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Proximus falls to his assumed death. I think he is alive and here are my reasons. Falling into water isn’t a guaranteed death but apes can’t swim well, so you can argue that he is dead with this point. We do see that there is a bunch of rocks beside where we fell, potentially could have grabbed something. This is actually seen to happen with Caesar in War when the colonel cuts the rope and Caesar falls from a pretty high place into water.
Koba also got killed by falling to his death, and what I wanna mention is that Matt Reeves did consider keeping Koba alive. I know this due to the end credits of an ape breathing heavily and sounds of metal. Also I came across a video of Matt Reeves talking about Koba returning in War but he scrapped the idea because it didn’t stay true to Koba’s character ( Koba was going to join the humans and seek revenge against Caesar). Instead Koba just appeared as a hallucination and Red took that place.
To tie it together, a character falling in a scene and their body not being shown or any confirmation that they are dead makes me believe Proximus is alive.
Proximus gets out of the water and goes into the vault to look for any human tech not already destroyed.
He could also rebuild his kingdom and seek out Noa’s clan again.

I am currently 6 weeks pregnant with my ex boyfriend of 2 1/2 years. We spent the last 2 years having sex almost everyday without contraceptives, as we were ready for any risks, we were not actively trying, but not actively preventing.
We decided to take a break due to arguments over the past month, and on our last day together, we had unprotective sex (we didn’t have sex for 3 weeks at that point). I took a test upon unusual symptoms and missed period, and discovered I am pregnant.
I informed him last week and I think he’s still in denial. He asked me to go for a scan to confirm so he can tell his parents and he has expressed that he doesn’t think it’s a good time for him, and I should get an abortion. He is not ready for fatherhood and doesn’t see that we can work things out in the future. I encouraged him to reconcile, not as a couple, but as civil adults to make communications easier in the following weeks or potentially years. He refused and told me I should talk to people for advice. I have spoke to my best friends and I don’t have a solution, I don’t know what to do. I don’t want my child to grow up without a father figure but I also don’t want to have this kind of father in its life. I only had one sex partner my whole life so there is no possibility that he is not the father. I’m personally also not ready to raise the child as a single mother without support. If this pregnancy happened few months back, I would not have the same doubts I currently have. I considered abortion after the conversation with him but I don’t want to end my own child’s life because of our unresolved issues. My family don’t live in the same country as me, so I will not have day-to-day help. My friends are supportive but I don’t think it’s realistic for me to raise the baby without a partner. I have all sorts of concerns and I am not in the right headspace at the moment to be thinking clearly.
For context - I (28F) moved in to live with my boyfriend (30M) after 2 years of dating, we barely had any disagreements throughout the first 2 years, we were both in love, and decided that we were ready for our next stages in life so we moved in together. We were certain that we were compatible despite our differences in interests - we are very different people in the best ways, and grew to love and learn of each other’s character. Our lives are very intertwined, and our respective friend groups are very involved in our lives. We had a healthy lifestyle and socially active ever since we got together.
Fast forward to 2 months ago, we were discussing wedding plans. We previously agreed that we would move in together > get engaged > married > have children. I expressed that I didn’t really want to move in together until I get a reassurance from him this is for lifetime, he told me not to worry because he already had plans to propose to me and it’s ok to move in first and then get married as we are living together. He suggested that we could plan the wedding first because weddings take at least a year ahead to plan, and the proposal will happen sometime later this year. Our first big argument came because of his unrealistic expectations and lack of logic and sense in event planning (he was never really a planner or an organized person, I do most of our travel logistics and household plannings).
Few weeks later I discovered that he was withholding his plans made with a colleague that I didn’t particularly liked, I felt strange that he had to hide this fact from me. I don’t believe that he was disloyal or anything but I didn’t understand why he lied. I exploded, demanded to check his phone, then I discovered more things he was hiding from me, including going on walks during lunch with the same female colleagues. I also discovered the group chat with his boys where they were making jokes about us getting married. I was livid and we argued over our definition of commitment, I questioned his maturity and his intentions to settle. He told me he was ready to settle with me, and suggested that we go pick out rings the next day.
The real issue came in when he called his parents to ask them for their blessing in our marriage. His parents disapproved, and called me materialistic, questioned my family, my social circle, my religion, my political views… etc. My boyfriend could’ve easily justified every one of the points they have made about me but I guess he was too in shock of their response to defend me. His parents never really agreed with our relationship to begin with, they never wanted him to date and thinks he should be focused on his career at this age rather than dating, despite this we spent every holidays and celebrations the last two years with his family and we thought they have grown to accept me as they had been very friendly with me, I guess it was all a facade. I was disappointed and lashed out at him. And somehow our previous issue with his ‘commitment’ was brushed under the rug.
He says he cannot propose to me when he doesn’t have his parents blessing. I gave him a deadline the next day to make a decision, if he cannot talk it out with his parents then I will have to let this end. He came back the next day, and told me his dad apologized and would like to reconcile with me. And he came back to tell me he was ready to settle.
The following weeks we continued to have smaller disagreements and I was still uncomfortable to face his parents, as he would return home a different person, and treats me worse every time after every time he had met up with his parents. Before all these issues, we had made plans to visit my grandparents and his extended family who were both living in the same country. On our way there, I expressed that I would want to remain with my grandparents and not join his family trip as I’m not ready to face his parents yet. He tried to persuade me to go and that his parents will apologize to me, but I was still very uncomfortable. I told him I’ll only go if he can give me reassurance and that I will only go on another family trip with him if he can give me the status as his fiancé before I can face them. He said if he were to propose to me now he cannot face his parents, and he told his parents he has plans to propose to me on this trip, but they insisted that they should reconcile with me before he can propose as I would potentially “steal their grandchildren away from them” in the future if we don’t make up. He told me he even brought the ring with him but he can’t do it. I walked away from him, I felt so betrayed and lost in a foreign country. I got very emotional and told him he made feel worthless and want to end my life. I was not in the right headspace after a whole month of torment and I didn’t have the energy to reason with him any longer. I gave in and proceeded with the rest of our trip.
The day before we went to meet his family, I told him I wanted to go somewhere else instead and I still wasn’t ready. When he was making changes to our tickets, I saw his sister’s message on his phone, saying that it’ll be better in the long run if he sort out the parents issue first and don’t propose to me yet. I snatched his phone and spoke with his sister. After I told her everything, she apologized and gave me the reassurance that their family will treat me with respect and will apologize to me the first thing they see me, and that they just want to reconcile before we move forward to the next stage in life. I felt it was reasonable and reassured after my conversation with her, so I decided to give it a go.
When we did finally meet up with his parents, they pretended as if nothing has happened. Few days later we finally had the ‘conversation’. His dad started off by saying he doesn’t think it’s appropriate for us to get married at the moment, and kept going on about their same points again, he said our relationship hasn’t been long enough for us to decide marriage at this stage. They claimed their comments weren’t a personal attack, they didn’t apologize and said that I was ‘thinking too much’ for this to be a personal attack because it was simply a generalization, then dismissed me for being upset for hearing from my bf because he wasn’t supposed to tell me, and proceeds to keep commenting about me and my friends and how they disagree with their celebrations of weddings.
I respectfully explained we are not having these discussions about marriage out of no where, we have been having discussions on marriage throughout our 2 years. In fact our plans to have children was the basis of our relationship and were his requirements, and we just want to move forward with the next part of our lives. His mom doesn’t think I need to think about having children at this moment and it’s not a good time for us to have children, because she had kids much later in life and apparently so is everyone else, and we shouldn’t be following my ‘timeline’ on when things should be happening. Apparently I should not have such control over the timing of giving birth ‘like a reproduction machine’, and it’s not right to have to set such timeline on how much time I need for recovery and time between having each children. She asks why do we feel the need and so early in life to get married now? And ditch your own families and start your own life.
His dad said I should not decide right now how many kids we need to have and it’s rather in gods hands to decide, and some people are not even be able to have more than 1 kid, I asked him why is this relevant in regards to our plans to have kids… so I have to listen to god now and have kids without planning? And then he started giving this bs about god and how we are not meant to plan ‘these things’ out in life so specifically. I asked him: What is wrong with being practical and setting realistic goals. He claimed he doesn’t think it’s wrong to have plans but we shouldn’t be so set and ‘controlling’ over our own lives. He has experience and we should listen to the grown ups with experience… I knew the conversation wasn’t going to get anywhere as soon as he brings religion into this.
My boyfriend just stood there in silence. After the conversation ended we both walked away from his parents, he apologized to me and told me he’s sorry for any of the things his parents have said to me and I didn’t deserve it. He says he won’t listen to his parents anymore, and he knows how to make this right, and he will propose once we return to my grandparent’s place. I didn’t challenge him anymore because I that was the reassurance I needed from him, and I was happy that he was finally able to see his parents for who they are.
The following days of the trip, his dad tried to isolate him from rest of the family to give him the same lecture. Every time he rejoins the group I can see from his expression that their conversation did not go well, I didn’t comment. On the day we returned to my grandparent’s home, he told me he can’t follow through with his promises. And his dad told him he should feel guilty for making promises to me and be pressured into marriage. Somehow this convinced himself into thinking he’s not ready for marriage all along. I walked away from him and we spent 3 days apart before our flight to return home.
On our last day, we met up for closure, talked through what happened and we had sex. I told him I wasn’t ready to fly back home with him and I didn’t want to fall back into the vicious cycle of arguments, and that we should have some time to cool things down before we reconnect. We agreed to give each other some space and he wants to learn more about himself before he makes commitment to me as he doesn’t want to disappoint me again.
A week after he got back, he told me he wants to move out of our co-rented apartment, and he wants to break lease. I was a bit confused because I thought he wanted to work on himself, and him moving out essentially is an indication of a break up to me. He said if I don’t let him move out, I’m not giving him space to work on himself. I didn’t really have an option so I agreed. We didn’t talk afterwards.
3 weeks later, I missed my period, I took a test and was positive.

