Mom,daughter making out on camera

Hello, my daughter is 3 and special needs. Last year my daughter spent about 4 months in PA where my parents live while I battled a very serious heart condition and during her stay and even before that we mentioned our concerns of a speech delay and everything. Well my mother disagreed and became very argumentative over it that she knew best. Well things got bad sometimes she refused to let me talk to her and in public she would act like she has custody bouncing her around places as if my child was a doll. Well we noticed my mothers behaviors becoming erratic and our daughter had major set backs and became aggressive and was not getting the support needed while there because to my mom there was nothing wrong. Well we brought her home to Ohio early because we couldn’t stand to allow our child around that. Well when we refused to come down for Christmas that became a big fight, manipulation and she was acting like she had every right to see our daughter for the holidays and that we are selfish. Well we started distancing ourselves. These behaviors over the years have become worse but took a major turn once our daughter stayed there for 4 months. Now, we gave my mom one last chance. In January we invited her to our daughter’s party and that became a HUGE mistake on our part. She undermined us at the party, made everyone uncomfortable, said rude things to people at the party about me, even swore at me and got rude with me in front of my child. Oh I might add my mother has called me names before in front of my toddler. I always been scared to cut contact because of how much money she has and the fear of her suing me. Well after my mother forced my child into her van at the end of the party and hearing my child scream we cut all contact. She lied and said she jumped in there when we saw her in there. So we moved and cut contact and we got a summons and are being sued. We called her and recorded the call and she has absolutely no interest in our daughter’s wellbeing but only her own. She told us our daughter doesn’t need school or OT, or speech therapy that she can do it because she has 30 years of childcare experience. The whole conversation was about my mother wanting to see our daughter anytime she wants and to take her to PA anytime she wants. Well I forgot to add we did invite my mother down for Christmas but our house isn’t nice enough. Anyways, we have court next week, my lawyer is filing to dismiss because she undermined me us and her and I don’t have a relationship, my pediatrician is willing to testify that she doesn’t feel it’s in our daughters best interest for my parents to have visitation with her or take her out of state especially with having autism. My mother thinks she has a prior relationship because she has been in her life but my daughter doesn’t ask for her and my mom made her a blanket for her birthday with her face plastered all over it and my child won’t go near it. What’s the chances she will win any visits. My mom has put us through so much and I don’t want my daughter seeing her mother get mistreated. My mother thinks grandparents rights means she can make decisions and do whatever she wants with our child. If she wins it will cause more harm than good with the fighting because that’s all my mother likes to do. She does no wrong though and thinks because she hired the most expensive attorney she will win. She said he told her she will win out of state visits. I don’t want my child out of state and alone with my mother. What do I do and can we win this? My husband and I are married however we were not at the time of birth. I just graduated with a Bachelor degree and working on my Masters. We are very good parents that want to make sure our daughter isn’t exposed to harmful behaviors. Any advice is appreciated. I just need to know how hat the worse case scenario would be and the chances she will win anything. Also we do have ppl willing to testify if we have a trial.

Hi Reddit. This sounds bad but please just read and help. It's long too, my apologies. I have 4 children but this is about my two eldest daughters. My children all have the same father even though we're in the process of a divorce. That is a story for another day. I'll call my eldest, 20, "Melissa" and my second eldest, 18, "Amy". I'll also refer to my husband, 42, as "John".
I had Melissa when I was 19, and it was a long, difficult pregnancy. I had to drop out of college to be her mom, and I do love her deeply. When I got pregnant for the first time, I was horrified. I wasn't ready to be a mom and wanted to get an abortion but my parents didn't allow this and said if I had one they'd kick me out. My husband then boyfriend also said he'd break up with me. I couldn't be homeless and was in love with my husband, so I went through the pregnancy, and I'm so happy I did. The moment I laid eyes on Melissa I fell in love. She was the cutest, sweetest, most adorable baby girl in existence. All the hatred disappeared, and I threw myself into motherhood. I loved every second of it. When I got pregnant with Amy, I cried. I felt all the same emotions hit me like they did the first time, but I wasn't going to give Amy up the way I wanted to with Melissa. I got through it once, so I can do it again is what I told myself. I'm very happy that I pulled through with Amy too. She's very intelligent and has her daddy's eyes.
As my girls were growing up it became obvious that they didn't like each other. Melissa always had a boyfriend and a big group of friends but Amy didn't. Amy would get jealous of Melissa often and would ask me to do something about it. I told her to just try and make more friends because I can't stop Melissa from being friends with people. She always told me this didn't help since everyone loved her sister, but there was nothing I could do. I would tell her to focus on her studies instead since she was a very smart girl and friends come and go. She didn't always like this answer, but studied hard anyways. Amy eventually started to get rebellious and this was incredibly difficult.
When Amy was 14 she started to steal from us. She started stealing Melissa's things at first and her money. Whenever John and I would scold and ground her, she'd just do something worse. She began smoking in the house and it caused my husband's parents to kick us out from their basement. I had my two other children, one of which was a newborn at this time so this was especially difficult. Amy continued being difficult, blaming Melissa for everything and saying that we hated her. This isn't true. She would push her little brother around, scare the baby, start verbal fights with her sister and stay out late. She would get into a verbal fight with her father and I at least once a week.
We never kicked her out because we love her. This has been going on for years. She hasn't gotten into any serious legal trouble but has gotten caught shoplifting and having alcohol. No amount of counseling fixes her. I'm sick of it, her father is, she isn't going to college the way we all wanted her to, and she continuously blames us.
The other week Amy started a fight with Melissa again. It was over makeup Melissa took back after Amy stole it. The fight was getting heated and their father wasn't home. I tried to mediate, but Amy for the first time punched her sister. She just stood there when Melissa was crying on the ground and I consoled her the best I could. Amy started crying and saying that I always pick Melissa. She said that I love Melissa more, and I shouted back that I do in my rage. Amy ran out of the house and I was so angry that I didn't care at the moment. Melissa was punched in the nose and had to get stitches.
Once I calmed down enough to articulate myself, I called Amy and told her to come home so we could talk. She refused at first, but when I mentioned police she came back. She was being oddly quiet the entire time her father and I scolded her. We made her apologize to her sister later which she did, and I apologized for what I said. She told me she didn't care and that I'm not her mother anymore. I scoffed at this and told her that I'll always be her mother. She went to her room and avoided me for the next few days.
It's been a week and she's been giving everyone the silent treatment including her little siblings. They've been crying saying "sissy doesn't love me anymore" and it's making me very angry. I finally confronted her and told her to stop being such a brat. She punched her sister and we didn't even call the police or rightfully punish her, so stop. She's hurting her siblings and I apologized already. I obviously didn't mean to say what I said. She didn't respond and just kept playing with her phone. I'm beyond frustrated. I don't know how to get her to stop acting this way.
How do I get her to stop? I want her to talk to me already. She's making home life very tense and Melissa has been crying nonstop to her grandparents on the phone about the fact that Amy punched her. It's making me look like a bad mom and her father is stressed at work because of it and he's our main source of income.
Tldr; My daughter Amy punched her sister Melissa in the face and said that I love her more. I said yes, I do, and she's been giving the silent treatment despite my apology. I obviously love my daughters equally. How do I get her to talk to me?

I live in a Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) complex built in 2016. Management added a few security cameras near the elevators after the City required it due to criminal activity, but 80% of the hotel-style hallways are out of view.
Our doors are set back from the hallway and offset so you can't see another tenant's door from yours--or see who's in the hallway before you leave your apartment, unless they're directly in front of your peephole. I live across from a unit leased by a program for unhoused mentally ill drug users that has one measure of success: that clients are "retained in housing" whether or not they are in treatment, damaging their unit, or committing crimes. Each of the three tenants placed across from my unit have escalated after moving in and they make it unsafe for others. It is not a good environment for them either.
The current tenant is out of control. Even as I write this, she is wrecking things in her unit, pounding on the wall facing the hallway, and screaming obscenities. She's broken the artwork on the common area walls and threatened people with the glass shards. We had a police standoff where I could hear a police dog barking viciously and her screaming after they battered her door down. She currently has one felony (from that night), two misdemeanors the previous month , and a DV charge a month before that. (I haven't found evidence that the rumor she blew up four cars is true; there's no corresponding police call data or new charges.) She was gone for a month, returned yesterday, and I'm afraid to leave my unit when she might be out there. I called the alternative crisis team, and she refused to talk to them and had a huge meltdown after they left. They suggested I get my own security camera for my safety.
Last year, when we had an increase in break-ins, assaults, etc. related to "program" tenants and people they invited into the building, tenants started installing their own Ring cameras or other security cameras. Management called a meeting in August 2023 to inform everyone that their lawyers have told them tenants are not allowed to have security cameras facing the common areas and they have to issue lease violations if tenants have them. Their lawyers allegedly said the tenants and guests walking down the hallway have not consented to being recorded by tenants and have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the common areas. (I guess that right to privacy in the hallways is why that tenant is allowed to go up and down the hallways screaming or singing at all hours.)
The local legal aid can't work with me because of a conflict of interest; they are defending the disruptive program tenants.
Is it really illegal for tenants to have their own security cameras that document tenants and visitors in the hallways? Or is management just doing CYA because they don't want documentation of the rampant drug sales and criminal activity in the building? The first tenants across the hallway had a 24/7 trap house.

