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It has been a bit since I've moved some goods and I've got a new car that's calling my name! Take a look at the wares!
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I apologize pics are a little disorganized, lol, I've never done a sale this big, pls forgive me, I can try and organize a little better later.
Spyderco Domino CTS XHP discontinued: 2nd owner, purchased here on the swap, light cut and carry I was told and believe. Blade has also been sharpened and they did a fine job, it is very very sharp. Cut myself taking the pics lol. They also polished the blade to a fine mirror and it looks pretty damn good IMO. Action is smooth, light shake shut. There are no flaws minus some straight slender scratches on the blade. They are kind of difficult to see in the pics, tried my best to show em. They most definitely don't jump out, but you can see em if you're looking at the blade closely. Have the OG box. $180
Spyderco Advocate orange peel titanium discontinued: 2nd owner, this one looks to have been carried a bit, but it does not appear to have been cut with at all. There is just like a bit of grime on the blade spine that looks like lube and pocket lint. M4 steel. Action is solid, could use a clean and lube. No flaws as far as scratches or blems. Blade centered. I accidentally grabbed the Spyderco Kapara box instead of the Advocate one, if this is important to you I will go back to my storage and get the OG one. $180
Spyderco Citadel Auto 92mm S30v discontinued: 2nd owner, Knife is in new condition, the safety does have some light wear and it is loose, but still functional. I'm sure this could be fixed with disassembly. Other than that fires hard and is flawless. Blade looks centered. Very cool collector piece. $230
Ratworx Chain Drive: 2nd owner, knife has been carried and cut, many scratches on the scales, a little blade play. Blade is centered. Action is great and has a unique deploy feel. $150
Benchmade Adamas black in D2: 1st owner, I don't believe they make this version anymore. No cut no carry. Blade centered. Action is fabulous. No blems. $175
Benchmade Claymore D2: 1st owner, no cut no carry, blade centered, action fabulous, no blems. $170
Rike Athron: Had no intentions of moving this guy, cuz it's a sweet thick blade. M390, LNIB, never cut or carried, centered, no blade play, never disassembled, action is excellent, 1st owner. $250
Rike Knife M1 S35v: 1st owner, no cut no carry, no blems, blade tip is a bent design so it looks off center, but it is centered. Action is smooth. $150
Ketuo Griffin M390: 1st owner, these are hard to find, no cut no carry, blade centered, action is awesome in any deployment method, no blems. $200
Infinite tattoo timascus and MOP inlay: 1st owner, no cut no carry, no blems, action could use some break in. blade is centered. $200
Protech emerson operator DLC: 1st owner, no cut no carry, no blems, action is great and smooth. blade is centered. $160
TwoSun Bundle: I have Two sun boxes for all of these, but the numbers do not match the knife models
TwoSun 162 M390: 1st owner, no cut no carry, no blems, action is great and smooth. blade is centered.
TwoSun 142 Integral M390: 1st owner, no cut no carry, no blems, action is great and smooth. blade is centered.
TS100 Integral M390: 2nd owner, knife is like new, no cut no carry. Only blem is microscopic on the spine near the bottom. blade is centered, action is great from the flipper, but the thumb deploy is tough.
TS 81 M390: 1st owner, no cut no carry, no blems, action is great and smooth. blade is centered.
TS 177 Fauxcuti anodized by WOK: M390, 1st owner, no cut no carry, no blems, action is great and smooth. blade is centered.
Bundle Price: $250
Clones:
Kevin John Matrix Clone S90v w/tritium on flipper tab: 1st owner, no cut no carry, no blems, action is great and smooth. blade is centered. 150$
Green Thorn SMKE Spectre M390: 1st owner, no cut no carry, no blems, action is great and smooth. blade is centered. This clip is essentially mirror polished. $75
Evil Eyes Strider SMF M390: 1st owner, no cut no carry, no blems, action is great and smooth. blade is centered. $140
Jufule Strider PT3 154CM: 1st owner, no cut no carry, no blems, action is great and smooth. blade is centered. $50
Jufule MT socom 154CM: 1st owner, no cut no carry, no blems, action is great and smooth. blade is centered. $50
Clone Bundle: $250
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My names Izzy I’m 17, I usually prefer to keep a small circle of online friends, (I haven’t been able to make many irl so idk this is the next best thing)
I’d prefer people kinda close to my age. Please don’t be creepy or just ghost me.
Up until now I had a few close online friends but they both recently just ghosted me out of nowhere so I took some time to myself and now I’m ready to look again. _________________________________ A bit more about me, I speak English, Spanish, French, and Czech, and sign language.
My hobbies are cooking, pastel artwork, cemetery cleaning, and furthering my education.
I have a cat named Felix.
Idk let’s see if we click.

