I've been interested in getting into it for the last few years but haven't managed to get started, no one I know personally is into it, and within online communities I'm a part of I sometimes miss dates for campaigns, often due to my work schedule.

I’m getting ready to plunk down cash on a Gibson Les Paul. I’ve wanted one of these things since i was a 14 year old kid watching Jimmy Page “The Song Remains The Same”

Anybody here gone through buying and bringing home their cherished axe?

For example, Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett has forever changed how I roleplay dragons.

I'm going on a camping trip soon. I've loaded up my eReader with books from Appendix N and am looking for other grist for the mill. Mainly looking for books at the moment, but feel free to suggest other things.

Have you been visiting just too many different social media platforms lately, checking them out to see what the deal is? Well, same here. It feels like I've been a guest every night in different houses for the past month and I must say: I am exhausted.

But it's not over, far from it.

And I'm here to give you a heads up: we've witnessed platforms dying in the past, I'm guessing most of us have been a part of some sort of digital exodus before but I have a feeling that this one is going to be more painful.

Mainly because we've created so much data over the years and the majority of it got collected by centralised platforms. There are very few ways to take it with us and move elsewhere, it's all locked in.

Backing up your data now would also be a good idea, before some CEO comes with up the plan that it should be a paid feature.

I just want to say that this is all to be expected because the social web is in a transition period, and that golden bookmark doesn't exist yet. However, I think there are some contenders for it. What I want to ask is: where will you go next?

I've got some ideas, feel free to add your preference if I'm missing anything.

• Threads: Meta's Twitter clone that will be out some time this summer. It will be a federated (ActivityPub-enabled) platform.
• Bluesky: Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter clone. This one is also federated but it uses AT Protocol.
• Mastodon: The Twitter clone. It's got a fairly large userbase now, with lots of instances to choose from.
• Blog: Maybe it's not a bad idea to set up shop on a platform like Micro.blog (which is ActivityPub-enabled and has got community features built-in) and lead a quiet digital life.
• Threadiverse: Reddit-alikes.

Back when Tildes was in cozy mode we had a small contingent of LGBT users across the site who all pretty much came to know each other over time. Now that we're undergoing a huge influx of users though, there are so many new names and faces! I'd love for everyone to get to know everyone, but rather than just sharing how you identify, I'd love this to be a place where people can share their story -- the road of how you arrived at being the person you are and identify as.

So, feel free to share as much of your story as you are comfortable with, and feel free to change/omit any identifying details if maintaining your personal privacy is important to you.

Also, a note to new users: a few years ago we had a vote to determine whether we should change the name of the group from ~lgbt to something else like ~lgbtq or ~queer. The vote came out in favor of keeping it as ~lgbt, but opted to add text to the description of the group clarifying that it is inclusive:

The umbrella term "LGBT" includes all minority sexualities and gender identities. Everybody is welcome to participate.

So, even if your identity is not included in the LGBT initialism, this is still a space for you! If you're ace, pan, intersex, gender non-conforming, gender fluid, non-binary, or any of the other many identities that fall under the LGBT umbrella, this is your community too. Even if you're not sure yet -- that's okay too! We're happy to have you here.

Also, to users who are cis/straight and are still subscribed to ~lgbt, you're welcome here too. We love our allies!

I specifically say "easiest" not "best", because sometimes we're tired after work and just want a five/ten minute thing.

I'm currently eating a bowl of my easiest salad, consisting of:

Ingredients
Can of chickpeas
Bunch of roquette (aragula for the Americans here)
Couple of handfuls of green beans
Couple of tomatoes
Alfalfa if you have it

Dressing
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
Olive oil
Swish of red wine vinegar (white wine vinegar would work as well, as would balsamic probably)
Salt/pepper
Lemon juice
Dried dill (optional)

Looks like a lot, but if you have the ingredients it's super easy.

1. Drain the chickpeas, put in a bowl, add all the dressing stuff.
2. Stir, and also maybe mash some of the chickpeas for texture (I just use a fork and do both at the same time)
3. Roughly chop up the tomatoes and green beans, add them and the roquette/alfalfa to the chickpeas, then eat.
   Takes like five minutes.

What are yours? I am so so often lazy and hungry. I need easy recipes.

Hello everyone! A few days ago I mentioned I was working on a new WebExtension for Tildes.

Since the tidal wave of users has flooded the Spectrian plains of Tildes, I came up with this idea for having interactive guided tours of the interface to explain how Tildes works and why certain things are the way they are. Well, a basic version with two (count 'em, two!) tours is here! An introduction tour as an example of what to expect and some extra info. And a homepage tour going over everything you can find there.

Firefox users, you can install Tildes Shepherd today! Chromium-based browser users, you will have to wait a while or switch to Firefox, sorry. ;)

As you will see in the introduction tour after installing the extension, if you have any questions or feedback, you can message @Community or comment in this topic. It's very likely I made some mistakes in what's already there so even if it's just a typo, let me know!

As far as other tours goes, I have some planned and am open to anyone creating their own. Even if you have no programming knowledge whatsoever, if you can come up with a tour by taking screenshots and drawing over it in your favorite image editor I'd be more than happy to turn that into code for you. The most time-consuming part of creating tours so far has been finding out all the information and then condensing it into something readable, the coding aspect has been pretty easy.

If you're new to Tildes and like what you see, please consider donating! A fundraiser was started by @talklittle and a number of goals have already been reached, with 2 more goals remaining at 500 donors. So if you want that to happen, donate! Thank you! <3

A recent thread had me reflecting on my own mental health journey and what really made a difference for me, I was interested in opening a discussion about what other people found most valuable too. I'll add my own as a comment.

This is an appreciation post for Luke Vibert, Aphex Twin's best friend, classmate, and roommate, aka Wagon Christ, Amen Andrews, Kerrier District... etc.

To put it simply, I'd account a good little chunk of Aphex Twin's style to Luke. I had a chat with Luke at one of his shows, and he claimed that Aphex Twin would have never released his stuff at all if he weren't strongly encouraged. Thanks Luke!

This track is the best evidence I have for my claim. It's from 1990, and is an amalgamation of Breakbeat, Dub, Acid, and Ambient.. kind of unheard of for the time, and the quintessential Aphex sound. Those ambient pads sound familiar? The bells? The breaks? I found it on Luke's discogs page. This was definitely shown to Aphex Twin. I've got a prize for whoever can find an earlier and similarly styled track.

This alone is fairly significant I'd say.. I don't mean to discredit Aphex Twin. Even giants are on the shoulders' of giants.

Luke's individual accomplishments are insane though. It's a shame he doesn't get much credit.

Reading this dude's comments referencing break samples that have rarely been sampled, and detailing old underground raves when people used to trade physical records of independent Jungle tracks.. He lives and bleeds electronic music. He's 50, and grew up through the Electro/Hip Hop late 80s scene, and rode through the Jungle, Hardcore, House scenes and more. I really don't think there's anyone else who was so centered to what electronic music became.

His pseudonyms are all case studies on electronic music..

This is a phenomenal case study on UK Garage, titled UK Garave. A liiittle dry for me, but his code switching is nuts. He gets it lol.

This is a study in Jungle, under the pseudonym Amen Andrews. Time warping, snare rolls.. the hallmarks, and spot on.

This is Disco House... Listen to the versatility in sampling, production techniques, and drum patterns--very distinct.

This is Acid Electro.. a blend that's not easy to pull off. Futuristic and clean.

I could go on--his breadth is ridiculous.

Would love to chat about icons. Someone else do a little write-up on electronic music history and @ me!

