One guy and a bottle

I (25F) and cousin (26F) have been friends since we were a kid. We have a friend group, we'll call them Ali (23M) and Zee (23F).
Let me tell you about cousin. Cousin is a kind of person who's very entitled and wants what she wants. There was this one time, I was with Ali and Zee coz we we're doing a project together. Cousin knows we we're together coz we mentioned it to her. We we're so busy running errands around and she keeps calling us. Since we're already stressed, we didn't answer her calls. She then messaged us and just went on and on that she's our friend, she should be included in things, she wants to do things too. Mind you, this project doesn't include her and it wasn't in the plan.
Another time was we we're riding Zee's car. The AC of her car isn't good so we just opened the windows. She keeps complaining on how Zee should get it fixed and it was so hot. Her makeup is melting and so on. She was very grumpy.
Now you get the gist of her personality, let's move on.
I got a fling from Tinder and we'll name him Sam (28M). He is a hot guy, like HAWT and Handsome! Me and Sam met on 2017 and we had a flirtashionship. We had strong feelings for each other but since he had to work in another country, we kinda drifted apart. My cousin and friends knows about this. When he came back, I was already in a relationship with someone else. Me and Sam remained close friends still. We hang out together with our friend group.
There was this one time, we we're in Ali's house. Just a get together with alcohol and food. Since I don't drink that much alcohol, I wasn't as drunk as my friends were. My cousin sat with Sam while Sam's playing a video game. She was flirting with him, rub her body on him, laying down on him, cupping his face. It was so obvious coz she was loud and drunk. Sam was really uncomfortable but he's just being respectful to just let it be. Me and my friends are just looking at her like what the hell!
That night was terrible for me coz I got kinda feel betrayed by my cousin in some way. I let it slip coz maybe she's just drunk and horny, I don't know. As a girl code, if your friend dates someone, don't flirt or date him too. That kind of ideology.
Another incident, another party, not much alcohol involved. Same friend group and other friend of friends were there. My family was there too. Sam was with me and we were just talking. Cousin came, interrupted our conversation, sat beside Sam and trying to hold his arms. She's like "it's cold". She's NOT drunk. Me and Sam continued our conversation and cousin interrupted again. She's like "let's grab something to eat". Sam look at me and I kinda gave him the nod. So I excused myself, and hangout with my other friends. They noticed that and asked me if I was ok. My friends knew about the history between me and Sam. they kinda feel bad, Cousin's just clinging on to him like a leech. My family even told her to behave and act like a lady. Sam didn't do much coz he's just being respectful not to push a lady away. After the party, I'm just filled with betrayal and jealousy.
Believe me, it is not just those two incidents. There are MORE! She's just trying to push herself on him.
So, there was this big famous party going on in our city. In order to be invited, you have to know someone. I was invited and I can invite 3 people. So I invited Ali and Zee and they were excited. Now I was thinking, should I invite cousin? She had work at that time and at the same time, I'm so fed up with what's going on and her attitude, I'm like nahh I'm done. I invite Sam instead. I asked Ali and Zee if it's ok not inviting cousin and invite Sam instead. They 101% AGREE with my decision. Being with her around is just frustrating. So it's me, Ali, Zee and Sam. We had a blast at the party, we took pictures and posted them on Instagram. She SAW it. She was bombing us with calls and messages, of course we didn't answer coz we're still having a great time. After the party, we read her messages like why didn't you invite me, why didn't you tell me about the party, why wasn't she part of it, it's a big famous party so she should be there yada yada yada. So we are thinking how to reply to her.
WE CAME UP WITH A PLAN, HERE'S WHAT WE DID.
Ali is a pro at Photoshop. So he photoshopped a chat that "supposedly" we sent her the day before but didn't go through coz maybe "internet is not working" so she didn't receive the message at all. Ali changed the chat feed, change the time, pretend we sent her a picture of the invitation but didn't go through. So we just told her, "oh no, the invitation didn't go through. We're sorry for that. Maybe our internet was bad." .. She believed it. We we're kinda glad we nailed that sh*t!!
As a girl code, if your friend dates someone, don't flirt or date him too. It's like getting leftovers or something like that. I don't know. AITA for doing this or feeling this way?

Tl;dr: I am in need of a new computer and I’m looking at the Mac Studio, specifically the M2 Max with 1TB storage and 64GB memory. Is this going to be enough to keep up with the demands of Logic Pro 11 and all the new plug-ins for the next +/-decade?
Full story: about six years ago, I purchased a refurbished 2014 MacBook Pro. At the time, I wasn’t doing a whole lot of production - I just needed an all-around machine to carry me through my various workflows. Since that time, my home studio has taken off and I’ve been working with a lot more clients. It was on my radar to purchase a nicer desktop that would help me future proof a little better, because LPX (and a few other pieces of my workflow) had begun to start seriously chugging.
Then I met with a client last week, and my nightmare occurred: they spilled water on my MacBook Pro. It’s so old that it’s basically beyond repair, and because of this, I don’t think the client is going to compensate me for the full value of replacing the broken device with one that will do everything I need to. They have agreed to chip in some, but I don’t think it’s going to be a whole lot. With that in mind, my timeline for getting a new device has moved up. I haven’t had the chance to sit down and do a bunch of research on it, so I’m hoping you guys can weigh in.
I’ve been looking at several different options and evaluating my needs, and I think the best-case scenario (albeit one of the more expensive ones) for me in the long run is to switch over from a MacBook to a Mac Studio, and then snag one of the new iPads so I can stay mobile. I wouldn’t have a fully portable workhorse of a computer, but since the majority of my work takes place in the studio, I think this is probably fine, especially if I supplement it with an iPad for the rare instances of offsite recording (it does happen from time to time)z
I have a few questions about this, though; if you guys have answers for any of them, please feel free to share!

