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2024.05.07 10:31 Sah29 1 Week Down, Plus day change.
Stats: F33 /
H:5'6 /
HW: 247 /
SW: 236.3 /
CW: 228.1 /
GW: 165 / PCOS /
MJ Start: April 30 2024
Hi all,
This afternoon will officially mark 7 days on the 2.5mg dose of MJ! I have to say, I'm one of the lucky ones I think. I've had no real side effects, bar the odd headache here and there (which I think is probably related to a tense neck more than anything), and maybe some fatigue (but again could just be my hectic life).
All in all, over the course of a week, minus a few hours, I'm weighing in at 228.1 lbs, which means I lost a total of 8.2 lbs in week 1. This is likely ALL water weight to be honest. I had been eating carbs prior to starting MJ, so that means I was holding more water than I would when on a Keto lifestyle. That said, the water weight being gone, I feel less bloated, and water weight or not, it's nice to see a lower number on the scales. It's too early to determine if I'll stay on 2.5mg, or move up to 5mg, but my prescription reorder date opens this weekend, and I'd prefer to order sooner rather than later to avoid ay delays - so I'll be paying extra attention this week to how the 2.5mg is making me feel overall. Stay tuned and here's a bit of a breakdown of my first week on MJ.
Day 1: After my first injection (4:30pm on Tuesday April 30th) I felt nothing, except relief that it was now done and I had managed to administer it properly! I didn't eat the rest of the day but did have a few glasses of water. Slept well. I was working in London the next day (about 200 miles from where I live), and had an early train (5am train).
Day 2: I woke up absolutely fine to catch my train, no fatigue, I had no cravings at all for a croissant, or a snack and when I got into London, I just grabbed a coffee and headed into the office - again, nothing was pulling me to eat. That's a surprise for me, as the days I'm in London (2-3 times a week), I can't even intermittent fast because my day's start so early and finish so late, that I pretty much start eating asap! For lunch, I had a salad with chicken at lunch, and half way through I was quite full. I had to slow down, which is a shock as I hadn't eaten anything yet that day. I did manage to finish the meal, and then, where I would usually want something sweet to perk me up after lunch, I didn't crave it at all. That was really a big eye opener for me. I then had some chicken in the evening around 7pm, and some salad, and a few tablespoons of pesto orzo.
Day 3: Still in London - had a portion of egg bites and a coffee from Starbucks around 10am, and a work lunch at 12:30, barely finished my chicken Caesar salad, and that was all I had for the whole day because I was so full! Still at this point, no side effects.
Day 4: I was knackered this day - Woke up, did the school run, and then came home and I fell asleep around 10am (for 90 mins or so), while working from home without even realising it. I feel that this could be my body's reaction to a lower calorie intake and a fairly high calorie expenditure over the previous 3 days. Food wise, I only felt the want/need to eat later in the day, and aside from a coffee in the morning, I only had a salad with some chicken in the evening.
Day 5: Started my day with a coffee, Saturday's are busy for me as the kids have all of the activities. So had a coffee, did a quick top up Sainsbury's shop, and saw they had Liquid IV that people have been talking about and it's on Nectar price as well, so I grabbed some to try.
Got home around 10:30am, got the kids ready for the activities, refilled my coffee, decaf this time, and then headed out. by the time we got home it was about 5pm, the kids get to order in on Saturdays after their activities and they chose Papa John's (I'm a sucker for pizza). I had ZERO cravings to eat their food, even their crust. Just no cravings to eat it at all. Around the same time I had a salad, with some beef brisket on the side. Later on (around 8pm), I was cleaning out the fridge to prepare for Sunday's weekly food shop, and there was some home made Bolognese pasta sauce left over - maybe about 5 tablespoons worth - I do hate to waste food, and I wasn't bloated or overly full, and so I warmed that up and ate it.
Day 6: I decided that taking the injection is better for me on the weekends. As 72 hours had passed since I had taken my first injection, I took my Second Dose on Sunday morning and will be doing Sunday's from now on. It's my quietest day of the week, and as I do it really early in the morning, it allows me to recover if needed (anticipating potential side effects on other weeks or when I move up to 5mg). I went to do the weekly shop, put it all away, did a tidy, took my daughter to a birthday party, brought her home and then decided to take the kids to go see my cousins and my aunty. They live about 100 miles away, so about 1.5 hours drive. Prior to leaving I had my first food of the day. 2 egg whites some mozzarella, and half a sirloin steak. Made a coffee, drove to my cousins house. I ate very little at their house, a small bowl of palak paneer (approx 5 spoonfuls) - not because I didn't want more, but I physically didn't have space!
Day 7: This day was bank holiday Monday. I ate the same as I did on most of the other days, salad, with protein. 2-3 coffees in the day. I did a whole spring clean of the kitchen - bot sure where the energy came from, but that took a lot of time, and then entertained the kids a bit.
So, my first week has been absolutely fine, luckily. Takeaways:
- No side effects
- bowel movements every day with ease
- drinking more water which can't be a bad thing
- no aversion to any foods (yet) - I drink all my coffees with double cream, fyi.
- calorie intake on a daily basis has been hovering around 1200
- I don't eat carbs (i notice immediate fatigue when I ingest carbs, and I've always tried to stick to a ketogenic diet due to how my body reacts/metabolizes carbs)
- have been wondering if this is ALL MJ, or whether there's a placebo effect whereby because I know I'm taking MJ, I'm making a conscious/subconscious decision to push back any thoughts I might have, of wanting to eat something I shouldn't, or snack, etc. Who knows.
- Have taken measurements of my hips, waist, chest/bust, to keep track - the scales aren't always the way to measure progress!
- Need to get back in to the gym - haven't managed to get in since I took MJ, and for the month prior to starting MJ i was in the gym 2-3 times a week.
Roll on week 2!
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2024.05.07 10:31 Alternative_While162 Potential Relationship With Coworkers Ex-Fiance
My coworker (32M) that I'm quite friendly with recently broke up with his fiance (29F) at the start of this year. They were together for 13 years total and engaged for 1 year. I'm 25M just for the record.
His ex and I started to text a little bit towards the end of last year. It was just friendly and playful at the beginning so I thought nothing of it. However, the volume of texts increased dramatically as the days and weeks went on.
It's safe to say that we got along extremely well. Two personalities just clicked instantly and the conversations were effortless. It remains like that to this day.
The conversations remained friendly and playful until around the 6-8 week mark. I always found her attractive and she didn't particularly think of myself as ugly either so there was a bit of flirting. She wasn't happy in the relationship due to his unwillingness to change his ways and take action on the problems that were constantly getting between them. Apparently this went on for years so in my opinion she was actively looking for a way out. A path to escape the misery.
She confessed she had feelings for me after about 8 weeks of talking non stop pretty much and a bit of flirting. All over text. Whenever we both had free time we couldn't leave each other alone. Again this remains true to this day.
To cut a LONG story short - I've been struck with horrible guilt this whole time. Knowing what the actions I took have led to. I never wanted to get between them, never intended for anything like this to happen. If we didn't start to text then they would likely still be together. But I doubt for long, as she had completely fallen out of love with him.
I told her multiple times before the breakup to not do it based on the hope that she'll end up with me. So I ensured she took me out of the equation completely before making that difficult decision.
Anyway after the breakup happened we continued to talk all day about anything and everything. I didn't have any intent to pursue her romantically because of the bro code and the guilt I felt.
Towards the end of January my coworker text me and gave me his blessing to pursue her romantically if I wanted to. He said he realised they haven't been in love with each other for multiple years. Just staying together out of familiarity and convenience. Living like roommates.
I was in utter shock to hear him say this. Another couple of months went by after he gave me his blessing and I still hadn't met up with her. She was asking me to meet her and proposing ideas pretty regularly but the guilt was still holding me back. Eventually I cracked and we met at her house.
I didn't think there would be much of a spark in person as the communication was all through text and the occasional video call. The first time was a bit awkward but that's to be expected.
Since the first meetup I have been seeing her regularly over the past 8 weeks. Staying over at her house. Sleeping together. Spending hours and hours in each others arms. Talking effortlessly for hours about anything and everything. Laughing. Just really enjoying each others company.
I didn't think much about where it was going. I didn't really consider the possibility of a serious relationship. I was just trying to live in the moment and enjoy the time spent with her. Without thinking about anything else. Completely present.
It has now got to the point where it needs a label. Whatever we're doing, the meetups, the spending hours together. She wants a serious relationship and I'm on the fence. Mainly due to the guilt. I think over the long term the guilt will get the better of me and also the better of the relationship. I can keep pushing it down but for how long?
We do have strong feelings for each other but I'm at a crossroads. Is my guilt bullshit and unwarranted due to the fact that he gave his blessing? I do really like this girl and I've hurt her enough as it is so really want to avoid causing her anymore pain. She just wants me to decide what I want. And I don't want to live to regret whatever decision I make.
Any input would be greatly appreciated đ
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2024.05.07 10:30 KuriousKitty_99 I RUINED my friend's Engagement/Proposal
Not exactly about a wedding but about a proposal I was a part of.
I (31F) was close friends with this girl I met in college, let's call her Karen (32F). Early last year her boyfriend of 4 years, let's call him Richard (32M) told me and my fiance that he was planning to propose to Karen later that year. We were ELATED! She was one of my closest friends at the time so my fiance and I naturally offered to help Richard with the planning process (if he needed it) and even be there in person to coordinate the proposal and help with the venue set-up (only if he wanted us there - I understand that engagements are very personal affairs and anything Richard says goes. It's their day after all) It's also probably good to mention that at this point Karen and Richard are living in a different country all together (Singapore). Richard was grateful and a couple days later he told us that he would really love for us to help out and be there during the proposal.
THE PLANNING STAGE :
Richard and I spent the next few months meticulously planning the proposal. Everything on my end had to be done remotely because we were living in different countries. We went back and forth bouncing ideas and themes and to the best of our knowledge, we finally settled on a venue, decorations, photographer and videographer. The plan was for Richard to propose at an outdoor garden restaurant, with myself and my fiance out of sight so Richard and Karen could have their moment and the 4 of us would have dinner at the restaurant to celebrate after.
Richard also insisted on paying for our hotel accommodation and share of dinner (even though we told him that it wasn't necessary). He insisted and we were extremely grateful for the hospitality.
About a month before the proposal, my fiance was offered a new job in a different state. We took the offer and we had to move. It had been barely a week since we settled into our new home when we had to drop everything and fly to Singapore for the proposal. Chaos aside, everything was set for the big day!
THE DAY BEFORE :
We arrived in Singapore the day before the proposal, when I got a call from Richard that Karen had been retrenched from her job. He mentioned that Karen was sad and we asked him how he wanted to proceed. My fiance and I were perfectly okay if he decided to cancel. We were okay doing our own thing. Richard ultimately decided to go ahead because he felt bad that we had specially flown in and everything had already been paid for. \gulp**
THE PROPOSAL :
IT RAINED. IT POURED LIKE AN ABSOLUTE B*TCH. But rain soon subsided a little, it was still a very lovely proposal. My fiance and I watched from behind the trees IN THE RAIN as Richard got down on one knee and proposed. Karen said "Yes" and despite the circumstances, Karen seemed pleased and my fiance and I were so happy for the both of them.
Because of the move, my finances had taken quite a dip. We moved to a city where things were significantly more expensive (My fiance and I had spent quite a fair bit on rent, utilities and other necessities including our flights to Singapore) but I managed to scrape together a couple of hundreds to buy Karen an engagement gift. It was a pair of earrings that matched the engagement ring Richard had got her. I gave them to her after the proposal was over before we sat down to dinner. The camera crew was packing up at this point, but decided to turn their cameras back on to film this - important for later. The 4 of us sat down to dinner after that and nothing seemed amiss - Boy was I wrong.
THE AFTERMATH :
This is where it gets delulu. A couple days after the proposal I tried to get in touch with Karen to see how she was doing (knowing that she was sad about being retrenched), but I never got a response. Fast forward 6 months later, Karen announces her engagement on her socials except the photos she posts ARE NOT FROM THE ENGAGEMENT my fiance and I attended.
The photos were at the same venue, with the same set-up and similar deco, but with different coloured flowers. Karen and Richard are in different outfits too. Confused, I sent her a message to congratulate her again and asked what had happened. It turns out that Karen was incredibly upset with me and the initial proposal. She hated everything to the point that she asked Richard if they could have a do-over. He obliged. She also expressed that she was in disbelief that I had found a way to single handedly ruin her engagement? By doing the following (Summarized from the ESSAYS she sent me) :
1. I spoke to her insensitively about her retrenchment. I had merely asked if she was doing okay and whether she's entitled to severance pay (I have always worked freelance and I was not sure how corporate layoffs work). She snapped at me when I asked about how severance pay worked.
2. I never asked her how she wanted her proposal to be stating that she wanted it to be just her and Richard when it happened. She apparently also hated the colour of the flowers I chose (and Richard went along with) for the proposal. As far as I know, she doesn't like flowers because she hates watching them wilt (I confronted her about this and she never denied it).
The deco package from the vendor came with different colour themes so we had to pick one. Richard had no clue of what kind of flowers she liked so I chose red roses for the initial proposal (because I thought that the colour would stand out against the evening sunset making for better photographs). We did the best we could.
She had white/light pink flowers for her do-over proposal. Funnily enough, she never cared to elaborate on the fact that Richard didn't know what kind or colour of flowers she liked to begin with.
3. I was disrespectful to both Richard and her by giving her the pair of earrings I had picked out as her engagement gift while the cameras were still rolling? As far as I am aware, the cameramen were packing up when I gave the earrings to her - my fiance confirms this. She said that the focus was supposed to be on her engagement ring and no other piece of jewellery? I have no idea whether me giving Karen the earrings made the final cut of her engagement video but I also made a point to tell Richard to leave my fiance and myself out of the video because the whole celebration was to be about them, but we would have no problem if they wanted to leave us in. So what was the big deal?
4. I took Richard on a ride by making him spend unnecessarily for the proposal. Eg: The decoration, and the accommodation and the dinner for myself and my fiance (which we politely declined but Richard still offered to pay for?) Also, she ultimately felt that it was okay to spend the same amount on a do-over with the exact same set up and decorations? Ma'am?
