TLDR: Life has no meaning, there’s to many questions without answers, I don’t like who I am, and I rather do drugs and rot away but don’t for the sake of my mom and dog.
I just want to give up on life. I don’t want to die, just want to do drugs and rot away in my room, the only reason I haven’t gone back to that is for my mom and dog. Tthere’s no meaning to life, we live, do fuck all, then die forgotten at some point no matter what we do. I’ve been told that the point of life is to go through the emotions and that sadness and happiness are just emotions. But if there just emotions then why do we chase one of them and reject the other. When I’m happy I worry about “this feeling isn’t going to last” and “how do I make it last” and end up anxious over everything. When I’m bored I get trapped in my mind and get depressed. No matter what I feel it ends in anxiety or depression fucking everything up. It’s gotten to the point if I’m not anxious or depressed over something I wonder if what I’m doing is really right.

Hi there!
In an open marriage with kids, and not looking to change that. I have an extremely busy life, high pressure career that is very demanding, but I absolutely LOVE IT!
I’m looking for someone to fill in the gaps of life, I do travel a lot for work, ideally we would keep this online then travel to meet each other or go on a well needed weekend trip together.
About you: ideally you’re into the lifestyle such that you don’t want to change my life around, if that makes sense. I am into rough play so please be open to that. A cute, bubbly personality is greatly desired. High feminine voice is a huge plus.
Not looking to keep anything a secret here, nor am I looking to replace my wife/kids etc. please respect that.
Let’s have some fun!

I (24f) am marrying my fiance (26m) in Egypt later this year. Since I am from America I have never really had much concern for my rights but I have heard a lot about how women are treated in Egypt. I have no concerns about him as a person, but I want to know more about women’s rights in Egypt and specifically women’s rights after marriage. I plan to stay there with him and his family for a few months after we get married and some members of my family are concerned that something could go wrong. Is there anything I should know or be cautious of? Thank you in advance!

Today I had a choice to make. I was invited to play pool by a coworker of mine at a pub. I got ready and as I was walking over to the pub. I felt a strong inward voice telling me, “You do not belong here.”
I was convincted because I’ve been going to this pub to hang out with coworkers and meet new people, secretly hoping to meet my wife, or talk to the available women, but the strong majority of the women there are not Godly, and neither are the men. All are college age and obviously not looking for a Godly relationship, leading to marriage.
I was very hesitant and gave myself every excuse to just go and play one game of pool. I knew that a part of me would have liked the attention from women even if I knew I wasn’t going to marry them. But I ultimately decided to go elsewhere. I still desired to not be in my room, lonely. So, I went to the local hotel that was playing live music. Bought myself a double shot of whiskey on the rocks, listened to the beautiful sound of the lady playing the piano and violin and called mom and grandma. My mother is recovering from a shoulder surgery, and my grandmother is grieving due to the loss of one of her daughters, my aunt. I forgot to call them for mother’s day, but I assured them that they’re always in my heart even if I forget to call.
It’s been tough becoming a Christian. Dying to yourself every day is tough, but also relieving. I’m doing everything I can to substitute the loneliness in the meantime. I just hope and pray to God that it won’t be for long.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to resist going to this pub like I did today. It’s fun leaving the room and playing some pool with a couple of friends/ coworkers. I avoided going to this place for long time before going back this year, and it was the most isolating and lonely time I have ever felt. It really affected my mental health, but so were other things.
As mush as I hate to admit it, I know I don’t belong there. I cringe even asking for prayers to resist going there. I feel like a child selfishly avoiding the conviction. I just need intimate companionship..
Help me God.

Written 5/8/2024- updates attached below

I tried posting this on kendrick almost a week ago and it got no response, I messaged the mods to ask about Karma restrictions or account age requirements and they never replied. I made a new account and it was the same issue, but I found out last night I wasn’t fully banned, so I figured I’d throw it up and see if anyone finds it valuable. It’s written for people who have no prior knowledge of the rap game/music business. I don’t have to go as hard on obscuring names this time. One of the influencers I mentioned in my last post is known for doxxing and threatening violence against people who mention the many contradictions in their stories. (Sorry for any typos/mistakes I want to go to bed.)
Origins
I believe the current Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef is either completely or partially fabricated by certain industry leaders or the parties involved in an effort to distract from something bigger going down behind the scenes. If you were an influential label owner facing major accusations, and you needed to deflect media attention from yourself, recreating one of the most defining moments in rap history during the social media era would be a way to do it. It also wouldn’t hurt that two of the biggest rappers in the world were already sending shots at each other in their music for years prior. The public consensus is they are simply two famous rappers who hate each other and fighting over the spot for the top like in the 90’s. Only people who were directly involved could paint a more cohesive picture of the whole story. Even when all the cards drop, there is a good chance the average person won’t be able to find direct sources on their own and will continue to support their favorite artists and dismiss any evidence of their crimes like the drizzy subreddit or Ak fans.

As I said the beef between Kendrick and Drake has been brewing in the background for years, with both rappers sending shots and sneak dissing each other over the course of at least 8 years. The most agreed upon origin story is the first diss was the 2016 Big Sean and Kendrick collaboration, “Control,” and Drake responded with, “The Language”. Things stayed relatively lighthearted for a while and both were intentionally vague for many years. Before I go deep into the Kendrick and Drake stuff, it’s really important to examine some of Drake’s prior beefs because they add a ton of context to my theory. In my opinion Kendrick and Co. started scheming all of this some time around Mid 2020-Mid 2022, well after the whole Pusha T beef had transitioned into the Kanye beef.

What exactly started the beef is debatable, but at the time many attributed it to rumors of Drake pursuing Ye’s ex Amber Rose. Unfortunately the timeline isn’t 100 percent clear, and if I included every detail this would be at least 200+ pages so I’ll stick with the important stuff. The ultimate outcome of the Pusha T battle in 2018 was the revelation of Drake’s son Adidon that he had previously been hiding from the world along with getting Ye directly involved in the beef.

Here are some more examples of Drake antagonizing Ye and of him trying to use women as pawns to get material for his diss tracks. The Drake line, “Yeah, I probably go link to Yeezy, I need me some Jesus, but as soon as I start confessin' my sins, he wouldn't believe us," could be a reference to sleeping with Kim Kardashian, trying to double down on his threats to harm him or his family, or it could be a double entendre. Another example is using the name Kiki in another song, which was apparently one of Kim’s nicknames. Some other possible examples include the theories he may have tried the same thing with Kendrick’s wife Whitney around 2020-2021 in an attempt to use as ammo against Kendrick, which I’ll go into later. I don’t listen to much of either artist's music, but there are probably many of other examples in Drake’s catalogue that I’m leaving out. There is also his song Omerta released in 2019, which I'll go into below.

