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lemongogo · 3 months

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a random OC ask for you (for zaihala): what is your OC's favorite memory?

also: if they were dropped in a random city for a day with a pouch full of gold/relevant currency and no obligations whatsoever, what would they be doing?

aah omg this is so sweet ehehe, thank you for the qs :3c

i like to imagine that zaihala is an avid stonemason and mosaicist .. i think she is enraptured by the idea of taking something so resilient in nature and molding it under the guide of mallet and chisel . she's a humanist intrigued by the natural world, by geology.. by the incredible craftsmanship that goes into such a trade .

if she were to be dropped into some random city with the freedom of both time and money, i think you could find her in the market , sourcing materials or tesserae she couldnt otherwise acquire at her local workshop. . glass, shells, ceramics etc from vendors or acquainting herself with quarry tradesmen in order 2 procure the stone that best fits her vision.its an obsession..u literally have to pull her away or she'll be there all day

as for her FAVORITE MEMORY!!! omg.. i keep picturing her as this fresh face in baldurs gate, having just moved there on her own , sworn to independence but feeling like maybee she made a mistake. . maybe she was too impulsive, chasing her desire to pursue stonework on a whim, not having thought abt the consequences or the finances or what have u .. but she takes the chance to meet up with some local artists on an outing just outside the city .and its just sooo .. reaffirming to her in that moment. to be surrounded by people who are drunk on wine & laughter and to see the sprawling city just before her as the sun is setting..and the wind is warm..gentle...and it leaves her feeling so content..like a feeling of peace that swells up within her and lets her know tht she made the right choice. that it will be OKAYYU!!!!!!!!!! i think that's gotta be in one of her top ten.. perhaps.

#hmm.i just rly love her.#she wld def haave one of those like. dude idk anything abt stones or gems or literally anything that i talked ab here #but she would have those like.gem inspection kits :sob: like smone tries to bullshit her on the quality or identity of smth #and shes like the nerd emoji as she pulls out thse sujper magnifying glassses or watevr and the forceps and shes like.#YKWIMM HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH #also i just love the idea of her being sooo independent. not from the get go but as a sort of character evolution #and not independent in a deleterious 'i dont need anyone' way but as someone who knows themselves in&out.comfortably.#bc i always make ocs that r soo.. insistent on deriving worth from their interaction w others.how are they perceived 'are they liked 'so on #but for her..i rly want 2 make someone who is self assured in their own abilities & worth.she knows what shes capable of !#doesnt need outside validation or outside influence to choose/act on her behalf.#shes a big community / friends / family person when it comes to like.social support .#very fun. shes a paladin for me.loveee divine smite.. love radiance #ik i modeled my one off k n y oc on berninis ecstasy of st teresa but sry its zaihalas now.those gold rays of light.LITERALLY HER COREEE #zaihala #ocs #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #asktag #inaconstantstateofchange

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perlukafarinn · 2 months

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need a fic set after amok time where spock ponders that he's gonna need a new bondmate eventually. and kirk goes, "well, what about me?"

spock considers this and very logically deduces that yes, kirk would be a suitable mate due to their mental compatibility, aligned careers and his general good qualities. "and also i'm in love with you," kirk helpfully adds.

spock is a bit alarmed by that, as he's not sure he can fulfill kirk's emotional needs but kirk assures him that just being with him is enough.

so they bond and begin to share quarters and it's a surprisingly easy leap to make. kirk is a model bondmate, considerate of spock's needs, offering intimacy when spock wants it and giving him space when necessary. spock does his best to return the favor and although he still occasionally worries that he cannot be everything kirk needs, kirk is always quick to reassure him.

then one day in their shared quarters after a shift, spock looks up from his paperwork at kirk. kirk, noticing him looking, gives him a soft smile and realization strikes spock like a bolt of lightning.

he is in love with kirk. it was never about kirk being the logical choice, spock wanted to bond with him because he loves him.

when he tells kirk this, his smile widens but he otherwise doesn't respond and another realization hits.

"you knew," he accuses kirk.

kirk hums. "i gambled."

then he holds out his hand and spock accepts the ozh'esta and is quietly grateful that this conversation will never be known to mccoy

#spirk #the premise #kirk/spock #k/s #star trek #kirk comes off as super chill here because this is from spock's pov #and spock is not aware of the boatloads of angst and uncertainty kirk was dealing with thinking that maybe he's wrong about spock's feeling #because kirk wants him to think he's a cool girl

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syneilesis · 5 months

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[fic] Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Love and Deepspace | Xavier (Shen Xinghui) x Main-Character!Reader | G | 1.2k words ao3 link

You buy Xavier a new coffee machine.

A/N: I am so in love with this man. Day 2 of the closed beta test and here I am writing fic lmao. God, I love Shen Xinghui so much. This fic is inspired by his Shimmering Sunlight story. Some spoilers about the main storyline and character-exclusive stories, though nothing too significant. Though I frequently refer to his CN name in my other posts, in this fic I use his EN version -- Xavier.

The box is light in your hands, but the salesperson assured you that weight does not equate to quality. Price, too—because although the Hunters Association is generous with their pay, you don't want to raise flags by taking missions incessantly. Tara's nose for intrigue, of course, is well-known among your circles.

It would be all the worse if Xavier gets in on the gossip too. (You'd have to thank the stars for the man's indifference to workplace drama—and to most in general. Xavier may be airheaded at times but when he's focused on something he is monstrously focused on it. It's impressive, and—well—cute.)

The recommended beans are secured inside your messenger bag. You don't call Xavier this time to give him a heads up. He had, a few days ago, granted you the privilege to enter his home whenever you like, his hand tracing the book spines on the shelf, all the while saying it. He wasn't looking at you, but his tone remained light, playful even, that it prompted you to tease him by pointing out that if he merely wanted an efficient alarm clock, he could just buy one of those state-of-the-art ones sold in major stores. That's when Xavier whirled around to look at you, mirth in his eyes but with a secretive, scheming tilt on his lips.

“I'm coming in,” you announce, regardless, by the door, pushing it in with one hand, and Xavier's voice floats across the hall.

“You're really taking advantage of this, huh.”

“Well, a wise man once said that one must seize every opportunity given their way.”

Xavier emerges from a room in all his cardigan-and-sweatpantsed glory, hair mussed enough to indicate that he's just risen from his bed.

“Good morning!” you chirp.

He glances at the clock—two in the afternoon—and eyes the box in your hands. The caution—and curiosity—is obvious in the lilt of his question. “What's that?”

“For you.”

He takes the proffered item and inspects like it'll explode at any moment. You sigh and retrieve it again, and he follows you when you make your way to the kitchen.

“I already have a coffee machine,” he says, confused, as you begin to clean the gift.

“And it brews bitter coffee.” You spare a glance at him to find that he's watching you. You tap the lid of the machine. “This is a more recent and an undeniably better model.”

“I don't recall asking you to buy one for me.”

“That's because you didn't.” There's a pause where you deliberate telling him your next sentence and facing him directly as you say it. You go for it, in the end. “It's a gift. This is a gift from me to you.”

