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2024.05.18 22:36 SickCakeVisitor Anon has a quirky gf
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2024.05.18 22:34 mtfinny [USA-DC] [H] Case, 3060Ti, Fans, M.2 SATA SSDs, Watercooling, networking, misc [W] Paypal or Cash
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Gaming PC: Was my daily driver until I went ITX. I'm the original owener of all parts, non-smoking house, and I have the boxes and accessories for most of the items (except the cooler and CPU boxes). Not looking to part out for now. $750 local only.
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Give your zip code when contacting me so I can give you the shipping cost.
Gaming PC: Was my daily driver until I went ITX. I'm the original owener of all parts, non-smoking house, and I have the boxes and accessories for most of the items (except the cooler and CPU boxes). Not looking to part out for now. $750 local only.
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| Fractal Meshify C | Comes with everything, including original box | $60 |
| EVGA Power supply Cable Set | Full cable set for EVGA 850 T2 Titanium PSU. I RMAed the PSU, they asked for only the unit to be shipped to them, and they shipped me a whole new box. These are unused. | $25 |
| Crucial MX500 500GB M.2 SATA SSD (2) | I didn't check before I pulled them, but they should have ~75% life remaining | $30 ea |
| SATA M.2 Adapter | Fits 2 SATA M.2 cards in an expansion slot or a 2.5" bay. Includes 2 heatsinks | $20 |
| Noctua NF-A14 PWM Fans (3) | Great condition, moved so a SFF case that can't fit them | $20 ea, $50 for 3 |
| EVGA RTX 3060Ti FTW3 | Works great, just upgraded. | $250 |
| XSPC 360mm Radiator | Has been repaired (see picture) and worked fine. | $30 |
| Bitspower Reservoirs | Looks cracked near the threads, but hasn't leaked for years | $10 |
| Scythe Kaze Master Fan Controller | 3-pin fan controller 5.15" bay | $5 |
| Patriot 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3-1600 SODIMM | Part Number: psd38g1600sk | $20 |
| 2GB DDR3-1333 SODIMM | Single stick | $free |
| PCIe Wireless Card | b/g/n capability, RNX-N180PCe | $15 |
| ASUS AC1750 WiFi Router | Can include some CAT cables if desired | $30 |
| Qnap QXG-10G1T 10GbE NIC | 10gbe RJ-45 (AQN-107 chipset, should work with Windows/Linux) | $75 |
| EVGA GT740 SC | 2-slot full width card. Has 6-pin PCIe connector | $20 |
| DJI RC213 Controller | Has all cables. | $30 |
| Lume Cube Strobe Light | Unused. Opened for pictures | $30 |
| Energizer Smart WiFi Plugs | Brand new in box | $5 |
2024.05.18 22:33 diorbutpoor8 autistic bf won’t let me see his phone - could use some advice!
hi! i am not sure if i am posting in the right subreddit, but i could really use some advice. i’m struggling to understand him!
my bf was diagnosed with autism about 2.5 years ago. we have been together for a little over 1 year.
i never looked at his phone, but over christmas break, i was curious (as one usually is). i saw that he sent a d*ck pic to a prostitute while on a work trip in june (granted, i was ending my previous relationship at that time, but we were “dating”).
whatever, i moved past it, but he was texting his ex and other females (who were clearly flirting, but he did not think they were).
i lost trust in him and it continued to get worse. i wanted to see his phone and when i asked, he said he did not like me questioning his autism and making him feel like he did things wrong when he knows he didn’t. it got to the point that he broke his iphone to prevent me from going through it. he holds his phone in his hands at all times and i have no chance to see it.
we went to target and he sent a pic to a co worker of an inside joke and when i asked why he took a pic of some gift card, he said, “oh, i was sending it to you, but you’re right here”. he lied right to my face, but he did that to prevent a fight and being questioned.
a couple other instances happened where he lied and i caught him. when he asks the question, “what would happen if i don’t give you my phone”, i tell him i get horrible anxiety and paranoia. he says i control my feelings and that has to stop because he is not hurting me. when i ask him the question in return (what would happen if you do give me your phone) he freaks out and thinks that i am questioning his autism and i’m judging him.
he is right in the sense that he isn’t hurting me and i am safe and he loves me, but i cannot trust him. i can’t picture my life without him, but it’s been months since i have been having anxiety and constantly want to see his phone… i know that’s not healthy. i was in one abusive relationship and i told myself i wouldn’t do this again. please help!
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my bf was diagnosed with autism about 2.5 years ago. we have been together for a little over 1 year.
i never looked at his phone, but over christmas break, i was curious (as one usually is). i saw that he sent a d*ck pic to a prostitute while on a work trip in june (granted, i was ending my previous relationship at that time, but we were “dating”).
whatever, i moved past it, but he was texting his ex and other females (who were clearly flirting, but he did not think they were).
i lost trust in him and it continued to get worse. i wanted to see his phone and when i asked, he said he did not like me questioning his autism and making him feel like he did things wrong when he knows he didn’t. it got to the point that he broke his iphone to prevent me from going through it. he holds his phone in his hands at all times and i have no chance to see it.
we went to target and he sent a pic to a co worker of an inside joke and when i asked why he took a pic of some gift card, he said, “oh, i was sending it to you, but you’re right here”. he lied right to my face, but he did that to prevent a fight and being questioned.
a couple other instances happened where he lied and i caught him. when he asks the question, “what would happen if i don’t give you my phone”, i tell him i get horrible anxiety and paranoia. he says i control my feelings and that has to stop because he is not hurting me. when i ask him the question in return (what would happen if you do give me your phone) he freaks out and thinks that i am questioning his autism and i’m judging him.
he is right in the sense that he isn’t hurting me and i am safe and he loves me, but i cannot trust him. i can’t picture my life without him, but it’s been months since i have been having anxiety and constantly want to see his phone… i know that’s not healthy. i was in one abusive relationship and i told myself i wouldn’t do this again. please help!
2024.05.18 22:33 JulianSkies Blackriver Cases - Season 10 “Days of Fury” - Episode 2 “Visiting Omen”
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The first couple of days were boring, as usual- Blackriver is a small town, and the worst that had happened was Nila and Kessa making a few wellness checks after worried calls from neighbors. A couple of people in denial, a few ashamed at their own violent outbursts and a stern warning to Tamm about painting others’ properties without asking first.
This morning, however, began with an all-hands meeting. There were no meeting rooms in the office, so they made do in the general workspace room, they all stood there at the center while Keya looked them over.
“We have received a report from a neighboring city about a convoy of protestors making its way to Blackriver” she describes without tone. At this point nobody bothers interrupting.
“This convoy is comprised of approximately four hundred and seventy eight individuals of multiple species, primarily human and venlil but with operationally relevant representations of the entire spectrum of size and mobility types” her paws are behind her back, her ears focused directly ahead, her eyes centered to keep the entire team on the core of her focus “They have crossed multiple cities already, generally engaging in verbal sparring with any figure of authority, parading signs and banners denouncing all manners of authorities as well as occasionally engaging in physical altercations with officers.”
“They are also known to engage in vandalism. Though primarily aimed at exterminator and police precincts as well as public offices, they have already caused considerable collateral to others they have identified as ‘collaborators’” there’s a single heartbeat of waiting for breath before she continues “They have, however, not shown to be an incredibly organized group or one with a clear goal and objective. The convoy appears to contain only extremely emotionally charged people with no clear overarching goal.”
“We are incapable of dealing with the situation should they turn aggressive, as such we will be simply maintaining watch and relocating the populace should they become a problem.” Then, she picks up her holopad and passes it to Lunek beside her “They can only follow one path with the entire convoy, the central street, therefore I have divided it into four sectors. One of each will be assigned to a sector.”
First her ears turn to the first target “Lunek, sector one at the entrance. As the most approachable member of the precinct your task is to give an initial image of harmlessness. Do not engage first, do not take initiative against them. Ensure the members of the herd in the area are warned of their approach. If they become aggressive, retreat and focus on the escape of the herd.”
She tilts her head a little bit, turning her ears the other way “Marik, sector two. Mostly the commercial area, your task is ostensive protection to lower the chances of them initiating aggression. Whereas protection of the herd is first priority your second priority is ensuring Tenve’s Hardware Store as well as Sunbreeze Meals and Watchful Café remain capable of providing anyone whose residences become damaged.” suddenly, she turns her head entirely to face Marik “Ostensive protection means dissuasion, ensure that they know they are not under threat and as long as those specific areas are not engaged, do not provoke”
Next in her line of fire is Santos “As our human officer you will be in sector three, nearby the precinct. They are liable to become most agitated in this area and your presence may serve to calm them. You are not to engage, if deemed necessary the precinct’s materials are considered expendable, do not attempt to stop them”
“Sector four, the exit of town, will be with me to ensure that they have fully left Blackriver and will not attempt to turn back” then she tilts her ears again “Aren, you will gear up with a CCG and remain out of view range, your task will be quick emergency response should the need arise.” she then points her tail at the last three officers “Vess, your task will be to inform the herd and ensure a clear path for the convoy while Nila and Kessa will gather all of our medical supplies and set a staging area out of the convoy’s range. Organize ambulance assistance from Striped Hill and Everrain”
Then, she turns her ears around to focus each one in turn “As any attempt at aggression will end only in negative consequences, and in order to reduce the apparent levels of threat you will be unarmed. The estimated time of arrival is a third of a claw, ready yourselves and be at your post in time. Dismissed.”
“Not sure if I like or I don’t that we had the cold bastard right now” Aren says, as soon as Keya had left the room “Maybe we should move in closer when the convoy gets to sector four?”
“Probably a good idea to be nearby” Santos adds with a sigh “They might take umbrage with her demeanor, hopefully they won’t be set off too hard.”
And with silent signs of agreement all of the officers of Blackriver depart for preparations. The first ones to leave the precinct are the ones in charge of support, the two girls set off early to find someone willing to permit usage of their lawn as a possible impromptu field hospital and a little while later Aren leaves with a heavy CCG.
Slowly, the clock ticks to the appointed claw… And soon enough, Lunek can see in the distance the incoming omen of people. At first a distant line in the horizon, slowly the dark mark on the road coalesces into distinct shapes, the shapes of hundreds of vehicles slowly rolling down the road.
When the first few get close to the initial buildings of the main street, the entire convoy slows down. Their process of preparation is seemingly laborious, each vehicle houses multiple people at a time, smaller cars full to the brim, flatbeds with more people on their cargo space than can safely be contained, even buses conscripted for the effort. They carry with them signs, flags, a multitude of symbols as they dismount their vehicles and start spreading out to fill the street.
They seem to naturally form two distinct yet highly mixed groups, at its most distinctive is the pack of humans who keep a good distance from each other. But they are not alone in this group as takkan, mazic, yotul, zurulian and even drilvar form this central group. But flowing around them, not avoiding their presence but never infringing in their space is the grey mass of venlil, packed tight together, and mixed in there adding color to the monochromatic flux are krakotl, tilfish, sulean, iftali, sivkit and even a seemingly very confused duerten.
And at the very core of the moving group are their vehicles, which gently start rolling forward again as the group starts moving. Lunek simply waits, silently, by the side of the road, his ears attentively swiveling from one side to the other, expression having given way to function. Before the first of the convoy even arrives close he turns to the side, making a pointing sign with his tail. A woman who had been watching from her yard flicks her right ear and runs back inside.
He continues to wait, scanning around at all times for the presence of… Anything. The street is empty of locals when the first visitors start to alight. The convoy is loud, their symbols carry a loudness of colors and their vehicles make as much noise as they can to draw attention, but those who walk seem content in allowing their tools to speak for them, for now. Lunek tries to make sense of the banners and signs, but the messages are disparate as the group- Some speak of injustices against their people, some speak of anger at invaders, some speak of betrayal.
“Fuck off, fireman!” comes the harsh bark of a human, causing Lunek to flinch. But flinch is all he does, he simply starts walking alongside the moving convoy.
The exterminator’s attention is drawn to the details of the few people he can distinguish amongst the mass. Something tickles at his pattern-recognition but he cannot quite ascertain what for a while, until a lightly limping mazic makes her way to the edge of the mass “Want to finish the job?!” she trumpets, her form towering over his.
“I’m just observing, ma’am.” Though the tremor of his voice is noticeable, he remains stoic. But her proximity makes him notice something about her body, marks in her wrists, neck and feet. Though mazic have powerful wrists and knuckles upon which they support the front half of their weight, her left wrist seems completely incapable of it, giving her a limp particular to a three-point walk. “To make sure there’s no impediment on your path” he notices the leathery skin around her left wrist is deeply blackened.
“Oh, ‘no impediment’ is that it? So everyone that lives here is an impediment?!” her voice booms.
“Ma’am” still, he does not yield nor does he break his pace following the convoy “We have not done anything other than inform our people of your presence…” for a half second all he hears is the sound of his own heart “We can’t do anything else.”
Those words, then, sealed his fate. The first shout to echo in his direction was a yotul howling “Yeah you’re useless!” and soon the avalanche came in multiple voices and languages “Can’t do shit!” “You’re just here to hurt people!” “Useless crap!” “Idiot!” and many more.
With every step and twitch the very average exterminator puts all of his focus on just being there. He lets himself cower a little bit, against the barrage it is difficult not to, but he continues to accompany. A few curious coats step out from their houses to watch, but the front of the convoy seems far too focused on the sole exterminator in view to bother anyone else.
A few steps ahead, an older venlil with a cane has moved the closest to the convoy as any watcher has up to now. Seeing her proximity to the increasingly rowdy crowd causes Lunek to speed up, quickly approaching her “Leva-”
But his words are stalled when she puts a paw on his shoulder, she gently puts her head against his for just a second “You’re doing good pup, keep at it” she mutters to him before breaking contact and turning around to walk back inside. He can spy her grandchildren looking on through the door. Lunek looks back at the still-shouting moving convoy, takes a deep breath, and continues to accompany them forward. A small pawful of them, however, seem to have fallen silent.
Once having reached the limit of his assigned zone, however, Lunek stops. He watches the convoy move forward, past the houses, now noisier than before. The initial hollering at him had turned into disjointed screams at some indistinct foe- Though the herd had been noticed of a foe, it was yet unaware of who, or what, said foe was. So for now it howled at the ineptitude of… Someone. And as the last of the convoy passes beyond the imaginary line of his duty, Lunek lets out a deep sigh and allows himself to sit down on the ground.
He stays there for a moment, without thought, simply letting the tension, confusion and fear permeate his body until a gentle paw touches his arm. He doesn’t need to look to identify it, he lets his lover use her strength to prop him up, raising him to his feet “Keina you shouldn’t-”
“Neighbor’s looking over Tiss” his wife wraps her arms and tail around him “I’m not leaving you alone.” she stays like that for a second, before breaking off “Do you need to go after them?”
“No”
Marik stalks through the sidewalk, moving with energy. His speed outpaces the movement of the convoy, his paws twitch to grasp at something that isn’t there and a deep and intense motion makes his short fur stand on end. He had let the convoy’s head move in front of him, simply standing still as he assessed as many as he could in the mass, and now he had begun to move towards the front again.
As he stalked forward he focused his sight on every member of the convoy that seemed of interest. A human whose clothes seemed suspiciously loose, a venlil whose movements were far too stiff, a gojid who kept his claws behind his back. He stared at each like they were his quarry, analyzing every piece of movement they made for threats, and yet aside from the challenge in the human’s gaze he saw no danger arise.
Tenve had closed his shop, so as the convoy moved forward Marik simply continued to follow along, scanning the crowd for threats. But the next point of interest arrives, and he rushes ahead placing himself in front of the only restaurant of the town. Sunbreeze Meals wasn’t a very common sort of restaurant, Blackriver did not have enough visitors for a normal restaurant to be profitable and was small enough most people had their meals at home, it most often served takeout for those farmers who’d spend so long in the field they would return home without the energy to feed themselves.
Sparing a look inside at the only five tables, Marik couldn’t keep a small thought away from his mind. How most who got their meals from Sunbreeze these days did so because they enjoyed the cooking rather than their need of work, ever since the sunspeck population has been brought under control and the maintenance of the fields had become much smaller. He feels the presence long before he can recognize what led him to feel it and turns to stare at a group of six that approach the entrance: Two humans, a tilfish, two gojids and a takkan had broken off from the convoy and approached the restaurant.
He traces his color band over each in turn, and they all bristle at his stare. One of the humans hesitates before continuing to walk inside, and Marik simply remains by the door with his arms crossed, left ear twisted as far back as he could to listen to the inside.
“What have you got here?”
“W-we mostly ha-have ready ma-made meals to go or- or- Or you can look over the menu”
“There’s no need to stutter, y’know”
“So-sorry-”
“Really, after everything y’all are still with this predator crap?”
The chimes on the door echo for the second time in sequence as Marik makes his way inside. The tilfish had started to lean over the counter while the other five had arrayed themselves behind her. They all turn their attention to him as he enters, including the venlil manning the counter. Marik keeps his gaze directly on the tilfish for a few uncomfortable seconds, before looking at the man behind the counter and making a simple sign with his tail, a short vertical bob with the tip and a slow horizontal swipe. It’s meaning simple: >Safe<.
