How to use sealing wax sticks

I'm not sure exactly how much I need to worry about under- or over-building the wood frame for my bed platform. (We are not particularly heavy people...). I am in the planning stage, and will have wood slats to hold up the mattress, and under that, 2x4 wood beams in a box like shape. I want to have six legs made from 2x4 wood, about 13 inches in length or so.
I was thinking I would just butt-end them to the rectangular frame using T-shaped metal plates, and attach using either carriage bolts (if only one T-plate per join), or regular bolts (if I decide to use a T-plate on both sides of the join). Do either of these sound better or sufficient?

Been getting this horrible black smudging for awhile. Saw a lot stick to the orange cylinder (don't know the printer lingo) when you open the backside. I'll clean it, and it'll always come back
To answer the big question: Yes, I did use 3rd party toner. I tried a new one today too thinking it would solve the issue, but this is still happening...
Anyone know what the main issue may be? Thank you
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Huge apologies if none of this makes sense or is worded poorly... I think I need some help in understanding fully what is going on in my brain, and how my DID interacts with my autism.
So verbal communication for me is usually excrutiating, and most days I find myself avoiding people as much as possible so that I don't have to speak. I realized that only a couple of my alters are verbal, and can occasionally speak at length about things we really care about... But I don't ever fully retain memories of what was said. If those alters aren't fronting, I usually quickly lose memory of what was said or done unless I write it down.
Up until now, I thought that I "go into phases" of being nonverbal because I only really notice it if I'm around people... But I think it might actually be more accurate to say that I "go into phases" of being verbal? My sibling (who I live with) and I have been learning sign language, and it's been helping a LOT so that I don't have to force myself to be verbal ALL the time.
That being said, a lot of my alters are completely nonverbal, and I'm worried I only think I'm mostly nonverbal when they're fronting. When the one or two actually speaking alters are fronting, we immediately (and sometimes in the moment) lose access to those memories of what was said ... But then sometimes they're told our speaking voice is actually too loud or we've been talking for too long.
I'm trying to learn more about nonverbal autism, but it seems like a lot of the information out there is saying that people who are nonverbal are entirely nonverbal and cannot speak, and that it's not the same as simply "not being able to speak during a shutdown."
I mean, my mom was an actress so I had to do theater a lot as a kid. I used to get on stage and monologues... I can't REMEMBER any of it, but I know I did it.
Is it possible for DID to mask being nonverbal? CAN you mask being nonverbal? And if not, what would one call preferring to be nonverbal MOST of the time?

I recently purchased Dyna Gro Foliage 9-3-6 fertilizer, should I dilute it by half the maintenance recommendation since this will likely be the first time I fertilize my new plants? Do I do this every time I water like it says or… I see a lot of “once a month” by other plant enthusiasts. How long til I use the full amount?
Also, I’ve repotted some plants using Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil, should I fertilize those plants or wait 2 months?
I also plan to include Super Thrive in this. I’m getting anxiety about possibly burning my plants.

Hey All -
I'm using Usenet and NZBGeek. I hate the defaults Radarr picks up. I'm hoping to help set up some criteria to make this better.
Lets look at an example of what I get in a query - https://imgur.com/a/a3mAZY8
What I'd like it to grab is - The.Batman.2022.2160p.UHD.Bluray.x265.DV.HDR10.Atmos.TrueHD.7.1-GHD
Here is my criteria for how I came to this decision:

1. Has DV or Dolby Vision in the name
2. Has x265 in the name
3. IF those two true choose one that has MKV in the name over MP4 (not applicable here)
4. Under 30GB

If this file wasn't available I'd to prefer a LAMA rip - The Batman 2022 2160p UHD BluRay x265 10bit HDR TrueHD 7 1 Atmos LAMA and then if not find the HDR x265 under 30GB rip

1. Look for LAMA in the name
2. Look for HDR in the name
3. x256
4. Under 30GB

I am still finding shit my kids are allergic to and they have been terrorizing this earth for four years plus. Oldest heathen got stung by a wasp today. The welt didnt concern me. The throat pain did. I had to drive three miles to get to the nearest expensive dollar general bc I am in bumfrack Missouri again running an errand for family and grabbed the last dye free benedryll for my kid. I used to never leave the house without it bc we traveled or ate out and food is labeled like crap here in the US. The one time I fracking forgot..
Heathen was fine before the benedryll kicked in fully but that scared the shit out of me. With the throat pain and a family history of anaphylactic reaction to bee stings, I get to terrorize a pediatrician, find the cheap generic vs of epipens and corner my dad into showing me how to use one.
My inlaws have a history of mild allergic/hives reactions to crap and then bang...cant breathe with one reaction. Russian roulette with the parents or spouses sanity here.