“Your baby mother call me when she lonely My tailor see me twice a week, he like my homie Forever grateful, forever thankful Diamond necklace, but she wears it on her ankle”

(Probably referring to Kim Kardashian since she had a few pictures with her wearing diamond ankle bracelets and was trying to make it into a trend.

“I plan to buy your most personal belongings when they up for auction”

(There were various rumors floating around for a while that Drake was blackmailing Ye with something and he was fighting to keep it from the public. I thought about it and this line might be referencing a sex tape with Kim or her little sister who me was very touch before she turned 18. In 2022 there was a whole storyline on Kim’s show where Ye flies to LA to prevent her second sex tape from being released.)

West Hollywood, know my presence is menacing
Cosa Nostra, shady dealings
Racketeering, the syndicate got they hand in plenty things The things that we've done to protect the name are unsettling But no regrets, though, the name'll echo Years later, none greater
Death to a coward and a traitor, that's just in my nature, yeah
(Drake and Ye both frequented the Delilah Nightclub located in West Hollywood and lived closeby on the same street for a while.)
"I don't carry cash 'cause the money is digital
It's the American Expresser, the debt collector"

(Sounds a lot more like it could be crypto to launder or send large amounts of ill gotten gains. It started becoming mainstream around them)

"Last year, niggas really feel like they rode on me
Last year, niggas got hot 'cause they told on me
I'm 'bout to call the bluff of anybody the fold on me"

These lines stood out because they could be referring to Ye telling the public about Drake's alleged threats a couple months before the songs release. This happened not long after the release of Sicko mode which was towards the end of 2018 as well. Ye was discussing the incident on Twitter and reached out to Drake and Travis to talk to him in private. In the next set of tweets Kanye publicly accused Drake of threatening him and his family in a major way. Surprisingly Ye seemed genuinely scared and amongst his, “crazy rants,” some of the stuff he said makes a ton of sense in hindsight. This also the beginning of his second serious public struggles with Bipolar disorder after being committed in 2016 shortly after an on stage rant where he calls out Jay Z for selling out and says he's afraid he might kill him.. As someone who shares the same diagnosis, I have a pretty good understanding of mania and psychosis and firmly believe that it's important not to write people off right away due to their mental illness. Some of my most thoughtful, creative, and productive periods were inspired by mania. Industry bigwigs have also been using mental illness to discredit influential black celebrities and visionaries going back decades, but it really picked up in the 80’s.

Dave Chappelle has gone into this a lot in the past and claims he experienced something similar before he quit show business and dipped to Africa. Their stories have a lot of interesting parallels if you’re familiar or curious. I remember he actually visited Ye at his house in Wyoming after he was reported to have had a, "mental breakdown," during his presidential run in 2020 thus marking his third breakown in six years.. The reason I put it in quotes is because it happened right after he publicly accused Kim of cheating and delivered his legendary speech on abortion. Dave went as far as going on live tv and telling the public he wasn’t crazy, he was just really struggling because he was the only one at the time fighting against the narrative, which can often be a suicide mission or a ticket to obscurity. These are three examples of someone speaking up and being deemed crazy, two years later came the nazi stuff and I'm sure we'll have plenty in store for 2024.

This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the very common pattern of artists dying or having their careers destroyed either after they try to leave their label or threaten to reveal industry secrets. A few more interesting industry connections I made in my research include the connections between:

T.U.G. records and J Cole's independent label Dreamville are both managed by Interscope Records, whose parent company is Universal Music Group.

Universal Music Group also hac Drake's label OvO label as well as Ye and Kendrick's old labels on their roster before they left to form their own independent labels in 2022 (around the same time the disses between Kendrick and Drake started escalating). Finally Bad Boy Records, which is owned by Diddy, and Motown Records who own Diddy's other R&B label Love Records, are also both owned by Universal. This means every label I mention is currently or was previously owned by Universal Music Group.

Ye tried for years to get out of his contract with Defjam, which happens to be ran by Jay Z who is known to be a close associate of Diddy. Jay would always used his money and power to fight against it. Ye even spoke out publicly on a few occasions, including when he said Jay Z was trying to kill him during one of his concerts. My theory is after years of getting nowhere and having his reputation skewered, in 2022 Ye finally said, "Fuck it," and dropped all the anti- Semetic stuff intentionally in a successful attempt to force his label to into using their morality clause, which requires labels to drop an artist if they're accused of any major controversy that could hurt the label’s profits. For the fourth time in four years the media reported he was having a breakdown. Even though they tried to punish him by cutting off all of his sources of income and freezing his accounts he still managed to bounce back pretty quickly. It was often reported how much he was losing, but it rarely discussed how he still was filthy rich in spite of the retrictions. His label wanted to discourage other artists from trying the same thing. My theory is he might have bought Kim or Kylie's alleged sex tape and used it for his own leverage. For Kendrick, his transition to his independent label ApLang went a lot smoother, but he had to split ownership of his new label with the previous manager owner Dave Free. Sadly it's still difficult for new or more niche artists to establish themselves without the some help.

He may be a lot of things but Ye isn’t dumb just because he has a mood disorder and the guys at the top know this, which is why I think he has really played up his diagnosis when it benefitted him. He’s still one of the most talented musicians in the game and I really think he sees his bipolar like a superpower as he says. It’s like his own invisibility cloak. He can go off his meds for a little, make an album after staying up for 72 hours, go on a “psychotic” twitter rant dropping facts throughout, then start up again once he makes enough news headlines. I think it’s worth noting the first divorce rumors in 2020 coincided with Ye’s abortion speech during his presidential run and the cheating accusations. that led to him dropping out and moving to Wyoming, and a couple months ago in February 2024 he was committed again.

The point I’m making is bipolar is complex, but pretty manageable especially if you have a ton of money to find meds that work for you and a good doctor and can keep substance abuse and stress at a manageable level. I think Ye is smart enough to know this, but it’s just safer for him to really play up the mental issues in the media. He’s proven he can literally say whatever he wants after getting cancelled and the average person is just going to write it off as psycho babble. While bias in health care is a sad fact of society, if you can use it to your advantage I say go for it. It might’ve just kept the microscope off of him long enough to plan his attack.

Ye v. Drake: Quotes of 2018
(Start of the beef, drake threats, and suspicion towards Kardashian family. )

“ It’s not about rap. It’s about family. We have to be close as a family and never let these people infiltrate just for radio spins”

“We need to show the world that people can talk without people ending up dead or in jail.”

