Fix your vagus nerve to heal chronic illness and improve glucose metabolism with dry fasting
The vagus nerve is so important to glucose metabolism. I talk about this a lot. You can suppress a lot of symptoms and feel so much better by going on a low-carb diet, but this is simply masking the problem in the short term. True health is obtained when you are able to eat carbs again. This improved carbohydrate sensitivity goes hand in hand with vagus nerve health. To really thrive and become superhuman we have to fix the vagus nerve. The study we’re going to look at is called Impact of blood glucose control on sympathetic and vagus nerve function status in patients with Type 2 diabetes.

“Present results indicate that sympathetic and vagal functional status are impaired independent of HbA1c level, while poor glycemic control is related to more significant neurocardiac dysfunction in DM patients.” ~Impact of blood glucose control on sympathetic and vagus nerve functional status in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus - PMC~

This incredible study found an interesting pattern that is important to understanding how important the parasympathetic nervous system is to insulin resistance.
They had 3 groups of diabetic patients.

• 100 patients who had diabetes but controlled their glucose intake very well (kept it low),
• 100 patients who had diabetes and did not control their glucose intake very well (up and down),
• and 100 patients without diabetes as a control group.

All subjects underwent blood biochemistry tests, treadmill exercise testing, and 24-hour Holter monitoring. HRR and HRV parameters were significantly lower in groups A and B than in group C. Very low frequency (VLF) values were significantly lower in group B than in group A.
All of this makes perfect sense.
No diabetes gives the best results for HRR and HRV.
Then diabetes but good glycemic control gives better results than no control of glycemic control.
Are we looking for optimal health? Well, then we’ve got to eliminate diabetes. How do we know we’ve achieved it? ~When we can eat carbs and feel perfectly healthy with good glucose clearance levels.~ But if we can't get there, managing blood glucose levels is critical, while still getting enough carbs to stop the body from constantly needing to create it through cortisol-gluconeogenesis pathways.
Low-carb diets are notoriously known to lower HRV. Even if your HbA1C levels are in the normal range. So why isn't your HRV increasing? Know what increases it? Removal of chronic cortisol. The easiest way to achieve this is by eating carbohydrates to stop constant gluconeogenesis from protein and fat. But be aware that jumping straight from low-carb into high-carb has its own set of risks and should be done very gradually (use a CGM if you can). An art form in itself. Dry fasting helps speed these transitions drastically, and it's why the scorch protocol uses dry fasting in between periods of dietary ketosis and high-carb regeneration.

“studies have shown that vagal activity, as indexed by heart-rate variability (HRV), is inversely related to diabetes and that low HRV is a predictor of T2DM.” ~The Vagal Nerve, Inflammation, and Diabetes—A Holy Triangle - PMC~

Why does this matter? Higher HRV predicts how well your body can handle stress. Dry Fasting spikes your HRV levels drastically. Not eating before bed helps a lot, not drinking alcohol, lowering your stress, etc. But the quickest, most powerful HRV spike comes from dry fasting and you get instant results. Don’t believe me? Try it next time you fast. Monitor your nighttime HRV levels with a fitness tracker wearable.
This indicates that it plays a big role in stimulating the vagus nerve and promoting its healing. Now, it’s not the end-all-be-all of vagus nerve healing. It sparks the fire, but you need to nurture and improve upon it by mastering the refeeding period.
With fasting, we attempt to fix our issues through a few mechanisms. Lowering sugar levels, giving the cells and pancreas a break, recycling cellular components that are faulty, stimulating stem cell regeneration, improving HRV while stimulating the vagus nerve.

Stress-induced hyperglycemia: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11219223/

Controlling glucose through diets like keto and carnivore is why so many people feel better on them than on their previous diet. If you have insulin-resistance-type of downstream damage, of course fixing it through glucose management is a critical first step. But what happens after? If you keep at a zero-carb diet, you cause chronic stress, but also insulin SUPPRESSION. If you don’t use it, you lose it! My own experiments and observations track perfectly well with this. They’re based on tracking my HRV and correlate fiercely with COVID-induced diabetes. Do all illnesses correlate to insulin resistance? We know that catching a cold or illness almost always increases blood sugar levels, so an prolonged, extreme sickness can very easily push you into diabetic levels of insulin resistance.

Role of counterregulatory hormones in the catabolic response to stress. https://www.jci.org/articles/view/111650

• Fat adaptation forces insulin resistance
• If you quit a fast, which is varying levels of fat adaptation, you need to keep insulin resistance in mind. This is why it's crucial to refeed slowly and not spike blood sugar like crazy. Think grazing vs big meals at first.
• Fat adaptation forces insulin resistance
• If you quit a fast, which is varying levels of fat adaptation, you need to keep insulin resistance in mind. This is why it's crucial to refeed slowly and not spike blood sugar like crazy. Think grazing vs big meals at first.

How does fasting help with diabetes?

• Diabetes is inherently connected to nervous system dysregulation
• Stimulating vagus nerve shows better glucose uptake by cells
• Ergo, vagus nerve dysfunction is linked to diabetes – is our diabetes epidemic because of a perfect storm of stress and diet?
• Fasting is a powerful reset to the vagus nerve and central nervous system. It lights the flame, but you must nurture it
• Inflammation and diabetes is an important link. Harness the power of fasting to lower inflammation, and build on that process upon the exit. Remove seed oils. Stop snacking between meals. Strategically lower inflammation especially during feeding windows and sleep.
• Free fatty acids inhibit glucose uptake, which forces insulin to be created to deal with rising glucose levels and starts a vicious cycle. Why low-carb diets make sense, but don’t fix root issues, only downstream issues. But when lost and confused, starting low-carb is your fastest medicine.

It’s why I talk about Berberine and Ivermectin, Psilocybin, and timed breathwork and exercise.

• It’s why I talk about Berberine and Ivermectin, Psilocybin, and timed breathwork and exercise.

How does fasting help with diabetes?

• Diabetes is inherently connected to nervous system dysregulation
• Stimulating vagus nerve shows better glucose uptake by cells
• Ergo, vagus nerve dysfunction is linked to diabetes – is our diabetes epidemic because of a perfect storm of stress and diet?
• Fasting is a powerful reset to the vagus nerve and central nervous system. It lights the flame, but you must nurture it
• Inflammation and diabetes is an important link. Harness the power of fasting to lower inflammation, and build on that process upon the exit. Remove seed oils. Stop snacking between meals. Strategically lower inflammation especially during feeding windows and sleep.
• Free fatty acids inhibit glucose uptake, which forces insulin to be created to deal with rising glucose levels and starts a vicious cycle. Why low-carb diets make sense, but don’t fix root issues, only downstream issues. But when lost and confused, starting low-carb is your fastest medicine.

First time posting here, although I've been lurking in the shadows for years.
4 days ago, I officially hit 1 full year of sobriety from alcohol. That's right folks, I've been rawdogging this shit for a year. Prior to this, I drank roughly 30 drinks daily for about 3-4 years straight (15 rack of 8% Natty Daddy plus some pounders every day).
Anyways, I'm not sure why I even bother to stay sober at this point. Every aspect of my life has become drastically more difficult since getting sober. The only lasting benefit of my sobriety is that I lost a TON of weight after quitting, which is good because I was about 250lbs right before I stopped.
Since quitting, my mental and physical health have both taken a significant nosedive (some serious health issues, not alcohol related, have sprung up on me recently) and I'm finding it difficult to rationalize staying sober. Believe me when I say, there's nothing more that I want than to get completely wasted. I'm running out of reasons to keep trudging through it. The entire time up to this point, I just wanted to hit a full year sober so I could say I did it. But honestly everything is so much shittier.
If I were to go back to the bottle, all of my friends would probably excommunicate me and give me an incredibly hard time, which is what's keeping me from relapsing right now. Having to explain it all. I sort of wish I never quit in the first place, because then I could be drinking right now without the guilt and shame of a relapse. I kinda fucked myself over on this one.
Getting sober doesn't magically make your life better. All of my problems from before are still present and worsening at an alarming rate, only now it's harder to deal with them without alcohol. Anxiety and depression are consuming me whole, and I have no way of coping with it like I used to. The weight of this is killing me.
I wonder where I would be right now if I never quit. I gave it up because I was shitting blood and on death's doorstep in the final days of my 1000+ day bender. So I guess I would probably be dead, logically speaking. I can't decide if this whole sobriety thing is really worth it. I feel like I was born to drink, and somehow me being sober is like I'm living in contempt of the natural order.
Alright I'm officially done ranting. Let me know if any of you relate to these feelings; I hope you're all doing well and hanging in there.

