This is mostly copied from iPhone because I am shit at doing this. PS fuck spez.
Hi everyone,
From 11th June insanepeoplefacebook will shut off posting and enter ‘Restricted’ mode. This will mean no more posts will be coming through for the next couple days, until Reddit decide to revert their stance. Our decision to bring forward the blackout is a result of the actions of the Reddit CEO as well as an abysmal AMA that did little to answer our questions or concerns.
The situation
As you may have noticed over the past week, there has been a lot of discussion surrounding Reddit’s recent policy change to charge access to its API. These changes effectively kill third-party apps such as Apollo, Reddit is Fun and many others due to the exorbitant amount Reddit is asking from them to continue access to their API - with these changes threatening to cost apps such as Apollo an upwards of $20 million a year to keep running as is. These prices place an enormous financial burden on these third-party developers, making it unfeasible to continue operations. This has resulted in a number of apps announcing their plans to shut down, including Apollo.
With these apps shutting down, it also makes our jobs as Moderators that much harder. Many of us mods have had to rely on these third-party applications in order to effectively do our job, simply because the official Reddit app doesn’t have the sufficient tools that these other apps offer. This will lead to many regular users having a subpar experience due to Moderators not having the tools to manage their communities well enough.
These changes also have drastic effects on those that need to use those third-party apps for accessibility reasons, due to the official app, nor new Reddit, providing proper levels of accessibility for those that need it. It’s one step closer to making Reddit totally inaccessible to many users.
The Reddit CEO’s recent antics
We also have concerns that Reddit’s very own CEO is comfortable and willing enough to lie, twist facts and gaslight the userbase into being on ‘their’ side in way of accusing Apollo’s developer, Christian, of blackmail and threatening Reddit. And, when proven to be lying through audio recordings, deciding to double down on villainizing said developer in his most recent ‘AMA’.
As moderators and users, this kind of behaviour erodes our trust in the company’s leadership and undermines our confidence in any statements or actions they take. The AMA today was also abysmal enough to the point we wanted to bring our blackout forward from June 12th. It failed to answer any of our questions or concerns.
If you want further context on this particular issue, please read Christian’s (Apollo Dev) post here: https://www.reddit.com/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/
We also cannot privatise the subreddit indefinitely. We just can’t. At the end of the day Admins have made it clear on numerous occasions that attempting to do so will result in intervention. In what way? We aren’t entirely sure, and this is why we will be reviewing our stance on a daily basis. Reddit, at the end of the day, is a business first and foremost. It is defined by the existence of our communities. Without a clear path to end the protest, Reddit must find a solution to end it themselves. The longer the blackout drags on, and and the harder we push them, the more likely it is that they’ll consider playing hard ball and going with the “Nuclear” option of removing Mod Teams and replacing them with those that they know will be compliant. While this option runs the risk of destroying communities due to replacements who don’t actually understand the community they’re running, it’s likely to be a better option for Reddit compared to having half their website shut down.
We will try our best to keep everyone updated on our decision making.
For those curious, here were some numbers on those participating in the blackout (numbers may be outdated, data was from yesterday):
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Unique Subreddits Unique Moderators Combined Subscribers 3,314 15,676 1,502,606,382
You can find the full list of subreddits participating on Modcoord.
What can you do to help?
Make noise, contact the Admins and voice your displeasure. Make memes, post about it, comment about it.
We do ask that you don’t pressure other communities to join in, though, through modmailing them or messaging Moderators directly. This is incredibly spammy and, at the end of the day, there are subreddits (such as support ones) who should be staying open due to their importance to many people.
Will we go private?
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Please do not harass any mods about this decision.

So I can't have THC, it makes me straight up hallucinate and sick as fuck. I've never had anything with THC and didn't end up puking. The last time I tried was like 3 years ago. Fast forward to about 2 months ago, I started taking CBD gummies (brand: Swag) and I finally felt like maybe I had found something I could take for insomnia/anxiety. I was taking them daily and felt fine. They just mellowed me out. Fast forward yet again to this past week. Whenever I took one, I felt incredibly loopy/out of it. To the point my 13 year old made a comment asking if I had been drinking (sober for almost a year).
Then, last night it got worse. I took my gummy before bed like always and within 20 minutes I felt FUCKED UP. Like room spinning, apparently my youngest son came in my room and I barely even remember it. I hated the way I was feeling and just forced myself to keep my eyes closed and try to fall asleep but my heart was racing and I was freaking out. I hate the feeling of being intoxicated now after quitting drinking. It's the worst. I ended up sitting up and leaning over the bed and vomited. I couldn't physically get up and take myself to the bathroom, I tried and it was like my feet were just bolted to the floor. My 13 yr old heard me puking and brought in a bucket for me. It went on for no less than 2 hours. It got to the point I was just dry heaving and choking on my own gagging, all while being totally out of it panicking thinking I was going to die. It was intense. I started puking up blood (I think it was either from irritation to my throat, or my sinuses drying out but idk for sure) but either way I was non stop puking. Everytime I would feel "better", as soon as I moved even the slightest amount it would come back and I'd be puking again. I had to sit completely still to get any type of relief and for the room to stop sitting. Even blowing my nose was too much movement.
What the fuck gives man. I've been taking these gummies for a couple months now but it's like my body all of sudden doesn't like them? Idk.
And no, it wasn't just a stomach bug or something. I felt perfectly fine up until taking the gummies, and I feel fine today (aside from my throat feeling like it's on fire and body aches from violent vomiting). And it wasn't just throwing up, I felt FUCKED UP. Like I had spent all night chugging vodka on an empty stomach.
I won't be taking them anymore, which sucks because they initially did help with my anxiety. Has anyone else had an experience like mine? I keep reading that CBD doesn't get you fucked up because it doesn't have psychoactive properties or whatever. But it definitely did get me fucked up, in the worst way imaginable.

