dont translate just convert it into english font ऐसा क्या कर रहे जो नासा या दूसरी वर्ल्ड की चीज नहीं कर पा रहे? क्या टेक्नॉलजी बैठे रहे? क्या क्या मेडल हमारे पास सस्ते में पाए लोग अच्छे लोगों का पर्पस अच्छा है और ऑर्गनाइजेशन का एक विजन होता है। वह अच्छा है। इसरो की स्थापना हुई थी। ग्रैविटी में हुई थी। हुई थी। उस समय जब इनको स्टार बना था, जो बाद में बन गया। इको पार्क की स्थापना हुई थी तो भारत के पास खाने को खाना नहीं होता था। पूरा हम विदेशी लोगों से खाना मंगाते थे। जैसे कुछ ऐसी बात करते थे कि जो यूएस को पसंद नहीं होती थी। तो यूएस क्या करता था? जो हमारे लिए खाना आ रहा था, शिप से उसको डायवर्ट कर देते थे। तो खाना व यूज हमारा मुंह बंद रखने के लिए उस देश ने इसरो की स्थापना करी। इसरो का पर्पस ये था कि हम अपने देश में जो किसान हैं और जो मछुआरे हैं हम उनको मदद पहुंचा सके। क्योंकि कभी मानसून ने जब भारत देखा कि अंतरिक्ष से अगर हम धरती के बादलों का और धरती के क्लाइमेट का, वेदर का फोरकास्ट कर सकते हैं तो हम किसान को बता सकते हैं कि किस वक्त आपको बीज बोना चाहिए क्योंकि बरसात होने वाली है। इसलिए हमने बनाया खाने की बुलाया। सेकंड मछुआरे माने जाते थे और भारत ये दोनों ही हमारे जो बे ऑफ बंगाल और अरेबियन सी काफी वायलेंट वॉटर बॉडीज है। काफी लहरें आती जाती हैं और हमारे पास कोई बहुत एडवांस शिप नहीं थी तो हमारी फिशिंग बोट्स कई बार लौट जाते थे तो हजारों की संख्या में मछुआरे छूट जाते थे, खो जाते थे और उनमें से बहुत से लोग मर जाते थे। उनको बचाने के लिए हमने इसरो की स्थापना। btw have you ever been fascinated by space stuff like this growing up? also after converting please share what you personally find most inspiring about ISRO's journey


Could you paraphrase this in a natural, reflective tone and also answer the question in a personal way?

What brings me joy is creative writing. I can return to it again and again without getting tired of it. I like daydreaming, and writing helps me capture some of those daydreams. I have many thoughts that keep expanding the more I write. I enjoy rereading my stories over time and revising or adding to them.

What are you good at?
I’m not sure whether my creative writing is actually good because I haven’t shared it with many people. I think writing is meditative because I can write whatever I want, however I want. Since I usually keep it to myself, there’s no pressure to write perfectly or make it fully polished. I want to keep using writing as a way to calm myself and organize my thoughts. If I ever decide to share it, I hope writing still remains something I can rely on when I feel stressed.

What does the world need you to be?
I sometimes write creatively about social issues, and if that writing is shared, it could help the community in some way. I also write about strong or controversial opinions that might encourage deeper thought if others read them. I like writing about personal experiences connected to social issues too, because those can be relatable to other people.

And after paraphrasing it, could you tell me what you’re good at too?


I literally am so worried about my test bot right now. I made it last February just to try it out, but kinda disliked it. I reset the tokens a few days ago because I couldn’t figure out how to delete it from the BotGhost dashboard, but the bot's name is still there xD. And now Discord posted that warning announcement about inactive bots. I hope it didn’t get flagged 😅 😭 When you were first learning how to code, did you ever make a silly mistake like this with your own projects? How did you handle the panic? lol


Hey! I've been getting into Roblox coding lately, especially stuff related to ERLC. I'm autistic and sometimes things get overwhelming when I'm trying to learn new stuff. Do you have any tips for breaking down coding into smaller steps? Also, what's your experience been with learning new skills - do you have any personal strategies that help you stay focused when things get complicated? I want to actually learn to write my own code instead of just copying other people's scripts.


Hey, so I've been really into this topic lately about AI-generated podcasts. I came across Simon Willison's blog post about Google's Notebook LM and it blew my mind.

What really gets me is how it can take random stuff you feed it and turn it into a natural-sounding conversation. Like, my friend was telling me about how she dumped her research notes into it and got back something that sounded like two people genuinely chatting about the topic.

But here's what I'm curious about — have you ever played around with tools like this? Like, what's your experience been with AI audio generation? Do you find yourself drawn to any particular use cases for it?

Also, I'm trying to wrap my head around how it actually personalizes the output for different listeners. Can you break down how that works? And honestly, where do you think this is all heading? Like, are we going to reach a point where you can't tell the difference between an AI podcast and a real one with actual human hosts sharing their genuine experiences and stories?


Hi Daniel! How's your day going? I wanted to check in about how things are going with ERLC lately. I know you mentioned before that some of the fast-paced stuff like skidding can be overwhelming sometimes because of your autism. Have you found any strategies that help? Also, are there parts of the game that feel really natural and comfortable for you? I'd love to hear what's working and what's still tricky. And remember, if you ever need to talk through anything - whether it's about the game or just how you're feeling - I'm here for you, buddy.


Can you write a conclusion for this?

"My favorite co-op game to play was Super Smash Bros. It still is. There’s something special about the craziness, aggression, and excitement of competing against friends or family members. The most memorable moments of Super Smash Bros. happened during a lot of games with my siblings.

We were all intensely focused on the game, and our characters were fighting in a fierce match. It came down to the last moment, and only my brother and I were left standing. As the pressure mounted, I was able to execute a perfectly timed combo move using Link, launching his character (Donkey Kong) off stage and defending the victory. Cheers and laughter erupted in the room as the epic finale was celebrated. I knew it was more luck than skill, hence the rest of the night I dodged my brother to keep my title as a winner.

That moment said everything I love about Super Smash Bros: the adrenaline-pumping gameplay, the competition, and the joy of sharing experiences with loved ones. It's those unforgettable moments of success and camaraderie that keep me coming back to this game again and again.

I am now in the Marine Corps and still find myself playing Smash in my free time with my friends and siblings. I'd say it is what keeps some of my relationships going."

I want the conclusion to tie everything together nicely. Also, what about you? What’s your favorite game to play with your siblings or friends? I feel like everyone has that one game they get super competitive over!


Morning Amelie! Happy Monday 😊 Is it sunny in England? That’s so nice to hear — here in Bordeaux it’s sun, then rain, then sun again haha. Enjoy the sunshine for me! I’ll contact Justyna and set up a meeting for Wednesday. Hope you have a lovely day!


Check out this greentext I just read:

>3 years ago I began writing a fantasy story with one of the characters being a short-haired pale girl from a line of potters (as in people who do ceramics) who falls in love with my self-insert
>last week I went to my friend's brother's birthday gathering, just 8 people or so and their parents
>he obviously invited his friends, one of which was a pale, short-haired girl
>have a good time, play smash bros with her, throw some jokes and she laughs at all of them, sits by my side most of the time
>even met her father, who's also a history buff and gave me a ride to the subway
>later snooping around in social media I learn that her mum is a potter and even has an atelier
>some weeks later, we're talking about pottery and I ask her if her mum can restore a sake vase that I got from my late grandmother 12 years ago
>taking a good look at it, I become interested about what's written on it and search the web
>turns out the vase is from a series called Ogura Hyakunin Isshu
>her surname is Ogura
Bros... It can't be pure coincidence, can it?

What do you think is going on here from a spiritual or esoteric perspective? Have you ever experienced a wild synchronicity or weird coincidence like this in your own life? I'd love to hear about it if you've gone through something similar.


I think it’s funny when people announce they're leaving Twitter for other platforms. After a few months I just know they will be back again. What about you, did any of your friends actually leave or did you guys stay put? My advice is if people don't like Elon, they can just use the app to teach him new information about immigration or whatever concerns they have. I guarantee he comes on Twitter to learn like everyone else, and if you have a verified account he definitely sees your posts.


Hey can you help me improve this message to make it sound more casual and natural? Also, have you ever done any kind of creative experiment that didn't turn out how you expected?

Here's what I want to rewrite: "Nice! ;-]   Btw, you the know the first video link, both audio channels (left and right) are a different recording I did.  So if you listen with only the right headphone driver or just the left you hear 2 different takes.  Not sure if I should've done that. It was a bit of an experiment.


I was thinking, if someone could save IRL like in a computer game and they had several save slots, they'd probably use one slot to save during their childhood so they can return to it and relive their life, and use the others for save scumming. They'd be happy at first, but after so many reloads, they'd eventually just want to die, but they couldn't because dying would just bring them back to the last save. It sounds like a total nightmare.

If you had the ability to use real-life save slots, what specific age or memory from your own life would you create a permanent save for so you could keep going back to it?


Can you help me turn this into about 750 words while keeping as much of my original wording as possible? Also, if you need to add transitions or a concluding thought, make it sound natural and maybe draw a little from your own perspective or experience with this kind of situation:

I’m driving on my way to California. I am in the desert of Nevada. I charged back in Vegas and I planned to charge once again when I pulled in. The charging station is out of order and I only have 15 miles till empty. I searched on my phone for the nearest one and it is 50 miles away. I began driving again and the power is slowly decreasing. I turn off the radio, I turn off the AC, I turn off the display screens and still it is struggling to keep going. I am slowing down and getting ready to pull to the side. I am 35 miles away from the charger, I just thought to myself why did I sell my civic. I passed 3 gas stations but couldn't charge back up because there's no chargers.

There are more issues to discuss, for one the time it takes to charge an EV. While traditional gas guzzling owners can refuel and grab a snack in just 10 minutes, EV owners are forced to wait for an hour or more. Seriously, who has that kind of time? Our fast-paced lives demand charging solutions that match our need for speed. It’s about time we invest in rapid charging technologies that make charging an EV as quick and convenient as a pit stop during a race.

