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[darklordazalin]

Azalin Reviews: Darklord Lyron Evensong

Domain: Liffe Domain Formation: 750 BC Power Level: 💀 ⚫⚫⚫⚫ Sources: Domain of Dread (2e), Book of Crypts (2e), Ravenloft 3.0

Baron Lyron Evensong is the Darklord of Liffe, a large island within the Nocturnal Sea. Liffe contains three decently sized settlements and enough farmlands so its people are self sufficient. That is, if they did not have a insatiable greed for the finery of other lands.

Lyron originated from Krynn where he performed as a bard on his beloved harpsichord. He often referred to himself as a ‘musical genius’ and his utter self-absorption could put even Narcissus to shame. His self-love accompanied by his disdain for all others developed into delusions of righteousness he felt compelled to force upon others.

Having no true means to enforce his will upon another and his songs and poems failing to inspire anything beyond polite applause, Lyron hired a wizard to enchant his harpsichord. Either he did not pay this wizard well or the wizard in question was inept and as such a spell that was meant to enthrall his listeners resulted in drawing Lyron’s essence into the instrument.

Still able to interact with the world as long as he was within reach of his instrument, Lyron attempted to sway audiences into what he believed was a morally decent life. When his poetry and music still did nothing, he turned to violence. Any act Evensong viewed as amoral, from divorcées to crying babies, resulted in Lyron’s swift correction with dagger and club.

After countless murders, Lyron and his harpsichord were pulled into the Mists and he was made the Baron of Claviera on the island of Liffe. Here he is contained to his mansion and for every day he spends in Claviera, he must spent a century in the dark confines of his study.

He now spends what time he can luring travelers to his study so he does not have to spend those 100 years alone. Of course, his guests age while he does not and most rarely last a few years before Lyron deems them unworthy and disposes of them. I recommend offending him as quickly as you can, otherwise you will be doomed for countless years of listening to his ‘art’.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

A link-clump demands a linkdump

Cometh the weekend, cometh the linkdump. My daily-ish newsletter includes a section called "Hey look at this," with three short links per day, but sometimes those links get backed up and I need to clean house. Here's the eight previous installments:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

The country code top level domain (ccTLD) for the Caribbean island nation of Anguilla is .ai, and that's turned into millions of dollars worth of royalties as "entrepreneurs" scramble to sprinkle some buzzword-compliant AI stuff on their businesses in the most superficial way possible:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/ai-fever-turns-anguillas-ai-domain-into-a-digital-gold-mine/

All told, .ai domain royalties will account for about ten percent of the country's GDP.

It's actually kind of nice to see Anguilla finding some internet money at long last. Back in the 1990s, when I was a freelance web developer, I got hired to work on the investor website for a publicly traded internet casino based in Anguilla that was a scammy disaster in every conceivable way. The company had been conceived of by people who inherited a modestly successful chain of print-shops and decided to diversify by buying a dormant penny mining stock and relaunching it as an online casino.

But of course, online casinos were illegal nearly everywhere. Not in Anguilla – or at least, that's what the founders told us – which is why they located their servers there, despite the lack of broadband or, indeed, reliable electricity at their data-center. At a certain point, the whole thing started to whiff of a stock swindle, a pump-and-dump where they'd sell off shares in that ex-mining stock to people who knew even less about the internet than they did and skedaddle. I got out, and lost track of them, and a search for their names and business today turns up nothing so I assume that it flamed out before it could ruin any retail investors' lives.

Anguilla is a British Overseas Territory, one of those former British colonies that was drained and then given "independence" by paternalistic imperial administrators half a world away. The country's main industries are tourism and "finance" – which is to say, it's a pearl in the globe-spanning necklace of tax- and corporate-crime-havens the UK established around the world so its most vicious criminals – the hereditary aristocracy – can continue to use Britain's roads and exploit its educated workforce without paying any taxes.

This is the "finance curse," and there are tiny, struggling nations all around the world that live under it. Nick Shaxson dubbed them "Treasure Islands" in his outstanding book of the same name:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780230341722/treasureislands

I can't imagine that the AI bubble will last forever – anything that can't go on forever eventually stops – and when it does, those .ai domain royalties will dry up. But until then, I salute Anguilla, which has at last found the internet riches that I played a small part in bringing to it in the previous century.

The AI bubble is indeed overdue for a popping, but while the market remains gripped by irrational exuberance, there's lots of weird stuff happening around the edges. Take Inject My PDF, which embeds repeating blocks of invisible text into your resume:

https://kai-greshake.de/posts/inject-my-pdf/

The text is tuned to make resume-sorting Large Language Models identify you as the ideal candidate for the job. It'll even trick the summarizer function into spitting out text that does not appear in any human-readable form on your CV.

Embedding weird stuff into resumes is a hacker tradition. I first encountered it at the Chaos Communications Congress in 2012, when Ang Cui used it as an example in his stellar "Print Me If You Dare" talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njVv7J2azY8

Cui figured out that one way to update the software of a printer was to embed an invisible Postscript instruction in a document that basically said, "everything after this is a firmware update." Then he came up with 100 lines of perl that he hid in documents with names like cv.pdf that would flash the printer when they ran, causing it to probe your LAN for vulnerable PCs and take them over, opening a reverse-shell to his command-and-control server in the cloud. Compromised printers would then refuse to apply future updates from their owners, but would pretend to install them and even update their version numbers to give verisimilitude to the ruse. The only way to exorcise these haunted printers was to send 'em to the landfill. Good times!

Printers are still a dumpster fire, and it's not solely about the intrinsic difficulty of computer security. After all, printer manufacturers have devoted enormous resources to hardening their products against their owners, making it progressively harder to use third-party ink. They're super perverse about it, too – they send "security updates" to your printer that update the printer's security against you – run these updates and your printer downgrades itself by refusing to use the ink you chose for it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer

It's a reminder that what a monopolist thinks of as "security" isn't what you think of as security. Oftentimes, their security is antithetical to your security. That was the case with Web Environment Integrity, a plan by Google to make your phone rat you out to advertisers' servers, revealing any adblocking modifications you might have installed so that ad-serving companies could refuse to talk to you:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/02/self-incrimination/#wei-bai-bai

WEI is now dead, thanks to a lot of hueing and crying by people like us:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/google_abandons_web_environment_integrity/

But the dream of securing Google against its own users lives on. Youtube has embarked on an aggressive campaign of refusing to show videos to people running ad-blockers, triggering an arms-race of ad-blocker-blockers and ad-blocker-blocker-blockers:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-will-the-ad-versus-ad-blocker-arms-race-end/

The folks behind Ublock Origin are racing to keep up with Google's engineers' countermeasures, and there's a single-serving website called "Is uBlock Origin updated to the last Anti-Adblocker YouTube script?" that will give you a realtime, one-word status update:

https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/

One in four web users has an ad-blocker, a stat that Doc Searls pithily summarizes as "the biggest boycott in world history":

https://doc.searls.com/2015/09/28/beyond-ad-blocking-the-biggest-boycott-in-human-history/

Zero app users have ad-blockers. That's not because ad-blocking an app is harder than ad-blocking the web – it's because reverse-engineering an app triggers liability under IP laws like Section 1201 of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which can put you away for 5 years for a first offense. That's what I mean when I say that "IP is anything that lets a company control its customers, critics or competitors:

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

I predicted that apps would open up all kinds of opportunities for abusive, monopolistic conduct back in 2010, and I'm experiencing a mix of sadness and smugness (I assume there's a German word for this emotion) at being so thoroughly vindicated by history:

https://memex.craphound.com/2010/04/01/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-you-shouldnt-either/

The more control a company can exert over its customers, the worse it will be tempted to treat them. These systems of control shift the balance of power within companies, making it harder for internal factions that defend product quality and customer interests to win against the enshittifiers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/microincentives-and-enshittification/

The result has been a Great Enshittening, with platforms of all description shifting value from their customers and users to their shareholders, making everything palpably worse. The only bright side is that this has created the political will to do something about it, sparking a wave of bold, muscular antitrust action all over the world.

