I want to use the VVFat behaviour that is documented here (Redhat) and here (Qemu) to let an otherwise isolated VM directly write-out to a directory on my disk, but it's not very widely talked about from what I can tell and I can't figure out how I would go about adding it to my VM in Virt-manager. Presumably I'd need to add a piece of hardware, then edit the XML for it to be a VVFat mount instead, but I have no idea how to write the XML to do that as none of the (very sparse) documentation I can find ever mentions XML configurations.
In particular I'm trying to have an extremely isolated Windows VM, but one that can still read and write to a limited section of my file system. I'm not doing malware analysis or running anything explicitly malicious, but I'm only keeping this VM around to run smaller obscure programs that don't have any clear linux equivalent or way of running under linux psuedo-natively via Wine or something similar. That also means that running some sketchy/niche programs is fairly likely, and given I also don't lose anything from keeping it extremely isolated I want to isolate it as much as reasonably possible. Basically I only want to use VVFat so that I can give it the ability to extract relatively large archives (mounted as fixed-size .isos that can be trivially created via something like xorrisofs -o ./mountable.iso ./di if they aren't an iso by default which I know a few archived games are only archived as their disk-installers) without me needing to create a massive blank .iso for it to write into. So if I want to extract a large archive or do something else disk-space intensive it can send that straight to my actual file system, (btrfs if relevant) but otherwise it has almost no access. It would be possible to create a dummy write-out iso for those tasks, but it seems like VVFat can do it far more seamlessly and, since it's only exposed as a simple FAT external drive, it doesn't seem like there is any real risk of that being leveraged if the VM did get infected. Admittedly I'm no security researcher so I could be wrong on that, but if it truly is exposed to the VM as a plain FAT filesystem I can't see how that would be leveragable by malware, at least not when put relative to actual directory-sharing.
I would be open to alternative methods of doing this, but this is admittedly a pretty niche use case since I both want it to be as isolated as possible and want to balance that against a very narrow cone-of-convenience/usability. Typically people either want it to be completely isolated or want it to be extremely usable, but I only want this VM to be usable for a very narrow range of tasks and otherwise would like it to be completely isolated. As far as I'm concerned this VM is basically only around to run software that's so niche no-one has needed it in a decade, but that one guy on a forum a decade and a few days ago shared a program that claims to be able to do it and other people said it worked, but otherwise I never plan on booting it up.
(other examples of this sort of use case would be creating stripped-down isos for other VMs. I actually had a really hard time getting a stripped down windows ISO without windows since people obviously can't distribute pre-stripped windows ISOs and instead need to distribute utilities to modify user-provided ISOs. Unfortunately these utilities often need to run on Windows, so you already need a windows machine to create the stripped down Windows ISO. I ended up just installing a stock windows ISO and using a OOBE/BYPASSNRO bypass for the account requirement thing then using CTT's WinUtility for this VM, but that's the sort of niche usecase I'm keeping this VM around for. Things where you just need to use windows and there isn't a real way around it.)

Earlier in the year I was recommended by my gyno to go on Slynd. Due to my pretty extreme periods that had intense pain, it was a no brainer lol
Ive been on it for about a month and a half though now and have been getting pretty consistently annoying symptoms. The further I’ve gotten into using it the worse my digestive system has become. I have chronic constipation even when I eat things I know have always made me go and my bloating is abnormally firm. On top of this, I have been getting constant pain in one of my ovaries even when im barely bleeding. I read some people have similar symptoms but it just feels all weird.
Anyone else experience something similar?

Since new rulebooks dropped, it was only a matter of time before I went with a magnifying glass over these! Since I previously covered these errors in my larger list a couple years ago (Compilation of every erromistake/contradiction/etc., that I can find in the 'current' rulebooks. ), I will also compare and see what was fixed (in strikethrough), what is still there, and what is new (in bold). If there is an old error I missed the first time, there will be a * in front of it.
Base Game's 5-6 Player:

• Format error: At the bottom of page 4, is a heading titled "Starting settlements and resources". However this isn't discussed until the start of page 6. Heading needs to be moved closer to its topic.
• *Image error: Page 2. You need to squint to see it, but Illustration B is showing THREE 12 Tokens! Gone/covered now
• Image error: Page 2 Page 4. You need to squint to see it, but the 2nd image STILL has Frame Extension pieces ('3-3' and '5-5') in the wrong spots. The extra 3:1 and 2:1 Wool ports are accidently swapped. Pretty egregious when the first image of Page 4 (showing the "Starting Set-Up for new 5-6 Players") has the Frame Extensions in the correct spots. Just a copy-past job from the previous version.

5-6 Seafarers

• *Format error: Page 3: Just before the Wonder Cards is the heading titled "Scenarios". However this isn't discussed until the start of the next page, 4. Heading needs to be move to the top of the next page.
• Format error: The images for the Wonder Cards were shifted up on page 3. However, the big blue box on page 4 was NOT shifted up. So the top edges of the Wonder Cards are now aligned with the text "The scenario diagram provides the board set-up". So if you take a scissor and cut out these cards (as intended), you will cut this sentence in half, along the horizontal.
• *Format error: Page 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 20, 22: "Terrain & Tokens" at the is not bolded. It now is Bolded.
• Missing Robber: Why is there no Robber on the maps for Scenarios 2, 3, 4, and 8? All fixed! They even added the Pirate for Scenario 1 (which I missed 3 years ago). They also have the Robber on a 12-Hills now. Interesting change? Or new error?

1. For Scenario 2, regular Seafarers says to put the Robber on the 12 Token. However, in the extension, there are two to choose from (12-Fields and 12-Pasture). Which one? Apparently, the 2-Pasture hex
2. For Scenario 3, regular Seafarers says to put the Robber on the 12 Token. However, in the extension, the Desert is reintroduced. So should the Robber go there instead? Or 12-Mountain/12-Hills hex? Robber is on the Desert.
3. For Scenario 4 and 8, I suppose it doesn't matter which Desert the Robber starts on. Just odd there is no marker here, but there IS a Robber marked for Scenario 5. Inconsistent.

