I'm old as hell (40) and have been with my girlfriend for four years. I was set to marry my last partner in 2017, but she had a late game pivot and decided to become a polyamorous they/them at the last minute.
Regardless my current girlfriend and I have grown to love each other very much, and I had a ring picked out. However last month I found out that during the first half of our relationship she cheated on me six times - slept with two of her friends, made out with a third and planned to sleep with a fourth, but he cancelled on her. Says that's in the past because it was a whopping two years ago, and that now she's learned how destructive cheating is, loves me so much more etc etc etc.
Obviously I have to end this, regardless of how sincerely remorseful she seems (she has honestly been a wreck and wants to save this). I don't know, I just feel like it's over. All my savings got rinsed due to a medical issue a few years back, and no matter how hard I hit the gym I will still be a man in his 40's with no savings who rents a one bedroom apartment. I'm not particularly attractive, even if I do look very young for my age. I love her and I can feel both of our hearts breaking.
There's no point to this post. Be mean and make fun of me for posting this here or whatever. I hope this doesn't happen to any of you.

Hi Food,
This year, we're looking into reviewing a lot of our sub rules, and this spring we've been focusing on our title rule. It's one of our largest barriers to users posting, and currently, it's a bit confusing.
Starting this weekend, the below title rule will come into effect:
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Image Title Rule: The majority of your title (over 50%) must specifically describe the food. Avoid vague descriptions, excessive use of emojis, and include one [square-bracketed] tag. Do not use personal appeals or emotionally compelling details, like hardships, to influence votes. Posts are removed at moderators' discretion.
Example: "[Homemade] Chicken and rice for dinner" ✔️ - "[I Ate] Tonight's dinner" ❌
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At a glance, the new rule should be easier for users to understand. In our mod team, we're also going to look at relaxing how we approach post title removals. This will allow things like locations in titles (as long as it's not a business trying to advertise) and events in titles (New Year's, Christmas, Easter, Eid al-Fitr, Vesak, etc.) to have a bit more leniency. For example, we would now allow both "[Homemade] Roast Turkey with trimmings on Christmas day with the family" and "[I Ate] Risotto Al Pesce Persico at La Darsena, Lake Como, Italy."
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Short FAQ:
Q - Why do you have to state what the food is in the title? A - It's been part of our sub's "theme" for a long time and allows the sub to be easily searchable both on Reddit and via Google. We want your posts to be as visible as possible, not just currently but for years to come.
Q - Why don't you remove the tags? A - The tags are like a frame for the post. They frame what the setting to the food is using just a word or two. At a glance, you can tell if a dish is made at home, purchased, or if they're a pro/chef sharing stuff they've made as part of their work. You're going to be more successful asking about how something was made in a [Homemade] or [Pro/Chef] post than you are in an [I Ate].
Q - I've had posts removed under the old rule, but they would now be allowed. Can you approve them? A - Although the rule has changed, if we were to approve an old post now, no one would see it. If you haven't already reposted the image with a new title, feel free to resubmit it now with the title you wanted originally.
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I'll be available to answer any additional questions in the comments.

welp, i tried it. had appetite suppressed for maybe a week, after that - nothing. in recovery from bulimia, i now struggle with binge eating, which means i literally don’t even have to be hungry to overeat, its all in my head lol. first week the food noise was gone and it was wonderful and super helpful. i am taking the full dose daily. i have one pill left and will not be refilling. i lost maybe 2 pounds but keep fluctuating. i understand you still have to eat in a calorie deficit with this medicine, which i know is ultimately why i haven’t really lost. trying to not really count calories bc i dont want to fall back in to restrictive habits and i thought this medicine would help me eat more intuitively, i just didn’t have that luck. hope you guys have a better experience!! :) good luck to you all

Mother’s day just passed & i (20f) went all out for his (23m) mother & grandmother to which he had a problem with because he felt like i was doing what he should’ve been doing even though he made no effort towards doing so until the last minute. I always go big or go home when it comes to gifts or making someone feel special whether it’s materialistic (money never been an issue with me) or just being there but he only really cares about himself & what makes him happy. He has a problem with me saying hi & hugging everyone when i get to this house before i kiss or hug him. I do say hi to him before i start hugging & speaking to everybody else so it’s not like i don’t acknowledge him, i told him it’s how i was raised & i can’t see myself changing that to accommodate things being about him & it become a big deal.
Recently i got fed up with him only caring about himself & i can say i exploded on him about a lot i had bottled up, i used to want to talk about things in the beginning of our relationship but he would always push it to the side & we would move on & i got comfortable with that so i had a lot bottled up & finally told him & it led to a breakup in which i can say we both didn’t want but it felt right. I’m pro break up & walking away with my heart intact i don’t stay & keep breaking my heart. I told him i was unhappy with a lot to which he made it about him & how he has a lot of learning to do but he doesn’t want to let me go. I’ve never been in a relationship but i’ve connected with other guys on a level where we went out, they did & said thoughtful things, they planned things, they gave me the space to talk about me but him? not so much it’s always about him, he was depressed i took him out & told him he didn’t have to pay a dime once again money never been an issue with me, i was there with him at the hospital but when i had an abortion for our baby he left me alone for three weeks because he didn’t know how to handle the situation & came back confessing how wrong he was i took him back, i was there when his great grandmother passed to which he said a lot of his family are holding on to things that he already let go of & he wants them to move on.. no empathy or sympathy for others.
I felt like i was his girlfriend & best friend in one & i want a best friend & boyfriend, i don’t need materialistic things from him but i want somebody to care about me i want a friend, i want a partner. He lacking in the department of being there for others the way they are for him.. he’s selfish & i told him that & it got big, now he needs space & doesn’t know how much time he needs, im being pushed away again & as much as it hurts, would i be wrong to leave & never show face or even give him the time of day whenever he decides to come back? I’m being told closure might be good in this situation but my heart can’t handle whatever else he has to offer, i can’t afford to keep seeing myself as stupid for loving someone who i feel didn’t love me the same. I’m young & i know i will get to a point where things like this will be distant & i will pick better but any advice would help right now.
tldr: my boyfriend has a problem with me caring about anything other than him, he’s asking for space because i said i was unhappy with him & the way things are in our relationship. I exploded on him & he made it about him & we ended up breaking up just for him to tell me we’re not done but he needs time.

