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In the U.S., children’s mental health services have remained out of reach for many of the nation’s most vulnerable kids. A lacking mental health care system pushes some families to give up custody of their children for care.
This link explains what the Center for Public Integrity found and how states are working to fix the system: https://publicintegrity.org/health/health-parity/families-help-children-mental-health-crises/

Almost 2 weeks ago I was here talking about my MIL and her issues with not telling me when she or other family members are sick in regards to the health of my baby, which peaked when she "failed to remembethink it's important" to tell me she had shingles. Which, turns out she was almost certainly not contagious by the time I saw her...but still should have told me. But I digress.
I had 2 or 3 posts on here about my various issues with MIL, but I have deleted them just for the sake of not wanting my posts to be found. I tend to post and then delete after some time for those reasons, so I hope you can all understand.
After my last post, my husband and I got into a really heated argument about everything. Like literally every issue came bubbling up to the surface. It was so difficult, but he and I were able to come to an agreement on all fronts after a few days of arguing and then discussing. So, we're on the same page! AND he's finally comfortable with admitting my issues are valid and that his mom can be very rude and very wrong at times, especially towards me.
I personally went no contact, information fast from in laws for about a week and a half which is a long time for me considering I'm usually very nice about sending pictures and updates on baby nearly daily. His mom tried really hard to get me to talk to her, but I'd just ignore her. She eventually learned that she needed to just go to my husband. I ended up seeing and speaking again because their dog died who was also my husband's dog, so we were present for that.
Things have been going so well, up until Saturday. We went to my in laws house and my MIL ended up trying to stir an argument up about baby care and his relationships between my husband and I, which backfired on her really hard because my husband started telling her how I helpful she's been as a grandma and told her she can't be unhappy about not having a close relationship with her grandson when she doesn't try and makes excuses and empty promises.
I think she's really upset about it because since then she keeps sending me short videos about how first time mother's know nothing about parenting, parents spend too much time on their phones, really obvious baby care, suggesting I get a night job. When she sends the videos she also includes her own little text about the video, and it all just feels like a very covert way of telling me what a piece of shit I am and how little I know. It's so irritating. I was just ignoring it all, but this morning she sent another video about not spending time on your phone, and it sent me over the edge. I basically told her it's hypocritical to spend so much time on your phone looking at videos and sending them to try and tell someone else to not spend time on their phone. It's not something I struggle with, and I also don't struggle with knowing how to care for my baby. I'm 'on' with my baby about 90% of every single day. My only struggle is finding the time to do anything else since my baby is very clingy and people flake out, make excuses and empty promises to help me. I then sent her articles on parenting issues she has, and how I plan to parent so my kid doesn't turn out like SIL#1 OR SIL#2.
Clearly I need yet another break, but I'm really proud of myself for not being a doormat and standing up for myself when she kept pushing and pushing.

ACTS  
Chapter Twenty-two  
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-17. “As that I returned to Jerusalem [from Damascus] and prayed in [the] Sanctuary…”
Here is the curious spectacle of a man under the authority on Jesus praying at the Temple. An anti-Semitic Christian heretic (Marcion[1]) of the second century, during the period of the early church fathers, second generation, Pauline, Christians, produced a “New Testament” purged of all the gospels except Luke’s, precisely to suppress and eradicate the inconvenient fact that, literally, three quarters of the Gospels are Jewish, and leavened out of his quarter portion a Judenrein cult.
[1] “Marcion of Sinope: c. 150, was the first of record to propose a definitive, exclusive, unique canon of Christian scriptures. (Though Ignatius did address Christian scripture, before Marcion, against the heresies of the Judaizers and Dociests, he did not publish a canon.) Marcion rejected the theology of the Old Testament, which he claimed was incompatible with the teaching of Jesus regarding God and morality. The Gospel of Luke, which Marcion called simply the Gospel of the Lord, he edited to remove any passages that connected Jesus with the Old Testament. This was because he believed that the god of the Jews, YHWH, who gave them the Jewish Scriptures, was an entirely different god than the Supreme God who sent Jesus and inspired the New Testament. He used ten letters of Paul as well (excluding Hebrews and the Pastoral epistles) assuming his Epistle to the Laodiceans referred to canonical Ephesians and not the apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans or another text no longer extant. He also edited these in a similar way. To these, which he called the Gospel and the Apostolicon, he added his Antithesis which contrasted the New Testament view of God and morality with the Old Testament view of God and morality. By editing he thought he was removing judaizing corruptions and recovering the original inspired words of Jesus and Paul. Marcion harshly edited the ten epistles by Paul as well as the Gospel of Luke. However, he defends Luke as the only ‘worthy’ gospel, while putting aside Matthew, Mark, and John. Marcion's canon and theology were rejected as heretical by the early church …” Wikipedia