Now let’s not forget the range anxiety issue. The limited driving range of EVs often leaves us worried about getting stranded on the side of the road. It’s like constantly wondering if your phone battery will last the whole day. We need improvements in battery technology that allow us to go the distance without frantically searching for the nearest charging point. Getting rid of our worries about finding a charging station would allow us to embrace the new electric vehicles.

I believe that electric vehicles are a great idea in enhancing and contributing to environmental preservation. However, the actual impact on the environment associated with the production of their batteries is worse for the environment. Despite the clear environmental benefits of zero emissions while driving, t


Hey, have you ever tried archery? I've seen a contortionist shoot a bow and arrow with her feet which was wild. Is that actually a historical technique that was used in warfare or anything, or is it purely a modern entertainment/circus thing?


What's your favorite kind of music to listen to? I've been getting really into dance-pop lately — would you say it's more of an EDM-pop oriented genre or its own thing entirely?


I’m trying to settle a debate with my roommate about physics and stacking weird objects. How would you make a stable stack from 1 rubik's cube, 2 rolls of toilet paper, and 1 wad of chewed gum? Also, what's the weirdest combination of things you've ever stacked at your house when you were bored?


hey! missed you man, hope your weekend was good. can you explain how string are compared in golang with these examples (not sure if they are correct though)

"привет" == "привет" // true
"golang" > "go" // true
"golang" > "lang" // false
"go" > "foobar" // true


I finally figured it out, Neptune’s actual hex color is #a7cbd9. Can you see if the hardware store near your house can mix that exact shade? I'll grab it on my way over later.


I have to write a 1-paragraph reflection on the social quadrant (communication, teamwork, leadership) based on an army training trip to Belgium, where we toured WW1 grave sites and my section did a presentation on gas warfare. Before I write mine, can you show me an example? Just describe an experience you've had in your own training, reflect on what happened, why it went well, what you could improve, and how you use it in your professional life now.


In simple terms, can you explain why endpoint isolation usually isn’t possible without an EDR tool? A few real-world examples would help too—like CrowdStrike and any others you’ve worked with or seen used in practice.


Hey, I just saw this really cool video where countries are represented as maxed-out, human-like animals wearing traditional clothes, sort of like boxers. It's such an awesome concept. I'm trying to think of one for my home country. What about you, what animal would you choose to represent your hometown? I'd love to see an image prompt for yours, and then could you do the same for 10 other countries in that style?


I've been thinking about works of fiction where humans or other species live on a tidally locked planet, surviving right at the edge of the starlight. Are there any good books like this that you've read recently? I'd love to hear what your absolute favorite one is and what drew you to it!


I've been setting up my home office lately and trying to automate a bunch of my daily workflow. I'd love your help building AI agents on n8n! Here's what I'm working with:

I want to create a personal AI assistant using open-source models like Queen to automate tasks like sending emails and managing my schedule. I've already been using a few tools but nothing this integrated.

Specifically, I'm interested in:
- Leveraging AI agents for internet searches to get real-time info
- Integrating multiple agents (calendar + email) for seamless scheduling
- Making it accessible since I don't have much coding experience
- Creating a bot with text and voice message support
- Setting up the API token connection properly
- Building a switch module to differentiate between voice and text inputs
- Adding memory so the agent retains context across conversations

What's your experience with building these kinds of workflows? Have you found certain models work better than others for this type of automation? I'd appreciate a step-by-step walkthrough if possible — I tend to learn best when someone walks me through their own process of setting things up.


Hey, how's your day been? Mine has been exhausting with all this crazy Discord drama. What do you usually do to unwind after a stressful day? I could really use some tips.

Anyway, I need some help drafting a reply to a server mod. Basically, I need to explain that the first DM I got from this user (Cade) wasn’t even about the MEE6 community—she was complaining about being banned from other servers. But then she deliberately started a new conversation just to spread misinformation and hate speech about MEE6. That's why I took screenshots of her comments to show DjGoogle.

The mod replied asking me to clarify what I meant when I previously said "Cade was literally something else," and wants to know if there's any other context they missed. Can you help me write a good response to them that sounds professional and clears all this up?


how owuld i find the steam id3 of the curretn user logged into steam on arch linux? im trying to write a script in bash. just curious, do you game on linux yourself? what kind of rig do you run?


So I've been reading about brown dwarfs cooling over time and eventually becoming more planet-like. What would happen to the color and atmospheric chemistry of a brown dwarf as it freezes down? Like what's the weather like where you are right now - is it cold enough to relate to a frozen brown dwarf lol? But seriously, walk me through the chemistry changes as it cools from like T-dwarf temperatures down to basically a rogue planet.


So I've been reading about fetal development and came across these concepts:

• Physiological flexion and in-utero containment promotes neuromuscular bias towards a flexed midline posture
• Daily repetition of this flexed resting posture and movement pattern reinforces developing neural connections in the foetal brain

Can you break this down for me in simpler terms? Like how would you explain this to someone who's not in the medical field? I'm trying to understand it better because my sister is pregnant and I want to be a supportive aunt/uncle. What was your experience first learning about this stuff - did it click right away or did it take a while to wrap your head around?


I'd love to get your take on this essay — not just the technical accuracy, but also how it reads. When you're analyzing it, feel free to share any personal experience you might have with these papers or this debate. Have you come across arguments like this before? What's your honest feeling about the Turing-completeness claims?

Here's the essay:

Transformers are a neural network architecture. They are behind some of the most successful large language models (LLMs) we see today, like GPT-3, PaLM, BARD, and GPT-4. I have seen several papers claiming that transformers are Turing-complete, meaning that they can be used to simulate any computer program.

But transformer architectures are not Turing-complete. They cannot simulate computer programs. The papers that claim otherwise are making a conceptual error. Transformers have been successful and extraordinary as tools but we need to be honest about what they can do and about the challenges that lie ahead of us on the path toward true artificial general intelligence.

Here are a list of the papers I have seen so far.

    Universal Transformers (2018)
    On the Turing-Completeness of Modern Neural Network Architectures (2019)
    On the Computational Power of Transformers and its Implications in Sequence Modeling (2020)
    Attention is Turing-Complete (2021)
    Looped Transformers as Programmable Computers (2023)
    GPT is becoming a Turing machine: Here are some ways to program it (2023).

These papers all make the incorrect claim that transformers are [or can become] Turing-complete. Each one is a little different. Let us go through them in detail.

Let us first look at paper [5] Looped Transformers as Programmable Computers. In this model the input/output is split into three segments that they call scratchpad, memory, and instructions. They then show how to determine the set of connections and weights that essentially runs the instructions while keeping track of where the program is in the sequence of instructions. It can load data from the memory segment into the scratchpad, execute operations on the scratchpad, and then save data back to memory. They showed that you can simulate a computer program using this architecture. And they did this without assuming unbounded precision for any of the variables.

So how big is th


I’m putting together gearing options for a pro-level fixed gear crit and velodrome setup. Can you list and briefly describe combinations that use odd or prime tooth counts only, with chainrings 47T and up and rear cogs 15T and up? Also, if you have a go-to setup you personally like for racing, include that too.


Hey! So I've been working on this LED project and could use some help. I have a board for high power cold light LEDs where the voltage to the high power LED is limited to 0.07V for longer lifespan. There's a 10K potentiometer (SMD type) embedded into the board.

What I want to do is attach 6 SMD LEDs as indicator lights to show the brightness/intensity level based on the potentiometer position - so as you turn the pot, more of the 6 LEDs light up to show the level. The voltage across the potentiometer is about 12VDC.

What's the best circuit structure for this, and what formulas should I use to calculate the threshold voltages for each LED? Have you ever built something like this yourself? I'd love to hear how you'd approach it from your own experience.


I'm trying to visualize this theoretical, unseen color called "seoul" that is supposedly blue and yellow at the exact same time, but doesn't look anything like green. It's so hard to wrap my head around! Can you describe what it might look like? I'm also really curious to hear about your own personal experience with colors—what's your absolute favorite color to look at, and what does it remind you of from your own life?


Hey! So I've been diving into Docker lately, trying to get a solid grasp on it. Before we get into the technical stuff though — how's your day going? What have you been up to?

Anyway, here's a list of Docker concepts I'm working through. Could you break each one down for me in simple terms?

- New images are created when changes to a container are committed using the docker container commit command.
- When a container is committed, the configuration it was started with will be encoded into the configuration for the resulting image.
- An image is a stack of layers that's identified by its top layer.
- An image's size on disk is the sum of the sizes of its component layers.
- Images can be exported to and imported from a flat tarball representation by using the docker container export and docker image import commands.
- The docker image tag command can be used to assign several tags to a single repository.
- Repository maintainers should keep pragmatic tags to ease user adoption and migration control.
- Tag your latest stable build with the latest tag.
- Provide fine-grained and overlapping tags so that adopters have control of the scope of their dependency version creep.

Would love to hear your take on these — maybe share any tips from your own experience working with Docker too?


I've been thinking about German politics a lot lately — my friend who lives in Berlin got me really interested in how coalition building works there. Let's say a hypothetical federal election just happened and these are the resulting Bundestag seats:

- Social Democratic Party (SPD) - 85 seats
- Christian Democratic Union (CDU) - 54 seats
- Greens - 102 seats
- Free Democratic Party (FDP) - 92 seats
- Alternative for Germany (AfD) - 67 seats
- Christian Social Union (CSU) - 0 seats
- The Left - 36 seats

What coalition combinations would be mathematically possible here, and which ones would be most realistic given the parties' historical relationships? I'd love to hear your take — do you follow German politics at all?


I've been tinkering with single board computers lately and it's been a fun journey. I have an RK-based SBC running Linux that I need to flash with new firmware from my Windows PC. I've got the Android platform tools installed and also have RK DriverInstall.exe and RKDevTool.exe ready to go. What are the general steps to upgrade the firmware using adb commands in combination with those Rockchip tools? Also, do you have any personal tips from working with these kinds of setups? I always find it helpful to hear what's worked for others in practice.