It doesn't register to him at first—it's as if he's waiting for an explanation that requires the mention of Captain Jenna's orders. But after a blink and a shuffle, it clicks, his eyes widening and he's fully awake all of a sudden.

And when he responds, it seems urgent: “What's the occasion?”

You shake your head. “Nothing—or rather, it's the occasion for drinking good coffee.” The coffee beans make their appearance. “Go sit on the sofa or something while I work this thing out.”

Xavier chuckles. “What—now you're ordering me in my own home?”

“And making you good coffee!”

“You're a guest—even I know that it's rude to have the guest make food or drinks for the owner of the house.”

“It's fine! And besides, I'd like to test this out as soon as possible. Refund and exchange policy only lasts for seven days from the date of purchase. I'd want to know if this works just fine.”

Xavier attempts to protest a little more, but you hold firm. Once he trudges back to the living room, you concentrate on the coffee. The salesperson seemed trustworthy enough when pitching the product, and you really can't forget the time Xavier served you a cup of bitter coffee. Not even three sugar cubes could salvage that unholy concoction.

When it's done, the heavenly aroma wafting along your nose, you test a sip from your own mug. It's a success. Placing the mugs on a tray, you head to where Xavier is.

He's reading a book. Though 'reading' seems to be a stretch because his head bobs twice, his eyelids drooping, the edge of a nap threatening his posture.

“Xavier,” you call him, and his head snaps back to attention. You bite your lip to stave off a laugh. Sitting next to him on the sofa, you put the tray on the table and hand him his own cup. “Try this one.”

A sniff and a tentative sip. And then he hums in approval, now drinking it normally. You smile around the rim of your mug, your eyes falling on his book.

“This is good,” he comments, wearing a smile of his own when he turns to you. “Did you use another kind of coffee beans?”

“Yep. The salesman recommended me another one, and it was the right decision. By the way, why are you reading an instruction manual on building a claw machine?”

“It's nothing,” he says, swiping the item away. There's another book on the table—a collection of short stories—and he snatches that up instead. You recognize the title.

“Oh! I've read that before.”

“Is it good? I haven't read it yet.”

“Yes. I particularly loved the titular story. The suspense buildup was done skillfully and the payoff was perfect.”

“I see, then I look forward to starting it.”

Surprisingly, Xavier begins reading it then and there, occasionally sipping his coffee and turning the page. You, beside him, are minding your own cup, thoughts drifting here and there. Your next mission. New strategies in battle. Your next appointment with Dr. Zayne.

It's when a weight has plopped down your shoulder that you jolt out of your musings: Xavier falling asleep on your shoulder, mug empty, the coffee residues pooling at the bottom, book opened in the chapter of your favorite story.

“Xavier?” you murmur, careful not to startle him if he's truly asleep.

He doesn't stir—only burrows further into the crevice between your neck and shoulder, the puffs of his breath close and warm against your skin.

It would've been cruel to push him away, not when he looks comfortable. And besides, you're afforded an opportunity to study him—so you let him as he is.

From your angle, staring down at his sleeping face, you note of his eyelashes, long and thick and seemingly soft, slightly curved upwards, hovering over his smooth cheeks. They frame the blueness of his eyes very well. They make him even prettier under daylight. You're reminded of the time you and he strolled under the blooming peach blossoms, the pink backdrop highlighting the radiance of his presence, statuesque. He as sublime art itself, rivaling that of Rafayel's paintings—or better yet, surpassing them. And when he smiles—

Unbidden, heat crawls across your cheeks and settles there. Oh no. Oh, no no no.

Oh dear, this won't do.

You swallow, and turn away. Against your neck, Xavier sleeps on, unaware of your unfurling realizations. By the window, a familiar bird perches, twittering under the afternoon sun, a small but melodious background song.

#love and deepspace #love and deepspace fic #love and deepspace shen xinghui #love and deepspace xavier #fic #my fic #shen xinghui #shen xinghui my beloved #i'm obsessed with this man #this won't be the only fic i'll write for him and for this game

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celestialtarot11 · 4 months

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Why people are attracted to you based on your sun sign ⛅️💅🏻

Hi friends! We’re back with a new post 💅🏻💘 why people are attracted to you based on your sun sign! Your sun rules your vitality, fun & the moments where you shine! Featuring Kat Stratford 🤍 I’d appreciate any comment, like and reblog! 💌

Leo sun ♌️🌻🌴: Your essence & charisma is what makes you shine 😍 your fiery personality! Your go getter qualities are so attractive. You’re loving, warm, and a fighter for all! You believe in equality and stand up for your rights. People are attracted to your bold nature, and love your fashion sense 💅🏻

Libra sun ♎️🤍⛅️: Your social charisma is what makes you a baddie! You know how to connect with others & people fall in love with your energy. Your presence is something they cannot forget. One look at you and they are attracted 😮‍💨🙌 you’re wild, fun, and just as loving! You know how to tap into trends to woo people & it works every time 💅🏻💗 the way you dress is something people can’t get over! Golden retriever energy, deep down you are a lover for all 💗

Aquarius sun 🥂💘✨: Did you really steal the spotlight…or was it always on you? People are attracted & definitely feel your energy entering before the room does! You’re cool, collected, but are so fun underneath. People cant help but try to figure you out. Your intelligence is what draws people in, because you know & say things that make people think. You send people round and round, the chase is what you enjoy 🙌 but your authenticity is unmatched, and others are drawn to your unwavering truth!

Gemini sun ✨🌻🍯: You’re witty, funny and beautiful! Natural beauty 😍 your beauty comes from your voice. People can’t help but fall in love listening to you, it touches a part of them. Quick to read the room & make jokes! People love a good banter and laugh with you 💅🏻 conversation flows endlessly with you, and it’s never boring. You can’t help but want to make people laugh, your warm generosity touches everyone 💗✨ you’re the life of the party!

Aries sun 🔥🌈⚡️: Your bold and brazen appearance is what attracts people ✨ powerful, intimidating and strong. You don’t demand attention because you know you have it already. Your confidence and self assurance is what people are attracted to 🤍 a fighter for all, Aries never forgets the people they love! Aries is particular but that makes them unique because they know themselves better than anyone else! Aries are always presentable in events and so put together 🙌💌

Sagittarius sun❄️🌨️🐚: Moving in silence is what keeps them hooked! They keep wanting to know more about you 💅🏻 intimidating and powerful in their own space, and know how to have a good time with the people around them 😍✨ always seeking, growing, and expanding! Happy go lucky, people love your abundance and when they are with you they can’t help but feel lucky. Your dedication to yourself and goals is what is attractive!

