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2011.03.07 11:26 Tortoise

A community for tortoise images, videos, advice, stories, questions and anything else that could be related to this awesome animal.
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2011.08.03 18:24 Raelshark Explain Like I'm Calvin

In the spirit of /explainlikeimfive, here's a place to come up with the best explanation you can on topics you know nothing about. Inspired by Calvin's brilliant dad, who knew everything.
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2012.02.14 02:01 PavementBlues Neutral Politics: Evidence. Logic. Respect.

Neutral Politics is a community dedicated to evenhanded, empirical discussion of political issues. It is a space to discuss policy and the tone of political debate.
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2024.05.13 23:08 iffyexperiments 37 [M4F] #Michigan - I don't want to settle down, I want to unsettle up.

I'm 37, 6'1", and a very average 185 lbs. I'm awkward and young looking (the average guess based on extensive surveys and statistical analysis is 26). My last relationship ended because I wanted to do the big crazy adventures and she wanted to settle down. I get it, we're already late in the game for that. I have health problems that will probably lead to disability in 10-20 years, so honestly I would rather prioritize the adventures over starting a family, even if that means the latter never happens for me (I think it would take some kind of medical breakthrough to convince me that that's even a good idea). My idea is to do pseudo-retirement, where I still work to support myself, but do not otherwise compromise one bit on the adventures.
What kind of adventures? I like to be in the woods and in the mountains. I do over an hour's worth of hard hiking or biking daily. Despite this, I'm not really about pushing myself to the absolute limit or past it. I want to stay more towards the type 1 end of the fun spectrum (no thru hiking of the AT for me, day hikes or even a few days of backpacking would be up my alley, however!). I like to be insanely active in a way that is sustainable, fun, and feels good. I'm average - not super fit because my diet isn't the best despite my high activity level, but I'm hoping to improve in that area.
I don't have a solid type. Just someone who can get on board with my lifestyle and can maybe deal with the fact that I may have more serious issues down the road. I don't need someone who can keep up with me (but it's a plus). I'm not fast, I just have stamina ;). I don't trail run for instance. Too hard on the knees. Maybe you're in a similar boat of having a limited healthspan/lifespan and just want to YOLO your heart out with a partner. Maybe you're living enough in the moment that you don't care about my situation. Or you're an older lady who like younger guys ;).
Tagged as NSFW due to the winky faces.
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2024.05.13 23:08 hayoaa will seeing her ever stop hurting me

18F. after a decade of grappling with my sexuality in a largely homophobic community, I moved across the world for college and met my first love. she seemed to have fallen first but as I got to know her I fell harder. we only officially dated for five weeks and it was just getting so good, and I had finally let my guard down and truly fallen in love with her, and then out of the blue she breaks up with me because of her avoidant style and issues with committing. she told me she wasn't ready for a relationship, etc. and left me with an open wound, an overwhelming desire for her presence, and no one to talk to about it since we kept it secret bc of my situation
2 weeks later she gets with a new guy. not ready for a relationship eh? then when I asked her to talk she just started telling me about how their relationship is better than ours was without a CARE in the world, thinking she's doing nothing wrong. every flaw we had in our relationship that I was willing to work on because of how much I loved and valued her just... didn't exist with this guy. he broke up with his long-term gf for her as well.
my issue is mostly that we're in the same social/professional circles and so despite having unfollowed her on all social media, I still hear about hesee her somehow. I'm back home for the summer now so I only see her through friends' social media/on formal online occasions, but I'm gonna have to see her all the time back in college. I don't think I can handle it. every time I get the slightest update about her, my heart aches and I can't focus on the rest of my life.
she's moved on and happy with this new guy. in fact she's admitted that she loved me as a friend, but only loved the idea of me as a girlfriend. I've been dealing with this immense hurt for longer than we've dated now, and it's overshadowing my entire life, and I bet she goes most days without even thinking about me. I'm so scared that when I see her I won't see a person I used to be close to whose time I am grateful for, but rather a person who hurt me deeply who I still love, thus destroying my self-respect and emotions all over again.
there is no way for me to cut her off completely, but seeing her do anything with her life HURTS. mostly because I care and caring for her hurts. when does it stop? what do I do to feel better about this?
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2024.05.13 23:05 UpsetRecip Hyper Critical Redditeer Moans About Kyle Gordy's Unprofessional Gerbil Encounter

Hyper Critical Redditeer Moans About Kyle Gordy's Unprofessional Gerbil Encounter

CreepyKyle wrote a funny story about his encounter with a gerbil named Peanut. And a hyper critical Redditeer has moaned that Kyle wasn't professional about how he interacted with the rodent. She wanted him to approach the gerbil more like how a doctor would. However just the other day she was commenting how Kyle isn't a doctor and shouldn't pretend to be one. And you don't need to be a doctor to mess with a gerbil. Wouldn't you need to be a vet, if in fact you needed any professional qualifications? I don't think it's professional of the Redditeer to hassle #creepykyle about what did or didn't do with the gerbil. Just give #KyleGordy a break. He didn't harm Peanut physically and after years of gerbil therapy Peanut is now in a good place.

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2024.05.13 23:04 SkyGroundbreaking609 I (19F) am afraid of being slut shamed?

So,
I’ve only been in one relationship (long term) and lost my virginity to that guy.
Previous to this, I grew up extremely religious and spent my entire life in an all girls religious school. In my obscure religion it is common to have arranged marriages.
I stopped practicing that religion and now live on my own. I still believe in religion though and continue to lean with conservative values and would prefer to date a conservative religious man, although maybe someone who is Christian instead of my religion.
I try to present myself in an elegant way with ny style of dress that’s more basic and traditional. I live in a nice place, make decent money and am also focused on studies. I’m not particularly political, but it’s more of a values thing if that makes sense.
My ex partner was good for me. He was a good honest and religious guy. Our sex life was amazing and I was always hungry for him. I never felt ashamed to ask him what I wanted because I didn’t have a past, so I wasn’t afraid of him judging me or thinking about me doing it with other guys before him. I have really intense and strange sexual desires and fetishes that I never told anyone about because of my religious upbringing
Now it’s been a year since that relationship.
I miss the companionship and am ready to begin dating but now I’m very afraid to be viewed differently by men. Some things are different about me now. And I’m definitely less innocent than I was before my first boyfriend. I work at a pole dancing studio doing admin work and it is a big hobbby of mine. However im scared to be judged for it even though im not a stripper and wouldn’t be (no shame to strippers I admire their work! I am just not in that career). I also stay away from tattoos and piercings because I’m more attracted to traditional guys that don’t have any of those, but I do have my tongue pierced now. I love my tongue piercing I feel like it suits me. And yes I did partly get it done for oral sex. I have a huge oral fixation and I love love giving oral. And everything about it. I also feel like I have a very high sex drive in general and sex is so important to me in a relationship
I would never date a guy who has participated in hookups and I also would not participate in one myself. In my social circle all my friends do hookup with people and I totally don’t judge them for it but I wouldn’t date someone that does it.
I’m very afraid that now that I’m re-entering the dating scene and hoping to find a more traditional /conservative guy that I will be judged for my hobby or piercing or the fact that Im not a virgin anymore even though I only have one partner, and that I have a high sex drive.
I know I could just date more open minded people. I’m hoping to do that but keep in mind my religious upbringing and the type of men I am attracted to is very difficult for me to change. I feel inhibited now like I can’t communicate my sexual desires with a guy that I also am hoping to have a long term and religious commitment with. What if he judges me and thinks of me grossly because he imagina me doing it with my ex boyfriend?
TLDR, I’m hoping for a more traditional relationship that leads to marriage. But I want to also engage in wild sex fantasies with my partner. I guess I’m just nervous I won’t be able to have both for some reason.
My question is really just advice here. I feel stuck in between both worlds.
Remember my bias and my upbringing/worldview here. I’m aware this post looks stupid to a more liberal crowd when it comes to human sexuality. I just ask that you consider my circumstances here to try and understand!
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2024.05.13 23:04 Bigdaddy9901245 I am at my breaking point, this shit cannot be sanitary.

