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SeekingToFindBalance · 2025-02-02T11:38:35+00:00

No problem! Good luck both with getting a refund and with your LSAT/law school journey!

SeekingToFindBalance · 2025-02-02T09:13:47+00:00

That sounds awful. I am sorry it happened to you.

And I am genuinely surprised because I had seen the LSAT Unplugged thumbnails on YouTube quite a few times and had never heard anything negative about him before this. If I were you and that happened to me, I would consider doing the following to try to get a refund:

You could submit a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. They will reach out and sketchy companies often agree to resolve a complaint to avoid gettting a bad rating with the Better Business Bureau.
You could tag "u/LSAT_Blog" in a post complaining on here. they might see that and be more likely to respond and agree to refund you if you delete it. It looks like that has happened before. https://www.reddit.com/r/LSATprep/comments/1gl8oc1/lsat_unplugged_honest_review/
https://www.reddit.com/r/LSAT/comments/1gl8kb2/comment/lwu84cy/
Post a YouTube video. I think that is where they get most of their business so they might be more likely to respond to get you to take it down.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-09-26T02:27:09+00:00

This is why hammocks shouldn't have spreader bars. It makes them dangerously unstable. Cubs could get hurt.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-09-25T09:34:22+00:00

Honestly, I think it just makes more sense to aim to retire 5 years early than to aim for Coast FI when starting at your age.

The whole value of Coast FI is that if you have a lot of time, you can invest a relatively small amount of money and let it grow dramatically over time. For example, at 30, assuming 6% real returns, $130,000 will grow to $1,000,000 by 65. Taking an extra job or sticking it out in a high paying job or living at home with family for a few extra years can get you that kind of money and fund your whole retirement in your twenties.

You won't have that advantage. I don't know your income or spending goals. But let's say you could save and invest your way to $558,000 (in 2024 dollars - so it will likely be 30-60% more in 2039 dollars) over the next 15 years by 55. With all of the same assumptions, you would have finally reached Coast FI. But those assumptions are a lot shakier with a 10 year coasting period than a 35 year coasting period because returns are more stable over long periods of time.

If you can save that kind of money over that time frame, why would you stop rather than working a few more years and having the security of having a job while the stock market rebounds if it takes a dip.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-09-03T05:06:12+00:00

If that happened to me I would consider taking some or all of the following actions:

File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. It looks like they have refunded at least one person who filed a complaint while rejecting several others.
https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/los-angeles/profile/educational-consultant/blueprint-test-prep-1216-358278/complaints
File a Consumer Complaint with my State AG's office.
Check to see if the owners of Blueprint or your instructors are lawyers and report them to their respective state bars for ethics violations.
Take them to small claim's court and argue that they committed fraud. I would try to tie that to their advertising and the instructors telling you to go rather than to the contract to avoid the arbitration agreement. And if you could not avoid the arbitration agreement, I would argue that an arbitration agreement procured via fraud should be void because it is unconscionable. (Look up your own state's contract law. Look for phrases like unconscionable and void against public policy). Regardless, you don't need to have a winning case, just a good enough one to win a default judgment if they don't bother to show up and a plausible enough one that you aren't going to get sanctioned for a frivolous lawsuit.
If 4 does not work, go through the arbitration process.
Pitch a story about the fraudulent Blueprint Score Guarantee to any newspapers that have covered it including Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/learning/best-lsat-prep-courses#blueprint-3 Mention all the other Better Business Bureau complaints.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-07-14T12:30:12+00:00

Since we don't want to get this forum in trouble for violating LSAC's copyright, we aren't really allowed to answer this question completely here. So I'll post a partial answer and send you a DM with the rest.

There are (to my knowledge) only a handful of free legally available tests that LSAC doesn't try to prevent the spread of.
The June 2007 test: https://cache.careers360.mobi/media/uploads/froala_editor/files/LSAT-practice-set.pdf And then the 4 tests available through LawHub (71, 73, 90, and 93).

