Custom made own bmx bikes

bikeit!

2008.05.10 09:18 bikeit!

Discussion of everything bicycle related. bikeit! bike bikes bicycle bicycles bicycling cycling
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2008.05.22 03:10 bicycling

Two wheels, or three, sometimes one, but never more than twenty. Interested in riding a bicycle? We welcome bicyclists of all skill levels including those who don't yet own a bike. Ask us your questions or meetup with other redditors in your area for local rides. Happy cycling!
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2011.03.22 22:19 LeCollectif Bicycle Touring

Bicycle touring is about taking trips via bicycle. Whether you're going out for the weekend or cycling across continents, bicycletouring is a community of individuals who share this passion.
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2024.05.16 07:55 Moxie_Justine Terrible inept nonexistent customer support

Today we flew American Airlines for a trip from Austin to Tulum connecting through Miami
Flight from Austin to Miami was delayed by weather or air traffic by about 1.5 hours - boarded and we were not informed that there would be a delay until we were on the runway.
We originally had a 45 min layover but ended up missing our connecting flight - it was the ONLY flight to Tulum today.
Once we knew we were going to be delayed I got on the AA app and tried to figure out our options - just trying to be proactive.
Since it was a supposed weather delay AA said they couldn't help yet because our connection could also be delayed etc etc
So I waited until I could see that our connection was on time and tried again this time just searching for guidance and resources - how do we get to our destination there are 6 of us traveling and have a full week of tours and activities planned and paid for not to mention rental cars, hotels etc logistics
For over an hour I spent on chat I really had very little success just trying to figure out if there were 6 seats on the following days flight to Tulum thinking over night in Miami and catching the next day's flight (answer is no) next possibility switch to a flight from Miami to Cancun - great there are 3 direct flights on jet blue, frontier and spirit with 6 seats leaving w enough time to get us to Tulum before we lose a full day on our house reservation, tour on the 16th etc - not life or death but expensive and logically challenging
Chat couldn't help, our only option thru this avenue was "We have a flight here, AA #322 departing from MIA (Miami International) at 911P and arriving in EWR (Newark Liberty Int'l) at 1231A on the next day, connecting with AA flight #816 departing from JFK (New York John F Kennedy Intl) at 700A and arriving in CUN (Cancun) at 1005A."
So your opinion is to fly 6 of us from Miami to Newark, on to JFK and on to Cancun tomorrow? No thanks - was told to see a gate agent at the airport in Miami because they have more ability to see/understand situation and get us on new flights.
We got to Miami at 12:30 - went straight to rebooking/customer service and waited an hour in line (missing the jetblue 1:30 direct flight) also sat on hold for 45 min with no answer while waiting in line to see if we could get assistance that way as recorded by our pilot and signs in customer service line and as I sit on hold for the 3rd time today at midnight I feel certain I won't be helped - 49 min now it's 1am and I have been up since 4am just signed up for a call back but won't hold my breath
Anyhow we got to speak to a customer service rep at the Miami counter- she couldn't book us on another airline, she couldn't refund our missed flight and the slightly helpful advice that was offered was that our return flight would be cancelled within 24 hours if we didn't rebook- which she also couldn't do.
We are resourceful and on our own booked 6 tickets on Frontier to Cancun and canceled our rental car in Tulum so we could rebook a car in Cancun and drive to our rental in Tulum - nightmare btw but so much easier than dealing with AA
But wait our bags - at customer service counter we were told the process to pick up our checked bags - well only one made it, we had to leave to catch our flight so one bag is still in Miami (I can track it and see it but I can't get anyone to help me get it to Tulum - I am currently on hold for the 3rd time today (over 3 hours on hold with no actual help or human contact).
My bag is in Miami, my return flight home will likely be cancelled because I can't get ahold of their inept organization and we are only at our destination because we took matters into our own hands and paid out of pocket for our flight changes.
I won't ever fly AA again if I don't have to and how shitty and poorly managed of an organization do you have to be for you to have to be to have multiple employees across departments be completely unable to help your customers in any meaningful way and on top of it be rude, condescending, more than once being told it's either not their department or didn't have access or authority to make decisions.
Any help or suggestions welcome 🙏🏼 just want my bag, a way home and some credit or reimbursement for the flight we missed because they were delayed
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2024.05.16 07:47 citadel223 [H] 40k WORLD EATERS, SALAMANDERS, TERRAIN, LAST WAR, SKIRMISH MODELS [W] Paypal, Horus Heresy, Mats and Boards, Skirmish books and models [Loc] Southeast Florida, USA

Hi all! I'm back finally after a year!
I have a good lot for sale and/or trade today.
I'm primarily looking to sell but I'm also open for trades. I'm very interested in Horus Heresy (especially the starter, I want to get started in it). l also want skirmish games rulebooks/minis, play mats or boards, historical minis, and board games(solo playable and dark fantasy themed ones especially). I'm open minded though so feel free to shoot any other ideas you may have for trades and/or buys. I give a discount if you buy an entire army.
I will update the list as to what is sold as sales/trades are made.
Here are pictures of what's available:
https://imgur.com/a/gmhpH2U
Here is my karma thread:
https://www.reddit.com/MiniSwapKarma/comments/odfsdcitadel223_miniswap_karma_thread/
Here's what I have:
40k:
WORLD EATERS army and CHAOS UNDIVIDED. These are all official models but the Terminators are odd and cool conversions. Some of the models are painted, others aren't. See pictures for reference(same goes for everything else on the list). Most are spray painted red
SALAMANDERS army. These were mostly made from pushfit models and custom made with Salamanders bits. Two of the characters are recast, and 3 of the aggressors are, the rest are official models. I would prefer to sell these as one lot instead of splitting
LAST WAR:
SKIRMISH / MISCELLANEOUS MINIS:
TERRAIN:
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2024.05.16 07:40 Sudden-Tumbleweed-19 London [GB], COSTA, BARISTA

Here at Costa Coffee, we want to inspire the world to love great coffee. We’re all about embracing passion, energy, and teamwork to serve memorable moments for every one of our customers.As a Costa Barista, you’ll not only enjoy the pride of working for the nation’s favourite coffee shop, but you’ll also receive great training and benefits. So, you’re sure to enjoy Costa Coffee as much as our customers do.
A bit about the role
Starting pay of ÂŁ12.00-13.00 per hour (dependent on the location of the store)
Day to day, you’ll be making coffee that provides uplifting moments for our customers. That means sustainably sourced beans and velvety milk coffee, topped with our signature art, and delivered with your signature smile.
What’sinvolved?
Crafting great coffee that hits that sweet spot every time Serving customers with a smile so they walk away happy and excited about their next visit Soaking up all there is to know about Costa products – don’t forget our teas, frappes, seasonal ranges and much more Working with your team to maintain health & safety and cleanliness across the store Most importantly, having fun – this is your time to learn, develop and meet great people A bit about you
A passion for coffee and people is just the start of what we’re looking for. So, what else makes a great Barista?
A positive outlook, can-do attitude, and bags of personality A passion for delivering excellence in everything you do The communication skills to strike up a good conversation with our customers daily A hard-working attitude and multi-tasking skills What we can offer
We’rereally proud of the work our team members deliver, and we want you to feel valued and rewarded with great perks and benefits:
Whilst on shift free handmade drinks plus 50% discount on food and bottled drinks Costa Coffee Retirement Plan, which offers matching contributions Costa Discount App – 50% off food & drinks in costa owned stores when you’re not working Cycle to Work Scheme through which you can make huge savings on bikes and accessories Huge savings on gym memberships & fitness accessories, and even our Shoes for Crews scheme for discounted footwear Share Incentive Plan – Giving you the chance to become a shareholder in Coca-Cola Salary Sacrifice Pension with up to 10% matched contributions DedicatedFeel Good discounts platform and app, where you can get instant cashback and make savings at an array of retailers whilst on the go And if this isn’t enough, you’ll also enjoy some fundraising for our Costa Foundation, helping children in coffee-growing communities gain access to safe and quality education.
A bit about us
At the heart of Costa Coffee are our values. We believe in Passion, Warmth, Trust, and Courage. We’re the No. 1 coffee brand in the UK for the 14th year in a row. Here, you’ll be part of a genuine, passionate, and warm team that shares a love for coffee and a desire to deliver great experiences to our customers, communities, and people.
At Costa we encourage the sharing of diverse thoughts and ideas. We approach our work fearlessly and support one another to take a few risks. We learn and we grow constantly. Individuality is championed and we provide a culture where everyone feels included. You can be you at Costa.
For any reasonable adjustments and general queries please contact costa.recruitment@costacoffee.com
Apply here
Via needabarista.co.uk
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2024.05.16 07:27 TerribleSell2997 Snail Beauty Products Market is Dazzling Worldwide and Forecast to 2030

~Snail beauty products market~ is anticipated to grow at a considerable CAGR of 5.7% during the forecast period (2024-2031). The snail beauty products are made with snail mucus extracted from the slime of snails.It contains peptides, anti-oxidants, and hyaluronic acid thus making it a vital ingredient in beauty products.
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Snail mucin is witnessing huge demand in the beauty & cosmetic industry owing to its offered benefits to the skin. It keeps skin moist and full, like a sponge that holds water. It also helps make more collagen, which keeps skin tight and smooth.Snail mucin contains minerals that help skin heal from cuts and fix scars. Therefore, major cosmetic manufacturers are aiding snail beauty products in their production lines.
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¡ Base year- 2024
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¡ Competitive Landscape- Archer Daniels Midland Co., Ingredion Inc., Kerry Group Plc, Cargill
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o Online (E-Commerce Websites, Company-Owned Website)
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o UK
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2024.05.16 07:01 EUGsk8rBoi42p "Just check out Eugene’s Reddit section any day, but don’t say I didn’t warn you."

Admitting we have a problem is the first step in solving it! Author is a Eugenean talking about her experience with rising crime in the city, never saw this story but hey, still relevant today. Found this little gem by random chance. Title is a hopefully relatable quote from the article. You can agree or disagree with the author, but it's actually pretty well written with sources included. (just including the whole article, for people who don't want to click links!)

I Caught Two Men Stealing From My Home. The Aftermath Was Absurd—and All Too Typical.

This experience crystallized Oregon’s deeper problems.