5. I self-invited myself to her proposal? I'm still confused by this one. I showed her screenshots of Richard wanting us there (Yes I have the receipts) but she's still adamant that he said it out of courtesy because I asked to be there? I beg your pardon? She implied that I wanted to attend her proposal for clout but the funny thing is that Karen and I are really just regular people. I'm hardly active on my socials except when it comes to the occasional meme and her accounts are all private so she only has a handful of people following her.
My fiance also took the effort to reach out to Richard personally to see if he felt the same way, but Richard left him on read. We figure that he must have thrown myself and my fiance under the bus after taking a beatdown from Karen after the proposal happened. Neither one of them never spoke to us again.
Needless to say Karen and I are no longer friends. Up till today I occasionally still try to brain how wanting to do something nice for a friend ended up so delulu but my fiance and I have found a way to laugh about how this got so blown out of proportion.
Also if you're wondering, Karen and Richard tied the knot earlier this year and for someone who doesn't like flowers, she sure had plenty at her wedding. LOL. #prayforrichard
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2024.05.07 10:29 adulting4kids More Emotion Prompts
- Sonder: The protagonist, while people-watching in a crowded city square, experiences a profound sonder moment, realizing the intricate stories of those around them.
- Ănouement: On their 30th birthday, the protagonist reflects on the Ă©nouement of their life, pondering the unexpected twists and turns that led them to this moment.
- Chrysalism: During a cozy thunderstorm, the protagonist finds solace in their home, reveling in the chrysalism of raindrops tapping on the window.
- Monachopsis: Attending a high-society event, the protagonist, feeling out of place, grapples with monachopsis in a sea of unfamiliar faces.
- Liberosis: After a life-changing event, the protagonist embraces liberosis, letting go of trivial concerns and embarking on a minimalist lifestyle.
- Vellichor: Exploring an old, dusty library, the protagonist inhales the vellichor of aged books, each telling a story of bygone eras.
- Anecdoche: In the midst of a lively party, the protagonist engages in an anecdoche, trying to share a personal story amid the chaotic chatter.
- Jouska: The protagonist engages in a silent jouska, rehearsing a conversation with a loved one that they never have the courage to voice.
- Nighthawk: Alone in their thoughts during a sleepless night, the protagonist experiences nighthawk, contemplating the choices that brought them to this insomnia.
- Occhiolism: Gazing at the vast night sky, the protagonist grapples with occhiolism, feeling infinitesimally small in the grand cosmos.
- Lachesism: The protagonist, seeking a thrill, faces lachesism head-on by participating in extreme sports, craving the adrenaline rush.
- Rubatosis: During a moment of anxiety, the protagonist becomes acutely aware of their own heartbeat, experiencing rubatosis in a tense situation.
- Exulansis: Unable to convey a deeply personal experience, the protagonist faces exulansis, resigning to the solitude of their unshared story.
- Sonderlust: Inspired by wanderlust, the protagonist embraces sonderlust, setting off on a journey to explore diverse cultures and connect with strangers.
- Limerence: The protagonist, captivated by someone new, grapples with the intoxicating effects of limerence, navigating the complexities of infatuation.
- Altschmerz: The protagonist, burdened by the weight of recurring issues, confronts altschmerz and seeks a new perspective on long-standing challenges.
- Chiasmus: Engaging in a heated debate, the protagonist skillfully uses chiasmus to convey a powerful argument, leaving their opponent speechless.
- Hiraeth: Visiting their childhood home after years away, the protagonist experiences hiraeth, longing for the simplicity of bygone days.
- Xenization: Immersed in a foreign land, the protagonist grapples with xenization, navigating cultural differences and seeking a sense of belonging.
- Petrichor: Walking through a rejuvenated forest after a rainstorm, the protagonist relishes in the petrichor, a reminder of nature's resilience.
- Ineffable: Confronted with an indescribable beauty, the protagonist struggles with ineffable emotions, unable to capture the experience in words.
- Resfeber: As they prepare for a significant journey, the protagonist feels resfeber, a mix of nervousness and excitement, anticipating the unknown.
- Avenoir: Reflecting on a lost love, the protagonist yearns for avenoir, a glimpse into an alternate future where the relationship flourished.
- Adronitis: Attending a crowded party, the protagonist experiences adronitis, the frustration of struggling to connect with others in the social chaos.
- Chrysoprase: Discovering a hidden gem, the protagonist feels chrysoprase, an unexpected surge of joy and delight in the midst of daily life.
- Fernweh: Looking at a world map, the protagonist succumbs to fernweh, a deep desire to explore distant lands and experience the unknown.
- Zephyr: Standing on a cliff overlooking the ocean, the protagonist feels the gentle zephyr, contemplating the ephemeral nature of life.
- Torschlusspanik: Approaching a significant life milestone, the protagonist grapples with torschlusspanik, fearing the narrowing of opportunities as time passes.
- Cavil: Engaging in a philosophical discussion, the protagonist delights in cavil, exploring nuanced arguments and challenging conventional wisdom.
- Mamihlapinatapai: Locked in a prolonged gaze with a potential romantic interest, the protagonist experiences mamihlapinatapai, the silent communication of mutual desire.
- Nefelibata: The protagonist, lost in creative pursuits, embraces nefelibata, living in the clouds of their imagination and artistic expression.
- Ubuntu: Faced with a communal challenge, the protagonist draws strength from ubuntu, a sense of shared humanity and collective support.
- Boketto: Staring out of a window, the protagonist engages in boketto, lost in contemplation and daydreaming.
- Hygge: Creating a cozy reading nook, the protagonist immerses themselves in hygge, finding comfort and contentment in simple pleasures.
- Amae: Seeking reassurance, the protagonist experiences amae, leaning on loved ones for emotional support and connection.
- Ukiyo: The protagonist, embracing a carefree lifestyle, embodies ukiyo, reveling in the fleeting pleasures of the present moment.
- Sankofa: Confronted with personal growth, the protagonist embraces sankofa, learning from past experiences to shape a brighter future.
- La douleur exquise: Receiving an unrequited love letter, the protagonist grapples with la douleur exquise, the exquisite pain of wanting someone unattainable.
- Mudita: Witnessing a friend's success, the protagonist feels mudita, genuine joy and celebration for the happiness of others.
- Yƫgen: In a moment of deep introspection, the protagonist senses yƫgen, an awareness of profound beauty and mystery in the universe.
- Ikinokori: Surviving a life-threatening situation, the protagonist feels ikinokori, a heightened appreciation for the gift of life.
- Ephemeral: Observing a butterfly's brief existence, the protagonist reflects on the ephemeral nature of beauty and life.
- Thalassophile: Standing on a serene beach, the protagonist embraces their thalassophile nature, finding solace and connection with the sea.
- Psithurism: Camping in a peaceful forest, the protagonist listens to the soothing psithurism of leaves rustling in the wind.
- Obfuscate: Navigating a complex political situation, the protagonist strategically uses obfuscation to protect vital information.
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2024.05.07 10:27 Empyrean19 Being Organized In Movement That Follows A Stalinist/Maoist Line
Hello and good day! This was supposed to be for the serious sub but it's down, so i'll ask it here.
I am a petty-bourgeois student from a third-world country, recently organized (4 months), in the largest militant left movement via the broad and legal national democratic mass organizations (probably can guess where I'm from). You can already tell this is a problem ideologically. To make it quick, I am hopelessly alone in ideological struggles. I am essentially alone being a member of the left opposition. I always try to pinpoint the errors and the unmarxist nature of the Maoist line (semi-feudal, semi-colonial, bureaucrat capitalist, as well as a criticism of a protracted people's war), but they always have a counteexcuse/answer for its' necessity (I'm still relatively fresh when it comes to Marx, that I sometimes resort to Hoxhaist criticism when attacking Maoist theories because it's easier for people to swallow, to my own dismay)
The movement itself has a pretty large and extensive poor, proletarian, peasant and petty-bourgeois mass base within it. I am trying to organize a reading group, but that is still in progress. The question is:
- Do I stay with the movement and try to create a counter-movement among the petty-bourgeois student wing of the movement? Or;
- Should I leave, wait till I work/become a worker, then organize on my own (more daunting).
- (Suggested advise)
I am just blank on what I need to do. I hope comrades can give some advise.
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2024.05.07 10:23 Nony_Mouse Root rot in my beloved Thai constellation đ
| I repotted my Thai, Astrid, a couple of weeks ago. Was originally going to just replace the medium the previous owner had up-potted in (waaaay too moisture-retentive for a deliciosa, let alone a variegated one), but foolishly decided to go total replacement, which was a major mission. I suspect where I screwed up is not giving her roots any time to dry out before repotting and then watering in with nutrient solution đ€Šđ»ââïž Anyhoo, I was kind of giving her the side eye due to a couple of droopy leaves, hoping she was just sulking. Watered at the weekend (I have a Sustee water meter that shows when she's dry enough), annnnd cue floppy leaves đ Removed her from her pot, and my wort nightmare presented itself. Thankfully, she (previously) had a substantial root system, and some has survived. I've cleaned her up, cut back the obvious dodgy bits, and now have her in a 1% hydrogen peroxide solution (1 part 3% h2o2, 2 parts water), and plan to keep her in that for a couple of days at least (changing solution daily). My dilemma is, while I still have roots, I don't know that they are enough to support her, and I'd rather not cut her up if I don't have to đ So, help?! Should I leave her in water with a bit of h2o2 and root nutrients for a bit so she can grow some more roots before I repot? Repot (obviously into a significantly smaller pot due to significantly fewer roots) and watch like a hawk? Open to any and all suggestions and advice for getting her through this, preferably in one piece. NB I live in New Zealand, so it's almost winter đŹ submitted by Nony_Mouse to Monstera [link] [comments] |
2024.05.07 10:23 Icy-Entertainment906 Nauubos na ako dito sa bahay.
I hate my father so much
My biggest shame is that i am my fatherâs son.
I, m17, am now receiving so much work opportunities that gets me money since my father isnât providing for me financially even though we live in the same household because 1. Heâs selfish and 2. Heâs very entitled. He sees himself as a victim since he barely has any money but the truth is he doesnât know how to budget properly and puts his wants over his needs first. Then he complains about life.
While i do get work opportunities, it obviously requires me to be out of the house most days. When i ask for permission to go out, respectfully, while telling him all the deets, he gets ANGRY at me. Like, canât he just calmly say no? He gets so angry that he starts blaming me for his burdens and he tells me that i just love money; that i am selfish. Everything about me makes him angry. Everything i do. I donât sneak out, i dont party, i respect him. But he just doesnât respect me and my efforts. At all. Heâs the best father when it comes to belittling and disrespecting me.
His behavior is costing me my mental health. I know iâm about to leave his roof soon but in the mean time, iâm so depressed and every day that passes by, my hatred for him grows. How do i deal with this????
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2024.05.07 10:22 Upstairs_Union8577 Why $Saru çż will go to over 1 USD per Saru this cycle
| From a TA- perspective and a "old-schooler". Little about me Bought my first full bitcoin back in 2016 and been a part of now (3) cycles. Held onto Litecoin/Eth/ Iota back in the first cycle. GameFi + NFT's in the 2nd cycle. (3rd) cycle. Meme coins. Soo each cycle follow's a "certain narrative" and I've always managed to follow the industry section where the ROI is the highest. (Trends). Soo far in this cycle, meme's are the biggest winners and looks like it'll continue to be meme'season throughout this run. https://dexscreener.com/solana/2b5gvl9u5gxodrxvmzu55gva5ywmqhukpvpzdfg82ams Why $Saru çż? Saru follows the trendline of meme's in addition to having an experienced CTO team in terms of exposure rate. We all know that meme's have no intrinsic value, but that the community buildup + outreach is what gives the "token" a value. The price of Saru went from 6.5k to over 350k within 4 days of the CTO. In that timeframe, they managed to increase the holder rate from less than 40 holders to over 430+. (100+ holders on avg a day). Once the "whales" who got in super-early (first 100) out of the initial blow-up have taken their profits, the floor is going to "stabilise" before new investors/holders are going to enter. Once that happens, I can see $Saru's next upward leg/momentum take them from 110-140k range to easily over 500k+ over night. As people tend to "buy green candles" instead of the "red candles" (Market psycholigy) Even thought red = discount as long as the team is still active, not selling, pushing out new content/memes and improving on the original idea. (Which they have been doing). Remember: The Core CTO team is not quitting even if the price goes down or goes up. Their staying true to their vision and wont leave "their ship". A strong example would be from when it hit 350k+ and dipped to 75k. Core CTO team did not sell a single Saru, but rather doubled down and said "Hey ok, we've had a massive growth since we decided to carry on this project. Let's see who the real one's are and decided to rather "reward" their holders with airdropping them 300 000 Saru (1.5k usd) at the given time. Instead of "selling" these funds to recover potential net losses. Remember, Ponke took over 4 months before it reached 90m+ marketcap. Saru is a little over a week old. Cryptocurrencies/memes dont follow a "straight" line upwards, but rather have a "exponential" growth rate once they start moving forward. /Think 50% then 30% retrace, then another 50% increase, 30% retrace, etc. Before a 300% increase, then a 40-50% retrace. And most meme's follow this type of cycle and repeats itself until ath after ath. We are looking at the next big thing, 2-4 month's ahead of time currently. It's not a matter of questioning \"IF\" it's when. Some bullet-points for $Saru çż Experienced CTO team with the community in focus. Improved on the original artwork and is pushing out more and more content each day. Made a functional game related to Saru (Flappy bird related game) Exchange listing has been confirmed. Marketing funds have been secured. What makes çż Saru Special? Short answer, the community members and holders. Long answer: The unique narrative and branding Saru is following in this meme season. * Airdropping other CTO projects Saru / (Thank you for believing when Dev did not). * Memes + Reward system to the holders. * Blessing unlocks on their webpage (Soon updated). * Their active community engagement from all over the world. https://saruluckymonkey.com/ submitted by Upstairs_Union8577 to SolanaMemeCoins [link] [comments] |
2024.05.07 10:22 Icy-Entertainment906 I hate my father so much
My biggest shame is that i am my fatherâs son.
I, m17, am now receiving so much work opportunities that gets me money since my father isnât providing for me financially even though we live in the same household because 1. Heâs selfish and 2. Heâs very entitled. He sees himself as a victim since he barely has any money but the truth is he doesnât know how to budget properly and puts his wants over his needs first. Then he complains about life.