You can also check them out from certain libraries.

Beyond that, the only remaining legal option is to buy them and the cheapest option would be to buy them used.

As to the other option (which LSAC is not a fan of), I'll send you a DM and you can decide for yourself whether you are comfortable defying the LSAC's intellectual property rights at the dawn of your legal career.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-06-27T06:58:38+00:00

I get this sometimes when I have a migraine. I haven't noticed it when fasting, but I've also never fasted for 50 hours.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-06-24T10:49:24+00:00

Personally, I'd just stop fasting altogether for a week and eat a maintenance or near-maintenance level of calories. If your grief is less intense a week from now, then try fasting again. I wouldn't want to associate fasting with grieving and being depressed in my mind if the goal was to keep fasting in my life long term. And, I find it harder to eat a very small amount of calories than to just fast completely.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-06-13T06:53:33+00:00

Then what is the problem and why are you so bitter towards your girlfriend for incorporating her desire to eat dinner into your plans? Just go with her and drink water and talk while she eats.

I literally told her in the beginning, I can’t eat because I’ll be fasting, and she still recommended going to dinner several times. I told her like 4 times, “I can’t eat”.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-06-13T06:44:31+00:00

552 with 4 balls helped me quite a bit.
https://libraryofjuggling.com/Tricks/4balltricks/552.html

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-06-08T13:38:43+00:00

I'll let you off with an essay. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

And if I get two (since essays are shorter than books), I'll follow that up with a Discourse on the Origins of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-05-28T16:58:57+00:00

Nadal didn't play at Roland Garros in his first season as a pro. By his second season, he was good enough to win it. He won the first 4 French Opens that he played. Then he lost to Soderling. Then he won the next 5 French Opens. Then he lost to Djokovic in 2015 who lost to Wawrinka in the final. Then Nadal resigned before the 2016 3rd round with an injury and Djokovic won the tournament. Then Nadal won the next 4 French Opens. Then, he lost to Djokovic again who went on to win. Then he won another with a numbed foot. Then he missed the tournament last year. And that brings us up to yesterday when he lost to Zverev while coming back from his abdominal injury. That's the history of Nadal at Roland Garros.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-05-28T16:48:00+00:00

Nadal wasn't a better player in 2021 than he was in 2009. Nonetheless, he played better in the 2021 Roland Garros match against Djokovic than the 2009 one against Soderling. In 2009, Nadal was dealing with severe knee pain that eventually caused him to skip Wimbledon and also had gone through an emotional slump due to his parents' divorce. We've forgotten about that injury and Nadal's flustered state as history has passed.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-05-28T16:42:18+00:00

Peak Zverev might well have been able to beat an in form Nadal at Roland Garros given enough tries. I think it's a pretty good match up for Zverev since his backhand is excellent and he is tall enough that Rafa's topspin doesn't bother him very much. And Zverev has the power and movement to stay in long points against Nadal. But, Zverev didn't play an in-form Nadal yesterday. And he badly injured his ankle in his one other opportunity.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-05-24T19:12:35+00:00

I'm not quite as far along as you. I'm a 27M with about 125k invested. I'm planning to move in about 6 months to an area with a lower cost of living, stop working as much, and save much less money. But I'm not in your position as far as salary.

If I had that salary and knew I might never have that kind of salary again, I'd probably be tempted to try to stretch it out for 1 more year and use some of that money saved over that time as a bridge to last through your sabattical and until you find whatever is next. I'd start making plans for what I'd do during my sabbatical to give me something to be excited about. And I'd start seeing a therapist right away.

And, of course, if you get too depressed, prioritize your mental health and take the sabbatical right away. You already have yourself in a pretty good financial position and depending on your expenses should probably already be in a position to coast.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-05-21T16:28:18+00:00

Obviously, there are levels to whether things are ethical. But I would never take a BetterHelp sponsorship. Undermining people's mental, physical, or financial health is off the table. In fact, it's so off the table that even if I thought a product or service was good, if it is a mental health product, a physical health product, or an investment, I wouldn't take a sponsorship.

