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Throwaway because I know she's a redditor. Alex and I have been best friends since high school, for about 10 years now. We went to college together for awhile and stayed very, very close even though we lived in different cities for more years than not. We regularly text, write on each other's Facebook, etc. Over the years she has watched me date a lot and go through a number of dysfunctional relationships while she was always in a steady relationship and eventually got married. Alex and her husband have recently divorced. It wasn't the worst divorce I've ever seen but it wasn't pretty. Thankfully they don't have kids and things got settled relatively quickly. Alex and her ex husband had some pretty significant intimacy issues and a number of other deep rooted issues. That being said, she managed to move on pretty quickly and has been dating someone for the past few months. This is the part where things get shitty for me. I stood by her through her divorce, from the first fight to the final court date. I've helped with her dog when she was out of town, kept her stuff when she first moved, talked her through the emotional stuff, etc. Ever since she moved on with the new guy, she's basically been completely absent. She doesn't respond to texts, she doesn't want to hang out. I haven't seen her in 3 months even though we live 10 minutes from each other. I looked through my texts and I have offered to hang out or do things many times, and have gotten absolutely no response. I recently went through some pretty drastic life changes (new job, now engaged) and she doesn't seem to care. She congratulated us initially but hasn't said a word since. And it hurts. I don't know what or how to say something. I know she's changed a ton in her life since leaving her ex and I'm so proud of her, which I have told her many times. I just didn't think I would be part of the things she changes. I don't have a lot of close friends and have always considered her my best friend and vice versa, so I don't know what to do. I feel abandoned and frustrated but I don't know if I just need to give her space while she's still adjusting or if it's time to really say something. **tl;dr** BFF left her ex and basically left me in the process. I'm hurt and don't know what to do about it.

Throwaway because I know she's a redditor. Alex and I have been best friends since high school, for about 10 years now. We went to college together for awhile and stayed very, very close even though we lived in different cities for more years than not. We regularly text, write on each other's Facebook, etc. Over the years she has watched me date a lot and go through a number of dysfunctional relationships while she was always in a steady relationship and eventually got married. Alex and her husband have recently divorced. It wasn't the worst divorce I've ever seen but it wasn't pretty. Thankfully they don't have kids and things got settled relatively quickly. Alex and her ex husband had some pretty significant intimacy issues and a number of other deep rooted issues. That being said, she managed to move on pretty quickly and has been dating someone for the past few months. This is the part where things get shitty for me. I stood by her through her divorce, from the first fight to the final court date. I've helped with her dog when she was out of town, kept her stuff when she first moved, talked her through the emotional stuff, etc. Ever since she moved on with the new guy, she's basically been completely absent. She doesn't respond to texts, she doesn't want to hang out. I haven't seen her in 3 months even though we live 10 minutes from each other. I looked through my texts and I have offered to hang out or do things many times, and have gotten absolutely no response. I recently went through some pretty drastic life changes (new job, now engaged) and she doesn't seem to care. She congratulated us initially but hasn't said a word since. And it hurts. I don't know what or how to say something. I know she's changed a ton in her life since leaving her ex and I'm so proud of her, which I have told her many times. I just didn't think I would be part of the things she changes. I don't have a lot of close friends and have always considered her my best friend and vice versa, so I don't know what to do. I feel abandoned and frustrated but I don't know if I just need to give her space while she's still adjusting or if it's time to really say something. tl;dr BFF left her ex and basically left me in the process. I'm hurt and don't know what to do about it.

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Throwaway because I know she's a redditor. Alex and I have been best friends since high school, for about 10 years now. We went to college together for awhile and stayed very, very close even though we lived in different cities for more years than not. We regularly text, write on each other's Facebook, etc. Over the years she has watched me date a lot and go through a number of dysfunctional relationships while she was always in a steady relationship and eventually got married. Alex and her husband have recently divorced. It wasn't the worst divorce I've ever seen but it wasn't pretty. Thankfully they don't have kids and things got settled relatively quickly. Alex and her ex husband had some pretty significant intimacy issues and a number of other deep rooted issues. That being said, she managed to move on pretty quickly and has been dating someone for the past few months. This is the part where things get shitty for me. I stood by her through her divorce, from the first fight to the final court date. I've helped with her dog when she was out of town, kept her stuff when she first moved, talked her through the emotional stuff, etc. Ever since she moved on with the new guy, she's basically been completely absent. She doesn't respond to texts, she doesn't want to hang out. I haven't seen her in 3 months even though we live 10 minutes from each other. I looked through my texts and I have offered to hang out or do things many times, and have gotten absolutely no response. I recently went through some pretty drastic life changes (new job, now engaged) and she doesn't seem to care. She congratulated us initially but hasn't said a word since. And it hurts. I don't know what or how to say something. I know she's changed a ton in her life since leaving her ex and I'm so proud of her, which I have told her many times. I just didn't think I would be part of the things she changes. I don't have a lot of close friends and have always considered her my best friend and vice versa, so I don't know what to do. I feel abandoned and frustrated but I don't know if I just need to give her space while she's still adjusting or if it's time to really say something.

BFF left her ex and basically left me in the process. I'm hurt and don't know what to do about it.

jay135

Zeece, here's my updated feedback based on what I was able to test: AS7-K - This is finally a viable variant! 3LPL + AC20. The most expensive standard Atlas variant finally has some use! Still offset by sluggish torso speed and low arm mounts. **Much improved** BJ-1X - Its 3LPL firepower now makes up for its fragility. Please don't ruin its quirks, it is currently actually viable. **Improved** TDR-5S - Still a bit meh since 3LLs can be done better on a SHD-2K and the remaining hardpoints on this thing lend themselves pretty much only to LRMs, but it's better than it was with the heat. **Neutral** SHD-2K - It certainly doesn't hurt to be able to fire all three LL together with less heat. **Improved** TDR-9SE - 3LPLs without ghost heat make this under-used variant much more viable but XL engine still an achilles heel. **Improved** AS7-RS, STK-4N, STK-5S: These all work best with paired LL/ERLL/LPL weapons due to their mount locations, so they are not terribly impacted one way or the other. No negative impact, maybe a slightly positive one for those with 5 weapon group buttons that can set up the Stalkers with 3/3 as well as 2/2/2 weapon groups. Atlas-RS **Neutral** but Stalkers **Slightly improved** BNC-3E with 3AC5, 3LL, 1ML. It's hot but it can work. Hitscan and ballstic weapons don't sync very well but it is still a very potent build. **Slightly improved** BNC-3M with 6LPL. Very hot. Extreme patience required but can surgically strike once every minute or so. Dead very quickly if it gets swarmed by multiple enemies. **Neutral** WVR-6K with 3LPL. Would be fantastic if it wasn't getting its LPL quirks swapped over to LL boosts on Tuesday. **Neutral** as-is, **Improved** if it retains its LPL quirks. --- tl;dr: I have not found anything to be OP with the ghost heat bumped up to 4 from 3. Recommend keeping this change in place going forward. Possibly re-evaluate after Clan ERMLs get reviewed. Based on how many variants are helped by this, even if there's one or two that become a bit OP, address those via quirks but leave the GH change for the sake of the rest.

Zeece, here's my updated feedback based on what I was able to test: AS7-K - This is finally a viable variant! 3LPL + AC20. The most expensive standard Atlas variant finally has some use! Still offset by sluggish torso speed and low arm mounts. Much improved BJ-1X - Its 3LPL firepower now makes up for its fragility. Please don't ruin its quirks, it is currently actually viable. Improved TDR-5S - Still a bit meh since 3LLs can be done better on a SHD-2K and the remaining hardpoints on this thing lend themselves pretty much only to LRMs, but it's better than it was with the heat. Neutral SHD-2K - It certainly doesn't hurt to be able to fire all three LL together with less heat. Improved TDR-9SE - 3LPLs without ghost heat make this under-used variant much more viable but XL engine still an achilles heel. Improved AS7-RS, STK-4N, STK-5S: These all work best with paired LL/ERLL/LPL weapons due to their mount locations, so they are not terribly impacted one way or the other. No negative impact, maybe a slightly positive one for those with 5 weapon group buttons that can set up the Stalkers with 3/3 as well as 2/2/2 weapon groups. Atlas-RS Neutral but Stalkers Slightly improved BNC-3E with 3AC5, 3LL, 1ML. It's hot but it can work. Hitscan and ballstic weapons don't sync very well but it is still a very potent build. Slightly improved BNC-3M with 6LPL. Very hot. Extreme patience required but can surgically strike once every minute or so. Dead very quickly if it gets swarmed by multiple enemies. Neutral WVR-6K with 3LPL. Would be fantastic if it wasn't getting its LPL quirks swapped over to LL boosts on Tuesday. Neutral as-is, Improved if it retains its LPL quirks. tl;dr: I have not found anything to be OP with the ghost heat bumped up to 4 from 3. Recommend keeping this change in place going forward. Possibly re-evaluate after Clan ERMLs get reviewed. Based on how many variants are helped by this, even if there's one or two that become a bit OP, address those via quirks but leave the GH change for the sake of the rest.

OutreachHPG

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Zeece, here's my updated feedback based on what I was able to test: AS7-K - This is finally a viable variant! 3LPL + AC20. The most expensive standard Atlas variant finally has some use! Still offset by sluggish torso speed and low arm mounts. Much improved BJ-1X - Its 3LPL firepower now makes up for its fragility. Please don't ruin its quirks, it is currently actually viable. Improved TDR-5S - Still a bit meh since 3LLs can be done better on a SHD-2K and the remaining hardpoints on this thing lend themselves pretty much only to LRMs, but it's better than it was with the heat. Neutral SHD-2K - It certainly doesn't hurt to be able to fire all three LL together with less heat. Improved TDR-9SE - 3LPLs without ghost heat make this under-used variant much more viable but XL engine still an achilles heel. Improved AS7-RS, STK-4N, STK-5S: These all work best with paired LL/ERLL/LPL weapons due to their mount locations, so they are not terribly impacted one way or the other. No negative impact, maybe a slightly positive one for those with 5 weapon group buttons that can set up the Stalkers with 3/3 as well as 2/2/2 weapon groups. Atlas-RS Neutral but Stalkers Slightly improved BNC-3E with 3AC5, 3LL, 1ML. It's hot but it can work. Hitscan and ballstic weapons don't sync very well but it is still a very potent build. Slightly improved BNC-3M with 6LPL. Very hot. Extreme patience required but can surgically strike once every minute or so. Dead very quickly if it gets swarmed by multiple enemies. Neutral WVR-6K with 3LPL. Would be fantastic if it wasn't getting its LPL quirks swapped over to LL boosts on Tuesday. Neutral as-is, Improved if it retains its LPL quirks.

I have not found anything to be OP with the ghost heat bumped up to 4 from 3. Recommend keeping this change in place going forward. Possibly re-evaluate after Clan ERMLs get reviewed. Based on how many variants are helped by this, even if there's one or two that become a bit OP, address those via quirks but leave the GH change for the sake of the rest.

Aaberg123

My point is that this whole "privilege" thing is nonsense. In this case it is men who forced other men to fight in a war they had little part in. It's nonsense to use this meme in a context of gender-inequality, seeing who generally starts and willingly fights wars. This really is pissing in the wind: >"US-Males-as-a-gender: "Look at what we've forced ourselves to do!" >"German-Males-as-a-gender: "Yeah, it really fucking sucks. I wonder who put us in this position?!" >"All-Males-as-a-gender: "We did it to ourselves. Now, let's point fingers at women for not partaking! Come die with us in wars!" This might not be accurate on an individual level, but history paints a pretty clear picture of the generalities. This silly gender issue is a misdirection from what really matters: Power. TL;DR: Using war as a counterpoint in gender debates is pretty silly.

My point is that this whole "privilege" thing is nonsense. In this case it is men who forced other men to fight in a war they had little part in. It's nonsense to use this meme in a context of gender-inequality, seeing who generally starts and willingly fights wars. This really is pissing in the wind: >"US-Males-as-a-gender: "Look at what we've forced ourselves to do!" >"German-Males-as-a-gender: "Yeah, it really fucking sucks. I wonder who put us in this position?!" >"All-Males-as-a-gender: "We did it to ourselves. Now, let's point fingers at women for not partaking! Come die with us in wars!" This might not be accurate on an individual level, but history paints a pretty clear picture of the generalities. This silly gender issue is a misdirection from what really matters: Power. TL;DR: Using war as a counterpoint in gender debates is pretty silly.

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My point is that this whole "privilege" thing is nonsense. In this case it is men who forced other men to fight in a war they had little part in. It's nonsense to use this meme in a context of gender-inequality, seeing who generally starts and willingly fights wars. This really is pissing in the wind: >"US-Males-as-a-gender: "Look at what we've forced ourselves to do!" >"German-Males-as-a-gender: "Yeah, it really fucking sucks. I wonder who put us in this position?!" >"All-Males-as-a-gender: "We did it to ourselves. Now, let's point fingers at women for not partaking! Come die with us in wars!" This might not be accurate on an individual level, but history paints a pretty clear picture of the generalities. This silly gender issue is a misdirection from what really matters: Power.

Using war as a counterpoint in gender debates is pretty silly.

Littlehelpa

Hey guys, Since im using a iPad Pro with a Apple Pencil for my work and my studies I had this cool idea of sketching little things and put them later on as wallpaper on my desktop but I´ve tested some free apps like Adobe Sketch but sadly in all these apps, the screen resolution/format didnt fit my dektops one. So my sketch gets either cut off or I have like two big black bars on my desktop. So maybe you know a sketching/drawing app where I can change the resolution or where the format fits my desktop. Im using a 1080p monitor btw. I appreciate every suggestion :D tl;dr: Im looking for an iPad sketching app where I can change the resolution or atleast the format of the screen, so the screen resolution fits my desktop. Thanks!

Hey guys, Since im using a iPad Pro with a Apple Pencil for my work and my studies I had this cool idea of sketching little things and put them later on as wallpaper on my desktop but I´ve tested some free apps like Adobe Sketch but sadly in all these apps, the screen resolution/format didnt fit my dektops one. So my sketch gets either cut off or I have like two big black bars on my desktop. So maybe you know a sketching/drawing app where I can change the resolution or where the format fits my desktop. Im using a 1080p monitor btw. I appreciate every suggestion :D tl;dr: Im looking for an iPad sketching app where I can change the resolution or atleast the format of the screen, so the screen resolution fits my desktop. Thanks!

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Hey guys, Since im using a iPad Pro with a Apple Pencil for my work and my studies I had this cool idea of sketching little things and put them later on as wallpaper on my desktop but I´ve tested some free apps like Adobe Sketch but sadly in all these apps, the screen resolution/format didnt fit my dektops one. So my sketch gets either cut off or I have like two big black bars on my desktop. So maybe you know a sketching/drawing app where I can change the resolution or where the format fits my desktop. Im using a 1080p monitor btw. I appreciate every suggestion :D

Im looking for an iPad sketching app where I can change the resolution or atleast the format of the screen, so the screen resolution fits my desktop. Thanks!

mackdaddyy

Hey Reddit. in a little bit of a predicament here. I recently bought a 2011 Honda Accord from a dealership (that does not traditionally sell hondas, it is a subaru dealership). The dealership got great reviews, didn't feel like I was getting pulled in any way and they felt reputable. I bought the car 2 SUNDAYS AGO....hoping the paperwork would process in 2-3 days for title, ownership, insurance... I received a call that following tuesday from the gentleman who sold me the car stating that the bank that financed my loan had "accidentally" written the title in the previous owners name and not my own, and they had to reprocess it. He stated that it would take 10 days max. i am currently well over that time period, and have lost a great deal of faith in the dealership. The point-person that sold me the car has not responded to my calls in 2 days and i truly believe that getting a new title for a vehicle shouldnt have taken much longer than 4-5 days max. If it was bank's fault, wouldn't they have rushed the process? i don't know if they are stringing me along and there is a problem or what to expect. help? **tl;dr.** Car Dealership informed me 2 days after car purchase that the bank made error on car title. needed a new car title, but i have not heard or received information in almost 2 weeks. i feel like i am starting to get dodged.

Hey Reddit. in a little bit of a predicament here. I recently bought a 2011 Honda Accord from a dealership (that does not traditionally sell hondas, it is a subaru dealership). The dealership got great reviews, didn't feel like I was getting pulled in any way and they felt reputable. I bought the car 2 SUNDAYS AGO....hoping the paperwork would process in 2-3 days for title, ownership, insurance... I received a call that following tuesday from the gentleman who sold me the car stating that the bank that financed my loan had "accidentally" written the title in the previous owners name and not my own, and they had to reprocess it. He stated that it would take 10 days max. i am currently well over that time period, and have lost a great deal of faith in the dealership. The point-person that sold me the car has not responded to my calls in 2 days and i truly believe that getting a new title for a vehicle shouldnt have taken much longer than 4-5 days max. If it was bank's fault, wouldn't they have rushed the process? i don't know if they are stringing me along and there is a problem or what to expect. help? tl;dr. Car Dealership informed me 2 days after car purchase that the bank made error on car title. needed a new car title, but i have not heard or received information in almost 2 weeks. i feel like i am starting to get dodged.

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Hey Reddit. in a little bit of a predicament here. I recently bought a 2011 Honda Accord from a dealership (that does not traditionally sell hondas, it is a subaru dealership). The dealership got great reviews, didn't feel like I was getting pulled in any way and they felt reputable. I bought the car 2 SUNDAYS AGO....hoping the paperwork would process in 2-3 days for title, ownership, insurance... I received a call that following tuesday from the gentleman who sold me the car stating that the bank that financed my loan had "accidentally" written the title in the previous owners name and not my own, and they had to reprocess it. He stated that it would take 10 days max. i am currently well over that time period, and have lost a great deal of faith in the dealership. The point-person that sold me the car has not responded to my calls in 2 days and i truly believe that getting a new title for a vehicle shouldnt have taken much longer than 4-5 days max. If it was bank's fault, wouldn't they have rushed the process? i don't know if they are stringing me along and there is a problem or what to expect. help?

Car Dealership informed me 2 days after car purchase that the bank made error on car title. needed a new car title, but i have not heard or received information in almost 2 weeks. i feel like i am starting to get dodged.

Noddie

the question is a bit general, but usually the computer wants to display some menu when you right click. What happens is that the computer has to collect information about what to display (and what will happen when you click something), but this task might be delayed because the place the computer looks up information from looks more like a kindergarden playroom than the city library it once used to be. tl;dr 15 kindergardeners scrambled your "library" and now it takes time to find the book you want edit: spleling

the question is a bit general, but usually the computer wants to display some menu when you right click. What happens is that the computer has to collect information about what to display (and what will happen when you click something), but this task might be delayed because the place the computer looks up information from looks more like a kindergarden playroom than the city library it once used to be. tl;dr 15 kindergardeners scrambled your "library" and now it takes time to find the book you want edit: spleling

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the question is a bit general, but usually the computer wants to display some menu when you right click. What happens is that the computer has to collect information about what to display (and what will happen when you click something), but this task might be delayed because the place the computer looks up information from looks more like a kindergarden playroom than the city library it once used to be.

15 kindergardeners scrambled your "library" and now it takes time to find the book you want edit: spleling

Frogbert

I didn't know they wouldn't close their eyes, I always thought they would fall asleep and then they would pass on. When I was 11 my then cat got very sick and had to be put down, my mom didn't think I would handle it well and wouldn't let me go with him, I was devastated. Years later when I was in college our dog finally lost his battle with cancer, I begged my mom to go with him to the vet, or to wait a few days so I could come home to be with him but she wouldn't have it, a family friend went with him at least, but my mom never forgave herself for not being there. My current cat was born beside me in the middle of the night. He is 11 now, happy and healthy and I'm not immediate concerned about his health. Still, I worry all the time, he is getting older but I hope we have many happy years together still. When that time finally comes it would be incredibly selfish of me to abandon him in a strange place with strange people to die... He has always been by my side, my best and most loyal friend, and to comfort him in those last moments will be the very least I can do for him. tl;dr - my mom put our dog down, didn't stay, and regrets it. I could never make that mistake with my cat.

I didn't know they wouldn't close their eyes, I always thought they would fall asleep and then they would pass on. When I was 11 my then cat got very sick and had to be put down, my mom didn't think I would handle it well and wouldn't let me go with him, I was devastated. Years later when I was in college our dog finally lost his battle with cancer, I begged my mom to go with him to the vet, or to wait a few days so I could come home to be with him but she wouldn't have it, a family friend went with him at least, but my mom never forgave herself for not being there. My current cat was born beside me in the middle of the night. He is 11 now, happy and healthy and I'm not immediate concerned about his health. Still, I worry all the time, he is getting older but I hope we have many happy years together still. When that time finally comes it would be incredibly selfish of me to abandon him in a strange place with strange people to die... He has always been by my side, my best and most loyal friend, and to comfort him in those last moments will be the very least I can do for him. tl;dr - my mom put our dog down, didn't stay, and regrets it. I could never make that mistake with my cat.

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I didn't know they wouldn't close their eyes, I always thought they would fall asleep and then they would pass on. When I was 11 my then cat got very sick and had to be put down, my mom didn't think I would handle it well and wouldn't let me go with him, I was devastated. Years later when I was in college our dog finally lost his battle with cancer, I begged my mom to go with him to the vet, or to wait a few days so I could come home to be with him but she wouldn't have it, a family friend went with him at least, but my mom never forgave herself for not being there. My current cat was born beside me in the middle of the night. He is 11 now, happy and healthy and I'm not immediate concerned about his health. Still, I worry all the time, he is getting older but I hope we have many happy years together still. When that time finally comes it would be incredibly selfish of me to abandon him in a strange place with strange people to die... He has always been by my side, my best and most loyal friend, and to comfort him in those last moments will be the very least I can do for him.

my mom put our dog down, didn't stay, and regrets it. I could never make that mistake with my cat.

billyK_

That was his cardboard cutout at MCM. He and his gf were at a wedding, so that was why they couldn't attend MCM. TL;DR: He's fine

That was his cardboard cutout at MCM. He and his gf were at a wedding, so that was why they couldn't attend MCM. TL;DR: He's fine

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That was his cardboard cutout at MCM. He and his gf were at a wedding, so that was why they couldn't attend MCM.

He's fine

American-American

Long ago I switched to Mac. It wasn't a decision based on preference, but a decision based on my career. I work in a field that is predominantly Mac, so I made the switch completely so that I wouldn't hinder my learning by just booting into a Windows partition on my Mac. I used to be into building rigs, but its been well over 7 years since I've built a computer. I've been completely left behind by new technologies, and I don't even know where to start in order to build a new PC. This year's Steam Holiday Sale got me thinking, and I really want a new PC. My budget isn't too high, 500-600 ish, and I'm looking for things on the cheap. I don't have anything... No monitor, keyboard, mouse, case, mobo, gfx card, etc. I'm just wondering if anyone on here could help me put together a list of parts that can play some newer releases, but I don't expect it to be a powerhouse. I don't need a version of Windows, so don't worry about adding that into the costs. I just want a PC that is able to play on decent settings in newer games. I don't want this to start a Mac vs PC flame war, and it isn't about 1 being better than the other. They are both good at certain things, and yes Macs are ridiculously overpriced. **TL:DR** I'm looking at building a cheap PC. Budget: $500-$600 I just want something that is able to play newer games with decent settings. Nothing crazy. **Edit:** Thanks for the good info guys. I'll probably be ordering stuff just after Christmas. I'm fine on all the installation, I just needed hardware info. I wish I could buy everything now and have it right at Christmas and be a giddy little boy, but being an adult comes with bills... FUCK YOU BILL.

Long ago I switched to Mac. It wasn't a decision based on preference, but a decision based on my career. I work in a field that is predominantly Mac, so I made the switch completely so that I wouldn't hinder my learning by just booting into a Windows partition on my Mac. I used to be into building rigs, but its been well over 7 years since I've built a computer. I've been completely left behind by new technologies, and I don't even know where to start in order to build a new PC. This year's Steam Holiday Sale got me thinking, and I really want a new PC. My budget isn't too high, 500-600 ish, and I'm looking for things on the cheap. I don't have anything... No monitor, keyboard, mouse, case, mobo, gfx card, etc. I'm just wondering if anyone on here could help me put together a list of parts that can play some newer releases, but I don't expect it to be a powerhouse. I don't need a version of Windows, so don't worry about adding that into the costs. I just want a PC that is able to play on decent settings in newer games. I don't want this to start a Mac vs PC flame war, and it isn't about 1 being better than the other. They are both good at certain things, and yes Macs are ridiculously overpriced. TL:DR I'm looking at building a cheap PC. Budget: $500-$600 I just want something that is able to play newer games with decent settings. Nothing crazy. Edit: Thanks for the good info guys. I'll probably be ordering stuff just after Christmas. I'm fine on all the installation, I just needed hardware info. I wish I could buy everything now and have it right at Christmas and be a giddy little boy, but being an adult comes with bills... FUCK YOU BILL.

buildapc

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Long ago I switched to Mac. It wasn't a decision based on preference, but a decision based on my career. I work in a field that is predominantly Mac, so I made the switch completely so that I wouldn't hinder my learning by just booting into a Windows partition on my Mac. I used to be into building rigs, but its been well over 7 years since I've built a computer. I've been completely left behind by new technologies, and I don't even know where to start in order to build a new PC. This year's Steam Holiday Sale got me thinking, and I really want a new PC. My budget isn't too high, 500-600 ish, and I'm looking for things on the cheap. I don't have anything... No monitor, keyboard, mouse, case, mobo, gfx card, etc. I'm just wondering if anyone on here could help me put together a list of parts that can play some newer releases, but I don't expect it to be a powerhouse. I don't need a version of Windows, so don't worry about adding that into the costs. I just want a PC that is able to play on decent settings in newer games. I don't want this to start a Mac vs PC flame war, and it isn't about 1 being better than the other. They are both good at certain things, and yes Macs are ridiculously overpriced.

I'm looking at building a cheap PC. Budget: $500-$600 I just want something that is able to play newer games with decent settings. Nothing crazy. Edit: Thanks for the good info guys. I'll probably be ordering stuff just after Christmas. I'm fine on all the installation, I just needed hardware info. I wish I could buy everything now and have it right at Christmas and be a giddy little boy, but being an adult comes with bills... FUCK YOU BILL.

Gravenscar

And I honestly feel that -3 LP was worth it. I got into queue and these two guys had apparently played last game together and they were like, "oh... its you... e_e" and then they proceeded to just tell everyone about how bad the other was in last game I.E. "feeder brand 0/12 in lane", "no mias" etc. And I just felt sorry for the other two guys I was with who just wanted to play a game without a couple of bitching 12 year olds. And so I told everyone that I was going to dodge because already, no one wanted to play that game and it was obvious they weren't going to work together to try and pull out a win. So I dodged. I looked at my profile and saw the minus 3 points (Gold II 54 LP) and I didn't feel bad... I felt good. I knew that I somehow made a difference to those two other people in the queue and I wish them the best of luck on their next games. If you're wondering why I shared this its because I want people to know that there are GOOD people in the LoL community and if you look for them, you'll find them ;) -The Sovereign of Suave TL;DR I did a good thing and it felt good.

And I honestly feel that -3 LP was worth it. I got into queue and these two guys had apparently played last game together and they were like, "oh... its you... e_e" and then they proceeded to just tell everyone about how bad the other was in last game I.E. "feeder brand 0/12 in lane", "no mias" etc. And I just felt sorry for the other two guys I was with who just wanted to play a game without a couple of bitching 12 year olds. And so I told everyone that I was going to dodge because already, no one wanted to play that game and it was obvious they weren't going to work together to try and pull out a win. So I dodged. I looked at my profile and saw the minus 3 points (Gold II 54 LP) and I didn't feel bad... I felt good. I knew that I somehow made a difference to those two other people in the queue and I wish them the best of luck on their next games. If you're wondering why I shared this its because I want people to know that there are GOOD people in the LoL community and if you look for them, you'll find them ;) -The Sovereign of Suave TL;DR I did a good thing and it felt good.

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And I honestly feel that -3 LP was worth it. I got into queue and these two guys had apparently played last game together and they were like, "oh... its you... e_e" and then they proceeded to just tell everyone about how bad the other was in last game I.E. "feeder brand 0/12 in lane", "no mias" etc. And I just felt sorry for the other two guys I was with who just wanted to play a game without a couple of bitching 12 year olds. And so I told everyone that I was going to dodge because already, no one wanted to play that game and it was obvious they weren't going to work together to try and pull out a win. So I dodged. I looked at my profile and saw the minus 3 points (Gold II 54 LP) and I didn't feel bad... I felt good. I knew that I somehow made a difference to those two other people in the queue and I wish them the best of luck on their next games. If you're wondering why I shared this its because I want people to know that there are GOOD people in the LoL community and if you look for them, you'll find them ;) -The Sovereign of Suave

I did a good thing and it felt good.

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Hey there everyone! A humble request to our wonderful subscribers... PORN LINK FEST!! My lovely friend [benjamin] was supposed to be doing her homework today, but, rather mischievously, I only just introduced her to this subreddit :) In light of this, she has been less than focused, In fact, I'd say chickflixxx has been somewhat of a major distraction. To make it up to her, like a true friend, I thought I might get together a warm welcome! So I'm putting in a request for even more juicy links to keep her going for the long night of homework ahead (yes, I am so terribly considerate ;P) And so, my request is thus - Since she's mined our wonderful trove of NSFW fun, link anything new you may have in the comments. Anything you felt may be worth a mention but hasn't popped up, or a site or company worth a mention. A comment collection of pornographic brilliance! She likes joymii and sub/dom porn (not bdsm, but more a submissive female, with a dominant partner). Girl on girl (realistic), and rough sex (not too violent). Link like you've never linked before! HIT US WITH YOUR BEST SHOT :) For [benjamin]! TL;DR - Friend just discovered chickflixxx, welcome her with linkage!

Hey there everyone! A humble request to our wonderful subscribers... PORN LINK FEST!! My lovely friend [benjamin] was supposed to be doing her homework today, but, rather mischievously, I only just introduced her to this subreddit :) In light of this, she has been less than focused, In fact, I'd say chickflixxx has been somewhat of a major distraction. To make it up to her, like a true friend, I thought I might get together a warm welcome! So I'm putting in a request for even more juicy links to keep her going for the long night of homework ahead (yes, I am so terribly considerate ;P) And so, my request is thus - Since she's mined our wonderful trove of NSFW fun, link anything new you may have in the comments. Anything you felt may be worth a mention but hasn't popped up, or a site or company worth a mention. A comment collection of pornographic brilliance! She likes joymii and sub/dom porn (not bdsm, but more a submissive female, with a dominant partner). Girl on girl (realistic), and rough sex (not too violent). Link like you've never linked before! HIT US WITH YOUR BEST SHOT :) For [benjamin]! TL;DR - Friend just discovered chickflixxx, welcome her with linkage!

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Hey there everyone! A humble request to our wonderful subscribers... PORN LINK FEST!! My lovely friend [benjamin] was supposed to be doing her homework today, but, rather mischievously, I only just introduced her to this subreddit :) In light of this, she has been less than focused, In fact, I'd say chickflixxx has been somewhat of a major distraction. To make it up to her, like a true friend, I thought I might get together a warm welcome! So I'm putting in a request for even more juicy links to keep her going for the long night of homework ahead (yes, I am so terribly considerate ;P) And so, my request is thus - Since she's mined our wonderful trove of NSFW fun, link anything new you may have in the comments. Anything you felt may be worth a mention but hasn't popped up, or a site or company worth a mention. A comment collection of pornographic brilliance! She likes joymii and sub/dom porn (not bdsm, but more a submissive female, with a dominant partner). Girl on girl (realistic), and rough sex (not too violent). Link like you've never linked before! HIT US WITH YOUR BEST SHOT :) For [benjamin]!

Friend just discovered chickflixxx, welcome her with linkage!

-TaborlinTheGreat-

*This didn't happen today but rather on the fourth of July.* **To preface:** My friends and I have gone to the beach with one of my friend's family the week of the fourth every summer during highschool. This year was our last year so we decided to put on a big fireworks show on the beach for the fourth. We decide to go all out, and when its all said and done we end up with $868 worth of mortars. **And now the fuck up:** On the fourth we take all of the fireworks out to the beach for our grand show. we start out by shooting one or two mortars at a time, and quickly progress to four or five at a time. As we shoot off more and more, we start to draw an increasingly larger crowd. At this point I have the genius idea to shoot off nine mortars at a time. What could possibly go wrong? We load all of the tubes, twist the fuses together and I light them up. There are eight simaltaneous expolsions as eight mortars streak into the sky. Unfortunantly the nineth had a longer fuse, and got knocked over by the other eight blasts. It fell pointing straight at the croud of 40 or so people watching. time slowed and I helplessly watched as the mortar shotts straight at the crowd of people, and hits my friend's 8 year old sister as it explodes. There is a deafening boom, flames and fire erupt, and people scream and run. When the smoke clears, we find the girl who got hit. Thankfully she is OK, but our fireworks show is called to a halt and the girl's mother gives me the stink eye the rest of the trip. **TL;DR tried to shoot off nine mortars at once, one fell over and blew up on my friend's eight year old sister**

This didn't happen today but rather on the fourth of July. To preface: My friends and I have gone to the beach with one of my friend's family the week of the fourth every summer during highschool. This year was our last year so we decided to put on a big fireworks show on the beach for the fourth. We decide to go all out, and when its all said and done we end up with $868 worth of mortars. And now the fuck up: On the fourth we take all of the fireworks out to the beach for our grand show. we start out by shooting one or two mortars at a time, and quickly progress to four or five at a time. As we shoot off more and more, we start to draw an increasingly larger crowd. At this point I have the genius idea to shoot off nine mortars at a time. What could possibly go wrong? We load all of the tubes, twist the fuses together and I light them up. There are eight simaltaneous expolsions as eight mortars streak into the sky. Unfortunantly the nineth had a longer fuse, and got knocked over by the other eight blasts. It fell pointing straight at the croud of 40 or so people watching. time slowed and I helplessly watched as the mortar shotts straight at the crowd of people, and hits my friend's 8 year old sister as it explodes. There is a deafening boom, flames and fire erupt, and people scream and run. When the smoke clears, we find the girl who got hit. Thankfully she is OK, but our fireworks show is called to a halt and the girl's mother gives me the stink eye the rest of the trip. TL;DR tried to shoot off nine mortars at once, one fell over and blew up on my friend's eight year old sister

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This didn't happen today but rather on the fourth of July. To preface: My friends and I have gone to the beach with one of my friend's family the week of the fourth every summer during highschool. This year was our last year so we decided to put on a big fireworks show on the beach for the fourth. We decide to go all out, and when its all said and done we end up with $868 worth of mortars. And now the fuck up: On the fourth we take all of the fireworks out to the beach for our grand show. we start out by shooting one or two mortars at a time, and quickly progress to four or five at a time. As we shoot off more and more, we start to draw an increasingly larger crowd. At this point I have the genius idea to shoot off nine mortars at a time. What could possibly go wrong? We load all of the tubes, twist the fuses together and I light them up. There are eight simaltaneous expolsions as eight mortars streak into the sky. Unfortunantly the nineth had a longer fuse, and got knocked over by the other eight blasts. It fell pointing straight at the croud of 40 or so people watching. time slowed and I helplessly watched as the mortar shotts straight at the crowd of people, and hits my friend's 8 year old sister as it explodes. There is a deafening boom, flames and fire erupt, and people scream and run. When the smoke clears, we find the girl who got hit. Thankfully she is OK, but our fireworks show is called to a halt and the girl's mother gives me the stink eye the rest of the trip.

tried to shoot off nine mortars at once, one fell over and blew up on my friend's eight year old sister

GuyNoirPI

I'm with you in this, but your justification is bad history. >The idea that Johnson’s career was somehow in danger from the Kennedy brothers’ machinations, or that he and the Kennedy brothers were implacable political foes, is just plain silly. Johnson was very successful during his twelve years in the U.S. Senate, before he resigned to become Vice President. He was “the least senior Senator ever elected to this position, and one of the least senior party leaders in the history of the Senate,” as well as an unusually powerful and effective Majority Leader. Source: Wikipedia The part about his time as majority leader is true, but it's impossible to say that LBJ and the Kennedy's relationship was good, at all or to draw any conclusions about his time as VP from his time as majority leader. We obviously don't know what would happened in 1968 had JFK gone for two terms but we do know that LBJ at least feared that RFK would challenge him for the nomination and that RFK was very popular and had aspirations himself. The weekend that JFK was shot, LBJ had been entertaining the Kennedy's in Texas and was doing so because he felt that his place on the ticket was in danger in '64. TL;DR: R/history's theory is crazy, but *not* because LBJ was in a good political position at the time.

I'm with you in this, but your justification is bad history. >The idea that Johnson’s career was somehow in danger from the Kennedy brothers’ machinations, or that he and the Kennedy brothers were implacable political foes, is just plain silly. Johnson was very successful during his twelve years in the U.S. Senate, before he resigned to become Vice President. He was “the least senior Senator ever elected to this position, and one of the least senior party leaders in the history of the Senate,” as well as an unusually powerful and effective Majority Leader. Source: Wikipedia The part about his time as majority leader is true, but it's impossible to say that LBJ and the Kennedy's relationship was good, at all or to draw any conclusions about his time as VP from his time as majority leader. We obviously don't know what would happened in 1968 had JFK gone for two terms but we do know that LBJ at least feared that RFK would challenge him for the nomination and that RFK was very popular and had aspirations himself. The weekend that JFK was shot, LBJ had been entertaining the Kennedy's in Texas and was doing so because he felt that his place on the ticket was in danger in '64. TL;DR: R/history's theory is crazy, but not because LBJ was in a good political position at the time.

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I'm with you in this, but your justification is bad history. >The idea that Johnson’s career was somehow in danger from the Kennedy brothers’ machinations, or that he and the Kennedy brothers were implacable political foes, is just plain silly. Johnson was very successful during his twelve years in the U.S. Senate, before he resigned to become Vice President. He was “the least senior Senator ever elected to this position, and one of the least senior party leaders in the history of the Senate,” as well as an unusually powerful and effective Majority Leader. Source: Wikipedia The part about his time as majority leader is true, but it's impossible to say that LBJ and the Kennedy's relationship was good, at all or to draw any conclusions about his time as VP from his time as majority leader. We obviously don't know what would happened in 1968 had JFK gone for two terms but we do know that LBJ at least feared that RFK would challenge him for the nomination and that RFK was very popular and had aspirations himself. The weekend that JFK was shot, LBJ had been entertaining the Kennedy's in Texas and was doing so because he felt that his place on the ticket was in danger in '64.

R/history's theory is crazy, but not because LBJ was in a good political position at the time.

Cosmok14

My friend and I challenged each other to Super Mario Bros. We decided that we had to beat the game with no warps and kill Bowser with fire power. I ended up killing Bowser with my tiny fire balls, I was so happy that I went to where Bowser once stood and I teabagged the bridge. TL;DR Beat Super Mario Bros and teabagged Bowser

My friend and I challenged each other to Super Mario Bros. We decided that we had to beat the game with no warps and kill Bowser with fire power. I ended up killing Bowser with my tiny fire balls, I was so happy that I went to where Bowser once stood and I teabagged the bridge. TL;DR Beat Super Mario Bros and teabagged Bowser

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My friend and I challenged each other to Super Mario Bros. We decided that we had to beat the game with no warps and kill Bowser with fire power. I ended up killing Bowser with my tiny fire balls, I was so happy that I went to where Bowser once stood and I teabagged the bridge.

Beat Super Mario Bros and teabagged Bowser

laryrose

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Chriswalken12398

So happy I finally have a relevant story for a reddit question! So last year in college I was doing a class presentation on something, class had about 20 people, and unknown to me a girl in my class took advantage of my open laptop the day before and saved a copy of my project. Now I had pranked this girl and my teacher on many occasions so when she handed the teacher her flash drive and told him that she sabotaged my project and to use her file instead he was on board. (side note, I skipped a class the day after St. Patties day, said I was sick, this wasn't like Uni, more like a work situation where an excuse was needed for missing school) So I'm going through my slide presentation and everything is normal till about halfway through there's a slide of me drinking a party pitcher with the tag "this is why I missed school!" I just stood there flabbergasted. I couldn't comprehend how this happened, everyone was laughing, I just double checked my slides, I hit the next button and it was a picture of my buddy in class in his underwear with the tag "the reason I get up every morning" by this time the entire class was roaring with laughter and I am just so confused! Finally Anne lets me know it was her and that sums up the story, best I've ever been pranked! TL;DR - student and teacher work together to sabotage my slide show presentation

So happy I finally have a relevant story for a reddit question! So last year in college I was doing a class presentation on something, class had about 20 people, and unknown to me a girl in my class took advantage of my open laptop the day before and saved a copy of my project. Now I had pranked this girl and my teacher on many occasions so when she handed the teacher her flash drive and told him that she sabotaged my project and to use her file instead he was on board. (side note, I skipped a class the day after St. Patties day, said I was sick, this wasn't like Uni, more like a work situation where an excuse was needed for missing school) So I'm going through my slide presentation and everything is normal till about halfway through there's a slide of me drinking a party pitcher with the tag "this is why I missed school!" I just stood there flabbergasted. I couldn't comprehend how this happened, everyone was laughing, I just double checked my slides, I hit the next button and it was a picture of my buddy in class in his underwear with the tag "the reason I get up every morning" by this time the entire class was roaring with laughter and I am just so confused! Finally Anne lets me know it was her and that sums up the story, best I've ever been pranked! TL;DR - student and teacher work together to sabotage my slide show presentation

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So happy I finally have a relevant story for a reddit question! So last year in college I was doing a class presentation on something, class had about 20 people, and unknown to me a girl in my class took advantage of my open laptop the day before and saved a copy of my project. Now I had pranked this girl and my teacher on many occasions so when she handed the teacher her flash drive and told him that she sabotaged my project and to use her file instead he was on board. (side note, I skipped a class the day after St. Patties day, said I was sick, this wasn't like Uni, more like a work situation where an excuse was needed for missing school) So I'm going through my slide presentation and everything is normal till about halfway through there's a slide of me drinking a party pitcher with the tag "this is why I missed school!" I just stood there flabbergasted. I couldn't comprehend how this happened, everyone was laughing, I just double checked my slides, I hit the next button and it was a picture of my buddy in class in his underwear with the tag "the reason I get up every morning" by this time the entire class was roaring with laughter and I am just so confused! Finally Anne lets me know it was her and that sums up the story, best I've ever been pranked!

student and teacher work together to sabotage my slide show presentation

Hovsky

I know a place near where I live that makes 30+ inchers. TL;DR **America, that's where**

I know a place near where I live that makes 30+ inchers. TL;DR America, that's where

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I know a place near where I live that makes 30+ inchers.

