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2024.05.21 14:41 ChemicalFragrance I tried perfumes from Gravel
A Man's Cologne: An important backstory to this one: Prior to the 50's, men in New York did not wear cologne, only aftershave. This perfume hit the streets of New York in 1957 as an attempt to revolutionize what perfume meant for men, and became popular later on. It's safe to say that this perfume has stuck around for a long time - and that's what makes it (in my opinion) so beautiful. It's incredibly nostalgic, you can't smell this without being reminded of a dear male family member in your childhood. It's perfectly balanced and not at all offensive, you can wear it for any occasion. It isn't unbearably "macho" like most designer male fragrances today, it actually possesses a hint of sweetness because of the benzoin, making it a bit unisex. Aromatic and woody, a bit powdery. I love it and I root for its comeback.
Evolution: I am not exaggerating, at all, when I say that this smells exactly like a bar of soap, and not in a good way. The notes of aldehydes at the top overpower literally every other note in this perfume, EXCEPT the ambergris, which clashes really poorly with the clean vibe the perfumer was originally going for. It adds on a little bit of dirtiness in the dry down, and it's very off putting. I feel like people don't believe me when I say it smells like a dirty Dove bar soap, but please do before you purchase this.
American Dream: I wasn't too excited after seeing the notes, but this ended up being my favorite. I know for a fact Trey MacDougal from SATC wore this, it just makes perfect sense to me given the name and the nature of the fragrance. A rich gentleman's perfume, but could also smell amazing on women. The citrus at the top comes off a bit too sharp at first, probably because of the basil note, but the dry down is very attractive. Fresh, aromatic, and a bit sweet because of the lavender and Tonka, with a musky finish. I don't detect much moss.
Hudson River NY: The dry down is great on this one, but I'm not a big fan of the opening. The dry down is a fresh vanilla that is not edible, but very sensual, warm, and clean, with hints of lavender. The opening however, did not need that geranium note. It adds a bit of an unnecessary bite that is overpowering. As it develops on skin, you do get wafts of the vanilla and the cardamom all throughout, and it is the most unisex fragrance in the Gravel collection, IMO. A perfume meant for intimate moments during early autumn.
Across the Ocean: This one is sugary sweet. The cashmere note at the top comes off strong, so if you're not a big fan of it, stay away from this one. I'm enamored with the combination of Oud and citrus at the top, but I just wish it was stronger, because cashmere seems to take the spotlight. Develops into a musky, woody vanilla dry down with hints of rose here and there. The performance is strong. For some reason, I get hints of berry when I first spray it, but it's not listed in the notes. It's very feminine in my opinion, and if sprayed sparingly, it creates a beautiful cloud. 1-2 sprays is enough, just so it can wafts gently when people walk past you.
46th Street: My least favorite. No matter how much I let it dry down on my skin, I can't shake off the smell of cooking herbs and spices. The wild berries and birch at the top is a very interesting combination that had so much potential, just for it to be overpowered and murdered by the Cypriol Oil. The oud is undetectable, and the ambergris adds a hint of something unpleasant and pungent. I know they attempted to create something Oriental but I just don't see it. Leathery and smokey, but just not that impressive and could do without a few notes. Masculine in an old man way, I think a very small audience can rock this.
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Evolution: I am not exaggerating, at all, when I say that this smells exactly like a bar of soap, and not in a good way. The notes of aldehydes at the top overpower literally every other note in this perfume, EXCEPT the ambergris, which clashes really poorly with the clean vibe the perfumer was originally going for. It adds on a little bit of dirtiness in the dry down, and it's very off putting. I feel like people don't believe me when I say it smells like a dirty Dove bar soap, but please do before you purchase this.
American Dream: I wasn't too excited after seeing the notes, but this ended up being my favorite. I know for a fact Trey MacDougal from SATC wore this, it just makes perfect sense to me given the name and the nature of the fragrance. A rich gentleman's perfume, but could also smell amazing on women. The citrus at the top comes off a bit too sharp at first, probably because of the basil note, but the dry down is very attractive. Fresh, aromatic, and a bit sweet because of the lavender and Tonka, with a musky finish. I don't detect much moss.
Hudson River NY: The dry down is great on this one, but I'm not a big fan of the opening. The dry down is a fresh vanilla that is not edible, but very sensual, warm, and clean, with hints of lavender. The opening however, did not need that geranium note. It adds a bit of an unnecessary bite that is overpowering. As it develops on skin, you do get wafts of the vanilla and the cardamom all throughout, and it is the most unisex fragrance in the Gravel collection, IMO. A perfume meant for intimate moments during early autumn.
Across the Ocean: This one is sugary sweet. The cashmere note at the top comes off strong, so if you're not a big fan of it, stay away from this one. I'm enamored with the combination of Oud and citrus at the top, but I just wish it was stronger, because cashmere seems to take the spotlight. Develops into a musky, woody vanilla dry down with hints of rose here and there. The performance is strong. For some reason, I get hints of berry when I first spray it, but it's not listed in the notes. It's very feminine in my opinion, and if sprayed sparingly, it creates a beautiful cloud. 1-2 sprays is enough, just so it can wafts gently when people walk past you.
46th Street: My least favorite. No matter how much I let it dry down on my skin, I can't shake off the smell of cooking herbs and spices. The wild berries and birch at the top is a very interesting combination that had so much potential, just for it to be overpowered and murdered by the Cypriol Oil. The oud is undetectable, and the ambergris adds a hint of something unpleasant and pungent. I know they attempted to create something Oriental but I just don't see it. Leathery and smokey, but just not that impressive and could do without a few notes. Masculine in an old man way, I think a very small audience can rock this.
2024.05.21 14:40 SirDemonPan it aint lookin too hot team
 | https://preview.redd.it/c8n8zmegyr1d1.png?width=1602&format=png&auto=webp&s=d35933b681fea5a55dcfc4497f8133cc86d46afe submitted by SirDemonPan to BoothillMains [link] [comments] so my boothill isnt looking too hot in terms of BE but especially SPD, the thing is however, I do plan on using my Ruan Mei and E3 Bronya (every 50/50 ive lost was to her), how much does that increase his speed by? |
2024.05.21 14:40 ahh_itsarian Beats Studio Buds + review
So i bought the regular studio buds in blue for my father, and pink for my girlfriend (which she thinks is so cute) and i have to say, the sound on them are pretty decent compared to regular airpods, definitely better on clarity and bass in my opinion. You can hear every note, snare, beat, etc. Are they worth 150$? Absolutely not. But if you buy a pair from a trustworthy tech shop on ebay in good condition for 40-60$… it is most definitely worth it.
Now onto the beats studio buds plus. Oh my days, the noise cancelling is almost twice as better. The microphone has been drastically improved for better call quality and voice isolation from background noise. You could be in a loud warehouse, busy street, or around the house with the kids and nobody on the other line would ever know!!! Your voice sounds so clear if you record a voice note. Once you play music, the bass is still punchy but they improved the overall sound quality on these and fixed the treble. Transparency mode is okay, not the best unless you set your music at like 40-60%… anything above that makes it hard to be aware of your surroundings. Are they worth 170$? I want to say yes, but i’d rather buy them barely used in good condition for 50-70$ 😂cause why spend the extra money?? How do they stack up compared to airpod pros? They’re definitely up there, depending on your taste in music because airpod pros have a more refined sound to them, have better transparency mode, and slightly better noise cancelling. But the microphone quality on the airpod pros are garbage compared to beats, so well done to the Beats studio buds+ in that department!!
I have already ordered the beats fit pros in sage gray so i will either make a new post about those or just update this post later on in time. Cheers fellas!!!
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Now onto the beats studio buds plus. Oh my days, the noise cancelling is almost twice as better. The microphone has been drastically improved for better call quality and voice isolation from background noise. You could be in a loud warehouse, busy street, or around the house with the kids and nobody on the other line would ever know!!! Your voice sounds so clear if you record a voice note. Once you play music, the bass is still punchy but they improved the overall sound quality on these and fixed the treble. Transparency mode is okay, not the best unless you set your music at like 40-60%… anything above that makes it hard to be aware of your surroundings. Are they worth 170$? I want to say yes, but i’d rather buy them barely used in good condition for 50-70$ 😂cause why spend the extra money?? How do they stack up compared to airpod pros? They’re definitely up there, depending on your taste in music because airpod pros have a more refined sound to them, have better transparency mode, and slightly better noise cancelling. But the microphone quality on the airpod pros are garbage compared to beats, so well done to the Beats studio buds+ in that department!!
I have already ordered the beats fit pros in sage gray so i will either make a new post about those or just update this post later on in time. Cheers fellas!!!
2024.05.21 14:39 rhynst Loot's better but just me or is the gameplay worse?
The new codex system, and spending less time looking at the loot, are both huge wins.
But the gameplay / rhythm seems completely out of tune doesn't it? I've seen lots of feedback that it's great that you can level to 100 quickly and get straight to the 'real' game. That seems to be the majority view, and coming from PoE where many people want to skip the campaign and are in the mid to late 'endgame' by day 3, I completely get it. It's how most people prefer it. I'd just like to voice a different point of view though from someone who enjoys the journey as much as, if not more so, than the destination.
I've played two characters so far, one via campaign, one skipping campaign. As other posts have stated, the campaign difficulty is now trivial, I don't think I drank my potion more than 5 times the whole campaign. So skill and equipment choice (you know, the core of the aRPG experience) didn't really matter for the campaign - just pick a skill that feels good, and just go for offensive stats everywhere. It felt like there was more experience being awarded throughout the campaign too, so by the time I was done with the first few main quests, it was a matter of ignoring all the side quests and rushing to the end, lest I end up level 50+ in the campaign and waste more time than I needed doing the trivial content.
Then for me it was very easy to go into T3 at level 45 or so at the end of campaign. First activity in the open world? Do some helltides, which was the first time the content was challenging. But of course ended up at one of the accursed rituals with some randoms, and a few cycles of other players doing all the work ended with me being decked out with up to date, sacred legendary gear. So that challenging phase lasted all of 15 minutes or so. Off to WT4.
Rinse repeat. First 20 mins was challenging. Then get carried by randoms through more helltide rituals or world boss events, and content is easy again.
Then it's just NMDs and the pit. It's like how D3 endgame was just grifts and infernal machines. Fine for a bit but ultimately just a question of how much repetition you enjoy.
Second character who skipped the campaign was much the same, except going straight into the 'get carried by randoms' phase.
Is that really how we want progression to be? Just yo-yoing from trivial content to having loot handed to you by randoms in the world events? And then straight into the endgame loop, which only offers 2 or 3 activities?
And before anyone says 'you didn't have to do the open world events' - I mean sure, but that's half the midgame activities the game has to offer. Just doing NMDs and pits only doesn't leave much in the way of gameplay either.
Oh and it doesn't help that I crash all the time when I never used to before this season, and had to turn all my graphics down to low to reduce it happening (still does at least once an hour).
TLDR: there was / can be good gameplay in the campaign, leveling and early endgame process. They lost it all in this patch.
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But the gameplay / rhythm seems completely out of tune doesn't it? I've seen lots of feedback that it's great that you can level to 100 quickly and get straight to the 'real' game. That seems to be the majority view, and coming from PoE where many people want to skip the campaign and are in the mid to late 'endgame' by day 3, I completely get it. It's how most people prefer it. I'd just like to voice a different point of view though from someone who enjoys the journey as much as, if not more so, than the destination.
I've played two characters so far, one via campaign, one skipping campaign. As other posts have stated, the campaign difficulty is now trivial, I don't think I drank my potion more than 5 times the whole campaign. So skill and equipment choice (you know, the core of the aRPG experience) didn't really matter for the campaign - just pick a skill that feels good, and just go for offensive stats everywhere. It felt like there was more experience being awarded throughout the campaign too, so by the time I was done with the first few main quests, it was a matter of ignoring all the side quests and rushing to the end, lest I end up level 50+ in the campaign and waste more time than I needed doing the trivial content.
Then for me it was very easy to go into T3 at level 45 or so at the end of campaign. First activity in the open world? Do some helltides, which was the first time the content was challenging. But of course ended up at one of the accursed rituals with some randoms, and a few cycles of other players doing all the work ended with me being decked out with up to date, sacred legendary gear. So that challenging phase lasted all of 15 minutes or so. Off to WT4.
Rinse repeat. First 20 mins was challenging. Then get carried by randoms through more helltide rituals or world boss events, and content is easy again.
