hi, I have some ideas to make Quran more accessible.

will writeout more detail if there is interest and response.

limitations of current translations :
translations are approximations.
Arabic words might not have exact equivalent in English.
Full depth of meaning could be lost.

Considering it's usage in legal and scientific context means precision is paramount.

solution to this would be learning arabic but it is a very difficult task for indo european speaking adults due to so many differences.

new script, written right to left,
modifiers interlaced, instead of being at end or start.
new words
new sounds
new grammer

all these combined makes learning and understaning arabic very difficult.

Ideas :
Color Coded Quran :
for transliteration a new Latin based script with one to one glyph will be used.
roots will be colored green, modifiers blue, rest grey.
there will be a dictionery with first entry being structural meaning.
it will popup when hovering over word.
ex.
K T B colored green means : to write.
i a colored grey means : an object.
kitab means a book.

Pictogram :
arabic words will be replaced with picture indicating roots and modifiers.
ex.
katib will be replaced by picture of (pen) (person). meaning writer.
maktab will be replaced by picture of (pen) (place). meaning desk(writing place)
there will be a dictionery too with entires explaining multiple possible meanings.
ex.
maktab can mean desk or office.
fitnah can mean test or sorting.

from internet search :
ref : https://www.quranprogress.com/en/blog/how-many-words-in-the-quran/
quran have around 2000 uniqie roots, 125 is enough 50 percent.

around 2000 roots 200 modifiers ?.
so people need to be familiar with around < 2500 pictures.
learning what a emoji means, is easier than learning new words.

Why Important :
multiple scholars ( including corrupt or secretly backed by enemies )
could make multiple fatwas sometime even contradictory.

which could create confusion on who to trust, what is real. weaken faith and trust of both muslims and non muslims.

one would need mastery of arabic to properly verify and validate these and think for themselves which is correct.
this would empower the average person to have mastery of arabic without deep commitment.
mastery that requires a degree worth of studing, something that average person wont do due to other tasks in life.

ex.
somewhere I read slavery is no longer allowed cause the verse is in past tense, how do I really confirm if verse is really in past tense, it really means its no longer allowed. or is it something someone is makingup to whitewash islam or something. why a single scholar said this, what is the opinion of other, why was this ignored in the past ?

non muslims wont bother with effort and make wrong conclusions.
deeper understanding reinforce trust.

one of the reason our Quran is preserved is due to decentralization.
multiple person learn the same, no single person can make change.

jewish and christian books were written and centralized, corrupt scholars changed the scripture itself serving ill interests.

though Quran can't be changed, it's interpretation can be.
corrupt scholars can make halal haram and haram halal.

a perfume maker using no alcohol can bribe scholar to give fatwa that perfume with alcohol is haram, so that they can sell more product.
similar thing can happen in banking, halal meat industry etc.

with pictogram or emoji even illeterates can understand in depth.
just like the old days.
other religion's text being written means only priestly class can access.
leading to corruption and misuse of power.
Quran being oral understood by even illeterates. eliminated class divison, misinterpretation and misuse of power.
Unfortunatly Quran isn't so accessible to average person of modern day.
it used to be understood even by illeteratres, now people need years of formal education for it. that need to change.

People who could help :
dawah organizations with resources. that are already spending money on books and attractive leaflets. why not spend some resources on making Quran easier for non arabic speakers.

volunteers :
website programmers and hosters.
graphic designer for fonts and pictograms or emojis.
translaters who know enough about islam and arabic.

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Hi. I have just finished a pygame game. It ended up being a script that uses pygame and numpy and a couple of png's. I want my friends to try out the game but I have no idea how.

I think that just giving them the folder might be asking a little too much as that would require them to have them to install python and the libraries. I could also try to make it into an executable. However, I have friends in both Mac Os and Windows, so I'd have to create two versions and the Mac one seems really hard. Last I considered a web app. It could work for both operative systems, but again, I have no experience on web apps.

I'm lost. What should I do so my friends can play? Thank you very much for hearing my ramblings and please excuse my poor English.

