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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.
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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.

Trigger warning: Sensitive topic matters
Please don't be too mean. 😅 This is already kinda awkward for me. I'll do my best to explain things...
I have an awkward problem I have been trying to get passed, not sure if I should get passed.
I meet this guy at the begining of the year through OLD. When we went to talk, I noticed the cadence of his voice was similar to that of my younger brother. Not really the same tone, but choice of inflections, sometimes word processing, etc.
It was very distracting initially, and I kept getting very turned off and bothered by it, but then I sort of thought to myself, I am blowing it out of proportion, and it's not that similar. At first things didn't work out, so I was relieved I didn't have to worry myself about that.
Well, we ended up reconnecting and somehow getting more serious. And I kind of told myself I would all-in-all give him a fair shot, but sometimes this thought pops up and bothers me.
For the most part, he is a really nice and handsome guy. He doesn't look like my brothet, lmao. Very different actually.
He does have some persistent anxiety issues, though. He at times kind of holds things inside of himself, which is actually something my brother does somewhat similary, and makes me appreciate that challenge for him. Due to that, I think maybe they share a small feature of the same mental health issues which may explain the silent nature, the candence, and approach to speech. Though, I saw him play the same kind of music to his students my brother would and brain instantly went 😬.
Other than that, they are very different personalities. For the most part. He is much more reserved. Much more of a nerd than him. He's more like me than my brother. And of course my brother is sligghtly like me, but not by a lot.
I also called to check-in on my brother after he had his first time hard partying in college and I wanted to make sure he ended up safe. He happened to be driving me home when I got a chance to and I was so relieved to notice their voices really don't sound similar, just certain aspects of the cadence and thought processes.
I have considered bring this up with my therapist, but don't want to make it more weird than it is. 😅 For some additional info, I am an incest survivor - not w/ my brother - and am very prorective of him. So, I am not sure what to think, if I am being fair, too relaxed, or overracting. I honestly think in most ways, my brother will not be able to relate to him at all, but it also might be nice to have a older role model around a little more approachable due to similarities in difficulty expressing themselves.
It might not work out because of his anxiety. He has some avoidance tendencies. But overal we both feel cared for and are giving things a shot to see if we choose to form a relationship after 3-4 months now of taking things slow and dating.
Now, I did date someone with the same name as my brother once. He has an unfortunately common name. Yes, it did give me the heebie jeebies. Yes, I forced myself to get over it and it wasn't even worth it. I refuse anyone with the name now because I just will not do that again. But Idk, if this is all an additional, offense in people's minds.
Just trying to field some honest responses and get some advice. I have really been questioning if I should even allow myself to mention the thought outloud or to anyone. 😂 To him?
TL;DR: Please read it, damn it. Every bit is necessary. But dating someone with slight unexpected similarities to my brother and don't know if I should, or fully get over it.

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Traffic – Studio Albums 67-74 NM/VG+ $115 (The covers have the glue issue the set has, they just need to be re-gluded)
https://www.discogs.com/release/13636262-Traffic-The-Studio-Albums-1967-1974
U2 – Songs Of Innocence NM/NM $25
https://www.discogs.com/release/6173051-U2-Songs-Of-Innocence?ev=item-vc
U2 ‎– No Line On The Horizon VG+/VG+ $30
https://www.discogs.com/release/1680455-U2-No-Line-On-The-Horizon?ev=item-vc
U2 ‎– Songs Of Experience NM/NM $14
https://www.discogs.com/release/11212071-U2-Songs-Of-Experience?ev=item-vc
Paul Weller – 22 Dreams NM/NM $38
https://www.discogs.com/release/23970635-Paul-Weller-22-Dreams
Paul Weller - Wild Wood VG+/VG+ $90
https://www.discogs.com/release/1593971-Paul-Weller-Wild-Wood
Paul Weller - Will of The People NM/NM $55
https://www.discogs.com/release/24981313-Paul-Weller-Will-Of-The-People
Paul Weller – Illumination NM/NM $24
https://www.discogs.com/release/21028159-Paul-Weller-Illumination
Paul Weller – A Kind Revolution NM/NM $18
https://www.discogs.com/release/10277601-Paul-Weller-A-Kind-Revolution
Paul Weller – Fat Pop (Volume 1) NM/NM $18
https://www.discogs.com/release/18705007-Paul-Weller-Fat-Pop-Volume-1
Paul Weller – Saturns Pattern NM/NM $18
https://www.discogs.com/release/7027415-Paul-Weller-Saturns-Pattern
Paul Weller – Sonik Kicks NM/NM $65
https://www.discogs.com/release/3508451-Paul-Weller-Sonik-Kicks
Paul Weller – Stanley Road NM/NM $40
https://www.discogs.com/release/9748215-Paul-Weller-Stanley-Road
Paul Weller – True Meanings NM/NM $28
https://www.discogs.com/release/12509150-Paul-Weller-True-Meanings
Paul Weller – Wake Up The Nation VG+/VG+ $85
https://www.discogs.com/release/2257717-Paul-Weller-Wake-Up-The-Nation
The Wild Thymes – Reflections NM/NM $28
https://www.discogs.com/release/22681934-The-Wild-Thymes-Reflections
Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase. EX/NM $47
https://www.discogs.com/release/6678914-Steven-Wilson-Hand-Cannot-Erase
Steven Wilson – To The Bone EX/NM $50
https://www.discogs.com/release/10715967-Steven-Wilson-To-The-Bone
Neil Young With The Santa Monica Flyers – Somewhere Under The Rainbow (Nov. 5. 1973) EX/NM $20
https://www.discogs.com/release/26762672-Neil-Young-With-The-Santa-Monica-Flyers-Somewhere-Under-The-Rainbow-Nov-5-1973
Neil Young + Crazy Horse – Fu##in' Up Sealed copy $30
https://www.discogs.com/release/30457400-Neil-Young-Crazy-Horse-Fuin-Up