• Image error: Page 11 (Fog Islands map). The 3-Mountain hex looks weird. The mountains is misaligned with the hex, the internal image is rotated 30 degrees (I think) Twisted back into place!
• Image error: Page 13 (Through the Desert map). The instructions on page 12 indicate 11 Harbors are used, but the map only shows 10. Looking at the 4th Edition map, and Catan Universe's version today, the Harbor by the 12-Pasture somehow got dropped.
• Image error: Page 13 (Through the Desert map). The 'foreign area' are missing red outlines, like the 3-4 player version has. More liberties will need to be taken by the players, if they want to make a variable map.
• *Format error: Page 16: Harbors at the top isn't bolded.
• Incorrect component count or Image error: Page 16 or 17 (Cloth for Catan). The first page says there are 11 Harbors (like many other scenarios). However, the map on the other page shows 12 Harbors. A new harbor was added by the 8-Wheat hex, onto the lower-right frame. I am unsure which page is incorrect, since previous Editions didn't have a harbor there, but the current Extension includes an extra 2:1 Wool (as normal), and a 6th 3:1 port (for a total of 12 Harbors in Seafarers).
• *Typo: Page 18: The # 26, for describing how many Sea hexes, accidently has a bunch of dots in between 2 and 6
• Image Error: A Robber is erroneously added to the middle desert island. THERE IS NO ROBBER FOR THIS SCENARIO.
• Incorrect component count: Page 22. The count for the # tokens are off for multiple reasons:

1. Adding up all the tokens equals 40, when the total below says 39. Since there will be 39 resource producing hexes, there is an extra # token in the count above.
2. However, the Base Game's 5-6 extension only has 28 tokens, while Seafarers adds 10 more (total 38). This implies a # token should be taken from the Base Game, so the rulebook should make that clear
3. Related to that, it says there should be 5 copies of the 5-9 tokens. This is impossible, since Base 5-6 + SF should have 3 copies of 2 and 12, 4 of everything else. Again, implying more tokens from the Base Game need to be taken, but it never states this.

5-6 Cities & Knights: No mistakes! It is STILL clean!!!
5-6 Traders & Barbarians

• Image errors?: Page 3+4. The frame setup is completely different than normal. The frame extension pieces are also in different positions. Instead of the usual setup (from the top, clockwise):

1. '6-1'>'1-2'>'2-2'>'2-3'>'3-3'>'3-4'>'4-5'>'5-5'>'5-6'>'6-6'>; page 3 instead displays (from top-left, clockwise):
2. '6-1'>'2-2'>'1-2'>'3-3'>'3-4'>'2-3'>'6-6'>'4-5'>'5-5'>'5-6'>. If this is supposed to be intentional, the rulebook should either state this (or be more specific), or make the image bigger, since I had to squint to see the different layout.
3. Also, if the different frame setup is intentional, why not show T&B's version of the '5-6' frame piece (with the missing coast)?

• Formatting error: Top of Page 4. The line for the 'Additional Components' looks... off. Not lined up with the rest of the text below.
• Component List mistake: Page 5, the Castle Hex is incorrectly labeled as a Oasis hex!
• Image error?: Page 5+6. While the frame mostly follows the 'new' layout in pages 3+4, there is now a 2nd '4-5' frame, replacing the '2-3' frame in the bottom-right corner. While technically possible, since T&B does have its own version of '4-5' (with missing coastline), the image does not reflect the artwork, copying the base game's '4-5' piece twice. Again, the rulebook make no written mention of the new frame order.
• Image error?: Page 9 Page 10: While the rulebook finally gives some instruction regarding the frame, curious why the image doesn't show T&B's version of the '5-6' frame piece (with the missing coast)?
• Image errocontradiction: Page 10 Page 9. The instructions say the regular Quarry and Glassworks hexes may not have Settlements built on the corners that only border the frame (ocean), only the 4 intersections that border other hexes (the new Quarry and Glassworks from T&B's extension don't have this restriction). However, the image is showing possible Settlement locations on all 6 corners, for both the new and old trade hexes. Either the image is mistaken, or the instructions are.
• Contradiction/Inconsistency: Page 9 states that Player 2 may NOT use Gold Coins to purchases resources. This is in contrast with previous scenarios, which state you can. In addition, later in the rulebook, where the various Player 1/Player 2 actions are summarized, Page 12 says Player 2 CAN use Gold Coins to buy resources!
• Component List mistake: Page 11 Page 10, Card Deck Manifest. The total count for the 5th scenario's Development cards should say 12, not 26; and the total count for the Baggage Train cards should say 10, NOT 21. These incorrect totals are copied from regular T&B.

5-6 Explorers & Pirates

• *Image error: The image showing the "Catan 5-6 Player Extension Pieces" sorting tile is showing resource cards with 4th Edition graphics! (I doubt the real Sorting Tile has this error. I hope not)
• Missing words?: Page 2,3,4,5. The second sentence of each page says "The two hexes in the illustration marked 'Green Back' and 'Orange Back' must be taken...". Shouldn't it instead say "The two sets of hexes..."? It does now :)
• Component List mistake: Page 2. The hexes shown for the Orange Sun side are accidently copied over from the Green Moon side. To further explain:

1. The terrain hexes from regular E&P should show 2 Fields hexes, and 1 of everything else. Instead its showing 2 Mountain hexes (which is only correct for the Green Moon side)
2. The terrain hexes from E&P's extension should be Mountain-Pasture-Hills. Instead its showing Mountain-Forest-Fields (again, only correct for the Green Moon side)

• Missing rule?: Page 6. The Paired Players summary chart doesn't mention using Gold Coins to buy resources, for neither Player 1 or 2. I suppose you can infer both can use Gold Coins, I only bring this up since T&B bothers to mention Gold Coins.

So to summarize:

1. Base Game Extension: Originally 2 errors, 1 was fixed, 1 was added
2. Seafarers Extensions: Originally 12 errors. 9 were fixed, 2 were added
3. C&K Extension: Never had errors, none were added :)
4. T&B Extension: Originally 9 errors. 1 was fixed, and 1 was added >:(
5. E&P Extension: Originally 3 errors. 1 was fixed, 1 was added.

In the end, I'm a little disappointed. The only extension rulebook that saw any real improvement was SF. I wasn't planning on buying any Extensions until the rules were updated with the new Paired Players system. But... maybe I'll just have to wait for the 6th Edition, in 2030. :(
I shouldn't be so hard on them, as I missed several errors myself the first time around. Even some of my own errors in my original list (fixed now). But I'm just some bored shmuck doing this in my free time. I'd expect more from a corporation.

