This video will cover the following objective for the anatomy of blood vessels Compare and contrast the structure and function of arteries arterioles capillaries venules and veins blood flows out of the heart into arteries the largest arteries known as elastic arteries are able to stretch out in order to receive the increased volume of blood as Blood is pumped out of the ventricles into the arteries the aorta is the major elastic artery that receives oxygen-rich blood at high pressure from the left ventricle and then blood flows out of the aorta into smaller branches and These smaller branches will then distribute blood to different regions of the body there these Medium-sized arteries are known as the muscular arteries For example, there's a brachial artery that carries blood through your arm And this is an example of a muscular artery or on the diagram here We see the hepatic artery that would be an example of a muscular artery that's Distributing blood to the liver or the renal arteries are muscular arteries that deliver blood to the kidneys arteries branch into smaller and smaller arterioles and the arterioles then Deliver blood into capillaries so arterioles are the smallest arteries and Because they have a relatively small diameter, but they receive blood That's coming from larger arteries at relatively high pressure the arterioles play a major function in regulating the blood pressure and regulating the Distribution of blood to different capillary beds in the body So the arterioles are the primary resistance vessels that are critical for slowing down blood flow And as blood flows through the arterioles into the capillaries the blood pressure drops so Arterials deliver blood into capillaries, which are the smallest blood vessels The capillaries have very thin walls and are specialized for exchange nutrients and waste move Out of and into the blood at the capillaries throughout the body and then blood collects from the capillaries into Venuals, which are the smallest veins and the veins then drain blood Into the heart draining blood into the atria of the heart the the largest veins That are draining blood from the systemic circuit are the the vena cava that drain the deoxygenated blood into the right atrium Then the the pulmonary veins drain oxygen rich blood Coming back from the lungs Into the left atrium there are three layers To the blood vessel wall in an artery or vein The outermost layer known as tunica externa or tunica adventitia Consists primarily of Fibrous connective tissue lots of bundles of collagen fibers This helps to provide Structural support for the blood vessel wall and anchor the blood vessel to its surroundings the middle layer known as tunica media Contains smooth muscle tissue to regulate the diameter of the blood vessel contributing to regulation of blood flow and blood pressure The deepest layer of the blood vessel wall known as tunica intima contains a sheet of cells known as a simple squamous epithelium called the endothelium Which functions to create a barrier containing the blood within the blood vessel The largest arteries known as elastic arteries Have a large amount of elastic fibers enabling them to stretch and recoil in response to high blood pressure The elastic fibers are illustrated with the dark blue squiggly lines in the drawing the illustration below Muscular arteries are important for regulating the distribution of blood to large regions of the body And muscular arteries contain a relatively large proportion of smooth muscle in their wall Arterioles are the smallest arteries. They also have a thick tunica media relative to the three layers of their wall And this smooth muscle of the tunica media also allows the small arterioles to constrict decreasing their diameter Arterioles because they have a small diameter Contribute the majority of resistance the majority of total peripheral resistance which helps to maintain blood pressure And arterioles can regulate the distribution of blood into capillary beds The heart functions as a pump driving blood flow through the blood vessels As the heart beats with each contraction The blood forced into the arteries causes an increase in the blood pressure inside of the arteries then blood flows from An area of high pressure to low pressure From the elastic arteries into muscular arteries then into arterioles and capillaries Then from the capillaries blood continues flowing into lower pressured veins That then drain into the atria of the heart Where the pressure is the lowest and so blood pressure drives the flow of blood Blood flows from areas of high pressure to low pressure So every time the heart ejects blood There's an increase in the arterial blood pressure from the lowest value of blood pressure in an artery to the highest value So the lowest value we call diastolic pressure and the highest value we call systolic pressure And the difference between systolic and diastolic is what's known as the pulse pressure That is The pulse that you can feel if you place your finger on an artery and feel the expansion of an artery with each heart beat When the blood pressure is measured, it's usually measured in a muscular arteries such as the brachial artery in the arm And so we can measure the values of the systolic and diastolic pressure and then calculate the corresponding pulse pressure We can also calculate the mean arterial pressure Which is a time-weighted average of blood pressure. It's not just systolic plus diastolic divided by two Instead, we'll calculate this Mean arterial pressure as one third systolic pressure plus two thirds diastolic pressure Reflecting the longer amount of time that the heart spends in diastole compared to systole This image shows us a cross section through an artery and a vein that are of comparable size A muscular artery and a medium sized vein that are running parallel to one another On the bottom left, you can see the artery has a nice round shape with a thick muscular wall to withstand high blood pressure In contrast, the vein has a relatively thinner wall and has an irregular shape While arteries receive blood at high pressure, veins carry blood at relatively low pressure However, veins do contain the majority of the blood volume And veins have a high capacity to stretch out to expand in order to store this large volume of blood even at low pressure Because the arteries are involved in regulating the distribution of high pressure blood to different regions of the body They have that thick tunica media smooth muscle layer that regulates the diameter of the artery And the tunica media then is the thickest of the three layers in the wall of an artery In contrast, in a vein, you can see tunica externa is the largest of the three layers in the wall of the vein Veins have the same three layers that we saw in the walls of arteries Tunica externa is the outermost superficial layer of fibrous connective tissue anchoring the blood vessel to its surroundings And the tunica externa is the majority of the wall of a vein the smallest veins are known as venules and The venules have a very thin tunica media. They are primarily The endothelium and a surrounding layer of connective tissue The venules drain into medium-sized veins A distinctive feature of medium-sized veins is that they contain valves to prevent backward flow of blood The valves are inward folds of the endothelium in tunica intima And the valves function to create compartments inside of veins where blood can only move towards the heart And blood cannot flow backward towards the capillaries Medium-sized veins then drain into large veins and the Largest veins will drain into the atria of the heart so the Vows inside veins enable a skeletal muscle pumping function where As a skeletal muscle contracts it squeezes on the blood In a vein that's deep to that muscle As that Muscle is squeezing on the vein it increases pressure In a compartment of that vein in between two valves this Increased pressure causes the blood to be forced Back towards the heart through the valve because blood is not able to go backwards The valve prevents blood from flowing backwards and so in the leg blood would be forced up towards the heart Capillaries are the smallest blood vessels that provide the site for exchange of substances between the blood and other tissues For example oxygen moves from the air of the alveoli of the lungs into the capillaries of the pulmonary circuit And carbon dioxide moves from the blood of the capillaries out into the air in the alveoli in the lungs And then in the systemic capillaries we have the opposite thing happening where Oxygen will move from the blood out of the capillary into the tissues to provide oxygen to support the metabolism of cells and carbon dioxide and metabolic waste produced by cells moves from the tissue into the blood inside of the capillaries other substances such as hormones Can move in and out of the blood at the capillaries So the capillaries primary function is exchange Blood flows into the capillary from an arterial and then capillaries drain blood into venules while the arterioles have a thick smooth muscle layer in their tunica media that helps to Control blood flow and regulate the distribution of blood to capillaries There are also pre capillary sphincters that are smooth muscles wrapped around the Entrance of the capillaries These pre capillaries sphincters can contract in order to reduce blood flow through the capillary bed allowing blood to bypass as it flows through the meta arterial Directly as a thoroughfare channel into a venule This would occur if the tissue Has sufficient oxygen and has a low metabolic rate isn't producing a large amount of carbon dioxide So that the blood can be bypassed through this capillary bed Or this would occur in the capillaries of the digestive system when You're no longer absorbing nutrients from the diet or if you're having a fight-or-flight stress response But in contrast one a tissue needs an increased Exchange of nutrients and waste For example when a skeletal muscle is contracting in order to Produce motion The high metabolic rate will produce lots of carbon dioxide and rapidly use oxygen And this will stimulate relaxation of the smooth muscle in the arterioles and relaxation of the pre capillaries sphincters To increase the blood flow through the capillary bed helping to provide nutrients and carry away waste Capillaries are the smallest blood vessels, which are specialized for the exchange of substances between the blood and the surrounding tissues Fluid is able to flow From the blood through the Capillary wall Through the intercellular clefts of continuous capillaries and through the fenestration pores of fenestrated capillaries As well as through the intercellular gaps of sinusoids Capillaries are the smallest blood vessels and they have a simple structure