While i do get work opportunities, it obviously requires me to be out of the house most days. When i ask for permission to go out, respectfully, while telling him all the deets, he gets ANGRY at me. Like, canât he just calmly say no? He gets so angry that he starts blaming me for his burdens and he tells me that i just love money; that i am selfish. Everything about me makes him angry. Everything i do. I donât sneak out, i dont party, i respect him. But he just doesnât respect me and my efforts. At all. Heâs the best father when it comes to belittling and disrespecting me.
His behavior is costing me my mental health. I know iâm about to leave his roof soon but in the mean time, iâm so depressed and every day that passes by, my hatred for him grows. How do i deal with this????
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2024.05.07 10:20 dongl_tron Probationary Periods and Leave
Hey there, I'm currently struggling with my former employer to receive unpaid Superannuation and unpaid annual leave. This has been ongoing for months, but I recently quit my employment with the company as it's on the verge of going bankrupt and liquidating all assets.
In my full time contract, it specifies the following:
Four weeksâ notice will be required by either the company or yourself to terminate the contract of employment. The company may pay you in lieu of notice at its sole discretion. Should you resign and wish to leave the company before completion of the notice period, you agree that the company may deduct from any monies owed to you (from wages and/or accrued leave entitlements) an amount equal to the wages payable for the period of notice not worked.'
I gave 2 weeks' notice. The reasons for this being that I could have potentially lost my job any day then, and I needed to get out.
So, I broke contract here. Sure. However, my full time employment was also changed to part time with zero notice or correspondence. From what I've been told by lawyers, that's absolutely illegal. So the other reason I only did 2 weeks was because, as far as I was concerned, the contract was void. I was never paid Super, never paid my remaining annual leave, not even my regular working hours outlined in the contract were ever honored. Not once.
I was also on a 6 month probationary period, and was on the contract for 4 months (started contract in Jan, quit in April, although I was moved to part time (illegally) in March). Does the 4 weeks outlined in the contract clause override the usual probationary resignation period (which to my understanding is 1 week)? Does it mean my employer gets to withhold my leave?
Just looking for advice here. The wording on this is beyond my understanding. Any further questions, let me know. Thanks!
Thanks!
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2024.05.07 10:19 Icy-Entertainment906 I hate my father so much
My biggest shame is that i am my fatherâs son.
I, m17, am now receiving so much work opportunities that gets me money since my father isnât providing for me financially even though we live in the same household because 1. Heâs selfish and 2. Heâs very entitled. He sees himself as a victim since he barely has any money but the truth is he doesnât know how to budget properly and puts his wants over his needs first. Then he complains about life.
While i do get work opportunities, it obviously requires me to be out of the house most days. When i ask for permission to go out, respectfully, while telling him all the deets, he gets ANGRY at me. Like, canât he just calmly say no? He gets so angry that he starts blaming me for his burdens and he tells me that i just love money; that i am selfish. Everything about me makes him angry. Everything i do. I donât sneak out, i dont party, i respect him. But he just doesnât respect me and my efforts. At all. Heâs the best father when it comes to belittling and disrespecting me.
His behavior is costing me my mental health. I know iâm about to leave his roof soon but in the mean time, iâm so depressed and every day that passes by, my hatred for him grows. How do i deal with this????
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2024.05.07 10:18 notmikaela I donât trust my younger dog
i have two dogs, Roscoe (cocker spaniel x poodle mix, age 13, neutered) and Indiana (Australian Shepherd, age 8, neutered). they both are incredibly healthy and happy dogs you couldnât even tell they are seniors. Weâve had them their whole lives, so no history of abuse or neglect or anything like that.
Roscoe is very much a people dog, he loves attention and getting pet and just being a couch potato with his people. Indiana on the other hand, is a very active boy. he likes to play and run and have a job â very on point for his breed. Roscoe has never been a giant fan of indiana, but he tolerates him. once indy got bigger than roscoe, roscoe decided playing with him was not that fun anymore.
both dogs are really good dogs, but theyâre sentient beings and have autonomy and things happen. except Roscoe is never doing anything annoying or over stepping boundaries with indiana when Indy reacts.
Indy has always been reactive. itâs in his breed, chasing cows/sheep Aussies need that reactivity and aggression. He isnât reactive to adults, smaller female dogs, or female dogs. he is mostly okay with smaller male dogs. but he does react to dogs his size/bigger, and children. Granted, he was never socialized to children as when i got him i was 15, and the youngest in my family. Indiana was pretty socialized with all sorts of dogs from day 1. We used to go to the dog park when he was a puppy (4mo~1year) but have since stopped long ago.
Roscoe could care less if other dogs are around, he finds them annoying. he always ends up on his back whenever any contention arises (except with Indy).
weâve known the boys have issues with resource guarding when it comes to toys/chews so we donât really have dog toys â beside the fact they are DESTORYERS and nothing lasts longer than literally 15 minutes. and if they are given chews, theyâre in separate rooms and canât access the other. we do feed them separately as well as roscoe has always been weird about his bowl and wonât eat if any dogs are around. so indy eats outside and roscoe eats inside.
as of recently, iâve noticed a change in their dynamic. roscoe usually just would keep on his path of direction and not give indiana any mind. but the past week (i moved out a few months ago but am house/pet sitting for my parents), i have noticed that roscoe is very avoidant and wary of Indiana. he wonât go outside if Indy is, he takes a wide berth to stay out of Indianas way. i chalked it up to roscoeâs old age and him being over Indyâs clumsy behavior (he never really learned how big he is and has a habit of almost running roscoe over â for reference Roscoe is ~35 pounds and indiana is ~65/70).
today i came home and discovered Indiana had counter surfed and gotten into my tote bag. it had some granola bar and fruit snacks in it, to which he ate. as i was cleaning it up, roscoe appeared from another room and came to see what was going on. as their owner, i should have predicted my dogs better and placed Indy outside. but i decided to trust him as when i drop things in the kitchen and roscoe races to get it, indy doesnât ever care. instead, Indiana was across the room when he saw Roscoe. he calmly walked over, and then went after him.
No warning, no growling, nothing. itâs always been like that when Indy reacts. it is so instant and unpredictable. except this time was different. Indiana normally stops the second you get a hand on his collar and yell his name, but this time he did not let up. i was trying to pull him off but to no avail was he letting up. I know this is the worst way to break up a fight but with adrenaline and never being in this situation with my own dogs, i put my hand in the middle of the two to pry indys jaw off roscoe. yes i ended up getting bit in the process but it worked.
as i was leading indiana away from roscoe, he did something he never has done. he tried to lunge at roscoe again. and it took some holding back as i directed him outside. yes, roscoe is perfectly okay. a little shaken up and mistrusting of indy since the incident but he is physically fine. i am also fine.
i texted my parents to ask them if indy has been a little more aggressive recently, and my dad mentioned their diet change and he might be hungry. considering roscoe was vacuuming up the crumbs, maybe itâs resource guarding. we decided to try and double their portions since 1) maybe the company is wrong and 2) we donât need hungry dogs! (Switched from Dr Timâs Weight Management, to Sundays food for dogs, indy on the beef recipe and roscoe on the chicken due to an allergy).
Today really struck me for some reason. i am very upset. i love these dogs with everything in me, theyâre my childhood dogs. My family is growing. my sister is going to come live with my parents as her husband is enlisting and she has a baby. she is bringing their male dog, Frank, with. If it came down to Indy or the kids⊠we all know the answer. and i do not want to deal with that, and neither do my parents. we would all like to avoid that route and have preventative measures.
Indy likes babies but toddlers he is wary around â i think itâs fear aggression and the fact that they are at eye level. i know to never fully trust a dog around a small child but i need him to at least learn to give some warning. âleave him outsideâ âkeep him separate,â he is a social animal. we know he is anxious and a âvelcro dogâ those feel like bandaids over a deeper wound.
i have tried every route. my parents have a farm, he has lots of space to run, my dad plays fetch with him daily, getting him tired out, my mom walks him in the morning. he has free range of the farm as it is completely enclosed. heâs been through 4 levels of training classes. he always knows after incidents that he was naughty, but i know his reaction of avoidance and showing his stomach are fear based. we normally tell him he was naughty and take him outside while we fix whatever mess was made. heâs welcomed back in after a little and we go back to normal.
he isnt food reactive with people, you could put your whole hand in his food bowl while heâs eating and heâd move around you. he also doesnt resource guard with people about anything. ever since my parents moved here his reactivity on the leash is none existent, and he walks so much better. we chopped it up to aging.
what can i do? how can i get him to be more trustworthy/less reactive? could something else be going on? does anyone have anything experience with something similar?
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2024.05.07 10:16 MoonlitCommissar From âSpecialâ to âMilitaryâ. Lessons from Two Years of the Operation in Ukraine
| https://preview.redd.it/fob0an3qpyyc1.png?width=260&format=png&auto=webp&s=eae9d65f69004e49765ee0156b86b77504a1a25c Failed âOperation Danubeâ We can retrospectively conclude that Russia initially planned an operation that was primarily âspecialâ and only secondarily âmilitary,â as it intended to achieve its goals without large-scale hostilities or organized armed resistance. Future historians will have to explain why Moscow considered this feasible, even though the Ukrainian army had been waging a continuous âminorâ war in Donbass since 2014. The initial SMO plan is actually quite familiar, as it copied Operation Danube, the 1968 Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia. Analogously, the SMO envisaged the capture of Kievâs airport, the deployment of paratroopers there to seal off the Ukrainian capital, and rapid advances of numerous armored and mechanized units to surround major cities, which would then be quickly pacified by light units, special forces, and intelligence services. But Operation Danube and the February 2022 campaign differ not only in the strong resistance that the Ukrainian political leadership and armed forces put up. Operation Danube was carried out by a powerful group of Warsaw Pact forces that vastly outnumbered the Czechoslovak army, while the SMO was conducted in a country much larger than Czechoslovakia, using a limited contingent of about 185,000 troops (although this included most of the Russian Ground and Airborne Forces), or about 140 battalion tactical groups (BTG). Even including the Donetsk and Lugansk Peopleâs Militias (about 110,000 more personnel), this force was still outnumbered by the Ukrainians, already partially mobilized. The mobilization of first-category reservists, which began in Ukraine the day before the start of the SMO, summonedâwithin just several daysâ150,000 servicemen with combat experience in Donbass and filled the ranks of the key first-line brigades, thus tipping the balance and putting Russia at a complete disadvantage. In such conditions, the outcome of the first stage of the SMO was determined solely by the balance of forces. The Russian troops, spread over eight different axes of attack, were quickly stopped and forced to fight a numerically superior enemy. In the north, moving from Belarus through the Pripyat swamps and from Russia through the Sumy and Chernigov Regions of Ukraine, the main assault groups reached Kiev, but could neither surround (let alone occupy) it, nor protect their overstretched lines of communication. The landing at Gostomel Airport, facing fierce resistance and heavy shelling, turned from a bridgehead into a bloodbath. In the Kharkov region, the Russian troops were stopped both at the cityâs approaches and on the nearby border. Attempts, by hastily mobilized and insufficiently equipped DPR and LPR forces, to eject Ukrainian troops from the lines where they had been entrenched since 2014, proved futile. The inability to suppress Ukrainian air defenses dramatically limited the effectiveness of Russian aviation , depriving Russia of one of its key advantages. Success was achieved only in the south, apparently due to Russiaâs sleeper-agents and supporters among the local population. Meeting minimal resistance, Russian troops from Crimea seized the Kherson and southern Zaporozhye regions within several days, reached Mariupol in the east, and pressed the advance towards Nikolayev and, bypassing it in the north, towards Odessa. However, the Russian troops failed to take control of these two main cities on the Black Sea. Landing ships manned with marines, brought together from Russiaâs three European fleets, were stopped by mines and âunexpectedâ Ukrainian-made Neptune antiship missiles. On land, Ukrainian troops quickly recovered and stopped the Russians (which had owed their success mainly to surprise) at Nikolaev and Voznesensk, and by mid-March pushed them back to the borders of the Kherson and Nikolayev Regions. Russia found itself in a state of large-scale war on a long front line, facing a quantitatively superior and well-armed enemy that was assisted by all the Western powers, which imposed unprecedented economic sanctions on Russia and began providing massive and ever-greater arms supplies to Ukraine. From the very beginning, the biggest challenge was Kiev, where Russian troops from two military districts ended up in a wooded and swampy area without clear prospects for their effective employment, but under constant threat to their lines of communication, which ran along forest roads through the Sumy and Chernigov Regions that were functionally controlled by Kiev. There were not enough troops to capture Kiev, or even encircle and besiege it. Overall, it was only the extreme slowness and lack of initiative of Ukraineâs commanders and military in general that prevented the situation from turning into a severe crisis for the Russian side. If they had confronted a more energetic adversary, the Russian troops near Kiev would have faced a repeat of the 1920 Battle of Warsaw. Recognizing the situation, the Russian command ordered a pullout of the troops from around Kiev in mid-March 2022, and by April 5, they were out of the Kiev, Sumy, Chernigov, and northern Kharkov Regions. This was essentially the end of the campaign to achieve decisive victory, since its main goal was obviously the capture of Kiev. Naturally, at the peace talks in Istanbul, the Russian delegation presented the withdrawal of the troops from around Kiev and from the north of Ukraine as an âact of goodwill.