Funny happy new year postcard

Happy Thursday, how is it going?
I am looking to find new connections, make friends, vibe and chat.
Getting to know new people and the fun that comes from that is one of my favorite things. I am free through out the day for chatting so your time zone does not matter much to me, although locals are very welcome.
I enjoy fitness, travel, gaming, and reading. I am currently focused on my running as I am training for a marathon. I find the most joy in life from travel and exploring a new culture and sights. I would describe myself as a fit nerdy guy that can actually hold a conversation. How would you describe yourself?
Hope to hear from you!

Hey everyone,
I’m a 22-year-old woman, and my fiancé is 38. We met two years ago, and things moved pretty quickly from there. Within three months, I was pregnant, and now our son is 10 months old. Initially, everything seemed great, but now I’m feeling really miserable.
When we first met, he convinced me to move into his house, which was 40 minutes away from mine. At the time, it felt right, but looking back, I think it was too rushed. I had just gotten my own place, which I loved, but I was eager to be in a relationship.
Moving in with him meant leaving behind my first house and a lot of my belongings. When I tried to bring some of my things, like a new microwave, he wouldn’t let me because he doesn’t believe in them. This was a red flag for me, especially since the house was already fully his, decorated and furnished to his liking.
Now, I’m missing my old apartment and the freedom to decorate as I please. His house feels suffocating, especially with one room packed full of his hoarded items that he keeps saying he’ll sell but never does. I’m feeling overwhelmed and like I have no space of my own.
My mental health has been suffering, and I’m starting to think being in this house is a big part of it. Any advice on how to approach this situation would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

I’m a single 27 year old woman currently in a remote job with a gross salary of $80K.
I have 131K available to me (~109K in short term bonds, $2.6K in savings, $19K in ETFs).
The house is in the Lake Country area in southeastern Wisconsin.
Pros:

• Good family neighborhood (not that I want kids) a mile walk from the small downtown
• I am living in the house now with my parents as they build their forever home, so I’m familiar with the house and its problems
• The area is growing in popularity, so it would be a good investment
• My parents are near by, so I could use their tools, some of their help
• My parents have already fixed all the emergency repairs
• Buying process will be much simpler

Cons:

• I don’t want to live in this area (although I have been since we moved to this area)

About me:

• The only time I have lived without my parents was my first two years of college (I went to college close by).
• I still need to buy a car
• I'm open to a roommate

Repairs the house needs in the medium term:

• New back deck
• New windows (they were quoted $20K, but opted not to move forward)
  • Turns out $20K buys a lot of natural gas for heating
• New front path to the front door (it’s kind of a liability for renters)
• New fence for the backyard

They think I should buy a condo where I want to live, but I think condos are messy arrangements with strangers and my understanding is they have poorer investment returns compared to single family homes. They say they aren't discouraging me from buying the house, but all they can think of are reasons I shouldn't buy the house. I think this is a unique opportunity to buy a home, and I don't feel like I could buy a home otherwise.
If I have to move / want to move, I feel like I could “just” rent the place out. The market rate for rent for this home is $2K/month.
I know homeownership is a big responsibility and is overwhelming, although I don't think there is any way to avoid that as a first time homeowner.

I have a 2017 Elantra that's in very good shape (40k miles on it). I have ~$3k left on the loan and I was thinking about paying it off in full just to get rid of monthly payments. The real question I have is should I trade it in and use that as a down payment on a new vehicle?
I like the car, but it is very basic compared to today's standards. No real phone compatibility (doesn't recognize my galaxy for some reason), so I have to use Bluetooth. No back up camera or cruise control, no in car nav system. I don't mind not having these things. I thought about paying it off and riding it until it starts to fall apart since I hardly drive (WFH). But I will eventually have to put a down payment on another vehicle and at that point, assuming it's 4-5 years from now, I'll have to basically pay out of pocket since my vehicle won't have much trade-in value.
Should I trade it in sooner rather than later and buy/lease something newer? And is leasing better than buying? I just hate the idea of "paying rent" on a vehicle and at the end of the lease having nothing to help with a down payment on something new.

