One of a kind chicago

crazy buildings that are one of a kind

2016.03.15 20:35 malgoya crazy buildings that are one of a kind

if it's a bizarre building, it belongs here. no, not pictures of buildings having a christmas bizarre. we want unique one of a kind buildings!
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2011.01.12 21:43 Chicago Food

All things relevant to Chicagoland food and its restaurants
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2010.12.09 08:05 talan123 r/Target: A place for Team Members to do stuff that kind of matters.

The subreddit by Target team members for Target team members. This subreddit is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by the Target Corporation.
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2024.05.16 07:40 OlimpyasBurner I can’t escape my family and it’s ruining my life

Maybe a bit dramatic title but I just can’t with my parents anymore. My parents have done nothing for me. In fact like many African parents all they did was abuse me and traumatize me and take advantage of me then send me out into the world unprepared with no social, romantic, or professional skills and experience. You know how our parents say we are ungrateful, etc but I have stopped to think about it and really they just did enough to keep me alive as a kid but by the time I was around 8 or 9 years old I took care of myself and my younger siblings. My parents made me quit any extracurricular activities I wanted to pursue after 2-3 months because they said it was a waste of time since I wasn’t good at them (how can a 9yo who has been doing gymnastics be some kind of prodigy after just a few weeks, most kids start these activities as toddlers). My parents were very strict, emotionally abusive, used religion as a weapon, etc as many African parents do but the craziest thing is that I didn’t need it. I was a good kid. I did as I was told, was obedient and respectful and everything else. When I was a teenager my parents were expecting some big rebellion and got even more strict and controlling. The things I wanted to do were play volleyball on my high school team and go to the museum or the movies with friends and they acted liked I wanted to sneak out at night to get drunk and do drugs at parties. The other crazy thing is my younger siblings were the ones who snuck out, had friends going down a bad path, would go out shoplifting, smoke and drank, one of my sisters friends even got pregnant…. But my parents were clueless and didn’t listen to me when I brought these things up because they said I was the one in charge of raising my siblings. How was I supposed to handle it these are not my kids and I’m a child myself.
When I was graduating high school I only applied to universities out of province, my parents said I couldn’t just go out at 18 and live without family. So I accepted a school that was in the city my grandma lived in and she said I could stay with her. My parents “surprised” me a few days before I was set to leave by telling me that they sold the house and are moving with me so that we could still live together. All through uni I paid for my own stuff (tuition, supplies, food, bills, etc) while working and still helping my parents around the house, with my siblings, and with their business. I moved out during Covid lockdown and was still working my way through school and began to help my family financially when they lost everything. Now 4 years later my credit is screwy because I’m renting 3 apartments, have 7 phone contracts, 3 internet contracts, 4 cars, and a bunch of other stuff taken out in my name by my parents. I was working myself ragged trying to keep up with everything and after all I have sacrificed my whole life for my family, my parents continue to take advantage and expect more from me. I can’t support a family of 7 working my barely over minimum wage jobs.
I’ve been in therapy since I moved out and have been trying to distance myself and set boundaries with my family but it’s hard while they’re still so codependent on me but I seriously don’t think I will make it until the next year when certain conditions and contracts and things are over and I can start separating myself from them again. Idk what has changed in the last 8-10 months but my parents have been trying to get back into my life and control me again and I have been fighting it but I’m running out of energy and they keep surprising me in the worst way possible. A few months ago my mom got rid of my cat while I was at work because she doesn’t like cats. I’ve started dating again and almost every day she calls me while I’m out or says she needs something and just interrupts my dates. I have been unemployed for a bit and now my mom is trying to convince me to get rid of my apartment and buy a house so we can all live together again. Buy a house in this economy on my barely over minimum wage salary?? Sick joke first of all. Live under the same roof as my parents again? I would die before even considering that as a valid option.
I really started writing this post with a different direction in mind but it has turned into a rant and the reminder or motivation I needed to keep going. I’ve got a loose 3 year plan going to get away once and for all. In 1 year most of the financial obligations will be ending and I won’t be renewing them in my name so I can start to fix my credit and actually save money towards my goals. After about a year and a half of fixing my finances I hope to be able to save enough to move out of province or even out of country. Ive still been looking for a job in my area of study but the job market is insane right now. I’ve been strategically applying for positions in national companies so that I can relocate when I fix my financial situation with my family. When it gets closer to the time I also plan on looking internationally because I fear my parents will pull a “surprise” like my high school graduation where they end up following me because they can’t give up control.
I feel pretty good about my plan most of the time but just knowing how long it’s realistically going to take is the discouraging part. Any advice on how to speed things up or anything about my plan you would do differently?
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2024.05.16 07:40 Sadeyesc PLS HELP ME FIND THIS SONG!😭