Capricorn sun 🌸🌺: Your mysteriousness calls people in! They want to know all about you. Your loyalty & dedication is what attracts people 🙌 your sense of humor is what surprises people too! Either sarcastic or dark humor, but people find themselves getting hooked 🤍 your beauty is unmatched and people wonder how you look so young, but carry such an old soul 🤗💘 your wisdom uplifts others, and your strength creates community! People can’t help but step up for you because they know you are not one to mess with 💗

Virgo sun🌻⚡️🌈: Your wildness is what calls people in! A wild child 💅🏻 people love how free you are. You’re carefree in whatever you do, and it inspires people to let loose! People love how they can be themselves around you. And people admire your features! You have the looks of a model and deserve to be loved 🤍 your attention to detail is something wonderful, and people feel loved and remembered 🙌 With you, people can truly be themselves and embrace their inner child ❤️‍🩹 your eyes are soulful and deep, yet your energy is young ✨

Taurus sun💌✨🤝: majestic. Absolutely majestic and you carry yourself with elegance. Grace and beauty! People are attracted to your skin, it looks so healthy and people associate you with luxury and health 😍 you look like you take care of yourself and that attracts people! You are high level, people cannot disrespect you! Your grounded nature is what soothes people, and your energy puts them in check! People love enjoying time with you because you know how to have fun yet slow it down and relax 🍵

Cancer sun 🌨️🌈🖤: Ethereal goodness. There’s something esoteric and unique about this individual. Something people cant describe yet its in front of them. A deeper energy pulls them in! 🤝 you have a witchy kind of beauty, a natural luminance to you 🤍 you know how to connect with others in an intuitive way, and it beckons people’s curiosity! Cancers know exactly how to have a good time too! 😍 They love to reach out and equally reciprocate and people love the equal exchange 🤍 softness is your strength, and people find it absolutely beautiful.

Pisces sun 🌸🍵✨: Dreamy, otherworldly and sweet! But also just as deep and strong 🙌 people are attracted to your imagination! The beautiful ways in which you look at the world and how you move. You move like water, graceful and light. People feel like you carry a unique light in you and they feel called to you! They love your gentle but powerful presence. Black cat energy 🖤 they love your eyes and when they look into it, you see through to them. They can’t remember to forget you 💅🏻 your eyes stay strong in their mind 🐚

Scorpio sun 🖤✨🌸: Sweet and loving! And loyal and intense ⚡️ you love quality time and people feel so connected to you right away. They feel you understand them in ways no one has before. When they are with you, they are naturally comfortable. You’ve seen deep parts of yourself, so you see them too. That’s why people are comfortable 🤝✨ your loyalty and determination is what makes you attractive! Your love goes deep ⚡️ ride or die and people love that.

Thank ya’ll so much for reading 💘🤗 I hope this resonated! It was fun to do 🤍 feel free to like comment and reblog!

#devi post #astrology #tarotcommunity #divination #astrology community #tarot deck #tarot #witchcraft #tarot reading #astrology observations #astro posts #astrology notes #astro notes

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chaoskirin · 2 months

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How to use Nightshade to Protect Your Art

Nightshade is a program that is relatively easy to use. You can search for it using the search term "glaze nightshade."

You WILL have to download popular image models so Nightshade recognizes what your art is and is able to poison it. This is done automatically the first time you run the program.

I have done extensive research into this, and have even talked Sean Shan of University of Chicago and have been assured that YOUR data is NOT being retained. This is a case of using AI to fight against itself. At this point, it is the best option to prevent your art and photography from being scraped.

Even though this program presents no danger to end users, you should be informed of this.

After everything is downloaded, you should select an image you wish to "Shade."

Once you select your image, Nightshade will pick a tag that it believes covers what's in the image. Sometimes this tag is wrong or not useful. (For example, I loaded a drawing of Brian May into the program, and it tagged it "woman." I changed it to "man.") The tag must be one word, and should be relatively general.

Images with less detail should have less poisoning applied. For my art, I use the default setting. While this does cause noticeable artifacts, it is not so much that it distorts the image. It just looks like a compressed jpg.

You will also need to choose the render quality. I usually choose the highest setting, which is the slowest, and takes about 20 minutes. It's worth it.

Then, choose a spot to save the image. It will save as the original file name with data appended. I generally delete this appended info from the new file before I post it.

When you do post it on social media, your alt text should contain the tag you used when you created it. For example, I posted a skull and put "A hyena skull in greyscale" in the alt text. This ensures that language models will pick up the art as "skull" and this will contribute to poisoning the skull dataset.

If you are posting the image on your own website, you should make sure to add the tag to the metadata of your image.

Then you post it!

Again, if you have any art that you want to run through Nightshade, please contact me and I'll gladly do it for you. There will be a web version of nightshade eventually, which will make the process much easier. But for now, don't be afraid to rely on people whose GPUs can handle it!

#glaze #nightshade #glaze nightshade

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xxgoblin-dumplingxx · 1 year

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Can Ma Kent be the sweet old southern woman oddduck needs? Someone who listens and lets her talk about Bruce and her frustrations with Clark and Lois but not try to solve it or pry for more info or anything? I just want oddduck to have a safe space rn lol

"Ma I'm sorry I-"

Martha waved away his concerns cheerfully and kissed his cheek, "You know we'll be fine. Pa will be perfectly happy to watch the game and I'll go see Y/N-" Her eyes narrowed when her son winced, looking a little ashamed of himself.

"Ma I don't know if-"

"Even if she's irritated at you right now she'll be thrilled to see me," she snorted.

Clark nodded slowly and stooped to kiss her cheek, "Call if you need anything-"

"We''ll be fine," she assured him, watching him go. Shaking her head and picking up her jacket and her handbag.

"Kids fighting, you think?" her husband asked.

"Not fighting," Martha said, kissing the top of his head and making sure he had a cold drink at hand. "I think, Clark has been meddling where he shouldn't-"

"With what?"

"Never you mind," she said smiling a little. What Lois had let slip and what she'd gleaned from talking to you briefly would have been enough to make the rest of his hair go grey.

"Martha-"

"Can't hear you I'm going to so watch a Lecture," she said, heading towards the University where you taught.

_________________

Martha snuck in and hung near the back. It was a big room and the students you were teaching were in various states of paying attention. But the ones that were? They were enraptured. And Martha understood it. She'd watched you hone this for years- ever since you were a little girl.

She didn't know if it was innate or if you practiced it in the mirror. But either way, she enjoyed it.

"Alright All, remember. Mid Terms are next week. And there are 3 essay questions- You only have to do ONE. If you do all three and get them right, there's extra credit in it for you-"

She watched you dismiss your class and waited, watching you gather your papers and your laptop, making her way down the steps, "Excuse me professor?" she teased. Beaming at you when you look up.

"I thought-"

"They got called in to work," she explained, "so I thought I'd come bother you. Make you get a slice of pie and some coffee with me."

You smile and pull out your laptop again, "Just let me email my next class and let them know they get a day off."

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Martha listened for a little while. She knew there was a lot you weren't saying. About how annoyed you were with her son and his wife.

"I told them to get a dog if they want something to parent," you tell her.

"Good," she said, smiling a little. "Now about this man-"

"He doesn't even like me that way so I don't understand-"

Martha shook her head fondly. If he wasn't sweet on you, he wasn't as smart as Clark said. You're a cutie. Not a model. But there was a girl next door quality. A sweetness. A warmth. And you were smart? He'd have to be blind and stupid. And she could see, from the way you flustered a little talking about him, the way your cheeks heated that you liked him. "What's your mother say?"