After a few seconds someone else appears from the kitchen. The tall venlil carries a large stack of plastic boxes in his arms, all of them seemingly designed to attach to themselves so as to be carried with ease. He puts them down with a resounding crash on the counter, and opens up his voice with ice “Farmer’s Pots, good meal when you’re working and can’t go home.” With each word the owner of the restaurant and main cook comes closer and closer to the tilfish, until the last “Ten credits each.”
Nobody moves for a couple of seconds, and then one of the humans steps closer and brings a holopad over to the credit reader. There’s a noise indicating payment, and then the owner raises his head and tilts it to focus his favored eye and both of his ears at the man who paid “Now,” he shifts register in his voice and the language he speaks in “fuck off” he finishes.
With no small amount of surprise the group of six retrieve the stack of packaged meals, carefully walking out and back into the convoy. Marik stays behind for a moment “Didn’t know you spoke human”
“Pup’s enamored with their languages. Of course, first greek words he learns is swearing.”
Outside, Marik stalks further ahead to the next point of interest. He moves faster than the convoy, and has time to move in front of it. For a few meters the street is still clear as he arrives to find a group of people standing in front of the Watchful. Standing there were all of its employees, and even all of its regulars, twenty people total standing there as if they were having the most normal day. If not for their raised ears tracking every noise coming from down the street and their swaying tails swinging about like angry beasts.
One of them simply points his tail at the other side of the street as Marik comes closer, and the hunter doesn’t need a second command to understand the meaning. They have this, he has a less practical but just as important duty. He crosses the street quickly before the convoy starts coming closer, and heads towards the park.
As the regulars of the Watchful had feared, it took little time until a large group had broken off from the convoy. With the town on alert about the convoy they had found themselves bereft of prey and now this group had set out to find some, anyone who might be willing, or not, to listen to their grievances. And what is clearly a place designed for people to congregate looked most appetizing.
Marik shadowed the group as they moved through the park, but they were accompanied by nothing but silence. It wasn’t until they ran into the centerpiece of the park that he took initiative, stepping ahead of the group and simply… Standing there a distance away from the tree of many scions, between it and the group.
“What’s so important over there, fireman?” it was a venlil who asked, but his usage of an english word was not lost on Marik.
“A place you will respect” the exterminator has his arms crossed, the one good portion of his gaze set on the man who asked “This is a grave.”
Though the group that now prowled was large, those who heard were taken aback. One such, however, approaches closer. He was a venlil whose fur shifted between a soft, brownish color and a dirty white “A tradition of the tenets right? One of those family trees?” The man would have been distinctive in any other group due to his missing patches of fur around neck, wrists, even portions around his head. But such signs of long term damage were common in the convoy.
Interest. They had shown true interest, or at least one of them had. “No, but similar… The forgotten tree is a grave for the forgotten.” He felt like these people, at least the ones before him, could probably understand the meaning of this place “It is of no tradition. Someone, a long time ago, wanted to honor someone who was gone but whose name was not meant to be remembered. Someone who had disappeared in the system… So they borrowed on another’s tradition, and added a scion to this tree, with something in their memory. Others have done so similarly, until it became… A grave for the forgotten”
“Didn’t think you’d be worried about this kind of place” it’s a human that speaks up this time
“Our duty is to protect this town, what you think-” but Marik’s words are interrupted by that same venlil who had asked before. His demeanor suddenly shifts, his ears perk up and his entire body shifts forward for a moment. He hesitates, for a second everyone’s focus is on him, and then he runs towards the tree.
Marik follows behind, stopping just by the man’s side as he finds himself at the base of the tree. The man makes a direct line to somewhere, something he had found from the distance, as if it had called him. He finds a thick and heavy branch that had been bent down by the weight of its scions and memories, near its base and speaking of a memory left behind long ago is a braid of fur made of three colors, a dirty white, a soft brown and a dark grey, bound by the braids are two beads.
The man raises up a paw, but does not touch it. As if cradling it, he recites the words engraved in one of the beads “I will cross every star to return home” others have come closer to listen to the man’s hoarse voice “There will always be a home for you” he reads of the second one. The names on the beads have been scratched out. The man falls on his knees “S-she kept her promise and… I couldn’t keep mine…”
Marik steps back as he watches two others come closer to comfort the man. He looks as a few others approach with more caution, looking up at the tree with a bit more reverence than they had before. Then, he turns around and starts heading back towards the main street.
Gazing out as the convoy gains a new flux, some leave it as it passes to move towards the park while others leave the park to rejoin the convoy, Marik simply stays there at the side of the street looking as stern as he could. Though the noise of the convoy remains great, here in this portion it seems to die down a little. A thought crosses his mind as he turns an ear as far back as he can, a thought he can’t help but voice “I wonder how many are looking at their own graves…”
As the convoy progresses, Santos simply stands by the front of the precinct, hands in his pockets. He watches the convoy arrive, heart beating fast, constrained hands the only reason he hasn't started shaking quite yet. He starts tapping his right foot as he watches the first few people cross by without noticing what this place is yet, everyone knows where the precinct is, so aside from the words printed on the sign by the entrance there is no other marker of what this building’s purpose might be.
Of course, it is impossible for nobody to notice. The entire convoy seems to stop as soon as a zurulian riding on the shoulders of a human points a claw at the building and says something. A large group breaks away at the command, all of them holding disparate signs and messages. They turn on the building with enough roars that whatever they are attempting to transmit is lost on him.
Santos is thankful his hearing isn’t nearly as good as his coworkers’, as the cacophony is already overwhelming him. He changes stances slightly, taking his hands out of his pockets and crossing his arms. This prompts a small group to turn their looks at him, the focus easily identifiable with the humans in their midst, focus which made the hair in the back of Santos’ neck stand on end. Living in this place had refined his sense of danger, but he didn’t need that to realize what could happen.
It was a group of five that approached, four humans and a venlil. “Didn’t think they’d be letting humans live out here in the boonies” said one of his kin.
Santos just shrugs “Got hired to work here. Honestly, rural folk get a needlessly bad reputation, most of the time they just don’t care as long as you’re not bothering them”
“Really? In my-”
Santos interrupts the man “Cut it out” there are many ways in which humans make themselves obvious, many of which are their eyes. Santos did understand the fear of them and why it was primal, it was not the fear of the eyes but the fear of attention, it was knowing you were under the scrutiny and judgment of another that set off that emotion. It was rarely the eyes that showed this attention for most species, but for humans it was, and the man’s clear gaze on his badge made the entire situation clear to him “Stop beating around the bush and say it already.”
Someone else is who speaks. The tall woman starts not with words, however, but by spitting on Santos’ uniform “You fucking traitor” her voice is both fierce and cold at the same time. A very emotional coldness.
“There we go” he sighs “Just… Move on. We’re not getting anything out of this conversation”
“Why?” It was the venlil in the group that started this time “These people hate you, they hate you for what you are! Why do you work for them?!”
Santos rubs his eyes and sighs “Because someone has to. Change only happens when you make it happen, simple as that”
“Change?!” another one of the humans howls “Do you think those people can change?! You know the truth, those fuckers have never done anything good!”
“You know, if you had read your history books…” Santos stares at the one who had just had their outburst “You’d remember that we once thought the very same about the police” there’s the sound of glass breaking, but he doesn’t reaction “And a lot of us still do”
The human staring him down shifts their gaze slightly at the broken window of the precinct, then back at Santos “A broken window is easy to fix” he shrugs “As I was saying. Same shit.” he crosses his arms again “There’s a role those people play, a role that needs to be played because it’s important. Different name, different problems, still the same shit. Gotta fix this, I’m doing my part” he then stares at the venlil in the group “You do yours. Simple as that.”
“Role?!” the venlil of the group steps closer “What role could they possibly have?! They only exist to hurt people!”
Santos steps back, and raises his eyes a little bit. Of course, the classics had shown themselves in this instance. With as many humans as there are in the crowd there were now quite a few objects in the air, most clearly aimed at the precinct behind him. Though given the failed arc of some of them it was clearly not just the humans indulging in such a tried and true method.
“I used to be a wildlife preserve ranger” Santos then focuses his gaze on the aggravated venlil “This is a frontier town, if you walk in the brushes with shorts you’ll walk out with your ankles numb. The athai out there are rather harmless, but they keep the sunspecks under control.” He takes another step back “Since coming here I’ve been pest control, had to catch an exotic animal set loose, investigated a murder, helped stop a child from taking her own life, stopped large scale fights, helped a dozen people avoid being arrested for self defense and helped break a fucking siege”
Santos cracks his knuckles “There’s roles. Jobs that need done and there is one fucking organization doing it all. That is a problem.” Then, he sighs and takes a few more steps to the side, offering indifference from this point on “There’s nothing I can say that would make you calm down.” he says one final time “Just make sure not to injure yourselves in the process, alright?” His words seemed to be enough to make the small group cease trying to interact, as the convoy had begun moving again. Though the one human who had called him a traitor gets one final parting shot at the precinct “Where the hell did you get an egg in this planet…” Santos says with a raised eyebrow as the projectile impacts the front door.
Keya stands by a large sign, the same one that welcomes you into Blackriver on one side and sees you out at the other, the official limit of the town. Her arms behind her back, her attention directly towards the front of the convoy as they march. Something gains the whole of her attention, the car in the front. Someone draws her focus, a human with a megaphone on top of the car. The man shouts words of encouragement at the people behind him with the megaphone before turning to his holopad, then he bends over downwards to discuss something with the driver.
She simply remains there, waiting for the convoy to pass. But instead of moving on out of the city, here the convoy stops completely. Keya observes as the further end of the convoy starts to slowly compact upon itself, and her ears pick up something “Alright everyone, start getting ready, next town over is more than a claw away, make sure you’ve left nothing behind” the words were not meant for her, nor for anyone too far. They come from the same man she had seen standing on top of the car, but he had now climbed down and was talking with a group of multiple species.
It is clear they have some degree of leadership, though the convoy does not stop cleanly nor does it begin to organize with alacrity they do respond to the group’s organization. So Keya keeps her focus on them as they point, wave and talk between themselves, others and devices. But at least one of them has noticed her attention, a gangly and light-skinned human with fire-red hair, the man that was atop the car. He starts walking in her direction, before turning around for one final set of commands as he walks backwards “And make sure the guys at the back got all the crap! We’re here to be heard, not to trash the city!” he says before turning back again to head towards her. A venlil with pure white fur erupts from inside the car he was riding, quickly dashing to his side as they notice where he was going.
In a few moments both have come up to her, the human looking down at her with the venlil bristles at his side “Saw anything interesting, fireman?”
“What are you doing here?”
“What? Isn’t it obvious?!” it was the venlil that roared a response “You saw all of it! You know what they’ve done to us! What they’ve done to everyone! And you still work for those brahking monsters! It’s like you’re thankful they made you a cripple!”
The human puts a hand on the venlil’s shoulder, calming her demeanor just a little bit “We’re here because honestly, we’re all too tired of being fucking ignored is what. So what the fuck are you gonna do?!”
“I have put the wrong emphasis” Keya says with her lack of tone. She can see the human shiver just a little bit “My task is to ensure the safety of this town. Your convoy is a danger. We have eight field-capable officers, we cannot ensure the safety of the residents against a group like yours. People will take actions for reasons, you have broadcast your reasons clearly. You have chosen this place for a reason which I cannot ascertain.”
She makes sure her ears are trained towards both the human and the venlil, an action which causes the venlil to cower behind her partner “We do not house government agencies. This is a farming town of little note. The local precinct is a simple precinct, we have no regulatory or command authority. The town population is approximately double that of the number of your convoy. We have no individuals of appreciable social or political reach. There is nothing in Blackriver of interest to people attempting to change government policy, nor have there been actions taken here that I can identify as being cause for retaliatory actions within the context of your message.”
“I must ensure this does not happen again and the only way of doing so is minimizing our attractivity as targets. A logical assumption of your choice of quarry would be a town with the presence of politicians, a large city with constant news coverage, cities housing important government agencies or those containing the Regional Firebases”
“So I ask again. What are you doing here?”
The two remain silent for a few seconds, before the human turns around with a mouth noise “Whatever, I don’t need to explain myself to someone that won’t listen. Come on!” he starts to stalk back towards the car, but stops once he notices his venlil companion wasn’t moving.
The snow-white venlil has their focus on Keya, who offers a simple low forward swipe of her tail, a sign to proceed. Still, the venlil seems frozen in place until the human comes back and grabs hold of their paw with a gentle touch. At which point both finally return to the convoy.
Keya remains at the side of the road, watching as the convoy readies itself again to leave. People get back inside cars, they hop on the back of trucks and load themselves into buses. She continues to watch as the convoy takes its time riding out, making their way out of the town.
Once it is finally gone, multiple footsteps sound behind her. When she turns around she meets her officers, having returned from their assigned positions “They have left. I expect your reports of what happened in each sector by the end of your shifts” she states plainly, before looking at Santos “They did not appear to have a specific reason for targeting Blackriver.” The question remains unspoken.
The human officer just shrugs “Sometimes, you don’t know what you’re doing. We’re just a little town, I doubt they even know what exactly they’re angry about.” He looks at the tail end of the convoy as it leaves “Town was probably just a place they felt safe going to.”
“D-do you think we might get more like that” Lunek says, at the back of the group.
“Who knows…” Santos sighs “But if human history applies anywhere here… This is just a sign of worse things to come”
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And thus the omen passes by. Feelings, emotions of all sorts, without a plan or a reason other than just their own rage and distress.
Did any of these even know what they were doing? And how much worse can it be when they do?
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Season 10 “Days of Fury” - Episode 2 “Visiting Omen”
He had hoped for a boring day. Boring days are good at work, and Santos was already expecting to not have many of them for a while.The first couple of days were boring, as usual- Blackriver is a small town, and the worst that had happened was Nila and Kessa making a few wellness checks after worried calls from neighbors. A couple of people in denial, a few ashamed at their own violent outbursts and a stern warning to Tamm about painting others’ properties without asking first.
This morning, however, began with an all-hands meeting. There were no meeting rooms in the office, so they made do in the general workspace room, they all stood there at the center while Keya looked them over.
“We have received a report from a neighboring city about a convoy of protestors making its way to Blackriver” she describes without tone. At this point nobody bothers interrupting.
“This convoy is comprised of approximately four hundred and seventy eight individuals of multiple species, primarily human and venlil but with operationally relevant representations of the entire spectrum of size and mobility types” her paws are behind her back, her ears focused directly ahead, her eyes centered to keep the entire team on the core of her focus “They have crossed multiple cities already, generally engaging in verbal sparring with any figure of authority, parading signs and banners denouncing all manners of authorities as well as occasionally engaging in physical altercations with officers.”
“They are also known to engage in vandalism. Though primarily aimed at exterminator and police precincts as well as public offices, they have already caused considerable collateral to others they have identified as ‘collaborators’” there’s a single heartbeat of waiting for breath before she continues “They have, however, not shown to be an incredibly organized group or one with a clear goal and objective. The convoy appears to contain only extremely emotionally charged people with no clear overarching goal.”
“We are incapable of dealing with the situation should they turn aggressive, as such we will be simply maintaining watch and relocating the populace should they become a problem.” Then, she picks up her holopad and passes it to Lunek beside her “They can only follow one path with the entire convoy, the central street, therefore I have divided it into four sectors. One of each will be assigned to a sector.”
First her ears turn to the first target “Lunek, sector one at the entrance. As the most approachable member of the precinct your task is to give an initial image of harmlessness. Do not engage first, do not take initiative against them. Ensure the members of the herd in the area are warned of their approach. If they become aggressive, retreat and focus on the escape of the herd.”
She tilts her head a little bit, turning her ears the other way “Marik, sector two. Mostly the commercial area, your task is ostensive protection to lower the chances of them initiating aggression. Whereas protection of the herd is first priority your second priority is ensuring Tenve’s Hardware Store as well as Sunbreeze Meals and Watchful Café remain capable of providing anyone whose residences become damaged.” suddenly, she turns her head entirely to face Marik “Ostensive protection means dissuasion, ensure that they know they are not under threat and as long as those specific areas are not engaged, do not provoke”
Next in her line of fire is Santos “As our human officer you will be in sector three, nearby the precinct. They are liable to become most agitated in this area and your presence may serve to calm them. You are not to engage, if deemed necessary the precinct’s materials are considered expendable, do not attempt to stop them”
“Sector four, the exit of town, will be with me to ensure that they have fully left Blackriver and will not attempt to turn back” then she tilts her ears again “Aren, you will gear up with a CCG and remain out of view range, your task will be quick emergency response should the need arise.” she then points her tail at the last three officers “Vess, your task will be to inform the herd and ensure a clear path for the convoy while Nila and Kessa will gather all of our medical supplies and set a staging area out of the convoy’s range. Organize ambulance assistance from Striped Hill and Everrain”
Then, she turns her ears around to focus each one in turn “As any attempt at aggression will end only in negative consequences, and in order to reduce the apparent levels of threat you will be unarmed. The estimated time of arrival is a third of a claw, ready yourselves and be at your post in time. Dismissed.”