Ok so this was a song I’ve listened to a veryyyy long time ago but I can only remember some parts of the mv only so I’m gonna try my best to describe that.
So it was animated kind of like a gorillaz vibe but I don’t think it was them, I believe it was three people walking in kind of like a forest on an island(not too sure tho since this was years ago) but there was a little kid and he was sitting on the shoulders of one of the people. There was a big plant (an rafflesia arnoldii to be specific) the plant was kind of yellowish/orange, and he put his leg through the hole of the plant and some kind of reaction happened. That’s all I can remember unfortunately but the mv made me cry because of that scene😭 I’ll be super grateful to anyone who finds out what this is cuz I’ve literally been searching for it for so many years😭🙏🏼
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2024.05.16 07:39 Glittering_Cry_3806 New fresh standard farm, Xbox, (gamer tag below)

I just want new friends, women in particular (preferably around my age (22M), that I can just hang out and be myself with for once. All my guy friends don’t really let me be anything more than a dude bro so I don’t get to expose any real vulnerability or share things about myself and Stardew always seems to being out the best in people I’ve noticed, except for my friends lol. It’s one of my all time favorite relaxation games, and I just want a break from all the toxic masculinity of my friends who are all single celled organisms half the time in any other game I play. And I’m also kind of tired of playing it alone nowadays.
Gamertag (Xbox): ArchTempered#534
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2024.05.16 07:39 Slow-Painting-8112 Song with a killer ending

I'm looking for music that is at least a pretty good song thet ends with some kind of unexpectedly wild twist, preferably that goes on for a long time. Could be a killer guitar solo, a psychedelic freakout, a wicked groove, some bongo madness, even a spoken word if it works. Any genre.
Hey Jude is probably the golden standard. If you can wait about eight minutes, Pat Metheny comes in like monster on this one.
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2024.05.16 07:38 b0nesi_ snail help

snail help
anyone know what kind of snails these are? found them a little bit ago but just assumed they were floating debris till i saw them moving. they’ve bred like crazy there are still so many tiny ones i couldn’t get out of the tank, any help is appreciated (apologies for the poor photo i could not get a better one)
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2024.05.16 07:38 Mountain_Counter929 Making Aliens based off every pokemon type combination (Fighting)

