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My favorite episode had been Faces, the episode where Torres is split in two. But I watched Tuvix for the first time and that ending shattered me.

This exploration of duality within one's identity is a topic I love, not just from a cool sci-fi or character writing standpoint, but connecting it to my own internal stuff too.

I think it's interesting the way that attachment to the status quo clouds people's sense of morality. Like if Faces hadn't ended with one of them getting shot, I'm still not sure that taking life away from two beings, Klingon Torres and Human Torres, to give life back to one being, the original Torres, would have been presented as potentially immoral, yet it was presented as almost a given that the moral thing to do was to sacrifice Tuvix to being back Tuvok and Neelix.

Maybe I'm biased because I find Neelix very annoying, and Tuvok is a pretty boring character in most episodes, and I personally found Tuvix far more likeable and relatable than either of them. It's also funny because Faces was this profound and beautiful character development for B'Elanna Torres, even though technically her character wasn't on screen almost the entire episode, while Tuvix did almost nothing to develop Tuvok or Neelix other than to serve as a reminder that they're two of the weaker Star Trek characters but that they'd be really cool if they were merged

Mine are...

1. Trooper Salute - Tomodachi Ga Imashita

2. Sueter7 - Todo salió bien en la sencilla Villa Quién

3. Boards of Canada - Inferno

4. underscores - U

5. Slayyyter - Wor$t Girl in America

6. Gezebelle Gaburgably - The Freezer

7. Heavensouls - Westside Trapped

8. Olivia Rodrigo - You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love

9. Angine de Poitrine - Vol. II

10. PAON - Philosophie du Soi

2022 - Big Thief
2023 - Caroline Polachek
2024 - Magdalena Bay
2025 - Ninajirachi
2026 - Trooper Salute

2022 - Big Thief
2023 - Caroline Polachek
2024 - Magdalena Bay
2025 - Ninajirachi
2026 - Trooper Salute

I just got diagnosed today, "chronic h pylori gastritis." They found it in the endoscopy biopsy.

I'm guessing that h pylori is the main cause of the past four months of regular and often debilitating stomach pain (though the new diagnoses of gall stones/reflux/hiatal hernia could also be factors, but my main symptom pattern is very much classic gastritis) and cautiously hopeful that after treatment I'll start feeling better once my stomach lining is able to begin repairing itself.

I'm also skeptical but open to the possibility that maybe my various non-digestive chronic symptoms going back years might even be loosely connected to this infection and can somewhat improve if/when it's cured (fatigue, brain fog, sore throats, swollen neck glands, joint pain, chest pain, anxiety, and more)

I eat very healthy, exercise, meditate, take probiotics, and have been taking like every gut healing supplement for the last few months and will continue to (aloe juice, DGL, slippery elm, marshmallow root, zinc carnosine, L glutamine)
I never touch NSAIDs, alcohol, or caffeine. Zero processed sugar. Given all of this, it's been a total mystery why my stomach pain has stayed so bad but with this h pylori diagnosis today (after two false negatives in March and June!) it's all finally starting to make sense

Anyway, I'm already on a PPI (40mg omeprazole daily, I can't wait to quit it but they said not for another month and then I gotta taper) and starting bismuth subsalicylate tonight (found chewables with no additives or dyes instead if Pepto) and planning to take 524mg, 4x per day. And then they wrote me a prescription for Tetracycline and another for Metronidazole, which I'll start tomorrow (I've never taken two antibiotics at once, a little disconcerting given my opinion on antibiotics, but I'm desperate for the stomach pain to go away so I'm gonna take every last pill.) I picked up some Saccharomyces Boulardii, which I read is one of the best probiotics to take during h pylori treatment. And I'll be eating lots of probiotic coconut yogurt.

Anyway, any advice is welcome. I'm especially curious about two things (below), but down for any random advice anyone feels like sharing.

1. What can I do (that I'm not already doing) to increase the odds that the H Pylori will be completely eradicated by the end of the antibiotic treatment?
2. Anything else I can do to make the next couple weeks more tolerable? (side effect mitigation, etc)

After seeing the 10,000th "CP3 is so overrated because no ringz" post on here, I was inspired to write this up.

