I am F22, 5'6, 183 pounds and exercise daily. I am white. I haven't lost weight on the scale yet, but I've gone from a 36 inch waist to a 30 inch waist. I don't drink, I don't do drugs but I do vape. Ive taken 37.5mg of Effexor for the past 4 days after ceasing Sertraline 75mg after 3 months. Diabetes does run in my family but typically during menopause/older age. My grandfather had type 1 diabetes and he died at 57 years old. My last blood test was in 2022 in the ER due to abdominal pain. Cystic leisons in pelvic area, cystic leisons around bladder extending to my interior abdominal muscle/internal debris found and SI joint arthritis. Other than that, unremarkable. Tip top shape. I had my Mirena IUD taken out April 17th 2024. Today my boyfriend brought donuts home and I had four within the course of a few hours. Eventually I went to the gym, worked out for an hour and came back upstairs. Enjoyed another delicious donut. I don't typically eat sugar because I'm not a fan of sweets and the most sugar I get in a day is from ketchup or grapes. My period was/is two days late so I did what any responsible and paranoid young lady would do and took a test. The test required me to pee into the little cup it provided and use a dropper to transfer the urine into the test. I urinated into the cup and noticed a sweet smell. I smelled myself and my clothes because it honestly smelled exactly like donuts or a gourmand vanilla perfume. No, not me, so I brought the cup up to my nose to get a closer smell. My urine smelled like the donut glaze they use at Tim Hortons, which is exactly where the donuts I enjoyed came from. I finished the test, I am not pregnant, yippe! I have been noticing odd symptoms that easily could be explained by other things going on in my life. Dry mouth, thirsty constantly, urinating constantly, fatigue, blurry vision: SSRI. I stopped taking Sertraline very specifically because a few times a week I would wake up dizzy, shaking, nauseous, diarrhea, blurry vision, laggy vision and rapid heart beat. I'd get up, unlock the door incase I needed to call 911, get my gigantic water bottle, find my way into a hot shower and sit in it until I felt "settled" and then eat a bite of an uncrustable. I would go back to bed and hope I wouldn't die. I'd wake up feeling better but overall lethargic. My doctor said it's not possible Sertraline was the cause of this because he confirmed I didnt have serotonin Syndrome. He seemed frustrated but switched me anyways because he had no explanation otherwise. I noticed about a few months ago my urine smelled like the buttered popcorn and I never thought much about it, since I am not a peeologist. 

About an hour after my sweet urine dilemma I started to feel like garbage. Perhaps anxiety, perhaps not. All I know, is that it probably wasn't a great idea to smarf down 4 donuts at once and then 1 donut after the gym. I don't typically eat donuts, but I was so hungry and they really hit the spot.

A few questions. Is it possible to have sweet smelling urine without having diabetes? Is it possible that because I don't eat much sugar that I didn't notice until now? Am I just overly anxious about my other symptoms and being paranoid? If I am diabetic do SSRI's & SNRI'S affect your blood glucose or insulin? 

I have an appointment with my doctor on the 23rd and I will be bringing it up with him. I just don't want to sound crazy or overly paranoid about my health. If this is concerning (which all put together sounds like it is lol), I do live with my boyfriend so he will be around to keep an eye on me. I also acknowledge I am overweight and I am working on it actively by daily exercise, caloric deficit and healthy foods.

My boyfriend has no trust in me and I honestly think it’s highly irrational. I don’t have any guy friends, don’t go anywhere without him knowing, and don’t even have any girl friends either. In the past I hid a xxx toy from him and when he asked about it I did lie straight to his face(said there wasn’t any) because it was so embarrassing. Since then I’ve apologized for the situation and my actions but he still distrusts me. We’ve been together for 8 years and we’re 23 now. The current problem is as follows: my car has been having problems I told my uncle to see if he could have the neighbor who is a mechanic take a look at it and run the machine. Recently my boyfriend got me an Apple Watch but I’m not used to using it. My phone had died so I went into our bedroom (where he was) and put it to charge then went back to cleaning the bathroom. My uncle told me the mechanic was here all of a sudden so I left everything (without telling my boyfriend cause i forgot) and went to grab my keys and go out to the car. Guy was the mechanic‘s son (learned everything from his dad). He put the machine thingy to the car and then he asked about going on a quick drive to see what the issue was. I drove with him as the passenger for maybe a total of 2 minutes. Drove down a road made a u turn and drove back home. I forgot that I could’ve texted my boyfriend from my watch and it was a quick thing so I didn’t think it would be such a big deal. When I got back inside the house, I promptly told him the situation and he was very upset. He says he’s not going to let me play him like a fool. That I’ve already hidden things from him and you just have to put both situations together to see I’m fully capable of cheating. I apologized for not realizing the situation would’ve hurt him and for not telling him I was going through my Apple Watch and explained since he got it for me recently I honestly forgot and didn’t think about texting him from the watch. He’s been cold to me ever since and whenever I try to hug him or anything he refuses. He’ll start yelling at me how he’s not going to be played like a fool, that he’s not like his friends ( a friend got cheated on by his best friend and wife), and that we both need to think because he doesn’t want to be in a relationship where he resents me and he doesn’t feel like he can trust me and I need to think about my actions.
I find his reaction highly extreme and it’s honestly shocking he thinks I would cheat on him because I haven’t ever given him a REAL reason to think so. It seemed irrational. Like I said. I don’t even have friends. I’m getting tired of being treated like a cheater and someone untrustworthy. Anyways, please tell me your honest opinions on the situation! Am I the a- hole?

