You know how this next queen, Asiya, runs when she hears the story, she runs the feral.  She's asking him like, I know that you're cruel. I know that you've done some horrible things, but tell me you didn't do that. And he says, I did. She was talking about this religion of Musa saying that Allah was her Lord. She said that Allah was my Lord. He began to laugh. And at that moment, Queen Asiya confesses, Queen Asiya says, Allah Rabbi warabbuk, warabbil anamin. And this is the moment where he literally orders all of her clothes to be ripped off. He drags her by her hair, hangs her off the balcony. And initially the people are screaming, Feral, this is the beautiful, the Queen Asiya, the kind, the merciful, the generous, please.  And then immediately the people back off and he says, Oh, he murders her subhanAllah. He literally leaves her first in the desert naked for three days, expecting that the animals would eat her alive. And he sends the soldiers to go find her after three days. And when they find her alive, they literally drag her back by the horse. They drag her back. And when she gets there, he's like, you're still not dead. So then he orders a horse to be tied on one side of her and another on the other. And he keeps whipping the horse until it's literally separating her limbs and the skin from its bones. She begins to make a dua that's mentioned in the Quran. She says, my Lord, build with me, build for me with you a house in Jannah. And she's like, build for me with you a house in Jannah. And subhanAllah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala literally shows her in that moment, the maniqa building her home. She smiles. She smiles. Pharaoh becomes enraged. He says, how dare you?  I'm torturing you after everything I've done. And you smile? Why you smile? And she says, and save me from Pharaoh and his, and his, and in the evil, his evil folks, his evil, the evil people who come with me, come with him. And in that moment, subhanAllah, he's, he's so angry that she smiled. She makes this dua, like save me from him, Ya Rabbi. So he then orders a catapult to crush her body. Right before the catapult comes, the catapults rock a stone, a boulder to crush her. Allah subhanAllah removes her soul. Now you might be wondering, why do I tell you this story tonight? Because in these moments, what will you do for Allah? What will you withstand? To say Allah, I won't, I will not deviate from this day. I am, how will you say I'm not concerned about the people? I'm not concerned about their opinion of me. I'm not concerned about my perceived notion of what they might do to me, whether imagined or real. I'm, I don't care. What I care about is, what does my Lord think of me?  Will my Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, smell me coming with a beautiful scent subhanAllah.


because I thought I needed it. But I found out in the process of preparing for today that, in fact, I did. Yikes! I know, it's kind of scary. If you asked me a week ago, how many small appliances do you have, Angela? I would have said probably four or six, and then I would have thought about it, and I might have said maybe seven or 10. And it wasn't until I started kind of pulling things out that I decided and kind of figured out that I had a whole lot more than that. So we're going to go through a process, and the process is talking about the different small kitchen appliances that we have and then figuring out exactly what we want to do with them. Do we want to keep them? Do we want to discard them? Or do we want to use them? Now we're going to go on the premise that if we don't use it, we lose it, right? That's the first step of decluttering. If we don't use it, we lose it. So I want us today to kind of work together, and this is a program that people pay a lot of money for, okay? And we're going to do this for you for free because we care about you and we want you to unclutter your homes and find a space for everything, right? So one of the things that we really want to focus on today is be honest, but I'm going to ask you to jump in the comments and make some notes as we go.  And I just want to take a look at the space that I have. And my first question is, do you have space? And I know that a lot of us have stuff that's on top of our kitchen cupboards, but a lot of us have stuff that's underneath our cupboards. And if you look at my kitchen cupboard, there's nothing on any of the countertops. I've got plenty of space, right? I've got lots of space for all of the different things that I have, or so I thought. So if in the comments, if you have space, type hashtag, I have space. And that way I'll know if you do have space. If you don't have space, type the hashtag, I need space, because that's what we're going to do together is we're going to find some space together. I see that we've got lots of friends that are joining us so far. Hi, Steph, space cadet Erica G. Thanks, you guys for joining us. I'm super excited that you're here. I see Judy's Bakery Test and Kitchen is here. And I see that we also have a couple of folks online. I see that Sally is here. I'm adding Sally. Sally, how are you today? Good. How are you? I'm very good. You've joined us again. Thank you so much. It's nice to have you here today. Thank you. So quick question. Tell us, Sally, do you have space? Yes, I do have space. Yes. And but I don't keep a lot too. Everything I only have one unit that I need. I have space. Yes. So you got space for everything. And I see Rita is also back. We're adding you. Hi, Rita. How are you today? Hi, I'm good, Angela. How are you? I'm very good. So the question is, do you have space for all of the small appliances that you have? I definitely have space. I also don't think I need all the small appliances I have. You've got more than you need probably. Yeah, I think so. Okay. So this is going to be the moment of truth. I see we have some folks here in our comment section that are saying, I have space and I need space. All right. At the end of the conversation today, this may change. And it may change based on our new rules that we're going to create for ourselves. So let's take a look and we'll move forward here. My next question is, do you have a coffee maker? And we're going to start with the easy stuff. First, do you have a coffee maker and do you use it? So if you have a coffee maker, type hashtag coffee maker in the notes. And I myself do have a coffee maker. What's interesting about my coffee maker is I don't drink coffee and I don't drink tea. But I have this in my work setup. And this is set up for employees that come over. And also guests or whatever, we can offer them a drink of coffee or tea or what have you. And so this is that station. Sally, do you have a coffee maker? Yes, I do have a coffee maker. Yes, I have a curate machine at home.  So yeah, I use them every day. So is your tea maker, is that different than your? It's the same. I just buy the teapot, the cake up the tea once. Yeah, I use the curate to do it. And the hot cocoa, my daughter likes to use it. So yes, we use it every day, all of it. Oh, nice. Okay, good. So this is not a problem for you. I love people that are actually using the appliances that they have. That's great news. Rita, do you, and this is a great question.  Well, so to preface, I have three roommates, and that's part of the reason I think we have too many appliances is because we have doubles and triples of so many things. I am an outside coffee kind of girl. I do buy a lot of Starbucks or like local coffee shops, but we also have an espresso in our house. And so we kind of rotate using that and going out to buy coffee. But on top of the espresso, we have like little kitchen gadgets that go with it, like one of those automatic little like twirly things, I don't know what to call it. But I would consider that a small kitchen appliance as well. But we have that in addition to the Nespresso and then we also have two curate machines, but the curates never get used because Nespresso is kind of like the fancy newer machine we have. So I think probably one of the curates at least can go. That's a great explanation. Thank you. I see that Erica G says she's got a coffee maker. She uses it twice a day. All right. So we got people that not only use the small appliances that they have, but they use them twice a day. I love this. Okay, great. I don't want you to get rid of stuff that you're using. The goal is to use the stuff that you have in the decluttering world. A lot of times there's a desire to just get rid of everything for the sake of getting rid of things. That is not our goal here. Our goal is not to just get rid of things randomly, but to get rid of stuff that we're not using. If we're using it, thumbs up. You deserve to have it. I want you guys to have nice stuff, but I want you to use the stuff you have. That's the rule, right? Use the stuff you have. All right. So we're going to start with the easy things first. And whenever we're decluttering, that's always the place we start. We start with the easy things first because it's not a huge decision, right? So what I started with was I knew in the back of my mind that I had a little designer crock pot that I wasn't using. And so I decided to start with that. And it turns out that I'm starting at one side of the kitchen and I'm going to work my way around the kitchen so that I'm kind of pulling things out as I go. And as I'm pulling out this little crock pot, I'm asking myself the questions, how long has it been since I've used this crock pot? How long has it been and then have I ever used it? So my question to you guys is do you have anything that maybe you've never used? If you've never used it, type hashtag never used in the sidebar. I'm curious to know if you have something. And this is one of those for me. I'm not sure I've ever used this before. Okay. So it's going to be an easy one for me to let go. And I hate that that's the case. Dean says, Hi, Angela, I have a question since we're looking in the kitchen area and I'm a professional home cleaner. I've tried every cleaning product when it comes to cleaning the grease around the cupboards. So we have videos and I will make a note here, grease on the videos, grease on the cabinets, so that we can get you that video. And I will make sure that you have that. Grease on the cabinets is a real thing that's not the topic of today's conversation. So I do want to focus on just what we're doing today, which is going through our cupboards. I am curious. It's a football. Yeah, it is a football. It was a little football crockpot that when I pulled it out, it was about the size of a potato. And I realized I could cook a potato in it. And that's probably all I could do. And then my question was, do I keep it or do I let it go? And I asked my husband about it. And my husband said, oh, that's so cute. I said, yes, it is so cute, but I don't know that I've ever used it. He said, well, it would be great for a Super Bowl party. And then I said, we haven't had the Super Bowl party at our house though in about 10 years. And so I don't know how long I've had this, but this is not a crockpot you would use if you were having like a Christmas party, right? You would want one that looked like a wreath or a Christmas tree or something. So because it's kind of specialized, I might, I might let this go. I don't, I don't think I'm going to keep it just because I've never used it. And although I have a place for it, I probably don't need it. My next question to myself is, if we were going to move, there are rumors in my household that we're going to move. And if we move, it will probably be a smaller house. So I probably won't be able to take all the things that I have right now.  