“Not sure if I like or I don’t that we had the cold bastard right now” Aren says, as soon as Keya had left the room “Maybe we should move in closer when the convoy gets to sector four?”
“Probably a good idea to be nearby” Santos adds with a sigh “They might take umbrage with her demeanor, hopefully they won’t be set off too hard.”
And with silent signs of agreement all of the officers of Blackriver depart for preparations. The first ones to leave the precinct are the ones in charge of support, the two girls set off early to find someone willing to permit usage of their lawn as a possible impromptu field hospital and a little while later Aren leaves with a heavy CCG.
Slowly, the clock ticks to the appointed claw… And soon enough, Lunek can see in the distance the incoming omen of people. At first a distant line in the horizon, slowly the dark mark on the road coalesces into distinct shapes, the shapes of hundreds of vehicles slowly rolling down the road.
When the first few get close to the initial buildings of the main street, the entire convoy slows down. Their process of preparation is seemingly laborious, each vehicle houses multiple people at a time, smaller cars full to the brim, flatbeds with more people on their cargo space than can safely be contained, even buses conscripted for the effort. They carry with them signs, flags, a multitude of symbols as they dismount their vehicles and start spreading out to fill the street.
They seem to naturally form two distinct yet highly mixed groups, at its most distinctive is the pack of humans who keep a good distance from each other. But they are not alone in this group as takkan, mazic, yotul, zurulian and even drilvar form this central group. But flowing around them, not avoiding their presence but never infringing in their space is the grey mass of venlil, packed tight together, and mixed in there adding color to the monochromatic flux are krakotl, tilfish, sulean, iftali, sivkit and even a seemingly very confused duerten.
And at the very core of the moving group are their vehicles, which gently start rolling forward again as the group starts moving. Lunek simply waits, silently, by the side of the road, his ears attentively swiveling from one side to the other, expression having given way to function. Before the first of the convoy even arrives close he turns to the side, making a pointing sign with his tail. A woman who had been watching from her yard flicks her right ear and runs back inside.
He continues to wait, scanning around at all times for the presence of… Anything. The street is empty of locals when the first visitors start to alight. The convoy is loud, their symbols carry a loudness of colors and their vehicles make as much noise as they can to draw attention, but those who walk seem content in allowing their tools to speak for them, for now. Lunek tries to make sense of the banners and signs, but the messages are disparate as the group- Some speak of injustices against their people, some speak of anger at invaders, some speak of betrayal.
“Fuck off, fireman!” comes the harsh bark of a human, causing Lunek to flinch. But flinch is all he does, he simply starts walking alongside the moving convoy.
The exterminator’s attention is drawn to the details of the few people he can distinguish amongst the mass. Something tickles at his pattern-recognition but he cannot quite ascertain what for a while, until a lightly limping mazic makes her way to the edge of the mass “Want to finish the job?!” she trumpets, her form towering over his.
“I’m just observing, ma’am.” Though the tremor of his voice is noticeable, he remains stoic. But her proximity makes him notice something about her body, marks in her wrists, neck and feet. Though mazic have powerful wrists and knuckles upon which they support the front half of their weight, her left wrist seems completely incapable of it, giving her a limp particular to a three-point walk. “To make sure there’s no impediment on your path” he notices the leathery skin around her left wrist is deeply blackened.
“Oh, ‘no impediment’ is that it? So everyone that lives here is an impediment?!” her voice booms.
“Ma’am” still, he does not yield nor does he break his pace following the convoy “We have not done anything other than inform our people of your presence…” for a half second all he hears is the sound of his own heart “We can’t do anything else.”
Those words, then, sealed his fate. The first shout to echo in his direction was a yotul howling “Yeah you’re useless!” and soon the avalanche came in multiple voices and languages “Can’t do shit!” “You’re just here to hurt people!” “Useless crap!” “Idiot!” and many more.
With every step and twitch the very average exterminator puts all of his focus on just being there. He lets himself cower a little bit, against the barrage it is difficult not to, but he continues to accompany. A few curious coats step out from their houses to watch, but the front of the convoy seems far too focused on the sole exterminator in view to bother anyone else.
A few steps ahead, an older venlil with a cane has moved the closest to the convoy as any watcher has up to now. Seeing her proximity to the increasingly rowdy crowd causes Lunek to speed up, quickly approaching her “Leva-”
But his words are stalled when she puts a paw on his shoulder, she gently puts her head against his for just a second “You’re doing good pup, keep at it” she mutters to him before breaking contact and turning around to walk back inside. He can spy her grandchildren looking on through the door. Lunek looks back at the still-shouting moving convoy, takes a deep breath, and continues to accompany them forward. A small pawful of them, however, seem to have fallen silent.
Once having reached the limit of his assigned zone, however, Lunek stops. He watches the convoy move forward, past the houses, now noisier than before. The initial hollering at him had turned into disjointed screams at some indistinct foe- Though the herd had been noticed of a foe, it was yet unaware of who, or what, said foe was. So for now it howled at the ineptitude of… Someone. And as the last of the convoy passes beyond the imaginary line of his duty, Lunek lets out a deep sigh and allows himself to sit down on the ground.
He stays there for a moment, without thought, simply letting the tension, confusion and fear permeate his body until a gentle paw touches his arm. He doesn’t need to look to identify it, he lets his lover use her strength to prop him up, raising him to his feet “Keina you shouldn’t-”
“Neighbor’s looking over Tiss” his wife wraps her arms and tail around him “I’m not leaving you alone.” she stays like that for a second, before breaking off “Do you need to go after them?”
“No”
Marik stalks through the sidewalk, moving with energy. His speed outpaces the movement of the convoy, his paws twitch to grasp at something that isn’t there and a deep and intense motion makes his short fur stand on end. He had let the convoy’s head move in front of him, simply standing still as he assessed as many as he could in the mass, and now he had begun to move towards the front again.
As he stalked forward he focused his sight on every member of the convoy that seemed of interest. A human whose clothes seemed suspiciously loose, a venlil whose movements were far too stiff, a gojid who kept his claws behind his back. He stared at each like they were his quarry, analyzing every piece of movement they made for threats, and yet aside from the challenge in the human’s gaze he saw no danger arise.
Tenve had closed his shop, so as the convoy moved forward Marik simply continued to follow along, scanning the crowd for threats. But the next point of interest arrives, and he rushes ahead placing himself in front of the only restaurant of the town. Sunbreeze Meals wasn’t a very common sort of restaurant, Blackriver did not have enough visitors for a normal restaurant to be profitable and was small enough most people had their meals at home, it most often served takeout for those farmers who’d spend so long in the field they would return home without the energy to feed themselves.
Sparing a look inside at the only five tables, Marik couldn’t keep a small thought away from his mind. How most who got their meals from Sunbreeze these days did so because they enjoyed the cooking rather than their need of work, ever since the sunspeck population has been brought under control and the maintenance of the fields had become much smaller. He feels the presence long before he can recognize what led him to feel it and turns to stare at a group of six that approach the entrance: Two humans, a tilfish, two gojids and a takkan had broken off from the convoy and approached the restaurant.
He traces his color band over each in turn, and they all bristle at his stare. One of the humans hesitates before continuing to walk inside, and Marik simply remains by the door with his arms crossed, left ear twisted as far back as he could to listen to the inside.
“What have you got here?”
“W-we mostly ha-have ready ma-made meals to go or- or- Or you can look over the menu”
“There’s no need to stutter, y’know”
“So-sorry-”
“Really, after everything y’all are still with this predator crap?”
The chimes on the door echo for the second time in sequence as Marik makes his way inside. The tilfish had started to lean over the counter while the other five had arrayed themselves behind her. They all turn their attention to him as he enters, including the venlil manning the counter. Marik keeps his gaze directly on the tilfish for a few uncomfortable seconds, before looking at the man behind the counter and making a simple sign with his tail, a short vertical bob with the tip and a slow horizontal swipe. It’s meaning simple: >Safe<.
After a few seconds someone else appears from the kitchen. The tall venlil carries a large stack of plastic boxes in his arms, all of them seemingly designed to attach to themselves so as to be carried with ease. He puts them down with a resounding crash on the counter, and opens up his voice with ice “Farmer’s Pots, good meal when you’re working and can’t go home.” With each word the owner of the restaurant and main cook comes closer and closer to the tilfish, until the last “Ten credits each.”
Nobody moves for a couple of seconds, and then one of the humans steps closer and brings a holopad over to the credit reader. There’s a noise indicating payment, and then the owner raises his head and tilts it to focus his favored eye and both of his ears at the man who paid “Now,” he shifts register in his voice and the language he speaks in “fuck off” he finishes.
With no small amount of surprise the group of six retrieve the stack of packaged meals, carefully walking out and back into the convoy. Marik stays behind for a moment “Didn’t know you spoke human”
“Pup’s enamored with their languages. Of course, first greek words he learns is swearing.”
Outside, Marik stalks further ahead to the next point of interest. He moves faster than the convoy, and has time to move in front of it. For a few meters the street is still clear as he arrives to find a group of people standing in front of the Watchful. Standing there were all of its employees, and even all of its regulars, twenty people total standing there as if they were having the most normal day. If not for their raised ears tracking every noise coming from down the street and their swaying tails swinging about like angry beasts.
One of them simply points his tail at the other side of the street as Marik comes closer, and the hunter doesn’t need a second command to understand the meaning. They have this, he has a less practical but just as important duty. He crosses the street quickly before the convoy starts coming closer, and heads towards the park.
As the regulars of the Watchful had feared, it took little time until a large group had broken off from the convoy. With the town on alert about the convoy they had found themselves bereft of prey and now this group had set out to find some, anyone who might be willing, or not, to listen to their grievances. And what is clearly a place designed for people to congregate looked most appetizing.
Marik shadowed the group as they moved through the park, but they were accompanied by nothing but silence. It wasn’t until they ran into the centerpiece of the park that he took initiative, stepping ahead of the group and simply… Standing there a distance away from the tree of many scions, between it and the group.
“What’s so important over there, fireman?” it was a venlil who asked, but his usage of an english word was not lost on Marik.
“A place you will respect” the exterminator has his arms crossed, the one good portion of his gaze set on the man who asked “This is a grave.”
Though the group that now prowled was large, those who heard were taken aback. One such, however, approaches closer. He was a venlil whose fur shifted between a soft, brownish color and a dirty white “A tradition of the tenets right? One of those family trees?” The man would have been distinctive in any other group due to his missing patches of fur around neck, wrists, even portions around his head. But such signs of long term damage were common in the convoy.
Interest. They had shown true interest, or at least one of them had. “No, but similar… The forgotten tree is a grave for the forgotten.” He felt like these people, at least the ones before him, could probably understand the meaning of this place “It is of no tradition. Someone, a long time ago, wanted to honor someone who was gone but whose name was not meant to be remembered. Someone who had disappeared in the system… So they borrowed on another’s tradition, and added a scion to this tree, with something in their memory. Others have done so similarly, until it became… A grave for the forgotten”
“Didn’t think you’d be worried about this kind of place” it’s a human that speaks up this time
“Our duty is to protect this town, what you think-” but Marik’s words are interrupted by that same venlil who had asked before. His demeanor suddenly shifts, his ears perk up and his entire body shifts forward for a moment. He hesitates, for a second everyone’s focus is on him, and then he runs towards the tree.
Marik follows behind, stopping just by the man’s side as he finds himself at the base of the tree. The man makes a direct line to somewhere, something he had found from the distance, as if it had called him. He finds a thick and heavy branch that had been bent down by the weight of its scions and memories, near its base and speaking of a memory left behind long ago is a braid of fur made of three colors, a dirty white, a soft brown and a dark grey, bound by the braids are two beads.
The man raises up a paw, but does not touch it. As if cradling it, he recites the words engraved in one of the beads “I will cross every star to return home” others have come closer to listen to the man’s hoarse voice “There will always be a home for you” he reads of the second one. The names on the beads have been scratched out. The man falls on his knees “S-she kept her promise and… I couldn’t keep mine…”
Marik steps back as he watches two others come closer to comfort the man. He looks as a few others approach with more caution, looking up at the tree with a bit more reverence than they had before. Then, he turns around and starts heading back towards the main street.
Gazing out as the convoy gains a new flux, some leave it as it passes to move towards the park while others leave the park to rejoin the convoy, Marik simply stays there at the side of the street looking as stern as he could. Though the noise of the convoy remains great, here in this portion it seems to die down a little. A thought crosses his mind as he turns an ear as far back as he can, a thought he can’t help but voice “I wonder how many are looking at their own graves…”
As the convoy progresses, Santos simply stands by the front of the precinct, hands in his pockets. He watches the convoy arrive, heart beating fast, constrained hands the only reason he hasn't started shaking quite yet. He starts tapping his right foot as he watches the first few people cross by without noticing what this place is yet, everyone knows where the precinct is, so aside from the words printed on the sign by the entrance there is no other marker of what this building’s purpose might be.
Of course, it is impossible for nobody to notice. The entire convoy seems to stop as soon as a zurulian riding on the shoulders of a human points a claw at the building and says something. A large group breaks away at the command, all of them holding disparate signs and messages. They turn on the building with enough roars that whatever they are attempting to transmit is lost on him.
Santos is thankful his hearing isn’t nearly as good as his coworkers’, as the cacophony is already overwhelming him. He changes stances slightly, taking his hands out of his pockets and crossing his arms. This prompts a small group to turn their looks at him, the focus easily identifiable with the humans in their midst, focus which made the hair in the back of Santos’ neck stand on end. Living in this place had refined his sense of danger, but he didn’t need that to realize what could happen.
It was a group of five that approached, four humans and a venlil. “Didn’t think they’d be letting humans live out here in the boonies” said one of his kin.
Santos just shrugs “Got hired to work here. Honestly, rural folk get a needlessly bad reputation, most of the time they just don’t care as long as you’re not bothering them”
“Really? In my-”
Santos interrupts the man “Cut it out” there are many ways in which humans make themselves obvious, many of which are their eyes. Santos did understand the fear of them and why it was primal, it was not the fear of the eyes but the fear of attention, it was knowing you were under the scrutiny and judgment of another that set off that emotion. It was rarely the eyes that showed this attention for most species, but for humans it was, and the man’s clear gaze on his badge made the entire situation clear to him “Stop beating around the bush and say it already.”
Someone else is who speaks. The tall woman starts not with words, however, but by spitting on Santos’ uniform “You fucking traitor” her voice is both fierce and cold at the same time. A very emotional coldness.
“There we go” he sighs “Just… Move on. We’re not getting anything out of this conversation”
“Why?” It was the venlil in the group that started this time “These people hate you, they hate you for what you are! Why do you work for them?!”
Santos rubs his eyes and sighs “Because someone has to. Change only happens when you make it happen, simple as that”
“Change?!” another one of the humans howls “Do you think those people can change?! You know the truth, those fuckers have never done anything good!”
“You know, if you had read your history books…” Santos stares at the one who had just had their outburst “You’d remember that we once thought the very same about the police” there’s the sound of glass breaking, but he doesn’t reaction “And a lot of us still do”
The human staring him down shifts their gaze slightly at the broken window of the precinct, then back at Santos “A broken window is easy to fix” he shrugs “As I was saying. Same shit.” he crosses his arms again “There’s a role those people play, a role that needs to be played because it’s important. Different name, different problems, still the same shit. Gotta fix this, I’m doing my part” he then stares at the venlil in the group “You do yours. Simple as that.”
“Role?!” the venlil of the group steps closer “What role could they possibly have?! They only exist to hurt people!”
Santos steps back, and raises his eyes a little bit. Of course, the classics had shown themselves in this instance. With as many humans as there are in the crowd there were now quite a few objects in the air, most clearly aimed at the precinct behind him. Though given the failed arc of some of them it was clearly not just the humans indulging in such a tried and true method.
“I used to be a wildlife preserve ranger” Santos then focuses his gaze on the aggravated venlil “This is a frontier town, if you walk in the brushes with shorts you’ll walk out with your ankles numb. The athai out there are rather harmless, but they keep the sunspecks under control.” He takes another step back “Since coming here I’ve been pest control, had to catch an exotic animal set loose, investigated a murder, helped stop a child from taking her own life, stopped large scale fights, helped a dozen people avoid being arrested for self defense and helped break a fucking siege”
Santos cracks his knuckles “There’s roles. Jobs that need done and there is one fucking organization doing it all. That is a problem.” Then, he sighs and takes a few more steps to the side, offering indifference from this point on “There’s nothing I can say that would make you calm down.” he says one final time “Just make sure not to injure yourselves in the process, alright?” His words seemed to be enough to make the small group cease trying to interact, as the convoy had begun moving again. Though the one human who had called him a traitor gets one final parting shot at the precinct “Where the hell did you get an egg in this planet…” Santos says with a raised eyebrow as the projectile impacts the front door.
