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DISCLAIMER: I am aware that many people will not be able to benefit from these, everyone’s safe foods and symptoms are different, some diets are extremely restrictive, some people are highly reactive, etc. Compared to some stories on this sub my MCAS is pretty mild.
That said, I was talking with a friend recently about what I cook for myself and I thought I might share a few of the subs I’ve used in the past for various off-limits ingredients.

1. I can’t have whole grain corn, and corn floumasa especially makes me very sick. Flour tortillas are great, and also for tortilla chips this may sound weird but the plain baked Ritz crackers are actually great for eating salsa. They’re crunchy enough to give the same sensation of eating corn chips. Dip them in just about anything.
   
2. I can’t have rice, which to be honest is hard to work around and I really miss it. However, for many dishes that use rice, I find that plain couscous is a great sub. For “fried rice”, for example, cooking the couscous in chicken or beef stock with some light seasoning can give it that same savory rich flavor that fried rice often does without using things like sesame oil, which is another no for me.
   
3. Another rice sub is orzo, though it absorbs a lot of moisture so it’s better with things that have a sauce component, and not as good for things like gumbo, where it may become very soggy.
   
4. Nutella and peanut butter. While I can handle a small amount (like a handful or so) of tree nuts/peanuts, I avoid them for the most part. Ground nut products like peanut butter make me react very badly though to be fair that may be because of cross contamination (iykyk). I’ve had good success with sunflower seed butter, though I admit peanut butter tastes way better. Bizarrely, some brands have chocolate sunflower seed butter and while it is slightly chocolatey, I find it tastes more like regular peanut butter. I have no idea how that works!
   
5. Although I can and do eat/drink regular dairy products all the time, I’ve also found unsweetened oat milk to be a good alternative if you can’t have cows milk.
   
6. Soy is in everything these days, and while I can actually consume some super refined soy products like soy sauce or soy lecithin, many other things are off the table. Thankfully, many brands are starting to use sunflower or safflower instead of soy products! I’ve noticed this in Aldi especially but there are a lot of products even just over the last year or so that used soy and now use sunflower. Also, if you’re into vegan things, Impossible brand has soy protein, but Beyond uses pea protein and the times I’ve had it I’ve had zero bad effects. I’m not a vegan, but eating with vegan friends, I’ve become quite fond of the beyond beef flavor and will occasionally cook it for myself.
   
7. Actually, if you’re allergic to any animal products, check out vegan cookbooks and recipes etc. In baking, for instance, if you need an egg substitute, my personal favorite is pumpkin purée.
   
8. I can’t have shellfish, which isn’t easily replaced, but I will say that if you like scallops, sliced and sautéed king trumpet mushroom stems are shockingly similar in pasta and take on spices and flavor not unlike seafood.
   

My phone is freezing up from typing all this but hopefully these ideas help someone out there!

I m a teenager and I am 18 years old. I am writing this one month before my final exams of 12th grade . Why am I writing this ? Probably because I don’t have any friends to talk with , my parents won’t understand me because my whole life is built on a lie. For example my parents are working a lot , they barely have time for me . In the remaining time, I talk to my mother, she thinks we have a very close relationship and that we can discuss anything, when in fact everything she knows about me is a lie. She thinks I have a lot of friends, I made up a lot of funny stories for her, she doesn't know what grades I have because I was average and never had any problems at school. So basically she doesn't know anything but that I'm happy. In fact I m not , but we ll move to this later on. Because of my lies, I was excluded from people who were my friends for 4 years, they didn't know me in reality but on the internet. They knew my address and name, which scared me to death. I lived for 2 months in panic that they are hunting me and that they want to hurt me. I'm still a little scared, but I realized how little people care about you. Excluding these things I have a serious problem with pnography. Probably pnography helped me to escape from the lies I created, to forget a little bit what a disaster I am. It has become an addiction that is momentarily destroying me day by day.
I think you understood my situation a little bit, I have no friends, I am addicted to pornography, my parents think that I am well and happy and my whole life is built on lies
I think I'm writing this because I don't feel anything anymore. The exams are approaching and I am not able to study, I feel a constant emptiness inside me. The only time that emptiness disappears is when I watch a series or sleep. I have no passion, I have no idea what I'm going to do with my life, my parents want me to attend a college that I don't want, the only thing I want at this moment is to feel joy again for a few seconds.
Thank you for reading this far, because you are the only ones who know this about me=)

Mine is a 2017 ford focus SE. So it all started when I connected an ledge display to battery port in the car and forgot to remove it overnight. The battery discharged and I jumpstarted and drove for a day and went on a trip for a week. When I came back the car is dead again, so I jumpstarted it, but I noticed weird smell of wires burning and got it check next day and jiffy lube. They said the battery went out and replaced it for $260 with 3 year warranty.
I drove the car for another 2 days and I didn't notice anything except for the car kept shuddering sometimes when starting from rest like at signals or stop signs. Suddenly after two days when I went to a restaurant and came back the car is dead with no power in it again. So I jumpstarted the car with a battery pack that I have. It started and in the midnight all of a sudden the battery died again this time the car did not jumpstart with the battery pack. I had to jumpstart it with a car running and it came back on after leaving it for 5 minutes or so. This time car doesn't go in reverse how much gas pedal you put on and in drive mode doesn't go past 10mph. So in my understanding it is stuck in first gear and I had someone to check it next day and he said OBD gave P287b and P2837 codes "shift fork calibration not learned". And he says we need to change TCM or transmission itself. I don't have that much money and I don't understand how it happened.
Can someone please help. MechanicAdvice

