High school level context clues

Every 2 months or so I get someone knocking on the front door trying to sell me solar. The pitch is always the same: "Your PGE bill is only going to get higher, wouldn't it be great not to pay them..." etc. The pitch is usually delivered by someone recently out of high school so I don't take them seriously. They're obviously ginning up a memorized script.
Has anyone actually engaged a contract with any of these vendors? What has been your experience?

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This here is my old woman yelling at the clouds moment. These last weeks of school after state testing have seen my students highly engaged in creative poetry and script writing and drama performance. It makes me so happy to see them excited and creative. Behavior problems are the good kind, like "Settle down you are getting too loud giggling about your dramatic scene." Their cute haikus and zany dramatic flair make me so sad that our subject has turned into a "tested area." What do you like to teach when you are "free"? Or how do you incorporate these moments into your scope and sequence throughout the year?

Hello all,
I recently moved from Kansas to the New England area and I am totally out of my element with all of the standardized English/Language Arts tests I'm expected to have my students both prepare for and take. I am very worried that their results will reflect poorly on me, and I have absolutely no clue how to prepare them for so many tests in which I am unaware of their content. For example, I have two classes that score very high compared to every other class in the building, however their "growth rate" is much lower. Considering the school only takes into consideration their growth, this is very alarming to me.
My instinct is to simply disagree with standardization as a whole, as it truly doesn't align with my educational philosophy. With that in mind, I still want success for my students to the highest degree possible in whatever environment they find themselves in, including this one. I just walked into this situation after stemming from a very relaxed, teacher-autonomous environment in the Midwest, so I'm currently very out of my element. Does anybody have any suggestions as to how I can prepare students for these standardized tests in a way that sees consistent growth throughout the year?

I was 18 and football and wrestling were over so I decided to try weed for the first time. I had no prior experience with any weed before. I bought these "delta 8" gummy peach rings. The package said do not take more than 4 within 8 hours. I thought I was being responsible in taking 3. They were 50 mg a piece. For my first weed experience I took 150mg of THC.
My experience changed my life. I am in a constant state of questioning my own existence and the absurdity of all things in existence.
I took them around 8PM, and went to take a shower to relax hoping to coast into a peaceful high. After about 30 minutes of sitting in the shower nothing had come on so I decided to go to bed with my girlfriend. I laid there for a while and remembered that the new Boba Fett show had just dropped a new episode. I decided I'd watch that. My girlfriend had fallen asleep within the first few minutes of the episode, so I was watching it alone in bed.
About halfway through i started to feel a little hazy. But nothing I didn't expect, I was exited that it had started. So I just laid back and let it wash over me.
I don't remember how much time had passed but eventually I convinced myself that I died. I was horrified but this realization wasn't anywhere near as mind altering as what was to come.
I began seeing these fluttering hazy colors surround either side of my field of view. The colors sort of looked like the 2 Use Your Illusion album covers from Guns and Roses.
I eventually came to the conclusion that these colors represented my understanding of "Heaven and Hell" and as I thought more on my morality and the life I had lived, either side would seem to overcome the other. I remember hearing distorted voices from each side.
This went back and forth for a while, and I began to hyperventilate. I began questioning my understanding on either side. They were only represented by the color that they were and the distorted voices coming from each of them. I lost sight of which side was "heaven" and which side was "hell". I knew that I needed to choose either one to envelop me but I didn't know which side was which. It was clear though that there was a distinction between the two.
I don't remember which side I ended up on. But what I do remember is that shortly after I was absorbed into the side I chose, everything was ripped away from me.
This is where it began.
My entire understanding of my own existence was taken from me. I heard distorted chanting surrounding me, it felt like every single atom around me was chanting. The chanting was distorted and droning, it wasn't English but somehow I knew exactly what they were communicating to me.
It was that absolutely nothing exists.
They were deconstructing my understanding on everything. I do mean everything. For example, I remember early on as my understanding of time left me the chanting said that "we create concepts like time" as if to distract ourselves from the absurdity of existence.
When I say I lost my understanding it's important to know that I don't mean that I was incapable of grasping the concepts of things like time and physical space. It was more so that they were taking those concepts and pointing out the fact that they are completely illusionary and nonexistent, and were crafted to create this false reality that I understand and live in.
I became aware of the fact that absolutely nothing existed, and I began to feel that fact in a physical way. It's hard to put any of this into words but it's most difficult to describe they way I felt physically.
I felt like I was infinitely compact. I felt my own nonexistence. I felt like I was a singular atom being pressed inward by surrounding atoms. I also somehow felt this friction stretching me in every possible direction.
I just remember feeling like I was an atom inside a dense piece of matter like a rock.
I looked to any comforting experience from my life to escape. But it just lead to more deconstruction of my mind.
Eventually I came to the conclusion that I have always been in this place, and that I was just blissfully unaware of it. Therefore my entire life, friends, family, experiences, and memories were all imaginary distractions from this reality.
This went on for what felt like actual eternity, and eventually after throwing up I suddenly felt my own heartbeat, and something about that brought me back to my reality.
I just remember thinking "my hearts beating, so I can't be dead." And I fell asleep. I didn't wake up until 2PM the next day in a pool of my own vomit. My girlfriend had taken some edibles too and woke up after me not recalling any vivid experiences.
We went and got Pizza Hut, and went about our lives. I had a really hard time coping with the experience for a while. I had panic attacks several times over the next few months.
6 months after the experience I graduated high school and married my girlfriend.
I'm 20 now and it's been a little over 2 years since the experience, and I'd like to say I've recovered. My wife and I have 2 sons and I've got a nice EMT job coming up.
Once in a great while I'll get an uneasy feeling, but I look at my sons and it all feels a little better.
I do have my own ideas on what I experienced, but if I dwell on them too much I get nervous so I try and avoid it.
I feel like I'm finally in a place where I can at least attempt to explain my thoughts on it so please DM me if you'd like to talk about it at all. My name is David by the way.