Just give me a straight up answer, don’t sugar coat it.
What’s up with this dude?
I (22) met a guy (21) over a month ago at a college bar. He was staring at me all night, but never approached me so finally when he just stayed lingering around me all night, I finally said something to break the ice. He sat with me all night, but didn’t say much, but also wouldn’t leave my side. I took it as he wasn’t interested so I didn’t bother asking for his number or anything and left that night in the dust.
The next morning, his friend snapchats my girl friend I was out with and says his buddy, the one I met, really wanted my number. I gave it to him through his friend which was weird, but I figured maybe he’s shy so I found it kinda cute. He texts me a couple hours later and we text for a week and the conversation was pretty dry and he took a long time to reply. So I stopped texting, figured he wasn’t interested or was stringing me along.
A couple days later, after i stoped texting him, he asked if I wanted to go get ice cream and “hangout” at like 10:00 PM. I wasn’t sure if that meant hooking up, which I’m not interested in, but I agreed anyway and the date itself was fine. We cuddled a little and watched TV and talked and that was it. Super innocent.
I texted him after the date, saying thanks for paying and yadda yadda, and he continued the conversation. Like before, still pretty dry and we would take hours to respond, but he kept it going.
Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, he texted me saying hes home for summer break and I joked and said “ok see you never ig” and he said he’d see me again when he’s back. But he sorta left me on read after and he’s not back till August. We haven’t texted since and I doubt we’ll text again.
Is this dude playing me, is he immature, shy, or am I reading too much into this? Maybe he’s just not into texting, but to me, that shows a level of disinterest. How can he swoop back in August when we’re not gonna text all summer? Or am I delusional for thinking he’ll actually hit me up again? I’m just confused.
Hope this all makes sense, any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated!😅

Hello dear reader. I'm your typical FA with virtually no social contacts.
End of last year, I moved into a new building. While being introverted and having low self-esteem, I'm actually not a shy person. When I meet people at the elevator or neighbors outside I generally smile and engage in short small talk if the chance arises.
In February I greeted one of my neighbors and we ended up having a 30 minute conversation. After that when we ran into each other by accident - perhaps once every two weeks or so - we always ended up talking quite a while. When I mentioned it sucks we don't see each other often, she offered to exchange numbers so we can meet up.
I was delighted to have made an acquaintance. But now the problem begins. I was deliberately trying not to fall for her, because we all know how it usually ends when an FA falls for a "normal" person. When we talk, I deliberately try and avoid topics like if we're dating someone or entering flirty territory as best as I can.
Despite my best and conscious efforts though, over the last few weeks unfortunately I have started to develop feelings. When we met on Tuesday, she said she's going to move in with her cousin. My heart stopped immediately when I thought I wouldn't see her again and at that moment I realized I had developed a serious crush. Fortunately she added it's only for a week to help her cousin out. When we met up today shortly before she left for her cousin's, I couldn't help but notice her face glowing and me feeling extremely attracted.
I have no illusions and know almost certainly my romantic feelings are one sided. And even on the off chance it would be mutual, as FA any dating/relationship would be fated to very likely crash and burn.
Now I'm in a shitty situation where it seems all my options have a negative outcome:

• Cut off contact completely. Leaving me with 0 acquaintances/friends once again. Obviously I do not wish to loose the only acquaintance I have managed to make in years. Loneliness hurts too after all and I have obviously come to quite enjoy having her in my life.
  
• Pretending nothing changed and continue meeting with her regularly as before. Unfortunately my crushes tend to last very long and only deepen with time. This will hurt me emotionally when I'm with her. Especially when she starts seeing someone.
  
• Tell her about my romantic feelings. This will irreversibly change our relationship. 99.9% it will end up being worse (feeling not reciprocated or miserable date), after that point-of-no-return either she wouldn't want to meet up again at all or it wouldn't be the same. From experience not willing to talk as often/deep/open as before because she knows I'm into her. So she'll hold back either consciously or subconsciously.
  

If you were in my position, what would you do?

Just give me a straight up answer, don’t sugar coat it.
What’s up with this dude?
I (22) met a guy (21) over a month ago at a college bar. He was staring at me all night, but never approached me so finally when he just stayed lingering around me all night, I finally said something to break the ice. He sat with me all night, but didn’t say much, but also wouldn’t leave my side. I took it as he wasn’t interested so I didn’t bother asking for his number or anything and left that night in the dust.
The next morning, his friend snapchats my girl friend I was out with and says his buddy, the one I met, really wanted my number. I gave it to him through his friend which was weird, but I figured maybe he’s shy so I found it kinda cute. He texts me a couple hours later and we text for a week and the conversation was pretty dry and he took a long time to reply. So I stopped texting, figured he wasn’t interested or was stringing me along.
A couple days later, after i stoped texting him, he asked if I wanted to go get ice cream and “hangout” at like 10:00 PM. I wasn’t sure if that meant hooking up, which I’m not interested in, but I agreed anyway and the date itself was fine. We cuddled a little and watched TV and talked and that was it. Super innocent.
I texted him after the date, saying thanks for paying and yadda yadda, and he continued the conversation. Like before, still pretty dry and we would take hours to respond, but he kept it going.
Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, he texted me saying hes home for summer break and I joked and said “ok see you never ig” and he said he’d see me again when he’s back. But he sorta left me on read after and he’s not back till August. We haven’t texted since and I doubt we’ll text again.
Is this dude playing me, is he immature, shy, or am I reading too much into this? Maybe he’s just not into texting, but to me, that shows a level of disinterest. How can he swoop back in August when we’re not gonna text all summer? Or am I delusional for thinking he’ll actually hit me up again? I’m just confused.
Hope this all makes sense, any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated!😅

