I have car experience and am looking to make a bit of money on the side. Prices are lower than if you went to a mechanic but can still get it done right!
• maintenance things like fluids changes etc. • anything needing to be installed/replaced (brake pads etc…) •any random kinks
Will also do consultations and look into unknown problems
Dm for phone number and we will get something set up!

I'm mostly making this thread so that it hopefully populates more google search engine results.
Myprotein is disgusting, I have bought from them for years. I recently purchased two bags of Whey (MUCH more expensive than it used to be) and one is clearly a bad batch/bitteliterally cramp inducing to my stomach (I tried it with both water and my normal almond milk). They continually give me the run around and won't follow up with me. Literally every time I get on their website "Live Chat" is "Unavailable" their supposed phone number rings and rings and no one answers and you don't even have the option to leave a message.
I reached out AGAIN and told them they have until the end of this week to fix it or I'm doing a charge back on my credit card. They are fraudsters and I will not let this die.
Myprotein customer service is AWFUL. Myprotein bad customer service. If you're from google chime in. They need to go out of business.

I'm freshly single, back on the apps (shoot me now).
I'm mostly lesbian, but was thinking I would try sleeping with a guy to see if I was into it and I was thinking a nice transition might be MFF or some sort of poly situation...
So, I join Feeld which is a bit kinkier and I come across a good looking guy whose girlfriend is super hot and I realise I recognise her from my old artist studios! I used to think she was a bit flirtatious and I generally had a crush on her but she also mentioned her boyfriend a lot and I was in relationships anyway.
I swiped right, no instant match... is it super creepy to send her a message? I haven't seen her in over a year, but I have her socials and phone number...

It's true. Multiple brands as well as platforms are now lurking on this sub. With access to personal data including our shopping patterns, many such platforms are becoming more user centric. For e.g., I have been eyeing on Myntra for a dress for literally over 2 months and it has always been out of stock for my size. Today, I ordered another product from Myntra and eventually, the one I was previously eyeing on becomes available in my cart. A long time of window shopper suddenly becomes a potential buyer. In another case, the shoes that have been there in my flipkart cart since a week, just because I know it will get up to 65% off rather than 35% at present, have been now marked out of stock at my location. This instances may sound minimal, somewhat justified and right from the viewpoint of such platforms (Afterall they are here for business), however I have been personally intrigued with practices followed by Nykaa and Kult I mentioned below.

Nykaa

1. Just last week when Nykaa literally fooled this sub in the name of "Selling outer damaged products for 40% discount". Remember how discounts in early hours were only available on select products from brands like the ordinary, bioderma at first but as soon as Nykaa started receiving influx of orders, they turned situation into opportunity. Eventually, many products were listed on discounts. The irony being, none of this products were listed on app or website itself but you had to specifically google with suffix - outer box damaged. All this chaos followed by a random redditor falling out of nowhere post sales, on how this sale wasn't meant for general customers but for employees only.
2. Bioderma Atoderm Creme Deal - Deal from last month. This deal was probably a loophole in Nykaa's app so I wont blame the person who posted this deal. But this is exactly how data science works. Nykaa and most importantly "smaller platforms" can literally make use of such loopholes to identify potential buyers on this sub. With free bioderma creme deal, they can easily have access to number of people who ordered the product, their personal details and their shopping behaviour through their reddit profile.
3. New Year's - I don't know if it's a yearly ritual or not but an active user on this sub in collaboration with another redditor, offers 30 people on this sub a Nykaa gift card, each worth 1000 Rs. A rea Samaritan or a PR person? Remember, there are tons of posts on this and IndianSkincareAddicts sub making "Is this a good deal?" kind of posts. When you visit their profile, its easy to see how they revolve around a common brand or platform. I am not blaming such people as I really don't have any proof over their intentions, but its high time we become suspicious of such posts.
4. On every major sale of Nykaa, they offer you discount on inflated MRP of products which is a criminal thing to do. If you cross check with the brand's original website, you'll see Nykaa lists different and higher than MRP prices and then puts discount which ultimately fall back to original MRP of the product. Under every product, there is option of "Free gift" which lures people to look into the product details only to realize that gift is nothing but a shittier pouch signed by an actress.