â Apparently, it was this âact,â rather than Boris Johnsonâs intrigues, that led to the failure of the Istanbul talks. An armyâs retreat from the enemyâs capital has never facilitated a compromise peace. Kiev considered the withdrawal a triumph of its policy of resistance and a turning point, thinking that it could drive the Russian troops completely out of the country. This was accompanied by massive Western political and military support that reached its peak in the spring of 2022. On May 9, 2022, the U.S. Congress even passed a Lend-Lease act for Ukraine, which theoretically gave Kiev access to unlimited U.S. military aid. The West came to believe that a combination of military and economic measures could inflict a âstrategic defeatâ on Russia, which, under favorable conditions, could lead to regime change in Moscow. After an unsuccessful attempt at a compromise to end the war and a number of painful blows (e.g., on April 13-14, the Black Sea Fleet flagship, the missile cruiser Moskva, was sunk), Russia could do nothing but continue the military campaign, rethinking its goals and capabilities. As far as can be judged, the new plan provided for using the troops pulled out from the north of Ukraine to liberate the entire territory of the DPR and LPR and, possibly, partially encircle the enemy in left-bank Ukraine. Presumably, Moscow thought it could attain these goals by May or June. The Russian offensive in the Izyum area, started in mid-March, was stepped up in April. The initial plan was seemingly to reach the rear of the Ukrainian Severodonetsk grouping, via Slavyansk, and then press on with a more ambitious and large-scale offensive towards Zaporozhye, to be met by Russian forces in the south. Subsequently, offensive operations began in several more parts of Kharkov Region and the LPR. However, the Russian forces faced a severe shortage of manpower and materiel. After the withdrawal of part of the battalion tactical groups for replenishment in Russia, in mid-April 2022, its armed forces had no more than a hundred depleted BTGs on the entire length of the front line, while BTGs were redeployed from the north piecemeal, which could not provide sufficient strength. Meanwhile, Ukraine launched its third wave of mobilization in March 2022 to call up the graduates of reserve-officer training departments at universities and men who had not previously served In the army, thus bringing the overall strength of its armed forces to 400,000 troops by mid-April, not counting those already in training, and to 600,000 by the end of May. Ukrainian forces thus came to substantially outnumber the combined Russian, DPR, LPR, and PMC forces, now carrying out an offensive against an even more numerically superior enemy. The battle of Mariupol, from 2 March to 16 May 2022, was an important factor in the first stage of hostilities. The siege of the city became a harbinger of the future positional nature of the war and tied up the 30,000-strong group of âallied forces,â largely preventing Russia from building on its success in the south or advancing near Donetsk. The Russian offensive near Izyum was also slow and difficult due to the lack of numerical superiority. Instead of being encircled, the enemy was merely forced to retreat at the tactical level. In early May 2022, the Russian forces ran into serious difficulties and sustained losses as they tried to cross the Seversky Donets near Belogorovka, at which point it became clear that âtraditionalâ methods of massing forces did not work in this war. By July 2022, after the seizure of Lisichansk, the Russian offensive had run out of steam. Almost the entire territory of the LPR and the eastern part of the Kharkov Region were held by the Russian troops, but Ukraine still controlled most of the DPR. The Russian troops could not even reach Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. The campaign had worn out the Russian force, which was basically the same contingent that entered Ukraine in February 2022, while Ukraine had commenced âpermanent mobilization,â reinforcing its numerical superiority. The Path to Positional Warfare By the end of spring and the beginning of summer 2022, the supply of Western weapons and equipment to Ukraine had become a determining factor in the ongoing hostilities. From the very beginning, the Westâs immense intelligence capabilities were put to the service of the Ukrainian armed forces, giving them the upper hand in intelligence and targeting, particularly thanks to space reconnaissance conducted by a constellation of Western spy satellites and numerous commercial Western companies providing satellite imagery. This permits monitoring of the combat zone and Russian territory continuously, and almost in real time. The âuniversalâ Starlink satellite Internet service, launched by Elon Muskâs SpaceX, quickly became a key combat control and data transmission system for the Ukrainian armed forces, propelling them into the 21st century. With the ability to operate anywhere, distribute streaming content to a huge number of individual consumers, maintain Internet communication in motion, and control vehicles at any distance, Starlink has given the Ukrainian army opportunities that even the U.S. military expected to receive no earlier than the mid-2030s. Starlink makes it possible to connect any unit to the network anywhere, exchange streaming videos online, create combat chat rooms and other systems for the exchange of data between thousands of subscribers in real time, ensure communication security due to the use of narrowband channels linked to the satellites, and employ wireless network protocols for tactical communication at each access point. In fact, every combat unit and every weapon connected to Starlink turns into a network-centric one capable of real-time target designation, guidance, and adjustment, similar to high-precision weapons. Modern 155mm long-range artillery systems, and HIMARS and MLRS rocket launchers firing high-precision GMLRS rockets with a range of up to 90 km (which began to be empoyed in late June 2022), combined with the aforementioned reconnaissance and targeting systems and with network-centric communications, management, and data transmission capabilities, allowed Ukraine in the second half of 2022 to gain fire superiority and deliver high-precision long-range strikes, significantly worsening the Russian position. The use of HIMARS systems and GMLRS rockets in the summer of 2022 targeted not so much military headquarters and ammunition dumps as troops and reserves. The Russian command had to pull its reserves back, even beyond the pre-2022 line of control. Russiaâs manpower shortage and Ukraineâs numerical superiority ensured the success of Ukraineâs offensive in the Kharkov Region in September 2022. Unable to quickly and effectively commit withdrawn reserves into battle, Russian troops left the eastern part of the Kharkov Region and built a line of defense on the western border of the LPR, which stopped the Ukrainian foray and formed the main front line in the north that exists to this day. Ukraineâs first real military success made Russia aware of the fact that its forces did not match the enemyâs capabilities. As a result, on 21 September 2022, the Russian leadership, for the first time in the post-Soviet period, announced a partial mobilization, calling up more than 300,000 men and authorizing the expansion of Wagner PMC, which became a de facto parallel army with 50,000 fighters by January 2023, partially due to the mass recruitment of prisoners. All these measures began to have an effect only by the end of 2022. Until then, Russian troops were stretched out along a âthin red line.â In the fall of 2022, at the peak of its manpower and materiel advantage, Ukraine had a unique chance to inflict a number of significant defeats on Russia, with potentially massive political consequences. Ukraine could have either continued its offensive in the LPR, or attempted to make a breakthrough from Zaporozhye to the Sea of Azov in the south, cutting off Russian forces in the Kherson Region and reaching the northern part of Crimea. It is unclear why Kiev discarded such an attractive opportunity. Was it the procrastination of the passive and cautious Ukrainian commander-in-chief, Valery Zaluzhny, or, as some newer reports suggest, the result of pressure from the Americans, who were skeptical about the Ukrainian armyâs ability to carry out such large-scale operations? Instead of a decisive offensive, the Ukrainian army opted to pursue the more limited, but politically more rewarding, task of driving Russian forces from Kherson, the only Ukrainian regional capital that Russia had taken at the beginning of the SMO. Russian troops on the western bank of the lower Dnieper were supplied via several bridges, which were hit with high-precision GMLRS rockets. However, attacks on Russian positions north of Kherson in September-November 2022 turned out to be ineffective, entailing significant Ukrainian casualties and becoming the first large-scale demonstration of the positional impasse that would fully manifest itself the following year. Nevertheless, the missile strikes on the trans-Dniper bridges had their intended effect. Fearing a crisis of supply, General of the Army Sergei Surovikin, appointed in October as commander of the Combined Russian Force in Ukraine, on 9 November ordered his troops to leave Kherson city and the right bank of the Dnieper. The pullout was highly organized, stealthy, and completed within two days, almost without casualties. For Ukraine, the retaking of Kherson, without having to engage in urban warfare, was a major military and political success that sharply raised its standing in the West. Western powers decided that if Ukraine were offered large-scale military aid, it would itself be able to expel the Russian troops, at least to the pre-war borders. At the end of 2022, the West ramped up military supplies to Ukraine, for the first time shipping tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. A training program was set up in the West for 12 Ukrainian brigades. Having received major replenishments of manpower and materiel, the Ukrainian command began a large-scale buildup of the militaryâs capabilities and manpower, including the creation of new units. By the spring of 2023, the Ukrainian Defense Forces (the armed forces and other security agencies) had more than one million personnel and over a hundred brigades. After partial mobilization and after increasing the flow of contract soldiers, the Russian command also reinforced units at the front and began forming new ones, announcing plans to bring the armed forces to a size of 1.5 million. Apparently, relying on the winter 2022-2023 mobilization, Moscow oscillated between an âoptimistic-offensiveâ and a âcautious-defensiveâ strategy in Ukraine. The âoptimistic-offensiveâ strategy was tested during the offensive in the Soledar-Bakhmut axis (since November 2022), with Wagner PMC as the main assault force. On 10 January 2023, Russian troops took Soledar, followed by Bakhmut on 20 May after fierce fighting. The Russian offensive, which stretched over almost six months, entailed heavy fighting, minor territorial gains, and the almost complete destruction of any cities taken. This demonstrated the new nature of the war, which was becoming increasingly positional. In late winter and early spring 2023, Russian troops tried a number of local offensives in Donbass near Donetsk, in Maryinka and Ugledar, but these resulted in stubborn positional fighting with insignificant results or (as in Ugledar) outright failure. All this led the Russian command to the final and most rational choice in favor of positional defense. In early spring 2023, Russian troops started building a network of field positions and fortifications, dubbed the âSurovikin line,â while at the same time augmenting reserves. Large salaries would help to reinforce the front with 420,000 contract soldiers within a year. Ukraine Loses Its Last Chance By the beginning of 2023, Ukraine had, in principle, a high chance of a successful offensive, as Russian forces on the ground were short of not only personnel (mobilization was just beginning to take effect) but also weapons. In the summer and fall of 2022, Russia began utilizing outdated tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery systemsâincluding those made in the 1950-1960s, which had miraculously survived the turmoil of the post-Soviet times and been kept at storage basesâbut this did not help much. According to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency files sensationally leaked through the Discord social network in the middle of last year, as of 28 February 2023, Russia had 419 tanks, 2,928 armored vehicles, and 1,209 artillery systems on the line of engagement. The Ukrainian army had 809 tanks, 3,498 armored vehicles, and 2,331 artillery systems. The Russian troops also experienced a serious shortage of ammunition. So the first three months of 2023 were the time when the Ukrainian army enjoyed the best possible advantages on the ground, while the Russian army suffered the greatest decline in combat potential. However, the Ukrainian leadership constantly postponed the start of the offensive, expecting to get as many Western weapons as possible and waiting for new brigades to complete their training in the West. Meanwhile, the other side did not sit idly, and the balance began to shift. But the magic of Western technology and âWestern methodsâ was so strong that it imbued Ukrainians with a sense of self-confidence and disdain for the enemy. March, April, and May passed, and only in June did Ukrainian forces finally start moving. Although many expected the Ukrainian army (or, rather, its Western planners) to use some non-standard and creative solutions, on 4 June, the Ukrainian command launched an offensive in the most obvious direction that promised the greatest operational-strategic successâfrom Zaporozhye to the Sea of Azov in the southâwhere the Russian positions were the strongest. The decision to divide the Ukrainian thrust between two directionsâOrekhovo, generally towards Melitopol, and Vremievka, generally towards Temryuk and Berdyanskâis understanable. But at the same time, the Ukrainian army began to advance in a third direction, trying to retake Bakhmut in the north. The onslaught in the north involved some of the most seasoned troops, while the operation in the south was carried out by newly formed brigades trained in the West. Why the forces were dispersed between the main southern front and Bakhmut remained unclear both to observers and, judging by American media reports, Pentagon supervisors. The Ukrainian command had concocted a brew of slow preparation (thus forgoing the possibility of operational or strategic surprise), dispersed forces, and disdain for the enemy. In theory, tactical success on the front line could have compensated for all of this, but that did not work out, either. Positional warfare fully manifested itself, as the attacking columns and formations of Ukrainian armored vehicles hit mines, piled up, and turned into easy targets for ATGMs, artillery, and drones. Although the Ukrainians had the upper hand due to Western reconnaissance, targeting assistance, and high-precision weapons, they failed to achieve effective fire superiority and suppress Russian artillery where they were advancing. As a result, the Ukrainian offensive in the south degraded into the slow and bloody nibbling of Russian positions. So in the second half of June, Ukrainian troops no longer relied on the much touted Western armor and switched to infantry assault operations in small units. In the Orekhovo direction, the village of Rabotino (meant to be taken on the first day of the offensive) was captured only by the end of August. In September, the Ukrainian troops gained another couple kilometers southeast of Rabotino, but this is when their offensive finally ran out of steam. To the east, in the Vremievka direction, the Ukrainians, in June, were able to eliminate the Vremievsky salient, which protruded several kilometers into their positions, but in the following three months they could move farther south by no more than 2-3 km. By the end of summer, after fierce fighting, the Ukrainian troops pushed the front line several kilometers farther south of Bakhmut, but there was no question of encircling, let alone taking, the city. Contrary to popular belief, the notorious âSurovikin lineâ played almost no role in repelling the Ukrainian attacks in the south, as these simply did not reach it, except in one stretch southeast of Rabotino. Internal political turmoil in Russia, long-awaited by Kiev, did not help it either. The Wagner PMC rebellion on 23-24 June, senselessly launched by leaders who apparently did not entirely understand what they wanted to achieve, quickly fizzled out. As usual in such cases, this consolidated and strengthened the position of the Russian authorities. The summer offensiveâs failure signified a fundamental military-political crisis for Ukraine, and underscored the absence of real means and resources for military victory over Russia. It is precisely the understanding of this reality that has caused Western hesitation regarding the volume of future military aid. If the 2022 campaign had given Kiev a huge surplus of confidence from the West, then the 2023 campaign largely eliminated that confidence. Even with new large-scale Western military supplies, the correlation of forces that was so uniquely favorable to Ukraine in 2022-2023 will never occur again. The final operations of Ukraineâs 2023 offensiveâseemingly undertaken in pursuit of at least some sort of success to show the Westâinvolved a number of small groups landing on the left bank of the lower Dnieper in September and October to set up several small bridgeheads. But these bridgeheads (the biggest of which was in Krynki) were dead ends from an operational point of view as they reproduced the trench warfare that had already paralyzed the rest of the front. At a Dead End Another aspect of the failed Ukrainian offensive in the summer of 2023 was its inability to grind down and exhaust Russian forces. The Russian military retained its main forces and reserves, which permitted a shift to active operations on the front. In early July 2023, Russian troops started an offensive in the Kupyansk direction in the north, trying to recapture part of the territories lost in September 2022. They did not achieve much, but as the Ukrainian offensive died down, Russian forces launched a series of attacks along almost the entire front line in the fall of 2023, quickly depriving the Ukrainian army of the initiative and forcing it onto the defensive. The most important Russian offensive operation since the beginning of October 2023 aimed at Avdeyevka, a north-western suburb of Donetsk, which had been firmly held by the Ukrainian troops since 2014. But even the offensiveâs success, and the ongoing Russian attacks in various areas, confirm the lack of capabilities to decisively overcome positional warfare. Nevertheless, Russian troops keep pushing against the Ukrainian positions along almost the entire line of contact, creating tactical crises for the Ukrainian army in a number of directions. Apparently, the âmultiple cutsâ strategy is