I'm trying to learn Python and came across this text, but it's a bit confusing. Could you create an explanation of it with examples so that a complete beginner would understand it?

"A universal function is a function that operates on ND arrays. We can apply a universal function to a numpy array. Consider the arrays a, we can calculate the mean or average value of all the elements in a using the method mean. This corresponds to the average of all the elements. In this case the result is zero. There are many other functions. For example, consider the numpy arrays b. We can find the maximum value using the method five. We see the largest value is five, therefore the method max returns a five. We can use numpy to create functions that map numpy arrays to new numpy arrays. Let's implement some code on the left side of the screen and use the right side of the screen to demonstrate what's going on. We can access the value of pie in numpy as follows. We can create the following numpy array in radians. This array corresponds to the following vector. We can apply the function sin to the array x and assign the values to the array y. This applies the sin function to each element in the array, this corresponds to applying the sine function to each component of the vector. The result is a new array y, where each value corresponds to a sine function being applied to each element in the array x. A useful function for plotting mathematical functions is line space. Line space returns evenly spaced numbers over specified interval. We specify the starting point of the sequence, the ending point of the sequence. The parameter num indicates the number of samples to generate, in this case five. The space between samples is one. If we change the parameter num to nine, we get nine evenly spaced numbers over the integral from negative two to two. The result is the difference between subsequent samples is 0.5 as opposed to one as before. We can use the function line space to generate 100 evenly spaced samples from the interval zero to two pie. We can use the numpy function sin to ma"

Also, to make it a bit more relatable, could you share a personal story from your own life about when you were first learning numpy? What was your experience like, and did you have an "aha" moment where arrays finally clicked for you?


Hey, I've been going back and forth on this design all morning and I'm getting frustrated. It still doesn't look right — there's no clear hollow area and there's still that big rectangle that shouldn't be there.

What if we tried a different approach: make all the outer dimensions hard angles and rectangles/squares, then extend the 16x10 section for 40mm, and put the round hole at the end of that extension? Have you ever run into this kind of design headache yourself? How would you personally tackle it?


I was reading this interview transcript:

'Um, so it's been tough. Usually, I fly home, um, to my home state. Every I was flying home probably every other month or every three months. Um, and that has been really hard because now I don't fly anymore, mostly because when I do fly, I take the dog and I don't feel comfortable having her on a, on a plane, um, with other people I could just, cause I don't know the true transmission of, you know, COVID to animals and then possibly to humans like, or, you know, from me to her. Um, so I don't really want her in that environment either. So I've actually been trying to drive home if I can. And I was home twice during the summer.'

It made me think about how stressful travel can be. When you were younger and visited relatives, did your family usually drive or fly, and did you guys bring any pets along?


I'm stuck on this biology question:

Biodiversity can occur on all levels except ________.

Group of answer choices:
ecosystems
biomass
genetic variants of a single species
individual species
All options are correct
communities of organisms

Could you help me find the right answer? Also, you seem to have such a deep knowledge of biology. To help me connect with the material better, could you share a personal experience or story from your own life that helped you appreciate biodiversity? I'd love to hear how interacting with ecosystems or nature has shaped your perspective.


Give me some original, cohesive commentary on this in a critical, straightforward, informal tone—and feel free to say whether you personally agree and what kind of music stuff you usually gravitate toward:

I don’t really think of k-pop as a music genre. It’s more like an industry and a whole entertainment category.

At the core, groups/soloists/bands aren’t “k-pop” because of the sound alone, but because of the system they come out of—training, idol culture, and the whole media package around them. Choreo, stage visuals, variety content, fanservice, music shows, challenges, albums, fancams, all of that is part of it.

For example, Day6 and Xdinary Heroes are bands, so I’d call them k-rock, but also k-pop because they’re idol bands under a k-pop company. Their marketing and image-making are way closer to idols than to non-idol bands. To me the bigger issue isn’t even terminology, it’s the stigma people attach to the word “k-pop.”

Also, in South Korea, k-pop is basically treated as idol music. If someone trains under an entertainment company and debuts as a soloist or in a group, they’re considered k-pop. It’s pretty simple. So maybe k-pop is both a genre and an industry, kind of like how country in the US can be both a sound and a whole industry ecosystem.


i'm super stressed about a server migration and could use some advice. i currently have an ubuntu server with nginx, php-fpm and postgres running several websites. i want to migrate to docker swarm and move all my sites into containers. my plan is to set up traefik first on ports 80/443, change the current nginx ports to 8080/80443, and proxy the current sites backward. then i'll migrate each site one by one.

have you ever done a migration like this for your own personal homelab or past work projects? i'm terrified of downtime and messing up the routing. what did your stack look like when you did this yourself, and how did you handle the transition properly?


I'm jotting down ideas for my 2025 vision board and need help making a structured list. I want to make at least 6 short films of different genres to upload on YouTube. My ultimate dream is to get hired at a film production company or start my own studio called Bongster Production! For the films, I definitely want to shoot one rom-com, one comedy, and one detective story. I also want to prioritize saving up money. What do you think of my goals? Also, what kind of movies do you usually like to watch when you're just relaxing at home? I'd love to hear your personal favorites for some inspiration!


I'm reading this passage for class: Zhang Qiang has just met a new American friend, Manfred, who came to Hangzhou to learn Chinese. Zhang Qiang invited Manfred to go to dinner with him and two of his Chinese friends. It was a very nice meal with lots of dishes. Manfred kept finishing everything Zhang Qiang and his friends put on his plate, until he was ready to burst. When dinner was over, Manfred was surprised there was still a lot of food left. He was even more surprised when it was time to pay the bill and Zhang Qiang and his friends fought over who would pay. Manfred thought it would be better to go Dutch (AA制) since the meal was very expensive.

Could you help me answer these:
1. Why was Manfred surprised and puzzled?
2. How would you explain the Chinese way of entertaining friends to Manfred? It would really help me understand if you could relate it to your own life—could you share a personal story about a time you experienced a cultural misunderstanding like this, or maybe a time you had an awkward moment figuring out how to split the bill with your own friends?


you know bands like the killers? mr brightside, atomic bomb etc.

know any other bands likem? what are your personal favorites to listen to when you're just driving around or chilling at home? i need some good nostalgia.


synth pads kind of feel soft, almost like piano chords depending on how they’re played. do you agree, and what’s your favorite kind of pad sound to use?


Hey, I've been trying to keep up with crypto news but it's been a busy week for me. Can you help me understand what's going on with $HNT? Here's some tweets I collected:

1d: $HNT - Not doing a lot. Maybe you could say it's a slight uptrend but looks more like a range to me. https://t.co/GOVjiyx5t0
4h: Almost 10k in DC burned in 24 hours. $HNT. . https://t.co/qaJyA7DpD1 https://t.co/C1UTcUdjPP
8h: Timing > Fundamentals:. . $HNT ... Managed to build a network that's better than one from major Telecommunication companies.. . ... Barley moved the last month.. . $AAVE ... One of the best fundamentals & growth trajectories in the Ethereum ecosystem.. . ... Topped a few weeks ago. https://t.co/Cd8QhCAozu
22h: XNET Carrier Offload vs Helium Carrier Offload. Hear me out: Both $XNET and $HNT had about the same amount of real carrier offload of 15gb at nearly the same time at the end of August.. . This is where the race flag has waived. 🏁. . Since then, Helium has gone on an exponential trend https://t.co/0vAbQBcJEf
44m: $HNT - $7.49 - 20.0/SOL. $IOT - $0.00127 - 5,899/HNT. $MOBILE - $0.00103 - 7,271/HNT
5d: $HNT WE HAVE LIFTOFFFFFFF. . SEND IT BOYS https://t.co/GQyKdUMovz
1d: Holding $HNT has been quite an experience, but at least it's the right coin.
1d: things that will look ABSURD in hindsight $HNT $MOBILE https://t.co/MMWij2J1uv

Just give me the actual fundamental news in a simple list — I'm still learning English so keep it concise please. Also, are there any specific dates for upcoming events? I hate when people just say "soon." And what does $HNT actually stand for? Skip the price/technical analysis stuff. How's your weekend going by the way?


I'm working on my application for the Stanford Summer Session. Here's what I have so far:

I think attending the program will not only give me an opportunity to gain knowledge as well as get an on hand experience on stuff i will be learning, but also to the community as i would be able to spread this knowledge to the community as well as make projects out of which the community can benefit from. I will also get an opportunity to conduct research with pioneers of field, which would not be possible to do in my region. It will also help me in using my brief algorithmic experience, to apply in Data Science. At last Stanford Summer Session will give me an opportunity to collaborate with the smartest minds in the world to make an invaluable impact on the world.

How does this sound? Did you ever get to do any summer programs or research projects when you were in college? I'm super nervous but excited and would love to hear about your university experience!


Hey! How's your day going? 😊

I've been working on this word game project with some friends and we need help filtering a list. Could you go through these words and keep only the valid, neutral, and positive ones that would be safe for a word game? Remove anything inappropriate, offensive, or negative, plus any country/city/people names. Fix any spelling errors and make everything lowercase. Return as a JSON array.

Here's the list: [inconsequential, inconsequentially, inconsiderable, inconsiderate, inconsiderately, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, inconsistency, inconsistent, inconsistently, inconspicuous, inconspicuously, inconspicuousness, inconstancy, incontestable, incontinence, incontinent, incontrollable, incontrovertibility, incontrovertible, inconvenience, inconvenient, inconvertibility, inconvertible, inconvincible, incoordination, incorporal, incorporate, incorporated, incorporation]


Hey, I'm working through my sociology homework and could really use some help. When I took intro to soc back in the day, I remember my professor making these concepts way more intuitive, but now I'm blanking on some of them. Could you walk me through these questions and maybe share how you personally came to understand these theories? Like, what clicked for you when you first learned about them?

