I(26F) refuse to attend my husband’s (30M) sister’s wedding based on our terrible relationship and how they treated us at ours. For my well-being, I am trying to fully go no-contact and want to plan a trip around the sister’s wedding so we are out of the country and can’t attend.
A brief back story: My husband and I have been together for 7 years and got married last summer. My relationship with his family has been awful, to say the least. They have always been disrespectful and have never accepted me and their son's partner. His sisters and mother constantly go out of their way to make comments and insult me.
When we got engaged, half the family didn’t congratulate us (including the mom) and the sisters decided it would be good to pick a fight with DH about how “it wasn’t the right time” given all the family issues and how they were “shocked”. We had been together for 5 years at this point and living together for 2.
Once we started the wedding planning process, his mother and sisters tried their very hardest to ruin every single moment we had. They planned the sister's engagement parties on the same days I had my bridal showers, they made rude comments about any decision we made and it was very clear they were against us being married. At this point, we were essentially no-contact with everyone except his father and grandparents. To appease his father by keeping some traditions, DH insisted on having his cousins be part of the wedding party and invite the whole family to the ceremony. We agreed only immediate family, grandparents, the bridal party and SOs were invited to the small reception. Inviting his family was an awful idea. They kept pulling DH away during important moments, they were only addressing him, the parent's speech was about him and his sisters and how the whole family should have been invited. They were purposely making faces around the food and refusing to eat (our venue was one of the most sought-after wedding venues and everyone else thought the food was spectacular). The kicker was seeing a group chat between his family when helping his cousin find his phone where they were insulting us and making fun of the entire day. The next day DH’s mother proceeded to post pictures of the “wedding” where only DH was shown.
They have never been anything but hurtful, judgemental and spiteful towards us. After the wedding, I stopped holding back and finally standing up for myself which they have not liked. DH is finally realizing that we will never be able to have a healthy relationship with his family but yet he is still concerned that is not attending his sisters wedding will not go over will with his father.
I have no idea what to do anymore.

Hi everyone, and particularly Tascam 12 owners. I’m pulling the trigger next week and picking one up. (The Soundcraft signature MTK was close, so if anyone wants to sway me I’m still open). In planning ahead, I’m new to using outboard gear and trying to learn/understand the best way (or different ways) to utilize aux sends and returns, as well as what inserts actually do, and how they differ. Down the road I’d like to pick up some pedals or filters, like the Erica Acidbox or Strymon Morbius. However, I have no experience using pedals and I’m a little confused as the best way to implement them in the chain. It seems like I would want to use them independently of one another, rather than chain them, like on a traditional guitar pedalboard. But that’s putting the cart before the horse, and I know I’m going to need a patch bay at some point, but for now, I’m wondering what the best method is in this proposed setup.
Suppose I have two stereo keyboards plugged into stereo channels 7/8 and 9/10. Then, I add these two pieces of gear, would I use, for example, aux 1 for the Acidbox and aux 2 for the Strymon (also, does it matter?) and then send them to stereo return on mono channels 3/4 and 5/6 panned L/R respectively. On the mixer would I adjust the wet/dry signal on the channel aux levels and set them pre-fade, recording/listening just channels 3-6 and muting channnels 7-10? This seems, from my limited understanding, the most reasonable approach.
Or would it work better to use the inserts on channels 1 and 2 and skip the stereo returns? It seems like it would it would then just be mono in that case, or am I wrong? I have absolutely no idea how inserts work at all but it seems like the issue of stereo never comes up when I try plugging in questions. And, if I’m right, should I just ignore inserts (for now) and just focus on routing the signals through the above method and start experimenting from there?
Last question and just to confirm my suspicions: if sending the signal out on aux to external devices and return stereo, I will lose all original stereo signal/effects from the synths’ native mix. Is this correct?

Let's say you have a 4-bit number 1011. All subsets of this number are 0000, 0001, 0010, 0011, 1000, 1001, 1010, 1011. All subsets of this number which are divisible by 2, are 0000, 0010, 1000, 1010. All subsets of this number which are divisible by 3 are 0011, 1001, you get the idea.
So I need to find all subsets of a 64-bit mask which are divisible by a number P. Finding all subsets is really easy, all you gotta do is

void print_subsets(uint64_t superset) { uint64_t subset = 0; do { print(subset); subset = ((subset ~superset) + 1) & superset; } while (subset != 0); } 

But if I need to find only those which are divisible by a certain number, the naive way would be extremely inefficient because I would have to check every iteration if the subset is divisible by P, and if P is really large (>2^32) I would have to do 2^32 iterations on average before I find one.
if P is a power of two, I can simply 'chop off' a relevant mask off the superset, like the following:

void print_subsets(uint64_t superset, uint64_t P) { // if P is a power of 2 superset &= P - 1; do { print(subset); subset = ((subset ~superset) + 1) & superset; } while (subset != 0); } 

Because for example there's no way its divisible by 4 if it has any bit set in the lowest 2 bits.
Also, if the superset is the universe set (all 1 bits set), I can just do the following:

void print_subsets(uint64_t superset, uint64_t P) { // if superset is 0xffffffff etc for (uint64_t subset = 0; subset <= (superset - P); subset += P) print(subset); } 

Essentially, if P is 7 for example, I iterate over all multiples of 7 because any number is a subset of the universe bit mask.
But I am yet to find an algorithm which takes less than O(P) to find the next number for non-powers of two and not this very special case.
Would massively appreciate any help here :)) It is a project I wanted to work on for a while