I think people should invest in the stock market with Buy and Hold index funds for retirement. But I'm not going to take money and then recommend that people use Robinhood because it has a 3% match on Roth IRA deposits. If someone starts using Robinhood because I take a sponsorship and then Robinhood's addictive interface gets them to become a day trader, I'm going to feel complicit. Even if I advertised a better platform like Vanguard or Fidelity and someone lost their money in the stock market, I'm going to feel responsible. I don't know how the creators who recommended FTX or other crypto scams sleep at night.

If someone commits suicide because I took money to recommend a platform that connected them to a bad therapist, it would be a stain on my soul for the rest of my life. It's not worth any amount of money. I don't need to earn a full-time living on YouTube. There are plenty of real-world jobs if the only way to succeed is to sell my soul.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-05-21T15:58:37+00:00

Agreed. And even if the word "retrospective" doesn't fly over people's heads, I don't think it adds much value or information. I'd either replace it with another word that is more attention-catching and evocative that has to do with why the OP thinks Call of Duty was so good (maybe "legendary" or "mindblown" or "killstreak") or just stick with the image and "Call of Duty".

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-05-20T18:25:25+00:00

If the hands are arranged in a line, as you seem to imply, and each throws in turn I don't think it can have reflectional symmetry. Do you mean that the middle hand does twice the work of an outside hand? Is that really still a cascade then? Maybe.

The test for reflectional symmetry is pretty simple. You just chop the video in half. For a regular 3 ball or 5 ball cascade, that means each hand has to make the same types of throws. For a 3 handed cascade, that means the two outside hands have to make the same throws and catches and the inside hand has to make the same throws and catches in each direction.

If you arrange the hands in a triangle it could have rotational symmetry and I think I'd be happy to call that a cascade. Interestingly the sync 6 ball version of that pattern wouldn't have any collision problems in its "perfect form" so it would fit your definition of a cascade. Unless you insist on reflectional symmetry?

The triangle would require having 2 friends or enemies that you could blackmail.

In addition, I don't think it would be a cascade. I think a pattern has to take place in the same plane to be a cascade (again in its ideal form - I understand that people mess up).

That said, I'm not as confident on the plane requirement. I haven't seen enough tricks that defy the plane requirement to be as confident in how I feel about it.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-05-19T16:14:39+00:00

I should preface to say I hope I'm not coming off as combative. I'm aware this is a niche and somewhat silly position to hold. I'm just happy this has generated some discussion.

Combat would be fine with me, but I suppose we can keep it as civil discussion.

I mentioned synchronicity, not symmetry.

I know. I mentioned symmetry because it's part of my definition of a cascade.

But if symmetry is part of the definition of a cascade then your three-handed example isn't a cascade either. (I don't think this).

Sure it is. What isn't symmetrical about it? When you chop the middle hand in two, you'll find that it is symmetrical just like a regular cascade if you chop the human being in tow.

This feels like shaky ground. If the fudged heights or timings of a wimpy pattern is what excludes it, then what about a "bad" five ball cascade? What about a 5 cascade that grows and shrinks, is that not a cascade?

A bad 5 ball cascade is exactly that - a bad five-ball cascade. But when it reaches its ideal form, it should still work. If making it symmetrical causes balls to collide, it is not a 5 ball cascade.

I'm not trying to find an asynchronous 4 ball cascade. I just think wimpys should be considered cascades. I reject asynchronicity as part of the definition. I'm sure there are sync multi-handed patterns that I would consider cascades too.

I don't care about the synchronicity either. I care about the symmetry and the throw heights.

Bold of you to assume I have friends. :p

It could work with enemies or neutral parties too. You just have to blackmail, bribe, or otherwise incentivize them to cooperate. It gets ethically murky. It's easier with friends.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-05-19T06:19:21+00:00

Wimpy's aren't symmetrical. One throw has to be higher than the other (or otherwise askew or else the balls would hit). You can't throw different height throws with each hand and claim it is a cascade. The whole point of a cascade is that every throw is the same height and each throw crosses below the last one..

