I actually got coaching from this guy... and it made my mental health even worst. His videos are flawlessly made & he articulates his info very well but tbh... he doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to manifestation & the Law.
It's a cash grab for this guy. And I am here to warn everyone of this guy & his fb group.
Like most YouTubers & these manifestation "coaches" - they prey on ppl who genuinely need advice & direction on how to manifest their SP & such.
His only advice for me was to work on my SC & just listen to SC affirmations. After a month of this... it just made me feel even worst about my SP situation. After awhile, I felt like something was off with all this.
And then I watched one of Sammy Ingram's video where she said that SC helps but it doesn't help with manifesting SP if you have poor concept about SP. You can have AMAZING SC but terrible concept about SP. It really resonated with me. I went back to robotic affirming... and within a week... I was in contact with SP after listening to Sammy's free content.
He also encourages ppl to detach from their desires when manifesting - which is so impossible to do when it comes to manifesting. I have heard ppl say detach from the outcome but not the desire - which makes more sense. All of his info was so confusing & conflicting that it was causing me more stress & confusion whenever I referred back to his content & fb group. Their fb group causes more confusion & stress than helping others when it comes to manifesting.
The tipping point for me was watching his moderators post fear mongering posts & limiting beliefs in the fb group. They will remove & block you if you disagree with any of their limiting beliefs. One of their moderators posted a fear mongering post saying that you need to visualize in 1st person & if you visualize in 3rd person, you're gonna give that manifestation away to someone else. I had challenged that limiting belief. Another member responded & said that she had successfully manifested using 3rd person visualization. I was very appreciative of her response & moved on. And then found myself completely blocked & removed from the group bc I challenged that limiting belief.
He also deletes comments if there's any criticism of any sort from his channel to ensure that nobody knows about the criticism & flaws of his teachings & fb group. Very cult-like behavior.
So stay away from this guy & his fb group.
Just follow @jendsu free advice & you will be OK! And YES, I also did get coaching from her. She's great - moderately priced & genuinely cares about you & your well-being.

(Very) Long Version:
My job was getting us dinner for overtime for a while. Coworker decides to ask me if I've ever had CFA, and I say no (I haven't because I've never been around them until recently for some reason) .
She explains part of the story I vaguely knew of and tells me lgbtq people work there and like it/eat it anyway. I said okay well, I'll think about it. I've been fed misinformation by said person before so I decide to look up the full story for myself and am, as to be expected, disturbed.
Next time we get dinner, she recommends chick fil a. I decide fuck it, it's free food. I order myself a chicken sandwich and hope it'll be good. By the time we're done working, I feel nauseous, on top of having little appetite from my medication.
When I come out, she personally hands me my bag, but I say it's okay you guys can have ny sandwich. On my way out I heard someone quietly say "just take it home..." Turns out to have been someone next to me who rocks pride regalia and had their own bag.
Fast forward 2 weeks during more overtime, coworker asks me AGAIN about chick fil a, but this time asks me why I didn't take my bag. I explain to her that I've told her be that my medication messes with my appetite. When I tell her she cuts me off and says out loud for the office to hear "X doesn't care what we eat by the way. What's everyone's favorite chicken sandwich?"
Very specific question, but everyone except a few people shouts CFA.
For at least 2 weeks after this , the coworker with the pride regalia brings up CFA. They keep talking about how good it is, which makes me slightly nauseous because I have no appetite and so the details do not sound appetizing but it feels weirdly pointed because this has only happened once ever in my time at this company so far.
One day I bring in a Subways cup from the gas station i got breakfast from, and they start talking about Subways and Jared, and how they haven't eaten there since that happened.
This is only like 1/10 of I THINK might be harassment from said individual(s), but also I don't want to play the victim.
Am I crazy and imagining this string of events as being connected (should I have eaten the CFA despite feeling off), or was it ok to refuse it?
The part about all this that bothers me is that it's not like I go around asking strangers if they eat CFA before I befriend them, and it doesn't bother me if someone does/has. I don't think there's much ethical consumption under capitalism if there is at all, so why assume this about me and spend so much time making sure I feel bad about it??? I wish someone would just ask me what I think of it already so I could speak my piece but I've been given 0 opportunity to do so
TLDR: Coworker seems to be upset I didn't eat chick fil a for reasons she won't accept and might be lashing out

Odd question, but I feel the need to ask it. My attorney strongly believes in my SSDI case, I have a ton of doctors that back it up with very detailed paperwork, test results, scans, etc. It's enough to the point where I had an injury at work and can't do any of my previous jobs before. I had ongoing work restrictions from a spine doc before. I also have postural limitations and a bunch of conditions going on at once to where basically Sedentary work isn't possible due to the unpredictable nature of the conditions, days I'd miss from work, down time where I'd need breaks throughout the day, etc. So we are very confident and I have a top attorney known for being among the best.
I'm not going to post the exact number for obvious reasons, but let's say that I generally have $50K+ of expected back pay stretching back a few years. My parent has been very helpful for a lot of things, i.e. a place to live, buying stuff for me, helping me with bills in the meantime, etc. My plan is to give that back, but in the most helpful form of giving her the money to pay off her two credit cards. Doing that frees up hundreds of dollars of her own money in credit card payments each month that wouldn't be there. I'd estimate there's probably $8K or so among the two of her cards. From an SSA perspective, will they say something if I do a bank transfer from my bank account to hers? Obviously, her name will show up and is my same last name. Is there any hassle that I should expect from the SSA as far as doing that? Or is it better just to take out cash myself and give it to her to deposit into her account?
She's working part-time and gets widows benefits from her husband that passed decades ago. So technically she can keep drawing his until her full retirement age from what I understand. Will giving cash to her affect her benefits for that month? My understanding is that work-wise she can't make more than like $1,700 a month. Does money deposited into her account from a transfer or via cash cause her to exceed that amount? She gets something like $1,100 or $1,200 a month in widow's benefits. She's 66 and I think her full retirement age might be in x months at like the 66 and 7 or 8 months mark. I don't remember for sure. She was born in '58.
Alternatively, should I just call up her credit card company and ask to pay her balance on each card via my debit card, essentially? Is that a better way? I don't feel that the SSA takes into account the people that help us while we're struggling along in the waiting process and I feel for some reason that they might be a jerk about account transfers because they want us to "use the money for ourselves". She has outed a lot of money for me for doc visits and lots of stuff. It's fair and I have no issue with repaying and helping her in return. Suggestions? My case is such to where we have a general idea of what's wrong with me. Once we do x procedure in the future (can't afford it presently until disability approval) and see if that works (if not, x other procedure(s) will be performed until it does help), I might be be able to eventually goal back to work. Which is of course the goal, I've been out for a few years now. So in that sense, I won't be using all of that back pay money to "live on" in the sense of someone who is say...permanently disabled and can't go back to work period. Granted, the procedures are quite expensive, but I'll also instantly qualify for Medicare upon Disability approval. So there is an end game and I'm not looking for just blow all money, but this particular thing is necessary to give back to the one who helped me. I don't want to screw myself or her over with the SSA.
Suggestions on how to do this the 'right' way?

