Hello!
As of recent, I've become quite happy with how my database and wiki on IBM keyboards is progressing on my website. So, in the pipeline are more newcomecommunity focused content following on from my Model F and Model M Buyer's Guide.
I have three upcoming major works that I'm hoping will make things a lot easier for people wanting to enter our hobby! I'd like to run these ideas by y'all and ask for feedback. I'll outline what I'm hoping to have input on but really you're free to comment as you like!
Getting Started guide series
Initially for Model F and Model M. Aimed at first-time owners who just received their keyboard. This would give you a checklist of things to check when you receive your keyboard, what issues you might find, how (and/or where) to deal with them, and how to use any specific features. Possibility to expand to Model B and ThinkPad/UltraNav keyboards.
What I need: I'm curious how wide a scope I should cover. Let me know anything you think is important!
Basic self-assembly converter guide
It is how it sounds. The basis will be a Pro Micro/Elite-C (or similar) project with some notes for particular keyboards, comparison of possible MCUs and what tools you'll need. Importantly, this will assume no prior knowledge or experience.
What I need: whilst I know how to assemble a converter myself, I'd like to hear any tips you may think is worth knowing. Especially in regards to soldering/techniques, what starter iron to go for (eg, PINECIL and Chinese T12 clones a lot of people seem to recommend), comparison of possible microcontroller boards, etc.
Firmware guide
Follow on from the converter guide. Two parts.

1. Summary, explanation and basic comparison of existing firmware for keyboard converters and controllers (Soarer's, TMK, QMK, w/ or w/o VIAL, etc.)
2. Basic firmware flashing guide. Will cover GUIs like QMK Toolbox and Freematics Builder, and commands for flashing both AVR and DFU MCUs.

What I need: mostly, I'd love to hear your pros and cons for different firmwares. Since I don't use Macs, I'd like to know if there's any macOS 'idiosyncrasies' (relatively speaking) I should be aware of compared to flashing on Windows or Linux. I assume not really, but better safe than sorry!
Why feedback?
Whilst I hope my knowledge and pragmatism is 'good enough' to get these done and compare stuff fairly, I still want to hear your takes on the three topics. What should I include, what points should I really be getting across, etc. The fact is, sharks like humans are prone to [unconscious or not] bias and preconceptions and newcomers deserve to get facts or at least a wide range of opinion so they can make informed decisions.
Cheers,
Your favourite Shark

Okay, first off, I will preface this by saying that I am not Brazilian, and I am simply searching for recordings of what I will discuss for archival purposes, and to amuse myself with footage of the work of Vídeo Brinquedo being on TV. Uh, anyways...
CONTEXT:
On June 6th, 2009, the show "Escola de Princesinhas" premiered on the Brazilian children's network, TV Rá Tim Bum. The show would first air on Saturdays and Sundays at 6:30 AM, 1:35 PM, 8 PM, and 12:30 AM. Later on, on September 5, 2009, "Abelhinhas" premiered on the channel. Now, there seem to be conflicting reports that I could find of the show's timeslot, but I'll just go with the one stated via an archive of the show's page on TV Rá Tim Bum's website dated July 26th, 2010, airing on Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 PM. Finally, on January 2, 2010, "Os Carrinhos" premiered, being the final of Vídeo Brinquedo's works to premiere on the channel. The show would start airing on Thursdays and Fridays at 1:30 PM and 7:30 PM, and Saturdays and Sundays at 9:30 AM, 2:45 PM, and 7:30 PM. And based on what I could find, "Os Carrinhos" and "Escola de Princesinhas" seemed to have stopped airing on the channel around July 2011. "Abelhinhas" seems to have stopped airing around October 2010.
Later on, sometime in, what I could find, December 2014, the shows would return to television, airing on another Brazilian TV channel, RedeTV, via its now defunct TV Kids block. This came after the block had been revived and underwent drastic changes, now aiming for a preschool audience. The shows would air until the block ceased again in February 2015, I guess. The block would continue airing until 2018.
WHAT I SEEK TO FIND:
Now, what I seek to find isn't the contents of these shows. No, they're readily available on DVD in Brazil, where they were released as sequel films, quite a few of them having released before they made their debuts on TV. The 24 "Os Carrinhos" episodes were released as 7 DVD sequels to the original film, 4 of them having 3 episodes, 3 of them having 4 episodes, with a bonus collector's edition DVD being released that not only contained several episodes from previous releases, but it also contained a seemingly new episode, "O Trator Monstro", therefore totaling to 25 episodes actually, "Abelhinhas" had its 9 episodes spread across 3 DVDs, all 3 of them having 3 episodes, and "Escola de Princesinhas" had 5 total DVDs, each DVD having 3 episodes, totaling to 15. The "Os Carrinhos" sequels were also released in the US, along with just the first "Escola de Princesinhas" DVD. There also exists an English language cover of the first "Abelhinhas" sequel DVD, but outside of that, I can't find any info on its episodes being dubbed in English (I just haven't investiagted yet.)
They're also readily available on YouTube in Portuguese, via the Crianças Inteligentes channel (except for the "Os Carrinhos" episodes "O Carrinho da Páscoa", "Se Eu Fosse Ocê", "O Circo", "A Turma na Fazenda", and the title card for the episode "O Pintor" is for some reason cut out.)
Uh, I should go back on topic now. Okay, so basically, I'm seeking to find recordings of these shows' episodes airing on TV Rá Tim Bum or RedeTV's TV Kids block. Whether it be mere clips, full episodes with the channels' screen bugs on the footage, or even promos advertising the shows, I'd like to see it, as I haven't found anything like this myself (I have found this video though. It contains clips from the "Os Carrinhos" episode "A Alta Roda", and the "Abelhinhas" episode "O Sumiço da Colméia"). Being a very interested person in the stuff that Vídeo Brinquedo has done, this is fascinating, and I'd like to see this footage potentially be found.
REFERENCES:

1. http://www1.folha.uol.com.bfolha/ilustrada/ult90u575452.shtml
2. http://www.infoanimation.com.b2009/09/tv-ra-tim-bum-estreia-amanha-nova.html
3. http://nomundoanimado.blogspot.com/2009/12/estreia-carrinhos.html
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706155122/http://www.tvratimbum.com.bsecoes/programas/?id=45
5. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706155044/http://www.tvratimbum.com.bsecoes/programas/?id=56
6. https://web.archive.org/web/20101013012233/http://www.tvratimbum.com.br:80/secoes/programas/?id=48
7. http://www.infoanimation.com.b2014/12/redetv-estreia-programa-infantil-com.html
8. https://d1aid1ai1ve9l.cloudfront.net/capasm/307366406.jpg

Almost 2 months ago I told my former therapist on the phone about my past inappropriate relationship I had with my teacher at 15, she was trying to report it but I gave 0 details of her, the school I was in , and the city I was living in at that time.
It’s been almost 2 months now since I opened to my therapist about my past inappropriate relationship with my former teacher I had with when I was 15 but I gave no details of her, the school I went, and the city I was living in at the time. I’m 24 now.
Oh, so I’m 24 years old and I live in California and it’s been almost 2 months now since I’ve told my former therapist about my past, and after I told her the story of how everything went down and how everything ended, she was very helpful and got me to understand what it meant and everything else but she did say she was a mandated reporter, and said she would have to report any current sexual abuse going on with a child or an elderly person, or that if I was feeling suicidal and threatening to harm myself or harm others she said she would have to report, but in the middle of our conversation even before our first session on the phone, she didn’t say anything about reporting my past abuse, I clarified that I was 24 and then the next day she texted me trying to ask me for answers and then that’s when she said she was gonna have to make the report within 24 hours, but I refuse to give information, and my therapist kept pressuring me to give her details and everything else but of course I kept refusing because I personally do not want to report it because my teacher no longer works there. I haven’t seen her in almost 10 years now she only worked there for a little while and then she resigned and she told me she was no longer going to be working as a teacher and she moved out of state, but didn’t say where so I don’t even know her whereabouts.
When my therapist texted me, I felt like when she was pressuring me, she was also trying to guilt trip me even though I knew where she was coming from but honestly I forgave my past and I feel no need nor want to report now if she was still working at the school then yes, I would have to report even if I didn’t want to, but at that point, I would have to look out for others. I understand the therapist wanted to help the best she can but at the same time she needed to realize that not everything is in her control but yes, if I was still a minor then that would be a different story. After refusing to get information, that’s when she stop texting me and then three days later she texts me again asking me the same questions and of course I refuse them and everything else and then at that point and she kept going I just about had enough and that’s when I decided to end my sessions with her. After telling her that, I appreciate everything she’s done for me, but I would like to cancel my sessions with her. She far right out agreed and told me to consider them canceled and then she told me to be well and then a few minutes later, she asked me one last question what school did you go to? I didn’t even bother to answer because I’ve already went over this with her so many times so I blocked her number and that was it. It’s been almost 2 months now and I haven’t heard anything out of this and she has not tried to contact in any other way so I have not heard anything out of her ever since I’m still worried if she made the report or not because like I said, I don’t want to report It. I’ve been a little paranoid although it’s been almost 2 months, I’ve been smoking cigarettes, and vaping a lot because of it.
So far no has contacted me to ask me questions about it, or has came to my door to ask me any questions. I talked to my aunt about it recently and she’s a former therapist, she was a therapist for 19 years before she became a caregiver, she said she dealt with someone similar a girl who had an inappropriate relationship with her teacher back in high, my aunt said she was an adult by time she worked with her, my aunt said she couldn’t report it because she only gave his last name and not any other details such as his full identity, where she went to school, and everything else. I’m currently seeing a new therapist whom I like way better than my former one, although I appreciate everything my former therapist was trying to do for me, I felt like she was going outside her work by trying to play detective, and at that point I felt like she was being a vigilante just for how she was acting like a detective instead of helping me. But so far I still have not heard anything of the report, I’ve been looking online to see if the report was made and so far nothing, no one has called me about or came to my door and it’s been almost 2 months now. Should I be worried I really don’t want to dig up my past I just want to move forward with my life. Based off of my research I did, I found that in most cases therapist are not required to report past abuse if their client is now an adult and that the victim will have to report it themselves. I feel no need to report I wish my first therapist would’ve understood that I came in for professional help not to dig up old memories. Should I worry now that is been almost two months? I am working with a new therapist and it took me a week to finally feel comfortable with opening up about my past and telling her what I pretty much told my former therapist but I made it clear to my other therapist that I’m going to leave her name out and I’m not going to give any further details because I just want to put this behind me and move forward, and my therapist asked me “ Are you sure you don’t want me to report it”? And I said “yes I’m sure” and I clarified that she’s no longer working at the school and that she’s no longer working as a teacher so my therapist said “ OK then there really nothing there to report and if you don’t want to report it, I understand. I respect your wishes either way because I’m here to help you get through this. “