So many posts are popping up disparaging the brothel scenes in s3. And I understand why people don't like it. I understand it is a frustrating trope that all the women are virgins and all the men are worldly. But I have seen some really rude and frankly ridiculous comments about how Colin should have been kept pure or innocent, or how he's tainted now. That's just gross.
Having multiple sex partners is okay. Sex work is okay. You are not tainted if you've had sex before falling in love. Even if it was with sex workers, even if it was just trying to fill a void. Colin is still the funny, sweet character he is no matter how much sex or how many partners he's had.

Hello. I don't usually frequent this sub, and I've only skimmed the rules so I hope I don't make any mistakes in formatting.
tl;dr: 5 years ago, I (now 22F) broke up with a long time friend (now 23M) who I was very close with, almost romantically involved. In the meantime, he became diagnosed with schizotypal disorder, was institutionalized by his parents, refused to go to treatment, and began starving himself (eating about once per 1-2 days, regularly not sleeping for 30-40 hours). More than half a year ago, I was contacted by his mother, who said that he was really not doing well, and that he told her I was his closest and most trusted friend. She asked me to help him, but I'm close to giving up. The only reason I haven't is because I feel bad about his mother and that he says he's always in pain.
Just to quickly summarise, the reason we broke up initially was because we had many many arguments over the years -- he had issues obeying boundaries set by others (he claimed that he wanted to hear facts and logic rather than emotions), and I had been insecure, emotionally unstable, and often did not express myself clearly. The breaking point came when he tried to obliquely pressure me into participating in a furry petplay bsdm roleplay with him as a 'dominant' (without using any of the words -- he claimed it was just about ownership, which is really a type of companionship). We argued about it for days before I said okay, fine. (For context, I was neither a furry nor had any knowledge of bdsm, also I was 16.) Incidentally, he has informed me recently that apparently he had already been roleplaying as a submissive for years online at that point, objected to my characterisation of that as grooming, and claimed that he was trying to be subtle about it because it was taboo.
Now to the present. What I've been doing is mostly ignoring him until I'm mentally ready to say something to him, because it causes me some stress to talk to him. However, he has a plan where he'll reveal the root cause of his pain to me, and that'll allow him to finally work on other things I've been asking him to work on (namely, actually eating, sleeping, keeping a diary, and generally taking care of himself). For this reason, the entire week he has been spamming my dms or even calling my phone. Furthermore, he has started calling me on the telegram app whenever he requires my attention and I don't respond. It frustrates me because often he either calls at past midnight hours, where I'm almost asleep, or in late evenings when I'm either doing work or having fun with my actual friends. Once I was drawing with a friend and he insisted I drop what I was doing to tend to him. Even though I always decline the calls, it serves to draw my attention and force me to engage his chat.
This came to a head yesterday night, because it was 2am, and I was about to fall asleep when he called again. He insisted that he needed to call me now, that it was a life or death situation, a once in a lifetime chance for him to "open his muzzle" and reveal truths. I told him no, and he continued asking/begging, either by saying that he was in a lot of pain, or by asking me if I could hide in the washroom for a 5 minute call or type while he talks (I said that it was bloody 2am, I wanted to sleep, and I didn't want to disturb my family). I maintained a flat no and managed to go to bed again after an hour of this silly back and forth.
The next morning he complains that he hasn't slept, feels immense pain, and that he's extremely upset that I did not pick up his call the night before. We argued even further, and when I returned from lunch he had spammed my dm with upwards of 50 messages. I told him to go to sleep if he was in pain, and when he said he couldnt because he was hungry, to get some food. We argued further and he complained that I wasn't supposed to answer to those messages, and that I knew food was a trigger for him.
After even more arguments, I said that if he cannot stop sending messages to me by himself, I can block him and unblock him for a few hours so he can actually sleep. When I blocked him, he called my actual phone, and told me that it's not the correct method to deal with him (because 'denying curiosity is fueling it', and that 'I should tell him to relax and go to sleep'. I told him to screw off and stop calling my phone without permission, and he told me that he wanted me to delete all the messages since the 50 message spam. So now I've told him I've blocked him until a few hours later, and that I will block him if he calls me thrice today (which he did and I promptly blocked his phone number).
The thing is that I know he is deeply sick, but I don't think I can continue helping him if he continues to repeatedly overstep clearly stated boundaries and continuously making excuses for his behavior. Furthermore, he claims he has been trying hard, but I learnt from his mother that he lied about quite a few things prevent his image from being damaged in my eyes. He also never discusses actual steps he takes to improve his problems (namely, starvation??) but would repeatedly write messages about being in pain, about being a feral animal, and about his paranoia about institutions being out to catch him.
Apologies for the long post. Appreciate if anyone has any input. I understand that being in pain makes self-control difficult, but sometimes I feel like he's just using it as an excuse to act on the first impulse that pops into his head.