Hello good people i don’t know how I can live this way I have strong depression I have this desease since 8 month because a botched jaw surgery. I almost died 3 times last year and I have still no diagnosis nobody listen to me. My gf thinks is it only psychological but I have a ct and talks with professors which said i was butchered but cannot diagnose ens. I have a further surgery what may help or worse me. I’m very anxious and desperate. My symptoms improved a bit so I have no more 24/7 panic attacks in the beginning i was suffocating every day and was borderline suicidal. I don’t want to lose my family and gf. My illness is not well understood I cry every day and all 4 grandparents died in the last 6 month. Is there still hope for me 8 month out from surgery I still hope I can improve. Ich very sad and depressed, i don’t know why doctors do something. One Prof said my turbinates look untouched but I have bad nerve damage. What should I do it’s hard for thank you for listening.

Hi, I sent ETH from coinbase. It has been 'stuck' pending for over 11 hours. It has the right network fee. I contacted an agent via the live chat several hours ago and was told there is an issue with ETH sending for some people. I have managed to make other ETH sends AFTER this transaction and they have gone without issue. I can find no mention of this being an known issue anywhere. anyone else facing this issue? anyone able to help?
thanks.

I just wanted to rant for a bit. I am 17 now, gonna be 18 in less than 6 months and I am honestly very average academically. As a child I had a traumatic brain injury (meningitis) and then after that an auto immune disorder that gave me extreme ocd type symptoms and other general craziness that made me need to be homeschooled for most of my childhood (PANDAS). After the meningitis I had to relearn how to walk, speak, write, basically everything. I was able to become "normal" again relatively fast and many doctors and my parents would say things about how I was gifted and blessed and whatever else you say to a previously brain-dead child. I was considered gifted for much of my life (once I stopped being crazy) and it's made me have a very fragile ego when it comes to academics. I am in my junior year and am doing pretty good (nearly straight As, one B). But I got a low score on the sat and I have a friend who actually is gifted who I constantly compare myself to. He got a 1500 on the sat and is taking some crazy senior year ap calculus class at 16 and also plays like 4 instruments and is an amazing artist etc etc. We are very close but every time he talks about these things it just feels like a knife in my chest. I know its selfish to be so preoccupied with things like this but it's hard not to. I grew up with the expectation that I'd become like a female Stephen hawking and now the only thing I'm like noticeably good at is art which is the one thing that will benefit me the least. I want to do something medical as a career, hopefully neurology/psychology related due to my own personal experiences with strange brain disorders. But I fear that I won't be able to survive med school surrounded by people who breeze past all the test and assignments while I flounder around studying for hours knowing I will forget all of it in a day from my memory issues cased by epilepsy. I know I am doing pretty good for having these issues but that's exactly it, I'm only good with the context of my problems. I know all of this sounds very woe is me my life is so horrible and I sound rather selfish, I know I am privileged to have a family who (mostly) can afford to help me with these problems but sometimes you just need to complain

Hi all!
I don't intend for this post to be too much of a woe is me, my life decisions coming back to haunt me kind of post. I'm mostly looking for advice regarding next steps, and if there are things i'm missing.
I'm from the UK (27M) and i've just wrapped up my Degree. I've previously been in this position after briefly studying Accountancy in College in 2013 and having a mental breakdown which pushed me into leaving and looking for work since. Besides one admin related job I received three years after leaving college that I left due to apathy, I pursued work in Esports until 2019 where I got my A-Levels in College for Game Design and my degree from '21-24 in Esports.
At the time of writing, I have absolutely zero idea on what I want to do with my career at this point and have received very little practical advice on the subject. Most of the jobs I see online in my region of the UK are mostly revolved around Sales or Marketing, which as an introvert with very few personal acquaintances I know i'm terrible at. (I've been told that i'm fairly kind and nice to be around in person, but I am terrible in front of a crowd or pitching ideas) Ideally i'd like to explore Events Management (Either Digital or Physical) but there appears to be very little availability in that market for uni graduates, and i'm finding my options to be more and more limited by the day.
My parents are both on 3+ hour drives (in my mother's case, 8+) away from me, so I also have constant anxiety over moving back in and trying to apply digitally from there. When I was in the aforementioned job hunting time from '13-'19 I was stuck in a remote part of the country, taking care of my brother with downs syndrome and my mental health nosedived. I genuinely don't know if I can handle being put under a similar situation now in 2024.
The advice I have been given mostly consists of: 'Just apply for everything until you make it'. Which frankly doesn't help me when i'm put on the spot and asked: "Why do you want this job" and having to desperately avoid answering with: "So I don't fall into depression and end up homeless." Like, today for example I was brought in for a Group Interview at the local theatre for a Marketing Role and I was so clearly out of my depth that I couldn't present ideas better than the two guys at my table who were clearly already invested into marketing and/or knew more about the location than me.
Do I think I could've done more to prepare? Absolutely. I could've looked into actual plays ahead of time rather than bouncing off of people, or tried to present ideas more coherently, but I knew the role wasn't for me and the interviewees most likely could tell. I'm having a very difficult time envisioning this not being a recurring problem when every interview will be based on how I can present myself, rather than skills based work. Since I believe I definitely have the skill capacity to be able to engage in the average role a uni grad would be expected to perform, but I can't show it in those kinds of settings.
Tl;dr; Older Uni Graduate has zero ideas what he wants to work as, and is struggling on how to overcome Social Anxiety & Autism (and likely undiagnosed depression) in order to get a job after University when nothing in his field of study is on offer.