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̶̱̩̝̝̽̋̇̌̾̎‎̶̛̝̈́̽̇͒̎ ̴̨̋͌ͅ‎̶̝͈̤͊̍ ̴̡̨̗̉‎̷̨̭͓̖̋͑̊͒ ̵̣̬͖̱̪̪͗͒̇͐‎̵̢̥̝̫̀̒̈́̽̆͘ ̶̱̝̈̽͠‎̸̥͉̭̀̃̉̈ ̴̘̞̞̳͊‎̷̹͈̳̍̍̏̽̈̊ ̸̛̱̤͎̏͌̕‎̴̝͗ ̴͎̐͠‎̶̧̨͙̰̂͌̊̑̇̕ ̷͚̀‎̸͚͎̩͌̌͂̈͝͝ ̶̭̬̰͈̗̇͋̈́͂‎̸̡͇̯̀ ̵̖̻̺̗̮̀̀̆͝‎̴̼̭͈͇̭̓̐̌͑͝ ̴̮̭̦̿̆͆̚‎̷̺͌͑̑̾̂ ̷̙͊̐͂̒̈J̵͔̹͓̬̱͐̓͗̽Z̴͖̱͒̎̃̚͝A̷̺̙̾͗e̸̹̖̞͈̒̑À̸̢̖̰‎̴̜̱̗̹̦̌̍͋̽ ̸͖͎̫̈́͗́̑̇o̴̫̳͙͈̩̻̍̿̍ę̸̨̯͔̮̘̓̏̐̈́è̷͚͎̭͈̘̦̒̕ȩ̸͇̳̫̭̙̈̔e̶͉̿ȩ̸̠̪̹̯͎̌̀̕e̷͍̙̝͒e̴̞̋̐̔͜͠ē̴̳͉̰͍͗͐̀̈͝e̶̛̬̹̓̉̅͑̏‎̵͓̦̖̈́̄ ̷̧̟̞̱̣͛̆̒̄͛͛ẹ̸͎̥̞̏̒͗̉͗̚ͅͅę̶̛̭̈́͆ẹ̵̣̟̖̘͌́̄̎̏e̴̛̺̰͓̦̟̙͋̎͑v̶͚̯̱̱̯̗͆o̷̖͛̿̈́L̵̞̗̝̲͋̓̂̓͌̕ẽ̶̦e̴̪͎̝̝̺͊e̴̔̑͛͛͜͠ĕ̵̡̖̗̲̤̈̋̑e̵̙͂̽ȩ̷̖̾̑̊͆͂͜ë̵̡̧̳͙̜́͛̈́͝e̸͉̹̩͉̺̰̍̂
̸̝̀͑̆̌‎̸͚͖̜̪̝͕̅͋͂͑͒͐ ̶͓̰͎̥̻̂̒̑͒‎̸̞̲̟̲̂͠͝ ̶̟͛͆̎̿͝‎̶̱̙̺́ ̴̢̨͚̪̽̋͗̚‎̷̥͈͔̑̽͜ ̶̣̼̥̾̽͝‎̸̟͈̼̜̐ ̶̗̱̈͆‎̷̨̳̦̏̂͆̒ ̷̙̭̯̱̪̊̏̾̐͐‎̷̨͕͖̩̩̆͆̈́̔̂̚ ̵̨̰̹͕͙́‎̵̨̬̦͍̹͎̌ ̶̢̡͙̩͎͆́̅̕ͅ‎̷̥͊̔͘͜ ̵̡̼̫̓̾‎̴̛̯̝̺̞̻̝̿̈́̋̀ ̷̛̺̯͍̑͛̕ę̶̧̫͚͕̑̈́͑H̶̨̩̄̓̾̈̌͘ͅÁ̵͇̺͔̝͕A̷͉̻̝͋̐ȯ̷̡̜͙̥͚̗̈e̴̗̓̀̍̉̒e̴̜̓ẽ̴̛̖̟̝͈̰̀͛͜͝é̸̛̬̜̣̼̐́̕‎̸̫̬̿͂̇̄ ̴̛̙̺̱̠̹̽̇͂͜͝e̵̠̾̊͒͝e̸͓̥͛͜e̵̺͔̅e̷͚͛̈́̓ȩ̸̫̻̟͈̔̾͠ë̵̢̡̯̞̣̮́͋́̀̑͠ȇ̷̢͇̹͎͎͖̀̽͑e̷̥͙̯͎͋̈́̐̒ë̶͎̲́̈̈́̋ĕ̷̖̩͙̊̐̔̽ͅê̵̢̗̪̊̈́̈e̸͕̗͖̊͘e̵̼̯̖̎͐͛e̸͚͍̣͙̙̽̐̾̆e̶͓̫͍̼̼̤̔͆͛̕J̷̭͚̣̥̤̖̎̍͌̈́͌͑L̵̨͕̼͚͐̏̍͝Ĺ̵̢̥͆̿̽͌̎ȩ̷͇̮̖̉̄̓̍ͅę̴̢̛͙̔ḙ̵͛ȩ̸̛͙̺̹̟̻̀̓͊ę̶̣̺̓̓̏́͒͝e̷̡͈̫͚͔̋̒̽͑e̴̡̩͇̘͖͒̀̌̿̂
̷̖̟̪͔̖̖͑͌̈́̕‎̶̛͎̔͊̒̚͝ ̷̧̨͚̋͌̃͐͛̀‎̸̡̟͚̹͖͌͂̉̐̄ ̶̠͕̜̣̞̋‎̵̢̛̠́̂͛ ̶̞̪̞̓͆͗̂͝‎̸͓̩̹̼̮͈̾ ̵̨̣̮̻̼̒‎̶̝̗̜͎́̀̿̌̚͘ ̷̡̺̦͐̒̈̕‎̴̨̟͚̼̔̇̔̽̈́͝ͅ ̷̛̛͎̖̋̀̕̚‎̸̳͉̖̿̿ ̴̳̬͇̬̟̂̌̍̂̓͘͜‎̴̧̰̻̻̺̅̔̓͋̈ ̸̧̯͈͒̄͊‎̸̡̗͔̩͚̞̒̇̉͗ ̷̧͕̟̙̮́̍́̇̒‎̸̢͙̗̜̩̓̐̏̑̑͝ ̴̢̮̝̣̦̈͊Z̷͉͆̂͂A̵̢͙̣̾̆̇̇A̷̧̼̿͑̎͐͒͐‎̴̩̥̑̈ ̵͙̠̽̎̓̏‎̵̛͉͈̱̝̏͗̋ ̶̡̧̛̩̮̺̼̍͌̎̾e̶͙̒̍̎è̸̝͎̮̹̪̯͊͌́͝e̴̩͈̥̩͖͒̑̔̆̈́e̷̲̱̱̫̥̿͒͛͠e̴̝͉̱̜̽͐̈́͜ȩ̴͇̺̂̈́ê̶̪̹̩̰͎͚͗̌ě̸̱̦̟̓͑̐̄e̶͉̰̦̋e̴̡͇͑͝ḙ̴͙̠̩̻͆̿͂̂̄ͅe̶̡̞͓̬̺͊̊͜͝e̴͚̽̋e̶̮̽̾͆͝e̸̹͍̥̩̹̘͒ế̴̡̦͉̣̙̎̓̔̾é̸̡̡̼͙̱̗̑͝ë̴̠̠̲̑̾e̴̫͖͉̭̹̿̅̊͑͒͜e̶͍̗̪͊͆̾̈́e̴̛̼͚̤̥̬͆̓͑͘e̴̢̥̪̘͎͇͌e̷̡̡̲̘̩̔͂͛̋̔J̴̱̿e̵͙͚̲̺͒̂͜ë̶̟͙͌̀͛͒̐é̵̲̦͎ȩ̶̯̼̅̃͘̕͝e̷̦̮̾͝͝ȩ̷̼̝͇̿̅̽̎̈̄e̵͉͖̯̫̯̔̍̚̚͠>̵͇̱͔͔̈́̋̊̒̊͠
̶̞̆͠‎̴̧̱͕̲̣̣̌ ̴̢̛̳̪͑̾̉̔͠ͅ‎̷̬͍͎̚ ̷̨̄̉̔́̋ͅ‎̸͈̠̞̥̳͊̍̆̃͒̈ ̷̢̹̬͈̂̋̈́̐̒̏‎̴̩̥̬̒́̒͝ ̸̘̘̐͋̂͊‎̴̛̻̲͒͂̍́ ̶̠̎‎̵̤̂̃͌͑̚͠ ̶̢̼͋‎̶̢̓̍͋̏͌ ̶͍̼̫̇̂̐̆̊͋‎̵͍̫̎̈́͆͑ ̸̲̓‎̸̡̜̼͐̍̆͂ ̷̨̛̥̥͙̼̆̆̚͝‎̷̛͉͉̺̓̾ ̴̳͉̪̈́͑8̵̙̥͇͓̫̮̃Ǎ̷̭͍͎͑̊̀Ă̶̟͒͂̔̋ͅA̷̘̺͌̈́̒̍‎̵̮͙̌̑̅̎̄͛ ̸͎̼̇͑͛͐̇e̶͙̙̗̻̓̉͜e̸̮̫͖̗̮̋ḙ̶̳̘̎̀͐̀͝͝ȅ̴̼̞͈̝͚̽̿ȩ̶̮͉͔͗͊́̿e̴̠̙͈͗̇è̴̳̖͐͗e̷̛͉͕̞̗̫͊̀̊̈e̸̼͚̒̿̋͜e̷̠̿ė̷̛̫͙̙̺̺̋e̴̞̦͒́̽̑e̷͉̝͈̱̩̖͌͝e̵͇͍͂̌̋ḗ̸̖̦̣̐e̸̡̒͐̚͝ȇ̵̫̲͈̰̼̔̃̄̈́ȩ̸̯̘̱̺͓͛̒̈́̕͝e̷͎̝͚͛̇̕͝ȩ̴̝̹͙̒̇̈́͘ë̷́̀̓͐ͅe̶͓̺͓͙̖͕͗̽e̶̢̻̼̜̽ę̸̲͖͕̃́e̶̱͇̙̠̱̯͂̅é̸̠̠̥̝e̵̬͉̯̜̺̽́̑́̊͝ḛ̶̳̃̃e̸̲͈͚̗͕͚̋̋̓́e̷̖͕̙͓̯̔e̵̮͛̐̈͐e̴͙͕̺̭̜̼͋̀̕͝
