Hi and welcome to my presentation about the magical world of modularity so yeah so I see new faces all faces and new faces and you know like always present this technology as something magical and red but you know like most of us who already experienced it or worked with it you know it's like something like this yeah so basically yeah who am I I'm Martin to lay as I've already said I'm a senior software engineer on the redhead and also product owner of software management at Redhead which includes also modularity and other projects so yeah so yeah we talked like maybe you heard about modularity maybe not so it's yeah what it is exactly so modularity was a project which was conceived through the notion that we wanted to include basically multiple different flavors of software in a RPM repository or basically it's an auxiliary packaging method which you can use for for doing exactly this for example let's let's take pearl normally when you have a standard stable distribution let's say like Fedora you have only one major version of package so and it's supported for for the whole lifetime of this distribution but what we wanted to do is basically let's say I want to include more pearls not only one but also I want to call the package pearl so we have like three packages of pearl and you know like when you do it this the standard way it's a conflict and bad things happen so yeah so basically you can also imagine what what modularity enables is basically that it puts repository inside your repository so yeah so the problem with modularity is that in the already existing packaging ecosystem it introduced a lot of nomenclature which people didn't know and I will try to explain at least basics like like people always talk in modularity about modules but what exactly is a module so don't forget that in modularity I use a lot of fancy words but we still talk about packages about RPM packages and such so what is module basically like the definition is like module is one or more sets of software packages which can be described in one name or something like that so each of those each of each set of those software packages is called a module stream which is another word so we have a module and then a module stream which are two different things but basically module defines all the module streams inside it so yeah so what is a module stream module stream yeah so module stream represents RPM packages which which are built and bundled together yeah so each module stream consists of RPM binary files and metadata YAML file this is important because if you have only the binary files like RPM files you cannot install them without the metadata like DNF or YAML or whatever they'll not allow you to do that because all the RPMs which are built let's say in Fedora or other distributions have a failsafe inside it which you know doesn't allow you to do that this is by design because the metadata the YAML file describes other configuration options for this set of packages and of course this metadata as I wrote is not a part of the RPM files headers like it was in like like it's standard when you are just working with packages yeah so the second thing is the that you know when you you know I again I used a lot of fancy words like you maybe you cannot imagine how this looks like in your directory when you're just working with RPM files but basically you can have a module you can also think about the module like a meta package so basically you can just put a bunch of RPMs in a directory and just create a YAML file which will describe this this bunch of RPM files they can be any RPM file don't they don't have to be part of a module or they can just be a non-modular standard content which you can find in any RPM base distribution of course the way how those packages are built or what are the dependencies and that's your problem you know you have to know how they interact together so you can basically do that yeah one thing what I need to mention is that there is so much about modularity that I will not be able to cover all of it so I just giving you the like the main like highlights like what you need to know to start and then you can look at our documentation which was updated recently so try it yeah as I already talked about the failsafe basically also like the failsafe is just a string inside the RPM binary RPM header which says that I'm from a module so I cannot be installed by myself yeah so as I said earlier modularity brought a lot of new nomenclature into everything and modules or module streams are named differently they don't use the never convention of course the RPM files inside the module stream still use the never convention so it's fine but the whole bunch or the group of those RPM files uses a different naming convention which is called NSVC which is named stream and a version context so for for like quickly go through this you know the module is defined by its name so as I said a module contains multiple sets of RPM files which which are bundled and built together each of those sets is called a stream so then you have like name stream so you have an additional thing like like I explained there like you use Perl 524 and Perl 526 of course when you have something like that in Fedora and you want to use you can use only one of those yeah you cannot use 524 and also 526 because how your system will know like which one to use so basically you will choose like okay so I want to enable this module Perl 524 and what will happen inside your system it will it will basically mask all the it will it will it will mask all the non-modular content which is which has something to do with Perl and we'll just use the RPMs from this stream yeah I know it's complicated next is module version basically module version tells us which of the module streams is the latest one it mostly it depends of course if you are building it locally or you are building in a distribution in Fedora we use the timestamp