And the second question is, if I move to a smaller house, would I take this with me? And if the answer is no, my next question is, would I pay to put it in a storage unit? And the answer is no, I don't think I would. And so that's, that's my question that we're, that we're kind of dealing with here. All right. Inventory, it's time for inventory. This is a really scary time for us to take a look at the stuff that we have. But my suggestion is on this particular thing, pull it out, pull everything out one by one. And let's let's have an honest conversation about what that looks like. Now, I don't often encourage you guys to pull everything out one by one, because you can create a great big mess. In this particular scenario, you see that I have some crock pots here that are on the floor. Do you guys have any crock pots that are on the floor or not crock pots, but but appliances that are still in the boxes that are on the floor? And if you do type on the floor in the sidebar so that I can kind of get a grasp of what you guys are doing for me, they're on the floor because I just, I do have space, but these are are here because we cleaned out the pantry and I wanted to keep them all in the same area. So it's a little bit of a, I don't know, moment of truth. When you start realizing, well, I have stuff I'm not using and stuff that's on the floor and stuff that's stored in cabinets that I can't see. And I don't really know what I have. And so as I start pulling out item by item by item, what I'm going to do is I'm going to set this all up on the kitchen counter. And in the professional house cleaning world, many of you know that I run a training company for professional house cleaners. One of the things that we have is an upsell package and we clean five small appliances for up to $100. And so it could be any five appliances at all. And I said to myself, well, I don't need that service because all my appliances are clean. Well, the reality is there are other people in the house that use the appliances and they don't always leave them clean when they're done. So as we started pulling out my appliances, I found at least five where I said, Hey, where's that person that does a special package? I've got five appliances that need to be clean. And so what we're going to do on this particular scenario is we're going to pull them all out. We're going to take a look at them. Are they clean? And then we're going to plug them in and we're going to find out are they in working order? So are your kitchen appliances in working order? Rita, let me toss this over to you. Do all of your kitchen appliances work? I think you mentioned something about one of yours that may not be in the best shape. So I actually have a toaster oven, which I can share an image of because I did take a picture of it. I don't know if you all can see my toaster oven. But like I said, I have three roommates and all four of us are like very in and out of the house. So I don't think any of us actually know who this toaster oven belongs to. I know it doesn't belong to me. But it's been sitting on our counter ever since we moved in. So it's been about three months. And at individual times, we've all gone and tried to use it and realized it doesn't work. Like I sat waiting 30 minutes for like some tenders to heat up or something before I realized that the toaster oven just doesn't work. I checked that it was plugged in and everything. 30 minutes is a long time. Yeah, well, I was like, I don't know what I thought, but I waited and they were still like ice cold. And then I think all my roommates have kind of realized or maybe they haven't. It's just one of those things we never talked about. The toaster oven's just sitting there. Now we're storing other pans on top of it. And we just haven't gone around and getting rid of it or having that conversation. So I hate that it doesn't work because I yeah, it's a common thing when sometimes we hang on to one. It doesn't work very well. So we buy a new one. And then I don't know why we still hang on to the old one as if it's like a backup, like, well, if this one doesn't work, then I've got a backup, not in this particular scenario, but we have an iron like that in our house, like an iron for ironing clothes. And my husband won't let me throw the old iron away. And I'm like, well, we replaced it because it didn't work. And so hanging on to it just in case isn't going to make it ever work again. Right. And I don't know why it's like this comfort zone. Like don't get rid of it because like it's our backup. It's not our backup. I mean, yes, it heats up, but it didn't work badly enough that we bought a new one. Right. And so there are a lot of people that have these. So if you're one of these people, it's okay. This is a safe conversation. Say I've got a spare, a bad spare, type in bad spare in the comments so that we know that you have a bad spare. I'm guilty of this myself. I got a bad spare and it's an iron. Ah, that's funny. All right. So is your equipment in working order? And that's what we're going to do in this particular scenario. We're going to run through the kitchen. I'm going to pull everything out of all the cupboards. I'm going to pull the stuff out of the pantry. I'm going to plug it in and I'm going to take a look at it and see is it in working order. Now, one of the things that's a little bit eye-opening as I start going through some of this stuff and we, I should preface this by saying we have had a lot of parties at our house. So I have a lot of party goods that would go on that great big granite countertop where we have like lots of dishes and, you know, fun things to eat and ornamental, you know, trays and stuff like that.  And so I know that some of the stuff I haven't used in like two years, maybe even longer. And so then my question is, am I going to start having parties again, if we go to the use it or lose it thing? Or am I going to have to start making decisions about, I don't really need this. And for the lifestyle changes that I've made since COVID, I might not need them anymore. Again, if I were going to move to a smaller place, what I take them with me, if the answer is no, I can get rid of them because I'm not going to pay to put them in a storage unit, right? Not knocking storage units. It's just, that's not where I am right now at this phase of my journey. So I'm pulling out some, some crockpots. And I have a true confession about this particular crockpot that I'm pulling out right now. I thought this was just an empty box. I did not know there was a crockpot in it because the crockpot that I thought was in it was actually across the kitchen in another cupboard. It turns out that it wasn't until I pulled all of the items out of my cupboards that I discovered that, in fact, I have two of the exact same crockpot. So it either multiplied or I had two all along and I didn't know it. And so maybe you have two or you have duplicates, right? But I'm curious, do all of the appliances that you have, do they all work? If they're all in working order, give me a hashtag working order. I think most of mine except for the iron. I think most of mine are. So somebody on Facebook says, I got rid of my party dishes. I figure next we'll party out. And that's one of the things that I discovered too. As my business picked up and I got a lot busier, I decided for me that I didn't want to throw a party. I decided that the expense of throwing a party and it takes a week or two weeks to prepare for the party and get all that stuff ready. I decided for me, probably the better way to go was to eat out at a restaurant or maybe we'll next time we'll go over to Sally's house. I know that Sally is a big chef and she does lots of party cooking. Are you still doing parties Sally since COVID? In the small scale, like just like five at five family or less, not like before. Before, yeah, we have more family than that. But now it's smaller because of COVID. So we kind of cut it down. Also, I think that as you're getting older, you're kind of lazy to do a lot more stuff. There's another reason. So in a way, I'm glad COVID happened. So I kind of cut down a lot, reduce a lot. Yes. But you're still cooking and stuff. Okay, so next time I'm just going to hire you to cater my parties. And now that you've watched this video, you know where I keep everything. So you can come over and do all the cooking and make a party for us. That would be fun. All right. So one of the things that I discovered was that I have a slow cooker. And as I pulled out my slow cooker, I had to have an honest conversation with myself about what is the difference between a slow cooker and a a crock pot. And I think at one time, I sat through a fancy sales presentation where the guy was selling a slow cooker. And he was explaining the fact that it would allow you to, like if it was turned off, it could automatically turn itself on while you're at work during the day. And unlike a slow cooker where you just have to turn it on and like hope you get home before it like totally fall, the food