I don’t have OCD, I have moderate anxiety & think I developed this habit due to trauma. I’ve had pretty bad experiences in the workplace as a result of my social/generalized anxiety, along with just straight up bad luck from 2012-2018 ish (a cluster of just crappy/odd experiences back to back). Again, nothing life threatening but enough to make me miserable and now wary. I just started a new job & am so worried I will have the bad experience I did back in my early-mid twenties post college in 2019. It was my first real gig & felt so overwhelmed from all aspects from mgmt/coworkers/my performance etc, worried that will happen again.
After that role, my longest job was at another school that I worked at for almost two years & that was a better experience compared to my last role, different stressors but wasn’t as uneasy. I proved myself at that role it seemed & feel more equipped to handle myself professionally when it comes to communication/being more “knowledgeable” since I have experience (or so I hope). Even though years passed by, I’m still so worried I’ll have bad work experiences again & I don’t think it’ll ever go away. That’s why when I feel really uneasy, if something I’m doing unrelated feels too hasty, I try to be careful & expect this mindset will transpire when I’m at work. Or I might count to 3 if too many random unrelated things are going on/I second guess something & hope that will result in things not going back to the chaos that my life once felt like.
Or back to that period of bad luck years ago, if certain annoying things happen to me back to back 2-3+ times, can be minor inconveniences like issue with Amazon delivery etc, I feel like I’m spiraling & hyperventilate/assume my life will be like that shitty period again.
It’s like a superstition & I don’t take it seriously but wonder if anyone relates.

I don’t have OCD, I have moderate anxiety & think I developed this habit due to trauma. I’ve had pretty bad experiences in the workplace as a result of my social/generalized anxiety, along with just straight up bad luck from 2012-2018 ish (a cluster of just crappy/odd experiences back to back). Again, nothing life threatening but enough to make me miserable and now wary. I just started a new job & am so worried I will have the bad experience I did back in my early-mid twenties post college in 2019. It was my first real gig & felt so overwhelmed from all aspects from mgmt/coworkers/my performance etc, worried that will happen again.
After that role, my longest job was at another school that I worked at for almost two years & that was a better experience compared to my last role, different stressors but wasn’t as uneasy. I proved myself at that role it seemed & feel more equipped to handle myself professionally when it comes to communication/being more “knowledgeable” since I have experience (or so I hope). Even though years passed by, I’m still so worried I’ll have bad work experiences again & I don’t think it’ll ever go away. That’s why when I feel really uneasy, if something I’m doing unrelated feels too hasty, I try to be careful & expect this mindset will transpire when I’m at work. Or I might count to 3 if too many random unrelated things are going on/I second guess something & hope that will result in things not going back to the chaos that my life once felt like.
Or back to that period of bad luck years ago, if certain annoying things happen to me back to back 2-3+ times, can be minor inconveniences like issue with Amazon delivery etc, I feel like I’m spiraling & hyperventilate/assume my life will be like that shitty period again.
It’s like a superstition & I don’t take it seriously but wonder if anyone relates.
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TL;DR - Looking for suggestions on getting a senior advice on financial supports and just generally making sure they're getting support as needed.
Greetings, I'm wanted to see if anyone else had dealt with this issue in the Vancouver region and had region specific suggestions. BC and Canada centric suggestions are obviously welcome too, feel free to state the obvious as this is a new situation to me.
Backstory is that I have an elderly neighbour with no family, kids, or any relatives to help keep an eye on her as she gets older. She's not senile or anything of that nature but she's very, very "old world" in that her deceased husband took care of everything major for her and she never even learned to read & write in English when she immigrated back in the... well a long time ago.
She commented about being "flat broke" the other day due to increased food costs and I found it heartbreaking, she's a nice old lady just trying to live in her old lady house near me.
I've been helping her keep up with basic stuff like changing the light bulbs and other basic house stuff but I don't feel it's my place to pry into her finances and even if I were welcome I'm not qualified and really don't think I have the time needed to do a proper job of it. Likewise I doubt she wouldn't welcome the help.
I've seen a few cases of her just not understanding the modern world and getting taken advantage of; like paying $600 to have an ancient air conditioner repaired when I would have just tried to get one through the seniors low income program, and other stuff like that. Not scams, just not understanding the best way to go about things.
Anyways, advice is welcome, or a pointer to a more appropriate sub-Reddit if needed.

I'm not diagnosed with ADHD, but I strongly relate to executive dysfunction issues and find ADHD tips helpful, so I want to add some new tools to my kit.
I've finally figured out tools to help motivate me to do more urgent/important tasks like schoolwork, laundry and dishes. Those have real consequences and a clear end, so the issue is usually initiatiation. I've learned to use techniques like body doubling, blocking out time, telling other people that I'm working on it so I feel guilty if I don't finish, designating workspaces, etc.
Those techniques don't work as much for tasks like hobbies, though. I struggle with initiating them, too, but for a different reason. It's because, deep down, I'm worried I'll get bored as soon as I conceptually understand what needs to be done, and since there are no immediate consequences for not doing the task, boredom makes my brain start making up reasons why I shouldn't do it. Plus, following tutorials is so draining because even though I logically know that the basic skills will be helpful, my brain just worries about how broad the subject is and how surface-level/specific the tutorial is.

I am making progress with my Aquila, and my Aquila X3 Max. Still have a way to go. So just to keep you and myself entertained as the printers are chugging along here is the status of the projects.

The original Aquila...

has been and continues to be getting some much needed love... Updates done, to improve performance, reliability and capability.

• Capricorn 260 deg C bowden tube
• Aluminum leveling wheels, and heavy duty springs.
• WinSinn 40mm LED QUIET fans for hot end and main board.
• Adjustable BL Touch / 3D Touch mount. Transparent PETG.
• 3D Touch sensor, and compatible BL Touch / Ender 3 V2 type cable. I routed the cable external to the sheath for the other cables. Thinking I should have run it IN the sheath to protect it.
• Voxelab BLtouch firmware was a complete bust. Went on recommendation of folks here with the Mirscoc firmware, which works great but requires another upgrade.
• Adjustable vertical display mount. The non adjustables put the display at an angle that is hard for me to read.
• Snap on Y axis pull ring.

Now that I have the for now Creality hot end in it, 3D Touch, and the Mirscoc firmware, this thing is doing EXACTLY what I wanted this printer to do. PETG? No problem. PLA? Sure...
Now I have a bit more to do to prepare for stuff like ABS etc... but for now, happy as can be...
Updates that still need to be done or were not part of the original plan but got added.

• Winsinn dual ball bearing 60mm 12v fans for power supply.
• After seeing the video of how the power supply is vented, or actually NOT vented, looking for an STL so I don’t have to reinvent the wheel for a power supply cover with actual exhaust vents where Voxelab should have put them.
• Creality upgrade cast metal extruder
• Creality Spider V3 hot end. Probably not necessary YET, but it was $10.00 off and since I was planning on the upgrade, might as well have it in my stash.
• Slot covers. The slots catch all sorts of crud including cat hair when I can’t keep her away from the nice warm printer…
• Dual Z Axis kit with upper bearings as well to insure no Z wobble.https://amzn.to/3QSwkVQ
• Potentially 3D print custom hot end cover / fan shroud / BL Touch mount to give this a more factory appearance, and better fan ducting. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5231763

The Aquila X3 Max.

This is going to fall under maintenance / adjustment while under warranty but once out of warranty some mods are going to happen.
Items that can be done while under warranty.