The Google antitrust case is certainly the most important corporate lawsuit of the century (so far), but Judge Amit Mehta's deference to Google's demands for secrecy has kept the case out of the headlines. I mean, Sam Bankman-Fried is a psychopathic thief, but even so, his trial does not deserve its vastly greater prominence, though, if you haven't heard yet, he's been convicted and will face decades in prison after he exhausts his appeals:

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/sam-bankman-fried-guilty-on-all-charges

The secrecy around Google's trial has relaxed somewhat, and the trickle of revelations emerging from the cracks in the courthouse are fascinating. For the first time, we're able to get a concrete sense of which queries are the most lucrative for Google:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/1/23941766/google-antitrust-trial-search-queries-ad-money

The list comes from 2018, but it's still wild. As David Pierce writes in The Verge, the top twenty includes three iPhone-related terms, five insurance queries, and the rest are overshadowed by searches for customer service info for monopolistic services like Xfinity, Uber and Hulu.

All-in-all, we're living through a hell of a moment for piercing the corporate veil. Maybe it's the problem of maintaining secrecy within large companies, or maybe the the rampant mistreatment of even senior executives has led to more leaks and whistleblowing. Either way, we all owe a debt of gratitude to the anonymous leaker who revealed the unbelievable pettiness of former HBO president of programming Casey Bloys, who ordered his underlings to create an army of sock-puppet Twitter accounts to harass TV and movie critics who panned HBO's shows:

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/hbo-casey-bloys-secret-twitter-trolls-tv-critics-leaked-texts-lawsuit-the-idol-1234867722/

These trolling attempts were pathetic, even by the standards of thick-fingered corporate execs. Like, accusing critics who panned the shitty-ass Perry Mason reboot of disrespecting veterans because the fictional Mason's back-story had him storming the beach on D-Day.

The pushback against corporate bullying is everywhere, and of course, the vanguard is the labor movement. Did you hear that the UAW won their strike against the auto-makers, scoring raises for all workers based on the increases in the companies' CEO pay? The UAW isn't done, either! Their incredible new leader, Shawn Fain, has called for a general strike in 2028:

https://www.404media.co/uaw-calls-on-workers-to-line-up-massive-general-strike-for-2028-to-defeat-billionaire-class/

The massive victory for unionized auto-workers has thrown a spotlight on the terrible working conditions and pay for workers at Tesla, a criminal company that has no compunctions about violating labor law to prevent its workers from exercising their legal rights. Over in Sweden, union workers are teaching Tesla a lesson. After the company tried its illegal union-busting playbook on Tesla service centers, the unionized dock-workers issued an ultimatum: respect your workers or face a blockade at Sweden's ports that would block any Tesla from being unloaded into the EU's fifth largest Tesla market:

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-sweden-strike/

Of course, the real solution to Teslas – and every other kind of car – is to redesign our cities for public transit, walking and cycling, making cars the exception for deliveries, accessibility and other necessities. Transitioning to EVs will make a big dent in the climate emergency, but it won't make our streets any safer – and they keep getting deadlier.

Last summer, my dear old pal Ted Kulczycky got in touch with me to tell me that Talking Heads were going to be all present in public for the first time since the band's breakup, as part of the debut of the newly remastered print of Stop Making Sense, the greatest concert movie of all time. Even better, the show would be in Toronto, my hometown, where Ted and I went to high-school together, at TIFF.

Ted is the only person I know who is more obsessed with Talking Heads than I am, and he started working on tickets for the show while I starting pricing plane tickets. And then, the unthinkable happened: Ted's wife, Serah, got in touch to say that Ted had been run over by a car while getting off of a streetcar, that he was severely injured, and would require multiple surgeries.

But this was Ted, so of course he was still planning to see the show. And he did, getting a day-pass from the hospital and showing up looking like someone from a Kids In The Hall sketch who'd been made up to look like someone who'd been run over by a car:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/53182440282/

In his Globe and Mail article about Ted's experience, Brad Wheeler describes how the whole hospital rallied around Ted to make it possible for him to get to the movie:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/article-how-a-talking-heads-superfan-found-healing-with-the-concert-film-stop/

He also mentions that Ted is working on a book and podcast about Stop Making Sense. I visited Ted in the hospital the day after the gig and we talked about the book and it sounds amazing. Also? The movie was incredible. See it in Imax.

That heartwarming tale of healing through big suits is a pretty good place to wrap up this linkdump, but I want to call your attention to just one more thing before I go: Robin Sloan's Snarkmarket piece about blogging and "stock and flow":

https://snarkmarket.com/2010/4890/

Sloan makes the excellent case that for writers, having a "flow" of short, quick posts builds the audience for a "stock" of longer, more synthetic pieces like books. This has certainly been my experience, but I think it's only part of the story – there are good, non-mercenary reasons for writers to do a lot of "flow." As I wrote in my 2021 essay, "The Memex Method," turning your commonplace book into a database – AKA "blogging" – makes you write better notes to yourself because you know others will see them:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/

This, in turn, creates a supersaturated, subconscious solution of fragments that are just waiting to nucleate and crystallize into full-blown novels and nonfiction books and other "stock." That's how I came out of lockdown with nine new books. The next one is The Lost Cause, a hopepunk science fiction novel about the climate whose early fans include Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit, Bill McKibben and Kim Stanley Robinson. It's out on November 14:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865939/the-lost-cause

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/05/variegated/#nein

[megashadowdragon]

volume 0 of jjk is more important then you think

because the idea that a burdensome level of strength is nothing but a curse, is literalised with Yuta. Rika is literally a curse that's formed out of love. this same plight is not as apparent with Gojo Satoru and Kashimo Hajime. with these two, their mannerisms say far more.

what's noteworthy is that the resolution of Gojo's own crisis is 100% opposite of how Yuta's was resolved, and it looks to be the same for Kashimo as well. Yuta forgoes his overwhelming strength by dispelling the curse on Orimoto Rika, and prioritizes his bonds with his people.

after all, that's the central theme of volume 0. as such, the most interesting thing about the shift between the prequel and the main series is just how COMPLETELY the main series contradicts the themes of the prequel.

the main series, so far, has severely punished anyone that prioritizes their bonds over a robust sense of self + selfish pursuit of power. the special grades are the best example of this. Tsukumo Yuki worked with Tengen and Choso; she didn't fight with her own domain.

only in death could he stand on an equal footing with his comrades. the framing of these demises in the main series is so deliberately opposed to how the thematic framework of JJK 0 functions. and the reason is none other than the King of Curses, Ryomen Sukuna.

