#Product documentation system

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Currently searching up a list of foods with Vitamin K not to better my own health but to find out which foods might make Gallifreyans have mild to severe reactions 🧐 @fatelesschild

[prabishaconsulting1]

2D Animation Services in London by Prabisha Consulting

Introduction In today's digital world, video content is one of the most effective ways to capture your audience’s attention. 2D animation is particularly powerful because of its ability to communicate complex ideas in an engaging and visually appealing way. Prabisha Consulting offers high-quality 2D animation services in London, tailored to meet your business needs and help you connect with your audience in a creative and memorable way.

The Power of 2D Animation 2D animation London is a versatile form of visual storytelling that can be used for various purposes, from promotional videos to explainer content. This form of animation is often more affordable and quicker to produce compared to other types, making it an ideal choice for businesses looking for high-quality, yet budget-friendly solutions. At Prabisha Consulting, we specialise in creating 2D animations that not only look great but also serve your specific marketing and communication goals.

Our 2D Animation Process At Prabisha Consulting, we follow a clear and efficient process to ensure that your 2D animation is created to the highest standards:

Initial Consultation: We begin by understanding your project requirements, business goals, and the message you want to convey through the animation.

Concept Development: Our team works with you to develop an animation concept that aligns with your brand’s identity and objectives.

Storyboarding: A storyboard is created to visualise the flow of the animation, giving you a clear idea of the final product before production begins.

Animation Production: We bring the concept to life with skilled animators, ensuring smooth transitions, vibrant visuals, and a high-quality end result.

Final Edits & Delivery: Once the animation is complete, we provide you with the final version in your preferred format, ready for distribution across your chosen platforms.

Why Choose Prabisha Consulting for 2D Animation?

Experienced Team: Our team of expert animators has years of experience in creating 2D animations for a wide range of industries.

Customised Approach: We offer tailored services to ensure that the animation aligns with your brand’s tone, style, and objectives.

High-Quality Results: We use the latest animation tools and techniques to produce visually stunning animations that capture attention and deliver results.

Affordable Services: We strive to provide high-quality animation services at competitive prices, ensuring that businesses of all sizes can benefit from our expertise.

Conclusion Prabisha Consulting offers professional 2D animation services in London, designed to help businesses create engaging, informative, and visually appealing content. Whether you're looking to explain a product, promote a service, or share your brand’s story, our 2D animation services are the perfect solution. Let us bring your ideas to life with animation that speaks to your audience and enhances your brand’s presence.

[cjgladback]

[ID: Short video of two identical 3D rendered eight-inch C-clamps, upright on a taupe background. The body of the clamps is black cast iron while the parts that would move are copper. The clamps and camera are unmoving but overlays wipe transition from right to left, first a gradient over the background then wireframes over the clamps. The closer clamp has a much more detailed mesh, primarily grids of four-sided polygons, very dense on the screw-threaded shaft. The back clamp's shaft is a simple cylinder and it has many triangles visible on the body. The final overlay labels the back clamp with 4.77 thousand tris, the foreground clamp 71.09 thousand tris or 1.14 million tris when subdivided twice. The loop finishes by removing the gradient and then the overlays. End ID]

So about that "maybe I'll make an LOD1 of the clamp, too" thought. I now get to figure out where I should offer this as an asset for purchase and how I should format that deliverable. Ko-fi will be the easy option since they already have my payment information, whereas Sketchfab has some traffic coming in for the freebies already so it would make sense to offer there as long as fees or time overhead isn't obscene. If you have advice as a seller or purchaser of 3D assets, please feel free to share!

[batboyblog]

Things the Biden-Harris Administration Did This Week #39

October 18-25 2024.

President Biden issued the first presidential apology on behalf of the federal government to America's Native American population for the Indian boarding school policy. For 150 years the federal government operated a system of schools which aimed to destroy Native culture through the forced assimilation of native children. At these schools students faced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, and close to 1,000 died. The Biden-Harris Administration has been historic for Native and Tribal rights. From the appointment of the first ever Native American cabinet member, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, to the investment of $46 billion dollars on tribal land, to 200 new co-stewardship agreements. The last 4 years have seen a historic investment in and expansion of tribal rights.

