed. The G-Code. The God-Code? Why not. But Gs, in rap, are also the real players, the ones who got it. The Masters. And what is their pointing, if not the code, they key, for opening the door to reality.
 
But now I will speak again of the will. To give a hundred marks of gold for God is a noble deed, and appears as such. Yet I declare that if I have the will that I should give a hundred marks if I had them - if the will is perfect, then in fact I have paid God and He must give account to me as if I had really given Him a hundred marks. I say further, If I had the will to give up a whole world did I possess it, then I have made over to God a whole world, and He must render account to me as if I had given a whole world to Him. I say, if the pope had been slain by my hand, and if it had not occurred with my will, I would go up to the altar and say Mass as usual. I say humanity is as perfect in the poorest and most wretched as in pope or emperor, for I hold humanity more dear in itself than the man I carry about with me. That we may be thus united with God, may the truth of which I have spoken help us. Amen.
Finishing lines of Sermon Ten - Meister Eckhart.
( https://german.yale.edu/sites/default/files/meister-eckhart-maurice-o-c-walshe-bernard-mcginn-the-complete-mystical-works-of-meister-eckhart-the-crossroad-publishing-company-2009.pdf )
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