Hi guys,
I bought regularly from a seller on Etsy for nails. The nails were UNBELIEVABLE! Best quality ever. I’m UK based but unsure where the seller was actually based - Europe if not the UK. They have thousands of 5 star reviews, regularly updated so I know they were getting constant orders. I’d order at least 3 pairs of nails every month, logged on last month and they’re just gone. All their saved items in my account gone.
They’re nowhere to be found, I search their name regularly and they’re just gone. Why would a seller just disappear?? I am gutted!!!!!!

Hello,
I’m 23 f and I have at least 3 women I know who are most likely in abusive relationships. One of them is my friend, one of them is my aunt, one of them is boss. All three of them I’ve had a situation where I witnessed a clear sign of abuse. This is a long one. But I feel like each situation matters.
The first one is my best friend. She would tell me all types of events that happened between them where he was not a good man. Mostly cheating. I tell her to leave him multiple times. Next thing you know she’s pregnant and they move in together. He didn’t change though. Next thing you know they were fighting and he hit her in the car, bruising her. I beg her to leave. She doesn’t. The next event that happens is that they’re arguing in the house and he pulls a knife on her threatening her. He eventually gets mad and throws their baby onto the bed and storms out the apartment. She sent me the footage and I tell her to please leave for the safety of her baby and call the police. The police didn’t do anything but make his whole family mad at her. The police did not care at all. She tells me she’s going to have her dad get her a ticket to leave and move in with her dad. I kept asking about how that’s going everyday. And it turns into a month afterwards. She stayed. She gets pregnant again. And her boyfriend hates me and told me if I go to her baby shower he won’t be there and neither will his family. So I don’t go because of this and also because I’m scared he’ll hurt me too. She doesn’t tell me about what happens with him anymore. I feel like through speaking up and trying to help I made her situation worse.
The second woman is my auntie. She’s not my aunt by blood and not even by marriage but she has my biological uncles children. You can’t go anywhere with them without them arguing at the end of the night. They’re both still young and only 4-5 years older than me and they both have a drug addiction with coke. However, I notice he gives her coke more than he does it himself. He goes out of his way to embarrass her, call her names, and ruin the night. He doesn’t care whose it’s in front of. I’ve never seen him physically hit her, but I wouldn’t doubt for a second he does. Nobody in my family speaks up because he’s blood. And they’ll always take his side because they just see her as the coke head baby mom. And she does have her issues. She’s had fights with other members of my family because of them. And I don’t excuse her from them. But I think the way my uncle talks to her is unacceptable and verbally abusive. Not only does he do it front of our family, but he does it in front of his own kids who are all girls. One night we’re all getting back from somewhere and they start fighting and he’s just berating her over nothing all because she asked if I wanted to go get something to eat. I tell him calm down it’s okay it’s not that deep and then he tells me “you’re not helping at all”. I’m not a very confrontational person. I’m often scared to be the one to speak up. So I put my hand on her should and tell her it’s okay. And he gets mad at me and tells me “you’re not helping AT ALL stay out of it”. It’s a quiet way back home. Weeks pass and it’s my birthday so we’re all playing board games having a good time and drinking. Me and my aunt start talking about mental health and stuff and my uncle doesn’t like it so he tells her it’s time to go to bed. And my aunt is like we’re talking and we’re about to watch another movie. I agree and my uncle gets mad at both of us. When he walks out we talk about him being weird and he starts blowing up when he gets back. I’m drunk and I’m like this is the moment I speak up because this is not okay. I stand my ground and I continue watching the movie with her even though he’s throwing a fit in the background. Eventually he just shuts the tv off. And I turn it back on. Eventually we’re fighting over the buttons and he tells me you’re my niece and you’re turning against me don’t ever ask me for anything ever again. My dad wakes up and tells us all to be quiet. And he tells ME to calm down. When this all started because of him. I go and hug my aunt and just go to bed. The next morning they’re laid up together again and they’re both not talking to me. And the rest of my family tells me I should’ve just minded my business and to stay out of peoples relationships. But how can I stay silent seeing this happen? This scars me because It felt like everyone turned against me instead of the obvious abuser. My aunties smiles at me, but she wont speak to me because it’ll start another fight with my uncle. We eventually hang out again but I feel discouraged for speaking up anymore. Because nothing changes.
The next person is my boss. I know this is odd. And I’m not that close to my boss. And I don’t know what happens when she’s at home with her husband. But there was a work trip and my boyfriend and I go to the event in her husbands car to carpool. I’m the car I guess she gave the wrong directions on accident. He starts driving crazy yelling at her and calling her stupid. The way he was driving at that moment you would’ve thought he was drunk. He’s driving over sidewalks, speeding on city roads cutting off other people while berating her. She just stays silent. And I stay silent. My boyfriend stays silent. I’m scared to speak up anymore. Because I know nothing will change. But something needs to be said. But if I feel like if said anything I would’ve caused more trouble.
What am I supposed to do in situations like these? Do I really say nothing? It’s like every part of my body is fighting to speak up but the only person who gets punished is me and the victim. But never the abuser. What do I do when witnessing this?