Another day more bull shit
We never have any baggers anymore; she has our office staff being the baggers. Which means that they stand at Register 4 talking all day as the cashiers do everything besides push the carts out. I asked her today where her baggers were when I had not seen any in 2 hours "oh Tom and Jane are bagging/running the front/doing go backs etc etc both are CSS BOTH offered promotion to team leader today. Both are hard workers and deserve it, but still it seems stupid we cant seem to schedule our actaul baggers and end up having 5 registers with 2 css running around like chickens whose heads have been cut off.
I got screamed at yesterday by asshole customer who complained afterwards, today I was on register and the bags were stuck together fighting the bags longer then it took to bag the damn order of course the css/team leader were clear across the store chatting. Finally I yanked them off and doing so some fell on the ground where I didnt notice, replaced with a new stack which worked fine.
Some had hit the floor by where my stool was. I didnt notice right away because was just trying to get customers out the door we had no help and were getting backed up. Finally when I had a break I looked down and noticed it I had been stepping on the bags for about 1-1 and a half others and thought it has to be a sanitary issue and the bags are no good. I tossed what had hit the ground in my can.
About 90 minutes later the custodian came over and put them in his garbage. As he walked away the manager stopped him, yanked the bags out of his garbage can opened them up and asked where they came from then came over demanding "why are we wasting bags" me: they have been stepped ON, thats a sanitary issue and have been walked on. Boss: "well we can spray them in our cleaning chemicals and use them anyway" I am sorry but thats disgusting, you want to spray customers bags with chemicals, after they have been stepped and walked on and THEN put their food in them?.
Threatened me with a write up if it happens again, she opened all the bags which granted were around 20 stuck together in a small thing (I honestly didnt care when I gave up on the stuck together shit pile) handed them to another cashier to use them after being on the floor, walked, stepped on PUT in the cashiers garbage can and then the custodians garbage filled container to put food in without "sanitizing" the bag with chemicals.
That cant be sanitary, and in fact it makes me sick even thinking about it.
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2024.05.13 23:04 ZealousidealNet202 AITAH for feeling tempted to cheat on my (22F) boyfriend (24M) with one of my friends from work (33M)?

I (22F) felt tempted to cheat on my boyfriend (24M) with one of my friends from work (33M). Am I a bad person now?
Throwaway account because there is no way that I’m going to write this on my main account- A part of this is just trying to get this off my chest because it is a touchy and morally heavy subject that I felt pretty secure in for all of my life. I knew exactly where I stood when it came to the topic of cheating but now I don’t know anymore. I don’t know if I’m a bad person now and it is also making me question if I should stay in my current relationship. I’m a little scared to reach out to my friends and family on this because I know exactly where they stand with this and I want a fresh perspective on if this is normal or if i need to go see a therapist before I lose everyone in my life.
The backstory is: I (22F) have been dating my boyfriend (24M) (we’ll call him Wesley for the sake of the post) for a little over 13 months. Things have been a little rocky between us since the nature of our work has us doing a long distance relationship for most of the time we were together. It’s gotten to the point where he and I have gotten so busy that me and Wesley have barely gotten to even contact each other. Other little things have contributed to whether I want to stay in the relationship at all like the fact that he doesn’t make time to talk to me even just a little over email or something. It could be small, i don’t really care, but i haven’t heard from him in months. I have to admit that I’m not exactly great about communication either because I am also busy with work and landing a very big promotion that I have been wanting for several years now.
I just recently got this promotion last weekend and in my line of work this promotion is a big deal. A couple of my friends went out to dinner and one of my friends that was at the dinner (26M) said that Wesley is more than capable of communicating at least through email with his work situation which I didn’t really know at the time. When he is free, I keep getting this feeling like he’s avoiding me for some reason (ladies you know the feeling). I don’t have any hard proof that Wesley has been cheating on me at this point but I cannot deny the growing negative intuition I had been intensified by my friend’s statement.
Fast forward to the next day when another group of us went out for food and nightclubbing. This is when my friend (33M) (We’ll call him Adam for the post) came with us. Personally I haven’t gone out like this in a while, so I was a little insecure that I would make a fool of myself in front of my friends that do regularly go out. My insecurity turned out to be in vain since me and Adam ended up teaching a couple of my friends how to do the two-step dance and I was having a really fun time with everyone. At the nightclub about a couple drinks in, two of my female friends went to the bathroom leaving me and Adam alone on the dance floor with the rest of the other people that were also clubbing there. He and I started to two-step again to the beat of the music and he was a really good dancer, he asked me if it was ok to dance with me, and he danced with me like I was a queen that he just scored. To be very clear, neither one of us crossed that line of cheating but I would be lying if I wasn’t absolutely intoxicated with the sexual tension on that dance floor to the point where I had to fight myself internally to keep my sanity in check.
For both me and Adam’s sake, I am glad that I fought that temptation and did keep my sanity in check, but at the same time, even though neither of us crossed that line, I felt more passion and sexual attraction during those few dances alone than I had felt during every past relationship I have had and my current relationship too. The worst part is that I want more of that passion and sexual tension that I have been missing in my relationships that I didn’t even know I had been missing out on. Because of this, I’m now questioning if my relationship with Wesley is even worth saving at this point and I’m also questioning if I had become a bad person if I had felt tempted to cheat on Wesley and the fact that I want more passion like with those two-step dances that I danced with Adam. Again, to clarify, me and Adam never kissed or did the dirty, it’s so hard to explain from just a few dances but the passion and sexual tension in the air between me and Adam was absolutely intoxicating and beautiful and I loved it and want more of it but at the same time, there’s no way that my brain is going to let myself compromise my own integrity, because at that point I know I won’t be able to recover from it. So please internet strangers, for the sake of saving my mental and moral sanity am I a bad person for being tempted to cheat? Do I need to see a therapist before I lose everyone in my life? I have seen so many reddit posts about failing relationships because of cheating but nothing about being tempted to cheat so I want to know if I am totally overthinking this.
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2024.05.13 23:03 RefrigeratorUpset723 Am I asexual or just not sexually attracted to my partner?

Hi everyone, this is my first time writing on a forum and was hoping that I can maybe find some clarification. Me (F) and my partner (M) have been dating for almost 3 years now, and every time we are intimate it feels like a chore. When we do it, it feels good, but at the same time as much as I respect him and would never want to speak badly of him I would like to know if it’s normal that I get so turned off by a lot of things he does in bed, to the point where I don’t enjoy the act at all even though, like I mentioned before, it feels good because he knows what he’s doing. I have had sexual partners in the past when I was single that have satisfied my needs or that I’ve had a connection with while being intimate, with my current partner I’ve never had that “spark”, ever since the 1st time we ever did it. When we started dating I kinda just went along with it because I knew him already and knew that he would be a great partner, plus he’s also a handsome guy with a very good heart. Even though the 1st time we did it I didn’t feel any excitement, I thought that maybe I was just weirded out by the fact that I was having sex with the guy that used to be my best friend in high school. But that feeling hasn’t really changed as much. I wasn’t giving it much thought before because this guy is amazing and he treats me like a queen, but the honeymoon phase is over now and issues like this are starting to become more annoying and making me worried about our future together. People have told me to experiment new things in bed, and trust me, we have but nothing changes the way I feel. I’ve been very confused lately and wondering if there’s an actual possibility that I might be asexual instead of not being sexually attracted to him. I’m pretty ignorant in terms of asexuality. Deep down I wish that was the case because I wouldn’t want to lose a person like this, but at the same time I’ve thought if maybe things would be different if I was with somebody else, even though I would never cheat on this guy or anyone else.
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2024.05.13 23:02 SanderSo47 Weekend Actuals for May 10-12 – 'Apes' Conquer the Box Office

Weekend Actuals for May 10-12 – 'Apes' Conquer the Box Office
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The audience was more than ready to return to the Planet of the Apes.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes topped the box office and showed there's still life in the reboot franchise even with the death of its lead character. And while it wasn't the film to kick off the summer season, it sure felt like it. There were two other newcomers, Not Another Church Movie and Poolman, and both had awful debuts.

The Top 10 earned a combined $89.5 million this weekend. That's off 5.9% from last year, when Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 stayed at #1.

Debuting on first place, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes opened with $58.4 million in 4,075 theaters. That marks the second highest debut in the reboot franchise, just behind Dawn ($72.6 million). It's also beneath Tim Burton's reviled version ($68.5 million), but that's not really a downside.

