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Before the conception of the universe we now know, there was a single species, alone among the stars, the planets, the moons, isolated in their ways - or so they thought. From nothing, they became something: biological beings built with the construction of a sense for purpose and longing. For millions of years their kind thrived, the only living beings in relative perimeter with the cognitive function high enough to talk, build technology and abuse that technology, power-mongering creatures born with the gift and curse of consciousness. As they evolved through the ages, their greed also grew as they saw possibilities of what their world could be. After centuries of impressive technological advancement, it all came to a swift end when technology began to construct existence and evolution turned into the anarchy of mind-rotting individualists ready to reach for the universe. They knew no other than what they were and when their inevitable downfall came after many years of near self-destruction, nobody was there to save them.
The planet they lived on, earth, crumbled in animosity and war after tension grew too high, falling off the pit of existence. The most intelligent of their kind, specially gifted scientists deemed smart enough to continue the human race, were able to escape the planet before its decimation. They were tasked with the voluminous challenge of settling down on the planet TS-19, that had tested successfully for compatibility, a century before. There had previously been many attempts at colonization on other planets, but all had failed due to human greed and corruption. Now there was nobody there to spurt the weakness of the previous failures. The team of fifty scientists managed to settle down on TS-19, taking five decades longer than they had originally estimated, although not mattering much due to the incubation chambers they had developed on earth before. Settling down on the planet, almost 1.5 billion light years away, the scientists discovered a rich and conditioned atmosphere where civilization would be able to thrive.
For the first time in ages, a sense of hope was restored as the future looked brighter than it ever had on earth. The scientists discovered not only the inspiring potential for life but a profound new energy source, found in the rich soil of the planet, which had previously gone undetected in their research. The newfound energy source, named soldane, a purple clay like substance, was discovered to dramatically increase cognitive ability, improving the function of the mind by over 300%, allowing for abilities and ideas that were previously unable to be conceptualized and thought to be unattainable. The fumes of the soldane alone were enough to initiate this function partly and explained the purple tint of the planet, which was accompanied by a fluorescent glow beaming from the oceans which covered almost seventy percent of the planet.
The scientists, in awe of the world they had discovered that was seven times larger than earth, which we now know today as concord, examined the soldane closely, discovering when consuming it, that it gave a new perception of reality than what they had known it before, changing the way they thought, the speed at which they thought at, as their neurotransmitters rapidly sped up, connections and impulses within the mind moving close to light speed. With this also came the ability to live for hundreds of thousands of years without even showing a wrinkle and instead of abusing this and trying to prevent another possible collapse in existence, the scientists decided to give life another chance, genetically modifying preserved embryos they had taken from earth and injecting them with small amounts of liquified soldane to start their breeding program. Although risky, the results were successful in creating Generation 0, the first generation of concordions. This new species, genetically enhanced and smarter than humans in every way, thrived as their advanced intelligence grew to heights above the scientists who had enabled their life. Their skin, a shade of light purple and their eyes, entirely black, were the future of all endless possibilities and everything that could come after.
The scientists who had come a long way from their original plan, raised the new species as pets to experiment on. Not learning the consequences of containment and violation from earth, the scientists met a miserable fate when after only a few months of development, the oppressed beings lashed out from their cages, ripping the scientists to shreds with their bare hands. And so forth, the new species was born, concordians, they called themselves, idealistic in their nature and relentless in their will to build a new world. From the ashes of civilization, ruins that bore no sign of reformation, the entire planet was built up slowly, soldane being utilized to create the perfect paradise, as the concordians matured into experienced and extremely sophisticated individuals, fascinated by the idea of life.
The concordians worked together, their intelligence and creativity allowing anything to become a reality ; to build towering cities, advanced technology, and a society based on harmony and cooperation - the foundation of the planet we live on today. They used the soldane not only for their own cognitive enhancement but also for the benefit of the planet, harnessing its power to create sustainable energy sources, advanced medical treatments, and innovative solutions to any challenges they faced. As the concordians thrived, their population grew rapidly, and soon they were exploring the stars, colonizing other planets in the galaxy and establishing themselves as a force to be reckoned with. They maintained a strict code of ethics, ensuring that their advancements were used for the betterment of all beings and the preservation of their fragile ecosystem.
Generations passed, and the concordians became wise and benevolent rulers of their corner of the universe. They shared their knowledge and technology with other species, fostering peace and prosperity throughout the galaxy. They never forgot their origins, though, and always remembered the lessons learned from the downfall of the humans who had come before them.
And so, the concordians flourished, their legacy enduring through the ages as a testament to what can be achieved when intelligence, compassion, and unity prevail over greed and destruction. Their civilization stood as a shining beacon of hope in a universe filled with darkness, a beacon that illuminated the path to a future where all beings could live in harmony and prosperity.

Hi all, I have posted here before but I can’t find it.
I’m based in the UK and have no aviation experience, i want to get a b2 license or maybe even a b1 also. I plan to self study for part 66 UKCAA modules and then take the examinations.
Is this the best route for me to go? I need a comprehensive list of things I need to do from someone that either knows or has done this themselves as the information online whilst accurate, it just all seems a bit unclear.