totally falls apart because it just fallen off the bone or it's like overcooked or whatever. And I liked the fact that it had a timer on it. And I honestly think that I bought a slow cooker just because it had a timer on it. And so I was buying it just because of the feature. I'm curious, have you guys ever bought anything that was similar to something you already owned just because it had like one more feature? I know that in the world of electronics, oftentimes we're guilty of doing that where we buy something that's just one step better because it has a couple of features that the old version that works perfectly good doesn't have. Is anybody like that? Does anybody have something that you purchased that was just one step better and probably didn't need it? And I say probably didn't need it because as I look at that slow cooker, that's one of those other items I've used maybe a half a dozen times and only because of that feature. But for the rest of the time, I still prefer my Crock-Pot because I'm going to be home within the amount of time. So it's, I don't want to say it was a waste, but it was really an unnecessary item that I purchased with good intentions. And I just don't think I got the mileage out of it. Connie says, our Crock-Pot just broke and she needs a new one. Connie, please don't buy one. I have many and we're about to find out that I have many. If you live near me, you're welcome to come pick one up. I've got plenty of Crock-Pots. Connie also says, yes, she has power tools. That's not my history with smartphones. Every one of them is revolutionary. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, true, true that. I'm guilty of having the newest, fastest smartphone as well, thinking that it's going to give me things that I don't have. Yeah. All right. And a toaster oven. We looked at Rita's toaster oven. And I think I have a toaster oven of my own here. One of the things about the toaster oven and this was revolutionary for me is I don't do a lot of cooking. And in the process of pulling out my toaster oven, I started asking myself, how long have I had this? And it's probably been over 10 or 12 years. And I've probably used it a handful of times. When I opened it up, this is one of those items that kind of caught my attention because if I look closely, it's got stuff inside. Like, who thought I would have something like that in my house? Sally's laughing. I was really embarrassed. I was like, Oh, my goodness, I've got a really dirty toaster oven. And it's one of those things somebody used that popped it back in the cupboard, or they left it on the cupboard and I just popped it back and they're thinking it was clean. And so I've got this toaster oven that I've used maybe a handful of times. And so if you have a toaster oven, just type hashtag toaster oven. Let's take inventory here and find out what you guys have.  Or is that just me and Rita? Or are we the only ones that have toaster ovens? And Rita has one that's broken. Rita, you can have my working toaster oven that I don't use very often. Ah, that's funny. All right, let's take a look at the juicer. This is kind of interesting. Do you guys have a juicer? How many of you guys actually use juicers? I'm curious to know if you have a juicer and if you do, do you use it? I ask because I bought this juicer probably about 10 or 15 and it's been longer than that. It's been longer than 15 years and I've used it a lot. It was a really big staple to my diet. I know that when my husband was in the process of losing over 100 pounds, we started out with the juicer. We'd watched this program on YouTube that was called Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead. And it was all about Joe Cross's journey through weight loss. He lost like 100 pounds. And in the process of losing the weight, he lost it by juicing. And I already had a juicer. And I was like, oh, that's so awesome. I should encourage my husband to use the juicer and see if we can go on a similar journey. What was interesting was in the process of using the juicing, there's a lot of pulp that comes out. And so all of the fiber from the fruits, the apples, the carrots, all the stuff that we were juicing, all the pulp was coming out. And we were using the pulp for composting. But what I didn't know is it was attracting deer and rabbits outside that wanted our fresh produce. I was putting it around the plants and using it out in the garden. And I was getting all these wild animals that came and they were eating all of the pulp that I was leaving out there, as well as all my plants. And so I stopped putting the pulp out there. But I was sad because as we were juicing, which was intended to be a good health move, one of the things that I noticed was that in the process of doing that, we were losing all the fiber. And so one day we were inside a Costco and the guy was doing a demonstration. And as we walked by, my husband had come with me and I had this great big monster grocery cart of fresh fruit and vegetables that we were going to juice. And the guy was doing a demonstration on the Vitamix blender. And he was throwing in whole carrots and whole apples. And I stopped and I realized that even though that was a really expensive blender, it would reduce the waste, the food waste that was all the pulp. And I realized that in addition to having all the fresh fruits and vegetable juices, we could also have the pulp that was going to then give us the fiber and the other nutrients that we were throwing away. And so we bought, we bought a Vitamix literally on site right there that day at Costco, not because it was an impulse purchase, but because as I started walking away, my husband grabbed me, he's like, why are you walking away? And we have this rule in our house that if anything costs more than $400, we have a conversation about it before we buy it. We do not buy it on the spot. And as I started walking away, I turned around and I said to him, well, because my next question was, did you want white or black? And he said, I want black. And I said, great, let's do it. And I had already decided in my head that I wanted it and that it would be a good use and that it would help us on that journey. But I also committed to myself if I spend $400 on a blender, it's got to be something that I promised myself I'm going to use. And so let's take a look at the blender. I think this, this is not the blender, this one is the pressure cooker. We'll come back to the blender. But with the blender, then we have used it every single day and it's made a huge difference. All right, this is a pressure cooker. And I know many of you have an Instapot. This is, this is one that my husband bought for a holiday Christmas or something. And got really gung ho about it. We used it a half a dozen times. And I realized that for me, my lifestyle is more slow cooker, throw something in there and just let it do its own thing and not have me come in and do all the maintenance of the high pressure and make sure that the the thing is cleaned out. And I, you know, I got to wait until the pressure stops. So I don't burn myself on the lid and all that stuff. I just, I'm more of a crock pot person than the Instapot. Do you guys have an Instapot? If you do, write Instapot in the notes. I wanted to jump back to Connie. She says she has two juicers, one to puree cat food and one that they no longer use. Oh, is the one that you no longer use? And this is a question for Connie. Is the one that you no longer use, is that, does it work? Or is that like a backup in case the one that you use stops working? I'm curious about that. And back on blenders, we have a Facebook user here that says they have a Vitamix blender too, but the old one had a broken stick blender and isn't a good substitute for a regular blender. You know what? It's interesting. I've tried a couple of other blenders on the market and I'm not selling Vitamix blenders or anything, but I'm a huge fan. For the last, I'm going to say probably 10 years, I've had the Vitamix blender. And I think I have one over here. I think this is the blender. Yes, here's the blender one. My blender, I have probably used it twice a day for two meals a day for probably the last 10 meals. And in fact, here is my, let me see if I can make this. Where's my camera? Here is the rest of my breakfast smoothie for today. So I'm drinking chia seeds and spinach juice today is my breakfast. So yay. But yeah, I do use it a couple times a day for all my meals. This is great. So Joanne says, yes, we're the blender. We use the blender and the food processor. Oh, that's awesome. I love that the blender and the food processor because those are a couple that we use as well. And I love the fact that we're using what we have. I'm still trying to figure out this technology. Thanks you guys for being patient with me. Tropical Bliss 45 says, I bought a dash pro instead of a Vitamix and it does the same thing at less than half the cost. That's fantastic. And so if you can find one that works for you, I think there's another one on the market called Ninja. That's also really good that does all of the chopping of like the cores of apples.  And so if yours is robust enough that it does that, I love it. It's lots of fun and saves me from doing all this food prep so that I can juice it, which in the juicer you had to do a lot of food prep. And we got several people here that said they love Instapots, A-Smith, and I have to put this one up on screen. Evil Bill Z has three Instapots. Oh my goodness. Evil Bill, you and I are almost twins because we're going to find out that I have not only just one Instapot, but I've got lots of Crockpots. Oh my goodness. This is exciting. I tell you what, it never stops. Food processor. Here we go with the food processor. Let's take a look at that. Alrighty. I do use my food processor a lot because I don't like chopping up vegetables. I'm looking for time saving items. This is one that was hiding out in the pantry, but it's right there at front and center where I can get to it easily. That has to be a rule for engagement. If you have equipment that you do store out of sight, out of mind, and you do use it, keep it in a place where you can access it really quickly so that you can use it on a whim and then clean it and then put it back. There's no sense having stuff that we're not going to use. And there's no sense having stuff that is in a box that's at the bottom of a cupboard or a closet that you can't use in a hurry because the Crockpots, like I said, I found one that was a duplicate that I didn't know I had. I thought it was just the box of one that I use on occasion. The answer is, well, I've got now a spare. It's brand new. I have a spare that I probably don't need because the one that I was using is in the cupboard with easy access and it's in a drawer that just pulls out. Again, shame on me for not participating.  