Sendai, the City of Trees. established in the year 1600 by the daimyō Date Masamune. Date Masamune was a descendant of the Fujiwara. any JJK reader knows the significance of the Fujiwara clan in the series

the emphasis JJK gives to the Fujiwara cannot be understated. lemme run through some key examples rq. the turning point of the series, the Shibuya incident, happens in the vicinity of the Meiji Jinguu, a shrine dedicated to Empress Shōken, a deified member of the Fujiwara clan.

the revival of the Heian era, which saw the supremacy of the Fujiwara clan in the political scene, also plays a part in this. Onmyōdō, or sorcery, was at its peak in the Heian era. Ashiya Dōman, one of the most prominent sorcerers in history, was a hiree of the Fujiwara.

and this specific fact is called back to in the New Shadow Style: Simple Domain, developed by Ashiya Sadatsuna, being utilised widely in the series. the relevance of all this to the topic at hand is that Yuta is a descendant of the Sugawara clan.

symbolically, literally and meta-textually, Yuta is removed from a position of importance, and a guy from a Fujiwara-established city replaces him.

all of this is why some wouldn't feel confident about Yuta continuing to be in good health for the rest of the series 💀🚩

all the special grades in the series have been murked, except Yuta. you can clearly see why people would think he's next. BUT NOT ME! and here's why: in the Sendai colony, i.e. in the same city established by the Fujiwara, he beats Uro Takako, a hiree of the Fujiwara.

he cyclicality that JJK is obsessed with plays out on various levels, but Yuta is the only exception. and I mean the ONLY exception. not even Gojo was exempt. Yuta, a Sugawara, beats someone that was associated with the Fujiwara. it plays out the opposite of how it's meant to.

in conclusion, i think we should put our stocks in Yuta. someone that won't be the next Gojo Satoru sounds about desirable rn. Vol-0 is a treasure trove of hints when we reread with new context. i hope i gave you new insight, or at least a fun read.

"

I can’t wait for Yuta vs Sukuna, the themes of strength, loneliness, love and modernity vs history finna clash like crazy

The Queen of Curses vs The King of Curses 😤😤😤

Furthermore Yuta as the previous MC whose succeeded despite contradictory themes with Sukuna…

"

[raaaweb]

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Select a Business Entity:

Private Limited Company

LLP (Limited Liability Partnership)

Sole Proprietorship

Legal Registration:

Register your company through the MCA portal.

Obtain PAN, TAN, and other relevant documents.

Apply for Tax and Business Licenses:

GST

FSSAI (if food-related)

MSME/Udyam registration

Fund Your Venture:

Bootstrap

Angel Investors

Startup India Seed Fund

Develop a Minimum Viable Product (MVP): Test your idea with real users before scaling.

Launch and Market Strategically: Use digital tools to reach your target audience.

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A startup in India can benefit greatly from government-sponsored programs that provide both financial and structural support:

Startup India Recognition: Offers easier compliance, IPR support, and tax exemptions.

Fund of Funds: Managed by SIDBI to boost funding opportunities through venture capital firms.

Atal Innovation Mission: Encourages innovation and incubation through schools, colleges, and community centers.

Ease of Doing Business: Reforms have made starting and running businesses smoother than before.

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India’s startup scene is expanding across various industries. If you’re unsure which domain to target, consider:

Healthtech and Wellness

FinTech and Digital Banking

AgriTech and Rural Innovation

GreenTech and Electric Mobility

Online Learning (EdTech)

Common Startup Hurdles

No startup journey is without challenges. Be prepared for:

Delays in regulatory approvals

Intense competition in crowded markets

Finding product-market fit

Hiring experienced professionals in early stages

Final Words

If you’re planning to establish a startup in India, you are stepping into a high-growth environment where ideas can flourish with the right execution. Leverage available resources, focus on solving real problems, and adapt quickly to changing market conditions. With persistence and innovation, your startup can grow from a local idea to a national or even global brand.

Quick Checklist:

Register under Startup India for recognition and benefits

Create a compelling MVP

Utilize digital marketing for visibility

Stay updated on compliance and legal norms

[megsiepoo]

Cult of the Lamb/Inscryption Crossover

Aka Hard-drive AU

The Lamb

The Lamb is a freelance software developer. They were hired by a mysterious organization called TOWW. They don't know anything about the organization besides the fact they pay well and they want a job done. The task? They are to investigate a floppy drive and hack into the code in order to discover any hidden secrets. It seems like an easy enough task until they discover the characters in-game are sentient and the things that are hidden on the disc might should stay that way.

Leshy

Leshy is the Scrybe of Beasts. A generally chaotic being, he likes to toy with the Lamb but mostly just wants them to play with him. He's very fond of games, however the Lamb learns that the game they are presented with is not the true game and there are other characters hidden within the cards. The Lamb beats Leshy in a game and manages to revert the game world back to its true state, revealing the other scrybes and unknowingly stepping closer to ending everything.

Heket

Heket is the Scrybe of Technology. She is a fearsome creature and is generally cruel and sarcastic, berating the Lamb as well as her fellow scrybes. Her cards are decent, not great not terrible, but the boss mechanic can present quite a challenge, especially if the Lamb has a powerful deck and is unable to defeat her before their cards change sides.

Kallamar

Kallamar is the Scrybe of Magic and is one of if not the most challenging bosses the Lamb faces. His decks are very rng based, moreso than with the other scrybes, which means it can take several attempts to defeat him and frequently leaves the Lamb frustrated anytime they have to deal with him. He's a coward and often warns the Lamb to close the game and go no further, begging them to turn back before they destroy everything.

Shamura

Shamura is the Scrybe of the Dead. A charismatic and cheerful being, they like to give riddles and have the Lamb perform puzzles in addition to the primary gameplay. They are one of the Lamb's favorite scrybes to visit, not just because they have the best cards, but they're also just very fun to be around and tend to give great advice. They can seem a bit flighty though, and while nice, they are not to be trifled with, making for an extremely challenging boss fight. They have the gift of prophecy, though the Lamb doesn't learn that till much later, and is working towards a hidden agenda that not even the other scrybes know about.

Narinder aka The Old Data

The Old Data is some code hidden deep within the game files. This is what TOWW has hired the Lamb to uncover. By converting the game back to its original format, the Lamb has made it easier for The Old Data to come through and influence the world, signs of his presence appearing in hidden corners of the map. If all of the scrybes are defeated, the game will break and The Old Data will become free, leading to disastrous consequences.

The Witnesses

This is a singular being that appears in a different form depending on which part of the map you're in, matching the scrybe that rules the area. They are a neutral being, incredibly aware of both the real world and the dangers of The Old Data, but understand how fickle the Lamb as a player is, offering warnings but not stopping them as they proceed.

Focalor

A minor npc the Lamb encounters in Shamura's domain, he was once a real world being just like the Lamb before dying and being reincarnated as an NPC within the game. While his code limits him and his abilities to interact within the game, he is still sentient. He was a developer at TOWW and originally discovered what was hidden within the game. He decided to alter the game into the format the Lamb originally sees, binding the scrybes onto playing cards and leaving Leshy in charge of things since he was the least likely to protest and cause problems. Though he didn't like Focalor's plan, he went along with it since he genuinely liked Focalor and really just likes having fun. Focalor also threatened to alter the game without getting Leshy's opinion on design and mechanics so might as well go along with it. He was sad that Focalor died but is glad that he's in the game. Shamura has a soft spot for Focalor, finding him charming albeit foolish, and Heket just likes making fun of him.