Hiii I am a 21 year old female from China who is studying drama scriptwriter in university. I like listening to music, playing games and watching anime. I enjoy making friends and learning about different cultures. I was recently interested in a Japanese idol and wanted to learn Japanese from scratch in order to better understand what he was saying. And I also want to travel to Japan in the future! I'm very interested in Japanese culture. Of course, if you are a peer in another language country and are interested in Mandarin Chinese, you can also contact me! I will be happy to share and communicate with you. Thanks for reading this far~^v^

I posted here 6 weeks ago about my last nanny who was questionably going to kidnap my 15 month old. Well, she has been gone for a month and it has been a breath of fresh air in our home. Our new nanny was recommended to us by a mutual contact. Her first day was April 16th. She is bringing her daughter who is a little over a month older than my son. We had wanted him to get more socialization and because this person came so highly recommended, we accepted that care would be split between the 2 babies versus just 1. We pay less than we did for our last nanny as well because she is bringing her child.
Things have been going really well, except... 2 weeks ago she mentioned that her 3 almost 4 year old niece who her brother splits custody of was going to be out of preschool for the summer and could she occasionally come over with them. We should have asked the frequency in hindsight (you already see where this is going). We at the time said yes, thinking it would be once every few weeks.
Last week, she was just dropped off at our house with no heads up for 1 full day and 1 half day. Today, our nanny came in with her, so another full day. We told her we didn't expect her niece to be with her today, and she said it was because her mom (grandma of the niece) had 2 dog vet appointments and needed her to take the niece. Look, I get it. Being a parent is hard. Summer is hard. But, we had to find childcare. We want to be supportive of her, however, 1) this takes already split attention more off of our child, 2) we do not run a daycare, 3) we haven't met the niece's parents ever and god forbid if something happened to her in our home (if she fell and hurt herself for example), what would they do, 4) we are paying her, this is not her doing us a favor.
This is the third time this has happened and we plan to have a conversation with her TODAY (both had to run to work calls this morning) about this. We were willing to make concessions since it is just for the summer if it truly was occasional and not weekly. What would you do if you were us?
I am so tired of having problems with the people we are trusting AND PAYING to watch our child and so tired of feeling like we are being taken advantage of in some way.

My store hired someone like a year ago as a closing drive-through person. She didn’t know what she was doing. I asked her multiple times. Are you OK? Do you need help? Probably the most embarrassing thing out of that entire experience. She was handed a $50 bill customer customers ordered it was like $20 something she was like can you help me? I don’t know what I’m doing so as I’m helping her my other manager y’all to me what are you doing? You’re supposed to be on this. What are you doing so I’m like I’m trying to teach new girl how to correctly give out change so she’ll stop fucking up peoples orders giving out the wrong ordeorder change but I mean if you wanna lose money and get complaints that’s fine by me. I don’t get paid enough anyway. She got fired and then her mom called corporate whining about my daughter. Doesn’t get enough hours.

Our wine preferences tend to New World, relatively easy drinkers, a bit fruit-forward and medium to low tannins - think Washington Cabernets, including blends. We are not fans of, for example, most Tempranillos, as they tend to express too much "earth" and "leathesaddle." This leads us not to be fans of most natural wines, as they tend to be too funky/barnyard (whether its Brett or VA or other byproducts, I'm not expert enough to say)
Given that, can you recommend a good wine bar in Copenhagen that is not focussed on natural wines? I know its a big ask since natty wines are the big thing now. And while we're not adverse to experimenting, we often like a glass of what we like.
To the extent its relevant to the venue, we're a 60 year old American couple (which maybe you guessed from the wine description!!)
Thanks