There's notes. I think I can leave a note here so that you guys can join us live. I'm delighted that Sally and Rita have joined us. This is always so much fun to have other friends. So Sally, do you have a food processor? Yes, I do have one, but I don't use as much as I should be. I guess I use the blender a lot more. So we're kind of sitting there. I only use like a month, maybe, I don't know, like in a year, maybe like a handful full time. Yeah. Do you use the blender as a food processor, like to blend stuff up? Yes. Oh, you do? Yeah, I use blender a lot more every week. I use the blender, but not the food processor. A lot less. I should use more, but yeah, I've been sitting there, so I use less. Yeah. I know that on occasion, I have used my blender, like if I'm making salsa, or if I'm making like pickle relish, then I use my blender because I can just hit the button once or twice and it kind of like crunches stuff up, but not it doesn't puree it like a smoothie, for example. So I'm still learning how to do that as well. Somebody taught me how to make salsa and I'm like, oh, that's so cool. So Rita, do you cook? Minimally, but like all the things I cook, I only use the stove in the oven. I honestly have no idea what I would use a food processor for. I don't think I'd even know how to use one if we were in front of me. So I definitely don't have a food processor, but I do have a blender. I make a lot of smoothies. Okay, cool. Very cool. All right, the electric drill. How many of you guys have an electric drill? Hashtag electric drill in the sidebar if you have one. I remember years ago, we were watching this infomercial. I know you guys have never done this. You watch the infomercial and you see all the different ways that you can use the George Forman Grill. That's just the brand that we have or the infomercial we were watching. So I was like, well, we should have one of these. And apparently you don't need grease or any frying capabilities or whatever. And I thought, oh, that will be so much healthier. We need one of those. And we have used it on occasion. I'm going to say like twice a year maybe. And we've kept it because we do use it on occasion, but it's like a really, really rare occasion. And so I'm thinking about it. I'm like, you know what, I have this. I don't cook a lot. Most of the stuff I cook is in crock pots. And I do cook one day a month. And I use nine crock pots. And I put all the stuff in crock pots. I go to Costco, I buy all the fruits and vegetables.  So that's kind of like my style so that I can be on the go and I can be busy or whatever and race in throw something in the microwave two minutes. I'm good to go. That's kind of my style. And so to turn on a grill and to plug it in and to mix something up and to put it in there and to grill it. And so going through this, this was a really eye-opening process for me because I'm saying to myself, I don't really need this. I don't really use it. Could I let it go? The answer is yes. Would I ever miss it? Maybe would I ever purchase another one? The answer is no. If someone gave me one for free, would I take it? The answer is no. If I were going to move, would I take it with me? The answer is no. Would I pay to put it in a storage unit? The answer is no. And so do you see the process that we're going on here? If you are a professional house cleaner and you offer this service to your customers, when you start having these conversations and you start asking them those questions, it starts opening a dialogue either in their head or with their spouse. And by having all of these out on the kitchen cupboard, it forced myself to have a conversation with my spouse because he came in and I texted him. I said, when you walk in, do not be alarmed. I said, we're doing something for the clutter corner and it's part of something I'm doing for my job. And he came in and he said, he took one look and he said, this is not a clutter corner. This is a clutter house. And so I laugh because everything has a place, right? Everything was put away. But it was a great opportunity to walk him around the kitchen. We walked around the island and I said, do you want this? Do you want this? Are we going to use this? Would you miss this if it were gone? And his answer was, I won't miss any of it because I don't know that we have it. I don't see it. It's out of sight. It's out of mind. And he said, for the amount of time that I don't cook, I'm not going to miss most of this stuff if you were to get rid of it. And so these are the kind of honest conversations we can start having with ourselves when we try to figure out about some of the stuff that we have. And just because we have space for something doesn't necessarily mean we should keep it, right? So these are some of the truth conversations that we're trying to bring up and have with ourselves. For those of you that are just joining us, this is the Clutter Corner Live. And we meet now every Thursday. We're doing a small mini series right now. We meet every Thursday at 2pm Eastern Daylight Time. And there will be a replay so you can watch the replay. My intent for you on this mini series is that you start looking at some of the stuff that you have. During COVID, a lot of people stayed at home. Well, they came home. They were working and then they started working from home. And then their kids came home from school. So the parents that didn't want to come home, all of a sudden we're now at home in their home schooling and stuff. The houses started getting a lot more use. During that process, a lot of people started looking at, oh, wait a second, I got that room in the other room that's kind of a guest bedroom and it's kind of a storage room. And we've been kind of chunking things in there that we probably should pull out. And people started pulling things out from their scary room or from their closets. People started going through their garages and their attics. There are people that were really ambitious that went to their storage units. The storage unit industry is the $39 billion annual industry. So people are storing a lot of stuff. And my intention is not, again, I'm not knocking the storage unit industry, but the average person spends $88 a month on a storage unit. And that's a lot of money to be spending, especially during a recession, storing stuff that you're not using. And if you have small appliances, I don't even want to ask this question. Please don't even answer this question. But if you have small appliances that are kitchen appliances that you're storing in a storage unit, I promise you're not using them. I promise you don't need them. And you will probably never use them again. And so unless you're in the process of just moving, and that's why you've stored them for a moment. But if you're just storing stuff, because you don't have space, there's a lot of stuff that you could probably get rid of. And so the reason that we're having the clutter corner live is so that we can have those conversations that are kind of tough to have. And just for the sheer fact that once we have those conversations, then we can be more truthful about the stuff that we have. All right, let's take a look at toasters. I do use my toaster. And this is one of those happy moment items from my house. And I just pulled it out because it's sitting there on the cupboard. And these are the two items in my kitchen that set out. These are the only two items in my kitchen that set out, which is kind of odd. And the toaster I now use, we didn't use a toaster for several years because we didn't eat any bread during the time my husband was losing all the way. We didn't have any bread in the house at all. And then one day we remembered bread. I remember I had told Sally this one day that we started having sandwiches and she was laughing at me like, you know, I love bread. And I'm like, I love bread too. I just forgot that it existed. And I didn't buy it. And so it wasn't on my shopping list. And I've now outsourced my grocery shopping. So I never added bread to the list. We just never had bread in the house. So then one day my husband was like, Oh, I forgot about sandwiches. So now we do, we do have a little bit of bread here. And then we do make some sandwiches. So there's a question here that says, okay, English question, I can't go to Google because then the video will stop. What's difference on a food processor compared to a blender? That's a great question. Sally, I think that's a question for you. Do you know what the difference is between a food processor? Yes, one main thing is food processor, you no need to add water, you can blend blender, you had to add some sort of liquid that the blender will move. You cannot blend dry. That's the biggest difference that I know of.  