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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.

Investigators with the state Department of Justice are investigating a mysterious death in northeastern Wisconsin. The Justice Department said in a statement that police officers were called to a house in the village of Hortonville in Outagamie County on Saturday morning on a report of two unresponsive individuals. Officers found a dead woman and a … Continue reading Department of Justice officials investigate mysterious death of Wisconsin woman

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.

Okay this is super gross. I went to the bathroom today and an old tampon was on the edge of my vagina. Upside down, no idea how long it's been in there. I'm not sure if I should see a doctor
Background: I have pretty irregular periods. Back in September I went in to get an IUD and a pap. Had to wait for my period to end to do the service. A week later got the services. The pap came back with irregular bacteria but otherwise clear. I began to have a period that lasted from the IUD placement in sept/Oct until January. The brand I found in me would have either been from the period that I ended before the pap (oh god), from mid Feb, or within the last week.
I had noticed a bad smell back in November and in December I got tested again and went on antibiotics. I've never had bacterial problems before, but I also wasn't super sexually active. I have ptsd so for a while I could only sex when I drank. No telling how long this was in for sure.
Back in Feb I began having grayish discharge which lasted on and off for a week. But began again a couple weeks later. Sometimes it was so much i would stand and it would drip down my leg. I honestly thought this might be from my hormones regulating with the IUD bc I have hormone irregularities. I put a tampon in yesterday that I took out last night and it had grayish purple discharge but didn't look like I had had a period.
Other symptoms: my eyes have been unusually bloodshot and I have been on and off sick, but I'm doing fine today, the day I found it.
I'm visiting family out of state and my insurance won't cover out of state. I also don't want to explain what's going on to my family cuz I'm embarrassed. Should I go to a doctor immediately, or is waiting a week an okay idea? If I can wait, and things seem normal again, should I still go?

Normally I can only focus on a specific task, when fear, pressure and humiliation drives to me do it.
Being calm and meditation bores me and leads me to a more distractible state.
Pure cold rage on the other hand, helps me focus. To avoid being irritable and exhausting myself through my emotions, I listen to a deep breathing ASMR video, while I try to summon my rage to do my work and my studies. The deep breathing keeps my rage at a manageable level, that doesn't burn my entire energy away.
I'm not even angry at something specifically, my anger is similar to someone doing the last few reps of a heavy exercise, while reaching their limit. It's similar to going "berserk", but you don't lose yourself in it. Not sure if this has a name.
Maintaining this state, while breathing deeply helps me dealing with my shit attention. The "plan" that you will enter "beast mode" at a later time when you need it, is poison tho. It leads to procrastination, because even righteous cold rage is a negative emotion. And negative emotions are something the psyche tries to protect you from. Getting used to rage as a constant emotion, helps me.
I am distracted all the time, which is why I need my focus rage all the time as well. I only allow myself away from raging when talking to people or when closing my eyes, while doing nothing.
Positive emotions distract me, desperation and fear paralyze me first and push me towards distraction afterwards, cold rage hits the sweet spot for me. Rage demands action. Fear does too, but gives you also the option to run towards distraction. Thus rage is the better motivator in my opinion. As a side effect my self-doubt also "pisses off" while in rage.
This trick is something I recently rediscovered, I unconsciously used it as a kid when studying for school or when writing essays (without the ASMR part). What do you think?

I recently got into two programs for my Masters degree. One is at a top private university, but the program seems much newer and less intensive in terms of the skills that I will learn. The other program is at a state school that is not anywhere near as well known, but it seems far more developed as a program and better for learning new skills. Both will provide me with internship experience and cover relatively similar topics. Cost is not so much an issue. Should I go for the school that looks best on paper to employers or the one that will provide me better training but not offer the wow factor of the school name. Unfortunately I know school name prestige can be big in the US. Both are great options in there own way. I’ve never done this before so I don’t know what my top priorities should be in choosing between programs. Any help is provided.