No I do not want a divorce, I am genuinely looking for advice to improve the relationship which also involves working on myself as well.
We just seem very different now that we actually live together. It just a lot of little thing from what a "man" (me) should be doing and what women "her" does not need to do. I do not believe or care of gender roles. Meaning I will cook and clean (which I do all of) but then someone else needs to take out trash and mow the lawn etc.
It starts in the morning. Every single day when she wakes up I am usually getting back in from a morning run so my mood is pretty great. I am often bombard with complaints; where my mug, where is my work bag, this weather suck (daily), work starts to early etc. The neighbors are noisy, you need to talk to them and more of that. Ive learned to put that aside but hate to start my day like that.
Going to works has become my peace and quiet ( i have a very crazy job with people but I rather be there sometimes).
I come home it is up to me to figure out dinner. Even though we work almost exactly the same hours...off by a 0-15 minutes depending on traffic.
Then the house is what i call literally a pigsty. Clothes everywhere, dishes in the sink "her" box from when moved 10 months ago still laying in the living room bc she needs to be the one to sort it according to her. I ask her nicely and say can "we" organize of this and I get a lot of how tired she is and how many hours she works, and only people who work part-time have the time to clean. (again we work the same full-time hours. I sometimes work off the clock after work too) So then I do the cleaning bc I cant take the mess. Then this goes back to the opening where she wakes up asking where her stuff is? ( i put clothes in closets and hampers, dishes in sink, bags in closets, shoes on a shoe rack, nothing is in a weird place).
I love my wife when we are not dealing with any life stressors and just relaxing but man I "feel" like i do everything and then get scrutinized for asking for any help or wanting any alone time. She tells me my expectations are too high. I am not exaggerating when her clothes is on everything: sofar: floor: chairs, Table, bathroom sink, toilet, multiple t rash bags in the bathroom et. Then when I do it and find ways to destress like going to the gym or out i.e I say I.e. next week I want to grab a bite with Joe and Bob, I get hit with you are married and shouldn't be leaving my wife a lone etc. I usually see my friends once every few months, for a dinner aka a bite. its just the guys and none of us drink.
I've tried saying I need help, or can we do this or that. She got in the habit of losing her stuff and using mine! like my deodorant etc and I asked her to put it back after use and the says I am being mean.
Already twice in big arguments I did ask for couples counseling but then later its dismissed.
I do like to do a lot and can enable. Also maybe I need to lay off a little too.
What next steps can I take?
tl;dr I feel like my wife only complains and does very little for "us" She east sleeps and goes to work. Romantically she is sweet and no issue there. What next steps can I take to approach this. She doesn't seem to hear my requests.

I was considering going no-contact with my family minus a brother I’m close to 3 years ago and was almost out until my father died in a freak accident and I got roped back in. My sister has spent the last 30 years making my life a living hell and my parents never stuck up for me or protected me from her. My mother, now alone, is terrified of her. We had a shitty childhood and all have different survival tactics, but after going to therapy for four years now, I’ve gotten away from those and surround myself with happy, healthy, amazing, supportive people. In regard to family, I keep my distance when I can (living 3.5 hours away helps), but often am the one everyone turns to when shit goes sideways to fix everything, calm people down, figure out what to do next. I’m tired of it, especially now realizing no one does the same for me.
I recently got married and had a 40 person head count, with 38 yeses. After a bunch of random crap, 13 of my 20 invitees flaked 3 days to 2 hours before the party, all of which were very, very close family members including a brother and two of my BILs. Had I known this, with ample timing, I would have invited more friends who WOULD have shown, but due to family taking up so much of the headcount, I couldn’t extend invites to them all. I vented to my mother who said at least I have my sister coming, who I said was only invited since the others were and she has never been nice to me or my husband - which my mother agreed with and said was a self-centered survival thing. I said she should learn a little kindness which would get her far. She despises my husband, who is genuinely as nice as can be, even to a fault. Doesn’t have a bad bone in his body, god bless him. But he supports me and loves me and we do well off each other and thrive, which she doesn’t like. Other siblings have commented on the fact she treats him so poorly when he is nothing but so kind to her.
Come party, 2 hours in and she’s nowhere to be seen. We’re waiting around to cut cakes since her household consisted of 5 people and we didn’t want to have people randomly walk in on it and ruin the photographs, miss the momentous moment, etc. My brother gets in touch with her and relays the message that I’m a monster, I’m childish and horrible and never welcome her to anything and I’m irrelevant and no one likes me which is why everyone bailed on me and I should be embarrassed. The only person I said those things to was my mother (who couldn’t come to party due to health reasons). I spent a majority of my wedding party crying on a fire escape because I was so upset by her words, so upset that everyone bailed, and so upset I didn’t follow my gut inviting other friends who would have come over obligatory family invites. I blocked my sister and her friend who joined in on her meanness. She has taken to emailing and texting me under spoof emails and phone numbers. Calling me irrelevant, embarrassing, disgusting, ugly, childish, greedy, no one showed up because they don’t like me, never been liked, etc.
My mother has spoken to her, but hasn’t reached out to me since the party when I said I was hurt at what she shared in confidence and need to think about what I want from this family anymore. My mother swears she went through her phone and saw the messages, but other parts of her (mothers) story don’t align. My mother historically has victim mindset over everything and could do no wrong. I try to do nothing but support my mother but she can never ever see how she’s in the wrong - ever. For example, she put her electric bill under my name and SS and defaulted on it for years. When I called her out on it after the company started reaching out to me, she said it’s always been like this, I didn’t say anything years ago so what’s the difference now, she’s doing no wrong and if I want her to go without electric and ruin the family then by all means go ahead and shut it off if I want.
I’m hurt, I’m upset. My husband has been amazing, but he doesn’t have any family that we could lean on ever. I’m torn between going fully no contact between my siblings who enable my sister, my mother who is emotionally abusive and enables her and doesn’t protect the rest of us, and calling it a day. Or going no contact with siblings, low contact with my mother, and never returning until they get their shit together and go to therapy. I just don’t know what is best anymore since I know my mom will never stand up to her. Family is all I’ve ever really had outside a close knit group of 3 friends, so it’s hard to go from everything to nothing in the blink of an eye.
Ever since my dad died and my sister took over, I have felt like I don’t have a spot in the family anymore. My sisters best friend of 15 years has always wanted to be apart of our big family since she had a dysfunctional one herself, and joins us on family vacations, Christmas, every waking moment. She is just as bad as my sister, and my sister is her only friend so she bows down to her. Since dad died, it’s like my sister and her friend don’t want me in the family and want to give the bff my daughter spot and to ostracize me. All of this is making me spiral and spiral and spiral. I haven’t been this bad mentally in a really, REALLY long time and it’s triggering me a lot.
I feel like as a woman, I’m held to a different caliber than the others. My brothers could do whatever they damn well please, and they do, and everyone turns a blind eye. With my sister being the oldest, she gets the same treatment. I am overwhelmed with what this family puts me through. My husband doesn’t have any family anymore for us to lean on, spend holidays with, etc. How do you move on? How do you find peace? How do you be okay with the fact nothing will ever change in this dynamic so it’s all or nothing?
FWIW - have an amazing therapist, amazing support group. Am ok, just sad and upset.