Good morning PF!
After finishing my bachelors, I started a new job ~6 months ago with great benefits and an employer-sponsored 401k with a 3.5% match and low-cost index funds (Vanguard retirement funds!). The catch is, I don't believe the employer will begin matching my contributions until I've been employed for a year. I was eligible to start contributing 3 months ago and have been putting in the 3.5% without match - but I'm wondering if it would be better to pause contributions for the next 6 months until the match goes into effect to focus on my wife and I's student loans.
Here's a quick breakdown of the loan balances, rates, and date started for reference - all are federal. We will likely be taking a few more as my wife goes back to school this fall.
Subsidized (not currently making payments): 5/1/23 - $3,500 @ 4.99% 9/1/23 - $1,500 @ 5.5% 1/1/24 - $1,490 @ 5.5%
Unsubsidized (making payments to stay ahead of interest) 8/1/23 - $2,000 @ 5.5% 1/1/24 - $2,000 @ 5.5% 1/1/24 - $4,977 @ 7.05% (graduate degree, current balance of $3,140)
We are currently throwing all our excess cash at my graduate loans. It's right at the level of interest that starts to make me uncomfortable so I'm hoping to get rid of it ASAP and avoid taking any extra for the remainder of my degree (graduating July - August). Also, the extra cash flow will be helpful - I'd rather not wait until the loans start requiring minimum payments.
Other pertinent info: we have a 3-month emergency fund, and I have a reasonable amount in my prior employer's 401k where I was matched 5% for 2 years - but that job paid 40% less than I'm currently making. We have a newborn, and I'm the sole income for the household for the foreseeable future. Our income should increase again within the next 2-3 years as I finish my master's and CPA exams.
I imagine it doesn't truly make-or-break any part of our finances, being it's only 6 months of 3.5% - but I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Creation of the Realms
In the beginning there where two beings one of Light and one of Dark Aether one represented Creation and the other Destruction, both of these entities created the Realms of Draakana and Avalar which would become the homes of various species but especially Dragons which where created by the beings to bring forth magic into the realms. However they also created one specific Dragon a purple one that would be able to control all elements including Aether itself, this purple Dragon and all the ones that would follow would protect the Realms and bring an era of change either whether good or bad was up for the Dragon themselves to decide.
The Banishment of the Dragons
Formerly the Dragons lived in what is now known as the Forgotten Realms it was here where their species truly flourished, they build much of realms infrastructure and brought an era of peace across all species in these lands. It was during these times when the connection with Avalar was first founded and both realms entered an age of progress, however eventually a certain Sorceress grew to resent the Dragons believing them to hoard all the magic for themselves and banished them to the other side of the world, and with this the magic across the Forgotten Realms would slowly fade away over time with the portal that led to Avalar being the first to close.
The Founding of the Dragon Realms
When the Dragons awoke in the land they found themselves in they slowly but surely recreated their new home on the Island which would eventually become Dreamweavers. However this Island would eventually become to small for their civilization, and one brave Sea Dragon would set out to find a new home for her and her children. And after a long and exhausting swim she found land but after dragging herself to shore she collapsed and passed away her children would become the first inhabitans of what is now known as Dragon Shores, with the other Dragons following soon after.
The events of the OG trilogy happen
A thousand years after the Dragons have made their home in the new Realms a new purple Dragon was born who became known as Spyro, and whilst Spyro was mostly a thrill seeking young Dragon who didn't care about things such as destiny he would through his adventures bring the Realms into a new age of peace and prosperity. His story began when a creature known as Gnasty Gnorc who after causing much mischief across the Realms because he felt that he didn't fit in with the other creatures, with him having a particular interest in learing magic this caused the Dragons to eventually banish him to the Junkyard which Gnasty build his own kingdom in with him creating othe Gnorcs out of the stolen treasures of the Dragons.
Now Gnasty Always had plans to one day return to the Dragon Realms and take it for himself but after being insulted on live television he decided to put that plan into action now, and with one devasting hit of magic all the Dragons where turned into statues except for Spyro who didn't know it at the time but his ties to Aether had protected him from Gnasty's magic. After this Spyro would go about his first adventure freeing all the Dragons and collecting their stolen gems and eggs all ending with him torching Gnasty, of course Spyro didn't cause any permanent harm to him just enough to hopefully teach him a lesson
Sortly after Spyro's first adventure he found himself into a new mess, having brought to the Realms of Avalar which has been taking over by a small creature called Ripto nobody fully knows where Ripto has come from, perhaps a realm far away from both Draakana and Avalar but seeing how he has a hatred for Dragons it shows that he lives in a place near them. It is during this adventure that Spyro starts to take his role as a purple Dragon more serious whether unintional or not, with him bringing the various warring races of Avalar together and bringing peace across the lands and eventually leading to both Avalar and Draakana re-establishing contact. This adventure eventually ending in him defeating Ripto (or so it seems) and getting the vacation he wanted in the first place.
And now Spyro's last adventure of the og trilogy atleast, after a Thousand years of the magic slowly disapearing in the Forgotten Realms the Sorceress also notices that the magic she uses to keep herself alive is fading as well, with the signs of aging apearing across her body. Not just this but the portals across the Realms are shutting off one by one which would cause trouble for her dominion over the lands, she eventually caught wind of a young dragons adventures and learns where the Dragons have choosen to live after she banished them, and send her apprentice Bianca to steal their eggs, with Bianca believing that she wanted to bring the Dragons back to the Forgotten Realms to bring the magic back. Of course it was Spyro's job to get the Eggs back together with Hunter who choose to travel with Spyro to the Dragon Realms after his adventure in Avalar, and much like before Spyro would help the inhabitans of the Forgotten Realms and thanks to his Aether magic the longer he stays in the Realms the more the magic came back.
