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This week we are celebrating u/ZachTheLitchKing
Zach hasn’t been with us particularly long, but they’ve definitely made an impression. The sheer number of stories they manage to write is ridiculously impressive, as is the breadth of genres they tackle both in their own original works and fanfiction. Plus they give great feedback to other members of the community. It’s been wonderful watching them grow and learn and improve in their writing since joining us here and I look forward to watching them continue to do so.
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[CW] Smash 'Em Up Sunday: WP / ShoSto EU
 

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[WP] The king has the ability to see team colors. Everyone who's working towards the same goal as a group appears to be wearing the same color, regardless of what color their clothes actually are. This makes conspiring against him really, really hard.
 
[WP] In the midst of combat, the villain watches in terror as the hero swallows an entire roast chicken, two cheese wheels, and a whole watermelon at once.
 
[WP] Every year, the richest person in the country is declared the, "Winner of Capitalism". They get a special badge, and then all their money, assets and everything that they own are donated to charity so they have to start back up again at $0.
 
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My father left me 23 years ago, and he moved to a different country and he got married and he got new son And is not allowed back into America ever since my father left me at the young age, my depression really got really really bad. I decided to message him on Facebook. All he did was blaming my mom for everything. Actually, I believe both of them for making my life hard his mother is a psychopath and they never my mom imagine your father got married and he got a new son and he has been with him for 20 years. When he send some pictures I got really emotional and sad I’m 31 years old and I was crying because of my learning disabilities. I get depressed. My dad’s family never likes me because of my disabilities. Imagine your own grandma supposed to take care of. You went to your mom’s neighborhood in California telling everybody I don’t want to have a disabled grandson

I know a good portion of this sub ARE bronies, I am mainly addressing the parents who have little girls (or boys even) who like MLP and don’t consider themselves a brony/pegasister. Thank you for not inherently having a problem with “bronies” and allowing anthro art in this sub and non-show accurate art. You guys are not pearl clutchers who think brony = clopper and have a good sense of what a brony actually is. I have even seen MLP fursuits on here and nobody threw a tantrum over a Pinkie Pie fursuit or an anthro Twilight Sparkle. You guys aren’t banning certain art styles because they make you think of the bad apples and placing that burden on the artist and calling completely SFW and harmless art “inappropriate“ because of the style its drawn in. Even if some of the parents here have seen the bad side of bronies, and by extension, furries, thank you for being tolerant and open-minded about my hobby and many others and recognizing it is just that, a hobby. Not a kink we “forcing on the fandom”.
I am saying this because a certain sub for another childrens cartoon that has amassed an large following is doing just the opposite. They are being flat-out insulting and mass downvoting any art of the characters drawn in any style they deem “furry” and throwing around the p-word and accused people of “sexualizing a childrens show” all because of an art style. Grown adults bullied and chased off several artists, one of whom was a minor. They will literally scream at ANY art styled even remotely anthro, like they just seen Cuphead and Mugman make a deal with the devil, and the few who realize this is ridiculous and defended furry artists got completely shut down and told they were “bad faith arguments”. As Applejack would say, this is a might unacceptable and I really wish the community would address it and not let a vocal minority call the sub’s shots and actually be fair to artists. The mods appeased them by banning furry artbut at least they stopped the insults and harassment.
With that being said, shoutout to MLP community for learning a very valuable friendship lesson about being tolerant about things you may disagree with and not blindly hating or cherry-picking the worst of the worst. Be well, everypony. 🧡💛💙💜💖🤍