I may sound very hypocrite here but here’s the story:
Obviously not a fan of infidelity like many of us but recently I got into a situation with my friend (F) who was already in a 2.5 years of LDR. She just got married to her so called soulmate as everyone would say till the point where things started between me and her.
So, 2.5 years of LDR, everything set up for marriage, families are involved, getting married to very good guy who’s from a very very good family yet she chose to get involved with me in last 3-4 months.
With time I found out, in these 2.5 years of her being in LDR I wasn’t the only one. There was another person she was hooking up with which doesn’t bother me.
Now, she is married and obviously she won’t tell the guy because that’ll shatter him. For me, things just happened, we both weren’t intoxicated or something, we both knew what we were doing but now that she got married and away I started retrospecting about all of it.
She was very cold about all of it. There was never any guilt or remorse. I always wanted to have the conversation with her that what we have done is wrong but she never gave an inch. Maybe because she didn’t want to feel the guilt. But again, how do you put with your partner knowing what you have done to him ? At this point, from a man’s POV I feel bad for the guy that he’ll never know her true self. For me, I’ll always have this guilt of doing something wrong. For her, she chose to keep her happiness over honesty because if the guy finds out through her ,the dynamics of her and him will change forever.
So, she got what she wanted from me, is getting what she wants from her husband. I don’t know what I am looking here but I am just pissed at this point. I just don’t know why.
From where I come from, we do believe in karma. Is that thing even real ? The best thing would be that her husband never finds out because he knows me. And he had no fault in this but this will leave her unpunished. But again, millions of people cheat, right ?
I am not getting involved with them in anyway about this. Just trying to stay away from their life but even when we were involved she wanted me to attend her marriage to which i refused. There are things which I can’t even process. I am just blown at this point.
I know the guy will never find out. I don’t want him to find out but I again how can she be happy, guilt free and shamelessly putting up after having such a double life with double face.
There should be some justice, right ?

Here are some of the things I did that allowed me to survive in Ashlands for as long as I did. Thought these would be helpful to solo players taking on the most dangerous biome yet. Feel free to correct me if I got anything wrong somewhere or add on if I left out anything important. Let's help our fellow Vikings!

1. On your way to Ashlands for the first time, find time to lay down a few workbenches on the spires. This serves three purposes: to do a quick hull repair, to suppress spawn for whenever you need to fallback from the not-so-friendly serpents or voltures, and also to allow you to build portals; the last one would be the strongest reason why you need workbenches. With portals,
2. In case you die (which, you will), you can TP the mats for building another ship and resume your journey there. The no-skill-drain and corpse-run buffs are worth way more than travelling from your original departing location.
3. You can sneak back to your cozy home and get that rested buff, do some quick inventory management, or replenish your food supplies, or skip the night - you can do whatever you want to get your mental state recharged and character fully set for the next part of the journey, especially before you make landfall.
   
4. Voltures are practically blind, or rather short-sighted. There is absolutely no need to snipe them from afar when you see them, especially when you are still in the waters. Remember, the longer you stay in Ashlands waters, the more dangerous it gets. When one of those birds DOES approach, stop the ship. Build a workbench if you can. Then you have two options:
   
5. Pull out your Frost Staff. Wait till it comes near and start blasting it with ice. Personally, I'd go for the 2nd option, and it's what I did:
   
6. Unsheathe your Silver Sword. Once the bird flies into your face, give it a few swats and watch the spirit damage do wonders. This option is quick and effective, with the only drawback that your ship may suffer from collateral damages. That's where workbenches help. After all, I see no issue whatsoever in finding a spire nearby to build one on. You'll see why when you get there.
   
7. Bonemaw is relatively easy to deal with with a Frost Staff-Arbalest combination: Frost Staff for when it is writhing around your ship in between chomps and spits, and Arbalest for when it raises its head out of the water. Your ship will definitely take damage from the serpent, so be sure to lay down a workbench nearby as soon as you are able.
   
8. Upon your first sighting of the beachhead, put your ship to a halt near one of the spires, lay down a workbench, set up a portal and get the fuck home. Get sleep, no matter what. Do whatever you want before 12pm and get to bed once your shadow points North. Then once you wake up, you can go to battle with maximum daylight ahead of you. You don't wanna know what happens in Ashlands at nightfall.
   
9. Once you get back to your ship, head straight to land. Expect a welcoming party. Don't waste time pulling up nicely. Just barge your way in, jump off the rudder, take out your hammer and slam down a workbench nearby (if you can). If the latter part doesn't work, clear out most of the mobs with a Frost Staff-Silver Sword combo, then lay down the workbench, and then finally a portal.
   
