Hi all,
Not sure if this is the place, but seems better than others.
With all the wildfire smoke passing through the US it makes it a bad idea to open windows. Unfortunately in my house with no good ventilation systems in place the CO2 can get high with no windows open, so my question is:
Can you put a furnace air filter over a window and get decent air flow through it without a fan to make this a worthwhile endeavor?
Granted with how everything is and choosing between high CO2 and 400+ pm2.5, the choice is easy, but curious on thoughts about that.

The God Valley Incident.
If you notice, Garling Figarland says “those who protect trash, are less than trash.” This made me wonder what happened on god valley in relation to this quote.
I dont believe oda just had him say this for no reason. I believe someone protected someone else he deemed as trash, thus leading to this opening quote, but who?
We know god valley was when garp and roger teamed up against Rocks, so who was the trash protecting trash? Did Garling want roger and rocks to just fight and kill eachother and is referring to garp helping? It seems roger was actually the one helping to protect the “trash” celestials, but obviously we dont know.
This quote wasn’t the first thing he said for no reason, what do you think happened on god valley that justifies this quote??

August of last year I got turned down for MC from sapphire for GAD and panic attacks. I had tried 3 different medications, none of which sat well with me side-effect wise. At the time of the interview I was not medicating and had not been for over a year as I was giving the prescribed medication a go. The Dr turned me down saying I needed to try the CBT therapy route (I have this in a summary letter of the decision). During the appointment the doctor suggested I could have been prescribed MC if I had agreed to CBT through sapphire which kind of got me on the defensive as it just felt like I was being taking advantage off money wise, having to pay for the therapy CBT and the MC so I just said no (hindsight is marvellous). Fast forward to now, and I have been self medicating from last August things are very different GAD and panic attack wise everything very manageable, different person and I would like to give the MC route another go, but I really don't want to do the CBT the thought of talking about things makes me itchy and sweaty. Would me self medicating have made a difference is basically what I'm saying.
Sorry for the wall of text.

I’ve tried all the usual ones & they’re too weak for me. My hair needs an extremely strong one as it’s literally glued to my scalp with no lift at the roots without it.
I’m not concerned about it being too harsh or drying at all, I do protein treatment, Olaplex, always use heat protection, & my hair is naturally really straight, silky & “moisturised”, gets greasy at the roots the day of shampooing & coupled with thinning hair it’s recipe for really flat hair. It basically needs a little “roughing” up once a week to give it life & movement!
I was previously using Toni & Guy Texture Detox which was amazing & lifted my hair perfectly but it got discontinued. Their men’s version with black charcoal is not the same at all.

I was kicked out a few weeks ago. But allowed to stay in the house. Just told I need to leave as soon as I can. Which is I guess as nice as my nmom has ever been to me. I was trying to stay and save money because my nmom practically forced me to give her my entire paycheck every week. But that’s not an option anymore. I started looking for apartments and they all have crazy waitlists or insane prices. But I found about 3 that I can afford and out of the 3 I absolutely hate 1 of them so I’m hoping I can maybe get into one of the others. I started packing up some stuff like clothing and bedding I’m not using or craft supplies. So that when I get a call I can get a unit I can leave as quick as possible. I still need to find some more boxes and list a lot more things on Facebook marketplace. I’m still proud of myself for trying to do this with absolutely nothing and no help from anyone. Just hope that it goes well haha. I called around and the waitlist for the units I like are between 3-6 ish months so that gives me plenty of time to save and get ready. I’m so ready for the day I don’t have to wake up at the crack of dawn to clean her messes, or wash her dirty panties, or do literally anything for her. I want to take her out of my phone and go no contact and I’m so close to being there!
I even got new insurance and got a friend to help lower my car insurance rates so I can try to save a little bit more each month.

Okay so I was looking up right now about duke nukem forever for the switch but then I couldn't find anything but I swear duke nukem forever was on switch it was in the eShop but then removed but now there is no information about it for switch.