BY REBECCA SCHUMANJUNE 21, 20225:40 AM
Typically, guys wearing power-company vests don’t leave the houses they’re working on laden down with backpacks—let alone power tools, a scooter, and a Nintendo Switch. But that was the scene I happened upon at 6:30 p.m. on a Tuesday in mid-April when I puttered into my driveway in Eugene, Oregon, my 7-year-old ensconced in the back seat.
For a second, my brain tried to normalize the incident: This is just my daughter’s dad stopping by—except there are two of him, and they’re dressed as electricians for some reason? Then, a second later, everything whooshed into place: Oh, wait, I’m being robbed. Or, rather, I was being burgled. I would get reminded of this distinction later, when I made the dubious choice to join the chorus of aggrieved buttinskies on Nextdoor, where my well-meaning post to warn the neighborhood would turn me into an accidental vigilante hero for a day.
Unfortunately, it’s true: My reaction to this burgle was the lived-out fantasy of many who have been on the business end of a property crime. As the two goons took off on foot down my street, I went into fight-or-flight mode—and I chose fight.
“Well,” I said to my confused child, “let’s go see if we can get our stuff back.”
I peeled my 2005 Subaru back onto the street and easily overtook my two targets, who then hurtled themselves into an alley, whereupon I cornered one by the driver’s side window as the other made haste across the adjacent parking lot.
“Just give it back, bro!” I yelled out my window. “Just give it back! I’m a single mom! Just give it back.”
I repeated this until either I reminded him too much of his meanest teacher or he realized he’d been caught in broad daylight. “Fine,” he said. “Just fucking take it.”
He shoved a backpack through my driver’s side window. Inside it was both my laptops and my daughter’s iPad from school. Back at home, I would discover these guys had used channel lock pliers to force open the back door, but that the general chaos of my home had prevented them from locating my passport, jewelry, or sole item of irreplaceable value: the Montblanc fountain pen that my father, who died in a bicycle accident two years ago, had gotten for his law school graduation. My cat was unfazed.
I can honestly tell you that this little caper of mine was thrilling and deeply satisfying. It was also the exact wrong thing to do. Even this fanatical open-carry gun website implores: “Don’t chase criminals.” What if these two dipsticks had been armed? As unlikely as that was—property crime in my town is often driven by addiction, and weapons are worth money, which can buy drugs—I put myself and my child in potential danger. And for what? Three grand worth of electronics. As any reputable expert will tell you, you’re never to give chase to a thief, because human life is not worth possessions. As much as I admit to enjoying being called a “badass” by everyone I told this story, plus the listeners of KLCC Oregon, I should not have done this.
I did call the police, on the nonemergency line, because the dudes were long gone and nobody was hurt. I declined the dispatcher’s offer to send two officers to fingerprint a bunch of stuff I’d already touched. At best, that would have just added two more sets of prints to my town’s burgeoning roster of perennially at-large property criminals.
There are larger issues here, issues much more important than my would-be cool story. First, it’s an example of how in Eugene, small-scale property crime is now de facto legal. It is largely nonviolent, so it’s rarely seen as worth police resources to track down the goods. At the same time, it is so prevalent that any time one vest-wearing bozo gets nabbed, three more spring up in his place. This was my house’s second break-in in six months, and my fourth property crime total in the three years I’ve lived here as an adult. Eugene is my hometown, so I can also add the four times my childhood house, where my mother still lives, has been burgled since the early 2000s. When I was little, we left our front door unlocked so regularly that I wasn’t aware front doors had locks on them until I was much older. By the time I turned 30, however, every door in my parents’ house had been pried open at least once. (“Time to finally get that alarm system!” said my dad for three straight decades.)
Still, it’s a mistake to treat this trend solely as a vexing crime problem. Eugene’s descent into its property crime epidemic has been concurrent, unsurprisingly, with two addiction epidemics: First, the methamphetamine nightmare of the 1990s—when pseudoephedrine pills were still unregulated—hit Oregon and other Western states particularly hard. That wave segued all too naturally into the opioid and fentanyl crisis of the present. Meanwhile, not only did meth never really leave, but its use in Oregon also surged with the pandemic, with three Oregonians per day currently dying a drug-related death.
Since our conversation was necessarily brief, I don’t know the housing or drug situation of the guys who broke into my place. But local statistics point to them as two more casualties of these plagues. (Granted, those statistics are from nearby Portland, and they are police-sourced, so take them how you wish.)
For all the ambivalent empathy that the opioid epidemic has engendered, the local property crime scourge has set off a fierce public backlash. My incident brought out an unsurprising chorus of bloodlust on Nextdoor and elsewhere, when I shared it because I wanted to give my immediate neighbors a heads-up: “You should have kicked their asses,” they wrote. “We need to rise up and defend our property.”
This town’s petty crime is often attributed, at least in the national conservative press, to our West Coast government’s decision to temporarily allow urban camping during the pandemic. (That policy has now officially ended, for what it’s worth.) Towns like mine have often been characterized in the popular imagination as unlivable crime-addled hellholes. I will be the first to admit that our tent cities are sometimes blatant open-air drug markets, but this is the case even as our property values inflate to absurd proportions—and our crime is actually on the decline. Still, Oregonians like me currently have about a 2.7 percent chance of being burgled, which, at almost 30 percent higher than the national average, is very high. I learned very efficiently how anecdotes like mine get around (I can’t help it if I’m a dynamic storyteller!) and attract the righteous indignation of other former victims, so many often feel, incorrectly, like we few honest vanguards are awash in a sea of riffraff.
This atmosphere, in turn, inspires my locality’s equally unreasonable political extremists to put forth and exacerbate their own untenable solutions. Even in a hyperpolarized American environment, Oregon is more polarized than most. For decades, our liberal enclaves have made Portlandia look understated, while our conservative areas make Texas’ look progressive.
For example, during the heyday of Eugene’s recently dismantled and infamous Washington Jefferson Park tent city, a larger break-in at a bicycle store was traced at least partially back to the encampment. The police swept the tents and made a flurry of arrests. Some of the bikes were found. This resulted in part in outrage over using resources to hassle the city’s most impoverished residents: “A stolen bike, yes, that sucks,” an advocate for the unhoused told a local news outlet. “But what are your priorities? And I’m sorry, but a stolen bike isn’t the priority.”
Well, trust me, in this town, it definitely isn’t. Recovering those bikes was an anomaly; in Eugene, most of these burglaries go unsolved. In fact, 87 percent of burglaries in the whole country do, too. The get-tough-on-property-crime proponents assert that statistically, this sends a message that stealing is fair game, and sure, that is a message I do not condone. But I also agree with a somewhat less rabid version of the opposing view: Property is replaceable, these crimes are nonviolent, and everyone currently rifling through houses and dealing drugs out of tents in my town is human. They deserve a chance to get their lives on track.
So, what should be the town’s priority? Fixing the addiction epidemics is a perilously long way away from happening, for reasons that are as polarizing as addiction’s consequences. In the sobering and excellent Dopesick, author Beth Macy goes into painfully exacting detail about opioids’ near-inescapable hold on the human brain. Macy argues that the true way out of this epidemic is “low-barrier treatment,” which includes supportive housing and medical interventions such as safe injection supplies, fentanyl testing strips, buprenorphine access, and supervised consumption sites. All of these options, however, are a tough sell even in a “progressive” town like Eugene, where supervised consumption sites are what NIMBY nightmares are made of, and low-barrier treatment can run up against deeply held moral stigma: Gas is $5 a gallon, and my taxes are going to some junkie?
In the meantime, while some admirably advocate and vote and wait for those breakthroughs, what should we do about the burglaries themselves? Should we pursue more law enforcement, or more compassion toward the burglars? More arrests that allegedly might deter this, or policies that might alleviate income inequality? Does—as approximately 83 percent of the suggestions from my Nextdoor thread contended—every house in town need a tripwire that handcuffs trespassers on sight? Or should all businesses be taxed at 500 percent, and the proceeds used to furnish every fentanyl dealer in town with a nice apartment and mad cash? The debate has degenerated such that these are the sorts of cartoonish positions each side believes they’re fighting—and, in fact, are the only available choices. Just check out Eugene’s Reddit section any day, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.
The actual blight on small American towns like mine isn’t property crime. It’s that any tenable solution to it has been swallowed up into a churning abyss of extremism and perceived counterextremism. No one seems to have a convincing answer to the most basic question: So what should we do? What should I do?
Burglaries don’t have to be largely unsolvable, and more property criminals could be apprehended. But while I don’t want those dudes or any of their buddies to come back to my house, I also don’t want them in an American prison, where their “rehabilitation” will consist largely of learning better ways to commit even bigger crimes when they get out, and their options for alternative forms of acquiring money will be even more limited than they are now. Lacking any meaningful restorative justice program for petty thieves in my town (which would, in turn, necessitate locating and apprehending them), I decided my own problems could be solved, for now, with a padlock on my back gate.
And then, not long after the break-in, a Nintendo Switch appeared on my town’s Craigslist. Its included components and color combination were identical to the set stolen from my house. I debated, briefly, bringing my vigilante justice alter ego Super Annoying out of retirement, answering the ad and showing up to shrill my wrongdoers into returning what was mine. But this time, I thought better of it. My life is not worth much, but it’s probably worth more than Mario Kart. I can only hope the console’s new owners enjoy it as much as my daughter did—at least until someone steals it again.
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2024.05.16 06:58 Aryavarta38 Cruise API Provider

Cruise API Provider
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Cruise API – The Ultimate Solution for Effortless Cruise Bookings
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There are now several types of cruises on offer, each rivalling the next in experience. Adding cruises to your services would help you considerably add value to your packages, which eventually allows you to bring in revenue and profits.
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We provide cruise providers on a single platform that travel agents can access through the Cruise API to do simple online cruise bookings. The API is a connection between the cruise supplier and online travel agencies where these OTAs can view their live, real-time inventory and availability when accessing cruise booking software.
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2024.05.16 06:44 GravitySlam Custom Starter Packs??

Custom Starter Packs??
If you could customize each starter pack with your choice of skylanders from that game (sticking with the types of figures included in the starter packs) which ones would you pick?
I wrote my starter packs out, made some nfc cards so that I could carry them around everywhere, and made some custom holders for the sets. I tried my best to pick the characters I would want to play most if they were the only ones I could play as for that game. I also tried to spread out the elements (I have all 8 elements represented by the end of swap force). Disclaimer, I did decide that it's stupid that trap team only comes with one trap master, so I did two masters instead of a master and a core. Feel free to bend your own rules if you want, but it's fun to follow them.
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2024.05.16 06:40 blubberbooi Whats the best Unlimited Uncapped Data Mobile Plan? Skinny? Spark? One NZ? Looking for experienced customer reviews and advice.

HELLO!
I'm currently on a 8GB capped $40 endless data plan with Skinny. It runs on endless reduced speeds after using up 8GB of max speeds. The reduced speeds for me are around 1.3MB download which doesn't support very much beyond web searching. I can't really watch videos on youtube, stream movies, or scroll through social media once I'm on reduced speeds because any video content takes ages to buffer. I can buy data binge packs for max speeds again if I know I'm going to need it but it doesn't support hotspotting and only lasts 12 hours max for $5. Not sure if thats entirely worth paying seeing as I'd probably need to use max speeds everyday. I ripped through the 8GB in about a week and that was without gaming for the first 4 days? I've had my hotspot on during the night this week because my parents have a new curfew on our broadband at about 10pm, not much I can do about that lol.
I realized 8GB isn't enough to last me a months worth of usage and was thinking about changing to another service provider that had unlimited uncapped data plans instead. Skinny's most expensive endless data plan still has a cap on it with $70/m for max speeds up to 80GB. Then it will reduce back to 1.3MB~ download. I'm not sure if thats enough to last me a month with extensive use like gaming and watching movies, I don't use data often so I actually have zero understanding of how much value you can get out of 80GB. Is that a lot? Would I need more? I don't know...
I'm almost looking for an unlimited uncapped data plan that gives out the same value as a broadband plan, not sure if thats silly. I paid for my family's fibre broadband at our old house for 2 years which was between $80-70/m switching between the two fastest plans skinny offered, so I can afford a more expensive data pack, I just need it to last as long as the month I'm paying for lol. I don't need huge download speeds like fibre broadband can provide. I can play online games smoothly with the max speeds skinny provides, I think I get like max 14MB on my phone, same on my laptop, and then 5MB on my playstation when hotspotting. I'm not worried about getting more than those speeds.
You might suggest I just get a separate broadband plan in the house, but we've moved to a rural area and our house isn't offered the same broadband plans as our old one. We don't have fibre or wireless broadband available in our area, just plain adsl/vdsl which didn't even work when we tried installing our modem (don't know why), so my parents and all my siblings pitch in for starlink now. It's just my parents choice to turn it off during the night and they say if we want we can buy our own data to use during the night.
Anyway, I've been looking at some other providers like Spark and One NZ that offer unlimited uncapped data plans. My main question is does anybody have any reviews on either of the plans these providers have? Whats it like for you if you use them? Is it worth it for you and why? I've read a couple reviews on One NZ's service that are reeeeally bad with people complaining about how fast they rip through their data plans and are reduced to super slow speeds within minutes of using their data, which is very suspicous. So I'm reluctant about switching to them. There aren't any specific reviews on either of the providers' UNcapped plans though, reviews I've seen are on capped plans only so I'm reaching out on this in hopes to find someone who already uses any of the plans im looking at and get their review and maybe advice.
The options I've been looking at are:
Skinny Endless Data Plan $70 (Their most expensive plan) - 80GB Data at max speeds incl. hotspotting - Endless Data at reduced speeds (1.3MB\)) incl. hotspotting - Unlimited Minutes and Texts
Spark Endless Plan $90/m (Their most expensive plan) - Unlimited data* (Fair use policy applies) - Unlimited NZ/AUS SMS* (I don't care that much about this) - Unlimited mins to any NZ/AUS mobiles and landlines (don't care again) - Free spotify premium (This is nice cause I use spotify a lot, I'm already on a student discount though but still nice) - Team Up eligible* (don't know what this means tbh) - Endless Hotspot* (this is a MUST for me but there might be some secret terms that apply) - Spark Voicemail App (I think voice mail access is free, better than skinny, but I don't get a lot of voicemail so its not neccessary.)
Spark Endless Plan $70/m (Second most expensive plan) - 18GB data at max speed. Endless data at reduced speed. (This is capped, is waaaay less than what skinny provides for $70 and I would probably rip though is within two weeks.) - Unlimited SMS blah blah - Unlimited mins - Save $7 on spotify premium (I'm already on student discount, don't need.) - Team Up eligible* - Endless Hotspot* - Spark Voicemail
One NZ Plan Unlimited Max speed data $85/m (Their most expensive plan) - Unlimited max speed data - Endless calls and text - Add up to 3 Companion plans for $40/m per plan - 250mins & 50 TXTs (what?) - Hotspot included (yay) - Wifi Calling included (what?) - One NZ Rewards (ok) - 5G ready - Open term plan
And those are the options I've gravitated towards. Skinny, Spark and One NZ (used to be vodafone I think). It sounds like One NZ is the best price for uncapped data but again I'm suspicious from all the negative reviews about One NZ especially about customers not getting what they paid for. Even NZ herald and Stuff has made articles about them being the worst rated mobile service provider. Only way I can get over the suspicion is hearing from other people here and reddit is pretty honest and helpful when it comes to niche problems.
If anybody has experience with either of these providers and especially with the data plans listed, please let me know what its like for you so I can make an informed decision on what I should buy. Maybe you know of other plans that might be better, or are someone who has similar data usage (excessive gaming and streaming) and has worked out the best data plan for that kind of consumption.
Any reviews, advice or opinons welcome ❤
THANKS!
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2024.05.16 06:26 Sweet-Count2557 The 18 Best Fast Food Restaurant in New York City,NY,United States (2023)