• Sort out the Z axis gantry issues. I think I figured it out and I believe the Z axis gantry itself is not level to either the bed or the top bar. Will verify that with the calipers tomorrow, Not 100% certain of how to fix that, but I believe it needs to be fixed SOON!
• Custom extrusion slot covers. Since the leveling handwheels come in red, let’s go with red PETG and trim it out all the way..
• Capricorn bowden tube
• Spare Voxelab proximity sensors for Auto Level. Just keeping that at the ready in inventory.
• Sort out the bed adhesion issue. Pretty sure it is related to that Z gantry issue. Once I get myopic about leveling and building a mesh, and then absolutely verifying my Z offset my prints stick like glue. Without it though, no such luck…

Items that will have to wait until the warranty expires…

• WinSinn 40mm fans for hot end and main board (Same as regular Aquila)
• WinSinn 60mm fans for power supply (Same as regular Aquila).
• Creality upgrade cast metal extruder
• Cast metal (aluminum) bed adjuster wheels and heavy duty springs (Red).
• Creality Spider Pro 3.0 all metal hotend kit. I am not sure if this will require a firmware update, and if so, which one?

Slicers

So I am trying to get away from Microsoft and Apple products and am wanting to get onto an open source platform. The latest Raspberry Pi 5 8GB is actually a fairly good little desktop replacement even for 3D modelling as long as you don't ask too terribly much of it.
Both Prusa Slicer and Cura are available for Linux on ARM64, but Cura insists on a login, and something about the pass off, and back from their web page and Cura never really is able to log in, so Prusa slicer it is.
I have the regular Aquila working with Prusa Slicer, at least on my Win 11 laptop,
If I am not mistaken, the Aquila X3 Max should be more or less the same profile, but with a 400x400x400 build area... About to test that theory out.
That leaves...

3D Design / CAD software.

I admit I got really spoiled doing 3D modeling with Sketchup, back when it was a free Google product I made a sh*t ton of models there, and then Trimble happened, and boy are they proud of their locally installable versions, and the free online version blows absolute chunks.
So I am off to try to learn something to replace Sketchup, but I have no clue what. I started in on Blender years ago but got sidetracked. Might give that another whack or two...

As I'm sure everybody would know by now, Victorian Nurses had a No vote to the recent EBA offer. I reviewed all the slides from Monday's meeting and the initially emailed campaign release #18 regarding the Fair Work Outcome of between 5.5% - 13% and I've become more annoyed the more I've read the pieces due to blatant lies by omission told on Monday during the meeting and vital information about this FWC that should have been made extremely clear by ANMF's leadership team on Monday's extremely important meeting which would results in either a Yes/No decision.
In the Campaign Updated #18:

'It also provided for a new wage percentage outcome subject to Fair Work Commission (FWC) Justice Adam Hatcher and his expert panel’s decision on the aged care work value case for Victorian nurses – expected to be between 5.5 percent to 13 percent.'
'This would mean wage increases between 18 and 23 per cent over the life of the four-year proposed agreement.' 'FWC President Justice Hatcher’s determination is imminent and will increase enrolled nurses’, registered nurses’, and by implication midwives’, wages between 5.5 and 13 per cent.'

As we all know, the FWC is currently not being negotiated for public sector nurses, but rather aged care nurses. The ANMF will only be able to negotiate these potential outcomes after the Fair Work Commission (FWC) aged care work value case, which could happen anytime between June 2024 and 2026 - a significant disparity. This was made clear on Monday's meeting, but reading Campaign Update #19 this morning revealed something critical that was not mentioned at all during Monday's meeting and is an integral part of this outcome.
In the Campaign Updated #19:

'ANMF is using the imminent outcome of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) aged care work value case to negotiate wage increases above government wages policy.'
'The Fair Work Commission’s increases will automatically flow to aged care public sector nurses up to Year 5, but not to all public sector nurses and midwives.'
'One of the complications is that the FWC determination will only impact the award classifications up to Year 5 (that’s where the award stops). We are seeking that the relativities for approximately 30 classifications in the public sector EBA are maintained once the increases are applied, and flow equitably across all clinical contexts.'

A crucial point that was never mentioned throughout Monday's meeting was that the FWC outcome will currently only benefit nurses up to Year 5. Yes, the ANMF has said that they will be attempting to increase the classification level but that is also not guaranteed and may take even longer to be passed through and into our payslips.
I have no doubt that our Union works incredibly hard for these negotiations to take place, but the consistent smoke and mirrors we've gotten over the last few days are unacceptable. It feels as if our union is prioritising the government and intentionally withholding information or being intentionally misleading on issues that are not confusing.
For Lisa Fitzgerald to say to the media, "Despite our best attempts at explaining it for a very long time, our members haven’t been able to grasp the concept of the aged care wages case. So that’s a misunderstanding, unfortunately," is incredibly insulting. We were given deceptive information to push us into a Yes vote.

A diversionary tactic is one intended to attract people's attention away from something which you do not want them to think about, know about, or deal with. You’ll find them in any online debate, and Reddit’s favourite techniques come mostly in the form of using logical fallacies, confirmation biases and false equivalences, or simply just accusing the OP of doing the same.
RationalWiki states that False, or Moral Equivalence is a form of equivocation and a fallacy of relevance often used in political debates. It seeks to draw comparisons between different, often unrelated things, to make a point that one is just as bad as the other or just as good as the other.
There’s an incredibly comprehensive alphabetical list of these at Logically Fallacious, but to save you some time I’ve listed a few to look out for here, and plenty more in the See Also section below. Wikipedia also lists some I haven’t mentioned and you’ll often find terms from Therapy Speak used in this way too.
So, here’s a challenge: see how many of these tactics you can spot in any one Reddit debate. Good luck in playing….
Reddit Bingo

• DARVO - Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. A tactic used to deflect responsibility onto another individual, often used to discredit an experience. For instance, someone reports their son was bitten by an aggressive puppy. A commenter claims that there is no such thing as an aggressive puppy. That’s the denial. They then go on to attack the OP and blame the son for probably provoking the dog. That’s reversing the victim (son) and the offender (dog).
  
• Gaslighting - Presenting false information with the intent of making the OP doubt themselves or others doubt the OP. Often used in the form of aggressive jabs disguised as jokes so that the accuser can get away with saying something outrageous or even appalling while still maintaining innocence, but at the same time accusing the OP of not having a sense of humour. Closely related to Poe’s Law.
  
• Gish Galloping - Flooding the debate space with an overload of minor, often reworded issues. For example, a person using the Gish Gallop might attempt to support their stance by bringing up, in rapid succession, a large number of vague claims, anecdotal statements, misinterpreted facts, and irrelevant comments.
  
• JAQing Off - Just Asking Questions. Often expressed with one or more of the 🤔 emoji, or the phrase “just saying…” or simply “hmm.” This is a way of attempting to make wild accusations acceptable by framing them as questions rather than statements. Closely related to Gish Galloping, Brandolini's Law and Sealioning.
  
• Moving the Goalposts - This is when, even after you’ve provided all the evidence in the world to validate your argument or taken an action to meet their request, they set up another expectation of you or demand more proof in order to ensure that they have every reason to be perpetually dissatisfied with you.
  
• Pearl-Clutching - This is a deliberate and usually bad-faith reaction to a comment. It is done in order to exaggerate the effects and impacts said comment had. Think of someone in an old movie exclaiming "Well, I never!" The goal is to undermine the OP by accusing them of some form of incivility, when said incivility is typically the least thing of concern in the matter at hand.
  
• Projection - This is a defense mechanism used to displace responsibility of one’s negative behavior and traits by attributing them to someone else. It ultimately acts as a digression that avoids ownership and accountability. For example, someone who bullies another for being anxious and insecure may be doing so to avoid acknowledging they exhibit those same tendencies themselves.
  
• Sealioning - Pestering a target with unsolicited questions delivered with a false air of civility. Like most of the above tactics, this uses non-sequitur questioning as obfuscation, but is also fundamentally different. Sealioning is a constant bad-faith request for evidence or reasoning that's irrelevant, trivial, already presented or easily checked, under the guise of being reasonable with the sole intent of frustrating the opponent into losing their patience or temper, while simultaneously seeking to paint the opponent as unreasonable.
  
• Whataboutism - A common technique used to divert a debate and excuse wrongdoing by accusing someone else of also doing wrong. Another example would be someone who responds to a comment about an attempt to protect women from domestic violence with "What about male victims of domestic violence?".
  

