So my girlfriend has a 20 yo son. He is a sweet innocent boy, but totally clueless sometimes. Today he knocked on the bedroom door while.we were having sex. We super quickly put clothes on and then he came in and talked about random stuff completely unaware of what he just interrupted. When we watch a movie he can walk in 8 times and just start talking and each time gf will pause and let him talk and then he wanders off again. I feel like he is old enough to be more self aware and I feel like she should be laying down boundaries more and tell him to wait or give us time alone. Pls give me some advice. Do I expect too much? How do I approach this?

As ugly as it may sound, head count reduction seems to be the new trend in big tech.
Many of these companies experienced unparalleled demand during the peak of the pandemic, and revenue, margins, and profits were steadily setting records. Companies subsequently reinvested these profits into new, non-core initiatives and increased marketing campaigns. As a result, they also hired more people.
Three years later, business finally seems to be normalizing. Growth is slowing down, demand is decreasing, and economists are ringing the alarm bell on inflation and potential recession. We're left with executives admitting that hiring got ahead of itself, and head count ballooned to unsustainable levels. Now the prudent choice for businesses is to scale back.
In the case of Meta Platforms (META 0.85%), CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made two things clear: Meta is going to reduce its costs, and head count will be the primary driver of its cost reduction. Amid the tough reality of layoffs, Wall Street appears to be applauding these efforts.
With that said, let's consider how this might change the investment thesis for Meta stock moving forward. Full from fool.com

my bf (m 20) and i (f 18) have been dating for over a year and are long distance. recently we’ve been going through a rough time, maybe it’s just me but it’s been hard. we recently got in a huge argument because i wanted to talk to him about being more present when we are facetiming because he usually is muted and has the camera facing the ceiling or just off all together and i honestly don’t see the point of the call if all we say is hello, maybe ask about his day then we don’t talk for the rest of the night.
the night of the fight he kept saying we’ll talk later because he was playing a game with his online friend, i asked him when because i know if we don’t set a time we will never actually talk about it and this had been weighing on me for awhile. he kept dodging the question and it started a very large argument because i was pushing him(his words). he texted me on snapchat and ended the relationship, i halfway slid to see the text but didn’t open it completely, he (thinking i hadn’t seen it) deleted it less than 5 minutes later. even though he deleted it i told him i saw it and he proceeded to break up with me. we were facetiming after he cooled off and he convinced me to drive to see him (4 hours away).
the next day i drove to see him so i could say goodbye to not only him but the dog i convinced him to adopt. the whole time he acted as if we hadn’t broken up. he was on discord call with his friend every night, he did tell me he had made promises to his friend before i came but one night his friend was logging off and my boyfriend(then ex) was trying to make plans with him later in the night. i got annoyed as it was 10 or 11 pm and he had been playing for 6+ hours. i turned over and tried to sleep but i was so annoyed that i confronted him. he said that i shouldn’t feel neglected because he had told me before hand that he would be playing with his friend and that whatever he says to his friend is none of my business and i shouldn’t eavesdrop on his conversations with his friends because they are “hypothetical”. i didn’t see it as eavesdropping because he said it out loud on call with his friend and i couldn’t help but hear what he was saying. we got in another argument and he got mad and kicked his desk which caused me to flinch (i don’t think he would hurt me but i have past trauma and i can barely be yelled at without flinching) this made him more angry and he ended up crushing the remote to his led strip lights in his hand, throwing it on the ground and storming out of his room slamming both his bedroom door and his front door on his way out.
he came back and we didn’t talk about it as it was my last night there. we spent the night in silence and we talked about it the next day which resulted in me apologizing for overreacting. before i left to go home he asked me to be his gf again and i cried. all i said was “you better not break up with me again.” we kissed and i left. am i the a-hole? did i overreact?

I was just watching a documentary about the PRC (People's Republic of China). They were saying that Confucius taught that honesty is one of the highest human virtues. As part of the Communist Party's new plan to establish legitimacy, they are drawing on these ancient Chinese traditions. They showed a young girl drawing the Chinese character for "honesty". Obviously there is real irony in this.
But don't get me wrong, this is not a uniquely Chinese phenomenon. How about the perception that the United States is the "land of the free", when in truth it is the nation with the highest incarceration rate. Or the "American Dream", where what you set your mind to you can achieve with hard work, when in reality you are more likely to move out of poverty in Old World Europe.
But it's not only a political thing. How about religion? People believe all sorts of ridiculous ideas, and not only that, but are willing to kill, and die, to defend them.
It happens on a much more personal level, too. Recently a client of mine insisted that I was only interested in money, despite the fact that this is not the case - I truly love my job, and I have sacrificed a higher salary in order to do something I enjoy. She was angry with me because she was not holding up on her end of the bargain, and I called her on it and asked for the payment I was due. She told me horrible, nasty things! I argued with her for a bit, but in the end decided not to fight it and just let her take her business elsewhere. I'm not sure what world she lives in, but it's clear that what she thought and said about me was not rooted in reality. She never apologized, but in the end I received my payment and she continues doing business with me. So I guess deep down she knew she was wrong even though she didn't have the humility to admit it.
It happens all the times in relationships. We treat every little thing as a "red flag" rather than recognizing that people are human and are doing the best that they can. We "cancel" people before giving them a chance, and 9 times out of 10 not because they deserve it, but rather because we are afraid of opening up about our own wounds and dysfunctions. It is a shield, but since people are not interested in truth, they go on throwing the blame outward.
This is quite simply how our society works. The whole thing is built on lies. Perhaps it's because those lies benefit those at the top, which is quite clearly the case in China, and even in the USA. But also because we as individuals are too afraid to face the truth. The truth is scary. The truth is painful. Because we are vulnerable, we are mortal, and we are all quite powerless. These are not exactly fun things to try and digest.
But at the end of the day the journey is about you. It's up to you to open your eyes to the truth, not anyone else. That's not your job. Maybe by opening yourself up you can inspire others. But it's always about you first. The only benefit in realizing that the society is based on lies is that it allows you to know where you're coming from and also to see things with clear eyes. That way you can begin to function free from the chains of conditioning.
Is it scary? Yes. But as far as I know, we only get one shot at this thing called life. IMO, it's much better to live an honest life rooted in truth, rather than a half-hearted one rooted in lies. There is real satisfaction in this way. Perhaps that was Confucius was alluding to.