”This is a man speaking to a man that has been placed in the program to fuck with Kanye West head and set me up“

”See when you care about your family you don’t let no man push you to do nothing that could risk your freedom“

These first four tweets by Ye were all in reference to perceived threats made by Drake after their beef escalated circa 2018. He began speaking on the industry and talking more about his psych hospital commitment two years prior and how he thought they were going to kill him. It's pretty obvious how the whole thing was planned by the sketchy doctor who called it in and his physical trainer who has a ton of connections to weird shit involving his celebrity clients.

I found interesting that Ye might not have been the first major league rapper whose life Drake threatened. During a similar period of mental illness the up and coming rapper XXXtentacion accused Drake of stealing his flow and dissed him a few times. Not long after he made a post online saying if he dies, it was Drake who did it. There are tons of conspiracies online, but none of the evidence is strong enough to draw a definitive connection. Also while it maybe be coincidental, Kendrick’s latest album Mr Morale also painted the picture that Kendrick was dealing with some serious personal issues. Some lines throughout the album may have been used to bait Drake into escalating, but it wasn’t until The Weekend, Future, and Metro Booming dropped, “We Don’t Trust You,” then Drake and J. Cole dropped, “First Person Shooter,” which was followed a couple days later with, “Like That,” where Kendrick started the chain of events that has led us to today.

Kanye vs. Drake: Quotes of 2020

Summary: Ye runs for president and gets suppressed for saying what very well could be the truth and was immediately deemed insane by the media. Kim did a couple interviews and everything he said was immediatly false. There is almost guarenteed to be some sketchy shit going down revolving her and her family. Ye was absolutely terrified of her keeping the kids away from him and it seems like there are still efforts being made to this day to paint a certain image of him for ulterior motives.

Below are six more quotes from a fan taking a deep dive into his 2020 tweets courtesy of u/ thehatstore42069 on Yeezy
”NORTHY I AM GOING TO WAR AND PUTTING MY LIFE ON THE LINE AND IF I AM MURDERED DON’T EVER LET WHITE MEDIA TELL YOU I WASNT A GOOD MAN,” West, 43, wrote in the tweet, adding, “WHEN PEOPLE THREATEN TO TAKE YOU OUT OF MY LIFE JUST KNOW I LOVE YOU”

"I need a public apology from J Cole and Drake to start with immediately... I'm Nat Turner... I'm fighting for us."

"the utmost respect for all brothers" and said "we need to link and respect each other... no more dissing each other on labels we don't own"

"Ye is constantly trying to tell people that his family does not have his or his kids best interests at heart. He goes on to list others, linking them together with the thinking emoji. These people include rap artist Drake and Larsa Pippen, wife of Scottie Pippe. Kim K is goddaughter to Pippen's daughter, showing how close the families actually are. All of these families that associate with Ye through Kardashian connections, as well as Drake, have been accused of the same thing Kris has. EVERY SINGLE ONE of these people have mixed race children that are groomed from a young age to fuck around with celebrities so the parents can remain famous. Drake on numerous occasions has been accused of grooming girls and then getting handsy on their 18th birthday.”

“These labels want their artists to make them money and they dont care about anything else. When Kanye says things like this in an attempt to expose him, the first thing they wanna do is drug him up and put him back in the studio.”
“Righteous indignation is typically a reactive emotion of anger over mistreatment, insult, or malice of another. It is akin to what is called the sense of injustice. This is how they keep the black man down. Keep people outraged about trivial things and distract them from the real issues in the world. The real problems in the industry. If you tell people enough times that they are unequal or discriminated against they start to believe it. Drug them when they step out of line and toss them aside when the checks run out. Ye is realizing he is pawn in a bigger game, and now that he has all these roots in the game such as Yeezy or the Gap or his music, too many people cant risk (Afford) a Ye who speaks his mind.”
(End of quotes)

Amongst the twitter rant, Ye warned about the predatory nature of record deals and discussed trying to get out of his own deal, and said again how his life may be in danger if it wasn’t already and was doing anything he could to protect his kids. The most fascinating part to me though is the public call to arms he made to Drake, J Cole, and Kendrick on twitter. After inviting them to all link up, he said, “It’s time to get free, we will not argue amongst each other while some guy we don’t know in Europe is getting paid and putting that money in a hedge fund.” I believe if Ye was able to pull off this meeting, there is an ever so slight chance that all four artists might be working together to take down a greater enemy. Weirdly there have been times throughout the last couple years where these supposed enemies were photographed together being friendly or praise each other in interviews, then out of no where the disses would start flying again.

To wrap things up I want to share my a few of my theories about the Drake/Kanye beef

A. Everything is exactly as it seems and the beef is over. Ye let his mental illness ruin his life and career so Drake simply picked another target after Ye stopped putting out disses. All of these connections are just a coincidence and all of this was choreographed to boost Drake and Kendrick’s music sales and possibly distract people from the Diddy trial and possibly the complicated geopolitical issues currently facing the U.S.

C. There is also the possibility that all four rappers are in cahoots and Drake’s dirt isn’t as extreme as people are theorizing, at least in comparison to the rest of the business. This could explain why everything has played out like a movie and how they were able to predict each other’s moves so well. This could either mean they’re all just trying to boost their sales or they’re all trying to take down the “slave masters,” as Ye calls them, and change the dynamic of the music industry in favor of the artist.

D. They may be trying to help their friends in the industry who are being abused or in shitty contracts. I know a lot of famous rappers have done a lot of collaborations with Jhene Aiko and Anderson Paak, who were both signed to T.U.G. records which I mentioned above in the connections to Universal Music Group. Considering they are both frequent collaborators with all of the artists involved on both sides, it’s not unlikely they may have played some part in influencing the takedown.

T.U.G was started by Chris Stokes with his partner Ketrina Askew. Back in the early to mid 90’s were gaining popularity attracting lots of young up and coming talent. They often collaborated with Diddy and his associates. In the 2000’s Raz B from the boy band B2K claimed he was molested by Stokes and his friend Marques Houston, then quickly retracted his claims. Years later he came forward again and said we was bribed into silence and that the rest of the victims were bribed with hush money and had another singer corroborate his story and they came forward together to level the accusations. After some of his former B2K members made fun of him for his claims and accused it of being a shakedown, Raz B revealed Stokes and Houston had preyed a lot of the children associated with the label including at least one of the former bandmates and paid them off.