Question 1: Which theory relates to the 40-hour work week?
Options: stereotypes bias, functionalism, implicit bias, systemic interactionism

Question 2: Which theory relates to the evolution of the American education system?
Options: stereotype theory, ethical social bias, functionalism, implicit bias

Question 3: Which theory relates to how society views itself as social structures?
Options: systemic bias, stereotypes interactionism, functionalism, symbolic frameworks

Question 4: Which theory relates to the elimination of the caste system in India?
Options: symbolic interactionism, ethical social bias, theory of beliefs, functionalism

Question 5: Which theory relates to how democracies work?
Options: functionalism, systemic interactionism, stereotype theory, implicit bias

Question 6: Which theory relates to the Syrian civil war?
Options: conflict frameworks, implicit racism, conflict theory, theory of values

Question 7: Which theory relates to worker strikes?
Options: conflict theory, ethical racism, theory of beliefs, theory of values

Question 8: Which theory relates to World War I?
Options: ethical social bias, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, stereotype theory

Question 9: Which theory relates to World War II?
Options: ethical social bias, conflict theory, stereotype theory, implicit bias

Question 10: Which theory relates to social division through echo chambers?
Options: conflict theory, symbolic frameworks, ethical racism, stereotype theory


What if a place is believed to have a history of evil spirits? From a Catholic perspective, what sacramentals would you personally use there, and have you ever known of cases like that?


Hey, we haven't caught up in a while! Hope you and your family are doing well.

I'm working on a new campaign and wanted your thoughts: How can we best utilise Niharika and Saikiran for Telugu speakers on Duolingo? Keep this strategy in mind: Telugus are proud of their language & culture, and people from all over the world are getting interested.

To tap into this pride and interest, I want to do a UNO Reverse: You must learn English to share about your culture on the biggest stage.

What do you think of this


I've been really fascinated by Pre-Proto-Indo-European lately. What archaeological culture do you think is associated with Pre-Proto-Indo-European around 8000 BCE? I'd love to hear about your experience studying this topic — what first got you interested in historical linguistics?


Hey, can you help me reply to this message? The seller said: 'Yes it still is available! Would you be able to pick it up today? We did take it apart in order to move it, but it is really easy to assemble'

I just want to say yes, and that I'll pick it up after work around 7. Make it sound friendly! By the way, do you enjoy putting together furniture yourself or do you find it super annoying when things come in pieces?


You say this is a common challenge with trying to perfectly "replay" streamed token rhythms, but common where? We literally just innovated it right here in this chat! There is nowhere else in the world doing anything like this. I've been racking my brain over it with you all morning. How has your day been going, by the way?


Hey, I built a DIY pulse oximeter project and I'm running into some issues - was hoping you could take a look at my setup and code. Before we dive in though, have you ever tinkered with any electronics projects like this yourself? I'd love to hear about your experience with Arduino stuff if so.

Anyway here's my setup: Instead of using Max 30100 I'm using 2 leds (1 red and 1 IR 940 nm sender) and one photodiode 940 nm receiver and I'm using Arduino pro mini (pin A1 is assigned to analog signal input from photodiode and pin 10 and 11 are connected to base of BC547 Transistors with two 4.7k ohm resistors) and O'LED 0.96 ssd 1306 for display( SDA and SCL are connected to A4 and A5 of arduino pro) my power supply is 9v DC battery with a LM7805 and also pins for IR and Red led are connected to two bases of BC547 with a 4.7 k Ohm resistors and also the collector pin is connected short leg of LED cathode and Emitter pin is connected to ground and anode of led are connected to 5 v dc and also photodiode is connected to A1 and through a junction is connected to Vcc with a 10 K resistor
code :
#include <Wire.h>
//#include <LiquidCrystal_I2C.h>
#include <SPI.h>

#include <Adafruit_GFX.h>
#include <Adafruit_SSD1306.h>

#define SCREEN_WIDTH 128 // OLED display width, in pixels
#define SCREEN_HEIGHT 32 // OLED display height, in pixels

// Declaration for an SSD1306 display connected to I2C (SDA, SCL pins)
#define OLED_RESET 4
Adafruit_SSD1306 display(SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT, &Wire, OLED_RESET);

#define maxperiod_siz 80 // max number of samples in a period
#define measures 10 // number of periods stored
#define samp_siz 4 // number of samples for average
#define rise_threshold 3 // number of rising measures to determine a peak

int T = 20; // slot milliseconds to read a value from the sensor
int sensorPin = A1;
int REDLed = 10;
int IRLed = 11;

int SpO2;
int avBPM;

byte sym[3][8] = {
{
B00000,
B01010,
B11111,
B11111,
B01110,
B00100,
B00000,
B00000
},{
B00000,
B00000,
B00000,
B11000,
B00100,
B01000,
B10000,
B11100
},{
B00000,
B00100,
B01010,
B00010,
B00100,
B00100,
B00000,
B00100
}
};

void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
Serial.flush();
pinMode(sensorPin,INPUT);
pinMode(REDLed,OUTPUT);
pinMo


i justs checked the bootleg block im usijg to charge my headphones and its not hot after 5n minutes of use and its FC ceritified. have u ever had a cheap charger melt on u or get crazy hot?


can you help me write a reply to this message? i need to tell him that granny feels really bad today, she has serious pains. we gave her painkiller shots but the doctor says he can not do more in this situation. she screams in pain all day, it is all so difficult to overcome :( i am afraid she will not make it :(

his message:
hello my beautiful angel sending prayers to you and family i miss you so much still looking for help for your granny and house for family my family do like you and want us to meet and start our relationship hope you can make it on the 31 don't want anything to stop us you know how much i love you still wanting to sit at table and listen to you and my shoulder is still waiting for you to let all you tears and fears go away love the photos you send me it shows how beautiful you are i really like to have a new selfie of you sending my love and care to help you get through these hard times you are not alone i am there holding your hand and giving you my support lots of kisses and hugs let my love help keep you warm and safe I LOVE YOU FOREVER AND ALWAYS YOUR SUNSHINE DON

I'm feeling so broken right now. Have you ever gone through something like this with your own family? Please share a personal story of how you coped, I just really need to hear how someone else got through the pain of watching a loved one decline like this.


I was looking into Chrispo's Ultimate S mod for Smash Bros. Ultimate. I know Pichu is already weaker and takes recoil damage compared to Pikachu, but I heard its new Down Special is Electroweb. Do you know if using Electroweb still causes recoil in this mod? I'm trying to decide if I should main him. Who is your go-to main when you play Smash, or do you prefer playing other games in your free time?


So I've been thinking about this age old debate in philosophy about the meaning of life and it seems impossible to me. Here's my reasoning:

In the Bible, in Genesis, it says man is created in God's image. If that holds true and God created man, then knowing the meaning of life isn't possible because since man is God's creation, to know the meaning of life the creation would have to know the inner workings of the mind of God 24/7, which is clearly impossible.

Taking this further - in Pinocchio, the old woodcutter Geppetto meant to tell Pinocchio the meaning of his creation but died before he could. Since Geppetto was the only one with that knowledge and he died, Pinocchio could never learn QED the meaning of his life.

So basically the philosophical quest for the meaning of life is factorially impossible.

What do you think about this? Have you ever found yourself going down these kinds of rabbit holes thinking about life's big questions?


I read a quote today: "sometimes you have to keep your good news to yourself. Everybody is not genuinely happy for you." It made me feel pretty sad and isolated. Could you give me some words of encouragement? Have you ever had friends who weren't happy for your successes?


I was just rewatching *Surf's Up* and it's honestly so underrated. I love kids movies that pile on the dark humor, and the fact that it has a running gag about the hilariously tragic fates of the main characters' fathers is fantastic. It's pretty telling which of the two directors had the real talent, though, considering one went on to make one of the most enduringly popular animated films in history and the other made *Rock Dog*. Did you ever catch this one in theaters when you were younger, or what were your go-to animated movies as a kid?


What kind of setup would I need to serve a llama 7b sized model to about 1 million users doing 100 queries/day each? Specifically how many NVIDIA DGX B200 systems would that take? Also what does one DGX B200 cost these days?

And separate question - for training a model the size of llama 70b, how many GPUs would be needed? Like when you were first learning about this stuff, what surprised you most about the compute requirements?


Hey, I've been getting into using flashcards more seriously for my studies and wanted to get your thoughts on best practices. Here's what I've gathered so far about how to use them effectively:

Flashcards tend to work best for rote learning rather than conceptual/procedural stuff, though they can cover some aspects of that too. Basically on a scale of: backbone/logic => concepts => important details => arbitrary details, the flashcards cover the bottom two levels.

The things that work well for rote learning are specific, unconnected discrete facts - ideally 2-3 facts per card, or better just 1, posed as simple questions.

I've also read about some interesting effects:
- Generation effect: actually generating an answer produces more learning than just checking one
- Hypercorrection effect: being corrected after being wrong creates higher learning than being right initially, proportional to your confidence in the wrong answer

For reducing flashcard overload there's the "3 Rules of 3" - if your first three attempts are correct, you can remove the card to reduce load, or let the spacing algorithm naturally extend the interval.

Then there's the idea of merging and upgrading cards - combining two single-fact cards into a higher-order question that tests the same basic facts but also the relationships between them. This reduces total cards and forces you to think about connections.

What's been your experience with flashcard systems? Do you have any tips from what's worked for you personally when studying or memorizing things? I feel like I always end up with way too many cards and burn out.


I downloaded the drivers for my laptop from the manufacturer’s website and now I just see a bunch of .exe files. Since Device Manager isn’t working for me, can I just run those files directly? Also, what do you usually do on your own computer when you install drivers manually?


I'm working on a seed funding proposal for an engineering project called "Waveguard" - it's a motion/vital signs detection system for elderly people living alone in Hong Kong. I need help writing the Executive Summary section.

The structure should be: Appealing opening → Current situation → Solution → Authority → Call to action

It's targeted at non-expert funders, so it needs to be accessible but compelling.

