I have a diagnosed anxiety disorder. About 3 months ago I missed a meeting because I was having a rare panic attack.
I have a newer manager who has decided that was unacceptable even though I've been a reliable employee for +7 years. They have singled me out of the entire team to go back into the office twice a week. I've been doing this now for 2 months, but every morning I need to go to the office I'm overcome with crippling anxiety. My home life is severely strained.
I'm looking for a new job, but it's getting to the point I think I need to just quit my current job for my health.
Is there anything I can do besides just quit? I have enough savings to be fine for a while, but I hate the idea of not having an income as well..

Hey just looking for some advice from some higher level recruiters. I left my position of Senior Manager at a mid-sized staffing company of about a decade about 6 months ago. I received an offer shortly after for a high level Senior Legal Recruiter position and happily accepted thinking this was the obvious next step in my career. Huge earning potential - but huge expectations. I am confident in my recruiting ability as I was consistently the highest (or one of) billers at my prior job.
This being said, I think "Senior level" means different things at different companies and things just aren't panning out. Like, I can't keep up with the expectations without working 12 hour days. But most of the time, my home life responsibilities just don't allow for more than the standard 8 hours.
Yesterday, I got a NOVEL long email (example below) with super micromanaging issues. It was clearly a verbal warning although they didn't come out and say it. I missed a couple of candidates (have ADHD) and didn't schedule them promptly or urgently in there eyes. The ops manager at the (very small - 6 employees including owner) company looks at everything we do on our platforms in real time:
Jane Doe: you emailed her the day she applied (6/1), proposing a Monday morning or Saturday morning call. Kaitlin replied, saying that she could speak after work on Monday or Saturday, and the two of you exchanged emails until she confirmed 10:15am on Saturday. Your email to her at 10:39am on Saturday indicates that you didn’t see her confirmation but that you left her a message about 20 minutes later and then proposed Thursday morning. I see Kaitlin on your schedule for this evening so I trust you were able to move that call up as I proposed yesterday.
This is one of several candidates she addressed in the email. I admit, I have missed some things and that this fit probably isn't the best and that I should move o n. I'm just now concerned because they are clearly documenting and I worry they will fight an unemployment claim as a small business. I live in MA and they are pretty employee centric here so should be fine - but anyone offer any reassurance that this all seems very performance based and that I should be fine in collecting unemployment if and when they fire me?
Thanks in advance!

Yesterday my partner surprised me with an afternoon tea date (for non UK people: this)
Its a smart casual type experience, so def not leggings and a tshirt attire. This meant I needed to wear a dress, having heds I cannot wear heels so I wore a pair of nice flat brogues.
When I got home I discovered that my one big toenail had somehow broken in half across the middle, so i have half a nail there now and the other one split length ways along the side and impailed my toe causing inflammation. So now I have one foot with a broken nail and one foot with an infected one and I'm pissed :/ I hate how prohibitive EDS is in so many unexpected ways. Simply wearing hard shoes instead of socks and crocs broke both my big toe nails.
I just want to be able to look nice sometimes! Between my bra crushing my ribs and my shoes breaking my nails and my handbag hurting my shoulder and pots making me dizzy and heat intolerance making me nauseous and fatigue limiting my outside time and the UV sensitivity making me woozy and histamine intolerance giving me hayfever hell and my joints hurting from being alive... its like the only way to exist is to stay inside in loose clothing and lie down.
I just wanted to look pretty and not like a effing cave goblin.

Not experiencing cravings today but still very weird and vivid dreams, eagerly awaiting the dreams to stop. Also experiencing strange flashbacks to my smoking days that I had completely forgotten about as I’ve always said I didn’t have negative experiences while smoking.
I have this fainting problem/light headedness/tingling in my hands that would come on seemingly out of nowhere and would sometimes look like a seizure (doctors have confirmed I was not seizing but it’s scared my friends quite a few times as it looks pretty bad I’m told).
No one has ever been able to nail down what the cause is but I recently chalked it up to panic attacks. I realized that I was smoking heavily each time it’s happened (not uncommon for me in the past). Still not sure if it’s related to smoking directly or panic attacks triggered by smoking but I noticed today that I haven’t experienced any symptoms in the last several weeks.
Anyone else experience chronic fainting that may have some insight? I’ll be tracking my symptoms going forward to confirm.