Hey, PGY1 ortho from Europe here, which means I have to work ER trauma.
I have a hard time reading chest trauma xrays, I can't really notice rib fractures and PTXs except for the most obvious ones. Do you guys have any tips?

Welcome to our fifth discussion of Leviathan Wakes. Hold onto your cool detective hats or your environment suits, because we finally get some answers to our mystery! This week, we will discuss Chapters 34-40. The Marginalia post is here. You can find the Schedule here.
The discussion questions are below. One note - this is a very popular book series and TV show, but please keep in mind that not everyone has read or watched already, so be mindful not to include anything that could be a hint or a spoiler! Please mark spoilers not related to this section of the book using the format > ! Spoiler text here !< (without any spaces between the characters themselves or between the characters and the first and last words).
Now brace yourselves: here comes the juice!
Chapter Summaries:
Chapter 34 - Miller: Detective Miller and the crew of the Roci board the hidden ship (the one that captured the crew of the Scopuli before destroying it), wearing environment suits because the ship has no atmosphere - someone left the doors open. They stick together at first as they move through the ship, discovering signs of a struggle, zombie vomit, and twelve torpedo tubes big enough to destroy capital ships like the Donnager or the Canterbury. Miller uses his detective skills to determine that everyone but Julie retreated to engineering. Once there, they discover a truly grisly sight: layers of human flesh and bones are sort of fused around the reactor, which has been shut down. Naomi and Holden gasp in shock and disgust, Miller turns on his cop brain to suppress emotion and view it as a crime scene, and Amos seems… calm and able to ignore the gore. The team splits up to look for more clues.
Amos stays in engineering to start up the computers and get the reactor back online. Naomi works on the ops deck to run diagnostics. Miller and Holden head to the bridge, which wasn’t affected by the fighting onboard. Miller reviews the internal feeds and finds footage showing the captured Scopuli crew being led onto the ship, stripped, and put in restraints. Julie fights back viciously but is knocked unconscious and stuffed in a locker with a jumpsuit (which is where we met her in the prologue). The crew is left in the galley for 132 hours before they decide to make a stand, but it is quickly suppressed. One of the crew is thrown out an airlock and the others are heavily restrained as they scream and cry. Just as Miller gets to the first appearance of a vomit zombie (at hour 160 of footage), Amos yells that he’s been exposed to some radiation because the human flesh blob had damaged the reactor shielding. He decides to keep working while Alex monitors his health status from the Roci.
Then Holden calls Miller over to view one of the last feeds Julie accessed. It’s a corporate presentation video created for a man named Dresden and the board of Protogen. It features a man Miller dubs “the sociopath” because of his cold, practiced smile…and because of the content. The sociopath tells the board (and us) the history of scientific discovery on Phoebe, which was thought to just be a moon and a source of water, but became a research station when a survey found complex silicon structures in the ice. Protogen was tasked with investigating and discovered that Phoebe is not a moon but evidence of a galactic biosphere: it is an alien weapon sent towards Earth 2 ⅓ billion years ago, which never made it because of orbital mechanics. Protogen has discovered that this weapon is not alive per se; rather, it is something they’ve termed the “protomolecule” which has the ability to maintain structure while replicating other systems and manipulating them at scalable rates. Of course, they alerted the proper authorities and made sure… just kidding, they’ve secretly been doing tests. The sociopath believes that whoever controls the protomolecule will gain control of all political and economic power going forward. Chillingly, the sociopath urges them to pursue large-scale testing to understand the protomolecule and its human applications. That large-scale testing is Eros.
TL;DR - Julie found evidence that Protogen (her dad’s company) has discovered an alien weapon, branded it the “protomolecule”, and secretly tested it on the people of Eros (and probably other smaller tests). The entire war has just been a distraction.
Chapter 35 - Holden: Naomi explains that most of the messages on the comm logs have been coded, but the last one is in plain text: the captain informed Thoth Station that the ship was contaminated, everyone was about to die, and the “materials” had been secured. He also planned to send vector data so they could find the ship. The Roci crew put two and alien-symbol-for-two together: they figure out that the captain has locked protomolecule samples in his safe. They also decide that the tightbeam messages were being sent to a secret research station Protogen was using to monitor the Eros experiment. Even though the fact “Naomi is the best” is a proven concept on par with “space is cold”, she is NOT able to open the captain’s safe, so they decide to cut it out of the wall and bring it with them on the Roci. They also scuttle the ship so no one can a) recover the stealth technology and alien weapons, or b) get exposed to the protomolecule-human soup inside. (Amos would have preferred to hack the frozen dead body goo off the reactor with a chainsaw and salvage such an impressive and expensive ship, which is… another way to go.)
It’s clear that someone else with stealth tech is searching actively for this ship, but the Roci won’t see them coming so they decide to get the hell out of Dodge. Naomi jokes that their options include turning the safe over to the OPA (they’d be heroes), selling out to Mars (they’d be rich), or starting their own biotech firm (just kidding, that’s evil). When Miller checks in with Holden about a decision on where to go next, he drops a figurative bomb on him regarding actual bombs in the news. Since Holden did his best Edward Snowden impersonation and leaked the data that the mystery ships are from Earth, Mars asked a few too many questions and in response, Earth has blown up a whole bunch of Martian ships and destroyed the Deimos deep radar station. Miller ruefully gives Holden credit for sticking to his guns about his belief in “free information”. He also points out that Holden’s principles make him responsible for all those deaths and the destruction of the Earth-Mars Coalition… and possibly the universe as they know it.
Chapter 36 - Miller: The war between Mars and the Belt seems like no big deal now that Earth and Mars are fighting. Miller watches the news feeds as the conflict turns into a blockade, and he realizes he is steeling himself for an announcement of a planetary attack on Earth or Mars, but it never comes. He and Amos deal with the stress by having beer for breakfast.
Miller meets up with Holden in the med bay for their routine blood flushes and cancer treatments, and they reopen their debate about what to do with the data files and who is to blame for the war(s).