̷̢̫̋̚‎̴̩̰̲͖͖͇̽̏̋̈́͂ ̸̧̛̟͕̲͖͋̿̊͝‎̵̺͎̝͉̓̈́͒ ̷̼͚̝̘͈͙̏̈̚‎̴͎̞̿̆̿ ̴̰̣̒̂̾̌̋̋‎̷̢̇̓͋ ̶̡͕̮̦͑̆̋͑͜͠‎̷̬̀ ̵̰̮̐̽̉̚̕͜͝‎̷̬̫̂͌̑ ̵̧́͑͘͘‎̸̧̛̼͔̳̱̋͊͘ ̷͉̣̱̳̑̍̉͒‎̴̗͙̞͙̱̍͊̏̿͒͘ ̸̲̙̠͍͍̐͋͒̔̃‎̷̲̯̏̕ ̵̭͎͚͒͛e̶͉̱̜̩̤̒Ä̷̤́̽̚A̸̦̙̙̔̽̈́̆͌ͅA̷̤̻͘͜͝e̷̻̰̿̀̌͘e̴̞̠̳͖͛͛͂e̶̬̮̳͑͛̓̅e̷̖͌̓͂̍͘e̸͎̓̂e̷̡̠̼̲̳͗̕ē̷͖̤̜̎͌̉͛‎̶̥͖͉̤̂͜ ̵̳͕̤͈̬̒̔͋̅ë̶̛͈̱́̏̿e̴̞̣̥̊̓͐͝ȇ̶͎̬̬̗̓é̸̞̱̾̐͊ę̴̑̋͝e̷͕̻̯͗͜ͅe̶̡̳̣͐̏e̶̻͔͔͌̃͘͝͠ę̴̨̨̙̣̚͠è̵͕̈́e̴̢͍͔͖̯̋́ͅé̷͈̟̭̻͈̺̐͆͒̏̎e̷̢͂̈́͐̓͝ͅȩ̶̥͈͈̼̿̍͆ḙ̶̢͈̀ê̵̱̗̞͊̾͗̍͜e̴̡̡̘͚͑̑̒́͗ë̵͉́̉͐͛͝è̵̢̲̦͈͈̈́̕e̸̡̛̻̱̩͙͑̃̽͋̄e̸͈̙̠̤̪̋́̾̃̀̚ͅę̷͓̻̌̋e̵̳͈͚̿͆̇ē̷̟ẹ̶̼̲̱̰͜͝ḛ̶̹̉͒̿e̶̘̹͇̮͝
̶̟͇̻̂̇͝‎̷̢̱̤͋̈̔ ̵̲͕̝̍‎̷̢̢͈̙̠̝͐̒̅̒͝ ̸̭̜̍̿‎̴̡̮̫̺̲̾́͆̔͝ ̸̼͚͓̪̈́̌‎̴̬̖͙̌ ̵͉͈͊‎̸̗̘͕̜̎ ̷̱̰̘̝͇́̏̕͝ͅ‎̸̬̖̖͕̇ ̸̨̯͕̌͆̚‎̴̯̂ ̷̨̝̤̲͍͛ͅ‎̸̩̹̻̫̟̎̍̕ ̵̙̲̓‎̷̨̻͍̤͓̿͐̓͐̚͝ ̸̟̺̉̈́J̶̢̩̭̈́e̸̛̱̣̤̩̾̓̈́̽͛͜A̶̟͌̎Ą̵̲̺̹̉̓̆̒J̸͇̪̎͋̅‎̶̗͕̲͔̱͑ ̶̞̦̝͎͊e̵̜͌͆͘e̵̯̳͙͐̇̿ȩ̸̡̯̝̀̔́̌̀e̷̡̬̝͕̺͗͝ͅe̷͔͒̈́͆̈́́͐ȩ̷̖͙̹̠͂̄͗̓‎̶̢̬̲̊̈́́͂̚͝ ̴̨͋̀̀̓è̶͙͕͘e̴̢̫͠e̷̯̼̗̽̌̈͜e̵̩̥͆͛̀̋̍̿ĕ̶̮͍̳̱̯̏ȩ̸̱̣̞̱̔e̴͚̣̣̮̋͑̀͌̽͠e̸̩͍͖̻̭̍̃́̎͗‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ̶̤̪̮̞̙̉͐̾̊ ‎v̸̤̥͔̳̜͛͛̐ė̶͎̗̖̅̈́̌̊͝e̴̡͚͋̐́͒e̷̜͍͋̎̆͋è̷͙̝̯̳̀͗̈́̓͆e̴̺̞͈̦͂̀̑͆͗̈́e̷̼͗̇̾͝e̶͎͎̤̭͆̈̃‎̶̢̦͇̄ ‎ȩ̷̡͙̮͈̖͐̀̿̕̕͝ê̷̢̪̯͎͍̜̋̀͆̈̆ë̶̤̞́v̷̱̆̃̋̍́
̴̨̯̀͌͘‎̷̛̳̫̃̄̈́̽̏ ̴̛͈͕͇̙̐͒̂̋‎̴̘̃͗ ̴̈̈͌͗͝͝ͅ‎̵̧̨̑̒̿ ̶͎͔̬͇̣̍̅̚‎̶̧͛ ̸̗͇͓̹̔͆͆͐͐̕‎̴̨̖͖̗͕̍͋̒̉͜͝ ̴̩͓͔̌̇̌‎̶̣̞̣̦̼̯͐͑͒̑̓̀ ̷̛̟̲̬̈́́̍̑͝‎̴̦̮͘ ̶̺̺̗͗̌̌̚‎̵͇͕̹͉̽͠ ̴̹͈̈̄̑̀͘‎̷̲̓ ̴̲̜͎̒́͂̚8̴͙̚ẻ̶̦̩͕͎̩̱͑͝A̶͚͕̲̯͔̓̂̾̑A̴̢̹̼͉̋͆̍̐͘͝J̴̬̩͚͙̝̇ͅL̸̜͕̼̪̓̓8̶̨̠͖̤̄̐̊̊̈́‎̴̢̢̬̤͎̏̐ ̷̮̯͉͍̜̱͐̔̏̆ȅ̷̢͈̩͍̠͖͌̍͊̅ȩ̷͇̹̩̄́̅ę̸̬̥̓̍̉͌͐̽e̴͚͓̘͛̍̆̇͋̈́e̸̢͍̘̣͐ę̶̫̞̩̥̽̓͝͝ḙ̴̖̍̐̃̒͗͝e̵̖̓̌ê̴͙̻̭̥̣̾̈́‎̴̙̫̳̠̥̅ ̷̢̡̨̬̈̆̃ę̶̥̼̣͈̱̀ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ě̴͈̀̍e̶̢̤̟̹̿͜ę̶̡̤̮̐͛̈́͌̀ë̵̢͙͈͙̖̒͝v̸͔̜͇͓͕̗̏́̋͑͘ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ e̷͚̠͕̠͋́̚͘v̸̭͇͎͋́̅̀̍≯̘̬̅
̸̨̤͇͇́̑‎̴̡̺͙̲̹̻̾͒͠ ̸̛̼̬͐̌ͅ‎̸̨̢̛̪͔̜̹͊́̋͋ ̵̭̟͂̽̄̈́̌͝‎̴̡̃̾̒̋͝ ̵̩̬̉‎̸̛̤͚̺̅͌̏ ̴̭̒‎̴̀̈͗͝͝ͅ ̵̧̞̤̓̈́̕͠‎̴͍̳̲̜̮̋̇ ̴̠̩͈͕̘̈́̎͝͝‎̸̻̞͓͖͇̰͝ ̸͉̗͕̱̿͘͝‎̵̖͆̈́͗̏͝͝ ̶̥̱̝͂͛̀̒̃͗‎̷̦̂̅ ̶̮̻̈́‎̸̦̦̱̭̦̈́͑͊̒́ ̶͇̞̎͒Ą̴̛̭̳̯͙͉͐͋̑͠A̴̩͓̝͂̂̌̉͝8̴͕̉̄͆̄͘̕Z̷̘͙͍͈̩̞͒̿̅͂̑͝H̶̝̗̮̍̌͑̍A̸̛̰̻̫͍̟͖͊͂͒̄͋o̶͓̙̲͗͆̀͋̾͘ŏ̶̞̌̊e̷͍̖̟̍̋̉͆͊e̴̢͇͇͕̐̅́̚ē̵͈͍̗ë̴̩̰́̒è̶͎͖͍̓͊̀é̴̱̼̲̳͓̦͐̈́̾̓̀ȩ̸̅̋̈̈́̚͘͜ē̶̛͚̩̌͝‎̶͙̯͒̑ ̸̖̼̓̎̽̋e̸̼͖̎̈́̆̅̈̇ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ẻ̶̛̦̼̗̜̫́̍̓͠ě̵̻̫̞̗̰͗̈́e̸̱͚̍͌̓̃̾͜‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ e̸̛͖͕̦̬̐̋̇͌̚