Hi there, so I’m new to this sub and have spent the past week reading it thoroughly. It’s so good to have a space that’s free of Shiners and where some of the more “controversial” aspects of this case, especially SW’s toxic behavior and MLM involvement, can be freely yet respectfully discussed.
With that said, I think it’s fairly well accepted on this thread that CW was a gentle introvert most of the time and whether by choice or by force was submissive to SW in order to keep the peace. My general assumption has been that this submissive and avoidant behavior continued right up until the night and indeed the moment of the murders. However I saw something today that made me think again about that.
I was rewatching the Coonrod bodycam footage, specifically the conversation with Nate after CW leaves the room. Coonrod asks if Nate ever heard CW and SW arguing and Nate says (paraphrase) “Oh yeah, in the last year or so we really heard them going at it. AND HE WOULD GET CRAZY. (My emphasis.) In fact when she was on vacation (I presume in NC) my wife and I thought SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED TO HER because it was unusually quiet.”
I’ve never really paid attention to these words before today and they surprised me because I assumed that CW was so beaten down that he never got “vocally crazy” at Shanann. But if Nate is to be believed, then in the last year of her life, he did. Also very surprised that Nate seems to be implying that CW got so “crazy” that Nate and his wife even thought that he may have done something to Shanann (something “happened to her”) when she was in fact in NC.
This has caused me to slightly readjust my views on CW’s behavior in the marriage and also potentially the assumption I’ve had that he “snapped” on the night of the murders. Obviously I know the marriage was bad for a long time and deteriorated even faster once Thrive was in the picture. I just didn’t envisage Chris as being so vocal about it even before things got serious with NK.
Would love to hear the views of those on this sub!

Hello! First time poster here, so I hope I'm getting all the reqs down for posting here:
2b, very dense, very fine hair. I wear it long and consistently washed it about 3/4 times a week with varying shampoos and conditioners up until about 2 weeks ago; I had been using this for a few months and then switched to this conditioner and deep conditioner for about a month after learning about low-protein hair stuff, but the aussie stuff seemed to make everything 100x worse.
I started using clarifying shampoo once a week (once so far) because I use dry shampoo a loooooooot and then this line for regular washes and condition.
I get my hair professionally colored maybe once a year or less, I get between 3-6 haircuts a year, I don't blow dry, partly because never really learned, but mostly because my hair takes ages to dry. If I shower in the morning my hair won't be fully dry for probably 6 hours. Only use heat tools once or twice a year as well.
The thing is that I've pretty much always done the same stuff to my hair; it's never been "perfect, super beautiful, sheeny, soft hair, but it wasn't always like this. I've always bounced around with products, used dry shampoo, wear it up a lot (mostly clips or scrunchies, but hair ties for the gym), so it's odd to me that just suddenly in the last 6 months or so it's gotten sooo much worse. It could be I never really paid a whole lot of attention to it, my hair also hasn't been this long in many many years when it was also always a fucking mess but I attributed that back then to me being 20 and dumb and not taking care of my hair, but I also started a new job recently that is way more high pressure than I've ever worked in before and hair touching has always been my fidget of choice, so I know I'm just touching it, twirling it around my fingers, tucking and un-tucking it, etc etc, way more than I caught myself doing even a year ago.
I guess I'm interested in hearing y'alls thoughts since this is the wavy hair sub and I just never really learned a lot about hair! My hair dressers in the past when I asked about why parts of my hair were dry and frizzy and if they could recommend a mask or leave-in, they said my hair was mostly healthy except for the few dry areas and using too much stuff like that would just weigh the healthy hair down.

Exactly what it sounds like, last night I saved a set I had worked on for a few hours straight, before signing off for the night. The set is saved in the project folder by the name and time stamped with the time I got off for the night.
This morning I tried to pull it back up and it is just opening a default live set. I am in the 11.3 on Windows 11. Is there any hope for recovering it? If so, how? I am on a deadline and do not have time to wait for Ableton to respond. Please help.
Happy to answer any follow up questions that might help. Will leave this open as I continue trouble shooting.