This doesn’t necessarily mean an “anti-ganking” hero…because that’s difficult on its own.
What do you guys think which hero would be great in group fights like dominion type fights and or stalling gankers for assistance by other team members.
JJ, Black Prior, And Vara come to mind.
(I already have a dualist hero sorted out so no need to delve into that. Please be polite and honest)

My names Izzy I’m 17, I usually prefer to keep a small circle of online friends, (I haven’t been able to make many irl so idk this is the next best thing)
I’d prefer people kinda close to my age. Please don’t be creepy or just ghost me.
Up until now I had a few close online friends but they both recently just ghosted me out of nowhere so I took some time to myself and now I’m ready to look again. _________________________________ A bit more about me, I speak English, Spanish, French, and Czech, and sign language.
My hobbies are cooking, pastel artwork, cemetery cleaning, and furthering my education.
I have a cat named Felix.
Idk let’s see if we click.

For some of you the names Expulze and Narfos are familiar and to some they are not but I have been searching for so long to find anybody that makes music like them. I’m more talking about songs like “Beer” “Beatmaker” “Polkaholica” “Ciodo” and “Breaking News” mostly something thats closer to “Beer” I guess because thats the best one. But nobody I have found does it like them do any of you know any artists that are similar to them? I am also aware that they don’t make hardcore but more something like Tekk but they still have their own twist on it.