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• Star Trek
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  • The Next Generation
• Star Wars
  • The Mandalorian
• The Lord of the Rings
  • The Hobbit
• Pokemon
  • All games up to Sword and Shield
• The Legend of Zelda
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  • Tears of the Kingdom
  • Twilight Princess
  • Ocarina of Time
• Hellsing
  • Gonzo
  • Ultimate
• God of War
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• Stardew Valley
• Dead by Daylight
• The Arcana (Mobile Game)
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• Supernatural
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• Mythology/Folklore
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• Fairytale retelling
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I am trying to do a basic workout time under tension with light progression and it keeps deloading after 4 or 5 reps when I have it set for 7. The lights aren’t flashing red so I know it doesn’t think I’ve failed the set. Any idea what could be causing this. Every time it happens at the top of the movement, so I don’t think it’s just time under tension deloading for me

Welcome Here Everyone. Thank you for all your responses and for all the new voices. I'll keep my eyes on CytoDyn for the comprehension of the unfolding of the plans which were made for CytoDyn which are taking place now. But while we wait and remain patient, please do like u/AlmostApproved and enjoy life . He does it by biking miles daily, but you can also eat, drink and be merry, but in the spare time, take a glance at what is happening here. You will begin to realize, that this shall happen apart from anything we can do ourselves, it will unfold regardless of what the naysayers or pumpers alike do or say. It shall happen because the Roux of the Truth Gumbo Pot ALWAYS rises to the top and it shall soon be spilling over.
All this talk of others being set up to lead the company because of Cyrus' MLOA is complete BS. They got it all backwards. Cyrus ain't going anywhere. He built this all star line up from the ground up and he built it on a shoe string budget. Assuredly, he is returning once his health permits him, and being a younger man, he should recover sooner rather than later; but who knows from what he is suffering?
Like what u/Upwithstock was saying regarding submitting the BLA for HIV-MDR in his response to u/Professional_Art3516 , in essence, CytoDyn conducted that trial. Yes, the CRO sabotaged the trial. They ruined the BLA. The data was captured, but was improperly formatted. However, CytoDyn was successful in obtaining the Raw Data and aggregating it into proper Good Clinical Practice Format for the final deciding authority to accept. CytoDyn does have the best law firm in the country on its side in an arbitrage case against the CRO Amarex for wrecking this expensive trial for CytoDyn and is requesting recompense for all the damages incurred.
Once Priority #1, is met, then, the hold lifts and the coast is clear for CytoDyn to re-initiate its other goals and many of these other goals are chomping at the bit to get under way as they are designed and ready to roll out already. One of these could/should be the resubmission of the BLA for HIV MDA as the BLA is practically written in full now, with all the submissions which have been made over the past year. In addition, we know that Leronlimab was effective in this trial obtaining a p value of 0.0032 which is 16x better than the threshold of 0.05. 0.05/0.0032 = 16. Therefore, a resubmittal of the BLA for HIV MDR should be approved if CytoDyn has the wherewithal to prove its capacity to manufacture and distribute the drug. With the partnerships happening now behind closed doors, but later unveiled to the public, proof of these necessary capacities could be made.
Certainly, though, Cyrus likely will not make this re-submission until after the arbitration has settled because it is important that nothing infringes upon this dispute taking place. This dispute though, in fact, may, in some complicated way, be infringed upon and possibly even delayed, by the case against NP and KK, but I am not sure. I believe Cyrus is aware of all these things and he will keep the BLA resubmittal in his back pocket to be unleashed at the most opportune time.
We don't know what has happened since the April 11, 2023 webcast. "So, in March 2023, just last month, we responded and submitted the additional information, and the clarifications requested for those 2 items. The FDA then responded back with a 3rd further written communication to us, again relating to the benefit / risk assessment as well as requesting submission of a new Protocol for HIV indication to be studied once the Partial Hold is lifted... ". So we can assume, that since that time, CytoDyn worked on the benefit / risk assessment and a new Protocol for HIV Indication. But why haven't we heard of any response to these submissions? What likely has happened is that more questions were posed, causing CytoDyn more work to be done to answer these questions and make further clarifications. So, CytoDyn has been doing this and hopefully has neared the point where the final deciding authority will be satisfied with all responses.
Possibly, the final deciding authority may even have been requesting the presence of a chief medical officer, but Melissa Palmer, MD was in the planning from the time when NASH was made a priority. And in accordance with what u/PharmaJunkee shares here , the authority may have been looking for a significant boost in clinical compliance and quality. Jane Conlon Werner possibly, may not have been sufficient. "12:00: We are also taking the appropriate steps to insure that we have the proper personnel in house to execute on our clinical plans. And so this includes the recent addition of Jane Conlon Werner as our new Executive Director of Quality. I think we are incredibly fortunate to have been able to recruit Jane to join us here at CytoDyn. She has extensive experience in Clinical as well as CNC Quality and compliance function review. At, both, large Biopharmaceutical companies and smaller Biotech companies like CytoDyn and I really think that Jane's experience in these areas is going to be critical to future clinical success and that work timing ??for her. This really demonstrates our commitment to insuring quality and compliance across the organization." - again, she alone may not be sufficient.
The picture I'm trying to paint here is of what is taking place with respect to what is being requested of CytoDyn and the hoops they need to jump through to meet Priority #1. Once this goal is met, the rest is over. It becomes show time. The ball begins to roll again. The game is underway. All of which we speak of here comes to pass, as it now is mounting, wanting to explode, under the heat of the sun, bursting at the seams from the pressure building within. Surely, it is mighty hot in that kitchen. God bless everyone at CytoDyn, doing what they are doing to extricate us from the cataclysm the actions of the CRO Amarex induced upon this company, its shareholders and patients and upon the reputation of this drug.
Looking down into the arena, I see that one day, which is drawing nigh, when CytoDyn shall be free again. This, I know, but until then, it continues to fight its battles on multiple fronts, not knowing from where it finds its artillery or ammunition. I remain in anticipation with CytoDyn and stick with what is happening with them, because the time is close at hand. I do not sensationalize this. Rather only deliver my view on the subject, based on the quotations I include, to express what I see to be happening and with that, you can make up your mind whether it makes sense or not. To me, it does.