Fighting/Normal: OHKO (One Punch Man but instead of one effortless punch it’s a touch of death combo he has to )
Species: Mugen
Planet: Sonof
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Species/Planet Fact: The Mugen started as semi-organic creations by a long dead civilization who sought to try experiments designing different types of warriors. Eventually the planet will be inhabited by foreign researchers. These researchers have been working on enhancing them with various effects to increase their capabilities, and give them more movement and combat options. But during testing it was discovered that watching the Mugen fight with or without enhancements is incredibly entertaining resulting and a strong source of combat study. This discovery redirected their experiments being used for sports instead of warfare even preventing what would’ve been an interplanetary war by turning it into a competitive sport, exploding the planet in popularity. During this explosion there was the discovery of a single fight between two Mugen that have went on for centuries before the first immigration and has been fiercely protected from interruptions since its discovery.
Fighting/Grass: Doungwun Nemetrix predator of the Chunwin (See Kung book in Grass Types)
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Planet/Species Fact: Despite the Doungwun seemingly biologically engineered to beat Cunwin on one to one combat, countering their various techniques. They rather take less ‘honorable’ tactics whenever possible. In populated areas they’d quickly overwhelm their prey with high numbers and quickly attack before the Chunwin gets a chance to swing. If there are aren’t any others nearby it’ll try to ambush its prey from hard to reach angles in the air. Only when it’s alone and has caught the attention of its prey, will it attach itself and engage its prey in close range combat. Most Chunwin societies simply use traps, or other tools to protect themselves from these predators. But a predator that chooses to engage in a one on one duel is more respected and results in a more respected death (for either one). So some Chunwin warriors leave themselves open to solo Doungwun attacks as some form of test.
Fighting/Fire: Racaln the Nemetrix predator of the Clabestro (See Firing Squad in Fire types)
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Planet/Species Fact: Racaln only prey on the Clabestro when they’re split up and small. They don’t do any harm when they’re merged on one bigger body. But since most Clabestro combat (which happens very often) has them in their small split up forms. This makes it common for Racalns to be collected from the wild or bred in captivity to be utilized as excellent traps, and denying area. This practice would also be used as a mark to safeguard places from violence, to prevent Clabestro from splitting to engage in combat. This practice has spread to official gatherings like courts and diplomatic meetings.
Fighting/Water: Ultimate Slush (See Original in Water Types)
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Fighting/Elctric: Ultimate Fightning Rod (See Web Work in Electric Types)
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Fighting/Flying: Ultimate Fight and Flight (See original in Flying Types)
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Fighting/Ice: Giengar Nemetrix predator of the Ashe (See Burrzerker in Ice Types)
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Planet/Species Fact: Giengar are omnivores. In cold seasons they eat large predators with their primarily skill of inducing hallucinations that tire out its target before having its body frozen over for it to consume with its teeth designed to crush frozen objects. They gain this power by consuming mushrooms from warmer, jungle biomes that contain spores which has a similar effect to targets that breathe them in (though less concentrated and ends with less fatalities). Giengars are immune to these spores so during the warmer seasons they migrate to the jungle to consume high amounts of these mushrooms to expel their spores in large concentrations during hunting season. Normal Ashe that occupy these jungles stay away from the dangerous arctic biomes the Giengars hunt in, so to them the Giengar are seen as harmless. Since even if the Giengars try to use the spores against them, the conditions aren’t lethal and the lack of the Ashe’s adrenaline won’t inhibit their ability to recognize their condition and react accordingly instead of wasting their energy fighting.
Fighting/Ground: Ultimate Mudripper (See Original in Ground Types)
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Fighting/Rock: Ovivine Nemetrix predator of the Sabter (See Mountain Goat in Fighting Types)
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Planet/Species Fact: While Ovivine can talk and mimic sentient emotions its only purpose is to gain the trust of prey as a mere predatory mechanism, their brains aren’t capable of deeper introspective thought or sentience when alone. Sabter are worn of the Ovivine though largely they are seen as myth with how very few sightings they are and how little the Ovivine are actually active due to their slow metabolism. Ovivines cover their prey on the floor and slowly consume it whilst morphing its body to appear as a mere lump of ground covered in grass, which is another factor into how little they’re seen. Occasionally they encounter some Sabter who are very much aware of them, and their tricks so in those cases they simply push them off the cliff side. Though this method relies on the element of surprise since their physical strength is much weaker than the average Sayter.
Fighting/Bug: Ultimate Float Stinger (See Original in Bug Types)
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Fighting/Psychic: Muscle Memory (Alien Taskmaster)
Species: Reffox
Planet: Arbeitar
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Planet/Species Fact: Due to the fact that all Reffox are all physically the same and that any unique skill that are developed is quickly assimilated by one another. Reffox populations share a yearning for a sense of identity. So many Reffox head off to other cultures/planets to use their learned skills to be able to make an identity of themselves, whether it be an athlete a performer, a warrior, a hero, or in some cases a criminal or ruler. This feeling is felt through all Reffox and when two of them meet, they silently agree to not show their skills to each other to keep their identity. Though if they do want to share they return to Arbeitar to tell their stories or inspire new skills for the next generation who would tell their story.
Fighting/Poison: Biolence (Fist of the North Star Powered by drugs, and can weaponize their own explosions )
Species: Gomane Planet: Omawoshindyu
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Planet/Species Fact: Eons ago a large vapor of toxic alien pollutants was mysterious dropped on Omawoshindyu mutating all inhabitants and killing off massive amounts of life, however life stiff have adapted and eventually evolved resulting in the modern Gomanes. By the time their own society has formed, the pollutants have been absorbed into the earth or dissipated from the atmosphere allowing fertile greener life to grow. Ironically most of Gomane society promotes healthy activity like proper diet in exercise, for it allows them to control their cyst development more effectively even when there sped up, which they use in hunting and combat sports. However crime activity is still noticeable involving addiction, violence, and gang activity. Mostly originating in highly polluted/deserted wastelands. As various poisons are being produced and mines
Fighting/Ghost: Body-structor (Havik from MK1 with hints of Water Law from One Piece)
Species: Rankensain
Planet: Taxodoom
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Planet/Species Fact: Body parts are the Rankensains main currency. While most body parts are gathered from hunted animals on their world. Rankenstains have developed interplanetary transportation to gather valuable alien body parts. Often by nefarious methods like warfare, grave robbing, or even homicide, making them a disdained and feared species across multiple planets. There are labs made to create clones of existing limbs to replace active hunting to remove the need for travel, but with how often exploration is used and how slow the cloning process is, Rankensains still commonly hunt aliens for their limbs as part of a darker slightly underground culture. To get around their negative reputation, Rankensains would remove their own brains and implant them into other bodies to disguise themselves.
Fighting/Dragon: Medisnake (Combat Snake with Street Fighter Chi abilities)
Species: Ansatryu
Planet: Chakrenin
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Planet/Species Fact: Initially Ansartyu were seen as pets of another more human-like species called the Shotogun and as intelligent as their owners. However, eventually the Shotogun would discover their ability to tap into their own personal well of the same chi-like energy and start practicing it for various means. However back then only a handful of masters would be able use it, and only at a very basic level. Until one Shotogun prince discovered that his treasured Ansatryu was able to tap into and unlock further levels of mastery. With this knowledge the prince learned from his Ansatryu and developed a closer bond with it, even teaching his pet higher levels of intelligence as he was taught further mastery of chi. Later he would teach others how to learn from their Ansatryu and his own Ansatryu will give intelligence to others of his species, leading to the point where Ansatryu are now partners living in the same world as the Shotogun in relative harmony.
Fighting/Steel: Weapon Blaster (Tank Knight with hand guns that shoots bladed weapons) Species: Arthmo
Planet: Palawar
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Species/Planet Fact: Arthmo is an artificial species created from a combination of alchemy and engineering by a master at both, commissioned by a great king. They were meant to be used as weapons of warfare and even companions. However an enemy army raided the kingdom, and killed both the lord and creator after the first Arthmo woke up. So the lab was well hidden so the Arthmo followed the instructions of its creator and created more of it, and slaying the enemy army. Now they defend the remaining members of their kingdom to allow it to rebuild. However, rumor has it that a surviving enemy found the original Arthmo lab.
Fighting/Dark: Spotshot
Species: Dalmate
Planet: Cerberence
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Species/Planet Fact: The spotted biological materials that generate the Dalmate’s projectile “spots”, is a shared trait amongst a handful of different Cereberence animal species and even some plant life. Those species has a spot of a different color that was meant harm all other species/subspecie for predation or predator avoidance. Other species that don’t have this projectile ability do have spotted patterns on them to warn predators, or even create similar marks on objects to protect territory by intimidation.To weaponize their own “spots” Dalmate tribes would farm different animals and use them in different methods that changes their spot markings to battle other tribes with their own spot slinging skills to prevent it from being simply absorbed into its targets body.
Fighting/Fairy: Best-O Change-O (Magical Girl/Boy Recruiting Bunny)
Species: Usegin
Planet: Lunakessho
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Planet/Species Fact: Lunakessho is a magical planet where all the inhabitants would practice magic, protected by an order of Usegin knights. However dark forces used by villains and monsters would arise practicing this dark magic and almost threatened to corrupt the universe. The Usegin order managed to fight them off but with a threat on that kind of scale and some remaining presence of their enemies they decided to seal of the planet into another realm. However, now there is an occult group mages summoned the order on various points of different moons using a ritual that was meant to be used in case they’re needed. While the Usegin heroes did manage to get involved in their traditional hero work. They’ve learned too late that this ritual will eventually corrupt them once all the full rituals is complete, and they’re powerless to stop them. So they now go to various planets and recruit and train other magical warriors to stop them when the time comes.
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2024.05.16 07:38 ThrowRAhelloguys How do I (20f) show my ex-boyfriend (20m) that I'm worth coming back to?