with just an inner lining of endothelium Surrounded by a basement membrane of loose connective tissue There are three major types of capillaries continuous capillaries are the most common type found in the majority of organs in the body Capillaries inside skeletal muscles would be continuous capillaries or the capillaries found within the lungs in the pulmonary circuit Would also be examples of continuous capillaries These are known as continuous capillaries because the endothelium Is consisting of cells that are held tightly together by Tight junctions which help to prevent large substances from moving through the wall of the capillary Small non-polar molecules like carbon dioxide and oxygen can move through the capillary wall by simple diffusion There are intercellular clefts Little spaces in between adjacent endothelial cells Which can open to allow larger substances to pass through the wall of a continuous capillary, but continuous capillaries are the least permeable of the capillaries So fenestrated capillaries have numerous small pores known as fenestrations Which enable fenestrated capillaries to be highly permeable to fluid So there are fenestrated capillaries found in the kidneys in a special capillary bed known as the glomerular capillary bed where The blood is filtered Inside of the kidney another place where fenestrated capillaries are found is in the coroid plexus inside of the Ventricles in the brain where cerebrospinal fluid is produced So these fenestrations make the fenestrated capillaries very leaky very permeable to pressure or to liquid being forced out of the blood by the blood pressure by the hydrostatic pressure or the capillary hydrostatic pressure the force of the blood that's pushing the liquid Out through the wall of the capillary into the surrounding tissue Sinusoids are the most permeable of the capillaries Sinusoids have an incomplete basement membrane and large intercellular gaps in the endothelium This enables large Particles such as cells to move in and out of the blood Sinusoids are found in the liver and in the bone marrow in the spleen and in the lymph nodes And so the sinusoids in the bone marrow enable the cells Of the blood to move into blood as they're being produced in the process of hematopoiesis Where the stem cells are dividing and differentiating to form all the various Cells of blood those cells are formed in the bone marrow and then migrate through the intercellular gaps Of these sinusoids to get into the blood Similarly at the at the spleen the sinusoids enable worn out erythrocytes to be removed from the blood And in the in the lymph nodes And in the liver These sinusoids are also going to enable leukocytes to move in and out of the blood


Hey there foundation staff sherm here. Welcome to skip dictation live in case you are new to the channel This live stream is for hanging out with me while I record the scp's and other shows we do on site 42 Remember that if you like everything we do like share and subscribe that way we can keep growing the channel if you love what we're doing patreon and At site 42 merch are the best way to help us keep growing in the meantime It is going to be Thanksgiving at the end of this month, and I have to plan ahead So I don't miss our recording schedule in the meantime So today is all about front-loading I'm going to record two sherms declassified skip survival guides and as many scp's as I can Before I have to go back to my day job It is about five o'clock here, which is why I've got this beautiful blue pallor I've got a beautiful almost moonlight And then I work in a couple hours. I go back to the day job So we're gonna get as much as we can done in the meantime. It's finally cold enough outside To be kind of autumn-like so I can wear the lab coat now for live streams. Dr. Sherman. Ah, yes So we'll do some live streaming. Let me get the live chat up and running That way I can get to you guys in between Failure takes we're rushing today. So there's gonna be lots of failure takes So just see that coming Hello Russell alright Russell is in the building and now it is time to start the front-load action So we are starting off with sherms declassified skip survival guide to xk-class scenarios and other k-class scenarios So that is our first recording of the day. Let me organize here get my microphone perfectly in place and Oh, well that just blocked that there we go. Now I can see ha I did not block the chat I can see you now brilliant So here we go starting at the top of sherms declassified skip survival going survival going xk classes Let's do this Almost forgot and now 10 seconds of meditation for our noise correction and also our souls. Here we go I forgot I can't move my arms in this lab coat because it makes noise So I've got to be really still as well that gummit. Here we go. Oh perfect. Okay. We're ready for action Here we go round one. Hey there foundation staff sherm here and welcome to sherms declassified skip survival guide Today we are going to try and sort out the different types of k-class scenarios in foundation lore It's important to remember that because of the foundation's flexible cannon This is not at all a perfect list But it is a great springboard for understanding different kinds of k-classes that you can use for your own skips This list is 90% drawn from an extensive list created by user the deadly moose back in 2012 in the interest of brevity I'm skipping the lesser used versions and the great list of examples that the deadly moose provided Check out the source link below if you want to dive deeper an important starting point for our list Is the granddaddy of them all the xk class it originally stood for an Abrahamic religious apocalypse But was not called as such because the foundation is sterile in its classifications Since then it has evolved to stand for all life on earth is destroyed and won't be coming back anytime soon It's also used as shorthand for end of the world So sometimes you'll see an xk class even when it could be classified as one of the following scenarios From there, let's get alphabetical AK class end of the world. The world undergoes a restructuring Dret I was blocked by My microphone pop guard so I could not see what I was reading Error error. Holy cow. Hey banana and Ryan the scar structuring Yeah, I am West Coast so it is a 453 AK class end of the world. Let's continue put that there Plug it in plug it in alright Continuing the world undergoes a restructuring of subjective reality Otherwise known as everyone goes crazy Such things alter everyone's view of reality or spread mimetically and cause everyone to spread it until all are infected ck class restructuring Reality is altered to a new normal sometimes due to changes in the past fricking time travel Sometimes due to a reality bender sometimes due to natural laws like gravity up and changing how they function GH class dead greenhouse near extinction of life on earth, but upside It's a scenario. We can and have come back from before nk class end of the world Stuttered that a little bit All right nk class end of the world the original definition was an explosive event with effects on a geological Scale, but that was deemed a little too Drat Should have just ran with it. Oh, no, don't delete everything come back Thank you. Thank you audacity. You are my lord and savior But that was deemed a little bit too specific and the meaning has morphed into the gray goo scenario an end of the world via Self-replicating skip such as too much self-replicating ink or too many self-replicating cakes Rk class restructuring out competition of earth standard species Drat Standard earth species not earth standard species. It's weird It's weird words to get out of order sometimes Competition of standard earth species by non-standard species such as extraterrestrial or extradimensional entities Very similar to our following SK class dominance shift when humans are replaced as the world's dominant life form by another life form or an alternate form of Humanity Hold on. I want to check that real quick. I don't think I like how I said that SK class dominance shift when actually I'm okay with that Alrighty or an alternate form of humanity Zk class end of reality the ultimate destroys a reality or even every reality depending on the situation Remember, these are the most used k classes You'll find other lesser used ones now and then and you'll see these ones Drat. I said I made a weird sentence. That's my fault. Remember from the word remember, let me Look at that and make sure I'm gonna say it, right You'd think I could say my own typing as if I wrote the script. I don't know Okay, okay. Okay. Here we go. Oh So remember these are the most used k classes. You'll find other lesser used ones You'll find other lesser used ones used now and again That's why I got confused I use the word use twice in the same sentence one word separated that was rather confusing Sherman Don't do that You'll find other lesser used ones now and then you'll find other ones used You'll find other lesser Yeah, I want to get rid of the second used Cool, you'll find other lesser used ones now and then there we go. That sounds way better Okay, continuing on remember these are the most used k classes You'll find other lesser used ones now and then and you'll see these ones used in a completely different fashion that I've presented here That's perfectly fine because that's the way the foundation's flexible cannon works Oh son of a bitch so That was the 10 seconds of meditation from earlier and then it started going into my beginning recording so I'm gonna have to undo that and redo that and Not be a dumb person. Let's try that for once Remember these are the most used k classes You'll find other lesser used ones now and then and you'll see these ones used in a completely different fashion than I've presented here That's perfectly fine because the Round 55 Shigetish whoa 55 shigetish watch shwagatish shwagatish whoa No, don't need that bar get rid of that fix it here. We go. Where was I I don't even know Then I've presented here That's perfectly fine because that's the way the foundation's flexible cannon works Take this list as a guideline rather than a hard rule Thank you guys for tuning into another episode of sherms declassified skip survival guide If you like what we're doing on the channel Do that like share and subscribe mumbo jumbo and don't forget to click the bell And if you really like what's going on around here hit up the site 42 patreon or the site 42 store and support the channel that way You can also join the site 42 discord server if you want to venture deeper into site 42 itself See you next time foundation staff Hey as a mob welcome to the stream And that is episode one of today's marathon so go team Yeah So that is going to be saved as sd ssg xk cool All right, we've got one. Let's start a whole new one right. We're moving on to round two Now this might be one of the most important Guides that I put together this next guide is going to be about Giving criticism of Skips on the wiki and I'm hoping that I can inspire more people to learn how to be good critiquers because that's something the wiki needs for more writers a lot of our problem is that People complain about getting enough critique or not getting critiques soon enough and that's because it's really hard to get someone to be a critiquer like it's a huge job and To do that there are people who professionally do that and get paid So if you're doing that job for free.  