Hey Reddit community! I wanted to share some exciting news that has been making waves in the world of web3 commerce. Recently, a platform called Boson Protocol made a groundbreaking announcement, and it got me thinking: Are we truly ready for the next big leap in the evolution of online commerce?
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During its closed beta phase, Boson Protocol collaborated with 48 brands and facilitated the sale of nearly 14,000 products. This is no small feat! They have been testing, learning, and fine-tuning their approach to create an authentic and trustworthy web3 commerce experience.
Boson's mission is clear: to democratize web3 technology and embrace the promise of decentralization. They are not just talking about the future; they are actively coding it. But the question remains: Are we prepared to embrace this new era of commerce?
As sellers, Boson offers a simple yet powerful set of web3 merchant tools, while ensuring trust by providing guarantees of item delivery or refunds for buyers. It's an ecosystem built on trust and transparency.
But what does this mean for us as consumers and participants in the online marketplace? Are we ready to embrace the potential of web3 commerce, where digital and physical worlds seamlessly blend together? Are we prepared to take advantage of the innovative features Boson plans to roll out, such as "Drop Physicals direct to NFT marketplaces" and a "Redeem Widget"?
Moreover, what challenges do we foresee in this transition? Is the broader adoption of web3 technologies necessary for the success of platforms like Boson Protocol? How can we ensure the security of transactions and protect our privacy in this evolving landscape?
Let's discuss! Share your thoughts, concerns, and visions for the future of web3 commerce. Are you excited about the possibilities Boson Protocol brings to the table? Or do you have reservations about the integration of blockchain technology into our everyday transactions?

I hope that you will come to beautiful central Pennsylvania, and ride the Panther's Retribution at Hershey's Park. Here is what you can anticipate to experience:
Aesthetics
I'm just going to give it time to grow on me. I don't like it. The station is ugly and the coolest looking parts of the ride itself, most notably the mix of original and new wood supporting the underflip, are only visible from outside the park. Kinda bunk.
The park interaction aspect is improved slightly with the zero-g rolls replacing the helix but original Wildcat suffered from being a parking lot coaster with basically none of the park interactions that make The Hollow so amazing, and it's really hard to blame RMC for not magically fixing that. I'm an optimist so either I'll think it's less ugly later or they'll make it less ugly later.
Queue
The first half and at least a part of the lone switchback area, which sees you snaking back and forth about 8-10 times, is shaded by some but not quite enough trees. Much of the original Wildcat queue is reused, so it should feel familiar to most returning guests. Easily the standout 'feature' of the queue is the vantage point it provides you of the ride. Nearly all quality footage you'll see of this ride will be shot from somewhere inside this queue, and the flyby as the train rockets through the second wave turn and double down is almost as incredible as the head of steam the train carry into the brake run overhead. For a person you likes to gawk at the ride while waiting through the line, it's hard to get much better- but then again, Twisted Timbers does have you snaking through its infield and under elements, so that's hard to compete against.
On that note, Twisted Timbers is the only other RMC I have to compare this against. For a review from a more seasoned RMC rider I suggest you watch The Coaster Spot's first reaction who ranked it #2 behind Steel Vengeance and apparently ahead of Iron Gwaz.
The double-sided lockers are right before the stairs leading up to the station platform, and they're pretty big for free lockers tbh. Your whole group could potentially share one. Fast Lane does seem to go right up to the lockers so, be mad or excited about that depending upon your discretionary spending capabilities.
Station
This is where the train lives. No- I'm sorry. This is where the train works, it lives in the barn. The station looks like a Pizza Hut, which may or may not have been intentional, and may or may not be part of the theme. Pizza Hut could be who Wildcat is Vengeancing. We don't even know the lore. The ride is very new and nobody has put in the work. I don't know. The interior is pretty dull, but can I tell you how? No, I don't remember any single detail about the interior of the station whatsoever. My best guess why is that it was super dull.
Pre-Lift
Kitty got things started off with a bang. It would be easy to overstate this moment by saying it gives three pops of rapid-fire airtime. Trust me: that sounds cooler than it feels. But it does make for a solid stinger to get your blood pumping, if somehow it weren't already. From moment one, even as its just trying to get you to the lift hill about fifteen yard away, this ride wants you to know that it means business.
