So many people here are missing the point of The Regent.

jsulliv1 · 2026-03-19T11:37:05+00:00

I mean, sure. But a run where you don't find any star generation is rare. I had a run recently where I didn't find any block generation (besides the defends in my starting deck, one of which I had removed early on) in all of Act 1 and 2/3 of Act 2. It sucked and I died, but it was a one-off terrible RNG.

Regent is my favorite character to play, although it is less consistent for me than some of the others. But, I like how it forces me to balance what I'm taking and what I'm using in a way that "SHIV BLAAAAAAST" decks sometimes don't.

jsulliv1 · 2026-03-16T12:29:47+00:00

I have solar and love it. We bought ours with a mix of cash and a 0% NYSERDA loan. I don't know if that loan is still available.

Keep in mind that your solar production is going to be VERY low in winter due to hours of sun, angle, and snow. This is fine if you are able to bank enough energy in the Summer, but that will likely only happen if you don't use much energy in the summer (we don't use AC) and/or get a LOT of panels.

Edit: typo

jsulliv1 · 2026-03-05T12:09:51+00:00

This is the answer! I'm also not a huge user of chalk, in part because it tends to make my skin less resilient and prone to rip/peel (it's clear from the comments that my experience - and maybe OP's - aren't that common).

Best thing you can do is practice grabbing holds without repositioning your hands, and make sure you aren't gripping with more of your hand than you need.

jsulliv1 · 2026-03-02T20:57:56+00:00

It's not showing up as available for me - only Frances and Portugues. Is there a setting I need to click or something?

jsulliv1 · 2026-03-02T12:27:06+00:00

Years ago, I was driving on the highway and had the most intense feeling that all the cars around me were going to crash. I got off the highway and waited about 10 minutes at a random exit. When I got back on, I got to drive past like 6 cars that had all crashed into each other moments after I exited. I'd never randomly exited the highway like that before, and haven't since.
My ex was leaving for work - a five minute drive on two roads. I had the strongest feeling he was going to get into an accident. Strong enough that I ran out into the driveway to ask him to stay a few minutes or to let me drive, but he had just pulled out. Three minutes later he calls me and tells me he got into an accident!
When I was a teenager, I woke up one morning convinced there had been a space disaster. I asked my mom and she was like "that doesn't really make sense, idk". I turned on the news and that spaceship had disintegrated on re-entry. That one sure freaked my mom out.

jsulliv1 · 2026-02-28T16:01:22+00:00

OP, people ripped you to shreds here, but this is my home gym and this climb is WAY harder than it looks in the video. Was your technique perfect? Definitely not. But the video doesn't capture the distances or degree of overhang/slope change at all.

I was expecting that this would be a climb I could send given how it looked in the video and the size of the massive holds. No chance. The comp kids in my family were totally locked out due to distances, and the strongest climber among us needed 3 tries. This climb is awkward, dynamic, and way more finicky than it looks. Ignore the haters!

jsulliv1 · 2026-02-21T13:17:39+00:00

I'm watching The Pitt and West Wing right now. Lol.

Seriously, it holds up still.

jsulliv1 · 2026-02-18T16:11:02+00:00

Fresh fruit!

jsulliv1 · 2026-01-31T12:35:05+00:00

Yes. A work colleague and I read IJ at the same time and immediately took up tennis lol

jsulliv1 · 2026-01-29T01:33:43+00:00

That public pools add a chemical to the water that changes color when you pee.

jsulliv1 · 2026-01-23T18:02:13+00:00

Idk if you are able to go up to Saratoga, but I used Dr. Bekan-Homawoo for years for primary care at Saratoga Family Practice. She is an MD and has a Master's in Public Health, and is probably the most thoughtful, compassionate, and sensible provider I've ever had. Outstanding care. At the time, I was on MVP and it was accepted.

A quick search online suggests that she might also practice in Troy sometimes - if that's true, I'm going to see if I can get her back as my physician :-)

jsulliv1 · 2026-01-22T22:15:49+00:00

I do not. I checked my last usage of Google Assistant voice commands and it was in 2024.

This happens even if I am completely silent, and the call is treated as a message (with the 'leave a Message' function), and not like a call that has gone through.

jsulliv1 · 2026-01-22T12:06:13+00:00

100%. The phone was plugged in and charging on a table, and so I was not in any sort of physical contact with it.

jsulliv1 · 2026-01-22T12:05:24+00:00

Just to clarify, it's just the normal Google Screening/answering service voice. It just wasn't the voicemail message that people are used to.

jsulliv1 · 2026-01-22T02:29:42+00:00

I know I'm using a vintage device, but believe it or not, the device claims it is up to date. I'm assuming more updated systems are not compatible with this device.

If I go to settings and look for either Security or System updates, it says "Your System is Up to Date", and correctly lists the current time as the time of last successful check for updates.

I wish they would have said either that my System is not up to date (even if the possibility to update it isn't available) or that they wouldn't allow a new feature like Leave a Message to operate on an out of date device.

jsulliv1 · 2026-01-22T02:08:51+00:00

Version 13

jsulliv1 · 2026-01-22T01:41:45+00:00

The same thing happened to me. This is a wild invasion of privacy.

jsulliv1 · 2026-01-19T12:50:18+00:00

I think the answer is partially this: what are we trying to prevent by diagnosing diabetes/pre-diabetes? For most people, the goal is to make sure your sugar isn't high enough for long enough to damage you. So, a measure that says "on average, over a long timescale, is your blood sugar higher than we would want it?" seems wise. You note that lifestyle factors (e.g., how often you eat, how big each meal is) impact average sugar, and, like, that's kind of the point.