The Biden-Harris Administration proposed a new rule which would make contraceptive medication (the pill) free over the counter with most Insurance. The new rule would ban cost sharing for contraception products, including the pill, condoms, and emergency contraception. On top of over the counter medications, the new rule will also strength protections for prescribed contraception without cost sharing as well.

The EPA announced its finalized rule strengthening standards for lead paint dust in pre-1978 housing and child care facilities. There is no safe level of exposure to lead particularly for children who can suffer long term developmental consequences from lead exposure. The new standards set the lowest level of lead particle that can be identified by a lab as the standard for lead abatement. It's estimated 31 million homes built before the ban on lead paint in 1978 have lead paint and 3.8 million of those have one or more children under the age of 6. The new rule will mean 1.2 million fewer people, including over 300,000 children will not be exposed to lead particles every year. This comes after the Biden-Harris Administration announced its goal to remove and replace all lead pipes in America by the end of the decade.

The Department of Transportation announced a $50 million dollar fine against American Airlines for its treatment of disabled passengers and their wheelchairs. The fine stems from a number of incidences of humiliating and unfair treatment of passages between 2019 and 2023, as well as video documented evidence of mishandling wheelchairs and damaging them. Half the fine will go to replacing such damaged wheelchairs. The Biden administration has leveled a historic number of fines against the airlines ($225 million) for their failures. It also published a Airline Passengers with Disabilities Bill of Rights, passed a new rule accessible lavatories on aircraft, and is working on a rule to require airlines to replace lost or damaged wheelchairs with equal equipment at once.

The Department of Energy announced $430 million dollars to help boost domestic clean energy manufacturing in former coal communities. This invests in projects in 15 different communities, in places like Texas, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Michigan. The plan will bring about 1,900 new jobs in communities struggling with the loss of coal. Projects include making insulation out of recycled cardboard, low carbon cement production, and industrial fiber hemp processing.

The Department of Transportation announced $4.2 billion in new infrastructure investment. The money will go to 44 projects across the country. For example the MBTA will get $400 million to replace the 92 year old Draw 1 bridge and renovate North Station.

The Department of Transportation announced nearly $200 million to replace aging natural gas pipes. Leaking gas lines represent a serious public health risk and also cost costumers. Planned replacements in Georgia and North Carolina for example will save the average costumer there over $900 on their gas bill a year. Replacing leaking lines will also remove 1,000 metric tons of methane pollution, annually.

The Department of the Interior announced $244 million to address legacy pollution in Pennsylvania coal country. This comes on top of $400 million invested earlier this year. This investment will help close dangerous mine shafts, reclaim unstable slopes, improve water quality by treating acid mine drainage, and restore water supplies damaged by mining.

Data shows that President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (passed with Vice-President Harris' tie breaking vote) has saved seniors $1 billion dollars on out-of-pocket drug costs. Seniors with certain high priced drugs saw their yearly out of pocket costs capped at $3,500 for 2024. In 2024 all seniors using Medicare Part D will see their out of pocket costs capped at $2,000 for the year. It's estimated if the $2,000 cap had been in effect this year 4.6 million seniors would have hit it by June and not have had to pay any more for medication for the rest of the year.

The Department of Education announced a new proposed rule to bring student debt relief for 8 million struggling borrowers. The Biden-Harris Administration has managed despite road blocks from Republicans in Congress, the courts and law suits from Republican states to bring student loan forgiveness to 5 million Americans so far through different programs. This latest rule would take into account many financial hardships faced by people to determine if they qualify to have their student loans forgiven. The final rule cannot be finalized before 2025 meaning its fate will be decided at the election.

The Department of Agriculture announced $1.5 billion in 92 partner-driven conservation projects. These projects aim at making farming more susceptible and environmental friendly, 16 projects are about water conservation in the West, 6 support use of innovative technologies to reduce enteric methane emissions in livestock. $100 million has been earmarked for Tribal-led projects.

[crazydiscostu]

Google Assistant Tips For Audio/Smart Glasses

There’s no end to the resources online for getting to grips with Google Assistant. We should know, we’ve authored a few! But it’s time we highlighted a game-changer within this space – the integration of Bluetooth Audio Glasses! Wearable tech is changing the way we interact with the world around us. We’ll make suggestions and provide top tips for getting the most out of this powerful…

[ponett]

Any opinion on the Pokemon Gigaleak or nah?

