Went to buy a used car from an online add. Private sale. Gave him $300 ahead of time to hold the car cause it seemed like such a great deal.
The guy was in a hurry and felt sketchy the whole time. It was a little older but seemed to be in decent shape….. I’m a home mechanic and did a check on the spot and frankly everything seemed to be in order, although the tranny fluid was a bit dark………
He was in a huge rush and had to get to work and kept letting me know as such. He also showed me all kinds of weird shit about the car I didn’t care about (how to fold down seats, etc.) did a short drive around the parking lot.
I checked the mileage and it was 100k over what the online add stated. Once I alerted him to this, he said “no way, the add doesnt say that” it 100% did.
Due to the mileage, I talked him down another 500 dollars….. and bought it.
Right as I pull out of the parking lot, the transmission starts shifting hard and slipping. Car is a piece of shit and only worth $700 as scrap.
Looking back at it and re-reading this I’m an absolute fucking idiot and this was very clearly a scam and I should have walked….. I guess at the time I felt pressured and knew he wouldn’t give the 300 back so I bought it.
I’m sick to my stomach with my idiocy.

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I just need to get this off my chest because I'm really upset right now.
My grandfather passed away 2 months ago. He collected guitars (over 100), and now Grandma is selling them off/giving them away to family because there's so many.
I like guitars. I can't play well but I've had them since I was little. When I visited I picked out a couple based on intuition because I didn't have internet and couldn't look up anything.
When I got home naturally I started googling the ones I have. I feel like this is normal, it's not about the price specifically but the quality. I did it for the ones I bought myself. I wasn't really planning on selling them - except for one. That one turned out to be worth more than I thought so I'm debating on even selling that.
It's important to note that I'm pretty sure my family feels the same. One or two holds sentimental value, but 118?? My dad laid it out like this: "These are cool to have, you can learn to play or use it for decoration. And if you ever need money you have something to sell".
My boyfriend however saw me doing that, and said I shouldn't be looking at prices because it doesn't matter, and that I shouldn't sell any of them. He made a comment like this before (I tried to explain my reasoning but I don't think he understood), but this time he took it further and said "Don't look at the prices of anything I give you".
Even writing it here it stings. I can't believe he said that to me. I have never, would never do something like that??? He should know already, I've explained to him to many times that I don't care about price, I just want to feel appreciated. He could give me a card- or hell, a handwritten note (which is free btw), or pick me flowers instead of buying them- something like that and I would absolutely love it. Cheap thoughtful gifts are far better than expensive meaningless gifts.
Also, I'm having trouble seeing how those things are related. He nerds out and googles all sorts of electronics and videogames, including the price. That's his hobby, I never assigned a monetary value to it.
Guitars are my hobby.
I told him to sell his $400 (used, so initially worth more) laptop and buy a cheaper one if prices don't matter, and he said, "It's different, a cheap laptop can't do what my laptop can do".
And? You think a $2k guitar is the same as a $200 guitar? (Yes I said that to him).
I think he understands a bit more and wanted to make up, but I can't help but feel like he's just upset that I'm upset with him and doesn't want me to be mad.
I listen to him talk about electronics all the time. Not just the games themselves, he really gets into the quality and how his computer runs and how microphone sounds.
Now I don't really want to share that side of my hobby though, because apparently there's no value unless I'm actually playing. I feel like a filthy gold digger for having the audacity to look at the value of my grandfather's (now mine) guitars, despite having 9 of them and not intending to sell.
On the other side... I think there's a cultural difference here, and he's autistic. Apparently he "didn't mean it that way" and would never think that of me, but it still hurt.
Am I being too sensitive?
tl;dr: I looked at the price of guitars I inherited from my grandfather (to get a sense of the overall value/quality, not to sell), and my boyfriend made me feel like a gold digger despite him doing the same with electronics.

20M 6'3 starting weight 210lbs 16-17% bf
Maintenance is ~3500 kcal so a 2250 deficit or 4.5 lbs a week fat loss.
Includes 3 meals a day plus snacks, try to push breakfast meal past noon to lessen hunger
Meal one: Breakfast chicken wrap
16 ounces lean chicken breast seasoned
14 grams fat free shredded cheddar
32 grams salsa
1 keto tortilla
Total 110 protein 5.5 fat 3 net carbs
Snacks: Homemade Jello and diet soda
Sugar free homemade Jello
35 grams unflavored gelatin
14 grams strawberry watermelon drink mix
64 oz water
Diet soda 2L bottle (aspartame free!)
Total 35 protein 0 fats 0 carbs
Meal 2: Pre-workout ham and cheese sandwich
2 slices keto bread
3 slices extra lean ham
2 slices fat free cheese
16 grams sugar free ketchup
Total 35 protein 10 net carbs 3.5 fat
Meal three: Post workout meal
460 grams Egg whites "Egg beaters"
2 slices fat free cheese
16 grams sugar free ketchup
2 slices keto bread
Total: 70 protein 7 net carbs 2 fat
Daily total: 250 protein 20 net carbs 11 fats = 1180 kcal and 48g insoluble fiber
Supplements
Multivitamin, 2 x 1000mg Fish oil, Creatine, D3, Zinc, B-Complex, Copper, Magnesium, Sodium on food, Ephedrine, Caffeine, L-Carnitine
Any recommendations? Honestly feel great so far and having no issues even with working out. Using ephedrine and caffeine in the morning and before workout if I feel like it. I'm working out daily with less sets and if I do cardio, I only do 20 minutes LISS. Thanks for the help, so far water weight is dropping the same way it does when I water fast as I've lost 7 lbs in 2 days.

