I'm in the legal field, personal injury to be exact and those who know, it is super stressful. Been here for 7+ years and I can say that’s something I don’t want to do for the rest of my life. I'm currently in school for strategic communications and would like to get in the marketing field but no one even turns to look at me because me resume is nothing but law firms doing nothing related to marketing. Any advice/tips?

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For context i live in a pretty rural area in the US, so i’m not exactly expecting acceptance. Nothing about my appearance is particularly queer looking, but i am afab with short hair (closeted transmasc for obvious reasons)
But the other day i was sitting there minding my own business. And this boy (highschool age) walked past me saying “what’s up you transvestite” which was the most baffling thing for me to hear. It just felt so out of nowhere and antiquated.

So, I got an RFE for I864. AOS applicant from spouse. We submitted my job (beneficiary) salary ($30k/yr) and savings account ($35k). The petitioner just started working a couple weeks ago so I had to include my income. However, the RFE indicated that I had to include proof of legally working in the US for me to include that income. They insist to show proof in some kind of work visa or legal documentation saying that I'm authorized to work here. I am a PhD student so I don't have any of those, just a regular F1. I did submit my F1 and paystubs from the university but I don't know why they are asking more proof of work authorization.
We only have one person that can help us as a joint sponsor. However, she makes around $25k/yr. If the poverty guidelines are around $30k for 3 people, do you think I should proceed on adding that person and hope for the best? Thanks for all your comments!!

So I’m a first year aspiring teacher, I came from a district where they were prepared to offer me a contract back in November. However, I got married recently and moved. This means my first year of teaching is out of state from my OG license. (I already got a provisional license for the state I moved to- TX)
So I’ve been subbing full time since I moved here and I thought that this would help ensure I get a position. I’ve had good talks with principals and vps, one VP going so far as to say that they would offer me a position as soon as the hiring freeze in my district was up.
However… she spoke too soon and I’m super disappointed. They ended up hiring internally for the position and now Im just starting to get stressed out. I’ve applied to multiple schools in the district and spoken to principals and haven’t gotten any definitive answers or a single interview.
Should I be worried? I’m stressed I’m not going to be hired for next year… especially since I’m an out of state with no connections. I’ve made some really good impressions with other teachers and staff but since I’m not getting any straight answers I’m just super disheartened.
Also, how pushy is too pushy? I feel like I’m chasing principals down and I know they have a lot going on with transfers and end of year events so I don’t want to be overly persistent but I don’t want to be forgotten… I’ve never gotten any callbacks from the applications I’ve inserted.

So on April 30… I woke up in the morning with a blood pressure of 167/102 and an elevated pulse. This was on a Tuesday morning. The Thursday before I had blood work done as I had had a tetany episode on April 2. I got a phone call from my doctor saying that my ionized calcium and my serum calcium were low so I should double my dose. Saturday I woke up with terrible anxiety and feeling horrible and the on-call doctor said to go from four times a day total 2000 mg, to eight times 4000mg a day. Now comes Tuesday morning with the elevated blood pressure. I ended up in the hospital with 194/127 and a pulse of 130. My calcium levels had gone from 7 to over 12 in the course of three days. I was tachycardic and I was in a hypertensive crisis they say due to the calcium. However, I have high blood pressure prior to the calcium stuff. And of course they drop my calcium and I end up having orthostatic blood pressures, which means they severely dropped, and I was swinging back-and-forth from low to high to normal, etc. Has anybody experience extreme anxiety with quick fluctuations in calcium? I’ve been both high and low and never had anxiety except for this occurrence and being tachycardic. Everything seems normal now, Except my calves f started twitching last night when I went to bed and they are doing the same thing tonight as well.I also can’t shake this dreadful feeling. They ran every single test, found that I was slightly hyperthyroid, i’m also adrenal insufficient so that probably stressed my system out too as they had no Cortisone on board. These past three weeks have been dreadful and I finally went back to work this week but I feel like I’m constantly walking on eggshells. Any suggestions? By the way, I’m not normally an anxious person, but any stretch of the imagination