Then it's just NMDs and the pit. It's like how D3 endgame was just grifts and infernal machines. Fine for a bit but ultimately just a question of how much repetition you enjoy.
Second character who skipped the campaign was much the same, except going straight into the 'get carried by randoms' phase.
Is that really how we want progression to be? Just yo-yoing from trivial content to having loot handed to you by randoms in the world events? And then straight into the endgame loop, which only offers 2 or 3 activities?
And before anyone says 'you didn't have to do the open world events' - I mean sure, but that's half the midgame activities the game has to offer. Just doing NMDs and pits only doesn't leave much in the way of gameplay either.
Oh and it doesn't help that I crash all the time when I never used to before this season, and had to turn all my graphics down to low to reduce it happening (still does at least once an hour).
TLDR: there was / can be good gameplay in the campaign, leveling and early endgame process. They lost it all in this patch.
2024.05.21 14:39 MJ12_Trooper The helmet issue barely no one talks about - rehashed and dumbed down
Ayt, i'm bored out of my mind, i'm suffering from ADHD so I just had to make a post.
TLTR: Gordon has no helmet canonically... maybe, potentially, figuratively even... we don't know.
So some people STILL believe this myth, and this should be extremely easy to demystify since there are people like Chuck Jones telling us otherwise. BUT, even in the face of evidence sceptics still think that Gordon has some kind of retractable helmet or that he's detaching it manually for variety of reasons. Some even say that the HUD is hypothetical for the sake of gameplay... but i'm getting ahead of myself...
Since there aren't any verified official or unofficial hints as to why the heads-up display appears at all even though the in-game model doesn't seem to be wearing the helmet, or how in basically every single splash art or box art starting from the OG vanilla version of HL till Episode 2 practically, Gordon's hazard suit is exposed up there. I mean hell, in EP2 you can see both Gordon & Alyx getting away from a pissed off hunter in the background. Let's explore the things we're already familiar with:
a): Headcrabs CAN'T successfully latch onto the player. Helmet seems to be the only barrier deflecting headcrabs and keeping your body safe from ballistics, if you're submerged in toxic or otherwise radioactive waste found in BWPP, it keeps you high (with morphine) and dry (with operational vent systems). This is the reason why Gordon isn't getting 5th degree burns from swimming in glowing acid or withstanding a nade shrapnel to the face...
b) The PS2 port, Half-Life: Decay is dragging us down with it's incoherency. At the very start of the co-op segment you can clearly see either Colette or Gina (depending on which one you play as) with absolutely no head protection whatsoever even though their body is covered neck-to-toe in HEVS. This AGAIN prompts me to believe that either Valve doesn't care about it and let's the decision "be" for the sake of style or some weird thematic direction but... making the same mistake twice? You're telling me... Chuck just decided "fuck it" and let Pitchford take control of the license? This wouldn't be so strange if the same situation could be said for Shepard BUT the guy is wearing a chargeable P.C.V. he isn't feeling anything up there. Fully equipped vest with ammo count and vital sign tab functioning like in the case of hazard suit, not to mention his face is completely covered on the big box release that's soaked in so much green I got a permanent silhouette imprint on ma' optic nerve.
c) Gordon's markIV suit doesn't have a visible helmet to begin with... You get out of the tram, meet your first barney, enter anomalous materials chapter, follow wall guidelines, fuck up Arne's lunch with a button press and then finally arrive to the dorm just to see the suit incased inside a glass cylinder. You come closer to observe it intentionally ignoring the console on your second playthrough AAANNNDDD ... yup no helmet. Plain and simple. Even the holographic assistant from Sector A who's teaching you about security and the long jumping module had no helmet. Nada. (i know she's suppose to be Gina Cross but i just can't...)
d) G-man is suppose to be a human correct? i mean we know he has super powers and can teleport but i'm pretty sure that if he is just a human organism with supernatural powers, won't he suffocate in Xen? Or emplode? Or maybe both? In HL:A & HL1 we can clearly see him talking to Gordon and/or Alyx respectively for long period of time completely unbothered by the cosmos, inflating his little lungs with dark matter like it was nothing. Again, canonical we don't even know if Xen has breathable surroundings or not, it's a wild guess just like the fact that you see dead scientists complete with their helmets both in hl1 and blueshift.
There are lots of other minor not so interesting arguments, but these are the key once... wdyt?
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TLTR: Gordon has no helmet canonically... maybe, potentially, figuratively even... we don't know.
So some people STILL believe this myth, and this should be extremely easy to demystify since there are people like Chuck Jones telling us otherwise. BUT, even in the face of evidence sceptics still think that Gordon has some kind of retractable helmet or that he's detaching it manually for variety of reasons. Some even say that the HUD is hypothetical for the sake of gameplay... but i'm getting ahead of myself...
Since there aren't any verified official or unofficial hints as to why the heads-up display appears at all even though the in-game model doesn't seem to be wearing the helmet, or how in basically every single splash art or box art starting from the OG vanilla version of HL till Episode 2 practically, Gordon's hazard suit is exposed up there. I mean hell, in EP2 you can see both Gordon & Alyx getting away from a pissed off hunter in the background. Let's explore the things we're already familiar with:
a): Headcrabs CAN'T successfully latch onto the player. Helmet seems to be the only barrier deflecting headcrabs and keeping your body safe from ballistics, if you're submerged in toxic or otherwise radioactive waste found in BWPP, it keeps you high (with morphine) and dry (with operational vent systems). This is the reason why Gordon isn't getting 5th degree burns from swimming in glowing acid or withstanding a nade shrapnel to the face...
b) The PS2 port, Half-Life: Decay is dragging us down with it's incoherency. At the very start of the co-op segment you can clearly see either Colette or Gina (depending on which one you play as) with absolutely no head protection whatsoever even though their body is covered neck-to-toe in HEVS. This AGAIN prompts me to believe that either Valve doesn't care about it and let's the decision "be" for the sake of style or some weird thematic direction but... making the same mistake twice? You're telling me... Chuck just decided "fuck it" and let Pitchford take control of the license? This wouldn't be so strange if the same situation could be said for Shepard BUT the guy is wearing a chargeable P.C.V. he isn't feeling anything up there. Fully equipped vest with ammo count and vital sign tab functioning like in the case of hazard suit, not to mention his face is completely covered on the big box release that's soaked in so much green I got a permanent silhouette imprint on ma' optic nerve.
c) Gordon's markIV suit doesn't have a visible helmet to begin with... You get out of the tram, meet your first barney, enter anomalous materials chapter, follow wall guidelines, fuck up Arne's lunch with a button press and then finally arrive to the dorm just to see the suit incased inside a glass cylinder. You come closer to observe it intentionally ignoring the console on your second playthrough AAANNNDDD ... yup no helmet. Plain and simple. Even the holographic assistant from Sector A who's teaching you about security and the long jumping module had no helmet. Nada. (i know she's suppose to be Gina Cross but i just can't...)
d) G-man is suppose to be a human correct? i mean we know he has super powers and can teleport but i'm pretty sure that if he is just a human organism with supernatural powers, won't he suffocate in Xen? Or emplode? Or maybe both? In HL:A & HL1 we can clearly see him talking to Gordon and/or Alyx respectively for long period of time completely unbothered by the cosmos, inflating his little lungs with dark matter like it was nothing. Again, canonical we don't even know if Xen has breathable surroundings or not, it's a wild guess just like the fact that you see dead scientists complete with their helmets both in hl1 and blueshift.
There are lots of other minor not so interesting arguments, but these are the key once... wdyt?
2024.05.21 14:38 como365 Measles survivor becomes vaccine champion
 | When Barbara Leonhard was just 6 years old, her life took an intense turn as she and two of her siblings contracted measles during one of the most severe outbreaks in history. Like hundreds of thousands of other children in 1958, all three siblings experienced the typical symptoms of measles. submitted by como365 to columbiamo [link] [comments] “I remember the red spots and feeling miserable,” Leonhard, a Columbia native, said. But Leonhard’s condition quickly escalated into something far more serious: encephalitis, a dangerous inflammation of the brain. She suddenly found herself unable to walk. “I remember being energetic and then suddenly, I couldn’t even climb the stairs. My legs gave out when I was sent upstairs to fetch something for my mother,” Leonard said. “It was terrifying.” Leonhard slipped into a coma that lasted for almost 30 days. During that time, her family was engulfed in several crises. Her father was preoccupied with caring for his own father, who was battling brain cancer, while also attending to his duties as a minister. Leonhard’s mother, with a newborn and two other sick children, was stretched to her limits. “She had to manage everything,” Leonhard said. “There were days I was left under a makeshift tent of blankets with a steamer to help ease my breathing because of the pneumonia risk that comes with measles and encephalitis.” This period was not only a test of physical endurance for Leonhard but also a profound isolation from normal childhood experiences. When she awoke from the coma, the world as she knew it had irrevocably changed. She found herself unable to walk or talk properly, her movements restricted, her speech impaired. “I was paralyzed. I could hardly talk. All the words I could see in my mind, but they came out like baby talk,” she said. Doctors informed her parents that she would never walk again. “They said it right in front of me,” Leonhard said, the memory still vivid. With a resilience that defied the odds, after she turned 7, Leonhard taught herself to walk again. With no professional rehabilitation available, she began her arduous journey. She used furniture for support, painstakingly moving from one piece to the next, each small shuffle a victory. Leonhard’s struggles made her a committed advocate for public awareness of the risks of measles and the importance of vaccination. Her recovery is a rare case. Her journey was marked by gradual milestones, yet some limitations have persisted throughout her life. While she regained the ability to walk, years later she still faces difficulties with activities that require sudden movements or physical agility. “These kinds of movements are just too difficult for me,” Leonhard said. The aftermath of encephalitis left a lasting impact on her cognitive functions, particularly affecting her memory and learning capabilities. These challenges cast a long shadow over her school experiences, contributing to a significant lack of confidence. “I struggled to remember things and I had to work three times harder than everyone else just to keep up,” Leonhard said. Despite these difficulties, Leonhard found solace and expression in writing poetry, which became a vital outlet for her thoughts and emotions. This creative pursuit not only provided a therapeutic escape but also helped her forge a unique academic and career path. “It was how I made sense of my world, the challenges I faced, and it was deeply fulfilling,” she said. Leonhard’s academic path was marked by resilience and success, despite initial doubts about her capabilities. She attended Lake Superior State College in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, for her undergraduate degree in English language, graduating with honors. She continued her education in Missouri, earning her master’s degree at MU in English language and linguistics, with honors once again. “Despite some people’s doubts, I managed to excel academically, earning honors and disproving the skeptics,” Leonhard said. In her professional life, Leonhard leveraged her skills and experiences to build a successful career focused on language and education. She was instrumental in developing an English program, which she led for many years, helping countless students from diverse backgrounds to improve their language skills. “My career has been about helping others find their voice, much like I had to find mine,” Leonhard said. “Every student I helped was a reminder of my journey from that hospital bed to where I am now.” Leonhard continues to advocate for public awareness about the risks of measles and the importance of vaccination. “I write and speak about these issues because I want people to understand the real risks,” Leonhard said. “If sharing my story can encourage even one person to vaccinate their child, then it’s worth it.” In her efforts to spread awareness, Leonhard has published a book titled “Three Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir,” which interweaves her experiences with encephalitis and her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. The memoir serves as a poignant reminder of the long-term effects of illnesses and the human capacity for resilience and recovery. In addition to her writing, Leonhard is actively involved in vaccination advocacy through her collaborations with organizations like Encephalitis International based in the U.K. The society reaches a global audience, providing information and support for individuals affected by encephalitis. Leonhard contributes by sharing her story on their platform, participating in events and using social media to raise public awareness about the importance of vaccinations. Her commitment to this cause is underscored by alarming statistics. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, measles, mumps and rubella vaccination rates in the U.S. have decreased from 95% in the 2019-2020 school year to 93.1% in 2022-2023. This decline has left an additional 250,000 children at risk for measles. The urgency of Leonhard’s message is amplified by the fact that measles can lead to severe complications such as encephalitis, which occurs in as many as three out of every 1,000 children infected by the virus. Among these cases, 10-15% result in death, and 25% suffer permanent neurological damage. “Many people think that measles is a harmless childhood illness — it is not,” said Ava Easton, chief executive of Encephalitis International. “In addition to complications that may include long-term vision problems, pneumonia and encephalitis, which may require hospital treatment and lead to long-term disability or death, measles is so contagious that just a single infected person can infect nine people who are unvaccinated or never had the illness. By comparison, someone with COVID-19 may infect up to three other unvaccinated people. It is vital that parents and caregivers seek advice about the MMR vaccine and other routine childhood immunizations not only for the benefit of their own child’s health, but for the health of others.” Leonhard emphasized the devastating potential of measles, not just as a childhood illness but as a public health threat capable of causing widespread harm. She says vaccination is essential, not only to protect individual health but also to safeguard communities against preventable diseases. Her work aligns with broader efforts to counteract misinformation and vaccine hesitancy, which have become significant barriers to achieving herd immunity in many areas. “I cannot stress enough the critical importance of vaccinations,” Leonhard said. “Measles isn’t just a rash and a fever – it can lead to serious, life-altering conditions like the encephalitis I suffered. We must use our knowledge and tools to protect not just ourselves but also the most vulnerable among us.” |
2024.05.21 14:38 ccrystal444 Postpartum after this new baby.