So Yeah, we're gonna Hopefully inspire more people to be the good Samaritan heroes of giving good critique on the wiki so let's start as Tradition with the 10 seconds of meditation and This will be sherms the class vice gift survival guide giving crit meditation complete Starting from the top All right round two Hey there foundation staff shirm here and welcome to sherms declassified skip survival guide today We are gonna talk about one of the most important and underappreciated jobs in the scp community Giving critique and how to do it. Well, the goal is to help more but then me me me me me me me me I just said this to you guys like really well and Then I botched it when I'm trying to read it like dude. Come on. Sure. What are you? What are you? What are you doing? Get it together, man. Get it together What I even say, I don't even I don't even know How to do it well. Oh Oh my Okay, cool. I got a work call, but it's cool. It's just a text and I will Interrupting my live stream to answer a call from work Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do answering work calls do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do do-do-do All right Thank you guys for hanging out through the hold music now. I'm going to continue the live stream. Here we go All right, I don't remember where I was again. How to do it. Well, how to do it. Well, excellent The goal is to help more community members become good critters so we can continue to grow I don't think I'm being controversial when I say that more talented critters would be a helpful addition to the community I read that wrong, but I read it with such conviction that I'm going to change the line rather than Change what I recorded because I said that so smoothly that I might as well leave it as is Would be a helpful addition to the community let's add it in more talented critters would be a helpful addition To the community. Yay. All right, so that's paragraph one moving on down Beyond skimming around the forums. I also checked out better writing feedback comm for advice for this guide Yeah, bet you didn't know that website was a thing go check it out for more Man, it's like I choked on the word Man who forgot how to talk English good what that let's take it back a little bit Addition to the community beyond skimming around the fork. That's a good distance. Okay Yeah, that you didn't know that website was a thing cool continuing Bet you didn't know that website was a thing Go check it out for more in-depth critique giving help study it Learn it Before I dive into the meat of this episode I want to give thanks to those heroes who take the time to do what is essentially a real job in the outside world For free in the scp community You guys have all the skills that I'm about to list and are willing to put in time that you could be doing literally anything else To come through sometimes illegible and ridiculous ideas and help shape them into the excellent quality work that we strive for on the scp wiki Hey ghosts 007 I am recording a video essay About how to properly give scp writing Critique that way we have more people giving critique Who are then able to help us? Grow the amount of articles faster because right now a big problem is that people there are lots There aren't a lot of good critiquers and there are a lot of people who don't know how to critique who just kind of say Oh, that's good and we get a bad cold post So I'm trying to help improve the wiki the any way I can Doing the good work Fight in the good fight How far did I get before I mess that up and help shape them into the excellent quality work that we strive for on the scp wiki And by the way ghost welcome to the stream I don't think I've ever seen you in one of our live streams before so welcome That we strive for on the scp wiki cool for anyone wanting to step out Nope, that's not good for anyone wanting to step up and learn how to give the critiques that help a skip survive on the Main list the first thing you need to know is that giving critique is a skill and like any skill You will improve with training and practice. There are four base skills that help to build your critiquing skill You have to be an excellent writer editor proofreader and teacher. Let's break those down The first one should be fairly obvious.  Maybe you get some textbooks online and teach yourself Whatever you have to do to make yourself a capable writer This also means that you should probably be a voracious reader voracious reader a voracious reader a voracious reader.  All right, we're changing the word. It'll be faster What's another word for voracious? I wanted to sound smart, but apparently I can't talk smart. So I'm going with hardcore You should be a hardcore reader. That's something that's done hardcore hardcore reading Excellent. Oh see Russell you had good words avid intensive, but I'm still going with hardcore because yeah Hardcore Capable writer. This also means you should probably be a hardcore reader turns out that most people who are good at Just gonna start over This also means you should probably be a hardcore reader Turns out that most people who are good at writing read a lot and absorb lessons from text that they have pre-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b- means you should probably be a hardcore reader. Turns out that most people who are good at writing read a lot and absorb lessons from texts that they have read previously. Sidebar, on top of being a good all-around writer, you should also be very familiar with the Skip Wiki style and flex canon. It's great to be a good writer, but if you aren't knowledgeable about the Wiki, you won't be able to help people write for the Wiki. The next two, editing and proofreading, are often thought of as the same thing, but we need to separate them a little bit. Proofreading is the macro sweep. You're looking to see if the story makes sense and if all the ideas are presented clearly. Remember that any idea can be a skip if done well, even if it isn't your favorite flavor of idea, and this is where that happens. Proofreading is all about the minutiae, spelling and grammatical layers, punctuation, formatting issues.  Finally, you have to be a teacher. A teacher transfers knowledge from themselves to others. This requires extreme patience and excellent communication skills. There's another level of difficulty because you are doing this via text on the internet, where untrained writers will... Alright, I got way farther that time, and I'm starting to break a sweat so I'm going to lose the lab coat. Ah, getting serious now. Text on the internet. I need to have a chance to second thought, a second class of proof. I got whatever it takes. It's a piece of cake. Stand out, above the crown, even if I got shot out of the ground. Alright, uh, there we go. You're doing this via text on the internet. Where untrained writers will likely see critiques as personal attacks. You have to make sure to be overly respectful and positive. If you call their idea or their writing garbage, they aren't going to listen to anything else you have to say no matter how good your critiques might be. We don't need a bunch of house MD wannabes dicking around the community. We need more misfrizzles cultivating new writers' talents and expanding imaginations. To cap things off, here's a couple quick bonus tips that might help you in your creating career. Maybe make sure that sounded right, it felt weird in my mouth. Here's a couple quick bonus tips that might help you in your creating career. Yeah, I didn't get that. To cap it off... ...and writers will... Perfect cut. There we go. And... To cap it off, to cap things off, here's a couple of quick bonus tips that might help you in your creating career. It helps to prevent... Let's just start again, huh? Here's a couple quick bonus tips that might help you in your creating career. It helps to present yourself as a good writer by typing with proper grammar and punctuation in your critiques. Typical internet shorthand doesn't instill confidence in your abilities. The most common complaint to feedback receivers... ...the feedback they got was too general or vague to be of any help. Make sure you are specific in your critiques, for example, instead of saying spelling and grammatical errors everywhere. Take the time to say... In the paragraph second... ...and the paragraph second... ...in two Corinthians. Right. Take the time to say... Take the time to say... ...my stream. Oh, I've got a very bad connection logo. I hope it comes back. Oh, no. I don't know what's happening. I'm spazzing. No, I'm just messing with you. I'm not going wrong, but the stream is... Also, it's getting really dark. I need to... I'm running out of daylight, guys. I'm running out of daylight. We might have to cut the stream short. Uh-oh. The glow of the monitors is not helping. Maybe... Maybe we're back. Not sure what happened there. Oh, hello. No, offline, online. Hey, it looks like I'm on. Yay! I'm back. I'm back, baby! All right. Well, let's keep this train rolling as long as we can. Uh, where was I? I don't even know where it was anymore. Take the time to say... Take the time to say... There we go. In the second paragraph, you misspelled blank. It takes longer, but if you're going to do something, take the time to do it right. Along the same lines, feedback is not about just fixing the SCP. It's also about guidance in helping the writer learn so that you don't have to correct the same mistake for the same person again and again and again. Don't forget to tell them why the correction is necessary. For instance, instead of saying, the O5s would never do that, you could say the O5 council is almost always stoic and in control, so they wouldn't lose their cool and make an all-caps note with 15 expletives. This has been a short guide to becoming a better critter for the SCP or any other writing community. Take what you've learned to clean up yours and others' skips to create the SCP authors of the future and to help them learn to give good crit as well. Thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of Sherm's Declassified Skip Survival Guide. If you like what we're doing on the