A short while into their adventure Hunter and Bianca would start to interact and would begin to catch feelings for eachother, much to the chagrin of Spyro which to be fair if your best friend felt in love with somebody who kidnapped the babies of your species you would not be happy either. But luckily for Spyro after Bianca learned that what the Sorceress plan is for the baby Dragons she would start to help Spyro and Hunter, and eventually Spyro would defeat the Sorceress once in her castle and later for good in the super bonus round.
After this the Forgotten Realms restablished contact with the Dragon Realms and became known as the United Realms under Bianca's leadership, it was also after this that the portal to Avalar was permantly openend only in the United Realms instead of the Dragon Realms thanks to the Professor having to go of old tomes, of course this was easily remedied when the Dragons gave the proper coordinates. This resulted in the cultural exchange between all Realms and a large group of Avalarians to move to Draakana, who created the Valley of New Avalar or just the Valley of Avalar as most called it.
What came after
Most of the events that happenend after the Forgotten Realms are of minor note, such as Spyro freeing the Fairylands from Grendor and saving the Dragonflies twice with the second time being caused by Ripto. The one thing of note with this even is that Spyro started to experiment with a different element mainly bubble breath, which he got access to thanks to Bianca who uncovered runes from the old dragon civilization it is even believed that these runes where created by the first Purple Dragon.
And now we get to the interesting bits, an elder by the name of Red got corrupted by the Sorcerer to plant Dark Gems (which another Dark Master would use later), in order to drain the land of Magic. And whilst Spyro would of course defeat Red the Sorcerer was in the meantime looking into the origins of Aether and the Purple Dragon, this let him to the Shadow Realm a place beyond creation. And after the defeat of Red he set his plan into motion to tap into these Shadow Realms by releasing the Calamity, which trapped everyone from Draakana and Avalar in the Shadow Realm whilst also draining them of their magic, it is also thanks to his meddling with Dark Aether that resulted in his Purple scales. And whilst Spyro would defeat him just like any other villain before hand the Calamity would have had irreparable damage to the world such as the formation of the Ancient Grove a poisonous forest that corrupts all that enter it. And it even changed the nature of the Purple Dragon.
The Age of Malefor
After an unknown amount of time Spyro would grow older and more powerfull having returned to his home of Artisans but some noticed that he would start to behave oddly, he would start to become more and more obsessed with Aether and other elements and eventually fell to the temptations of Dark Aether. This let him to be exiled and he eventually found himself in a place where Dark Aether was most abundant a place that would eventually become the well of souls. If only the Elders had paid attention to Spyro they would have noticed the weird glow in his eyes, and the fact that it looked as if there was something missing. This now soulless husk that was once the Hero of the Realms completely taken over by Dark Aether now dubbed himself Malefor the Dark Master, and he let a campaign of terror against his own kind, destroying the Artisans homeworld leaving it as a useless ruins that got covered up by the ground only to be rediscovered in the future and be renamed as the Ruins of Warfang. The same happenend to the Dream Weavers which Malefor let fall to the ground destroying the landscape and distorting it with runaway magic. Together with his Ape army he waged war agains all other Realms, using the improved Dark Gems now known as Dark Crystals to drain magic of both Dragons and other creatures to fuel his army and ambitions. Luckily for the rest of the world the Dragon Elders and Spyro's old friends managed to corner Malefor and trap him in the Shadow Realms or atleast his Essence, whilst the evil force that has taken his souls place was trapped in the well of Souls.
The Legend begins
Despite Malefor being trapped the damage was still done, much of the world was without magic and the portals became useless, not just that but many started to mistrust Dragons thanks to the ongoing war and many dragons have been killed during the war. But all would change when a new Purple Dragon would be born, who would for some reason insist on being called Spyro not even he knows why. After an attack from the apes on his home with the Dragonflies Spyro learns he isn't one of them and sets out to find where he belongs. It was at this moment that the found Ignitus the Dragon that was task with gaurding the eggs all those years ago, and after learning his name he was of course suprised but the decided to keep it to himself. After their meeting Spyro and Ignitus would retake the Temple and set out to save the othe Gaurdians from Cynder, with him traveling to the Elemental islands which cumulated in him ending up saving Ignitus in the ruins of Dreamweavers now known as the Concurrent Skies, it was here where Spyro learned about Cynders past and followed her to Convexity the place where the Dragon Realms and the Shadow Realms meet. And where Spyro and Cynder fought and whilst Spyro did defeat and save Cynder from her corruption but Malefor's essence is freed from the Shadow Realm, since then Cynder lived with Spyro and the Gaurdians at the Temple but what she has done under Malefors control still haunts her.