Hi. I don't know how i found this subreddit i just googled some stuff ended up here and read some posts. Just to clarify I dont have a diagnosed CPTSD? I'd just like to share how my life has been because I genuinely have my whole life been thinking either what the fuck is wrong with my life theres no way this is normal and then sometimes i just think that im overreacting and my life has been completely normal. I'd like to know if im just imagining it or not I guess. Also I'd like to add that im doing somewhat better and im not experiencing THOSE bad thoughts anymore so please don't like report my account for being a danger to myself (I think that's a feature on reddit?). Im still a bit messed up but like still MUCH better than I used to be.
Honestly I read this whole thing and im adding here that I rant a lot maybe im just ranting about all the bad things in my life... Just a warning I guess. Don't read this if that's not what you want to read, this ended up super long sorry. Also I dont know if this is even relevant anymore. Half of this rant is about my family and other half about other bad things that happened I think. I don't know if this sub is only about like family stuff im sorry if this is the wrong place. Also trigger warning I had some thoughts about ending it and some self harm. The first 10 years of my life were semi normal from my memory. Its been a while since those times and I dont remember it that well. I remember my parent's fought semi often (which is normal?) and some of my earliest memories were them yelling, fighting at night, my mother going out at night and yelling that shes never coming back, and a few times my mother doing stuff like talking in a scary voice and i remember crying and saying it was scary I think but she just kept doing it (while it was night and I was probably trying to sleep/go to sleep). I was also the middlechild so my parents always treated my older and younger sibling better like them having better stuff to some amount but not like a ridiculous amount. I also remember being scolded a lot by everyone if I did anything slightly wrong even by accident and I remember my brothers not being scolded at all if they did anything similaworse. Anyways I still mostly remember being semi happy and my life being somewhat normal if not just completely normal and im just focusing too much on the bad stuff. I also remember having sleep paralysises and nightmares a lot around when i was like I'd assume up to 12 years old and a weird thing i realized some time ago is that a lot of time in those nightmares/sleep paralysises the monsteperson that was scaring me was either of my parents. Anyways maybe im just reading into things and its a normal dream. I genuinely don't know if im just being a weirdo and my life was normal and im reading too much into stuff I dont want to pretend like my life was bad if it wasn't im just wondering so please don't get angry at me if its not im just wondering. Oh also my family really never spent much time with me atleast I dont remember them being around and mostly working when I wanted to play. I also remember my mother avoiding me like when I asked to spend time with them they just said no and to do something else. I was really bored as a child but I had videogames atleast so I mostly spent my time around them. Oh also 1 person who I thought was my friend beat me up at school because I said something mild not even at them that their class was worse than ours? I also passed out at school and I dont remember why and I remember my big brother just walking by me without saying a word when I had awoken in the hallway (they saw me and just ignored me...)
Anyways. When I turned 11 or so we moved while I was still in middle of elementary school so I had to leave the few friends I had behind (but my brothers didnt as the other was just beginning elementary school and other was entering middle school). I didn't really make any friends within the school and the few I did dropped me out when they realized I wasn't exactly popular. The teacher and other kids made school hard and while I usually achieved perfect grades i barely started passing in school because of how much I hated it. I also started forgetting stuff too and the teacher scolded me a lot because of that. I started being bullied to some amount by the other kids and my teacher so I started stress eating a lot and got kinda fat. Then they started bullying me about me being fat. I also had really no friends or contacts. I remember being extremely stressed out and my big brother making fun of me because of that. Then I remember getting depressed. I started not really trying anything anymore. My family didn't help they made fun of me being fat. Also I remember not really being physically attacked much but im pretty sure I at some point complained about my big brother hitting me with a controller in my head. But I dont remember if that actually happened? Knowing them it might have. Anyways I remember crying every morning around this age until I didn't anymore. I cried almost every morning because I didnt want to wake up and go to school and my parents sent me there anyways. The kids there made fun of that too I remember one of them asking "why is (me) crying every day" and someone answered to them "that I must be so happy"? Anyways eventually I stopped crying. I just didn't feel anything anymore other than anxiety and sadness and anger rarely. Mind you, through this my family didn't give a fuck about how I went from a somewhat happy child to someone who stayed inside all the time, went from healthy to fat within like a year and didn't feel anything anymore. They just focused on their own things. I started getting suicidal thoughts. I remember when I was a child (even younger) and I learned what suicide ment. I remember wondering why the hell anyone would ever want to do that. And now I felt like I wanted to do that. That's how bad I felt. I remember thinking what my family would think/how they would react if I drowned myself in the river. I went outside often at random times and just thought about doing it. I walked by this like electricity thing and I thought if I touched it would it kill me. Mind you these were just thoughts. I never actually acted to the point that I tried to do anything and I dont think I was doing that bad. I didn't act on these thoughts. I remember once coming home from one of these walks hoping they would wonder where I had been since I was like 12 and my mother just smiled at me (almost like she knew I was trying to get attention from them and with like an evil smile rather than a good one?) and said I was just outside walking to the others. I remember even thought I was the one who played the most games in my family, we got a PS3 and the old PS2 went to my littlebrother along the old TV from my big brother. Even thought the other played only a little and the other didn't play at all ever. I don't know if I was just being a brat but it felt bad taken that videogames were the only thing that made me a bit happy in my home. I remember them doing other stuff too like my big brother often telling me to kill