• self study part 66
• take examinations

-??
Thanks!!

I signed up for Varo a week ago and I'm about to send $200 from my bank to Varo so I can open and use the Credit help BELIEVE card.
After coming here to see reviews, I'm super scared to use Varo now. Why are so many people having random unauthorized transactions on their accounts from stuff they never bought or used? And I'm also seeing stuff about perfectly good accounts being closed.
Should I NOT use Varo and go to like SELF or FIZZ? I just want a good Debit account to build my credit but now nervous of Varo....

I don't have another session with my psychoanalyst for a month. I seemed to have unearthed something deep recently that has be absolutely disgusted with any type of sex or affection.
For info I was raised neglected and ignored. I learned early on to people please to have my needs met. As far as allowing sexual contact in order to receive care and affection. I'd let people who should not have to touch and use me because they would stay around and I wouldn't be alone.
I've healed a lot recently but something snapped not too long ago during a journalling exercise and now I don't want any sort of sexual or physical contact. I'm afraid it will cause issues in my current relationship if I do not get a handle on it soon. My partner is very understanding and does not want me doing anything I won't enjoy or that I don't want to do.
I realize a relationship that had sex and intimacy before would be in jeopardy the longer this goes on. Causing more stress.
I literally feel like I don't ever want to do anything sexual again. That it's not for my benefit and only to use me. Even thinking about my relationship ending over this to me confirms it. They'll not want me if I'm not taking care of their sexual needs.
I'm so done taking care of people. No one took care of me. Even I couldn't take care of me. I don't even want to masturbate at this point. I'm just so disgusted with how much of my life I've been made to feel I'm only as valuable as what I can do for someone.
I'm really emotional right now and usually quite good at self regulation. Struggling and would like some help if possible.

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Many people use this sub to seek reassurance for their fears. This is not helpful for managing a rabies phobia or obsession. OCD has a helpful page about reassurance-seeking.
Therapy and treatment are crucial to recover from OCD/health anxiety. Please don’t Google anything about bats or rabies but focus on accessing resources and recovering from your fears. You can check out OCD and HealthAnxiety for support and information. You can find a resource list here, which is geared towards relationship OCD but also includes a lot of information about OCD in general, including FAQs, workbooks, book recommendations, Youtube videos, apps, podcasts, and videos of kittens.
Here is a list of free crisis helplines around the world. Here is another crisis helpline directory that includes additional countries. In areas where 211 is available, dialing this number can connect you with mental health crisis services in your area or help you find where to seek immediate help in your area. If you're in the US, you can text "MHA" to 741-741 to have a text chat with a trained crisis counselor at the Crisis Text Line, or call 1-800-749-2673 for the NAMI Crisis Helpline.
You can ask your therapist if they have any workbooks or guides they can send you home with so that you can continue practicing and working on your therapy between sessions. For the time being, here's is a free workbook on anxiety and here is one on health anxiety. You can also download MindShift, a free app that uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy AKA CBT to help you learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of your anxiety.
If you don't have a therapist, you can use Psychology Today's Therapy Directory to search for mental health professionals in your area (worldwide). You can search by zip code, city, last name, etc. For each provider listed, you can read about their therapy approach, specialty areas, information about their fees including whether they accept insurance and whether they offer sliding scale fees. CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) or ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention) therapy are often recommended approaches for treating OCD/health anxiety.
In the UK, you can find more info and refer yourself for therapy via NHS.
In India, you can call MPower Minds and request a referral to a therapist who treats OCD or who has experience with CBT therapy. Additional affordable mental health resource lists for India are here.
In the Philippines, you can call a crisis line by dialing 0995 356 5332. You can find a list of mental heath treatment centers here. For free mental health services and consultations, see the list here (halfway down the page).
If you're in the US, your local Mental Health America affiliate resource center is an excellent resource for information about local programs and services including affordable treatment services. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Health Information Network (SHIN) has a Mental Health Facilities Locator that can also help you find community outpatient, inpatient and residential treatment facilities, including affordable mental health services in your area.
For peer support in the US, including referrals to resources in your area, you can call 800-950-NAMI (6264), Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. — 10 p.m., ET, or send an email to info@nami.org. The NAMI HelpLine is a free, nationwide peer-support service providing information, resource referrals and support to people living with a mental health condition, their family members and caregivers, mental health providers and the public. NAMI also holds peer-led support groups in person across the US.
Skunk has collected some videos with techniques for controlling anxiety and coping skills to facilitate living a healthier, more peaceful existence. Every time you want to look up anything about rabies, try these things instead:
Rabies OCD Illness Anxiety in depth with a medical doctor and professoPHD of immunology and biotechnology - https://youtu.be/tGHz_pJHPjs?si=c1gpWKjdl8atHGPx
Clinical Psychiatrist's Step by Step Guide to Anxiety and Panic Attacks - https://youtu.be/GTwTpXINW7I?si=MjLO0ooihkwslNIb
A walkthrough of a panic attack, to be watched during an attack, to help you get through it - https://youtu.be/2CQpyA485wc?si=_1fPyS66dBEuBx3B
Guided Meditation to help calm anxiety and get through an anxiety attack - https://youtu.be/9DA380fzy7o?si=9xL6qFIxNxxsZWNV
Understanding health anxiety and the cycle of reassurance - https://youtu.be/ICiRXi3s9vo?si=Se_XNhsMQN4F7XEU
Coping Skills for those with Health Anxiety / Illness Anxiety - https://youtu.be/rHz2zZ1qkOw?si=nO1AVO4wp_i9I1_c
5 Things You MUST STOP Doing if You Have Health Anxiety / Illness Anxiety - https://youtu.be/zqrjE6w5kWs?si=eAvfOLRzb5qxIvya
(Hindi) Rabies Phobia Diacussion woth a Psychiatrist - https://youtu.be/cdxfLBdojsg?si=Dpl6XF89LsGaK1tV
4 Ways to Stop Intrusive Thoughts & the Anxiety Cycle (Cognitive Defusion) - https://youtu.be/V3vhXQy48jo?si=dpMfxrsmGZD8IHp9
OCD and Anxiety channel (with many helpful videos) - https://youtube.com/@ocdandanxiety?si=zMczxj5sHCdTsoks