The 18 Best Fast Food Restaurant in New York City,NY,United States (2023)
The 18 Best Fast Food Restaurant in New York City,NY,United States (2023)
Discover the top 18 fast food restaurants in New York City, NY. Indulge in delicious and quick meals at these popular spots, offering a variety of cuisines to satisfy your cravings.
Brooklyn Bagel & Coffee Company
Welcome to Brooklyn Bagel & Coffee Company, your go-to destination for mouthwatering bagels and delicious coffee. With over 15 years of experience, we have been proudly serving the communities of Manhattan and Astoria. Our kettle-boiled and hand-rolled bagels offer a delightful crunch that leads you to the chewy center, making every bite a memorable experience. Whether you prefer our bagels with cream cheese spreads, smoked fish, or egg breakfast, we have something to satisfy every craving. And don't forget to pair your meal with a cup of our own single-origin Colombia coffee, brewed to perfection. Join our community and embark on a delectable journey with us!
Kiss My Slice
After more than twenty-five (25+) years in the food service business, Kiss My Slice was opened in 2013 by a husband and wife team. The idea was to bring things back to the beginning - where it all started - PIZZA! Good quality at a fair price, great service, tasty, hot and delicious! Come in and grab a quick slice, or sit down with some friends and enjoy the best fresh handmade pizza in Manhattan from Kiss My Slice.
Stone Bridge Pizza & Salad
At Stone Bridge Pizza & Salad, we pride ourselves on offering farm-to-table artisanal pizzas and salads made with the finest ingredients. Our commitment to using locally grown produce from our very own Stone Bridge Farm in upstate NY ensures that our dishes are not only delicious but also sustainable. We employ the latest sustainable farming techniques, which are not only good for the environment but also good for you. Our menu allows our guests to customize their individual size 10-inch thin crust pizzas, choosing from a wide variety of fresh ingredients. Alternatively, they can opt for one of our signature house pies. In addition to our pizzas, we also offer a selection of fine-dining quality salads, made fresh daily and available from our convenient grab-and-go display. To complement our food, we have a range of hand-crafted fountain sodas from Boylan, as well as all-natural sweet teas and juices.
Pret A Manger
Founded in London in 1986, Pret A Manger is a fast casual restaurant serving organic coffee, hot breakfast, sandwiches, salads and wraps made throughout the day using carefully sourced ingredients. Every night, Pret donates their unsold food to food rescue organizations to feed those in need. Pret currently has over 500 shops in nine countries with over 90 locations in New York, DC, Chicago, Boston, New Jersey and Philadelphia. Pret A Manger is known for its commitment to providing fresh and healthy food options. With a focus on organic coffee and carefully sourced ingredients, customers can enjoy a guilt-free meal at any time of the day. Whether you're in the mood for a hearty breakfast, a satisfying sandwich, or a refreshing salad, Pret A Manger has something for everyone. One of the unique aspects of Pret A Manger is their dedication to reducing food waste. By donating their unsold food to food rescue organizations, they are able to help feed those in need and make a positive impact on the community. This commitment to sustainability sets Pret A Manger apart from other restaurants and makes them a popular choice for conscious consumers. With over 500 shops in nine countries, Pret A Manger has become a global phenomenon. Their expansion into major cities like New York, DC, Chicago, Boston, New Jersey, and Philadelphia has allowed more people to experience their delicious and nutritious offerings. Whether you're a local or a tourist, you can easily find a Pret A Manger location nearby to satisfy your cravings. In conclusion, Pret A Manger is a fast casual restaurant that offers a wide range of fresh and healthy food options. With their commitment to using carefully sourced ingredients and reducing food waste, they have become a popular choice for conscious consumers. Whether you're looking for a quick breakfast, a satisfying lunch, or a light dinner, Pret A Manger has something for everyone. With over 90 locations in major cities across the United States, it's easy to find a Pret A Manger shop nearby and enjoy their delicious offerings.
Pret A Manger
Founded in London in 1986, Pret A Manger is a fast casual restaurant serving organic coffee, hot breakfast, sandwiches, salads and wraps made throughout the day using carefully sourced ingredients. Every night, Pret donates their unsold food to food rescue organizations to feed those in need. Pret currently has over 500 shops in nine countries with over 90 locations in New York, DC, Chicago, Boston, New Jersey and Philadelphia. Pret A Manger is known for its commitment to providing fresh and healthy food options. With a focus on organic coffee and carefully sourced ingredients, customers can enjoy a guilt-free meal at any time of the day. Whether you're in the mood for a hearty breakfast, a satisfying sandwich, or a refreshing salad, Pret A Manger has something for everyone. One of the unique aspects of Pret A Manger is their dedication to reducing food waste. By donating their unsold food to food rescue organizations, they are able to help feed those in need and make a positive impact on the community. This commitment to sustainability sets Pret A Manger apart from other restaurants and makes them a popular choice for conscious consumers. With over 500 shops in nine countries, Pret A Manger has become a global phenomenon. Their expansion into major cities like New York, DC, Chicago, Boston, New Jersey, and Philadelphia has allowed more people to experience their delicious and nutritious offerings. Whether you're a local or a tourist, you can easily find a Pret A Manger location nearby to satisfy your cravings. In conclusion, Pret A Manger is a fast casual restaurant that offers a wide range of fresh and healthy food options. With their commitment to using carefully sourced ingredients and reducing food waste, they have become a popular choice for conscious consumers. Whether you're looking for a quick breakfast, a satisfying lunch, or a light dinner, Pret A Manger has something for everyone. With over 90 locations in major cities across the United States, it's easy to find a Pret A Manger shop nearby and enjoy their delicious offerings.
Pret A Manger
Founded in London in 1986, Pret A Manger is a fast casual restaurant serving organic coffee, hot breakfast, sandwiches, salads and wraps made throughout the day using carefully sourced ingredients. Every night, Pret donates their unsold food to food rescue organizations to feed those in need. Pret currently has over 500 shops in nine countries with over 90 locations in New York, DC, Chicago, Boston, New Jersey and Philadelphia. Pret A Manger is known for its commitment to providing fresh and healthy food options. With a focus on organic coffee and carefully sourced ingredients, customers can enjoy a guilt-free meal at any time of the day. Whether you're in the mood for a hearty breakfast, a satisfying sandwich, or a refreshing salad, Pret A Manger has something for everyone. One of the unique aspects of Pret A Manger is their dedication to reducing food waste. By donating their unsold food to food rescue organizations, they are able to help feed those in need and make a positive impact on the community. This commitment to sustainability sets Pret A Manger apart from other restaurants and makes them a popular choice for conscious consumers. With over 500 shops in nine countries, Pret A Manger has become a global phenomenon. Their expansion into major cities like New York, DC, Chicago, Boston, New Jersey, and Philadelphia has allowed more people to experience their delicious and nutritious offerings. Whether you're a local or a tourist, you can easily find a Pret A Manger location nearby to satisfy your cravings. In conclusion, Pret A Manger is a fast casual restaurant that offers a wide range of fresh and healthy food options. With their commitment to using carefully sourced ingredients and reducing food waste, they have become a popular choice for conscious consumers. Whether you're looking for a quick breakfast, a satisfying lunch, or a light dinner, Pret A Manger has something for everyone. With over 90 locations in major cities across the United States, it's easy to find a Pret A Manger shop nearby and enjoy their delicious offerings.
Pret A Manger
Founded in London in 1986, Pret A Manger is a fast casual restaurant serving organic coffee, hot breakfast, sandwiches, salads and wraps made throughout the day using carefully sourced ingredients. Every night, Pret donates their unsold food to food rescue organizations to feed those in need. Pret currently has over 500 shops in nine countries with over 90 locations in New York, DC, Chicago, Boston, New Jersey and Philadelphia. Pret A Manger is known for its commitment to providing fresh and healthy food options. With a focus on organic coffee and carefully sourced ingredients, customers can enjoy a guilt-free meal at any time of the day. Whether you're in the mood for a hearty breakfast, a satisfying sandwich, or a refreshing salad, Pret A Manger has something for everyone. One of the unique aspects of Pret A Manger is their dedication to reducing food waste. By donating their unsold food to food rescue organizations, they are able to help feed those in need and make a positive impact on the community. This commitment to sustainability sets Pret A Manger apart from other restaurants and makes them a popular choice for conscious consumers. With over 500 shops in nine countries, Pret A Manger has become a global phenomenon. Their expansion into major cities like New York, DC, Chicago, Boston, New Jersey, and Philadelphia has allowed more people to experience their delicious and nutritious offerings. Whether you're a local or a tourist, you can easily find a Pret A Manger location nearby to satisfy your cravings. In conclusion, Pret A Manger is a fast casual restaurant that offers a wide range of fresh and healthy food options. With their commitment to using carefully sourced ingredients and reducing food waste, they have become a popular choice for conscious consumers. Whether you're looking for a quick breakfast, a satisfying lunch, or a light dinner, Pret A Manger has something for everyone. With over 90 locations in major cities across the United States, it's easy to find a Pret A Manger shop nearby and enjoy their delicious offerings.
Bleecker Street Pizza
Bleecker Street Pizza: Home of the famous and award-winning Nona Maria Pie, Bleecker Street Pizza serves consistently delicious pizza with the best dough, sauce, and ingredients in Old West Village! Feel free to create your ideal pizza and add as many toppings as you'd like. Or try our customer favorite specialty pizza from an old family recipe, Nona Maria Pie. This amazing thin crust pizza is loaded with fresh mozzarella, homemade marinara sauce, the finest parmesan, and fresh basil. With generous portions and unbeatable flavors, we always have fresh and delicious entrees including gluten-free pizzas, calzones, salads, pasta, and more! Bleecker Street Pizza offers beer and wine, and all items are made to order. We are dedicated to providing our customers with speedy service and high-quality ingredients. With affordable prices and excellent service, Bleecker Street Pizza has the best pizza that will keep you coming back for more. Come get your slice today! Established in 2004, Bleecker Street Pizza has been serving New York since then. Our mission is to provide delicious pizza in a friendly and inviting environment. With over 10 years of success, we look forward to adding you to our long history of happy customers.
Little Italy Pizza
Little Italy Pizza is a renowned restaurant in NYC that offers a wide variety of gourmet and fusion pizzas. With a rich history and classic recipes from Sicily, our pizzas have been enjoyed by generations. What sets us apart is our commitment to using only the finest and freshest quality ingredients. For nearly 50 years, people from all over the world have fallen in love with our delicious pizzas.
Joe's Pizza
Joe's Pizza: The Best Slice of Pizza in New York As a travel blogger, I have had the pleasure of exploring various restaurants around the world. However, one establishment that truly stands out is Joe's Pizza. This iconic eatery has been named the "Best Slice of Pizza in New York" by New York Magazine, and it's not hard to see why. Joe's Pizza has gained a reputation for its mouthwatering pizzas that have captured the hearts of celebrities, tourists, and locals alike. With its prime location in the heart of New York City, it has become a beloved institution for pizza lovers. Whether you're a fan of classic cheese pizza or prefer adventurous toppings, Joe's Pizza has something for everyone. The quality of their ingredients and the skillful craftsmanship that goes into each pie is evident with every bite. If you find yourself in the Big Apple, a visit to Joe's Pizza is an absolute must. Experience the taste that has made it a legend in the city's culinary scene and join the ranks of those who have fallen in love with this New York institution.
NY Pizza Suprema
NY Pizza Suprema: Serving the Best NY Style Pizza for 56 YearsWelcome to NY Pizza Suprema, an award-winning pizza place located just across from Penn Station and MSG. For over five decades, we have been dedicated to serving only authentic NY style pizza, making us a favorite among locals and visitors alike. Our commitment to quality has earned us recognition from renowned publications such as The Rachel Ray show, Time Out New York, Good Day New York, The Wall Street Journal, and various other NY newspapers and periodicals. In fact, we consistently make it to the "Best Pizza in NYC" lists.Our reputation for excellence extends beyond the city limits. Sliceharvester, after sampling close to 400 pizzas in Manhattan, rated us as the number one pizza place. Additionally, we are honored to have an exhibit at The Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration, celebrating the "History of Pizza in America." Celebrity Chef Curtis Stone has also declared us his favorite pizza in America.At NY Pizza Suprema, pizza is not just another item on our menu – it's our specialty. We take pride in using only the finest ingredients sourced directly from Italy. Our five different red sauces, 30-month aged parmigiano-reggiano, 16-month aged pecorino romano, and extra virgin olive oil all contribute to the authentic flavors that make our pizza truly exceptional.Join us at NY Pizza Suprema and experience the taste of true NY style pizza. Whether you're a local or a tourist, our renowned pizza will leave you craving for more. Don't miss out on the opportunity to savor the 8th best slice of pizza in the world, as rated by Big 7 Travel.
Prince Street Pizza
Prince Street Pizza: A Slice of PerfectionWelcome to Prince Street Pizza, where our family recipe brings a unique twist to the world of pizza. Our philosophy is simple: "if you can put it on pasta, then you can put it on pizza." With a wide range of options to choose from, we guarantee there's something for everyone. Whether you're a fan of the classic cheese, the Soho Square, the Spicy Spring, or even our vegan option, your taste buds are in for a treat. Our Sicilian recipes have been passed down through generations, ensuring an authentic and delicious experience. Handcrafted daily from scratch, our sauces perfectly complement our crisp and fluffy dough. We take pride in delivering consistency and the perfect bite in every pie we serve. So why wait? Come on in and have a slice at Prince Street Pizza!
Pokeworks
Pokeworks is a fast casual poke restaurant that offers a build-your-own style poke menu that lets you customize your meal with fresh and healthy ingredients. At Pokeworks, you can create your own poke bowl, poke burrito, or poke salad with our wide variety of proteins, sauces, and toppings to choose from. We also have a selection of Signature Works poke bowls that feature ahi tuna, salmon, shrimp, scallops, free-range chicken breast, and tofu. This is Poke Your Way.
99 Cent Fresh Pizza
Discover the Best Quick Bites at 99 Cent Fresh Pizza As a travel blogger, I am always on the lookout for hidden gems in the culinary world. One such gem that I recently stumbled upon is 99 Cent Fresh Pizza. This restaurant offers a delightful selection of Italian American Pizza that is sure to satisfy your cravings. What sets them apart is their commitment to delivering fresh and hot pizzas right to your doorstep at incredibly low expenses. At 99 Cent Fresh Pizza, you can expect a variety of appetizing meals that are prepared and served in record time. Whether you're in a hurry or simply looking for a quick bite, this restaurant has got you covered. From classic cheese pizzas to mouthwatering toppings, their menu caters to all taste buds. The best part? You don't have to break the bank to enjoy a delicious meal here. If you're a pizza lover like me, you'll be thrilled to know that 99 Cent Fresh Pizza is a must-visit destination. Their dedication to quality, affordability, and speedy service makes them a standout choice for any food enthusiast. So, the next time you find yourself in need of a satisfying meal, remember to give 99 Cent Fresh Pizza a try. You won't be disappointed!
East Village Pizza
Since 1997, EAST VILLAGE PIZZA has been serving the best Italian pizza, rolls, calzone, and garlic knots in East Village. We pride ourselves on using the highest quality ingredients in New York City to create a delicious New York-style pizza that will satisfy your cravings.
Famous Amadeus Pizza
Welcome to Famous Amadeus Pizza, the go-to destination for delicious handcrafted pizza in NYC. Our skilled team has been tossing and firing up mouthwatering pizzas daily for over 20 years. When you step into our shop, you'll immediately notice the expert pizza maker who has been perfecting his dough-tossing skills for a long time. As a local family-owned and operated pizzeria, we take pride in using only the finest ingredients. Our pizzas are made with love, using a combination of locally sourced and Italian imported ingredients. So, whether you're craving a classic Margherita or a unique specialty pizza, we've got you covered. Come on in and grab a slice - we're confident that you'll taste the difference!
Beatnic Vegan Restaurant - Rock Center
Beatnic Vegan Restaurant - Rock Center We're vegan, but you don't have to be! 100% Delicious. 100% Vegan. To find our truth, we went back to our roots: NYC's Greenwich Village and its OG free-spirited, you-be-you culture. At Beatnic, we strive to unite people and taste buds around amazing vegan food that makes you want to sing, dance, and order seconds. We can't wait to see you in store trying, and enjoying, our delicious food.
Ess-a-Bagel
You asked. We listened. Welcome to Ess-a-Bagel's newest location. Come visit us at 108 West 32nd Street. Down the block from Penn Station and Madison Square Garden. We look forward to seeing you there.
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2024.05.16 06:23 pruthivithejan Linktree for Developers 🌲

