Hello friends!
Yesterday I talked about how to stay more positive in general. Today I wanted to address some general toxicity issues on 2b. These are issues I once succumbed to which is why I would like to address them.

1. Racism. Racism in general is not a good thing to associate with online because old habits die hard. Before you know it you say something you shouldn’t in front of someone you shouldn’t be saying that. Racism also has the opposite effect that positivity does. It's okay in jokes when both parties find it funny but in other scenarios racism is bad. Does not matter what or why or which race, racism is NOT okay.
   
2. Bigotry. Bigotry is an often misdefined/forgotten word. Many people throw the word around not knowing its definition. Bigotry is having strong unreasonable beliefs and harboring a strong distaste for anyone who doesn’t share those beliefs. This is unfortunately very prominent on 2b. This kind of stuff makes others feel terrible and it’s simply not the kind of vibes you want others getting from you.
   
3. Lastly, we have lying. It’s one thing to tell someone a white lie(Telling the truth, but not the whole truth) however telling a lie is simply wrong. Lying about your IRL information is different however, telling someone you are a builder just to grief their hard work, there are infinite examples here on 2b2t. Lying doesn’t make you feel better, it simply makes you less positive.
   

If you need help with positivity please view my last 2 posts. I will also be posting more everyday/every other day.
I hope you all have an absolutely blessed day!
-Nocto

I'm a very insecure person. There's really no way around it. I've had very few stable relationships, platonic or romantic, and I'm kind of at a point where I tend to fear the worst cause I've seen the worst. I understand the toll this takes on others and I try to take assuring myself into my own hands. I make an effort to reach out, organize outings, throw large parties for myself, randomly check up on my friends, attempt conversations, etc. But it's so painfully obvious when it's not appreciated. So many times, people will curb my basic attempts at human connection. I recently started college and even just asking people to study with me, I'm regularly shut down or ghosted. I see people posting freshman year highlights because the year finally came to an end and I can count on one hand the amount of times I left my dorm for something other than gym, school or food. Back in high school when I dealt with this, I could usually chalk it up to maybe I offended them somehow. But at this point in my life, I interact with so many new people so regularly that it's just not even possible I offended them all.
To make matters worse, I'm an out of state student. I feel detached from my family and my home. My room in high school was given to my sister and I stay in a guest room now. The friends I do have from high school don't really talk to me. I mean we have this big groupchat where everyone is always talking, but I see them dm each other, spend time with each other, create actual bonds. Meanwhile, if I reach out, the chances of them even responding are slim, nevermind them ever texting me. When events are organized by someone other than myself or my boyfriend who is also in the group, I am very often left out. Especially birthdays. I invited 30+ people to my own. I genuinely want to connect with people and so I thought inviting them into my home, sharing food and conversation would be the way to do it. But when other people throw events, especially ones that have a limit on how many people can come, I'm never there. I'm not mad at any one person in particular, it just sucks that no body considers me close enough to include.
I have been very vocal about how I feel with that particular group. Basically anyone willing to listen has heard me say that I don't actually feel wanted around them. But I wind up feeling bad. They tell me that they do care about me and they do want me around. I'm told oh they're just awkward people, you're not here often, they've known each other longer (I met them through my boyfriend...yes I am ashamed to not have my own friends outside of that but I've really tried). But it sucks when I look at their stories and theyre smiling having fun yet again. Why dont I have any friends who just call me. Who just say hey when are you free. Who just go hey how are you doing. I swear I've tried initiating this and it just comes off like I'm forcing it. So I stop. And then we stop talking. :/
I'm currently on a 2-week study abroad program with my school. I was put with about 19 random people and they will literally lie to avoid hanging out with me. The feeling of loneliness has never been steeper. Across the world away from home with 2 dozen other freshmen who I've never talked to before...and they still wont spend time with me. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I feel like the bug spray I put on every morning is some friend repellent.
And honestly, my biggest fear is continuing to live in misery. It's summer time. I'm still a teenager. With or without a super close band of friends to tackle the world with me, I still want to enjoy my life. I've settled on a really big project to lock in on this summer. I've decided to make a sims machinima series. Some people laughed at me when I mentioned it, but I find it fun. I could take roller skating more seriously just to get out of the house. I don't know, I want to enjoy my own company. But I'm also just a teenage girl who was never invited to the slumber party.

I would preface this post by saying that I am not coming at this issue as someone with ill will or antagonism towards Catholicism, but as someone trying to understand Church teaching. I am also coming at the issue from an emotionally charge point of view; I recognize there might be instances where the institution is a necessary one, even from a purely natural law or non religious perspective.
I have yet to find a satisfactory answer on the Church and its teaching on slavery. Unlike the issue of Dignitatis Humanae and religious freedom, where you could reconcile it with previous teachings, the issue of slavery seems to present a genuine change or rupture in Church teaching.
For most of the history of Christianity, the Church taught that slavery was, at least in some contexts, a lawful and acceptable practice. To the extent Popes said anything on slavery prior to Leo XIII, they merely restricted or ameliorated slavery or slave trading, not condemning the institution en toto.
John Chrysostom

And how shall slavery be able to hurt? It is not slavery itself, beloved, that hurts; but the real slavery is that of sin.

Thomas Aquinas -

Adultery, however, and inducing a slave to leave his master are properly injuries against the person; yet the latter, since a slave is his master's chattel, is referred to theft. Voluntary commutations are when a man voluntarily transfers his chattel to another person.

Pope Pius IX says -

Slavery itself, considered as such in its essential nature, is not at all contrary to the natural and divine law, and there can be several just titles of slavery
It is not contrary to the natural and divine law for a slave to be sold, bought, exchanged or given

Pope Nicholas says in Dum Diversas

Pagans, infidels, and the enemies of Christ, also realms, duchies, royal palaces, principalities and other dominions, lands, places, estates, camps, possessions of the king or prince or of the kings or princes, and to lead their persons in perpetual servitude, and to apply and appropriate realms, duchies, royal palaces, principalities and other dominions, possessions and goods of this kind to you and your use and your successors the Kings of Portugal.