1. Mac Studios currently available have the M2 Pro and M2 Ultra available, whereas the MacBook Pros available now have a base-level M3. It seems that the maxed out M2 might have a higher ceiling than the base model M3? But I’m having a hard time discerning a clear answer. Can anyone speak to the efficiency differences?
   
2. I think it’s reasonable to expect about a decade’s worth of use out of a computer? So I’m aiming to purchase a machine that will be somewhat future-proof until the next major advancement. Given the age of the M2 chip, is there any reason to expect that it will date itself more quickly than a device with an M3? Is that something I need to be concerned about?
   
3. I’m still undecided on how much unified memory I want, but given my hopes of running many complex projects for multiple clients at once, combined with the other workflows I have for my personal life and my other job, I’ve been looking at picking up 64GB of memory, rather than the 32GN that the Studio has on its base level. Is this a fair amount? I don’t want to overkill, but I want to be set up to have this machine last a long time with (hopefully) little to no issues.
   
4. Storage is always a factor to consider. I make it a habit to purchase external drives pretty regularly and back up my projects often, but it’s always nice to be able to operate without having to shuffle files around too much. If I’m honest, I think the 512GB of storage that comes with the base model of the Mac Studio is probably fine, but as my business continues to grow, I don’t want to have as much worry about storing things as much as I do right now. I’ve also read that the 1TB SSD split its file storage between four quadrants of the SSD, whereas the 512GB can only split it between two. It seems that splitting it four ways would help make certain workflows operate a bit more efficiently and that only having two might have the inverse effect. I’ve read a few articles on this, but this isn’t my area of expertise. Does anyone have any experience here?
   
5. Finally, the age-old tech question: if I purchase this computer now, well, I regret it in a few months if the new model drops? It seems that Apple’s desktops are due for an upgrade, especially with the M4 chip dropping with the new iPad while the Mac Studio continues to run on M2s. Obviously, nothing has been confirmed about a new generation of Macs being slated for release, but can’t help but wonder if a release is right around the corner. I know it’s a longshot and it might not even change my scenario because I need a device quickly, but I’m curious if anyone has heard any information on this.
   

If you made it this far, thank you so much for reading, I know I ask a lot of questions and might be overthinking this, but I want to make a wise decision about how I spend my money, especially with how much these new devices will cost. TIA for your input!

Just bought an old utility trailer built on a pickup truck front axle.
Tires are shot. Holding air but dry rotted and bald. Need new ones.
But I don't really want to purchase brand new tires which are expensive.
So I'd like to pick up a set of used tires. They don't have to be terribly fresh, just so long as the rubber isn't rotten.
Some people suggested Waheeds but I could not get through to the guy on the phone that I don't have the make and model just the tire size and when I went in person to show them the wheels nobody was there at all.

• Species: Dog
• Age: 1.5yrs
• Sex/Neuter status: Male/Neutered
• Breed: Pomsky
• Body weight: 18-20lbs
• History: Drama queen (according to vet because of his cone paralysis :P)
• Clinical signs: Staggered breathing (or breathing in stages?)
• Duration: 1 day
• Your general location: Alberta, Canada
• Name: Watson

Hello there,
There is some backstory to this that I couldn't figure out how to include in the title, please bear with me:
About 4 days ago we realized Watson was breathing very rapidly at rest. We live in a very cold place, it had just started warming up, and his coat is the longest it's ever been, so we assumed that he was just too hot (23-26 Celsius in some rooms of the house) and booked an appointment with the groomer to get him a trim.
He was still eating and drinking normally, urinating normally, gums were pink, I think he might have been having less bowel movements but I'm unsure because we brought him over to my girlfriend's parents for the better part of the two days after noticing this (and he roams their large backyard with their two dogs), so he might have had many or 0 bowel movements over there, I also felt his stomach and it felt normal. His behavior this whole time was mostly normal (maybe a little bit subdued, but I assumed it was because he was tired from hanging out with his uncles so much). For the sake of the timeline, this is all that happened the first 2 of 4 days (day 4 being today).
Yesterday around 5am he woke us up because he was trying to throw up. He heaved a few times, and nothing ended up coming up other than white foam. He seemed to recover quickly from this, and we went back to bed. I told my girlfriend that if he was still exhibiting any weird symptoms in the morning I would take him to the vet.
Woke up later that morning, and he seemed back to normal. His breathing had slowed down to a normal rate, he ate his breakfast, I took him on a walk in the morning and he was behaving totally normal. He also passed a "good" stool (firm, solid normal color) on our walk. We got home and I went to pick up old his stools from our yard (routine after a walk) when I noticed an unusual one (that had to have been within the last 24h, exactly when I'm not sure as we let him out often while we are getting ready for work/bed/otherwise unable to watch him).
The stool I found had a bunch of tape coiled up inside of it, which I remembered had been a loose strand of tape that was sitting on my desk that he must have pulled off and eaten (uncoiled, the kind of tape where you have to peel the bottom off to expose the sticky side). We hadn't had an issue with him eating things that aren't food in a long time so I let my guard down.
It all started making sense, I thought that he must have been in pain/discomfort from eating the tape which explained the heavy breathing for the couple of days until he passed it in his stool. Since he was mostly back to normal I thought nothing of it.
Starting last night and continuing to this morning I noticed that his breathing, although much slower and normal rate-wise, has changed to be a much deeper, staggered breathing. I don't know how to describe this other than staggered, maybe staged? He will inhale about 60% of the breath initially, then 30% more, then the last 10%. His mouth is closed while he's doing this (sleeping/resting the times that I have noticed it). Google has been woefully unhelpful in looking this up (probably because I have no idea what the kind of breathing is actually called)).
At this point I'm concerned that there is still some tape stuck in his guts somewhere. The piece that he ate was quite long, and I didn't extract/unravel it from inside his stool to see how much of it had come out there, but nor could I find any remnants of un-eaten tape anywhere. Is this kind of seemingly labored breathing characteristic of a blockage, and should I be concerned?
I'm hesitant to go to the vet right away because
A. I've taken Watson there probably 10 times for minor issues, every time I have they do the exact same checks that I mentioned above (feel his stomach, check gums, behaviour, eating and bowel regularity) and then send us off almost with an air of like "you guys need to relax he will be fine"
B. With the above in mind, it isn't exactly cheap
Reasons I think he does not have a blockage: -His most recent stool was a good one -His eating habits are the same -His behavior is normal
Reasons I think he might still have a blockage: -His breathing?? Not sure if this is indicative of anything because as I mentioned, google no help this -The timeline of his dry-heaving in the morning doesn't add up for me. I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty positive that the stool with the tape in it happened the night before the dry-heaving, so why would he dry-heave if the blockage had already been excreted. He has not tried to throw up, or anything similar since. -He has always coughed more than your average dog (he loves eating quickly and then chasing that down with big gulps of water), but he has been coughing a bit "deeper" this last day or so? This could be me worrying, but thought I would mention
Looking for advice on what to do, and if these symptoms are indicative of anything or if I'm just being my normal hypochondriac self :/
Thank you for your time.