Made using Vite, React and deployed to GitHub pages
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2024.05.16 06:19 seven_anonymous Full Circle College Reunion [Straight turned gay, humiliation, d/s]

In college, my friends and I took pleasure in bullying gay guys. Back then, I would have justified it as “teasing”, but honestly the way we spoke to frat recruits or guys at our party was harsh.
As much as I would love to say that I’ve changed for the better, I still spend a lot of my time degrading and humiliating men online. My wife has no idea what I do on my phone at night. She assumes it is work (always work) but there are times I feel like I can’t hide how horny I get. I wonder if she looks at me sometimes and wonders my I’m biting my lip or squeezing my cock through my pants.
Anyway, last weekend my friends and I met for the first time in over three years. We had been good at keeping in touch for a while but COVID made it hard to see each other and a few of us became new dads recently.
We all arrived, one by one to the beach house we rented for the weekend. The atmosphere was different than it had been in the past… a lot of the guys complained about their marriages or work. I was surprised at how satisfied I was in life.
The end of the first night looked a lot like our college days: Tommy was half-naked, drunk, and annoying everybody around him, and the rest of us were drunk enough to love him anyway.
“Does anybody remember Quintin?” Ricky slurred and the room fell silent. We hesitantly glanced at each other across the room. Nobody wanted to remember Quintin.
When I wasn’t discovering my humiliation and degradation kinks around my boys, I was practicing on Quintin while my cock was in his mouth. He took every insult with pleasure, begging for more. I always felt bad for how badly I treated him in front of others.
I held my breath, wondering why Ricky was bringing him up so many years later. He reminisced about a few parties he attended and how Quintin always seemed to like me and Ricky the most.
“Anyway, he used to suck my cock before home games!” Ricky blurted out, laughing as he swigged his drink. The room fell silent and I could feel the other guys share glances. I stared at Ricky for a moment before cracking up, relieved at his confession somehow.
I told them that Quintin used to suck my cock too and I would choose his outfits most days. I remembered that somewhere I must have pictures of him in his thongs, posing for me. Ricky drunkenly begged me to see them.
As the two of us shared stories, the other three men eased up. They slowly inched toward us, intently listening to our stories. Not to be fucked up, but the other three were the type of men I’d want to use: Quiet followers, submissive but they don’t even know it. That’s why I knew they wouldn’t object when I unzipped my pants and started stroking. Ricky watched for a moment before he followed my lead.
“I had no idea you were gay…” Tommy interjected and although I don’t know who he was referring to, I, of course, told him I wasn’t.
I watched as the rest of the guys slowly joined in, one taking a lot longer than the other two. Before long, five fraternity brothers stood in an AirBnb with our cocks out, stroking as we watched each other do the same.
For the most part, words weren’t exchanged. The occasional grunt or moan echoed in the house until I finally broke the silence.
“spit on it,” I nodded toward Tommy. His eyes widened but he didn’t object. With hesitation, he bent toward my cock and spit on it. I could see the shame on Tommy’s face as he backed away, the way he hesitated to stroke now.
I spit on each of them, hesitating before leaving Tommy for last. He watched me in horror, probably thinking I’d neglect him. The rest followed my lead. As I edged myself, we all spit on the other’s cocks. I watched as each one of my friends came, staring at their twitching bodies, the post-nut clarity as they looked around, and the cum-stained rug we stood on. I couldn’t help but think about all of the times we could have had in college.
I came shortly after Ricky, as the rest of the guys cleaned themselves off. Surprisingly, I didn’t feel the shame or guilt I expected. What happened that night was nothing more than men being men, blowing off steam together. Nobody even touched one another. As for my wife, there’s no reason for her to know and no way for her to understand.
I can’t explain the particular sensation to my wife: The ecstasy of feeling no guilt when the majority of the men around you are regretting every decision, the saliva dripping down your balls as you watch your friends stroke their throbbing cocks, the humiliation of a room full of straight men wondering how the fuck they just spit on several men’s cock…
Looking back on the night, I wish more happened. I think we all could have experimented more if Ricky and I would have tried to convince the others. Besides the occasional glances, the rest of the two days happened as if everybody suffered from amnesia on the first night.
I’m considering letting Ricky in on the truth about me, Quintin, and his tolerance for my… kinks. I imagine Ricky has some dark secrets as well. Out of all of us, we had always been the more dominant pair.
Now my wife wonders why I want her to spit on my cock so much and why I am so eager for another “boy’s trip” in the Fall.
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2024.05.16 06:14 segfault_in_my_head [Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon] A few questions about Claire (and the ending in general)

So I just finished K:BS and after a couple haunted days and nights ruminating on all its horrifying glory I need to get some thoughts and questions off my chest.
First off, thanks to Matt Dinniman for creating this - like many others, I picked it up as a fix to get me through to the next DCC book, but I've actually found K:BS has stuck with me and affected me much more deeply than any of the DCC books. For anyone that has dealt with deep pain (emotional or physical), grief, or injustice, this book will hit hard. But (at least in my case) in a very meaningful and cathartic way.
Now, on to the questions.
In the end, I'm confused about why Claire is there and what role she had in the whole "operation". Her story was that she was essentially a plaything for various psychopaths from Jank to Smashsouth, pretty much in the same boat as Duke. We later learn this is most likely a complete lie. When Jank reveals the true "business plan" of the operation, he says something like "we never actually brought in any customers, other than Claire, although she was more of a consultant." This implies she was someone who had fantasies of pain/being tortured, and she was there willingly to help them "beta test" it before bringing in paying customers. Then she later says they made her an "employee" at the end of her consultancy, and at the very end of the book, Jank makes a reference to the fact that she chose Duke to be kidnapped and brought into the game as her "payment", which sounds pretty much exactly like the arrangement that the other "proctors"/psychopaths had (innocent victims were abducted, trapped in the game, and tortured by the proctors for their own sadistic amusement). But if Claire was really a proctor the whole time and Duke was just her "payment" (which I guess maybe explains why she tricked him into the Amplification ceremony?), then why was she trapped/locked in her rig just like Duke instead of being able to log in/out just like Jank and the others? And for that matter, why was she so terrified of Jank, if they were essentially peers? I get that she hated him (because they tricked her into him being the new guardian of her daughter), but she seemed to be legitimately terrified of him, just as a victim would be after escaping a serial killer's captivity or something. My only guess is that her multiple personality disorder must have something to do with this, like maybe all of the above is true, depending on which "Claire"'s perspective you take? Like maybe one version of her wants to be tortured, but to another one, it's well... torture? Another way to pose this question might be: "What would have happened if Anatoly and the others hadn't all been arrested right after trapping Duke in the game? Would Duke have been the plaything for one of the others? For Claire? What would Claire's role in the game have looked like if they hadn't all been arrested?"
Secondly, I don't really understand Duke's commitment to taking revenge on Jank. Jank's mercy on him is the only reason he's alive, and he actually always treated him with comparable decency and humanity (he interrupted the Amplification ceremony, he chose not to attack or harm Duke which he could have on multiple occasions, he turned off the "fix" to the bug that allows a person to escape the game if they beat it, he explained a lot of what was really going on, he never lied (from what we know), and most importantly, he's the one that decided to "burn the whole thing down" (i.e. turn in Anatoly and the others to the police, eliminate everyone that was involved, shut down the servers, etc.). He said he "never liked the illegal aspect of the beta phase" (i.e. the part where the abduct innocent people and torture them endlessly), and then of course, he's the one that tipped off the police to Duke's location at the end, which is the only reason he was able to survive (even if he was able to escape the rig, he'd still be trapped behind a concrete wall in a starving and atrophied state, essentially buried alive). Conversely, Claire is the true villain in my opinion; she intentionally and knowingly murdered his baby and then intentionally had him abducted and trapped in the game to be tortured endlessly, knowing that he had a partner (wife?) and a daughter that depended on him in the real world. I get that after killing Claire, Jank is really the only remaining piece of the whole thing and maybe he wants to wipe every piece of it off the face of the earth, but that revenge story just feels a bit lacking to me... like Duke shouldn't really hate him that much or something.
Anyway, I guess that's it - here's hoping Matt gets around to writing a sequel at some point, I really want to know what the deal is with the mysterious "puppet masters" that Duke hints at at the end (the ones that he suspects were really behind the prison murders of Anatoly and the proctors), as well as what becomes of Duke and his family in the end.
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2024.05.16 06:11 Disastrous_Criticism Making a mold of the inside of my shoe?