[pearls-gone-wild]

AI isn't

people. You can and should use people to train an AI, or monitor AI output and decisions, but fundamentally, AI is machines doing tasks. Anything else is not AI.

data analytics. 90% of the time, you don't need ChatGPT, you need Excel. In fact, there are quite a lot of things that ChatGPT is worse at than Excel, because Excel does what it's told, and only what it's told.

software engineers. AI tools like Copilot can be a force multiplier for software engineers, but it won't make up for not having enough developers on your team. Someone needs to tell the AI what to do, so forking hire them.

domain expertise. AI is not a very good reference for advanced areas of human knowledge (PhD and beyond). There's far less training data for the AI to learn from, and at that level, evidence and facts aren't completely clear. Sure, you can feed the latest scientific results to the AI, but it's not going to know if any given paper is bullshit because it's built on thoroughly disproven premises, or came out of a sketchy lab, or comes with so many conditions and requirements that it's useless IRL.

coming to kill us all. At least not of its own volition. AI is still taking orders from humans, and that should scare you more than Skynet.

This list is based on actual conversations I've had with people. I have been working with and on AI for 12 years, and in that time, AI capabilities have changed, but how people use it has not. Always look for the people behind it, in front of it, building it, running it, giving it orders.

[scbhagat]

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I've been back in Wichita for over a year, and my only bath has been taken in the river. People, are going to most likely have to die for me to continue to acknowledge the existence of gaiety, happiness, or the existence of divinity: which I am most certainly part divinity on my father's side of the family so that does become a mind boggling paradoxid moment for me when told or stated by self that "god does not exist".  When not to be described as human, we are to be spoken of and worshiped as gods. Sad & Sociopathic, but true. Everyone volunteering for the ministry probably should die. My level of corporate and any government employee working on my behalf, will always demand the Hailing of Satan. 

Hi. My grampa mined sulfur. Hi. I have to keep up on government contract.

We brought gunpowder to the political party (which has developed into an orgy). I'm not dead or ostracized. Everyone else is.

Ive gotten almost a definitive answer as to what has been going on with people, and why dish network is on the house. Ive also managed to get an idea as to all the talk in town. It seems my sibling has grandchildren: who were more of a personal problem for me than my sibling or her children. Once again: I wish I could drag them into court and sue, collecting a cute little check from everyone who's touched the house while they're all in debt working in the Graphite Mines. Perhaps sue them into slave debt and have them moved to Antarctica to dig platinum and gold out of a pyramid. However, it looks like hiring a student doctor to dissect their bodies after having them gunned down might be more of a down to earth answer.

Ive never been paid rent. What the kids did was profit through resource off me among my sisters and mother, throw me in a mental institute and move in. The women have done is fraudulently cash out life insurance policies, claimed spousal status, and produced offspring with the boys described as "retarded" who have been drugged since infancy. They've also misappropriated millions in government funds, lived off the government as felons with international terrorist status, while wreaking corporate havoc.

Bio Family are going to have to fork over that 2 thou per week since I was moved into the mental institution in 2008.

The only mental picture I can convey: is DeeDee in Dexter's lab. So: I've decided to subject them to all the sociopathy and psychopathy from the venues they've given me. There's plenty of violent femmes out there & not so much the band. So, everyone is looking at fraud charges at bare min. However there is this moment when nobody in the family could pass a lie detector test, and truth be told: the threat of having to take one is what scares them the most.

Vanessa...

My real estate agent isn't answering my emails. He might not know how to use a computer. His weblink on Zillow isn't working. He's an older gentleman so he might dead. I mean everyone else is. With Hazel Luinstra's death, I do not know if I'm an heir or not or what resource is there. I've tried contacting him through his website, I still have not sat with a proper terminal and cannot place a call. I have thought to psychostalk his domain a little and seek out his email. I need a banker, policeman, and realestate agent. The ones I would normally work with are all missing in action.

Dusty Rhodes.

I need to sell my house out from underneath my sister's family.

I might need to sell the entire city.

My mother has disappeared while traveling somewhere between Florida and Oregon. I was in Oregon between the Slutwalks through the FTP movement and left at the start of the Looting. When I got on the bus it was right after the station was commandeered and full of body bags: probably protestors who where leaving town to avoid terrorism charges, which get thrown there easily simply to get rid of entire groupings of problem people and political subversive social movements. I can only hope my charges of terrorism thrown at her: killed her and her ministers while her daughter and grandchildren maxed out her credit card and hacked into her online accounts. However with my luck, they're probably all shopping for firearms and conspiring against our lives.

This after having separated me from my home and starved my XXL butt down to a size medium. Can we please throw them in prison? Because if I have to see or speak to family outside of a courtroom it will result in Paliperidone and Insulin being made. My friends and I, want our medication more than money. We are all old, we are all tired, and we all carry or have a history of cannibal source prescriptions. In most cases, we all are never to be allowed near children, dogs, shiny objects or bright pretty colors and can be quite feral when left mortally offended.

Could someone remind my niece I am still mortally offended on a religious and political level that her toothbrush isn't made of bamboo? Could someone also bury a taser in her mouth on behalf of Gina? Remind her that her other hole is not to be named after other women in ways that are racist and anti-italian as well as anti-mohawk. Then throw that taser into that hole and remind her that her brother is not to be the father of her children. Then throw that taser on her spine and remind her that Uncle John does not appreciate her taking her mother's name and claiming spousal status when taking out credit cards, buying toothbrushes or calling Dish Network for cable service. Maybe we can sell the house with all my nieces in it and sell my nieces too as prostitute squa. I am sure there is a big fat 600 lb chulo from Cuba or Puerto Rico who would want to mount a 98lb Wichita Mohawk princess and put all the debt in Kansas on her.

That reminds me: they've been operating a peer-to-peer server and sharing porn/music, like most kids have. So they could naturally wake up as court ordered sex slaves on the cocaine market any day now.

Ive found a cute little property on 2nd and Martinsen. It's not posted as being on the market but it has been closed at least since the 90s. It probably closed in the 1950s due to inheritances and business and family disputes and it's probably stayed closed. The same thing is about to happen to the whole of Downtown Wichita.   1326 West 2nd Street. It is two Residential/Commerical buildings on the same city lot. If there is any resource we can muster to buy it off the owner? Am I already the owner? Can we put together the resource to buy, find out who the owner is, and offer them whatever until I have the right to occupy?

Better yet...

Can we hire the man who stole my identity to move into my house? Can we have him just sit there and fuck my neice who has now described me as a "sodomous pimp". He did sue me out of state for use of my name and work for family corporate and collect my checks while commanding my investment stock. I could always change my name and have him boning the demon spawn incest brats produced by my sister's big fat biggoted vaccuous hole at the base of her trunk that she lovingly calls her "vagina". I would imagine it to be more of an axe wound. She's sitting there with 5 or 6 children.

Im going to need more therapy.

You know, while collecting a big fat "Luinstra Check" off the resource called "Everything in Wichita just sold" and just moving to somewhere I can retire quietly and happily and lick my wounds like a cat would?

I'm not sure what to do. However it would help if I could speak to an Agent, Banker, and Cop at the same time. You know, sit in a park or have a drink or something.

Where is a justice of the peace?