However starting with Pope Leo XIII started to condemn slavery as a whole

In the presence of so much suffering, the condition of slavery, in which a considerable part of the great human family has been sunk in squalor and affliction now for many centuries, is deeply to be deplored; for the system is one which is wholly opposed to that which was originally ordained by God and by nature. The Supreme Author of all things so decreed that man should exercise a sort of royal dominion over beasts and cattle and fish and fowl, but never that men should exercise a like dominion over their fellow men

Pope Leo XIII's teaching are codified in Vatican II in Gadium et Spes

Furthermore, whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia or wilful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind, attempts to coerce the will itself; whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed. They poison human society, but they do more harm to those who practice them than those who suffer from the injury. Moreover, they are supreme dishonor to the Creator.
At the same time let them put up a stubborn fight against any kind of slavery, whether social or political, and safeguard the basic rights of man under every political system.

This was reiterated again in 1995

The Second Vatican Council, in a passage which retains all its relevance today, forcefully condemned a number of crimes and attacks against human life. Thirty years later, taking up the words of the Council and with the same forcefulness I repeat that condemnation in the name of the whole Church, certain that I am interpreting the genuine sentiment of every upright conscience

So it seems to me that you have two irreconcilable teachings, one that taught slavery is sometimes lawful and another that teaches that it never is. If we are looking to an institution for guidance on moral issues, said institution should be able to speak clearly and consistently on an issue.

I just started with them, they offer tirzepatide AND b12 injections. The first month is 50% off, and they also match your provider fees if you switch. I wish I had told them I was paying less than $340 now a month 😂 my first month was $198!! Anyone here use them?? They’re out of Utah. I spoke with them on the phone Monday at 1pm and they shipped out my meds yesterday am. It will be delivered tomorrow (Thursday) via usps. I got the tracking information Tuesday before noon. I have a referral link for the same deal I received if anyone’s interested. BUT I’m posting this to see if anyone else has them?? I believe their newer because their trying to promote major deals to gain new patients. Let me know!! I’m excited to try my tirzepatide with my b12!! I’m switching from emerge. Honestly I loved emerge. They also have a referral program like emerge, only you get $100 off if someone signs up because of you. 😳 also their monthly fee doesn’t rise up on you depending on dosage. Also, I am starting on 5mg… but she said they send you 10 mg vials? Not sure what that means 🤷🏻‍♀️ I can say that it was obvious they don’t care what dose you want them to be started on and they don’t ask for proof of your current dosage. I should have said I was on 10mg but I didn’t.

Hi all. My dad was a narc, my ex husband who was physically abusive was a narc, the guy I dated soon after divorcing my ex husband was a narc. Unfortunately I didn't know about narcissist but I have learnt alot in the last year or so.
The last narc I dated came in as my rescuer after I divorced my ex husband that situation wrnt south real quick after months. He finally got me in his Web then he'd go and come back as usual and this went on for almost 3 years and I broke up with him a few times in there as well. I was actually dealing with his drug addiction, his narcissist mother who's also an alcoholic amongst other things. It was hell. Anyway I finally had enough after him and his racist mother had their finally attack and walked away in October 2022. Since then I had a 2 hovers in that year which didn't work and he was pissed and I had a reverse hover in June of 2023 when I was still recovering and didn't know the ins and outs of narcissist people. Anyway, from that day I went no contact. He said that he was seeing someone which I'm not surprise cause although he is Hideous on the inside and out he has all the ascetic of a normal person. House, car, good job, so he can get someone who's still asleep if he tried dangling money in their face. I said to him I didn't need someone onto of me to be over him and I never heard from him again.
I did hear from his friend the next month and later on thar year which I realised he was a flying monkey. Everything he'd ask me he'd go right back and tell him I assumed and I knew that was the case from the last phone call cause the friend said to he me that the ex has someone new which I knew he was seeing her for a long time but hoping that I'd some how come back to play his game cause she is not high grade supply like me. Definitely a downgrade when I saw the picture of them that year. She's clearly trying to look like me but won't ever be me. Nevertheless, I don't care about him her, I'm just indifferent to the situation and to be honest I hope he stays there and gets whatever he thinks he's looking for. He's an Evil vile person and so is his mother and they'll get there's either in this life or the next so will my ex husband.
I changed my number since last year and I have no social media. I deal with my ex husband accordingly for the children but my knowledge on narcissistic people has helped me tremendously so I can manage in that situation but with the last I hope he will never contact me again as I see no way he can. No one he knows has my contact number, he thinks I've moved city cause that's what it told his flying monkey and that same week I spoke to the flying monkey and gave no interest in him, his new supply of show any interest of ever getting in contact or back with him he immediately posted his picture of him and the new supply which I hope to believe that since he's upgraded her my smear campaign can end, flying monkeys can stay at bay and he can move on with the trash he deserves and I can continue to live my life.
It's been 1 year and 7 months since I left the last Narc. It's been 11 months since no contact with him directly and 7 months since no contact with the flying monkey. I think I'm safe. My advice would be to take your time to heal, find your faith, search for your purpose, invest time, love and energy into yourself and the people that truly love and care for you and always remember that actions speak louder than words. Never look at ascetic but look deep within a person before you connect yourself intimately with them. I've learnt the hard way and at 38 I haven't given up on love I'm just giving myself time, enjoying my children and being patient as I believe what is for you would never pass you by and I'm a good person so I will receive my blessings on this life or the next.

Mother's Day is a special occasion to honor and celebrate the incredible women who have shaped our lives with their love, care, and sacrifice. Whether you're looking for the perfect words to include in a card, a social media post, or simply to express your feelings, here are some heartfelt Mother's Day quotes to convey your love and gratitude:

1. "A mother's love is like no other. It knows no boundaries, no limits, and no conditions. It is unconditional, everlasting, and pure." - Unknown
2. "To the world, you are a mother. But to your family, you are the world." - Unknown
3. "A mother is not just someone who gave birth to you. She is the one who nurtured you, cared for you, and loved you unconditionally. Her love is the truest and purest form of love you will ever know." - Unknown
4. "Motherhood: All love begins and ends there." - Robert Browning
5. "A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's." - Princess Diana
6. "Life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a mother." - Unknown
7. "A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." - Cardinal Mermillod
8. "Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever." - Unknown
9. "Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind." - Kahil Gibran
10. "The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation." - James E. Faust
11. "A mother's love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible." - Marion C. Garretty
12. "Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing." - Ricki Lake
13. "A mother's love is the strongest energy known to man." - Jamie McGuire
14. "Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do." - Unknown
15. "Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person's everything." - Unknown
16. "A mother's love is the heartbeat in the home; it is the light that guides and the anchor that holds." - Unknown
17. "The love between a mother and daughter knows no distance." - Unknown
18. "A mother's love is the thread that binds the family together." - Unknown
19. "Behind every great child is a mother who believed in them first." - Unknown
20. "A mother's love is the greatest gift anyone could ever receive." - Unknown

These quotes beautifully capture the essence of motherhood and the profound impact that mothers have on our lives. Use them to express your love and appreciation for the incredible mothers in your life on Mother's Day from Rakhi.com and every day.