A couple of weeks later the Eternal Night approaches an event where the two celestial moons would eclipse and allow spirits to wander the Well of Souls, Spyro would be sent out to stop the Ape king Gaul and to find Cynder who fled the Dragon Temple thanks to her guilt, with spyro also having been tasked with finding the chronicler who has been contacting Spyro in his dreams. Spyros first stop would be the Ancient Grove a large forest that was corrupted by Dark Aether during the Calamity that at this point happenend centuries ago, and is gaurded by Arborik a large tree golem that was created by Malefor as an artificial soldier. But after Spyro defeated him he was kidnapped by a group of pirates and forced into an arena, it was during this time he got a letter addressed by Hunter of Avalar and had a short reunion with Cynder before Gauls forces attacked the pirates and kidnapped her, Spyro used the distraction to escape the pirates but during is flight away from the ship he fell unconscious thanks to the Chronicler, only to be saved by a leviathan who brought him to the shores of the White Isle.
The White Isle is an ancient Island that houses all of Dragon knowledge and is believed to have been created since the beginning of time, with the first Chronicler being also the first Purple Dragon. After Spyro met the Chronicler he told him that he led Spyro here to wait out Malefors return, but after Spyro learned that this would cause Cynder to return to Malefors control he choose to go to the Well of Souls to stop him there and then. And after a long battle on his way to the top and a fight against Gaul who incapacitated Cynder Spyro would fall in the energy beam that sat at the center of the arena, which caused Dark Aether to start corrupting the young Dragon much like it had done before with his previous life. And after this newly formed "Dark Spyro" gave Gaul the finishing blow he flew up to Cynder and Sparx who where horrified to see what had become of Spyro, with Cynder tackling Spyro out of the Energy beam which luckily turned him back to normal. But the Well of Souls started to collapse around them thanks to Malefors return, so Spyro would use his Dragon time ability to freeze them into a large crystal and protect them from the collapsing mountain.
During this three years would pass and during those years Malefor would cause even more damage to the world, first he corrupted the apes into shadowy monsters because he felt that they only followed him for power instead of loyalty, and then he destroyed the magic Crafters homeworld turning it into the Burned Lands whilst raising the ancient temples high up into the skies. After this he sent out his new artificial soldiers out to attack the Realms and used Dark Crystals to once again drain the lands of magic. At the end of those three years Hunter would finally find Spyro and Cynder only to be beaten by Malefors forces who took them to the catacombs which at some point where known as the Celestial Plains, both Spyro and Cynder would wake up at this place and fight their way out of it and finally meet up with Hunter who explained that he was sent out by Ignitus after Spyro didn't return to the temple, as well as the three years that they where absent.
After this they join him and travel to Warfang after a quick disagreement in the Valley of Avalar, a name that for some reason sound familiar to Spyro they found themselves in Warfang, right in the middle of a seige by Malefors army. And after Spyro and Cynder fight themselves through he city and defeat the giant lava golem they reunite with Ignitus, with Cynder asking if they could do something about the magic chains that keep Spyro and Cynder trapped together only to learn much to her annoyance that there is nothing they could do about it. After a short celebration of their victory malefor would announce the return of the Destroyer who would created the belt of fire that will destroy all life on the planet, so Spyro and Cynder would go through the Ruins of Warfang which housed the leftovers of Artisans and open the gate for the Gaurdians and other Dragons to ambush the destroyer in the valley.
After making their way to the valley they noticed that the Destroyer moved to quickly to catch up to them, only for Cynder to suggest to blow the Dam so that the water would slow it down. And so they did after which they destroyed the Dark Crystals that controlled the beast including the ones on the inside, but before they could celebrate Malefor reanimated it with his dark powers this let Ignitus with no choice but to take Spyro and Cynder through the now weaker belt of fire to confront Malefor head on, whilst sending the other Gaurdians to help the other inhabitants to hide underground far away from the surface. However even with Ignitus being an fire Gaurdian the flames eventually overtake him and with his last powers sents Spyro and Cynder through the belt killing him in the progress, this leaves Spyro distraught and he lets the darkness overtake him luckily for him Cynder is there to remind him that he's not alone. And both race through the Burned Lands and the Floating Isle's to confront Malefor before it is to late.
After finally making their way to Malefor the two Purple Dragons finally meet, with Malefor starting to create doubts in both Spyro and Cynder which allows him to sortly retake control of Cynder. During this Malefor would start to taunt Spyro leaving some hints about how they're the same, something Spyro would mistake as meaning something else and he almost gave up completely believing he had failed to protect Cynder, Ignitus and the others. This allowed Cynder to break free, and Malefor to fly in a fit of rage with the battle for the fate of the world finally beginning.
At first they battled high above the volcano but after the Destroyer finally entered it the planet started to break apart, and the fight went on in the same Volcano and the falling Temple that Malefor called home. With them eventually making their way to the core of the Planet, which was made from solid Aether, and with both sides giving one last Aether attack with Spyro and Cynder finally overtaking Malefor he falls on the Crystal and the Light Aether spirits take Malefor away, and hopefully destroying the Dark Spirit that had taken over the old Spyro's body all those centuries ago. But this wasn't the end yet because even with Malefor gone the world was still falling apart, and Spyro saw one last option telling Cynder to leave to life another day for he might not make it out this time, but Cynder choose to stay by Spyro's side and with one last use of Dragon time now amplified by Light Aether, and Cynders declaration of love Spyro stopped the world from falling apart creating a new era for the survivors.
And that's where our story ends the world now exists as a group of floating islands hold together by magic which finally started to really return, and Ignitus became the new Chronicler who started to look where Spyro and Cynder ended up, seeing how they're not in the book of dead dragons. What happens after this is anyones guess, maybe a new Purple Dragon would be born who would protect these newly formed Skylands.