America, that's where

Katerine15

Me and my boyfriend have been together for a year (long distance relationship - 450km away). We've also known eachother 3 years prior and we've been close friends. He mentioned that he had a heart problem but never told me what it was about. These days, we started working out and I've asked him more about his heart problems. He told me he was diagnosed with ischemic cardiopathy around 5 years ago (when he was in highschool). His doctor told him to come again after 6 months, but he never went. Now, I have googled this illness so I can understand more of it, and I've seen that it's really dangerous. Now I'm very angry with him and his parents (since none of them took care of him and guided him to the doctor) - of course, I haven't told him that I'm angry. The thing is, I don't know what to do. I'm really scared that the sickness might've gotten worse (even though he told me that he doesn't feel anything different) and I'm planning to take him to the doctor from my own money. But I'm terribly scared and worried that the life expectancy is small in this illness and that something might happen to him. Can someone offer me advice on this problem - both with my anxiety and his illness? Thank you (and sorry for the messed up English, it's not my native language). **tl;dr**: Boyfriend diagnosed with ischemic cardiopathy, don't know what to do.

Me and my boyfriend have been together for a year (long distance relationship - 450km away). We've also known eachother 3 years prior and we've been close friends. He mentioned that he had a heart problem but never told me what it was about. These days, we started working out and I've asked him more about his heart problems. He told me he was diagnosed with ischemic cardiopathy around 5 years ago (when he was in highschool). His doctor told him to come again after 6 months, but he never went. Now, I have googled this illness so I can understand more of it, and I've seen that it's really dangerous. Now I'm very angry with him and his parents (since none of them took care of him and guided him to the doctor) - of course, I haven't told him that I'm angry. The thing is, I don't know what to do. I'm really scared that the sickness might've gotten worse (even though he told me that he doesn't feel anything different) and I'm planning to take him to the doctor from my own money. But I'm terribly scared and worried that the life expectancy is small in this illness and that something might happen to him. Can someone offer me advice on this problem - both with my anxiety and his illness? Thank you (and sorry for the messed up English, it's not my native language). tl;dr : Boyfriend diagnosed with ischemic cardiopathy, don't know what to do.

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Me and my boyfriend have been together for a year (long distance relationship - 450km away). We've also known eachother 3 years prior and we've been close friends. He mentioned that he had a heart problem but never told me what it was about. These days, we started working out and I've asked him more about his heart problems. He told me he was diagnosed with ischemic cardiopathy around 5 years ago (when he was in highschool). His doctor told him to come again after 6 months, but he never went. Now, I have googled this illness so I can understand more of it, and I've seen that it's really dangerous. Now I'm very angry with him and his parents (since none of them took care of him and guided him to the doctor) - of course, I haven't told him that I'm angry. The thing is, I don't know what to do. I'm really scared that the sickness might've gotten worse (even though he told me that he doesn't feel anything different) and I'm planning to take him to the doctor from my own money. But I'm terribly scared and worried that the life expectancy is small in this illness and that something might happen to him. Can someone offer me advice on this problem - both with my anxiety and his illness? Thank you (and sorry for the messed up English, it's not my native language).

Boyfriend diagnosed with ischemic cardiopathy, don't know what to do.

TerraPhane

This is partly in the way that appropriations and budgets are made, there is authorization for the "critical" expenditures. It is illegal for a government to make expenditures which have not been authorized in some way. The continued operations of these sites would be an unauthorized act since the funding has specifically been non-renewed. However shutting down the site can be treated as a critical expenditure which has been authorized through other means. No one has ever accused the government of making good decisions on budgets and appropriations, but once made they are the word of law. TL;DR Shutting down is what they're allowed to do, so they do it.

This is partly in the way that appropriations and budgets are made, there is authorization for the "critical" expenditures. It is illegal for a government to make expenditures which have not been authorized in some way. The continued operations of these sites would be an unauthorized act since the funding has specifically been non-renewed. However shutting down the site can be treated as a critical expenditure which has been authorized through other means. No one has ever accused the government of making good decisions on budgets and appropriations, but once made they are the word of law. TL;DR Shutting down is what they're allowed to do, so they do it.

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This is partly in the way that appropriations and budgets are made, there is authorization for the "critical" expenditures. It is illegal for a government to make expenditures which have not been authorized in some way. The continued operations of these sites would be an unauthorized act since the funding has specifically been non-renewed. However shutting down the site can be treated as a critical expenditure which has been authorized through other means. No one has ever accused the government of making good decisions on budgets and appropriations, but once made they are the word of law.

Shutting down is what they're allowed to do, so they do it.

Flower_In_The_Attic

Background: So as the title says, "Sherrie" and I have been friends for about 15 years. We met in school and were pretty much inseparable. She's always cared more for popularity than I have. She was in marching band and choir, I just did FFA for college credit. After graduation we both went to community college, me for a transfer degree and her for nursing. We never really seriously dated anyone serious until now. I'm engaged to be married this coming November and she is single. She was supposed to be my MoH but I recently gained 3 stepsisters and I love them very much and consider them some of my closet friends and I didn't want to hurt feelings so I just removed titles and had bridesmaids. Sherrie can't wrap her head around that at all...and now refuses to talk to me about my wedding. Sherrie has never kept guys around. She always finds the smallest flaws and then drags out dumping them. She was with a guy about 6 months ago though who was a black out drunk, addicted to online video games, pushed her around and used her for sex and her money. To this day she will tell me she still loves him with all her heart and that if her family and friends hadn't convinced her in the heat of the moment she would still be with him and they would be married by now. Sherrie and I go the same church and are involved in the same bible study group. She was recently uninvited because she was there for gossip and to lie. She is a pathological liar and lies about everything. It's gotten her in serious trouble at work. She lied on official documentation. How she still works there is beyond me. On to the issue: Sherrie likes to hang out with our mutual friend Sierra. That's cool, no problem with that. They post Facebook pictures and tag each other in statuses and that's cool too. They just make it a point never to include me... That's cool too. It stings but Sierra has never liked me much and that's okay. I don't need her approval or friendship. So two nights ago Sherrie came over and we made plans to hang out after I got of work the next day and she finished helping her aunt and uncle. So I get off work and text her I'm taking an hour nap and then will be ready to go. She replied she would be out for about another 3 hours with her family. I said okay and took my nap. When I woke up it was raining and she hasn't texted me. So I told her I was going to Walmart and that I would see her at my apartment. She replied that she was stuck in the town about 30 minutes over and was fighting traffic and still had her aunt and uncle. I said okay, she could show up when she was done. I asked if she needed anything and she said no. I go to check out and I'm immediately floored. There was Sherrie and Sierra, hanging out.... I don't have a good poker face so I know when she saw me that she saw the disbelief and hurt written all owner my face. She smiled and told me to text her, they were going to publix. I went home and cried. She never showed up and has continued to text me as if nothing is wrong after I texted her and told her I was hurting, and now I'm just ignoring her. I want to cut her out, this behavior is childish and I want to end this relationship with her. I know I've dragged it out for too long, but enough is enough. I'm sorry about the wall of text, I think some of this post was to vent. TL;DR: best friend lied to me and refuses to see that she did anything wrong.

Background: So as the title says, "Sherrie" and I have been friends for about 15 years. We met in school and were pretty much inseparable. She's always cared more for popularity than I have. She was in marching band and choir, I just did FFA for college credit. After graduation we both went to community college, me for a transfer degree and her for nursing. We never really seriously dated anyone serious until now. I'm engaged to be married this coming November and she is single. She was supposed to be my MoH but I recently gained 3 stepsisters and I love them very much and consider them some of my closet friends and I didn't want to hurt feelings so I just removed titles and had bridesmaids. Sherrie can't wrap her head around that at all...and now refuses to talk to me about my wedding. Sherrie has never kept guys around. She always finds the smallest flaws and then drags out dumping them. She was with a guy about 6 months ago though who was a black out drunk, addicted to online video games, pushed her around and used her for sex and her money. To this day she will tell me she still loves him with all her heart and that if her family and friends hadn't convinced her in the heat of the moment she would still be with him and they would be married by now. Sherrie and I go the same church and are involved in the same bible study group. She was recently uninvited because she was there for gossip and to lie. She is a pathological liar and lies about everything. It's gotten her in serious trouble at work. She lied on official documentation. How she still works there is beyond me. On to the issue: Sherrie likes to hang out with our mutual friend Sierra. That's cool, no problem with that. They post Facebook pictures and tag each other in statuses and that's cool too. They just make it a point never to include me... That's cool too. It stings but Sierra has never liked me much and that's okay. I don't need her approval or friendship. So two nights ago Sherrie came over and we made plans to hang out after I got of work the next day and she finished helping her aunt and uncle. So I get off work and text her I'm taking an hour nap and then will be ready to go. She replied she would be out for about another 3 hours with her family. I said okay and took my nap. When I woke up it was raining and she hasn't texted me. So I told her I was going to Walmart and that I would see her at my apartment. She replied that she was stuck in the town about 30 minutes over and was fighting traffic and still had her aunt and uncle. I said okay, she could show up when she was done. I asked if she needed anything and she said no. I go to check out and I'm immediately floored. There was Sherrie and Sierra, hanging out.... I don't have a good poker face so I know when she saw me that she saw the disbelief and hurt written all owner my face. She smiled and told me to text her, they were going to publix. I went home and cried. She never showed up and has continued to text me as if nothing is wrong after I texted her and told her I was hurting, and now I'm just ignoring her. I want to cut her out, this behavior is childish and I want to end this relationship with her. I know I've dragged it out for too long, but enough is enough. I'm sorry about the wall of text, I think some of this post was to vent. TL;DR: best friend lied to me and refuses to see that she did anything wrong.

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Background: So as the title says, "Sherrie" and I have been friends for about 15 years. We met in school and were pretty much inseparable. She's always cared more for popularity than I have. She was in marching band and choir, I just did FFA for college credit. After graduation we both went to community college, me for a transfer degree and her for nursing. We never really seriously dated anyone serious until now. I'm engaged to be married this coming November and she is single. She was supposed to be my MoH but I recently gained 3 stepsisters and I love them very much and consider them some of my closet friends and I didn't want to hurt feelings so I just removed titles and had bridesmaids. Sherrie can't wrap her head around that at all...and now refuses to talk to me about my wedding. Sherrie has never kept guys around. She always finds the smallest flaws and then drags out dumping them. She was with a guy about 6 months ago though who was a black out drunk, addicted to online video games, pushed her around and used her for sex and her money. To this day she will tell me she still loves him with all her heart and that if her family and friends hadn't convinced her in the heat of the moment she would still be with him and they would be married by now. Sherrie and I go the same church and are involved in the same bible study group. She was recently uninvited because she was there for gossip and to lie. She is a pathological liar and lies about everything. It's gotten her in serious trouble at work. She lied on official documentation. How she still works there is beyond me. On to the issue: Sherrie likes to hang out with our mutual friend Sierra. That's cool, no problem with that. They post Facebook pictures and tag each other in statuses and that's cool too. They just make it a point never to include me... That's cool too. It stings but Sierra has never liked me much and that's okay. I don't need her approval or friendship. So two nights ago Sherrie came over and we made plans to hang out after I got of work the next day and she finished helping her aunt and uncle. So I get off work and text her I'm taking an hour nap and then will be ready to go. She replied she would be out for about another 3 hours with her family. I said okay and took my nap. When I woke up it was raining and she hasn't texted me. So I told her I was going to Walmart and that I would see her at my apartment. She replied that she was stuck in the town about 30 minutes over and was fighting traffic and still had her aunt and uncle. I said okay, she could show up when she was done. I asked if she needed anything and she said no. I go to check out and I'm immediately floored. There was Sherrie and Sierra, hanging out.... I don't have a good poker face so I know when she saw me that she saw the disbelief and hurt written all owner my face. She smiled and told me to text her, they were going to publix. I went home and cried. She never showed up and has continued to text me as if nothing is wrong after I texted her and told her I was hurting, and now I'm just ignoring her. I want to cut her out, this behavior is childish and I want to end this relationship with her. I know I've dragged it out for too long, but enough is enough. I'm sorry about the wall of text, I think some of this post was to vent.

best friend lied to me and refuses to see that she did anything wrong.

theman14044

Like I said, it's been 6 months since she broke things off. Never got any closure. To sum things up (longer stories in previous posts), she called me while I was out of town to end things and I have never seen her since. She moved out of our place and took our dog. Since then, I quit my job, travelled the world, moved to a different city, and started graduate school. It hasn't been until recently that she's been creeping back into my mind. I guess it's because I see so many couples who have what we had now, friends are getting married and having children, etc. I'm always still thinking about her and it's affecting my ability to stay focused on school and bringing my confidence down. I just needed to get this off my chest and I would appreciate any advice. --- **tl;dr**: It's been 6 months since my 7 year relationship ended. I've been thinking a lot about her these past few days/weeks. Is this normal? Would love advice.

Like I said, it's been 6 months since she broke things off. Never got any closure. To sum things up (longer stories in previous posts), she called me while I was out of town to end things and I have never seen her since. She moved out of our place and took our dog. Since then, I quit my job, travelled the world, moved to a different city, and started graduate school. It hasn't been until recently that she's been creeping back into my mind. I guess it's because I see so many couples who have what we had now, friends are getting married and having children, etc. I'm always still thinking about her and it's affecting my ability to stay focused on school and bringing my confidence down. I just needed to get this off my chest and I would appreciate any advice. tl;dr : It's been 6 months since my 7 year relationship ended. I've been thinking a lot about her these past few days/weeks. Is this normal? Would love advice.

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t3_1ll2q1

Like I said, it's been 6 months since she broke things off. Never got any closure. To sum things up (longer stories in previous posts), she called me while I was out of town to end things and I have never seen her since. She moved out of our place and took our dog. Since then, I quit my job, travelled the world, moved to a different city, and started graduate school. It hasn't been until recently that she's been creeping back into my mind. I guess it's because I see so many couples who have what we had now, friends are getting married and having children, etc. I'm always still thinking about her and it's affecting my ability to stay focused on school and bringing my confidence down. I just needed to get this off my chest and I would appreciate any advice.

It's been 6 months since my 7 year relationship ended. I've been thinking a lot about her these past few days/weeks. Is this normal? Would love advice.

sonac36

The New York Marathon record was just set today at 2:05. I just can't get my head around how someone can run at roughly 4 minute 45 second pace for 26 miles. I know people who are great runners who can't do 3 miles at that pace. What does it take both physically and training-wise to run a marathon that quickly? TL;DR: How do the best marathon runners go so fast?

The New York Marathon record was just set today at 2:05. I just can't get my head around how someone can run at roughly 4 minute 45 second pace for 26 miles. I know people who are great runners who can't do 3 miles at that pace. What does it take both physically and training-wise to run a marathon that quickly? TL;DR: How do the best marathon runners go so fast?

AskReddit

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The New York Marathon record was just set today at 2:05. I just can't get my head around how someone can run at roughly 4 minute 45 second pace for 26 miles. I know people who are great runners who can't do 3 miles at that pace. What does it take both physically and training-wise to run a marathon that quickly?

How do the best marathon runners go so fast?

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I was first introduced to reddit and specifically the Minecraft subreddit when someone posted my Chrono Trigger-Minecraft video [here]( and [here]( I was extremely flattered by all your kind words, so I got working on making a generalized Texture Pack for you guys as a token of thanks. Because Chrono Trigger spans many different styles (one for each age) I decided to make a website for it that you could customize the textures. Once I had made the structure for customization, I thought *why don't I give the tool to all texture pack developers?* So sorry, I don't have a Chrono Trigger texture pack to give to you, I got too busy making a customization tool for everyone! Here it is: [MinecraftCustomizer]( Its been out for a few months now but only now do I feel comfortable with sharing it with you guys. Some cool features- texture pack developers can create their own customizers for their packs, you can search by the texture the different textures that people have uploaded to the site and you can favorite packs and individual textures and combine them on the Combiner page into your own personal customized pack. For the record, I made this with my friend (not a redditor) and we (were) not a web developers. We had to teach myself PHP, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, SQL etc in order to make this, our first site, for ya. tl;dr: You gave me love, a friend and I made [a neat texture pack website]( to show appreciation, had sex.

I was first introduced to reddit and specifically the Minecraft subreddit when someone posted my Chrono Trigger-Minecraft video here I decided to make a website for it that you could customize the textures. Once I had made the structure for customization, I thought why don't I give the tool to all texture pack developers? So sorry, I don't have a Chrono Trigger texture pack to give to you, I got too busy making a customization tool for everyone! Here it is: [MinecraftCustomizer]( Its been out for a few months now but only now do I feel comfortable with sharing it with you guys. Some cool features- texture pack developers can create their own customizers for their packs, you can search by the texture the different textures that people have uploaded to the site and you can favorite packs and individual textures and combine them on the Combiner page into your own personal customized pack. For the record, I made this with my friend (not a redditor) and we (were) not a web developers. We had to teach myself PHP, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, SQL etc in order to make this, our first site, for ya. tl;dr: You gave me love, a friend and I made [a neat texture pack website]( to show appreciation, had sex.

Minecraft

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I was first introduced to reddit and specifically the Minecraft subreddit when someone posted my Chrono Trigger-Minecraft video here I decided to make a website for it that you could customize the textures. Once I had made the structure for customization, I thought why don't I give the tool to all texture pack developers? So sorry, I don't have a Chrono Trigger texture pack to give to you, I got too busy making a customization tool for everyone! Here it is: [MinecraftCustomizer]( Its been out for a few months now but only now do I feel comfortable with sharing it with you guys. Some cool features- texture pack developers can create their own customizers for their packs, you can search by the texture the different textures that people have uploaded to the site and you can favorite packs and individual textures and combine them on the Combiner page into your own personal customized pack. For the record, I made this with my friend (not a redditor) and we (were) not a web developers. We had to teach myself PHP, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, SQL etc in order to make this, our first site, for ya.

You gave me love, a friend and I made [a neat texture pack website]( to show appreciation, had sex.

[deleted]

He's my best friend (and roommate/significant other), and I have purchased him a book I thought he'd like (very cheap anyways), but he doesn't read for leisure often, so I'm trying to think of some other fun things he'd like. He's really into nerd culture. I was thinking of getting a 'nerdy' shirt for him, but most of them are pretty pricey, and I don't see the appeal of spending $10 or more on a shirt when you can get a pack of shirts for the same price. I'd love to get him a tie, but I don't really know what tie colors matches with the colored oxfords he wears. He loves video games, but already has a huge inventory for steam account and x box. However, if there's a game that's not vastly popular and is fun for x box, a suggestion would be great :)) He loves Star Wars. A lot. He has figurines, posters, books from the expanded universe, etc. I would like to purchase something Star Wars related, but again, Star Wars paraphernalia is more on the costly side, and I have a limited amount of currency. I was thinking of sewing a jigglypuff stuffie for him and getting a box of chocolates, but the last time I attempted this project, jigglypuff ended up looking like she got plastic surgery :// Any suggestion is welcome...sorry for the long wall of text! TL;DR- Gift for 23 yr old man who likes Star Wars, SSBM, jigglypuff, ties.

He's my best friend (and roommate/significant other), and I have purchased him a book I thought he'd like (very cheap anyways), but he doesn't read for leisure often, so I'm trying to think of some other fun things he'd like. He's really into nerd culture. I was thinking of getting a 'nerdy' shirt for him, but most of them are pretty pricey, and I don't see the appeal of spending $10 or more on a shirt when you can get a pack of shirts for the same price. I'd love to get him a tie, but I don't really know what tie colors matches with the colored oxfords he wears. He loves video games, but already has a huge inventory for steam account and x box. However, if there's a game that's not vastly popular and is fun for x box, a suggestion would be great :)) He loves Star Wars. A lot. He has figurines, posters, books from the expanded universe, etc. I would like to purchase something Star Wars related, but again, Star Wars paraphernalia is more on the costly side, and I have a limited amount of currency. I was thinking of sewing a jigglypuff stuffie for him and getting a box of chocolates, but the last time I attempted this project, jigglypuff ended up looking like she got plastic surgery :// Any suggestion is welcome...sorry for the long wall of text! TL;DR- Gift for 23 yr old man who likes Star Wars, SSBM, jigglypuff, ties.

GiftIdeas

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He's my best friend (and roommate/significant other), and I have purchased him a book I thought he'd like (very cheap anyways), but he doesn't read for leisure often, so I'm trying to think of some other fun things he'd like. He's really into nerd culture. I was thinking of getting a 'nerdy' shirt for him, but most of them are pretty pricey, and I don't see the appeal of spending $10 or more on a shirt when you can get a pack of shirts for the same price. I'd love to get him a tie, but I don't really know what tie colors matches with the colored oxfords he wears. He loves video games, but already has a huge inventory for steam account and x box. However, if there's a game that's not vastly popular and is fun for x box, a suggestion would be great :)) He loves Star Wars. A lot. He has figurines, posters, books from the expanded universe, etc. I would like to purchase something Star Wars related, but again, Star Wars paraphernalia is more on the costly side, and I have a limited amount of currency. I was thinking of sewing a jigglypuff stuffie for him and getting a box of chocolates, but the last time I attempted this project, jigglypuff ended up looking like she got plastic surgery :// Any suggestion is welcome...sorry for the long wall of text!

Gift for 23 yr old man who likes Star Wars, SSBM, jigglypuff, ties.

GregOttawa

Definitely not. The Bible says absolutely nothing about life elsewhere in the universe. Now it may be complex for us because we have to decide if they have souls or not... But the kind of thinking that says "this is too hard for how we imagined the universe to be from only reading Genesis and doing no science" is what leads to ignorant nonsense like believing that you can't believe in a heliocentric solar system and be a Christian. I don't have time for that crap. TL;DR - Christianity has nothing to say about extraterrestrials, so it would have no bearing on belief in Christianity.

Definitely not. The Bible says absolutely nothing about life elsewhere in the universe. Now it may be complex for us because we have to decide if they have souls or not... But the kind of thinking that says "this is too hard for how we imagined the universe to be from only reading Genesis and doing no science" is what leads to ignorant nonsense like believing that you can't believe in a heliocentric solar system and be a Christian. I don't have time for that crap. TL;DR - Christianity has nothing to say about extraterrestrials, so it would have no bearing on belief in Christianity.

DebateReligion

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Definitely not. The Bible says absolutely nothing about life elsewhere in the universe. Now it may be complex for us because we have to decide if they have souls or not... But the kind of thinking that says "this is too hard for how we imagined the universe to be from only reading Genesis and doing no science" is what leads to ignorant nonsense like believing that you can't believe in a heliocentric solar system and be a Christian. I don't have time for that crap.

Christianity has nothing to say about extraterrestrials, so it would have no bearing on belief in Christianity.

Driftnasty240

Upvote for abortion. I am completely pro-choice, and think WAYYYY more people should have abortions. ESPECIALLY if you can't afford an abortion!!!!!! If you can't afford a $400-$500 unexpected bill for the abortion, that you (usually) have 6 weeks to come up with(the cut off for abortion is 13 weeks), HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING TO RAISE A CHILD?????? Oh that's right, my taxes are going to pay for it. I dont mind, uh, yeah I fucking do. And not to mention,what kind of life are you going to give a child?? Not to mention child rearing!!! HOORAY! Yet another societal degenerate to further taint society, fill our prisons, or become a ward of the state. And since they wont have any sense of moral or upstanding upbringing, they are going to reproduce. Way sooner than they should, and the cycle repeats.... People should have to complete an application process for a BIRTH LICENSE. If you dont meet the requirements, automatic mandated abortion. Poor? Denied. Multiple felon? Denied. Still in high school, or didnt finish school? DENIED!! And don't even get me started on any religion that is against birth control! Are you fucking kidding me? Do you really think god wanted our parasitic species to produce randomly encountered offspring, that the parents don't care about and nobody wants to deal with? Serioulsy! Do the world a favor! Don't use it as birth control, but---- IF you know you arent ready for a child, and it is going to ruin your life and the child's life, ABORT! Potential father a drug addict? Loser? Doubt he's gonna be around? Tell your hormones to FUCK OFF, and do what's right. And how bad is it? I'm a male, I was the only male who stayed in the waiting room that day, surrounded by females of varying status. I figured that WAS THE LEAST I could do to put my g/f through that shit. She had to deal with the bulk of the emotional and physical stress. And yeah, it might weigh on your conscience, but do what we did. Get a pet. Im not joking even a little bit. It helped so much, and we put all our love into that pet and gave it a happy home. Ill never forget it, but I'd never take back what we did so as not to ruin 3 lives, especially 1. And for all of you girls who think "I know it's gonna be hard, but I'm gonna do it because I know I can!" Think again. The same female said that to me when it happened again, even after we used protection, and lived 400+ miles from each other. I told her she was an idiot, and I wanted no part. I told her she had no idea what she was doing, and could NOT do it alone. I told her she was biting off more than she can handle. She told me she didnt want me in the child's life, and I need do nothing. Ok!. (I was young, and didnt care..) 6 months later(post birth)- "Oh my god you have no idea how this is!!! I can't do this alone!" This was the conversation we had b/c I called her b/c I received the child support income garnishment order. Told her so. And now, a few years later, she is married, has a second child, and still can't afford it. I pay her $500 a month for MY child, and she constantly asks me for more money, because her and her husband STILL can't pay the bills. Even though they have all the nicest electronics money can buy, they are late on the electric bill... But wait!! There's more! For only 1 monthly payment of $500 you can NOT see your child! I wasn't active in my child's life for a while. A mistake, and I'll never get those precious years back. But now I'm trying, and she is refusing to let me see the child, because her husband "isn't comfortable with it," even though I'm the biological father. Guess what?!? A horrible lawsuit is about to ensue, per me... Other than me being in the child's life, nothing beneficial is going to come of this, it's only going to hurt my kid to have to go through this. Soooo, sure, go ahead, have that kid that you "think" you can handle.. **TL;DR - Abortions serve a purpose. If you *"THINK"* you can handle having a kid, you CAN NOT!** Edit- sorry, this is my second post ever...

Upvote for abortion. I am completely pro-choice, and think WAYYYY more people should have abortions. ESPECIALLY if you can't afford an abortion!!!!!! If you can't afford a $400-$500 unexpected bill for the abortion, that you (usually) have 6 weeks to come up with(the cut off for abortion is 13 weeks), HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING TO RAISE A CHILD?????? Oh that's right, my taxes are going to pay for it. I dont mind, uh, yeah I fucking do. And not to mention,what kind of life are you going to give a child?? Not to mention child rearing!!! HOORAY! Yet another societal degenerate to further taint society, fill our prisons, or become a ward of the state. And since they wont have any sense of moral or upstanding upbringing, they are going to reproduce. Way sooner than they should, and the cycle repeats.... People should have to complete an application process for a BIRTH LICENSE. If you dont meet the requirements, automatic mandated abortion. Poor? Denied. Multiple felon? Denied. Still in high school, or didnt finish school? DENIED!! And don't even get me started on any religion that is against birth control! Are you fucking kidding me? Do you really think god wanted our parasitic species to produce randomly encountered offspring, that the parents don't care about and nobody wants to deal with? Serioulsy! Do the world a favor! Don't use it as birth control, but---- IF you know you arent ready for a child, and it is going to ruin your life and the child's life, ABORT! Potential father a drug addict? Loser? Doubt he's gonna be around? Tell your hormones to FUCK OFF, and do what's right. And how bad is it? I'm a male, I was the only male who stayed in the waiting room that day, surrounded by females of varying status. I figured that WAS THE LEAST I could do to put my g/f through that shit. She had to deal with the bulk of the emotional and physical stress. And yeah, it might weigh on your conscience, but do what we did. Get a pet. Im not joking even a little bit. It helped so much, and we put all our love into that pet and gave it a happy home. Ill never forget it, but I'd never take back what we did so as not to ruin 3 lives, especially 1. And for all of you girls who think "I know it's gonna be hard, but I'm gonna do it because I know I can!" Think again. The same female said that to me when it happened again, even after we used protection, and lived 400+ miles from each other. I told her she was an idiot, and I wanted no part. I told her she had no idea what she was doing, and could NOT do it alone. I told her she was biting off more than she can handle. She told me she didnt want me in the child's life, and I need do nothing. Ok!. (I was young, and didnt care..) 6 months later(post birth)- "Oh my god you have no idea how this is!!! I can't do this alone!" This was the conversation we had b/c I called her b/c I received the child support income garnishment order. Told her so. And now, a few years later, she is married, has a second child, and still can't afford it. I pay her $500 a month for MY child, and she constantly asks me for more money, because her and her husband STILL can't pay the bills. Even though they have all the nicest electronics money can buy, they are late on the electric bill... But wait!! There's more! For only 1 monthly payment of $500 you can NOT see your child! I wasn't active in my child's life for a while. A mistake, and I'll never get those precious years back. But now I'm trying, and she is refusing to let me see the child, because her husband "isn't comfortable with it," even though I'm the biological father. Guess what?!? A horrible lawsuit is about to ensue, per me... Other than me being in the child's life, nothing beneficial is going to come of this, it's only going to hurt my kid to have to go through this. Soooo, sure, go ahead, have that kid that you "think" you can handle.. TL;DR - Abortions serve a purpose. If you "THINK" you can handle having a kid, you CAN NOT! Edit- sorry, this is my second post ever...

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Upvote for abortion. I am completely pro-choice, and think WAYYYY more people should have abortions. ESPECIALLY if you can't afford an abortion!!!!!! If you can't afford a $400-$500 unexpected bill for the abortion, that you (usually) have 6 weeks to come up with(the cut off for abortion is 13 weeks), HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING TO RAISE A CHILD?????? Oh that's right, my taxes are going to pay for it. I dont mind, uh, yeah I fucking do. And not to mention,what kind of life are you going to give a child?? Not to mention child rearing!!! HOORAY! Yet another societal degenerate to further taint society, fill our prisons, or become a ward of the state. And since they wont have any sense of moral or upstanding upbringing, they are going to reproduce. Way sooner than they should, and the cycle repeats.... People should have to complete an application process for a BIRTH LICENSE. If you dont meet the requirements, automatic mandated abortion. Poor? Denied. Multiple felon? Denied. Still in high school, or didnt finish school? DENIED!! And don't even get me started on any religion that is against birth control! Are you fucking kidding me? Do you really think god wanted our parasitic species to produce randomly encountered offspring, that the parents don't care about and nobody wants to deal with? Serioulsy! Do the world a favor! Don't use it as birth control, but---- IF you know you arent ready for a child, and it is going to ruin your life and the child's life, ABORT! Potential father a drug addict? Loser? Doubt he's gonna be around? Tell your hormones to FUCK OFF, and do what's right. And how bad is it? I'm a male, I was the only male who stayed in the waiting room that day, surrounded by females of varying status. I figured that WAS THE LEAST I could do to put my g/f through that shit. She had to deal with the bulk of the emotional and physical stress. And yeah, it might weigh on your conscience, but do what we did. Get a pet. Im not joking even a little bit. It helped so much, and we put all our love into that pet and gave it a happy home. Ill never forget it, but I'd never take back what we did so as not to ruin 3 lives, especially 1. And for all of you girls who think "I know it's gonna be hard, but I'm gonna do it because I know I can!" Think again. The same female said that to me when it happened again, even after we used protection, and lived 400+ miles from each other. I told her she was an idiot, and I wanted no part. I told her she had no idea what she was doing, and could NOT do it alone. I told her she was biting off more than she can handle. She told me she didnt want me in the child's life, and I need do nothing. Ok!. (I was young, and didnt care..) 6 months later(post birth)- "Oh my god you have no idea how this is!!! I can't do this alone!" This was the conversation we had b/c I called her b/c I received the child support income garnishment order. Told her so. And now, a few years later, she is married, has a second child, and still can't afford it. I pay her $500 a month for MY child, and she constantly asks me for more money, because her and her husband STILL can't pay the bills. Even though they have all the nicest electronics money can buy, they are late on the electric bill... But wait!! There's more! For only 1 monthly payment of $500 you can NOT see your child! I wasn't active in my child's life for a while. A mistake, and I'll never get those precious years back. But now I'm trying, and she is refusing to let me see the child, because her husband "isn't comfortable with it," even though I'm the biological father. Guess what?!? A horrible lawsuit is about to ensue, per me... Other than me being in the child's life, nothing beneficial is going to come of this, it's only going to hurt my kid to have to go through this. Soooo, sure, go ahead, have that kid that you "think" you can handle..

Abortions serve a purpose. If you "THINK" you can handle having a kid, you CAN NOT! Edit- sorry, this is my second post ever...

Secret_to_everybody

I know, I love puns too much, but I can't help it. Here's my situation. In 2 weeks from today (4/21), I'll turn 22. That's 22 years of having never even held a girls hand. I've been single my entire life. Not too long, I know, but I had my first crush when I was 5, and failed since then. To be fair, I'm also very picky with girls, and only find somebody I like once every 2 or 3 years. I recently liked a girl, and found it odd that she hugs everybody but me. Fatter, slimmer, taller, shorter, and all races. I have no clue why, but it hurts. I live off of hugs. Now, I'm dumb, and told her I liked her after a while, hoping she might like me too. No, of course not. I'm The Friend. It's like some sort of gift. I'm always a close friend. Forever a close friend. So not only do I fail, I'm reminded of it forever. That's one thing. I've been a pushover for a while. People cutting in line in front of me, people making me dodge them as they attempt to walk through me, even a sales clerk yelling at me for picking something I dropped once and accidentally putting it in the wrong spot. That last one made something switch in me. I put all my things back and left. Now I don't let people do those things to me. I make them get behind me in lines, I let them collide with me and bounce back because I'm sturdy as all hell. I started standing up for myself. That had made me proud. Now, though, most of my friends are getting annoyed with me over it. So by growing a spine, I'm damaging my ties with my friends, especially the girl I mentioned before. My birthday is two weeks away, and nobody seems to care. There are two things they're excited for. 1) Diablo 3, and 2) another friend's birthday which happens to be on the same day. It's kind of depressing. I mean, it's not a hard day to remember. 5/5, Cinco de Mayo, etc. Plus it's on Facebook, and I've been mentioning it, hoping somebody would say something. If they were the kind for a surprise party, that'd be one thing. But they're not. My friends are really great people, don't get me wrong. Last year one of my friends made me an awesome card with Mudkips. First card I've received (besides family, since they kinda have to or that's just really depressing) in a long time, and it was awesome. I love all of them. But I feel I'm pushing them away without meaning to, and of course don't know how to make it stop. I know this post seems complainy and long and overly-detailed and disorganized, but I've been holding it in for a while. I want nobody to know, so I'm using this account. Not a throw-away, mind you, just a new, secret account, with a Zelda reference in it. I intend to contribute to the community best I can. TLDR: But yeah, that's it. I'm about to turn 22, feel no happiness in having successfully circled the sun another time, but instead feel sorrow and anxiety that I'll be alone forever, mostly due to who I am. Not even how I look, but who I am. I fear my life will always be a cycle of make new friends, grow close, and then painfully grow apart, repeating every year or two.

I know, I love puns too much, but I can't help it. Here's my situation. In 2 weeks from today (4/21), I'll turn 22. That's 22 years of having never even held a girls hand. I've been single my entire life. Not too long, I know, but I had my first crush when I was 5, and failed since then. To be fair, I'm also very picky with girls, and only find somebody I like once every 2 or 3 years. I recently liked a girl, and found it odd that she hugs everybody but me. Fatter, slimmer, taller, shorter, and all races. I have no clue why, but it hurts. I live off of hugs. Now, I'm dumb, and told her I liked her after a while, hoping she might like me too. No, of course not. I'm The Friend. It's like some sort of gift. I'm always a close friend. Forever a close friend. So not only do I fail, I'm reminded of it forever. That's one thing. I've been a pushover for a while. People cutting in line in front of me, people making me dodge them as they attempt to walk through me, even a sales clerk yelling at me for picking something I dropped once and accidentally putting it in the wrong spot. That last one made something switch in me. I put all my things back and left. Now I don't let people do those things to me. I make them get behind me in lines, I let them collide with me and bounce back because I'm sturdy as all hell. I started standing up for myself. That had made me proud. Now, though, most of my friends are getting annoyed with me over it. So by growing a spine, I'm damaging my ties with my friends, especially the girl I mentioned before. My birthday is two weeks away, and nobody seems to care. There are two things they're excited for. 1) Diablo 3, and 2) another friend's birthday which happens to be on the same day. It's kind of depressing. I mean, it's not a hard day to remember. 5/5, Cinco de Mayo, etc. Plus it's on Facebook, and I've been mentioning it, hoping somebody would say something. If they were the kind for a surprise party, that'd be one thing. But they're not. My friends are really great people, don't get me wrong. Last year one of my friends made me an awesome card with Mudkips. First card I've received (besides family, since they kinda have to or that's just really depressing) in a long time, and it was awesome. I love all of them. But I feel I'm pushing them away without meaning to, and of course don't know how to make it stop. I know this post seems complainy and long and overly-detailed and disorganized, but I've been holding it in for a while. I want nobody to know, so I'm using this account. Not a throw-away, mind you, just a new, secret account, with a Zelda reference in it. I intend to contribute to the community best I can. TLDR: But yeah, that's it. I'm about to turn 22, feel no happiness in having successfully circled the sun another time, but instead feel sorrow and anxiety that I'll be alone forever, mostly due to who I am. Not even how I look, but who I am. I fear my life will always be a cycle of make new friends, grow close, and then painfully grow apart, repeating every year or two.

depression

t5_2qqqf

t3_sm846

I know, I love puns too much, but I can't help it. Here's my situation. In 2 weeks from today (4/21), I'll turn 22. That's 22 years of having never even held a girls hand. I've been single my entire life. Not too long, I know, but I had my first crush when I was 5, and failed since then. To be fair, I'm also very picky with girls, and only find somebody I like once every 2 or 3 years. I recently liked a girl, and found it odd that she hugs everybody but me. Fatter, slimmer, taller, shorter, and all races. I have no clue why, but it hurts. I live off of hugs. Now, I'm dumb, and told her I liked her after a while, hoping she might like me too. No, of course not. I'm The Friend. It's like some sort of gift. I'm always a close friend. Forever a close friend. So not only do I fail, I'm reminded of it forever. That's one thing. I've been a pushover for a while. People cutting in line in front of me, people making me dodge them as they attempt to walk through me, even a sales clerk yelling at me for picking something I dropped once and accidentally putting it in the wrong spot. That last one made something switch in me. I put all my things back and left. Now I don't let people do those things to me. I make them get behind me in lines, I let them collide with me and bounce back because I'm sturdy as all hell. I started standing up for myself. That had made me proud. Now, though, most of my friends are getting annoyed with me over it. So by growing a spine, I'm damaging my ties with my friends, especially the girl I mentioned before. My birthday is two weeks away, and nobody seems to care. There are two things they're excited for. 1) Diablo 3, and 2) another friend's birthday which happens to be on the same day. It's kind of depressing. I mean, it's not a hard day to remember. 5/5, Cinco de Mayo, etc. Plus it's on Facebook, and I've been mentioning it, hoping somebody would say something. If they were the kind for a surprise party, that'd be one thing. But they're not. My friends are really great people, don't get me wrong. Last year one of my friends made me an awesome card with Mudkips. First card I've received (besides family, since they kinda have to or that's just really depressing) in a long time, and it was awesome. I love all of them. But I feel I'm pushing them away without meaning to, and of course don't know how to make it stop. I know this post seems complainy and long and overly-detailed and disorganized, but I've been holding it in for a while. I want nobody to know, so I'm using this account. Not a throw-away, mind you, just a new, secret account, with a Zelda reference in it. I intend to contribute to the community best I can.

But yeah, that's it. I'm about to turn 22, feel no happiness in having successfully circled the sun another time, but instead feel sorrow and anxiety that I'll be alone forever, mostly due to who I am. Not even how I look, but who I am. I fear my life will always be a cycle of make new friends, grow close, and then painfully grow apart, repeating every year or two.

nerdbomer

Not really, but *kind of*. As obiwan90 said, if you go too small scale, it's a completely different problem. If continuum still holds, you could still kind of say that is true. Reynolds Number (an important property in aerodynamics) changes with fluid velocity, length, viscosity and density. As you scale down, viscosity and density are still the same properties, and velocity wont change. Only length changes, so the Reynolds Number will change with scale. **TL;DR:**This is kind of true because the properties of air do not change with scale, but aerodynamic properties also factor in a geometry which does change as you change scale.

Not really, but kind of . As obiwan90 said, if you go too small scale, it's a completely different problem. If continuum still holds, you could still kind of say that is true. Reynolds Number (an important property in aerodynamics) changes with fluid velocity, length, viscosity and density. As you scale down, viscosity and density are still the same properties, and velocity wont change. Only length changes, so the Reynolds Number will change with scale. TL;DR: This is kind of true because the properties of air do not change with scale, but aerodynamic properties also factor in a geometry which does change as you change scale.

askscience

t5_2qm4e

cqhdyse

Not really, but kind of . As obiwan90 said, if you go too small scale, it's a completely different problem. If continuum still holds, you could still kind of say that is true. Reynolds Number (an important property in aerodynamics) changes with fluid velocity, length, viscosity and density. As you scale down, viscosity and density are still the same properties, and velocity wont change. Only length changes, so the Reynolds Number will change with scale.

This is kind of true because the properties of air do not change with scale, but aerodynamic properties also factor in a geometry which does change as you change scale.

[deleted]

Hi, Long story short, I played and enjoyed Smite for a few days, had problems with opening the game, emailed support and was told to remove all Hi-Rez software, restart and reinstall the launcher/Smite. After doing this I am getting an incredibly slow download. My internet is fine, its something wrong with Smite. I have fast internet and it only took me about an hour to download it the first time, but after 4 hours I am at 15% or so. Has anyone else encountered this issue or something similar and/or have a fix? Please help, I love this game and would really enjoy playing it again. I have tried restarting service, validating and repairing, completely uninstalling and reinstalling everything, restarting computer, running as administrator and other things without any luck. TL;DR Smite problems, re-installed now get very slow download. Please help.