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Once I was diagnosed with Crohns my doctor had me start on Humira. I took it every two weeks for over two years. My insurance got me to switch to Yuflyma. I’ve been taking it for 2 months now and am liking it so far as it hurts so much less than Humira, although I do have some things I want to see if anyone else is experiencing:
Out of the 4 injections I’ve done with Yuflyma 2 of them the medicine didn’t go in when I did the shot. So i had to get a second needle out to do it. Obviously I let the company know and stuff but has anyone else had this happen? I thought the first time was a one off but then it happened again.
Also with Humira you are told to squeeze the fat on your stomach or inner thigh to do the needles. When i first started i did the thigh but then got comfortable with the stomach so i haven’t done my legs for 2 years now. I’m starting to get paranoid that by constantly doing injections in my stomach (even though I rotate sides and never try to do the same spot) it’s going to start leaving marks or making my stomach have bumps. So I went to do my thigh today with Yuflyma but it says not to squeeze the fat and do the front of your leg not the side which is what i did but I found it hurt a lot.
Hopefully this is a good spot to post this, I don’t really have anyone to talk to about it that understands. Thanks!

I keep having thoughts about death
My thoughts never end. I had obsessive thoughts about Religion then my classmate died. I got all sorts of thoughts about dying and anxiety it was so bad. It stopped and then the religious thoughts started popping up again. The thoughts stopped yesterday of the religious thing and then the death thoughts started coming. I started watching things about death, all this stuff. IM TERRIFED I HAVE BEEN FEELING UNEASY FOR THE PAST MONTH LIKE WHAT DO I DO. It scares me how someone can live their life ok without worrying about what I worry about. These thoughts make me think im gonna die. The thoughts keep saying "I feel like im ready to die" and all this stuff. I'm even more paranoid now because some guy kept showing up to are house for the 2nd time today he keeps looking around at our house and texting im scared earlier he went to everyone's hosue but this time I think he only came to ours im scared.
I feel like im dying or something but I don't want to. I don't like thinking about the future. I don't like having this uneasy feeling. Have yall had this and how did it go away?

I have routes, let's call them like ' add photo ' and 'update photo'. Both work fine in localhost, but when I use the exact same code on the server it doesn't overwrite the file , using node js + express + FS module and fs renameSync, any ideas how I could fix that
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Looking for advice for two situations.
Question #1:
I've been unemployed for >6 months. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I have FOUR companies all wanting interviews in this week. (Yay! Only took ~400 applications. Don't judge my numbers, I had health/personal issues during this time too.)
One of these companies is moving way faster than the other three. If I'd gotten this literally a week ago, I would have been thrilled that they're moving fast.
But of course, it's the one that pays the least of the four. ($30k+ less than the others.) Obviously, I'm willing to take it if the others fall through and I'll try to encourage them along faster... but even so, these things take time. Every company wants 3-4 interviews these days.
I will absolutely accept the offer and then quit if I'm not able to delay and get one of the paying jobs later. But how long is considered acceptable to delay before accepting an offer? A day or two? A week? Two weeks?
Question #2:
A couple months ago, I'm finishing up an interview with multiple team members and it finally comes to an end after >1 hour.
The lady leading the interview asks me to hang out for 1-on-1 chat after. I say sure, okay. This lady somehow (I still don't know how 🤣) quickly directs the conversation into insecurities (I guess I was nervous?) which immediately diverts into HER TRAUMA DUMPING ON ME.
I'm talking serious shit. Child abuse, child neglect, sexual stuff, foster homes, abuse leaving her crippled... all stuff she said she suffered through. Holy shit.
I still think this was insanely and wildly inappropriate. She was 100% responsible for that conversation direction & topic, I asked her nothing personal and I shared nothing personal about myself either. I am very private. I am still baffled how and why this happened.
When I don't know what to do, I freeze. It sucks. But I literally sat there in silence as she went on for ten minutes about all her trauma, just nodding and saying stuff like "oh, how awful" until I could finally escape.
(And of course after all that they ghosted me...)
I feel for her, that's a horrible childhood, but that is NONE of my business. My job is tech, not mental healthcare or something even remotely related.
WTF am I supposed to do in that situation? How do I cut something like that off professionally? I feel like anything I can think of to say would ruin my chance at the job. (If I wasn't desperate for ANY job at the time I would have withdrawn cause WTF but at that point I was desperate.)