myself, doing stuff like pointing a toy gun at me and like pretending to shoot me and telling me to stop pretending like i was misunderstood (I was depressed and having suicidal thoughts... at 12). Other things I remember is a teacher calling me fat (made me feel a bit bad...) as a joke and my teacher sending me to a class for trouble children with bad grades (even thought I told her I got a bad grade on the exam because no one told me that we had an exam so I couldn't read for it. I was sick when they said we had one btw in school which is why I didnt know) and even thought I clearly didn't belong to that class since the other people seemed to actually not be able to get good grades, i started trying in school just a bit so they would see my grades are good and get me out of that class since I felt bad being there because the others made fun of me because of that too. The teacher there was an ass who constantly spoke to me and the others like we were braindead and i genuinely hated her. It was clear I didnt belong there but they just kept me there the rest of the year. I started sleeping like only 3 hours a night since I was 11 until highschool ended because I didn't want the next day to begin. I just stayed up all night playing games and doing other stuff. Pretty much always other than vacations and weekends I slept like 3-5 hours only. I think that made my grades even worse and I don't remember much from some years of my life where I slept the least im assuming because of the lack of sleep? Or depression idk.
Anyhow things stayed like this. I felt extremely bad and had no motivation but I just kept on living my life. Later on when I went to middleschool at 13 years old I found for the first time some friends. I felt somewhat better, like I belonged for the first time in my life. My depression went away somewhat. Other things stayed the same thought my family still acted the way they always did. Still with my friends I felt like I was okay. I forgot about how bad my life had been a few years. I still had a challenge getting that close to anyone and didnt have self confidence and didnt feel outright happy but I was somewhat okay. I remember at the middle of middle school I got depressed again. I didn't remember that it was a feeling I had always had the past few years because back then I was so out of it. I remember just feeling like there was a void in my heart like to the point it physically hurt every now and then. I guess I realized that more than half of the middle school was over and I knew my friends would leave me behind when it's over since I had a hard time getting too close to them. And that's what brought the depression. I remember some months after since I still felt depressed telling my mother I was depressed and she just kept on working and saying in a monotone voice that "oh really? that means you have to go to therapy". And it scared me I didnt know what that would be like so I just said never mind and walked back to my room. Anyways middle school ended none of my friends stayed in contact I got super depressed. Because of my lack of good grades other than the last half few months which is the only time period where I tried and got very good grades, my overall average in middle school almost prevented me from getting to high school. I remember my dad just saying that "sorry I guess you tried your best it wasn't enough" something along those lines. Like wtf I didnt try my best I was depressed and slept 3 hours and didnt study at all so I could spent all my time with videogames and my few friends so I could feel a little bit of happiness in my life. I didn't have the fucking motivation to study at all... Anyhow I got to highschool.
So highschool was the worst. But honestly im getting tired of writing. I had THOSE bad thoughts again, we have to go to army when we get out of highschool in my country so that scared the hell out of me, I didn't focus on school was bullied, family was just causing problems. No wait I do want to write a couple things here. When I was 17 i developed bad OCD. I didnt go out of my room anymore. I didnt want to touch anything that had been in my school and then anything that had touched those things I didnt want to touch either. Something called contamination OCD apparently? I spent at ages 17 to 18 probably 2-5 hours average daily on compulsions. I felt like a mindless puppet. I keep thinking how much better grades I'd have got if i spent that time on studying. Once my big brother really invaded my personal space and it upset me and made me so stressed because of OCD related stuff that I took a semi sharp object from my TV remote and slashed my leg a few times to a point that I still can see the scar. I also got angry and felt bad easily when I lost in a videogame or such and sometimes bit my hand in anger. My parents also wanted me to go to army instead of trying to not go there (theres a few alternatives). But at this point I stopped liking my family. So i knew I was not going to do that or what they want. I had dreamed since I was 15 of when I'd get to move away and never see these people...
Anyhow. Im 23 now. I worked through a lot of my issues. Not fat anymore. I go outside now. I sleep a normal amount. I exercise. My OCD i managed to best atleast to the point that im able to function mostly normally like I wouldn't even have it. Still depressed probably I don't remember what it felt like to feel to be honest so I don't know if I am depressed? Haven't had THOSE thoughts in many years. Haven't self harmed myself in years. Still have no friends because i have quite a bad social anxiety due to my life. Still thought for the first time in years... maybe since I was 11. I feel like my life is not going a steep downhill. I feel like it's getting better actually. And i've felt like that some time as of writing this as I began to fix my life and my issues.
The most annoying thing is... it's been so many years. My life has changed so much. The family I have im still in ties with to some amount even though I'd like to not be. They dont seem bad now? That bad? But I still want to get away from them completely and never see them. I just FEEL like I need to do that. But I dont know if they even were that bad. That's what I want to know here. Is my family normal. Is there something wrong with me and I imagine they are bad? I might end up deleting this post and my account. This is just a throwaway. I just want to know. I need outside input. I've been so alone that I never had that. I need to know if im imagining that I had a bad life or if it was not normal. I literally feel like I cant view my past objectively because I can't remember much. There were happy memories too in my childhood. A lot of them. Atleast some years of it. Im just picking the bad examples. I managed to enjoy some of my time back then. I just cant realize whether theres something wrong with other people especially my family and the bad people in school or if im the problem. If you actually read this, anyone, thank you. You probably know more about my life and existance than anyone else other than me since I've spent so much of my life alone.