First was Berlingske Tidende with the headline "'This is absolutely crazy. It's crazy.' USA has UFOs in its possesion, according to central source" (I don't know where that quote is from, the article is behind a paywall):
https://www.berlingske.dk/globalt/det-her-er-jo-fuldstaendigt-crazy-det-er-helt-vildt-usa-har-ufoer-i-sin
Next is Weekendavisen with a less excited headline, "Exotic trash," paraphrasing The Debrief article without much detail beyond the big quotes:
https://www.weekendavisen.dk/2023-23/udland/eksotisk-skrot?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR37ZpABKgTypYrMaF9UsGNrfsVSKdiO8Cdap6ad_Ul_u0yR96fQ9QavPoE#Echobox=1686138605

Last week I expressed interest in a TL spot and when talking to other leads, a couple of them listed "you don't have to do work anymore" as a benefit of the position. I asked a coach and he pretty much confirmed it "they're not there to work, they're just there to tell associates what to do."
I've had some TLs that work their asses off, do you guys not get annoyed that your position is openly described as "not supposed to actually work?"
I feel like associates just won't respect a TL that does nothing but walk around and shout orders, especially when it's a case where someone who just graduated high school gets promoted and walks around all day telling 5, 20, 30 year associates what to do.
And before certain regulars pop in to say so, I'm aware TLs can't really nail themselves down and must be available to supervise, manage, and problem solve but that doesn't me they can't do work or help associates out here and there. My question is purely how TLs feel about the job being represented the way some people represent it.

I’ve started BIAB today and am determined to grow out my natural nails after years of biting, skin picking and acrylics (I would sometimes even pick off the acrylics). I have depression and anxiety and it’s really hard to stop but I’ve reached the end of my tether.
The only thing I am concerned about is I have a tiny ‘hole’ in the lunula of my left thumb — you can see in the second pic where it’s red. I’ve had these before due to picking at the cuticle which has led me to pick off the entire thumbnail at various points in my life :(
Has anyone dealt with the above problem before with holes in their lunula and how to leave them alone and not make them worse?
Also does anyone have any essential items (hand creams, oils, scrubs, fidget tools, etc) that helped you stop picking? I really need to throw out all the nail clippers I use to pick but am almost struggling to bring myself to… It’s a real addiction.
Hoping to update this with progress pics to keep myself accountable.
Thank you!

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Hey mi chiedevo se potete condividere le vostre esperienze lavorative o di vostri amici dopo aver preso la laurea in un'università on-line. Come vi siete trovati . Ma soprattutto una volta finite , come siete stati accolti dal mondo del lavoro ? Vi hanno chiamato per diversi colloqui o siete stati scartarti a priori?

I saw something on TV at my parents' house about 20 years ago. It was a closeup of a woman with red painted finger nails, and as a "reveal" in the plot she rubs her fingernail and it comes off. Her fingerprint on the other side also comes off and reveals a red nail on that side - her fingernails were on the wrong sides of her fingers.
It scared me half to death as I was about 10 at the time, so I wasn't allowed to find out what happened. Does anyone have any idea what this could have been?
If I had to decide, I'd say it was a TV show based on the budget and camera quality.