Hi, Long story short, I played and enjoyed Smite for a few days, had problems with opening the game, emailed support and was told to remove all Hi-Rez software, restart and reinstall the launcher/Smite. After doing this I am getting an incredibly slow download. My internet is fine, its something wrong with Smite. I have fast internet and it only took me about an hour to download it the first time, but after 4 hours I am at 15% or so. Has anyone else encountered this issue or something similar and/or have a fix? Please help, I love this game and would really enjoy playing it again. I have tried restarting service, validating and repairing, completely uninstalling and reinstalling everything, restarting computer, running as administrator and other things without any luck. TL;DR Smite problems, re-installed now get very slow download. Please help.

Smite

t5_2stl8

t3_1wpolv

Hi, Long story short, I played and enjoyed Smite for a few days, had problems with opening the game, emailed support and was told to remove all Hi-Rez software, restart and reinstall the launcher/Smite. After doing this I am getting an incredibly slow download. My internet is fine, its something wrong with Smite. I have fast internet and it only took me about an hour to download it the first time, but after 4 hours I am at 15% or so. Has anyone else encountered this issue or something similar and/or have a fix? Please help, I love this game and would really enjoy playing it again. I have tried restarting service, validating and repairing, completely uninstalling and reinstalling everything, restarting computer, running as administrator and other things without any luck.

Smite problems, re-installed now get very slow download. Please help.

ot1s_f1r3fly

THIS TEMPORARY bill is clean of the immigration part """Democrats have conspired to block that bill for the last several weeks, given that it currently includes language to defund Obama’s immigration action.""" I pasted the part that destroys your argument on here along with cited sources.....AGAIN. You really should try reading instead of trolling around arguing your opinion based on assumptions, without facts to support them. Edit: TL/DR Read before you debate.

THIS TEMPORARY bill is clean of the immigration part """Democrats have conspired to block that bill for the last several weeks, given that it currently includes language to defund Obama’s immigration action.""" I pasted the part that destroys your argument on here along with cited sources.....AGAIN. You really should try reading instead of trolling around arguing your opinion based on assumptions, without facts to support them. Edit: TL/DR Read before you debate.

politics

t5_2cneq

cozwb7y

THIS TEMPORARY bill is clean of the immigration part """Democrats have conspired to block that bill for the last several weeks, given that it currently includes language to defund Obama’s immigration action.""" I pasted the part that destroys your argument on here along with cited sources.....AGAIN. You really should try reading instead of trolling around arguing your opinion based on assumptions, without facts to support them. Edit:

Read before you debate.

Wolfmilf

This was what I was looking for, thank you. I was, for some stupid reason, trying to use basic multiplication to calculate how long it'd take to get to 1 second. All I figured out was that within the last 13 years, the duration before breaking has increased by 95.000 times. From there I found out that for it to get to 1 second the duration had to be increased by ~10.526 times (which is less than it had grown the last 13 years, yay :3). Knowing the exponential growth of information technology, I knew it would be much, much quicker than 13 additional years before getting to 1 second. Having only two points of reference (0,000000001 and 0,000095 seconds), AND having flunked business school, I had nowhere to go from there. **tl;dr It's 6 in the morning. Tired ramblings of a Faroese guy, not worth reading.**

This was what I was looking for, thank you. I was, for some stupid reason, trying to use basic multiplication to calculate how long it'd take to get to 1 second. All I figured out was that within the last 13 years, the duration before breaking has increased by 95.000 times. From there I found out that for it to get to 1 second the duration had to be increased by ~10.526 times (which is less than it had grown the last 13 years, yay :3). Knowing the exponential growth of information technology, I knew it would be much, much quicker than 13 additional years before getting to 1 second. Having only two points of reference (0,000000001 and 0,000095 seconds), AND having flunked business school, I had nowhere to go from there. tl;dr It's 6 in the morning. Tired ramblings of a Faroese guy, not worth reading.

explainlikeimfive

t5_2sokd

c3w542r

This was what I was looking for, thank you. I was, for some stupid reason, trying to use basic multiplication to calculate how long it'd take to get to 1 second. All I figured out was that within the last 13 years, the duration before breaking has increased by 95.000 times. From there I found out that for it to get to 1 second the duration had to be increased by ~10.526 times (which is less than it had grown the last 13 years, yay :3). Knowing the exponential growth of information technology, I knew it would be much, much quicker than 13 additional years before getting to 1 second. Having only two points of reference (0,000000001 and 0,000095 seconds), AND having flunked business school, I had nowhere to go from there.

It's 6 in the morning. Tired ramblings of a Faroese guy, not worth reading.

bleedingfingaz

I've been struggling with depression since I was about 12 or so. I've never really been happy "in general" but that's not to say I can't ever get my ass out of bed. I made it to college, somehow, and after two years of alcoholism and drug abuse I had a full fledged mental breakdown. Paranoia that I can now acknowledge as irrational consumed my life, family and friends wanted me tortured and killed, I was going to be castrated, sometimes it was the infamous 'they' threatening to harm my family and friends instead. This continues to this day (I'm 25) but is relatively manageable with 1200mg Lithium and various antipsychotics(whichever don't happen to be giving me dystonic side effects at the moment). Long story short, I'm curious if there's some undiagnosed schizoaffective aspect, if there is such a thing as mild schizophrenia, if bipolar is used as a blanket term, if anyone else is experiencing "manic episodes" that, instead of being highs, are based in paranoia. I lose my insurance in about two months and I don't know if I should seek a psychiatrist that doesn't specialize in the diagnosis that has been slapped on me or if these are issues that other people deal with. TL;DR Can a manic episode be based in paranoia or is there something else going on outside my official diagnosis of bipolar?

I've been struggling with depression since I was about 12 or so. I've never really been happy "in general" but that's not to say I can't ever get my ass out of bed. I made it to college, somehow, and after two years of alcoholism and drug abuse I had a full fledged mental breakdown. Paranoia that I can now acknowledge as irrational consumed my life, family and friends wanted me tortured and killed, I was going to be castrated, sometimes it was the infamous 'they' threatening to harm my family and friends instead. This continues to this day (I'm 25) but is relatively manageable with 1200mg Lithium and various antipsychotics(whichever don't happen to be giving me dystonic side effects at the moment). Long story short, I'm curious if there's some undiagnosed schizoaffective aspect, if there is such a thing as mild schizophrenia, if bipolar is used as a blanket term, if anyone else is experiencing "manic episodes" that, instead of being highs, are based in paranoia. I lose my insurance in about two months and I don't know if I should seek a psychiatrist that doesn't specialize in the diagnosis that has been slapped on me or if these are issues that other people deal with. TL;DR Can a manic episode be based in paranoia or is there something else going on outside my official diagnosis of bipolar?

bipolar

t5_2qnv4

t3_3dnybw

I've been struggling with depression since I was about 12 or so. I've never really been happy "in general" but that's not to say I can't ever get my ass out of bed. I made it to college, somehow, and after two years of alcoholism and drug abuse I had a full fledged mental breakdown. Paranoia that I can now acknowledge as irrational consumed my life, family and friends wanted me tortured and killed, I was going to be castrated, sometimes it was the infamous 'they' threatening to harm my family and friends instead. This continues to this day (I'm 25) but is relatively manageable with 1200mg Lithium and various antipsychotics(whichever don't happen to be giving me dystonic side effects at the moment). Long story short, I'm curious if there's some undiagnosed schizoaffective aspect, if there is such a thing as mild schizophrenia, if bipolar is used as a blanket term, if anyone else is experiencing "manic episodes" that, instead of being highs, are based in paranoia. I lose my insurance in about two months and I don't know if I should seek a psychiatrist that doesn't specialize in the diagnosis that has been slapped on me or if these are issues that other people deal with.

Can a manic episode be based in paranoia or is there something else going on outside my official diagnosis of bipolar?

Dennis_Langley

As I said earlier, there are unbiased questions. "Why is the sky blue? Why is story X covered but story Y isn't? Why does the Earth look flat?" Those are 100% legitimate, unbiased questions. They exist. You're conflating the *person* with the *question* s/he asks. "If the Earth is supposed to be round, why does it look flat?" That's a biased question because it starts with the assumption that the Earth is actually flat, and the person claiming it to be round has the burden of proof. The OP presented a biased question (really it's a loaded question too, but I digress) because it was based on the assumption that the "mainstream media" is inherently liberally-biased. That is a faulty assumption. tl;dr There are such things as unbiased questions. ("Why is the sky blue?") The OP did not ask one.

As I said earlier, there are unbiased questions. "Why is the sky blue? Why is story X covered but story Y isn't? Why does the Earth look flat?" Those are 100% legitimate, unbiased questions. They exist. You're conflating the person with the question s/he asks. "If the Earth is supposed to be round, why does it look flat?" That's a biased question because it starts with the assumption that the Earth is actually flat, and the person claiming it to be round has the burden of proof. The OP presented a biased question (really it's a loaded question too, but I digress) because it was based on the assumption that the "mainstream media" is inherently liberally-biased. That is a faulty assumption. tl;dr There are such things as unbiased questions. ("Why is the sky blue?") The OP did not ask one.

PoliticalDiscussion

t5_2sfmf

c8uprw5

As I said earlier, there are unbiased questions. "Why is the sky blue? Why is story X covered but story Y isn't? Why does the Earth look flat?" Those are 100% legitimate, unbiased questions. They exist. You're conflating the person with the question s/he asks. "If the Earth is supposed to be round, why does it look flat?" That's a biased question because it starts with the assumption that the Earth is actually flat, and the person claiming it to be round has the burden of proof. The OP presented a biased question (really it's a loaded question too, but I digress) because it was based on the assumption that the "mainstream media" is inherently liberally-biased. That is a faulty assumption.

There are such things as unbiased questions. ("Why is the sky blue?") The OP did not ask one.

AlbooGaming

On my smurf I had gotten a chat restriction cause I was saying my allies were bad in all chat (I was premade with my friends lol). I played a game and had my chat restriction. I Decided to play adc Nasus. I stomped and had waaaaay too many stacks and kills. The game ends: I get reported. I stayed silent the whole game. TL;DR: If you stomp level 10's, they will take revenge and use the "perfect report system" to report you for bad attitude.

On my smurf I had gotten a chat restriction cause I was saying my allies were bad in all chat (I was premade with my friends lol). I played a game and had my chat restriction. I Decided to play adc Nasus. I stomped and had waaaaay too many stacks and kills. The game ends: I get reported. I stayed silent the whole game. TL;DR: If you stomp level 10's, they will take revenge and use the "perfect report system" to report you for bad attitude.

leagueoflegends

t5_2rfxx

cjmit04

On my smurf I had gotten a chat restriction cause I was saying my allies were bad in all chat (I was premade with my friends lol). I played a game and had my chat restriction. I Decided to play adc Nasus. I stomped and had waaaaay too many stacks and kills. The game ends: I get reported. I stayed silent the whole game.

If you stomp level 10's, they will take revenge and use the "perfect report system" to report you for bad attitude.

ProbablyNotLying

Short answer is that it didn't view much of anything. Chinese contact with anything west of central Asia was infrequent, at best. Middle-men mostly carried out the trade along the "silk road" (really a network of trade routs). A few Chinese officials did make it as far west as Persia, but rarely beyond that. Allegedly a Roman trader or two made it to Vietnam, but that's about it from the west. The Chinese saw the Romans as "civilized" people from what reports they had, but did not have any substantial contact with Rome. The Chinese never even noticed Rome fall. There were decades, at least, between Chinese visits far enough west to know what was going on there. The change from what we recognize as the Roman Empire to what we call the Byzantine Empire was very gradual. The whole idea that Rome "fell" isn't entirely accurate. The Eastern Roman Empire continued on for centuries, and the changes across the empire were subtle and gradual. The later Roman Empire was almost nothing like Augustus's empire, but had far more in common with the "Byzantine" empire. Grouping the former two together and separating the latter is just a matter of how historians have traditionally organized history, not a reflection of how the empire gradually changed over time. The fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453 is also somewhat arbitrary. Why do we consider that the end of Rome's empire? Why not the Fourth Crusade? The Empire of Trebizond, Despotate of the Morea, and Despotate of Epirus were all successor states to "Byzantium" as much as it was a successor state to Rome. Why not count their conquests as the end of the Roman Empire? As far as the Chinese knew, the eastern provinces (particularly Syria and later Anatolia) were the center of Roman civilization, anyway, so the decline of the west did not matter to them. Even the decline of the eastern Roman Empire in favor of later Islamic states went relatively unnoticed due to the long periods of no information from anything that far west. When Chinese and European people began to interact more in the 17th-18th centuries, they really didn't exchange much historical knowledge. Neither side seemed to care that much about the others' past, and had far more pressing concerns (such as trade or missionary activities). By the time Chinese historians started looking at European history, I believe they focused on more recent events, but historiography about Chinese views of Europe is well beyond anything I've studied. I would be willing to bet that the Chinese cared about the "fall of Rome" and final fall of Constantinople even less than Europeans cared about the end of the Han dynasty or the fall of the Ming, since Rome's decline was so gradual while the Chinese dynasties ended more suddenly. **tl;dr -** Rome didn't die, it faded away, China hardly noticed. If you want to know more, you can take a look at my source: [*Chinese Accounts of Rome, Byzantium and the Middle East,* c. 91 B.C.E. - 1643 C.E.]( These are primary sources and really, really interesting (to me).

Short answer is that it didn't view much of anything. Chinese contact with anything west of central Asia was infrequent, at best. Middle-men mostly carried out the trade along the "silk road" (really a network of trade routs). A few Chinese officials did make it as far west as Persia, but rarely beyond that. Allegedly a Roman trader or two made it to Vietnam, but that's about it from the west. The Chinese saw the Romans as "civilized" people from what reports they had, but did not have any substantial contact with Rome. The Chinese never even noticed Rome fall. There were decades, at least, between Chinese visits far enough west to know what was going on there. The change from what we recognize as the Roman Empire to what we call the Byzantine Empire was very gradual. The whole idea that Rome "fell" isn't entirely accurate. The Eastern Roman Empire continued on for centuries, and the changes across the empire were subtle and gradual. The later Roman Empire was almost nothing like Augustus's empire, but had far more in common with the "Byzantine" empire. Grouping the former two together and separating the latter is just a matter of how historians have traditionally organized history, not a reflection of how the empire gradually changed over time. The fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453 is also somewhat arbitrary. Why do we consider that the end of Rome's empire? Why not the Fourth Crusade? The Empire of Trebizond, Despotate of the Morea, and Despotate of Epirus were all successor states to "Byzantium" as much as it was a successor state to Rome. Why not count their conquests as the end of the Roman Empire? As far as the Chinese knew, the eastern provinces (particularly Syria and later Anatolia) were the center of Roman civilization, anyway, so the decline of the west did not matter to them. Even the decline of the eastern Roman Empire in favor of later Islamic states went relatively unnoticed due to the long periods of no information from anything that far west. When Chinese and European people began to interact more in the 17th-18th centuries, they really didn't exchange much historical knowledge. Neither side seemed to care that much about the others' past, and had far more pressing concerns (such as trade or missionary activities). By the time Chinese historians started looking at European history, I believe they focused on more recent events, but historiography about Chinese views of Europe is well beyond anything I've studied. I would be willing to bet that the Chinese cared about the "fall of Rome" and final fall of Constantinople even less than Europeans cared about the end of the Han dynasty or the fall of the Ming, since Rome's decline was so gradual while the Chinese dynasties ended more suddenly. tl;dr - Rome didn't die, it faded away, China hardly noticed. If you want to know more, you can take a look at my source: Chinese Accounts of Rome, Byzantium and the Middle East, c. 91 B.C.E. - 1643 C.E. .

AskHistorians

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ccrc2qp

Short answer is that it didn't view much of anything. Chinese contact with anything west of central Asia was infrequent, at best. Middle-men mostly carried out the trade along the "silk road" (really a network of trade routs). A few Chinese officials did make it as far west as Persia, but rarely beyond that. Allegedly a Roman trader or two made it to Vietnam, but that's about it from the west. The Chinese saw the Romans as "civilized" people from what reports they had, but did not have any substantial contact with Rome. The Chinese never even noticed Rome fall. There were decades, at least, between Chinese visits far enough west to know what was going on there. The change from what we recognize as the Roman Empire to what we call the Byzantine Empire was very gradual. The whole idea that Rome "fell" isn't entirely accurate. The Eastern Roman Empire continued on for centuries, and the changes across the empire were subtle and gradual. The later Roman Empire was almost nothing like Augustus's empire, but had far more in common with the "Byzantine" empire. Grouping the former two together and separating the latter is just a matter of how historians have traditionally organized history, not a reflection of how the empire gradually changed over time. The fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453 is also somewhat arbitrary. Why do we consider that the end of Rome's empire? Why not the Fourth Crusade? The Empire of Trebizond, Despotate of the Morea, and Despotate of Epirus were all successor states to "Byzantium" as much as it was a successor state to Rome. Why not count their conquests as the end of the Roman Empire? As far as the Chinese knew, the eastern provinces (particularly Syria and later Anatolia) were the center of Roman civilization, anyway, so the decline of the west did not matter to them. Even the decline of the eastern Roman Empire in favor of later Islamic states went relatively unnoticed due to the long periods of no information from anything that far west. When Chinese and European people began to interact more in the 17th-18th centuries, they really didn't exchange much historical knowledge. Neither side seemed to care that much about the others' past, and had far more pressing concerns (such as trade or missionary activities). By the time Chinese historians started looking at European history, I believe they focused on more recent events, but historiography about Chinese views of Europe is well beyond anything I've studied. I would be willing to bet that the Chinese cared about the "fall of Rome" and final fall of Constantinople even less than Europeans cared about the end of the Han dynasty or the fall of the Ming, since Rome's decline was so gradual while the Chinese dynasties ended more suddenly.

Rome didn't die, it faded away, China hardly noticed. If you want to know more, you can take a look at my source: Chinese Accounts of Rome, Byzantium and the Middle East, c. 91 B.C.E. - 1643 C.E. .

stoopkid99

TommyPickles1987 is faggot_emo_kid and I will tell you the story of how this all came abut: faggot_emo_kid used that username for his reddit account for 8 months and generated a good amount of karma. He posted this on reddit, and it was upvoted to the high heavens instantly. Being more of a 4chan user, he just posted this without thinking about his username being an issue. Keep in mind the letter and money are more than likely legitimate, and this issue of the stolen charizard card is probably known by various other people. The OP got in contact with his friends who were there during the theft, and directed them to the reddit post instead of the 4chan post. His friends from his past looked at it saw the post, but couldn't help but notice the username. With this picture also being on facebook, many people he is friends with IRL had access to his reddit account, including the person who sent him the letter. With a large number of his comments being racist comments in r/circlejerk, it led me to the conclusion that the person who sent the letter is an African-American (Let's call him Tim) individual who has recently turned his life around. Tim saw faggot_emo_kid's post and a number of his past racist posts in r/circlejerk, and realized that OP was not the type of person he thought he was. Tim confronted the OP, and told a few other people about what he found on reddit, and so TommyPickles1987, formerly known as faggot_emo_kid, needed a way to quickly cover his tracks. He then came up with the brilliant idea of salvaging his reputation IRL, and on reddit. He makes a new username that he knows people will love, and posts this bogus story. He posts 2 separate links that he knows will be instantly upvoted, and makes sure to comment as much as he can, so he can go ahead and collect both comment and link karma that was not accumulated from r/circlejerk. Ladies and Gentlemen of reddit, what took place here was a karma heist, a very well thought out karma heist, that was nearly foolproof. **TL;DR faggot_emo_kid and TommyPickles1987 are the same person, and this whole fraud thing was the backbone of well-orchestrated karma heist**

TommyPickles1987 is faggot_emo_kid and I will tell you the story of how this all came abut: faggot_emo_kid used that username for his reddit account for 8 months and generated a good amount of karma. He posted this on reddit, and it was upvoted to the high heavens instantly. Being more of a 4chan user, he just posted this without thinking about his username being an issue. Keep in mind the letter and money are more than likely legitimate, and this issue of the stolen charizard card is probably known by various other people. The OP got in contact with his friends who were there during the theft, and directed them to the reddit post instead of the 4chan post. His friends from his past looked at it saw the post, but couldn't help but notice the username. With this picture also being on facebook, many people he is friends with IRL had access to his reddit account, including the person who sent him the letter. With a large number of his comments being racist comments in r/circlejerk, it led me to the conclusion that the person who sent the letter is an African-American (Let's call him Tim) individual who has recently turned his life around. Tim saw faggot_emo_kid's post and a number of his past racist posts in r/circlejerk, and realized that OP was not the type of person he thought he was. Tim confronted the OP, and told a few other people about what he found on reddit, and so TommyPickles1987, formerly known as faggot_emo_kid, needed a way to quickly cover his tracks. He then came up with the brilliant idea of salvaging his reputation IRL, and on reddit. He makes a new username that he knows people will love, and posts this bogus story. He posts 2 separate links that he knows will be instantly upvoted, and makes sure to comment as much as he can, so he can go ahead and collect both comment and link karma that was not accumulated from r/circlejerk. Ladies and Gentlemen of reddit, what took place here was a karma heist, a very well thought out karma heist, that was nearly foolproof. TL;DR faggot_emo_kid and TommyPickles1987 are the same person, and this whole fraud thing was the backbone of well-orchestrated karma heist

gaming

t5_2qh03

c3xtsz0

TommyPickles1987 is faggot_emo_kid and I will tell you the story of how this all came abut: faggot_emo_kid used that username for his reddit account for 8 months and generated a good amount of karma. He posted this on reddit, and it was upvoted to the high heavens instantly. Being more of a 4chan user, he just posted this without thinking about his username being an issue. Keep in mind the letter and money are more than likely legitimate, and this issue of the stolen charizard card is probably known by various other people. The OP got in contact with his friends who were there during the theft, and directed them to the reddit post instead of the 4chan post. His friends from his past looked at it saw the post, but couldn't help but notice the username. With this picture also being on facebook, many people he is friends with IRL had access to his reddit account, including the person who sent him the letter. With a large number of his comments being racist comments in r/circlejerk, it led me to the conclusion that the person who sent the letter is an African-American (Let's call him Tim) individual who has recently turned his life around. Tim saw faggot_emo_kid's post and a number of his past racist posts in r/circlejerk, and realized that OP was not the type of person he thought he was. Tim confronted the OP, and told a few other people about what he found on reddit, and so TommyPickles1987, formerly known as faggot_emo_kid, needed a way to quickly cover his tracks. He then came up with the brilliant idea of salvaging his reputation IRL, and on reddit. He makes a new username that he knows people will love, and posts this bogus story. He posts 2 separate links that he knows will be instantly upvoted, and makes sure to comment as much as he can, so he can go ahead and collect both comment and link karma that was not accumulated from r/circlejerk. Ladies and Gentlemen of reddit, what took place here was a karma heist, a very well thought out karma heist, that was nearly foolproof.

faggot_emo_kid and TommyPickles1987 are the same person, and this whole fraud thing was the backbone of well-orchestrated karma heist

Snikz18

Hello, i am posting this because i had a weird experience. Wanted to know if it was a lucid dream or not. It basically goes like this: Came back at midnight one day went asleep but woke up at 7(went to toilet) then saw clock thought it was too early So stayed in bed trying to sleep. Thing is i wasnt going back to my normal unconscious sleep but i noticed i could set up a not so vivid at start sleep. Imagined having awesome football(soccer) skills double kicks front 10 meters high incredible accuracy etc. but at start it felt fake no clear images like i knew it wasnt a real dream. I couldnt change much during dream only at beginning as i was losing control it kept getting more and more vivid. It wasnt the only dream i had after the football 1 i had weird pitstop with cartoon people and normal people. I tried doing reality checks but i couldnt force myself into it my actually doing 1(this was at start when i had some power) it didnt feel too vivid or believable more like an idea that took life and own turns Tl;dr : i slept woke up then tried sleeping and could somewhat control it at start

Hello, i am posting this because i had a weird experience. Wanted to know if it was a lucid dream or not. It basically goes like this: Came back at midnight one day went asleep but woke up at 7(went to toilet) then saw clock thought it was too early So stayed in bed trying to sleep. Thing is i wasnt going back to my normal unconscious sleep but i noticed i could set up a not so vivid at start sleep. Imagined having awesome football(soccer) skills double kicks front 10 meters high incredible accuracy etc. but at start it felt fake no clear images like i knew it wasnt a real dream. I couldnt change much during dream only at beginning as i was losing control it kept getting more and more vivid. It wasnt the only dream i had after the football 1 i had weird pitstop with cartoon people and normal people. I tried doing reality checks but i couldnt force myself into it my actually doing 1(this was at start when i had some power) it didnt feel too vivid or believable more like an idea that took life and own turns Tl;dr : i slept woke up then tried sleeping and could somewhat control it at start

LucidDreaming

t5_2r0f4

t3_tcmup

Hello, i am posting this because i had a weird experience. Wanted to know if it was a lucid dream or not. It basically goes like this: Came back at midnight one day went asleep but woke up at 7(went to toilet) then saw clock thought it was too early So stayed in bed trying to sleep. Thing is i wasnt going back to my normal unconscious sleep but i noticed i could set up a not so vivid at start sleep. Imagined having awesome football(soccer) skills double kicks front 10 meters high incredible accuracy etc. but at start it felt fake no clear images like i knew it wasnt a real dream. I couldnt change much during dream only at beginning as i was losing control it kept getting more and more vivid. It wasnt the only dream i had after the football 1 i had weird pitstop with cartoon people and normal people. I tried doing reality checks but i couldnt force myself into it my actually doing 1(this was at start when i had some power) it didnt feel too vivid or believable more like an idea that took life and own turns

i slept woke up then tried sleeping and could somewhat control it at start

sirberus

This is a pretty big assumption. Similar to a fence or even a lock on a door, DRM exists largely to keep honest people honest. Right now, the legal battles you see being waged are in an attempt to "hold the lines." Media companies aren't stupid... they are aware that they still have a firm hold on their primary markets... but they need to protect themselves from loosing more ground due to changes in the environment. If the consumer got their way, the video would be delivered in an open-sourced, high-quality video file. That'd be the ultimate in convenience. And many would indeed buy it... ...but that percentage of people (however large/small) that sit on the edge of inability to do more than the bare minimum may now find it more convenient to copy the file easily vs. paying even the most modest fee for the file themselves. Whether or not that percentage is negligible to the desired profit margins of the media companies isn't the point... it's that it exists and media companies have legitimate reason to make the decisions they are making. I mean, look at them... they are making bank. They know what they are doing and they happily accept the evil stereotype while they cleanse their souls at the bank. tl;dr - you'd be surprised how aware media companies are re: the effectiveness of their DRM and its social consequences.

This is a pretty big assumption. Similar to a fence or even a lock on a door, DRM exists largely to keep honest people honest. Right now, the legal battles you see being waged are in an attempt to "hold the lines." Media companies aren't stupid... they are aware that they still have a firm hold on their primary markets... but they need to protect themselves from loosing more ground due to changes in the environment. If the consumer got their way, the video would be delivered in an open-sourced, high-quality video file. That'd be the ultimate in convenience. And many would indeed buy it... ...but that percentage of people (however large/small) that sit on the edge of inability to do more than the bare minimum may now find it more convenient to copy the file easily vs. paying even the most modest fee for the file themselves. Whether or not that percentage is negligible to the desired profit margins of the media companies isn't the point... it's that it exists and media companies have legitimate reason to make the decisions they are making. I mean, look at them... they are making bank. They know what they are doing and they happily accept the evil stereotype while they cleanse their souls at the bank. tl;dr - you'd be surprised how aware media companies are re: the effectiveness of their DRM and its social consequences.

technology

t5_2qh16

c3pz62u

This is a pretty big assumption. Similar to a fence or even a lock on a door, DRM exists largely to keep honest people honest. Right now, the legal battles you see being waged are in an attempt to "hold the lines." Media companies aren't stupid... they are aware that they still have a firm hold on their primary markets... but they need to protect themselves from loosing more ground due to changes in the environment. If the consumer got their way, the video would be delivered in an open-sourced, high-quality video file. That'd be the ultimate in convenience. And many would indeed buy it... ...but that percentage of people (however large/small) that sit on the edge of inability to do more than the bare minimum may now find it more convenient to copy the file easily vs. paying even the most modest fee for the file themselves. Whether or not that percentage is negligible to the desired profit margins of the media companies isn't the point... it's that it exists and media companies have legitimate reason to make the decisions they are making. I mean, look at them... they are making bank. They know what they are doing and they happily accept the evil stereotype while they cleanse their souls at the bank.

you'd be surprised how aware media companies are re: the effectiveness of their DRM and its social consequences.

temp4adhd

For me, Ritalin is turning out to be a lifesaver and godsend and better than any antidepressant. I started it 6 weeks ago and despite dealing with raging UTI/kidney infection during the first month (effecting energy levels and overall generally making me feel physically crappy), the benefits have been amazing. And it's not just what I've been able to accomplish, productivity wise… Case in point, I'd like to share an anecdote about last night. I got together with some friends, one is a friend I see every few months, the other is a new acquaintance who, like me, was recently laid off and is also looking for work. I found myself comparing. I realized that last few times I saw my girlfriend, I was mopey, lethargic, my self esteem was in the toilet, and I lacked confidence. I may have come across to her as depressed, but I had a lot of legitimate reasons to be down on myself, as my career was failing and I was losing my job. Last time she was here, I could barely get myself out of bed before noon. It was not just physical fatigue, it was overwhelming brain fog and inability to be able to put two sentences together, verbally or in my head. I was spacey and disengaged and had a hard time following her attempts at conversation, and not for lack of interest. My memory was shot - she'd bring up stuff from the past or even recently and I'd vaguely know what she was referring to, but be at a lost to remember the details. I was just in this huge fog. And my house was a disorganized mess (luckily she is a good friend who doesn't care). Flash forward and now my house is fairly clean and slowly getting organized. I was on time to meet up with her. I even made the dinner reservations for us - instead of procrastinating or feeling overwhelmed at the prospect of figuring out the evening's logistics. I didn't struggle to get dressed, because all my laundry was done. The fog is gone and I could remember what she'd reference. I had a lot to share with her because I've accomplished a lot in the last 6 weeks. I was fully engaged in our conversation. I was confident, upbeat, positive. I was *happy.* I kept thinking to myself… wow, this is how I'm supposed to feel. I remember feeling this way a long time ago. It's so nice to feel this way again. I am not "too" happy.. I am just right happy. I am normal! Meanwhile, the new acquaintance came across to me as very depressed. Flat affect. Gloomy. Barely talked much, no matter how I tried to drag her out. I could totally commiserate on her job search struggles. But she started to turn me off because she was such a Debbie Downer, her perspective was warped and negative. She viewed the job market as horrible and hopeless (we are in exact same field) whereas I am viewing it as hot with tons of opportunities all around… Note, by the time we met up the Ritalin was already out of my system. So these changes are more because of what the Ritalin is helping me accomplish during the day, which in turn, makes me feel better about myself overall. TL;DR: I feel like I've got my old self back again. EDIT to add, because I just remembered! She remarked that it seems that I am rarely posting on Facebook these days.. ha… I told her that is because I am spending 8 hours a day on the job search instead. :-)

For me, Ritalin is turning out to be a lifesaver and godsend and better than any antidepressant. I started it 6 weeks ago and despite dealing with raging UTI/kidney infection during the first month (effecting energy levels and overall generally making me feel physically crappy), the benefits have been amazing. And it's not just what I've been able to accomplish, productivity wise… Case in point, I'd like to share an anecdote about last night. I got together with some friends, one is a friend I see every few months, the other is a new acquaintance who, like me, was recently laid off and is also looking for work. I found myself comparing. I realized that last few times I saw my girlfriend, I was mopey, lethargic, my self esteem was in the toilet, and I lacked confidence. I may have come across to her as depressed, but I had a lot of legitimate reasons to be down on myself, as my career was failing and I was losing my job. Last time she was here, I could barely get myself out of bed before noon. It was not just physical fatigue, it was overwhelming brain fog and inability to be able to put two sentences together, verbally or in my head. I was spacey and disengaged and had a hard time following her attempts at conversation, and not for lack of interest. My memory was shot - she'd bring up stuff from the past or even recently and I'd vaguely know what she was referring to, but be at a lost to remember the details. I was just in this huge fog. And my house was a disorganized mess (luckily she is a good friend who doesn't care). Flash forward and now my house is fairly clean and slowly getting organized. I was on time to meet up with her. I even made the dinner reservations for us - instead of procrastinating or feeling overwhelmed at the prospect of figuring out the evening's logistics. I didn't struggle to get dressed, because all my laundry was done. The fog is gone and I could remember what she'd reference. I had a lot to share with her because I've accomplished a lot in the last 6 weeks. I was fully engaged in our conversation. I was confident, upbeat, positive. I was happy. I kept thinking to myself… wow, this is how I'm supposed to feel. I remember feeling this way a long time ago. It's so nice to feel this way again. I am not "too" happy.. I am just right happy. I am normal! Meanwhile, the new acquaintance came across to me as very depressed. Flat affect. Gloomy. Barely talked much, no matter how I tried to drag her out. I could totally commiserate on her job search struggles. But she started to turn me off because she was such a Debbie Downer, her perspective was warped and negative. She viewed the job market as horrible and hopeless (we are in exact same field) whereas I am viewing it as hot with tons of opportunities all around… Note, by the time we met up the Ritalin was already out of my system. So these changes are more because of what the Ritalin is helping me accomplish during the day, which in turn, makes me feel better about myself overall. TL;DR: I feel like I've got my old self back again. EDIT to add, because I just remembered! She remarked that it seems that I am rarely posting on Facebook these days.. ha… I told her that is because I am spending 8 hours a day on the job search instead. :-)

ADHD

t5_2qnwb

t3_1q92ct

For me, Ritalin is turning out to be a lifesaver and godsend and better than any antidepressant. I started it 6 weeks ago and despite dealing with raging UTI/kidney infection during the first month (effecting energy levels and overall generally making me feel physically crappy), the benefits have been amazing. And it's not just what I've been able to accomplish, productivity wise… Case in point, I'd like to share an anecdote about last night. I got together with some friends, one is a friend I see every few months, the other is a new acquaintance who, like me, was recently laid off and is also looking for work. I found myself comparing. I realized that last few times I saw my girlfriend, I was mopey, lethargic, my self esteem was in the toilet, and I lacked confidence. I may have come across to her as depressed, but I had a lot of legitimate reasons to be down on myself, as my career was failing and I was losing my job. Last time she was here, I could barely get myself out of bed before noon. It was not just physical fatigue, it was overwhelming brain fog and inability to be able to put two sentences together, verbally or in my head. I was spacey and disengaged and had a hard time following her attempts at conversation, and not for lack of interest. My memory was shot - she'd bring up stuff from the past or even recently and I'd vaguely know what she was referring to, but be at a lost to remember the details. I was just in this huge fog. And my house was a disorganized mess (luckily she is a good friend who doesn't care). Flash forward and now my house is fairly clean and slowly getting organized. I was on time to meet up with her. I even made the dinner reservations for us - instead of procrastinating or feeling overwhelmed at the prospect of figuring out the evening's logistics. I didn't struggle to get dressed, because all my laundry was done. The fog is gone and I could remember what she'd reference. I had a lot to share with her because I've accomplished a lot in the last 6 weeks. I was fully engaged in our conversation. I was confident, upbeat, positive. I was happy. I kept thinking to myself… wow, this is how I'm supposed to feel. I remember feeling this way a long time ago. It's so nice to feel this way again. I am not "too" happy.. I am just right happy. I am normal! Meanwhile, the new acquaintance came across to me as very depressed. Flat affect. Gloomy. Barely talked much, no matter how I tried to drag her out. I could totally commiserate on her job search struggles. But she started to turn me off because she was such a Debbie Downer, her perspective was warped and negative. She viewed the job market as horrible and hopeless (we are in exact same field) whereas I am viewing it as hot with tons of opportunities all around… Note, by the time we met up the Ritalin was already out of my system. So these changes are more because of what the Ritalin is helping me accomplish during the day, which in turn, makes me feel better about myself overall.

I feel like I've got my old self back again. EDIT to add, because I just remembered! She remarked that it seems that I am rarely posting on Facebook these days.. ha… I told her that is because I am spending 8 hours a day on the job search instead. :-)

Kazhawrylak

The Feds have cracked down on legal dispensaries in the past few years, and Obama is one of the worst, you're bang-on right there. What you neglect to understand with their slightly over-complicated systems of law enforcement that overlap at state and federal levels sometimes, is that the state level has absolutely no interest in these dispensaries if they're legit, if they're not they have shut some down, but generally if they're up and up it's going to be hands off. the Fed however, because Cannabis is still a schedule 1 drug (highest level of enforcement with "no medical value") the federal agencies go after dispensaries because they are still illegal on a federal level. /TL;DR: It's stupidly complicated, and my head hurts trying to explain a lot of the "logic".

The Feds have cracked down on legal dispensaries in the past few years, and Obama is one of the worst, you're bang-on right there. What you neglect to understand with their slightly over-complicated systems of law enforcement that overlap at state and federal levels sometimes, is that the state level has absolutely no interest in these dispensaries if they're legit, if they're not they have shut some down, but generally if they're up and up it's going to be hands off. the Fed however, because Cannabis is still a schedule 1 drug (highest level of enforcement with "no medical value") the federal agencies go after dispensaries because they are still illegal on a federal level. /TL;DR: It's stupidly complicated, and my head hurts trying to explain a lot of the "logic".

trees

t5_2r9vp

c7nc0ge

The Feds have cracked down on legal dispensaries in the past few years, and Obama is one of the worst, you're bang-on right there. What you neglect to understand with their slightly over-complicated systems of law enforcement that overlap at state and federal levels sometimes, is that the state level has absolutely no interest in these dispensaries if they're legit, if they're not they have shut some down, but generally if they're up and up it's going to be hands off. the Fed however, because Cannabis is still a schedule 1 drug (highest level of enforcement with "no medical value") the federal agencies go after dispensaries because they are still illegal on a federal level. /

It's stupidly complicated, and my head hurts trying to explain a lot of the "logic".

callmenoone

Actually, he is partially right about the slave thing. See, the Old Testament has separate laws for Hebrew slaves and non-Hebrew slaves. Israelites could sell themselves into slavery if they were in financial trouble, usually after selling their sons and daughters first. They had specific rules regarding abuse and mistreatment. After six years, they were freed. Deuteronomy 15:12 "If any of your people—Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and serve you six years, in the seventh year you must let them go free." Or Leviticus 25:39-40 "Suppose some of your people become so poor that they have to sell themselves and become your slaves. Then you must treat them as servants, rather than as slaves. And in the Year of Celebration they are to be set free." Deuteronomy 21:1-6 says pretty much the same thing, and includes the part about some Hebrew slaves loving their masters and becoming slaves for life. Hebrew slaves were also released during the Year of Jubilee, every 49 or 50 years, regardless of how long they had been a slave. Tricky poor people would try to sell themselves just before Jubilee so they didn't need to be a slave for long. So it really was quite like indentured servitude for Hebrew slaves during biblical times. Eventually, the Jewish people stopped enforcing the six year rule and Jubilee, but that's a different issue. However, you were also right. Foreign (non-Hebrew) people who were taken over during war and conquest became slaves for life. Leviticus 25:44-46 "If you want slaves, buy them from other nations or from the foreigners who live in your own country, and make them your property. You can own them, and even leave them to your children when you die, but do not make slaves of your own people or be cruel to them." Note that you can own them and leave them to your kids. They were slaves for life. The six-year service did not apply (Some authors claim foreign slaves were released during the Year of Jubilee, every 49 or 50 years, but most sources I have read say that foreign slaves stayed in slavery permanently. I've been taught both interpretations from different professors, but the permanent slavery interpretation is more common.). These non-Hebrew slaves did not have many protections. You could pretty much do whatever you liked to them, though you weren't supposed to maim or kill them. Exodus 21:26-27 "An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye. And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth." See? No maiming or they go free. You could beat them bloody, but no losing eyes or teeth. Jewish law eventually expanded this to say losing other body parts counts too, like a hand or something, but this isn't actually in the Bible. The problem is that the Bible uses the same Hebrew word for talking about Hebrew slaves and non-Hebrew slaves. There is a clear distinction in the method by which they were enslaved and the terms of service, but they called them all by the same word. That's why there are such different passages in the Bible about slaves and why there is confusion among biblical scholars over which rules definitely only applied to Hebrew slaves, which definitely only applied to foreign, and which applied to both. I'm just sharing it the way I was taught, but anyone who knows more is welcome to correct me. tl;dr - Most of the slaves were foreigners captured in war who could be abused and served for life, like you said, but there were also Hebrew slaves who had some protection under the law and only served for six years, like he said.