Our 16 week old is finally able to go on walks with all shots done. Up to this point we’ve done a lot of neutral socializing like watching from cars, being carried, watching the world from our yard, sitting and watching things in public etc and he never had any reactivity toward people during this outings. Every session was just a lot of sniffing and a lot of treats and tail wags. He’s also met all the neighbors (loves them) and has played with their dogs. We’ve had friends over for board game nights a few times and he soaks up the puppy love.
With that said he’s a bit on the timid side when it comes to physically meeting something - everything new he slowly investigates, sometimes needs to back off and try again, then is fine. Or he needs to bark at it a few times first, then investigate. He’s cautious but curious, is how I’d describe his personality. We’ve started puppy classes and the instructor also noted he seems a bit timid, he didn’t want to take treats from him at first and his tail was tucked for part of it. But by the end of class he was wanting to love all over him.
We’ve only done a couple days of short walks but already he’s proven to be pretty nervous of well, everything but ESPECIALLY people, even from a good distance. If he sees a person coming he freezes like a rock, stares, if they get too close he barks/growls a little. If they seem too scary he hides under my leg. He doesn’t lunge or pull toward them so I’m not sure it’s frustration, just nervous and twitchy. Some teens were playing basketball and his hackles went up at the noise and he froze in place fixated on them.
It doesn’t sound all that threatening since he’s so young but he’s a large breed and it won’t be “cute” for very long - some passerbys have laughed at the cute puppy being tough. Nobody has tried to approach him at least (we aren’t doing on leash greetings) but he fixates until they get good distance from us.
I guess I’m just worried on how to prevent full blown reactive dog as an adult. Our last adult rescue came to us extremely dog reactive and it was so hard to deal with. I’m just looking for some help on what to do for walks. How can we break his focus when he zeroes in? With our old adult we did a lot of engage/disengage which helped, but none of our treats are high value enough to distract this pup once he freezes. I got some hot dogs to try next and hope that smell works.
It’s tricky because he starts out strong then suddenly ends it. This morning he was excited to go out and was happily exploring things until we got halfway down the road and some birds took off from a tree (startled him) and then he wanted to go home right NOW. Lunging back for the house, going crazy pulling the leash and did not care at all about me or food. Should I just let him drag me home when this happens? Try and stand still and wait it out or will that just flood him? I know you can’t reinforce fear, but I also worry letting him drag me away might teach him to bolt on a leash when he’s nervous? He will eventually be big enough to drag me down doing that.

Hello.. I dumped him because I didn’t feel the most secure with him… we’ve dated for a very long time.. while I know he loved me and was for me.. his trauma and hurt from his past caused him to be very guarded..
He loves me deeply and has been everything for me.. a lover, a protector, he’s been by my side in many aspects of my life.. our chemistry is unmatched… both intimately and spiritually.. physically and mentally..
I left him because as he said he was finally starting to heal as I helped him with that.. I was just tired…
So the thing is.. I broke up with him… and he respected the boundaries of that.. gave me some space.. didn’t call unless I reached out etc.. I was left conflicted and didn’t know what to do.. reaching out to him only hurt him more and it was selfish.. during this time within a two month period I used sex to cope with not having his presence.. I wanted to forget the pain and it made me feel worse.. and empty.. I had 4 different partners…
While I was doing this me and my ex were connecting more.. he was telling me how he was able to focus on his happiness and loving himself more as well as the appreciation of his healing etc… and I felt that energy from him..
The issue that I face is he wasn’t intimate during this time… and when we reconnected I told him I slept with 4 people… This absolutely devastated him.. as he says his resolve was to become better in hopes we’d reconnect… and during the break up he said he would have questions should we ever revisit this.. I told him I understand…
I don’t want to lose him… we’ve talked many times since.. it all feels so natural talking to him… but he does have moments where he asks very personal questions… men I’m sure you know what I’m talking about… those questions… a lot of them.. he wants to know everything… the thing is I told him I want him more than anything I love him.. I need his presence… I feel I could fall in love with him and again and again…
But he can’t seem to look past this.. it eats at him all the time… which is fair.. he is entitled to how he feels… he doesn’t even know if he can touch or be in bed with me… in the future.. I’ve allowed myself to become vulnerable again.. I worry if he will sleep with someone else…. But he’s also told me that he can’t bring himself to do it because it wouldn’t be of moral intent.. he feels trapped by his heart because of his love for me..
how do I make him feel more secure… Also.. for clarity we aren’t actively together.. we are taking things very slow out of the consideration for eachother..