Kult

No wonder Kult team is already present here on reddit. The fact that they are coming with new policies regarding usage of different phone numbers, same address details, etc. It all points out that their business strategy doesn't really revolve around making profits and establishing as a stable platform. People are being treated like dogs Pavlov used for his experiments on conditioning and it just feels like a breach into the privacy. Others like foxy, maccarron and similar such platforms may already have established their presence onto this sub given that most people became aware of them only after joining this sub.
I just want people to be conscious before they provide their personal data to such platforms. There is literally no reason to post here about what you bought recently from a particular site. I really don't understand how some people here make posts like "Guys this brand is on B1G1 sale, what should I buy?" Do such people live under some kind of compulsions or are just in the development of hoarding disorder? If you put your money into buying unnecessary products, brands will be motivated to release number of products rather than focusing on R&D. I just cant believe we literally have a brand with over 100+ products having one common ingredient - caffeine. Please be known that skincare products, no matter even from reputed brands, are not heavily researched for their possible side effects in long term. Skincare is relatively new industry, so please please don't act so proud under the name of science and dismiss or laugh on others questioning about its effectiveness. I have seen multiple people commenting on how international scenario in comparison to India is quite different in case of skincare industry but then I wonder when we people ourselves are not serious about reporting such fraudulent behaviors, then we definitely deserve the customer services we are getting now on Kult, Nykaa and similar platforms.

how can I keep them from taking my phone numbers?

I transferred my number and now I'm without data or cell service on the straight talk plan. I literally just bought this plan 30 minutes ago so I'm wondering since I transferred my number and now there is no number for the Straight Talk plan, am I just out the month of service I paid for? Thanks.

Providing my timeline since it was so helpful reading everyone else’s! Applied for first time passports for both of my minor children. Travel date on 4/29
2/14 - applied at my local USPS via routine service
2/16 - shows in process, assigned to locator 75
2/17 - checks cashed
Start reading everyone’s posts on here and begin freaking out a little bit.
3/21 - call the 877 number to upgrade to expedited at 8:35am ET. Had to hang up and dial again about 30 times before getting through. Initially the automated message said the wait was 45 minutes but after about 1.5 hours, it gave me the option for a callback when it was my turn in the queue. I decided to go for it so I dialed 1 and it hung up. Not even 2 minutes go by and I get a call from an unknown number and it was them. Gave them my credit card over the phone and was told it can take up to 27 business days for it to process.
3/24 - credit card gets charged and status is now showing I requested expedited service
3/27 - status shows shipped and that I should be receiving passport on or around 3/30
3/28 - both passports received. Also want to note that birth certificates were also in the envelope with the passports
Never received any sort of email notification throughout this whole process even though I signed up for it.

Pretty sure it's time to let my licensure lapse. I'm certified PK-12 art ed, but have been out of the classroom for four years to care for my parents and child.
Does the license renewal process feel like highway robbery to anyone else? Ohio requires 180 clock hours or 6 college classes every five years for renewal.
I signed up for my only option: a third party LPDC organized by my county's substitute teaching organization. Trying to use this service has been impossible. Activities must be pre-approved, but the pre-approval process takes months. Completed activities are rejected over timing or details not listed in the handbook.
I submitted my LPDC plan, and signed up for a college class in 2021, but because the committee took months to officially approve my plan, the class dates are too early. That $1k and a 3 credit college class that ended up not counting.
Last fall, I did a 120 hour independent project, only to learn after the fact that it had been marked approved in error. Apparently, it didn't count anyway because I wrote the log in the wrong format (the instructions only said 'log'). It also didn't count because I misinterpreted the requirement to "publish", by posting my work on teachers pay teachers. Turns out anything you can make money from is considered part of the regular work day and therefore doesn't count toward license renewal.
The numbers just aren't survivable. Teaching art for a decade, I've made $22-36k, even with a master's. Here, they pay subs about $100 a day. I can't take the free PD on Ohio's education website because of the rule " Teachers not employed with a school district must complete for credit course work through a college or university. " The required unpaid sub trainings in first aid can't count towards your professional development hours.
It's sad because I loved teaching art, and am very good at the teaching part, as well as the art part. I could barely afford the time and money I've already spent on renewal activities that turned out not to count. A friend of mine says you don't need a license to teach higher ed, and I should focus on that path. Has anyone else let their license lapse? What are you up to now?

I'm a 35 yo male have a normal house to work and kids routine and I don't normally interact with clients all that much but today I had to and when I opened the door the woman in front of me literally did a sweeping upward motion with her eyes and just kind of stared at me for a few seconds after I greeted her. It seemed like she wanted to say something but nothing was coming out until I asked "What can I help you with?" and we continued with the conversation. In the end I just ended up taking a message for a coworker, writing down her phone number on a sticky note and putting it on some papers she was dropping off but she seemed happy reciting her name and number.
Now I know this is subtle and could simply be misunderstood but I had a distinct feeling she checked me out because of the way she behaved, I used to get it all the time when I was younger and worked at Abercrombie and know how to tell the difference. I just haven't been checked out like this in a while but it might be that I'm filling out nicely since I've been working out lately and recently got a much needed haircut.
In any case I feel happy.

