Hydra in shrimp tank

Hey hey! Hoping to get some insight on my alternatives here. I'm 1 month post op and have lost 44.2 lbs. It's been a ride, not gonna lie. But with the new diet I started on Monday, most of my issues have resolved (nausea and fatigue), but one remains. I absolutely despise protein shakes. I've tried to make them with skim milk, almond milk, water, etc. And the outcome is the same. I hate the aftertaste and it makes me nauseous. Actually, my hepatic enzymes came back a bit high due to a direct reaction to this synthetic protein. My protein intake concerns me; now I can have more natural protein on my meals, but it isn't enough.
Now, my diet allows me to have chicken, fish, and shrimp (grilled, stewed, air fried, cooked), cooked and raw veggies, and fruits. I was allowed carbs before (just mashed potatoes though) at the puree stage, but now they're off limits since I need to focus on protein and fiber intake (I'm seriously constipated 🫠), but my dietitian says having them once in a while won't kill me.
I've been looking into some posts here and recently found a place that sells Quest protein bars here in my country. Before I jump the gun, I wanted to ask when did you start having these and what is the portion you can have? I reckon it will be just a few bites, but I want to make sure. Right now I have to take one measurement (around three tablespoons) of powdered protein once a day.

i dont know why but it seems like in every game im in, i get hardfocused by their tank. even if they were about to kill a mercy or ana or something they always seem to switch to target me, as genji. ive had a tank hold me at spawn on junkertown before, even when my team were capping the point and killing their entire team. i dont understand it...
is there any reason? is he seen as that much of a threat?
especially ramattras, they always seem to go nemesis right in front of me and chase me down when i run away.
is it a positioning issue? do i need to draw less attention to myself?

So I've had my female leopard gecko for a little over 4 years. She's been nothing but healthy and eats very well. I've changed very little about her care other (I've just expanded her diet and upgraded her to a bigger tank). But I've been worried if I need to change other things, like substrate and heating.
I've only over used a heat mat with her. It takes up just under half of the tank. I've always been scared to use heat lamps after hearing about fires starting or bulbs exploding. Am I harming her by not giving her a heat lamp?
The other thing is substrate. Right now I just use cabinet liners from the dollar tree (they are recommended in a Facebook group I'm in). They are easy to clean, cheap, and their nails don't get caught in them. But I also hear that loose substrate is best for them. But I've always been scared because the one time I tried giving her some eco earth in her humid hide, she was eating it (she doesn't try to eat the moss I normally use). Am I depriving her if enrichment opportunities?
She seems happy and healthy, climbs around and gets opportunities to explore my room and other safe parts of the house. But I constantly question my husbandry. I want her to live a long happy life.

So, I noticed my beardies has been shedding, so today I decided to let him soak for a little bit in a big mixing bowl I have. Anyways, he stated acting irratic and trashing about, then stopped to poop. Of course I took him out immediately after, but now he's laying in his tank basking under the heating lamp.

Hello Fellow Summoners!
Im a silver elo toplane main. https://www.op.gg/summoners/euw/SKT%20Khann
Im am looking for someone who would be nice enough to teach me the way of climbing with tanks. I just love it for 5 champs to hit me and still walk away alive. This past few weeks i have not really played enough ranked to say if i am in a good spot or not, so if you look at my op.gg please just scroll a bit back to the time where I was playing Cho, Sion and Shen.
Would love to have some pointers on how to improve and what to improve on. Especially in the mid/late game i feel lost. I think i know how to split, since i have played my fair share of Trynda, but with tanks you cant really do this every game.
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I dont mind you being critical, as long as its positive critique.
Thanks in advance!!

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Bangladesh police on Wednesday charged a reporter from a leading newspaper for producing "False news" after an article on high food prices went viral, stoking fears about media freedom.
The draconian Digital Security Act under which Shamsuzzaman Shams was charged has been widely used by the government to muzzle journalists and critics, rights groups say.
The reporter was charged with "Smearing the image of the government with a false news" and for raising questions on the achievements of Bangladesh, under the Digital Security Act, according to a copy of the case file obtained by AFP. The Prothom Alo article was published on Sunday and included quotes from ordinary people talking about their lives on the occasion of Bangladesh's Independence Day.
Like in other poorer nations, the cost of food has soared in Bangladesh since the middle of last year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
According to a local think tank, nearly 3 000 people have been charged under the Digital Security Act since it was enacted in 2018, including around 280 journalists.
In recent months, Bangladesh's dwindling number of independent media and journalists have come under increasing attacks by the government and Hasina's ruling party.