I had ureaplasma and i m still left either weird symptoms. Last night i had contact after 6 months it wasn t wow maybe because i m still tensed as i still have symptoms but i test negative. So after contact i popped up a boric acid suppositorie. This morning beside the white flakes i have in my pee from urea i notice that i have discharge from the vagina which looks like tiny pieces of dead skin. I also have a slight burning that comes and goes but this is since ureaplasma. But i found that discharge really odd, has anyone experienced this with boric suppositories? Should i never use then again?
Thank you

Hi All,
I'm male, 45yo, BMI 27, white Irish. Medical History; I'm a type 1.5 diabetic, and have a chronic pain condition. I have suffered occasionally from psoriasis, generally confined to scalp, elbows and fingernails.
Current issue:
Gallery of finger issue Over the past 18 months or so I have been suffering from the issue in the photos. These lesions start off as small fluid filled blisters. These blisters start off looking quite like Dyshidrosis. That upon popping, leave a small divopit and then develop into larger lesions, if I have a few in a single area, they tend to combine to form larger lesions. The lesions respond well to steroid ointment.
In what I think is a related issue, my fingernails also suffer. They become brittle, fragile and on a few.occassions. I have lost a nail completely.
I have noticed that the flare ups tend to coincide with my fingers becoming stiff and occasionally even difficult to flex. The difficulty in flexing does quickly pass and once they are mobile they are usually ok.
Could these blisters, lesions and whatever my fingers decide they are doing be a symptom of psoriatic arthritis?
Any and all input will be very appreciated.

I started a new job around 5 months ago and I started with 2 other people. One was male and the other was female. I talk to both of them and get on well with both of them. I have them both on social media.
Since the job is mainly work from home I have only actually met them 2-3 times. My girlfriend was walking past as I was working yesterday and the female colleague had messaged me so her photo popped up.
My girlfriend commented "Ah at least she's not pretty, you can talk to her". I told her that her comment was completely uncalled for and she doesn't get to tell me who I can or can't talk to and especially not based on looks.
I said it was out of line to negatively comment on my colleagues and it was a bitter thing to say. She said I was out of order for saying that and that what she said wasn't that bad and it was only a little comment.
AITAH for sticking up for my colleague?

I started a new job around 5 months ago and I started with 2 other people. One was male and the other was female. I talk to both of them and get on well with both of them. I have them both on social media.
Since the job is mainly work from home I have only actually met them 2-3 times. My girlfriend was walking past as I was working yesterday and the female colleague had messaged me so her photo popped up.
My girlfriend commented "Ah at least she's not pretty, you can talk to her". I told her that her comment was completely uncalled for and she doesn't get to tell me who I can or can't talk to and especially not based on looks.
I said it was out of line to negatively comment on my colleagues and it was a bitter thing to say. She said I was out of order for saying that and that what she said wasn't that bad and it was only a little comment.
AIW for sticking up for my colleague?

