please stop these games

And since when is mikveh and circumcision ever optional?

For mikvah, there are some regions where the only professionally run mikvahs blackball non-Orthodox or even non-Haredi converts as a matter of policy. In these areas some Reform rabbis opt to perform conversions in natural mikvaot, such as small lakes. Note that a natural mikvah is still a mikvah. If your conversion was performed using a natural body of water that met the requirements to be considered a mikvah, you didn’t skip the step, nor did you abbreviate it or alter it in any way. The only reason why most conversions are performed in professionally-run mikvaot is that it’s quicker and easier and there’s less risk both of giardia and of public indecency charges that way.

For circumcision, in cases of adult conversion where the person in question has already been medically circumcised, the practice is to instead draw a single ceremonial drop of blood. Note that this is the practice for all movements, not just Reform. The only reason I can think of why it might be more associated with the Reform movement is that Reform converts tend to be less hung up on tznius and are willing to talk more openly about the parts of the process that involved their penis than Orthodox converts typically are.

As someone whose mikvah was "natural" only by the barest squeak and gasp because the local professional mikavot don't allow non-Orthodox, it was also not optional. However, we did have someone who required a modified mikvah due to health issues; she was in a wheelchair and unable to support her own weight, so she was permitted to be lowered in a sling and might, technically, have been considered "not fully immersed" as part of her was touching the sling at all times.

every reform convert ive met has been actively involved in a jewish community for at least 2 years before fully becoming a jew.

Did my hair in Thailand

Trusted a complete stranger

Lebron James would have swept Constantinople's basketball team in a seven game series and claim the city as "Lebronstantipole". Instead today the ancient former Roman capital is neither known as the Istanlakers, the Istanheat, or the Istancleveland Cavaliers, but as the Istanbulls.

So this is the Panasonic PRONOTE PD CF-62, it's a Pentium 133mhz running Windows 95, released in August 1996. Panasonic did this sort of trick more than once, they did a similar thing with an under-keyboard CD-ROM drive in the PD CF-41, from 1995.

This one is so fancy because that's not just a self-loading under-keyboard laptop CD-ROM drive, it's a HYBRID PD/CD-ROM self-loading under-keyboard laptop drive! It has to be this complex because it takes PD discs (which are the size of caddies) and caddyless CD-ROMs!

So what's PD discs?

They're an optical format by Panasonic, the Phase-change Dual (or Phase-change Disc). They're from 1996, store as much as CD, but are rewritable... much like the later CD-RWs which used basically the same technology, just in a slightly different format. Unlike CD-RWs (which you had to burn (usually), they acted like a hard drive, fully rewritable at any point. That's why the disc is hard-sectored, which you can see through the shutter gap. Those vertical lines indicate where sectors start and end.

So yeah, this laptop has a complex drive that can take both types of discs, and the whole thing folds under the keyboard. Fucking wild.

But the root reason, of course, is that they did this because it's a cool design, and they wanted to do that. Why did they think this was cool, why did they want to do this?

Pervert reasons.