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Ingredients:
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 onion, diced
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 red bell pepper, diced
• 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 teaspoon oregano
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon pepper
• 1 cup long-grain white rice
• 2 cups chicken broth
• ½ pound shrimp, peeled and deveined
• ½ pound mussels, scrubbed and debearded
• ½ pound calamari, cleaned and cut into rings
• ½ cup frozen peas • ½ cup diced tomatoes
• 1 lemon, quartered
Instructions:

1. Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and garlic and cook until softened, about 5 minutes.
   
2. Add bell pepper, smoked paprika, cumin, oregano, salt, and pepper and cook for an additional 2 minutes.
   
3. Add rice and stir to combine.
   
4. Add chicken broth, cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
   
5. Add shrimp, mussels, calamari, peas, and tomatoes. Cover and cook for an additional 10 minutes.
   

Hey fellow classic lovers. So, in anticipation of the next SoM I am trying to figure out what I should play as my next main. I know I want to be alliance and play a class that can tank. I have three options then: Druid, Paladin, and Warrior. As a player that plays around his work and family (father w/kids) schedule, I am not really one that can adhere to strict gaming routine. I play when I can. Sometimes I just like to do my own thing and sometimes I like to do group content. Given the above, I know I will likely fall behind the leveling curve at the start of the new season and will spend quite a bit of time leveling on my own, possibly in precarious times (think start of phase 2 of original Classic, when 48-59 were hunted mercilessly by Horde). Given all of the above, which class should I roll?
I really like the Paladin class. I have a certain affinity for the holy warrior theme. I like self heals, casting spells, being able to give buffs, heavy armor, and big weapons. But, a lack of a solid taunt really makes tanking a chore, even with RF and BoSalv.
I like the various abilities of the druid. They seem to have a bit of everything. Being able to stealth in dangerous, contested areas is a big plus. Being able to tank is another big plus. Fast travel early on is a huge plus! But, in the end game they seem to be sub-par for pretty much every role they can fill.
I like warriors for some of the same reasons I like paladins. Unfortunately, they don’t have good self healing and they don’t have a lot of utility beyond tanking and giving an attack power buff. I love the wicked damage they are capable of later in the game both in PvP and PvE. That they are the best tanks in the end game is also great. But, I have leveled Warriors in the past and they seem to have it pretty rough all the way through to 60 (and gearing).
Just some context, I mained a Hunter in during Classic and loved it. Despite my schedule I still managed to raid up to and through BWL with a solid guild. I did some AQ40 pugs here and there when my schedule no longer permitted serious raiding. I also skipped the first SoM.
So, what do you all think? What insights can you give me? Which class should I pick?

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My husband just purchased me a 3 gallon tank so I could finally get my first betta as I always wanted. He got it from a co worker who also used it for a previous betta so I do know it's safe for one. (He was practically giving it away with extra left over filters.) I do plan to eventually upgrade to a bigger tank though as well.
Would really appreciate some helpful tips on raising one as a beginner. I still am not sure if it would be better to get a male or female and how many plants and things I should keep in the tank as hiding places for it. I did a bunch of research online but I'm sure as many of you all know google isn't always the best at getting accurate information. So I would love to get better information from the right sources. Any and all advice is welcome!
Also, I would like to know if I should add other certain fish or snails for socializing or if that's even possible in a 3 gallon tank. The only fish I have ever had was gold fish and I haven't had any of those since I was like 12 plus I raised hermit crabs at one point so I have a bit of experience when dealing with aquariums just not other types of aquatics.

i just wanna play with my homie cause i love him and i wanna know how to play with him and not kill him in the proses or make him scared. hes also kind of jumpy and gets scared of everything. how do i get him out of the tank safely?

Hi guys, not much hope with this one but I'm trying to track down a music video but I can barely remember anything about it. It's sorta indie pop and it's a white woman dancing mainly by herself in a white tank top and socks and it ends with her surrounded by people and they throw stuff over her (possibly like Holi), lots of neon colours. Bit of a similar vibe to Still Feel by half-alive.
Fairly confident it's an American artist, and I seem to remember watching the video around the same time Lawrence - Make a Move came out.