I think seeing some of the WIP assets from when gen 3 was in development is kinda neat, because Game Freak is normally so secretive about that kind of thing. But beyond that I mostly just find this whole situation tiring.

Fans have a tendency to almost treat scrapped material as "more canon" than whatever actually made it into the finished product, in a way. It's treated as this pure, unfiltered insight into the creators' true vision. In reality, most of the time this stuff gets cut for a reason. Sometimes they very quickly realize it was a bad idea that was never gonna work, and they don't go very far with it. Sometimes it's a pitch from just one guy on the team that was never gonna get accepted. Sometimes they're just spitballing. Experimentation and iteration and knowing when to cut things are integral parts of the artistic process.

And hell, a lot of the time creators will just mess around with an idea purely as a creative exercise, or to get an idea out of their system, or to explore a crazy what-if scenario, or even just as a joke, with no intention of ever actually using those ideas. We recently saw this same thing happened with those leaked Rebecca Sugar sketches, where people were like "OMG Rebecca ships this, this is what they REALLY wanted to do with the show, this is canon, this was happening off-screen!!" And it's like, y'all have no idea how much crazy shit your favorite artists draw with their characters just to amuse themselves. The crew on Clarence had a not-so-secret Tumblr where they redrew scenes from Evangelion with Clarence characters. That doesn't mean they wanted to turn Clarence into Eva. They were just screwing around. This happens all the time, and with way more extreme examples than these. Lord knows how many Disney animators have drawn Mickey Mouse with his dick out over the years. That doesn't mean they ever actually wanted to make an official Mickey Mouse porno.

And, of course, there's the response to those myths that were never supposed to see the light of day. Anyone who's even passingly familiar with mythology from just about any part of the world shouldn't be surprised to hear fables about humans and animals having babies or whatever. But now people are responding to those unused stories and going "OMG Game Freak is a bunch of gooners who want humans and Pokemon to have sex!! This is canon!!!" It's so fucking tiring. So much of the modern internet, particularly Twitter, is driven by people who just want an excuse to whip out their favorite shocked/disgusted reaction image and ham up their reaction to something that isn't actually all that shocking. Everyone just wants to get their funny dunks in and feign moral superiority. It's childish. And it's because of reactions like this that this stuff was never supposed to see the light of day in the first place. But fans feel like they're owed every single shred of info from the development of their favorite franchises, so these leaks happen and people run wild with them.

(It also doesn't help that this is all just sourced back to a 4chan thread, so people were posting fake shit between the real leaks and muddying the waters. And also most of it is in Japanese, so people are just sticking documents through Google Translate and going "whooooaaaa this is canon")

[sulettaofficial]

I'm an RPG nerd so I want to add to this post.

First, I (believe) you can purchase Lancer here (they have like five sites, guys chill)

Second, Beam Saber is another Gundam inspired mecha franchise, which you can purchase here (DriveThru) or here (itch.io)

I haven't played either, but I've heard great things about Beam Saber. Occasionally I hear Lancer mentioned as well. If you love Gundam and have your own personal idea for "Man, it'd be so cool if Sunrise did an AU where (something something giant mecha fights)." then consider dragging your friends into TTRPG hell and making a homebrewed setting! <3

(Hey FTC agent, I'm just an RPG nerd, not a sponsored shill <3)

8 alternative ttrpg systems to play instead of d&d:

1. Icon (inspired by Final Fantasy video games)

2. Thirsty Sword Lesbians

3. Lancer RPG (inspired by Mobile Suit Gundam and other Mech Suit franchises)

4. Avatar Legends

5. Coyote & Crow

6. CBR PNK

7. .dungeon

8. Wanderhome

[thelawandmore]

How iManage Cloud Helped Asian Development Bank's Office of the General Counsel Achieve Huge Productivity Gains 

How iManage Cloud Helped Asian Development Bank's Office of the General Counsel Achieve Huge Productivity Gains

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank that aims to reduce poverty and promote economic and social development in Asia and the Pacific. The Office of the General Counsel (OGC) provides legal advice and services to ADB and its members on a wide range of matters, including project financing, institutional governance, dispute resolution, and environmental and social…

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: No tweets

[at JK Rowling's Scottish castle] JK Rowling: Ha ha! Look at me! I'm possting on the internet! Rowling: "esstrogen turns normal men into rampaging ape beastss!" agent: joanne! stop! agent: you're posting too close to the sun! Rowling: "Gamer ssockss are AGP!"