So who else thinks this postpartum is going to be absolutely bruuutal for her and precum??! If I am correct, she has struggled in the past with postpartum depression and has been miserable after birth. What the hell is she going to do when she’s getting absolutely 0 sleep with a newborn and trying to take care of the other 4?? She already tries to juggle sooo much with her children right now especially with them all being in multiple sports and extra curricular activities how is she going to manage that with a newborn? Luckily she had the help and support of Oscar and his family after all the other pregnancies but that isn’t the case anymore. If that douche bag of a husband she has hasn’t already slept with another woman or been wanting to it’s 100% going to happen especially during newborn time when she isn’t able to have sex let alone be in the mood for it. I don’t think they’re realizing that this new addition to their already insane lives might very well be the thing that breaks them apart/ruins it all for them. It’s not the poor innocent baby’s fault of course, it’s their own, and honestly i’m all for them looking like fools so…Have fun having your 3sums now when your going to have a child with you 24/7 rather than 50% of the time like you guys are used to. When do yall think the new nanny’s coming?? and who thinks precum will have an affair with her??
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2024.05.21 14:37 Mysfunction New Headcanon: SANDBAGS OF BEER!
Ok, so I had a hilarious GG dream couple weeks ago, and my partner and I have been quoting it and slipping it into all our conversations so much that at this point I’m almost convinced it’s a deleted scene.
I thought maybe it was worth spreading the joy lol.
So basically, it was at Lane and Zack’s wedding, there’s still some set up going on for the main party, and Lane says something about waiting for Zack to get back because he got a great deal on the kegs of beer. Pan across the street to Zack pulling a little red wagon with two humongous grain sacks standing upright and open on it, looking super stoked. Lane rushes towards him, asking (in the tone she uses when asking about the rest of the money after they bought the sound system) “where are the kegs, Zack?!?” Zack responds loudly as he enthusiastically gestures towards the sacks, “Sandbags of beer Lane! SANDBAGS OF BEER!” Lane is in disbelief, hoping she’s misunderstanding what she’s seeing, and asks again, “okay Zack, but what about the KEGS? THE KEGS of beer?!?” Zack is a bit frustrated that she just isn’t getting how awesome this is, as he again exclaims, “sandbags of BEER, Lane!” And again in his slightly whinier, ‘don’t embarrass me in front of the guys’ tone, “Lane, it’s BEER! In SANDBAGS! It’s SANDBAGS of BEER!!!”
End scene 😂
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I thought maybe it was worth spreading the joy lol.
So basically, it was at Lane and Zack’s wedding, there’s still some set up going on for the main party, and Lane says something about waiting for Zack to get back because he got a great deal on the kegs of beer. Pan across the street to Zack pulling a little red wagon with two humongous grain sacks standing upright and open on it, looking super stoked. Lane rushes towards him, asking (in the tone she uses when asking about the rest of the money after they bought the sound system) “where are the kegs, Zack?!?” Zack responds loudly as he enthusiastically gestures towards the sacks, “Sandbags of beer Lane! SANDBAGS OF BEER!” Lane is in disbelief, hoping she’s misunderstanding what she’s seeing, and asks again, “okay Zack, but what about the KEGS? THE KEGS of beer?!?” Zack is a bit frustrated that she just isn’t getting how awesome this is, as he again exclaims, “sandbags of BEER, Lane!” And again in his slightly whinier, ‘don’t embarrass me in front of the guys’ tone, “Lane, it’s BEER! In SANDBAGS! It’s SANDBAGS of BEER!!!”
End scene 😂
2024.05.21 14:33 yaogauiasaurus Update: I took in a stray, life is stress
So boyo messages me from school yesterday. Dad HAD showed up. Chased the poor guy into the school. Luckily my oldest son is just as protective as I am and was by his side sheep dogging him. They bee line it to the guidance counselor office and the principal escorts dad out of the school. (Thank goodness for the school. And the principal. Ang the guidance counselor. Superstars)
I picked the kids up. Dad files a missing persons report. Now....I'm a huge fan of true crime so it tickles me to no end that I had a missing person in my home, if only briefly. We pass the police station on the way home and boyo points out his dad's truck is there and I'm like....here we go. It's time to get official.
So when I got home I called the police. I told them that I have Mr boyo the missing teenager in my protective custody. They send a copper to talk to me, he was a nice cop. I liked him. Officer friendly said he couldn't believe the missing persons report was even filed as boyo had attended school. So he does some back and forth with dad.... What I got from it was that they wouldn't have made boyo return to his dad ANYWAY, but Dad agrees to let him stay with me. Police didn't divulge any of my info, and dad sent some clothes for him (not much, and no toothbrush) and some of his meds (only a weeks worth) and copper says that it's on record that boyo is allowed to reside with me, and didnt feel safe in dads home, in case he tries to kick up a fuss.
Now I think the sending only a week of meds is a ploy. To get boyo to have to initiate contact. He has proper withdrawals without them. (not narcotics or even ADHD meds, nothing like that) I'm working with step mom to try to get an emergency RX sent in to the pharmacy to circumvent that. But in case I can't I'm trying to prepare boyo to have to deal with dad.
It's been a trip. It's been a treat. But...... We've come far in like 3 days. And boyo seems happy and comfortable. Especially now that he has his meds.
But I've got 6 days to figure out how to get more.
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I picked the kids up. Dad files a missing persons report. Now....I'm a huge fan of true crime so it tickles me to no end that I had a missing person in my home, if only briefly. We pass the police station on the way home and boyo points out his dad's truck is there and I'm like....here we go. It's time to get official.
So when I got home I called the police. I told them that I have Mr boyo the missing teenager in my protective custody. They send a copper to talk to me, he was a nice cop. I liked him. Officer friendly said he couldn't believe the missing persons report was even filed as boyo had attended school. So he does some back and forth with dad.... What I got from it was that they wouldn't have made boyo return to his dad ANYWAY, but Dad agrees to let him stay with me. Police didn't divulge any of my info, and dad sent some clothes for him (not much, and no toothbrush) and some of his meds (only a weeks worth) and copper says that it's on record that boyo is allowed to reside with me, and didnt feel safe in dads home, in case he tries to kick up a fuss.
Now I think the sending only a week of meds is a ploy. To get boyo to have to initiate contact. He has proper withdrawals without them. (not narcotics or even ADHD meds, nothing like that) I'm working with step mom to try to get an emergency RX sent in to the pharmacy to circumvent that. But in case I can't I'm trying to prepare boyo to have to deal with dad.
It's been a trip. It's been a treat. But...... We've come far in like 3 days. And boyo seems happy and comfortable. Especially now that he has his meds.
But I've got 6 days to figure out how to get more.
2024.05.21 14:31 ELD3R_GoD If I were in charge of balancing. A long post.
Hi guys, here is what I'd change if I were going to improve Helldivers 2, specifically with weapon balance changes. This'll be a long post and I can only balance what I have access to so the following weapons may only receive passing mention or observation.
Arc-12 Blitzer (Weak)
Eruptor (Gutted Completely)
CB-9 Exploding Crossbow (Seen in use once, player hated it)
GP-31 Grenade Pistol (No Observation)
Plas-101 Purifier (No Observation)
P-113 Verdict (No Observation)
Obviously, these are my opinions but I'd love to hear what other people think if I have over buffed or nerfed. I may do the Stratagems not listed here as well as go over the armours if people like this, no TLDR, sorry.
BALANCING:
PRIMARIES:
AR-23 Liberator: My favourite weapon that I feel is mostly in a good place. I would up the damage slightly.
Damage: 60 70
AR-23C Liberator Concussive: I rarely see this weapon used, the concussive effect is more annoying than useful, the slow rate of fire and high recoil sucks and it doesn't deal enough damage. If weapon customization isn't coming, I would personally give this a grenade launcher attachment that fires some form of stun grenade. Another option is to have the rounds effect enemies around the target in a small radius.
Damage: 65 75
Recoil: 28 22
Fire Rate: 320 480
AR-23P Liberator Penetrator: I'm unsure why damage seems reduced so much when a weapon is given medium armour penetration. It removes any effectiveness vs. lower tier enemies and still only tickles medium armour enemies. Make it over-penetrate smaller enemies and hit targets behind them.
Damage: 45 60
AR-61 Tenderiser: Needs more stopping power as per description.
Damage: 60 75
BR-14 Adjudicator: I actually think this rifle is in a really good place.
R-63 Diligence: The two Marksman Rifles don't offer enough in general. They need high damage and higher weak-point damage. I suggest that this weapon also be 'suppressed' in some way, alerting enemies less than it's counter-part.
Damage: 125 135
Weak-point Damage: +30%
R-63CS Diligence Counter Sniper: Same as above but it should have a louder profile and over-penetrate smaller enemies.
Damage: 140 150
Weak-Point Damage +35%
MP-98 Knight: A weapon I love to use, hindered by it's capacity.
Damage: 50 45
Capacity: 50 90
Movement Buff: 5%
SMG-37 Defender: In many ways superior to the current Liberator, with the buffs to the Liberator, I would simply give this weapon a player movement buff as above.
Movement Buff: 5%
SMG-72 Pummeller: Extremely good weapon, although not my personal favourite, I would also give this the movement buff.
Movement Buff: 5%
SG-8 Punisher: I find this weapon is in a pretty good place. It should damage limbs more effectively.
SG-8S Slugger: When compared to the Punisher, this shotgun is seriously lacking. The damage is too little, the medium armour pen doesn't feel there at all. It needs to blow holes in big things and over-penetrate small things. Needs a higher body weak-point damage (Hulk Face/SpeweChargeTitan butts).
Damage: 250 400
Weak-point: 30%
SG-225 Breaker: Needs it's capacity increased.
Capacity: 13 20
SG-225IE Breaker Incendiary: Pretty well used in most games I play, I think it's in a good enough place currently.
SG-225SP Breaker Spray&Pray: This weapon is so bad it hurts. It struggles to kill even the bottom tier enemies with one shot and anything bigger than a warrior takes practically a full magazine. it's a spray and pray and as such, should reflect that.
Damage: 192 280
Recoil: 45 70
Fire Rate: 330 500
Jar-5 Dominator: Generally I think this weapon is in a good spot, I'd maybe increase the damage slightly and give it over-penetration on smaller enemies.
Damage: 275 280
SG-8P Punisher Plasma: This is an odd weapon that feels pretty flaccid when shooting. I would assume plasma would melt armoured points but it doesn't seem to do that very well either.
Damage: 250 300
Weak-point damage: 30%
Melts armoured parts of enemies.
Las-5 Scythe: I actually really enjoy this weapon and feel it needs to simply do a bit more damage to limbs.
Las-16 Sickle: Also in a really good spot.
Plas-1 Scorcher: I would have this also melt weak points on enemies after a few shots, otherwise feels fine generally. I do think that when compared to the dominator, this is practically a down grade every time so it needs something the dominator can't do like melting carapaces etc.
SECONDARIES:
P-4 Senator: Great place now it has the speed-loader. I would let it over-penetrate smaller enemies.
P-2 Peacemaker: I would increase the damage slightly as the P-4 and P-19 always feel like superior options. Damage: 75 85
P-19 Redeemer: Great weapon, no adjustments.
Las-7 Dagger: Like the Scythe, this pistol needs to deal increased limb damage but is otherwise fine in my opinion.
GRENADES:
Impact grenades need to be less strong than their timed variants. Timed grenades are rarely seen in any of the games I play, similarly Smoke, Stun and Thermite are never used.