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---Esme’s perspective---
---Saturday, 11th of November, 2682 Terran Calendar---
---Southern England---
Fucking Sussex!
‘Can you send me to the Forth Valley?’
‘Oh, we can try… On an unrelated note, how’s your standard English? No problems in communicating?’
I should’ve just said ‘No, I have great difficulty in communicating in anything but Lallans Scots!’ instead of putting on my poshest English speech register to say ‘Marjorie dearest, would you be a lamb and pass another buttered scone… hold the raspberry jam, it’s far too spicy for me!’ which she told me she’d take as a ‘Yes.’
“This is an English language barracks. If you have been directed here in error, please make yourself known to barracks staff for reassignment.” plays a loud, prerecorded Welsh language announcement, over speakers.
They’re fucking rubbing it in!
“This is an English language barracks. If you have been directed here in error, please make yourself known to barracks staff for reassignment.” it repeats in Scots Gaelic.
“Ceci est une caserne Anglophone. Si vous avez été assigné ici par erreur, veuillez vous faire connaître auprès du personnel de la caserne pour une réaffectation.” it says in what I’m 90% sure is a French version of the same announcement (I can’t be certain, though, as that’s not one of my languages).
Looking at the crowds, queuing to get in, makes me regret asserting that I didn’t need transport here.
‘You shouldn’t be sending someone to War that you don’t trust to navigate themself from Galloway to Sussex!’ were my exact words.
I brushed off the recruitment officer saying that I’d be processed faster if I arrived on Military organised transport.
Well, standing here’s not gonna get me to the front of the queue now, is it!
I walk forward to join the massive throng of people, almost all of which look to be about my age.
It’s astonishing how short you feel, being an average height girl in a crowd of people!
178cm really isn’t all that much when you’ve got a not insignificant number of +2m guys here!
Even guys who are the average 188cm can make a girl feel short when their packed too close…
I see a few Neanderthal hunks… perhaps conscription won’t be all bad(!)
When I make it to the front of the line, the guy just stares expectantly at me like I’m supposed to already know what to do.
“Y’awright?… Err… mah nam’s Esme Reid…?” I say, hesitantly, in perfectly comprehensible speech.
“I’m sorry, would you repeat that?” he answers, looking at me like I just spoke to him in fucking Chinese!
“Greetings, gracious sir! You may kindly refer to me by the name ‘Esme Reid’!” I say, affecting my supercilious Southern English gentlewoman accent.
“Alright, Ms Reid. Please present your draft papers and identification.”
The balls they have to ask me to prove who I am when they’re the ones asking me to go off and fucking die for them!
I think about quipping that I should ask him to show me some proof that this is a legitimate Military installation sanctioned by the government of Sol… but think better of it…
Instead, I pull out my draft papers and my holopad, quickly getting up my identification app.
The man scans the code with his own holo and spends a few seconds glancing from his screen to my face and back.
Seeming satisfied that I’m not attempting to enlist under a false identity (for whatever strange reason a person might want to do that) he glances at my papers, says “Everything seems to be in order.” and waves a hand in front of a machine which whirs for half a second before spitting out a simple chain necklace with two little metal rectangles hanging off of it.
He hands it to me and says “This is your identification tag. Please check that the information on it is correct and, if it is, put it on and never take it off.”
I check the tag.
“You’ve got my name and birthday right…” I say, making a conscious effort to keep my speech register in that that a standard English speaker would consider acceptable “…don’t know about the regiment and serial number.”
“Those will be correct.” he says with a ‘move along’ tone.
I shrug, raise the dogtag over my head and drop it around my neck.
I walk on and he’s serving the girl behind me before I’ve even rounded the counter.
I’m ushered through the barracks, herded by the staff, until I reach a building labelled ‘Billet House 279’.
It doesn’t really look like I expected soldiers’ digs to look.
Definitely prefabbed but sort of has more the look of a uni hall than anything else… though I think it’s probably a bit much to expect that I’ll get a room to myself(!)
I follow the throng of draftees through to a wide open room, on the ground floor, that looks like it’s normally a cafeteria.
The camp attendants (who I’m guessing were in the same boat as us, not too long ago) direct us to stand along the left, right and nearside walls, keeping the back wall and centre of the room clear.
Everyone in place, there follows a few minutes of silence broken only by people whispering to one another.
Then, she enters the room.
Dark skinned and clad in green camo clothing, her scalp is easily visible between her cornrows with nary a hair out of place.
Her expression looks absolutely indifferent with just the slightest hint of a curled lip.
From the broadness and flatness of her facial features as well as her single mauve eye, she is clearly half Tshwane… though, you’d never guess that from her stature!
Female Tshwane average nearly 2m… the men are more like 2.2m!
She’s shorter than me!
She’s also built like a Sapiens, not the willowy thinness typical of Tshwane
I guess genetics interact in funny ways sometimes…
Based on her age, her Tshwane parent would probably have to have been one of the very first to be cloned back!
The other eye seems to have been ripped out at some point because in its place is a bionic and there’s a patch of hypopigmented scar tissue, forming a tear shape, at the right corner.
“Recruits… Welcome to the United Terran Coalition Infantry Trainin’ Camp, Graffham… My name is Warrant Officer Simone Sands… and I’ll be your drill instructor…” says the woman, cooly, speaking in a rough sounding, London accent.
The surname ‘Sands’ probably means her dad was the Tshwane (though not necessarily… she might have been given her mum’s surname… or it might be a coincidental English surname).