TLDR: Facebook account locked - many professional and relocation resources, as well as real estate and transactional discussions, inaccessible now . Facebook unlock links do not work, even though the 'confirmed my ID' and 'unlocked' my account 3 times. Unable to contact person, so last resort for recovery is filing in small claims. Can I use emotional distress in Utah small claims for my monies owed?
At the beginning of April, Facebook locked my account due to 'unusual activity' and said I may have been hacked (different from suspension due to violation of terms of service). In order to get my account back, they required I verify my identity. I sent every official ID I have, and none were accepted. For a short while, video submissions for verification were allowed. I submitted 4 videos that were accepted for identification verification, but the links to unlock my account did not work. There is no way to reach an actual person to get the issue resolved.
According to a couple of groups on Reddit, this has happened to numerous people. In addition, for those of us who have been stuck in the 'AI loop', the last resort method to getting Facebook to unlock the account is to take them to small claims court.
My problem is that technically, they have not taken money from me. But the emotional toll has been very difficult, as we are making a cross country move to another state and all of my referrals to service companies, chats with real estate and building providers, and other various moving resource groups are inaccessible to me. In addition, many of my professional work contacts were maintained on FB, and I have no way to contact most of them now since I don't have email addresses for them. Finally, there is a local community group that helped me keep track of a forest fire 7 miles from my home. I would not have known about the fire had someone not posted about it. Being able to keep track of which direction it was spreading gave me a huge head start on being able to prepare for evacuation early. It quite literally could have save me and my family's life had the wind blown the other direction. All of this is not even including all the typical photos, messages, etc that a person loses when they can't access their account.
Can I claim any emotional distress or translate any of my losses into a monetary value so I can file for small claims? If not, I have no way of getting all those pieces of my 'life' back. Getting hacked or 'unusual activity' was through no fault of my own, as I had 2 factor authentication turned on through using an authenticator app on my phone. If someone hacked my account, it would have been through a breech on Facebook's side. Thanks for any help.

So, I feel a duty to add my story as this site was my saviour during our “situation” as we like to call it. In February this year my husband started itching, the itching was so bad it kept him awake at night. A week or so later I finally had a look at his bare back and he was covered in spots and scabs. At first we thought it was chicken pox, scabies looks very similar but as he had already had chicken pox it was possible but not common to contract it a second time. I will ever forget when it dawned on me what he had, it was the absence of anything on his neck or face that led me to search google and discover scabies!! At first we were mildly amused, little did we know the nightmare that was about to begin. We had scabies confirmed by a private doctor who gave us a prescription for permethrin and off we went thinking ok, we will just apply this cream, it will be sorted and we will just get on with our lives. We managed to bypass the prescription and get permethrin for £10 a tube but as we had 2 teenage kids at home we needed at least 2 tubes each for the first round and another 8 for the second, supplies are hit and miss in our area so we had to ring various chemists for stock. We were already into the £100s after the private doctor and the permethrin but felt confident it would work. I stripped all the beds, bagged up our clothes, did the treatment expectantly and cleaned our home like a mad women. The following week we did the same again, every day in between i cleaned daily, vacumed and decontaminated our home Just incase there were any of the blighters Crawling about. By the way scabies will turn you into a paranoid cleaning Machine. I purchased a box of 100 latex gloves. You will need these!! 3-4 days after the second treatment I had new marks and so did my husband, we had followed the instructions to the letter but permethrin had not worked, we spent a further £160 and completed 2 more treatments a week apart then sure as eggs 3-4 days later it started again. It was as if we were just numbing the scabies then they would re-emerge after 3-4 days. I could literally time when I would see new evidence they were still on us. Our 2 kids (late teens) never showed symptoms and seeing as we don’t share a bathroom with them and our house is quite big we decided not to treat them further. We zoned the house so there were rooms just myself and my husband used and I wore gloves around the kitchen or if I needed to go into their spaces. Next treatment we tried was Derbac M. Again we followed the instructions to the letter and 4 days after last treatment there they were again!! I was beside myself with endless cleaning, washing, drying and stripping Bed sheets, it’s exhausting mentally and physically. It was while I was at the hairdressers following another, what I hoped was a successful treatment that I realised they were on my scalp!! Do not listen if anyone tells you they don’t go above the neck they do!! When my hairdresser added dye to my scalp it was incredibly painful, not a feeling I have ever had before and on further inspection I had track marks and burrows On my ears !! It made sense that most of my marks were on my neck upper back and arms now, they had infested my scalp. In frustration I searched this site for an alternative treatment, my doctor would not Prescribe ivermectin and offered me a dermatology appointment but I would have to Wait 6 weeks and still couldn’t guarantee ivermectin. I ordered in desperation benzyl benzoate from an online pharmacy, try to get the lotion rather than the oil, I bought a litre from Irish pharmacy for about £50 and I arrived in 4 days. We applied it head to toe, face, ears and scalp morning and night for 3 nights and 4 days without showering inbeween, everyday I stripped the bed, hoovered the mattress and the bedroom along with my normal decontamination cleaning routine I did every day. Right from the start I blasted all our dirty laundry in the tumble dryer on high heat for 30 minutes then washed on a normal wash cycle, I also tumble dried our pillows every day, we slept apart for 2 months so as not to reinfect each other on the off chance that one of us would be cured before the other. I also made a solution of vodka, water and tea tree oil that I sprayed on carpets, rugs and upholstery every day and after reading online decided to iron our mattress every day too. As I said this situation will drive you insane, the fear that you are never going to be rid of it is real and the fact you cannot see them makes it an unfair game. We waited 9-10 days before our second treatment of BB and again we did 3 nights, 4 days without showering inbeween, the BB cream stings a little in delicate areas but it soon wears off. I also bought cheap toothbrushes from the supermarket 25 pence for a pack of 2 for between toes and toenails. On day 4 I was checking for new marks but there were none, I have had in the last 4 weeks a few scratches and a peppering of tiny scabbed spots but I am happy to trust and believe it’s post scabies, neither of us are itching, we have not had post scabies itch but I think this is because we didn’t do multiple treatments of permethrin . We are now 4 weeks clear after a 9’week battle that almost broke me’ BB was the key to our cure just make sure you apply it literally everywhere. Sub note, our electric bill is over £1500, this has cost approximately £2000 due to 9 weeks of washing and tumble drying for hours, we still don’t know how my husband caught it we were in Egypt mid January but he also had a chiropractor appointment early Feb and he said there was no cover on the treatment bed so we can’t quite nail it down but was one of them. I never had it to the extent of my husband, he was covered head to toe in tracks but I did catch it from sharing a bed before his diagnosis. I hope my story helps someone as I in turn was helped enormously by the Reddit community.