Lift Hill
Anybody who appreciated the original view from Wildcat's lifthill will be glad to know that nothing about this lift hill compromises that. The lift was not near as obnoxious loud as I remember Twisted Timbers being, and consistently started at half-speed during three-train operations before transitioning to full speed- though sometimes not until at least halfway up. As a little bit of coaster trivia, this part of the ride provides the potential energy necessary to complete the ride course. Correct me if I'm wrong.
First Drop
If you were terrified of being let down by this coaster, I think first drop would have you realizing your deepest fears. While it is a very solid first drop, it is going to be impossible for it not to be compared to one of the best first drops in the country on Skyrush. And that's not where it ends. If I'm not mistaken, which I swear to God has never happened before, Wildcat's first drop is the fourth tallest in the park- and probably the fourth best too. I did get to experience this drop in the next-to-last row, and I want to be clear: it slaps. But this is one case where I feel it's going to be difficult for anybody not to be underwhelmed by it either because they've done RMCs with better drops, or they've already done one or two rides in this park that were better. But if you're able to numb yourself to any bias, you'll love the ejector for what it is.
Underflip
Here is where we introduce the best things this ride has going for it, and the biggest issues for my review: sense of speed and disorientation. I don't think "force numb" is a common concept with enthusiasts, but I would describe it as a diminished sense of proprioception induced by disorientation or sense of speed. I think this is one major reason why some rides get better or worse with re-rides as you overcome that force numbness and can appreciate, or dislike, more of the ride.
And with the coaster hitting its max speed before immediately launching into its upward counter-clockwise spin, I can't say I felt the same lateral whip that everybody else did- but I'm certain that's not because it was there, it's because Wildcat's Revenge already had me neck-deep in what I feel at the two star forces of this ride.
The drop out of the underflip is a moment I was hopeful for some unexpected airtime, but I didn't feel any, but with the ride immediately diving back down to just above ground level there's still plenty to enjoy.
Camelback Airtime Hill
Undoubtedly the strongest moment of airtime on the ride, in the back row the airtime seemed to start about halfway over the hill but then kept me out out of my seat for what felt like ages. Although the negative Gs were incredible, my favorite detail of this element is not dissimilar from what also makes one of the better airtime moment on Skyrush: a high-speed headchopper. Despite how much it feels like copied homework, the sight of being hurled face first into the black steel of the upcoming stall gave me the first real spine-tingling holy fuck moment of the ride, the structure coming into view and narrowly buzzing by.
First Wave Turn
Spoiler alert, but at the end of this review I'm going to say that what makes this ride so amazing is the near lack of filler moments that feel more like transitions between elements than elements of themselves. The cute little outer bank leading into this wave turn is one of the few things that make me have to use that word 'near.' Maybe on later rides, with the ride running faster or myself just less force numb, something about it will reveal itself. But despite sitting on the left side to get the more aggressive end of this element, it felt like little more that a little bump in the road. But you'll feel more force and get more airtime driving 10 miles over the speed limit on 522 through Belleville.
But the wave turn itself, my first proper wave turn, was a revelation. Visually, these wave turn elements had never looked very substantial- and just seemed like a really inefficient way to get some negative Gs. But the pacing of the lateral whip, into positives, and into airtime before reversing the pattern out of it adds a wildly fun variety to the sensations.
It would not be fair to call this a 'low-point,' but front to back this was the closest this ride ever felt to relenting in its pace by even the slightest bit- but I want you to understand. That does not mean this part feels slow. That means the rest of it feels very, very fast.
Stall
Speaking of fast, this is one element I was initially skeptical of, but I blame Steel Curtain. After Steel Curtain's 'stall' felt like little more than a zero-g roll that changed its mind halfway, I was worried that this still might just happen too fast to have any real sense of hangtime. However, it is a little bit visually misleading, as the exit of the stall is higher than the entrance, so after you bottom out from the first wave turn you immediately begin that half-spin and continue rising as you hang.