Ah, the curious case of the Ex making an unexpected appearance, like a breeze from a chapter long closed. A friend of mine, let's call her Sarah, found herself in this very scenario not too long ago. Her ex, whom she hadn't heard from in ages, suddenly popped up with a casual, "Hey, how are you?"
Now, Sarah, she's a wise soul, seasoned by life's various ups and downs. She took a moment before replying. There's a fine line to tread in these situations, isn't there? You want to be polite but also guard your peace.
So, she replied, "I'm doing well, thank you. Life's been keeping me busy. How about you?" Polite, yet not overly warm. She chose not to dive into any specifics. It was like offering a courteous nod to a past acquaintance – acknowledging their presence without inviting them back into the inner circle of her life.
Responding to an ex, especially when you've moved on, is a bit like handling a delicate old photograph. You handle it with care, but you don't necessarily want to pull it out of the box and put it back on the mantlepiece. It's a dance of diplomacy, where you step gracefully, yet ensure you don't re-open doors best left closed.

I will preface this by saying I have no idea how these things work and logistically it is probably very difficult to pull off, but here is my idea for a Raquinho Tifo anyway.
First start with a banner at one end of stadium that says We Are the Raccunion or similar witty phrase. Then, have small raccoon banners/cutouts pop up sequentially around the stadium to mimic our hero’s journey. When they complete the circuit back to the main banner, a big raccoon banner could pop up. It is silly, but I felt compelled to brain vomit this onto the interweb so here we are.
Is it a bad/dumb idea? Maybe. Would it bring more joy than our current run of form? Also maybe.

I'll be staying a full week in Istanbul, but I don't plan to visit tourist attractions other than the modern art museum, and maybe Hagia Sofia too. So I'll will have plenty of time to just walk around and chill. I'm looking for a quiet place to stay in non touristic area. My only requirements are to be close to the public transportation system, nice to walk around and plenty of restaurants.
In my research, Besiktas area keeps popping up in the european side of Istanbul, as well as Karaköy. On the asian side, Caferağa seems to be a nice area too. But, as I don't know the city, I would really appreciate any advice and recommendation.

Hello. I am looking for recommendations for a specific distro - I want it to have the following:

• Be Debian based (use .deb and apt to install programs)
• Use KDE Plasma 6
  • Alternatively, if there's a way to rip out all of another DE, I'm all ears to say use something like pop_OS, but from what I researched you can't really do that without messing up some pop_OS specific stuff
• Not use snaps

It will be used on a desktop computer for gaming and studying CompSci & IT, as well as a laptop studying CompSci & IT as well. Both are full AMD systems, so I don't need to worry about NVIDIA shenanigans. The laptop might be slighly harder, since it's a brand new Lenovo with an 8th gen Ryzen.

We live in a 1960s house in Indian River County area and we’re looking for a plumber that does pipe relining or trenchless pipe repair.
We tried googling it and called 10 of the places that popped up, none of them do it.
Does anyone KNOW of a place that performs it?

I was in Currys this morning and they have 3 ex demo Q990Cs available for £649.
There's no box and a few minor marks on the sub I don't care about, but everything else looks mint.
I spoke to the Samsung rep in store, it comes with all the cables, remote and a years guarantee.
I was going to yolo it. I've had the blessing from my partner, is there any reason I shouldn't pop back and pick one up? I was looking to get the 990D later this year, but this seems a good price for what it is.
It'll be paired with an LG G2 if that matters.

Until a couple of days before the central steam engine in my base used to run unconditionally. Suddenly an issue popped up in my world that whenever I leave my base in unloaded chunks and return the steam engine stops and I have to manually start it again.

When I go to Smart View to on tablet and try to mirror screen to my Samsung TV, the TV pops up notification to enter 4 digit number on my tablet but the tablet does not pop up a keyboard to enter the numbers.

I don’t even feel like I wanna live anymore. What should I do to climb out of agony? I’m so sexy really really loved him . He’s my first love I was completely convinced that I would never ever be able to find somebody who would love me and be with me and cherish me and then he popped up !!! OK We’ve been happy until five or six hours ago I’m gobsmacked my bros help🥺 I could do extreme I swear, I swear I’m sobbing as i type …. Thanks