Rowling: ha ha no one can ssstop me! Rowling: I'm JK fuckin' Rowling! Rowling: I'm a beautiful animal!! Rowling: watch this, i'm gonna poke imane khelif with thisss ssstick agent: joanne! no! Rowling: don't worry, itss a really long ssstick Rowling: i'll be fine!

Rowling: [poking imane khelif with stick] ha ha you like that, you liminal creature? you congenital eunuch? ha ha what are you gonna do about it? Khelif: that's it! Khelif: you've woke the dragon, now prepare to feel her breath!

Rowling: ha ha what're you gonna do? hit me with your massssive tessstosterone fissstss? Khelif: you and me, rowling! three rounds! sudden death match in the arena... Rowling: haha Khelif: the arena of the legal system! Rowling: Rowling: uh oh

Khelif: i'm taking you to court Rowling: Rowling: Rowling: [sweats] wayon jennings narrative voice: now ol' joanne's got herself in a heap o' trouble. how's that dang ol' snake gonna slither her way outta this mess?

JK Rowling: [shoving documents into a shredder] quick! ssshred it all!! shred fucking everything! Julie Bindel: but dark lord what should we tell your followers?! Bindel: they'll be expecting some patented jk rowling hot takes! Rowling: i don't know, jusst sstall them!!!

[mysterious circle of robed figures] Bindel: i've called this meeting to come up w a reason why the dark lord isn't tweeting Kathleen Stock: maybe we can say she's getting her castle fumigated? Bindel: no we used that when she posted the 'no toilets in hogwarts' tweet

Jesse Singal: oo! oo! i've got one! Singal: what if we say that 'having achieved all of her goals and ambitions, she has decided to retire forever' Bindel: no no that won't work Stock: could we just say that she's brumating?

Kathleen Stock: wait! what if we said she's on vacation? Bindel: hmm i like it! Stock: we could even embellish it with plausible details for additional verisimilitude! Bindel: like that she's... eating vodka-infused candy floss! Stock: exactly! that's very believable!

[midnight society] Barker: interesting, joanne hasn't tweeted in like 2 weeks Barker: seems kind of unusual King: oh i'm sure it's nothing Barker: looks like she's actually deleting tweets King: oh King: huh King: i wonder what that's all about?

Julie Bindel: [rising from bushes] ACTUALLY Jk rowling is actually on a jolly vacation right now so that's why she's not tweeting Bindel: it has nothing to do with any lawsuit! it's totally legit! King: where's she vacationing? Bindel: she's visiting her girlfriend in canada

Bindel: see, i have this postcard right here that she sent saying that she's having a great time on her vacation in vacationia and she's too busy to tweet! Barker: hey can i see that postcard? Bindel: um Bindel: no

Bindel: joanne says that she's having too much fun eating vodka-infused candy floss to be transphobic right now King: wow! i don't think i've ever seen her have THAT much fun before! King: this vodka-infused candy floss must be lit!

Barker: so you're telling me Barker: that jk rowling is right now drunk on vodka-infused candy floss Barker: a product which i am definitely sure exists and is real Barker: and being drunk has made her less vocally transphobic? Bindel: Bindel: [sweats] yes

[antrika]

A Comprehensive Guide into Product Documentation System

Are you creating how-to guides, blogs, and informative videos to educate your customers? Great! But does that answer all of your product-based questions? That’s where a centralized product documentation system steps in! It is an important resource bridging the gap between products, internal teams, and end users. It often includes materials like user manuals, training resources, technical guidelines, and more to answer customers’ questions in one platform and enhance the product’s value.

Implementing an effective product document management solution through a product documentation system improves user experience, plays an essential role in developing brand loyalty, and has been prone to minimizing customer churn. However, by offering concise, clear, and accessible information, product documentation can assist users in overcoming challenges with the product, discovering new features, and being more satisfied when their issues are solved with easy-to-follow steps and details. It also helps the technical team keep a record of the solutions implemented through multiple folders.