10. Now you have officially dipped your toe in Ashlands. The next part is gonna be a repetitive yet exciting cycle of exploring outward, workbench slamming, gathering, falling back to nearest portal, exploring further outward, workbench slamming... you get the drill. Don't forget to destroy spawners whenever you see them. Once you find yourself somewhat close to a fortress and Flametal ore(s), build a base there. Why? Well, these are the two things that will surely scale up your readiness and durability in the largely hostile biome. You'll be able to take on small groups of mobs.
    
11. For the next part, it really is up to you. You'll have a more varied playstyle once you get your hands on gems and new magic weapons.
    

It will be a long and arduous process going solo in Ashlands, but the rewarding feeling you get once you realize you are now able to kick ass with the new Ashlands gear is like a cold dessert on a hot summer day.
Several key points here: 1. Workbenches help 2. Silver sword helps. 3. Frost staff works.
Additionally, Spinesnap is the next best thing for ranged attacks while progressing from Mistlands to Ashlands.
Good luck!

Went on a first date with a girl who I met through a family friend. I thought it went well. We ended up spending the whole day together and never ran out of things to talk about. Later she texted me to ask if I'd be free to hang out the following weekend, and I said yes. We never finalized a plan. Several days later, she told me: "I thought about it, and I'm not sure I am ready to have a relationship with you, but if you want to meet up again, I would be totally down". We had a FaceTime and it turns out that her main concern was that we live 3 hours apart (Portland/Seattle). So her concern is: if we got serious, how would the relationship even work when we live in different cities? Honestly I never even thought that would be an issue, because I travel to her city often to visit my family, and I told her this. She thanked me for sharing my thoughts, and she offered to meet up this weekend, but I don't know if it's worth it at this point. On one hand, she never said "a relationship is out of the question" or "let's just be friends". But also, I don't want to delude myself into thinking there is hope for a relationship. I'm just not sure what to think.

(Wrote this a couple days ago)
As a viewer from the beginning - yesterday's stream both from Philza and BadBoyHalo were heartbreaking. I thought things were getting better - but from these admins leaving - I get the feeling it's not the case. So I wanted to write a goodbye letter.
QSMP was incredible. I've never been one to be active in any community - Minecraft or otherwise. I've always found gaming content a bit boring - or if it is interesting it's short lived. So the QSMP was an incredible experience as it was the first time I found myself actively enjoying streams. I started by watching Slimecicle - then once Juanaflippa died and he quit streaming, I switched to Philza, and at the time Wilbur. I remember the project being announced and it was such an exciting idea. A couple weeks earlier I downloaded Duolingo as I was incredibly bored and I never played the games I had downloaded on my phone nor did I enjoy spending a ton of time on social media. So, I decided to spend the time of boredom by learning a new language. Even though all odds where stacked to me learning Spanish - I decided to learn French. It was random - but I felt it had enough resources that were easy to find if I wanted to seriously study it. While I live in an area where Spanish surrounds me on a daily basis (Spanish speakers, Spanish music, and even radio stations at times are in Spanish) - I wanted to distance myself from my norms. The whole point of learning a language for me was to push myself. And Spanish didn't feel like that - for some reason. So, I was at the very VERY basic level of French when the French streamers where announced. I found myself enjoying their content (Even at my very low level of understanding - thanks to the translators that had REALLY bad translations - but it was entertaining for sure!). The QSMP opened the doors so I could find streamers and communities that spoke the language I was learning. It was because of this I decided to take learning French as a serious study and dedicated at least 3 hours a day for a month or so - even going as far as waking up at 5 in the morning if I needed or wanted to. At about this time I started watching BadBoyHalo as well. I've watched him a few times before - but I started to watch him regularly and enjoy his streams. I think the biggest thing that the QSMP did for me (this might sound parasocial - but it's not) was it shared a different view. I was raised around people who were quite judgemental and harsh - and I never really enjoyed it but I didn't know differently. It was through the QSMP where I watched Tallulah and Pomme - where I realized how to change. It shared how I didn't have to judge others and criticize others. And it changed my life. And that's why yesterday's stream when Lullah announced she would be leaving - was incredibly hard.
The QSMP has changed a lot for me. It's changed things I can't put into words, and I'll always be beyond grateful for that. It was heartbreaking to hear when Pomme, Dapper, and other admins left due to their work conditions - and I support and supported them. However, I had hoped things had changed - as eggs like Lullah logged on more frequently. I never watched Quackity much - but I had hope that he'd do what was right - and he might have. That's not fair from my judgement to speak of. However, this chapter has ended. I can't imagine the server without the work of those admins - from the smallest of details to the largest of artworks - we all knew an admin spent hours on their craft to share it with the world. And without those admins and knowing how they're being treated - I'm stepping away. I can't express how grateful I am for the project. I definitely would be a completely different person and I wouldn't have gone as far as I have in French if it hadn't have been for it. I hope things continue to go well. I really do hope the best for everyone.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1959/09/nationalism.htm

