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I thank the people who corrected me and of course me rereading some of the chapters I'm kind of tryna piece together stuff since clawbot being confirmed to be female and how they got there claws to ie get her name by the fandom to be clawbot. If anything rant v2 and please if you wish to indulge in my probably silly theory I would like to hear other peoples views on this.
Firstly I need to acknowledge that before reg met faputa he was probably just either not given a reason to go upwards towards the abyss or rather travel upwards until his meeting with Lyza and interactions with clawbot.
So firstly thanks to the statement said by srajo we can confirm for a fact Clawbot was traveling upwards for god knows whatever reason probably to satisfy curiosity or something else, only to make it to the higher layers specifically the 5th layer before prompted to using the incinerator on whatever provoked her to use it. I say this because bondrewd generally would take an interest in clawbot just from looks alone but taking into account clawbot seems to have no real known history to anyone at the 6th layer besides gabu (the gigachad) she must've had avoided conflict before being pressed to use the said incinerator.
Bondrewd being bondrewd after seeing this locates and tracks clawbot before coming off as nice only to then subject her to the same treatment as reg before eventually escaping away from bondrewd damaging the indo front or probably sneaking away like this is mgs. I can only come up with two assumptions here but I'm sticking with the second one though, lyza saw clawbots escape and clawbot had her new arm aka the claw we see as she ran off. Or the one to me and probably to whoever is reading this Lyza while on her way towards the 5th layer after clawbot had recovered from her near death experience with bondrewd had her new arm attached and while she was probably on her way to descend back to the lower layers she takes notice of Lyza. Lyza tries calling to her clawbot noticing the white whistle on Lyza just decides 'f this I'm out' and leaps temporarily to the higher layer to avoid Lyza.
Lyza makes it to the 6th layer after her chat with the best father of the year and making her way towards the 7th layer. Clawbot however traveling faster than Lyza since shes basically marked her own route back while avoiding bondrewd being immune to the abyss curse makes it to the 7th layer before lyza and during this time we can conclude she shared her findings with the rest of the other units similar to gabu and perhaps herself. Clawbot eventually meets up with reg and makes friends with him before teaching him how she learned to combat the creatures of the abyss with the way she fights (taking into account reg says someone either made him remember how to use his body or taught him.)
Reg during this learning experience promptly gets his butt completely whooped or just received a bit of damage during this whole learning session before he and clawbot go on to do whatever happens in the 7th layer(I'm going to comeback to this later cuz something sparked in my head while typing this). Lyza arrives and reg probably wandering around encounters her before eventually just holding a conversation and exchanging things they know, lyza mentions her daughter wishing for her to come join her at the bottom of the netherworld and reg agrees to deliver the message and goes on to travel to the top of the abyss where his meeting with faputa and so forth go on being given blaze reap from Lyza before he left.
Now heres what I thought about while typing this I took into account where reg helmet was damaged, near his head. Perhaps what couldve happened was during the encounter with Lyza and reg agrees to go above to the surface only to be met by clawbot who was perhaps stalking reg considering there potential relationship of being close buds(basically disregard what I said bout her training reg) she didnt want him to go up above explaining how she got her claw arm in the first place. Reg being stubborn and making a promise a fight breaks out between the two before eventually reg manages to escape but not uninjured with his helmet damaged and perhaps him wounded, I can assume that either clawbot had let reg go or gave up on him.
Regs meeting with faputa and so forth up to meeting riko happens.
This is basically my improved version on my past theory that was completely wrong at least with most of the parts. But I'd love to hear what people think and yes I'm on my made in abyss hype train.

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What a fun show! I really enjoyed my time in The Village, and figured I'd share a look at the show with some fresh eyes.
Dance of the Dead
A wonderful episode that sums up the show so well. Odd events at the village, betrayal by associates, escape attempts, and an ending that manages to both be somewhat cryptic and frighteningly clear at the same time. What really elevates it, though, is the performance by Mary Morris. Not sure if this is a common opinion, but she manages the cadence of being menacing yet calm better than any other No. 2 who goes for that, in my opinion. Not to mention that she just has good chemistry with McGoohan.
The Schizoid Man
While this is another pretty standard story, it's really elevated by one key element: it actually feels like a back and forth between No. 6 and No. 2. So many episodes are basically No. 2 crushes all hope in No. 6, or No. 6 prevails so hard that someone dies, but this one is a push and pull. There are times that it feels like No. 6 is truly making No. 2 doubt who he is, and also times when No. 6 is, in fact, pulling the wool over No. 2's eyes. This, compounded by good performances from Rodgers and Merrow, makes for an entertaining one.
Checkmate
Despite being a bit of a slow one, I once again feel that the back and forth makes this an entertaining one. No. 6 isn't brought down by some weird, deus ex machina bullshit at the end, it's entirely believable that his actions made No. 58 believe that he was, in fact, a member of the "guardian" side. The stuff with No. 8 was kind of weird and pointless, but this is still a very solid watch.
The Chimes of Big Ben
You may be noticing a trend, but I really enjoy the ones that just focus on the core premise of the series: No 6. trying to escape and No. 2 trying to extract information. And this one has both of them. The craft show is delightfully weird (I love all of the No. 2 art), using the tapestry as a sail is a cool idea, and No. 2's plan was a reasonably good one if you can ignore some of the logistical realities. This is probably the most quintessential episode of the show, as far as containing everything you'd expect from The Prisoner and doing it all well.
Fall Out
What a delightfully weird conclusion. I decided to watch this series for two reasons; one, because of general good reviews, and two, because I was looking for a series like Twin peaks which could properly balance being very ambiguous with still exploring themes in interesting ways. And this conclusion, without a doubt, delievered. While entire essays could surely be written about this episode, it's still quite fresh for me, so I'm not going to try to pick it apart too much. A worthy conclusion to the series on the whole.
Arrival
Quite simply, a good start to the series. They did a great job of setting up the oddity in The Village, and the two key conflicts of extracting information and No 6's escape. It intrigued me enough to keep watching; what more is there to say?
Hammer Into Anvil
This one is just a fun experience, since you as the audience know that No 6 is purposely driving No 2 crazy, but it's still entertaining to follow along, like it's all a puzzle. No 2's breakdown at the end is also just great (a common thread pertaining to the No 2's who end up losing it).
Free For All
I think this one drags on a little bit longer than it needs to during more than a few sequences, but what it lacks for in excitement, it makes up for in village-related intrigue. There's a certain allure to the earlier episodes where No 6 is just getting acclimated to The Village and discovering what it's like alongside the audience. If this one wasn't held back by some cliches of the show (ie woman who will obviously betray No 6, a halfhearted escape attempt, No 6 being drugged for little reason), it would probably rank higher, but the monotony of the mentioned pushes it downward.
Once Upon a Time
Just as he did a notably good job in CoBB, McKern does a very good job in this episode, and saves it from being ranked much lower. No matter how you watch the show, this one is right at the end, and it's hard not to think of how similar it is to some other episodes. It's better than them, no doubt about it, but the fact that they exist does make this one feel less novel. This episode is sort of the threshold between the episodes I thought lived up to the high praise I've heard about the show, and the episodes that are weaker.
Many Happy Returns
This one has a little bit of a weird placement. There's a lot to like in this one, but frankly, I struggle with the premise. That The Village would let him leave in the first place. That he did such spectacularly stupid things upon his return, not forming anything of a coherent plan; that he goes immediately back to the agency who he seemingly suspects of potentially running the village. That the swapping of the pilot to recapture him just... Happened, no real leadup or foreshadowing. The no dialogue first segment was a welcome change of pace, the Number 2 role/reveal was well handled, and it was interesting seeing the outside world, but I can't get past how this one feels like it needed a few more passes in the story department.
It's Your Funeral
Looking back on this episode, it seems like it should have been a good one, getting a glimpse into No 2 politics, but I honestly mostly remember being bored. I did like both of the actors for No 2, and especially that closing scene, but a lot of the scenes inbetween a lot of the more important ones felt like padding.
A Change of Mind
Once again, we're getting into an episode that's just sort of filled with cliches that I'm certain will blend in with a bunch of other episodes once some time has passed. No 6 fighting with committees, a drug-induced plan that makes No 6 think he's losing control of his facilities, and a kind of pointless hypnosis sub-plot. The only part that really sticks out to me is the very ending, and it's a two minute sequence with little buildup. A fine enough episode, but didn't stand out to me.
The General
Now we're starting to get into the episodes that really don't even take advantage of the premise. A character investigating a device that lets you learn years of scholarly material instantly... Sure, but does it play into any of the core conflicts? Not really? Alright then. No 2 quizzing No 6 was fun, and I enjoyed No 6's final victory with the question even if it was kind of cliche, but not one of my favorites.
A. B. and C.
While it's obvious that No 6 isn't going to slip up, or No 2 isn't going to let No 6 escape, there are episodes that make me suspend my disbelief and make wonder just how close they'll get. Not this one; it's obvious that this will not work, and that No 6 will end up messing with No 2. So even though that final gotcha is decent, it doesn't quite make up for a suspenseless series of spy cliches.
The Girl Who Was Death
Oh boy, now we're truly getting to the bottom of the barrel. If it's not obvious, I really am not a fan of these episodes that are just sort of repurposed spy scripts. As always, the clever little ending is fun enough (they really have a knack for that, don't they?), but if I wanted to watch a spy show, I'd watch that rather than these sort of halfhearted attempts.
Living in Harmony
Honestly, I think if I rewatched this one now that I've seen them all, I might like it more. But on an initial watch... The amount that this felt like filler was through the roof. The cardboard cutouts at the end were pretty hilarious, but that's not enough to save this from being bottom of the barrel.
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling
I think it's safe to say that even though I enjoyed The Prisoner quite a bit, I'm no rush to watch Danger Man and see any more of these 1960 spy shows.