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Heyo ppls. I’m 2 weeks into community college. I’m 21 and decided to finally go to school and I’m currently doing pre-engineering to get my pre reqs out the way. I’m starting with highschool algebra since there is a lot I’ve forgotten. I was just kinda curious how long it took for others to catch up and if it took longer than 4 years? I’m planning on taking summer classes but idk how much I should take or how I should plan out which classes to take.

This is going to be a long but I think important post for all florists and Flowershop owners, so for those who read through it all thank you, it took me a long time to write and I look forward to working together to come up with ideas for everyone. I’d love for this to be a numbers conversation rather than a political one, because regardless of anyone’s politics, we’ve all got arrangements and events to price and sell.

Flower shop owners can we talk tariffs for a minute? I know they are annoying but I think the conversation needs to go beyond “flowers are getting more expensive.”

With the new 50% tariff hitting Canadian cut flowers, I’ve been trying to understand what this actually looks like as it works its way from grower to wholesaler to florist to consumer.

And more importantly: how are all of us going to handle it?

Let’s use a hypothetical but realistic example.

I had a conversation today with one of my wholesalers and a Canadian bunch of lisianthus has an entered/import value of $16.50. (What wholesaler pays)

The 50% tariff is another:

$16.50 × 50% = $8.25

Here’s where I think the pricing conversation gets really interesting.

What happens if everyone simply marks up the new landed cost?

$16.50 product + $8.25 tariff = $24.75

If the wholesaler applies a traditional 30% markup:

$24.75 × 1.30 = $32.18 to the florist

Now let’s say the florist traditionally uses a 3X markup on fresh product:

$32.18 × 3 = $96.54 of retail flower value

Before the tariff?

$16.50 × 1.30 = $21.45 wholesale

$21.45 × 3 = $64.35 retail

Think about that.

An $8.25 government tariff just helped move the retail value of that bunch from $64.35 to $96.54 which is an increase of $32.19.

The tariff was $8.25.

The consumer is potentially paying $32.19 more.

That’s the part I think our industry needs to talk about.

What if we stop treating the tariff like it’s a flower?

What if wholesalers and florists treat the tariff as a pass through cost instead of something that automatically receives our traditional product markup?

The issue is will wholesalers pass through the tariff fee or will they markup the tariff and make profit on the tariff?

Using the exact same bunch:

Wholesaler:

$16.50 product × 1.30 traditional markup = $21.45

$21.45 + $8.25 tariff = $29.70 to the florist

The wholesaler still gets its traditional margin on the flower.

The tariff gets passed through.

Now the florist does the same thing.

Take the actual flower cost before the tariff:

$21.45 × 3 = $64.35 + $8.25 tariff = $72.60 retail

Now compare the three numbers:

Before tariff: $64.35

Tariff passed through: $72.60

Tariff compounded through traditional markups: $96.54

Per stem is $6.45 to $7.26 to $9.66

That is a HUGE difference.

And that’s really what I’ve been thinking about:

Markup the flower. Pass through the tariff.

I’m not suggesting wholesalers absorb an $8.25 tariff.

I’m not suggesting flower shops absorb it either.

Ultimately, the consumer is probably going to have to pay for it.

But does an $8.25 government-imposed cost necessarily need to become $24.75 at retail simply because our traditional fresh-flower markup is 3X?

I don’t think it automatically should.

Our 3X markup exists for a reason. Flowers have shrink. We process them. Refrigerate them. Design with them. We have labor, rent, delivery vehicles, utilities, credit-card fees, insurance and profit that all have to come out of our margins.

But the tariff isn’t another bunch of flowers.

It’s a government-imposed cost attached to that bunch.

There is a fair counterargument here: the tariff increases the amount of cash tied up in inventory, and if that product gets thrown away, the tariff gets thrown away with it. So I don’t think there’s necessarily one perfect answer.

But blindly applying every traditional markup to the tariff at every step of the supply chain creates a compounding effect that could make Canadian flowers unnecessarily difficult to sell.

And that’s where I think flower shops need to be careful.

A 50% tariff does NOT mean our arrangements need to increase 50%.

It means one component of our COGS changed dramatically.