Hello! My very first Reddit post - i would normally continue to lurk but i feel compelled to share my journey to validate and/or ease folks’ minds on any ambiguity in their respective situations. Apologies for formatting in advanced as I am on mobile.
03JAN23:
Completed passport renewal application online, did NOT pay expedited fees. Estimation of arrival per the website was 8-11 weeks. Plan of international travel is 30MAR23. I don’t know why my brain thought that cutting it this close would be okay and that the 11wk maximum would be accurate (must be the engineer in me, believing that the time estimate is a true and vetted specification).
Fast forward to 22MAR23:
Meltdown. My naive youth had gotten the best of me and realized on this day that i should have paid the expedited processing fee. I proceed to call the help phone number on the travel site and am met with “call-busy” tones? (Not sure what the correct term is, continuous beeping, very annoying)
Once you commit to dialing this number 30+ times to even get the phone to ring, you must be ready to commit to a probable domestic flight to somewhere miscellaneous in the country in order to secure an emergency passport renewal appointment.
If you are going to dial this number, my suggestion is to start calling 15 minutes BEFORE office opening so that your queue in line is not atrociously long. The phone told me over 2.5hr wait, ended up on phone for 5 hours and ended up having to hang up the phone to go about my evening.
23MAR23:
Dial help number in the morning, 1 hour wait on phone. Connected with agent and they inquired of my date of travel, application situation, etc.
Agent informed me that from today up to my date of travel (6 days), there were only 2 available appointments in the whole US available - one in New Hampshire and the other in Honolulu. Mid-way of searching up plane ticket prices, agent informed me that a cancellation JUST popped up for San Francisco on 27MAR23 (i am located in Orange County, CA, so this was truly a blessing for me travel-distance wise and money wise). I proceed to confirm appointment and book a flight out from 26MAR23 - 27MAR23. Agent sent email with all details i needed for appointment.
Agent informed me that i must pay for the expedited fee online in order to be eligible for this appointment. I honor that and pay the fee online.
24MAR23:
I get an email confirmation that my passport has shipped?!?! (WOW). Email states that passport can take up to 2 weeks to arrive via mail. Not enough assurance to skip out on my emergency passport renewal appointment, so I go anyways.
27MAR23:
I am subscribed to USPS Informed Delivery. I get my daily notification of a piece of mail titled “PASSPORT SERVICES/DOS TUSCON). USPS tracking states could arrive any time before 8pm that day. As this stage of paranoia, not enough information for me to trust that everything is squared out. I go to Passport appointment at 9:30am. Waited in line for an hour before reaching an agent. Agent is unable to confirm that the piece of mail identified id my passport. I make executive decision to leave my appointment and trust that my passport is in the mail en route.
Later that day confirmed that passport is in hand! Will add advice section in comments because this post seems too long now. Lol