Keya stands by a large sign, the same one that welcomes you into Blackriver on one side and sees you out at the other, the official limit of the town. Her arms behind her back, her attention directly towards the front of the convoy as they march. Something gains the whole of her attention, the car in the front. Someone draws her focus, a human with a megaphone on top of the car. The man shouts words of encouragement at the people behind him with the megaphone before turning to his holopad, then he bends over downwards to discuss something with the driver.
She simply remains there, waiting for the convoy to pass. But instead of moving on out of the city, here the convoy stops completely. Keya observes as the further end of the convoy starts to slowly compact upon itself, and her ears pick up something “Alright everyone, start getting ready, next town over is more than a claw away, make sure you’ve left nothing behind” the words were not meant for her, nor for anyone too far. They come from the same man she had seen standing on top of the car, but he had now climbed down and was talking with a group of multiple species.
It is clear they have some degree of leadership, though the convoy does not stop cleanly nor does it begin to organize with alacrity they do respond to the group’s organization. So Keya keeps her focus on them as they point, wave and talk between themselves, others and devices. But at least one of them has noticed her attention, a gangly and light-skinned human with fire-red hair, the man that was atop the car. He starts walking in her direction, before turning around for one final set of commands as he walks backwards “And make sure the guys at the back got all the crap! We’re here to be heard, not to trash the city!” he says before turning back again to head towards her. A venlil with pure white fur erupts from inside the car he was riding, quickly dashing to his side as they notice where he was going.
In a few moments both have come up to her, the human looking down at her with the venlil bristles at his side “Saw anything interesting, fireman?”
“What are you doing here?”
“What? Isn’t it obvious?!” it was the venlil that roared a response “You saw all of it! You know what they’ve done to us! What they’ve done to everyone! And you still work for those brahking monsters! It’s like you’re thankful they made you a cripple!”
The human puts a hand on the venlil’s shoulder, calming her demeanor just a little bit “We’re here because honestly, we’re all too tired of being fucking ignored is what. So what the fuck are you gonna do?!”
“I have put the wrong emphasis” Keya says with her lack of tone. She can see the human shiver just a little bit “My task is to ensure the safety of this town. Your convoy is a danger. We have eight field-capable officers, we cannot ensure the safety of the residents against a group like yours. People will take actions for reasons, you have broadcast your reasons clearly. You have chosen this place for a reason which I cannot ascertain.”
She makes sure her ears are trained towards both the human and the venlil, an action which causes the venlil to cower behind her partner “We do not house government agencies. This is a farming town of little note. The local precinct is a simple precinct, we have no regulatory or command authority. The town population is approximately double that of the number of your convoy. We have no individuals of appreciable social or political reach. There is nothing in Blackriver of interest to people attempting to change government policy, nor have there been actions taken here that I can identify as being cause for retaliatory actions within the context of your message.”
“I must ensure this does not happen again and the only way of doing so is minimizing our attractivity as targets. A logical assumption of your choice of quarry would be a town with the presence of politicians, a large city with constant news coverage, cities housing important government agencies or those containing the Regional Firebases”
“So I ask again. What are you doing here?”
The two remain silent for a few seconds, before the human turns around with a mouth noise “Whatever, I don’t need to explain myself to someone that won’t listen. Come on!” he starts to stalk back towards the car, but stops once he notices his venlil companion wasn’t moving.
The snow-white venlil has their focus on Keya, who offers a simple low forward swipe of her tail, a sign to proceed. Still, the venlil seems frozen in place until the human comes back and grabs hold of their paw with a gentle touch. At which point both finally return to the convoy.
Keya remains at the side of the road, watching as the convoy readies itself again to leave. People get back inside cars, they hop on the back of trucks and load themselves into buses. She continues to watch as the convoy takes its time riding out, making their way out of the town.
Once it is finally gone, multiple footsteps sound behind her. When she turns around she meets her officers, having returned from their assigned positions “They have left. I expect your reports of what happened in each sector by the end of your shifts” she states plainly, before looking at Santos “They did not appear to have a specific reason for targeting Blackriver.” The question remains unspoken.
The human officer just shrugs “Sometimes, you don’t know what you’re doing. We’re just a little town, I doubt they even know what exactly they’re angry about.” He looks at the tail end of the convoy as it leaves “Town was probably just a place they felt safe going to.”
“D-do you think we might get more like that” Lunek says, at the back of the group.
“Who knows…” Santos sighs “But if human history applies anywhere here… This is just a sign of worse things to come”
And thus the omen passes by. Feelings, emotions of all sorts, without a plan or a reason other than just their own rage and distress.
Did any of these even know what they were doing? And how much worse can it be when they do?
2024.05.18 22:32 RiskProfessional5234 Hubc$50$ or more stock
Hello everyone In my opinion the investment potential for getting rich is tremendous, full disclosure I have 42k shares at the moment So where to start? Let's start from the beginning The company was founded in Israel in 2017 by a company from the military's intelligence and security unit 8200 The company was issued in Israel and in the two and a half years it was there, it increased 10 times to a market value of 160 million dollars, at its peak it also reached a market value of 350 million dollars The company decided to do an IPO on Nasdaq in 2023, stopped trading in Israel and moved to Nasdaq with a market valuation of 1.2 billion dollars
***The shit that happened in 2023** 1.The former CEO who was fired and replaced is suspected of embezzling money from the company, later it was learned that he took $300k for renovations to his house, the idiot caused the share price to plummet quickly, and he did me a favor that I bought cheap, you will soon know why 2.It turns out that the chief financial officer turned a blind eye to this, and did not ensure that reports were issued on time, therefore the pressure increased as the share price fell 3.The thieving CEO was removed from his position, and replaced by a new manager named Uzi Moskovitz, basically a failed manager who made a bad loan deal for dimes, and this was also before the sudden drop in prices 4.The company's reports still haven't arrived, according to the date of November 2023 and in addition there is a deletion warning in Nasdaq because the price has been trading below the dollar for some time
So much for the bad news that the company caused her
--------Now for the good news in the last six months, and why I think this is an opportunity to get rich quickly in the near term----- 1.The manager of the company was replaced, a bright young man, and a wizard at closing deals His name is Noah Hershkovitz This man was at A-labs managed 700 million dollars in funds and is well connected with the most powerful people in the market 2.When he took office, he brought new contracts for 40 million dollars with cooperation with a private Ai company called Blacksuan Technologies, the deals included cyber protection for central banks in Europe and the world 3.Fired the stupid finance person who showed up, and brought in someone elite to sort out the company's reports and its activities The reports for H1 2023 came out, and there were revenues of 36 million dollars, if expenses of almost 80 million, one of the reasons for the Nasdaq IPO, which is a one-time expense that cost approximately 40 million dollars 4.Noah made a decision to do a reverse split in the share price, and returned it to trade at $2, and reduced the shares from 98 million to 9.8 million shares On the day of the split, Noah issued an announcement about a large deal with one of the largest defense agencies in Israel, Elbit, Rafael, the details of the deal are unknown due to the need for discretion 5.The share price continues to fall to the illusory value of 8 million dollars, because of the algo that takes advantage of the lack of volume and intentionally damages the price and makes money at the expense of the little people, like me and you 6.In April 2024, an announcement was made that hubc bought qpoint for $26 million, a company from Israel that brings in $29 million a year and has key people from all hi-tech fields This is a joke, a company we purchased for 26 million dollars is worth 3 times our current value, mainly because we are already 4 companies Hub Cyber,ald,comsec,qpoint
And There is talk of a merger of Blackswan, which is a private company that brings in 40 million dollars a year
In short, a huge opportunity for small investors to get rich overnight, a company that brings in 100 to 150 million dollars a year, whose market value is 8 million dollars
In addition, the most important thing now, the reports of 20-f 2024 should have been released by May 15 according to the law, they were not released, not because the company cannot provide, because of inside information that needs to be released, in my opinion it is something as big as the sale of the company for no less than 500 million dollars or Merger with Black Seven or other big news
++++Right now I'm losing on paper, and I don't care at all, I found out through my rose-colored glasses, that I'm going to be a millionaire very soon The elgo that hurts us will be punished very soon Love you, my bank account
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***The shit that happened in 2023** 1.The former CEO who was fired and replaced is suspected of embezzling money from the company, later it was learned that he took $300k for renovations to his house, the idiot caused the share price to plummet quickly, and he did me a favor that I bought cheap, you will soon know why 2.It turns out that the chief financial officer turned a blind eye to this, and did not ensure that reports were issued on time, therefore the pressure increased as the share price fell 3.The thieving CEO was removed from his position, and replaced by a new manager named Uzi Moskovitz, basically a failed manager who made a bad loan deal for dimes, and this was also before the sudden drop in prices 4.The company's reports still haven't arrived, according to the date of November 2023 and in addition there is a deletion warning in Nasdaq because the price has been trading below the dollar for some time
So much for the bad news that the company caused her
But the worse news, that algo hedge funds that take advantage of the lack of volume in the share price, every day made sure to lower the price by about 10 percent by taking advantage of the lack of volume in the share, in addition they took shares to short in the dark pool 2 times or more than the shares that exist in the market for trading (even today 3 million Stocks in short out of 4.8 in the float, a delusional ratio of bad manipulation by the crocodiles of Wall Street
This algo made tens of millions of dollars from this exploit--------Now for the good news in the last six months, and why I think this is an opportunity to get rich quickly in the near term----- 1.The manager of the company was replaced, a bright young man, and a wizard at closing deals His name is Noah Hershkovitz This man was at A-labs managed 700 million dollars in funds and is well connected with the most powerful people in the market 2.When he took office, he brought new contracts for 40 million dollars with cooperation with a private Ai company called Blacksuan Technologies, the deals included cyber protection for central banks in Europe and the world 3.Fired the stupid finance person who showed up, and brought in someone elite to sort out the company's reports and its activities The reports for H1 2023 came out, and there were revenues of 36 million dollars, if expenses of almost 80 million, one of the reasons for the Nasdaq IPO, which is a one-time expense that cost approximately 40 million dollars 4.Noah made a decision to do a reverse split in the share price, and returned it to trade at $2, and reduced the shares from 98 million to 9.8 million shares On the day of the split, Noah issued an announcement about a large deal with one of the largest defense agencies in Israel, Elbit, Rafael, the details of the deal are unknown due to the need for discretion 5.The share price continues to fall to the illusory value of 8 million dollars, because of the algo that takes advantage of the lack of volume and intentionally damages the price and makes money at the expense of the little people, like me and you 6.In April 2024, an announcement was made that hubc bought qpoint for $26 million, a company from Israel that brings in $29 million a year and has key people from all hi-tech fields This is a joke, a company we purchased for 26 million dollars is worth 3 times our current value, mainly because we are already 4 companies Hub Cyber,ald,comsec,qpoint
And There is talk of a merger of Blackswan, which is a private company that brings in 40 million dollars a year
In short, a huge opportunity for small investors to get rich overnight, a company that brings in 100 to 150 million dollars a year, whose market value is 8 million dollars
In addition, the most important thing now, the reports of 20-f 2024 should have been released by May 15 according to the law, they were not released, not because the company cannot provide, because of inside information that needs to be released, in my opinion it is something as big as the sale of the company for no less than 500 million dollars or Merger with Black Seven or other big news
++++Right now I'm losing on paper, and I don't care at all, I found out through my rose-colored glasses, that I'm going to be a millionaire very soon The elgo that hurts us will be punished very soon Love you, my bank account
2024.05.18 22:30 malcolio DRAFT - NTW in Alphabetical Order. Chapter 1: Alsace-Lorraine
 | submitted by malcolio to u/malcolio [link] [comments] Europe in Early January, 1805. How the continent looks at the start of a Napoleon: Total War game. Seven years ago I started posting a writeup of playing a game of Empire: Total War with the challenge of conquering every region in alphabetical order. This was inspired by someone trying to play Crusader Kings in alphabetical order back in 2006. After 75 chapters, with about 2,600 images and just a silly amount of text, I completed the game and swore off touching another Total War game for some time! I’m now back, to try and achieve the same goal of conquering every region in alphabetical order but in Napoleon: Total War. I’ve never finished a game of N:TW before, so it will fun to see what this more focused and refined(?) version of E:TW will be like to play. As with my last playthrough, I’m using DarthMod and playing on Normal/Normal difficulty. I have no idea if those settings will make this challenge too easy or impossible, let’s find out! Napoleon Bonaparte’s stats and the 11 regions I have to sell off before I can start this challenge. There is a vast quantity of books studying the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, but what none of them will tell you is that he had a passion for the alphabet just like King Louis XIV. So obviously he was forced to sell off every region of the French Empire so that he could conquer the entirety of Europe in alphabetical order. Unfortunately if I lose France I automatically lose the entire game, so I’ll need to unofficially keep hold of that, but otherwise I first need to trade away Alsace-Lorraine, Aquitaine, Bretagne, Corsica, Hannover, Normandie, Pays d'Oc, Picardie-Champagne, Piedmont-Liguria, Provence, and the Southern Netherlands. At the moment the French Empire’s prosperity is spectacular, its prestige sublime, but that’s going to take a bit of a hit… The French military units in those region capitals will soon need to vacate, most are just militia and basic cavalry, but Strasbourg has a decent sized force led by Napoleon’s brother-in-law Joachim Murat. The French Imperial Army, scattered across Alsace-Lorraine, Northern Italy, and Hannover The rest of the Imperial Army is along the empire’s eastern border. Napoleon himself commands the largest army to the west of Strasbourg, close to two smaller forces led by Marshals Michel Ney and Louis-Nicolas Davout. Over in Northern Italy a detachment led by Marshal Jean-André Masséna guards the border with Austria, and in isolated Hannover a similar-sized group guards the city with Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte as its commander. The two French fleets, one off Portugal and the other near Genoa, and the flagship Scipion. The French Navy has just two fleets. The Atlantic Squadron is currently stationed near Portugal, Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve commands the immense 122-gun Scipion, two 3rd rates, two 4th rates, and frigate. The Mediterranean Squadron is near French-controlled Genoa, led by Vice-Admiral Victor Durand it consists of just two frigates and a corvette. Soon the French Empire won’t have any ports that need defending or to repair ships at, and my income is about to nosedive, so I think it’s time to do something reckless… An outnumbered French fleet is defeated by Britain’s finest, but not without scoring a massive blow against the Royal Navy. Admiral Villeneuve is told to take his fleet north and engage whatever enemy vessels he can find, to sink as many ships as possible even if it risks wiping out his own. It doesn’t take long: in the Bay of Biscay the Atlantic Squadron bumps into none other than Vice-Admiral Nelson and a huge British fleet. The two commanders had previously fought at the Battle of the Nile as Rear-Admirals, and in reality weren’t due to meet for another 10 months at the Battle of Trafalgar. The British fleet greatly dwarfs the French, with Nelson commanding his own 122-gun Heavy 1st rate, a 1st rate, two 2nd rates, and three 3rd rates! I auto-resolve the battle, resulting in an expected defeat. Villeneuve survives on board a battered Scipion, with only a 4th rate for company, but somehow his squadron managed to sink every British vessel except for Nelson’s Rose! The Royal Navy has suffered a pyrrhic victory, my navy upkeep costs have gone down by more than 1,000 gold, and what remains of the Atlantic Squadron flees south to join up with the Mediterranean Squadron next turn. Parts of the French Empire are sold off, ready for them to be retaken in alphabetical order with the rest of Europe. With those naval manoeuvres finished I start haggling with other nations to remove eleven French regions that are stopping me from starting my alphabetical challenge. I sell each region to a different ruler, to get as much cash from the sale and to stop any one nation becoming too powerful. I try to give territory that is towards the end of the alphabet to my allies, and those towards the start to my enemies, to prevent having to backstab my friends until I’m already forced to destroy them anyway. While cash is important I also barter for as many technologies as I can: one technology can take 7 turns to research, gaining them now will pay dividends in growing my economy and strengthening my armed forces. The main achievement of these region swaps, apart from losing all my income and making me only one region away from defeat, is completely changing the United Kingdom’s foreign policy: by letting George III have both a personal and political union with Hannover I convince the British Empire to abandon all of its allies, and instead join the side of its centuries-old nemesis. That recent battle in Biscay didn’t seem to matter! Along with becoming friends with Prussia I now feel less worried that Paris might be immediately marched on, though it’s hard to tell how long these new alliances will last. The first unedited screenshot of the game. France is exempt from taxes, to help pretend it doesn’t exist, which doesn’t help the Empire’s negative income. After all those region swaps I now only control France, as mentioned before I can’t remove this territory without automatically losing the game. So to try not to benefit from being forced to keep France I’ve set myself the rule that I cannot build anything there, cannot research there, cannot recruit any troops from Paris, and the region is exempt from taxes. I keep a company of Grenadiers à Cheval and two artillery batteries to defend the capital, together they cost 546 gold a turn in upkeep so Paris is losing me money! Right, the game is now set up to start my challenge of conquering Europe in alphabetical order (sort of, ignore France). Which region do I need to capture first? Alsace-Lorraine. Only just traded to the Austrian Empire, it is surrounded by French armies including one teleported from Hannover. This is Alsace-Lorraine. Two images ago it became Austrian, in exchange for 5,530 gold and two technologies that would have taken me 14 turns to research. Unfortunately for Austria the region is surrounded by the bulk of the French Imperial Army, so the question isn’t how will I immediately conquer Alsace-Lorraine but can I do so without losing a single soldier? The full might of the Imperial Army is amassed against Strasbourg, defended by a small number of Austrian infantrymen and some armed civilians. Marshals Ney, Murat, and Bernadotte link up to immediately attack Strasbourg together. The full stack of units is supported by further armies commanded by Napoleon and Marshal Davot. Protecting the city is just five companies of Austrian line infantry, supported by hastily-armed citizens. Alsace-Lorraine is captured, denting the expected deficit and allowing resources to be spent on improving the French military and economy. It would be insanity to resist such an attack so the small Austrian infantry detachment wisely surrenders without a fight. Unfortunately, yet again, there is no battle to see here! I choose to peacefully occupy Strasbourg and immediately start the construction of basic roads, a cannon factory, a musket manufactory, and an iron mine, plus a cantonment to replace the local tax office. Until that’s all built I can’t actually recruit any more soldiers, cavalry, or artillery (as I’m ignoring France existing). So avoiding a battle is boring but the troops I have are priceless! The people of Alsace-Lorraine are unhappy under French rule, despite being Austrian for less time than it takes to read this sentence. Luckily I need to keep a large garrison here anyway to protect against my enemies to the east, and I also lower taxes a little to keep the region’s population and wealth growing, so the newly conquered population should be content for now. OK, so far this challenge seems ridiculously easy, I captured my first region immediately without a single casualty. What’s next? Aquitaine. Until very recently French, traded away to the Russian Empire. This is Aquitaine. Like Alsace-Lorraine it was part of the French Empire but quickly traded away, this time to Russia, and like Strasbourg an enemy force has magically popped into existence to guard the region’s capital. Unlike last time though there are no doom stacks waiting, ready to steamroll the city. What I do have is a random collection of units which originally guarded Bordeaux, Rennes, and Toulouse. A force of two companies of Chasseurs à Cheval (light cavalry) and two cohorts of the local National Guard is led by Captain Alexandre de Rosée, who waits for a company of Chevau-légers Lanciers (lancer cavalry) and another cohort of militia to reinforce him from Bretagne. Combined, this ragtag group of misfits should be enough to win against six battalions of Russian infantry squatting in Bordeaux. So attacking the city will need to wait until next turn, but before we move to Late January 1805 I have a few chores to do… The French Empire is leaps and bounds ahead of every other nation in research, but this has ground to a halt until a college can be acquired. One task is to think about researching new technologies. Most nations begin with all technologies locked, some are lucky to have already researched one or two when the game starts. France is luckiest of all with three technologies already researched: Army Corps Organisation, Conscription, and Division of Labour). Thanks to those earlier region trades the French now also understand Classical Economics), Fire and Advance), Improved Coppering), National Debt), and Public Schooling. Those technologies provide various small economic and military bonuses which will take any other nation at least 50 turns to research, so I’m at a significant advantage on turn 1. However with my self-imposed rule of ignoring the existence of France I cannot use Orléans to start researching any new technologies, instead I send my two gentlemen east towards the first region which will provide a college I can use. It will take more than 10 turns for François-René de Chateaubriand and Jean Rapp to reach their destination, in the meantime my enemies will have unlocked a new technology each, and I have to hope the college they’re travelling to will be controlled by the French Empire by the time they arrive! Charles-Louis Schulmeister, French spy extraordinaire, joins them on the journey. The French Council of State sees the appointment of a Keeper of the Seals, and new trade deals dent an expected deficit. One other job to do before ending the first turn is to review who is running things. My starting ministers all have decent stats except for 3 star Keeper of the Seals Claude Ambroise Régnier. I replace him with a string of candidates until one, Oliver Molyneux, arrives with the Stallholder trait which give him a total of 4 management stars. That one extra star means the cost of repressing unrest in my regions is 3% cheaper, and that repression now has a +1 bonus. Small benefits like that could make or break my game in the long run! Selling off all my regions severed all my trade routes. I re-establish all of them except the one with Spain, as I no longer have a sea or land connection with the Iberia Peninsula. Instead I create a trade agreement with the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel, worth 300 less gold than the Spanish agreement. Overall my trade income has dropped by 1,100 gold since I started this game, but at least I’m now only going to lose 2,880 in gold per turn! That's the draft of this first chapter for now, this will be taken down when I start posting chapters on the Total War subreddit. |
2024.05.18 22:30 arnos116 Where should my mind be at, the future or the present ?