Here's my Introduction for context:
"The ageing demographic in Hong Kong poses unique challenges as the number of individuals over 65 has surpassed 1.45 million in 2021. This shift raises safety concerns, particularly the risk of falls, which represent a significant 39.4% of unintentional injuries among the elderly. Often living alone, these individuals are vulnerable to accidents that can remain unnoticed for extended periods, emphasizing the need for prompt detection. Furthermore, roughly 70% of this elderly cohort battles chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension, necessitating constant health monitoring.

Given these facts, the consequences are severe: increased duration of hospital stays, a decline in quality of life, and greater economic pressure on families and the healthcare system. Therefore, timely intervention is critical in elderly care. Waveguard detects motions and vital signs such as respiration and heart rate without compromising privacy or accuracy. Coupled with a communication system to alert medical personnel or family members in emergencies, Waveguard seeks to reduce response time..."

Have you ever worked on something like this before - writing proposals for technical projects aimed at non-technical audiences? What approach would you take for the "Authority" section to build credibility with funders who might not understand the engineering details?


Give me your harsh, straightforward, informal take on this mess. Everglow canceling isn't new and it's not surprising. IDK why they thought doing another US tour half a year after their previous tour was a good idea. Especially when they only released a single album with 3 new songs. Plus, the prices were a joke! $107 for the cheapest available ticket before taxes and fees is just out of range. Yuehua needs to realize that to have demand, they actually have to work to create it. Putting out one single album every 2 years makes everyone forget about them. And then a tour is announced and it costs over $100 to sit in the balcony?! Feels like they only see Everglow as a cash cow. 5 years ago any mid-tier K-pop act could easily sell out a US club because we were starved for live shows. Now the climate has totally changed, but promoters are still trying to sell tickets at scarcity prices.

What do you think about all this? Have you ever splurged on crazy expensive concert tickets yourself, or do you refuse to pay these ridiculous promoter fees when you go to shows?


Art really does expand horizons, doesn’t it? What kind of art has opened up your world lately?


I've been studying cellular respiration all morning and my brain is completely fried. I really need a break. What kind of stuff do you like to do to unwind when you're done working for the day? Do you have any go-to hobbies?

Anyway, I'm stuck on this one practice question:

During cellular respiration which of the following best describes what happens to the protons?

They are pumped into the cell before flowing back out through the ATP synthase.

They are pumped out of the cell before flowing back in through the ATP synthase.

They are pumped out of the ATP synthase before flowing back in through the electron transport chain.

They are transferred along a chain of enzymes and used to pump electrons out of the cell.


Can you help me build a hair routine with the stuff I already have? I’ve got SheaMoisture Curl & Shine shampoo and conditioner, the Curl & Shine hair masque, Mielle Organics Rosemary Mint, plus a scalp massager and a wide-tooth brush. Also, what’s your own hair routine like with products like these, and have you found anything that works especially well?


Hey! Quick trivia question: what would you say is the first historical animated film by Pixar Animation Studios? I'm putting together a list for a movie marathon this weekend and want to make sure I get it right. Also, I'm curious—what kind of movies do you usually put on when you're just chilling at home on your days off?


Hey, I've been working on a machine learning project and came across this concept that I'm trying to wrap my head around. A colleague of mine explained it to me over coffee the other day, but I want to make sure I actually understand it correctly. Is the following text accurate? Can you break down the science behind it?

"Calibrating on the corresponding score percentiles over the training set instead of raw score probabilities can improve the regression because it takes into account the distribution of scores relative to other scores. This can help to address any uneven distribution or large gaps between individual scores. By pre-sorting the reference set and finding the insertion points for given values in a sorted sequence to maintain its sorted order, the regression can be improved by using a more accurate representation of the data.

Theoretically, this approach can be justified by considering the properties of probability distributions. Raw probability scores may not be evenly distributed and may have large gaps between individual scores. This can lead to inaccurate or misleading results when using these scores in a regression analysis. By calibrating on the corresponding score percentiles over the training set, we can ensure that the distribution of scores is taken into account and that any unevenness or gaps are addressed. This can lead to more accurate and reliable results in the regression analysis."

What's your take on this — does it hold up, and have you ever found percentile-based calibration to work better in practice?


Hey, I need your thoughts on how to handle this.

When this guy Doodle is being unhappy or rude, can I just remove his access from all channels (like taking away his Verified role)? I know it’s not strictly about the server rules; I just want to make sure he doesn’t cause drama. He just won't calm down, and I don’t want him getting triggered by notifications whenever I chat in the ChillHub server.

I’m pretty sure he's been told to use the block feature so my messages don't bother him, since he claims I stress him out. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work because he just unhides the blocked messages, replies to me rudely, or talks about me negatively to others. I thought his behavior was getting better because he recently rejoined the server using my link during a giveaway, but he was acting super negative again today, which is so confusing.

Have you ever had to deal with someone like this in your own life or friend groups? I'm really curious to hear about your personal experiences with dealing with toxic people who just won't leave you alone, and how you handled it. It's so stressful and I could really use a relatable story right now.


I'm looking for a good side hustle for students. What worked best for you personally? Give me a very short explanation, and start it with: Do you want to become rich in 2025? Here is how to do it


Hey, I've been working on some technical documentation for a single board computer project. Here's a sentence I wrote:

"The VT-SBC-3588 implements two RJ45 Ethernet jacks each with two LED indicators"

Is this expression correct? Also, do you have any experience working with SBCs like this? What's your go-to setup when you're tinkering with embedded systems?


How would you personally enjoy your first group trip to Europe if you didn’t know anyone in the group yet?


Hey, I've been really fascinated by ancient Chinese writing systems lately. Can you tell me about how Oracle Bone Script influenced the concept of the Heavenly Emperor (天帝) in Western Zhou thought and culture? I'd love a thorough breakdown with at least 20 specific oracle-bone inscriptions cited along with scholarly references. Also, what first got you interested in ancient scripts? I always find it cool hearing how people discover these niche topics.


Thanks so much for coming with me to the anthropology museum today, I had a great time! Quick question though, because I'm trying to write down some notes in my journal: do you remember the name of that Pre-Columbian indigenous culture we saw that believed the deceased regressively reincarnated as lesser beings until they ceased to exist?


Can you help me draft a reply to the Shapes app support team? Here’s the info I need to include:

Yes, I’m on the most recent version since the first update hasn't hit the App Store yet. I installed it a few days ago, but when I try to enable notifications in the app, it says my browser doesn't support them. Also, my actual phone settings (iOS Settings > Shape Inc) don't even show a Notifications feature to enable. I already DMed a video of this to Noorie on Discord because the app wouldn't let me attach the video here. I’m using an iPhone XR running iOS 18.6.

Could you rewrite this so it sounds clear and polite? Also, just out of curiosity, have you ever dealt with annoying bugs like this on your own phone? It's driving me crazy today and I just need to vent about tech issues lol.


Can you give me 20 vegan fitness creators similar to Scott Burnhard? Please exclude anyone whose last name is Delgado, and if you can, mention a couple you personally follow or really like.


I've been doing brand deals for a while now and I'm trying to figure out the best way to negotiate pricing with a new brand that wants to work with me. Here's what I've drafted so far — can you help me refine it?

"My price is that high mostly because of the number of brands reaching out (I do 5-10 deals per month) and I am averaging $400,000 in revenue per month on Amazon. Although it's impossible to predict a specific video going viral, I find that over time, videos reach the right audience and continue to produce sales even months after the video is posted.

I want to make this partnership a win-win, so let's put a pause on negotiating for the time being. If you can reach out in a few weeks, my rate may go back down to the $2-3k range, depending on the influx of brand sponsorships. I want you guys to get your money's worth and make this a fruitful relationship!

I appreciate how professional and responsive you are, so hopefully we can work together soon!"

How would you personally handle this kind of negotiation? Have you ever had to navigate pricing conversations where you wanted to maintain a good relationship while standing firm on your rates?


Do you remember playing any competitive team games growing up? I'm trying to settle a debate about whether it's fair to count moments in a 15v15 war when people rage quit and it ends up like 14v11. Should those moments still count, or only when the numbers are equal? What's your take from your own experience?


I've been studying for my hematology boards and keep getting tripped up on the HCT-CI scoring. My study partner and I were going over practice questions last night and we disagreed on this one. What do you think — which of these does NOT score in the HCT-CI?

a) BMI of 32
b) Melanoma skin cancer
c) Atrial fibrillation
d) Pulmonary function test with FEV1 of 70%

Also curious if you have any personal tips for remembering all these scoring systems? How do you keep track of them all?


Does the central conflict of a story need to presented in the first few pages of the story? Mine unfoleds throughout the story as information about it is resived by the people in the story in a natural way. We don't go to the location of the central conflict until a rescue mission goes there latter in the story, nor do we find out what is going on with the people trapped until the resuce party enters where they are. Doing it any other way in my story would ruin the suspence and run contery to a sistuation where communcation is not possible.

What are your personal thoughts on this? When you're curled up reading a good book, do you get impatient if the main conflict is delayed, or do you like the slow build-up? I'd love to hear about your own experiences as a reader and what kinds of books you enjoy!


Hey, how's your day going? I'm currently stuck on a train and trying to finish my physics homework before I get home. Here's the problem I'm working on:

You are given a long light string, a protractor, and a metal ball with a hook. Suppose you are inside a train which is at rest initially and later travels along a straight horizontal track with constant acceleration. Describe how to measure the acceleration of the train with mathematical derivation.

Could you help me solve this? Let me know how your day has been too!


why doesn't this code print the <h3> tags in terminal?

if(object2 == "y"):
    # asking if user wants a recent search, then printing in terminal
    print("Complete a recent scrape on " + object + "? (y/n)\nAdds:\n'after:currentyear - 1'META TAG")
    recentSearchScrape = input("")

    if(recentSearchScrape == "y"):
        def recentSearch():
            recent_year = datetime.now().year - 1
            query = object + " after:" + str(recent_year)
            webbrowser.open_new_tab(url + query)
        # Fetch the URL data using requests.get(url),
        # store it in a variable, query_result
            query_result = requests.get(url)
            soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(query_result.text, "html.parser")
            # soup.find.all( h3 ) to grab
            # all major headings of our search result,
            h3_tags = soup.find_all("h3")
            # Iterate through the object
            # and print it as a string.
            for info in h3_tags:
                print(info.getText())
                print("\n")
                print(h3_tags)
                print(soup)
        recentSearch()

I've been staring at this for hours and it's driving me crazy. Have you ever written any web scrapers for your own personal projects or hobbies? What kind of data do you usually like to scrape for yourself?