The fact that it opened higher than War ($56.2 million) is impressive, considering that film opened in the lucrative July month where people had more free time. Even more impressive is the fact that it could achieve it without its lead character Caesar. But credit has to go to Disney and 20th Century Studios for offering something worth watching in theaters.

To differentiate it from the previous films, Kingdom chose to jump 200-300 years from the previous film, which allowed for some creative freedom. The audience could now see a Planet of the Apes film where the apes are the ruling species, which deviated from the previous films establishing that humans could still fight apes. This in turn could also lead to new audiences; the massive time jump meant that people could watch the film without having to watch the previous films. With pretty good reviews, it was a sign that the franchise was worth continuing.

According to 20th Century Studios, 64% of the audience was male and 57% of the audience was in the 18-34 demographic. Critics liked the film, but there's a twist with the audience's reception. The film received a "B" on CinemaScore, far below the previous film and suggesting lukewarm word-of-mouth. Deadline said that 85% of the CinemaScore audience gave the film an A or a B, while the rest went as low as C and D. It's tough to predict its legs, so we'll have to wait until the second weekend drop to see how much effect it has. As long as the film does not drop higher than War (62.9%), that should be considered a win.

Last week's champ The Fall Guy dropped to second place with a $13.6 million weekend. That 51% drop is fine, but it's still not enough to offset disappointment. Through ten days, the film has earned a meager $49.6 million, and it's guaranteed to finish below $100 million, which makes it even more disappointing considering this opened the summer season.

In third place, Challengers eased 43% and earned $4.3 million. That takes its domestic total to $37.7 million, and with the competitive summer season coming up, it looks like $50 million is out of reach by this point.

Sony's horror film Tarot earned $3.4 million. That represents a 48% drop, which is good considering its putrid reaction, although that's not saying much considering how low it opened last week. Through ten days, the film has made $11.9 million, and it will face The Strangers: Chapter 1 next week.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire dropped 42% and added $2.6 million. Its domestic total is now $191.9 million, but this pretty much confirms the film will finish below the $200 million milestone. Looks like Godzilla will still be the MonsterVerse's highest grossing film 10 years later.

After its awful drop last week, Unsung Hero recovered this weekend, easing 15% and grossing $2.5 million. Its Sunday was boosted by Mother's Day, as the film jumped 36% from its previous Sunday. The film has made $17 million so far.

Kung Fu Panda was in seventh place, easing 27% and adding $1.8 million. Its domestic total is $191 million, and it will certainly be impacted with the arrival of IF and The Garfield Movie now.

A24's Civil War dipped 49% and earned $1.8 million. That takes its domestic total to $65.2 million.

Unsurprisingly, the re-release of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace lost so much interest after its first weekend. The film made $1.4 million this weekend, marking a colossal 84% second weekend drop, one of the biggest in history. With this, the film's lifetime gross is now $486 million.

Rounding up the Top Ten is Universal's Abigail, which continues bleeding audience. The film dropped 51% for a $1.1 million weekend. Its domestic total is now $24.7 million, and it's now officially losing to Radio Silence's Ready or Not ($28.7 million).

There was another release, Briarcliff's spoof movie Not Another Church Movie. And it was pretty much ignored, as the film earned just $360,000 in 1,100 theaters (a disastrous $325 per-theater average). This will fall like a rock quickly.

Another disastrous release was Chris Pine's directorial debut Poolman. It opened in 162 theaters, but it made an awful $131,000 ($809 per-theater average). That shouldn't come as a surprise; it had a terrible premiere at TIFF last year, where it got widely panned. Will Chris give it another go at the director's chair?

OVERSEAS

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes also conquered the box office overseas. It debuted with $72.5 million in 52 markets, for a $130.9 million worldwide debut. Its best debuts were in China ($11.4M), France ($7.1M), Mexico ($6.4M), UK ($4.8M), Korea ($3.2M), Australia ($2.7M), Brazil ($2.6M), Germany ($2.2M), Spain ($2.2M) and Indonesia ($1.9M). The China numbers were underwhelming, but it performed strongly in Latin America. Let's see how it goes in the following weeks.

In a notable milestone, A24's Civil War has hit $100 million worldwide, becoming the studio's second film to hit that mark. It's currently sitting at $107 million so far.

The Garfield Movie added $11.2 million this week, taking its overseas total to $36 million. Mexico remains its best market at $12.5 million, while the film had an okay $2.1 million start in Germany. It continues expanding this week, before hitting North America.

The Fall Guy fell to $9.4 million overseas (a 54% drop), taking its worldwide total to just $103.7 million after two weeks. Its best markets are the UK ($8.3M), Australia ($6.6M), Mexico ($3.6M), Germany ($3.4M) and France ($3.4M). It still has China and Japan left, but don't expect those markets to save it.

IF had early premieres in a few markets, earning $3.2 million. It debuted in France with $3.3 million, but it had a soft start in Belgium ($300K). Its international run expands this week.

MOVIES THAT ENDED THEIR RUN THIS WEEK

None.

THIS WEEKEND

We've got three wide releases.

The first is Paramount's IF, which marks John Krasinski's directorial follow-up to A Quiet Place. It stars Cailey Fleming, Ryan Reynolds, Krasinski, Fiona Shaw, along with the voices of Steve Carell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Louis Gossett Jr., Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Maya Rudolph, Jon Stewart, Sam Rockwell, Sebastian Maniscalco, Christopher Meloni, Richard Jenkins, Awkwafina, John Krasinski, Blake Lively, George Clooney, Matthew Rhys, Bradley Cooper, Amy Schumer, Keegan-Michael Key and Vince Vaughn. Its plot follows a young girl and her neighbor who find themselves able to see imaginary friends. Reynolds is one of the world's most popular actors today, and there hasn't been a remarkable family film since Kung Fu Panda 4, so maybe this could surprise. Although it will compete the following week with The Garfield Movie for the family demo.

The second is Lionsgate's The Strangers: Chapter 1, and is the first part of a trilogy (all directed by Renny Harlin). Horror could take a win, considering the genre has been performing very badly this year. But is The Strangers the answer to that?

And the last one is Focus Features' Back to Black, a biopic focused on Amy Winehouse's life. The film has attracted controversy since its announcement, especially because Winehouse's father was involved (if you know her life, you'll understand why this is not well received). It already opened in a few markets, including the UK, and it has amassed $32 million so far. With this kind of bad buzz and weak reviews, don't be surprised if the film is front-loaded.
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2024.05.13 23:01 knudipper Denali Trip Report from 6/2023