‘Surviving The Win’.
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Chapter 009 - A.
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Santa Claus, had initially checked his list, and found that a Fairy Pipe had made its way into request, in the 21st Century.
The Fairy Pipe, is to be given to Andrew Thomlinson, he conceded, turning through some papers, although he couldn't make out why it said, from, “Eldritch.”
Was it more likely, Nicholas had wondered, that Eldritch was a nod to the entirety of the Elf Kingdom as the name would seem to suggest, or merely the alleged person, named Eldritch Spellbound.
Who is that, Nick? asked Mrs. Claus, coming forward with a glass of milk for her husband, and a bowl of milk for their cat.
As far as I know, he announced, Eldritch is the sort of person, who only ever existed, in the mind of, Avem Smith. However, he continued, Eldritch is also the nickname of one of our young beneficiaries in the future, by the name of Andrew. His name appears as such, as of 2004, anyhow.
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Nick walked out of their Fairytale Cabin to the Shed Of Lost Objects, located by their Barn where the Reindeer could be found.
“Curio Adhurio,” he reacted aloud, upon locating the small Smiling Rock. It was on a Shelf, and would later find it’s way into Perry’s hands. We should let Ben out for a while, he stated. He continued to leave the Shed, carrying a bottle of Zinfandel, as well. The reason for this, not being altogether evident, yet.
Carrying both items out to the Elf’s Workshop (an enchanted, overlarge, walk-in, OMRISS Cupboard), which operated by an ancient Medean Mean (or, Magical Modality), wedding each and every promulgatory to it’s prime, and by sāwa (an Arabic word, meaning to regularize or settle), as it is related to their word imil for make or do, unless of course by istahwā/h-w-y
اِسْتَهْوَى
Meaning to fill with passion, to make desirous, to enamour, to seduce, and/or to gain.
An en-dezlegare or resolver… with a key.
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The entrance to this Elf's Workshop, was about large enough to afford a small to regular-sized person through. He found it propped open.
The Bottle of Zinfandel, known as Zin was a “Goesting”/“Lust,” Alcohol.
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The elves, as usual, were hard at work.
Claus rang their work Bell. In his hand, he held the Silver Key Ring. He told them all to cease, and leave for approximately 45 minutes. They would alert Mrs. Claus. He needed her outside, once they were in the Cabin.
The elves ceased their work in the shop and exited.
Pitching the Rock onto a clear spot on the Floor of the Room, he poured out an Offering of Zinfandel, before closing and locking the Giant Omriss Door.
The Clauses waited outside the Cupboard 40 minutes and then into early Dusk.
Instinctively, their cat, “Loose,” came forward to light the way for both Nick, and Ma.
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They were feeding the Reindeer when it happened. A peculiar light shone, from out of the window of the Shed Of Lost Objects.
Nick saw this, and took it as his cue to walk back over to The Shed Of Lost Objects. The Delva La Plume Pipe had appeared. Nick went in to retrieve it.
Supposedly, it had been made of Tatter’s Old Trick, “Flower.”
Good!... he stated, portentiously satisfied.
Walking back with it, he was addressed by Mrs. Claus, who couldn’t really see why Nick hadn’t just settled for one of their Poinsettias, or crafted a pipe, himself. She returned to the Cabin.
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15 further minutes in, and Santa had heard a Loud Thump in the Giant OMRISS. He stood back, and unlocked the door... then, opening.
Ben? Is that you in there?
Yes it’s me Mr. Claus, said the depth of a murky voice of rather picky decisiveness. He was hidden in the shadows.
Well, come forward. I have something of yours. Actually, something of importance to discuss, about it. I need your blessing. Is this your Delva La Plume Pipe?
Yes, we’ll of course, replied Ben. It’s blessed by Lasagna.
May I give it away to someone? Nick’s voice wavered a little. He was referring to, “Ben’s,” Delva La Plume Tobacco Pipe, after all. It being a very sensitive matter to open about, let alone giving it away.
Golly, Nick? what are you going to give me in return for it? This Flower Pipe is a Sacred Item of mine. It had the Blessing of a Pixiu Money Dragon’s Yen. Those pertain to Ien/Tobacco Smoke, and of course Gum, as Resin. How did you find it, by the way?
Only by how lost you were, yourself, Ben. Which is why I summoned you to confiscate it. You hold to too much, making you your own lost artefactuary. How about I give you a job, to occupy yourself with? Do you mind?
Stepping forth a, “Krampus-looking,” Ben, known as, “GAAP (for Lust),” to the Hebrews’ Demonolators, appeared as a dark fog, with two cool yellow eyes. What type of job, asked Ben. He was most perturbed by the idea of losing his tie to the Dragon. It had been near him, almost his entire life. Now, he’d been bidden back in time to see Nick.
Nick handed him a Blessed Fairy Birch Twig, stating, I would like you to watch over Andrew.
Ben, agreed. Okay, no problem! But how do you want me to be to any of the men or women on the merchant’s end of the tally involved. Those with Tobacco… or, furthermore, Andrew, himself. What about the picture?
Mainly, Nick asked? The Saint, now being shocked, and a bit sorry to hear the Demon's plaintive-sounding consideration. Mainly, I pray you’ll treat them mercifully. I bid you off of them. First, however, I have something to read to you.
What could that be? asked Ben, a little agitated.
What I have here, is the boy named Andrew's, soul legal, written out.
A legal, why would he have even needed it? Asked Ben.
He was Naughty, said Nick.
And you still want to give him my pipe? Ben was flabbergasted and shook his head in disapproval, The fog dissipating and then reaccumulated.
Yes, but if it’s any consolation, I’m having you involved on the matter of this topic, to assign you to a task. You can follow me around for gift deliveries.
Okay, he sighed, let me hear it. Away!...
An Elf of exceptional hearing, well guarded, and of swift feet, ran out to take the pipe away, and then ran back to the cabin.
After a medium-length discussion, Ben was satisfied, and entered back into the Cupboard.
Santa’s last words to Ben, were… Just, be moderate. You are, by your Goetic, “Lust Spirit,” naming, a commoderator of amounts of passion in dibs, but we need to keep that, clean. You also put the Darker Passions into what you see to. I’m going out on a limb here, but hopefully that very thing, won't impact anything, other than our N’Oel Nights, and the Pipe. You know how we aim to role our Presence, in the World.
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The Winged-and-Horned Shade, of Ben, after clamouring back into the Cupboard, was silent.
Slowly… and MOST surely, Santa twisted the Silver, Locking Key. This, without a word of lib, and doing so, with a certain determination.
It must be noted, that a similar smaller make of this magical re-animating Cupboard, later made a popular movie.
Not without stress, Nick later wiped his brow. I hope he didn't have too hard a time with this new arrangement… Nick had been sweating for what he might end up having to go through over the Holiday visits (with Ben in tow, that is).
Pulling a delivery sack, from out of the Barn and coming back to the Cupboard again. He opened it a final time.
He found only the rock on the floor, and after sweeping away the muddy dirt, and doing a bit of cleaning, he put the rock, pipe, and bottle of goestling into the pack. He had Mrs. Claus file all of the Elves, then, into the OMRISS, bidding them, goodnight.
Upon awakening, they would be only noddy toys. Except for the good ones. Those? The immortal Hadibi’ndula.
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Remember:

1. The OMRISS is a Real World Cupboard. While Fictional in it’s Movie-Premise, it is a had in of Nursery Rhyme in it’s very Sinching Synopsis. A bidden in of Fairy Tales, and built to the scale of a Mother-Hubbard-Sized hole in a home, it Sinter Crofts, as though enchanting Knacked Wood. While bidding, “idle-timed,” it neither ins wood living nor dead, but delivers any of it, and all of it, to take off as life anew, by how it had new life in it ever bidden. In this way, it is alike a Comardin'd Haduzen Christic.
2. The Former Word Gas, mentioned in the Chapter on Goz, Relates to Gos and Gauze, or Phantoms, as well as Petroleum. Thus, Benzine.
3. The Suffix of Which, “-Zin,” rather, as a, “Zinfandel,” Is a Goestling Alcohol, or Alcohol Spirit, and, when by the Phantom Bal/The Ghostling Ben, is the Lusty Demon, named GAAP/TOAB.

• This, in particular, is alleged, and while found in Aleister’s involvements of his acclaimed Solomonic Magic, none of his work, may be taken overly seriously, as for any good. That is, because, if the Demon Science is truly a Fatherless/Bastard science of no good method or intention to God, reading it puts your soul in jeopardy.

As it is load of diabol heresy, and when we know that Demon’s are indeed real, it surfeits your God will, to operate as his accountancy-recastecaller (in a, however bidden), and the very need of reform of a man with No God Say. He was lored as a religious Ba’aler of religion… to say that it mattered, but as caste, and with spirit possessions admitting him forward, not enough concession of (God) control, could be in it. The unholy Ceremonial Art, if made, not only by unholiness, but impious countenance being his main ten.

• If I must, I would mock my own writing for yet another true as in bidden moment, to have you read in, yet another line of beneficial advice. The Holier People, as well as other People of Age Enough to Drink, can control the Spirits as mentioned above, only as insofar AS a Zinfandel might be their only reality (or any other Alcohol), but not the Demons, themselves.