I had a wonderful life on Earth, I really, truly did. Jokes aside, the social nature of humans let me be a little eccentric and people would laugh it off, they would enjoy me for me, the few I’d gotten to know at least. You don’t find that very often on any world. In a way, this was payback. Swappers have a hard time with kindness for kindness sake, I admit. I only barely grasped it as a concept, but an equal trade? That I understood.
So when I snuck into the hospital the way I did before, I did so with intent to repay a debt and to make my life easier. I can’t very well be a proper NEET if I’m always out working and doing things for myself now, can I? No. No I can not.
Suki was lying there in her bed, the machine at her side beeping with steady slowness, her face was pallid as if she were freshly dead, her decline was steeper than I expected. Her eyes were dull, listless, unfocused.
She showed no sign of response until my hand touched hers. I hadn’t made myself visible yet. “Who…?” She spoke with difficulty, her voice was scratchy and faded.
“Are you? To stop the pain?” She asked.
“Yes.” I said, my slender fingers ran over the back of her hand, she had tape on her arm holding a little clear rubber or plastic tube of some sort down, needles in her hands, tube in her nose, to say she looked like hell would be an understatement.
“Good.” She tried to smile up at nothing. “My boy. He was here. Kayobi is doing all the work. I feel bad that I. Can’t help them. Sweet boy. Sweet girl. He will be…OK. But she seems. So lonely. But. A good neighbor. I hope she is eating. More than just snacks. Look in on her. Would you. Angel. Bless her. For me.”
I don’t know why that made me want to shed human tears right then. My lower lip trembled a little and my eyes watered over. “Open wide,” I said, and pulled open the cap on the vial, then tilted its contents into her mouth. It was tasteless stuff, but more importantly she didn’t really have to do much about it, not even swallow, it rapidly began to absorb into her body and never reached the back of her throat.
I put the vial away, and shifted into an angel’s form. Only then did I bend over and give her forehead a kiss. “You make her such good meals, you bless her plenty for both of us, human. Just… don’t let her chores get to be too much.” I said and unable to resist the urge, I reached for the little hand button to call for a nurse.
The beeping was going much, much faster now. I dont’ know what it was, but if I had to guess, it was probably her heartbeat rising to a normal pace? Her respiration was already improving. “Here. Let me help you. You won’t need this.” I said, and began to undo the tape pull the tubes free, that took a moment, and involved a fair amount of gagging and more snot than I expected.
The beeping ‘flatlined’ when the machine could no longer detect the patient, and I stroked her hair one more time. The color was coming back into her face and body, her eyes were coming slowly back into focus.
“You’ll be fine.” I said, and as the medical staff’s rushing feet drew closer, I cast my spell again, slowly turning myself invisible.
I turned my head to look at their faces this time, and winked at them as they stared, agog and disbelieving when they saw Suki Toriyama’s condition.
I stepped out of the way right enough, and… alright I couldn’t resist. [D’oog kul] I whispered the spell very quietly, and touched the backs of each of the three to come rushing in. It was just a little ‘good luck spell’ nothing ‘tremendous’ but ‘luck’ isn’t really a thing.
Luck is just a matter of probability recognition and well timed decisions. It’s just being more ‘aware’ of things and making a person’s brain more likely to make the right call as opposed to the wrong one.
How long it would last? Well it was hard to say. Maybe their whole lives, maybe only a few months? That was just dumb luck, as far as I knew, if you’ll pardon the expression. I don’t really know why I chose to do that for them, maybe because they were helping out Suki, maybe because it was just funny if it seemed to them that they’d been blessed by seeing an angel, maybe there was no reason at all.
But I left just as Suki began to sit up on her own, staring at her intact hands and weeping with uncontrollable joy as she realized she would see her son, her store, her home again.
“It was real.” She gasped with the barest of disbelieving breaths. “I thought it was just a dream, that I was just a dying fool who was hallucinating, that it was all in my head. But it was real.” I looked at the scene from the door, keeping myself undetectable. The doctors and nurse were busy looking her over, urging her to lie down and shouting things like…
“This isn’t supposed to be possible!”
“Get her into testing, we need to be sure!”
“I’m going home… I’m really going to go home…” Suki whispered and wiped her eyes and face, and I don’t know what happened after that.
I got out of the way of the door, the chaos was bringing other people over, white coats were fluttering in momentum made breezes as staff clustered around and shouted and tried to squeeze in. I suppose by then the story of the angel visiting the patient had spread, and I had to bite my arm to keep my laughter at bay until I could get out of there again.
I teleported outside my building, then up to the walkway outside my door, and then walked back in again.
Celia was dozing on the couch, a big bottle of soda was drained down to about half what it started as and the array of snacks was severely attacked. She’d even finished off an entire pizza by herself.
I looked at the screen and watched the male protagonist get dunked into some water and emerge as a pretty young girl. “Could have waited on me.” I grumbled a little, she was only two episodes in, but still.
I turned it off and went to fetch a blanket, which I then draped over her. The couch was thick and cozy, honestly I’ve fallen asleep on it many times, I knew she’d get a good night’s rest.
Tomorrow the store would be open for only a few hours, it was a national holiday, minimal work would be done, no kids would be in school, all in all, that would mean more time for pretty much… everything. And of course, more time to enjoy my lazy summer day.
I’d probably see Suki come home too, and I wouldn’t need to work the store anymore. One less thing.
“Lucky me.” I thought as I closed my bedroom door. Celia was sprawled out and starting to snore. Her human form was apparently the sleeping embodiment of a buzz saw.
No matter. I wouldn’t hear her from where I would lie curled up beneath my own covers.
I yawned, closed my eyes, and as I thought about my last day working the register at Toriyama’s… I felt, strangely enough…
Like I might miss it.
Just a little.
I hadn’t worked out why before I fell into a deep, contented sleep.

Hello everyone.
So I was watching the TV show Ramy, and in the last episode of the first season when Ramy went to Egypt to visit his family he was told by his friend and it was apparently established that him hooking up with his cousin is kind of an incest so I was wondering is that actually a thing in Egypt? Is it considered incest if you hook up/marry your cousin?
And also when he was in Egypt he drank tap water, and it f***** up his stomach and he spent the night shitting aggressively so I want to know if that scene was exaggerated or if it's true? or it depends on the area or the city? for example here in Morocco there is tap water that has such an undrinkable taste in some cities but in other cities it isn't, the Taste is normal but not healthy of course.
(PS: In Morocco there is a considerable amount of Moroccans who live abroad so I don't know if it's the same case here in the AskEgypt but if it is, I just want the actual people who were born and raised in Egypt answer me)
Thank you.

