Stem word list

Here is the song list
The prime of life (the intro song Narrated bythe fates) If you play your cards right (a musical number sung by the Oracle) Rise from the ashes (Sisyphus's song) Word has gotten around that(a song between the people of Ephyra) The prime of life reprise Where does that leave me (Zeus's song) Hoplessly adrift (a duet between sisyphus and Persephone) A score to settle In the grand scheme of things And the finale of the show

Someone close to me has an avoidant attachment when they acknowledged this trait to me, they expressed their desire to change in order to have a healthier and more lasting relationships. They mentioned several times on their will to go to therapy to improve.
However, despite their words and intentions, they never took concrete steps towards change and have been making excuses on why they are not pursing therapy.
I wonder if this type of behavior is common in people with avoidant attachment: Is it normal for them to express the desire to improve, list the necessary actions, but never follow through?

Hoping for some advice.
Last week someone filed a false cps report. DCF showed up on my porch in what they said was an emergency visit but within a minute or two of walking into my house and after 3 questions they said that it was clearly a false report and they were just as confused as I was as to why they were at my house, followed by “have you p*ssed anyone off recently?”
(They also laughed and made a joke about what was on the report…. It painted our house out to be so awful. Weve got “tons of animals running around and big mean dogs” lol, our “big mean dogs” came up to the workers and were loving all over them. One laughed and said, “oh and you must be the big mean dogs.” As for our other animals- they are all in their own (huge) exhibits and very well taken care of. All contained). (The report was gross).
It listed easily verifiable lies including that we have many police reports written on us, have had child wellness checks, just supposedly had the police at our house talking to us and writing another report last Thursday. We both have clean records and police have never been to our house.
Tons of other horrific lies (including we have 100 guns laying around… which must be invisible or something idk) but I think those lies alone can easily win us a case.
CPS said the report was confusing to read (someone trying to word it in a way that would give them a loophole if legal action was taken, I assume).
Anyway, they said they’d try to get me the name (s) of whoever wrote it. Yet we went to speak to the DA and to DCF and we were told we can’t have the report or names, and yesterday morning I called one of the social workers who was here and she hasn’t responded.
Oh and the social workers told me this wouldn’t go on any sort of record since it was false yet DCF told my partner we’d have to get a judge to take it off record. It’s all so confusing and someone is lying to us (and about us).
We will be getting a lawyer and suing (our kid means more to us than anything and we’re doing our best to make sure she is never traumatized and some careless person just tried to do that for us? Cps came to take her and said, “we were confused as to why you still have custody of her if you’ve had all these alleged police reports written.” Also the report never listed any abuse and such a thing would be awful for the career I’m pursuing (which will be helping kids living in adversity, lol). So yea, suing).
Just waiting for CPS to call back. In the meantime, what does this mean for us? Can someone with experience tell me if this actually goes on a record? What do we need to be doing?

I’ve been doing a lot of research on autism lately (shocker I know /s). I had been suspecting that I had it for years now; ever since my best friend told me about her diagnosis. After carefully considering and reconsidering the signs, taking multiple (and I mean multiple) informal tests and questionnaires, and even speaking with my therapist about it, I’ve all but formally confirmed that I am autistic. Even as I write this, I notice it as I keep having to go back rewriting and rewriting to make sure I get my language and grammar exactly correct because I have a very hard time putting my thoughts into words. Despite all this, I still can’t help but doubt myself; I often wonder if it’s really just all in my head. The reason is because I feel like it can be very inconsistent sometimes.
Example time! I’ve been working as a cake decorator in a small bakery for the past three years. I love baking, pastry arts, and decorating cakes in general and I started out this job absolutely loving every second of it. The kitchen can get pretty noisy at times with the ovens and freezer whirring, baking trays clanking, the mixers running, and my coworkers and I often enjoying music from our speaker as we work. Usually this isn’t much of a problem for me. I’ve had my days where the noise can bother me a little, but I’m usually able to shake it off. Recently, however, I’ve been having a much harder time with it. Today was the worst it’s ever been. All of the noises I listed before, things that usually don’t bother me much, REALLY bothered me today. I wanted so badly to scream and cry for someone to turn the music or the ovens off. But I couldn’t, I had to finish my job as quickly as I could so that I could go scream in my car. This had me so confused. I honestly don’t really know exactly why it bothered me so much today. It made me realize that there are definitely inconsistencies in my sensory issues sometimes. Could all of this just be in my head? I’m having serious doubts here.