But wait! There’s hope!
All of these gambits can be countered by using the “broken record” method. This is where you continue stating the facts without giving in to their distractions. Redirect their redirection by saying, “That’s not what I am talking about. Let’s stay focused on the real issue.” Initially, the person may continue with the undesired behaviour or challenging your message, but as you repeat your expectations, your message is reinforced and the person is more likely to comply.
See Also:

• Acronyms 1: A-L
• Acronyms 2: M-Z
• Astroturfing
• Bandwagon Effect
• Brandolini's Law
• Cognitive Biases and Logical Fallacies
• Confirmation Bias
• Cunningham’s Law
• Dunning-Kruger Effect
• Eponymous Laws
• False Equivalence
• Gaslighting
• Godwin’s Law
• Hanlon’s Razor
• Internet Adages
• Logical Fallacies
• ”Not all X are Like That”
• Online Manipulation
• OP
• Poe’s Law
• Sealioning
• Strawman Argument
• Whataboutism

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Hi team, I am having update issues again. Since moving to the official lxc it has been working well with all updates working, but I dont seem to be able to upgrade from this version 0.97.0 to anything later. It looks like it upgrades and reboots, but then scrypted web gui never comes back and cameras are offline.
I have tried a few versions since 0.97.0 when they arrived like 101, 103 etc, and it doesnt work, i rollback and wait for the next version hoping it's just my install, but it still won't upgrade. Any ideas where to look? logs etc?
this is the official lxc, on proxmox ve 8.2.2. i have been using apt update/upgrade to keep underlying packages up to date, which not sure if i am meant to be or not.
my install is also having periodic crashes, where the rebroadcast seems to die, and i look homekit connections for the streams, snapshots still work. happens about every 24 hours or so, no pattern. i have alerts on the cpu of the lxc so have full records of when and i cant correlate to anything. I am not sure if this is related.

Hello,
I don't really know where to begin and this is probably going to be an emotional word vomit, but here we go.
I'm 35, and have struggled my entire life with attention, motivation, and staying on task, ESPECIALLY with things I am not interested in. However, I can become hyper-focused when I am interested or engaged in a task. But even this is not reliable, sometimes for months at a time I can't even get going with things I enjoy.
I am only just starting to look into what it means to have ADHD and there is so much more to it that I was never aware of. Finding this subreddit and seeing the struggles people have is very moving and relatable for me.
I just came out of a technical interview and was drawing blanks. This is something I always have had issues with; my brain just locking up and performing at about 10% ability whenever I am being observed. Just now I realised this is attention-based, my awareness is not on the task but on everything else, primarily the thought that I am being watched. I suddenly thought to myself "Maybe this is related to ADHD", turns out...it is. And that's how I found this subreddit.
I keep having these moments recently where I discover something I've struggled with my whole life is because of ADHD. I didn't even know and thought that life was just supposed to be a struggle, or that I was stupid (but everyone always tells me I'm smart??)
I've had suspicions before of course, but didn't realise how much of an issue it really is for me. It was last weekend when I tried a certain white substance for the first time that it really hit me. It had totally different effects on me than all my friends. I just became calm and focused (googling revealed this to be common in people with ADHD) (I'm not advocating the use of drugs here at all, it was just an observation). The main thing I noticed was that I could talk to someone in a conversation and actually fully "hear" them. Sometimes, even when I am really interested in a person and want to make a good impression, despite my best efforts I just can't even hear the words they are saying, or can't fully focus because I'm simultaneously aware of 47 other things that are going on in the room.
The reason I'm writing this is to kind of reach out for help. I think there's so much I don't know (and that I don't even know I don't know) - I feel like people here might be able to help.
I'm looking foopen to any suggestions that people might have. I really struggle with actually following through on things, but maybe people can share some stories or some understandings that they have had.
I'm looking into getting an official diagnosis and possibly getting medication to help me. What are people's experiences with this? Is it necessary, or helpful? Will it help me with the struggles?
Thanks :)

You are the only one in the bigger family that has been diagnosed and you shortcomings are at the alter? Your peak performance is when shits get critical and you either have done your homework prior or well in advance of stuff compared to your fellow family members. The execution style is different and you feel like in the ER. Its gotta be sufficiently interesting, fast and you get angry with members being way too slow. Then it comes down to admin stuff or regular behaviour. That can wait...