We've been dating since almost 2 years, we've known each other since we were 12. She's recently fought a seemingly terminal deasese. I've recently gained control over my situation of extreme parental abuse (drunk dad who physically beat me and mom). We've both been there for each other through this.
Over the last year, through the things she tells me, I've noticed some things about her parents which bother me. and today I finally confessed it to her.
Here are the things that bother me.
1) her dad has 3 kids despite having a govt job, my GF is middle child, who is officially not their child, not on paper. Not only this thing could cause her legal issues related to her rights, but it also indicates that they are extremely conservative. How? My GF is born almost 10 years after her sister. Why? Apparently they kept trying for a baby for all that time but her mom had multiple abortions due to her being unfit for a child. But they kept on trying and finally has their 2nd child, who was also born prematurely, and yes, she had to face many deaseses, including this terminal desease. Had to live her entire childhood with restrictions.
You would think her parents would stop after barely having a second child, who is unfit and will have to face hell. But no, they went for a 3rd one, immediately. Yes, the 3rd child who is the only boy is born less than a year later.
And the reason for this I think, is obvious. They wanted a boy, and her father would rather break the law and risk the life of his wife multiple times for years, just for a boychild. (Not to mention he is born with extreme harmonal issues)
Correct me if I'm wrong but this is the first thought that comes to my mind based on the facts, please tell me if there's another possible reason.
2) After that there are other things like how he actively and verbally hates people of other religion, and is possibly also castiest, which concerns me since I'm SC.
3) Then there are other concerns like how parents have left her alone while she was in ER on fucking life support, and her parents were legit "attending a family funtion" or paying a visit to family members who lived near the hospital. But they were mostly absent.
4) They were reluctunt for letting her eat nonveg which was recommended by the doc. Especially her mom was very against it. They are vegitarians for religious reasons. Actually it's since I almost forced her to go against them and eat nonveg more often and in her house, when her issues regarding weightloss ans immunity statrted to go away.
I stated my concerns that their conservative behaviour is causing her issues and will definately become an issue when it comes to marriage (yes, we are stupid for thinking that far. But consider the ammount of suffering we have faced together, I can't imagine a life without her, and she says she feels the same. Also know that we've known each other since more than 5 years)
After I said all that, her response was "shut up". Followed by how I have no right to say anything about her parents, how she owes me zero explaination for these concerns and that her parents are always right.
If her parents are always right as she says, will she also listen to them when they tell her to stay away from me? Which they will Since I'm SC and they're hella conservative.
Not just that, she said stuff like...
They've been there for her and I haven't. This hurts because she used to call me from the ER, with a tired breathless voice, just because her parents were absent and she'd feel alone. I left everything when I used to see her call, even abandoned college classes in the middle, basically leaft anthing at hand once I saw her call. Now she's saying I haven't been there for her?
When I found out her desease was terminal, I legit went dark for 20 days, Didn't go to college, didn't see anyone except my parents maybe once a day. Stayed locked in my room trying to scour through all the 100s of pages research papers which were so hard to find it since it was a rare desease and most of the patients were above 65. It's a lung desease which was said to be 100% fatal. I stayed up all nights, made a mess of my own health while doing so, until I came accros a study, which showed only 5 patients in the entire world, who susrvived, all were minors, I figured the desease is said to be fatal because it mainly attacks old people and they don't have any regen power in their lungs. But a 17 year old girl's lungs are constantly growing, she should survive this.
I gave her hope, that alone improved her health from needing support to walk to jumping around in just one day. I forced her to get more involved in her medical process and make the doctor give her curative care instead of end-of-life support like her parents wanted. and it worked, she went to a doctor in Pune and the retests showed she's curing that desease (which is impossible on paper).
In this process, I lost 15 kgs of my weight and the will to eat anything due to severe deppression. I still haven't recovered from the physical impact. After all of this, she compleatly discredits me and my concerns, says I wasn't there for her and all that.
I feel deeply hurt.
I legit feel like I'm nothing to her, I feel like she always thought like this about me.
In her defense. She's a mature person and doesn't have traditional or conservative thoughts, neither does she seem all that proud of her parent's being so conservative. So I know she doesn't share her parent's thoughts. she was never like this, NEVER. And maybe this isn't the person in her talking, maybe she just said this because she got triggered, I understand many Indians are conditioned to blindly trust their parents and never question them, so I'm not sure if I blame her.
What should I do?
Please don't start teasing about age, we're not nibba-nibbi. We've both supported each other through life threatening situation. I have got physically injured due to family fights, have had to lock myself in a room for days with my mom to fend from my dad. Been forced to spit on my own mom, hit her with a sandal and other types of torture. she has had to face extreme pain and illness all her life, had to witness a rape and murder as a pre-teen, been through therapy. So please understand our bond is really strong after we've been through all this. This relationship is serious.
TL:DR GF's parents show extreme signs of being conservative and casuing a problem for us. GF gets hella triggered and says I have no right to talk about them, they are always right and she owes me no explaination regarding this. I feel undervalued and basically got shut up for stating my concerns.