A very poor effort, see me after class.

It manifests itself on the far left and right as general hostility to big business and, more recently, to Big Tech in particular.

The right are hostile to big business?! Sen. Grassely (R-IA) the longest serving senator and about as status quo as one can get for the republican party is far right? Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is a populist?

Fortunately, the populists’ reckless drive to break up America’s most innovative and globally competitive enterprises seems to be sputtering.

Innovative and competitive american companies like checks notes tik tok:

But the marketplace for digital devices and services seems hotly competitive. In less than a decade, for example, Tik Tok, a Chinese company, has zoomed past Meta’s Instagram as the most popular social media platform for young people.

That could prove liberating for Democrats, who will never outcompete rightwing demagogues when it comes to stoking economic grievances.

What? Maybe Donald Trump's talking points but that's not mainstream party policy.

Instead, Democrats need a post-populist economics that inspires hope in America’s ability to innovate rapidly, generate abundant growth and opportunity and outpace China in the race to master frontier technologies.

What does this even mean? Big tech has had over a decade of loose monetary policy to fund unprofitable stupid shit like crypto, which they've done to an alarming degree. And it's failed, horribly. Signature, FTX, Binance, pretty sure coinbase is about to go down. Billions in wasted "innovation." SVB just got bailed out.

The bill’s defenders naturally blame their failure to get political traction on Big Tech’s formidable lobbying power. No doubt that’s a factor, but the fundamental cause is the flimsiness of their case.

Where does the funding for PPI come from again?

Unable to show how U.S. consumers are harmed financially by the services they’re eagerly snapping up from tech companies, Washington’s populists have cooked up a new antitrust theory: The digital giants are using their market power to suffocate or absorb smaller competitors.

This is a reference to the Chicago school hustle that monopolies are only harmful if it can be shown consumers paid a higher price than they would have otherwise. There are reasons to be concerned about concentration of corporate power: adverse effects from non-competing markets, worse innovation (lower quality), worse labor outcomes, undue influence on regulation and vertical pressure/integration, etc.

But the marketplace for digital devices and services seems hotly competitive. In less than a decade, for example, Tik Tok, a Chinese company, has zoomed past Meta’s Instagram as the most popular social media platform for young people.

A company backed by an authoritarian state with adverse interests to the U.S. outpaced an early player in the social media space that grew due to a moat based on network effects. How do either of these relate to competition, free markets, or the viability of small businesses?

Prices are another telltale sign. In highly concentrated markets, they tend to rise as monopolists extract “rents” from consumers who can’t find what they want elsewhere. Yet prices in the digital sector have stayed low, acting as a moderating force on the inflation that’s otherwise plaguing U.S. households.

This is because the price is subsidized by externality of forfeiting ones private information, which is not given a dollar amount. The service itself may be free, some portion funded by advertising, but the value is what the consumer gives away opaquely without compensation or effective legal oversight. Other companies are marketed as tech when they are not e.g. Tesla or Uber, which exist because they are subsidized by investors.

Although the antitrust bills raise alarms about market concentration, they are carefully tailored to hit just four U.S. tech companies: Google, Amazon, Apple and Meta. Amazon’s main rival is Walmart, an enormous company that isn’t on the antitrusters’ radar.

Yes, we should also target anti-trust for companies like Wal-Mart; that's agreeable.

Many rightwing populists have jumped on the anti-tech bandwagon for parochial political reasons. They complain that Big Tech platforms censure conservatives by banning Donald Trump’s election lies and alt-right websites trafficking in hatred and conspiracy theories.

Elon Musk bought twitter to spout his nonsense, and bring Trump back, this is a silly argument.

This is the worst possible moment to dismantle or handcuff our major tech firms, for three reasons. First, we stand on the brink of a fateful race to develop commercial applications for two transformative technologies: generative AI and quantum computing. Here the big four are followers, not leaders: ChatGPT was developed by a small laboratory, OpenAI, which is bankrolled by Microsoft and other investors.

Literally large established tech companies buying up smaller competitors because they fail to innovate. Marshall contradicts his own argument.

