Part 1
"When we Firmas were pushed north into the Pyrimian mountain valley after the death of their chain of command, they settled down and instead of focusing on expansion focused on necessities like food. With co-operation from the first goblins and other creative minds that joined the First Wave of the migration, they managed to grow food over the summer in first-iteration greenhouses. "My parents were part of the first wave. They were old for a couple, but joined the Firma clan in founding a government and keeping the area safe, as well as spreading word. The dragonic gods didn't like their behavior at all; cities burning is more entertainment for them, so they were the first to be Forsaken in this era, publicly, in the main square of the old Dragonic Capital. "However, that backfired, with more and more dragons tired of running around and fighting all the time, they decided to settle down in a place where nobody would bother them; now that they had this place given to them, and the Second Wave started. Basically the entirety of the dragonic clans and several other species amassed in this wave, and the Sapient Unification Government held. "My parents had an egg in one of the more northern caves, right on the coast. Then, the third wave arrived and everything went downhill from there. "The Unification Wars were fought between those who wanted one government to cover this region, and those who wanted governments segregated by species. This would have been fine if the secessionists didn't step in on people's behalves, without their consent; it took fifteen years of war for the war to end. Millions died and some species like the Snow Fox beastpeople almost went extinct. My parent were part of the death wave. "The war evolved so rapidly it was impossible for a commander to last more than two months. It started with sticks and stones and within a month there were arrow volleys. A year saw guns, two tanks, three battleships, four planes. Bombs, bigger bullets, bigger guns, bigger bombs. "In the last few months of the war, the first nuclear devices were used, creating miniature stars on the land with immense destructive potential unleashed. It ended with mutually assured destruction protocols being activated, and when all was said and done the land was a snow-fallen irradiated dustball. "It took years for the survivors to pick up the remnants of our short-lived civilization and restart it into the Terra Firma Sapience Union. All the time, my egg didn't hatch because I had no incubator, but didn't die thanks to my ice type. It was located close enough to a mana vein where I just... absorbed the entire vein. When the cave was found by explorers following maps for my parents den, all they found was my egg glowing brighter than Sunstones. "I was taken to an incubation facility in Cellyia, one of the bigger cities. There I hatched, and after more than one test I grew. My growth was still... affected by the time without an incubator, so my already slow growth stopped after fifty years instead of continuing to infinity. And then I took some magic courses, did my best to drain my mana reserves, and settled down here, well away from... the bustle of Cellyia. It never quite felt like a home, you know. It was a good place to grow up, don't get me wrong, but I like it here better. Remote, and in the same place my parents met for the first time. As much as I can tell, anyway; a number of records were destroyed in the Unification War. "When your heroes continued to come up here, I would be the one on first guard. Damming a river, I used water magic to break it. Trying to destroy some transit infrastructure, I would be the first one to either fake it, finish it off, or lure them away. When your latest one decided to head for Cellyia, it was out of my range for such activities. I shadowed the party on the way and let others take care of it. "I never thought that your 'heroes' would be heartless enough to burn what they were told and even acknowledged as a hospital with patients inside. A library and museum with most of our pre-unification works inside. An orphanage, a school... an entire neighborhood of ten thousand citizens' homes. What for? To try to kill just one of us. "We... couldn't take that kind of behavior. Cellyia might have not been the best place for someone with my personality to grow up, especially without parental figures, but that orphanage still had some good memories. An all-citizens vote was called, an all-citizens vote was passed, and we started a counter-offensive military campaign into your Civilization Nations. We've been waiting for you elves, leaders of the Civilized Nations, to advance your society; it's been seven hundred years, all the most you've done is grow your population and add an extra floor to your townhomes. "So we're going to do it for you. You ran our patience down, so we're going to change your society for you. Is it a repeat of the Unification War? I don't think so, given that you Civilized Nations never rescinded the declaration of war against us 'monsters' over two thousand years ago; one that you still follow through on to this day. "But that isn't the end of my story. "When the gods forsook us, they tried to pry away our magic, our land, and our lives. So we defended. Space radars monitor their movements on the mortal plane. There's so many more technical details I can go into. All I can tell you is, at one point, the old god of Dragonic Princess-kidnapping; yes, they were a god; they came and asked us to restart worshiping them. "That went over as well as you'd expect, and the next thing that happened... was that I absorbed her mana and powers. Technically, I am an undefined god, and... at this point, I'm afraid to get a definition. "What if it's something I don't like? Something evil, immoral... something my parents, the leaders of the Second Wave, wouldn't be proud of? What if... what if it kills me? Everyone hates me? I'd no longer be free... "So my solution was to hide. Here, in a mountain cave in the middle of nowhere. This is my life, all of it... and I don't know where to go from here." ----- "So... you're a god?" I asked. I couldn't think of another question to ask. "Yes and no." The cat replied. It did nothing to satisfy my fearful curiosity. How could one both be and not be a god? "Princess-kidnapping was a... niche god, rarely prayed to by still enough to be, you know, and actual deity. So her mana ran out first, and most of it dissipated back into the environment yada yada yada, but like the sponge my mana reserves are, I sucked more of it up than I should have; enough to had just a slight touch of divine control. On par with a low-level demigod. If I was omnipresent, I'd solve me problems with a snap of my claws, and then I wouldn't be hiding from my problems here." "If your powers came from a god, how are yours undefined?" My mind was seeking knowledge now. I was a mage, after all, and this was more than just the opportunity of a lifetime; it was the opportunity of a aeon. "Because I absorbed her essence from the environment before it had the chance to fully dissipate, but still late enough where it was no longer hers." Vixie shrugged "Or something like that, mana gets weird sometimes. All that matters now is my stockpile is slowly increasing its grow rate, which gets annoying pretty fast." "Annoying?" The cat laughed again. "Do you think this is all of my baseline reserve? Half of the reason I stay away from the rest of society is because the last time someone with multiple aura got involved with politics..." She trailed off, and then let another, this time impeccably cast illusion fall. The air around her was burnt crisp with the power of several mandatory auras in her current small size. Twelve tails flicked behind her back, eleven of them made of energy. Floating specs of light, some smaller while others the size of ice crystals surrounded the air around her. The six orbs on her back were joined by six more, and were attached to a ring. Her head had two halos, and her entire body was engraved with glowing lines. If she before radiated power, now she was made of it. The lights on the cave's ceiling flickered as more and more of the illusion fell away. Geometric shapes orbiting her body, a platform made of mana at her feet, lightning whizzing between all sorts of objects. Finally, it was gone, and the cat that stared at me with big, sad, glowing blue eyes had told me her deepest secret. As soon as it had started, the illusion repaired itself, and before me was one cat, a halo, six orbs, two crystals, and two mana tails. I did the second most instinctive thing when it came to seeing a cat. I pulled her in for a hug. There was a quickly quieted hiss as she squirmed a bit in my grip, trying to get more comfortable, before letting herself get stroked by me. Several images flashed before my eyes, and a tear came out of mine. We had gone to war against the less lucky sapients on our world, and were now paying the price. It felt like hours, but then my stomach growled, reminding me I hadn't eaten in literal days. Vixie shot out of my grip and led the way down into the cave. I followed, and soon enough I was eating some salted crackers with dried meat and cheese while Vixie moved around between other caves. "What are you doing?" I asked her between bites. "Packing," She replied. "Why?" "It's time I got out of here and, to follow the phrase, touched some grass." ----- It took three days for the elf, whose name was Nick, to recover enough to be able to make the journey to Cellyia. In those three days, I realized just how - and why - the Civilized Races looked at us the way they did. For starters, I'd forgotten just how many things ran on electricity, let alone other, more complicated mechanics. Pressurized water, instant hot water, even sinks, showers, and toilets were all completely unknown to the 'civilized races.' Ah, yes. Civilized without toilet paper. Bitter ramblings about the people who set off the chain reaction of events that killed my family aside, those were the second longest three days of my life; the first was my thirteenth birthday so I could get a personal HUD and social media. I was also a mess of thoughts. The elf had shown me, over the course of the three days - aside from the two-minute get-my-life-together moment - that I couldn't hide from my problems forever, or they would team up and try to hunt me. Hence my new, reluctant guest from the overflowing hospital they had oh-so-nicely delivered to my door. I had words for the medical staff. And I was also a mess of thoughts. Did I mention that one already. In all seriousness, Nick adapted to electronics pretty well. All I had to do was explain what it was, what it did, and file it under the name of science. It took an impressive four minutes of rambling about quantum mechanics before Vick realized that he was in way over his head asking how the 'magic rock that can half-think with bottled lightning' worked. He backed out when I yanked a textbook from my knowledge hoard and flipped through the pages to the start to explain how quantum superposition affected the set of particles it was entangled to. Fun. Finding out what toothbrushes were took some convincing, but soon the elf's teeth started to recover from lack of proper dental care. Food was easier than I expected, and Vick was pretty accepting of whatever I tossed on his plate. Except for artichokes, for some reason he hated those. Over the three days we bonded, and Nick got pretty used to life in my home. On the second day I moved him to the guest bedroom I had built but never maintained, but one wave of my paw and a splurge of magic later that was solved. "Why don't you use magic more often?" Nick asked. I explained that was much as I wanted to burn my reserves like they were a forest before a forest fire, the mental strain was tough without learning proper casting, which requires one to drain their reserves to practice wielding physical willpower. That meant that I was caught in an infinite loop of negativity, so I could only get away with a couple spells a day before the mental exhaustion metaphorically turned my brain to mush. On the morning of the fourth day, we left. Honestly, Nick could have left on the first day but I wanted him to be able to have the stamina to walk around for hours on end with me in Cellyia. Either way, as long as he kept by me it would be fine. There was a small population of elves, humans, and dwarves who had come up to the TFSU for one reason or another and never left, which meant that he wouldn't be too far out of place. My plan, instead of just flying into the Cellyia while steering clear of the airport, was to make it to the closest town, Lymian, and take a train from there north to Union Station. It would dump us a bit further downtown than I liked, but Cellyia was built in levels, and I could take the footpath level to wherever I needed. All said and done and one passenger seat clipped to my saddlebag harness on my dragon form, I opened the door to my cave. And was promptly blocked by a wall of snow. "Right," I half-grumbled. I enjoyed tunneling through snow, but spray would make the entrance cave wet and that wouldn't dry for another couple days, and until it did the sound of drips would echo throughout my home like nothing else. Either way, checking one last time that Nick was secure, I prepared my wings and powered forward. The snow and ice parted for me, and then melted and fixed itself back together behind me as I power-swam through the snow the same way I would through water. After ten seconds of this, I burst up from the snow-covered mountain the snowstorm had left behind and started to change my heading for Lymian. It would take thirty minutes of flying to get there, as I was flying lower and slower than usual to take care of my passenger, but we soon enough turned the next mountain and saw the town. The elf gasped as he took in the sights, while I kept my eye out for more activity. It had been fortified as a military base due to the war, but not by much; the town was useless from a defensive standpoint anyway. I spotted the next train arriving from its winding track around the next mountain, which also meant that I was a bit early. The citizens of Lymian were used to my presence, as I usually stopped by to pick up supplies and occasionally a bit of correspondence. So when I landed on top of a several story tall snow pile, nobody cared. I let Nick out, and then transformed into my cat form and slid down the snow pile to start to jogging towards the train station. That's when I remembered that unlike me, elves without snowshoes do not float on snow. Oops. ----- The sights were more than pretty, more than beautiful... If the gods had rejected these people, they might have just as well done it out of jealousy. After I'd been dropped off on top of a snow mound, I immediately flattened myself on my stomach to not fall through. I'd been in more than enough snowstorms and snow mounds to know how it would go if I didn't. The cat climbed the hill below me, reappearing as naturally as the snow fell. "Sorry," Vixie apologized. "Here, let me..." I felt the snow melt around me and we descended down to the ground. Vixie glowed brightly, literally; Even using as little magic as reshaping some snow was threatening to cascade out of her form. We moved to the train station without incident, where the massive 'train cars' were loaded full of passengers and cargo and then taken off towards the big city. Apparently this was the same one the hero burned, but the 'rebuilding and recovery efforts we going well; no critical infrastructure had been severely damaged.' Either way, the ride there was uneventful. Stepping out into Union Station was different. It was like I had entered a busy capital marketplace or square, with everyone rushing in another direction to another place. I trailed after Vixie, where even the oddity of an elf in these mountains was outshone by just how many different races there were; beastkin and kobolds and orcs and undead all filled the streets in, well, peace. "The city is built in layers," Vixie explained. "So while yes, residential and office towers here in the capital were set alight, underground public transit, personal transit, and cargo and fluid transit was all untouched, so we were able to circle around the hero and put out the fires to be replaced with smoke generators, and a couple holograms snatched from a nearby cargo transport." I had no idea what any of that meant, only that the city also had extensive underground bits. The towers soared over everything, and lights covered every spare centimeter of the city. Vixie led me down market stalls, across plazas, through parks and through building lobbies. Eventually, the babble increased, something I didn't think was possible. "Welcome to the commercial district," Vixie said after she had pulled me into a corner away from the masses of people and crowds moving around. "We're right near the harbor, and when we get there I'm going to show you the lighthouse and explain the city a bit better." I almost lost track of Vixie as we continued to move through the throngs of people going about their daily lives. I saw a couple boarded up shops, but most of them were either undamaged or didn't care about the scorch marks on their shops. Jewelry boutiques and grocery stores lived in tandem with furniture stores and a massive slab of too-smooth-to-be-natural stone of a rock type I had never seen before. It was covered in signs depicting some kind of diagram. Right around the corner was the waterfront, with a massive promenade running alongside it. Snow-covered trees lined the walkways, and soon enough Vixie and I came out of the crowd near a large, tall abandoned - though no unmaintained - building. "Right then," Vixie explained and started climbing. "Here's the old lighthouse, it's perfect for seeing the city. They never officially decommissioned it, so it's still legal to climb and properly maintained, but they never use it either." "What was the large thing they were building?" I asked, clambering onto the next ladder. "That? Oh, that was the space elevator." Vixie replied. "The ground part has been completed for three years now, we're just waiting for the rest of the nanotubes to make it into orbit and then run a kevlar cord up, follow it down with the space-grade heavy-duty nanotube cord, and then that's that." "Space?..." I was confused. "When the gods said that they were higher than mortals, you took that both figuratively and literally; they live above you and in a higher dimension. In this case, space is where they live in terms of height, but not number of dimensions. We're working on interdimensional travel, and interuniversal too, but those aren't replicatable on any sort of large scale yet." Vixie shrugged. "Either way, it's not like I care." "But you have it?" I pressed. "Dimensional travel." "Yes." She replied. "Well," I let out a short laughed. "The Civilized Nations are screwed over." "That's putting it lightly," She climbed on top of the last platform and showed me the city against the setting sun, lit up brighter than the night sky and more lively than the earth. It was beautiful. I sat there and watched the city glow with a power not even the gods had, side by side with not a dragon or monster, but a friend. END. A/N: Rushed this last bit of the arc, but school is ramping up at the end of the year so it was either fast story or incomplete story, and I chose fast story. Happy pride month, everyone, and I hope to see more of you when I have more time.
Original Prompt: [WP] For as long as all the races have known, Dragons have been seen as violent, destructive creatures. After an attack on your village, you black out and find yourself in the den of a dragon. It's rather annoyed that that is how they're seen, and wants to prove that isn't the case.
u/Lycan_Jedi thank you for the prompt!
Part 1

I was arrested in May 2021 for 1st degree Felony causing bodily harm. On March 2022 I accepted a plea deal for deferred adjudication Class A misdemeanor Assault causing bodily harm to family member. I accepted 2 years community supervision 80 hours of Community Service.
Since my arrest it has been very hard for me to get a job. I always seem to get job offers but when the background check comes back the offer is rescinded.
I am considerably a professional male with a college degree. I am a former Division 1 and Professional athlete. I would love to Coach and/or teach in college but with my criminal record I don’t see that happening. Have anyone ever been a coach on the college level with a criminal record? Also I am open to any other avenues of employment. I also have a background in sales as well.

Hi all, I'm trying to use the parted module to perform some tasks as part of a Debian/Raspberry Pi installation on an SSD. The parted portions include resizing a partition (which works) and adding a new partition which doesn't.
Host OS is Debian Bookworm (AKD Testing, but will be stable in days.) Ansible version is
```text [email protected]:~$ ansible --version ansible [core 2.14.3] config file = None configured module search path = ['/home/hbarta/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usshare/ansible/plugins/modules'] ansible python module location = /uslib/python3/dist-packages/ansible ansible collection location = /home/hbarta/.ansible/collections:/usshare/ansible/collections executable location = /usbin/ansible python version = 3.11.2 (main, Mar 13 2023, 12:18:29) GCC 12.2.0 jinja version = 3.1.2 libyaml = True [email protected]:~$ apt-cache policy ansible ansible: Installed: 7.3.0+dfsg-1 Candidate: 7.3.0+dfsg-1 Version table: *** 7.3.0+dfsg-1 500 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages 100 /valib/dpkg/status [email protected]:~$ [email protected]:~/Programming/polana-ansible$ parted --version parted (GNU parted) 3.5 Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=blob_plain;f=AUTHORS. [email protected]:~/Programming/polana-ansible$ ```
Usually the Debian package tracks the application package but that's clearly not the situation here. ansible seems to ID as 2.14.3 and the most current documentation is for 2.9.
To start, two sources of documentation don't seem to align. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/parted_module.html and https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/modules/parted_module.html The former seems to ID as "Latest" or "8"
My playbook is at https://github.com/HankB/polana-ansible. Unfortunately it uses a device and I'm not sure how easily it can be tested otherwise. And if the device is not an SSD it might be necessary to disable the task that runs blkdiscard.
The tasks that don't work as expected are
```text

Extend the 2nd (root) partition.

• name: Read device information (always use unit when probing) (doesn't work) become: yes community.general.parted: device="{{ ssd_dev }}" unit=MiB register: ssd_info
  
• name: show partition infgo debug: var=ssd_info.stdout_lines ```
  

This reports

ssd_info.stdout_lines": "VARIABLE IS NOT DEFINED!

text - name: Create partition for ZFS (2nd) parted: device: "{{ ssd_dev }}" number: 3 state: present
Results in

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "err": "Error: You requested a partition from 0.00kiB to 117220824kiB (sectors 0..234441647).\nThe closest location we can manage is 0.50kiB to 4096kiB (sectors 1..8191).\n", "msg": "Error while running parted script: /ussbin/parted -s -m -a optimal /dev/sdb -- unit KiB mkpart primary 0% 100%", "out": "", "rc": 1}

If I could capture the partition information for the device, I suppose I could fix this latter problem as it does not appear that the module provides the capability to add a partition in free space.
Pointers to anything I've overlooked are most welcome!
I suppose the other option is to script parted directly but I'd prefer to use the module, thinking it should be easier.
Thanks!
Edit.0: added become:yes to Read device information with no apparent improvement.

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 82%. (I'm a bot)

Ukrainian troops went on the attack at multiple points along the frontline in the Donetsk region on Monday, driving back Russian forces in at least two areas in what appeared to be the preliminary stages of Ukraine's long-anticipated counteroffensive.
Ukrainian officials described Monday's attacks as "Local" actions, and rejected the Russian defence ministry's claims early on Monday that the major counteroffensive had begun and had already been thwarted at high cost to the attackers.
The Ukraine offensive operations did not appear to use much if any of the 12-brigade assault force that Ukraine has built up in recent months with the help of western training and equipment, suggesting they could be preliminary attacks aimed at probing and stretching Russian defences, in advance of a much bigger push to come.
If the Ukrainian counteroffensive liberates a significant swath of territory and sets Russian forces back on their heels, it would offer hope of an early end to the conflict.
The first sign of a new phase in the war came in the early hours of Monday morning with a Russian defence ministry statement saying Ukraine had attacked with six mechanised and two tank battalions from two brigades in five places along the Donetsk front.
Igor Girkin, a Russian nationalist critic of the Kremlin and former "Defence minister" in the Russian-installed authority in Donetsk, said it was clear Ukraine "Has not yet made full use of his main forces".

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Keeping things short and to the point, I had a system (3.5 ton Goodman system) HVAC replaced 2 months ago, the air went out today- not even 2 full months later. The breaker kept tripping for unit when the tech came out, he tested the compressor and said it is busted. Since the compressor is under warranty, it’s covered but he said the refrigerant isn’t. He sounded really confused that would happen and assured it’s very unlikely.
1) why would this happen so quickly 2) should I be concerned about the tech or could this have been a faulty part? 3) anything else I need to worry about since he’s coming back to replace it in 2 days when the new part get here? 4) should I be paying for the refrigerant or should the tech cover this since they replaced it?

With the new whistle-blower testimony released, I wanted to give a bit of the history, and put the relevant sources in 1 place for anyone who's new or unfamiliar with some of it.
CIA director Hillenkoeter(1947-1950, Member of Majestic Group)"its ttime for the truth to be brought out in open Congressional hearings. Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. To hide the facts, the Air Force has silenced its personnel. The un- knovin objects are operating un- der intelligent control, It is im- perative that we learn Where the UFO's (unidentified flying ob- jects) come from and what their purpose is"
Rarely mentioned, but itd be tough to find anyone whos name holds more weight than Adm Inman. NSA.gov Historical Figures-Adm Bobby R InmanAdm Bob Inman Reverse Engineering comments
-Usaf Physicist Radiation analysis
Along with the Moon Dust doc Project there was later uncovered a secret USAF crash retrieval team by the name of Blue Fly. 1961 the release of Project "Moon Dust" (Just Caus report). They discovered that the retrieval of downed space objects, including UFOs, was the responsibility of a "special unit" at Fort Belvoir, NJ., the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron4602nd Betz Memo
This Roswell Thread ive shown that it wasnt Project Mogul, nor was there any weather balloon to account for debris as well as all other inconsistencies.
Created in 1947, not long after Roswell by Head of USAF Gen H Arnold & R&D Chief Gen Lemay, RAND Corp became the first FFDRC, (federally funded R&D) recieved govt funds with no oversight. Most of the technologies mentioned by Corso is found on RANDs accomplishments section. How RAND Corp reshaped the postwar world" How RAND Corp reshaped the PostWar world.Gen Arnold's 2nd in command was tasked with running Project SIGN( first UFO project) to make sure the truth wasn't revealed. 1949 Lt Col Clingermans comes request for RAND Corp to handle study of UFOs. Rand was responsible for internet, fiber optics for telecommunications, perfection of NGVs, maselaser & the color tv. I've read through a ton of RAND oral history interview transcripts, so I know that discovery of Nitinol wasn't a mistake Nitinol and it was used in Lockheed aircraft, & NASA probes DECADES before the official histories 1995 date.
In the paper, RAND Corp Americas University of Imperialism you'll see that some of the most important policy decisions both global & domestically were done by RAND. The Nazis who took over the US govt , Theo Von Karman created the MIC all were on the Board at RAND.
-1952 UFOs in Washington.. why are RAND personnel attending Nation security meeting in the Whitehouse?Who but Battelle metallurgist, Dr Clyde Williams ( RAND Corp director) & Dr Luis Alvarez (Robertson Panel- RAND corp, Physicist, Nobel Prize winner).
Just as Lt Col Philip CorsoDawn of A New Age stated, major corporations played a large part in the UFO tech transfer. the top 3 companies listed in the history of RAND Corp are General motors, ITT later AT&T, and Carnegie Mellon.
"we must guard against acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military industrial cmplex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist". -President Eisenhower's Farewell address
1994 SAP overhaul-Wilson Davis Memo
Pres Eisenhower to members of his NSC in1958 :We called the people in from MJ-12, from Area 51 and S-4, but they told us that the government had no jurisdiction over what they were doing…. I want you and your boss to fly out there. I want you to give them a personal message…. I want you to tell them, whoever is in charge, I want you to tell them that they have this coming week to get into Washington and to report to me. And if they don’t, I’m going to get the First Army from Colorado. we are going to go over and take the base over. I don’t care what kind of classified material you got. We are going to rip this thing apart.” Pres Eisenhower's orders that a secure testing area was to be found for the purpose of military aircraft, which was Nellis Test Range in Nevada. Then 3 years later his farewell speech of 1961 comes the famous declaration of the danger of the MIC.
The only reason the Roswell wreckage went to WrightPat that first time was because the Nazis were there. The Space Program, which is documented to have began 1946, has always been overtly influenced by Nazi scientists since day 1. This was what the Presidential addresses were about, the MIC, NAZI(secret society), and those negative influences. Ben Rich says it was 1969 that Majestic became all corporate figures, the "Bigot" list of the WD Memo. The definition of a bigot is quite clear.
Neues Europa, 1 January 1959 We find ourselves faced by powers which are far stronger than we had hitherto assumed, and whose base is at present unknown to us. More I cannot say at present. We are now engaged in entering into closer contact with those powers , and in six or nine months’ time it may be possible to speak with more precision on the matter.” 15 [Emphasis added] There has been nothing further published on the matter.
Werner Von Braun Neues Europa, 1 January 1959
At least 130 Nazi scientists had their dossiers altered, theyd be described as violent Nazis & itd be changed(CIA).had been described as “a potential security threat” by the military governor, was reassessed only months later in a report stating, “he may not constitute a security threat to the U.S.”
Both Von Braun & the father of Rocketry & aeronautics worked under Phil Corso at Redstone Arsenal.. Dr Hermann Oberth -Help From Other Worlds also worked at Advanced Design, the secret Douglas Aircraft think tank. He acknowledged that they couldn't take credit for their advances, instead they were helped by people of other worlds.

With the new whistle-blower testimony released, I wanted to give a bit of the history, and put the relevant sources in 1 place for anyone who's new or unfamiliar with some of it.
CIA director Hillenkoeter(1947-1950, Member of Majestic Group)"its ttime for the truth to be brought out in open Congressional hearings. Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. To hide the facts, the Air Force has silenced its personnel. The un- knovin objects are operating un- der intelligent control, It is im- perative that we learn Where the UFO's (unidentified flying ob- jects) come from and what their purpose is"
Rarely mentioned, but itd be tough to find anyone whos name holds more weight than Adm Inman. NSA.gov Historical Figures-Adm Bobby R InmanAdm Bob Inman Reverse Engineering comments
-Usaf Physicist Radiation analysis
Along with the Moon Dust doc Project there was later uncovered a secret USAF crash retrieval team by the name of Blue Fly. 1961 the release of Project "Moon Dust" (Just Caus report). They discovered that the retrieval of downed space objects, including UFOs, was the responsibility of a "special unit" at Fort Belvoir, NJ., the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron4602nd Betz Memo
This Roswell Thread ive shown that it wasnt Project Mogul, nor was there any weather balloon to account for debris as well as all other inconsistencies.
Created in 1947, not long after Roswell by Head of USAF Gen H Arnold & R&D Chief Gen Lemay, RAND Corp became the first FFDRC, (federally funded R&D) recieved govt funds with no oversight. Most of the technologies mentioned by Corso is found on RANDs accomplishments section. How RAND Corp reshaped the postwar world" How RAND Corp reshaped the PostWar world.Gen Arnold's 2nd in command was tasked with running Project SIGN( first UFO project) to make sure the truth wasn't revealed. 1949 Lt Col Clingermans comes request for RAND Corp to handle study of UFOs. Rand was responsible for internet, fiber optics for telecommunications, perfection of NGVs, maselaser & the color tv. I've read through a ton of RAND oral history interview transcripts, so I know that discovery of Nitinol wasn't a mistake Nitinol and it was used in Lockheed aircraft, & NASA probes DECADES before the official histories 1995 date.
In the paper, RAND Corp Americas University of Imperialism you'll see that some of the most important policy decisions both global & domestically were done by RAND. The Nazis who took over the US govt , Theo Von Karman created the MIC all were on the Board at RAND.
-1952 UFOs in Washington.. why are RAND personnel attending Nation security meeting in the Whitehouse?Who but Battelle metallurgist, Dr Clyde Williams ( RAND Corp director) & Dr Luis Alvarez (Robertson Panel- RAND corp, Physicist, Nobel Prize winner).
Just as Lt Col Philip CorsoDawn of A New Age stated, major corporations played a large part in the UFO tech transfer. the top 3 companies listed in the history of RAND Corp are General motors, ITT later AT&T, and Carnegie Mellon.
"we must guard against acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military industrial cmplex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist". -President Eisenhower's Farewell address
1994 SAP overhaul-Wilson Davis Memo
Pres Eisenhower to members of his NSC in1958 :We called the people in from MJ-12, from Area 51 and S-4, but they told us that the government had no jurisdiction over what they were doing…. I want you and your boss to fly out there. I want you to give them a personal message…. I want you to tell them, whoever is in charge, I want you to tell them that they have this coming week to get into Washington and to report to me. And if they don’t, I’m going to get the First Army from Colorado. we are going to go over and take the base over. I don’t care what kind of classified material you got. We are going to rip this thing apart.” Pres Eisenhower's orders that a secure testing area was to be found for the purpose of military aircraft, which was Nellis Test Range in Nevada. Then 3 years later his farewell speech of 1961 comes the famous declaration of the danger of the MIC.
The only reason the Roswell wreckage went to WrightPat that first time was because the Nazis were there. The Space Program, which is documented to have began 1946, has always been overtly influenced by Nazi scientists since day 1. This was what the Presidential addresses were about, the MIC, NAZI(secret society), and those negative influences. Ben Rich says it was 1969 that Majestic became all corporate figures, the "Bigot" list of the WD Memo. The definition of a bigot is quite clear.
Neues Europa, 1 January 1959 We find ourselves faced by powers which are far stronger than we had hitherto assumed, and whose base is at present unknown to us. More I cannot say at present. We are now engaged in entering into closer contact with those powers , and in six or nine months’ time it may be possible to speak with more precision on the matter.” 15 [Emphasis added] There has been nothing further published on the matter.
Werner Von Braun Neues Europa, 1 January 1959
At least 130 Nazi scientists had their dossiers altered, theyd be described as violent Nazis & itd be changed(CIA).had been described as “a potential security threat” by the military governor, was reassessed only months later in a report stating, “he may not constitute a security threat to the U.S.”
Both Von Braun & the father of Rocketry & aeronautics worked under Phil Corso at Redstone Arsenal.. Dr Hermann Oberth -Help From Other Worlds also worked at Advanced Design, the secret Douglas Aircraft think tank. He acknowledged that they couldn't take credit for their advances, instead they were helped by people of other worlds.

I posted this years ago and hated it so I deleted it.. I have since revised it several times and now I think it's ready. I finally have time to continue writing so please let me know what you think, especially if you don't like it and what you didn't like about it

Boab'shek sighed as he opened his eyes, taking a moment to wake before he swam lazily out of his resting tunnel. Not particularly excited for another grueling [day] slogging through anomaly reports, he slowly closed his eyes and steeled himself as he had done every morning for the last [13 years]. He had 35 mouths to feed, and the bills weren’t going to pay themselves. After a quick breakfast at the grub farm, and feeling much better for it, he began swimming towards the work module.
The station, of which he was the sole occupant, hung motionless in empty space. Positioned near the top of the Galactic disc, it had a direct line of sight to each of the many observation outposts which it serviced. Tight-beam receivers dotted the "bottom" of the gangly-looking station, pointed in seemingly random directions forming a tangled mess of structural supports and antennae, though they were all precisely oriented to receive the incoming data streams.
Some of the more densely populated sectors of the Galaxy had entangled communicators at each of the observation outposts, providing near real-time updates of the goings-on to the Trade Coalition, but so many communicators were obscenely expensive to operate. Out here, near the rim of the Galaxy, there was simply not enough revenue from hyperspace tolls to support real-time obstacle charting. On the other hand, there were not enough hyperspace travelers to necessitate it either. Infrastructure was upgraded as needed, and tolls were adjusted to cover the cost.
And so it was Boab'shek's job to monitor the findings of the outposts as they were beamed to his station, albeit after a substantial light-speed delay, and report to the Coalition anything worth reporting through his station's entangled communicator. A soul-crushingly boring job, as far as he was concerned, but well-paid and not too physically demanding; which he appreciated. He swam his way through the long corridor into the work module, nesting comfortably into the saddle and engaging his dexterous prehensile whiskers with the computer controls. The two screens lit up simultaneously, one for either eye, and he began scrolling through the anomaly reports that had come in while he was asleep.
An odd glint was reported from outpost HX-253. The optical feed showed an empty patch of space flash once, nothing spectacular but unexpected nonetheless. He instructed the computer to calculate and overlay the position of other observation outposts over the video. Unsurprisingly, it showed a different outpost located right where the flashing originated from. A reflection from the waste-heat radiator panels, he surmised. He added a rule to the filter to ignore anomalies originating from outpost locations. No need to waste time on one of these anomalies in the future, should it occur again.
Outpost HT-628 reported a celestial collision. A rare occurrence in his sector, he excitedly pulled up the video feed and observed as a neutron star orbited a dark swallower closer and closer, spiraling inwards as its energy was sapped out of the system by ever-increasing gravitational disturbance. It circled faster and faster as it approached and finally was pulled apart, becoming a bright streak and then a ring around the swallower, shining brightly as it was accreted. The sinusoidal readout from the interferometer of the outpost showed the gravitational waves increase exponentially in intensity and then drop off as if nothing had happened. More and more of the star was pulled in and suddenly the system went dark again, as the last of the star was unceremoniously slurped up by the swallower. Beautiful, he thought. Such a privilege it was to observe the natural cycle of the universe. He lived for these moments.
He approved the automatic suggested update to the star charts and scrolled onto the next report. HU-808 reported an unknown disturbance. An unusual gravimetric reading as well as unidentified fast-moving object. Boab’shek stared at the report listing. An odd designation, he couldn’t recall if he had ever seen this class of anomaly in all his [years] working for the Coalition. He pulled up the video feed and gravity readings, flaring his fins in surprise at the length of the video report; the reflexive motion causing him to lurch backwards. The duration of the video was just over [1.7 years]. Why had the outpost taken so long to report such a disturbance?
He started at the beginning and watched as the time-compressed video showed a light appearing from nowhere, approximately [8.3 light-minutes] from a single ordinary, stable star. With his other eye he looked at the star map of the area. The light was hundreds of light years from the nearest hyperspace waypoint. Nobody would be crazy enough to travel that far from a waypoint, he thought, being forced to travel at a ridiculously unsafe speed while in cold-sleep, quite possibly exceeding the safe duration for hibernation even then.
It must be natural in origin, then, though he had never heard of such an object. Puzzled, he watched as the light gradually increased in intensity and started moving, traveling in a straight line towards a nearby trinary star system at an ever-increasing rate of speed. The light, becoming ever-brighter, shone a brilliant white as its velocity continued to increase. His jaws hung open in disbelief as a bright cone appeared to the sides and around the light, resembling a bow shock wave like the ones that trailed behind the high speed transports that sailed above the oceans on his home planet. He checked the spectrometer, unbelieving as the range displayed full-spectrum emission with increasing UV, X-ray, even gamma emissions!
The conical bow-shock became more and more acute in angle as the light shone brighter and gained momentum. It closed the distance between the star systems impossibly quickly, and when it had almost reached the nearest red dwarf in the trinary system almost all at once it slowed as the luminosity peaked and it appeared to explode. A beam of plasma erupted from the source of the light, apparently traveling near light speed, and expanded as it left the source where it had stopped, a short distance from the red dwarf. The gravimetric reading reported an error. He managed to peel his eye away from the video feed and defecated in shock as he observed the chart. It was flat and steady as it should be, up until it immediately spiked straight up and off the chart.
Glad for the filtration intake below his saddle, Boab'shek observed as the reading abruptly ended reporting calibration error, and possible damage to the interferometer. The outpost had apparently not thought much of the disturbance up until the gravimetric reading was observed, at which point it had flagged the anomaly for reporting. Never had he heard of anything like this. He contemplated for a moment on what this object could possibly be, until he had a sudden idea. Frantically mashing the controls with his whiskers, he instructed the computer to calculate the distance the light had traveled. The computer overlaid the measured distance on the video feed. Approximately [4.25 light years]. Whiskers shaking, he looked again at the length of the recording. [1.7 years]. Whatever in the deep depths this thing was, it had traveled through real space at over twice the speed of light. Impossible, he thought.
Surely another outpost would refute these readings. He instructed the computer to show the live feed from HU-807, an outpost which was more distant to the anomaly. It would receive readings from the same anomaly, but with a calculated [8 month] delay compared to HU-808. On screen, there was the light shining proudly, already traveling faster than lightspeed. Boab'shek, still in denial, examined the spectrograph readings from this outpost more closely. It was then that he noticed the emission lines in the light signature. It showed prominent signatures for hydrogen, helium, beryllium, and oxygen. Undeniably the signature of an unshielded fusion reactor.
Frantically, he began writing an incident report. Under the subject field, he selected UNIDENTIFIABLE TECHNOSIGNATURE. This was going straight to the top.
Excitement hung in the air aboard the UNES Hermes. After many years of preparation, the time for departure had finally arrived. In a matter of minutes, the colossal ship would engage its prototype ICEFIRE engine and leave its comfortable rectilinear halo orbit of the moon, where it had circled since the keel was laid so many years ago. The ship consisted of a massive cylindrical habitation drum, over a kilometer in diameter and five kilometers long, with an equally large spherical water tank forward tipped with the powerful thermal laser shield, and the behemoth of a drive cone bringing up the rear. The drum spun slowly, providing comfortable spin gravity to the civilian colonists, most of whom were sporting massive hangovers from the completion celebration the night before. Many of the passengers had been involved in the engineering, assembly, and calibration of various parts and components of the ship. Some had celebrated a job completed, others out of excitement, and some feared that it would be their last night. No expense had been spared in building or testing during the ships’ construction, and all assurances had been made that everything would go well, but nobody could deny that this ship was experimental.
The crew of the Hermes had long since gotten all of the festivious urges out of their systems, opting to celebrate the completion of the preparations before the colonists had arrived. Every system had been checked, double checked, and triple checked. Mission Commander Huxton stood in the center of the bridge and observed the buzzing commotion of the crew surrounding him, eyes fixed on their station monitors while calling out checkpoints into their headsets and to the surrounding operators.
One by one the operators fell silent as they completed their checklists and lifted their eyes to Commander Huxton, awaiting further orders. As the last operator reported "All systems go" into his headset, silence fell upon the bridge. Rehearsals had been performed. Speeches had been given. Goodbye messages had been sent. Diagnostics and checklists had been run through. Living wills written. It was finally time. Huxton stood silently for a moment, slowly scanning his eyes around the room. His face beamed with pride at the exceptional performance of his crew, tinged only by the apprehension for the coming danger.
Huxton broke the silence. "Comms! Open a channel to STC, mirror to the PA" he barked. A soft chime indicated that the microphones were listening. "Space Traffic Control, this is UNES Hermes. Requesting clearance for departure." His voice boomed throughout the ship, where every colonist and crew member was listening intently. Seconds later, his voice was heard by the crew of the STC, where silence reigned as every soul was glued to their monitors. A few moments later, their response was heard throughout the Hermes. A tinny voice crackled through the PA system, "UNES Hermes, this is Space Traffic Control. You are cleared for departure. Go bravely. Godspeed."
Huxton closed his eyes for a brief moment, savoring what could be his last breath. He opened his eyes. "Engineering, light it up!”

With the new whistle-blower testimony released, I wanted to give a bit of the history, and put the relevant sources in 1 place for anyone who's new or unfamiliar with some of it.
CIA director Hillenkoeter(1947-1950, Member of Majestic Group)"its ttime for the truth to be brought out in open Congressional hearings. Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. To hide the facts, the Air Force has silenced its personnel. The un- knovin objects are operating un- der intelligent control, It is im- perative that we learn Where the UFO's (unidentified flying ob- jects) come from and what their purpose is"
Rarely mentioned, but itd be tough to find anyone whos name holds more weight than Adm Inman. NSA.gov Historical Figures-Adm Bobby R InmanAdm Bob Inman Reverse Engineering comments
-Usaf Physicist Radiation analysis
Along with the Moon Dust doc Project there was later uncovered a secret USAF crash retrieval team by the name of Blue Fly. 1961 the release of Project "Moon Dust" (Just Caus report). They discovered that the retrieval of downed space objects, including UFOs, was the responsibility of a "special unit" at Fort Belvoir, NJ., the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron4602nd Betz Memo
This Roswell Thread ive shown that it wasnt Project Mogul, nor was there any weather balloon to account for debris as well as all other inconsistencies.
Created in 1947, not long after Roswell by Head of USAF Gen H Arnold & R&D Chief Gen Lemay, RAND Corp became the first FFDRC, (federally funded R&D) recieved govt funds with no oversight. Most of the technologies mentioned by Corso is found on RANDs accomplishments section. How RAND Corp reshaped the postwar world" How RAND Corp reshaped the PostWar world.Gen Arnold's 2nd in command was tasked with running Project SIGN( first UFO project) to make sure the truth wasn't revealed. 1949 Lt Col Clingermans comes request for RAND Corp to handle study of UFOs. Rand was responsible for internet, fiber optics for telecommunications, perfection of NGVs, maselaser & the color tv. I've read through a ton of RAND oral history interview transcripts, so I know that discovery of Nitinol wasn't a mistake Nitinol and it was used in Lockheed aircraft, & NASA probes DECADES before the official histories 1995 date.
In the paper, RAND Corp Americas University of Imperialism you'll see that some of the most important policy decisions both global & domestically were done by RAND. The Nazis who took over the US govt , Theo Von Karman created the MIC all were on the Board at RAND.
-1952 UFOs in Washington.. why are RAND personnel attending Nation security meeting in the Whitehouse?Who but Battelle metallurgist, Dr Clyde Williams ( RAND Corp director) & Dr Luis Alvarez (Robertson Panel- RAND corp, Physicist, Nobel Prize winner).
Just as Lt Col Philip CorsoDawn of A New Age stated, major corporations played a large part in the UFO tech transfer. the top 3 companies listed in the history of RAND Corp are General motors, ITT later AT&T, and Carnegie Mellon.
"we must guard against acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military industrial cmplex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist". -President Eisenhower's Farewell address
1994 SAP overhaul-Wilson Davis Memo
Pres Eisenhower to members of his NSC in1958 :We called the people in from MJ-12, from Area 51 and S-4, but they told us that the government had no jurisdiction over what they were doing…. I want you and your boss to fly out there. I want you to give them a personal message…. I want you to tell them, whoever is in charge, I want you to tell them that they have this coming week to get into Washington and to report to me. And if they don’t, I’m going to get the First Army from Colorado. we are going to go over and take the base over. I don’t care what kind of classified material you got. We are going to rip this thing apart.” Pres Eisenhower's orders that a secure testing area was to be found for the purpose of military aircraft, which was Nellis Test Range in Nevada. Then 3 years later his farewell speech of 1961 comes the famous declaration of the danger of the MIC.
The only reason the Roswell wreckage went to WrightPat that first time was because the Nazis were there. The Space Program, which is documented to have began 1946, has always been overtly influenced by Nazi scientists since day 1. This was what the Presidential addresses were about, the MIC, NAZI(secret society), and those negative influences. Ben Rich says it was 1969 that Majestic became all corporate figures, the "Bigot" list of the WD Memo. The definition of a bigot is quite clear.
Neues Europa, 1 January 1959 We find ourselves faced by powers which are far stronger than we had hitherto assumed, and whose base is at present unknown to us. More I cannot say at present. We are now engaged in entering into closer contact with those powers , and in six or nine months’ time it may be possible to speak with more precision on the matter.” 15 [Emphasis added] There has been nothing further published on the matter.
Werner Von Braun Neues Europa, 1 January 1959
At least 130 Nazi scientists had their dossiers altered, theyd be described as violent Nazis & itd be changed(CIA).had been described as “a potential security threat” by the military governor, was reassessed only months later in a report stating, “he may not constitute a security threat to the U.S.”
Both Von Braun & the father of Rocketry & aeronautics worked under Phil Corso at Redstone Arsenal.. Dr Hermann Oberth -Help From Other Worlds also worked at Advanced Design, the secret Douglas Aircraft think tank. He acknowledged that they couldn't take credit for their advances, instead they were helped by people of other worlds.

Why is it taking upwards of 20 minutes est. to generate a single image? I was having too many issues to be asked and solved on the Automatic1111 site so I just decided to delete everything and start from scratch. I have a Delta 15 with AMD Ryzen 5000 series with Radeon Graphics. I'm also running python version 3.10.6 64 bit. Not a computer nerd so bear with me. I'm running windows 11. My Commandline Arguments are --skip-torch-cuda-test --no-half --medvram --always-batch-cond-uncond --precision full --no-half-vae --opt-split-attention-v1 --opt-sub-quad-attention --disable-nan-check --opt-sdp-attention.
My full CMD window on starting the WebUI batch file is as follows:
venv "C:\Users\spagh\Downloads\stable-diffusion-webui-master\stable-diffusion-webui-master\venv\Scripts\Python.exe"
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
Python 3.10.6 (tags/v3.10.6:9c7b4bd, Aug 1 2022, 21:53:49) [MSC v.1932 64 bit (AMD64)]
Version:
Commit hash:
Installing requirements
Launching Web UI with arguments: --skip-torch-cuda-test --no-half --medvram --always-batch-cond-uncond --precision full --no-half-vae --opt-split-attention-v1 --opt-sub-quad-attention --disable-nan-check --opt-sdp-attention
No module 'xformers'. Proceeding without it.
Warning: caught exception 'Found no NVIDIA driver on your system. Please check that you have an NVIDIA GPU and installed a driver from http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx', memory monitor disabled
Loading weights [699429edad] from C:\Users\spagh\Downloads\stable-diffusion-webui-master\stable-diffusion-webui-master\models\Stable-diffusion\yiffymix_21.safetensors
Running on local URL: http://127.0.0.1:7860
​
To create a public link, set `share=True` in `launch()`.
Startup time: 22.6s (import torch: 6.7s, import gradio: 4.2s, import ldm: 1.8s, other imports: 5.1s, setup codeformer: 0.2s, load scripts: 2.9s, create ui: 1.0s, gradio launch: 0.6s).
Creating model from config: C:\Users\spagh\Downloads\stable-diffusion-webui-master\stable-diffusion-webui-master\configs\v1-inference.yaml
LatentDiffusion: Running in eps-prediction mode
DiffusionWrapper has 859.52 M params.
Applying optimization: sdp... done.
Textual inversion embeddings loaded(0):
Model loaded in 10.2s (load weights from disk: 1.8s, create model: 0.9s, apply weights to model: 7.5s).
​
SD loads up but once I enter the prompts and begin generation, it takes 20 minutes to make one on the base settings of 20 steps. It used to take me 2-3 minutes per image but I've heard it's only supposed to take a matter of seconds to generate an image? Please help me lol. Thank you!

I’ve always lurked this sub and have posted a generalization of my medical problems when I was first diagnosed. I saw this post and wanted to share an update a year later.
I was an innocent kid for most of my life. I had horrible untreated anxiety that I didn’t understand and it got the best of me when I turned 21. I had never really drank or done anything of the sorts until about 19-20 and then the day I turned 21 I was finally able to purchase liquor myself… and it got out of control.
I was diagnosed last spring at 26 with Liver failure, alcoholic hepatitis and Cirrhosis of the liver with advanced scarring. I was rushed to the emergency trauma center near me in Minneapolis Minnesota after my now fiancée returned home from a work conference out of state and found me in our bedroom completely yellow, tremulous and swollen legs and fluid build up in my stomach. When she left the week before I went on what would be my last drinking bender.
For the past 6 years I was consuming at minimum a liter of 80 proof vodka all the way up to a 1.75 liter handle per day. I stopped once for 2 weeks in 2020 after a small medical scare and also became sick with covid. That’s the longest break I had for those 6 years up until my hospitalization.
I spent a week in the hospital as the doctors tried to do anything they could do to get my increasing liver enzymes and bilirubin down. I was yellow and in a lot of pain. I was immediately placed into CIWA withdrawal protocol and was monitored for worsening mental status and seizures.
I had an MRI done, 2 ultra sounds and countless testing on my first night. I was informed I would need to undergo a transplant in the future as long as they could combat my symptoms. After 3 days the doctors started losing hope of getting it to come down with proven methods. They were left with no choice but to discharge me after a few more days with experimental steroids.
I returned home and was bed ridden while my fiancé spoon fed these steroids once daily and we hoped for a positive outcome. A week later I had blood work done and my bilirubin was decreasing by the day. I was so relieved.
My family is filled with alcoholics and I feel like I was foolish to think it wouldn’t come for me too.
I have since had countless imaging and ultra sounds done that show permanent damage and cirrhotic liver with abnormally enlarged spleen that hurts like a MF. I am now almost 400 days sober and have lost a ton of weight. I finished up my outpatient treatment at the original hospital and gastro clinic here in Minneapolis. I am now getting set up with a liver specialist at the Mayo Clinic here. I will be there getting 2nd opinion tests and imaging done to determine my future. I will most likely need a transplant down the road.
I’m not here to lecture as I have problems of my own still and crave alcohol intensely from time to do. Sharing in hopes it helps someone else out. I quit cold turkey the day I checked in. It was hard as hell at first and I don’t think I could’ve ever made it this long if it weren’t for the simple answer of “Drink again and die” from the doctors, but has gotten easier. I am proud of where I’m at but have a long way to go and I have trouble believing I will truly never pick up a drink again. If I lived a normal length life… that’s a long fucking time for a slip up to happen.
On the 3rd morning of my stay I was pretty certain I wasn’t going to make it out of the hospital alive.
(I was able to keep my drinking a secret for 6 years and no one knew about my problem or never questioned me. I didn’t want to get caught and face the embarrassment to my family. I would lock myself up in my apartment and drink up to a 1.75 liter handle by myself, pass out and repeat the ritual the next day.)
I awoke that day and thought about how I was going to have to call up my family members, brother and sister and tell them I wouldn’t be around much longer. I couldn’t stop thinking about how I would never get to see my newly born niece grow up and how selfish my actions were. They would have been so taken off guard and would have to watch me go a slow death. My liver was already shutting down and the only thing left was my kidneys next. After those shut down it’s game over.
The last 6 years of my life are a blur. I now run a small business from home while I build my life back up but I still have moments with other drugs on random occasions I can get them. Nothing too serious.
Anyways, sorry for the long winded story.
TL; DR
I went to the hospital last year spring 2022 and was diagnosed with advanced liver disease. Addiction can fuck off and so can alcohol.
I drank a liter of vodka a day for 6 years. Don’t be dumb like me and ignore the signs of TRUE illness after your body LITERALLY can’t take it anymore. I wasn’t going to go into any doctor until I had final evidence that something wasn’t right for good.
Here’s a few links with some of my medical experience from that incident. With 400 days.
https://imgur.com/gallery/IrwXhha
https://imgur.com/gallery/7gpxNsy
This is a first for me and I’m only sharing this picture of me when I checked into the emergency room. I just want to show how nuts it is that I did this to myself and it took for my fucking eyes to turn yellow for me to finally face the music.
https://imgur.com/gallery/lf5xKdl
Peace & love
-Michael

Having annoying AC problems.
Recently replaced my AC compressors after not having AC for 7 years (I know.. lol). It was ice cold for 2 weeks.
Then I went on vacation for 10 days (car sat the whole time). Came back and when I turned on the car, heard a hissing noise from the vents, no cold air was blowing.
Brought it to a mechanic, said the condenser was leaking, $600+ later it’s replaced and before I pull off the lot I test the AC, it’s not blowing cold..
I immediately walk back in, they bring it back in and say they messed up on the AC recharge, so they’re recharging it again.
30 mins later I get the car and test it, it seemed kinda cold? So I drove off. It’s been a couple days and it’s not blowing cold, it’s blowing ambient temperature (it’s been low 50’s this week, so it’s been kinda hard to tell if it’s working..)
Question 1 What could the issue be with the AC system based on this info?
Question 2 Am I right to be kinda ticked off with this shop?

I (21F) have had two surgeries done this year, both of which are completely unrelated to each other. On January 1st, I had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy after my gallbladder was found to be inflamed with three gallstones, one of which had clogged the opening I guess? On March 2nd, I had a tibial tubercle osteotomy with medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction on my right knee to correct patella alta and frequent subluxations. I started physical therapy at six weeks post op.
For both surgeries I was given a week's supply of oxycodone (5mg) for pain and I ended up not using all of them either time. For my TTO & MPFL I was also given a month's worth of ibuprofen (500mg) for less severe pain, and that bottle wasn't finished either. I am not currently taking any daily medications.
My other diagnoses are as follows: generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, dysthymia, and obsessive compulsive personality traits. I am not currently seeing a psychiatrist but I am looking for one. Not my biggest concern at the moment, just thought I'd include in case anything is tied to anxieties.
My current concerns from both surgeries are:

• near syncope - vision goes black for 2-3 seconds when standing up, occasionally has happened when already in standing position (has been a concern prior to my surgeries, happens more frequently now)
  
• surgical leg gets covered in patches of either bright pink/red or white if standing or sitting on tall chair for more than 20 minutes, does not happen when leg is horizontal or elevated (patches spanned from my knee to my ankle but mostly stay around my surgery scar)
  
• cannot stand in the shower for more than 10 minutes before feeling lightheaded, once I turn the water off and sit down my body feels heavy and I cannot get up for 10-15 minutes
  
• occasionally will feel stabbing-like pains near my tibial screws while standing, goes away when shifting weight to nonsurgical leg or sitting
  
• whether a bowel movement is soft or hard, approximately 1 of every 5 BMs ends with some form of anal fissure (has become worse since second surgery, in-between surgeries it was approximately 1 of every 10 or so BMs)
  

I haven't seen my primary doctor since last year, but I had gone to his practice for blood panels and HIV testing because last October I was sexually assaulted and was told to get tested at one month, three months, and six months. I am HIV negative, and all blood tests have come back as within normal limits.