Food processor can be dry. That's the biggest difference. I hope I answered your question. No, that was great. I did not know that. So I just learned something new myself. That was a great question. Thanks you guys. And what I use my food processor for is things like shredding lettuce when I don't want to cut it. Or if I'm going to throw some mushrooms or something in a wok, I'll just throw them inside the food processor and it cuts them up and dices them in little pieces as opposed to a blender that to me just liquefies everything. And I'm not skilled enough to know the difference between how to just use the blender for other things. I liquefy everything. So yeah, that's the difference for me. We do have a question here that was a really good question. Somebody said, and it's A. Smith, Angela, have you used a local Facebook buy nothing group? You could use that to get rid of excess items. I have not used Facebook buy. Is there somebody that could explain that to me? A. Smith, do you want to jump on camera and tell me what that is? I would love to know. Rita, you smile, do you know? It sounds like a resale group for what I can tell, but I'm not sure. Okay. And there's Judy. Hey, Judy, how are you today? Oh, good. Can you hear me? Yes. Oh, good. Nice to have you with us today. How you doing? I'm thrilled because I've got some stuff to talk about. But I'm going to finish off with your question. So my question is, do you know about the Facebook buy and sell group? Do you know how that works? I don't use it now. Okay. I have a 24-hour option site I like to use. That's local. And there may be some in your local area, too. What I like is I know within 24 hours whether or not it's sold or for how much. And they have three days to pick it up. So they, or they're kicked off the list, so it's real strict. Facebook live, I'm not sure, but I wouldn't bother with Facebook live unless it was like $25. Yeah. So to answer that question, no, I haven't, I haven't used Facebook buy or sell. And I'm glad to know that's an option. I'm going to take a look into that so that I can learn more. I've been using a lot of Nextdoor. And I know that when we do this process with customers, Nextdoor works really, really, really well for us. So what we do is we take a picture and we take a, we put it in a box or like a milk crate. We put it out at the end of someone's driveway and we take a picture of the mailbox with the number of the house and like the side of the house or the front of the house so that they know that's the house, that's the mailbox. And this is the item, what the item looks like sitting at the end of the drive. And so then this is not a buy or sell, but this is just give away, like if you want it, it's yours. And so then what we say is come pick it up and we always use the phrase first come, first serve. And so here's the address, here's the item, you want it, it's yours, here's a picture of it. And our longest time that something has sat in the driveway for give away is I think 26 minutes. So boom, and it's gone. So that's what we do there. Okay, so our next question. Oh, we looked at the blender and we looked at the juicer and we did not look at the shredder slicer. Let's take a look at the shredder slicer. Do you want to say something? Yeah, I do, I do because that's where my area is. Okay, this, this is, can you see it? This is my mini chopper blender that's been sitting in the cupboard. My husband just told me last night I haven't seen you use that in seven years. And this is the first food processor blender type thing that I had. I use it, a lot of events I used it to chop nuts. Okay, you know what I chop nuts with? Oh, my goodness. Chop, dine, and then I have, I have three things I'm trying to figure out what to keep. This can grind, I bought this about a year ago because I'm following a, I'm following a YouTuber who is a really great low carb baker and she shows how you can grind nuts and seeds to make your own flour. And this does a great job of that. Okay. And then this is good for spices and I'm wondering, can I replace this with this? Should I save this? So those are my questions. Okay, so of those, of those that you have, which is the easiest for you to give away? This one. And why? Um, when we got the Ninja blender food processor from a realtor that replaced a lot of stuff, it doesn't hold a lot. If I'm going to do one onion, I will probably use, I have a I forgot what it's called, but you pull the handle down and it chops an onion for you. If I'm going to do two onions, this one do that. So I think this would be the easiest one because it does such a small amount. I'm trying to get away from small amounts. If I, if I do a larger amount like a big onion, which I do have, I've read any knife to chop up. I would get it in the bigger food processor, chop up, bunch up and freeze it. So I'm trying to get away from little amounts. This is the, this is the one I'd get rid of over all these three. This one, I save for dry stuff. If it would pulverize nuts, it would make them like a flower. So I wouldn't want that. This is a better food chopper. That's, and this is great for spices. So the Cuisinite. How, how many spices do you, do you use and how often is that, is that something that makes sense for you to keep? Oh, well, I'm trying to get into whole spices so I could grind them instead of, you know, when you, when you have free chop spices, I think I use this. I think I use, no, I didn't think about that. I think I use this about once a month, once over two months. Okay. So you are using it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So then we want you to keep that one. If you're using it, we want you to keep it thumbs up. Yeah. The one that you said is the easiest for you to get rid of. What would be, what would be your purpose for getting rid of it today? I'm trying to move stuff. I have three. I'm trying to, I'm trying to get rid. I have these three shelf units in the kitchen instead of shelving. And I'm trying to pair that down. I'm, as I move, this is, this was in the counter and the cupboard. And I'm trying to move stuff off of there into the cupboard. So that's my goal there. And I can also put, I've got all these pie pans and stuff like that, which I'm kind of downloading, I decluttering, but I could, it would help me get rid of those, I need to get rid of more. And so is anybody going to miss that if you get rid of that?  No, no. Larry said he doesn't need it for coffee. He has a coffee grinder. Okay. So for you, what if we were to get rid of that one item? Is that, is that doable? I could do it. I still have an instruction book and it'd be nice for somebody to really enjoy. Okay. Well, I think that, I think that's the answer then. If you found some, if you found a couple that you want to keep, you found some that are useful to you and you're still using them. Do you have, do you have space for the one you want to get rid of? Like you said, you're, you're trying to make space. Yeah. Yeah. But I could move something into that slot and cover. All right. So for you, let's get, let's get rid of that item. Let's make a commitment to get rid of that item. If you guys, if you guys, all of you that are in the comments here, and thank you so much for being here, you guys. This is super exciting. I'm having so much fun with you today. If you have an item that you, like Judy are going to get rid of, go ahead and name the item that you're going to get rid of just by having this conversation. Maybe you thought of something that you're not using. I want to say hi to Allie. Allie, how are you today? You're on mute. Yeah. I muted my microphone because I was broadcasting it on to the TV. And so it was going to be echoing for you guys. Oh, okay. Well, how are you today? I would be respectful. I'm quite well. I just wanted to tell you about Facebook, the Facebook. Oh, yes, yes, the buy and sell group. Yes. Sorry. I also have an Aussie Doodle who is super active in the background. Please excuse it. So the Facebook buy nothing group is for me has worked very similarly to the neighborhood or the next door app that you were discussing earlier. And I found that to be super useful whenever I had like, so I'm a touring comedian and I had another comedian who was staying at the house for a little bit while she was getting her legs in the area. And she introduced me to the Facebook buy nothing group.  It's available now. If it's not there, then so, you know, so sorry for you. You missed out. And I was able to get rid of like excess fans because I live in South Carolina.  And just like a lot of storage containers of things that I no longer wanted. So then I was able to get rid of the storage containers. Just like lots of beauty products. I was able to donate to the local women's shelter. We have a very large Casa shelter nearby.  And so I thought, well, this would be a great gift to pass along to the girls.  What made you go with Facebook instead of a different platform? Well, I didn't want to pay for shipping. And I didn't want to have to deal with going to the post office and waiting and doing all of that as well. And also, knowing that it's somebody in my area who could use it or who could get it and flip it if they wanted to and make a little money off of it, since it's just sitting around. For me, that seemed the better option. So I don't know if you pull that laziness or community, but a little bit of both probably. Yes, Judy. I agree with Ali. I can't. When I sell something, like I just sold my Gumby and Pokey and I sold the ice cream maker, you know that somebody's going to be using it. I was thinking of donating my little me, Cuisinart to Arc, which provides services for the disabled, but you don't know if they're going to sell it. I mean, 20% of all clothing is just what they keep when you donate clothing to a charity. They don't keep everything. So this way, when I do it in my community or I have, you reminded me, I have a thermos that I couldn't sell. Nobody drinks coffee to work. I'm going to put it up on Buy Nothing for someone to maybe take soup or something like that. Somebody wants it. And they take it away. Yeah. And what they do with that is their business at that point. And also United Way doesn't usually put, and I don't know if that's the particular one that you were dealing with, but like United Way will not frequently have electronic devices that they sell because there's a liability there. And so for me, the fans, that's sort of an issue, like an issue that they may not be able to use them, but I'm in South Carolina and so it's like 100 degrees all the time. So it just made more sense to put it out there. I live in a very busy street. So whether or not they bought it from the Buy Nothing group or they just drove by, again, not my problem, not my business. Just take it. Nancy brings up a really good point. She says the Buy Nothing groups are strictly forgiving and getting stuff for free, not buying and selling. And there's an app and also groups on Facebook. And I did not realize that it was only for free. So it's the same thing as like the next door where you're just giving it away, not selling it. And I didn't realize that. So that's awesome. Thank you, Nancy, for sharing that with us. And thank you, Ollie, for sharing that with us as well, because this gives us an opportunity to kind of let go of those football crockpots that will cook exactly one potato that may not be in your wheelhouse if you need to cook, like Judy says, cooking a little bit more. And I know that that's where I am right now. I'm from a large family. Churches, too, that are now offering their spaces for the community to come in and use as their commercial kitchens. And that can help. I interrupted you. I'm sorry. One of the things that I was noticing is there are a lot of kids that are moving out for the very first time. And this is like the first time they've ever lived anywhere. And because we are moving in through recessionary times and because the cost of living is so high, there are a lot of people that are just starting out with nothing. And so they're looking for a set of pots and pans and a set of bed sheets and a set of linens, a set of comforters or towels or whatever. I know there are a lot of excess things that a lot of people have. And so if you're able to give it away, I think the buy now or what is it buy nothing group is a great way to go. Yeah, I will see a negative on that is I haven't quite yet figured out how to remove the item once it's been taken.  