TLDR; period after 3.5 years
I got my Mirena Feb 2020 and had an overall positive experience. It’s been pretty good since then, and I haven’t had a period since. I have dysmenorrhea that causes iron deficiency so that’s huge for me. It also massively decreased my pms symptoms. I do have bad acne from it but I figured it was an acceptable trade off. I also think it’s been not amazing for my depression but better than the pill, which I do horribly on. I’m just really sensitive to hormones in general.
This past week or so have suddenly sucked! I had awful hormonal migraine type headaches with some nausea like I haven’t had in a really long time last week and yesterday I started very lightly spotting. I have some light cramps and I just feel like I’m on my period. I saw it can start leveling out hormonally a few years in for some people, can anyone link some articles on that? I haven’t found much. I am seeing the obgyn next week to check everything too

So i resetted my PC because i thought i was time to do so. But now it seems that my entire PC is in shambles. The Problems i see are within the RAM. The RAM i have installed is two 8gb sticks. But for some reason if i play a Game called Hunt:Showdown my RAM is at 90% with only being like 10gb used. Also if i have not a single Game open i have 40% RAM usage which only like 2.5gb being used. I made a little calculation and found out that either my maximum RAM is 6.25gb if i use the numbers 40% and 2.5gb. Or my maximum RAM is 10gb while im in that Game. I also ran a tool that should check my RAM on any problems and said tool said everything is fine. My knowledge about PC-Stuff is relative narrow so i wanted to ask the Reddit-Hivemind for help.
Thanks in advance and sorry for my english.

Public opinion of TriMet's decisions have been pretty mixed, mostly because TriMet's decisions are so convoluted that they can be a real challenge to understand. In reality, Metro and Portlanders need to have a bigger civic conversation about the future of TriMet, looking at the big picture. We have 3 looming existential crises of TriMet to be concerned about that are bigger than revenue dips, crime, or homeless people.
Civic leaders and the public are focused on a quick "fix" for TriMet revenue drops - even though we've seen this coming for a long time, it's very predictable that TriMet's Board of Directors acts at the last minute. Also, very predictably, TriMet's Board opted for a fare increase because over the previous 20 years that's been a go-to answer to every problem (except for that one time they killed Fareless Square). The politically appointed boards of TriMet and Metro lack the unique specialized knowledge of the issues I'll bring up here. If TriMet knows about these larger issues, they're obviously burring it from public view. In the short term, increasing fares is like putting fresh paint on a house that's on fire; in this situation, that paint is HIGHLY flammable.
First - fare hikes as a tactic is a brain-dead move. Just the most utterly stupid and self-sabotaging response to a looming budget shortfall. I'm dwelling on this because it illustrates their terrible decision-making, which is functional proof they have no idea what they're doing. Some of the core reasons for this:

• Increasing fares reduces utilization. Higher cost means fewer people ride, which will decrease the ridership revenue. It will also marginally increase the number of people who won't pay (funny story, some of those who don't pay actually can't afford to). TriMet isn't a monopoly or inelastic service, and plenty of other choices exist that didn't exist 20 years ago: an actual bike share, scooters, electric bikes, UbeLyft, shared vehicles, and more bike paths. Before the pandemic, it was common that I would bus into downtown for work and then take a Lyft home because it wasn't all that expensive, like $8 more than a bus ride - TriMet's price increases make a system that wasn't very competitive simply less compelling.
  
• Across Portland we need to go through a process of austerity and downsizing government. I absolutely support Wheeler putting a pause on rate increases, but for God's sake, we have far too much largesse in every layer of government. If you need to learn what I'm talking about, read my old article on Parks & Rec. So many divisions/agencies have doubled their staff while reducing service levels. It's bonkers. Cutting throats needs to be an imperative. This is because the great majority of public sector employees in Oregon and Portland are incompetent, redundant, and only exist because Oregon and Portland have been reluctant to use automation. And I don't mean the cutting-edge AI stuff, I'm talking about people who still handle business processes as if they're paper forms. I could tell so many stories from my professional experience - but you'll have to take my word for it for now: culling this bureaucracy is the right move, and until there's a significant downsizing, the political class is taking none of the financial crisis or cost of living situation seriously.
  
• TriMet's operating budget/revenue is primarily Payroll Taxes, not passenger revenue. About 20-30% of TriMet's budget comes from people buying fares, whereas the bulk of money TriMet needs comes from payroll taxes that businesses pay directly. Because of this, transit activists (including myself) have been proponents of increasing the payroll taxes marginally to make TriMet free for riders. Of course, fareless transit comes with a wide variety of new and different problems (that's an article for another time). Still, when you understand that only a sliver of revenue comes from fares, increasing the fare simply results in a marginal increase in revenue. The much bigger problem is going to businesses investing outside of Metro, and changing workforces that 1) won't pay payroll taxes reliably, 2) don't need people to go into the office. Think about the longer-term game here: is TriMet's board going to increase fares as utilization drops and payroll taxes continually diminish? (See my point above about how their default answer is "yes" because it's the only politically expedient answer.)
  

Reading comments about the fare hikes, most of the public thinks TriMet is dealing with a safety or utilization issue. Both of these are 100% true: soft-on-crime progressives have wholly obliterated the working class perception of TriMet safety - there are so many different ways this has happened, but we should thank so many people in the media and political class: Ana del Rocio's crying wolf about racism in fare inspections (and the media entertaining it), or Mike Schmidt deinstitutionalizing of the justice system, or Legislature's inability to act on the massive mental health crisis and drug addiction crisis in Oregon. No matter the underlying cause, we have a system where deranged violent mentally ill tweakers can be disruptive on the train, but working-class people face a $250 fine if they can't afford a $2.50 ($2.80) ticket. TriMet is less safe, especially the light rail and bus lines. We could hypothetically talk about various policy and infrastructure changes, such as turnstiles and security guards - but pragmatically, this won't do shit when our society has adopted a philosophy of transforming the urban core into an open-air insane asylum and opened the doors to the prisons. This safety issue is well beyond TriMet's scope, and even if there was consensus among TriMet and Metro to solve this, the entire justice system and Legislature is still broken.

Fare Hikes and Utilization is the Red Herring - Let's talk about TriMet's future

In reality, multiple design choices made decades ago set us up for failure. But we also have to thank brain-dead progressive lunatics and corrupt politicos who have steered our transit decision-making into the ground.
There are three specific issues I'm going to talk about, with each becoming more consequential and disastrous for TriMet:

• Hub and Spoke Design and the need for a redesign of the entire system to fit new commuting/transit patterns
  
• Portland Light Rail's short cars are a capacity problem not worth the price tag to fix
  
• Autonomous vehicles are here, and it's just going to get worse for TriMet
  

The strategic design of TriMet's system is broken, and it's been broken before.