I remember when I was a little girl I would look in the mirror and just be so disappointed, in my mind, I was ugly, stupid, and poor, and it broke me completely. I would get bullied heavily in elementary school not only because I was poor but because I was chubby, while I ate lunch kids would stand by my desk and make pig sounds at me, oinking and calling me butterball. They told me I had meth head teeth. The only thing I liked about myself was my freckles but that brief feeling of liking myself soon disappeared when one boy told me it looked like I had shit splattered on my face.
I was eleven when I began to diet, whiten my teeth, and wear makeup. My teeth naturally straightened out on their own and I shed the weight with the help of heavy restriction, not without developing an obsession over how I looked. When I was twelve, boys began to notice me, I broke my nose and in doing so had to get it straightened out so I could breathe properly, no longer did I have my father's Roman nose which I so despised. I wanted desperately to be like the girls who ignored me and to be liked by the boys who bullied me for a little baby fat.
Because of this obsession, I didn't believe people when they told me I was pretty. Compliments always felt ingenuine and I naturally assumed boys were asking me out as a joke so I turned every single one down out of fear of humiliation. Deep inside me something seethed, I wasn't satisfied with the weight I had lost and begged and cried until my mom shared her Ozempic with me. I was thirteen.
Still, I could describe in detail the way I picked apart every flaw, the way I had autopsies on past conversations, searching for a new insecurity. One day I went into my dad's toolbox and stole his roll of duck tape and wrapped it around my waist. I was amazed by how beautiful I looked, my waist was the smallest of all the girls at my school and this felt like a victory. I tailored my favourite sundress on my mom's sewing machine to fit my brand-new waist and wore it to the first day back from summer break.
Everyone turned their heads to look at me, I thought that only happened in the movies until I strolled into English class with a waist the size of a tangerine. I shoved lies through my teeth about a gym and diet plan I had done over the summer to make myself look so small, my friends listened with eager ears and wide eyes trained on my midriff. The attention was more addictive than any substance I've put into my body. My friend had told me how the boys were talking about me and how they planned to ask me out, that's when I made up my mind.
It felt like a poison I happily drank, knowing all of the risks. Every Sunday after church I walked to the Dollar General by my house and bought five rolls of duct tape, two dollars each for one week of classes, ten dollars in total. The same woman was always there and she always smiled at me, asking what I did with all of the tape, my face would split into a sickly sweet smile as I told her a new falsehood every time.
My mother would comment on how she didn't want me to go anywhere by myself because I was too pretty to do so, this was like pouring gasoline onto my forest fire. In the morning when everyone was sleeping, I wrapped one roll of duct tape around my waist so no one could hear the sound; I took it off before my showers at night, water running as pain pushed tears from my eyes and bit the inside of my cheek until I could taste iron flood my gums. I was left with cuts and tears in my skin, flesh tender with torture, still, I mummified my body every morning with duct tape. Sometimes I would do my thighs if I wore leggings or skinny jeans so people would comment on my impressive thigh gap.
After a year of doing this, my midriff looked like a piece of raw steak beaten with a meat tenderizer until it was almost torn apart entirely. I wouldn't even let people touch me in fear that they could feel through my attempt at perfection. I started skipping church. Every weekend I shut myself inside so I could breathe at full capacity while I shut my blinds and stared at my ceiling, my mind went numb with the impending doom that I would suffocate myself with that dreadful silver tape when the bell rang. My whole life I had heard that beauty is pain and that's all I thought this was, I thought that models did similar things and it was just something I had to accept to be beautiful.
Essentially, I had turned into a zombie; my breathing was shallow, and I became pale, clammy, shaking, and nauseous. I couldn't stomach meals. Every night I would wake up around midnight and cough up my guts but I hadn't eaten any food so there was nothing left in me to vomit but bile and eventually blood. I stopped talking to people, I thought it better for them just to look at my pretty long lashes and my tiny little waist than to listen to me tell them I was fine through shaky breaths. My dad was so scared for me, he kept bringing food into my bedroom and would come to collect the uneaten dish when he dropped off the next. He couldn't look at me without crying. It was just his drowsy gaze piercing into my vacant skull while we both swallowed back what we wanted to say, the words dying in our throats, never to be heard.
Everything hurt all of the time, it didn't matter anymore whether I had the duct tape on or not. I almost preferred the feeling of it on so the stinging of the cuts and the soreness of my ribs was shielded by something. One day in PE the teacher asked me to sit out so I did. I tried my best to keep my vision straight and my head up while I watched the other kids play California kickball. It was okay until there was a suffocating feeling, like something was consuming everything in my body like tiny creatures with razor-sharp teeth were cutting their way up my organs. My body began to convulse as I coughed until I fell to my hands and knees, coughing up this invisible force in my throat. The game stopped abruptly and every pair of beady eyes turned to watch me writhe in pain on the dusty gym floor while I clawed at my chest and throat, eager to tear the skin off completely.
Mr. Duke jogged over to me, crouching down to my level and putting a hand on my back. With furrowed eyebrows, he asked what was happening and with nothing more than Ozempic running through my system, I screamed at him to get away from me. That final wave came like a million little hands of wind pushing at the back of my throat until I heaved up the very last of what was left in me. Hands flew over mouths while some gagged at the sickness once inside of me. On that floor was a pile of what looked to be red coffee grounds in a little puddle of cherry wine. I was as terrified as anyone else in the gym, I screamed between heavy sobs while scuttling away from the mess I had made.
I knew that this was the end of me, that I would be taken to a hospital and everyone would know what I had done. I didn't even need to go to the hospital for everyone to know what I had done. Once I had collected myself and began talking frantically in a hushed circle of my friends while we waited for the ambulance, one boy on the hockey team caught a glimpse of shimmering silver beneath my gym strip and snuck up behind me, pulling my shirt up and revealing the secret I carried like a cross I had to bear.
My back laden with strips of duct tape like it was armour was on display to my entire class, my shame shown to what I had perceived to be the entire world. The girls didn't find this so funny but the boys came up with the name of Tape-Face. I remember rushing to the locker room with my friends following close behind, I grabbed scissors from my pencil case and began to cut it off myself, ripping it away madly along with little segments of flesh. My friends watched in horror, they just stood like it was a game of wax museum and I was the security guard there to punish whichever moved first.
In the hospital, I couldn't face my parents, not even the doctor, I kept my eyes locked on my lap. I couldn't see their stares but I could certainly feel them digging into me like a frog on a dissection table. My mom was utterly speechless and my dad spoke only through voice cracks and subtle sobs while he brought me soggy sandwiches from the cafe on the first floor.
I took another week off school because I could predict the painfully true rumours and when I finally set foot back into the school, it was worse than I anticipated. I felt hideous, like a pig that had been chugging back lard in my t-shirt, sweatpants, and perfectly average body. My friends were hesitant to eat around me and tiptoed around the incident like it had never happened which almost felt worse than bringing it up. Others were not so kind. A group of kids, guys and girls all mixed together, the kind that stole cigarettes from their parents had waited until I came back to sneak away from class and cover my locker in duct tape. Over top of the tape they scribbled on a dictionary of names they would call me in the hallway "Tape-Face" "Fraud" "Botched" "Duct tape Barbie". One of the girls sat behind me in math and had cut little squares of duct tape to stick them into my hair, I called my mom in the principal's office and cried while the secretary had to cut it out of my hair.
My dad made the decision to pull me out of school, so I started homeschooling but that didn't stop the harassment. We lived close to the school and during lunch and after school kids would throw duct tape wallets and wads of tape onto the porch. My dad's final straw was when someone dropped off a Barbie whose waist and thighs had been wrapped in duct tape in our mailbox. He had contacted not only the school but the parents of the kids several times with no avail to the torment ending anytime soon. He moved us to a new town where I could go to class without anyone knowing the pain I subjected myself to for two years.
I'm in college now and I've never told anyone this. I've cut contact with everyone from that school. One of the bullies tried to reach out and apologize, blaming her behaviour on mental illness but that felt like she had shattered a plate and said sorry, thinking that it would put the plate back together. I told her I didn't forgive her and blocked her. A boy from the hockey team also messaged me, the one who flipped my shirt up. He said he just had a daughter he couldn't imagine her going through what I went through and that he's sorry for what he did. All I had to say was that I hope she doesn't have to go through what he put me through either.
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My names Izzy I’m 17, I usually prefer to keep a small circle of online friends, (I haven’t been able to make many irl so idk this is the next best thing)
I’d prefer people kinda close to my age.
Please don’t be creepy or just ghost me.
Up until now I had a few close online friends but they both recently just ghosted me out of nowhere so I took some time to myself and now I’m ready to look again.
A bit more about me, I speak English, Spanish, French, and Czech, and sign language.
My hobbies are cooking, pastel artwork, cemetery cleaning, and furthering my education.
I have a cat named Felix.
Idk let’s see if we click.