G-3 Smoke: It's obscuring effect needs to have some effect where enemies suppress, pause, and then search, completely losing the players position unless spotted or fired upon. Currently, they have absolutely no use other grenades can't compensate for.
G-6: Frag: The radius of the fragmentation needs to be higher and the damage slightly upped, dropping off over the larger radius. It also needs to suppress enemies more who are hit.
Damage: 300 dropping down to 200 on the Outer Radius.
Outer Radius: 8 -- > 12
G-10 Incendiary: Also needs a larger radius than it's impact counter-part, I think damage is fine.
Outer Radius: 7 9
G-12 High Explosive: Again needs a larger radius than it's impact counter-part, I also think the damage could be increased due to it's larger size and perhaps a slightly higher penetration.
Damage: 400 450
Penetration: 4 5
Outer Radius: 7 8
G-13 Incendiary Impact: I feel that due to their size and nature, impact should have a smaller radius and lower damage in some cases, fire is fire so this doesn't need a lower damage. If the other incendiary is buffed, this grenade needs no changes.
G-16 Impact: Needs a slight reduction in outer radius, otherwise fine. As above, if the timed grenade is buffed, I think this would be fine.
G-23 Stun: I actually think this grenade is fine. I think this is down to the player base and people preferring to blow stuff up than stun it.
G-123 Thermite: I think this grenade needs to activate slightly quicker. I feel that when attached to an enemy, the enemy should also lose track of the player and potentially attack whatever is closest in a sense of panic or confusion. If the idea is this grenade exposes parts, it's not doing enough and if the idea is it kills heavily armoured enemies, it's also not doing enough.
SUPPORT WEAPONS:
Obviously there are no stats on these weapons however I'd like to make some suggestions on some of them, the below weapons are in a good place.
AC-8 Autocannon
RL-77 Airburst Rocket Launcher
EAT-17
GL-21 Grenade Launcher
MG-43
LAS-99 Quasar Cannon
The following need buffs or changes.
M-105 Stalwart: It feels like this should be a primary. Other than that, it's fine.
FLAM-40 Flamethrower: I would like this to drop with a backpack option so you can either chose to roll with the smaller ammo, or the larger ammo count. The tank should let you should further and for longer at the cost of potentially exploding if shot.
MG-206 Heavy Machine Gun: I'd also like to see this with a backpack ammunition option, making it belt-fed. It should also have over-penetration on smaller enemies and rip chunks off the big boys.
FAF-14 Spear: Do I need to say anything? Lock-on issues aside, it needs to one shot basically everything. I'd also like it to be able to tag player marks including smaller enemies and the environment and I'd like a 'hold-R' option to switch the missiles to airburst or standard.
GR-8 Recoilless Rifle: As above, I would like this to have a fire-option to shoot HE/Flak or AP.
APW-1 Anti-Material Rifle: Needs over-penetration on small enemies.
RS-422 Railgun: With other stratagems being buffed, there is no reason that this can't be reverted with a slightly lowered capacity from 20 12
LAS-98 Laser Cannon: Needs to melt carapace and armour to expose them to weak-points and needs higher limb damage but is otherwise fine.
ARC-3 Arc Thrower: It needs a higher damage and a stun effect on enemies hit. Enemies dying could cause a miniature EMS cloud effect in a small radius.
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Arc-12 Blitzer (Weak)
Eruptor (Gutted Completely)
CB-9 Exploding Crossbow (Seen in use once, player hated it)
GP-31 Grenade Pistol (No Observation)
Plas-101 Purifier (No Observation)
P-113 Verdict (No Observation)
Obviously, these are my opinions but I'd love to hear what other people think if I have over buffed or nerfed. I may do the Stratagems not listed here as well as go over the armours if people like this, no TLDR, sorry.
BALANCING:
PRIMARIES:
AR-23 Liberator: My favourite weapon that I feel is mostly in a good place. I would up the damage slightly.
Damage: 60 70
AR-23C Liberator Concussive: I rarely see this weapon used, the concussive effect is more annoying than useful, the slow rate of fire and high recoil sucks and it doesn't deal enough damage. If weapon customization isn't coming, I would personally give this a grenade launcher attachment that fires some form of stun grenade. Another option is to have the rounds effect enemies around the target in a small radius.
Damage: 65 75
Recoil: 28 22
Fire Rate: 320 480
AR-23P Liberator Penetrator: I'm unsure why damage seems reduced so much when a weapon is given medium armour penetration. It removes any effectiveness vs. lower tier enemies and still only tickles medium armour enemies. Make it over-penetrate smaller enemies and hit targets behind them.
Damage: 45 60
AR-61 Tenderiser: Needs more stopping power as per description.
Damage: 60 75
BR-14 Adjudicator: I actually think this rifle is in a really good place.
R-63 Diligence: The two Marksman Rifles don't offer enough in general. They need high damage and higher weak-point damage. I suggest that this weapon also be 'suppressed' in some way, alerting enemies less than it's counter-part.
Damage: 125 135
Weak-point Damage: +30%
R-63CS Diligence Counter Sniper: Same as above but it should have a louder profile and over-penetrate smaller enemies.
Damage: 140 150
Weak-Point Damage +35%
MP-98 Knight: A weapon I love to use, hindered by it's capacity.
Damage: 50 45
Capacity: 50 90
Movement Buff: 5%
SMG-37 Defender: In many ways superior to the current Liberator, with the buffs to the Liberator, I would simply give this weapon a player movement buff as above.
Movement Buff: 5%
SMG-72 Pummeller: Extremely good weapon, although not my personal favourite, I would also give this the movement buff.
Movement Buff: 5%
SG-8 Punisher: I find this weapon is in a pretty good place. It should damage limbs more effectively.
SG-8S Slugger: When compared to the Punisher, this shotgun is seriously lacking. The damage is too little, the medium armour pen doesn't feel there at all. It needs to blow holes in big things and over-penetrate small things. Needs a higher body weak-point damage (Hulk Face/SpeweChargeTitan butts).
Damage: 250 400
Weak-point: 30%
SG-225 Breaker: Needs it's capacity increased.
Capacity: 13 20
SG-225IE Breaker Incendiary: Pretty well used in most games I play, I think it's in a good enough place currently.
SG-225SP Breaker Spray&Pray: This weapon is so bad it hurts. It struggles to kill even the bottom tier enemies with one shot and anything bigger than a warrior takes practically a full magazine. it's a spray and pray and as such, should reflect that.
Damage: 192 280
Recoil: 45 70
Fire Rate: 330 500
Jar-5 Dominator: Generally I think this weapon is in a good spot, I'd maybe increase the damage slightly and give it over-penetration on smaller enemies.
Damage: 275 280
SG-8P Punisher Plasma: This is an odd weapon that feels pretty flaccid when shooting. I would assume plasma would melt armoured points but it doesn't seem to do that very well either.
Damage: 250 300
Weak-point damage: 30%
Melts armoured parts of enemies.
Las-5 Scythe: I actually really enjoy this weapon and feel it needs to simply do a bit more damage to limbs.
Las-16 Sickle: Also in a really good spot.
Plas-1 Scorcher: I would have this also melt weak points on enemies after a few shots, otherwise feels fine generally. I do think that when compared to the dominator, this is practically a down grade every time so it needs something the dominator can't do like melting carapaces etc.
SECONDARIES:
P-4 Senator: Great place now it has the speed-loader. I would let it over-penetrate smaller enemies.
P-2 Peacemaker: I would increase the damage slightly as the P-4 and P-19 always feel like superior options. Damage: 75 85
P-19 Redeemer: Great weapon, no adjustments.
Las-7 Dagger: Like the Scythe, this pistol needs to deal increased limb damage but is otherwise fine in my opinion.
GRENADES:
Impact grenades need to be less strong than their timed variants. Timed grenades are rarely seen in any of the games I play, similarly Smoke, Stun and Thermite are never used.
G-3 Smoke: It's obscuring effect needs to have some effect where enemies suppress, pause, and then search, completely losing the players position unless spotted or fired upon. Currently, they have absolutely no use other grenades can't compensate for.
G-6: Frag: The radius of the fragmentation needs to be higher and the damage slightly upped, dropping off over the larger radius. It also needs to suppress enemies more who are hit.
Damage: 300 dropping down to 200 on the Outer Radius.
Outer Radius: 8 -- > 12
G-10 Incendiary: Also needs a larger radius than it's impact counter-part, I think damage is fine.
Outer Radius: 7 9
G-12 High Explosive: Again needs a larger radius than it's impact counter-part, I also think the damage could be increased due to it's larger size and perhaps a slightly higher penetration.
Damage: 400 450
Penetration: 4 5
Outer Radius: 7 8
G-13 Incendiary Impact: I feel that due to their size and nature, impact should have a smaller radius and lower damage in some cases, fire is fire so this doesn't need a lower damage. If the other incendiary is buffed, this grenade needs no changes.
G-16 Impact: Needs a slight reduction in outer radius, otherwise fine. As above, if the timed grenade is buffed, I think this would be fine.
G-23 Stun: I actually think this grenade is fine. I think this is down to the player base and people preferring to blow stuff up than stun it.
G-123 Thermite: I think this grenade needs to activate slightly quicker. I feel that when attached to an enemy, the enemy should also lose track of the player and potentially attack whatever is closest in a sense of panic or confusion. If the idea is this grenade exposes parts, it's not doing enough and if the idea is it kills heavily armoured enemies, it's also not doing enough.
SUPPORT WEAPONS:
Obviously there are no stats on these weapons however I'd like to make some suggestions on some of them, the below weapons are in a good place.
AC-8 Autocannon
RL-77 Airburst Rocket Launcher
EAT-17
GL-21 Grenade Launcher
MG-43
LAS-99 Quasar Cannon
The following need buffs or changes.
M-105 Stalwart: It feels like this should be a primary. Other than that, it's fine.
FLAM-40 Flamethrower: I would like this to drop with a backpack option so you can either chose to roll with the smaller ammo, or the larger ammo count. The tank should let you should further and for longer at the cost of potentially exploding if shot.
MG-206 Heavy Machine Gun: I'd also like to see this with a backpack ammunition option, making it belt-fed. It should also have over-penetration on smaller enemies and rip chunks off the big boys.
FAF-14 Spear: Do I need to say anything? Lock-on issues aside, it needs to one shot basically everything. I'd also like it to be able to tag player marks including smaller enemies and the environment and I'd like a 'hold-R' option to switch the missiles to airburst or standard.
GR-8 Recoilless Rifle: As above, I would like this to have a fire-option to shoot HE/Flak or AP.
APW-1 Anti-Material Rifle: Needs over-penetration on small enemies.
RS-422 Railgun: With other stratagems being buffed, there is no reason that this can't be reverted with a slightly lowered capacity from 20 12
LAS-98 Laser Cannon: Needs to melt carapace and armour to expose them to weak-points and needs higher limb damage but is otherwise fine.
ARC-3 Arc Thrower: It needs a higher damage and a stun effect on enemies hit. Enemies dying could cause a miniature EMS cloud effect in a small radius.
Edit: Formatting
2024.05.21 14:28 According_Duck5370 Need help planning my homelab setup
Hi, by researching answers to my questions I found this sub and thought i'll ask directly. I'm a software developer that focused purely on coding and never learned much about infrastructure. Now I'm trying to learn the ropes of servers and started by creating a homelab for myself. I have a fairly strong business Desktop on which i installed Ubuntu at home. Now I need a few suggestions to achieve my goals with it:
The Server should be able to achieve the following: MediaServer FileServer Hosting of Websites and BackendApplications Gaming Server (Like Minecraft or Palworld with being realistic about requirments like low amount of people accessing it) (Optional) Functioning as a remote DevEnvironment
Since I wanna store this desktop away from my desk i thought about using rdp (or xrdp for linux) to access the Linux Machine so i can comfortably configure my server from my windows Desktop or Laptop. So far i ran into a bit of trouble with ubuntu and xrdp because it was very laggy but nothing that can't be fixed by googling some more.
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The Server should be able to achieve the following: MediaServer FileServer Hosting of Websites and BackendApplications Gaming Server (Like Minecraft or Palworld with being realistic about requirments like low amount of people accessing it) (Optional) Functioning as a remote DevEnvironment
Since I wanna store this desktop away from my desk i thought about using rdp (or xrdp for linux) to access the Linux Machine so i can comfortably configure my server from my windows Desktop or Laptop. So far i ran into a bit of trouble with ubuntu and xrdp because it was very laggy but nothing that can't be fixed by googling some more.