Normal when I go into my Xbox (Xbox series s) I just turn it on and I'm instantly in, but for some reason it asked me to put in my password, but when I did it didn’t work, so then I went onto the Microsoft website and tried to change my password by filling out a form, but it said I didn’t fill out enough, so I tried it a couple more times until it just eventually said that I have reached my form limit and have to wait 24 hours. I have no idea what to do does anybody know any tips on how I can change my password without having it fill out that stupid form

Hi all, apologies for posting in English, but it is then easier for me to be specific about the question.
We are currently in the process of purchasing a property for which the current owners have been renting land adjacent to the house from the municipality since they moved to the property 28 years ago.
The rented land is a 55sqm strip on the side of the house which the owners have incorporated into the garden (in such a way that separation from the owned plot would be relatively disruptive).
During the purchase, the selling agent has contacted Gemeente Amsterdam, who have absorbed the town into the municipality in the last year, to confirm that this arrangement may continue. No record of the agreement with the previous Gemeente has been found, other than a letter confirming a price increase in 2001, and the owners also receive an annual bill of €187. Gemeente Amsterdam seemed to be unaware of the arrangement but have indicated they are open to negotiating continued use of the land if we would like to continue renting it (as mentioned above, not doing so isn't a very realistic option and would more than halve the size of the garden, which is fully fenced in and paved). They indicated a refusal to sell the land due to "scarcity" (although I'm not sure what they would do with a plot around 3m wide), but their offer is €6.01 per sqm.
The plot size has only been measured on the basis of what was being paid and the previous fee to our understanding. A 75% increase in cost feels significant and we are concerned over potential increases that would impact the value of the property either due to the cost of the contract or reducing the size of the garden.
We are not sure how unusual this case is or the law surrounding it and don't want to agree to anything with the gemeente before exploring further. Any indicative comments would be greatly appreciated and if it is something that we can pursue then we would be interested in engaging in advice, we just don't know where to start as this doesn't seem like a typical leasehold situation which is all I've been able to find information on
Many thanks in advance, if any additional information is needed please let me know.

I was trying to mod a SNES, and, due to some fuck-uppery, has to redo a solder (soldering a cable to pad 24 in the pic).
Link to the image
I got some solder stuck on the other contacts, what whatever I did to try and remove it just kept making the situation worse.
Is there anything I can try doing other that just removing the whole chip, cleaning, and reseating the whole thing?

I was just watching a documentary about the PRC (People's Republic of China). They were saying that Confucius taught that honesty is one of the highest human virtues. As part of the Communist Party's new plan to establish legitimacy, they are drawing on these ancient Chinese traditions. They showed a young girl drawing the Chinese character for "honesty". Obviously there is real irony in this.
But don't get me wrong, this is not a uniquely Chinese phenomenon. How about the perception that the United States is the "land of the free", when in truth it is the nation with the highest incarceration rate. Or the "American Dream", where what you set your mind to you can achieve with hard work, when in reality you are more likely to move out of poverty in Old World Europe.
But it's not only a political thing. How about religion? People believe all sorts of ridiculous ideas, and not only that, but are willing to kill, and die, to defend them.
It happens on a much more personal level, too. Recently a client of mine insisted that I was only interested in money, despite the fact that this is not the case - I truly love my job, and I have sacrificed a higher salary in order to do something I enjoy. She was angry with me because she was not holding up on her end of the bargain, and I called her on it and asked for the payment I was due. She told me horrible, nasty things! I argued with her for a bit, but in the end decided not to fight it and just let her take her business elsewhere. I'm not sure what world she lives in, but it's clear that what she thought and said about me was not rooted in reality. She never apologized, but in the end I received my payment and she continues doing business with me. So I guess deep down she knew she was wrong even though she didn't have the humility to admit it.
It happens all the times in relationships. We treat every little thing as a "red flag" rather than recognizing that people are human and are doing the best that they can. We "cancel" people before giving them a chance, and 9 times out of 10 not because they deserve it, but rather because we are afraid of opening up about our own wounds and dysfunctions. It is a shield, but since people are not interested in truth, they go on throwing the blame outward.
This is quite simply how our society works. The whole thing is built on lies. Perhaps it's because those lies benefit those at the top, which is quite clearly the case in China, and even in the USA. But also because we as individuals are too afraid to face the truth. The truth is scary. The truth is painful. Because we are vulnerable, we are mortal, and we are all quite powerless. These are not exactly fun things to try and digest.
But at the end of the day the journey is about you. It's up to you to open your eyes to the truth, not anyone else. That's not your job. Maybe by opening yourself up you can inspire others. But it's always about you first. The only benefit in realizing that the society is based on lies is that it allows you to know where you're coming from and also to see things with clear eyes. That way you can begin to function free from the chains of conditioning.
Is it scary? Yes. But as far as I know, we only get one shot at this thing called life. IMO, it's much better to live an honest life rooted in truth, rather than a half-hearted one rooted in lies. There is real satisfaction in this way. Perhaps that was Confucius was alluding to.