So, i think its fair to say that across all media platforms we have had an idea which has been really well established and that is focus on the present as tomorrow in uncertain and you live in the present. As much as i have been supporting that i had a different way of thinking regarding it, that is what is the point of it.
It feels as if the focus on present is said in a way as to make memories and live for today, not just focus on money and reaching somewhere in life but mostly staying in present. Sometimes i am supposed to be doing something important and delay it for the time because i am invested in something that is fun and i say to myself, well i am having fun now that is what should matter right ? This causes me to sometimes not have a good result in whatever work was set to me.
I saw this video and it is very subtle and the point of video was clearly not what i am focusing on right now https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6WpMwUuifS/?igsh=MWNlN293NnhobmwybQ== The video was not about what i set my focus to, which is the 4th point at the end. This got me thinking, how it is so difficult for me to have a memory whatsoever which has any deeper dimensions that a few 3-4 seconds faint flashbacks.
Those memories were definitely valuable to me and i should be cherishing them but i don't, they are not recorded or written in a journal whatsoever, and i think what is making memories really about if i can never recall days.
They say live for today but today doesn't retain. sure i can write down or record memos of those moments but even so, my mind isn't remembering them. So one can say "Oh you are just confusing Past with Present"
But no, i say that if present really matters then i feel it matters for the past, i will go and experience sky diving only for the sole purpose of remembering it in the future, so i guess maybe it might even be wrong to distinctively set past present and future apart. Maybe life is about living in present so in the future i can see the present as my past and cherish it. All 3 things in 1 line.
But then i think maybe, most everyday life is not retained whatsoever. If i work and work for hours thinking i will probably forget it then what is wrong. But that is not it.
(I am just sharing my thoughts so don't feel i am not getting at a point, there is no point really.)
What i am saying is that maybe we view life in chunks, maybe that's what it is about. Everyday does not count, but a ton of everyday count together. If i go on a 5 day trip i will not remember every hour of it but i will remember the 5 days somehow.
That is how i feel life should be i guess. When i grow old, or when most people grow old and look back, an average person who worked in an office for 30 years will maybe not like it as much, a person who did lots of things will add more dimensions to the same, even if your whole life is going to be mostly mundane maybe some indulgence in fun activities change on how it goes by.
Maybe that is what it is about.
Like should i be more focused on the future to get somewhere ? Yes, i suppose. We still need to move forward but still have things in between to carry with us.
Sometimes i see people who grind so so so much for years, without no break and all. I feel bad and then i thought they are doing it right, Maybe the grind is important as individual humans, as marcus said and i paraphrase - that one should wake up everyday to do the work of a human.
Just adding some colours here and there will make the timeline look more comforting to look back at. ( thinking of life as i live like a straight time line and say grind and basic activities are gray, and fun things that elude me are colours and when i look back it should not really be just gray )
Thanks for reading, its my first post here not sure if this is some type of thing i am supposed to share in this subreddit
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It feels as if the focus on present is said in a way as to make memories and live for today, not just focus on money and reaching somewhere in life but mostly staying in present. Sometimes i am supposed to be doing something important and delay it for the time because i am invested in something that is fun and i say to myself, well i am having fun now that is what should matter right ? This causes me to sometimes not have a good result in whatever work was set to me.
I saw this video and it is very subtle and the point of video was clearly not what i am focusing on right now https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6WpMwUuifS/?igsh=MWNlN293NnhobmwybQ== The video was not about what i set my focus to, which is the 4th point at the end. This got me thinking, how it is so difficult for me to have a memory whatsoever which has any deeper dimensions that a few 3-4 seconds faint flashbacks.
Those memories were definitely valuable to me and i should be cherishing them but i don't, they are not recorded or written in a journal whatsoever, and i think what is making memories really about if i can never recall days.
They say live for today but today doesn't retain. sure i can write down or record memos of those moments but even so, my mind isn't remembering them. So one can say "Oh you are just confusing Past with Present"
But no, i say that if present really matters then i feel it matters for the past, i will go and experience sky diving only for the sole purpose of remembering it in the future, so i guess maybe it might even be wrong to distinctively set past present and future apart. Maybe life is about living in present so in the future i can see the present as my past and cherish it. All 3 things in 1 line.
But then i think maybe, most everyday life is not retained whatsoever. If i work and work for hours thinking i will probably forget it then what is wrong. But that is not it.
(I am just sharing my thoughts so don't feel i am not getting at a point, there is no point really.)
What i am saying is that maybe we view life in chunks, maybe that's what it is about. Everyday does not count, but a ton of everyday count together. If i go on a 5 day trip i will not remember every hour of it but i will remember the 5 days somehow.
That is how i feel life should be i guess. When i grow old, or when most people grow old and look back, an average person who worked in an office for 30 years will maybe not like it as much, a person who did lots of things will add more dimensions to the same, even if your whole life is going to be mostly mundane maybe some indulgence in fun activities change on how it goes by.
Maybe that is what it is about.
Like should i be more focused on the future to get somewhere ? Yes, i suppose. We still need to move forward but still have things in between to carry with us.
Sometimes i see people who grind so so so much for years, without no break and all. I feel bad and then i thought they are doing it right, Maybe the grind is important as individual humans, as marcus said and i paraphrase - that one should wake up everyday to do the work of a human.
Just adding some colours here and there will make the timeline look more comforting to look back at. ( thinking of life as i live like a straight time line and say grind and basic activities are gray, and fun things that elude me are colours and when i look back it should not really be just gray )
Thanks for reading, its my first post here not sure if this is some type of thing i am supposed to share in this subreddit
2024.05.18 22:29 Psychological-Pass-0 Devastated.
Some of you may have seen my posts before. I have been so so excited for my surgery because I had finally found a private practice surgeon who had a soon enough opening to stop some of my back problems before they got worse. I am a 42 P cup (they each weigh 8 and 9 lbs) and essentially bed ridden. I am 18. I saw this surgeon and she felt confident to perform on me but I would likely lose both nipples. I was sad but I knew I had to do this and we set a date for may 20th. I’ve been counting down the days to this surgery, my mom took two weeks off work to take care of me. Come to find out her office never put in the pre authorization. So a week before my surgery date, they call my mom and gaslight her into thinking it’s her fault. So whatever we move up the date to may 24th. Except now I get a phone call saying they STILL haven’t put it in. And now I’m looking at end of June. I am so beyond devastated. I haven’t sobbed this hard since I was a little girl. My mom and I have decided that this surgeon clearly isn’t that great of a person to put in charge of my healthcare, if she can’t even hire competent workers. I was flagged as a top priority case, and still they screwed me over. I found a new surgeon who can’t see me until august, I’m so so sad. But I wanted to see this guy since the beginning, so I’m taking the long way. I’ve been put on the cancelation list. I just need prayers, or good vibes, or manifestations or whatever you do. I have already been in a major depressive episode, and now I feel like I’m spiraling.
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2024.05.18 22:23 RiskProfessional5234 Hubc$ 50$ or more stock
Hello everyone In my opinion the investment potential for getting rich is tremendous, full disclosure I have 42k shares at the moment So where to start? Let's start from the beginning The company was founded in Israel in 2017 by a company from the military's intelligence and security unit 8200 The company was issued in Israel and in the two and a half years it was there, it increased 10 times to a market value of 160 million dollars, at its peak it also reached a market value of 350 million dollars The company decided to do an IPO on Nasdaq in 2023, stopped trading in Israel and moved to Nasdaq with a market valuation of 1.2 billion dollars
***The shit that happened in 2023** 1.The former CEO who was fired and replaced is suspected of embezzling money from the company, later it was learned that he took $300k for renovations to his house, the idiot caused the share price to plummet quickly, and he did me a favor that I bought cheap, you will soon know why 2.It turns out that the chief financial officer turned a blind eye to this, and did not ensure that reports were issued on time, therefore the pressure increased as the share price fell 3.The thieving CEO was removed from his position, and replaced by a new manager named Uzi Moskovitz, basically a failed manager who made a bad loan deal for dimes, and this was also before the sudden drop in prices 4.The company's reports still haven't arrived, according to the date of November 2023 and in addition there is a deletion warning in Nasdaq because the price has been trading below the dollar for some time
So much for the bad news that the company caused her
--------Now for the good news in the last six months, and why I think this is an opportunity to get rich quickly in the near term----- 1.The manager of the company was replaced, a bright young man, and a wizard at closing deals His name is Noah Hershkovitz This man was at A-labs managed 700 million dollars in funds and is well connected with the most powerful people in the market 2.When he took office, he brought new contracts for 40 million dollars with cooperation with a private Ai company called Blacksuan Technologies, the deals included cyber protection for central banks in Europe and the world 3.Fired the stupid finance person who showed up, and brought in someone elite to sort out the company's reports and its activities The reports for H1 2023 came out, and there were revenues of 36 million dollars, if expenses of almost 80 million, one of the reasons for the Nasdaq IPO, which is a one-time expense that cost approximately 40 million dollars 4.Noah made a decision to do a reverse split in the share price, and returned it to trade at $2, and reduced the shares from 98 million to 9.8 million shares On the day of the split, Noah issued an announcement about a large deal with one of the largest defense agencies in Israel, Elbit, Rafael, the details of the deal are unknown due to the need for discretion 5.The share price continues to fall to the illusory value of 8 million dollars, because of the algo that takes advantage of the lack of volume and intentionally damages the price and makes money at the expense of the little people, like me and you 6.In April 2024, an announcement was made that hubc bought qpoint for $26 million, a company from Israel that brings in $29 million a year and has key people from all hi-tech fields This is a joke, a company we purchased for 26 million dollars is worth 3 times our current value, mainly because we are already 4 companies Hub Cyber,ald,comsec,qpoint
And There is talk of a merger of Blackswan, which is a private company that brings in 40 million dollars a year
In short, a huge opportunity for small investors to get rich overnight, a company that brings in 100 to 150 million dollars a year, whose market value is 8 million dollars
In addition, the most important thing now, the reports of 20-f 2024 should have been released by May 15 according to the law, they were not released, not because the company cannot provide, because of inside information that needs to be released, in my opinion it is something as big as the sale of the company for no less than 500 million dollars or Merger with Black Seven or other big news
++++Right now I'm losing on paper, and I don't care at all, I found out through my rose-colored glasses, that I'm going to be a millionaire very soon The elgo that hurts us will be punished very soon Love you, my bank account
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***The shit that happened in 2023** 1.The former CEO who was fired and replaced is suspected of embezzling money from the company, later it was learned that he took $300k for renovations to his house, the idiot caused the share price to plummet quickly, and he did me a favor that I bought cheap, you will soon know why 2.It turns out that the chief financial officer turned a blind eye to this, and did not ensure that reports were issued on time, therefore the pressure increased as the share price fell 3.The thieving CEO was removed from his position, and replaced by a new manager named Uzi Moskovitz, basically a failed manager who made a bad loan deal for dimes, and this was also before the sudden drop in prices 4.The company's reports still haven't arrived, according to the date of November 2023 and in addition there is a deletion warning in Nasdaq because the price has been trading below the dollar for some time
So much for the bad news that the company caused her
But the worse news, that algo hedge funds that take advantage of the lack of volume in the share price, every day made sure to lower the price by about 10 percent by taking advantage of the lack of volume in the share, in addition they took shares to short in the dark pool 2 times or more than the shares that exist in the market for trading (even today 3 million Stocks in short out of 4.8 in the float, a delusional ratio of bad manipulation by the crocodiles of Wall Street
This algo made tens of millions of dollars from this exploit--------Now for the good news in the last six months, and why I think this is an opportunity to get rich quickly in the near term----- 1.The manager of the company was replaced, a bright young man, and a wizard at closing deals His name is Noah Hershkovitz This man was at A-labs managed 700 million dollars in funds and is well connected with the most powerful people in the market 2.When he took office, he brought new contracts for 40 million dollars with cooperation with a private Ai company called Blacksuan Technologies, the deals included cyber protection for central banks in Europe and the world 3.Fired the stupid finance person who showed up, and brought in someone elite to sort out the company's reports and its activities The reports for H1 2023 came out, and there were revenues of 36 million dollars, if expenses of almost 80 million, one of the reasons for the Nasdaq IPO, which is a one-time expense that cost approximately 40 million dollars 4.Noah made a decision to do a reverse split in the share price, and returned it to trade at $2, and reduced the shares from 98 million to 9.8 million shares On the day of the split, Noah issued an announcement about a large deal with one of the largest defense agencies in Israel, Elbit, Rafael, the details of the deal are unknown due to the need for discretion 5.The share price continues to fall to the illusory value of 8 million dollars, because of the algo that takes advantage of the lack of volume and intentionally damages the price and makes money at the expense of the little people, like me and you 6.In April 2024, an announcement was made that hubc bought qpoint for $26 million, a company from Israel that brings in $29 million a year and has key people from all hi-tech fields This is a joke, a company we purchased for 26 million dollars is worth 3 times our current value, mainly because we are already 4 companies Hub Cyber,ald,comsec,qpoint
And There is talk of a merger of Blackswan, which is a private company that brings in 40 million dollars a year
In short, a huge opportunity for small investors to get rich overnight, a company that brings in 100 to 150 million dollars a year, whose market value is 8 million dollars
In addition, the most important thing now, the reports of 20-f 2024 should have been released by May 15 according to the law, they were not released, not because the company cannot provide, because of inside information that needs to be released, in my opinion it is something as big as the sale of the company for no less than 500 million dollars or Merger with Black Seven or other big news
++++Right now I'm losing on paper, and I don't care at all, I found out through my rose-colored glasses, that I'm going to be a millionaire very soon The elgo that hurts us will be punished very soon Love you, my bank account
2024.05.18 22:22 RiskProfessional5234 $Hubc 50$ or more stock
Hello everyone In my opinion the investment potential for getting rich is tremendous, full disclosure I have 42k shares at the moment So where to start? Let's start from the beginning The company was founded in Israel in 2017 by a company from the military's intelligence and security unit 8200 The company was issued in Israel and in the two and a half years it was there, it increased 10 times to a market value of 160 million dollars, at its peak it also reached a market value of 350 million dollars The company decided to do an IPO on Nasdaq in 2023, stopped trading in Israel and moved to Nasdaq with a market valuation of 1.2 billion dollars
***The shit that happened in 2023** 1.The former CEO who was fired and replaced is suspected of embezzling money from the company, later it was learned that he took $300k for renovations to his house, the idiot caused the share price to plummet quickly, and he did me a favor that I bought cheap, you will soon know why 2.It turns out that the chief financial officer turned a blind eye to this, and did not ensure that reports were issued on time, therefore the pressure increased as the share price fell 3.The thieving CEO was removed from his position, and replaced by a new manager named Uzi Moskovitz, basically a failed manager who made a bad loan deal for dimes, and this was also before the sudden drop in prices 4.The company's reports still haven't arrived, according to the date of November 2023 and in addition there is a deletion warning in Nasdaq because the price has been trading below the dollar for some time
So much for the bad news that the company caused her