At the base of the current national aspirations and imperialist rivalries lies the actual need for world-wide organization of production and distribution beneficial to humanity as a whole. First, as the geologist K. F. Mather has pointed out, because “the earth is far better adapted for occupation by men organized on a world-wide scale, with maximum opportunity for free exchange of raw materials and finished products the world around, than by men who insist upon building barriers between regions even so inclusive as a large nation or an entire continent.” Second, because social production can be fully developed and can free human society from want and misery only by international cooperation without regard to particularistic national interests. The compelling interdependency implied in further progressive industrial development if not accepted and utilized for Human ends, asserts itself as a never-ending struggle between nations and for imperialist control.
The inability to achieve on an international scale what has been achieved, or is in the process of being achieved, on the national level-partial or complete elimination of capital competition-permits the continuation of class antagonisms in all countries despite the elimination or restriction of private capital formation. To state it the other way around: because nationalization of capital leaves class relations intact, there is no way of escaping competition on the international scene. Just as control over the means of production assures the maintenance of class divisions, so does control over the national state, which includes control over its means of production. The defense of the nation and its growing strength becomes the defense and reproduction of new ruling groups. The “love for the socialist fatherland” in Communist countries, the desire for a “stake in the country,” as exemplified in the existence of “socialist” governments in welfare-economies, as well as national self-determination in hitherto dominated countries, signifies the existence and rise of new ruling classes bound to the existence of the national state.
WHILE a positive attitude toward nationalism betrays a lack of interest in socialism, the socialist position on nationalism is obviously ineffective in countries fighting for national existence as well as in those countries oppressing other nations. If only by default, a consistent anti-nationalist position seems to support imperialism. However, imperialism functions for reasons of its own, quite independently of socialist attitudes toward nationalism. Furthermore, socialists are not required for the launching of struggles for national autonomy as the various “liberation” movements in the wake of the second World War have shown. Contrary to earlier expectations, nationalism could not be utilized to further socialist aims, nor was it a successful strategy to hasten the demise of capitalism. On the contrary, nationalism destroyed socialism by using it for nationalist ends.
It is not the function of socialism to support nationalism, even though the latter battles imperialism. But to fight imperialism without simultaneously discouraging nationalism means to fight some imperialists and to support others, for nationalism is necessarily imperialist – or illusory. To support Arab nationalism is to oppose Jewish nationalism, and to support the latter is to fight the former, for it is not possible to support nationalism without also supporting national rivalries, imperialism, and war. To be a good Indian nationalist is to combat Pakistan; to be a true Pakistani is to despise India. Both these newly “liberated” nations are readying themselves to fight over disputed territory and subject their development to the double distortion of capitalist war economies.
And so it goes on: the “liberation” of Cyprus from British rule only tends to open a new struggle for Cyprus between Greeks and Turks and does not lift Western control from either Turkey or Greece. Poland’s “liberation” from Russian rule may well spell war with Germany for the “liberation” of German provinces now ruled by Poland and this, again, to new Polish struggles for the “liberation” of territory lost to Germany. Real national independence of Czechoslovakia would, no doubt, reopen the fight for the Sudetenland and this, in turn, the struggle for Czechoslovakia’s independence and perhaps for that of the Slovaks from the Czechs. With whom to side? With the Algerians against the French? With the Jews? With the Arabs? With both? Where shall the Jews go to make room for the Arabs? What shall the Arab refugees do to cease being a “nuisance” to the Jews? What to do with a million French “colons” who face, when Algerian liberation is accomplished, expropriation and expulsion? Such questions can be raised with reference to every part of the world, and will generally be answered by Jews siding with Jews, Arabs with Arabs, Algerians with Algerians, French with French, Poles with Poles and so forth-and thus they will remain unanswered and unanswerable. However Utopian the quest for international solidarity may appear in this melee of national and imperialist antagonisms, no other road seems open to escape fratricidal struggles and to attain a rational world society.
ALTHOUGH socialists sympathies are with the oppressed, they relate not to emerging nationalism but to the particular plight of twice-oppressed people who face both a native and foreign ruling class. Their national aspirations are in part “socialist” aspirations, as they include the illusory hope of impoverished populations that they can improve their conditions through national independence. Yet national self-determination has not emancipated the laboring classes in the advanced nations. It will not do so now in Asia and Africa. National revolutions, as in Algeria for instance, promise little for the lower classes save indulging on more equal terms in national prejudices. No doubt, this means something to the Algerians, who have suffered from a particularly arrogant colonial system. But the possible results of Algerian independence are deducible from those in Tunisia and Morocco, where existing social relations have not been changed and the conditions of the exploited classes have not improved to any significant extent.
Unless socialism is altogether a mirage, it will rise again as an international movement-or not at all. In any case, and on the basis of past experience, those interested in the rebirth of socialism must stress its internationalism most of all. While it is impossible for a socialist to become a nationalist, he is nevertheless an anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist. However, his fight against colonialism does not imply adherence to the principle of national self-determination, but expresses his desire for a non-exploitative, international socialist society. While socialists cannot identify themselves with national struggles, they can as socialists oppose both nationalism and imperialism. For example, it is not the function of French socialists to fight for Algerian independence but to turn France into a socialist society. And though struggles to this end would undoubtedly aid the liberation movement in Algeria and elsewhere, this would be a by-product of and not the reason for the socialist fight against nationalist imperialism. At the next stage, Algeria would have to be “de-nationalized” and integrated into an international socialist world.