New rules aim to boost renewables and meet surging electricity demand
Patterson, Scott. Wall Street Journal (Online); New York, N.Y.. 13 May 2024.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/washington-tries-to-break-power-grid-logjams-cb2eb006
WASHINGTON—A little-known but powerful regulator has finalized sweeping new rules designed to expand the construction of big power lines and bring more renewable energy to U.S. homes and businesses.
The rules approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees wholesale electricity markets, are expected to make it easier for big regional transmission projects to get approval.
FERC approved two rules Monday, one that will require companies that produce and transmit electricity to weigh factors such as supply and demand over at least two decades and another that addresses permitting of critical projects in areas that lack adequate transmission capacity.
The rule requiring long-term planning is "the biggest single action by the federal government to advance transmission," said Rob Gramlich, president of Grid Strategies, a power consulting firm.
The long-term plans will need to account for the impact of extreme weather tied to climate change along with the cost of projects. By expanding transmission capacity, regions hit by weather disasters will be more resilient because they can access power from other parts of the country.
Most utilities already plan for future demand and other contingencies, but few do so decades in the future. What has resulted is a largely ad-hoc national grid that has at times left utilities behind the curve amid shifting power generation technologies, demand and destructive weather events fueled by climate change.
In Georgia, the state's main utility, Georgia Power, has increased demand projections sixteen-fold and plans to burn more natural gas to meet that demand. Virginia's largest utility, Dominion Energy, which supplies electricity to most of the state's data centers, expects their power use to quadruple over the next 15 years , representing 40% of the utility's demand in the state.
"Our country is facing an unprecedented surge in demand for affordable electricity while confronting extreme weather threats to the reliability of our grid and trying to stay one step ahead of the massive technological changes we are seeing in our society," FERC Chairman Willie Phillips said Monday.
Republican Commissioner Mark Christie voted against the long-term planning rule, which he said is unfair to consumers and oversteps FERC's authority.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said on a media call Monday that FERC's planning rule helps make up for Congress's failure in the past few years to pass legislation to expand power transmission. He said he doesn't expect Congress to pass transmission legislation this year.
Across the U.S., plans for myriad new power projects, largely wind and solar, are languishing due to delays in their ability to connect to the grid. The backlog of new power projects, mostly solar, wind and battery storage, seeking to connect to the grid jumped by 30% in 2023 from the previous year, according to a recent report by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. New projects "are mired in lengthy and uncertain interconnection study processes," the report said.
The rule is designed to push projects that benefit ratepayers, resulting in more transmission capacity that can deliver cheaper electricity. It also addresses how costs are spread out among ratepayers in projects that include multiple states.
"Cost allocation is a huge issue, and it's a contentious one," said Larry Gasteiger, executive director of Wires, a trade association.
Critics of the rule say it could clash with oversight of utilities by local regulators and potentially lead to increases in consumer bills. Several Republican attorneys general have threatened to sue the government over the rule, claiming FERC is overstepping its authority in a bid to bring more clean energy onto the grid.
Utilities aren't always proponents of long-distance power lines, which can bring in power cheaper than their own generation. The cost of wind and solar energy has plunged in recent years, making it more competitive with natural gas.
"One of the main reasons utilities don't want to build a major transmission [project] is because it can harm their power-plant business," said Ari Peskoe, director of Harvard Law School's Electricity Law Initiative.
The planning rule also provides new guidelines for the role of states in big transmission projects and seeks to enlist their input in the early stages of project planning.
The new rules come as demand for power is rising, driven by new manufacturing, electric vehicles and giant data centers catering to artificial intelligence. That has caused utilities to scramble to adapt, some backtracking on plans to retire fossil-fuel power plants or add new natural-gas generation.
The planning requirements will also spur utilities to adopt more so-called grid-enhancement technologies , such as sensors and power flow control devices, which can improve the transmission of electricity across existing lines. Such technologies are often cheaper than building new power lines.
The Biden administration is pulling other levers to spur transmission construction. Last month, the Energy Department moved to become the lead federal agency coordinating environmental approval of major transmission projects across the U.S. in a bid to fast-track grid-infrastructure construction . The new process seeks to reduce the red tape grid planners faced as they sought separate approvals from a patchwork of federal agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, Interior Department and the Agriculture Department.
Write to Scott Patterson at [scott.patterson@wsj.com](mailto:scott.patterson@wsj.com)
Credit: By Scott Patterson