Before the conception of the universe we now know, there was a single species, alone among the stars, the planets, the moons, isolated in their ways - or so they thought. From nothing, they became something: biological beings built with the construction of a sense for purpose and longing. For millions of years their kind thrived, the only living beings in relative perimeter with the cognitive function high enough to talk, build technology and abuse that technology, power-mongering creatures born with the gift and curse of consciousness. As they evolved through the ages, their greed also grew as they saw possibilities of what their world could be. After centuries of impressive technological advancement, it all came to a swift end when technology began to construct existence and evolution turned into the anarchy of mind-rotting individualists ready to reach for the universe. They knew no other than what they were and when their inevitable downfall came after many years of near self-destruction, nobody was there to save them.
The planet they lived on, earth, crumbled in animosity and war after tension grew too high, falling off the pit of existence. The most intelligent of their kind, specially gifted scientists deemed smart enough to continue the human race, were able to escape the planet before its decimation. They were tasked with the voluminous challenge of settling down on the planet TS-19, that had tested successfully for compatibility, a century before. There had previously been many attempts at colonization on other planets, but all had failed due to human greed and corruption. Now there was nobody there to spurt the weakness of the previous failures. The team of fifty scientists managed to settle down on TS-19, taking five decades longer than they had originally estimated, although not mattering much due to the incubation chambers they had developed on earth before. Settling down on the planet, almost 1.5 billion light years away, the scientists discovered a rich and conditioned atmosphere where civilization would be able to thrive.
For the first time in ages, a sense of hope was restored as the future looked brighter than it ever had on earth. The scientists discovered not only the inspiring potential for life but a profound new energy source, found in the rich soil of the planet, which had previously gone undetected in their research. The newfound energy source, named soldane, a purple clay like substance, was discovered to dramatically increase cognitive ability, improving the function of the mind by over 300%, allowing for abilities and ideas that were previously unable to be conceptualized and thought to be unattainable. The fumes of the soldane alone were enough to initiate this function partly and explained the purple tint of the planet, which was accompanied by a fluorescent glow beaming from the oceans which covered almost seventy percent of the planet.
The scientists, in awe of the world they had discovered that was seven times larger than earth, which we now know today as concord, examined the soldane closely, discovering when consuming it, that it gave a new perception of reality than what they had known it before, changing the way they thought, the speed at which they thought at, as their neurotransmitters rapidly sped up, connections and impulses within the mind moving close to light speed. With this also came the ability to live for hundreds of thousands of years without even showing a wrinkle and instead of abusing this and trying to prevent another possible collapse in existence, the scientists decided to give life another chance, genetically modifying preserved embryos they had taken from earth and injecting them with small amounts of liquified soldane to start their breeding program. Although risky, the results were successful in creating Generation 0, the first generation of concordions. This new species, genetically enhanced and smarter than humans in every way, thrived as their advanced intelligence grew to heights above the scientists who had enabled their life. Their skin, a shade of light purple and their eyes, entirely black, were the future of all endless possibilities and everything that could come after.
The scientists who had come a long way from their original plan, raised the new species as pets to experiment on. Not learning the consequences of containment and violation from earth, the scientists met a miserable fate when after only a few months of development, the oppressed beings lashed out from their cages, ripping the scientists to shreds with their bare hands. And so forth, the new species was born, concordians, they called themselves, idealistic in their nature and relentless in their will to build a new world. From the ashes of civilization, ruins that bore no sign of reformation, the entire planet was built up slowly, soldane being utilized to create the perfect paradise, as the concordians matured into experienced and extremely sophisticated individuals, fascinated by the idea of life.
The concordians worked together, their intelligence and creativity allowing anything to become a reality ; to build towering cities, advanced technology, and a society based on harmony and cooperation - the foundation of the planet we live on today. They used the soldane not only for their own cognitive enhancement but also for the benefit of the planet, harnessing its power to create sustainable energy sources, advanced medical treatments, and innovative solutions to any challenges they faced. As the concordians thrived, their population grew rapidly, and soon they were exploring the stars, colonizing other planets in the galaxy and establishing themselves as a force to be reckoned with. They maintained a strict code of ethics, ensuring that their advancements were used for the betterment of all beings and the preservation of their fragile ecosystem.
Generations passed, and the concordians became wise and benevolent rulers of their corner of the universe. They shared their knowledge and technology with other species, fostering peace and prosperity throughout the galaxy. They never forgot their origins, though, and always remembered the lessons learned from the downfall of the humans who had come before them.
And so, the concordians flourished, their legacy enduring through the ages as a testament to what can be achieved when intelligence, compassion, and unity prevail over greed and destruction. Their civilization stood as a shining beacon of hope in a universe filled with darkness, a beacon that illuminated the path to a future where all beings could live in harmony and prosperity.