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As the sub grows, so does it's exposure to scammers. As mods, we do our best to protect the sub, but need y'all's help as well. We are a community. We do not like reading modmails when our fellow members get scammed, but do know that most could have been prevented given they follow the tips we've laid out. Below are these tips on how to stay protected:
How to message the mods - https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/fragranceswap
Banned and sketchy users - https://www.reddit.com/fragranceswap/wiki/banned
* Always use PayPal/Venmo G&S when buying from someone with under 15 flair on the sub. A scammer will give a BS reason why they can't accept G&S. Anyone with under 15 flair MUST accept G&S as a form of payment according to the rules of the sub. This rule is non-negotiable. If they will not, please report them to the mods.
* Ask a potential seller to comment on your post. This proves that they are not banned from the sub. That doesn't always mean they are a scammer though. It could just mean that they do not meet the sub requirements to become an approved member. They still need to accept G&S though. Check the banned list and vet the seller through their profile.
* Ask for specific timestamped pictures. A "timestamp" is a picture a seller takes with a handwritten note including their username and date next to the item they are selling. Ask for this with "odd" requests such as a picture of the bottle on its side or with the cap off, etc. If they are not willing to provide that then avoid the transaction and report them to the mods. Scammers are becoming crafty and often try and photoshop the timestamp in with a picture they found on google. Be aware and inspect timestamps closely for evidence of photoshopping. Look for blurred edges of paper, shadows not matching up with others in the picture, etc. If you are in doubt, don't hesitate to contact us with the picture.
* "Sellers" who start the conversation off with "WTS (insert frag you're looking for)" are 99.99% most likely a scammer. Scammers will always give you a great deal, or ask you to name your price. Any "seller" who is willing to accept half payment upfront then the other half after delivery to avoid using G&S is most likely a scammer. If it seems to good to be true or fishy, it most likely is.
Please do your due diligence, folks. If you're ever in doubt, reach out to us. Stay safe!

I've seen a few elden bling posts recently, as well as one of my very own that have really given off "covenant" sort of vibes and it got me thinking..
Would the playerbase enjoy build ideas (plus fashion suggestions) that bring about the sense of a good ol covenant from previous souls games?
Im newish to reddit so forgive me for not knowing formatting and all that, but one such post I saw recently was from someone who made a really cool "Jar Knight" Elden Bling & Build, which got me started on thinking about fanmade covenants.
We could even use the password system, as a sort of covenant system.
Lets take the Jar Knight idea and expand upon it..

• Covenant Name: Great Jar Order
• Password: Jar
• Description: A group of loyal, supportive Living Jars who aim to help all those that dwell within the lands between. Aim to help Tarnished throughout their journey to become Elden Lord.
• Focus: PvE/Jolly Co-operation

And you could have Covenants that have a focus on invasions, Duels, Helping with Farming, PvE boss killing, so on and so forth.
With the DLC coming up adding new weapon types, spells/incantations, fashion, etc.. this sort of idea could be even further expanded upon.
Idk i just thought i'd share the recent idea i've been playing with over the past few days, i think something like this could even help build the community to be more active in coop/Invasions/PvP/Etc..

My (22F) son just turned one year old. I feel like a majority of people have villages & good partners to help them raise their kids and I just don’t have that. Sure, my family loves the baby more than anything, but does anyone actually help me? No. My parents take him for me maybe once every two weeks for a few hours and it’s just not enough. The best part is they expect to & argue with me about seeing him multiple times a week, but I need to be there to do everything bc early 40 year olds can’t handle it for a few hours without me. They pressured me into having him when I was young & unsure, swore they’d be here if I had him and I wouldn’t have to lose everything but I should’ve known it was a lie.
I love my baby with every shred of my being, I love our days & I love hanging with him so trust me I wouldn’t change anything except I should’ve left my partner. I just feel like any type of help is conditional and near non existent. I have no money, my boyfriend makes 1200 every two weeks as a mechanic and gives me very small amounts of money as needed. I get NO time to myself and friends, 0. From 7:30 am - 8 pm I’m non stop without a break because during his very short nap times I need to run around doing things for the baby & the crappy apartment we live in & it’s deteriorating my mental health.
My “partner” is what I believe is an undiagnosed narsassict so my life is literally a living hell. He works from 8-5 30 mins away so he comes home miserable, nasty, doesn’t help me, goes to the gym 3 days a week after work or goes down to the basement to hang out with his friends and work on his new side business. If I had a good partner I think things would be a lot different for me. I can’t even ask the man to change a diaper in a timely manor. He takes 20+ minutes to do anything I ask because he sits on his phone and gets mad at me for being annoying & repeating myself. Im sorry for the long vent, Im just so unhappy. I cry every single day. I just need more help or someone who wants to be there for me and not just the baby. I feel like no one even cares about me or how visibly bad I’ve been doing mentally.
There’s so much to explain about my life, that this doesn’t cover even a quarter of what I’m going through and I’m prob gonna make a post somewhere else just to vent and get it all out.
I just wanted to know if this is normal, what other peoples lives look like and some perspective. I see on social media moms struggling without having a village and how it’s become Normalized that mothers do everything by themselves with no help from anyone. I want to know who else is going through something similar or if this is normal when having a baby. I’ll answer any questions because there’s so much more to my situation I can’t even cover.
Just to be clear- my baby is my bestest friend and I love him more than anything.