- Here are my questions: For People that access their server with a desktop environment what do you use? Or is it just my windows brain still telling me i need a desktop environment at all?
- Is there a best practice to have all your dev tools installed on a server like this and access them remotely to work on from anywhere? Or is it not worth the hassle compared to developing locally?
- Should i just get used to using ssh only and forget about desktop environemnts?
- Can you recommend some tools for my reqs. (I read good things about portainer and running Docker containers for most of it)
- Is installing Apache Guacamole and connecting to my server through ssh and vnc a good approach for my needs?
- I own a domain, how do i go about configuring it in a safe way to make my server accessible for me from anywhere?
2024.05.21 14:28 Correct_Badger9641 Is it worth it??? Where should i go
Waterloo Pros: I really love the program because it is unique and dives into ux/ui, adobe and a little business( has co-op)
Cons: It is expensive, have to commute to Stratford from Waterloo, have heard Waterloo has poor social life
Western Pros: Will have good social life, have heard the program is okay but nothing special (maybe internships)
Cons: Not as exciting of a program but much easier and simple of a program cheaper and more of a typical uni experience ig
For both i would try to find jobs placements and am more worried about western for that if any of u know how hard or easy it is to get an internship at western i would also study abroad at both schools
Despite me liking waterloo program more im not sure if the cons waterloo has for my program outweighs the good enough to make it worth it
If u have any opinion on this as to if it is worth it lmk plz
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Cons: It is expensive, have to commute to Stratford from Waterloo, have heard Waterloo has poor social life
Western Pros: Will have good social life, have heard the program is okay but nothing special (maybe internships)
Cons: Not as exciting of a program but much easier and simple of a program cheaper and more of a typical uni experience ig
For both i would try to find jobs placements and am more worried about western for that if any of u know how hard or easy it is to get an internship at western i would also study abroad at both schools
Despite me liking waterloo program more im not sure if the cons waterloo has for my program outweighs the good enough to make it worth it
If u have any opinion on this as to if it is worth it lmk plz
2024.05.21 14:27 No_Lettuce7271 Job change and search
Hello everyone!
I am writing this post to seek some advice on how to go about job search while I am on my current job. I have been thinking about switching jobs for a while now but what happened yesterday at work has made me rethink my entire career.
For context, I have been working as a Junior App Developer for this healthcare startup company for just over a year now. My main job responsibility is like an on-call engineer who would respond to incidents in production. These tickets usually have a strict and tight timeline and is always a high priority (Goes from high to low like class - 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 etc).
Before I joined this company, I used to work for a FAANG company but due to layoffs, I had to take a massive pay cut in order to support myself. Even though I cracked a job at this FAANG, since this was my first tech job ever right out of school, I was completely lost. It is only here that I got some full-stack web development experience by fixing bugs that come up in production and collaborating with several teams throughout the sprints.
Initially, I liked working for my manager and the team since all of them were patient with me and helped me grow as an engineer. After a while, another guy joined our 5 man team who also worked at a FAANG previously (Intern) but had a lot more experience as a Dev through several internship opportunities. Then, we had another intern join us who had 5-6 different intership positions before joining here as an intern.
After some time for both of them at this current company, I started to get some jokes from my manager and those 2 guys. They would say to me in a joking manner - "Man, we need a {my_name} 2.0 to get through all these tickets" and then, all 3 of them would start laughing. It hurt me to hear that but I kept quite and laughed it off.
Recently, I have been doing really well at work and got the total number of tickets down to 7-8 from the inital 50 something that I started with (obviously with other people's help). However, yesterday something happened that reminded me of those times when my manager and the 1 FTE and the intern used to laugh at me.
The FTE guy went to the room that had my manager, me and another intern (not the same one I mentioned above but a newer one) - "What is the riskiest thing you guys have done recently?". My manager goes "Hiring {my_name}". And I couldn't hear it the first time because my manager is very soft spoken, so I asked the FTE guy again - "What did he say?". He went - "To hire {my_name}". So I laughed it off again and I said out loud "Yeah, but I am trying to best to manage the risk."
All this comes across as a joke on the face of it but I feel like they actually think that I am a bad hire and do not respect me as an engineer and see me as an equal (even though I can wash my manager in Data Structures and Algorithms; he has been more a DevOps guy in the healthcare industry).
Now, this BS is starting to get to me and I want out for 2 reasons. I am looking for a Software job in Canada for immigration purposes and also trying to make more money being an engineer now that I have decent experience (the pay here is shit because I did not know how to negotiate my salary and took the low ball offer out of desperation after getting laid off)
The Questions:
TL;DR: Trying to apply to other jobs while keeping my current one in order to get more salary and leave the toxic teammates and manager taking subliminal shots at my competence. How can I leverage LinkedIn by being invisible to my current connections but be completely visible to potential future employers?
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I am writing this post to seek some advice on how to go about job search while I am on my current job. I have been thinking about switching jobs for a while now but what happened yesterday at work has made me rethink my entire career.
For context, I have been working as a Junior App Developer for this healthcare startup company for just over a year now. My main job responsibility is like an on-call engineer who would respond to incidents in production. These tickets usually have a strict and tight timeline and is always a high priority (Goes from high to low like class - 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 etc).
Before I joined this company, I used to work for a FAANG company but due to layoffs, I had to take a massive pay cut in order to support myself. Even though I cracked a job at this FAANG, since this was my first tech job ever right out of school, I was completely lost. It is only here that I got some full-stack web development experience by fixing bugs that come up in production and collaborating with several teams throughout the sprints.
Initially, I liked working for my manager and the team since all of them were patient with me and helped me grow as an engineer. After a while, another guy joined our 5 man team who also worked at a FAANG previously (Intern) but had a lot more experience as a Dev through several internship opportunities. Then, we had another intern join us who had 5-6 different intership positions before joining here as an intern.
After some time for both of them at this current company, I started to get some jokes from my manager and those 2 guys. They would say to me in a joking manner - "Man, we need a {my_name} 2.0 to get through all these tickets" and then, all 3 of them would start laughing. It hurt me to hear that but I kept quite and laughed it off.
Recently, I have been doing really well at work and got the total number of tickets down to 7-8 from the inital 50 something that I started with (obviously with other people's help). However, yesterday something happened that reminded me of those times when my manager and the 1 FTE and the intern used to laugh at me.
The FTE guy went to the room that had my manager, me and another intern (not the same one I mentioned above but a newer one) - "What is the riskiest thing you guys have done recently?". My manager goes "Hiring {my_name}". And I couldn't hear it the first time because my manager is very soft spoken, so I asked the FTE guy again - "What did he say?". He went - "To hire {my_name}". So I laughed it off again and I said out loud "Yeah, but I am trying to best to manage the risk."
All this comes across as a joke on the face of it but I feel like they actually think that I am a bad hire and do not respect me as an engineer and see me as an equal (even though I can wash my manager in Data Structures and Algorithms; he has been more a DevOps guy in the healthcare industry).
Now, this BS is starting to get to me and I want out for 2 reasons. I am looking for a Software job in Canada for immigration purposes and also trying to make more money being an engineer now that I have decent experience (the pay here is shit because I did not know how to negotiate my salary and took the low ball offer out of desperation after getting laid off)
The Questions:
- How can I apply for Software jobs in Canada using Linkedin?
- How can I tweak my LinkedIn settings so that none of my co workers know what I have been up to but also be visible to potential future employers and make connections with them? Can someone please tell me any settings that they might be aware of?
- Am I taking this too personally? How should I go about this BS and not let if affect me and my work or change my behavior towards them all of a sudden?
TL;DR: Trying to apply to other jobs while keeping my current one in order to get more salary and leave the toxic teammates and manager taking subliminal shots at my competence. How can I leverage LinkedIn by being invisible to my current connections but be completely visible to potential future employers?
2024.05.21 14:27 ProfessionalEntire33 A review of all the courses I took in first year as a life sci student
saw someone do this last year and it really helped me get an idea of the courses i would be doing so thought id do the same with my courses incase it helps anyone else!
First Semester: (2.5 credits)
CHM135: Chemistry: Physical Principles
BIO130: Molecular and Cell Biology
CSC165 HPS110: The Science of Human Nature
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First Semester: (2.5 credits)
CHM135: Chemistry: Physical Principles
- i found this course so hard at first. so hard i scored 50% on the first midterm which absolutely recked me bc i was good at chem in highschool. i decided to put a lot of effort in this course from then on and ended up getting a 100% on the 2nd midterm and above 90 on the final. ended up with a 94% on the course, so working hard gets you the grade for sure. do the tutorial questions theyre so helpful and v similar to what comes on the tests and finals. the lecturers were SO good for chm135, loved them all, they actually teach well.
- i hated this course with a passion. its about ecology which is the topic i find the BORINGEST thing to learn about. i hate it so much. i hated the labs, the lectures - it was all so boring. the lecturers for bio are so monotone and boring i hated them so much. all exams were multiple choice tho and not too hard EXCEPT for the final. i think the class average was probably really high before the final so they made the final SUPER hard, a lot harder than the midterms which was annoying bc i expected something similar in difficulty like the midterms were.
- the most unorganized course. the lecturer was new and went in circles and didnt know how to explain any concept. the course coordinator was bernardo which is so bad lol. the tests were fine. the ACTs (applied communication tasks) were SO badly explained i had to go to sooo many office hours to get info. i think they ended up curving the grade cause i ended up with a A- which i know i couldnt have actually have gotten bc the course went SO badly.
- LOVED this course. if ur looking for a good bird course to do this might be it! i only studied 4 hrs for the midterm and 4 hrs for the final and ended up with an A+ on the course. the lecturer was so bad, he was so unorganized, felt like he didn't prep at all for his lecs but that was fine since all content is learnt through videos they make u watch before class and do questions on (you can find this vids on yt btw). i had absolutely no programming experience when taking this course and yet it was fine, so if youre worried about that, dont be! the course is designed for those with 0 programming experience. the assignments were also so fun to do (although some parts def did make me want to throw my laptop across the room :))
- didnt think this was as bird of a course as uoft reddit made it out to be. its not a hard course, but it requires effort which you dont have time to give to an elective course. i took it with denton so maybe thats why, there were so many readings from the textbook and u had to buy the textbook to access the homework which was SO annoying. got an A- in the course through knowledge i had from a level psych.
BIO130: Molecular and Cell Biology
- again, hated the lecturers. SO monotone. felt like sleeping in lectures. ended up skipping majority of lectures and teaching myself through the textbook and slides. i also attended a few of yips lectures instead of the lecturer i was enrolled in bc i heard he was good. its true, yip is good he's phenomenal. if youre looking for a good prof, its him. lecture hall was ALWAYS packed bc i guess a lot of people did the same thing as me, skipped their own lecturer to go to this one. loved the content of this course, so much better than bio120. ended with an A+ thankfully. its kind of a memorization course.
- had 3 different lecturers for different parts of the course, they all were AMAZING. explained concepts so well. i also loved organic chem from a level chem so this course was nice. it started getting pretty hard near the end but it was fine after watching youtube vids + going to office hours to understand the content better.
- this course was SO AMAZING compared to mat136. i think it was bc there was another coordinator that wasnt bernardo. it was Lindsay shorster (idk if i spelt that right) but i had no complaints about inorganization as i did with mat136. lecturer for this course was SOOOOO good i didnt miss even one lecture bc he was that good. his name was Daniel Hudson. i truly felt like he was excited to teach and was so enthusiastic. the course progressively gets harder fs but not too hard to manage with background knowledge of a level math.
- i took this course bc i found csc108 easy so i was like why not, BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER. this course is so much harder than 108 lmao. it was fine until the midterm. after the midterm it was a shitshow for me lolll. the prof was so good i just found it so hard to understand the harder concepts like recursion and linked lists omg. ended up with an A on the course idk how. i feel like they curved. joonho was so good tho if ur looking for a good prof to pick, pick him. hes funny too.
- i took csc165 and then dropped within the first 2 weeks bc it was not for me with no background in proofs lol. that course made me cry so much. i couldnt seem to understand the course :(. frantically looked for other available courses and stumbled upon hps110 and heard that its an easy bird course so i took it. so this course is about different popular psych topics/ research. there were SO many readings every week like im not kidding they sometimes assigned 60 pages. i never did the readings fully lol. before the midterm and final they give u a bunch of questions that could come up and pick from those to put on the test. so i would just answer those questions fully by looking at the readings, memorize my answers and do the test with that. the TA was such a harsh marker for no reason like please no one cares about ur course. The worst thing about this course as an international student was that its final was scheduled to be on the LAST DAY possible. i had a 18 day gap between my second last exam and this last exam. i could have gone home 18 days before but had to stay for this stupid course. i learnt absolutely nothing from the course do not recommend it at all lmao.
