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Ever ordered a product you tried but didn't like? How about trading it with someone else in the same situation for only the price of shipping?

Europe only for this thread, maybe someone can make a separate thread for the other side of the Atlantic.

I looked in the sub history and it seems there hasn't been anything like this for a while so I wanna start it up again. Maybe mods can pin the thread.

Idea is to exchange your used product (though I'd say it has to be at least 50% full still) with someone else, for only the price of shipping. No fussing over how full the product is or what it'd be worth new. It's just for the sake of not wasting unused product and trying something else.

Comment below what you have to offer and others can reply with exchange offers. Explain why it didn't work for you, and how much you've used. I'll be posting the first offer.

You have to reply to an offer with your own here in the thread before sending DMs, then once the offer is accepted you can discuss shipping details privately. I'd say even when the shipping price is equal on both sides to still send the shipping fees back and forth so you know the other person is serious. Of course there's risk of dealing with dishonest people, but let's go with the honor system on this one. It's only shipping after all, not ~€30 for a whole new jar.

As always don't trust unsolicited DMs. Or at least ask them retroactively to post in the thread before proceeding.

Years ago I recorded a bunch of audio clips from the earliest WoW videos, with plans to edit them together as a sort of fan yogpod. It's all classic early Simon and Lewis banter. I hadn't gone through all the WoW material yet, but quite a bit, so there's still more to be mined, but I have an Audacity file with about an hour's worth of clips. I don't have the energy to make it into a cohesive whole myself anymore, so if you wanna help put this together I can send you the files, and then we can release it here as a sort of prequel yogpod.

I'm a noob, and maybe it's overkill or useless, but I use Sandboxie Plus to keep all movies I torrent in a sandboxed folder, and watch them sandboxed. Some I'll delete but some I want to keep. How can I scan the sandboxed files with Surfshark antivirus to make sure they're safe before transferring out of the sandbox? Can I safely put them from the sandbox on an external hard drive and scan them from there? Or would the hard drive being connected still put my system at risk? Do I need Malwarebytes for this? I'd rather not pay for another subscription on top of VPN.

Is there even any risk at all if the files are definitely just .mp4 or .mkv? I have hidden files and file extensions shown on my system.

A non-sandboxed program cannot see or access the sandboxed files, and if I run Surfshark sandboxed it doesn't work at all. Can I safely move the sandboxed files to an external harddrive to scan them there before transferring them to my computer un-sandboxed?

I've had severe depression since about 2018, but am doing very well mentally since spring/summer last year.
Had insomnia for as long as I can remember, (taking as much as an hour to fall asleep, frequent wakings, 5-6hrs sleep/night), but that seems to be cured since this year after a few months of sleep restriction therapy, so I thought I could start rebuilding my life to have some kind of future but then it turns out I have non-sleep related chronic fatigue and it's getting worse since I started working a part time job this year.

Sleep-related causes have been ruled out by two sleep centers, though in my opinion the testing wasn't very accurate or thorough. Past blood tests have never shown anything out of the ordinary. I have few to none of the physical symptoms of ME, just frequent headaches and very limited PEM (compared to what I've read about). So out of a few online ME tests I've done the results are about 50/50. I often have heavy brain fog and trouble concentrating. Speaking costs me a lot of energy.

Waitlists are very long in my country, with 3 months to see an internal medicine specialist at the local hospital to rule out physical causes, and up to 11 months for a chronic fatigue specialist. Through my insurance I managed to see an internist on much shorter notice but the man spent most of the appointment asking about my living situation, work and psychological stuff like he was trying to find something else to blame it on as if I haven't already spent years working through those things with psychologists and psychiatrists. He ordered another blood and urine analysis but neither of us expects anything to come out of it.
It's so hard to get any of the doctors to do anything or take me seriously.

Currently only taking Xanax and Propranolol very sporadically and in low doses for anxiety and stress.

I just want to get on with my life now that I'm finally not depressed anymore but now this is getting in the way. I don't wanna waste more years just stuck on waitlists.

I don't know if there's too much info here, or too little, ask me anything you need to know, any help would be appreciated. I'm tired of being tired.

Just watched Palm Trees and Power Lines, very disturbing. Makes me feel disgusted to be a man, but at the same time I think movies like these are necessary. Not in the way that everyone should watch it, probably the contrary actually, but I'm glad they're being made. They make us face difficult truths. Just like The Woodsman and The Zone of Interest force us to view a situation from a point of view nobody wants to experience because it's so apalling to us. But putting ourselves in those disgusting shoes helps to understand how these things happen and hopefully to prevent them.

Possible spoilers below: don't know how we handle those on this sub or if we care.

Nobody wants to see what it's like for an underage girl to be groomed, manipulated and trafficked. Nobody wants to empathize with a pedophile. Nobody wants to look at the commander of a nazi concentration camp and his family as regular humans. And yet I'm glad I watched all three of these movies this year, and found them all very powerful.

Let me know what you thought of these movies and recommend me similar ones, that are disturbing and horrifying not for the shock value but for what they ask of the viewer

I wish I could have watched it in one sitting but streaming issues got in the way. Still, it had all the hallmarks of Sorrentino. The story is somewhat abstract, difficult to interpret, but you get a sense of a message being in there somewhere. Less moments of heightened reality this time, but always the utmost humanity. I just love the way Paolo Sorrentino sees the world. He's a master of showing how the ugly, difficult, painful parts are just as much a part of the beauty of life as the good parts. Beauty (including superficial), loss, regret, love, aging, diversity of people, love of a place, always feature prominently in his films.
This one had a lot of the same elements, and something about grace, obviously. But that I can't quite figure out, but it seems to go hand in hand with the message about love, and remembering, based on the president's final decision. Let me know your interpretations.

I can't do his films justice in words, and I can't describe how much I love them, they make me feel seen and understood. They feel real, genuine, offer emotion and connection where I otherwise wouldn't have found any, remind me of my own brand of passion for life, when maybe sometimes I lose it. I'm hoping to have some discussions with other fans, about interpretations and such, or recommendations of his films that I haven't watched yet.

Besides La Grazia, so far I've seen:
La Grande Bellezza
The Young Pope
The Hand of God
Parthenope
Loro
This Must Be the Place
Youth

I'm trying to search for variants of the phrase "saAy(.n=i) jb(=i)" from BM EA586, line 2, but no matter how I write it nothing comes up. Even if I copy it from JSesh as unicode, exactly as it's written on the stela.
What do I need to type to find examples of the word saA(y) followed by jb?
I need help in figuring out how to search the TLA for anything more than simple single words.

saAy(.n=i) jb(=i) r jtw(.i) xrw rHAt

I feel like I read a more direct translation of "saAy jb" before somewhere but I can't find it, and I tried the TLA but find it impossible to search with except for the simplest single words.

Working through Collier & Manley's book still, btw. They translate the phrase as "I advanced my position more than my forefathers", but I'm wondering if it could be interpreted another way, since the advancement of position or status seems inherent to the word saAy, but they saw fit to add the heart glyph with a stroke in this case.
Could advancing the heart, or making the heart great, in this case mean being generous, or intelligent? Or is Ity just saying he reached a higher rank than his forefathers, "advanced his position", like the book says?

I always try to look for the most literal translation that still makes sense in english, it helps me to understand the mechanics of the egyptian language better.