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Hey everyone! Making my first post of the summer. Now that I’m free from the chains of college, you should expect to hear from me more until med school sinks its teeth in!
Just the other day, I was talking to a friend who is going through the MCAT gauntlet. He just finished up content review and was letting me know he’s freaking out because he’s getting destroyed by Urmom’s questions… Extremely distressing, I know.
This is one component of my experience I’d completely forgotten; however, his story brought the memories back in full force. After a couple months of excruciatingly thorough content, I jumped into practice problems expecting to sail through them. Needless to say, that is NOT what happened. Sure, I’d get the occasional 100% on a 10 or 15 question set, but more often, I found myself running out of time and getting <50% correct. I was panicking.
Later, I found out my mentor had referred to this as the “existential phase” of MCAT prep because it’s the moment when you’ve put in an unbelievable amount of time and feel you should be dominating but find you’re still scoring similarly to how you performed on your diagnostic. This does NOT mean you’ve wanted the time though!!! Instead, it means you’ve laid a strong foundation but still need to build the house on top of it.
My best advice: Try not to freak out!! Building the house will be way easier now that you have solid ground to stand on.
A few more tips:

1. Do questions in short sets: The purpose here is to facilitate frequent review. You can build stamina later when you’re doing full lengths. Right now, your goal is to review the things you don’t know and gain understanding of how topics will be tested.
2. Review THOROUGHLY: This means reviewing all the questions (not just the ones you got wrong). Don’t just read the explanations though. You need to take notes on your primary takeaways from each question. Ask yourself why your answer was wrong. Where did you go wrong logically? And how is the correct answer addressing that issue? TAKE NOTES on these points,
3. Avoid the temptation to be overly thorough: If you’re like me, point #2 isn’t much a challenge, and can actually turn into your enemy. Early on, I would find myself spending hours reviewing 10 or 20 question sets. Useful? Sure. But viable/sustainable? Not at all. Trust that you will remember things and know that you will see these concepts again on other questions and during content re-review (next point). You should take notes, but don’t take more than 2-4 bullet points per question. Don’t screen shot practice questions. You can come back to those later! You should be thorough, but don’t let perfection become the enemy of progress.
4. Re-review content: If you notice trends over time when reviewing (like you always miss titration questions) then write those trends down and plan 1-3 days per week where you spend time going back over content that is killing you. I was fortunate to have someone do this part for me, but even if you’re prepping alone, you can pay attention to trends in your questions and set aside intentional time each week to cover those topics. Notice I’m not saying to cover the topics in that moment: This will lead you to fall victim of point #3!
5. Time yourself: It’s tempting to do the questions untimed when you’re starting out. I think there is a time and place for untimed questions, but you should make sure these are the exception rather than the rule. The MCAT is going to be timed, so it’s best to start practicing with this constraint early!

Final tip: Keep your head up! Everyone gets dominated by Urmom early on (she’s a beast of a woman). If you’re just getting started on practice problems you’re probably not even half way into your prep process yet. Know that you have a long way to go and that past and current learning will make you more efficient later on. I was scoring in the low 5-teens halfway in, and I ended up getting a 527 on the MCAT. The majority of the progress happens in the second half. You just need to make it there!
Stay focused and stay the course!

This happened a few hours ago so it’s still quite fresh and I may be overthinking it.
It’s a really lovely day so we decided to take our 4 month old pup for a nice walk near a bridleway by a river. No motor-powered transport are meant to go in this area - it’s nice, quiet and you can enjoy a little bit of nature.
Suddenly we hear this huge loud noise coming in our direction and quickly scoop up our puppy after seeing a dirt bike I suppose come in our direction. They stopped right in front of us, revved the bike a few times and drove off.
Our pup was super scared (can’t blame him!) and it was extremely hard to settle him. We cut the trip short and came home because he was literally so stressed out. We had been working extremely hard on slowly exposing him to areas of high traffic and he was perfectly comfortable at this stage.
However, this was quite a scary and loud incident - even I was shocked but we tried to stay calm for the puppy. We came home and he still wasn’t himself, every time there was an out of the ordinary noise, even if not loud, he was on full alert and just kept sitting between our feet.
He’s now having a nap and I’m planning to take him out to the park for 10-15 mins just to make sure he has an outside experience that is positive post-incident but I’m worried about how this will affect him long-term as he is/was quite a confident little puppy and I’m worried he’ll start being afraid of all noises.
What is the likelihood of this happening? And if it does happen, what steps would you recommend taking?