Not sure if this can even be termed as Islamaphobia but I wanted to share this..
Alhamdulillah I live in the US, in a city that has a LOT of Muslims! The city I live in is very known to have the a lot of Muslims in the US.. anyways, we live in a court/cul-de-sac, and at least 60% of my neighborhood is Muslim. There are many nice non-Muslims too. Anyways, the other day at night around 10 pm, we could hear loud screaming outside. It was so loud that im sure it disturbed all the neighbors. From our bedroom window, we have a perfect view of the entire neighborhood court and can also hear everything. One of our neighbors, a white non-Muslim lady most likely in her 30s or 40s was walking around looking very obviously drunk. She was screaming slurs about Muslims and cursing all Muslims out. Saying the B word, F word, calling Muslims c**ts, and "Go back to your country" and so many more terrible things which I cannot even remember anymore. No one was outside except her but im sure all the neighbors could hear bc she was so loud. It was terrifying. The lady knows this neighborhood is mostly Muslim. All the while she was speaking, she was also randomly pointing at houses as well cursing us out.
Anyways, Isha is very late at the masjid now and my dad usually comes home late after mingling with masjid friends, so during all of this, we see my dad's car pull up into the court slowly. The lady approaches my dad's car and goes to his window. My dad is the type of person who is not good at reading the room, so I immediately called him to tell him to not say anything to the lady and be careful, but his phone was at home, not with him. Afterwards, my dad came home, and we told him that he shouldn't have said anything to her. All of us neighbors pretty much know eachother and we know she lives with her dad. My dad said something like "Go home and be good to your dad." Like I said, my dad is not the best at reading the room or knowing what to say when. Because why would he mention her dad so randomly? Also, our garage was like open about 2 feet up, bc my uncle and dad were finishing up fixing our car. All the other neighbors garages were closed. This is relevant bc this most likely made her think our family or my dad called the police on her. We did not.
Anyways, this lady's screaming kept going for a while, and she finally went back inside the house. Then, we see 3 cop cars pull into our neighborhood and 5 policemen go to her house. One of our neighbors called the police most likely. Or her father called the police. Apparently she and her father fight a lot, so this isn't the first time the police have come. Anyways, they obviously don't arrest her or anything, and about 20 mins later, the police leave.
Now, 2 days later, tonight at around 9:45 pm, we get a ring at our doorbell. When we open the door, it's that lady. Me and my mom both open the door. The lady says, "are there any men here?". My dad was at the masjid, and there were no men in the house. Only my mom, sis, and grandma. So I said, "No." Before I tell you the rest of the conversation, keep in mind, the entire time she talked to us she was cursing, constantly using the F word and just talking plain old rude. My mom later told me she was drunk again. The lady said, "Are you sure there's no man?" I said "No not now." She continues, "because the other day I was walking around the neighborhood and there was this man..", she also said something like, "because if I find out that you're lying then.."! At that, I clarified, "there's no man here right now, but yes, a man, my father also does live here." She accusedly points at me and yells, "So you WERE LYING?!" I said, "No, you asked if a man is here, not if a man LIVES here. That's why we said no at first." She says rudely, "Honey, no, what you're doing is putting words in my mouth!" She said some other things but it's all blurred bc it was so sudden and scary, and she's taller than me (im 5 ft!), clearly drunk, and starts pointing at me and getting wayyy too scarily close to me. According to my mom, she looked like she was ready to throw hands. At this, my mom quickly closes the door because we felt threatened. And the lady cursed again and went back home. The conversation was clearly not gonna go anywhere. I got upset that my mom closed the door though bc I said we could've finished the conversation off by just apologizing and that we will make sure my dad doesn't get into her business again. But before I got a chance to, my mom got too scared and closed the door.
All in all, I feel really scared. After that, we were all shaking. I felt like crying. I feel frustrated because we could've easily had a conversation that ended all this tension by simply us apologizing by "going in her business", but now the situation is worse instead because she most likely thinks we called the cops on her. She also thinks we're liars bc we "lied" about a man not being there. She hates Muslims, and this made her hate us more. My dad should NOT have talked to her that night and should've minded his own business. She seemed most upset at that. Which i understand. Everyone should just mind theirbown business, and my dad thought he was being helpful or something, but that obviosuly triggered her since her realtionship with her dad isnt good. At one point she said something like, "and don't even get me started on your religion, because I have so much to say about that."
Anyways, I can't believe such people exist who have this deep of a hate for Muslims. I don't know what to do about this situation..

Not sure if this can even be termed as Islamaphobia but I wanted to share this..
Alhamdulillah I live in the US, in a city that has a LOT of Muslims! The city I live in is very known to have the a lot of Muslims in the US.. anyways, we live in a court/cul-de-sac, and at least 60% of my neighborhood is Muslim. There are many nice non-Muslims too. Anyways, the other day at night around 10 pm, we could hear loud screaming outside. It was so loud that im sure it disturbed all the neighbors. From our bedroom window, we have a perfect view of the entire neighborhood court and can also hear everything. One of our neighbors, a white non-Muslim lady most likely in her 30s or 40s was walking around looking very obviously drunk. She was screaming slurs about Muslims and cursing all Muslims out. Saying the B word, F word, calling Muslims c**ts, and "Go back to your country" and so many more terrible things which I cannot even remember anymore. No one was outside except her but im sure all the neighbors could hear bc she was so loud. It was terrifying. The lady knows this neighborhood is mostly Muslim. All the while she was speaking, she was also randomly pointing at houses as well cursing us out.
Anyways, Isha is very late at the masjid now and my dad usually comes home late after mingling with masjid friends, so during all of this, we see my dad's car pull up into the court slowly. The lady approaches my dad's car and goes to his window. My dad is the type of person who is not good at reading the room, so I immediately called him to tell him to not say anything to the lady and be careful, but his phone was at home, not with him. Afterwards, my dad came home, and we told him that he shouldn't have said anything to her. All of us neighbors pretty much know eachother and we know she lives with her dad. My dad said something like "Go home and be good to your dad." Like I said, my dad is not the best at reading the room or knowing what to say when. Because why would he mention her dad so randomly? Also, our garage was like open about 2 feet up, bc my uncle and dad were finishing up fixing our car. All the other neighbors garages were closed. This is relevant bc this most likely made her think our family or my dad called the police on her. We did not.
Anyways, this lady's screaming kept going for a while, and she finally went back inside the house. Then, we see 3 cop cars pull into our neighborhood and 5 policemen go to her house. One of our neighbors called the police most likely. Or her father called the police. Apparently she and her father fight a lot, so this isn't the first time the police have come. Anyways, they obviously don't arrest her or anything, and about 20 mins later, the police leave.
Now, 2 days later, tonight at around 9:45 pm, we get a ring at our doorbell. When we open the door, it's that lady. Me and my mom both open the door. The lady says, "are there any men here?". My dad was at the masjid, and there were no men in the house. Only my mom, sis, and grandma. So I said, "No." Before I tell you the rest of the conversation, keep in mind, the entire time she talked to us she was cursing, constantly using the F word and just talking plain old rude. My mom later told me she was drunk again. The lady said, "Are you sure there's no man?" I said "No not now." She continues, "because the other day I was walking around the neighborhood and there was this man..", she also said something like, "because if I find out that you're lying then.."! At that, I clarified, "there's no man here right now, but yes, a man, my father also does live here." She accusedly points at me and yells, "So you WERE LYING?!" I said, "No, you asked if a man is here, not if a man LIVES here. That's why we said no at first." She says rudely, "Honey, no, what you're doing is putting words in my mouth!" She said some other things but it's all blurred bc it was so sudden and scary, and she's taller than me (im 5 ft!), clearly drunk, and starts pointing at me and getting wayyy too scarily close to me. According to my mom, she looked like she was ready to throw hands. At this, my mom quickly closes the door because we felt threatened. And the lady cursed again and went back home. The conversation was clearly not gonna go anywhere. I got upset that my mom closed the door though bc I said we could've finished the conversation off by just apologizing and that we will make sure my dad doesn't get into her business again. But before I got a chance to, my mom got too scared and closed the door.
All in all, I feel really scared. After that, we were all shaking. I felt like crying. I feel frustrated because we could've easily had a conversation that ended all this tension by simply us apologizing by "going in her business", but now the situation is worse instead because she most likely thinks we called the cops on her. She also thinks we're liars bc we "lied" about a man not being there. She hates Muslims, and this made her hate us more. My dad should NOT have talked to her that night and should've minded his own business. She seemed most upset at that. Which i understand. Everyone should just mind theirbown business, and my dad thought he was being helpful or something, but that obviosuly triggered her since her realtionship with her dad isnt good. At one point she said something like, "and don't even get me started on your religion, because I have so much to say about that."
Anyways, I can't believe such people exist who have this deep of a hate for Muslims. I don't know what to do about this situation..