Hello I've made a couple of replacement sound effects for one of the vanilla weapons (the Deliverer pistol / 'covertpistol'), placing the replacement sound effects in the Data folder. This worked fine until I installed a separate weapon mod (the .38 Automatic Pistol mod from oyashiroknight), which uses the firing sounds from the Deliverer; the modified sounds I made overwrote the vanilla sounds, meaning that the modded .38 uses the sounds I made.
Is there a way to resolve this so that the .38 pistol uses the vanilla sound effects, while the Deliverer uses my modified sounds?
I have almost no experience with modding but I figured out how to make my loose files a separate 'mod' loaded in by MO2 (downloading a blank esp, renaming it, placing it and the folder containing the loose sound files in its own folder in MO2's 'mods' folder). Loading this after the .38 Auto pistol mod however still has the same issue with it overwriting the sounds.
Would the solution involving modifying or patching the modded weapon? Any assistance would be much appreciated. Apologies if this has already been asked but I couldn't begin to identify what the term for this issue would be.

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Fish oil supplements can be taken any time of the day, just like you can eat fish any time of the day.
It's probably better to take it in the morning or afternoon (with a meal) because the digestive system works optimally during daylight.

good morning everyone i have a question i feel nobody will know right now but it doesn’t hurt to ask
As many of you guys know the new digestive system ratings take place starting on Sunday the 19 if i did my c&p exam under the old criteria and the va gets it during the new criteria will i be rated under both? its for GERD

I highly suspect I am a OSDD-1A system and DID has been suspected twice by psychologists (but both agreed on the autism pathway first) and recently my partner has been talking about DID and OSDD to me and the voices of panic that are always constantly there started getting viscously louder again with more prominent dissociative episodes and unique changes of behaviour, with each having a different memory access in regards to my childhood and trauma that I'm aware of since 2-3 years old. I know of 2 'parts'/'alters' that I guess would fit the category of being co-concious and in co control, but sometimes full control and if you know me, you could distinguish the changes I go through and have dependent on triggers, environment, situations etc.
Thing is, I SHOULDN'T know ANY of this. And that makes the voices and background noise deafening, it terrifies and paralysis me, because they are scared of being found out, of being threatened, and I don't know why that is but that's what I know.
Also writing and thinking about this seems to trigger the dissociation and the intense panic so they take all my words and give me blank so that I don't share something I'm not supposed to.

TLDR: lots of bush honeysuckle and other dumb bushes in yard. Feeling like it’ll take forever to get to a “blank canvas”, or blank enough, so I can grow the good stuff.
Full post: We bought our house on 1/2 acre in a suburban area 5 years ago. It’s one of those unincorporated areas that’s surrounded by actual suburbia, but we don’t have sidewalks and there are some rules that are more lax here (like we can have burn piles if we want).
I’m a new-ish gardener and have been learning a TON the last year or so especially. Like many new gardeners, I suspect, I had been impatient to get some plants going. I’ve since learned the value of properly preparing the area — like all the resources tell you to, but it takes so long! 🤪 — so I have grass coming up through my wanted plants and things like that, but what’s currently got me feeling overwhelmed is the fact that 90% of the bushes/shrubs on the property are either burning bush (just a few) or tartarian honeysuckle (all along the back fence and part of the side as well).
What to do with all the cuttings? Just make a big pile and burn ‘em?
Plus, we have a septic system and the leach field takes up basically the whole back yard (did not think to ask about this before we bought and moved in) so that further cuts down on my plantable area.
On the plus side, when I ditch this honeysuckle and all the other junk that goes with it (got lots of volunteer mulberry, and pachysandra/ground elder groundcover… on top of creeping Charlie🙃) I should have space for more beneficial plants; I want so badly to have a productive food forest, or something resembling one, that will support the local ecosystem as much as possible.
Apologies for the long post.. any helpful advice or words of encouragement would be much appreciated. It just feels like such a huge task ahead of me.
Edited to add: thank you so much for being so supportive and encouraging. Sometimes it feels like a coin toss asking for help on Reddit 😅🤣, appreciate you all being some of the good ones.

This midght be a little obscure but I thought I’d give it a try. Bear with me while I provide some context - it is very relevant and it IS going somewhere!
I have a chronic illness called Severe Type 2 Bile Acid Malabsorption (BAM). It’s a hormonal problem that causes my body to overproduce bile.
The main symptoms are pain and faecal incontinence. As if this wasn’t bad enough, it makes me feel tired and hungry all the time. Food rushes through my digestive system so fast that I only feel full for short periods of time and I don’t absorb half the vitamins and minerals. So I feel “washed out” all the time. Most people with this condition gain weight. The condition can only be treated with bile acid sequestrants - it cannot be controlled with hormone pills or diets.
It’s not a rare condition but it is rarely diagnosed correctly. It’s often mistaken for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Diarrhoea variant), aka IBS-D.
I’m lucky enough to be correctly diagnosed, and I can happily juggle all the treatments without having to worry about “accidents” any more.
Anyway, Semaglutide has caused an absolute riot in the BAM support groups. Sufferers are claiming it treats BAM better than any of the current medications. It’s being touted as a cure-all miracle drug.
I understand that Wegovy “works on the gut” but that’s about it. I noticed that the medical questionnaires asked a lot of questions about my gallbladder and bile acid. So that confirmed the connection, as far as I’m concerned.
I took my first dose of 0.25 Wegovy this morning. I can’t help but feel excited but I’m so frightened of being disappointed. I know it’s a long-shot, but does anybody know anything about this? Are there any other Wegovy-users out there with BAM/BAD, IBS-D or similar conditions?