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If you've pursued alternative paths beyond academia and pharma, I'd love to hear about your experiences and the exciting directions your mass spectrometry training has taken you. Whether you've ventured into entrepreneurship, forensic analysis, environmental sciences, or any other captivating domain, your insights can be invaluable.
If you have a moment, I'd appreciate your input on the following questions:

1. What career paths have you pursued with your mass spectrometry training, apart from academia and pharma?
2. Which industries or sectors have you found particularly exciting or fulfilling?
3. How has your mass spec background contributed to your new career ventures?
4. Were there any challenges or opportunities you encountered while transitioning into these alternative paths?
5. Any advice for those exploring different career options within the mass spectrometry field?

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I messed up video: - we got Morse code from a blinking light in the background of this video. This then was translated to "Are you awake Eve?" This could relate to Dr. Evelyn Mercer, as her name began with Eve.
863 Bloopers video: - during the confrontation scene blooper, Ben is going over the numbers that he says during his breakdown when Matt says they are the wrong numbers: 2, 3, 4, 6, 50, 9, 26, 10, 41. - these numbers correlated to timestamps during the video. (2:34, 6:50, etc) - the time stamps showed hidden messages that were part of a riddle: “characters and Digits, In a cryptic dance thEy weave, they form a binding tether, joining realms that nOne can leave. A portaL locked, precision is the key to open wide, Revealing tales of movement, where VisUals coincide. What am I?” - some letters in this riddle are capitalised: D I E O A L R V U - this was then decrypted to spell: A VIDEO URL
You laugh you get shot video: - at the end of the video was a recommended unlisted video called: =RG
AI recreates movie characters video: - very end of the video showed these letters: Z O B X
AI wrote an episode of Project 863 video: - the AI randomly finished a sentence with: rghm%* (at 5:38)
I have yet to check for anything in any of the more recent videos after the AI writes an episode of Project 863 video, but so far it seems we have parts of the video URL that we are supposed to be getting together. If there is anything I am missing please let me know.
SUMMARY: - "Are you awake Eve?" - A VIDEO URL - =RG - Z O B X - rghm%*

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Hey everyone, I’m really at my wits end, I’ve tried to research as much as I could but I could really use some help at this point in the process..
Objective:
I’m basically trying to build a NAS to:

1. put all my data (currently on a bunch of 2.5” externals), and have it be something me and my family can access over the internet. Primarily movies and tv shows, PLEX / jellyfin server, but also as a network drive for file access for photos and docs
2. I would also like to be able to do things like run a torrent client on the NAS remotely, to download files, but also to seed, as i don’t have a desktop
3. maybe have it transcode media before serving it if that’s possible? (the movies can be up to 60gig remuxes, and the devices accessing them will be basic laptops and TVs) - low priority
4. I’d also probably want to run a virtual machine on it, but i haven’t done any further research on what that would entail.

Tentative build:

1. Processor - Intel I5 12400
2. Motherboard - ASRock Z690 Steel Legend Motherboard
3. Ram - Corsair vengeance lpx OR Patriot Memory Viper Steel; both DDR4 64GB (2 x 32GB) 3200 - 3600MHz
4. Cabinet - Silverstone CS380 ATX Mid Tower Case SST-CS380B - this is one of the only ones with 8 HDD bays in the front - hot swappable
5. Graphics - currently nothing, just the integrated intel 730, but thinking of the GTX 1050 if you feel it’ll be required
6. HDDs: 2-4 to start with, but eventually 8x 20TB WD Ultrastar HDDs
7. OS - FreeNas, with a windows VM if feasible
8. PSU - HELP - I’ve basically modelled this as a DIY version of the Qnap TVS h874 with a better motherboard and more ram.. the Qnap only uses a 250W power supply but I’m thinking this is nowhere near enough?