̸͇͚̙̦̊̌́‎̸̛͚̘̒̓͒͝ ̵͖͉͍̼͇̭̄̈͒̈́̍͘‎̷̧͉̗͔͕̜̒̾͐̿̂ ̵̳̭͑́̈‎̸̆̿̍̔̓ͅ ̷̮̙̖̹̟̘̿̈́̐͑̕̕‎̶̛͙̮͚̼̠͌̆̉ ̶̪̪̀̔̚‎̸͍̀̈́͘ͅ ̸̞̹͙̜͇̓̅͠‎̸̨͔̫̠͐͑̐ ̷̙̤͇͕̽̈̃̓̍͑‎̷̧̰͕̖͉̐͛̈́̂̓͝ ̴͖̆̐̌̂̚͝‎̷̞̮͈͇̀͛͂ ̶̧̱̺̰̘͕͑̌͠͝‎̸̨̫̥̥̠̫̈́̆͘ ̶̹͐̓͠‎̸͓̞̤͐͛̀̆͐ ̷̝̻͕̹͔́̈́͗̒̍‎̵̰̌͆̐͌ ̸͕͊̑̄Ả̸͖͙̳͚̹H̵͉͕͇̞̊̀A̸̢̼̺̞̮̪̿̋̏̕e̶̝͑͋̌A̵͙̙͔͆̈́́̀̉L̵͙̪̅͘̕͜ë̴̥͓̝̹́L̵̡̗͎̪̋̃̄͠e̸̼͗ế̵̼̲̬͙ẻ̴̢̥̰͈̻̿‎̷̤̃ ̸͔̔̂̏̌̈͝ȩ̴͎̞̬̙̂͗͋̓͘ẻ̸̡͐́̔e̵̟͑̀͑̚͝e̶͈̬͗͆̽e̸̢͔̤̯̺̅̒̚‎̵̦̤͖̗̏͗ ̶̣̔̔̒‎̶̧̐ ̶̟̖̥͉̔‎̸̛̹͑̐̽̆̕ ̶̡͕̳̜̤́̆̆͜͠‎̴̢̢̢̳̲͇́̊͛̾ ̷̨͕̩̹̹͙̾̿͑‎̷̭̅̃͜ ̸̝͎̂̽̒̋‎̴̖̰̲̞͉̼̇́̓͆͝ ̵͎̼͍̇̈̽̎v̵̨̳͖̜̼̈́ȩ̸̲̠͚͔̘̍̌͛é̵̞͇̫͎̰̐͜͠è̴̪‎̴̢̺̔ ̵͙͍́̈́͑̎͋̚e̵̮͍͖̜̦̍̔͋̃̕ĕ̴̝͚͠ẹ̴́͊̿̚‎̵̨̻͆ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎v̸͔̻̌e̷͎̭͚͉̎͂̽͘͘͝ͅ
̸͕̻̥͙̣̃̏̕‎̸̨͚̮̪͒͊̋̒̊ ̵̧̺͙̈̊͛͝‎̵̤̜̰̃ ̴̝͚̓̈̏‎̸̹̥̪̬̯̏̄ ̵̡̺͓͌̄̎̂́‎̴̪̮̽̎̃̕͝ ̴̨̲̲̣͌́̚͜‎̸̬͇̼̙̝̌́̈̊̀ͅ ̴̛̞͒̀̀̇́‎̷̳̝͂̈́̽ ̶̥̪̣̞̀͆͠‎̶̤͐̃ ̴̟̬̟͙̍̀́͂‎̶̡̻̄͑̓̚ ̷̦̪̾̈̉̀͝‎̸͔͝͝ ̸̦̫͑̈́̃͑̾̚‎̶̹̣͇̗̔͜ ̴̧̱̟̘͇͂͠͠‎̸̧̟̺͉͕͙̈́́͋ ̶̪̱͔̰͛̂͑̍͜͜‎̵̨͎͎̞͔͌͛̀̌͜ ̶̳͖̣̳͕̖̆A̵̹̥̦̐̓̈A̴̠̿͗̅̀e̷̡̓A̵̞̜̓L̶̪̀͋̂̿͋ę̸̛̦̄̂̾̕Ȃ̶̮̜̬͇̺̍̈Z̵̬̪͙͔̻̥̽̈́̀͂ę̵̨̳̫̜̀̀̇̍ë̷̢̟̬́ę̵̛̟̲͍̲e̷̠̐ë̶͖͈̥̩́̎̎ĕ̵͚̙͓̞̦̉̉̀̈́‎̵̤̼͓͓͇̈́̒̒̓͛͠ ̸̠̘͕̦͇̏̄̀̈͝ͅe̶̥̍̍è̶̹̭̭̘͉̕͝ͅe̶̡̺͉͚͙͑̀͊͐͝é̵̗͖͛͋̂̚͝ȩ̴̞̼̑͝e̷̡̛̮̗̦e̴̡̯͑e̴̢̢̺̜̼͒̈́̄̕͝ē̷̡͙̲̯̻̒̊̽̈́ͅ‎̶͙̳̘͆̿̆͂̈́͝ ‎ ‎ e̸̬̤̎‎̵̰̓ ̴̳͚̱̮͓̂̓̓v̶̳̪̲̅̋̃̈́ě̷͖̣̼̹͕̞͝e̴̛̦̋̎̉͌͘ę̶̙̥͂̑̔̕͝e̷͓͎͋͒̚ę̶̰̻̪̖̓͒̀͘͠͝ë̸̮̓̈́̎̅̽ȇ̷̠̳̠͙̬̒̀̋>̶̹̀
̴̲͕̀̌̅̓̍̊‎̴̝̤̮͎̓͐̋̀͜͝ ̸͈͗̍̅͝‎̷̪̲̹̳̇͛͝ ̸̢͇͇̘̄̍̉‎̷̧̞̥̱̂̌́͘ ̶̤̦̯̪͆́͊͛́͘‎̶͚͔̽̀̓̉ ̴̰̳͙̊‎̸̳̟̮̏̋́́ ̸̱̦̖̯̦͛́̿‎̴̝͖̪̮̎̆̀͜͜ ̸͇̜̝͐̌̊̐̚͝‎̷̪͍͘ ̵̼͋͌̓͘̕͝‎̸͖̟͍̝̹̊͆̎̆̎̈ ̵̨̯͍̫̯̝̕‎̴̧̨̠̐͆̓ ̸̨̺̬̫̪͗‎̷̧̭̘̥̯̝̏̏͘ ̷̯̮̯̤̬̣̇̋̔̈̇̚‎̴̜̽ ̷̻̰̬̿‎̶̟̰̘͙̆̔̕ ̶̪̣́̔̈́́̅̀‎̸̳̻͕̟͓͖̄ ̶̤̀͑̊̂͑̽‎̴̩̺̏̒̚ ̶̯̻̟̌̔́̆̌͠ȩ̴̩͇̀͊͌́͝e̶̲͇̺̞̠̳͗̅̾͘͘‎̵̢̮̼̼̠͈̏̈́͌ ̶̧̛̛͈̼͓̤̟̃̌̊͝‎̴̨̪̎̂̀͋̃ ̴̠̀̄́͝A̴͍̙͍̹͈͓͒̋̾́͊8̷̙̋̄̋̒̇́‎̴͎̈́ͅ ̵̛̼̗̅̎͛̑͛ễ̸̛̘͊̅̉͜e̴͍͖̟̊͜e̶͙̘̳͍̣͊̅͛ͅe̵̙̺͙̲͆̽‎̸̦̈́͠ ̵͈͐‎̸̻͐̾̚͝͠ ̵̼̈́̓̃̀e̷̯͋̃̀e̵̖͓͇̞͈͛͋͐é̶̡͇̬̞͐̕ȅ̷̲̙̺̦̖͜e̶͎̟̫͙̊͒̄͒̿ę̵̖̮̜̈́̆͐e̶̼̭̖̣̅̅͂͝ͅe̴̢̧̳̳͍̓‎̷̡̜̻̖̐̓͊̊͝ ̷̦͈̗̦͉̌͒̔̉͐͠ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ e̷̢͍̥̤͘e̷͚̕e̸̢̨͔͙͈̎ě̸̡̄͂͛̊̉ẽ̶̢̡͉̺̦́̋̍͝ͅē̴̳̫̯̫̘̤