• Holden’s position: Broadcast everything to everyone! (I know, I know, so out of character, right?) People will understand that they’ve been set up and will turn their wrath on Protogen instead of each other. Also, these are ancient conflicts. The Belt has always hated Mars and the inner planets in general. Mars and Earth have always had animosities secretly brewing and they do military training for the inevitable showdown. Or as Miller puts it, “Not my powder keg; I just brought the match.”
• Miller’s position: Stop and consider what people will do if they hear an Earth company did this. Every other data leak has been used as an excuse to shoot at someone the other side doesn’t like. Also, people suck. They aren’t going to hold hands and sing Kumbaya just because Protogen is the bad guy. They’ll move on to shooting each other so they can be the ones to control the protomolecule. Or as Holden puts it, “Maybe Protogen is a little right. People are too dumb to be trusted with big information so we should keep hard, scary stuff a big secret. That’ll totally work out.”

Holden’s idealism starts to fade as he takes in Miller’s hard truths about humanity. To be fair, Miller loses a little idealism over his perceptions of the inner planets’ relationship which, to the Belt, seemed stable and friendly enough (and united against them). Miller encourages Holden to use Naomi’s judgment as a measuring stick for whether something is right (similar to how he uses illusion-Julie as his conscience and sounding board) and then he goes back to the news feeds to watch Ceres slowly collapse into chaos. Holden decides the only person and place he trusts - or at least doesn’t completely distrust - is Fred Johnson on Tycho Station, so they head there. Holden also wonders why they don’t just destroy the safe and make sure everyone stays away from Eros and Phoebe; Miller admits it’s because the protomolecule might just be the holy grail.
Chapter 37 - Holden: The crew of the Roci is taking a break from doom scrolling to cook fake space lasagna for dinner and bond over the food and conversation. As Holden watches the crew laugh at Amos’s belches and Miller’s wild story about cheese smuggling, he reflects that they represent all three prongs of the conflict: Naomi and Miller are Belters, Amos and he are from Earth, and Alex is from Mars. Yet they’re friends, and Holden knows this is what they have to fight for. The cheese smuggling makes no sense to Amos (why cheese and not drugs?), and Naomi points out that this illustrates how little people from the inner planets understand Belters. Earthers have free air and easy access to resources, while Belters know everything that sustains life is rare and their access to it is fragile. And this is why Protogen didn’t blink an eye before killing 1.5 million Belters on Eros: they’re “other”. Then Alex points out that this doesn’t make sense; it's a risky and unnecessarily complicated way to kill people just to satisfy prejudices. It becomes clear that Eros isn’t a hate crime, it’s a vacuum-sealed test tube to let the protomolecule learn how to do its job better by giving it access to a huge amount of biomass. The early transformations looked incomplete, as if it didn’t know how to work with human flesh yet, so Protogen was giving it a chance to train. Holden wants to know where they would even find enough people who would support an evil operation like this, and Miller promises to ask Dresden (the Protogen board member mentioned in the video) when they meet him. Something tells me that conversation won’t go well.
As the Roci approaches Tycho station, Holden and Miller take in the view of the Nauvoo, the partially constructed Mormon generation ship. When Miller says the Mormans may be in for a long and lonely death if they don’t find a habitable planet, Holden notes that this is the good kind of galactic exploration humans can accomplish (the protomolecule being the bad kind). Miller then asks Holden why he trusts Fred, and Holden explains that in addition to being the only person who hasn’t tried to jail them or blow them up since all this began, Fred is “real OPA”: he’s a politician and not part of the war-mongering factions who think they can survive indefinitely without the inner planets. When Miller points out that there isn’t a political solution to Protogen, Holden insists Fred has other skills, too. Later, Fred reads through all the information on the protomolecule and is incredulous that anyone could think to do this. Miller assures him that genocide is an old-school crime and it’s important that they stop it. Holden offers up the location of the observation station in exchange for enough OPA fighters to take down Protogen, and the right to retain custody of the safe and its contents. Fred agrees only after Holden points out that no one else can be trusted to do the right thing with a secret this big. Plus, he says Fred already knows what Holden will do with it.
Chapter 38 - Miller: It feels strange to Miller to explore the wide open spaces of Tycho Station, the fanciest place he has ever set foot on. He notices Naomi working on her hand terminal and letting her food get cold; she is too preoccupied with trying to figure out the location of the station to enjoy the amenities. As they talk, Miller is reminded of Havelock’s advice to just let go when he got pulled off a case, which jogs his memory that Havelock actually works for Protogen! (I’m surprised he didn’t get there faster; maybe everyone had a point that he was sort of a washed up detective.) He rushes off to make contact with his old buddy - probably his last real partner ever - in an encrypted drop site of a Ganymede server cluster. As he waits for a response, Miller is amused to realize he has started thinking like Holden: he feels like someone should warn the Mormans that they could potentially run into the alien creators of the protomolecule who may want to kill them. Havelock comes through, passing along the coordinates to a “very scary deep research and development lab” and asking Miller to be discreet never contact him again so he doesn’t get killed for betraying his employer. Miller sends him an encrypted warning to quit his job ASAP and not take postings at any black ops sites, before saying goodbye for the last time to the only person that still respected him as a cop. (I may or may not be sniffling a bit at this.)