designed to wear out the Ukrainian troops and create the prerequisites for destabilizing the Ukrainian front and achieving more significant successes. However, this strategy is quite costly for Russia in terms of casualties and resources and could overstrain its army, which would once again allow Ukraine to somewhat regain the initiative, which is probably now what Kievâs calculations are based on. Deeply entrenched and lacking strength, both sides are doomed to a positional war in 2024 and perhaps beyond. As the past year showed, they are unable to convert tactical successes into operational ones. Currently, the Russian armed forces hold the initiative along almost the entire front line, and the Ukrainian army has gone on the strategic defensive. Thus far, the Ukrainian armed forces defensive tactics have been quite effective, preventing Russian troops from achieving anything more than disconnected tactical successes. Ukrainian troops also retain significant reserves of materiel, including the bulk of the Western heavy weapons received in 2023, and are awaiting Western F-16 fighters. At the same time, uncertainty about further volumes of military aid (primarily from the United States) does not allow Kiev to make clear campaign plans for 2024, forcing it into a wait-and-see position. The main problem for the Ukrainian armed forces is not so much the lack of weapons and ammunition, as it is the reluctance of the Ukrainian leadership to start a full-scale mobilization to call up males under the age of 25 (currently persons over 30 years of age are subject to mobilization) for political reasons. The potential of the Russian armed forces in 2024 will also largely be determined by the readiness of the countryâs leadership to announce a new mobilization since the flow of contract soldiers is running out. By the beginning of 2024, both sides apparently had a comparable number of troops on the ground. Russian President Vladimir Putin said more than 600,000 troops were in the SMO zone, but Ukrainian and Western estimates claim that about 400,000-450,000 are stationed directly on the line of engagement. Ukrainian official sources estimated the numerical strength of the so-called Ukrainian defense forces by the end of 2023 at about 1.1 million, including up to 800,000 army personnel. Apparently, the number of Ukrainian fighters on the front line was comparable to those cited for Russia. In general, as far as can be judged, the ground forces on both sides are at a similar or comparable level in terms of organization, armament, training, command staff, culture, morale, etc., reinforcing Vladimir Putinâs characterization of Russians and Ukrainians as âone people.â Immediate Prospects Both warring parties, and the West, are not ready for a peaceful settlement. The current military-political situation is similar to the positional period in the 1951-1953 Korean War, an outcome that the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies predicted in notes and comments on a possible Russian-Ukrainian conflict back in 2021 and early 2022. The positional deadlock can be overcome either through a dramatic military buildup to achieve overwhelming numerical superiority over the enemy, or through a military-technical advantage that can be gained primarily by significantly increasing the number of high-precision weapons and enhancing their effectiveness. Neither seems attainable for both sides in the near future. This makes a protracted war inevitable, with relatively stable fronts as in the Korean or Iran-Iraq war. It will be a war of attrition lasting for years, not with the aim of forcing the enemy to compromise, but in the hope that domestic political change will force the other side to change its goals. The end of the Korean War in 1953, even on status-quo conditions, became possible only after Joseph Stalinâs death. Therefore, for Ukraine and the West, a condition for change is Vladimir Putinâs departure from power in one form or another (which is extremely unlikely in the foreseeable future), while the Russian leadership probably pins hopes on a possible change of power in the United States after elections in November 2024. So Moscow most likely intends to continue fighting at least until 2025, and possibly after that, in hope of achieving overwhelming military superiority over Ukraine. The failure of the Ukrainian offensive in 2023 left Ukraine and the West without a coherent war strategy. The unspoken objective of that offensive was to provoke an internal political crisis or even regime change in Russia. Essentially, in the spring of 2022, Ukraine and the West gambled everything on a jackpot that they did not win, and now they do not know what to do next. For Ukraine and the West, it is essentially a choice between two options: to continue the âwar against Putinâ for a long time with unclear prospects and the constant threat of escalation, or to conclude a status-quo truce similar to that in Korea. Both options, in fact, imply postponing a real peace settlement until the post-Putin era in hopes of âmore realistic leadership in Moscowâ. In the meantime, Vladimir Zelensky, most of the Ukrainian elites, and the West reject the Korean scenario. This means that the parties intend to âgive war another chanceâ in 2024, and continue positional warfareâs stress-test of their strength, resources, and political will. Faced with an impasse on the front lines and seeking to exert political pressure on the enemy, the sides will pay more attention to politically sensitive and propagandistically meaningful attacks on each otherâs rears, increasingly sliding into a âwar of the citiesâ as was the case during the Iran-Iraq conflict. This trend is clearly noticeable on the Ukrainian side, with its constant demands for Western long-range weapons. Therefore civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure can be expected to increase. Russia has significant resources, but merely by escalating the production and repair of obsolete tanks, artillery systems, and shells, Russia will not achieve military success. Rather, it will only drag out the conflict while devouring colossal amounts of national wealth for many years to come, with the eventual negative socioeconomic and domestic political consequences. A breakthrough can be achieved only if Russia supplies its armed forces with modern (primarily high-precision and/or unmanned) weaponry and with reconnaissance, targeting, and electronic warfare systems. This is a non-trivial task from both the technological and military-industrial point of view. Russia is unlikely to succeed using inexpensive and palliative political, military, and industrial solutions. The system will have to complete the radical âstress testâ that began on 24 February 2022. https://preview.redd.it/lkaz0441ryyc1.png?width=266&format=png&auto=webp&s=0716e142b0f1744ec8920748acc2b4e975c6c04e Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies submitted by MoonlitCommissar to ZhdanovDoctrine [link] [comments] |
2024.05.07 10:13 Jazzlike-Appeal-6152 "Already have an evolution version of this player" error
Hi all,
Since TOTS Attacker plus came out a couple days ago, I tried to submit my 85 evo Noni Madueke (Budding Starlet) into the evo which would become 93 rated card that'd fit nicely into my Chelsea team. However, it could not be submitted into the evo on both Webapp and console. it said that I already have an evolution version of this card or something like that.
As I was so desperate to get him for my Chelsea team, I tried to quicksell and recover him in hope that it would fix the bug. However, once I recovered my 85 evo Noni Madueke card it became duplicate. So now, 1. I cannot evo the card that fit into the requirement 2. My card became duplicate for no reason and 3. I cannot access store to keep grinding during TOTS.
In order to fix this, I tried many ways to access the EA support live chat, it took me a day to finally got there and I had to be on the waiting queue for about 30 mins.
Below are the conversation between me and the support in the live chat. Hope this help anyone trying to cope with this problem. (the transcript actually cut short cause the support just left the chat at the end so I couldnot download the full transcript). Also, sorry for my English skill.
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:02:45 AM): By continuing, you consent to the monitoring and storing of this conversation, including with an EA vendor, subject to the terms of EAâs User Agreement [
https://www.ea.com/legal/user-agreement ] and Privacy and Cookie Policy [
https://www.ea.com/legal/privacy-and-cookie-policy ].
Thank you for contacting EA HELP, my name is Harsh, may I start with your first name please?
Me (5/7/2024, 12:03:03 AM): Hi I'm Mike
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:03:10 AM): Hello, nice to meet you Mike, hope you're doing well. How may I help you today?
Me (5/7/2024, 12:03:33 AM): I have a problem with one particular card
it was my 85 Noni Madueke (Budding Starlet Evolution)
I tried to submit the card into the TOTS Attacker Plus yesterday, but it said that I already have an evolution version of this player
However, I have only put common gold Noni Madueke into one Evolution and completed the evo.
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:05:30 AM): Alright, as I can see your concern is regarding Error When Attempting To Start New Evolutions, Is this correct?
Me (5/7/2024, 12:06:07 AM): Then, I quicksold the card as I saw on the internet that it might help if I quicksold and recovered it
Though, once I recovered the card, it became duplicate and I cannot store it into my club
so, in conclusion, my problems are 1 I cannot out a card into evo 2 the card then became duplicate after recovered 3. now I cannot access the store and open any pack
I only play the Chelsea team and I have kept this particular cards for months in hope of further evo it
Please help me fix this
As I have not violated any rules or exploited any glitches
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:09:02 AM): Alright, as I can see your concern is regarding Error When Attempting To Start New Evolutions, Is this correct?
Me (5/7/2024, 12:09:13 AM): one of my problem yes
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:09:37 AM): No worries, I will certainly look into this and do my best to help you with your concern.
May I know the email registered with your EA account?
Me (5/7/2024, 12:09:52 AM): [censored email]
thank you so much in advance
do you know how long the process would take
and also how could you keep me posted on this matter
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:15:59 AM): Thanks for the emal.
Me (5/7/2024, 12:17:32 AM): By the last sentence, I meant could you tell me the process that would keep me updated on this matter
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:17:43 AM): I just consulted your case with our team regarding your issue. Please first of all, accept my apology for the inconvenience caused.
I have checked the details the issue that you are facing is something which we're already aware of. We're receiving similar reports from other players around the globe.
Me (5/7/2024, 12:17:46 AM): sorry for my English
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:17:48 AM): Good thing is that this has been brought into the notice of our game team and they are diligently working to fix it as soon as possible.
Me (5/7/2024, 12:18:12 AM): there is no specific timeframe yet?
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:18:21 AM): But there some potential solution available is try to use a different Player item for Evolution for now.
Me (5/7/2024, 12:18:47 AM): How could I access the store in the meantime? or do I need to quicksell the card again?
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:21:30 AM): I have shared the solution which might help but I am unable to commit that.
Me (5/7/2024, 12:21:52 AM): which solution?
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:22:16 AM): try to use a different Player item for Evolution for now.
Me (5/7/2024, 12:22:48 AM): I already noted to you that "so, in conclusion, my problems are 1 I cannot out a card into evo 2 the card then became duplicate after recovered 3. now I cannot access the store and open any pack"
trying to use different one is not the solution
also it would not fix my 2nd and 3rd problems
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:23:27 AM): Many players are facing this issue not only you
It will be resolved ASAP! No worries. Meanwhile I would request you to wait.
Me (5/7/2024, 12:23:54 AM): so I have to wait if I want this card
or quicksell it and move on
if that what you suggested?
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:24:51 AM): Yes
This is on going issue currently with the server and team is working on this.
Me (5/7/2024, 12:25:12 AM): but these problems had been reported for months
and there is still no fix?
it has been MONTHS?
since December last year probably
are you certain that they are working on these problems?
or it was swept under the rug?
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:27:01 AM): This should automatically fixed as soon as possible. So I humbly request you to wait for sometime and this will surely get fixed, we just need your co-operation here.
Me (5/7/2024, 12:27:22 AM): it has been months
are you aware of that?
these problems have been frequently posted on the EA SPORTS FC 24 Community on the site for months
and there are still no fix
I just need an honest answer
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:28:48 AM): I understand that as well, we have pushing our game team for this as we are also feeling bad. For now can only request you to wait as this issue is under investigation.
Me (5/7/2024, 12:29:45 AM): Can I ask you "how long have these issues been under investigation?"
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:30:31 AM): I would not like to speculate a wrong time frame and give you any more hassle. The team is online and I am trying to get this done as early as we can.
Me (5/7/2024, 12:30:52 AM): so no answer no fix
suggestion was to move on as I'm not the only one having this problem
is that right?
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:32:55 AM): Yes, many players are facing this issue.
Me (5/7/2024, 12:33:16 AM): but it has been months
any error concerning FC points would be fixed within 48 hrs
would you agree with that?
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:34:10 AM): No.
We can't commit any timeline for that same.
Me (5/7/2024, 12:35:24 AM): How would you keep me updated on this?
would I be notified if my problems are fixed?
Harsh (5/7/2024, 12:35:45 AM): Also I recommend you to keep checking our twitter page regarding more updates about the issue you are facing and other known issue which are under investigation.
Me (5/7/2024, 12:36:10 AM): So I would not get any reply or notification following this chat?
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2024.05.07 10:10 Ananik95 There's a false hydra in Krezk!?
Hello beautiful Darklords!
TL;DR: Iâm thinking about adding a false hydra to Krezk and Iâm debating if itâs actually a good idea or it bloats out the area too much. Feedback appreciated.
So, apparently Iâm in some sort of âadd cool monsters to the moduleâ fit.
Yesterday, after reading up some of the very, very useful stuff on this subreddit, I dediced to put an Aboleth in Lake Zarovich. Most of all to add some depth to the Lake (pun intended) as well as some extra layers to Arabelleâs quest. Also, I like the idea of giving some eldritch horror goosebumps to my players (I think Iâll add some fishermen hovels near the lake, with an altar to the aboleth and some villagers, who look very much like Innsmouth dwellers and use kuo-toa statblocks). The Aboleth itself does not necessarily need to be a combat encounter, just some creepy RP chance.
Now, how about a false hydra? Iâve been in love with the concept for this monster for a very long time. Itâs super creepy and unsettling. But I somehow forgot the few past years (convenient for this monster, right?), until yesterday.
So Iâve been doing some research, and read some very interesting posts suggesting to put the false hydra in Krezk, to buff the village up a bit.
However, I must say Iâm still a bit on the fence about this, and Iâm writing this post to gather up some ideas and feedback. I should point out that my Krezk will be very influenced by MandyModâs awesome Fleshing Out series: Iâll be adding a lot (though not everything) suggested by them. To be more precise, I cut out Fidatov Manor, which I think, albeit cool, might be a bit too much, while I kept Ilyaâs quest.
So, Krezk now is a bit more bulked up. Once the players get there, theyâll be able to follow up on Ilyaâs quest about missing livestock and hunger demon. The day after, theyâll meet their fated ally (Ez), who was out doing reconnaissance about the werewolf den, and theyâll be able to leave with her in order to help her out with Kirilâs bunch. And, of course, thereâs the Abbey looming in the distance,always.
Now, on the one hand, I think the pacing might be right to place a false hydra. The first time the players get there, they can deal with Ilya, and learn about missing persons and domestic animals behaving erratically. Maybe theyâll even think itâs Ilya eating people.
Next, theyâll probably leave with Ez. They could come back some time later, maybe after receiving a disturbing letter from one of the Wereravens stationed near Krezk. Once they are back in town, they find out more people missing: it wasnât Ilyaâs fault after all! Maybe they even find a letter from a fifth member of the party whom they donât remember (and actually, of course, never existed). And they are pushed to unravel the rest of the mystery.
