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A dark fantasy, mystery, action, adventure, mature story... Chapter 1: The Last Morning The morning light crept through the gaps in the wooden shutters, thin and pale. Warm fingers brushed against his cheek. "Wake up, sleepyhead." He stirred, pulling the rough blanket closer. His mother's voice was soft, patient. The smell of bread baking drifted up through the floorboards. "Just a little longer," he mumbled. "Your father's already been up for an hour." Her hand rested on his shoulder, gentle but insistent. "Come on now." He opened his eyes. His mother smiled down at him, her face lined from years of work but kind. The same face that h...

I have been on MJ for coming up to a year now and I have lost just shy of 7 stone. The last few months have seemed very slow, with the scales fluctuating frustratingly but the trend is overall downwards. I still have 5 stone to go to reach a healthy weight for my height (5ft10, 40, female) but I am not sure I will ever reach a healthy BMI (I just can’t see that at all on me, and if I end up in the over weight category from very comfortably class 3 obese that will be incredible enough. I am definitely going to be a lifer on some sort of GLP1, whatever the future holds for this drug and what it develops into. But if you had told 20 year old me there would be a drug available for controlli...

Seeing all the Boulevard Mall posts lately and it's bringing back so many memories from growing up here Used to spend entire Saturdays there with friends just wandering around for hours. We'd camp out in food court pretending we had money but really just getting those free samples from Chinese place and pretzel stand. That was basically our weekend meal plan lol The place was like our second home - you'd see same faces every weekend, watch all the drama unfold between different friend groups. I remember working at one of clothing stores there for about 6 months and seemed like half my high school class had jobs somewhere in that mall at different times Christmas se...

My sister threw her baby shower last spring with no wishlist. She got four identical bouncer seats, three newborn clothing sets she used for two weeks, and zero of the practical stuff she actually needed. This year we're expecting and I spent two weeks figuring out how to do this properly so that doesn't happen to us. **Why a baby shower wishlist is more logistically complex than a wedding registry** Wedding gifts are mostly home items with clear sizing. Baby gear is a different problem. There's sizing (newborn vs 6 months vs 1 year), brand compatibility (some stroller systems only work with specific car seats), items parents want to choose themselves vs. open to suggestion...

I’m a mother of three so I am in the season of decluttering my kids toys and their clothes as well as my clothes and re-examining what I need in my day to day. I was talking about how I purged my closet and my kids closet and my husband’s closet in order to make laundry easier for me as a stay at home parent and make my day-to-day more functional My closet is also my office in my bedroom so I wanted to get rid of the dresser in there so I sold the dresser and I cut half of my clothes out of my wardrobe I donated them Also half of my husbands as well while he was at work I chose what to keep, toss and store for winter as we are in hot texas Afterwards I was able to fit the pants on...

In this part I will share how MIL tried to absolutely torture her other 2 DIL’s. To everyone that couldn’t find the first part, I share my experiences or “spill the tea” about my boyfriend’s mother when I was living at their home for about 4-5 years. My boyfriends brothers and their partners were quite close to me when we started dating each other. Ive been there with them from when they were in a relationship to when they got married. I was also present in every bit of the wedding planning and my MIL did NOT make it easy. To start of, the girls and my bf’s family did not follow the same religion so MIL kept a condition that they had to convert after they got married otherwise ...

I built RespectASO out of genuine frustration after 6 years of indie app development and paying way too much for ASO tools while my apps weren't yet generating revenue. It's open source, self-hosted, and the core research features are completely free with no limits so that people who are still in the beginning of their entrepreneurship journey can benefit from it free of charge. **What's free:** \- Keyword popularity \- Keyword difficulty - and a separate difficulty score for ranking in top 5, 10 or 20. \- Opportunity scores - likelihood of ranking organically \- Unlimited apps + searches \- Estimated downloads per keyword per localization \- Supports 30 different...

So it’s my job to call the next associate to see why they are not here to relieve me when it was 15 minutes past for me to go. I’m leaving when my schedule says. I could care less if my relief is here. I would never walk away from a customer but since my manager thinks I do guess I’ll start

my hypothesis: humans don't actually remember specific colors. We store impressions — warm, cool, dark, saturated — and the exact hue fades almost immediately. Under any time pressure, the brain fills in gaps with what it expects, not what was really there. Same goes for shapes. I built colorecall.com to test it (added some gamification mechanisms to keep the users engaged to take more actions on this test). You look at colors and shapes, then try to recreate them. At 403 responses right now (across 2 formats). To get more quality data, maybe around 1000 I'll post the full results back here — accuracy rates, what trips people up most, and whether the hypothesis holds. If...