TLDR; my ex treated me terribly and I’m still trying to get over it.
This isn’t something I would normally post but I am hoping it’ll be cathartic for me. This might be a long one and a bit of a mess so feel free to skip if you’re not interested in the read.
I 28f up until last August I was in a relationship with who we’ll call ‘M’ 24f for almost 2 years. We met on hinge. In general I’m very shy and not very confident person, and definitely new to dating as I spent most of my teens and early 20’s in the closet due to internalized homophobia. So I don’t have much experience dating. That context is important for the story. By all accounts, M was probably out of my league, (that’s what I told myself, again I have zero self confidence ) she was attractive, smart, came from a good family and on the surface a nice girl. The beginning the relationship was fine, she was in uni for medicine and her school schedule was pretty demanding. We’d only see each other maybe one every month in the beginning of the relationship, I understood she was busy with school and honestly I was still feeling lucky that she chose me to date.
A few months go by and we still remain only seeing each other once a month because her school schedule was so demanding. This is when the red flags start to wave, her school schedule was so demanding yet she was in multiple choirs that she would sing in once a week. She made time for choir but when I asked to hang out I was made to feel like a bother. Plus she played DND with at least 2 different groups of people.
Early in the relationship we were in her car after she dropped me off I asked if we could see each other a little more and she had a strange reaction, I didn’t want to seem needy so I backed off and later apologized via text. She responded with; “sometimes I just like to be alone.” Which as an introvert; I get 100%, so I let it be. But like….we only saw each other once a month as it was…..how could you possibly be alone any more??? I was always the one to ask to hang out, always. And every time I did I would sheepishly ask if she had some free time that weekend to hang out, because I felt like such a bother to her. I’m not exaggerating when I say we would easily go 3-5 weeks without seeing each other in person. We would text every day. But seeing her in person was a luxury. But don’t worry she always had time for choir every single week. Twice a week. Or DND. But seeing her girlfriend was too much strain on her school schedule.
I was always the one to text first. Whether it was good morning, or saying good night. Later in the relationship I wouldn’t text her just to see how long it would take her to text me that day, most time it wasn’t until 3-4 pm that I heard from her.
We never had sex, we barely even kissed.(which isn’t really important to me but damn). It was so difficult to have alone time with her so there was quite literally never an opportunity for intimacy. Towards the end of our relationship we would watch the bachelorette with her mom at her place, so we never had alone time for the last 3 months of dating.
For both valentines days we were together I sent flowers and chocolate to her house. She didn’t get me anything. For my 27th birthday we went out with my friends, and a small part of me wondered if she would offer to pay for my meal. Nope. She also didn’t get me a birthday gift or even a card. Flash forward to Christmas I get her a 250$ makeup palette that she always talked about and a blanket from her favourite K-Pop band. I got an xbox gift card and a cookbook. I need to emphasize that I DO NOT CARE ABOUT presents, I just literally wanted any sort of acknowledgment that she cared about me at all. I also feel the need to point out she has money, both her parents are lawyers and they are very well off and she gets paid to go to school because her field is very specialized. I was raised by a single mother and while I have my own career now, I’m far from rich. But I always went above and beyond to make her feel special and she did the bare minimum. Sometimes not even the bare minimum. This next one really bothered me; its my 28th birthday and I hadn’t mentioned it was coming up. A sick part of me wanted to see if she would remember, I know it’s stupid to test people in a relationship but I was genuinely curious to see if she would remember. It comes the day of my birthday, and I don’t hear from her until 3:30 pm. “Happy Birthday!” That was it. I was floored. A couple days later she managed to squeeze me into her schedule and we go out for dinner. Again, didn’t pay for my meal. For her birthday we went to a nice restaurant and I paid for the entire fucking thing it was almost 150$. Don’t worry she got me an xbox gift card though……..
But the worst part, beyond not seeing each other was how she treated me and made me feel. In the beginning she was very nice and kind, but slowly I think her true colours came out. She’s very smart, but she needs to be right all the time. Like literally every single conversation she needs to come out as right. I was never allowed to have my own opinions, she would make me feel stupid and correct me every time. I’m a bit of a goof and like to be silly, but she would look at me like I was an idiot, if I did a pretend British accent she would criticize it and tell me to stop. In the end I felt like a shell of myself. I was terrified to say something stupid. She would call out every single thing I did, if I merged a lane early while driving, called out (that actually happened). If I wiped my mouth after every bite, called out. If I said something she would have to google it to prove she was right or at least prove that I was wrong.
I would participate in her family activities, like birthdays and holidays. Side note: her family is lovely. I got especially close with her mom. Her mother is a sweetheart, a lovely human being and she treated me better than her daughter ever did. Her mom and I even snap chatted every day. M wouldn’t open my snaps for days and I could see when she was online. As weird as it might seem, I would have rather hung out with her mom than her. There were a couple times when we were with her mom, that M would call me out on something trivial and even her own mother was picking up on the vibes.
I had convinced myself I really liked this person, once I told her I loved her. Why, I’ll never know. She responded with “thanks, I’m not there yet but thanks for telling me.” I was gutted. I didn’t love her. I never did. In the end I hated her.
I would lie to my friends about her and say I was happy, my mom liked her which was the worst part because it would break her heart if she knew how I was feeling and being treated. I would make it seem like I was happy and she was this lovely person, but deep down I was dying. Towards the end of our relationship I was hanging out with a good friend of mine and someone who helped me a lot through my journey of accepting my identity as a lesbian. She asked me about my relationship and how it was going, and I honestly couldn’t say anything positive. This was the first time I was honest with someone in my life about how unhappy I was and I wasn’t sure how to process it.
Eventually she broke up with me; she said she felt like she made me nervous and that I cared about her more than she cared about me. Initially it hurt, and I felt bad. But after an hour, I wanted to do a freaking backflip. I was elated to be free. For the past 2 years I had felt like less of myself than I had ever been. It was the worst 2 years mentally of my life. I had twisted myself up into this sheepish person who just felt lucky to be chosen by someone. My self worth was so low that I thought this was the relationship I deserved, that I would never find anyone else and I should just be grateful that she chose me.
As the title says I’m still trying to recover and heal. It’s been about 9 months since I last saw her and I’m working on myself. That relationship showed me how compromised my mental health was and that I need to take care of myself. I have been seeing a therapist. Now don’t get me wrong I have struggled with mental health my entire life, but those 2 years were the worst of it. I’m not dating right now because I want to focus on myself and my personal goals first.
I still feel very embarrassed for how I let her treat me and embarrassed that I didn’t know the relationship was toxic. If anything I learned a lot from this experience.
If you have made it this far props to you because this was kind of a hot mess and wayyy too long. But it’s been bothering me even more lately and I guess I just felt like this might help. Even if no one reads it.
She didn’t want a relationship, I don’t know what she wanted. She used school as a buffer to limit the amount she saw me. I feel bad for the next person she dates and I hope they come to their senses quicker than I did. I deleted her off everything and I hope to never see her again. In closing, I fucking hate her guts.

