(US)– FANATEC DDPRO (QR2 UPGRADED) + TABLE CLAMP + GT SW WHEEL (QR2 Lite) – (US)
-Only selling because I upgraded to DD+ extreme this last March.
-EQUIPMENT FOR SALE (IN THE US – NOT SOLD SEPARATELY):
- FANATEC GT DD PRO (8Nm) WHEELBASE (QR2-TYPE C UPGRADED-PRE INSTALLED)
- FANATEC GT SW WHEEL (QR2-LITE UPGRADED-PRE INSTALLED) (PLAYSTATION WHEEL) (almost never
used and never without gloves so practically brand new.)
- FANATEC 8NM BOOST KIT 180 POWER SUPPLY
- FANATEC USB-A TO USB-C CABLE (Brand New)
- FANATEC GT DDPRO TABLE CLAMP (Never Used) (over $30 value)
- 4X T-NUTS FOR RAIL MOUNT SYSTEM (Never Used)
- QUICK GUIDE
- QR1 (WHEELBASE SIDE) + QR1 LITE (WHEEL SIDE) INCLUDED (In case buyer needs/wants to downgrade for whatever reason). (over 50$ value)
- If you bought all this at the online US fanatec store today it would cost you around $999 shipped.
-I'M WILLING TO LET IT GO FOR $799 + SHIPPING
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-Bought July 2023, so under guarantee until July 2024.
-Everything in ABSOLUTE MINT, lightly used, super-good condition, firmware and drivers updated to 455 when I bought it and working flawlessly ever since then. Only a few light scuffs on the base where it mounts to the rig (these are inevitable)
-Used very lightly from July 2023 to March 2024, just a few hours on the weekends when job allows. Kept mounted on a rig, under a dust cover, in a dedicated room, used only by me, in a house with no kids, no pets, no smoking.
-GT SW Wheel – almost never used (and never without gloves), so practically brand new (I have an RS wheel also and use that 99% of the time).
Everything comes with original boxes and paperwork, and I will provide proof of purchase and pictures on request to serious buyers. NOT SOLD SEPARATELY. NO LOWBALL OFFERS.
If you are interested and keen to avoid the FANATEC shipping and customer (dis)service nightmare, and have some flawlessly functioning and perfectly well-kept equipment shipped to you immediately and with no fuss or delay (it’s all packed and ready to go), please DM me to discuss logistics and shipping.
Thank you so much!

So I had a shift on Monday for 5-9pm I show up at 4:59 to check in and do my picture well the service has gotten really bad for some odd reason and I couldn’t check in (mind you Monday is when the service issues started) I walk to the front door to connect to WiFi and WiFi isn’t working and keeps going away while this is happening 2 warehouse associates are seeing my issues and don’t really know what to do even the manager !!! 5 mins go by and I miss my block manager then says to call nothing they can do at this point I call explain the situation and was told I would still be paid since I was there and it wasn’t my fault just wait 24 hours for payment well yesterday nothing in my account I call them get told well it’s 24 - 48 hours I say whatever I’ll wait did a shift yesterday and samething almost happened again with the WiFi but it connected last second and got my block but had to literally drive down the street to actually scan my cart since the service is so bad !! Wake up this morning nothing I call again just to be told a manager will email me and to them get an email saying now I’m not getting paid wtf am i overreacting for them stringing me along for a few days to just now tell me no and it wasn’t my fault (been doing flex for 3 months no internet issues once) really makes me mad because I also got bit by a dog and Amazon didn’t do a damn thing about it and am really getting frustrated with amazons customer service any thoughts ??

So I had a shift on Monday for 5-9pm I show up at 4:59 to check in and do my picture well the service has gotten really bad for some odd reason and I couldn’t check in (mind you Monday is when the service issues started) I walk to the front door to connect to WiFi and WiFi isn’t working and keeps going away while this is happening 2 warehouse associates are seeing my issues and don’t really know what to do even the manager !!! 5 mins go by and I miss my block manager then says to call nothing they can do at this point I call explain the situation and was told I would still be paid since I was there and it wasn’t my fault just wait 24 hours for payment well yesterday nothing in my account I call them get told well it’s 24 - 48 hours I say whatever I’ll wait did a shift yesterday and samething almost happened again with the WiFi but it connected last second and got my block but had to literally drive down the street to actually scan my cart since the service is so bad !! Wake up this morning nothing I call again just to be told a manager will email me and to then get an email saying now I’m not getting paid wtf am i overreacting for them stringing me along for a few days to just now tell me no and it wasn’t my fault (been doing flex for 3 months no internet issues once) really makes me mad because I also got bit by a dog and Amazon didn’t do a damn thing about it and am really getting frustrated with amazons customer service any thoughts ??

I am visiting Frankfurt as a tourist and wanted to try some weed. I googled and came across (germanweedstore) online website - a very well designed and maintained website. Through their website I went on to reach out to their customer services via WhatsApp on (‪+49 1521 6481108‬). The customer service team was very quick with their replies and gave all the satisfactory answers. However, I first got suspicious of this as a scam when they asked me to make the purchase via bitcoin. To make me feel confident; they were happy to do a bank transfer and guaranteed a delivery in 2 hours time. I asked them to pay half before delivery and half after? I asked them for collection. I even showed them that they have 1 start review on trustpilot already but they still denied every request and said it will be deliver to my doorstep in 2 hours and I do not need to worry. As I am a tourist and just wanted to get high with friends and have a good time I went ahead and agreed to make a bank transfer. They provided me with below bank details
(Account no 65715256 Sort Code 041404 Account holders name: DROZDOVSKYI OLEH Bank account name: Monzo)
After the payment, the replies immediately slowed down and I started receiving excuses why the delivery haven't been made yet. 4 hours after now, they have stopped replying to my messages and still no sign of delivery (they haven’t even asked me delivery address yet).
I have now given up and have accepted that I got scammed for £120. I can only hope now to stop you from making the same mistake.
Trust me; if you’re looking to buy weed. Just look anywhere else, try some local parks and area where youngsters chill. This website is a pure scam. It’s a very detailed website which can be very tricky but trust me on this one please, it’s a SCAM!