I’m gonna lay out the whole context here, and it’s 2 years long so bear with me. A TL;DR isn’t really possible as there’s so much important context to whether or not IATA.
We’ve been married almost 10 years and she’s from overseas. She came here through our marriage. We were happy and doing extremely well for ourselves.
The problem started to 2 years ago. My friends wedding. Afterward we went out and then went to another friends house to continue partying. At the party one of the wedding guests started having a pity party about how he’s depressed because all these happy couples are around and he’s single.
For context. This guy is weird. He’s disrespectful to women, capitalizes on captive audiences (waitresses most often), and is overall a loser. He’s got a good job but that’s about it.
My wife, listens to his sob story and says “I have a sister!” and immediately starts FaceTiming her sister. This is something I’ve said isn’t okay. We’re not tinder, and we’re not matchmakers.
Beyond that her sister has a history of treating her poorly. She constantly told my wife she’s stupid growing up, well into adulthood. She blocked my wife for a whole year because my wife called her and told her not to go on boats with men she doesn’t know. Told my wife to live like she doesn’t have a sister. For a whole year I consoled my wife a couple times a week.
Anyways we were both drunk and with people so I’m not gonna start a fight right there. I figure I’ll talk to her about it maturely later. So I do. In the meantime, I switch to speaking Arabic with her sister and tell her this isn’t okay and isn’t what she wants.
Her and my wife to this day claim I was happy and supportive. They claim I was too drunk to remember. But there’s a few things wrong with this. I drove home, I take drinking and driving VERY seriously and would never, ever do it. In fact, if I know I’ve drank too much, I’ll hand my keys to a friend before the liquor starts hitting, just to avoid any possibility of making that bad decision.
Secondly, I switched to Arabic. I’m white. Arabic is a language I learned. When I speak it, I speak it very, very deliberately and remember the conversations perfectly. I know exactly what I said.
Anyways, when I talk to my wife later, I’m told how it’s wrong to prevent her from helping her sister and how her sister really likes this guy. A guy she talked to for 5 minutes. I told her it’s wrong to think of it as “helping” her sister in the first place and that her sister is a grown woman who can find her own partner.
So my wife says “okay I’ll tell my sister to stop talking to him”. That was the end of it. Or so I thought.
A few weeks later I’m at a different event and this guy let it slip they’re still talking. Immediately I’m upset and text my wife about how she lied to me.
She said her sister was really falling in love with this guy and separating them would be wrong. She said she did tell her sis to block him but when her sis went into a depression she told her she can unblock him and talk to him, behind my back.
Upset I told her we need to talk about going behind my back and how disrespectful of my boundaries this whole ordeal was. She said “it’s okay I’ll tell her to block him again”.
Over. Or so I thought for the next few months. A few months later I again am at an event with this guy and this time he’s smart enough to lie about them talking. But I’m a salesman and a bullshitter. You can’t bullshit me unless I trust you. I knew immediately he was lying but I let it go. I did ask my wife and she said no they’re not talking. So I believed her.
Well, a year and a half goes by. In that time her sister and her fought about how her sister could come to the US. We said we’d help her but it’s a lengthy process. At the time I had little animosity toward her sister and would’ve loved to see her come here and be near my wife again. She wasn’t happy with that and said it takes too long. This is her sister’s mindset.
Anyway. Her sister gets a B1 visa in the meantime, temporary business visitor and wants to come visit my wife. Lies through her teeth about her intentions to the immigration officer, telling them she wants to stay 90 days. They approve her for 60.
So we file for an extension ASAP so she can visit for 3 months. Staying with us the whole time. I wanted her to have fun on her visit so I arrange for my friends and I to go out. This guy shows up. She talked to him and told him our plans.
Immediately they disappear into the casino and come back holding hands and all kinds of PDA. I’m fuming because I know she’s a conniving word I won’t say here. I don’t say anything though and we go through the night and I let it go so I can have fun.
The next day he’s picking her up from my house and they’re out for the whole day. The next time my wife is off work, same story. Well, I thought you were here to visit her? And that’s where I put my foot down.
I got told it was wrong to try and control her, wrong to try and separate them, etc. etc. etc. Finally she blocks his number and he calls from a separate number. I turn off her SIM card because I’m not gonna support her going behind my back in my own home. He calls me and tells me he really loves her and just wishes I’d accept it.
I tell him very plainly I will never, ever accept it because it all stemmed from him, her, and my wife going behind my back. Primarily my wife, as she’s the only one of the three I should be able to trust is telling me the truth.
At this point, I feel as if my wife had an emotional affair, although it’s with her own family. She repeatedly chose to go behind my back, against a boundary I had told her repeatedly before this situation at my friend’s wedding after party ever transpired. If that’s not an emotional affair, I don’t know what is.
So I tell him bluntly to not call me anymore and I’m not going to change my stance, and his feelings don’t mean shit to me. He started to give me a sob story about how we’re friends and he I should be happy for him and I cut him off and told him to save his breath.
My wife is upset at me for how I talked to him. Another emotional affair. Trying to protect the feelings of this dude.
The next day, while my wife is at work I’m eating lunch at our dinner table and studying schoolwork her sister comes to the table and starts talking to me about this guy asking if I talked to him and I tell her plainly I did and what I told him.
She goes into a story about how she really loves him, she’s an adult woman and I shouldn’t be intervening etc. I told her I agree I shouldn’t ever have been involved and neither should my wife. I told her to save her breath with any talk of her feelings because I don’t care. She started crying telling me I’m cruel etc.
I told her at this point I’m done being nice. I’ve been lied to for 2 years and it’s over. I’m done being my laid back self and I’ve been pushed repeatedly and I’m standing up for my marriage and my boundaries.
I did turn her SIM card back on so she could call my wife and I, her hosts.
The next morning I wake up to my wife in tears calling me to her sisters room. Her sister is bawling her eyes out and packing her bags to go home. I talk her sister into coming for a car ride with my wife and I to talk things out.
Immediately in the car my wife starts berating her sister about how she’s selling her for a man and a whole host of other things. I calm my wife down and tell her that’s not okay to say to her sister. Because against what they thought I don’t want and would’ve never wanted this to cause a separation between them. I know how much my wife values family.
In the car her sister tells me she really loves this guy and that she can see them being a family one day etc. etc. etc. I tell her plainly don’t ever bring him around my house, if they do marry and have kids, don’t ever bring them around my house, and don’t consider me her brother in law because I will never do anything for her again after she goes home.
My wife is shocked, she’s shocked and they both wonder how I could be so cruel. I said I’m over it. I’m over hearing about this guy, I’m over being used, and I will never again trust her. She said she understands and resumes talking to this guy.
A few days later we’re in the car going to a family event with my family and I get asked if he can come. I said no, very politely. I said no, he’s not part of my family. I was told how terrible I am, and my wife and her sister both jump out of my car in a bad part of Chicago, an area neither of them know.
My wife calls my family and tells them I kicked them out of the car. So my family starts blowing up my phone screaming at me. Once I explained the situation my family said they’ll come pick them up but I hung around and kept driving by to make sure they were okay. Eventually my wife calls me and says they’ll get in.
So I pull over and they open the doors and my wife goes “I’m scared I don’t feel comfortable getting in the car with you”. So I drive away pissed off. This is a 85,000 car in a bad part of the city where carjackings happen every other day.
I go park somewhere but keep an eye on them to make sure they stay safe. A homeless guy passed them and my wife calls me to come get her. So I do and we go home.
Again her sister packs her shit and cries that she’s going home. I tell her to relax, sleep on it and we’ll talk in the morning. She does eventually and in the morning she decides she’ll stay.
A week goes by and I hear nothing about this guy from her. My friends and I all joked about him and made light fun of him. He caught wind of it and cried to my wife’s sister who told my wife, who came to me and aggressively told me to stop and leave them both alone. I got pissed off because this was a private convo between me and my friends and if he heard it and got his feelings hurt it’s on him.
This spiraled into a huge argument with me, my wife, and her sister. In the argument I asked her sister plainly if she planned to leave at the 90 day mark. She said no.
So I kicked her out of our house. Her and my wife went for a walk and I yelled out the front door to get her shit to the curb before the walk before I do, because if she doesn’t do it herself it’ll be thrown on the wet ground. They both thought I was joking before then I assume. Her sister comes in and packs her stuff and gets out. I said if you plan on staying here illegally it won’t be in my house. If the choose is between here or the streets, it’ll be the streets.
She went to stay with the boyfriend and his parents. His parents must not have liked her too much because within a couple weeks they made them both move out.
This was in January of this year.
Since then, I’ve been repeatedly goaded into accepting this. My wife has tried to get me to visit her sister, etc.
It came to a head recently at a wedding we went to for another friend. Her sister and this guy were there. I didn’t say a word to either one the entire night and all was fine.
Except my wife spent the whole night at their table because he wouldn’t dance or do anything to have fun. She can’t handle the idea that her sister might find something she doesn’t like about this guy. She has to be there just in case the relationship goes on life support.
This pisses me off, obviously. She’s more invested in their relationship than she’s been in ours for the past 2 years. Grown adults.
Well, today she was going to her sisters house. She had 2 bags. An ulta bag and a discovery bag. I asked what that is, and she said it’s for her sister. She pulled out taco shells and said it’s just small stuff she wants her to try. But I could see through the bag and saw beauty products. I’m not an idiot.
I looked in when she went to the bathroom and saw a fucking armoire full of shit. I looked at the receipt. $300. I was fucking livid.
I continued getting ready for work and said “her husband can’t buy her that?”. It’s confrontational, yes. But I said it politely, and was open to talking about it.
I get met with immediately hostility. I never raised my voice but I made it very clear I wasn’t being nice about this or anything anymore.
I told her “maybe she could pay you back and find you a new husband”. I’m going to give her a choice. Me or her sister now. Because this has gotten fucking ridiculous.
We pay for her to come here. She hired an immigration lawyer apparently, but doesn’t have money to pay me back for the flight or even pay for the Ubers they take or anything. My wife is trying to make up for this losers shortcomings. He’s too much of an idiot to see that her sister is using him.
By the way, this isn’t her first fiance. It’s not even her first western fiance. She’s been engaged to at least 3 different guys. One from France, another from Belgium, and a third from Canada before this guy. She was looking to immigrate. He’s a fucking idiot though so, oh well.
My wife’s sister is very materialistic. My wife is fortunately down to earth but is so far up her sisters ass because she thinks if she doesn’t do everything her sister wants that her sister will cut her from her life again. Which is exactly what would happen.
I told her that’s on her sister. I’m not asking her to never talk to her sister. I’m asking her to stop treating her sister like she’s a child and putting their relationship before ours. Stop bending over backwards for a grown woman who will throw you away the moment you’re inconvenient.
But it’ll never happen it seems and it’s the reason I’m strongly considering divorcing her. I’m over this fucking shit. Oh, and by the way, my wife claims that she’s scared of me etc. now when she tells the story to other people.
I have never and would never hit my wife. I’ve never given her any reason to be afraid of me. So to put that out there on me is absolutely fucking bullshit and I’ve lost all trust in her.
AITAH?