Hi, I am not sure how to properly post stuff here. So please feel free to tell me to make adjustments. Reposting it since previous post told me to add something at the later part of the post.
I'll cut it short.
Mali ba na masaktan ako at magselos ako sa isang artista?
My girlfriend and I went to a local event in my GF's hometown. The town Mayor paid celebrities to come into town and do some performances, that type of stuff.
One of the male celebrities, for his performance, asked girls to be on stage and perform with him. He saw my girlfriend and he grabbed her to come with him to stage.
Instinctively, I tried to stop it, but seeing my girlfriend very eager and happy to join, I decided to let it be and she went up on the stage with the guy celeb.
At the start, they were just asking simple questions to lighten up the mood etc. But things started to get uncomfortable for me yung sa dance part na. It was sexual, or at least it looked liked and felt like that to me.
They were intimately looking at each other, the guy was hugging her from the back, with his face on her neck while they were dancing, and then the guy made her turn around and carried her (like dawn zulueta type of thing), while touching her legs, and to top it all off, after the dance was over, the guy gestured to take off his jacket and belt to indicate na he was horny "in a fun and laughable way". Overall, I was very uncomfortable, parang natulala nalang ako at nanginig sa galit, and the cheers from the audience made me dizzy. They were having fun, they were all entertained, kinilig silang lahat. Except for me, I was there, on the point of breaking down. And the worst part of it all? All those intimate and sexual stuff they did, my girlfriend looked very happy and comfortable doing it.
So she went back to our seat, and then her and her girl friends were shrieking na para bang kinikilig silang lahat. She was very happy and proud of what she did. She tried to talk to me and my friends teased us na "lagot ka pag-uwi", I just smiled and went to my phone, preventing tears from dropping.
Fast forward, the event ended and we got home. I confronted her about it, we had an argument and I told her about how disrespected and uncomfortable I felt. She got mad and told me na all of it was just for fun, for entertainment purposes lang daw. Sabi pa niya "ano gusto mo gawin ko? bumababa sa stage at maging KJ?" She told me na I was being OA kasi nga bakit ko daw pagseselosan ang artista na "hindi naman kami magkakatuluyan nun". I was mad, but I was not vocal enough about it kase I was so drained. Ang sakit lang, kasi she was very proud of what she did, she posted it on her facebook semi bragging about it, and the way she responded to the comments and replies felt like it was one of her greatest achievements in life.
Nakikitulog kami sa parents niya that time, but I decided to leave her that night, I just waited for her to fall asleep and I got out of bed and drove 4 hours back into my hometown. I left a message for her and decided to block her right after.
I felt so lost, and what's worse is that, all of her friends, in which na kasama namin sa event messaged me days after that I am being silly and being unreasonable, and even her family is justifying her actions saying na it's not a valid reason for a break-up.
Side note, I am paying for all their bills sa family nila, (internet, water, house, groceries and even medication maintenance) , siguro that's part of the reason why they are telling me to stick with her through the end and pagusapan muna ang lahat, it may seem unrelated to the topic on hand pero di lang kasi mawala sa isip ko na out of all the things I am doing for them, I don't event get a single ounce of respect.
Sorry guys, ako ba talaga ang mali?
Ako ba yung gago for ending things with her right away? Unreasonable ba talaga na nagselos ako sa artista?

