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I know, nobody is usually happy with that, but I am!

4 years back I had to quit running due to abdominal pain. I've seen doctors, been to fysio, many examinations -including röntgen- but no one found anything. Still tried dozens of treatments but nothing helped. A few weeks ago the pain worsened and new symptoms arrived. Without hope I made another appointment, and it was the shortest of all :Inguinal hernia.

The plan is to operate early next year. Hey, what's a few weeks added to four years right? I'm quite sure it's the root-cause but who can say? I don't dare to hope, but driving home I saw myself running again in the back of my head and that's when my vision troubled for a short period.

TLDR; The video briefly goes over the history leading up to the Vela Incident, and the metrics used to identify it. A lot of data that can be interpreted as strong or weak proof, for or against is examined, and eventually lands on this conclusion: It was Israel.

Politics aside, it's still an interesting video. Alexander producing quality content as usual.

rip

Edit: This was an enjoyable quick read.

It is not an endorsement.

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So long story short; I’m a huge fan of Terrence Mann (mainly for his work in musicals, but he’s done TV/Film as well).

If you use YouTube music and look up the musical ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ you’ll find some songs credited to ‘Terry Mann’. That’s my fault.

It never was a very popular musical, and I had uploaded it to my library back in the Google Play days. I may have given Terrence Mann a cute lil nickname for my eyes only roughly a decade ago, and now it’s the official meta data. I hope this doesn’t get corrected because I honestly think about it a lot and I couldn’t ask for a better legacy.

• abusive admins/mods
• mods being cults of personality
• vibe bans with incorrect rule used with no appeal process
• automod
• auto bans for participation in other spaces

I came here in November of last year looking for an alternative to reddit, and in that time, this space has transformed to look more like reddit than I ever expected it to become.

I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't just reddit all over again with a smaller userbase.

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I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT SO MUCH

New to this website and not so tech-savvy so having trouble navigating.

Literally have no energy to even cry after crying so much. Genuinely need some comfort and support and someone to talk to who understands.

21f I’ve been dealing with this horrible abdominal pain for about 4 days now and it’s really wearing me down. I’m on meds for it so that helps quite a lot. The pain sits mostly around my belly button area and nearby. It constantly hurts, and then it suddenly spikes into cramping or stabbing gut pain whenever it wants to. My appetite is low, I feel nauseous, and without pain meds I honestly can’t manage the day.

I had an ultrasound and blood work done earlier this week. Nothing serious showed up so they’ve ruled out anything like appendicitis or anything, but the moment they pressed the probe on my abdomen I almost jumped. It hurt so badly that the whole thing stressed me out more because I still don’t understand what’s going on inside my belly.

Then this morning (nighttime here btw), I was sitting on the floor checking something in the lowest drawer. When I tried to stand up, I got this sudden, really sharp pang in my gut, lost my balance, and ended up falling forward straight onto the wooden bedpost. It hit me right in the stomach and the impact felt like it actually sank into my abdomen. It knocked the literal life out of me and I threw up after.

Now the area on my stomach where I hit is sore and even feels bruised. Although it’s most likely nothing severe like internal bleeding (it could have been SO MUCH WORSE), but it hurts when I touch it, when I stretch, or even when I flex my abdominal muscles. But my original belly pain is still there too, so everything feels mixed together. I’m getting random throbbing sensations in my gut and sometimes that awful empty “extreme hunger” type pain even when I’m not hungry at all. My whole abdomen feels drained, my body feels weak, and I’m honestly exhausted. I’m tired, I want to cry and cry but no energy for that as well. I just want this to end. I feel so confused and helpless.

I know there are rainbow colored northern lights like you see in pics, but I don't think anyone in the US would be able to see them that way. Correct me if I'm wrong, I would love to see them here if it's possible.

Was modding unciv and had the idea of multiple textures per unit so every unit could have both female and male versions and potentially multiple ethnicities. And did not expect hate because my idea was 'woke'.

So, tho i often nitpick about aspects of yall lefties, chatting in a nonleftleaning realm powerfully put in perspective that i should be appreciating you. I don't even normally consider how some people actually think everything should be run by white males since none of you are spouting that nonsense. But people elsewhere do.

So, tho this is an echo chamber, interacting outside the echo chamber shows it is a place, a better place than outside, and should be valued and appreciated.

thank you

I just realized tonight that after having my CPAP for 5 years, the chronic shoulder pain I've lived with since I was a child is gone. My shoulder pain came from sleeping on my arms at night, to the point that they would lose circulation and feeling. Sometimes I even tore my shoulder trying to turn over when is lost feeling in my arms. I thought everyone must sleep like that and didn't realize I had sleep apnea and I was using my arms to help prop myself up. Now with my CPAP I can comfortably sleep on my back, and it has been years since I've had shoulder pain.