Sounds interesting? In this blog, we will guide you through essential aspects of the product management app for a better understanding of the product documentation system.

What is a Product Documentation System?

A product documentation system serves as a user manual that aids customers in determining what your product is about and how it operates. It includes guides for troubleshooting and feature updates to keep customers engaged throughout the process. Some product documents can also work as use cases or examples to explain to users how each feature works or can help them achieve their target through a product documentation system.

Moreover, it is integral to product management by offering a reference point for internal teams and end users. In addition, product managers can integrate a customer feedback system with product document management tools to inform and update users with relevant context. This tool is helpful for product development teams that constantly work to improve products or launch new features with features like multiple folders and historical data.

However, before you begin creating relevant product documents, they must meet a few requirements, such as:

1. Purpose: Why are you building? And who is it catered to?

2. Features: What have you created? Or what do you plan to build?

3. Launch goals: Your objectives for launching a feature or product

4. Timeline: Mention estimated time for product release

Why Do You Need a Product Documentation System?

While a customer feedback system helps organizations identify the common patterns in users’ needs and expectations, increased support requests or confusion with your features post-launch can increase customer churn frustration. This is why it is important for businesses to prioritize product document management tools that foster creating documents in response to solving or offering tips to resolve consumers’ issues.

Additionally, a streamlined product management app has the potential to enhance the onboarding process and keep customer support tickets lower by providing user-friendly and informative documents that solve every query as a trusted internal knowledge base. However, a product document is not only beneficial for customers but also simplifies the product development cycle for internal teams. Let us explore benefits from both perspectives.

A) Customer Benefits

It is essential to highlight your product’s benefits, features, functionalities, and other aspects. When you communicate these factors clearly and make them easily accessible to your users, they are more likely to stay satisfied with your product. Let us explore a range of benefits that product documents offer end users.

1. Simplifies Onboarding Procedure

If you are a SaaS-based company, then your consumers may have a million questions about features and other aspects while they are onboard. Through a seamless product management app with product documentation system, help your customers find accurate answers to their initial potential questions. Customers can easily refer to the documents with specific categories and understand how to implement specific features effortlessly.

2. Discover Accurate Answers in Real-time

Customers can easily avoid constantly contacting the support team for guidance and specific answers. They do not have to send emails, chat, or get on a call with any representative. Instead, a centralized knowledge base, like a product document management tool, looks after users’ challenges and questions that consumers may encounter while utilizing the software.

3. Serves as a Reliable Central Resource

A product documentation system offered by Antrika acts as a central product manual or informational source for customers. You can return to this source even after the onboarding stage to check use cases, instructions, updates, and more to enhance your experience with the product.

B) Internal Development Team Benefits

1. Protects Product Information

As a product development team with a product documentation system, you can retrieve multiple product information into varied folders to secure sensitive data. This can be possible through product document management software, which ensures that this information is accessible to only limited users — your internal team members. Furthermore, this enables teams to cooperate and make the right decisions based on historical data from these folders.

2. Minimizes Burnout & Foster Team Productivity

Developing a robust product document enables the support team to avoid burnout. They do not have to deal with consumers’ questions back and forth regarding products, as the documentation tends to fulfill their job. Hence, they can prioritize covering issues that are likely to result in customer loss and focus on building better customer relationships.

3. Improves Product Knowledge Among Team

By implementing Antrika’s robust product documentation system, product managers can ensure that all the team members are well-versed in the overall evolution of the product and can access details on its diverse versions through documents retrieved in varied folders. Having limited visibility and reference points to every piece of information can help the internal technical team understand the product’s whereabouts, and the support team can better guide users whenever required.

Top Practices to Develop Effective Product Documents

1. Understand your Audience

Organizations must identify and understand the audience thoroughly before building a product vision and strategy for documents. Are you considering creating documents for your internal team? Then consider mentioning technical aspects, purpose, link data from previous versions, ideas, and more to educate your sales, marketing, support, product development, and more team.

On the other hand, if you are considering creating documents for your users then identify their level of technical proficiency and include aspects that can solve their queries all at once. Identify your audience, goal and purpose for creating product documents and consider updating them promptly with a few predefined document templates.

2. Identify Accurate Type and Structure for the Document

Depending on your target audience, consider resolving questions or educating them with adequate type and structure of the document. For instance, if you are creating a product document for your end users, guides, case uses, how-to documents, FAQs, and more can be helpful.