throwaway bc im not willing to be dogged on on my main account.
(im an animal science major)
please dont say to go cc then reapply. parents are uninterested in having me do that route and i want to get away from my city n live on campus
i only got into two colleges that have my program. university of connecticut (ranked #33 in my major according to college factual) and suny cobleskill (ranked #54). i’ve visited the former and loved it there. loved everything about it. was originally my boyfriends dream school till he realized he got it wrong n it was actually yale lol. its large so people wouldnt know me nor recognize me unless we sit near each other in class or on the same floor(have major anxiety). the issue? it’ll cost me 35k per yr to go.
i havent visited suny cobleskill. will on the 24th but im so not excited. the school is EXTREMELY small (2,5k people) and is in the middle of nowhere. as is uconn but its worse. they dont even have a subreddit where i could ask questions. the school will probably cost me less than 25k per yr (not sure, didnt get my finical aid from them yet).
im just so uninterested in going there. especially since just based on how small the school is. two of my counselors want me to look into cheaper schools which is the only reason why im looking at cobleskill but it doesnt even match what i want in a school. it doesnt help either that i already have terrible mental health and ik that me going to a school im going to hate will make it worse. even if its cheaper for me. i already struggle to make myself feel like life is worth living longer and id rather spend 4yrs at a school i know im going to love being at. my therapist, my doctor, my dad, and my friends all want me to go there. my mom is indifferent. my boyfriend doesnt want me to (only bc we’re probably gonna be 3-5 hours away from each other lol n bc of the cost), one my counselor understands why i want to go still but wants me to keep my thoughts open, and my other counselor said that 30k a yr for a school is a lot.
so yeah. im still probably gonna go lmao. only excited to go to college if its that college. just want other people’s opinion.

Hello everyone,
I got myself into a slightly messed up situation:
I am working on a machine that had Fedora 35 installed, and also a windows partition for some reason. After more and more problems came up, I tried to update to Fedora 40 yesterday, but as the instructions say, step by step. When trying to update to Fedora 36, a list of updated packages came up, as well as some modified/removed ones. The list of removed packages incuded 5 things called kernel or kernel-<...>, which worried me, so I decided to not go forward with it and instead read up on it more.
After the next restart, Fedora gets stuck on the startup screen. When pressing Esc, I get the individual tasks started, along with some errors, e.g. "failed to start gssapi proxy daemon", with the final message being "Starting hold until boot process finishes up".
Now I have managed to get the console up with Ctrl+alt+F2-4, so I can work with that. Weird thing is, when logging into my account, it can't find my accounts directory? I found some trouble shooting guides online that contain modifications to the grub file, however when I try that I get an error that it is read only?
Any ideas what might have gone wrong/how to fix this utter mess?
TLDR: Fedora 35 fails to start after failed update attempt.

This will be sort of a short guide for new players trying to improve themselves. Of course, since the game is still a PS5 exclusive as of the writing of this post, no official datamine has been done, so things I say here might not be entirely correct. What I write here is based on my own experience from playing the game (150 hours for now, beating Midnight and currently at level 100). I encourage other players to contribute their experience.
Counter Spark (will be abbreviated as CS onward) is the game main combat mechanic. As the basic level, it's an attack (well, most CS are attack, there's some special cases where it is a parry stance, e.g. Hayabusa-ryu CS). Unlike other games that focus on parry mechanic (Sekiro, Wolong, etc…), the CS in RotR is quite difficult to master mainly because of 2 reasons: It being an attack makes it very unsafe if you fail, and each style got its own CS with its own property, making the learning process even more difficult. I see many people in the past claim that the timing of CS is inconsistent, or straight out bug, but I presume they have not fully understood how CS work. CS works by clashing its hitbox into the enemy's attack hitbox. For a successful CS to happen, you have to consider the hitbox shape, size, active frame of both your CS and the enemy's attack. Sometimes, you also have to take into account the distance between you and the enemies, as being further would mean the enemy's hitbox would take a few frame longer to reach you.
On the enemy side, specifically their martial art attacks (the red attack), the hitbox would form after the white flash, so in general, don't press your button before seeing that white flash. As for their normal attack, you have no way but to learn their attack pattern and timing. The best way to learn enemy’s attack is to use a style with “easy to execute” CS. A CS easy to use would be CS that has large frontal hitbox (so enemy’s attack will clash into your hitbox easier), and the most important part is that it has long active frame. CS with long active frame usually share 1 common feature: it has 2 slashes instead of 1 slash, some examples: Tatsumi-ryu and Mugai-ryu for Katana, or Niten Ichi-ryu for Paired sword. With how long these CS are, you can press button either on reaction or even a bit early and will still get a successful CS. After you nail down the enemy pattern, you can start changing to a style with harder CS and learn more precise timing. So, just hit the dojo and test out the CS of your weapon of choice.
However, sometimes, you’ll encounter some weird attacks that even using easy CS still won’t net you a successful counter consistently. I hypothesize that these attack have pretty odd (most often extremely vertical hitbox) that hit you at area where your CS does not cover. Fortunately, these attacks are most often on the slower side, so if you have a hard time against those, either take a step back to reposition your CS hitbox, or JUMP and perform an aerial CS. Aerial CS can hit many attacks that normally very annoying to ground CS.
I hope this help. And anyway, please also contribute your own finding if possible.

Has anyone been through the process of opening an account or converting a Zerodha account from resident to NRO NON-PIS or the other way around?
The process of conversion for me is ongoing. Since 2nd May my old account has been closed and investments made inaccessible. I received the credentials for a new account but the new account has been dormant. My investments don't show on it. On the CVL KRA website it shows to me that my KYC was rejected because my registration form was non properly filled (I did not fill the registration form). This is based on the rejection reason provided on the website which is "REGISTRATION FORM NOT PROPERLY FILLED [ADDRESS]"
Everyone in the Zerodha call support team seems to have a different answer for what's going on, which seems to indicate that no really knows.
The delays, KYC rejection, and the black box processes has me concerned. Is there anything I can do to have my investments made available to me sooner?

So a lot of things happened behind the scenes in the last couple of months. No one expected this community to become this big and for that reason a lot of the old ID distributors like myself decided to stop trading here and focus on keeping the good ID's secret on the other platform because, as anyone with an IQ above 80 can see that the ID's that are currently traded on this forum are unhearable / unplayable / innovative / fake and annoying.

1. You are literally hyping ID's that are not to be hyped (because they are not good)
2. Half of you don't know music theory
3. 90% of you never opened a DAW to produce music
4. 80% of you are not communicating in understandable English
5. 20% of you are scammers with double accounts
6. Some of you are trading with fake ID's (changing the names of the ID's with famous DJ's/producers)
7. 80% of you don't know how trading works. Trading works when you value some ID the same or more than the other trader. It's really sad that you trade &friends / Arthur Miro / Choujaa / Kimotion ID's for AJNA (BE) / Marasi / Liva K / Samm (BE) / MAZ (BR) / Moojo / Rampa and others because you don't understand music.