Posting to help myself process the climb and provide thoughts for others thinking about Denali unguided on minimal experience. Open to thoughts and critique from people who know what they're doing. I'm obliged to thank all those who provided their thoughts and guidance to me on this subreddit a year ago. Also, to the guidance from Steve House and the other guy in their YouTube Denali video.
TLDR: Did not summit, learned lots.
It was a great idea... We trained pretty hard in the flatlands... We bought lots of good gear... and some not so good..... We were optimistic.....And realistic, we thought....
But... man, oh man. Denali is BIG, Alaska is BIG. And Talkeetna felt very small after 24 hours.
First alert was assembling our food. We drop shipped almost all the food to our hotel in Anchorage. We got in about 9pm, got everything from the desk and walked over to Wal Mart for the rest. Started packing food into daily rations about 10pm. We thought that would take 30 minutes. Try close to four hours, confusion, second guessing ourselves and each other on quantities, days, recipes. Got to sleep much later than we thought. We both worried that we'd be tired, maybe too tired for when we were dropped off on the glacier the next afternoon. HAH!!
Met Gary the shuttle driver the next morning. Watch some other TRs on YouTube and you'll get to know Gary, friendly, outgoing with good info about Talkeetna. We arrive on time, go through check in and somehow we got bumped out of our Ranger meeting. Come back later and we'll still have time to get to our flight. Did I mention it's overcast with light rain? Go through the ranger meeting, head over to TAT to find that we're 76th and 77th on the waitlist with. "Come back tomorrow at 8am for an update." Two guys we met on the shuttle actually make the plane that day because they understood the process with TAT and were all set to go after the Ranger meeting. Guy at TAT checks us in and takes our $$. No other info is offered or asked for. We're aware we need sleds and wands but we guess they just go on the plane with us.
We find the TAT climbing hostel and are grateful to find two bunks in the same room. My buddy is, not germophobic, but he is right up to that line. We eat at a restaurant that night, figuring, hey, 7 climbers per flight, 11 flights, mid afternoon tomorrow right? We check in at TAT at 8am, they're making waffles and have actually great coffee. But they have no idea if there'll be any flights today. Wander back and forth from the hostel, through town to the airfield. This is day 2 of 16 days we've given ourselves to go up. At day 16, no matter where we are, we go down.
Day 3, repeat day 2 but now we're using the hostel kitchen. I'm cool with the level of hygiene because this is only a level or two beyond how I grew up, when things got chaotic. I'm impressed with my buddy's fortitude, and grateful because I don't want to pay for food when it's already been bought. We hear good news that afternoon about the weather. Buddy suggests we get an AirBnB for this night to get a good nights sleep and clean shower before we likely fly out the next day.
Day 4, the weather starts to clear and now there's real activity at the airfield. My buddy, who doesn't sit still well, joins a group of workers at the airfield digging a trench. I sit on the deck, breathing deeply and hoping we can get out today. Then we get word we're up soon. Then I ask, hey what about sleds and wands? Find out climbers should get this arranged right after check in and we scramble around getting this set up. I grab a sled without looking it over well. As we and our gear are being driven over, I see this sled has some serious cracks and swap for a better one 10 minutes before we fly out.
The flight up is amazing. The transition on the glacier is hectic, a short controversy about which mountain can belongs to who and we get off the landing strip quick. We find a spot to set our tent a fair ways up the hill and get to work melting water for dinner and the next day. Take my skis out in order to prep for tomorrow and find the front straps of my skins have torn and are irreparable. I walk around camp, find a guy who's leaving who sells me his skins for $50. Can't believe how lucky I am. I walk around and get pictures, bury, wand and gps tag our cache. I'm blown away, I'm alive in a way I've only experienced a few other times in my life. I'm excited to get going in the wee hours of day 5. Plenty of days left, right?
Get up and going on time. Feels so good to be hauling the sled, carrying the pack. Going down is helpful. Going on flat and climbing isn't bad. I am working harder than my buddy(MB) from here on. He's 20 years younger and places top 5 in regional ultras, I'm a caboose guy at these. Anyhow, I feel like I'm holding him up, like he's disappointed in our pace. We arrive at 8K camp 8 hours later. MB points out that successful groups do this in 6hrs. I'm reply I'm working at a pace that I believe gets me to 14K in good shape, and what else did you want to do today? Ends fine, we each accept where the other one's at. Set up camp, Denali Pizza (simple and awesome) for dinner. Melt water, pull out the gear, food we'll cache at about 9.5K tomorrow. Good day, amazing as clouds lift a bit and we see more terrain.
Day 6, realize we're not eating 2 bagels each per day. We've over planned with bagels and several other foods. Too much weight but unsure about how to move things around. Lighter packs, lighter sleds and the first real climb. We do good work, talk a bit to teams coming down, most not having summitted. Bury, wand and GPS tag our cache. Tie empty sleds to our packs and head down. When we get to the real down hill, it's trashy, flat light, and I'll own this: I was rattled being off balance with a bit more weight and bulk going down. Got in my head and took some time to descend. MB frustrated or just me in my head? Got back down, did camp work, napped, ate dinner.
Day 7, push up to 11K. Snow picking up and visibility still good. I'm slower than MB again, and even though this is a fact we're both well aware of since we talked about Denali 3 years ago, it's in my head and won't leave that I'm holding us back. We start up the first real climb into 11 camp. Wind blown snow is making wands hard to see, we're using his Garmin to verify the route. The skins I bought at the airfield don't cover the width of my skis at the tips and tails. As we're taking an aggressive elevation gain on switchbacks, I'm slipping more and more with less skin to snow contact. We crest the rise and hike through the camp to find a spot at the uphill end. We begin setting up camp. I mention looking forward to having a kitchen tent now that we'll be in the same place for 3 days. MB basically says, go ahead but I don't think we need that and I won't be part of digging it out or setting it up. I get started probing an area, setting the outline of the dig and then realize this will take me hours and give up. Dinner, melt water, discuss tomorrow's back hauling. I propose we boot down from 11 camp and put skis on at the base of the climb and MB seems okay with it.
Day 8, wake up to heavy snow. Dig out our enclosure and have breakfast. Put more food we didn't eat into the "carry forward bag" which is getting heavier by the meal. Dig out again, and again, and again. Mid-afternoon we start getting weather reports through garmin in-reach texts with a guy back home and from other teams and guides. Consensus in 6 more days of this but up to 48" per day. I run the math: 8+6=14. Hmmm: 16-14=2. Then I run the flights per day math and number of teams we've seen descending, number of teams likely to descend with this forecast. My math says we could be stuck here 6 days and at the airfield for that or more. All for 2 more possible days of ascent. MB disagrees and wants to wait it out. We walk through various scenarios and I hold firm. MB agrees we'll go down because we both agreed if one wanted to go down for any reason, that was that. MB is a guy who holds to his word in this and all aspects of life.
We pack up. Fast...and sloppy. We want to fly out tomorrow. I'm not excited anymore, I'm anxious and want off Denali. Not be in a tent for two weeks in snow. We boot down the hill below 11 camp, put on skis and find our cache at 9.5, combine stuff. I get my stuff packed well. We start down. The track is blown in and we are navigating entirely by Garmin, using the standard route. Not reversing our climb up, which followed the visible track and wands. Are we actually on safe snow? We're both thinking that question but not saying it out loud. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I'm in front setting the track so MB's sled has something to ride in. If he's in front, his sled tips over. He's calling directions to me for the route, "Left...more left...rightish... too far."
We head down the last hill into 8 camp. I allow my sled to be in front of me and steer it like reins on a horse. Snow plow, keep it slow and things are moving along fine for me. MB wipes out over and over. Repacks his sled and gets down the last 200 yards well. We ski right through 8 camp. Someone asks if we're headed down and then says that if we call in to the airfield from there, we're already in line. True or not, we're finishing this in one push. Visibility is still about 15 feet but now we have a track to follow. We're both cautious with the downs. Don't know if we need to let it rip to go up again or if there's a corner we need to be slow for. We get to the airfield in 9.5 hours. Dig up our cache and consolidate our gear.
MB decides he'd rather not cowboy camp with the fly and we set up the tent and go to sleep. Up at the appointed hour and get in the flight queue. The guy says he'll give us plenty of notice so we can take down our tent, IF we fly out today. I am now watching every cloud for signs of building or diminishing. A few planes fly in, circle and leave. We're napping on and off.
Then I hear the guy yelling, "that's your plane". It's being loaded. We're 200 yards away in our fully set up tent, pads and bags. FUCK, FUCK, FUCK. I go down and ask "what happened?" "I don't know, two guys snaked your flight." Talk a bit more about other stuff, what he's been reading, we're into some similar literature. He then guarantees we'll be on the next flight that comes in, whether today or tomorrow. I'm listening for airplanes full on now, just want to get down and be off the mountain.
We do get on a flight that day, get a hotel and move flights and shuttle to fly out of Anchorage tomorrow. I walk down by the river and call my wife. "Honey, this will sound weird, I need you to tell me I'm really off the mountain and not dreaming." This helps a lot.
We make all our connections and fly out, get back home the next day. If you got this far, thanks, I guess. It's cathartic to write all this down. I replay this trip or parts of it every couple weeks even now. MB and I did our repair work and still call, text, hang out, run together when I'm in town. I do not regret going one bit, yet not getting further up still hits me hard. My fears and reaction to niggling discomforts on the mountain tell me I'm weak.
If I did it again:
  1. No skis on Denali for me. I'm a competent skier and can get down serious stuff out west without embarrassing myself. A pack and a sled skiing down through crud with low visibility? Snow shoes all...the...way.
  2. 4 people, not two. Enough guys to set up a kitchen tent, split camp duties into smaller tasks. I need a place to spread out, talk, cook and eat in a comfortable position.
2A. Allow way more time, a month total.
  1. Better conversations about pace and relative speed well before the trip.
  2. We did ropes work, simulated crevasse rescue, camped out in -10F. More time winter camping and skinning in the woods together.
  3. MB and I climbed Mt Adams. We summitted Rainier together unguided in 8/2022. Took a 3 day custom guided mountaineering class in 12/2021 to learn skills. Didn't go above 7K in the class. Handled our shit well for two days. Not enough time to really know what we're in for physically and work through team frictions about pace, leisure time, camp life. Maybe we could have climbed Rainier and Baker on the same trip? Maybe spend several days at Camp Muir and summit twice? Climb Rainier early season?
  4. Guided if I try again? Maybe.
I read this back and the inner critic says, "I'm a whiny bitch", just like when I am thinking about it every couple weeks. If I go back it can't be about that, not trying to prove that voice wrong. If I go back...it'll be because of that alive feeling I got on the airfield glacier, to have it again, to avail myself of a second chance to live a dream.
Thanks for reading all this. Part confessional, part TR.
I feel better.
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2024.05.13 23:00 Feles_Amans Forgiven. (Art & Ressurectionpost 1/4)