I’m 21 (F) and just started playing about two weeks ago! I’m rly want new friends!!! Pls add me my username is “ijnbnj” (LOL I just typed something random!) I post a lot of here and would love to be apart of giveaways and also have ppl over + explore other people’s houses! I also have a few questions:
-do y’all spend all your Kinzcash or do you usually have a bit of savings or a limit? -any decorating ideas!!! -how long does it take to get a pet from pet medallions? -ADVICE!!! On anything!!!
I am a proud mother of a very sweet and stylish boy bulldog puppy named Blubby and a sassy teenage girl Sun Fox named Snazzy!!! Their best friends are Baby Elephant and Chocolate Duck!!!

It’s been 20 years since the final of the Champions League was played by Porto and Monaco.
It has also been 20 years since clubs outside of the top 4 countries (Spain, England, Italy and Germany) even reached the final.
(With the exception of Paris Saint-Germain in 2020, a team in a financial bubble of its own that doesn’t represent the reality of the other clubs from Ligue 1).
It’s been 13 years since the same Porto won the Europa League. Ever since it has fallen (together with the recently introduced Conference League) to clubs from the same top 4 countries that dominate the Champions League (interestingly enough Italy never won the Europa League in this period).

The top tier of european football has become de facto a Super League with the top 4 countries getting so many spots for the Champions League that it comes to represent half (!!) of all the participating clubs in the group stage.
I will repeat, 4 countries represent 50% of all clubs that participate in the group stages of the Champions League.
What was supposed to be a competition to bring together the best teams all across Europe has become a mini league almost exclusively played by the same clubs, many of them having won nothing in the previous season, in order to satiate the gods of marketing.

Is european football dead? Football as a show goes on and is more marketable than ever but this doesn’t mean european football – a sports competition for a whole continente – is alive and well.
From Lisbon to Belgrade, from Bucharest to Amsterdam, from Glasgow to Marseille the spirit of football diminishes, the impact of clubs that left an impact in the whole continente is now but a shadow. The best these historical clubs can do now is to feed other clubs that simply happen to have been born in the right country.

The supremacy of the current european elite has been a snowball from 2 main events that happened in the 90s: the introduction of the Bosnan law and the expansion of the Champions League to include more than 1 club per country (so for the first time non-champions were allowed to participate).
The Bosnan law (I’m not going to discuss how fair or unfair it is, just the consequence it had) allowed players to negotiate with other clubs if their contract was up. Free of their shackles to certain clubs they were free then to move to clubs with either more prestige, money or chance of titles. This mostly fair law had the consequence of weakening the weaker clubs, now unable to retain their better players. Richer and more prestigious teams could now hoard more and more quality players and at the same time now competed against weaker opponents.
The introduction of more spots per country in the Champions League (initially 2 but nowadays can be 4, 5 or 6) was a purely financial decision. Most countries have several well known clubs so the more of those famous clubs that partipate the more media attention and revenue the competition brings in. The catch is that the clubs and the countries that were richer and more powerfull suddenly started to snowball – there was now no incentive to play in a weaker league: why play for a dutch or portuguese club and have a chance to play the Champions League when you can just move to a richer league and reach european football anyway because 4th place grants that?
Now several clubs from the top 4 countries could year after year build strong squads, play top european football, rake in the money and benefit from the disproportionate growth funneled into them. On the other hands clubs from peripheral leagues grew at a much slower rate, their players raided – looking for better financial deals with little negative repercussions – and their UEFA ranking stalling (ensuring the extra spots didn’t trickle down).

After non-champions were allowed in (in 1997-1998) there has been a single year – that 2003/2004 season – where the finalists didn’t come from the top 4 countries (PSG aside, which in my opinion doesn’t count). 20 years later we are still waiting for another dark horse to break the mold but we better sit, the current status quo has almost perfectly pruned the chance of a club outside of the top 4 countries to win it. And even if they manage to beat all the odds and win we’re sure it will happen the same that happened to Porto in 2004 in the aftermath of their win: the winning team dismantled. Lightning isn’t allowed to strike twice the same spot.

Is european football (as in a football open to all) dead for good? Is there interest to bring back some balance? Is there something we could do?