So it should come as no surprise that on one of the biggest money making drinking days of the year, you’re gonna run into a few sour grapes along the way. I myself fell victim to not one, but two such individuals.
I, like so many other victims that work in sales / retail / hospitality, had to work on St. Patrick’s day this year… it was a wild ride.
Everyone suddenly wanted a pint of Guinness, even though they’d drink up less than half a pint and leave it there for hours, because our bar was swarming with mindless zombies. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job, I always do my best and try to elevate the standards of our establishment.
But these people were testing my god damn patience…
Our tills are the kind where you can’t void or remove multiple things at once, you can remove one item, so if someone decided to amend their entire order, you’re pretty much preparing yourself for a Karen to make a special appearance. I had customers asking for something different left, right and whole dam centre. But when I encountered this one man, I had reached my breaking point.
The drunken leprechaun, we’ll call Kevin, had had A LOT to drink, like- a lot. I know what you’re going to say ‘but everyone drinks a lot on St. Patty’s day!’ True, but not when you’re in every weekend getting truly sloshes and causing brawls… this guy had been provoking a few other regulars, so when he came to the bar for a double of whatever basic ass swill he wanted to shoot, enough was enough. I told him, I can’t serve you a double, but I’ll give you a single for the road, to appease him, because I’m a people pleaser…
But that clearly didn’t sit right with our little red faced, swaying patron, because he asked ‘why?!’ I explained that he was far too drunk and that my offering him a single spirit with a mixer was generous, because we reserve the right to refuse anyone service, if we feel they are too intoxicated. I have done my training and I’ve been in the business for almost ten years… he still said that wasn’t good enough, and threatened to ‘tell the manager on me’, the manager whom I am close friends with… making veil threats to getting me fired and saying things like ‘you’ll get what’s coming to you, I’ll make sure of it’ and ‘you had better watch yourself’.
Bare in mind, it hadn’t even gone 8pm and there were plenty of other places he and his friends could go to to drink. I’d had to refuse service to a number of drinkers, but he was the only one that had over reacted. Yes, he was swearing at me and pointing at me and threatening to come behind the bar and ‘show me what for’. To which I just stared him down. Down because he was really short lol.
Anyway, he returned less than a week later and refused to apologise for his disgusting behaviour not only to me but my colleagues and the door staff.
I feel bad at asking someone to leave, but it is my job to first and foremost protect the interest of the business and, more importantly, the person who runs it.
AITA?

I was just watching a documentary about the PRC (People's Republic of China). They were saying that Confucius taught that honesty is one of the highest human virtues. As part of the Communist Party's new plan to establish legitimacy, they are drawing on these ancient Chinese traditions. They showed a young girl drawing the Chinese character for "honesty". Obviously there is real irony in this.
But don't get me wrong, this is not a uniquely Chinese phenomenon. How about the perception that the United States is the "land of the free", when in truth it is the nation with the highest incarceration rate. Or the "American Dream", where what you set your mind to you can achieve with hard work, when in reality you are more likely to move out of poverty in Old World Europe.
But it's not only a political thing. How about religion? People believe all sorts of ridiculous ideas, and not only that, but are willing to kill, and die, to defend them.
It happens on a much more personal level, too. Recently a client of mine insisted that I was only interested in money, despite the fact that this is not the case - I truly love my job, and I have sacrificed a higher salary in order to do something I enjoy. She was angry with me because she was not holding up on her end of the bargain, and I called her on it and asked for the payment I was due. She told me horrible, nasty things! I argued with her for a bit, but in the end decided not to fight it and just let her take her business elsewhere. I'm not sure what world she lives in, but it's clear that what she thought and said about me was not rooted in reality. She never apologized, but in the end I received my payment and she continues doing business with me. So I guess deep down she knew she was wrong even though she didn't have the humility to admit it.
It happens all the times in relationships. We treat every little thing as a "red flag" rather than recognizing that people are human and are doing the best that they can. We "cancel" people before giving them a chance, and 9 times out of 10 not because they deserve it, but rather because we are afraid of opening up about our own wounds and dysfunctions. It is a shield, but since people are not interested in truth, they go on throwing the blame outward.
This is quite simply how our society works. The whole thing is built on lies. Perhaps it's because those lies benefit those at the top, which is quite clearly the case in China, and even in the USA. But also because we as individuals are too afraid to face the truth. The truth is scary. The truth is painful. Because we are vulnerable, we are mortal, and we are all quite powerless. These are not exactly fun things to try and digest.
But at the end of the day the journey is about you. It's up to you to open your eyes to the truth, not anyone else. That's not your job. Maybe by opening yourself up you can inspire others. But it's always about you first. The only benefit in realizing that the society is based on lies is that it allows you to know where you're coming from and also to see things with clear eyes. That way you can begin to function free from the chains of conditioning.
Is it scary? Yes. But as far as I know, we only get one shot at this thing called life. IMO, it's much better to live an honest life rooted in truth, rather than a half-hearted one rooted in lies. There is real satisfaction in this way. Perhaps that was Confucius was alluding to.

Hi reddit, im 24 male and im writing in to seek advice from you all regarding my and my family and how i should face them.
My points may be all over the place as im thinking about it as i write so please bear with me.
To start off, my family consists of my dad, my mom, my older brother (25) and me.
My dad and mom's relationship is not good at all. Dad did alot of inconsiderate things that drove my mom to have paranoia and have a fear of not having money.
For context, he used to gamble alot and was in debt when me and my brother was younger. He took out both of me and my brother's money that my mom was saving up for us to repay his debt.
There wasnt any communication between mom and dad as well which made my mom feel very alone and no one to go to to seek help for.
My mom's paranoia got very bad and very often accused my dad of having a mistress outside which i fully understand why. I trust my dad that he does not have a mistress outside as growing up, he is always by our side (he is a night shift taxi driver, so he's always not at home at night, which i suspect made my mom's paranoia worse)
Mom fully hates my dad currently and is filing for divorce which my dad do not agree to and its very hard for me to convince my mom that dad does not have any mistress outside. Even harder for me to persuade her to seek help from therapist as she firmly believes she does not have a mental illness.
When i was in my teen, 15 or 16, dad would talk to me everyday about my mom saying that she caused all of this problem. I basically got treated as a therapist for my dad and an outlet to vent his anger to. He did not physically abuse me, but mentally, he did. He does not know whatever hes doing to me is wrong, so I just listened to him, everyday, and developed a fear of going out with friends as, if im not at home, they would fight, and im afraid that it would lead to physical fights.
Back then, i used to hate my mom alot due to the constant rants from my dad. However, growing up, i realized that whatever dad is doing is wrong and slowly learned to "forgive" my mom. Right now, i do not hate her at all, but whenever i were to talk to her, a little bit inside of me hated her.
Dad got diagnosed with terminal cancer 1 month ago and can pass anytime even though he is under chemotherapy. Dad chose not to tell my mom and my brother about this, so i have to bear this secret alone.
Currently, he and mom is going through a divorce, and dad is very anxious about when the letter is going to come. I am forced to go to the hospital everyday, as if i do not show up for a day, dad would he very angry at me saying that i do not care about him which adds more stress on me. I do not want him to feel more upset, so no matter how tired i am, i always try to visit him every single day.
My brother has slight autism and does not knkw how to think for himself. Growing up, me and him were not close at all as I did not understand his condition and tend to throw my temper at him when dad throws his temper at me.
Now, my brother had mixed witb the wrong group of friends which resulted him learning all the wrong stuff (gangs), etc. He was taken advantage of by every single one he met due to his condition. He does not voice out his struggles to us as i suspect he does not know how to.
He moved out of the house 1 month ago with his then girlfriend to rent a room outside, and then the girlfriend left him, plus asking him to pay her 3000 dollars for god knows what.
Today, i talked to my brother about it and he kept saying he wanted to end it all, saying he wont come home. He kept persuading me to transfer him money to buy beer to drink at a bar. But I am still a student and recently graduated and stopped working and really have no money. I offered him to buy beer from local grocery shop as it was much cheaper, but he wouldnt listen. He wants me to go down to a bar to drink with him, but i must prepare a sum of money which realistically, i do have, but there are other things to prioritize on such as food, next month house bills.
Im afraid if i dont show up for him, he really will end it, so im forced to go down tonight after he ends work. He havent told my mom or dad as he is not close with my dad, and im pretty sure my mom wont lend him any money. So for now, im the only one that knows about this.
I feel so drained having to deal with all these stuff. I need some advice. Please help me