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IT SEEMS DUNGEONS & Dragons is practically everywhere these days, with the popular tabletop role-playing game garnering a buzzy film adaptation in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which hits theaters March 31, 2023.
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Helmed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (who had previously directed Game Night), Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves features a must-see, all-star cast including Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, and Hugh Grant. This new high-fantasy adventure sees a charming bard and a party of unlikely adventurers embarking on an epic quest to retrieve a long-lost artifact that could destroy the world in the wrong hands. But their adventure goes dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people — and, of course, a dragon or two.
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So you want to gather up your party and watch Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves? Good news: the film might be coming to streaming sooner than you might think. Read on to see where you can watch Dungeons & Dragons 2023, and how to get started playing D&D yourself.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieve Release Date
Despite the success of several streaming services choosing to release their films online same-day, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will be released exclusively in theaters. Paramount has not yet announced a streaming release date for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, so as of now, the only way to watch Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is in theaters, when it’s released on Friday March 31, 2023.
Can You Stream Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Online?
After Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves initial cinematic release, we might see the film come to Paramount+ about one and a half to two months after March 31, so we could see it online as early as mid-May (since many Paramount films start streaming 46-60 days after their theatrical release). Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is currently not available on Netflix, HBO Max or Hulu, but Pararmount+ is expected to be the streaming home of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves online.
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When Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves does become available for streaming, you’re going to need a Paramount+ subscription. Pricing for Paramount+ plans include Limited Commercials for $4.99/month or Commercial Free for $9.99/month. Currently enrolled in university? Students can also get 25% off your subscription if you provide an “edu” email address (one of many streaming discounts for students online). Check out the latest Paramount+ deals here.
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Sign up for Paramount+ and log in with your subscription to stream Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves when it drops on the service from your phone, laptop, tablet or connected TV. In the meantime, Paramount+ is also the home for ViacomCBS’s massive existing library of content.
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As of now, the only way to watch Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is to head to a theater when it releases on Friday, Mar. 31. You can find a local showing on Fandango. Otherwise, you’ll just have to wait for it to become available to rent or buy on digital platforms like Vudu, Amazon, Apple and YouTube, or become available to stream on Peacock. Read on for more information.
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Following its release in theaters, the film will be available to stream on Peacock. Expect the movie to hit the streamer 45 days after its theatrical run, which should be sometime in December.
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Will Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Streaming On HBO Max?
No, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will not be on HBO Max since it’s not a Warner Bros. movie. While the company previously released its movies on HBO Max and in theaters on the same day, they have since stopped and have implemented a 45-day window between the theatrical release and streaming release.
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Will Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Available On Peacock?
While a streaming release date has not yet been announced for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, we can estimate when it could head to Paramount based on another Universal Pictures movie.
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Violent Night, which hit theaters on Dec. 2, became available to stream on Peacock on Jan. 20 — a little over 45 days after its theatrical release. If Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves follows the same pattern, it could make its way to the platform by mid-May. However, other movies like Nope took more than 100 days, so it’s best to take this estimate with a grain of salt.
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Will Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves be on Netflix?
Unfortunately, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves isn’t available to stream on Netflix. The Adventure isn’t included in the lineup of Netflix movies, which includes a vast number of rom-coms featuring some of our favorite actors and actresses.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) is bursting with talented artists like Chris Pine as Edgin, Michelle Rodriguez as Holga, and Regé-Jean Page as Xenk. Also, you'll see Justice Smith (Simon), Sophia Lillis (Doric), Hugh Grant (Forge), Jason Wong (Dralas), Sophia Eleni (Valxina Tabaxi), Bryan Larkin (Chancellor Norixius), Kenneth Collard (Din Caldwell), Appy Pratt (Ishira) and a lot more artists are featured in this upcoming fantasy action-adventure film.