On the other hand, if your goal is to collaborate with your internal team in the product planning process, incorporate internal documentation, feature, or marketing-specific documentation to ensure your team members are on the same page and collectively make adequate decisions for every product development cycle with a product documentation system.

3. Utilize Pre-defined Templates

Leveraging a pre-defined template can be an effective practice for generating product documents. These templates often involve varied sections to highlight the product’s purpose, features, technical requirements, and more to help internal teams make the document quick and accurate. Additionally, the template includes other aspects like factors to determine stakeholders’ inputs, software test-based strategies, and the overall timeframe for the development.

Additionally, with these templates, product teams can easily optimize the document creation process, foster consistency throughout all the documents, and create an effective roadmap to align the product vision and strategy with stakeholders’ perspectives. Moreover, this enables managers to offer clear and concise product documents, which can further be a reliable resource throughout the development lifecycle with a product documentation system.

4. Keep Your Product Documents Updated

Creating product documents is an ongoing process. Your strategies tend to correlate with each other, so having accurate details of every version plays a crucial role in product development. As products evolve, documentation must reflect the current state of the product and its features.

However, managers must regularly review the documents to ensure documents from all categories or folders have accurate information. Considering tracking changes, testing the product documentation system for accuracy, and collaborating with other teams in this process can identify important aspects.

Final Thoughts on Product Documentation System

Streamline your product development process through the product documentation system by creating effective documents through a product documentation system. These documents can bridge the gap between your product and user and resolve their issues by offering seamless guidance under one platform. It also aids in creating effective roadmap using templates and collaborating with varied teams through well-structured docs.

Do you want to learn more about product documents? Contact us or schedule a demo call today!

[friendlyneighborhoodshark]

"How to Life" Masterlist

Cleaning and Tidying

Make your bed in the morning. It takes seconds, and it's worth it.

Reset to zero each morning.

Use the UFYH 20/10 system for clearing your shit.

Have a 'drop-zone' box where you dump anything and everything. At the beginning/end of the day, clear it out and put that shit away.

Automate your chores. Have a cleaning schedule and assign 15mins daily to do whatever cleaning tasks are set for that day. Set a timer and do it once the timer is up, finish the task you're on and leave it for the day.

Fold your clothes straight out of the tumble dryer (if you use one), whilst they're still warm. This minimises creases and eliminates the need for ironing.

Clean your footwear regularly and you'll feel like a champ.

Organisation and Productivity

Learn from Eisenhower's Importance/Urgency matrix.

Try out the two-minute rule and the Pomodoro technique.

Use. A. Planner. (Or Google Calendar, if that's more your thing.)

Try bullet journalling.

Keep a notebook/journal/commonplace book to dump your brain contents in on the regular.

Set morning alarms at two-minute intervals rather than five, and stick your alarm on the other side of the room. It's brutal, but it works.

Set three main goals each day, with one of them being your #1 priority. Don't overload your to-do list or you'll hit overload paralysis and procrastinate.

If you're in a slump, however, don't be afraid to put things like "shower" on your to do list - that may be a big enough goal in itself, and that's okay.

Have a physical inbox - a tray, a folder, whatever. If you get a piece of paper, stick it in there and sort through it at the end of the week.

Consider utilising the GTD System, or a variation of it.

Try timeboxing.

Have a morning routine, and guard that quiet time ferociously.

Have a folder for all your important documents and letters, organised by topic (e.g. medical, bank, university, work, identification). At the front of this folder, have a sheet of paper with all the key information written on it, such as your GP's details, your passport details, driving licence details, bank account number, insurance number(s), and so on.

Schedule working time and down time alike, in the balance that works for you.

Money

Have. A. God. Damn. Budget.

Use a money tracker like toshl, mint, or splitwise. Enter all expenses asap! (You will forget, otherwise.)

Have a 'money date' each week, where you sort through your finances from the past seven days and then add it to a spreadsheet. This will help you identify your spending patterns and whether your budget is actually working or not.

Pack your own frickin' lunch like a grown-up and stop buying so many takeaway coffees. Keep snacks in your bag.

Food and Cooking

Know how to cook the basics: a starch, a protein, a vegetable, and a sauce.