My boyfriend broke up with me 47 days ago. He did because I was more needy than he was able to handle. He needs a lot of alone time. I was having an incredibly rough month leading up to that. Almost everything that could have gone wrong that month did just that. This is his first adult relationship, he’s never been this intimate with another person, so I think seeing me in such a state freaked him out. I felt unloved. I have since realized that it wasn't that he didn't love me enough, but that no amount of love could relieve me of all I had on my plate. I expressed this to him and apologized and I vowed to change.
He first asked me out almost immediately after he helped me flee my violently abusive ex-boyfriend. I was a lot more like my current boyfriend before the abuse but became super clingy and insecure in that terrible relationship. I feel like now, I've actually been given the space to heal and move past that. I kind of changed my whole lifestyle after breaking up because the old one was killing me. I'm thriving in my independence. My needs are much more inline with what he can provide. My life is so much richer now, but all I want to do is share part of it with the man that I love.
I can tell that he still likes me. Since he left, we’ve had a handful of really enjoyable hangouts. He flirts with me still. I can tell that he wants me but holds himself back. His walls fall when we talk but he doesn't give in fully.
I'm kind of at a loss for what to do. I need to somehow demonstrate all that I've explained: That I'm better now and that the compatibility issue has resolved. I seriously love this guy. I can't even be mad at him because I just adore him. I can tell that he's confused but I'd do anything to support him and help him through it. It feels like we’re great for each other and that our main problems came from us rushing it, only now being held back by invisible boundaries. How do I go about all of this? What can I even say to him when I see him next?
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2024.05.16 07:38 tofu-tofuest The guilty ones