2024.05.21 14:27 Correct_Badger9641 Is it worth it?? Where should I go
Waterloo Pros: I really love the program because it is unique and dives into ux/ui, adobe and a little business( has co-op)
Cons: It is expensive, have to commute to Stratford from Waterloo, have heard Waterloo has poor social life
Western Pros: Will have good social life, have heard the program is okay but nothing special (maybe internships)
Cons: Not as exciting of a program but much easier and simple of a program cheaper and more of a typical uni experience ig
For both i would try to find jobs placements and am more worried about western for that if any of u know how hard or easy it is to get an internship at western i would also study abroad at both schools
Despite me liking waterloo program more im not sure if the cons waterloo has for my program outweighs the good enough to make it worth it
If u have any opinion on this as to if it is worth it lmk plz
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Cons: It is expensive, have to commute to Stratford from Waterloo, have heard Waterloo has poor social life
Western Pros: Will have good social life, have heard the program is okay but nothing special (maybe internships)
Cons: Not as exciting of a program but much easier and simple of a program cheaper and more of a typical uni experience ig
For both i would try to find jobs placements and am more worried about western for that if any of u know how hard or easy it is to get an internship at western i would also study abroad at both schools
Despite me liking waterloo program more im not sure if the cons waterloo has for my program outweighs the good enough to make it worth it
If u have any opinion on this as to if it is worth it lmk plz
2024.05.21 14:26 upbstock prepprrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
The metal Olympics are taking place in the wild world of commodities, with gold, silver and copper-based bronze all scoring a place on the podium. New highs continue to be notched in the latest games, though there is skepticism about the results and the possibilities of a rigged performance. However, for those betting on which medal might be awarded next, there is plenty to consider for all the competitors:
Gold: The yellow metal just hit levels of over $2,450 per ounce despite a strong American economy and U.S. dollar. Analysts have pointed to a coming Fed pivot on interest rates, as well as geopolitical tensions that have increased demand for the safe haven. Not only are investors getting involved, but there has been a large amount of buying from central banks, while the retail crowd is even getting in on the action with gold bars from Costco (COST).
Silver: The metal has outperformed gold in recent weeks, bringing its total gain to 32% YTD, compared to gold's 18% return. It also benefits from all the safe haven attributes of its shiny cousin, such as a popular hedge against inflation, along with some distinctive practical qualities of its own. Silver is used for industrial purposes, like solar panel cells, and is relatively cheap in ounces when compared to pricey gold.
Copper: The latest rip has made numerous headlines after hitting all-time highs on exchanges across the globe. Fear of supply shortages and trade disputes has helped generate buzz around the industrial bellwether, which is also key for the green transition and rising electrification needs. Copper is used in EVs, wind turbines, power transmission and AI data centers, meaning there are actual supply and demand fundamentals to assess when evaluating the worth of the red metal.
Too shiny? The commodity competition can experience chaotic events, with scandals and manipulation hitting items like nickel and cocoa in recent years. There is speculation that this might be going on this time around, triggered by leveraged contract buying, short squeeze momentum, or price premiums on different exchanges. Others see a lot of metal potential that has even resulted in some real-world M&A action, such as BHP's (BHP) $39B proposed takeover of Anglo American (OTCQX:AAUKF), which would create the world's top copper producer.
Wall Street leadership Succession plans are "well on the way" at JPMorgan (JPM), with Jamie Dimon saying it's up to the board to determine how much longer he'll remain CEO. "I think when I can't put the jersey on and give it my full effort, I should leave," he announced at the bank's Investor Day, adding that the timetable "is not five years anymore." Dimon also outlined that the lender will not repurchase a lot of stock at current prices, noting that such a buyback - at a valuation of 2.3 times tangible book value - would be "a mistake." JPM shares slipped 4.5% following the comments on Tuesday, but are up more than 40% over the past year. (60 comments)
Pulling a 180? Cryptocurrencies are back in rally mode as traders increasingly bet on the approval of the first spot ether ETF. While the industry previously did not expect the SEC to give the green light, the regulator has reportedly requested that ETF issuers update 19b-4 filings on an accelerated basis. The development signals some progress, but it doesn't mean it's a done deal. Ether (ETH-USD) is still up big on the news, soaring 20% to $3,708. The SEC's decision on VanEck's spot ether ETF application is expected on Thursday, and one from ARK Invest is due on Friday. (1 comment)
Bear capitulation One of Wall Street's prominent bears has finally turned positive on his outlook for the stock market as indexes continue to hit record highs. Mike Wilson, equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, now calls for the S&P 500 (SP500) to rise to 5,400, higher than his previous year-end target of 4,500, which was one of the lowest on Wall Street. The forecast is derived from a 19x P/E multiple on 12-month forward EPS based on June 2026 of $283. "This earnings path is based on our economists' growth forecasts, output from our earnings models, and our view that AI diffusion will boost margins starting in 2025," Wilson declared. (48 comments)
Today's Markets
In Asia, Japan -0.3%. Hong Kong -2.1%. China -0.4%. India -0.1%. In Europe, at midday, London -0.4%. Paris -1%. Frankfurt -0.4%. Futures at 7:00, Dow flat. S&P flat. Nasdaq -0.1%. Crude -1.4% to $78.16. Gold -0.6% to $2,423.40. Bitcoin +5.8% to $71,004. Ten-year Treasury Yield -2 bps to 4.43%.
Today's Economic Calendar
9:00 Fed's Barkin Speech 9:00 Fed's Waller Speech 9:05 Fed's Williams Speech 9:10 Fed's Bostic Speech 11:45 Fed’s Barr Speech 7:00 PM Fed's Bostic Speech
Companies reporting earnings today »
What else is happening...
WSB survey results: Be aware of risks related to meme rallies.
Gruenberg to quit as FDIC chair after toxic work culture scandal.
Mester: More data needed before Fed cuts as inflation progress stalls.
Palo Alto Networks (PANW) tumbles after lowering billings guidance.
OpenAI to pause ChatGPT voice as it resembles Scarlett Johansson.
EV drama: Tesla shareholders to vote on Elon Musk's pay package.
China's Li Auto (LI) postpones all-electric SUV launch until 2025.
Hims & Hers (HIMS) sells cheap versions of GLP-1 weight loss drugs.
Trump Media (DJT) reports hefty quarterly loss on very little revenue.
Calpers to oppose all Exxon (XOM) directors in shareholder dispute.
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Gold: The yellow metal just hit levels of over $2,450 per ounce despite a strong American economy and U.S. dollar. Analysts have pointed to a coming Fed pivot on interest rates, as well as geopolitical tensions that have increased demand for the safe haven. Not only are investors getting involved, but there has been a large amount of buying from central banks, while the retail crowd is even getting in on the action with gold bars from Costco (COST).
Silver: The metal has outperformed gold in recent weeks, bringing its total gain to 32% YTD, compared to gold's 18% return. It also benefits from all the safe haven attributes of its shiny cousin, such as a popular hedge against inflation, along with some distinctive practical qualities of its own. Silver is used for industrial purposes, like solar panel cells, and is relatively cheap in ounces when compared to pricey gold.
Copper: The latest rip has made numerous headlines after hitting all-time highs on exchanges across the globe. Fear of supply shortages and trade disputes has helped generate buzz around the industrial bellwether, which is also key for the green transition and rising electrification needs. Copper is used in EVs, wind turbines, power transmission and AI data centers, meaning there are actual supply and demand fundamentals to assess when evaluating the worth of the red metal.
Too shiny? The commodity competition can experience chaotic events, with scandals and manipulation hitting items like nickel and cocoa in recent years. There is speculation that this might be going on this time around, triggered by leveraged contract buying, short squeeze momentum, or price premiums on different exchanges. Others see a lot of metal potential that has even resulted in some real-world M&A action, such as BHP's (BHP) $39B proposed takeover of Anglo American (OTCQX:AAUKF), which would create the world's top copper producer.
Wall Street leadership Succession plans are "well on the way" at JPMorgan (JPM), with Jamie Dimon saying it's up to the board to determine how much longer he'll remain CEO. "I think when I can't put the jersey on and give it my full effort, I should leave," he announced at the bank's Investor Day, adding that the timetable "is not five years anymore." Dimon also outlined that the lender will not repurchase a lot of stock at current prices, noting that such a buyback - at a valuation of 2.3 times tangible book value - would be "a mistake." JPM shares slipped 4.5% following the comments on Tuesday, but are up more than 40% over the past year. (60 comments)
Pulling a 180? Cryptocurrencies are back in rally mode as traders increasingly bet on the approval of the first spot ether ETF. While the industry previously did not expect the SEC to give the green light, the regulator has reportedly requested that ETF issuers update 19b-4 filings on an accelerated basis. The development signals some progress, but it doesn't mean it's a done deal. Ether (ETH-USD) is still up big on the news, soaring 20% to $3,708. The SEC's decision on VanEck's spot ether ETF application is expected on Thursday, and one from ARK Invest is due on Friday. (1 comment)
Bear capitulation One of Wall Street's prominent bears has finally turned positive on his outlook for the stock market as indexes continue to hit record highs. Mike Wilson, equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, now calls for the S&P 500 (SP500) to rise to 5,400, higher than his previous year-end target of 4,500, which was one of the lowest on Wall Street. The forecast is derived from a 19x P/E multiple on 12-month forward EPS based on June 2026 of $283. "This earnings path is based on our economists' growth forecasts, output from our earnings models, and our view that AI diffusion will boost margins starting in 2025," Wilson declared. (48 comments)
Today's Markets
In Asia, Japan -0.3%. Hong Kong -2.1%. China -0.4%. India -0.1%. In Europe, at midday, London -0.4%. Paris -1%. Frankfurt -0.4%. Futures at 7:00, Dow flat. S&P flat. Nasdaq -0.1%. Crude -1.4% to $78.16. Gold -0.6% to $2,423.40. Bitcoin +5.8% to $71,004. Ten-year Treasury Yield -2 bps to 4.43%.
Today's Economic Calendar
9:00 Fed's Barkin Speech 9:00 Fed's Waller Speech 9:05 Fed's Williams Speech 9:10 Fed's Bostic Speech 11:45 Fed’s Barr Speech 7:00 PM Fed's Bostic Speech
Companies reporting earnings today »
What else is happening...
WSB survey results: Be aware of risks related to meme rallies.
Gruenberg to quit as FDIC chair after toxic work culture scandal.
Mester: More data needed before Fed cuts as inflation progress stalls.
Palo Alto Networks (PANW) tumbles after lowering billings guidance.
OpenAI to pause ChatGPT voice as it resembles Scarlett Johansson.
EV drama: Tesla shareholders to vote on Elon Musk's pay package.
China's Li Auto (LI) postpones all-electric SUV launch until 2025.
Hims & Hers (HIMS) sells cheap versions of GLP-1 weight loss drugs.
Trump Media (DJT) reports hefty quarterly loss on very little revenue.
Calpers to oppose all Exxon (XOM) directors in shareholder dispute.
2024.05.21 14:21 Internal-Benefit695 Is it worth applying to St Xavier’s with 74% in 12th
12th marks are given weightage but idk how much. There’s entrance exam and interview also which I can prepare for but is it even worth it like would they even consider the entrance test score considering my low score in 12th?? I’m switching from science and applying for pol sci hons.