Hello I am making a 2d Endless runner game in Unity for Webgl and the game consists of 4 Scenes namely Start, Instructions, Game and End. I optimized the game for it to run on chrome browser for mobiles by compressing textures mainly in RGBA Crunched DXT5BC3 and removing unnecessary parts. Currently the game works perfectly fine on chrome browser on mobile phones but in Safari browser of ios devices it causes problems. On iOS safari browser when I run the game and transition to the Game scene it reloads the game and "A problem repeatedly occurred.. " page crash error occurs. It doesn't even give any errors or console output it just simply crashes. I have 2 warnings in the console. I have optimized the game so there shouldn't be unnecessary load on the game, the complete build size is 43.4mb.The game mainly consists of textures,2d animation, audio and post processing. I will attach the necessary photos.
Can you help me figure out the problem here
Build report
Console logs while transitioning to the 3rd scene.

Im graduating highschool next year and no matter how much i try to be optimistic i just keep hearing stuff about the apocolypse, the end of the world, or the end of civilization. People say that theres "nothing we can do about climate change anymore because its already baked in and its gonna cause an apocolypse by 2050" and then others say theres still hope and i can have a normal future. Maybe im worrying too much for my own good but i cant help but worry sometimes and think "whats the point of this? the worlds ending." Is the world really ending or do i have a chance at a normal future?