Learning about infrastructure diagrams. It seems that theres a way to flexibly string together ml models using flow based diagrams and new to me standard system specification language (https://primer.dynamobim.org/07\_Code-Block/7-2\_Design-Script-syntax.html) I'm assuming theres a standard implementation. Hoping the diagrammatic aspect of this notion might elucidate tensor..."flow" naming convention. Using a tool such as this: https://ryven.org/ I could jury rig a flow to code approach. However, I would imagine theres a common best ide for this (does this relate to vs code and .net). Is there one designed for the ml frameworks I'm familiar with? I see this trend/pattern in the software space in other places such as digital audio workstations, vcv rack, pure data, touch stone for media. Now google has released https://visualblocks.withgoogle.com/#/ is there a general version that was/has been used to create the popular pretrained architectures? Also noting ide classics such as ecclipse hint at this functionality. I really want to make probabilistic models using pyro and finally have an explanation for how it could possibly be accomplished... Is there a possibility that a hidden visual programming functionality available through r studio would make sense of its "studio" designation (which devoid of this function has sidelined its popularity). More familiar with python... hoping that there might be a way to avoid writing code to produce and fully execute novel models. To this end is there a way the type safe value of haskell might allow for immediate extensible modular scaling and self manage parallelism, or in the face of this programming paradigm, is there minimal value in type safety? I really really really liked the idea of haskell I can't seem to figure out why we'd want to use anything different in the context when automated compilation and interpreters are standard applications in the software stack.

I had been trying to get past an issue for what seemed like forever and I finally found what the problem was, so I wanted to share my experience in hopes that it might help other users.
The initial catalyst to this was my desktop environment completely freezing and becoming totally unresponsive (not even able to access another tty session). After rebooting, first the fedora loading screen starts acting strangely and refusing to start. This was pretty simple to get past just by removing rhgb from the kernel boot parameters and running fsck (which is what it was complaining about).
Once I was past this, a reboot got me to the graphical login screen. Only now, once I logged in, the screen went completely blank. I was however able to get to another session on tty4 so I could start looking around. What I kept seening via journalctl -xb -r was that there was an initial crash with xdg-desktop-portal followed by a crash with maliit-keyboard. After that almost being started for the session crashed or errored. This is what I would see first https://pastebin.com/iQV4N1sQ. Getting a backtrace via gdb got me this https://pastebin.com/05Qj1YEU.
I searched for reports of similar behavior but couldn't find anything. Next I started uninstalling or disabling things to get the system to a more "minimal" startup, but none of that worked. I realized then I had done all this in haste without first installing debugging symbols so gdb would actually be useful. After that, then the problem was staring me right in the face: https://pastebin.com/x8tD44Db
Specificaly this error message: "No GSettings schemas are installed on the system". That seemed odd to me because checking dnf list installed said I had gsettings-desktop-schemas already installed. I search around for this error message and find a few mentions of running glib-compile-schemas could help but more importantly, it is looking for schemas in $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
I glanced in my ~/.zshenv file and saw I had added this because I was trying to setup flatpak so I could install spotify (which I discovered didn't have an arm compatible build):
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=${XDG_DATA_DIRS}:/valib/flatpak/exports/share:${HOME}/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share
Here's what went wrong: I uninstalled flatpak, but still had this line in my ~/.zshenv file. When I checked what $XDG_DATA_DIRS was set to in my tty4 session, it was only those two directories. I commented out that line, rebooted, and boom working system again.
I checked the value in my terminal now that I was back in KDE and it showed what I would have expected to see: /usshare/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share:/uslocal/share:/usshare
So, not sure exactly where those things collided with one another, but that's the issue I ran into and how I got past it and back to my working system. Hopefully it might help someone that finds themself in a similar predicament..