channel, do that like, share, and subscribe Mumbo Jumbo, and don't forget to click the bell. And if you really like what's going on around here, hit up the Site 42 Patreon or the Site 42 store and support the channel that way. You can also join the Site 42 Discord server if you want to venture deeper into Site 42 itself. See you next time, Foundation staff. Ah, yeah, we made it. We made it. We made it. Alright, that is the end of our second SDSSG for the day. The marathon continues. Alright, file, save project as Sherm's Declassified Skip Survival Guide Giving Crit Giving Crit Now, we are not done yet. I may be dill because of the computer light so this may not be the best visual but we can still hang out. You can still hear me. Oh, Russell, you don't even know. So some of you guys might not have seen this because it was at the beginning of the stream and you guys saw the notification and I said this while you were like logging in but for the holidays I'm going on a vacation for a little bit and as such I am going to make sure that I am caught up with several videos so that I don't miss the release schedule. I do Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for releases so that is I have this week's Sherm's Declassified Skip Survival Guide. Now we've done two more so that's two weeks worth. It did I recite it last faster than usual? Possibly, I might be talking faster. YouTube has a short attention span kind of so videos where people talk fast tend to work pretty well so as long as I can keep my diction going I run and I run and I run because you don't want a lot of space in between words. You want to make sure you keep the information coming because we live in the future and we don't have time to wait for people to breathe. Breathing is for suckers. So who needs oxygen? Pfft. So now we're moving on to the SCPs and first up is SCP-2158. Now these are all very short because they're filler episodes basically. We're going to go through these and have them so they can be the short episodes in between monsters like 001 yesterday. So after I have something to release and then we'll do it. We'll keep doing the crazy ones as long as I have a backlog. So let's see. SCP-2158 Microphone Time Item number 10 seconds of meditation, don't forget. Perfect. 10 seconds of meditation complete for noise reduction. Let's continue. Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-2158 is kept in a lockbox in Site 17. SCP-2158-1 is kept in the Site 47 morgue. Description SCP-2158 is a Remington model 1875 revolver clasped in the disembodied hand of Joshua Graham. Circa 1868-1893 Not Circa. Um What would I say when it's like saying when they're born? Because when you write it you write it in parentheses. So I could say born 1868 died 1893 born 1868 death 1893. Well this is specifically for a person. This isn't the SCP. This would be this guy died, but he So yeah, I think born and died in the disembodied hand of Joshua Graham. Joshua Graham. Born 1868 died 1893 It is unmodified say for the handmade grips of cow horn. Trat. It's not the handmade grips. Born 1868 died 1893 It is unmodified say for handmade grips of cow horn. It fires 44 to 40 caliber cartridges. Any bullet fired from this revolver will change corpse. Change corpse? Hey, Vulgans here. How you doing buddy? Welcome to the stream. Fires 44. There we go. Any bullet fired from this revolver will change course upon leaving the barrel taking the most direct route to SCP 2158-1 where it will lodge itself passing through any obstacles. SCP 2158-1 is the embalmed body of Stanley Tubertsby. Tubertsby. Tubertsby. Tuberts. That's amazing. The embalmed body of Stanley Tubertsby. Okay, we're going to figure out this name now, shall we? Oops. Okay, so his name is Stanley Stanley Tuksbury. Tuksbury. There we go. Okay, that wasn't hard. Got it. We're back. Passing through any obstacles. SCP 2158-1 is the embalmed body of Stanley Tuksbury. Born 1871 died in 1924. A rancher originally buried in pumpkin center, Arizona. It currently contains over 130 bullets. 80 of which were present before retrieval. SCP 2158 was found in an abandoned ranch house in pumpkin center, held by the corpse of Joshua Graham, another rancher. Oh, that's the end of the sentence. Drat. This is a 2158. Another rancher. That's the end of the sentence. I did not know it was the end of the sentence at the time. Oops. Okay. So back and up, back and up, back and up, back and up. 80 of which were present before retrieval. Joshua Graham. Held by the corpse of Joshua Graham. Held by the corpse of Joshua Graham. Another rancher. Autopsies show death by hanging as the cause of death. Most of the body was badly decomposed, but the hand was mummified and could not be removed. Back and up, back and up, back and up, back and up. Most of the body was badly decomposed. But the hand was mummified That's what we're going for. But the hand was mummified and could not be removed from the revolver. Notably, Stanley Tewkesbury died of natural causes 30 years after Joshua Graham passed away. Alright, we made it! A shorty but a goody. And another one for the backlog series. Or the front-loading series, I guess. Alright, so let's file, save project, scp 2158, save and new file. Alright. So that was 2158. Short, simple, and now we're moving on. Let me take that document right there and move it from the list of to-do to the unedited portion. Crit and XK. No, not do. Don't auto-correct. That's weird. Thank you. Okay, so now I can delete those from the setup list. And our next one is going to be scp 2153. Yes, Bolgan, thank you very much. Those profanities always end up in the Discord chat. In the Discord chat, the swearing comes out because I'm not on camera. I guess they're still an internet log, but I feel a little more comfortable. 153. So 2153 is the next in line. And this one is... Internet. Ah yes, the four leaf clovers. Alright, here we go. Internets, four leaf clovers, recording 10 seconds of med- Meditation? Meditation, that's the word. 10 seconds of meditation for the noise correction. Hope y'all got your omen. Now we're moving to... Ready, set. Item number, scp 2153. Object class, Euclid. Special Containment Procedures. Between 25 and 50 live scp 2153-1 specimens are to be kept in Site 101's greenhouse and are to be cared for in an identical fashion to non-anomalous clovers. Infestations of scp 2153 outside of containment are to be destroyed through herbicide application. Foundation web crawlers are programmed to censor references to scp 2153-A. Research is ongoing on methods to block emails sent by scp 2153-A. Members of the public who receive emails from scp 2153-A may be administered class A amnestics on a case-by-case basis. The foundation front... Girat. Foundation front. Not the fa-pa-ta-poo-ya. Inhales deeply, drinks deeply, alcoholic. Yay, Ghost Russell. That's both of you. You're both Ghost Russell, apparently. That's the thing I say, I guess. Meanwhile... Alright. Here we go.  Girat, here we go. A foundation front organization will assume credit for humanitarian air drops by scp 2153-A. Description. Scp 2153 is a virus of unknown genus, which infects members of the genus trifolium, clovers, and spreads via pollination. Infected clovers, designated scp 2153-1, invariably have four or more leaves. Humans attempting to pick or otherwise damage scp 2153-1 instances will fail in some way unless they are carrying a method of monetary transaction capable of transferring a value of at least U.S. $4. U.S. $4 is weird. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Transferring a value of at least U.S. $4. $4. Transferring a- I'm gonna say four U.S. dollars just because that sounds better out loud. That's a weird thing to say. Four U.S. dollars. Foundation front. There we go. Moving forward. Monetary transaction. Method of monetary transaction. Monetary transaction. Capable of transferring a value of at least four U.S. dollars. If a subject carrying the appropriate amount picks or otherwise damages an scp 2153-1 instance, they will lose a value of U.S. 4. Why would you format it like that guy who I don't know who girl maybe you are? Why would you do this to me? You're being very, very mean. Ah, because what they typed was capital U capital S dollar sign four. U.S. dollar sign four. Come on, man. Come on. It's rude. It's not proper. It's not formatting. It's probably proper formatting somewhere. I'm probably offending my international audience.   Ah, instance. They will lose a value of four U.S. dollars, at which point the instance will become physically identical to a non-anomalous clover. SCP 2153 is believed to have been engineered by an organization called Trifolium Charities. Ah, I was so close. Let's see. Let's try that again. But do it with less suck. Try it again. Better than that. Here we go. SCP 2153 is believed to have been engineered by an organization called Trifolium Charities.  Hey, Jack Evereds made it. Evereds. It's Evereds, but I don't know if you guys have played the game Earthbound, which is like my favorite video game. Thank you for the haircut noticing. They cut it way too short, but it's surviving. I don't know if you guys have ever played Earthbound, but it's like my very favorite video game. And in Earthbound, there's a bad guy who comes back and his name is Everdread.  So yeah, Everdreads, it freaks me out every time. I'm like, oh, Everdreads, no Evereds. Since 2005. Since 2005. Since 2005. Containing both various humanitarian supplies and hundreds of preserved instances of SCP 2153-1 sealed in plastic sheets. SCP 215 mmmm I could not say that number for a moment. So we're gonna back it up and try again. S.E.L.D. in Plastic Sheet. S.E.L.D. in Plastic Sheet. SCP 2153-A will email subjects who have picked SCP 2153-1 instances within 12 hours of either picking an instance or of an airdrop occurring. Crap I said that wrong. Oh that was a long sentence and I messed it all up. Drat. Here we go again. SCP-2153-A will email subjects who have picked SCP-2153-1 instances within 12 hours of either picking the instance or of an airdrop occurring. There is currently no known way to prevent these emails from being sent, and they will also be sent to email addresses created for subjects... ...trat. These emails from being sent, and they will also be sent... ...and they will also be sent is where we are at. And they will also be sent. And they will also be sent to email addresses created by subjects after picking SCP-12... ...one, two... ...and they will also be sent to email addresses created by subjects after picking SCP-2153-1 instances. However, individual emails may be deleted normally and will not reappear afterwards. Addendum. The following are sample emails from SCP-2153-A. The first was sent after picking an SCP-2153-1 instance, and the second was sent following an airdrop. Thus far, all emails received from SCP-2153-A are identical. Websites linked in the emails lead to 404 pages. Alright, so... Now, I've got to decide on the voice of the Trifolium CEO. So, let's take a look... Alright, so... ...Rypans T. Pratens. Rypans T. Pratens. Which is the pun on Forleaf Clover's technical name, so ha ha ha. Oh, see? See? This is... Aw, man! So, if you're new to the stream, I am terrible of... Okay, before I finish this, Russell. I already did SCP-TLDR-J. That list is what it's all about. Uh, TLDR-J is a monster. But, no, it's not really. It's long, but it's not, like, the longest. But... So, this is really funny. Like, this is a CEO of a Forleaf Clover company. So... Like, this would be really funny with an Irish accent.  