I have been driving for almost 2 years counting permit and license but after I almost rad a red light I've been so paranoid. I'm still in high school so I drive to school everyday. Today I am scareed that I ran two stop signs even though I don't think I did and IDK ANYMORE! WTF DO I DO

Here is the link Mission & Vision - Union Presbyterian Seminary (upsem.edu)
If anyone has experience at this school, I would highly appreciate it. I'm not sure what the best subreddit to post this is. I have also posted it in reformed. I'm not that active on Reddit in general.
Specifically, I'm wondering how you would categorize it, theologically speaking? Someone just told me it was pretty liberal, but I don't really get that sense from the website. I consider myself somewhat theologically conservative. Politically speaking, I feel like I'm like what conservatives were 20 years ago, not today.
I'm planning on talking to at least one person who graduated from there, so reddit won't be my only research of course. Not to worry, I'm not going to seminary based solely on reddit comments!
I'd appreciate any insight, thank you in advanced!

Hi Everyone
I started couple of weeks ago to read through the quant section of GRE. As I am targeting for a score of 161 in quant, I went for the advanced track. I took two mock tests and I scored a 150 in quant. So I can tell from the practice questions of TTP offered in chapter tests, even the advanced track level seems to be more difficult than the actual exam.
However, I read some threads from students mentioning that they could only score 163 or 160+ after going through the expert track of the course. So, I am wondering if I should switch to expert based on these members reviews? although I can tell that the course even in advanced level is so thorough and I am already learning tons with it. Not sure though if the amount of knowledge I am learning is enough to take my score from 150 to 161 (following purely the advanced level).
I would like to hear from members who went through the ttp quant, if they followed the advanced or expert track and how much they scored and how much improvement they saw following each track. The expert level seems to add more 2 weeks or 3 to the prep time, and I am really short in time and I really don't have any extra day .. especially that I didn't touch the quant official material yet. Also, it's really not necessary for the school I am applying for to go beyond 161, as I understood that an average score like 161 will be accepted for someone with my profile.
would like to hear from your experiences!!
thanks