“…You all know why you’re here… Most of you’ve prob’ly already lost loved ones to this War… You are here to defend our right to exist… and I can’t think of a more worthy reason to fight than that…”
I’ve decided I like this woman… She may be English but I’ll try not to hold that against her(!)
“The first thing I need to tell all of you is that, by the end of your trainin’, you will NOT like me…” she says, as if reading my mind “…that’s OK. My job ain’t to be liked, my job ain’t to make friends… my job is to make soldiers!”
She casts her biological and bionic eyes around the room, letting her words hang in the air.
“Note… that I said ‘soldiers’… This ain’t Full Metal Jacket. This ain’t the 20th Century. There’ll be no Pvt Piles here!… I ain’t aimin’ to destroy your minds or your individuality. I ain’t goin’ to physic’ly and psychologic’ly abuse you into becomin’ robots or killers… I am makin’ you into soldiers… Regardless… this process will not be easy! In fact, it may well be the hardest thing you ever do!… As the face of this process, you will come to hate and resent me for it!… I hope for it! The more you hate me the more-DO YOU HAVE SOMETHIN’ TO SAY, PRIVATE?!”
Everyone in the room is startled by the authoritative woman breaking herself off to shout angrily at someone on the other side of the room.
“STEP FORWARD AND SPEAK SO EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU!”
The boy that steps forward is tall, bulky and muscular with a handsome, half Neanderthal face… just my type!
Then he has to go and ruin it by opening his mouth.
“I was just saying… that I find it somewhat difficult to take you seriously as a commanding officer… You just seem a little bit… little.” says the boy in the poshest, smarmiest English drawl I’ve ever heard!
The woman does not shout, she does not scream, she doesn’t snarl or even purse her lips!
She just nods, as if considering his words, then asks “What’s your name, Soldier?”
“Rupert Forest.” responds the boy, proudly.
“And, how tall are you, Pvt Forest?” responds the woman, unimpressed
“195cm.” he answers.
“And, what’s your mass?” she asks.
“110kg.”
“I see, I see… So, by your logic… you’d make a better drill sergeant than me, would you? You’re 25cm taller and 35kg heavier, afterall!”
He smirks “I wouldn’t presume to say so, Ma’am…” in a way that definitely suggests that he thinks he would.
She seems to consider that for some moments before answering “Alright then, fight me for it!”
“I’m sorry…?” responds the poshboy.
“You heard me… Clearly, you got no respect for skill and experience but it seems like you must respect power… so fight me for it! You win, you get to train this lot, I win, you never question my authority again!”
Is this woman mad!?
She may be a soldier but this boy she just challenged is a half Neanderthal giant!
She’s gonna lose!
I do not want to be drilled by some snotty, privileged English brat who got here at the same time as I did and just couldn’t keep his fucking mouth shut!
Then again, I don’t really want to be drilled by a woman so delusional that she felt the best way to squash insubordination was to challenge a man she has no hope of beating, either!
The guy is clearly salivating over the power that’s just been slapped on the table in front of him as he answers “I accept your terms, Ms Sands…” with faux magnanimity.
There’s no way they’d let a Private run drills, is there? When he wins, someone just needs to go and complain and they’ll give us another (less stupid) drill sergeant… right?
He strips off his jacket to reveal a pair of thick, muscular arms that (in spite of his repulsive personality) are a thrilling sight.
He has to go and ruin it by flexing and posing, clearly revelling in the room’s worth of gasps he got when he revealed his arms… He obviously likes being the centre of attention.
“Done?” asks Sands, drily.
“If you still want to do this…” he says, smugly “…you could just concede defeat and I’m sure no one would hold it against you!”
Her lip curls as she answers “But… if I did that, no one would learn nothin’, now would they…”
He shrugs before launching himself at her without waiting for her to give the word to begin.
She whirls out of the way and he snatches at her, unsuccessfully, as his momentum carries him past.
“Lesson 1:…” she shouts while snapping into the space behind him and kicking out his knee “…size does not determine victory, strength does not determine victory…” levelling another powerful kick between his shoulderblades to bring him to the ground.
She backs off, allowing him to scramble to his feet and turn to face her, hunched in readiness and scowling.
“…Pvt Forest here looked at me with contempt on account of my small size and, though he didn’t say so, I’d guess that my rough accent, my lack of a graduate epithet and my lack of a penis also played a roll in his judgin’ me as less than!… He thought he could beat me, he probably still DOES, and, ’causa that, he didn’t respect my ability to lead…!”
Forest makes another lunge for the smaller woman, misses and is punished for it by being knocked back to the floor.
I’m agog as I watch this little woman… there’s no other word but toy with the giant man!
“…but victory does not care how big you are, how strong you are, how classy or educated you are or what’s in your pants or panties…!”
She dodges around his arm and pins his chest to the floor with her knee.
“Discipline and trainin’ determine victory!… Things that I have and Pvt Forest LACKS!… Things that ALL of you will acquire, over the next 8 months!!!” she turns her head down to the mountain of man she’s pinning to the floor “Concede, Private!”
The man shakes his head, trying in vain to leverage himself up.
“Alright then… Lesson 2: When faced with a resistant individual, compliance can be effectively enforced by the expedient of lockin’ their joints to induce PAIN!!!”
She grabs his thick arms by the wrists and pulls them backwards in a way they are not meant to bend!
He screams in agony!
“CONCEDE!!!… Don’t make me send you to the Medical Officer! It’d be inconvenient for BOTH of us if your pride makes you miss your first week of trainin’ while your arms heal!!!”
He holds out for two more seconds before screaming “I concede! I CONCEDE!!!”
She releases him and stands back up.
“On your feet, Soldier…” she growls down at him.
He stands back up, his face beet red.
“Are you ever goin’ to question my fitness to instruct again, Private?” she glares up at the humiliated giant.