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I’m at a loss and not sure what’s going on with me, I’ve felt alone on it for too long so was truthfully happy when I stumbled across y’all. It’s a long story and a lot but I’ll try not to make it too boring or too long but I apologize ahead of time- I’m 26 , almost a year ago now last summer in August 2023 I had a painful sensitive reaction to my clitoris. Started as one little painful “bump” that went away over night, & over the course of maybe 2 weeks turned to about 8 painful bumps that appeared and disappear, only on my clitoris. I was tested for everything & noticed after getting one of the bumps swabbed it had turned white before it went away (more on this later). About a week after these bumps, my whole clitoris had a reaction; it got swollen and lumpy and really sore. The reaction lasted for 2 days or so however the nerve pain/sensitivity it left is still something I’m dealing with. My clitoris burned and felt raw for months after this, like someone had literally taken sandpaper and rubbed my clit with it. I couldn’t wear legging or jeans for over 4 months and had trouble sitting down some days because any movement of my clitoris or the hood was too sensitive and kinda painful. It being about 9 months later and still having this sensitivity im being told it’s clitorodynia. A little medical background to the situation- First OBGYN saw me during the 3rd “bump” (almost a week after my first bump appeared and disappeared), told me it did not look like herpes and that it usually doesn’t go away overnight, swabbed that bump and blood tested me for everything and gave me a steroid cream to help if it was a cut- all tests came back negative for STDs. Second visit with OBGYN after my whole clitoris had that lumpy painful reaction, told her that after the swab the one “bump” had turned white and just gone away, she shrugged and told me the tests were fine so maybe its an allergic reaction and assured me the swab would’ve told me if it was herpes, put me on gabapentin for 2 weeks to try and help the pain plus a round of antibiotics (with fluconazole to avoid yeast infection). fast forward maybe 2 months, I was frustrated and went to a different OBGYN who tested and swabbed me again, this time again everything was negative however HHV6 had come up on the bloodwork. This newer OBGYN had no idea what that was but says “seems like herpes”, also told me I had PCOS and that whatever pain I still had lingering was considered vulvodynia, sent me home with a pain cream and oral medication for herpes. Frustrated with a sore clitoris and no answers, I went to a dermatologist. they saw my prior bloodwork and also confirmed from pictures it did not appear as herpes and told me the HHV6 on prior bloodwork was basically just chicken pox from when I was little. answer for my clitoris was fissures from a yeast infection, gave me nystatin. applied that for a few weeks but I couldn’t deal with it anymore and needed help, I went to a holistic doctor. holistic doctor went through all my history and said doesn’t appear as herpes but the nerve pain I still felt with no bumps anymore was interesting. mentioned possibly lichen sclerosis planus, sent me to get more labs done to help her understand and get answers (have not gotten these labs done yet due to finances and truthfully just being over the testing for this). spoke to a close family friend about it and mentioned the lasting nerve pain and HHV6, they mentioned it sounded like nerve pain they had when they went through shingles, recommended I start amino acids (noticed a difference in the nerve pain after maybe a month taking them). The last 3 months I was finally able to start wearing leggings and even jeans when I’m doing good, I still have this weird sensitivity to my clitoris. I haven’t been able to wipe after using the restroom since my first month, been having to pat dry. Last 2 weeks I was able to somewhat start accepting the answer being clitorodynia and maybe keratin pearls. However my worst nightmare occurred in the shower last night when I noticed a white “bump” on my clitoris and on my hood; looking just like the white bump did after the first gynecologist swabbed it. So now I’m alarmed, confused and concerned. I’m thanking God it doesn’t hurt like it did my first few months but can still tell it’s sensitive down there. I’ve been fighting as my own health advocate for almost a year now with this and I just want answers. I haven’t had sex with my boyfriend or even shaved down there since before this all happened even though I’ve been cleared by all doctors to shave or have sex. but because nobody knows what it is or what caused it I’m scared to do anything in fear that the initial pain and sensitivity I felt will come back. So I’ll be going back to get this swabbed and looked at again (swabbed as long as the bump is still there tomorrow) in addition to the holistic doctors bloodwork and I’m truly hoping to find answers this time. I feel like a fraction of the woman I was; I feel so alone in this. Please, if you have any advice I’m more than willing to listen.

About 6 months ago I had contracted HSV-2 from a partner, in the beginning of getting herpes I had pudendal nerve pain and shocks through out my arms, legs, face, itchiness all over (especially genitals) that eventually went away, at the time I had no idea what this was. I figured it was from what ever STD/STI I contracted. So I let the time pass and after my first hsv-2 outbreak it went away.
Recently I have gone on vacation, and had an odd day where I had an outbreak and the pudendal nerve pain started up again, it feels like shocks and stabbing pain between my genitals, and anus, this is also followed by random dizziness, where it almost feels like I’m falling, especially when I turn my head too fast, I hope it’s because of the elevation change from traveling states. This all happened well too close to each other, Im wondering if it’s a coincidence or if this is related.
Now I’m terrified of what this is… I’ve read about endometriosis in men today and it scared the crap out of me…. I hope this is not the case. Please give me any advice or hopes and prayers:(
I also have a very bad knee that started hurting this trip from walking so much, maybe that’s connected to the pudendal nerve pain??? I’m just terrified here… Hopefully when I get home tomorrow I could figure out what’s causing all of these wide range of problems.

Why is nobody taking into account the downside of asymmetrical CPU for gaming PC?
Seeing this being adopted in the desktop market is not a wise decision IMO, it seemed to me like Intel was desperate to keep up with the rising star AMD's banger CPUs. Having seen how Android's Qualcomm asymmetrical CPU performed gave me some sort of PTSD that I had made an oath not to touch Intel's new CPUs for PC building. This kind of CPU setup introduced shit loads of unnecessary complexity and hassle in the kernel scheduler code and userspace/runtime tuning, which in the worst case scenario, it can negatively impact CPU performance by a lot. And I would even go as far as doubting the energy efficiency of this setup in certain cases. This makes even less sense to even mention about in desktop CPUs, aaaand especially desktop gaming PC. I think I would just stick to simple 8c symmetrical CPUs 'cause it just works. So what do you guys think? I might have overlooked something.