Hello, I’m looking at upgrading to the HyperX Cloud Alpha after my Cloud II has started to suffer from years of wear and tear. I’m very happy and comfortable with the Cloud II and the Cloud Alpha looks like a suitable upgrade. However, I see that it has an audio jack with no USB attachment. Is it possible to use the USB adapter from the Cloud II with the Cloud Alpha?

I don't think it was announced in the main portion of the update or if it was it was buried in the bottom text block, but this update they said they were increasing the drop rates for Gacha tickets and Lucky Coins. Well they meant it, it seems like every lookit I do now gives either Bingo tickets (rates seem unchanged) or Gacha tickets (Now drop in 5s) and E-points (rates seem unchanged) or Lucky Coins (usually 1 up to 5). So now I feel showered in lucky coins and gacha tickets and its so nice, just doing the event I've already gotten ~120 gacha tickets and like 40~50 lucky coins.
I'm happy the devs are listening and keep making these systems better. Now we can farm the gacha items reasonably with the new ticket rates and pattern drop rates. Also no more waiting for Lucky Coin items to rotate, the selection now rotates every time you open/close the vending machine. <3
Just wanted to gush, and hope to find others who are happy about this like I am. :D

So most switch users know how terrible joy con controllers are often needing to be replaced if you use them alot
For almost a year my L button on my joy con has been funky. Every so often it work and you need to jiggle it or find the right place to click it. Annoying with certain games I've been debating buying a new set but its $120 AUD and I was like is the annoyance worth that much money
Now I get on today and the button just doesn't work. I jiggle around press different parts and it's absolutely broken. But Theres a really cool thing about today. It's my 22nd birthday.
Now I'm not going to ask someone spend $120 on me for a birthday gift that's rude, and a little entitled so I text both my parents - broken up) and go hey can we split $40 between the two of us and pool for me to buy a new joy con set
They agree and when I get home dad explains they talked and would pay for it themselves which I thought was very nice
And now I have some very cute pastel green and purple joy con's that actually work!
How lucky they officially broke today had they just survived another day or 2 I'd be pulling that own money from my ass
TLDR; My joy cons officially dies today and I got to pull the birthday card and get a new set for my birthday

