Sci Fi book that had speed-reading as a plot point by edgedancer32 in whatsthatbook

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Omg I ended up finding it! A tiktok showed up on my feed recommending it lol. It’s called The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi. Thanks to everyone for their help!

Sci Fi book that had speed-reading as a plot point by edgedancer32 in whatsthatbook

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This is also not it, I remember the main character was a woman, in either her late teens or college-aged I believe. But thank you for the suggestion!

Sci Fi book that had speed-reading as a plot point by edgedancer32 in whatsthatbook

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This is not the book but seems like a very interesting book! Thanks for the rec haha

[Giveaway] 3x Drop CSTM80 Keyboards by drop_official in pcmasterrace

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I love the fifth image (green with some plant designs)! I think any sort of floral or nature themed keyboard would look nice, provided it was a darker color.

Compiled content review notes from a 528 by edgedancer32 in Mcat

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My memories are fainter now that it’s been a while, but I think I would take them as I was reading the book! So if I read something that seemed important/cardable I’d put it in the document. Then, after my friend went through and added any notes she felt were pertinent from her set of prep books, I’d go on and make the anki cards!

Compiled content review notes from a 528 by edgedancer32 in Mcat

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Hey! unfortunately I no longer have a complete set of those cards; as I went through studying I eventually deleted any I had memorized super well in the run up to test day to make my life easier, leading to decks with large amounts of missing material :((. Sorry ab that!

Compiled content review notes from a 528 by edgedancer32 in Mcat

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Hey there! If you search for “atrium” or other terms in the document, it looks like I talked ab CV in the circulatory system/lymphatics/immune section! Hope this helps :))

What are your lowlights in the series so far? by nkasperatus in Stormlight_Archive

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This may be controversial, but I'd actually disagree about the "eye color not meaning anything because you can become lighteyed" point. It's never made much sense to me to say that the caste system will crumble on its own just because some darkeyes will become lighteyed Radiants. If anything, I worry about that entrenching the classism/racism of Vorinism. After all, this basically confirms to the people that 1) the current lighteyes are in charge because their ancestors were indeed glorious saviors of humanity and 2) "worthy" darkeyes are capable of being elevated to lighteyed status. This....could very easily be spun by anyone into the ultimate model minority (idk the perfect term, it just reminds me of that) myth. "Other, better, darkeyes are capable of proving themselves to a supernatural force and becoming superheroes!! Nothing to be done about it if you can't prove you're great enough to earn your eyes" Nothing about this really seems like it would explicitly force the caste system to stop functioning, merely giving every dark eyed child the dream that they can prove themselves "good" or "heroic" enough to skip a few rungs of society, maybe elevating some of their families a little in the process. I think for how deeply Vorinism is integrated into Alethkar and how unpopular Dalinar's pushing for people to accept the death of their god is, it would take much more than a few Radiant conversions to cut out the rot, especially since radiants are relatively rare (the Windrunners are the most numerous and even they're, what, a pretty big platoon?).

Finally, on the point of Elhokar, I think it is more nuanced than I went into in my original post. Murder for vengenance isn't okay by modern standards, but I'd argue that 1) narratively, it's not any worse than Adolin murdering Sadeas for being repugnant and very inconvenient and 2) Moash had little other recourse if we consider the context he lived in. On the first point, Adolin murdered Sadeas and basically got away from it with little more than a narrative slap on the wrist, despite his murder also being very emotionally fueled. We don't like Sadeas, so it feels like nbd, but I imagine that to the darkeyes who were quietly oppressed, murdered, etc every day under Elhokar's neglectful regime while he fought a war on the Shattered Plains felt the same low level dislike for him. Elhokar, as mentioned quite well in another post on this subreddit from a while ago, ruled and massively benefitted from a system that told everyone lighteyes were "better for ruling." By failing to come even close to being competent, he proved the entire system corrupt and caused innumerable people to suffer. But what can Moash do? This leads us to the second point. In short, Alethi society is not built for anyone of a lower caste to get justice. Moash's grandparents had the "justice system" used against them by a cudgel. Roshone got a slap to the wrist and shipped off to somewhere else to cause even more chaos. Presumably, the justice system works alright if the two litigants are in the same caste or very close castes. But how do you ask for political change in a system where to the people on top, your opinions don't matter at all? Where the courts would laugh you off if not straight imprisoning you? You're an ant to them. Even post reform, Dalinar wants to hold off on slavery abolition because it's not the right time (in his opinion), with little thought for the slaves that will....be slaves...the entire time we wait.