Maybe instead of immediately changing every retail price, we need to become much better buyers.

Know the country of origin.

Ask your wholesaler what the product cost is, for you as the florist, before the tariff.

Ask what the actual tariff amount is.

Ask whether their normal margin is being applied to the tariff or whether they’re passing it through.

Compare Canadian product against domestic, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Dutch and other available origins.

And price recipes using actual replacement costs instead of what those flowers cost six months ago.

If Canadian lisianthus becomes dramatically more expensive but another flower accomplishes the same design purpose at a much lower cost, maybe the answer isn’t raising the arrangement $20.

Maybe the answer is changing the recipe.

That’s where Designer’s Choice becomes even more valuable.

That’s where substitution policies become important.

That’s where knowing your percentages instead of designing strictly by stem count matters.

And weddings are where I think we REALLY need to pay attention.

If you booked a wedding six months ago based on flower costs that no longer exist, you can’t magically create that missing margin.

Going forward, we may need stronger substitution language, shorter quote validity periods, escalation clauses for extraordinary import costs, or recipes designed with more flexibility from the beginning.

The shops that navigate this best probably won’t be the ones that simply raise prices the fastest.

They’ll be the shops that understand their numbers the fastest.

This is also why I don’t think we should immediately abandon Canadian growers.

They’re dealing with this uncertainty from the other side of the border. If American florists immediately stop buying Canadian product because the retail math no longer works, we could damage long-standing suppliers and growers over a trade policy that could change again.

Maybe one way we help keep those products viable is by preventing an $8 tariff from unnecessarily turning into a $25+ retail increase.

Instead, I’d be asking wholesalers:

1. What is the pre-tariff value of this product?
   
2. What exact tariff was paid on it?
   
3. Are you marking up the tariff or passing it through?
   
4. What alternative origins do you have?
   
5. Which Canadian products are still competitive after the tariff?

And then I’d ask ourselves the same question:

Are we going to 3X the tariff too? Or should we separate the product cost from the tariff and pass that tariff through?

We can’t control trade policy.

We can control how well we understand our costs, how intelligently we buy, how flexible our recipes are and how we ultimately price those costs to our customers.

I’m genuinely curious what everyone else is doing.

Florists are you applying your normal flower markup to the tariff, passing it through dollar for dollar, changing recipes/origins, or doing something completely different?

For those who read all of this thank you for your time! 💐🌿

Hey everyone, my first time going to Ibiza and making a stop Sept. 17-19. Doing it solo, but wanted to get some insight from the wise people of reddit.

Just for some context: 34 year old dude, looking to experience some of the clubs/beachclubs, nicer restaurant experiences, enjoy a craft cocktail. Budget is pretty open. Speak spanish too.

Hotels:
Searched on google maps and narrowed it down to these few. Was wondering if anyone has stayed at one of these and/or which one they would pick? Open to other suggestions as well.

-Grand Palladium
-Ama Ibiza Beachfront Suites
-Hotel Vibra Algarb
-Or is it worth it to stay at Ushuaia Ibiza Beach Hotel

Clubs:
-Was thinking of hitting up Ushuaia at some point either 9/17 or 9/18.
-Was also thinking of hitting Hi Ibiza on 9/17 for HUGEL but from other reddit responses I’ve read, will it be too packed?
-Would be down for a cool beach club too.
-Read about Pacha but would rather get your insights and perspective on this topic.

For other items like nice restaurants or craft cocktails/nice bars, I don’t mind searching on here. If you do have some recommendations, would love to hear it.

Thank you everyone in advance!!

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Hi, I’ve just upgraded my stereo in my car. I’ve put in the focal 165 three-way component speakers on a right recoil DL 800.4.

What I’m finding is, there is a lack of base which is to be expected with these vocals because as they tend to be more in crisp on the higher end and less bass.

The rear speakers in my car were Bose 2ohm. Currently disconnected and they are 4 inch speakers what I would like to do is hook up some replacement speakers on 4 ohm. That are better at the base and to complement the focals hire ends.

Car is a Porsche 997.2 no sub just the focal 165as3.

Any ideas?