of the git commit that you are building from so module version is basically that you know DNF can look at the modules and say okay so you know order them by by version I know which is the newest one and I can update your packages yeah context this is the I would say biggest like thing that people will understand how this works as I said previously module streams is a set of packages which are built and bundles and installed together so context in this metadata file that I mentioned earlier define how actually you are setting up your you are setting up your your build route how you what do you need what dependencies you do you need actually to be installed together with those and so on so context is like a configuration for this specific set of packages so for example you can have you know context can be different configurations for different distros for different set of modular dependencies which I will not go into here because it's too much to go through so yeah next is yeah breakage in conflict the one thing that you need to imagine that normally people are used to Linux distribution that it stable so people when we're working on a distribution they do all the things they they you know update their packages and so on and they agree like okay so for this distribution we will have only this version of software and you know we will support it until until end of the distribution fine everyone is fine with this and you know the packages are trying to do that they will not break other people packages so so that basically the distribution is stable with modules you can actually break your distribution because you you still have the stable distribution but you can enable like let's say with pearl let's say you have in the standard distribution you have 524 which is like non-modular not in a module just a normal package but let's say you will say okay I need for my I don't know something for my application 526 so I will enable the the I will enable the stream 526 the 524 non-modular will be replaced by 2026 which is fine but it is if the if the packageer didn't you know check all the possibilities he can like change your how how other people other packages are interacting with this pearl which is a different version and there can be a breakage so this is this is something to keep in mind that if you are using modules like it's like alternative software so if you are using those please keep in mind that breakage and conflicts can can appear also when you have like there are multiple things we have some mentioned on the documentation on in Fedora like the conflicts and breakage and so on so you can look at those there yeah so one additional I already spoke about that you can have all enabled only one stream at the time so when you have module like pearl and you have 524 pearl and 526 when you enable 524 you you are not you cannot use packages for from 526 because it will not not you know then I will say like no the idea have this enabled and I will not do other packages yeah and I already talked about packages yeah it's a little bit harder because you know we have more software to get stable which with the distribution but yeah yeah building module so as I already said you you can just take any RPMs you have put them into directory put a YAML file run create a repo see and you have like a module building locally module build we have a tool called module build it's still like like fresh it's like I the first version was released in January or February so but we are we are improving it we added like building from source RPMs and so on and then we have like building Fedora there is a link to the to the official documentation in Fedora if you yeah if you look at the Fedora documentation and you so see something that is that you don't know or you need to add to this documentation please write to us on Fedora level to me to modularity team there is our contacts on the documentation so please please please we want like input from people outside of you know that and like mostly community yes and then we have additional tool which is also you can install it in Fedora it's called module MD tools if you want just like quick like tooling which will enable you to work with modules yeah this is again links and yeah we have also modular metadata YAML specs so if you want to like build your own YAML without the distribution you can just check about this this document there is everything is commented and then described yes and that's all thanks so questions no it's not yeah so the question was like if if someone will bring will create let's say module and this module will when you enable it and you know run it it will let's say break your system that some of your system applications will not work like who is responsible for this yeah so so as I said previously how it works right now in Fedora or other distributions that that packages are collaborating together with normal content not modular content only normal content which they basically agree like okay so I did this change to your software and I see okay we changed the API and it broke something else so we need to work on it so the release will be stable so this is the same for modules like modules modules are not something modules are not something like different from RPN there are still RPNs the package of this particular software which I put to the distribution is responsible for the fact that it works in this environment and that's where I test it yes right and then there is another movement in the same distribution at the same time right where people are building some modules with some software libraries of different versions something something something right and I'm as a package I don't want to know about these modules yeah of course so so you are responsible that your module will work with the stable non-modular packages you are not responsible that you have to be you know because because the metrics when you think about it