Questions / Issues:

1. How important is ECC Ram? Not sure how much of it is marketing and how much is legit… I‘ve read that it isn’t supported on intel consumer Level chipsets and processors, but that it is on AMD… is it worth going back to the drawing board to see what i can build with AMD instead just for this support? It will likely be a fair bit more expensive for an equivalent config (~$100 or so) - I live in india so while i have access to parts, prices can vary wildly.
2. How do i figure out whether my motherboard can support SAS? I can shortlist by 6Gb/s SATA ports, but nothing specified on SAS.. will i need a separate Pcle card or something? The cabinet supports SAS HDDs, but i can’t figure out how to check if any of the motherboards can.
3. Follow up - will SAS be worth it on my setup? What kind of performance increase can i expect? The mobo has 1x 2.5G Ethernet port
4. Is one 2.5G ethernet port enough? I know i can add another vie Pcle, but they’re pretty expensive, i think a 10G expansion slot costs as much as my processor :/
5. For the love of god, someone help me choose a PSU, I’m lost AF .. is it enough if i just filter by number of SATA drives it can power (8) and leave it at that? What wattage will i need? I’d like to plan ahead and include power for a graphics card (GTX 1050 or similar), but other than that nothing.
6. what filesystem do i use? I‘ve read that ZFS is great, but can i use ext4? The only reason I’m considering this is because of what i saw on the Qnap QTS os - the ability to add HDDs to the pool afterwards - I wont be able to afford all 8 drives at once, I’d ideally like to start with 2 and build my way up from there, but with ZFS that isn’t an option unless i create raid1 pools or something.. is ext4 and the addition of drives to the pool even an option with freeNAS?
7. How real is the strain or stress involved in re-creating a pool in the event of a single drive failure? A lot of videos on the subject make it sound like the stress involved in recreating the pool can in itself cause another drive to fail … is this actually likely or more like a small possibility? Additionally, will a raid5 on a 8x array put more stress / likelihood of failure than a raid 5 on a 4x array? Basically, does increasing the size of the (single) pool from 4 to 8 make raid5 an unwise choice? I’m maybe considering (very very $$) starting out with 1 pool of 4 in raid5 and then adding another pool of 4 in raid5 in a year or so, making 2x pools of 4x drives in raid5.. $ aside, would this be better, worse, or equivalent to 8 drives in raid6?
8. How many additional NVMe / SATA SSDs do i need? I’ve read people talking about not just boot drives, but also cache drives and arch(?).. can someone please recommend how much of each I’ll need, and what this arch? type is? Can i get a larger one and partition it, or do I have to use different physical drives?
9. Is Unraid a better choice than freenas?

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PLEASE feel free to tweak / modify my proposed build, I’m not really married to any of this and its been more than a decade since i built a PC.. cost is a factor but i also want this to be something i don’t have to touch for at least a few years, so please let me know what you think
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Thanks in advance, I’m in your hands!

I ( 28 F) waited for him ( 36 M) all day and the next day and the next ... with my champagne glasses that I painted myself to welcome him back home and for his new accomplishments and got him everything he needed to feel taken care of like we used to and his fave homemade granola! Then he ignored my message asking him if he got here safe.. nothing. After 5 days I was sick worried even though he had been online several times. I understand if there was a change of plans ( that he specifically said he did not have at all) but perhaps letting me know through text would have been more than enough to show a little respect ? Then last night he told me he doesn't think I am good enough for the exciting plans that he has in the future (yes exact words). He said he was fine but '' thought about it and will be traveling for work to the most famous and important cities around the world '' and that he will probably find someone else anyway just like I ''should ''. Okay that's cool... but where tf did that come from ? I don't care about the absolutely fabulous reason you have to ghost and dump me it's more like the attitude and arrogance. It is completely valid and natural that people change but why did you make me believe we had a future together for 6 years and told me in a such a careless and offensive way ? I can barely catch my breath and move it is a very heavy amount of pain that I am still trying to process. I am numb and overwhelmed with the pain I can barely describe it. I feel so embarrassed about booking places and just to cancel last min or losing the tickets and also getting charged it was just a mess, that's the last thing I care about at the moment with all this overwhelming pain though. Any grammar corrections are welcomed btw I am feeling very weak right now sorry I tried to sound kind of clear. I told him I love him and to always stay safe and healthy at the end oh well.. it made me feel ok tho. Blessings to y'all

There is a rule at my larp that you must use paper clips to pick locks. My issue is that they are a bit flimsy, small and hard to hold. Any ideas on how I can make a nice comfortable handle? I am thinking sugru but I wanted to see if anyone had any options.