Something about the idea that Lisa and Bonny Red might be in any kind of regular communication was… I don’t know. Disturbing. If I had to say it was comparable to anything I knew, the only near example was finding out that Fauve was hiding harassment from [Wolfbeard’s] friends and associates. That’s not even quite right, but… it was just the idea that there was some talk in reference to me that was absent me was just… strange.
Like a vague ominous feeling, almost like a conversation in another language that I don’t speak, spoken in my presence with expressions and gestures hinting that it was about me specifically that the discussion was being had.
It was probably nothing, and I dismissed my own thoughts on the matter, one thing I noticed about the females of both species is that it is sometimes difficult to quite comprehend their thoughts from the male perspective. Disturbing as this instance might have been, on the whole, I found that difference between the sexes to be almost refreshing.
There is something to be said for mystery, for having company that is apart from one’s self. Which does bring me to one other small point about the xenophobes that rose and fell. Their male membership on the whole seemed to hold the females of their species in the highest contempt. The very fact that Fauve was a woman, well, a young girl, was held against her.
In a way, a defining feature of these extremists was that everything had to march in lockstep together, else it had to be subdued or destroyed. In all the reports I read, in all the stories told to me by those who raided their headquarters and training centers and other lairs, only a handful of women found positions of note in their organization. This wasn’t to say no women agreed with these men, but they were all but locked out of participation in any direct manner, more than a few evidently had evidence of abuse on their person.
In a very real sense, the ability to thrive in this world now, was intrinsically tied to our ability to engage in that which made us differ from one another, between our species and our sexes alike, we were happier in just being ourselves.
I doubted xenophobes were ever very happy for very long.
I remained at her apartment that night after a quick call to the Walkers to let them know what I was doing, I still had work to do of course, even though I had AI management tools to do most of the day to day administration of my organizations, I still had to actually handle approvals, but since everything was mobile now, more or less, I could work from damn near anywhere.
I’d borrow some talent from the Barnum Cooperation to handle things while I was away, of course. At least for the last few weeks once we got to our destination.
But until then, this was super easy, barely an inconvenience, as the humans are fond of saying.
Of course, Lisa had questions about what the reason was for me going away. She asked me that, later, and I stretched out and answered her as truthfully as I could. “I can’t really tell you that.”
She cocked her head and raised her eyebrow at me as if to say, ‘Really? After all this?’
So I elaborated, “It’s one of those kinds of things. I’d rather not be a criminal on two worlds, you know. It’s bad enough that somebody on my homeworld has decided I need to be ‘expended’.”
That had her attention. “What’s that?” She asked, why I was leaving was now a secondary concern to her.
Honestly, thinking about it in retrospect, I should have been a lot more afraid than I was. After all, getting rid of ‘problems’ was as humans say ‘par for the course’ for a lot of governments. I had my suspicions about the Earth government’s quashing of the Earth First movement being even more obscure and black operated than I already knew about in the Silent Civil War. Not that I could prove anything, and if I’m being honest, after what they wanted to do to my humans, not that I cared.
It’s a universal truth of all governments that when it comes to their security, they do not mess around, and disruptive elements tend to get some form of unpleasant treatment, even in a near utopian or utopia aspiring state. There’s always something unpleasant in the foundations that nobody sees. How much moreso in the dystopian world of Dlamias?
Bonny Red and her crew were all meant to die in the void, I, had I not gone a different route, would have been offworld for centuries and not brought back until I was old and set in my ways and easily compliant. Even my sister, who more or less slipped under their radar, was put into a job where she would have her spirit essentially eroded.
I don’t know about our father, but as for our mother, I will only say I had little hope that she was living any better now than she was before.
So I took this understanding that I was now an ‘undesirable’ in stride. Not to be overly dramatic, I am not saying my whole government was after me, just that somewhere a bureaucrat decided that it would be better if I were chosen for more ‘dangerous tasks’ and that if something happened to me, things might be ‘safer’ overall. As far as I knew, nobody had been sent to eliminate me personally, though if a team were sent to get in my way eventually, that wouldn’t be a shock.
I looked over at Lisa and my ears all drooped as I explained all that, “You’re not going to have to worry, you’re not in any danger. But… my people have focused on stability for so long that disruptive elements are ‘pruned’. We’re not as crude as humans… as far as I know. I don’t have to worry about being,” I made air quotes, “black bagged, and disappearing into a shallow grave somewhere. It just means that I can start expecting my government to start making more dangerous requests of me until something happens. It’s a very practical way to get rid of trouble, especially since they can’t exile me while I’m elsewhere already anyway.” I huffed, I had to laugh at the situation, I could picture the conversation now…
“Can we exile him?”
“He’s doing this from another planet already, what are we going to do, double exile him?”
“That’s… shocking. I’m… I didn’t know your people could be like that.” Lisa seemed genuinely shocked and the sheets rustled as she brought her knees up to her chest, a genuinely worried look settled on her face.
“We didn’t become the strongest Empire in the galaxy because we’re gentle.” I said and put my hand on her shoulder, “It will be fine. I doubt they’ll do anything overt, I have a practical usefulness to two different governments right now, it’s just one of them is willing to risk losing me. Change is… well it’s hard for us sometimes, and I’ve been introducing a lot of it.”
“So you’re like a scientist bringing technology to the stone age and being declared a witch.” Lisa declared, it was an apt analogy that I would think about quite a lot as time went on. For all my people’s advances, we missed the very idea of therapy and psychiatric treatment, and I still hadn’t forgotten the team of therapists who so bluntly diagnosed my species in a general sense.
In a very real sense, by bringing my people happiness, a concept of wellness, even for all the clear and obvious good it was doing across the board, I might as well be a witch bringing unknown magics to a primitive and superstitious, anxious people.
If I may speculate for a moment, I have seen that humans who struggle most, often mistrust happiness, finding it to be suspicious, waiting for the other shoe to drop, as if happiness is just a setup for the pain to come. As I thought about Livingston, joyless, direct, having nothing but his work… how must it been for him when he first bonded with a human and found that someone genuinely cared for his wellbeing?
Maybe what made me an outlier was that I wasn’t suspicious of happiness, but embraced it, while many of my species, once they found it, didn’t know what to do with it and treated it as a danger. Maybe… Maybe I have grown, just a little.
As I’d let go of my bitterness about what our ancestors did to us, I felt no bitterness or anger toward the nameless background figure who decided my life is best spent at risk. He, like so many others, was so afraid of being taken in by contentment, that he wouldn’t be taken out of whatever darkness held him back. They were clinging to their chains even while I worked to cut them.
That was something to be sad about, more than anything else.
Lisa brightened up. “Well then, if you’re a wicked witch, how about you cast one more spell over me.” She teased, and then her face went blank and eyes unfocused. “Your hypnosis spell hits with a D20, your target is now hypnotized, what do you do now?”
I rolled my eyes, she could never take anything too seriously, even death or danger. It’s no wonder I like humans as much as I do. Even half dead they’re more alive than most of my whole damn species. So…
[Redacted]

What’s up with this dude?
I (22) met a guy (21) over a month ago at a college bar. He was staring at me all night, but never approached me so finally when he just stayed lingering around me all night, I finally said something to break the ice. He sat with me all night, but didn’t say much, but also wouldn’t leave my side. I took it as he wasn’t interested so I didn’t bother asking for his number or anything and left that night in the dust.
The next morning, his friend snapchats my girl friend I was out with and says his buddy, the one I met, really wanted my number. I gave it to him through his friend which was weird, but I figured maybe he’s shy so I found it kinda cute. He texts me a couple hours later and we text for a week and the conversation was pretty dry and he took a long time to reply. So I stopped texting, figured he wasn’t interested or was stringing me along.
A couple days later, after i stoped texting him, he asked if I wanted to go get ice cream and “hangout” at like 10:00 PM. I wasn’t sure if that meant hooking up, which I’m not interested in, but I agreed anyway and the date itself was fine. We cuddled a little and watched TV and talked and that was it. Super innocent.
I texted him after the date, saying thanks for paying and yadda yadda, and he continued the conversation. Like before, still pretty dry and we would take hours to respond, but he kept it going.
Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, he texted me saying hes home for summer break and I joked and said “ok see you never ig” and he said he’d see me again when he’s back. But he sorta left me on read after and he’s not back till August. We haven’t texted since and I doubt we’ll text again.
Is this dude playing me, is he immature, shy, or am I reading too much into this? Maybe he’s just not into texting, but to me, that shows a level of disinterest. How can he swoop back in August when we’re not gonna text all summer? Or am I delusional for thinking he’ll actually hit me up again? I’m just confused.
Hope this all makes sense, any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated!😅

