Going thru a tough time and job transition, had to put up a lot of money for onboarding, professional liability insurance, etc.
I have $1800 coming to me on 6/14 and just need something to bridge the gap if possible. I'm out of cash and really having a hard time even getting gas in my car.
I can submit proof of this pending transaction and/or recent paystubs (Am a physical therapist with Doctorate degree, just lost a lot of money due to Hurricane Ian's aftermath and a family tragedy.
But I started 1 job this week and have another side-job starting next week as well.
Thanks!

Hello all. Possibly looking to get my first Jeep. I’m interested in this 2011 Wrangler Sahara with 135k miles. Price is $13k usd.
Mostly just wondering is this a good price? Should I look at it or avoid it like the plague and why? If it’s not a good price what would be?
I’ve never had a jeep and I’ve been trying to do some research. Figured you guys would know best. Thanks
https://www.tradeguruonline.com/vdp/20080188/Used-2011-Jeep-Wrangler-Unlimited-4WD-4dr-Sahara-for-sale-in-Venice-FL-34285

Hello all. Possibly looking to get my first Jeep. I’m interested in this 2011 Wrangler Sahara with 135k miles. Price is $13k usd.
Mostly just wondering is this a good price? Should I look at it or avoid it like the plague and why? If it’s not a good price what would be?
I’ve never had a jeep and I’ve been trying to do some research. Figured you guys would know best. Thanks
https://www.tradeguruonline.com/vdp/20080188/Used-2011-Jeep-Wrangler-Unlimited-4WD-4dr-Sahara-for-sale-in-Venice-FL-34285

Hello all. Possibly looking to get my first Jeep. I’m interested in this 2011 Wrangler Sahara with 135k miles. Price is $13k usd.
Mostly just wondering is this a good price? Should I look at it or avoid it like the plague and why? If it’s not a good price what would be?
I’ve never had a jeep and I’ve been trying to do some research. Figured you guys would know best. Thanks
https://www.tradeguruonline.com/vdp/20080188/Used-2011-Jeep-Wrangler-Unlimited-4WD-4dr-Sahara-for-sale-in-Venice-FL-34285

I have three bags of medium Crinklz, all still unopened. I got a case of mediums because I was a medium the last time I wore them, but I've since gained some weight and can't really fit in them anymore :/
Ideally I'd like to trade these for a similar amount of diapers that would fit me, either large Crinklz or something similar. PM or comment if interested!

Usually I’m a “multiple a day sales” seller, or at least a couple offers or messages at the least -last two weeks it feels like my account has been shutdown? Anyone else in the same boat? or does Grailed have it out for me? Hardly anything anymore, is Grailed dead folks?

Had an order pop a bit ago, a double McDonald's orde, $9.25 for 3 miles. 5 sec after I accepted, I get a call gtom "DoorDash" no space between, and it was a FL number.
They tell me "Hey, you accepted an order for 'James' right? That order is canceled, so I'll walk you through the cancelation process"
As he's talking I get to McDonald's and park. I acted like I didn't hear him and tell him to repeat what he said. He repeated it then said "Ok, I need to verify your phone number on your account"
I had to sigh and just said "Well, that's not a doordash numberand you're bad at this, nice try" and hung up.
5 second later I get a message from 'James' on doordash: "This order has been canceled"
I ignore it and pick up from McDonald's. Both orders are accounted for, so I grab em.
The order for 'James' is a small premium roast coffee.
That's 3 strikes so far that it's an obvious scam.
I contact support and verified that both orders are still active. They verified that they are.
I head out to deliver, and lo and behold, I get to the address. Out front of the house is a sign "Sale Pending". Clearly nobody lives there.
I get to the porch and see another McDonald's bag already there. The receipt on the bag says "1 small premium roast", so it seems they tried to get someone else earlier.
Dropped it, took picture, got paid.
Just waiting for the CV to show up now.