I thought it was worth noting that the second whistleblower named Quindon Tarver died young in a car crash after mentioning his abuse again a few years prior. He seems to have left the industry not long after the incidents occurred and has few credits to his name. To this day Raz B is still trying to get his justice, while Stokes and his partner Askew, who was also involved in the abuse are still running the label to this day. Askew also has a ton of lawsuits, accusing her of using shady tactics to try to foreclose on houses. (Don’t quote me if a lawyer wants to take a look just google her full name), and has been tied to a ton of LLCs, similar to Drake. This is a good example of a shitty record deal, but I'm sure they have countless other friends in the industry who have even worse. While they were never convicted even Chris Stokes' wife confirmed it to be true.

E. The theory I personally think fits the narrative best and is the most realistic conspiracy is that Kendrick and possibly J. Cole went to the meeting, but not Drake due to his close relationship with Lucian Grange, the president of Drake’s label. Silence often speaks louder than words and this could explain why Kendrick was so ruthless and put so much effort into finding dirt on Drake. Ye, Cole, and Kendrick co-writing would be like the rap allstar team and if J. Cole wasn’t involved, it would also answer the question of whether or not he baited Drake into the battle by asking him to feature. I don’t think Drake is really their primary target though, which would explain letting him off easy. Compared to his bosses and their bosses he’s a small fish. If you take the big guys down you stand a better chance of landing a bigger blow on their operation.

Another really interesting connection is Kendrick and Ye were both signed under Universal Music Group and they both got out of their deals around couple months apart in 2022. As we speak U.M.G’s CEO Lucian Grange, who is often acccused of giving Drake special treatment, is facing charges related to sex trafficking by no other than P Diddy. This could very well explain the timing of it all. The craziest timeline would be Diddy masterminding all of this and using his connections to get it done and all the allegations are bullshit. The guy does seem pretty confident all things considered and constantly posts himself in his Batman costume which could mean he’s a vigilante.

It seems like there's a slight religious angle as well. (Ye and Diddy are both very vocal advocates of Christianity and Drake and Lucian Grange are both Jewish.) Obviously this is a reach, but they’ve been saying rap music was specifically promoted by mostly white label owners in the 80’s to help in the ongoing effort to expedite the systematic oppression of those living in black neighborhoods and the destruction of their family systems. Apparently it was an intentional decision to heavily promote rappers that promoted the very things that were destroying their neighborhoods. (So people know I'm and atheist and have zero agenda, I just thought it was interesting, please stay away from anything antisemitic. War is wrong on both sides.)

*** If my favorite theory is true, there is a possibility the Kendrick and Ye are going after Drake due to their mutual disdain for him and because he’s got a ton of power to dominate the charts and hog the radio airtime like Meek Mill and OG Maco claimed years ago. Even him dropping a record the same day as you could really fuck your album sales up. I’m also sure some of the many rumors throughout the years have had a least some truth and he will most likely snitch to avoid cell block one. I think that Drake could have been instructed to instigate this whole mess in order to draw attention away from the UMG charges brought about by Diddy. Or on the other hand it could be that Kendrick, Ye, and possibly Cole, may have had intel that Drake was going to be involved in the Diddy trial and are just gonna let the receipts show themselves. It might not have been the original plan, but they’ve already accomplished their mission of humiliating him, assuring he couldn’t use his influence to slide through the cracks, and taking over the throne.

Please take everything I say with a grain of salt I have no connection to this world or lifestyle. Regardless I believe all of the knowledge above does a pretty solid job at painting a picture of what may have let up to this and what may have been the source.
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More details found the last couple days…

Drake and Diddy Connections+Coincidences

Drake- In the P Diddy wig video from 2016 he talks about going to party with Drake, Cash, and The Weeknd in Toronto. Drake is also one of Birdman’s protégées who is known for being a predator and is rumored to have used label artists to lure young women.

Travis Scott- Interview where he comes out and says Diddy tried to lure him. Still has a long history of associating with him, video of him running from Diddy, his connection to Ruby Rose while underage.

Tim Westwood- Diddy had connections with sex offender Tim Westwood who also inspired the Drake song, “Westwood”. They also both were victims of drive by shootings along with The Weekend and they were all facing some type of allegations.

T.I.- Also has been associate with Diddy through the years, in 2021 his kid died and 11 women can forward at the same time to accuse him and his wife of drugging and assaulting them. Clearly someone wanted to fuck his life up. Possibly due to him getting arrested so many times for wild shit and people wondering how he continued to get away with it shining a light on how powerful industry lawyers are. He also had recently talked about having a gynecologist check to see if his daughter is still a Virgin, which sounds like it could have been an industrty secret. Could have been because he worried about someone trying to take advantage of her to get to him? Regardless that shit is fucking insane.

50 Cent- Has been saying pretty much the same thing as Travis Scott and has trolled Diddy for most of his career. It came out that his wife was a sex worker who was possibly recruited Diddy to help ruin his career. It sort of worked, which raises the question if 50 Cent is the only victim.

Ray J- Him and his sister worked with T.U.G. records when they were very young. Chris Stokes in the nineties who had connections with Diddy. He has been involved in a lot of sex scandals and allegedly may have played a part in Whitney Houston's death. (Which is also allegedly connected to Michael Jackson's death and both were deemed suspicious and happened during their final tours when their masters (song rights), became more valuable than their lives. Sony Records and Tommy Motolla, who also abused Mariah Carey when she was trying to start her career. These are just a few of the alleged examples of labels taking out musicians when they were worth more dead, another is the signing of high risk artists and requiring them to get life insurance so they can profit beyond releasing all their posthumous records. Also the ever so common story of the rising star artist that die at 21 after their first album or two.

He also partied with Diddy in Vegas with along Floyd Mayweather and a bunch of other famous industry people and athletes.

Tory Lanez- Tons of blackmail, also was signed by Interscope under UMG. got sent to prison for ten years after trying to leave his label. Also history of SA and and other allegations of violence towards women.

French Montana- On Diddy's label, close with Rick and Khaled, tons of drug and sexual assault allegations, also dated a Kardashian. Generally grimy.

DJ Khaled- Diddy said he could get anything in Miami, either referring to drugs or women, could explain his connections and lack of any notable talent. (New update, he was one of the first to promote Chris Alvarez’s instagram not long after he turned 18).

Rick Ross- Diddy said some weird shit about him and licked his lips and kissed him at a show. Ross is also signed to Bad Boy under Diddy. He ended up getting involved in the current feud and spamming social media nonstop dissing and threatening Drake.

A lot of the back and forth was both of them threatening to release dirt on each other. One strange coincidence I found was Drake recently trolled Ross about the 20 million dollar renovation to his home on Star island, where Diddy is currently residing. It’s rumored back in the day that P Diddy was caught in a room full of rich guys on ecstasy possibly at the beginning stages of a gay orgy. Drake also mentioned in the same tweets about Rick Ross that Birdman owned a house on the island and asked Rick Ross why he didn’t help him out.