There is a legal ungoing case from some of the prominent names that I've mentioned above that clearly are annoyed and feel threatened by the fact that a big group of people trade their music without their consent.
For these reasons, we really hope that some of our special ID's like 'Say What' and others stay secret until they are released and are shared in a small DJ / producer circle because you clearly don't deserve them.
P.S. To know how serious we are, I'll leave a spek screenshot in the comments.
All the best, The Soulseek Community

So as the SCP world grows larger, with ever more anomalies of all types found in all places and all times popping up, I've heard people question, how does the SCP foundation keep maintaining normalcy? Furthermore, why do they feel the need to at this point?
Well the real reason is of course a storytelling one. The "Masquerade" is a well worn trope. Magical worlds hidden behind a veil of secrecy within our own familiar world has a vast narrative utility, not the least of which that it gives the reader a sense that the fantastic world could be real, fantastic things being intentionally kept just out of sight, allowing them to more deeply immerse themselves into the narrative (I know there's kids out there who genuinely were disappointed when their Hogwarts letter didn't come).
But also, this trope was invented in a time where we didn't all have cameras in our pockets with the ability to instantly transmit anything we want to the whole world, which keeps progressively making the very idea of a hidden world ever more ridiculous. Frankly, it can feel like the only reason we still use that narrative device is because it's only been about a generation since society and culture changed in that way and we're still getting used to the idea and still in the process of trying to come up with new story telling devices that take it into account.
At this point, due to these changes in culture and technology, a lot of peoples suspension of disbelief is being stretched to the breaking point on the whole "Masquerade" thing, So I think we need a further explanation as to how and why one could be maintained in the contemporary world, lest we abandon it as a dead horse trope.
But before figuring out logical ways a masquerade could be maintained and why, the question I want to know is "How do the people of this world even know what 'normalcy' is?"
We know what normalcy is. It's just the world and it's laws of physics as they are. Gravity, electro magnetism, chemistry, etc. All studied, all replicable by the scientific method (if proper methods are being used). But in these other worlds, magic and the paranormal are baked into their laws of physics. So why don't they see those things as normal? How have they somehow coincidentally drawn a line in the sand that separates half of their universe physical laws onto one side called "paranormal", and the other half onto a side called "Normal", with the normal side somehow coincidentally lining up with our worlds laws of physics?
I think the answer to that could be the answer to the rest. And that answer is "Belief has power". The act of simply believing things has the ability to effect reality, generate energy, be used as a weapon, etc. It's normal for large and powerful governing entities having the desire to regulate dangerous and powerful things. In our world it's things like lethal weapons and nuclear energy, but in the SCP world "Belief" is the powerful and dangerous thing they need to regulate. The act of enforcing "Normalcy" is effectively recognizing that everyone is a reality bender on some level, and that their beliefs could be the equivalent of anywhere from a gun to a nuclear bomb. And so sets of beliefs have been devised by the powers that be, through trial and error, that when they are believed they don't result in the people who believe them developing unpredictable cataclysmic psychic/magical powers that could challenge those powers that be. And the version of "normalcy" they have invented, the set of ideas they brainwash the public into believing in order to minimize the growth of psychic powers within that population, happens to coincide with our realities laws of physics.
But maybe it's not all "Evil government wants to hoard all the power for themselves". Maybe there is an actual good reason to try and prevent widespread adoption of the power of "Belief". It's often shown that in the past, magic was more accepted, and in the modern world it's like magic is going away, and various explanations are given for this. But what if psychic energy is kind of like radioactive material? What if it's a matter of the SCP foundation trying to prevent a cataclysmic critical mass of psychic energy developing within the human noosphere? It was one thing when the human population was in the millions, but what has truly changed for humans in the last thousand years is that there is exponentially more of us by multiple orders of magnitude, but the earth is still the same size. The more humans are added to the noosphere, the more powerful it becomes, and there might be a certain threshold of humans in close proximity beyond which psychic criticality is reached, and the noosphere would essentially explode. So the options are either to genocide the population down to a level below criticality, or make sure most humans are implanted with beliefs that make them psychically inert.
This would also explain how the foundation can continuously maintain "Normalcy". They likely have the ability to track the noosphere, they might even have something like a digital heat map of the worlds psychic activity, such that if paranormal stuff happens in a certain area, and it causes people to start becoming more psychically active in that area, they will see that place start to light up on the map, and know they have to go in with some of that sweet sweet Eel juice, spraying it around until the psychic activity is brought back down to acceptable levels. In this scenario, they don't have to catch everybody who knows the truth, just enough to keep the noosphere a safe distance from reaching critical mass.

I have recently joined a Big4 firm in the financial services vertical of the consulting wing. I have done my MBA from a tier 1 institute in operations and am kind of at a loss when it comes to financial knowledge. As such, I have been facing serious problems landing a project. How can I well verse myself and get myself educated about stuff like commercial and retail banking, investment banking, Capital Markets, Asset Management, Insurance, etc?
Also I am thinking of switching into a startup that is aligned towards finance. What exactly is the role I should be on the lookout for?

For context, I'm from South America and have been living in Lisbon for 2 years. I started a coffee business about a year ago. It is pretty small, generating about 500-1000 euros a month, but barely making a profit.
I initially had an accountant, but they were a bit too expensive, so I switched to a company recommended by a friend who owns a restaurant. The new company is called JADR Consultoria or something similar.
At first, they told me to join an online fatura service to handle my invoices. I followed their instructions, set it up, and connected it to the IRS. After about 8 months, when it was time to declare taxes for the year, they noticed something was wrong, and I received a fine (coima). This happened because I hadn't enrolled in the automatic sending of the SAF-T, which I had no idea about. That's why I was paying them.
Additionally, my assigned accountant told me that I was in a special regime and had to pay 18% of 20% of my sales that were considered profit. I thought that was great. However, it turns out I need to pay 18% of all my sales, which I had no idea about, and it's a lot of money. My accountant also told me I don't need to give my NIF when buying things because it doesn't make any difference in my regime. Many friends told me that doesn't sound right, but I trusted the accountants (It turns out I do get deductions for taxes with my NIF).
Now I owe about 3,000 euros in taxes and 500 euros in fines, all of which came as a surprise because my accounting company appears to be incompetent and gave me terrible information. When I asked them why this was happening and why they didn't check this information, they evaded responsibility. I have headaches every day because of this.
What I wonder is, is there anything I can do? Can I report them for malpractice? Can I declare my company bankrupt? It’s so small, and I'm not making a profit. Now, after taxes, I'm probably losing money, so I don't care about it anymore. This accounting issue is really giving me a hard time. What should I do?

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i am an 18yo male. in october of 2023, i met a girl on omegle and we had a similar taste in music so we started talking and added each other on snapchat. she told me she was 17 years old turning 18 in may and i turn in 19 in june. upon seeing other and weeks of chatting and flirting, we became intimately close and started sexting and sharing nsfw pictures to each other. it got to a point where we started loving each other and agreed to a long distance relationship, agreeing to meet other in june this year but one month ago out of nowhere she blocked me from all of her social media accounts and my number too. after that i created a different account and asked her for the reason and she revealed that she is actually 14 year old who turned 15 in may. after asking her for an explanation about why she lied about her age, she told me that she was insecure about the way she looked and the shape of her body and that the boys of her school would bully her for her looks which made her have low self esteem. she also told me that i was the only guy ever who ever complimented her about her looks. i immediately stopped talking to her but i got very attached to her and i still have feelings for her. i love her still and i miss talking to her. i often dream about her and i miss her every single moment of the day. what should i do now.