1. “And I saw Him say unto me, ‘Hurry [הזדרז, HeeZDahRayZ], and go out quickly from Jerusalem, for they will not receive [את, ’ehTh] your testimony upon me.’
   
2. And I said, ‘My Lord, lo [הרי, HahRaY], they know that I sent [את, ’ehTh] the believers in you to jail [לכלא, LahKehLeh’], and to floggings [והלקיתים, VeHeeLQaYTheeYM] in houses of the assembly.
   

Imagine corporal punishment during a worship service.

1. “‘And as that was spilled blood [of] ÇTayPhahNOÇ, your witness [עדך, `ayDKhah] – even [אף, ’ahPh] I stood there in agreement to [the] deed, and guarded [את, ’ehTh] the garments of [את, ’ehTh] his killers’.
   
2. But [אך, ’ahKh] he said unto me, ‘Go, for I send forth you afar [הרחק, HahRHayQ] – unto the nations.’”
   

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Shah’OoL entered to stronghold [למצודה, LeMeTsOoDaH]
[verses 22-29]

1. Until to word the this they were attentive unto him, and then they raised their voice and called out, “Be rid from upon the dirt [הסר, HahÇayR] from upon the dirt [האדמה, Ha’ahDahMaH], one as this!’

See, anything was permissible to Jews, but gentiles remained taboo (le seul mot juste תאמינו אותי). That is how the Christian community thrived within Judaism; it remained utterly and entirely Jewish. There were political enemies of Jesus as Messiah, but no religious ones. Religious leaders acting against Jesus and his followers did so for political reasons.
No sooner had I filled my plate than I was up and out, with a January ‘07 issue of Time for conversation, to the back porch of Sarah’s house. The greening trees all but obscuring slope-shouldered Ivy Mountain. It is easier to pick out important events from the vantage point of hindsight.
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Shah’OoL before the council
[verses 30 to end of chapter]
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I dont know how much info I can share personally on here so im gonna make this as simple as possible. Which would you choose.
My current job is offering me a $2.50 raise per hour to stay with them, as well as a full shift that I want in the age group I want, without paying daycare fees, and ill get another raise if I get to a level 3 credential which im close to getting and the school pays for the schooling..... But I dont get along with the lead in the room, its not the actual shift I want, its a far drive, they have super low enrollment cuz parents are pulling kids from all the staff turnover, and im not a fan of my sons teacher. And they wear uniforms which I hate. ( I dont mind wearing one, but I dont agree that toddlers should be required too).
My new job offer is about 10 minutes closer, has full classes, no uniforms, offering a morning shift that I want, and its a newer building with new toys and a nice yard that I want for my son....but its only 1 dollar more an hour, ill have to pay for childcare at a discounted price, its not the age group I want or have ever worked with, and they don't pay for schooling.
🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🙈🙈🙈 what would you do? I wish I could get more info on the new school like their curriculum, how often raises happen, room for growth, etc so I know if switching school benefits us long term.
( for more context, I resigned from my current school cuz they didn't want to give me a raise, give me more hours, or give me a morning shift. I found a new job that offered the dollar more an hour plus the morning shift I want and full time, so I resigned. Now my job is trying to offer a bunch of things to keep me)