Actually, he is partially right about the slave thing. See, the Old Testament has separate laws for Hebrew slaves and non-Hebrew slaves. Israelites could sell themselves into slavery if they were in financial trouble, usually after selling their sons and daughters first. They had specific rules regarding abuse and mistreatment. After six years, they were freed. Deuteronomy 15:12 "If any of your people—Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and serve you six years, in the seventh year you must let them go free." Or Leviticus 25:39-40 "Suppose some of your people become so poor that they have to sell themselves and become your slaves. Then you must treat them as servants, rather than as slaves. And in the Year of Celebration they are to be set free." Deuteronomy 21:1-6 says pretty much the same thing, and includes the part about some Hebrew slaves loving their masters and becoming slaves for life. Hebrew slaves were also released during the Year of Jubilee, every 49 or 50 years, regardless of how long they had been a slave. Tricky poor people would try to sell themselves just before Jubilee so they didn't need to be a slave for long. So it really was quite like indentured servitude for Hebrew slaves during biblical times. Eventually, the Jewish people stopped enforcing the six year rule and Jubilee, but that's a different issue. However, you were also right. Foreign (non-Hebrew) people who were taken over during war and conquest became slaves for life. Leviticus 25:44-46 "If you want slaves, buy them from other nations or from the foreigners who live in your own country, and make them your property. You can own them, and even leave them to your children when you die, but do not make slaves of your own people or be cruel to them." Note that you can own them and leave them to your kids. They were slaves for life. The six-year service did not apply (Some authors claim foreign slaves were released during the Year of Jubilee, every 49 or 50 years, but most sources I have read say that foreign slaves stayed in slavery permanently. I've been taught both interpretations from different professors, but the permanent slavery interpretation is more common.). These non-Hebrew slaves did not have many protections. You could pretty much do whatever you liked to them, though you weren't supposed to maim or kill them. Exodus 21:26-27 "An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye. And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth." See? No maiming or they go free. You could beat them bloody, but no losing eyes or teeth. Jewish law eventually expanded this to say losing other body parts counts too, like a hand or something, but this isn't actually in the Bible. The problem is that the Bible uses the same Hebrew word for talking about Hebrew slaves and non-Hebrew slaves. There is a clear distinction in the method by which they were enslaved and the terms of service, but they called them all by the same word. That's why there are such different passages in the Bible about slaves and why there is confusion among biblical scholars over which rules definitely only applied to Hebrew slaves, which definitely only applied to foreign, and which applied to both. I'm just sharing it the way I was taught, but anyone who knows more is welcome to correct me. tl;dr - Most of the slaves were foreigners captured in war who could be abused and served for life, like you said, but there were also Hebrew slaves who had some protection under the law and only served for six years, like he said.

atheism

t5_2qh2p

c9w20j5

Actually, he is partially right about the slave thing. See, the Old Testament has separate laws for Hebrew slaves and non-Hebrew slaves. Israelites could sell themselves into slavery if they were in financial trouble, usually after selling their sons and daughters first. They had specific rules regarding abuse and mistreatment. After six years, they were freed. Deuteronomy 15:12 "If any of your people—Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and serve you six years, in the seventh year you must let them go free." Or Leviticus 25:39-40 "Suppose some of your people become so poor that they have to sell themselves and become your slaves. Then you must treat them as servants, rather than as slaves. And in the Year of Celebration they are to be set free." Deuteronomy 21:1-6 says pretty much the same thing, and includes the part about some Hebrew slaves loving their masters and becoming slaves for life. Hebrew slaves were also released during the Year of Jubilee, every 49 or 50 years, regardless of how long they had been a slave. Tricky poor people would try to sell themselves just before Jubilee so they didn't need to be a slave for long. So it really was quite like indentured servitude for Hebrew slaves during biblical times. Eventually, the Jewish people stopped enforcing the six year rule and Jubilee, but that's a different issue. However, you were also right. Foreign (non-Hebrew) people who were taken over during war and conquest became slaves for life. Leviticus 25:44-46 "If you want slaves, buy them from other nations or from the foreigners who live in your own country, and make them your property. You can own them, and even leave them to your children when you die, but do not make slaves of your own people or be cruel to them." Note that you can own them and leave them to your kids. They were slaves for life. The six-year service did not apply (Some authors claim foreign slaves were released during the Year of Jubilee, every 49 or 50 years, but most sources I have read say that foreign slaves stayed in slavery permanently. I've been taught both interpretations from different professors, but the permanent slavery interpretation is more common.). These non-Hebrew slaves did not have many protections. You could pretty much do whatever you liked to them, though you weren't supposed to maim or kill them. Exodus 21:26-27 "An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye. And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth." See? No maiming or they go free. You could beat them bloody, but no losing eyes or teeth. Jewish law eventually expanded this to say losing other body parts counts too, like a hand or something, but this isn't actually in the Bible. The problem is that the Bible uses the same Hebrew word for talking about Hebrew slaves and non-Hebrew slaves. There is a clear distinction in the method by which they were enslaved and the terms of service, but they called them all by the same word. That's why there are such different passages in the Bible about slaves and why there is confusion among biblical scholars over which rules definitely only applied to Hebrew slaves, which definitely only applied to foreign, and which applied to both. I'm just sharing it the way I was taught, but anyone who knows more is welcome to correct me.

Most of the slaves were foreigners captured in war who could be abused and served for life, like you said, but there were also Hebrew slaves who had some protection under the law and only served for six years, like he said.

starkandstag

The games they've been playing just aren't compatible with their sense of humor. The Grumps tend to work better when playing a game they've never played before (Dan with Pokemon) or something random like Chulip or Go Go Nippon. They start playing games like Pokemon or South Park because they have played them before, but once they start recording they tend to forget things and start worrying about entertaining the audience. Which leads to things like Arin rapping or Dan telling a story that doesn't really have anything to do with the game or conversation. I think the grumps should decide whether they want to be a comedy channel and always play games like Chulip or an LP channel and play games like Pokemon and SoTC. tl;dr the grumps aren't good with trying to be funny and informative at the same time so they should pick one and stick with it.

The games they've been playing just aren't compatible with their sense of humor. The Grumps tend to work better when playing a game they've never played before (Dan with Pokemon) or something random like Chulip or Go Go Nippon. They start playing games like Pokemon or South Park because they have played them before, but once they start recording they tend to forget things and start worrying about entertaining the audience. Which leads to things like Arin rapping or Dan telling a story that doesn't really have anything to do with the game or conversation. I think the grumps should decide whether they want to be a comedy channel and always play games like Chulip or an LP channel and play games like Pokemon and SoTC. tl;dr the grumps aren't good with trying to be funny and informative at the same time so they should pick one and stick with it.

gamegrumps

t5_2ulfu

cfzuf39

The games they've been playing just aren't compatible with their sense of humor. The Grumps tend to work better when playing a game they've never played before (Dan with Pokemon) or something random like Chulip or Go Go Nippon. They start playing games like Pokemon or South Park because they have played them before, but once they start recording they tend to forget things and start worrying about entertaining the audience. Which leads to things like Arin rapping or Dan telling a story that doesn't really have anything to do with the game or conversation. I think the grumps should decide whether they want to be a comedy channel and always play games like Chulip or an LP channel and play games like Pokemon and SoTC.

the grumps aren't good with trying to be funny and informative at the same time so they should pick one and stick with it.

dale0607

I recommend not buying anything except a Veteran subscription for extra badges. Play the game from the ground up to really develop your knowledge and experience. Having multiple soldiers is fine and having one primary is extremely beneficial for all soldiers that follow because you'll have in game credits to support them. I've had two infantry classes and a pilot for a long time, I've recently decided to start leveling up bolt action rifles on the one to eventually switch to recon to try it out. If I don't like it, I can switch right back to infantry. That's the benefit of leveling up bone stock infantry. Flexibility. When I first started, I tried tanker, didn't like it, went back to infantry, tried paratrooper, didn't like it, went back to infantry. So I lost some in game money doing this, but I've been playing for a couple months and have so much money it doesn't even matter. Didn't mean to be long winded, but the TLDR is start bone stock infantry and work you're way through it. My steam name is dale0607 if you have more questions or if you would like to squad up. I play German. There's also a reddit channel in game. Welcome :)

I recommend not buying anything except a Veteran subscription for extra badges. Play the game from the ground up to really develop your knowledge and experience. Having multiple soldiers is fine and having one primary is extremely beneficial for all soldiers that follow because you'll have in game credits to support them. I've had two infantry classes and a pilot for a long time, I've recently decided to start leveling up bolt action rifles on the one to eventually switch to recon to try it out. If I don't like it, I can switch right back to infantry. That's the benefit of leveling up bone stock infantry. Flexibility. When I first started, I tried tanker, didn't like it, went back to infantry, tried paratrooper, didn't like it, went back to infantry. So I lost some in game money doing this, but I've been playing for a couple months and have so much money it doesn't even matter. Didn't mean to be long winded, but the TLDR is start bone stock infantry and work you're way through it. My steam name is dale0607 if you have more questions or if you would like to squad up. I play German. There's also a reddit channel in game. Welcome :)

HeroesandGenerals

t5_2tnq5

cldnvyr

I recommend not buying anything except a Veteran subscription for extra badges. Play the game from the ground up to really develop your knowledge and experience. Having multiple soldiers is fine and having one primary is extremely beneficial for all soldiers that follow because you'll have in game credits to support them. I've had two infantry classes and a pilot for a long time, I've recently decided to start leveling up bolt action rifles on the one to eventually switch to recon to try it out. If I don't like it, I can switch right back to infantry. That's the benefit of leveling up bone stock infantry. Flexibility. When I first started, I tried tanker, didn't like it, went back to infantry, tried paratrooper, didn't like it, went back to infantry. So I lost some in game money doing this, but I've been playing for a couple months and have so much money it doesn't even matter. Didn't mean to be long winded, but the

is start bone stock infantry and work you're way through it. My steam name is dale0607 if you have more questions or if you would like to squad up. I play German. There's also a reddit channel in game. Welcome :)

HairyAsHull

I was flying out of Jacksonville, NC right before Christmas Eve, I get to the airport and the agent at the United Desk, tells me the flight is delayed and asked if I would give up my seat. I say, "I'd love to, but my company will not allow it." So I go through the TSA checkpoint, go to the bar and chat up with some underage Marines and the bartender. I ended up giving some of the Marines my Vodka nips for flying because it seemed the most patriotic thing to do. As soon as I do this, I hear my name called out on the intercom. As I get to the desk, the attendent tells me the flight is delayed and I will miss my connecting so they are bumping me off the flight. He apologizes, and I shrug it off, because it means I don't have to go to work on Friday. As all my new flight arrangements are made, he gives me 2 first class tickets the following day, 100 dollars in cash, a hotel voucher, and 2 checks totaling 1500$. I show my immense gratitude, but asked for one more thing, a written out statment by the airline saying I did not willingly sell my spot. TLDR: Get out of jail free card from work, First Class Tickets, 100 dollars in cash, and 1500$ in checks.

I was flying out of Jacksonville, NC right before Christmas Eve, I get to the airport and the agent at the United Desk, tells me the flight is delayed and asked if I would give up my seat. I say, "I'd love to, but my company will not allow it." So I go through the TSA checkpoint, go to the bar and chat up with some underage Marines and the bartender. I ended up giving some of the Marines my Vodka nips for flying because it seemed the most patriotic thing to do. As soon as I do this, I hear my name called out on the intercom. As I get to the desk, the attendent tells me the flight is delayed and I will miss my connecting so they are bumping me off the flight. He apologizes, and I shrug it off, because it means I don't have to go to work on Friday. As all my new flight arrangements are made, he gives me 2 first class tickets the following day, 100 dollars in cash, a hotel voucher, and 2 checks totaling 1500$. I show my immense gratitude, but asked for one more thing, a written out statment by the airline saying I did not willingly sell my spot. TLDR: Get out of jail free card from work, First Class Tickets, 100 dollars in cash, and 1500$ in checks.

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

c6a037f

I was flying out of Jacksonville, NC right before Christmas Eve, I get to the airport and the agent at the United Desk, tells me the flight is delayed and asked if I would give up my seat. I say, "I'd love to, but my company will not allow it." So I go through the TSA checkpoint, go to the bar and chat up with some underage Marines and the bartender. I ended up giving some of the Marines my Vodka nips for flying because it seemed the most patriotic thing to do. As soon as I do this, I hear my name called out on the intercom. As I get to the desk, the attendent tells me the flight is delayed and I will miss my connecting so they are bumping me off the flight. He apologizes, and I shrug it off, because it means I don't have to go to work on Friday. As all my new flight arrangements are made, he gives me 2 first class tickets the following day, 100 dollars in cash, a hotel voucher, and 2 checks totaling 1500$. I show my immense gratitude, but asked for one more thing, a written out statment by the airline saying I did not willingly sell my spot.

Get out of jail free card from work, First Class Tickets, 100 dollars in cash, and 1500$ in checks.

[deleted]

Hey there! My name is Tommy9x6 and I help run websites such as Tommy9x6.com and BigDickDudes.com. I'm also the main model for these sites. Now, we're always looking for new talent. Ideally, we're seeking college aged dudes with big dongs and fit bodies. However, no one is perfect so we'd be happy to consider anyone who thinks they're up for it. We're currently paying about $150/video for the right guy (this means your face would have to be shown, but if you don't want to show your face we can work with that, keep reading). Essentially, you'd have to get a decent quality camera, and jerk off for 20-30 minutes, switching positions and camera angles every once in a while. Simple as that. If you don't want to show your face, thats fine but please know your pay rate will go down. Most likely $75-$100. When making your video, just make sure nothing that will make you identifiable is in the background (posters, college banners, etc) and you should be fine. here are some videos that will give you an idea of what to do. (yup thats me!) [Tommy9x6]( [Tommy9x6]( [Tommy9x6]( I believe that being honest and upfront with this sort of thing is the best way to go about this, so I'm here on reddit to answer your questions. I understand your reservations and concerns with doing this (It was quite nerve racking when I did my first video.) I've been filming videos anonymously for four years and made a good amount of money. Key word: ANONYMOUSLY. So if you're still interested, heres the steps: 1.) Film and submit your "audition" video. (you must be 18 or older) 2.) Submit your 2257 documentation. (all you need here is a valid ID). 3.) We'll get back to you with your contract (you can e-sign this, and note that we don't post ANYTHING to our websites until your paperwork is ready and your contract is signed. 4.) We'll post your video and if all goes well, you can be a regular on the site! But first, shoot me a message here or email me at Tommy9x6.BDD@gmail.com, and I'll work with you to sort out all of the details. SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY!! **tl;dr:** get a decent video camera (no camera phones!), and jerk off for a 20-30 minutes with a cumshot at the end. get paid.

Hey there! My name is Tommy9x6 and I help run websites such as Tommy9x6.com and BigDickDudes.com. I'm also the main model for these sites. Now, we're always looking for new talent. Ideally, we're seeking college aged dudes with big dongs and fit bodies. However, no one is perfect so we'd be happy to consider anyone who thinks they're up for it. We're currently paying about $150/video for the right guy (this means your face would have to be shown, but if you don't want to show your face we can work with that, keep reading). Essentially, you'd have to get a decent quality camera, and jerk off for 20-30 minutes, switching positions and camera angles every once in a while. Simple as that. If you don't want to show your face, thats fine but please know your pay rate will go down. Most likely $75-$100. When making your video, just make sure nothing that will make you identifiable is in the background (posters, college banners, etc) and you should be fine. here are some videos that will give you an idea of what to do. (yup thats me!) [Tommy9x6]( [Tommy9x6]( [Tommy9x6]( I believe that being honest and upfront with this sort of thing is the best way to go about this, so I'm here on reddit to answer your questions. I understand your reservations and concerns with doing this (It was quite nerve racking when I did my first video.) I've been filming videos anonymously for four years and made a good amount of money. Key word: ANONYMOUSLY. So if you're still interested, heres the steps: 1.) Film and submit your "audition" video. (you must be 18 or older) 2.) Submit your 2257 documentation. (all you need here is a valid ID). 3.) We'll get back to you with your contract (you can e-sign this, and note that we don't post ANYTHING to our websites until your paperwork is ready and your contract is signed. 4.) We'll post your video and if all goes well, you can be a regular on the site! But first, shoot me a message here or email me at Tommy9x6.BDD@gmail.com, and I'll work with you to sort out all of the details. SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY!! tl;dr: get a decent video camera (no camera phones!), and jerk off for a 20-30 minutes with a cumshot at the end. get paid.

nsfwforhire

t5_2tv54

t3_10sixn

Hey there! My name is Tommy9x6 and I help run websites such as Tommy9x6.com and BigDickDudes.com. I'm also the main model for these sites. Now, we're always looking for new talent. Ideally, we're seeking college aged dudes with big dongs and fit bodies. However, no one is perfect so we'd be happy to consider anyone who thinks they're up for it. We're currently paying about $150/video for the right guy (this means your face would have to be shown, but if you don't want to show your face we can work with that, keep reading). Essentially, you'd have to get a decent quality camera, and jerk off for 20-30 minutes, switching positions and camera angles every once in a while. Simple as that. If you don't want to show your face, thats fine but please know your pay rate will go down. Most likely $75-$100. When making your video, just make sure nothing that will make you identifiable is in the background (posters, college banners, etc) and you should be fine. here are some videos that will give you an idea of what to do. (yup thats me!) [Tommy9x6]( [Tommy9x6]( [Tommy9x6]( I believe that being honest and upfront with this sort of thing is the best way to go about this, so I'm here on reddit to answer your questions. I understand your reservations and concerns with doing this (It was quite nerve racking when I did my first video.) I've been filming videos anonymously for four years and made a good amount of money. Key word: ANONYMOUSLY. So if you're still interested, heres the steps: 1.) Film and submit your "audition" video. (you must be 18 or older) 2.) Submit your 2257 documentation. (all you need here is a valid ID). 3.) We'll get back to you with your contract (you can e-sign this, and note that we don't post ANYTHING to our websites until your paperwork is ready and your contract is signed. 4.) We'll post your video and if all goes well, you can be a regular on the site! But first, shoot me a message here or email me at Tommy9x6.BDD@gmail.com, and I'll work with you to sort out all of the details. SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY!!

get a decent video camera (no camera phones!), and jerk off for a 20-30 minutes with a cumshot at the end. get paid.

chastric

The first time I had brownies, I misjudged it seriously (as most people do the first time with edibles). My eventual world-bending trip started with this exact effect. All of my hearing was delayed by a smidgeon. At first it was just quirky, because I could see people's movements weren't matching precisely, and I could feel my mouth moving slightly before I heard my own words. But eventually it became sickening and I couldn't speak at the right pace and I got really frustrated and started crying. I asked all of my friends for permission to go lie on the couch and sob. Not surprisingly, they said I could do whatever I want. I lied there for a couple hours thinking I would never speak again. I'm glad I finally understand this was all part of the effect. Later I peed into one of those foaming hand soap containers to try and make foamy soap-pee. **TL;DR:** Foaming urine does not wash hands well.

The first time I had brownies, I misjudged it seriously (as most people do the first time with edibles). My eventual world-bending trip started with this exact effect. All of my hearing was delayed by a smidgeon. At first it was just quirky, because I could see people's movements weren't matching precisely, and I could feel my mouth moving slightly before I heard my own words. But eventually it became sickening and I couldn't speak at the right pace and I got really frustrated and started crying. I asked all of my friends for permission to go lie on the couch and sob. Not surprisingly, they said I could do whatever I want. I lied there for a couple hours thinking I would never speak again. I'm glad I finally understand this was all part of the effect. Later I peed into one of those foaming hand soap containers to try and make foamy soap-pee. TL;DR: Foaming urine does not wash hands well.

science

t5_mouw

c3wljj2

The first time I had brownies, I misjudged it seriously (as most people do the first time with edibles). My eventual world-bending trip started with this exact effect. All of my hearing was delayed by a smidgeon. At first it was just quirky, because I could see people's movements weren't matching precisely, and I could feel my mouth moving slightly before I heard my own words. But eventually it became sickening and I couldn't speak at the right pace and I got really frustrated and started crying. I asked all of my friends for permission to go lie on the couch and sob. Not surprisingly, they said I could do whatever I want. I lied there for a couple hours thinking I would never speak again. I'm glad I finally understand this was all part of the effect. Later I peed into one of those foaming hand soap containers to try and make foamy soap-pee.

Foaming urine does not wash hands well.

Brad_Chanderson

Toyota mechanic here - The quickest thing you can do would be to take it into your closest Toyota dealership for an oil change. Shouldn't cost you more than 30 bucks, and they'll perform a 28 point inspection. I see you recently had the oil changed - if it was less than 3000 miles ago, forego the oil change and just ask for an inspection. It might be free - they hand them out hoping to upsell you service on anything they find wrong with it. My dealership does goodwill inspections all the time. Let them know up front that you would like it to be thorough, as you're looking to get it in tip-top shape before heading off to school. The service advisor will tell the tech doing the inspection, and they'll be more than happy to tell you every little thing wrong with the car. **Getting the inspection in no way puts you on the hook to have any additional service performed.** If you can afford to have the work done on the spot, go for it. If you're like me - take their recommendations, head to O'reilley's, get the parts you need, and do what you're comfortable with. YouTube and a Haynes manual can teach you everything you could possibly want to know. Without seeing the car in person, I don't want to go recommending a bunch of stuff you might not need (all this will be checked for the Toyota inspection, but in case you're not able to get it done, here's the basics) - on most camry's around that mileage, I'd recommend you check out your air filter, spark plugs and wires (if it's a 4 cylinder, V6 has coil packs) - trans fluid (it should be red and clear, if its brown and smells burnt it's time to replace it), power steering fluid (level between the min/max lines, should be yellow and clear), brake pads (anything over 6mm of pad material will give you plenty of life for the year), tire tread (get a tread gauge, should be 3 or 4 bucks at your parts store. Anything greater than 5/32nd's is acceptable. Less than 3 is unsafe to drive on) Finally, check your water pump for leaks (It'll be VERY obvious, pink crusty stuff all over the place) and try to find out at what mileage your timing belt was replaced. There should be a sticker on the engine cover, or somewhere else under the hood noting the mileage and date it was changed. If you don't believe it's been changed - 150k is pushing it on the original belt. It's a pricey (or time consuming if you do it yourself) job, but skipping timing belt services kills engines. **TL;DR - Hit up Toyota for an oil change and inspection. They'll be more than happy to tell you anything else that's wrong with it - and YouTube is plenty capable of teaching you how to do those repairs yourself, if you're so inclined.**

Toyota mechanic here - The quickest thing you can do would be to take it into your closest Toyota dealership for an oil change. Shouldn't cost you more than 30 bucks, and they'll perform a 28 point inspection. I see you recently had the oil changed - if it was less than 3000 miles ago, forego the oil change and just ask for an inspection. It might be free - they hand them out hoping to upsell you service on anything they find wrong with it. My dealership does goodwill inspections all the time. Let them know up front that you would like it to be thorough, as you're looking to get it in tip-top shape before heading off to school. The service advisor will tell the tech doing the inspection, and they'll be more than happy to tell you every little thing wrong with the car. Getting the inspection in no way puts you on the hook to have any additional service performed. If you can afford to have the work done on the spot, go for it. If you're like me - take their recommendations, head to O'reilley's, get the parts you need, and do what you're comfortable with. YouTube and a Haynes manual can teach you everything you could possibly want to know. Without seeing the car in person, I don't want to go recommending a bunch of stuff you might not need (all this will be checked for the Toyota inspection, but in case you're not able to get it done, here's the basics) - on most camry's around that mileage, I'd recommend you check out your air filter, spark plugs and wires (if it's a 4 cylinder, V6 has coil packs) - trans fluid (it should be red and clear, if its brown and smells burnt it's time to replace it), power steering fluid (level between the min/max lines, should be yellow and clear), brake pads (anything over 6mm of pad material will give you plenty of life for the year), tire tread (get a tread gauge, should be 3 or 4 bucks at your parts store. Anything greater than 5/32nd's is acceptable. Less than 3 is unsafe to drive on) Finally, check your water pump for leaks (It'll be VERY obvious, pink crusty stuff all over the place) and try to find out at what mileage your timing belt was replaced. There should be a sticker on the engine cover, or somewhere else under the hood noting the mileage and date it was changed. If you don't believe it's been changed - 150k is pushing it on the original belt. It's a pricey (or time consuming if you do it yourself) job, but skipping timing belt services kills engines. TL;DR - Hit up Toyota for an oil change and inspection. They'll be more than happy to tell you anything else that's wrong with it - and YouTube is plenty capable of teaching you how to do those repairs yourself, if you're so inclined.

Cartalk

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cbor7bi

Toyota mechanic here - The quickest thing you can do would be to take it into your closest Toyota dealership for an oil change. Shouldn't cost you more than 30 bucks, and they'll perform a 28 point inspection. I see you recently had the oil changed - if it was less than 3000 miles ago, forego the oil change and just ask for an inspection. It might be free - they hand them out hoping to upsell you service on anything they find wrong with it. My dealership does goodwill inspections all the time. Let them know up front that you would like it to be thorough, as you're looking to get it in tip-top shape before heading off to school. The service advisor will tell the tech doing the inspection, and they'll be more than happy to tell you every little thing wrong with the car. Getting the inspection in no way puts you on the hook to have any additional service performed. If you can afford to have the work done on the spot, go for it. If you're like me - take their recommendations, head to O'reilley's, get the parts you need, and do what you're comfortable with. YouTube and a Haynes manual can teach you everything you could possibly want to know. Without seeing the car in person, I don't want to go recommending a bunch of stuff you might not need (all this will be checked for the Toyota inspection, but in case you're not able to get it done, here's the basics) - on most camry's around that mileage, I'd recommend you check out your air filter, spark plugs and wires (if it's a 4 cylinder, V6 has coil packs) - trans fluid (it should be red and clear, if its brown and smells burnt it's time to replace it), power steering fluid (level between the min/max lines, should be yellow and clear), brake pads (anything over 6mm of pad material will give you plenty of life for the year), tire tread (get a tread gauge, should be 3 or 4 bucks at your parts store. Anything greater than 5/32nd's is acceptable. Less than 3 is unsafe to drive on) Finally, check your water pump for leaks (It'll be VERY obvious, pink crusty stuff all over the place) and try to find out at what mileage your timing belt was replaced. There should be a sticker on the engine cover, or somewhere else under the hood noting the mileage and date it was changed. If you don't believe it's been changed - 150k is pushing it on the original belt. It's a pricey (or time consuming if you do it yourself) job, but skipping timing belt services kills engines.

Hit up Toyota for an oil change and inspection. They'll be more than happy to tell you anything else that's wrong with it - and YouTube is plenty capable of teaching you how to do those repairs yourself, if you're so inclined.

dfectedRO

I beat him with a priest deck with full removal cards like double auch circle holy nova lightbomb pyro and naaru pw shield holy smite. Biggest minions in this deck were only 2 cabals. Tl;dr go full control he l run out of steam.

I beat him with a priest deck with full removal cards like double auch circle holy nova lightbomb pyro and naaru pw shield holy smite. Biggest minions in this deck were only 2 cabals. Tl;dr go full control he l run out of steam.

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I beat him with a priest deck with full removal cards like double auch circle holy nova lightbomb pyro and naaru pw shield holy smite. Biggest minions in this deck were only 2 cabals.

go full control he l run out of steam.

SniperGX1

You might be disappointed to know that the National Rifle Association, Second Amendment Foundation, and the National Shooting Sports Foundation have all partnered with the Knife Rights Association to fight for and protect knife rights as part of the second amendment. They even helped author and are helping to get passed H.R.419 - Knife Owners' Protection Act of 2015 tl;dr Second amendment supporters not only support knife rights but we are spending lots of our heard earned money, and time fighting for those rights.

You might be disappointed to know that the National Rifle Association, Second Amendment Foundation, and the National Shooting Sports Foundation have all partnered with the Knife Rights Association to fight for and protect knife rights as part of the second amendment. They even helped author and are helping to get passed H.R.419 - Knife Owners' Protection Act of 2015 tl;dr Second amendment supporters not only support knife rights but we are spending lots of our heard earned money, and time fighting for those rights.

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You might be disappointed to know that the National Rifle Association, Second Amendment Foundation, and the National Shooting Sports Foundation have all partnered with the Knife Rights Association to fight for and protect knife rights as part of the second amendment. They even helped author and are helping to get passed H.R.419 - Knife Owners' Protection Act of 2015

Second amendment supporters not only support knife rights but we are spending lots of our heard earned money, and time fighting for those rights.

LuLuCheng

I did this about two weeks ago while on the crossroads near my house (very little traffic so it didn't cause a lot of problems). Basically, I had pulled up to the crossroads (it's so that i could turn into my driveway, it's a real janky mess that i had to learn how to pull into correctly for almost a month). And i came to a complete stop as you are supposed to. Then this middle aged "i wanna speak to your manager" type woman pulled up behind me in her sleek new BMW. **As soon** as she pulled up behind me she laid on her horn and started to shout at me to go. I decided i wasn't having it that day and stalled my truck (it's an old 86' Chevy, so no harm was done to it really). After a minute, i got out of the truck and lifted to hood and acted like i was poking around, all while hearing "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING YOU RETARD" (she was not a kind woman) and many "WOULD YOU HURRY THE FUCK UP, I GOT PLACES TO BE" (the place was her home, the reason was because she was missing her show). I popped my head out and told her that i would be a few minutes , and she could just go around me and be on her way but her words and i quote "I don't want you throwing yourself in front of my car so that you can get some money to replace that piece of shit car of yours" I shrugged it off and told her my car stalled because the "Alternator belt slipped off the brake line" (complete BS, because i have no idea how cars work). She huffed and puffed, honked occasionally and called me an idiot. After about 15 minutes of *fixing the truck (*dicking around on Reddit) my dad walked out of the house (the crossroad is right next to my house) and asked me what i was doing, i winked at him and told him the truck stalled. At first he didn't understand, then Mrs.Bitch decided to start chewing him out also and tell him how much of an idiot i was and how i threatened to hurl my self in front of her car. My father and i started to talk about random "car" shit and how the engine melted the axle and that we will have to push it to the driveway. 5 minutes of her time wasted, we rolled the truck into our driveway and had a laugh after she came speeding down our road calling us assholes. TL;DR : Mrs. Bitch decided to honk her horn at me the moment we came to a crossroads, i acted like my truck wouldn't start and wasted almost an 30 minutes of her time.

I did this about two weeks ago while on the crossroads near my house (very little traffic so it didn't cause a lot of problems). Basically, I had pulled up to the crossroads (it's so that i could turn into my driveway, it's a real janky mess that i had to learn how to pull into correctly for almost a month). And i came to a complete stop as you are supposed to. Then this middle aged "i wanna speak to your manager" type woman pulled up behind me in her sleek new BMW. As soon as she pulled up behind me she laid on her horn and started to shout at me to go. I decided i wasn't having it that day and stalled my truck (it's an old 86' Chevy, so no harm was done to it really). After a minute, i got out of the truck and lifted to hood and acted like i was poking around, all while hearing "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING YOU RETARD" (she was not a kind woman) and many "WOULD YOU HURRY THE FUCK UP, I GOT PLACES TO BE" (the place was her home, the reason was because she was missing her show). I popped my head out and told her that i would be a few minutes , and she could just go around me and be on her way but her words and i quote "I don't want you throwing yourself in front of my car so that you can get some money to replace that piece of shit car of yours" I shrugged it off and told her my car stalled because the "Alternator belt slipped off the brake line" (complete BS, because i have no idea how cars work). She huffed and puffed, honked occasionally and called me an idiot. After about 15 minutes of fixing the truck ( dicking around on Reddit) my dad walked out of the house (the crossroad is right next to my house) and asked me what i was doing, i winked at him and told him the truck stalled. At first he didn't understand, then Mrs.Bitch decided to start chewing him out also and tell him how much of an idiot i was and how i threatened to hurl my self in front of her car. My father and i started to talk about random "car" shit and how the engine melted the axle and that we will have to push it to the driveway. 5 minutes of her time wasted, we rolled the truck into our driveway and had a laugh after she came speeding down our road calling us assholes. TL;DR : Mrs. Bitch decided to honk her horn at me the moment we came to a crossroads, i acted like my truck wouldn't start and wasted almost an 30 minutes of her time.

pettyrevenge

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I did this about two weeks ago while on the crossroads near my house (very little traffic so it didn't cause a lot of problems). Basically, I had pulled up to the crossroads (it's so that i could turn into my driveway, it's a real janky mess that i had to learn how to pull into correctly for almost a month). And i came to a complete stop as you are supposed to. Then this middle aged "i wanna speak to your manager" type woman pulled up behind me in her sleek new BMW. As soon as she pulled up behind me she laid on her horn and started to shout at me to go. I decided i wasn't having it that day and stalled my truck (it's an old 86' Chevy, so no harm was done to it really). After a minute, i got out of the truck and lifted to hood and acted like i was poking around, all while hearing "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING YOU RETARD" (she was not a kind woman) and many "WOULD YOU HURRY THE FUCK UP, I GOT PLACES TO BE" (the place was her home, the reason was because she was missing her show). I popped my head out and told her that i would be a few minutes , and she could just go around me and be on her way but her words and i quote "I don't want you throwing yourself in front of my car so that you can get some money to replace that piece of shit car of yours" I shrugged it off and told her my car stalled because the "Alternator belt slipped off the brake line" (complete BS, because i have no idea how cars work). She huffed and puffed, honked occasionally and called me an idiot. After about 15 minutes of fixing the truck ( dicking around on Reddit) my dad walked out of the house (the crossroad is right next to my house) and asked me what i was doing, i winked at him and told him the truck stalled. At first he didn't understand, then Mrs.Bitch decided to start chewing him out also and tell him how much of an idiot i was and how i threatened to hurl my self in front of her car. My father and i started to talk about random "car" shit and how the engine melted the axle and that we will have to push it to the driveway. 5 minutes of her time wasted, we rolled the truck into our driveway and had a laugh after she came speeding down our road calling us assholes.

Mrs. Bitch decided to honk her horn at me the moment we came to a crossroads, i acted like my truck wouldn't start and wasted almost an 30 minutes of her time.

wintear

Have an extra room available for next year? Want to fill it with a pretty awesome dude? Then I'm your man! I'm a second year Aerospace Engineering student looking for some people to live with next year! Some stuff about me: I lived in PCV this year, but have come to the conclusion that it kinda sucks ass, and I want to live in a house next year! Super Important fact one: I love cooking. I can make a mean grapefruit teriyaki chicken stir fry. Not your thing? Thats okay, I can make you some bomb pasta casserole or maybe some awesome marinated steaks! I also like video games, any type! Want someone to stroll through the glorious land of skyrim with? Or shoot some noobs on BF3? I'm down! Want a roommate who isn't loud and obnoxious so you can get your work done? Perfect! I can even help you with your math homework! Well, unless your a math major. Then I might not be so much help. That all probably made me sound like a lazy nerd. Not true! (Well, at least not the lazy part). I love going to the gym and running! We can even go backpacking and rock climbing! I love that shit! Some big stuff I can bring: kick ass sound system. Like ridiculous level. We can listen to some sick dubstep and techno on it. Classic rock is good too. I'll bring a xbox, desktop computer, laptop, wireless router, and a bunch of kitchen stuff. Oh, also really important: I'm not a slob. I do my dishes right after I make them. I clean things up, and wont make a mess. I don't mess with other people's stuff either. If it's not mine, I won't touch it. Send me a message, or email me at osnofla9@gmail.com. I can send you my fb and we can meet up sometime! tl;dr I'm looking for some people to live with next year!

Have an extra room available for next year? Want to fill it with a pretty awesome dude? Then I'm your man! I'm a second year Aerospace Engineering student looking for some people to live with next year! Some stuff about me: I lived in PCV this year, but have come to the conclusion that it kinda sucks ass, and I want to live in a house next year! Super Important fact one: I love cooking. I can make a mean grapefruit teriyaki chicken stir fry. Not your thing? Thats okay, I can make you some bomb pasta casserole or maybe some awesome marinated steaks! I also like video games, any type! Want someone to stroll through the glorious land of skyrim with? Or shoot some noobs on BF3? I'm down! Want a roommate who isn't loud and obnoxious so you can get your work done? Perfect! I can even help you with your math homework! Well, unless your a math major. Then I might not be so much help. That all probably made me sound like a lazy nerd. Not true! (Well, at least not the lazy part). I love going to the gym and running! We can even go backpacking and rock climbing! I love that shit! Some big stuff I can bring: kick ass sound system. Like ridiculous level. We can listen to some sick dubstep and techno on it. Classic rock is good too. I'll bring a xbox, desktop computer, laptop, wireless router, and a bunch of kitchen stuff. Oh, also really important: I'm not a slob. I do my dishes right after I make them. I clean things up, and wont make a mess. I don't mess with other people's stuff either. If it's not mine, I won't touch it. Send me a message, or email me at osnofla9@gmail.com. I can send you my fb and we can meet up sometime! tl;dr I'm looking for some people to live with next year!

CalPoly

t5_2s470

t3_r03l0

Have an extra room available for next year? Want to fill it with a pretty awesome dude? Then I'm your man! I'm a second year Aerospace Engineering student looking for some people to live with next year! Some stuff about me: I lived in PCV this year, but have come to the conclusion that it kinda sucks ass, and I want to live in a house next year! Super Important fact one: I love cooking. I can make a mean grapefruit teriyaki chicken stir fry. Not your thing? Thats okay, I can make you some bomb pasta casserole or maybe some awesome marinated steaks! I also like video games, any type! Want someone to stroll through the glorious land of skyrim with? Or shoot some noobs on BF3? I'm down! Want a roommate who isn't loud and obnoxious so you can get your work done? Perfect! I can even help you with your math homework! Well, unless your a math major. Then I might not be so much help. That all probably made me sound like a lazy nerd. Not true! (Well, at least not the lazy part). I love going to the gym and running! We can even go backpacking and rock climbing! I love that shit! Some big stuff I can bring: kick ass sound system. Like ridiculous level. We can listen to some sick dubstep and techno on it. Classic rock is good too. I'll bring a xbox, desktop computer, laptop, wireless router, and a bunch of kitchen stuff. Oh, also really important: I'm not a slob. I do my dishes right after I make them. I clean things up, and wont make a mess. I don't mess with other people's stuff either. If it's not mine, I won't touch it. Send me a message, or email me at osnofla9@gmail.com. I can send you my fb and we can meet up sometime!

I'm looking for some people to live with next year!

fg2intw

I've realized that a lot of Asians (both men and women) tell stereotypical Asian jokes amongst themselves. These "harmless jokes" need to be taken a bit more seriously. An example: The other day, I was in a car with all Asian male friends, and the driver had parked his car. Aware he was a little close to the curb, he asked us if we had enough space on one side to get out. The passenger next to me jokingly (but almost automatically) blurted out "it's OK, you are Asian." No one gave a second thought about it, knowing he was joking around, but I was cringing internally. This is just one example out of the many that I have seen. FWIW, the driver of this car races cars and has a reputation in the local track scene. Now jokes like these seem harmless on the surface, but as I analyse things a little deeper, it appears to me that Asians have simply given up in a way. As if all the stereotypes of Asians suggested by media are now an accepted truth. Typing this up makes me feel like a sensitive little bitch, but I am not actually offended by these jokes. I mean, a joke is just light-hearted fun, I get that. However, I feel genuine concern about the status of Asians in western society, when Asians are enforcing the stereotypes themselves by telling these stereotypical jokes. It's even worse when there is a non-Asian in the group, and an Asian breaks out these jokes. I mean, when Asian people are admitting they suck at driving, then they probably DO suck at driving! This is what these jokes will convince others to believe. I'm sure some of you here tell Asian jokes sometimes without realizing the effects of doing so. It could be the classic "It's OK, I'm Asian" (honestly heard this one enough times). But honestly guys, these jokes do nothing for us and are said by others to make fun of us. These jokes have no place amongst an Asian community...it's just plain weird. I've also noticed its the ABCs/CBCs that like telling these Asian jokes, almost as if they took on the perspective of a Caucasian and telling jokes about Asians. **TL;DR** *Asian jokes should not be told by Asians*

I've realized that a lot of Asians (both men and women) tell stereotypical Asian jokes amongst themselves. These "harmless jokes" need to be taken a bit more seriously. An example: The other day, I was in a car with all Asian male friends, and the driver had parked his car. Aware he was a little close to the curb, he asked us if we had enough space on one side to get out. The passenger next to me jokingly (but almost automatically) blurted out "it's OK, you are Asian." No one gave a second thought about it, knowing he was joking around, but I was cringing internally. This is just one example out of the many that I have seen. FWIW, the driver of this car races cars and has a reputation in the local track scene. Now jokes like these seem harmless on the surface, but as I analyse things a little deeper, it appears to me that Asians have simply given up in a way. As if all the stereotypes of Asians suggested by media are now an accepted truth. Typing this up makes me feel like a sensitive little bitch, but I am not actually offended by these jokes. I mean, a joke is just light-hearted fun, I get that. However, I feel genuine concern about the status of Asians in western society, when Asians are enforcing the stereotypes themselves by telling these stereotypical jokes. It's even worse when there is a non-Asian in the group, and an Asian breaks out these jokes. I mean, when Asian people are admitting they suck at driving, then they probably DO suck at driving! This is what these jokes will convince others to believe. I'm sure some of you here tell Asian jokes sometimes without realizing the effects of doing so. It could be the classic "It's OK, I'm Asian" (honestly heard this one enough times). But honestly guys, these jokes do nothing for us and are said by others to make fun of us. These jokes have no place amongst an Asian community...it's just plain weird. I've also noticed its the ABCs/CBCs that like telling these Asian jokes, almost as if they took on the perspective of a Caucasian and telling jokes about Asians. TL;DR Asian jokes should not be told by Asians

AsianMasculinity

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I've realized that a lot of Asians (both men and women) tell stereotypical Asian jokes amongst themselves. These "harmless jokes" need to be taken a bit more seriously. An example: The other day, I was in a car with all Asian male friends, and the driver had parked his car. Aware he was a little close to the curb, he asked us if we had enough space on one side to get out. The passenger next to me jokingly (but almost automatically) blurted out "it's OK, you are Asian." No one gave a second thought about it, knowing he was joking around, but I was cringing internally. This is just one example out of the many that I have seen. FWIW, the driver of this car races cars and has a reputation in the local track scene. Now jokes like these seem harmless on the surface, but as I analyse things a little deeper, it appears to me that Asians have simply given up in a way. As if all the stereotypes of Asians suggested by media are now an accepted truth. Typing this up makes me feel like a sensitive little bitch, but I am not actually offended by these jokes. I mean, a joke is just light-hearted fun, I get that. However, I feel genuine concern about the status of Asians in western society, when Asians are enforcing the stereotypes themselves by telling these stereotypical jokes. It's even worse when there is a non-Asian in the group, and an Asian breaks out these jokes. I mean, when Asian people are admitting they suck at driving, then they probably DO suck at driving! This is what these jokes will convince others to believe. I'm sure some of you here tell Asian jokes sometimes without realizing the effects of doing so. It could be the classic "It's OK, I'm Asian" (honestly heard this one enough times). But honestly guys, these jokes do nothing for us and are said by others to make fun of us. These jokes have no place amongst an Asian community...it's just plain weird. I've also noticed its the ABCs/CBCs that like telling these Asian jokes, almost as if they took on the perspective of a Caucasian and telling jokes about Asians.

Asian jokes should not be told by Asians

print-is-dead

I agree with the right to privacy, but just not in situations where it's clear it doesn't apply. If I'm paying for a service and they sell my info to a third party without my permission, I will bitch. Services like Google and Facebook have two major options for generating revenue: charge for access or sell ads and keep it free. I like my internet services free, so I accept ads and the tracking and targeting that goes along with them. I see issues like NSA monitoring as separate. I haven't consented to that. I've consented to monitoring by the websites by signing up or visiting. Don't like ads and the associated tracking? Figure out which sites don't do that and use those. If a brick & mortar business did something you didn't like, you'd stop going there, right? This is not an "if you don't like it get out" argument. I'm just saying advertising is what keeps services free, that's the model. It's not like Google and Facebook are collecting data on you just to be dicks. They're doing it both to make money and to keep their services free. TL;DR: Ads / tracking = free. No ads = $. NSA bad. Hulk smash.