Hello! My name is Skylar (he/him), and I am here to ask a couple questions about being a Vtuber.
So, this all came up when one of my fans DM'ed me and asked if I wanted to have a Vtuber model of my character, since they were making it for someone else and I commented below it "Wow, that looks super cool!!". I brought it up with my parents and they mentioned that they're worried about some things, so as the title states, they want me to make an informative google doc with all the information on what it's about, and THEN they'll consider their answers. So, I got a few questions.
1.) Is there a possibility of my face getting leaked/shown?
2.) Is there a possibility of getting hacked and having my face revealed?
3.) Is being a Vtuber dangerous?
4.) How does being a Vtuber work?
5.) Is there any problems with being a Vtuber?
6.) What are the Pros and cons of becoming a Vtuber?
7.) Why do people become Vtubers in the first place?
8.) is there a specific app that I can use that's safe for Vtubers without getting my face leaked?
9.) What do I need a camera for?
Basically, is there any problems with my safety that I should worry about when I become a Vtuber? Any risks to my personal life or anything like that?
Sorry if this is a lot. I really want them to say yes but if I don't have enough evidence they're gonna refuse. Help me out! I need really good evidence.

This show gets more and more insufferable. 5 mins of fluff between each act. Fast forward through that,then I have to watch ads.then 2 mins of an actual performance.
I would also like to add that Ant and Dec add absolutely nothing to the show. They stay behind the curtain and make faces at the camera at times when someone did something impressive or scary.
(Spoilers) The choir coming on with their singing and then breakdown into a dance with the music changing like they're in a club. So cringe. Fish man attempting to tell a joke but by choice, doesn't finish the act? Gets buzzed out then comes back for god knows what reason. Because he repeats the same "act".
A woman on a mic just burping. Disgusting. This show has really gone down hill.

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Hi, I'm seeking some advice here. So, I'm a v beginner at photography and would like to get a cam for my upcoming trip and as a hobby.
I've been eyeing the Olympus XZ-2 for its promise to deliver those nostalgic film vibes that I absolutely love. But here's the thing – it's a bit tricky to find since it's from 2012, and I'm a bit wary of buying used in case it's too old and prone to issues. I also plan to use it for life, not gonna buy another as its just hobby.
So, I've been on the hunt for alternatives. I'm really drawn to the small, lightweight design of the XZ-2, just like my trusty old digicam. But then again, I'm also intrigued by the Fuji film simulations, especially on the XT30ii. But is it too much for a beginner like me?
Then there's the X-T200, which seems like a decent compromise in terms of specs and weight, although it's missing some of the film simulation features. Can editing make up for that? And what's with the lack of buzz around it – is that a red flag?
On the more budget-friendly side, there's the Olympus E-M10 mark iv/iii. While it may not immediately scream 'film vibes,' a few scattered YouTube videos suggest otherwise. Could it be worth considering as my first beginner camera, learning to achieve that desired film look with it?
I've skipped over Sony and Canon for now because I'm really after that vintage camera charm that Fuji and Olympus offer. But if there are any other suggestions out there that match my preferences, I'm all ears! Experienced photographers, I'd greatly appreciate your insights to help me make this decision. Thank you in advance :)