If you looked at a map of TriMet's bus and rail system, you'd see a design pattern often referred to as a "Radial Design" or sometimes a "Hub And Spoke" design. The Hub and Spoke strategy is building our transit system around centralized locations to connect to other routes. For Portland the idea is to go downtown (or sometimes a Park and Ride) where you can connect to your next destination. This is why the majority of bus routes and all the max routes go downtown, to our Transit Mall and Pioneer Square.
Downtown planning was a smart idea in the 1960s when it was coupled with Main Street economic theory and prototype urban development zones - all of this wrapped up in the 1972 Downtown Plan policy. During these decades, the primary economic idea of urban revitalization was that downtown cores could provide better business climates and shopping districts that amplify economic activity synergistically. In other words, packing all the office jobs and luxury shopping in one area is good for workers, business, and civic planning.
All very smart ideas in yester-year, so TriMet became focused on serving the downtown business community myopically. This myopia became so paramount that it was considered illegitimate (actually taboo, borderline illegal) if you used a Park & Ride facility to park and NOT ride downtown. Amanda Fritz once explained that we couldn't expand Barbur Transit Center because that would result in students parking at Barbur Transit Center and riding the bus to PCC Sylvania. This view implies that TriMet exists only to service downtown workers, not the students, not the impoverished mom needing to go to a grocery store.
How does TriMet's hub and spoke design represent its purpose?
Portland's unspoken rule of transit philosophy is that jobs pay for the system (remember, business payroll taxes pay for most of it), so TriMet should be focused on serving people utilizing it for their job - employers pay for it, and they get value out of it. But this is both unspoken (never said aloud) and largely unobserved. The whole idea of TriMet as a social service to serve low-income people, to help impoverished people - well, those ideas were just lukewarm political rhetoric that is tossed out as soon as some Undesirable with tattered clothing reeking of cigarettes gets aboard - then Portlanders jump right back "this is for workers only!" Sadly, there hasn't ever been a public consensus of why TriMet exists because I could equally argue that TriMet's purpose isn't serving the working class; it's actually vehicle emissions reductions - but here, too, reality contradicts that this is the purpose for why we operate TriMet. TriMet's real purpose seems to be "Spend money on lofty capital projects" and if we want to be cynical about it, we can elaborate "…because large capital projects enable grift, embezzlement, and inflating property values for developers."
We haven't always depended upon a hub and spoke design. A great article from Jarrett Walker written in 2010 on his Human Transit blog explains in "The Power and Pleasure of Grids"

Why aren't all frequent networks grids? The competing impulse is the radial network impulse, which says: "We have one downtown. Everyone is going there, so just run everything to there." Most networks start out radial, but some later transition to more of a grid form, often with compromises in which a grid pattern of routes is distorted around downtown so that many parallel routes converge there. You can see this pattern in many cities, Portland for example. Many of the lines extending north and east out of the city center form elements of a grid, but converge on the downtown. Many other major routes (numbered in the 70s in Portland's system) do not go downtown, but instead complete the grid pattern. This balance between grid and radial patterns was carefully constructed in 1982, replacing an old network in which almost all routes went downtown.

Over the years the grid pattern was neglected in favor of a downtown-focused investment strategy. To a real degree it made practical sense: that's where the jobs were. But again, this is the presumption that TriMet and Mass Transit ought to service workers first, and there's not much consensus on that. But while we can't decide on TriMet's purpose, we can absolutely agree on one important thing: Downtown is dead.
No 5-star hotel is going to fix it. (As of writing, I'm not even convinced that this mafia-connected bamboozle of public fraud will open.) No "tough-on-crime" DA to replace Mike Schmidt, like Nathan Vasquez, will fix downtown. It's not JUST a crime problem: most of the problems we deal with today mirror the problems facing Portland in the 1960s, especially our inability to invest in good infrastructure people actually want to use. That's on top of crime, vandalism, and an unhealthy business ecosystem.
IF we want to maintain TriMet (and that's a big IF, for reasons I'll explain below), then it will be focused on something other than downtown. We need to move back to a grid-design transit system, as this is a much easier way to use transit to get around the city, no matter your destination. If TriMet continues to exist and operate fleets in 20-30 years, this is the only way it exists - because it will just be too inconvenient to ride downtown as a side quest to your destination, especially as we look at 10, 20, 30, 40 years from now.
Of course, we can only transform some parts of the transit infrastructure this way, and there are no uplifting and moving train tracks here. So light rail doesn't have a future in the grid system - but even without the grid system, light rail is doomed.

The fatal flaws of light rail in Portland.

I want to preface this by saying I like light rail as a strategy, it's not a bad system or bad civic investment. I could write another 5,000-word essay on why Seattle did an excellent job with light rail and the specific decisions Portland made wildly incorrectly. In transit advocacy the wacktavists inappropriately categorized skeptics of Portland's light rail as some soft bigotry - as if you're racist if you don't like Portland's light rail - even though, ironically, most light rail systems tend to be built for the preference of white culture and white workers, precisely what happened here in Portland and most cities (but this is all a story for another time).
Portland's light rail system has a capacity problem and has dealt with this capacity problem quietly for the last 20+ years. When you see the capacity problem, you can quickly understand this light rail system won't work in the future. All the other smart cities in the world that designed light rail realized they needed big long trains to move many people. Portland decided to limit the train car length to the size of our city blocks to save construction costs - and this has always been a fatal flaw.
Portland's highest capacity train car is our Type 5, according to Wikipedia it has a seating capacity of 72 and an overall capacity of 186 per train. Let's compare:

• Washington DC has 6-car trains capable of carrying 120 passengers per car, or 720 per train.
  
• Salt Lake City has a 4-car train capable of carrying 230 passengers per car, or 920 per train.
  
• Seattle's Link system has a 3 or 4-car train, each capable of carrying approximately 200 passengers per car, so 600 to 800 per train.
  

Portland's light rail lines have roughly the same people moving capacity as a single lane of a highway, maybe marginally more, maybe marginally less. These other cities have a light rail system that can move the same amount of people as an entire 3-lane highway.
You might suspect that Portland could simply run trains more frequently - but nah, that's impossible because the trains run through the central core of downtown Portland, and they're blocked by the real interfaces with road traffic and bottlenecks. TriMet/PBOT/Metro has offered rosy ideas that we could hypothetically run cars every 90 seconds, 2 minutes, 4 minutes, or 6 minutes (depending upon who you ask) - but these are garbage numbers invented out of thin air. For example, you could stand at Pioneer Courthouse Square at 4:50pm on a Wednesday in 2016 - there was a train opening doors to load passengers, and you could visibly see the next train at Pioneer Place Mall pulling into the station behind. Trains were running at approximately a 3 to 4 minute at peak - but on paper, TriMet will claim anything, as they don't give a shit about lying to the public. But the bigger problem is that trains were full. You might have to wait 90 minutes to find a train that offers a seat. And god forbid you had a bike.
I'm not making this very real capacity problem, Metro even acknowledges:

At the busiest hours of the day, 40 light rail trains must cross the river and traverse downtown – one train every 90 seconds. As the region grows and the demand for light rail increases, the region will need at least 64 MAX trains through downtown every hour, more than one train each minute. Our current system can't support that change.

Suppose you're silly enough to trust government propaganda. In that case, you can read the details of Metro study on this in 2019. If we assumed their numbers added up, it's just fucking impossible to run 62 trains per hour, because passenger loading and unloading can take a full minute (sometimes longer). So unless we want to apply substantial g-forces onto the passengers, the train isn't accelerating out of the stops fast enough. Not to mention how unreliable this whole system would be if a sole tweaker, bike rider, or person with a stroller held up the system for 2 minutes.
This is why the bottom line needs to be upfront about capacity - quoting Metro's study here:

Today MAX is limited to 2-car trains because of the length of downtown city blocks. A tunnel could allow for longer trains if the stations outside the downtown core are retrofitted. In the long-term, this could greatly increase MAX capacity.