Myquals 12th and a gap year
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Myquals 12th and a gap year
2024.05.21 14:20 Filmyboy7 A detailed review of the VARC1000 course by Gejo Sir! :')
So, as the title says this is a post on the review and guide to VARC1000 course by Gejo Sir (the VARC God for me I'll say) 🤌🏻 First, I would like to add 2 important notes :)
Note 1 : I went through this year's VARC1000 course and it's very different from last year's course but I'll try to give you a review of it 🫠
Note 2 : You'll find many people suggesting and saying that "pirated content le le" and stuff. But I won't really suggest that. VARC1000 course is more than what the pirated content will offer. It's not just about VARC okay? It will help you with DILR and QA too (Last year Gejo sir had made videos on how he himself solved DILR and gives really amazing tips and tricks). There will be content/materials for GDPI prepration, profile analyser (which I didn't really find helpful tbh), calls predictor (which again turned out to be not so true in my case but for others it was helpful), daily vocab, GK section, WAT topics, your acads specific questions generally asked during PIs etc etc. All this you won't get in the pirated stuff. You'll just get the videos of his lecs that's it. Course hi lena bhai if possible 🙂
👉🏻 Coming to the course's details : This time they have divided the course into 4 sections Launch Phase, Enhance Phase, Advanced Phase and Peak Phase. And each phase (from Enhance Phase) will be launched in specific months from June onwards. As of now the Launch Phase is active 👀
Coming to the description of the phases : As per my understanding it's perfectly summed up to take you from the very basic (launch phase) to the advanced level (peak phase) 🔥
Focus more on the Core Lessons which Gejo Sir will teach you. He'll just tell you the methods and tricks in these videos ig (that's what happened in the last course) and then maybe he'll teach you to apply them. He'll take a particular RC and solve it. Focus on how he deals with all this okay? Obv take the learnings and develop your own strategy/method (you can copy him but we all can't be like him) 😂
He'll throw some tests before the start of the video.. apply your brains there and see how you do. Then he'll also come up with the strategy lessons (very important) wherein he'll tell you about how to approach the VARC section in those 40 mins and what approach you should have. The core lessons, application lessons and strategy lessons were launched together last year in the course and were really helpful! Till now all the is for RC btw. For VA the material won't be much different but he'll teach you specially about how to deal with the VA too!
Then comes the Daily Article Dose! Do it! Roz karo! It's really good. He'll upload the solutions for it. For every article dose he'll do that and solve it for you. Also, throughout this course you'll find a diverse range of RCs! Humanities, Philosophy, Natural Sciences, Arts etc etc. Everything. And I hope that like last year, this year also he'll make seperate videos for every genre! It's really helpful in that sense! 🍻😌
Coming to the tests! He'll give you a lot of sectional tests (minimum 10 sectional tests) and previous year ke course ke bhi kuch tests alagse (this happened in the last year's course). So you need not worry about the sectionals. You'll get a satisfactory number of those. He'll also solve some sectionals for you. You'll be able to see how he solves the VARC section (trust me you'll be amazed seeing his way of solving). You'll also get Daily Drills where you'll have small tests or say 1-2 RCs and a few VA questions etc. this will also be there. Also, you'll get PY CAT papers as mocks and also as sectional tests separately! So that's also a done deal!! 🍻✨
Don't miss Gejo sir's live sessions! He'll have 1-2 every month ig. And those will be really helpful. It's an interactive session so you can ask your doubts there. He's a very funny guy so you won't be bored. He'll also give you some videos (hopefully) on how to approach DILR! He's a genius in DILR also (atleast for me) 💥
Then comes the Telegram Group of VARC1000 where Gejo sir will also be there! It's a very interactive group and very much helpful. A really nice place to be in I'll say as you'll find serious aspirants mostly.
I hope that I was able to include most of the important things of this course and if needed I'll update this post in the future! :')
Overall I'll say that this course is worth it? It'll definitely improve your VARC skills and understanding if you follow it religiously. As I have said... This course is not just about VARC but there are many many things in it and it'll turn out to be helpful overall! 🩵 Do share this review with your friends and other aspirants! 😼
All the best with your prep! If you have anything to add about the course or your opinions then feel free to drop it in the comments! ;')
Ps. Don't message me for my VARC1000 discount code! It's already used.
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Note 1 : I went through this year's VARC1000 course and it's very different from last year's course but I'll try to give you a review of it 🫠
Note 2 : You'll find many people suggesting and saying that "pirated content le le" and stuff. But I won't really suggest that. VARC1000 course is more than what the pirated content will offer. It's not just about VARC okay? It will help you with DILR and QA too (Last year Gejo sir had made videos on how he himself solved DILR and gives really amazing tips and tricks). There will be content/materials for GDPI prepration, profile analyser (which I didn't really find helpful tbh), calls predictor (which again turned out to be not so true in my case but for others it was helpful), daily vocab, GK section, WAT topics, your acads specific questions generally asked during PIs etc etc. All this you won't get in the pirated stuff. You'll just get the videos of his lecs that's it. Course hi lena bhai if possible 🙂
👉🏻 Coming to the course's details : This time they have divided the course into 4 sections Launch Phase, Enhance Phase, Advanced Phase and Peak Phase. And each phase (from Enhance Phase) will be launched in specific months from June onwards. As of now the Launch Phase is active 👀
Coming to the description of the phases : As per my understanding it's perfectly summed up to take you from the very basic (launch phase) to the advanced level (peak phase) 🔥
Focus more on the Core Lessons which Gejo Sir will teach you. He'll just tell you the methods and tricks in these videos ig (that's what happened in the last course) and then maybe he'll teach you to apply them. He'll take a particular RC and solve it. Focus on how he deals with all this okay? Obv take the learnings and develop your own strategy/method (you can copy him but we all can't be like him) 😂
He'll throw some tests before the start of the video.. apply your brains there and see how you do. Then he'll also come up with the strategy lessons (very important) wherein he'll tell you about how to approach the VARC section in those 40 mins and what approach you should have. The core lessons, application lessons and strategy lessons were launched together last year in the course and were really helpful! Till now all the is for RC btw. For VA the material won't be much different but he'll teach you specially about how to deal with the VA too!
Then comes the Daily Article Dose! Do it! Roz karo! It's really good. He'll upload the solutions for it. For every article dose he'll do that and solve it for you. Also, throughout this course you'll find a diverse range of RCs! Humanities, Philosophy, Natural Sciences, Arts etc etc. Everything. And I hope that like last year, this year also he'll make seperate videos for every genre! It's really helpful in that sense! 🍻😌
Coming to the tests! He'll give you a lot of sectional tests (minimum 10 sectional tests) and previous year ke course ke bhi kuch tests alagse (this happened in the last year's course). So you need not worry about the sectionals. You'll get a satisfactory number of those. He'll also solve some sectionals for you. You'll be able to see how he solves the VARC section (trust me you'll be amazed seeing his way of solving). You'll also get Daily Drills where you'll have small tests or say 1-2 RCs and a few VA questions etc. this will also be there. Also, you'll get PY CAT papers as mocks and also as sectional tests separately! So that's also a done deal!! 🍻✨
Don't miss Gejo sir's live sessions! He'll have 1-2 every month ig. And those will be really helpful. It's an interactive session so you can ask your doubts there. He's a very funny guy so you won't be bored. He'll also give you some videos (hopefully) on how to approach DILR! He's a genius in DILR also (atleast for me) 💥
Then comes the Telegram Group of VARC1000 where Gejo sir will also be there! It's a very interactive group and very much helpful. A really nice place to be in I'll say as you'll find serious aspirants mostly.
I hope that I was able to include most of the important things of this course and if needed I'll update this post in the future! :')
Overall I'll say that this course is worth it? It'll definitely improve your VARC skills and understanding if you follow it religiously. As I have said... This course is not just about VARC but there are many many things in it and it'll turn out to be helpful overall! 🩵 Do share this review with your friends and other aspirants! 😼
All the best with your prep! If you have anything to add about the course or your opinions then feel free to drop it in the comments! ;')
Ps. Don't message me for my VARC1000 discount code! It's already used.
2024.05.21 14:20 Sk8d3r How much is my PC still worth?
This is my current PC with the prices that I bought each part at:
PCPartPicker Part List
How much do you think it would sell for nowadays? Prices in Euros please as I am from Germany.
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PCPartPicker Part List
How much do you think it would sell for nowadays? Prices in Euros please as I am from Germany.
2024.05.21 14:17 The-Greater-Skeleton How Would You Balance a ID that has [Unclashable] Attacks?
This post inspired by a certain fluorescent orca deciding that I take damage and paralysis for the crime of existing in its presence.
Now, since there are a few enemies that have Unclashable attacks, I’m obviously referring to the possibility of a player ID that has Unclashable as a value on their attacks.
An attack being unclashable is much more useful for an enemy than a sinner. Part of the problem is that if an attack is Unclashable, then it can’t be used for clashing (shocker), meaning that if that skill is being used, then there’s nothing to stop an oncoming attack. An enemy usually has the health pool necessary to survive long enough to actually use the attack. But in the event of an “unclashable clash”, such as in a non-focused battle, if the opponent is faster than you, then they get a free attack on you before you get to retaliate, and the combat forecast wouldn’t recognize this as a bad thing because no clash is actually happening, thus you get your head ripped off by a skill you REALLY should have clashed instead, but Hopeless didn’t show up so you just started combat instead.
What I’m getting at is that a skill being Unclashable is strictly a bad thing, and therefore would likely play into something of a high-risk-high-reward playstyle. To justify not being able to clash, the damage numbers would have to be pretty damn high, because the attack wouldn’t be able to recover Sanity either due to being unable to win clashes (unless there are on-coin effects or a passive at work).
How do you think an Unclashable attack would work? An example of one that wouldn’t necessarily break the game, but at least be worth having on the team?
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Now, since there are a few enemies that have Unclashable attacks, I’m obviously referring to the possibility of a player ID that has Unclashable as a value on their attacks.
An attack being unclashable is much more useful for an enemy than a sinner. Part of the problem is that if an attack is Unclashable, then it can’t be used for clashing (shocker), meaning that if that skill is being used, then there’s nothing to stop an oncoming attack. An enemy usually has the health pool necessary to survive long enough to actually use the attack. But in the event of an “unclashable clash”, such as in a non-focused battle, if the opponent is faster than you, then they get a free attack on you before you get to retaliate, and the combat forecast wouldn’t recognize this as a bad thing because no clash is actually happening, thus you get your head ripped off by a skill you REALLY should have clashed instead, but Hopeless didn’t show up so you just started combat instead.
What I’m getting at is that a skill being Unclashable is strictly a bad thing, and therefore would likely play into something of a high-risk-high-reward playstyle. To justify not being able to clash, the damage numbers would have to be pretty damn high, because the attack wouldn’t be able to recover Sanity either due to being unable to win clashes (unless there are on-coin effects or a passive at work).
How do you think an Unclashable attack would work? An example of one that wouldn’t necessarily break the game, but at least be worth having on the team?
2024.05.21 14:15 DisastrousOpening477 Pixel 8 Pro review : 8 months in
Day one Pixel 8 Pro owner here. Thought I’d share my experience, after over 8 months of ownership.
P8P Bay 256GB has been my daily driver since its release. I use it with 5G on, screen at full resolution, dynamic "smooth display" refresh rate is on, no bluetooth or tethering. Brightness left on auto.
TLDR :
Positives = camera quality, great design, OS (with some caveats), great screen (some caveats too)
Negatives = everything else
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Camera : beautiful imagery has always been the signature of the Pixel line, and this release is no exception. Every shot has this mesmerizing "Pixel touch", and the new ultrawide sensor is finally on par with the main unit. Videos are world class too, not quite on the level of the iPhone but we'll get there eventually.
Beautiful and unique design : It's sitting in a clear case, and in a sea of generic, boring slabs, it really stands out and doesn't go unnoticed. People often ask me what kind of phone it is, most are still not aware that Google is making smartphones and has been doing so for almost a decade now.
Very long software support : Seven years of updates is unrivaled in the Android scene, albeit with the following you’ll understand no one would willingly keep this phone seven years, so it’s not really a positive.
Sleek OS : Android in its purest, cleanest form. Customization galore. However as I'll mention later this pure android is NOT running smoothly, so I don't know if this count as a positive.
Gorgeous OLED panel : A truly beautiful display, high-resolution, good brightness..unfortunately plagued by mutiple lags and frame drops in the UI, I'll get back to that. Now onto the negatives.
First off, we must address the elephant in the room. Battery life. This phone charges PAINFULLY slow and discharges EXTREMELY fast. The opposite of what you want, right ?
The 10 minutes top ups to 50% is a concept Google seemingly never heard of. You want half a charge ? Better sit & wait half an hour. Full charge ? Go watch a movie. Now the discharge, and this is where the real drama clocks in. This phone EATS battery, ON IDLE.
On your average 9 to 5 workday (no camera, no games, just basic apps) you’ll head home with 15% tops. Phone dead by 7pm, then full charge will eat 90 minutes off your schedule, better not be in a hurry.