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Chapter 165 – The moment a new kind of warfare began “Six stretches are confirmed, Ma'am,” a myiat Ensign called out into the communication network of the Mindihajai, watching the ship's sensors as it hovered within the space of the coreworld Gewelitten. “Estimated time of arrival about 20 uniform minutes.”
As she listened to the officer, Commander Jireynora chewed on the joints of one of her long fingers with her incisors, feeling how her tough yet loose skin glided along the flesh and bone underneath from the pressure of her teeth. Her almost copper-colored eyes were fixated onto the readings of the sensors she had on one of her own screens.
“We don't have permission to engage should they turn out hostile,” she then announced after taking her finger out of her mouth to do so in an authoritative tone. Still...she didn't like this at all. “However, get some of our hunters ready, just to be safe. And start on establishing a grid.”
“The humans have already done that, Ma'am,” another Ensign replied to her command, to Jireynora's surprise. A three-dimensional layout of the local space with flight-paths and orbits of all of its celestial bodies and debris appeared on a different screen of hers. Then, a moment later, the mentioned grid appeared within the established map, dividing it into even and easily marked and differentiated cubes that all had a unique designation. “We'll upload it into our ships and tell our pilots to be at the ready.”
Jireynora could only nod to herself. Humans worked fast.
“Remind them to familiarize themselves with the grid,” she then ordered, even though the reminder would hardly be necessary. Still, it was always better to say it one time too often than one too little.
In the boundless three-dimensional space of the void where there was no up or down, it was hard for pilots to orient themselves. Establishing a grid helped a lot with that, however that still wasn't even worth half as much if the first time the pilots actually saw the grid was only once they were already behind the damn steering.
She released a labored breath through her nose as she once again looked at the readings. For an invasion, this was certainly quite clumsy. Using a hyperspace of this length to approach was basically begging for trouble, since they could already detect it this long before their supposed opposition even arrived. A surprise attack was certainly out of the question. So what was the angle here..?
“Anything else our action-happy allies would like us to know?” she then asked over the line again, just to make sure she hadn't missed any other developments that the higher-class deathworlders were already putting into motion.
“No, Ma'am,” the Ensign replied, with a tone that gave Jireynora some pause, causing her ears to turn a bit more in the direction of her speakers as he continued. “Communication is a bit choppy at the moment. Seems like they have lost contact with their people on the ground.”
Jireynora's ears widened even more as one of them twitched for a moment. An attack on two fronts? Maybe the hyperspace was just a distraction? The humans' Admiral was down there, wasn't she?
“Are they requesting aid?” she wondered as her finger rose to her mouth again.
“Negative,” the Ensign replied relatively quickly, though his tone still suggested that he didn't quite know if he was happy with the information he provided. “They say they have it handled. Their suggestion to us is to focus on our own protection in case the arriving ships turn out to be hostile.”
Jireynora scoffed. 'Suggestion'. Very funny. Not like she wasn't supposed to take orders from the Admiral and Vice-Admiral in her current position. Sure, officially she was 'accompanying' them into this system as an ally and not under their direct command. But she wasn't an idiot. She knew there was a damn good reason that someone higher ranking than her hadn't been sent along on this trip.
“Very well, if they don't want our help, we're not going to force it on them,” she said with a dismissive sigh. Probably better that way anyway. She didn't have to waste her resources or her people. “In that case, keep a distance from whatever is arriving. And make sure the pilots are ready again.”
“Yes, Ma'am,” the Ensign replied. And after that, there was little more they could do but to wait and keep a close eye on their sensors.
The twenty minutes of estimated arrival time sure dragged on a lot as they weren't able to do anything. It didn't help that their allies weren't being very talkative at the time, barely communicating outside of important information and their own movements.
But ultimately, time did move linearly, and what was in motion would eventually arrive. They couldn't see the arriving ships yet, of course. On any visual sensors, the only thing visible was still the brightly shining ends of the hyperspace stretches that protruded into the system, glimmering in colors that one would not see during any other phenomenon. However, based on their distance, what they could see was currently still around eight minutes in the past as the light reflecting off the now arrived ships would have to travel a bit before it would reach their eyes and cameras.
But luckily, they had sensors that were a bit faster than visuals.
“Dispersal of the hyperspace-stretches confirmed, Ma'am,” her Ensign informed her about what she could already see on the sensors herself. A wave went through the fabric of space as the stretches instantly snapped back into their proper, original length once the generators keeping them stable had been deactivated – and just like the stretch itself, those ripples moved far faster than light.
Of course, nothing within the universe could move faster than light. However, that rule didn't apply to the universe itself – or even parts of it. After all, technically, they weren't 'in' the universe.
“Make sure to be ready to pin down the next stretch,” Jireynora ordered as she sat up a bit straighter in her Commander's seat. Whatever those ships wanted, they couldn't achieve it from this sort of distance. They would have to come closer if they wanted to do anything but talk. And she doubted they were only here to talk.
Then, she glanced over at another one of her screens, situated on the left side of her, slightly above her eye level. The screen still showed the established grid – as well as the positions of every ship they could currently pin down within it.
The U.H.S.D.F. cruisers 'Civil' and 'Of the Roses' were around the size of her own Mindihajai and had also kept their distance. The human's enormous flagship 'A place in the Sun' stuck a bit closer to the emerging stretches. It was a wild thought to have, but...given everything she had learned about human weaponry ever since their alliance had emerged some months ago, Jireynora almost suspected that the still quite unfathomable distance that the Atrocity-class kept from the arrival of their enemies may just have been its own effective firing range.
Most weapons were useless across distances like this that took even light itself minutes to travel, of course. However...the same wasn't necessarily true for the heat that the U.H.S.D.F. was packing.
Still, even the Sun wasn't exactly forming the front line here. No, that was formed by a long row of coluyvoree ships that made up a good part of the local defenses for this system. Jireynora counted a total of twenty ships of many different sizes but of very similar design. As all habitat-style ships, they were tube-shaped and had very little in terms of decorations on the outside. Still, their bright white color differentiated them quite firmly from the basically true-black, barely visible silhouettes of the human ships.
The largest ones were three battleships about half the size of the Sun. The next biggest were five destroyers that were about a third bigger than the cruiser she was Commanding. The coluyvoree also had cruisers. Ten of them. All slightly smaller than her Mindihajai. The last two appeared to be some sort of support ships. If she was honest, Jireynora didn't quite know what to make of them, since she wasn't familiar with the models at all. That kind certainly wasn't widely used among even the Communal Military.
A coluyvoree flagship was not among the defending ships, which was...odd considering they were so close to their homeworld. However, every species handled that sort of thing differently. There was most likely a flagship around somewhere, that was however not getting involved since the supposed attackers that were arriving there were already so wildly outnumbered here.
“Travel-sized hyperspace generation detected!” an Ensign suddenly called out, interrupting her thoughts. So they were indeed getting closer.
Jireynora scowled a bit. She had already seen the signals of the much thinner and smaller stretches that were sent out by the coluyvoree in an attempt at communication earlier. It seemed like negotiations had probably failed, considering they had not gotten any sort of 'crisis averted' from their supposed allies.
Of course, across a distance like this, hyperspace travel may as well have been instant in many cases, meaning they only had a few seconds or less to pin down where the ships would jump to once the generators fired up.
Though as Jireynora's tension built while she awaited whether they would lock onto the position in time, her eyes widened slightly and her teeth bit down onto her finger to the point that it was almost painful as a ping suddenly appeared on the grid she shared with her allies. That...had barely been a second. And the humans already had the location? How?
As she took a moment to silently wonder, her ship already reacted to jump away from the expected point of arrival while the coluyvoree forces did the exact opposite and turned their dangerous sides towards the emerging stretches that brightly outshone the local star for a moment as they emerged not far from their current position.
Jireynora's eyes narrowed as she watched things unfold. Six ships jumping this deeply into a defensive formation? Were they suicidal?
“Get us more distance. I don't like this,” she ordered with a grimace. High-class deathworlders were of course known to be a bit paranoid at times, especially the ones coming from planets with hyper-competitive evolution. But still...her instincts told her something bad was lurking in the bushes here. And she'd rather not become some feral hog's next meal today.
“Yes Ma'am,” the Lieutenant handling the ship's course confirmed.
“What about the humans?” she then wondered, directing the question at a different officer.
“Are holding their position, Ma'am,” the Ensign from earlier informed her directly. “Should I suggest they move as well?”
Jireynora thought for a moment but then slowly shook her head to herself.
“They know their tactics better than we do,” she said, feeling pretty confident that people from a class IV world, primates or not, would be able to recognize when something stank. “Focus on our own safety until they request our assistance.”
“Understood, Ma'am,” the Ensign confirmed.
With her eyes focused onto the screen showing the visual of the hyperspace-stretches, she caught just a glimpse of the ships emerging from them before all sensors went completely dark for a moment as the hyperspace of her own ship clouded them in complete darkness by all possible definitions of the word. As brightly as the phenomenon shone whenever you watched it from the outside, that spectacle of light didn't even come close to comparing to the complete and utter deprivation of everything that you found inside of it. Sometimes, the void of space was called empty but the true meaning of that word only became clear to those who had seen hyperspace from the inside.
Myiat didn't get void-sickness like so many other species when they looked upon the vacuum of space while moving within its clutches and yet...even someone as experienced as Commander Jireynora had to admit that her stomach did always start to tremble at least a bit whenever she saw all of her sensors go dark as the space outside of her windows turned into a flat sheet of complete blackness that may as well have been the true-black paint her allies' ships were coated in.
Luckily, their current repositioning was only relatively short. Not that Jireynora actually had any fear of hyperspace, but...she sure as hell didn't want to spend any more time in there than she absolutely had to.
Breaking back out into normal spacetime as the stretch dissolved, all sensors immediately sprung back into action, and the first thing Jireynora's eyes darted towards was the established grid that now quickly updated itself to everything that had occurred while it was temporarily blind.
The brief 'blink' had been enough for the coluyvoree ships to completely surround the new arrivals in a threatening sphere-formation while their human allies had made just enough room to not be in the way of that. The opposing sides were now close enough to each other to switch to regular frequencies for communication instead of needing to rely on hyperspace, meaning Jireynora could only guess if any sort of exchange was happening between the factions here, which really irked her.
Couldn't the damn tree-people at least keep them in the loop about stuff? Oh well, no use in getting angry over it to herself now...
A bit later, visuals started to reach them as well. Although things were still reaching them with a relative delay at this distance, the Mindihajai was still close enough to the events that were unfolding to at least see what was going on in a reasonable amount of time.
Jireynora had a stern look on her face as she watched the sphere of coluyvoree ships hover around the intruders in a restraining manner. Surely, their weapons were primed to take out the opposition's hyperspace-generators the moment the uninvited guests would attempt to jump again. They had well and truly maneuvered themselves into a tar pit with no escape. And yet...that still didn't really check out, did it? As they hovered there in the middle of that ball of death, the recently arrived ships themselves had in turn taken up their own semi-spherical position, guarding each others' backs as they faced the overwhelming odds they had brought against themselves.
“Correct me if I'm wrong, but...those are zodiatos ships, aren't they?” she then wondered aloud once she had taken a moment to really look at the visuals reaching her eyeballs there. The ships that had arrived were rather large. Of course, they had to be for such massive occupants. Their exterior was painted into a similar mossy gray-green as the proboscidea themselves tended to sport´. Though otherwise...they just looked like normal ships. Much unlike the human murdermachines she found herself in the company of, those 'attackers' certainly didn't sport the look of something that would simply barge into a defensive formation and expect to come out on top. However, exactly the fact that those things didn't look especially dangerous made the feline all the more worried. Also...what were zodiatos doing here in such a manner anyway? Weren't they one of the coluyvoree's closest allies?
Still, all they could do was wait and see what happened. Or maybe what had already happened, given the delay that was between the actual action and any sort of perceptible signal reaching their current position.
Maybe negotiations were actually still-
Jireynora grimaced as she couldn't even finish that thought before she saw one of the zodiatos ships taking a shot at one of the coluyvoree cruisers. The fight had already begun.
Looking into the past, Jireynora saw the cruiser quickly react to the shot as it did its best to evade the projectile coming its way at relativistic speeds. Of course, relativistic in this case only meant as much as 'worthy to be mentioned in the same sentence as light speed' without actually coming all that close to it. However, that was still plenty fast to be extremely hard to avoid.
As the stark-white coluyvoree cruiser tilted its axis out of the projectile's path, a large gash was still ripped into the armor of the ship, and Jireynora didn't need any confirmation to see that the hull had been breached. That meant decompression. That meant...the crew of at least one entire section of that ship was now dead.
Inside, she felt a brief sting for the lives that were just lost, however the feeling didn't quite manage to fully dominate her mind as another thought overwhelmed it entirely.
“One shot? They fired one shot!? Just what the hell is going on?!” was all that she could really think. Who the hell was surrounded and fighting back to back with their allies and fired one single shot? Was it just spite? That was the only explanation she could come up with. But even then, if they wanted to go out with a bang...wouldn't they at least all fire?
“Travel-sized hyperspace generation detected!” the ever-vigilant Ensign suddenly called out, noticing the sudden emergence of signals before Jireynora did as her eyes were affixed to the ongoing battle. “Multiple signals! Ten- Twe- Fif- thir- twenty..?” he paused briefly in his futile attempt to call out the number of signals as the signals reported by their systems were more alike to a frequency than any sort of constant value as they rose and dropped by sometimes multiple tens at a time each second, giving no clear indication just how many ships were actually in motion.
Jireynora's eyes darted from the heavily fluctuating number back to the visuals in pure confusion. Hyperspace? Why were hyperspace-stretches..?
Her eyes widened and her breathing stocked in her throat as her gaze fell upon the strange spectacle that had by now already occurred multiple moments ago, but was only now becoming visible to her and her crew.
Obviously, the coluyvoree had not taken the attack on one of their ships lying down and, after briefly moving to close their formation even further, had fired their own volleys of projectiles at the still unexplained zodiatos. Unlike their opponents, what they fired was far from a single shot, as an absolute rain of projectiles closed in on the ships trapped in the middle of the formation at speeds that were hard to comprehend for a mortal mind.
Of course the coluyvoree ships were positioned in such a way that none of them would be in the trajectory of one of their allies' canons in their current formation, however with the sheer volume of shots being fired, Jireynora couldn't deny that she felt a certain worry about accidental friendly fire occurring despite that. Ricochet was a thing, after all...
However, what she actually saw with her own eyes a moment later was far, far worse than simple friendly fire, and it stunned her to her very core, because what she saw there at that moment, it simply...defied explanation.
As the shots were already heading towards them to tear their ships to absolute shreds, the muddy green zodiatos made no motion to even try to evade the projectiles. No. Instead, they seemed to take shots of their own, firing back at the overwhelming force of the coluyvoree.
Another act of spite. It had to be, Jireynora thought. Simple defiance before the end would come. She could think of nothing else that it might be. And yet...
After they had been fired, the shots from the zodiatos' ships flew without anything strange happening for around 500 measures, behaving just like any other projectile would until suddenly...
Jireynora's eyes widened and her pupils constricted to pinpricks as they had to witness how the very fundamentals of what she thought she knew about warfare in space and the technology involved suddenly challenged.
After they had reached that certain 'safety distance' from their origin, the projectiles suddenly...'activated'. That was all she could call it really.
With a burst of light, the things suddenly illuminated the space around them, leaving them as hazy, barely perceptible spheres. For a second, Jireynora thought that those must've been the hyperspaces that they had picked up on, but that assumption quickly turned out to be so very false as the light of the projectiles slowly started to...extend around it.
Like a balloon slowly growing as you blew more and more air inside of it, the strange light began to stretch out into growing spheres around the projectiles as they hurled through the void. The expansion was so quick that soon enough, the entire group of invading ships was entirely enclosed by the enormous spheres of strange, hazy light.
The rain of shells fired by the coluyvoree crashed against this newly created...well, the best word that Jireynora could find for it was 'shield'. And to her utter horror, she now witnessed how the torrent of projectiles simply seemed to...fizzle...against this alien barrier, going up in sparks of light that didn't seem to leave as much as a scratch on the mind-boggling phenomenon before her.
Meanwhile, the 'shield' itself kept growing for just a bit longer, before its expansion suddenly ceased as the spheres had presumably reached their maximum size. By now, they were larger than some of the ships attacking them.
And just because their expansion had ceased, that by no means meant that their movement had also come to a halt. Separating from their briefly 'unified' state again, the massive balls of hazy who-knew-what-the-hell-it-was kept flying in the direction of the coluyvoree's surrounding sphere-formation.
Obviously, the local defense ships had already made moves to avoid the incoming projectiles from the moment they had been fired, however...those projectiles now suddenly were a thousand times larger than they had originally been when the evasive maneuvers had begun.
No amount of adjustment was going to make a difference now.
With terror taking a tight grip of her blood, all Jireynora could do was to bear witness as the hazy globes of destruction moved towards the white ships in what felt like slow-motion, their inevitable strike becoming clear a long time before it actually occurred.
The worst thing was that, in the back of her mind, she knew that what she saw was only a replay of the events. In reality, they had long hit their mark.
For a moment, the feline Commander almost wanted to look away. However, she knew that she couldn't. She couldn't avert her eyes from this...this historical event. Because she knew it. Like so many times in history, an entirely new kind of warfare had emerged yet again.
And as those so often did, it had decided to announce itself with a spectacle.
So...her eyes remained glued to the events that were unfolding as the first hazy spheres finally made contact with the ships they had been aimed at. Six shots. Eleven kills. It would've been twelve had one of the shots not seemingly been slightly off-center, missing just enough of the smaller of the two ships it had hurled towards to leave most of its bow-half intact.
All the other ones, however...
Whatever that hazy phenomenon was, it seemed to be packing an overwhelming amount of sheer force as it crashed against the ship's armor, denting it out of shape upon the first minuscule contact. And as if that wasn't horrifying enough, blunt force didn't seem to be all it brought to the table. Just like the projectiles that had fizzled against the haze earlier, the armor that came into contact with it so quickly began to glow, bubble, and melt that the only thing Jireynora's mind could equate the heat that must've been emitting from it at that moment to was the burning plasma of a star.
The coluyvoree ships stood absolutely no chance. Battered and broken and melted and...beaten...the remains of the eleven ships in the spheres' paths now floated through space as nothing but dead scrap that was fit only to serve as a graveyard for their former crews after the spheres had passed them.
Jireynora's eyes shot as wide open as they could and her gaze immediately snapped around a bit as she realized the destructive path of the attack had not ended with that first hit, and her eyes soon fell onto the pitch-black outline of her more closely allied ships that had decided to remain close to the proceedings. Were they still in range?
As her eyes darted from one ship to the next, she could feel every hair on her body stand up as she realized with horror that the massive 'A Place in the Sun' indeed found itself in the path of one of the spheres with only mere moments more time to react to it than the coluyvoree had at its current distance. And so far, it didn't look like the massive flagship had made even the tiniest movement to evade the shot.
With her claws digging into the armrest of her seat and her tail swaying as if it tried to batter her chair down, she stared wide-eyed as the hazy orb approached the Sun, hundreds of measures at a time. Then, her intense focus turned out to be a big mistake as suddenly, a flash of light of incredible brightness blinded her, stinging right into her eyes as a one of the hyperspace-stretches they had already detected long before this moment opened up, swallowing the Sun and moving the massive ship out of harm's way at a near-instant.
She quickly averted her gaze and painfully rubbed her eyes, doing her best to blink away the effects of what was basically a flashbang that had burned into her retinas.
After a few moments of painful concentration, she managed to get enough of the opaque orbs floating around in her vision to recede so that she could frantically glance up at the screen with her sensor-readings again.
She had seen one stretch there. So what was happening now that still made the number of signals look like someone was trying to draw a sine-graph with their values?
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With a deep bellow escaping from his chest, all four of Congloarch's fiery eyes were dead focused on the sudden...thing...he was seeing in front of him. Mere moments ago, thunder-like sounds of explosions had erupted all throughout this facility that he had found himself locked up in for a long while, and not a few seconds later, there air itself seemed to have suddenly become...
Well, he couldn't quite describe it. As much as the tonamstrosite strained his eyes, he couldn't make heads or tails of what he saw.
A strange haze seemed to have spread throughout the facility, moving so quickly that its spread was basically impossible to follow before it already arrived in his close proximity, stopping just before it came dangerously close.
What was it? He had no idea. There was no visual indication. It was just...a haze. Almost as if an incredibly hot fire was burning just underneath it, distorting the air. He inhaled deeply through his nose. There was no smell to it. Now that the loud thundering was over, it also seemed to make no sound. Or...at least no sound loud enough to be audible over the ringing in the lizartaurs ears.
After the strange haze had approached them, he was using his tail to hold back Moar, who had seemed to have gotten quite the fright at the sudden eruption of noise.
He didn't know if the old lady had any desire to try and approach this strange...phenomenon...however he wasn't going to take chances.
Suddenly, there was a piercing shriek somewhere nearby. It was hard to tell where. The sound seemed to only come through the walls of the building itself instead traveling louder through the hallways like one would expect. Congloarch's eyes narrowed at the strange haze even more. Was it blocking sound somehow?
Either way...muffled as it was, he knew that voice. And if Admiral Krieger was shrieking in pain...then there truly must've been trouble.
Still holding the rafulite back from doing the same with his long tail, the tonamstrosite began to slowly approach the strange haze, careful to keep his momentum and all of his limbs in check.
Once he was within reach, the armored titan then released another low bellow, contemplating for a moment longer before slowly and carefully reaching out one of his claws in the direction of the haze.
He only touched it with the very tip of the claw, which was supposed to be nothing but dead keratin. Yet still, he had to jolt his hand back instantly as a burning pain shot through his entire arm, as if a white-hot needle had been rammed straight through its entire length instantly.
As one of his eyes shot to look down at his hand, the tip of his claw was gone, leaving nothing but a flattened, scorch-mark riddled stump behind.
Releasing a deep hiss and very glad that he had not tried to touch it with any more important part of his body, Congloarch quickly retreated from the haze again, deciding not to mess with whatever this was.
“What in goodness' name...” Moar mumbled as she, too, stared at the unexplainable occurrence. It didn't seem like, in all her years, she had ever seen anything even remotely like it. And Congloarch could not claim any more experience of his own on that front.
This was something new. Something...alien.
“What do we do?” Moar then quickly snapped her attention around, looking at Congloarch directly with wide-open eyes. Immediately, her claw began to nervously comb through her fur as she spoke. “Admiral Krieger sounded like she was in deep peril!”
Congloarch could only grunt through his long teeth.
“What can we do?” he wondered both aloud and to himself. Whatever this was...there seemed to be no getting through it. They were lucky they hadn't gotten caught in the path of its expansion. “I don't think-”
His word was cut off as suddenly, the haze just...vanished. Before his very eyes. Disappeared like it had never been there in the first place. Well...that was if one ignored the path of destruction it had left.
Congloarch's mouth remained hanging open for a long moment.
Was it...over?
His question was answered when suddenly, the sound of a new explosion echoed through the halls. However this one sounded a lot more...'traditional' than the ones he had heard before the haze had so suddenly begun to spread.
To him, it sounded like a breaching-charge. It seemed like someone had decided to grant themselves entrance.
This...probably wasn't over.