Hello. As always, my apologies if I'm a bit of a mess.
So, I met a wonderful girl a couple of weeks ago. She is smart and has this innate kindness that took me by surprise. And she makes me laugh. It's so hard to make me laugh these days, but she makes it easy and light.
And I am choking on my guilt and fear.
I grew up in an extremely traditional community. Being gay has never been an option. I lived in denial until I was 15, and then I convinced myself I was bisexual. Because if I was bisexual, I could still fall in love with a man and I wouldn't lose my family then.
I didn't come to terms with my true sexuality until it was too late. Until my best friend was dead.
I know we all know that when someone commits suicide, there are a myriad of reasons that brought them to that point. It isn't just one single thing. But today, almost 3 years after my most important person's passing, I know that if I had just been brave enough to face my sexuality, she would have trusted me with one key part of her pain.
She had a brief relationship with a male friend of ours. She never stopped being in love with him.
And I was jealous. And she knew me better than anyone, so of course she noticed. But there was one key factor that she couldn't have known: I was in love with her, not him.
She told me she knew I loved him. I couldn't say anything other than "I'm so sorry". She told me to never apologize about my feelings, but I could tell she was hurt.
The last conversation she had was with him. He said they wouldn't get back together, that he had feelings for me. She told him he should pursue them, that she wouldn't stand in his way because she loved us both.
(This is so messy, sorry).
She died. And both him and I knew that that last conversation had been one of the last straws, if not the very last.
It wasn't until then that I couldn't keep ignoring reality anymore. I was gay. And had I been brave enough to accept that earlier, this wouldn't have happened. She wouldn't have "stepped out of our way", because there wouldn't have been anything to step out of.
I carry this guilt with me now. I've been carrying it for 3 years and I don't think I'll ever stop feeling guilty.
But I met a wonderful girl who made me laugh. And I feel like I'm dying inside. She is so lovely and kind and she likes me and she makes me feel like I'm a person again. But the guilt is eating me from the inside out.
How the hell am I supposed to allow myself to even consider feeling like this for someone when I am fully aware of the consequences my struggle with sexuality had? When the last person I loved killed herself?
I know if I told (non-homophobic) people in real life, they wouldn't understand. They would say I have to move on, that I have to try again. That I'm 25 and I'm not supposed to live in the isolation I live in.
And I feel so incredibly selfish for talking to her. But I missed feeling like a real person.
How is someone supposed to embrace their sexuality when they understand the role their journey played in the death of the most important person in their life?
I don't think I can. And I hate myself for feeling cared-for every time I talk to her. I hate myself for finding solace in that feeling.
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2024.05.16 07:38 doodleasa Welcome to r/trans!

Welcome new member! We have a wonderful community here of thousands of trans people! Hold on just one second though, I’ve gotta make sure you portray our community in the best possible light.
Ohhhh it looks like you’ve posted on some NSFW subreddits. Oh, that’s a big part of the trans community? You’re not talking about that content in the sub? Sorry we just uhmmmmm….. want to protect minors from that kind of content! You know those minors, always clicking through profiles, skipping past the warnings about the profile having NSFW posts, enabling NSFW content to be displayed, and then seeing that disgusting shit! That would be untenable. Thank goodness their poor little undeveloped brains don’t have any other way of accessing that content! We’ve made a safe place for everyone!
Now leave.
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2024.05.16 07:37 menthos_typhoon Night vision scope

Friends of Ukraine, friends of freedom, friends of future Ukrainian children we need your help! Soldiers from a battalion from Eastern front direction need our help. (i will not share the exact brigade and location) They are in need of a thermal vision device. Even if they need more, their kind request is to have at least one piece. Our goal is to reach 1500€ and up to now we have around 300€. As usual, our Ukrainian volunteers are also helping us like last time. If you can spare a few bucks, please use this paypal account tasechka87@gmail.com Money goes directly in Ukraine to the volunteer that will buy the night vision, the same one who bought the fpv goggles. Yours, Menthos. For any questions, remarks im more than happy to reply. https://viatec.ua/product/AGM-Rattler-TS25-384
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2024.05.16 07:37 Purple-Effort-8198 Try feeling fear. It was interesting.

I was suicidal, wanted to die since i could remember (6yo), and made couple or more failed attempts. Im now very chill about death. When people die, i just feel happy for them that their mission and lessons of this life has been completed and now is ready for the next realm. When people commit suicide, they die as regular normal people, cuz there is direct suicide and there are slow suicide like eating unhealthy, doing drugs etc. So death is death anyway. Living unhealthy knowingly is slow suicide. One of my attempts will be successful one day👼🏻 i usually hang myself, and go on a trip i hallucinate and hear almost like traveling, and the rope magically breaks (happened two times). So i do believe theres divine timing and you will not die how hard u try, even might end up injured. Its dangerous. I thought thinking and doing death made me fearless of death. 🌲🌲🌲 But then yesterday i wandered off from a dude alone into the forest. The forest is known to have wolves and bear. I was alone around 1km and was so alone everywhere i look, and saw some mark on the ground, looked like it was made by a large animal. As i wondered what kind of animal would do this, i felt sudden fear, eaten by a wild animal? Wow what a death, shit so scary id probably scream and fight, doesnt it mean that i still wanna be alive so bad🤭. I have been living reckless cuz choosing to die is very stupid they say, so i chose to live as equally stupid to dying. Had a wild life, good memories, almost ready to die, very content with what i have felt here🌏. But yesterdays fear made me kind of value my life💀 thanks for reading. all love
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2024.05.16 07:36 Yellow_fellow34 Looking for something 20