“No.” he answers, gracelessly.
“No…?” she says as if waiting for something else.
Forest looks as confused as I am about what she’s expecting.
“No, Ma’am!” she snarls.
“No, Ma’am.”
“Good, we’ll work on your attitude, movin’ forward. Now, get back in line!”
The humiliated man picks up his civvy jacket and returns to the place he was called out from.
“Now, I don’t think I need to prattle on anymore about how you’re gonna hate me by the end of our time together, do I?… I think Pvt Forest helped me prove that point quite well, so I’ll move on… You will sleep in this buildin’, six to a room. Your rooms will be gender segregated. If you wish for a place to be… intimate with people of the opposite gender, you may request use of one of the conjugal rooms… I suggest you do the same if you want to be intimate with a same gender partner but that’s between you and your roommates! You will eat in this room at 0700hrs, 1200hrs and 1800hrs. Diet’ry requirements will be accommodated but, bare in mind, this ain’t your mummies’ and daddies’ kitchen! ‘This food is forbidden by my religion/personal ethics’ is a diet’ry requirement. ‘I am allergic to this food’ is a diet’ry requirement! ‘I don’t like how this food tastes’ is not(!)… In the mornin’s, you will be receivin’ lessons in lecture theatres, workshops and the like…”
“Oh great… just what I wanted after leaving school(!) More classrooms(!)” I mutter to myself.
Her head instantly wheels to me with unnerving precision.
“Someone else with somethin’ they’d like to say!?” she says, locking eyes with me, terrifyingly.
“No, Ms Sands!” I answer, instantly.
“Miss?! I’m not your bloody schoolteacher girl!!!”
Everyone laughs. Even Pvt Forest, like he wasn’t just humiliated himself, 2 minutes ago!
“Ma’am… err… Ma’am, no, Ma’am!!!” I say, doing my best to emulate the tone I’ve seen soldiers use in films.
She rolls her eye (it’s difficult to tell if the bionic rolls too) and says “Better… What’s your name, Private?”
“Ma’am, the Private’s name is Esme Reid, Ma’am!!!”
“Do you remember me tellin’ you this ain’t Full Metal Jacket?… You don’t need to scream when you talk to me, you don’t need to refer to yourself in third person and one ‘Ma’am’, when you’re done speakin’, is enough, Reid!”
“Yes, Ma’am.”
She points to her single, mauve eye, then to me and says “I’ll have my eye on you, Reid!”
Somehow, her tone sends a chill up my spine but I do my best not to show it.
She turns away and I release a silent sigh of relief.
“As I was sayin’… In your lectures you will learn the ins and outs of military theory; tactics, strategies, logistics etc. You will learn as much as we can tell you about the nature of the species we are fightin’; their capabilities, tendencies, political organisations and known weaknesses… bear in mind that First Contact weren’t much more than 4 years ago and we’ve been at War for almost all the intervenin’ time, so a lot of what we teach you will be little more than guesswork and hearsay from prisoners we’ve interrogated… The mornin’s’ll also be where you learn the particulars of the equipment you’ll be expected to be proficient with in the field. This includes firearms, plasmaweaponry and durasteel armour, as well as the tech you’ll likely encounter from the opposite side; kinetic pulse weapons, laser weapons, field emitters etc… I strongly suggest that no one allows word to get back to me that they’re not takin’ these classes seriously!… A stupid soldier is a dead soldier!”
She glares around the room, her eyes resting on me four a quarter of a second.
“…In the afternoons and evenin’s, you’ll be doing PT… that’s ‘Physical Trainin’’… soon to be every one of your two least favourite words in the English Language(!) “
I notice a wry smirk twist the mouths of a few of the camp attendants.
“In PT you will be drilled in agility, endurance, close quarters combat and coordinated marching… Five times over the comin’ 8 months, you and your trainin’ partner will be dropped into a remote bit of wilderness, somewhere on Earth, for five day practical survival experience. You will be given a beacon, to summon retrieval, but these are only to be used in cases of actual threat to life or bodily integrity… not because you’re feelin’ miserable!”
She takes a second to pause for breath.
“You get an allowance of 12 days off, over your time here… that’s two a month… These are subject to my approval and I may deny them for any reason, including no reason… so don’t piss me off!… You may not take more than 2 consecutive days leave at a time! Certain classes are mandatory and leave will not be approved on days they occur. If your allowance is spent, no more leave will be approved, barring a real emergency!… Now, for today, you are going to line up to have your maps and room keys downloaded onto your holos when your name is called, then you are going to have your bodies scanned for your armour measurements… at that point everyone with no uterus has the rest of the day free to settle in… If you have a uterus, you’ll need to report to medical to get your cycle paused! This is, I’m afraid, nonoptional… You are not prohibited from engaging in relations with your fellow recruits but you cannot be a soldier while you’re able to get pregnant. Attempts to circumvent this requirement in any way will land you in the Stockade!… After your cycle pause has been given, you’ll also have the rest of the day to settle in… Enjoy it! It’ll be the most downtime you get for a while!… Finally… I believe we have a 17 year old with us here… Pvt Taylor?”
A few people put their hands up, most looking confused.
“Pvt Oskar Taylor! The 17 year old?” she says, exasperated.
All but one of those with their hands up put them down.
The one remaining Pvt Taylor with his hand in the air has pale skin, black hair, brown eyes and a sharp featured face wearing a dour expression.
He stands even taller than Forest… Nearly 2m tall!
Though he’s not quite as heavily built, he’s certainly a good looking piece of boycandy!
“Pvt Taylor…” says Sands, her mouth breaking into a smile for the first time I’ve seen “…couldn’t wait to go off to War, could you(?)”
He mutters something but, while I can hear the power and deepness of his voice, I can’t make out a word he says.
“You’ll have to speak up, Taylor! Nobody’ll be able to hear you if you mumble.” points out Sands.