Second, the supposedly omnipotent Big Tech firms are shrinking rather than spreading their tentacles around the U.S. economy. They are laying off tens of thousands of workers (Meta is set to reduce its workforce by 13 percent), and their market capitalizations have tumbled.

What is this proof of exactly? Large companies have been laying off workers forever. Other, non-tech companies are laying off employees.

Third and most important, the United States is locked in a momentous competition with China for mastery of AI and other technologies that are crucial to U.S. prosperity and national security. To prevail in this global contest for “innovation power,” we’ll need some big competitors and the vibrant innovative ecosystem that surrounds them.

But you just said large companies don't innovate which is why Microsoft funded openai.

Tech’s critics raise some legitimate issues, especially around privacy, data security and mergers. But today’s techlash also reflects the lingering outrage and pessimism from the 2008-9 economic crisis, which shook public faith in the stability and fairness of America’s free enterprise system.

Why would that ever stop being a valid concern, particularly if no changes were made to address it?

On the left, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and the House “squad” of democratic socialists rail incessantly against corporate profits and capitalism’s “rigged game.” The Biden administration unwisely gave key policymaking posts to academic theorists such as Lina Khan and Tim Wu, whose antitech animus made them leftwing celebrities.

Most people don't know who either of those people are, and it's strange the left are getting tagged with Biden's own appointments; remember Biden is PPI's candidate. Both Tim Wu and Lina Khan have established credentials in their field of expertise, meanwhile this inconsistent and poorly assembled opinion piece is from regulatory expert Will Marshall who holds a bachelors in english and history and has prior work experience as a speech writer and journalist. Really your criticism is to litigate inexpert commentary on regulations? This is clown commentary.

On the right, former President Trump jettisoned the Republicans’ habitual deference to Big Business and lambasted U.S. companies for betraying working Americans by moving production abroad and backing free trade.

Trump's rhetoric doesn't match his actions, he enacted tariffs but also renegotiated NAFTA. What labor protections did he adopt?

However justified the populist backlash may have been, it offers few answers to the new economic puzzles we must solve: inflation’s return; cascading public debt; public underinvestment in the skills and career prospects of non-college youth; slow productivity and wage growth, especially in former industrial centers; and outdated regulations that strangle entrepreneurs and slow to a snail’s pace the building of new economic and clean energy infrastructure.

Not only has this commentary failed to address any of these issues in concrete terms, it hasn't even addressed the substantive effects and consequences of the legislation its referenced. Remember at the beginning of the article when you mentioned actual pieces of legislation? Never is discussed what those bills actually do. This is a think tank that generates no thoughts, this is a policy center that has no concrete commentary on policy. Not one regulation has been mentioned, one may walk away from this article with no understanding as to what these bills actually enforce, change, or regulate.

But we badly need leaders who inspire economic confidence, not despair and defeatism. Democrats should leave populist doom and gloom to Trump and his minions, and instead channel the forward-looking, optimistic and radically pragmatic spirit of Presidents Clinton, Kennedy and FDR.
After 15 years of telling Americans how bad they have it, it’s time to offer them an exciting picture of how today’s economic changes and technological advances can make our lives better. That starts by celebrating U.S. ingenuity and entrepreneurial verve, not punishing successful companies simply for getting big.

What does that have to do with anything? What does this even mean, what does any of this stupid shit mean? By his own standard FDR was a populist adopting communist policy in response to black Monday. "...celebrating U.S. ingenuity and entrepreneurial verve..." that's not a policy, that's not a piece of legislation, that's not actionable. This man is an idiot.

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First post ever on reddit here. Long story short, I was an 80's baby, and my (recently married) wife was born in the mid 90's. She has asked me to tell her about my childhood growing up with dialup and collecting gaming CD's, and there was one game that came to mind that I wanted to show her but I can't figure out for the life of me what it's called.
The game was a basic artillery game like the ones where you would shoot each other with tanks. The only thing is this was played on windows (maybe around 95/98) and instead of tanks, it had these little cute robots that looked like half circles with 2 legs (imagine R2D2, but without the body, just a head and legs). They had these big round eyes and shot cannonballs at each other. And whenever they got hit, they would say funny things like "Thank you kind sir, may I please have another?" or "I'll get you and your little dog too".