Does anyone have any concrete information on this? I’ve always dealt with gut sensitivities and IBS- mixed, but it became intolerable and more triggered during the pandemic. I’ve had 3 colonoscopies / polypectamies in the past year which I know has fucked my gut microbiome. I have a hereditary colon polyposis syndrome - i’m 37 years old - so I have to do these every 6 months.
One day when it got really bad to the point where the only thing I could tolerate was sourdough bread with butter and plain low to mid fat proteins, my boyfriend realized the water from our tap smelled like sulfur, which this goes to the filtration system for the water from the fridge. The water from the fridge smelled and tasting fine and our filters are always new and kept up. Before this I never really gave much thought to water source or its importance but my boyfriend researched the source in our area and it included possibly some well water too and it has high levels of sulfur although we don’t know what else is in the water.
Anyhow I still didn’t think much of it but I immediately stopped drinking it and started going down the rabbit hole watching Martin the Water Sommelier on TikTok, who says all “purified” water and a lot of bottled water they sell is basically glorified tap water. So I also stopped drinking that and switched to only natural spring water and started adding in mineral waters like Ararat and waters with high TDE levels, along with other sources that count as hydration (basically anything else we normally drink).
That 6 weeks ago now and my intestinal system is so much fucking better, I am still in shock. I have been on a very strict low fodmap diet and any time i tried to veer off before or tried to incorporate more fiber or variety of sources it would be extreme pain, distention, bloating, explosive diarrhea for days, migraines. Now im slowly able to add tiny bits in and not die!
Does anyone have any insight on what this could be about and if there is any correlation? Does water source greatly affect our microbiome and are we less aware of it than we should be?

It’s legitimately just the beginning for $FFIE, I’ve crunched the numbers.
$FFIE is still an extremely small company when it comes to market cap, sitting at around $35M at the time of writing. For context, during the huge memestock boom in 2021, AMC reached a market cap of nearly $14B. Yes, Billion. Currently $FFIE is 0.0025 the size of AMC at its peak. There is still SO MUCH upside potential. With 97% of shares sold short, WE have the power to push this even higher, right now all the short sellers are just waiting for the stock to go down, because historically these upward trends only last a short period of time. They only last a short period of time if everyone sells, which is natural. People get impatient, the gains slow down, and people think it’s better to take profits. We can’t make the same mistake here. Buy $FFIE and hold. Don’t even think about selling. If done correctly, we could reach levels of over $100. The question is, do you need your $50 back now, or would you rather it turn into $50,000? That’s the potential we have here. If everyone plays along, continues to buy, and doesn’t sell their shares, we can really force the short sellers hand and they may just start buying up the shares because it won’t get any cheaper. When this happens… oh boy are we going to hit new heights. This can happen before you know it, im not talking about a 5 year investment. These short sellers have a lot of money at risk, and they’d rather cut their losses than lose more than their original investment.
TLDR: Buy and hold. We have the power to make a crap ton of money, just be patient.l

Any good coursera classes to take? I’m bored as hell at my new job so trying to brush up on ny skills. I got my degree 13 years ago but have really just been a bookkeeper so I don’t remember a lot of higher level accounting.