A couple months ago I came out to my parents as trans, to which I pretty much expected, got a negative reaction. My mom was on the verge of tears, and my dad sat there telling me “You can’t force us into this” meanwhile interrupting me every second I tried to explain.
In my “coming out” conversation with them, I simply asked them if they can use he/him, and my chosen name. To which I got shut down, as they made me feel as if I was going too fast and “forcing them” to refer to me as such; when I know even myself it takes a while to adjust (especially when you’ve known them for a while), though out of respect for them (for my trans friend) I adjusted.
Their response made me feel very guilty, as if I actually am “forcing”; so I retreated to my room to cry it out. Later my mom comes in (unexpected), and basically tells me “You can’t get everything you want”, along with “you can’t force us”.
A couple days later, I discuss it with my mom again. As for this time, she sat and listened; though deep down I don’t think she understands still how them (my mom and dad) actively misgendering and deadnaming me hurts me and makes me feel very uncomfortable. To which she and I ended the conversation in silence.
My dad on the other hand is notorious (in my book) to not understand the harm behind some of his words, as the fact he’s stubborn (and acts like a child when proven wrong on serious topics). As he actively misgendered a trans woman for “acting out”, and saying that “trans men cant have periods”, but I still am optimistic that he’ll eventually come around. Though in a recent conversation, he called LGBTQIA+ an “Ideology”. Out of frustration, I ended the conversation soon after.
I came to the solution that maybe I should just subtly correct them when they misgender and deadname me, no matter how much it annoys them.
Though I could be approaching this wrongly, as I am also stubborn. But I feel like this has been going on for way too long, as I face discrimination at (catholic) church services (active homophobia and transphobia/ “ally” bystander effect) from priests. As I tell my parents, they downplay my feelings and tell me basically to turn the other cheek as it’s “his opinion” (to which I understand, but the words still hurt). My parents (dad mainly) downplay my feelings (though they know i have depression/ anxiety), so it’s slowly becoming the norm for me.
I need help with figuring this out lol

Bethesda seems happy to milk skyrim for another decade and George RR Martin does everything BUT work on his main series. Currently there are no release dates so, in your opinion, wich one is coming out first?

I don’t want to see him praise others and wank sukuna. Not like this bros. Next we will see him tag team sukuna with panda.

Doesn't ANYONE question why and even HOW they need to have so much control over my life? Everyone thinks I'm a horrible person and I need to be tamed. Yet none of these people get to know me and opt out for learning about me through the family that has berated and scapegoated me for ALL THEIR SHIT FOR YEARS.
news flash guys: no one around me is expected to change except me, and no change I can try to muster fits their mold. Meanwhile they can hold on to all their old habits and treat people like shit, never have any personal self responsibility, AND THEN CONTINUE TREATING EVERYONE ELSE LOKE SHIT!
Dayna is a liar. I've known her for a long time and her lying has been a major issue with bringing over random men, not telling people where tf she's getting drunk at and so on.
Every night they sit on that couch together and gossip about everyone else while it elevates their position. I cannot stress enough that this is chronic shit behavior on their part that they have done UNPROVOKED but they will tell you it's because xyz (even though xyz was a mistake, or an exaggeration, or DIDN'T EVEN FING HAPPEN)

I'm curious as I was considering upgrading to a 3060 - 12gb from my 1060 - 6gb, and want to know how much betteif it's worth it (I want to keep making wallpapers and similar both for phones and pc, but wanted to increase size)
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Me: Nvidia 1060 - 6gb VRAM, 1080p (1900x1080), 14 to 17s/it, 40 steps on Euler a, xformers active, colorful checkpoint, (no mid or low vram arguments or anything else), on A1111

I’ve been messing around with Lumen as a way of running 5e adventures for my family. (Mostly, they demanded to play 5e, then immediately objected to how long combats took. Go figure!). A couple of things I realized when doing this:

• I don’t need to convert the entirety of 5e character possibilities; I only have to worry about the characters actually at my table. This was extremely liberating. So, essentially every character is custom built.
• You have to lean way more into the gradual advancement premise of 5e than Lumen usually does to make it work. Lumen has notions of advancement, but I had to turn the dials up a bit.
• Reminded again that d12 >>> d6. In this case, allows better tuning of probability, and makes ±1 adjustments less severe.
• The color-coded class guides for 5e reinforce the fact that 80% of the options in 5e can just be eliminated, and Lumen “classes” can just cherry-pick “blue” choices and get most of the flavor.
• Species/class combinations that would be “suboptimal” in 5e work just fine in Lumen. Even better, really.