Forgiven. (Art & Ressurectionpost 1/4)
/uw few things first, No the Art isn’t by me (I am a talentless wretch xD) but it was commissioned by me from the wonderful Kahlrul S, who understood the vision from the beginning. Secondly just really quickly wanted to shoutout the incredible members of the SGA for waiting so damm long and patiently on this arc, to finally happen, but especially to the amazing u/Zyltris who actually sat and RP’d out the entire following loredump with me… thanks for making me cry… for several hours… and I really did feel obligated to do our conversation justice… so here’s hoping I did xD… anyways back to the story…
/rw
Much time has passed for Nhak during his stay in heaven. Seph comes and goes at varying times to provide things for him, and occasionally joins in while he's talking through the aether to his friends of the SGA.
*Today is different, however. Seph stops and plops down somewhere nearby.
"Say, Nhak! You've been here a while. How are you feeling? Thoughts?*
“I figure we haven't spoken much despite my being your only company up here... Well, other than about things happening in the prime material."
The old Biomancer pauses… and sighs… seemingly tired and exhausted as ever… she suspects he hasn’t slept a wink since he arrived in heaven… despite what he tells her… and kneels across from the goddess… Magnificent golden armor clanking slightly as he does…
A part of Seph finds it semi-amusing that the biomancer’s armor in life was so important to his identity that it was deemed a vital aspect of his spirit form in death…
Nevertheless… he’s clearly worried about something… and though his emotionless helm… intentionally or not… hides a great deal of his emotions from the outside world… She has been around him for long enough to tell based off the little, barely visible subconscious habits what his mood happens to be… something which… despite his profound wisdom and experience… has clearly not fully realized… or at least chosen to accept and ignore…
"Despite the fact I'm capable of reading peoples' minds, experience tells me the best bet is to talk to them about it. I'm not just asking to know, I'm asking so you can express it." Seph says, and she rolls around to lie on her back to stare at the ceiling.
She twirls her finger around in an idle motion, not looking directly at Nhak. She is rather casual in all this.
"You're a good man, but you keep things close to the chest. I understand, but nonetheless..."
The Biomancer places a spectral left hand on his face and makes a rubbing motion, almost as if he was trying to clean something from his eyes…. only… they’re under his helm, so the motion doesn’t accomplish much aside from making a faint steel-on-steel scraping noise which seems to resonate in the observably endless void for minutes on end…
The Biomancer sighs again… he opens his mouth… as if to speak… but seemingly thinks better of it… once again… it can be easily identified that despite his countless hours sitting, listening, advising people on the best ways around their problems and woes… sitting in the exact position that Seph sat now
He clearly wasn’t experienced in playing the other side…
“I… I guess I’m just worried about them… they are… really, the only friends I’ve had besides a few closed communities of dwarves and ents for several hundred years….”
“I was alone”
“For a very long time… And…. And then Ash tripped into my woods…”
“And that changed everything…”
“So I… guess I’m worried about her too…”
“And…”
He pauses… his voice wavering heavily… he is very clearly on the cusp of tears… It is an interesting sight… perhaps… a metal giant, staunch, resolute, and unbreakable… curled in his knees…
Weeping.
“T-… There were people… that I wanted to see again… up here… old friends long gone…”
“But none are anywhere to be found…”
“And I guess… that for the first time since I met my apprentice…”
“I feel truly alone again”
“And…. And that-“
And then the Biomancer could take no more… the sound of his weary and uncertain voice cut abruptly short by the soft sound of sniffling and the faint patter of tiny Ethereal water droplets… as they descended from the base of his helm onto his breastplate below…
A tiny waterfall amongst an endless sea of clouds.
Seph sits up from her lying position, and looks at Nhak. He finally let something out!
"I'm sorry things turned out like this here... I know how it feels. Do you want to tell me about them? Your friends?"
The Biomancer looks up at Seph from his metal ball…
“My… friends?”
“Well…”
He says…momentarily stifling his tears… the calculated visage of the unyielding bastion sliding faultlessly back into place… as it had done so many times before…
“Those which are still around you have mostly met, with 3 notable exceptions I suppose…”
“And I think… If I were to describe the friends now gone I should have a tale to tell the length of which exceeds the time in which we have to spend in heaven itself…”
“I knew so many wonderful people in my life… and lost so many more…”
For a moment… another crack seems to form in his emotional armor which seems to lie as a second suit beneath his plate… before sealing itself instantly…
“When I died… I truly was the very… very last of a great many things… for I carried with me the memory of the things that came before… and now I fear some of that memory is lost from the earth…”
“And we will never remember their achievements….”
“Or their sacrifices…”
"You remember them, Nhak. And their souls, while not here, live on in the world that went on without them... Even if unremembered."
Seph clasps her hands and closes her eyes for a moment.
"I know how you feel because there are friends and family I left behind too. No one here, in this universe, knows their names."
"I had a tendency to talk too much, but I learned to slow down for their sake. I wish I had the chance to talk to them more... And I hope you don't mind me saying that. I just want to show that I relate."
She looked at him, a solemn expression turned his way. It is sad, but not without a modicum of warmth.
"I think there is a reason your soul is stuck here beyond the mechanics of your arts and their effect on your soul. I could send you back myself, but I know there's resistance that comes from your soul's desires, so I never pushed it."
And then… She hugged him.
The Biomancer collapsed Instantly to his knees.
There were no words… in basic… nor elvish… nor dwarvish… nor entish… nor any other language or dialect he had ever learned over the many… many years he had been alive to describe the sheer weight of emotions which seemed to crush him as if the weight of a mountain had been placed squarely between his shoulders…
His emotional armor… his behemoth stoicism… had not just been cracked…
It had been completely destroyed.
All of the years of cuts, little fractures, and ramshackle repairs… made by people he had cared for…
Buckling under the weight of a single hug…
Gone in an Instant.
Nothing could describe the Anger, which boiled from his toes to the tip of his head…
A raw… unbridled fury… directed inwards towards the empty hole where his soul should have been… and which it was… in a way…
A fury at his foolishness… to believe that those who truly cared about him if they discovered what he was… and how he felt…
A sadness, which surged through his body like a raging monsoon… stinging the tips of his nerves, from his hands to his feet… sending shockwave after shockwave through this body, which saw him jolt and twitch in the firm and unbreakable embrace of the goddess…
A cool fire which raged within the man…
The sadness… that came with the knowledge… that had he continued upon his path… he would force away the few people who were left to care about him…
The Fear… which gripped him like the grasping of a beast which sought to squeeze him out of existence… which blurred his vision and barred his senses… which pressed in like a looming darkness… surrounding on all sides…
The fear of being alone again… the fear of…
being left behind….
And then.
There was the Love…
The love which resonated through the embrace of the goddess and into the very fiber of the broken man… closing the wounds that would not heal with the coming and passing of the times…
The love which promised him a light amongst all the others…
The love which promised him…
That he would never be alone…
That he would be cared for…
That he would be cherished…
The love which told him… that even amongst the impossibility and danger of the universe…
That he would never again be the boy in the woods… weeping… abandoned by those he had trusted…
Blood on his hands…
Blood in his eyes…
Running aimlessly into the coming night…
And that.
Through all the pain and suffering…
Through all the trial and trauma…
He had finally been forgiven.
And with that… he began to cry… silently at first… but growing steadily in fervor and pace…
After all… what could he even hope to do… but grip the goddess back… as tight as he could muster, as if somehow a mighty gust of wind might blow her away from him…
And weep into her arms…
Thick…black tears…
The weight of the emotions leaving his body given physical form through the might of the spectral realm…
The tears came steadily… and there was no end… each one leaving a deep… black stain as it rolled down his torso and into the cloud below…
Staining his torso…
And yet… remarkably… not a single tear ever touched Seph… for when they came close… they merely drifted around her shape… like little black fairies which danced between the two as they knelt…
And through the weeping and the shuddering and the staining… Seph could only hear two words… weary… and barely audible… from the Biomancer mouth, words which were repeated… over, and over, and over again and again and again…
“I’m…”
“Sorry.”
While Nhak's hold on Seph is tight, afraid as though she would fall away, her hug is just there. Reassuring. She closes her eyes, and smiles as she knows everything going on through his mind.
The images of his past: running in the woods, and weeping. They all pass through her mind too. She remembers her own perspective of running through the woods, and of fleeing the terror behind her. Cast into the darkness, in chains, and unforgiven.
A hand reached down through the abyss, and she saw his face - a father. Other faces too, of friends and of family, of lovers and of children. Far away now, but still in her heart.
The act of freedom is extended by love. When Seph was made free, when Seph escaped, it was not just because she was loved…
*** But because she had loved too.***
"Nhak. Do not say sorry."
Seph moves away and holds him by the shoulders. He sees her tears, as clear as day, but she's smiling back at him.
"You're forgiven. It is time to really be free."
And with those words.
He was.
He was Free.
Free from the sadness of loss…
The loss of his friends…
The loss of the only one he had ever truly loved…
The loss of his first apprentice…
The loss of a great many things now forgotten by all but himself…
Free from the guilt which had haunted him for as long as he could possibly remember…
The guilt for the blood which stained his hands…
The guilt for those he had failed…
The guilt, for those he had left behind…
Free from the fear which consumed him and drove him to the cusp of madness…
The fear of failure in the face of the earth
The fear of failure in the eyes of the heavens…
The fear of failure in the view of those he cherished…
He. Was. Free.
And suddenly through the love…
The tears stopped…
And the heavens were quiet…
And then a tremor shook the Biomancer…
Like the final throes of a dam ready to burst under the pressure of a mighty river
A Tremor which shook the heavens…
There was a terrible groaning… as armor bulged and buckled…
And then there were wings…
Beautiful, black wings
…which erupted from the back of the Biomancer and which seemed to billow his sins out and away from him like a mirage of wispy black smoke which seemed to fade into the infinity of the heavens themselves…
For he would be weighed down no longer…
By his Sorrow.
By his Guilt.
By his Fear.
Now… he was free…
And he would use the weight of his sins not as a burden to shoulder…
But as wings…
Which would propel him ever up towards the person which he aspired to be most.
A Biomancer.
A Master.
A Mentor.
A Friend.
For now…
by the hand of the goddess in which embodied its very sake…
He truly was…
Free.
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2024.05.13 23:00 subuso I hate the whole independence and self-sustenance movement