This is a throwaway because I don't want this to appear on my normal account. For context when I was younger I grew interested in video games and anime heavily. I noticed that in my very small school no one shared these hobbies so I became dependent on online communities on Instagram and Twitter to make friends and talk about the things I love. To the point where I began to value my internet friends over my real life friends. Flashforward to when I'm 15 and through another friend I met a person my age who ended up being one of my closest friends.
We were part of a much larger group chat but throughout the years it grew smaller from 8 people to 4 people to just the two of us talking to each other. We'd have late night texts, calls, and just watch stuff together. For a few times whenever we needed to vent, we came to each other. Flash forward and at this point we're both 18, and I should mention we were both really comfortable talking to each other about our sexual preferences and such. At a certain point I realized I developed feelings for them and never told them, but I was probably very obvious. I was very on the fence about these feelings because:

1. We discussed before how we couldn't have an online relationship again because being distanced from our partner is something we don't think we could handle
2. I am very insecure about having an online relationship because I felt as though my peers would mock me for it, despite being in two before.
   
3. They lived in Australia, I live in America. It believed it'd just be hard to handle.
   

One day we came to a point in our conversation where they told me "If I knew you in real life, I probably would've done stuff with you." And later I had just brought up the idea of if we were still virgins in our mid 20s, we could arrange to meet up and become friends with benefits. They agreed and in the next week we had exchanged NSFW photos and videos. A month had passed and I noticed that all their socials were just gone, they went on a mental health break and didn't tell me. I worried for a while but didn't feel like it was right to reach out. As if they wanted my help they knew they could've spoken to me.
One morning I wake up to a message from them and we reconnected quickly. They were really happy to tell me they made new friends and have been doing better mentally, while also being scared I would've been upset of them. I was really happy but after this I realized they were just not giving me the same energy as before.
No more video calls, no more late night conversations, just once in a while texts and that began to stress me out. I understood to respect their boundaries but I couldn't help but overthink and realize that they don't feel the same way and don't really think about me like they used to. They once then brought up the idea we downloaded Locket, an app where people would send each other photos and it would show up through a widget. This made me really happy as I began to believe I was just overthinking things and went back to normal, but the dry behavior kept up.
I began to do my best and prepare for the worst by telling myself it was best to do what I can and just move on, but I was also desperate for their attention. Most of my story posts on Instagram were efforts to get them to reply and start a conversation with me. A good portion of these were just small rants where I expressed my feelings of being pressured by my family with my future. This lasted for about 7 months.
Eventually in September last year I realized they just stopped being active on social media at all, and I had assumed they were just on another break again. I tried my best to not think too much about it and respect their distance by not reaching out to them. Then a month later I realized they cut me off completely. They removed me from Discord and any games we had each other friended on, and also created all new social media accounts (their new twitter was suggested to me, while also having a link to other brand new social media)
This pretty much broke me, I realized what it meant and after going to it with other friends I understood that I may never get closure. I blame myself for my desperate behavior driving them away and wish to do my best to better myself while also waiting for the day I get over them. Despite how badly I want to contact them and maybe apologize as I'm convinced they thought less of me, I understand the best thing to do was just not contact them at all. However it's June now and while I've realized I've stopped thinking about them I'm still not truly over them. Everyonce in a while I'll be doing my own thing and suddenly have something remind me of them then I get really sad. A couple times recently I'd forget about them briefly then dream about them and go through a small rough time. I'm partially ashamed of myself for not being able to get over someone who I've really never met and I'm scared I won't be able to for a few years
TL;DR Fell in love with an online friend of 4 years, offered to become friends with benefits, didn't confess my love. Realized they weren't giving me the same energy and panicked between wanting to respect their boundaries and wanting their attention. Eventually they just cut me off entirely, and I haven't gotten over it while also being ashamed I haven't gotten over it.
Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this, and I apologize that I wrote so much.