A bloodthirsty Warmonger of Spanish descent, Vela quickly rose through the ranks of the Order of Horkos thanks to her ruthlessness, her cunning mindset and her bombastic flair. Through sheer determination, Vela proved herself a pack leader – a wolf among wolves. This won her the attention of Astrea. When the esteemed Horkos leader heard outlandish tales of an empire of gold on the other side of the world, she couldn’t pass up the opportunity to fill her war chests. It mattered little that the veracity of this legend was uncertain. Astrea asked Vela to lead a convoy of ships across the sea, and the latter didn’t hesitate to accept. This was her chance to prove herself, to earn Astrea’s favor – maybe even become second-in-command.
Vela and her company were gone for months. But one stormy day, they returned, clad in new golden armors and draped in capes of red – the colors of their triumph. The traveling warriors disembarked their ships and stepped foot on the shores of Heathmoor as something else: Conquistadors. Vela had succeeded in her task. She had found the empire of gold, and she had decimated it, bringing back its treasures along with her. She and her fellow Conquistadors told grand tales of their heroic conquest, casting themselves as valiant, conquering heroes. But the real story of what had happened in the New World was a much darker affair…
The wind pressed hard against her. But she pushed back, a force of nature of her own. The ship rose and fell with every motion of the waves, each bigger and taller than the last, but she kept her balance, her feet guided by years of expertise. A long-haired marauder rushed towards her, a rusted sword in one hand and a knife in the other. What her opponent lacked in finesse, they made up in sheer strength and intensity. This was someone used to striking fear into the hearts of ordinary men. A man, she wasn’t. And certainly not ordinary. She was a Warmonger. She was Vela. And now, she was known as something else. Conquistador.
So why did she feel such a rushing sensation?
Something that was, in her heart, almost crippling. Thankfully, she brushed it off just in time and avoided the oncoming attack. She didn’t even turn back to see the backwards thrust of her sword stab right through the marauder’s chest. Then, she lopped his head off with a mighty swing, and it was on to the next.
A battle was raging on across the deck of the Domitor, the ship she had called home ever since she left Heathmoor six months ago. Her fellow Conquistadors, men and women she had come to depend on as her crew, all locked in battle against dozens of sea marauders. Their boat was just as massive as hers, and it was nearly at arm’s length. These marauders were perhaps not organized, but they had a system. They were used to this sort of attack, and had used the storm as an advantage to get close. But already, the Domitor’s canon fire was plastering the enemy ship with damage it would never recover from. Wood splintered and caught fire, burning a vivid red against the charcoal-colored clouds. Flames the rain wouldn’t put out. Soon their attackers would all be dead, and they could resume their course back to Heathmoor.
But while she was already looking forward to her glorious return home, Conquistador Vela had to focus on the here and now. A horrendous scream came from the left – from one of her own. She turned to see two blades sticking out of a body that had been raised overhead by a hulking brute. The dead Conquistador was thrown overboard. Vela’s only concern was for the loss of their armor. The gold it had been forged with was priceless. Irreplaceable. What a waste.
Without even skipping a beat, the massive marauder let out a vicious roar that silenced the lightning’s thunder before kicking a door down – the door that led directly to the ship’s bowels. And the prize that lay below.
It appeared word had traveled fast. This was no random attack. These marauders knew what the Conquistadors had done. What they had destroyed. And what they had taken.
Vela yelled out, once again pushing back a strange sensation of fear. She had been through too much to lose it now. After all the lives she had killed, all the atrocities she had committed, she couldn’t risk losing what meant the most to her. The crown jewel of her victory. Her golden key. With it, there would be no denying her resolve, her commitment, her grandeur. With it, she would be hailed as the greatest warrior in the ranks of Horkos. A savior, a provider, and a conqueror. With it, she would be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with Astrea herself.
But for that to happen, the prize needed to stay alive.
With haste, she ran towards the brute, her golden armor heavy on her shoulders. Her sword stabbed the marauder right through the shoulder, but her opponent’s strength didn’t waver in the slightest. Using all her weight, she pulled back and down. The enemy swung a heavy punch that she avoided at the last possible moment. This gave her the opening she needed: with a hard kick, she broke the brute’s knee. Then, with a swift motion, Vela removed her sword from his shoulder, planted it upright into the wooden deck and grabbed the marauder’s head, grating their face down the blade until it was nothing but an unrecognizable, bloodied mess.
Wiping the blood away from the blade with her cape, Conquistador Vela walked to the edge of the Domitor just in time to see the enemy ship collapse into the water. Her ship had, once again, lived up to its name. And she had lived up to hers.
And soon, all of Heathmoor would know it.

I wanted to share this utility guide before the release of Set 9. Please let me know if there are any edits I should make. I'll attach the most up to date Google Doc version here. I hope this helps!

Set 9 Utility Guide

Hi, I'm Irukanoko, and this is my analysis of Set 9's utility in terms of champion abilities, items, and synergies. This guide focuses on TFT aspects beyond just physical and magic damage stats. While the guide does not incorporate this set's augments, they can also be applied to the categories listed below.

Utility Overview

Armor

Champions

• Gwen = every X casts gains armor for X seconds
• Irelia = Ionia Bonus grants armor
• Nasus = active steals X% defenses from nearest enemies

Items

• Protector’s Vow
• Bramble Vest
• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Titan’s Resolve

Synergies

• Demacia = grants armor to themselves and adjacent allies
• Juggernaut = damage reduction

Armor Penetration (Sunder: Reduced Armor by X%)

Champions

• Nasus = active steals % defenses from nearest enemies
• Samira = active reduces enemy armor
• Vi = active AOE Sunders

Items

• Last Whisper

Magic Resist

Champions

• Gwen = every 3 casts gains magic resist for some seconds
• Irelia = Ionia Bonus grants magic resist
• Nasus = active steals X% defenses from nearest enemies

Items

• Dragon’s Claw
• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Titan’s Resolve

Synergies

• Bastion
• Demacia = grants Magic Resist to themselves and adjacent allies
• Juggernaut = damage reduction

Magic Penetration (Shredded: Reduced Magic Resist by X%)

Champions

• Kayle level 6 = launches wave that shreds enemies
• Lux = active reduces target’s magic resist every second
• Nasus = active steals X% defenses from nearest enemies

Items

• Ionic Spark
• Statikk Shiv

Shield

Champions

• Irelia = active gains rapidly decaying shield
• Kassadin = active gains shield
• Kled = passive combat start with shield
• Orianna = active grants lowest health ally shield
• Poppy = active gains shield
• Sejuani = active gains shield
• Senna = active fires a massive beam, any allies hit gain shield
• Shen = active shields 2 lowest health allies
• Taric = active gains shield
• Urgot = active gains shield
• Vi = active gains shield

Items

• Locket of the Iron Solari

Synergies

• Strategist = allies in front 2 rows gain shield
• Shadow Isles = after dealing or receiving damage X times, Shadow Isles units gain a Shield for X seconds
• Targon = your shielding is increased

Shield Counter

Champions

• Malzahar = active opens two portals destroying % shield of all enemies caught between them