Considering Ross is so sketchy and Drake claims the house isn’t that big, that’s a ridiculous amount of money. He may be covering up evidence, or creating tunnels in his house to escape if shit pops off and Drake might know what’s good. Interestingly enough Ross is very close with French Montana and also signed to Bad. He said his beef was related to something involving French, and Drake’s tweet popped up the same day the info came out concerning the Chris Alvarez stuff.

The famous line from U.O.E.N.O.

Meek Mill- “OG Maco called himself defending his friend Quentin Miller by substantiating the ghostwriting claims and agreeing with Meek. He hit up Twitter saying, "Some of us been knew. Meek just put it in the air. Sucks to have to compete with 6 n****s and get compared to”

Meek mill also had a short beef with Drake, some disses included lines referring to TI’s homie pissing on Drake at the movie theater, which is also interesting considering the current case against him. He also dropped a line saying Diddy almost got a domestic charge when he smacked Drake, which could either be saying that Drake is like a woman, or saying he was Drake’s boyfriend/sugar daddy.
( If you made it to the end comment with the number 8)
I thought it was interesting how the beef just kind of disappeared and even Meek said it didn’t seem genuine. Considering the allegations against Meek in the Diddy trial, and his rumored affair with Kim contributing to ending Kanye’s marriage, Meek Mill definitely did some dirt on him.

“Niggas frauds I told the truth, don't ask me shit
All this industry fake enemy and rap shit”

“Money make a sucker that told look trill again”

One of the many chapters in Drake's history in which he is seen paying his way out of trouble and starting beefs randomly.
“Now when that shit went down with Chris, you wrote a check”
This line is referring to Chris brown beef, another beef that was lost to time. All I can remember off the top was someone throwing a champagne bottle at the other’s entourage.

Ty Dolla $ign- Huge feature artist, close with Ye. Grew up in the industry and talks about growing up on the road and being in the studio with his dad and Rick James who was should have already been in prison for life for dragging, torturing, and S assaulting multiple women and children throughout his career and was himself a victim of the industry. May be part of Ye's motivation, considering their recent close working relationship.
The end.
Courtesy of,
The Randomest Moniker

For context, I have been a driver for 32 years, daily commutes in some jobs of 100km plus, currently and have for the last 13 years worked 50km away never experienced any nervousness and always a very confident driver.
Last year I started feeling trapped and overwhelmed when driving on the freeway, I persisted but it got t progressively worse to the point of panic attacks.
I changed my routes to avoid freeways (adding 30 minutes each day to my daily commute) and this was working fine until last week.
At a point on my commutes where there are no houses or exits I got the overwhelmed/trapped feeeling again, had to grip the steering wheel and had a panic attack, managed to pull off the road and calmed down to finish my drive. Since then I have had daily day long anxiety about driving, it’s literally all I think about. My palms sweat and I am working myself up into a panic.
I went to see my GP this morning and he gave me propanalol to help me stay calm and I have a psychotherapist appointment next month.
I have in my life driven some fairly sketchy commutes, through snow, through storms, over gale force wind affected bleak hillsides, I have fallen out of a car when I was a child, spun my car round in the snow and was in a high speed chase with a lunatic chasing me.
It’s possible that I have PTSD that’s manifesting now.
Has anyone else experienced sudden driving anxiety after so long? I don’t know what to do, I’m already panicked about my next drive and I have to drive to work.
Thanks in advance.

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I’ve been a part of the War Thunder community for quite some time, racking up over 800 hours, mastering the German and Soviet tech trees, and climbing to BR 10 in each. My garage was sick, and my skills were sharp, or so I thought.
It started with a passion, then became a hobby, and somehow turned into an obsession, a problem. Over the months, I’ve poured around $3,000 into the game, always chasing the next upgrade, the next tank, the next aircraft. But as I ascended the ranks, the gameplay began to change. The higher tiers felt less like skill and more like who had the better gear or, sadly, who could exploit the game’s mechanics the best.
Hackers became as common as clouds in an English summer. I’d find myself outmaneuvered by impossible shots through trees, combined with smoke from massive distances and scouted from minute one. I started seeing my opponents being scouted on large maps from the beginning of the round, impossible scouting mechanics. Frustration built up like pressure in a tank barrel. And what did I do? I threw more money at the game, thinking I could buy my way to invincibility.
But it didn’t help. I was still getting smoked. The final straw was when I met the dark side. In a moment of sheer frustration, I bought a monthly hack. I thought to myself, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," I thought. But that just made things worse. I wasn’t playing the game anymore; I was just part of the problem. It made the game boring and it actually made me even worse.
A week into my hacking adventure, I was permanently banned.
Sitting there, staring at the ban notice, I realized what I had become. Not a gamer enjoying a challenge, but a guy obsessed with winning at any cost (literally). That’s not who I want to be.
This ban, as harsh as it feels, is a blessing in disguise. I’m now refocused on the real world, where progress is measured not by digital tanks and planes but by personal growth and happiness. I have fallen out of Gaijins trap and it's bittersweet (No offence, Gaijin). I can now spend more time on myself, save money and do things that matter in life.
I learned a lot from War Thunder, about history, strategy, and myself. To anyone else feeling the burn of high-tier play: remember, it’s just a game. Don’t let it steer you off course in the real world.
Goodbye, War Thunder, I had a good time, with an empty account and lots of expensive digital tanks and planes that mean nothing.

ASC to all!
Please to all the folks who made a profile if possible and to prevent to many overcrowding please post your profile on the marriage megathread.
I do hope to all the ppl complaining about marriage in this sub puts their money where their mouth is and stand 10 toes down on what they mean. As I am genuinely tired of being asked about when the marriage megathread was going to come out and therefore rushed the process. I don’t wanna hear any more constant same old complains. Again I hope to see folks standing 10 toes down as you can’t complain of wanting to be married and not do anything about it.
Anywho I apologize if my post comes across as rude as it’s not my intention but I hope you understand where I’m coming from.
PS to all the ppl posting profiles, May Allah bless you with spouses who will be the coolness of your eyes Ameen. 🫶🏽

Hi there, I’ll be moving to Vancouver for a job but it’s only for a year. All of my finances are currently in the US, through Chase.
I don’t foresee myself transferring money from the US to Canada too frequently, but I have to pay $50 for outgoing wire transfers which is quite a bit.
How would you suggest I minimize the fees? I was just going to open a BMO account and eat the fees, but wondering if there’s an alternative solution. Could I open a Chase Canada bank? Would that even save me money?