It’s a long story so I’ll try to be as concise as possible.
I had a rough go in my late teens/early 20s, dropped out, drugs, lying, stealing, and all that fun stuff that comes with addiction. Was fortunate enough to come across a judge that took pity and allowed rehab over jail when I finally started getting into real trouble.
Went in to rehab at 22 and got clean. I spend the next few years being the most reliable/helpful guy I could be to my family. I put myself on the back burner, I didnt know what I liked, getting high was my only hobby since my early teens. Gaining trust was now my hobby, it was all I wanted after being seen as a piece of shit for so long. I’m the youngest of 4 and have lots of nieces and nephews, after 3 years clean and steady my family finally began seeing me as a trustworthy person again. This was life changing, to be able to spend time alone with my nieces and nephews, trusted to watch houses etc… it all meant so much.
During this time I progressively became more lonely. I knew I needed to start finding my way in life and not just pleasing others, but I owed it to my family to improve on some basic human level stuff first.
Now that I was a full fledged member of my family again, I thought about trying to find some romantic relationships. I had a bad relationship with sex previously so I was holding off on dating. I matched with a girl 28F I wouldn’t have been interested in the past on a dating site and we hit it off. I say hit it off but honestly I was too lonely for it to be anything less.
I step on eggshells, finish school, get a good job, put my now wife’s needs above my own every step. We get married, buy a house, I’ve done it, right? The finish line I dreamed of in rehab, I had arrived!
Wrong, I love my wife but I’m not in love with her. I work from home, I wake up make us breakfast, during the day while at work I do the dishes/easy daily house chores, in the evenings I cook us dinner. My wife is not a very talkative person and does suffer from severe depression which she has been properly medicated on since a teen. We have sex maybe twice a month tops, this is really killing me. I thought our sex life would improve after getting our own place, but if anything it has gone down. I try to bring it up and she’s usually defensive, or if I try and initiate intimacy I get shot down. I’ve been shot down so many times I don’t even try anymore, it has destroyed my self esteem.
My job is very stressful, I work in insurance and not in the sales side. I deal with angry insureds and attorneys all day everyday, alone at home. I’ve expressed my need for positive interactions after work, jokes, love, affection, anything to add some positivity to my day from basically the only person I get to see. I get we won’t have sex, but it seems like we aren’t even good friends, almost like roommates.
We both really want kids, I know I’ll be a great dad and I dream of it all the time. Our plan was to have kids in 2026, she’d stay at home like she wants and I’d continue to work. We each get to choose our dream vacations and the other person couldn’t say no. I chose a bucket list trip to Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio, I’m a huge roller coaster fan and it’s been something I’ve always wanted to do. Plan is my trip this June and we do her trip in 2025 since it is much more intense. My wife hates planning so asked if I would do all the planning, she basically said I wanna do Greece/Mediterranean. So that’s what I do, I research and book us a great 12 day trip where we’ll island hop and do anything under the sun I know she’d love. I book it and she’s ecstatic.
With my trip coming up next month I’ve tried to talk about my excitement, plan out the park, stops along the way, watch ride videos, literally anything to just have some excitement. My wife is not excited, she’s actually made it pretty clear how lame/childish of a trip I chose. Her comments make it clear that she won’t be going on many of the rides, she doesn’t get sick or overly scared, she just doesn’t like them.
I’m realizing my wife doesn’t love me, she loves the people pleasing yes man I’ve become. I’m sad, I’m lonely, and I don’t know what to do. I want a best friend in a wife, someone I can disagree with and have constructive discussions. Anytime I talk about anything semi serious my life becomes overly emotional, seeing her cry shuts me down. I don’t want her to hurt, I really do love her.
I just don’t know how I’ll react the more lonely I get, or if making a family will only make me more lonely. I know I’ll provide and be a supporting/present parent if I have to, but I think it might kill me.
Sorry for my rant, I’m sitting in my garage alone after finishing alone what I thought was gonna be a fun project to do together.

my second series of complaints from my car
yeah sure we are the #1 store in sales in our town! let’s go down to a 2 floor that makes sense. shift in the back doing pull or whatever the hell goes on, I am solo drive and the other person is solo bar and front. I got in at 10 AM and I didn’t catch a single break from cars until now. Why is everyone here? Why is it always like this I love my job….i try to. I love customer service, I put a smile on my damm face EVERY day. coffee master too because I just love what I do, but I don’t know if I can do it anymore….