You shrug, "I'm sure she'd have a lot to say if I told her anything-"

"Y/N."

"I mean why would I tell her after-"

"That wasn't your fault," Martha said softly, patting your hand. Trying not to worry about the fact that you'd only taken a couple bites of your pie and were now aimlessly picking. You were upset. This was bothering you.

"I chose-"

"You chose him because he lied to you, baby," she reminded you. "And then he left you."

You nod and Martha squeezed your hand again, hoping that Bruce knew what he was doing. He was going to have his work cut out for him if he was going to convince you of anything. And she hoped you were wrong. That he did like you enough to do the work.

#Bruce Wayne #Bruce Wayne x reader #odd duck!reader #ask answered #minors dni

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afriendlywizard · 8 months

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My review of a warehouse I found on Earth's Moon in the video game Starfield

I work at a cidery in the PNW. We have a pretty hefty canning line that can handle what I like to call a Solid Chunk of Volumetric Output. Our fulfillment and warehouse team touches several hundred pallets a day. We handle ingredients that come in drums, plastic IBC totes, 5 gallon buckets, and raw ingredients off the back of people’s Ford Raptors. We have pipes and valves and connectors. We talk about glycol and peracetic acid a lot. We have standard 4 level pallet racks, as well as push-back pallet racking and back-load pallet racking that maintains a First In First Out order.

I manage our Quality Assurance team, which means I spend most of my team at a desk or in a lab. I have driven our forklifts and our scissor lifts. I’ve blended our ingredients into our batching tanks. I verify our sanitation practices, and I help solve problems as needed. I spend a lot of my day staring at stainless steel pipes and mumbling about dissolved oxygen to myself.

That’s all to say, I’m not an expert. I would call myself a warehouse hobbyist and enthusiast. Not out loud to anyone, but when I play a video game that has a warehouse in it, I like to spend my time looking at how the warehouse is put together.

In addition to this, a note on Forklift Certification: It’s largely made up. There are some machines that require special licenses, and OSHA has classes you can take that probably look good on a resume, but if you look at the language that OSHA uses to define who is allowed to drive a forklift it only has two requirements. “Trained operators must know how to do the job properly and do it safely as demonstrated by workplace evaluation.” It’s up to the employer how that’s interpreted. My employer had me watch a forty five minute video and then someone watched as I drove around for thirty minutes saying “oh fuck oh fuck okay okay okay don’t hit anyone.”

I took my character, Dr. FLIPJUMP DARKSWALLOW, to the moon. I brought my companion Sarah with me, she said she wouldn’t mind a detour so that we could finally live out our shared dream of owning a pair of moon boots, so down we went to explore a seemingly abandoned lunar station. It seemed to be some kind of staging facility for receiving shipments, landing dock, staff kitchen and common area, but as far as I could tell there wasn’t anywhere within a kilometer or two to send the shipments once they arrived. Typical supply chain issues, major distro hub with nothing in site to distro to. But it did have a small on-site warehouse so Sarah and I both agreed to put a pause on our moon boots dream and explore.

This is called an IBC tote. You can fill these up through a big screw-top hole on the top, super easy to use, cheap ($275 new), universal. The most common versions I’ve seen have a galvanized steel cage and a galvanized steel pallet attached to the bottom so it can be universally picked up by a forklift. They typically have a 2” drain valve with a butterfly and a camlock. This is a pretty good example of an IBC tote! You can see how the galvanized steel was welded together at each intersection, bent into place and held there. The butterfly at the bottom has a cap in place, it has a pressure valve that’s clearly labeled. This looks pretty good!

This is a pallet jack. On Earth in the present day, you roll it into the slats on a pallet, squeeze on a hand lever in the handle, and pump the handle bar up and down as it lifts. On the Moon in the future, it looks like it’s been upgraded for use in space with what I assume is probably some electric battery type of deal. Otherwise it’s very similar to a normal pallet jack! It even has the double wheels in the front, a detail I was very excited about. There doesn’t seem to be the hand lever though, or any buttons anywhere. I assume that’s because this model has a voice assistant like an Alexa in it.

It has a spring in the back as well, another neat little detail. I’d be curious to see how this works in action, there’s a decent number of mechanical parts on it for how futuristic it looks. There’s also two small… baskets, I guess? For paperwork maybe? On either end of the handle shaft. I made up the term handle shaft.

Here is what I assume is a future-forklift. And Sarah. Please ignore Sarah. I was required to take her on a mission early on, but she keeps saying things like “that’s not yours!” and “we should not break the law,” which has been definitely cramping Dr. DARKSWALLOW’s style. Anyway, this forklift is a far cry from the kinds we have in present day. Barely recognizable.

My best guess is that you stand on this platform to operate it. But there’s no buttons or levers again, no key ignition. Presumably this turns on somehow and that panel is a touchscreen, or maybe it’s another Alexa operated device. This whole thing seems pretty dangerous. There’s no roll cage. I guess maybe there’s no OSHA in the future? Or maybe this thing has a lot of safety tech built into it to protect the operator from making mistakes. Maybe it follows Asimov’s rules of robotics and can’t allow a human to come to harm, through action or inaction. But that seems like a lot of liability to pack into programming, and it seems expensive to attach a positronic brain to a forklift. I don’t know how it would anticipate other drivers doing things badly, knocking over pallets? It seems dicey.

I do like that the cabling looks like it’s painter’s taped onto the frame so it doesn’t get caught anywhere. That’s a great little detail, very much something a maintenance team might do in a pinch. A “short term hold” as they “work with supply chain details to implement a long term repair.”

I climbed up onto a pile of boxes to get this picture. It looks like they redesigned the forks in the future, kind of a high-heeled shoe thing going on at the ends there. And this forklift seems like it has reduced functionality from what forklifts here on Earth can do. Forklifts can usually do three things with the forks: lift up and down, pitch the forks back and forth, and spread the forks wider or narrower. I think this can only lift the forks up and down. There also seems to be a large orange ball on the bottom, but I don’t know what that’s used for. My best guess, given the short cylinder above it, is that the forks can control their yaw and rotate on a horizontal access? But they’re right up against the axle so I’m not sure how that would work. Maybe if you lift the forks up it’s able to rotate? But I don’t see much of an engine to ballast the center of gravity anywhere. Maybe the entire body is made with a very dense metal, it does seem to be pretty flush with the ground.

My biggest complaint is that this forklift doesn’t have any headlights or taillights. It’s important for forklifts to have a horn and bright lights to let other workers know there’s a forklift around, especially reverse lights. These might be taillights, if I’m giving some benefit here, but they’re so low to the ground I’m not sure how other drivers are going to be able to see them. But I’m not an expert in future light bulbs, maybe these work just fine.