Luckily I checked him out and he is not seriously injured, I isolated him for a bit to see if he needed tubbed for the bite but he seemed more anxious to just be back in the tank.
The situation is that there is one giant territorial girl in the tank (I have 6-7 in a 20gal with a ton of hides, floating and rizhomal plants, and other cover) who usually just chases the smaller puffs off away from her favorite piece of driftwood; I’ve tried partitioning the driftwood, I feed her completely separately, etc., but she would still chase constantly if anyone managed to wander into her space. Today I was watching the tank and was horrified to see her get sort of instigated by the largest of the male peas, and she reacted not by just chasing him off like she usually does, which I already dislike, but he had kept returning to her “territory” that the other peas have all decided to generally avoid (not ideal, but it’s a lot of space and just a small area of “her space” they don’t go in) by grabbing him in her mouth and DRAGGING him up to the surface until he puffed up and she let go. I immediately waited for both of them to settle and then took him out into a small hospital tub, and checked him out; it doesn’t look like she grabbed him hard enough to break flesh, it’s possible she was just pushing him and not biting him, but it was still a little distressing to see because I always knew she was quite a mean little monster, but I had only ever seen her chase for ~1-3 seconds before to get people out of her “territory”.
I’m not sure what to do now that I know she’s this aggressive. I don’t want to remove her because then she’ll be isolated, but she’s also absolutely huge (double the size of any other pea) and seems to just have this personality that doesn’t seem like it’ll be compatible with another shoal :(
Any advice? I’ve tried moving the driftwood she’s territorial over with to a far tank corner, feeding separately, partitioning the tank, adding hides, etc., but I am afraid of the others mindlessly wandering past barriers and having another incident like this. I really don’t want to remove her and return her to the LFS or anything; she’s just so big and so pissed off I don’t know how to control her. I’ve broken up her chasing juveniles by just halting her with tongs in front of her face for the juveniles to get away, but now that I know she’s willing to go farther than chasing, I’m afraid of the other’s safety. Do I wait til everyone grows up and she gets along better once everyone’s her size? Everyone’s eating well and getting bigger by the day, but she still is just a beast compared to the rest. I’ve considered she may be a mimic, but looking at photos I don’t totally think so. I think she’s just a giant, mean girl.
Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated. Thank you!

Hello internet
This is a semi-rant I just had to get out of my system, so just bare with me here
TL;DR: I believe Sega could do a lot of side games expanding the Sonic universe without making it a Sonic game
So, we all know Sonic. He's fast, he's cool, he has a chili dog addiction. His friends are... sorta just there most of the time
I've had these thoughts lately, specifically of how they could bring the Freedom Fighters to the canon, and I started to think, maybe a batch of side games starring different side characters (and with time in the oven, Jesus, no pressure), with separate stories from the blue blur himself
He could still make an appearance on these games, and even be playable, just not the main focus. Here's some things I've been thinking of:

Diamond Cutters

Starring the trio of Tangle, Whisper and Lanolin, the story revolves around a new mission they are given either by Jewel or sn anonymous contractor that would be revealed later on in the game, the levels would be divided in 5 types:
Tangle: Tangle gets fast movement, SA1 Tails' levels of acceleration, and platforming using her tail, this would be her main method of combat as well, being able to use the Homing Attack (instead of a ball, she'd kick). Her levels would be fast-paced, with the design philosophy Frontiers has.
Whisper: Slower levels, using the Wisps to solve puzzles around, and her gun as her main combat tool. The type of ammo she uses is dependant on the wisp you decide to equip in the mission, being able to change them on the fly with the D-Pad (ala DMC). She could do her levels pretty fast, although, not intended to be as fast as Tangle
Lanolin: She gets beat-em' up, with fluid combos and modifiers by changing the timing on your button presses, or press diwn a button, for example, O, O, O would be a basic combo of two punches and a kick, but O (wait), O, O moves the kick to the second input and the third one is her smacking her cowbell and creating a shockwave. The slower paced levels
Trio: Some levels have all three gathered together because story ressons, they all finished their parts of the mission and now there's only the final stretch left (of the Zone/Segment). The three would be controlled the exact same as in their solo levels, but you are able to swap between them mid-game by pressing R3. There would be some obstacles you need specific members to get by, like a cracked wall that Lanolin can break, a rail Tangle can grind, or a button that only Whisper's gun can hit.
Boss fights: A mix of all 4. If the boss is at the end of a Trio stage, it works like Solaris, where each DC has to find a way to attack it, and of course, there would be bosses for each one indivudually

Miles Prower

Starring Tails, just after Frontiers. He thinks of his promise at the end of that game, how he would be stronger and that Sonic would hardly recognize him the next time they meet again. So he gets on his own quest to be the better version of himself
A new antagonist is threatening the world, and Tails is the one that decides to go after them, with two main types of levels
Tails: Take what Frontiers did for him and flesh it out more, it was almost perfect. Give him his Sonic Battle Gun back
Chase/Sky: Stages were you fly the Tornado to either catch up to something or to go from Point A to Point B, it has an auto scroll since you are moving in a plane, but it isn't fixed. If you want to go fast, the scroll would follow you right along

Freedom Fighters

The Restoration is almost done fixing up te damage after Forces, however, there's something that concerns them: some of Eggman's old bases have been reactivated, but that's extrange, since he, alongside with Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy are off the radar. Jewel sends this team to check out what's going on. And yes, this idea happens in parallel with Frontiers
The gameplay gives you liberty to adjust your playstyle however you want. Its stages are built for stealth, but also give you the option to go ham and gets noticed. If you do a great job of passing by without triggering alarms nor robots quickly, S Rank, if you trigger them, the S rank is instead rewarded for how many guards were destroyed, how varied your combos were, and the total score. Each Freedom Fighter has a vastly different moveset
Unlike the Diamond Cutters idea, this time you choose what character to play as for each level, with some stuff only certain ones can access, just to make it have more replayability
In short, being sneaky = Metal Gear, getting noticed = Devil May Cry
Sally: Her gameplay would be the second fastest, being able to grind rails, and using energy blades from her bracelets, sorta like post-reboot Archie. She would carry along a small console, Nichole, which you could connect to some terminals to get information about the level, or shape the stage up. Sally is great at stealth as well, being a stat that decides how hard is for a guard to spot you
Antoine: The fastest character, Antoine is insecure of himself, so unlike Sally, he can't grind on rails. He carries a wispon that you can customize before each level, being able to destroy his way through enemies, he is good at platforming, which wouldn't be very prominent on this game. He is decent at stealth
Bunny: The strongest one, she is slower than Sally, and able to break down some obstacles, she can wall jump and use a sneak attack, which will one shot the objective without being detected if executed correctly. Her brute force is her biggest focus, she is bad st stealth
Rotor: He is a bit weaker than Bunny, being able to break some obstacles, but there's some he can't break but Bunny can. His main gimmick is being able to plant bombs around, and entering the same hacking sections as Sally without Nichole. He can shape up entire levels with good planting of his explosives, and his combat proficiency at just using his hands is remarkable. However, he is the worst at stealth
And yes, the same way the combos apply to Lanolin work the same with all four of these
Okay, semi-rant over. Just jad to take this thought out of my brain to be able to sleep. Bring Sally back Sega, pretty please