I am about to propose another massacre and it would help if they removed everyone else's goddamn shit from my house. Theyre white trash and everything they touch has to be thrown away. Even the house at 510 W. Funston. The whole neighborhood, is about to go psychotic and homo with that cute little Rainbow Bridge and address published on my website. And... its about to go psychotic in ways that are hateful, evil, rude, malicious, unlovable, unlikable, and perfectly spiteful. It's about to have all the joy sucked right the fuck out of it.

I shit you not. 

It's called...

Everyone on the internet has been caught with over 500 terabytes of illegally shared digital media. Video movies, porn, cartoons, Music, Pictures, Data.

This is why I made a few sound files and shared them with police, while throwing it at Interscope. It's called: I was privy to the information that most Corporate Wichitans living elsewhere are perfectly at corporate war with the City, County and State of Kansas. So, its always a good idea to "be on the winning side of a lawsuit". In this case, it's while everyone in society 1 at a time is sued into slavery or butchered to make cannibal sourced pharmaceuticals.

[diinfotechdigital]

How to Evaluate the Cost of Hiring a Shopify Development Company

In the ever-evolving world of e-commerce, a well-optimized and visually appealing online store can make all the difference. Shopify, one of the leading e-commerce platforms, has become the go-to choice for businesses looking to establish a strong online presence. However, when it comes to building and maintaining a Shopify store, many businesses find themselves at a crossroads: Should they handle it in-house or hire a shopify development services?

The decision to hire a Shopify development company is often a wise one, as it can save time, reduce stress, and ensure a professional, feature-rich online store. Yet, with this decision comes an important consideration: the cost. How do you evaluate the cost of hiring a Shopify development company? Let's dive in.

1. Define Your Project Scope

Before you can even begin to assess costs, you must clearly define the scope of your Shopify project. Outline your goals, features, and requirements. Determine whether you need a new store built from scratch, a redesign, or specific customizations. The more detailed and precise your project scope, the easier it will be to obtain accurate cost estimates.

2. Identify Your Budget Constraints

Establishing a budget is a critical step in evaluating the cost of hiring a Shopify development company. Your budget will influence the type of services you can afford and the level of customization you can achieve. Be realistic about your financial constraints and communicate them clearly to potential development partners.

3. Request Multiple Quotes

Don't settle for the first Shopify development company you come across. Reach out to several reputable agencies and request detailed quotes for your project. Ensure that the quotes are itemized, specifying the cost of design, development, app integrations, maintenance, and any additional services.

4. Compare Services and Expertise

Not all Shopify development companies are created equal. Evaluate each company's expertise, portfolio, and the services they offer. Look for reviews and client testimonials to gauge their reputation and customer satisfaction. The more experienced and skilled the team, the higher the cost may be, but it often translates into better results.

5. Consider Ongoing Maintenance and Support

Beyond the initial development cost, factor in ongoing maintenance and support expenses. Shopify stores require regular updates, security patches, and technical support. shopify store development services Ask potential partners about their post-launch support packages and associated costs.

6. Beware of Hidden Costs

Be vigilant about hidden costs that can sneak up on you during the project. Ensure that the quotes you receive cover all necessary expenses, including third-party app subscriptions, domain registration, hosting fees, and any additional licenses.

7. Ask About Payment Structure

Different Shopify development companies may offer various payment structures. Some may require upfront payments, while others offer milestone-based payments. Determine which payment structure aligns best with your budget and cash flow.

8. Evaluate Long-Term Value

While it's important to consider the immediate cost of hiring a Shopify development company, also evaluate the long-term value they provide. A well-designed and maintained store can lead to increased sales and growth opportunities that far exceed the initial investment. shopify website development agency

In conclusion, evaluating the cost of hiring a Shopify development company requires careful consideration of your project scope, budget, and the value they bring to your e-commerce business. By following these steps and seeking transparent communication with potential partners, you can make an informed decision that ensures the success of your Shopify store for years to come. Remember, it's not just about the cost but also the return on investment that matters most in the world of e-commerce.

[darklordazalin]

Azalin Reviews: Darklord Malus Sceleris

Domain: Nosos Domain Formation: 732 BC Power Level:💀⚫⚫⚫⚫ Sources: Domains of Dread (2e), Islands of Terror (2e)

It is said that Darklords are the reflections of their Domain and none more so than Malus. Malus Sceleris, whose name roughly translates to “tree crime”, is the Darklord of Nosos, a stinking pile of refuse and burning coal.

Save for small patches of brown grass that grow in the estates of wealthy nobles on the outskirts of the city, no plant life can survive in the poisonous air and garbage choked earth of the disease-infested land of Nosos. In fact, Malus’s people only survive by trading gold and coal produced by their numerous mines with other Domains.

Malus is the son of two Druids who dedicated themselves to the protection of the same forest. His mother died in childbirth, leaving his father to raise him on his own. Not an easy task, especially when one must raise a child to carry on their legacies while maintaining rule of their Dominion.

As the life of any ruler is divided between the rule of the land and their family, Malus’s father spent little time with his child and the time he did spend was often times of instruction and discipline. A tale I am all too familiar with…

Malus did not take kindly to his constant discipline and the resentment that developed soon turned into poisonous hate. The young lad studied poisons and diseases until he came up with an elaborate plan to commit patricide.

He purchased old blankets that he contaminated with diseased wrappings from the terminally ill, dead bodies, and lepers. He then set up a lumber operation guarded by hired mercenaries, and instructed them to brutally tear down the trees of his father’s forest, knowing his father would come to defend it.

The old druid defended his forest and was severely injured while doing so. Malus cared for his wounds, using the diseased blankets and wrappings he had gathered to do so. Then he sat by his father’s side, silently watching as he died in agony.

With his father out of the picture, Malus opened a coal mine and set about deforesting the region. By the time the Mists came for him, the area was so choked in smoke that no one noticed.

As a Darklord, Malus continues to study disease and is said to be the most knowledgeable epidemiologist in all the Demiplanes. He can use a far more potent version of “cause disease” on any target and, though it causes him blinding headaches, he can use “charm” as well. Otherwise, he is a well-guarded nobleman who uses his oily charisma to deceive his people into believing he wants Nosos to thrive and become the great area it once was, not the stinking garbage heap it now is.

Malus’s Domain can appear at the edge of any other Domain he chooses. The last time he came near Darkon, I had to spend months and far too many resources cleaning out all the rivers…

Is Malus’s rebellion against his father worth a lifetime spent with the smell of refuse, constant plague, and depleting oxygen levels? He seems to pretend so. Enjoy your garbage heap, you greasy bastard. 1/5 Skulls.

[kanguin]

Honestly I want to add on that Discord isn't just a bad way to spread info and support about your project. Even confining the community to a Discord server ONLY can be detrimental to longevity of the community.

The problem with Discord-Server-Only communities is twofold:

Discord servers are private from the web and not web searchable. Effectively speaking, Discord servers are isolated caves that do not connect to the rest of the internet, not the rest of Discord. They are black boxes to the outside world and literally antithetical to the nature of the world wide web. While this is amazing for chat rooms and community centers for whom privacy is appreciated, such as among friend groups, gaming teams, support groups, and so on, it is actively stifling to open communities and development feedback, as everything said on the Discord server can only ever be found by searching the server itself. This can be compounded as an issue if developers and support for PUBLIC games and projects are only accessible on PRIVATE servers, essentially gatekeeping information. Anyone can be kicked or banned from a server at any time for any reason admins see fit, so every user is at constant risk of sudden cutoff from access to information.