the metrics is like freedom and dimensional and it's crazy so no no no you are responsible only for your module to work with the base distribution if it works then that's fine if someone will open like use other modules and then will you use your module and everything will be broken then you know it's on the person who basically set up it in this way so I mean maybe I'm not asking about like who to blame right but I mean how to bring this to a usable state where I as a user can see oh there are modules available to these distributions and I can enable them and nothing bad will happen because something you cannot do that you like there is no automatic process where you can like create modules and say like they will never break anything yeah like like you know you have you have modules which are more stable let's say Postgres like we have like like free free streams in Fedora which basically when you you know install one then if you own install it and install another one from another stream they don't really break you know anything they are just like databases so this is fine but yes as if you had a little pearl yeah it can happen yeah yeah that's why it's as I the start that was like me means you know like always like it's fine so yeah just a short question so why would I want this what's the use case or it depends because you know like I you know I know when I did examples with pearl let's say I only let's say that the streams are a major versions but you don't have to have major versions you can have like different you know configurations not only built build time but also runtime for your for your package so if you need this that you have you can have like multiple let's say different flavors of your application let's say for I don't know for development for for something else so you can you can use modules for that so basically this was built for real sorry this was this was primarily built for real because you know this is something where we have a use case actually actually I forgot that thank you you remind me is that this technology is really used in a sandbox environment all the all dependencies which are going to a flatback are modules like flatback uses modules containers use use modules because it's easy to build a system that you want like a you know ready-made sandbox that you will just like reproduce without problems I would and you are not you are not actually dependent on the stable stuff in the distribution because if you want to play you can so yeah so the question is how many modules are in Fedora so right now I think like 20 maybe or 10 between 10 and 20 I just just do dnf module list like normally it depends on the the version like a release of the distribution for federal let's say we don't have like the pearl we don't have like 524 my 26 and 540 and also we have 542 but we don't have all of them for all so we have like for the newest 46 Fedora we have like only two like the last last two for 30 and 42 how does relate to software collections yeah so yeah this was this was basically this is a replacement the only like downside of this like with with software collections you had parallel instability with this you don't but actually when we when we run the numbers in our with our customers then you know like only like five percent people use this and also people were angry because they were to use that packages are ending up in the directories that they expect to and when you have software collections they are installed somewhere else and you know when they had like automation this was the problem okay there are no more questions thank you Martin for the presentation thank you


The international monetary system, or IMS, allows countries and companies to do business across borders. But with more money moving around faster than ever before, these crucial links are becoming strained. We have global financial markets, but no effective way of managing them. The US dollar and US institutions dominated these financial links for the world. But in the last decade, Europe created a new international currency and fast-growing markets, including Brazil, India and China, have transformed the world economy so much that the existing system has reached a breaking point. It clearly needs a change, but how? The most popular view is that the world is moving towards a multipolar system based on the euro, dollar and yuan. But all three face significant problems at home. The euro zone is strained by weakened institutions, high debt and a poor growth outlook. The United States has even higher debt levels, a large trade deficit and a divided political landscape. China needs to keep opening up and strengthen its financial system to continue growing. This coin has three sides. Here are three takes on how it might play out. Scenario one, reversion to regionalism. The US and Europe's financial troubles continue and both become more inward-looking. Global exports slow down dramatically, stalling China's growth. Instead of traveling the world, capital stays in its home regions, making international currencies increasingly obsolete. Scenario two, G2 rebalancing. The euro zone breaks apart, making Europe internationally irrelevant. In the US, home-grown pressure about debt combined with the euro crisis kick-start fiscal reform. China relaxes capital controls and its horizons widen. As trade imbalances between the US and China unwind, global growth booms. The dollar continues to dominate overall, but trade in and out of Asia is conducted in yuan. Scenario three, reconciling a two-speed world. The situation in Europe improves as leaders redesign the monetary union. Investors become concerned about US debt and pull out of the dollar. Meanwhile, China aggressively expands yuan-conducted trades through a new BRICS development bank. Policy discussions focus on how to reconcile this two-speed world. The scenario show three potential outcomes. Which scenario are you prepared for?