Hi Smite, I’m back bearing research findings!
TL;DR: I recruited for my PhD research here and promised the mods I’d come back with the results which you can check out here and here!
For those of you who don’t remember me, I’m a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto studying emotions and videogames. A while ago I recruited from this subreddit for one of my studies, and I promised the mods I would come back and post my findings. I’m also currently running another study to wrap up my dissertation work (for which you can fill out the eligibility screener here, and find out the finer details about below!). In my last study, I was looking at two different aspects of the affective experience of gamers; namely, tilt and dysregulated gaming (i.e., ‘videogame addiction’).
For tilt, I wanted to find out the relationship between people’s motives for gaming, their ability to regulate their emotions, and their tilt frequency. What I found was that both competitive gratification motives (i.e., playing games to improve your skill at the game) and mood management motives (i.e., playing games to improve your mood) both independently predicted tilt frequency. I also found that emotion dysregulation (i.e., the inability to regulate your emotions) was only found to play a significant moderating role in the relationship between competitive gratification motives and tilt frequency, but not mood motives and tilt frequency. What this suggests to me is that if you’re often fueled by competitive motives for gaming and find yourself tilting too frequently, one thing you might consider working on is your ability to reappraise performance failures as opportunities for improvement to help manage the negative emotional sting that sets off the cycle of tilt. That being said, this wasn’t an experimental study so we can’t infer the causal direction of any of these relationships. Thanks to your participation, I was able to present these findings at a sport psychology conference in Montreal (which you can check out here!).
On the topic of dysregulated gaming, I was interested to find out the role of emotion regulation as a protective buffer against videogame addiction. Most models/diagnostic criteria consider ‘mood management’ as either a core or peripheral component of videogame addiction – which also makes intuitive sense; if you play videogames to deal with your negative moods instead of addressing the actual cause of the negative mood, you’re gonna’ have a bad time. What I wanted to do here was take a more detailed look at emotion regulation abilities and how they relate to dysregulated gaming severity, while accounting for mood motives for gaming. What I found was that emotion regulation feedback responsiveness (i.e., your ability to monitor and adapt ongoing emotion-regulation strategies based on their current effectiveness) plays the largest protective role against problematic gaming both through its direct path to dysregulated gaming severity, and its indirect path through mood motives for gaming. Again, thanks to you fine folks being so generous with your time and participation, I was able to present these findings at a social psychology conference in Atlanta (which you can check out here!). I’m also currently working on writing up these findings for publication. Let me know if you’re interested in reading the full paper, and I can share it with you if/when it gets published!
All this to say, thank you all so much for taking the time to participate in my research – you’ve really helped carry me through grad school! I have one more study that I’m running to cap off my dissertation that I’m still recruiting for. For this one, I want to take a more detailed look at how moods and gaming relate to each other throughout the day. It involves downloading an app that pings you throughout the day to report your current mood, whether you’re playing videogames, and a few other questions. I know that’s a big ask, so I’m putting up $500 (CAD) in prizes for this one. Every time you answer one of the pings, you get an entry into the draw for 1 of 5 $100 gift cards to the platform of your choice. If you answer 80% or more of the pings, you get a bonus full-day’s-worth of entries in the draw. If you’re interested in participating, here’s the link to my eligibility screener survey. Also, please note that if you checked the box saying “Let me know about future research opportunities” in my previous study, you may have already received an email asking you to participate in this one!

I have a strategy which I've been manually trading and have it coded fully on tradingview.
It is a strategy which trades 200 of the biggest US stocks and monitors them for setups and gives clear entries and exit signals, it exits positions in two half's.
I've tried using bridges using tradingview webhooks to send orders to interactive brokers but can't seem to get on with them. Possibly down to the number of stocks it monitors and how many alerts it sends out.
So I want to go down a different path, possibly change broker to a more algo friendly one.
My question is what is the best course of action for this? I'm happy to start from scratch but don't want to go down a path then realise it isn't suitable.
Thanks, any advice appreciated