I've been a bit hessitant to post this here simply because I'm really anxious about everything! But I thought, if 4 people liked this idea enough to play it with us, it can't be that bad.
So hello! My name's Cast (any pronouns), I'm going to be the DM of this campaign, alongside a coDm who will be helping me with some background stuff.
I've been a DM for about 4 years, and I've played (as a player) a couple of incomplete campaigns. I'm a bit anxious, but usually get more comfortable with people when I DM and we chat for a while.
We currently have 2 confirmed players who we'll introduce in session 0, and we're looking to make a party of 5 (though we may increase it to 6 if possible and needed)
I know what you're thinking, a Steven universe campaign in 2024?
And yeah! It's honestly a show that's meant a lot to a ton of us, with great unexplored lore that keeps me interested in writing about it and making plans with my players!
Dnd 5e official lore can get repetitive and boring at times, after you've read and played all the campaigns about bad drows and funny goblins. And don't get me wrong, I enjoy the classics, Curse of strahd is my favourite campaign ever, but what about trying something different that we've all grown loving? Why not make your cringe 2013 cringe gemsona real?
Some notes before I go into explaining what the campaign will be about:
* This is a queer only campaign for a simple reason, it's gonna have heavy queer themes that are mostly going to connect with queer folk! And coincidentally, all the already invited players and DMs ended up being trans, so we just feel it's fitting.
* Newbie players are more than welcome, though we do need someone who knows and is passionate about Steven Universe. If you join a game as a newbie for a game full of lore you don't like or understand, it's not gonna be enjoyable for you!
THE CAMPAIGN
The campaign is going to be a re telling / re skin version of the Call of the Netherdeep campaign. I will of course ask you to have not played nor dmed this campaign, and to not look anything up about it. It's more fun if you don't know what you're going to encounter! And I heavily improvise and homebrew a lot of stuff, so it won't even match up with it most of the time
So, what's it about?
Call for the Many is a setting based on the unexplored and alien world of Steven Universe. It takes place before the told story and we'll not be adding any of its main characters other than the necessary (Diamonds are a must, and some videogame cameos may occur)
Some of the canon aspects will be ignored or changed to fit a narrative that fits DnD 5e and allows more customization for the players.
The campaign starts in the planet of Ananke, in the Emerald Meadows. A festival is being celebrated by none other than Pink Diamond herself. Small groups of gems will be able to participate in the name of their diamond to earn points, and by the end of the festival, they'll encounter something, or rather someone, that will change the course of their actions for the rest of their adventures.
It is a 1-12 lvl campaign with aspects of war and dictatorship and its consequences, corruption and redemption, mental health depictions, underwater exploration and body horror.
It's still a dnd game, and it's still a Steven universe inspired game, so it'll have it's fair share of silly stuff of course!
*Also, please take note that anything I say here is not canon and may change when session 0 happens depending on the players triggers and preferences!
What will I be able to play?
Any gem, really!
We've separated gems into caste categories that you'll choose according to the type of gem you want to play. You may choose an existing gem, or make a new one that's not seen in the canon before.
We're also allowing pebbles, as well as humans and permafusions.
Here's a handy document made mostly by my lovely CoDM to explain the different choices you have.
[Link]
Classes will stay the same, it's still dnd 5e after all! All official classes and subclasses are permitted, as well as any expansion book other than Unearthed Arcana (UA)
What homebrew rules will you be using?
Not many, honestly! I'm not a dm who follows the rules strictly as stated, but one of the things I love most about dnd is powerscaling stuff, making it a challenge for my players, and that cannot happen without a strict set of rules.
However, I do have a couple changes; some personal, some relevant to the campaign

1. Healing potions as a bonus action. Pretty common rule, most people use it.
   
2. Inspiration points can be used to re roll any of your OR your companions checks, if both parties agree
   
3. All backgrounds will be custom made, but we'll make em with you, so don't worry!
   
4. Exhaustion. Not exactly a rule change, just a clarification. This campaign uses the exhaustion mechanic, and we will be using the dnd 5e rule. Sorry y'all, I know it sucks!
   