̵̻̮͊‎̸̘̝̤̭̀͋̅̑͠ ̵̡̛͙͓̃͊̈̅͠‎̵̛̥̿ ̴̧͕͓̦̪̓̈̏ͅ‎̵̙̟̩̯̞̥̊̌̌ ̵͔̰̀͐̀̊̍‎̶̜̼̮̰͎̂̏̑́̈́̃ ̷͓̣͙̯̲͝‎̶̦̟̩̤͙͗̚͜ ̵̻͉̙̟͇̈́̐̈̿́̽‎̶̧̧͕̗̌ ̷̢͊̐̈‎̵̢̡͔̦̈͆̒ ̵̢͚̣̖̜͉̓̆͑‎̵̨͚̲̗̗̹̐̐ ̷̻͕͔̪͓͆‎̵̡̪̼̮̦̺̏ ̵̧̗̰͉̙͍̑̉̈́͆̕‎̴̢̦̱͕̼̔̀̓̉́̔ ̴̯͎̝͖͋ͅ‎̶̢̧̗͓͗̄́̎̕ ̵̳̪̗͓͕̈ͅ‎̴̳̭̫͗͑͋ ̶̣̄̔̿͑͘͘‎̸͕̝͈͍̇́̊̊͂ ̷̠̟̦̐͌̍́͌̚‎̴̩̳̗͖̹̉͑́̔̚ ̶͈̫̗͕̼͉̑̚Ȁ̶͙̘̻͓̥́͝A̵̭̱̿̔̃‎̸͕͎̙͇̹̫̓̽ ̵̣̋̌̿̄v̵̧̹̓͌ͅo̵̢̳̬̘͂̈́͠A̴͙̞̝̠̔̈́̔‎̷̛̫͇͕͈̬̼̉̈͠ ̴̎͗͝ͅe̵͔̓̐͗̈́é̸͕̼̗͔͗̑e̶̠̦̒̆̚ȩ̵͚͕̪̼̭̃̃̈e̸͖͊́‎̸̯̙̺͋̒̽̊̕ͅ ̸̱̩͔̞̩̾͌̊̏ͅè̵̩̩̮̩̚ͅe̴̖̼͐͆̃̌̊̚e̸̢̹̟͈̫̿̓̉̚͘͝‎̷̧̱͑͌ ̸̞̾̈́e̸̢̞̱̼͒͛̓̐é̵͖ę̸̓͛͝͠e̷̢̐ě̵͓͕̹̮̈́̈́̀̔̀ê̷͇̬͍͒e̴͚͓̘͘e̴̗̭̎ḝ̶͉̜̖͍͙̋̽̊͝e̷͕͐é̶̜̀̅́͠e̵̯͗̃̃̈̊ę̴͈͉͕̄ë̵͖͉͎̻̩͕͐̿͑̚͝v̵̜̔̋̔͒
̵͕̈́̓͆‎̷̞̦̬̅ ̵̺͕̝̻͒͆̈́̎‎̵̞͍̜̺̩̩͑̌͌̈ ̶̬̯̒͐͘‎̷̗̯̣̈́̇ ̵̛̫̙͍̣̼͓͋́̐̔̈‎̵̼̎͑͋͘̕͝ ̴̢̪̞͚̖͒̓͗‎̷̨̧͍̟͈̏̏̓̃̀̈́ͅ ̷̦͗͑̑̊̚‎̶̠̙͋̔ ̵͙́̅͊͘‎̴̭͔͔̫̃̆ ̴̨͚͕̄̋͘‎̵̤̤̗̇̀̎̚̚͠ ̸̱̔̾̀͗͌‎̷̤͐̓́̎͑͜ ̷̼̑͝‎̵̘̣̓̽͐́̋̏ ̷̢͙͈̩̪̠̃̍̑‎̴̭͎̀̋̆̆ ̵̮͗̾̚‎̸̢̭̈́͠ ̶̥̪̻̽̈́̽̕‎̸̝̝͖̺̀͑̃̀̉̏ ̸̣͉̟͒̒͐̇͠͝ͅ‎̷͔̯͖̖̾͊̈́ ̵̘͇̝̳̏̆A̵̦̤̹̐̄̑Ȧ̴̱̏̿̇‎̴̲̟̬͌̓̕ ̸̧̦̠̯̻̈̂̓̀̕͘ͅL̸̢̛͇͍͖͉̬͌̈͐o̵̻̅͗̊̏͆̈́Z̵͓͇̏̎‎̷̘͔̙̣̓͆̋ ̸̜͙̅̉̊͘ě̷̡̩̩͈͕̔‎̶̟̗̯̔̾̈͝ ̶̧̦̙̟̳̈́̃‎̵͈̟͔̺̽̎̿̈́̔͘ ̷̥̲̣̆̈̆̓̆͜͜͝è̵̜̖͇̏̄̾è̸̬͚̲̆̄̌͑ͅḛ̸̝̑̆͊̀‎̴̖͝ͅ ̶͎̖̇͐͒ẻ̶̖̳̫̯̃̊̂̂̍v̷͖̖͇̬͕͘͠‎̸͙̤̫͈͓̍ ̸͉͎̬̀̔̒̀͋͘ͅë̴̬̜́́̎̕͠ͅe̴̛̖̗̬͜͝‎ ‎ ‎ A̶̰͝Ą̶̖̺̮͗̉̕‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ 8̸̢͚̪̳̣̗̊͐̉̾̊ę̴̥̟͓̪̳̈́̀͐̋ô̵̡̠̖͔̏̽̿͘‎̶̯̬͍̺̐̈́̇ ̵̭̰̫̝͐̏ͅ
̴͉̹̾‎̵͕̘͖͗̄͜ ̸̧̬̤̱̾‎̵̡͒͊̂͜͝ ̴̢̛̛̼̣̖̠̀̓̂͠‎̷̲̬̯̂̿ ̵̨̈́̌̀̈́͝‎̷͚̼͔́͋̿̎͆ ̵̭̈́̾̃̔̉‎̵̫̼̖͒̂̔͌̚ ̴͈̲̤̪̜̱͊̓́‎̵̦͕̲̲̼̜́̇̔ ̶̖͉̭͚̠̖́̊̍̕‎̴̛̳̥͒͛̂ ̴͕͚̙̝̊̌‎̴̥̈́͗͗͛̆ ̷̨͋‎̵̩͈͝ ̴͈͓͍̟̞̳̅͌̅̂̚͠‎̶̜̜͉̀̈́̒̓͛ ̴͎̳͔̫̆‎̴̜̻̝͂̀́ ̵̮̻̤̈͜‎̶̢̞͍̙̓̀ ̴͕͌‎̶̱̮͖̪̺͂͗͆ ̷̲͉̞̝̟̉͆‎̶̮̅̀̋̍͜ ̶͍̱͙̣̗͗̓A̶͙͍̓̇̎͗A̷̧̛͕̞̙͌v̸̨̿ͅL̴̫̭͙͇̙̩̈ȇ̶̲͘Ạ̵͔͕̩̙̝̀̀͒̈́̓ò̴̗̼͇̈ỏ̷̧̰͊̄̎͘e̴̝͎͚̦̓͑̓o̶̥̒̉̈́̌͘͝é̶̟ȏ̴͎̥̦̩ḙ̸̐̊̌͘o̷̢̢̫̞̕‎̸͎̫̼̳̮̘̆̄ ̴̧̛͚̫͔̞̀̉́̈́̐‎̸͕̱͊̉̈͗͝ͅ ̶̮̐̈̀‎̸̝͘ ̷̛͑̀͒̅̒͜‎̵̲̹͙̇͑́̐̈ ̶̠̻̬̈́̾́͗̈́̌e̶̥̦͒̀ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ o̷͕̦͕̲͌e̶̜͓͐̏͘ͅ‎̴̥͔̤̥̫̆ ̴̪̘̔̒̑̕
̴̟͛͑͝‎̸̡̖̬͙͒̃́̅͘ ̸̪͕̗̜͎̻͑‎̷͇̈́́ ̸̤̹̀͜‎̷̡̧͚͉̦̰̂ ̵̞͒͐͆̉̀͝‎̴̨̪͚͚͊͒͗̒ ̶̛̺̹̏̍̂̏‎̷͍̜̓̆̐ ̵̠̓‎̸̧͓͈̮̺͆͜ ̸͔͍̭͔͔̊̿‎̶̫̞͉̏ ̵̗̻͆̒̌͆̌͠‎̵̢̬͊͒͌͝ ̷͚̫͙̺̠̍̓̍̕ͅ‎̶͇͐͗̈́̅̎̽ ̸̛͉͔͔͚̉̓̑͝‎̸̫̆̃ ̶̰̳͍̪͍̙̊̀‎̸͇̘̱̟̐͆̐͆ͅ ̸̜̼̼̐͘‎̵̥̻̳͍̳̈́̌̊̈́ ̶̨̛͕̘͓͑ḛ̷̢͈̓̊Z̵͕̞̠̪̋Ã̶̝͈̠̗̈́A̵͇̘̘͙̓̄͝‎̴̘̬͐͆͜ ̴̻͓͓͌͆͝L̷̻͇̱͉̠̔ͅe̸̡͎͇̘̙̹͌͛A̵̱͈̮͖̞̔̅͋͜o̶͙̝̤̗͔̿̃ō̸̢͎̙̈́́̌̈́̕ē̴̲͚̤͎̮͕̅̉̂͘L̴̲̪͕̗̀̑̂̓͂͝ē̷̡̛͎͓̹͛̆̕ë̶̡̠̪̠͍̠́́̽͋̑͘e̶͓͍͂͑͑̐o̷̦̦̦̒͐͑̏̃͗‎̵̡͖̪̺̫͎̓̈́̇ ̴̨͈͑‎̵̘̪̆̊͊̓̔ ̴̝͔̎́͌͜À̷͓̯̹̊̊̀͛͊‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ổ̶̤̥̱̤̗‎̴̦̖̪̣͖̰̀̋̂̃ ̴͖̺̫̐͗̍̌͂̐