Yesterday was the first time I saw the dasher app ask me to verify my identity through their facial recognition software in order to schedule a dash. Because it didn’t recognize me it told me I have to wait 24-48 hours for a team member to review my account and get back to me. Calling in did nothing for my case of course. Has anyone here been in my situation? What can I expect if they come back just to tell me they can’t verify my identity? Will they shut down my dasher account entirely? I’m quite upset over this.

Ok, so I'm trying to figure out if a 7900xt hellhound graphics card will fit in a SG14 case. The gpu in several places like newegg and pc part picker says 320mm but also says 338mm on other tech sites. The sg14 case says up to 320 but also looks like cards that are full length have some room at the end? I have looked for like 2 hours now and keep getting conflating info on the matter. Does anyone know where I can find out for sure if it will fit before I order them? (I know I should have come here first, this group is the best. Thanks in advance)

Hi all, After the longest research i was almost decided to buy myself a Juki DDL 8700 (standard version) for sewing general apparel, mainly denim. But then i discovered the DDL 8000A (A-SMS in my case) whis looks super modern and promises to be the best thing ever. It is almost twice as expensive, which is kind of a lot, but not too much. I will happily get it, as long as it makes a reasonable difference to my sewing speed and quality. Will it? Thread trimming and auto tacking is nice, but hardly a necessity for me. Signaling the end of bottom thread is cool. But id like to know if the machine will make nicer seams than the 8700 too? Also I wasnt able to find much info on it, but one website claims is also has a "bartacking" function. Is it something I could use for attaching belt loops and such? Also is a computerised machine at a bigger risk of a defect if the digital part gets broken? Thanks for any advice

Selling my sets for below mentioned price in items.
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Check comments on my profile & check their inventory for my sets gifted by me.
Buyer always goes first or we can use middleman from this Sub.
Also, why would scam ? I got like 800+ cache sets to sell.
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Diretide 2022 Collector's Cache

Set name	Hero	Quantity	$$
Shadowleaf Insurgent	Hoodwink	20+	$15
Scarlet Subversion	Riki	20+	$15
Whippersnapper	Snapfire	20+	$10
Hounds of Obsession	Chen	20+	$10
Seadog's Stash	Clockwork	20+	$10
Starlorn Adjudicator	Dawnbreaker	20+	$15
Spoils of the Shadowveil	Spectre	20+	$15
Chines of the Inquisitor	Faceless Void	20+	$10
Trophies of the Hallowed Hunt	Ursa	20+	$10
Crimson Dawn	Phoenix	20+	$10
Forgotten Station	Terrorblade	20+	$15
Dirge Amplifier	Undying	20+	$15
Champion of the Fire Lotus	Monkey King	20+	$10
Deathstitch Shaman	Witch Doctor	20+	$10
Blue Horizons	Marci	20+	$30
Angel of Vex	Invoker	20+	$35
Dark Behemoth	Primal Beast	20+	$50

Aghanim's 2021 Collector's Cache

Set name	Hero	Quantity	$$
Silverwurm Sacrifice	Dragon Knight	22	$20
Scales of the Shadow Walker	Phantom Lancer	23	$15
Perception of the First Light	Dawnbreaker	22	$15
Apex Automated	Clockwerk	22	$15
Test of the Basilisk Lord	Razor	25	$10
Secrets of the Frost Singularity	Ancient Apparition	23	$8
Perils of the Red Banks	Chen	22	$10
The Chained Scribe	Grimstroke	24	$10
Widow of the Undermount Gloom	Broodmother	23	$10
Forgotten Fate	Mars	22	$5
March of the Crackerjack Mage	Rubick	24	$10
Cosmic Concoctioneers	Alchemist	23	$20
Days of the Demon	Axe	22	$10
Blightfall	Abaddon	23	$15
Pyrexae Polymorph Perfected	Ogre Magi	25	$35
Wrath of the Celestial Sentinel	Chaos Knight	8	$60

Nemestice Collector's Cache 2021

Set name	Hero	Quantity	$$
Twilight Hex	Dark Willow	23	15$
Litany of the Damned	Doom	24	15$
Astral Terminus	Enigma	23	10$
Caerulean Star	Enchantress	22	8$
Arcane Inverter	Gyrocopter	22	20$
Creed of the Skullhound	Lycan	22	25$
Desert Bloom	Nature's Prophet	23	20$
Silence of the Starweaver	Oracle	23	10$
Eyriebound Imperator	Skywrath Mage	23	10$
Anthozoan Assault	Tiny	23	25$
Vision of the Seraph Scion	Vengeful Spirit	23	35$
Defender of the Brumal Crest	Winter Wyvern	10	10$
Red Sands Marauder	Shadow Shaman	23	20$
Indomitable Legacy	Sven	23	60$
Footfalls of the Sporefathers	Witch Doctor	12	60$