Items

• Guardbreaker

Healing

Champions

• Aatrox = active gains X omnivamp
• Ekko = active heals X% of damage taken in last 4 seconds
• Galio = active heals for X over some seconds
• Maokai = active heals
• Rek’Sai = active heals if it kills target
• Renekton = active heals for enemies hit
• Soraka = active heals lowest health ally
• Warwick = passive heals

Items

• Hextech Gunblade
• Bloodthirster
• Redemption
• Hand of Justice

Synergies

• Slayer = gain X% omnivamp, doubled against units below X% health
• Frejlord = enemies gain debuffs for X seconds
• Shurima = every X seconds, Shuriman heal X% max Health. After X seconds, select Shuriman ascend and gain X% max Health
• Targon = your healing is increased
• Darkin (Aatrox) = Darkin Blade equipped to nearest ally granting X% Omnivamp
• Empress (Bel’Veth) = Void Coral consumed heals % max Health
• Yasuo = Ionia Bonus gives omnivamp

Healing Counter (Wounded: Reduced healing received by 50%)

Champions

• Cassiopeia = active wounds target
• Katarina = active wounds AOE
• Teemo = active wounds AOE

Items

• Morellonomicon

Bonus Mana

Champions

• Ahri = Ionia Bonus gives mana per second
• Maokai = passive gains mana whenever enemy casts

Items

• Spear of Shojin
• Blue Buff

Synergies

• Invoker

Mana Reave: Increase max Mana until the next cast

Champions

• Ahri = active mana reaves target’s nearby enemies

Items

• Shroud of Stillness

Synergies

• Frejlord = enemies gain debuffs for X seconds

Stun

Champions

• Heimerdinger = active hurls a grenade and stuns large area
• Jarvan IV = active leaps on nearby enemy and stuns enemies within 2 hexes
• K’Sante = active knocks up target and knocks them back to the edge of the board, enemies hit during the knock back are also stunned
• Lissandra = active stuns
• Poppy 4 star = active knocks target into largest clump of enemies and stuns everyone hit
• Sett = active pulls up to 2 enemies and stuns
• Sion = active charges towards enemy cluster and stuns anyone hit
• Taliyah = active knocks up current target
• Warwick = active stuns adjacent enemies
• Yasuo active whirlwind stuns all enemies hit

Stun Counter

Items

• Quicksilver

Bonus Attack Speed

Champions

• Jayce = active grants attack speed to him and adjacent allies
• Sona = ability active sends a wave of sound, allies hit gain attack speed
• Tristana = ability active gains attack speed

Items

• Zeke’s Herald
• Guinsoo’s Rageblade
• Rapid Fire Cannon
• Edge of Night
• Zephyr

Synergies

• Redeemer (Senna) = passive whenever an ally gains shield, grant X% stacking attack speed
• Challenger = bonus attack speed given and increased after target dies
• Shurima = after X seconds, select Shuriman ascend and gain X% attack speed
• Yordle = allies gain attack speed per star level

Attack Speed Counter (Chill: Reduced Attack Speed by X%)

Champions

• Ashe = active chills enemies hit
• Orianna = ability when shield expires chill adjacent enemies
• Sejuani = active chills nearby enemies
• Kassadin = active disarms enemies (Disarm: Cannot move or attack, but CAN cast spells)

Bonus Health

Champions

• Cho’Gath = if active kills target, gain permanent max health
• Nasus = active steals % max health
• Swain = active he transforms gaining temporary max health

Items

• Sunfire Cape
• Warmog’s Armor

Synergies

• Bruiser
• Noxus = gain health, increased by X% for each unique opponent defeated or dead
• Darkin (Aatrox) = Darkin Blade equipped to nearest ally granting X health
• Empress (Bel’Veth) = first Void Coral increases max health by X%
• Void = void champion’s star level increases unspeakable horror’s health

Bonus Health Counter

Champions

• Kled 4 star = passive executes enemies below X% health
• Nasus = ability active steals X% max health
• Zeri = ability passive executes enemies below X health

Items

• Giant Slayer

Synergies

• Deadeye
• Sorcerer = AOE that deals X% of enemy’s max health to other enemies on kill assists
• Empress (Bel’Veth) = Void Coral consumed deals X% max health AOE damage
• Rogue = apply bleed dealing X% of enemy max health

Crit Chance

Champions

• Zed = Ionia Bonus increase crit chance

Items

• Infinity Edge
• Jeweled Gauntlet

Crit Damage

Champions

• Zed = Ionia Bonus increase crit damage

Items

• Infinity Edge

Critical Damage Counter

Items

• Bramble Vest

True Damage

Champions

• Bel’Veth = active deals X% of the target's max health as true damage
• Kalista = passive
• Rek’Sai = active if target is below X% health

Hi! Offering a neat selection of less common colonial coinage from Southeast Asia (and some from Dutch India). Feel free to make offers on bigger orders
Pics and prices
Proof
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DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY

Dutch Cochin VOC Bazaruks. Early (rarer) type from 1663-1724. Tin coins with the VOC logo on one side and a cowrie shell (used traditionally as money) on the other. Very nicely priced for their grade.
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BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY

VEIC tin doits from British-occupied Dutch Indies, 1813-14. Very neat issues from the Napoleonic Wars. I think the British were definitely ripping on the VOC trademark.
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DUTCH EAST INDIES

Bonks. Bonks were issued in the late 1700s and early 1800s in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, under a few different Dutch governments (you can thank Napoleon for that). Their name translates approximately to "chunk;" they were made by chopping a chunk of copper off a bar and striking it. Quality control was poor; off-center and weakly struck coins are common. Occasionally a die was engraved backwards, a coin was double struck, or a die was so badly misaligned that its design was split between two coins. Some are a bit crusty and might be further cleanable.
SOLD
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PORTUGUESE MALACCA