This will be very long, and I’m looking for some advise! So I (21F) met my husband (21M) almost a year and a half ago. We are getting ready to welcome our baby girl in June, but we are in a predicament. My husband (let’s call him A) was told his entire childhood and up until this point that his bio dad signed over his rights almost as soon as he was born, verbally abused his mom while she was pregnant, and said quote for quote that he didn’t claim him as his baby. It was something that has always bothered A. He hated his bio dad and said he would never reach out to him but didn’t understand why his bio father would do that to him. His step dad wasn’t a huge influence on him his entire life from what he said and he doesn’t have a wonderful connection with him. When A met my dad he clung to him, and still does. It made me so sad seeing this because all A wanted was a father figure that he could connect with. I think the relationship he has built with my father and talking with me had given him some push to reach out to his dad because my dad has two other kids he wasn’t involved a whole lot with due to their mothers not wanting him around and he worked on the pipeline so he wasn’t around a whole lot anyways. A talked to his mom about reaching out to his dad and at first she said she would give him the documents she had from court and so on, but as time came closer and he pushed more she started getting aggravated and condescending about it. Before she gave A any paper work she pulled me to a room alone and asked me very passive aggressively why he needs to talk to him and what pushed him to this. She started crying and showing me paper work saying how horrible he was and that she was not okay with him reaching out. This was kind of a red flag for me, but I just wanted to keep the peace in that moment. I explained everything when A and I had left their home. After that incident he desperately wanted to reach out, and so he forced his mom to hand over the paper work and when he read all the letters and court documents he sobbed for hours. He finally made contact with his bio dad (we will call him B). B wasn’t anything that A expected, and B explained his side of the story. B didn’t know about A until he was around three, and the only reason he was notified was because he was served with a paternity test (along with 3 other men). We looked at papers and this checked out, because paternity was established in 2005, A was born in 2002. His mom had went after B for child support and back child support. B was unprepared, but still paid and fought for custody for 3 years. Also to give context, B lived 9 hours away. He would send A letters, emails, try to call, and even would try to visit, but his mom was the one who made it difficult. B didn’t have a reliable car and only worked at an auto parts store. We looked into all of this and everything checked out, even the letters were sent with an O'Reillys stamp. B sent A screenshots of his conversations with his mom, and he was civil while his mother was very nasty towards him. This went on for 3 years before his mom’s lawyer told him that he needs to just sign over his rights because all of Bs money was going towards rent and attorney fees. He said he regrets it, and has never been able to get over it. He tried making contact with A up until 2016, then officially decided he would wait until A turned 18 and let A decide when he (and if he) ever wanted to try. B is almost exactly like A, and A grieves the father relationship he could have had. They are already planning to meet up and have lunch and share more documents about the situation. The real kicker though is that As mom impersonated him talking to Bs mom (his bio grandma). She did that for months until grandma caught on and quit replying. A has been in contact with his bio dad for 2 months now and won’t go see his mom, or talk to her. She doesn’t know that he is in contact with his bio dad, and that’s where we are stuck. He wants his bio dad to come down for the birth of our daughter. A’s mom has approached me multiple times asking if he reached out. It’s not my business to tell so I always say no, but the last thing she said to me kinda stuck. She said he was very happy he never reached out and that “he would never disrespect her” like that. She even said she knows he respects her for even giving him the opportunity to reach out (yikes). We both know his mom is going to spiral when she sees him. He doesn’t know how to approach his mom about this, but refuses to not include his bio dad simply because his mom would be angry. He doesn’t trust his mom anymore and told he would prefer to stay low contact with her until further notice, even when our baby gets here. We also know there are always two sides to a story, But Bs matches the timeline and he has actual court documents, emails, and messages to back everything he has expressed.