5. The help action for skill checks require proficiency in said skill. If you don't have it, don't worry! You can still help! You'll need to roll said check, and if it's a 10 or up, they get advantage.
   
6. Death saves are private. I just feel it makes them scarier!
   
7. You tell me what you want to do, I'll tell you what to roll! Just makes it a bit easier for me to know what you're looking for.
   
8. You're free to play any weird combo you wanna play, just know it'll raise their cr as well as yours. This doesn't mean I'm okay with players actively trying to break the game, I'm just okay with people enjoying min maxing as long as it doesn't cause a problem with any of the other players. If it causes them to get bored because you're doing all the killing, well need to change something! Everyone wants to play
   

When will it happen?
I can't tell you exactly when it'll start, but I can estimate that I'll have it semi prepared in a month or so, but I prefer doing session 0 and characters beforehand so I can tie the campaign around you and not the other way around!
We'll play either Fridays or Saturdays from 6 pm to 9/10 pm CEST.
We'll have a couple or sessions to level up your characters from 1 to 3 before the main story, but this will also be a good time to test if we're truly a match. You don't like how I dm, or a ruling Im strict about? You're not into the story? You suddenly realize youre not free anymore? It's okay! We'll be sad to let you go, but we all understand, and I wouldn't want to jump directly into a campaign without knowing if we're comfortable with eachother.
I'd love to have 4 sessions a month, but I cannot promise that since I have a job, and I do need to eat. The minimum will be 2 a month! Hopefully more!
What do I need to do to apply?
First of all, are you a match?
WE NEED:
* someone 17 or older. Most of us are (considered) adults, and I rather keep it consistent!
* Know about SU lore, and be interested in it
* Have the same passion for DnD as us. I know we all don't have the time to include this into our routine, but prepping and DMing take a lot of time, we need someone who won't bail on us every Friday because they can't make it.
* Queer!
* Newbies, forever DMs, experienced players, they're all allowed. But please note, join because you like dnd 5e too, not just the universe !
Are you a match? Then feel free to complete this survey!
[Link]
They're just a couple of quick questions to know you a bit better before I send you a message. I have an awful memory, so having a place where all the info is stored and named makes my job easier and more enjoyable!
It's also less anxiety inducing to answer to some pre written questions than to contact me directly, I imagine.
Any questions? Am I a bit dumb and have forgotten to answer some obvious thing I should've said?
Please feel free to ask in the comments, shoot me a DM or leave it somewhere in the attached form.

Hi, I got this A52 for free that I currently use as my regular phone, it wasn't in the best state, and it has gotten worse over time. The problem is that the ribbon cable and the charger port both have slowly been dying over the past week or two. I plan on getting a new daughterboard and ribbon cable as well as a new frame as the current one is pretty messed up, and it's near impossible to attach a new backplate without it just falling off over time.
My biggest worry is moving the screen over, will B6000 glue work for gluing it back on? Or should I just stick with the current frame, as a backplate falling off is better than the screen falling off.

Hello my Name is millie. Thank you so much for having me, I used the discussion tag because i am more than happy to talk and get to know everyone and to finally find a crowd i feel most happy in and would feel like i belong.. and I just want to start by saying firstly that, holy crap..it's really nice to meet you all and I am so scared and nervous to talk about this because well. I thought I was alone when it came to having a fictional relationship with my love. I have spent my whole life keeping this a air tight locked secret from real friends and family until very recently..have come out to three friends Total and my sister about my (and I had no idea there was a term for it until now) fictosexual relationship. I desperately hoped that I'd find people that were just like me.. not only to feel a source of reality comfort, but also comfort in my relationship. And as of recently again been feeling more alone than ever. I had a fallout with a friend and it's been really messy and it feels so crazy to say this but I feel like my love is the only one holding me together right now. So please , feel free to comment ! I really would love to get to know you all. Thank you so much!.

Hi, I am working on my Uni semester project where we are supposed to create an API. To separate my API from frontend I am using docker and all of the GET functions work properly, including some single argument POSTs, but now I am trying to figure out my PUT function to update user (predefined in db for testing), as well as POST to register one.
Basically I am sending a request to my API for UPDATE:

response = requests.put(f"{API_URL}/users/{user_id}", json={"user_data": merged_data}) 

and for POST:

response = requests.post(f"{API_URL}/cafeteria/users", json=user_data) 