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How to Receive Text Messages from Another Phone Number
In many ways, new technologies have made our lives easier. At the same time, this technology can be abused to perpetrate bullying and harassment. Whether you're a worried parent or a suspicious spouse, keeping an eye on someone's virtual activities can be beneficial in various ways.
You've come to the right place if you're wondering, 'How to get text messages from another phone number sent to mine?' We'll walk you through the various methods for tracking text messages from another phone in this piece. The idea of such access may be frightening, but it can be helpful when monitoring children and loved ones.
Can You Enter Phone Number to See Text Messages?
Yes, you can, but it is limited. For example, a hacker only needs your phone number to read texts, listen to calls, and track you. Hackers have again demonstrated that no matter how many security precautions someone takes, all a hacker needs is their phone number to track their location and listen in on their phone calls and texts.
But, if you do not have such professional hacking abilities, we recommend getting a mobile phone monitoring app if you want to enter a cell number to read texts for free. Cell phone monitoring apps are software packages that allow you to remotely monitor what your child, husband, or employee is doing on their phones. If you suspect your partner has been spending too much time on their smartphone, these apps are your go-to solution for spying on them.
With these apps, you can see your kid’s SMS history and see who they've been texting. Maybe you don't like your child's friends and want to make sure he's not secretly hanging out with them; you can track their conversations and whereabouts by installing these surveillance tools on their Android or iPhone. The same is true if you suspect one of your employees is leaking sensitive information.
How to Receive Text Messages from Another Phone Number by Syncing Phone
If you can sync the text messages in real-time, it will be a perfect way to receive text messages from another phone number. With the development of technology, here are two great tools for you.
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hackgecko Text Messages Monitoring app can help parents protect kids' safety online. It has the function of syncing kids' text messages on their Android devices to parents mobile devices. You can also track the real-time location of the target phone and monitor the phone's surroundings.
How to Get Messages from Another Phone Sent to Mine by Forwarding
Forwarding is another method for obtaining a text message from a target phone. So, if you have both an Android phone and an iPhone, you can use a third-party app. SMS texts can be auto-forwarded to any other phone type with these apps, including iPhones. Many will even forward your text messages to your email address.
Here are two helpful forwarding apps for Android and iPhone:
AutoForward Text
AutoForward Text is a fantastic SMS forwarding app for Android. You can forward text messages to an email address using the app. The information sent also includes the phone's contact information and GPS location. Install it on the other phone and set it to forward all or specific messages to your current device.
Conclusion
There are many legit reasons for wanting to monitor someone's phone. The vast majority of mobile phone spy apps listed here operate in stealth mode, so your child, spouse, or employee will not notice them in their app list and will not be aware that you are watching them.
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State Senator Celina Villanueva (D-Chicago) is sponsoring bill SB 1909 ( https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/103/SB/PDF/10300SB1909lv.pdf ), which is titled the “Deceptive Practices of Limited Services Pregnancy Centers Act.”
This bill takes direct aim at shutting down fake “medical” centers (aka “Pregnancy Crisis centers”) usually created by religious organizations that use coercion or misinformation to persuade clients that abortion is not available for them. These centers purposely mislead clients into believing they are receiving medical assistance and accurate medical information.
However, these “clinics” do not require licensed medical staff, and the volunteers usually do not have any medical certification at all. Although medical equipment may be used (sonograms), the volunteers can not accurately measure the age of gestation.
Usually, these “clinics” falsely inform their clients they have already passed the available window for safe termination. Inaccurate 3D models of mature fetuses are also displayed to the client for emotional manipulation. These clinics use other coercive measures by promising discounted infant supplies at their “boutiques”, only if clients return for their “parenting” classes. Some “clinics” try to appear non-threatening by using home-like decor to give the impression that clients can trust the staff like they would a family member.
SB 1909 allows the Illinois Attorney General (AG) to investigate all centers it believes are providing any wrong information or omitting any correct information in any form (advertising, speaking to a client, offering services, denying services, answering questions, etc.). If it is determined there is a violation of this Act, Pregnancy Care Centers can be fined up to $50,000 per incident and clients may take centers to court for other civil penalties with the AG’s blessing and detailed documentation against the centers.
This proposal will likely be called in the Illinois Senate Executive Committee ( https://www.ilga.gov/senate/committees/members.asp?committeeID=2902 ) hearing scheduled for 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 29.
To show support for the bill, fill out a witness slip to support SB 1909:
https://my.ilga.gov/WitnessSlip/Create/146759?committeeHearingId=20066&LegislationId=146759&LegislationDocumentId=183331
-Fill out your name, address, email and phone number. Leave everything else blank or put self.
-Highlight “Proponent” and “Record of Appearance Only.”
-Check Terms of Agreement and click Create Slip.

Had a very bad experience with a website that I suspect is a scam (goods never arrived, frequent excuses, boiler room tactics when I tried to cancel my order, eventually got my money back via a chargeback)
Their trustpilot score is surprisingly OK. Click through the reviews and you'll find a couple of 1* reviews citing experiences similar to mine, but overall their score is 3.6, with lots of generic 5 star reviews that appear fake.
So I left a 1 star review describing my experience.
Fast forward a week, and I have an email from Trustpilot saying that the retailer has complained, and I need to provide them with my real name, order number, email, phone number, which they will then pass on to the merchant. If I don't do it in two days, they'll delete my review.
I don't feel comfortable giving this information - I am bluntly worried about retaliatory action from the merchant / doxxing / veaxatious legal threats etc.
I of course realise now that this is how dodgy merchants massage their Trustpilot score, and can see from Trustpilot's detailed transparency data that the merchant has successfully complained about 34 one star reviews over the past year.
Is there any way round this?
I guess I'm belatedly learning that Trustpilot can't be trusted.

I feel stupid that I only realised this now. I was offering a low level item on eBay Kleinanzeigen (like eBay but local) and a buyer was immediately interested and wanted to collect it. I therefore gave away my address and phone number.
Shortly after I received a text message from eBay with a suspicious link to confirm receipt of payment which is almost definitely a scam. I clicked on the link but my browser thankfully warned me in time and stopped me from actually visiting the website.
I flagged the user and am planning on ghosting them. They claimed they'd call tomorrow or so to arrange the pick up but I guess there's no need to tell them that the sale is off, right? And I'm still nervous about my data. Do I have to be worried about my address (or number)? What next steps should I do?