I'm one of those guys. So, I can't do an accent to save my life. This would be so good with an Irish accent. So, ah, man. My capabilities are not up to snuff here. Uh, so... Well, we'll come to this later. Uh, maybe I'll come back to this at another time, but I'm going to still do it with my accent, because what I got is what I got. But, uh, here we go. Dear recipient's first name. On behalf of everyone at Trifolium Charities, I would like to thank you for your regent, regent, regent, regent, regent, regent. Regent is a word. Regent is a word. Regent is a word that I don't word. On behalf of everyone at Trifolium Charities, I would like to thank you for your regent, regent. No, no, Russell, I can't possibly do Irish. It's terrible. You just don't, you don't want to hear it. It's really bad. Uh, it won't work. So, my best, my best bet is doing just one of my voices. The best, the closest, the closest I could possibly get to Irish is a really insulting Jacksepticeye. Top of the mode into ya, I'm Jacksepticeye. Oh, that was, that hurt me. I'm sure that hurt you all. I'm so sorry. I need of you that I did that to you. Uh, I know, it was terrible. That's what I tried to tell you. I warned you, but you didn't listen to me. Trifolium Charities. Have everyone at Trifolium Charities. I would like to thank you for your recent purchase. Your support allows us to perform life-saving work all across the world, helping the people who need it most. To learn about our organization, helping the people who need it most. To learn more about our organization and our mission, please visit our website at www.trifoliumforgood.boop while you're there, consider signing up for our monthly newsletter. Enjoy your clover, and best of luck to you. Reifens T. Prytentz, CEO. Dear recipients for... Trifolium Charities has just successfully delivered humanitarian supplies in location of AirDrop. To learn more about our recent relief efforts, visit www.trifoliumforgood.boop-slash-latest. Remember, your donations are what makes these life-saving activities possible. Reifens T. Prytentz, CEO. There we go. There we go. Uh, Jack. We did two declassifieds today. We did the giving crit declassified, and we also did the, uh, air traffic controller arms while I try to remember. XK Class Guide. The XK Class Guide. We have an XK Class Guide, and we have a Giving Crit Guide in the works. And later this week, you will see the, uh, Guide to the Head Canons. Because the Guide to the Head Canons I recorded last week and we have it now. But the earlier recordings were Giving Crit and, uh, XK Class Guide. So those will come out. Uh, K Class is in general. It's like a glossary. Um, the Deadly Moose. It's basically the Deadly Mooses list. Uh, he did this really epic list of all of them. With, like, examples and everything. And East Side Show actually did that whole list. It came out to, like, 15 minutes. I did a short version. Mine comes out to, like, 3 minutes. Because I just did the main ones, and I didn't give the examples. I'm just gonna put a link in the description. Because, you know, if you want 15 minutes to study, you can go to East Side. Or you can go to, uh, Yeah, there will be a link in the description of the actual video. Or you can look up XK Glass Scenarios, The Deadly Moose, and you'll be able to Google it real quick. It's in a sandbox, by the way. It's not posted on the main site. You'll find it in a sandbox when you go looking for it. That weirded me out first, that I was looking at a sandbox, but that's where it was. Okay, so Rhypons Tea Pray Tents, we got 2, 1, 5, 3, done. Save it, SCP, 2, 1, 5, 3, boom. Alright, that is excellent. So now we do a new, because I still got time for one more. So we're doing 2 Declassifieds and 3 Skips today. That is awesome on the backlogging sense. This is getting the schedule ahead in a good way. That is good work. Doing it, and doing it, and doing it. Ah, yeah. 2, 1, 5, 3. Oh, yeah. YouTube Chat is weird about that. About posting links. Like, if you guys swear, I have to, like, hit a little approval button, otherwise it doesn't go through. But, if you guys try and do a link, it doesn't do it at all. Like, it doesn't give me the option to approve a link. Okay, next is 2851. What is SCP-2851? Let's find out together. This is the color red. Hilarious. So, this one's weird. It's a memetic effect.  And that's, like, taking up time, man. So, like, chill. Relax. Take it easy.  Oh, chat. Okay, so I'm gonna have to do something special for this episode, because oh, ghost. Ow. Ow, puns. Ow, why? I only have half. Okay, here we go. 10 seconds to meditate. Oh, success. Okay, here we go from the top. Item number. 2851. Object class. Safe. Special containment procedures. All walls in Wing 9 of Site 47 are to be painted red. Personnel working at Site 47 are encouraged to wear at least one red article of clothing, and to decorate their homes and workstations with the color red. All documentation concerning SCP-2851 must include red text or a red background. Description. SCP-2851 is an anomalous phenomenon affecting Wing 9 of Site 47, as well as all non-red documentation of SCP-2851. When exposed to either subjects, drat. 1173. That sounds familiar. Which one is that? See, now I'm gonna take a quick second and check this out, because I'm so curious. Samothrace? Okay, I've heard of that one, but I've heard of that one as an inside joke. But that would be a fun one to record. I think I remember that one. No, because in SCPDeals-J which is one of my earliest like full special effects and music episodes I freaking they had a joke about Samothrace in there, and I didn't get it, but I said it because it was in the skip, but then I found out about Samothrace later. Yeah.  Yeah, Deals-J is the information one infomercial one about the car sales. It's not the infomercial, it's the car sales. It's a von Penzier's used car Emporium. So I made it like a Toyota car commercial from the 90s, where it's like hard, like I think I used some copyrighted music in it because I was a young YouTuber and I didn't know any better. Oh! 1893 changes every time you refresh it. Your blade, your mean. Ah, that's freaking why. Oh. Like the story is really good. So I guess like I have to go through as many iterations as I can of it. I wonder how many there are. I'm very curious. Hey, Pabs is here. So, so yeah. Blade, I like both of those ideas. If you join the discord server, put them in like the request channel. And I'll totally do that. Or one of you guys who is in the request channel in the discord server. Put that in there. Somebody put that in the request list. Join us. One of us. One of us. Apparently that's what we're doing now. Uh... Peer Pressure! Where was I on the color red? Oh no, Pabs.  I can't actually put a link in here. Like no one can link in a YouTube chat for some reason. That's why it's weird. Well, Pabs is not modded because he like made the discord, but I haven't fiddled with it anything in the YouTube before. It's an omission by lack of thought. You know, the huge spread documentation of SCP-285-1.  Take a break and try. Oh! Is it getting mad at you because you're sending so many things or is that a joke? Probably a joke. I don't get jokes. 2851. What did I say? There it is, right in the middle. I didn't do my lower voice crud. I didn't do my lower voice crud. I didn't do my lower voice crud. I didn't do my lower voice crud. Trat. Trat. Which emoji is the shirm emoji? I'm not sure which one that would be. What did I do that's emojiable? Of note is that SCP-2851-1 SCP-2851-1 SCP-2851-1 cannot anomalously compel subjects to carry out its suggestions. SCP-2851-1 is easily distracted by the color red. When presented with a red substance or object, SCP-2851-1 will complement subjects on their show of power, vitality, and bloodlust, followed by temporarily ceasing interaction with subjects. While SCP-2851-1 remains active, constant exposure to red has shown to reduce the frequency of its vocalizations, reducing the non-anomalous negative psychological effects it has on subjects. Ah, researcher picture. Nice. That's a cool one. Good idea. Reducing the non-anomalous negative psychological effects it has on subjects. Alright, we've got another skip record tonight. That is our third skip. Freaking awesome. We are killing it. Save project as SCP- SCP-2851-1 SCP-2851-1 SCP-2851-1 Yes. We are at 62 minutes of stream. Oh, no. And today we recorded three SCPs and two Declassifieds. That is amazing. Oh, I completely forgot about the Ghostbuster song. Uh, crud. Okay. I've got some time tonight so I'm going to look at the lyric matchup on that. That's a good plan. We'll see how that goes. I am currently 50-50 on the idea about going on postbusters. Like, could be funny, could be weird. We'll see how it turns out. Uh, Pabs talking about class D orientation. Yeah, I do tales from time to time. Um, if you look at the list I do them a lot less than I do documents but they're really fun and I enjoy doing them so I should do more often. Uh, they're typically longer because they have more character and more sound effects stuff. The documents I can, like, knock out of the way for, like, we're doing tonight to have basically cannon fodder that way I can spread out the longer machine pieces. So, doo-doo-doo. 2851. We move it from the starting cue to the editing bay. Excellent. Next in line is 2894, I believe. 2984. Oh, wait a second. Okay. Uh, change of plans, guys. We've done about an hour, we've done three skips, two de-classifieds, and, uh, I've got a day job situation. They're calling me in, so I am going to get on the road after I clean up this mess. So, uh, you guys have a good day, night, whatever time it is. Have, do Patreon and things like that, all the good things of internet, YouTuber, goodness. Check the links, see you later, like the stream, share everything, and see you guys next time. Thank you, Volgen, for joining. Like, that's amazing. Yeah, that is really cool. I am... Nobody, nobody knew that Volgen was here watching. Well, thank you guys very much. Cheers and see you next time. Camera off time now.