Hey guys,
My agency exclusively serves dental offices. One of the many services we provided to our clients is creating weekly general interest dental posts for Instagram, Facebook, and GMB so that they all have at least some recent activity and don't look like a dead office. We still encourage them to post their own personal updates as well but most are just happy with our weekly posts.
The process is someone on our team creates an image and a caption, for example "Did you know that plaque leads to cavities?" or "Happy Children's Dental Health Month". Stuff like that. It's not tailored for each practice; every client gets the same exact image and post every week. Since none of our clients compete with each other, it doesn't really seem to have a negative downside and they all seem happy about it.
We've been doing this for years with SocialPilot. Our "legacy" plan right now is $20/month and allows us to connect 200 profiles. We have created a few categories for each type of dentist. For example an orthodontist (braces dentist) will get certain posts (usually for kids/teens) while an implant surgeon will get another type of post (usually for middle age and older).
We're about to bump into this 200 limit, and I see they've significantly raised their pricing over the years since we signed up so it is now $200/month to connect 50 profiles. That would come out to $9,600/year just to even be at the same number of profiles we have now. A 4,000% increase in cost is a hard pill to swallow.
There seem to be so many platforms with so many wildly varying prices, features, and reviews on how reliably well they work. We don't need any kind of advanced analytics, forecasting, AI wizardry, client approval, teams, collaboration. We just need to submit an image and captions to 200 profiles.
What is our best option for doing this? Should we stick with SocialPilot or is there some better tool more tailored to what I'm doing? I seriously appreciate any advice on this issue as it is giving me anxiety. Thank you!!!

Welcome back to [WTB] Wednesday!

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I want to buy something.

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I have something that someone is looking to buy.

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I don't have a ton of info just yet, but here's what I've got so far:

• Official twitter post with info about the event/ARG
• In-game, you can find this encrypted flash drive: Image
• When Googling "Tarkov ARRS terminal" the top result was this website: https://arrs.host/
• But when entering that info you're asked for a password: Image
• There is this video on their twitter with a login, and when inputting the info you see this: Image
  • Note: the way to enter the info is: "login Sec_officer12" and then "321654test" when prompted for the password
• A user on twitter posted this image, presumably when randomly putting in common commands.

I will try to keep posting updates above this line as things come out. I'll be adding helpful links or notes below the line.
It should be noted that BSG has done an ARG before using the same ARRS Terminal system when the game was originally launched, which may give some insight to how they operate their ARGs.
Here is a YouTube video someone's made that goes over some of what we know so far. Link

Trying to help a non-verbal autistic person make a claim for UC. They don't own a telephone because they cannot use one. They don't have power of attorney or an appointee because they have capacity. They are fiercely independent and could make the claim themselves if it was via email or post.
The online claim form is demanding a phone number. If they cannot use the online form it says to call UC on a telephone. There appear to be no options for email or post. I suggested going to citizens advice and having someone there call DWP on their behalf, but she refused citing Article 8 of the Human Rights Act! I know this person is making things unnecessarily difficult for themselves by being so stubborn, but I also do think she has a point by not wanting to rely on others or involve a third party in their private financial details. Stubborn rigid thinking is one of the hallmarks of autism.
Is there any hope of getting DWP to accept a UC claim by email or post? DWP already know this person cannot use a telephone because they have an active PIP claim which was decided on the papers due to telephone assessment being impossible.

I made a post here asking for restaurant phrases which were really helpful and came across some threads about taking orders in spanish which were also very helpful. I just have a few specific phrases i'm looking to translate (preferably in Mexican spanish) appreciate the help!😊
Your order will be out on the left/right, you can wait over there for your order (or something along those lines)
We don't have meals/combos
We only have this size/ We only have large ___
Which drink would you like?
We can't take out the pickles
Your name for the order?
I also want to have a response to "gracias" and i'm not sure if "claro" is too casual or impolite
side note: i notice myself nodding my head silently when someone orders so is there anything i can say as a response to taking down their order?

Hi all. My dad was a narc, my ex husband who was physically abusive was a narc, the guy I dated soon after divorcing my ex husband was a narc. Unfortunately I didn't know about narcissist but I have learnt alot in the last year or so.
The last narc I dated came in as my rescuer after I divorced my ex husband that situation wrnt south real quick after months. He finally got me in his Web then he'd go and come back as usual and this went on for almost 3 years and I broke up with him a few times in there as well. I was actually dealing with his drug addiction, his narcissist mother who's also an alcoholic amongst other things. It was hell. Anyway I finally had enough after him and his racist mother had their finally attack and walked away in October 2022. Since then I had a 2 hovers in that year which didn't work and he was pissed and I had a reverse hover in June of 2023 when I was still recovering and didn't know the ins and outs of narcissist people. Anyway, from that day I went no contact. He said that he was seeing someone which I'm not surprise cause although he is Hideous on the inside and out he has all the ascetic of a normal person. House, car, good job, so he can get someone who's still asleep if he tried dangling money in their face. I said to him I didn't need someone onto of me to be over him and I never heard from him again.
I did hear from his friend the next month and later on thar year which I realised he was a flying monkey. Everything he'd ask me he'd go right back and tell him I assumed and I knew that was the case from the last phone call cause the friend said to he me that the ex has someone new which I knew he was seeing her for a long time but hoping that I'd some how come back to play his game cause she is not high grade supply like me. Definitely a downgrade when I saw the picture of them that year. She's clearly trying to look like me but won't ever be me. Nevertheless, I don't care about him her, I'm just indifferent to the situation and to be honest I hope he stays there and gets whatever he thinks he's looking for. He's an Evil vile person and so is his mother and they'll get there's either in this life or the next so will my ex husband.
I changed my number since last year and I have no social media. I deal with my ex husband accordingly for the children but my knowledge on narcissistic people has helped me tremendously so I can manage in that situation but with the last I hope he will never contact me again as I see no way he can. No one he knows has my contact number, he thinks I've moved city cause that's what it told his flying monkey and that same week I spoke to the flying monkey and gave no interest in him, his new supply of show any interest of ever getting in contact or back with him he immediately posted his picture of him and the new supply which I hope to believe that since he's upgraded her my smear campaign can end, flying monkeys can stay at bay and he can move on with the trash he deserves and I can continue to live my life.
It's been 1 year and 7 months since I left the last Narc. It's been 11 months since no contact with him directly and 7 months since no contact with the flying monkey. I think I'm safe. My advice would be to take your time to heal, find your faith, search for your purpose, invest time, love and energy into yourself and the people that truly love and care for you and always remember that actions speak louder than words. Never look at ascetic but look deep within a person before you connect yourself intimately with them. I've learnt the hard way and at 38 I haven't given up on love I'm just giving myself time, enjoying my children and being patient as I believe what is for you would never pass you by and I'm a good person so I will receive my blessings on this life or the next.