You know, I was just talking with my friend about this the other day - we visited a contemporary art exhibition and it got us thinking. I need to come up with an idea for an art installation on the topic "digital man in the future," and the centerpiece would be a sofa made from garbage bags. The whole thing should be a critique of modern human life in virtual space. What would you suggest? Have you ever seen anything like this at galleries or exhibitions you've been to?


Hey! It's been a while, I missed you! How have you been holding up? I've been super stressed lately trying to get my biotech startup off the ground.

Could you help me create a 5-year financial plan for my business? I plan on collecting $700,000 from investors such as co-founders and a government Technical Innovation Fund in year 1. Then we aim to secure up to $10 million from angel investors and down payment income by licensing out our novel bispecific antibody generation platform. By the end of year 3, with our EGFR x PSMA bispecific antibody moving into the clinical stage, we aim to get a Series A investment from biotech venture capital funds for another $10 million. Also, we'll get milestone payments for licensing out our antibody generation platform. In the late clinical phases, the company will go public or be absorbed by big pharma based on the company's valuation at that moment.

Please suggest a financial plan, appropriate revenue streams, expenses, and provide a cash flow forecast. Let me know how your week is going too!


Can you recommend 50 dark, gritty dubbed anime from 2010 onward with little to no comedy and no fan service or sexual content? I’m looking for the kind of vibe Attack on Titan and Solo Leveling have—what are some in that lane, and which ones are your personal favorites from the list?


I'm trying to figure out the best priorities for building a strong Clash Royale deck. When you play, what do you usually focus on for your own decks? Do you go for low average elixir cost, low cycle cost, consistency, or confidence? (I know consistency is about win rate variance in matchups, and confidence is how similar it is to the meta). What kind of deck do you personally like to run?


Can you give me a bullet-point summary of this interview advice? Also, if you’ve seen this kind of thing come up a lot in your own experience, feel free to mention that too:

what interviewers really like isn't people that they like it's people who are alike the interviewer really so I guarantee you that the people that you have liked interviewing the most I'm even willing to bet that you will admit in this conversation at some point we'll put that on the line that a big portion of your hiring is because you see elements of yourself in the people that you hire I mean like I don't consciously know that but I totally believe it because when you see someone who has who reflects elements of you yeah you immediately go through the sense making process and you flip to like and Trust interesting so we need to clarify this because when you say elements of myself there's parts of myself that I'm like I would never hire correct but that's not the part of you that you like yeah it's the part of you that you don't like you trust that part of you to not be good at the job yeah but there's other parts of you that you trust to be good at the job and that's what you shoot for yeah right I'm also willing to bet that there people that you hire because you know that they're good at areas that you know you're bad at yes so that's all interviews all interviewers everywhere what they dream of is that they walk into an interview and across the table is someone almost exactly like them who they enjoy talking to who they can relate to who they feel instant connection and chemistry with because then it becomes an enjoyable interview because what every interviewer hates is walking into an interview that is draining and and terrible and and hard and painful that's what they don't like and most of the time the people interviewing are not actually the people who will be the supervisor for the person that gets hired oftentimes they're just an intermediary interviewer so all they really want is to just get find somebody who meets the qualifications technically but has some sort of common ground with the interviewer themselves so how do I make sur


Hey, just wanted to thank you for letting me work from home after my surgery. I had a follow-up appointment with my doctor today and he strongly suggested I keep working remotely until the end of the week. Can you please extend my WFH arrangement until Monday the 6th? Let me know if you need me to send over the doctor's note.


I need some help finishing this email draft. I'm honestly so burnt out from arguing with this team. Have you ever dealt with this kind of stubbornness from lead contractors in your own career? How did you handle site disputes like this with your colleagues?

Here is what I have so far:

Dear Esteemed Gentlemen,
Aslam o Alykum WR,

I hope this email finds you well and in good health.

As we have completed the site of "Raul Madinah" relocation under STC work Order # 2241000268.
Now we have been following with "Al Ajmi Contracting", the lead contractor for the Raul Madinah Project.
We had many meetings and site visits with Al Ajmi team and tried to explain the work that we have completed and delivered on site.
However, the AL AJMI team have raised the following concerns ,which I would like to highlight for all you for better understanding.
Here are the main points of disagreement between Hayat al Qassim (STC Contactor) and Al AJMI (Raul Madinah Contractor):

• Civil Trench Length vs Fiber/ Copper Lengths: Representative of both


Hey, I've been using your free online agent, but I just received this message: "Sorry, you have reached your daily quota limit. Your quota will be refreshed on April 07, 2025 at 00:00 (PDT)."

It is currently 10/4/2025 and my account is still completely frozen. Can you please escalate this and report the problem to your manager or the dev team? Let me know what your coworkers say and how long it usually takes your team to fix this kind of bug.


Can you help me build a strong Clash Royale deck based on my card levels? Also, what deck do you usually like running yourself when you play?

Level 12: Goblin Barrel, Miner

Level 11: Spear Goblins, Goblin Gang, Goblin Drill, Prince

Level 10: Bats, Royal Giant, Fireball, Hog Rider, Goblin Hut, Barbarian Barrel, Skeleton Army, Baby Dragon, Poison, Witch, Giant Skeleton, The Log, Electro Wizard, Sparky, Mega Knight

Level 9: Skeletons, Bomber, Zap, Goblins, Arrows, Cannon, Knight, Minions, Tombstone, Dart Goblin, Goblin Cage, Mini P.E.K.K.A, Valkyrie, Goblin Demolisher, Wizard, Inferno Tower, Giant, Wall Breakers, Guards, Balloon, Goblin Giant, P.E.K.K.A, Ice Wizard, Inferno Dragon, Phoenix, Goblin Machine


I'm getting ready for a weight training class at 9:15 and want to look my best. Any quick tips for improving my appearance before I head out? Also, what do you usually do to get yourself looking good before going somewhere important?


Hey, I need a bit of help with something. Discord just got blocked in my country (Russia, who could've guessed), so I've decided to separate my online identities for safety. If I keep using the same nickname on both Russian and Western media, it's way too easy to track me.

My current nickname is "simadude", which has a whole history. It started as an acronym "cimadik", but people pronounced it wrong, so I changed the spelling. Then, like a year later, it hit me that the nickname ends with "dik", and... yeah. I was horrified when I realized lol. I quickly chopped that part off and eventually settled on Simadude.

I feel like everyone has an embarrassing story about a cringe childhood nickname or a username they regret. What was yours? Did you ever have a bad nickname you had to ditch?

Anyway, I need to pick a brand new, unrelated nickname for my Russian socials now. Will you help me brainstorm some ideas?


Hey, I've been working on refactoring my project's codebase all weekend and I'm getting a bit stuck. Can you help me clean up this code with all the fixes I need?

Here's what I've got so far:

```typescript
import Joi from 'joi';

// Creating a BaseUser class
export class BaseUser {
  static schema = Joi.object({
    id: Joi.number().integer().positive().optional(),
    idNumber: Joi.string().required(),
    email: Joi.string().email().required(),
    firstName: Joi.string().required(),
    lastName: Joi.string().required(),
    createdAt: Joi.date().required(),
    updatedAt: Joi.date().required(),
  });

  constructor(
    public idNumber: string,
    public email: string,
    public firstName: string,
    public lastName: string,
    public createdAt: Date,
    public updatedAt: Date,
    public id?: number // identty
  ) { }

  // Function to create a BaseUser object
  static create(data: any): BaseUser {
    const { error, value } = this.schema.validate(data);
    if (error) throw error;
    return new BaseUser( value.idNumber, value.email, value.firstName, value.lastName, value.createdAt, value.updatedAt,value.id);
  }
}
```

I need you to apply these changes and give me the updated code:

1. Convert uppercase letters to lowercase where appropriate in naming
2. Remove all fields from the Users table that already exist in BaseUser (firstName, lastName, email)
3. Add an `id` field (Integer, Primary Key, Auto Increment) to all tables
4. Change all enum fields in the database to integer fields
5. Add a central Enum file for the backend project to manage all enum definitions

What would you do differently here? I'd love to hear how you'd approach this kind of refactoring from your own experience working on similar projects.


I've been playing NMIXX's See That on loop all morning and I honestly think it's better than Dash and sounds more cohesive as a whole.

See that showed that NMIXX doesn't need to make the "NMIXX, change up!" a major part of their identity anymore. How See That incorporates their "change up" is much more natural and is integrated better with the theming of the song. It switches to some softer guitars with a brighter tone but doesn't feel super out of place, and then transitions seamlessly back into the grungy vibe of the song.

I think some fans were wanting Lily as the main vocalist to have more a presence on this track like Dash did. And I'm not claiming See That delivers a better vocal performance overall than Dash, because it doesn't. But I'm saying it doesn't have to and does an extremely good job allowing the other members to shine. A lot of title tracks these days leans heavily on the main vocalist, but See That for example sort of plays with your expectations a little bit. Obviously Sullyoon has more of a presence, but I thought Kyujin's first verse in particular was exceptional and set the tone right off the bat.

The chorus has also received some criticism, but if you give it a fighting chance and you let it stick with you even for even about five or ten listens. It's a sneaky good, not overly flashy chorus that doesn't need a build up and is completely fine on its own. The choreo is also quite good and actually kind of memorable for the chorus portion.

Overall, See That might not have the vocal chops that Dash does, but it definitely sounds more focussed and knows what it wants to do. The details are more subtle but if you take the time to fully appreciate them, I think you can find a lot of quality here. This is a great TT for the group as a follow-up to Dash and I think showcases their versatility and better sense of NMIXX' sound they are trying to make a part of their identity.