These changes are huge. Hey, fellow buddies, thanks for watching. All right, you guys, effective today, March 27th, 2024. Terms of service have changed on Mercari. This is going to affect buyers and sellers. So first off, if you received the email through your email directly, it looks a little different than what you see here. Your email is gonna give you just the new terms of service. Here on the app, you should have gotten an update which is giving you everything, all of the terms of service. So if you wanna refresh on those, you can. But what we're gonna go to is the fees. That is the big change to how selling on Mercari is gonna work now. Again, this affects both buyers and sellers. Before we get started here, I wanna say that I love Mercari, I think it's great. I don't know how these changes are going to impact sellers or buyers. I'm really curious to see what your feedback is in the comments. Do you think these changes are good? Do you think this is gonna hurt the platform, help the platform? Are you happy about it? Are you more of a seller or a buyer on Mercari? Because I think depending on which you are, your answers may be different for these changes. These changes are huge. Wow, I mean, I woke up and I was like, I have gotta do a video on this and see what everybody is thinking because it's definitely going to create a stir. Maybe in a good way, maybe in a bad way. I'm not really sure how I feel about it yet. But here's the thing. The platforms that we sell on, they have their rules and we follow them. If we don't like them, we have a choice to sell on the platform or not sell on the platform. I'm still gonna sell on the platform. And maybe as a seller, this makes you want to sell on the platform. So if you're thinking about selling on Mercari and you're not already on the platform, I do have a referral link down in the description where you can get $10 to shop when you use that referral link to join and another $20 to shop when you sell $100 worth of stuff. This is a referral link. So I also get credit to shop when you use that link. So I appreciate it when you guys use my referral and affiliate links that are in the description of the video. That helps me keep this channel going. So thank you very much. I appreciate you all. But let's dig into the major changes that are happening on Mercari. So listing an item is always free on Mercari. Fees are charged when an item sells or when a service is used. The following charts explain fees on Mercari. All right, you guys ready? Service fee. We work hard to make our marketplace a vibrant and secure shopping experience. Starting March 27th, 2024 when you make a purchase, a service fee will be charged. The amount of the fee will be displayed as part of the final price of your item on the checkout page. So you will know what you have to pay before you check out. However, they're not giving us any idea yet of what that fee is gonna be for you as a buyer. This fee is charged to the buyer and may not be refunded depending on reason for return. Okay, so it looks like the buyer is gonna take on the fee, all right? But we don't know. It just says the fee will be displayed as part of the final price of your item on the checkout page. So me, I do buy on Mercari as a buyer. I kind of was hoping to have a little clarity on what is my fee gonna be. Seller fees.  This is great news for sellers. Maybe probably bad news for buyers because now a buyer has an additional fee. My question for you all is, is this gonna keep you from buying on the platform? Yes or no? Let me know in the comments. As a seller, is this a good incentive for you to sell on the platform? So let's see what it says about seller fees. Effective March 27th at 8.30 a.m. Eastern time, the selling fee for new listings will be 0% for new listings. So all your old listings, let's see what it says. Note, listings created before 8.30 a.m. Eastern time on March 27th will be subject to a selling fee of 10% of the item price when a sale is completed unless the listing has been updated on or after March 27th, 24. So what does updated mean? I don't know, guys. I don't know if that means you have to end the listing and relist it or if you have to go in and make an edit. So you may wanna contact Mercari to see what updated means. Let's see, transactions and payment fees. Mercari and CURS fees related to payment processing and balance withdrawals out of our system by our financial services partners. Some of these service fees are charged to our users. Okay, so effective March 27th, this is payment processing 8.30 a.m. Eastern time, Mercari will charge buyers a payment processing fee at the time of purchase. Effective March 27th, it will be 2.9% plus a 50 cent fee. Listings created before March 27th, 2024, a payment processing fee of 2.9% plus 50 cents per sale is charged to the seller based on the completed sale plus shipping price of the item unless it has been updated after March 27th, 2024. The payment processing fee is only charged on completed transactions. This fee is not applied to declined or expired offers or canceled orders. So this is charged to the seller based on the completed sale plus shipping price of the item unless it has been updated after March 27th. So this is again items created before March 27th. It is applied to the seller. Effective March 27th, same fees, listings created after 8.30 a.m. on March 27th, a processing fee of 50 cents plus 2.9% of the transaction price, which includes the item price, shipping, service fee, and sales tax will be charged to the buyer. So the payment processing fees are also gonna be charged to the buyer. This fee may not be refunded for returned or canceled orders. For each completed direct deposit to your bank account, there is now gonna be a $2 fee. $3 fee for each completed instant pay transfer. So before we could transfer money from Mercari to our account free, I believe if it went to our bank account, I don't think I ever had a fee. So it looks like direct deposits are now gonna have a $2 fee per transaction and a $3 fee for the instant pay. Balance withdrawals, there are two ways to cash out your earnings from your Mercari balance offered by Mercari. Direct deposit, effective March 27th, 8.30 a.m. Eastern time, there is a non-refundable $2 fee per cash out. Once you've added your checking account and have a balance, you can request a cash out request to your bank using direct deposit. This transaction is typically processed within five business days, depending on your bank's processing times. There is a $2 non-refundable fee for each completed direct deposit request. Instant pay is the fastest way to get paid when you need that extra cash to do this, go to the balance, tap instant pay, complete your ID validation if you haven't already and add a debit card. You can use instant pay for up to 600 per month once per day or eligible debit cards. There is a $3 flat fee per cash out in some cases, depending on your bank's processing time. It can take up to 30 minutes to see the balance in your bank account. So it looks like direct deposit is $2, instant pay is a $3 fee. Shipping and delivery fees on Mercari. I don't know if any of that changed. There was something else on the email that I saw. Let's look at that. It was, let me find it here. Okay, so I'm gonna read to you directly what the email says to me. To our Mercari community, we wanted to let you know that we've updated our terms of service effective immediately. We're removing selling fees to new listings at Mercari, zero selling fees. Mercari is the only major US resale marketplace to do this. Here's what you need to know, effective March 27th of 2024, zero percent selling fees. The selling fee for new listings will be zero percent. That's right. What used to be a 10% selling fee is now zero percent, zero selling fees. Listings created before 830 a.m. March 27th, Eastern time. 2024 will be subject to a selling fee of 10% of the item price when a sale is completed unless the listing has been updated or on or after March 27th, 2024. Buy with confidence. Okay, this is new. Buyers will now be able to return items for any reason. Service fee. When you make a purchase, a service fee will be charged. The amount of the fee will be displayed as part of the final price of your items on the checkout page. Payment processing and withdrawal fee. For listings created on, I'm sorry, for listings created after 830 a.m. on March 27th, Mercari will charge buyers a payment processing fee at the time of the purchase. That includes a payment processing fee of 50 cents plus 2.9% of the transaction price. Includes item price shipping service fee and sales tax. For listings created before March 27th, 2024, a payment processing fee of 2.9 plus 50 cents per sale is charged to the seller based on the completed sale plus shipping price of the item unless the listing is updated after March 27th, 2024. Zero payment processing fees for buyers when using their balance. Okay, so that's different than what I just read on the other page. Zero payment processing fees for buyers when using their balance. So they're encouraging buyers to use their balance, so that encourages buyers to become sellers on the platform. As always, you can request to cash out your balance to your checking account with a direct deposit starting on the date. There is a $2 flat fee per cash out. By continuing to use our platform, we are agreeing to these updated terms of service for more detailed information. Please visit our Terms of Service update article. As always on behalf of all of us, thank you for being a part of the Mercari community. All right, so the only thing different than that I read on the email is the, let's see, it says returns for any reason. Buy with confidence, buyers will now be able to return items for any reason. So that's huge and what was the other thing? Zero payment processing fees for buyers when using your balance. Payment processing fees, so that's not the fee for buying, that is the fee for the processing fee, the 2.9% plus 50 cents. All right, you guys, what do you think about this update? Let me know down in the comments. Thanks for watching.


Hi everyone, Joe for jazby's casebreaks.com, coming at you with some more Ben Baller, Top's Chrome Baseball. Two box, pick your team three this time. Remember, if you got at least two, it's the same two teams, one entry, four teams, two entry deal, to try to win the White Sox. Remember, all card ship in this as well. So a lot of fun stuff in here. A lot of parallels. Each box doesn't have an autograph, but it's really the parallels are what we're chasing. So you have a chance to win the White Sox. I might get a Ben Baller, Joe Chang. I was telling the guys earlier, and if that happens, maybe stop buying from us. It might be an indication that we are not good with our money. There's Aaron with one entry. He got two teams, four teams for John, two entries. Two teams for Chris, one entry. Other Chris, two teams, one entry. Drew, two teams, one entry. EA, two teams, one entry. EJ, two teams, one entry. Kapola, two teams, one entry. JG, four teams, two entries. And Sean with two teams, one entry. Zach with two teams, one entry. Chris P saying maybe we should do a Joe Baller chain break. I mean, that'd be pretty sick. Refractor Medallion would be pretty awesome. Let's get these names in here. All right, so name on top. After nine, we'll get the White Sox, five and a four. Good luck. One, two. And that org's been a little sluggish today. Three, four, five, six, seven. What did I say? Nine, eight, and ninth in final time. Short-term memory loss is catching up with me. Chris Welty, there you go. Chris Dubb, C-Dubb with the C-Dubs. There you go, nice. Thanks everyone else for giving that a shot. Let's sort by column B. Let's print this baby. Let's rip it. Let's see what we got. Let's see what's been marinating inside these Ben Baller boxes. Grabbed two, they don't come in cases. We just grabbed, we got a whole stack of them loose. So let's just grab two random ones from the back. Rex, you're surprised. Tops never got Vegas Day for Ginter? I don't think they wanna have, I don't think they're in the practice of putting con men in products. Packs, allegedly. These packs are not good. Be careful with these. Wait, what did he get in trouble? He got in trouble for something, didn't he? I don't know if he's a con man. A tout maybe? Maybe touting? Can't gamble any more, sports bet anymore? Something to do with sports betting.  