Simple, one-pot meals ("a grain, a green, and a bean") are a godsend.

Batch cook and freeze. Make your own 'microwave meals'.

Buy dried goods to save money - rice and beans are a pittance.

Consider Meatless Mondays; it's healthier, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly.

Learn which fruits and vegetables are cheapest at your store, and build a standard weekly menu around those. (Also remember that frozen vegetables are cheap and healthy.)

Learn seasoning combinations. Different seasoning, even with the exact same ingredients, can make a dish seem completely new.

Misc

Have a stock email-writing format.

Want to start running, but find it boring? Try Zombies, Run!.

Keep a goddamn first aid kit and learn how to use it.

Update your CV regularly.

Keep a selection of stamps and standard envelopes for unexpected posting needs. (It happens more regularly than you would think!)

[probablyasocialecologist]

Meta has engaged in a “systemic and global” censorship of pro-Palestinian content since the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war on 7 October, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW). In a scathing 51-page report, the organization documented and reviewed more than a thousand reported instances of Meta removing content and suspending or permanently banning accounts on Facebook and Instagram. The company exhibited “six key patterns of undue censorship” of content in support of Palestine and Palestinians, including the taking down of posts, stories and comments; disabling accounts; restricting users’ ability to interact with others’ posts; and “shadow banning”, where the visibility and reach of a person’s material is significantly reduced, according to HRW. Examples it cites include content originating from more than 60 countries, mostly in English, and all in “peaceful support of Palestine, expressed in diverse ways”. Even HRW’s own posts seeking examples of online censorship were flagged as spam, the report said. “Censorship of content related to Palestine on Instagram and Facebook is systemic and global [and] Meta’s inconsistent enforcement of its own policies led to the erroneous removal of content about Palestine,” the group said in the report, citing “erroneous implementation, overreliance on automated tools to moderate content, and undue government influence over content removals” as the roots of the problem.

[...]

Users of Meta’s products have documented what they say is technological bias in favor of pro-Israel content and against pro-Palestinian posts. Instagram’s translation software replaced “Palestinian” followed by the Arabic phrase “Praise be to Allah” to “Palestinian terrorists” in English. WhatsApp’s AI, when asked to generate images of Palestinian boys and girls, created cartoon children with guns, whereas its images Israeli children did not include firearms.

[sbcdh]

The discovery that hypnotic states could be used for market regulatory purposes was nothing short of a revolution for the Federal Reseve. in June 1968, Initial experiments with "financial clairvoyance" were conducted.

The original methodology was fairly simple: fully trained subjects would be placed in a sensory deprivation tank and undergo hypnosonic neuro-induction to the point of sub-finantial emanation. Subjects would remain attuned for 24 hours, at which point they would be de-emanated, and their experiences recorded via interview.

This methodology proved to be an expensive disaster. Repeated cycles of emanation and de-emanation had a catastrophic effect on mental cohesion. On average, subjects would begin to show signs of neuro-depatterning within the first 50 dives, and would slip into permanent catatonia by 350 dives.

Additionally, recovered documents from the period show that information from a single Plutophant was only accurate to within a 2.2i Murdoch deviations, and the interview method introduced a further 5.1i of uncertainty. While experimental attempts to record brain activity directly were underway, technology was primitive, often harmful to the subject, or necessitated invasive surgical modification. Even then, transchronological brain activity proved uniquely difficult to record.

Then, a breakthrough.

The 1960 nationwide upgrade of the minuteman nuclear system was underway, which created a surplus of IBM Drum Storage Drives. Drives that were largely donated to research institutions under the purview of project Clover. With some modifications, the cyclical nature these drum drives proved to be ideal for recording changes in transchronological neuropatterning.

These "Radio-Magnetic Neurological Sensory Arrays" were the predecessor to the modern neuroscope. The first production example, the IBM Y-2, was the size of an entire room, requiring enormous amounts of power and several trained technicians to process the thoughts of a single Plutophant into a human-readable form.

Study is ongoing.

[phoebejaysims]

Boutique Mod - DOWNLOAD

Inspired by the sims 2 shopping for clothes system, I present a sims 3 take on buying clothes, accessories and running a thriving boutique! Set up shifts, keep the racks stocked, and you might find yourself in profit!