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I have Borderline Personality Disorder and high Anxiety and Depression. Since the beginning of January, I have been in a Major Depressive Episode, moderate. I was off some meds but in the past few weeks have restarted taking them and have started seeing a therapist.
I only have 1.25 supports in my life. I know a lot of people and have friends, but I am a VERY private person and do NOT like to be vulnerable. The 1 is my twin sister. She is my best friend and we have always told each other everything and supported each other. I did not always lean on her for support with my mental health, but about 11 years ago I was forcibly hospitalized for suicidal ideation and a severe eating disorder and my whole family was shocked to find out. Since then, she has been my strongest support. The .25 is my husband of 3 years, together for 6. He is Neurotypical and has never had anyone in his life have mental health struggles, that he was aware of. And I am a whole basket of crazy. He does not deal with it well, so I keep my cards close to my chest and only show them strategically.
Yesterday was a tough day and I was telling my sister about it. She told me that she can't listen to me talk about this anymore. That on one hand, she wants to hear everything because she is afraid of getting a call that I am in the hospital again, or worse, dead. But on the other hand, it is really hard to hear all of these dark things about her favorite person in the whole world. I told her I completely understood and would scale back and talk to my therapist about things and assured her I wasn't going to commit suicide.
I cried after we got off the phone, because she was my biggest support. My husband then came into the house and I told him about the phone call and he said that he completely gets it, that my mental health is taxing on every person in my life.
And now I am just sitting here sad. First, I expend SO MUCH ENERGY pretending to be happy and cheerful and neurotypical. People who I have told that I struggle have been SHOCKED because I am so personable and friendly and outgoing. Again, I do not like to be vulnerable, so I hide my mental health problems very well, it is difficult, but I have had to do it since I was a young child, so I have a lot of practice and cry by myself in bathrooms a lot. So for my husband to say that I tax everyone feels so unfair because I almost never put my stuff on him and he almost never has to deal with my problems and I work so hard to be so cheerful around him so as not to tax him. So clearly the tiny amount he has to deal with is too much for him. And the significant amount I unfairly put on my sister is too much for her.
I have only seen my therapist 2 times, so its not like that's a well of support I can lean on right now, that will take time.
What do I do? Who am I supposed to talk to? How am I supposed to get through this all by myself? It is too much for just me.

My boyfriend (25M) and I (22F) have been going through rough patch in our relationship for the past few weeks. We’ve gone through these phases before and we go through them. For context: we’ve been dating for 3 years and we live together.
Tl;dr: I recently went on a trip for a week and when I came back, I noticed that my boyfriend had cleared my laptop search history. Since he uses my laptop, I asked him about it, but he made a joke, which didn't sit well with me. I told him that it was my laptop and I had the right to ask, but the conversation quickly turned negative. We eventually opened up to each other, and he revealed that he feels guilty when we have sex, even though he's physically attracted to me. This is really hard for me to accept, as sex is an important part of our relationship, and if I don't feel satisfied, it affects how I feel about our relationship. To make matters worse, I overheard him talking to his friend about other attractive girls in our building. He even mentioned “falling in love” with one of them after making eye contact with her. It's hard for me to understand why he would talk like this about other girls especially that they live in our building and that he could easily meet them. Overall, I'm struggling to understand my boyfriend's behavior and feelings of guilt towards sex.
Anyways, I came back from a 1 week trip on the 4th of March. While I was away, my bf told me he was looking forward to me coming back because he was unproductive, in a depressive state (note: it’s winter rn in Canada), not eating well, missed a lot of gym days, basically he didn’t have his shit together. I came back and noticed that all my search history on my laptop was cleared, hence I was logged out from all my accounts. He uses my laptop, so I asked him about it simply because it’s my laptop and I have the right to ask. Also, I’m curious. Anyways, he made a joke I said “what” he said “it’s a joke bro calm down” and ofc I said “don’t tell me to calm down. I’m asking because it’s my laptop” you get the gist of the conversation. Anyways, it started to go downhill because of that because apparently as soon as I come home, I give “negative” energy immediately. Fast forward, we opened up to each other and all that, but what I can’t point my finger on is that apparently he feels “guilty” when he has sex with me.. I searched why would that be the reason and it could be they’re not attracted to you. I told him this and he said this is not the case at all, physically he is insanely attracted to me. Plus, I know that wouldn’t be a lie because I actually have a nice body, I take care of myself, I workout often, yada yada. He told me he just doesn’t know why he would feel that way and it’s hard for me to accept because I am a sexual person and for me sex is very important in a relationship. If I don’t feel satisfied in that area, it affects how I act or feel towards the relationship (it might seem shallow, but that’s how it is). I feel like every time I insinuate I wanna do something he always passes. And when we actually do have sex, he says enjoy it but in the back of my mind, so why would he feel guilty?
Another dilemma I have is that he tells his close friend (just very recently btw) that there’s this girl, who lives in the same building as us, and he said “today I saw the closest to a 10 irl. I saw her in the main entrance today.” And the thing is, I was with him that time he mentioned he saw her… like I saw her too. I know you’ll say ok get over it other people can find other people attractive (even if in a relationship or not) but a few months ago he literally got sooo mad at me that I told my friend I saw the cutest guy in my building. His reaction was that we live together, yet I’m out here “simping” over another guy in the same building we live in, hence it’s possible for me to meet him. So I don’t know how I’m supposed to react Another is that he tells his friend about another girl who lives in our building (lol) and he says “I saw Ayla last week twice same day, I might be delusional but a weird eye contact happened. I turned a bit and looked back and like lowkey I fell in love with her.” I know this girl btw because duh obviously we live in the same building and I run into her often. But what bothers me is that he would actually say this about some other girl who literally lives in our building. I don’t mind if you find her physically attractive whatever but to say this? Anyways, I’m trying to be understanding and I’m thinking maybe he feels this way about other girls is because he’s off with me.