João III (1521-57) dinheiro or soldo, crude but nice and thick
Felipe II (1598-1621) half? bazaruco, possibly later (1641) Dutch imitation, pretty nice
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BORNEO

Contemporary counterfeit VOC duits. Likely created in Southern Borneo (perhaps Banjarmasin), which had a thriving industry of copying VOC coinage. Distinguished by poor manufacture, blundered dates, and weird metal.
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NETHERLANDS INDIES

Late silver coinage. These are all minted in the USA during WW2. Latin, Arabic, and Javanese scripts.
1/10 gulden and 1/4 gulden
SOLD
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Be sure to check out my other sales!
Palembang and Southeast Asian tin pitis etc
Interesting money forms - Boats and cones and coils, oh my!
Chinese, Sogdian, and Malay cash
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Terms: I can do risky shipping ($1.50) if the order is small enough, or a tracked parcel ($6) via USPS. Can't ship international at this time. Other shipping options (priority mail, insurance, signed delivery, etc) available at cost. I take Zelle or PPFF. I take no responsibility for mail lost by USPS. I pack securely, but stuff happens. In the unlikely case of lost mail, I will see what I can do to help.
Will ship Monday.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks for looking!

Aluwa society, at its heart, was born out of the trade between the people of the coast and the people of the river. It is no surprise, then, that the ani’Aluwa are a mercantile people, with goods being traded between villages and beyond their cultural borders, to neighboring peoples of the western prairies and eastern forests. On short trips, they would trade masa and cassava flour, beans and squash, nuts and fruits, and all kinds of smoked fish and shellfish. These perishable foods would not last on longer journeys, though, so for foreign trade they instead bartered with intricately carved harpoons, mother-of-pearl jewelry, elderberry wine, buckskin, and Aluwa oranges.
The furthest overland journey Aluwa traders dared was to the north: up the Plombalo, through a valley in the low mountain range that separates Gorgonea from Tritonea, then downhill through the unfamiliar northern woodland, following the many rivers of that country down to the lakes of Zonowodjon, which the ani’Aluwa called Zonowóyon. Gradually, Aluwa trade began to stretch even further, cutting northwest to the land of Arhada, which the ani’Aluwa called Lahada. There was no organized trade route between Aluwa and these northern civilizations, but people in search of wealth would travel from one to the other year after year. The most profitable trade tended to be in seashells and corals, which were easy to obtain in Aluwa but exotic luxuries in inland Tritonea.
Most of Aluwa’s trade, however, was not overland, but on the Sea of Itiah (or Iteha in the gla’Aluwa tongue). Merchants would load baskets and wineskins full of goods onto their plank boats and circle the sea, trading with every village they came across, aided by their knowledge of celestial navigation. At the other end of the sea lay the rich and populous lands of Sasnak and Sasnak-ra, which the ani’Aluwa called Zandaka and Zandakla. Although the Sasnak were much farther away than the Zonowodjon, the ease of ship travel meant that the journey south took less time than the journey north. Here, as in the north, the Aluwa found the most profit in trading away goods common in Aluwa but unheard of in the south – in this case, antlers, deerskin, and aromatic cedar.