It is not at all what I would describe hangtime feeling like on something like Copperhead Strike or Shellraiser- it feels more as if you were on an inverted floater airtime hill. In the back row, the feeling of the ride gaining speed even while still inverted was wild. That transitioned into the beginning of what was, for at least my one (1) official ride, my favorite sequence of elements on the ride-
The Second Wave Turn
Entering the tight right-hand turn into the second wave turn I found myself folded left-forward, to about 10:00 on a clock face. Turning you over onto your side, the second wave turn then delivers what I believed was, if not the strongest, the sharpest moment of airtime on the ride, before folding me once more in the same direction. Off-ride in the queue, it is an amazing sight to watch this element. Everybody has seen coaster structure bend and sway- this wave turn breaths. The sheer force of the trains entering into the turn push it outward, and when they blaze through the bump itself the structure is yanked inward against itself in a wave before, exiting into another right hand turn, the structure is bent backwards again.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I don't think I could craft the imagery that would satisfy to describe this force to you that you wouldn't better understand by watching a video, or going and seeing for yourself this great beast of a structure inhaling you like a mayfly on millennium force and spitting you out into the double-down.
The Double Down
But I said my favorite sequence of elements- that was just the first half. The encore comes in the double down, which gives you an abrupt pop of airtime before rudely interjecting it with a punch of laterals that continue even as you're being lifted back out of your seat for a second, more substantial pop of airtime. Imagine like you got about 25% through an airtime hill before Wildcat grabs your hand to yank you in the direction you were supposed to be going.
When I was a kid, Wildcat was my #1 rollercoaster, and it was for a very simple reason: It felt like it could fly off the tracks at any time. Not any other roller coaster I had ridden in my young life, including the newly-built Great Bear, had anything close to that sensation. This sequence between the second wave turn and into the first zero-g roll is the closest this ride gets to recreating that sensation- between the rapid-fire transition of forces and the manic and impulsive behavior of the double down this ride feels like it wants to escape. Skyrush feels like it wants to punt you- Wildcat's Revenge feels like it wants to bolt off from the track entirely and sprint back into the mountains it came from, and it doesn't care if you're strapped to its back, you're coming along for the ride.
First Zero-G Roll
This bowl section serves as the climax of the ride much the same as it did for the original Wildcat, and Wildcat takes its revenge with a full head of steam. It hardly feels like it slows down as it whips you up and over itself, feeling as if it wants to leap over the wall entirely and make its dash for freedom, before pulling into the tight lefthand turn and the only other element of the ride that comes close to feeling like filler, and overbank turn that sits square between Zero G rolls one and two.
Second Zero-G Roll
I felt this one was even faster than the first, and twisting through the structure as you do, one of the few things to genuinely catch me by surprise happened: the exit of the second roll drops out from underneath you into a curved double down, eerily reminiscent (to me, at least) of the infamous kink in the helix Wildcat 96 traversed after its station fly-by.
Run Into Brakes
Although the roll-bookended helix serves as the climax of the ride, Wildcat doesn't let its denouement fall flat. As you're turning sharply to the right the track lifts up and straightens out for one more ejector airtime moment, and an appropriately strong one at that. I love when rides end with one last smack of airtime, just to show you they've still got it, and while the profiling is completely different it reminds me in a lot of ways of Copperhead Strike's final airtime moment in how it will have the ability to take you by surprise with one of the strongest, if least sustained, moments of airtime.
But that pales in comparison to the brake run. First of all, brake runs are elements. Do or don't @ me it won't change reality. Some rides have better brake runs than others. The best brake run? Well of the ones I've been on, Superman: Ride of Steel at Six Flags America. And while I don't think Wildcat's Revenge manages to quite surpass it (both have a final pop of airtime leading into it, but Rossy has an airtime hill while Wildcat just has the pop up into the brakes) it is definitely up there with the best. The fold you feel on the engagement of the brakes is every bit as immediate and strong as on Rossy. The best thing about this ride is its unrelenting sense of speed, and the way you hit the brakes does not belie that. And despite hitting the brakes with about as much sense of speed as anything I've ridden outside of I305, the actual engagement of the brakes is extremely smooth. Unfortunately, it sounds nothing like a seal.