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Grayson kept his promise and came over to talk with me. He arrived after classes for both of us were done for the day. It also meant that Cassie was home and this time, she didn’t vanish into her bedroom to give us privacy. She waited until we were both seated in the living room and Titanosaur was settled in Grayson’s lap, thereby preventing him from escaping.
Please don’t read too much into that, as I’ve said before Titanosaur has like three brain cells and will sit in literally anyone’s lap. Our landlady sent her husband over to fix the leaking faucet in the bathroom and Titan was trying to climb in his lap while the poor guy was sitting there with half his body inside of a cabinet.
Then Cassie came over, carrying a chair from the kitchen, and also seated herself with us. I glanced at Grayson. He looked dismayed, but was hiding it well in an effort to be polite. I decided to lean into my non-confrontational side and not ask her to leave.
“You’ve been acting a bit out of character lately,” I began delicately. “As a friend, I’m worried about you.”
“And I’m worried too,” Cassie added. “Maybe you don’t think of me as a friend, but you’ve been hanging out around Ashley enough that I consider you one of mine.”
Huh. I wasn’t expecting that, to be honest. I thought Cassie didn’t like him. I don’t think she was lying, either.
“Have you considered getting grief counseling?” she continued.
Straight to the point. I was glad Cassie was there. My plan was to tiptoe delicately around the subject for what probably would have been another 500 words worth of dialogue here in this post I’m writing up. Fortunately, Cassie’s willingness to address a problem directly saved me the typing and you the tedium.
“Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t,” Grayson said. “The university doesn’t know he’s gone yet.”
“Who is running this place?” Cassie asked in amazement.
I know. We’ve all been thinking it. Turns out the answer is ‘there’s a board’ and they make all the real decisions. The president is just a figurehead. Which is pretty obvious if you stop and think about it. I wanted to ask if the flickering man reported to the board but I also didn’t want to derail the conversation with things that really didn’t matter anymore. It’s safer to just assume the board is the administration I’ve been wondering about this whole time. Heck, it’s safer to assume everyone except for the students and professors are responsible in some part for the whole monster situation.
Sorry for not finding out for certain, but Grayson was working through some important stuff and I didn’t dare interrupt.
“I don’t want counseling, either,” he continued. “Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I never cared for him. Not in a familial sense. My presence was more to fill a role.”
Things were starting to connect in my head. This conversation reminded me of some things the flickering man had said. Roles to be filled. A cycle, ushering in new students to fill them. They’d been filling the president’s role with a corpse - a very old one, judging by the date on the photo Cassie took of the headstone - so perhaps that wasn’t the only role being filled.
“Were you adopted?” I asked. “By the president?”
“I was.”
Beside me, Cassie took a deep breath. It wasn’t from shock. It sounded more like… annoyance. If I’m being generous with the term.
“The flickering man said something to me,” I said slowly. “That I wasn’t the first person he’d seen like this and I wouldn’t be the last. Are you… not the only child that the president has adopted?”
“...I’m not.”
This is the point where Cassie just lost it. Stood up, yelled ‘why the fuck didn’t you tell us any of this?!’ and stormed out of the room. She slammed the door to her bedroom shut behind her. Grayson and I sat there in the living room for a good minute, stunned, listening to what I’m 99% certain was Cassie screaming into her pillow. Then the door opened and she returned to calmly sit down on the sofa again.
“I’m good,” she said. “All better. Please continue.”
The details of the conversation get a little fuzzy at this point, as it seems that even though the forgetter is gone I’m still having memory issues. Unfortunately Grayson was right - it wasn’t the forgetter that was responsible for my particular variety of memory loss. There’s something else trying to protect Grayson.
I suspect the tree in the graveyard. Its roots have spread all over campus, after all.
Sorry to be so blase about this but it’s not actually that upsetting anymore. It’s just this thing we’re dealing with.
It’s a good thing Cassie was present for the rest of the conversation. She filled me in on the details later, after we’d confirmed that I had some significant gaps. Grayson explained a bit more about the whole adoption thing. He didn’t know who his birth parents were. He’d never been outside of this town and basically grew up on campus. This is all kind of recapping what we already knew or guessed at, but the adoption angle was new at least. I’d assumed that his dad had died and been replaced, which he had, except it wasn’t his dad at all and Grayson’s role as the son was being replaced over and over also.
Which is all kinds of fucked up.
It also means that this has been going on for generations and I think we all know why that’s rather alarming.
“What happened to the previous adopted kids?” I asked once we’d gotten through this rather confusing summary.
“They died.”
There was a heavy silence in the room.
“How?” I asked.
“Well… one drowned. Another suffocated.” He hesitated. “This is kind of why I’m reluctant to tell people I’m the president’s son.”
“Grayson, are you worried someone will try to kill you?” Cassie asked flatly.
“...yeah. I am, actually.”
Screaming into a pillow myself was starting to look pretty tempting.
Now I’m sure you’re all thinking what I was thinking at this point. If the university was just recycling the president’s corpse and finding new children to play the role of their child for… reasons??? then perhaps that was why the flickering man was interested in me. Perhaps I was Grayson’s replacement, as many of you have theorized.
I mean, it seems pretty suspicious. Grayson’s dad is getting his soul replaced on the regular - or at least, he was. Grayson himself is a replacement for prior Graysons but I guess since they don’t need an adult, they’re just grabbing any ol’ kid to fill the role for a while. But the former Graysons keep dying because the inhumans get him? Grayson has a lot of protection on campus but he’s not immune - I’ve watched him get attacked by the steam ghost in particular.
Which leads me to my own theory. If I am a replacement, I don’t fit the mold. Perhaps that’s why the flickering man hated me so much. I’m too old (legal adult yay) and… I’m not a son.
But I wanted to confirm some things.
We wrapped up the conversation with Grayson because we were running out of mental capacity to ask more questions. He was clearly uncomfortable and there was a lot to process. He did promise to not be so difficult about this in the future. He wasn’t really grieving. He was just… uncertain. He didn’t know what to do anymore. Which is fair. When you’re raised to fill a role and suddenly that role is gone it’s hard to adjust.
I know what that feels like.
After Grayson left I messaged Maria asking if she knew anyone that was good with a camera. Like, really good. And also good in high stress situations. She got back to me pretty quickly. Maria is starting to become one of those people who knows everyone. She’s heading firmly down the road of becoming the subject of one of those unhinged tumblr posts where someone magically summons an army of people to fulfill a task, while she stays on the sidelines quietly directing the ever-increasing chaos.
Fortunately, she’s not there quite yet, but she is freakishly well-connected for a campus of this size. Within an hour she had me in a group chat with someone from the Folklore Society who fit all my requirements, even the unspoken ones. Someone that was good with a camera in “hostile circumstances” (her words, very accurate) and wouldn’t cut and run the moment things got a little weird. I think you all see where I was going with this.
Yeah, we were going to get photos of something inhuman.
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.
For starters, it’s not safe just getting close to an inhuman to photograph it. And once you do, that opens a whole new set of hazards. If the inhuman takes offense to being photographed, then they’re going to do anything they have to to get the photo destroyed and all rules are off the table when it comes to disguising their existence. Think of it like this - an inhuman might not be able to enter a house due to hospitality rules keeping them out, but this is weighed against their need to keep their presence obscured. The latter wins. Hospitality rules are no longer enough protection.
That’s my understanding, at least.
And sure, there are inhumans that don’t seem to care if a photo or two are leaked to the internet, but you have no way of knowing in advance. Let’s say you get lucky and nothing comes after you to destroy the phone/camera, computer, your social media accounts, and you. You’re not quite off the hook. That photo is a connection to the inhuman and if the creature captured in it doesn’t use it as an access point, something else might.
Photos are just a bad idea all around.
So we agreed that if we were going to go ahead with this stupid plan, we’d do so with as many safety measures as we could. First, the person taking the photo would be fully informed on the potential consequences. I was hoping that they could just teach Maria or I how to use a camera, but considering they were in the inner circle Folklore Society (what I’m calling the folks that know the monsters aren’t just stories) they wanted to come in person. I tried to talk them out of it, they finally made a snarky comment about if I wanted them to sign a waiver, and I dropped the topic.
Secondly, we were going to destroy both the photo and the camera afterwards. I got online and ordered the cheapest digital camera I could find. It was a camera designed for young children so it was pastel pink with teddy bears on it, but whatever, it was digital and didn’t cost over $30. The money from my job at the dining hall has helped with the finances but I didn’t particularly feel like lighting it on fire.
Especially since we planned to literally light the camera on fire when we were done. I wasn’t looking forward to the smell of burning plastic but fire is both a thorough and symbolically traditional way to dispose of things. Like I said, we were trying to do this as safely as we could.
The camera arrived the next day so we decided to go ahead with our plan that evening. Cassie would stay home because we felt having too many people might be a hindrance if we had to bail out. Also, she had “digital date night” with her girlfriend and I didn’t want to interfere.
Then we found a discreet entrance to the steam tunnels.
I wanted a photograph of the steam ghost. It had a face. I wanted to see what that face looked like.
I’d scouted out the steam tunnel entrances beforehand, while waiting for the burner (lol) camera to arrive. Last time I’d looked inside, they were clogged with roots. However, if the roots were originating from the graveyard, then perhaps the parts of campus that were farthest away would be clear enough to traverse. I got lucky and found an entrance inside of one of the dorms that’s out by the parking lot. The lobby is open and from there it’s easy enough to just coast into the stairwell behind someone with a keycard and then down into the basement. There were roots, but they hung from the ceiling as slender tendrils that brushed the top of my head like the faint touch of a moth. I didn’t go far inside. Just enough to confirm it didn’t get any worse and we had a long corridor free of obstruction.
When I came back, I had Maria and the photographer with me.
His name is Jacob and he’s a sophomore. He joined the Folklore Society because he realized he wasn’t making any attempts to be social, at college of all places, and picked a club that seemed like it would be small so he didn’t have to deal with crowds. Large groups of people intimidated him. I can certainly relate to that.
I feel bad for him. Imagine getting caught up in all this bullshit just because you had trouble making friends.
It also occurred to me that this photography excursion was also part of his attempt to make friends, because that’s what landed him in the group that had to hide from the thing in the hallway. Whatever. Maria can deal with that. She’s the extrovert.
“Let’s not forget the plan,” I said nervously as we gathered outside the door. “We get in. We get the photo. We run like hell back out the door.”
I’m happy to say that the plan worked. Every step. Swear to god.
We were about halfway to where the tunnel turned when the steam started to rise out of the ground around us. It seeped through the walls, filling our lungs and making it hard to breathe. The usual. We turned back at that point, as we wanted to be close to the exit so we could snap the photo and run once the steam ghost showed up.
The nice thing about inhumans is that they can be predictable. They have set rules they follow and so long as you follow the prescribed pattern of behavior, you know what to expect. This allows you to plan, as I’d done. So when we loitered within sprinting distance of the door, the steam ghost obliged to show up and chase us off.
Just as expected. And Jacob was ready with our pastel pink camera, so that when its face materialized out of the steam, mouth open in a silent scream and its misty hands stretched towards us, he was able to snap a photo.
Then we ran and reached the door before it caught up.
See? Exactly as planned.
There’s one more rule we learned about though. One that I’d forgotten to factor in for this crucial moment.
The doors in the steam tunnels don’t always open to the same place.
We tumbled through without thinking. I, pulling up the rear, had a moment of hesitation when I saw nothing but darkness ahead of me, but it was too late, I was in a full sprint and besides, Maria had already stumbled through the doorway. I slammed into Jacob’s back, propelling him the few steps he needed to be past the doorway, and then we were all through and the door slammed shut behind us.
The air was warm and damp. The steam tunnels, while warm, aren’t damp unless the steam ghost is present. This felt like being inside of a sauna. I could feel water beads forming on my arms, clinging to the hairs that were currently standing on end in alarm. There was a faint breeze coming from ahead of us, a slowly rhythmic flow to it like a fan. It did nothing to alleviate the heat. If anything, it was even warmer.
Maria turned her phone’s flashlight on.
We were in a corridor, much the same size as the tunnel we’d just escaped. The walls glistened with moisture, shining with the gray-pink color of rotting beef. There were no sharp angles, just a round passageway that vanished into darkness at the edge of Maria’s flashlight beam. The floor beneath our feet was slightly squishy.
And it was full of teeth.
Honestly I think I would have preferred sharp teeth, like an animal’s fangs or something out of science fiction. Instead, we got human incisors, circling the entirety of the tunnel in regular intervals.
The tunnel rippled. There was a faint gurgling sound, like the rumbling of a stomach twisting in hunger. And those rows of teeth began to tighten as the tunnel constricted around us.
“STEAM GHOST,” Maria yelled. “I CHOOSE THE STEAM GHOST.”
And she threw the door behind us open and dove back into the tunnel. Jacob grabbed my arm and dragged me along with him, as I was frozen in fear, staring at all those glistening ivory teeth. I stumbled over the doorframe and fell forwards, hitting the cement floor hard on all fours. I heard the door slam shut behind me. Frantically, I looked up at the tunnel.
No ghost. But the steam was still there, hanging heavy in the air and filling my lungs. The ghost would be back. I was certain of that.
“What now?!” Jacob asked, his earlier calm quickly giving way to panic.
“Try the door again!” I said, scrambling to my feet. “It changes!”
Maria spun around and opened the door a sliver for the second time, just enough to peer through the crack and confirm what was on the other side.
“FUCK.”
Then she slammed it shut. Opened it. Another burst of profanity, slightly more panicked than the last explicative. Meanwhile, Jacob and I cowered at her back, staring at the steam that hung thick in the air all around us, waiting to see if it was going to reform into a malevolent spirit while Maria played Russian roulette with the door.
She did this five times before she finally got the dorm we’d entered through.
Flushed and panting, we stumbled through and Jacob kicked the door to the steam tunnels shut with a determined flourish. There. We’d done it. As I’d said, our plan went perfectly. We got the photo and ran like hell to the door.
Didn’t plan on what happened after we went through the door. This is my lack of attention to detail coming into play, which is probably what also made me a shitty barista.
We crowded around Jacob to see the photo he got. This is why we recruited someone with actual photography skills. He was able to use a truly shitty camera intended for toddlers to somehow focus on a literal ghost’s face in the handful of seconds we had before it reached us, all while not panicking.
Staring at us from the tiny screen was a person’s face. Not a face made of steam. An actual flesh and blood human face. The rest of the shot was obscured by steam, framing it so that all we could see was this disembodied human face staring out at us from the camera’s digital screen. The expression was placid, the eyes hollow and devoid of emotion.
I’d seen this look before, on the library ghost. This distant stare of something that wasn’t wholly here.
“That is… really creepy,” Jacob said.
“We just escaped a hallway full of teeth and this is what you find creepy?” I said.
“No, that was creepy too. I can be terrified by multiple things at once.”
We all stared at the photo for a good few minutes, trying to commit the face to memory because we were not going to retain any copies of it. Then Jacob deleted the photo, handed me the camera, and we awkwardly went our separate ways.
I got out my phone as soon as we’d all walked off. My theory was looking plausible, but there was one more thing I could do to confirm I was on the right track.
I texted Grayson. I asked him if the children before him, the ones the president adopted, were all male.
They were.
The library ghost. The stabbed student. And now… the steam ghost.
All former students. All male. All trapped on campus after their deaths.
And for at least two of them, they seemed to have something against Grayson.
They don’t like Grayson because he replaced them.
Update: HOLY SHIT Y’ALL BATTERIES EXPLODE WHEN YOU SET THEM ON FIRE