May store kami sa shopee that offered free shipping during a campaign, and sobrang mura nung benta namin parang tig 5 lang. Tulong kasi namin yon sa kandidato na sinusuportahan namin last election. So dahil nga free shipping, nag negative yung balance nung seller account.(Totally my fault, di ko na anticipate yung influx ng bibili)
Logically, inisip ko noon na okay sige negative today, bayaran ko kaagad to, magsesend ako ng pera sa shopee pay account ko. Lo and behold kinabukasan pagka bukas ko ng app, banned na yung buong account.
Lahat ng devices ko, iPad, PC, Laptop, Phones na naka login si Shopee naka hardware ban. Meaning, kahit ibang account i login ko, may ban message na lumalabas.
As a person na nagtatrabaho sa customer service and tech support, syempre ni document ko talaga lahat ng error messages, ban message and communication sa Shopee support.
Pano ko ngayon ifu fulfill yung mga orders ko? Pano ko ngayon mababayaran yung negative balance (450+ yata) Pano ko ngayon babayaran SPAYLATER ko?
So I reached out to shopee. Sa hotline, email and in app chat nakigamit ako sa account ng partner ko. Lahat sila may scripted ban messaging lang or sinasabi mag reach out ako using the account of concern. Eh banned nga??? This went on and on for more than 2 months. Tawag rin sila ng tawag, pero pag sinasabi kong naka ban yung account di ako makabayad, wala silang resolution na mai provide. Puro we will reach out soon lang sinasabi. Hinihingian ko sila ng account number to send the payment, pero walang maibigay. In-app daw dapat gawin.
Sa sobrang bwisit namin, nag stop na kami gumamit ng Shopee non. Consequently, damay rin yung side hustle namin. Pero hindi pa tapos. A few weeks after, may biglang kumatok sa bahay namin. 5 people who are looking for me. Mga representatives pala ng isang credit/lending corp na balak ako singilin personally.
So syempre ako naman wala akong takot dahil I exhausted all means on my end to resolve the issue. I talked to their main goon and told him na hindi po ako maka login, tapos etong si koya mo, napaka passive aggressive, pinagbibintangan ako na ino off ko raw yung wifi namin kaya di maka login. At that point, nag iinit na ulo ko dahil sobrang hassle nung ginagawa nila, and they are accusing me of that. Habang chinecheck pala namin yung devices ko, nagpi picture sila without my permission sa harap ng bahay. But at the end of the day, hindi rin nila nakuha pakay nila dahil nag try ako mag login sa cellphone mismo nya para manahimik na sya, and may ban messaging pa rin.
Ayun lang, I'll never ever give a dime to Shopee ever again.
ps. sa pumunta sa bahay namin na pinagbibintangan ako na pinapatay yung wifi pag naglo login sa app, napaka bobo mo po. Di ko alam bakit di mo ma recognize yung wifi icon sa ipad kahit universally recognizable naman yon 🥴

Hello fireemblem! I've seen recently that my course, 98-076 Fire Emblem Design and Analysis, has been the subject of much discussion on both here and twitter.
For some explanation, my university (Carnegie Mellon University) lets students create small student-taught seminars (called StuCos). These are generally taken purely for fun, and usually don't cost anything - if you're a full-time student you don't pay extra for additional units. They also are graded purely on a pass/no pass basis, and generally are pretty chill with grading (no, you do not have to beat Thracia 12x warpless to pass the Fire Emblem course). They count as elective gen-ed credit, but usually people don't take StuCos because of the credits, since you get more than enough credits from a normal CMU courseload anyway. For this reason stucos have many varied topics - ranging from Fire Emblem to Genshin to Competitive Pokemon to Type Theory to Esoteric Programming Languages to Polytopes to UI//UX Design.
The idea behind the course is to look at FE from both a game design perspective, and from the perspective of the player (hence design and analysis). In a nutshell, the first half of the course is focused on gameplay, while the second half is focused on story. That said my course schedule is definitely subject to change especially if the Joe Zieja guest lecture happens.
To answer some other questions that have popped up on Reddit and Twitter:

• The Nino grading scale is inclusive of base stats, and does not include CON or MOV. I've since updated the syllabus to specify that Nino gets the Afa's Drops, and that there are a total of 15 levels (13, not including extratation attendance).
  
• "Optimal" play is admittedly a poor name. The point of that specific lecture will be moreso about analyzing which units are "good" or "bad" through the lens of "efficient" play. However, I intend to both open Week 1 and that week by pointing out that the real optimal way to play the single-player game is to play the way you enjoy (even if that's FE11 0-turn maximum death). Basically, efficient way provides an interesting lens to view FE because it provides us something relatively concrete to optimize towards, but it should not be the end-all-be-all.
  
• Merlinus-maxxing is basically the week where I throw in everything beyond unit and chapter design - weapon design/balance, skills, etc. It's called Merlinus-maxxing because this includes managing funds, and also because it's funny.
  
• I am pretty sure there will be Three Houses discourse on the discussion boards at some point. I don't know if I'm prepared for that point.
  
• I am absolutely covering Void's Blitzarre Adventure in the ROMhacking week.
  

Other than that, feel free to AMA!

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.
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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.
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My GF has several allergies; one rather unique allergy is to marijuana. This is not a minor allergy, this triggers full on anaphylaxis, meaning the closing of her airway.
We live in a state where marijuana is illegal. Furthermore, we chose an property that advertised a smoke free community. One day, we smelled marijuana inside our apartment and ended up going to the ER that night. Long story short, our neighbor was smoking pot EVERYWHERE, indoors, outdoors, on the steps leading up to our front door, etc. A battle began between our neighbor, our apartment complex, and us that ended up lasting 6-months. We had audio, video, and still photos as proof, but our apartment complex would not relocate us, nor let us break the lease.
I finally had enough and went full on stalker. I found the company's VP of operations, Directors of operations, and experience via LinkedIn. Then, I went to the company's media section on their website, and using the PR representative’s email I got the formatting for their email addresses. I emailed the VP and two directors directly. I laid out everything, and got a response less than an hour later. They must have said something to the neighbor because days later things got incredibly contentious. At one point, our neighbor, belligerent, approached my GF while walking our dog. She was threatening to knock out my GF, but luckily our dog is 80 lbs and very protective. She backed off and went home.
The property management company still would not let us break lease, but they did transfer us a new unit. Nothing happened to the neighbor at that point, but a few days later I was walking to my car and noticed three sheriff's deputies standing outside our old building. They were accompanied by the Community Relations manager, and the Property Manager. Then I saw it, our neighbor and some friends desperately trying to empty a two-bedroom two-bath apartment into 3 sedans. They looked really stressed and worn out...I cheered and laughed my ass off. Then, I pulled out my phone, took multiple photos, and started recording the following events.
I understand that it was mean, but after the countless ER visits and multiple hospitalizations, it felt like karmic justice. In addition to all that, my GF still to this day is struggling with implications that occurred from repeated allergic reactions over the 6-months’ time span. I was laughing about this at work, and someone overheard and said that I should not get this much pleasure out of that person's misfortune. AITA?