Hey and hi! I previously posted these Character Chats in order to fill the void when the comic was on involuntary hiatus, and I'm pleased to hear that it was received positively and people were asking for more. I couldn't really commit to it once the hiatus was over, since I've got a job and all. But good news, my whole team got laid off! I've got a lot more time on my hands now, so I think I'll keep this series going for a few weeks on Tuesdays and Thursdays or so. If anyone complains about me surfing reddit at work during my notice period... well, what are they gonna do, fire me?
Today my giant novely ouija board has selected Prince Aaronev Tarvek Sturmvoraus. Our first Spark, and first main character, but somehow our third Valois out of five picks.
Tarvek is a member of the large and complicated Valois family tree, descended from our pal Andronicus Valois, the Storm King. He is the son of Prince Aaronev Sturmvoraus VI of Sturmhalten and an unknown mother, and the older brother of Anevka Sturmvoraus. He and Anevka share the same grandmother with the von Bliztengaard siblings and Violetta, making them all cousins. The Selnikovs may also be close family members, as their main residence is in Sturmhalten. Tarvek also calls Zulenna a cousin at one point.
The Storm King conspiracy among the Fifty Families was said to be fizzling out in the time before the comic, but the Mongfish family (i.e. Lucrezia) got involved and whipped them all into shape. Besides making most of the Knights of Jove Lucrezia loyalists, part of this involvment was ensuring there was a suitable male heir to the Storm King using Spark sceince, which ended up producing, at minimum, Tarvek and Martellus von Blitzengaard. The degree to which Tarvek's mother was involved and consenting is unknown. While we don't know how much was done, Tarvek is a powerful Spark, physically fit, and quite intelligent, so mission accomplished I suppose (though Tarvek does wear these tiny pince-nez around, so he may have poor vision - nice going, Lucrezia).
We don't have a family tree or anything, so we need to take the story's word that Tarvek's claim for being a direct heir of Andronicus is one of the most direct, if not the strongest overall. Two of the strongest claimants, Tarvek and Martellus, share a grandmother, so presumably their legitimacy is either through her or her late husband. Grandmama is once referred to with the title "Dowager Princess of Sturmhalten", it's possible Aaronev inherited his title as Prince of Sturmhalten by being her son. On the other hand, Tarvek also says that his descent comes down through his mother, so maybe she's Grandmama's child instead? Or it's wrong to trace back things to this set of grandparents after all? The family tree is thrown for another loop when Orotine declares Martellus a third-place heir rather than the commonly assumed second-place, so now who's in second place and how's that guy related to Tarvek's family tree, and... it's at this point I throw up my hands in exasperation.
Tarvek spent some of his early childhood as a political hostage on Castle Wulfenbach, being raised with other hostages by von Pinn. Tarvek recalls this time fondly, and in particular became good friends with Gil, whose identity was still hidden. When the two of them were hunting for secrets, hoping to discover Gil's lineage, they discover a red-herring left by the Baron. While Tarvek didn't buy it and tried to dig further, he got caught. Along with some snitching from Gil, this got him expelled from the Castle. Of course, everyone was spying abord the Castle, and Tarvek was just the only one kicked out. My assumption is that the Baron wasn't worried about Gil's identity being exposed, but didn't approve of Gil getting close with Tarvek for one reason or another and arranged to destroy the friendship.
He spent his remaining childhood in Sturmhalten, where he was wrapped up in family scheming, including Aaronev's schemes with the Other. Besides Aaronev, he also spent time with Anevka and Violetta during this period, and received some Smoke Knight training. He later goes to Paris for his higher education, where he was a good student and made friendships with influential young people like Colette and Neena. He was also involuntarily dragged into Gil's college adventures, where he became, uh, "acquainted" with disreputable characters like Bangladesh Dupree and Zola. He's called back to Sturmhalten after completing his education.
As a young adult, Tarvek's goals are initially to learn all he can from the Other conspiracy in Sturmhalten, destroy them afterwards, use this knowledge to overthrow the Baron, become Storm King, get the Fifty Families under control, and bring peace and prosperity to his new empire. However, Aaronev is in charge in Sturmhalten, and has different ideas. Tarvek detests his father and the Other conspiracy he's involved with, but cooperates with them to stay in their good graces and learn all he can. Tarvek attempts to act as a moderating influence on Aaronev, but Aaronev is too far gone to pull back. Aaronev ends up capturing nearly all the young female Sparks in Europa beneath the Baron's nose, and destroys them utterly trying to implant copies of Lucrezia into their minds, while Tarvek doesn't do much more than watch.
Aaronev eventually subjects his daughter Anevka to the treatment, nearly killing her. The Circus of Adventure happens to be in town, and as an expert on the Muses, Tarvek recognizes Tinka as a van Rijn original when she performs. Tarvek has his men abduct Tinka, and uses her as the basis for building a masterpiece clank which would connect to Anevka's mind and allow her to move and speak while her body was comatose. For what it's worth, he does try to pay the Circus after the fact, but they naturally ran like hell out of town. Tinka is eventually damaged beyond his ability to repair by Aaronev.
After this, he also conspires (or pretends to conspire) with Anevka to use her clank body's voice box to imitate Lucrezia's ability to command revenants, and use that ability to overthrow Aaronev and the Baron. When the Circus comes back to town with Agatha in tow, she's found out as Lucrezia's daughter at a show, with more beans being spilled later when Agatha's drugged with a truth serum. Aaronev tries to throw her in the Lucrezia-machine, but Anevka launches her coup right then, and finalizes her voice box by studying Agatha's own voice. Tarvek, having fallen for Agatha basically immediately, attempts to smuggle Agatha out of town under Anevka's nose, but the Geisters eventually get Lucrezia in her head anyway.
Tarvek, at this point, wants to integrate Agatha into his plan to use Other technology to usurp the Baron, which means keeping her safely at his side. This means both cooperating with Lucrezia to learn from her to begin with and protect Agatha's body, and also sabotaging Agatha's efforts at surrendering herself to the Baron for the greater good. One his deals with Lucrezia is making a clank head imprinted with a Lucrezia copy, designed to fit onto Avenka's clank body. Tarvek lures in Anevka for Lucrezia, and after some back-and-forth betrayals, eventually deactivates Anevka's head and puts her in storage, essentially killing her for the time being. Juggling Agatha, Lucrezia, and now a second Lucrezia proves too much for Tarvek once the Baron's troops arrive in Sturmhalten, and he ends up slashed in the gut, shot, and abandoned in the ensuing chaos.
Tarvek ends up in the Great Hospital in Mechanicsburg, as one of many of the injured from Sturmhalten. Violetta, who had been assigned to Mechanicsburg by Tarvek to keep her out of the proverbial firing line, manages to get him out of custody in the hospital... but inside of Castle Heterodyne instead, which is something of a lateral move. After connecting up with Agatha, Taevek comes down with Hogfarb's Respelendent Immolation, either due to traipsing about Castle Heterodyne of all places while wounded, or, Tarvek speculates, as a poisoning attempt from his own extended family. Gil is recruited to help with curing him, and after extensive bickering, infections, distractions, complications, and one apotheosis, he's back in good health. Tarvek attempts to help fix the Castle, and aid Agatha however he can, including fighting with Lucrezia and Vole, and attempting to strangle Zola. His bickering with Gil during this time mostly puts him on the defensive and has Tarvek trying to justify his actions, but he eventually does has a quiet epiphany.
He eventually gets grabbed by Other in a case of mistaken identity, and his quick analytical skills wind up placing him in charge of the Wulfenbach fleet's grand strategy temporarily - it's at gunpoint, but Boris assesses that he's really doing what's in the best interest of the Empire. He has to scurry off when Klaus comes onto the scene, placing him in a perfect position to recruit the Empire's Vespiary Squad and their weasels when Klaus turns on them. Notably, he risks life and limb rescuing a squad member, who he needs of course, but also Jorgi, who mostly annoys him. He sends the Vespiary Squad to hiding places abroad. As the battle for Mechanicsburg wraps up, Tarvek ends up stabbed with a poisoned dagger by Martellus just before the time-stop.
Post time-skip, Gil dedicates extensive resources towards getting Tarvek out of the time stop. Tarvek isn't able to do much before being kidnapped by the Immortal Library, and then kidnapped by Mister Obsidian on behalf of Grandmama. He does manage to breathe a bit in Paris, before being kidnapped by Mister Obsidian again on behalf of Seffie, to be sent to England. But en route aboard a pirate vessel, he's (shockingly) interrupted by a kidnapping attempt, this time for Grandmama again. Martellus sent assassins after Tarvek to interrupt the interruption, leading to bloody battle between Seffie's pirates, Grandmama's Smoke Knights, Martellus' Knights of the Hunt, and poor Tarvek. After being rescued by Gil, Tarvek flips the script, and he and Bang kidnap Gil instead, changing course to England.
In England, he can finally, you know, not get kidnapped for a bit. He decides to join Agatha in the Royal Society, and despite nearly getting strangled by Higgs, manages to reach Agatha and help work on curing her of Lucrezia, and curing Gil of Klaus. After interminable delays like a undersea cult, briefly seeing beyond time, punching Tweedle, and a revenant attack, they eventually pull it all off.
Later, in the war against the Polar Lords, Tarvek is essentially given the role of Gil's official treacherous vizier. On paper, helping the Empire helps keep him safe to further his own ambitions, but in practice, Tarvek seems more focused on doing good by his friends than anything to do with becoming Storm King.
Whew! And that's the short synopsis!
As a Spark, Tarvek's specialty is masterwork clanks in the van Rijn mold. His Anevka clank maintains full sentience even after any organic parts it was attached to died off, and continues to be used by Lucrezia to devastating effect. He also has a knack for rapid analysis, such as being able to understand the Wulfenbach fleet's strategy with just a glance. It's possible his political aptitude, scheming skills and ability to anticipate people's actions are a byproduct of his spark, but it may also just be the natural result of his upbringing. He is unusually composed for a Spark, and is very rarely seen in the Madness Place, and never for very long.
Beyond the Spark and his cunning, Tarvek also received some Smoke Knight training, making him skilled in martial arts and sleight of hand. That said, he'd prefer not to get in fights, and his first resort use his Spark or guile to get out safely (his second resort is just shooting them, with a gun). He also has a passion for fashion design, particularly lady's fashion.
Besides his conquer-Europa ambitions, Tarvek seems primarily driven to help and protect the people he loves, but his preferred tactics for doing so are often underhanded, or screw over people that he doesn't particularly love. Tarvek is the kind of guy who has to come to the conclusion that mind-control slavery is bad in general, rather than bad for people I know. He does come to that conclusion on his own, so kudos for that, but for a lot of people it's not even something you have to think about. Tarvek is also quick to use "they'd kill me if I tried, I had no choice" as a defense, but never quite understands that there was always a choice available he didn't consider - die trying. That all said, Tarvek is in generally improving his character over time, and wants to do the right thing, both in the "greater good" sense and doing right by other people individually, and finds himself frustrated at himself that he's often failed. I don't want to discuss Tarvek's ethics too much further here, since there's a great deal to talk about and this is supposed to be a discussion thread! Why do I have to do all the work?
Major Relationships:

• Agatha: Tarvek fell for Agatha pretty damn hard, internally logging her as "future bride", and even at his scummiest times in Sturmhalten was trying to act in her best interest, and just ignoring what she actually wanted and also fucking it up anyway. By the time of the Castle arc, Tarvek has mostly thrown away all of his own ambitions in favor of working for Agatha's, even in moments when he feels pretty hopeless about his actual prospects as a suitor. One major advantage in his court is that he's able to actually articulate his feelings like an adult.
  
• Gil: It's been a true roller coaster for these two, from friends to enemies to rivals to allies to secret lovers. It takes a great deal of bonding for their distrust of one another to fall away, and after the time skip Tarvek lists Agatha and Gil (and, by implication, Violetta) as the only people left he really cares about, and the two of them spend a lot more time hugging than you would have expected.
  
• Violetta: Tarvek spent a good deal of his childhood with Violetta, and earnestly tried to protect her. In natural early-Tarvek style, it was by ignoring her wishes and leaving her in the dark, but points for trying. They have a bickering siblings type of relationship, and Violetta is fine trash talking him despite the power imbalance between them. Tarvek is pretty disappointed that he's rebuffed when trying to sincerely express that he's glad she's alive, since she expects childish taunts out of him.
  
• Aaronev: Tarvek really hates Aaronev for all the horrible things he's done, especially for putting Anevka through the machine, and spends about two seconds mourning after he's killed. Tarvek had been play-acting as a loyal son for years, and it's a bit tragic that Aaronev bought his act wholesale - what little interaction we see suggests that Aaronev, scumbag that he is, did really like Tarvek.
  