So this has happened a few times already. I can never hear the 3rd person, has always been my friend or BF that briefly hears another voice for 30 secs.
Whenever I call someone lets say friend X. X says that either they can’t hear anything and must try me again. And once they ring me a second time they hear someone else on phone (not me). I don’t hear anything while this is happening, just silence on my end until I end the call and phone for another try.
This has happened whether I am the one calling my friend or friend is calling me. I can never hear the 3rd voice but my friends have heard this 3rd voice before the line goes through to me. The voice is either some man speaking english or someone speaking Chinese.
Is my phone hacked or do I have some virus? What do i do?
Edit: BTW my phone other than this is working perfectly like it has for the past few years that i’ve had it. No fishy apps installed other than the ones I have installed myself. Battery runs like it’s supposed to. No weird texts or any other thing that would make me think something is wrong with it.
Just occasionally my friends have told me that either when they call me the first call is dead silence even though we are both saying “hello” as the line has been picked up. Or they briefly hear this voice for the first few seconds before they can hear me. So they have to try me a 2nd time most times and then the call is fine.
I also have an iPhone 12 pro max.

I (27f) tried to break up with my (32m) boy friend of 5 years about 7 months ago and explained I felt that neither of us were growing in this relationship anymore and that we’ve been stagnant from the start, we talk big dreams always but never take a step towards it. I on the other hand have been trying to move out of our place for the last 2 years and he keeps quitting jobs and being jobless for a month or two at a time leaving me to all of our expenses and draining my bank every time. 7 months ago I also was a little more fixated on how we never do anything together we spend little to no time together we do not have normal conversations it’s almost like we’re room mates to be honest, and the chores are heavy on my shoulders most the time. I told him I can’t trust that he will change and he said word for word “that’s fair”. Now I did fuck up by having sex with him shortly after,,, we talked again and I was pretty upset but strong on wanting to leave, he begged me not to and ya know the works so I stayed. 7 months later he’s done nothing to make me want to stay here, if anything he’s gotten worse. A few weeks ago he cried to me and said he feels my not wanting him around and to just tell him if that’s the case but this all revolved around the fact that I didn’t want to have sex with him that night, he’s truly only nice to me when he thinks he’s going to get lucky that night which doesn’t make me feel great, guess what I’m saying here is I do not know how to about this the second time around, I’m more confident and less sad this time around but I feel I’ll come off more cold this time, which I don’t want to do I still love him and I have no resentment towards him but I don’t think this relationship is healthy and happy for me anymore (mind you I have been his only serious relationship) which to me makes it harder as I know he will resentment for this oh and we live together which I’ve never broken up with someone I LIVE with and I do not know how to do this, like would it be fucked for me to state the way I feel and that I want to break up and just start packing. I know this may sound cynical coming from my end but there’s been a lot over the years that has factored into now but I’ve looked past all of it as I love him but I can’t keep being his mommy I’m wasting my literal twenties with him holding his hand and literally supporting him
TLDR: my boyfriend begged me not to leave seven months ago and I’m back at step one trying to leave again but don’t know how to go about it with out being mean and cold and also don’t know how to go about moving out