“I said I had some personal circumstances that made this the most sensible course of action for me, Ma’am.” says the tall, dark haired man, looking over her head rather than down at her and speaking in a grim monotone. He definitely loses boycandy points for the poshness of his accent, unfortunately…
“I see… I won’t pry into that but… you didn’t think of Officer Training? That’s the route that most people take when volunteering ahead of their conscription.”
He shakes his head “I thought of it and decided against it, Ma’am.”
“Oh? Why’s that, Pvt Taylor?”
“I didn’t believe I would make a good officer, Ma’am.” he answers simply.
She laughs “I wish every soldier could be as introspective, Taylor! I like you!… Unfortunately, bein’ a minor does mean that you can’t be put in a room with others… Sooo, that means you get a room to yourself… for the moment. Might sound cushy but before anyone else gets too jealous, bare in mind that privacy is the only advantage! His room will be a sixth the size of yours so its basic’ly a broomcupboard… the disadvantage will be severely reduced opportunity to socialise!… If that doesn’t sound doable, you can leave and come back when you turn 18, Taylor.”
“It’s acceptable, Ma’am.” he says without hesitating.
Yeah… it’s official… I don’t like him…
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I rub the spot on my arm where the serum was thunked into me about 15 minutes ago.
Like with everything else about conscription, I get it… I understand the point…
But seeing the sense doesn’t mean I have to like it!
It’s not like I want to get pregnant (getting a nine month reprieve from service would be a fairly shitty reason for me to bring a child into the world) but it does feel like one last slap in the face to my personal autonomy that I’ve just had a cycle pause fucking mandated upon my body by the government!
As I draw near, door 1512 detects the key downloaded on my holo and unlocks
I open it and am greeted by a blonde girl, smiling broadly and instantly identifiable as brimming with ADHD energy.
“Hey there! My name’s Charlotte, it’s lovely to meet you!” says the girl, wrapping me in a hug without asking if I’m OK with that.
Her accent makes me wonder if everyone I meet here is going to be a posh toff!
She makes three of three of my fellow draftees!
“A pleasure, Charlotte… the name’s Esme…” I say, speaking Scottish accented standard English and gingerly patting her back.
“Oh, you’re Scottish…?” she says pulling herself off me with an expression that suggests meeting a Scottish person is just the most wonderful thing she could have imagined “…My great grandmother was from Edinburgh, where are you from?”
“Stranraer.” I answer.
She frowns “I don’t know it, I’m sorry!”
“I won’t hold it against you… Southwestern tip of Scotland? Where it nearly touches Ireland and the Man Peninsula?… ’Bout two and a half million people?”
“Oh, wooow! I don’t think I’ve ever met someone from a village before!” she says, seeming entirely oblivious to how that might be taken as an insult.
“Yeah… I guess it’s not that big.”
“Well…” she wraps me back in the hug and continues “…we’re the first ones to the room and that has to mean we’re going to be best friends!”
“I’m afraid my best friend’s name is Tamsin… the position is not open.” I say, firmly setting a boundary.
“I meant best bootcamp friends, silly!” she says, as if that should have gone without saying.
“Alright… I guess that positions open… but you’ve not got the job yet(!)” I quip, warming up a little to the ball of posh English energy.
She pulls back and beams at me “Alright then, for my first act as best bootcamp friend candidate, let me show you the view!… That should earn me some points!”
She says, leading me into the room that’s so small it makes me doubt that that goody-two-shoes 17 year old can possibly have one a sixth this size!
She leads me to the window and spends a few moments making sure I’m positioned just right before she draws back the curtain.
The view is quite breathtaking… rolling hills of snow blanketed mammoth steppe, lit by evening sun, with barely any of the sprawling military camp visible.
Though, you can see one of the tallest structures ever built by Humanity… the Sussex Space elevator… several times the Earth’s own diameter, the ‘top’, if you can even call it that, is a fifth of the way from here to Luna! …And… in 8 months, I’m going to be riding it, all the way up, to get on a troop transport.
“Look! See! There’s a herd of aurochs over on that hill! You know this place used to be a national park, before even Unification or the Reset! It’s called the South Downs! My mum told me we had family from here… obviously I never met any of them because they would have left hundreds of years ago!…”
The bubbly girl talks and talks and… just keeps talking… but I don’t particularly mind.
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This is what encouraged me to come here guys. I'm a crypto guy, It's been like years, I make money in crypto and I'm in love with TA, trading etc, as a part time job, I also teach English like 4-6 hours a week. At the same time, I love PCs, I love computers, I had my first laptop which was Dell like 15 years ago, so I always had laptops, any type of it. What I wanna say here is that I recently decided to build PCs and sell and make some profit(at the same time enjoy building) so I withdrew like 10% of what I had from my Ledger wallet(crypto wallet) so I had $$$$ in the bank account, I was totally ready to order parts, I was so encouraged, so happy, keen and willing to do it, I've seen many builds on the internet in my country(I prefer not to say) and then I compared the parts prices and how it would've cost me to build the exact same system(Gaming PC) and I saw like it would have cost me 50-100$ cheaper compared to getting the PC ready from shop so I have come up with an idea to build PCs and sell, I was even ready to order but before doing that, I came on reddit and have seen too many negative comments on building and selling!!!! One says : It's a terrible idea, one says: This is a waste ....... many other negative comments on buying and selling, so I changed my mind and sent my money back to the exchange(crypto exchange) so I decided to do what I've always done. Did I make a mistake? All I wanted to do was building PCs and selling and making profits but from what I see here, it's way easier to make money in crypto out of that 10% of my savings instead of building PCs and selling!