Collector's Cache I 2020

Set name	Hero	Quantity	$$
Ravenous Abyss	Underlord	20+	$10
Apocalypse Unbound	AA	20+	$10
Beholden of the Banished Ones	Warlock	20+	$5
Fury of the Righteous Storm	Disruptor	20+	$5
Lineage of the Stormlords	Juggernaut	20+	$35
Silent Slayer	Silencer	20+	$10
Mindless Slaughter	Pudge	20+	$20
Heartless Hunt	Bounty	20+	$10
Herald of the Ember Eye	Grimstroke	20+	$10
Fissured Flight	Jakiro	20+	$5
Flashpoint Proselyte	Husker	20+	$15
Signs of the Allfather	Nature prophet	20+	$15
Glory of the Elderflame	Lina	20+	$25
Lineage of the Stormlords	Juggernaut	6	$35
Origin of the Dark Oath	Night Stalker	6	$25
Songs of Starfall Glen	Enchantress	20+	$5
Ancient Inheritance	Tiny	20+	$30
Forsworn Legacy	mars	20+	$50

Collector's Cache II 2020

Set name	Hero	Quantity	$$
Evolution of the Infinite	Enigma	20+	$6
Beast of the Crimson Ring	bristle back	20+	$10
Clearcut Cavalier	Timber	20+	$6
The King Of Thieves	Keeper of light	20+	$10
Horror from the Deep	Tide	20+	$20
Ire of the Ancient Gaoler	Arc warden	20+	$25
Talons of the Endless Storm	chaos knight	20+	$15
Carousal of the Mystic Masquerade	Rubick	20+	$6
Crown of Calaphas	Shadow demon	20+	$10
Wrath of the Fallen	doom	20+	$20
Blacksail Cannoneer	Sniper	20+	$10
Secrets of the Celestial 📷	Skywrath mage	20+	$5
Blaze of Oblivion	Phoenix	20+	$6
Steward of the Forbidden Chamber	Templar Assassin	20+	$25
Claszureme Incursion	Void	20+	70$

Collector's Cache 2019

Set name	Hero	Quantity	$$
Echoes of the Everblack	Abaddon	19	15$
Paean of the Ink Dragon	Grimstroke	18	10$
Scorched Amber	Dragon Knight	20	20$
Allure of the Faeshade Flower	Dark Willow	1 M*	25$
Priest of the Proudsilver Clan	Chen	18	10$
The Arts of Mortal Deception	Enigma	21	10$
Poacher's Bane	Tidehunter	20	10$
Soul of the Brightshroud	Death Prophet	21	10$
Curse of the Creeping Vine	Undying	21	20$
Appetites of the Lizard King	Slark	18	25$
Riddle of the Hierophant	Oracle	20	10$
Defender of Ruin	Disruptor	22	25$

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Collector's Cache II 2019

Set name	Hero	Quantity	$$
Sight of the Kha-Ren Faithful	Drow Ranger	31	15$
Tribal Pathways	Warlock	30	10$
Directive of the Sunbound	Clockwerk	31	10$
Endless Night	Abaddon	30	10$
Dapper Disguise	Pudge	27	15$
Fury of the Bloodforge	Bloodseeker	30	10$
Automaton Antiquity	Broodmother	31	10$
Grim Destiny	Wraith King	29	10$
Distinguished Expeditionary	Tusk	30	10$
Verdant Predator	Venomancer	31	10$
Prized Acquisitions	Batrider	31	5$
Fowl Omen	Necrophos	34	30$

The International 2018 Collector's Cache I

Set name	Hero	Quantity	$$
Trail of the Sanguine Spectrum	Bloodseeker	20	8$
Insights of the Sapphire Shroud	Dark Seer	18	4$
Pillar of the Fractured Citadel	Spirit Breaker	21	$5
Stonemarch Sovereign	Wraith King	21	$15
The Murid Divine	Necrophos	22	15$
Primer of the Sapper's Guile	Techies	22	10$
Molokau Stalker	Venomancer	21	$10
Morbific Provision	Witch Doctor	22	10$
Raptures of the Abyssal Kin	Queen of Pain	20	15$
Grasp of the Riven Exile	Weaver	20	5$

The International 2018 Collector's Cache II

Set name	Hero	Quantity	$$
Pitmouse Fraternity	Meepo	37	10$
Fires of the Volcanic Guard	Ember Spirit	37	10$
Shackles of the Enduring Conscript	Axe	37	6$
Shimmer of the Anointed	Nyx Assassin	29	5$
Loaded Prospects	Brewmaster	39	15$
Ire of Molten Rebirth	Phoenix	36	10$
Pattern of the Silken Queen	Broodmother	26	5$
The Rat King	Chen	28	10$
Raiments of the Obsidian Forge	Underlord	22	20$

The International 2017 Collector's Cache

Set name	Hero	Quantity	$$
Eternal Testament	Death prophet M*	19	15$
Rumrunner's Carronade	Brew master	20	15$
Abyssal Vortex	Enigma	27	10$
Samareen Sacrifice	Huskar	22	10$
Pressure Regulator	Clockwerk M*	24	20$
Spoils of the Vodou Rover	Witch Doctor	27	10$
Shadowforce Gale	Luna	24	10$
Mechalodon Interdictor	Gyrocopter	27	10$
The Dread Prophet	Nature's Prophet	23	20$
Cunning Corsair	Riki	24	20$

The International 2016 Collector's Cache

Set name	Hero	Quantity	$$
Rising Glory	Magnus	1 M*	20$
Nightsilver's Resolve	luna	2 M* dtygod*	20$
Oni Knight the Dark Conqueror	Chaos Knight	2 dtygod* dopey*	20$

I am no longer entertaining joy riders so I prefer you give $3 in items when u add me as deposit.
Those $3 will be subtracted from you're total sets cost.
Don't add me if you don't like the prices.
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• prices are subject to change.*
• sets may go out of stock even if you're waiting for one if someone else buys it before you.*

*if you don't reserve the sets.