Required:

Ambitions

NRAAS Master Controller + Integration Module

Optional:

ITF if you want to use the clothes mannequin and some visual effects.

Late Night if you want the animations for the security guard.

Seasons for extra interactions on the mannequin.

Savvy Seller Set for some visual and audio effects.

Full Documentation is included in the download. I spent a while writing it out, so please read thoroughly!

How Stores Work:

Set up a shift

Hire Employees (bosses count as employees so stores are fully functional with only one sim!)

Link at least one rack to the register

Open for business!

Employees:

Store employees can be given three types of roles: register attendant, sales attendant and security guard.

Employees will do their jobs automatically but you can always manually tell them to do things too like: restocking, dressing up mannequins, helping customers, among other things.

Customers:

Inactive and active sims can browse through the racks and have the ability to purchase items. They'll interact differently depending on if they are shopping at a clothes rack, accessory rack, or at a mannequin.

Inactives won't purchase outfits from mannequins unless you direct them to (or you enable auto-purchasing in the XML). However, they may "fake" buy clothes.

Once finished shopping, customers hold their bags and wait to be rung up! Take too long and they may abandon their purchase.

Shopping:

Adjust prices and restrict customers by age and gender to customise your store!

Clothes Racks:

Buy Clothes for your own sim, sims in your household, or (if you're an employee) suggest clothes for customers.

Employees that suggest clothes for customers can fulfil Ambition Stylist jobs this way.

Accessories Racks:

Choose accessories to be sold by adding them to the XML in the package file. The XML comes loaded with a few base game items already plus a couple modded items (Arsil's Sunglasses and lipstick - that won't be loaded unless you have them installed).

Sell buy-mode items as well as CAS items!

Make your CAS items wearable from your sim's inventory using your own meshes or my dummy accessory (see Documentation and XML for details).

Blacklist certain categories from being shown. If you want a dedicated shoe shop or an opticians, you can have it!

Try on products before buying them to see if they suit your sim. If there's a mirror in the room, they'll check themselves out in it.

Clothing Mannequin:

Try on the mannequin outfits to see if they suit your sim.

Plan different outfits to display and even set them to be rotated through seasonally.

Let your employees be creative and choose a random outfit for the mannequin to wear.

Buy clothes for your own sim, household members, or customers.

Allow or disallow inactives from automatically purchasing display outfits.

Security Gates:

Give your security guards something to stand and look threatening by.

You can try your luck at stealing from the shop. If you're caught, you'll have to pay up. If you get past the gates (or if there are no gates), enjoy your bounty!

Boutique Door:

Cloned from the Savvy Seller doors without the annoying 'kick-every-last-person-out-the-building-come-closing-time' feature.

Link this to a register and let the open and close sign automatically flip itself. Also, close the store or rename it, straight from the door.

Phone Interactions:

Ask for time off work (paid or unpaid).

Call in sick.

Cancel vacation days.

Credits and Thanks:

@dhalsims for adding geostates to the ITF rack for me. Modders, I really recommend her if you need any 3D models made also!

DouglasVeiga for the BG rack with the geostates.

@aroundthesims for allowing me to use her objects in my mod as always!

Sims 4 for all the animations that I converted.

Simstate & merchant mods for the idea to go into a mode to link racks to the register.

The OG shop for clothes mod and pedestal by @anitmb.

Arsil and @zoeoe-sims for wearable CAS items idea that I adapted.

Ani's Candle mod & Amb. Makeover XML which I looked at for inspo on how to do accessory rack xml.

Compatibility:

All new objects so shouldn't conflict with anything really.

Removes the 'plan outfit' interaction from dressers.

Made on version 1.67.

If you would like to donate as thanks, please feel free to do so at: my kofi! I don't take your generosity for granted!

Download: - Simblr.cc - 2t3 Boutique Mod Suggested Extra CC: - Lyralei's TS2 Conversions (incl. clothes changing booth) - More ATS3 Security Gates - ATS3 Friperie Set

Known issues, prop information and the full feature breakdown are all in the documentation.

Please be patient with me if there are bugs to fix. Also, anyone who DMs me "I don't know how to create a new shift" will be immediately fined £150.

With that said, please enjoy the mod and tag me in your beautiful boutiques,

Phoebe :)