Do you see that trick? Build a tunnel, yes - but the entire system has to be retrofitted. Literally every light rail station would need to be redesigned, the lines themselves recalculated for larger heavier trains - and extending platforms at Willow Creek might be simple enough, but how in the living fuck is Metro going to afford to expand the Zoo stop? Doubling the size of that platform would cost $500 million alone.
If the city weren't full of cheap dipshits, we would have elevated or buried our light rail lines in the 1980s or 90s, enabling longer train cars to run. Yes, we all knew back then that it was the best practice not to have light rail running on the street - it's less safe, less reliable, runs slower, and limits train car size. Oops.
Just to keep TriMet's own bullshit inflated utopian vision, it would mean spending another billion dollars just to unfuck downtown, bypass an aging bridge, and potentially allow a marginally higher volume of trains - which again is a band-aid on a mortal wound.
The real buried lede is that to add extra train cars means retrofitting all the stops in the system - that's tens of billions of dollars. You can argue costs, but Metro knows we need to do this. It means shutting down the system for a year or years while construction and retrofits happen. It's fucking outrageous. Is this system worth of people per line worth 20, 30, or 40 billion dollars? Fuck no, it ain't. Again, if we had a raging metropolis of industry and commerce downtown, we could reasonably entertain the idea for a moment - but we don't and never will again.
Some folks might argue that if we kill off the light rail system we'd lose out on all those lucrative Transit Oriented Developments. Originally the public was told that Transit Oriented Development strategy would cause a massive infusion of private investment because the light rail was so damn lucrative and desirable for Richard Florida's Creative Class. Turns out the Creative Class is now called today the Laptop Class, and they don't give a flying fuck about street cars, light rail, or walking scores - because most can't be bothered to put pants on during their "commute" from bed to desk. TOD was all a fantasy illusion from the beginning, as multiple studies about Portland commuters showed that college-educated white folks riding Max were equally comfortable riding their bike as a substitute for the same commute. All of these billions of dollars was to accommodate white fare-weather bikers. So here's my hot take on transit: pave over the rail lines and put in bike lanes, and boy, then you'd have a bike system to give folks like Maus a hardon. But of course, Bike Portland would complain because their focus isn't biking; they exist only to favor all poorly thought utopian transit ideas.
Another group of Max/TOD advocates would claim that TOD is better for disabled and impoverished people. And yeah, there's truth there, but see my entire argument above about the Hub & Spoke design of TriMet being the antithesis of transit as a social service. If you believe that TriMet should serve low-income people, you must advocate for a bus-centric grid design.
But even if you're a die-hard believer in light rail - there's another inevitable reality coming that is the nail in the coffin.

Autonomous vehicles will replace mass transit faster than the automobile replaced the horse.

I work in advanced technology, and the thing about tech is that the public and politicians deny that it's going to be there until the majority of the public finally experiences it. You could say this about personal computers, internet, cloud compute, electric cars, smartphones, distributed ledger (cryptocurrency), AI, and driverless vehicles.
Schrodinger's technology doesn't exist until it's measured in an Apple store or your mother asks you for tech support.
No one thought AI was really real until ChatGPT did their kid's homework, and today most people are coming to terms with the fact that ChatGPT 3.5 could do most people's jobs. And that's not even the most advanced AI, that's the freeware put out by Microsoft, they have paywalls to access the real deal.
In 2018 I rode in my colleague's Tesla in self-driving mode from downtown Portland to Top Golf in Hillsboro. We started our journey at the surface parking lot on the west side of the Morrison Bridge. He used his phone to tell the car to pull out of the parking spot and to pick us up. Then he gave the car the address, and it drove us the entire way without any human input necessary. The only time he provided feedback was to touch the turn signal to pass a slow car on the highway. People think self-driving isn't here - but it is - and it's gotten exponentially better and will continue to do so. People will complain and moan about idealized, utopian, pedantic "level 5" full self-driving, how none of it exists or could exist, as a Tesla passes them on the road and the driver is half asleep.
Of course, Portland and every major city have also thought deeply about self-driving technology, and a few places have implemented self-driving solutions - but so far, none of these are really at scale. Though it will be a short time before cost-conscious cities go all-in.
TriMet kicked around the idea of using an autonomous bus for a leg of the trip of the Southwest Corridor project, connecting a segment of the light rail route to the community college. It was bafflingly stupid and short-sighted to think they could use it in this niche application but that it wouldn't open the floodgates for a hundred different applications that eviscerate TriMet's labor model. The simplest example of autonomous operation would be to operate the light rail systems - because they don't make turns, all we need is an AI vision service to slam on the breaks if necessary - that technology has existed for 20+ years. We could retrofit the entire train system in about 3 to 6 months - replace every Max operator with a security guard, and maybe people would ride the Max again? But I digress.
Let's speculate about the far-future, some 5, 10, or 20 years from now: your transit options will expand significantly. The cost will decrease considerably for services using automated vehicles.
You'll look at your options as:

• Drive to work: fastest, takes $100+ worth of gas a month, but you also need $50+ for insurance and $500+ for the monthly car payment, plus those surprise maintenance and broken windows. Also, do you pay for parking? Pick a number for how much it costs to drive your personally owned and manually operated vehicle to work each month.
  
• Autonomous vehicle service: price TBA, but think of how much an Uber costs when you don't have to pay the driver, you don't have to pay for gas. An Uber that runs for $20 today would likely be $10 or less. So, to and from work 20 times a month, $200. $300? Ok, let's just say it's $400 a month. It's still all cheaper than owning a car and driving it to work. No parking fees, and it picks you up quickly enough that it's not a nuisance.
  
• Mass Transit: $150 per month, but ugghhh it's slow, it smells like piss, a guy jacked off in your hair, and you can't schedule a meeting for the first 30 minutes of your anticipated workday in case you miss a connection - and it breaks so often the government actively hides the reliability data from the public and media.
  

Just a few years into this future we'll see a brand new trend, one that already exists: a shared autonomous vehicle like a privately operated bus. For example, Uber Bus - it already exists as a commuter option in some cities, it's just not autonomous yet. The significant benefit of an autonomous bus is that these shared vehicles will utilize HOV lanes very commonly, and commuting in an autonomous vehicle will be as fast as driving to work in your manually operated car while also being less expensive.
Simultaneously automobile accidents in autonomous vehicles will be virtually non-existent, and insurance companies will start to increase prices on vehicles that lack AI/smart assisted safety driving features. Public leaders will see the value of creating lanes of traffic on highways dedicated explicitly to autonomous vehicles so that they can drive at much higher speeds than manually operated traffic. Oregon won't lead the way here, but wait until Texas or one of the Crazy States greenlights a speed limit differential, and self-driving vehicles have a speed limit of 90, 120, or 150 miles per hour. You might think "accidents would be terrible and deadly" but there will be fewer accidents in the autonomous lane than in manual lanes. At this point, it will be WAY faster to take an autonomous vehicle to your work.
Purchasing power of consumers will decrease while the cost of vehicles will increase (especially autonomous vehicles), making ownership of any vehicle less likely. Frankly, the great majority of people won't know how to drive and will never learn to - just like how young people today don't know how to use manual transmission. However, fleets of autonomous vehicles owned by companies like Tesla, Uber, and Lyft will benefit from scale and keep their autonomous bus fleets operating at low cost. This will lead to a trend where fewer and fewer people will own an automobile, and fewer people even bother learning how to drive or paying the enormous insurance cost.... while also depending upon automobiles more than we do today.
Eventually, in the distant future, manually driven vehicles will be prohibited in urban areas as some reckless relic from a bygone era.
Cities and public bodies don't have to be cut out of this system if they act responsibly. For example, cities could start a data brokering exchange where commuters provide their commuting data (i.e., pick-up point, destination, arrival time). The government uses either a privatized fleet or a publicly owned fleet of autonomous vehicles to move as many people as possible as often as possible. Sort of a publicly run car-pool list - or a hyper-responsive bus fleet that runs for the exact passengers going to exact locations. A big problem companies like Uber, Lyft, and Tesla will have is that they'll lack market saturation to optimize commuting routes - they'll be able to win unique rides, but the best way they can achieve the lowest cost service model is these super predictable and timely commuter riders. The more data points and riders, the more optimization they can achieve. These companies can look at the data for as many people as possible and bid for as many routes as possible - optimizing for convenience, time, energy usage, emissions, etc. The public will voluntarily participate if this is optimized to get the cheapest ride possible. If the government doesn't do this, the private sector will eventually.
As a parallel, no one today even considers how Metro runs garbage collection. No one cares. And if you didn't like Metro's trash service, if you needed a better service for unique needs, you go procure that on your own. Likewise, you wouldn't care about the quality of the commuting trip as long as it's up to some minimal standards of your class expectations, it's reliable, nearly as quick as driving your own vehicle, and it seems reasonably affordable.
If the public ran this data exchange, fees could subsidize lower-income riders. This is a theory on what a TriMet like system or mass transit system could look like in a primarily autonomous world where most people don't own their own or drive an automobile.
This system would be far from perfect, opening up all sorts of problems around mobility. However, it's hard to see how autonomous vehicles will not obliterate the value proposition of mass transit.