Okay, so a balloon is filled with helium gas and occupies 2.50 liters at 25 degrees Celsius and 1 atm. When released, it rises to an altitude where the temperature is now 20 degrees Celsius and the pressure is only 0.800 atm. Calculate the new volume of the balloon. So is that a problem where things change? Yes. So we're going to have to do what? pv equals nRT over pv equals nRT. So let's write that down and remember we did p1, v1, n1, and R cancel so we don't even have to put that if you don't want to. p2, but I mean if it helps you, let's put R because it seems like some people want to. R's going to cancel already, right, because it's a constant. So do we know any of these things? Do we know, well it says, yeah we know v1, v1 is 2.50 liters and remember the units we want them in. 2.50 liters is a good unit for us. T1, we know, right, that's 25 degrees Celsius plus 273, 298, Kelvin, p1, right, 0, 0, yeah, 1 atm. Did the number of moles change in this problem? Look at the problem. How would the number of moles change if I had a balloon filled with gas? How low would I have to do to it to change the number of moles? Open it and let the gas out or put some more gas in. Did that happen in this? No. So the number of moles is what? The same or different? The same. The same so we can cancel that one, right, do you understand what I'm doing? So do we know these other ones, v2, t2, and p2, yeah, we don't know v2, that's what we're looking for, right, do we know t2, yeah, it's going to be 20 plus 273, 293, Kelvin and p2, do we know that? So essentially our new equation is going to be t1 over t2 equals p1 times p1 over p2 times v2 and we're looking for v2, right, so the first step is to flip both sides of that equation over. So let's just write that over here. So since I want v2 on the left side, I'm just going to do it this way, p2, v2, so we flip that over, right, p1, p1, and that's going to equal what? t2 over t1, right, and we want to isolate the variable v2, can we do it all in one shot? Yeah. How do we do it? Multiply by p1, v1, and divide by p2, right, and then we got to do that same thing to the other side too, right, p1, p1 over p2, like that, so cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel, cancel, and what do we get? v2 equals t2, p1, v1 divided by t1, p2, okay? That's essentially the combined gas law, or this is actually, either one, they all work, and now all we do is plug and check. So do we have all that? t2, p1, v1, t1, p2, yep, just plug them in, so t2, 293 Kelvin, p1, 1.00 ATM, v1, 2.50 liters, plus 2, t1, 298 Kelvin, and p2, 0.800 ATM, and watch, we'll cancel out our units, Kelvin cancels out Kelvin, ATM cancels out ATM, leaving us with liters, is that the units that we would want? Is that the units of volume? So I'm just going to put this up here, so all we've got to do is find our calculator source, and then plug these in through these in, so what do we got here? 293 times 1 times 2.5 divided by 298 divided by 0.8. So if we had a balloon that did all of this stuff, so the thing is, is the temperature decreased, also decreased, so the volume of the balloon is actually going to get bigger, so it's a function of both of those things happening. So the temperature decreasing is going to make your balloon smaller, but the pressure decreasing is going to make it bigger, so the pressure decrease overweighs the temperature decrease, okay? And what I got, hopefully everybody else got the same answer, what did you guys get? 3.07. When we have 298, I was multiplying, and I'm supposed to be dividing. Yeah, you shouldn't be multiplying that, that means dividing. I know that I was multiplying the two at the bottom. Yeah, you should multiply these two by each other. Go watch the video again, okay? I promise you that's what I did, but I've been doing it for a long time, okay? I promise you that's what I did. Are there any more questions?  Okay, cool? We cool?


Hey y'all, what's up, my name is Sonali. Welcome to my channel if you guys are new and if you are, definitely hit that subscribe button down below and if you are already subscribed, make sure your post notifications are turned on so that you never miss a video of mine. Today I'm sharing the things that have elevated my life within the last couple of years slash best purchases. I saw this video on my friend Sophie's channel a couple years back, actually, that's how I found her channel through this video and I loved the idea so much that I've had it written down on my to-do list for so long. I will link her video in her channel down below and I would love to do this every single year and just kind of keep updating it because I think it's fun to see just like what products really made your life easier, better, more convenient, elevating it overall. So I'm really excited to share all these products with you guys today, so let's get straight into the video. 