Here is the recap of the 14 monetized posts from Kylea and Joseph "Joe" Gomez of Kylea G Weight loss Journey on 05/13/24.
Disclaimer: I am not a physician, influencer, or paid content creator. I am not affiliated with WW. I am semi-retired from healthcare with multiple college degrees. These opinions are my own based on social media content. I wish no harm to Kylea or Joe Gomez.
☎️ If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, please call or text 988 for assistance.
The tagline of Kylea G Weight loss Journey is, "I changed my life with prayer and a playlist of songs. No surgery, no meds. Just Jesus."
DAILY STATS 05/13/24:
0/14 posts discussed prayer
2/14 contained vague references to music
0/14 discussed exercise
0/14 shared a recipe
4/14 were about something Kylea ate or drank
1/14 contained a side by side photo comparison
2/14 were about her current/future pet (one of these was from "Joe" about Amazon pet items)
1/14 "Joe" posted about getting Whataburger
2/14 were about donut holes & a clapback
2/14 were a trip update
📢 For our friends at Meta, that means at least 50% of Kylea's monetized content had nothing to do with weight loss, which is the tagline and purpose of her page.
⚠️ Disordered Eating- Daily Food Consumption (Data compiled from monetized content):
5 WW Points: Barebell Cookies & Cream Protein Bar
0 WW Points: Alani Nu Energy Drink (🚨 These contain 200mg of caffeine)
9 WW Points: TWO In-N-Out "Protein style" hamburgers wrapped in lettuce.
0 WW Points: Bahama Buck's Sugar-free Birthday Cake & Sugar-free Strawberry cheesecake flavored shaved ice.
📢 For our friends at Meta, that means Kylea consumed 14 out of (up to) 30 daily WW points in maintenance mode= Disordered Eating. This is dangerous messaging for her 138k+ followers on a weight loss journey.
Recipes Shared:
ZERO
🚨 Please speak with a medical professional about any questions or concerns you have about your health.
Comments: Kylea CHOSE to continue posting triggering food content, and clapped back at followers for questioning it.
⚠️ Binge Eating, Compulsive Buying Disorder (CBD), aka shopping addiction, Disordered Eating, Food Addiction, Gaslighting, and Religion will be discussed.
Post 1. Donut Hole Controversy: Kylea posted an empty donut hole bag and claimed her sister ate all of them at 3 WW points each. When called out by a follower, Kylea responded with this, "I don't eat donuts. I support other people eating whatever they'd like to eat. What's unhealthy is commenting on other people's food choices.💖💖💖"
Post 2. Using the Pet Cat for Content: This nontent was her male cat's reaction to being told his puppy sister arrives on Sunday.
Post 3. Protein Bar Slip Up: Kylea recycled an old photo of her holding a Barebell protein bar and tried to act like the photo was taken today. 👀
Post 4. Trip Update: Kylea is shopping for puppy bandanas online because Birdie "only" has 6, while her sister drives. She is listening to 🎶 in the car. 💤 This is nontent.
Post 5. "Unhealthy" Food Clapback: Narcissistic, defiant Kylea had to get the last word in.
"I had someone comment that I post a lot of "unhealthy" food for a weight loss page. The point of my page is to show others that all foods are healthy in moderation. What is not healthy, is commenting on other people's food choices. Mind your own plate. 💖 I personally eat very healthy myself but I support all of the people around me in whatever food choices they want to make for their own lives. I will never and have never commented on someone else's food choice for their own lives."
⏸️ This is gaslighting. Here we go...

1. Kylea is triggered by words like treat, craving, and indulge but was not at the beginning of her weight loss journey.
   
2. Kylea is afraid to own a microwave because it could jeopardize her recovery with food addiction and give her quick access to convenient foods. (Please ignore the air fryer and cabinets full of snacks.)
   
3. If Kylea does not like what Joe is eating at a restaurant, she has placed the menu between them so she does not have to see it.
   