Another narrative on the same story.

As the working class moves to autonomous vehicles, transit agencies will collect fewer and fewer fares - prices and taxes will rise, creating a cycle of failure. As a result, some cities will make buses self-driving to cut costs. It could start with Tokyo, Shanghai, Oslo, et al. Again, it's unlikely that Portland or Oregon will be the first movers on this, but when cities start laying off hundreds of mass transit operators and cutting fares to practically nothing, there will be substantial public pressure to mimic locally. It will be inhumane, it will be illiberal, to make those impoverished bus-riding single mothers pay premiums. As most of the fleet becomes autonomous, responsive, and disconnected from labor costs, the next question arises: why do we still operate bus routes? Why big buses instead of smaller and nimble vehicles?
This alternative story/perspective leads to the same outcome: we figure out where people are going and when they need to get there - then dispatch the appropriate amount of vehicles to move that exact number of people as efficiently as possible.
But our local government getting its act together on all this is outside the world of possibility.
In a practical sense, we're going to see history repeat itself. Portland's mass transit history is about private and public entities over-extending themselves, getting too deep in debt on a flawed and outdated idea. As a result, the system collapses into consolidation or liquidation. Following this historical pattern, TriMet/Metro won't respond to changing conditions fast enough, and laughably stupid ideas like cranking up taxes or increasing ridership fares will continue to be the only option until the media finally acknowledges these groups are insolvent. I just hope we don't spend tens of billions of dollars propping up this zombie system before we can soberly realize that we made some mistakes and these vanity-laden projects 20 and 30 years ago need to die.
You see, the biggest flaw with TriMet isn't the design, it needs to be outpaced by technology, it's that the people making decisions at TriMet and Metro are going to make the politically expedient decisions, not the right decisions. They won't redesign, and they won't leverage technology for cost savings, so this charade will just get going along until the media simply declares they're insolvent.
Back to fares for a second - the media happily reprints TriMet's horseshit take about "The higher fares will bring in an estimated $4.9 million in annual revenue starting next year, the report says." Just sort of amazing to me there's no skepticism about this number - but most spectacular is no media considerations about alternative solutions. For example, I could tell TriMet how to save $9,548,091 next year - a useless program primarily utilized by white middle-class folks who own alternative methods of transport - and this would inconvenience way less transit-dependent people than raising fares. But, that's off the table - we're not even developing a decision matrix for when we kill the blackhole of money known as WES.

(England) It’s my first time car crash (only I hope) and it was a big one. I was driving on the A road when the other driver pulled out of the side road without looking. She hit my passenger side, the impact caused me to swerve even though I attempted to correct myself…it just didn’t work. I went over the curb into the trees, at that point my priority was to avoid the large trees but while doing this it meant I crashed into sturdier small trees. I hit my side and passenger side again until I stop by crashing into a cluster of young Ash trees. I couldn’t exit from my side due to a tree sticking in my door. I somehow climbed and exited over to the passenger side although I don’t remember doing this. I was in shock, ambulance treated me at the scene and police arrived. Other driver admitted full responsibility but didn’t hang around for police to arrive so fled the scene of the accident. The bumper on her car was damaged and fell off. The next day her insurance called but I didn’t answer, they left a voice message saying the driver accepted full liability for the accident. I contacted my insurance who have paid me out for my car as it’s a write off. I haven’t yet received the payment but accepted it. I have been to hospital 24 hours after the accident as advised by the ambulance. I’m bruised, battered, lots of soft tissue damage although we do not know to what degree yet as it may take a week for all injuries to surface. My right arm is battered badly and has an abrasion along the length of my upper arm. I’m currently in what is called the stress shock stage. Her insurance call me non-stop from around 8am to 8pm I told them I’m in no mind to speak to them, I’m struggling to process it all. They leave voice messages offering me a hire car and a payment of £100 then next voice message is to repair my car! I answered the phone to tell them it’s written off and they said ‘great!’ I know I need to organise myself and I have a list written down. I just need to know why her insurance keep hassling me? Is it possible they want to negotiate a payment before my injuries are assessed by a solicitor? I’m really not sure what to do, so far my insurance have just dealt with it all, I’m just not ready to drive a car yet so I’m not interested in car hire. Any advice on this would be appreciated.

Warning: This story occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children, especially noob children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors [See “5-0”).
My son was super excited when he found out we could actually play diablo 2 together. He has watched me play before, and thought it was just a single player game. He said “wait we can play together? This is my new favorite game."
On the character selection screen, he proudly exclaims “I want the teleporting one” so he did whats known as a pro gamer move and started with a sorceress. I’m like cool, he's gonna be the item find bitch, so I made a paladin. That’s where the pro gamer decisions ended though.
It took us three hours to get to countess because in Act 1 normal, this adorable little nugget sent from heaven picked up every single cracked leather armor and proudly declared “dad, look THE RAREST ITEM IN THE GAME!” Bless his heart. If only he knew of the horrors that await him.
It was a beautiful experience watching him experience the game but I used to play back in da DAY and everyone knows, true evil corrupts deeply. I had a diabolical evil idea, that I just couldn’t shake like Marius’s dope smoking.
When we finally hit level 10, I innocuously asked if he wanted to battle characters, “for fun” (Lmao).
What he thought was for fun was really for all the cards on the table. While the young calf enjoys the new experiences of the field, the old bull knows the pasture. The pasture happens to be the blood moor.
He really likes lightning so his sorceress is lightning based. The charged bolts clear screens of monsters so he thinks this duel will be easy.
I, however, am a holy fire paladin and D2 is like Vegas, all bets on black. In preparation for this duel I equip a rare throwing axe for range, ironically, one of the “rarest items in the game” that he had found for me. We click hostile and meet in the moor for the ultimate father-son showdown. But like Vader did Luke, I quickly remind him “I am your father.”
He spams all his bolts and runs out of mana while I slap him with holy fire charged throwing axes harder than his mom claps my paycheck’s cheeks for child support.
After his sorcerer lies flat in the moor, I make sure to comfort him and call him a “noob” while he tearfully declares me a cheater. I comfort him and remind him I only cheated on his mother, not in this game and he’s actually just a noob. I proceed to NK him 4 more times giggling like a borderline personality disorder diagnosed hyena. I then humbly declare “5-0, no gd noob.” I again comfort him and remind him “life sucks then you die” as any good father should. And life in d2 pvp definitely sucks and then you die.
He cannot wait to come over and try to level up his sorceress for a rematch. Boys (and the probably 3 girls who plays this game), I have proudly done my part in raising the next generation of d2 addicts.
Disclaimer: This story has been dramatized for dramatic effect. No children outside of 1 noob sorceress was harmed in the making of this story.