So and that's like my own like technology situation I think. But yeah, so stay on top of and know how to get rid of it because people get a little ignorant. If you don't have the items still available for them. There's got to be a way to do that. I know that on Nextdoor and literally we'll we'll post something an hour later we've removed it because it is gone. And you don't want to keep getting emails of people going is that still for sale? Is that is that still available? Is that still at the end of your drive?  You know, I mean, I feel bad about that. One of the things that's really important is that we do have a conversation about I think I think it is important that we do have a conversation about the stuff that we have. Today has been a start to that conversation. We have a self quiz for you. It's absolutely free in the links below the video. I've left it there for you because I want you to take a look at it and I want you to just to have that conversation with yourself. It's time that we are truthful about the stuff that we have. Because by creating space in our lives for some of this extra stuff, it not only frees up the space, but it like like Ali was saying earlier, it kind of blesses the lives of other people that don't have accessibility to that stuff on their own and they're not going to buy it. If you have extra and you're willing to share it, this is a really good opportunity to let that happen. All right, so we're closing up here. We're wrapping up. Do we have any last questions or do any of you want to say anything that you would like to add before we call it a day?  Joanne says, next door does both free and for sale items. Thank you, Joanne, for that. That's awesome. Judy, do you have any last minute comments for us? Oh, you're on mute. Can you hear me? Yep, I can. Put a timeline on next door or something like that. I was going to get rid of a garden card and then a year later, somebody asked if you still have the card. So I'll just, from now on, I say it's available until such and such date. Oh, good, good, good, good. Excuse me, but I'm looking for the warranty. I'm all excited to give away that. So the good news is, if you can't find the warranty to go along with the item that you're getting away, if you don't have it, it's probably available online. And I say it's free. It's before internet. Yeah, it's old. Oh, really? And so it's not one that maybe somebody scanned. No. Okay, well, then you better find it. You better find it. Otherwise, somebody's not going to know how to crunch those. What is it? Nuts or? Look at this, like safe packaging. Oh my goodness. Oh, you're just very prepared. No. All right, you guys, this was so awesome. Thank you for your time and your attention today. I really appreciate it. I love the time that we were able to spend together. Thank you so much. And we'll be doing this again next Thursday, same time, same place. And so watch the Facebook group, because that's where we're going to be showing our before and after pictures. If you guys have anything to donate this week, and we're talking about small kitchen appliances, take a picture of the before item, and then let us know if you were able to give it away, if you use the Facebook group, or if you use the next door, let us know how you got rid of it, or if you just donated it like to the Salvation Army, or the Goodwill. So we're curious to know what you did and how you did it. And that's it for today. And until we meet again, leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it. Bye. Thank you. Bye.


So, is this, yes, it's working. Okay. I'm starting at... Okay. Well, so, thank you for allowing me to give this talk here. My talk will be about counting the number of trigonal curves of TNS5 over finite fields. And first, I'll explain why we want to do this, and then I'll say a bit about how we can see these trigonal curves as plane curves. And then I'll describe how we count these plane curves using a modified sieve principle. And these methods are similar to the ones by Jonas Bergstrom, which he used when he did the case where the genus is 3 and non-hyperliptic curves. Okay. So first of all, why do we want to count these trigonal curves? Well, we are interested in the cosmology with rational coefficient of the modular spaces, and in my case of M5 bar. And there is this thing called the Hodge Euler characteristic in mixed hot structures. And I'm not going to say much about it because Ursula will speak about this tomorrow. And it is defined using compactly supported cosmology. And you can sort of think about it as the Euler characteristic, but instead of an integer, it's a polynomial. And instead of taking dimensions of cosmology, you take the dimensions of the mixed hot structure. And in the case of M5 bar, we have that it is smooth and projective. And so this mixed hot structure is actually a pure hot structure. And so we have purity, and that means that we have this equivalence between knowing this Hodge Euler characteristic and knowing the cosmology with the hot structure. And the nice thing about the Hodge Euler characteristic is that it relates to the Hodge Euler characteristic of M5 and the Hodge Euler characteristics in the boundary. But for the Hodge Euler characteristics in the boundary, we need to take as an equivalent Hodge Euler characteristics. So, well, these as an equivalent Hodge Euler characteristics in the boundary, they're all known except for two cases, which of course are the cases with the highest genus. So they are except M41 and M42. So there's still work to be done, but I'm mainly looking at M5 at the moment. And the nice thing is that if the number of points of a finite field, so the number of points of space over a finite field, if this is a polynomial, so if this is a polynomial with integer coefficients, then it gives the Hodge Euler characteristic. And, well, the question is now, of course, is this true for M5? So is M5 polynomial? And the answer is we do not know for sure, but we can also ask is M5 bar polynomial? And it turns out that this is the case if M5 bar only has state structure and the state structure that Ursula talked about today. And this is because we again here have used the fact that M5 bar is smooth and projective. And now the question, is this true? Well, this is true of two big conjectures. And the way the argument goes is there is this classification by Cheneffier-Enlon from 2014 of algebraic caspital representations of the projective general linear group. And then you can use Langlitz conjecture and Fontaine-Mazure conjecture to translate this to the Galois representations. And then this corresponds to the Hodge structures. And then what you get is that for a dimension 12, which is the dimension of M5, the only non-taked things that can appear are cusp forms. And you cannot have cusp forms on something that is unirrational and M5 and M5 bar are unirrational. So then if these conjectures hold, we have this polynomial and that means that counting the number of points of finite fields will give us this Hodge order characteristic. But this is just, this is not really a problem that this is up to conjectures because if we can count these points, then we can see if it's a polynomial or not. We don't really need the conjectures. The conjectures are just there to give us an idea that it's a good idea to actually even try this because, well, because you have this direct, then you have this nice formulation of the Hodge order characteristic and things that are polynomial are generally easier to count than things that are not polynomial. Okay, so how do we try to count then the number of points of M5? Well, we can look at the conality of the curves we have hyperliptic curves we have trigonal curves and we have to the rest. There's Q to the ninth hyperliptic curves and there's Q to the 11th plus Q to the 10th minus Q to the eighth plus one trigonal curves and the rest is still unknown. I'm currently looking at this and this is my result which is the topic of this talk. And so how do we get this result? Well, as I mentioned, we will look at plane curves. So we have this correspondence between smooth trigonal k curves of genus 5, projective k-quintics that have a unique singularity and it is a delta invariant one. So, and how do we get this correspondence? Well, if we have a trigonal curve then it has a G13. We look at its dual linear system then by Riemann-Roch this is a G25 and so we have a plane quintic then we can use the genus degree formula this is 5, the genus this is 6 so this must be 1 so we have one point with delta invariant one and the other way around if we have such a plane quintic then you get that the genus is 5 and if you take a line through the unique singularity then this will intersect the plane quintic in three other points and so the pencil of lines through the singularity will give a G13 so the curve is trigonal. So if we now denote this space by T then what we actually want to count is the number of curves in T but then we need to divide by the number of elements in the projective and tenor linear group because well, similar to what also I mentioned in the first talk when you have these projective curves you need to divide by the projective and the linear group to get the modular space so now how do we count these curves? Well, we look at the type of the singularity it can be like this a node or it can be a cusp and if it is a node we can further