I need a positive of the inside of my shoe. I was thinking of just filling a thin bag inside my shoe with resin and letting it harden - But I was wondering of anyone had any better ideas
Why?
I have custom orthotics that assume the inside of the shoe is flat. But I have some expensive hiking boots and mountain biking shoes that aren't flat (even with the insole removed). So I'd be using it to measure it so I can create a flat platform I the shoes. It very well might not work. If it doesn't my next step is to print my own orthotics that mate perfectly with the shoe, but again I need to know the shape of the inside.
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2024.05.16 05:55 Delicious-Wing3596 Pickwick Tea Rooibos Tea

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2024.05.16 05:46 Court152344777 Drama

Well, I didn’t think things would come this far or have to be like this. I want to start off by saying that I am not perfect, I do make plenty of mistakes and i will continue to make mistakes. I’m writing this because a coworker of mine decided to make a post about me and completely lied.
I work for Jo-Ann fabrics and I love it, I love the atmosphere and I love the people- the customers and coworkers. Well, except one. For privacy I will call her Regina because she acts like work is the mean girls movie. I started working for this company October of 2023, I was hired in as the full time key holder. I do have a four year old that goes to school and due to kids having germs my daughter was sick a lot so I did have to call in, I don’t have much help babysitter wise so I HAD to stay home to take care of her. I didn’t call in every other day it was like twice every so often. Regina didn’t like that and resented me for choosing to take care of my daughter rather than work, so she told our boss that she should have the position because she doesn’t have a kid and would be available more. Our boss talked to me so I sacrificed the position so she could have it, now I’m not mad, upset or jealous that I don’t have the full time position it’s just hard to make a living working part time hours only making 10.55 an hour. If I knew what was to come I would have NEVER sacrificed the full time position. I do have a steady babysitter now so I’m working as much as I can so I can provide for my daughters need, kids are expensive and my daughters birthday is coming up so I asked for extra hours.
Days after Regina and I switched positions she started to act like she was made out of gold, like a golden child would. She would ALWAYS rub it in my face that she now was the full time key holder and always bragged how much more an hour she makes. She would ask all of our coworkers what their pay was and then would tell them how much she makes. I don’t care how much she makes, though higher pay would make my living situation easier. I grew up poor so I already adapted to a life of poverty and I’m honestly okay with it, sometimes it’s harder than other times but I make it work with what I have. Money to me is just paper, I can’t take it to the grave with me. Regina stoped me in the back room and said “I hope your not mad” I asked “why would I be mad” Regina replied with “because I make way more money than you” I smiled “well, I honestly don’t care. I couldn’t care less about money” Regina’s face got sour and cold because she knew she wasn’t getting under my skin. She replied with “oh, I thought you were”. I chuckled and said “no” and continued what I was doing.
Some time goes where nothing was happening but I could feel that something was brewing. It was the calm before the storm is what I’d call it. Now around this time I was going through a break up and was not feeling the best in my own skin and Regina knew this and used it as her ammunition. She started to call me her fat friend and then gave me hugs, I felt awkward because I do not like to be touched due to some very tramatic events . I’m bigger, I’m not skinny but I’m also not severely obese. Regina started to poke me and grab my fat and jiggle it. The first time she did, it was in front of two other female coworkers. They weren’t nice either, I’ll call them Gretchen and Karen, they were all in on this. When Regina grabbed my fat and giggled it Gretchen and Karen watched and laughed. I asked Regina “what are you doing” she responded with “I just wanted to feel how squishy it is”. Me being a non confrontational person I say “oh, don’t do that” still being nice and smiling, though I felt what was left of my self esteem completely shatter. I brushed it off and walked up to where all three of the mean girls were to ask a question about work since I was the only one doing something. Before I could even ask the question Gretchen goes behind me, makes a fist and lightly punched my back fat making it jiggle. All the girls laugh, I could feel my face getting hot and tears forming in my eyes as my heart sank to my stomach. I went to the bathroom for a moment to gather myself. This would go one for weeks, and every time it happened I would ask her to stop or to leave me be, each time she disregarded what I asked. During this time she would tell every coworker that I was a bad worker, I didn’t do what I was supposed to and if I did I would do a horrible job. There are so many other things she has said to others one that hurt the most was her saying it was annoying that I talk about my daughter so much. Now this whole time I thought we were friends, I’m a very forgiving person and I’m super nice even to people who don’t deserve it so when I heard about everything she was saying I was hurt I was so confused because she even asked to be my daughters god mother though she was never in my daughters life. I know friends don’t treat friends like that but I was just happy I could call someone a friend after years of having no one due to becoming a mom and losing myself in motherhood. I call my kindness and willingness to forgive a blessing and a curse because it truly is.
After finding out about everything she was saying, the drama and the physical touching which is actually bulling and harassment I finally went to my boss. It took me almost two months to tell her what was going on and how I felt. I hated every second explaining the torment to her, my boss is a lovey person and is super sweet. I couldn’t imagine how she felt hearing all of this, I truly felt like I was going to puke. I was so uncomfortable I couldn’t bear to work any longer without the help of my boss. My boss did talk to Regina and she said that she seems like she will be better and will stop the nonsense. A day after she was talked to Regina poked my back fat and laughed, she was shocked at how I responded. This time I wasn’t nice I turned to her and pretty much yelled “don’t touch me” she immediately apologized. I was surprised with how I responded as well, I actually stood up for myself and it felt nice. I did tell my boss she touched me again so Regina was talked to again and was extremely pissed. She started acting really passive aggressive, avoiding me and slamming things and being rude to everyone even customers. Me, being the nice person I am I decided that I would forgive her. Dumb of me, I know. I wrote her a four or five page letter explaining how everything made me feel , how bad of a friend she was and that I would teach her how to be a good friend. I even bought her a candle and some other stuff along with the letter I went as far as going over to her house to help her clean. She cried a lot when she read the letter and cried to me saying how bad of a friend she was, I hugged her back and said that it was okay and I forgive her. After that is was okay for a while until I witnessed her take drinks without paying for them and told my boss. After this, it was like a war.
I have never gotten in trouble with anyone, anywhere with anything, I guess I’m a goodie-two-shoes. Though I do have anger problems I have found ways to cope and deal with my anger, I’ve been working really hard to not get angry at Regina even though she deserves to hear what the mama bear side of me wants to say. I want to be gentle, I want to be nice and forgiving, I don’t want to be angry. But I knew I had to set some sturdy boundaries in order to keep my sanity. These past few weeks have been hell, in summary I caught her talking bad about me to my boss, she was lying about me, blaming me and others for things we didn’t do. With one situation in particular she turned the tables , when hearing this my adrenaline started to course through my veins, I stared to shake so bad. I went up to her and told her that was not how the story went. She got so scared seeing me so mad and shaking. She apologized to our boss for lying but not to me, my other coworker helped me calm down and thank god she did because I was going to quit right there and then. To summarize other things she has done I will just list them -tried to frame another coworker for theft to the point the coworker cried to our boss -tried to take credit for the work I did -talks bad about other managers and workers in other stores -gave out the phone numbers and emails of our hr and of our boss’s boss -made me work off the clock to train new people because she didn’t want to train them -purposely trained me wrong and is hesitant with teaching me new things to the point my boss has to and when I learn she gets mad and jealous because she’s threatened by my work ethic -yelled at me in front of a customer to the point the customer came back to complain about Regina to our boss and another coworker
And so many more but, the most recent is her blaming me for not locking the doors at close when it was her that didn’t do it correctly, the alarm company called my boss at night and the cops came to our Joanns and everything. I have several eye witnesses watch her do it. I told my boss to watch the cameras because I have nothing to lie about and Regina still is trying to blame me. This is where I draw the line, I will not forgive her so easily this time. Forgiveness without changed behavior is just manipulation. I am not the only one who has complained about her, many of our coworker have switched their availability to when I work or when my boss works because they don’t want to deal with Regina. Tension is very high and I’m afraid of what is to come.
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2024.05.16 05:45 Court152344777 Entitled coworker plays victim