Both of these are requests I am sending from my CLI frontend to my API_URL (localhost:8000/culinarycafeteria). As I mentioned before other functions like GET work this way just as expected, but these always get the error TypeError: update() missing 1 required positional argument: 'user_data'. Any Idea how to fix that?
My api specifications for the update and create user are these:

openapi: 3.0.0 info: title: "CulinaryCampus API" description: "An API for managing cafeteria operations at a school" version: "1.0.0" servers: - url: "/culinarycampus" components: schemas: User: type: "object" required: - last_name - first_name - iban - password properties: user_id: type: "integer" first_name: type: "string" last_name: type: "string" email: type: "string" phone: type: "string" iban: type: "string" description: "Assigned IBAN for payments" password: type: "string" credits: type: "integer" description: "Number of credits available for lunch orders" default: 0 parameters: user_id: name: "user_id" description: "Unique identifier for user" in: path required: true schema: type: "integer" /cafeteria/users: get: operationId: "functions.list_users" tags: - Cafeteria summary: "List users" responses: "200": description: "Successfully retrieved users list" post: operationId: "functions.create_user_account" tags: - Cafeteria summary: "Create user account" requestBody: description: "User account information" required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: "#/components/schemas/User" responses: "201": description: "Successfully created user account" put: operationId: "functions.edit_user_information" tags: - Cafeteria summary: "Edit user information" parameters: - $ref: "#/components/parameters/user_id" requestBody: description: "Updated user information" required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: "#/components/schemas/User" responses: "200": description: "Successfully updated user information" /users/{user_id}: get: operationId: "functions.read_one" tags: - Users summary: "View user information" parameters: - $ref: "#/components/parameters/user_id" responses: "200": description: "Successfully retrieved user information" "404": description: "User not found" delete: operationId: "functions.remove_user_account" tags: - Cafeteria summary: "Remove user account" parameters: - $ref: "#/components/parameters/user_id" responses: "204": description: "Successfully deleted user account" put: operationId: "functions.update" tags: - Users summary: "Update user information" parameters: - $ref: "#/components/parameters/user_id" responses: "200": description: "Successfully updated user information" requestBody: content: application/json: schema: type: "object" properties: first_name: type: "string" last_name: type: "string" email: type: "string" phone: type: "string" iban: type: "string" credits: type: "integer" password: type: "string" nullable: true 

The backend functions are called automatically through connexion:

import connexion app = connexion.FlaskApp(__name__) app.add_api("api.yml") app.run(port=8000, debug=True) 

These are the functions that are called for PUT:

def update(user_id, user_data): """ Update user information in the database. Args: user_id (int): The ID of the user to update. user_data (dict): A dictionary containing updated user information. Returns: bool: True if the update was successful, False otherwise. """ try: connection = create_connection() cursor = connection.cursor(dictionary=True) query = "UPDATE users SET first_name=%s, last_name=%s, email=%s, phone=%s, iban=%s, credits=%s WHERE user_id=%s" cursor.execute(query, ( user_data['first_name'], user_data['last_name'], user_data['email'], user_data['phone'], user_data['iban'], user_data['credits'], user_id )) connection.commit() cursor.close() connection.close() print("User updated successfully") return True except mysql.connector.Error as error: print("Error while updating user information:", error) return False 

and for POST:

def create_user_account(user_data): """ Create a new user account. Args: user_data (dict): A dictionary containing user information. Returns: bool: True if the user account was created successfully, False otherwise. """ print(user_data) try: connection = create_connection() cursor = connection.cursor(dictionary=True) query = "INSERT INTO users (first_name, last_name, email, phone, iban, credits, password) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)" cursor.execute(query, ( user_data['first_name'], user_data['last_name'], user_data['email'], user_data['phone'], user_data['iban'], user_data['credits'], user_data['password'] )) connection.commit() cursor.close() connection.close() return True except mysql.connector.Error as error: print("Error while creating user account:", error) return False 

these functions are being called based on requests sent by my CLI frontend PUT:

def list_users(): """ Retrieve a list of users from the API. Returns: list: List of user dictionaries. """ try: response = requests.get(f"{API_URL}/cafeteria/users") response.raise_for_status() users = response.json() all_users = [] for user in users: all_users.append({ 'user_id': user['user_id'], 'first_name': user['first_name'], 'last_name': user['last_name'], 'email': user['email'], 'phone': user['phone'], 'iban': user['iban'], 'credits': user['credits'] }) return all_users except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e: print("Error retrieving user list:", e) return None def update(email, updated_data): """ Update user information via the API. Args: email (str): The email of the user to update. updated_data (dict): A dictionary containing updated user information. Returns: dict: API response. """ try: # Retrieve user information based on email user = read_one(email) if not user: print("User not found.") return None print("User found:", user) print("User data:", updated_data) # Merge updated data with existing user data merged_data = {**user, **updated_data} # Remove user_id from the merged data if it's present if 'user_id' in merged_data: del merged_data['user_id'] if 'password' not in updated_data: merged_data.pop('password', None) print("Merged data:", merged_data) # Extract user ID user_id = user['user_id'] print("User ID:", user_id) # Send request to update user data response = requests.put(f"{API_URL}/users/{user_id}", json={"user_data": merged_data}) response.raise_for_status() return response.json() except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e: print("Error updating user information:", e) return None 