I agree with the right to privacy, but just not in situations where it's clear it doesn't apply. If I'm paying for a service and they sell my info to a third party without my permission, I will bitch. Services like Google and Facebook have two major options for generating revenue: charge for access or sell ads and keep it free. I like my internet services free, so I accept ads and the tracking and targeting that goes along with them. I see issues like NSA monitoring as separate. I haven't consented to that. I've consented to monitoring by the websites by signing up or visiting. Don't like ads and the associated tracking? Figure out which sites don't do that and use those. If a brick & mortar business did something you didn't like, you'd stop going there, right? This is not an "if you don't like it get out" argument. I'm just saying advertising is what keeps services free, that's the model. It's not like Google and Facebook are collecting data on you just to be dicks. They're doing it both to make money and to keep their services free. TL;DR: Ads / tracking = free. No ads = $. NSA bad. Hulk smash.

todayilearned

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co4uodz

I agree with the right to privacy, but just not in situations where it's clear it doesn't apply. If I'm paying for a service and they sell my info to a third party without my permission, I will bitch. Services like Google and Facebook have two major options for generating revenue: charge for access or sell ads and keep it free. I like my internet services free, so I accept ads and the tracking and targeting that goes along with them. I see issues like NSA monitoring as separate. I haven't consented to that. I've consented to monitoring by the websites by signing up or visiting. Don't like ads and the associated tracking? Figure out which sites don't do that and use those. If a brick & mortar business did something you didn't like, you'd stop going there, right? This is not an "if you don't like it get out" argument. I'm just saying advertising is what keeps services free, that's the model. It's not like Google and Facebook are collecting data on you just to be dicks. They're doing it both to make money and to keep their services free.

Ads / tracking = free. No ads = $. NSA bad. Hulk smash.

DontWantToSeeYourCat

MC5 - Kick Out the Jams I want this album sooooooo bad but I've never even seen it in person, let alone for sale. Also, I've never even been able to find ***one*** MC5 album in Boston. I've asked at six different record stores in and around the city but I always get the same answer: "Yeah, man, they're tough to find. Try checking in the 'Just In' section. They tend to stay in store very briefly." This makes me wonder whether I just always go to stores on bad days for finding MC5, or someone almost immediately buys it once it's sold to a store, or a store tends to get an MC5 album once a year. TL; DR I can never find *any* MC5 albums in Boston, MA.

MC5 - Kick Out the Jams I want this album sooooooo bad but I've never even seen it in person, let alone for sale. Also, I've never even been able to find one MC5 album in Boston. I've asked at six different record stores in and around the city but I always get the same answer: "Yeah, man, they're tough to find. Try checking in the 'Just In' section. They tend to stay in store very briefly." This makes me wonder whether I just always go to stores on bad days for finding MC5, or someone almost immediately buys it once it's sold to a store, or a store tends to get an MC5 album once a year. TL; DR I can never find any MC5 albums in Boston, MA.

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MC5 - Kick Out the Jams I want this album sooooooo bad but I've never even seen it in person, let alone for sale. Also, I've never even been able to find one MC5 album in Boston. I've asked at six different record stores in and around the city but I always get the same answer: "Yeah, man, they're tough to find. Try checking in the 'Just In' section. They tend to stay in store very briefly." This makes me wonder whether I just always go to stores on bad days for finding MC5, or someone almost immediately buys it once it's sold to a store, or a store tends to get an MC5 album once a year.

I can never find any MC5 albums in Boston, MA.

therealmuninns

**Edit 1** - Just clearing a few common comments up: 1)We are not planning on having kids; I have a vasectomy scheduled. 2) I'm not appeasing the besty, I am appeasing her and bestie knows she isn't religious, knows I'm an atheist. 3) Everyone knows I'm an atheist, except the *dozens* of people in the prep program, including our priest counselor. Everyone (I think) hopes this will be some kind of re-conversion experience for us. Ha. **Edit 2** - to try and give a more clear picture: I say "besty" but she hangs out with this person every other month at best. Probably talks to once a month. They are *good* friends, but it's not like he's going to be this **big ongoing influence** Original Post Follows: Bit of a rant, but I wanted to tell someone. My alt-account because of friends on reddit that don’t need to know this… I’ve agreed to this for her sake, and I’m going to be lying through my teeth for the next few months to dozens of people while going through marriage preparations, and more importantly I think, while saying my vows. My family is Catholic, my fiancée’s family is Catholic; they all want us to be married in the church, obv. More importantly, one of my fiancée’s best friends is a deacon in the church, and we are going to be his first wedding. That’s why this is her dream wedding. I have been an atheist for about 16 years, and I think my extremely conservative Catholic upbringing (homeschooled and Catholic school for 12 years, forced to attend mass and confession…being taught about the “homosexual agenda”, science education suppressed, living with constant guilt, etc.) was the single worst thing that has ever happened to me. Fiancée is a deist, and she is well aware of the resentment I harbor against the church; she is very grateful I’m doing this, and while I mind, I am willing. The marriage preparation within the church is nuts! For starters, we’re being counseled on how to live in our married life by a celibate man only a couple years older than us. We’re being sponsored by a “Canaanite Couple” (a married couple within the parish), that we get to have all kinds of friendly dinners and activities with while discussing why their marriage is so much more meaningful and stable than secular couples (it’s not). We’re going on a weekend marriage counseling retreat with other engaged couples to learn all about marriage within the church and “Natural Family Planning” and why actual effective contraception is sinful. Getting back into this indoctrinating echo-chamber, that is so obviously homophobic and so so so structured around traditional gender roles is strange but familiar to me… I’m lying to all of these people. It’s convincing because I am so familiar with the Catholic mindset, doctrine, etc. I’m going to continue this for months, and then I probably won’t see any of these people again after the wedding because I think the church is a net force for evil in the world even if it was all true, and I don’t want to associate with it. I don’t even feel bad about it, except that bailing after getting married might give atheists (or whatever they think I am) a bad name. Also we’re not giving the church any money except a $300 booking fee…which I think is reasonable. **TL;DR: Former Catholic, now atheist, getting married in the church. Lying through his teeth to dozens of people, convincingly, and wondering how anyone could think this is the best recipe for marriage.**

Edit 1 - Just clearing a few common comments up: 1)We are not planning on having kids; I have a vasectomy scheduled. 2) I'm not appeasing the besty, I am appeasing her and bestie knows she isn't religious, knows I'm an atheist. 3) Everyone knows I'm an atheist, except the dozens of people in the prep program, including our priest counselor. Everyone (I think) hopes this will be some kind of re-conversion experience for us. Ha. Edit 2 - to try and give a more clear picture: I say "besty" but she hangs out with this person every other month at best. Probably talks to once a month. They are good friends, but it's not like he's going to be this big ongoing influence Original Post Follows: Bit of a rant, but I wanted to tell someone. My alt-account because of friends on reddit that don’t need to know this… I’ve agreed to this for her sake, and I’m going to be lying through my teeth for the next few months to dozens of people while going through marriage preparations, and more importantly I think, while saying my vows. My family is Catholic, my fiancée’s family is Catholic; they all want us to be married in the church, obv. More importantly, one of my fiancée’s best friends is a deacon in the church, and we are going to be his first wedding. That’s why this is her dream wedding. I have been an atheist for about 16 years, and I think my extremely conservative Catholic upbringing (homeschooled and Catholic school for 12 years, forced to attend mass and confession…being taught about the “homosexual agenda”, science education suppressed, living with constant guilt, etc.) was the single worst thing that has ever happened to me. Fiancée is a deist, and she is well aware of the resentment I harbor against the church; she is very grateful I’m doing this, and while I mind, I am willing. The marriage preparation within the church is nuts! For starters, we’re being counseled on how to live in our married life by a celibate man only a couple years older than us. We’re being sponsored by a “Canaanite Couple” (a married couple within the parish), that we get to have all kinds of friendly dinners and activities with while discussing why their marriage is so much more meaningful and stable than secular couples (it’s not). We’re going on a weekend marriage counseling retreat with other engaged couples to learn all about marriage within the church and “Natural Family Planning” and why actual effective contraception is sinful. Getting back into this indoctrinating echo-chamber, that is so obviously homophobic and so so so structured around traditional gender roles is strange but familiar to me… I’m lying to all of these people. It’s convincing because I am so familiar with the Catholic mindset, doctrine, etc. I’m going to continue this for months, and then I probably won’t see any of these people again after the wedding because I think the church is a net force for evil in the world even if it was all true, and I don’t want to associate with it. I don’t even feel bad about it, except that bailing after getting married might give atheists (or whatever they think I am) a bad name. Also we’re not giving the church any money except a $300 booking fee…which I think is reasonable. TL;DR: Former Catholic, now atheist, getting married in the church. Lying through his teeth to dozens of people, convincingly, and wondering how anyone could think this is the best recipe for marriage.

TrueAtheism

t5_2soy6

t3_2csfqe

Edit 1 - Just clearing a few common comments up: 1)We are not planning on having kids; I have a vasectomy scheduled. 2) I'm not appeasing the besty, I am appeasing her and bestie knows she isn't religious, knows I'm an atheist. 3) Everyone knows I'm an atheist, except the dozens of people in the prep program, including our priest counselor. Everyone (I think) hopes this will be some kind of re-conversion experience for us. Ha. Edit 2 - to try and give a more clear picture: I say "besty" but she hangs out with this person every other month at best. Probably talks to once a month. They are good friends, but it's not like he's going to be this big ongoing influence Original Post Follows: Bit of a rant, but I wanted to tell someone. My alt-account because of friends on reddit that don’t need to know this… I’ve agreed to this for her sake, and I’m going to be lying through my teeth for the next few months to dozens of people while going through marriage preparations, and more importantly I think, while saying my vows. My family is Catholic, my fiancée’s family is Catholic; they all want us to be married in the church, obv. More importantly, one of my fiancée’s best friends is a deacon in the church, and we are going to be his first wedding. That’s why this is her dream wedding. I have been an atheist for about 16 years, and I think my extremely conservative Catholic upbringing (homeschooled and Catholic school for 12 years, forced to attend mass and confession…being taught about the “homosexual agenda”, science education suppressed, living with constant guilt, etc.) was the single worst thing that has ever happened to me. Fiancée is a deist, and she is well aware of the resentment I harbor against the church; she is very grateful I’m doing this, and while I mind, I am willing. The marriage preparation within the church is nuts! For starters, we’re being counseled on how to live in our married life by a celibate man only a couple years older than us. We’re being sponsored by a “Canaanite Couple” (a married couple within the parish), that we get to have all kinds of friendly dinners and activities with while discussing why their marriage is so much more meaningful and stable than secular couples (it’s not). We’re going on a weekend marriage counseling retreat with other engaged couples to learn all about marriage within the church and “Natural Family Planning” and why actual effective contraception is sinful. Getting back into this indoctrinating echo-chamber, that is so obviously homophobic and so so so structured around traditional gender roles is strange but familiar to me… I’m lying to all of these people. It’s convincing because I am so familiar with the Catholic mindset, doctrine, etc. I’m going to continue this for months, and then I probably won’t see any of these people again after the wedding because I think the church is a net force for evil in the world even if it was all true, and I don’t want to associate with it. I don’t even feel bad about it, except that bailing after getting married might give atheists (or whatever they think I am) a bad name. Also we’re not giving the church any money except a $300 booking fee…which I think is reasonable.

Former Catholic, now atheist, getting married in the church. Lying through his teeth to dozens of people, convincingly, and wondering how anyone could think this is the best recipe for marriage.

AcrobotPL

Everything depends on your preferences. I prefer iPad mini's form factor, while other people might dig iPad Air more. You said that you don't care about prices, however there's a $100 difference between versions. For $100, you can upgrade to the next-tier memory program. HD movies take a bit of space, so the more space available the better. The next thing worth considering is the weight. Mini weighs 331 gram, while the Air model is over 1/3 heavier. The difference, while small, might impact your usage style - I tend to hold the iPad mini in one hand, which couldn't be done comfortably with different iPad models. When it comes to screen size, Air is more suitable for watching movies than mini. Both iPads feature a retina display, so the image quality is the same. TL;DR - I'd take the mini, but the decision's mostly dependant on your preferred form factor.

Everything depends on your preferences. I prefer iPad mini's form factor, while other people might dig iPad Air more. You said that you don't care about prices, however there's a $100 difference between versions. For $100, you can upgrade to the next-tier memory program. HD movies take a bit of space, so the more space available the better. The next thing worth considering is the weight. Mini weighs 331 gram, while the Air model is over 1/3 heavier. The difference, while small, might impact your usage style - I tend to hold the iPad mini in one hand, which couldn't be done comfortably with different iPad models. When it comes to screen size, Air is more suitable for watching movies than mini. Both iPads feature a retina display, so the image quality is the same. TL;DR - I'd take the mini, but the decision's mostly dependant on your preferred form factor.

ipad

t5_2rgny

ccymbm0

Everything depends on your preferences. I prefer iPad mini's form factor, while other people might dig iPad Air more. You said that you don't care about prices, however there's a $100 difference between versions. For $100, you can upgrade to the next-tier memory program. HD movies take a bit of space, so the more space available the better. The next thing worth considering is the weight. Mini weighs 331 gram, while the Air model is over 1/3 heavier. The difference, while small, might impact your usage style - I tend to hold the iPad mini in one hand, which couldn't be done comfortably with different iPad models. When it comes to screen size, Air is more suitable for watching movies than mini. Both iPads feature a retina display, so the image quality is the same.

I'd take the mini, but the decision's mostly dependant on your preferred form factor.

Woodsy1998

Happened last week, so LWIFU. This girl started at my high school (senior year) at the start of this year. Since the moment I saw her, I was in awe. She's absolutely stunning and has a personality to suite. The problem is, she has been dating a guy since just before she came to me school. This guy, however, is a massive tool. Not saying that from a jealous want-to-be lover kind of thing; he's genuinely not a nice person. I've never seen them happy together. So queue me bitching about how she's so amazing to my best mates, and how I really like her. Oh well, she's taken, thoughts suppressed. Fast forward to last Monday; we talk as we have done a fair bit at school and she messages me in the afternoon on Facebook. She tells me she really likes me and has since she first saw me. Great. I tell her I really like her. Great. She's still with her boyfriend. Not so great. After a school function later that week, she drops me home and chills for a bit while we talk about everything; she doesn't want to be with her boyfriend but doesn't want to break up at the same time. So after a sold few hours of talking, she gets up to go, and I pull her back and kiss her, and she kisses back. She grabs her stuff, mumbling "Why did you have to do that..?" and we said our goodbyes. Now she's really confused and I'm confused and I'm sitting here sleepless as I think about her and I don't know what to do because I'm really impatient when it comes to these things. TL;DR kissed a beautiful girl, she's in a relationship.

Happened last week, so LWIFU. This girl started at my high school (senior year) at the start of this year. Since the moment I saw her, I was in awe. She's absolutely stunning and has a personality to suite. The problem is, she has been dating a guy since just before she came to me school. This guy, however, is a massive tool. Not saying that from a jealous want-to-be lover kind of thing; he's genuinely not a nice person. I've never seen them happy together. So queue me bitching about how she's so amazing to my best mates, and how I really like her. Oh well, she's taken, thoughts suppressed. Fast forward to last Monday; we talk as we have done a fair bit at school and she messages me in the afternoon on Facebook. She tells me she really likes me and has since she first saw me. Great. I tell her I really like her. Great. She's still with her boyfriend. Not so great. After a school function later that week, she drops me home and chills for a bit while we talk about everything; she doesn't want to be with her boyfriend but doesn't want to break up at the same time. So after a sold few hours of talking, she gets up to go, and I pull her back and kiss her, and she kisses back. She grabs her stuff, mumbling "Why did you have to do that..?" and we said our goodbyes. Now she's really confused and I'm confused and I'm sitting here sleepless as I think about her and I don't know what to do because I'm really impatient when it comes to these things. TL;DR kissed a beautiful girl, she's in a relationship.

tifu

t5_2to41

t3_3ggddo

Happened last week, so LWIFU. This girl started at my high school (senior year) at the start of this year. Since the moment I saw her, I was in awe. She's absolutely stunning and has a personality to suite. The problem is, she has been dating a guy since just before she came to me school. This guy, however, is a massive tool. Not saying that from a jealous want-to-be lover kind of thing; he's genuinely not a nice person. I've never seen them happy together. So queue me bitching about how she's so amazing to my best mates, and how I really like her. Oh well, she's taken, thoughts suppressed. Fast forward to last Monday; we talk as we have done a fair bit at school and she messages me in the afternoon on Facebook. She tells me she really likes me and has since she first saw me. Great. I tell her I really like her. Great. She's still with her boyfriend. Not so great. After a school function later that week, she drops me home and chills for a bit while we talk about everything; she doesn't want to be with her boyfriend but doesn't want to break up at the same time. So after a sold few hours of talking, she gets up to go, and I pull her back and kiss her, and she kisses back. She grabs her stuff, mumbling "Why did you have to do that..?" and we said our goodbyes. Now she's really confused and I'm confused and I'm sitting here sleepless as I think about her and I don't know what to do because I'm really impatient when it comes to these things.

kissed a beautiful girl, she's in a relationship.

Throwcore

Anub does the most dmg of the 3 by far, considering offensive talents of course. Because anub is actually a strong, meele fighter, unlike Stitches which is an initiator/tank (his dmg build is weak at best), and Tyrael which is a mix of both (but also weaker on the dmg side, stronger than stitches but weaker than anub). Tldr you made the right choice. Anub/Arthas/Illidan were the 3 meele I myself was interested in buying just 2 days after I joined this game.

Anub does the most dmg of the 3 by far, considering offensive talents of course. Because anub is actually a strong, meele fighter, unlike Stitches which is an initiator/tank (his dmg build is weak at best), and Tyrael which is a mix of both (but also weaker on the dmg side, stronger than stitches but weaker than anub). Tldr you made the right choice. Anub/Arthas/Illidan were the 3 meele I myself was interested in buying just 2 days after I joined this game.

heroesofthestorm

t5_2ym13

cljbwyb

Anub does the most dmg of the 3 by far, considering offensive talents of course. Because anub is actually a strong, meele fighter, unlike Stitches which is an initiator/tank (his dmg build is weak at best), and Tyrael which is a mix of both (but also weaker on the dmg side, stronger than stitches but weaker than anub).

you made the right choice. Anub/Arthas/Illidan were the 3 meele I myself was interested in buying just 2 days after I joined this game.

LuckyTherteen

I'm a 17-year-old boy and I was diagnosed a week ago with ADHD-PI. Turns out my dad has it too, but since he's lived with it for so long without knowing, he's got his own coping mechanisms and doesn't need any form of treatment. Myself, on the other hand, being young, have already been prescribed 20mg of vyvanse and was told to come back in two weeks to talk about continuing the prescription/changing the dosage. A little about myself, I have always had abysmal grades and have always chalked it up to being lazy. I have horrible self-confidence and constantly tell myself I have no talent and no future, even when regarding things I know I'm very good at. I find happiness in making music and acting and dancing, all of which I have been doing for a number of years. Now that I've been told I have ADHD, it's been a little easier to live with all the things I've constantly beat myself up for, but it feels like I'm using it as an excuse now, which I dislike. But I'm told by a friend who has ADHD-C and Asperger Syndrome that it gets better, although he was diagnosed at a much younger age. I'm starting to see a therapist every week, and hopefully that'll clear some things up. However, the last few days have really left me frustrated, lost, and frankly, a little pissed. I was diagnosed by my therapist last week, but was never actually told until we met on Wednesday. However, my parents were told right off the bat. They were immediately offered a medication solution, which they took. When my mom and I went to go see the doctor, she and my mom had a full ten minute conversation about medication and my newfound ADHD and everything, and didn't once acknowledge me in the room. We started me on vyvanse the next morning. The worst part for me is that I was never ever told what having ADHD means, what part of me is ADHD and what part isn't. I was never informed what exactly I should hope to expect from taking medication. Hell, I was never told what medication I was taking until after I started. Everything I now know about ADHD has been through my own independent research, and I know I've just barely scratched the surface. Everything around me seems to be dragging me along suddenly much faster than before the diagnosis, and throughout this whole process I've felt this giant feeling of a rush to fix what has been revealed as wrong for me. I'm not sure where to go about this except to just continue research and continue taking this medication, which doesn't seem to change anything (probably because it's very small, although I am a very skinny guy), but still leaves me drained and horribly tired at the end of the day. Just needed a space to rant all this out, and I didn't want to bother my friends, who are all at the big school football game having fun right now. Thanks. **TL;DR:** Newly diagnosed, very confused and frustrated. Wanted to type all my feelings out somewhere it might be safe to do so.

I'm a 17-year-old boy and I was diagnosed a week ago with ADHD-PI. Turns out my dad has it too, but since he's lived with it for so long without knowing, he's got his own coping mechanisms and doesn't need any form of treatment. Myself, on the other hand, being young, have already been prescribed 20mg of vyvanse and was told to come back in two weeks to talk about continuing the prescription/changing the dosage. A little about myself, I have always had abysmal grades and have always chalked it up to being lazy. I have horrible self-confidence and constantly tell myself I have no talent and no future, even when regarding things I know I'm very good at. I find happiness in making music and acting and dancing, all of which I have been doing for a number of years. Now that I've been told I have ADHD, it's been a little easier to live with all the things I've constantly beat myself up for, but it feels like I'm using it as an excuse now, which I dislike. But I'm told by a friend who has ADHD-C and Asperger Syndrome that it gets better, although he was diagnosed at a much younger age. I'm starting to see a therapist every week, and hopefully that'll clear some things up. However, the last few days have really left me frustrated, lost, and frankly, a little pissed. I was diagnosed by my therapist last week, but was never actually told until we met on Wednesday. However, my parents were told right off the bat. They were immediately offered a medication solution, which they took. When my mom and I went to go see the doctor, she and my mom had a full ten minute conversation about medication and my newfound ADHD and everything, and didn't once acknowledge me in the room. We started me on vyvanse the next morning. The worst part for me is that I was never ever told what having ADHD means, what part of me is ADHD and what part isn't. I was never informed what exactly I should hope to expect from taking medication. Hell, I was never told what medication I was taking until after I started. Everything I now know about ADHD has been through my own independent research, and I know I've just barely scratched the surface. Everything around me seems to be dragging me along suddenly much faster than before the diagnosis, and throughout this whole process I've felt this giant feeling of a rush to fix what has been revealed as wrong for me. I'm not sure where to go about this except to just continue research and continue taking this medication, which doesn't seem to change anything (probably because it's very small, although I am a very skinny guy), but still leaves me drained and horribly tired at the end of the day. Just needed a space to rant all this out, and I didn't want to bother my friends, who are all at the big school football game having fun right now. Thanks. TL;DR: Newly diagnosed, very confused and frustrated. Wanted to type all my feelings out somewhere it might be safe to do so.

ADHD

t5_2qnwb

t3_2jl1aw

I'm a 17-year-old boy and I was diagnosed a week ago with ADHD-PI. Turns out my dad has it too, but since he's lived with it for so long without knowing, he's got his own coping mechanisms and doesn't need any form of treatment. Myself, on the other hand, being young, have already been prescribed 20mg of vyvanse and was told to come back in two weeks to talk about continuing the prescription/changing the dosage. A little about myself, I have always had abysmal grades and have always chalked it up to being lazy. I have horrible self-confidence and constantly tell myself I have no talent and no future, even when regarding things I know I'm very good at. I find happiness in making music and acting and dancing, all of which I have been doing for a number of years. Now that I've been told I have ADHD, it's been a little easier to live with all the things I've constantly beat myself up for, but it feels like I'm using it as an excuse now, which I dislike. But I'm told by a friend who has ADHD-C and Asperger Syndrome that it gets better, although he was diagnosed at a much younger age. I'm starting to see a therapist every week, and hopefully that'll clear some things up. However, the last few days have really left me frustrated, lost, and frankly, a little pissed. I was diagnosed by my therapist last week, but was never actually told until we met on Wednesday. However, my parents were told right off the bat. They were immediately offered a medication solution, which they took. When my mom and I went to go see the doctor, she and my mom had a full ten minute conversation about medication and my newfound ADHD and everything, and didn't once acknowledge me in the room. We started me on vyvanse the next morning. The worst part for me is that I was never ever told what having ADHD means, what part of me is ADHD and what part isn't. I was never informed what exactly I should hope to expect from taking medication. Hell, I was never told what medication I was taking until after I started. Everything I now know about ADHD has been through my own independent research, and I know I've just barely scratched the surface. Everything around me seems to be dragging me along suddenly much faster than before the diagnosis, and throughout this whole process I've felt this giant feeling of a rush to fix what has been revealed as wrong for me. I'm not sure where to go about this except to just continue research and continue taking this medication, which doesn't seem to change anything (probably because it's very small, although I am a very skinny guy), but still leaves me drained and horribly tired at the end of the day. Just needed a space to rant all this out, and I didn't want to bother my friends, who are all at the big school football game having fun right now. Thanks.

Newly diagnosed, very confused and frustrated. Wanted to type all my feelings out somewhere it might be safe to do so.

BoltonSauce

Only seen the movie, but I love it. I don't get your reference though. Care to Tl:Dr it for me?

Only seen the movie, but I love it. I don't get your reference though. Care to Tl:Dr it for me?

asoiaf

t5_2r2o9

co7lg0i

Only seen the movie, but I love it. I don't get your reference though. Care to

it for me?

MagicCrab12

Grandmaster quest- Nice! New dragons- finally, looks great! Demon drops improved- Looks good! Maybe a reason to go back there; looking forward to the new wand and orb! Heist- Sounds kind of like GTA V. We'll see how it turns out. tl;dr: looking forward to februrary!

Grandmaster quest- Nice! New dragons- finally, looks great! Demon drops improved- Looks good! Maybe a reason to go back there; looking forward to the new wand and orb! Heist- Sounds kind of like GTA V. We'll see how it turns out. tl;dr: looking forward to februrary!

runescape

t5_2qwxl

cf4j6r8

Grandmaster quest- Nice! New dragons- finally, looks great! Demon drops improved- Looks good! Maybe a reason to go back there; looking forward to the new wand and orb! Heist- Sounds kind of like GTA V. We'll see how it turns out.

looking forward to februrary!

lumberjacksareOK

I've asked a few questions, and have plenty more, being my first year cutting my own wood. When do you all get out there and start? I'm in Central New York state and it's 18 below zero Fahrenheit. I've done a little bit of work with the new carbide chain I bought, but holy crap as a one-man operation this would be so much easier without snow on the ground and frost in my nose. But, if now is the best time I will keep going out there. tl/dr: Am I smart to wait for a warmup or is it go-time for firewood? EDIT: No, i'm not out of season firewood for this year. I'm just trying to get ready for next year. Seems like I am definitely jumping the gun, we're way behind depending on how you look at it.

I've asked a few questions, and have plenty more, being my first year cutting my own wood. When do you all get out there and start? I'm in Central New York state and it's 18 below zero Fahrenheit. I've done a little bit of work with the new carbide chain I bought, but holy crap as a one-man operation this would be so much easier without snow on the ground and frost in my nose. But, if now is the best time I will keep going out there. tl/dr: Am I smart to wait for a warmup or is it go-time for firewood? EDIT: No, i'm not out of season firewood for this year. I'm just trying to get ready for next year. Seems like I am definitely jumping the gun, we're way behind depending on how you look at it.

homestead

t5_2s8lc

t3_2w3xtg

I've asked a few questions, and have plenty more, being my first year cutting my own wood. When do you all get out there and start? I'm in Central New York state and it's 18 below zero Fahrenheit. I've done a little bit of work with the new carbide chain I bought, but holy crap as a one-man operation this would be so much easier without snow on the ground and frost in my nose. But, if now is the best time I will keep going out there.

Am I smart to wait for a warmup or is it go-time for firewood? EDIT: No, i'm not out of season firewood for this year. I'm just trying to get ready for next year. Seems like I am definitely jumping the gun, we're way behind depending on how you look at it.

dbacks_Nation

Link to Cap in comments below: Hey everyone, I am a New Era cap collector and I own more than 150 On-Field Fitteds, and I even [own one of the rare authentic Noc-a-homa BP caps]( and know that members here are still looking for them. After helping a half-dozen members here or on r/baseball, seems like the well has run dry and they're extremely hard to find. HatClub is a New Era cap distributor and I know the cap designer they have whom is centralized in Phoenix, AZ, recently he attempted to have a Custom New Era cap designed that would help people who weren't able to get the original caps. Basically the cap is NOT a pure reproduction and differs from the BP cap in many ways, but at the same time it is the second best to the real thing. 1. The material use, this cap is 100% Chinese Wool. The Authentic cap is 100% Chinese Polyester made of the new Diamond Era BP material. 1. The underbrim of the cap is grey, this is inaccurate in regard to the actual BP cap in which it was black. 1. The logo is completely embroidered, the original cap used an [embroidery and patch]( method in which the white part of the logo was white material laid down and adhered to the cap via the red stitching that went above it. 1. The New Era logo is present on the side of the cap, but this is in a color that can't easily be seen but can be removed using a [seam ripper]( 1. There is no MLB Batterman logo on the rear of the cap, which is present on all On-Field Fitteds. The logo was not permitted on this particular cap so that it could distance itself from the original BP cap and not be mistaken for it, it sucks that it was missing but that was what required to produce it. TLDR: Sick New Era cap that closely replicates the BP cap that was never sold to the public

Link to Cap in comments below: Hey everyone, I am a New Era cap collector and I own more than 150 On-Field Fitteds, and I even [own one of the rare authentic Noc-a-homa BP caps]( and know that members here are still looking for them. After helping a half-dozen members here or on r/baseball, seems like the well has run dry and they're extremely hard to find. HatClub is a New Era cap distributor and I know the cap designer they have whom is centralized in Phoenix, AZ, recently he attempted to have a Custom New Era cap designed that would help people who weren't able to get the original caps. Basically the cap is NOT a pure reproduction and differs from the BP cap in many ways, but at the same time it is the second best to the real thing. The material use, this cap is 100% Chinese Wool. The Authentic cap is 100% Chinese Polyester made of the new Diamond Era BP material. The underbrim of the cap is grey, this is inaccurate in regard to the actual BP cap in which it was black. The logo is completely embroidered, the original cap used an [embroidery and patch]( method in which the white part of the logo was white material laid down and adhered to the cap via the red stitching that went above it. The New Era logo is present on the side of the cap, but this is in a color that can't easily be seen but can be removed using a [seam ripper]( There is no MLB Batterman logo on the rear of the cap, which is present on all On-Field Fitteds. The logo was not permitted on this particular cap so that it could distance itself from the original BP cap and not be mistaken for it, it sucks that it was missing but that was what required to produce it. TLDR: Sick New Era cap that closely replicates the BP cap that was never sold to the public

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Link to Cap in comments below: Hey everyone, I am a New Era cap collector and I own more than 150 On-Field Fitteds, and I even [own one of the rare authentic Noc-a-homa BP caps]( and know that members here are still looking for them. After helping a half-dozen members here or on r/baseball, seems like the well has run dry and they're extremely hard to find. HatClub is a New Era cap distributor and I know the cap designer they have whom is centralized in Phoenix, AZ, recently he attempted to have a Custom New Era cap designed that would help people who weren't able to get the original caps. Basically the cap is NOT a pure reproduction and differs from the BP cap in many ways, but at the same time it is the second best to the real thing. The material use, this cap is 100% Chinese Wool. The Authentic cap is 100% Chinese Polyester made of the new Diamond Era BP material. The underbrim of the cap is grey, this is inaccurate in regard to the actual BP cap in which it was black. The logo is completely embroidered, the original cap used an [embroidery and patch]( method in which the white part of the logo was white material laid down and adhered to the cap via the red stitching that went above it. The New Era logo is present on the side of the cap, but this is in a color that can't easily be seen but can be removed using a [seam ripper]( There is no MLB Batterman logo on the rear of the cap, which is present on all On-Field Fitteds. The logo was not permitted on this particular cap so that it could distance itself from the original BP cap and not be mistaken for it, it sucks that it was missing but that was what required to produce it.

Sick New Era cap that closely replicates the BP cap that was never sold to the public

Pum_Pum

I've already told this story once before but didn't receive much recognition. It's a story about when I nearly set someone on fire. So, one day, at my local college doing a level 2 in professional catering & hospitality, we were searing salmon in oil when all of a sudden Ed Balls and 5 cameramen from the BBC walk in wanting an interview with a student. Me at the time, just turned 16, just stood there in fear hoping not to be interviewed by the arsehole that removed EMA (Educational Maintenance Allowance). So my friend walks away slowly as I'm confronted by the huge camera and member of parliament and asked about my opinion on EMA being discontinued. I continued to answer him before his attention went to my salmon, I had cooked one side incorrectly so awkwardly explained to him in small talk before all of a sudden my pan blew up a 6 foot fireball, Ed and the cameramen dodging the flames as my tutor (Ex-chef at The Ritz) came to my rescue reducing the flames as I shake Ed's hand timidly and proceed to talk to my co-workers when they all go crazy because they wanted to be interviewed but as soon as they saw the cameramen walk in I was done for and they all hid. TL;DR: The BBC interviewed me in front of a hot oven at college, nearly set a member of parliament on fire.

I've already told this story once before but didn't receive much recognition. It's a story about when I nearly set someone on fire. So, one day, at my local college doing a level 2 in professional catering & hospitality, we were searing salmon in oil when all of a sudden Ed Balls and 5 cameramen from the BBC walk in wanting an interview with a student. Me at the time, just turned 16, just stood there in fear hoping not to be interviewed by the arsehole that removed EMA (Educational Maintenance Allowance). So my friend walks away slowly as I'm confronted by the huge camera and member of parliament and asked about my opinion on EMA being discontinued. I continued to answer him before his attention went to my salmon, I had cooked one side incorrectly so awkwardly explained to him in small talk before all of a sudden my pan blew up a 6 foot fireball, Ed and the cameramen dodging the flames as my tutor (Ex-chef at The Ritz) came to my rescue reducing the flames as I shake Ed's hand timidly and proceed to talk to my co-workers when they all go crazy because they wanted to be interviewed but as soon as they saw the cameramen walk in I was done for and they all hid. TL;DR: The BBC interviewed me in front of a hot oven at college, nearly set a member of parliament on fire.

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I've already told this story once before but didn't receive much recognition. It's a story about when I nearly set someone on fire. So, one day, at my local college doing a level 2 in professional catering & hospitality, we were searing salmon in oil when all of a sudden Ed Balls and 5 cameramen from the BBC walk in wanting an interview with a student. Me at the time, just turned 16, just stood there in fear hoping not to be interviewed by the arsehole that removed EMA (Educational Maintenance Allowance). So my friend walks away slowly as I'm confronted by the huge camera and member of parliament and asked about my opinion on EMA being discontinued. I continued to answer him before his attention went to my salmon, I had cooked one side incorrectly so awkwardly explained to him in small talk before all of a sudden my pan blew up a 6 foot fireball, Ed and the cameramen dodging the flames as my tutor (Ex-chef at The Ritz) came to my rescue reducing the flames as I shake Ed's hand timidly and proceed to talk to my co-workers when they all go crazy because they wanted to be interviewed but as soon as they saw the cameramen walk in I was done for and they all hid.

The BBC interviewed me in front of a hot oven at college, nearly set a member of parliament on fire.

All_For_Honor

I've been dipping for a few years now and i have tried snuff a few times, always copenhagen though. If you have had any natural flavors, it tastes the same except a bit stronger. If you're going to try it i advise that you know how to pack cans really well. The buzz is good and noticeable and last for about 30 minutes or so. But after it all done and you want to get rid of it, it's a bitch. I recommend having water or something else nearby to rinse your mouth out afterwards. TL:DR Pros and cons. For some and not for others.

I've been dipping for a few years now and i have tried snuff a few times, always copenhagen though. If you have had any natural flavors, it tastes the same except a bit stronger. If you're going to try it i advise that you know how to pack cans really well. The buzz is good and noticeable and last for about 30 minutes or so. But after it all done and you want to get rid of it, it's a bitch. I recommend having water or something else nearby to rinse your mouth out afterwards. TL:DR Pros and cons. For some and not for others.

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I've been dipping for a few years now and i have tried snuff a few times, always copenhagen though. If you have had any natural flavors, it tastes the same except a bit stronger. If you're going to try it i advise that you know how to pack cans really well. The buzz is good and noticeable and last for about 30 minutes or so. But after it all done and you want to get rid of it, it's a bitch. I recommend having water or something else nearby to rinse your mouth out afterwards.

Pros and cons. For some and not for others.

Gen_E_Awesome

A few years ago I was working as a camp counsellor for poor/troubled kids from inner city LA. One of the kids was evil incarnate. He would threaten other kids, generally disrespect everyone, and for multiple nights in a row try to run away into the woods. All of this culminated in me not getting any sleep for 3-4 nights in a row. Now, the camp was only a week long for his session, but he ended up getting kicked out halfway through after he got in a fight with another camper. However, prior to this, everyone in my cabin was supposed to do a fun tower climb activity. Everyone wanted to do it, including him. It comes time to do the climb though, and he refuses to listen to safety instructions/causing every other camper to not be able to do it. He then proceeds to try to run away (again, into the woods where he would basically die from being miles from nowhere). I tried to reason with him, but he started pushing me and baiting me to do something. After a few minutes, my co-counselor got there and took over, but I've never been closer to hitting a child (he was around 13). I was so shaken by it that I had to go off on my own, at which point I broke down in tears. I was so ready to haul off and cold clock this little shit stain of a kid, and I couldn't believe that I could have even gone that far. It doesn't seem that much, but it made me really think about myself and what kind of man I am. TL;DR: I have to babysit the middle schooler from hell, and nearly beat the crap out of him. This makes me question who I am as a man, which makes me break down and cry.

A few years ago I was working as a camp counsellor for poor/troubled kids from inner city LA. One of the kids was evil incarnate. He would threaten other kids, generally disrespect everyone, and for multiple nights in a row try to run away into the woods. All of this culminated in me not getting any sleep for 3-4 nights in a row. Now, the camp was only a week long for his session, but he ended up getting kicked out halfway through after he got in a fight with another camper. However, prior to this, everyone in my cabin was supposed to do a fun tower climb activity. Everyone wanted to do it, including him. It comes time to do the climb though, and he refuses to listen to safety instructions/causing every other camper to not be able to do it. He then proceeds to try to run away (again, into the woods where he would basically die from being miles from nowhere). I tried to reason with him, but he started pushing me and baiting me to do something. After a few minutes, my co-counselor got there and took over, but I've never been closer to hitting a child (he was around 13). I was so shaken by it that I had to go off on my own, at which point I broke down in tears. I was so ready to haul off and cold clock this little shit stain of a kid, and I couldn't believe that I could have even gone that far. It doesn't seem that much, but it made me really think about myself and what kind of man I am. TL;DR: I have to babysit the middle schooler from hell, and nearly beat the crap out of him. This makes me question who I am as a man, which makes me break down and cry.

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A few years ago I was working as a camp counsellor for poor/troubled kids from inner city LA. One of the kids was evil incarnate. He would threaten other kids, generally disrespect everyone, and for multiple nights in a row try to run away into the woods. All of this culminated in me not getting any sleep for 3-4 nights in a row. Now, the camp was only a week long for his session, but he ended up getting kicked out halfway through after he got in a fight with another camper. However, prior to this, everyone in my cabin was supposed to do a fun tower climb activity. Everyone wanted to do it, including him. It comes time to do the climb though, and he refuses to listen to safety instructions/causing every other camper to not be able to do it. He then proceeds to try to run away (again, into the woods where he would basically die from being miles from nowhere). I tried to reason with him, but he started pushing me and baiting me to do something. After a few minutes, my co-counselor got there and took over, but I've never been closer to hitting a child (he was around 13). I was so shaken by it that I had to go off on my own, at which point I broke down in tears. I was so ready to haul off and cold clock this little shit stain of a kid, and I couldn't believe that I could have even gone that far. It doesn't seem that much, but it made me really think about myself and what kind of man I am.

I have to babysit the middle schooler from hell, and nearly beat the crap out of him. This makes me question who I am as a man, which makes me break down and cry.

MrsJetson

I once went to the bar with a group of my girlfriends I don't often see. We were looking forward to an evening of drunken shenanigans and letting loose. We even got a little dolled up - my friend Kate wore her hot new cowboy boots and showed them off before we left. We got to the bar and started buying the rounds, my tiny frame quickly reaching the tipsy point. After a few hours, I went to the restroom to evacuate some of the beer and shots I'd been downing. While I'm doing my thing, I see under the stall door Kate's sexy boots waltz in. Now, this was not long after the [Larry Craig Scandal]( so as Kate stepped into the stall next to me, I (in my drunken state) thought it would be hilarious to give her a couple "toes taps" under the door. I slid it under the partition and started moving my foot around, even giving her a couple light taps on her cute little boots. No response. I did it a few more times and *nothing*. Finally I banged on the stall wall and said, "Come on baby, give me a little sugar!" Kate still didn't respond, so I finished my business and got out to wash my hands. As I did, I saw a glimpse of my neighbor through the stall door. And I realized that the bleach blonde hair I was seeing was NOT a match to my friend Kate. I had just propositioned a stranger in a dirty bar bathroom. I booked it out of there and my friends and I left before I was arrested. **TL;DR: I accidentally came onto a stranger in a bar bathroom.**

I once went to the bar with a group of my girlfriends I don't often see. We were looking forward to an evening of drunken shenanigans and letting loose. We even got a little dolled up - my friend Kate wore her hot new cowboy boots and showed them off before we left. We got to the bar and started buying the rounds, my tiny frame quickly reaching the tipsy point. After a few hours, I went to the restroom to evacuate some of the beer and shots I'd been downing. While I'm doing my thing, I see under the stall door Kate's sexy boots waltz in. Now, this was not long after the Larry Craig Scandal thought it would be hilarious to give her a couple "toes taps" under the door. I slid it under the partition and started moving my foot around, even giving her a couple light taps on her cute little boots. No response. I did it a few more times and nothing . Finally I banged on the stall wall and said, "Come on baby, give me a little sugar!" Kate still didn't respond, so I finished my business and got out to wash my hands. As I did, I saw a glimpse of my neighbor through the stall door. And I realized that the bleach blonde hair I was seeing was NOT a match to my friend Kate. I had just propositioned a stranger in a dirty bar bathroom. I booked it out of there and my friends and I left before I was arrested. TL;DR: I accidentally came onto a stranger in a bar bathroom.