These look like future pallets! Pallets come in different materials, with wood or plastic as the most common, but they also come in standard sizes. But these pallets look like they’re way too small for the forklift to pick up. Maybe they’re just for the pallet jack? And big note here: I really hope for the sake of the warehouse manager in this facility that OSHA doesn’t exist, because each one of those pallets standing up on its side is going to be its own fine. Overall these pallets look pretty good, if small. And this disaster of a pile seems pretty true to form with how pallets are stored, no matter how many @everyone pings on Microsoft Teams you see get sent out about stacking pallets correctly.

I suspect everyone in the warehouse crew here hates their coworkers. They have four of these pallets in a square but are stacking things randomly on top of them. None of these things are strapped down, this black cube is on a pallet that’s a different size than the pallets underneath it. Just a bizarre move. I hope everyone’s doing okay.

And then on the other side is this: … Why? Why would anyone do this? You can’t pick those rolls up, the rest will roll right off the pallet. They’re not centered on the pallet so even if you did pick it up, you couldn’t put this onto pallet racking anywhere, it’s hanging off the edge.

This is pallet racking. It seems bolted together for some reason. I haven’t seen that before on this style of racking. It seems counter-intuitive; the whole point of this type is that it’s easy to put together, it’s modular. But if you bolt it together, it’s not modular anymore. Normally you just slot the pieces in, they fall into place and don’t require additional parts. Just welded steel with drop slots.

Oof. A dead body. I’m a little surprised there aren’t more of these here. It does feel a bit dangerous.

Here’s another pallet jack, but they aren’t using it correctly. The pallet goes into the forks, why did they put a pallet on top of the forks? Ridiculous. Now they’re just lifting things for no reason. A forklift put the pallet on, now a forklift has to take the pallet off? Why use the pallet jack at all?

And lastly: a propane cage! There’s no locks on it, the maintenance team is probably screaming at everyone to make sure they Lock Out/Tag Out their equipment, but I’ll give the benefit of the doubt and sign off on it because there’s no propane tanks inside the cage so maybe the locks just aren’t necessary. Hopefully it’s just in someone’s pocket while they’re going to refill the tanks.

Overall, this is a pretty dangerous looking facility but probably usable. I’d say they ought to start working towards shoring up some safety gaps here, maybe making more intentional decisions about purchases for a while so they have the equipment they need for their process flow instead of all this equipment that requires rework and multiple touches to get anything done. But a growing business sometimes has to take what’s available! Kudos to them for getting things up and running on the moon, not an easy feat.

#starfield #forklift #hard cider #warehouse #supplychainmanagement

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saunne · 2 months

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"I was wondering," he finally said after a slight beat because there was really no way to say it gracefully, "about your body."

A silence.

“Oh, so that’s why you kept staring at my breasts.”

Veritas painfully felt the lack of his favorite mask at his side, whose opaque and rigid protection would have been greatly welcome in dealing with the absolute embarrassment of this conversation.

"Not that there's much to see, I'm afraid," she continued, unfazed, as her mechanical fingers delicately brushed against the porcelain plates that concealed the gears and the outdated yet still high quality ingenia technology she was made of. "Although, I agree, it's a very pretty body. The Xianzhou craftsmen were kind enough to provide me with a very aesthetic model. However I believe that if I were capable of feeling it, this kind of remark and your ogling, according to the social customs linked to female gender roles, dictate that I should feel offended."

"Let's be grateful for small mercies and that you're unable of it, then," he sighed, massaging the bridge of his nose with weariness. "It saves us a pointless argument. Because I know that you know it wasn't the point I was trying to make."

She tilted her head to the side, radiating sparkling joy despite the icy stillness of her too-perfect features. "I know. Your interest lies in substance rather than form, am I right ? What element of my humble self caught your curiosity then, my good doctor ?"

The entirety of what composes you, from the smallest cogs in your fingers to the surprisingly human functioning of your vocal cords, he wanted to say in a moment of brutal honesty he pained to suppress. I would like to take you apart piece by piece and see what you are made of, how, why. I would like to undo you so that I can rebuild you better, if I were assured that the slightest modification would not lead to the premature destruction of your "self".

With a delicious fanart made by @aratribow HERE.

#hsr fanfic #hsr #hsr ratio #hsr dr ratio #veritas ratio #honkai star rail #hsr oc #hsr ocs #unneism #unnewrites #unneocs #unne's enid #unne's promo snippets

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rin-henricov · 27 days

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Headcanons about Stork:

1. Finn jokingly calls the helmsman grandpa because of his tendency to grumble all the time.

2. Stork smells like petrichor (earthy smell after rain) with a slightly musky scent.

3. Stork can safely use his legs as hands.

4. Merbs are an incredibly rare species, best known for their unrivaled endurance, intelligence and beauty. Due to these qualities, humans willingly hunted them down and captured when they left their native terra. This is not the case now, but many Merbs, unable to resist the reverberations of the past, still lead as secretive a life as possible, for those unlucky enough to be captured were either sold into slavery or forced into rice plantations. It was for this reason that, with the exception of Stork, almost no one had ever seen a Merbs outside of their territory.

5. Since the rest of the squadron is underage, they often ask Stork to go out for energy drinks or to buy missing parts that can only be obtained illegally, because they believe that he is an expert in this business and can negotiate the sale of certain goods for next to nothing.

6. !IDEA IS NO MINE!

According to Stork's repeated assurances, Terra-Merbia is the last place he'd want to call his home. Thanks to a foreign fanfic, I'm thinking more about the possible concept of an abusive conservative family who often used the future pilot as a personal servant to serve their own interests; for example, if there was an ancient heater that needed fixing or wiring that needed to be changed, Stork was there (whether he wanted to or not).

In the past, most Merbs preferred to make their homes deep underground because it was much safer than on the surface. However, there were many reasons why they might temporarily return back, a prime example being to conduct illegal trade and/or hunting. Some of the terrifying creatures of Atmos used to live on Terra Merbia (most of them long since extinct), but there were daredevils willing to pay the right amount to capture them as spoils of war.

Stork was the only child in the family, he is unwittingly taking the position of breadwinner (despite being very young at the time) and were able to fully provide for the entire family for the reason that no one wanted to hire his parents (all due to an ambiguous criminal record).

At some point it seemed to them that the measly pennies that Merb was diligently putting into the family budget were not enough, and so they decided to use his father's name to register in the hunting business, but they always sent the eldest son to fulfill the contracts under strict orders not to return until the whim was fulfilled.

Worse, because his father's name appeared in the local papers, he was not only taking credit for Stork's accomplishments, but also creating a deliberately false role model among his colleagues. Stork could not risk telling the truth, for he knew what it would do to him. Much less could he guess whether he would get help or be ridiculed. In a way, he was kind of glad when the Cyclonians invaded his terra, for he couldn't guess when it would all end, waiting by sheer force of will for the fateful occasion.

Due to his harsh childhood, Stork's idea of family values was incredibly distorted at first, but with time spent in the squadron, he gradually begins to come out of his shell and becomes more civilized, which, by the way, is very well traced in the course of the plot.