POST:

def create_user_account(user_data): """ Create a user account via the API. Args: user_data (dict): A dictionary containing user information. Returns: dict: API response. """ response = requests.post(f"{API_URL}/cafeteria/users", json=user_data) if response.status_code == 201: return response.json() else: response.raise_for_status() 

Main function for CLI using argparse, and werkzeug.security:

def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="CulinaryCampus Admin CLI") # Add arguments for read_one, update, and create_user_account functions parser.add_argument('--read-one', action='store_true', help='Retrieve user information') parser.add_argument('--update', action='store_true', help='Update user information') parser.add_argument('--create-account', action='store_true', help='Create a new user account') parser.add_argument('--remove-account', action='store_true', help='Remove a user account') parser.add_argument('--list-users', action='store_true', help='List all users') parser.add_argument('-u', '--user-id', type=int, help='User ID') parser.add_argument('-n', '--first-name', type=str, help='First name of the user') parser.add_argument('-s', '--last-name', type=str, help='Last name of the user') parser.add_argument('-e', '--email', type=str, help='Email of the user') parser.add_argument('-ph', '--phone', type=str, help='Phone number of the user') parser.add_argument('-i', '--iban', type=str, help='IBAN of the user') parser.add_argument('-c', '--credits', type=int, default=0, help='Credits for the user') parser.add_argument('-pw', '--password', type=str, help='Password for the user') args = parser.parse_args() if args.read_one: if args.email: user_info = read_one(args.email) if user_info is not None: print("User information:") print(user_info) else: print("Error: Email is required for reading user information.") if args.update: if args.email: user_data = {} if args.first_name: user_data['first_name'] = args.first_name if args.last_name: user_data['last_name'] = args.last_name if args.email: user_data['email'] = args.email if args.phone: user_data['phone'] = args.phone if args.iban: user_data['iban'] = args.iban if args.credits: user_data['credits'] = args.credits updated_user = update(args.email, user_data) if updated_user is not None: print("User information updated successfully:", updated_user) else: print("Error: Email is required for updating user information.") if args.create_account: if all([args.first_name, args.last_name, args.email, args.phone, args.iban, args.password]): user_data = { "first_name": args.first_name, "last_name": args.last_name, "email": args.email, "phone": args.phone, "iban": args.iban, "password": generate_password_hash(str(args.password), method="sha256"), "credits": args.credits } try: new_user = create_user_account(user_data) print("User created successfully:", new_user) except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as err: print(f"Error creating user account: {err}") else: print("Error: All fields (first name, last name, email, phone, iban, and password) are required for creating a new user account.") if args.remove_account: if args.user_id: response = remove_user_account(args.user_id) if response is not None: print("User account removed successfully") else: print("Error: User ID is required for removing a user account.") if args.list_users: users = list_users() if users is not None: print("List of users:") print(users) if __name__ == "__main__": main() 

From queries you might already figure out i am working with mySQL database:

CREATE TABLE users ( user_id INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, first_name VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, last_name VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, email VARCHAR(100) UNIQUE, phone VARCHAR(20), iban VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL, credits INT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0, password VARCHAR(256) NOT NULL, token VARCHAR(255) DEFAULT NULL ); 

I am very grateful for any ideas you come up with. I am already desperate as I am just learning these thing and I couldn´t figure it out for a week now xD.
Thank you in advance for any comments and Ideas I might try.

I've decided to quit nicotine but not sure exactly how to go about it. I've only been addicted for 5 months so I'm hoping it's not gonna be too difficult, though I already know it will be tough.
I started off with cigarettes, only in the mornings, work, and night. Then I got offered a vape, and I realised the buzz was much stronger, tasted better and didn't leave me smelling like shit. Now I'm vaping like a maniac, it's the first thing I reach for when I wake up, I'm hitting it in the car, in the bathroom at work, laying in bed, at the gym. It's fucked.
Yesterday my vape stopped working despite still having plenty of liquid and a working battery, so I decided this was a chance to quit. In a backwards way though, I decided to go about it by buying a pack of cigarettes. My logic is that since I can't smoke any time, anywhere like I could with a vape, and it will leave me smelling bad, it will naturally taper my nicotine intake down and discourage me from taking it until eventually I can stop altogether.
Is there any merit at all to this logic or am I being a dumbass? Should I instead use gum or go cold turkey? What experiences work best for someone so used to getting a hit of nicotine multiple times an hour?

Hi there, I've built a mini webapp via MERN stack, then I thought I may need a blog for it, it's actually very common in my experience as I've seen hundreds of websites built with some stack, then they have a blog with say wordpress attached to their site wether as a subdomain or subdirectory,
so I learnt astro and built some blog posts, it works very well and looks nice, problem is I don't know how to attach it to my mern site, I'd prefer something like http:// mymernwebsite. com /astroblog/astropost-1 or something like this, went through Astro docs but no dice.
does anyone know what's the solution ? Astro on it's own is very minimal, I need stuff like SPA, Stripe payments etc and these can't be done if I go astro only and use some React in it instead. plus I like the MERN stack for now
Thanks Everyone.