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A root canal targets the tooth’s pulp, a soft tissue containing nerves and blood vessels that can become inflamed or infected due to various factors, including deep decay, repeated dental work, cracks, chips, or trauma. Ignoring the infection can lead to severe complications, such as abscesses, bone loss, or even tooth loss.
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I play video games fairly frequently, I try new hobbies fairly frequently. I tried dark souls- I tried learning the guitar, the piano, I tried making friends. Yet in all those things despite having minor progress such as learning a song, playing a few games with my friend, or getting halfway through a game I stop. I just stop reaching out, playing the instrument, or playing the game. The only thing that I had made progress in is working out yet I hit a roadblock in that as I can’t force myself to do more then 50 pushups or so a day, not cause I’m tired but because I lose drive. I feel like I’m missing a soul that everyone else has, a calling, or purpose that lets people do something beyond just spending time thinking. I know I have time as I’m only 18 but I feel like I just let everything that doesn’t stick to me slip away- like I have no desire to hold on to anything I already have. I can chase things I don’t- I can want a game before I have it- I can want to learn this instrument because I saw a video for how cool and good it sounded. I think it’s an attention problem cause surprise surprise I have ADHD cause everyone does, yet I heard people with ADD can focus on video games but I can’t even do that. It might be a passion problem as I haven’t found the thing I love to do. I feel like I need to find something I enjoy the process of- as I’m motivated by end goals not necessarily the experience. Because as I am now I’m a fake guitar player, gamer, pianist, friend and I don’t want to be.

Tens of thousands of South Carolina mobile homeowners manufactured before 1976 & renting the land it sits upon, can be legally evicted without cause if the Appellate court upholds the verdict of my eviction based solely upon the wording of the 30-day notice of the end of the term of their expired lease agreement.
Many, if not most renters of land in a mobile home park, have leases for one year, which likely have never been renewed from year to year, as the law states.
If my case is not dismissed, it will become 'case law', which can then be used by any greedy, unscrupulous landowner who wants to own your home to evict you and take possession of your home, whether there exists no cause or reason for the eviction.
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Hello community,
After spending a good amount of my spare time reading your interesting posts here, I have finally made up my mind to bring some concerns and worries about my weird situation with a Libra flight attendant. I think this would be my way of sharing what's been “bothering” me for a long time
Long story short, I met a flight attendant based in NY due to acquaintances and relatives. This is kind of normal for us as we both were raised in a Chinese household. Thing is, we really have fun every time we see each other, but then after a week or so, it becomes extremely difficult to keep in touch with her… I live in another state north of NY.
She’s very into astrology and praises herself for being a Libra. I have read about her zodiac and it seems like they’re the kind that often “detach from reality” by investing a huge amount of time in themselves. I have learned to be somewhat okay with this, as I respect personal space. But not answering my texts for a 24-48 hours period is what ruly causes me anxiety and insecurity…
I understand being an FA means you deal with a tough work schedule, and it's part of the job to be far away for periods of time. But the lack of communication is what messes up with my head.
Is she just not committed at all? Can you guys relate to this situation either me or my significant other is going through?

Hello. I'm using now Buofinity (not the XR) for the right eye and Biofinity Toric (also not XR) for the lefy eye. Actually, they are the best lenses I have used. I' wearing them from morning to the night and not feeling the actually at all!!! The problem is the toric ones is sometimes moving as it has standard toric lenses' base cirve and diameter (8.7/14.2), and this size is probably not suitable perfectly on my astigmatic eye. When toric lens is moving even a little, it is causing blurred vision as the lens place is crucial in toric lenses. I have to note that it is moving back to the right place by itself after around of 10 seconds.
Anyway, following this problem with the Biofinity Toric, I'm considering to move to Total 30 by Alcon. I have seen that a lot of users reported here about bad excperience with then. But their material is silicon hydrogel and their oxygen transmission rate is very high so they sbould be well. I can assume that they were wearing them inside out so it caused them pain and itchiness. Or they maybe didn't use dedicated eye drops for contact lenses before putting the lenses on the eyes.
So, There are users here that has good experience with them?

Does teeth grinding cause ear problems? I've been grinding my teeth for about 3-4 years now and recently I've been developing ear problems such as ears feeling full, sudden high pitched ringing that lasts for a long time, pain behind the ear and in front of the ear. It also feels like a swollen lymph node. I've been visiting a lot of doctors and I don't want to have to go to an ENT too T_T Does anyone else have these symptoms?

Hello, our student organisation is planning to hold a Sportfest around October, however we are having trouble getting a place that is suitable. Some things to know are that we're registered in RWTH as an e.V. We are also an Unterglied of a Verein based in München, though not officially on paper, as we'restill considering whether we should just register ourselves in NRW or not. We are looking for something like Citta Fit in Vaals, but preferably in Germany, in Aachen or nearby with good public transport. We hope to also be able to hold a Food Festival to sell several foods from our country. Sports that we are planning to hold are Basketball, Futsal, Badminton, and Volley. It would be great if we could get something like a 3-fach Sporthalle, or have them in the same complex.
Several places that we've contacted/surveyed with problems we have:

• Neuköllner: registration can only be done at the end of June, which is way too late for us to plan. The contact person also said that it's also like that for all city-owned/managed Sporthalle. Also doesn't have badminton net, but that can be fixed by holding the Badminton at Tivoli. ###
• Citta Fit: We cannot hold a Food Festival and it's outside of Germany, causing it to be difficult to get funding from our embassy. It's also not great for basketball because the ring is different. ###
• Eckertweg: Horrible for spectators. ### Thank you for everyone that took their time to read this.