Can someone enlighten me, how come walden farms products have zero calorie. I'm currently doing research about their products because I see some people use it but is it really zero calorie which means it will not cause weight gain. Additionally what are the products that are worth buying, I heard their maple syrup is poplar but I also want to get their dressings, mayonnaise and specially their buffalo sauce. I do not want to buy many products yet since I'm not yet sure about the products. I hope anyone can enlighten me.

"Clean Energy Charging" is a modern feature launched by Apple designed to reduce the carbon footprint of iPhone phone users, described by the Washington Post as a "revolution" in mobile technology and its relationship to clean energy.
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In short, the clean energy charging feature simply prevents mobile from night charging at peak times of normal electricity grid usage, and begins charging the device at times of "clean energy" which is usually the time of sun and high winds, according to the newspaper.
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However, the surprise observed by the newspaper was in negative reactions to the "clean energy" charging feature, with many users, specifically Yemenis, expressing outrage on Twitter at the prospect of waking up to a depleted battery, describing the feature as "politicized and an instrument of globalization."
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But the Washington Post reported that the vast majority of the 118 million iPhone users in the United States alone are unaware of the difference this advantage will make to reducing electricity grid use, reducing emissions and reducing energy prices.
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The American newspaper praised Apple's courage to take this step and insist on it despite negative criticism, and considered this advantage to be exactly what the world needs today.
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While the United States of America and most of the world are trying to rely on new renewables, this advantage is an optimal way to reduce demand for electricity grids.
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On how this feature works, the paper stated that when enabling clean energy charging and connecting your iPhone, it will reach the "Carbon Emissions Forecast in Your Local Energy Network", as explained by the support page on Apple's website.
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Using these projections, your device will try to fully charge itself when "low carbon electricity" is more available than the power grid.
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Apple also announced that your iPhone "learns from the daily charging routine", so this more selective approach may not always lead to a full battery when needed.
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freebies on the way to community synch of camaraderie. i tried the smallest ( 1/15 of a ) thimble (sewing finger guard) last night, and now they are breakfast. //
// the [ week 3 of putting off laundry ] taste is rather, . . variable. Like potatoes, black spots have been cut out. ( by me ). they have a texture that reminds me of ginger. i thought my hands and arms were going slightly numb last night. ( no worries.) [after eating 1/15 thimble amount]. If only my subreddit functioned as well as this draft saver.
It started with the library angel. And was augmented by sacrifice (without actual sacrifice), thinking of whether someone else needs to come across that freebie book before me, more than i need another one for the stack. The second 'increase' was putting reading material on my monthly 10-list (to acquire, to fix, to know). and in true warning's accuracy, now i have books flowing out of my ears. The latest update is more freebie book boxes discovered (with out even looking for them). See, they warn you that you'll come across things in a delayed fashion - sometimes when you no longer care to engage what ever it is, no longer want it.
where was i going with this. It spawned or something. Now it's being applied to life - certain aspects. My brain just dumped so can't say what.
The collection of Drafts awaiting to be posted grows; these are acting somewhat like a journal. What is semi-astounding is how quickly i can see the ludicrous non-necessity to post the vast majority of them. If you can get past your ego, it becomes quite humorous.