They, for Judaeo-Christians Prophets, need a proper coursing (as routed out and then sealed, as out in a sanction, and never bidden). Also, demons must occasionally be bound and cast into the pit or hellfires, though this turns a Carnic Karmal relaying, of, which they do create by their being off-put, which causes a hay, when it need be maintained as a need for reminders of moral hall-calls. That is, not fraternizing amourishly over them.
Reason as in it, being, that it enburdens followers by demon lawing, and the apostates then vie for their pry at buying out the prelacy, by fay-way none the wary, no matter where Revelations had in. We need Fellowship's Service, in gracious God support. Not con-arded rapture of hierarchical courts. Not all is bidden. Heretic in me.
Alcohol, apart from all and any demon loring, is at a shy when imbibing wisdom for Heaven, and therefore, not recommended for anyone (especially not those who are ill of conscience, judgementally off righteous God call, or leprous).
The reason why, being if the person were ill, they were already unclean and alcohol is low-kosher. This means that, if any were taken, only a little should be allowed, and only for one, as we do not want all people on it.
If a proper handle is lacking, then it is recommended left out of it.

1. For the purposes of this story, Santa only drinks milk, and no Zinfandel, is had, by either of the Clauses, nor their elves.

Aside from alcohol, people need to possess a Spiritual Sobriety. Minding what God says being of the utmost importance in how they do. This is important to maintaining God Line Vitality to the Prayer, aiding the power of Scripturally Appropriate Discernment in Usefully Testifying Matters, as well as being a Better Bid, on the off, for Righteous Judgement Calls in Heaven’s Jurisdictional Witness and Guard the Flock, and Any, helping All the Kingdom to know Him (The Christ), and Life itself.
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Well, Ben's off to drive Andrew crazy! Pa mumbled to himself, coming back into the Cabin.
Andrew doesn’t know, but that Osé of his, is a Snow Leopard/Uncia Uncia, which exemplifies Unk/Twain/Wit, through an Ounce/One, making it’s Were-Cat/Ju-Ju transformation, by All One, as an Oni Spirit.
The Oni, will now, I hope, feel only occasionally bidden to discipline Children with the Madenning, “Fairy Birch Twig,” and only the Naughty, as a Krampus, and while around the Winter’s Holiday when I can Supervise and offer Gifts to People.
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How did you win Ben, so fast? Ma asked.
I told him that Andrew was divining with a Dictionary, by Bibliomancy or Book-Fortune-Telling, and got landed with the names Spellbound and Eldritch before 2004, Monarch and Bishop in 2007, and then finally, in 2020, Signature. That making a minimum of 5 Nicknames.
Signature? said Mrs. Claus. How dreadful. The pipe is Andrew's then?
By all accounts I'd have to say so, but my Records mention, the Pipe is to be given, from Eldritch.
Where should we send it to? she asked.
As no Eldritch Spellbound truly exists, I suppose we should send it to all of El-Dom, until such a time as Andrew receives it.
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I’ve got the document right here. It truly says it all.
Andrew thought that random lot drawing was only a random act. But it’s that very random act that plods (if not by plotting), a path. Some forms of lot drawing are unbidden. We leave it at, that Andrew, hadn’t known God.
Later, he figured that the white light leading him through pages of his (fortune-told), Self-Naming Ceremonies was a Holy Spirit Guide, when it was, in fact, an Evil, Insanity, Demon Spirit named Osé, making him follow a long, drawn-out, Ghost-Written, Trail, of, “Eldritch”/”Creature”/”Bucca,” “Monarch”/”King”/”Faust,” and, “Bishop”/”Pope”/”Jack Frost, naming.
He had a Signature written out on a Letter to Christ, when he divined the word Signature, though!
Oh, is Signature his name, now?! Look after all names, they said? This little man is responsible for having us look after everyone, then… She gave a faint laugh, then wincing in the snow. His Birth Name, though?
He wrote it out prior, unwittingly.
Where was it located? asked Mrs. Claus.
Well, on a Note to God saying, more-or-less, that he’s a, “Psalm 139”/”Fearfully and Wonderfully Made”-Believing, as well as an, “Isaiah 11”/”God's Animal Safety Promise”-Indebted, “Over-Kill-Joy,” Repentant Sinner who goes over the top obsessively in small circuits, but still believes in The Lord.
Do you think he’s ready for this Fairy Pipe? Asked Mrs. Claus.
It came from Tatter’s Flower, and Ben had it enchanted somehow, with a Dragon, said Nick admitted embarassed. Anyhow, Andrew aimed to confess that he’s a, “1 Corinthians 5:5 Repentant,” and will have to wait to see the Christ, without usurping the Church, by abiding good protocol in the World. In the Interim… Not really. I think he needed to feel gifted.