Hello fellow LLM and NLP developers! Today, we're going to delve into the fascinating realm of language models and natural language understanding (NLU) from a technical standpoint. We'll be putting two prominent AI tools under the microscope: OpenAI's ChatGPT and the LLAMA NLU system.
Our goal is to dissect their capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses, offering insights into how these systems impact and advance the field of AI language processing for developers and enthusiasts like us.
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Background
Before we jump into the comparisons, let's briefly discuss GPT and NLU. GPT, or Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a type of language model that uses machine learning to generate human-like text. NLU, or Natural Language Understanding, is a subset of natural language processing (NLP) that focuses on extracting meaning and intent from human language.
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ChatGPT
ChatGPT is an AI language model by OpenAI, based on their GPT architecture. It's designed to generate human-like responses in a conversational context. ChatGPT can perform various tasks like answering questions, providing suggestions, and even engaging in casual conversations.
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Strengths

1. Highly advanced text generation: ChatGPT can generate coherent and contextually accurate responses, making it suitable for a wide range of applications.
2. Multitasking abilities: It can handle multiple tasks without requiring explicit retraining or fine-tuning.
3. Large-scale training data: ChatGPT leverages a vast amount of training data, allowing it to generate more diverse and knowledgeable responses.

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Weaknesses

1. Ambiguity and verbosity: ChatGPT sometimes generates verbose or ambiguous responses, which may not directly address the user's query.
2. Inability to guarantee factual accuracy: Although it's trained on a large dataset, ChatGPT may occasionally produce incorrect or outdated information.

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LLAMA
LLAMA (Language Learning and Multitask Analysis) is an NLU system designed to understand and analyze human language. Instead of generating text, LLAMA extracts meaning from text inputs and provides structured information or performs specific actions based on user intent.
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Strengths

1. Precise information extraction: LLAMA is excellent at extracting specific information from user inputs and providing accurate, structured data.
2. Intent recognition: It can accurately identify user intent, allowing it to respond to various requests or commands effectively.
3. Domain-specific expertise: LLAMA can be fine-tuned for specialized domains, making it suitable for industry-specific applications.

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Weaknesses

1. Limited text generation capabilities: Unlike ChatGPT, LLAMA isn't designed to generate human-like text, which limits its applicability in conversational AI.
2. Narrow focus: LLAMA may struggle with tasks outside its domain-specific expertise, as it requires fine-tuning for each new domain.

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Conclusion
Both ChatGPT and LLAMA offer valuable contributions to the fields of AI language processing and NLU. While ChatGPT excels in generating human-like text and multitasking, LLAMA's strengths lie in extracting meaning and understanding user intent. Ultimately, the choice between these two systems will depend on the specific use case and desired outcome, but now you might have a better idea of which is best for your needs.

I got the injections on Thursday. I'm about three days out and the injections at the back of my neck and in my traps between my shoulder blade and collar bone are really sore like I pulled a muscle or something.
Is that normal? I'm cool if it gets worse before better, just always hesitant to try new, even slightly invasive things because I do not want to end up worse than when I started. My insurance required I start with a chiropractor. My issue is with the soft tissue so jerking my neck around only made things worse.

Don't get me wrong, if there's an old card that can serve Standard well and all it needs is a power level touch-up, then I'm all for that. But some of these "buffs", namely Priest ones, are straight-up redesigns that alter the card's functionality.
The cards I'm focusing on in particular are [[Holy Champion]], [[Crimson Clergy]], and [[Catrina Meurte]]. The former two are being changed to have Overheal effects and the latter won't be able to revive herself nor other non-Undead minions. ([[Woodcutter's Axe]] falls into this group too, but at least that card mostly functions the same in whatever jank decks already use it.)
Now, I do understand that these cards are very dated (if not terrible to begin with), I agree that the new versions are stronger or at least more interesting, and I acknowledge that only a tiny audience of players cares about their original versions. But I also know the sting of having your pet meme deck get hit as collateral damage for meta balance, and in this case it's entirely avoidable; printing new cards with the current redesigns' effects will only provide new options for those players without any need to take away something they already had. (And it's not like having a second Catrina Muerte-esque legendary is going to turn a greedy rez Priest list into a Wild meta tyrant.)
It may be a pipe dream, but I don't want to give up without at least trying to push for these changes. After all, they were going to do the same thing to [[Stonetusk Boar]] and [[Bluegill Warrior]] before the community spoke up about it.

Donate to his veterans support charity No Duff if you can, it will go to his daughtewhanau, to return his body and continue his enduring kaupapa, which will help other whanau in this conflict and others.

No Duff Charitable Trust Givealittle page:

https://givealittle.co.nz/org/noduff

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Kane Te Tai remembered as man of honour committed to aiding Ukraine

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/486507/kane-te-tai-remembered-as-man-of-honour-committed-to-aiding-ukraine