• Anevka: Tarvek did not take it well when it seemed Anevka was going to die, and went to extreme measures to save her. But Tarvek doesn't assign the same level of personhood to the Anevka clank after the original Anevka dies (he's generally not the best at the whole "clanks are people too" concept), and eventually "kills" her by turning her off and throwing her head in a box, where she probably still remains if Sturmhalten hasn't been razed to the ground.
  
• Lucrezia: While most people hate the Other on a conceptual level, Tarvek has spent enough time with her to really begin to hate her on a personal level. He's aware of her foibles, such as her susceptibility to flattery, and tries to take advantage when he can. His more personal knowledge also makes him better able to detect when Lucrezia is taking over for Agatha than most.
  
• Higgs: Like many, Tarvek cottons on that Higgs has a secret in Castle Heterodyne. Tarvek does try to keep it under his hat and make excuses on his behalf, but can't resist teasing Higgs despite him being incredibly dangerous. Tarvek openly confronting Higgs about his identity later on nearly gets him strangled to death. Despite that, Tarvek and Higgs have formed a good rapport, and have solid mutual respect. He's even one of the people Tarvek pours his heart out to when he thinks Violetta is dead.
  
• Neena: Neena has a bit of a crush on Tarvek, and Tarvek for his part does some light flirting at the ball but otherwise doesn't think about her much at this point. It's an odd match for someone like Tarvek, since Neena is earnest, enthusiastic, and completely lacking in guile. Maybe that's exactly what someone like him needs - stranger things have happened!
  
• Martellus: As two men aiming for the same throne, Martellus and Tarvek are natural enemies. Tarvek obviously dislikes Martellus - and even gets a good punch in - but doesn't take any moves to stop Martellus' forward momentum, and makes no moves towards legitimizing his claim as Storm King beyond not being dead. His strategy may be to just give Martellus enough rope to hang himself with, but it may also show genuine disinterest in this whole Storm King business.
  

I'm working on the Navbar for this website and everything is mostly okay. I have two issues, one more my focus than the other at the moment. I am trying to make it so that the active tab has the white underline. At the moment the line only shows when hovered. I have tried other methods but it only shows a bar over the words or none at all. The other problem is having it so the bar stretches to fit the entire screen and the size of the nav selections adapt based on screen size. Nothing so far has helped or done anything with that.
Below is the CSS and in the image is the Html
@charset "UTF-8";
/* Body */
body {

font-family: source-sans-pro; background-color: #FFFFFF; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 200; display: block; text-decoration: none; 

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margin: 30%; 

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box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0; 

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width: 100%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; height: 76%; background-color: #960C22; top: 0; display: inline; justify-content: space-between; border-bottom: 1px solid #960C22; position: fixed; left: 0; padding: 0; align-items: center; z-index: 100; 

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width: 30%; max-width: 479px; float: left; margin-left: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1%; display: inline; cursor: pointer; 

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Does anyone know of any apartments available for less than $700/month ? I've noticed that a lot of places in the $500-700 range aren't even listed online, they go by word of mouth instead. 

Preferably Southeastern CT, & no rooms for rent please

after trying to get a diagnosis for what i believed was endometriosis for my crazy fatigue, bloating, mysterious pelvic pain, abnormal bleeding and weird GI issues (plus having endo run in every woman in my family pretty much) i finally had my lap yesterday, which found nothing. i talked about it more in this post here if anyone wants to read more but long story short, im devastated to be back and square one and looking at what it could possibly be going on with me.
i have always suspected i also may have PMDD (in 2018 it was managed fairly well with the birth control i was on, i felt very stable and had a lot of energy consistently but this BC stopped stabilizing me in 2019 when all my weird symptoms also began) in addition to the symptoms i listed above such as pelvic pain, abnormal bleeding, and GI issues, the worst symptoms i experience are feeling intense lows for the majority of the month where i feel fatigue to the point i can’t wake up in the morning, hopelessness, intense anxiety to the point of full body panic attacks, craving and binging on sugar and carbs and overall just feelings of worthlessness and everything feeling bleak. even things that help me feel better (exercise, spending time with friends, etc) don’t help. and then i get my period and the week following my period i feel great! motivated, energized, and optimistic again. and then every week just gets worse and worse and the cycle repeats.
i wanted to ask this community if anyone had any similar experiences to this and was PMDD treatment the answer? while they were performing the laparoscopy yesterday they inserted an IUD to hopefully help with my abnormal bleeding going forward but i’m wondering if it would be beneficial to get other treatments, or if it would be best to just get anti-anxiety meds in general? what treatment, or combination of treatments is most beneficial to you?
tldr: thought it was endo, but laparoscopy found none. wondering if it was PMDD all along, anyone have any similar experiences or any advice on what treatments helped you the most? or any other kind words would be very appreciated, thanks everyone 🫶

I am interested in creating sentences but only from a limited vocabulary set specified by myself. Is there a way to extract the associations between words from the model ie the noun crisis might have the adjective "long" applied to it but it is dramatically less likely to have the adjective "heavy" applied. As I understand it this relationship is documented in some probability file on which chat gpt operates. For a given noun I would like to know which adjectives in my vocabulary list are commonly applied.

Well, it's time to avail myself of the great Reddit Knowledge Base. :-)
And Thanks in Advance for any help/suggestions. Reddit has been around for a long time, but I just discovered it a couple of months ago and there is a LOT of information stored here and Reddit users have a LOT of knowledge in a vast array of areas. Quite a resource.
I'm working on a DSL line, for a small town, that terminates in a Qwest Actiontec PK5000 modem (yea I know it's older than the hills, but it's a SMALL town).
The original IT guy changed the password during setup, didn't document (or it was lost) and now he's long gone.
After collecting the most current firmware, factory user manual, WAN credentials and some How To's about the Actiontec PK5000 I reset the modem and tried to log in, but no joy. :-(
And thus began my peregrination. ^{{yea, it's a word. Weird, but very descriptive}}
I've done a lot of searching online but none of the suggestions have panned out.
From the lists below I've tried these:
admin password admin (blank) Admin Admin (blank) (blank) admin admin telus admin serial number of device n/a (blank) - admin admin telus admin WAN MAC: 00247B2CB887
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A couple of lists I found: 1 admin password 2 admin (blank) 3 Admin Admin 4 (blank) (blank) 5 admin 6 admin telus 7 admin 'randomly generated' 8 admin randomly generated 9 admin printed on router 10 admin found on router label 11 admin serial number of device 12 admin n/a 13 admin printed on bottom of router 14 admin printed on the label located on the bottom of the 15 n/a (blank) 16 admin (label on the bottom of the device) 17 admin Printed on Routers Label 18 found on router label found on router label 19 admin printed on router label 20 admin (sticker on the back of the gateway)
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Username: admin Password: password
Username: 'randomly generated'' Password: admin
Username: admin Password: admin
Username: Password: admin
Username: admin Password: telus
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In case the Firmware would help: QAPK01-3.60.3.0.9.0
Lots of references to the information printed on the back of the modem.
So:
https://preview.redd.it/ct28l5e5vt1d1.png?width=1884&format=png&auto=webp&s=b1d0984c0e2d98486b22d7a573898b0ed7a8c7ce

I am filing a civil suit (pro se) against my ex for the rape and sexual assault he committed. Florida makes this process pretty simple thankfully. I’m having trouble with the cause of action section of the paperwork though. I have the list of torts this could fall under, but I’m struggling with how to word it and how much information should be included in that part of the form.
Are there any resources available that have same court documents I could reference to help me? I do intend to find an attorney, but the statute of limitations is up in less than two weeks, so I want to get it filed asap. Thank you!