Hi Melbourne! I’m looking to take a few things back home for my family (I’m an international student here and will be traveling home soon). I’ve done the classic Tim Tams, Shapes, Coffee, and Chocolates - but I was wondering if there’s anything else unique or interesting I could take from here for my family members back home.
I myself have been here for only a handful of months so I’m looking for some advice/suggestions from people who’ve been here longer or even the locals. I have no idea what else I could take and any suggestions would be highly appreciated!
(International Students, hit me with a few things you’ve taken home for your family and friends)
For context, I come from a very hot country.
Some additional notes:

• Not looking for anything necessary with a “wow factor”, anything small like even a cool snack would be nice
• No kids in the family, we’re all >21 years old
• My sister will be moving out with her husband soon so perhaps a house warming gift?

I would really appreciate any and all tips and suggestions ❤️ Thank you in advance!!

I glanced at Tina and said “gather dishes, please”.
I didn’t have to say please. But even though I was only 14 during the Robot Transition which freed large swathes of the population from menial labour, I never seem to have shaken the habit off.
Tina rose stiffly, and I wondered whether she needed a tune up. She smiled broadly at me, moved to the table, and started on the dishes. She was dressed in an old-fashioned European-style maid’s outfit, complete with the frilly lace cap. Of course, we could dress her however we liked- or even have her nude as some did, but the trend for dressing the House Chore Robots in that type of dress never really died down.
I switched on my visor and went back to what I was doing.
Soon I found myself frowning in an effort to concentrate- there was no doubt Tina was making more noise than usual. There were several years left in her lifespan- she didn’t become sick - those genes had all been corrected. And she didn’t request time off, because why should she? She had nowhere to go, no purpose other than serving us.
Tina walked towards me. I was now thoroughly confused. I pushed my visor up.
She opened her painted mouth and said through her lips. “I am tired. I need to rest.”
If she had struck me, I couldn’t have been more flabbergasted.
I knew technically Robots were actually humans whose biology had been adjusted so they moved and talked in a more “robotic” fashion, making it easier to set them to the menial labour they had to perform throughout life. Even though we had the technology, it was far too expensive to build actual robots for mundane low-skilled tasks and much more cost efficient to repurpose surplus humans. This repurposing technology adapted them psychologically as well as physically for their duties, so they could serve as required without complaint and minimum management hassle. They had to be fed, of course, and there were other maintenance tasks they needed for optimal running, but the companies serviced them as per schedule, and I was sure that Tina was up to date on all of that.
Or maybe not. Her eyes sparked with an emotion I had never seen in a House Chore Robot before. I discreetly thought at her company for help. The company sent back some info to my brain.
“Ok Tina” I said gently. “Can you sit down and rest for me?”
Tina smiled broadly again, and the emotion in her eyes seemed to waver. “Yes”. She moved back to her chair and sat down. We waited in silence.
Soon enough the company reps arrived. I had already returned to my work. They nodded at me as they efficiently lifted the now-placid Tina up and took her out, and installed her replacement "Tanya" in the chair. They thought her info at me as they left. They were in and out in under ten minutes.

About Me

• Name: Fae
• Age: 22
• Time-Zone: CET
• Pronouns: She/They

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What I am looking for

• A long-term RP with romance/pairing and a happy end! Yes, I am sappy.
  • A double-up fandom RP with OCxCC
    • Doubling will be necessary so we both get our favorite characters
  • Or An original RP with OCxOC
    • Doubling is optional, not necessary! But I prefer to play F and enjoy playing the “softer” part (for example by Grumpy x Sunshine I would love to play the Sunshine), so if you want to play that role too or an MxM then a doubling would be needed!