specify whether it's a split node or a non-split node and a split node is a node where tensions are defined over K, the ground field and non-split node is a node where they are defined over a degree-to-field extension and they form a conjugate pair well, you can count these all separately these cases and they are very similar to count but for the rest of this talk we just look at the split nodes so if we have such a split node then what we do is we apply a K linear transformation K linear change of coordinates if you will of coordinates that sends the node to this fixed point that we just choose 001 and the tensions they go to x and y where x, y, z are the coordinates of the projective plane so we want to count if we can now count all the curves that look like this then we can just multiply by the appropriate subgroup of the projective linear group that corresponds to these linear transformations so this is what we actually want to count and how do we do this well, I'll just erase this because I need a little more space we do this using the sieve principle and for this I have a little bit of notation we write curly C to be the space of all projective plane K quintics that have a singularity so basically those type of curves a singularity I'm sorry, this must be a node not just any singularity a node at 001 with tensions x and y but these places are different because these curves can also have more singularities and we only want the ones with the one singularity and so what we do is we apply a sieve principle where we take all these curves and then we add and subtract various low side of curves with singularities so we define if we have some points in P1 at 2 Pn in P2 then this is this is the space consists of that consists of curves Pn and so on Pn so now we can describe the sieving method we take all these curves and then for every point in P2 so every K point P2K but we need to be careful because we don't want to take this fixed point that we that we chose so for any such point we subtract all the curves that have a singularity at that point and now if a curve is smooth outside of the fixed point it has been counted once here and not been subtracted afterwards if a curve has one singularity outside of the fixed point it has been counted once and subtracted once which is fine because then we are not counting it if a curve has two singularities outside the fixed point and they are defined over K then it has been counted once subtracted twice once for each singularity so we need to add it again we get a pair of such points so well the same thing here it's equal and then so we then subtract all the curves that have singularities here and then if we have three K points we need to add them so we need to subtract them again if we have three and then if we have four we need to add them again and we can go on and if we have for example a conjugate pair of points we need to add those cases and you can also have for example a conjugate triple and a conjugate pair and the K point and you have all these different combinations of points and you need to consider all of them and then when you go on and on you are the ideas that you are left with the curves that are completely smooth outside of the fixed point but the problem is that this does not terminate because there are curves that have infinitely many singularities for example this curve you can have and then one big double line and so this has this is a quintic you can take one of these three to prefix node and then every point on this double line will be a singularity so you need to stop at some point and then for all the curves that you have not considered yet you need to actually compute them by hand or at least that's what I did and then so you compute by hand how much of those curves there are and then you just do the combinatorics and then add or subtract them to make sure that in total they have been counted zero times and then when you do this for all these types you get in the end only the curves that are completely smooth outside of the fixed point so now the question becomes where do you stop? well a natural point to stop would be at ten points in total so the fixed point and nine others because you can have at most ten points when you don't have a double component you have at least where you have five lines but the problem is that these spaces these CPs, CPQ, etc they become increasingly difficult to compute as the number of points grows so in fact I stopped at five points so the fixed point and five more points go up to the fixed point and five more points and then I did the rest by hand so that's a lot of cases basically what I did and then you get this nice formula which I said at the start plus Q to the tenth, minus Q to the eighth plus one and well because there's so many cases it's nice to have some kind of check that you're doing the right thing and so I wrote a computer program and that was able to check if this is correct for Q is two and Q is three so that's a nice check and of course when you can if you can compute everything the other parts of M5 and M41 and M42 then you can combine all this information together and then you would have M5 bar which and there you have point coraguality so that would also be a check because then you would need to have symmetry in the homology so if you do not have that then you know you are wrong so now I can try to give an example of one of these cases and show how you count them so well we just look at I'll just take a case we have we take a conic we take two lines tensioned to the conic and we take a third line that is not tensioned to the conic we have in total we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven points well we just take a case where everything is over K because that is the simplest seven K points so and one of these is the node and you need to consider that these two tensioned points and then you can count okay how many of these curves are there in P2 well first you take the conic so take the conic well I'll just write number of conics because I am lazy but that is it's very simple you just take all the conics which is a P5 and then you subtract all the singular ones so those are the pairs of lines the double lines and the pairs of lines and then you get this formula and then you take two points on the conic so you can take this point and this point for example and then you take the tensions at those points so in how many ways can you do this there are the conic in P2 is a genus zero curve so there is a P1 of points and then we just choose two and then we need to choose the third line but we need to take it in such a way that the intersections with the conic are k points because if you just take any line then this might be a conjugate pair so we just choose two k points on the conic and we take the line through them so that gives P1k of course minus two because we don't want to choose the points that we already chose before and then we choose two more points but now we need to be careful because if the characteristic is not two then we can have this that when we take these two points that the line we take through them will go through this point this intersection of the two tensions and this is clearly a very different case so we do not want to count this so we need to subtract this case so how do we do that well we just take when we have this we just take any k point on here and then for every such k point that intersects here in another k point so we need to subtract again the number of k points but now we do not need to choose two and again we do not want to choose the one that we had before I should erase this but now if we choose this point or this point we end up with the same line so we get every line twice so we divide by two here so we have this but when the characteristic is two so characteristic is two then basically this cannot occur oh, I am sorry when you have this then any line through this point will be tensioned to the conic in characteristic two so this case cannot occur so then it is just enough to just take this part basically and do not take this part so that is basically this case and okay now I can if I have some time left I can maybe say a bit about why these spaces become harder to compute as you go on okay so the thing is we first look at what this space is okay so the total space of plane quintics is a p20 because there is 21 monomials of degree 5 then when you when you take look at that space, well what was the definition you have this point 001 so that needs to be on the curve which is the condition so set to the fifth is zero and here I mean that the coefficient of set to the fifth is zero and then it needs to be a singularity so we have this condition and this condition and you have the conduction that is a node and the tensions are x and y so you have more conditions and this is a non-zero condition because that tells you that the tensions are x and y and if this would be zero then we would not have a node but something of higher multiplicity so you see well you have these five conditions that the coefficients are zero so you get to pay p15 and then you have this non-zero condition and you get an a15 and then every point you add here will be another singularity so it will be three more conditions because one for the point being on the curve and two more for it being a singularity and so you can add five more points and then you end up at a zero and then if you want to add more points well you would get negative dimension so this does not really work and this corresponds to the fact that up to five points you can always find a way where these points are in general position but if you take more than five points this is not so you just it doesn't work so when so these guys are very nice to compute because up to five points you can find general position but then you might ask what if the points are not in general position and if they are not in general position then it turns out that there's some combinatorics at play and they all cancel and this has something to do with has a while set of formula because all the sums here if you take all the sums of the coefficient of combinatorics and you look at the weights the things you get for a certain weight then this somehow generates the one is generated by one divided by the has a while set of function okay so I think that's that's it. Are there any questions?