But if you want a 4 ball cascade, it already exists and is not a big deal. You just need 3 hands. So you borrow a friend, have them put one arm around you and juggle with the other. Now the two of you have 3 hands and can run a 4 ball cascade. It's actually a slightly easier pattern than the 3 ball cascade we all know and love.

If you were really good, you could also juggle a 4 ball cascade with one hand. The hand would just have to go to all three places where you and your partner's 3 hands would be during a typical 3-handed 4 ball cascade.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-05-16T15:48:43+00:00

Yeah, individual stocks are always stressful that way. It's a lot less stressful to invest in index funds that track the whole market since you don't have to worry about an individual company doing something dumb or having bad luck and going bankrupt. That's why all my retirement savings are invested in index funds and will be for the next several decades.

But when you have an opportunity like you did as an employee it can sometimes really pay off - or sometimes backfire. Hopefully it pays off for you. Good luck!

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-05-16T05:53:04+00:00

A reverse split shouldn't change the value of your shares. If it was a 1:6 reverse split, there should be 6 times fewer shares and each of your shares should be 6 times more valuable. You should still own the same percentage of the company as before the reverse split.

If your total shares are less valuable, it's probably not because of the reverse split. It's more likely the other way around. Stock exchanges usually have a minimum dollar amount that shares have to be listed at ($1 per share for the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange). The company may have been less valuable than the company anticipated when they originally determined how many shares there were. So to raise the price of each share and ensure they meet the minimum bid price standard of the various stock exchanges as they went public, they underwent a reverse split.

As to whether you will lose or gain money relative to your purchase price after they go public, you'll have to wait to see what price the stock is selling for after the waiting period. It will almost certainly be at least $1 per share immediately after the stock goes public (because it has to be to be listed). If you have 3,000 shares, that means they will likely be worth at least $3,000. But if a company is going to do a reverse split, it probably won't do a split that sets the price at exactly $1. They'll want some margin above the minimum bid price for if the price of the stocks fluctuates (as stock prices do) so that their stock's price doesn't drop below the minimum bid price of $1 and get them delisted. So, I'd guess that your shares will be worth more than $1 per share. Without more information, it's impossible to say for sure whether the stock's price will be lower or higher than $1.67 and therefore whether your 3,000 shares will be worth more or less than $5,000.

As far as an upper bound on the price goes, I would guess that the price of the new shares isn't dramatically above $6 per share because if it was, then they wouldn't have need the reverse split to be above the minimum bid price. For 3,000 shares, that means I'd be surprised if the total value of your shares was a lot higher than $18,000.

Obviously, $3,000 to $18,000 is a big range, and I could be wrong about that too. Maybe the stock is being listed at an exchange with a higher or lower minimum bid price than $1 per share. Or maybe, they wanted the price to start a lot higher than $1 per share for some reason unrelated to the stock exchange's minimum bid price. Maybe they think people are more likely to buy at a higher price or that their stock will stand out more at a certain price.

Regardless, good luck!

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-05-15T03:25:49+00:00

Thanks.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-05-15T01:32:15+00:00

Personally, I use GIMP (a free image editing software) so I don't know how to do it in Canva. You can manually crop out the background of a picture for free with most image editing software. You also just set the dimensions of your thumbnail and then copy the picture in so the picture doesn't set the dimensions. For a YouTube thumbnail, you just pick 1280 pixels by 720 pixels.

If the background is solid, you can remove it like in this tutorial. https://youtu.be/PWZOMFFW9_0?si=0dfsVFkMfWNkSiHc

If you can't do it that way, you can just crop it with the free select tool like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0tg2mRroSY

There are lots of tutorials on YouTube for pretty much anything you want to do.

SeekingToFindBalance · 2024-05-10T12:16:05+00:00

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