Humans are social beings who coexist and share experiences. But nowadays the whole world is telling us we have to be independent and support ourselves, the earlier the better.
This is making people become extremely depressed because they have to overwork themselves to make sure they stay ahead of everyone else. This also makes us more lonely, as we need to put up a front and pretend everything is good, when in fact we are all unhappy because we did not choose to do all of this. Some of us just want to live a comfortable life without extreme luxury
It really saddens me to see that as humans we are becoming more and more distant when we can all probably relate to each other on deep levels
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2024.05.13 22:59 Silent_Box7367 Looking for a little to take care of and support!! (only adults)

Please do not message me if you dry text or is not looking for something serious!!!!!! I will not answer any low effort answer. Hello hello everyone Thank you for taking this time to look at my post and if you read the post until the end, I will give you a tight hug and lots of strawberries! 🍓! I hope you like it
But let's start with why I'm here: I really miss the caring and loving aspect of this dynamic/relationship, something inside me truly loves taking care of someone, making sure that they are feeling comfortable and happy under my care brings me so much joy and it always makes my day! I used to love taking care of but the person I was talking to straight up disappeared overnight, but that does not make me less valuable than I am, in fact it was a sign that my soul mate is still somewhere around the world!
I am 20y , I'm 6'2 and I consider myself a very supportive and caring person, as well as a simple person, I love finding joy and enjoying the small moments in the life! Personality wise I'm a very good listener and a bit introvert but I really open up when the "oh my god that's the person!" thing happens hehe, then when it happens, be ready to receive lots of messages! Also English is not my first language but I am very skilled at it so far
About my caring side, my main point is so ensure your mental, physical and emotional health, such as constant reminders, giving you tasks, schedules, rewards and making a system to make you feel accomplished and accountable every day! I will give a big emphasis in the mental health, I would like to listen to you, your problem and struggles and help you accordingly, specially helping you to cope with bad feelings and bad things that might have happened in the past, always one step at a time
And about what I'm looking for, I'm looking for someone to take care of and look after, romance is a very big thing for me since I think it does influence a lot in the dynamic/relationship, someone that is open to grow with me and help you in the good and bad days too! Body wise I don't have any preference, I will accept you just the way you are, age (of course an adult) and location wise I don't have any problem too! We can discuss certain things more in depth when we're both comfortable
Although I do have deal breakers: - I can't stand cheaters and liars, I've had a very bad experience and I don't tolerate it at all - I am not interested in someone that is already comprised or in a poly relationship, I am monogamous only - I am not looking for a brat, if you are, sadly we won't be compatible at all. Plus I really hate dry text
We'll I guess that's it I can think about! If you read this far, there it is your reward 🍓🍓🍓!!! Please, if you're interested tell me a little bit about you! I'll be glad to get to know you better
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2024.05.13 22:55 Briniestlol 18 [M4F] Arkansas/USA: Looking for somebody to talk to and hopefully form a longterm relationship

I would like to start off, please don't just say "Hi" I would like to hear at least a little bit about you such as age, gender and hobbies :<
Hi! Male 18 Arkansas! Looking for somebody to talk to and hopefully get along with, hopefully we can become something more than friends? I'd prefer that over anything. Also, don't ghost me? I'm tired of being ghosted :>
My cons, I can't drive at the moments but I'm working my way to get there. I will have my license soon!
I'm also slightly chubby but my height kinda fixes it. I'm around 6 feet tall and weigh around 230lbs
I play games alot or sleep alot.
I'm very clingy and I get attached way to easily
My pros?
I can cook! I can make really good fried chicken and homemade baked Mac n cheese so if you ever want some im your guy :3
I try my best to be sweet and kind
I'm a pretty big nerd (not book smart but random fact smart)
And I have a cat!
I also love stuffed animals and I really hope to be able to make a collection someday
My interests/hobbies Include: playing games, drawing, watching tv/YouTube, listening to music, cooking, and learning useless lore about things.
Now, I don't really have a type, I love all shapes and sizes of people (although I do prefer chubby people! It means they know how to eat well) but please don't hesitate to dm me! I'm sure that as long as you aren't too manipulative or toxic well be fine!
And my age range? Please don't be over 25. Anything over just kinda makes me feel uneasy :<
I really hope to talk to you!!!!
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2024.05.13 22:55 Josemartinez725 What is going on with my 1917’s receiver (rebarreling debacle)

What is going on with my 1917’s receiver (rebarreling debacle)
My gunsmith pulled the old barrel (pictured on the left) out of my 1917, which I had given to him for rebarreling with the barrel I had purchased from Numrich (pictured on the right). My gunsmith was adamant that it was the wrong barrel, and that there was no way for him to fit the barrel to the receiver, short of cutting the replacement, and even then, he was doubtful that he could fit the replacement. Initially, I had thought that the gunsmith was giving me any excuse that he could not to do the job, but when he sent me a photo of the threads of the barrels side by side-by-side, I could see that in fact the threading is not the same. In fact that, every single replacement barrel I’ve seen on the internet has seven threads compared to the five present on my rifle’s original barrel. Does anyone have any good guesses what could be the reason for this discrepancy? I don’t have any images of the barreless action at the moment, but I intend to take some when I swing by later on this week. My gunsmith was making all sorts of crazy suggestions, like using a new action, or buying a blank to recreate the correct threading. I’m just completely stumped as to why the discrepancy. The original barrel appears to be legit USGI, marked with the US Ordnance flaming bomb logo, but for whatever reason, the threading looks completely different from any of the replacement barrels to be had in the aftermarket. Any ideas appreciated.
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2024.05.13 22:55 Briniestlol [18/M] Arkansas/USA: Looking for somebody to talk to and hopefully form a longterm relationship