Yeah, that's probably when the show has jumped the shark. Or that I secretly won the lottery. Yeah, Brad says, you guys will know when I won the lottery, when I'm drinking out of it. Instead of my Coleman water bottle, drinking water out of there, there'll be some sort of pimp cup out there. It would be Diamond and Crusted, Diamond and Crusted Yeti, right? No, I went with Coleman. The Coleman brand is the best. Yetis, hydro flasks. No, you know who's been making water bottles longer than them? Coleman, I went with a Coleman water bottle. It's great. That's right, the same company. Yeah, made the coolers for the longest time. All sorts of travel and camping related supplies, outdoor goods, maybe a Ben Baller grill. Yeah, that'd be kind of interesting in the end. I don't know if I'm good, I don't know if I'd go grill. I feel like I wouldn't be able to enunciate words properly as a broadcaster, so gotta watch out for that. These cards feel different, by the way. I feel like they're almost a little bit thicker or they're a little bit glossier. I don't know, they move more smoothly in my hands than Top's Chrome Baseball, for whatever that's worth. There's the Petalanza one per, generally one per box die cut. Says one out of every 24 packs and there's 24 packs in this. And that goes to John and the Met. Did I not print out my list? There we are. Break four coming up right after this. All-card ship, ladies and gentlemen. That Kettle Marte will definitely ship. That's 40 out of 50. Schedule is in the chat laser. If you scroll around, Nightbot drops the schedule about every five minutes or so. Nice Kyle Lewis. And the Gavin Lux right here. An old mid-80s design. That'll be for Jorge and the Dodgers. And the M's, that'll be for John Samuelson. Nice. Jordan Alvarez. Jordan going to John Samuelson as well. Domingo Leyva, 48 out of 75 for the Snakes. Capola with the diamond backs. Who are up 6'2 on the angels right now in the bottom of the fourth. This is the car that always tricks me into thinking it's red. They're offering extra containers here, maybe not. Seth Brown, 44 out of 75. Juan Soto.  That goes to the A's, Sean Maddock with that one. Rice Harper, 21 out of 75. Phillies, Aaron Clark. Lucas Geolito, 90 out of 99. Wait, Ramon, you're still here? Oh, I thought you had left. Okay, so I was like, bye. They have spicy chicken nuggets now? Freddie Freeman, Drew with the braids. I gotta check that out. And the second box. Jordan, what's going on? Yeah, that's exactly right, Prim. Yeah, laser. You gotta read stuff on the site for break schedules and for reasons why things are happening. Yeah, new release day for Tops, Alan and Ginter. Quirky product that people really love. We can do another one of those tonight, folks. I know it's kind of a longer break. That's the drawback, but it is a lot of fun. BD was saying earlier, Tobago's Day probably broke even on those trout sales considering legal fees. Wait, does anyone know what his actual, I don't want to take the time to look that up at the moment, but what his legal chart is where? I think something to do with sports betting. I want to say he was using other people's names. It's like some identification thing. Using other, there you go. Yeah, he was using other people's social security numbers to place bets, right? To open up betting accounts so he can bet over the limits. Because usually, they only let you bet a certain amount of money at a certain limit for certain sporting events. He was trying to skirt that. How did he get, yeah. How did he not go to, if it was you and me, BD, we'd be in jail. How did he skirt jail time? Who does he know? Good lawyers? We know Ryan H. Yeah, that's why, Lazer. Yeah, some shady sports betting things. Using other people's identities to place bets on his behalf. I don't think he stole identities though. I think it was like friends and other associates who were like, yeah, sure, go for it, you know? But yeah, I think he used that to create different identities, to try to bet over limits at different books around Las Vegas. And I think that's what got him in trouble. Apparently, according to BD, good lawyers. Yeah, no, I'm sure he wasn't using other people's names for free, too. That's a good point, Brad. Yeah, I'm sure they had a cut. It's like, yeah, Vegas, Dave, you use my social to place bets. Guess what? I get X% of the action, something like that. You know, of your winnings. Well, if you're gonna place a certain number of bets and to cash out those certain number of bets, yeah, you'll eventually need to fill out like tax-related forms and stuff like that. This is at the level that, you know, if you're at like professional betting level, yeah, you're gonna have to, at some point, give up some personal information. For a lot of us, for most of us, betting on a few games here and there, most of us will not run into the, most of us won't ever run into that situation. Aquino for EA, Zach Gallin for Capola, unless we hit some sort of magical parlay or something like that. But when you get to the level of Vegas, Dave, where you're betting limits on a game, you know, which could be, depending on the book, anywhere from 1,000, 10,000, 20,000, you know? Like if you wanna start playing with those kind of limits and stuff like that, yeah, they wanna know who you are. EA with the Cubs, probably a liability thing for them and security issues as well. 10 out of 75, Whitmerefield, going to the Royals, that'll be for Chris P. Brian Peebles, what's up? I'd congratulate your daughters, but really, they did what they were supposed to do. We'll see you in round two, we'll see you there. I don't know, it's a weird season. My daughters don't feel like, I get the impression they're kinda not into it. There's Justin Dunn to 99, like they're kinda waiting for, well, not him, he balls out every day, but I feel like just in general, it seems to be a little lacklusterness here and there. That sense of urgency doesn't seem to be there the way I see with other young and hungry teams. Three out of 99, come over to the UK, no tax on winnings, tax on other stuff though, right? I think that's how they get ya. There you go, speaking of the Dodgers, Belanger's not been having good season, Jorge with the Dodgers. Dustin Mays been looking pretty good though. My thoughts on it, I think they're great. I think it's fantastic. I would get into the next breaks. Jaspiescasebreaks.com, breaks four and five are available right now. Out of 25 hands are Alberto. It wouldn't be on Jaspiescasebreaks.com if we didn't think it was good. It's Gavin Lux, Silver, or Hollow, Refractor, whatever you wanna call it. It's Javier Baez. I think it's Great Clab by Tops, what a great idea. 30 out of 75. Gavin Lux, Dodgers, Jorge. Hanser Robles, nope, Hanser Alberto, Hanser Robles to someone else. Different ball player goes to EJ and the O's. Three out of 25. Aquino for the Reds, EA. Nice Luis, Robert for the White Sox, Chris who won the White Sox. I'm sure these base rookies go pretty well. And that's that, ladies and gentlemen. We just got a Domingo Leaba back here. Yeah, there's some Gonsolin's back there too. Those will all ship. And there you go, nice two boxes in the books. Ladies and gentlemen, that was Picker Team Three, Picker Team Four coming up in a separate video. I'm Joe for Jaspiescasebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for that one. Bye-bye.


Hello everyone. My name is Prasanjit and today I will talk about GitOps. This session is meant for GitOps beginners to grasp the concepts and get onboarded. And I will do that in a unique way by telling you a story. So this story is an analogy that will help you understand GitOps and relate it to concepts. And we call this story a tall tale of GitOps. Now before we begin a little bit about me, my name is Prasanjit Singh and I am the Cloud and DevOps Director at Stars Play Dubai. We are a large scale media streaming service in the Middle East and North Africa region. And I am also a subject matter expert and trainer at Coursera. I am an AWS Community Builder, CNCF speaker and speak widely at different meetups. And I also like to teach a lot. So I have recently opened up a YouTube channel called Binpipe. You can subscribe to that as well. So let's get started with the tall tale of GitOps. So what is cooking? What are we going to learn today? Well, as I said, this session is a beginner session and I will tell you a story and that story is about a honeybee. And using that story and the analogies, we will be able to relate about GitOps practices and understand what it is for, when to use it and how to use it. Well, once upon a time, there was a little honeybee. His name was Gitbee. He had lost his parents and lived with his grandma, Lilybee. Now, Lilybee, the grandma, owned the largest pastry shop in town and the shop was famous for honeycakes, honey waffles and a special rainbow donut called Unicorn Poop. As days passed, Lilybee was growing old and weak and she asked Gitbee to help her with her business. And that's how Gitbee started working on his grandma's pastry shop. And as Gitbee started working with his grandma in her cake shop, grandma realized that Gitbee wasn't an ordinary little bee. He was more intelligent and brighter than others his age and believed in smart work rather than slogging it out with monotonous chores. On his first day as an apprentice, grandma Lily asked him to bake three different flavors of honey cake. And asked him to do the same thing every day for the rest of the week. Now, Gitbee being smart and organized made a list of ingredients that were used to make the batter for the cakes. And he put those batter in separate mixing bowls and tagged them. And if he needed more batter of a particular flavor, he could use the same amount of ingredients and literally clone his batter power. Also, since there were other worker bees in the factory, all of them needed to have access to the batter and other ingredients. So, tagging and organizing the raw materials helped Gitbee to allow his team members to work in unison on the same recipe. So that way, Granny Bee's problems were getting solved. She has this problem of not being able to manufacture a large amount of cakes because she was getting old and her workers couldn't work well without direction and organization. So, those were her problems. And Gitbee solved this problem by tagging the different ingredients and tagging the different bowls and separating mixing bowls with different flavors of the batter that were going to be used to bake the cakes. Gitbee being smart organized the ingredients that made the batter in separate mixing bowls and tagged them. If he needed more of the batter of a particular flavor, he could use same amount of ingredients and literally clone his batter bowl. Also, since there were other worker bees in the factory, all of them needed to have access to the batter and other ingredients, of course. So, tagging and organizing the raw materials helped Gitbee allow his team members to work in unison on the same recipe. And even if some of them were working on different recipes, there was no risk of ingredients getting mixed up. So, it improved their productivity. They could have multiple different cakes rolled out and they became more organized in the way they were making or baking their cakes. Now, if we want to correlate Gitbee's tagging system to software development, we can see that Git is a version control system used for tracking changes in computer files. Git is generally used for source code management and software development. Git is used for tracking changes in the source code. And it also allows multiple developers to work together similar to how multiple worker bees were able to bake cakes. And it also supports non-linear development through its thousands of parallel branches. So, using Git we can develop multiple features, have a multi-developer team, all working together towards the same end product, but each one working independently on a separate feature. So, all those could be enabled. So, that is what Git is all about.  