I have been driving for almost 2 years counting permit and license but after I almost rad a red light I've been so paranoid. I'm still in high school so I drive to school everyday. Today I am scareed that I ran two stop signs even though I don't think I did and IDK ANYMORE! WTF DO I DO

NACL only allows 40 IP limits, my goal is to block abusive IP's (list is sitting around 100 now)... So it doesn't seem like NACL is a viable option - traffic is too high to consider AWS WAF as well.
Any other ideas for how I can achieve this blocking on a network level instead of on a L7 application level?

As you're most likely aware, all legendary pulse rifles received a 38% buff against red bar enemies and a 20% buff against all other combatants. While I could be wrong, in practice this seems extremely overtuned. While I agree that pulse rifles definitely needed a buff as they were struggling heavily, the fact that pulse rifles (37k-39k DPS) will be doing more damage than options like auto rifles (30k DPS), which require close range, and the same DPS as SMGs (39k DPS), which essentially require you to be in the enemy's face, is concerning.
It just seems that pulse rifles are going to out-DPS nearly any other option while having great range and a level of versatility over weapon types that should out-damage them, such as SMGs and auto rifles. Overall, pulse rifles are going to be VASTLY superior to every other option, which is poor for game balance.
Edit: And all the damage numbers I provided are in the context of the final shape weapon changes

Hi friends! Just want to start off with letting you know that I have been in close contact with my cat's vet throughout this entire process, and we do have another appointment scheduled. Just looking for some info and insights in the meantime:
My 16-year-old cat Rocky (also the love of my life) was diagnosed with moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD) in November 2019, which retreated to mild 6 months later. He has fluctuated between mild and moderate over the years but has retreated in the disease 3-4 times because he is a tenacious little nugget. Last year, he suddenly lost 4 pounds in six months, but tests revealed that his kidneys were stable and there was no sign of cancer. It turns out he has IBD. We changed his food accordingly and he put some weight back on. No matter what health issues come his way, he continues to defy the odds, showcasing his incredible strength and resilience. One wouldn’t know he has any health issues at all; he has always maintained a high level of energy, appetite, and affection, and has stayed as healthy as one could be with these ailments.
Rocky has always been a dry food guy and SO food-motivated, maintaining a weight of 17-18 pounds most of his life. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed he stopped eating his dry food, but devoured wet food when given to him. My hypothesis was that he maybe had a tooth that was bugging him. A vet visit indeed revealed a possibly diseased tooth, but we also discovered a 2-pound weight loss in 3 months. Blood tests showed his kidney numbers were through the roof, despite being stable at his last check up in February. However, his blood pressure was PERFECT, which doesn’t quite gibe with those kidney values.
His vet has been taking care of him for almost half his life, and she is almost as emotionally invested in Rocky as much as I am! She felt that, even though CKD can move fast, it didn’t feel quite right to her. She theorized it could be kidney stones or an infection. They obtained a urine culture to determine if bacteria was present, which would indicate an infection. They ruled out kidney stones with an x-ray, started him on antibiotics, and gave him an IV drip (this is last Wednesday, 5/15). Throughout the day, his appetite improved, and his creatinine levels dipped. His blood pressure remained perfect. I continued his treatment at home with antibiotics, anti-nausea meds, and subcutaneous fluids while we waited for the urine culture results. His appetite and energy increased quickly, and he even gained 0.3 pounds. He’s not only back to his old self, but it almost seems like he’s better, with even more energy and more appetite than I’ve seen in some time. So of course this has to be an infection, the antibiotics are doing their job, right?
Here is the kicker: we got the urine culture results back today, and they showed no bacteria, ruling out an infection. So we’re a bit baffled. The vet says his kidneys might be failing, but the sub-Q treatment is perking him up. But wouldn't his blood pressure be high if his kidneys were failing? And how would his creatinine levels and weight improve so quickly? We have a follow-up appointment next Tuesday to do another blood panel, and of course I’ll bring him in sooner if he appears to decline before then. His vet says that his behavior is our main gauge in the meantime. I'm wondering if it could be his thyroid, which was checked and found normal a few years ago. I rang his vet back earlier today with that question, and I’m just waiting to hear back from her.
Has anyone experienced something similar or have any insights into what might be going on? The test results don't seem to align with his symptoms. Thank you!
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For some context, Im expecting to make about 33k this year and have about 18k in longterm unrealized gains from crypto and about 8k in longterm unrealized gains in a UTMA account I acquired for my 21st birthday this year. From my understanding, I won’t pay capital gains taxes on anything that I make under 47k.
The reason I’m trying to sell the holdings in the UTMA account is because it’s in a mutual fund with a high fees that doesn’t even outperform the market (AIVSX). I’d like to put the money into some other passively managed etf.
After doing a little reading on this UTMA account, it seems that the gains (up to $1250 a year) made in this account are exempt from taxation. Im curious if I am able to stack this exemption with the gains made over the 20 years that the accounts been open. That way the 8k in gains wouldn’t be subject to any tax.
This seems like a headache to go through and get sorted if I try to sell. Should I try to talk to a tax expert?