Bike mechanic for over a decade here:
I frequently see people on this site recommending drivetrain upgrades for performance reasons, even when the existing drivetrain is perfectly fine or even brand new.
In my opinion, this is just bad advise: a drivetrain upgrade is one of the least cost-effective performance upgrades in the industry. Sure, you might prefer the the crisp shifting of the XX1 Eagle over an entry-level drivetrain, but this doesn’t justify spending hundreds of dollars on a bike that still has cheap wheels, an uncomfortable saddle, poor grips, and other subpar components.
When it comes to performance, I believe the drivetrain should be the last area to throw your hard earned money at. An entry-level Deore drivetrain won’t significantly slow you down compared to a top-of-the-line XX1. For many riders, including myself, even 2x drivetrains don’t result in a performance loss compared to 1x systems. Roadies agree. And yes, 2x is more unintuitive to beginners, a badly adjusted front derailleur may make shifting a lot more sluggish but in the end of the day, they work reliable as they have done for decades at this point. Are they less convenient: hell yah, but that’s the point: In most cases, drivetrain upgrades are about convenience rather than a substantial performance boost.
I would say a reasonable upgrade path for a beginner would be:

1. Saddle
2. Grips
3. Pedals
4. Tires
5. Seatpost (dropper)
6. Wheelset
7. Brakes
8. Suspension
9. Drivetrain

Depending on the bike and rider bars and stem would also be in the upper half of the list. If your brakes are utter garbage, maybe buy a used mid-level pair in decent condition from a few years ago and upgrade sooner. Depending on the components everything that involves potentially low quality bearings like cheap BBs and headset could be a good upgrade with significant performance and safety gains. As for the drivetrain: everything above XT is a total waste of money and as a non-professional cyclist without sponsoring; just avoid SRAM, that shit is way too expensive for what U get. And always remember: the less you spend on your drivetrain the more you can spend on parts that really make a difference in performance.

For those that may know me in here very scarcely, I’m the user who posted regarding wanting to change my model in the future to a small and cute type (or loli whichever some may prefer, thx for all the encouraging words btw)!
https://www.reddit.com/VirtualYoutubers/comments/1crm6k3/scared_of_changing_to_loli_model_even_if_im_more/
I’ve always wanted to have more options for model art and been wanting to save up for whenever I could do this, but I’ve noticed a lot that artists from Japan only really accept quotes or orders from corporations, or those affiliated with a company. I know that possibly it’s mostly due to contracts,or maybe because individuals could be a bit more wish washy (could leave t a moments notice and not keep up their end of the deal), or may try to be dumb and scam, but is there any way to get a model from a JP artist for an individual? I assumed it must be a case by case basis, but I find it really hard no a bit disheartening when I see an art style from a JO artist I love, in,y for them to not accept individuals. Is there a site or anything that possibly have lists of artists that are available for individuals, or is it really just a case by case basis of just doing your own research?

Hey renters + professionals,
I pre-leased an apartment in late April 2024 based only on photos and some positive comments from friends of a friend living in the building. I was unable to tour the apartment, since there is still a tenant living there until 5/31. I asked to get on the schedule to tour 6/1, but the leasing agent told me that they were already accepting applications for pre-leasing, and the listing on Zillow checked that out (the leasing agent said about 12, Zillow said 13). In my city, renting is extremely competitive, and property management companies are pretty ruthless. The fact that I needed a place for June (busy season), was not helping my anxiety surrounding locking in a place.
The other apartments in the area are way too expensive to justify a 1 bd 1 ba + fees, so I applied, and got accepted. I went out on a limb and signed the lease, SIGHT UNSEEN. The lease does have a section where I sign saying I accept responsibility for the unit, without having seen it IRL.
Does the lease take precedent over the leasing agent saying, in writing, "the photos on our listings are of the actual unit"? Agent wrote that to me before I signed the lease. I am slightly concerned that they may rent me a different unit with a different layout and different finishes.
I am trying to coordinate to see the unit BEFORE my move-in date. Just wanted to see if the words in writing would have any pull if the unit was not as described and pictured. If the unit doesn't match the photos, I do know the layout of my friend's apartment is nice and that it's the only other layout available. Just not exactly what I was looking for. I do have screen recordings of the images included in the listing from Zillow and Trulia with the specific unit # and address included.
Please let me know what you think! And please, no hateful or irrelevant comments... I took the risk and I'm willing to live with it (whatever result that may be), but I wanted to get other opinions. I've lived in this TN city for 5 years and am familiar with the neighborhood, renting climate, etc.
Thanks!

What I Want
I want to create a reproducible report (Quarto PDF) on some evaluation survey data collected from a series of training sessions (i.e., 101 through 105) across multiple cohorts (A through E). The structure of the report should be:

1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Results
   1. Cohort A
      1. Session 101
      2. Session 102
      3. Etc
   2. Cohort B
      1. Session 101
      2. Session 102
      3. Etc
   3. Etc.
4. Conclusion

The subsection for each session follows the same pattern (one figure and one table regarding instructors, one figure and one table regarding learning objectives, one figure and one table regarding overall experience, and verbatim responses to open-ended items).
What I've Done
I've run all analyses, created the figures/tables, and stored them in nested lists. So for example, the instructor plot for Session 102 in Cohort A is stored in instruct_plots$\A`$`102`.`
For similar reports, I've created a template .Rmd "session" doc, then used pmap() to loop over the template for each session, following this example. The code looks like this:

# Use loop to knit template (as child doc) for each session out <- dat %>% distinct(Session_num, Session) %>% as.list() %>% pmap(function(Session_num, Session) knitr::knit_expand("section_template.Rmd")) # Knit templates res = knitr::knit_child(text = unlist(out), quiet = TRUE) # Return templated output as raw markdown cat(res, sep = "\n") 

The template then pipes the arguments to knit_expand() allowing me to give chunks unique names (important for cross-referencing). The beginning of the section template .Rmd looks like this:

### Module {{Session_num}}: {{Session}} #### Instructors Responses to items regarding instructors are shown in Figure\ \@ref(fig:instructors-{{Session_num}}) and Table\ \@ref(tab:instructors-tab-{{Session_num}}). The majority of respondents somewhat agreed or strongly agreed with each item. ```{r instructors-{{Session_num}}, fig.cap="{{Session}} - Instructors"} pluck(instruct_plots, "{{Session_num}}") ``` ```{r instructors-tab-{{Session_num}}} pluck(instruct_tabs, "{{Session_num}}") %>% format.table(cap = "{{Session}} - Instructors") # Function I made to format tables ``` 

The Problem
I need a way to loop the rendering of the session template across cohorts; in other words, to somehow have sessions nested within cohorts. The only content I need at the cohort level is a level-two heading and a \clearpage command. I've tried different combinations of looping with knit_expand(), rmarkdown::render(), and knitr::knit_child(), but I can't seem to achieve this nesting. Any advice would be greatly appreciated; happy to provide more details as needed!