Well, I didn’t think things would come this far or have to be like this. I want to start off by saying that I am not perfect, I do make plenty of mistakes and i will continue to make mistakes. I’m writing this because a coworker of mine decided to make a post about me and completely lied.
I work for Jo-Ann fabrics and I love it, I love the atmosphere and I love the people- the customers and coworkers. Well, except one. For privacy I will call her Regina because she acts like work is the mean girls movie. I started working for this company October of 2023, I was hired in as the full time key holder. I do have a four year old that goes to school and due to kids having germs my daughter was sick a lot so I did have to call in, I don’t have much help babysitter wise so I HAD to stay home to take care of her. I didn’t call in every other day it was like twice every so often. Regina didn’t like that and resented me for choosing to take care of my daughter rather than work, so she told our boss that she should have the position because she doesn’t have a kid and would be available more. Our boss talked to me so I sacrificed the position so she could have it, now I’m not mad, upset or jealous that I don’t have the full time position it’s just hard to make a living working part time hours only making 10.55 an hour. If I knew what was to come I would have NEVER sacrificed the full time position. I do have a steady babysitter now so I’m working as much as I can so I can provide for my daughters need, kids are expensive and my daughters birthday is coming up so I asked for extra hours.
Days after Regina and I switched positions she started to act like she was made out of gold, like a golden child would. She would ALWAYS rub it in my face that she now was the full time key holder and always bragged how much more an hour she makes. She would ask all of our coworkers what their pay was and then would tell them how much she makes. I don’t care how much she makes, though higher pay would make my living situation easier. I grew up poor so I already adapted to a life of poverty and I’m honestly okay with it, sometimes it’s harder than other times but I make it work with what I have. Money to me is just paper, I can’t take it to the grave with me. Regina stoped me in the back room and said “I hope your not mad” I asked “why would I be mad” Regina replied with “because I make way more money than you” I smiled “well, I honestly don’t care. I couldn’t care less about money” Regina’s face got sour and cold because she knew she wasn’t getting under my skin. She replied with “oh, I thought you were”. I chuckled and said “no” and continued what I was doing.
Some time goes where nothing was happening but I could feel that something was brewing. It was the calm before the storm is what I’d call it. Now around this time I was going through a break up and was not feeling the best in my own skin and Regina knew this and used it as her ammunition. She started to call me her fat friend and then gave me hugs, I felt awkward because I do not like to be touched due to some very tramatic events . I’m bigger, I’m not skinny but I’m also not severely obese. Regina started to poke me and grab my fat and jiggle it. The first time she did, it was in front of two other female coworkers. They weren’t nice either, I’ll call them Gretchen and Karen, they were all in on this. When Regina grabbed my fat and giggled it Gretchen and Karen watched and laughed. I asked Regina “what are you doing” she responded with “I just wanted to feel how squishy it is”. Me being a non confrontational person I say “oh, don’t do that” still being nice and smiling, though I felt what was left of my self esteem completely shatter. I brushed it off and walked up to where all three of the mean girls were to ask a question about work since I was the only one doing something. Before I could even ask the question Gretchen goes behind me, makes a fist and lightly punched my back fat making it jiggle. All the girls laugh, I could feel my face getting hot and tears forming in my eyes as my heart sank to my stomach. I went to the bathroom for a moment to gather myself. This would go one for weeks, and every time it happened I would ask her to stop or to leave me be, each time she disregarded what I asked. During this time she would tell every coworker that I was a bad worker, I didn’t do what I was supposed to and if I did I would do a horrible job. There are so many other things she has said to others one that hurt the most was her saying it was annoying that I talk about my daughter so much. Now this whole time I thought we were friends, I’m a very forgiving person and I’m super nice even to people who don’t deserve it so when I heard about everything she was saying I was hurt I was so confused because she even asked to be my daughters god mother though she was never in my daughters life. I know friends don’t treat friends like that but I was just happy I could call someone a friend after years of having no one due to becoming a mom and losing myself in motherhood. I call my kindness and willingness to forgive a blessing and a curse because it truly is.
After finding out about everything she was saying, the drama and the physical touching which is actually bulling and harassment I finally went to my boss. It took me almost two months to tell her what was going on and how I felt. I hated every second explaining the torment to her, my boss is a lovey person and is super sweet. I couldn’t imagine how she felt hearing all of this, I truly felt like I was going to puke. I was so uncomfortable I couldn’t bear to work any longer without the help of my boss. My boss did talk to Regina and she said that she seems like she will be better and will stop the nonsense. A day after she was talked to Regina poked my back fat and laughed, she was shocked at how I responded. This time I wasn’t nice I turned to her and pretty much yelled “don’t touch me” she immediately apologized. I was surprised with how I responded as well, I actually stood up for myself and it felt nice. I did tell my boss she touched me again so Regina was talked to again and was extremely pissed. She started acting really passive aggressive, avoiding me and slamming things and being rude to everyone even customers. Me, being the nice person I am I decided that I would forgive her. Dumb of me, I know. I wrote her a four or five page letter explaining how everything made me feel , how bad of a friend she was and that I would teach her how to be a good friend. I even bought her a candle and some other stuff along with the letter I went as far as going over to her house to help her clean. She cried a lot when she read the letter and cried to me saying how bad of a friend she was, I hugged her back and said that it was okay and I forgive her. After that is was okay for a while until I witnessed her take drinks without paying for them and told my boss. After this, it was like a war.
I have never gotten in trouble with anyone, anywhere with anything, I guess I’m a goodie-two-shoes. Though I do have anger problems I have found ways to cope and deal with my anger, I’ve been working really hard to not get angry at Regina even though she deserves to hear what the mama bear side of me wants to say. I want to be gentle, I want to be nice and forgiving, I don’t want to be angry. But I knew I had to set some sturdy boundaries in order to keep my sanity. These past few weeks have been hell, in summary I caught her talking bad about me to my boss, she was lying about me, blaming me and others for things we didn’t do. With one situation in particular she turned the tables , when hearing this my adrenaline started to course through my veins, I stared to shake so bad. I went up to her and told her that was not how the story went. She got so scared seeing me so mad and shaking. She apologized to our boss for lying but not to me, my other coworker helped me calm down and thank god she did because I was going to quit right there and then. To summarize other things she has done I will just list them -tried to frame another coworker for theft to the point the coworker cried to our boss -tried to take credit for the work I did -talks bad about other managers and workers in other stores -gave out the phone numbers and emails of our hr and of our boss’s boss -made me work off the clock to train new people because she didn’t want to train them -purposely trained me wrong and is hesitant with teaching me new things to the point my boss has to and when I learn she gets mad and jealous because she’s threatened by my work ethic -yelled at me in front of a customer to the point the customer came back to complain about Regina to our boss and another coworker
And so many more but, the most recent is her blaming me for not locking the doors at close when it was her that didn’t do it correctly, the alarm company called my boss at night and the cops came to our Joanns and everything. I have several eye witnesses watch her do it. I told my boss to watch the cameras because I have nothing to lie about and Regina still is trying to blame me. This is where I draw the line, I will not forgive her so easily this time. Forgiveness without changed behavior is just manipulation. I am not the only one who has complained about her, many of our coworker have switched their availability to when I work or when my boss works because they don’t want to deal with Regina. Tension is very high and I’m afraid of what is to come.
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2024.05.16 05:30 Significant-Lake-274 User Flairs and Post Flairs

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2024.05.16 05:15 AllenXeno122 Her Little Light… story be me

“…. Hmm….” The thing ponders the sight before him. A world in flame, icons of chaos destroyed and their followers laying dead before them. The souls of the damned cling to the earth, their whispers hanging in the wind. He can hear them, all of them, and he listens to them all, taking in their hatred into his own being. He can feel his power grow ever so slightly with their hatred, and it serves to bolster his own, forging it into a weapon to use against Them.
“My Lord…” A voice sounds behind him, he turns to see a Astartes, his armor half black and half white, with horns adorning his armor. He wields a power axe in one hand and the other is encased within a power fist.
“…. Speak Asher.” The thing says, turning to look at the Astartes. The thing stands about ten feet tall, his body covered in what looks like fur, but upon a closer look appears to be a mass of countless individual tendrils. He has a massive tail with a gaping maw of teeth at the end, and his face was an elongated skull-like visage, with four hours adorning it.
“We have gathered up the individuals you requested, the sorcerer and his retinue.” Asher said, brushing some ash off his shoulder. “Zion was injured but other then that there were no casualties, they were already quite injured from our initial bombardment on this planet, our Librarians are keeping the sorcerer in check at the moment.”
The thing gave a nod to Asher, his face unemotive. They walked into the ruined Chaos fortress, the iconography of the ruinous powers lay defiled and defaced throughout the fortress, and symbols of a half black half white skull now stood in their place. When the thing and Asher made their way to the dungeons, the Chaos sorcerer was being held down by two librarians using psychic chains, his red armor and hooded helm shaking in pain. “You may stop. Leave us.” Without a word, the librarians dismiss their psychic chains and leave with Asher, leaving just the Sorcerer and the thing in the cold stone room. “…. So, how’ve you been?” The thing asked, just as a blast of warp fire was shot into his face by the sorcerer.
“You blasphemous fool! Who do you think you are?! Do you know who I am?!! I-“ the sorcerer is interrupted by the thing gripping the hand casting the warp fire, his mind barely having time to register the movement before the pain of his arm being torn from his body sears through his body. The sorcerer yells in agony, as the thing stands before him, the last of the warp fire wisping away from his unharmed head.
“I see you are still impulsive as always Serviel…” the sorcerer almost froze at the mention of his name, and in the voice of the thing before him he felt a twinge of familiarity. “It’s why you lost your arm that one time, you told me it was from a duel with an ork, but every knew you got hit by a rocket. Looks like you got that arm thing fixed though…” The thing dangles the arm he just tore off, tendrils sticking out from the stub and wiggling around, trying to find its host. He tosses the arm onto the ground and snaps his finger, igniting the arm in black flames, burning the thing into ash as it slowly dies. “… Now, I have a question for you Serviel…”
“Y-You… who are-“ the tail of the thing slams into Serviel, collapsing one of his three lungs and making him cough up blood.
“You’ll get your chance to speak, for now, shut up and answer me…” the Thing’s tail opens it’s maw and picks up Serviel, sitting him upright as the Thing gets up close to Serviel’s face, looking him in the eyes. “Where is Vashtorr heading?”
Serviel looked surprised, like he expected maybe something else to be asked, but he grit his teeth through the pain and answered, “Ghh! I… I don’t know… we were sent here to gather resources for the Wyrmwood… we… we weren’t told anything else….”
The Thing lets out a growl of frustration, another dead end. Either he isn’t acting on leads fast enough or Vashtorr is actively messing with him. As he thinks about his next steps, Serviel looks at him questioningly. The Thing notices and looks at him. “… Well? Out with it.”
“… So you’re alive…” Serviel says, and the Thing just shrugs.
“Sort of.” He says, putting a hand around the nape of Serviel’s neck. He has had this conversation many times, this is the part where they insult him and belittle him. He used to pull them apart slowly and painfully before but he just wanted to kill him quickly and be done with it.
“You… you know she’s still looking for you…” Those words make the Thing stop for a moment, his hands loosening slightly around Serviel’s neck. The memories of her are still bright in his mind, her voice was that of an angel’s, her beauty was nothing but serine, and her kindness knew no bounds…. That’s how it was long ago, the woman she was is now long gone….
“… Yea… I know she is…” the Thing breaks Serviel’s neck with a flick of his wrist, too fast for Serviel to have felt it. He drinks in his soul, absorbing it into his being, where the ruinous powers will have hold of him no more… The Thing leaves the dungeon and makes it to the command room of the fortress, where Asher and his second in command wait for him. “Asher. Argal.” The Thing says, addressing them both. “This planet is ours now, I can assume you’ve already pacified the local populace?”
Argal Tal steps up to the Thing, he is more mutated than most of his brothers but other than that he wears untainted armor custom made to fit his bulkier form, and he stands almost eight feet tall, with every bit of the nobility he had during the great crusade. “It is done my lord, we have successfully convinced them we are servants of the emperor, the indoctrination plans are already in place, we suspect within a few generations this planet will be devoted entirely to you.”
“On top of all that…” Asher says, “We have collected any and all equipment usable to us. Our ammo stockpiles are at maximum capacity, as are most of our other requirements.”
The Thing looks at Asher, nodding in approval. “Good. Even if we aren’t any closer to Vashtorr, we are at least better off now than before.”
“No luck with the sorcerer then, eh my lord?” Asher ask, his voice unsurprised.
“Nope.” The Thing says flatly, slightly annoyed by Asher’s tone but knows he’s just being the sarcastic individual that he is. “Now, leave me. Take care of what needs taking care of out there…” He orders as he steps out onto the balcony of the command room, the sound of ceremite armor clinking and then stomping off soon growing distant and leaving only silence. A few minutes of this pass by, the Thing thinking back too a time before all this madness. A time when humanity was on the upswing, when things like daemons and the gods were the furthest things from the people’s mind, a time when… when he had her.“….. Still here Argal?” He says, aware that Argal Tal hasn’t left the room.
“…. Your thinking about Mother again, aren’t you?” Argal ask, and the twitch from the Thing’s shoulders tells him he’s right. “…. We will save her Little Light, we will free her from the forces that have broken her.” Argal says, walking up next to the Thing he called Little Light, a title of endearment that his Gene-Mother gave to him. “And you are the key to that, you are the reason why I am here and able to aid you in this mission… all of us, we are your sons now, and we stand with you.”
“… I know… I know…” Little Light says, appreciating Argal Tal’s faith in him and his goals. “… We have much to do, and I fear time may be running out… make sure your brothers are ready for when the time comes for us to move…”
Argal Tal bows, “It will be done… Lord Malal….”
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2024.05.16 05:12 chromabyt starting my first msm island

starting my first msm island
im a 13 yr old boy and im just starting my own island with two custom monsters already made. give me feedback but not too harsh
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2024.05.16 05:11 tristanfinn Bolerium Books – The San Francisco Bookstore Where the Revolution Ends up – By Lucy Schiller