--------Now for the good news in the last six months, and why I think this is an opportunity to get rich quickly in the near term----- 1.The manager of the company was replaced, a bright young man, and a wizard at closing deals His name is Noah Hershkovitz This man was at A-labs managed 700 million dollars in funds and is well connected with the most powerful people in the market 2.When he took office, he brought new contracts for 40 million dollars with cooperation with a private Ai company called Blacksuan Technologies, the deals included cyber protection for central banks in Europe and the world 3.Fired the stupid finance person who showed up, and brought in someone elite to sort out the company's reports and its activities The reports for H1 2023 came out, and there were revenues of 36 million dollars, if expenses of almost 80 million, one of the reasons for the Nasdaq IPO, which is a one-time expense that cost approximately 40 million dollars 4.Noah made a decision to do a reverse split in the share price, and returned it to trade at $2, and reduced the shares from 98 million to 9.8 million shares On the day of the split, Noah issued an announcement about a large deal with one of the largest defense agencies in Israel, Elbit, Rafael, the details of the deal are unknown due to the need for discretion 5.The share price continues to fall to the illusory value of 8 million dollars, because of the algo that takes advantage of the lack of volume and intentionally damages the price and makes money at the expense of the little people, like me and you 6.In April 2024, an announcement was made that hubc bought qpoint for $26 million, a company from Israel that brings in $29 million a year and has key people from all hi-tech fields This is a joke, a company we purchased for 26 million dollars is worth 3 times our current value, mainly because we are already 4 companies Hub Cyber,ald,comsec,qpoint
And There is talk of a merger of Blackswan, which is a private company that brings in 40 million dollars a year
In short, a huge opportunity for small investors to get rich overnight, a company that brings in 100 to 150 million dollars a year, whose market value is 8 million dollars
In addition, the most important thing now, the reports of 20-f 2024 should have been released by May 15 according to the law, they were not released, not because the company cannot provide, because of inside information that needs to be released, in my opinion it is something as big as the sale of the company for no less than 500 million dollars or Merger with Black Seven or other big news
++++Right now I'm losing on paper, and I don't care at all, I found out through my rose-colored glasses, that I'm going to be a millionaire very soon The elgo that hurts us will be punished very soon Love you, my bank account
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***The shit that happened in 2023** 1.The former CEO who was fired and replaced is suspected of embezzling money from the company, later it was learned that he took $300k for renovations to his house, the idiot caused the share price to plummet quickly, and he did me a favor that I bought cheap, you will soon know why 2.It turns out that the chief financial officer turned a blind eye to this, and did not ensure that reports were issued on time, therefore the pressure increased as the share price fell 3.The thieving CEO was removed from his position, and replaced by a new manager named Uzi Moskovitz, basically a failed manager who made a bad loan deal for dimes, and this was also before the sudden drop in prices 4.The company's reports still haven't arrived, according to the date of November 2023 and in addition there is a deletion warning in Nasdaq because the price has been trading below the dollar for some time
So much for the bad news that the company caused her
But the worse news, that algo hedge funds that take advantage of the lack of volume in the share price, every day made sure to lower the price by about 10 percent by taking advantage of the lack of volume in the share, in addition they took shares to short in the dark pool 2 times or more than the shares that exist in the market for trading (even today 3 million Stocks in short out of 4.8 in the float, a delusional ratio of bad manipulation by the crocodiles of Wall Street
This algo made tens of millions of dollars from this exploit--------Now for the good news in the last six months, and why I think this is an opportunity to get rich quickly in the near term----- 1.The manager of the company was replaced, a bright young man, and a wizard at closing deals His name is Noah Hershkovitz This man was at A-labs managed 700 million dollars in funds and is well connected with the most powerful people in the market 2.When he took office, he brought new contracts for 40 million dollars with cooperation with a private Ai company called Blacksuan Technologies, the deals included cyber protection for central banks in Europe and the world 3.Fired the stupid finance person who showed up, and brought in someone elite to sort out the company's reports and its activities The reports for H1 2023 came out, and there were revenues of 36 million dollars, if expenses of almost 80 million, one of the reasons for the Nasdaq IPO, which is a one-time expense that cost approximately 40 million dollars 4.Noah made a decision to do a reverse split in the share price, and returned it to trade at $2, and reduced the shares from 98 million to 9.8 million shares On the day of the split, Noah issued an announcement about a large deal with one of the largest defense agencies in Israel, Elbit, Rafael, the details of the deal are unknown due to the need for discretion 5.The share price continues to fall to the illusory value of 8 million dollars, because of the algo that takes advantage of the lack of volume and intentionally damages the price and makes money at the expense of the little people, like me and you 6.In April 2024, an announcement was made that hubc bought qpoint for $26 million, a company from Israel that brings in $29 million a year and has key people from all hi-tech fields This is a joke, a company we purchased for 26 million dollars is worth 3 times our current value, mainly because we are already 4 companies Hub Cyber,ald,comsec,qpoint
And There is talk of a merger of Blackswan, which is a private company that brings in 40 million dollars a year
In short, a huge opportunity for small investors to get rich overnight, a company that brings in 100 to 150 million dollars a year, whose market value is 8 million dollars
In addition, the most important thing now, the reports of 20-f 2024 should have been released by May 15 according to the law, they were not released, not because the company cannot provide, because of inside information that needs to be released, in my opinion it is something as big as the sale of the company for no less than 500 million dollars or Merger with Black Seven or other big news
++++Right now I'm losing on paper, and I don't care at all, I found out through my rose-colored glasses, that I'm going to be a millionaire very soon The elgo that hurts us will be punished very soon Love you, my bank account
2024.05.18 22:21 alzokryne Should you accept a job offer because it's your only one?
I'm a 23 year old guy. I come from a background of just not really knowing myself. This is just for a little context. Some of us unfortunately had to deal with toxic households. And as a result maybe contributed to depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts. Cool. So years go by of just planning your escape while also trying to finish school and not off yourself. During high school I admired artists, animators, musicians, etc. I was brainstorming ideas of being in that world. I would watch these animation student thesis films on YouTube. These things were great to admire but I never felt such a strong interest or connection to participate. I was writing my own stories. I thought maybe I would want to write for comics or animation or even live action TV/Film. I applied to Ringling College of Art & Design as well as New Hampshire Institute of Art. I got accepted to both but I decided to just go to community college because while I had some scholarship, both were still a lot of money. And I really stopped having an interest to participate in writing as years went by. I want to keep this post more so focused on the job part so I'm going to leave out info that might raise questions but oh well. I finished high school and started college Fall 2019. Then the pandemic came so I left college. Then I was trying to figure out how to be productive. I really did not have an interest in school. To be fair I did not have much of an interest in life. I only stayed alive due to my belief. So I decided to just work, make some money and figure it out. I wanted to save for when I finally move out and progress in life. Didn't end up happening. I actually did end up going back to school. I didn't care about any of the majors I just did business for my associates and communications for bachelors. It was online but they also had a center downtown for students to do work. So I went there everyday in the summer of 2023 to graduate faster and be done with school one and for all. And I did. November 2023 I graduated with my BA in communications. In September 2023 that's when I was finished with school, the ceremony was just in November. So since September I was job searching. I was working with the career counselor they offer. She helped me with my resume, cover letter and showing me useful sites. I wasn't getting any jobs. I applied A LOT EVERY DAY. A few interviews. A lot of scam offers. I never really had a focus or a career I always wanted to do. So I applied to anything. But I had some ideas kind of. And I knew what I would not do. February I got an offer from this place that does job coaching for high school students. The salary was 55k. Now that sounds like something I would definitely not be interested in. Just not my thing. But also, I had no other offers. And especially none with that starting salary which I saw was okay I guess for entry level out of college. So I had no choice but to take it. It had been five months. I'm 23. I need money. I'm trying to save. So I did. And so far I caught on very quickly. There were a few bumps on the road but that's life. After a few months I can confidently say that this job is definitely not the one for me. It's a hybrid which was nice but sometimes they have you on your remote days going other places and to me that was a little annoying. They introduced a new in-office things twice a month on Mondays so that took away two of my remote days that were guaranteed lol. I would prefer to be more independent and remote. But I think I can do another hybrid, probably. Just not at a school. Also the school things isn't so bad. Yes some of the kids were annoying. It's just not my vibe. I'm not interested in working at schools. I'm not interested in interacting with students. And I'm just so lost in the meetings. I'm like "Why am I here? I have no idea what they are talking about and I do not care." I feel like such a phony. Such a fake. I don't know how I was hired. I must have been a great actor in the interviews. They even had a written activity I had to do. I must have a way with words. And the vice president of the company keeps telling me how happy she is that she hired me and I am here at the organization. I think that's so hilarious and sad lol. I reached out to my college career counselor again and we started trying to find things. We looked at different careers and I saw technical writing and copywriting. I started applying to those and haven't seen anything yet. But also I'm not after a specific job. I just want to not work with students and be more independent. That's why I mentioned remote work. So I'm still applying I never really stopped that job search process. Even when I accepted the job I have I was still searching. I just thought after college I would have a decent job I could stay at and FINALLY move out and be ok. Decent. Just ok. That's all. I already have absolutely no guidance, no help. But yeah I have sent out more applications for other jobs. I kind of feel done with the job I'm at now. I just don't want to be here. But I know I can't leave unless I get an offer from somewhere else. It's just I don't know why I'm worried I won't. I just want to be able to move out and support myself and stay at a place I feel like I can stay and I don't have to plot to quit.
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2024.05.18 22:21 woskk First love breakup... full of grief and having trouble with emotions (NB/20 NB/20)
Got together with my ex when I was 17 and they were 16. We grew up a lot together, but I was quite mentally ill most of the time and while I loved the, deeply and did what I could, I was unable to fully learn their love languages or give my all in the relationship. They would mostly plan stuff and do the little things, whereas looking back I just did as much as I could above the minimum. For the latter 2 years of our relationship, we were separated by an hour of distance due to college. During the last year, I developed some nasty OCD which exacerbated my existing doubts in the relationship (Is this right for me? Do I want this forever? What if I want to spend more time in my own world?) which led me to sit in my house and try and think my way to happiness instead of doing the things I could have done to be happier in my relationship like visiting them or calling them. Eventually, my partner grew tired of the imbalance in effort and I let my doubts take over and we mutually broke up. I always told myself I would be happy spending the rest of my life with them if we had some time to grow by ourselves, but I loved them and wanted to be with them and was so afraid to leave the comfort of the relationship. (We are both 20 now)
I initially felt pretty good about the breakup, as it felt like all the doubt in my head had been lifted and I was no longer "living a lie" by continuing to be with them despite all my doubts. They were sad, but felt freed (like a "bird out of a cage" as they put it) but as the weeks went on I began to have an enormous amount of regret over not putting more effort into the relationship, for allowing my OCD and doubt to get the best of me, for the resentful thoughts my brain would have towards them (never let them enter reality), and every step of the process that led to us splitting. When we talked I would tell them that I knew I could be better and that the breakup had provided me the clarity that they were what I wanted the whole time, but I just wasn't able to fully show it. It feels like this is all my fault, as I was the one demotivated, but I know there are factors on both sides and contextual factors that caused this to happen.
Intellectually, I know that this was in the cards for a long time, and I never would have been able to be fully happy in this relationship without knowing what being by myself was like. But my emotions tell me that this could have been prevented had I just tried harder. All I can think about is the future with them that I lost (which is a complete mindfuck because during the relationship it was hard for me to imagine one) It feels like I fell for the fallacy that the "grass is greener on the other side" and now I feel like that notion was so shallow and I gave up such a deep connection for nothing. I just wish I could have fully appreciated what I had and communicated my feelings properly at the time and worked through it but I wasn't in a place to do so, and this was going to happen at some point regardless.
It hurts more because the last time I talked to them (1.5 months after our breakup) they told me they were moving on and doing well in their life, as well as talking to other people casually. This gave me a large amount of sexual insecurity and OCD because while our sex was cool, but I feel like we never fully learned how to pleasure each other (feels like my fault, but I had never slept with anyone before and if something was wrong it could have been communicated on both sides but wasn't. We both often had problems finishing alone so I am trying not to place too much blame on myself for not learning) and would most often make ourselves finish, and I feel like they are probably discovering things about themselves with other people that I couldn't do, while I have no game (yet) and am anxious as fuck and not emotionally ready to talk to other people whereas they are. Since then, I've been a walking zombie full of guilt and regret for feeling like I let myself cause the slow demise of something beautiful and now they are happier without me. I asked if we could ever be together again and they told me things like "maybe our paths will cross again", "Maybe I'll keep it in the back of my mind" and "maybe when we're different people" (trying my best to see this as NEVER) Also what would the chances that we could rekindle things from a hour away be? Zero.
I know I am capable of loving again and that while it will never be the same, I have learned that I can make it better. It just feels so horrible that it was at the cost of such a great loss, and I feel like I will spend the rest of my days being nostalgic and comparing every partner to them and secretly wanting them back no matter who I'm with. Time will probably heal this though.
I also feel like it would be so easy for them to find someone who gives them everything and makes them happy, as I feel like I let them down for so long but where I'm at now my head still views them as perfect and irreplaceable and can only think about all the good they did for me. My brain tells me that with the rate that they are moving on, its likely that they will find someone soon, if not already.
My head keeps running through possibilities of us meeting again and falling back in love, but I know this won't happen. If they don't want me back, why would they in 3 months 6 months, or a year? I know this is good for both of us, I just wish we could use this time to improve ourselves for each other. But that is not the world I live in. I keep having to resist urges to talk to them but I know if I did I would just get set back further.
Thanks for reading my long ass rant. I don't expect replies and I mostly just wrote it to get all these feelings of grief regret hope longing despair off my chest. If someone with more life experience has any insight, I would love to hear what you have to say. I know my views on relationships and sex are very narrow at this point in my life, which reminds me that this is important but FUCKKK the regret and guilt. Thanks for listening! I wish I didn't have OCD. This shit sucks.
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I initially felt pretty good about the breakup, as it felt like all the doubt in my head had been lifted and I was no longer "living a lie" by continuing to be with them despite all my doubts. They were sad, but felt freed (like a "bird out of a cage" as they put it) but as the weeks went on I began to have an enormous amount of regret over not putting more effort into the relationship, for allowing my OCD and doubt to get the best of me, for the resentful thoughts my brain would have towards them (never let them enter reality), and every step of the process that led to us splitting. When we talked I would tell them that I knew I could be better and that the breakup had provided me the clarity that they were what I wanted the whole time, but I just wasn't able to fully show it. It feels like this is all my fault, as I was the one demotivated, but I know there are factors on both sides and contextual factors that caused this to happen.