#storm hawks

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azdoine · 4 months

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Bright Christmas

Childlike wonder does not persist at standard temperature and pressure. Growing up is the process by which it evaporates, as you convince yourself that it never existed in the first place.

The first snow of winter isn’t beautiful; it’s a nuisance that blocks the driveway.

Your toys never meant anything; they were only answers to craving.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re naughty or nice; only what the world’s coffers hold for you.

Santa Claus isn’t real; there are only lies to children and games grown-ups play.

But there still exists a joy which will never thaw, grace impossibly preserved.

What has Saint Nick brought you for Christmas this year?

Pick two.

Protoclay

A lifetime supply of foundation. Each morning, you receive a random new LEGO set, still fresh in its packaging and wrapped with a little bow. Sets can be delivered which never made it to release, or were created by fans, or are no longer in production, or which never existed at all. But you’ll never receive the same set twice.

All of your LEGO pieces respond directly to the power of your imagination. Even when following an instruction guide, your creations will grow stronger as they’re assembled, so long as you care about what you’re making - bricks snapping together at the joints with unreal precision, toy models that don’t fall apart unless they’re deliberately dismantled, clever assemblies that work as intended.

Used as a channel for your own creativity, the pieces only grow stronger, permitting the construction of impossible objects. A boxy plastic triangle that cuts food and can be cleaned like a metal knife. A LEGO armchair that feels soft and gives way like stuffed leather. Futuristic industrial machinery made out of Technic parts. A magic staff that shoots mighty fireballs from its translucent red core. There are no fundamental limits to the quality and potency of what you can assemble; only what you can convincingly translate from idea to reality.

Memento

A letter to eternity, bound within a diary. Simply pressing a point into the surface of its endless pages will see it well with ink or glue or crinkle with embossing, and a stylus hangs from the end of its long bookmark. Nothing committed to this scrapbook can ever be removed, but the strange sheen of its paper grants clarity enough to avoid unforced errors.

By your status as the master of the diary, it grants you knowledge of its contents as if each word was memorized. But its greater power is the preservation of more than memory: all historical information scribed within traces a shadow of the time in which it was still true, pale moments which can be dredged forth and cast as shadows upon the changing now. Victories recorded may be synthesized and re-enacted, wizened performance sustained with the intensity of youth. Entire spaces may eventually be locked in an eternalist present or superposed with their ancient history - the only limit to this power of manifestation is your total will to defy entropy.

Even should every other part of yourself be destroyed, you may choose to linger as a timeless memory within the pages of your diary, suspended and composited in the apex of your life.

Velveteen

A boon companion - or the boon companion, rather. They may be the treasured friend you loved the most, now awakened and quickening, or something new entirely, the toy you never had. In any case, a stuffed animal, a figurine, a doll, a childhood companion brought to life in your arms. In all respects, their personality is compatible with your own, their loyalty assured without the flaws of obedience, their love for you untainted by misunderstandings.

It would be a mistake, too, to regard them as a mere animated object now that they’ve surpassed the circle of representation and become Real. Their forms and powers flow straightforwardly from their nature, simple but overwhelmingly effective in their domains; a teddy bear who commands a healing sleep and an aura of protection against evil, a doll with supernatural beauty and mastery of all things even remotely related to housekeeping.

Though your companion may be a person and take human shape to walk with you in the daylight, they still belong to a different order of life, reproducing through the exchange of love rather than biological DNA. If you and your companion ever both come to love another companion-toy as much as you love one another, then it may become Real too, no lesser than its predecessors.

Hexahedron

The root of all brainteasers. Its form shifts wildly and without warning, taking new permutations on the order of minutes or days - or even sooner, if you should ever solve one of its iterations with time to spare. Twisty puzzles, wire puzzles, puzzle boxes, burr puzzles, puzzle locks, puzzle rings, jigsaws… almost anything tactile enough to hold might pass through your hands, shapes rising and falling in a spiral without limit.

Each time you successfully solve the Hexahedron, it will open your mind to paradoxes and arcana, revealing some quantity of information in a random domain related to the puzzle that preceded it. Lore mastered in this fashion can include procedural skill as well as declarative knowledge, and nothing you learn this way will ever harm you or be forgotten.

The harder a puzzle is and the less time you have in which to solve it, the greater the quantity and quality of useful information you can glean from it; at the highest levels of gnosis, the Hexahedron may even grant you knowledge of functional spells and rituals. There are no fundamental barriers to stop you from sharing this preternatural knowledge with the world at large, but others will struggle to understand what esoterica you effortlessly comprehend.

Abstract

The fundamental implement. This edutainment kit consists of the materials to introduce you to a profession or hobby in a fun and easy way - an Easy-Bake cooking set, a set of Nerf guns for play-fighting, fake fossils to excavate from National Geographic. But it’s not limited by concession to practicality or lies to children.

As you continue to learn, your resources will only grow, and your tools will only increase in fidelity. Equipment that once was only an imitation will become capable of handling the real thing, diversifying until you have everything you need; handbooks of toy problems will teach you more adroitly than college textbooks ever could, guiding you along a road where each step is, if not easy, then at least as clear as the first one.

Where your skill in your chosen hobby or profession surpasses normal human limits, you may use your tools to wield it with increasing applicability and at increasing scales - a painter who uses art of surpassing beauty to argue, churning pieces out at a breakneck clip, an electrician who wires entire cities, shaping strange coils to channel the flow of traffic within it. There are no fundamental limits to what you can accomplish beyond your ability to learn.

Ouroboros

The circle of completion. A basic train table, marble run, or other looping toy set with room to grow. Just as a closed circle implies an interior, so too does your toy circumscribe a place - an otherworld within to which you can open portals to and fro at will. You are the ultimate master of the Ouroboros, and none can gainsay your right to control its circulation and borders.

The interior of the Ouroboros is a macrocosmic reflection of its exterior, a series of closed spaces moving and interlinked in greater cycles. There’s already room enough inside to live there in a pinch, but as you continue to add to its exterior, its interior will grow - each train car or marble either adding a new chamber, or being consumed to increment the scale and magnificence of a chamber that already exists.

Beyond a certain threshold of grandiosity, spaces within the Ouroboros can develop increasingly supernatural qualities: a library train car that gathers cursed tomes, a bathing world that swells with healing waters. There is no fundamental barrier to exploiting these spaces for power in the outside universe, but all advantages are ultimately derived from the use of resources within, albeit renewable ones.

Mantle

The distinction between man and beast. A few tokens of clothing for the winter and the seasons to come - perhaps socks or a scarf, jeans or jacket. Just wearing it already confers benefits based on its nature as clothing, above and beyond what mere clothes make possible - bolstering your willpower with justified confidence, flattering your body so acutely as to push its physical limits, protecting you from the world like a suit of armor.

With an exertion of will, you can choose to don your gifted clothing more completely, as far removed from an ordinary person wearing clothes as a person wearing clothes is removed from the naked. A masque donned as you move through the world becomes a sword to overturn it, permitting the flowering of aesthetics into power: a biker with a chariot of fire, a streetwear super-hacker, a goth commanding the darkness.