I would like to start off, please don't just say "Hi" I would like to hear at least a little bit about you such as age, gender and hobbies :<
Hi! Male 18 Arkansas! Looking for somebody to talk to and hopefully get along with, hopefully we can become something more than friends? I'd prefer that over anything. Also, don't ghost me? I'm tired of being ghosted :>
My cons, I can't drive at the moments but I'm working my way to get there. I will have my license soon!
I'm also slightly chubby but my height kinda fixes it. I'm around 6 feet tall and weigh around 230lbs
I play games alot or sleep alot.
I'm very clingy and I get attached way to easily
My pros?
I can cook! I can make really good fried chicken and homemade baked Mac n cheese so if you ever want some im your guy :3
I try my best to be sweet and kind
I'm a pretty big nerd (not book smart but random fact smart)
And I have a cat!
I also love stuffed animals and I really hope to be able to make a collection someday
My interests/hobbies Include: playing games, drawing, watching tv/YouTube, listening to music, cooking, and learning useless lore about things.
Now, I don't really have a type, I love all shapes and sizes of people (although I do prefer chubby people! It means they know how to eat well) but please don't hesitate to dm me! I'm sure that as long as you aren't too manipulative or toxic well be fine!
And my age range? Please don't be over 25. Anything over just kinda makes me feel uneasy :<
I really hope to talk to you!!!!
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2024.05.13 22:54 _Revelator_ Clakson's Column: The general election doesn’t matter

Ignore the overheated geeks: the general election doesn’t matter
By Jeremy Clarkson (The Sunday Times, May 12)
I went to the finals of the Madrid Open tennis championships last weekend, where a spindly man from Russia was set to face an unseeded French Canadian, who turned up in a cowslip yellow version of the fetching playsuit that Sean Connery wore in Goldfinger.
The spindly man made a shaky start, and it looked like General Montcalm was on course for an amazing victory. But then the man with legs like pipe cleaners started to fight back. And you could sense the tension. In one corner of the stadium, you had Montcalm’s friends, family and trainers writhing in a cauldron of dopamine and serotonin, willing their man to hang on in there. And in the other corner, there was a tribe of Russians doing exactly the same thing.
It was a good match with some epic baseline rallies, a lot of nifty backspin dolly drops, and a palpable sense of infectious excitement from all the tennis fans in the stadium. Me included. It was gripping and fascinating, but here’s the thing: I absolutely couldn’t care less who won. I’ve no love for Russia at the moment, obviously, and I think the French Canadians need a smacked bottom. James Wolfe won: get over it and speak English. But watching the fight was tremendous. And of course, that brings me on to the general election.
All over Westminster, there are hundreds of people who are frothing at the mouth with anticipation of the forthcoming duel. Wonks. Journalists. Lobbyists. They love the fight, the game. They meet and gossip and when you see them huddled round an embarrassing Student Time YouTube clip that’s just emerged, you sense they are actually aroused.
They wait in a mummified state, like the flight controllers at Nasa when a spaceship is in the re-entry radio blackout zone, for someone on the front line to say something which is at odds with the party line. Or for a junior minister to appear on the BBC News programme and not know the price of a loaf of bread. Then that’s it. Their down-the-line winner.
Every small mistake, every bacon sandwich moment, is pounced upon with delirious glee. They wait, like Frost did when he was in the third round against Nixon, for Angela Rayner to admit she had two houses, or no houses, because that’ll be that in their eyes. Game, set and match.
Of course, those in the Sunak dugout will noisily explain that this is proof that she’s Ronald Biggs in a frock. While at the other end of the court, Sir Starmer’s gatekeepers will argue that she’s only human. And news of all of these titbits will be broadcast with squeaky glee to a wider audience than the one watching Baby Reindeer.
I usually care about a general election. And I certainly cared about the Brexit referendum. But this time round, you can vote for a party that’s useless by accident. Or a party that will be useless on purpose. So it really doesn’t matter who wins. It won’t change your life in any way, shape or form.
Cancel culture and a woke civil service means the Conservatives won’t even be allowed to say what they want to do, let alone actually do it. And the Labourites will be prevented from making the changes they want by the world’s financial markets, and common sense.
We are told that if the Tories win, non-doms will continue to avoid paying taxes, which won’t make a ha’porth of difference to you because you don’t even know what a non-dom is. And then we have news that if the Labourists win, people will no longer be able to buy their council houses. And that doesn’t affect you either.
Then you’ve got Sir Starmer on the trans issue. He implied last year that a woman can have a penis and immediately the Westminster fanboy bubble went bananas. “HE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT A WOMAN IS,” they bellowed. And we all sat at home, sighing and thinking: “Yes he does. He just can’t say it, because unlike JK Rowling, he needs a job”.
We saw a similar thing with Mr Rishi when footage emerged of him saying he doesn’t have any working-class friends. Straight away the wonks were out of their seats, spitting with fury as they explained he only eats swan and that he uses his butler’s children as footstools. Meanwhile, you were thinking: “I really ought to mow the lawn.”
Doubtless there will be fans of the political system bouncing up and down in their seats right now, pointing to the recent council elections in which a Muslim chap, standing on the Green ticket, celebrated his win by saying it was a victory for Gaza, and referred to a local Jewish chap as a “kind of animal”. He sounds like the sort of chap who manages to be daft and unpleasant all at the same time, but he’s in Leeds and most of you aren’t, so what does it matter if his head’s full of silly nonsense? All he’s going to be able to do in the next five years is have a very small say on where the next park bench will be built.
It’s not a completely different story for whoever wins the general election. They may have the power to make changes, but only in the same way that they have the power to drop a nuclear bomb on Belgium. It’s not actually going to happen.
The fact is that we will be treated to a bombardment of promises and polls in the coming months. And it will be a good spectator sport. But it doesn’t really matter who wins because the pot holes will continue to give you punctures, the trains will continue to be unreliable, air travel will continue to be a nightmare, NHS waiting lists will continue to be barbaric, the navy’s missiles will continue to misfire, the small boats will continue to arrive, farmers will continue to get a kicking, bills will continue to land on the doormat, we’ll all continue to pay taxes and we’ll all continue to die.
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And here's the Sun column: "I’ll be staying in the UK this summer and not going abroad – here’s why."
Clarkson's columns are regularly collected as books. You can buy them from his boss or your local bookshop.
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2024.05.13 22:53 shaneka69 CANCER ZODIAC - UNEXPECTED INCOME! TAROT READING MAY 2024

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2024.05.13 22:52 moldy_oats What to expect when stopping

Been using meth frequently for almost 18 or 19 years. In fact I've been doing it daily for about the last 9 or 10 years. The 8 or 9 years before that I was using probably 4 to 6 days a week. I didn't used to think I was addicted because I started out using it just to make myself want to go to work and to make it getting up super early in the morning easier( I work shitty hours 3am-1pm most days). My life has changed a lot over the last few years though. When I started I was a bachelor and I'm married now and have two beautiful daughters. Nobody has any idea of my addiction. In fact the only person that knows about it is my plug. But after doing it daily for so long I can really start to tell it's taking a toll on me. My lungs, my teeth, my skin, my heart are all starting to show the effects of my usage. I've lived this lie and kept up this charade for almost 8 years now of somebody that can get up and go to work really early and work his ass off all day then come home and still have energy for the family. So the idea of stopping kind of scares me. I don't want to have to go do a treatment or rehab because I've heard those don't do a whole lot of good for someone trying to quit. I really just kind of want to know what to expect mentally and physically so I could better prepare myself and to have a greater chance of not relapsing or going back to relying on it to not be tired. Anyone got any pointers?
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2024.05.13 22:50 just_melancholia My entitled mother doesn’t approve of my relationship and makes outrageous racist comments