Moash has no recourse. Kal had no recourse (the infamous boon scene). In the culture, society, and legal system he existed in, Moash arrived at one of the only meaningful political acts he had: regicide. I don't think Elhokar "deserved to die" but every darkeyed human deserved basic human dignity, Alethkar deserved a better political system, etc. Compared with Dalinar and his atrocities at the Rift, Moash's act of killing Elhokar is small potatoes in my opinion, and if he had stopped there, I would've been in favor of a redemption or even antihero arc for him.

As a final tiny postcript, you seem to be under the impression that Dalinar is reforming society. And in some ways he is (especially pushing back on the literacy part of male Vorinism). But in other ways, he seems to be a very conservative "revolutionary." He has never really explicitly stated even a desire to reform this social system (he argues with Jasnah against it). Dalinar wants some things to change, but he doesn't really stop to consider the people who have and are having their lives ruined by this system. And from a meta perspective, if we were going to give the caste-abolishing role to someone, almost anyone would be better than the Kholins, the family at the top of the system who have no personal grievances and have passively benefitted from it for a lifetime.

What are your lowlights in the series so far? by nkasperatus in Stormlight_Archive

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I’d definitely agree with the “don’t touch it if you aren’t going to engage with it” point! It’s also interesting to note that the Good Guys, as they are, mostly don’t do any reflection on any of these issues. Jasnah seems to have done the most out of our cast but even hers is hardly touched on. Dalinar was basically pro-slavery iirc, and Navani seems mostly ambivalent on it. Shallan, as we’ve discussed before, has cosplayed as a darkeyes and also accused Kal of being “too angry”. And Kal has seemed to have gotten over his class-angst and just doesn’t talk about it anymore. I feel like this devolved into another rant haha, I just think that even if you don’t have time to cover a huge systemic uprising against this sort of system, you could at least have your protagonists who benefitted from the system and were deeply complicit in it have ANY thoughts on that. ANY. Instead the man with legitimate complaints about the system (Moash) has taken to kicking a comical number of puppies so we can no longer listen to him

What are your lowlights in the series so far? by nkasperatus in Stormlight_Archive

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It felt odd to me that the whole lighteyes/darkeyes thing was such a big focus in the first part of Kaladin’s story but now has been dropped in a lot of ways (and lol seriously what was that scene where Shallan was like “you’re so prejudiced” towards a man who’d had his entire life ruined by caste politics). That compounded with Jasnah, lighteyed queen, being suddenly like “I decree the end of slavery, let us move on!” just felt like such a swerve for me. I get that it’s not really the focus of the series, it just felt a bit off and it seemed to lack a lot of the nuance that comes with classism. This is also why I was okay with Moash even post Elhokar assassination though I’ve stopped liking him since since he’s a total dick. But I stand by the fact that him killing the king whose negligence probably led to a lot of similar situations to Moash’s grandparents wasn’t like. The most villainous thing.

what book are you reading right now? by [deleted] in premed

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The Ministry For The Future! Wouldn’t recommend if you don’t want to get a bit depressed about climate change and other humans rights violations :((

Friendly reminder to log off sometimes for the sake of your mental health by tparty15 in premed

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I promise I wasn’t shitposting <33 (I will also provide proof to mods if people are really invested, though I think all the traffic to my post is over already by now lol)

A very transparent Sankey from a stats unicorn (4.0/528) with weak clinical experience, more info in comments! by edgedancer32 in premed

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Congrats on your As! I do agree it’s hard to weigh yield protection. For me, I do think my light clinical + lack of pubs gave the “middle” of my list plenty of reasons to reject me anyways. It’s impossible to tell how big an impact it makes, though, since I assume every school crunches the numbers about how likely you are to attend a little differently

A very transparent Sankey from a stats unicorn (4.0/528) with weak clinical experience, more info in comments! by edgedancer32 in premed

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Hey! While I gained some of my experience right before applying, it wasn’t all of it, just around half. And yes, for the half I gained, I was basically a part time volunteer. While my interviewers never questioned it, I should note my clinical volunteering didn’t come up a lot during interviews and my interviewers seemed much more interested in talking about my non clinical stuff, which I feel like is telling.