I’m looking for a PC multiplayer supported (PVE focus) game that has very robust loot with infinite progression (not shorter run based like roguelites). Ideally not a First Person Shooter. Loot should be similar to the Fate series/Diablo likes, where there’s a constant chasing of the next big item, and isn’t something crafted at a gui, ideally with 6+ modifiers on exceptional items. Microtransactions should be minimal. No MMOs.
Games I’ve played or looked at already:
Noita Portal Knights Trove Chronicron Gunfire Reborn Risk of Rain Far Cry Nioh Destiny 2 Minecraft Dungeons Dead Cells Hades Terraria Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning Ghost Recon Wildlands The Division 2 Bioshock Prey Warframe Ziggurat

Gameplay is too slow
Any Souls like Monster Hunter World Moonlighter Tales of Maj'Eyal

Loot is “Scavenge-y” and not rewarding enough Fallout 4 Skyrim

Closer to what I’m looking for
Titan Quest Diablo 2/3/4 Grim Dawn Path of Exile Torchlight 2/3 Last Epoch Borderlands

Those of you who have stage 2+ prolapse(s), how did you manage dating/sex with new partners? Did you tell them ahead of time, wait for them to say something, etc., and how did they react?
I (46f) separated from my husband last year after 20 years of marriage. He was my only sexual partner, and the combination of lifelong body image issues and entering midlife has me terrified about dating and having someone reject my vagina 😅, even though I know it probably bothers me way more than a SO might be about it. Please tell me it's possible to find a partner who wants someone with a body that's been "lived in"!

I am writing to You because I am not sure where or who to ask for help. I have reached out to my Congressman and have not gotten any real help. As a United States Citizen, my story starts a couple of years ago when I met my wife in the Philippines, after courting her, I got married to her. Immediately after our marriage I petitioned her so I could bring her to the US to live with me. It took 11 months exactly to get approval from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) which allowed us to move on to the second step which was applying to the State Department National Visa Center (NVC). The process to get documentarily complete (meaning all documents are accepted and the payments have been received) took us about 1 month. Then we received a message from them that we were put in queue to get an interview at the US Embassy in Manila. I have inquired 3 times during out 7.5 month wait for an interview, for status of our case and we get a canned response,
"This case is documentarily complete, which means the NVC has all the documents we requested. Your application is waiting for an interview appointment, where a consular officer will adjudicate it.
The U.S. Embassy or Consulate provides the National Visa Center (NVC) with a list of available appointment dates and times. We will schedule your case for an interview appointment when an appointment date is available. We schedule appointments on a first in, first out basis. After we schedule your appointment, we will forward your case to the U.S. Embassy or Consulate General in MANILA
We cannot predict how long it will take to schedule your appointment, but we will notify the applicant, the petitioner, and your attorney (if applicable) when an appointment is scheduled. Your case will stay at NVC until that time."
Since my divorce (married for 17 years) before my current Marriage I was diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety and therefore for a while I was able to manage until I found myself in the deep end and had to get professional help. Then things turned for the better and after being treated for depression I was able to manage again. The anxiety was not as easy to control so I was given medicine for when the episode happened. During that time, I met my current wife and as I mentioned above, we dated for some time and ended up getting married. I have visited her in Manila and her hometown twice already. In the meantime, we are leaving apart since I must be in the US as I share custody of my children here.
About a month ago, I sent an expedited request for an interview since it had already been 6 months (although the State Department’s website says they strive for scheduling appointments within 3 months). I was able to have evidence of why I needed my wife here with me and 2-3 day later I received an email from NVC that the Embassy could not expedite our appointment. So, I proceeded to contact the Embassy through their inquiries form and yesterday (about a week) they replied with a canned email not even responding to my original inquiry.
I am reaching out to You, to appeal for your Journalistic Investigative approach since it seems that our government is incapable of even answering simple questions. If there is anything You could do for me and my wife or direct me in the right direction I would really appreciate it.

A shell of himself ardently pursing his gain to the most fame. Without the production values of the original NBC stings he’s stuck with whatever he has left, taking whatever comes to him. Hes chasing it, desperately trying to stay relevant while he keeps this franchise alive. It would be easier for him to be the reporter he once was hunting down own the most dangerous predators

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.

I rented a car a few months ago, ended up getting into an accident. My insurance covered the other vehicle and I sent the rental car repair bill to the company Chase uses. That’s still an ongoing process so not sure how that’s going to turn out.
I’m in the position of needing to rent again for another trip. I’m still subconsciously scarred from two months ago but am not sure if it is worth the money, getting the rental car company’s SLP ($40 trip total) and /or their CDW ($95 trip total).
If I get the SLP, if I understand correctly, that will not void Chase’s Damage Waiver, correct? Since chase is secondary coverage and I’m assuming the SLP would act as primary? I just know my insurance rates will go up eventually and again, I’m scarred from last accident and I’d hate for it to happen again.
Is it ever worth getting the rental car companies stuff?