Should you mix your outfits and regularly wear another article of clothing together with this set for a year and a day, you may allow some of this stylistic magic to rub off on it. There’s no limit to the number of enchanted articles you can collect, and if you find something new that feels truer to wear, its potency in your hands will be increased to match.

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Whatever your presents, know that they are a blessing true, treasures that shall never be lost or destroyed, only well-loved and shared as you please.

But there is another gift that must be given before winter’s end, and a burden that must be accepted.

Is it yours to carry?

If you know, in your heart of hearts, that duty comes before joy.

Open the mystery box?

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pickypickypeak · 11 months

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Some hot takes I’ve seen around about the little mermaid (2023) (this is not a “you must like the movie at all costs” post, you’re not bounded to like a movie but if you vocally hate it on social medias, at least give some valid reasons or else just say you don’t like it, I don’t even like all Disney remakes)

“I’ve not seen the movie but from what I’ve seen on YouTube it looks like shit” BRO WATCH THE MOVIE. You’re judging a 2 hour long movie from TRAILERS and 30 SECONDS CLIPS. You think that qualifies you to judge the quality for the whole movie? I’m sorry but no it doesn’t! Most often, lighting and effects and even the script are not even final in clips and trailers. You can say it doesn’t look appealing TO YOU, of course. You can say you’re not gonna watch it because it doesn’t look appealing, OF COURSE. But you definitely can’t say: this actor ruined the character. WITHOUT EVEN SEEING THE MOVIE

“This will never be as good as the original movie” people that’s not a competition lol… those are new versions… they’re meant to coexist with each other… You really think Disney wants you to forget about the original Ariel?? Rest assured Disney wants you to buy both dolls😂

“They’re cash grabs” Yes they are. Disney is a business and makes money by doing movies. They found a way to make easy money, which is, remakes. People watch them, wether you like or not. There’s nothing inherently wrong with them, as long as they show respect for the original movies, which some did and some others didn’t. That doesn’t automatically mean each one of them is soulless or wholly made by people with no interest other than money (Alan Menken??? Put his whole???? Heart???? In every score??????), if you just watch some interviews it’s clear most of the cast is thrilled to be a part of this and loves the original characters as well, they really wanted to do them justice! Not all of them of course, but it’s the same for EVERY! MOVIE! EVER! Actors and writers do their job, that doesn’t NECESSARILY mean the movie is soulless (again, some movie are, regardless of them being remakes!)

“The CGI looks like shit” man it’s a children movie… of course they’re not gonna put Avatar billions into the crab 3D model

“Halle Bailey doesn’t fit Ariel” I’m sorry I’m not trying to convince you otherwise😂 she looked and sounded like Ariel to me but that’s my opinion ig

“It’s forced representation” No it’s not, we’ve all seen the black children reaction videos, this means the world to them, this is literally what representation is about…

I’d say this is mostly it…

#rant i guess #my english is so off please forgive me😭#the little mermaid 2023 #the little mermaid #disney #disney remakes #halle bailey #ariel

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robinette-green · 10 months

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@lets-zofifi-stuff look what you made me do. I haven’t even had coffee yet 😅

This is Kate from Out of Place

(Fosters and Green is an up and coming robotics company and is the talk of every news station in the world. They haven’t even released their first line of robots yet but people are already clambering to get their hands on a robot made from Foster and Green. They plan on releasing a few household bots that will work as cleaning staff or secretaries but they also plan on releasing a line of child care bots. Why hire a nanny when you can have a live-in one you don’t need to pay.

My designated number is D-375, I have been dubbed Kate by the technicians who ran all of my quality assurance checks.

My dreams of working with a family of my own were quickly dashed. Foster and Green decided that they wanted to place a bot somewhere in the public eye where people could watch it at work and so had partnered with another company who also made robots, though they specialized more in animatronics that were designed for entertainment. The two companies decided to put one Foster and Green’s N-90 models in the daycare center of Fazbear Entertainment’s PizzaPlex to work alongside the child care units that Fazbear Entertainment had created.)

#I started writing another chapter for this too #glitter rock #glitter rock art #glitter rock writing #beloved mutuals #dca fandom #dca fanfic #sun and moon x oc #dca oc #fnaf daycare attendant

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By: Leor Sapir

Published: Aug 19, 2023

There is no area of medicine more controversial than the treatment of children and adolescents who identify as transgender. The leading organization championing the early medicalization model, which recommends that kids receive puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and even surgeries, is the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). That organization, based in East Dundee, Ill., claims that its standards of care follow “the most rigorous protocol in the world to ensure these standards reflect scientific evidence and meet the needs of transgender patients.”

This is simply false.

In evidence-based medicine, trustworthy recommendations must rely on a systematic review of evidence. Prior to writing its latest standards of care, called SOC-8, WPATH commissioned such a review. That report, which included research subjects of any age, not just minors, concluded that there is an association between hormone therapy and improved quality of life for transgender people. But it noted that the quality of evidence for that association was “low,” due to concerns about study designs, small sample sizes and other factors.

It also said, “It was impossible to draw conclusions about the effects of hormone therapy on death by suicide.” Mysteriously, WPATH then claimed in SOC-8 that “a systematic review regarding outcomes of treatment in adolescents is not possible.”

WPATH’s systematic review is not the only one expressing low confidence in the benefits from early medical intervention. Health authorities in progressive Sweden, Finland and the U.K. have conducted their own reviews and every one of them yielded the same conclusion: The assertion that puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones help youths who identify as transgender live healthy lives is based on “very low” quality evidence. Focusing on SOC-8 unscientific claims about puberty blockers, the director of Belgium’s Center for Evidence-Based Medicine has said that he would “throw [WPATH’s guidelines] in the trash.”

Are there studies that claim hormones and surgeries help? Sure. But invariably, these studies suffer from severe methodological problems that demonstrably exaggerate the benefits and understate the risks. Crucially, and for good reason, even the Dutch studies, which gave rise to the practice of youth transitions worldwide, and which are recognized by WPATH itself as the gold standard of research in this area, have so many methodological flaws that European systematic reviews assessed them to be at “critical risk of bias.” Such is the state of pediatric gender medicine.

What about the risks? WPATH’s systematic review, whose lead author advocates for early medicalization, did not even bother to look at adverse effects. While the researchers originally planned to do so, as evident in the research protocol they filed, this intention disappeared before the review was done.

Sterility is all but assured for youth who undergo full gender transition, and WPATH’s own president has admitted that these kids will probably never experience orgasm later in life. Other risks, such as the adverse effects on bone, brain and cardiovascular health, are also expected but require further study.

It is precisely due to the problematic risk-benefit ratio of youth gender transition that Sweden, Finland and the U.K. — and Norway seems poised to join them — are backing away from gender affirming care.

“There is not enough evidence to support the safety, clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness to make the treatment routinely available at this time,” England’s National Health Service declared. Sweden’s health authority found that “the risks of puberty-inhibiting and gender-affirming hormone treatment for those under 18 currently outweigh the possible benefits.”