ch0 -- [already written]. City Alpha of Ikun, Nyektak-pack is in the Bastion, the official City Alpha residence, working through the annual agenda that the Lawspeakers have passed them for Y932. Along the way, they begin discussing what kind of legacy they'll leave behind after they're dead and gone, whether everything they've built will be torn apart in a day or stand for a thousand years. The pack's alpha Nyektak Tun points out that Ikun stands in a precarious position and what they do now will have a huge impact. The economy is stagnating due to jobs being replaced by robots and automation, the environment is collapsing, leading to huge waves of refugees from the equatorial Dunelands. Further, their geopolitical enemy Koranah city-state is rapidly catching up economically and militarily, and sensing blood in the water with regards to Ikun's hegemony, is becoming increasingly aggressive with its foreign policy. Nyektak Nyak suggests that geoengineering can be used to stabilize things, with tools such as weather control satellites and ecological nanobots. However, this is regarded as a critical security threat by Tun, as Koranah is ahead of Ikun in this field, so if a global Climate Control System is created, then it is likely Koranah-based companies and Koranah technology that will tie the whole system together, leading them to have an outsized role. Such a thing is regarded as politically dangerous, as it could pose a threat to the Hegemony even without Koranah overturning Ikun's nuclear monopoly. And it won't even create many jobs in Ikun, so it won't resolve the economic concerns. Nyak points out that it's not politically viable to simply ban geoengineering without the state coming up with a better idea. After a long discussion, it is Nyektak Aykay who finally has a breakthrough idea. They will create a starship to send a military occupation force to planet TRK-16-3 (aka Earth......). Not only will this create enormous numbers of jobs in Ikun to revitalize the economy, but it will demonstrate to the rest of the world that Ikun still has an unmatched ability to project military force even at interstellar distances, and give the citizens of Ikun hope that they can seek out a better life on another planet. Indeed for this reason, it is called Project Hope.
ch1 -- [already written] Nyektak-pack makes an unexpected appearence in the Hall of Power, where Ikun's Lawspeakers convene, looking to make some deals and exert some pressure in order to get Project Hope put on the annual agenda. They have identified that a certain Lawspeaker Ronyr-pack is the most influential pack in the Lawspeakers' Association at present, and so speak to them first, the idea being that they will be able to pull the strings necessary to approve Project Hope. Although Lawspeaker Ronyr-pack are initially skeptical, they agree to assist after Nyektak-pack promises an array of political favors, including guaranteeing that Ikoin Corporation--which Ronyr-pack own significant stock in--will be the main contractor for Project Hope, and reducing the taxes they collect on healthcare workers, who are present in large numbers in Ronyr-pack's district. However, Ronyr-pack is just the first Lawspeaker that Nyektak-pack will have to deal with; in order to ensure that Project Hope actually gets onto the agenda, they also have to make a separate deal with Ronyr-pack's enemy Lawspeaker Radenkiut-pack, who have the second-largest group of allies in the Lawspeaker's Association. Nevertheless, City Alpha Nyektak-pack gets what they want--zero restrictions on raising funds for Project Hope, coupled with a ban on geoengineering tech and directives to pursue sanctions against other city-states that don't join them in doing so, thereby inhibiting the rise of a Climate Control System as an alternative to Project Hope. As Nyektak Aykay points out, these two agenda items reinforce each other; one can't be overturned without also overturning the other.
ch2 -- Icen-pack is a struggling pack of construction workers in Ikun in Y934, who always have to be on the constant lookout for their next gig, as jobs are scarce and hard to come by. They are currently working on a new skyscraper in Ikun's well-to-do District 7, including the flying buttresses that extend over the surrounding roads to interconnect with the supports of adjacent buildings, as typical with Kyanah architecture. Even now they are already even as they work leveraging advanced algorithms to predict the next opening so they can apply before anyone else. Things are made even more cutthroat by the increasingly widespread use of wearable sensors to identify the best performers, and the fact that immigrants from the Dunelands tend to be willing to work for lower wages, which drives pay down for everyone and often forces native Ikun packs to work even harder to justify their wages. As they work, Icen Korak (who, like Kei and Nuyu, grew up in the industry, as their birth-packs worked in construction) laments that things used to be simpler when he was growing up, and packs didn't have to constantly fight against each other to land building jobs, and there were more full time positions instead of the constant data-driven scramble for gigs. Icen-pack's alpha Naiun, as well as Karok, mostly take this in stride, having not grown up in the industry and thus not being as familiar with it, but the rest agree with Korak. Karok points out that it's not a huge surprise, considering how few buildings are being built in the current economy and how even a skyscraper can be built with just a couple dozen packs with current technology, but still nobody is happy with the status quo. They contemplate trying to sabotage the metrics of their coworkers, suspecting that others will do the same to them, taking advantage of the new wearable sensors that are measuring performance; however Naiun insists that they will be fine if they just work hard and be honest, and seeing as she is the pack's alpha that kind of shuts the idea down. They also contemplate having another pair of young, in addition to their current pair Raktan and Tyorek, but money is at present too tight for that. However, Project Hope is announced to the public in an address by Nyektak-pack on state TV. They are initially all a bit confused why Ikun is planning an interstellar invasion, but Kei realizes that Project Hope will serve as a huge jobs program and speculates that this will have knock-on effects across the rest of the economy, and jobs for them will once again be plentiful, putting the whole pack on a hopeful note.
ch3 -- Ryen-pack is graduating from the prestigious Nktan University (in the neighboring city-state of Nktan obviously) and becoming scholars of the first rank. While they all agree they are going to miss the university, they all look forward to going back to Ikun and what comes ahead, as they will be starting work at a prestigious influencing firm in Ikun, basically working with the government to have laws changed for their clients. Ryen Kerok, the pack's Alpha, is especially eager to change the world, believing that they will be able to do a lot of good by influencing the highest levels of Ikun's government for their future clients. Teren is mostly thinking about the high salary that will enable them to have children quickly, whereas young packs in Ikun have to save for years. As for Kaun, she occupies something of a middle ground between the two. Ryen Konyan has the most misgivings about everything, about leaving Nktan University for the "real world", about the possibility that they'll end up working for corrupt clients and doing more harm than good, and about bringing children into a dying world, especially with the onset of Project Hope, which they all agree is stupid and short-sighted, but don't think the government will actually go through with building the starships and launching the military expedition to Earth. They are also concerned about the geoengineering ban, believing that Koranah city-state and their allies will just ignore it, giving them even more control over the future Climate Control System. And so they make their way back to Ikun to begin their careers at the influencing firm Kortak-Dakayan Corporation, a bit hopeful but also a bit uncertain about the future.