She is the adoptive mother of my former best friend. In spite of the fact that she is a white woman, she adopted my former best friend, who is a black girl much like myself.
I remember that in middle school, she gave off the impression to me of being fake (which doesn’t mean that I disliked her, exactly. She was just one of those people who seemed noticeably fake in regards to facial expressions, the way she spoke.) She didn’t seem like someone who had actively ill will or anything like that, though I obviously knew her only as my friend’s parent. She was the kind of parent who had her child around other people a lot/raised her child around people (my former best friend has better social skills than I do, and I do think that that is a factor.) She was not married and didn’t seem to be dating anyone, even though as I said, she looked normal for a woman in her age group.
I remember her as being what I considered to be average looking. She had a gap between her teeth, was not overweight, I seem to remember she had blonde hair when younger (it seems she’s started to grey a bit more which makes sense.) I realized recently that she is actually in her early sixties, even though I had thought she was in her fifties in middle school (well, I suppose she was, but I still didn’t expect that she is sixty-two years old. She started college in 1978, so unless she graduated early and it was never mentioned to me, it seems that she is.)
She suggested on her therapy page that she has practiced “personal therapy” to cope with anxiety from moving around frequently as a child, in addition to having had a family member who was addicted to substances in order to help themselves cope with childhood trauma. My former best friend had once implied/suggested that she herself was promiscuous in high school, which I wouldn’t have been able to guess.
I remember that she wasn’t (isn’t) well off - they had a house, which is more than my family has (my family has always lived in an apartment complex) but I remember she encouraged my former best friend to start at community college as she mentioned that they didn’t have the money.
She is now a licensed marriage and family therapist (I remember she was going back to school for her degree in psychology when I was in middle school.) She was simply a therapist around 2021-summer 2022. She has been a paralegal for most of her life.
I remember that she didn’t seem extremely sad after her mother died. I think that it was part of the reason as to why my former best friend changed so much around eighth grade, but she never looked especially depressed, even out in public (but I remember she was helping care for her mother.) Since her mother was very old, it is possible that she had simply been expecting it. However, I also understand that everyone has different ways of grieving.
I remember we were once gossiping about this INTJ girl in middle school and I mentioned the INTJ had a strong stare and the mom actually agreed with this instead of just shutting it down
I do think that something was off about her parenting at some point, even though it’s hard to pinpoint what exactly. I say this because as I mentioned, my former best friend changed a lot in 8th grade and actually became more toxic. I also remember my former best friend would let our friend group talk badly about her mother behind her mother’s back. I believe my former best friend may have undiagnosed depression (I remember in 8th grade she and this girl we hung out with mentioned that they remember being very angry at points in elementary school and throwing things - I heavily had the impression that both were struggling with depression even back then, but my former best friend never mentioned being in therapy.) And in 9th grade my former best friend’s behavior toward me was still quite toxic and unacceptable (I actually remember the mom encouraged us to hang out again, I think she noticed my former best friend’s had changed for the worst.)
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Cutting to the chase; I received nothing. I didn’t ask for anything, but I recommended that they at least post another teaser on one of their socials for the fans. Honestly, I don’t feel like they’ve been good to their fan base by leaving us in the dark. It’s been 2 years since their last Instagram post. I don’t have Twitter, but I imagine it would’ve made its way to Instagram or Reddit by now if they had shared something. I also signed up for the newsletter over a year ago, but haven’t received anything from that either.
This is a long shot, but I’m kind of curious as to what would happen if we basically overloaded their fan mailbox? If as many people as possible just asked for SOME type of update? I know that sounds desperate, but we don’t have much to lose.
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Hello, Everyone.
I’ve built out what seems to be, yet another MVP, for me and another product to others.
Anyone that spends time making a product typically ends up having grandiose ideas relevant to that product but of course you would right? Who wouldn’t? It’s likely a product of your creativity, imagination, ingenuity and/or foresight. The grandiosity of your imagination making out the product to be all that it can be in its alpha form, takes away from what the product could be now: leaving it unfinished; shelved and or ‘too great to be released in a crude state.”
We as entrepreneurs hold our original products, concepts and ideas near to our hearts. Sometime forgetting to fail fast and remain nimble.
This all leads to you (or me anyway, for that matter) being trapped in a never ending hopeless spiral of iteration — chasing perfection.
Every product that has become successful and a part of the mainstream market, started with: a prototype, then a beta, thus, finally an alpha product. They may have launched their product years ago in an alpha state and nowadays, they just iterate upon it.
You know perfection doesn’t exist, yet, you still want to present the most polished product possible to your perspective customers. After all, you do want them to purchase from you… not run for the hills.
Well, I’m asking if you gracious people would be kind enough to give me some advice about my product.
Paive
It’s an MVP. There are some articles missing and all functionality is relatively limited.
Prior to me stating what my companies goal is and what we do, could you help me identify what’s missing — based upon where we are now.
How can we improve? Design, technology, user guides, descriptive copy that educates the user on our value proposition and purpose, SEO; you name it, I’m all eyes.👀 Hoping that you can help me identify an area of improvement.
I’m being intentionally vague about what we do because I’d like to know from your perspective what you think you’re getting from us.
I’d also like to note that when you attempt sign up and you generate passkeys, Electryt key files will automatically downloaded; there’s nothing malicious inside but if you don’t intend to become a user I figured you’d like to know that.
Ask any question you can think of and I’ll do my best to answer.
Thank you everyone, in advance, for your time.

So long story short I got married at 19(m) to my wife 23(f) in 2019. We are now 24(m) and 28(f). My mother and father completely disagreed on our marriage. They Said I was not ready. My mother told me “I’ll know when it’s time for you to love her”. I paid this no attention. I was my own man. Making my own money paying my own bills. I gave them the option to either A) be on board or B) miss out and choose to not be a part of it. They chose option B. They told me it wouldn’t last 6 months. Yet here we are going on 5 years!!!
We have since had several conversations and it seemed to ease the tension between us all. We were cordial and respectful. But it has never been the same with my parents.
Here were are 5 years and 2 kids later and our relationship is still not the best. We don’t take our kids around them very often and it’s mostly at this point due to sheer lack of time(they take this very personally). We still make efforts to go and see them and call and send pictures and videos of the kids. My wife works mornings and I work nights. My parents never offer to come and see us. However they expect any spare second we have on the weekends to give to them and in my mind all I want to do is see my wife and enjoy my kids at home. I don’t see them much at all in the weekdays. This is my time with my family.
Well all of this BLEW TF UP on Mother’s Day. My dad lost his temper and screamed at my wife. Told her to “GO LIVE WITH YOUR MOTHER”(kind of a strange insult I know. I think it was his way of saying “go f*ck yourself”). He said this because unlike my also ridiculously busy and employed parents my wife’s mom is retired. And has plenty of time to come and see her grand kids during the week. So out of spite he takes a shot at my wife and her mother. Complete disrespect. And says he won’t apologize because his “feelings have been hurt” by us. I will gladly clarify that I did not let that shit slide.
We are all starting to go to counseling. Is this even worth my time? They are NOT ones to admit they have done wrong. They are the definition of “Holier than thou”.
Im honestly just at a loss for words. Im doing the best I can to be the best husband, father, son, brother and friend I can be to people but it ain’t enough for my parents. And they do not take it well AT ALL! How do you deal with this?
Ps. Their list of wrong doings towards me and wife are quite lengthy! These are just a few!