"The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem."
– Bell Hooks, The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love, 2004
10 years ago, the Denver Nuggets drafted a 7 ft tall, unknown center from Serbia in the second round. It wasn't even shown on tv; the network was busy running a Taco Bell ad.
Jokic is fast, one of the strongest players in the league, and one of the best conditioned. He plays at a mile high altitude (18% less oxygen than sea level), and after every single game he plays, he goes back to the weight room with a trainer and lifts weights and does cardio for another two hours. He is also one of the most supremely skilled centers in history in terms of footwork, touch on the ball, making shots, and circus-style passes to teammates that absolutely defy belief.
But he doesn't fit the male gaze aesthetic box: he doesn't have a lot of definition in his arm muscles. He doesn't have a six pack. His arms flop and he shuffles when he runs. He looks nothing like a Michael Jordan or Lebron James, who play with flash and swagger and look and play like they just came out of a Marvel Movie. Stephen A Smith, a top sports commentator on ESPN, once famously called Nicola Jokic "A fat tub of lard who can't jump over a curb." He also got a reputation for "not caring" about basketball. He doesn't mean mug, flex, dance or celebrate after big plays. He very, very rarely talks shit, and when he does, it's wholesome and polite. He gives credit where credit is due in a calm and passive voice during interviews. And he refuses to play Hero Ball. The Nuggets are known for playing unselfish team ball, led by Jokic. He could be scoring 40 to 50 points a game, but instead leads the league in assists, passing the ball to teammates who are shooting hot or in better positions to score. His teammates (with the exception of maybe Jamal Murray, who can be a selfish shithead and often is) have embraced Jokic's ethics, selflessness, and philosophies behind team ball. Aaron Gordon, who was drafted to be a #1 star in Orlando and was traded to the Nuggets a couple years ago, has embraced Jokic' style of play and humility, even though he's often the third or fourth best player on the team. This interview the other day was really amazing.
In an age of American anti-intellectualism, Jokic is a robot brain who dissects strategy and positioning and plays chess when everyone plays checkers.
Even off the court, Jokic refuses to buy into the male gaze/toxic masculinity trappings. He has a nice house, but doesn't drive a flashy car or wear flashy clothes. He married his high school sweetheart, is the dad to a toddler daughter, and is fiercely devoted to them. You never see him living the high life, clubbing, or trying to be cool on TV. At most someone will snap a candid photo of him out at a dinosaur exhibit, with his daughter on his shoulders.
Despite his refusal to play the superstar game, Jokic has been wiping the floor with the rest of the NBA. He won MVP in 2021 and 2022. In 2023, sports commentators started pushing Joel Embiid to win over Jokic. Embiid is tall, strong, aggressive to the point of violence on the court, has a lot of swagger and ego. In other words, more of the masculine hero aesthetic and personality men want to see and emulate. Embiid flailed out of the playoffs early. Jokic and the Nuggets went on a tear, destroyed the playoffs, won their first championship, and Jokic won Finals MVP.
In a hilarious and famous interview after winning his first championship, instead of basking in the glory and the limelight and crowing about his accomplishments, Jokic was sad to find out he'd have to stay for a parade a few days later because it would keep him away from his beloved horses waiting for him on his farm in Serbia.
After experiencing Denver's joy and pride, Jokic was touched by the fan support during the parade and has loosened up a bit this year with the media. He also started doing a couple commercials. Not the cereal box and warrior-coded commercials. But goofy ones with a young teammate and a pony, and this recent hysterical one for Dispicable Me 4 (when this dropped during the playoffs, Jokic rolled up to the arena dressed as Gru).
The NBA brass and sports media have been beside themselves trying to push any flashy star besides Jokic and any other team than the Nuggets. Despite the Nuggets continuing to dominate in play, sports media rarely mentioned them and continued to try to push a lackluster, 10th place Lakers with Lebron James and Anthony Davis, who are much more likely to look good on a lunchbox. Strangely, the Nugget's scheduling had more exhausting back to back next day games by far than any other team in the league. Despite being a leading player in the league, referees refused to call fouls in Jokic' favor at the same rate as the other stars, or even mundane players, despite the fact that every game Jokic would sport multiple visible nail scratches covering his arms, sometimes to the point of bleeding.
It didn't matter. The Nuggets still swept the Los Angeles Lakers 12 games in a row, and the Boston Celtics. They tied for most wins in their division. And once again, Jokic won league MVP. The league and media institution were so sour that the "boring," "lazy," "fat" European won again, Shaqueel O'Neil opened up the awards presentation by telling Jokic to his face that another player should have won.
The Nuggets are currently in the second round of the playoffs. They were low energy and not great the first two games, dropping to a young and hungry Minnesota team with a 22 year old phenom named Anthony Edwards, who the media spent a week splashing across their screens and calling him the next Michael Jordan. The Nuggets and Jokic woke up and have won the last three games in absolutely embarrassing fashion. Last night, after accepting the MVP trophy at his home arena, Jokich played one of the most dominant solo games in the history of the NBA, absolutely wrecking an asshole 4 time defensive player of the year in Rudy Gobert like the dude wasn't even there. At this point, the opposing team, and the media, are shrugging their shoulders and begrugingly admitting there's nothing they can do. This guy is one of the best players in history, and nobody is going to be able to stop him.
Jokic's only acknowledgement in the press conference was a dry, deadpan, self deprecating admission that he's a freak of nature.
So if you're bored and want to watch a bunch of dudes subvert patriarchal expectations of what athletic men are supposed to be, Nuggets playoffs basketball is pretty fucking fun to watch. And they're dragging the NBA into prioritizing team play and humility over stars and aesthetics , whether they like it or not. The needle on what we should idolize in this country is moving.