If this seems like your jam, you can check out my playtest noodling on itch: Lightscroll (free and Creative Commons). If you get it to a table, I’d love to hear how it went. It definitely needs more tinkering, more of some things, less of others.

So, I was talking to someone regarding the recent controversy regarding a teacher in Canada who berated her students for skipping school on a day when it hosted a Pride event. The teacher in question was recorded chastising the students (who are Muslim for context) for skipping school on that day, saying that the students cannot expect to be respected for their religion if they cannot extend the same courtesy to the LGBTQ community.
While on its face I do agree with the teacher's sentiment, that respect is a two-way street, I cannot help but think that, in general, people should not be forced to attend events that they don't want to. I believe that forcing people in this context would not only be a breach of personal liberty but also counter-productive since I think will breed resentment towards the event, instead of acceptance.
The person I was talking to disagreed and explained that by doing what they did, the students chose to take an active position against other kids, namely the LGBTQ students.
This is the position that I take issue with and the topic of this CMV.
As I stated above, I believe that not attending/supporting an event does not mean that you are against said event. To me, this makes no sense.
There are plenty of events that I do not attend or support but that doesn't make me take an active position against these events.
For example, I do not attend sports events. Does that mean that I am taking an active position against sports? Of course not, so why would it be any different in the above case?
If I choose to not attend a cancer research event, does that mean I am taking an active position against curing cancer? I don't see how you could logically make that argument, so no.
Finally, I myself do not attend Pride events, but does that mean I am taking an active position against the LGBTQ community? Absolutely not and I struggle to see how you could make that argument.
So anyways, that is my position and I am looking forward to the responses.

You see if you want to complain about Quest cool, if you wanna complain about Toxic community cool, want to complain the Story Line is Shit cool. But when ya Come in here talking gameplay, or how the game is un playable cause you was “Nerf” I have to be honest A Lot of ya Just suck.
So many of You complainers make builds that are horrible and then Be pissed off when the player can’t do anything. Its Dudes out here with a 92 Driving Dunk but a 70 Vert mad they can’t get Contact dunks. 6’10 Centers with 90 Ball Handle and 85 Driving Lay up but 75 Defensive Rebound mad they can’t Get Rebounds. Wing Players with 90 Ball Handles no acceleration no Speed with Ball mad they can’t Blow By Anyone.
You people Make horrible builds and then Blame 2k for your negligence and lack of patience to do some research and figure out how exactly you should make builds before putting money on the game. There is a lot to dislike about 2k23, But a lot of ya Just Suck and thats Real Shit 🤷🏿‍♂️

First of all I'd like to preface this by saying I understand I am coming from a privileged position of having money in savings- this has not passed me by at all, and I feel extremely lucky to have it.
I have been rendered disabled by some sort of illness (waiting on diagnosis) but it is extremely unlikely for it to get any better. For this, I have been awarded both enhanced rates of PIP- to give you an idea of how much it affects me.
This condition has meant that I'm unable to work (tried both in person, and online work) and have been since I was old enough to work, leaving me with no viable source of income, no national insurance credits, and ultimately, no way of supporting myself once I've left home.
Now normally, I would turn to universal credit, however the savings I have just reach the threshold for disqualifying me from eligibility. I'd like to own property some day (even the smallest, cheapest place to stay- as long as it's my own) so I plan to save a lot of the PIP im getting besides what I need to spend currently.
But either way, PIP is not enough to live on.
I'm at a complete loss of what to do, really. I can't claim ESA because of no credits, I can't claim UC because I'm above savings threshold. What else can I do?
I'd really appreciate any advice/information about where to go from here. Thank you!