Sam the Sandown Clown is a mysterious entity witnessed by 2 children on the Isle of Wight in May 1973, the links below provide more detailed information, but the summary is simple: the children met a bizarre clown-entity who claimed to be All Colors Sam and they even spoke to him for quite some time, the entity's strange apperance and behavior stand out among humanoid sightings, he or any other being like him were never seen again, it's a case that deserves to be discussed once again.
https://theghostinmymachine.com/2022/05/30/encyclopaedia-of-the-impossible-sam-the-sandown-clown/
https://www.paranormalcatalog.net/ufos/sam-the-sandown-clown
https://obscurban-legend.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sandown_Clown
https://www.curiousarchive.com/sam-the-sandown-clown-alien-man-in-black-or-folie-a-deux/
https://thommquackenbush.com/20210329-clown.php
https://bufora.org.uk/documents/BUFORAJournalVolume6No.5JanFeb1978.pd
Let's start with the appearance of the entity, he was very tall but not inhumanly so, his skin was paper-like and the colorful face and and the few digits on his hands and feet are very odd and it's to hard say if they were part of his face or it was part of a mask or helmet, his behavior is very strange but the children were able to communicate with him anyway.
He was a little clumsy and didn't write the sentence in the correct order, but he wasn't hostile and feared people, he also stopped the loud sound when he noticed the kids were scared, he was evasise to their questions and it stands out how he didn't wish to neither help nor harm the kids or other humans, he didn't seem to have many plans besides eating berries in a way that is too strange to make sense.
Keep in mind he's only called a clown because that's what he reminded the children of, but his similarity to a clown is rather superficial and his description vaguely reminds me of a doll too, we don't even know what was his real name as he said he wasn't actually named Sam, making me think he was actually calling the children Sam and his name really was simply All Colors.
His house and the machine he used to speak are a little unusual but nothing that couldn't exist in the early 70s when he was sighted, he said he had another base in the mainland but I'm unsure if he meant Great Britain or mainland Europe, it's also easy to miss the detail he said there were others like him, but none of them were ever sighted.
The remaining question is who or what was Sam? He could have been a lie made up by the children or perhaps a shared hallucination, he could have been somebody playing a prank on the kids or perhaps an abuser preying on them, but then we would have to wonder why he never tried to harm them when they were alone, another possibility is that he was a mentally ill hermit wearing a very unusual costume and that could explain his weird behavior and looks.
If he was a supernatural being, it stands to question what exacly he was, he vehemently denied being a ghost and I believe this is true, if we picture a ghost as a dead human I cannot think of any person acting so strange, still he claims to be kind of like a ghost in an odd sort of way, making me think he meant he was a supernatural being while not revealing what he truly was exactly.
It's been suggested he was an alien and his house was really an UFO, it could be true, but it was never seen flying despite having disappeared later, I've read suggestions he was a robot, if that is true, he was certainly not from Earth, because even over 50 years later we cannot build robots that look and act like him.
For some reason he reminds me somewhat of older accounts of fairy encounters, it makes me wonder if the kids didn't step into another reality by accident, or maybe it was Sam who stepped into our reality by accident and left later, of course there is no proof there is any truth to this sighting, but it's so unique and vaguely disturbing it's worthy of being remembered, for the children could have truly met something that wasn't quite human. Let's just be glad he didn't have a red balloon with him.

I’m sorry I was unsure what sub to post this on, so bear with me if this is off topic but it happened in the city w me so, yesterday eve i went to deposit my monthly salary which was in cash for some reason, and the ATM machine only asked me my number, took my money, deposited it into some random account and even after spending hours at an HDFC branch they are telling me that according to their log i put the benefitted ccount number twice and my phone number after. I vividly remember this NOT happening. I was only asked my number and my monthly salary was gone just like that. I have asked for the CCTV proof of me doing that, but till now I’m in deep trash. To add to the sadness, this was the first salary of my life and it’s gone like that. I’m looking for solutions.

I'm 30F I got this Credit Card early late 2018 or early 2019, and this was my first Credit Card.
I didn't apply for it they just sent it in the mail basically pre approved. My reasons for closing this Credit Card Account is that I don't have the savings account connected to it anymore and I don't use it that much. I have another CC BPI Rewards Master Card which still has annual fees and UB Platinum Rewards Visa that I am planning to acquire their no annual fee forever promo. I've emailed 3, called multiple times but still transferred to a team that doesn't pick up at all.
Emails sent at 1st was Tue, Feb 27, 9:46 PM
1st [callcenter@bdo.com.ph](mailto:callcenter@bdo.com.ph) replied an acknowledgement reference # 2nd was Sat, Mar 16, 1:10 PM 2nd [callcenter@bdo.com.ph](mailto:callcenter@bdo.com.ph) replied an acknowledgement reference # 3rd was Tue, May 14, 1:25 AM 3rd [callcenter@bdo.com.ph](mailto:callcenter@bdo.com.ph) replied an acknowledgement mail that suggest since my email is not about the FF:

For the concerns listed below, kindly expect a response from us within one (1) to two (2) days: Updating of registered online banking contact information while overseas Online banking enrollment while overseas Reporting of phishing attempts and/or data privacy issues

CC: [consumeraffairs@bsp.gov.ph](mailto:consumeraffairs@bsp.gov.ph) only a detail email on their services, but not anything they could help.
I tried calling their hotline but parang mamemorize ko na ang dialog ni Pia sa kaka hintay. I'm so tried of all of it.
So here's the best part kase gigil auntie nyo. I went to a branch close to me, when I got there, guess what they want me to do, CALL THEIR FRIGGEN HOTLINE!!!! ayoko na. pagod nako.
I was opting to just lock it forever and wait that they'll close it kase wla nang transactions. But I'm afraid na it would be an issue on my end sa credit score ko..
Please help. :(

Hello there.
I'm posting for all of the people like me who stumble across this post (mentioning the error ”System.Exception: Error: could not find matching certificate for Developer ID Application; please check your ‘Signing Identifier’ in your macOS Options”) in a desperate quest to make their game working on macOS, as the official GameMaker documentation is IMO laking some critical informations, and the error in the IDE does not specify what certificate is missing and what exactly a Team Identifier.
At the time of writing here are my specs:

• MacMini M2 Pro 16Go RAM
• macOs 14.4.1
• XCode 15.4
• GameMaker IDE 2024.4.0.137 runtime 2024.4.0.168

Here is the complete walkthrough:

1. Make an apple Developer Account on developer.apple.com (if you already own a regular Apple ID, you can also use it here)
2. Enroll for Developer (cost a yearly fee)
3. Go to https://developer.apple.com/account. On scrolling this page, under ‘Membership Details’ you’ll find your Team Identifier, which is a string of 10 uppercase characters. Copy it as we’ll need it in GameMaker.
4. Install XCode from the macApp Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12
5. Open XCode
6. Go to the menu XCode -> Settings and go into the Accounts tab
7. On the bottom left corner, clic on +
8. Select Apple ID and hit Continue
9. Clic on your Apple ID on the left side
10. On the bottom right side, hit ‘Manage Certificate’
11. Add all of the available certificates (Apple Development, Apple Distribution, Mac Installer Distribution, Developer ID Application, Developer ID Installer)
12. Open GameMaker
13. Go to the menu GameMaker -> Settings
14. In the settings window, open Plateform -> macOS
15. In Team Identifier, paste the Team identifier found in step 3 and hit apply

You can now hopefully build an executable for distribution.
At the end of the building process, If macOs asks for a password for Mac Developer ID Application, leave blank and hit Continue.
Additional notes:

• It works regardless of the option to build as a .ZIP or .DMG installer
• It may be related to my specific game, but in my case, only building with VM output works. If I try to build with YCC, XCode fail to open the file and tell me that it is corrupted for some reason, and I have to force quit GameMaker.
• One of the posts mention that they had to add "Mac Developer: " to the signing identifier. It didn't work for me so I think that it is no longer relevant.