I like the idea, but I donât want to bloat Krezk out too much. Vallaki already is such a sinkhole, and Krezk should move at a faster pace, I believe. Ilya, Ez, the werewolves, the Abbey⊠Adding a false hydra to this might be too much? At the same time, I think there is some potential in the ideas Iâm cobbling together.
I also thought about adding another small settlement, as Iâve read some other people have done, but I donât like the idea very much, to be honest. I like to keep things simple and RAW with settlements in the valley.
What do you guys think? Is it a cool idea? Is it thematically appropriate? Is it too much to pile on Krezk? Do you have any other suggestions?
Let me know your thoughts!
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2024.05.07 10:07 notmikaela i donât trust my younger dog
i have two dogs, Roscoe (cocker spaniel x poodle mix, age 13) and Indiana (Australian Shepherd, age 8). they both are incredibly healthy and happy dogs you couldnât even tell they are seniors. Weâve had them their whole lives, so no history of abuse or neglect or anything like that.
Roscoe is very much a people dog, he loves attention and getting pet and just being a couch potato with his people. Indiana on the other hand, is a very active boy. he likes to play and run and have a job â very on point for his breed. Roscoe has never been a giant fan of indiana, but he tolerates him. once indy got bigger than roscoe, roscoe decided playing with him was not that fun anymore.
both dogs are really good dogs, but theyâre sentient beings and have autonomy and things happen. except Roscoe is never doing anything annoying or over stepping boundaries with indiana when Indy reacts.
Indy has always been reactive. itâs in his breed, chasing cows/sheep Aussies need that reactivity and aggression. He isnât reactive to adults, smaller female dogs, or female dogs. he is mostly okay with smaller male dogs. but he does react to dogs his size/bigger, and children. Granted, he was never socialized to children as when i got him i was 15, and the youngest in my family. Indiana was pretty socialized with all sorts of dogs from day 1. We used to go to the dog park when he was a puppy (4mo~1year) but have since stopped long ago.
Roscoe could care less if other dogs are around, he finds them annoying. he always ends up on his back whenever any contention arises (except with Indy).
weâve known the boys have issues with resource guarding when it comes to toys/chews so we donât really have dog toys â beside the fact they are DESTORYERS and nothing lasts longer than literally 15 minutes. and if they are given chews, theyâre in separate rooms and canât access the other. we do feed them separately as well as roscoe has always been weird about his bowl and wonât eat if any dogs are around. so indy eats outside and roscoe eats inside.
as of recently, iâve noticed a change in their dynamic. roscoe usually just would keep on his path of direction and not give indiana any mind. but the past week (i moved out a few months ago but am house/pet sitting for my parents), i have noticed that roscoe is very avoidant and wary of Indiana. he wonât go outside if Indy is, he takes a wide berth to stay out of Indianas way. i chalked it up to roscoeâs old age and him being over Indyâs clumsy behavior (he never really learned how big he is and has a habit of almost running roscoe over â for reference Roscoe is ~35 pounds and indiana is ~65/70).
today i came home and discovered Indiana had counter surfed and gotten into my tote bag. it had some granola bar and fruit snacks in it, to which he ate. as i was cleaning it up, roscoe appeared from another room and came to see what was going on. as their owner, i should have predicted my dogs better and placed Indy outside. but i decided to trust him as when i drop things in the kitchen and roscoe races to get it, indy doesnât ever care. instead, Indiana was across the room when he saw Roscoe. he calmly walked over, and then went after him.
No warning, no growling, nothing. itâs always been like that when Indy reacts. it is so instant and unpredictable. except this time was different. Indiana normally stops the second you get a hand on his collar and yell his name, but this time he did not let up. i was trying to pull him off but to no avail was he letting up. I know this is the worst way to break up a fight but with adrenaline and never being in this situation with my own dogs, i put my hand in the middle of the two to pry indys jaw off roscoe. yes i ended up getting bit in the process but it worked.
as i was leading indiana away from roscoe, he did something he never has done. he tried to lunge at roscoe again. and it took some holding back as i directed him outside. yes, roscoe is perfectly okay. a little shaken up and mistrusting of indy since the incident but he is physically fine. i am also fine.
i texted my parents to ask them if indy has been a little more aggressive recently, and my dad mentioned their diet change and he might be hungry. considering roscoe was vacuuming up the crumbs, maybe itâs resource guarding. we decided to try and double their portions since 1) maybe the company is wrong and 2) we donât need hungry dogs! (Switched from Dr Timâs Weight Management, to Sundays food for dogs, indy on the beef recipe and roscoe on the chicken due to an allergy).
Today really struck me for some reason. i am very upset. i love these dogs with everything in me, theyâre my childhood dogs. My family is growing. my sister is going to come live with my parents as her husband is enlisting and she has a baby. she is bringing their male dog, Frank, with. If it came down to Indy or the kids⊠we all know the answer. and i do not want to deal with that, and neither do my parents. we would all like to avoid that route and have preventative measures.
Indy likes babies but toddlers he is wary around â i think itâs fear aggression and the fact that they are at eye level. i know to never fully trust a dog around a small child but i need him to at least learn to give some warning. âleave him outsideâ âkeep him separate,â he is a social animal. we know he is anxious and a âvelcro dogâ those feel like bandaids over a deeper wound.
i have tried every route. my parents have a farm, he has lots of space to run, my dad plays fetch with him daily, getting him tired out, my mom walks him in the morning. he has free range of the farm as it is completely enclosed. heâs been through 4 levels of training classes. he always knows after incidents that he was naughty, but i know his reaction of avoidance and showing his stomach are fear based. we normally tell him he was naughty and take him outside while we fix whatever mess was made. heâs welcomed back in after a little and we go back to normal.
he isnt food reactive with people, you could put your whole hand in his food bowl while heâs eating and heâd move around you. he also doesnt resource guard with people about anything. ever since my parents moved here his reactivity on the leash is none existent, and he walks so much better. we chopped it up to aging.
what can i do? how can i get him to be more trustworthy/less reactive? does anyone have experience with something like this?
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2024.05.07 10:00 Ashpaw113 I indirectly caused the death of my cat
Iâm posting this because I lost my baby last night and just need to put everything down and get it off my chest. I keep thinking and strewing over it and I know thatâs not healthy.
My cat was a 1.5 year old raggy x, he was the perfect cat; amazing personality, gorgeous coat, smart. My cat also loved to go outside. Initially we had a catio for him and our other cat, but a bad storm broke it and I hadnât had a chance to buy a more secure one. I, stupidly, agreed that the cats would be fine to full roam outside during the day whilst I saved up for a new one. They had been allowed to do this now for nearly two months with no incident. Until yesterday. I had decided it would be the last day they went outside and that Iâll get a new area for them this week. But this is when things all went south:
I donât usually do anything on weekends, nor public holidays, but yesterday (a public holiday) I decided I was going to go out and visit a family member. Because I was going out, I decided the cats would be fine outside as âit was their last day anywaysâ, so I left, and didnât return until 2.30pm with them outside this entire period.
When I came home my cat came running to me, like he usually does, except this time I noticed his eye was swollen and red on the skin. I grew concerned but was placated when someone told me it was fine and that âit looks like heâs been scratched, just keep an eye on it.â
I really wish I went with my gut.
I, like an idiot, went out AGAIN, leaving my cat inside this time but not paying any further concern towards his swollen eye. I was not home until 5pm where I then went on a walk, therefore I didnât properly came inside until 5.30pm. It was at this point my cat was still acting normal, he ran up to me so I gave him food before showering. When I came out of the shower, I noticed he was laying under the table looking off. I went to go pick him up and he ran away from me, which he never does. This made me more concerned. I reached for him again and was able to grab him, and I tried numerous times to get him to stand up with each attempt ending in him falling back to the ground. He became incontinent in both bladder and bowels and was no longer able to lift his head, so i rushed him to the emergency vet.
on the way, Felix held onto my hand with his paws and laid his head in my palm. He did not move from this position.
The vet put him straight into oxygen and ran some tests, revealing he had been bitten by a brown snake at some point whilst he was outside. I agreed to get him started on antivenin then went to say goodbye with the impression we would see him in the morning.
When he saw me he attempted to get up and cry, stressing him out further so I was told to leave.
Once I got home, I got a call from the vet that he went into respiratory distress and that they would try intubate and to get back there as soon as possible. I got there as fast as I could but Felix had went without oxygen to his brain for long enough to be brain dead. I was able to cuddle him one final time where he once more managed to hold my hand before we had to let him go.
Itâs all so fresh and canât help but think of all the âwhat ifsâ and what I could of done differently to help him faster or prevent it altogether. If I never went out, if I listed to my gut, if I never let the cats outside.. I canât help but feel so guilty and I know I can only blame myself. I hope Felix doesnât hate me for it too.
I see him everywhere, in the little spots he used to lay, him running up to my car or to the door every time I came home, his deliberate meowing to annoy everyone when he wanted something done his way, his cuddles, the way you couldnât pat his head without him licking your hand, his conversations where it truly seemed like he was trying to communicate, his weird fascination with plastic straws, his little âmrrowsâ whenever someone touched him whilst he slept. I miss him so much.
He was just a baby and he was more than my pet; he was my companion, my best friend, my support and MY baby, I just hope heâs happy wherever he is, no pain or suffering and all the sunny corners in the world to nap in. Iâll see you one day soon baby boy.
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2024.05.07 09:47 navjots2661 Should I leave my fresher job ?
My field is analytics but hoped into sales profile through college just 2 months back ,Rn my final exams are going on , it is immense pressure here , I want to leave ,i cant do sales , but pressure is that what will people say and some say stay here and try to find another, , but surviving here feels hell to me , i cant survive for 1 day , what to do , advices are welcomed
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2024.05.07 09:43 isbtcaponzischeme Whatâs the quickest path to getting diagnosed and getting medicated
My mates Dexamphetamine changed my life. It opened me up to a world of opportunity I never thought I had, never knew I had.
He gave me a couple dexies to take, so I took 1. After swallowing it and 30 mins later it was the first time in a long long time I felt at peace. 1000 thoughts, ideas and To Doâs all turned to focusing on just 1. I felt as tho all the clutter in my head has vanished and there was a sense of pure clarity in my head for the first time.
Iâve never officially been diagnosed with ADHD. I believe that I have ADD. As I find it so hard to do the bare minimum basics to function each day, to hold my job and keep on top of things. I procrastinate for hours on the goals I have and feel pretty awful afterwards. Having a shower and brushing my teeth seem like the hardest thing to do most times. Even doing washing and dishes. It just feels mentally taxing.
I cannot focus on one thing. My mind jumps from thoughts to thoughts, ideas to ideas, stresses about what needs to be done. I start things and in the middle I leave it do something else that I think of.
However when I take my mates dexies, everything becomes so much easier. I can focus on ONE thing and COMPLETE that one thing. Itâs really unlocked a new perspective for me of what my true potential is. As I feel held back wnd have probably been experiencing this my whole life.
I want genuine advice of the process to get diagnosed, treated and medicated for this so I can start living to my highest truest potential. I am located in Melbourne.
For the time being Iâll continue to get my mates Dexies and also purchase them from questionable people online.
Once having a script for them. Are they covered by Medicare? What are the usual prices you pay with a script?
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2024.05.07 09:42 Responsible_Job4305 Tips
I'm not a doctor, but I've had it twice and got rid of it both times. What many people don't know is that PD is often caused by over-care. Yes, you can take too much care of your skin. Or another case is that you change products too often. Both of these causes have happened to me. But there are many more!!!!
These tips are good if your PD is not too bad, otherwise please go to a doctor and get an antibiotic prescription.
Tips: 1. stop using skincare for at least 28 days. Not even sunscreen. Your skin will be irritated even by the products you used to tolerate. Your skin renews itself every 28 days, so it is important to wait at least until then. The first two weeks it will get worse before it gets better!!! If your skin has extreme acne or other things, go to the doctor and leave it alone!
- avoid the sun!!! Because you can't use sunscreen and sun is bad for PD. (Cappy is a must)
- black tea with cotton pads. Use a quality black tea without essential oils or any other crap. The quality is important!!! Gently dab the inflamed areas with it. You can do this more often if it feels good. For dummiesâŠthe tea needs to be cooled down!!! But if it makes things worse, please stop immediately!
- drink plenty of water
- eat healthy. No processed food.
Hope it helps someone. If you get rid of it that way. Start slowly with skincare and make sure you tolerate it!
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2024.05.07 09:42 strakerak My entire CS experience at UH and thoughts on the program (from an alum + PhD student)
So I'll be finishing my final course at UH ever tomorrow. From the now until I defend my dissertation I'll just be doing research hours and oddjobs (48 credit hour speedrun). As per tradition every few years, here are all the courses I've taken in undergrad and graduate school. I'll also say which prof I recommend for the class. I transferred to UH my Junior year.
COSC 1336: Computer Science and Programming. Professor: N/A, Semester: N/A
- I didn't take this class. This is the class that gets you started in CS. I recommend taking it with Dr. Yun or Dan/Dr. B. This class is also known as "glorified Python programming". This class isn't specifically made for CS Majors, as ANYONE can take this for their Math Reasoning course, and I highly, highly recommend doing so. Programming is invaluable and easier than you think. 70% of Computer Science majors never wrote a single line of code during college. If you plan on doing graduate school or any form of research, you might have to throw some code in there, whether it be software engineering code or data analysis. Fuck R, use Python.
COSC 1437 (prev. 1430): Intro to Programming, Professor: Giulia Toti, Semester: Fall 2018
- Toti has left UH and started teaching at another institution. I recommend taking Dan or Rincon for this course. You will learn C++ and Java through the semester, and most of the code you learn will overlap with each other (with a small change in syntax in each language). ZyBooks was used to do all programming homeworks. ZyBooks is a decent platform that you can go through to read the material, learn it, write some practice code and then do your HW online. It will run your code against testcases. Sometimes you'll get them, other times you won't. So long as you can do the visible test cases, barring any code that's inefficient and takes too long, you'll pass them all just fine. I used DevC++ as my IDE at the time, before transitioning to ReplIt later on. The class wasn't too hard. I liked doing the Tetris project at the end then playing it in other classes that I didn't really care about lol.