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What I offer

• 9 years old roleplaying experience, 11 of creative writing
• 400-1000 words on average, I can write easily up to 2000 words if you give me enough to work with
• Diverse (side)characters with a lot of depth and interesting backgrounds
  • I am not picky about which CC I play in Fandom double-up RPs, whoever you want will be yours!
    • One OC will be tailored to your need if we do a doubling original RP!
• I can and will play multiple characters, make maps, family trees, mood boards... etc
• Pretty active, I respond at least once a day, though multiple answers are more likely Open to a lot of ideas as long as I get my romance/pairing!
  • Especially during a doubling RP, you can practically do whatever you want on your side and I will do my best to make it come true for you!

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Requirements

• Be 18+, LGBTQIA+ friendly, and comfortable with characters not fitting into the social beauty standard
• Please use Discord, write in 3rd person and past tense
• Literate-Novella writing style, at least 400+ words per message, meaning breaking Discord Character Limit!
  • Please check out my writing examples below, if Example 3 is already too long for you, then this definitely won´t work out!
• Be communicative and open-minded, I won´t judge and expect the same from you

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Fandoms I am interested in

• Star Trek
  • The Original Series
  • The Next Generation
• Star Wars
  • The Mandalorian
• The Lord of the Rings
  • The Hobbit
• Pokemon
  • All games up to Sword and Shield
• The Legend of Zelda
  • Breath of the Wild
  • Tears of the Kingdom
  • Twilight Princess
  • Ocarina of Time
• Hellsing
  • Gonzo
  • Ultimate
• God of War
  • 2018
  • Ragnarok
• Stardew Valley
• Dead by Daylight
• The Arcana (Mobile Game)
• Resident Evil 8
• Final Fantasy X
• Black Butler
• Inuyasha

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Favorite Genres

• Horror
  • Bonus Points if it´s Monster x Human
• Supernatural
  • Vampires, Werewolves… yes, please!
• Historical
  • Anything before the 20th Century is on the table
• Fantasy
  • Magic, Dragons, I very much adore all of that!
• Mythology/Folklore
  • I would love to take a myth/folklore and add our own twist to it
• Fairytale retelling
  • Honestly, I am open to almost anything as long as it´s not basic Slice of Life

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Some Tropes I enjoy

• Arranged Marriage
• Reborn Past Lovers
• Matchmaker
• Mutual Pinning
• Comfort
• Medium paced Romance
  • I am willing to do a slow-burn for your side if we do a double-up!
• Destined Lovers
  • Soulmates
• Forbidden Love
  • Secret Relationship
• Lowkey obsessive/possessive lovers
  • Even mild Yandere if that is something you enjoy!
    • Or Villian x Hero
• Opposites Attract
  • Bad Guy x Good Girl will forever have a soft spot in my heart
    • Sunny x Grumpy is also very adorable!
• Love Triangle
  • Why have a love triangle with just three people? Four sounds much more fun
    • Especially if it ends in poly (no matter if 3 or 4 people are involved)

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Writing Examples - Long, Medium and Short. Do not feel obligated to read them all, it is just to show off the varying lengths of my messages.
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Please DM me if you are interested and fulfill the requirements.
Tell me exactly what you want and send me an example of your writing as well, so I know you read this all or I will not respond.
I am sorry if that seems rude but I am tired of people not even reading half of all this.
Have a lovely day :D

I have two (legit) addresses on my account (my main residence and a vacation condo), but I would like to be able to have items delivered to an Amazon Locker. I tried setting it as my ‘default’ address but it doesn’t show up as an option when I try to select/order a product (only the two other addresses show up) and there doesn’t seem to be a way to change it. Any ideas?

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:

$2500 USD

• Are you open to refurbs/used?

No

• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?

Performance, build quality, battery life. Form factor doesn't matter.

• How important is weight and thinness to you?

Not at all.

• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.

15" and above

• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.

Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop, OBS, Assetto Corsa Competizione, Minecraft with shaders.

• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?

Assetto Corsa Competizione at above 300FPS at high/ultra settings. Same with Minecraft.

• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?
  Good keyboard, reliable build quality, SD card reader, Displayport or USB-C Displayport, backlit keyboard. Also I want a 240Hz or above screen.
  

• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.

While I prefer to keep within budget, I can go slightly over budget if that means getting a better laptop.

Dear music production people :)
I want to produce music on Ableton which sounds like the music in Elden Ring. I have Ableton but no clue about how to do anything in it. I know it's possible but I don't know where to start. I also would like to produce film score like Hans Zimmers' "Interstellar". Summarized, my situation is this: I want to express myself musically in an Elden-Ring-style, but don't know how to do this/where to start or which programs to use. My goal is to arrive at a point where I can set up everything so that I can jam and have an idea how to compose such a sound.
I have the intent to explore and figure out if this is fun for me. I don't expect to produce music on a level like Hans Zimmer, I just want to jam and express myself for fun.
Thanks :)

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Some Like It Hot

Directed by: Billy Wilder

Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

Info:

• Rated: Passed
• Running Time: 121 Minutes
• Genre: Comedy Romance
• Release Date: March 19, 1959
• Country(s): USA
• Language(s): English
• IMDb user rating: 8.2/10
• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 94%
• Rotten Tomatoes Audience: 94%
• Metacritic Critic: 98/100
• Metacritic Audience: 8.3/10

Awards: 15 wins and 15 nominations

• Oscar winner - Best Costume Design, Black-and-White - Orry-Kelly

Links:

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• The classic and highly regarded Billy Wilder comedy.

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