Every review I've seen has been "here's how super fast I can print the massive bust at 12K using the specialty resin they sent us free that isn't available for sale yet, at these specific settings they know absolutely works, often for their specific test print. I need to know how well will this work in my real world applications?
I'm looking into the Halot-mage and the Halot-mage pro at the moment, trying to compare with the Anycubic M5s and the Elegoo Saturn 2's and 3's. Trying to get re4al comparisons and answers is a little hard when all you can find are reviewers getting free products to basically make ads for. I print mostly small parts like 1/24 scale model car wheels, tires, engines, etc. some parts are quite small, but occasionally I want to have the ability to also print large items such as 1/8th scale parts or full 1/24 scale bodies that can reach 9 inches long. Also if I want to sell or send parts to friends maybe I'll want to print out several sets of wheels or a dozen valve covers. How does the mage and mage pro handle small parts and can they work with standard 8k resins such as Siryah Tech fast metal gray of obsidian black?
I read one entry one place somewhere that says the Pro prints too fast for normal resin and rips tiny parts off the supports. But I'd really like confirmation from more than one source that actually uses the printers.

I have seen the exploding posts here in the last days how people use that Windows Testing Toolkit to play released games from the recent past with a good fps. As far as I have seen most of the people have to use a M1 Max or M2 Max processor for that and that the installations are somewhat complicated for people who are not into those things. (terminology commands, installing home-brew, etc..)
I am thinking of buying a 16" MacBook Pro with the 19core GPU in the M2 Pro. But because of what I am currently experiencing here I am thinking of maybe getting a 38core-gpu M2 Max GPU.. because it will probably give me many more possibilities to play windows games in the future with a higher fps.
What does that new Windows Testing Toolkit means for normal users in the future? Will be be able to easily (without complicated installations etc.) play modern windows game on MacS?

Last night I watched Creed 3 and recently watched Creed 2. The fights feel way less physical and less tangible to me than the fights of the Rocky franchise. In Creed, the majority of the fights feel like video game footage. I'm not sure exactly what the issue is: perhaps the frame rate is too high, or there is too much CGI involved. But the boxers come across as almost slippery looking with the punches just not looking right. I find this to be particularly the case with medium shots where both boxers are trading punches.
Caveat: the up close shots in the Creed movie look very good, such as the up close body shots with rippling effects on the ribs and stuff like that.
In spite of the Rocky franchise being way older, the fights look way more physically convincing to me and feel more real.
Caveat: the old Rocky's style of using gunshot like sounds are admittedly ridiculous, so I'm only talking about the visuals for this post.
Maybe the Rocky films look better a lot of the time because Stallone and the other actors supposedly took a bunch of real punches during filming?
I see everyone talking about how good the filming is for the fights in Creed and talking about how cool it is that they did things like a long single take, but to me, the fights just look better in the Rocky films.

I just got a Hitbox Crossup and to make it perfect for me I wanted to add an extra set of Hitbox movement buttons on the left so I could just choose which form of movement I wanted and still only use one controller, can someone tell me if this is possible and if so how to do it?

Our relationship was a year and 2 months, she has been nothing but awesome the past 10 months, the first few i caught her lying to me about some guy and we had a big fight where i almost broke up, but we got back shortly after and since then she has been perfect she changed everything that used to be bad everything that would slightly upset me, but i never got over that fight, i started treating her like shit, it started out with me being mean, then it went way south to insults over small mistakes, to straight up humiliating, i never really had the intention to be that bad or to hurt her it just triggered me the slightest inconvenience that would happen would trigger me, we had a lot of good times in between and amazing days and weeks, but this stands out obviously, couple weeks ago i did the same thing over something i found upsetting for me and she had a breakdown and shortly after she broke up with me and blocked me on everything, for me, everything in my mind changed, i kept begging her to stay and that i will change and I genuinely started to hate myself when i realized how much hurt and pain i was putting her through, i was never like this, I can’t explain how much regret and sadness i go through everyday i just wanted a one last chance to prove that i am not like this and that i will never abuse her again, she was perfect, she had everything i could ever look for in a girl and i abused her and messed her whole life up over a mistake 10 months ago and now she hates my name she hates everything about me and I can’t do anything about it. I never took a step back to realize what i am doing. I don’t think i will ever find a girl like her and i am the one to blame, i just needed to post this because everyday before sleep and waking up i feel like my head is gonna blow up from overthinking, appreciate your loved one and appreciate every detail they change for you, they are not for granted.

I've seen some scattered analysis, but most of the content I've seen on the internet is still "first impressions" and Day-1 clutter. Now that the dust is settled a little, what's the vibe? I know he's a wildly complex character, but it's been long enough for dedicated high-level players to at least feel out the strengths and weaknesses, so I'm curious what's known so far. Which matchups are easy, which ones are hard, and how have higher-level players than me figured out how to use the character effectively?
For my own experience, hard zoning seem hard to deal with - Asuka isn't well-equipped to close gaps, which means Axl can relax and just poke me down. It seems that he can fight more effectively at range because he doesn't have to spend resources or rely on RNG draw to maintain his poke. Rushdown seems less tricky, but still hard since Asuka's fast buttons are short, and his long buttons are slow, so my evaluation of where and how I play with him places him in the same neighborhood as Testament; you want to be close enough to threaten 2D and spells, but far enough that fast buttons can't nail you when you try.
But I'm a floor 3 scrub, so I'm also not certain how well-grounded my analysis is, and I certainly couldn't tell you how Asuka places in high-level play.