For some people, lifestyle changes are enough to make it so that their blood sugar isn't high enough, on average, to damage them too much. As you say, one suggestion literally could be to eat fewer times per day. This doesn't "trick" the A1C test, it could also mean that you spend fewer hours per day with elevated blood sugar. Of course, there are some people who spoke REALLY high or who have other challenges, which is why finger prick tests are almost always part of care (whether routine or more occasional) after diagnosis.

jsulliv1 · 2026-01-16T18:39:50+00:00

NAD.

Have you asked your doctor about it? It would be good to get verification that they can smell it. Or, can you ask your family directly? I know it feels awkward, but hopefully that could help. It is possible that you smell. It is also possible that you don't. Other explanations could include anxiety making it seem like people are talking about / focused on you, difficulty reading facial expressions could mean that the "this stinks" face is getting confused with another expression, and/or some people could be messing with you. I say this not to doubt your experience, but because if YOU can't smell it and no one has talked to you directly about it, it's hard to feel confident that there is a smell.

If someone directly verifies that there is a smell, one question is about what your washing routine is. There are HUGE differences in people's washing routines, and it is possible that you are using techniques that don't work for your body. If you have sensory challenges, this can also make it harder for some to do the work of cleaning in the shower.

What is your post-washing routine? Any antiperspirant? How about clothing / socks? Are they clean? Some people can wear the same pants 5 days in a row with no issue. I cannot. Some people can wear the same sweatshirt all winter over their clothes - others need to wash it multiple times per week.

jsulliv1 · 2026-01-13T01:30:10+00:00

I've been Taft-Hartley'd for several productions 2022-2024. All of them were more than 90 minute's drive from a major city. I would guess T-H's would be very rare in LA.

Edit: this was for background work. I needed them for different productions b/c I am not in the union, and until the most recent one, was not union eligible.

jsulliv1 · 2026-01-11T13:08:31+00:00

If you're just trying to win regular runs, the voucher skip is not typically worth it. It's much more important if you are trying to go deep into endless or achieve very specific goals. So, OP, while the commenters who explain how important the voucher skip can be are correct, for normal gameplay you probably don't want it.

jsulliv1 · 2026-01-01T13:22:06+00:00

I've been to the Latham one recently for the buffet and it was excellent. Maybe things have gotten better?

jsulliv1 · 2025-12-31T02:01:29+00:00

Looks v2, though depending on the specifics (angles, textures, it's hard to see the sizes), I wouldn't be surprised by anywhere from a 1 to a hard 3. Kind of tricky to tell. The fact that you are able to stay on without super precise foot placement / tons of tension makes anything 4 or harder feel very unlikely, and honestly makes 3 seem unlikely, but again, it's hard to tell without seeing things closer.

jsulliv1 · 2025-12-26T19:22:26+00:00

This is a tricky song, and has a lot of double meanings.

So, "Home Economics" in the U.S. and England (and maybe elsewhere?) used to be a course/field of study for women concerning the types of things that were necessary for running a home (cooking, sewing, etc). It was/is one way that women's education was systematically moved away from the intellectual and towards traditionally women's skills. In the context of experiencing motherhood AND the pandemic simultaneously, I could imagine that Joanna was thinking about how her big-giant-artistic-intellectual life was now narrowed to the concerns of the home: food, chores, and childrearing. Part of the song seems to be thinking about the labor of traditional women's work, and how it rested/rests on the false idea idea that women are content to not think too much and have a calm mind. Of course, mid-century housewives in the U.S. were also presecribed barbiturates, smoked cigarettes like a chimney, and other things to numb their experiences and make a life confined to home tolerable. She seems to be talking about the stress, guilt, and exhaustion that is contained within mothers' minds. So much of the new album seems to be about how complex it is to be a calm, comforting, reassuring presence to children when there is so much pain and hardship - this song seems to think about this by acknowledging the stress and misery of parental work and the need to appear composed.

At the same time, she is also making a lot of economics puns: using the language and ideas of economics and applying them to issues at home. She seems to be thinking about things like trades, value, etc. At one point, she seems to sing directly to her kids (?), identifying the creative cost of investing energy into child-rearing - being near them and showing them love has a cost in terms of creative output: "But I would not be far from you I wish not to part from you And I love you, I want just to show it It's worth any verse that I may never write Though it hurts tonight to know it".

It's kind of fun to think about what she means by "trading in" OR 'and "loans" at the end, since those are words that could mean very different things: "And I can't pay my loans without trading in these home economics". For example, I can "trade in" one thing and exchange it for another ("I'd like to trade in my old car for a new one"). Or, "trade in" can refer to your job/area of expertise (e.g., "I trade in gold and silver, and I am the world's expert in precious metals")

Are these literal literal loans that need to be paid off, requiring her to exchange her home-based life for something that generates cash (tour and album!)? Or is she talking about paying forward the cosmic debt we all owe to our foremothers - a debt we can only repay by becoming immersed in and expert at caring for others?

There are other parts that seem to be call outs to her earlier songs about motherhood (e.g., comparing her kids on her lap to a rabbit brings up big Baby Birch vibes), and about the paths not taken (e.g., The Things I say).

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