Part 67 What kind of AI? (Part 1) (Part 65)
[Help support me on Ko-fi so I can try to commission some character art and totally not spend it all on Gundams]
“Yes, goko, I'm taking care of Nula every way I can.” Atxika had just turned off her shower and begun reaching for a towel when she heard Tens's voice. “She isn’t a child, just… Kinda naive, you know. But really smart once she's made aware of something. And I talked to that kahzo-nene gardener who was flirting with her. He seems like a nice enough guy. He's gonna ask her out on a proper date next time she stops by his greenhouse and I'm betting she’ll say yes.”
Though Admiral Atxika had been quite busy with the running of her Matriarch’s First Fleet just as she had always been, she had taken some time to personally ensure Nula'trula had everything a sapient being could desire. Under normal conditions, which these very much were not, one of the hundreds of highly trained members of her command staff would have seen to her new temporary crew member's needs. Room, board, and other such accommodations were usually far below her pay grade and something she could trust to her subordinates to handle. However, in this particular case, things required special attention to guarantee that information security was being upheld to the highest degree possible. While Atxika wanted to satisfy her drive to ensure the digital being bound to a physical form was comfortable, even going so far as to commission a private Roboticist who had taken up shop on The Hammer instead of relying upon the specialists directly under her command, there was a much more paramount concern weighing on her.
As happy as the Admiral was knowing that the artificial sapience under her care was getting along so well in her new body that she had even begun fraternizing, that was not something she had expected nor prepared for. If anything, Atxika had been hoping Nula would go all but unnoticed by the civilians who made up the majority of this ship's permanent population. It hadn't even crossed her mind that the android woman would catch anyone's eyes in that sort of way or that a digital being would or could reciprocate such organic feelings. Just like most other people throughout the galaxy, Atxika was under the impression that sapient AIs, despite how many of them would often gender themselves in manner similar to their creator species, had such foreign and unrecognizable forms of cognition that base biological instincts were simply beyond them. Though Atxika had spent decades of her life directly interacting with digital people as part of her job, even building a sufficient rapport with a few to consider them as friends, not once had she felt like she truly understood any of them in the way she could seemed to intuitively comprehend the motivations of organic beings. With all of that aside, even if an AI could experience love, or at the very least find enjoyment in a temporary fling, Atxika's mind returned to her concerns regarding Nula'trula's unique status brought upon by her relation to another, far less amiable, digital being.
As Atxika quickly toweled herself off, the moisture easily being whisked away from large and muscular body, she was already brainstorming ways to properly approach the rather touchy situation she was now aware of. Nula was created by the same species who birthed one of the most destructive forces that had ever laid waste to the galaxy afterall. While she may be just as friendly and copacetic as any other AI that peacefully lived in the modern day world, and the finer details of Hekuiv'trula Infinite Hegemony and the horrors it brought were largely lost from the public's eye with most considering it ancient history or a myth, that didn't matter. What mattered was the fact that some people, if they were to find out about Nula's origins and existence, would demand her elimination as a potential threat to galactic peace and stability. Regardless of who vouched for her, which government was willing to take her in as a protected citizen, or any promises to ensure she would never become the same kind of threat as her quasi-sentient brother, there would be people calling for her death. Above all else, if the man sitting on the Admiral's bed and lovingly chatting with his grandmother had vowed to protect Nula, then Atxika would do the same.
“Yes, goko, I'll make sure Binko and Hompta give you a call later.” Tens was just wrapping up his conversation with the woman who had raised him to be the noble man he was when Atxika began to stealthily peek through the doorway. When her eyes fell on the shirtless man, his long, dark hair resting unbraided on his chiseled back, the Admiral felt her heart skip a beat, her bioluminescent freckles light up, and her mind went blank except for thoughts of him. “Gbadan npe, goko! Bama pi.”
“Were you on the comms with your grandmother?” Atxika already knew the answer but didn't want to sound like she was eavesdropping.
“Yeah, she wanted to know how Nula was settling into her new body. Considering she's a citizen of the Nishnabe Confederacy now but isn't in a clan yet, my grandma volunteered to be her clan mother until we can take a vote and get her properly adopted.”
“Does…” The Qui’ztar Admiral paused for a moment as she struggled to think of how to ask her next question. “Does your grandmother know of Nula’trula’s… Well… What have you told her?”
“Oh, I didn’t really need to tell her anything.” Though Ten had a sudden urge to play coy with the beautiful woman standing in front of him clad in just a towel that was perfectly short, he also recognized the position Atxika was in and thought better of it. “Goko served as a Chief-Brave in a position roughly equivalent to one of your Sub-Admirals. Her security clearances are even higher than mine, so NAN was able to tell her everything she needed to know. But the only thing she’s concerned about is making sure Nula gets through this mission and is safely delivered to Shkegpewn, assuming we don’t figure out a way to unchain her from her shell before then.”
“I- I did not know that about your grandmother!” Having not had the opportunity to meet Tens's grandmother and only knowing that she was still quite active and spry in the last season of her life, Atxika was both shocked and impressed by that revelation. And while she still felt some apprehension about someone outside of her jurisdiction knowing any sensitive information about Nula, she still let out a deep sigh of relief. “If a Singularity Entity was the one who briefed her, then I have to assume she is more than trustworthy enough to be privy to classified information. However, that still leaves the issue of the gardener.”
“So you were listening to me talk to my goko!” Tens couldn’t stop himself shooting a playful smile and cheeky wink towards Atx that immediately elicited a scowl in return.
“Tens, I am the Fleet Admiral! There is nothing I do not know! And besides that, I need to know about anything that could potentially jeopardize a mission as sensitive as the one concerning Nula’trula. It is absolutely essential that the public at large does not find out that anything related to the Hekuiv’trula Infinitite Hegemony still exists. If people found out that Nula’trula’s brother nearly wiped out all Ascended life, some may see her as a potential threat and seek to cause her harm.”
“Well, I would normally say they’d have to get through me, three planet crackers, and about seven hundred and fifty million apex predator deathworlders first but… Well… No one’s gonna find out. At least not until we make sure of any trace if Nula's brother is destroyed and the galaxy knows that ancient threat is long dead.”
“And what if she discloses that information?”
“Like I told goko, Nula's naive but really smart. She already knows the cover story she and Tarki came up with by heart.”
“I was under the impression that AIs couldn’t lie.”
“I mean…” For just a brief moment, Tens was at a loss for words. He could tell that Atxika was incredibly serious about this and he didn’t want to seem dismissive towards her very real and justifiable concerns. However, the idea that Tarki had come up with, one which Nula seemed to have absolutely no issues with, was so simple that the man feared he would upset his lover, who was also his commanding officer. “Would it really be a lie to say that when she was found and recovered, her shell and data storage systems were in such a state that talking about her past would be difficult, if not impossible? And wouldn’t you consider a history as traumatic as Nula’s to be difficult, if not impossible, to talk about? Even with friends or people she’s grown close to? I wouldn’t say a lie to not talk about something, especially if it’s a sensitive topic.”
“There’s no way-!” Atxika cut herself off while starting to think through that deviously perfect lie that only a lawyer could cook up before redirecting her gaze towards the ceiling and calling out to her flagship’s AI Captain. “Hammer? Did you hear that? Is that the kind of lie an AI could actually tell?”
“Yes, Admiral Atxika.” The immediate response was automatic, a simple unconscious function of the automated subsystems Tylon utilized so that he could respect the individual privacy of the crew, but was quickly followed up by a much more enthusiastic and pleasant tone as the artificial man consciously entered the conversation. “Oh! Yes, actually, that very much will work. I was actually going to include this in my briefing for you this morning, Admiral. And I must agree with Lieutenant Tensebwse, this is not a lie, not even by omission. Nula’trula was severely traumatized by her experiences and, without a doubt, will need years of professional help to fully recover to a proper mental state. After spending some time talking with her again last night and getting a better glimpse of how she reacts to certain… Inputs… Well, I am sad to say that I think I know what kind of Artificial Intelligence she is.”
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“Hey, Tens!” As soon as Nula's cheerful, soft, and recognizably bark-like voice called out to the Nishnabe warrior as he stepped into the mech bay aboard The Hammer, he turned to see the android in a group with a couple of the Qui’ztar honor guards he had a training session scheduled with, few Kyim’ayik engineers, and one of Singularity Entity 139-621’s mantis-like drone bodies. “I was wondering if it would be ok if I participated in one of your combat simulations today. I already asked Captain Marzima and she told me I needed to get your approval as well.”
“Uh…” Tens shot a quick glance towards Marz who seemed to have a devious smile spread across her lips which made her prominent tusks look even more pronounced. “Yeah… Learning to operate a BD is pretty easy and I'm sure your new body can properly interact with the controls. It should take less than an hour for you to figure it out well enough. So… Sure, I have no problem with that.”
“Oh, I already got some practice time during my charging cycle last night.” The ornate micro paneling that constituted Nula's face distorted into a devilish and predatory grin. “139 and Tylon thought it may help me work through some things and they were right! It was really fun!”
“It will also be good experience for our upcoming mission.” 139 added in an almost proud tone. “We will need Nula on the ground with us at every stage to ensure we can rapidly react to and possibly shut down any Hekuiv'trula systems that may still be active. We may be soldiers but none of us, including myself, are as familiar with Artuv'trula based systems as Nula.”
“Hold on!” The Nishnabe warrior couldn't stop himself from letting his overly protective side kick in at full force. “What the hell do you mean she needs to get on the ground with us?!? I thought we were supposed to keep her and the Turts safe, not actively put either of them in harm's way!”
“She will be kept safe, Tensebwse.” The pride remained in 139's inflection as their ever-shifting liquid metal visage turned towards Tens. “I am constructing her an up-armored and slightly modified BD-6 as we speak. She will be our electronic warfare support.”
“Is that really necessary?”
“Yes.” There was no hesitation in the Singularity Entity’s response, but a subtle note of ambivalence started to sneak through. “One of the reasons the War of Eons lasted as long as it did was because we were simply unable to crack the carrier code that Hekuiv'trula used to control his warforms. Even with the assistance of two Light-born AIs, one purposefully created for the task, we were never able to do much more than block out remote control. And with each warform having a limited form of independence capable of networking with nearby systems, all we could really do was prevent interplanetary coordination. But with Nula present, there's a very real possibility of cracking the encryption and fully taking over control of any still existing Hekuiv'trula warforms or defense systems.”
“No offense Nula but…” As soon as Tens saw his android friend's smile had turned into a melancholy expression, he hesitated. If two Light-born AI couldn’t defeat Hekuiv'trula, a non-sapient AI created by a species who hadn't even Ascended yet, what could Nula do? Even if Tylon, The Hammer's Captain and the controller for the entire fleet, was correct in his assessment concerning the category of sapient AI that Nuka fell into, there was no way she could be anywhere near as powerful as someone like Maser. However, that look on her face was quite familiar to him. Though he very much wanted to ensure that she would live a long and happy life, he also wasn't one to stand in the way of someone who wanted to do the right thing and help others.
“Tens…” Nula's smile, as well as her slightly dejected demeanor, had fully faded and the look of sheer determination that filled the space was unmistakable. “I know you want to keep me safe and I truly appreciate that. I really do. But it would be wrong for me to sit idly by while you, Melatropa, Marzima, and the rest of the Angels risked your lives to rid this galaxy of my evil brother's diabolical machinations. If I can help in any way, I absolutely will. Even if that means putting my own continued existence at risk.”
“I think I know why 139 sounded so proud a minute ago.” As soon as Tens made the comment, his grin grew wide and devilish while the doubts he was feeling instantly began to fade away. For a split second, he wondered if this was how his own parents had felt when he told them he was joining the Nishnabe Militia. “Alright, Nula… If you want to be a warrior and fight the good fight, then who am I to stand in your way? Lieutenant Luitatxuva's mech is open, right Marz?”
“Yes it is.” The Qui’ztar Captain replied, her devilish smirk remaining just as pronounced as it had been this entire time. “And Nula’trula here won't need to bond with control-AI since… Well… She is one. Ah-haha!”
“Thank you, Tens! I won't disappoint you!” Though that look of heartfelt resolve remained, Nula's smile returned with a subtle coyness to it. “And you're not mad at me, right?”
“Eee! I could never get mad at that face!” Tens retorted while shaking his head and letting out a soft chuckle which caused the artificial canine woman to begin bouncing in place while softly clapping her polymer and metal hands. “Besides… We actually really could use an electronic warfare expert. I just thought 139 could provide that for us. Your honor guard are truly impressive warriors, Marz. And you know way more about digital systems than I do, Mela. But… Well… BDs were never intended to fill that role.”
“Despite how I may look, Tensebwse, I am a soldier, not a digital systems expert.” Despite 139’s metallic insectoid form, their smirk was incredibly familiar to everyone in the group. “You would have better luck asking one of these Kyim’ayik engineers to develop digital countermeasures on the fly then you would with me.”
“And I may have studied computers and robotics in school but…” Melatropa let out a deep but soft and subtly embarrassed giggle as she looked over towards the massive multi-barreled laser cannon that rested next to her mech's weapons bay. “I am far better at shooting things than I am hacking into systems older than my species.”
“Alright, Nula, it's settled. Go hop in that mech so we can start practicing. If you're going to be on the ground with us, I need to know you can handle yourself. Just be sure to bring some weapons so you can fight back if we get separated.”
“Oh, I already have a load out in mind. And I think you'll love it, Tens!”