Me and my girlfriend are landing in Rome on Monday and we have some ideas for our vacation, but we see some potential issues as well. Does this itinerary make sense?
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June 5th: Land in Rome and spend a day there. Sleep at a hotel, eat breakfast there and travel onwards comfortably early.
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June 6th: We'll go by public transportation to Termoli in the morning and spend the rest of the day there. Top point on the agenda will probably be bathing. Do you think it's reasonable to do this travel in one go and still have energy to spend a day bathing? Is Termoli a nice place to bathe, or should we potentially aim for doing something else?
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June 7th: Wake up in Termoli and take an early ferry to San Domino where we intend to spend the day and finish by taking the last ferry onwards to Rodi Garganico. This is where we have the most questions. We see a lot of conflicting information about the ferries in and out of San Domino and can't figure out if it's actually operational both of these stretches? Do we have a good backup if the ferry doesn't go? Since this is just another stop on our vacation we must bring our baggage with us, but we're unsure if it's possible to store them at the docks, or at a hotel or something like that? Also unsure if we should plan for more than just a day with travel both in and out the very same morning and evening, or if that would leave us with too little time. Is it better to spend a night on the island?
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June 8, 9, 10th: Stay at a hotel in Rodi Garganico where we take things easy. We will see about what we feel like, but will probably spend more time bathing, possibly have a lazy day, and do one or two small excursions where we want to rent a vespa or car to go and explore the hills or forests in the surrounding area. As i understood it the central part of the peninsula is a National park, but I'm a bit unsure about where this starts and where it ends and where we should aim to visit inside this park. Is it a good idea to rent a vespa for two people to travel with a light baggage, or should we go for for two vespas (or a car) instead? Do you think we would need to reserve this long in advance or can we do it a bit on the fly?
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June 11, 12, 13th: We're still not entirely sure about what we want to do here. We want to visit Vieste, and we've heard good stuff about Mattinata. We also get the impression that everything in between is pretty beautiful even by Italy-standards. I guess our problem is more that we can't decide on what we would most like, but if you know of anything extra unique in this area, then that's of great interest to us! We read something about a ferry going between Vieste and San Domino, but we can't find this source again right now. We feel like there's a big advantage to use the ferry to get from one stop to another since it kinda means saving a day while seeing a pretty excotic group of islands.
We're also debating wether we should stick to just one hotel the entire period from 8-13 and do small excursions to the other interesting places out of this hotel, rather than doing two or three hotels for this period.
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June 14th: travel back to Rome
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June 15th: Take the plane out of Rome in the evening
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Aside from the questions above, are there any obvious problems or opportunities you notice?
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Thank you very much

I am a casual golfer who is father to a 13 y.o. Competitive golfer. He usually shoots in the mid to low 90s and will shoot in the 80s here and there if he’s hot. He’s not a tiger woods-like prodigy but definitely better than most kids his age. He’s very accurate but not as long as other kids in his age group. Hes still using kids golf irons which may be contributing to his accuracy and lack of distance. He’s tall and At the rate he’s growing (5’7” and counting) I’m gonna be buying new clubs every year or so. Any suggestions on a good set that isn’t going to cost a thousand dollars?

Look, I've been playing for years. When I was a greenbeard I used to think it would be great if new classes were added to the game. Then as I played for longer I came to believe that the 4 class model was perfect as is. Now I think there is room for new classes. Not just one new class, but many, at least 2. Even with two additional classes the number of potential team comps excluding repetitions jumps from 1 at 4 to 15 at 6. If the developers ever end up going that route here is a concept for a medic class that I believe would fit well into the existing game. Sorry it is medic yet again but there is a reason it keeps getting suggested: it opens up new conceptual space. If new classes are ever added perhaps some of these concepts can be added to other classes in the form of alternate equipment.
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The medic is a mid-heavy combatant that can use a gyropack for mobility and deploy healing drones to revive and top off allies.
Gyropack: Selecting this equipment slot causes a collapsible antenna with rotary blades to extend from the top of the medic's pack. Two control sticks emerge from near the medic's waist on either side that he grabs on to. While using the gyropack the medic cannot fight or mine as both of his hands are occupied. Left mouse for ascending, right mouse for descending, and aerial movement is controlled via the directional keys. Prolonged use of the gyropack will cause it to overheat and there is a delay between uses. It is used for maneuvering around the battlefield quickly in short bursts to get where you want to go. It is also useful for getting up to platforms for mining. There is a short delay before activation on equip meaning you have to be quick to catch yourself while falling. This gyropack really shines with the addition of jetboots as you can alternate between jetboots and the gyropack for aerial combat and stunts.
Healing Drone: This healing drone works similar to the Gunner's shield in that it deploys for a limited duration, must recharge between uses, and has a limited number of uses replenished upon resupply. While deployed the healing drone will prioritize downed allies, seeking them out and reviving them. If no allies are down, it will go around topping off the dwarf with the least health. If everyone is at full health, it simply hangs out by the medic. It can only perform one revive per deployment. When its duration has ended it returns to the medic.
Primary Weapon Examples
The medic's primary weapons can be classified as squad support weapons. They aren't as heavy as the gunner's but are heavier than the scout's.

• Light machine gun: A magazine fed light machine gun with a reload on the longer side, consistent spread, and a small movement speed penalty while firing.
• Rocket Gun: A multi rocket magazine fed rocket launcher. Holding the trigger allows you to lock on your shots.

Secondary Weapon Examples
The medic's secondary weapons are sidearms somewhere between Gunner's and Driller's in terms of size.

• Signal Gun: A single shot pistol that launches a burning swirling firework that detonates at the end of a short duration. It can stick on enemies doing fire damage in an area and fearing the enemy its stuck to. (think a traditional single shot flare gun)
• Magnum handgun: A desert eagle style pistol somewhere between the subata and bulldog in terms of stopping power.

Throwable Example:
The medic's throwables focus around buffing allies.

• Stim Pack: Throws a fluid filled grenade. Dwarves in the effect radius have increased rate of fire, reload/cooling speed, melee speed, and movement speed for a short duration.

Feel free to comment as you like with your own ideas or reasons why a new class would or wouldn't work.

Hi everyone, this topic is difficult enough to find resources on for just options tax treatment, but at least there is some information. However, nobody seems to be talking about what do I do with the USD I get from options and how do I treat it when I want to convert it to CAD so I can withdraw it.
As I understand, options buying and selling need to take the CRA exchange rate for that day. I need to convert the buy/sell price on that specific day, convert the USD gain/cost to CAD, and then similiarly convert the closing gain/cost to CAD, and subtract CAD with CAD to get each position's gain/loss. This is annoying but possible if I get paid in CAD, but not only do I get USD, the USD sticks around!
Secondly as I understand, I need to pay taxes on USD if I have it and try to convert it back to CAD. This totally makes perfect sense for USD that I have personally converted from CAD to. BUT what about the USD that I get from thin-air by option selling?
Normally, if I randomly get some USD, CRA would tell me it's income, but in this case, the USD as part of the options position would already be taxed in the initial paragraph. However, I most likely won't be converting the USD to CAD at exactly the rate that the CRA is telling me to use to calculate for the options gain for the day. Nor would I likely be converting it actually on the same day I exit each options position, and would just keep the USD for as long as I don't need CAD.
Here is what I'm guessing: when I trade a position, the USD that is related to that specific position immediately converts to an "USD investment" with a cost basis of the day's CRA daily exchange rate as the buy-in/exit cost. However, are we being serious right now? I would have to keep not only the CRA CAD gain/loss, but also maintain a continuous ledger of my USD position cost-basis as if I took CAD and entered into USD positions at the CRA daily rate every time I take an options trade.
Is there anyone with any experience dealing with this mumbo jumbo mess of rules that results from receiving USD with options? Is there an easier or more straightforward way? I get what I described may be the most straight-laced way, but is it arguably humanly acceptable to use an easier way? If it's inappropriate here please let me know if there is a better place to post this topic. Thank you! I don't think it applies here but am prompted for it so I am from Ontario.