Here I write this 20 minutes before I’m on the clock. I work a remote marketing agency job. I’m 3 months in today. This agency is supposed to be different, more empathetic and young. I do love so many people who work here. I like the variety of industries we get to represent. But I am seriously struggling like I’ve never before.
My past roles have been for really early startups in the coffee industry, where the ‘manager’ was pretty much absent or not involved. This meant I was free to work by myself and I do incredibly well in this format. I go 200% in if the topic interests me (coffee was!) and I love building up systems. However, this leads to lack of acknowledgment from said manager and BURNOUT because no one keeps track of me.
I came into this job SEVERELY burnt out. I had to take a medical leave last year, which resulted in some workplace discrimination, at the role I had previous to this agency one.
OK Fast forward:
I do account and project management and write strategy for marketing plans. Those in my role manage 5-7 brands. I manage 2. Provided, one of the is the biggest one of the company and is really demanding. The other is just really new to business and is really particular. These two are a lot of work for me.
I don’t think my manager likes me. She’s really hard to read, I don’t know how to make my “mask” for her (I’m a chameleon, there’s a Caserole for every person but it’s never me). And she seems disappointed most of the time that I’m not progressing and struggling. Tbh, this past weekly meeting we had, she kinda scoffed when I brought up how busy my week was. The big client hired and fired people and the new director guy is REALLY strong so my work feels kinda crazy. She has reacted previously that tells me she thinks I’m stupid, not great, slow, etc.
There so much constant change, communication, and tasks to keep up with and my first month was spring loaded with so much work, even the owner was like “Yea, I’m sorry! This isn’t typical”. I’m running a marathon. I got my ASD/ADHD evaluation yesterday (YAAAY) and took one day off for it. I have 50 MISSED MESSAGES. Two brands and I’m supposed to have 5-7??? How the eff is this possible? Am I a freaking moron???
They are not outwardly empathetic at all and micromanages everything I do. I can’t do anything in my own way. I get there’s a learning process!! But she will examine every single little detail so I end up going through so many rounds of revisions on my work. She doesn’t really teach, she just says “right or wrong” and I have to fill in the dots. I had no personal training, just this and a library of videos. My self esteem is tanking.
I’m not trying to make this agency seem toxic because I don’t think they are. I just feel like I can’t do the job and it makes me so sad. It took me a year and a half to find work and I already came in super burnt out. I’m so in over my head and working with clients with 10+ years business experience and I have no idea what they mean at times. I’m walking on a minefield.

My old g933 has double the amount of sound (no, I'm no sound technician + not native English speaker so I don't know the words) than my brand new G733. Funny thing is that another g733 I tried a few weeks back (borrowed from a friend before purchasing my own) I had no volume issues at all with.
How do I fix this? And yes, mods, before you ask I have tried to troubleshoot steps as listed in other posts. They don't work.

been playing consistently(with a few dry spells) since the game came out. i almost exclusively grind the pokedex, with shiny hunting as an extra incentive. got close to finishing the pokedex multiple times, but they keep releasing new pokemon, which is okay in itself since lots of new releases are easily attainable through raids or wild spawns. however, they keep releasing three or five rarity tier egg hatches and i just can’t keep up. since larvesta came out, i’ve hatched over 200 eggs w/larvesta chances and still no larvesta. in addition, i’ve hatched 30+ 10k eggs with no varoom, and a handful (20ish) of eggs w/charcadet odds but also to no avail. i’m just sick of the hatch rarity rates being so low that completion is barely possible unless you spend all day, every day walking around and fighting grunts. its so tacky of niantic to make things barely attainable do that you keep playing, instead of making the game fun. it just doesn’t make sense in my brain and im getting burnt out for the first time in years.

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