I've been experiencing system crashes, freezes and loads of critical/warnings in the event log viewer I've been trying to sort through the last few days without much success. I'm going to try to summarize things as much as I can, and include any data I have while I'm not at the machine (I'm on the way to work at the moment).
Any help or guidance on other things to try is appreciated. I want to avoid bringing it in to the shop for service if possible!
Below is a summary of what I've tried so far with as much detail as I can:
May 18th - First series of crashes identified 'GameInputSvc.exe' as a source of trouble in the event log. When I googled the errors, it led me to this thread (https://www.reddit.com/WindowsHelp/comments/18bb6e0/gameinput_service_stops_working_after_windows_11/) and uninstalled Game Input app from the Windows Apps list, as it showed it was from 2023. I no longer saw this in the task manager after a reboot.
May 19th - more crashes while playing Fallout 4 or just booting up. Looked at the event log and it showed the WiFi driver was crashing. When I googled it, some threads mentioned the Intel Driver and Support software as a possible source. I uninstalled that software. Installed the WiFi driver from my PC manufacturers website (MSI).
Some examples of errors: "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered." "Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MHz : Has encountered an internal error and has failed." "5007 - TX/CMD timeout (TfdQueue hanged)"
This one was prominent especially the next day (May 20th):
"The description for Event ID 0 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.
If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.
The following information was included with the event:
\Device\Video3 Error occurred on GPUID: 100"
This clearly indicates an issue with the video card drivers. I reverted to the older version of video drivers for my RTX 3060 TI. I was able to play games and use the PC without issue for a while. Then it began to crash again. Back into the event viewer.
Found these posts: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/discove54045/the-nvlddmkm-error-what-is-it-an-fyi-for-those-seeing-this-issue/ And this one which I've highlighted what I think is the relevant part below: https://www.reddit.com/nvidia/comments/1cnxgy8/game_ready_driver_55244_faqdiscussion/
"If it still crashes, we have a few other troubleshooting steps but this is fairly involved and you should not do it if you do not feel comfortable. Proceed below at your own risk:

• A lot of driver crashing is caused by Windows TDR issue. There is a huge post on GeForce forum about this here. This post dated back to 2009 (Thanks Microsoft) and it can affect both Nvidia and AMD cards.
  
• Unfortunately this issue can be caused by many different things so it’s difficult to pin down. However, editing the windows registry might solve the problem.
  
• Additionally, there is also a tool made by Wagnard (maker of DDU) that can be used to change this TDR value. Download here. Note that I have not personally tested this tool."
  

I added the registry key as suggested to change the time the system waits for the video card drivers to recover from 2 seconds to 10 seconds. My next step was to use DDU to uninstall the video drivers, and reinstall the latest 552.44 driver. I then did a sfc /scannow to try to ensure the integrity of system files. If did find an issue and resolved it (screenshot: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/464920915088769029/1242264474249990205/image.png?ex=664ddd32&is=664c8bb2&hm=b17d2b36d2f24f132798d61a5cd172566ebd7fa99fe656177af5c954541d0648&).
However I left my machine on after playing Fallout 4 fine for a few hours and it crashed about 6 min after I left it to go to bed (according to event log).
I can provide a link to my reliability report XML if that helps. I'll also try to save the event log later today.
I'm at the point of reinstalling Windows tonight as a final step before I take the box in to my local PC shop, which will take a week or 2 to fix. I'd really like to avoid that cost if I can.
Please let me know if there is anything I can run or provide once I'm back home from work. Thanks again for reading and any help.

