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Hey everyone!

Founder and creator of a site called Politarian.com. A free website for people who like to make political predictions; letting people post who they think will win in a future election.

Complete Anonymity: Make predictions with full anonymity – your account details stay private. Predict the Future: Dive into predicting federal and state elections for 2023-2024. Decode the paths to victory. Public or Private: Share your predictions publicly or keep them all to yourself – it's your call. Candidate Insights: Access comprehensive candidate info – news, endorsements, bios – everything to make sharp predictions.

Politarian is nonpartisan regarding any political party; rather focusing on transparency, holistic information, accountability, and a simple-to-use interface as to navigate the complex political landscape.

I would appreciate any feedback and look forward to seeing your predictions on Politarian.com!

Update: 1.1: Hey y’all! We just made an update to Politarian.com!! We added Social Media to the candidate profiles. Hope you guys can join us in making a primary prediction for the 2024 election :)

Update: 1.2: We have become more enlightened! I've made changes to the Map and added a counter along with a progression bar so you know the total votes. Let me know what you think!

Years ago, I was developing my first project, an evolution simulator, and decided to look for initial testers among experts and enthusiasts - individuals with actual insight from subreddits like r/Aquariums, r/biology, r/Evolution and r/Botany. This steered the development in the right direction from the start and provided me with valuable feedback and suggestions before releasing it to the wider public. Almost a decade later, I am working on similar idea, but focused entirely on realistic gardening and very in-depth plant simulation - and this time, I am looking for anyone with experience and knowledge in the fields of plants, botany, and gardening to join the closed alpha testing. You can check the project so far after two years at https://store.steampowered.com/app/2052790 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOj17MNSjTI

Gardener utilizes my original algorithms, which have been developed (and 'battle-hardened') over years for the evolution simulation, to procedurally generate each and every plant. No two trees are identical, each plant is unique, and every leaf, flower, fruit, and twig is simulated separately with its own DNA, conditions, and state. I am simulating hydration (the ground can be saturated with water, temperature and grass length affect evaporation, etc.), sunlight access (shade affects growth), ground pH levels, and six base nutrients (N, P, K, Ca, Fe, Mg). There are pests, diseases, and fungi to prevent, alongside realistic visual/behavioral signs of these problems on plants. Plants can be pruned at every node, allowing you to collect, grow, and farm particularly interesting specimens, and perform all the actual botanical maintenance activities, from training to grafting. Gardens can also be designed with sustainability in mind, attracting local fauna that either assists in pollination or simply enjoys the habitat.

However, I am not a professional gardener. I have a small garden that I enjoy tending to, but while I have some understanding of population genetics, I am not an expert in gardening. If you have experience with plants, knowledge or suggestions you would like to share, or if you just want to play with the simulation and provide feedback, please let me know, I'll provide a Steam key for testing. Keep in mind that the game is in early development; it has many bugs and missing content, and everything is subject to change. But if you are interested in shaping it and don't mind unbalanced gameplay that might crash from time to time, please check it out or add it to your wishlist to wait for a more stable version. Everyone who participates will keep the title in their Steam library after the release, along with some other closed-alpha tester perks.

While I am primarily looking for suggestions related to mechanics, design, and balancing, the testing will also greatly help me to iron out bugs and crashes. But don't worry if you're not interested in reporting them, there's an automatic system that takes care of that, so every playthrough directly helps, even if it simply results in a crash. I also have a Discord server with a couple hundred users, where I'm happy to help and answer any questions 24/7.

^(*I've checked the rules of this subreddit, and I hope this post doesn't violate any. This is my solo indie project, and Reddit is the only way for me to reach out to people with this kind of interest and a PC capable of testing it. I don't have a marketing budget, and I prefer to spend my time developing Gardener rather than promoting it, so I'm just cross-posting across Reddit in the hopes of finding brave souls interested in testing it. Please don't regard this as spam — I don't plan to post about it here again. Thank you!)

Hi, I'm a member of Climate Changemakers, and we are spreading the word on the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants the government has set up that will help state and local governments combat climate change by funding decarbonization initiatives, especially those that deliver an economic boost to, or otherwise support, low-income and disadvantaged communities. The types of projects that qualify for the grants span every economic sector, from transportation, to energy, to buildings, to industrial processes.
This is something state and local governments need to apply for in order to take advantage of them. So at Climate Changemakers we have been contacting our officials at the state and local level in order to make sure that happens. And we are also spreading the word to ask that all you all that read this please do so as well. We are all in this together, and we can get through this together.
If you have any questions I'll do my best to answer them. Thank you for your time.

Regen Tribe is an organization seeking to accelerate the shift into Regenerative EcoCommunities.

They've already done a lot of great work, you can check them out here: https://regentribe.org/

If you like what they're doing, they're looking for all sorts of like-minded people to add their magick to the solution. They're also doing a round of fundraising on GitCoin, and every penny counts (even tiny donations help show community interest and get matched by the GitCoin grant program). There are also some other great orgs on this round of Climate Action funding.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz2EhpVILeH/?img_index=1

https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/10/0x5eb890e41c8d2cff75ea942085e406bb90016561

So for the last two years my family has made it so hard for me to marry my current partner because he is from Ghana and i’m from Guinea. Yet we are both muslim…

It’s sad that these things can still happen. I constantly struggled with the idea of choosing between my happiness and the happiness of my family because I knew they wouldn’t support me. Not even those I felt closest to before my fathers passing.