Intellectually, I know that this was in the cards for a long time, and I never would have been able to be fully happy in this relationship without knowing what being by myself was like. But my emotions tell me that this could have been prevented had I just tried harder. All I can think about is the future with them that I lost (which is a complete mindfuck because during the relationship it was hard for me to imagine one) It feels like I fell for the fallacy that the "grass is greener on the other side" and now I feel like that notion was so shallow and I gave up such a deep connection for nothing. I just wish I could have fully appreciated what I had and communicated my feelings properly at the time and worked through it but I wasn't in a place to do so, and this was going to happen at some point regardless.
It hurts more because the last time I talked to them (1.5 months after our breakup) they told me they were moving on and doing well in their life, as well as talking to other people casually. This gave me a large amount of sexual insecurity and OCD because while our sex was cool, but I feel like we never fully learned how to pleasure each other (feels like my fault, but I had never slept with anyone before and if something was wrong it could have been communicated on both sides but wasn't. We both often had problems finishing alone so I am trying not to place too much blame on myself for not learning) and would most often make ourselves finish, and I feel like they are probably discovering things about themselves with other people that I couldn't do, while I have no game (yet) and am anxious as fuck and not emotionally ready to talk to other people whereas they are. Since then, I've been a walking zombie full of guilt and regret for feeling like I let myself cause the slow demise of something beautiful and now they are happier without me. I asked if we could ever be together again and they told me things like "maybe our paths will cross again", "Maybe I'll keep it in the back of my mind" and "maybe when we're different people" (trying my best to see this as NEVER) Also what would the chances that we could rekindle things from a hour away be? Zero.
I know I am capable of loving again and that while it will never be the same, I have learned that I can make it better. It just feels so horrible that it was at the cost of such a great loss, and I feel like I will spend the rest of my days being nostalgic and comparing every partner to them and secretly wanting them back no matter who I'm with. Time will probably heal this though.
I also feel like it would be so easy for them to find someone who gives them everything and makes them happy, as I feel like I let them down for so long but where I'm at now my head still views them as perfect and irreplaceable and can only think about all the good they did for me. My brain tells me that with the rate that they are moving on, its likely that they will find someone soon, if not already.
My head keeps running through possibilities of us meeting again and falling back in love, but I know this won't happen. If they don't want me back, why would they in 3 months 6 months, or a year? I know this is good for both of us, I just wish we could use this time to improve ourselves for each other. But that is not the world I live in. I keep having to resist urges to talk to them but I know if I did I would just get set back further.
Thanks for reading my long ass rant. I don't expect replies and I mostly just wrote it to get all these feelings of grief regret hope longing despair off my chest. If someone with more life experience has any insight, I would love to hear what you have to say. I know my views on relationships and sex are very narrow at this point in my life, which reminds me that this is important but FUCKKK the regret and guilt. Thanks for listening! I wish I didn't have OCD. This shit sucks.
2024.05.18 22:21 RiskProfessional5234 Hubc$ 50$ or more stock
Hello everyone In my opinion the investment potential for getting rich is tremendous, full disclosure I have 42k shares at the moment So where to start? Let's start from the beginning The company was founded in Israel in 2017 by a company from the military's intelligence and security unit 8200 The company was issued in Israel and in the two and a half years it was there, it increased 10 times to a market value of 160 million dollars, at its peak it also reached a market value of 350 million dollars The company decided to do an IPO on Nasdaq in 2023, stopped trading in Israel and moved to Nasdaq with a market valuation of 1.2 billion dollars
***The shit that happened in 2023** 1.The former CEO who was fired and replaced is suspected of embezzling money from the company, later it was learned that he took $300k for renovations to his house, the idiot caused the share price to plummet quickly, and he did me a favor that I bought cheap, you will soon know why 2.It turns out that the chief financial officer turned a blind eye to this, and did not ensure that reports were issued on time, therefore the pressure increased as the share price fell 3.The thieving CEO was removed from his position, and replaced by a new manager named Uzi Moskovitz, basically a failed manager who made a bad loan deal for dimes, and this was also before the sudden drop in prices 4.The company's reports still haven't arrived, according to the date of November 2023 and in addition there is a deletion warning in Nasdaq because the price has been trading below the dollar for some time
So much for the bad news that the company caused her
--------Now for the good news in the last six months, and why I think this is an opportunity to get rich quickly in the near term----- 1.The manager of the company was replaced, a bright young man, and a wizard at closing deals His name is Noah Hershkovitz This man was at A-labs managed 700 million dollars in funds and is well connected with the most powerful people in the market 2.When he took office, he brought new contracts for 40 million dollars with cooperation with a private Ai company called Blacksuan Technologies, the deals included cyber protection for central banks in Europe and the world 3.Fired the stupid finance person who showed up, and brought in someone elite to sort out the company's reports and its activities The reports for H1 2023 came out, and there were revenues of 36 million dollars, if expenses of almost 80 million, one of the reasons for the Nasdaq IPO, which is a one-time expense that cost approximately 40 million dollars 4.Noah made a decision to do a reverse split in the share price, and returned it to trade at $2, and reduced the shares from 98 million to 9.8 million shares On the day of the split, Noah issued an announcement about a large deal with one of the largest defense agencies in Israel, Elbit, Rafael, the details of the deal are unknown due to the need for discretion 5.The share price continues to fall to the illusory value of 8 million dollars, because of the algo that takes advantage of the lack of volume and intentionally damages the price and makes money at the expense of the little people, like me and you 6.In April 2024, an announcement was made that hubc bought qpoint for $26 million, a company from Israel that brings in $29 million a year and has key people from all hi-tech fields This is a joke, a company we purchased for 26 million dollars is worth 3 times our current value, mainly because we are already 4 companies Hub Cyber,ald,comsec,qpoint
And There is talk of a merger of Blackswan, which is a private company that brings in 40 million dollars a year
In short, a huge opportunity for small investors to get rich overnight, a company that brings in 100 to 150 million dollars a year, whose market value is 8 million dollars
In addition, the most important thing now, the reports of 20-f 2024 should have been released by May 15 according to the law, they were not released, not because the company cannot provide, because of inside information that needs to be released, in my opinion it is something as big as the sale of the company for no less than 500 million dollars or Merger with Black Seven or other big news
++++Right now I'm losing on paper, and I don't care at all, I found out through my rose-colored glasses, that I'm going to be a millionaire very soon The elgo that hurts us will be punished very soon Love you, my bank account
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***The shit that happened in 2023** 1.The former CEO who was fired and replaced is suspected of embezzling money from the company, later it was learned that he took $300k for renovations to his house, the idiot caused the share price to plummet quickly, and he did me a favor that I bought cheap, you will soon know why 2.It turns out that the chief financial officer turned a blind eye to this, and did not ensure that reports were issued on time, therefore the pressure increased as the share price fell 3.The thieving CEO was removed from his position, and replaced by a new manager named Uzi Moskovitz, basically a failed manager who made a bad loan deal for dimes, and this was also before the sudden drop in prices 4.The company's reports still haven't arrived, according to the date of November 2023 and in addition there is a deletion warning in Nasdaq because the price has been trading below the dollar for some time
So much for the bad news that the company caused her
But the worse news, that algo hedge funds that take advantage of the lack of volume in the share price, every day made sure to lower the price by about 10 percent by taking advantage of the lack of volume in the share, in addition they took shares to short in the dark pool 2 times or more than the shares that exist in the market for trading (even today 3 million Stocks in short out of 4.8 in the float, a delusional ratio of bad manipulation by the crocodiles of Wall Street
This algo made tens of millions of dollars from this exploit--------Now for the good news in the last six months, and why I think this is an opportunity to get rich quickly in the near term----- 1.The manager of the company was replaced, a bright young man, and a wizard at closing deals His name is Noah Hershkovitz This man was at A-labs managed 700 million dollars in funds and is well connected with the most powerful people in the market 2.When he took office, he brought new contracts for 40 million dollars with cooperation with a private Ai company called Blacksuan Technologies, the deals included cyber protection for central banks in Europe and the world 3.Fired the stupid finance person who showed up, and brought in someone elite to sort out the company's reports and its activities The reports for H1 2023 came out, and there were revenues of 36 million dollars, if expenses of almost 80 million, one of the reasons for the Nasdaq IPO, which is a one-time expense that cost approximately 40 million dollars 4.Noah made a decision to do a reverse split in the share price, and returned it to trade at $2, and reduced the shares from 98 million to 9.8 million shares On the day of the split, Noah issued an announcement about a large deal with one of the largest defense agencies in Israel, Elbit, Rafael, the details of the deal are unknown due to the need for discretion 5.The share price continues to fall to the illusory value of 8 million dollars, because of the algo that takes advantage of the lack of volume and intentionally damages the price and makes money at the expense of the little people, like me and you 6.In April 2024, an announcement was made that hubc bought qpoint for $26 million, a company from Israel that brings in $29 million a year and has key people from all hi-tech fields This is a joke, a company we purchased for 26 million dollars is worth 3 times our current value, mainly because we are already 4 companies Hub Cyber,ald,comsec,qpoint
And There is talk of a merger of Blackswan, which is a private company that brings in 40 million dollars a year
In short, a huge opportunity for small investors to get rich overnight, a company that brings in 100 to 150 million dollars a year, whose market value is 8 million dollars
In addition, the most important thing now, the reports of 20-f 2024 should have been released by May 15 according to the law, they were not released, not because the company cannot provide, because of inside information that needs to be released, in my opinion it is something as big as the sale of the company for no less than 500 million dollars or Merger with Black Seven or other big news
++++Right now I'm losing on paper, and I don't care at all, I found out through my rose-colored glasses, that I'm going to be a millionaire very soon The elgo that hurts us will be punished very soon Love you, my bank account
2024.05.18 22:19 Carpet_Turbulent Purple Rain 💜
So, recently, I quit my old job of 13 years. Over time, however, I made friends with the wonderful woman, let's call her Rain. Rain and I used to send each other private jokes, playfully flirt with each other, tell each other about ourselves, and just be friends. It was a joke that we were an office couple. You know, work wife and work husband. Anyway, while she's single but in a relationship and I'm married, there's this feeling of attraction that the both of us share. Last week, we damn near confessed it to each other, but we knew that it would cause problems, so we just played it off. On my last day, she took me to lunch, at a restaurant. Somewhere small, not busy. I didn't expect her to do that, but it was SO much fun, to just talk and be around her. It wasn't a date, but it FELT like one. The looks we shared, the glances, the smiles...when we gave each other one last hug, she grilled me right, and I, her. My hands were lower, towards her back. Then, I did something bold. I moved my hands to her butt and gripped it. She didn't even flinch, as she hugged me even tighter. It lasted oy for a minute, but I wanted it to last so much longer. In another life, we definitely would have had a steamier "goodbye". But, I guess it wasn't meant to be.
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2024.05.18 22:15 the-veritable-nimbus How can I become a barrister from where I am now (with no pupillage)?
Hi all,
I'm currently an officer (not a legal officer) in the RAF but I'd like to become a barrister whilst in to make things easier once I'm out (5 years' time) or potentially to help move my career along inside.
I've got a 1st RG uni LLB degree, and having done SQE/HRA stuff I'm a qualified solicitor advocate. The only reason I went for this is that I thought it was the best I could do without a pupillage. I'm also considering doing the QLA and getting the same certification in scotland, though I'm facing the same problems with a lack of advocacy experience that I'm about to get onto.
HOWEVER, it's always been a personal ambition of mine to work in chambers and as a barrister, and as arbitrary as some of you may think this is, I'd like to be called to the bar.
How, if at all, can I do this without a pupillage? I simply don't have the time to take a year out, and there are no RAF schemes allowing for this either. Even if I did a 24 month one I don't have the available accumulative leave for a whole year.
The Bar Standards page talks about BTT pupillage exemption, but I doubt 4 years' part time paralegal work with no advocacy experience other than uni mooting will grant me full, if any pupillage exemption.
I've heard rumblings of how doing the BPTC can reduce or prevent necessary pupillage time, but I need some very clear substantiation of this. Are there any other qualifications I can do that negate BTT pupillage requirements? I'm thinking a masters or other professional exams/qualifications.
Any help would be appreciated. Cheers all.
EDIT: I'd like to add that in terms of accumulative time I can rack up more than enough for this stuff, it's moreso a question of that time coming in the form of weekends, evenings, afternoon and weeks of leave. As a result, any paths need to account for this, which is the problem I'm faced with.
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I'm currently an officer (not a legal officer) in the RAF but I'd like to become a barrister whilst in to make things easier once I'm out (5 years' time) or potentially to help move my career along inside.
I've got a 1st RG uni LLB degree, and having done SQE/HRA stuff I'm a qualified solicitor advocate. The only reason I went for this is that I thought it was the best I could do without a pupillage. I'm also considering doing the QLA and getting the same certification in scotland, though I'm facing the same problems with a lack of advocacy experience that I'm about to get onto.
HOWEVER, it's always been a personal ambition of mine to work in chambers and as a barrister, and as arbitrary as some of you may think this is, I'd like to be called to the bar.
How, if at all, can I do this without a pupillage? I simply don't have the time to take a year out, and there are no RAF schemes allowing for this either. Even if I did a 24 month one I don't have the available accumulative leave for a whole year.
The Bar Standards page talks about BTT pupillage exemption, but I doubt 4 years' part time paralegal work with no advocacy experience other than uni mooting will grant me full, if any pupillage exemption.
I've heard rumblings of how doing the BPTC can reduce or prevent necessary pupillage time, but I need some very clear substantiation of this. Are there any other qualifications I can do that negate BTT pupillage requirements? I'm thinking a masters or other professional exams/qualifications.
Any help would be appreciated. Cheers all.
EDIT: I'd like to add that in terms of accumulative time I can rack up more than enough for this stuff, it's moreso a question of that time coming in the form of weekends, evenings, afternoon and weeks of leave. As a result, any paths need to account for this, which is the problem I'm faced with.
2024.05.18 22:12 Prudent-Swordfish538 Lawsuit settled, no consumer debt, decent savings. What next?
*no credit card debt
Multi-year personal injury lawsuit settled the other day and after lawyer fees/medical expenses I'll be left with around $400k USD.
Currently make $140k annually with zero debt aside from a $300k mortgage at 6.8% ($2,500 monthly payment) and about $30k left on a car loan at 5% ($660 monthly payment). I’ve maxed out my Roth IRA and 401k over the past few years and have about $115k in investments/retirement and a $20k emergency fund.
I am planning on using $10k from the settlement to go on a nice vacation and buy my girlfriend a new laptop. I want to use the rest of the money towards retirement while also having it available if need be for a down payment on another house if we decide to keep our current one and rent it out when we move.
I was thinking of locking up the remaining $390k in a 6 month treasury to take a breath and figure out how best to use it next. I have a friend in wealth management who is recommending short term bonds given interest rates and the uncertainty in the market, but that doesn’t sound aggressive enough for me long term.
I can really use some outside advice/perspective. Thank you!
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Multi-year personal injury lawsuit settled the other day and after lawyer fees/medical expenses I'll be left with around $400k USD.
Currently make $140k annually with zero debt aside from a $300k mortgage at 6.8% ($2,500 monthly payment) and about $30k left on a car loan at 5% ($660 monthly payment). I’ve maxed out my Roth IRA and 401k over the past few years and have about $115k in investments/retirement and a $20k emergency fund.
I am planning on using $10k from the settlement to go on a nice vacation and buy my girlfriend a new laptop. I want to use the rest of the money towards retirement while also having it available if need be for a down payment on another house if we decide to keep our current one and rent it out when we move.
I was thinking of locking up the remaining $390k in a 6 month treasury to take a breath and figure out how best to use it next. I have a friend in wealth management who is recommending short term bonds given interest rates and the uncertainty in the market, but that doesn’t sound aggressive enough for me long term.
I can really use some outside advice/perspective. Thank you!
2024.05.18 22:11 Gold-Relief-3398 I do not have 500 dollars to pay the DMV
I moved here back in August. I got off my ex's insurance before I moved from Georgia and switched to Noblr (pay-as-you-go insurance) this was on auto pay on my credit card. I learned they were going to drop me because I hadn't changed my address yet. When I called to update my info they would not reinstate it.
I find a policy with Progressive the same week. I get a letter from the DMV saying because I didn't have coverage for 48 days I owe 500 dollars or my registration will be suspended on the 24th.
I don't have 500 dollars. What options do I have? Would it make sense to file a complaint with the Nevada Division of Insurance? I imagine that would take too long to even matter.
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I find a policy with Progressive the same week. I get a letter from the DMV saying because I didn't have coverage for 48 days I owe 500 dollars or my registration will be suspended on the 24th.
I don't have 500 dollars. What options do I have? Would it make sense to file a complaint with the Nevada Division of Insurance? I imagine that would take too long to even matter.