Hello I’m Brian, I’m from the United States and I’m 20 years old. I’m from Tulsa Oklahoma. I am a very cut and dry person. I love to hunt and fish and shoot guns at targets (NOT PEOPLE) I enjoy eating and tasting different recipes of smoked meats and having a good talk with family. I sometimes sound very mean but I intend to be kind truly. Overall I really seem mean but im nice. I don’t open to just anyone so im looking for that one special person that I can open up with and only that woman gets to see the real me that is more then just a stone face. My DM are always open. Sorry I suck at this.👍🏽
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2024.05.16 07:35 sphenisciformes_surf Something fun I wrote this morning: A queer devotional

He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.” (Matthew 13:33)
The current wave of dysphoria has lingered longer and deeper than previous ones that I remember. In a strange way I've come to appreciate these periods of clarity where I get to encounter the self that is mostly closeted and suppressed.
By co-incidence, my wife is navigating peri-menopause and the doctor has prescribed HRT patches. She has found that they do not agree with her and cause all kinds of problems, so they've been sitting in the cupboard.
Yesterday, I did a thing. I've been sorely wanting to do it ever since she received the prescription. But finally, I opened the packet, and slapped a patch on my thigh. Don't ask me the make or the dose. I have not looked. If I had to consider those things, I would simply never do it, and then I would never know!... And No!... this is not a devotional about Eve taking the apple in the garden of Eden!
After putting it on: I developed a slight dull headache almost immediately, but that dissipated after an hour. I felt slightly dizzy, but maybe I should not have had a second cup of coffee in the morning. Somewhere in the day I felt as though the skin around the private parts had contracted somewhat and become wrinkly and rubbery. It felt a little bit achy as well. But after an hour or so they were back to normal. Damn!
When I went to bed, I could not sleep.
This was for two reasons:
My brain was in overdrive. What have I done! I don't think I want to take this patch off! ... Or more accurately... I am going to keep slapping them on! This was never the plan! My plan was to lose 60 lbs of weight first. Then I would seriously talk to the family, request an appointment with a gender clinic. There is a 3 year waiting list in the part of the country where I live. Perhaps I would then try to bridge the waiting period by using a private gender medical service. In the mean-time I would use the time to re-skill and find a job where I would not be fired for transitioning.
The other reason why I could not sleep was because there was a distinct ache in my chest (breast tissues). I could not find a comfortable sleep position, curled up on my side as I usually do. Even just moving the duvet over my chest felt rough and painful. I'm not sure if it is my imagination, but in the morning light they look and feel bigger, fuller, tighter, with the nipples standing quite stiff.
O Shit! What have I done!
She's being let out! She's been closeted for so long and as dawn breaks, she's seeing the light of day! It won't be long then it may finally not just be "he/him". Together it will be they them! ... Like yeast it is, this E! Powerful stuff! Like the Kingdom of Heaven in all its queer glory!
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2024.05.16 07:34 boba_bunneh I'm happy with my current setup 😸

I'm happy with my current setup 😸
It's not a massive book case or anything but at the moment, it's serving its purpose. 😊 My recent additions are Spit it Out, One of a Kind, Howl and Lights. 😎 And of course I mixed in my other geeky things, lol.
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2024.05.16 07:34 Faartz TIFU by getting roped into a DM chat with a online sex worker and enjoying it too much

Just kind of happened without me ever intending to after they had replied to a compliment I had sent them. We ended up chatting pretty consistently for about 3 hours. There was some mild flirting but mostly just talking about ourselves. I was the one who ended the conversation saying I had things to do. The truth is I had to stop our chat because it was really fucking with my head. It sounds pathetic I know, but that little moment of human interaction awoke the part of me that still yearns to be desired, even when it’s entirely artificial. This person hit me up again later that night but I’m not indulging again for the sake of my own sanity. Thanks for reading if you got this far just wanted to share that FA moment.
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2024.05.16 07:34 justahad Dasher sat outside for ten extra minutes…

So I am a mid-20’s female who ordered a late night bite. I have my dash ALWAYS set to leave at door and have only had issues one other time. Well I went to go and get my food and noticed the dasher was just sitting in my driveway…. For ten minutes!
Of course I reported this because it’s 100% creepy and no, I did NOT unlock any doors or even get my food during that time. He then slowly left and crawled down the road after ten minutes but like… wtf?!
Also pretty sure he stole my drink too 😐🙃…
Yah go ahead and call me a Karen but this is a serious matter! Not only is this behavior making us drivers look bad (yes I’m also a driver), but it’s really creepy putting our dash customers into a sense of fight or flight because we sit there creeping! That’s not cool! This needs to seriously stop because I know I’m Not the only customer reporting this kind of dasher behavior!
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2024.05.16 07:33 sirspecial56 My best work after 4 years of composing ٩( ᐛ )و (string quintet)