COSC 2436 (Prev 2430): Programming and Data Structures, Professor: Nouhad Rizk, Semester: Spring 2019.
- I will always recommend Dr. Rizk for this course. If you can take Rizk, take Rizk. If not, take Dan. This is the weed out class. When I was taking it, the drop/fail rate was 50-60%. It's hard, and if you have to take it again, don't worry. I ended up becoming a PEER mentor and tutored some former classmates. All have walked the stage. This is the class that makes or breaks the CS majors. This class is HARD, but getting through it makes you "internship ready". You're going to need to learn some stuff about Linux to turn in your homework and run the testcases. There's a decent guide on Rizk's site on how to use it, and the TA's/Mentors should give you a guide on how to do it as it isn't too difficult. I used FileZilla and Putty together to get this done. I also used DevC++ in this class. To get into the meat and bones of this class, you're learning everything at a fast rate. Reading input from the files and doing shit with them, all the way up to graph theory (Dijkstra's Alg) with Linked Lists in between. Just show up to class, practice, and if you aren't sure, go to mentor hours, TA hours, or Rizk's hours. Rizk's memory is the level of Mike Ross from Suits so she WILL remember you and the attitude you have towards her class and CS overall. If you answer questions, participate, show your effort and fail everything, she'll pass you because you can demonstrate that knowledge another way. My favorite resource, the hero of CougarCS is Abdul Bari. This YouTube channel will get you through any explanation you need. The exams are pretty hard but sometimes it comes down to memorizing sorts and doing Leetcode problems (which this class will prepare you for). Get started on your homework early, this is NOT one you want to procrastinate on. For reference, I did the Linked List homework for fun three years later and it took about two hours instead of the few days the first time around. There used to be a lot of inconsistencies with this class but it's improved a lot and Dr. Rizk has won an award for her teaching efforts. Take any extra credit you can, sometimes showing up to enough office hours will get you some. There's also some random things she'll tell the Mentors to assign to anyone that shows up that will add points to a test or something. I have a lot of funny memories in this class, too. Crying sessions at the fountains after tests and being hopeful to pass and make it through the rest of UHCS. Heck, there were a bunch of jokes about infinite looping our code to break the Linux server so we can get an extension LOL. I wouldn't be a TA if it weren't for Rizk. She wrote one of my recommendations to grad school. She gave me one of the biggest opportunities I never knew I had to be a tutor and get more involved with the CS department.
COSC 2425 (Prev 2440): Computer Org & Architecture, Professor: Edward Gabriel/Kevin Long, Semester: Spr19/Fall20.
- I took this class in Spring 2019 with Gabriel (has since left) and dropped it, then took it in the Fall with Long. I like to call this the class I never took. Whenever a homework assignment would go out, we could use whatever resources we wanted. Cue the fact that a bunch of students would just work on it together in the GroupMe, and then afterwards I'll take it and turn it in. Everyone worked on the exam reviews together. This was the A I never put any effort into getting. Even if you're in it to learn about Architecture (or whatever concept Long teaches), do it. Seriously, he's an instructional prof and not a research prof. You're going to hear these two terms a lot in these later reviews. Instructional profs are here purely to teach and do research on the side (where most of them are here the other way around). His classes are easy but he WILL teach you. His curve is based on the person with the lowest grade but did every assignment, exam, etc. That person will be raised to a passing grade (or higher), then everyone else will follow that curve. I always recommend Long
COSC 3320: Algorithms and Data Structures, Professor: Ernst Leiss, Semester: Summer 2019.
- My oh my was this the A I had to put a lot of effort into. Leiss is a professor who will come in, lecture, and leave. This entire class was done in a month (afternoon class). It was two homeworks and two exams. You can use any language you want, but I used C++ and Java. That might be 'easy' but, you're going to be doing a lot of writing and programming in this class. The Towers of Leiss problem still lives rent free in my head. His office hours are pretty open and he'll answer questions at the start of class anytime you ask them. You'll hear the words "Any questions?" to start the class and "See you next time" to end them. For all exams and assignments, you're able to use literally whatever you want (with the exception of people and the internet on exam days). His reasoning was that "If I am your boss, I'm not going to lock you in a room and expect you to know the answer!". The TAs are pretty lenient in grading, but sometimes will be wildly inconsistent depending as to how they feel or which one you get. They know about Leiss' policies so they'll just roll with it. The assignments were also turned in on paper lmao. Leiss doesn't like online classes, like at all. He won't teach online. I don't blame him for it. I recommend him. He wrote my second letter of rec.
COSC 3340: Introduction to Automata, Professor: Ernst Leiss, Semester: Summer 2019.
- This would be the morning class during the Summer. All in a month too. Four exams, each at the end of the week. You could use whatever you wanted to, just no internet or other people (one guy got caught cheating on the final and kicked out of the class). The TA, who was the same for Algos too could get strict, but his grading was definitely lenient LOL. You learn a lot of stuff on the 'machine' level of this class. State Machines, Turing Tests, Search Algs. I remember writing like a one page answer on a state machine that was totally shit but I got it right. There was another student who wrote it right with like one character wrong and got docked for it. There were some students at either UT, TAMU, or UTD that would ask "Why does UH want you to suffer!?" when they heard that this class existed. Not too hard, just do the stuff and you'll get through. Nobody really cares about Automata and cheating on the exams was rampant. Now while Leiss is a great professor, I don't know which one of y'all motherfuckers sold their soul so Singh could teach the class consistently. Take Singh and go LOL.
COSC 4351/4353: Fundamentals of Software Engineering, Professor: Raj Singh, Semester: Fall 2019
- This class had three in person meetings. The first class, and the two exams (closed note). Other than that, you were doing homework about software engineering and it's methods (not code, just drawing stuff out), then writing a piece of software to present at the end of the semester. You're in a group of three people max and the biggest thing you learn in here is the Unit Test. Just some code to test what happens when things come in and out. Basically you write the testcases for your 2436 homeworks. In this class, my teammates did the homeworks and I just worked on the project. It was a basic website with a database aspect that would showcase links based on access levels. The exams were easy, heck, they were in ORDER and the reviews were very, very similar if not exact. Someone leaked the exam in the GroupMes so they were finished pretty quickly. You'll see a question about a specific step on the AGILE method, or you'll see "What is not software? Hardware." This is an effort A. Just do what you need to do and you'll be set. It isn't easy, but it just needs effort. I recommend Singh lol. You can use any language. For this one, I used PHP, HTML, and some JavaScript.
COSC 4348: Intro to Game Art and Animation, Professor: Chang Yun/Vincent Donatelli, Semester: Fall 2019
- The class nowadays is a lot easier than it used to be back then. The class nowadays is offered in the Spring with optional attendance, hybrid, and has seven homework assignments that all work with each other. Two are completion, four are drawing, and then the final project which just puts them all in a Unity scene. Back then, it was mandatory attendance with an in person assignment, a homework assignment, and a team based project game at the end. Everyone had to put their own art in the game. Donatelli (no longer here) was the primary professor for the course and would do everything pretty quick. As CS majors aren't really artists, it's good that Yun's taken over. I was on a 15 person team and led the programmers. We had a progress check every two weeks. If you didn't do your part, the professor would tell you to drop the class or face a zero. Donatelli was an industry veteran and there were some other whack hours in the class, such as an 8pm-11pm presentation time in PGH. Stayed all day on campus and ate Bullritos before going into that one. This class is NOT an easy A, even if it's easier than it used to be. Come prepared to get your stuff done. You'll learn basic C# in this course from a Unity tutorial.
COSC 4358: Intro to Interactive Game Dev, Professor: Chang Yun/Zhigang Deng, Semester: Fall 2019.
- If you're a competitive person, take this class. This is THE most fun class in UH CS. You'll be in a team of 4-8 and spend three months building a video game. All homeworks are completion (so just do them). Two individual, five team. Make sure to do your part because there's always a team or group of people that will get into fights and beef every year over it. Anyway, once you finish your seven homework assignments, your team will get into a 'duel' with another team. This means that your team has to show how good your game is against another one. Winner moves from D to C, then the duel later on will be C to B-. At the end of the semester, industry members, influencers, and UH Alumni will come in to playtest and judge your game. There'll be pizza, drinks, and it just becomes one big LAN party. You'll get some mean comments, but then they go into another room and rank your game from B- to A. Even if you have a really shit game, you will get at worst a B- for your project grade. You have the choice of using Unity (C#), Godot (Python), or Unreal Engine (C++/Visual Scripting) to build your game. Nearly everyone sticks with Unity because they already have Visual Studio, and C# isn't that hard to learn with the many tutorials out there. If you can get into this class, you're going to have a lot of fun. Dr. Yun also wrote my letter of recommendation and brought me into the world of video games for research.
In the middle of Spring 2020, COVID happened. The classes shifted online. Any fully online class will be noted from here on out COSC 3360: Operating Systems, Professor: Jehan-Francois Paris, Semester: Spring 2020
- Oh god, OS. I heard the horror stories about this class but with Paris (retired/sometimes teaches it now), it wasn't too bad. Three homework assignments and three quizzes. The first HW was pretty hard and you could use any language. The other two were in C++ and had a guide to get it done. Quizzes were multiple choice. Paris had great real-world examples when he was trying to explain something. You were able to have a cheat sheet on the quizzes. Make sure to respect his lectures. He uses MOSS to check for plagiarism, and that was rampant in the first homework. The latter two didn't really matter in terms of running it. This also means variable names, nerds. Lots of partial credit available with Homework 1 (some kind of scheduler). I did all my code in ReplIt. Since Paris has retired (if you can't take him), I recommend taking it with Rincon. Cheng only if this is your last option.
COSC 3380: Databases, Professor: Uma Ramamurthy, Semester: Spring 2020
- This class was hard but so well worth it. A lot of people like to complain about how mean Uma is. Like wtf? This was the professor a lot of the older students told us to take REGARDLESS if you wanted to learn how to do this shit effectively. I still remember a lot of things about Databases that I use in here and whenever I quickly set up something for a solo project or testing something out. I'll never forget this quote "If you think your code runs perfectly the first time, you must be smoking something". Uma will humble you real quick if you walk in with a shit project before giving you a chance to fix it. Your project will be a webapp with heavy database usage. One challenge I had for this class was to generate 5000 random entries for each of the databases then insert them. The database stuff itself and tying it to the frontend wasn't too bad. It was an employee directory with salaries, jobs, tasks, vacation, etc. The exams were fairly difficult but after it went online, it was obvious what we were all doing. Group Projects can cause tension. This was the first time I had experienced tension with other group members, and we had all known each other in previous classes. This was a result of Uma tearing us each ten different kinds of asshole after seeing our rough draft of the final project. Thankfully, the group member that was our former TA for another class calmed us all down and we got out of the class with an A on the project.
COSC 4349: Game Art 2, Professor: Vincent Donatelli, Semester: Spring 2020
- This class was basically 3D Art and Animation. It is no longer offered. This is sort of what the Game Art 1 class is now, but the entire class worked on the group project at once. Each 'subgroup' worked on furniture for a different room, and we just threw it all in an Unreal scene and got our grade. I still use some of the 3D modeling techniques whenever I build games for educational stuff today.
COSC 4368: Intro to AI, Professor: Christoph "A" Eick,
- I actually remember a lot of this class being more math/theory based instead of writing AI code. I don't even think we wrote code in this class. Just a lot of simulation stuff, reports, and papers. This is a combined class with graduate students and gets you into the art and background of AI, instead of the random tutorials you see on YouTube where you literally know nothing of what it means. You are taking a theory heavy course. Eick has been at UH since the 80s and you can see fun facts about his favorite wines and hiking spots on his website from the late 90s. I remember putting "I don't know" a lot on some homeworks, and after the semester was over, his TA/PhD student reached out and offered to give me any advice or knowledge that I wanted to know about the subject. The exams weren't too difficult and were very similar to the review, I also believe they were open note. It made AI very interesting and I did understand a lot of the stuff. Eick is a pretty goofy prof and he'll just randomly giggle during lectures and put pictures of frogs on his exams. Has a huge similarity to Leiss.
COSC 4398: Independent Study, Professor: Nouhad Rizk, Semester: Spring 2020
- I wrote a paper and did some research for Rizk. This was not my best work, and was done the week before the semester had ended. It was about the diversification of individual skills instead of people/races/ethnicity in projects. Turns out there's more to it than I thought.
MATH 4322/4323: Data Science/Machine Learning, Professor: Poliak/Wang/Weber, Semester: Spring 2020
- A math class but this is the math class most CS majors take to get the minor. Programming is in R, the coding problems are easy, and the professors are great. You do a report at the end and you can walk out with a solid B if not an easy A by putting in the work. They are the Stats profs, so if you took any of them for 3339, you'll have a smiliar time with them. The last in person exam I took for this class before COVID was the Friday before Spring Break. I got a 62 because I was out at Rooftop (RIP) the night before. Just a week before, the exam was extended because of some water issue on campus causing classes to get cancelled. A week before that, Dr. Wang cancelled class beacuse she felt like spending time with her kid. This was the second Friday class I ever took, and was the last one I attended before the pandemic.
At this point, I finished my BS at UH. I took some classes in Spring 2021 'for fun'/prepping for grad school which helped me get a leg up now.
COSC 4370: Graphics, Professor: Zhigang Deng, Semester: Spring 2021.
- You'll learn OpenGL in this class, however I heard it has changed. You'll need to use more C++ knowledge and follow along tutorials on the website and YouTube videos. The tasks itself aren't too hard, and honestly you'll have fun with the Teapot Artwork assignment since you can do whatever mathematical wizardry you wanted to get some shapes on there. Some students were making crazy things. Others did smiley faces. Undergrads did exams while the grad students just presented a paper. Deng is good and this his a fun elective if you're interested in interactive media!
COSC 4377: Networking, Professor: Omprakash Gnawali, Semester: Spring 2021.
- I looked everything up on the exams even when he said he'd figure it out. Gnawali is a great prof. Not much coding, if at all, in this class. But a lot of Wireshark analysis and networking/packet/cybersecurity theory. I recommend Long for this class, though Gnawali is a great alternative. If you are a graduate student taking this course, Gnawali will be the only option for the combined class. Long will exclusively do the undergrad classes. Given the time since this class has been taught, I don't know much about how it goes today. Grad Students in the class were exempt from exams and did a paper presentation instead. If it's hybrid, you'll have an easy time. If everything is in person, a little bit of good luck.