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If you guys didn't know last September 20th I finally got my dream surgery and I've been wanting a breast reduction since college and I tried to get it covered through insurance, it didn't work out how I wanted it to it's very tough to get it covered through insurance it was just a pain in the butt so I decided to pay out of pocket and I have a whole playlist all about my breast reduction if you guys are interested in learning more about the cost, recovery, everything like that I literally went into very nitty gritty details I will have that playlist linked down below and I'm going to post an update very soon, I swear but I'm very very happy that I did it because there's just like no looking back like I have no regrets whatsoever and I'm so happy with the size of them and yes it's elevated my life because I am pretty active especially in the photography industry you know you have to get down into these poses and you know stand up for hours on end and it takes a toll on your back with having a heavy chest you know and physically I remember thinking like you know it wouldn't be that big of a difference but holy crap I look back on pictures and I look so much heavier than I was because of the girls you know so I definitely feel like they fit my frame a lot better and I'm just really happy with it this next one needs to be more normalized because it has changed my life not only has it elevated my life but I am a changed woman because of it it is a bidet Ryan's friend actually had one so he was influenced by one and I think we got it on Amazon or something I'm pretty sure it was under 50 bucks like super affordable at first I was very hesitant to use it and I feel like everyone is hesitant to use it especially when people come over and they see it and they're like what the hell is this I'm like try it out like you have to try it to see what it's all about but now I just feel so much more clean and that's all I really have to say if you guys don't have a bidet yet go get one because I swear your life will be changed too next up we have all my gold jewelry from Goriana and I am obsessed with it all I love having this bracelet stack and I just got a new one over here this one is the Laney bracelet and then I just got two new rings this one's the Laney ring and I don't know what this is called but this is actually their fine jewelry line even though it's kind of more on the affordable side of their fine jewelry but it has like little topaz stones and I thought it was so cute and dainty and even my necklace and my earrings well the first ones are from Goriana whenever I tell people I have jewelry from Goriana their first question is always does it get ruined in the water and I swear I never take these bracelets off and they're totally fine they're beautiful, they're gold and I really don't see them rusting anytime soon so I definitely recommend to like actually invest in your jewelry especially the everyday pieces because if you're gonna be wearing them for so long you want ones that will not tarnish I'll go ahead and link a post down below to all my everyday jewelry from Goriana next on the list is skincare but skincare for my skin not every single skincare product is made for your skin in the past I've watched so many YouTube videos as we all probably do and see really pretty packaging like I mentioned and kind of get stuffed into it but at the end of the day you have to kind of tailor your skincare for what your skin needs also skincare is very expensive these days but it is so worth it to invest in because that is like literally the foundation to a good face and makeup if you prep your skin with good skincare you're literally gonna be glowing for the rest of the day and it's amazing next up on the list are my Bose 700s these are headphones that I got a couple of years ago and fun fact I lost them and had to rebuy them because I was so upset that I literally don't think I could have lived without them and I was looking into other headphone brands like you know the Apple Air Pods or the Air Maxes but I just feel like nothing can beat these headphones the noise canceling on these is insane and what I like most about these headphones is that you can connect it to two devices at a time so I usually have it connected to my phone and my laptop and you can kind of like switch back and forth between them so like if I wanna take a pause on editing on my computer and watch TikToks it'll just go straight to my phone which is really cool also Ryan and I are always together because he also works from home so it's just nice when I can kind of escape listen to a podcast maybe do a little bit of cleaning around the house I just feel like these make me feel so much more productive something that has definitely elevated my life are just beauty treatments in general because now that I have adult money I feel like it's very easy to justify beauty treatments so a brow elimination a lash lift what else did I get done? I mean facials are good too but I haven't gotten one done in so long but definitely mainly brow elimination and lash lift I'm going on a trip in a couple of days and I love to get this done before I go on a trip because especially a lash lift if you don't wanna wear makeup one day it really makes you look so much more alive and then a brow elimination makes your eyebrow hairs kind of just like fluffy and stick straight up so you can kind of just do a little bit less in your makeup routine in general and it just makes it so much more convenient so speaking of pampering yourself I have not gotten my nails professionally done in so long because I've been doing press-ons this is a beauty hack that I wanted to share with you guys because it's definitely changed my life look how good my nails look right now I'm still not over them they are the Olive and June press-ons and they look so good it looks like I got them professionally done with like gel X or I don't even know what they're called but this is kind of like how long they are and they last up to two weeks and yeah, sometimes they kind of pop off which can definitely be a little inconvenient sometimes but I just literally carry the glue around with me and pop them back on and it's so nice because I've literally saved hundreds of dollars not going to the nail salon and just doing press-ons every time I buy one set of press-ons it's like 10 bucks around that so it is so