Hi there
I have recently had two mescaline experiences separated by two weeks, with very different effects / experiences and post trip effects. These are my first experiences with any psychedelic drugs and my first experience with any drugs other than some weed gummies in canada a few years ago (and of course alcohol, my nemesis).
The first trip I had the top half of my cactus (slightly less than an arms length) which tapered towards the top i.e. maybe as thick as my wrist at the top and thicker at the base. I made a tea using a method described online with about four hours of boiling. Dosing was done by drinking half at 9AM, 1/4 at 930, and 1/4 at 1030
During the trip I felt at 30 minutes a perception shift (I stood outside my house and suddenly noticed an over-perception of birds flying out of nearby trees and an intense focus on them), and a steadily building body high from about the 30-45 minute mark. This continued until about 2 hours when I started having sort of clairvoyant questions and answers (I had gone into the trip intending to try and heal / change my mind about certains quitting alcohol, why do I drink, changing habits, and some other things). From the 2 hour mark I started having alot of intense clairvoyant insight; I recorded myself extensively during this period and was able to write many things down (albeit often in very large writing - body high made it hard to write).
I had alot of insights about alcohol, why I drink, how to stop, habits, some personal aspects of my past (death in the family) and various other things. The answers seemed to me to be coming from 'the cactus' but I suppose they came from different parts of my mind. This period was also intermittent with laying on the grass outside - I had an intense urge to lay on the grass in the sun. I had prepared an area outside with a blanket on the ground and pillows because I had heard this might happen; it turned out to be quite hot (trip started at 9am and it was around 11 when I wanted to lay down). Anyway I went back and forth between the blanket and inside every 15-20 minutes. Hallucinogenic effects seemed to be relatively mild during this period - some multiple imagery of objects in my house and kaleidoscoping of birds (not sure how to describe it - sort of like being hyper-able to see and hear birds in slow motion but also see them at 3 different places at once as they flew across the sky).
From around the 4 hour mark I was overcome by an intense urge to lay in the grass and be in the sun - going as far as taking the blanket away so I could touch the grass. This was the most intense portion of the trip and lasted about 2 hours. I felt myself melting away into the grass and hte urge to ask questions went away. I felt an intense connection to mother earth and felt that all things are connected - people, places, mother earth. I felt myself zooming out of my home in New Zealand to the world and seeing the connections on my street, town, and the world. I also seemed to come up with the words earth mother, sky mother, and volcano mother (I live on a volcano). The body high was less but i felt and intense feeling of love and connection. At this stage I also felt that my brother (deceased) was with me and that because he is part of the earth and sky and I am part of the earth and sky that we are all still connected and he is gone but still here (this point will become important when I describe the second trip). After the peak I came inside best described as goopy, but still with an intense urge to lay down.
Spent alot of time laying down on a long, gradual comedown, still feeling mild hallucinogenic effects and happiness. There was at this stage the first ' sad ' parts of the trip - some crying about my brother and being alone which lasted maybe 10-15 minutes. This was followed by the only 'dark' part of the trip. I had read some flight instructions about essentially facing fear / leaning into it rather than turning away. I saw a demonic, metallic face with my eyes closed - red lights in the shape of the face, and I could read the emotion of the face although it didn't seem to have a face. It alternated between threatening me and threatening people I care about. When it threatened me I did nothing, turned away, did not react, but when it threatened others, I started getting angry and wanting to fight it. As it alternated back and forth it started threatening people I cared about more and more, until eventually it threatened my five year old niece and in my rage I felt myself reaching into the volcano beneath me and sucking the lava out and pouring it into the demon face until it dissolved. I then had the thought that the cactus was trying to show me the difference between how I reacted when it threatened me and how I reacted when it threatened others. The demon face returned, and this time when it threatened me I started it down and told it to leave; it again alternated to threatening my neice; and as I felt the rage building within me again the face developed a look of fear and dissolved. I recorded myself after this saying that I thought it was trying to show me that I don't defend myself or stand up for myself because as a kid I couldn't, but now I can - as demonstrated by the fact that I defeated the demon when it threatened my neice.
The trip gradually faded and around 6pm I started feeling the effects were really wearing off although sunset (around 7:30) was still supersaturated and beautiful. I was finally able to sleep around 9.
The next day I woke up at 6am - one of the things I had asked in my q&a period - and went for a run; something I have been trying to do for a decade with no success (get up and exercise). I then went about my day quite productively. In the evening I went to the store (I habitually drink around 1L of 7% beer a day) but felt no urge to drink; instead I felt drawn to some mandarin oranges. For the next two weeks more or less this carried on (I drank socially at work a few times but that's it) along with an elevated mood and morning running.
Trip number 2 was 2 weeks after the first one (on this past saturday). This time there were some differences in the cactus that are important; the bottom half of the cactus was much thicker, and the full length of my arm rather than just short. It had also been stressed longer (two weeks inside my house mostly in the dark, followed by a few days in the fridge). I also brewed the cactus longer - about 8 hours this time, and made a slight change to the brewing process - the first time I just drained the cactus cuttings to get the water, this time i also put the cuttings of the cactus in a shirt and squeezed all the liquid out.
I have lots of questions again - about 20 of them that I've written down over the past weeks; the most important ones are that I want to be healed and I want to change my habits (there are lots more).
I started earlier, at 6:30 AM. Dosing was done as 3/8ths at 630AM, 3/8s at 7AM, and 2/8ths at 7:15AM (faster dosing than the first time). Felt alot queasier than the first time but not vomming.
Effects came on significantly faster. 10 minutes after the first 3/8ths, I felt a tingling sensation in my legs that was quite significant. I figured this one was alot stronger. By the time I took the second 3/8ths the body high was kicking in massively and a perceptual shift at started - again the hyper-perception of the birds including noticing birds flying out of trees several houses down and suddenly being aware of the noise of and being able to see the birds in the trees in my yard.
Around 7:45 the hallucinogenic effects seemed to start - I wrote and talked in the records about additional colour in the clouds, a hyper-white colour of the clouds, deeper blue around the clouds, clouds appearing purple. I wrote at this time that I felt that the gates were opening.
Around 8:30 I started wanting to lay in the grass outside, it wanted me to lay on the grass, even though the grass was wet from overnight rain and it was cold outside. I put on sweatpants / hoodie and a coat and layed under a blanket (seriously it was cold). Hallucinogenic effects at this stage included seeing shifting patterns in the cloud, faces in the clouds, deeper colours, hyper-perception of the dew on the grass. In all the time after this I am mostly laying on the grass ( on the grass predominantly until 6-7pm except when coming inside to pee / drink water / make my recordings and notes every half hour to hour or soish)
I read my second list of questions but I didn't feel the same clairvoyant question and answer effect that I did. Instead, what I got seemed to be Gaia saying hush boy, you don't always get answers. Lay down and let me show you.
I also wrote 'the meaning of life - just be' in gigantic letters on my notebook at this stage.