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I once went to the bar with a group of my girlfriends I don't often see. We were looking forward to an evening of drunken shenanigans and letting loose. We even got a little dolled up - my friend Kate wore her hot new cowboy boots and showed them off before we left. We got to the bar and started buying the rounds, my tiny frame quickly reaching the tipsy point. After a few hours, I went to the restroom to evacuate some of the beer and shots I'd been downing. While I'm doing my thing, I see under the stall door Kate's sexy boots waltz in. Now, this was not long after the Larry Craig Scandal thought it would be hilarious to give her a couple "toes taps" under the door. I slid it under the partition and started moving my foot around, even giving her a couple light taps on her cute little boots. No response. I did it a few more times and nothing . Finally I banged on the stall wall and said, "Come on baby, give me a little sugar!" Kate still didn't respond, so I finished my business and got out to wash my hands. As I did, I saw a glimpse of my neighbor through the stall door. And I realized that the bleach blonde hair I was seeing was NOT a match to my friend Kate. I had just propositioned a stranger in a dirty bar bathroom. I booked it out of there and my friends and I left before I was arrested.

I accidentally came onto a stranger in a bar bathroom.

qweernstrom

Hot or ugly? Yeah, you definitely came out on the good end of that one, no contest. Even without makeup you're better looking than most people. TL;DR: *Daaaayyyyuuummmnn.*

Hot or ugly? Yeah, you definitely came out on the good end of that one, no contest. Even without makeup you're better looking than most people. TL;DR: Daaaayyyyuuummmnn.

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Hot or ugly? Yeah, you definitely came out on the good end of that one, no contest. Even without makeup you're better looking than most people.

Daaaayyyyuuummmnn.

alabastercandymaster

I've had crippling panic attacks, migraines, and severe depression and anxiety since I was 14 (I'm now 30). I've had appointments with countless therapists, physicians, psychiatrists, an neurologists. I've been on six different anti-depressants, 4 different anti-anxiety meds, and two anti-migraine meds (never more than one med at the same time). Three months ago I was diagnosed with Adult ADHD and started taking Adderall XR every day. I cannot begin to describe the *pure joy* I feel now that the anxiety, depression, headaches, and ADHD symptoms have been completely wiped away. **tl;dr:** I might be the exception, but I would be completely miserable and unable to function without medication.

I've had crippling panic attacks, migraines, and severe depression and anxiety since I was 14 (I'm now 30). I've had appointments with countless therapists, physicians, psychiatrists, an neurologists. I've been on six different anti-depressants, 4 different anti-anxiety meds, and two anti-migraine meds (never more than one med at the same time). Three months ago I was diagnosed with Adult ADHD and started taking Adderall XR every day. I cannot begin to describe the pure joy I feel now that the anxiety, depression, headaches, and ADHD symptoms have been completely wiped away. tl;dr: I might be the exception, but I would be completely miserable and unable to function without medication.

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I've had crippling panic attacks, migraines, and severe depression and anxiety since I was 14 (I'm now 30). I've had appointments with countless therapists, physicians, psychiatrists, an neurologists. I've been on six different anti-depressants, 4 different anti-anxiety meds, and two anti-migraine meds (never more than one med at the same time). Three months ago I was diagnosed with Adult ADHD and started taking Adderall XR every day. I cannot begin to describe the pure joy I feel now that the anxiety, depression, headaches, and ADHD symptoms have been completely wiped away.

I might be the exception, but I would be completely miserable and unable to function without medication.

lessthan3man

I haven't seen this argument yet so I'll throw my thoughts into this. I think your friends response is similar to the idea that, "If you're not doing anything wrong, why do you care?". Look at it this way, the government is compiling a huge amount of data on innocent people that will probably never be used against that person but is still stored in some database somewhere. What would happen if that database was breached? In light of all the recent private data "hacking" breaches, I find that it is a fair assumption that millions of innocent people's private data is at risk here. (nice website showing recent breaches I'm assuming that some of the US's best internet security programmers and developers are hard at work to make sure this doesn't happen, but the US government also developed HealthCare.gov (completely separate departments I know, but just trying to prove a point here). So you basically have millions of people's private data being stored at risk for reasons that the NSA cannot even prove help insure US security in any way. It is a waste to monitor the vast majority of US citizens when the risk of that information getting into the wrong hands outweighs the "benefits" of national security. In my opinion anyways. TL;DR "If you're not doing anything wrong, why do you care?" is an invalid argument for NSA monitoring since it DOES matter. While the US government might never use your collected information against you, someone/something else might.

I haven't seen this argument yet so I'll throw my thoughts into this. I think your friends response is similar to the idea that, "If you're not doing anything wrong, why do you care?". Look at it this way, the government is compiling a huge amount of data on innocent people that will probably never be used against that person but is still stored in some database somewhere. What would happen if that database was breached? In light of all the recent private data "hacking" breaches, I find that it is a fair assumption that millions of innocent people's private data is at risk here. (nice website showing recent breaches I'm assuming that some of the US's best internet security programmers and developers are hard at work to make sure this doesn't happen, but the US government also developed HealthCare.gov (completely separate departments I know, but just trying to prove a point here). So you basically have millions of people's private data being stored at risk for reasons that the NSA cannot even prove help insure US security in any way. It is a waste to monitor the vast majority of US citizens when the risk of that information getting into the wrong hands outweighs the "benefits" of national security. In my opinion anyways. TL;DR "If you're not doing anything wrong, why do you care?" is an invalid argument for NSA monitoring since it DOES matter. While the US government might never use your collected information against you, someone/something else might.

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I haven't seen this argument yet so I'll throw my thoughts into this. I think your friends response is similar to the idea that, "If you're not doing anything wrong, why do you care?". Look at it this way, the government is compiling a huge amount of data on innocent people that will probably never be used against that person but is still stored in some database somewhere. What would happen if that database was breached? In light of all the recent private data "hacking" breaches, I find that it is a fair assumption that millions of innocent people's private data is at risk here. (nice website showing recent breaches I'm assuming that some of the US's best internet security programmers and developers are hard at work to make sure this doesn't happen, but the US government also developed HealthCare.gov (completely separate departments I know, but just trying to prove a point here). So you basically have millions of people's private data being stored at risk for reasons that the NSA cannot even prove help insure US security in any way. It is a waste to monitor the vast majority of US citizens when the risk of that information getting into the wrong hands outweighs the "benefits" of national security. In my opinion anyways.

If you're not doing anything wrong, why do you care?" is an invalid argument for NSA monitoring since it DOES matter. While the US government might never use your collected information against you, someone/something else might.

chaz345

The simple solution is ditch the car payment. It's a myth that older, paid for in cash cars are less dependable that new ones and that what you save in payments you pay for in repairs. Until last summer I drove a 91 Subaru 160 miles a day commuting. In the 5 years I had it, it failed to get me to or home from work 3 times and I spend a total of 800 in failure repairs over that 5 years. Yes there were other maintenance costs, but I would have had those on a new car too. Over the course of owning that car, the cost of ownership(not the cost to run it) was 1.4 cents a mile. Any car that one is making payments on is going to be in the 15 to cents a mile range, just to own it. TL:DR Until you kill off your student loan debt, driver a paid for car it can really help your monthly cash flow.

The simple solution is ditch the car payment. It's a myth that older, paid for in cash cars are less dependable that new ones and that what you save in payments you pay for in repairs. Until last summer I drove a 91 Subaru 160 miles a day commuting. In the 5 years I had it, it failed to get me to or home from work 3 times and I spend a total of 800 in failure repairs over that 5 years. Yes there were other maintenance costs, but I would have had those on a new car too. Over the course of owning that car, the cost of ownership(not the cost to run it) was 1.4 cents a mile. Any car that one is making payments on is going to be in the 15 to cents a mile range, just to own it. TL:DR Until you kill off your student loan debt, driver a paid for car it can really help your monthly cash flow.

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The simple solution is ditch the car payment. It's a myth that older, paid for in cash cars are less dependable that new ones and that what you save in payments you pay for in repairs. Until last summer I drove a 91 Subaru 160 miles a day commuting. In the 5 years I had it, it failed to get me to or home from work 3 times and I spend a total of 800 in failure repairs over that 5 years. Yes there were other maintenance costs, but I would have had those on a new car too. Over the course of owning that car, the cost of ownership(not the cost to run it) was 1.4 cents a mile. Any car that one is making payments on is going to be in the 15 to cents a mile range, just to own it.

Until you kill off your student loan debt, driver a paid for car it can really help your monthly cash flow.

joebbowers

One Million Moms is a religious organization that hates gays. Every week or so, they send out a notice to their mailing list subscribers to notify them of companies that support gay and lesbian rights. In the email they provide a link to contact the heads of those companies and complain. I've found this mailing list to be a fantastic way of finding out which companies are supporting gay and lesbian rights, and being able to immediately voice my support to these companies directly through the convenient link provided by One Million Moms! Recently I've used their own website to write encouraging letters of support to Oreo, DC Comics, and JC Penney for their brave stance in support of gay rights. Their link pre-fills a subject line and email body with anti-gay hate speech and boycott threats, which you can easily delete and replace with your words of encouragement! Tell these great companies that you stand with them in their support of the LGBT community and use the One Million Moms' own resources against them! TL;DR Use their own tools to find out who these bigots are hating and show our support for LGBT rights!

One Million Moms is a religious organization that hates gays. Every week or so, they send out a notice to their mailing list subscribers to notify them of companies that support gay and lesbian rights. In the email they provide a link to contact the heads of those companies and complain. I've found this mailing list to be a fantastic way of finding out which companies are supporting gay and lesbian rights, and being able to immediately voice my support to these companies directly through the convenient link provided by One Million Moms! Recently I've used their own website to write encouraging letters of support to Oreo, DC Comics, and JC Penney for their brave stance in support of gay rights. Their link pre-fills a subject line and email body with anti-gay hate speech and boycott threats, which you can easily delete and replace with your words of encouragement! Tell these great companies that you stand with them in their support of the LGBT community and use the One Million Moms' own resources against them! TL;DR Use their own tools to find out who these bigots are hating and show our support for LGBT rights!

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One Million Moms is a religious organization that hates gays. Every week or so, they send out a notice to their mailing list subscribers to notify them of companies that support gay and lesbian rights. In the email they provide a link to contact the heads of those companies and complain. I've found this mailing list to be a fantastic way of finding out which companies are supporting gay and lesbian rights, and being able to immediately voice my support to these companies directly through the convenient link provided by One Million Moms! Recently I've used their own website to write encouraging letters of support to Oreo, DC Comics, and JC Penney for their brave stance in support of gay rights. Their link pre-fills a subject line and email body with anti-gay hate speech and boycott threats, which you can easily delete and replace with your words of encouragement! Tell these great companies that you stand with them in their support of the LGBT community and use the One Million Moms' own resources against them!

Use their own tools to find out who these bigots are hating and show our support for LGBT rights!

heatherpoo

My husband just started telecommuting and we live in Cali. We actually like the area we live in, but we're tired of the high cost of living and with 2 little kids getting ready to start grade school soon, we're concerned about California's deficit and cost cuts to public education. Because we can move anywhere with my husband's job, we're looking at Oregon. We've always wanted to live in the Pacific Northwest. We've lived in areas that are foggy and rainy most of the time on the Central Coast and actually love it, so I'm not concerned about the weather. In fact my husband gets migraine headaches with too much exposure to sunlight. Anyway, I was wondering in regards to schools and general quality of life for a family of 4, is it better to live in one of the suburbs or outlying areas such as Beaverton or Vancouver, or are we better off in the city. We've lived in relatively low population areas for the past few years, so I have some misgivings about living right in the middle of a big city, but I keep hearing how great Portland urban life is. Just an FYI, children are 2 and 4 years old, so I will need a good preschool as well. My husband and I are liberal leaning atheists. TL;DR Are the burbs or inner city Portland better for a young left-leaning atheist family of 4 with young children? Thanks for all the great responses. We are hoping to pack it up in the RV and head out to visit sometime this week. Any recommendations on the best route of finding a place to rent and discovering neighborhoods with good schools??

My husband just started telecommuting and we live in Cali. We actually like the area we live in, but we're tired of the high cost of living and with 2 little kids getting ready to start grade school soon, we're concerned about California's deficit and cost cuts to public education. Because we can move anywhere with my husband's job, we're looking at Oregon. We've always wanted to live in the Pacific Northwest. We've lived in areas that are foggy and rainy most of the time on the Central Coast and actually love it, so I'm not concerned about the weather. In fact my husband gets migraine headaches with too much exposure to sunlight. Anyway, I was wondering in regards to schools and general quality of life for a family of 4, is it better to live in one of the suburbs or outlying areas such as Beaverton or Vancouver, or are we better off in the city. We've lived in relatively low population areas for the past few years, so I have some misgivings about living right in the middle of a big city, but I keep hearing how great Portland urban life is. Just an FYI, children are 2 and 4 years old, so I will need a good preschool as well. My husband and I are liberal leaning atheists. TL;DR Are the burbs or inner city Portland better for a young left-leaning atheist family of 4 with young children? Thanks for all the great responses. We are hoping to pack it up in the RV and head out to visit sometime this week. Any recommendations on the best route of finding a place to rent and discovering neighborhoods with good schools??

Portland

t5_2qi2i

t3_f3kvw

My husband just started telecommuting and we live in Cali. We actually like the area we live in, but we're tired of the high cost of living and with 2 little kids getting ready to start grade school soon, we're concerned about California's deficit and cost cuts to public education. Because we can move anywhere with my husband's job, we're looking at Oregon. We've always wanted to live in the Pacific Northwest. We've lived in areas that are foggy and rainy most of the time on the Central Coast and actually love it, so I'm not concerned about the weather. In fact my husband gets migraine headaches with too much exposure to sunlight. Anyway, I was wondering in regards to schools and general quality of life for a family of 4, is it better to live in one of the suburbs or outlying areas such as Beaverton or Vancouver, or are we better off in the city. We've lived in relatively low population areas for the past few years, so I have some misgivings about living right in the middle of a big city, but I keep hearing how great Portland urban life is. Just an FYI, children are 2 and 4 years old, so I will need a good preschool as well. My husband and I are liberal leaning atheists.

Are the burbs or inner city Portland better for a young left-leaning atheist family of 4 with young children? Thanks for all the great responses. We are hoping to pack it up in the RV and head out to visit sometime this week. Any recommendations on the best route of finding a place to rent and discovering neighborhoods with good schools??

australian_throwaway

My gf and I have been dating for approximately 1 and a half years and lived together for a year. In the time that I have known her, she barely drinks; she often has two drinks and then says she's too bloated to keep drinking. Recently she's moved to Mt Bulla, a mountain 3 hours north of Melbourne, where she's working in a restaurant and a bar for 3 months. I have to grit my teeth with stories about her walking home with drunken guys, passing out on coaches and many other things that given her situation aren't that unusual but that really wind me up. I have been trying to find out what she's been up to most days, but I feel so cut off, she's away from home without any accountability and drinking to the point of blacking out every night. My gut feels like it's in knots just thinking about this. I just fear that one night she's going to come home and hook up with one of her housemates and that I’ll be completely oblivious. To compound the issue, I went up there to spend a night in a private lodge for the night just me and her. I was also trying to sus out her accommodation, whether she had told people about our relationship and other things while i was there. In which time, we bumped into some room mates on the mountain who had no idea that she was even in a relationship. We went back to her accommodation so i could meet people and feel a little bit more comfortable, however the awkwardness continued and she became quiet when one of the guys walked into the room. The same guy that her mum had told me she hung out with at the bar, the same guy that she apparently found attractive and the same guy that walked her home. In spite of all this, the night at the lodge actually went pretty well and I felt like everything was fine. Now that I've returned home my insecurities have returned two-fold, I have checked her facebook messages (she left it logged in on my computer) and other things covertly to work out if she's being honest. Am I overstepping boundaries here? What do you guys suggest? I am literally stressing to the point of not eating or sleeping properly :( help me reddit! TLDR; My gf went to work at the snow, she's been acting suspicious and it's making me a nervous wreck. EDIT: I told her that I have been unnecessarily clingy, but also that she needs to communicate more. She replied by saying that she doesn't think about me when she's hanging out with new friends and that I should text if I ever want to chat. This has upset me because I would have hoped she at least thought about me, cared how my day was going, missed me and all of that. So I basically told her that I need a call every other day, even of that means a missed call when I'm not available, as that would indicate some effort on her part at least. My dilemma is that if she continues to avoid calling, then I'm going to have to break this off and that means potentially leaving her homeless when she comes back. I'll try to update you guys on what eventuates.

My gf and I have been dating for approximately 1 and a half years and lived together for a year. In the time that I have known her, she barely drinks; she often has two drinks and then says she's too bloated to keep drinking. Recently she's moved to Mt Bulla, a mountain 3 hours north of Melbourne, where she's working in a restaurant and a bar for 3 months. I have to grit my teeth with stories about her walking home with drunken guys, passing out on coaches and many other things that given her situation aren't that unusual but that really wind me up. I have been trying to find out what she's been up to most days, but I feel so cut off, she's away from home without any accountability and drinking to the point of blacking out every night. My gut feels like it's in knots just thinking about this. I just fear that one night she's going to come home and hook up with one of her housemates and that I’ll be completely oblivious. To compound the issue, I went up there to spend a night in a private lodge for the night just me and her. I was also trying to sus out her accommodation, whether she had told people about our relationship and other things while i was there. In which time, we bumped into some room mates on the mountain who had no idea that she was even in a relationship. We went back to her accommodation so i could meet people and feel a little bit more comfortable, however the awkwardness continued and she became quiet when one of the guys walked into the room. The same guy that her mum had told me she hung out with at the bar, the same guy that she apparently found attractive and the same guy that walked her home. In spite of all this, the night at the lodge actually went pretty well and I felt like everything was fine. Now that I've returned home my insecurities have returned two-fold, I have checked her facebook messages (she left it logged in on my computer) and other things covertly to work out if she's being honest. Am I overstepping boundaries here? What do you guys suggest? I am literally stressing to the point of not eating or sleeping properly :( help me reddit! TLDR; My gf went to work at the snow, she's been acting suspicious and it's making me a nervous wreck. EDIT: I told her that I have been unnecessarily clingy, but also that she needs to communicate more. She replied by saying that she doesn't think about me when she's hanging out with new friends and that I should text if I ever want to chat. This has upset me because I would have hoped she at least thought about me, cared how my day was going, missed me and all of that. So I basically told her that I need a call every other day, even of that means a missed call when I'm not available, as that would indicate some effort on her part at least. My dilemma is that if she continues to avoid calling, then I'm going to have to break this off and that means potentially leaving her homeless when she comes back. I'll try to update you guys on what eventuates.

LongDistance

t5_2s6ky

t3_vppp8

My gf and I have been dating for approximately 1 and a half years and lived together for a year. In the time that I have known her, she barely drinks; she often has two drinks and then says she's too bloated to keep drinking. Recently she's moved to Mt Bulla, a mountain 3 hours north of Melbourne, where she's working in a restaurant and a bar for 3 months. I have to grit my teeth with stories about her walking home with drunken guys, passing out on coaches and many other things that given her situation aren't that unusual but that really wind me up. I have been trying to find out what she's been up to most days, but I feel so cut off, she's away from home without any accountability and drinking to the point of blacking out every night. My gut feels like it's in knots just thinking about this. I just fear that one night she's going to come home and hook up with one of her housemates and that I’ll be completely oblivious. To compound the issue, I went up there to spend a night in a private lodge for the night just me and her. I was also trying to sus out her accommodation, whether she had told people about our relationship and other things while i was there. In which time, we bumped into some room mates on the mountain who had no idea that she was even in a relationship. We went back to her accommodation so i could meet people and feel a little bit more comfortable, however the awkwardness continued and she became quiet when one of the guys walked into the room. The same guy that her mum had told me she hung out with at the bar, the same guy that she apparently found attractive and the same guy that walked her home. In spite of all this, the night at the lodge actually went pretty well and I felt like everything was fine. Now that I've returned home my insecurities have returned two-fold, I have checked her facebook messages (she left it logged in on my computer) and other things covertly to work out if she's being honest. Am I overstepping boundaries here? What do you guys suggest? I am literally stressing to the point of not eating or sleeping properly :( help me reddit!

My gf went to work at the snow, she's been acting suspicious and it's making me a nervous wreck. EDIT: I told her that I have been unnecessarily clingy, but also that she needs to communicate more. She replied by saying that she doesn't think about me when she's hanging out with new friends and that I should text if I ever want to chat. This has upset me because I would have hoped she at least thought about me, cared how my day was going, missed me and all of that. So I basically told her that I need a call every other day, even of that means a missed call when I'm not available, as that would indicate some effort on her part at least. My dilemma is that if she continues to avoid calling, then I'm going to have to break this off and that means potentially leaving her homeless when she comes back. I'll try to update you guys on what eventuates.

Beowulf87

I don't think so because with a simple cut & paste you too can post long posts such as these [Courtesy of /u/pyrolytic two years ago]( --------------------------------------------------- You're right. It's only ever women who do this. Males never pose themselves in pictures of other things. [Yup]( [Yes sir]( [absolutely]( [yes indeedy]( [right on]( [correct]( [pow]( [boom]( [yep yep]( [yorp yorp]( [oh my]( [you are so right]( [you deserve so much karma for pointing this out]( [so true]( [right again]( [damn straight]( [Yeah man]( [Yes yes yo]( [shiiiiieeeet]( [right on brother]( [yes indeed]( [oh lordy]( [look at that sexy mofo]( [how right you are]( [continuing to be right]( [Right == you]( [Look at this mountain of evidence proving how right you are!]( [Certainly male gamers don't do this]( [And they're definitely never sexist when they pose]( [Stupid women, amirite?]( [Isn't it hard being right so often?]( [Verily you are correct (album)]( [Running out of words to express how right you are]( [Oui]( [Si]( [Da]( [Ja]( [Sim]( [Ken]( [Sea]( [Jes]( [Hai]( [是 (shi)]( [Ndiyo]( [Gee]( [Areh]( [Look at all the languages you're learning!]( Know what? I can't be arsed coming up with any more clever link names. Here's a bunch more. Of course I'm sure you're going to find a reason why all these don't count and your example does so there's nothing left to say but [fuck you]( in advance. **TL;DR?**: [This](

I don't think so because with a simple cut & paste you too can post long posts such as these [Courtesy of /u/pyrolytic two years ago]( You're right. It's only ever women who do this. Males never pose themselves in pictures of other things. Yup ]( Running out of words to express how right you are ]( [Ndiyo]( [Gee]( [Areh]( [Look at all the languages you're learning!]( Know what? I can't be arsed coming up with any more clever link names. Here's a bunch more. Of course I'm sure you're going to find a reason why all these don't count and your example does so there's nothing left to say but [fuck you]( in advance. TL;DR? : [This](

funny

t5_2qh33

ci7f45n

I don't think so because with a simple cut & paste you too can post long posts such as these [Courtesy of /u/pyrolytic two years ago]( You're right. It's only ever women who do this. Males never pose themselves in pictures of other things. Yup ]( Running out of words to express how right you are ]( [Ndiyo]( [Gee]( [Areh]( [Look at all the languages you're learning!]( Know what? I can't be arsed coming up with any more clever link names. Here's a bunch more. Of course I'm sure you're going to find a reason why all these don't count and your example does so there's nothing left to say but [fuck you]( in advance.

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A lot of people complain about how there are a large amount of toxic/unsportsmanlike players in the LoL community. --- While I agree that there are definitely people like that out there, they only represent a very small fraction of the player base. The reasoning behind players saying that League is being overwhelmed with mean/unsportsmanlike summoners isn't because a majority of players are like this. It is because you only hear about the assholes in other people's games and you only remember the buttmunch in your last ranked game who said you were a wood 6 feeder. How many toxic players have you played with in the last 5 games? For me at least, in normals mind you, I have had probably 3-4 extremely mean players and probably 2 more who quieted down after being requested to, or apologized for their actions. Assuming that these are the same figures for people on the enemy team, the chance of an unsportsmanlike player is about 16%, leaving a little room for outliers.     16%     Now is that really so bad? Any number of rude players isn't a statistic to be proud of, but it kinda goes to show that everyone is exaggerating a bit. **(Math may be really really wrong, correct me if it is. I just woke up.)** ------ Anyways, I should probably get to the point. A large factor in players (on reddit or otherwise) believing the game is filled to the brim with terrible players is simply because no one pays attention to the exemplary summoners and nothing is being done to reward those people who are good examples of the community. You don't remember the kind Summoners who gave up their role for you or kept morale high through the game. You don't hear about the ADC that didn't rage when you accidentally took a kill as a support...or the teammates that trusted you to secure that objective while they had a teamfight. The list goes on and on. The League of Legends community's problem isn't that there are a ton of rude players. The problem is that we are only acknowledging the shitty players and not giving the light of day to the role model Summoners who make this game and community great. We need to give attention to these players and properly praise their actions as well as give those toxic summoners a reason to change. Some ways that I just thought of to help create more good players include:   ### An in game voting system to mute players from talking for the duration of that game. Sorta like a more temporary version of the regular chat restriction system.   ### Rewards for honoring summoners as well as rewards for being honored. (Ex. 3 day ip boost, free rune page or even a skin if they have a large amount of honors.   ### Teamwork driven gamemodes/events ---- **(From here on isn't particularly important, but is nice to read. Let me just say that I'm not trying to be like, "MUH CHARITY." and flaunt that I did something nice.)** A couple of weeks ago, I had a game where my team (Purple side) was absolutely crushing the enemy team (Blue side). 15 minutes in we were closing down on their bot lane inhibitor and their Lee Sin told us that they were 3v5ing for most of the game. (something that with my outstanding challenger tier map awareness had not known. Their Lee told us how the afks were really low morale the whole game and after they died a couple times, they just said fuck it and left the game. Despite the fact that they were 3v5ing and they were certain to lose, Lee still tried his best and seemed to be keeping a relatively happy attitude when talking in all chat. As soon as we were about to win the game, we decided as a team to surrender at 20 minutes, despite the major lead and advantages we had. We /ff'd at 20 minutes with 5 agreeing and 0 against it. Blue side was shocked by what we did and seemed to have genuine happiness, just because we let them win a silly little game. The post game chat was as follows, summoner names changed of course.   PurpleSummoner1: gg honor all PurpleSummoner3: LOL Me : GGWP BlueSummoner1: i tried to ult and cc you too PurpleSummoner3: That was a great game Me : honor all! PurpleSummoner2: had a blast BlueSummoner2: hahahaha great game everybody PurpleSummoner3: def honor Ensyfer: gg all, fun game. UzRexxy: that was great **TL;DR - Pay more attention to the kind and understanding summoners and realize that toxic players are only a small percentage of all summoners. We need a way to bring the community further together and need to praise the exemplary summoners rather than only punish the bad ones.**

A lot of people complain about how there are a large amount of toxic/unsportsmanlike players in the LoL community. While I agree that there are definitely people like that out there, they only represent a very small fraction of the player base. The reasoning behind players saying that League is being overwhelmed with mean/unsportsmanlike summoners isn't because a majority of players are like this. It is because you only hear about the assholes in other people's games and you only remember the buttmunch in your last ranked game who said you were a wood 6 feeder. How many toxic players have you played with in the last 5 games? For me at least, in normals mind you, I have had probably 3-4 extremely mean players and probably 2 more who quieted down after being requested to, or apologized for their actions. Assuming that these are the same figures for people on the enemy team, the chance of an unsportsmanlike player is about 16%, leaving a little room for outliers. 16% Now is that really so bad? Any number of rude players isn't a statistic to be proud of, but it kinda goes to show that everyone is exaggerating a bit. (Math may be really really wrong, correct me if it is. I just woke up.) Anyways, I should probably get to the point. A large factor in players (on reddit or otherwise) believing the game is filled to the brim with terrible players is simply because no one pays attention to the exemplary summoners and nothing is being done to reward those people who are good examples of the community. You don't remember the kind Summoners who gave up their role for you or kept morale high through the game. You don't hear about the ADC that didn't rage when you accidentally took a kill as a support...or the teammates that trusted you to secure that objective while they had a teamfight. The list goes on and on. The League of Legends community's problem isn't that there are a ton of rude players. The problem is that we are only acknowledging the shitty players and not giving the light of day to the role model Summoners who make this game and community great. We need to give attention to these players and properly praise their actions as well as give those toxic summoners a reason to change. Some ways that I just thought of to help create more good players include: An in game voting system to mute players from talking for the duration of that game. Sorta like a more temporary version of the regular chat restriction system. Rewards for honoring summoners as well as rewards for being honored. (Ex. 3 day ip boost, free rune page or even a skin if they have a large amount of honors. Teamwork driven gamemodes/events (From here on isn't particularly important, but is nice to read. Let me just say that I'm not trying to be like, "MUH CHARITY." and flaunt that I did something nice.) A couple of weeks ago, I had a game where my team (Purple side) was absolutely crushing the enemy team (Blue side). 15 minutes in we were closing down on their bot lane inhibitor and their Lee Sin told us that they were 3v5ing for most of the game. (something that with my outstanding challenger tier map awareness had not known. Their Lee told us how the afks were really low morale the whole game and after they died a couple times, they just said fuck it and left the game. Despite the fact that they were 3v5ing and they were certain to lose, Lee still tried his best and seemed to be keeping a relatively happy attitude when talking in all chat. As soon as we were about to win the game, we decided as a team to surrender at 20 minutes, despite the major lead and advantages we had. We /ff'd at 20 minutes with 5 agreeing and 0 against it. Blue side was shocked by what we did and seemed to have genuine happiness, just because we let them win a silly little game. The post game chat was as follows, summoner names changed of course. PurpleSummoner1: gg honor all PurpleSummoner3: LOL Me : GGWP BlueSummoner1: i tried to ult and cc you too PurpleSummoner3: That was a great game Me : honor all! PurpleSummoner2: had a blast BlueSummoner2: hahahaha great game everybody PurpleSummoner3: def honor Ensyfer: gg all, fun game. UzRexxy: that was great TL;DR - Pay more attention to the kind and understanding summoners and realize that toxic players are only a small percentage of all summoners. We need a way to bring the community further together and need to praise the exemplary summoners rather than only punish the bad ones.

leagueoflegends

t5_2rfxx

t3_2kolyt

A lot of people complain about how there are a large amount of toxic/unsportsmanlike players in the LoL community. While I agree that there are definitely people like that out there, they only represent a very small fraction of the player base. The reasoning behind players saying that League is being overwhelmed with mean/unsportsmanlike summoners isn't because a majority of players are like this. It is because you only hear about the assholes in other people's games and you only remember the buttmunch in your last ranked game who said you were a wood 6 feeder. How many toxic players have you played with in the last 5 games? For me at least, in normals mind you, I have had probably 3-4 extremely mean players and probably 2 more who quieted down after being requested to, or apologized for their actions. Assuming that these are the same figures for people on the enemy team, the chance of an unsportsmanlike player is about 16%, leaving a little room for outliers. 16% Now is that really so bad? Any number of rude players isn't a statistic to be proud of, but it kinda goes to show that everyone is exaggerating a bit. (Math may be really really wrong, correct me if it is. I just woke up.) Anyways, I should probably get to the point. A large factor in players (on reddit or otherwise) believing the game is filled to the brim with terrible players is simply because no one pays attention to the exemplary summoners and nothing is being done to reward those people who are good examples of the community. You don't remember the kind Summoners who gave up their role for you or kept morale high through the game. You don't hear about the ADC that didn't rage when you accidentally took a kill as a support...or the teammates that trusted you to secure that objective while they had a teamfight. The list goes on and on. The League of Legends community's problem isn't that there are a ton of rude players. The problem is that we are only acknowledging the shitty players and not giving the light of day to the role model Summoners who make this game and community great. We need to give attention to these players and properly praise their actions as well as give those toxic summoners a reason to change. Some ways that I just thought of to help create more good players include: An in game voting system to mute players from talking for the duration of that game. Sorta like a more temporary version of the regular chat restriction system. Rewards for honoring summoners as well as rewards for being honored. (Ex. 3 day ip boost, free rune page or even a skin if they have a large amount of honors. Teamwork driven gamemodes/events (From here on isn't particularly important, but is nice to read. Let me just say that I'm not trying to be like, "MUH CHARITY." and flaunt that I did something nice.) A couple of weeks ago, I had a game where my team (Purple side) was absolutely crushing the enemy team (Blue side). 15 minutes in we were closing down on their bot lane inhibitor and their Lee Sin told us that they were 3v5ing for most of the game. (something that with my outstanding challenger tier map awareness had not known. Their Lee told us how the afks were really low morale the whole game and after they died a couple times, they just said fuck it and left the game. Despite the fact that they were 3v5ing and they were certain to lose, Lee still tried his best and seemed to be keeping a relatively happy attitude when talking in all chat. As soon as we were about to win the game, we decided as a team to surrender at 20 minutes, despite the major lead and advantages we had. We /ff'd at 20 minutes with 5 agreeing and 0 against it. Blue side was shocked by what we did and seemed to have genuine happiness, just because we let them win a silly little game. The post game chat was as follows, summoner names changed of course. PurpleSummoner1: gg honor all PurpleSummoner3: LOL Me : GGWP BlueSummoner1: i tried to ult and cc you too PurpleSummoner3: That was a great game Me : honor all! PurpleSummoner2: had a blast BlueSummoner2: hahahaha great game everybody PurpleSummoner3: def honor Ensyfer: gg all, fun game. UzRexxy: that was great

Pay more attention to the kind and understanding summoners and realize that toxic players are only a small percentage of all summoners. We need a way to bring the community further together and need to praise the exemplary summoners rather than only punish the bad ones.

jensen36

OK so this might be a bit nit picky but please let me explain why Braum's W should be different *before he comes out* His current W is Braum leaps to the aid of a nearby ally, positioning himself between his target and their nearest enemy champion, and granting both Braum and his target bonus armor and magic resist based on his total armor and magic resist. This is all great I love the concept. However I just don't feel like a leap is what a man with a massive shield should be doing. Here's what I propose instead. Braum runs (with thunderous footsteps) to the aid of a nearby ally, knocking aside all enemy champions in his path, and granting Braum bonus armor and magic resist based on his total health. Upon reaching his ally he will swing his shield knocking any nearby enemies back. I'm not sure why but I just feel that this is what his W should be. It's just more him, it allows for interruptions and counter play to his defense while offering more cc for him. Maybe it's op but it doesn't deal damage and just provides your adc with a better chance to escape. Let me know what you guys think. TLDR; Braum's mustache is amazing

OK so this might be a bit nit picky but please let me explain why Braum's W should be different before he comes out His current W is Braum leaps to the aid of a nearby ally, positioning himself between his target and their nearest enemy champion, and granting both Braum and his target bonus armor and magic resist based on his total armor and magic resist. This is all great I love the concept. However I just don't feel like a leap is what a man with a massive shield should be doing. Here's what I propose instead. Braum runs (with thunderous footsteps) to the aid of a nearby ally, knocking aside all enemy champions in his path, and granting Braum bonus armor and magic resist based on his total health. Upon reaching his ally he will swing his shield knocking any nearby enemies back. I'm not sure why but I just feel that this is what his W should be. It's just more him, it allows for interruptions and counter play to his defense while offering more cc for him. Maybe it's op but it doesn't deal damage and just provides your adc with a better chance to escape. Let me know what you guys think. TLDR; Braum's mustache is amazing

leagueoflegends

t5_2rfxx

t3_23rine

OK so this might be a bit nit picky but please let me explain why Braum's W should be different before he comes out His current W is Braum leaps to the aid of a nearby ally, positioning himself between his target and their nearest enemy champion, and granting both Braum and his target bonus armor and magic resist based on his total armor and magic resist. This is all great I love the concept. However I just don't feel like a leap is what a man with a massive shield should be doing. Here's what I propose instead. Braum runs (with thunderous footsteps) to the aid of a nearby ally, knocking aside all enemy champions in his path, and granting Braum bonus armor and magic resist based on his total health. Upon reaching his ally he will swing his shield knocking any nearby enemies back. I'm not sure why but I just feel that this is what his W should be. It's just more him, it allows for interruptions and counter play to his defense while offering more cc for him. Maybe it's op but it doesn't deal damage and just provides your adc with a better chance to escape. Let me know what you guys think.

Braum's mustache is amazing

ThiagoG

We were together for 2.5 years when she broke up with me at the end of April. She said she was too busy with school and it was stressing her out trying to have a relationship while working hard on her career. I respected it and although I tried to hold onto her but realized I needed to respect her decision. She says she needs some space but we can be friends. She messages me on my birthday in the middle of June and we talk a little but ends in nothing. We stop talking until the end of July when I message her for her birthday. We talk for a few days and it seems like things are fixing itself and we're both enjoying the conversation. I ask her if she wants to meet up for coffee and she says that she doesn't think it's a good idea because she loves me and she wishes she had time to dedicate to the relationship but it isn't fair to me or her if she keeps on letting me down but she wants to be friends. She thought seeing me would be too hard for her. So I tell her that I can't be friends with her because I'm never going to get over her. We say our goodbyes and I delete her number and block her on fb so I wouldn't see when she likes or comments on something and be tempted to message her. Fast forward to thanksgiving. After not talking to her since July I'm still in love with her and it sucks. I tried my luck with a few girls during this period but no luck. All I want is her. I unblock her on fb to wish her a happy thanksgiving to her and her family and my heart the instant I see her picture. Then I notice that she's still wearing the necklace I gave her and that gives me hope. I send her the message and she responds but I didn't reply because I had this plan where I would try to make her miss me and then message her on Christmas and see where it goes from there. But now as Christmas approaches I don't know if I should. I want her more than anything but I want her to be happy and idk if I should message her. I don't want to live with the regret of not messaging her. I also know she most likely won't message me if I don't because of the type of person she is. Please help. PS: In the show Weeds one of the main character sees a girl he hasn't seen for 8 years that he used to love. He says, "it's been 8 years and I have never loved anyone like I love you." And that hit home for me because that's what I feel like. Tldr: I miss my ex that I still love and idk if I should message her.

We were together for 2.5 years when she broke up with me at the end of April. She said she was too busy with school and it was stressing her out trying to have a relationship while working hard on her career. I respected it and although I tried to hold onto her but realized I needed to respect her decision. She says she needs some space but we can be friends. She messages me on my birthday in the middle of June and we talk a little but ends in nothing. We stop talking until the end of July when I message her for her birthday. We talk for a few days and it seems like things are fixing itself and we're both enjoying the conversation. I ask her if she wants to meet up for coffee and she says that she doesn't think it's a good idea because she loves me and she wishes she had time to dedicate to the relationship but it isn't fair to me or her if she keeps on letting me down but she wants to be friends. She thought seeing me would be too hard for her. So I tell her that I can't be friends with her because I'm never going to get over her. We say our goodbyes and I delete her number and block her on fb so I wouldn't see when she likes or comments on something and be tempted to message her. Fast forward to thanksgiving. After not talking to her since July I'm still in love with her and it sucks. I tried my luck with a few girls during this period but no luck. All I want is her. I unblock her on fb to wish her a happy thanksgiving to her and her family and my heart the instant I see her picture. Then I notice that she's still wearing the necklace I gave her and that gives me hope. I send her the message and she responds but I didn't reply because I had this plan where I would try to make her miss me and then message her on Christmas and see where it goes from there. But now as Christmas approaches I don't know if I should. I want her more than anything but I want her to be happy and idk if I should message her. I don't want to live with the regret of not messaging her. I also know she most likely won't message me if I don't because of the type of person she is. Please help. PS: In the show Weeds one of the main character sees a girl he hasn't seen for 8 years that he used to love. He says, "it's been 8 years and I have never loved anyone like I love you." And that hit home for me because that's what I feel like. Tldr: I miss my ex that I still love and idk if I should message her.

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t5_2qjvn

t3_1t4otk

We were together for 2.5 years when she broke up with me at the end of April. She said she was too busy with school and it was stressing her out trying to have a relationship while working hard on her career. I respected it and although I tried to hold onto her but realized I needed to respect her decision. She says she needs some space but we can be friends. She messages me on my birthday in the middle of June and we talk a little but ends in nothing. We stop talking until the end of July when I message her for her birthday. We talk for a few days and it seems like things are fixing itself and we're both enjoying the conversation. I ask her if she wants to meet up for coffee and she says that she doesn't think it's a good idea because she loves me and she wishes she had time to dedicate to the relationship but it isn't fair to me or her if she keeps on letting me down but she wants to be friends. She thought seeing me would be too hard for her. So I tell her that I can't be friends with her because I'm never going to get over her. We say our goodbyes and I delete her number and block her on fb so I wouldn't see when she likes or comments on something and be tempted to message her. Fast forward to thanksgiving. After not talking to her since July I'm still in love with her and it sucks. I tried my luck with a few girls during this period but no luck. All I want is her. I unblock her on fb to wish her a happy thanksgiving to her and her family and my heart the instant I see her picture. Then I notice that she's still wearing the necklace I gave her and that gives me hope. I send her the message and she responds but I didn't reply because I had this plan where I would try to make her miss me and then message her on Christmas and see where it goes from there. But now as Christmas approaches I don't know if I should. I want her more than anything but I want her to be happy and idk if I should message her. I don't want to live with the regret of not messaging her. I also know she most likely won't message me if I don't because of the type of person she is. Please help. PS: In the show Weeds one of the main character sees a girl he hasn't seen for 8 years that he used to love. He says, "it's been 8 years and I have never loved anyone like I love you." And that hit home for me because that's what I feel like.

I miss my ex that I still love and idk if I should message her.

DetroitBreakdown

I had spinal surgery last week. I had a follow up appointment today with my neurosurgeon and asked him about the surgery. In his opinion, Tiger will never be the same. A golf swing - especially how Tiger swings - is violent. I was told not to golf for 3 months (my surgery was a little more intense than Tiger's) and I don't swing the club a thousand times a week or with even close to the power he does. TL;DR I swing like a 12 year old girl.

I had spinal surgery last week. I had a follow up appointment today with my neurosurgeon and asked him about the surgery. In his opinion, Tiger will never be the same. A golf swing - especially how Tiger swings - is violent. I was told not to golf for 3 months (my surgery was a little more intense than Tiger's) and I don't swing the club a thousand times a week or with even close to the power he does. TL;DR I swing like a 12 year old girl.

ProGolf

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cghm3cd

I had spinal surgery last week. I had a follow up appointment today with my neurosurgeon and asked him about the surgery. In his opinion, Tiger will never be the same. A golf swing - especially how Tiger swings - is violent. I was told not to golf for 3 months (my surgery was a little more intense than Tiger's) and I don't swing the club a thousand times a week or with even close to the power he does.