Nick! Ma warned. This could go horribly wrong! Well, what? Do you think he’s acquitted of it, by Secret Societies involvements over his head, ‘surping him by summonry?
If they Governed his Movements, that’s why the coincidences are down to Spirits of Wickedness in High Places being the multiple homes he's moved to. Anyhow, let’s have some Hallongrotta.
Remind me again, why The Delva La Plume is the one he needs and not a Poinsettia. Mrs. Claus asked.
He needs one that’s Christened/Named, and, Ma! Pa whined, lastly, it's not that there aren't other Fairy Pipes to be made, but I’m pretty sure they have to be prayed for, to be received properly. This is the right one for, “El's New Nativity.”
I’ve had enough Nicholas, and you even wasted our Zinfandel. I’ll see you in the morning.
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As for, on whether, he was Signed?
I just so happen to know he's still in Osé, and not all-out Satan malurky! Nick fittered secretly to a mouse, Osé means honorific title in Japanese.
But how was it to be… In Ba’al or even exorcizable..
Andrew Thomlinson, sat in his room, browsing the Global News and Weather, on his Smart Phone's Internet. The year was 2018.
Kali? he asked. Are you sure we should do this? He put out a cigarette into his ash mug (a rather conventional ashtray?).
One more, Magic Drew Bear, his cherubim replied.
Well, you said three, but I don’t know, he said.
They were onto a third.
Then they'll know that you and I are meant to be.
A third fire, could put the world in dire peril… Andrew, hesitated. Both fell in Phantom Love over never meeting and discovering Opera.
You know, I don't really believe in this stuff, but who am I? I'm not real. Everything's realler than I am! We'll make it three fires and that way, if your theories are true, we'll be able to locate them and prove them and if they locate you, we can find a way of announcing our love before them all. I'm sure they'll manage a way of bringing us together, that way.
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But Kali, who are you, again, asked Andrew, dearly, and half disbelieving as he picked up another cigarette. You called me a Magic Drew Bear one day, and I'm not lying, that won my heart, but I don't even own the better part of my own apartment or dollar to get us started off together, yet. How will we ever find a way to live together?
You'll come to get me from the East Coast of Canada, she said. In all regalia, and sweep me off my feet... Either that, she said, or you'll meet me at my hospital.
That story always changes.
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Kali had met him, at first, in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, in a vision, where she had stood outside his apartment window shuffling her feet, but when Andrew had looked, she hadn't actually been there.
At least, that's how it had started.
Now it was that, the two, were playing a very dangerous game, of placing Faustian Fairytale bets, on the landscape of the, "known," world.
In, “Clement.”
On one hand, Andrew believed in girls, on the other hand he didn't know why he had to feed this one birdfood or get off his butt and find a job, before the war or, better still, he didn't know why he had to lend to starting the minor Apocalypse, which would inevitably start the war, then followed up by the real Apocalypse, afterward. Nobody ever let him in on those sorts of dire detailings.
It's an Ion.
Like a Kirby, you're saying? His friend couldn't believe him. The pink demon puffoon from the video games?
Well, the way I see it, all fires are synchronized in some way, though they never appear so. Think of two synchronized blinking lights. Now, command them ionic. Only, those two lights fly around, and sync their, "behaviours and patterns," while all over the place, or the planet. And then, take it one step further... they're never truly only even ONE pair.
Why do they fly around?
I think they fly around to examine every known or unknown thing in existence. When they're at rest, it's because they've found enough Spark, Combustible Material, and my guess is, Air. They're really all over the Universe that way, only we can't tell for their Disparity and Scale and the Fires.
So they just inhale, things combust, and then they dwell in their ember and/or maybe die down a bit to continue? Yeah... Drew, that's lame. Kirby's not a real demon.
But don't you see. I know that! They're not actually Kirby. They're one little ion commanding an existence circuit.
Then the question I'd ask is, are they (or is it), necessary to existence, or better yet, do they command it?
You know what? Since I saw the manifestation of those fires on the ninth of September, from my bet with, "Invisible," Kali, last year, I'm kinda growing more wary of flickering lights...
…