Discord servers, being privately owned in nature, are way too easily deletable and lost. One bad day for a developer, one wrong move from an admin, one malicious act by a power-tripping admin, and poof, it's all gone. All discussions, all Q&As, all documentation, all photographs, all information held within, period, gone in the blink of an eye. And again, because they are privately owned, NOBODY BUT MODERATORS AND ADMINS CAN MAKE BACKUPS, NOR ARE THEY AUTOMATICALLY BACKED UP. Discord servers are high risk storage environments because storage of information is always at some sort of risk due to their nature.

I'm not saying that Discord is badly designed and should either not exist or be reworked from the ground up, I honestly don't know enough about its efficacy at its intended functions to say as much. In fact, I honestly believe Discord is a far better chatroom and voicecall service than Skype ever was, with the exception of animated emojis for non-premium users (I will always miss you, dancing roast turkey...). It's certainly better programmed than Skype's later updates (not that Microsoft's application development teams make that any sort of competition).

What I'm trying to say is that when you view Discord through the lens of its original intended use, Discord's design philosophy makes sense. The best way to design a chatroom and voicecall service for online gaming and social communities is to make millions of blind alcoves of information inaccessible from the wider internet. But that is the only usecase in which being designed that way is advantageous. A service like Discord cannot effectively and safely replace open web services like web forums, but it's made to by the simple fact many people have probably already thought of:

Most web domains cost money to license. Discord Servers don't. Even the ones that don't require technical knowhow for web design that today's average user lacks. When faced with the decision between either purchasing a web domain or hiring a web developer onto your team, or opening a free Discord server, indie game devs of today are going to do the latter 100% of the time. And I want to be clear, I'm not okay with this, I'm not defending this, I'm merely explaining.

If you are passionate about access to information and have a connection to a project, charity, game development, or other community that would best be web searchable, it's up to people like you to put pressure on these people to realize the risks they are taking and difficulty they by existing only on Discord. Put pressure on the admins to go onto the web and establish a more permanent community and archive of information.

And if by chance you're reading this and you're in charge of a project, program, or community that discusses information the public should have access to, please look into forums. No they're not relics, a lot of them are very modern in design and you may not even think of them as traditional forums. For instance, while it has its issues, Reddit is a forum, has a massive userbase already, and it can be very accessible to the wider web depending on the subreddit's settings. Consider setting up a subreddit for technical discussions, and another for memes and community building, and then a discord for community events and general live socializing. That way if Discord suddenly implodes one day and takes all servers with it, you won't lose everything. As it stands, even if Reddit implodes, much of its content can be web-archived by services like archive.org. Of course, the safest way to preserve your forum is to have your own independent one, or at least one hosted by a stable webhost that can easily be wholesale backed up and imported to a new host should the old one go down.

I know this was long, but I've been on the internet since childhood, I've used every type of service I've mentioned at the very least as a user. Some of my earliest memories on the web were in the early 00s lurking on Zoo Tycoon forums (many of which have since gone the way of the dodo themselves). So take it from me as the oldest end of Gen Z, take it from more experienced millennials, and make a forum. Please. We don't want to join your Discord server to search up one thing.

[seohostkingcom]

How to Choose the Best Content Management System (CMS) for Your Website or Online Store

Choosing the right Content Management System (CMS) for your website or online store from the start is important and essential to the project’s success. This is because the way the website or store is built is linked to everything related to it, including sales volume and project stability. Furthermore, switching from one system to another after the project has launched is very expensive and could lead to catastrophic failure if the budget is low. Therefore, in this article, we will introduce you to the criteria to consider when determining the best CMS for your situation. We will enrich the paragraphs with examples to help you choose one system over another based on the needs of the website you want to build. We will also explain how to rely on studying these criteria to determine the appropriate CMS.

1. Ease of Use

The ease of use of a CMS can be divided into two aspects: ease of setting up the website or store and ease of managing it. Since setup is done once, it shouldn’t be given significant weight when examining this criterion. However, since management is ongoing by the team, ease of management is the key factor. The primary consideration regarding ease of use is the ease of performing various routine actions, such as adding and editing content, updating software such as the system, template, and plugins, as well as troubleshooting issues, and other similar actions. It is preferable to test the ease of use of a CMS practically on a test site. For example, you can test the ease of use of WordPress and WooCommerce on a local server. The same applies to all open-source CMSs, such as Joomla, Magento, and Drupal. However, the ease of use of closed-source systems, such as Shopify, can be tested through a trial account or by purchasing one of its plans. Generally speaking, setting up an open-source CMS like WordPress requires more effort and is more difficult than setting up a closed-source CMS, due to the need to purchase hosting and a domain, install and configure the system. However, ease of management depends on the system’s tools. For example, WooCommerce and Shopify both feature numerous tools that make them easy to use for management, while Magento is more difficult to use because it is intended for larger companies that can afford to hire developers.

Security and performance are among the most important criteria for choosing a content management system

2. Security and performance

Speed and security are among the most important criteria to consider when choosing a CMS, regardless of the characteristics of the project or website you want to create, as they are linked to the success of any website. Therefore, when choosing a CMS, it is essential to ensure that it provides you with the ability to create a secure and fast website by providing the following features: - Easily install an SSL certificate to encrypt data exchanged between visitors and the website. - Install security plugins to secure the site from hacker attacks. - Backup and restore in case any errors occur on the site and cause damage. - Advanced authentication features to prevent unauthorized access to the control panel. - File compression to speed up sending to visitors upon request. - Caching to reduce server load and speed up data creation and transmission. Most popular open and closed source content management systems (CMSs), including WordPress, Shopify, Magento, and Drupal, offer most of these features by default or through plugins. However, before relying on a specific CMS to build your website or store, we recommend ensuring that it offers high-quality performance and security features with appropriate options. For example, when considering backup features, be sure to choose a system that supports this feature with the advanced options you need, such as the ability to schedule automatic backups, restore specific parts of the backup, and so on.

It’s important to consider customization capabilities when choosing the right CMS.

3. Customization Capabilities

Having a unique website or online store is essential to standing out from the competition, and a unique website can only be built with a CMS that offers good customization capabilities. So, when choosing the right CMS for you, make sure it offers sufficient customization options. In particular, if you want to create a unique website, it’s best to choose a system that has the following: - It has a good number of templates that can be installed on the site and used to design the interface. - It provides an easy and quick way or ways to customize it, such as by adjusting options, dragging and dropping, etc. - It allows customization through code to provide more advanced and personalized capabilities. Open-source CMSs are usually significantly better in terms of customization capabilities than closed-source systems, because their source code is publicly available. Therefore, they typically have a larger number of templates that can be used to design the interface, and the system can be modified programmatically to add features. Furthermore, there are a larger number of plugins integrated with them. For example, WordPress supports numerous customization capabilities, including a large number of available templates, the ability to customize them through the component editor, the customizer, and other methods, the ability to make design modifications based on the code of multiple languages, such as CSS, PHP, and JavaScript, as well as the ability to modify system tools and features, and develop custom plugins. Meanwhile, the Salla system offers a limited number of templates, does not support the ability to modify system options programmatically, and has fewer customization methods and features.