Now that we’re nearing the end of The Bad Batch, I have been thinking a lot about how Jennifer Corbett, Brad Rau and Filloni are using it to add mountains of context to the single sentence, “Somehow Palpatine returned”. It makes sense, after all, Bad Batch was one of the last things George Lucas worked on in Star Wars, and Filloni always tries to honor George Lucas’s vision, like with the Mortis Gods. And I think Dave Filloni was born to contextualize Star Wars stories in the margins of movies people hate and eventually make them into stories you love. And I also think the more its tied to George Lucas, the less the internet will complain.
So here are my theories on where Star Wars is headed after TBB finale tomorrow
(Not saying I want all this to happen, but ya know, anything to to make Rise of Skywalker make sense)
-I think the eventual Filloni movie is going to be called Heir to the Empire. Because duh. He loves that book. Also a meta because of Filloni’s role as George Lucas’s successor.
-Filloni is gonna have to retcon the book Shadow of the Sith. He’s retconned before, like with the Ahsoka novel, and I think the return of Palpatine/Rey’s parentage is too important to relegate to books. In Shadow of the Sith its revealed that Rey’s father was a Palpatine clone (albeit a failed one). Well what if by the end of The Bad Batch Omega is revealed as a palpy clone? This would be a twist in the show and I know I’m not the only person who has thought that, but it would make sense considering her her apparent susceptibility to midichlorians.
-Who knows what happens at the end of Bad Batch s3, but let’s assume Omega lives and either the clones die protecting her or eventually die of old age. And what if Omega grows up to be a lovely young woman who happens to look exactly like Jodie Comer, who just happens to be Rey’s mom?
-Jumping ahead to Mandoverse times, I’m not really sure what the empire’s plans are, but I assume they 1. Want Thrawn to restore the empire and then 2. resurrect the clone emperor after that (I’m not certain Thrown would like the idea of a midichlorian infused clone running things instead of him after years in exile)
-So if Omega was THE Palpatine clone who’s blood would accept M count transfers, she (and her future daughter) could technically be heir to the Empire, not Thrawn. Thrown wouldn’t vibe with that. He’d want her gone.
-Rey is born in 15 ABY. Right now, Ahsoka is set 9-12 ABY. So lets say a couple seasons of Ahsoka pass, she and Sabine eventually get back to Hera, Zeb and Ezra in the correct galaxy and the gang finds out Thrown wants to murder Hera’s childhood friend, Omega, just because she is/could eventually be pregnant with a baby that could be Palpatine’s heibut also could potentially destroy the Sith, thus a direct threat to Thrawn’s ascendancy in the new empire/first order.
-Omega at this point would technically be in her 40’s, but let’s be real, no one’s age in Star Wars makes sense, so lets just let her be played by a hot young Jodie Comer doing an excellent New Zealand accent.
-A major part of the Heir to the Empire movie could be Hera (Hera was the Thrawn foil in Rebels so that should continue), the ghost crew and adult Omega (Jodie Comer) figuring out how to beat Thrawn. They will succeed at this, but fail at stopping the cloning and all the exegol business due to the absolute lack of support from the new republic and their refusal to believe that any sort of imperial remnant could be rising. So Omega, her bf/husband and eventually sweet baby Rey all have to go on the run to be safe.
-Also Luke I guess is just minding his business, building his little school, convinced that a new Jedi order just like the old one is the right way to bring balance to the force, but Ahsoka isn’t so sure that the Jedi order was actually that good, so she doesn’t get his help.
-Maybe the Ahsoka part of the story would be about The Mortis Gods, Baylan and learn that balance will eventually be found with Rey? I very much love the Mortis Gods but have very little understanding of them. I just have to trust Mr Filloni to explain it to me. Like if the Mortis Gods are still alive on Perridea, I assume Baylan’s goal is to become the Father, so there is balance in the original Star Wars galaxy again? And Ahsoka represents the daughter? And maybe Palpatine’s eventual heir theoretically could represent the son? And Ahsoka has to trust that in the future Rey doesn’t become another Anakin, but instead brings balance to the force (After all, Ahsoka was one of the Jedi who whispered to Rey). This is the part of the movie idea that remains a total mystery to me, because the blurring of reality and myth of the Mortis Gods confuses me.
Just wanted to share. Can't wait for tomorrow!

I have so many thought's on Another Crab's Treasure. I game I was looking forward for many month's now. There were times where I loved this game and hated it. I was really sour on it in the beginning.
However, by the time I finished, I really enjoyed my time with ACT. My only real gripes were the enemy placements and lack of a good camera. The camera issue is so important for a game like this and it caused so many unnessecary deaths.
Everything else was well crafted. I really felt attatched to all the treasure hunters by the end of the game, especially Nemma, who easily the standout here and is the soul of the game for me. Her VA did an amazing job here too. New Carcinia is a character in of itself and its denizens gave some really funny lines. I always felt safe going back to it to sell items or whatever.
The combat felt tight, and by the time I was fighting the final boss, I felt as if nothing could stop me. I put everything into ATK and I was dishing out massive damage on charged attacks.
This is everything Aggro Crab has been working towards so far and it really makes me happy to see this studio get better w this game. Going Under is the foundation for this game. The combat is pretty much identical with some added features of course.
The durability mechanic is straight out of Going Under as well, except with shells instead of weapons. Even sticking shells to your fork feels like a GU mechanic. I really don't like this type of design but I commend them on sticking to their guns on this. It did feel like it worked.
SPOILERS But even down to the plot and structure of the game. New Carcinia is basically Fizzle HQ acting as the homebase. The final bosses of each game are both former friends (and ardent capitalists)
The fact that there is a twist in the near end of this game like Going Under shows how GU set the blueprint.
Anyway, sorry if this has a lot grammar errors, I am very caffienated right now. ACT is an easy 8/10. I will happily replay this now with GUN and when/if NG+ comes out.