I'm a software engineer and I have tried to avoid Python all my life but recently I got the impression Python is here to stay and I should really get some basic Python skills.
Unfortunately most tutorial I can find are about the *language*, which I don't find particularly complicated.
What I find much more challenging is learning about the ecosystem.
Here are some examples of question I occasionally ask myself when working with Python software:
How does import know which version to import? And from where? They don't seem to end up in the project directory? In fact I thought I need to use virtualenv (or venv?) to even install multiple versions, yet every README.md for every piece of Python software has instructions for pip but never for virtualenv. What's __init__.py and setup.py? I remember I had to download something (a .dll or so) from PyPI to install PyQt, what was that about? When to use poetry? Recently I had the need to run a Python script on a Windows 7 machine. I found that apparently Python 3.8.17 is the last Python that can run on Windows 7 but where can I find it? On Linux, when a package is installed via apt and via pip, which one takes precedence? When I see a process python3 -m foo running, where is the source code for that?
Can you recommend tutorials that cover such questions?

Hi folks!
So, im dating a girl I know well and next week its going to be the big day. Today she was telling me that she never had an orgarsm with someone and only with toys alone. She was warning me because she doesnt want me to be mad, but tbh I’m more of a giver than a receiver and I just want to give her the best experience. I find joy pleasing the other person and I focus more on that in general. I told her that I take it as a challenge for myself and will try everything to prove her that its possible.
I have a general idea on how to handle this myself like using a vibrator during intercourse and from what I was told, my oral game is pretty solid too (to get in the mood). But I wanted to have an outside opinion in order to help me reach my goal. Any ideas or recommendations?
Of course I know it wont be easy and it could not work day one, but I said to her that my objective is to show her that its possible to climax with the right setting, no matter how long it takes (not in duration but in the number of times it will take). Thanks in advance!
If my phrasing is medium sometimes, just know that its not my first language.

Name: Naruto World / Ninja Way
System: Custom system for the mechanics
Medium: Discord
Gameplay: Play-By-Post + Live Text Sessions
Game Style: Very plot driven sandbox. While the players have plenty of freedom in exploring the world and making their own stories along the way. We don't use that as a crutch to not have many overarching plots and events.
Age: Loosely 16+, there are little restrictions on what you can say and do, both IC and OOC. But don't abuse that and keep NSFW content from the server.
Welcome to Naruto World! Naruto World is a persistent world style game set in the Naruto universe. This game has been played by our group for upwards of 20 years, and has gone through many iterations, today you find yourself in the latest version of it. Ninja Way. A version of the game set in an Alternate Universe with none of the recognizable Naruto show's characters.
“Ninja Way” starts a decade after the Third Shinobi War. A terrible war that consumed the entire Shinobi World. While the nations consisting of Konoha, Kiri, and Suna are considered the victors; the truth of the matter is that no one won the last war. With all sides having suffered ghastly amounts of casualties a treaty was put into effect in the hope that it would help to maintain the peace. With the treaty, the tailed beasts of each nation had been sealed away into scrolls rather than Jinchuriki to ensure they’re never used again in war. While the treaty has done an exceptional job this past decade, many shinobi are beginning to speak up that another war is inevitable. The tragedies, the celebrations, victories, losses, centuries worth of scars, old enemies, forgotten pacts, all of these have shaped the era that you come into, as the generation that determines the fate of the world. So while the entirety of the world hangs balanced upon the edge of a blade, the question asked is how long the act can be kept up and when the peace fails whose Ninja Way will prove ultimately correct.
While Ninja Way has barely started as a game, and I'm still organizing the server and writing up storylines. I'm very excited to invite new players into my ever evolving world and behold it as it grows and matures with them. We have homebrewed our own system, the PHB is the result of nearly 20 years of theory and refinement. It's complex, but we’re quite proud of it! I encourage you to make characters you’ll enjoy exploring Naruto World with, and I'm always happy to help people through character creation so please don’t be afraid to ask.
If any of this at all interests you, then please, DM me over discord to discover your own Ninja Way!
Discord Tag: Mortimer De La Vigo#2116