Around 9: starting seeing colour between and around the clouds (eg. purple lines around the clouds), cat faces in the clouds; a lion face far away in the clouds; and then the clouds dissolved into fractal pattern of fluffy white kitties (in the audio recording I describe them as being like doctor evils cat before it got shaved). I could also hear a cat meowing a few doors down (alot of outdoor cats on my street). Still a massive body high. Also noticing extra texture to everything.
Shortly after at 9:10 - numbers started appearing inside out and backwards. Birds again - seeing the wings flapping in slow motion and also hearing the sound of the flapping and seeing the birds in multiple places as they flew across the sky.
Around 10AM: Smaller-bigger hallucinogenic effects; my hands started feeling tiny and then larger and my arms stretching. When watching my face in the selfie video it seemed to be curving and distorting. Kitties in the clouds still; started feeling that the earth was spinning the opposite way as normal and that it was because the kitties in the clouds were using the earth as a ball to play with / paw at. At some point the clouds dissolved into a triangular fractal pattern.
Wrote down: She (earth mother or gaia or the cactus?) telling me to Let it be, don't have to aks questions all the time. The purpose of life is to just be and to just play. It was showing me.
10:30 - laying outside listening to the beatles instrumental (no singing); clouds started dancing intenstly to the beetles. In the audio and recordings I start losing what the concept of time means. Laughing and extremely happy. Feel that she is showing me to just play and have a good time. In the videos I am struggling intensly to keep my head up; I can only hold my head up for 3-4 seconds at a time then down for 10 seconds - in the video I'm mostly face planting trying to pull my head back up to talk. A
Went back outside. AT the time it felt like I was outside for eternity between 10:30 and the recording at 11:30 although I guess it was an hour.
I went back outside and I recall laying there asking my brother to walk with me, walk with me, walk with. Be with me. Over and over. He answered back 'how can I walk with you, you are laying in the grass.'.Laying in the grass I had closed my eyes and saw blacker than black, and around hte edges of the black were lines surrounded by pearly black balls flowing away - it was me, I was dissolving and disintegrating.
11:30 - in the video I made at 11:30 I immediately say that i have just had the greatest experience of my entire life. I am smiling. I was back in Canada after my brother died and in Europe when I found out my brother died, but also in Europe before i found out my brother died (the morning I found out he died but before I found at I recall feeling a presence in my room watching me even though it was just me in the room, and the night before I had become fixated on a huge raven that seemed to be following me) - I experienced being the raven and being the presence in the room. But I was also in New Zealand laying on the grass in my yard. But I was also in Canada. But time and space meant nothing but I was in the past and the present...and I was time. And I was the earth. And I was with my brother but I was also my brother, and I was my father, and I felt myself merge into everyone. I recall a zooming in and out scene from the sky where I zoomed in close up on my laying on the grass (out of body) then higher up, then higher up and further away still. I felt an overwhelming sense of love and unity; I can only describe it like everything in my mind and the world being pressed into a ball that was one interconnected thing. At the depth of the experience there was a metallic voice repeating in a wave-like fashion (something to do with our brain waves I guess?) "He's gone but he's still here he's gone but he's still here he's gone but he's still here he's gone but he's still here". As I came out of I heard, he walks with you. You walk together.
After this I had 2-3 more hours of laying outside watching the clouds, hallucinogenic effects - colours etc. I listened to music alot and I saw the music with my eyes closed dancing as colours and at times I could taste the music or taste things like flowers (and also hear them?). Sound also seemed to be 4-dimensional as did images on the computer. I have a boom 3 speaker and when it played I felt like I was being teleported and streteched - as if I was standing beside the speaker across the room but also sitting in my chair. Images on the computer also seemed to be four dimensional, or maybe just 3d out of 2d (basically, I could percieve and see the 3d distance between the layers in the images even though it's 2d - had the same effect looking at the clouds with clouds at different elevations. Like I was looking at the image from below but also I was up in the sky looking at it from the side at the same time).
Around 2-3 in the afternoon it seemed to be wearing off a bit and as before the trip started taking a bit sadder turn. The faces in the clouds stopping being cats and started being different not so nice faces - two-faced faces (happy / sad, or evil / nice), skull faces, the occasional demon, mean witch looking old ladies. I stared them all down and said I wasn't afraid of them and one by one they would go away. In between mean faces there were still some nice ones - a lion that had a four-dimensional mouth with a 3d box inside covered in insideout and backwards numbers and symbols. A long white cloud that became a huge fish eating plankton. Lots of fun effects with the music (dancing colorful closed eye visuals).
The comedown was (and still is) looong. Around 6 the closed eye visuals turned 'grey' for a period. Like, instead of seeing closed eye visuals or normal eye-closed, with my eyes shut everything was just solid grey.
Later in the evening after sunset (around 7-8) it still hadn't fully worn off, and I started getting nervous - it had been over 14 hours. Laying indoors the yellow light I had placed across the room and the heat pump started seeming demonic, like hell. The 1975 live at maddison square garden music video I had watched many times (I'm in love with you) instead of seeming 4d and happy, the singer started seeming like satan and the yellow like hell. I turned it off. I stared down the yellow light. Laying on my futon I started to hear a noise beside the bed where there was no sound source...the sound of the void, sucking in. Like sound hollow inside out sucking into an infinitely deep hole. In the video I say tha there are hands coming out of it. I reach out and hold them. I don't like it. Eventually I decide that the solution is to stuff the fluffy cloud kitties into the hole and let it close. I say I'm not afraid of it. Eventually it closes. At some point after this I lay outside on the deck under the stars - there are still effects. Some of the stars seem to supernova and then come back, others flick in and out. Orion and orions belt stretches and eventually shifts so that it seems to be pointing at something (milky way?). The stars also spread out in a way that they don't normally and I can see all kinds of random and new connections between the stars. Not sure how to describe it.
Later I am in bed. Still, she wont let me go. I feel mildly anxious and energetic and am not able to sleep until 1am. Right up until I fall asleep I am still getting mild effects when looking at my phone screen - the green light in the top right corner getting bigger and other effects, and mild closed eye visuals. When I wakeup, the effects don't seem to have fully worn off - in the morning I have brief closed eye visuals of a fractal pattern of cactuses.
The interesting part, and the part that I'm concerned about with the second trip, is that it's now 2 days later and I still feel a mild paranoia and maybe like mild psychosis. Not full on but I feel unusually jumpy and on edge. Other effects are the same - I feel the deep feeling of love and closure and I've also been getting up at 6am and going for runs. Will this wear off? I also still have verrry mild effects like over-perception of patterns in my coffee, or the bubble animation on my phone screen when I dial the pin in although that is fading.
An aspect of the second trip seems to have been duality (actually both trips, although the first was milder) - the two faced faces, the experience of sadness after intense happiness. I'm wondering if because the second trip seems to have been much stronger and deeper that is why the comedown has been longer.
So, that's all. Well - there's really more than this (I have 10 pages of during and post notes and drawings from each one and probably ~2 hours of audio and vide from each one).