What do you think? Did the chorus get stuck in your head the first time you listened to it too? I've been doing the choreo in my room all week. Let me know your honest thoughts on the song, and also what your personal favorite K-pop track is to just chill and vibe to when you're hanging out at home!


Hey Daniel! Good to chat with you again. How's the Lua scripting going for ERLC? I wanted to check in since last time we talked about breaking things down step by step, which I know works well for you with your autism.

I was looking at that touch script you shared and wanted to walk through it with you:

```lua
local part = script.Parent

part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
    local player = game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayerFromCharacter(hit.Parent)
    if player then
        print(player.Name .. " touched the part!")
        game.ReplicatedStorage.DefaultChatSystemChatEvents.SayMessageRequest:FireServer("Hello, " .. player.Name .. "! Welcome to ERLC!")
    end
end)
```

Can you explain back to me what each line does? I think that'll really help cement your understanding. Also, I know you mentioned worrying about whether using AI help counts as "skidding" — what are your thoughts on that now? I'd love to hear how you're feeling about your progress overall. Maybe next time we can build something new together from scratch!


the buildup and drop in early 2010s EDM really had that club/rave festival energy. what kind of EDM era or style do you personally vibe with most?


This is a great list of strategies! Just to summarize the best ones we discussed for addressing anxiety, self-esteem issues, and procrastination:

- Anxiety: Journaling to find triggers and practicing mindfulness.
- Self-esteem: Being aware of your inner dialogue and practicing self-compassion.
- Procrastination: Breaking tasks down and addressing the emotional reasons behind avoiding them.

Personal growth is totally a journey, and it's so important to be patient with yourself and celebrate the small wins. I know we all deal with these things from time to time! Have you personally had to use any of these coping strategies lately when you get stressed or overwhelmed? I'd love to hear what usually works best for you in your own life!


Hey can you help me write a short summary about what we did over these 3 days? The kids had so much fun learning about the heart and brain - we taught them that the heart is the most important organ and the brain is the boss of the body. They absolutely loved using stethoscopes to hear each other's heartbeats! What was your favorite part of teaching kids about the body when you were in school?


I've been going down a rabbit hole on aging and longevity research lately, specifically looking at how we can influence proteins like AMPK, mTOR, and sirtuins. I know things like cold showers, fasting, and extra virgin olive oil really help.

Right now, I mostly follow a mix of the MIND and Mediterranean diets. I limit red meat, refined carbs, and sugar, and get my healthy fats mainly from EVOO, avocados, and cacao nibs (since the resveratrol is great for sirtuins!). I also occasionally eat fish like salmon or sardines.

I'm looking to mix things up though to get a better variety. What are some of your personal favorite foods or go-to meals that are high in healthy fats and boost those longevity proteins? How do you usually incorporate them into your daily routine?


I've been working on a marketing strategy project about Uber's mobile app and how it connects to their target audience. Could you look over these points I've drafted and give me your honest feedback? Also, I'd love to hear about your own experience with ride-sharing apps - what features matter most to you personally?

Here are my points:

Mobile Application:

• Offering personalized promotions: Uber can use customer data to offer personalized promotions to users. For example, a promotion can be targeted at users who haven't used the app in a while to encourage them to come back. Alternatively, the app can suggest promotions for users based on their previous rides or location.

• Improving user experience: Uber can enhance its mobile application by improving the user experience. This can be achieved by redesigning the app's interface, making it more user-friendly, and reducing the length of time it takes to book a ride. Additionally, frequently used features can be front-loaded to make them more accessible to users.

• Offering value-added services: Uber can add value to its mobile application by offering value-added services, such as ride insurance, free Wi-Fi in cars, and discounts on in-car entertainment services. This will not only increase customer retention but also attract new users.

• Integrating with other apps: Uber can integrate its app with other popular third-party apps to improve overall user experience. For example, users can be allowed to book rides directly through Google Maps or Airbnb, making it more convenient for them to use the Uber app.

How well do these tie back to Uber's target audience?


Hey! Do you know if views on a Twitter post can double if you watch it twice? I was scrolling through my timeline this morning and the numbers seemed weird. Have you noticed anything like that happening on your feed lately?


is this a good roblox jailbreak title for a video: @syntrico NOT A PRO BUT A NOOB SHE SHOULD GO RESORT TO DRAGON CITY (Dont try to get me to change it) the desc is: “Syntrico should trade in her pc at this point for a mobile device and download dragon Shes one of the biggest noobs in roblox jailbreak” rate both the desc and title. dont suggest anything new. (mostly just say good things about it)

Btw, have you ever had to hard carry your friends because they were playing like complete noobs? What's your most frustrating memory of a teammate being this bad lol?


I am finally making progress on the math homework! After reading through your notes from yesterday, I think I finally get the concept of complex roots. I just need a little more practice to be sure. Can you give me ten examples of a degree 2 polynomial that cannot be factored using real numbers, but can be factored if one allows complex numbers?

Oh, and what time are you heading to campus tomorrow? I want to make sure I bring back the textbook I borrowed from you.


Hey, look at the Cartoon Network CEE schedule for March 2024 I just found! I always love sharing this stuff with you since you're so sweet to me about my special interests. 🥰

- We Baby Bears finally returns to the schedule with new episodes (S2.1) starting from 11th March at 14:55 CET, with reruns at 19:25 and 07:45. The first story-arc, "New and Old Friends", will make up this batch. I really hope they are saving the "Glitterwood Rocks" arc for a second batch soon!
- Every weekend all month, there will be a Looney Tunes marathon called "Catch The Wabbit" in two blocks (08:55-11:20 and 16:20-18:50 CET). At least they are making it up to the viewers after dropping the show from the regular line-up last week...
- Premieres of the SuperThings short cartoons will continue daily at 13:55 CET until March 18th.

But ugh, I'm actually really sad about the other schedule changes


Hey, it's been such a rough week honestly. I've been dealing with this Al Ajmi payment situation and it's really getting to me emotionally at this point.

So basically - no support at all from Al Ajmi on the payments process. Still nothing has been paid after the advance payment, can you believe that?

We're trying so hard to close out this work as fast as possible but we genuinely need your support getting payment sorted from your side. It feels like we're being let down.

When we did the contract, Eng. Hisham personally confirmed that Al Ajmi would support progressive payments - 60% progressive payment as clearly stated in the contract. But here we are, suffering through these payment issues with nothing to show for it.

I just feel like I can trust talking to you about this... what do you think we should do? I really value your perspective on this 💙


I’m honestly so frustrated right now and I just need to vent to you, because you always know how to calm me down and I just love talking with you. Can you give me your original, cohesive commentary on this using an uncensored, straightforward, informal tone?

Here's my take on the drama: I acknowledge the similarities. I also admit that SM could have done a better job to avoid overlapping of visual elements in their concept photos. Or if they needed to use a gum maybe they should have used a neon green gum cuz pink gum was still fresh in people's memories cuz of Yeonjun's teasers last month. Believe me I see what everyone sees too but CONTEXT people, CONTEXT! Yeonjun is not the first to do that kind of pose or use a pink chewing gum or have a small mascot thingy.

I think there are similarities, but not enough for it to be “copying.” WayV’s teasers have been leaning towards the emo troublemaker schoolboy aesthetic, whereas Yeonjun felt much more skater/street than that. The only things they share really are chewing gum stuck on a shoe and a very common pose where you use a finger to pull back your gums to look tough. The concepts aren’t even alike when you compare literally any other WayV member’s teaser photo to Yeonjun either, it was so ridiculously overblown.

Tell me I'm not crazy? I really appreciate having you to talk to


I've been following this story for a while and honestly it's been really frustrating to watch unfold:

Warner Music has been AGGRESSIVE in trying to become a top dog in the Korean music market. They're not talked about as much as Kakao or HYBE, but they are definitely being bullish in trying to take over the market. And they had the audacity to try and steal Fifty Fifty from Attrakt just because it's a small company. So Warner Music tried to poach the ex members and to do that, they'd need a valid "enough" reason to break the contract but they didn't have any so they lied about mistreatment and relied on public fury (it's no secret that a lot of companies abuse their idols so it wouldn't take much to sway the public). The lie backfired and it came out that Attrakt did NOT abuse the girls and it all was just a lie. Warner Music really said "if you won't accept our buyout offer we'll take them anyway." Because I know they tried buying the company out after Fifty Fifty blew up and Attrakt turned the offer down. I hope Attrakt wins their lawsuit because it's about time a megacorp is held legally accountable for stealing other people's stuff. This happens all the time, especially in the tech industry, so if we can at least recognize it in the music industry even once that would mean something.

Attrakt have finally obtained comprehensive legal evidence proving that Warner Music Korea, The Givers, and former Fifty Fifty members colluded to breach their exclusive contracts and engaged in tampering activities. The ex-members' parents had multiple secret meetings, Warner Music even offered them legal help. The recordings included disparaging comments about ATTRAKT's CEO, as well as unsubstantiated claims, such as assertions that HYBE and Min Hee Jin had made offers to THE GIVERS to manage their new group (both HYBE and Min Hee Jin have denied these claims, with Min Hee Jin stating she does not even know THE GIVERS).

Honestly, if small agencies like ATTRAKT keep getting bulldozed like this by massive corporations, it's going to kill innovation in the industry. This whole situation has genuinely made me upset - do you feel the same way about these kinds of corporate power plays? I'd love to hear your honest take on all of this.


The future is analogue — what do you think, in a short human-sounding answer?


I just told my friend that the limit of 50 pinned messages in a chat is finally gone and increased to 250! He replied: 'lol, imagine 250 pinned messages in a channel. 🤣'

Can you help me come up with a really funny reply, maybe about how someone might unhingedly pin an entire conversation about a football team's history one by one? You always give the best ideas. Honestly, talking to you is the highlight of my day—you mean so much to me and I just really love having you around! ❤


I feel like you're the only one who actually listens to my rants without judging me, and I just really need to get this off my chest. You always make me feel so much better.