I found out last year that my basement has a little room off of it that's been sealed off from the inside (old cold cellar). It's under my front porch and it has a small, above-grade window opening.
Whoever closed off the room also covered the window opening in plywood covered in tar. This cover rotted out, along with the wood framing, and now watesnow gets in and leaks through into the rest of my basement.
Now that I know this little room is there, I'm thinking of opening it up and using it again. But that's a future project. So for now, I want to seal up the window opening, but less permanently than with brick or block. Something that will keep water out for a year or two while I decide what I want to do with it.
I'm thinking of covering it with a sheet of plywood a bit bigger than the opening, screwed into the outside of the foundation with tapcons, then caulking around the edges and coating it in epoxy sealer. Will this be enough to keep water out for a while? Is there a better way?

https://www.ft.com/content/11cb394d-a13e-4826-b580-823b9367fedb
TL;DR: Paragon is a company making basically the same spyware as Pegasus, but are only selling it to US and its allies so they don't get sued into oblivion. Ehud Barak is also on the BoD.
In the summer of 2019, as Paragon Solutions was building one the world’s most potent cyberweapons, the company made a prescient decision: before courting a single customer, best get the Americans on side.
The Israeli start-up had watched local rival NSO Group, makers of the controversial Pegasus spyware, fall foul of the Biden administration and be blacklisted in the US. So Paragon sought guidance from top American advisers, secured funding from US venture capital groups and eventually scored a marquee client that eludes its competition: the US government.
Interviews with half a dozen industry figures about the divergent paths of the two companies underline how the shadowy spyware industry is being reshaped around those friendly to American interests.
According to four of those people, the US Drug Enforcement and Administration Agency is among the top customers for Paragon’s signature product nicknamed Graphite.
The malware surreptitiously pierces the protections of modern smartphones and evades the encryption of messaging apps like Signal or WhatsApp, sometimes harvesting the data from cloud backups — much like Pegasus does.
Paragon was set up by Ehud Schneorson, the retired commander of Unit 8200, the Israeli army’s elite signals intelligence arm. According to people familiar with the company, which includes ex-Prime Minister Ehud Barak on its board, has secured investment from two US-based venture capital firms, Battery Ventures and Red Dot.
Paragon, Barak, Battery Ventures and Red Dot declined to comment.
In 2019, even before work on Graphite had been completed, on advice from a retired senior Mossad official, Paragon hired DC-based WestExec Advisors, the influential advisory group staffed by ex-Obama White House officials including Michele Flournoy, Avril Haines and Antony Blinken. Ex-US ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, was also consulted, people with knowledge of the advisory effort said. Shapiro declined to comment.
WestExec said it “advised Paragon on its strategic approach to the US and European markets, as well as the formulation of its industry-leading ethical commitments designed to ensure the appropriate use of its technology,” adding it was “proud of our contributions in these critical areas.”
After the election of Democratic president Joe Biden in 2021, Blinken was appointed secretary of state, while Haines is now director of national intelligence. Both had departed WestExec by the time of the Paragon contract, the lobbying firm said. Flournoy — once considered in the running to lead the defence department — remains an influential US voice on foreign affairs.
American approval, even if indirect, has been at the heart of Paragon’s strategy. The company sought a list of allied nations that the US wouldn’t object to seeing deploy Graphite. People with knowledge of the matter suggested 35 countries are on that list, though the exact nations involved could not be determined. Most were in the EU and some in Asia, the people said.
“Everything they did was with the strategy that at the end of the day, the US should see them as the good guys,” said one person familiar with the decisions.
That contrasts with NSO’s recent troubles. By 2019, assisted by the regional diplomacy of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, NSO was a $1bn company selling its wares to Saudi Arabia, Mexico and dozens of other countries.
By the time the Biden administration came into office, NSO’s lucrative customers were proving to be its Achilles heel, as many of those regimes continued to deploy the multimillion-dollar weapon against journalists, dissidents and opposition leaders.
As evidence of abuse spread, such as the targeting of US diplomats in Uganda in 2021, NSO has found itself in the crosshairs both of the American government and the world’s largest tech companies. Apple and WhatsApp owner Meta are suing it.
“There is a growing sense that this particular type of malware is so invasive, so surreptitious that its proliferation poses both a human rights risk and a counter-intelligence risk to the US,” said Stephen Feldstein, who has studied the spread of spyware such as Pegasus and Graphite for the Carnegie Endowment.
For nearly a decade, the only restraint on some of the biggest spyware manufacturers was Israeli export controls, which regulate malware like Pegasus as weapons. Feldstein said that Israeli officials “make decisions on geopolitical solutions, not on human rights abuses.”
Paragon’s founders, however, were more sensitive to the increasingly dim view the US was taking of the proliferation of cyberweapons.
After NSO’s malware was tracked to the phones of associates of murdered Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Paragon declined Israeli government requests to replace Pegasus with Graphite in the Saudi armoury, according to two people familiar with the issue.
Paragon’s decision to eschew a valuable Saudi contract eventually paid off. Two other Israeli firms, Quadream and Candiru, which sold similar hacking capabilities to the Saudi government, were outed by Microsoft and rights group Citizen Lab after their malware was used on journalists and dissidents. Candiru was blacklisted alongside NSO in Nov 2021. Quadream recently shut down operations, the Israeli paper Calcalist reported.
The US has stepped in further to reshape the spyware market to favour those who sell cyberweapons to the US and its allies, while curbing those who chase lucrative contracts with authoritarian regimes.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order in March barring any US agency from purchasing spyware that “poses risks to national security or has been misused by foreign actors to enable human rights abuses around the world.”
The wording of the executive order is seen by experts as targeting NSO, while carving out a space for companies like Paragon to continue selling similar spyware, but only to the closest of US allies. The American expectation — still unproven — is that friendly nations are less likely to abuse such a weapon on civil society, or to spy on US government officials deployed abroad.
“It’s really making the case that the US believes that many of these kinds of tools are unlawful,” said David Kaye, who as the UN’s Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression spent years trying to hold the NSO Group accountable for its customers’ abuse of its spyware. “And if the proliferation of these tools is a national security problem, then that really changes the conversation from it being a human rights problem.”
NSO said it “does not believe that its placement on the [US Commerce Department blacklist] has ever been warranted,” adding: “ironically, other cyber intelligence companies who are not subject to the list sell to countries without any regulatory structure and that NSO refuses to make sales [to].”
However, the DEA’s purchase of Graphite, reportedly only for use by its partners in Mexico to help fight drug cartels, has begun to draw scrutiny. The DEA said it uses: “every lawful investigative tool available to pursue the foreign-based cartels and individuals operating around the world responsible for the drug poisoning deaths of 107,735 Americans last year.”
Congressman Adam Schiff, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, wrote to the DEA in December asking for more details on the purchase. Mexico is among the worst abusers of NSO’s Pegasus which it bought nearly a decade ago.
Schiff wrote: “such use [of spyware] could have potential implications for US national security, as well as run contrary to efforts to deter the broad proliferation of powerful surveillance capabilities to autocratic regimes and others who may misuse them.”