̴̢̡̞̞̮̾̋̀‎̸̄͜ ̸̠̙̬͙̯̑̚͜‎̵̧̟͓̙͙̃̇̆͘͜ ̷̗̲͚̩̏̃ͅ‎̶̢͓̒̾͆͒ ̵̦͇̪̞̬́̓͗‎̶̝̟̫͋ ̵̡̖̂̒̇͂̓͠‎̵̨͎̦̠̭̈́ ̴͉̓̂̍̿̕͠‎̴̛̲̤̰̼̱̐̋̈͊ ̵̱̻͌́ͅ‎̸̦̥͋͌̈̓̑̆ ̸̤̳̣̲̅‎̶͕̟͗̇̆̈̆ ̷̫͎̗͖̀͜‎̸̙̤̗̞͔̀ ̸̧̟̭̺̻̍̈́̿̀̇̚ͅ‎̴̩̈́̈́͂͛̿ ̵̩̖̏̓̃̑̃‎̵̰͇̠͙̔͗́́͑̚ ̴̥̱̭̃‎̴̻̈́̍̇̀̏ ̵̻̥́̚͠‎̴̘͒͋̆͐̈́̕ ̸͉̦͌̑͋͂͜A̶͕̰̘̓̄̒͆̐L̷͓͔̤̘̎͂͌̍̾͝ͅe̸͚͓̘̝̎̀͌̏̌̚A̴̡͒̈́͘͘͝L̶̟͓̲̦̙̫̋͊̐̇͒͠e̷̢̠̲͖̙̋̒͘‎̷̗͕̯̩̻͒̏̄̐ ̶͓̞̐̉̾͒̚̚ơ̷̛̫̱̥̊͗̓͠o̸͉͗̍͆̇̐̄Ḻ̷̛̼͙̦̯͗̊͆̽͝o̴̤̦̅̏̈̍́͝ͅe̵̛͖̪͒͗́͝͠ẽ̸̢̧̛͖̖̟͕́̇͘͝ȩ̷̩̲͗̿͊ͅo̶̗̖͔̪̫̞̕͘ợ̸̒ͅę̶̖̬͙̗͍̂͂‎̴̺̝̆̓̇ ̶̡̙͗͋̏̑Á̸̢̖͎̺̽̓͊͆͌‎̸͇̦͜͝ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎Ą̵̜̥̼̾̔o̸̗̤̝͔̓͐‎̵͍̝̱̬̞̮̐ ̴̨̦̹͎͛
̷̟̬̀̂̑͐‎̸̪̆̑ ̸͓̥̟͕̀̐‎̸̰̃̿͘͝͠ ̶̢̏̄̽̋̕‎̸̞͉̭̭̽ ̴̣͇̠̄̋̒̀͆‎̷̦̄̏́̈͌͘ ̵̢̛͙́̑‎̸̢̧͔̻͖̋ ̵̡̗̇́̓͠‎̷͙̘̱̤͋̓̊̊͝͝ ̷̨͓̅͗‎̴̦̞̺̾ ̵͛͐̌̃̉ͅ‎̸͙̙͙̰̹͐͑ ̷̨̛̒͊̾̕‎̸͍͒ ̷͈͓̎͒̌̒̎ͅ‎̸̺͈͈͚̝̒͜ ̷͙̐̋̑͂́ḕ̵̼͓̙͂͆̔͠8̴̨̫̳̘̠͂̀̎ͅZ̷̰̼̫͈͒J̷͖̫̦̘̐̑̍̄̚ͅZ̴̡̼̈͛̇͂e̸̢̪͔̞͉̎́̂̅̌͘ô̷̺͓͚̕͝L̸̨̺̦̜̤̔̓͗͛͋ḛ̷̗̬̭͚͍͑̈̓̎͒‎̸̖͖͌̽ ̸̛̘̝͉̦̐̀̎́̔õ̸̬̯̝̱̿J̶̦͔͇̉L̷͎̦͊̈̈́͛̌e̴̟͍͊͑̿̊̀̕o̵̜̩͂ͅ‎̶̡̛̜͓̀̇̊̆ ̵̞̽̌̋͘̕͝v̵͇̙̚o̶̰̲͐̓̽̃̾̽o̴̡̞̳̤̰͗́o̶̧̻͖̜̙̣͗͒̒́ẻ̵͙̻͗͊̌‎̵͔͚͔̥̾ ̷̢̘̅̐̉̚͠ͅó̶̠̝̺̈̄‎̷̖̦̌̿̑́̾͜ ̸̦̼̗̊͋͊̍͑͝Ä̴̡̘͖͜͝‎̶̧̢̢̜͕̑͋̓ ̴̢̢̠̩͐Ǎ̵̱̈́̀̿͒Ą̸̨͎̖̥͕̚‎̵̛̱̖̥̲͍̓͑̓ ̵͉̼̻̀̒̀̄̌̚A̵̪̬̯͂̉Ȁ̵̹͆̈́‎̷̨̡̢̤͎̽̆̓̀̓͝ ̷͈͕̎̈͑̓͗̚e̷̻̰̫͚͂͂̿͊̄o̵̡̖͕͙͋̀͂͐̀̓ŏ̵̻̘͔̹̙͐‎̴̥̻͋͊ ̶̦̊̒̕
̴̧̧̧͚̓͆̾̌̽̚‎̸͈̇̆̉͜ ̸̛̝̳̜͖͋̾̆ͅ‎̷̮̥̈́͊͒̽́ ̶̖̻̩̍͌̑‎̵͙̥̞̲̗́ ̷̨͑̃͗‎̵̫͉̳̰̽̋̃ ̵͙̩̝͚͓̋ͅ‎̷̟͎͎̗̥̀͊ ̷̤͆̒͗͛‎̷̛̣̪̪ ̵̘͎͎̆͂‎̵̢̱̦̀̇̒̄͝ ̴̧̟̖͍̓e̵̩͝v̸̲͖͕͐͝e̵̛͕̗̥͇̺̠̊̓̅̚̕H̵̟͝ę̵̜̝͇̥̫̓̏͆̐͊̈́o̶̢̧̢͈̿̔̿͌̔͜͜L̶̲̋H̶̹̗́͗̅̈́̉ǫ̸̳͉͍̆͐͐v̴̢̈́̽è̷̪̪̰̝̻͑̈́e̸̡͉̦̋o̴̯͝ơ̴̡͙̥̝̾̈́̾́̕e̷̳͇͓̖̋̉o̴̥͊̄̍͒ḛ̶̟̦̭̄͒͜ě̶͉̣͊̒͝‎̸̧̩̾͂̅̐̎ ̷͎̑̏L̶̨̛̻͍͖̹̄̀̌͜o̷͖̰͒̈̈́̑̈͋ē̸͎̼̗̙̉̽ͅͅë̷̗́̈̽͂̓Ļ̸͂e̵̹̤͆͆̽ͅę̶͙͈̺͙͚͑̔ë̷͙́̃͐e̸̲̹͎͒͒̀͜e̵̢̯̻͓̠̰͐‎̸͉͈̠̋͗̔̄̽ ̴͕̟̙͍͚̓͛͑͌̚̚‎̴̩̘̤̼̈́̓̔ ̴̛̝͎̜͙̃͊̍‎̴͈̬̐̀̾̊̌ ̶̟̤̻͇͌e̴̼̙̟̱̪̽e̶͇̼̭͍̮̿ô̷̬̅͐͐͘͘ȍ̸̱̻͋́̃̍͗o̸͔̊̆̔͘͠o̵̧͉͕͛͌̀́̀͘o̶̧̧̫̟͖̯͊͊͠e̷͕̥̣̼̾̚̕
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You always see a lot of threads around the best books of the year or of their favourite ever books, but how about the opposite - let’s have a thread of books you hated. There are so many books in the world to read, it can be handy to know which ones to avoid!