COSC 6397 (Now COSC 4321): Selected Topics: Spatial Tech, Professor: Chang Yun/Faisal Sharif, Semester: Spring 2021.
- I loved this class and am very happy that it got bumped up to an official course. This was in the works for a few years with Faisal and Dr. Yun. Jared, a former Microsoft employee with a decent connection to UH and a huge veteran presence in XR also hopped on to teach the class. This class, our group did a project on an AR Solar System that you could project anywhere in the room and walk around it. There was a 'VR' project as well. I kept the AR app on my phone until I was mugged and the robber shot it. I might still have the file somewhere. You used Unity (C#) with Vuforia for AR and VR stuff. It was fucking cool seeing my little 3d things pop up on the picture of the opera lady. Highly recommend if you're interested in AVR stuff.
COSC 4393: Digital Image Processing, Professor: Pranav Mantini, Semester: Spring 2021.
- If you're interested in learning how Photoshop works in a code sense, this class is for you. The assignments are in Python and you'll be rotating images, cleaning up noise, performing image compression, and gaussian stuff. I still use the output of the botched code I wrote because they all looked like sad potatoes. The exams were online and not too lookup-able. The only sucky part was that it was an 8am. You'd put your homework on Github classroom and Jenkins would grade it for you. The TAs and Dr. Mantini knew their shit. If you were sus on a homework assignment, they'd call you into a meeting to clarify things. This was the case on the image rotation homework, as the slides showed you how to rotate by a corner instead of by the center.
These courses come from the start of my Masters program and the three required ones in the PhD. The reviews will be fairly shorter and straight to the point as you started to dabble in a lot more applied things if the classes were not entirely theory. The graduate program is a near totality of international students, so the work ethic and competitiveness goes up. On the other hand, the back-scratching and helping each other out is probably more rampant in undergrad but nobody really talks about it. This is the time where you see the professors absolutely shine in what they research. When you see a research prof teaching a course, you're going to learn much, much more than you expect because that is what they live and breathe daily here. My complaints about teaching vs research profs went out the window after this first semester of the MS COSC 6324: Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Techniques in Computing. Professor: Gopal Pandurangan, Semester: Fall 2021
- What a tongue twister. This class is one chapter from Gopal's Graduate Algorithms class expanded to a whole semester. You'll learn a lot of concepts about the pure mathematical side of algorithms. That, expected values, randomization, hashing, and complexities you'll not even begin to understand. There weren't any exams. Just a paper presentation, a bunch of homework assignments that were written responses to crazy math problems. You couldn't google these easily, and I found solutions to some HW problems by copying like one line and finding it on a Russian website. The programming assignments were LeetCode questions with some of the most insane requirements you can imagine. The stuff was the most beautiful, digusting, messed up efficient wizardy I've ever had to write and this class absolutely helped me slay programming interviews left and right for the internship cycles ahead. It's hard, but good hard. The class had about eight students and it would go from lecturing to conversation about the topic at hand.
COSC 6347: Cybersecurity. Professor: Laszka, Semester: Fall 2021.
- As Laszka has left UH, I am unsure as to how the class is currently offered. At the start of the semester, he told us about our requirements and threw up a slide saying not to try anything in the class at home. Two programming assigments and the rest was just hacking shit on a VM he'd give us. The tests were multiple choice or fill in the blank, and you could pull them easily from the slides. Almost identical in that case.
COSC 6376: Cloud Computing. Professor: Weidong "Larry" Shi, Semester: Fall 2021.
- The HW in this class was very applied as we would learn new tech stacks and languages, one being 'pig latin'. A lot of the things here were follow a tutorial or look things up. The end of the semester was a huge project. In this project, we compared running an image classification task on separate cloud providers and their tiers. Thank God we had credit from each of the services or else the bills would have ran HIGH. No exams, easy A if you do the stuff. Dr. Shi is a pretty good prof in his line of work. His TAs do run the class and teach sometimes as they are in their final years and taking over the teaching aspect. Save this part for later.
COSC 6339: Big Data Analytics. Professor: Carlos Ordonez, Semester: Spring 2022.
- I have personal opinions about the teaching methods of Dr. Ordonez. Pre-COVID, I had always heard that he was a good prof for Programming Languages and Paradigms. However, after learning how he treated his 3380 class, I started to dread it a little. The homeworks were vague, grades weren't released until after our drop date, and he was definitely caught looking at his course reviews daily and probably writing his own (or having the TAs do it). In homework assignments or test reviews, if you were having an issue and you looked it up, it was literally his research work. I don't find that to be bad, actually, because it did give insight on the stuff that he did and it was definitely interesting. Ordonez is also one of the profs that tried to get undergrads in research along with Gnawali and Yang. I didn't enjoy this class much, at all, due to the exam structure and ways it was taught. But, a memorable homework was some entire Dijkstra's thing but for servers, and that was fun. I got it done while hopped up on whatever the dentist gave me. All was done in Python.
COSC 6373: Computer Vision. Professor, Ioannis Kakadiaris, Semester: Spring 2022
- Dr. K will openly admit to you, either privately or to the whole class that he is very arrogant. You'll see this arrogance but not mind it much if you aren't working with him directly. Kakadiaris is passionate about showing students how to research, especially if you're interested in anything medical. His goal in every class that he teaches is to make you an expert in such field. I don't think there was an exam in this class, but he would assign some of his former students or current PhD students to be a mentor in your final project. The homeworks and in class labs were 'follow the steps'. He and his TA were always available for help and made the class a lot of fun, especially when explaining the mathematical operations behind CV Algorithms. I always recommend Dr. K's classes. Personally, he helped me gain a leg up on how to effectively get through UH's red tape on getting research done involving human subjects. Helped me set up an entire 'research suite' on the computer. Everything was in Python
COSC 7336: Advanced Natural Language Processing. Professor, Rakesh Verma, Semester: Spring 2022.
- Unless you have any form of deep interest in NLP, for the love of Shasta, do NOT take this class. I got my second lowest exam grade ever (the first being Gopal's Grad Algos). Curves were done obviously but the highest grade on any given exam was like a 30 or 40. There were homeworks and paper presentations too. If you skipped X amount of question on the homework, it'd be a 0. If you skipped X items in the class, you'd get an F. I barely squeaked by with a B here. This was also a class with like, ten people in it. One student was an undergrad. She was insane in her craft and I believe ended up working with Verma directly on some research and got paid good for it. This class is another case of Verma being an excellent researcher but not so much a professor. He lived and breathed everything NLP or Cybersecurity and was damn good at it. I also didn't pay much attention in class, so maybe I'm wrong on the teaching part. Everyone struggled in the class as the general NLP class, offered by Dr. Solorio (who was a visiting scientest at Bloomberg at the time) wasn't being offered.
COSC 6351/6353: Software Design. Professor: Raj Singh, Semester: Summer 2022.
- This class is just like the undergrad version. Didn't change much, except the final project was an oil price order thing. I used Flask and Python instead of shitty ass PHP. The exam still featured the famous question: "What isn't software? Hardware". Never change, Raj.
This Summer was the 'great resignation' within UH CS. Toti, Laszka, and Gabriel had left UH for other opportunities. Paris put up for retirement and was promoted to professor Emeritus. Kam-Hoi Cheng left but nobody knew why.
COSC 6335: Data Mining. Professor: Christoph Eick, Semester: Fall 2022.
- Pretty simple class since the exams were open note and the homeworks were answering questions (similar to that of AI) and writing reports. Like AEick, you got more into the fundamentals and how all that stuff works instead of writing code. Lots of frogs on the pages and opportunities for extra credit. This is a good class to get done for your core track and the TA was pretty lenient too. You can get an entire preview of any Eick class from the website.
COSC 6370: Medical Imaging. Professor: Nikolaos Tsekos, Semester: Fall 2022.
- This is a fun class, you'll get an A or A- in it if you do everything. No exams, just a bunch of homeworks and a project. The homeworks were quite fun as we got to do stuff that applied to the medical industry, and the project that my team did was identifying babies at whatever term from an ultrasound. The project itself didn't prove well, but we got an A so didn't matter much. Python was the language to use, and a lot of the homework assignments come with the formulas and theories you needed. Not much of a 'follow the steps' kind of thing, more of a 'here is what you need, good luck' kind of thing. Easy recommend. Tsekos is hilarious. "Do not make your grandmother die twice in a semester!".
COSC 6386: Program Analysis and Testing. Professor: Amin Alipour, Semester: Spring 2023.
- This class had three homeworks taken from a public textbook about software testing. "The Fuzzing Book". Not too difficult at all. What was fun was the paper presentation. I had just bought a Flipper Zero and got to demonstrate it as part of the presentation. The final project was basically the class split into two groups. My group recreated, to the best of our ability, MOSS. We made our own code plagiarism checker using NLP and tokenization of variables. We then saw how much of our own code was plagiarised with each other form old assignments lol, and it picked up on variable changing pretty quick. All was done in Python with AI aspects. All in Python/JuPyter
ENTR 7390: Technology Entrepreneurship. Professor: Tanushree Chatterji, Semester: Spring 2023.
- As a UH CS student, you can find up to six (or twelve?) related credits from outside CS to apply towards your coursework requirements. Anyway Bauer needs to stop being a bitch and let undergrads take their version of this class. I first heard of this course when I took Game Art, when Dr. McCormick came in and gave an entire guest lecture on how to take your startup game into the tech industry. She told us we could enroll but Bauer pretty much stopped any CS major from joining it.Since it was more lenient, I got into the graduate version with Dr. Chatterji. When I say that Bauer has the resources, they've got them. This class consisted of speakers in the startup space, UH alums and not coming in to talk about their experiences and give advice. The assignments were very business and tech oriented. I also got access to RedLabs as the prof is the director of it. She knows who to set you up with if you need it. If only the CS majors could have a piece of this the school could be seeing more money flowing into their donations since a lot of high paid Coogs like to give back. Met a ton in the club section at Fertitta. Holy moly.
At this point, I had completed my Masters. The next three courses were required for the PhD COSC 6110: Graduate Colloqium. Professor: Ernst Leiss, Semester: Fall 2023.
- This class was easy. Attend five seminars, write reviews on them, get satisfactory review scores, and present a topic of your choice. You will get roasted by Leiss, but he also teaches you how to roast presenters. PhD students are required to visit five seminars minimum a semester, so you'll see some really good speakers and really shitty ones. This is also an opportunity to see who UH could be hiring on as a prof soon. Dr. Yang, Das, and Lin were all hired on the semester after giving a seminar talk at UH. There are currently two open spots that are looking to be filled, and I was able to sit in and evaluate one of the faculty candidates. This is where you can see the cool stuff going on in University Research.
COSC 6320: Data Structures and Algorithms. Professor: Gopal Pandurangan. Semester: Fall 2023.
- This class is the Algo Asylum. Fucking difficult. But you had Gopal and Khalid. There are no stupid questions in this class, but it was HARD. It made undergrad Algos look like taking candy from a baby. You have to fight your way out of it. Four exams similar to the HW of 6324, and the programming assignments too. God this class was hard. Still recommend Gopal always tho. They were ALWAYS willing to help. Python was the language of choice.
COSC 6342: Machine Learning. Professor: Ricardo Vilalta. Semester: Fall 2023.
- This class was two exams and a few assignments. The exams by the type of question weren't hard, but the questions themselves sucked. You had to memorize a lot of terminology, equations, vocab words, variables, etc. There weren't any word banks or references on the exams though. This, I just didn't know how to study well for. Everything came from the slides but they were very broad. Vilalta is a great prof and does curve. Good at his research.
COSC 6385: Computer Architecture. Professor, Weidong "Larry" Shi. Semester: Spring 2024.
- The end of the road! I dropped this class in Spring 2023 because I didn't need it to graduate, but then had to take it again because it was required for the PhD. The homeworks aren't hard, neither was the paper presentation or the experiments. But the exams did suck. I don't know how it will be tomorrow, but so long as I pass it, I'm good and I just get to research my way out of here and never have to sit a fucking exam ever again. It's been a long time coming and I can't wait to finish it up :) Python is your langauage here.
At this point, I'm doing whatever 8X98 and 8X99 is required of me. I have an RCE (just a long presentation), a doctoral proposal, and a defense, then the academic journey is over. I feel like the biggest hurdle was leapt.
My thoughts on UHCS. In Fall 2018, there were only 1300 students in the department. Everyone in their graduating class knew each other. You'd sometimes meet people in GroupMes to work on homeworks or projects together, but never see each other in real life. Or did you? There was a lot of weird ways to cheat or get by in class. There was a decent community, and people who wanted to help other students definitely did. I'll never forget cramming into a room with a bunch of other kids while the tutor for 2436 held a review session days before the exam. The jokes about overloading the servers, and the hopeful nature before COVID hit. Everyone seemed friendly, and it didn't seem at all like a few complaint posts that were put up earlier about superiority complexes or whatever.
There are now 2300+ students in the department and it will probably be 3k within the next few years. Classes are getting tighter, it's getting more competitive, and UH isn't giving CS the attitude it deserves. MIS and CIS are getting pumped, CS is just... There. NSM took over the Fall career fair like wtf? Cullen and NSM are going to get in competition over this stuff as CS to Cullen should have happened (and on several accounts, was rumored and about to go through the process) but then didn't happen, and CS wants the juice.
I've seen students in 1336 get caught with ChatGPT like fucking dumbasses, but on the other hand, the talent level of the juniors and seniors at UH CS is FUCKING INSANE. The post-COVID generation of UH CS is going to be the reason the rank and perception skyrockets. Alums of years past are surprised with how Coogs are getting picked off left and right from UH compared to other schools.
The department is focusing on hiring new blood that will help push the department to newer heights in terms of more modern research. The older professors are preparing to retire, we just don't know when or if. Tenure is hard to achieve, but the cycle is definitely happening.
That's all, I'm going to bed. Go Coogs!
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I have a 1 year old kitty and i let her outside everyday for 10minutes for 2 weeks now and she likes it a lot but im super worried if she completely forget shes an indoor cat one day and leaves the house when im not watching or she will get addicted and permanently ask me to let her outside all the time. Will i be a bad cat dad if i keep her inside now forever for her safety or should i keep her outside everyday to make her happier with the risks that come with it?
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