Informations that I don't have oand don't understand and IMO need to be added in the official documentation, as I had to tinker around with (and at the end of the day I am not even sure what worked):

• I first tried with only the Apple Development, Apple Distribution and Mac Installer Distribution certificates and it did not work, so I added the two other ones. Are there relevant and which one of them was needed ? I have no idea.
• I also went to https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/identifiers/list and in the Identifiers tab to add a specific certificate with my game name, but I have no idea if it is relevant or not to build on GamMaker. I suppose that it is only used to publish on the Mac App Store, but Im not sure right now.

i didn't post about it on reddit because reddit will always tell you to dump your boyfriend, and i didn't want to do that. i still don't, this was one mistake, a really big one but still one. our relationship is fairly healthy and we love each other, and he calls me beautiful all the time, i won't dump him over this but i can't let it go.
so this was... at least two years ago. a very long time ago. what happened was that we had this reunion with my high school friends at a pub, and i brought my boyfriend.
this group of friends is 4 girls and one guy, and as it tends to go in high school friend groups, i compared myself constantly to two of these girls, because they were thinner and prettier than me and got more attention. for context i'm vulnerable not grandiose, i didn't try to compete with them i just felt like shit lmao. that's not their fault though and we were still good friends.
anyway everyone got drunker than we intended, me especially. at some point, my boyfriend said something along the lines of "you and xy (one of the girls i compared myself to) are the prettiest in the group, but you're the second prettiest". so basically saying she's prettier than me. i don't know why he said this, i was so drunk that it didn't even register until the next day when i remembered it sober. so i don't remember the details but i know that this was what he said.
she is indeed prettier than me and i don't mind him saying that other girls are pretty, but comparing me to them and saying they're prettier is a hundred steps too far.
the thing is, most things we fight about are actual relationship problems that have two sides and neither are wrong. this... this is something you just do not do. ever. it's an asshole thing to do. there's no excuse for it, there's not even explanation for it.
if it had been a drunken mistake, i'd be more forgiving. but the thing is, my boyfriend has an insane alcohol tolerance, like, i've personally witnessed him drinking a liter bottle of hard liquor and only get tipsy, and he's not an alcoholic it's just how it is for some reason. but it could've been a tipsy mistake. but then when i brought it up the next day, he kinda doubled down. he didn't say yeah you're ugly and she's pretty, but he also didn't say sorry, didn't acknowledge that it was wrong to say this, didn't say that she's not prettier than me, he said things like she was better dressed and he likes her hair.
a lot of time time passed and i couldn't let it go, and i brought it up again. and he fucking doubled down again. he said, you're prettier now, because you dress better and your hair got longer, but back then she was prettier. he still didn't apologize, still didn't acknowledge that he did anything wrong.
even this was about a year ago. all of this was a very long time ago. i did tell him that i will probably never be able to forget this or forgive him for it. still no apology. i think he did say something like i'm sorry it hurt you, but there was no accountability and no backtracking and countering what he had said. i haven't brought it up ever since, i don't see the point, but i just can't let it go. i get mad or sad about it at least once every month. and it's not always when i'm on my period lmao. it's been years. it isn't getting any better. there's no way to erase the past, but i think i'd be less mad about it if he acknowledged that there's no excuse for this and it was just a shitty thing to do, but i don't think he'll do that. so i don't bring it up. it's not ruining the relationship it's not that bad, but it is hurting me and i'm not sure what to do. should i even bring it up? if yes, how? like, "hey, remember that thing you said to me over two years ago? i'm still mad about it, fuck you" that sounds dumb. i don't know what to do.
this makes him seem like the biggest asshole in the world, he's usually a good partner, we usually communicate very. this was one of his biggest mistakes. i just wish he acknowledged this