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With the main event taking a toil, all the focus shifts to the co-main event where the former lightweight champion, Charles Oliveira will be facing BeneilDariush to determine the next No.1 contender at 155. Oliveira hasn’t fought since losing out to Islam Makhachev last October. But the ‘Do Bronx’ is confident ahead of his matchup with Dariush at UFC 289.
With Oliveira looking to make amends, Dariush is eager to get a title shot as well. The 34-year-old is currently enjoying an eight-fight winning streak and is confident to do better against the Brazilian submission artist. The matchmakers have got Dariushfavorite for the fight but the Iranian-American knows he has got a hill to climb to.
Both fighters also had a word or two before the encounter. Oliveira vows to take Dariush to deep waters and set up a rematch against his fellow lightweight competitor, Islam Makhachev later this year. But Darisuh has other plans in store for him as he feels one fight away from his long-awaited run at the championship of the division.
The fight fans have got a huge bout coming their way this weekend. Here is what you need to know about UFC 289 particularly Oliveira vs Dariush matchup.
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UFC 289 will be streamed live on ESPN+ and UFC Fight Pass. The ESPN subscribers will have to spend $80 to watch the complete PPV. For non-subscribers, it will cost a total of $124.99 to go along with the yearly subscription to ESPN.
The prelims will be free to stream at UFC Fight Pass.
In the UK, the event will be streamed on the BT Sports app as well as users can watch the action on the BT Sports channel on TV.
UFC 289: Amanda Nunes vs. Irene Aldana Date, Venue?
UFC returns to Canada for the first time in the year as the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada is set to host the June PPV, with the event set to go down this Saturday, June 10.
Main Card:
- Amanda Nunes vs. Irene Aldana – for UFC bantamweight title
- Charles Oliveira vs. BeneilDariush
- Mike Malott vs. Adam Fugitt
- Dan Ige vs. Nate Landwehr
- Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Eryk Anders
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Last night me and my friends were drinking and one of us decided to put on the movie Clerks. There’s this one scene about one of the characters gfs being a bit of a hoe and him dumping her over it.
While watching, one of the girls there said that the guy was the gross one. This lead to a discussion about it. I thought I had pretty normal views on it and I said that I personally probably would dump her too if I was in the same situation as she isn’t marriage material.
I was asked why by the women there and I said that being involved with 20+ men is incredibly gross and I wouldn’t want to be involved with a woman who was that ran through. One of the girls there got incredibly mad at me for no reason. She said that I was being misogynistic which isn’t true as I don’t have a very high body count. I feel that she only got mad at me because shes been with like 30 guys at 20.
She and the other girls there jumped on me for keeping a “double standard” about this and said I was slut shaming. I genuinely don’t think this is the case. I also think it’s unfair for them to get this mad at me when they themselves asked me and I gave an honest answer.
AITA?

I read my water every 3 days in a tank that’s been going good for a few months. I added some black skirt tetras(6) about a month ago. I tested my water last night and the ph was high, roughly 8.4. Everything I’ve seen online said add driftwood and other botanicals. I’ve got a few pieces of wood in there along with other botanicals, I don’t know the exact name of each but I can find out relatively easily. I would like to keep it chemically free as I haven’t added any chemicals since the very beginning. I use water treatment if I’m out of distilled water and have to use tap water but that’s it. All my past tests showed everything was in the up and up.
A little info about the tank: It’s a 20g long and the temp is 79. It’s planted with multiple kinds of java fern, multiple kinds of swords, and a plant I can’t remember. It’s similar to java fern and has Asian in the name, that’s all I can remember. It’s also got an Anubis. Frog bit was the most recent thing I added, maybe 2 weeks ago. The tank itself was constructed from items from other tanks, such as some of the wood, part of the substrate, plants, filter and bioactive media. I run my lights from 5:30am-7pm(US central time). I take 2-4 gallons every other week and replace with distilled water. If I’m out of distilled I either use pre-jugged tap water filled days ahead of the water change or treated tap water as a last resort. I haven’t lost any fish or snails either. As of the last test(last night) the parameters were: Ph: 8.4 Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 0 What can I possibly change or something I can add that will bring it down a bit? My fish are decently active. No signs of illness, they eat wonderfully, and stick with dense foliage or under the shade of the frog bit. Thank you in advance, and I hope this is helpful for those trying share information or advice