I've been wanting to buy a new phone for about a year now but with cricket changing it so you need to know the imei number I've been hesitant to buy a new phone. And with the Samsung s23s being out I really want to upgrade but everywhere I look to buy one they say I won't know the imei number until after I purchase the phone. So I am curious if I buy a Samsung galaxy s23+ brand new unlocked phone from Samsung or anywhere brand new unlocked will it work? Without even knowing the imei number?

Back in October my friend(we’ll call Hal) texted me telling me about this girl(Meryl) in his algebra class who was annoying him. He thought she was cute and he had just had a really shitty year for his love life so I encouraged him to pursue her and try dating her. He asked for her phone number and they start talking. They start to like each other but Hal had problems with Meryl being kind of clingy so he stops calling her most nights and becomes unavailable in her eyes. So she turns to me to talk about her problems. I will admit here I should’ve taken other routes, but this is all I could think to do at the moment. And I let her vent to me about everything that’s on her mind, her relationship with Hal, anytime she had a bad day at school, I was basically her emotional crutch and the only reason she didn’t ditch Hal like 5 times. Being used as a friend’s girlfriend’s emotional crutch isn’t fun and it stressed me out a lot. So for Halloween I came into town(I moved in August) and hung out and drank with our friend group. I’m a total lightweight and took 3 shots before Meryl texts me talking about how Hal doesn’t love her and that she’s going to kill herself. So I drunkenly attempt to solve the issue by stepping outside and calling her, before I do that I yell at Hal for being a bad boyfriend and having me pick up his slack. When I call her Hal walks out and I think he’s going to make me hang up and come inside. So, worried for Meryl’s life, I run as fast as I can away. The rest of the night is a blur, but I punched two of my friends, tried stabbing through my wrists, bashed my head into a wall repeatedly, and cried a lot. I was going though a lot of self worth shit at the time lol. The next day I, essentially on a self-destructive and cowardly whim, blocked everyone in my old friend group except Hal and by extension Meryl.