China being incapable to build chips probably makes it worse if only the PTK have it. And kinda doesn’t mean anything
PTK is gonna feel more inclined to microchip everybody before competitors can. Their mass terrorism is gonna make them paranoid. Even against Americans. You don’t do 9/11 and then don’t become a paranoid wreck your whole life. They now have to stay in control over America for eternity until they are certain NOTHING can ever be done to them for all the terrorism they committed.
The biggest red flag is how Israel does NOT want to be accountable. Like where the fuck do they think they’re going?
Anyway. I don’t see China is going to be incapable of building them forever.
It just takes one person to catch up to a whole field overnight.
They’re going to have much more workers in this field.
Machine learning courses are all over the net from the same guy you guys fucking kept in a cage to work for you - Andrew Ng.
The AI coding part isn’t the issue here.
The issue is what this microchip even is.
I already produced pictures of it. It’s in my ear and looks conjoined into my ear drum.
That takes 383177x of the guess work out from what they even have to do.
You can reverse engineer a lot of the work you guys needed years and decades to figure out and plan, just by what you guys do.
For example, you claim to be electrocuting me. Everybody else did too. There’s a million people hinted at how I’ve been electrocuted.
Now we know this chip must be able to conduct electricity.
Apparently it’s been keeping up with my heart rate. All my biomarkers like that.
Now China just asks its top scientists in this field, if a BCI chip was to be able to measure your heart rate, how would it be done using what materials?
Your brain chip is also transcribing specific words. That means you guys have literally been mapping specific words — and I know the best way to do this because it’s what you Nazi fucks did to me, and FUCK you, you guys slaved me
Israel combines its brain chips with Pegasus mobile malware - how people are streaming me right now. So with their brain chip they are using to monitor brain neurons and signals, they also are watching me through my camera and can see what my brain does every time I type a word, a letter, look at something, gaze away, get a boner, get mad, my heartbeat increases at something, whatever
BY combining their illegal brain chips with their illegal mass surveillance, they were able to develop their brain computer interfaces 10000x faster.
You have to remember their own brain chip is sorta like the early AI programs like Google made. Google made this AI software that became the chess champion. How did it do that? It kept playing chess against itself. It memorises every combination of moves.
Building your brain computer interface is half the problem. The other half is needing mobile surveillance. America had to rely on Israel to do this part because their own law doesn’t let them, sell out idiots because Israeli’s are going to use this against you for even more 9/11’s. The next 9/11 is going to be done by Stephen Paddocks and white guys so Israel can split America into two and have Americans fight amongst themselves.
And America is the blame. I warned these Wolfowitz cunts much ahead of time that this is what Israel is doing but they are sponsoring it instead thinking they’re in control here - fucking idiots. These people don’t give two shits about you Republicans, you are a means to an end. You think they want some gullible sheep who do anything for a dollar? They see you as inferior.
Even if you built your own shit in USA, Israel is going to feel entitled to look at what you’re doing and take it for themselves since they are your “best friends”. And your congress will agree, bend over and get fucked and suck their dick afterwards.
Anyway. Combined with mass surveillance, they begin to map every word. This solves a HUGE problem. Before, if I wanted to think “open the door” there are two ways it could understand me. Either by understanding each word and it acts as a Siri for my thoughts, OR it understands me visualising open a door in my head.
PREVIOUSLY, it was only the latter. The former was very very unrealistic and very very expensive to build and requires lots and lots and lots of data.
What do you think they have been doing this whole time I have been in their cage being slaved? Monitoring me and tracking every single response and word of mine.
They literallly joke about how I am their “lab rat”.
They stomped on my emotions just for their sadism and fun, and get to tell people it’s “science”. They send more Delilah’s to break my heart or whatever just to understand what goes on in my head for “science” even though they been in the Delilah matchmaking business for decades. These people fetishise Betrayal fantasies.
This post already takes out SO DAMN MUCH of the guess work.
China would replace you guys over fucking night. Maybe using the principles I’ve outlined, they found an innovative way to do it better.
I bet if you freaks actually let me ever contribute to my own brain chip and let me study the science, I could definitely improve it.
And China has an advantage. Why? I am about to doxx you Terrorist Rats who did this to me and we’re building a Jawbone factory. I’m going to doxx your Osama Bin Laden’s and Anwar Al Awlaki and the Hamas 5 unicorns.
The world is going to make sure it is OPEN SOURCE. Because you terrorists incl Wolfowitz doctrinated bitches like to commit false flags and kill all of us including your own people.
Even if I die - somebody will remember what I said here and pass the message on to make sure this is what happens.
The rich will be fucked up the ass if it thinks they are going to brainwash us to fight for their chance to brain chip us all. Ima save the world from 1984.
Also, we know Israel are now able to map specific words to neurons because of that “dog food” incident. It didn’t make me picture dog food. It made me think the words “dog food”.
So you know they mapped, like in a dictionary, dog means these neuron movements and food means that neuron movement.
To be able to make somebody think “dog” and not “do” requires you to map a dictionary, and a LOT of data. And you can do this at a 100000x rate if you hack into the microchipped people’s phones and just analyse every single movement.
Israel needs to be banned by the UN from keeping this secret and transparency needs to be demanded.
UN, if you see this, please act upon this. You will regret ignoring it. Do not believe any bullshit they hand over to you.
If these Wolfowitz made claims of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction and Iraq War happened, even though none got found, BELIEVE ME YOU NEED TO FUCKING SEND INSPECTORS!!!
The U.N. needs to inspect everything they are doing and every piece of code.
DO NOT let Israel act like they can patent shit.
Do not forget Hitler is part of the same gang Nitai is from!!!
Europe, no matter what you think of Palestinians, you NEED to do this for the safety of Europe. Even your rich billionaires and monarchs are going to be microchipped next.
OpenAI is dishonest. Even Elon admitted Neurolonk’s brain chip and OpenAI is still acting like they don’t do this.
These are potentially more destructive than nuclear bombs!
Don’t let them convince you they’re not doing this for terrorism. Tell them to suck my dick if they try smear UN so nobody inspects them.
The whole world - if you do not act upon this, so many of your people will die.
And you won’t ever see it coming from Israel: they’ll attack you using some unicorns for the next 9/11.
And if my whistleblowing helps save China, maybe China would help me out. Maybe they had no idea what was about to happen to them. Much worse than COVID and will also be blamed on you.
The decisions we make today are going to be the most influential decisions in modern history for a while and we need to make sure NO GOD DAMN IDIOTS are allowed to decide for us. Or just the ultra rich. No! They are trying to steal our say.
They want complete power and control!
Tell OpenAI we will fucking raid their offices if they don’t become transparent. Call me a fucking terrorist and come arrest me, maybe when somebody leaks my posts you all look like a bunch of 1984 dystopian CUNTS. I’m tryna save the world but you guys wanna destroy it.
And countries like China can catch up over night, don’t ever forget the Dunning Kruger effect. You guys underestimated me too. You always underestimate us “uncivilised” people like Arabs weren’t calculating astronomy bullshit like movement of stars and planets while living in the god damn desert 1000 years ago.
You guys seem to conflate ability to answer questions in a textbook or even just following somebody else’s steps with actual intelligence
Actually, all the “civilised” world does this. You guys think because you have people that read some fucking astronomy textbook and end up at NASA they are automatically smarter than the desert people 1000 years ago.
THIS is why you guys fail, have your heads up your own asses and underestimate others.
Even kids in poverty in Africa can be trained to understand these textbooks and then work at NASA.
Yet Americans apply this NASA principle to everywhere. They don’t realise all of Afghanistan can be doing what you’re doing this next generation. You’re not fucking genetically superior and neither are you, we all stand on top the shoulders of giants.
It’s the innovators who are the “smart” ones. Any god damn delusional zombie can read Einstein’s work and understand it, and even surpass it now using work from others, it doesn’t mean this zombie couldn’t be a god damn idiot.

Screen goes black and I’m not understanding why that is? I’ve messed with the settings and reset it to see if maybe I selected something that might be making it do that but I’m so lost? I’m a newbie when it comes to cameras so I don’t know much. When I first turn on the camera it shows what I’m trying to take a picture of but once I take a picture, the screen’s dark. I check on the gallery and the image comes out black.

I 19/F got pregnant at 17 with my now partner M/20. At first are relationship was in honeymoon phase he seemed like the most attractive man on earth, I was madly in love that I despised anyone telling me that it wouldn't last, and I think the same can be said about him. We knew and liked each other since middle school but didn't give a chance till junior year. 1 year and a half into our relation I became pregnant with a beautiful baby girl. Prior to our pregnancy, our relationship was dying, and we were officially never going to talk again, love had died out and arguments were over taking our relationship. When we found I was pregnant he was happy and was very excited to be a father, still is. But our relationship never recovered, and arguments only got worse. We tried leaving each other multiple times but for one reason and another we came back. Now I know me and him aren't meant forever, I don't love him how I did. We argue over house and parenting chores, I feel like he doesn't do enough, and he feels like he does. I don't work since I am in nursing school, but I do plan on working so that "I work" excuse no longer works. I have to be constantly repeating him his chores like the trash, picking up clothes, flushing the toilet, watching our daughter while I clean or cook. And to say the least he does none until I'm practically yelling at him like a mother would. I am a very organized person, and I just can't stand the "I'll do right now" and then forgets, like just do it right now and you won't forget! I am already a mother to a baby that makes less mess than he does, I will not raise another kid. Besides the chores, he leaves me at home all day, we don't go out, he can barely have a conversation with because anything related to me is uninteresting to him, but I have to listen and give advice about his life. I feel lonely and noticed that I have some depression symptoms. The main reason I won't leave is because I DON'T want to live with my parents, I love them, but I just can't live with them. And I don't work to have a home to live in, also his family does help a lot with childcare when I'm in school. I have lost hope in the relation and I'm really only hanging on hoping that I will graduate and start making money to get us a home and leave peacefully. I have brought this up to him multiple times, he thinks I won't leave him, that I love him and will come back, etc. I have 2 1/2 years left of school. I am trying to get a medical certificate to start working but even then, I don't know how much time I will have to school, work, study, be a mom, and be myself as well. But I guess I'm not myself here either so does it matter.

