u/Top-Professional8981

I have to thank this sub, I've been reading a lot of the comments on posts here and they seem to have helped a lot. I had my first high cholesterol reading this summer at almost 270 mg/dl. I was pretty surprised with how active I am. My doctor wanted me on statins, but I declined, and told them let me try naturally first. I'm active and fit, but ate very poorly and high cholesterol runs in my family. I took a lot of advice here, switched to a *mostly* plant based diet, with some lean protein. I ate lots of oats, fiber, vegetables, and non-fat greek yogurt. I also signed myself up for a local charity 5k, and started running every other day. My most recent lab came in at 190mg/dl. Not great but the trend is my friend. I'm going to keep pushing and hopefully get an even better reading the next lab. Thanks everyone!

I quit weed a year ago, cold turkey. A little background- I started smoking in college then progressed to vape pens and high potency grass once my state legalized. My wife always noticed that I was quite regular with my bowel movements, multiple times a day. Much more than her. However, it started becoming alarming, were I would have to go very often, even leaving social events. I saw multiple doctors and even had a colonoscopy done.

I tried to quit everything from red meats, dairy, and coffee. My doctor had me try everything from fiber to pro biotics. Eventually, I decided to cut the weed and give that a try. It was an instant success. My gut cramps went away, I was going the bathroom far less often, and my GI returned to normal. Fast forward to today, I got my annual bloodwork done. For the first time in my life I have very high cholesterol. My diet has not changed, and if anything I have been exercising more than previous years.

My laymen theory is that the weed (or whatever was in those NY Dispensary Vapes) was making me process food so fast that I wasn't fully absorbing the food. I also have a theory that If I had stayed with regular herb, and not vape pens, none of this would have happened and I would still be smoking. The reason for this post is to help provide insight to anyone else in a similar situation. I used to sit on google for hours trying to find people with similar symptoms. Now, I'm at a fork - either I start weed again or clean up my diet (I chose the diet).

I've been in the market for a Toyota Corolla for awhile now. My strategy for cars has been to buy a 3-4 year old car with low mileage. I bought a civic and and my wife's CRV this way. However, now as I look at the Upstate NY used car market, I see seller's want pretty significant prices for used cars. For instance, I'm seeing 2016 Corrolla's with 50-60k miles on them for $17-18k. I live in a climate where rust is a huge problem since they salt the roads. Might it be better to finally buy a new car? I find it hard to stomach buying a 10 year old car to save $7k that might potentially be rusting in a few years.

https://preview.redd.it/144supyyynhh1.png?width=979&format=png&auto=webp&s=3e95d694ffe573b65af65ffd6fb887d9abaaccdc

What a fall from grace, even battlefield 4 has double the amount of players.

Hi everyone, it's been raining all week here. Yesterday was our first day of sunshine, I took off the cover and the pool water is blue and cloudy. No green. I tested the levels and it had low chlorine so I shocked the pool. Today the pool is still cloudy. This morning, I backwashed my DE filter and added more DE. I checked the chemicals and everything is reading perfect. The pool is *slightly* more clear. Should I keep waiting or is there something else I should be doing?

My deep end pool drain fell off when I was vacuuming. I dove in and tried screwing it back in. However the screws just kept turning. Thinking my pump sucked the nuts through the drain, I looked in the filter basket. I didn't find nuts but I found glue residue that seemed molded perfectly to the screws. My guess is the old owner used pool putty and it finally gave out. I temporarily used industrial zip ties, and to my surprise I was able to secure them through both eye holes in the pool ring and thru the drain cover. The zip ties are probably holding the drain cover down better than the putty was. Anyway, does someone recommend a proper fix? Hire a pool company to install a new ring? Just use pool putty again? Thanks!

Hi everyone, after the last discord update 3-5 months ago watching streams has been awful. I've searched reddit for numerous solutions including buying nitro to be able to turn off "Clips". I've tried disabling hardware acceleration, changing, disabling overlays, reinstalling discord, but I've found no solution. I have an AMD 9070XT.

Hi everyone, a few months they moved remix to short under the share button, but this week it's not there anymore. Did they completely remove this feature now?

Hi everyone, I'm with aidvantage and on SAVE. I have not received any correspondence from them about the July 1st deadline from the emails we received from Dept of Ed. Should I be proactive in switching my plan or wait for them to issue me a formal notice? Thanks!