In 2nd period the day after I got home, I get a text from Meryl telling me she’s cutting herself in a school hallway. I instantly text Hal to go comfort her and his response is to not believe me at first, giving Meryl time to stop and go back to class, then finally go check, see she’s gone, and accuse me of lying. Why would I lie about that shit man? Anyways because of that I tell him I’m blocking him too and I was about to block Meryl too but I got a text from her saying he broke up with her and I, once again probably not the best play, comforted her and didn’t block her, I planned on blocking her the next day. But then she started putting the moves on me. And bro, I fucking folded. Hal has told me repeatedly that her and I only dated because I was desperate, and I will admit I was desperate at the time, that’s why I didn’t block her, but that’s not why we dated, I genuinely loved her. Anyways we start talking and before I ask her to become official I briefly unblock and call Hal and make sure he’s okay with it, I ask like 20 times and he says it’s fine every time, so I considered being his friend again but I got back in my own way. So Meryl and start dating, I come up for thanksgiving break and lose my virginity to her. Things go pretty well, she’s kind of selfish the whole time but we made it work. In December Meryl texts me telling me that Hal told her about this joke I had with a girl before we dated. Hal had an ex that he couldn’t get over, all 3 of us were good friends and we joked about her pegging me. Meryl was always jealous of this girl because of Hal’s inability to get over her. So when she found out about the joke(that wasn’t happening anymore, I blocked that chick too) she threatened to break up with me. So I unblocked Hal and chewed him out for telling her about it, and his excuse is that he wanted to get my attention. We start talking more and become friends again. Hal and Meryl seem to get along at first, but then Meryl starts doing annoying things to him again and they get into a massive fight, this is my third fuck up, I sided entirely with Meryl and once the argument devolved into name calling I sent an extremely mean message that hurt him a lot. He instates an ultimatum, I have to choose him or Meryl. During this time period Hal and Meryl had another fight, this time I learned from my mistakes and mediated between them and it ended peacefully. This gave me enough leeway to convince Hal to drop the ultimatum. So we go along our business and everything’s good for a little while. Eventually all the relationship problems with Meryl become too much to handle. She basically never treated me well, never apologized, and stopped talking to me when she was mad at me. So I broke up with her, I still loved her, but I couldn’t take that shit anymore. Hal said he’d be there for me over the weekend after we broke up, but he ghosted me for a week and a half and I was completely alone for that whole time until the day before he called me, Meryl texts me and we start talking, I do not intend to do any sexual or romantic shit with her, but she seduces me. And we enter a casual sexual relationship. Once Hal calls me, he tells me he was “rethinking our relationship” because of all that had happened. I tell him about the fwb thing I have going with Meryl and he seems hesitantly ok with it. But the other day he was having a bad day and Meryl walks into class, slaps him on the back of the neck and turns off his computer. So Hal reinstates the ultimatum. Obviously I choose Hal and block Meryl while high off my ass in an Xbox party with him, I regret it In the morning and undo it, he gets really mad at me and and says some really really mean shit and demands I block her again. So I do, and I delete her number. 

Im not going to unblock her, I just want to know if I was TA for not thinking about his feelings or if he was TA for intruding on my personal life and needing me to block her for his problems with her?

After binging VPR in light of Scandoval two events come to mind:

1. Scheana playing Stassi’s sex tape to a group of people at SUR, which was filmed without her consent and she was being blackmailed for
   
2. Jax creating a fake Twitter account to attack James, which was exclusively full of homophobic comments about how he was secretly gay. It was mentioned at the reunion, because Jax was stupid enough to link his phone number to the account, and never mentioned again. I was especially surprised at how quickly Andy moved on from it. That could’ve been a storyline given how gross it was.
   

Any other events or misdeeds that were awful yet pushed aside?

Any time there is a problem on my account, there is no way to contact anyone.
The chat option has not responded in over half an hour. The phone number does not answer at all.
If someone finally does answer, they cannot speak english and attempt to derail my problem with form letters. There is nobody who is knowledgeable or helpful.
The simplest things become a multiple hour disaster with no resolution.