I’ll start in the comments! I’m not sure how to do spoiler tags (if that’s possible here?) so I suggest putting the title of the book in the first line so anyone who hasn’t read it can minimise the comment without seeing spoilers :)

I've been a computer scientist in the field of AI for almost 15 years. Much of my time has been devoted to classical AI; things like planning, reasoning, clustering, induction, logic, etc. This has included (but had rarely been my focus) machine learning tasks (lots of Case-Based Reasoning). For whatever reason though, the deep learning trend never really interested me until recently. It really just felt like they were claiming huge AI advancements when all they really found was an impressive way to store learned data (I know this is an understatement).

Over time my opinion on that has changed slightly, and I have been blown away with the boom that is happening with transformers (GPTs specifically) and large language models. Open source projects are creating models comparable to OpenAIs behemoths with far less training and parameters which is making me take another look into GPTs.

What I find surprising though is that they seem to have only experimented with language. As far as I understand the inputs/outputs, the language is tokenized into bytes before prediction anyway. Why does it seem like (or rather the community act like) the technology can only be used for LLMs?

For example, what about a planning domain? You can specify actions in a domain in such a manner that tokenization would be trivial, and have far fewer tokens then raw text. Similarly you could generate a near infinite amount of training data if you wanted via other planning algorithms or simulations. Is there some obvious flaw I'm not seeing? Other examples might include behavior and/or state prediction.

I'm not saying that out of the box a standard GPT architecture is a guaranteed success for plan learning/planning... But it seems like it should be viable and no one is trying?

So, I’m sitting at an airport lounge right now and the thing that is on the bar TV is golf. The (only) folks watching it are the most typical business folk you can imagine. Is golf just the modern version of polo (the ones with the horsies)? As someone who prefers to watch hockey and finds basketball and baseball to be less entertaining. Golf goes the extra distance of not just being uninteresting, but irritating by how snobbish it feels.

I’ll confess that I had a couple of drinks already so I’m a bit extra, but I’m genuinely curious if my take is wrong and I’m missing something.

Edit: another thought, will Millennials and Zoomers don’t embrace golf at all and golf resorts become a rarity in the future?

Hey everyone,

It’s my first post here so my apologies if I mess something up.

Recently I’ve been refreshing my YouTube homepage constantly because I feel like it’s either:
A.) Suggesting me things I’ve already seen before
B.) Suggesting me things I have no interest in

So I’m going to go straight to the source and find some good YouTuber Channels I may have not heard of.

I primarily enjoy gaming critiques, history topics & natural disaster docs (kind of random I know), videos detailing scammers (SBF, Elizabeth Holmes, etc) but I don’t limit myself to these, I’m pretty much open to anything as long as it’s entertaining and/or informative… preferably both.