Here. And I’d like to start by noticing that Steve Sailer is obviously Delicious Taco’s dad. Having said this.
Good episode. Lots of engagement which I suppose is a net positive for all involved. Obviously a lot of the injury stems from a distortion. The episode’s content fantasized and in fantasy warped into something constituting a threat (no, an outright assault) to the listener’s person. One can simply listen to the episode and see that some (in fact the bulk) of the negative responses are from people reacting to some spectral absent-presence rather than to what is actually being said over the course of the 2 hour long episode. The voices and the discourse have instead been shaped into sonic receptacle containing the reflection of something wildly ugly. Injuriously ugly.
Past few days have been brutal. Found myself doom-viewing the main sub, should know better at this age. Feels like I’ve been transmogrified into an absurd and wretched thing. Must've transgressed against a gnome or something. Fascinating to think about.
I would like nothing more than to shame you.
Miami Summer is a killer. Urine is blood-orange. And my mother deserves better sons.
Why would A&D do this?
Witnessing the rankest comments. In bygone age I’d found them tolerable. Having imagined them delivered by high society homosexual. A damned dandy; chubby, sinister, and flamboyant. Capri on a stick limply held between index and middle fingers, twirling wrist ash’ing on expensive Persian rug. The blurry ghosts of his mother and the kid brother who drowned in the pond all those years ago glaring at him from far-off corner. Clearing throat he launches into sing-song slander head peeling back cackling at his own wickedness. Vile and venomous but charming. Instead what we get is 30+ year old mentally-ill men. Men whose Twitter activity has atrophied their cock and balls. Genitals withering away like the Worker's State, in its place a gasping cloaca, worry not I can clock em from miles away. The odious cloaca-havers are soon joined by ruined drug-addled children and the other women. They talk about A&D in disgusting ways. This is unfair and nasty. I confess to being angry. Sweating blood-specked kerosene. Let the scent fill up the empty air between us. My wrath singeing those overgrown nose hairs.
Of the two I think Anna is the one that inspires the harshest parasocial spite. So much so that I’d recommend she take some protective measures against evil eye and tongue. Maybe take baths with hyssop herb, rose water perfume, and holy water.
It’s as if Anna Khachiyan is a Giant Floating Vagina with teeth and a noticeable overbite. Viewed from another angle it transforms into a Madonna encircled by cherubim. Perhaps we are cruel to Anna in order to be kind to our mothers.
All very pre-Oedipal.
Had to step back and parse it out. Anna draws a comparison between herself and Sailer while also asking him a great question,
07:12-07:49
Anna: “I started reading it during the pandemic because it was the pandemic. I was pregnant and bored and I really relate to you as a person who everyone thinks is like evil and monstrous on the internet, but is actually like quite agreeable and mild mannered in real life. And I was going to ask you this question last, but I may as well just ask it now. How do you feel about your new found popularity? And especially, how do you feel about the fact that you have been effectively adopted by or identified with the hard right?”
The first part of the above extract, the sympathetic recognition, brings to mind a bit of 20th century Hermetic theory concerning harmful thought-forms. Our unconscious self-destructive impulses animating the fantasy-phantasm of the other. Inhabiting their shape. Gaining a degree of autonomy. This artificial entity is vampiric by default, provoking what the Czech magician Franz Bardon calls a "magical persecutory complex"... He goes into detail about such entities in Step VI of his seminal work, Initiation into Hermetics. Describing different types of artificial elementals and phantasms along with details on how to consciously go about creating and dissipating them. One of those artificial psychic entities, the one that concerns us, he calls the schemata. Bardon details two variants, one connected with paranoid persecutory fantasies and the other with erotic obsession. The first type comes about when someone who is “easily excitable, easily influenced or self-important” (Narcissist?) has a run in with another person who has, to put it mildly, a memorable visage and dark personality. The schemata is born from the phantasm modeled after this demonic-looking disagreeable person. The victim begins to attribute all kinds of minor inconveniences to the influence of the ugly person. Deludes themselves into thinking that the ugly/disagreeable person is a powerful black magician. Everything appears to reinforce their paranoid delusions. The schema grows in power feeding off the anxieties of their creatohost. The person might end up committing suicide. This was the persecutory schemas desire, having achieved its goal Bardon notes, “how great is the shock when such a spirit realizes on the mental plane that he has committed a very successful magical suicide. What a bitter disappointment! The demonic looking person, however, has no idea what happened; he was actually only the means to an end.”
God gave us eyes so that we might notice things.
The way I see it:
Being social animals the subject of our fantasy, of our fixations, is the fantasy of the other. What makes the human Human is not that we desire but rather that we desire the desire of the other. An excess desire. We fantasize about what the other is fantasizing and enjoying. Our fantasy of the fantasy of the other is the outlines a fundamental lack within our person, a negativity. Experienced as a splitting of consciousness. Intuiting this lack, becoming aware of it, and attempting to articulate it, we are self-consciousness. This negativity or void is in psychoanalytic terms, the unconscious. We likewise intuit that there had once been some original state. One without lack and contradiction. A state of fullness, without the division between self and object. A harmonious whole. A pure consciousness or as Freud refers to it in Civilization and its Discontents an oceanic feeling. The Original Desire, one that is authentically my own, which was not the desire of the other but which unites our desires in itself. This desire is the extinction of all desires.
The eye that perceives the lovely is at once the eye that perceives what I lack. Perceiving this lack, which explains my present condition, I covet. This is an evil eye. The lover’s gaze is of the same type as the infirm or pathic gaze. Reminded of Zizek’s formulation of one of Hegel’s insights, “Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself" itself a variation of Meister Eckhart’s “the eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.” The recognition of evil, the ability to see and judge evil, stems from our ability to recognize disparity. This disparity is already present within our own person, the split-consciousness. The feeling cognized, the awareness of our condition as beings separated from the whole. The clairvoyance of the tyrant and the philosopher.
Suppose that psychopathology is born from our inability to recognize an image as an image.
I intuit something more in this person, something they’re hiding. It can’t just be envy, no. It has to be because I can feel that this thing they’re hiding is sinister. It can’t just be that I feel animosity towards this person, no. It has to be because this person is evil and not just an isolated evil but rather a symptom of a much larger evil. An evil that is responsible for all the suffering in the World, for why my World isn’t the way it should be. It can’t just be attraction, no. It has to be that I intuit something more in this person, something hidden, that I must destroy in order to go on living.
If vile shit comes to mind (as vile things often do, especially when one is immersed in ambient algorithmically-summoned vileness, namely outrage and atrocity porn) they won't affirm it to themselves or try to justify or rationalize it or present it as a rational political stance. And they don’t abstract this particular form of vileness into the primary lens through which they view and interpret cultural phenomena. Unreflexive racial animosity is ugly and fetid. We’re capable of recognizing it, feeling it, as something pathological. We’re also capable of laughing at it. Laughing at ourselves. Look at what our ladies have to say about Stuart Seldowitz (the dude who went viral harassing a halal street vendor) in I’ll Be Missinger. “He sucks,” “he’s a loser,” “he’s obviously sick,” and that he gives the impression of someone who lives alone, will die alone, and will be found weeks or even months after the fact.
Perhaps Red Scare is special in how it manages to elicit absurd, wildly inappropriate responses from listeners. Vulgar and revelatory was it? Steve Sailer elicits a similar response and has become an expert in turning said absurd reactions to his advantage. Generally the cooler-head in any given exchange. While the other person shouts obscenities at a ghost, smashing fists against the post, looking crazy, like a proper hysteric. Sailer breaks the fourth-wall, making eye-contact with the would-be noticer, with a little shake of the head, a little chuckle, a little shrug… “you’re noticing right? See what I have to put up with? Imagine these people defining my legacy.” Still he seems to take it with the good humor of an uncle who will still call you on your birthday, despite your drunken outburst during holiday get-together he will admit to not having resisted the temptation to provoke you, it use to be fun, recall all the cool bands I introduced you too? We use to be best buds, “do you really think anything I’ve said merits this sort of response? Honestly?”
Has to be a cheap trick. A technique employed by an old trickster in decades long honing of craft. Maybe not. Maybe what we see is precisely what we get. Most of the very upsetting things being jokes sincerely intended to lighten the mood. Steve Sailer doesn’t care about the particular political orientation of his audience. He just cares that he has an audience. Grateful for the fans he has. Nonetheless happy that they’re not seething malcontent racists. Even if one disagrees with the methodology, the heuristic, the conclusions. That’s secondary, perhaps even tertiary to the recognition sought. His craftsmanship as a writer.
Why I loved his conflict with Will Stancil. Stancil inspired a lot of pondering for me. Putting things in place…
01:29:22-01:29:28
Anna: “You come for the race science and stay for the prose-styling and vivid story-telling.”
In trying to survive as a writer exiled from Mainstream Conservative media (ConInc) during the Bush Jr years. In fact, correct me if I’m wrong but the cancelation that actually impacted Steve Sailer, setting him down the path we find him in, was brought about not by blue-haired hall monitor millennial leftists but by his “fellow” Conservatives. I imagine that he just went with whoever was willing to take him adapting to the editorial standards and audience sensibilities of the publications willing to provide him succor. Not charity mind you but an ability to engage in his own little labor of love.
Read some Sailer. Might get into that later. But that’s the initial impression I got from Steve. Would be utterly mortified if memorialized as a Racialist Ideologue rather than as an entertaining and thought-provoking journalist. Think I also benefited from seeing how he’s actually received by people who are navigating through (or in certain cases, are mired in) the marginal “Hard Right”-spaces or the Rightwing Digital Ghetto. End up realizing that he isn’t hateful, that what you see is precisely what you get, that he privileges craft over ideology, that his reception and exile from Neocon dominated media outlets (remember these are the people gushing ecstatic over the US invasion of Iraq, manufacturing consent for our adventures in the Middle East) was exceedingly unfair but that he nonetheless managed to persevere. And that he really never goes beyond Norm McDonald in terms of his sardonic wit or The Boondocks animated series in terms of his criticisms. His normality is a great source of stability and comfort for his readers; “noticing” and speculating about these topics doesn’t necessarily lead to one becoming a seething racist.
Returning for a moment to Will Stancil, this was what he inspired:
As the last man standing I spend countless hours immersed in detailed fantasies about the coming apocalypse and my enemy's bliss. A dumb and wicked happiness proportional to my suffering. Easy to imagine other people happy. Hearts unbroken. Unburdened, hydrated, sexually satisfied, debt-free, lucky, successful in all business endeavors. Brute, jezebel, schemer, parasite, rival, betrayer... the whole lot of them thriving. Frolicking in my mind's eye. When the time comes I won't forget that they were happy while...others...suffered.
Find that trying to void your mind of all thought or sit perfectly still for 10 minutes. End up feeling like something requires much less energy from us than nothing. Causes coalescing. Conspiring, to what ends?
You see. The very same principle appears to be at work here. Same pathological base that undergirds genuine racial or ethnic animosity. Fantasizing about the other’s enjoyment and being unable to distinguish between the persecutory Phantasm and the actual human being whose shape it appropriates.
Had a friend recommend forgetting. Forgetting is a dialectical exercise, first you have to acknowledge the thing living rent free in your head and acknowledge its origins... then you have to take the steps to stop feeding it. Letting the thought-form dissolve. Let it be put to rest. Reminded of the practice Orthodox Christian contemplatives call Nepsis.
Other approaches as well, acknowledging the presence of anima veiled in shadow.
But listen…
The podcasts I consume, are a reflection of me as a person. Being what I associate and consume. What does it say about me in particular? Reveal about me? That they should have Steve Sailer on the pod. Settling down. Perhaps some responses could be understood in this light. That a Sailer episode reflects poorly on the listener. Constituting a great betrayal of the love and energy and time I have dedicated over the years to you.
I’m not a racist.
Show me your likes on Twitter and I’ll tell you who you are. The most punitive and brutal god. The idea of the AI nu-god being this, utilizing that standard, is horrifying. Show me your likes on Twitter and I’ll tell you who you are, everything you are, and whether or not you qualify to live.
Shamed, I quietly remove the upvote I gave to the hysterical person and the downvote I gave to him.
Hysteria like a yawn is an empathic contagion.
Back to Anna it’s not because she’s ugly and it sucks that she might nurse this delusion. I actually think Anna is really pretty. Rather I think it’s because she’s a mom. She registers as a maternal figure. That’s one of the reasons I think people respond to her the way they do. As stated earlier. We are cruel to Anna in order to forgive our moms.
[To be continued: Wherein I say horrible things that should never be said to the people I claim to love. Will also interrogate Sailor Socialism]