Miller rounds up Naomi and Holden so they can bring Fred the coordinates. In Fred’s office, Miller starts lecturing him about the serious nature of the mission and the need to have a solid plan with adequate firepower, not the usual OPA shenanigans. Everyone’s a little confused until they realize that Miller doesn’t know that Fred is “the butcher of Anderson Station” and a former Colonel in the Earth Navy. Fred assures Miller he’s no amateur and will plan ahead. Miller then insists that he get to come along for the assault on Thoth Station. Eight days later, the plan is set in motion and Miller begins packing his meager belongings into a very small bag, figuring he’ll never see the Roci again. Even if he makes it off Thoth alive, he’ll have to figure out a way to make money and improvise a life plan of some sort. He tries to thank Holden and say goodbye, but the Roci’s captain interrupts Miller to ask where they’ll all meet up after the mission is complete. Miller is confused at first, then overcome with emotion when he realizes Holden considers Miller part of the crew! I’m not crying, you’re crying. Actually, it’s Miller who is weeping. But he pulls himself together so he can head to the assault ship.
Chapter 39 - Holden: The Rocinante needs to sneak up on Thoth Station, so they are pretending to be a loose cargo container that broke off the Guy Molinari (the Belter ship carrying the assault team, which is pretending to be a cargo ship). They fly with everything shut down so that it’s more convincing, hoping they can get close enough to the station to do some damage before Thoth starts firing back. As they approach and are able to reboot everything needed for battle, a stealth ship is spied hanging out near Thoth Station. Then, suddenly it becomes clear that there are two small stealth ships, which will be much harder to fight off. Everyone does their jobs efficiently on the Roci, but in the ensuing battle with the stealth ships, they start to take some damage. First, the Roci is hit by a gauss cannon that goes straight through the machine shop and galley. Holden mourns his coffee maker. Amos notices a leak in the maneuvering thrusters and heads to fix it between the inner and outer hulls, which isn’t an ideal place to be floating around during a battle. This stresses Naomi out, but Holden orders everyone to stay focused. They are able to take out one of the stealth ships, but the other gets close enough to do some impressive damage to the Roci. There is major hull damage as well as loss of four maneuvering thrusters, a PDC, their O2 storage, and the crew airlock. Alex is about to destroy the second stealth ship when the Roci’s point defense cannons (PDCs) detonate an enemy warhead up close. It knocks everyone out, punches holes throughout the Roci (narrowly missing Naomi), dislodges equipment, and fills the ship with debris. Holden marvels that they are alive at all, and Alex points out that is only because the ship’s anti-spalling webbing eliminates shrapnel. They make contact with Fred, who says he’ll find them a place to land, and the Guy Molinari prepares for the assault on Thoth Station. It’s Miller’s turn to shine!
Chapter 40 - Miller: On the Guy Molinari, Miller is talking to a Belter kid named Diogo as they wait for the assault to start. Miller realizes that while he has fancy Martian armor from the Roci and experience with gunfights in station corridors, he is surrounded by inexperienced young Belters with borrowed gear, and he will likely have to watch dozens of them die during the battle. But Diogo isn’t worried; he is confident and eager to get started. Fred announces that they are ready to start boarding since the Roci gave them the “all clear”, and Miller is happy to hear his friends have survived. The assault on the station starts off rough, with Protogen soldiers fighting them in the corridors and automatic defense lasers taking out some of the Belters in the first wave. But Fred knows how to command his OPA “troops” and keep them in line, and things start to go more smoothly as they slow down and maneuver carefully. Miller and Diogo are part of a group taking shelter at Fred’s direction and fending off Protogen counterattacks, and they start to talk during a lull. When two Protogen soldiers sneak up on them from behind, Diogo is hit and Miller chastises himself for chatting during a battle and not staying alert. He thinks Diogo is dead, but he pops up laughing and streaked with white goo from crowd suppression rounds, which Miller finds an odd choice of weapon. It’s the first sign that Thoth Station may not totally understand what’s happening. The OPA soldiers cut their way through the blast doors to get to the operations center, where they find Dresden (the dude mentioned in the sociopath’s Protogen video). Fred arrives to take command of the station, and Dresden offers to negotiate, clearly misunderstanding the reason for the assault. He offers to give the OPA whatever resources they need to go back to fighting their war (money, medical supplies, weapons, ordnance) if they’ll just leave and let the station get back to their very important work. Fred points out that they know about Eros, but Dresden insists no one knows what they did there, and there won’t be a better bargaining position for Fred when Earth sends its battleships. Fred basically calls Dresden Satan, but Dresden doesn’t understand the reference.

I didn’t know the slinger was a thing until a few months ago. I finally tried it the other day and loved it. My dad has seen people make videos of chefs creating one. My question is, what restaurant did it originate from? What restaurant made it famous? My dad is on the last few years and I want to take him to the place it came from. Does anyone have the answer to this?

I like to treat myself to a solo movie date every other week. I like all movies but I gravitate more towards horror. I love the other 2 strangers films but I’ve heard some bad word of mouth for this new one. Would it be worth it to see in theaters or should I see fall guy which I haven’t seen yet.

So you read that right it is looking like the audition will air tonight in the UK at 7:30pm on itv and stv.
Just want to also give the pre warning that the social media racists will not be happy about them being on the show. This has been something they have not been happy with all season so far and I don't see that changing any time soon. If you see any post of a racist nature report it to that platform and block the person do not engage or try to educate them in any way, as these types of people just flat out refuse to listen to anything that does not fit their narrative.
If the audition airs tonight I will post the YouTube video later if there is one.