There is great benefit, these days, in having a name unlike any other: you float to the top of Google searches. Bolerium Books, in San Francisco, knows this well, although it wasn’t a consideration when it first opened, in 1981. Bolerium’s co-owner, John Durham, runs through any number of explanations for the name, depending on whose leg he wants to pull and how hard. “It was an ancient road in Roman times,” he intoned recently, “large, funny, and sluggish,” while another co-owner, Alexander Akin, roundly mouthed, “Not true.” (The word is a Roman one for Land’s End, in Cornwall, England. The bookstore was once a bit closer to the ocean.) Fittingly, there is no other place like Bolerium, not on the Internet nor in the province of the real. Similes come steadily, none of which really seem to fit. Perhaps Durham’s is best. “We’re like a platypus,” he told me recently, “ugly as fuck and all sorts of parts.”.
This moment of serious American protest against Trump has led to one of Bolerium Books’ best sales years ever.Photograph by Thor Swift / NYT / Redux.
At last count, the store contained 67,385 single titles in stock. Estimates of the time that has elapsed since the last deep cleaning ranged from a jokey “twenty years ago” to a hemming “define ‘clean.’ ” “Nature abhors a vacuum,” Durham quickly noted. A store map gestures at the sheer amount of stuff, with sections labelled as “Reef of Flotsam” or “Onset of Confusion” (right by the entrance), or, in one cramped corner, “Hell.”
The semi-barbed humor protects something serious and deeply essential. Few people walk in (“the door is locked to keep out the unworthy,” Durham wrote in response to a negative Yelp review, though he made sure to mention the password, “swordfish”). Those who do manage to enter find, three floors above one of the Mission District’s busiest intersections, a vast and quiet space populated by seven staff members, thousands of books about and from social movements, densely packed rows of pamphlets and ephemera, and, in the adjacent storage room, great snowbanks of paper. These snowbanks, or “midden heaps,” as Durham calls them, are from attics, basements, personal archives, and libraries across the country. They have all been sold or donated to Bolerium. In them, evidence of the past is to be found, possibly reckoned with, and then, hopefully, sold.
From Bolerium’s snowbanks have come copies of On Our Backs (a lesbian erotic magazine put out in response to the anti-pornography publication Off Our Backs), century-old postcards of pacifist Doukhobors protesting in the nude, intricate Black Panther posters and handbills, an issue of Lumberjack (“with appendix on musical saw”), and the famous inter-commune Kaliflower newsletters from early-nineteen-seventies San Francisco. But with a staff so expert that they can translate a Mongolian treatise on traditional Oirat law using a handmade cheat sheet, classifications like “famous” and “obscure” begin to blur. So do “past” and “present.” Rather than a platypus, maybe the store is more like an estuary: the disparate holdings mingle, rolling in and out according to murky tides. (If you visit the Web site and browse the digital catalog by date, the tides begin to feel more explicable; one week, for example, carries a huge wave of Alan Watts-related material. The next week brings a crush of gay romance novels.) At Bolerium, for better and worse, you can wade around in what Durham calls “the primary source material for history.”
Here is an 1838 publication by the American Anti-Slavery Society and a brochure arguing for the Equal Rights Amendment. A pamphlet from a 1928 speech by Marcus Garvey sits not far from a publication on “incidents in the Life of Eugene V. Debs” written by his brother, Theodore (once, before an important speech, a piece of barbed wire tore “a great rent in [Debs’s] trousers . . . the flap of which hung down like the ear of a Missouri houn’ pup”). Among many other small, sheeny pins is a button from the 1990 AIDS Walk in San Francisco. Here are fliers that passed from hand to hand at protests, meant to convince, assuage, and inflame, and here’s a lump of coal from a miners’ strike in Alabama with tiny chicken-scratch wording: “never forget.” Notably, this year of serious American protest has been the store’s best sales year ever.
Not marked on the map is that other part of American history that has, this year and every other, raged—a section that Durham loosely calls “the White Problem” and keeps behind the locked door of a different room altogether. Accessible to scholars and those who know to ask, the spindly bookcases contain titles like “Gun Control Means People Control” and “Fluoridation & Truth Decay,” as well as several publications by the John Birch Society. “You can’t understand American history without understanding the far right,” Durham told me. “What it’s done, its justifications, its tropes and idiocies.”
It was to the deepest corner of the storeroom that the archivist Lisbet Tellefsen was drawn one afternoon. (Tellefsen visits Bolerium as a “treasure hunter,” and has amassed the largest collection of Angela Davis-related material in the world.) One time, she idly tugged out an issue of The Bayviewer, a magazine that once served the historic black neighborhood that James Baldwin characterized as “the San Francisco America pretends does not exist.”
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The magazine fell open to a page bearing the face of Tellefsen’s father, whom she had not seen since she was two, in an advertisement for his Oldsmobile dealership. That led to an ongoing saga of tracking down half-siblings and cousins found on Ancestry.com. “There is so much history there,” Tellefsen told me. She visits Bolerium once a month, wary of buying back her own consigned material. “It’s so rich with connections. We have an understanding of history, but places like that hold so much.” Bolerium’s official motto, “Fighting Commodity Fetishism with Commodity Fetishism since 1981,” does not quite distill the feeling of holding some of these discoveries between your fingers, or explain the way that ephemera can work to vivify history, very often through its ordinariness. A bit of light browsing recently unearthed a flier from a class reunion of Florida’s first accredited African-American high school, as well as an Electrolux manual from 1933 listing Pope Pius XI as a famous customer.
But history is ongoing, and the present moment needs its collectors. During the Occupy Movement, the store paid a dollar for each flyer or poster that people brought in, then put together a sweeping collection for the British Library. Holdings from contemporary social movements are fairly small, since so much planning, discussing, and arguing takes place on Facebook and Twitter. “Occupy was the last one to have lots of leaflets,” Akin told me, somewhat sadly. Currently, he is collecting material from what he calls the “shock-and-disbelief period” following the 2016 Presidential election. Only from “marinating in the sauce of time” do these things begin to accrue both value and interest.
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Recently, in one snowbank, Akin found a sketch done in creamy pastel of a basalt mountain and drifting clouds. Tiny guard towers dotted the background. It was a drawing of the view from Tule Lake Segregation Center, the largest of the incarceration camps that held Japanese-Americans during the Second World War, and the one which held those people deemed by the government to be “disloyal.” The artist was a man named Tomokazu, surname unknown, who resided for over thirty-five years in Plumas County, California, before being imprisoned at Tule Lake. The piece of paper sat among countless others all bearing dispatches of one kind or another from the past, which is not a foreign country, really, but a place hovering just under our present, and made of paper and ink, buttons, and voices.
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2024.05.16 05:06 MosaicLifestyle Learnings from my war against annoying Slim 7 fans

This is going to be long (see TL;DR), but since getting my Slim 7 Gen 8 AMD last year I've been endlessly annoyed by one thing: the fans.
Thermal performance when pushed is great, it clearly has a suitable cooling solution for gaming loads. However, (and maybe this is my ADHD), no matter which power mode it was in the random on / off of the fans during idle or light usage was infuriating, as if the machine was intentionally designed to operate on the knife edge of the fan curve.
It seemed like the tiniest CPU temperature spikes from normal usage were triggering the fan curve up 2 steps rather than ramping progressively, and these fans whine like no other when they're spooling up.
That is, until a few weeks ago, when my motherboard somehow fried itself (a different issue altogether, non-cooling related failure). The Lenovo onsite tech botched the thermal paste and definitely used something that wasn't PTM, which made a problem that was already driving me crazy even worse.
So I picked up some PTM 7950 and Upsiren U6 putty from Aliexpress, repasted the CPU / GPU dies and replaced the stock pads with putty.
After putting it back together and running the PTM through a stress test to melt it down (for good measure I popped it back open afterwards and gave the cooler screws a tiny extra twist to lock it down), I can say that it was now running better than how it came from the factory 6 months ago. The fans were turning on more progressively, rather than being a huge distraction when they go straight to 2200rpm and stopping on a dime a few second later.
Idle was now around 45-48C, but it was still bugging me that light internet browsing was enough to kick up the fans. "Gaming laptops are just loud and hot!", yadda yadda yadda. Not good enough for me.
Then today I stopped and thought – since the BIOS doesn't allow fine adjustment of the curve, and it seems like the temperature spikes are just the nature of the AMD 7840HS, trying to keep the machine silent is a losing battle, short of neutering the performance with power limits.
So what if the answer to my desire to have no fan noise...is constant fan noise? I fired up Legion Toolkit and loaded a custom profile based on the Balanced preset, with the one tweak of raising the lowest point of the fan curve (fan off) up one tick.
The result? The fans spin all the time at 1800rpm, but the noise level is low enough that it borders on white noise. Way less distracting than random acceleration / deceleration, and when they do need to go faster it's a much smoother transition.
YMMV, and maybe I got a dud from the factory, but I'm finally happy. Hopefully this helps others, as my searches turned up plenty of posts talking about the same behavior. And of course, proceed at your own risk and watch YouTube tutorials, it's not rocket science but the job requires a delicate touch.
TL;DR: if your fans are driving you crazy consider re-doing the PTM and going with a better thermal pad solution – just because they used good materials from the factory doesn't mean the application was perfect. Also, these fans are most annoying when they're spooling up, and if it's driving your ADHD mad having them on low all the time is way less distracting than letting them turn on and off.
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2024.05.16 05:04 MirkWorks Excerpt from The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch (The Narcissistic Personality of Our Time Continuation)