First
Capes and Conundrums
Pavel stretches in the stillness. The tapping of the keyboard and swearing under the breath makes Pavel consider his new partner a bit. Silicon Blake has an interesting background. Pavel made a point of looking into it. The man was... genetically human, currently. But he had been born of a brain scan of a Tret man. Sionis Blake. The man’s father. Legally.
Silicon had made the jump from a fully synthetic body to a human clone body with dataports about two weeks ago. Freshly after his training as an Undaunted. Legally he was considered to still be both a Tret and a synthetic. But for all practical purposes, he was a human cyborg.
One who wasn’t used to the sheer requirements of his body. Pavel suspected a good chunk of his bad attitude was the fact the man was only eating once a day and only small portions.
The morning shift started shortly after breakfast and went right to lunch. So when Pavel went for lunch, he went alone at first before doubling back.
“Hey, we’re supposed to be together. Like it or not you’re coming with me to the mess hall.” Pavel says and the man groans in frustration and closes his computer.
“Fine, but I’m taking my damn work with me.” Silicon states as he stands.
“Fair enough.” Pavel states and the walk goes in silence. There’s a small, out of the way table near the edge of things and Silicon starts working again, only to be interrupted when Pavel comes back with two trays. “You’re not eating enough.”
“What? The hell is going on?” Silicon demands as Pavel forces him to take the laptop off the table and puts a tray full of food down in front of him.
“I looked up your medical profile...”
“Why?”
“Because humans can eat what other beings consider biohazards, and if we were going to have forced contact I didn’t want to accidentally kill you with onion breath. Which is something that can make a Feli very sick and cause a standard Tret to vomit.” Pavel explains.
“Okay...”
“However, I noted that you volunteered for the Endurance Program. An initiative to give other races more staying power akin to humans.”
“Yes, and it’s worked very well. I’ve nearly doubled my productivity.” Silicon says and Pavel nods.
“It did, however, you’re not feeding yourself enough. Your breakfast is big enough, for a breakfast. You need Lunch and Dinner too.”
“What?” Silicon demands.
“To put it in mechanical terms, you’re operating on emergency power. This cripples many major systems. You need to fuel up more consistently.” Pavel states before pointing to the loaded plate. “What I grabbed you is called a ham and cheese sandwich. To it’s side is kettle chips with sea salt, opposite is a garden salad and the cup of brown substance is a dessert called chocolate pudding. It’s a small lunch, but a decent one. Consider this the minimal intake.”
He then pulls out a pair of large water bottles and places them on the table. “You also need to hydrate more. Water is converted into the lubricant of your physicality and without it the whole system will fail.”
As Pavel had been speaking Silicon had pulled out a bioscanner and gone over everything before pausing on the salad. “Why is there an acid here?”
“You’ve got stronger stuff in your stomach. Turn that scanner on yourself.” Pavel says dismissively as he grabs his larger and much more loaded sandwich off his own plate. Three types of meat, hot mustard, lettuce of some kind and tomato with swiss cheese. Good stuff.
“Look, if this is some kind of ill conceived peace offering...”
“Peace nothing, you’re hangry half the time. Humans get aggressive in times of desperation. Basic instinct. You have that instinct now so even if you aren’t consciously looking for a fight, you’re ready to haul off on someone because you need food.”
“Really?”
“Yes, really. Now eat for god’s sake.”
“I’ve had breakfast. Two of those pancakes, a fruit cup and a glass of water. That’s plenty.”
“Nowhere near enough for breakfast. Let alone breakfast for someone in a high stress job. Besides, breakfast in only one of three meals.” Pavel counters and Silicon glares at him. “Seriously eat, it will help.”
Silicon gives him an odd look before grabbing his sandwich and taking a bite out of it. Pavel concentrates on eating his own much larger meal and he finishes within ten minutes. The spice in the mustard forced him to slow a little and he sits back to watch as Silicon goes at the pudding cup. For what the man claimed of not needing the food he outright inhaled it.
“So?” Pavel asks as Silicon finishes up taking a swig of his water. “Feel better?”
“... yes.” Silicon admits with his eyes screwed shut in frustration. “... I just thought it was Apex aggression not...”
“Hunger and desperation? You need thousands of calories a day. Also, don’t forget to use the bathroom when you need it. Our digestive tracts are powerful but not perfect. You will need to let it out.”
“really? You’re telling me to excrete? How simple do you think I am?” Silicon asks tartly.
“I think that you’re used to living in a body that required only energy and only have memories of a body that needed very little in the form of physical nourishment. So I’m not making any assumptions and telling you everything.” Pavel says as he finishes off his own water. “Now, I’ve got something to do. Our lunch break ends in a half hour and I’ll see you back at the test chamber for the remainder of that shift. Then we’re moving onto mine. I hope you’re ready to play spotter.”
“Oh goody. Using chemically propelled murder tools to NOT actually kill.”
“You have a problem with your orders?” Pavel asks him and he sighs.
“No. I’ll see you in a half hour.” Silicon says and Pavel nods before taking his own tray, then grabbing Silicon’s depleted one and taking them both out. “... Damnit, I hadn’t thought that humans would require so much damn food. I’m pulling in Axiom to feed, so why aren’t I being sustained?”
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And it was back to the programming. Silicon was working faster and actually humming to himself a bit so that seemed alright. But not ideal. Pavel was really starting to get bored though. After yesterday’s test of things the drones had not been reactivated as Silicon seemed to be of the belief that things were a purely programming issue. If they were great, the problem is that there was no way of telling if things were just a programming issue or something mechanical.
Pavel pulls out his communicator and brings up the specs of the drones. They were basic, off the shelf prosthetic bodies designed to be piloted by a person, but a program in it’s place instead. They had been reinforced and upgraded a few times, but none of it seemed too egregious.
Similar codes and programming had been used in travelling shows and other such bits of entertainment to serve in the role that a minimum wage worker would slowly have their soul worn away doing. The repetitive, thankless tasks that need to be done over and over and over again.
Providing a low level opponent to be beaten in a fistfight or outsmarted by someone sneaking around shouldn’t be too hard. A videogame AI could get the behaviours down and then it was controlling the body.
Which was where Silicon and several other people were stuck. There was something wrong with their sense of balance and often they struggled to stay standing at all. All of them. Despite the code.
“If it was a gun I’d be checking it for cracks.” Pavel mutters to himself.
“What was that?” Silicon asks looking up from his laptop.