I own a 6-year-old XUV 500 W6 AT with just under 40,000 km on the odometer. It has been meticulously maintained, with all services completed at the authorized service station in Gurgaon. The car is primarily used for long trips and local travel.
Last week, the automatic transmission warning light started blinking. I took it to the service station, but by the time I arrived, the light had disappeared. Despite this, I had it checked. The mechanic informed me that the computer had detected some issues, but he couldn't verify them as the warning light was no longer on. I assumed it was a minor glitch and returned home.
Two days later, the problem persisted, causing gear shifting issues; it either didn't downshift properly or upshift correctly. I managed to drive it to the service station, where they have been diagnosing the problem for the past six days. A report was sent to the Mahindra technical team, which found traces of water in the Aisin Seiki automatic transmission, a unit that is sealed for life.
The dealer mentioned that replacing the part would cost upwards of 3.5 lakhs. However, they have yet to confirm how they can support me with this issue. The car has never been flooded or parked in a wet area.
I need advice from this group on how to handle this situation, as such failures at under 40,000 km are unacceptable.
TLDR - XUV 500 W6 AT Aisin Seiki Automatic transmission gear box was reported to have water vapour in sealed for life transmission box costing upwards 3.5 lacs. Please advice on how to approach this issue.

Crafting, Properties, and Appearance

Echo Shard	Echo Shard	Echo Shard
Echo Shard	Conduit	Echo Shard
Crying Obsidian	Crying Obsidian	Crying Obsidian

Picture of Crafting Recipe

Entangled Conduits share most properties with a Beacon, such as placement, size, piston interactions, and so on. They can be mined successfully by hand or with any tool. When destroyed by an explosion, the block always drops as an item. However, unlike a Beacon they only produce a light level of 10, the same as Crying Obsidian.
Entangled Conduits appear somewhat similar to Stonecutters or Enchanting Tables in that they consist of a low 'table' with some animated feature in the center. They have a Sculk-themed color palette, a square base, and a snowglobe-like 'dome' on top. The dome's appearance changes based on the biome theme currently reflected in the Entangled Conduit network (see below).

Usage

Placement

All Entangled Conduits placed in the world belong to the same 'network' (explained below). As such, placed Entangled Conduits keep their chunk loaded (at a level of 31) so as to remain active in this global network.

Interaction

Players can interact with any single Entangled Conduit to toggle ALL Entangled Conduits in the world between all states currently available to the Entangled Conduit network. The available states consist of each unique biome at least one Entangled Conduit has been placed within (explained further below). Only player interaction can activate an Entangled Conduit to toggle between states.
For example, say four Entangled Conduits are placed in the world, with their chunks consisting of the following biomes: Forest, Forest, Ocean, Jagged Peaks. Interacting with any Entangled Conduit in the world would toggle their states in the following order: Forest -> Ocean -> Jagged Peaks -> repeat. To be clear, there are only three states in this setup: Having two Entangled Conduits in the same biome (Forest) still only grants one state to the rotation.
The snowglobe-like dome in the center-top of each Entangled Conduit changes appearance based on the current biome state of the network.

Effect

Entangled Conduits cause their chunk and the chunks immediately adjacent to them to behave as if they were the chunk and biome currently selected by the Entangled Conduit network's state.
This includes spawning (e.g., mobs, frog variants, etc.), fishing rewards, slime chunks, and so on. Biomes exclusive to certain altitudes (e.g., Deep Dark) or temperatures (e.g., Warm Oceans) can still be emulated, though coordinate-dependent effects (e.g., rain turning to snow at sufficiently-high altitudes in some biomes) will not occur at invalid coordinates even if the contributing Entangled Conduit was placed at such coordinates.
Entangled Conduits work across dimensions, but dimension-exclusive effects (e.g., weather and the day-night cycle in the Overworld, the inability to place water in the Nether, etc.) are NOT transferred. For example, if the Entangled Conduit network is used to copy Frozen Peaks into the Nether, goats will spawn (and probably die pretty quickly by charging something they shouldn't haha) but it will not snow and you cannot place water, because you are still in the Nether.