Hello,
I signed into support to ask about a charge for my gym membership that was blocked, then the representative told me the following:
"Your Cash App Card has been deactivated. You may continue using Cash App to send and receive payments.
Reasons for this decision may include your account history, transaction disputes, or other possible violations of the [Cash Terms of Service]...
At this time we cannot provide further details regarding your card deactiviation, which we are unable to change at this time."
I am struggling to understand why this occurred. I am also withdrawing all of my money (which is over $2,000.00) from the account and moving it to a bank account, as well as filing an FTC complaint against the company.
Can anyone who is familiar with Cash App practices potentially inform me of what I can expect regarding the card deactivation?

Im burnt out from living and obligations. For as long as i can remember ive been depressed and i have genuinely tried to do better. Nothing has worked for long. Years ago i had a relationship and it was probably the best thing that ever happened to me. Problem was that our misery about life and growing up catalyzed a downfall. Its been a couple years and we’ve since made amends and admitted we still love each other. But shes moving very far away and i cant go with her because my obligations where i live now. My father is dying. My dreams are dying. My spare time is constantly occupied by people asking me to do things or work. Whenever i have time to work at making my dream come true, my family sees it as me not being busy or doing nothing. I genuinely never ask for much. I rarely ask for help and when i do its typically only for a few minutes. 90% of the things im asked to do take hours. Theres no respect for my time and my time is treated as fair game constantly. If i cant move out soon i dont know how i could ever have happiness. There has to be more to everything than this. Theres gotta be a time where i can enjoy myself and have at least half of what i want right?

Good morning everyone. Going to call the mayor of the small town about 10AM. First time I ever watched a meeting from the town. It was 7PM last night. They covered many topics but when it came to the piece of land I would like… the members of the committee, 9 people did not want to sell it… They spoke about turning it into a brand new police station. At the moment in the police station is in a basement, shared with a town building. It is a good idea actually…however, that property has sat empty since it was a bank in 2016!! The town has no money to fix that old building and restore it into a brand new police station… 5 million????
So I will call with some ideas. The town needs money badly after I watched the meeting. I no longer will ask or a tax abatement, I will ask a capped tax for 20-30 years. If the town wants more money they need more residents. Most of the towns money comes from property taxes, my new building will raise values all over. New people will need to go shopping and will liven the area…. I would like to build something with 80-100 units. LFG!

Some earnings since yesterday’s close:
AZO 60 M 70 [3% decrease in sales] EXP 55 LOW 75TCOM 65 ZIM 75 [Initially expected to lose 83 cents, analysts expected to much!] TUYA 75 YALA 65 NDSN 60 DJT 20 [Net Loss 327 million, Revenue 770k!] TRNS 70 PANW 75 [Valuation, 60x PE about 10-12% growth expected] KEYS 65
ZM 70

Nothing is wrong with the PANW earnings. They will make close to 5 dollars a share and are trading at 60x earnings. With a growth of near 10-12% expected, maybe you can no longer give it a multiple it once had when growth was 30%? I may buy the dip on ZM if 60. They will make near 5 dollars as well! The PE would be near 12! The growth is slow as well, 5-10% but they are far cheaper! It is not a bad business but no longer a growing business. For similar reasons I had traded MTCH after disappointing earnings, and will look again as it dips below 30. ACMR and YOU smashed earnings, had growth and the stocks are down so I am trading those. CAR has been my work horse since February. SOFI has growth of 30-40% and is about to be profitable…
If you check back to early January analysts had ZIM losing 83 cents a share. I have pics all over Twitter, even wanted to bet they would crush that! They did! They came in at 75 cent profit. They actually revised for the full year. They are actually paying a dividend… I am disappointed the average freight rate was 1,452! WOW I had checked daily and I saw rates 2,000+…I checked yesterday and they were back to 3,000! So they must have locked in some contracts…
The good news is.. that I expected ZIM needed 1,600 avg to break even, so if they made 75 cents a share on 1,452 it means they cut costs drastically.. More good news is that the rates are above 3,000!!! I wouldn’t buy or sell it at the moment, but the coast is much more clearer now. I have sold all my shares near 12… I was trading it a lot from 9 to 12…. I do not know if it goes back there but I am watching… With rates higher on container, the cost cuts, 14% growth in sales dollars, 10% more actually cargo, it seems good for ZIM…

The market should be watching and will be decided on NVDA ?! NVDA I believe should crush earnings…. The company may even announce a dividend… that is speculation but can be bullish…
I can tell you I rather give NVDA SMCI a 60x PE than NOW or PANW . NVDA may have sales growth near 100% and earnings 200-300% so that should tell you the valuation issue with PANW.
Please check ACMR YOU numbers and you will understand why to buy PANW is crazy! Only touching the topic because about 5 people were asking me why PANW is falling after earnings.. Nothing is wrong with PANW .. The growth is slowing, it is a great company… but why would someone pay 60x earnings when growth is slowing near 10%? Where is the value then? Perfection is priced in… so ZM and PYPL grow 5-10% and earnings grow 5% and have a PE near 12? PANW grows slightly more and has a PE near 60?

Keep in mind historically, the SP500 has a PE near 18-19….For this the SP500 returns to you near 9% a year.
On a good year earnings growth is 5% and sales are 10%... 18-19x PE!
Use that as a reference!