Invitation to Participate in Research Study: Exploring the Relationship Between Burnout and Perceptions of Quality of Care
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Master of Science, Psychology/Marriage, and Family Therapy

I love to hear what other butches and mascs have to say.
I don't really have an irl community anymore due to living rural and an hour from the closest small city in my state, but I'm somewhat active or at least a lurker in online lesbian spaces. I notice a lot of fems really sexualize butches, studs, and masculine lesbians. It's happened to me posting a normal selfie on one of my social media platforms ("I need you" and adjacent comments), while I don't notice a lot of butches doing the same to femmes. I'm sure some butches are okay with it, and I am to a certain degree, but I'm not this, like, suave sexy butch that some lesbians tend to think of. I don't really relate to that butch stereotype, and based on a couple fellow butches I've confided in about it, neither do them.
A while back, once I came into my butch(4femme) identity, I started dating a femme lesbian. I ended it after a couple months after I found out I was a massive rebound (RIP), but I also noticed how she was obsessed with fictional men and projecting that onto me, always wanted me to drive her places, pay for most of the things despite us making essentially around the same money (we're both 23 and working your average early 20s entry level positions): it was a lot of giving on my part but not receiving anything in return (using this phrase in a nonsexual manner). In other words, she was definitely leaning into treating me like a man, despite claiming how much she actually doesn't prefer butches who "look like men"/"are too masculine", but "soft mascs" instead, a term I don't use and despise for myself. Funny thing is: despite dating ME, a very masculine butch, she kept talking ill of butches. She liked them to "look like girls" too. But, also, spoiler alert: I do like sort of being more mannish and masculine in the relationship, i like being boyish, etc. But the fact she kept talking of these fictional male crushes, saying how we are "literally them", then somehow being critical of butches/mascs who are too masculine made me feel... shitty.
I just have been vaguely noticing here and there that there seems to be two popular headspaces when it comes to how femmes see butches:

1. We're probably really sexual and suave and we like all this thirsty talk.
   
2. We're basically men, just for being butch.
   

I'd be curious to hear others' thoughts and experiences. Maybe I'm observing the wrong spaces, but irl this has been affecting me too, at least when I was more connected to an irl community.

My partner Seth (24M) and I (24F) have been together for almost a year and a half. When we first started talking I was crazy into him, seriously obsessed and didn't want anyone else to have him, etc. Those initial intense relationship feelings. We used to have sex multiple times a day, go out all the time, and had a generally great time together. At the time he was living with his parents so he started to stay over at my place all the time and eventually it became every single night. We were infatuated with each other, said I love you very early on, and I saw nothing wrong with it.
The first mistake I/we made we moving in together really quick. I didn't see an issue with it at the time but after months of reading other posts on here or elsewhere online, I do agree now that the decision to move in with your partner should be made very intentionally, and ours was not. I wanted to move to a one bedroom once my lease was up and he wanted to move out of his parents' house, so we decided to move in together. This being said, nothing particularly bad has come out of us moving in together, I just see now that it should have been a more thoughtful decision.
Another thing to note about our relationship is that he is an alcoholic. He was drinking a lot when we first started dating - we met working in the service industry, and everyone drinks all the time, if you've worked in restaurants you know it's a huge issue. I didn't truly realize it was a real problem for him for a few months until he made some bad decisions - spending a lot of money while drunk, driving under the influence, and staying out until the early hours of the morning multiple nights in a row when he knew I didn't like it. For a little while it seemed like this was going to become a huge problem in our relationship and I had a breakdown thinking that I'd fucked up by moving in with him, getting rid of all of my own furniture, and intertwining my life so deeply to his so quickly. He finally stopped drinking and has been completely sober for a few months. I don't think he'll ever drink again.
As for our relationship as a whole - we mostly get along, basically never fight about anything serious. We have the same sense of humor and style as well as interests and music and movie tastes, etc. We appear completely compatible on paper.
Here come the real issues: ever since he stopped drinking, our sex life has plummeted into nothing. We basically have a dead bedroom and he doesn't seem concerned about it at all. We've had sex one time in the last few months, didn't even have sex on my birthday. And, because we've barely been having sex, when we do, it is not great. I've brought it up to him a few times, asking if he's masturbating at all or if he's concerned that we don't really have sex anymore and he doesn't seem to be worried about it. The issue is that I am a very sexual person, and I'm sexually adventurous, and he doesn't seem to have any interest in that sort of stuff. I don't want to have to ask him to want to have sex with me. I'm also bisexual and have had minimal experiences with women and I cannot imagine never being with a woman again for the rest of my life.
As for the issues with me - I am super independent. I've been dreaming of solo traveling the world my whole life. I love going to dinner alone, running errands alone, spending time by myself. I've always set up my life so that if any one of my relationships (parental, friend, romantic) explodes, I will come out okay on the other side. However, he is almost completely dependent on me. We have plans to move to a new city together in a month and plans to travel shortly after. If, theoretically, I broke up with him, I'd still move to this new city, I'd travel alone, and my life would continue on. I cannot picture at all what his life looks like without me in it. I know that isn't my fault, it's just important to note.
Basically, I'm backed into a corner and I don't know what to do. He loves me so much - he does so much for me and would probably take a bullet for me. I love him too, I really do. I am just scared for a few reasons. Let's say I break up with him - again, his whole entire life would blow up. He would probably have to move back in with his parents, he hates his current job, and he hasn't finished school. His entire plan for the future is tethered to mine. I'm also worried that I would regret doing this, that I would realize later that I fucked up and it would be impossible to get him back after fucking him over so greatly. Let's say I don't break up with him - am I going to regret not traveling by myself like I've always wanted to? Are my sexual needs going to be constantly ignored?
I don't know what to do. I don't want to fuck him over, and ending this relationships seems like it would do just that. He is an amazing person who has had a tough go of it and he does not deserve any of this, but I also don't want to sign both of us up for a future that is doomed. I can't tell if I'm only feeling this way because I'm antsy for change or I'm bored and all relationships go through rough spots or what is real. If anyone has any advice on this or has been in a similar situation I'm all ears.
TL;DR My relationship has gone through a lot of changes recently and I don't know whether or not I should break it off or not.