I swing like a 12 year old girl.

Kieranderp

Over the various harrowing, snowdown and other events I have managed to rack up a nice small collection of summoner icons. I have about 10 non-default icons in total (soon to be 15), and I think its fair to say that I would prefer anyone of them over any of the default icons, the default icons are just so ugly and outdated its a no brainer not to use them, at least in my perspective. Anyway, when I go to change my icons it can look messy and I get confused sometimes, having 39 icons (29 of them being default) it can be a little eyesore with all the various colours, shapes and crudely drawn art sketches of minions, monsters and all the other weird gubbins you find there. And i'm not trying to hate on the icons here, they are a nice gesture and the fact that Riot has supplied us with a generous number of icons to choose from is pretty cool for new users. But I mean, the default icons do not even compare in any way, shape or form to the majority of the earned ones, and when you have the option to choose between default or earned, which ones are you gonna pick? So anyway, what I am suggesting is that in the store, under the summoner icons page, you could have the option to disable or enable the default icons. This would really clear out all the clutter of the summoner icon tab when changing an icon, and I think it would be a great addition for some of the older users who have gathered many cool icons over time. Once again, this is just an idea and a personal preference. I am not completely hating on Riots icons, and I know that many people do in fact prefer to use the default icons. TLDR: Default icons are ugly, give option to disable/enable in store. (providing you have at least one other 'earned' or 'event' icon to use)

Over the various harrowing, snowdown and other events I have managed to rack up a nice small collection of summoner icons. I have about 10 non-default icons in total (soon to be 15), and I think its fair to say that I would prefer anyone of them over any of the default icons, the default icons are just so ugly and outdated its a no brainer not to use them, at least in my perspective. Anyway, when I go to change my icons it can look messy and I get confused sometimes, having 39 icons (29 of them being default) it can be a little eyesore with all the various colours, shapes and crudely drawn art sketches of minions, monsters and all the other weird gubbins you find there. And i'm not trying to hate on the icons here, they are a nice gesture and the fact that Riot has supplied us with a generous number of icons to choose from is pretty cool for new users. But I mean, the default icons do not even compare in any way, shape or form to the majority of the earned ones, and when you have the option to choose between default or earned, which ones are you gonna pick? So anyway, what I am suggesting is that in the store, under the summoner icons page, you could have the option to disable or enable the default icons. This would really clear out all the clutter of the summoner icon tab when changing an icon, and I think it would be a great addition for some of the older users who have gathered many cool icons over time. Once again, this is just an idea and a personal preference. I am not completely hating on Riots icons, and I know that many people do in fact prefer to use the default icons. TLDR: Default icons are ugly, give option to disable/enable in store. (providing you have at least one other 'earned' or 'event' icon to use)

leagueoflegends

t5_2rfxx

t3_1whzjo

Over the various harrowing, snowdown and other events I have managed to rack up a nice small collection of summoner icons. I have about 10 non-default icons in total (soon to be 15), and I think its fair to say that I would prefer anyone of them over any of the default icons, the default icons are just so ugly and outdated its a no brainer not to use them, at least in my perspective. Anyway, when I go to change my icons it can look messy and I get confused sometimes, having 39 icons (29 of them being default) it can be a little eyesore with all the various colours, shapes and crudely drawn art sketches of minions, monsters and all the other weird gubbins you find there. And i'm not trying to hate on the icons here, they are a nice gesture and the fact that Riot has supplied us with a generous number of icons to choose from is pretty cool for new users. But I mean, the default icons do not even compare in any way, shape or form to the majority of the earned ones, and when you have the option to choose between default or earned, which ones are you gonna pick? So anyway, what I am suggesting is that in the store, under the summoner icons page, you could have the option to disable or enable the default icons. This would really clear out all the clutter of the summoner icon tab when changing an icon, and I think it would be a great addition for some of the older users who have gathered many cool icons over time. Once again, this is just an idea and a personal preference. I am not completely hating on Riots icons, and I know that many people do in fact prefer to use the default icons.

Default icons are ugly, give option to disable/enable in store. (providing you have at least one other 'earned' or 'event' icon to use)

anonymous090807

So I've been in love with this girl who I am absolutely crazy about. I really respect her and Ive been secretly in love with her for about 3 years. During these 3 years she has dated other guys and I have dated other girls, but Ive ended it with every single one of them because of her. Because of those others, I know I will never love anyone else the way I do her. So even though I know she likes this other guy right now I still told her anyway. She told me she loves me too, but now I find out she is moving away now and she says that if I can wait for 4 years till her work in another state is done, we will definitely get together. This girl is goddamn special, but I don't think I can stand seeing her date other people these 4 years and how I will remain single for so long as well? tl;dr: Girl I love is moving away, should I wait till she comes back?

So I've been in love with this girl who I am absolutely crazy about. I really respect her and Ive been secretly in love with her for about 3 years. During these 3 years she has dated other guys and I have dated other girls, but Ive ended it with every single one of them because of her. Because of those others, I know I will never love anyone else the way I do her. So even though I know she likes this other guy right now I still told her anyway. She told me she loves me too, but now I find out she is moving away now and she says that if I can wait for 4 years till her work in another state is done, we will definitely get together. This girl is goddamn special, but I don't think I can stand seeing her date other people these 4 years and how I will remain single for so long as well? tl;dr: Girl I love is moving away, should I wait till she comes back?

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t5_2qjvn

t3_32fsrv

So I've been in love with this girl who I am absolutely crazy about. I really respect her and Ive been secretly in love with her for about 3 years. During these 3 years she has dated other guys and I have dated other girls, but Ive ended it with every single one of them because of her. Because of those others, I know I will never love anyone else the way I do her. So even though I know she likes this other guy right now I still told her anyway. She told me she loves me too, but now I find out she is moving away now and she says that if I can wait for 4 years till her work in another state is done, we will definitely get together. This girl is goddamn special, but I don't think I can stand seeing her date other people these 4 years and how I will remain single for so long as well?

Girl I love is moving away, should I wait till she comes back?

steelrain

Preventative measures are the best cure, basically stopping the worst of the hangover before you have one. Hydration is key, so like everyone's said, drink the hell out of water. If not intermittently while drinking, then lots after. Remember, you piss more liquid than you actually consume. It's also not all water, meaning you're losing vitamins and other precious bodily fluids (okay not a bio major, so I'm not sure what, exactly). Taking vitamins before bed helps, as does aspirin before you crash. So my approach as follows: When I get home, before bed I have a gatorade followed by water, advil, and all-in-one vitamins. I try to stay awake through the worst of my drunkenness, re-hydrating the whole time. Water when I wake up, even if I know I'm going to roll over and sleep some more. And water upon getting up for good, followed by that chicken soup-in-a-cup stuff. It's amazing, the morning after. I'm doing my best to elevate hangover treatment to an art form. TL;DR: WATER. DRINK IT.

Preventative measures are the best cure, basically stopping the worst of the hangover before you have one. Hydration is key, so like everyone's said, drink the hell out of water. If not intermittently while drinking, then lots after. Remember, you piss more liquid than you actually consume. It's also not all water, meaning you're losing vitamins and other precious bodily fluids (okay not a bio major, so I'm not sure what, exactly). Taking vitamins before bed helps, as does aspirin before you crash. So my approach as follows: When I get home, before bed I have a gatorade followed by water, advil, and all-in-one vitamins. I try to stay awake through the worst of my drunkenness, re-hydrating the whole time. Water when I wake up, even if I know I'm going to roll over and sleep some more. And water upon getting up for good, followed by that chicken soup-in-a-cup stuff. It's amazing, the morning after. I'm doing my best to elevate hangover treatment to an art form. TL;DR: WATER. DRINK IT.

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c0jeed6

Preventative measures are the best cure, basically stopping the worst of the hangover before you have one. Hydration is key, so like everyone's said, drink the hell out of water. If not intermittently while drinking, then lots after. Remember, you piss more liquid than you actually consume. It's also not all water, meaning you're losing vitamins and other precious bodily fluids (okay not a bio major, so I'm not sure what, exactly). Taking vitamins before bed helps, as does aspirin before you crash. So my approach as follows: When I get home, before bed I have a gatorade followed by water, advil, and all-in-one vitamins. I try to stay awake through the worst of my drunkenness, re-hydrating the whole time. Water when I wake up, even if I know I'm going to roll over and sleep some more. And water upon getting up for good, followed by that chicken soup-in-a-cup stuff. It's amazing, the morning after. I'm doing my best to elevate hangover treatment to an art form.

WATER. DRINK IT.

stevoyoto

Poor cat.. My wife's aunt had two cats, one almost identical to this one with color and such. They were ridiculously spoiled, as she had no children. Unfortunately, they reached a state where walking was painful to watch. Too much love and adoration was basically killing them. Not sure what happened to them, as this was 5 years ago, and my wife hasn't talked to her since. TL;DR - Spoiling animals from a perspective of love and adoration can kill them.

Poor cat.. My wife's aunt had two cats, one almost identical to this one with color and such. They were ridiculously spoiled, as she had no children. Unfortunately, they reached a state where walking was painful to watch. Too much love and adoration was basically killing them. Not sure what happened to them, as this was 5 years ago, and my wife hasn't talked to her since. TL;DR - Spoiling animals from a perspective of love and adoration can kill them.

WTF

t5_2qh61

cgxueac

Poor cat.. My wife's aunt had two cats, one almost identical to this one with color and such. They were ridiculously spoiled, as she had no children. Unfortunately, they reached a state where walking was painful to watch. Too much love and adoration was basically killing them. Not sure what happened to them, as this was 5 years ago, and my wife hasn't talked to her since.

Spoiling animals from a perspective of love and adoration can kill them.

oyveyski

I was lying in bed one morning, naked. I knew my period was coming up pretty soon, but since I'd gone off of the pill a couple of months before, I didn't know exactly when. I got up to use the washroom, and as I was walking, I felt it. My period was here. I started running, which in hindsight was the worst thing I could've done, since the motion caused the blood to "shoot" out of me in a huge red streak across my carpet. I managed to get to the bathroom and tampon up, and then quickly started to scrub the carpet. All while completely naked. TLDR: my vagina was a bloody water gun.

I was lying in bed one morning, naked. I knew my period was coming up pretty soon, but since I'd gone off of the pill a couple of months before, I didn't know exactly when. I got up to use the washroom, and as I was walking, I felt it. My period was here. I started running, which in hindsight was the worst thing I could've done, since the motion caused the blood to "shoot" out of me in a huge red streak across my carpet. I managed to get to the bathroom and tampon up, and then quickly started to scrub the carpet. All while completely naked. TLDR: my vagina was a bloody water gun.

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c3spudk

I was lying in bed one morning, naked. I knew my period was coming up pretty soon, but since I'd gone off of the pill a couple of months before, I didn't know exactly when. I got up to use the washroom, and as I was walking, I felt it. My period was here. I started running, which in hindsight was the worst thing I could've done, since the motion caused the blood to "shoot" out of me in a huge red streak across my carpet. I managed to get to the bathroom and tampon up, and then quickly started to scrub the carpet. All while completely naked.

my vagina was a bloody water gun.

JaronK

RAINN is usually very good if you fit their idea of what a rape victim should look like. If for whatever reason you don't fit the mold... well, they'll send you elsewhere. Though note that I do know a male RAINN counselor who was a victim himself and thus would know better, so there's bound to be a few good ones. I wouldn't call them a joke. Just... hit or miss. I certainly would recommend them to any woman who's been raped by a man, especially if that man was a stranger or if she was date raped. That's what they're expecting. But as for the reasons some female victims turn on the male ones, that's actually very complex. I have my guesses as to what's going on. I ascribe it to bad counseling (or lack there of) because something a lot of people fail to understand is that victims blame themselves to gain agency. That is to say, the way the brain deals with serious mental trauma is to try to figure out how to not have it happen again, but that often manifests as self blame ("if only I'd done X or hadn't done Y, I wouldn't have been raped"). This automatic self blame is why so many people talk about "victim blaming" as being a serious problem... the victims do it to themselves, so it's very easy to encourage that behavior, which isn't good for healing. The problem is many people don't realize the root cause (a need for control over what happened so it can't happen again) and attack the symptom (the self blame). This results in people thinking they're helping by telling the victim over and over "It's not your fault" without actually listening to them or providing some way for them to feel safe. The result is the victim gets trained to never say anything that might make it sound like they feel at fault... but they still have that need for safety. So they'll switch to an aggressive mode... it's the aggressor's fault. That sounds great, except they're doing it to protect themselves in the future, so they'll blame it on everyone like the aggressor ("Any man can be a rapist!"). This is, of course, a hidden version of self blame... "If I hadn't been permanently on guard around men, I wouldn't have been raped." I can't prove that's exactly what's happening, but I find the "all men could be rapists" crowd is often made up in large part of rape victims who were constantly given the "It's not your fault" line over and over without the person actually listening to them (to be clear, "It's not your fault" will absolutely come up, but it's more delicate than that, and it comes along with giving them agency and listening to them). The thing is, these women have now been subtly trained that they can be safe from rape if they just don't trust men. That gives them agency and a feeling of safety, no matter how false the idea is. And they can cling to that. They can be angry at men for the horrible damage they do, and they can have some comfort in the knowledge that if they're angry at them, they won't be put in that situation again. But now imagine a guy comes along claiming he was raped. Worse, as is common in female aggressor/male victim rape, he's also saying that the woman faked a rape charge against him to keep him silent. She can't have this... it says that everyone can be a threat, that her model of the world is off, that her simplified (and safe) world view might be wrong... and that's terrifying. Or, far easier, she can just assume he must be the rapist and he's just lying to cover it up, and everything will be nice and safe and clear again. You can guess which one she's going to be tempted to chose. And thus we get female victims regularly silencing and attacking male victims, all the while sure they're doing the right thing. The solution to this, of course, is better counseling for everyone, that goes well beyond the basic "It's not your fault" sugar pill that too many people are taught to hand rape victims and assume that will make them all better. It takes time to guide someone in crisis towards healing, and you can't just work off a script or utter a few magic words to fix everything in one go. For a lot of people, though, I guess it's just not worth their time, or worth the difficulty in actually listening to the person who needs their help. TL;DR: RAINN's perfectly good but only in their areas of expertise and they're useless for statistics, and better counseling for all victims regardless of gender would be really good.

RAINN is usually very good if you fit their idea of what a rape victim should look like. If for whatever reason you don't fit the mold... well, they'll send you elsewhere. Though note that I do know a male RAINN counselor who was a victim himself and thus would know better, so there's bound to be a few good ones. I wouldn't call them a joke. Just... hit or miss. I certainly would recommend them to any woman who's been raped by a man, especially if that man was a stranger or if she was date raped. That's what they're expecting. But as for the reasons some female victims turn on the male ones, that's actually very complex. I have my guesses as to what's going on. I ascribe it to bad counseling (or lack there of) because something a lot of people fail to understand is that victims blame themselves to gain agency. That is to say, the way the brain deals with serious mental trauma is to try to figure out how to not have it happen again, but that often manifests as self blame ("if only I'd done X or hadn't done Y, I wouldn't have been raped"). This automatic self blame is why so many people talk about "victim blaming" as being a serious problem... the victims do it to themselves, so it's very easy to encourage that behavior, which isn't good for healing. The problem is many people don't realize the root cause (a need for control over what happened so it can't happen again) and attack the symptom (the self blame). This results in people thinking they're helping by telling the victim over and over "It's not your fault" without actually listening to them or providing some way for them to feel safe. The result is the victim gets trained to never say anything that might make it sound like they feel at fault... but they still have that need for safety. So they'll switch to an aggressive mode... it's the aggressor's fault. That sounds great, except they're doing it to protect themselves in the future, so they'll blame it on everyone like the aggressor ("Any man can be a rapist!"). This is, of course, a hidden version of self blame... "If I hadn't been permanently on guard around men, I wouldn't have been raped." I can't prove that's exactly what's happening, but I find the "all men could be rapists" crowd is often made up in large part of rape victims who were constantly given the "It's not your fault" line over and over without the person actually listening to them (to be clear, "It's not your fault" will absolutely come up, but it's more delicate than that, and it comes along with giving them agency and listening to them). The thing is, these women have now been subtly trained that they can be safe from rape if they just don't trust men. That gives them agency and a feeling of safety, no matter how false the idea is. And they can cling to that. They can be angry at men for the horrible damage they do, and they can have some comfort in the knowledge that if they're angry at them, they won't be put in that situation again. But now imagine a guy comes along claiming he was raped. Worse, as is common in female aggressor/male victim rape, he's also saying that the woman faked a rape charge against him to keep him silent. She can't have this... it says that everyone can be a threat, that her model of the world is off, that her simplified (and safe) world view might be wrong... and that's terrifying. Or, far easier, she can just assume he must be the rapist and he's just lying to cover it up, and everything will be nice and safe and clear again. You can guess which one she's going to be tempted to chose. And thus we get female victims regularly silencing and attacking male victims, all the while sure they're doing the right thing. The solution to this, of course, is better counseling for everyone, that goes well beyond the basic "It's not your fault" sugar pill that too many people are taught to hand rape victims and assume that will make them all better. It takes time to guide someone in crisis towards healing, and you can't just work off a script or utter a few magic words to fix everything in one go. For a lot of people, though, I guess it's just not worth their time, or worth the difficulty in actually listening to the person who needs their help. TL;DR: RAINN's perfectly good but only in their areas of expertise and they're useless for statistics, and better counseling for all victims regardless of gender would be really good.

AskMen

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c8j0nu6

RAINN is usually very good if you fit their idea of what a rape victim should look like. If for whatever reason you don't fit the mold... well, they'll send you elsewhere. Though note that I do know a male RAINN counselor who was a victim himself and thus would know better, so there's bound to be a few good ones. I wouldn't call them a joke. Just... hit or miss. I certainly would recommend them to any woman who's been raped by a man, especially if that man was a stranger or if she was date raped. That's what they're expecting. But as for the reasons some female victims turn on the male ones, that's actually very complex. I have my guesses as to what's going on. I ascribe it to bad counseling (or lack there of) because something a lot of people fail to understand is that victims blame themselves to gain agency. That is to say, the way the brain deals with serious mental trauma is to try to figure out how to not have it happen again, but that often manifests as self blame ("if only I'd done X or hadn't done Y, I wouldn't have been raped"). This automatic self blame is why so many people talk about "victim blaming" as being a serious problem... the victims do it to themselves, so it's very easy to encourage that behavior, which isn't good for healing. The problem is many people don't realize the root cause (a need for control over what happened so it can't happen again) and attack the symptom (the self blame). This results in people thinking they're helping by telling the victim over and over "It's not your fault" without actually listening to them or providing some way for them to feel safe. The result is the victim gets trained to never say anything that might make it sound like they feel at fault... but they still have that need for safety. So they'll switch to an aggressive mode... it's the aggressor's fault. That sounds great, except they're doing it to protect themselves in the future, so they'll blame it on everyone like the aggressor ("Any man can be a rapist!"). This is, of course, a hidden version of self blame... "If I hadn't been permanently on guard around men, I wouldn't have been raped." I can't prove that's exactly what's happening, but I find the "all men could be rapists" crowd is often made up in large part of rape victims who were constantly given the "It's not your fault" line over and over without the person actually listening to them (to be clear, "It's not your fault" will absolutely come up, but it's more delicate than that, and it comes along with giving them agency and listening to them). The thing is, these women have now been subtly trained that they can be safe from rape if they just don't trust men. That gives them agency and a feeling of safety, no matter how false the idea is. And they can cling to that. They can be angry at men for the horrible damage they do, and they can have some comfort in the knowledge that if they're angry at them, they won't be put in that situation again. But now imagine a guy comes along claiming he was raped. Worse, as is common in female aggressor/male victim rape, he's also saying that the woman faked a rape charge against him to keep him silent. She can't have this... it says that everyone can be a threat, that her model of the world is off, that her simplified (and safe) world view might be wrong... and that's terrifying. Or, far easier, she can just assume he must be the rapist and he's just lying to cover it up, and everything will be nice and safe and clear again. You can guess which one she's going to be tempted to chose. And thus we get female victims regularly silencing and attacking male victims, all the while sure they're doing the right thing. The solution to this, of course, is better counseling for everyone, that goes well beyond the basic "It's not your fault" sugar pill that too many people are taught to hand rape victims and assume that will make them all better. It takes time to guide someone in crisis towards healing, and you can't just work off a script or utter a few magic words to fix everything in one go. For a lot of people, though, I guess it's just not worth their time, or worth the difficulty in actually listening to the person who needs their help.

RAINN's perfectly good but only in their areas of expertise and they're useless for statistics, and better counseling for all victims regardless of gender would be really good.

arquebus_x

"This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken." *The Wounded Land*, Stephen R. Donaldson. TL;DR for the entire 10 book series.

"This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken." The Wounded Land , Stephen R. Donaldson. TL;DR for the entire 10 book series.

AskReddit

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cep252d

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken." The Wounded Land , Stephen R. Donaldson.

for the entire 10 book series.

poorboytrader

I'm actually curious what would happen if AMD just went bankrupt before the end of the year. I don't actually think it's that bad, but it's in the realm of possibility at this point, but what would actually happen ? -Sony is planning to use AMD for PS4, what happens to this project if AMD can't deliver on the hardware ? -XBOX looks likely to use AMD for durango/720, is microsoft still going to stick with them given the extreme uncertainty for the company ? -Intel and AMD got out of court not too long ago. If AMD goes under, and intel takes a monopoly on the x86 market, will INTEL be looking at a pile of trouble with the SEC for uncompetitive practices, or have they already paid their dues by settling 1b$ with amd ? The reason I'm asking this is for a bit of a strange hypothesis. I think AMD is going under, and I think there is a concerted attempt to save it. AMD going under would cause such problems in the x86 and video card markets it would be a disaster. AMD holds a number of patents on all kinds of technology that Intel and other companies use on a regular basis, the IP license agreements between intel and AMD are a ridiculous mess that has only recently been sorted out. Intel obviously has an interest in dominating AMD, espescially in a shrinking market. But I think if it actually tanks, with intel just coming off an anti-trust/IP suit between AMD and intel, it spells more anti-trust problems for intel that intel just can't afford to deal with right now. Sony, Nintendo and I think likely Microsoft now have a significant multibillion dollar interest in the survival of AMD. JP Morgan recently met with the AMD board to offer guidance, which isn't a huge deal in itself. 17 hedge funds picked up AMD in Q4 2012, why ? The stock is junk. Every fundamental that exists screams to stay the hell away from the stock, why get involved ? Do they see something, are they trying to accomplish something ? Why are guys like Oppenheimer, Vanguard and Fidelity, Citadel and First Eagle suddenly picking up a stock that is about to take a nosedive into the dirt ? Is this just a drunken roulette gamble for billionaires or do they actually know what they're doing ? Why did SeaMicro go to AMD when intel could have much more easily acquired the company ? SeaMicro pretty much exclusively dealt with Intel for everything and was a good relationship for both, and ironically, they still use intel chips. So why does AMD now own it ? Did intel just not care, or are they throwing AMD a bone to keep SEC off its back ? Huge speculation, borderline tinfoil hat (because I've been bored lately), these are not reasons to invest in the stock. There could be any number of reasons to explain all of the above, and I'm sure other more well informed people know what is actually going on. I admit I kind of want AMD to stick in the game, but it's in big trouble without some kind of significant help. TLDR: Sell

I'm actually curious what would happen if AMD just went bankrupt before the end of the year. I don't actually think it's that bad, but it's in the realm of possibility at this point, but what would actually happen ? -Sony is planning to use AMD for PS4, what happens to this project if AMD can't deliver on the hardware ? -XBOX looks likely to use AMD for durango/720, is microsoft still going to stick with them given the extreme uncertainty for the company ? -Intel and AMD got out of court not too long ago. If AMD goes under, and intel takes a monopoly on the x86 market, will INTEL be looking at a pile of trouble with the SEC for uncompetitive practices, or have they already paid their dues by settling 1b$ with amd ? The reason I'm asking this is for a bit of a strange hypothesis. I think AMD is going under, and I think there is a concerted attempt to save it. AMD going under would cause such problems in the x86 and video card markets it would be a disaster. AMD holds a number of patents on all kinds of technology that Intel and other companies use on a regular basis, the IP license agreements between intel and AMD are a ridiculous mess that has only recently been sorted out. Intel obviously has an interest in dominating AMD, espescially in a shrinking market. But I think if it actually tanks, with intel just coming off an anti-trust/IP suit between AMD and intel, it spells more anti-trust problems for intel that intel just can't afford to deal with right now. Sony, Nintendo and I think likely Microsoft now have a significant multibillion dollar interest in the survival of AMD. JP Morgan recently met with the AMD board to offer guidance, which isn't a huge deal in itself. 17 hedge funds picked up AMD in Q4 2012, why ? The stock is junk. Every fundamental that exists screams to stay the hell away from the stock, why get involved ? Do they see something, are they trying to accomplish something ? Why are guys like Oppenheimer, Vanguard and Fidelity, Citadel and First Eagle suddenly picking up a stock that is about to take a nosedive into the dirt ? Is this just a drunken roulette gamble for billionaires or do they actually know what they're doing ? Why did SeaMicro go to AMD when intel could have much more easily acquired the company ? SeaMicro pretty much exclusively dealt with Intel for everything and was a good relationship for both, and ironically, they still use intel chips. So why does AMD now own it ? Did intel just not care, or are they throwing AMD a bone to keep SEC off its back ? Huge speculation, borderline tinfoil hat (because I've been bored lately), these are not reasons to invest in the stock. There could be any number of reasons to explain all of the above, and I'm sure other more well informed people know what is actually going on. I admit I kind of want AMD to stick in the game, but it's in big trouble without some kind of significant help. TLDR: Sell

investing

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c97bwew

I'm actually curious what would happen if AMD just went bankrupt before the end of the year. I don't actually think it's that bad, but it's in the realm of possibility at this point, but what would actually happen ? -Sony is planning to use AMD for PS4, what happens to this project if AMD can't deliver on the hardware ? -XBOX looks likely to use AMD for durango/720, is microsoft still going to stick with them given the extreme uncertainty for the company ? -Intel and AMD got out of court not too long ago. If AMD goes under, and intel takes a monopoly on the x86 market, will INTEL be looking at a pile of trouble with the SEC for uncompetitive practices, or have they already paid their dues by settling 1b$ with amd ? The reason I'm asking this is for a bit of a strange hypothesis. I think AMD is going under, and I think there is a concerted attempt to save it. AMD going under would cause such problems in the x86 and video card markets it would be a disaster. AMD holds a number of patents on all kinds of technology that Intel and other companies use on a regular basis, the IP license agreements between intel and AMD are a ridiculous mess that has only recently been sorted out. Intel obviously has an interest in dominating AMD, espescially in a shrinking market. But I think if it actually tanks, with intel just coming off an anti-trust/IP suit between AMD and intel, it spells more anti-trust problems for intel that intel just can't afford to deal with right now. Sony, Nintendo and I think likely Microsoft now have a significant multibillion dollar interest in the survival of AMD. JP Morgan recently met with the AMD board to offer guidance, which isn't a huge deal in itself. 17 hedge funds picked up AMD in Q4 2012, why ? The stock is junk. Every fundamental that exists screams to stay the hell away from the stock, why get involved ? Do they see something, are they trying to accomplish something ? Why are guys like Oppenheimer, Vanguard and Fidelity, Citadel and First Eagle suddenly picking up a stock that is about to take a nosedive into the dirt ? Is this just a drunken roulette gamble for billionaires or do they actually know what they're doing ? Why did SeaMicro go to AMD when intel could have much more easily acquired the company ? SeaMicro pretty much exclusively dealt with Intel for everything and was a good relationship for both, and ironically, they still use intel chips. So why does AMD now own it ? Did intel just not care, or are they throwing AMD a bone to keep SEC off its back ? Huge speculation, borderline tinfoil hat (because I've been bored lately), these are not reasons to invest in the stock. There could be any number of reasons to explain all of the above, and I'm sure other more well informed people know what is actually going on. I admit I kind of want AMD to stick in the game, but it's in big trouble without some kind of significant help.

Sell

chronicstomachpain

(I don't know where to post this. It got booted from r/askreddit and r/medical doesn't have many subscribers...) Hey, so here's the issue. I have crippling pain whenever I eat. This tends to be coupled with a bloated, gassy stomach and occasionally nausea. The bloating is severe as I go from having a relatively flat stomach to appearing as if I could be 4/5 months pregnant, with skin pulled so tight that it is painful. Medical background: At around 15 my stomach starts reacting to food, painful cramps after I eat. It appears I have become lactose intolerant, so I cut out all dairy. I managed to feel ill every day but still continued to eat. Everyone seemed to not believe me about my bloating/pain. As time went by it got worse and worse. By my senior year in high school (18 years old) I was always in pain. I went to my first gastroenterologist who at first told my mom that I was either A. anorexic or B. making it up for attention. After she told him neither were true he performed a few tests and found nothing to be wrong. He then went back to his first theories. That same summer I (and my whole familia) also went to a hematologist because of my anemia. I have a small clotting problem and just need to inform doctors prior to surgeries and should avoid aspirin and the like. I went through my first year of University alone in a new country in total pain. I lost around 15 pounds by the end of the year. I would like to note that I adore food, cooking and eating, and almost went to culinary school instead of Uni. By the time I got home I was so riddled with pain that on the orders of my regular doctor and my gyno I went to a new gastro. I would like to point out that by this point I was living on hardly anything and still in constant pain. I was already on a self-diagnosed gluten free diet. So, last summer I had an array of tests run by my gastroenterologist (I could find the paperwork if need be) including a biopsy, bacterial breath tests and blood work. The biopsy came back negative for anything, and the only thing of note was some "glistening" inside my stomach. The blood work stated negative to everything at first and then with an apparent 'DNA' test it came back positive for celiac. I have since then been on a very hard core gluten-free diet. I mean everything, from soap to toothpaste. I am very, very diligent. The bacterial test did say I had high levels of whatever it was but they gave me something to get rid of that. I had scans and ultrasounds done at the hospital. My doctor thought it could possibly be depression, but honestly the only thing that has ever brought be down has been being this sick. Since then I have still been in pain. Last semester (September-December) was one of the worst in my life. It was hard to sit through classes without crying out in pain. I did poorly on coursework because it was so difficult to concentrate when dealing with the stabbing/cramping pain. Not only was there pain though, I was vomiting when I ate, and sometimes there would be blood. Also, sometimes there has been blood coming out my other end. It seemed that most people were fed up with me being ill. All of my apparent best friends/flatmates gave up on me. My family didn't talk to me too much. I definitely relied on the support of my boyfriend. Over this past winter I went and had colonics done, abdominal massages and even went to an energy healer. I began taking bile regulating tablets which helped a bit, enough that I could walk about without doubling over. Currently I am on an all liquid diet. I am lethargic, starving and still sick. I spent last night vomiting up my day's diet of rice milk with maple/agave syrup, water and tea. Some days I also try to drink protein shakes (calnaturale svelte). I also take a dairy-free probiotic shot called Bio-K daily to help with internal flora. I don't know what to do. Or how to help myself any more. I guess I'm wondering if anyone else has ever had anything like this/knows anyone else who might have? Any advice? TL;DR This is coming as sort of a last resort. I have been to multiple doctors over the past 4 years and I have had only little, and temporary relief. I just want to feel like my once healthy self again.

(I don't know where to post this. It got booted from r/askreddit and r/medical doesn't have many subscribers...) Hey, so here's the issue. I have crippling pain whenever I eat. This tends to be coupled with a bloated, gassy stomach and occasionally nausea. The bloating is severe as I go from having a relatively flat stomach to appearing as if I could be 4/5 months pregnant, with skin pulled so tight that it is painful. Medical background: At around 15 my stomach starts reacting to food, painful cramps after I eat. It appears I have become lactose intolerant, so I cut out all dairy. I managed to feel ill every day but still continued to eat. Everyone seemed to not believe me about my bloating/pain. As time went by it got worse and worse. By my senior year in high school (18 years old) I was always in pain. I went to my first gastroenterologist who at first told my mom that I was either A. anorexic or B. making it up for attention. After she told him neither were true he performed a few tests and found nothing to be wrong. He then went back to his first theories. That same summer I (and my whole familia) also went to a hematologist because of my anemia. I have a small clotting problem and just need to inform doctors prior to surgeries and should avoid aspirin and the like. I went through my first year of University alone in a new country in total pain. I lost around 15 pounds by the end of the year. I would like to note that I adore food, cooking and eating, and almost went to culinary school instead of Uni. By the time I got home I was so riddled with pain that on the orders of my regular doctor and my gyno I went to a new gastro. I would like to point out that by this point I was living on hardly anything and still in constant pain. I was already on a self-diagnosed gluten free diet. So, last summer I had an array of tests run by my gastroenterologist (I could find the paperwork if need be) including a biopsy, bacterial breath tests and blood work. The biopsy came back negative for anything, and the only thing of note was some "glistening" inside my stomach. The blood work stated negative to everything at first and then with an apparent 'DNA' test it came back positive for celiac. I have since then been on a very hard core gluten-free diet. I mean everything, from soap to toothpaste. I am very, very diligent. The bacterial test did say I had high levels of whatever it was but they gave me something to get rid of that. I had scans and ultrasounds done at the hospital. My doctor thought it could possibly be depression, but honestly the only thing that has ever brought be down has been being this sick. Since then I have still been in pain. Last semester (September-December) was one of the worst in my life. It was hard to sit through classes without crying out in pain. I did poorly on coursework because it was so difficult to concentrate when dealing with the stabbing/cramping pain. Not only was there pain though, I was vomiting when I ate, and sometimes there would be blood. Also, sometimes there has been blood coming out my other end. It seemed that most people were fed up with me being ill. All of my apparent best friends/flatmates gave up on me. My family didn't talk to me too much. I definitely relied on the support of my boyfriend. Over this past winter I went and had colonics done, abdominal massages and even went to an energy healer. I began taking bile regulating tablets which helped a bit, enough that I could walk about without doubling over. Currently I am on an all liquid diet. I am lethargic, starving and still sick. I spent last night vomiting up my day's diet of rice milk with maple/agave syrup, water and tea. Some days I also try to drink protein shakes (calnaturale svelte). I also take a dairy-free probiotic shot called Bio-K daily to help with internal flora. I don't know what to do. Or how to help myself any more. I guess I'm wondering if anyone else has ever had anything like this/knows anyone else who might have? Any advice? TL;DR This is coming as sort of a last resort. I have been to multiple doctors over the past 4 years and I have had only little, and temporary relief. I just want to feel like my once healthy self again.

self

t5_2qh96

t3_sg2mh

I don't know where to post this. It got booted from r/askreddit and r/medical doesn't have many subscribers...) Hey, so here's the issue. I have crippling pain whenever I eat. This tends to be coupled with a bloated, gassy stomach and occasionally nausea. The bloating is severe as I go from having a relatively flat stomach to appearing as if I could be 4/5 months pregnant, with skin pulled so tight that it is painful. Medical background: At around 15 my stomach starts reacting to food, painful cramps after I eat. It appears I have become lactose intolerant, so I cut out all dairy. I managed to feel ill every day but still continued to eat. Everyone seemed to not believe me about my bloating/pain. As time went by it got worse and worse. By my senior year in high school (18 years old) I was always in pain. I went to my first gastroenterologist who at first told my mom that I was either A. anorexic or B. making it up for attention. After she told him neither were true he performed a few tests and found nothing to be wrong. He then went back to his first theories. That same summer I (and my whole familia) also went to a hematologist because of my anemia. I have a small clotting problem and just need to inform doctors prior to surgeries and should avoid aspirin and the like. I went through my first year of University alone in a new country in total pain. I lost around 15 pounds by the end of the year. I would like to note that I adore food, cooking and eating, and almost went to culinary school instead of Uni. By the time I got home I was so riddled with pain that on the orders of my regular doctor and my gyno I went to a new gastro. I would like to point out that by this point I was living on hardly anything and still in constant pain. I was already on a self-diagnosed gluten free diet. So, last summer I had an array of tests run by my gastroenterologist (I could find the paperwork if need be) including a biopsy, bacterial breath tests and blood work. The biopsy came back negative for anything, and the only thing of note was some "glistening" inside my stomach. The blood work stated negative to everything at first and then with an apparent 'DNA' test it came back positive for celiac. I have since then been on a very hard core gluten-free diet. I mean everything, from soap to toothpaste. I am very, very diligent. The bacterial test did say I had high levels of whatever it was but they gave me something to get rid of that. I had scans and ultrasounds done at the hospital. My doctor thought it could possibly be depression, but honestly the only thing that has ever brought be down has been being this sick. Since then I have still been in pain. Last semester (September-December) was one of the worst in my life. It was hard to sit through classes without crying out in pain. I did poorly on coursework because it was so difficult to concentrate when dealing with the stabbing/cramping pain. Not only was there pain though, I was vomiting when I ate, and sometimes there would be blood. Also, sometimes there has been blood coming out my other end. It seemed that most people were fed up with me being ill. All of my apparent best friends/flatmates gave up on me. My family didn't talk to me too much. I definitely relied on the support of my boyfriend. Over this past winter I went and had colonics done, abdominal massages and even went to an energy healer. I began taking bile regulating tablets which helped a bit, enough that I could walk about without doubling over. Currently I am on an all liquid diet. I am lethargic, starving and still sick. I spent last night vomiting up my day's diet of rice milk with maple/agave syrup, water and tea. Some days I also try to drink protein shakes (calnaturale svelte). I also take a dairy-free probiotic shot called Bio-K daily to help with internal flora. I don't know what to do. Or how to help myself any more. I guess I'm wondering if anyone else has ever had anything like this/knows anyone else who might have? Any advice?

This is coming as sort of a last resort. I have been to multiple doctors over the past 4 years and I have had only little, and temporary relief. I just want to feel like my once healthy self again.

iiYop

I don't think her name will be CiX, or Jinx. If you look in lolking, you can find a player by the name of EACH champion, with an inactive account, most likely level 6. For example, in the search bar, type in Ahri, or KogMaw, you'll find an account level 6, that is not used by anyone. Then you check Lucian, you'll find a level 30 account that is also inactive (most likely cause a Rioter will use it in the future). I tried Ao Shin or AoShin and found lots of inactive level 1 accounts, with 0 games played, and in NA a level 25 account that is also inactive... *** TL;DR: While this is still speculation, since they haven't anounced her name yet, every champions with their name announced have inactive accounts named after them, maybe we can find #116 champion name that way***

I don't think her name will be CiX, or Jinx. If you look in lolking, you can find a player by the name of EACH champion, with an inactive account, most likely level 6. For example, in the search bar, type in Ahri, or KogMaw, you'll find an account level 6, that is not used by anyone. Then you check Lucian, you'll find a level 30 account that is also inactive (most likely cause a Rioter will use it in the future). I tried Ao Shin or AoShin and found lots of inactive level 1 accounts, with 0 games played, and in NA a level 25 account that is also inactive... TL;DR: While this is still speculation, since they haven't anounced her name yet, every champions with their name announced have inactive accounts named after them, maybe we can find #116 champion name that way

leagueoflegends

t5_2rfxx

ccesi4u

I don't think her name will be CiX, or Jinx. If you look in lolking, you can find a player by the name of EACH champion, with an inactive account, most likely level 6. For example, in the search bar, type in Ahri, or KogMaw, you'll find an account level 6, that is not used by anyone. Then you check Lucian, you'll find a level 30 account that is also inactive (most likely cause a Rioter will use it in the future). I tried Ao Shin or AoShin and found lots of inactive level 1 accounts, with 0 games played, and in NA a level 25 account that is also inactive...

While this is still speculation, since they haven't anounced her name yet, every champions with their name announced have inactive accounts named after them, maybe we can find #116 champion name that way

mr_daemon

Yes, which is why I added the Disclaimer. It's worth noting though, if we're going to go at it objectively, that KVM hasn't really got much of an "emulation pipeline", not unlike Xen. QEMU is basically just used to bootstrap the system, everything that actually matters (IO of any kind) is done with pv drivers, which are a thin passthrough interface to the host incurring negligible overhead. The CPU is just virtualized using what amounts to hardware assisted hypercalls, which also have a negligible performance impact. Memory is allocated by the host kernel. Add to this the actual downsides of OpenVZ, namely that you get a shitty vtun/tap for network IO on which you can never do anything more than throw packets at the other end of the tunnel (i.e. no filtering/firewall, no vpn, nothing), that your container shares a kernel and all its modules with the host, and that it's near impossible to properly isolate or prioritize any vm with any semblance of granularity, and the arguably present performance advantage seems rather insignificant. I use containers for some things, but I certainly wouldn't use them for _everything_ just because it's theoritically faster in a negligible proportion that doesn't really affect my workload. tl;dr "better performance" is relative as fuck.

Yes, which is why I added the Disclaimer. It's worth noting though, if we're going to go at it objectively, that KVM hasn't really got much of an "emulation pipeline", not unlike Xen. QEMU is basically just used to bootstrap the system, everything that actually matters (IO of any kind) is done with pv drivers, which are a thin passthrough interface to the host incurring negligible overhead. The CPU is just virtualized using what amounts to hardware assisted hypercalls, which also have a negligible performance impact. Memory is allocated by the host kernel. Add to this the actual downsides of OpenVZ, namely that you get a shitty vtun/tap for network IO on which you can never do anything more than throw packets at the other end of the tunnel (i.e. no filtering/firewall, no vpn, nothing), that your container shares a kernel and all its modules with the host, and that it's near impossible to properly isolate or prioritize any vm with any semblance of granularity, and the arguably present performance advantage seems rather insignificant. I use containers for some things, but I certainly wouldn't use them for everything just because it's theoritically faster in a negligible proportion that doesn't really affect my workload. tl;dr "better performance" is relative as fuck.

linux

t5_2qh1a

cr353jm

Yes, which is why I added the Disclaimer. It's worth noting though, if we're going to go at it objectively, that KVM hasn't really got much of an "emulation pipeline", not unlike Xen. QEMU is basically just used to bootstrap the system, everything that actually matters (IO of any kind) is done with pv drivers, which are a thin passthrough interface to the host incurring negligible overhead. The CPU is just virtualized using what amounts to hardware assisted hypercalls, which also have a negligible performance impact. Memory is allocated by the host kernel. Add to this the actual downsides of OpenVZ, namely that you get a shitty vtun/tap for network IO on which you can never do anything more than throw packets at the other end of the tunnel (i.e. no filtering/firewall, no vpn, nothing), that your container shares a kernel and all its modules with the host, and that it's near impossible to properly isolate or prioritize any vm with any semblance of granularity, and the arguably present performance advantage seems rather insignificant. I use containers for some things, but I certainly wouldn't use them for everything just because it's theoritically faster in a negligible proportion that doesn't really affect my workload.

better performance" is relative as fuck.