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Hello everyone,
I have an issue that is bothering me and I am hoping someone can help me. I am having water drops falling from my evaporator coil down inside the air intake box randomly. I am saying randomly because it does not always do this when the air conditioner is running. The water droplets dripping are also not falling in a single spot but scattered. It is not a lot of water however it is enough that I am concerned.
Background:
2021 I had home's A/C system replaced with a Trane unit. This was a whole system replacement (inside and outside).
I live in central Florida
The air filter is located on the air vent cover instead of under the the opening of the evaporator coils on this model. I have never had an ac designed like this but was told at the time of installation it will allow the changing of the filter to be easier.
System was service a few months ago and paid to have a diagnostics done at that time. (No clogged drains, the water is dripping outside fine, the coils are not frozen, no visual issues were found.)
The house is cooling without any problems.
There are no water leaks that can be seen around the bottom of the unit itself.
Technician feedback: The coolant looked low about a pound or two. (Note I later had someone check the ac coolant levels and the system is in the green this is not the issue.) Fan may need to be increased in power (he was not able to make the adjustment while there). Suggest a leak test be done which I have been putting off just due to the funds.
In the mean while I have put puppy pads down on the bottom of the intake box and weighed them down for when the random water drops fall they do not wet the installation in the air intake box.
I also timed the how long the fan ran after the outside unit shut down and it was approx. a minute.
Can anyone provide me with any insight to this issue. My brother and I have been talking and he is wondering if it is a fan timing issue (not running long enough after the outside unit stops to pull all the water into the drain pan.) Our second guess is it is not a ac issue but normal humidity condensation that is usually not seen. Due to the location of the filter being typically under the coils and not like this unit which is on the vent itself. Again this issue does not happen every time the ac is running and is more like to happen during high humidity days I have notice.
Thank you for your time and feedback.

Hey all, I'm a student (I know). I went into it genuinely enjoying the practice and the pace of retail as a guide for it and I've grown to love it in a weird masochistic way. The rant flag might seem odd for the title, but trust me it's coming. I had to get all this off my chest, apologies if it's not really as coherent as it can be. This does pertain to jobs and not school, but the majority of this word wall is job-related.
I've been at WAGs for the last few years as a tech and an intern. I love my WAGs, it's one of the small rite-aid conversions without a drive through and low script volume. I've been in super high volume stores as well, in different parts of the country. I have had other jobs as well, this is not my only experience, I know what it's like outside of the awful hour-cutting and metric-driven environments. I just like retail I guess. I don't mind putting in work to earn my money and it keeps me busy enough to not get bored.
I also really don't want to do a residency for various reasons. It seems like a rat race to MAYBE get an inpatient job with the right connections and experience and publications and everything. It's not like I'm not qualified to get one either, my GPA is near-perfect, I have a few publications (mainly inorganic chemistry related from prior, but I know the process), and I really have a good memory for guidelines and practices. I've taken every elective possible for ID, so if a PGY2 is ever on the table, it would be in ID. I like the problem-solving nature of it. The academia just doesn't bring me joy. I already got into a great program at a great school, there's just too much creep to justify it to spend the next two years of my life working at minimum wage to potentially get a position at an institution for less money than retail would pay, but I get to sit in a silent room all day with 4 other people. I also hate journal clubs with all of my being. I don't want to doxx myself, but my school's program heavily leans into clinical roles and is pretty competitive already. I enjoy looking deep into patient histories and avoiding/discontinuing polytherapy as I can while also finding the little mini details for optimization.
I always figured by the time that I graduate, I'd have about 7-8 years of experience at said company and I'd come into a pharmacist position with probably that sign-on bonus, a decent salary, and good seniority/vacation compared to other new grads. Worst case scenario, I graduate, I stick with it for two years, keep that bonus, and then move on to greener, maybe easier pastures to start a family and have other things once loans are paid off within a few years of getting out. I'll be aggressively paying this loan with as few and as cheap outside expenditures as I can at this time. The concept of floating and the DIY scheduling does not bother me.
Regardless, I've had a few rotations over at the VA, and I've absolutely hated it every time. It looks like incredibly boring, tedious, WFH, uninspiring guideline-humping work with other people who are more preoccupied with their journal club, snacking on whole foods all day, copy/pasting confusing template at light speed, and salivating at the chance to tell me I'm wrong or doing bad at something than actually read into patient charts and find genuine (sometimes apparent) issues. As a student, this process generally involves filling out worksheets and odd prompts while looking over a preceptor's shoulder and being afraid to ask questions on why the VA cuts typical guidelines or why certain strange guidelines exist there. I had a preceptor yell at me in a room full of people for sending a text involving scheduling on a Monday evening (like 7pm?), outside of undefined work hours. I had another preceptor who insisted on working from home every day and would complain to me on how I made them hire a dog walker for the 5 hours I needed to get in that day. It wasn't successful often, but it's always the student's fault for lack of scheduling I guess.
The VA has different, less stringent guidelines for everything it seems, it's a little hard to keep up with. It's not a welcoming environment, and it's academically and personally defeating, even if I know the content. I know my experience is different than the usual, and maybe I just got a bad VA to be in, but it left a bad taste in my mouth for the aforementioned reasons.
I had an IPPE rotation at a Kroger and a small hospital, both were excellent. They both loved me and I liked the environments. Kroger was my favorite of the two. I am convinced it is not me that is is the issue overall.
However, the potential for government benefits (pension, loan forgiveness, other niceties) gives me a little bit of FOMO. I've considered military pharmacy, but I don't think it would be the best match as in my free time I want to just live a peaceful and normal, and fulfilling life.
This led me to the title question: are there government outpatient jobs that are lesser-known and pushed other than inpatient or ambulatory care at the VA? I enjoy patient interaction, cold calls aren't my favorite activity to do, and research may interest me but I feel I'm too far along to make the decision into it to start building connections to jump in right after graduation. I would like to be in a suburban/rural leaning location so I can be the best help to my patients to help them get what they need. I want to help people directly and I want to get fairly compensated for what I will do, just wondering if there's a couple lesser-known unicorn government jobs to maybe dive into a little bit. I don't need to make the most money or be pampered, or to be the greatest story ever told: I just want a happy life with a fulfilling way of helping those who need it.
I love you all, I love this subreddit, and I appreciate the wealth of knowledge y'all can bring to a confused and frustrated student. Thank you.