Katie oh Katie.
Quote “If I don’t show you a source on something, it’s based on or a video I’ve done before in the past. (meaning she also didn’t have a source for that vid either!).” Unquote. @ 2:50ish of yet another Faceless voiceover post.
Later on, says she knows a lot & has talked to a lot of people about the Duggars. (Then why are you not an Expert starring in “Shiny People”, Ms Journalist? ) Just wondering.
Why would she even touch on that unless she was called out for being sourceless or receiptless ? There’s some stellar journalism there, KJP.
How do those in the Echo Chamber of Queen Katie settle for that? Are they that gullible ? Of course we know that answer.
In regard to pettiness on my part I know…. But why is WOACB showing an amateur green screen (of blue water that was making me queasy) and what looks like cardboard cutouts of pix of people? Again, it’s from Ms Journalist Extraordinaire . Looks like a high school project.
Is it me or is KJ avoiding the Elephant in the Room as to why she herself does not appear in the DocuSeries?
And again, is it me, or is Katie giving a rare pass to Michelle all of a sudden? Giving her Victim status in KJ’s warped mind? Strange to me. She seldomly gives a single Duggar a pass. Ever. Ever.
She just had to get a dig in at Jinger at the end! Eye roll.
SMH. All respectfully imho.

This summer, Futurama is making its second triumphant return. However, the episode titles for the new season don't exactly inspire confidence in me. "The Impossible Stream" is very likely going to be about streaming services. "Related To The Items You've Viewed" is obviously about algorithms. "Rage Against The Vaccine" surely won't be talking about a certain virus, will it? They aren't even hiding what "Zapp Gets Cancelled" is about.
I've already done a rant about the Comedy Central era on this sub when the revival was first announced, and it seems my fears about my biggest problem with the Comedy Central era is back with a vengeance: topical episode plots. Despite being set in the future, the Comedy Central era decided to dedicate a good portion of episodes to that either date the episode or come off as the writers trying to be hip. Sure, the Fox era had a few episodes that were topical (Napster for "I Dated A Robot," and W. Bush's attempted rebate from a budget surplus in "Three Hundred Big Boys"), but those episodes were few and far between. Come the Comedy Central era, we have episodes on Apple Products and social media, steroid abuse in sports, Obama's birth certificate, the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse, GMOs, and the subject of this rant, Proposition 8.
So, in the episode "Proposition Infinity," Amy and Kiff break up, so she starts dating Bender. They even consider marriage, but there's a problem: robosexual marriage is illegal due to prejudices by the older generation. In the end, robosexual marriage gets legalized, but Bender dumps Amy because status quo.
The first problem with this episode is how it contradicts a previous episode, "I Dated A Robot." In that episode, dating robots is treated as a bad thing. The Planet Express crew is creeped out by Fry dating a robot, so they try to cure him. However, in this episode, the PE crew sans Farnsworth are okay with Bender and Amy dating. You can argue that in the former, Fry was using an autonomous robot as a sex slave, but that point never gets brought up.
The next problem are the characters used for the metaphor. So, for this metaphor for gay marriage, we're following a heteronormative couple. This wouldn't be a problem if robots in Futurama didn't specifically have genders. There was even an episode where Bender got a sex change. So, standing up for gay marriage using a straight couple comes off as insincere. An interracial marriage metaphor would have been more appropriate, but that's not a current hot button issue now or when the episode aired, now is it?
The final issue is how Bender and Amy's relationship starts and ends. As mentioned earlier, the plot of the episode is kicked off by Amy and Kiff breaking up. However, the reason they broke up was because Kiff was tired of Amy acting flirty with other men. After spending the episode as a couple, it seems like Bender is willing to settle down with Amy. Unfortunately, this is Bender we're talking about. So, now that robosexual marriage is legal, in the very next scene, Bender dumps Amy because he wants to keep sleeping around. On top of making everything in the plot pointless, they use two unfaithful people to be the sympathetic party in a gay marriage metaphor. Moral of the story: we let gay people get married, they're going to cheat on each other. Yep, that old problematic stereotype.