I think I have really triumphed with this piece I just made. I’m not formally trained in music and I’m a high schooler. This feels like the culmination of all my hard work since I was just a extremely confused kid with no music knowledge so I feel like this is a big step forward for me. I put quite a bit of elbow grease into this one. I wanted to share a bit of my happiness and pride in my piece . This is something I’m truly proud of. To put it simply this piece feels way more human and emotional than my other works do.
The beginning sections are inspired by Concerto Grosso for strings “Palladio” 1. Allegretto.
There’s always room for improvement or course. For example, I don’t know how to play any instruments in this piece but I’m pretty sure there’s articulations that could help my piece be playable or more realistic, especially slurs. I love advice about that.
I think next time I want to try and add more harmonic interest into my piece as I stay in the same key and don’t modulate. So I started learning about Neapolitan chords and such. Please give me advice without being snotty. Last time I posted , someone said something kind of unprompted along the lines of “this is why we shouldn’t spread stupid ideas like we don’t need music theory” and that was annoying and probably against the subreddit’s rules. Thank you for your time.
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2024.05.16 07:32 seaweedtrees specialists / mental health

i notice that finding the right health insurance is difficult; its been kind of distressing for me
I've been needing to prioritize mental health / needing to see specialists for issues related to my ears, stomach etc.
I was wondering which health insurance plan do y'all have under medi-cal and which ones have the better quality specialists?
I've always had a fear of having a bad specialist / surgeon and things going haywire
Ive seen on Reddit that kaiser is good but I'm not sure if I'm qualified for that one
I do plan to stick with the PCP I have now since he's been wonderful
Everyone's advice / perspectives will be greatly appreciated !!
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2024.05.16 07:31 UnderTheUmbrella08 Clover vs Yellow (Undertale Yellow vs Pokemon Adventures)

Clover vs Yellow (Undertale Yellow vs Pokemon Adventures)
CONNECTIONS - Both are associated with the color yellow (Clover having the yellow Justice soul, Yellow... well that one's obvious) - Both have an gender neutral appearence (Clover having an intentionally ambiguous gender, Yellow disguises herself in a more masculine way to be taken more seriously) - Both take up an alias (Gun Hat, Amarillo del Bosque Verde) - Both fight with an unorthidox weapon (Clover using random items as ammuniton for their gun, Yellow fighting with a fishing rod - Both have special traits associated with them (Clover's Justice, Yellow's healing and psychic bond to pokemon) - Despite being loved by fans, their stories aren't seen as canon to the main series - Both start their journeys to find missing people (the previous 5 humans, Red), but end up changing their goals after finding why they went missing (Clover deciding to sacrifice their life to put monsterkind one soul closer to freedom, Yellow having to stop The Elite Four's plan of genocide when finding they tried to get the region's strongest trainer out of their way) - Through their adventures both are guided by a deciever with an ulterior motive (Flowey, Blue), meet a kindly shut-in (Professor Oak, Dalv), and are forced to endure a team of four (The Feisty Four, The Elite Four) - Both need to be trained in self defence part way through their story (Clover being trained with the Wild Revolver by Starlo, Yellow needing to be taught the basics in Pokemon battling and leveling by Green) - Both have connections to birds (Clover being close to Martlet, Yellow having the Rainbow Wing and Silver Wing of Ho-Oh and Lugia placed in her hat by Blue) - Despite being pacifists that avoid causing any harm, both are forced into a violent climactic battle against someone ultimately well intentioned but misguided in the worst possible way (Ceroba trying to take Clover's soul to finish her late husband's work and save her daughter after her previous attempt nearly killed her, Lance attempting genocide to create a world with polution and pain) - During said battle, both unlock a special ability that allows them to get an upper hand (Clover weaponizing their own soul, Yellow manipulating the levels of her Pokemon and unleashing MegaVolt), leading to their opponent experiencing flashbacks of the traumatic moments that lead them down this path and redeeming themselves after their defeat
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2024.05.16 07:31 RationalSchizo812020 Kanye and Kendrick vs Drake and The Diddler: A Conspiracy

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
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2024.05.16 07:31 Impressive_Sir8236 Am I insane or am I in a remake of 'gaslight 1944'????