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Hi there,
I am hoping to gain some insight and guidance into a ticketing solution or process for a company I am working with. Apologies if this is the wrong place and if the situation is explained poorly, I thought it was worth providing context.
The company is a global organisation, providing high end electronical systems to end customers, and also to distributors who then sell the machines themselves.
The company regularly has a mixture of unhappy customers and distributors because of a slow response rate to their emails. The common issues the customers and distributors face from us are

• The delay in the arrival of their machines
• Missing parts or replacement parts they need asap
• Distributor questions from their own customers that we need to help answer

These issues are not going away anytime soon.
The problem mainly lies with one employee (who works in Operations). He works directly with the engineering team to understand and solve the issues with shipping, replacement parts etc. At the moment, the account management team will forward or cc him in the queries and ask him to reply at the earliest (which is failing miserably, if he doesn't have the answer he just ignores the email, instead of being honest and updating the customers). He also receives emails from customers directly which is a whole other fuckery for us.
The Sales/Account Management team is 2 people (including myself), and are now in a position where we feel there is no choice but to keep him away from any communication with customers. We would to install a ticketing system that integrates with Outlook and makes it as easy as possible to add customer queries directly from an email.
This way the team can have full insight into all pending issues, we can at least chase the Operation guy directly for the answers, keeping him as far away from the customer as possible, and putting pressure on him internally.
Please bare in mind the company has little/no infrastructure in place, there is alot of missing parts. I am just trying to take responsibility and put processes in place where customers are kept up to date and feel prioritised as it is pretty much ruining all the relationships we are trying to build.
I have used Hubspot previously to good effect but have read up on problems people are having integrating this with Outlook?
Hope i've explained that well enough and would appreciate any insight or product you feel could help, thanks!

Hello. I’ve been working at a local grocery store chain for a few months now, if you’re from Utah, you know the one. It’s a fine job, however, I frequently work 7 hour shifts but only receive one 15 minute break per shift. My one Google search tells me that the law states that shifts 5 hours or over get at least one 30 minute break, but at my job, the rule is: under 7 hours, it’s one 15, over 7 hours, two 10 minute breaks and one 30. What law makes this legal?

Hello everyone!
I hope someone will be able to help me. Until recently I was bound to Amazon by my good ol' Kindle Paperwight. A few weeks ago I finally bought a Onyx Boox device and shortly after discovered how to convert my kindle-E-Books to ePub :) Over all it's working really well and I'm really happy - except for something I found happening with some of my books.
Sometimes when I convert a AZW3 book to an EPUB strange pagebreaks show up when I read the books on my Onyx device:
https://preview.redd.it/c3kniwznd61d1.png?width=1263&format=png&auto=webp&s=962c5f6228891319b871f492b40383457e955e3e
https://preview.redd.it/cz8ew51od61d1.png?width=1263&format=png&auto=webp&s=ab2010540b0949e13ce4c9b196f93684b1e1b67e
I've been googling and trying to solve my problem for hours yesterday but I'm not quite sure how to google it. The only answers I found were not helping. It does not happen with every kindle e-book, only with a few (I didn't open every single book I converted - over the years my kindle-library grew and grew and I have amassed over 300 books so it's not easy to check if 50% of all books have the problem or less or if the books where the problem arises have something in common) :/
Another thing to note: Those page-breaks only show up on my e-reader device. When I open the books in Calibre it's beautiful.
Things I tried already:

• At first I've converted the files via DeDRM.
• After googling I installed KindleUnpack and did a test with the plugin - same result.
• I tried different Output Profiles when converting (Kindle Paperwhite 3, Generic E-Ink HD, Tablet)
• Different input profiles when converting (Default, Kindle)
• Heuristic processing.

I'm all out of ideas. It's not an end-of-the-world-problem but it's kinda annoying when reading so I'd really like to solve it somehow.

TL;DR: Fulgrim's soul being hollowed out for the daemon in the Laer Blade. Snake Fulgrim is still Fulgrim.
Often when I see discussions on Fulgrim and Reflection Crack'd, it feels like the people who like one despise the other, mostly over the fate of Fulgrim. I'm currently up to Book 20 in the Horus heresy series with the anthology containing Reflection Crack'd and I'm a little confused over the disparaging reactions that I've seen to these books. I'd like to think that the events of the two books can be considered consistent over his fate assuming the rule of "everything is canon, not everything is true", combined with a theory which can be rationalised in part based on a few other tidbits of lore from outside the series itself. I would like to clarify and apologise beforehand though, as I've not read any EC content as of yet outside of the Horus Humbug, and cannot provide excerpts.
So the question I'd like to ask is exactly WHY we believe that the Fulgrim at the end of Reflection Crack'd is still the same Fulgrim, because I reckon the answer is mixed, not quite on either side. What if Fulgrim were not possessed by the daemon, but his soul carved up and diluted/ replaced in part with the Daemon. I have a few ideas I'd like to share as to why/ how this is:

• Ending of Fulgrim (book)
  • When Fulgrim gives himself over to the Daemon at the end of Fulgrim, I believe that his soul was also conceded to the Daemon (they may have said this, but can't find the excerpt) and I believe this is what is referred to by the transformation. The corruption of Fulgrim up until this point involves the Daemon imitating Fulgrim in his own head, and I do not believe there is a reason to assume that the Daemon would simply stay out of his soul when fully in control, he is able to actively move Fulgrim's soul in Reflection Crack'd, it assumes some degree of control over Fulgrim's soul.
• Transformation in Reflection Crack'd
  • The transformation referred to throughout Reflection Crack'd is where I believe we see the Daemon carving up Fulgrim's soul, replacing Fulgrim's soul in part with himself. We hear descriptions of what is happening to Fulgrim's body through Fabius, yet despite "excising" and having reassumed control long before supposedly, he is still "transforming". At the end Fulgrim even confirms that he had completed his transformation. You could argue that turning part Daemon would've made Fulgrim into a possessed or daemon prince at that stage, but rather than Fulgrim turning into a daemon, what I'm suggesting is the opposite. The Daemon turned into him. We do not know at what stage the Daemon Fulgrim is in charge or not, but I believe at the time of the Ferrus visions in the crystal forest, the reaction of the Daemon is a giveaway, as it is taking on his traits and feelings.
• Presumed honesty of Fulgrim in the final scene
  • When Fulgrim is talking with his legion at the end seems to be the basis for the assumption that it is Fulgrim at this point without the Daemon who is in charge and willingly or otherwise fully corrupted. I would argue that Fulgrim here, or whatever he is, is an extremely unreliable source of information as some of the things he says regarding not being particularly moved over the death of Ferrus is a lie. We can base this off of the moment itself where he gives into the Daemon, and post-heresy where we hear about the repeated cloning of Ferrus, he was affected and feels guilt. With this clear contradiction, it seems odd to trust the sincerity of Fulgrim there on being able to regain control of his body when any sort of Daemon corrupted version of him would have no incentive at all to be honest about that. So in the same speech, we know he was both lying and had no reason, to be honest.
• The Observations of Lucius
  • We do not know when Lucius looked into the painting the first time, just how much of Fulgrims soul was in there, just that he knew that what was in there was surely "Fulgrim" based on his own suspicions. Later on at the end, he looks at the painting, he believes he sees the enmity of an eternal soul trapped in the painting and relishes in the idea of such a creature being trapped. But we do not know whether or not he is correct here, we just assume he is. It could be the final piece of Fulgrim which had been carved out to make room for the Daemon, it could be the Daemon, it could be Fulgrim in his entirety. He was already wrong at least once or twice, when he first observed the painting (which could've been any of the three above suggestions) and when he tortured Fulgrim, where he asserts that Fulgrim is the daemon when Fulgrim otherwise (seemingly correctly) claims to be himself.
• Clonegrim
  • I know, I know this one is a dead horse commonly discussed about primarch returns and all that. I wish to clarify that I intend to get around to the clonelord series and that I am not arguing for some loyalist Fulgrim clone or whatnot returning. What I am here to argue is the idea that this clone has the primarch aura effect because he in fact has part of Fulgrim's soul. That this was, as claimed in clonelord, a true clone of Fulgrim and that this Fulgrim had at least in part a piece of Fulgrim's soul. The soul of a primarch which is supposed to cause the primarch aura effect, and is of more consequence than their bodies, it is that which gives them real power. Something is in that clone, I would argue its the tossed-aside part of Fulgrim, the seed pit of his soul as it were that was replaced to make room for the Daemon.

Now I love these books, how insidious the presentation of Slaaneshi corruption is, and the particular subversion of Fulgrim through the Laer blade. When I look at Fulgrim, I see a dementia patient who is being subverted not through the loss of memory but rather a reinterpretation of it through what he believes to be himself. I see a Fulgrim who is being broken down, ready to be reconstituted and with this theory I believe that's exactly what happens. Fulgrim still falls, he does it through his own ignorance and arrogance, with the Daemon in the blade using Fulgrims insecurities as a means of leading him to damnation, but not driving him there. That was done by Fulgrim himself, and with the end of Fulgrim (book) we see where his fate is sealed, at the mercy of the Daemon in the blade.
I want to be clear, this theory is not to diminish the fate of Fulgrim, the flaws of his which lead him there, or what Fulgrim is the "real" Fulgrim. The idea behind this is that snake Fulgrim is still the principal Fulgrim, and that the involvement of the Daemon is more similar to the fate of Lotara's ghost. The difference is that he wasn't forced out from behind the wheel, he gave up control willingly in the selfish desire for oblivion. This theory is a means of connecting the two images people have of Fulgrim from between the two books and how one might explain why he "willingly" fell to Slaanesh after all he was put through in Fulgrim (book). He did do so willingly, it is just that after submission to Slaanesh and the Daemon, not all of him was needed.
Other reaches for evidence/ ideas:

• The Daemon in the Laer Blade has yet to be named (as far as I'm aware). This could be intentional as the Daemon had yet to reach the point of WHO it was supposed to be until it got its mitts on Fulgrims dangly soul bits. Or it is just unimportant.
• Comments from the Author of Fulgrim which discuss the belief that Fulgrim's "angel" would have won out in the end without the influence of the Laer Blade. The idea being twofold in that the "devil" side as it were was already present in Fulgrim (figuratively speaking) and was what the Daemon exploited. Perhaps the angel bit could be extrapolated as a bit of less useful Fulgrim soul that a daemon could replace, though I'm not claiming the authors intent on that second point.

(If this theory already exists somewhere sorry for the rehash)