Normally, we’re not together as a family for birthdays because they live in Germany and we live in Canada. This time, however, it’s his father's big 7-0 and we happen to be in Germany for a wedding around that time, making it very easy for us to attend his birthday while we're there. For context, we are a common-law union who have been together for 5 years. A couple of years ago, his dad basically said that he hates my guts. This was a total shock because we had no indication anything was amiss. My partner 100% stood by me and when he pressed his dad about why he hates me, he straight up refused to say. For years now, we have just put up with awkward family gatherings and accepted it won't get better. For the birthday, my partner’s mom is planning a surprise party over the weekend at a lake house. She’s invited my partner, their other son + his wife, and their two small children. I am not invited because she knows her husband hates me even though her and I get along. While I don’t want to be excluded from family events, I understand that it’s his birthday and he should be able to spend it with who he wants. I certainly don’t want to go anywhere I am not invited either. My partner hates how his family is excluding me yet he's not comfortable with missing his father's birthday because if he doesn't go, it could be catastrophic for their relationship. The brother thinks their father would cut my partner out of his life entirely, and we agree that is a real possibility. The man has no friends and he has already cut nearly everyone out of his life, including his sister, his secret daughter who is not a secret anymore (a story of its own), his grandson, his brother-in-laws, his sister-in-law, and his nieces and nephews. The only few who remain are his wife, his two sons and his daughter-in-law. In the scenario where my partner does attend the party, he would be taking a step towards his dad in an attempt to foster their relationship. I would make the most of it and just do touristy things by myself in Germany. My partner wants to think that it would be “just this once”, but you could equally argue that other situations will arise because we didn’t nip this in the bud. In fact, a similar situation is already playing out right now because his parents are looking at flights to come and visit “us”. I must use “us” in quotations because his family has indicated that his father will only come on the condition that there is some time for “just the core family” i.e. excluding me. They didn’t indicate what the specific expectation was in terms of how much time he expects it to just be the 3 of them. Luckily for everyone, they have decided to come when I am out-of-town anyways so they don't have to see me at all. While I am trying to be understanding, it's very difficult. I want to support my partner. He is very loving and we have a wonderful and fulfilling relationship. I don’t want his relationship with his father to go up in smoke, but in principle I think it’s shitty that his family thinks it’s acceptable to exclude me without even telling me what's wrong or giving me a chance to “right” any “wrongdoing” I may have done to make him hate me. If my partner doesn’t go, I can see his family blaming me, but if he does go, he is condoning their treatment of me.

Not to sat my life is terrible. I'm in a lucky position where I'll be buying my grandfathers house soon, which is cool. Right now we're living out of it and using all my spare time to do renovations. Once our current house sells, we'll be buying it. I have a beautiful 3 yo daughter that is super sweet and smart, and my wife is very supportive and loving. The issue is my family. I feel like the longer I go on, the more depressing and hard things get. There's only a couple family members that reach out to me consistently, my grandfather and my aunt. My dad and step-mom pretty much never do, and my step-mom seems to clearly favor her two kids. I know she cares for me, and isn't necessarily mean, but I know she doesn't like my wide, seldom reaches out, and while she interacts we'll with my daughter, seems to be more involved in other family's life. My dad and I seem to be in a similar funk for at least somewhat similar reasons, but I've made the stance that I need him to reach out to me, which he pretty much never does. My mom, after gaslighting my wife and causing a big fight between us, proved my wife right about her by getting in jail for drug related charges, grand theft, and violation of probation. I tried to confront her about it, and she just ignored me, and two weeks after my birthday that she ignored, I saw she was wishing a random guy on FB a happy birthday, so I just dropped her there. No contact since, and she is now back in jail as of Saturday. There's also the matter of my sisters on my mom's side. The older one is autistic, the younger is diabetic. They've both been through so much, and I feel so bad for them. Their father is in the same boat as my mom, though not currently in jail, and we're getting DCF involved, but just like, what the heck man. I can't understand choosing to lose electric in the house, or having a lesser quality of life for my kids, or missing time with them, just because of drugs. And my wife is so great, and she's working a lot more then she was half a year ago because my last job let go of some people, me included, and I'm making significantly less because of it. We're making things work, and my current job is good to me, but this is hard on my wife. Not only is this taking more time from her with our kid, but because of her health issues, this is also very physically hard for her. Once we close on our house, I may have to leave and find a job elsewhere for some more money, And because of what I'm doing with my spare time, I just feel exhausted otherwise. No real time to socialize, and when I am I feel like I'm getting behind on the work we need to get done with the house. And I kind of feel, bad? For feeling so out of it. As I said, I'm not in a terrible position. I'm 25, have a loving family, a house, a job that respects me. Idk. I guess I'm just tired, and really in need of some deeper familial bonds, socializing, etc.
If you read this, thanks for your time. I'm not necessarily asking for advice, I just feel tired and old. Older than I should.

I have been officially dating my boyfriend for 7 months now, it's both of our first relationship. We were on and off for about 2 years before I asked him to be my boyfriend and his history with girls isn't the best as he used to sleep around a lot and he used to sugarcoat to me about his history because "we weren't dating" and he didn't feel like sharing things like that with me. Most of the time he would meet girls in clubs and one time he even made out with a girl right behind me when we went to the club together.
Since we started offcially dating, I stopped going to clubs regularly as I didn't see the attraction for it anymore due to being taken, my boyfriend however would go out 1-2 times a week and I told him that I really didn't like it becasue it would cause a lot of arguments between us and would give me a lot of anxiety due to not fully trusting him. His reasoning for going out was because that's what his friends like to do and it was a way for him to blow off some steam. So he eventually decreased the amount of times he would go out clubbing, but recently it has been going back to once a week.
A while ago, he went on a weekend trip with his friends (guys and girls), and I wasn't too fond of the idea due to not being invited and him telling me that he was going to go clubbing in a new city but who am I to stop him. I was anxious the entire time, checking all his friends stories and just being a bit of a psycho girlfriend but in the end it all seemed okay and I was worried about nothing.
However, just moments ago, I came across a new video from that trip that was uploaded on one the girl's stories, and I saw him at the club dancing with his friends but he was mostly facing away from his friends and into the direction of these two beautiful girls who I've never seen and it just has me overthinking completely. Is that the reason he goes out? To look at or dance with other girls while im not there? This was just a snippet of his time on the trip, what's happening when there's no cameras involved?
It's not the first time i've caught him looking at other girls while officially being with me. One time, we were sitting on the balcony at a house party we went to, just me and him, and this beautiful girl was standing in front of us and I was looking to see if he would stare at her in front of me, and as she was leaving the balcony, his eyes just followed her the whole time until she dissappeared into the crowd. I've also caught him liking other girls pictures on instagram who aren't his close friends and majority of the time it was a seductive picture or a very pretty selfie.
I just don't know if I'm actually a psycho for thinking too much into this and realising all of this or if I should address this issue even more, or if I should trust him at all.
I love him a lot and we have had many conversations about how much we care for each other and he has told me that im the only girl he sees and wants, but I've just seen things that make me question his words and loyalty.
TL;DR: I saw a video of my boyfriend dancing with his friends in a club but he was mostly facing very pretty girls that I've never seen before, and I think he might be disloyal to me when I'm not there.

I haven’t seen my mom in over a year. Recently I called her for her birthday and we spoke for the first time in a year. The call was uncomfortable for the both of us and she is heartbroken that she doesn’t have any connection to me anymore. She doesn’t know where I live she doesn’t know what I do for work who my friends are or who I’m dating: I have decided to share nothing with her about my personal life for the past year and a half. To take some control of the distance my mom blocked my number (I called my father they are still together) which is how she intends to keep it unless I am willing to be “real with her.” I have caused her worst fears to become a reality by falling out of touch with her for the last year. I creep myself out when I say I don’t care but I don’t. I hate my mother and am somehow empowered by the fact that I can take care of myself successfully without having to worry about her. When she spoke on the phone I got so angry. She spoke continuously,no exaggeration, for 20 minutes about how hard her life has been. Of course she can do that, it’s her birthday.
I don’t know I try to look inside for unrefutable empirical evidence which justifies the amount of hatred I have for her. I can’t explain it. I don’t know if anyone who hates their mother can explain it. I don’t actually blame my mother so she didn’t do anything. Does that make sense? I feel like I have agency over the decisions I make when my mother is not in my life. This can actually be supported by evidence. I’ve never gotten a job with my family’s help or relied on them to pay with bills, barring being on their health insurance for a few months. She actually brought that up on the call. I should have known she would use that as evidence of me taking advantage of her, I should have been more persistent in not accepting her offer. I gave in I guess. I think there’s also the fact that I don’t speak to any of my family anymore so if they all have this idea that I’m a terrible daughter I can sort of live with that.
Whats the goal right? She can’t accept when our conversations are light small talk and she doesn’t have the tools to be emotionally supportive. When she has emotionally confided in me I don’t even feel like I’m in the room. I don’t even like her! When we tried to do things together she would just go on her phone or leave the room if she lost interest. Is it just the idea of losing touch with a child?