For context, I’m a 25yo female, that comes from a mixed background (my mother 56F is a white woman from southern Europe, my father is from the Balkans and migrated to my country when he was younger). This is relevant and you will understand later.
I moved away from home as soon as I could when I was 18 after a not so good childhood, and currently live in another European country. My parents are divorced, my father is not really in the picture, I keep in touch with my mother on a daily basis and come visit her and the rest of the family once or twice a year. We never had the best relationship but since I moved out it improved a lot. I’d say we get along better when I’m far away from home.
Anyway, back to the reason of this post. I’ve been seeing this guy for more than a year, he’s great, we’re slowly getting to know each other and see where this is going. We are not in a rush but of course this is a relationship and I felt it was time to tell something more to my mother. I’ve always been quite open about my relationships and people I was dating, however since getting older I started being more private as I don’t think it would be good to mention every failed date to my mother (lol). We come from a typical small town in southern Europe, where people are bigots and close-minded. The news on the tv are constantly complaining about immigrants coming to our country and jadajadajada. The government is mostly right wing. So yeah, I didn’t really mentioned much about this guy, first of all cause I’m trying to keep it private but also because I could imagine her reaction, since she’s the standard average middle age woman that you find on Facebook without much culture. She is ignorant not as an insult but as in the real sense of the word: she ignores, she doesn’t inform herself and just believes whatever the media tells her.
Anyway, she suspected I was seeing someone for a while, I never really said much but I’ve been giving her a few hints in the past weeks and now that I came back to my hometown for a week she started being very curious. The day after I arrived we were casually talking before bed and she just kept asking “C’mon, don’t you have a pic of this guy? Show me! C’mon c’mon! I’m your mother!” so, one side of me didn’t wanna show her, the other one was excited cause at the end of the day I’m proud of my relationship and I was happy to tell her more (maybe naively hoping for a good outcome…). So without thinking much I showed her one of the best pictures of him. Literally in the millisecond while I was showing her the picture she said something like: “hope it’s not a n****” (WHATTT???).
At that point the phone was already on her face. It was done. She said it, and at the same time she saw the picture. She was speechless and I was too. I was ashamed of her. And sad.
She didn’t say anything more for the following 10 minutes, she went to her room and I went to mine. Afterwards she just asked “does he even work?!” And I told her “don’t worry about it, he’s better off than the both of us” just to make her shut up about that question that I found so disrespectful. This made me just so sad, and disappointed.
But the worst had yet to come. We didn’t speak much about it at all until today.
We were having a casual conversation during the afternoon when the relationship topic came out. In particular, we were talking about how your partner should improve your life and not making it worse, meaning he should make you happy, he should bring good positive vibes, get along etc. that’s what I was thinking and referring to. But she started being very materialistic, she asked me “so, in which way is he improving your life?!” in a very aggressive sassy tone “I don’t see anything changing“ she said. I was mentioning that he makes me happy when the conversation degenerated. All sort of things came out of it.
She started by saying: “well, I truly hopes this will be just a friend and you will keep it like that” then she continued with: “please take birth control precautions before you regret it” “don’t come to me later saying I didn’t stop you” and the cherry on top was: “I would have preferred if you told me you were a lesbian cause at least that is cool nowadays”.
I was speechless and I still am.
I asked her what is it that she doesn’t like and what is she basing her opinions on, since she literally knows nothing about him. She couldn’t answer. She kept repeating the same things over and over and she also said she would never want to meet him. I have to mention that the few guys she met that I was dating were of different cultures, but she never had a problem with them, I guess because the skin color was the same… and in her mind there are probably foreigners of Class A, B, C… I knew it wouldn’t be easy, but I neither expected such a bad reaction. All this hurts me so much. I don’t know what to do. In my mind it neither makes sense cause she married an immigrant but it seems like she never really came to terms with it, she never really accepted it. For instance, I know nothing about my father’s culture, I never learned the language or interesting facts about it because nobody ever thought me anything about it. I only learned about my mother’s side culture of the country I lived in. And I always felt out of place because this country is extremely racist. The fact that my father was not a good husband or father has nothing to do with where he comes from. If a person is an idiot, is an idiot no matter what. And I told her this when we were talking. The fact that she had a bad experience doesn’t mean that I will, just because I’m seeing someone from a different culture. I also explained to her that I am myself an immigrant, since I’m living in another country. But it doesn’t seem to click in her head. And when I told her, to her face, that she is indeed racist, she obviously denied it, because how can she be racist if she married an immigrant herself? So I don’t really know how to handle this. And I’m also just venting and need some support.
TL;DR: my 25F mother 56F doesn’t approve of my boyfriend 28M just because of the color of his skin. Her opinion is based solely on a photo I showed her.
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2024.05.13 22:50 AAverageFortniter Will I get in trouble or not?

As writing this, the more confident i feel about the situation and feel this might be something i shouldnt worry about, but im a person who gets really nervous thinking that i might have to deal with this incident in the days to come as i dont want to or believe i deserve to face a consequence for this incident as well as the effort it probably will take to repeal anything if something were to happen
*a brief summary: Im worried if a classmate will report me and if i will get in trouble for saying that their score (which they chose to disclose, i didnt ask or force them to show) isnt good (according to them, they thought i said that they score is terrible, probably how they viewed it) because i heard them talking about the incident after class with the teacher
So today in Spanish class, I was talking to another classmate about how they are studying for this one big test we have for a different class and how well are they preforming in the practice for the test, and after we had a conversation about it, another classmate talks about how they did poorly, like a 60% on a multiple choice section for a practice exam and I said that their score on the multiple choice isnt good, but the writing part should carry their grade. A few minutes later, the student who got a 60% on the practice was talking about how I said that "their score is terrible and sucked" (which, in fact i only said that it wasnt good, probably how i said it came off as that). So if you're asking, why do i think im going to get in trouble or why i mention this, its because as i was leaving class, i saw the student stay behind and heard them talking about it to the teacher. Im nervous if they will actually try to report me, and if i will actually get in trouble or not, or what to do? (so far my plan is to wait it out and see what happens, but im worried because its a lot easier in my school to report someone than to repeal something, and even if anything gets repealed i heard some stuff will still reamin on your record and could affect your college acceptance if they see)
CONTEXT/RANT HERE: my Spanish teacher doesnt really like me, she somewhat liked me as a student last year, but this year she is mad that i sometimes talk during class (i dont talk when shes giving instructions, i talk while i work sometimes or after i finish the work), like today i got somewhat in trouble how she said that i couldnt get a retake on the next quiz like the other students(not too bad of a punishment) because i talked in class a lot (to be fair, we were playing bingo in class, and i was talking in that period of time where the teacher waits for you to fill up board, and also, its not like i dont pay attention in class, like today for example, my teacher gives points for every time you raise your hand to answer a question she gives, and she gives a grade for how many points u get as long as u have a certain amount, and i was trying to participate to get a good grade as i was raising my hand literally for every question she asked but she like she doesnt call on me, or when im the only one raising their hand she waits like 10 seconds to call someone else.
If you read all of that, tell me how you think the situation will go (i would much apricate this as it would lower my anxiety over this issue)
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2024.05.13 22:47 Inevitable_Treat_376 How to not be sad all the time?

idk like, how do you deal with the fact that you are not a kid anymore, you are getting old, there's nothing you can do to stop it and life will only get worse from now on. I'll be going to uni this year; I have no sweet memory of my childhood, have no skills, introvert, shy, have no communication skill, have always been in a hustle about making good academic results and that too has fallen post pandemic, and all the good results as a kid was blown aways to oblivion by the bad results of just 3 years after pandemic. life just doesn't feel worth living. I sometimes feel so jealous of the religious people. they get to just put every hope on God and be happy, but I can't. I just can't believe in the fairy tales.
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2024.05.13 22:47 IndicationVisual B.C Rich Warlock with no series label?

So, I went to check out a B.C Rich Warlock a friend of mine had been trying to sell to me. Seemed to play pretty decent, was in good condition and didn't seem to have anything wrong with it. However, when i asked him what model it was he said it's an mk3. Later that day i did some research on the mk3 and it looked nothing like what his guitar looks like. His guitar essentially looks like a basic bronze series Warlock. The problem comes from the fact, that his headstock(the basic one, not widow) simply had the "Warlock" logo text on the triangular part(not sure what it's called) and the B.C Rich label. There's no actual label of it being a bronze, platinum, or whatever other model it could possibly be. And even after hours of research, I haven't been able to find a single warlock that doesn't have a label of the series or at least a model name. Does this mean the guitar is fake? Are there any models that don't have series labels?
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