As a muslim we are never supposed to discriminate and although it was the most stressful two years of my life.

I decided in the end to choose my happiness. Getting married inshallah this year❤️

In 4 days there will be a very special live discussion with Michelle Medeiros, part of Greenpeace International and Susanne Moser, leading expert on climate change adaptation.

It's free! Reserve your spot here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/pulpfilms/884424

Not your usual Q&A! You will be participating in a Work That Reconnect facilitated discussion, where you will get the chance to express your thoughts and go through a process to transform difficult emotions in front of climate change into positive actions.

It's a workshop that accompanies the documentary Once You Know about climate collapse & resilience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPpTvOykUq4

Don't miss it! It's happening on April 23 at 9am EST / 3pm CET. Replay will be available.

Please take my 2 min long survey on resilience for my research project! It's anonymous and I want to know what situations the general public thinks demonstrate resilience so this is the best place to get answers!

https://forms.gle/FYLwDigrQAJRgFBL9

Just rate the three scenarios on if you think they demonstrate resilience. Thank you!!

Heya, wanted to share this here!

For Earth Month, you can watch Once You Know online. It is a story about personal and collective resilience in the face of energy depletion, climate change, and other systemics risks.

You can watch the film for free and participate to a very special live discussion with Michelle Medeiros, part of Greenpeace International management team and Susanne Moser, protagonist of the film and leading expert on climate change adaptation.

Dates:
📷Film available April 3 to 23
📷Live event on April 23 at 9am EST / 3pm CET. View your time zone here. Replay available.

Book your tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/pulpfilms/884424

Hope to see ya there!!!

Explain the concept of resilient community islands as it relates to energy and water

Study: We aim to study how families of veterans deal with challenging times!

The Family Flex Study is being conducted by researchers at Teachers College, Columbia University, we want to hear from spouses and children (aged 11-17) of veterans (anyone who has previously completed service in the active military, naval, or air service and was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable).

The study will be conducted completely online via zoom and comprises of 3 visits, each visit will be 2 hours long (1-hour for adult, 1-hour for adolescent). For the full visit, your family will be able to claim $150 for participation for completing all study procedures including three time points within a year ($50 per family per visit or $25 per person per visit once both visits are completed).

We appreciate your time and commitment for our research! We look forward to seeing you in the study soon.

Please reach out to familyflexstudy@gmail.com or at (929) 266-5064 if you have any questions. Begin survey by clicking HERE.

Sincerely,

Family Flex Study

The Resilience Youth Network is a nonprofit whose mission is to develop the next generation of leaders in climate resilience through education, developing networks, and providing opportunities for action. We have recently launched a free, 9-month virtual fellowship program for upper level high schoolers and college students. The program teaches about climate change and its effects, adaptation solutions, and advocacy skills. Interested individuals can learn more on our website or dm me with questions. https://resilienceyouthnetwork.org/fellowship/

[SECOND AND FINAL POST] Dr. Julia Dodd in the STARH Lab at East Tennessee State University is conducting an anonymous study on people in the United States’ physical and mental well-being and their resilience. We are interested in getting information from any person 18 years or older who lives in the United States. The questions will be about physical health, mental health, and stressful life experiences such as sexual abuse or assault, and all responses will be completely confidential. If at any point you feel uncomfortable or upset by the survey questions, resources are provided below and at the end of the study. This survey should take around 30 minutes to complete. At the end of the survey, you can choose to be entered into a drawing to win one of four $25 Amazon electronic gift cards. If you choose to be entered into the drawing, you will need to click the link at the end of the survey to enter your email address. This link will take you to another survey where you can share your email. Your email address will not be linked with your survey responses in any way, and will be kept completely confidential (i.e., will not be shared with any other entities).

If you have any questions or concerns about this study, please feel free to contact the principal investigator, Dr. Julia Dodd, at doddjc@etsu.edu or (423)439-4847.

Thank you for considering participating in this research. Please click the following link if you wish to be taken to the survey: https://etsuredcap.etsu.edu/surveys/?s=PM3DFE7KAKCWRJET

Dr. Julia Dodd in the STARH Lab at East Tennessee State University is conducting an anonymous study on people in the United States’ physical and mental well-being and their resilience. We are interested in getting information from any person 18 years or older who lives in the United States. The questions will be about physical health, mental health, and stressful life experiences such as sexual abuse or assault, and all responses will be completely confidential. If at any point you feel uncomfortable or upset by the survey questions, resources are provided below and at the end of the study. This survey should take around 30 minutes to complete. At the end of the survey, you can choose to be entered into a drawing to win one of four $25 Amazon electronic gift cards. If you choose to be entered into the drawing, you will need to click the link at the end of the survey to enter your email address. This link will take you to another survey where you can share your email. Your email address will not be linked with your survey responses in any way, and will be kept completely confidential (i.e., will not be shared with any other entities).

If you have any questions or concerns about this study, please feel free to contact the principal investigator, Dr. Julia Dodd, at doddjc@etsu.edu or (423)439-4847.

Thank you for considering participating in this research. Please click the following link if you wish to be taken to the survey: https://etsuredcap.etsu.edu/surveys/?s=PM3DFE7KAKCWRJET

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The link to the IRB approved informed consent is attached here