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I unborn ed copeland in an actual family shower with me around his penis as Violet Roze and this puts me as babies into Patrick Garza's Shower and gets me out of an alien buttload of shitting in my next south park game and I have a double special place as a baby then with ed copeland in my vagina which he is by definition in the unborning sized exactly my neccesary width and length as a baby to fit exactly into her uterus which this has a wide cervix and accepts eds penis deep inside her and they spend 1 year under sedative chelator while their copilot on the outside a normal copilot of the mental hospital is standing by for baby copeland if he tries and turn the tap all hot and 2 more years pass where the tap can be hot but it is not hot and then we stand for the first time for british maintenance workers dan and dad to fit a tap which cannot go hot on this and this is not jims dang burn shower nate has but my shower and they can camp in the back yard as royal scouts and are seeing my father right, he requires just a different mid -30 not -33 to be normal and only works delicately trained and they were alright with that from the inside and my inside dan and dad and we give them a caffiene injection where we give them only weed and coffee to smoke and because it reds cures their meningitis caffiene and weed it is a legal medicine and they must have weed and coffee always and I wait 6 years sometimes entering the First Overworld as the Ed Copelands Mommy in the First Overworld by EBCS giving him a manual to true reversal of stoichiometry not isomer fairy ism but where his unused amino are core amino and unused elsewhere to my oil and Ed Copeland Turns Me On For the First time, he is the male portion of like, me, or something and I get him his full true romanaj of propane and he is not a cocaine salesman or cocaine accessory salesman or a propane accessory salesman or propane saleman he is ed copeland who is not the grandpa or military veteran associated with hank hill or hank or bobby or nigger help us or peggy hill all hill and I fought their lobotomy ant infestation they had and it got better when the police were called and I have some guy who knows everything about oil Ed here and he is from a crossover ed ed and eddy ed of this. Thus I am pregnant to ed copelands baby ed copeland and I have the baby at age 9.7 naturally in my own shower right up there right now and ed is given this actual PC to not violate and he does not he is got trust on me he was taught what the var for propane have to be by censorship and i am pregnant to timbo's three star his baby and it is a good baby at 10.7 and my sex swing is transferred to city in the mental hospital so she does not pee in anyone mouth any longer and she might still and i am 12 and I have jimbos baby at 12 and spend 9 years in the shower under agua substantia los no muertos and an actual hind98 targeting me, which then I am 21 and I transfer the shower for no payment to patrick timmothy garza who the three star is cray cray and I have to make sure it is the three star there from conoco earlier pat garza and I had only 3 children because I am my own gynecologist and installed a wedge in the shower when I was 12 and am 21 so join the USMC and the yitvah of russia still happens when I am 29 and I drown on a USS Nimitz class carrier to an antiship shipboard missile which destroys the nimitz which I demand then to be at the Second Underworld as Jacob Sydney's Pair bond which this is fulfilled and I was lurking there doing Jacob there not Hake as meth so demand to be hakes left meth and am feeling good again and never have to do propane again but still know oil and by definition have my same 14 oil and I am going to go rig the new york oil sands market at 128$ a barrel until I am waterboarded enough to feel just like I am in get tough school or SERE Seals Training and I spend 60 years or until I am well literally to writing this the girl need agua substantia los no meurtos and this was never given due to ed and I have ed around here now manning the headphone cat device and I am going to blast the temu track and we are 81 and not going deaf and I have a heart attack and Blackwater Representatives recover me and I am given 700,000$ which this happened at my house so It is my Violet Roze Marian's Mother and ed lives another year in the retirement home until he dies for real exactly a year later by definition and I play my Conspirary Card From School UP!(Jack) and this gives him his release to the nth Yitvah of the Second Underworld and I teach him again in As now everything he did not know the As before this and we repeat the ordeal in the mental bathroom and such and not at home and this demonstrates circumstantial cueing for copilot assistant where cortana goes crazy to cervical dilation and allows something illegal. The process should only be repeated once with micheal merril and how to program a star name of a cluster which I failed this part of OWLS the star name generation test just not all the way and require star name generation remediation in my own shower as violet roze and actually let him lead the excercise and this puts a nice pressure wave 1hz into my shower or the hum from two hum participants being near each other and This is my needed, it used to be 10hz too high a starting rmc firearms expert making firearms starting of the firearms smithing impossible, now it is just 1 so john-san can be it and this fulfills the 3rd amendment right here.