Whānau and friends of slain soldier Kane Te Tai say he will return home as a warrior in life and death, and be remembered as a man who always fought for what was right.
RNZ understands the body of the slain New Zealand soldier has officially been identified as Te Tai and is now being transferred to Kyiv.
He is understood to have been killed while clearing a trench in the Vulhedar area of Ukraine.
Sources have told RNZ he had moved deeper into the trench, away from his team, when he was killed by Russian soldiers.
His team were forced to leave his body there, before Ukrainian marines went in and recovered him overnight.
Veteran support and advocacy group No Duff is now working to ensure a New Zealander can be available to escort his body through the country to the Polish border, before travelling with him for his final journey home.
Comrades and friends have said they believed it was important a Kiwi was always with him, but the process would not be simple.
Te Tai co-founded No Duff with Aaron Wood, who told Midday Report his mother had asked them to manage the journey home.
"We're pulling all the pieces together. A number of volunteers and interested people from New Zealand, all the way through to Ukraine and in between, are coming together to make this happen."
It was highly likely they would be able to bring him home, Wood said, but there were numerous jurisdiction challenges ahead.
Deeply respected during time in Ukraine
Te Tai joined the Defence Force after leaving high school and went on multiple deployments while serving in the 2/1 Royal Battalion.
He left the Army in 2010 and travelled to Ukraine in April last year, operating under the call sign 'Turtle'.
Te Tai was a prominent character in the warzone and was widely followed on social media.
His colleagues described him as well-known and deeply respected for his professionalism, skill, leadership and relentless sense of humour.
They said he never underestimated the importance of his job, or the lives he held in his hands.
His death marks the third New Zealander to be killed in the combat - after the deaths of his best friend Dominic Abelen and humanitarian Andrew Bagshaw.
Te Tai had become the unofficial expert for New Zealanders in Ukraine, often acting as the point of contact for Kiwis wanting to travel to the warzone. He would ensure people knew what they were signing up for, a way to get into the country and a unit to go to.
He admitted in an interview with RNZ his initial motivations for going there were selfish, but that changed quickly on arrival.
The soldier became an infamous figure in the war, often featuring on Russian propaganda sites - seen by RNZ - particularly the Wagner group, who put a NZ$11 million price tag on his head.
In a conversation with friends he joked about ratting himself out for the money, illustrating his sense of humour.
Te Tai always said to his friends he was not afraid to die, but he also was not afraid to live.
During nearly a full year in Ukraine, he garnered respect from people in all walks of life. He volunteered with Ukrainian families, taught civilians how to fight and eventually found a spot at the frontline as one of the team's leaders.
Te Tai said he was fiercely protective of his team and did anything to make sure they were safe.
During one mission in August 2022, his best friend, Abelen, was killed in trench warfare. In an interview after the mission, Te Tai said the team were unable to get his body back and it ended up in Russian hands, but that did not stop him from trying.
He told RNZ they only stopped because Abelen would not have wanted them killed in the process.
Just last week Te Tai posted on social media, revealing that while clearing a Russian position he had found a "long lost friend" who had wanted to visit New Zealand.
Te Tai had thought his friend was dead and was amazed to find him alive, describing it as a "Hollywood moment".
He said at first he did not recognise the man, who had been shot four times and was skinny.
"He'd been starved by Russians for two months and drinking anti-freeze because the Russians wanted a laugh."
The man did not want to be left with the Ukrainians, but Te Tai had to keep fighting. He promised he would return and walk him personally to hospital.
That was exactly what he did, he said.
'The people grow on you'
In that August interview with RNZ, Te Tai said he had fallen in love with the country and its people, and was deeply respectful of their resolve.
"I was sort of getting a bit bored of being at home... and coming into this conflict was just one of those things that selfishly I thought I could be close to the war without getting too entangled.
"But then that sort of changes... I've met so many people, I've been everywhere in this country and the place grows on you, the people grow on you, and their strength, and that's why I'm still here."
Te Tai said he was prepared to leave everything in Ukraine, but in the weeks before his death he had made moves to return home.
His mother said he always kept her up to date, ending the calls with "I love you Mum", but more recently it was like "I'll see you soon".
In a Facebook message to another friend he said he loved Ukraine, but it was time to start living a real life - "gotta put the toys away and start to build while I can", he said.
"That's enough war for me, I love this place, it's like a playground where I can do anything I want.
"But that's the problem isn't it? So before the game gets me or before I decide that life here is too easy, maybe it's time to start living my real life.
"This place is pure escapism, we are all trying to run from something, mine is from having a real life, but the time is near."
Passionate about the cause
Te Tai is being remembered by his friends and comrades as a man of honour who was passionate about his cause, always doing everything he could to protect people.
Longtime friend Aaron Wood described Te Tai as a beautiful man, who he loved to bits.
"He just wanted people to live their best lives and he wanted to help as many people as he could.
"That sounds like a cliché, but with him it's a truism. That's his whole life... Just serving people, that's what he did, that's what his message was."
That was what he died doing, Wood said.
His mum, Ngaire Te Tai, said there was never any talking him out of it.
"He never did anything by halves, my son. We tried to stop him, but he had his mind made up, that's just Kane.
"When you were around him, you just felt safe."
A gift she said she knew he spread much further than just Ukraine.
Ngaire Te Tai's final comment about her eldest boy was: "Don't let my son's death be in vain."
He leaves behind a 12-year-old daughter.

“Don’t get me wrong, I don’t find anything glorious about killing young mobilised Russian boys who are crying in their trenches”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300777917/the-shelling-is-so-close-it-makes-you-puke-says-kiwi-fighting-in-ukraine