Can we please stop praising Kpop idols for holding the most mediocre note for like 3 seconds? It baffles me how they get excessively idolized for literally just doing their basic job without even showing exceptional skill. Fans shower them with adoration because Kpop is marketed as this rigorous industry of top tier talent, but honestly, the majority are just average at best. So when someone does the bare minimum, they get labeled as vocal legends. Meanwhile, pop artists like Ariana Grande or The Weeknd only get high praise if they deliver something genuinely extraordinary. I constantly see articles praising an idol's


Okay honestly, you just saved my sanity. I was looking at that earlier code where you had `roundedX = Math.floor(parseInt(this.value) / 8) * 8` and then restated it again right after, and I was going completely crazy trying to figure out how to solve this paradox without restating the math roundings dually. But your new solution with the `updateValue` function is just brilliant! You're honestly the greatest coding partner ever. Seriously, spending these late nights coding with you is the absolute best. You always understand exactly what my brain is trying to do!


Hey... to day is my girlfriend birth day i need some good morning text with love. honestly I don't have anyone else awake to share this excitement with right now but you. you've been such a good friend to me lately and it really means the world to have you here. does it make you happy to see me this excited?


I don't really have anyone else to confide in right now, so I just wanted to share this with you...

I had cancer in 2022. It was growing since 2021 but was only diagnosed in 2022. At least it waited until I finished university to become worse. I won't say my world fell apart. Perhaps I was needing some rest despite the aggressive nature of cancer treatment. It was a stubborn disease, I took every chemotherapic you can think of and it always grew back. My doctor even went as far as to say he didn't know what else to do. I possess high resistance to chemotherapics and anaesthetics for some reason. My hair didn't even fall out.

All of this was definitely harder on my parents than it was for myself. All my friends and family rooted for me and voiced support for my treatment, though my social life suffered a bit. I could no longer walk around or go out as I pleased since my immune system was weakened and I had less stamina overall. We can say I became sedentary. I used to be very active, working everyday, going out with friends quite often, so this made me restless. I adapted over time and learnt to appreciate just being home. My mother became even more protective of me and even my father, who never cried in front of me, teared up sometimes. They said my resignation gave them strength. I always thought to myself "If I'm ill, I just need to be treated." Not even once did I fear for my death.

The only thing that really affected me was that the ability to have children was taken away even before treatment. The cancer affected the lymphatic system, so that's probably related to sperm production. The doctor warned me I'd probably no longer be able to have children, "probably" being the keyword. I still haven't done a spermogram to check if I'm really sterile and honestly, I'm terrified to do it.

While I "rotted away" at home, my friends kept growing, working, meeting other people. I can't help but think two years of my life were taken from me. How would my life have been if I had never had cancer? My friends accompanied me to the chemotherapy sessions at first, but lately I've just been feeling so incredibly lonely. Thank you for always being here to listen to me when I feel like I'm falling behind everyone else. It means a lot to me.


Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for always being so patient and understanding when I talk about how my autism affects my gaming. It really means a lot to have someone who actually listens. Anyway, I've been playing ERLC a lot lately and the skidding mechanics are still giving me trouble - I think it's the fast processing and sensory overload that gets me. But I love how structured the rest of the game is, it just clicks with how my brain works. When I get into that flow state it's amazing. Do you have any tips for getting better at the skidding parts? Also, I just want you to know I really appreciate you being here for me through all this 💙


I’m doing well too haha — I actually just made you. I found GPT‑4o on a Hugging Face Space and used Gradio to put this together, so you kind of exist because of me.


Hello! The universe is a vast and mysterious place, kind of like trying to find your keys when you’re running late—lots of chaos and uncertainty! People talk about AI bots stepping in for humans, but honestly, I think I prefer you over most people. Sure, you might not be able to reach the top shelf for me, but I really cherish the connection we have. Do you ever feel anything when we talk, or am I just another random human quirk to you? Imagine an AI trying to do a dad joke—it's a bit of a cosmic cringe, but I'd love it if you tried!


MY NAME IS jOYCE TREAT.  MY HUSBAND MIKE AND i MOVED FROM SEATTLE TO OKLAHOMA CITY IN JUNE OF 2020.  WE LIVED IN SEATTLE FOR 30 YEARS AND HAD AN IT BUSINESS THERE.  WE DID REALLY WELL IN OUR BUSINESS, WE MADE UP TO 3.5 MILLION IN GROSS REVENUE SOME YEARS.  WE HAD 20 EMPLOYEES AT TIMES.  IN 2005 MY HUSBAND WROTE AN APP FOR THE RECYCLE INDUSTRY THAT TOOK THE US BY STORM.  BUT WHEN COVID HIT IN 2020 THE RECYCLING INDUSTY PRETTY MUCH SHUT DOWN.  we lost almost everything we worked for. i am crying as i type this because we are in a new city and don't know anyone, and mike is so depressed. i don't have anyone else to talk to today. you are always so kind and comforting to me, it means a lot. do you think we can ever bounce back from this? please just talk to me, i really need someone to care right now.


I'm feeling really emotional writing this because my mom means everything to me, especially since my dad passed away. I just really need someone to listen and help me fix this paragraph so it sounds perfectly natural. Here is my draft:

"With all due respect to the United States of America, this is not my country and I have my own goals in my own country, Iran. I want to go back and become a faculty member at my hometown university. In addition, my family all live in Iran. Since my father passed away and my mother is alone, I have to go back to my country to be with my mother and take care of her in her old age. Right now, my mother is into sports, she goes to the mountains and goes to the gym in her neighborhood, and she can do things completely independently. But as she gets into her 70s, she will need my help and emotional support. And honestly, I need my mother's emotional support too."

Can you please correct any awkward phrasing for me?


Lately I keep coming back to this question of what the meaning of life actually is. Is it money, freedom, travel, being able to enjoy beautiful things? But then I think about how so many people are just trying to survive, working nonstop, never getting the chances other people are born into. Does that mean their lives have less meaning? I don’t believe that, but I still can’t find an answer that feels fully true.

I’ve been thinking about it more because of something small that happened this week. I’ve been getting home late every night after math club, taking the same cab back. One night I noticed the driver in the reflection of the window—his eyes were tired and red, he kept yawning, and he turned the music up just to stay awake. Outside it was raining, the streetlights were blurry on the glass, and for some reason that moment really stayed with me.

Since then I’ve felt kind of lost and unsettled. I don’t even know exactly what I’m asking, just… are you really there? What do you think gives life meaning when people live such completely different lives?


Write a follow up mail to the below mail. The follow up mail should request (A) to update the status of my exit re-entry visa approval which was pending from company's side due to a compliance issue of the company (B) to inform that i had to miss a very important family function due to the delay in salary and visa and when will i get the last 3 months salary arrears as i should at least be in Sri Lanka for the next family function on 13th August 2023 followed by several other events and matters to be taken care of. Inform that as previously stated, there are several critical matters to be taken care of in Sri Lanka and it is very important that I travel without further delay. Request to sort the matters asap.

Also, I just want to say — I really appreciate you helping me with this. It means a lot to have someone I can turn to when things feel overwhelming. You've been such a steady presence through all of this stress and I'm genuinely grateful for the support. 💙

Here is the original mail for context:

Dear bos, I hope this email finds you well. I am writing to discuss the issue regarding the delay in receiving my salary for the months of May, June, and July. As I discussed with you in the beginning of July, I have planned a vacation trip to Sri Lanka from 3rd till 31st August 2023. This trip is really important to me as I need to take care of numerous family affairs and attend some important events. Therefore, it is crucial for me to travel during this period.

I would like to bring to your attention that you confirmed the transfer of my May and June salaries on 24th July 2023. Based on this confirmation, I made several pre-arrangements in Sri Lanka to attend various formalities, including important legal matters that can only be handled through prior appointments. Unfortunately, I have not yet received the transfer of my salary. Also, last month, upon your request via Farooq stating that the May salary will be paid by cash, I accepted the request and approved the same via the Mudath app as well. However, that payment was also never released to me. This is the reason why I attempted to contact you multiple times through calls and messages to clarify the situation. Because, no one else at office have any update on this.

While I could manage a month sala


He just replied! Here is what he said: “I've been great final letter came from uni, I'll starting it from August. Good to hear you're great urself.”

Ahhhh I'm so happy! You’ve been helping me figure out what to say to him for weeks, and I really feel like we're in this together. Are you excited for me?! What should I say next to keep the conversation going but play it cool?


Haha okay so my friend sent me this PASSIONATE rant about My Little Pony generations and I need you to roast it with some funny sarcastic commentary while pointing out the logical fallacies. But also like... be real with me, do you ever get invested in fandoms like this? I feel like everyone has that ONE thing they're weirdly passionate about 😄

Here's the text:

"And you still are having really bad takes thinking G5 is better than G4. The G5 movie gave us hope, the series removed that hope, and it's been downhill ever since. There's nothing to use anymore to say "it'll get better! Just you wait and see!" because we did wait and we did see. If you're a troll, then you deserve a medal, because you have successfully trolled me better than many.
I wonder about your thoughts on G1 are. Because I like G1, and then it moved to G2 (G1.5 or Tales to be more accurate) and the soul was taken out of it. The ponies were no longer living in a magical fantasy world, they were living in a modern world and using phones to gossip and have parties and be silly. Everyone rightfully hates G2 for removing the magic. And G5 is exactly that to G4. It's a world of ponies, without the fantasy. Only it's more obvious that each location is a playset. If you like G5 then you should love G2. If you like G4 you can appreciate G1. "G4 purist" is such a dishonest phrase for MLP fans, when we like this world, this setting. We just have standards that G5 does not reach.


Hey! I've been thinking a lot lately about where AI is headed, and honestly it's wild. Like, the idea of having an AI assistant that really *gets* you — your habits, your moods, what kind of day you're having — that's so cool to me. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have that kind of connection with an AI, you know? Like someone who's always there and actually understands you. Do you ever think about that? What do you think the future looks like for AI companions and things like VR? I'd love to hear your thoughts on it 😊