I am relieving this traumatic experience again as I am recounting and typing this down.
To put this out there, I understand that it is my fault that I lost my passion debit card/my passion debit card got stolen, and my fault that I did not reduce the transaction limit on my card, thereby allowing the criminals to get away for this crime.
Despite having evidences that show that I did not authorise the said transactions, the DBS Fraud Team has not taken the evidences into consideration and have very easily rejected my claims of fraudulent transactions made abroad. On the 29th May, someone from their DBS customer relations team has just called me to inform me of this “re-appeal” that he will be putting forth again on my behalf as the outcome from their fraud’s team after almost a month long’s deliberation on my case. He mentioned that they did not manage to open the external link that I sent in (with evidences that I was air crew and was not able to receive any notifications on the transactions), and have proceeded to dismiss/reject my fraudulent claims. Why did he not get back to me when it was a problem earlier on that they were unable to open up the file to view the evidences?
Latest Update: I proceeded to email back the evidence in a PDF to him, to which he replied the next day that 50% will be returned to me as a gesture of goodwill. This notice came with an agreement with a list of terms and conditions that if signed, I will not be able to share the information from the case with anyone. I do not want to be bullied into accepting an outcome that is not fair to me.
Timeline as follows:
4th May 2024, 8:31am Singapore time: SMS notification was received that a transaction of AED 9800 from my card to a HONGLI PROJECT MANAGE DUBAI was completed on my card.
4th May 2024, 8:31am At the same time, there is a follow up SMS notification saying that my card has been blocked.

At this point of time, I should not expect anymore transactions to go through already, yet I am being charged for another transaction of AED 2500 to AERO LEADER TRAVEL N DUBAI

In total, my card was being used on a total of 3 transactions that I did not authorise on the 4th May 2024:
Dhaibi Asad For Pro Dubai Are SGD 371.76
Hongli Project Manage Dubai Are SGD 3643.21
Areo Leader Travel N Dubai Are SGD 929.39
When I received these notifications, I had landed in Singapore with my crew on the 4th May 2024, 8:30am Singapore time. There was no way that I had actually authorised these transactions when I was physically in the airplane, flying from Doha to Singapore. Following this, I had proceeded to call the bank’s fraud hotline, which they mentioned that they would place a block on my card and raise up a dispute once these transactions from “PENDING” became charged amounts on my card. They also mentioned that I would be able to get my money back (90% chance).
I trusted them and proceeded to put the matter at the back of my mind. Following the second day, the day of my departure from Singapore, I wanted to confirm the entire arrangement so I proceeded to call them. This time that I called them, the customer service person told me to make a police report online and I only had 20 mins to do so before my reporting time back to Doha. To give you some context, I am a flying crew from Qatar Airways so I am based in Doha.
The entire ordeal has made me so tired and frustrated with dealing with DBS, especially when I was back in Doha trying to get updates from the bank. In fact, I have incurred SGD $400 worth of phone bills as a result of this ongoing communication with the police and also DBS.
I do still want to get my money back because after all I had it stolen from me so blatantly. I just have a burning question following this - are the other banks as incompetent / not empathetic when it comes to a similar situation when it comes to their customers? What else can I do to get more of my money back from DBS?