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Discord Tag: m.ro
Name and House: Marq Grafton.
Age: 32.
Cultural Group: Valeman Andal.
Appearance: Taller than a Grafton has any right to be at six-foot-four, wide of shoulder and hard with muscle. Blonde and fair-skinned, with wavy short hair and an equally short beard. Blue-eyed and handsome, most commonly dressed in fineries bearing the colors of his house.
Trait: Strong.
Skill(s): Two-Handed Weapons (E), Andal Knight (E), First Man Warrior.
Talent(s): Hunting, axe-throwing, playing dice.
Negative Trait(s): N/A.
Starting Title(s): Ser, Heir to Gulltown, the Magnificent.
Starting Location: King's Landing.
Timeline:
7 BC - Marq is born in Gulltown as the first child of his parents, Ser Mandon Grafton and Lady Janyce Templeton.
3 BC - Marq's younger sister, Maris, is born in Gulltown.
0 BC - Marq's father, Ser Mandon, dies after Vhagar sets the Gulltown fleet on fire during the Battle off Gulltown. Marq becomes the heir to Gulltown.
1 AC - Marq is sent as a page and cup-bearer to [placeholder].
4 AC - Marq is sent off to [placeholder] to squire for [placeholder].
11 AC - Marq is knighted for valor at one of the many melees hosted at Driftmark.
14 AC - Marq wins a melee at Driftmark.
16 AC - Marq attends the festivities in the Kingswood, only narrowly escaping with his life but distinguishing himself as a warrior and not a mere tourney knight.
20 AC - Marq marries Corenna Corbray, the first-born daughter of Lord Corwyn Corbray of Heart's Home.
21 AC - Marq places well in the lists at the Strawberry tourney, though is defeated by Ser Roland Arryn. The two befriend eachother.
23 AC - Marq places second in a melee at Driftmark.
25 AC - Marq travels toward the capital for the name-day celebrations of the two heirs to the throne to represent his lord grandfather, who cites reasons of age for not attending - but in truth just refuses to attend a dragon's celebrations.
Family Tree: Link.
Supporting Characters:
Lady Maris Grafton - Ship Captain - Younger sister, Captain of the Beacon Fire and the de-facto Admiral of Gulltown. Wife of Ser Jonos Arryn.
Maester Osfryd - Scholar - Maester of Gulltown, a landed knight's bastard from a small village near Rosby. An experienced historian who dabbles in the healing arts - among other things.
Non-Archetyped NPCs:
Ser Gerold Grafton - Lord Commander of the City Watch of Gulltown, uncle.
Ser Jon Grafton - Sworn shield of Lord Mathos, son of Ser Gerold, cousin.
Rhea Grafton - Cousin, daughter of Ser Gerold.
Uther Shett - Seneschal.
Mandon - Septon.
Alys - Septa.
Ser Qyle Stone - Master-at-Arms.
Ser Creighton Arryn (of Gulltown) - Captain of the Guards.
Ser Pate the Sailor - Harbormaster.
Alloquo of Braavos - Shipwright.

Auxiliary Character:

Name and House: Mathos Grafton.
Age: 74.
Cultural Group: Valeman Andal.
Appearance: Wrinkled and nearly bald, with white hair and equally white whiskers - save for a stubborn bit of his moustache that maintains the Grafton coloring, Mathos looks just about how you'd expect a man of his advanced age to look like. Standing at five-foot-ten, the years have withered away what was once a slim albeit muscular body. Blue-eyed and fair-skinned, with an authoritative look about him. Though he just looks old now, he was considered a dashing young man in his prime.
Trait: Numerate.
Skill(s): Avaricious (E), Scrutinous
Talent(s): Finance, reading, hawking, brooding.
Negative Trait(s): Elderly.
Starting Title(s): Lord of Gulltown, Warden of the Bay of Crabs, Protector of Trade, Ser, the Old.
Starting Location: Gulltown.
Biography:
Timeline:
49 BC - Mathos is born as the second son of his sire, Lord Maladon Grafton.
30 BC - Mathos is knighted after a naval battle in the Narrow Sea, where a Gulltown merchant convoy comes under attack by pirates from the Summer Isles.
29 BC - Mathos is wed, and soon after his first-born son, Mandon, is born.
26 BC - Mathos embarks on a journey across the world, travelling from the Arbor to Qarth. During this time, his elder brother Alesandor throws himself out of the Moon Door at the Eyrie for reasons not entirely clear to anyone else, making Mathos the heir to Gulltown.
22 BC - After the death of his father from injuries sustained during a duel of honor against the Lord of Longbow Hall, Mathos becomes the Lord of Gulltown.
19 BC - Mathos's second-born, Gerold, is born at Gulltown.
12 BC - Mathos enacts a new customs policy, bringing in lucrative amounts of exotic trade from Essos. With his new-found wealth, he finances a vast fleet to be constructed.
7 BC - Mathos's grandson, Marq, is born at Gulltown.
3 BC - Mathos's granddaughter, Maris, is born at Gulltown.
0 BC - Mathos' eldest, Mandon, dies at the Battle off Gulltown after the Gulltown armada's defeat of the Targaryen fleet. While the Vale of Arryn, and Gulltown with it, swears fealty to the three-headed dragon, Mathos swears a vow of vengeance in secret.
7 AC - Mathos discreetly finances a Riverlander plot to assassinate King Aegon I Targaryen, which succeeds.
11 AC - Mathos's grandson and heir, Marq, is knighted.
20 AC - Mathos arranges a marriage between his grandson, Ser Marq, and Cyrenna Corbray.
22 AC - Mathos withdraws from the council of advisors at the Eyrie, citing reasons of advanced age.