I (22F) and my (25M) partner have been together for a year and a half. I love him. He is truly one of the best person I know. I just feel like something is missing and I don’t know what. I’m do happy with him, we always laugh and do all kind of activities together, it’s never boring. I never had the « butterflies » for him but I’ve been told that you don’t need those to be in love. But something is missing, or maybe its in my head, idk.. im just lost right now. I find myself thinking about other guys, though I would never cheat on him. Our sex life is really not that great, I don’t feel a lot of things while doing it and I feel like it shouldn’t be like that. I guess I just need advice from someone because I don’t want to tell anybody. I feel so good with him and we have so much plans. Our life align perfectly. I am a lawyer and him an accountant, both in big firms. I feel like it is very difficult to connect with him, we don’t have deep conversations. I love him and don’t see myself without him bit I can’t get that thought out of my head. Please give me advice or tell me I am not crazy.

Hey guys I started at BNA7 sort center about a month ago. My first Amazon experience and all I can say is it is a dumpster fire! Managers are censoring the My voice app. There is not enough pallet jacks or scanners yet they think you easily have both. There is no management control in place, no one is being held accountable, people sit in the bathroom stalls all day on the clock and break room , they overwork people that doing their job, no one has a answer if you have a question. Training is deplorable. Most of the early people hired to this facility were thrown in the fire. HR is rarely there as well as safety. Managers are extremely unprofessional and unapproachable. The PAs are burnt and have no control. It is a complete mess. I understand it is a new sort center but this place is heading toward massive Shitshow or lawsuit if they don’t clean it up. A few weeks ago a employee broke their foot in a trailer on inbound. They were not trained and was thrown in the trailer without proper hands on training. I don’t how much longer this place is going to last….. sort center Mt Juliet TN( outside of Nashville) complete Shitshow!!!!!!!

What’s up goons, I’m OnThatNote, if you don’t know me, I’m the Kanye Yap Youtube guy. I have a little info dump to make sure no one goes crazy during this drought/dry season. It’s from an insider who I’ve been in contact with for a very long time (Since the Japan sessions). I can’t post the proof directly here/give it to anyone because it jeopardizes HOW they get their info to give to me, so I’m marking this as potentially misleading and not news. I have verified him myself and everything is VERY legit. They are very close to Ye. You can trust me or not, I don’t care - BUT I still want to share what I know for those that know me and will trust me.
Also if you don’t wanna read allat, I did make a video and it’s on my YouTube now/linked in the post and I do go a bit deeper into each thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfkbn2kgZKM
Some stuff in here may be repeated from what we know from other insiders btw, just putting it in here to basically confirm what the others said as true.
Something HUGE with footwear is going to happen soon, WITHOUT Nike - but the insider is not too sure specifically on what’s going on with Nike right now so I wouldn’t take this as fact. Just know the team is not talking about it right now. The stuff with Travis was probably purely for promotion.
Adidas is cooked - A ton of older Yeezy designs that are currently being used at Adidas/resold by them are being reworked slightly by Yeezy so Ye is able to sell them from Yeezy.com himself. They are being altered so Ye can get away from legal trouble and copyright type stuff with Adidas while still selling his work. I currently don’t know WHAT sneakers (or if it’s only sneakers) they are reworking, just that they are doing it with old Yeezy Adidas footwear. I’d assume this could also be Slides/Foamrunners but nothing was mentioned.
The only people that are left on the Yeezy team and go to the Yeezy property are the people involved with anything Music/Legal. Yews is gone completely like we know, and the app is in a weird place.
Kanye refuses to pay the app team. Even though he is currently gone, Milo is doing everything in his power to get them paid. Milo is confirmed off the team FOR NOW like we know, but he’s not completely off the table for the future, still in contact and can come back. Ye approved the acquisition of the app, had milo organize a team (app team/yews). YZY app kids merged with real Yeezy developers that Milo selected to do the app, while still bringing the vision Ye wanted. Kanye allegedly did not want to pay them, so the way it sounded to me was that he lied and said he didn’t sign anything, even though there's proof of him agreeing to everything. He tried lying to not pay them basically. (This makes no sense to me, mans is literally a billionaire). Music is no longer set to release on the app, but Kanye changes his mind all the time so who knows where this could go.
Kanye met the kanyesposts girl IRL and hates hethinks she’s really annoying (more proof of this is that he called her a retard in text messages)
Ye changes his mind all the time on EVERYTHING, things are constantly changing at Yeezy and it's really hard for the workers to keep up.
Hope this quenched your drought a little bit. A lot of this is app yap, but the Nike/Yeezy/Adidas sneakers thing is pretty big so I thought I would share 🙂
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hey guys, reassurance seeking is one of the most common compulsions so i thought id share some of my own stories to prevent others from ending up like me:
-my friends accused me of having a lying problem. i didn’t, but since they told me, i became obsessed with every little white lie i had ever told and starting believing i was a pathological liar.
-to make myself feel better, i decided to post on reddit confessing it. i’m not even a pathological liar, but i made myself believe it and made a comment that got fairly popular. i then move on to the next obsession.
-a couple weeks later, my friends got mad at me and accused me of making something up when i wasn’t. i posted asking for advice (it was something a teacher said about my friend, the teacher denied saying it and now im painted as making it up)
-the redditors read through my post history and basically told me to kick rocks because i posted about lying. i wasn’t even a pathological liar, i just believed i was, but now it came back to bite me in the ass. and now i have the lying obsession again lol.
anyone else have any reassurance gone wrong horror stories?