Hi everyone,

Windows 11 did an update today and I think they did an audio update- Microsoft Corporation AudioProcessingObject Driver Update (1.0.3.56670). I use a Focusrite. I tried all sound drivers from Windows/ASIO/WASAPI and reaper doesn't recognize my instruments/mics. Any idea what's going on?

Update:

I've been playing around with settings and I think I found the solution. I went to Focusrite's website and redownloaded/installed the drivers. However, before I was using WASAPI because I was getting horrible static/delay from ASIO on Windows 11 with a 3rd Gen Focusrite. However, now the opposite is happening. WASAPI is extremely delayed, so I changed back to ASIO and everything seems to be working. However, It's late and I need to get to bed, I'll do more testing tomorrow. Whatever that Windows update was today definitely messed with the Focusrite or WASAPI/ASIO. The driver update in question is marked 6/10/2026 - Microsoft Corporation AudioProcessingObject Driver Update (1.0.3.56670). Leaving this comment for anyone in a similar situation.

Hi everyone,

Windows 11 did an update today and I think they did an audio update. I use a Focusrite. I tried all sound drivers from Windows/ASIO/WASAPI and reaper doesn't recongize my instruments/mics. Any idea what's going on?
UPDATE:

I've been playing around with settings and I think I found the solution. I went to Focusrite's website and redownloaded/installed the drivers. However, before I was using WASAPI because I was getting horrible static/delay from ASIO on Windows 11 with a 3rd Gen Focusrite. However, now the opposite is happening. WASAPI is extremely delayed, so I changed back to ASIO and everything seems to be working. However, It's late and I need to get to bed, I'll do more testing tomorrow. Whatever that Windows update was today definitely messed with the Focusrite or WASAPI/ASIO. The driver update in question is marked 6/10/2026 - Microsoft Corporation AudioProcessingObject Driver Update (1.0.3.56670). Leaving this comment for anyone in a similar situation.

https://preview.redd.it/r95bjezlji3h1.png?width=481&format=png&auto=webp&s=1351cebdd79fbfa4a36140457e9711d9831633a8

I am always out of forgotten souls and Veiled Crystals. Rolling items for gem strength has me farming nothing but them, but I have so much Neathiron, I don't even know what to do with it all.

I'm well aware this post has been discussed at length and may even trigger some people. However, I cannot stop thinking about the ending of Blood Meridian: I think the ending of makes more sense if the judge is not just a literal person, but the embodiment of evil and violence inside the kid/man himself. A lot of people read the ending as the judge physically killing the man in the jakes. But I think the book points more toward the man finally giving in to the judge’s worldview and becoming part of it.

One of the biggest clues is the missing little girl. McCarthy spends a surprising amount of time mentioning her right before the jakes scene. Then something horrible is found inside, but McCarthy never tells us exactly what happened. If the point was only that the judge killed the man, why focus so much on the missing girl? I think the implication is that the man killed the girl after finally surrendering to the judge’s philosophy.

The kid was never fully innocent either. People treat him like the moral center of the book, but he still becomes violent again later on. He kills the boy at the campfire. He wears the necklace of ears like the rest of the gang. Even after leaving Glanton’s gang, he never fully escapes that life. The kid disappears for large sections of the story, and during that time the judge starts to feel less like a normal antagonist and more like something living in the kid’s mind. Then years later, when the man starts drinking again, the judge suddenly reappears. It feels more like relapse than coincidence.

The judge also does not seem human in the final scene. He does not age at all while everyone else does. He appears everywhere throughout the novel and seems to know impossible things. He feels more symbolic than literal.

The scene with the dead woman is important too. The man basically confesses to a corpse. To me that symbolizes that his chance for redemption is already gone before he enters the jakes.

Tobin disappearing is another strange detail. We never see the ex-priest again. On reread, it almost makes you wonder if Tobin represented the last moral or spiritual voice inside the kid, and once that disappears, only the judge is left.

Another detail people overlook: after the jakes scene, the person warning others not to go inside is referred to as “the man,” not specifically the judge. That wording feels intentional. It blurs the line between them. If you listen to the Richard Poe audiobook, Poe even recites this line in the same voice he's been using for the Kid throughout the novel, not the judge's voice. (Does Poe agree with my view?)

There’s also the fact that if the judge were just a normal physical murderer, it makes little sense that he could casually walk back into the bar naked and start dancing right after people discovered a corpse in the outhouse. Nobody tries to stop him or react realistically. The scene works more like symbolism or dream logic than literal realism.

I think the ending is about the kid finally becoming what the judge always wanted him to become. The judge wins because the man joins the dance and succumbs to his nature.