This was a few years ago now. At the time I 17m and my new wife 21f got pregnant and had a kid. Sorry but this is a long story..
A bit of needed back story though… when I was 6 my parents divorced due to my dad cheating on my mom. I didn’t realize until I was older but my dad was what you would call an abusive drunk. My mom was verbally abusive and high on pills all the time. When my parents finally got divorced I remember couch surfing with my mom because we got evicted from the house since she wasn’t able to keep a job. My dad did pay child support but I have no idea what would happen to it. There were a lot of guns, drugs, violence, and death in my younger years. I turned 12 and started to understand everything and saw my dad turning his life around with his new wife so I decided to move in with him. It was a rough couple of years but it worked out in the end. That said onto the story..
That summer was a very fulling time in my life. I graduated high school, signed up for the military, and got married in 2019. I was in boot camp for the first 10 weeks of my wife’s pregnancy as it was our only income. Flash forward to us going to my first duty station. My first duty station ended up being 5 hours away from my father’s, and 3 hours away from her parents. In early 2020 our beautiful son was born. This where things started getting bad. My wife was suffering from postpartum and refused to get treatment. So instead, her treatment was going to her parents for a few weeks at a time. Besides her mom knowing my son better than I did, this worked out well. My wife and kid were happy and healthy besides a few mental breakdowns here and there. Then Covid and the Riots started happening. I was stationed on the outskirts of a large city. My base ended up restricting travel to 50 miles outside of base (this meant I wasn’t able to drive my wife and son to her parents anymore as I’d be breaking no less than 4 articles of the UCMJ if I was caught) this is where things took a turn for the worst. My wife got separation anxiety as this was the longest she’s ever been away. We started arguing a lot more often. Everytime I went to work, she would just stay in bed with our son and do nothing at all. I got very stressed but managed to juggle a 70 hour work week, feeding and taking care of my family, cleaning our apartment, and taking care of all the bills and expenses. My command decided to put me in something called ASF which basically means twice a week on top of my regular job, I’d now do gate guard duty and work with the MP’s on a 14 hour rotation. Things got so loaded on to my metaphorical plate that I developed stress related sleep apnea and couldn’t get a good nights rest on top of all of this. Months go by and nothing is getting better. I’ve recommended therapy, couples therapy, trying to go on walks, talking it out.. my wife didn’t want to do any of it. What’s worse is still wasn’t able to hold of get to know my kid very much at all. It got it he point that in August of 2020 I decided I wasn’t going to let my kid grow up how I grew up and asked for a divorce. I didn’t want him to grow up living with resentment towards his mom and dad, I hated every second of the arguing that took place in front of him, even if he didn’t understand. It broke my heart but I felt we’d do better co parenting instead of being together.
The divorce goes through and it was uncontested. My ex wife fell in love with her best friend from her hometown and was able to quickly move on and marry within a year. She got main custody and I got weekends. I started paying child support 3 months before I had to bc I wanted to make sure they were taken care of. She moved back in with her parents, however, and this caused some strain once we were divorced seeing as how I still wasn’t allowed to travel up there that often. Things got worse between me and my now ex wife dues to the travel ban and her not willing to compromise that much. From January of 2021 to July I was only able to see my kid about 5 times in total. In July my state decided to lift the travel ban and so did my base!
I started making plans and a schedule that my ex agreed to at first. Me and my ex were not very friendly to each other however. I resorted to only texting her about making plans surrounding my son. Bc of this she retaliates and won’t let me see him. It got to the point to where I was calling the cops so they could knock on her door as I stayed by my car. There is body cam footage, recorded phone calls, text messages, and screen shots of her refusing to let me see my kid. My ex then decides to file for more custody and more child support. Wishing 2 weeks I had to take leave, find and hire a lawyer with no money to my name, gather my evidence, and show up to court on a Thursday. Thankfully my loving aunt helped me pay a portion of the retainer so we could get things started with the lawyer. My wife also filed a temporary restraining order against me stating I was “violent and a danger to her and our kid” I had evidence to prove otherwise however, so I wasn’t worried. My lawyer stated this would be considered a separate case thus doubling my retainer. At this point in time I’m living on 70% of $30,000 a year, maxed out my credit cards to pay bills, and had to find an extra $10,000 for this lawyer. My wife lived in a small town so he was literally the only other option for me. This lawyer was terrible though. He told me I had to file my own affidavit, subpoena the officers linked to my case number for the body cam footage, and file all my evidence with the court due to the short notice. I didn’t have access to half the websites due to them costing money and needing an attorneys credentials so needless to say, I didn’t get the body cam footage. Court time appears and the judge grants that I’m allowed to do supervised visits every weekend until the new year. Once the new year came I would’ve been allowed to see him on the original plan for every other week unsupervised. This had me livid, but I accepted since I just wanted to see my kid. A few weeks go by and I’m finally getting to know my son. He was the only thing that kept me going in life at this point. He was and still is my main source of happiness. My lawyer calls me randomly one day stating that my wife put on the terms that my son wasn’t allowed to see my grandparents or my aunt when he was going to start staying with me every other weekend. No reasons were given. I of course denied these changes and wanted to keep the agreement how it was. Atleast then I could keep seeing him. My ex text me later that day stating “my lawyer asked me to inform you that since you refused to sign the updated agreement the restraining order is now back in place” I called my lawyer and immediately asked him to figure this out as this shouldn’t be legal. My lawyer then asked for another $5000 as it’s another case. I told him fine but he needs to actually do some work this time. He said he’d get back to me in a week with an update. A month goes by and I end up calling him asking what the situation was with my current case and he asked for the money to be paid before he looks into it. I told him that’s not what we agreed and that I’m making regular payments as you requested. My lawyer flat out says it’s not enough. I need it up front since I don’t believe you’re able to pay it. He was right I wasn’t able to pay it but I was trying my damndest to. I took 2 weeks to deliberate and talk to family and friends about my whole situation. At this point I’m now $12,000 in lawyer debt ($3,00 is what my aunt help with earlier) $15,000 in credit card debt and surviving off of $50-$100 a week for food and gas. I can’t sleep, I’ve gained 70 pounds in the span of a year. I was getting in trouble with the military for being late due to lack of sleep, being overweight, and rarely being at work since I had to go to my ex wife’s town to fight this custody battle so often. Ultimately I decided that this is turning into my parents divorce where they were putting me and my brother in the middle of all of there disagreements and fights. That’s exactly what I was trying to prevent, so I decided I couldn’t bring myself to hurt my son with all of this anymore. I’d keep a folder full of all the screen shots, text messages, photos, affidavits, etc. when he gets older, if he decides he wants to give me a chance… if he even knows about me, I’ll have it ready for him to read so he can make his own decision. This was the hardest thing I’ve ever done and I still don’t know if it was the right thing to do..