There's upgrades I didn't see him What's the icon look like I got legit don't see like that's expedition stuff. It's um, you just passed it It's the where the pistol is go down to The three there's a three and then there's a hoverbot. Oh It's by the outlander. Okay Okay, so it's over here below that. Yeah, so it's a big note. I was looking at the small ones my bad My bad All right, I'll do that next time. I'm kind of debating on whether to do this three-star outlander Cuz it's like I get all these three stars and I'm not high enough to even do anything with them You'll get there. I will get there in time time after time All right, I got a square think tank squad slot gimme gimme oh Y'all in trouble now Squats think tank I'm about to get stronger chat see this that's a slot Now I'm gonna grab the highest person It's right now. I don't care. We'll get it done Get it done. All right Bless online is 67% off at $10 right now if you're interested. I have a cop. Oh my gosh I'm going to buy it right now. You are You got me I was like you are You got me you got me You got me That was like when the world I have a cop there. It's all gifted me a copy. I haven't played it yet Well, I heard Docs, you know one of you on it. I heard a lot of people I mean the fact that none of the ambassadors are playing it anymore says a lot They flew those guys out to California on their dime Wait, why is it? Oh, this level is because You're carrying me. It says level 50 now the top left And I'm like 20 I'm like 24 when I'm by myself Okay, I think that's the carry level Party stats is what it is Okay Okay So we got one more to do and I am happy wait, do I did I get any in XP? I don't think I got any XP for that. You should have those level 30 hero XP for oh Yeah, I don't think I got hero XP That's on there. Are you sure the birthday event is in tomorrow? Yep It's enough tomorrow or tonight tonight if you I got the link right here on the stream This is mr. Popo TFS from epic. He says remember to finish up those birthday quests They end tomorrow August 7th at 3 a.m. Eastern. So that's tonight basically 3 a.m. August 7th is in about, you know, six hours five hours Yep, and this is the patch where they're gonna be making updates to I talked to you about earlier about the Horde mode stuff They're gonna be making adding more challenges or whatever Yeah, man Why they gave him a hat? Still don't get that so who do you have as your support? peoples Yeah, let me finish this llama I have to get these tickets. Oh, let me look at what you were talking about Seven llamas or something the lucky seven. That's what you get. Yeah. I Don't usually buy them, but I'm just buying it for the tickets Oh good idea actually I'm doing it too. Can I do it too? I Would just buy one at a time because you might not like it, but I'm doing it by Give it up tickets. I don't see no tickets. I don't see no tickets. I don't see no tickets I don't see no tickets. I don't see no tickets Where the tickets? That's a lot of stuff though good grief Holy key. I mean, that's oh there go 50 tickets 50 more tickets rare survivor These things have a lot in them. Good God 50 more tickets. It's like seven llamas in one. They were saying Why am I not buying these because they're like I got wall darts And I got a healing pad And I got a legendary survivor That was a good idea to buy them one at a time though because I think I got enough. I got enough for birthday llama jet. Oh birthday llama height That was a lucky seven llama. I bought with our V bucks Which I have not bought any V bucks. They're pretty much earned most of them all of them Pretty much all of them That's what I love about epic Should I do a rare constructor or a rare soldier? Hey is base cow? Huh I have the urban assault way. I got a legendary gun copper vacuum tube shotgun that looks weird Shrook and master Lumari or hazard the 13th the shirking one Has a good um Roof bonus like a damage you might want to use that sometime Has it a 13 is a really good constructor with the dummy or whatever The decoy is really good. So those are both good ones. I Hate ninjas though. I Don't like ninjas for some reason But it has like a good group bonus so I could put it as like a secondary person, right? They're both good picks They're both from the Halloween one and Highly sought after Can you craft me a gun please? All right? All right, I'll do them. I got a llama chat Hold the phone This was the best decision ever. I had no idea he had a llama head. He could actually take the place of your Constructor there Who's here? Let's just cancel so ability damage and Pressure points proved headshots not compatible with this slide Try to think who else to put here Assault critical damage Ammo recovery. Oh You can generate ammo with this The thing is you have to upgrade to level two Oh, it's like all of these are level two Yeah, yes, you could play as a llama ninja That is his head Wait you at when you actually play him it looks he looks like that he looks like that Might just have to do that not compatible not he's a really good ninja. All right, I guess I'll do What is your Jonesy, what's the tech improved headshots, but it's not compatible. Oh lucky stars. I didn't see that down there. Oh That's for ninja. That's for ninja. Yeah And we got her which is frag grenades now do increase. This is why I had her cuz she had Right. Yeah the frag grenades. I Guess I'll just keep her For now Yeah, it doesn't really matter. Eventually you'll unlock more heroes All right, last one Meep Plinkerton Question mark, dude Play with Ada. I feel like they should give us another week on these birthday llamas If we beg hard enough they might consider it for a couple seconds Yeah, I didn't gonna change your mind and go no, but oh, it's a quick one. Cool. How you know Storm shield mini llamas. Oh We like mini llamas so yeah, those lucky sevens are actually pretty pretty pretty They're pretty Yeah Hopefully trapped to hook up here good gun am I Not yours is better Well, that just propelled me to the other side of the whole structure This dude has built something boy. Look at this nonsense. Okay. I didn't know I was gonna get bounced That is nice. This is a nice little. I like that boulder.  Okay, one of the new things that they added Yeah, that's what that reminds me of warframe. They have a thing called a nullifier which does a similar thing Very annoying though because it you can't do anything in the bubble. So it's kind of like That's that's Okay, now that I know that that's easier that you have to run inside because I'm used to warframe where you could just shoot the bubble down Eventually you can but it's like I like that structure of it. That looks really good It's like a Asian inspired thing Good, I had something similar like this on mine, too. I believe you I remember your horde base I was like, ooh That thing I was like, look at this base. I wonder who built this. This is amazing. You're like, uh, that's mine. I'm like, oh Wow, how many birthday things you have Brett? Breed She called you Brett by the way, so that's your new name Brett. Sorry Welcome to the stream Brett. How you doing and this month's loot winner is Brett Oh Birthday llamas are really good man. You want them. I'm addicted to them That's that's proud. That's part of the reason why I can't stop playing this game is I need more birthday llamas Like I need them. I Need it. I agree the typewriter has probably the best gun sound in the game It sounds so good. It's so satisfying It's like it's like a low key humble Semi-shy duck-a-duck is like duck-a-duck-a-duck-a-duck. It's a shy dug-a-duck-a It's not like You know, so I was gonna play noman's sky tonight I got two hours left in the street Just forced to hustle go into the wall launchers. I just kill them. I mean if they don't go in oh well your traps are gonna be showcased I mean it's like you just have to kill 29 talking to me oh no I was just looking at how many husk where left oh I'm about I'm 85 into that challenge into that daily yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that coffee kicked in tell you man I'm willing to compete now they made they made they messed up when they fixed that screen shake chat that was the only reason why I didn't play oh no well word to the gamma he needs to be ashamed of himself I'm kind of stuck I fell in the death hole I can't zip out you see yeah it's not let me can you edit it nope don't have permission yeah you're in the chop right now yay I'm hitting all the trees I am rid of this I just keep falling in holes now you want to buy more llamas that's the hook that's the hook you just found the hook that's why you gotta do the dailies man to get those v-bucks I'm very bad at it I'm trying to get better at doing the dailies yeah I get to the next page like page six or something by this at this rate I'll be at a by the time the game goes free to play I'll be in the next zone captain Armory time to retire some people man retire them three many llamas I got hero XP for that nice baby llamas you told me to get one at a time didn't you and I never do it but the mini llamas it doesn't matter as much but the bigger one you want to do that I love how the weapons just random a rake shovel yeah getting that gold though I gotta get them out of hero XP from this thinking about getting another one lucky seven I'm thinking about it as well do it but I only have like 77 I did it though I just spent a thousand because I ain't got no sense all right chat we're gonna get something good here it is okay there's a there's a great survivor that's good yeah mm-hmm there oh look at that look at that great sword oh that green trap though that copper scalpel wow this is the best llama mama ever look at this wow a floor launcher 50 tickets and a doctor dude and then there's more tickets coming oh my gosh baby this legendary hero in the event store is an urban assault guy yeah I noticed that if I did not really have one I'd be probably going for that but didn't you say you didn't like Jonesy the one with the yeah I prefer his skin yeah but I don't have enough dollar reduced I have enough no I'm a little bit short 26 out of 2800 I might still get him yeah I think he's pretty good to get yeah I think these clothes did you already open your mini llamas what many llamas the ones we just got yeah from that storm show yeah it was first thing I did oh I don't have anymore it's only V bucks that I'm gonna wish I had next next tomorrow a lot of green stuff that last llama didn't have any legendary head on one epic that's what I was saying that they weren't that great but you just use it just for tickets tickets yep that's 200 tickets right there so you retire all those things as well 250 tickets 300 tickets 350 I'm getting back up there get back up there yep I'm a hundred and ten I might as well buy the next one chat this will tip me over the edge right right look sure yeah we're just doing opening them tickets right now because the thing is about the end oh are you about to get a lot wow a gold seven with the little baby top hat can I get some more the top hats in the chat please oh look at all these grays what planet am I on right now what else what is with all these grays this is a gold dude no I have mercy what is happening this is a gold I would hate to see a gray I ain't got a single epic yet not one not a single epic chat they're gonna be ashamed of themselves epic games you need to go back to your house and kiss your mama on the cheek and say I'm so sorry what you do honey I made this algorithm in a game called fortnight where they get a gold seven mama and get nothing but grays I want the outlander give me one I need that's not it yeah you won't get it from me only the birthday line oh 500 tickets well bumper okay we got a mythic chat yeah we got a mythic survivor whoo it made up for it at the end but look at all these devilish chickens down here all that wasted oh mythic unboxing oh that 500 tickets is kind of nice and it is kind of nice you're gonna be able to get to I know I'll be closer to yep birthday llama time I'm just admiring the goods here copper thumper I think I've used this before this is a grenade launcher right I think I didn't like it I'm gonna try it again I don't remember if I liked it or not birthday llama chat I have how many tickets we're gonna see my tickets after you buy it that llama you'll be able to see or you could go to your Armory Armory were to be on and then go into resources resources okay whoa 1.6 K that that was close to two that was close to two chat all right birthday llama time thanks for the chickens JR Blaze there's gonna be a silver at least I was wrong no these don't upgrade oh they know up there okay two blue defenders okay I got a copper drill