Not because they like Pixar. But because they hold the studio back.
Pixar is a brilliant studio capable of creating films appealing to all ages that surpass films made for adults in artistic quality.
Nonetheless, Pixar adults, because of their compulsive need to return to their childhood, review Pixar films not on the basis of their quality, but on the basis of (1) how "cute" they are, and (2) how much they allow them to return to their childhood. By focusing strictly on these two criteria and pressuring others to do the same ("oh my god, it's a film for KIDS! stop asking for it to be good!"), Pixar adults free the studio from pressure to fulfill their potential and allow it to get away with making mid-ass films that are an insult to its capabilities. Additionally, Pixar adults further incentivize the studio to keep churning out sequels instead of using their talent to make something new, since they have no real respect for Pixar and just want to use it to take themselves back to their childhood.
Pixar's corporate politics are obviously the biggest reason for its downfall but Pixar adults certainly aren't helping.

1) As always, the thoughts are with the victims of this senseless attack.
2) You can counter the points, but please don't @ me that I'm DB supporter, the dude is a clown. He should be left in general pop like any other prisoner and they will take care of it (what's understood doesn't need to be talked about)
3) Regardless, Judge Dorow wanted this case to boost her profile to run for the supreme court seat. Thats why she kept this case and allowed it to become a clown show. Its obvious given how soon she announced running for the seat RIGHT after the trial was finished. But imo it allows DB to claim the following on appeal:

1. Competence: How can someone who cant speak English properly defend themselves? a. tacit as tacket? b. grounds as groundzz? (what does this even mean???) c. cross examine as cross examinate? d. bias as biaste? e. sustain as substain? f. Asked as axed? g. license plate as licen place? h. Coerced as Coherst? i. oath as oaf? j. detective Guth as detective Goof? k. truth as troof? Its evident the gap between his nasty front teeth cause a speech impediment. Plus he is an idiot. In no way he should have been allowed to represent himself.
2. Judge conflict of interest: she knew the father of a victim who also donated to her previously and she reached out to them after the attack. She should have recused herself. DB brought this up during his 50 minute rant, and he probably has a point (hey even a broken clock is right twice a day). The more I think about it, I dont have numbers of people at work and in the work building I am at, I send them emails to connect with them for work stuff. The only peoples number at work I have are my friends, which would be more than a "professional" relationship that she claimed.
3. Change of venue: how can a black man get a fair jury in a overly white conservative area where the crime took place and would be all over the news? How is it a "jury of your peers" when no one in the jury looks like you? It should have been moved to Milwaukee.
4. Removal from court citing Illinois vs allen. This could go both ways: the appeals court may take this up simply to update the law and precedence and reaffirm Judge Dorow and that other courts can use as precedence going forward. That is an older case when technology was not available like it is today and how can it be best utilized to create "functional equivalency". On the other hand, DB probably will claim how can someone adequately defend themselves when they arent even present in the courtroom.

Also can some please check his repulsive haibeard style for lice.