much more affordable and the biggest plus of them all is that it takes you probably less than 30 minutes for your first couple of times it might take a little bit longer just getting used to like finding the right shape and filing them down and all that kind of stuff but I seriously love them so much for my trip I'm going to get them professionally done just so I don't have to worry about them popping off during my vacation but I definitely think I'm going to stick to press-ons because they are just so much more affordable I have tried a lot of press-ons all of them June are by far my favorite and then this is my favorite from all of them June so it's pink sands in the medium length and that's what I have on right now they are beautiful the next two I'm going to talk about are some of my favorite post-grad purchases so we're going to start off with my Bissell robot vacuum I did not get the hype before I got a robot vacuum but it is insane how convenient it is because you don't have to do anything but turn the vacuum on and actually there's an app so you don't even have to get up and do anything technically the one I purchased is actually a vacuum and a mop so it can do both and it's perfect because we have carpet in the bedrooms and then hardwood in the living room so it really just gets it really nice and clean and I don't have to do anything it might possibly be the best invention ever I don't think I could have gone through this video without talking about one of my kitchen appliances and the one I want to talk about today is my juicer I spent a pretty penny on that damn juicer I did get it during Black Friday but it still definitely wasn't very cheap but I love it because whenever I want a fresh squeezed orange juice I can make it instantly and it's so convenient because you can kind of prep everything and then put it in the hopper and then walk away and then it juices itself and basically other juicers how they differ is that the hopper is so small that you have to keep feeding it in so think about it as like a KitchenAid mixer versus a hand mixer so this juicer would be the KitchenAid mixer because you can like step away and do other things while it's juicing for you it is amazing so now whenever I'm at the grocery store I don't have the temptation to purchase a $10 to $15 juice that's this small because I can literally buy fruits and vegetables maybe totaling up to $10 that makes such a large quantity of juice it is insane so having a juicer is just really nice especially for the summer months it's gonna be summer so soon and it just feels so nice to just drink a fresh juice and just get all of your veggies and fruits and take next up I wanna talk about my newest obsession and they are scrunchies I literally cannot live without my scrunchies now I bought so many because I had this like one day where I couldn't find any of my scrunchies and I got so mad I was like I need them I need them so basically I like to use these rather than the black regular hair ties because they don't leave creases and they just feel a little bit more secure in my hair this one in particular is from Invisibobble and it has that coiled hair tie in there so when you tie your hair it is so much more sturdy it's literally not going anywhere and I just love them for my hair I just also feel like whenever I take them out it's not pulling on my hair no breakages really happening so highly recommend to start switching over to silk scrunchies the next thing is something that I got very recently talking about like this past week and I already posted it on my Instagram stories so you might have already seen it but I just went through all my skincare and hair care and decluttered and made it look so beautiful and nice with these acrylic risers I got them off of Amazon it was like a two pack I think it was $35 which isn't horrible and it literally made my cabinet look like I was at a beauty store it is amazing and I just really hope it stays this organized I just need to like tell myself in my mind like I need to put them back after I use them cause I get a little bit bad about that but it is so stunning that I feel like I'm going to want to keep it like that so I'm hoping it stays like this I honestly want to get more of these risers and just put them in every one of my cabinets and honestly just organizational stuff in general I want a couple more like of those fridge organizers I did buy a couple from TJ Maxx but I want to get even more just cause I feel like it's going to make life so much more convenient and easier last but not least I wanted to talk about my IKEA mirror because I had this pretty narrow small mirror from Amazon which I at first when I bought it I thought it was really big but then it always showed kind of like the sides in my mirror selfies which yes it might be dumbing me to justify a bigger mirror for my mirror selfies but I love the look of a huge mirror and I was about to buy a really expensive one on CV2 but my friend Laura was like you need to cancel that order right now and go to IKEA and she told me about this mirror and I love it so much and I definitely saved so much money by buying it at IKEA I did have to get it delivered because it wasn't in stock in the Round Rock location but it was so worth it cause now I have a huge mirror to take all of the outfit pics I want that wraps up this video don't forget to check out Naywise Lounge where I will have it linked down below as well as all the other products that I've mentioned and remember to take a breather today focus on you and your personal health and I will see y'all in my next video bye