I know nobody else can answer but me but I need advice. Me and my estranged mother have had a somewhat complicated past and we live in different states. She is a chronic alcoholic and chronic smoker. She got cancer back in 2019 and never stopped smoking and drinking. We lost contact a little then until November last year my half brother saw her and told me she didn’t look good and I had to see her. I went to see her and she wasn’t good I got her to a hospital and she stayed even though she didn’t want to. She even went to skilled nursing and seemed in good spirits when she left end of December. She then started declining again when she left the rehab and now is back in the hospital and I’m being told she has days to live. Im not sure what to do I already had plane tickets to see her next Wednesday and changing my flight for today would be expensive. Im not sure if I’ll regret not seeing her or if the doctors predictions are accurate enough to change everything right now. It’s hard when she never was really there for me. In your experiences have doctors predictions for your loved ones number of days been somewhat accurate?

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• AER Memories Of Old x2
• Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
• Anomaly Korea
• Awesomenauts
• Awesomenauts Cluck Costume
• The Bard's Tale
• Blade & Soul E3 Pack (I have no idea what's in this or if its still good)
• Breach & Clear
• Broken Sword: Director's Cut
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (1x Origin Key 1x Steam Key)
• Company of Heroes
• Draw a Stickman: EPIC
• EVEOnline 4 Ship Skins (I have no idea what's in this or if its still good)
• Evergarden
• Field Runners
• Field Runners 2
• Galcon Fusion (x2)
• Frozen Synapse
• The Final Station
• Greed Corp
• Lara Croft GO
• Laser League
• Jurassic Park The Game
• Ittle Dew
• Last Day of June
• Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
• Lost Castle
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• The Walking Dead: Season 1 (x1)
• Vertiginous Golf (x3)
• Minute of Islands
• 11-11 Memories Retold
• Subterrain
• Grey Goo Definitive Edition
• Road to Ballhalla
• Tiny and Big in Grandpa's Leftovers
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Hey all - would have posted this in simucube but that doesn't seem well populated so posting here, hoping for some ideas.
Basically, as the title states: I will be cruising along (iRacing) and all of a sudden, the sim stops receiving my input... I can no longer steer. However... FFB is still active.
So like, I can spin/steer the steering wheel with no effect on the car, but if/when the car eventually hits a wall... the FFB will pull/spin the wheel.
This is for an older OSW and v1 of SimuCube, with a small MiGe motor, all purchased from Joe Sullivan.
It started doing this after I made a cross-country move so not sure if maybe something got damaged or if I'm missing something, but it's strange and intermittent. Sometimes I can run for hours without an issue, and other times, it will happen after 5 mins of use and happen until I get pissed off and log out for the day.
Anybody else run into this?

I separated from my ex-partner on bad terms and we haven't talked since. I moved abroad and it's very difficult for me to go back to the USA. I just found out that my ex already filed for divorce without my knowledge. Great News but my ex refuses to talk to me and I need to know where it was filed. I'm trying desperately to find out on my own so that I can obtain a copy of my divorce decree. I need it in order to marry my current partner. Every source online tells me that I have to go to the county clerks office in the county where my ex filled. The problem is that I have no idea which state it is as my ex moved around a lot all those years. Is there anyway to find out this information?

I am a computer engineering student so trying to find a place where i can get similar education & i only speak English & Turkish. I am trying not to choose the uni which doesn't have english classes since i don't want to fail the semester. Finding a place to stay in the country i am going to is an important problem also. From what i've heard it's really hard to find a dorm. Lastly, how can i find anyone to pick me up from the airport, do any of these schools do that?
the schools i can pick are:
Higher Vocational State School in Wloclawek - poland
Kielce University of Technology - poland
AGH university - poland
szeged university- hungary
university of pitesti - romania
technical university of varna - bulgaria
Klaipeda state college - lithuania
university of economics - bulgaria
international vision university - macedonia
goce delcev university- macedonia
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AGH uni is so far my only pick, i have to pick two more :]