Some of you may recall that I posted a few months ago about a new SB who turned out to be my son’s math teacher. We’re still seeing each other a couple times a month. I told her a while ago that if she needed any ‘guy stuff’ done around the house she could call me.
Thursday night she called me, sounding like she was on the edge of hysterics. She told me that a big snake was in her house, she had called a couple pest control companies but it was after 9 pm and her calls went to voicemail. I told her that I was on my way, grabbed my snake stick, and drove over.
She and her kids said that it was last seen in the living room and I got enough of a description to be fairly sure it wasn’t venomous, but I was still cautious. I found the snake under the couch, and when I started to move the couch it went up into the couch. I moved the couch and flipped it over. The snake turned out to be a Western Rat Snake, about five feet long and pretty feisty. I got it out of the couch and got control of it, and got musked in the process.
After I had control I did a little show and tell with her kids, boy and girl, both under ten. They were fascinated by the snake; their mother, not so much. She had the willies from just being in the same room.
I had never been to my SB’s house before. She lives in an older subdivision that dates to the 1970s; lots of trees, shrubs, and big yards. On the other side of her backyard fence is one of the creeks that run through town. I let the snake loose in the creek bed and went back inside. I talked with the kids briefly about the local venomous snakes and how to identify them, and how to be safe around snakes. My SB sent the kids to bed and invited me to use her bathroom to take a shower while she washed my clothes. I ended up spending the night in bed with her.
Yesterday morning during breakfast her son asked me if I was his mom’s new boyfriend; she and I exchanged glances, and I told him yes. He seemed to take that pretty well, and after the kids left the table she told me that her son generally had difficulty with her dating and she had been prepared for him to react negatively, because he usually didn’t like her boyfriends.
After breakfast I called a pest control company and had them send a guy over. He and I talked about reducing the snake friendly habitat in the backyard, but there’s nothing we can do about the creek because it’s city property and natural habitat. He looked for ways the snake might have gained access to the house, for signs of rodents, and he looked in and around the house and yard for the possibility of snake eggs. I don’t know enough to be able to tell the difference between a male and a female snake, and it didn’t cross my mind on Thursday night. He advised me that this time of year is when rat snakes mate and they lay eggs and leave them. I did NOT tell my SB about the possibility that she might see some baby snakes in several weeks. Based on how she reacted last night I wouldn’t be surprised if she moved into a hotel for the rest of the summer. I paid the pest control guy to seal up some possible access points into the house and to reduce some of the potential snake habitat in the yard, and I called my yard guy to add her place to the weekly service. Her backyard is fairly overgrown, and it’s going to take some work to clean up.
It didn’t occur to me until this morning that I might owe her a PPM for Thursday night, but on the other hand coming over to catch a snake in her house at 10 pm, paying a pest control service to come out, and adding her to my yard service might be considered payment in kind.

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The fight fans have got a huge bout coming their way this weekend. Here is what you need to know about UFC 289 particularly Oliveira vs Dariush matchup.
With the main event taking a toil, all the focus shifts to the co-main event where the former lightweight champion, Charles Oliveira will be facing BeneilDariush to determine the next No.1 contender at 155. Oliveira hasn’t fought since losing out to Islam Makhachev last October. But the ‘Do Bronx’ is confident ahead of his matchup with Dariush at UFC 289.
With Oliveira looking to make amends, Dariush is eager to get a title shot as well. The 34-year-old is currently enjoying an eight-fight winning streak and is confident to do better against the Brazilian submission artist. The matchmakers have got Dariushfavorite for the fight but the Iranian-American knows he has got a hill to climb to.
Both fighters also had a word or two before the encounter. Oliveira vows to take Dariush to deep waters and set up a rematch against his fellow lightweight competitor, Islam Makhachev later this year. But Darisuh has other plans in store for him as he feels one fight away from his long-awaited run at the championship of the division.
The fight fans have got a huge bout coming their way this weekend. Here is what you need to know about UFC 289 particularly Oliveira vs Dariush matchup.
Watch Live Stream UFC 289: Amanda Nunes vs. Irene Aldana fight live streaming
UFC 289 will be streamed live on ESPN+ and UFC Fight Pass. The ESPN subscribers will have to spend $80 to watch the complete PPV. For non-subscribers, it will cost a total of $124.99 to go along with the yearly subscription to ESPN.
The prelims will be free to stream at UFC Fight Pass.
In the UK, the event will be streamed on the BT Sports app as well as users can watch the action on the BT Sports channel on TV.
UFC 289: Amanda Nunes vs. Irene Aldana Date, Venue?
UFC returns to Canada for the first time in the year as the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada is set to host the June PPV, with the event set to go down this Saturday, June 10.
Main Card:
- Amanda Nunes vs. Irene Aldana – for UFC bantamweight title
- Charles Oliveira vs. BeneilDariush
- Mike Malott vs. Adam Fugitt
- Dan Ige vs. Nate Landwehr
- Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Eryk Anders
How to Watch UFC Fight Night Online
Looking to livestream UFC Fight Night online? You’ll need an ESPN+ subscription. ESPN+’s streaming service now has exclusive rights to the MMA promotion, so you’ll need to be an ESPN+ member to watch any UFC events — including UFC Fight Night.
How to watch UFC 289 without ESPN+ or PPV in the US & Canada?
ExpressVPN offers “internet without borders,” meaning you can tune in to a much more affordable UFC 289 livestream this weekend as opposed to paying that high PPV price. In the UK, many UFC events are broadcast live on BT Sport and don’t require you to purchase the fight through PPV.
A contract-free subscription to BT Sport costs about $38 per month, and paired with a VPN, will let you livestream this Saturday’s fight at a major discount. ExpressVPN’s added protection, speed and range of location options makes it an excellent choice for first-time VPN users looking to stretch their streaming abilities, plus, it’s Endgadget’s top pick for the best streaming VPN

Well the goal of this is that I want to update my flair but be as accurate as possible.
Well last night I slept at 00:30(CET) and I woke up at 10:50(CET) so 10 hours and a half of sleep
I've done a one hour and a half gym session where I worked out my entire body except for legs(2 machines per body part).(from 12h to 13:30h) and did 15 minutes of treadmill where I burned in total 200 calories.
And then I played a one hour Basketball match full court from 15h to 16h and then from 17h to 17h45, I did a 45 minute strtech routine from which I burned 360 calories which includes planks and different poses/raises.
Now it's 18:20h which means it's been 7 hours and a half since I woke up and I measured at 180cm(5'11,well technically 5'10 7/8) exactly.
So what height would you consider me to be?
Edit:I didn't measure before then so I only had this measurement.