Justification and Preemptive Arguments

Crafting and Value

Entangled Conduits require some of the least-utilized materials in the game, namely Crying Obsidian, Echo Shards, Nautilus Shells, and Hearts of the Sea. This gives these materials more use cases.
Echo Shards tie into the "remote communication" mechanic of Entangled Conduits, since Sculk Sensors also allow for "wireless" signals. As a component, the Conduit mainly just lends its name to the final product, but it fits thematically in that sense, since a conduit is something that acts as a channel for the transmission of something (in this case biomes).
Requiring Echo Shards and especially Hearts of the Sea to craft causes Entangled Conduits to be a non-renewable and relatively difficult-to-obtain resource, similarly to Shulker Boxes. This limits how much they can be abused, and justifies their extreme power with a relatively high cost.

Chunk Loading

Usage
Chunks becoming unloaded is a major source of frustration for anyone that did not build their base within a spawn chunk (and doesn't wish to 'cheat' by using commands). Even if you did build your main base in a spawn chunk, remote locations of interest may be found outside of this range and become unloaded. This is most relevant for redstone contraptions: Say you built a machine that is supposed to activate whenever the sun goes down. You might think that such a trigger should be a 'global' effect, but your machine will not work unless it is inside a loaded chunk!
Current Solution
The current solution to this problem is to create a chunk loader, but these are relatively complex, tedious, often annoyingly loud, need to be hidden (or else be an eyesore), take up space in both the Overworld and the Nether, can mess with Nether Portal networks, and most importantly break when their server shuts down, making them unsuitable for Realms in particular (Realms servers hard shut down when no players are online).
So, although chunk loading is technically currently possible, a reliable way to keep a chunk loaded is so useful and sought-after that a dedicated mechanic is long overdue in my opinion.
Potential Abuse?
Now, obviously the game only loads a limited number of chunks for a reason: If too many chunks are loaded, performance issues may arise. However, this is already possible to abuse using the above chunk loaders. Entangled Conduits would be even more difficult to spam out into the world than the current chunk loaders, because each Entangled Conduit requires a Heart of the Sea to craft. Not only are Hearts of the Sea a non-renewable resource that cannot be farmed, but they require a rather lengthy process to obtain on top of that!

Remote Redstone Activation

Current Solution
Currently, there are extremely limited (and convoluted) ways to remotely activate a redstone machine. You can simply place down an extremely long redstone signal (which requires a ton of time, redstone, and a pathway from your machine to your activation location), you can use a timed trigger (e.g., setting up a clock to trigger later, or using world effects like the day-night cycle), or you can use Sculk mechanics for more short-ranged but nonetheless "wireless" signals.
Entangled Conduits have obvious advantages over all of these, most notably their simplicity and unlimited range. All you need is an Observer facing any Entangled Conduit and it will detect when the state of the global network changes for any reason.
Yeah Yeah, Another Wireless Redstone Suggestion, Yawn...
To be fair, Entangled Conduits do not directly provide "wireless redstone", and have many limitations that hamstring their usefulness for that purpose.
Instead, an analogy I would draw involves a system I made in my survival world for my Ender Pearl Stasis Chamber recall machine: I set up a redstone circuit that detects when I sleep through the night, using a global mechanic (time of day) to communicate with my system back at my main base over any distance. Natural day-night cycles iterate between light levels continuously, while skipping the night by sleeping abruptly changes the light level, which my system detects. So, when I am ready to be recalled, I can remotely trigger my home base's Ender Pearl Stasis Chamber from anywhere in the world to bring me back just by sleeping.
Entangled Conduits would merely make global communication like this a bit more straightforward. However, they still:

• are exclusively manually-activated (e.g., like Levers as opposed to Pressure Plates or Observers)
  
• are all tied to the same global network (and thus only one device can use them at a time, otherwise you would accidentally trigger other devices using the network)
  
• do not directly interface with any redstone components (they produce no signal, the only way to use them is through Observers sensing them change state).
  
• are far, far more expensive than other "wireless" options like Sculk Sensors or even Calibrated Sculk Sensors.
  

Since we only recently received the capability for "wireless" signals with Sculk, one of the main criticisms I foresee about this post is that the existence of Entangled Conduits might make some Sculk mechanics obsolete. However, that isn't the case at all, as the two serve drastically different purposes.

Biome Emulation

Entangled Conduits...

• do not make exploration obsolete. In fact they actively encourage exploration, since you still need to find the desired biome in the first place.
  
• create an emulated biome that is quite small, only taking up 9 chunks (the Entangled Conduit's chunk and those immediately adjacent).
  
• cannot fully mimic any biome, since most unique features of biomes (e.g., terrain, generated structures, ore/resources, etc.) are created at world spawn, which emulating a biome afterwards does not affect.
  
• are relatively expensive in that they cannot be farmed, limiting their usage and therefore ease of abuse.
  

All of that being said, there are obviously many, many use cases for emulating various biomes in specific chunks at will. I won't be able to list them all here, so instead I argued for the mechanic's downsides (and therefore balance) in the above list.
What do you think? Thank you for your time and feedback!