ch4 -- some lawspeakers and the city alpha are being shown the initial stages of technological progress on Project Hope in Y935 at Toryak University, the most prestigious university in Ikun. An enormous supercomputer complex has been constructed, using the Kyanahs' signature mechanical computers and is being used to research interstellar propulsion methods. Although many of the scientists are a little skeptical of Project Hope, they do appreciate the huge influx of funding to pursue their research. Nyektak-pack is impressed that the complex has been constructed in only a year (technically it's still under construction, but experiments are already underway as the city-state has imposed some very tough deadlines on them), but as the lead scientist-pack points out, it wasn't so difficult when they had a blank check from the Ikun government. However, they have some bad news: they've been attempting to design an interstellar engine using nuclear pulse propulsion, but despite their best efforts to optimize the design, it will only be able to reach 4% of light speed, which as they point out means that humanity will possibly be more technologically advanced than their own military by the time Project Hope arrives. The main problem is that the casing and detonation mechanisms of the nukes are basically dead weight. It seems that there may be a way around this by using antimatter-catalyzed nuclear propulsion, where small quantities of antimatter are fed into nuclear material to force a reaction without needing a bunch of actual nukes. However, this further has the problem that it will require grams of antimatter, meaning that a huge particle accelerator in the PeV range will have to be built. But if this can be done, the engines will be able to reach the required 7.5% of light speed. Much to the scientists' shock, Nyektak-pack immediately agrees to fund this accelerator. However, in private this prompts an argument between them as they don't actually have available funds, even if they funnel money from non-Hope agenda items into the project. The realize that Ikun can't do it alone while also building the starships themselves, they need funds and technical expertise from other city-states to build it, and will need to use their influence in the Coalition of Cities to get it, possibly in exchange for dipolmatic concessions that may destabilize Ikun's already precarious Hegemony. Meanwhile, we are also introduced to Nyektor-pack, a student of the second rank working on the supercomputing project while nurturing big dreams to someday be scholar of the third rank, at which point they aspire to start a research group to solve the many technical problems that must be solved for Project Hope to be successful.
ch5 -- A certain Ryen-pack--none other than Ryen Kerok's birth-pack--are working at one of Ikun's top universities, where their life's work has revolved around developing ecological nanobots that can break down pollutants in the soil. However, with enforcement of Y934 Agenda Item 579 beginning (banning technology associated with the Climate Control System), their entire life's work has now been forbidden by the government. Even many of their own students have bought into the official propaganda that this technology is dangerous and unreliable, and must be banned, much to their anger and disgust. They have continued working right up until the day the ban comes into effect, but a pack of university administrators orders them to destroy their research as the police will soon be arriving to shut the department down. Many harsh words are exchanged between Ryen-pack and the administrators, but ultimately there's nothing they can do except wipe their computers and destroy their prototypes before the police show up. After this, they reach out to their son Kerok's pack, which causes Kerok to wonder what is going on in their lives and if they want to be ikoin (kyanah term for friends/allies, but more explicitly transactional) but the elder Ryen-pack is retiring and leaving Ikun for the northern scrublands. Kerok urges them to stay and use their brilliant minds to do some good in Ikun, including the younger Ryen-pack's future children (even telling them that they will name one of their young after the elder Ryen-pack's alpha, Ayen), but the elder pack has made up their mind, they're done trying to pursue science while the government keeps interfering with their work, but tell the younger pack that the young are the future of Ikun, and if they want to save the planet, they must optimize their young for the cause, a message which seems to resonate most with Kerok and less with some of the others, especially Konyan.
ch6 -- Aktektan-pack is a large pack with many young who works long and arduous hours at an Ikoin Corporation factory assembling bombs and missiles for meager pay. After another mind numbing and monotonous day of working and getting into petty fights with coworkers during Y936, they head home to their tiny rundown apartment and engage in their typical pasttime of watching TV, especially Ikun's state TV, which triumphantly reports that Project Hope is already proving to be a massive boon to the economy. The fact that they've receieved a small bonus this year further convinces them that this is unquestionably true. They immediately proceed to spend their bonus on alcohol and pro-government merch. After Nedak realizes that their rent has increased as well by the same amount as their bonus, he angrily accuses their alpha Nyaken of mismanaging their money, to which Nyaken accuses the other females in the pack--Karien and Tanun--of laying too many eggs and creating too many mouths to feed, though their seems to be an undercurrent of jealousy in her rants, which leads to a physical fight between the members of Aktektan-pack. Later, Karien reveals that she's actually laid another egg--actually only one, which is seen as a sign of bad luck, as Kyanah lay eggs in pairs. These arguments ultimately peter out as the pack ends up falling asleep whilst watching a rather jingoistic movie.
ch7 -- Ptorya-pack lives in Adronkin, a city-state in the scorching hot Dunelands that is poorer, less developed, and much smaller than Ikun, where they're assistant administrators at a local textile factory. An unseasonally strong and dangerous sandstorm strikes, causing considerable damage to the factory and disrupting operations. Some workers, including Ptorya Llrien speculates that city-state officials including the City Alpha have been embezzling money intended for fortifying local buildings against sandstorms and spending it on luxury cars and mansions instead, but Ptorya-pack's alpha Rytor advises everyone not to ask too many questions about it and just focus on repairing the factory so they can all get back to work. At their home, which is quite small and spartan; despite them being white collar workers in the top 10% of earners in Adronkin, it would be a poor pack's apartment in Ikun; they notice clouds of irritating industrial smog containing lots of coal dust wafting in from the south and find several dead thukukenoids (creatures which float through the air like balloons, filter feeding on airborne spores and vegetation) lying around their neighborhood; Nekyez notes that they seem to have been dying off in droves as of late, though Rytor dismisses this as probably nothing and tells Nekyez not to worry their pack's young children. As they eat their day-meal, the subject of Project Hope comes up; they seem to be a bit bemused about Ikun's plans to launch an interstellar conquest (as Ntreyn points out, "the blue people always have crazy ideas") but they are hopeful about reports that Ikun is reviving its economy and will continue to remain a hyperpower, as they see Ikun and its military as bringers of peace and order, especially as they provided aid and peacekeeping some years ago when Adronkin was struck by a wave of deadly sandstorms. Llrien offhandedly mentions that she sometimes wishes that they were in Ikun and Rytor says that it would take a long time and be very difficult to get in, but concedes that it would probably be better for their young to grow up there.