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not sure if this is a vent. it feels odd. 8 weeks ago our pekingese gave birth to 5 puppies fathered by my little shih tzu buddy. 7 from the last sentence. we also had a shih-poo and a cocker spaniel/golden retriever mix. it was arranged to get rid of 2 of the puppies yesterday as they were ready to leave. 9-2=7. she put an ad on craigslist to get rid of the shih-poo and the coggle for free. an hour later a couple showed up to take the shih-poo. in the morning a middle aged single lady comes to pick up the coggle. 7-2=5. I wanted to keep the one puppy [Peanut]( he was cool. being emotionally attached to an entity and it leaving is a feeling I'm not used to, especially since 4 left. shrug. here's the [puppies at my feet]( the one on the very right, and the second from the left departed. [these two left as well]( **tl;dr yesterday I had nine dogs, today I have five. what a weird feeling.**

not sure if this is a vent. it feels odd. 8 weeks ago our pekingese gave birth to 5 puppies fathered by my little shih tzu buddy. 7 from the last sentence. we also had a shih-poo and a cocker spaniel/golden retriever mix. it was arranged to get rid of 2 of the puppies yesterday as they were ready to leave. 9-2=7. she put an ad on craigslist to get rid of the shih-poo and the coggle for free. an hour later a couple showed up to take the shih-poo. in the morning a middle aged single lady comes to pick up the coggle. 7-2=5. I wanted to keep the one puppy [Peanut]( he was cool. being emotionally attached to an entity and it leaving is a feeling I'm not used to, especially since 4 left. shrug. here's the [puppies at my feet]( the one on the very right, and the second from the left departed. [these two left as well]( tl;dr yesterday I had nine dogs, today I have five. what a weird feeling.

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not sure if this is a vent. it feels odd. 8 weeks ago our pekingese gave birth to 5 puppies fathered by my little shih tzu buddy. 7 from the last sentence. we also had a shih-poo and a cocker spaniel/golden retriever mix. it was arranged to get rid of 2 of the puppies yesterday as they were ready to leave. 9-2=7. she put an ad on craigslist to get rid of the shih-poo and the coggle for free. an hour later a couple showed up to take the shih-poo. in the morning a middle aged single lady comes to pick up the coggle. 7-2=5. I wanted to keep the one puppy [Peanut]( he was cool. being emotionally attached to an entity and it leaving is a feeling I'm not used to, especially since 4 left. shrug. here's the [puppies at my feet]( the one on the very right, and the second from the left departed. [these two left as well](

yesterday I had nine dogs, today I have five. what a weird feeling.

rileyk

I'm an escort, and I meet my share of guys in sexless and/or loveless marriages. One of my fav. clients is married, handful of kids, wife no longer interested in sex (momma librarian type), and he comes out to LA once a month or so to play with me, then goes home and resumes familiar duties. Many guys have some sort of fetish or interaction they want to try before their numbers up, when he got married decades ago it was probably much harder to find a transexual girl who'd wear diapers for him. Now he's paid, established, and isn't going to leave his fanily for some romantic love affair, but he gets a little sample of youth and adventure when he sees me. I think most of the wives know, but just let their husbands go because they'd rather have their husbands put it in me than get fresh/pushy/resentful with them. tl;dr I have fucked a ton of married dads, and if anything it's helped the situation at home for my clients.

I'm an escort, and I meet my share of guys in sexless and/or loveless marriages. One of my fav. clients is married, handful of kids, wife no longer interested in sex (momma librarian type), and he comes out to LA once a month or so to play with me, then goes home and resumes familiar duties. Many guys have some sort of fetish or interaction they want to try before their numbers up, when he got married decades ago it was probably much harder to find a transexual girl who'd wear diapers for him. Now he's paid, established, and isn't going to leave his fanily for some romantic love affair, but he gets a little sample of youth and adventure when he sees me. I think most of the wives know, but just let their husbands go because they'd rather have their husbands put it in me than get fresh/pushy/resentful with them. tl;dr I have fucked a ton of married dads, and if anything it's helped the situation at home for my clients.

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I'm an escort, and I meet my share of guys in sexless and/or loveless marriages. One of my fav. clients is married, handful of kids, wife no longer interested in sex (momma librarian type), and he comes out to LA once a month or so to play with me, then goes home and resumes familiar duties. Many guys have some sort of fetish or interaction they want to try before their numbers up, when he got married decades ago it was probably much harder to find a transexual girl who'd wear diapers for him. Now he's paid, established, and isn't going to leave his fanily for some romantic love affair, but he gets a little sample of youth and adventure when he sees me. I think most of the wives know, but just let their husbands go because they'd rather have their husbands put it in me than get fresh/pushy/resentful with them.

I have fucked a ton of married dads, and if anything it's helped the situation at home for my clients.

ohpizzaphaggot

I haven't talked about this since it happened and probably never will, aside from sharing it here with reddit. My friends who were with me just kind of never talked about it because it was so weird. It was around 2am and I was with 12 other ladies and we were all hammered in a hotel bar for a bachelorette party. We saw these 3 guys, probably aged 19-22 and invited them back to one of our rooms. On the stairs up we were joking around that we were glad we didn't spend money on strippers. These guys, while pretty young, were very cute. They had barely entered the room before we tore their clothes off, blindfolded two of them and tied them to a chair. Their friend was crying about feeling sick so we just left him alone. All I can remember is me and some of the ladies taking turns laughing and riding the two guys who were tied up. A few of the ladies took turns blowing them. I couldn't believe what was happening but it was really fun at the time. When that was over I realized that I kind of recognized one of the guys. I was recently divorced and one of the guys looked just like my ex-husband's nephew. I couldn't tell for sure because right about the time I was really looking at him he got all awkward and left in a hurry. I still am not sure to this day whether it was my nephew or not. TLDR: Got drunk. Probably fucked my nephew who was tied to a chair at a bachelorette party.

I haven't talked about this since it happened and probably never will, aside from sharing it here with reddit. My friends who were with me just kind of never talked about it because it was so weird. It was around 2am and I was with 12 other ladies and we were all hammered in a hotel bar for a bachelorette party. We saw these 3 guys, probably aged 19-22 and invited them back to one of our rooms. On the stairs up we were joking around that we were glad we didn't spend money on strippers. These guys, while pretty young, were very cute. They had barely entered the room before we tore their clothes off, blindfolded two of them and tied them to a chair. Their friend was crying about feeling sick so we just left him alone. All I can remember is me and some of the ladies taking turns laughing and riding the two guys who were tied up. A few of the ladies took turns blowing them. I couldn't believe what was happening but it was really fun at the time. When that was over I realized that I kind of recognized one of the guys. I was recently divorced and one of the guys looked just like my ex-husband's nephew. I couldn't tell for sure because right about the time I was really looking at him he got all awkward and left in a hurry. I still am not sure to this day whether it was my nephew or not. TLDR: Got drunk. Probably fucked my nephew who was tied to a chair at a bachelorette party.

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I haven't talked about this since it happened and probably never will, aside from sharing it here with reddit. My friends who were with me just kind of never talked about it because it was so weird. It was around 2am and I was with 12 other ladies and we were all hammered in a hotel bar for a bachelorette party. We saw these 3 guys, probably aged 19-22 and invited them back to one of our rooms. On the stairs up we were joking around that we were glad we didn't spend money on strippers. These guys, while pretty young, were very cute. They had barely entered the room before we tore their clothes off, blindfolded two of them and tied them to a chair. Their friend was crying about feeling sick so we just left him alone. All I can remember is me and some of the ladies taking turns laughing and riding the two guys who were tied up. A few of the ladies took turns blowing them. I couldn't believe what was happening but it was really fun at the time. When that was over I realized that I kind of recognized one of the guys. I was recently divorced and one of the guys looked just like my ex-husband's nephew. I couldn't tell for sure because right about the time I was really looking at him he got all awkward and left in a hurry. I still am not sure to this day whether it was my nephew or not.

Got drunk. Probably fucked my nephew who was tied to a chair at a bachelorette party.

atn1988

I got my start by just doing tutorials. Then when I felt I had a good handle on everything I started looking at things I liked, and tried my best to recreate it with my own flair thrown in. A lot of my free time now is spent "reskinning" apps, changing up websites that I like. A lot of them never make it anywhere, but I found that it has been a good way for me to see what works and what doesn't work. A lot of it just ends up in a folder somewhere, but I find it nice to look back at files and see where I've come from, inspires me to keep pushing more and more. TLDR: Learn by doing, and doing, and doing.

I got my start by just doing tutorials. Then when I felt I had a good handle on everything I started looking at things I liked, and tried my best to recreate it with my own flair thrown in. A lot of my free time now is spent "reskinning" apps, changing up websites that I like. A lot of them never make it anywhere, but I found that it has been a good way for me to see what works and what doesn't work. A lot of it just ends up in a folder somewhere, but I find it nice to look back at files and see where I've come from, inspires me to keep pushing more and more. TLDR: Learn by doing, and doing, and doing.

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I got my start by just doing tutorials. Then when I felt I had a good handle on everything I started looking at things I liked, and tried my best to recreate it with my own flair thrown in. A lot of my free time now is spent "reskinning" apps, changing up websites that I like. A lot of them never make it anywhere, but I found that it has been a good way for me to see what works and what doesn't work. A lot of it just ends up in a folder somewhere, but I find it nice to look back at files and see where I've come from, inspires me to keep pushing more and more.

Learn by doing, and doing, and doing.

keelabee

I've owned a couple different yoga mats, they've all been around $10-$15 and all seemed to be about the same thickness. If you do end up finding a good place to take a class, they'll usually have some mats there that you can use. My knees are horrible, so I usually double-up for the extra cushioning. My favorite thing to do to get my hamstrings loosened up is to get into Down-dog, then alternate pressing my heels into the mat, about four or five times on each foot, before pressing both heels down into the mat. For my hips, I really like Pigeon and Bridge, there are a couple of seated-twist poses that I can't recall the names of that are great as well. I'm in Appalachia and don't know anything at all about UT, but I've gone to yoga classes in gyms, in college, at hospitals, actual yoga studios, Unitarian churches, etc. Try searching Craigslist or posting in your local subreddit and ask if anybody in your area knows of some classes going on. Blocks and straps just help some people with balance. I don't really like/need to use them, personally. Doing yoga with your SO is definitely a lot of fun, if they're open to it. Sounds like your boyfriend is, so you should totally go for it! You'll be able to do all types of crazy stuff in the sack that never occurred to you before. I always meditate for at least ten minutes after a yoga session. I wouldn't recommend trying to do it before, at your early stage of practice. Yoga and meditation go kind of hand-in-hand for me. I tried practicing meditation for a long time before I got into yoga, and it just never worked. But once I got more familiar with yoga, I discovered that when it was time to meditate, my breathing was already regulated, body loose and relaxed, if not tired and my mind clear of distractions such as work/school, so I could just slip into it a lot more easily. The best thing to do is read whatever you can find online, maybe see if your local library has any books you'd like to check out on the subject...Look up poses, give them a try at home, watch Youtube videos, learn more about meditation, start trying to practice at home. There are also lots of neat breathing exercises you can learn as well. Just always listen to your body. In the traditional sense, yoga is meant to prepare your body for meditation, in the West it's mostly a fitness fad, but like with any other physical exercise routine, do not strain yourself! It's supposed to be beneficial and relaxing, if you're trying a new pose (or an old one, for that matter!) and your body is feeling stressed, come out of it immediately! Also, don't get discouraged if you can't master a new pose, or if one that you thought you had down is all of the sudden difficult. Some days your balance is better on one side than the other, or your body is just not in the mood to do a certain pose. I just got back from a yoga class earlier this evening, and I couldn't hold Dancer's pose (one of my favorites, even) for more than 3 breaths on either side, but I went into and held Side-Plank like a boss, when I normally end up skipping that one. Yoga classes are no place to be shy, just concentrate on your breath and what you're doing, don't worry about anyone else. If you don't understand a pose, ask for help. If you're not comfortable with it, rest for a minute or do something you're comfortable with. Sorry that got into TL;DR territory, and remember that I'm not an instructor or an expert, but I hope I was helpful! And I really hope you guys find a good place to take a yoga class and enjoy furthering your practice!

I've owned a couple different yoga mats, they've all been around $10-$15 and all seemed to be about the same thickness. If you do end up finding a good place to take a class, they'll usually have some mats there that you can use. My knees are horrible, so I usually double-up for the extra cushioning. My favorite thing to do to get my hamstrings loosened up is to get into Down-dog, then alternate pressing my heels into the mat, about four or five times on each foot, before pressing both heels down into the mat. For my hips, I really like Pigeon and Bridge, there are a couple of seated-twist poses that I can't recall the names of that are great as well. I'm in Appalachia and don't know anything at all about UT, but I've gone to yoga classes in gyms, in college, at hospitals, actual yoga studios, Unitarian churches, etc. Try searching Craigslist or posting in your local subreddit and ask if anybody in your area knows of some classes going on. Blocks and straps just help some people with balance. I don't really like/need to use them, personally. Doing yoga with your SO is definitely a lot of fun, if they're open to it. Sounds like your boyfriend is, so you should totally go for it! You'll be able to do all types of crazy stuff in the sack that never occurred to you before. I always meditate for at least ten minutes after a yoga session. I wouldn't recommend trying to do it before, at your early stage of practice. Yoga and meditation go kind of hand-in-hand for me. I tried practicing meditation for a long time before I got into yoga, and it just never worked. But once I got more familiar with yoga, I discovered that when it was time to meditate, my breathing was already regulated, body loose and relaxed, if not tired and my mind clear of distractions such as work/school, so I could just slip into it a lot more easily. The best thing to do is read whatever you can find online, maybe see if your local library has any books you'd like to check out on the subject...Look up poses, give them a try at home, watch Youtube videos, learn more about meditation, start trying to practice at home. There are also lots of neat breathing exercises you can learn as well. Just always listen to your body. In the traditional sense, yoga is meant to prepare your body for meditation, in the West it's mostly a fitness fad, but like with any other physical exercise routine, do not strain yourself! It's supposed to be beneficial and relaxing, if you're trying a new pose (or an old one, for that matter!) and your body is feeling stressed, come out of it immediately! Also, don't get discouraged if you can't master a new pose, or if one that you thought you had down is all of the sudden difficult. Some days your balance is better on one side than the other, or your body is just not in the mood to do a certain pose. I just got back from a yoga class earlier this evening, and I couldn't hold Dancer's pose (one of my favorites, even) for more than 3 breaths on either side, but I went into and held Side-Plank like a boss, when I normally end up skipping that one. Yoga classes are no place to be shy, just concentrate on your breath and what you're doing, don't worry about anyone else. If you don't understand a pose, ask for help. If you're not comfortable with it, rest for a minute or do something you're comfortable with. Sorry that got into TL;DR territory, and remember that I'm not an instructor or an expert, but I hope I was helpful! And I really hope you guys find a good place to take a yoga class and enjoy furthering your practice!

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I've owned a couple different yoga mats, they've all been around $10-$15 and all seemed to be about the same thickness. If you do end up finding a good place to take a class, they'll usually have some mats there that you can use. My knees are horrible, so I usually double-up for the extra cushioning. My favorite thing to do to get my hamstrings loosened up is to get into Down-dog, then alternate pressing my heels into the mat, about four or five times on each foot, before pressing both heels down into the mat. For my hips, I really like Pigeon and Bridge, there are a couple of seated-twist poses that I can't recall the names of that are great as well. I'm in Appalachia and don't know anything at all about UT, but I've gone to yoga classes in gyms, in college, at hospitals, actual yoga studios, Unitarian churches, etc. Try searching Craigslist or posting in your local subreddit and ask if anybody in your area knows of some classes going on. Blocks and straps just help some people with balance. I don't really like/need to use them, personally. Doing yoga with your SO is definitely a lot of fun, if they're open to it. Sounds like your boyfriend is, so you should totally go for it! You'll be able to do all types of crazy stuff in the sack that never occurred to you before. I always meditate for at least ten minutes after a yoga session. I wouldn't recommend trying to do it before, at your early stage of practice. Yoga and meditation go kind of hand-in-hand for me. I tried practicing meditation for a long time before I got into yoga, and it just never worked. But once I got more familiar with yoga, I discovered that when it was time to meditate, my breathing was already regulated, body loose and relaxed, if not tired and my mind clear of distractions such as work/school, so I could just slip into it a lot more easily. The best thing to do is read whatever you can find online, maybe see if your local library has any books you'd like to check out on the subject...Look up poses, give them a try at home, watch Youtube videos, learn more about meditation, start trying to practice at home. There are also lots of neat breathing exercises you can learn as well. Just always listen to your body. In the traditional sense, yoga is meant to prepare your body for meditation, in the West it's mostly a fitness fad, but like with any other physical exercise routine, do not strain yourself! It's supposed to be beneficial and relaxing, if you're trying a new pose (or an old one, for that matter!) and your body is feeling stressed, come out of it immediately! Also, don't get discouraged if you can't master a new pose, or if one that you thought you had down is all of the sudden difficult. Some days your balance is better on one side than the other, or your body is just not in the mood to do a certain pose. I just got back from a yoga class earlier this evening, and I couldn't hold Dancer's pose (one of my favorites, even) for more than 3 breaths on either side, but I went into and held Side-Plank like a boss, when I normally end up skipping that one. Yoga classes are no place to be shy, just concentrate on your breath and what you're doing, don't worry about anyone else. If you don't understand a pose, ask for help. If you're not comfortable with it, rest for a minute or do something you're comfortable with. Sorry that got into

territory, and remember that I'm not an instructor or an expert, but I hope I was helpful! And I really hope you guys find a good place to take a yoga class and enjoy furthering your practice!

p7r

You have missed the point, and therefore your complaint will land on deaf ears. If you spend $100 on an office chair, you're going to get a chair that will be fine for up to 20 hours a week for 5 years, but at 40 hours/week, you will need to replace it within a few years, max. People have paid $700 and more on office chairs and found that they have saved money on back problems and that the product has lasted for many, many, many years. Therefore, it's a perfcetly durable, quality and practical product, especially if you work from home and in front of a screen for 40+ hours/week. If you are a foodie, you are going to be concerned about food temperatures and want quick read thermometers. There are many cheap, easily breakable low-quality thermometers out there. A $5 thermometer in this context is not practical - by the time you get a temperature reading, your meat may be over-cooked. Therefore, something that offers what you want at half normal price and that is proven to be highly durable and of high quality is clearly a BIFL item. The same goes for the frying pan. If you are somebody who is looking to buy high-end pans (which the OP was), it's likely that they enjoy cooking and spend a lot of time in the kitchen - it's obvious they're not interested in something to make a grilled cheese sandwich. In that context, $150 for a frying pan might well be the most durable and high-quality product they ever buy. It might have perfect heat distribution and is therefore more practical. It might be for the sort of recipes OP is trying, other pans just won't be good enough. For the kind of use they're putting their pans through, anything lesser might be thrown away after just 12 months (I know our cheap frying pans last about 12-18 months), so within 10 years OP could be into "profit", if not sooner. The thread about snap-on tools and the safety razor are perfect BIFL items: the thread was about products that have a lifetime warranty. In other words, if you buy those products and they *ever* fail, you get a replacement under warranty for the cost of shipping at most. I can't imagine a product more durable or of proven high quality than one that comes with a lifetime warranty from the manufacturer. That is practical in the sense that you pay for it once, you're never paying for it ever again. That is perfect practical BIFL mentality: it's not a gadget, it's not some new trendy gizmo, it's something your kids and grandkids will still get use out of. The binoculars thing - you've misquoted and misrepresented the comment. The comment concerned a pair of $150 binoculars that are particularly durable and practical and high quality: the perfect BIFL item. "If money is no object", they continue, "the $2,000 [binoculars] are THE ones to get". Note, the qualification. They're saying if you want to go crazy bling on the optics they are superb, but the Pentax are almost as good and will stand up to heavy use. What isn't practical about that? TL;DR: you're an idiot who does not read comments properly and thinks everybody lives your life as you do, rarely sitting down in an office chair, never cooking complex recipes well and who thinks products that come with a lifetime warranty have no place in BIFL

You have missed the point, and therefore your complaint will land on deaf ears. If you spend $100 on an office chair, you're going to get a chair that will be fine for up to 20 hours a week for 5 years, but at 40 hours/week, you will need to replace it within a few years, max. People have paid $700 and more on office chairs and found that they have saved money on back problems and that the product has lasted for many, many, many years. Therefore, it's a perfcetly durable, quality and practical product, especially if you work from home and in front of a screen for 40+ hours/week. If you are a foodie, you are going to be concerned about food temperatures and want quick read thermometers. There are many cheap, easily breakable low-quality thermometers out there. A $5 thermometer in this context is not practical - by the time you get a temperature reading, your meat may be over-cooked. Therefore, something that offers what you want at half normal price and that is proven to be highly durable and of high quality is clearly a BIFL item. The same goes for the frying pan. If you are somebody who is looking to buy high-end pans (which the OP was), it's likely that they enjoy cooking and spend a lot of time in the kitchen - it's obvious they're not interested in something to make a grilled cheese sandwich. In that context, $150 for a frying pan might well be the most durable and high-quality product they ever buy. It might have perfect heat distribution and is therefore more practical. It might be for the sort of recipes OP is trying, other pans just won't be good enough. For the kind of use they're putting their pans through, anything lesser might be thrown away after just 12 months (I know our cheap frying pans last about 12-18 months), so within 10 years OP could be into "profit", if not sooner. The thread about snap-on tools and the safety razor are perfect BIFL items: the thread was about products that have a lifetime warranty. In other words, if you buy those products and they ever fail, you get a replacement under warranty for the cost of shipping at most. I can't imagine a product more durable or of proven high quality than one that comes with a lifetime warranty from the manufacturer. That is practical in the sense that you pay for it once, you're never paying for it ever again. That is perfect practical BIFL mentality: it's not a gadget, it's not some new trendy gizmo, it's something your kids and grandkids will still get use out of. The binoculars thing - you've misquoted and misrepresented the comment. The comment concerned a pair of $150 binoculars that are particularly durable and practical and high quality: the perfect BIFL item. "If money is no object", they continue, "the $2,000 [binoculars] are THE ones to get". Note, the qualification. They're saying if you want to go crazy bling on the optics they are superb, but the Pentax are almost as good and will stand up to heavy use. What isn't practical about that? TL;DR: you're an idiot who does not read comments properly and thinks everybody lives your life as you do, rarely sitting down in an office chair, never cooking complex recipes well and who thinks products that come with a lifetime warranty have no place in BIFL

BuyItForLife

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You have missed the point, and therefore your complaint will land on deaf ears. If you spend $100 on an office chair, you're going to get a chair that will be fine for up to 20 hours a week for 5 years, but at 40 hours/week, you will need to replace it within a few years, max. People have paid $700 and more on office chairs and found that they have saved money on back problems and that the product has lasted for many, many, many years. Therefore, it's a perfcetly durable, quality and practical product, especially if you work from home and in front of a screen for 40+ hours/week. If you are a foodie, you are going to be concerned about food temperatures and want quick read thermometers. There are many cheap, easily breakable low-quality thermometers out there. A $5 thermometer in this context is not practical - by the time you get a temperature reading, your meat may be over-cooked. Therefore, something that offers what you want at half normal price and that is proven to be highly durable and of high quality is clearly a BIFL item. The same goes for the frying pan. If you are somebody who is looking to buy high-end pans (which the OP was), it's likely that they enjoy cooking and spend a lot of time in the kitchen - it's obvious they're not interested in something to make a grilled cheese sandwich. In that context, $150 for a frying pan might well be the most durable and high-quality product they ever buy. It might have perfect heat distribution and is therefore more practical. It might be for the sort of recipes OP is trying, other pans just won't be good enough. For the kind of use they're putting their pans through, anything lesser might be thrown away after just 12 months (I know our cheap frying pans last about 12-18 months), so within 10 years OP could be into "profit", if not sooner. The thread about snap-on tools and the safety razor are perfect BIFL items: the thread was about products that have a lifetime warranty. In other words, if you buy those products and they ever fail, you get a replacement under warranty for the cost of shipping at most. I can't imagine a product more durable or of proven high quality than one that comes with a lifetime warranty from the manufacturer. That is practical in the sense that you pay for it once, you're never paying for it ever again. That is perfect practical BIFL mentality: it's not a gadget, it's not some new trendy gizmo, it's something your kids and grandkids will still get use out of. The binoculars thing - you've misquoted and misrepresented the comment. The comment concerned a pair of $150 binoculars that are particularly durable and practical and high quality: the perfect BIFL item. "If money is no object", they continue, "the $2,000 [binoculars] are THE ones to get". Note, the qualification. They're saying if you want to go crazy bling on the optics they are superb, but the Pentax are almost as good and will stand up to heavy use. What isn't practical about that?

you're an idiot who does not read comments properly and thinks everybody lives your life as you do, rarely sitting down in an office chair, never cooking complex recipes well and who thinks products that come with a lifetime warranty have no place in BIFL

CruelOptimist

Hey, I'm a non binary AMAB dude who has identified as such for nearly two years. I never really explored my gender during that time, or expressed it - I was very comfortable to just acknowledge that I felt this way, but I would occasionally have periods of dysphoria. A few months ago, I moved to a new city, and ever since have been experiencing gender dysphoria very frequently. I would see women on the train or the street that fit my aesthetic/style, and would feel attraction; but as time went on, I started to feel like that feeling was lesser so attraction, but perhaps envy. Dysphoria became a pretty constant thing for me, and I started to think might be a girl. I talked to friends and roommates, who all encouraged me to experiment as I saw comfortable; my nails are now always painted (although playing guitar makes them chip almost instantly), I regularly wear tights under my jeans, and I've started shaving my legs. My family and larger group of friends is aware of this, and don't seem to mind/notice. Within the closer circle that were aware of my dysphoria, I occasionally wear the couple dresses and skirts I have, and go by they/them pronouns. With every step I've taken - shaving, painting nails, wearing dresses - I've felt very comfortable with the results. That said, I've still never really felt a desire to present 100% feminine; I liked how I looked as a dude in a dress with painted nails and stubble. Earlier today, however, I took off my shirt, and I caught myself thinking how the image I saw would be better with breasts. I don't really know what that means, but I thought about it and figured it was as good a reason as any to experiment with presenting even more feminine than I have. Unfortunately, I'm aware I have some very masculine features - a very broad jaw and generally defined face for instance. Some of my features, however, like my weak shoulders and hourglass figure, can be interpreted as more feminine. So, TL;DR, do you guys think I could pass for feminine? I couldn't really pick one picture, so have a bunch: Thanks!!

Hey, I'm a non binary AMAB dude who has identified as such for nearly two years. I never really explored my gender during that time, or expressed it - I was very comfortable to just acknowledge that I felt this way, but I would occasionally have periods of dysphoria. A few months ago, I moved to a new city, and ever since have been experiencing gender dysphoria very frequently. I would see women on the train or the street that fit my aesthetic/style, and would feel attraction; but as time went on, I started to feel like that feeling was lesser so attraction, but perhaps envy. Dysphoria became a pretty constant thing for me, and I started to think might be a girl. I talked to friends and roommates, who all encouraged me to experiment as I saw comfortable; my nails are now always painted (although playing guitar makes them chip almost instantly), I regularly wear tights under my jeans, and I've started shaving my legs. My family and larger group of friends is aware of this, and don't seem to mind/notice. Within the closer circle that were aware of my dysphoria, I occasionally wear the couple dresses and skirts I have, and go by they/them pronouns. With every step I've taken - shaving, painting nails, wearing dresses - I've felt very comfortable with the results. That said, I've still never really felt a desire to present 100% feminine; I liked how I looked as a dude in a dress with painted nails and stubble. Earlier today, however, I took off my shirt, and I caught myself thinking how the image I saw would be better with breasts. I don't really know what that means, but I thought about it and figured it was as good a reason as any to experiment with presenting even more feminine than I have. Unfortunately, I'm aware I have some very masculine features - a very broad jaw and generally defined face for instance. Some of my features, however, like my weak shoulders and hourglass figure, can be interpreted as more feminine. So, TL;DR, do you guys think I could pass for feminine? I couldn't really pick one picture, so have a bunch: Thanks!!

genderqueer

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Hey, I'm a non binary AMAB dude who has identified as such for nearly two years. I never really explored my gender during that time, or expressed it - I was very comfortable to just acknowledge that I felt this way, but I would occasionally have periods of dysphoria. A few months ago, I moved to a new city, and ever since have been experiencing gender dysphoria very frequently. I would see women on the train or the street that fit my aesthetic/style, and would feel attraction; but as time went on, I started to feel like that feeling was lesser so attraction, but perhaps envy. Dysphoria became a pretty constant thing for me, and I started to think might be a girl. I talked to friends and roommates, who all encouraged me to experiment as I saw comfortable; my nails are now always painted (although playing guitar makes them chip almost instantly), I regularly wear tights under my jeans, and I've started shaving my legs. My family and larger group of friends is aware of this, and don't seem to mind/notice. Within the closer circle that were aware of my dysphoria, I occasionally wear the couple dresses and skirts I have, and go by they/them pronouns. With every step I've taken - shaving, painting nails, wearing dresses - I've felt very comfortable with the results. That said, I've still never really felt a desire to present 100% feminine; I liked how I looked as a dude in a dress with painted nails and stubble. Earlier today, however, I took off my shirt, and I caught myself thinking how the image I saw would be better with breasts. I don't really know what that means, but I thought about it and figured it was as good a reason as any to experiment with presenting even more feminine than I have. Unfortunately, I'm aware I have some very masculine features - a very broad jaw and generally defined face for instance. Some of my features, however, like my weak shoulders and hourglass figure, can be interpreted as more feminine. So,

do you guys think I could pass for feminine? I couldn't really pick one picture, so have a bunch: Thanks!!

stonergirl79

This is my first time back to the gym in a long time. I thought I should get going with a basic 1 hour yoga class. I get to the class, grab a mat and start putting the mat down where there was a significant amount of space. As I'm laying it down the guy diagnolly behind me says "I won't be able to see her if you stay there". Can I just also preface that I am a short girl, 4'10"?! Anyway his comment just rubbed me the wrong way and made me so upset and angry that I just put the mat back and walked out and started crying, in the rain. It was really sad and made me feel even worse about myself. Then I get mad at myself for not speaking up for myself. Ugh. I am depressed and decided that today was the day I was finally getting myself to go to the gym and this guy just ruined it for me completely. I decided to walk around for a bit in the rain and take some photos before I went to my local coffee shop to eat breakfast alone. I'm sorry for all the text, just feeling sorry for myself and needed to vent. Thanks for listening. TL;DR: went to gym to take a yoga class, guy's comments made me upset enough that I left without staying for the class

This is my first time back to the gym in a long time. I thought I should get going with a basic 1 hour yoga class. I get to the class, grab a mat and start putting the mat down where there was a significant amount of space. As I'm laying it down the guy diagnolly behind me says "I won't be able to see her if you stay there". Can I just also preface that I am a short girl, 4'10"?! Anyway his comment just rubbed me the wrong way and made me so upset and angry that I just put the mat back and walked out and started crying, in the rain. It was really sad and made me feel even worse about myself. Then I get mad at myself for not speaking up for myself. Ugh. I am depressed and decided that today was the day I was finally getting myself to go to the gym and this guy just ruined it for me completely. I decided to walk around for a bit in the rain and take some photos before I went to my local coffee shop to eat breakfast alone. I'm sorry for all the text, just feeling sorry for myself and needed to vent. Thanks for listening. TL;DR: went to gym to take a yoga class, guy's comments made me upset enough that I left without staying for the class

Fitness

t5_2qhx4

t3_2su2ng

This is my first time back to the gym in a long time. I thought I should get going with a basic 1 hour yoga class. I get to the class, grab a mat and start putting the mat down where there was a significant amount of space. As I'm laying it down the guy diagnolly behind me says "I won't be able to see her if you stay there". Can I just also preface that I am a short girl, 4'10"?! Anyway his comment just rubbed me the wrong way and made me so upset and angry that I just put the mat back and walked out and started crying, in the rain. It was really sad and made me feel even worse about myself. Then I get mad at myself for not speaking up for myself. Ugh. I am depressed and decided that today was the day I was finally getting myself to go to the gym and this guy just ruined it for me completely. I decided to walk around for a bit in the rain and take some photos before I went to my local coffee shop to eat breakfast alone. I'm sorry for all the text, just feeling sorry for myself and needed to vent. Thanks for listening.

went to gym to take a yoga class, guy's comments made me upset enough that I left without staying for the class

Linktank

So me and my buddies are sitting around here marathon rolling trees and we wanted to know why some ents choose to put vaporized thc through a bong? What does this do to benefit the smoker? Is vapor water soluble, and if so, doesn't the thc get suspended in the water? TL;DR Why put vapor through a bong?

So me and my buddies are sitting around here marathon rolling trees and we wanted to know why some ents choose to put vaporized thc through a bong? What does this do to benefit the smoker? Is vapor water soluble, and if so, doesn't the thc get suspended in the water? TL;DR Why put vapor through a bong?

trees

t5_2r9vp

t3_d3rar

So me and my buddies are sitting around here marathon rolling trees and we wanted to know why some ents choose to put vaporized thc through a bong? What does this do to benefit the smoker? Is vapor water soluble, and if so, doesn't the thc get suspended in the water?

Why put vapor through a bong?

tluers182

--- **Who I am/Why I left** ---      Hello, I am Tluers. I played hockey? every day for about a year and then I stopped when I got a job, changed schools, and started playing league of legends. I didn't put enough practice time in and tried changing roles which led to me being a backup backup player for LHL teams. I switched to playing ranked teams in League of Legends to get my competitive team play fix. --- **What I did in Hockey?** --- Team Accomplishments ---      I was never really great at Hockey?, but I have been on a lot of great teams: * 2x LHL Champion (S1, S2) * 2x HQML Champion (S2, S4) * 4x HQML Finalist (S2, S3, S4, S5) In the LHL S1 I blind picked one of the best teams and for LHL S2 I was allowed to keep the core of the team together (KS Otto and Tim_Barrett). I was also lucky to be friends with some of the better players so I got invited to play on their HQML teams. --- Individual Accomplishments ---      I got best GM Season 1 and that is because I got lucky with a trade and who ended up getting good at the game. I also got to fill in for the first 2 all star games because people didn't show. I got a hat trick in one of them, I think. --- Community Contributions --- I used to do a weekly highlights video. It was pretty cringe so i'll let someone else link it if they want. I also made Jerseys and Ice textures for people. Those too were pretty bad. I streamed/commentated over some LHL games too. --- **Reasons against me being GM** ---      I put thought into whether or not I could be a good GM or not this season. Reasons that set me back from the other applicants are lack of 5v5 experience, lack of experience with newer players, and lack of in-game skill relative to other players.      While I don't have much experience with 5v5, I was one of the biggest proponents for switching from 4v4 to 5v5. I would argue for it at GM meetings and tried starting a 5v5 tournament. I played 15 games season 7. I didn't perform well but I knew why and I understood how the game was played. I have watched more recent games too and feel I have an understanding of how the game is played.      While I haven't played with or seen a lot newer players, I have watched games and followed the stats sheets to see who has gotten better/worse. I also talk to a couple of people who still play regularly to see who to follow.      While my in-game skill may not be LHL starter, I can see myself being a back up player. I still do play the game about 3-4 hours a week, but recently it has been more than that. With enough practice I may be able to be a starting goalie again. --- **Reasons to vote for me to be GM** --- While I did take a break from competitive Hockey?, I did play team League of Legends. I have mostly ran the teams that I have played on in League of Legends. Skills from league that transfer over to GM in Hockey? are: * Creating practice/game schedule that fits the team * Analyzing game footage/facilitating discussion on team/ individual play styles * Knowing when to make roster changes for the team even though it may cause an awkwardness in my personal relationships. * Understanding the different roles needed for a team. Having a balanced roster. Here is also a list of people who have played for me that have said they endorse my run for GM: KS Otto, Goose, Molting Duck, Bojarzin, Stu Walton, and Leafs (43Kadri). If you wish to be added to this list leave a comment. --- TLDR: This isn't a troll/meme. I have done things. I know how to run a team. I'm still learning about the current league, but have experience analyzing games and playing this game. While my skill may not be starter, I believe I would be a better GM for the LHL than many of the other people running. Please comment any questions, concerns, or endorsements. Thank You

Who I am/Why I left      Hello, I am Tluers. I played hockey? every day for about a year and then I stopped when I got a job, changed schools, and started playing league of legends. I didn't put enough practice time in and tried changing roles which led to me being a backup backup player for LHL teams. I switched to playing ranked teams in League of Legends to get my competitive team play fix. What I did in Hockey? Team Accomplishments      I was never really great at Hockey?, but I have been on a lot of great teams: 2x LHL Champion (S1, S2) 2x HQML Champion (S2, S4) 4x HQML Finalist (S2, S3, S4, S5) In the LHL S1 I blind picked one of the best teams and for LHL S2 I was allowed to keep the core of the team together (KS Otto and Tim_Barrett). I was also lucky to be friends with some of the better players so I got invited to play on their HQML teams. Individual Accomplishments      I got best GM Season 1 and that is because I got lucky with a trade and who ended up getting good at the game. I also got to fill in for the first 2 all star games because people didn't show. I got a hat trick in one of them, I think. Community Contributions I used to do a weekly highlights video. It was pretty cringe so i'll let someone else link it if they want. I also made Jerseys and Ice textures for people. Those too were pretty bad. I streamed/commentated over some LHL games too. Reasons against me being GM      I put thought into whether or not I could be a good GM or not this season. Reasons that set me back from the other applicants are lack of 5v5 experience, lack of experience with newer players, and lack of in-game skill relative to other players.      While I don't have much experience with 5v5, I was one of the biggest proponents for switching from 4v4 to 5v5. I would argue for it at GM meetings and tried starting a 5v5 tournament. I played 15 games season 7. I didn't perform well but I knew why and I understood how the game was played. I have watched more recent games too and feel I have an understanding of how the game is played.      While I haven't played with or seen a lot newer players, I have watched games and followed the stats sheets to see who has gotten better/worse. I also talk to a couple of people who still play regularly to see who to follow.      While my in-game skill may not be LHL starter, I can see myself being a back up player. I still do play the game about 3-4 hours a week, but recently it has been more than that. With enough practice I may be able to be a starting goalie again. Reasons to vote for me to be GM While I did take a break from competitive Hockey?, I did play team League of Legends. I have mostly ran the teams that I have played on in League of Legends. Skills from league that transfer over to GM in Hockey? are: Creating practice/game schedule that fits the team Analyzing game footage/facilitating discussion on team/ individual play styles Knowing when to make roster changes for the team even though it may cause an awkwardness in my personal relationships. Understanding the different roles needed for a team. Having a balanced roster. Here is also a list of people who have played for me that have said they endorse my run for GM: KS Otto, Goose, Molting Duck, Bojarzin, Stu Walton, and Leafs (43Kadri). If you wish to be added to this list leave a comment. TLDR: This isn't a troll/meme. I have done things. I know how to run a team. I'm still learning about the current league, but have experience analyzing games and playing this game. While my skill may not be starter, I believe I would be a better GM for the LHL than many of the other people running. Please comment any questions, concerns, or endorsements. Thank You

hockeyquestionmark

t5_2u9pc

t3_416e22

Who I am/Why I left      Hello, I am Tluers. I played hockey? every day for about a year and then I stopped when I got a job, changed schools, and started playing league of legends. I didn't put enough practice time in and tried changing roles which led to me being a backup backup player for LHL teams. I switched to playing ranked teams in League of Legends to get my competitive team play fix. What I did in Hockey? Team Accomplishments      I was never really great at Hockey?, but I have been on a lot of great teams: 2x LHL Champion (S1, S2) 2x HQML Champion (S2, S4) 4x HQML Finalist (S2, S3, S4, S5) In the LHL S1 I blind picked one of the best teams and for LHL S2 I was allowed to keep the core of the team together (KS Otto and Tim_Barrett). I was also lucky to be friends with some of the better players so I got invited to play on their HQML teams. Individual Accomplishments      I got best GM Season 1 and that is because I got lucky with a trade and who ended up getting good at the game. I also got to fill in for the first 2 all star games because people didn't show. I got a hat trick in one of them, I think. Community Contributions I used to do a weekly highlights video. It was pretty cringe so i'll let someone else link it if they want. I also made Jerseys and Ice textures for people. Those too were pretty bad. I streamed/commentated over some LHL games too. Reasons against me being GM      I put thought into whether or not I could be a good GM or not this season. Reasons that set me back from the other applicants are lack of 5v5 experience, lack of experience with newer players, and lack of in-game skill relative to other players.      While I don't have much experience with 5v5, I was one of the biggest proponents for switching from 4v4 to 5v5. I would argue for it at GM meetings and tried starting a 5v5 tournament. I played 15 games season 7. I didn't perform well but I knew why and I understood how the game was played. I have watched more recent games too and feel I have an understanding of how the game is played.      While I haven't played with or seen a lot newer players, I have watched games and followed the stats sheets to see who has gotten better/worse. I also talk to a couple of people who still play regularly to see who to follow.      While my in-game skill may not be LHL starter, I can see myself being a back up player. I still do play the game about 3-4 hours a week, but recently it has been more than that. With enough practice I may be able to be a starting goalie again. Reasons to vote for me to be GM While I did take a break from competitive Hockey?, I did play team League of Legends. I have mostly ran the teams that I have played on in League of Legends. Skills from league that transfer over to GM in Hockey? are: Creating practice/game schedule that fits the team Analyzing game footage/facilitating discussion on team/ individual play styles Knowing when to make roster changes for the team even though it may cause an awkwardness in my personal relationships. Understanding the different roles needed for a team. Having a balanced roster. Here is also a list of people who have played for me that have said they endorse my run for GM: KS Otto, Goose, Molting Duck, Bojarzin, Stu Walton, and Leafs (43Kadri). If you wish to be added to this list leave a comment.

This isn't a troll/meme. I have done things. I know how to run a team. I'm still learning about the current league, but have experience analyzing games and playing this game. While my skill may not be starter, I believe I would be a better GM for the LHL than many of the other people running. Please comment any questions, concerns, or endorsements. Thank You