Edit: This is a shitpost, please don't take it too seriously
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And I'm she's not smelly either.
There are a lot of people online who talk and joke about Asa being a femcel, and they are wrong, it's honestly insulting. A lot of people here don't actually know what a femcel is and are just repeating bad jokes without thinking, they should really stop talking before they think, it's annoying.
A femcel isn't just a girl who is alone a lot and doesn't have a boyfriend (or other partner, I support the LGBTQ+ community), that's completely different. It has more to do with their attitude towards it. Real femcels are very bitter about not having a boyfriend, and really want one above anything else. That doesn't fit Asa at all, she only started seriously thinking about it with Denji when she thought she got an opportunity (And then he fucking stood me up, I can't believe I fell for that, must be the hormones). Before that having a boyfriend was just another afterthought in her mind, something she vaguely wanted in the future along with regular friends, not something she constantly thinks about!
Femcels are also misandristic. And Asa has never shown something like that, she treats people equally. The only thing that might fit that is my her comment about only needing to show Denji a fraction of a good time to seduce him, but that was just because of her poor social skills, and she learned she was wrong there.
In conclusion, Asa does not show enough typical femcel traits to really be called one, and the meme has completely warped some people's understanding of her character.
And what's with all the jokes about her being smelly? Have you seen her apartment? It's completely clean and orderly. And she's an orphan! She clearly spends a lot of time on her hygiene. Asa's hygiene is perfectly fine, unlike that weirdo Denji, he really should wash his clothing more. Or maybe I was just smelling the fish in the aquarium? We were stuck there for three days, oh, I shouldn't be judging so soon.
Anyways, the association people here have between autism and being smelly is really odd. It might just be a joke sometimes but it never stays at that, and some people seem to be using it interchangably, forgetting that autism is a real condition that people (also on this subreddit) have. People in should think about what they more.
That's a problem with society in general, where social rules and things like that are completely arbitrary and unclear, and even then people don't uphold them a lot of the time! (like that creep Tanaka)