Those health services now recommend psychosocial support and (as needed) psychotherapy to help deal with mental health issues as the main treatments for youth with gender dysphoria.

Proponents of gender-affirming care dismiss this approach, and with it, well-respected mental health supports such as cognitive behavioral therapy, as one based on “no evidence.” But this gets things exactly backward. It is the riskier and more invasive intervention — hormones and surgeries — that requires stronger evidence. Without that evidence, safer treatments should be used by default. First, do no harm.

Health authorities in Europe have now broken from WPATH, as the organization itself acknowledges, and reclassified early medicalization from the category of “medical treatment” to that of “an experimental practice.” As a result, youth gender transitions are confined to research settings, with the option to undergo transition restricted to exceptional and rare cases.

In short, European health experts are rejecting the narrative that has taken root within the world of activist-led U.S. medical associations, a narrative WPATH has done much to help propagate: that gender-affirming care is safe and effective, that it is based on settled science, and that there should be, as a result, “no debate” on the matter. There is indeed a growing consensus among international experts, but it is a consensus against WPATH’s approach.

WPATH’s SOC-8 has angered many in the medical community, and rightly so. In addition to falsely claiming that a systematic review of evidence is “not possible,” WPATH inexplicably decided to omit a chapter on ethics from the final version of SOC-8. It included, instead, a chapter on “eunuchs” in which it claims that young children can know they have a eunuch “gender identity.” Perhaps most alarmingly, a few days after SOC-8 was published, WPATH eliminated all age-minimum recommendations for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries — including genital surgeries, with the exception of phalloplasty.

At the WPATH conference last September, Amy Tischelman, lead author of the SOC-8 chapter on children, candidly acknowledged that WPATH eliminated age-minimum recommendations to give doctors legal cover for performing invasive treatments on young patients. “What we didn’t want to do was create a chapter that would make it more likely that practitioners would be sued because they weren’t following exactly what we said,” she said.

Gender-affirming care activists assure onlookers that drugs and surgeries are offered only to “carefully selected patients.” That isn’t true either. A Reuters investigation last year interviewed providers at 18 pediatric gender clinics and found that none said they were following the purportedly more cautious “Dutch protocol,” despite WPATH and prominent “affirming” doctors saying that this approach is the most evidence-based and the one practiced in American clinics. The director of Boston Children’s Hospital gender clinic was caught admitting that the number of teenagers they were seeing “has skyrocketed” and that the clinic was handing out puberty blockers “like candy.”

These are but a few examples of doctors putting adolescents, most with underlying mental health problems and some with histories of family trauma and sexual abuse, in the driver’s seat of risky and irreversible medical decisions when they are at their most vulnerable.

When the gender-affirming care scandal comes to be known as the lobotomy of the 21st century, as inevitably it will, American medical groups will scramble to dissociate themselves from it, insisting that they were merely misunderstood. WPATH can make no such excuse. It exists chiefly, if not exclusively, to ensure access to experimental drugs and surgeries.

[ Via: https://archive.today/ku0OF ]

#Leor Sapir #medical malpractice #WPATH #medical transition #ideological corruption #ideological capture #medical scandal #gender thalidomide #gender lobotomy #medical corruption #queer theory #genderwang #gender ideology #sex trait modification #religion is a mental illness

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I wonder how this place would look in Scarlet...

The technology in this world is incredible.

If only this game had similar mechanics to Pokémon Legends.

That’s not what you say, and you know it.

You’re telling me I can’t catch the Pokémon in a battle like this?

I mean, it happened earlier last year.

If only there was someone out there who could give me the Scarlet book...

I didn’t. (Nemona’s dad could use a few suggestions for his business.)

So Miraidon IS a special edition Cyclizar!

It seems that these labs are in a set order. I thought I could visit the labs in any order I wanted. Considering this game is open and everything.

Something’s off about Turo...

Too late!

The power of teamwork cliche.

I thought this place would’ve been more bigger...

Obviously.

Of COURSE he keeps his Miraidon in a Master Ball. (Then again, it DOES suit Miraidon very well.)

In that case, I’m glad I buddied up with this one.

If AI were to be put into the story of a Pokémon game, I would’ve expected there to be an AI Pokémon. (Or would that just be Porygon?)

Never would I hear that the country’s leading researcher died in a Pokémon game.

Yeah! I thought I’d have to use Thief on a bunch of Pokémon to get one of these!

That’s what you think.

Crush the dreams of an innocent man to save the world? Sounds fine by me.

I was expecting something more spacious.

Another missed opportunity in this game is not designing the pedestal to look like a Switch Lite. (So the books could act as the cartridges.)

Of COURSE these types of things can never go easy...

So, did he capture himself? (I thought he would’ve given me Miraidon so that I could fight against the Pokémon from the other version.)

Don’t make an Undertale joke. Don’t make an Undertale joke. Don’t make an Undertale joke. (I love how they fancied the text up when it comes to the AI.)

That has to be the most epic Poké Ball throw I’ve ever seen.

He would’ve learned the truth sooner or later.

You mean, it’s not over yet?!

And THAT’S why you should always carry a Pokémon outside of their Poké Ball.

HURRY, GET AWAY!

So NOW I can send him in?

It’s about time.

This must’ve been a very tearjerking scene for some people.

Guess we’re going that way then.

You should be glad that the image above this text isn’t a video. Because that would mean I’d have to face legal action. However, I will say that I knew this song would play during the credits. And as promised, I muted the volume while it played out.

Yeah, as if a group of people actually tested these games and thought they were okay for release.

Hopefully, those patches were the last few things the model quality assurance team had to work on.

For those of you who think Satoshi Tajiri didn’t want stuff like this to happen, just remember that he’s been serving as executive producer for the past 2 decades. And unlike a lot of pompous people on Twitter, he’s a reserved man who keeps his personal thoughts to himself. (And so should I.)

But how do I put him into a box?

At least I have a Pokémon friend I can travel with permanently.

You’re a little too late for that, Clavell.

So it’s like that award from Kalos? Cool!

I guess that’s how I’ll be able to get that Champion Ribbon on other Pokémon.

At least I’ll be happy knowing I can school the teachers.

AND I get to fight the Gym Leaders again? Hopefully, it won’t be just a one-time fight.

I don’t think it’s all that great. I might have to face... ...HER...

Technically, I didn’t go to the actual destination point.

I was hoping I could prepare Miraidon for battles.

It was a good thing I caught this guy on Pi Day!

I always thought shiny Cyclizar would be more... ...blue.

You mean, THAT was the Hall of Fame? No, that doesn’t count! You can’t just have the Pokémon go uncredited for their work. What is up with this country? Everything about the League here is all topsy-turvy!

I made a wise decision to do a wonder trade.

That should do it for now. I want to keep playing. But I don’t have a Pokémon with PokéRus. And without any PokéRus, I can’t make them as strong as they’re supposed to be. So until I can get this game to work with Pokémon HOME, it’s back to Sinnoh to train more Pokémon!

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