Hi when my (66f) son (26m) was 11 he passed a test to get into an exclusive school in our city (the 11+ for any people from England), the school was an all boys school but was internationally ranked as an elite school. The problem is recently I asked him why he has never brought a girl home for us to meet (his younger brother has a few times as well as all my friends sons who are over 20) he told me he has never really met the right girl I thought he meant he was playing the field (even taking off my view of him and his brother being the most handsome boys he is still handsome) and he told me he isn't. I asked his dating experience and he said none. I then remembered finding condoms in his room when he was 18 and asked about them he said "mum the box is still full" he then went on to tell me he hasn't ever kissed a girl because he just can't click with them. His cousin is gay so he knows we have no problem with whatever he is; he just said he struggles with girs. Sorry this is rambling but I just can't help but think it is my fault for sending him to a boys school during his formative years, I have gone to see one of my best friends and confided my worries that he will end up alone with her and she just said I was right the boys school is a bad thing, then I drank a bottle of wine (this is rare for me). I am just really worried I ruined my sons social development and chances of falling in love. Before people start replying with things like he is a late bloomer statistically he is unlikely to find someone at this point and the only difference between him and his brother is his brother went to a mixed school.

Hi when my (66f) son (26m) was 11 he passed a test to get into an exclusive school in our city (the 11+ for any people from England), the school was an all boys school but was internationally ranked as an elite school. The problem is recently I asked him why he has never brought a girl home for us to meet (his younger brother has a few times as well as all my friends sons who are over 20) he told me he has never really met the right girl I thought he meant he was playing the field (even taking off my view of him and his brother being the most handsome boys he is still handsome) and he told me he isn't. I asked his dating experience and he said none. I then remembered finding condoms in his room when he was 18 and asked about them he said "mum the box is still full" he then went on to tell me he hasn't ever kissed a girl because he just can't click with them. His cousin is gay so he knows we have no problem with whatever he is; he just said he struggles with girs. Sorry this is rambling but I just can't help but think it is my fault for sending him to a boys school during his formative years, I have gone to see one of my best friends and confided my worries that he will end up alone with her and she just said I was right the boys school is a bad thing, then I drank a bottle of wine (this is rare for me). I am just really worried I ruined my sons social development and chances of falling in love. Before people start replying with things like he is a late bloomer statistically he is unlikely to find someone at this point and the only difference between him and his brother is his brother went to a mixed school.

With the bastion system, zealot barbarians and monks aren’t allowed to be religious and own sanctuaries and sanctums, arcana clerics aren’t allowed to have an arcane study and artificers aren’t allowed to have smithies or even guildhalls, and all because WoTC decided to to have bastion room prerequisites be based on classes rather then skills, tools, or even just not having prerequisites period.
We’ve already seen this problem before with Xanatahrs and recently in the dragonlance adventure. In the dragonlance adventure released for 5e, there is a part where everyone has to roll religion to recognize a mural as being a depiction of Paladine, except for clerics of paladine who don’t need to roll and will instantly recognize the mural.
That’s a problem… because what about other followers of Paladine? What about an ascendant dragon monk or paladin who serves him, or a celestial warlock who made a pact with him? Or literally anyone who are devout followers of him? They aren’t allowed to recognize a mural that literally depicts him
I’m worried not only for the bastion system and how it’ll ruin a bastion based experience by working against character concepts and the idea that “flavor is free”, but I’m worried about the dangerous precedent it sets for the future
what if later one we get a faction based system
are they going to make it to where only rangers Druids and barbarians are allowed to join emerald enclave? That would mean that ancients paladins or nature clerics can’t join
Or what about them making it to where only clerics and paladins can join order of the gauntlet? That would mean a celestial warlock who made a pact with a kirin or some other lawful good celestial being can’t be a part of the gauntlet.
the bastion system sets a dangerous precedent as it’s written right now
I get lately WoTC has been wanting to take things from older editions but having things that are external to the character and be narrative related with class based prerequisites is best left buried and forgotten, cause it does not work for modern players, a modern player base mind you that lives by the phrase “flavor is free”
the fact that sun soul monks, a monk order originating from Lathander, with many of them serving and getting power from Lathander, can’t have a sanctuary or sanctum in 2024 rules despite the fact lore wise they absolutely could, and even in BG3 they are shown running a temple, is concerning to say the least

With the bastion system, zealot barbarians and monks aren’t allowed to be religious and own sanctuaries and sanctums, arcana clerics aren’t allowed to have an arcane study and artificers aren’t allowed to have smithies or even guildhalls, and all because WoTC decided to to have bastion room prerequisites be based on classes rather then skills, tools, or even just not having prerequisites period.
We’ve already seen this problem before with Xanatahrs and recently in the dragonlance adventure. In the dragonlance adventure released for 5e, there is a part where everyone has to roll religion to recognize a mural as being a depiction of Paladine, except for clerics of paladine who don’t need to roll and will instantly recognize the mural.
That’s a problem… because what about other followers of Paladine? What about an ascendant dragon monk or paladin who serves him, or a celestial warlock who made a pact with him? Or literally anyone who are devout followers of him? They aren’t allowed to recognize a mural that literally depicts him
I’m worried not only for the bastion system and how it’ll ruin a bastion based experience by working against character concepts and the idea that “flavor is free”, but I’m worried about the dangerous precedent it sets for the future
what if later one we get a faction based system
are they going to make it to where only rangers Druids and barbarians are allowed to join emerald enclave? That would mean that ancients paladins or nature clerics can’t join
Or what about them making it to where only clerics and paladins can join order of the gauntlet? That would mean a celestial warlock who made a pact with a kirin or some other lawful good celestial being can’t be a part of the gauntlet.
the bastion system sets a dangerous precedent as it’s written right now
I get lately WoTC has been wanting to take things from older editions but having things that are external to the character and be narrative related with class based prerequisites is best left buried and forgotten, cause it does not work for modern players, a modern player base mind you that lives by the phrase “flavor is free”
the fact that sun soul monks, a monk order originating from Lathander, with many of them serving and getting power from Lathander, can’t have a sanctuary or sanctum in 2024 rules despite the fact lore wise they absolutely could, and even in BG3 they are shown running a temple, is concerning to say the least