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Basically, I was tasked with handling a huge issue that caused some very weird activity on the client. After trying out a bunch of things, I'd discovered that the issue was actually due to faulty/improper logic on the backend and that, if things were remedied on the backend, things would go back to normal. Namely, the issue was that the backend wasn't doing a good job at keeping track of user tasks, which caused it to send a bunch of irrelevant data to the client, along with the data the client needed to perform some logic. The solution was simple - just make it so that the API didn't include the irrelevant data in its response to the client; only send what was needed and asked for.
I reached out to our backend engineer, and even our manager agreed to the solution I'd put forth. It was simple, and we wouldn't need to do anything hacky on the client. The backend engineer kept on coming up with excuses / reasons for why this was more a client issue than a backend one. Basically, the task kept on getting pushed onto me. Honestly, I couldn't solve it. I'd even worked overtime going into the weekend to try and remedy the issue. Long story short, someone else on the team was able to fix it, but they were only able to do so through a hacky solution. If you log the response returned by the API, it still includes the irrelevant data.
I feel like shit, not only because I wasn't able to come up with the working hacky solution, but also because, even though our manager agreed to my solution, the narrative was basically not in my favor, as the manager and the backend engineer go way back -i.e. their friendship and trust in each other overturned my own voice. In the end, the backend engineer and the other frontend engineer got the credit and a pat on their backs, while I didn't get anything. I went into the weekend not only feeling like a failure but also like a reject. I work at a small startup, so it's not like we have any HR for me to open up to about this, but, even if we did have HR, idk if I'd bring it up, as it seems unprofessional for me to voice the way I'd particularly felt. I just... idk how to deal with this, and sorry for not being more descriptive than simply saying that I feel like shit.

I DM a campaign with some of my best friends, and we have a blast playing together. Today, they were trying to find the villain's fortress, which required going through a land I created called "The Boiling Wastelands", which is basically a gloomy place that is extremely hot and has pools of boiling water. Anyways, they come across this wandering old homeless dude who's suffering 3rd degree burns on his legs. One of our players is a Wood Elf ranger named Cersei. She helped the guy out of the boiling pool, and then one of our druid variant humans named Vyravys wanted to buy the guy's shoes, despite them being boiled, stinky, and in tattered condition.
Vyravys somehow manages to persuade the old man to sell the shoes for 1 CP, thanks to his charisma modifier and a lucky Persuasion check. So now the old man has no shoes, and the old man doesn't quite feel comfortable around these guys now, so the old dude decides to try and run. Cersei catches him just barely thanks to the old man having really badly burnt legs. They threaten him his life if he doesn't stay with them, so he stays with them, and they come across some bounty hunters sent by the BBEG who forcibly kill the old man, and take them to the prison where they'll be executed. They start a prison riot, and Vyravys decides he wants to go to the gear room and steal all the guards shoes. He does so, getting 11 shoes total (including the old guys shoes). He then manages to buy the other prisoners' shoes, which is 15 so he now has 26 shoes. He then shapeshifts into a hawk, finds a rich guy, and our dragonborn dude flamebreaths the rich guy, and they steal his shoes.
So now, Vyravys has 27 shoes and he says that once we fight the boss, he plans to kill the boss and steal his shoes and have a collection of 28 shoes. And yeah, this is the type of campaign I put up with LOL

I have two best friends and I have a crush on one of them. I honestly don't even care if she doesn't want to be with me because I don't think she is bi and we each have boyfriends anyways (my bf knows I like her and doesn't care).
Best friend #1 knows I have a crush on best friend #2 and while I was hanging out with best friend #1 she was really drunk she was saying how "beautiful" and "top tear" best friend #2 is. I mistakenly asked if she thought I was also "top tear" as well, and she nonchalantly told me no, that best friend #2 is on a higher level. She didn't mean to hurt me, she just thought she was answering my question and that I wanted an honest answer. This was on my birthday too. I felt like she just stabbed me in the stomach. TBH I much prefer she stabbed me in the stomach. I asked two of my friends at my birthday party if they agreed and although I knew they would be nice and say that I was "top tear" too no matter what they thought. They started off with "oh, that girl! she was supppperrr cute, but yes you are cute too". Which just confirms what best friend #1 said to me.
To make matters worse, my own fucking boyfriend wants to sleep with her too. In the past, once he found out I like her he hinted at trying to get a threesome with her. I cannot handle the idea of my boyfriend getting hard for another girl especially a girl who more "top tear" than me.
Also, our entire friendship because I see guys check her out at the club a lot more than I see guys check me out.
This is sole crushing. Like this is an objectively hurtful thing for my friend to say, but I fucking hate myself so much and compare myself so terribly to people. So I basically feel like best friend #1 just told me I am better off dead and that I need to kill myself I want to die so badly.
I had a similar situation like this happen in the past with a different girl and feelings of attraction and envy getting mixed up with each other and now every time I hear her name I feel overwhelming thoughts of needing to die. I had to block her on everything and cut her out of my life like the toxic piece of garbage I am. Now I have no choice but to do this with best friend #2 because if I ever see her again I will kill myself.
I also don't have a therapist right now because I am on a waitlist and the DBT program people I can't get ahold of. I don't have a single skill to lessen the emotional agony I am in right now. And I know how god damn dramatic I am with this and it is humiliating.