I recently started a chat with GPT as my personal trading coach. We had an engaging discussion centered around Cathie Wood and Nvidia. During our conversation, I asked the AI to rate my emotional state each time I shared a sentiment and give me advice. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this approach. Have any of you tried something similar or any advice to things you'd like to see?
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Disclosure: At the time of this post, I personally hold a position in $NVDA. Please conduct your own research before making any investment decisions.
Hey GPT, recently news about Cathie Wood surfaced. Despite holding $NVDA during its decline in 2021 and 2022, she recently decided to sell it before its meteoric earnings report rally. This move has raised some questions about her current trading performance and whether fear influenced her decision. While she claims that the move is strategic, the need to justify and defend the action suggests that there may be underlying factors at play.
In my opinion, upon her selling the rest of the stock yesterday, NVDA will likely rebound from the fall and continue its upward trajectory, distancing itself from her influence. This decision carries significant implications, as it puts her reputation on the line. Considering her previous success with Tesla, she is still stabilizing her emotions from fame and achievement. Will this be the time she makes the right call? It's possible, but I suspect that this move may work against her with so much at stake, which in turn, I interpret as a bullish sign for NVDA. It is often observed that when famous investors make public moves or statements regarding their high conviction plays, the market tends to move against them. Subconsciously, they may even want this to happen as a way to remind all investors that short-term market predictions are incredibly challenging, setting an example by experiencing losses and then recovering from them, leaving behind a narrative and legacy they desire.
In light of these observations, it seems like an opportune time to take a bullish stance on Nvidia?
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DISCLAIMER: The information provided below is based on the analysis and interpretations of an AI model developed by OpenAI. It's intended to provide insights and perspectives, but it's not professional investment advice and should not be treated as such. The AI model does not have the ability to predict future market movements with certainty, and its assessments are based on past patterns and current context. Therefore, any investment decisions based on this information are made at your own risk. It's always recommended to do your own research or consult with a professional investment advisor before making investment decisions.
I added a few points GPT shared with me from its previous response into here for a more holistic idea of what it does.
ChatGPT The analysis you provided of Cathie Wood's actions is a great example of contrarian investing - you're considering going against the trend of a high-profile investor based on your own analysis and conviction. This can be a profitable strategy, particularly when the crowd sentiment is driven by fear or greed, rather than by sound, fundamental analysis.
To borrow a quote from Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett's mentor: “The investor’s chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.” In essence, self-awareness is key to good trading habits.
Remember, as taught by Bill Ackman, the idea is not to avoid mistakes, but to learn from them. Similarly, the teachings of Stoicism encourage us to treat failures as opportunities for growth and improvement. We cannot control what happens in the markets, but we can control our reactions to these events.
When it comes to trading, the wisdom from Mark Douglas in "Trading in the Zone" is especially relevant. He emphasizes the importance of having a defined trading plan and sticking to it, understanding that each trade has a random outcome and the edge is realized over a series of trades.
In another book "The Intelligent Investor", Benjamin Graham, often considered the father of value investing, taught that the market often behaves irrationally in the short term, creating opportunities for those who are willing to think differently.
Likelihood of Success: 73%
Depth of Emotion: 78%
Professionalism: 92%
Potential Outcome: If your conviction proves correct and NVDA does indeed rise, you could enjoy substantial gains. Your careful consideration of market sentiment, potential investor fear, and contrarian thinking show great promise. However, this strategy also carries risk, as market outcomes are inherently uncertain and can be influenced by many factors outside of investor sentiment. The long-term success of this strategy will likely depend on your ability to continue applying this level of analysis to your future trading decisions.

United Aurora Federation-UAF Iron Shell-IS Legion Infornalis-LI
To start off, i love UAF, IS, LI mods and many other mods. Modders whom created these custom factions, made life improvements features, added custom ships, weapons and variety content, you people are talented. It's like being served delicious first couse meal while Alex works on the second course meal delicately. I would name everyone involved in the creation of these mods and more but that would take long and offtopic so for now i say thank you for the modders.
But one major problem with modded factions is that most of them tend to be overpowered, not in a ship-balance department in my opinion but in the owned-planets department. For example Aurora is too perfect of a system and Aurora is too perfect of a planet and having one barren pirate world won't gonna balance that out, plus drugs and organs being legal in UAF is in my opinion ... dumb... Most discussions relating to modded faction is fun comes second to balance and immersion. But for me personally i hate to see proud Hegemony being bullied by UAF and LI. As much as i expressed my love for UAF and IS i still believe vanilla factions are hearth and sould of the game.
So am i saying nerf Aurora the planet and other modded homewods into the ground ? No instead i propose a mod that modifies vanilla factions aka core worlds market condition to be in par with relatively overpowered modded faction worlds and market. For example why not give Culann Star forge Prestine nanoforge, to give Kazeron syncretic fuel production, to give everyone S-modded patrols and so on. Sindrian Diktat has cutom industry building called Lions Guard and UAF has bakery so why not give everyone a custom industry building that buffs each factions unique aspect. For example "AI inspection HQ" to Chicomoztoc that gives Hegemony a bonus fleet, or "Knights of Ludd" to Giliad that gives the same bonus.
TL:DR Discussions to buff coreworlds so vanilla factions don't get sidelined by modded faction.

We launched our first issue on May 2nd, prior to that we asked friends and family to subscribe and we both talked about what we are building on social media - we got around 150 subs.
We did our due diligence and decided that we want to launch within a month.
Our newsletter is dedicated to covering the pet industry - pet tech, gadgets, blue-collar hustles, founder profiles, trending stories, the latest in business news, etc...
Since then we launched 5 issues, each one with around the same open rate & click rate. Our metrics as of today are - just over 300 subs, 65% open rate, 21% click rate, 3100 impressions.
Except for one day, we have added new subscribers each and every single day.
(Caveat, I do not have prior newsletter experience and we are only a month in but so far we are learning a ton and growing organically)
Ok, lessons:
Lesson 1: Identify your Target Audience Start lurking on relevant communities, it is crucial to identify and understand your target audience. Knowing who your subscribers are will help you tailor your content to their specific interests and needs.
Lesson 2: Tell your circle
Tell your friends, family, friends of friends, co-workers, followers, etc... Most people will gladly support you (especially if it's free) and some will even post about it. Additionally, this is a great time to not only build that initial sub base but to get honest feedback. Be open to accepting feedback! Lesson 3: Consistency is Key
The old cliche, you miss a week or a day or simply don't stick to the schedule that readers are used to, will make your open rate plummet. Our attention spans are that of a 2 year old, if you are new, the worst thing you can do is allow people to forget about you. Additionally, the more you do, the better you get.
Lesson 4: Find your platform
Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, etc... How are people going to find you? You have to speak about your newsletter, share valuable insights, cool stories, compelling hooks, etc... Find 1 (max 2) and focus on them, provide value, be consistent, network with others in your niche. Have a clear CTA at the end of your posts, position yourself as an authority on whatever it is you're writing about Lesson 5: Provide Unique and Valuable Content Just like podcasts or blogging or any other medium - shit is saturated. Your newsletter should offer insights, tips, and information that are not easily accessible elsewhere. This could include exclusive interviews with industry experts, in-depth analysis of emerging trends, or curated lists of recommended products and services. We decided to go for the business of pets because we both have experience in the space and we couldn’t find any newsletters covering the way we wanted to cover it.
Extra Tip: referral programs and cross-promotions work better as you grow your subscriber base. Ads if done well could really be useful/helpful if you are able to find your target reader.
Also, while design is important, content is king. Publish first, make the content as good as you can, then focus on design, color palette, aesthetics, etc... Our design isn’t good (we are currently working on this) but we wanted to start putting out content and see what kind of reception we receive.