Would there be several new knifemakers interested in free blanks? Whoever wants them would pay their own shipping. I'm thinking priority mail (in a box) would be a preferred method to ship out the blades. I would prefer for the blanks to go to newbies with limited tools. Most are finished but one or 2 have no bevels. There's no way you will finish these blanks with files as they're already hardened. You would need some type of belt grinder to grind the ones that don't have bevels. I have 3 52100 and 2 W2 blanks that I have no use for. I want to say they're around 63-64 hrc. I think I have a cpm 20cv (60 hrc) that I was going to make into a paring knife but I wasn't happy with the hardness. It was when I first got my kiln and I was experimenting. Some have the matched bevels perfectly ground already. I might have others but I need to look first. You would need to hand sand or grind the dykem and possibly small scratches along ricasso and the flats that I made to grind my bevels too. I will only ship one blank per person that way several people can have a chance to finish a blank. First come first serve as long as you pay the shipping. The last time I shipped a finished chef knife it was 9-10 bucks for priority mail. The reason I don't want them is because I don't like simple carbon steel. I tried to get into it and I don't care to do the extra work to care for a simple carbon steel knife. I mainly work with stainless steels now. All these blanks were HT'd in a kiln and quenched in the proper quenching oil. I have parks 50 and AAA, and use aluminum plates, Liquid Nitrogen to HT stainless steels. All blanks have been HRC tested by me with hrc tester. The W2 blanks were quenched in water. They wouldn't harden with parks 50. Hopefully, I can pass these to people who really are interested in the hobby. I would make a later post with the blanks numbered if there's enough interest and they would be given out in the order people respond. I dont think we can discuss money on the forum so I would ask you to message me for the shipping amount I spent. I would provide you with pics of receipt and tracking number if you desire.