Now, there would be times when grandma Lily Bee would get a large number of orders from across the town and they would need multiple worker bees on baking multiple cakes and of multiple flavors, of course. Here, Gitbee had another idea. He forked out his batter into separate containers dedicated to worker bees and assigned them the tasks. Now, similar to how Gitbee worked with multiple worker bees on multiple cake recipes and was able to roll out his cakes faster using versioning. Similarly, in software development, we can use Git and use and take advantage of its various features. Like, it allows you to track history of whatever code you are writing and that opens up the possibility of making mistakes and then going back and correcting them. And of course, it's free and open source. It supports non-linear development and creates backups. As I said, you can roll back anytime if you're using Git. It's scalable. You can have multiple people using the same repository, working on the same projects, forking out their different features and working on them. And of course, it supports collaboration. It's easy to branch out different forks and it allows distributed environment, which is very important in today's times when we are all working remotely. So distributed development is indispensable for helping an engineering team to succeed. Now, the process of baking cakes wasn't an easy task. It involved a series of steps from mixing the ingredients, whipping the batter, adding eggs, baking it in the oven and finally topping it with the cream. Now, Gitbee felt these tasks being repetitive can be defined as a workflow. So, he wrote down the rules and the sequence of tasks to follow until the cake is baked. So, he had his series of sequences perfectly defined and he knew what to do and what would come after the other. Similarly, in software development world, as software applications become more and more sophisticated, the demands on infrastructure increases. Infrastructure teams need to support complex deployments and at an immense scale and speed. While much of application development has been automated, infrastructure has remained largely a manual process requiring specialized teams. Infrastructure as a code and tools like Ansible and Terraform are a good start, but they don't solve the entire problem. The teams need a perspective or workflow that puts infrastructure as code into action automatically. Now, that is where the term GitOps comes in. So, you have your tools Ansible, Terraform, but these are all distributed tools. They would not allow you to make an end-to-end deployment or automation of your infrastructure as code. So, using GitOps joins all these dots and allows you to deploy everything automatically just as Gitby worked out how he could automate his steps of baking the cake by putting down all the steps that occur and creating a documentation out of it. Similarly, at its core, GitOps is code-based infrastructure and operational procedures that rely on Git as a source control system. It is an evolution of infrastructure as code and it develops best practice that leverages Git as a single source of truth and control mechanism for creating, updating and deleting architecture. More simply, it is the practice of Git pull requests to verify and automatically deploy system infrastructure modifications. In addition to Git as a key DevOps mechanism, GitOps is used to describe tools that augment Git default functionalities. GitOps ensures that there is a systems cloud infrastructure is immediately reproducible based on the state of the Git repository, of course. And the pull request modify the state of the Git repository and once approved and merged, the pull request will automatically reconfigure and sync the live infrastructure to the state of the repository. This live-syncing pull request workflow is the core essence of GitOps. Now going back to our story, one fine morning the queen bee sent an order for a gigantic layered honey cake and scores of unicorn poop donuts. Granny bee who was used to manually baking and everything declared it was impossible to get the order completed because the timeline was very short. Queen bee wanted the order to be delivered by evening and that is when Git bee, our hero jumped in again. He buzzed around in enthusiasm and said, friends, I got another idea. Yet another idea? Yes. I'll automate everything and is set out to build a chain reaction machine. Wow. What was that? The machine was actually dictated by logic and physics and worked on the principles of cause and effect. And whoosh from mixing the ingredients to whipping the batter to molding the cake, baking, cooling it over, icing and garnishing. Everything was a part of the chain reaction machine. And if you folks are wondering what would that chain reaction machine look like? It is something like this. A cause and effect machine. You might have seen this. One thing leads to the another and that's how our hero Git bee devised a machine that would bake the cake and the unicorn poops that would be needed for delivering the queen's order. Similarly, GitOps is equal to infrastructure of code plus CICD. Now, GitOps uses Git repository as a single source of truth for infrastructure definitions. Now, using these concepts, we can build our own cause and effect machine just like it be a Git repository is a dot Git folder in a project that tracks all the changes made to the files in the project over time. Now, infrastructure as code is the practice of keeping all infrastructure configurations as code. The actual desired state may or may not be stored as code. Example, say if you're using Kubernetes, the number of replicas, pods and all those information may not be stored as code. And then you use the mechanism of merge requests and GitOps uses merge requests as the change mechanism for all the infrastructure. The MR is where teams can collaborate via reviews and comments and formal approvals take place. And finally, the merge commits to your master branch and then serves as a change log for auditing and troubleshooting in the future. And also, another component of GitOps is the CICD pipeline and GitOps automates infrastructure updates using a Git workflow and it incorporates continuous integration and continuous delivery. Now, when new code is merged, the CICD pipeline enacts the change in the environment and any configuration drift such as manual changes or errors is overwritten by GitOps automation. So, the environment converges on the desired state defined in Git. Now, this approach has a lot of benefits. The GitOps framework makes infrastructure automation possible and, while automation has a value in itself, it is not the only advantage of GitOps organizations that adopt. GitOps enjoy other benefits that can make a long-term impact. Since every change will go through the same change merge requests, reviews and comments, it is not the only advantage of GitOps. Now, the CICD pipeline is very flexible and while automation has a value in itself, it is not the only advantage of GitOps organizations that adopt. GitOps enjoy other benefits that can make a long-term impact. Since every change will go through the same change merge request review approval process, senior engineers can focus on other areas beyond critical infrastructure management. Now, improved access control is there. There is no need to give credentials to infrastructure components. So, they will just have to work on their Git repositories and all the other key-based authentications are separately configured so you don't have to individually share the configuration. So, there is less risk. All the changes are tracked through merge requests so you can keep an eye on the changes. Then, because this is all automated, it leads to a faster time to market. So, execution via code is faster than manual point and click. Test cases are automated and repeatable so stable environments can be delivered rapidly with GitOps and auditing is simplified. You have all the records in place and with GitOps all changes to environments are stored in the Git log making audit simple as I said and automation of the infrastructure definition and testing eliminates all the manual tasks that were being done. So, that's how GitOps helps and that's how it works. Now, going back to the story, the cause and the effect machine was a huge hit. It wasn't a simple machine though. It was a unison of multiple moving parts for specialized functions. It even had an option to declare the flavor color in gradient variants for each end product and using that machine the cakes were being baked faster and more efficiently. Now, GitOps tools are no different than the cause and effect machine that we saw some time ago this one. Well, what makes GitOps unique is that it's not a single product plugin or platform. GitOps is a framework that helps teams to manage IT infrastructure through processes that they already use in application development popular tools like Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes and so on. But GitOps processes largely technology agnostic except for Git, of course, without it GitOps wouldn't exist. Now, GitOps is suited for a variety of scenarios. GitOps and Kubernetes is a particularly good match. For example, Kubernetes works on all major cloud platforms and uses stateless and immutable common GitOps tools and containers. Containerized apps running in Kubernetes are self-contained so you don't need to provision and configure services for each app. Provision Kubernetes clusters and other needed infrastructure like databases, networking, etc. using Terraform and you can deploy stateful applications with ease.  QueenBee personally congratulated GitBee for his efficient practices that led to faster delivery and consistency in the quality and comfort him the bee award. So what are the takeaways the best practices of GitOps? One of the main things is to document what you cannot automate if it's not always possible to automate everything because that's very important because half automation is more dangerous. Like if you're doing manually, you know you can do things manually. But if you have parts automated and parts manual, then documentation should be well written and you should work on ways to automate those steps that have yet not been automated. Now, the second thing is it is important to familiarize GitOps teams with Git and code reviews. Some teams already use a Git repository as a place to store config code, but don't use features like merge requests. As a starting point, take a look at the code review guidelines and try to induct the team into these practices. Once the teams are familiar with the tool and practices, implement mandatory reviews to ensure code reviews happen every week or every few days and always remember to keep these guidelines simple so that it is easy to follow and not work around it. And that's exactly what Git bee and grandma Lily did. So that's the end of our little analogy and beginning of your journey into GitOps. We don't have much time left today for a live demonstration. I would rather leave you with some useful repositories and resources that will help you pursue GitOps and try out the demos. There are demo links also. I'll be sharing that in the next slide so you can visit that repository and try out the steps and read the notes about GitOps that will help you work on GitOps. And you can reach me out anytime for any help if you need to get onboarded with DevOps and GitOps practices. In conclusion, GitOps is an incredibly powerful workflow pattern for managing modern cloud infrastructure. GitOps can bring many benefits to an engineering team including improved time to market, visibility, stability and system reliability. It allows you to be more productive as a developer, as a DevOps engineer and makes your finished product less prone to errors. Now back to the story, our little Git bees cake shop is now the most sought after in town and thanks to Git bees cause and effect machine and his declarative delivery pipeline and thanks to GitOps. To subscribe to my channel, reach me to learn more about DevOps on my email address and you can check out this repository at GitHub and learn more about GitOps practices. Thank you.