Selling off most of my PC parts as it has mainly sat here for around 9 months not getting too much use after getting busier and the Steam Deck occupying my free time. I am located in Sweden but am willing to ship outside of the EU for an additional cost. Parts were all purchased originally in the US online before I came here (Amazon, Best Buy) so PSU has the US plug as well. Prices are in USD and shipped within the EU.
Intel i9-13900k - $390 shipped
GeForce RTX 4070 FE - $445 shipped
DeepCool LT720 360mm AIO (White) - $80 shipped
6x Lian Li Uni Fan SL120 V2 RGB (White) - $75 shipped
TeamGroup T-Create Expert DDR5 (2x32gb) 6000MHz - $150 shipped
Phanteks AMP V2 1000w PSU (White Edition) - $100 shipped
NZXT N7 Z790 Motherboard (White Edition) - $175 shipped
Brand New Corsair MP600 Mini 1tb M.2 SSD - $60 shipped (bought this originally to upgrade the storage on my Steam Deck LCD but ended up upgrading to the OLED so never opened it up)
Will bundle the CPU, RAM, and Mobo for $665 shipped
Full album - https://imgur.com/gallery/dXOHhXi

I’m an Asian male (25) in a happy relationship. This woman follows me on Instagram and I know she has a kink for Asians. We matched on tinder years ago and exchanged Instagram handles but that’s exactly where it ended because i saw her profile and turns out she was already in a relationship, cheating. We never had an actual conversation for her to have any meaning to me and I took screenshots of her tinder profile and sent it to her boyfriend (but they’re still together and moved to another state together).
Anyways, my girlfriend asked me who she was randomly because she had viewed my girlfriend’s instagram story which I thought was strange. My first thought was perhaps she’s comparing herself to my girlfriend because she has an interest in me? I wasn’t sure what to think of it or come up with reasonable motive. I’ve had a homewrecker who I’ve rejected in the past create false texts under my name and created catfish accounts to message women I was dating and told them I was cheating on them. I lost a really good relationship to lies before and I never found out who was really behind it all. I believe it was a girl I had rejected in the past because I messaged the catfish girl and asked whatever I did to deserve her ruining my life and her response was that I rejected her advances at a party and it hurt her because she loved me (which sounds slightly familiar because I don’t hook up with drunk women because my other ex cheated on me while she was drunk at a party so I guess it’s my trauma) but it could’ve easily been a lie too. I do my best to be a good man and human in a world with little hope for those traits. I fear that this Tinder girl might’ve been the one all along seeking revenge for exposing her to her boyfriend but I don’t know how to be sure because it could easily be anybody.

Does anyone else remember that video where it's the PC v Mac commercial template but had a Protos v Zerg instead and it was the Protos naming off different tactics and the Zerg keeps imploring that Zerg rush is the only and best tactic as a joke ? I looked for the video but the AI on google seems confused. Some popular team made that video and for the life of me i can't remember who. I'm sure it wasn't college humor. But same timeline. Does anyone else remember or am i crazy ?