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I'm a new fan, completed Mass Effect 1 today, and had a hate-love relationship with Saren. Most of the time I just wanted to kill him, as most probably do, but after confronting him on Virmir I decided he wasn't such a bad guy after all. If I had to describe him somehow briefly, he would be a cold beast with a good heart. Underneath this dark personality was a desire to save as many lives as possible.
After his speeches, I had hoped that the game would give the choice to redeem him, and although Saren eventually understood his mistakes, he had no choice but to simply commit suicide which was terribly depressing and unexpected.
I also realise that he was a morally non-ideal man, but it suited me very much to the role of the Spectre whose purpose was to look after the galaxy by whatever means. That's what makes him interesting, because he's even the definition Spectres.
I've played some Bioware productions before, and there have been noteworthy characters in each, so I'd be lying if I said I didn't expect this in Mass Effect, but I have to admit that Saren impressed me with how ambiguous he is. I look forward to seeing equally well-written antagonists in the next parts of this series.

First, I love this community.
Second, there's really no point to this. I just wanted to share since the girlfriend doesn't quite get it and my dogs have no idea what I'm talking about.
I bought this game because it looked like fun, was immediately overwhelmed, and went back to World of Warcraft. I started visiting this sub and watched some misadventures, checked out some amazing builds, and got a better feel for what to do beyond panicking over greydwarves.
Last week, I decided to establish a permanent base and got to planning. I made sure to add some components I saw commonly used in this sub. I found (on foot) a nice, relatively flat area in the meadows, near both a black forest and mountain biome (I know the mountains are far off but the scenery in the background will be amazing once i knock down some trees). Even better, I was a quick 15 second run to the ocean.
I returned to my prior base to load up the karve with the essentials and set sail to establish my new domain. To my absolute delight, I found the body of water near the new location was a large, natural harbor. Internally squeeling at the potential for a future project, I hop off and start unloading.
A small house goes up, some torches thrown around, I map out the potential I see for the future Fort Cowabunga. Too excited, I jump between clearing nearby forests for wood and digging a moat. The moat gets deep enough, relieved I had just enough wood to build stairs to get out (another lesson learned). I look at my progress. The ground isnt entirely flat. My moat isn't entirely even. Rocks and stumps surrounding the moat that will need to be cleared for a future road system. But it is mine, and I will farm it and I will protect it.
A new, 5x7 tile house goes up, fire place is almost in working order, the roof is 30% done and the forest starts moving, in the rain. I yank out my bow and watch as greydwarves and a brute slip into my moat, a great success. Cackling, I make it rain sweet sweet arrows, I feel untouchable. The raid ends, the sun comes out, and I build my fence, two bridges to the base with fancy double door entrances. Feeling accomplished without realizing the true success of the night.
Back to the ore grind, I zip over to the black forest. Boom, biggest copper vein I've ever seen. Even better, a burial chamber about 50 yards north. Clear the chamber like I'm evicting some squatters, I find the last 2 surtling cores I need to have a kiln AND smelter. More treasure, about 34 golden mushrooms.
Back to the copper, I get swinging. 34 ore in my pack and it's too much so I throw my first cart together. It eventually has about 53 copper and 8 tin ores in it. Thinking it's time to log, I start heading back and decide to load up on some core wood. As I'm chopping, a troll pokes his nose out at me and I decide to test the base.
I grab the cart and start kiting the big blue baby back home. I lost a single set of steps leading to a bridge at my main entrance as i kill my 3rd troll of my valheim career. Also ending what is now the most fruitful resource collecting excursion I have ever had, by a lot.
Kiln and smelter go up, get fully loaded and i pause for a good five to ten minutes, walking through my new impenetrable fortress. Just as I'm about to log off, I pick up some copper bars and walk to the chest near my forge. As it opens, I see the 3 queen bees I brought from the old base.
I close the game, turn off my PC, and look to the dog laying next to me. "Sullyboy!" I say, "pupaw's making mead soon!" Unimpressed, he saunters off to bed. I get in bed, everyone's asleep, and all I can think about is mead brewing while I build myself a dock in the days to come.

Looking for stories of hope. Had a 31 week old premie who was a twin. Cysts were found on her second head ultrasound. One in the left frontal near the ventricles and one in the right frontal very close to the temporal. The second one is still in the white matter but more superficial.
Baby is now 3 months old (corrected age 1 month)
No symptoms at all. No seizures, feeding well, focuses on you when looked at, and moves all limbs fine. No swelling of the brain was noted.
Looking for hope on prognosis later on in her life.