My boyfriend 34M and I were getting pretty serious until we hit a bit of a roadblock recently due to his mental health. It's one of those cases where he doesn't really know what's wrong but he's having trouble caring about anything but work. Including me. He is normally SO patient and kind but the past two months he started getting so easily annoyed and making new (for him) comments like "are you ok mentally, this is giving off a bipolar vibe" when I would so sweetly inquire to things like him not answering our nightly FaceTime when we were already on a voice call, or why he didn't tell me he wasn't coming over for our planned day together yet never showed.. I chalked it up to the mental struggles I believed him to be having but like, wow, I felt really freaked out by such responses as someone who is very familiar with being manipulated by dad and ex.
So here's the big one.. the past couple of weeks there had been 4 instances (now 5) where a couple hours after he leaves my apartment I notice that my AC seems to be constantly running. When I go to check it out I noticed that it was switched from "auto" to "on" (meaning it won't shut off when it reaches the set temp. It just runs constantly). I had NEVER made this mistake before as I am very conscious of my energy bill, turning lights off when I exit a room, etc. After the second time, I asked him about it to see if he had messed with my thermostat and he said no.. the next time he came over he seemed so interested in the thermostat and started trying to convince me someone had been coming into my apartment. Now I know this isn't the case and when I said so, he agreed, and said that I must be doing it and forgetting... I let it go right away but didn't completely ignore the little alarm bell in the back of my head. It happened two more times (both on days he was here) and so a couple days ago I asked him about it again. He got this sweet, concerned voice and asked me if I knew how to use the thermostat ok???? Now today was the first time he'd been over since. 4 hours later I notice the AC is running a long time so I go and look and, sure enough, it's set to 'on'. I'm not against being wrong or forgetful here, but it's also soooo weird that this "mindlessness" of mine coincidentally ONLY happens when he's here. I just don't trust him right now and I don't know what to do because on the one hand, I want to be patient with his mental struggles and make sure I don't project trauma from my past narcissistic relationship onto him, especially since he's been so loving until recently.. but at the same time I don't want to "get got" again. How much patience is healthy to give this man and where do I draw the line? Do I address this issue after somehow getting proof he can't deny or is this an immediately firable offense? Please help.
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2024.05.16 07:30 hontemulo farewell radio(UTD)! some delights and grievances...

Hello everyone at UTD! I have graduated and have been a member of RadioUTD for a quarter of my time here (one year). I would like to describe what it was like working as a DJ in RadioUTD. I am not here to paint a pretty picture.
There are a few aspects that benefited me. It let me know what it was like to work and have responsibilities. It let me know how to talk about music and how to arrange playlists. It taught me how to be more punctual to be on time for my set. Since you cannot swear on broadcast, I being a dirty mouth learned how to express myself when I need to quit yapping foully. This was multiplied thirteenfold as I had around 13 sets in the course of my time there. I also learned to market myself on my own, though I don't think I was very successful. I really have no way to tell. I also learned how to mix music with a DJ controller. It was a very supportive group I found, and although I am still rather bad at music mixing, I have had some good moments. I also got to play in the DJ fest where all the other DJs could listen.
But there are a few things that prevented me from signing up at the get go. My family never really liked my taste in music, and always ridiculed me for it. In the campus tour RadioUTD was mentioned, but we walked into the student union, and top 40 music was playing, I did not realize it at the time but I assumed that that was RadioUTD's music stream. Seeing the DJ work with his back to the glasswall headbanging, that glass wall kind of made him look like he was doing some awesome mix but I just couldn't hear it, and that I wasn't allowed to go in that room.
The only thing that urged me to sign up was Marco Frescas, (he was featured in Mercury). I heard there was a DJ festival and listened through his set and thought maybe RadioUTD was cool and worth doing a shot.
The last thing I'd like to say is that RadioUTD is weak. What do I mean by that? Mercury and AMP make their opinions, print it, and distribute it on receptacles across campus. To access RadioUTD, you must search up the website, then go to the streaming site, then be at the right time for someone to speak. The website is mentioned nowhere. It would be preferable if there was a QR sticker on each of the AMP/Mercury receptacles for UTD TV and RadioUTD to get atleast some mention that it exists. This is not a radical idea and quite simple to implement.
But for RadioUTD to be truly as strong? Have speakers around campus that play the streams. Put up posters promoting RadioUTD (They don't do that). Make the DJ booth face the window and make the window weak so that the DJ can actually talk with passersby. There is no way to tell who is listening, and how many people are listening, which leads to us not putting as much effort in our playlists or talking breaks as we'd like. We have something called boothing, where we book out the plinth to play music for an hour or two 3 times a month. The chance of someone who wants to hear this passes by is so incredibly low. Since the plinth stage has to be checked out in advance, it is a gridlock of what is possible. It is a shame to see people outside of UTD on the plinth asking you to register to vote almost every day but almost never see my organization out there playing music for the people. I was told that there was boothing opportunities available for the finals scream, but it was cancelled. Our organization tends to defer out of anything that doesn't seem safe and as a result it makes us even more unknown. The DJ Fest aforementioned was not promoted and almost got canceled. As a result everyone except Marco who was closing the set, had basically no audience outside of RadioUTD.
I know this will never happen, and as a result, few people will actually apply to make a change, and as a result of that, RadioUTD will remain relatively obscure. I hope this post wakes up people within RadioUTD and drives them to make a change, and also inspire others to join RadioUTD. If anyone is from RadioUTD and I am making any errata, feel free to correct me in the comments below. I'd like a discussion.
Also if y'all got any cool songs please message them to me or drop 'em in the comments too!
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