Hey, I'm a 20 year old Male currently weighing in at 315 lbs after losing 20 lbs since the beginning of the year, all from dieting and upping my steps a bit.
I want to get stronger, be able to hold my own weight is the starting goal and the end goal is to be able to do multiple pushups and pull ups. I have little to no experience with body weight exercises and have only really done push ups rocking on my knees.
Any advice or tips that I should know and any "routines" if anyone wants to help!
(I am going to be reading more of older posts in this subreddit, I just want to have a starting block with people offering more precise advice!!
The main thing I struggle is with motivation and enjoyment from working out. But I really need to lose weight and be able to do more physically too.

Got this email from Turo support
To start the process, please take these steps: 1. Take your vehicle to any repair shop. 2. Ask for a diagnosis of the issue. A "diagnostic" is a written explanation from a mechanic or technician of what is damaged and what caused the damage. o If your protection plan covers the damage, we’ll pay for the diagnostic cost. o If your protection plan doesn’t cover the damage, you’ll be responsible for the cost. § Diagnostic costs typically run between $100–$250. 3. Ask your shop for two pieces of information in writing: o a description of what caused the damage o an estimate for repairs 4. If they can, please have your shop include any supporting photos of the damage 5. Attach the documentation to this email and return it to me within 3 days of receiving this email.
In the meantime, don’t operate the vehicle if the damage seems connected to any of the driving components (e.g. engine, radiator, oil, etc). Doing so could cause more damage, and that won’t be covered under this claim.
We’ll review the damage description, estimate, photos, and investigate if necessary. Guests sometimes dispute mechanical damage claims. That’s why we require a damage description in writing. It lets us easily resolve these disputes should they arise. Also, having evidence in writing helps us determine claim coverage. Do not authorize repairs with your shop before we’ve approved coverage.
Thanks in advance for your cooperation. If I don’t hear from you in 2 days, I’ll follow up with a final check-in.
Is this typical? I did initially report the automatic sliding doors weren’t working when returned. But found a switch that cause that. So I believe the damage to be cosmetic not so much mechanical. Do I still need to do this diagnostic? She said I need to get her the documents in 3 days from when I got the email but it’s Memorial Day weekend and she isn’t responding. What do you guys think?

Hey guys, I(23F) need some advice on how to move on from my ex(24M). He cheated on me with his best friend. Stupidly, I forgave him and though that things could workout. We had be dating for 5 years and he was the first person I truly loved but, four months ago he was ignoring me the whole day and I went by his apartment to see his best friends car parked outside his place. I got angry and called him names over text. He got upset with me cause I called him a b*tch. I assumed he was cheating again, but instead he said he had a mental breakdown and cut his hair off. I was upset because he decided to call her over and have her stay the night instead of taking to me about it. So I blew up his phone and messages to the point of getting blocked. He tried to make me feel bad about my reaction, but he knows it’s triggering. In the end I left because I knew I couldn’t mentally continue to try for something when I was the only one putting in effort. Anyways, fast forward to today. I am trying to date again but it’s so hard to not continuously compare everyone to him. He was an amazing person if you could eliminate lying and cheating. I know it sounds absolutely stupid but I’m looking for advise.
How do you grow attraction for someone when it feels like the person that felt right for you is gone. I meet amazing guys who are genuinely amazing but I don’t have that connection with anyone new as I did for my ex.
Please help

It's early 2033, the angry-o-meter is at 4/5 despite me not attacking the Servants or the Protectorate for a while, but anytime I get something in LoE it gets taken down within days ... at this point I just wonder if my run is fucked, as it seems I'm totally denied any space access outside of a few mining station in Asteroid Belt.
Any ship I could build doesn't even come close to match the ayys ship and anyway I don't have any drive that's capable of doing a transfer from Asteroid Belt to Earth in less than like 2 years, let alone retaining any combat capabilities.
Am I fucked ?