• CRACK! *

“WHAT ON EARTH WAS THAT?!!!”
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A Lady stepped out of a Car and turned to face the two of them.
The Card: "Sparing you any details on how my ashes may have been in slight, I've commanded you into my furnace for how the furnishings were not in right."
~ Andrew writes loopy letters, said one girl, while giggling, back in his Junior High. And I couldn't tell who he was trying to impress. You... Or Jim Davis. ~ A Bat flew in and settled into the tree (it had been the Eaves Trough).
OKAY... Tags off, and Let Me Know How Everything Fits! His mom, got back into the car, waved and drove off.

Ciao a tutti e grazie ai mod per l'opportunità di postare!
Sono Andrea e lavoro in una startup italiana che si occupa di AI applicata al campo legislativo. Da ormai un paio d'anni lavoriamo a una soluzione che mira a uniformare e democratizzare l'accesso alle leggi. Si tratta di un software, chiamato Daitomic, che integra in automatico, tramite modelli di AI, praticamente tutte le fonti normative italiane e dell'Unione Europea in formato machine readable.
Ora, perché sto scrivendo qui, vi starete chiedendo?
Negli ultimi mesi abbiamo lavorato a una soluzione per chi solitamente mastica normativa o ha necessità di consultarla: si chiama Daitomic Chat, un servizio di Conversational AI integrato all'interno del nostro software tramite cui è possibile chattare con la legge, chiedendo direttamente le informazioni legali che si stanno cercando. Il funzionamento, come per ChatGPT, è molto immediato, ma il contenuto e la qualità delle risposte sono nettamente più affidabili e aggiornati. Questo perché vengono elaborate sulla base di un'analisi preliminare tramite AI e successivamente da una parallela ricerca di informazioni all'interno del nostro database già allenato su questi dati.
Per dirla in modo più semplice, diamo in pasto a ChatGPT un layer di conoscenza aggiuntivo già allenato che riduce gli errori e le risposte più vaghe.
Può essere utile ad esempio per:

• Avere una risposta immediata su tutti gli aspetti disciplinati dalla norma, come ad esempio la competenza territoriale o un termine di decadenza o di prescrizione, semplicemente formulando la domanda ( "a chi è attribuita la competenza territoriale per l'esercizio dell'azione di...? quali sono i termini di decadenza previsti per l'azione di...? ") senza dover studiare tutto il documento
• Ottenere informazioni sull'ambito oggettivo o soggettivo di applicazione della norma, ottenendo, ad esempio, una risposta immediata alla domanda: "ci sono limiti soggettivi all'applicazione dei benefici previsti dalla norma?"

E tante altre soluzioni... Vi lascio nei commenti il link per chi fosse interessato ad accedere alla beta e rimango disponibile a rispondere a tutte le eventuali domande e curiosità qualora ne abbiate! (tecniche e non).
Mi piacerebbe imbastire una discussione con chi mastica normativa quotidianamente!

Hey, fellow LLAMas 👋
I'm diving into Open Source Language Models (LLMs) like Vicuna and WizardLM, and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed.
I'm particularly confused about the almost weekly releases of new (quanitized) versions of WizardLM or Falcon. What exactly do these updates entail? How do they differ from previous versions? And are all current Open Source LLMs based on Meta's LLaMa?
In addition, I'm intrigued by the concept of uncensored LLMs and how they work. What are the implications and considerations when it comes to using them?
Furthermore, I've observed that open source LLMs often have limitations in terms of their context windows. Why is this the case? What are the limitations associated with smaller context windows, and how does it impact the performance of these models? Is it a System RAM thing?
To fuel my learning journey, I'm seeking reliable sources—Videos, channels, blogs, or any other educational materials—that can provide comprehensive insights into LLMs like Vicuna and WizardLM, VRAM considerations, context windows, uncensored LLMs, quantization etc. 📚🔍
If you've come across any valuable resources that cover these topics, I would greatly appreciate your recommendations. Let's dive into the depths of LLM knowledge and unravel the mysteries together! 🚀💡
Thank you in advance for your contributions! 🙏😊