the last few years i have had a flurry of new symptoms that drs keep pushing off they include:
random high blood pressure ( on 4 mg candesartan)
pain under arm pit to press and swelling, on chest , thing, knees ( not lymph related )
breathing issues at times ( heavy scratchy chest)
headaches
nausea
tingly buzzing feeling in arm sporadically
buzzing feeling in legs now
gallstones
thyroid cyst
breast cyst
vertigo
tests done:
stress test 2 years ago,( echo cardiogram ,24 blood pressure monitior )
4 chest x-rays
7 ultrasounds on underarms
4 abdominal
countless blood tests
breathing chamber test
DVT ultrasound on right leg
1 Ct Scan
10 EKG
2 Mammograms
1 internal ultrasound
1endoscopy
2 thyroid ultrasounds
any ideas what i can ask them to look for im so uncomfortable

Good afternoon
My partner's PC has developed a mysterious fault where it will randomly crash. The display will go black, and the GPU fans will start spinning at max RPM. We've monitored temptress (GPU and CPU) and they never reach alarming temperatures. Sometimes the PC will run for hours without fault. Other times it'll happen within minutes of booting. Sometimes while gaming, and other times while Google is the only thing running. Either way it appears random, and not stress related. Sometimes it happens multiple times a day and other times it won't happen for weeks.
I'm going to try to swap the GPU to see if the problem persists. I have already swapped the CPU cooler and added an extra intake case fan (pre-built that's a few years old, curiously only had one intake and one outtake fan)
If the GPU swap does not solve the issue, where else should I be looking? Before I start troubleshooting Motherboard and/or CPU issues, where else should I look?
Thanks, folks.

Hi everyone! Hope everyone is doing well.
I recently picked up a PS2 slim off Facebook Marketplace along with two controllers and a bundle of games, looking to relive some childhood memories. However, upon firing it up and running games, I ran into an issue that I can't find much similar to online. When the PS2 has a disc in, it reads the disc with no issue for any range of time between one and ten minutes, before the game randomly stops and the console powers down. I tried some of the common fixes relating to the door sensors, to no avail, and took the console apart and replaced the laser successfully. While doing so I also taped down the door sensors so I could verify the issue, and indeed while a disc is being played the laser moves up and down reading the disc fine but will randomly just stop after only a few minutes. I just replaced the laser, so I know that isn't the issue, but other than that I'm stumped. The console had never been opened prior to myself replacing the laser, and I'm imagining the next move would be to replace the ribbon cable powering the laser, although there was no physical damage to it upon inspection. I was just wondering if anybody else had any insight/had experienced anything like this before and knew what to do, or if I should just cut my losses and take it to a console repair shop. Thank you all for the help!
TLDR; PS2 slim laser randomly shuts off while reading disc, turning off console, and replacing laser did not fix the issue, looking for help/solutions/advice

My mom has been going through somethings over the last two or so years. She living with a friend which isn’t going so well, friend is kind of a nut case has mental issues and wasn’t taking meds she needed to and became a bipolar unable to be reasoned with crazy lady. Gave my mom a lot of grief about rent and wanting more money which I my mom couldn’t do as she’s on a fixed income. My mom started looking at places up near me to move to get away from her messed up methhead not so much friend! Turns out her friend was on/selling drugs paid no bills since my mother moved in with her and my mom then became stuck with not just the rent she was paying but was now paying the electric bill because her methhead friend couldn’t pay it! They couldn’t go without electricity since they live in Florida and they can’t not have a/c. Moms not so much friend also turned out to be hiding mail from my mom that was important for her moving up near me because not so much friend didn’t want my mom to leave!
My mom is diagnosed ocd/anxiety and was on meds for the anxiety Valium which she was removed from and placed on something else which didn’t work and only made her sick to her stomach and puking so she isn’t taking the new meds.
Not so much friends ex husband also lives in the house because he was extremely ill and the hospital refused to release him unless he went somewhere he could be kept and eye on because he almost died twice while in the hospital. Ex husband is no better than my moms not so good friend, not so good friends ex husband is also drug addicted and has sever mental issues going on as well from almost dying in the hospital as we believe his brain suffered as a result of the near deaths. Ex husband is a nasty miserable person.
Not so good friend ended up in jail recently and left my mom alone with the ex husband, so he basically for that last few months or so has been verbally abusing my poor mom calling her names constantly accusing her of stealing stuff or hiding stuff from him, when none of it was not even true. Not so good friends ex husband is just so messed up in the head that he doesn’t remember where he puts things and automatically starts saying shit was stolen or hidden from him and usually impacting my mom.
Not so good friend is since out of jail but is staying at her daughters house with her 10ry old son. So unfortunately because not so good friend isn’t there, not so good friends ex husband has been targeting my mom with his nasty verbal abuse.
So yeah my poor mom’s been through a lot, her mental state is definitely not good. She is speaking with a therapist right now! But the question I have is about some over her behavior with her memory and a few other things. I know she went for a long time at least a month or of having nights where she wasn’t sleeping and if she did sleep it was only 2-3hrs and she be up at 4:30am unable to sleep.
So her current behavior that I’m about to ask about seems to be similar to when she wasn’t sleeping much if at all. But she is somewhat sleeping better now she’s not getting up at all hours of the night as much now though she occasionally does still have some issues!
But tonight she was trying to talk to me and she has had a bad night to night has not so good friend was at the house having a massive fight with their nasty miserable ex husband to the point that not so good friend was in tears which really upset my mom. So my mom is trying to talk to me and she starts to basically fall asleep and then snaps back awake and is talking about something that makes literally no sense and has nothing to do with what we were just talking about! It sounded like she was talking about something she had just dreamed or something very nonsensical and she’ll realize it at some point and go what the hell am I saying!? She also told me she kept thinking today was Saturday ( today is Tuesday) though she also seemed to know that it wasn’t right. What cases this? Is it stress/anxiety related because of where she is currently living? Or should I be worried about something like early signs of something like dementia? My mom is in her early 60s She was tested for Alzheimer’s and was told she didn’t have it and that was a few months ago. I’m just extremely worried I don’t know what I would do if she was possibly showing signs of dementia! It scares me! I really hope her issues with her mental health right now are just because of everything she is currently going through and can be easily managed and she’ll be her normal self as soon as she out of where she is! I hate seeing her like this and I wish there was something I could do to get her out of there sooner! But don’t have much money myself and it sucks! I hate seeing her like this because she’s not her!