Overview
What you're not going to quite get from my going through each element and saying how great they all are is, unfortunately, the only thing that really matters about this ride: How it just doesn't stop. Wildcat's Revenge has, in my opinion an elite sense of speed and doesn't relent through its entire course. Not far behind the sense of speed however is the sense of disorientation provided by not only the four inversions, but also the twister nature of the layout that rarely sees you traveling in a straight line and rightside-up.
So in my mind, this coaster is elite even before you start a conversation about airtime, positives, laterals- which it has in absolute spades, too. No attraction is universally appealing, but I think a lot of people, and a lot of roller coaster enthusiasts especially, are going to come off this ride extremely pleased and while I don't think we're gonna start seeing the phrase "Wildcat-killer" out there but I think a lot of enthusiasts are going to end up rating this very highly.
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Hi all of my fellow curries 💜
I’ve been a lurker on this sub for a while, but never posted as I knew I was far from complete in my journey and knew I had a lot to learn first.
I have had quite curly hair all of my life (a mix of 3c, 3b and 2b I would say) however I never knew how to cope with it. My hair is very thick and would always be frizzy, bushy and ‘ugly’ compared to all my luscious straight haired friends locks. I hated my hair all of my childhood and began to straighten it as soon as I could to try and tame it in some way (spoiler: it didn’t work). I began to dye it with box dyes around age 13/14 and regularly dying, home bleaching and daily straightening obviously left me with a big dry ass mess of a birds nest on my head. CUE me trying to deal with this by straightening more, and worsening the problem. I have considered shaving my head many times just to make the problem go away.
The last time I bleached my hair was in 2021, which stupidly was after I had cut off a good 10 inches and it was probably as healthy as it had been for years. I got it done professionally but by a straight hair hairdresser and that is what you can see in photo 1 (bar the roots touch up which I very badly did myself, as you can tell). It was after this that I realised how dry, dead and overall tragic the condition of my hair was. The curls clung on but as you can see, were frazzled and not looking good.
I began to start my journey of trying to understand and manage my curly hair, as I would always feel in awe of others with beautiful long curly locks. Over the last two years, I’ve tried probably every curly product under the sun, had 2 curly cuts (see pic 4 for goal, pic 5 for unfortunate reality), and stopped bleaching my hair, instead now using natural hennas. I have learnt that my hair needed protein, and I no longer touch it with heat except on very rare occasion. I no longer towel dry, but air dry (albeit for approximately 1 million hours). The biggest game changer however, has been flaxseed gel. I completely stopped using my 5 step routine which included leave in conditioner, cream, keratin spray, mousse/gel and oil and now only use the homemade flaxseed gel when hair is dripping wet, scrunch and then prayer hands to release gel when dry.
As you can see from the last pic, my hair is finally manageable and I am loving my curls for the first time in a long time. It’s been a long journey and I know I still have a way to go, but I am glad to have taken the time to learn to love this natural part of myself instead of fight it every day 🙏
I always take the time to compliment a curly in public as I now realise the level of effort most people put into their lovely curls. This is your sign to do the same ✨ and if you were thinking about trying flaxseed gel, now is your time!

Solar panels are a promising source of renewable energy that is rapidly gaining popularity in India. However, transporting these delicate and expensive devices can be quite challenging. Even the slightest mishandling during transport, shipping or carrying can cause microcracks to form on the surface of solar panels, which could lead to decreased efficiency and even complete failure over time. In this blog post, we'll provide some essential tips that will help you safely move your solar panels around without damaging them so you can enjoy their benefits for years to come!
Pressure causes microcracks in panels
Solar panels are made up of photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight into electricity. These cells are incredibly delicate and can easily develop microcracks, which could significantly reduce their efficiency and lifespan over time.
One common cause of these microcracks is pressure, which can occur during transport or installation. Even a small amount of pressure can damage the fragile surface of solar panels and lead to long-term issues.