A while back I got burned by a PSVR racing game. Screenshots looked great – actual game was completely unplayable. Played it for 10 minutes and in my case got a refund. Got me thinking: who even makes this stuff? Turns out it's not bedroom developers. Publishing on the PS Store requires a real PlayStation Partner account, a dev license, and certified hardware (Devkit?). These are actual small studios with an industrialized pipeline – buy cheap Unity asset packs, assemble something vaguely game-shaped, release it on every platform at once, also release a PS4 *and* PS5 version for double the trophy lists. Break even at a few hundred sales. VR is the worst case because the gap betwee...

**Section 1** 1. How do you work? Why do people go to work? Are there any parameters that determine whether you can do work or not? What are they? Answer: Work has been an on and off thing for me. I am usually productive when I'm passionate about something. I don't know, it's complicated. Right now, I'm currently in senior high school and it's been very dry, very rigid, very logical, very harsh, and I just feel.. very empty, most of the time I'm very sad and frustrated and angry. It's much different when I actually like doing my job, but that's the same for everyone else. I'm punctual (when it comes to attending school), I'm very lazy, I lo...

I’m currently staying in Roma Norte and would love any recs to cool men’s clothing shops. Open to all price ranges and extended surrounding areas as well of course. Also, maybe a random shop you just think has cool stuff besides clothes 🤷

Many applications use some sort of expression language. Developing a parser, converting the source to an AST, etc. Is a difficult job, and it is typically performance-critical. Here is an example of how such parsers could be improved. I created a version of cel-js (Common Expression Language). It is over 90% compliant with cel-spec). The implementation is, on average, 22x faster than the existing implementation (improvements ranging from 12x to 47x, depending on the expression complexity). The idea is that the expressions are compiled into bytecode (which can later be stored in a database, for instance). It was written by AI and it is amazing what opportunities are unleashed by this. If a ...

Hello everyone. I have been exploring Personal Knowledge Management for a long time. I have used the Zettelkasten method and digital tools like Logseq to classify, store, and organize the information I consume daily. My goal was always to improve memory, recollection, and idea creation. But I noticed a recurring problem. The maintenance of a PKMS often becomes a job in itself. Instead of boosting creativity, the strict organization and tagging create a cognitive friction. I started looking into mind mapping as a way to just dump ideas visually, without worrying about folders or links right away. This gap between visual freedom and structured systems fascinated me so much that it led me...

A lot of the internet was built on a very simple business model. Users generated the data, platforms captured the value, and ownership of that value was never really part of the discussion. That model created enormous companies, but it also created a lot of tension. The more users learned about how their information could be collected, transferred, and monetized behind the scenes, the more obvious the imbalance became. That is why a headline like the recent Google settlement matters more than it might seem at first. Google agreed to pay $135M to settle claims that Android devices transferred users’ cellular data without permission, while denying wrongdoing. Even without an admission of f...

My brother in law is getting married in june and I’m in need of a guest dress. I’m someone with an alternative clothing style and dark hair. Pastel colors wash me out and look horrible on me. I live in a country where I don’t have many options to go out and fit dresses either because I’m a size 44/46 and lots of Dutch clothing stores don’t have dresses suitable for a bigger bust. Would it be okay to wear like a dark dress with floral motives? I’ve seen some people talk about jewel tones for my color palette but I’m not sure if that fits with the theme either. If I had to wear a light color my best bet would be something sage or light grey ish. Big events like these scare me bec...

I’ve started writing an essay about how the new wave of generative AI tools are marketed towards the lower-classes. It’s nowhere near even halfway done yet, but before I continue with writing it, I’d like to hear some input from people who have more knowledge in this subject area than I do. I’ve been doing a lot of research on this topic for a while but I’m still very much learning and educating myself, and I also haven’t written many essays in the past (this isn’t for school or anything, just something I’m working on in my free time). Here is a summary of the points I’ve made so far: 1) luxury vs accessible AI (example; AI humanoids that ‘live’ in your home vs free A...

I’m looking for a bike commuting backpack that is large enough to store a spare change of clothes and shoes, bike lock and preferably a helmet store too. I was looking at the Terravia 36L. Does anyone have an my experience with that pack for bike commuting or other recommendations in the range?

The other day, after we both go our hair cut, she goes “do you want to go to this store?”, I said yes and after we both picked out all of our items, she told me she only has 8 bucks and for me to cover the 40 for her clothes..so when I wasn’t okay with that, she called me a b word, ******, “you’re a fcking rtared”, and a spoiled brat (spoiled being completely ironic, lol) But yeah, I’d like to know insight on this behavior, since I try to be as nice as I can be, but she makes me cry with frustration. Idk if it’s narcissism or something else.