2024.05.18 22:10 Springs_FNAF_Time FNAF 2 Movie release delayed!? FNAF Theory Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 Movie
 | If you don’t want to read all of this you can watch it here: submitted by Springs_FNAF_Time to fivenightsatfreddys [link] [comments] https://youtu.be/eBJ\_6KzYpHk https://preview.redd.it/nchtu8lzr81d1.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=521794fa328edc9158680a77d6dd0de02f7cdc76 Hello Fnafers! The Spring has come and so did the FNAF 2 Movie news! And it seems like the FNAF 2 movie just got delayed! But don’t worry! (yet) Cause for now it has only been moved from Fall 2025 to December 5, 2025 which is early winter! But let’s go into more detail and in addition talk about some other instagram photos and videos posted by Mathew Lillard and the FNAF Movie’s official accounts! First things first, let’s cover everything said about the FNAF 2 Movie in an article from “Variety”: “‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ Sets December 2025 Release, ‘M3GAN 2.0’ and ‘Black Phone 2’ Also Get New Dates” “Freddy Fazbear will return to haunt multiplexes in 2025. Universal and Blumhouse’s “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2,” a horror sequel set in the haunted Chuck E. Cheese-esque establishment known as Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, will land in theaters on Dec. 5, 2025. “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” adapted from the popular video game, made a killing at the box office last October with $297 million globally and became Blumhouse’s highest-grossing film of all time — all while streaming simultaneously on Peacock. Josh Hutcherson starred in the original as a nighttime security guard at Freddys Fazbear’s Pizza, where the animatronic mascots are prone to murder. The studio hasn’t clarified who is returning for the follow-up, but it did share the new tagline: “Anyone can survive five nights. This time, there will be no second chances.”” Now this is an interesting thing to say about the FNAF 2 movie, and there are a few things this could mean, one option is that the animatronics will be much more dangerous in the second movie than the first, perhaps even more violent to satisfy some fans. Or maybe they are hinting at someone out of the main characters dying, but if so I don’t think that it would be Mike, Abby or even Vannesa cause they all almost died last time, and it doesn’t really make sense to kill one of them in the second movie right after they barely escaped death in the first one, that will just disappoint people and I am sure that Blumhouse knows it. Instead what if we will have Jeremy as one of the main protagonists but then we will see him die or at least be very hurt at the end, perhaps due to the bite of 87 which people theorized happened to him in the games. Now! Following up this article, Jason Blum tweeted this: “We are making some pictures!! 'Five Nights At Freddy's 2' Sets Release Date; 'M3GAN' Sequel Pushed” With a link to another article on Deadline: Universal Dates ‘Five Nights At Freddy’s 2,’ ‘Woman In The Yard’ & ‘Drop’; ‘The Black Phone’, ‘M3GAN’ Sequels Pushed “Universal Pictures on Thursday announced release dates for three major genre titles, revealing at the same time that two of its most anticipated sequels will shift on the calendar. Blumhouse‘s thriller The Woman in the Yard has been set to open on Friday, March 28, 2025, with Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse’s Drop debuting on Friday, April 11, 2025 and Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 to scare up box office on Friday, December 5, 2025. Shattering expectations last fall with a $300M worldwide gross, Five Night at Freddy’s adapts Scott Cawthon’s popular video game franchise of the same name and follows Mike (Josh Hutcherson), a troubled young man who reluctantly takes a job as a night security guard at an abandoned theme restaurant, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria, hoping it will help him retain custody of his young sister. That fateful decision instead drags him into the black heart of a supernatural nightmare. The highest-grossing horror film of 2023, its sequels plot hasn’t been disclosed. Emma Tammi has returned to direct, with Blum and Cawthon returning to produce.” So yeah, all 3 of them have returned to work on the second movie, but let’s not forget about the man behind the slaughter himself, cause he is trying to not let us forget about him as he has posted on his instagram a photo of him standing in the Spring Bonnie costume with the prop of Scooby Doo. And under the post he said this: “December 2025. I ALWAYS COME BACK.” We already knew that he will be back for the second and third movie cause he signed a three picture deal last year. But this seems like him confirming that he will be in the second movie. Some people have also noticed that the insides of the suits have changed from black to flashy corpse color. This of course could be an updated version for the second movie confirming it to be a sequel… but I will assume that it is actually the same suit we saw at the ending of the first movie, but since it was very dark at the end we could not see the true colors inside. https://preview.redd.it/ubvnxn6ds81d1.png?width=427&format=png&auto=webp&s=5baf0226ce6fe8bc87d554561147d527dea4c91d Moving on, the official FNAF Movie account on instagram has posted a reel of the FNAF sign saying “12/5/2025” and under it they said “Clock back in.” And if you reply to this reel they will actually message you where you will be able to get a new Security badge for 2024 which looks just like the one from last year and a short video of the FNAF 1 movie camera footage. All you have to do is to say yes to all their questions and give them a photo as well as a video of yourself working at Freddys. Here is how the footage and the badge looks like: https://reddit.com/link/1cv63gk/video/x9u761f9s81d1/player https://preview.redd.it/5bw5prw9s81d1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=383829de38aa62a3626471a30035038d71e61ba0 Then the FNAF 2 movie has been added to Universal's "Upcoming Films" page. And bloomhouse tweeted “How many times have you rewatched FNAF?” with a gif of the pizza boxes they gave in theaters last year and a sign saying “Let’s eat”. So yeah, tell me in the comments what do you think of this video, what do you think the FNAF 2 movie will be about. But for now that’s it! Check it out here: https://youtu.be/eBJ\_6KzYpHk And remember! I always comeback!!! |
2024.05.18 22:10 FluffyLobster2385 Software folks you have more in common w a UAW member than you do SLT
I see a lot of software people shitting on the union. They had the courage to stand up for themselves and actually walked away with what I would consider a win.
A lot of UAW workers, especially skilled trades are pulling in 6 figures. That isn't a whole lot different than what most of you are making.
You're livelihood is literally on the line folks. All evidence points to a small tech footprint in California. That building will only hold 250 and they're already at 200. They're going to augment with contract workers in places like India, South America and eastern Europe.
People will say if you don't like it get a new job. Why should you have to leave? Why should you have to move your family? You worked hard and did your part. The money is there too, they bought back 10 billion dollars of their own stock.
Our livihoods and our families wellbeing are being flagrantly put on the line because of unchecked greed.
Management forced 2 days in office, than 3. 5 is coming this summer. Mandatory office hours of 8-5 will probably follow. Non sensical metrics like number of PR requests and lines and code are already in place. Management is turning up the heat. I've seen managers openly mock and intimidating their own employees.
The answer is unionize. Unionize now. You're time is limited here folks. HR is not going to help. Your manager will look out for themselves. The only person who can drive this change for what is right is us, the workers that keep this company running.
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A lot of UAW workers, especially skilled trades are pulling in 6 figures. That isn't a whole lot different than what most of you are making.
You're livelihood is literally on the line folks. All evidence points to a small tech footprint in California. That building will only hold 250 and they're already at 200. They're going to augment with contract workers in places like India, South America and eastern Europe.
People will say if you don't like it get a new job. Why should you have to leave? Why should you have to move your family? You worked hard and did your part. The money is there too, they bought back 10 billion dollars of their own stock.
Our livihoods and our families wellbeing are being flagrantly put on the line because of unchecked greed.
Management forced 2 days in office, than 3. 5 is coming this summer. Mandatory office hours of 8-5 will probably follow. Non sensical metrics like number of PR requests and lines and code are already in place. Management is turning up the heat. I've seen managers openly mock and intimidating their own employees.
The answer is unionize. Unionize now. You're time is limited here folks. HR is not going to help. Your manager will look out for themselves. The only person who can drive this change for what is right is us, the workers that keep this company running.
2024.05.18 22:09 woskk First Love Breakup After 3.5 Years, What do I Even Do??? (NB/20 NB/20)
Got together with my ex when I was 17 and they were 16. We grew up a lot together, but I was quite mentally ill most of the time and while I loved the, deeply and did what I could, I was unable to fully learn their love languages or give my all in the relationship. They would mostly plan stuff and do the little things, whereas looking back I just did as much as I could above the minimum. For the latter 2 years of our relationship, we were separated by an hour of distance due to college. During the last year, I developed some nasty OCD which exacerbated my existing doubts in the relationship (Is this right for me? Do I want this forever? What if I want to spend more time in my own world?) which led me to sit in my house and try and think my way to happiness instead of doing the things I could have done to be happier in my relationship like visiting them or calling them. Eventually, my partner grew tired of the imbalance in effort and I let my doubts take over and we mutually broke up. I always told myself I would be happy spending the rest of my life with them if we had some time to grow by ourselves, but I loved them and wanted to be with them and was so afraid to leave the comfort of the relationship. (We are both 20 now)
I initially felt pretty good about the breakup, as it felt like all the doubt in my head had been lifted and I was no longer "living a lie" by continuing to be with them despite all my doubts. They were sad, but felt freed (like a "bird out of a cage" as they put it) but as the weeks went on I began to have an enormous amount of regret over not putting more effort into the relationship, for allowing my OCD and doubt to get the best of me, for the resentful thoughts my brain would have towards them (never let them enter reality), and every step of the process that led to us splitting. When we talked I would tell them that I knew I could be better and that the breakup had provided me the clarity that they were what I wanted the whole time, but I just wasn't able to fully show it. It feels like this is all my fault, as I was the one demotivated, but I know there are factors on both sides and contextual factors that caused this to happen.
Intellectually, I know that this was in the cards for a long time, and I never would have been able to be fully happy in this relationship without knowing what being by myself was like. But my emotions tell me that this could have been prevented had I just tried harder. All I can think about is the future with them that I lost (which is a complete mindfuck because during the relationship it was hard for me to imagine one) It feels like I fell for the fallacy that the "grass is greener on the other side" and now I feel like that notion was so shallow and I gave up such a deep connection for nothing. I just wish I could have fully appreciated what I had and communicated my feelings properly at the time and worked through it but I wasn't in a place to do so, and this was going to happen at some point regardless.
It hurts more because the last time I talked to them (1.5 months after our breakup) they told me they were moving on and doing well in their life, as well as talking to other people casually. This gave me a large amount of sexual insecurity and OCD because while our sex was cool, but I feel like we never fully learned how to pleasure each other (feels like my fault, but I had never slept with anyone before and if something was wrong it could have been communicated on both sides but wasn't. We both often had problems finishing alone so I am trying not to place too much blame on myself for not learning) and would most often make ourselves finish, and I feel like they are probably discovering things about themselves with other people that I couldn't do, while I have no game (yet) and am anxious as fuck and not emotionally ready to talk to other people whereas they are. Since then, I've been a walking zombie full of guilt and regret for feeling like I let myself cause the slow demise of something beautiful and now they are happier without me. I asked if we could ever be together again and they told me things like "maybe our paths will cross again", "Maybe I'll keep it in the back of my mind" and "maybe when we're different people" (trying my best to see this as NEVER) Also what would the chances that we could rekindle things from a hour away be? Zero.
I know I am capable of loving again and that while it will never be the same, I have learned that I can make it better. It just feels so horrible that it was at the cost of such a great loss, and I feel like I will spend the rest of my days being nostalgic and comparing every partner to them and secretly wanting them back no matter who I'm with. Time will probably heal this though.
I also feel like it would be so easy for them to find someone who gives them everything and makes them happy, as I feel like I let them down for so long but where I'm at now my head still views them as perfect and irreplaceable and can only think about all the good they did for me. My brain tells me that with the rate that they are moving on, its likely that they will find someone soon, if not already.
My head keeps running through possibilities of us meeting again and falling back in love, but I know this won't happen. If they don't want me back, why would they in 3 months 6 months, or a year? I know this is good for both of us, I just wish we could use this time to improve ourselves for each other. But that is not the world I live in. I keep having to resist urges to talk to them but I know if I did I would just get set back further.
Thanks for reading my long ass rant. I don't expect replies and I mostly just wrote it to get all these feelings of grief regret hope longing despair off my chest. If someone with more life experience has any insight, I would love to hear what you have to say. I know my views on relationships and sex are very narrow at this point in my life, which reminds me that this is important but FUCKKK the regret and guilt. Thanks for listening! I wish I didn't have OCD. This shit sucks.
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I initially felt pretty good about the breakup, as it felt like all the doubt in my head had been lifted and I was no longer "living a lie" by continuing to be with them despite all my doubts. They were sad, but felt freed (like a "bird out of a cage" as they put it) but as the weeks went on I began to have an enormous amount of regret over not putting more effort into the relationship, for allowing my OCD and doubt to get the best of me, for the resentful thoughts my brain would have towards them (never let them enter reality), and every step of the process that led to us splitting. When we talked I would tell them that I knew I could be better and that the breakup had provided me the clarity that they were what I wanted the whole time, but I just wasn't able to fully show it. It feels like this is all my fault, as I was the one demotivated, but I know there are factors on both sides and contextual factors that caused this to happen.
Intellectually, I know that this was in the cards for a long time, and I never would have been able to be fully happy in this relationship without knowing what being by myself was like. But my emotions tell me that this could have been prevented had I just tried harder. All I can think about is the future with them that I lost (which is a complete mindfuck because during the relationship it was hard for me to imagine one) It feels like I fell for the fallacy that the "grass is greener on the other side" and now I feel like that notion was so shallow and I gave up such a deep connection for nothing. I just wish I could have fully appreciated what I had and communicated my feelings properly at the time and worked through it but I wasn't in a place to do so, and this was going to happen at some point regardless.
It hurts more because the last time I talked to them (1.5 months after our breakup) they told me they were moving on and doing well in their life, as well as talking to other people casually. This gave me a large amount of sexual insecurity and OCD because while our sex was cool, but I feel like we never fully learned how to pleasure each other (feels like my fault, but I had never slept with anyone before and if something was wrong it could have been communicated on both sides but wasn't. We both often had problems finishing alone so I am trying not to place too much blame on myself for not learning) and would most often make ourselves finish, and I feel like they are probably discovering things about themselves with other people that I couldn't do, while I have no game (yet) and am anxious as fuck and not emotionally ready to talk to other people whereas they are. Since then, I've been a walking zombie full of guilt and regret for feeling like I let myself cause the slow demise of something beautiful and now they are happier without me. I asked if we could ever be together again and they told me things like "maybe our paths will cross again", "Maybe I'll keep it in the back of my mind" and "maybe when we're different people" (trying my best to see this as NEVER) Also what would the chances that we could rekindle things from a hour away be? Zero.
I know I am capable of loving again and that while it will never be the same, I have learned that I can make it better. It just feels so horrible that it was at the cost of such a great loss, and I feel like I will spend the rest of my days being nostalgic and comparing every partner to them and secretly wanting them back no matter who I'm with. Time will probably heal this though.
I also feel like it would be so easy for them to find someone who gives them everything and makes them happy, as I feel like I let them down for so long but where I'm at now my head still views them as perfect and irreplaceable and can only think about all the good they did for me. My brain tells me that with the rate that they are moving on, its likely that they will find someone soon, if not already.
My head keeps running through possibilities of us meeting again and falling back in love, but I know this won't happen. If they don't want me back, why would they in 3 months 6 months, or a year? I know this is good for both of us, I just wish we could use this time to improve ourselves for each other. But that is not the world I live in. I keep having to resist urges to talk to them but I know if I did I would just get set back further.
Thanks for reading my long ass rant. I don't expect replies and I mostly just wrote it to get all these feelings of grief regret hope longing despair off my chest. If someone with more life experience has any insight, I would love to hear what you have to say. I know my views on relationships and sex are very narrow at this point in my life, which reminds me that this is important but FUCKKK the regret and guilt. Thanks for listening! I wish I didn't have OCD. This shit sucks.
2024.05.18 22:09 Ahushedpanic Retaining savings vs paying off credit card debt
Hi there,
Below I have listed the amounts I have in my savings accounts and how much I owe on 2 credit cards. In case this factors in, my credit scores are in the 800s and my school loan is completely paid off.
I would love to completely get rid of the balance on one of these cards. My other thought was to cut both balances in half. However, I'm conflicted over if I should leave my savings alone in the event of medical or auto emergency. Please advise what would be the smart move here in the long term. Thank you in advance.
UL Savings Account: $3800
Savings: $5,040
Credit Card C balance: $1282 (21.24% APR)
Credit Card W balance: $1140 (22.4 % APR)
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Below I have listed the amounts I have in my savings accounts and how much I owe on 2 credit cards. In case this factors in, my credit scores are in the 800s and my school loan is completely paid off.
I would love to completely get rid of the balance on one of these cards. My other thought was to cut both balances in half. However, I'm conflicted over if I should leave my savings alone in the event of medical or auto emergency. Please advise what would be the smart move here in the long term. Thank you in advance.
UL Savings Account: $3800
Savings: $5,040
Credit Card C balance: $1282 (21.24% APR)
Credit Card W balance: $1140 (22.4 % APR)
2024.05.18 22:04 Jumper09123 28 thinking of enlisting.
I’m 28, going on 29 this year. I’m working on losing weight and cardio before I enlist. Nowhere where I want to be in life right how, and hate my current job. On top of that, economy is shit. I got a bachelors degree and I am thinking of going the officer route. Any tips or advice? Also, what would be the chance of being able to fly? No one in my family has ever served. So this is all new to me. What would be the move to not live in barracks. I have a long time partner that I plan on marrying before I would enlist. Would that prevent me from having to live in barracks? Any advice is appreciated.
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