Last year during an argument my husband (23M) said to me, (20F) "Are you seriously mad at me? This is why you women should never ask these stupid fucking questions!"
So naturally I stopped opening up about my anxieties and worries to him.
Whenever he would disrespect me in front of his friends, or disregard me and my thoughts and feelings I would turn to my mother.
I know I shouldn't of aired his dirty laundry out to her but I was terrified of how he might react if I had questioned him about his behavior.
As he has dealt with being cheated on in a previous relationship he would drill into me if I ever cheated on him he would kill me. He would accuse me almost everyday, even though I always made sure men and his male friends were always at an arm's length with me as I never wanted to entertain the idea of crossinh any boundaries and because I was madly in love with him and could literally care less about other men's opinion of me. He would go through my phone every night after I fell asleep and he eventually found out about my messages to my mother.
He was furious I told her about our personal problems instead of coming to him but I explained as to why I did so. He then shut down, shut me out, gave me the silent treatment and then jerked off to porn in the shower for two hours.
This would be a reoccuring pattern.
Two months ago I told him I wanted to learn how to drive and become more independent as I should know how to drive by now but let my severe anxieties of being on the road stop me.
He said he was worried because and I quote, "When a he says she wants to be independent..." Literally calling me a he when I have literally never ever exuded any energy of the sort.
Obviously I took offense to this and told him, "Please do not call me that."
To which he replied, "That's not what I meant." and then proceeded to tell gaslight me into thinking that wasn't what he meant at all.
When I stood my ground and said, "Regardless of what you meant I would appreciate if you would rather not do that again."
He looked like a puppy that had just been kicked and kept going on about how awful of a husband he is. When I sat there staring at him, he then shut down, shuts me out, gave me the silent treatment went upstairs and jerked off to porn in the shower for two hours again.
I am constantly in a damned if I do, damned if I don't situation, If he upsets me and I tell him he is unable to take any criticism or own up to his mistake like an adult and says he's the most horrible man alive and uses that self loathing to then give me the silent treatment and jerk off to porn. If he upsets me and I tell my mother instead he snoops through my phone gets angry at me for turning to her instead uses that resentment to then give me the silent treatment and jerk off to porn. He says indulging in porn is his number one solution to stress.
I HAVE BEEN BROKEN DOWN, SHATTERED TO PIECES AND DRAINED OF ALL LIFE AND NOT ONCE HAVE I THOUGHT TO BETRAY HIM IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM.
He uses me standing up for myself as a reason to jerk off because apparently I'm just the evil, shrewd, nagging wife who is the worst person on the planet.
The crazy thing is, I have a high sex drive and was more than happy to have sex with him everyday. But that wasn't enough, and rapidly throughout our relationship he declined my iniations for intimacy and started favoring his porn.
If it were infrequent uses of free porn when I wasn't in the mood maybe I would've been okay with it but he was legitimately rejecting me for sex and then waiting til i fell asleep to then indulge in porn.
It was paying for onlyfans subscriptions, generating thousands of images of AI porn, paying animators to animate pornography of his favorite characters, watching porn and playing pornographic video games and the worst to me was him using fake AI dating apps that let you swipe through images of real women to then sext with AI bots pretending to be them.
He would spend upwards to several hundreds on all of this every month.
I find myself apologizing in times when it should be him.
I cannot stand to look myself in the mirror as I think I'm the most hideous creature to ever roam the earth.
I can't go anywhere or engage in any media (completely SFW) without getting triggered and thinking would he rather be with someone who looked like her as opposed to me.
And when he saw me looking at this subreddit one day at my laptop he got so frustrated to think I would ever need a support group like this.
I have no friends, I only talk to my mother on a daily basis besides him.
I am married and yet I feel so incredibly lonely.
Fortunately I have a picnic set up with a mutual female acquaintance tomorrow and I am excited and I want to tell her everything but I know I shouldn't and it would be wrong of me and it would bite me back in the ass.
I just want someone to hug me.
I feel so empty.
I can never win.

I know there’s probably not a whole lot of sustainable projects that can be done in one day, but figured I would ask in case anyone has experience or any tips!

I see a lot people that post in frustration and worry that they’ll never be “good” at programming, so I wanted to ask for some feel good moments you’ve experienced on your journey to learning programming… I recently had a pretty awesome moment that boosted my confidence, in my programming ability and knowledge.
TLDR: Hobbiest, worked on a personal game project over a year ago, came back to it to improve it, and found my code was well organized, well written, easily adaptable and expandable. Made me realize the studying I have done actually stuck, and maybe I’m not as green as I thought. :-)
I am a complete hobbyist, I work on projects solely for the joy of learning a new skill that just so happens be making video games, which I grew up loving, but have never understood how to program.
I started learning Unity and C# during the tail end of the pandemic, and I quickly discovered I really enjoyed coding, and making games, but understood that, realistically, at 37 years old, I would not be changing careers, so just took the process at my own pace, I worked through the C# Players Guide(5th edition, I think) I completed almost every tutorial series on GameDev.TV that had to do with Unity or C#, and watched many topic specific videos on YouTube, Udemy and skillshare…on topics like AI, Pathfinding, Procedural Generation, ShaderGraph, 2D, 3D 2.5d…
Rick Davidson, Penny de Byl, Brackeys, CodeMonkey, Jason Weimann, Tarodev… amoung many others, have been my teachers. I have made many small tutorial projects, and a couple larger “intermediate/advanced” tutorial projects, but nothing that was really my own, I’d just been enjoying the process of learning and making simple fun games.
Well, a little over a year ago, March 2023, I decided it was time to start my own project. I had no delusions of grandeur, I had no plans on actually releasing anything. I just had an idea for a game, and I wanted to see if I could build it from scratch. So I did.
My game plays like a 2 player board game, Two Factions: Good Vs. Evil, both factions with Three races to choose from (Humans, Dwarves, or Elves, and Demons, Monsters or Undead) with dice rolling, a hex grid game board, different phases for each players turn, combat between units( a basic attack that did a predetermined amount of damage), the goal was to collect 7 “energy” nodes randomly scattered on the board, 3 on each side of the board and one on the center Hex.
Each side takes turns moving their 3 unit types (a collector, a warrior, and an Overseer), around the board, trying to eliminate the other players collector, and collect the nodes before the other player. If a collector is destroyed you have to use collected energy to span a new one. Its all set in a fantasy setting, and the scene is set to look as if your playing a board game in a medieval pub.
I did some really complex (at least to me) things too. Each match is set on a procedurally generated game board, set to look like the chosen game board environment (ie, grasslands, sand dunes/desert, volcanic wastes, wintesnow).
I built my own state machine to manage each players turn. With multiple states, an optional “magical misfire” state, that only occurs if the player rolls a 1 during collection.
I built my own Camera Managment system utilizing cinemachine, it’s simple but it keeps track of which camera is active, controls the camera movement for each players camera… etc.
I built my own player notification system, that allows for timed notifications system that both sends to notification panel for immediate display, and also a log for players to refer back to if needed.
I have multiple managers to keep things compartmentalized, and as OOP as possible.
I created multi base classes that all have numerous heirs, and came up with ways to make everything customizable and unique. Each player has a choice of 3 factions, all with their own UI, their own HomePieces, each unit is unique, and it looks pretty good because I have been using humble bundle since I started learning to get a very large collection of synty model packs, and high quality UI assets.
After 3 months. I had a working game loop, a very customizable game board generation system, and had pretty much accomplished what I set out to do. Everything in my initial development document had been implemented. However, the gameplay itself wasn’t very fun. It all worked and looked pretty good, but it just didn’t have any umph. (I have not added any “juice” either, so it was pretty stale) I decided I had reached the point where I was a little lost on where to take it. I had been spending A LOT of time working on it, 4-5 hours a day on top of my full time job working customer service at the airport. Yes, I was enjoying it, but I burnt myself out, and I started getting frustrated that I seemed to be stuck. I could not think of anything useful or fun to add. I had ideas, but I couldn’t think of how to implement them… and if I did try something new, I couldn’t work out how to get it to sync up with every thing else, and things just kept breaking. I thought “I’m too deep at this point, and I must have too much spaghetti in my code.”
I felt happy with where this project had ended, as it was complete, and everything I had put in my initial planning document was implemented and working…and, I was actually really proud of some of the systems, like the hex grid generator, and the procedural terrain generation, and all the ideas I had about how to initialize the whole thing and get it all working over multiple scenes, with multiple players… I learned a lot, and really enjoyed it over all. I was happy, but felt I had taken as far as I could. Even though I had ideas I wanted to do, like different actions for each unit, different spells for each faction type, etc.
As I said, I was feeling burnt out, I had enjoyed the process but, it had taken its toll. So I took a break from Coding. Not really knowing how long it would be.
I got really into Oxygen Not Included, and spent hundreds of hours building colonies, and trying to reach the temporal tear… I have yet to make it, sadly. I then spent a while playing My Time at Sandrock, and happily built up my workshop, while helping uncover the conspiracy of the stolen water, and returned the desert to a lush oasis… I played many other games in between as well, finding myself analyzing the mechanics, the presentation, the feel… Then the itch came back. I hadn’t even opened Unity in almost a year. I had had a lot of ideas in the in between. Specifically ideas about what I could do to improve the game I had created. So, I thought”I’ll try something simple, see what I remember…“
I found, it was like hardly any time had passed at all. I was a little fuzzy on some things, and I needed a few reminders of syntax and other small things that popped up, but any issues or forgotten techniques were quickly remedied and remembered.
However, I was nervous to revisit my game. I remembered how frustrated I was when I decided to take a break. I just KNEW I had too many dependencies, I just KNEW everything was spaghettified mess and I would be in a nightmare of refactoring to clean things up. Plus, I had read so many Reddit posts about revisiting code, even from just a couple weeks ago, and the programmer not remembering anything about it… like they couldn’t even remember writing it, let alone what it did… So I thought it would be a futile experiment to try and improve my game.
But, I was curious if I could improve things, and add some of the ideas I’ve had. So, I opened up the project, and played my game for the first time in almost a year. I noticed a few issues right away, remnants of my final attempts to improve my game while at the end of a burnout, that I frustratingly couldn’t figure out how to fix at the time. Like the player pieces spawning in the wrong rotation (facing away the opposite of where they were supposed to face.) or the game board generation, if the board wasn’t viable, it was supposed to reset and start over to generate a new board… it was, but the finalization of the regenerated game board wasn’t receiving a certain list of prefabbed terrain tiles, and would spawn those as null, so nothing would appear, where there was supposed to be a terrain tile. So I decided tackle those two issues first.
I dove into the code… and to my surprise, where I expected to find a mess of random variable names, or confusing methods, that do multiple tasks, creating a grid of confusion… I found logical code that made sense. Properties were named in a way that I knew exactly what they were for and what they contained, I could follow the path way of calls and understood what was happening, where.. it had been almost year and I hadn’t even looked at this code, and I understood what was going on. I refactored/rewrote a few areas, and got the unit spawning rotation and the generation reset issues resolved. Surprised at how well I was understanding my old code. I decided to be a little bolder, and rework how moving the players units worked. Originally during the movement phase, the player would roll a D6 and could move each of its units, any number of spaces up to their dice roll, on the board. I wanted the different units to feel more unique, each with their own “stats” as it were, so I added a few variables, reworked a few lines of code, and soon enough I had the movement I was liking for, each unit with its own distance, no dice roll needed. Also, it was fairly easy. I was able to make the adjustments to the code and get the results I wanted without breaking things, without effecting any other aspect of the game, as intended, in a way that made total sense working with the other systems. I am now fairly certain that my frustration and inability to get the result I wanted or expected, was due to burning myself out, by not prioritizing my mental health over my enjoyment of coding.
I have since begun work on improving my game again, in earnest. With a healthier work/life/coding fun balance. I have been working for a couple more months since picking it back up. And I have been able to implement entirely new systems, such as a gamePieceAction system that allows each unit to have unique attacks and abilities, Allows for different types of ability use during the different phases of the turn, so collectors can have collection abilities, were warriors have combat abilities, and each players home can have support abilities like healing units, buffing units, etc…
I have added a FogOfWar system that disallows the players to see each others moves, and I have come up with a lot of ideas for how to improve things, and it’s all working and fitting together without causing a huge headache and without having to refactor half the code to work, my initial attempt was actually pretty good, and I am able to implement the ideas that I think will make it more fun, maybe I’ll get it to a point that I can share it for others to play too, and I am excited to be back to doing something I truly enjoy. Thanks for reading!

I know there’s probably not a whole lot of sustainable projects that can be done in one day, but figured I would ask in case anyone has experience or any tips!

(i dont normally type like this for the record. i know how to capitalize and punctuate. this is the internet, not an application. only saying it because my last post in this sub got a comment like that....)
so i was laid off in march. being in the union, i gave them until may to find me a job. im staying a member until june (when my health insurance runs out due to no hours), but im trying hard to find anything more career building than going back to general labor work.
ive applied to sales, logistics, customer service, warehouses, bartending, dispatching, delivery, city work, security, data entry, cleaning + various general labor jobs that i already have over a years experience in, and many many many more types of jobs. ive been sending in about 10-20 applications a day for a few weeks now. so far ive only had 4 interviews, and have heard back from 0 of them.
everyone always says no one wants to work, but no one wants to hire either. im feeling lost and have no idea what to do from here lol.

I'm a PP out of CLT, so I never get upgraded. Not even close.
However, I am on a trip to Palm Beach, FL right now. Yesterday, I got upgraded at boarding for the first time. Downside was that they didn't do service due to turbulence. Still grateful for the seat considering that we sat at the gate for about an hour while the weather issues worked through.
Now I just got a confirmed upgrade like 30 hours out. It took me a minute to even understand what was happening in the email.
Just bragging/expressing gratitude.

To the Community,
I am writing to bring attention to a serious issue affecting many of us who work as delivery drivers for DoorDash. Over the past two weeks, I have dedicated approximately 150 hours to being online and available for orders in Palo Alto. Despite this significant time investment, I have received very few orders, leading to substantial financial hardship.
What makes this situation particularly troubling is that DoorDash has consistently assured drivers like myself that there are no issues with their system. We are encouraged to stay online and wait for orders that never come. This misleading information not only wastes our time but also prevents us from earning a fair income.
This practice is not only unfair but also indicative of broader systemic issues within DoorDash’s operations. The company advertises high demand to attract new drivers, yet fails to provide sufficient orders to those already online. This behavior constitutes fraudulent misrepresentation and exploitation, and it must be addressed.
To all affected drivers and concerned community members, we need to take collective action to ensure DoorDash is held accountable for these practices:

1. File Complaints: Submit formal complaints with the Department of Labor, the State Attorney General, and the Better Business Bureau. Document specific instances where you were misled about order availability. 2. Collect Evidence: Gather and document all communications from DoorDash that indicate we were told there were no issues and encouraged to stay online. This evidence is crucial for supporting our complaints and any potential legal actions. 3. Connect with Other Drivers: Reach out to fellow DoorDash drivers to understand the extent of this issue and organize a collective response. Our combined voices are stronger than individual complaints. 4. Seek Media Attention: Contact local news outlets and journalists to share our story and bring broader public awareness to this issue. Media coverage can help apply pressure on DoorDash to address these practices. 5. Leverage Social Media: Use platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to share our experiences and raise awareness. Tag DoorDash and relevant hashtags to increase visibility. 6. Join Advocacy Groups: Engage with organizations that support gig workers, such as Gig Workers Rising and the Freelancers Union. These groups can provide valuable resources, support, and a platform for our concerns. 7. Consult Legal Advice: Seek advice from labor attorneys to understand our rights and explore potential legal remedies. Some attorneys offer free consultations and may take on cases on a contingency basis. 

By coming together and taking these actions, we can work towards a fairer and more transparent system that respects and compensates drivers for their time and effort. It is imperative that DoorDash is held accountable for its treatment of drivers.
Thank you for your attention and support.
Sincerely, John

Hi Everyone!
I wanted to take the time to give my personal experience while rotating with Clerkships.Org. Miss Jacquelyn is the founder of this clinical placement agency. She has worked in the industry for over 15 years and when the previous company shut its doors she founded her own company and the majority of physicians decided to work with her to precept. Her mission is to keep clinicals affordable to the medical student and graduate community along with donating 5% of profits to women's health and educational non-profits.
While she has over 375 different clinical sites. I rotated at 2 of her sites and have just enrolled in a 3rd site. She is very easy to communicate with and is very pleased to help in anyway possible.
Payment plans are available depending on your timeline booked.
Document requirements depend on the site you choose to rotate at.
Rotation 1:
Location: Chicago, IL
Price: $1,200
Housing: Used her referral. The referral is an FM Physician in Chicago that rents out her rental units as short term housing for student and graduates. $1,890
Transportation: Rented a car so I could have maximum exposure to all the hospitals.
This attending physician loves to teach and encourages active participation. If you need to take time off to study or have other commitments that you need to attend to he will work with your schedule completely. He is very detailed in his LORs. There is a full curriculum presented to you for your rotation. I was even able to attend luncheons to help network further.
Rotation 2:
Location: Newark, NJ
Price: $3,000
Housing: Air BNB
Transportation: UBER
This attending physician is an IM program director. I did receive an interview from him during SOAP. It is a very fast paced rotation that is challenging. He expects a lot from you during your clinical. You will rotate with the physician and his residents. Lor is detailed. I was expected to do 2-3 12 hour days per week.
Feel Free to DM me at anytime!

My school is very limited in the APs they offer and there's a complicated application process where most are rejected. I'm planning to take 4 to 5 if I am accepted into 2 or 3 classes for senior year, since up to junior year, I've only taken 2 AP courses. I only got accepted into LANG for junior year, and took World this year (sophomore), and there were no offered APs for freshman year. I feel that I am significantly lacking in class rigor, compared to competitive high schools that offer several APs each year. I hear students taking 7-11..
Should I try to take as many APs as possible during senior year to balance out my weak AP track record, or is 4-5 AP classes overall still considerable for prestigious colleges? Or maybe it all comes down to SAT scoring? Please let me know I really have no clue. Also, if it affects anything, I have 200+ service hours, but I'm not sure what would be considered above average for service, or if this is even a large factor in college admission decisions.

For the first time since his incarceration, Bankman-Fried described his daily life in a detailed interview with journalist William D. Cohan of Puck:

On a recent Tuesday, I went to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn for an intimate chat with America’s most famous prisoner, Sam Bankman-Fried. During our 75-minute conversation, we discussed everything from Caroline Ellison and the travails of his new life, to his regrets about the demise of FTX and his forthcoming appeal.
I got the distinct impression that Sam still doesn’t believe he committed any crimes, only that he was the one responsible for putting FTX in a position where it was vulnerable to a bank run and the devious actions of its competitors

WILLIAM D. COHAN -- May 9, 2024
On Tuesday afternoon, I found myself in the most unusual circumstances—sitting on a small plastic chair at a cramped table in the Metropolitan Detention Center, the federal prison on 29th Street in Sunset Park, in Deep Brooklyn. Outside, it was a gorgeous day, the sort of picturesque and slightly humid one that inevitably reminds longtime New Yorkers of the weather on the morning of September 11th. Inside the prison’s visiting room, however, there was no natural light, no sunshine, only the Hitchcockian buzz of fluorescent bulbs and three vending machines standing in a corner. Posters on the wall attempted to compensate for the bleak atmosphere by buoyantly welcoming visiting families.
I first met Sam Bankman-Fried in December 2021, during the height of his power and influence, when he was the richest person in the world under 30. My friend Anthony Scaramucci, a.k.a. The Mooch, had connected us. On a cold winter night at the One Hotel, on Sixth Avenue, I interviewed him for a documentary I am part of making about Bitcoin and its developer, Satoshi Nakamato. Sam showed up an hour late, in a black t-shirt and cargo shorts, apparently having just flown in via private jet from the Bahamas. A month later, Sam’s cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, would raise its final $400 million round of financing from a group of highfalutin investors—led by Softbank, Temasek, and Paradigm—at a valuation of $32 billion, making the company one of the most valuable in the sector. At that moment, Sam was said to be worth $26 billion.
This week, we reconnected amid very different circumstances. Sam and I arranged for this visit through his Corrlinks email account, at the suggestion of his mother, Barbara Fried, and the family’s prison advisor. We met on Tuesday around 1 p.m. because that was the only day that visiting hours are permitted at MDC, a hangover from the Covid era. Prisoners can have visitors for one of two sessions, either starting at noon or at five in the afternoon.
We were meeting later than noon because of the staffing shortage at the facility. I was allowed to bring in $1 or $5 bills, up to a total of $30, in case I wanted to buy Sam some water, soda, or snacks from the humming vending machines. I was told to put my $20 bill as well as my wallet and iPhone into a locker. Sam was not permitted to buy anything himself.
Following about an hour of bureaucratic snafus (I went to the wrong building at first, and I wasn’t wearing dark pants—although an exception was made for me) and other forms of prison processing (shoes and belt off, metal detection, sticking my hand in a scanner) I was finally allowed inside the prison, without a phone, a watch, a recording device, or even a pad of paper and a pencil. (I knew this in advance, of course, and set about preserving my recollections of our conversation immediately after leaving the facility.)
After a few minutes of waiting, I looked up to see Sam Bankman-Fried, over in the corner, dressed head to toe in a chocolate-brown prison jumpsuit, along with the still-wild frizzy hair that has been his trademark. These days, Sam looks considerably thinner than the last time we met—it appeared he’d lost 25 pounds, at least. But he looked better and fitter than I thought he would, to be honest—less pudgy, less manic, less fidgety, no bags under his eyes.
He was sustaining himself on rice and beans, he said, because the prison food was unsurprisingly inedible, especially the vegan entrées he was served, which his fellow inmates thought literally smelled like shit. He wasn’t complaining, mind you; he noted that he was just trying to make the best of a bad situation. The rice he buys at the prison commissary has become one of the currencies of the realm inside MDC. We joked briefly about how the arbitrage opportunities in jail were better than anything he experienced trading crypto at Jane Street Capital or buying and selling assets at Alameda. He looked me in the eye pretty much the whole time, something he rarely did with people in the old days.
After we shook hands, he sat down in his own plastic chair as a camera watched us from the ceiling. We were surrounded by a couple of other inmates, dressed similarly, facing their visitors. Sam declined my initial offer to buy him some snacks but ultimately agreed to a $4 bottle of water and a small $2 package of Wheat Thins, which he eagerly consumed.
We talked for the next 75 minutes or so, the first in-person interview he has given to a journalist since he was locked up in the MDC last August and then subsequently convicted of two counts of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, securities fraud, commodities fraud, and money-laundering at his federal trial in November. In March, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Our chat, under these rather drastic circumstances, was a profoundly jarring and fascinating experience.

Prison Diaries

Sam began by answering my question about his life in prison. According to him, he lives in an area of the jail that was dedicated mostly to incarcerated women, save for the 35 men with whom he shares a dormitory-style existence in a big open room—bunk beds, no privacy, extreme boredom, and four television sets tuned to ESPN, Telemundo, BET, and a news channel. Sam said he could try to persuade his fellow inmates to change up the channel selection, but television bores him, so he has no interest in that challenge. He prefers watching a small selection of movies or playing some inferior video games on a tablet, without an internet connection, that the prison provides him and other inmates.
When I told him he seemed better than I had anticipated, he replied that he’d become good at faking it. So, yes, life inside the MDC is not the Bahamas. But, truly, I had expected to see him coping less well. At the MDC, Sam has mostly been permitted his prescription medications, and the cocktail he’s been allowed has him thinking clearly, he said, and energized for the legal battle he plans to wage soon against the verdict.
In the meantime, he told me, he doesn’t fear for his safety. He can use the bathroom and shower a couple of times a week in peace. He’s always been a light sleeper, and he’s still not sleeping soundly at the MDC, but mostly because people sometimes bug him during the night about those bags of rice, which they intend to use to barter. He has not been touched or abused, and he seemed notably thankful for that.
He acknowledged that he has a unique rap sheet at MDC, and his fellow prisoners indeed recognize him. He estimated that about half of the other 35 men in his unit were murderers who had been turned into cooperating witnesses for the prosecution in exchange for not serving a life sentence. In prison, many inmates consider cooperating witnesses the lowest form of vermin, lower even than child molesters. Sam also told me that some of the other prisoners tried to get close to him, thinking they would benefit financially from the proximity to a former billionaire. He doesn’t play along, he said.
We didn’t talk about his trial strategy or whether he intentionally siphoned off the $8 billion of FTX customer funds into Alameda. Both topics seemed moot at this point. We did discuss his onetime girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, whom he selected to run Alameda after lawyers kept hounding him about the inherent conflicts in him running both FTX and the hedge fund. (He chose to run FTX.) He acknowledged that he had asked a few other people if they would be interested in the role, but they turned him down. Ellison, he said, was a good manager of people and a good administrator but didn’t like making big investments and didn’t like taking risks. (Obviously, this seems like a bizarre aversion for a hedge fund manager, but I didn’t belabor the point.) In any event, Alameda ended up doing both.
He regretted that he had not tried harder to find another executive. He also said he should have ignored the lawyers and just kept running both FTX and Alameda, conflicts be damned, sort of like how Elon Musk oversees his various companies. Wishing he had ignored his lawyers’ advice emerged as a theme of Sam’s during our visit.

Legal Therapy

We did talk a fair amount about his appeal and about how he believed he was set up to be the fall guy—the victim of the old build-’em-up-only-to-tear-’em-down narrative arc. His theory of the case was that by the fall of 2022, it was every man for himself on a boat that looked to be sinking. By early November 2022, FTX was facing a liquidity crunch. Sam first sought a deal with Binance, which quickly fell apart or was never truly real, and was in the process of trying to raise billions in capital when his lawyers advised him to turn the keys of FTX over to John J. Ray III, which he did. Ray quickly filed FTX for bankruptcy and installed Sullivan & Cromwell, the company’s outside counsel, as counsel to the debtor.
Sam became the target of federal prosecutors, he told me, soon after FTX’s outside counsel at Sullivan & Cromwell made a presentation to them, on November 9, 2022, a day or so before the bankruptcy filing, about what they believed Sam may have engineered between FTX and Alameda, which has been described as the theft of $8 billion of customer money. In a sworn declaration about that meeting, S&C attorney Andrew Dietderich said he reported to the D.O.J. only what Ryne Miller, FTX’s U.S. general counsel, told him about a problem of “reconciling digital assets with entitlements” on FTX’s U.S. exchange, and nothing about Sam and his alleged transgressions.
Sam told me that had he not been persuaded by Sullivan & Cromwell and then by his personal attorneys to relinquish his job as C.E.O. to Ray, the company would not have filed for bankruptcy, and it would still be a thriving enterprise, worth $80 billion now. In this alternate reality, he would be worth $40 billion and he certainly wouldn’t be at the MDC. (S&C declined to comment on Sam’s theory of the case. It’s also fair to reiterate here that Sam was sentenced to 25 years in prison after a jury convicted him of the crimes described above.)
I got the distinct impression that Sam still doesn’t believe he committed any crimes, only that he was the one responsible for putting FTX in a position where it was vulnerable to a bank run and the devious actions of its competitors, not unlike how both Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers failed in 2008. Why, Sam wondered, was he prosecuted when no one at either Bear or Lehman faced criminal prosecution? During our chat, Sam was contrite and certainly chastened, but not exactly apologetic: He was adamant about his innocence, aside from a few degrees of negligence—punishable, in his view, perhaps by civil consequences, not criminal penalties and a quarter-century sentence.
According to Sam’s theory, he isn’t in prison for commingling assets of FTX and Alameda. Instead, he’s an innocent guy who didn’t get a chance to negotiate a deal with the federal prosecutors, and wonders why he was even prosecuted at all for what he believes was a form of a bank run. Instead, they just presented him with his indictment and told him he could eat it— accept it and plead guilty and then get sentenced, or go to trial and try to fight it. Since there was no plea bargain on the table, he said, he fought the charges at trial, and lost. Unlike his fellow inmates, he told me, Sam speaks to his new attorney nearly every weekday for an hour or so, as the focus of his appeal comes into view. He expects to file it this fall. Yes, he will appeal, but most people think he faces long odds of success.
On the day of my visit, Sullivan & Cromwell, still counsel to the debtor-in-possession in FTX’s bankruptcy case, filed a first draft of a plan of reorganization that appears to give its customers and creditors all of their money back, plus a little more—a return of $15 billion on $12 billion of claims—in large part because of the investments Sam made through Alameda. The plan, which still has a long way to go before being confirmed, also gives Sullivan & Cromwell, along with other FTX advisors, “exculpation” from future lawsuits related to its conduct in the matter. This is not unusual in a plan of reorganization. But Sam has exhaustive thoughts on this subject, which I may explore with him in a follow-up conversation.

Go West, Young Man

I’m not sure how much longer Sam will be at the MDC, and neither is he. He has asked to remain in Brooklyn at least until the fall, when his appellate brief will be filed. But that’s not up to him, of course. If he gets moved, which could come at any moment without warning or explanation, I’m told, it would probably be to California, closer to Palo Alto, where he grew up, the son of two Stanford Law professors. At that point, the question will be whether he gets to spend his incarcerated years in a federal penitentiary, which are mostly nasty places filled with hardened criminals, or in more of a minimum security prison, as Mike Milken once did.
If he does get moved out of Brooklyn, his family and legal team worry, he could spend as long as four months on a bus, handcuffed to the seat, making his way, slowly, across the country. Such prison buses make frequent stops—picking up new prisoners, dropping off others—which explains why they take so long to reach their final destinations. There’s also a remote possibility that he could be placed on one of the many planes operated by the U.S. Marshals Service, a.k.a. “Con Air.” But he’s more likely to get the infamous “diesel therapy,” they fear. Either way, during this hypothetical cross-country journey, Sam would be completely incommunicado with both his family and his lawyers until he reaches his new home in California, deprived of the minimal access to the internet and email he now enjoys in Brooklyn.
Just as we were getting ready to discuss some knotty issues, such as his choices during his trial or the fact that many of the people who once worked for him had turned against him to save themselves, our visiting time was up. It was non-negotiable. We quickly shook hands again. Then Sam went back to his dormitory and I went back outside into a glorious spring afternoon.
Credits/Via: https://puck.news/exclusive-prison-chat-with-sam-bankman-fried/

I definitely don't have the worst store by far. In all fairness it's fine. Working there's fine. It's a typical shitty customer service job with slightly better pay. My manager is one of those "workaholic" type peoples (no shade to workaholics do what ya like) and she gets salary pay, so naturally her bosses take advantage of that all the time (ie they make her work more than 40 hours... not regularly but at least once a month she's working overtime for effectively free). This (naturally) puts her in a pretty shitty mood (understandably) but her... methods of expressing it boil down to talking down to the rest of us treating us like we're stupid fucking children is frustrating, especially since we just through a remodel and I don't know where everything is or immediately know off the top of my head. Sorry this post is kind of... improvised. Anyway this job is technically a side job for her (she runs a couple busnesses and has partial ownership of a national chain i wont name) so she obtain an early retirement (good for her) and it's kind of frustrating dealing with a toddler treating me like a fucking moron everytime she's having a bad day and complaining about the work she's put through (justifiably) when.. like.. idk if I don't have a job I'm just kind of fucked yknow? She could quit this job and maybe have to push retirement like 5 years (she's not even close to retirement age I should've mentioned that earlier). I'm not trying be a dick or anything but like... we're all stressed and use some common sense before making my, to be clear, very shitty job, worse. I've been kind of bouncing around other locations to recently and it doesn't seem much better. I'm tired of working for this company, dealing with fucking shitty ass people, barely being able to afford my necessities (even with roommates) and on top of all of that, listening to some rich girl bitch about her life is hard. My empathy is at its limit. Thank you for reading my frustrated ramblings. Fuck Starbucks, if you know what's good for you, you'll unionize and you'll do it fast.

FreePalestine

Just a few hours ago, I got the beginning dosage of semaglutide combined with the lipo MIC shot. Feeling pretty ok, a little wiped out. Smoked some weed and now I feel hungry and im considering taking myself to Olive Garden for a last hurrah with my eating binges.
Hello semaglutide community! Y’all may be hearing from me periodically over the next few months!