A quick note about Karl Nell's SALT Conference audience today

There is zero possibility that Karl Nell gave his talk without express authorization of the United States Pentagon and White House, especially with the audience that attends the SALT Conference.
Why? Read this post and his resume. You'll understand why.
Karl Nell, today, has four (4) bosses over him.

• You may have heard of the top of the reporting chain Karl Nell works under.

What do you reckon the average net worth of a SALT guest in the crowd is? Eight figures? Nine?

1. We were not the audience for Karl Nell tonight.
2. American industry and Congress were the audience.

A number of the cell phones in the crowd for Nell will have personal phone numbers of United States Senators and House members. Guaranteed.

Karl Nell endorsed two figures in "UFO" history tonight

Karl Nell is a step removed from the National Security Council. These people don't speak out of turn, and certainly not to tell the leaders of American industry that "aliens are real, NHI is real, and yeah, they've been here a long time," and... then name drop two foreign officials who flat out argued that we're covering up diplomatic relations with a "Galactic Federation".
But Karl Nell did exactly that in New York City today.
That would be Paul Hellyer and Haim Eshed. My jaw dropped how instantly and full-throated he was with the latter two as people to look toward:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hellyer
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Eshed

Again:

1. Karl Nell is an active Pentagon official four (4) steps removed from the United States PRESIDENT.
2. Nell just told the world to look to a Canadian minister of defense and the found of Israel's space program.
3. Who both say the world is secretly in contact with a Federation of outer space cultures.

A military leader four steps from Joe Biden said to look to Hellyer and Eshed.

What did Karl Nell have to say about David Grusch in 2023?

Source:

• https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/

Quotes about Nell:

Karl E. Nell, a recently retired Army Colonel and current aerospace executive who was the Army’s liaison for the UAP Task Force from 2021 to 2022 and worked with Grusch there, characterizes Grusch as “beyond reproach.”
In a 2022 performance evaluation, Laura A. Potter, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Headquarters, Department of the Army, described Nell as “an officer with the strongest possible moral compass.”

Karl Nell on David Grusch:

“His assertion concerning the existence of a terrestrial arms race occurring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engineering technologies of unknown origin is fundamentally correct, as is the indisputable realization that at least some of these technologies of unknown origin derive from non-human intelligence,” said Karl Nell, the retired Army Colonel who worked with Grusch on the UAP Task Force.

Who is Karl Nell?

He works here today:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Futures_Command

This is Karl Nell's boss:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rainey

The AFC reports directly to the Army Chief of Staff and the Secretary of the Army:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_Staff_of_the_United_States_Army
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Wormuth

Who do they report to?
United States Secretary of the Army reports to:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense

Which only reports to:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States

So the chain of command for Nell today is:

1. Joe Biden
2. Lloyd Austin
3. Christine Wormuth
4. James Rainey
5. Karl Nell

Karl Nell's full (known, public) resume

His full resume:
Modernization Advisor to Vice Chief of Staff of the Army
Army Futures Command 2018 - Present · 6 yrs 5 mos Pentagon

Key contributor to the most significant Army reorganization since 1973. Entrepreneurial leader successful in conceiving, shaping, orchestrating, implementing transformative national security strategies, business process improvements, organizational designs, and talent development initiatives. Recommended technical, programmatic, funding actions accelerating the 32 highest-priority (of 800) Army acquisitions. Orchestrated, led cross-organization digital engineering study quantifying gaps and opportunities within the Army Modernization Enterprise resulting in creation of new #1 top priority program – $100(+)-million multi-year Project Convergence – delivering national-to-tactical, sensor-to-shooter integration. Led SE&I advancing JADC2 collaborating with OSD, DARPA, NRO, USAF Rapid Capabilities Office, Space Security Defense Program. Only space-qualified Army participant in joint. Subject matter expert for Army Science Board (ASB) studies and AI/ML whole-of-government forums.

Deputy COO / Director, Special Programs (Colonel)
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) 2016 - 2018 · 2 yrs Stuttgart, Germany / National Capital Region

Managed daily business operations of a 2000-service member geographic Combatant Command headquarters including all strategic planning, human resources, logistics, finance, IT, legal, and public affairs departments. Represents Chief of Staff in his absence responsible for mediating and arbitrating all issues below flag officer-level. Responsible for orchestrating senior leader engagement process resulting in increased partnering agreements and longer-term stakeholder commitments with key influencers across the African continent. Selected by Presidentially-appointed officials at Assistant Secretary-level to serve in OSD. Provided key evidence-based policy recommendations in DoD Program Budget Review process identifying $3-billion in FYDP savings.

Vice President & General Manager (Corporate Officer)
ENSCO, Inc. 2015 - 2016 · 1 yr Falls Church, VA

Recruited by Board to rescue $100-million failing business; affected organizational transformation within complex portfolio (dozen contracts, multiple contract types, majority of IP creation) in less than two-years. Reporting to CEO, P&L leader of 100-employee, geographically-dispersed R&D division supporting AFC, AFTAC, DHS, DTRA, FBI, PFPA, and other elite NSS clients with disruptive technology solutions. Set conditions for sustained profitable growth (building leadership team, Shipley-based capture process, talent mobility, business strategy) winning all contracts during tenure following 2-years net losses under predecessor.

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)
US Army Reserves 2013 - 2015 · 2 yrs Fort Knox, KY

Spearhead largest re-structuring of Army Reserve since 9/11 and inauguration of the "gold standard" for multi-echelon, multi-functional combat support training within the US Army. Led force modernization Task Force re-organizing and re-stationing dozens of units and thousands of personnel to build a two-star, 5000-soldier command across 23 states with annual budget of $32-million. Routinely briefed Army Reserve Executive Steering Committee (Board-level) forum.

Vice President, Solution Architecture, Capture, & BD
CACI International Inc 2011 - 2013 · 2 yrs Chantilly, VA

Led cross-company teams formulating campaigns winning critical $250(+)-million corporate bids; delivered support across a $4-billion, 15000-person enterprise successfully capturing new and re-compete business with tier one clients such as INSCOM, CECOM, DHS. Advised corporate officers in M&A review, championed digital engineering and space technology solutions, negotiated best-in-class cyber-security offerings. US Army Reserve: Served as Chief of Operations (G-3) for Army Reserve Counter-Terrorism Unit advising US Ambassadors abroad in whole-of-government preparations to overseas terrorist incidents.

Deputy CTO / Director, Systems Engineering & Integration
Northrop Grumman 1998 - 2011 · 13 yrs Chantilly, VA

Led Board strategic-thrusts developing, orchestrating, implementing: (1) operational excellence policy & process improvement, (2) digital engineering tools IR&D, (3) talent mobility & development for a $2-billion, 5000-person company rejuvenating TASC as a premier SE&I brand after corporate spin-off. Won >$100-million of new business with NRO through SE&I support to re-compete and take-away bids. Senior Program Manager responsible for all SE&I services required in $1-billion equity-backed, satellite & terrestrial, 4G-mobile start-up spanning multiple states encompassing over 70 multi-national sub-contractors. Spearheaded pursuit, capture, program management of >$25-million P&L within non-traditional markets – US Department of State Merida foreign assistance SATCOM SE&I (international) and TerreStar Networks (commercial) – the most significant new venture in company during that fiscal year.