Recently, there's been an uptick of posts here regarding declining birth rates and the anticipated decline in the global population. Arguments favouring a larger population tend to be economical, and arguments favouring a smaller one tend to be environmental. But are there any other extrinsic reasons to prefer larger or smaller population sizes?
For example, let's envision a future where all energy is clean and the economy is completely circular and self-sufficient. Human civilization produces no significant amounts of pollution or garbage and does not take a significant amount of resources away from natural ecosystems. The overall environmental impact of humans, both individually and collectively, is negligible, and any major increase or decrease in the population wouldn't really effect that.
This society is also fully automated, where any and all economically useful tasks can be done faster, better, and cheaper by machines. Most economic transactions are business-to-business, and consumer spending is a relatively small part of the overall economy. It makes no difference whether these are capitalists living off of dividends or socialists living off of universal basic services/income. In either case, people are only beneficiaries of the economy, not participants or contributors. The value of human beings as both workers and consumers is negligible.
So, in this society where the size of the human population has a minimal impact on both the economy and the environment, are there any other extrinsic reasons to prefer larger or smaller population sizes?

Hello! I just wanted to share some information that I've found about antidepressant-induced sexual dysfunction.
Many antidepressant side effects are self-limiting, such as nausea or drowsiness, and tend to reduce over time. Sexual dysfunction is often not one of them, however. Watchful waiting is effective in roughly 10% of cases.
Cafer’s Psychopharmacology states that all of the SSRIs carry a 50-70% risk. The order from least to most likely to cause sexual dysfunction is fluvoxamine, fluoxetine, escitalopram & citalopram, sertraline, and paroxetine.
Switching from one SSRI to another may only benefit 1 in 10 people experiencing sexual dysfunction. Switching to an antidepressant with a different mechanism of action is often preferred.
According to the American Psychiatric Association, the lowest-risk antidepressants include bupropion, desvenlafaxine, duloxetine, mirtazapine, vilazodone, vortioxetine, nefazodone, selegiline transdermal, agomelatine, and moclobemide. The least likely to cause sexual dysfunction are bupropion and mirtazapine, however.
Adjunctive PDE inhibitors, such as Viagra, represent the best-studied and most robust strategy to counteract sexual dysfunction caused by serotonergic antidepressants; this is true for both men and women. Add-on bupropion is recommended for women’s sexual interest/arousal disorder, and it has its uses in men.
Other strategies with less evidence include weekend holidays and exercise as well as add-on buspirone, mirtazapine, cyproheptadine, trazodone, yohimbine, bremelanotide, stimulants, and more.
Sexual dysfunction can be a real quality-of-life killer. Best of luck to you!