What are we trying to account for with the face in particular?
To paraphrase Lacan, they would suggest what we're really obsessed with is something in the face more than the face itself. What they want to ask is, under what conditions do "faces" acquire the semiotic and material power they exercise over us? Why, on one hand, will I start behaving better just because I see a symbol of authority or a picture of someone before whom I'd be embarrassed? And how, on the other hand, am I willing to sacrifice a great deal of my rational interests in the pursuit of someone whose mere face has left me infatuated? In both cases, we should remember that Oedipus was first and foremost, for D&G a theory of internalized oppression through a mechanism of social obligation, and the connection to the face starts to become clear.
To be as specific as possible, faciality adds more detail in the form of additional theoretical categories. But all that takes place in the context of them being the same theoretical problem.
What is Oedipus is Anti-Oedipus? The birth & regime of the signifier & its subject, Lacan's "master signifier" that holds the otherwise floating signifying chain in place. The signifier is the deterritorialized sign, overcoded by the State. You can even see it in the ToC under "Barbarian or Imperial Representation." The illegitimate, Oedipal syntheses of desire are the ones which recover whole persons along strict identities, the exclusive use of the disjunctive syntheses at the heart of Oedipus: man OR woman, white OR black, family OR not. The oedipal triangle performs the function of selecting material appropriate for the reproduction of a very specific social form at the exclusion of the rest.
What is faciality in ATP? The birth & regime of the signifier and its subject, which performs the function of selecting material appropriate for the reproduction of a very specific social form at the exclusion of the rest. I promise if you read even just the plateau on faciality, this much is clear. We can start by acknowledging that the two components of faciality are still the signifier and its subject: faciality is defined explicitly as a mixture of the signifying & post-signifying or subjective regimes of sign. The white wall of signification and the black hole of subjectivity. Here's how they kick of "Faciality":

Earlier, we encountered two axes, signifiance and subjectification. We saw that they were two very different semiotic systems, or even two strata. Signifiance is never without a white wall upon which it inscribes its signs and redundancies. Subjectification is never without a black hole in which it lodges its consciousness, passion, and redundancies. Since all semiotics are mixed and strata come at least in twos, it should come as no surprise that a very special mechanism is situated at their intersection. Oddly enough, it is a face: the white wall/black hole system**.** A broad face with white cheeks, a chalk face with eyes cut in for a black hole. (ATP p. 167)

Italics in original, bold my emphasis. Face = white wall + black hole. White wall = signifier; black hole = subjectivity. And in "On Several Regimes of Signs" you can see them explicitly compare this schema to Oedipus:

Something is still bothering us: the story of Oedipus. Oedipus is almost unique in the Greek world. The whole first part is imperial, despotic, paranoid, interpretive, divinatory. But the whole second part is Oedipus's wandering, his line of flight, the double turning away of his own face and that of God. Rather than very precise limits to be crossed in order, or which one does not have the right to cross (hybris), there is a concealed limit toward which Oedipus is swept. Rather than interpretive signifying irradiation, there is a subjective linear proceeding permitting Oedipus to keep a secret, but only as a residue capable of starting a new linear proceeding. (ATP p. 125)

So here we can see the Oedipus myth interpreted explicitly in terms of the face machine and specifically in terms of signification and subjectification. And again, they function in the exact same way: they select for forms of social acceptable pairings. This is why Anti-Oedipus has to mean (at least) Anti-Heteronormativity. Here's a key passage from Anti-Oedipus:

When Oedipus slips into the disjunctive syntheses of desiring-recording, it imposes the ideal of a certain restrictive or exclusive use on them that becomes identical with the form of triangulation: being daddy, mommy, or child. This is the reign of the "eitheor" in the differentiating function of the prohibition of incest: here is where mommy begins, there daddy, and there you are-stay in your place. Oedipus's misfortune is indeed that it no longer knows who begins where, nor who is who. And "being parent or child" is also accompanied by two other differentiations on the other sides of the triangle; "being man or woman," "being dead or alive." Oedipus must not know whether it is alive or dead, man or woman, any more than it knows whether it is parent or child. Commit incest and you'll be a zombie and a hermaphrodite. In this sense, indeed, the three major neuroses that are termed familial seem to correspond to Oedipal lapses in the differentiating function or in the disjunctive synthesis: the phobic person can no longer be sure whether he is parent or child; the obsessed person, whether he is dead or alive; the hysterical person, whether he is man or woman.'? In short, the familial triangulation represents the minimum condition under which an "ego" takes on the co-ordinates that differentiate it at one and the same time with regard to generation, sex, and vital state. (AO p. 75)

Now, look at how the face works in ATP. It has two aspects:

Under the first aspect, the black hole acts as a central computer, Christ, the third eye that moves across the wall or the white screen serving as general surface of reference. Regardless of the content one gives it, the machine constitutes a facial unit, an elementary face in biunivocal relation with another: it is a man or a woman, a rich person or a poor one, an adult or a child, a leader or a subject, "an x or a y."
[...]
Under the second aspect, the abstract machine of faciality assumes a role of selective response, or choice: given a concrete face, the machine judges whether it passes or not, whether it goes or not, on the basis of the elementary facial units. This time, the binary relation is of the "yes-no" type. [...] A ha! It's not a man and it's not a woman, so it must be a trans-vestite: The binary relation is between the "no" of the first category and the "yes" of the following category, which under certain conditions may just as easily mark a tolerance as indicate an enemy to be mowed down at all costs. At any rate, you've been recognized, the abstract machine has you inscribed in its overall grid. (ATP p. 177)

So, the answer of "What's wrong with the face?" is 1:1 to the question of "What's wrong with Oedipus?" They both are predicated on exclusive use of the disjunctive synthesis of recording that subordinates becoming and desire to social reproduction and the interests of the dominant class. The face, like Oedipus, is triggered by particular arrangements of power, by the internalization of domination through the affective power of certain (facialized) traits. Dismantling the face means breaking the power socially invested traits have over us (the negative task of schizoanalysis as described in AO).
From a Lacanian perspective, this is explicitly what's supposed to underlie both gaze & mirror ("The gaze is but secondary to the gazeless eye, to the black hole of faciality. The mirror is but secondary in relation to the white wall of faciality.", ATP p. 171, italics in original). Zizek is even fine calling the signifier the deterritorialized sign in OwB, even though he doesn't ever acknowledge that D&G also define it that way. The "white wall" is the minimum of signifying redundancy necessary for that deterritorialization, it's a "blank space" where signs can be recorded such that they're only relation is in being related (the non-relation). For Zizek, this is the fantasy screen that we have to traverse to reach the Real. D&G saw it in remarkably similar ways: we have to "break through" the wall of the signifier, the screen that protects us from the chaos of the Real. But while for Zizek, this is a subjective shift where we realize we had what we were looking for all along, for D&G this is a real change, because what we "had all along" is still only a potential that has to be actualized in a particular way. Most significantly, they believe in modes of subjective consistency that are not signifying. Hence, their ethics is experimental and creative, Guattari's "Chaosmosis" as an ethico-aesthetic paradigm for the production of new subjectivity.
We may have digressed a little at the end there, into settling scores with the assassin Zizek. But to the good point that it seems like, there's a lot to love in the face, I can't disagree, we have to agree wholeheartedly. The face is a complex of consciousness and love. Our task is to free that consciousness and love from what is specifically facial about it, which is the enforced form of social reproduction. I'll let them speak for themselves here, as I've hopefully set us up for this paragraph to have its full impact:

Subjectification carries desire to such a point of excess and unloosening that it must either annihilate itself in a black hole or change planes. Destratify, open up to a new function, a diagrammatic function. Let consciousness cease to be its own double, and passion the double of one person for another. Make consciousness an experimentation in life, and passion a field of continuous intensities, an emission of particles-signs. Make the body without organs of consciousness and love. Use love and consciousness to abolish subjectification: "To become the great lover, the magnetizer and catalyzer ... one has to first experience the profound wisdom of being an utter fool." Use the I think for a becoming-animal, and love for a becoming-woman of man. Desubjectify consciousness and passion. Are there not diagrammatic redundancies distinct from both signifying redundancies and subjective redundancies? Redundancies that would no longer be knots of arborescence but resumptions and upsurges in a rhizome? Stammer language, be a foreigner in one's own tongue:
do domi not passi do not dominate
do not dominate your passive passions not
do devouring not not dominate
your rats your rations your rats rations not not. . . (ATP p. 134)

yesterday was probably the shift from hell I had 2 volleyball teams and a dance team all at the same time. I came into work to like 60 arrivals which is not a small number that’s most of our rooms! The teams themselves were not bad I didn’t have a lot of running in the hallways or hanging out in the pool by themselves (thankfully). But they were in general just very needy, lots of need for extra pillows and towels and blankets and I was alone so you see how this started to become a little exhausting.
The real kicker of the day was the amount of rude and grouchy people I had checking in. In particular, I had a woman check in and ask me for a room that wasn’t near the elevator. The room I put her in, in my honest opinion, is not near the elevator. You can’t hear the elevator nor can you see the elevator but to her it was too close to the elevator for her liking. She comes back downstairs and starts yelling at me telling me I need to learn the layout of the building and there’s no reason she should’ve been put in that room and it’s right off the elevator it’s the first room you see (it is not actually!). I look her dead in her eyes and tell her there’s no need to yell at me, it is very easy for me to switch her to a different room, let’s just try to take the tone down a notch. I move her she goes on her way.
Now apparently the new room the housekeepers forgot to put the pillows on the bed, they put them on the table and didn’t come back to put them on the bed. While this is obviously an error, it’s not really that big of a deal, you can just move the pillows to the bed. But of course for Mrs. Hothead this is egregious behavior, she finds one of my housekeepers working on the same floor and starts yelling about the pillows not being on the bed and how the front desk is just so disrespectful, I rolled my eyes at her, the whole nine yards. Now on top of this she also sent a message on our chat system to tell us that we put her in a room near the elevator and she didn’t appreciate that (not sure if she understands the front desk is the one who reads those messages?) and my coworker likes to send out “how was your stay” emails and she made sure to respond and let us know that there were no pillows in the room point blank period! (Even though we now know they were just in the wrong place).
I also had a man call the hotel and ask if we were west or east from NY 81 and I have to be honest w you I do not know. I don’t know nothing about west south north east I don’t have to know because we have these handy things called GPS. He hangs up and then calls the hotel back and my coworker calls back and asks why we hung up on him (I did not). He then comes in like 15 minutes later and my coworker checks him in and he asks her are you the one I spoke to on the phone? She says yes and he tells her she needs a new line of work! I gave him a look that made it clear I did not appreciate the way he was talking to her. And then she’s asking him if the card on file is the one he wants to use and he’s like I don’t know how should I know I don’t know what I booked with why are you asking (we’re supposed to ask?!). And during the whole interaction he’s just yelling about how he can’t hear my coworker when she’s speaking to him and finally he gets his keys and he’s upset that he’s not on the first floor, we only have one king on the first floor and someone was in it, so she offers a queen on the first floor. He scoffs and walks off.
Who pissed in these people’s cheerios? I’m dreading going in today 😔

So i’m officially on week 4 and i’ve gained back a bunch of weight really quickly. The first two weeks w EH had me going crazy, my stomach was so extended to the point I was in extreme pain after satisfying my hunger. I’m all in. Now my digestive system is a bit better but still slow, I get very bloated but no more pain and im waiting on bloodwork to see what i’m deficient in to fix my gastro paralysis. I’ve begun to find so many articles and forums with people/studies backing up all that i’m experiencing, that I felt alone in. Right now my face is way bigger than the rest of my body and the idea of weight distribution confuses me, because I feel like my body is all equally big kinda? My extreme hunger makes me crave sweets and i feel like i’ve been eating thousands and thousands of calories everyday. I want to eat more nutritious (even if that’s caloric) but I literally can’t. My mental hunger gets so strong I can’t think of anything other than food. After I get over the urges will I be able to workout, eat healthier, and be skinny again? All I want to know is a timeline, my mom told me she thinks my body will go back to “normal” in a month which makes me feel good, but I know that’s not true. And I just started spotting today! It’s only been a month of eating w 7 months of on and off disordered behaviors (Bulimia and then around 2 months anorexia recently w compulsive exercise) and I feel like it’s really soon to get it back already. And I don’t understand why my extreme hunger is so strong when I haven’t had an eating disorder for that long. 

Hey guys i’m a first year currently stuck between these two options.
I was wondering if it was better to take

1. life sci: which has most of the med required courses apart of its program, and 6 electives
   
2. or kin: which has no med required courses apart of its program but 15 electives.
   

also which one would include most time to do other extracurriculars?
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• dream goals: med or uni professor:
my goal is med school but i also have a keen interest in becoming a uni professor because i love teaching…
so i’d have to get a phd after undergrad and if i take to do kin as my phd, would that be harder for me to become a prof in the long run because it’s much more specialized?
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My interests:
I love learning the human body systems (immune/nervous/digestive, for example) and i don’t really enjoy anything not human(other animal bio, plant bio).
I also decently enjoy my orgo/thermo/equilibrium chemsitry stuff i took this year of my high school.
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what do u guys think? thanks!

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4. Astragalus Root Powder: Astragalus is an herb that has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries to boost immunity and increase energy levels. Adding astragalus root powder to your daily routine can help support overall wellness and protect against infections. https://amzn.to/4dyHHfc
   
5. Vitamin D3 Supplements: Vitamin D plays a crucial role in immune function and can help reduce the risk of infections. Taking a daily vitamin D3 supplement can help support overall health and strengthen the immune system, especially during the winter months when sunlight exposure is limited. strhttps://amzn.to/3V4qWBH
   
6. Mushroom Complex Supplement: Certain mushrooms, such as reishi, shiitake, and maitake, contain immune-boosting properties that can help support overall wellness. Taking a mushroom complex supplement can help strengthen the immune system and improve immune function. https://amzn.to/44xE4lT
   

Prioritizing immune system health is crucial for overall wellness, and these natural products can help support a strong immune system to protect against infections and promote optimal health. Consult with a healthcare professional before adding any new supplements to your routine to ensure they are safe and effective for your individual needs.