So, maybe some of people seen me here and around in couple of days, I've been mostly giving advice about how to lose weight. Well why that's important to say cause I myself was around 94.6 kg (208 lbs) when I started at the start of the April, Now I weight 83.8 kg (185 lbs) my goal is to aim for like range of the 60 - 70 kg (132 lbs - 154 lbs) to just purely satisfy myself with the body. I know I shouldn't take in my eyes how the other people look like especially on internet but there's no better alternative atm for me. I already started to see some quirky places where my skin just seems to shrink from the fat that I lost mostly on my tights some people could argue that's bad less tights but at my situation it's better to have lose them a bit of fat.
Also for context I'm just 18 turning 19 this year.
So for more interesting stuff what I'd daily from my start with is now around 1.5 months.
Rule 1; Hitting 5 days from week at least 9.0 km of walking with is around 12,000 steps from just this I don't count moving around house for this, but only the one session of going usually for 2 hour walk at least this is how much average I'd have to walk to be around 9,0 km, On the other 2 days I take a bit break from every exercise and I do just 2/3 of regular day with means I'd go for walk but only for like 6 km.
Rule 2 (please don't do that like i'd) I'm just at way to high caloric deficit I mean I'd get like 1,200 + / - 300 kcal per day. Mostly proteins to just keep my muscle mass on my body and kill the fat, but I don't recommend it unless your doctor says you to have that. Is this going trough hell for me? I can't really tell It's kinda like fasting but not really, I already earlier in my life was prepared to have that situation cuase in my house very very rarely there's lack of food or just food that I won't eat cause is too gross for me to put it in my mouth anyways.
What's my costs of this all, I have to refuse some good stuff like cakes, some other sugar staff, etc. After that time I pretty much don't have any feeling of having to eat or use sugar stuff, so I just drink water and cup of drink tea daily.
The pain in the ass; I'm just still a student and my money outcome is pretty not existing so I have to rely what I get in my kitchen from parents and that's usually not the best staff but at least it's not heavy processed meals like average US dinner. Well at least when I get some money the chicken breast aren't that expensive to get + full-wheat penne pasta + tomato sauce makes me dinner for a week to eat, so I still somewhat stay alive, I did started to appreciate more the meal that I get, and stopped pretty much every time my heads tells me "You are Hungry" I just go and drink water and then this annoying stuff stops for another 6 hours.
Yes I'd have skincare routine mostly just cleanser -> oat lotion -> moisturizer and if I'm going outside in summer time I use uv cream, and yes most of this stuff I just took from my other cause women cosmetics are somewhat always better than mens.
So what other exercises I'd daily; Well I usually got for 3 x 20, So I'd sit ups, squats, glute bridges, russian twists and 1 min of plank, and yes the push ups why do I'd them to help my upper part of body gain some muscles so I get rid of this gross some type of men boobs that I got cause of the fat in my body. Also I'd then set of 2 exercises 3x for 30 s that just helps me with core muscles.
If I get bored from one exercise I'd go and do other with similar meaning like; side leg rises, hydrant etc.
So to summary; Is this what I'd healthy at all, I wouldn't say it's that much healthy and wouldn't recommend going on same caloric deficit as me unless told by doctor, but the other habits like exercises they should be optimal for most of people out here. And general advice for everyone do push ups they don't hurt and not doing like 100 per day but going for like 20 - 40 should be great. I plan myself to reduce amount of them after next month.
If anybody would have any question about other stuff or their personal story to share I'll be open to hear it out when I find a piece of time!
See ya, for the time that I get my silly ass back here.
ps; Stay hydrated cause it's summer duh.
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Last year (July ‘23), I began Lexapro 10mg and for about a month following the initial symptoms, it was great. I felt close to normal again. Over time, I felt it become less effective and it just became a habit to take the medicine in hopes of it one day working to the same extent again. It didn’t.
Last month, I switched to Wellbutrin XL 150mg and for the first 3-4 weeks, it was quite literally the best I’ve felt since high school. It even assisted me with quitting Zyn, any form of alcohol (albeit I hardly drink as it is), and caffeine for well over three weeks before I began drinking coffee again. As of a few days ago, I’ve began to feel more anxious, irritable, and nauseous. For context, I am also on Semaglutide for weight management. Between the two medicines, I felt like my quality of life was making a complete u-turn towards total change, and I was elated! The last few days have been discouraging. I’ve been experiencing anxiety that makes me lethargic, my chest feels warm, and every symptom I experience I worry chalks up to something larger. I’ve also been clenching my jaw more than I already was.
TLDR; Both my previous antidepressants worked briefly then stopped. I have been diagnosed with anxiety and ADHD. I’m curious if the temporary effectiveness of these medicines points to a larger issue. I’m happy with my quality of life and the direction I’m headed, so what exactly is going on with me/my reaction to these medicines over time?
Thanks!