I have COVID for the second time in 8 months. 31 female. No chronic health issues, aside from anxiety and OCD. Distance runner and cyclist.
I had moderna vaccines in 2/21 and 3/21 and booster 11/21.
Contracted COVID finally last July (Summer 2022). Took paxlovid, had by all accounts a pretty mild case (EXTREMELY sore throat, loss of voice, congestion, burning lungs, myalgia and low grade fever for about 6 days).
Noticed that around Sept-October 2022, my heart rate started getting REALLY high on runs. It recovers but it's in the 180s, we're talking a 3 mile run at sea level or in the mountains, it doesn't matter. Clear chest CT Dec 2022 but the heart rate thing persists.
I just started a new job 2 weeks ago, and my health insurance isn't even kicked in yet. One of my best friends is getting married this weekend out of state, I already have plane tickets and my dress. everything. I also have training and launch meetings for my new job, for tomorrow and wednesday out of state at HQ that I was REALLY looking forward to.
...I developed a very mild sore throat on Saturday. It never progressed. Negative rapids. I scheduled a rapid PCR for today, just to be safe. Woke up this morning with congestion and clogged ears, tried a different brand of rapid which was positive before it even hit the control line. PCR results just came out and are positive as well.
I had a rapid IGG/IGM run as well when I had the PCR done. I am IGG positive (I assume from my case last summer), and IGM negative (I'm on day 3 of symptoms so I assume i'm just too early to trip the IGM yet). If anyone has more experience with the IGM/IGG patterns for covid please post a link.
I'm sitting here in my house and I'm so so so upset. My heart rate is still fucked from last time when I run, which has scared me for months now. I live alone, 2000 miles from my family. I have no one. I've been looking forward to this wedding for almost a year. I've been looking forward to this meeting in my favorite state for work, as well. My dog was also scheduled to have an ultrasound today, from a planned breeding a month ago that i've been hoping against hope took. I don't think that can happen now either.
I went to a march madness basketball game last Wednesday night, and got my hair highlighted the night before. Those are the only 2 avenues of exposure I can even think of. Does anyone have any anecdotal experience of what their XBB 1.5 incubation period was? How bad were your symptoms? Had you had omicron?
I fly in KN95s. I neurotically use hand sanitizer. I test before going around family. I know I don't do everything perfect but I thought I was doing okay. I stupidly stupidly thought I was still okay on antibodies.

My 1.5 year relationship has been floundering for months. What was an easy-going good relationship took a turn for the worse as my girlfriend gradually starting lashing out at me more and more. Her behaviour was and is a combination of insecurity and just unhealthy communication patterns. I could give numerous examples of her behaviour. On the communication side, it's the textbook, she's visibly upset, being rude to me, but when I kindly ask what's wrong she will tell me nothing is wrong. On the insecurity side, her sending me a rude text because I reach out to confirm plans would be an example; in her mind the plans were set in stone and me asking made her feel like she wasn't a priority.
Almost every time it would happen, I would have to confront her about it, otherwise she would pretend like nothing happened. I told her how serious these issues were to me multiple times. I told her that lying to my face when something was wrong was a dealbreaker. She diddled on going to therapy until she only just now started to. She struggles with very bad anxiety, depression, and chronic pain which honestly makes her miserable to be around sometimes. This is in contrast to when she's feeling good; she is so vibrant and fun.
Anyway like I was saying, these issues have been happening for months. Maybe even half a year now. She only just started to see a therapist and obviously, these problems can't be fixed overnight. The problem is that I feel spent. She still sometimes lashes out at me or sometimes doesn't communicate when there's a problem. Granted there hasn't been any big blow-ups lately, but I still feel so exhausted from the months of this. I feel like I have no patience or tolerance left and I have one foot out of the door. Another draining aspect of this is that when I confront her about these problems, she responds so sadly. She is so ashamed of her behaviour so it's not like she doesn't know she's behaving badly.
I'm not sure how a relationship can be saved from this point. We are in an anxious avoidant cycle because her communication problems and insecurities have pushed me away, making her problems more prominent. There is a ray of hope with her going to therapy and starting to improve herself, but right now I'm not feeling good. I'm not feeling patient. But, I also don't want to end something that could end up being good.
I'm feeling the need to say a lot of this to her because I'm tired of having to put on a fake positivity; it feels like I'm holding my breath. We both are concerned about the future of our relationship. We were, a while ago, talking about a trip to Europe in the early Summer but more recently we talked about how we're not on a good trajectory and agreed that if things continue we won't make it to the trip.
I want to "reset" both of our perceptions of our relationship but I don't know how or if that's possible. I want to wipe away my lack of patience and built up disappointment. I want to wipe away her insecurities and anxiety about our relationship. I want us to have a clean slate to be hopeful and excited for a future together because right now, we're in the plane and all I can see is the ground we flying towards to crash and burn.
How can I have this conversation with her in a way that won't 100% lead to much more anxiety or a break-up?
TLDR: My relationship has been going downhill for a while. My girlfriend has numerous mental health issues that make communication difficult when there's a conflict. I'm drained and saddened by months of her behaviour. How can I have a conversation about the sad state of our relationship with my partner even though I don't have any outcome I'm pursuing?