My boyfriend is Western , I'm Asian. He moved to my country and lived with me for 3-4 months. I paid for a gym membership that allowed me to bring 2 more people to there with me. But the rule is that I am always the one who has to check in the code before entering the gym, which means that 2 people cannot use my membership card to go to the gym by themselves. And I used it to go to the gym with my boyfriend every day. But this week I had to visit my hometown for about a week, so I had to contact the person who sold me my membership card to ask him to allow my boyfriend to check in at the gym by himself.
And for every day, we wake up, we text each other good morning, ask basic things like what “how was your sleep”, “what u are doing, “ have you eaten anything” , and he always updates me like “ i will book a car to go gym now” “ im on the way gym now”... so same that time, I can text the staff to wait there for him and support my boyfriend.
Until today, after waking up, I texted him good morning. My mind is quite sensitive today because a really bad thing happened to me yesterday and he also knows that. And Of course, my mood, my body, my weakness feelings felt I really needed his attention and his love his care today even more than other days.
After texting him good morning, I continued texting him to say that I couldn't meet him today as planned, What are you doing, when will u go to the gym, do u need any help, … At that time, it was about 2-3 hours before he got to gym every day, but after I texted for about an hour, I still didn't hear any updates from him about his gym. ( I had discussed with the gym in advance and he could check in without staff help today and I told him last night already. Because I already talked with staff, so I have to make sure to know will he go to gym instead of staying home or dont go anymore)
Then I checked his messages again, I saw he was online not too long ago and left my text on seen. I felt quite disappointed at that time but I still didn't want to send more messages to start a conversation first especially after seeing my messages being seen by him. But after about another hour, I was really worried about when he would go to the gym, and would he be able to check in with the staff ok? So I opened the app again and saw he was online a few minutes ago, but this time I sent him another message say that "I miss you". After that about 10 minutes he replied saying "use this photo for checking at gym?" and thats all… don't care about all the other messages I sent. At that moment I felt really really bad, maybe because I was in a bad mood before, but feel and even worse to think he knew I wasn't okay but thats the way he act.
About another 30 minutes, I had to do something else and couldn't wait for his gym update anymore so I sent a few more messages to ask if he had gone to the gym yet... and straight away he replied me "yea".
When he online at that time, I asked him he didn't reply to my message, leave it on seen that made me feel not good. He answered me that what should he reply me
And I feel that was terrible answer, I said that if he was busy at the time I texted, he could told me he was busy and he would reply to my message later instead of just online, and leave it on seen. Then he said "why he have to tell? You have to know by yoursel" I asked back” how can I know when you and me don't live in the same place” And what he means is that at the time he asked about “ Use this photo to check in gym?” I must understand that he was busy going to the gym. And he feels it's normal to take 2 to 3 hours to reply to someone's message
But I feel it's normal when in non-urgent situations (like me, I need to know about his time to go to the gym, so I can make sure he's allowed to go to the gym and then do another stuffs instead of waiting there for his update). Or when he's really busy and can't receive my messages not there online and seen it without reply. ( Specially, for him, every single day, for whole day, all he has to do is wake up, eat, rest play phone, go to gym, go back home, rest, eat, play phone, sleep thats all. )
I feel like usually a person will take a longer time to replying messages from unimportant people, than for their partner. And It makes me feel like I'm not valuable and not priority to him,
I also feel like he talks to me and updates me " I will go to the gym at 2pm, is it ok? " " i will book the car now".. in the past weeks just because he had to ask me to help him communicate with the staff so he could go to gym only. I feel like he doesn't think about my feelings at all and just keep saying that he's right about everything today. I am so childish to have this argument, overrated for just 2-3 hours without any messages …
Do you guy thinks am I wrong too ? Im happy to hear and receive advices from you guys to improve myself and the relationship… 🥺

It’s a long one but it’s a must read ..
I want to say this all started beginning of this year. Let’s get right into it. I’m going to give a backstory of the house I live in for context. I live in a very spacious home in CT with my boyfriend and his family. I’ve been there for 3 years. My boyfriend and I live in the basement which is fully finished, basically our own apartment. The house was built in 2000.
One of the first things that was weird about this property to me was the fact that it comes up on maps as a church cemetery. When you google that cemetery though, it is set about a mile or so down the road on the other end. Weird little coincidence I think. Anyways, I started noticing out of the corner of my eye a grayish/white shadow in my kitchen area at night. I chalked it up to seeing something only because I had drank that night and I let it go. Well I kept seeing this figure a few times a week and when no drinks were involved, I started to think it was weird. The figure was tall but I couldn’t really see any facial features, it was more so a side profile and then it would disappear.
*Now it’s March and I see a post on Facebook from my boyfriend’s mother. She and I work at hospitals and she had asked if anyone else in healthcare had brought a spirit home. She felt like she was being “watched”. I ran to my messages to let her know about that figure I saw in the basement. This was on March 6th of this year. I believe she saged the house after I told her this. Honestly, everything was good for about a month. I wasn’t seeing the shadow and life resumed.
*Here comes April 24 2024, my boyfriend’s mother made another post saying that she needed a house cleansing, and that things were good for a little bit and then started up again. Hearing knocking and the dogs going crazy at weird hours. And once again I tell her about my experience I had before she even made her post. I was getting up in the night to pee, I swing my legs over and as soon as my feet touch the floor, my printer in the corner of the room near my kitchen completely illuminates and I can see every inch of the basement. It creeped me out but I did my thing and went back to bed.
*A week later I am in bed again and my boyfriend is asleep and I have been having trouble sleeping so I was barely asleep. All of the sudden I’m woken up from the feeling of the edge of my bed being hit and I feel the hair near my face move. That one definitely scared me. I just pulled the covers up to my head and went back to bed.
*May 10th 2024, she posted that she saw a dark black/grey mass floating in the house. That specific night my boyfriend and I were in Maine for the weekend and came home the following day. I had not seen her post until two days later after my experience on Mother’s Day
*May 12th 2024. On this day, it was the one year anniversary of having my baby removed after a second trimester miscarriage. It was also Mother’s Day. I was enjoying the day with my boyfriend’s family and I went in the house to get food. As I’m standing at the island I see something move, it was a black floating shadow somewhat low to the ground not tall at all. I looked at it as it moved down the hallway that is right in front of my basement door. When I asked my MIL about her experience and where she saw the shadow, she said it was in the EXACT spot I just saw it. As we stand there talking about it, the smoke alarms go off. I want to say that so far, my boyfriend’s mother, his sister and I have all seen and experienced things in the past months. My boyfriend and his father have not seen/heard anything. I am terrified to be in the house alone, I just get this awful feeling when I’m there alone.
**A woman at my work is a paranormal investigator and I was telling her my story when she interrupted me and asked “do you light candles?” I said yes but not recently. She said “ I have something telling me, “Go ahead, light that candle” so please do not light any candles” We just found out that there was a previous house on the property, which had burnt down. I am beyond freaked out.