Long story so please bear with me.
I was with my first love for 3 and a bit years, we met in late 2010 before we broke up 10 years ago in early 2014. We were young and in our early 20s back then, things just fizzled out.
I've always thought about her but eventually we went our separate ways, she got in to a relationship with another guy after me for a few years but eventually he ended up cheating on her, this was around 2017.
After her breakup in 2017 I confessed my feelings for her but we didn't go anywhere with it as she was still healing so I told her I need to cut her off at the point because I told her I was struggling to be just friends with her, to which she said that she was heartbroken that's it come to us parting ways. But we wished each other well and went our separate ways. I was really at my lowest at that point but have come a really long way since in terms of having a successful career and have improved a lot financially and mentally.
At the start of 2019, she did add me on social media but she didn't say anything to me so a few days later I ended up deleting her because I realised I still wasn't over her, I regretted deleting her afterwards.
At the end of 2019 I heard that she was engaged, she ended up getting married but then I heard she got divorced around a year and a half ago. A few monthds ago I found out that the reason for her divorce was because her husband cheated on her and was abusive towards her. They got divorced around early 2022.
As for me I did get in to another relationship with someone else but I was also cheated on so I have been single for a few years now, I have been evolving in my career and proud of how far I've come and have recently started a new chapter in my career. I considered getting in touch with her a few months ago but I noticed that she had cut off a lot of people from her social media so I wasnt too sure how she'd react to me adding her, I thought she'd reject me seen as she's cutting off a lot of people.
So around 3 months ago I took the plunge seen as I had nothing to lose and sent her a request on instagram, and she has accepted and also followed me back. She's been viewing my stories and a month ago I posted a life quote on my story which she liked, I haven't spoke to her yet. I posted a few pictures of myself which she hasn't liked but A few weeks ago I posted a quote on my story that said 'be the reason for someone's pain to turn into a smile', she liked that quote and also another one that I posted last week. It was my birthday a few days ago and she liked a birthday story that I posted on instagram. I'm limiting the amount of posts that I like of hers because I don't want to seem too forward.
I'm assuming she is single but not entirely sure. I added her 3 months ago but she deleted me, I was confused because she only liked one of my stories few days prior. I would have liked to see if there was future for us but don't think she's interested now, i have messaged her saying 'Hi, hope your well. I probably should have said something a long time ago but I didn't, my fault. I've been praying for you, today I realise I've been deleted anyways I hope your keeping happy and healthy'. She replied saying 'Hey I'm good thanks hope you are too, that is kind of you, I didn't expect this kind of message'.
I didn't really know what to say back to her, I still don't understand why she deleted me even though days before she was showing an interest in my stories before and now she's deleted me. I have just replied saying 'that's good. Sorry for catching you off guard with it, I wanted to reach out to you earlier. I'm glad your doing well though' and now she has replied back saying 'can I ask why?' I replied back saying 'It's been on my mind for a while to get back in touch with you, I didn't add you for no reason. But we don't need to if it's not something your comfortable with'. She has now sent a long message as follows: 'You don’t make me feel uncomfortable. I have thought about you over the years and wished you well.
I removed you because you have my ex and his family on your instagram and I removed everyone who has any contact with them. You will have heard that I was married there for a short period of time but it was hell and now I’m out of it I don’t want them knowing anything about my life, so I removed everyone who has any link with them. I didn’t realise till that day that you did. It was nothing to do with you personally.' .
Im not actually friends with her ex husband as he is just someone that lives nearby to me and we have never spoken so I have now replied with this: 'I'm sorry that you had to go through that, I hope your okay and I pray god brings you ease. I wouldn't exactly say I have anything to do with them personally though, only thing I know about them is that they're from my area too. It makes sense now and it's understandable why you did that.'
She has replied back again saying 'I'm great, God is the best of planners and it was the best thing for me. Even so, I removed everyone who had us both so sorry about that' and to which I have replied 'That's fair enough, I'm glad to hear your doing well though and that your at peace now. That's what matters most'. She had now asked 'how have you been, what's new with you?' I have just replied saying 'I'm not too bad thanks, life's changed a lot since we last spoke so there's quite a lot that's new lol'. after that we were speaking generally about the holiday that I'm currently on and what to do as she has been here before too and she also asked how long I'm there for and she asked who ive gone with and how long im on holiday for, it was in general a short and civilised conversation.
Towards the end of the conversation she said 'well i hope you have a lovely time 😊' and i replied with thank you and asked her when she was on holiday here, she replied saying that she went last November and the year before so then i replied saying 'oh nice, its good to go often. Need to make it a yearly thing' She ended the conversation 8 nights ago by liking that last message i sent, I don't know if she plans to message me again, What are the chances that she'll message me even if we don't follow each other on instagram anymore. I am slightly anxious that she won't message me after this due to her deleting me because her ex is on my Instagram. Was thinking of just giving her space for a few more days, then deleting her ex and requesting her back in around in a few days bear in mind she deleted me 2 weeks ago and we havent spoken in 8 days. Should I give her some space for a few days then add her back and remove her ex? Detailed answer

I'm sure most people have been told that "Europeans do not like Americans" or "Europeans are very rude, especially if you're American" - If you have heard these things, I'm pretty sure a Boomer was the one to tell you that.
Today's story takes place at a café in Paris, France. Pre-COVID - Happier times, maybe.
One night, my wife and I are sitting at a table on a cafe's patio, people watching, drinking Aperol Spritzes and waiting for our croque madam/monsieur.
At the table next to us, two boomer couples sit together. They're long time friends. The wives are extremely excited. It was their first full day in Paris - a trip they've been wanting to go on since they were teenagers. They rehashed their day - getting macarons at Ladurée, walking the Seine, and spending the rest of the day at the Louvre.
The husbands are discussing the opposite. They are curmudgeons. The prices are too high at this café. "20 euros for a cheeseburger!" - They haven't realized that tax is included in all the prices, or that France's food isn't as industrialized as it is in the U.S. One husband pulls a small piece of paper from his wallet with the exchange rates printed on it. "Those cookie sandwiches were pricy too. Did we really need the fancy boxes?".
Thankfully, the women have learned how to tune out their husbands. But this becomes more difficult, for the wives and for the people sitting near them. The husbands are hungry. "The waiter isn't even paying attention to us", says one husband. The other husband raises his hand - "Scuzi. SCUZI!"
The wives stop their debate on which princess/actress from their childhood used Ladurée boxes to store their jewelry. They both turn red, lower their heads, and clutch their Rick Steves guide books. One wife leans over to her husband and whispers "That's Italian. We are in France."
"It's all the same thing here." says the husband, as he waves the server over.
\**Side note. As a husband myself, it can be fun to playfully embarrass your wife. Every married women under 45 has been referred to as "MY WIFE" a la Borat.****
This is where it gets good. We all know, once it gets going, the Boomer can be an unstoppable force. Barreling forward, consuming everything in its path, leaving destruction in its wake, only stopping when it gets what it wants.
The Parisian Server on the other hand can be an unmovable object. If treated with respect, they will go out of their way to make sure you have a great experience. If slightly disrespected, well, good luck getting anything.
The server arrives to their table, with a sense of humor. "Si signore" he says.
The husband that waved him over orders for the table. "The ladies will have cheeseburgers and we will have the bacon cheeseburgers. With french fries."
"Okee dokee" says the server in an attempted American accent. He gathers their menus and walks away. "He didn't write anything down. I hope he doesn't screw it up." notes a husband.
The wives go back to excitedly conversing about their trip. One says, "I can't wait to see the Monets tomorrow!". "Ugh. Too blurry" her husband responds.
\**I now say "Too blurry" every time I see a Monet. My poor wife knew I am a forever child when she agreed to marry me****
A little time passes and the server arrives with their order. "OK. Cheeseburgers. Cheeseburgers with bacon. And, FRENCH fries. Or as we say in France, Frites" - One of the wives giggle, and the server leaves.
The couples inspect their meals, as is customary for the Boomer when they receive food. The server placed the bacon cheeseburgers in front of the women and the cheeseburgers in front of the men. Also, there is no ketchup.
"God Dammit. He got it wrong! GAR-SON!!!!" yells a husband. The server arrives, "Oui Monsieur?"
"WE ordered the bacon cheeseburgers. THEY got the cheeseburgers. And there's no ketchup!". "Ah. Oui." the server responds and he proceeds to switch the plates to the appropriate diner. "I go get ketchup" and walks away.
"I knew he was going to screw it up" a husband says. The other husband responds with "He didn't have to be so rude"
The server returns. Both hands full of ketchup packets. Places dozens of the single serving packets on their table. "Voilà! Ketchup!"
Shocked, one husband asks "You don't have a bottle of ketchup?". "No" says the server. "Only ketchup for the children", and leaves.
My wife and I continued to order and drink cheap Aperol Spritzes. Enjoying the shameful show of grown adults opening and emptying numerous ketchup packets on to their food while complaining about anything they can think of.
The Boomers finish, pay, and depart. Leaving a five dollar bill on the table as tip.
The server comes to clean their table. Picks up the five dollar bill and places it on our table. "For good Americans"

I m getting good deal of 80k inr for iphone 15(256gb) pro brand new phone.... And a iphone 14 pro(512gb) used one just 1 month usage and still 8 months warranty remaining for 70 k inr..... I m confused of course i want to choose 15 pro but i heard it has heating issues a lot.... What do u guys suggest plz(upgrading from my crashed one plus 7T) will be my first time using iphone although i have a ipad for 3 yrs now.

Ive been seeing a lot of ads on insta for photographers who use 35mm film on their wedding shoots. I’m not sure I see too much appeal in this or feel it’s good business move.
With 35mm film you’re slower, you’re limited to one asa per roll, you have limited to no autofocus. You will likely miss moments a digital photographer will not.
Obviously the sentiment of using film is the biggest factor here which I totally understand. Though I do feel that sentiment is something we as photographers feel and understand more than the couples do. I’m sure a lot of couples won’t even know what you mean when you say ‘I shoot film’. You could edit your photos to look vintage and the couple would likely love them the same and you will be a better photographer throughout the day.
Maybe a lot of these guys just use both, and maybe I’m just being contrarian and stuck in my modern ways!

Hi guys, I'm from Brazil and I'm heading to Boston next week. Garmins are cheaper in the US compared to Brazil, so I'm thinking of buying one for my brother, who is a runner and triathlon enthusiast. It'll be his first Garmin. I don't want to buy the simplest Forerunner 55, but I can't afford the most expensive one either. Which model would you consider to be the best value for money? Also, where would you recommend buying it? Online or in-person at a store? Appreciate your help.

Hello, Folks,
I've been running Pf2e for a few weeks now, as part of a West Marches community, having previously run 5th Edition D&D for several years prior, and overall I would say my experience is significantly positive. That said, there are a few observations I wanted to point out to see how they compare to this community's experience with the system, any relevant transitions from 5e to Pf2e, and my own sensibilities vs either the system or the kind of community I'm a part of.
TL/DR: I am having a great time, there are just some experiences, preconceived notions, and design elements I'm still trying to work through, understand, and align expectations with.

1. I find that the post-combat activities feel a bit too, as best I can phrase, taken for granted. In every game I've run so far, the immediate thing the groups move to is their healing/refocusing activities. This isn't disruptive by any means, and it is certainly both expected to occur by myself and the system, but it seems like there's a critical (to me at least) step missing, that narrative beat between the encounter ending and the party deciding what to do next. My experience in 5e was typically that the party would regroup after an encounter, perhaps loot some bodies, make some checks to see if the coast is clear, and then discuss taking a short rest. On top of this, short resting is significantly simpler in 5e, which again is not an issue in fact I like all of the focus abilities the characters have in Pf2e, but it definitely takes up much more time than in 5e.
2. I'm aware that Pf2e has a significantly higher magic setting, in the sense that magic items are by design intended to be more pervasive, but the groups I've been running for seem to have a significant wealth of magic items. Now the WM community I'm a part of has very clear and RAW guidelines for magic and treasure, so my gut is telling me this is intended, but it does frequently present a "woah you guys can do that" moment for me at nearly every encounter. Fortunately Pf2e is designed well such that the wealth of magic items don't seem to have a significant power impact, but it does present a challenge subconsciously for me moving here from 5e of comparing the inherent attrition mindset by comparison. In other words, I'm accustomed to considering how challenging an encounter(s) is based on resources expended, but as I've run higher level games I'm seeing a significant reduction in proportional resources expended (in spite of the fact that by and large the players seem consistently challenged).
3. For the most part I'm detecting significantly less presence of a "system" difference between 5e and Pf2e than I expected to find. Mentions of the 3-action economy, the costs of things like movement, interacting with objects, etc., don't feel like they have nearly as much functional impact on the gameplay experience compared to how I envisioned them in my head. That said, things like one of my NPCs being knocked prone actually feels impactful because now they are less likely to be able to move into position, and things like Auras and Emanations feel like they stack so effectively that sometimes (in particular my game last night) I need to ask for 4-5 different saving throws at the start of a player's turn. Fortunately I run on Foundry, which dramatically improves the gameplay experience with the automations and tracking of things like persistent effects, but I am seeing a progressive increase in overlapping, stacking, persistent, and different effects going on at any given time, it is admittedly sometimes hard to keep track of it all.
4. Spellcasting feels like a mixed bag. My experience here is exclusively as a DM, so my spellcasting NPCs don't typically have the wealth of resources PCs typically do, but I have to actively read every single spell I see, including ones I recognize from 5e, because sometimes they are dramatically different. Case in point, I used Bestial Polymorph on a PC last night thinking it functioned like Polymorph from 5e, but it turns out there is another spell that does that, and not only did the spell do practically nothing even on a Failure, the target (a Beast Frog Barbarian) was able to use their Morph trait Rage to counteract the effect. It was cool, dramatic, and interesting, but it did kind of feel like that spell use case in particular fell flat primarily because it was hard to discern what the actual impact could/would be. This isn't necessarily bad, but it does suggest I'll need to be a lot more discerning about things like spells and abilities in relation to the party to avoid experiencing practical failure at creature selection.

All in all I am loving the experience of running in Pf2e, last night the game was described as a "truly cinematic experience", which is incredibly high praise for my own DM style and aspirations. I just wanted to share my experience and get some thoughts or feedback on things to consider, different perspectives, and perhaps some alignment of expectations as I continue to run games in this system.
Thanks!

After spending a few days working on this, there has been some progress. To summarize: I've been dating this girl for 9 months. About a month ago, I confessed my love for her, but she didn't say it back, instead expressing affection in other ways. A couple of weeks later, she ghosted me for a weekend, apologized, and we had a conversation. During that conversation, I went to her place seeking comfort because one of my friends had passed away. That's when she mentioned she wasn't sure about continuing the relationship because our feelings weren't on the same level. We agreed to give it another month, and that week was amazing. However, now she's ghosting me again, but for a longer period. We talked on Monday, but this time, I've been feeling limited in what I can say. I haven't reached out since, and it's been radio silence. She mentioned that her grandmother in the UK is getting worse and she's been reconsidering our relationship. She's been dismissive lately.
I've been working every day for the past two months and doing therapy for a few weeks. I've lost 40 pounds due to a lack of appetite, but I'm coping. Physically, I'm getting stronger, but mentally, it's tough. I'm tempted to send a voice note just to check in and let her know I'm here. I've done a lot for her, like making her birthdays, Valentine's Day, and Christmas special, and she was good to me at some point.
On the bright side, I've been doing well for myself. I recently styled an MLB player, got sponsored, and was interviewed for Style Canada, but I still can't find happiness.
During therapy on Monday, I was crying and asked my therapist for advice. She couldn't tell me what to do, but she suggested I block her on TikTok and Instagram, where she often posted about her social life, which made it harder for me to move on. She'd be partying while I was here crying, and it felt like she was trying to compete with me since she wants to start taking content creation seriously. I have a big following already and offered help, but she declined.
The reason it's been hard for me to let go is because she showed me how to have fun and be myself. We went to many concerts and had late-night adventures together. She was also my first sexual partner at 26 years old and the first girl to make my birthday special.
Blocking her felt like a weight lifted off my shoulders, and it feels like life is just beginning now.
The last time we talked was on Wednesday when I saw her. She barely kissed me and wasn't "feeling it." I even got her food and flowers. She said she was meeting a guy friend and looked excited, which made me jealous because she's been avoiding dates with me. She said she'd try on a dress I made for her that night but later messaged me saying she was going to bed because she finished her tasks late. I said okay and left it to her to message me, but I haven't heard from her yet.
I was the first guy to meet her mom and she met my family. Then, one day she went cold turkey. She said she had love for me but wasn't in love with me and that since she never been in a relationship she had nothing to base it on (which I didn’t buy). She also said that she came from a broken home and can't give me what I want, but at the beginning, she said she could (I want what my parents have; they've been together for 35+ years with strong faith).
How do you guys handle this? I'm a late bloomer at 26 years old and have OCD.

Me and my buddy tried to do some kind of a multi superstar mode, we cooked a new show, and i would only fight matches that involved my chosen superstar(A custom CAW) and my buddy took Bobby Lashley as his guy
So far the story:
(At this point automatic rivalries are on)
First week we are jobless, none of us get booked,
Second week Bobby gets matched with Akira tozawa(ARIGATOOOOOOOOO), Wins, i get booked against another CAW i created, my guy is a lightweight technician and the other guy is a massive highflyer, he superplexes me off the top rope and the ring breaks, we pop as we thought this was only possible by two massive guys
Third week Bobby gets matched with Tozawa again, wins again i am jobless again.
Fourth week im tag matched with the same guy, the Ringbreaker, that broke the ring with my feather spine, against Andrew Tate(Dont ask) and Demon Finn Balor, we win
at this point a ple is coming ahead, and we still have no champs, so we set up a match with Bobby going for NWO championship and me going after IC championship, Bobby wins (At this point we are playing by 'if we have a 1v1 match we both play but the guy controls his character and i control the other guy, but if its a tag team we team up) The IC championship is going up, and im put against the Ringbreaker, I have move thief payback and i didnt see that he has brass knuckles payback, i get DQ, noone gets the belt
Week after PLE, Bobby is again matched with Tozawa. We finally turn off auto rivalries, i am injured(i guess i hit those knuckles too hard) (AUTO RIVALRIES ARE OFF)
I set up a rivalry between Bobby and another CAW which ill name 'Gosha', and they start duking it out, first week after the rivalry is set up its instantly a championship match,and i tried to be Montez ford as the manager, however the legend ai just sweeps the floor with Bobby and takes the belt
(ON THE SIDESTORIES) Umaga and CM Punk(CAW) is going against Kane and trick williams, Kane has the goddamn Undertaker and Paul Bearer as his managers(Neither taker not Paul are in the show) Money in the bank is won by AI Lebron James(yes) Somewhy he has his mitb target set as the undisputed belt(My exhibition mode mitb target) even though we dont have the belt on the show, so i set it his target as the NWO championship (keep in mind this is the same night when the mitb ladder was happening, and we still have a main event that is Lashley against Gosha for the belt as a rivalry match(literally same match from last week), so we set it up and the main event changes to some sort of announce cash in match but Lebron James only comes up in the middle of the match.
Bobby and Gosha duke it out, it comes to the back and forth minigame, and before we could end it and the spamming punches minigame begins, Bobby Lashleys music hits(??) with the announcers shouting 'Could this be???'
A minute we finish the minigame Lebron(AI) finally shows up, and whoever created this Lebron thought its a good idea to give him a bunch of flip moves, the guy is like 2.5meters, jesus christ. Bobby somehow pulls trough and claims the belt (He pinned Gosha and Lebron just went out of the ring, breaking news, Lebron forgot about cancelling the pin)
Next week its Bobby against Gosha again for the belt, same rivalry actions, and i notice The Ringbreaker having a 1v1 against Umaga, apparently it was supposed to be a 2v2 match but rivalry actions changed it up and i didnt even understand i wasnt going to be there. At this point, the rivalry actions are reallly messing it all up, Bobby has a match with managers, you put on a rivalry action, the managers are gone, you put in the managers manually, the rivalry actions are gone, Bobby retains, i dont get a fight this week, we manually end the rivalry since it didnt end after PLE (We also manually set up a tag team championship on a random 6 man tornado tag, since no other championships are being fought on)
So far the the brand looks like this
Bobby Lashley: NWO heavyweight champion, ~1 week Andrew tate and Demon Finn Balor - WWE tag team champions(The new fancy ones from community) ~<1 week UpUpDownDown championship - vacant IC championship - vacant
so far the rivalry actions are quite clunky, but we had a great time aside from Bobby having to fight Tozawa for 3 weeks in a row and Undashing Cody Rhodes somewhy having 3 matches in one day(man the guy is really working) Any tips on how we could make this campaign better?

I recently moved to the San Angelo area and in the last three and half weeks applied for about 50 jobs. I had one job interview but the guy who was supposed to interview me was fired the day before and the area manager was out to lunch and basically the interview I had was a joke. But I have only.heard back from that one company. Whats going on these days?