Before the conception of the universe we now know, there was a single species, alone among the stars, the planets, the moons, isolated in their ways - or so they thought. From nothing, they became something: biological beings built with the construction of a sense for purpose and longing. For millions of years their kind thrived, the only living beings in relative perimeter with the cognitive function high enough to talk, build technology and abuse that technology, power-mongering creatures born with the gift and curse of consciousness. As they evolved through the ages, their greed also grew as they saw possibilities of what their world could be. After centuries of impressive technological advancement, it all came to a swift end when technology began to construct existence and evolution turned into the anarchy of mind-rotting individualists ready to reach for the universe. They knew no other than what they were and when their inevitable downfall came after many years of near self-destruction, nobody was there to save them.
The planet they lived on, earth, crumbled in animosity and war after tension grew too high, falling off the pit of existence. The most intelligent of their kind, specially gifted scientists deemed smart enough to continue the human race, were able to escape the planet before its decimation. They were tasked with the voluminous challenge of settling down on the planet TS-19, that had tested successfully for compatibility, a century before. There had previously been many attempts at colonization on other planets, but all had failed due to human greed and corruption. Now there was nobody there to spurt the weakness of the previous failures. The team of fifty scientists managed to settle down on TS-19, taking five decades longer than they had originally estimated, although not mattering much due to the incubation chambers they had developed on earth before. Settling down on the planet, almost 1.5 billion light years away, the scientists discovered a rich and conditioned atmosphere where civilization would be able to thrive.
For the first time in ages, a sense of hope was restored as the future looked brighter than it ever had on earth. The scientists discovered not only the inspiring potential for life but a profound new energy source, found in the rich soil of the planet, which had previously gone undetected in their research. The newfound energy source, named soldane, a purple clay like substance, was discovered to dramatically increase cognitive ability, improving the function of the mind by over 300%, allowing for abilities and ideas that were previously unable to be conceptualized and thought to be unattainable. The fumes of the soldane alone were enough to initiate this function partly and explained the purple tint of the planet, which was accompanied by a fluorescent glow beaming from the oceans which covered almost seventy percent of the planet.
The scientists, in awe of the world they had discovered that was seven times larger than earth, which we now know today as concord, examined the soldane closely, discovering when consuming it, that it gave a new perception of reality than what they had known it before, changing the way they thought, the speed at which they thought at, as their neurotransmitters rapidly sped up, connections and impulses within the mind moving close to light speed. With this also came the ability to live for hundreds of thousands of years without even showing a wrinkle and instead of abusing this and trying to prevent another possible collapse in existence, the scientists decided to give life another chance, genetically modifying preserved embryos they had taken from earth and injecting them with small amounts of liquified soldane to start their breeding program. Although risky, the results were successful in creating Generation 0, the first generation of concordions. This new species, genetically enhanced and smarter than humans in every way, thrived as their advanced intelligence grew to heights above the scientists who had enabled their life. Their skin, a shade of light purple and their eyes, entirely black, were the future of all endless possibilities and everything that could come after.
The scientists who had come a long way from their original plan, raised the new species as pets to experiment on. Not learning the consequences of containment and violation from earth, the scientists met a miserable fate when after only a few months of development, the oppressed beings lashed out from their cages, ripping the scientists to shreds with their bare hands. And so forth, the new species was born, concordians, they called themselves, idealistic in their nature and relentless in their will to build a new world. From the ashes of civilization, ruins that bore no sign of reformation, the entire planet was built up slowly, soldane being utilized to create the perfect paradise, as the concordians matured into experienced and extremely sophisticated individuals, fascinated by the idea of life.
The concordians worked together, their intelligence and creativity allowing anything to become a reality ; to build towering cities, advanced technology, and a society based on harmony and cooperation - the foundation of the planet we live on today. They used the soldane not only for their own cognitive enhancement but also for the benefit of the planet, harnessing its power to create sustainable energy sources, advanced medical treatments, and innovative solutions to any challenges they faced. As the concordians thrived, their population grew rapidly, and soon they were exploring the stars, colonizing other planets in the galaxy and establishing themselves as a force to be reckoned with. They maintained a strict code of ethics, ensuring that their advancements were used for the betterment of all beings and the preservation of their fragile ecosystem.
Generations passed, and the concordians became wise and benevolent rulers of their corner of the universe. They shared their knowledge and technology with other species, fostering peace and prosperity throughout the galaxy. They never forgot their origins, though, and always remembered the lessons learned from the downfall of the humans who had come before them.
And so, the concordians flourished, their legacy enduring through the ages as a testament to what can be achieved when intelligence, compassion, and unity prevail over greed and destruction. Their civilization stood as a shining beacon of hope in a universe filled with darkness, a beacon that illuminated the path to a future where all beings could live in harmony and prosperity.

Am I the asshole for reaching out to my niece? Longgg story short -ish- ,im early 20s and I have 2 half siblings in their mid 30’s , a full brother who I grew up with but I never really seen my sisters much growing up since they lived with their mother a few towns away, I seen them a few times and 16 years ago one of them had a kid, ill call her Sophie and another a few years later I’ll call her Stacey, I seen her a few times as she grew up but my sisters hated my side of the family , 2016 I had a car ride with them to see my ex in a different town and I was playing with Stacey and Sophie while my sister drove and her boyfriend at the time in passenger, it was a 6 hour ride and my sister was ALL about her bf wouldn’t even take her kid to the toilet I had to take them , anyway me and little Stacey did everything painted nails took selfies tickle fights etc , she wasn’t old enough to really speak at the time but she was pointing at my sisters boyfriend I asked her does she want me to tickle him too? She got soo excited when I did so I tickled his head anyway I got home and she started texting me pissed off and I was explain it to her why and what I did , she kept going on with ‘Sophie seen you do it don’t even deny it’ when I was telling her what happened (not denying but confirming it) anyway she blocked me and yearrrsss later I have a new fb I got sober from drugs and alcohol I have a new life in a new city , I was feeling good so I tried reaching out to my niece Sophie on Facebook to see how she is doing , first thing my sister said was ‘was she doing drugs on call? Was she drinking? Was she out of it?’ And she had no idea I did that stuff so I had to explain to a 15yr old I did drugs years ago and I’ve been sober for 3yr 3mth and she was proud of me , she loves talking to me , but here’s the thing , her birthday is coming up in the summer and I was thinking of something to get her since she will be in my city when it comes around , she was mentioning self harm scars she wanted covered up with a tattoo , I got curious and asked her what would she get if she could and she wanted her passed grandparents signature saying I love you and I thought it was sweet (and cheaper than a big one lol) so I said I’ll ask your dad (since my sister won’t even answer me or friend request on fb) if he will sign for it still being underage, I messaged him told him what she wanted and I’ll help her with aftercare and all that , he ignored me and told my sister who just started messaging me getting so mad saying she’s too young and I should of asked before putting it in her head I tried to tell her I did ask I said to him he didn’t have to if he didn’t want to and the way she talks about my sister (letting her drink and smoke weed) I would think she would say yes but now it’s a HUGE fight she blocked me and is now wanting Sophie to block me and have no contact with me , but she has no idea who I even am today it’s been so long and it’s really hurting me I’m so lost , my niece doesn’t want to block me I told her if her mom causes stress over it I don’t mind waiting a few more years to have a relationship with her but I said it’s up to her and what she thinks is best and she thinks of talking to me and hiding it Is there anything I can do or am I really crazy for offering a 15yr old a tattoo? I got my first one at her age and it was fine , I have been crying all day I need some advice please