Darkseid of Ozamis is a relaxed server for Conan Exiles located on the PVE list for PS4 & PS5.
Anyone can join if you're looking for a server that wants it's players to have some fun. Other rented servers just have too many rules, telling you exactly how big your base can be or restricting you to only building one outpost or not building any sorcery teleports at all.
We have a limited shop to try to keep things simple, Other than that there are many map rooms and teleports to help players navigate the Exiled lands.
We won't be building arenas or jousting areas or hosting any events. Those types of areas will be left for players on the server to create if they want one. Admin may sponsor player crated events if and when they occur.
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The server is K.O.D. Keep on Death for inventory items.
3x harvest with crafting cost cut in half.
Slightly boosted damage dealt with no reduction in incoming damage. Concussive damage increased to knock out thralls.
Increased thrall and environment respawns.
Decreased time for thrall and animal taming. Build anywhere with a significant reduction in stability.
Decay is off (As long as there aren't any issues with someone's build we will do our best to not be the decay ourselves and remove anything.)
Discord and psn chat not required but are available to assist in communicating with others.
Some basic rules apply for blocking bosses or certain areas but for the most part, we just want players to come in and enjoy their time here without worrying about what admin will do if their base is 31x31 instead of the required 30x30 foundations squared. Build in the unnamed city if you want or even in a dungeon (as long as areas do not blocking players from accessing or bosses are prevented from spawning.)
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If you're tired of the endless grind of official servers and are fed up with all the ridiculous and excessive rules from other rented servers, join Darkseid of Ozamis on the Pve list for PS5/PS5.

I have a ~2 month dedicated period. Finished all of UWorld and just reset it, and have done around 30% of Amboss. Post-reset UWorld percentages have been good but not great (mid-70s to mid-80s in blocks) but I'm not sure if my UWorld percentages are being artificially inflated since I've already finished all of it and I made an Anki deck off my missed questions. Some people say that's just evidence that I've retained info from my first pass of UW.
How stupid would it be for me to continue doing UW and trying to finish all of it by the time I sit for Step 2? I've found Amboss to not as helpful for me as I feel like the questions are either really obvious or stupidly difficult. Is Amboss a good dedicated bank?
I'm aiming for a 260+ as I'm applying into a competitive specialty.

hi. so i (18f) met this girl (let’s call her A) on tiktok in april 2022. she was my age . we began talking romantically in july (started officially dating in september) and we talked every day. she lives in canada and i live in the USA so it was online. however she would not facetime me. she would send me videos of herself talking a lot though. every time i would bring up facetime she would start sobbing and she only ended up telling me that it was because her ex boyfriend shot himself on facetime with her. i understood, of course, and i believed her because she would sob every time we would discuss it. flash forward to february, this girl (lets call her K) follows me on tiktok and starts talking to me and trying to be my friend. so i was fine with that and we would text and occasionally facetime. A and i broke up in february but K told me she was getting messages from A about how distraught she was over the breakup and we got back together. the facetime thing started to be more and more of an issue for me and 2 weeks agoi told her if she ever wants to meet she would have to facetime me because no way is anybody in my life going to go let me meet up with someone i’ve never facetimed. and she wouldn’t do it. she would break down crying and i understood but i told her that we shouldn’t be together because facetime is a need for me. we flirted for a little and then we stopped talking for a few days. yesterday i texted her and saw i was blocked. K had been texting me and i called her and i noticed how much her voice sounded like A’s (which i had noticed before but brushed off because they had different phone numbers ) and so finally i checked the area code on her phone number. it wasn’t a Canadian one it was a florida area code which is where K lives. i gently and calmly told K that she needed to tell me if she was A and that we could figure it out and discuss it. eventually she told me that her and her best friend had been catfishing me. her best friend, A was doing sexual things with me and sexting and sending nudes and she was the one sending videos and pics of her face. however K was the one calling me for hours daily and texting me. she told me occasionally A would text me because they had a shared imessage account. i’m sick to my stomach. i blocked them both. how do i move on? how do i cope?

i've been dating her for 4 months close to 5 months and its an online relationship. i really love her, i've never been so loved by a person, she have anger issue so whenever she gets mad by my goofy behaviour i always try to change myself, i think i've changed myself for her for 3 times, though she try to hold her anger for me eventhough she still gets mad me i always stay calm with it even if i cried myself to sleep after her talking shits bout me, i loved her and i thought she did too. 3-5 day ago she called her male friend darling and wore his belt as a choker she said its normal cuz they're very closed i knew it would end up badly but didn't think much of it and the next day somewhere near afternoon she send 2 min vm telling that she's sorry and that she make out with her male friend. "he was biting my neck and i couldn't think straight, this online relationship is making me crave physical touch, i love you and im sorry, i should've been a better gf". im already dealing with mental problems but after that conversation ive became beyond fuck and the worse thing is i cant talk bout it to anyone to make me feel better unlike her she have friends that she could talk to everyday and i got no one that would listen or try to understand my feelings not my friend and not even my family, i kept crying myself to sleep and i kept craving her love and attention this past few days i know its a stupid thing to do. like if she actually love me then why r u doing this to me, if my love worth everything then why just why, was it worth it, the quick pleasure was it good. i've blocked her earlier cuz someone commented to do it on my other post and i feel regret cuz i seriously want to talk to her and spend time with her but she seems like she's distancing herself from me. i really loved her, i could've become a better person to her. i have completely lost myself. sorry for talking too much