Hi, I am in Atlanta.
So last June I signed an early bird special to renew my least for a less amount if I respond by a specific time frame. I did sign by the due date and was expecting to pay the rent for that amount. When the next month came I saw I was being charged a month to month few with base rent at a higher amount than I signed for. I went to the portal to confirm the leased I signed for and it was not in the document file in the portal.. I went to management to ask what happened and saw that we now have a new property management. But same receptionist. I asked about the lease and they advised that they do not have a signed leasing agreement in the system. I spoke in person with the new manager and communicated by sending emails back in forth to the leasing management, and her advising she would help me. But we did determine that the lease was dropped from the portal because ALL tenants did not sign.. They had my children listed as adult tenants and I did not sign because I've never had to do so because they are minors( I've been here for 5 years and never had to sign).. They advised that I would have to provide document to prove their age, I submitted this and requested to have my rent amount adjusted to what I initially signed for.. They advised that they do not have records of that signed lease. and even questioned me signing it in the first place..I'll be honest I even started questioning myself if maybe I did something wrong and didn't submit the correct way after I signed.. and even became more disappointed in myself for not downloading the signed copy like I normally would, but for some reason I didn't this time...I had not have a solid lease during this time frame and was presented with a new lease for a higher rate because they said it was the current market rate. They did refund the month to month fee, because they made the error with listing my children as adult tenants but did not have a final decision on the rent for the lesser amount . I signed and I left it alone for a while (once again we have a new team come in, we had about 8 teams since I've been living her ) until another new management team contacted me to advise I needed to confirm my date of birth because they had a glitch in the system and need to confirm my identity. I give them this information and became upset because this is one of the few times they had system issues and messed up my account. So in my frustration I brought up the lost signed lease, and me being screwed out of the lower amount of rent. and showed her a email trail of me trying to get this worked out, as well as the back and forth with the team that advised no records of the signed lease in the system. The manager agreed that it was strange that if I signed that it would just disappear from records, she didn't call my bluff and decided to investigate with me present in the office.... SHE FOUND THE LEASE I SIGNED WITH THE LOWER AMOUNT AND EMAILED ME A COPY OF IT. She apologized and agreed that this was a messed up situation due to negligence. She sent a request to the Regional manager to make adjustments to my current rent amount and to refund me the difference.. Last week I got a email advising that the request was denied. This is what she said in the email the reason for denial was.. I will remove my name and the rent amount.. but everything else is copied and pasted from the email..
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"After speaking with my Regional Manager, we cannot go back and adjust the rate that was presented to you from June 2023. We do see that the lease was signed on your end and your children were accidentally listed as residents for that July 2023 renewal lease. I do not know what was or wasn’t communicated to you about that lease. We also see in October where your children were changed to occupants with Chantell and a lease was sent to you with the rate of (rent amount) for 12 months from October 2023 – October 2024, which was signed and put in place. I know you mentioned you had some conversations with Pamela, but if any price changes were to take place during October or November, she would have emailed my manager, Jenny, for adjustments to your ledger. I became involved with your charges during DecembeJanuary when you were being charged month-to-month fees incorrectly since October. Those were removed to make your ledger the correct price reflected in the signed lease.
Yes, Pamela the previous management left in November and that's when the emails between us stopped.. I went into the office and saw we had a new team.. I have email trail with conversations to Pamela about this issue before she left.. So Pamela never reached out to Regional before she left!!!! So once again they dropped the ball and I got screwed again..But I still have proof that I signed and was not granted the lower rent because the team did not diligently look in the system for the signed lease, along with emails of me communicating to Pamela about getting this fixed.. I dont understand how they wont make this right, and want to know is this ground to contact a lawyer.

Everybody but Aurora plays Sunday this weekend, so if you're so inclined it's a great opportunity to get a look at what the rest of the conference looks like this year.
Bavarian United SC at Rochester FC -- 4 PM https://www.sportsengineplay.com/Florida/USL-W-League/Rochester-FC-985870/game/Rochester-FC-vs-Bavarian-United-SC-2024-05-19?video_id=6633cb5c27cd87bb5d172564
Both teams have upgraded their rosters a touch for this season, but I would still look to the Bavs to come out on top here. These early games are always a bit of a crap shoot because you're not sure how long players have been in camp and how well they've gelled.
Chicago Dutch Lions at River Light FC -- 5 PM https://www.sportsengineplay.com/Florida/USL-W-League/River-Light-FC-823723/game/River-Light-FC-vs-Chicago-Dutch-Lions-FC-2024-05-19?video_id=6633cb36d4090bb626b8b695
This is the best matchup of the weekend, and it also happens to feature Aurora's first two opponents. CDL was, by the end of last season, the 2nd best team in the conference by my estimation. A season-opening 1-0 loss to Chicago City was all that stood between them and the wildcard. They were young and talented, so they should have a strong core coming back this year, right? Well... what if I told you they only had 3 or 4 returning players? They are again young and talented, but it's a whole new cast that will have to figure things out this year.
Why are so few players back for CDL? Well, that's because River Light FC exists. Started by former members of the CDL front office, I think they are going to be the first real rivals for Aurora in our conference (they even wear teal sometimes). They're ostensibly a new team, but their roster features at least 20 players who have suited up for CDL and/or Chicago City over the last two seasons. In addition to that, they have some 40(!) other players between social media announcements and their roster on the USL website. There's no way they really have that many players, so it'll be interesting to see who actually ends up making the lineup. They are young, they are talented, they could be really, really good.
Chicago City SC at RKC Third Coast -- 7 PM https://www.sportsengineplay.com/Florida/USL-W-League/RKC-Third-Coast-741792/game/RKC-Third-Coast-vs-Chicago-City-SC-2024-05-20?video_id=6633cb4c1bca6fab62df4f9d
RKC has overhauled their roster, getting younger and better in the process, but I still think they're going to be fighting to stay out of the cellar again this season. Chicago City is always tough to figure out and this year they seem to have lost their social media presence. Their roster on the USL website only has 24 players, but that seems really small for a team who seemingly has random people show up at every game, e.g. their lineup in the playoff game last year featured 4 players who literally hadn't played for them all year. [Incidentally, all 4 of them are on the roster this season.] Next to Aurora, City is the most veteran squad in the conference, and if that counts for anything they should be pretty good again.

They have released the first round/phase of voting that has 20 names. And they have said there will be more rounds of voting in future..
Do you think future rounds will have concepts and colors attached to the names?
I think it’s one thing to know that you might like the name “Mammoth” for example.. but if their plan for the colors with mammoth is hot pink you might not vote for it.
Or alternatively, everyone hates the name “Blast”.. but if they had amazing colors and a concept to show for the voting it would help voters to be swayed.