Hey my dizzy friends, I've been living with 3PD for just a little over a year now. It hasn't been an easy year for sure but I'm slowly improving and finding ways to live with this and stay positive. Over this last year, I've found a few things that have helped me get by so I'd figured I'd share. If anyone has anything they've found that helps them, I'd love to hear it! This will probably be a long list so sorry in advance for any rambling.
First, for the nausea, a lot of the usual home remedies help. Mint and ginger are great helps. I keep gum or ginger candy in my purse so I have something to settle my stomach if I'm on the go. Sprite and ginger ale are nice but I try not to drink too much soda. I do lots of sparkling water and kombucha though. Something about the bubbles helps settle my stomach.
Water. Lots of water. I've got a big cup that I take everywhere with me. If I get dehydrated, it will make me feel worse. I'm on meds for the 3PD and they tend to make me dehydrated if I'm not careful.
Showers can be rough. The heat, the humidity, the repeating pattern of the tiles, and constant head movements. It all adds up and it can be overwhelming at times. Invest in a shower stool or chair if you can. I keep the door open when I'm showering so it doesn't get too stuffy. I also allow myself some time to cool off and lie down during my morning routine. I also put all my shower supplies in a spot where I don't have to turn or bend down too much. I'll probably switch to cooler showers in the summer too.
For food, I like to keep a few easy to make things in my freezer. I do the cooking and meal planning for my house and it's good to keep some easy stuff in case I'm really sick one day and don't want to cook a big meal.
Breathing exercises can help a lot. Deep, slow breaths can relieve a lot of the symptoms. If things are feeling like too much, give yourself the time and patience to take a break and breathe for a few minutes.
Get some sunglasses if you can. It's helped me a ton, especially on drives. And speaking of drives, when you're a passenger, try focusing on things that aren't moving a ton. I generally look at the sky.
This is a weird one, but be careful of any movie from like 2010-2015ish. I swear there are a ton of movies from those years with horrible camera movements. Lots of shaky cam and sweeping shots. My partner and I tried to watch Now You See Me (2013) and we had to turn it off because the cameras were just constantly spinning.
Fresh air helps a ton. I open the windows as much as I can, especially these days when the weather is nicer. My allergies hate it but a bit of fresh air can do wonders.
Patience. This is a big one, that I even struggle with sometimes. You need to be patient and kind to yourself. This disorder can be hard. I was stuck in bed for 7 months, went through test after test after test, and even after the diagnosis and meds, I'm still not back to 100%. But I know I'm moving in the right direction and things are slowly but surely getting better. It can be hard not to keep your spirits up sometimes but just take it one step at a time.
Support. Find people you can talk to about this. I've got a sick buddy that I hang out with on the regular via discord. He doesn't have pppd but he's also chronically ill so we get each other. We have this "everything is on fire and we feel like shit but what else is new? Let's play video games all day" mentality that has helped me a ton. It's good to have a friend that I can joke around with about this stuff.
Like I said, I'd love to hear anyone else's tips! I'm always looking for little things I can do to make my day to day life easier. I've been thinking about getting a dust pan with one of those handles to help make sweeping easier. Or many a shoe rack so I don't have to bend down to get my shoes. Also, does anyone have any tips for exercise? I used to do cycling and yoga before I got sick but neither agree with me very much now.

I've had my balance a week now and there's a few things I love and a few things that could be done better or fixed with software, and I'm sure the amazfit team is working on those but I thought I'd give my 2 cents, I haven't used it for fitness tracking much yet so I can only comment on general software and hardware. Overall I really do love it and it's a massive upgrade from the first Amazfit watch I had (original GTR) and an even bigger upgrade to the terrible watch I had before that was the Ticwatch Pro 3 Ultra (Which died during a swim when it's rated to be able to handle it)
Pros:

• Battery life, my god it's amazing especially coming from a WearOS watch, AOD on with all the smart features can easily pull 7 days, with AOD off I'm sure I can go up to 14
• Build quality is fantastic, the watch itself is quite light and honestly isn't as massive as I expected it to be yet the screen is beautiful and big enough to read, brightness isn't an issue either aside from AOD not reacting to brightness changes outside (Or it seems not to, it's unreadable until I wake the watch up)
• Water resistance, absolutely no issues, have showered with it and swam with it and apart from the speakers getting clogged (Which is normal, there's a function to clear them) there has been no issues here
• The Nylon strap along with the watch itself is super comfortable to wear, the "grey" is more of a dull rose gold, I like it though
• Overall responsiveness is pretty great, the interface isn't quite 60hz smooth but it's much better than some other watches I've had, and there doesn't seem to be much delay, coupled with the insane battery life I'm honestly surprised with the experience
• The sensors do seem quite accurate and don't have any random spikes, only limited testing so far but overall seems pretty good
• Sleep tracking seems quite accurate, happy to see this on an Amazfit watch

Cons/Issues:

• Body composition doesn't seem to be an option in Canada, not sure why, if the Amazfit team could chime in that would be fantastic
• On a similar note to body composition, Zepp Pay isn't an available option either but that makes more sense as to why it's not offered in NA yet
• Camera remote is not available with android, I understand this is a limitation due to how android works but it would be nice to have something available
• Sound is either ON or OFF, there is no options to customize, so for example if I want my alarms to play a sound, then my notifications also will, there's only a "Ring for Alert" option in the sound settings which is systemwide. It'd be nice to have more customization, maybe separate sliders for Alarms and Notifications and whatnot
• AOD Green tint is visible on even built in AOD faces, I know this is an issue that's ongoing but it is still there for me
• When I make/receive a phone call, if I exit the phone call screen (I've done it accidentally), the phone call keeps on going as normal however there's no way to get back to the current ongoing phone call, I have tried checking notifications, and opening the phone app again but it only brings up the "Recents, Top Contacts, Dial" options, no way to go back to the current phone call. How about making it so it appears as a notification or sliding from the top?
• Would be nice if there was a way to reply to notifications natively aside from the quick shortcuts and the voice reply through Zepp Flow, maybe a simple keyboard with swipe functionality, I understand if that's tough to implement though
• The native "Map" has absolutely 0 controls, no touch, not even the crown does anything, although I'm not sure if that's just my device, this isn't really important to me I just found it interesting that it has no controls. Maybe make the crown zoom in/out and touch to pan?
• This is more of a nitpick, but would love to have a watchface with multiple timezones, I often travel and it'd be nice to have some watchfaces with multiple customizable timezones
• Some watch faces such as "Lightning flash" do not respect the selected date format

I'm sure there's more things, but most of what I listed doesn't seem too hard to implement, just some minor improvements, thanks again to the Amazfit team for constantly working on upgrading the software

hi…
my 6th grade class just walked in and asked when the camera is going to be put in my classroom. i had come immmediately from a meeting with the principal where she said she doesn’t want the students bringing chromebooks. I teach pre-K through 8th grade at a catholic school, but only doing technology with second grade and up. I was doing a music production unit and having the younger kids work on chrome music lab and the older kids work on sound trap. It doesn’t make sense to me that administration has no problem using laptops in every class besides mine.
The kids have pointed out how much money the school spends on cameras but they hire specials teachers for cheap through an agency that hires people without education degrees (including me, don’t slander me for that 🙄) instead of paying the money for real educators. The agency is trash and has not assisted me in any way.
nobody, including the principal, said anything to me about the camera until the kids did, although all of the homeroom teachers knew about it. I don’t feel comfortable having a camera in my classroom. If they install one I’m going to have to cover it or just quit. It kind of feels like they want me gone because the kids like me so much that admin thinks I’m just giving them free time. They’re going to be monitoring my every move so that the first minor slip up gives them an excuse to oust me.
Oh yeah, principal also said I shouldn’t be giving the kids coloring sheets (I brought in Beatles coloring sheets today and had a brief lesson on how they were influential to music history). My objective with this is to keep their hands busy and encourage active listening.
Is this weird to anyone else? What should I do? About to write a strongly worded email to both the principal and my agency.

First this is a throw away as others do know my regular ID and although they know the situation with my in-laws there is other info in here they don't and don't need to know. Without making it a novel, I'm essentially NC with my MIL(widowed) and oldest SIL and decent terms with younger SIL and BIL. MIL lived with us for 15 years, squandered away over $150k during that time, moved out about 5 years ago with younger SIL and now lives in low income senior housing. She is a busy body and 2 faced gossip and when she moved out I told my wife I would not live under the same roof with her again, and wife agreed. When we built the in-law apartment in our walkout basement MIL knew the size and layout of the space and still ordered a sectional that was way to big. Skipping all the drama around that, we bought it off of her for over market price a couple years later for newly finished kids game room on the other side of the basement.
Fast forward to today, due to wife having some health issues we decide to sell our forever home and are starting to downsize stuff as our kids are out of the house. So, call a niece to see if her and husband want the still in decent condition sectional in their newly reno'd first home. When they are over looking at it niece comments that Grandma told them since she "gave" it to us she was making sure we gave it to someone in family. I tell niece and husband, she didn't give it us we bought it off of her. Well their youngest, like 4 or 5, chimes in along the lines of, I'm fibbing because G-Grandma said I'm just an asshole that treats Aunt(wife) mean. Niece says nothing to her daughter. So while looking at niece, I told great niece, well I know know your G-Grandma doesn't like my, but she never has a problem sticking her hand out whenever she wants something-like money to buy you presents, what do you think about that?
Then sometime after they take the sectional MIL is visiting niece and it sounded like great niece asked MIL why she sticks her hand out for money to me if she doesn't like me? This happened while younger SIL, niece's mom, was there too and she said thought MIL was going to have a stroke and immediately said she wanted to go home. When she gets home MIL called oldest SIL, who she uses to bully people, and cries to her some BS that I lied to niece and great niece to make them hate her. That is why oldest SIL made the call to me completely ballistic screaming and cursing all this BS. When she was done, after years of taking the high road I lost it and told her what is in the title and if she thinks her mother doesn't talk about her behind her back like she does everyone else, repeating some of the things I have heard her say, she is dumber than she is shallow and self-centered. Well, oldest SIL calls MIL back and goes off on her. MIL calls younger BIL totally hysterical no one loves her and she just wants to go "home to see your daddy."
He calls my wife and between the 2 of them talking to older and younger BIL, piece the whole thing together. Wife comes to me and says, understand telling niece, not happy with what I said to grand niece, but I was AH with what I said to SIL and thinks I should apologize. I told wife FU and this is the hill I'll die on so if you are expecting an apology to get a lawyer while she's waiting. I know I definitely could have handled myself better with conversation with wife and did apologize. She holds firm I was an AH and went overboard in what I said to SIL. I told her no, your mother and sister did what they always do and this time it blew up in their faces, so they got what they deserved. I won't apologize, however if she insists I won't go pi$$ on their graves.
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