Everything, Everywhere, All At Once is a juvenile, non-sensical, horrendously lazy piece of blatant thievery.
I loved the acting and the cast. I even enjoyed the early story, but halfway through all I could do was shake my head in disgust and confusion as it kept devolving into non-sensical chaos and juvenile butt joke / dildo humour meant for pre-teens. Oscar winning films shouldn't be this dumb. I can't comprehend how this was even nominated for any awards let alone won. I understand that there's likely a deeper meaning to it all, but it was lost on me in all of the blatant thievery and toilet humour.
So what movie did they steal from you ask? The Matrix. It's literally verbatim the matrix.
The mother is Neo, the daughter is agent Smith. They're fighting for the fate of humanity. The daughteSmith wants to literally absorb people into her collective, the motheneo needs to become just like the daughter to defeat her. The husband is Morpheus and believes she is the one and doesn't yet understand her own power. So she goes on a journey of self discovery. Then people start turning into their alpha versions which are basically just call backs to the agents and they have to do wacky shit to do so which is a call back to needing to find a payphone.
Further more all of the good guys are downloading combat and skills into their brains through a bluetooth headset, while being jacked into this alternate reality from inside a van via a headset.
IT'S A POOR MAN'S DOG SHIT VERSION OF THE MATRIX. VERBATIM.
It's soo preposterously lazy and obvious that I find it disgusting. Zero creativity. They piggy backed off of genius ideas to make a garbage film. I'd have much rather watched a drama about a Chinese family going through the emotional struggles of accepting their gay daughter despite their traditions and beliefs. That would have been way more unique.

The key to a successful keto plan is to maintain the right macronutrient balance. This means keeping your carb intake low (typically 20-50g net carbs per day) while increasing your fat and protein intake. To ensure you're staying within your target macros, it's important to track your food intake using a tool like MyFitnessPal or Cronometer.
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I think a lot of people have valid concerns about ToTK reusing the overworld from Breath of the Wild. It’s no mystery that people seem to think that Tears of the Kingdom looks like DLC. From what we’ve seen, ToTK, adds new elements to an existing world, which, in some ways, is what defines DLC. But, in my opinion, one of the biggest shortcomings from BoTW was the story. Thematically, Link was exploring an empty world post-apocalypse. It made sense for us to know very little about the “new world” of Hyrule. One of the things I’m most excited about in ToTK is that it’s expanding the story and lore of the world we all fell in love with six years ago. I’m excited to know so much more about the people of Hyrule, about its history, and see the world in recovery. While BOTW’s biggest draw was the loop of discovery, I hope ToTK will be about meaning making in the vast world. On top of finding meaning, there are also fun new areas, characters, and secrets to discover in the skislands and underground. The gameplay mechanics are markedly different and breathe new life into the minute-to-minute experience of the game, and overall I expect I’ll still have a fresh, new, exciting time playing for hundreds more hours. Does anyone else feel the same way? Does anyone on the other side of the aisle feel differently? Lmk!

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one thing i saw today in the game source code that isn't written anywhere is that the quantity of cells required to absorb damage is doubled when calculating how many power cell to use.
normally it goes this way:
15 cells, damage incoming is 24, 66% of it should be absorbed if possible, to absorb 16 damage there is a need to consume only 8 cells, which means that the playeentity is left with 7 cells
with etf rifle:
15 cells, damage incoming is 24, 66% of it should be absorbed if possible, to absorb 16 damage there is a need to consume 16 cells, but there are only 15 cells... so only 15 damage is absorbed not 16 and the playeentity is left with 1 less health and 0 cells.

I think that black and white thinking means your indoctrinated to something
There needs to be nuance in MANY of your life experiences and perspectives. You’re die hard republican? Cult. You’re die hard Democrat? Cult.
Sure you can be either, but don’t be die hard. Because it makes you biased against the other side. And you’re more focused on being correct than accurate.
Lots of the times the correct answer is somewhere in the middle.
You hate all of Christianity? You hate all of “the world”? You’re getting on a slippery slope.

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Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-30/when-do-student-loan-payments-resume-borrowers-dread-restart-later-this-year?srnd=premium
Paywall Bypass: https://archive.is/PnJyB

Gen-Z Graduates Stare Down Their First Student Loan Payments

• Three years after the pandemic-era freeze was introduced, millions of recent graduates have yet to see a student loan bill.

Millions of students graduated during the pandemic with student debt. They have yet to make a single payment.
The moratorium on federal student loan payments, which began three years ago this month, has given recent graduates the financial freedom to pay down debt, boost their credit scores and simply cover everyday expenses at a time of high inflation and economic uncertainty. All that is set to change soon, with payments scheduled to resume later this year.
The restart is likely to be a jolt for nearly everyone with federal student loans (private loans weren’t part of the pause), but perhaps no cohort will feel it quite like Generation Freeze, which has never had to budget for it. That’s likely to slow consumer spending and hurt the economy, according to a recent report from financial services firm Jefferies.“
The loans being paused was great because I paid the minimum for my private loans and that was it,” said Alix Chronister, a 24-year-old in Kansas City, Missouri. “If I had had to pay on my federal loans, my financial situation would have been a lot more stressful.”

End of an Era

The first 60-day repayment pause was issued by President Donald Trump on March 20, 2020, when the onset of the pandemic sent the economy into a tailspin. Three years, multiple extensions and one presidential administration later, the freeze is still in place and about 11 million people have since completed undergraduate degrees. Of those, an estimated 70% leave college with student debt.
But the freeze era is drawing to a close. President Joe Biden said in late November that payments will resume 60 days after the Supreme Court rules on his one-time forgiveness program or June 30, whichever comes first. That puts the restart date at no later than Aug. 29, and the first monthly installment would be due by the end of September.
For Chronister, that means a big financial adjustment is coming. She graduated in 2021 with $38,000 in private and federal loans and currently works as a chemist in a research facility. She has prioritized paying off the private loans, which make up $8,000 of her total balance.
The freeze was particularly useful because she was making $15 an hour at her first post-collegiate job, amounting to about $30,000 a year.
She’s eligible for $20,000 in forgiveness if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Biden’s plan — but she’s not holding her breath.“I think I’m really lucky to have had the pause, and it definitely benefited me and people who graduated around the same time,” she said. “We’ve had a chance to get our careers situated before worrying about paying.”
The average monthly payment before the pandemic pause was $393, according to the Federal Reserve. About 20 million borrowers were actively paying down their debt, while others were in default or had their payments deferred due to hardship or forbearance.
Depending on a borrower’s personal financial situation, the return of student loan bills won’t be like flicking an immediate “on” switch. Travis Hornsby, founder of financial service website Student Loan Planner, can see a case where some borrowers might not be expected to pay for another year or two based on their income. New rules for income-driven repayment plans would also widen the net for those who may qualify for a $0 monthly bill, and cap payments at no more than 5% of discretionary income for others.“
Compared to what payments used to be, a lot of people are going to be very much eased into repayment,” said Hornsby. That would help not only fresh college grads, but single parents and others who were previously at risk of default. “The freeze is sort of being thawed.”

Looming Bills

The freeze means many recent graduates have never had to factor federal student loan repayments into their monthly budgets, a helpful absence as prices rise for everything from eggs to rent. In a recent survey by personal-finance company Credit Karma , 26% of borrowers said they hadn’t saved any money during the freeze because they were prioritizing everyday expenses. Almost 70% said their financial situation was stagnant or declined in 2022.
For Madison Sasser in Tampa, Florida, the freeze gave her time to figure out her career trajectory without having to worry about an additional monthly bill. The 24-year-old graduated from the University of South Florida in December 2020 with $15,000 in student debt.
She initially wanted to go to law school but decided it was too expensive. Now, she’s working on building a career as a writer while waiting tables at a restaurant during the day, and makes about $38,000 a year.
The return of monthly payments is going to significantly strain her budget, she said, especially due to the high rents in Tampa.
The average starting salary for a member of the class of 2021 is $55,911, according to a July 2022 analysis by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. For young people who live in big cities and lack the financial and career flexibility to move to places with lower costs of living, those early salaries may not stretch very far.
Matthew Sánchez, a 23-year-old compliance officer who lives in Long Island, New York, says having to repay his loans will be stressful.
“For me personally, I can probably make do and adjust,” he said, though he expects he’ll have to delay a move to Maryland, which he’s trying to plan because it’s more affordable.
He’s bracing for a monthly payment of $300 on $27,000 in federal loans. He knows he’s on the luckier side: “I’m always thinking about how this affects my demographic, broadly speaking. I can see the frustration people have.”

I am trying to switch from my Degree in Animation to a role in Advertising. I need every opotunity I get so I can understand Ad-land & how to tackle a brief.
I want to apply to the 'Diageo Disabled Creatives' programme but as i've come across the brief on the application form, i've come to realise, I have NO idea how to appraoch a Creative Advertising Brief, nor do I know what is expected from me as an end product. The application has said:
WHAT Commemorate World Vegan Day.
HOW You can come up with concepts, write, draw, design or respond in whatever format you think best shows off your creative skills. We're not expecting reams of work so please don’t spend more than a day to come up with your response.
As a Creative, WHAT WORK am I meant to show for a brief? What is the end result I could show here?
I've recently graduated in Animation & look to start a career in Advertising, so i'm VERY new to understanding the world of Advertising, AD terminology, what a Creative in Advertising... actually creates and their process. Terms like 'OOH', is still new to me.
I have since had 1 week of Ad School/work experience where I was exposed to different job titles within Advertsing; (i'm still unsure of where I fit within Ad-land, but I am considering Creative Director).
For this brief, am I creating a storyboard for a TV advert? Thumbnail/still drawings for a TV AD? A storyboard for a Web banner? Am I creating a full colour proffesional poster for a billboard? What do they mean 'write'? Write about WHAT? Should the work all have the same personality, colour & theme throughout, or does it not matter?
I don't know what I should be thinking or visualising. I have no clue where or how to start - the deadline is this Monday & I really need this oppotunity :/

Hello –
My partner and I recently rented a home in Miami with our two dogs for two months. Prior to arriving, we signed a rental agreement and paid our first month's rent + security deposit ($1,000). Upon arriving and meeting our landlady — who we assumed was the owner — we discovered that she was actually a renter, and the owners lived down the street. She asked that we not disclose our status as sublettors to the owners should they come around. "Just tell them you're my friends." OK, whatever, shouldn't be an issue, although it would appear that our landlady is violating her rental agreement by subletting to us.
A few weeks later, one of the owners does come around. My partner tells the owner we are friends of [redacted]. The owner rolls her eyes and expresses annoyance at the fact that there are two dogs there with us, but is otherwise cordial. We don't see her again for the remainder of our stay.
A few weeks letter, the landlady tells us the owners have received noise complaints about the house. We suspect that this was over us yelling at our dogs while in the backyard (nothing malicious, just routine commands when they weren't listening), although there was a domestic disturbance next door to us one night (my partner almost called the police) and we think said disturbance might've been mistakenly assigned to us by whoever complained. I also loudly celebrated while watching a soccer game one morning, so it could've been that. But no wild parties, no sustained yelling matches, etc. If, in fact, there was a noise complaint, it was over something very tame. Anyway, the landlady warns us that we may have to move out if the owners demand it. They don't. We stay and finish the term of our rental.
Fast-forward to our move-out. Our landlady discloses that her owners are denying the renewal of her lease. She blames us and the noise complaints, though I suspect this might owe to the fact that she's been caught redhanded illegally subletting the house. We express condolences, although obviously don't really accept any blame here, she put herself in this situation by taking risks and presumably violating her rental agreement.
The day of our move-out, she has arranged for cleaners to come and clean the house before doing a walk-through of the property with us. We had actually agreed to have the cleaners come twice during our stay (we had already paid for one of the cleanings), but the landlady never scheduled them. The morning of move-out, she texts us at the eleventh hour and says she had a flight canceled and can't make it. She has canceled the cleaners and asks us to hide the keys in the yard. We clean the entire house — although not immaculately, given there are cleaners coming which we've already paid for — pack up and leave. We don't hear from the landlady again.
Per our agreement, our landlady needed to return our security deposit within two weeks. She did not. My partner reached out to her asking about our security deposit. Crickets. Two days later, we wrote her again. She sends us a screed of a text message about various damages (that we didn't cause), excessive cleaning (again, we agreed to have multiple cleanings while staying in the house, but she failed to arrange them), and blames us for the fact that her rental was not renewed (lol). She gaslights us and tells us we should feel very fortunate that she allowed us to stay after the noise complaints (she actually allowed us to extend our stay by a week — I presume she needed the money, she certainly wasn't doing it out of some sense of goodwill). Anyway, because of all this, she tells us, she will not be returning our security deposit.
So now we are in a position that we want to recuperate some or all of our security deposit via the most painless legal avenues possible. Given she was illegally subletting her apartment, is anything in the agreement we signed even enforceable? Are we actually at risk because of that? Should we threaten to take her to small claims court? Any advice greatly appreciated.

Just want to start off with an “ARGHHHHH” I am flipping FUMING. I wondered why I woke up feeling gross and so damn angry, I’ve just came on my period on cycle day 24, usually I’d be happy but in all honestly I feel like screaming and shoving a chocolate cake down my throat to then cry about it later.
Are anyone else’s cycles getting shorter ? I can’t keep doing this 😖shorter cycle means ovulation is closer that means it really won’t be long until I am back here wondering what the purpose of life truly is. Then having an existential crisis.
Sorry and thankyou for the vent.

I am pretty new Sims but am trying to figure out how to farm life essence from NPC Sims and had a few questions regarding the Cowplant.
I have my Cowplant growing in the basement behind 2 locked doors that only one of the Sims in my household has access too. I invited over an NPC and locked them in the Cowplant room. There is nothing in the room but a toilet; no wallpaper, lights, flooring...just NPC a toilet and my Cowplant.
The Cowplants status is Normal and Sheltered. Would the Cowplant be happier or thrive more if I decorated up the room a bit? Do they prefer to be outside?
After the Cowplant eats the NPC the first time, do I have to harvest that essence first before the second eating and subsequent killing to get the life essence? Basically do I need to get the mood essence out of the cow to make sure the life essence is ready to go?
Is feeding NPCs to it the most efficient means of getting farming life essence?
I've only just started this process and wound up killing my Cowplant because the NPC would not eat the cake the second time around. bummer. Thanks for any input!

March 2023 was a big month for K-Pop, with beloved artists like Yuju, TWICE, Kai, Jimin and NMIXX having comebacks. So let's have a discussion on what everyone's been listening to in the past month! Have the new releases dominated your listening time or have you been going back to some old favourites?
Some of what I have been listening to looks something like this (Spotify Stats)..
New Releases

• Yuju - Without You, Peach Blossom (has become my most streamed song of the last 6 months) : I am convinced that she is not capable of producing anything that isn't extraordinary. One of the greatest vocalists K-Pop has ever seen!!
• TWICE - Blame it on me, Crazy Stupid Love : Such good B-sides!! (of course written by Ms. Kim "lyricist" Dahyun)
• Jimin - Alone, Face-off : My favorite songs from "FACE". Especially in love with the mellow, hypnotic vibe of Alone.
• Tan - Fix You, It's You, Would You?: These songs are soo good!! Discovered them through a music show and have been since listening to all their songs. Have become especially addicted to Fix You. Hope they make it out of nugudom soon, they have incredible music!!

Old (and not so old) releases

• RM - Mono and Indigo albums (Moonchild, Tokyo, Seoul, Hectic, All Day, Lonely) : I am constantly in awe of the artist he is. Not many can boast of possessing such skill in songwriting, production, rapping as well as singing. There is also a certain soothing and relaxing quality to his voice that I am yet to find anywhere else. Listening to him always makes me feel at peace!
• Victon - Howling : I'm so so happy that I stumbled upon this song. It's a masterpiece!!
• TXT - Thursday's Child, Opening Sequence, Good Boy Gone Bad, Anti Romantic, 0X1=Lovesong
• Fifty Fifty - Cupid (twin version)
• Purple Kiss - Sweet Juice
• XG - Shooting Star, Left Right
• H1-KEY - Rose Blossom
• BTS - 134340, Airplane: Pt2, Moon, Life Goes On, Blue & Grey, Your Eyes Tell
• TWICE - Depend on You, Signal, Gone, Doughnut
• (G)I-DLE - Tung Tung, Lion, Oh My God, Tomboy, Change, Escape
• IU ft Suga - Eight

Top 5 most listened to artists : TWICE, BTS, (G)I-DLE, RM, TXT
Top 5 most listened to songs : Peach Blossom, Blame it on me, 134340, Crazy Stupid Love, 0X1=Lovesong

Robert is rarely mentioned on lists of the best free-kick takers in EPL history. In fact, I’ve found several lists of “most free-kick goals” that included players with between 5 and 18 goals and neglected to mention Robert.
He seems to have been forgotten, even though the man netted 11 free-kick goals during his career. This means that he has a free-kick goal-to-game ratio of 0.073, better than anyone else in the history of the Premier League (including all those with 9 or more goals). It’s nearly 5x more than Frank Lampard and even surpasses David Beckham, who sits in second with a ratio of 0.068.
Robert assisted or scored approximately every 2.5 games and was always a significant threat in and around the box.
Let’s admit he was pretty good.

Hi!
Lately my boyfriend while chatting me he just mentioned to me that they will start to travel at night and I don't have any clue about that so I asked him where? And he replied that he felt sorry because he thought that he already mentioned to me then I just replied ok but deep inside I'm shock about that because last night he wants to chat because he missed me and he asking if I have any topic that we can talk about. I mean why he didn't mentioned it in the first place.
I'm afraid to said that I'm hurt because I'm thinking I'm just his gf and not his mom or family relative. I don't want to say it now how I feel about it because maybe his friends gonna talk about me that I'm being selfish.
Actually I don't care if every week he have a plans with others since it's his freedom and we are just bf and gf.
And we have a plans for our monthsary which we are going to a island but as of now, I'm not excited anymore and wanted to cancel it but I'm afraid also since we are going there with his college friends (which I already meet) and if I cancelled it, I'm super embrassed to them if I meet them someday.
I'm open for any comments.

The rules of this thing is simple: You are controlled by a loop and you REMAIN in the loop until you realize. You either take what they give you and let the TV control you and think everyone, including you and me is absolute mindless fucks; Or realize you are living in a loop and then start expanding your worth, but what does the money even mean when your country is going absolute shit, huh? There is more addicts and dummies than the entire population. People like me hardly exist in this awful platform, and i'm most likely the only one that bought some worthless currency and then realized we are living in a loop. H-Hold on are you, the reader, even there, woken up? Probably not because even after you read this whole text you are gonna remain silent and keep doing the same loop everyday, leading you to nothing.

In the body cam footage of the Nashville police taking down the shooter, “Push the LPVO” was mentioned in there. What does it mean?