“All the drones are failing in the same way. You think it’s coding but... if it was a gun I’d be checking for structural damage.”
“These aren’t guns.”
“But both are machines. I think the hardware should be tested a bit. The coding has a lot of eyes on it. But the hardware?’
“The hardware was bought from a reputable source and passed their safety inspections.”
“Safety means that my necklace breaks if someone tries to strangle me with it.” Pavel says and Silicon pauses and looks up at him. Opens his mouth to say something then reconsiders and giving the nearest drone a look.
“Grab a toolkit. We’re taking it apart.” He says as he closes the laptop.
It takes five minutes to carefully take apart the chest of the drone and start examining the internal components.
“Here. These little gyroscopes are all over the place in the drone to give it a kinesthetic location sense. If you’re mentally linked to it then you can feel the direction of down from both gravity and the internal scope.” Silicon explains and Pavel gives one a tap. It does not move. “You have got to be kidding me.”
“Is this jammed?” Pavel asks as he pokes it again before reaching in with his fingers and feels... “There are metal filings in here. A dirty production line?”
When he removes his finger from thy gyroscope it moves easily in response. He brushes out a few shavings and Silicon is muttering something foul under his breath as he tests the other gyroscopes. One in every five of them are jammed in someway and after they clear out the chest they put the plating back on and move to the other limbs.
The pattern holds. One stuck internal gyroscope in every batch of five. It takes a full hour to clean out them all and give the internals of the drone some extra cleaning. It’s sealed back up again and Pavel is tightening the last screw as Silicon is tapping away at his laptop again.
“Okay! Take a step back. Let’s see if that helped.”
“If nothing else it’ll fail faster with it knowing which way to fall.” Pavel notes as he steps away and the drone activates. It sits upright the same as it could before and then turns over and stands upright. There was markedly less wobble this time and Silicon sends a command. It snaps it’s arms out and begins to turn.”
“Hey! That did it... shit. We need to clean out all the drones.” Silicon curses.
“We report this in and get fifty other guys to help, this is not a two man mission.” Pavel says wryly. “Not to mention the quartermaster is going to be looking to kill someone for having shit product forced on us. They do not take this shit lying down.”
“The sale’s rep will either be looking for a new job or finding a new fetish by the time those monsters are done with her.” Silicon notes. “Hey, think you’re ready to test it for fighting ability?”
“Sure thing.” Pavel says closing up the toolbox and then sliding it away with a foot. “Send it.”
“Alright, let’s test it’s tracking and offence. I need to dodge the attacks and move around the drone. Get it to follow you.” Silicon says sending the command and the Drone suddenly snaps it’s head towards Pavel and then turns as one. “That was a little stiff, I’m going to have to iron things out a little...”
The drone opens with an attempted haymaker and Pavel hops to the side and keeps going until he’s standing behind the drone. It follows him the whole time and then tries a cross. He fades back and takes a few steps away and it keeps pace as best it can.
As the drone goes for a grab he uses Axiom to leap clean over it and land on the other side then weaves to the side to avoid the snap kick as the logic tree self updates and the drone gets a fraction better at fighting.
“There we go! Living code! Finally!” Silicon cheers! “Start deflecting it’s attacks. Block and parry, I need to see how it responds to that.”
“Sure thing.” Pavel says and he swats away the next attempted haymaker.
“Interesting, okay, it’s correlating with that code chunk...” Silicon says as Pavel blocks two jabs boxer style and prevents it from grabbing onto him. “Hey that’s weird! Can you hit it back? Don’t break it or nothing, but see how it responds...”
“This good?” Pavel asks as he palm thrusts it in the middle of the chest and Silicon lets out a confused sound. The drone stumbles back in response to the light blow and regains it balance.
“Well how the hell did that happen? Do it again!” Silicon says as he squints at his screen.
Pavel rushes the drone and then gives it another, slightly firmer, smack in the middle of the chest. Silicon swears under his breath.
“This is weird! Alright, I’m deactivating the drone. Can you drop it off in it’s charging port?”
“Easy enough.” Pavel says as he catches the suddenly powered off robot and hefts it over his shoulder. It slots into it’s place easily and he walks over to where Silicon is squinting at the screen. “So what’s it look like?”
“There was a weird bit of...” Silicon says before looking up at Pavel. “Right, okay, basically every step of the program is like a huge tree right? You start at the tip and by evaluating a situation you go down one of the branches. Basically it’s like a plan flowchart, is this happening? If yes, go this way, if no then go down to the next question. A computer’s processing speed lets it go through this fast so it can keep up with reality.”
“But only if you’ve got enough questions for all the things that happen.”
“Right, well that’s where the Virtual Intelligence comes in. Where it compares situations and while likely not understanding them, it does know how to mimic them. This is where you get things like chat-bots or a video game enemy that seems to learn. It’s almost learning, but it’s not. Not really. That’s what we’re trying to get to, and we have the start of it.”
“Did something go weird?”
“I’m not sure yet? I think... maybe yes? Maybe no?” Silicon says as he turns the laptop to let Pavel see the lines up on lines of code. “This is literally the drone’s brain here. The thing is about an evolving program is that it can cause itself to bloat. That was the issue I was having yesterday and still today. Although it’s not as big as it was yesterday now that we know there’s hardware problems too. We put a lot of code into making these things balance and now that we’ve solved the problem... how much of that can be taken out and how much has to be left in is going to be the work of weeks.”
“Ah got it.”
“You do?”
“I’m a sniper. I have to focus on not only aiming for the target, but I have to accommodate for the wind drag at different temperatures and humidity levels, particles in the air like ash or dust, the gravity of the world I’m on, the movement of the target and the things around them. To say nothing of the make of the weapon firing the bullet and the make of the bullet itself. It’s very much a science.” Pavel says pulling out his little book and handing it to Silicon.
The formally synthetic man looks through the small black book and sees rows upon rows of calculations without any answers written he lets out a little hum before closing it and handing it back.
“I think I understand. Still. There’s more to do... and not much more time to do it. This shift is about to end.”
“It is. Which means it’s time for you to see all that dread math in motion.”
“Oh no! Not the dread math!” Silicon’s sarcasm could peel paint.