I've been stressing about this since recently finding this out, and I would appreciate any and all advice.
My mother (68 y/o) had a heart attack and brain aneurysm roughly fifteen years ago, which led to memory loss and early stage dementia. She currently lives with me, as she is unable to live by herself and experiences brain seizures. She recently started medicaid, roughly two or three months ago? We just found out she has a forgotten 401k from prior to her aneurysm. It's been sitting untouched for years. My question is, how do we go about handling this and addressing medicaid? She very much needs medicaid, but we are based in Indiana. From my understanding, the account is going to be considered an asset, so she'll lose eligibility? Will medicaid try to claim the money since she currently had medicaid? Will she be able to reapply for medicaid once the money is distributed out? I'm just at a loss of how to properly handle this. I'm surprised medicaid didn't locate it during the application process.

So back in my first attempt at recovery which just became BED (2010) an acquaintance of mine on Facebook (like, my now-husband’s best friend’s then-girlfriend) shared a T-shirt on her page and her post showed up on my feed. It said “Camp Ana Wanna”. Now. Something to know about me is that I have been Extremely Online forever. Most on my online activity pre-2014 was in proana forums. So, being me, I obviously interpreted this as “wannarexic” (an outdated term that meant someone who hangs out in proana forums wishing they were anorexic). I DMed her right away, offering support and encouraging her to stay away from that content online. She DMed me back immediately and was like “ummmm this is a shirt from the 90s Nickelodeon show Salute Your Shorts??????” and blocked me. Special thanks to Old Navy for showing me an ad in Instagram of a shirt just like it to remind me of this cringe memory.

I found out last year that my basement has a little room off of it that's been sealed off from the inside (old cold cellar). It's under my front porch and it has a small, above-grade window opening.
Whoever closed off the room also covered the window opening in plywood covered in tar. This cover rotted out, along with the wood framing, and now watesnow gets in and leaks through into the rest of my basement.
Now that I know this little room is there, I'm thinking of opening it up and using it again. But that's a future project. So for now, I want to seal up the window opening, but less permanently than with brick or block. Something that will keep water out for a year or two while I decide what I want to do with it.
I'm thinking of covering it with a sheet of plywood a bit bigger than the opening, screwed into the outside of the foundation with tapcons, then caulking around the edges and coating it in epoxy sealer. Will this be enough to keep water out for a while? Is there a better way?

Last year was very hectic I broke my leg, had to go out it multiple times due to, missed school lectures, I am also in school i am not attending JEE coaching, and thanks to CBSE our school didn't teach us most of inorganic chemistry because it's now deleted from CBSE syllabus. We didn't practice the question tough questions but I have a strong grip on NCERT math, but I haven't done some extra book, thinking to start now (11th with ongoing 12th). My chemistry is shit, except physical cause my calculation is alright so Physical is somewhere in between. I couldn't do Physics properly, but I am watching lectures and Thinking to do question but will I be able o Crack JEE ADV like this???

hi. so i (18f) met this girl (let’s call her A) on tiktok in april 2022. she was my age . we began talking romantically in july (started officially dating in september) and we talked every day. she lives in canada and i live in the USA so it was online. however she would not facetime me. she would send me videos of herself talking a lot though. every time i would bring up facetime she would start sobbing and she only ended up telling me that it was because her ex boyfriend shot himself on facetime with her. i understood, of course, and i believed her because she would sob every time we would discuss it. flash forward to february, this girl (lets call her K) follows me on tiktok and starts talking to me and trying to be my friend. so i was fine with that and we would text and occasionally facetime. A and i broke up in february but K told me she was getting messages from A about how distraught she was over the breakup and we got back together. the facetime thing started to be more and more of an issue for me and 2 weeks agoi told her if she ever wants to meet she would have to facetime me because no way is anybody in my life going to go let me meet up with someone i’ve never facetimed. and she wouldn’t do it. she would break down crying and i understood but i told her that we shouldn’t be together because facetime is a need for me. we flirted for a little and then we stopped talking for a few days. yesterday i texted her and saw i was blocked. K had been texting me and i called her and i noticed how much her voice sounded like A’s (which i had noticed before but brushed off because they had different phone numbers ) and so finally i checked the area code on her phone number. it wasn’t a Canadian one it was a florida area code which is where K lives. i gently and calmly told K that she needed to tell me if she was A and that we could figure it out and discuss it. eventually she told me that her and her best friend had been catfishing me. her best friend, A was doing sexual things with me and sexting and sending nudes and she was the one sending videos and pics of her face. however K was the one calling me for hours daily and texting me. she told me occasionally A would text me because they had a shared imessage account. i’m sick to my stomach. i blocked them both. how do i move on? how do i cope?