Now try to make a bit of power usage out of your power user phone : A bit of pictures for work at 10am, a short 4K video at 1pm, a bit of Fallout Shelter on the toilet at 2pm. You’re now looking at a 4pm shutdown.
But let’s go real on the camera, after all this is a camera flagship and it should be your reliable companion on a field day. Starting at 10 am : pictures, videos, a bit of editing, about 40 pictures taken and 3 videos of 10 minutes each. Shutdown at 1PM.
The CPU just eats battery on IDLE doing NOTHING. Throw anything heavy at it and you’ll head home with a dead phone, one that died long before your day was over. Simple as that.
Keep in mind that this is my experience with a 8-months-old device, and it will get worse and worse as the battery cell degrades over time. One can only wonder how many cell replacements this phone will need to get to the end of its famed software support.
Now we need to talk UI and animations because this isn’t good either. Stellar 120hz OLED panel and stock android should be a recipe for smoothness, but not here. Actually, some animations including the cool lock screen clock are barely 60hz. Switching apps isn’t 120hz either, nor is scrolling. A TON of lags and various frame drops, resulting in a framerate like 40-90hz, never stable, with the occasional but very rare peak at 120. This isn't TW3 gameplay on a potato but simply browing menus and scrolling instagram on a 2023, 1159€ flagship phone from Google.
This phone FEELS slow, and yet consume an enormous amount of power to do so. Infuriating.
One day I had to handle a coworker’s A54 to tweak a few things. I was SHOCKED by the smoothness, this was indeed true 120hz, which only happens a few times a day on Pixel 8 Pro. I realized what I was missing on by handling an Exynos mid-ranger. I understand the need for a dynamic framerate, not locked at 120hz all the time to save battery. But only reaching 120hz 5 times a day and still having a mediocre battery life wasn’t what I had in mind.
Finally, the optical, under-display fingerprint scanner. This, my friends, is an antique piece of hardware that belongs to a museum. Remember the Huawei Mate RS from 2018 ? One of the first phones with UDFS. The optical technology was so experimental and unreliable (still is, most OEMs moved on to ultrasonic) that Huawei also included another optical fingerprint sensor on the back of the device, just in case. Well, this ancient tech is what you have on the Pixel 8 Pro, and no optical sensor backup in sight.
Sometimes, it can take up to 2 full seconds of contact to….successfully fail to unlock. After it fails 3 times or so, it will ask you to enter your password, making one-hand unlocks a luck job. Sometimes it will successfully unlock after a couple tries, but a couple tries of 2 seconds each makes unlocking your phone a 4 seconds job which is just painfully slow. The occasional one tap magic is as rare as the occasional 120hz peak in the UI. As for face-unlock, I know it's there but I disabled it because it doesn't work in the dark (no IR sensor) and I simply want to unlock my phone at waist height, without having to raise it to my face.
Pixel 8 Pro remembers me of an exotic sports car that might look incredibly cool from a distance but is actually a pain to live with on a daily basis. And indeed it does look incredibly cool. I remember seeing this phone as a much better pick than the generic Galaxy and the boring iPhone, but I’d rather go boring or generic than having to handle this mess of an hardware Google sold me for 1159€.
TLDR : Positives = Camera quality, great design Negatives = everything else
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P8P Bay 256GB has been my daily driver since its release. I use it with 5G on, screen at full resolution, dynamic "smooth display" refresh rate is on, no bluetooth or tethering. Brightness left on auto.
TLDR :
Positives = camera quality, great design, OS (with some caveats), great screen (some caveats too)
Negatives = everything else
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Camera : beautiful imagery has always been the signature of the Pixel line, and this release is no exception. Every shot has this mesmerizing "Pixel touch", and the new ultrawide sensor is finally on par with the main unit. Videos are world class too, not quite on the level of the iPhone but we'll get there eventually.
Beautiful and unique design : It's sitting in a clear case, and in a sea of generic, boring slabs, it really stands out and doesn't go unnoticed. People often ask me what kind of phone it is, most are still not aware that Google is making smartphones and has been doing so for almost a decade now.
Very long software support : Seven years of updates is unrivaled in the Android scene, albeit with the following you’ll understand no one would willingly keep this phone seven years, so it’s not really a positive.
Sleek OS : Android in its purest, cleanest form. Customization galore. However as I'll mention later this pure android is NOT running smoothly, so I don't know if this count as a positive.
Gorgeous OLED panel : A truly beautiful display, high-resolution, good brightness..unfortunately plagued by mutiple lags and frame drops in the UI, I'll get back to that. Now onto the negatives.
First off, we must address the elephant in the room. Battery life. This phone charges PAINFULLY slow and discharges EXTREMELY fast. The opposite of what you want, right ?
The 10 minutes top ups to 50% is a concept Google seemingly never heard of. You want half a charge ? Better sit & wait half an hour. Full charge ? Go watch a movie. Now the discharge, and this is where the real drama clocks in. This phone EATS battery, ON IDLE.
On your average 9 to 5 workday (no camera, no games, just basic apps) you’ll head home with 15% tops. Phone dead by 7pm, then full charge will eat 90 minutes off your schedule, better not be in a hurry.
Now try to make a bit of power usage out of your power user phone : A bit of pictures for work at 10am, a short 4K video at 1pm, a bit of Fallout Shelter on the toilet at 2pm. You’re now looking at a 4pm shutdown.
But let’s go real on the camera, after all this is a camera flagship and it should be your reliable companion on a field day. Starting at 10 am : pictures, videos, a bit of editing, about 40 pictures taken and 3 videos of 10 minutes each. Shutdown at 1PM.
The CPU just eats battery on IDLE doing NOTHING. Throw anything heavy at it and you’ll head home with a dead phone, one that died long before your day was over. Simple as that.
Keep in mind that this is my experience with a 8-months-old device, and it will get worse and worse as the battery cell degrades over time. One can only wonder how many cell replacements this phone will need to get to the end of its famed software support.
Now we need to talk UI and animations because this isn’t good either. Stellar 120hz OLED panel and stock android should be a recipe for smoothness, but not here. Actually, some animations including the cool lock screen clock are barely 60hz. Switching apps isn’t 120hz either, nor is scrolling. A TON of lags and various frame drops, resulting in a framerate like 40-90hz, never stable, with the occasional but very rare peak at 120. This isn't TW3 gameplay on a potato but simply browing menus and scrolling instagram on a 2023, 1159€ flagship phone from Google.
This phone FEELS slow, and yet consume an enormous amount of power to do so. Infuriating.
One day I had to handle a coworker’s A54 to tweak a few things. I was SHOCKED by the smoothness, this was indeed true 120hz, which only happens a few times a day on Pixel 8 Pro. I realized what I was missing on by handling an Exynos mid-ranger. I understand the need for a dynamic framerate, not locked at 120hz all the time to save battery. But only reaching 120hz 5 times a day and still having a mediocre battery life wasn’t what I had in mind.
Finally, the optical, under-display fingerprint scanner. This, my friends, is an antique piece of hardware that belongs to a museum. Remember the Huawei Mate RS from 2018 ? One of the first phones with UDFS. The optical technology was so experimental and unreliable (still is, most OEMs moved on to ultrasonic) that Huawei also included another optical fingerprint sensor on the back of the device, just in case. Well, this ancient tech is what you have on the Pixel 8 Pro, and no optical sensor backup in sight.
Sometimes, it can take up to 2 full seconds of contact to….successfully fail to unlock. After it fails 3 times or so, it will ask you to enter your password, making one-hand unlocks a luck job. Sometimes it will successfully unlock after a couple tries, but a couple tries of 2 seconds each makes unlocking your phone a 4 seconds job which is just painfully slow. The occasional one tap magic is as rare as the occasional 120hz peak in the UI. As for face-unlock, I know it's there but I disabled it because it doesn't work in the dark (no IR sensor) and I simply want to unlock my phone at waist height, without having to raise it to my face.
Pixel 8 Pro remembers me of an exotic sports car that might look incredibly cool from a distance but is actually a pain to live with on a daily basis. And indeed it does look incredibly cool. I remember seeing this phone as a much better pick than the generic Galaxy and the boring iPhone, but I’d rather go boring or generic than having to handle this mess of an hardware Google sold me for 1159€.
TLDR : Positives = Camera quality, great design Negatives = everything else
2024.05.21 14:14 wisewildflower [QCrit]: Adult, Creative Nonfiction, BEGINS AT BIRTH (82k, version 2)
Hi everyone!
Back again! This time with a new title (yes, another one haha). Took a look at all the feedback, had myself a good cry, stopped trying to do some fancy footwork and got on with this version. Ready for your feedback! And thank you, thank you
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Dear Agent,
Because I know you’re on the lookout for XYZ, I’m writing to you for representation for my work of creative nonfiction, BEGINS AT BIRTH: A midwife’s meditation on burnout and healing in a broken world. It weaves in reportage about women’s health, past and present, as in Womb by Leah Hazard; tells a personal story of healing through various narrative formats such as Awakening Artemis by Vanessa Chakour; and is a fresh and feminist take on the hit This Might Hurt by Adam McKay. The manuscript is complete at 82,000 words and available upon request.
It is becoming increasingly unsafe to be a woman of childbearing-age in the US. We have the worst maternal health outcomes in all of the global north and over-half the country has little-to-no access to abortion services. Facing the reality of this crisis everyday as a Midwife was heartbreaking and exhausting. For over a decade I struggled with the thought: Birth work is my calling, but at what cost? In 2020 I finally discovered I couldn't overcome my burnout working within the healthcare system—the problems felt too huge, and I felt too small, too insignificant. So, I broke down and left midwifery, which proved to be the turning point of a journey of self-discovery and healing inspired by the divine feminine.
My struggle with burnout isn’t unique. About 45% of healthcare workers report experiencing it, and 48% of women between 18-44 are suffering from it at present. Existing at the intersection of both of these identities provides me with a unique perspective, and considering these alarmingly high rates, made me realize my story of healing was worth telling. BEGINS AT BIRTH consists of five sublunary sections and twelve chapters wherein I explore a wide range of topics—female archetypes and myth, shadow work, art, nature, the witch hunts, and much more–to offer the reader a collection of meditations on how I mended myself with the divine feminine as a guide. At once an interrogation of burnout and what it can teach us, a transformative journey of self-actualization, BEGINS AT BIRTH is ultimately a hymn of hope about the power of healing, starting from the very moment we begin.
Bio & sign-off
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Back again! This time with a new title (yes, another one haha). Took a look at all the feedback, had myself a good cry, stopped trying to do some fancy footwork and got on with this version. Ready for your feedback! And thank you, thank you
(other post available here) https://www.reddit.com/PubTips/comments/1cr24py/qcrit_adult_creative_nonfiction_rebirth_82k_words/
Dear Agent,
Because I know you’re on the lookout for XYZ, I’m writing to you for representation for my work of creative nonfiction, BEGINS AT BIRTH: A midwife’s meditation on burnout and healing in a broken world. It weaves in reportage about women’s health, past and present, as in Womb by Leah Hazard; tells a personal story of healing through various narrative formats such as Awakening Artemis by Vanessa Chakour; and is a fresh and feminist take on the hit This Might Hurt by Adam McKay. The manuscript is complete at 82,000 words and available upon request.
It is becoming increasingly unsafe to be a woman of childbearing-age in the US. We have the worst maternal health outcomes in all of the global north and over-half the country has little-to-no access to abortion services. Facing the reality of this crisis everyday as a Midwife was heartbreaking and exhausting. For over a decade I struggled with the thought: Birth work is my calling, but at what cost? In 2020 I finally discovered I couldn't overcome my burnout working within the healthcare system—the problems felt too huge, and I felt too small, too insignificant. So, I broke down and left midwifery, which proved to be the turning point of a journey of self-discovery and healing inspired by the divine feminine.
My struggle with burnout isn’t unique. About 45% of healthcare workers report experiencing it, and 48% of women between 18-44 are suffering from it at present. Existing at the intersection of both of these identities provides me with a unique perspective, and considering these alarmingly high rates, made me realize my story of healing was worth telling. BEGINS AT BIRTH consists of five sublunary sections and twelve chapters wherein I explore a wide range of topics—female archetypes and myth, shadow work, art, nature, the witch hunts, and much more–to offer the reader a collection of meditations on how I mended myself with the divine feminine as a guide. At once an interrogation of burnout and what it can teach us, a transformative journey of self-actualization, BEGINS AT BIRTH is ultimately a hymn of hope about the power of healing, starting from the very moment we begin.
Bio & sign-off