4. Joe is not allowed to have regular condiments in the fridge.
   
5. Joe is to "support" her by eating foods he does not prefer at home (most of the time).
   
6. Kylea controls what Joe eats when she is away from home.
   
7. Please ignore all comments Kylea makes on the Basham and Lee families' social media accounts about food.
   
8. Kylea does not eat clean.
   
9. She triggers her followers with calorie-dense items on purpose for monetary gain.
   
10. Kylea has disordered eating.
    

If that list isn't enough to question her speech, a follower requested a 24-hour food log and the # of daily WW points Kylea uses. Kylea replied, "after months of bullying over that because of how healthy I do eat, I won't ever do that again. It's for my peace that I no longer do."
📢 To our friends at Meta, why is a "weight loss influencer" allowed to refuse to answer follower questions about WW (her chosen tool) and refuse to provide an example of what she eats in a day? This is the job YOU pay her to do.
Post 6. Alani Nu: Avoid this beverage (200mg caffeine) if you are unsure about your recommended caffeine intake.
Post 7. Trip Update: Her sister drove 6 hours. They have to be at the airport tomorrow at 4 am.
Post 8. Fort Worth Stockyards: This photo editing fail made Kylea appear 8 feet tall with a shrunken head and long extremities. Upon follower questions, she blamed her sister for how she held the phone. 🤔
Post 9. IN-N-Out Burger: Kylea's sister ate a cheeseburger & fries, and Kylea had 2 "protein style" hamburgers she claimed were called "protein burgers." Umm, nope.
Post 10. Shaved Ice: Kylea's sister got the baby size shaved ice, and Kylea got a significantly larger-sized cup.
⏸️ I smirked as Kylea claimed the protein bar was "yummy," the In-N-Out was "really good," and the sugar-free shaved ice, "It is SO good!!," but the giant iced cookie cake slice yesterday was "fine." She loves to gaslight and act holier-than-thou. 😇
Post 11. Whataburger: "Joe" posted his bag of Whataburger after waiting 1.5 hours in the drive-thru on opening day.
⏸️ How are the donut holes, energy drink, cheeseburger and fries, and regular shaved ice Kylea's sister consumed, and Whataburger her husband consumed healthy weight loss content? Why is Meta paying her for this nonsense?
Post 12. Amazon Purchases: "Joe" posted a picture of more puppy items and said, "Can you tell my wife is excited about her new role as dog mom 😂 😂" This is nontent.
Post 13. May 2021 vs Today: Kylea is "forever proud of the girl who changed her entire life -208 lbs."
⏸️ Kylea, you traded addictions. That is not something to be proud of. You are terrified of the scale and heavily modify your photos. That is not something to be proud of, either. You can spend all the money and travel the world but you are not happy. Quite the opposite. Seek medical care. ☮️
Post 14. Final Update: Kylea feels "uplifted" from window shopping at the Stockyards and local Target with her sister, listening to country music.
Takeout Purchases: Donut Holes= $3.50 est; In-N-Out Burger: Cheeseburger & Fries with 2 "Protein-style" Hamburgers (online prices)= $11.75 est; Bahama Buck's Baby & Regular Sized Shaved Ice= $9.18 + tip; Whataburger (unknown food)= $8 est;
Shopping/Travel Expenses: Barebell Protein Bar= $2.45 est; Alani Nu Freezeberry Energy= $2.48 est; Alani Nu Juicy Peach Energy= $2.48 est; Gas Joplin, MO to Fort Worth, TX: (373mi/33mpg) x $3.85 est= $43.52 est; Gas Fort Worth, TX to Dallas, TX: (32mi/33mpg) x $3.85 est= $3.73 est; Hotel (prices by airport used)= $75 est + fees; Bocce's Coconut Macaroon Crunchy Biscuits 5oz bag Qty 2= $12.98 est; Bocce's Sauvignon Bark Soft & Chewy 6oz bag Qty 2= $13.58 est; Bocce's Burger & Fries All-Natural Dog Treats Qty 2= $9.08 est; PetStages Grow-with-Me Ring Dog Chew Toy= $5.24 est; Pet Botanics Training Rewards Soft & Chewy Bacon Flavor 20oz bag Qty 2= $27.98 est; Undercoat Rake Grooming Tool= $10.25 est; Paw Print Cube Fabric Storage Bin= $12.99 est; Baghler Airline Approved Dog Travel Bag Light Pink- A Backpack with Silicone Bowls & Food Baskets= $34.99 est; Fabric Strawberry Harness & Leash= $17.99 est; Black Nylon Training Leash= $8.95 est;
All info from Reddit. ✌️

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TL;DR: Star wars stealth game with slightly force sensitivite street rat, goes up against gangs and empire using small yet creative tricks of the Force and technology.
Picture this right, it's the era of the galactic empire, you're just a regular person working at a small canteen in the lower levels of Coruscant, your mum used to be a low level smuggler, and taught you how to fly a ship and point a blaster, before she retired, and then passed away, your dad you don't know.
Hardship strikes when your canteen has to close, you're left with no money, high rent, and few opportunities. So you call in some favors from your mums old smuggler buddies. You do a few odd jobs, delivering packages, planting bugs in offices, stealing credit cashes from casinos. You're good at this, you seem to have a sense for when the right time to turn the corner is, when footsteps too quiet for others to hear are approaching, and you have a way of, persuading those seemingly unpersuadable.
Eventually you get wrapped up in a bigger conspiracy, the eye of the empire glances your way and you gotta make a run, you think they know something you're just on the cusp of understanding yourself.
These abilities of yours, you've been focusing on them, you've realized you can do things seemingly impossible, you can nudge things far out of reach, ever so slightly to create a distraction. Somehow when you focus enough, you can mimic sounds in the minds of guards on patrol, causing them to leave their posts to investigate the phantom noise. And for brief moments, you can pass through spaces unseen to any watching over them. How you can do this you do not know, the workings of the Force and the Jedi are not even known entities to you, for now.
So there you go, my idea for a stealth game set in the Star wars universe, someone with slight force sensitivity, probably too weak with the force to even be noticed by the Jedi or the Sith, had they not come into their powers seemingly on their own. An improvised, scrappy, but creative and clever use of the Force. Sneaking around in dank Coruscant alleys or sterile imperial corridors, just trying to live and understand themselves.
Direct combat would be heavily unencouraged, and taking out guards would not be easy, especially against the empire when a missing sentry or unanswered rollcall would set off the alarms, but perhaps once our character becomes familiar with their patterns and tech, they can find ways of mimicking guards voices to ease the minds of the officers in the control room. Lots of ideas, lots of potential, please share your ideas and let me know what you guys think!

Hello Superstonk,
I just found something a few minutes ago that I wanted to share with you. Here's a mini-DD to be used for search results optimization purposes.
TLDR: a possible meaning behind the frog and ice cone memes.

• A search results for LEAPS leads to Merrill, a division of Bank of America, displaying a literal picture of frogs.
• In connection with 'Merrill', the term 'ICE' (as in ice cone) directs to a company that acquired Merrill's Global Research Index Platform, known as 'The Intercontinental Exchange'.

You may have seen some of my posts a couple years ago (feels like 20), where I shared estimated DRS numbers. While I've been keeping an eye on important developments, I've been focused on other things for the past few months. However, the events of the last couple of weeks have reignited my curiosity about this saga, particularly regarding the frog and ice cone memes, especially since both DFV and RC have been tweeting about them. I suspected they must hold some significance.
This is just an observation, but from a quick search results I have found out that Merrill is Bank of America's Wealth Management division. LEAPS® is their trademarked name for 'options for the long term'. See the link where they explain what that service entails.
We know what leaps are in general, and that institutions use them as instruments to manage their positions. See today's post explaining Leaps in more detail.
However, the LEAP meme was associated with the frog, so the ice cone must signify something specific. Combining 'ice' and 'leaps' in a search led to ICE: The Intercontinental Exchange. This company acquired Merrill's research platform.
The about section of ICE (The Intercontinental Exchange):

About Intercontinental Exchange
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) is a Fortune 500 company that operates a leading network of global futures, equity and equity options exchanges, as well as global clearing and data services across financial and commodity markets. The New York Stock Exchange is the world leader in capital raising, listings and equities trading.

Now, I'm not the brain that can unravel this further, but I hope someone can take this and think of something else.
Thanks to all.