I have severe social anxiety and have allowed it to take over my life.
As a result I'm now 27, still live with my parents, have no high school diploma, didn't go to college, have never had a job and never had a girlfriend.
I spend most days sitting around at home playing video games and browsing the web.
I'm currently working on getting a job, but I'm struggling with going to an interview and even if I did it I would probably just be making minimum wage at a grocery store or something.
Is there any chance I could still do anything with my life and maybe get a girlfriend someday, or is my life already over?

Here is the link Mission & Vision - Union Presbyterian Seminary (upsem.edu)
If anyone has experience at this school, I would highly appreciate it. I'm not sure what the best subreddit to post this is, so this is my first post in reformed. I'm not that active on Reddit in general.
Specifically, I'm wondering how you would categorize it, theologically speaking? Someone just told me it was pretty liberal, but I don't really get that sense from the website. I consider myself somewhat theologically conservative. Politically speaking, I feel like I'm like what conservatives were 20 years ago, not today.
I'm planning on talking to at least one person who graduated from there, so reddit won't be my only research of course.
I'd appreciate any insight, thank you in advanced!

I retired literally 2 hours ago after a 31-year career teaching high school English and Creative Writing. I have already been contacted by an elementary principal about taking an interim position (approximately 6 weeks) in the fall, 5th grade ELA. I would be paid full salary in addition to still being eligible for my pension, so that's nice. But 5th grade ELA? Do I even want to consider this? 🤔