5 Trade Ideas:
ACMR – I did try and bid 22.50. I also have 500 shares at 25.45, sadly it went up to 26.25 and I wanted 1 dollar or 26.45, but that is ok!

CAR – I did bid 116 yesterday. I trade 100 shares normally for 2.50-4 dollars each trade. I did make 1 trade recently for 11 dollars, right after earnings

MTCH ZM – So So earnings, but valuations near 12x? MTCH my last trade was 28 to 29 on 500. ZM I am looking for 60

SOFI – I had abused this a lot last year, a few times this year. They are coming closer and closer to making money and still have 30-40% growth, even as they grow larger… HIMS hit 2! They were losing money but growth was 80-100%.. Even years later HIMS growth is still near 50%, big news on Ozempic rival yesterday

CVNA RDDT DJT – Put ideas, if any of these rally near 5-10%, they are already high but you want to dump the pumps! I will look for puts with 60-90 days

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Good luck everyone let’s make money. Share trades, ideas here during trading hours. Our main goal here is to make money so I hope we can help eachother. I will be in and out of here as well.

I currently do post-tax, Roth contributions for my 401K, but am considering switching to traditional, pre-tax contributions, and hoping for some insights/advice.
About me:

• 30 years old
• Single Tax Filer
• Renter in HCOL Area (Seattle, WA)
• Projected 2024 Income: ~$210K-$230K
  • $189K base salary
  • $12K-$18K bonus
  • $10K-$25K from interest, dividends, cap gains combined
• Projected taxable income (standard deduction): ~$195K-$215K
• Projected marginal income tax rate: 32%, which kicks in at $192K this year, so potentially just barely over the threshold (only federal to consider, no state income tax in WA)
• The past three years I've owed $2K-$4K to the IRS come tax time.
• As of mid-May, I've so far contributed ~$9K in Roth Contributions to my 401K this year, meaning I have ~$14K left to contribute to hit the max (which I plan to do). I can change my Roth vs. Traditional designation at any time during the year.
• No debt of any kind

Current retirement account balances:

• 401K: $123K
  • 37% Roth ($45K), 63% Traditional ($78K)
  • Past employer didn't let us do Roth for 3/4 years I was there, but I've done Roth whenever I can so far.
  • Since I started my first full-time job at 22, I have always ensured I contributed enough to receive the maximum employer contributions, but for most of my twenties I did not max out my contribution beyond that. 2023 was the first year I maxed my contribution, and I'm on track to do so for the second time in 2024.
• Roth IRA: $43K
  • Contributed in my early-mid twenties, before my income made me ineligible starting in 2021.
  • Don't have a traditional IRA. May try to figure out back-door Roth later this year, but TBD.
• Combined: $166K, 53% post-tax ($88K), 47% pre-tax ($78K)

2023 was the first time I jumped from the 24% to 32% marginal tax rate, and I'm starting to feel like that's probably higher than what I'll pay in retirement (though who knows!) so maybe it makes more sense to switch to traditional to help reduce or erase what I owe to the IRS next spring, as well as allowing me to save/invest slightly more in non-retirement accounts this year (doesn't make sense for me to try to buy property in the next 1-2 years, but hopefully later in my thirties if interest rates calm down). Then again, I know I'm still a long way off from making withdrawals, and the only advice I've gotten so far is generally younger people should do Roth (but maybe that's an oversimplification?).
What would you recommend and consider in this situation? Really would appreciate any help or advice!

I got my first banking offer from Commerzbank (Milan, Italy) for the position of Debt capital markets FIG bond origination.
What is your impression of this bank and do you think it is a good fit? I am in the final year of my master's degree in finance. I am not studying at the first Italian university for investment banking but we can say it is the second. I have the doubt that I can still find something better but at the same time I don't want to finish the magistrale without experience in a bank. What do you advise me to do? Reject it and try to find something more prestigious or does commerzbank matter? I'm afraid I won't be able to find anything else anyway. I'm sorry but I have no experience in the sector and I don't know anyone who can help me with this choice.

This is my first post, and I was hoping the community could help me out. I recently got injured and can't go to the gym or train for a few months and in the meantime I want to record me playing and talking via my Xbox series S. I'd like to make you tube videos that record the gameplay, the games audio, and my commentary via my Xbox microphone. I don't have space on my desk for multiple monitors, so I just have the one. Also my laptop wouldn't keep up with live streaming gameplay. Any Idea on what I would need to buy in order to record my gameplay, audio, and pickup my commentary via microphone? My idea was to just get an Elgato game capturer and go from there, but id rather just get all i would need in one go as to not waste much time.
Also, I have a 2 TB Seagate card that I believe can hold my gameplay if needed, I should also preface that I know little to nothing about tech so replying in layman's terms would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Hey all, I'm having a major Spotify dilemma that I'm hoping people can help with. I'm releasing a bunch of covers this summer that do NOT conveniently fit into any genre. For example, next week I'm releasing an instrumental cover of Rooster by Alice In Chains that has 3 distinct stylistic sections (part A-Funk (Cory Wong/James Brown), part B-Steely Dan-ish jazz fusion, part C loud grunge).
What I've noticed is that the overwhelming majority of spotify playlists are 'vibes based', people want to have a CONSISTENT background for studying/working out/dancing etc, which I get, but I feel like this means songs that explore several genres simultaneously don't really have many easy places to land....I was wondering if anyone knew of any playlists of instrumental music where something like what I'm describing would work--more like 'I'm gonna sit down and actively listen to music' playlists as opposed to 'listen while I do other stuff' playlists. Have tried the submithub algorithm, results kinda meh.
Legit not trying to plug my band here (notice I did not use our name :)), just looking for advice from people who are probably way more familiar with Spotify than I am. (always been more of a youtube guy for music)