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RAW BUSINESS IDEAS 1.Rental houses 2.Transport vehicles 3.Motorbikes business 4.Bars and pubs business 5.Dairy farming 6.Cattle runch business 7.Poultry farming business 8.Videos and cinemas 9.PS halls 10.Salons and kinyozis business 11.Music industry 12.Entertainment industry 13.Private schools 14.M-Pesa shops 15.Airtel money shops 16.Gym and sauna business 17.Purchase of land for investment and resale business 18.Tree planting business 19.Fishpond and fisheries business 20.Butchery business 21.Poshomills business 22.Security service industry 23.Petrol station business 24.Car wash 25.Cyber business 26.Gas cylinders business 27.Hardware 28.Driving school 29.Computer packages school 30.Broadcasting industries/Media groups 31.Making of posters business 32.Pool 33.Phone shops business 34.Rental rooms for business 35.Pharmacy/Chemistry 36.Private hospitals 37.Welding sites business 38.Supermarket business 39.Writing books for sale/publishing 40.Small shops business 41.Tatoo buildings business 42.Movie shops 43.You Tube channels 44.Online jobs 45.Kungfu,martial arts,boxing,tai kuondo halls 46.Shoe repair Business 47.Digital marketing 48.Drug dealing 49.Tents and plastic chairs supply 50.Solar panels business 51.Betting companies business 52.Beautiful scenaries eg parks business 53.Photography 54.Videography 55.Electronics shop 56.Ice creams business 57.Smokies and eggs vending/Kahawa and mandazis/mtura/soup/nyama china business 58.Necklesses business 59.Sales person 60.Dealing in clothes (Ready made/Second hand-mtumba) 61.Green houses 62.Dancing crue and hall business 63.Putting money in fixed deposit accounts 64.Saccos and chamas 65.Buying of shares in unlisted companies 66.Treasury bills and Treasury bonds 67.Develop an app 68.Shares in listed companies 69.DJ 70.Chauffer 71.Body(ear,nose etc) piercing business 72.Insurance and reinsurance company 73.Boutique 74.Cosmetics 75.Fighting equipments(guns,bullets,bombs etc)shop 76.Ships and boats 77.Furnitures shop 78.Agrovet business 79.Livestock farming (goats,ships,rabbits,pigs etc) business 80.Acting on trends 81.Agricultural factories 82.Warehouses business 83.Barkery 84.Restaurants business 85.School requirements shop 86.Garage 87.Private toilets/bathrooms 88.Giving out credits at an interest rate 89.Guide(business, education etc)books/PDFs business 90.Supplying industry/supplier 91.Flowers for export business 92.Daycare business 93.Airtime(Safaricom, Airtel, Telcom etc) Business 94.Bookshop 95.Gift services overview 96.Laundry business 97.Nails making business 98.Forex trading 99.Bitcoin 100.Fruit and juice parlour 101.Podcasting 102.Yoga studio 103.Catering services 104.Computer repair business/shop 105.Modeling 106.Purchasing existing website 107.Organic vending business 108.Virtual assistant business 109.Translation service 110.Online tutoring business 111.Content writer business 112.Web design 113.Career coach business 114.Start a blog 115.Amazon reselling 116.Coffee shop 117.Home food delivery 118.Currency trading 119.Event planning business 120.Interior design business 121.Selling of phone case and other accessories business 122.Property management business eg Chakra company 123.Drive for Uber or Lyft 124.Water supply services 125.Personal fitness traineInstructor 126.Tour guide business 127.Accounting and bookkeeping business 128.Caregiving business 129.Transcription 130.Data analysis 131.Fast food restaurant 132.Yoghurt business 133.Nail and eye brows parlour 134.Screen printing 135.Real estate 136.Human billboard 137.Affiliate marketing 138.Pool cleaning business 139.Designing and selling print-on-demand t-shirts 140.Junk removal service 141.Printing services 142.Custodian 143.Dropshipping business 144.Craft business 145.Landscaping business 146.Bicycle rentals/Bicycle repairs 147.Painting business 148.Flower shop 149.House cleaning 150.Grocery delivery 151.Resale store 152.Subscription box business 153.Import/export business 154.Laundromat business 155.Party bus 156.Staffing services 157.Antique dealer 158.Construction business 159.Used car rentals 160.Cafe/Sandwich shop 161.Logo design business 162.Shoe business 163.Marine electronics/waterproof electronics 164.Publicity business 165.Drone business 166.Gutter cleaning business 167.Garden center 168.Kitchen store business 169.Cookie business 170.Framing business 171.Mushroom farming 172.Vending machine for fruits 173.Laundry services 174.Agribusiness 175.Business in waste management 176.Urban transportation business 177.Fin-tech business 178.Urban logistics 179.Automobiles 180.Bee keeping (Honey,wax etc) 181.Study platforms for Students 182.Financial consultancy firm 183.Stationery shop 184.Appliance repair shop 185.Party decoration services 186.Sewing business 187.Handcraft business 188.Online travel agency 189.Samosa business 190.Pancake and Chapati business 191.Wrap up 192.Milk bashop 193.Mobile money agent 194.Farming 195.Cake baking business 196.Selling snacks 197.Selling computers and accessories 198.Internet connection to the customers living nearby 199.Selling fruits and vegetables 200.Brick making 201.Selling handbags 202.Cereal shop 203.Paxful's affiliate program and peer program 204.Invest in mutual funds or ETFs 205.Data entry 206.Popcorn business 207.Bead making and wire wax 208.Sell perfumes 209.Designing book covers 210.Dog walking 211.Tailoring 212.Sale of hair extension 213.Dry cleaning services 214.Stadiums 215.Candle making 216.Mobile repair shop 217.Tuition 218.Hauling service 219.Home staging business 220.Window treatment business 221.Dreadlock business 222.Fashion house 223.Oil business 224.Music sounds for hire 225.Start a football club 226.Blended education programs 227.Wholesale business 228.Ironing services 229.Swimming pool 230.Mandazis and donuts business 231.Seedlings for sale 232.Soap making 233.Selling soft drinks,fresh juice and snacks 234.Stationery supply to rural areas 235.Tuk tuk business 236.Selling baby diapers 237.Start a video game lounge 238.Manicure, pedicure and facial scrubbing business 239.Landscaping and gardening services 240.Land brokerage 241.Eggs wholesale 242.Spare parts(motorcycle, bicycle, vehicles etc)shop 243.Pork meet business 244.Charcoal and coal business 245.Gambling business 246.Agricultural value addition business 247.Camels 248.Facebook 249.Instagram 250.Chicken spare parts business 251.Shopify 252.Hawking business 253.Amazon FBA 254.Flipping collectibles 255.Tik Tok 256.Carpets 257.Curtains 258.Mutual funds investment 259.Precious metals business (eg gold, silver and bronze) 260.Sport shoes/jazies/balls etc business 261.Grow profitable vegetables and fruits 262.Invest in the capital market via Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) 263.Dealing in second hand goods eg furnitures, electronics etc 264.Candle production 265.Plantain chips and bhajia business 266.Errands 267.Lawn care 268.Miti shamba/Dawa za kienyeji/Herbals 269.Beddings eg Mattresses 270.Homemade gourmet foods 271.Flea market vending 272.Music Instructor 273.Making custom furniture 274.Banking services 275.Own a tap/boreholes 276.Flight services eg Air hostess 277.Clothing lines 278.Book publishing/ebooks 279.Start charitable business 280.Pet training and grooming services 281.Data entry provider 282.Start a pop-up shop 283.Rent your car on Turo 284.College admissions essay tutor and editor 285.Travel consultant 286.Tax preparation 287.Commision-only sales 288.Ebay sales 289.Fiverr Gigs 290.Airbnb 291.Patreon 292.Alteration Services 293.Professional organizing services 294.Aquarium maintenance 295.Home inspector 296.Review website 297.Home Appraisal 298.Sell Jericans from certain suppliers 299.Referral services 300.Recycled goods seller