TECHINT Operations Officer (C/J-2)
Defense Intelligence Agency 2001 - 2003 · 2 yrs Wasington, DC / Kuwait / Iraq

First person deployed from the DIA Directorate of Intelligence Production and Analysis to participate in multi-agency planning for Operation Iraqi Freedom as the Foreign Material Program command representative to USCENTCOM / CFLCC in Kuwait. Served as C/J-2 for the one-star Combined Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Center (C/JCMEC) in Iraq. Enabled the safe and successful recovery of hundreds of conventional weapons systems of strategic value and successfully addressed the question of potential WMD-existence asked by the President of the United States while incurring zero mission fatalities.

Senior Systems Engineer / Lead SATCOM SRE
Lockheed Missiles and Space 1996 - 1998 · 2 yrs Newington, VA

Responsible for mission-critical operations of a sophisticated national satellite constellation; preserved unique capabilities by resolving satellite anomalous behavior in safest, most efficient, cost-effective manner. US Army Reserve: Commanded 80-soldier Special Operations Forces (SOF) PSYOP / MISO company training for possible USEUCOM peace operations to Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Member of Technical Staff (MTS)
AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories 1994 - 1996 · 2 yrs Holmdel, NJ

Assembled and led teams of subject matter experts engineering new feature enhancements for improving AT&T's long distance switched network capabilities and services. Investigated alternate mechanisms for control of voice signal processing within the toll network. Published a benchmark study quantifying capacity over time of the primary AT&T network element – the 4ESS intertoll switch. Amended the AT&T Network Technology Development work process for certification under the ISO 9001 quality standard.

Commander / Operations Officer
U.S. Space Command 1990 - 1994 · 4 yrs US Army Space Command in Europe

Competitively selected for one of only three Army officer billets within US Space Command in Europe. Commanded a $14-million transportable Satellite Communications Control Central war-traced directly to the Joint Chiefs of Staff while serving as Operations Officer for a Defense Satellite Communications System Operations Center valued at over $38-million. Responsible for 63 soldiers.

Hello Snap community. My name's Qinalo. If you've known me before, whether through reddit, KM's Discord, or the Snap Discord, you should know me most for one of 2 things -

1. I've played Hela since season 13 last June with a 63+% winrate each season
2. I am a Domino-truther

And these 2 things are related. You see, my favorite card in Snap is Jubilee. I play Hela because Hela is a deck that plays Jubilee. And I am a Domino-truther because my favorite card is Jubilee.
If I'm being honest, I often don't like being a Domino-truther. You can't be a Domino-truther if you are thin-skinned and bad at maths like KMBest (KMBest said himself that he can't do the Domino math on his podcast with Lamby). I have gotten into so many online debates over Domino in the past 10 months, at some point you get sick of it. Saying that Domino is a good card in some decks is one of those unpopular opinions that seem to trigger many in our community. But I guess that's the funny thing about being a truther - once you've had your moment on the way to Damascus, it's a cross you have to bear. Because truth can't be denied. There are FOUR. LIGHTS!
When I started playing Domino, America Chavez was still 6/9 with her old ability. At the time, I played Domino in an Iron Lad deck with Jubilee, my favorite card. Then, when Loki came out, I played Domino in a deck with Loki, Iron Lad and Jubilee. This seemed to mystify and sometimes anger people. Still, if they asked, I would explain the reason to them. This was one example from 9 months ago-

Domino serves a lot of roles in the deck that give you an edge in the mirror. She's here to~
Improve your Jubilee and Lad pulls
Improve your draws after you Loki - drawing Domino early means Prof X and Dino are more likely still in your deck late
Improve your odds of Snowguard in opening hand to 40% with Chavez
Protect Loki from getting sniped by Dani (Mirage) in the mirror
Guarantee a T2 play so you don't lose a draw by playing Coulson
Act as a brick pull for your opponent's Loki
Help win priority on turn 3 for Cosmo
Confuses and tilts opponents

So yes, last week KMBest correctly pointed out that one reason to play Domino is to increase your chance of drawing your 1s on turn 1, but he couldn't do the Domino math to figure out the rest.
The question is - why is Domino good in Jubi-Blink decks?
I read on reddit that Jeff Hoogland did the math on his stream that the chance of drawing the Jubilee-Blink combo is 73% without Domino, and 69% with Domino, so playing Domino is 4% worst. Hoogland did the obvious math to the wrong problem - I'm not surprised since he does say that he used be a high school math teacher. Also, clearly Jubilee is not his favorite card.
You see, the Domino math that explains why Domino is good in Jubilee-Blink decks is actually very simple, and you don't need a calculator or a college education to do it.
Yes, playing Domino hurts your probability of drawing the T4 Jubilee, T5 Blink combo.
Yes, playing Domino hurts your probability of drawing Blink BY turn 5.
But -
What if what matters isn't drawing Blink BY turn 5, but instead what you wanted is to draw Blink ON turn 5, and not before? The solution to the problem is very obvious if you approach it as someone who loves to play Jubilee in Snap.
In Snap, you have 12 cards in a deck. Before each match, the 12 cards are shuffled into a random order. We can number them 1 to 12, 1-3 being the cards in your opening hand and 12 being the bottom.
When you play Jubilee a lot, you realize that when you play Jubilee on turn 4, what you care about is the #8 card - the top card, the card you would usually draw on turn 5. As I alluded to above, Jubilee is not the only card that cares about the #8 card - Iron Lad cares about the same card, as does Loki (indirectly). When you are playing any of these 3 cards, which card is the #8 card makes a very big difference to whether or not you will win or lose the match. And the reason to play Domino, the reason why Domino's ability is good, is that Domino's ability sees to it that she is NOT card #8. Nor #9, nor #10, nor #11.
So the math that solves the problem of why Domino is good in this deck is, as I said, very simple.
Without Domino, the chance that any specific card is card #8 is 1/12, or 8.3%.
With Domino, the chance that any specific card is card #8 is 1/11, or 9.1%. Same with card #9 and card #10.
Ok, so how does Domino help Blink? Well, Domino doesn't directly help Blink, but she does help Blink indirectly, and she helps Blink decks. Domino doesn't help Blink directly because obviously you don't usually want to Jubilee INTO Blink (although that is not a disaster either). But Domino does help Blink indirectly, because there is a very good reason to not want to draw Blink BEFORE turn 5 - Leech (at least for now). Blink is a dead card in hand if you drew her before turn 5, and an even deader card if you get Leeched on 4. Domino helps Blink decks because Blink decks play cards that are good Jubilee hits, cards that you want to be #8, #9 or #10.
So Domino is a good card for a deck that is playing both Jubilee and Blink. On the other hand, Jubilee-Blink isn't the best deck for Domino, because Jubilee-Blink has a specific combo it wants to hit. Domino is better in decks like Iron Lad or Loki that doesn't care about hitting a specific card #8, when any 5 or 6 cost card is a good Lad hit or topdeck draw on turn 5 or turn 6. Which is usually good enough.
So in other words, Domino's ability helps your deck draw its early plays ON turns 1 and 2, and helps your deck draw your late game plays ON turns 5 and 6. To me that's a very good ability and one that I've found that helps me win more than most other 2 cost cards. I prefer to draw my small cards early and my big cards late, and not the other way around, and Domino helps with that, seems to me like a valuable ability. Where Domino does hurt most is on turn 3, so a deck playing Domino needs to have more turn 3 plays than usual. Zabu used to solve this issue easily by turning your 4 cost cards into turn 3 plays. Domino hurting your probability of drawing a specific card BY a specific turn diminishes as a match progresses, and is minimal to trivial by the final turn compared to playing any other normal card in your deck.
Anyway, I decided to write this so that in the future if someone asks why I'm playing Domino I can just refer them to this and make my life as a Domino-truther suck less.
The name is Qinalo, mon ami. Remember it...