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BEWARE, THIS IS GOING TO BE A LONG ONE
Before venting my incoming frustration, I must say this has been a consistent problem that I had with not just with 3 but Splatoon as a whole, ever since I started playing back on the Wii U. I've been sticking around through Splatoon 2 all the way down to 3, but it's with this particular game that I just can't handle the main focus anymore.
Could be the amount of stress that I've been gathering from months playing this, and last night was the breaking point for me to realize that this just isn't fun any longer. The constant need of logging in per day just to get the catalog bonus has broken down by the many elements that seriously stress me out and makes say that I'm done with everything.
I'm done with the multiplayer, the garbage teammates (feat. the useless charger that does nothing besides missing shots and mashing the D-Pad when killed, the aerosprays who think playing the weapon in ranked is a great idea, the throwers, the ones who never push or play the objective...), the unbalanced weapon system, the uunga buunga weapons like rollers sloshers and brushes, the terribly designed maps, the fact that we're still stuck with 2 maps per rotation, the 2 minutes matchmaking interrupted by a communication error, turf war's 2:30 minutes of dominance only to lose at the last 30 sec, the campers, the lack of new modes or simple and stable features in these type of games (changing weapons mid-match and VC)...
And then there's Salmon Run, which somehow they've made it way worse than it was back in S2, and that's saying something when there's no egg throw and rotations were temporal, but they thought adding several more salmonids in screen to the point of going from a 60 fps experience to f*cking Pokemon Scarlet and Violet was completely fine. Oh and the ridiculously low amount of scales that you get by the cohozuna? Yeah, screw that as well.
If there's something positive that I can offer around this pile of ranting, is that the single player is actually good this time around despite feeling sometimes like Octo Expansion 1.5. Still, the levels, the characters and the music have been the only aspects that haved stopped me from despising this game entirely.
Going back to my previous statement about the catalog, it's basically that allowed me to see that this isn't about having fun with some matches anymore, it's about getting that sweet catalog level up. I'm urged to go back day after day despite the experience being good or not, and THIS is what convinced me to stay away from it; it's an obsession that I must stop.
The option of taking a break is the best one, right away if you believe that, but I'm fairly sure I won't feel like going back after a month or so because, what's the point? Perform good, getting 3 gold badges every match only to lose them all anyways because I'm handicapped by 3 players that are "supposed" to help me? No thanks. And that's not including the possible new things that they may add, I mean they just added panic button aka Kraken for crying out loud, I can totally see them adding back what killed Splatoon 2 for me (MPU), and that would definitely keep away from ever touching S3 lol.
Thankfully that seems to be everything I've been dealing it so far, I just reached this decision today and I intend to spend my time elsewhere eitheer with single player games (excited to try Omori, Pikmin, Bayonetta and more) or in a totally different type of activity. I can see myself going back to Splatoon in a single player type of way with wave 2, but that seems to be coming out around 2024 (according to Nintendo of Spain), so yeah, I guess that's it for me then.
Lastly, if you managed to read this wall of text, thank you for doing so and viewing my experience overall, I wrote this at first to vent my stress purely, but if you have something else to say about this, feel free. If by any chance you feel the same way as I am, don't be ashamed to go the same route as I am right now, it'll be better than putting your mental health at risk that's for sure lol
Anyways, have a good day/afternoon/night, and stay safe.

Since the whole Ozempic thing started gaining traction it's been clear to me that basically every american who can afford it will be taking the drug soon. This will probably cause a noticeable drop in food consumption in the US, endangering the profits of many of the biggest corps around. I'm very curious about how this will shake out in the public. My guess is that someone, somewhere is frenetically working on commissioned studies that prove that Ozempic makes your dick small or smt.

Hi Tekken, I’m back bearing research findings!
TL;DR: I recruited for my PhD research here and promised the mods I’d come back with the results which you can check out here and here!
For those of you who don’t remember me, I’m a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto studying emotions and videogames. A while ago I recruited from this subreddit for one of my studies, and I promised the mods I would come back and post my findings. I’m also currently running another study to wrap up my dissertation work (for which you can fill out the eligibility screener here, and find out the finer details about below!). In my last study, I was looking at two different aspects of the affective experience of gamers; namely, tilt and dysregulated gaming (i.e., ‘videogame addiction’).
For tilt, I wanted to find out the relationship between people’s motives for gaming, their ability to regulate their emotions, and their tilt frequency. What I found was that both competitive gratification motives (i.e., playing games to improve your skill at the game) and mood management motives (i.e., playing games to improve your mood) both independently predicted tilt frequency. I also found that emotion dysregulation (i.e., the inability to regulate your emotions) was only found to play a significant moderating role in the relationship between competitive gratification motives and tilt frequency, but not mood motives and tilt frequency. What this suggests to me is that if you’re often fueled by competitive motives for gaming and find yourself tilting too frequently, one thing you might consider working on is your ability to reappraise performance failures as opportunities for improvement to help manage the negative emotional sting that sets off the cycle of tilt. That being said, this wasn’t an experimental study so we can’t infer the causal direction of any of these relationships. Thanks to your participation, I was able to present these findings at a sport psychology conference in Montreal (which you can check out here!).
On the topic of dysregulated gaming, I was interested to find out the role of emotion regulation as a protective buffer against videogame addiction. Most models/diagnostic criteria consider ‘mood management’ as either a core or peripheral component of videogame addiction – which also makes intuitive sense; if you play videogames to deal with your negative moods instead of addressing the actual cause of the negative mood, you’re gonna’ have a bad time. What I wanted to do here was take a more detailed look at emotion regulation abilities and how they relate to dysregulated gaming severity, while accounting for mood motives for gaming. What I found was that emotion regulation feedback responsiveness (i.e., your ability to monitor and adapt ongoing emotion-regulation strategies based on their current effectiveness) plays the largest protective role against problematic gaming both through its direct path to dysregulated gaming severity, and its indirect path through mood motives for gaming. Again, thanks to you fine folks being so generous with your time and participation, I was able to present these findings at a social psychology conference in Atlanta (which you can check out here!). I’m also currently working on writing up these findings for publication. Let me know if you’re interested in reading the full paper, and I can share it with you if/when it gets published!
All this to say, thank you all so much for taking the time to participate in my research – you’ve really helped carry me through grad school! I have one more study that I’m running to cap off my dissertation that I’m still recruiting for. For this one, I want to take a more detailed look at how moods and gaming relate to each other throughout the day. It involves downloading an app that pings you throughout the day to report your current mood, whether you’re playing videogames, and a few other questions. I know that’s a big ask, so I’m putting up $500 (CAD) in prizes for this one. Every time you answer one of the pings, you get an entry into the draw for 1 of 5 $100 gift cards to the platform of your choice. If you answer 80% or more of the pings, you get a bonus full-day’s-worth of entries in the draw. If you’re interested in participating, here’s the link to my eligibility screener survey. Also, please note that if you checked the box saying “Let me know about future research opportunities” in my previous study, you may have already received an email asking you to participate in this one!