4. Scalability

The vast majority of projects, including websites and online stores, start small and then grow. As any project grows, it requires additional resources and features that may not be needed initially and may not be clear that they will be needed in the future. For this reason, it is essential to choose a CMS that is scalable. Scalability refers to the ability to increase the resources of the server running the website to maintain good performance and speed and prevent downtime when the number of visitors increases. Scalability also includes the ability to add additional features, functions, and tools by installing ready-made plugins, developing custom plugins, or writing custom code, as well as integrating with external services such as payment gateways, shipping company systems, etc. Regarding scaling server resources, this depends on the hosting company, whether it is the same company as the content management system (CMS), such as Shopify, or a different one, as is the case with open-source CMSs such as WordPress. Generally speaking, it is preferable to rely on cloud hosting because it offers greater flexibility when scaling. Regarding scaling features and tools, the situation is similar to the case of customization capabilities. Open-source CMSs are characterized by greater scalability thanks to the large number of free and paid plugins available, the ability to develop custom plugins, and the ability to modify the system itself and add new functionality to it programmatically.

Support is an important criterion when choosing a content management system

5. Ways to get help

Using any content management system to manage a website or store, solve problems that may arise, and improve it may not be possible initially without assistance and support. Therefore, it is important to carefully consider the support aspect and ways to obtain assistance when choosing a content management system. There are many forms of support that can be provided by content management systems, the most prominent of which are: - Documentation and explanations: These include the official knowledge bases provided by the CMS developer, as well as articles and textual and visual explanations available online. It is essential to evaluate the quality of knowledge bases, as well as the availability of informal articles and explanations, as they represent a quick and free means of self-support that is likely to be relied upon more than other means in the beginning. - Online forums: This includes official and unofficial forums where you can post your question or problem and receive assistance through answers provided in the comments. Examples include the Arab WordPress Forum and the official WordPress Forum. You should also evaluate the availability of these forums and the quality of assistance provided. - Technical Support: This refers to the technical support provided by the developer or system experts, free of charge or for a fee. They help you implement a specific procedure on your site or have it implemented by them instead of you. It is important to consider this aspect of support because sometimes you may need help from an expert or hire one due to a lack of time. It is worth noting that the various forms of support we mentioned above are usually more available for popular content management systems such as WordPress and Shopify, while less popular systems provide less available support. Regarding the quality of support, this depends on many factors and should be studied separately for each CMS.

Balance cost with value when choosing the right CMS

6. Cost

Cost is an important aspect of websites, especially in the beginning, as project budgets are low and there may not be any expected financial return in the near future. Therefore, it is essential to ensure that you choose the most appropriate CMS in terms of cost. You should not choose the cheapest system to save money without considering other aspects, such as features, tools, and ease of use. Nor should you choose the CMS with the most and best features without considering cost. To determine the best option for you, you should look for the cheapest content management system (CMS) that provides you with the features and functionality you need to create, manage, operate, and optimize your website efficiently. You can use the following tips to find the right system: - Make sure to allocate a sufficient budget for the CMS, and do not sacrifice the basic features and functionality you need in exchange for a cheaper price. - Make sure to calculate the total cost of using the CMS to run the website, not just the startup or licensing costs, including hosting, domain, plugins, templates, and support. - Try to get the most value for your money, and be sure to study the value you’ll receive by evaluating how important the system’s offerings are to your needs.

7. Special Features

In addition to the factors mentioned above, you should study your need for special features, taking into account the extent to which the CMS supports them. For example, if you want to create an online store to sell virtual products, you’ll need the CMS to support an easy way to deliver products to customers, such as allowing them to be downloaded directly from the store after purchase. Likewise, if you want to rely on SEO to promote your website or store, you must ensure you choose a content management system that is SEO-friendly and provides tools and features that facilitate SEO-compliant optimization of the website and its content. The same applies to all other special features your website may require. It’s not necessary for the CMS to provide special features within the default tools; you can choose a system that provides the features you need through free or paid add-ons, depending on your criteria and other features. In addition to the above, it’s important to consider updates and user reviews. Updates should be released at an appropriate frequency, ensuring that problems are fixed and features are added to keep the system up to date. Updates should not be released unnecessarily. It’s important to ensure that previous users have provided positive reviews of the system, and that the flaws mentioned in negative reviews don’t affect your site. First, look for content management systems (CMSs) that provide the basic functionality you want. If you want to create an online store, look for systems specifically designed for creating an online store. If you want to create a blog, look for systems specifically designed for creating a blog. Next, compile the CMSs you think might be suitable for your situation and exclude those you don’t think are suitable at all, based on the basic information you learned about them during your research. Now, examine the extent to which the remaining systems meet the criteria we mentioned above, consider the specific features you need for your site or store, and then choose the CMS that’s best for you. You’ll likely find more than one content management system (CMS) that’s right for you. WordPress will almost certainly be one of them, or the most suitable, because it strongly meets the criteria we’ve outlined, is suitable for a variety of website types, and is the best system for meeting the specific features needed by websites and stores of all kinds, thanks to its high customization capabilities and extreme scalability. Thus, you’ve chosen the CMS that’s best for you. After selecting the appropriate system, it’s best to test it extensively by creating a pilot project similar to the one you’ll be using it for, and ensure it’s actually suitable for the website or store you’re looking to build. Read the full article

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Top 5 Reasons to Join the Digital Marketing Program Powai Today

In today’s fast-paced digital economy, having the right skills can make all the difference between blending in and standing out. Whether you're a student, working professional, entrepreneur, or freelancer, mastering digital marketing can open doors to endless career and business opportunities.

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1. Agency-Style Learning That Mirrors the Real World

Unlike traditional classroom setups, Digital Scholar offers a unique agency-style learning model. From day one, you’ll be grouped into teams, assigned real-world projects, and work as though you're part of a digital marketing agency.

This practical, immersive approach prepares you for actual job scenarios, boosts confidence, and enhances problem-solving and teamwork skills — essential traits in any digital marketing role.

2. Industry-Leading Curriculum Designed by Experts

The digital marketing program Powai covers every major domain of digital marketing:

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Social Media Marketing

Google & Meta Ads

Email Marketing

Content Strategy

Affiliate & Influencer Marketing

Marketing Automation

AI Tools (including ChatGPT for marketers)

The curriculum is developed and led by Sorav Jain, one of India’s top digital marketers, ensuring you learn the most up-to-date and practical skills that employers are looking for.

3. 100% Placement Support & Freelance Training

Digital Scholar is known for its strong career support. Once you complete the course, you’ll get:

Access to 400+ hiring partners

Resume and LinkedIn profile optimization

Mock interviews and job prep sessions

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Why Pharma Consultants Are Crucial for Modern Pharmaceutical Setups

Setting up or expanding a pharmaceutical business is not just about machines and manpower it's about aligning every element with strict compliance, safety, and operational efficiency. This is where expert pharmaceutical consultants play a game-changing role. From plant layout and regulatory approvals to validation and documentation, the right guidance can save both time and cost while ensuring top-tier quality.

What Makes a Top Pharma Consultant Different?

Not all consultants offer the same value. A top pharma consultant doesn’t just follow templates they understand your business model, scale, and therapeutic area. What sets them apart is their ability to tailor systems, processes, and plant layouts based on your specific goals.

Project-Specific Strategy: They don’t use cookie-cutter solutions. Every detail is built from scratch based on need.

Compliance Expertise: Whether it's WHO-GMP, US-FDA, or EU-GMP, they prepare your systems to pass audits the first time.

Time-Bound Execution: With better planning and coordination, they help you stick to strict timelines.