I have had debilitating anxiety with horrible thoughts and shakiness occurring each morning before opening my eyes. I cannot bare it. Went to ER with full blown pain attack. Told to continue taking Paxil. Today is day 6. Increased it from 10 mg to 20 as of yesterday. Gabe me Ativan 0.5. Honestly, I feel like that should be helping more than it is. I take it once I feel the extreme anxiety and can get back to sleep for an hour or so but then wake up with shakiness and definitely anxiety I would hope would be reduced with such a strong medication. Maybe Ativan doesn’t really work for. Me.. Will ask to switch until the Paxil starts to work more effectively. I”ve never in my entire life felt like this. I’ve heard of being anxious but this is on a whole new level and you cannot function. Any stories like this… HOPEFUL ONES!!!!

Our kids became friends last fall as they played hockey together. The other parent was the coach. Early on in the season the coach mentioned that my son was playing with a stick that was too short for him. He then overheard my wife telling our son that she wasn't sure we had the money to buy a new stick right now. He talked to his son and they gave our son one of his old sticks that was a better size for our son. This made my wife think highly of these people and she started kinda pushing the friendship between the families especially between the two boys who play hockey together.
We start inviting this kid to our house and my wife warns me that he is very autistic and doesn't have play dates a lot. The kid isn't even at our house thirty minutes and has already punched our six year old. The kid was 10 at the time. We have three boys. At the time they were nine, eight, and six. So he punches our six year old and then he just starts being awful to the two younger boys. Because I am an adult, I don't freak out. I talk to him. I tell him if he wants to spend time at our house he isn't allowed to hit or a be mean to the younger kids. I tell him that I don't get the impression that he is a mean person, but rather he seems to think it will impress my son if he is mean to his younger brothers and that being mean to younger siblings is not cool and won't impress anyone. It will just make the parents think twice about letting him come over. After our talk he started behaving a bit better, but was still mean at times during this first visit.
The boys start hanging out together all the time and while my younger two boys loved this kid, my oldest who he was really there to hang out with started to act distant and at times seemed to be pushing his friend away. His friend would freak out if my son didn't want to do exactly what he wanted to do which was usually video games. Sometimes my son would tire of video games and start doing something else without his friend. His friend would go find him and lecture him on how when he has a friend over he needs to play with them. I would normally agree that it was rude of my son to just leave his friend and go do something else, but tried to also explain to his friend that he was tired of video games and maybe they could find something else to do together, but this kid pretty much only wanted to play video games and would be almost offended that my son didn't.
Anyway after I noticed this happening, the other parents started informing my wife that our son was bullying their son. My wife does most of communicating with other parents as I am more introverted normally and too often assume other adults are assholes. The only thing we noticed for sure was our son yelling at this kid once while fishing and we both talked to our son about how we should talk to friends and yelling at friends would lead to him not having any. Everything else was hearsay and I didn't know what to believe, but we still talked to our son about the accusations of bullying and we are not okay with bullying and we better not find out he is doing that. They accused our son of sending mean messages, but provided no proof and we looked everywhere we could think of and the messages we see our sending are to his paternal father and grandmother. Still we talk to him again about what he is being accused off and let him know that we really hope he isn't bullying anyone, and he will be in big trouble if we find out he is.
While this is going on I am downstairs one day and hear the kids playing games online. They are playing with this friend and I can hear his voice through the TV speaker. He is yelling at them telling them to talk to him. " I know you have a mic! Turn in it on! This is very rude! I know you have a mic so talk to me or I am leaving! I don't know why you guys are being buttholes to me. Just turn the mic on and talk to me or I am not playing with you! Their mic had stopped working and he was assuming they were just ignoring him, which doesn't make any sense because they sent him the invite to play with them, but he's a kid so I can't fault him for assumptions.
Fast forward to Saturday. This kid has a birthday party and my whole family is there. My kid was on one that day I admit. He was trying to impress a girl and kept teasing me by taking my hat and running off with it in a playful manner. This is something he may get from his mom and I because the way we play and flirt with eachother is by little things like this. She'll come home with silly string now and then and spray me randomly, and I find it funny and love that part of her personality, even when I am in a grumpy mood, I always smile about it. He has seen his mom shove frosting in my face at birthday parties, and so he thinks this is funny. The part that upsets me the most is that apparently the kids mother told the kids specifically not to play with the cupcakes. She said not to take one if you weren't going to eat it I guess. My son took a cupcake and then playfully tried to throw it at the birthday boy. I say playfully because that was what it was. There was no mean intent but the birthday boy got upset and I talked to my son about not doing that kind of thing unless you know the other person is okay with that kind play. Some people just aren't. Anyway my wife asks if everything is okay, because the other family seems upset. They say everything is fine and laugh it off. An hour later the dad sends my wife a bunch of messages calling our son a bully and us bad parents for allowing all of this bullying to continue and then blocks us on everything.
Over the course of the hockey season this dude got more and more involved with local kids hockey and is now one of the main dudes in kids hockey locally. I already know how he handles things cause there were multiple hockey teams and it was getting to be too much for him, so he hand chose the kids he wanted to coach the most and made one team that he would coach and basically canceled the rest of the season for the other kids. He didn't tell the parents of the kids he didn't choose for his team. He just said because ice time was hard to come by, scheduling conflicts, the incompetence of others involved in local hockey, and not having enough help, the season would be ending a bit early this year. The other parents found out about the secret team and were pissed. Then he basically just called them all assholes in mass text and blocked them all. Worried this douche is gonna have a say in what hockey team my son is on next season he'll screw him over.
Am I the asshole for not beating my son senseless over a cupcake to make this guy think I was a good parent?