So this is my first year doing my taxes myself and after looking over my return (already submitted to fed, state and local) I see a small math error that I made in calculating my solo 401k contribution, which I haven't make yet at the brokerage. I think a couple of numbers changed and I didn't recalculate.
On the return, my wife's contribution is overstated by $6 and mine is overstated by $56. Is this the sort of thing that requires an amendment, or can I just wait for the IRS and state to catch it and reduce my refund by the correct amount, and in the meantime make the correct contribution to the 401k? Obviously there's some cascade - it affects the QBI, etc.

Hey mommas, I'm here to give you a guide on taking your children to the tours. I took my 6 children, Kayleigh (5), Brayleigh (3), Cayleigh (2), and Tragedeigh (3mo) to ErasZona and I have all of teh infos for you all doing the same!!!
Obviously you should have tickets for every child, I mean why wouldn't you? Tickets are abundant and my children deserve to go! Make sure to handle their tickets for them.

1. The music is loud! Who would have guessed?
2. Obviously your child is wearing a costume (that let's be real, us mommas made and forced them to wear). LO may not want to wear it for long, but make sure they understand the importance of how each one is a separate Era!)
3. Check for family bathrooms! The lines for bathrooms are sooOoooO long and they just have to go all the time! Plus they're stinky!
4. Don't let your kids stand on the stadium seats! Turns out that's not what they're designed to do and Kayleigh got pinched in it! Also security was very mean saying we weren't allowed to do that. Don't worry, I had them stand on hubby's lap while he hated his life for the duration!
5. Give yourself PLENTY of time! Your kids will want to run around and do kid things like go to a park, but it's our momma duty to put on extra makeup, write lyrics down, and put on more costumes.
6. Keep them close! It's soooo crowded! I couldn't believe how crowded a stadium tour would be! People are also in such a rush, don't they understand I have kids here!? I tried lecturing a group of girls to behave better but they just ignored me and walked off! Youths these days!
7. Remember, the concert is 3+ hours. No advice here, just letting you know that your kids will not get fidgety - or bored - or overwhelmed. Everything will be fine.
8. Have pajamas ready! Of course we did not get a hotel room after the 10pm let out time in a strange city, so we'll be packing those kids back in the car and driving the 3 hours home that night!

And always remember, this is for the kids, it always was! It absolutely was not about me wanting to go to the tour and having to bring them along as accessories.

I applied for a job at an EMS company, on indeed.
2 days later they sent me a more in depth application, where I had to answer questions like availability, pay, personal info, etc. I had to answer questions based on my skill set and personality. There were some questions like “What would you do in this situation?” And “How would you best help your coworker in this situation?” Etc.
But other than that, I haven’t interviewed. No phone call, zoom, or in person interview.
I just got an email stating “Congratulations, you’ve moved onto the next step in employment”
And they’re asking me for pdfs of my SSN, drivers license, and COVID vaccination card.
Is this normal? Especially since I’ve never even had a conversation with the employer