Hey everyone.
I'm 17 years old, turning 18 in July.
I feel kind of lost right now. I get that it's hard for 99% of the people that just turn " 18 " and are " just " entering life and learning the hardships, I've always been aware of these and prepared. I love working, like genuinely love it and spend 24/7 wanting to work.
I just don't know what or where.
So, a little " picture " of me. I was hit by a car back in 8th grade, I don't remember exactly what age that is. In result I was in the hospital for 4 months, had to " re-learn " how to walk since my body had technically forgotten it since I hadn't walked for so long. And this affected what I could do for a couple of years, and I kind of sometimes find it hard to "memorize" stuff. I had broken my left leg, spine, nose and my skull. Worst part was the skull, had to get a VERY risky operation, which thank God it went great and now I've got a very " cool " big ol' scar on my head lol. I was very sporty, I loved sports and wanted to pursue " fighting " sports such as mma and grappling as I got older, so like the age that I am now. But since this happened, Sports & MOSTLY those sports came out of the picture. I used to be a really good b'bal player, I was always put up with people 4-5 years older than me, but stupidly I was " shy " of how skinny I was. Anyways, I was SUPER skinny, and I hated that so much. And I'm basically an ectomorph, no matter HOW much I eat I genuinely don't get fat. So, I put my mind to it, ignoring what the doctors said and started working my ass out. And now, I'm much better, don't feel anything related to the accident. My head just feels a little overwhelmed when let's say I run constantly for like 5+ mins. Anyways, now I'm very very very pleased with my body. It's quite the " dream " body for my age.
I know you might be thinking what in the fuckery does this have to do with me asking for advice about " work ", I'm basically trying to tell you that if I put my mind to something nothing stops me. I don't need "motivation" to pursue something, all I need is the " start " and I just chase till finish. And That is how it is for me, 99% of the time the start is hard for me.
I guess I'm good with languages. I speak Armenian, Persian, English and a little Russian // Spanish (Can get them both to an advanced level if I find the " need " for it) & I started learning French, because I'm going to go to a French UNI and I wanted a HeadStart compared to the other students, but my mom kind of shut me down and said why are you wasting your time learning a "language" when they're going to teach you that from scratch. Instead learn something actual (she was referring to programming). I mean yeah, I guess I agree with her, since I don't know anything for the "future" to work. But anyways in no way do I want a job in anything related to languages (Like a translator etc...)
I was 15-16, I worked as a logistics operator and was able to make $1600 in a month. But the market kind of died, so did the office, so I stopped, then I focused on my exams for UNI and I'm accepted now. I will be studying Marketing, but probs will switch to Business on my 2-nd year. I have plans to get a Master's degree as-well. Either the opposite of what I study (so If I get a bachelor's in marketing, I'll go for a master's in business or if I have enough finances to pay for it myself, I'll go for CS).
So now, after I've finished everything, School exams done, UNI has been applied // accepted to and I'm just " getting " into life I'm worried day and night about work. I feel like I genuinely don't know anything to find a work for or just in general don't know anything. And I know people say there is so so much time ahead of you, you're still young and you'll find it. But I don't want to waste a single second, since each second can be spent studying or even better working.
I am decent at forex trading; I am able to make decent profit (demo account obviously) and have general knowledge of the market and know how it works basically. Of course there is still much to learn, like anyone in any field. My dad works as a trader as-well. See this is something that I enjoy, but I can't have this as a " main " job. It will be something on the side, and I need to have another MAIN source of income to be able to grow my account and get decent profit. Anyways as I mentioned that 1.6k I've got saved, I'm going to be opening an account at like $300 and I can see me making decent money from it, but still as I said that's not going to be a main " field" or "job" I don't know the word.
That's basically all that I "know" or am good at.
I talk to my mom, asking her to help // guide me. She keeps on saying programming, go become a programmer (saying this person makes tons, that person pays for her whole family and has tons of money for himself etc...). I know programming is an amazing job, mostly pay-wise, but I just don't enjoy it. I ask her to give me an idea for something else, I don't enjoy this and sarcastically she says go become a barber or a server or something. It's quite irritating because my sister has just finished her master's degree (she's 22) and makes good money, and she looks " down " at me, treats me like she's "higher?", ha-ha.
So currently, for the past week I've been studying programming (Python to be exact), and I guess I can see me finding a junior position during August or September probably. But as I mentioned, I don't really enjoy this. It's just not my thing I guess, writing stuff on and on and on all day is eh... to me.
I'm a person who genuinely loves working, just need guidance. Also, another reason why I'm so EAGER to just " jump" into life and start ACTUAL work, is because I want to get myself a car (fully paid by me) and much more stuff on my bucket list.
Sorry if this is stupidly long and half of this is just " pointless " but I guess I'm ranting and trying to get advice.
Thank you if you read all of this,
Kindly put down thoughts!
Best Regards.

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Linear Switches (L+F)

Name	Price	Modifications
x70 43 Studio x JWK Jing	$45	Lubed using 205g0 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs
x84 Gateron Ink Yellow	$55	Lubed using 205g0 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs
x65 Hyperglide Cherry MX Ergo Clear	$40	Lubed using 205g0 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs and SS to TX Long 57g; Desoldered w/ FR301 cleanly (Works in Hotswap PCBs)
x90 BSUN Strawberry Wine V2	$55	Lubed using 205g0 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs
x90 HMX x Sillyworks Hyacinth V2	$40	Lubed using 205g0 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs
x78 TKC x JWK Banana Split 78	$70	Lubed using 205g0 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs
x90 Gateron Milky Yellow Pro	$55	Lubed using 205g0 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs
x70 Haimu x Geon HG Black	$40	Lubed using 205g0 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs
x90 Grain Gold Bubblegum Mint	$35	Lubed using 205g0 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs
x90 HMX Deep Navy	$45	Lubed using 205g0 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs
x90 JWK JWICK	$55	Lubed using 205g0 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs
x63 TTC Frozen Silent V2	$55	Lubed using 205g0 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs
x90 WS Morandi	$60	Lubed using 205g0 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs
x90 Gateron Smoothie	$50	Lubed using 205g0 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs
x70 Kailh-stemmed Cherries	$70	Lubed using 205g0 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs and SS to 62g Durock Springs; Desoldered w/ FR301 cleanly (Works in Hotswap PCBs)

Tactile Switches (L+F)

Name	Price	Modifications
x61 Durock Burgundy (Light Tactile)	$45	Lubed using 3204 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs
x90 TTC Gold Brown Pro	$75	Lubed using 3204 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs
x90 Gateron Mini i	$75	Lubed using 3204 and Durock filmed w/ 105 on springs