I just started a new job that’s work from home but I’m on calls constantly throughout the day. I noticed the people here (even upper management) are very friendly and conversational.
But I come from a workplace that was nothing like this and instead, was very monotone and transactional. I got used to not having to make small talk and being friendly.
I think this bit me in this ass, cause now I have no idea what to say when someone starts small talk with me. My manager is friendly and I never know how to keep a conversation going. But I realized all my coworkers can keep a conversation going with her for at least 10-15 minutes.
It’s mostly her: “how are you?” Me: good, and you? Her: good awkward silence Her: okay let’s talk about this project
Idk, I’m a little bummed out that I can’t keep talking and just be myself. I just laugh awkwardly and would rather talk about work to avoid all the awkwardness.
How do I fix this? Any tips are appreciated.

My wife and I ordered from our local Asian restaurant on a delivery app, ended up getting someone else’s order with like double the food, and we ain’t complaining tbh. Are we assholes for not speaking up and just accepting the food?
Edit: My wife says it’s worth mentioning we didn’t realize it was someone else’s order until we started eating, as this restaurant is known for hooking you up with a good amount of food around closing time for less waste, and a few bites in we actually decided to look at the receipt and saw someone else’s name on it

So my (32f) boyfriend (39m) and I have been together for 14 years. He help me get accepted to college, and I always tough that we were walking "parallel lines" and some parts of the road were the same, like becoming a couple, living together and such.
We do NOT live together, we're in such a position that I can afford leaving my place and he lives in a very expensive zone he doesn't want to leave. He started talking things like red pills talk, but just the "reasonable things", don't know how else to explain. But he started acting like I'm just a lowsy hobo and I need to catch up with him. Edit. Some times he makes bad comments about my physical appearance making it sound like that's what other ppl think. For example "your neighbor must think 'that fat with the crazy hair is very annoying'", for context I was having a dump argument with a neighbor. But I'm getting that kind of comments from him 3-4 times at weeks. He always talks to me in a very condescending way. Honestly, I've been rummaging through my memories and there's so many red flags i just overlook. Mostly from 3-5 years to today.
Such as:
Trying to breaking yo because I had depression and was saying about how hard everything was. I had to lie about me being somewhere because according to him he actually saw me. He decided I should stop talking to my friends, specially the one whom socioeconomic status is under mine or such (but that's my choice, he just advising) Inviting me to places but then expected me to pay in the spot. It's just... 14 years is too much and I just at lose.
If anyone read this, thanks.

Name says it all, looking for some people to learn/practice playing tennis with through drop-in tennis at the athletic centre and/or Ramsden park (if you can wake up early). Ideally 1-2x a week.

Been with my fiance "41M" for a little over 4 years. He knows I "31F" wanted children since we started dating. Whenever the conversation is brought up it get pushed to another time to talk about it. This has happened multiple times....when we first started dating there was a time my cyle was late he saw a test in the trash can and asked the result. He also had a conversation when we were early into the relationship asking Bout children cause he was thinking about getting a vasectomy... well I flat out asked the other day just something about the situation was giving me bad vibes..he had a look I've never seen and was like "How'd you know?"
Well I didn't know at all. How can someone just withhold information like that? I don't know how to feel but I feel lied too... and really hurt by the whole situation. Not to mention he is now acting like every is normal..

Hi
About me 45 M, have a stable job, I’m an adult and have my shit together. I’m 5’11 dad bod, I have pictures I can share. I like to go out and have fun, but still responsible. I enjoy music and concerts, sports, cooking, travel, sometimes just getting out there and doing something new.
I’m just looking for someone online to start, I’d hope that we can connect in a way that feels like we’ve known each other forever. I’m open to seeing how far this connection could go. It’s Reddit so my hopes on this are pretty low. Honestly I’d be surprised if any one responded. I’m not too hung up on looks, it’s more about personality and how we make each other feel when we talk. That being said if you’ve got an accent like a southern, mid west, Scottish English, or Irish I’d be extra excited to talk.