Cost Control: Their experience helps prevent unnecessary expenses in design, procurement, and documentation.

Areas Where Pharma Consultants Make an Impact

Pharmaceutical consultancy isn’t limited to one area. A well-rounded pharma consultant brings value across multiple domains, including:

1. Facility Design & Layout

They assist in creating production-friendly and regulation-compliant layouts for various manufacturing units whether sterile, non-sterile, or hormone-based. Every movement of material and personnel is mapped to avoid contamination and ensure smooth operations.

2. Regulatory Compliance

Consultants play a critical role in aligning your systems with the latest guidelines. They help generate necessary documentation like SOPs, BMRs, equipment qualification protocols, and validation reports that are audit-ready.

3. HVAC and Cleanroom Systems

For any pharma facility, maintaining cleanliness class (ISO 7/8, etc.) is a must. Consultants guide on HVAC design, air handling unit (AHU) selection, pressure zoning, and contamination control strategies.

4. Equipment Selection

With their industry contacts and technical know-how, consultants can help choose the right machinery—balancing quality, efficiency, and budget.

5. Project Coordination

They act as a central point between architects, contractors, validation experts, and your internal teams—ensuring all departments are on the same page.

Why Mid-Sized Pharma Companies Rely Heavily on Consultants

Mid-sized companies often don’t have in-house expertise in plant design, documentation, or audit prep. Hiring a top pharma consultant ensures they receive expert-level input without maintaining a large internal team.

This helps in:

Avoiding costly mistakes

Reducing setup time

Ensuring long-term sustainability

Achieving compliance from Day 1

Understanding the Role of a Pharma Consultant

Pharma consultants are specialized professionals who help pharma companies design, develop, and run compliant and efficient operations. They are well-versed in GMP guidelines, WHO standards, FDA protocols, and everything in between.

Rather than working in silos, they collaborate with various teams—engineering, production, quality assurance, and regulatory affairs—to build a streamlined process that meets international benchmarks.

Real-World Example: Launching a Sterile Injectable Plant

Let’s say a company wants to build a sterile injectable manufacturing facility. The challenges are many—cleanroom design, HVAC zoning, water systems, aseptic area classification, and pressure balancing.

A professional pharma consultant helps by:

Creating a flow-optimized layout

Selecting appropriate cleanroom panels and HVAC components

Drafting all validation and qualification documents

Preparing for regulatory audits from the design phase itself

This makes the process smooth and structured, reducing last-minute delays and compliance risks.

Emerging Areas Where Consultants Are In Demand

As the industry evolves, pharma consultants are being called upon in newer domains:

Biologics and Biosimilars: With higher sensitivity to contamination and complex production steps

Herbal and Ayurvedic Plants: To align traditional medicine with modern compliance

Veterinary Pharma: Where production scale and quality control are equally critical

R&D Labs: Designing labs that meet NABL or GLP standards

In each of these segments, a top pharma consultant brings domain-specific insights that can drastically improve the outcome of the project.

Key Qualities to Look for in a Pharma Consultant

If you're planning to onboard a consultant, look for the following qualities:

Proven Experience: Projects successfully delivered across formats (API, formulation, sterile, herbal)

Multidisciplinary Team: Should include engineers, microbiologists, validation experts, and regulatory professionals

Regulatory Awareness: Up-to-date with latest GMP, WHO, US-FDA, EU regulations

Good Communication: Ability to coordinate with your team and vendors effectively

Long-Term Benefits of Hiring a Consultant

The return on investment is clear when you hire the right expert. Apart from immediate setup support, a pharma consultant helps you build a strong foundation that can:

Withstand future audits with minimal changes

Scale smoothly with additional product lines

Maintain consistent product quality

Improve operational efficiency year after year

conclusion

The pharmaceutical industry is only getting more competitive—and more regulated. Businesses that try to handle everything in-house often face delays, audit failures, or inefficient systems. On the other hand, those who invest early in the right consulting partner enjoy smoother execution, better compliance, and faster growth.

With the guidance of a top pharma consultant and a technically sound pharma consultant team by your side, you can confidently build a future-ready facility that meets international standards and delivers long-term value.

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This reblog of this post came across my dash yesterday, I casually looked this up, and while this is pretty strange, I'm hard-pressed to see where the scam actually is.

So this is the original article about the girl who supposedly names Chinese babies, who is not this lady and whose name is Beau Jessup, from the BBC.

Then Buzzfeed has this article about some questionable things they see about this girl's website.

It's worth noting that several other usually reputable news sites also ran stories similar to the BBC's, and as far as I can tell, none of them have been redacted in any way, and also as far as I can tell, Buzzfeed is the only organization calling this out at all. That doesn't necessarily mean that Buzzfeed is wrong, but I'm just pointing that out.

The Buzzfeed article doesn't really outline how this is definitely a scam, it just points out some odd stuff about the website. IMO, stock photos on a website put together by a teenager is not really a red flag of any kind - Buzzfeed seems to think that some of the photos are meant to be pictures of "employees" working for this girl, but like, she was 16 and all of the other articles are presenting this like she is doing this on her own, and not actually running a company or employing anyone, other than hiring a freelance web developer to make the site. (The Chinese text on the site claims that she is the CEO of a company, but does not mention any employees. Or rather, that's what it did claim at the time of the Buzzfeed article - there are no longer any stock photos on the website and the layout seems to have changed since then.) One interesting thing Buzzfeed does find is that the website is owned by her father's company - they claim there's an actually completely reasonable explanation for why this is the case, which is that you have to own a Chinese bank account to get a Chinese domain name and she can't get a Chinese bank account because she's 16 and lives in the UK. That sounds totally believable to me, and either Buzzfeed didn't discover this was false, or they just didn't check at all. The father's company is also about educating Chinese people about western culture, so sure, it seems like maybe it's not so much that she is doing this on her own as that her father is actually running this.

Except... the website doesn't actually seem to be doing business. According to what Buzzfeed found, it didn't have much traffic according to Alexa, and most actual Chinese people were not aware that the website existed until after it was reported on. Also, the number given for the number of babies named is impossible if you are going with the idea that this was done by one person in the span of time during which the website's domain name was even registered, but a CNBC article is claiming that the generation of the actual names is done automatically using a fairly simple database lookup, so she doesn't actually have to do this manually (and if you go to the modern 2024 website, you can indeed get a list of names with just a few clicks). It looks like they put in the absolute minimum amount of effort necessary to get the website on a Chinese domain name and visible in China and that might have been it.

So, if the website is not actually doing any business and no one who can read the language its written in knows it exists, it's hard to see where this could be scamming anyone. Was it just bait for news articles like this? The articles don't even mention her father's company, so it's hard to see what the point of that could be. Is it a front for something? Maybe they were hoping the news coverage would make Chinese people aware of the website and hook the first clients, but like, the father already runs a business targeting Chinese people, so you would think he would have no trouble getting his daughter's site out there. Was this just a ploy to beef up the daughter's future resume? Or, maybe Alexa and/or Buzzfeed was wrong about the site traffic for some reason, and Chinese people are in fact using it. I have no idea. It's kind of strange, mainly just because of the site traffic stats, but I think it's probably not a scam. The technical details of what the CNBC article describes her doing with the automatic name choosing system are simple enough that it would probably actually be more effort to set up a scam than just write an algorithm and populate a database to do what she claims she's doing.

I wish this was my job.