So my boyfriend and I have been in a long distance relationship for about 3 months now, talking/flirting more for about 5, known each other for 7-8 years (not that well though). We live in different countries, so we’ve only seen each other a handful of times over the weekends.
The whole thing hasn’t been easy in general, but what I keep having doubts about is his friend (a woman). On one hand we’re adults and you’d expect someone this age to have these things figured out, and he claims he does, so I wasn’t jealous at all at first, but then pretty much everything he told me or did just kept making me doubt that.
Before we were really together (but flirting a lot) she apparently had some money issues he only found out about through their mutual friend and so he offered her to stay at his place. It wasn’t the first time, as it turns out, and he really went out of his way to help her even though she didn’t even tell him she needed help. He also didn’t ask my opinion about it at all, but I chalked it up to us not really being together yet, so it’s not like he had any obligation to.
But then, he didn’t even mention it when she moved in. He never talked about her being there and when I asked, he would say that “she’s not relevant to us”. He has no trouble talking about his other friends though. I got insecure at some point because of his complaints about some things about me and asked him point blank why not be with her then (because he never really said anything bad when it comes to her) - which I know is a terrible question - but his biggest reason was that she’s… too tall. He also said that they’re not that good of friends and he doesn’t really get anything out of this friendship other than feeling good about himself that he’s helping her.
He didn’t really ask her how long she would be staying at his place and I told him I wouldn’t visit when she’s there because it would be too weird (it’s just 1 bedroom + a living room, she’s sleeping on the couch there). He kept asking when I would visit anyway and I kept telling him that it would be when she moves out and to let me know when that might be. He didn’t ask her about that for a couple of months anyway, just kept pressuring me to visit anyway because she could just go somewhere else for those couple of days (it’s what she offered, as far as I understood, not that he asked her).
At some point I asked him if maybe some weekend he could stay a day longer here with me and his reply was that sure, “the only thing is that I would keep [friend] here longer then”. I got really annoyed at that but he claimed he didn’t mean the “keep” part, it’s just his “bad” English (not the first language for either of us). After that he said he asked her - but didn’t really ask about moving out, just what her plans are. She told him she was going home for a week and then would start looking for a new place, but again, no deadline or anything, he just said that hopefully she’d be gone by the end of the month.
The week she was away, things between us were really good. The day she was coming back the vibe was off, and in the evening we were supposed to have a “date”, watching the same tv series at the same time in our homes, because he was always saying how important spending time together is for him, and the week before he even said how happy he is that we are making time for each other. In between episodes I asked him if he wants to take a break to say hi since she was supposed to be back at that time, he said she already was back, I told him jokingly to stop being weird about it because I’m not going to be jealous for no reason but it’s strange when he pretends like she doesn’t exist… He said I’m right, talked to her a bit, came back. All good. But then it turned out he was with her in the living room the entire time during our “date”. He said it’s because he only had the account logged in there (borrowing someone else’s), so it makes total sense, but I told him that after all those stories about how important spending time together is for him, it’s not very nice that he was kind of actually spending time with her, not me, because she was there physically, on the same couch, and the least he could’ve done would be to tell me about it beforehand. But according to him it’s not like that and I’m misunderstanding him.
He did say several times that he’s not attracted to her and she’s just a friend, but every time I try to explain that the things he does make me think otherwise, he blames me for not trusting him. I’ve been trying to make him understand that even if there really is nothing there for him, the things he does make me think otherwise, but according to him it’s just me overthinking, he claims he never meant anything wrong, so it’s not his fault, and it’s actually me hurting him by not believing him.
At this point I honestly have no idea if I’m wrong and reading too much into his actions, and should just believe the intentions over everything else. I’ve been trying to, but every time something happens, I feel worse and worse about it, and it bothers me that he didn’t really do anything to show that what he’s saying is true. But then again, maybe I’m expecting too much? After all he’s been reassuring me that there’s nothing between them. Why does it feel though like what he’s doing doesn’t really match those words? Is it just my overthinking? I’m honestly starting to feel like I’m going crazy… If it really is just my insecurity, how do I stop those feelings?

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