This is just to vent but if someone has actually helpful advice pls leave it too.
For context in my country instead of a bachelor's then mact and med school here after high school (12th) grade u give mcat and go to college for mbbs (5 years of study+1 year of working as house officers in the affiliated hospital and with clinical rotations for the 3,4,5 year )
All government colleges have a set number of merit and self fiance seats. On merit u basically pay half or less of what self fiance pay if u score high enough on mcat and have the necessary grades from 10 and 12 grade board exams. I got in on merit. Now my college has a few big issues and only mine has these ones none of these others.
classes in heat of over 37 to even 40 at times we wouldn't have ACs in lecture halls just those fans mounted on the walls half of which don't work. But thankfully that's fixed now when I'm done with 4th year. although it frequently breaks (just the lecture ones none in teachers or even fiance department etc)
we find out 1-2 week or if we're lucky a month before that are exams are happening the next week or month. Bc our affiliated university is the City university not a medical one. So our exams are upto them and whenever the college asks them too, college gives us a estimate and it's always later than that. This year's estimate was January for 4th year exams, and we are currently having our vivas the theory exams are in June. And we had to go multiple times to them to remind them that we exist and protest to even get them done. All other years were done by March, we asked and we're told soon. No estimate of when, yelled at when we asked for one.(We finally got it after the protest the date was 2 weeks away, got shit from other years bc we ruined their students week while we couldn't even participate 😒)
We also have not been given our elective leaves, which are supposed to be given to 4th and 5th years but, bc our years start late they don't give us the leave or vacation time (summer off etc other years get them) to do the electives in bc "they already made the schedule" and when they did give them last year after months of begging, for the month of December, they held the finals evaluation exams (which counts in final grade) after giving us the ok knowing we wouldn't be able to go.
I've studied by myself, stayed on task for my whole academic life even through 9-12 board years as long as I had a structured system. I managed till 2nd year but in year 3 my brother got and later died, mom was sick after that (bed rest for months) I barely passed that year but understandable. But since the start of 4th year I tired to get back to my studies but idk why (maybe lack of structure or just me being lazy) I couldn't. I did all nighters to basically learn everything (bc I didn't even pay attention in class the whole year) 2 days before each exams. I feel like a failure now, bc I'm wasting not just my parent's hard earned money all the hopes they have of their "brilliant daughter" and my potential. I'm aware I'm wasting time, that I'm no where near ready to graduate in a year and help ppl, but i can't. I make up excuses in my head but there's ppl who have it so much worse and they're doing. Why can't I? Why can't I be like I was?