II. The Narcissistic Personality of Our Time
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Social Influences on Narcissism
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. In Freud’s time, hysteria and obsessional neurosis carried to extremes the personality traits associated with the capitalist order at an earlier stage in its development - acquisitiveness, fanatical devotion to work, and a fierce repression of sexuality. In our time, the preschizophrenic, borderline, or personality disorders have attracted increasing attention, along with schizophrenia itself. This “change in the form of neuroses has been observed and described since World War II by an ever-increasing number of psychiatrists.” According to Peter L. Giovacchini, “Clinicians are constantly faced with the seemingly increasing number of patients who do not fit current diagnostic categories” and who suffer not from “definitive symptoms” but from “vague, ill-defined complaints.” “When I refer to ‘this type of patient,’” he writes, “practically everyone knows to whom I am referring.” The growing prominence of “character disorders” seems to signify an underlying change in the organization of personality, from what has been called inner-direction to narcissism.
Allen Wheelis argued in 1958 that the change in the “patterns of neuroses” fell “within the personal experience of older psychoanalysts,” while younger ones “become aware of it from the discrepancy between the older descriptions of neuroses and the problems presented by the patients who come daily to their offices. The change is from symptom neuroses to character disorders.” Heinz Lichtenstein, who questioned the additional assertion that it reflected a change in personality structure, nevertheless wrote in 1963 that the “change in neurotic patterns” already constituted a “well-known fact.” In the seventies, such reports have become increasingly common. “It is not accident,” Herbert Hendin notes, “that at the present time the dominant events in psychoanalysis are the rediscovery of narcissism and the new emphasis on the psychological significance of death.” “What hysteria and the obsessive neuroses were to Freud and his early colleagues…at the beginning of this century,” writes Michael Beldoch, “the narcissistic disorders are to the workaday analyst in these last few decades before the next millennium. Today’s patients by and large do not suffer from hysterical paralyses of the legs or hand-washing compulsions; instead it is their very psychic selves that have gone numb or that they must scrub and rescrub in an exhausting and unending effort to come clean.” These patients suffer from “pervasive feelings of emptiness and a deep disturbance of self-esteem.” Burness E. Moore notes that narcissistic disorders have become more and more common. According to Sheldon Bach, “You used to see people coming in with hand-washing compulsions, phobias, and familiar neuroses. Now you see mostly narcissists.” Gilbert J. Rose maintains that the psychoanalytic outlook, “inappropriately transplanted from analytic practice” to everyday life, has contributed to “global permissiveness” and the “over-domestication of instinct,” which in turn contributes to the proliferation of “narcissistic identity disorders.” According to Joel Kovel, the stimulation of infantile cravings by advertising, the usurpation of parental authority by the media and the school, and the rationalization of inner life accompanied by the false promise of personal fulfillment, have created a new type of “social individual.” “The result is not the classical neuroses where an infantile impulse is suppressed by patriarchal authority, but a modern version in which impulse is stimulated, perverted and given neither an adequate object upon which to satisfy itself nor coherent forms of control…. The entire complex, played out in a setting of alienation rather than direct control, loses the classical form of symptom - and the classical therapeutic opportunity of simply restoring an impulse to consciousness.”
The reported increase in the number of narcissistic patients does not necessarily indicate that narcissistic disorders are more common than they used to be, in the population as a whole, or that they have become more common than the classical conversion neurosis. Perhaps they simply come more quickly to psychiatric attention. Ilza Veith contends that “with the increasing awareness of conversion reactions and the popularization of psychiatric literature, the ‘old-fashioned’ somatic expressions of hysteria have become suspect among the more sophisticated classes, and hence most physicians observe that obvious conversion symptoms are now rarely encountered and, if at all, only among the uneducated.” The attention given to character disorders in recent clinical literature probably makes psychiatrists more alert to their presence. But this possibility by no means diminishes the importance of psychiatric testimony about the prevalence of narcissism, especially when this testimony appears at the same time that journalists begin to speculate about the new narcissism and the unhealthy trend toward self-absorption. The narcissist comes to the attention of psychiatrists for some of the same reasons that he rises to positions of prominence not only in awareness movements and other cults but in business corporations, political organizations, and government bureaucracies. For all his inner suffering, the narcissist has many traits that make for success in bureaucratic institutions, which put a premium on the manipulation of interpersonal relations, discourage the formation of deep personal attachments, and at the same time provide the narcissist with the approval he needs in order to validate his self-esteem. Although he may resort to therapies that promise to give meaning to life and to overcome his sense of emptiness, in his professional career the narcissist often enjoys considerable success. The management of personal impressions comes naturally to him, and his mastery of its intricacies serves him well in political and business organizations where performance now counts for less than “visibility,” “momentum,” and a winning record. As the “organization man” gives way to the bureaucratic “gamesman” - the “loyalty era” of American business to the age of the “executive success game” - the narcissist comes into his own.
In a study of 250 managers from twelve major companies, Michael Maccoby describes the new corporate leader, not altogether unsympathetically, as a person who works with people rather than with materials and who seeks not to build an empire or accumulate wealth but to experience “the exhilaration of running his team and of gaining victories.” He wants to “be known as a winner, and his deepest fear is to be labeled a loser.” Instead of pitting himself against a material task or a problem demanding solution, he puts himself against others, out of a “need to be in control.” As a recent textbook for managers puts it, success today means “not simply getting ahead” but “getting ahead of others.” The new executive, boyish, playful, and “seductive,” wants in Maccoby’s words “to maintain an illusion of limitless options.” He has little capacity for “personal intimacy and social commitment.” He feels little loyalty even to the company for which he works. One executive says he experiences power “as not being pushed around by the company.” In his upward climb, this man cultivates powerful customers and attempts to use them against his own company. “You need a very big customer,” according to his calculations, “who is always in trouble and demands changes from the company. That way you automatically have power in the company, and with the customer too. I like to keep my options open.” A professor of management endorses this strategy. “Overidentification” with the company, in his view, “produces a corporation with enormous power over the careers and destinies of its true believers.” The bigger the company, the more important he thinks it is for executes “to manage their careers in terms of their own…free choices” and to “maintain the widest set of options possible.”
According to Maccoby, the gamesman “is open to new ideas, but he lacks convictions.” He will do business with any regime, even if he disapproves of its principles. More independent and resourceful than the company man, he tries to use the company for his own ends, fearing that otherwise he will be “totally emasculated by the corporation.” He avoids intimacy as a trap, preferring the “exciting, sexy atmosphere” with which the modern executive surrounds himself at work, “where adoring, mini-skirted secretaries constantly flirt with him.” In all his personal relations, the gamesman depends on the admiration or fear he inspires in others to certify his credentials as a “winner.” As he gets older, he finds it more and more difficult to command the kind of attention on which he thrives. He reaches a plateau beyond which he does not advance in his job, perhaps because the very highest positions, as Maccoby notes, still go to “those able to renounce adolescent rebelliousness and become at least to some extent believers in the organization.” The job begins to lose its savor. Having little interest in craftsmanship, the new-style executive takes no pleasure in his achievements once he begins to lose the adolescent charm on which they rest. Middle age hits him with the force of a disaster: “Once his youth, vigor, and even the thrill in winning are lost, he becomes depressed and goalless, questioning the purpose of his life. No longer energized by the team struggle and unable to dedicate himself to something he believes in beyond himself, … he finds himself starkly alone.” It is not surprising, given the prevalence of this career pattern, that popular psychology returns so often to the “midlife crisis” and to ways of combating it.
In Wilfrid Sheed’s novel Office Politics, a wife asks, “There are real issues, aren’t there, between Mr. Fine and Mr. Tyler?” Her husband answers that the issues are trivial; “the jockeying of ego is the real story.” Eugene Emerson Jennings’s study of management, which celebrates the demise of the organization man and the advent of the new “era of mobility,” insists that corporate “mobility is more than mere job performance.” What counts is “style…panache…the ability to say and do almost anything without antagonizing others.” The upwardly mobile executive, according to Jennings, knows how to handle the people around him - the “shelf-sitter” who suffers from “arrested mobility” and envies success; the “fast learner”; the “mobile superior.” The “mobility-bright executive” has learned to “read” the power relations in his office and “to see the less visible and less audible side of his superiors, chiefly their standing with their peers and superiors.” He “Can infer from a minimum of cues who are the centers of power, and he seeks to have high visibility and exposure with them. He will assiduously cultivate his standing and opportunities with them and seize every opportunity to learn from them. He will utilize his opportunities in social world to size up the men who are centers of sponsorship in the corporate world.”
Constantly comparing the “executive success game” to an athletic contest or a game of chess, Jennings treats the substance of executive life as if it were just as arbitrarily and irrelevant to success as the task of kicking a ball through a net or of moving pieces over a chessboard. He never mentions the social and economic repercussions of managerial decisions or the power that managers exercise over society as a whole. For the corporate manager on the make, power consists not of money and influence but of “momentum,” a “winning image,” a reputation as a winner . Power lies in the eye of the beholder and thus has no objective reference at all.
The manager’s view of the world, as described by Jennings, Maccoby, and by the managers themselves, is that of the narcissist, who sees the world as a mirror of himself and has no interest in external events except as they throw back a reflection of his own image. The dense interpersonal environment of modern bureaucracy, in which work assumes an abstract quality almost wholly divorced from performance, by its very nature elicits and often rewards a narcissistic response. Bureaucracy, however, is only one of a number of social influences that are bringing a narcissistic type of personality organization into greater and greater prominence. Another such influence is the mechanical reproduction of culture, the proliferation of visual and audial images in the “society of the spectacle.” We live in a swirl of images and echoes that arrest experience and play it back in slow motion. Cameras and recording machines not only transcribe experience but alter its quality, giving to much of modern life that character of an enormous echo chamber, a hall of mirrors. Life presents itself as a succession of images of electronic signals, of impressions recorded and reproduced by means of photography, motion pictures, television, and sophisticated recording devices. Modern life is thoroughly mediated by electronic images that we cannot help responding to others as if their actions - and our own - were being recorded and simultaneously transmitted to an unseen audience or stored up for close scrutiny at some later time. “Smile, you’re on candid camera!” The intrusion into everyday life of this all-seeing eye no longer takes us by surprise or catches us with our defenses down. We need no reminder to smile. A smile is permanently graven on our features, and we already known from which of several angles its photographs to best advantage.
The proliferation of recorded images undermines our sense of reality. As Susan Sontag observes in her study of photography, “Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.” We distrust our perceptions until the camera verifies them. Photographic images provide us with the proof of our existence, without which we would find it difficult even to reconstruct a personal history. Bourgeois families in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Sontag points out, posed for portraits in order to proclaim the family’s status, whereas today the family album of photographs verifies the individual’s existence: its documentary record of his development from infancy onward provides him with the only evidence of his life that he recognizes as altogether valid. Among the “many narcissistic uses” that Sontag attributes to the camera, “self-surveillance” ranks among the most important, not only because it provides the technical means of ceaseless self-scrutiny but because it renders the sense of selfhood dependent on the consumption of images of the self, at the same time calling into question the reality of the external world.
By preserving images of the self at various stages of development, the camera helps to weaken the older idea of development as moral education and to promote a more passive idea according to which development consists of passing through the stages of life at the right time and in the right order. Current fascination with the life cycle embodies an awareness that success in politics or business depends on reaching certain goals on schedule; but it also reflects the ease with which developments can be electronically recorded. This brings us to another cultural change that elicits a widespread narcissistic response and, in this case, gives it a philosophical sanction: the emergence of a therapeutic ideology that upholds a normative schedule of psychosocial development and thus gives further encouragement to anxious self-scrutiny. The idea of normative development creates the fear that any deviation from the norm has a pathological source. Doctors have made a cult of periodic checkup - an investigation carried out once again by means of cameras and other recording instruments - and have implanted in their clients the notion that health depends on eternal watchfulness and the early detection of symptoms, as verified by medical technology. The client no longer feels physically or psychologically secure until his X-rays confirm a “clean bill of health.”
Medicine and psychiatry - more generally, the therapeutic outlook and sensibility that pervade modern society - reinforce the pattern created by other cultural influences, in which the individual endlessly examines himself for signs of aging and ill health, for tell-tale symptoms of psychic stress, for blemishes and flaws that might diminish his attractiveness, or on the other hand for reassuring indications that his life is proceeding according to schedule. Modern medicine has conquered the plagues and epidemics that once made life so precarious, only to create new forms of insecurity. In the same way, bureaucracy has made life predictable and even boring while reviving, in a new form, the war of all against all. Our overorganized society, in which large-scale organizations predominate but have lost the capacity to command allegiance, in some respects more nearly approximates a condition of universal animosity than did the primitive capitalism on which Hobbes managed his state of nature. Social conditions today encourage a survival mentality, expressed in its crudest form in disaster movies or in fantasies of space travel, which allow vicarious escape from a doomed planet. People no longer dream of overcoming difficulties but merely of surviving them. In business, according to Jennings, “The struggle is to survive emotionally” -to “preserve or enhance one’s identity or ego.” The normative concept of developmental stages promotes a view of life as an obstacle course: the aim is simply to get through the course with a minimum of trouble and pain. The ability to manipulate what Gail Sheehy refers to, using a medical metaphor, as “life-support systems” now appears to represent the highest form of wisdom: the knowledge that gets us through, as she puts it, without panic. Those who master Sheehy’s “no-panic approach to aging” and to the traumas of the life cycle will be able to say, in the words of one of her subjects, “I know I can survive… I don’t panic any more.” This is hardly an exalted form of satisfaction, however. “The current ideology,” Sheehy writes, “seems a mix of personal survivalism, revivalism, and cynicism”; yet her enormously popular guide to the “predictable crises of adult life,” with its superficially optimistic hymn to growth, development, and “self-actualization,” does not challenge this ideology, merely restates it in more “humanistic” form. “Growth” has become a euphemism for survival.
The World View of the Resigned
New social forms require new forms of personality, new modes of socialization, new ways of organizing experience. The concept of narcissism provides us not with a ready-made psychological determinism but with a way of understanding the psychological impact of recent social changes - assuming that we bear in mind not only its clinical origins but the continuum between pathology and normality. It provides us, in other words, with a tolerably accurate portrait of the “liberated” personality of our time, with his charm, his pseudo-awareness of his own condition, his promiscuous pansexuality, his fascination with oral sex, his fear of the castrating mother (Mrs. Portnoy), his hypochondria, his protective shallowness, his avoidance of dependence, his inability to mourn, his dread of old age and death.
Narcissism appears realistically to represent the best way of coping with the tensions and anxieties of modern life, and the prevailing social conditions therefore tend to bring out narcissistic traits that are present, in varying degrees, in everyone. These condition have also transformed the family, which in turn shapes the underlying structure of personality. A society that dears it has no future is not likely to give much attention to the needs of the next generation, and the ever-present sense of historical discontinuity - the blight of our society - falls with particularly devastating effect on the family. The modern parent’s attempt to make children feel loved and wanted does not conceal an underlying coolness - the remoteness of those who have little to pass on the next generation and who in any case give priority to their own right to self-fulfillment. The combination of emotional detachment with attempts to convince a child of his favored position in the family is a good prescription for a narcissistic personality structure.
Through the intermediary of the family, social patterns reproduce themselves in personality. Social arrangements live on in the individual, buried in the mind below the level of consciousness, even after they have become objectively undesirable and unnecessary - as many of our present arrangements are now widely acknowledged to have become. The perception of the world as a dangerous and forbidding place, though it originates in a realistic awareness of the insecurity of contemporary social life, receives reinforcement from the narcissistic projection of aggressive impulses outward. The belief that society has no future, while it rests on a certain realism about the dangers ahead, also incorporates a narcissistic inability to identify with posterity or to feel one self part of a historical stream.
The weakening of social ties, which originates in the prevailing state of social warfare, at the same time reflects a narcissistic defense against dependence. A warlike society tends to produce men and women who are at heart antisocial. It should therefore not surprise us to find that although the narcissist conforms to social norms for fear of external retribution, he often thinks of himself as an outlaw and sees others in the same way, “as basically dishonest and unreliable, or only reliable because of external pressures.” “The value systems of narcissistic personalities are generally corruptible,” writes Kernberg, “in contrast to the rigid morality of the obsessive personality.”
The ethic of self-preservation and psychic survival is rooted, then, not merely in objective conditions of economic warfare, rising rates of crime, and social chaos but in the subjective experience of emptiness and isolation. It reflects the conviction - as much a projection of inner anxieties as a perception of the way things are - that envy and exploitation dominate even the most intimate relations. The cult of personal relations, which becomes increasingly intense as the hope of political solutions recedes, conceals a thoroughgoing disenchantment with personal relations, just as the cult of sensuality implies a repudiation of sensuality in all but its most primitive forms. The ideology of personal growth, superficially optimistic, radiates a profound despair and resignation. It is the faith of those without faith.
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