Hi,
So just started on MJ.
34 M - 5.8ft - 228lbs - Northern Ireland
Ive struggled with weight and more appropriately compulsions from about 15.
I think my biggest driver with weight gain would be my overactive drinking habits after work and at home. After a couple drinks I tend to start 'grazing' on whatever is lying around the cupboards and fridge. Went off alcohol for a year before so wouldn't class myself as an alcoholic. This is a big cause, but i also just graze in general, cant really stop myself.
My main hope is that MJ can help train my internal eco system to regulate not only my food intake but also my alcohol intake as well. Have read alot of comments about how MJ works at cancelling out noise from food and alcohol, so excited for that prospect.
Hoping to shed 80-90 lbs of body fat over the next year.
I suppose my biggest concern is adjusting with my wife. Dinne meals are a social event for us, we use it as an opener to ending the work day and unwinding (both WFH in Pharma IT roles). I'm worried if i change eating habits drastically it may affect this dynamic... if im over thinking this please just call it out but interested to hear others experiences.
I suppose my second concern is the idea of staying on this medication for life. I have read that going off MJ after reaching target can lead to regains of 66% weight in some cases. Is it really the consensus that this is just going to be used for the rest of your life?
Id eventually like to try and ween myself off it if I can reach that weight but seems redundant if im going to put the majority of it back on.
Lastly, im going the route of online pharmacy, (VOY) at 249 GBP a month. Would probbably like to move it onto my NHS prescription within 3-4 months. Has anyone been in a similar scenario or are the majority of users on NHS prescription?
To end- i'm filled with equal measures excitement and nervousness for this journey. Glad to find a UK community to share this experience with. Wishing all new users (like myself) and ongoing users the best of luck with you own personal battle.
Signing off,
TB.

Hi everyone. Sorry for the bad english
I am a 24 year old boy.
A few months ago I started to develop a very strong relationship with a 22 year old friend of mine(F).
I have already known her for 2 years as she is part of the company I frequent but for 5 months now she has started writing to me, we talk every day from morning to late evening(2:00/3:00 am), we do things together, we talk a lot and we even go out alone, only I and her. without the company that we frequent-
The problem comes from the fact that she is engaged with a boy from the company (3 years of relationship) and the problem has arisen several times that she says she feels she is doing her boyfriend a disservice by behaving like this with me. Because if her boyfriend did this to another girl she would go crazy.
I bought a house and from the moment she found out she started saying that she wanted to help me with the furniture, with the design of the house, that she would come to visit me several times, to watch movies, play games and spend time with me. Just me and her.(the house will be avaiable at July)
She has always sent me ambiguous signals, ambiguous phrases, ambiguous ways of acting. She made a jealous scene at me because she thought I liked another girl
In any case we continued with this relationship. 1 month ago she went on holiday for a week with her boyfriend and although she said she wanted to detach herself from our relationship(being that we write or call each other every day from morning to night), she didn't and in fact she continued to write to me while she was with her boyfriend on the other side of the world.
when she came back, we saw each other and in the evening everything was fine. When she returned home she wrote to me telling me that she felt guilty towards her boyfriend, because she hadn't told him that she and I saw each other that evening. I tried to understand if she was interested in me because she always says that she knows the best solution would be to reduce the frequency with which we talk but she can't do it (she doesn't know why she can't).
Consequently I thought that maybe she might like me, I tried to get him to bring up the subject but nothing. She said she knew very well what she should do (move away and gain some distance) but that she couldn't do it.
We went to sleep as it was late and the next day she wrote to me telling me that there were some things I wasn't telling her, after which she asked me if I likes her. I replied that I have an interest in her, bad response. He started saying that it wasn't okay, that it was better to stop talking to each other. So I took courage and asked her if she likes me.
And she responded with a curt "No, I thought you understood."
After that I managed to make her understand that mine is just an interest and that I don't like her that much. (It's not too true, cause i like her)
So for now I have saved this friendship relationship that we have, but I realize that the thought of this hurts me, I don't understand if it's true that she doesn't like me or if she doesn't even know exactly. If she is afraid of leaving her boyfriend or no.
I don't think you would write to someone on the other side of the world every day, while you're on holiday with your boyfriend if there wasn't some kind of interest, but from what she says, she doesn't like me and in fact she told me that if If I had told her that I like her, she would have ended the relationship we have, because it wouldn't be fair to her, her bf and also to me.
Now I find myself not knowing what to do. I don't think I could go back to how we were at the beginning, going out in the company with the others, her and her boyfriend. Pretending nothing happened. But at the same time I understand that this situation is difficult for her because she can't tell her boyfriend and this ruin our relationship, because she puts her doubts on me.
TL;DR Do you have any advice? she really doesn't like me? Because the signals it sends are very ambiguous and strange. even my friends all thought she liked me.
And now I find myself at a crossroads where the easiest but most painful thing seems to be to break off this unhealthy relationship.