Wings: - snow pops x2 - mini electric guardian - angel wings
Skirts: - mini skirt x7 - midnight’s strike popstar performance skirt x5 - royal stroll in the garden x2 - real life mermaid x4 - sparkly party tutu
Shoes: - carol of the elves booties - adorable lace-up doll boots - kingly kicks - huggly snuggly booties x3
Accessories: - christmas window shopping top hat - crazy in love glasses - frozen royalty crown x2 - angel halo - kawaii reaper x5 - droopy elf ears - peppermint princess sleeves x2 - nomnom frosted donut waist floatie x4 - exquisite emerald ring x5 - studded rose garters - maracas - arachnofabulous x5 - dear dollie laced back bow x3 - kitchen accident x5 - exquisite emerald necklace x3 - glorious cape - dear dollie gloves x9 - butterfly pavilion fascinator - spring horns - beautiful rose in hand x2 - spring cleaning duster x2 - freshwater pearl necklace x6 - seashell hair clips x3 - sparkly heart hoop earrings - heart of the ocean necklace - pumpkin autumn earrings - dotd aromatic flower crown - giant teddy bear - princess starfrost cozy bodice - bloxy award - polar bear beret cap - nine-tails - royal sword of strength x2 - princely dueling crown - reindeer crossbody x5 - 2020 party hat x2 - pretty kitty tail x2 - skull crown - spider friend x2 - warm glittering cloak x8 - sparkly candy cane ears x5 - fuzzy warm frost hat x7 - light-up ornament necklace x5 - winter snowglobe x11 - merry sparkly dress x6 - shy scarf - abnormally large and very pokey fork - beasty snow antlers - spring bucket hat x2 - stars and moons pendant x2 - warm winter lantern x6 - ice’s ufo x5 - lucky top hat x4 - lucky headband x8 - nightmare witch hat x2 - whiskers - bunny bonnet headband - falling spring blossoms - icey snowflake earrings x2 - wish upon a star earrings x2 - fuzzy bracelets - fashionable round frames x3 - spring queen crown x2 - easter egg boppers x2 - oof head x2 - rainbow visor x3 - easter egg top hat x2 - glowing pumpkin wand x2 - friendship necklace (right) x6 - gone with the wind bow headband x9 - personal snow flurry x11 - crispy air puffy jacket x8 - flower vines arm beauty x7 - stocking bows - soft plush antlers - santa hat x4 - santa’s beard - light-up antlers x2 - classic ghost costume x2 - 2021 party hat x7 - my dollie x2 - candy explosion!!! x3 - spinning web boppers x2 - darling valentina playful puppy ears x7 - bat earrings x3 - supernatural hoop earrings x4 - spider’s masterpiece purse - nomnom chocolate bar x5 - magical fairy lights x12 - dragon staff x4 - cheerleader pompoms! x5 - don’t pick me please x7 - jeweled choker necklace x5 - american flag x4 - canadian flag x3 - glittering noel bows x6 - sparkly christmas bells earrings x9 - snowman’s top hat x4 - runaway damsel candleabra x4 - good tidings shawl cape x2 - father christmas’ present bag x3 - iced gingerbread earrings x2 - aurora’s longsword - elf helper hat - aurora’s battleaxe - polar cutie fur leg warmers - ice prince shawl cape - dashing through the snow scarf - midnight’s strike popstar astral hair bow x13 - sewer rat x8 - midnight’s strike popstar constellation bodice x3 - midnight’s strike popstar celestial armlets x11 - midnight’s strike popstar microphone - popstar microphone
DISCLAIMER: there's no set prices on any of these items, so if you're offering diamonds please name your price!! and I'm open to items/items + diamonds offers though I'm predominantly looking for diamonds ^ the "x(certain number)" just indicates the quantity of the item I have available for sale at the moment

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