The shelling is so close it makes you puke, says Kiwi fighting in Ukraine

A Kiwi soldier fighting under Ukraine’s military intelligence says he’s prepared to die.
Kane Te Tai, code name Turtle, is fighting in a secretive reconnaissance unit on Ukraine’s front line in the eastern Donetsk region.
After deaths, injuries and resignations, Te Tai now leads the Foreign Reconnaissance Team after only joining in July.
A December article in The New Yorker magazine revealed the existence of the unit and featured Turtle.
It’s the same unit that 28-year-old Kiwi Dominic Abelen was fighting in when he was killed in August, and the two were like brothers.
Te Tai’s unit has set up a PayPal to fundraise for vehicles it needs to move around its area of operation, near the town of Pavlivka.
As Te Tai was interviewed, he had to be careful his phone wasn’t too bright, so as to not give his unit away to any Russian drones flying overhead.
“We live on the line, we just occupy whatever place we can find at the time. If it gets too hot we just find somewhere else,” he told Stuff.
His unit’s job is primarily reconnaissance, a small mobile force that could reach into Russian land or no-man’s land between the trenches, and destroy a tank or hold a position, before the Ukrainian army moved in.
“Find it, locate it, observe it, report it, attack it.”
Good 4x4 vehicles are a necessity.
Donetsk is known for farming and coal production, and Te Tai described the land as similar to the Canterbury plains.
Soldiers try and use the tree lines separating the fields for cover, and trench systems are built through them.
During the winter, the roads and fields are muddy, pocked by craters from Russian artillery barrages.
The Foreign Reconnaissance Team can get the necessities of war – food, bombs, clothing, bullets - just fine.
Reliable working vehicles and parts, and enough for an emergency stockpile, are harder to come by.
The Foreign Reconnaissance Team is reliant on vehicles driven into Ukraine from throughout Europe by volunteers and paying for them with donated money.
“You can use that vehicle until it is blown up or you crash it, unfortunately both those things happen all the time,” Te Tai said.
“The last three vehicles we’ve had, in the last month, they’ve been hit with artillery. Holes in the front, s... just smashed through.”
Unlike the famous International Legion Battalion, which tens of thousands of foreigners have joined since the start of the war, the Foreign Reconnaissance Team is for some of the highly-trained foreign few.
Te Tai served a tour in Afghanistan for the New Zealand Defence Force and thinks of himself as having spent his whole life training to fight.
His team is given autonomy, building trust with local Ukrainian commanders to find out what they want and then formulating missions.
Te Tai was able to talk about one operation the Foreign Reconnaissance Team conducted during a December battle in Pavlivka, first described in the New Yorker article.
Te Tai and a small team of a half-dozen were set to cross a bridge at night and enter a tree line which ran into the centre of the town.
The mission was to see how close they could get to the Russian positions before they were fired on.
“The moment that we got onto the bridge, everything just opened up, rockets, missiles everything. We ran across this bridge and were just trying to scramble to the safest nearest spot.”
Te Tai’s team managed to get into the tree line and into a trench – all in the dark – but the Russians began to shell progressively towards them down the tree line.
“I remember just looking at everyone in the pit and we all had this look on our faces like, ‘well, the party had to end some time’. We had this feeling of acceptance.”
But, just as the next shell was set to kill the team, it flew off somewhere else and the Russians then began to bomb regressively back along the tree line.
“By divine intervention we missed getting smashed... We all knew we were supposed to die that night.”
Before joining Foreign Reconnaissance, Te Tai was working for a church training Ukrainians in basic military skills.
He was open with people back in New Zealand about what he was experiencing, including old army colleagues.
Te Tai described an environment where Kiwis in Ukraine often stayed in touch and worked together, including Dominic Abelen who contacted Te Tai before making the trip.
When Abelen said that he was set to join the International Legion Battalion, Te Tai told Abelen he was hearing bad stories.
“You go there as a foreigner, you get given a weapon, some ammunition, and sit inside a trench and you fight or die, that’s how it’s portrayed.
“People would tell us: 'Thank you for training my son, he didn’t make it back, but I felt he was better off than he was before’,” he said.
Abelen, now with the nickname Tolkien, made his way into the Ukrainian army, but managed to get taken into Ukrainian military intelligence.
Talking to Abelen about what he was doing, Te Tai had had enough of training soldiers and the 37-year-old felt like he was running out of time to fight.
“I told him [Abelen], ‘I’ll jump in with you too’.
“And he [Abelen] was like ‘thank God, cool man’,” said Te Tai.
He ended the volunteer work and a recruiter told Te Tai to get to Lviv where he entered a secretive military intelligence training camp.
Recruits weren’t allowed to use their phones and were closely evaluated for a two-week period.
“Pretty much from the second they take you into the camp, they don’t tell you what’s going on.
“They operate it like a psychological test, to see if you can be just told what to do and not know any other parameters,” he said.
Access to weapons was heavily restricted and there was heavy scrutiny as Ukrainian officials went through candidates’ records and social media, trying to weed out spies and the weak.
“When you talk to someone, it’s always a cover story, you’re never talking to who you think you’re talking to,” Te Tai said.
Then, one morning in July, officials gave Te Tai a contract and drove him to the Foreign Reconnaissance Team in Donetsk.
“As soon as we pulled up... Dom had no shirt on... he said, ‘let’s do some work’.”
“I was like ‘my man!’.”
Abelen had put in a good word for him with Ukrainian intelligence, Te Tai said.
He gave Te Tai the code name of Turtle, after he had originally named himself Talon. Talon was too cool, Abelen said.
Te Tai described new troops arriving for the unit as a big event, a celebration of strengthening the group after the fighting took its toll.
“There’s a high attrition rate either by death, injury, or guys wanting to leave.”
The Foreign Reconnaissance Team currently operates out of a house, planning their missions on a whiteboard.
“We’re normally strapped for time. If we’re not out working we are resting, or we are giving instructions.”
Te Tai said there aren’t ranks in the unit, so while he is the team’s leader, he sits on the same step as the other foreigners in the unit.
He eats Ukrainian food: soups like borscht, and two-minute noodles and toast.
At night Te Tai watches Netflix and YouTube fail compilations to decompress. Sometimes, he hears the Russians shelling, keeping him awake.
When you’re fired on by artillery, you can hear the lifespan of the shell, he said.
He described how shells left the Russian gun with a distant duh-boom, screeching through the air, before exploding somewhere on the Ukrainian side of the line.
Some shells landed far away, but some hit so close to soldiers that the concussion made them puke and made them feel sick for the next day, he said.
“That shit happens like every week.”
About six weeks after Te Tai joined the unit, Abelen was killed during a mission.
“It pissed me off more than anything, it just consolidated for me that I’m not leaving any time soon.”
Te Tai said Abelen didn’t have a death wish, but he was a soldier and fighting was what he had trained for his whole life.
“I could have told him, ‘you are going to die today’ and he would have been like ‘it’s a good day to die’, that’s just who he was.”
Killing didn’t weigh on Te Tai’s mind, he said. He described it as part of the job, and said his views hadn’t changed since Abelen’s death.
“Don’t get me wrong, I don’t find anything glorious about killing young mobilised Russian boys who are crying in their trenches,” he said.
“I’m willing to die, for sure, but I don’t want to die.”
Te Tai has no plans to leave and wants to attend a victory day parade in Kyiv.
“I know we’re going to win, I know that for sure,” he said.
“I’m staying here until I can’t take it any more, or I am dead.”

does anyone else feel almost unbearable guilt when choosing one hobby over another? like as if you've let the hobby down because it's another thing you've picked up and dropped (even if you haven't actually dropped it?) so for example, i've been SUPER into crochet, ive crocheted EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. 24/7, non stop since the beginning of january i am truly obsessed. however, the resi 4 remake came out the other day (literally my fave game from the franchise and possibly ever) and so obviously my crochet got thrown across the other side of the room and ive been hyper focused on resi 4, sometimes i see my crochet out of the corner of my eye and i get this intense guilt even though i know i will go back to crocheting as soon as resi 4 is over, but i just feel awful as if ive let myself down again? like "well done, just another hobby you've spent stupid amounts of impulsive money on just to drop" and as if ive let the crochet down? idk it's hard to explain but it's been causing me a lot of issues and making me feel constantly on edge and anxious etc