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Inscriptions made by sailors wishing for safe voyages in ancient Greece often included the words eúploia ‘good sailing / fair voyage’ or eutukhía ‘good luck’ and variants. Thus, the roughly 2,000-year-old inscription cut into a cliff on the desert islet of Vryonisi in Eastern Crete which contains euplous ‘good sailing’ (an adj., not a noun) should be easily regarded as another example. However, Martín González takes it as a name (since some people were named Euplous) because there is “a crucial obstacle: there is no parallel for the use of the adjective eúplous, instead of the ubiquitous substantive eúploia, among the related inscriptions”. Now, many words known from inscriptions only appear once, yet they still exist. Since most inscriptions were probably lost, it is not odd that, even if many of this type once existed, only one (or none) of its kind might now remain. For instance, if only 20 welcome mats remained 2,000 years in the future, how many would have ‘welcome’ vs. ‘we welcome you’? If only one verb remained, would some future linguist say it was impossible because “there is no parallel for the use of the verb welcome, instead of the ubiquitous interjection”? I see no reason to take this as evidence against the obvious. For her reading:
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Euthu-
timos
Khrusip-
pos
[dolphin]
Nikanoros
euplous
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I would translate it, “Euthutimos (and) Khrusippos (wish) a fair voyage for Nikanōr”. This would be a very simple and undestandable expression of good wishes, whatever the frequency of one of the words.
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This still leaves the question of the meaning of the carving of the dolphin (see image in the link below). It is directly among the words, not above or below, so it’s not certain that it is merely an addition used because dolphins were said to save sailors in need (Apollo’s connection with dolphins is probably folk etymology, really from Delphi). It seems like it might be homophone used in a rebus, since the Greek word for ‘dolphin’ was delphī́s (from *gWelbhiHn-s, derived from délphax ‘pig’, formerly ‘*young animal / piglet’ < delphús ‘womb’, probably related to Go. kalbo, E. calf, and maybe also E. whelp) it would start with the same syllable as :
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*(e)gWela > Mac. izéla ‘good luck’, G. bále ‘oh that it were so!’
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Though this alone is possible, there is more to my idea. It is possible that the entire pronunciation of ‘dolphin’ in Crete might have additional meaning. The origin of *(e)gWela is not clear, but it greatly resembles
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*gWhel()- ‘wish / want / will / be/make willing’> OCS želja ‘wish’, ON gilja ‘allure/entice/seduce/beguile’, G. (e)thélō ‘be willing’, (e)thelontḗn ‘voluntarily’
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Not only is the meaning the same, but the optional e- matches optional 0- vs. i- in Macedonian (which might come from *gWhelH1- > *H1gWhel-). The difference in *gWh vs. *gW could come from a dialect with PIE *gh > g, etc. (like Macedonian). Such variation is seen on Crete (G. dáptēs ‘eater / bloodsucker (of gnats)’, Cretan thápta, Polyrrhenian látta ‘fly’), so the needed features all exist there. Also, words like (e)thelontḗn often appear in inscriptions as formal parts of various requests or sacrifices. These supposedly show that the deed was done ‘voluntarily’ or ‘of one’s own free will’, but some might also retain the older meaning ‘wishing (that it comes to pass / that it is pleasing (to the gods)’, etc. This allows further comparison to be made for *(e)gWhelont-s ‘wishing’ and *gWelbhiHn-s ‘dolphin’. Since these words are already quite close (with regular *-nts > *-ns), and I suspect that the changes in *(e)gWela > Mac. izéla were matched in parts of Crete, other changes in dialects might have made them even closer. Some have alternation of ph / w, like *swe-es > spheîs ‘they / themselves’; the centaur Márphsos & the satyr Marsúas (Whalen 2024a). This could produce *gWelon-s and *gWelwi:n-s, possibly with later *on > *un (which might be supported by the lack of Linear A syllables with Co vs. many with Cu, see Chiapello) and *wi > *wu (then *Cwu > *Cu). With this alone, *gWelun-s and *gWelu:n-s would be nearly identical, and maybe exactly the same if *-onts became *-o:ns first (attested as -ōn in the nominative for nt-stems). I would ask for all such images to be examined carefully, and considered in the context of known changes in Greek dialects, even down to Cretan Hieroglyphs (Whalen 2024b). Younger’s claim that the cat’s head symbol stood for MA (compared to Linear A and B signs for the syllable MA) is supposedly imiation of “meow”, but many IE words for ‘cat’ and other noisy animals come from *maH2- ‘bleat / bellow / meow’ (Skt. mārjārá- ‘cat’, mārjāraka- ‘cat / peacock’, mayū́ra- ‘peacock’, māyu- ‘bleating/etc’, mayú- ‘monkey?/antelope’), and it would not be possible to name all symbols after the sounds made by the things represented (like mountains, stocks). It seems many of these symbols start with the sounds found in the Greek words for them, and continuing to examine the evidence could lead to proof of their Greek origin.
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Chiapello, Duccio (2024) The Linear A inscribed idol of Roccacasale: authentic, forgery… or both? An analysis based on the “Minoan Greek” hypothesis
https://www.academia.edu/112932884
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Martín González, Elena (2017) A Sailors' Inscription Revisited
https://www.academia.edu/33135646
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Whalen, Sean (2024a) Linear B *79, e-wi-su-zo-ko, e-wi-su-79-ko
https://www.academia.edu/114741659
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Whalen, Sean (2024b) The X’s and O’s of Cretan Hieroglyphic (Draft)
https://www.academia.edu/114973571
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Younger, John (2023) Linear A Texts: Homepage
http://people.ku.edu/~jyoungeLinearA/
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I'll be four years sober from alcohol this August and in a month I'll be graduating from an architectural drafting and design program. Maybe. Every semester I've been on the President's list with all A's or a B or two, but this semester I am worried I'm going to fail one or several of my classes and not graduate. I'm struggling with the material in two classes and with deadlines in my studio. It feels like everything I've worked for doesn't matter at all and I'm going to end up a failure.
Right now I'm on my way to a physics exam that is worth 20% of my grade. I'm likely going to fail. When I drank, I always grabbed shots during transfers on my bus commute. More and more when I go to campus I just really want to stop and grab a shot. I haven't felt like this about drinking at any point since I stopped in 2020.
Since I know this test isn't going to go well, any words of encouragement for the ride home are super appreciated. Also if you know any tips about conceptual physics, drop it in the chat.

We are in USA (Austin) for another 7 months or so. We have a 2.1 year old who is not social and has delay in speech. Wanted to know from the fellow parents where we can take our child so he can just be around kids listening to them, hearing their voices, may be that might encourage him to speak words. Difficulty we have faced is - we do not have any relativies here, are first-time parents and in USA only temporarily, do not have many friends. We are afraid to send him to day care with several bad reviews for daycares around me. There are one or two day cares around us and with positive reviews and we have enrolled him there, but the wait list is 1 year. we tried MT playmore last week, i think my child learned a thing or two. We plan to take him there on regular basis.
Other things we involve him in are: - we regularly take him to are swimming pool (during summer), - regular visits to parks with playgrounds/slides, - regular visits to library (but unable to catch story times due to work timings)
My questions are multi-fold.

1. do you recommend me anything to improve his speech?
2. is Thinkery 1 year membership worth it if we stay only for 7 months? Also from the google pictures of Thinkery, I observed that it is pretty packed with kids and crowded. my kid does not do well in crowded places. or do you say Thinkery is not too crowded on weekends?
3. any other recommendations on places like MT playmore or thinkery, where the kid gets to play with other kids, but still the parents can keep an eye on him from afar?