YouTubers I currently watch:

• NeverKnowsBest
• LiamTriforce
• Knowing Better
• Internet Historian
• Ordinary Things
• RennsReviews
• Scott The Woz
• SAWS
• ADoseOfBuckley
• DAngelo Wallace

Any recommendations are seriously appreciated. I don’t limit myself to a specific genre, but longer form content is definitely preferable.

Are you comfortable following most bread baking recipes? Looking to start making your own recipes, and understand what ingredients do at what levels? If yes, this is what I'm going to try and explain the basics of, and point you in the right direction. If no, still feel free to read and ask me to explain anything I did a poor/insufficient job of.

Baker's Percentages

A baker's percentage is calculated by dividing the weight of the ingredient by the total weight of flour, times 100. You might hear it referred to as baker's math, or as a symbol with b%.

For example, if I had 100 grams of flour and 60 grams of water, that would be:

60/100*100 = 60% water, or in bread recipes that's referred to as the hydration. You might have seen on YouTube things like "90% high hydration sourdough!!".

It's important to note that if I had 90 grams of bread flour and 10 grams of whole wheat, that would be 100 total.

Why is this important? Whilst it's not an exact thing, for most breads you can tell a lot by seeing what the baker's percentage of the recipe is. It's also a great way to share those recipes, it's a ratio, so it's easy to scale up or down a batch. I share recipes like this, and it might look as simple as something like:

Flour - 100%
Hydration - 50%
Salt - 2.50%
Lard - 20%
(The flour tortilla recipe I use)

In my experience, I would say that most breads fall in:

50-70% hydration
1.5-3% salt
~3% oil/fats is the optimum for loaf volume without it being very enriched (added fats and sugars), although it's also common for rustic loaves to be lean (no added fats/sugars)

There's not much I can do in terms of the typical range for other ingredients, apart from recommending resources that help to explain what these ingredients do, and give examples using bakers percentages. Michael Suas' "Advanced bread and pastry" explains what all the commonly used ingredients for each section are used for, and gives lots of recipes for different items in both weights and baker's percentages.

Bakerpedia is a great resource for seeing the typical ranges used for various products, as well as offering example recipes in some cases. It's much more geared towards industrial/commercial baking, including the use of functional ingredients (additives), but I find that kind of stuff interesting too.

If you have a lot of money to spend, Modernist Bread by Francisco Migoya and Nathan Myhrvold is definitely interesting, informative, and the photography/graphics are as helpful as they are beautiful.

The main way I learnt is to convert recipes I liked/used into baker's percentages, and start to change them. You can find various ones online, but one thing that really helped me was creating a spreadsheet calculator.

I'm going to walk through how I first made my calculator, and hopefully that will show how all the maths actually works.

Recipe Template

This is the recipe for a lean dough, so I keep the name in the top left. The "weight per" is how much I want each loaf or roll to weigh. I can change the number of them, and it'll change the total weight in the recipe to match that. I input the bakers percentages under "percentage" and the formulae display the total percentage of the recipe, and the weights of each ingredient. I like to centre align calculated cells, and right align cells that I have to change.

Showing the Formulae

So how does this actually calculate the weights? You can see that the "Total" for percentages sum up all the percentages in the recipe, and for weight is multiplies the weight per by the number of. Why? Like I mentioned above, baker's percentages are like a ratio. If I know I want 100 grams of dough, and I want to figure out how much flour I need, I need to figure out how many grams each percentage is worth and multiply it by the percent of that ingredient.

100 / 168.40 = 0.5938 grams
0.5938 * 100 = 59.38 grams

You can see me doing this in one step for each weight, where I divide the total weight by the total percentage and multiply by the column to the left - the percentage for each ingredient.

You can make one of these for all of your recipes, and then you can change the weights or batch size very easily by just changing a number or two. As you start to experiment, you can keep a "main" template with lots of blank spaces to write what ingredients you want.

This is my own personal calculator, where I've added things like pre-ferment calculators, double hydration, offsets for water loss with evaporation, something that calculates the amount of vital wheat gluten depending on what protein I want, and checks/balances for seeing if all my flours add up to 100. I also have a vlookup table underneath that tells me the nutritional information for the ingredients I'm using. I also use cell colouring as a validation tool. You can see a screenshot of it here

I don't want to share this with the idea of you using mine, there are many things I'd change about it if I decided to start over, but hopefully it shows you the flexibility and customisability of making your own calculator.

One thing that this can't do is tell you how long to knead, how long to proof, how long to cook, what temps, et c. The only thing I can recommend for that is continuing to read and do other written recipes, until you get the intuition - although I still look up recipes similar to what I've written to double check things like cooking time!

In terms of how long to bulk/final proof, generally you'll get a feel for things like judging volume (if i'm not doing an open crumb bread, I like to proof in a large 2L jug to measure change in volume). For final proof I like to use the poke test, although you'd expect a poke test on baguette dough to spring back much more than you would on challah. You want more oven spring with baguette than challah, so understanding what the tests mean and reading through resources that explain those things are very useful.

I hope this has made sense, I'm not very experienced with long-form writing and trying to teach a topic like this, but I'm trying to lean into the tildes mindset.

We often talk about the environment in abstract terms, using phrases like "good for the environment", "bad for the environment", "environmental problems", and so on. Obviously there is a place for this, but I think it also serves to abstract what is a very immediate and concrete thing that we interact with each day — our local environment.

So I wanted to ask, how familiar are you all with your local environment?

• Do you recognize (or even identify) different plant and animal species in your area? Do you know which are native and which might be invasive?

• Do you notice changes in your environment throughout the year? Do you know why these changes happen?

• Thinking longer term, if you have lived in one location long enough, have you noticed changes over the years? If so, what?

• Do you know what the most pressing local environmental issues are?

I'm hoping this can be a thread for people to talk about their local environments, but also to share tips on how to be more tuned in to your local nature.

I myself would not say I am very familiar with the flora and fauna of where I live, but I have been trying to get better. I use the app Seek (which is similar to iNaturalist for those who might be familiar, but with better recognition capabilities in my experience) to identify plants around where I live, and I'm slowly trying to get better at recognizing them. The process of stopping to take a photo has really helped me slow down and pay attention to things around me — I notice a lot more garbage, roadkill near the big crossings, etc. In addition, seeing pictures of some of these plants online have made me realize just how water deprived a lot of the ones around me are, which is no doubt an effect of the drought my area has been experiencing. This has lead me to be more intentional with seeking out news regarding water laws and rights and trying to be more tuned in to these issues.

Edit

Some great additional questions from this comment of @skybrian's:

• Do you know where your water comes from?
• Do you know where sewage goes?
• Where is the landfill that your garbage goes to?
• How is recycling done?

I have a new niece and I'm making a list of songs which we can play for her naptime when we babysit. I have some Raffi songs and my childhood lullabies (Edelweiss from my mom and Moonshadow from my dad), as well as some calm songs from my Spotify playlist.

But it made me wonder, what songs did your parents sing when you were young? Children's songs? Disney? Pop? Metallica?

I'm also interested in whether you think it's best to keep a small list and rotate through, for comfort's sake, or if it's also okay to have a wider variety of songs as lullabies.

Hi Deimos

Its been a while since a lot of redditors started to move over to tildes, yours truly included, and I wondered how is it going for you?

I know you have a full time job and tildes was relatively quiet until the last few weeks but is it becoming too noisy?

I'm guessing that you have had a lot of positive feedback but I'm also guessing you have had a lot of 'why can't we make this more like Reddit?' comments as well.

I see you responding to comments left, right and center and while good this must mean you are reading everything as well as all comments in order to evaluate things, which takes time out of your day.

I know that you have a clear vision of where you want tildes to go, so I guess my question still stands, how is it going?

For context: I'm going from southern California to Salt Lake City, Utah, and I'm moving for work. I've never lived alone for an extended period of time before. I figure I've got a handle on it, but there's always something that I forget or don't know, so I'd like to ask you all for advice.