The formation of microcracks is more likely to happen if there's any debris or dirt on the surface when transporting them. The weight from this debris will add significant strain on the panel and create even more pressure points where cracks might start to form.
It's important to remember that even though solar panels look sturdy enough, they need careful handling. Dropping them, stacking heavy objects on top or applying excessive force could all lead to irreparable damage — something that will ultimately cost you both time and money in repairs.
To prevent such unpleasant surprises from happening, it's essential always to handle your solar panels with utmost care throughout every stage until installation – especially while being transported!
Transporting solar panels is a delicate process
Transporting solar panels is a delicate process that requires careful planning and execution. Since solar panels are made of fragile materials, they can easily develop microcracks under pressure or impact. These cracks may seem insignificant, but they can significantly reduce the panel's efficiency over time.
To avoid such damages during transportation, it is crucial to have specialized equipment and trained personnel who understand how to handle these sensitive components safely. The transport vehicle must be equipped with shock-absorbing mechanisms such as air suspension systems that minimize vibrations and bumps on the road.
Additionally, solar panels should always be packed in sturdy crates or containers that provide adequate cushioning against external forces. The packaging material should also prevent moisture from penetrating through and causing damage to the panel's surface layers.
It is equally essential to plan for potential weather changes along the transport route since extreme temperature fluctuations can affect the performance of the panels negatively. Therefore, timely delivery becomes critical when transporting solar panels since prolonged exposure in transit could lead to unwanted damages.
Transporting solar panels requires an experienced team with specialized knowledge about handling fragile devices while minimizing risks during transit.
Prepare for the pickup ahead
Before transporting solar panels, it's essential to prepare for the pickup ahead. This means understanding the size and weight of your panels and ensuring that you have the appropriate equipment to handle them.
Firstly, make sure that your vehicle is suitable for transporting solar panels. It should be large enough to accommodate their size, and its suspension system must be able to handle their weight without any issues. If you're unsure about this, consult with a professional transport company or mechanic before attempting transportation.
Next, ensure that all necessary protective gear is available during transportation. This includes gloves, goggles as well as hard hats if required by law or regulations in your area of operation.
It's also important to secure the panels correctly using straps or other fastening devices designed specifically for this purpose. The last thing you want is for one of these valuable assets bouncing around in transit and getting damaged due to lack of proper support.
Consider asking someone who has experience handling solar panels on how best they can be transported safely – particularly if it’s a long journey or through difficult terrain like bumpy roads etc., where additional measures may need implementing such as adding foam padding between fragile components.
In summing up: Preparation is key when it comes time to move your Solar Panels! So take some time beforehand so everything runs smoothly on moving day!
When carrying a panel, don't apply pressure
When transporting solar panels, it's crucial to avoid applying pressure when carrying them. Pressure can cause microcracks in the panel's cells, which can lead to a decrease in performance and efficiency over time.
To avoid putting pressure on the panels, it's essential to use proper lifting techniques. Make sure you have a firm grip on the edges of the panel and avoid bending or twisting it. It's also important to wear gloves with good grip when handling solar panels.
If you're moving multiple panels at once, make sure they are securely fastened together before lifting them. This will prevent any shifting or movement that could cause damage to the individual panels.
Additionally, don't stack heavy objects on top of solar panels during transportation or storage as this could put unnecessary weight and pressure on them.
By taking these precautions when carrying your solar panels, you'll ensure that they remain intact and perform optimally for years to come.
Conclusion
Transporting solar panels may seem like an easy task, but it requires careful planning and execution. As we have learned through this article, pressure can cause microcracks in the panels which can affect their performance, so ensuring that they are transported with care is crucial.
Before you transport your solar panels, make sure to prepare for the pickup ahead of time and use appropriate equipment such as padded crates or blankets. When carrying a panel, remember not to apply any pressure to it.
By following these tips and being mindful during the transportation process, you can ensure that your solar panels arrive at their destination safely and ready for installation. And if you're looking for a reliable Solar Panel Transport Service in India, keep these considerations in mind when choosing a provider.
Remember: handling solar panels with care is essential to protect your investment and guarantee maximum efficiency once installed. Good luck with your next transportation project!
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