Hi, I recently had a job interview earlier this morning. This was for a dental assisting position. Keep in mind I'm an american born foreign trained dentist. The interviewer happened to be the owner of the office. The interview was at 9:00 AM and I left the interview at 9:05 AM. I was brought into the office by the insurance coordinator who then brought me into the doctors personal office, where he was sitting at his desk. He shook my hand and introduced himself and told me to have a seat. I hadn't even finished sitting down when he started bombarding me with questions. First thing he asked was tell me about yourself, he then proceeded to ask me if I have experience, if I'm a people person, if I can take constructive criticism and if I live close by. After I answered all of these questions, it was my turn to ask him some questions. I asked him about four questions, one of them being, "I saw you're from (insert country) because i read it on your website. After that, he told me he was going to put me on the list of candidates and give me a call back when they had made their decision. He told me they didn't know when the position would be filled but if I didn't hear back from them soon, I would have to call the office and get an update.
Do you think the interview went well or is it a red flag because if was way too quick? Also, do you think I made a mistake by telling him something i saw on his website and can come off as a bit stalker-ish? I feel like telling him something I read on his website means that I did my research on him and it shows interest.
I also feel like I answered the questions directly and concisely, I didn't stutter and had didn't delay my responses.
I'd appreciate your thoughts and any future tips you guys might have. Thanks <3

I’ve never been the best storyteller, so bare with. TLDR is at the bottom for people who want to get it over with.
I (22F) had a decent upbringing, both parents (57M and 52F) present, a roof over my head, food on the table, private education, etc etc those things can be ticked off. But inside the house those family dynamics were always pretty strained from my earliest memories. With both parents having their fair share of trauma, it had to carry into their kids’ lives somehow. The untreated mental health from a young age, lack of self-awareness/accountability, both parents turning a blind eye to the easy signs that your kid’s a little fucked in the head definitely wasn’t on the agenda of family things to discuss at the dinner table.
My parents were and are very much in love, you’d see the unity between them instantly. And they got together quite late for their generation, generally speaking - late 20s and early 30s. And so, it’s always been the story that I’ve been told and as far as anyone else in our extended family was concerned: my parents met, fell in love hard and fast, had me, my mum moved countries for my dad when he got a new job, and shortly got married after. Ironic given I grew up catholic so the whole ‘having a child out of wedlock is forbidden and a gateway to hell’ was confusing when you know this their story for me off by heart.
Growing up, I never looked like my dad. I need to preface I’m mixed - mum’s Asian and dad’s stereotypical white man from the UK. I know how genetics work, had a pretty good grasp of the concept when I was younger. Now it’s things like, I don’t have my dad’s nose, his hair, his face shape, I just looked like my mum and some distorted other features I could never see my dad when I looked in the mirror. As a kid, they just explained as genes and that my mum’s was stronger so I just ended up looking exactly like her and I just ended up with my dad’s small ears (Please, I cannot believe I was so gullible to think that the only thing I got from my dad was his goddamn ears). I just never questioned the lack of my dad in me when I looked at myself, why would my parents lie about that? Also, I never had a reason growing up to care about whether I looked like my dad. There were a lot of mixed kids like me in my area so it was a similar boat and I had somewhat (and I say this lightly) of a support system to reassure me that this is all normal.
But there gets to an age where you feel things shift, and society is perceiving you a type of way now, the mixed kids identity crisis, the lack of belonging and blah blah blach. But my parents wouldn’t lie to me? Sure, they’ve fucked up in a few areas of parenting and let me down as an individual, but it’s fine because therapy, because life lessons of knowing that parents fuck up and you can forgive them or not. But back to the point, this is my parentage - they wouldn’t lie, right?
When this came about, I was on pretty okay terms with my parents. I had left a family holiday that I was on with them a bit earlier due to work, so they were still on holiday when I got the message. A few days after landing, I was in the gym minding my business and doom-scrolling. Alas, I’ll check LinkedIn. Check the requests from non-connections. And here this mother-bald headed-fucker was - this massive spiel of ‘I miss you’, ‘I haven’t stopped trying to see you’ and one fucking Darth Vader move later, “felixerikaa, I’m your father”.
There it is, asked the guy a few questions. Security questions like he’s at a fucking bank, if you will. And everything checks out, what he knows, how he knows, and what the guy looks like. Here I thought I was my mother’s daughter, but I am my bio dad’s daughter through and through - in appearance only personality, we’ll never know. My parents are none the wiser of this guy reaching out, so imagine their surprise when I’m sat on FaceTime with them when they’re 3000miles away and I’m trying to find out if this guy is legit. And after being iced out for the rest of their holiday, I get a “Yes, he is! But he isn’t your dad, he’s not the one that raised you so it doesn’t matter”.
And she’s right. It doesn’t matter.
I don’t know how to end this but to the curious folks that want to know what happened after, not much, I blocked bio dad. And I’ve been slowly working on a fruitful relationship with my parents, the ones that have been there since day 1.
TLDR: Had a late night gym sesh with my bestie, got a few messages from some bald guy on LinkedIn claiming he knows me, misses me and he’s my dad. Ask my parents, to confirm it’s real. It is. Blocked.
Thanks for reading if you made it this far.

Hey guys, so my friend has a 2012 Hyundai Veloster and it has an eco mode. I have a 2017 (same generation) and I don’t have one. Both DCT, both have the same options, etc. I am just trying to figure out why mine doesn’t have an eco mode button. Side note, neither of us have the turbo variants. I tried looking online and there wasn’t anything about it. Thank you!

Hi guys, so i’m getting a whole new PC, everything new except for my old HDD and SSD. i’m moving from intel to AMD (which idk if it plays a difference) but i’m worried my storage is gonna get confused if i just plug it out of my old one and insert into the new one. can someone explain (like im 5 years old) step by step what i have to do so i don’t have any issues? id really appreciate it! I don’t care about losing anything and everything tbh i don’t have anything important and can always redownload games.
PS. I have an OEM_COA_NSLP, so i realise i may have to buy windows again. i’m ok with that but if there’s a way (since it’s NSLP, instead of SLP) i can keep the windows key that would be great.
Thank you for any help!

I m getting good deal of 80k inr for iphone 15(256gb) pro brand new phone.... And a iphone 14 pro(512gb) used one just 1 month usage and still 8 months warranty remaining for 70 k inr..... I m confused of course i want to choose 15 pro but i heard it has heating issues a lot.... What do u guys suggest plz(upgrading from my crashed one plus 7T) will be my first time using iphone although i have a ipad for 3 yrs now.