I’m 15m and my dad is just…complicated. My whole life I’ve been treated like an adult. I think since I was about 8 or so, everyone started saying you’re “closer to being an adult than you are a child”. I was already way more mature than everyone else at that age and it made me feel good I guess. Maybe it was the idea of being an adult and having freedom. Now, it’s so awful.
I haven’t been able to be a kid in so, so long. In a lot of ways. But, today, I want to talk about the way I have to communicate.
I talk normally. A little bit eloquent at times, but normally for my age. I naturally have a lot of opinions because I’m 15 and I think on a higher level than a lot of my peers, so I want to express that with my dad sometimes. He’s a hard ass. He doesn’t trust any of his daughters (he still sees me as one and never will see me as who I am) enough to allow them around boys in close proximity, he doesn’t want us ever disrespecting him (we rarely ever do) in any way, and he doesn’t like it when our opinions differ from his. There’s a lot more but that’s not the point.
Today, he was watching a movie where conflict broke out between two characters. He was watching it in front of me and started talking so, naturally, I thought he wanted someone to talk with him. I joined in when he said “fight evil with evil” and said “well, I don’t think that’s true”. That started a whole argument on how I’m wrong and I’ll regret talking back to him. Apparently, my opinions don’t matter to him. He said that. He thinks because I “don’t know anything about the world” that I should shut the fuck up . He does this a lot. He also says I’m “mature when I want to be and stupid when I want to be” which is just kinda…awful to say to your child? Also, he does the same shit. He holds us to this above the world expectation to be mature all the time, have groundbreaking opinions all the time, and think like an adult all the time. I’m not an adult. I don’t act like I know what it is like to be an adult. But, he thinks that we are.
Sometimes, he makes adult comments on my body that I hate and passes it off as a joke. He says adult things that we shouldn’t copy because we’re kids. He smokes, drinks, and lazes around 90% of the time. We can’t do any of that. We are children and he expects me to talk like I’m 30 years old. He treats me like I’m stupid when I’m just 15. He calls my opinions stupid and laughs at me. He is allowed to say whatever he wants, however he wants, to whoever he wants because he’s the “man of the house”. He gets to berate me to my face and when he makes an immature, rude, and outright disrespectful comment towards me after I’ve already given up on talking to him, I’m even dumber. I don’t know when to shut the fuck up. I don’t know my place. I don’t understand anything because I’m a child yet I’m supposed to be an adult? I have to start a business, sell my art, get fantastic grades, never make mistakes, and never act on who I am because I’m “too young to know what I like or my own gender” (I’m also ftm but that’s also another issue).
He makes me feel worthless sometimes. Like I don’t matter at home or in the real world. I get treated like I don’t because nothing I say will matter to him. Like I’m not supposed to be heard. Like anything and everything I do is all for naught. I’m not an adult. I’m not even sure I know how to be a child either. Do I just need to grow up even faster to matter to him? I feel like shit and that I don’t deserve someone being kind to me or that it’s just going to be used against me (which it has been before. That’s why I do everything I can to prevent anyone from doing things for me). I feel like nothing and watching him speak to me like i’m a speck on his shoe just makes it worse. I’ve already had self harm issues, I’m clearly depressed (which he says is just a state of mind), and I’m so impossibly alone because I can’t relate to any of my peers. I know I can’t change him, so I’d like some advice on what to do to make it feel less awful. If someone can help with that, I’d really appreciate it.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. Bye :D

This might be a long post but bear with me. Okay so we know iPad kids are a thing right, and I’ve kinda assumed that all the kids in my preschool class get mega screen time at home, but after doing parent teacher conferences this week, I found out that there are more parents who don’t allow their kids constant screen time than I originally thought! So that was a pleasant surprise, but it was really only like 4 out of 22 kids. The iPad kid phenomenon is almost an epidemic at this point, imo, and it does take a lot of space in my head on the daily. I was born in 1998, so I remember a time before smart phones and social media, but at the same time, those same two things also majorly shaped a huge portion of my self identity and brain development as I started using them in my early teens. I was so attached to my phone, always texting or scrolling or whatever, until I was probably 22. After a decade of constant screen time, I feel like something in my brain clicked and I woke up from the matrix or something because now I can barely stand to be on my phone. I didn’t have any hobbies outside of binging Netflix/youtube or scrolling through twitter. Nowadays I find so much joy in the process of learning a new hobby or skill, and it makes me sad to see such little kids glued to iPads. What makes me even sadder is when my kids at work pretend they have iPads or phones using regular toys or books. We truly don’t know the long term affects of iPad kids but I think psychologically and physically, they’re going to grow up into a completely different kind of person than the people who were born before iPads. I want to just open a discussion about this, what can we do? I work myself up because this is a systemic issue everyone is facing but I’m only one person and my impact can only do so much in the grand scheme of things. Sometimes I’m afraid to admit my feelings about technology because I seem like an old man with a tin hat yelling at the sky! I don’t think we should eliminate all social media/smart gadgets but there needs to be some moderation of some sort at LEAST.

Now before I get to my question I will talk about why I feel the way I do.
When in person or on the internet,I’ll occasionally see a younger asian with a job that isn’t a stereotypical job for Asians or I’ll see one hanging out with or dating a black person or a Hispanic person which causes me to can’t help but feel bad for the Asian.
I feel this way because I think to my self,”because this Asian is dating someone with dark or tanned skin or not working a stereotypical Asian job,he/she probably doesn’t have a good relationship with their parents”.
Since I’ve heard Asian parents can be extremely strict,I figured if an Asian works as like a tattoo artist or maybe even a plays video games for a living,I figured their parents would hate on them for it.
This leads to my question…
are Asian parents really THAT judgmental of their kids for having different tastes than them?
How often do these younger Asians have negative relationships with their parents when they follow a path that isn’t stereotypical?
Incase it isn’t obvious I’m not Asian at all.
Sorry if my grammar is ass.
If this post is racist I’m sorry but I really can’t help but feel this way,and I can’t help but ask.

Is written that it has 8 attack. Is that on single target or can attack multiple targets around it self?

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So I’ve just binged for the fourth time this week, and mentally I’m replaying all four times over and over again telling myself I shouldn’t have and whatnot. But for some reason I’m fine?
Part of me knows that all the progress I’ve made isn’t going away due to my actions in just a couple of bad days (I’ve been on a weight loss journey for almost four months now, and this kind of “episode” happened once before), but for some reason I still can’t stop thinking about the what if’s.
I’ve watched enough videos and read enough to know that “it’s just a setback” and that what matters is that “I keep going”, so why am I so aware of my self-sabotaging that I’m okay with it, but still feel like crap? Anyone else /: