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wasn't planning to go more into detail on this, but I wanna touch on this tag real quick. Having done OCD advocacy work and some partnerships with mental health organizations, I've personally found that deciding whether something is "normal" is ultimately unhelpful (for many, at least) in figuring out your needs.

OCD is normal in that it effects hundreds of millions of people globally —making OCD about as common as having red hair.

Your intrusive thoughts are normal. Whether they're focused on morality, cleanliness, disease, sexuality, unreality—and yes, even the more stigmatized obsessions about sex and violence.

Everyone experiences intrusive thoughts. ("What if I drove my car off the road right now?" "What if I jumped off this balcony?" "What if I yelled a curse word really loud in this meeting for no reason?")

Not everyone gets stuck in cycles of obsession and compulsions. If you get stuck in these cycles, it's worth looking into OCD and how OCD treatment may benefit you.

But don't ask yourself whether you're "normal." You are. Ask yourself instead whether you're struggling. Whether you're in pain. Whether the way you think and feel harms you and whether changing the way you think and feel might help you.

Anyway, if you know me at all you already know I'm gonna recommend checking out MadeofMillions and their info on OCD for further reading. Okay I love you good luck <3

Data centres shouldn't be allowed in areas that experience drought or are Koppen classification B category (arid and semi-arid).

They should have federally regulated water usage and be required to have heat and exhaust treatment ON SITE

They should have daily penalties for failing to meet zero emissions targets scaled to their profit margin (i.e. a percentage rather than a set amount) THAT ARE ACTUALLY ENFORCED.

NO DEFERRED PROSECUTION AGREEMENTS. EVER.

They must show provenance for EVERY piece of art and writing in their data sets, and show that they have made contracts to use EVERY SINGLE ONE before they are allowed to use them. Hold them to the same standards as every other form of media.

They must inform the end-user about data privacy and that chatbots are not a substitute for therapy, research, programming, work, school, and are not to be used for anything but novelty.

1-2 KinnPorsche (mafia boss/his bodyguard, evil mafia heir/his hostage)

3 Jack and Joker (mafia, heist and robberies)

4 Spare Me Your Mercy (a story about ethics of euthanasia, doctor/cop)

5-6 The Sign (two special unit officers who are reincarnated from a mythological thai bird deity and a snake dragon)

7 Petrichor (forensic doctor/cop)

8 Uranus2324 (astronaut and her girlfriend)

9 The Loyal Pin (a princess and a noble lady)

10 Mhom Ped Sawan (two concubines of an emperor)

11 Ayaka Is In Love With Hiroko (office lesbians)

12 Old Fashion Cupcake (a 39 year old office worker and his 29 year old assistant going to dessert cafes)

13 Our Dining Table (food feelings show)

14 Anti Reset (android caretaker falls in love with a human)

15 Love Tractor (farmer boy/big city musician)

16 Word of Honor (ancient chinese fantasy assasins)

17 Couple of Mirrors (a socialite/an assassin)

18 Meet You At The Blossom (ancient chinese fantasy, rich brat falls for a crossdressing assassin who he thinks is a young lady)

19 Love for Love's Sake (a man gets thrown inside a video game to help his favourite character)

20 The Spirealm (a man accidentally signs up for a mystical real life vr horror game)

here is a bigger list of summaries, and where and how to watch, have fun if it works out

I hope this is followable, It's not complicated but I don't know how to word things

You can make this with bigger yarn and hook but for micro ones I used one strand of dmc embroidery floss and a no.14 (0.50mm) crochet hook

Top

1.) Ch10

2.) On one side of the chains, sc in each stitch except last (8), in last stitch double inc (make 3sc in same stitch), then sc in the other side of the chains till last stitch (7), inc in last stitch

3.) [Place stitch marker to mark beginning of round] inc, 7sc, inc, sc, inc, 7sc, inc, sc

4.) Sc, inc, 7sc, inc, 3sc, inc, 7sc, inc, 2sc

5.) Sc in every stitch

6.) Sc in every stitch, slst, cut yarn and pull thru

Bottom

1.) Ch10

2.) On one side of the chains, sc in each stitch except last (8), in last stitch double inc (make 3sc in same stitch), then sc in the other side of the chains till last stitch (7), inc in last stitch

3.) [Place stitch marker to mark beginning of round] inc, 7sc, inc, sc, inc, 7sc, inc, sc

4.) Sc, inc, 7sc, inc, 3sc, inc, 7sc, inc, 2sc, slst, cut yarn and pull thru

Stalks x2

1.) Ch4

2.) Slst into second ch and across, ch one, cut and pull yarn thru

3.) Use ends to sew into place on slug top

Gills

1.) Ch6, slst into first stitch

2.) Ch4, slst stitch back down and into ch you made other ch from, slst into next ch

3.) Repeat step 2.) 5 more times, cut yarn and pull thru, use ends to sew onto slug top

Foot

1.) Line up top and bottom, (working on both loops of top stitches, and only front loop of bottom stitches) starting from stitch at top of the head, [sc, inc]* around (remember to stuff before finishing round)

2.) [2sc, hdc inc]* repeat around, slst, cut yarn and pull thru

Weave ends

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

For anyone who'd like to follow along, I'm gonna share how to get around those things with group policies bc they're more user friendly and descriptive than registry editor imo :3 I'll also show how to get around needing a Microsoft account to get setup.

For the Device Setup

"OOBE" stands for Out Of Box Experience which is what that setup workflow is. But it also happens to be a folder with a little program in it that'll let you skip connecting to the internet; this makes it so you don't have to sign up with a Microsoft account and can just use a normal local one instead. And it already comes preinstalled! Here's how you get to it:

Hold Shift + F10, or Shift + Fn + F10 depending on your keyboard.

Click inside the window that pops up, type the following and press enter afterwards to run it: OOBE\BypassNRO

I believe it should restart your computer automatically, but if not then restart your computer or type: shutdown /r /t 0 /f

Now when you're brought back to the setup workflow, the page where you connect to the internet will have a new button on it that lets you say you don't have internet. Clicking that and proceeding through the rest of the setup lets you get around the Microsoft account thing.

Group Policies

You don't have to know much about them, these are just a bunch of specific settings for what your computer can or can't do that lets you decide how it works in different ways.

I'm gonna show you how to turn off the recommendations and internet stuff basically. For now bring up search and type gpedit, pick this

It'll open up to Local Group Policy Editor and we can get started :3c

Start Recommendations

In the side menu, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Click on Settings to sort them with all the "Turn off" ones bumped to the top.

Here's what you should set:

Turn off user tracking: enabled

Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications: enabled

Remove Recommended section from Start Menu: enabled

Remove Personalized Website Recommendations from the Recommended section in the Start Menu: enabled

Do not search Internet: enabled

Windows Spotlight

Back in the side menu, go down to Windows Components > Cloud Content

Turn off all Windows spotlight features: enabled

Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences: enabled

Cortana

In the side menu, this one's back at the top under Computer Configuration. You're gonna want to go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

Allow Cortana: disabled

Don't search the web or display web results in Search: enabled

News and Interests

In the side menu go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.

Enable news and interests on the taskbar: disabled

Microsoft Account Login Nudges

When you don't use a Microsoft account they'll nudge you repeatedly to sign in so you can "get the most out of your experience" *gag*. The group policy for turning that off has a note that suggests it might not work with Windows 11 though (implicitly), so you can close the group policy editor window now and for this last one let's just open up the regular settings.

Go to System > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck all the boxes. And there ya go! (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ u are done.