People call him overrated but I think CP3 might actually be the most underrated player ever. If he was 6'7" he'd be considered a Top 5 all-time great.

He made literally every teammate better. James Harden won MVP as soon as Paul went to Houston, he made the Clippers bigs perennial all-stars, he mentored SGA and Wemby, Booker's best seasons were next to CP. He consistently turned mediocre teams into contenders for almost 20 years.

He legitimately played the game smarter and harder than anyone, and was one of the craftiest defenders I've watched, even as he got too old to always stay in front of people. Literally the only flaws in his game was being shorter than everyone else, and having some bad luck in the playoffs.

He made All-Defensive team 9 times in his career. Only 5 other guards EVER did that, and all of them are at least 4 inches taller than him.

Everyone knows he was he one of the best and most creative passers ever, but noone knows he was the best rebounder ever at his height. Nobody else has close to 6000 career rebounds at just 6'0"

He also shot more efficiently than almost any high volume point guard ever, is an all-time great from the midrange, has a better assist to turnover ratio than literally anyone else on the "best PGs of all time" lists,

IMO there's no player without a championship who was more deserving. Even more than Barkley and Iverson.

Because of his lack of a championship, and NBA fans' obsession with rings, he's by far the most underrated player ever.

Not just because of the fantastic acting job and relatable portrayal of anxiety, his experience is also a perfect allegory for what it feels like dealing with the American healthcare system

(except that Dr Crusher didn't send him a bill for $5,000)

It's my favorite song that's not in English and it kills me that I don't understand the words

Trying to spend under $600, I see a lot of them between $400-$600 on Facebook Marketplace but I want to avoid buying something that will fall apart right away.

Don't care how fast it goes, as long as it's durable and comfortable to ride.

Hoping to find one that can fit easily in a small car and also if it has a throttle that would be nice.

250 Gems

(Not to be confused with the favorite song from each year list I posted yesterday)

Favorite Album from each year since 1953

Edit: Oops forgot to make it public! Fixed!

Favorite song of each year since 1945

When I first stumbled onto rateyourmusic.com, I immediately knew the users on this site have great taste, because most of my favorite albums were all in their top 100, so it became my go-to for learning about new music ever since.

Once I had a few hundred albums, I checked out the "compatibility list" (which is where RYM ranks the users with the closest music taste to your own, based on your ratings...it's kind of hidden at the bottom of your homepage) and then I immediately followed the top 100 "most compatible" users.

Then I realized you can filter the album charts to "Only include ratings from users I'm following" and that you can filter it to "Exclude releases that I have rated," so the combination of these two filters, plus following the people in my "compatibility list" basically gave me a ranking of the albums I'm not familiar with that I'd be the most likely to really get into.

It didn't disappoint, I remember that first month getting into albums like Tago Mago and Hounds of Love which are still among my absolute favorites.

Since then, I keep finding new music and rating it (though I don't rate anything without listening to it at least 5-6 times because some music just hits different after a few listens.)

For almost 20 years now, I check out my compatibility list once or twice a year and click on everyone in the top 100 and follow everyone I'm not already following, and then use the filtered charts to find more music that I don't know, and now I'm following almost 1000 people and RYM continues to introduce me to genres of music I'd have never come across just relying on recommendations from friends.

What I love about it the most is that I'm now in my mid 40s and constantly getting into fantastic music from the 2020s, instead of thinking like "all music went to shit" after I turned 25, like most people my age and older seem to think.

TL/DR: RYM's "compatibility list" feature, combined with the ability follow everyone on your compatibility list, and to filter charts to only "Only include ratings from users I'm following" and "Exclude releases that I have rated," is a powerful way to discover music that you're extremely likely to really get into.

Anyway, I'm curious if other people have a similar system of using RYM's features to discover music (and if you, like me, have been loving the new song charts the last couple years and can't wait until they add an "Exclude songs that I have rated" feature) and also curious to hear other people's stories of their relationship with RYM.

Favorite Albums: Every album I've rated 4 stars or higher

Is my taste *too* rymcore?