I highly recommend a CPAP for all around good health!

Don't mind the beer in the back, that just completes the nutritious meal!

In a September 11, 2024, email to Jonathan Lait, Palo Alto’s director of planning and development services and Palo Alto city attorney Molly Stump, one of Zuckerberg’s neighbors alleged that since 2021, “despite numerous neighborhood complaints” to the city of Palo Alto, including “multiple code violation reports,” the school had continued to grow. They claimed that a garage at the property had been converted into another classroom, and that an increasing number of children were arriving each day. Lait and Stump did not respond to a request to comment.

“The addition of daily traffic from the teachers and parents at the school has only exacerbated an already difficult situation,” they said in the email, noting that the neighborhood has been dealing with an “untenable traffic” situation for more than eight years.

They asked the city to conduct a formal investigation into the school on Zuckerberg’s property, adding that their neighbors are also “extremely concerned” about the school, and “are willing to provide eyewitness accounts in support of this complaint.”

During the trial of Kaleb Charters, a manual laborer at one of Atre’s marijuana farms, a former manager named Sam Borghese testified that Atre maintained a “hostile, fear-based” working culture. Borghese told the court that Atre — who had a net worth of some $16 million — regularly withheld his worker’s paychecks, dangling petty grievances over their heads at random.

The employee further testified that Atre would regularly berate the workers whose labor built his fortunes, and fire them when they didn’t show him the proper respect. Borghese reportedly answered over 100 questions related to Atre’s cruelty, adding that his workers made a habit of “joking” about teaming up to rob and hurt the CEO.

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Normally, we use a place-value system. This uses exponentials and multiplication.

1234
^^^^
||||
|||└ 4 * 10^0 = 4
||└ 3 * 10^1 = 30
|└ 2 * 10^2 = 200
1 * 10^3 = 1000

1000 + 200 + 30 + 4 = 1234

More generally, let d be the value of the digit, and n be the digit's position. So the value of the digit is d * 10^n^ if you're using base 10; or d * B^n^ where B is the base.

1234
^^^^
||||
|||└ d = 4, n = 0
||└ d = 3, n = 1
|└ d = 2, n = 2
d = 1, n = 3

What I came up with was a base system that was polynomial, and a system that was purely exponential, no multiplication.

In the polynomial system, each digit is d^n^. We will start n at 1.

polynomial:
1234
^^^^
||||
|||└ 4^1 = 4 in Place-Value Decimal (PVD)
||└ 3^2 = 9 PVD
|└ 2^3 = 8 PVD
1^4 = 1 PVD

1234 poly = 1 + 8 + 9 + 4 PVD = 22 PVD

This runs into some weird stuff, for example:

• Small digits in high positions can have a lower magnitude than large digits in low positions
• 1 in any place will always equal 1
• Numbers with differing digits being equal!

202 poly = 31 poly
PVD: 2^3 + 2^1 = 3^2 + 1^1
8 + 2 = 9 + 1 = 10

In the purely exponential system, each digit is n^d^. This is a bit more similar to place value, and it is kind of like a mixed-base system.

1234
^^^^
||||
|||└ 1^4 = 1
||└ 2^3 = 8
|└ 3^2 = 9
4^1 = 4

1234 exp = 4 + 8 + 9 + 1 PVD = 22 PVD

However it still runs into some of the same problems as the polynomial one.

• Small digits in high positions can have a lower magnitude than large digits in low positions (especially if the digit is 1)
• The digit in the ones place will always equal 1
• Numbers with differing digits can still be equal

200 exp = 31 exp
PVD: 3^2 = 2^3 + 1^1
9 = 8 + 1

So there you have it. Is it useful? Probably not. Is it interesting? Of course!

In a nutshell

• American Airlines ranked as the world’s most disliked carrier with a dissatisfaction score of 56 out of 100, earning just 2.9 out of 10 from passengers.
• Budget carriers Frontier and United took second and third place, with Frontier posting the lowest passenger experience rating at 2.0 out of 10 despite serving 33.3 million travelers annually across 105 destinations.
• British Airways led all airlines in lost luggage complaints with 319 searches per 100,000 passengers, while Air France matched American Airlines with 11 safety incidents and showed the second-highest baggage complaint rate.
• The analysis examined four key metrics including passenger experience ratings, Skytrax evaluations, normalized complaint search volumes, and safety records, with higher scores indicating greater passenger dissatisfaction across major global carriers.