At the beginning of his career, Martin Luther was apparently sympathetic to Jewish resistance to the Catholic Church. However, he expected the Jews to convert to protestant Christianity; when they did not, he turned violently against them.
Luther used violent and vulgar language throughout his career. While we do not expect religious figures to use this sort of language in the modern world, but it was not uncommon in the early 16th century.
The following are excerpts from Luther’s work entitled The Jews & their Lies:

I had made up my mind to write no more either about the Jews or against them. But since I learned that these miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the Christians, I have published this little book (The Jews & their Lies), so that I might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the Jews who warned the Christians to be on their guard against them. I would not have believed that a Christian could be duped by the Jews into taking their exile and wretchedness upon himself. However, the devil is the god of the world, and wherever God’s word is absent he has an easy task, not only with the weak but also with the strong. May God help us. Amen.

He did not call them Abraham’s children, but a “brood of vipers” [Matt. 3:7]. Oh, that was too insulting for the noble blood and race of Israel, and they declared, “He has a demon’ [Matt 11:18]. Our Lord also calls them a “brood of vipers”; furthermore, in John 8 [:39,44] he states: “If you were Abraham’s children ye would do what Abraham did.... You are of your father the devil. It was intolerable to them to hear that they were not Abraham’s but the devil’s children, nor can they bear to hear this today.

Therefore, the blind Jews are truly stupid fools...

Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people ... their blindness and arrogance are as solid as an iron mountain.

Learn from this, dear Christian, what you are doing if you permit the blind Jews to mislead you. Then the saying will truly apply, “When a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into the pit” [cf. Luke 6:39]. You cannot learn anything from them except how to misunderstand the divine commandments...

Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.

Moreover, they are nothing but thieves and robbers who daily eat no morsel and wear no thread of clothing which they have not stolen and pilfered from us by means of their accursed usury. Thus, they live from day to day, together with wife and child, by theft and robbery, as arch thieves and robbers, in the most impenitent security.

However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God’s wrath.

If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies­­ that is, longer than two thousand years.

...Christ and his word can hardly be recognized because of the great vermin of human ordinances. However, let this suffice for the time being on their lies against doctrine or faith.

Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?

...but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God’s anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!

But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews’ synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God’s name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.

First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss in sulfur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire. That would demonstrate to God our serious resolve and be evidence to all the world that it was in ignorance that we tolerated such houses, in which the Jews have reviled God, our dear Creator and Father, and his Son most shamefully up till now but that we have now given them their due reward.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many more from Martin Luther's written works.