We launched our first issue on May 2nd, prior to that we asked friends and family to subscribe and we both talked about what we are building on social media - we got around 150 subs.
We did our due diligence and decided that we want to launch within a month.
Our newsletter is dedicated to covering the pet industry - pet tech, gadgets, blue-collar hustles, founder profiles, trending stories, the latest in business news, etc...
Since then we launched 5 issues, each one with around the same open rate & click rate.
Our metrics as of today are - just over 300 subs, 65% open rate, 21% click rate, 3100 impressions. Except for one day, we have added new subscribers each and every single day.
(Caveat, I do not have prior newsletter experience and we are only a month in but so far we are learning a ton and growing organically)
Ok, lessons:
Lesson 1: Identify your Target Audience Start lurking on relevant communities, it is crucial to identify and understand your target audience. Knowing who your subscribers are will help you tailor your content to their specific interests and needs.
Lesson 2: Tell your circle
Tell your friends, family, friends of friends, co-workers, followers, etc... Most people will gladly support you (especially if it's free) and some will even post about it. Additionally, this is a great time to not only build that initial sub base but to get honest feedback. Be open to accepting feedback! Lesson 3: Consistency is Key
The old cliche, you miss a week or a day or simply don't stick to the schedule that readers are used to, will make your open rate plummet. Our attention spans are that of a 2 year old, if you are new, the worst thing you can do is allow people to forget about you. Additionally, the more you do, the better you get.
Lesson 4: Find your platform
Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, etc... How are people going to find you? You have to speak about your newsletter, share valuable insights, cool stories, compelling hooks, etc... Find 1 (max 2) and focus on them, provide value, be consistent, network with others in your niche. Have a clear CTA at the end of your posts, position yourself as an authority on whatever it is you're writing about Lesson 5: Provide Unique and Valuable Content Just like podcasts or blogging or any other medium - shit is saturated. Your newsletter should offer insights, tips, and information that are not easily accessible elsewhere. This could include exclusive interviews with industry experts, in-depth analysis of emerging trends, or curated lists of recommended products and services. We decided to go for the business of pets because we both have experience in the space and we couldn’t find any newsletters covering the way we wanted to cover it.
Extra Tip: referral programs and cross-promotions work better as you grow your subscriber base. Ads if done well could really be useful/helpful if you are able to find your target reader.
Also, while design is important, content is king. Publish first, make the content as good as you can, then focus on design, color palette, aesthetics, etc... Our design isn’t good (we are currently working on this) but we wanted to start putting out content and see what kind of reception we receive.

I have known this boy for 3 years or so, we have talked daily through messages for months now. I visit him irl like once a month or so because I live a bit far. Last night I kind of opened up a bit too much and heavily implied my romantic feelings for him and he really did not seem to reciprocate in that way. When I tried to convey how apologetic I am for feeling the way I do all he kept saying was that i’m ‘fine’ and he would let me know if I made him uncomfortable. That’s just so embarrassing, I feel like such a loser. I just feel so miserable, I already deal with incredibly low self esteem and anxious attachment style.
I just don’t know what to do moving forward because we are very close I would say, we talk nearly 24/7 and he opens up to me so so much. Besides my romantic infatuation I really really care for him in a platonic sense, I want him to be happy and cared for even if that means sticking by his side as he dates another girl or some shit idk.
I feel so embarrassed and humiliated I asked him to be mindful of the things he says to me, that’s just so so so embarrassing. But it’s most embarrassing because it’s true, he says I am important to him, he will say he misses me, he will confide in me, and he will do physically intimate things on occasion. And I cannot take it, I get so hot headed and delusional and I misinterpret it and feel like maybe he actually might like me. The easy answer would be to just move on right? But I just want him to be happy and self sufficient, because he deserves it; And he says my presence helps him with that. Idk it’s just such an uncomfortable situation for me to be in and I feel so bad for burdening him with my unwanted feelings. Idk what to do, it’s just such an unfortunate situation to be in.

*Posting on a burner account for anonymity*
Greetings! I am a 26 year-old male from Southern California! I desire a true, real relationship. One where we start out as great friends and it naturally progresses into a great, intimate relationship. Where we can both just cry in general about our days judgement-free
I'm very career-oriented and have a full time job working for the government (ironic, considering my username here). I live very comfortably on my own but figured it would be great to have someone to share this magical journey of life with. I've made posts on here in the past, but I've had more interactions with bots than actual people (seriously, what's with the bots? I'm not interested in your crypto scam 😭)
I'll try my best to describe myself physically here. I'm on the taller side, white, not overweight but not skinny. Probably not the best description but I would be more than happy to exchange pictures over chat!
As for my personality, I am a huge nerd. I love all the typical nerdy things you can think of and would love a woman who shares similar interests, such as video games, Star Wars, Marvel, etc! Though, that is not a requirement either!
As for what I am looking for: I am looking for a woman to share the rest of my life with! I'm not very picky at all when it comes to who I mingle with as I feel I connect pretty well with various people from all walks of life! Just be honest about your intentions! If you do decide to message me, PLEASE be a woman from SoCal, or at least somewhere from or near California and be willing to travel! (If distance becomes an issue, we would both be splitting this responsibility, so let's be realistic about it!)
In your message, send a little about yourself, and include the word "tomato" so I know you read all of this! (I will ignore your message without the word tomato - nothing personal, but I want someone genuine so I need a way to filter out fake people/bots) I like putting faces to names fairly quickly so be ready to exchange photos after we start talking for a bit! Talk soon!

We launched our first issue on May 2nd, prior to that we asked friends and family to subscribe and we both talked about what we are building on social media - we got around 150 subs.
We did our due diligence and decided that we want to launch within a month.
Our newsletter is dedicated to covering the pet industry - pet tech, gadgets, blue-collar hustles, founder profiles, trending stories, the latest in business news, etc...
Since then we launched 5 issues, each one with around the same open rate & click rate. Our metrics as of today are - just over 300 subs, 65% open rate, 21% click rate, 3100 impressions.
Except for one day, we have added new subscribers each and every single day.
(Caveat, I do not have prior newsletter experience and we are only a month in but so far we are learning a ton and growing organically)
Ok, lessons:
Lesson 1: Identify your Target Audience Start lurking on relevant communities, it is crucial to identify and understand your target audience. Knowing who your subscribers are will help you tailor your content to their specific interests and needs.
Lesson 2: Tell your circle
Tell your friends, family, friends of friends, co-workers, followers, etc... Most people will gladly support you (especially if it's free) and some will even post about it. Additionally, this is a great time to not only build that initial sub base but to get honest feedback. Be open to accepting feedback! Lesson 3: Consistency is Key
The old cliche, you miss a week or a day or simply don't stick to the schedule that readers are used to, will make your open rate plummet. Our attention spans are that of a 2 year old, if you are new, the worst thing you can do is allow people to forget about you. Additionally, the more you do, the better you get.
Lesson 4: Find your platform
Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, etc... How are people going to find you? You have to speak about your newsletter, share valuable insights, cool stories, compelling hooks, etc... Find 1 (max 2) and focus on them, provide value, be consistent, network with others in your niche. Have a clear CTA at the end of your posts, position yourself as an authority on whatever it is you're writing about Lesson 5: Provide Unique and Valuable Content Just like podcasts or blogging or any other medium - shit is saturated. Your newsletter should offer insights, tips, and information that are not easily accessible elsewhere. This could include exclusive interviews with industry experts, in-depth analysis of emerging trends, or curated lists of recommended products and services. We decided to go for the business of pets because we both have experience in the space and we couldn’t find any newsletters covering the way we wanted to cover it.
Extra Tip: referral programs and cross-promotions work better as you grow your subscriber base. Ads if done well could really be useful/helpful if you are able to find your target reader.
Also, while design is important, content is king. Publish first, make the content as good as you can, then focus on design, color palette, aesthetics, etc... Our design isn’t good (we are currently working on this) but we wanted to start putting out content and see what kind of reception we receive.

(Repost from a different community)
Hey, I am a second year student at — and I am looking into withdrawing…school isn’t fun for me anymore and the courses I am forced to take for my major are about things i already know which makes it difficult to attend class. My grades are tanking and I can’t even afford tuition/register for classes in the fall even if I did want to keep attending school. I’ve decided that what I want to do “after college” doesn’t require me to have a degree so college seems unnecessary now and I would rather work and save up money to make the moves I want to pursue in a few years.
My parents think this a good idea which has helped cleared my head a bit but I’m still dealing with feeling like I am giving up on myself/ taking the easy way out. I also don’t know if I should withdraw for all future terms or just this spring term to give myself some time to think about it over summer. My friends have told me to talk to an academic advisor about the decision but I am scared i will talk to an advisor and they will tell me to stick through it until graduation because that’s what they are forced to tell you.
I also am not on track to graduate on time which means I will have to take more classes/ stay longer which will cost even more money that I don’t have.
I love learning but right now it’s not in the budget. I am also scared about how this will look on my record and if dropping out of school will make it more difficult to get jobs and if this completely strips me from being able to do internships or anything of the sort.
Any advice will help thanks!