You arrive in your old neighborhood, it feels different. You can hear the cicadas chirping. That probably shouldn't be your primary focus though. The water should. It rises just above your shoes. You feel it soaking into your socks. It bothers you greatly. Observe area. You can clearly see the water covering the lawn of your old home. It has been three years. The house remains standing. Your home sits at the bottom of a small incline. The water rises further down towards the house. Trash is strewn about the yard. Old soda cans and empty water bottles that you forgot to throw away.  Observe trash can. You find yourself walking towards the trash can, taking the lid off and staring down at the contents within. It's just trash. Relief washes over you. You aren't quite sure what you expected to find, but you suppose it doesn't matter. You put the lid back on slowly, making sure not to disturb the trash can further. Observe house.  You always said the facade was painted white, but it seems to be a very light yellow. You never were good at noticing those small, minor details. The door seems to be broken, as if it were thrown open with great force. The hinges at the top are broken, leaving the door hanging by the bottom hinges. You see the wall directly behind the door, a portrait your great-grandfather painted of a woman hangs there. The lights are off. It's boiling hot outside, but for whatever reason you feel a chill. You rub your hands together to get some warmth. Something about this situation feels distinctly odd to you. Haven't you done this before? Enter house.  The water has rotted away part of the wood. You hold on tightly to the railing, stopping to smell the air. It smells awful.  You look down at the water and see hundreds of cicadas floating above the decaying wood. They must have drowned. You wait a moment, steal yourself, and gently step through the door. The stench has only gotten more powerful. It feels like a furnace inside. You can see the old painting in more detail now. You look around to see your paths forward. The right leads directly upstairs to where the bedrooms are. The left leads directly into the living room. Forward is nothing but the painting. Enter living room. As you turn to face the living room, feeling the water beneath your feet, you feel an impending sense of dread.  You see your mother's corpse in the living room. It is floating in the water. Face upwards. You think you should feel shock, but you don't feel anything. Her arms and legs are facing outwards like a starfish. You wish she had a face. There is a hole from her chin to her forehead. You hope she drowned. That seems unlikely. You can see blood in the water. Do cicadas bleed? Close eyes. I'm sorry. I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by close eyes. Neil. I'm sorry. I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by Neil. Cry. I'm sorry. I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by cry. The only thing you can do is stare at her corpse. She was alive when you last saw her three short years ago. Now she isn't. This single moment is one you've been coming back to for years and years. You look at her face and think that maybe this time will be different. Maybe you could do something to save her. The truth is that you can't. Restart. No, you'll come back to this moment again anyway. You need to look at her. Repeating the same shattered scene day in and day out has brought you here. It's quite sad. You blame yourself for what happened.  It was your fault. She isn't the only one.  You feel a drop of water hit your neck. Look up. You look up and see a hole in the ceiling. It seems the rain is starting early. You might have to end the trip here. You don't want to though. You don't want to accept the passing of time. Certainly an understandable sentiment but one that reeks of childish sorrow. Crying when the lights go out and the cicadas begin to chirp so loudly you can't hear your heartbeat. Listening to the sounds of someone you'll never meet on your radio to put you to sleep.   As if she's the only one in the world with them. As if her problems are real. They aren't. Do you remember your mother's face? Your father's? Do you remember the feel of the bed you never slept in? Memories of things that never occurred. Of people who never existed.  It keeps you up at night. It tortures you. Is it okay to feel this way? To cry over these non-existent victims of a non-existent disaster? People say it is but you question it. They're sincerity. They don't truly understand you after all.  You aren't really one of them are you?  To sympathize with you. Pathetic. You suppose in the end it doesn't matter. You've always been alone. It begins to rain. Exit. The rain batters your skin as those soft fists are hammering your body. It beats into your soul. Your heart a drum. Every night is a hellish return to this day.  You want to go back to the world you knew as painful as it was. You want this moment back as horrifying as it is. You want the rain in your heart to feel like it belongs. You want the bright nights and cold days to give way once more to endless heat and great hordes of cicadas. As much as it pains you to say, you miss the days when the world felt like it was slowly decaying when your heart was closed to all. The days without anyone to talk to. The nights spent listening to the rain drowning the world in accumulated sorrow and pain. It's time to stop living in the shadows of a forgotten past.  Turn the lights out. At the end of everything all you have left are memories of nothing. Thank you for listening.  Please become a patron or visit our merch store at the link in our bio to support our work. Secure. Contain. Protect.