Back pain on one side that goes around

I’m a junior, and there’s a girl who’s in half of my classes who I’ve started to have a huge crush on. She was always around, but one random day 2 weeks ago I heard her speaking with another classmate. That’s when I realized how well spoken and soft she is. How dedicated she is to studying, and especially how mysterious she is. Her eyes are so soft and cute, and I catch her looking sometimes. I try to smile and make eye contact when I can. I’ve talked to her maybe once or twice only, and it’s almost the end of the year. I don’t want to waste more time. We have different social groups, she’s more on the nerdy side (which makes her 100x cuter). Even tho she looks at me sometimes I feel like she doesn’t like me because I am incredibly loud and always goofing off in every class I have with her as I am with my own friend group. But in every class either she sits behind me or I sit behind her. I love watching her write her tests. This made me notice how soft her hands are. I am absolutely obsessed with her and I don’t know what to do.

Hi! Is any one, despite long-term use of spiro, experiencing random days where you're deeply exhausted and your heart rate, both resting and non resting, is waaaaay higher than usual? I get these days and I honestly can barely function (like theres a weight in my chest) but it just goes away after a day or so. I make sure to eat and drink plenty but it doesn't help. I will feel like crap and figure I might just have slept poorly only to see my heartrate at rest at like 70-80 all day long (normally I am around 50-60). I will go get a glass of water and I am at 120. Stand in the subway at 150. I am very athletic and barely reach those rates during literal marathons.
I tried mapping out whether or not it's tied to stress, my cycle, my eating, the weather, supplement use (multivitamin with very low potassium vs none), etc to no consistent conclusion.
My context:I have been on spiro for a year now, from 50 mg a day for a few months then gradually to 200 mg when my acne came back. 200 mg was too much but 150 was well tolerated overall and I've been on that for 4 months. I am also quite petite and had baseline low blood pressure (like 80 over 50) but no issues related to it. My BP is actually pretty much unchanged if not higher on spiro (I eat a lot of salt)

Hello all.
I purchased some black satin gloves for a bargain, but the unfortunate thing is that several of the fingers are too large. I have tried the following method to practice on other pairs of gloves that I do not care about, but it does not seem to work, and I cannot find any tutorials on the internet. What I do is turn the glove inside out and trace around my finger with fabric marker. Then I hand backstitch around the lines that I traced, cut off the excess fabric and turn the glove back right side out. This does not seem to work, and I cannot think of another method. I don't want to pay to get them altered, as that would defeat the purpose of buying at a bargain price. Any advice?
Thank you in advance for any helpful tips or links to tutorials that I have managed to overlook.

Hey Redditors,
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Howdy. I am officer M (only M, privacy reasons, could lose my job if I was exposed). I’ve been investigating these three cases for the past few years, and I wanted to see if anyone had any clue how to solve them.
I normally wouldn’t go to places like Reddit for this, but I’m desperate. Everyone else I’ve tried has said that this is some kind of webseries project thing. It isn’t.
I’m gonna show you the transcriptions of three sets of video tapes. The first set is from James Barlowe, the second from Daren Redd, and the third from Nick Robin.
Well, I’d better get on with it.
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There’s only one tape in this section. It begins with a man in a priest’s uniform (identified as James Barlowe) in the driver’s seat of a car. The person holding the camera is in the passenger’s side.
CAMERAMAN (LATER IDENTIFIED AS NICK ROBIN): “So! What’re we doing, James?”
JAMES: “Oh, uhm, we’re going to a haunted house to perform an exorcism.”
NICK: “Hell yeah we are!”
Nick turns the camera towards his face.
NICK: “Someone tipped us off on a haunted house recently, so we’re gonna go check it out. And James is gonna use his cool priest powers or whatever to get rid of the ghosts! Right James?”
The camera pans to James.
JAMES: “Ah- Yeah.”
The camera turns back to Nick.
NICK: “Now, I’m not gonna be in this one too much, since James is gonna be doing his stuff on his own.”
JAMES: “Wait what?”
The tape cuts off here, and picks back up with James holding the camera. He’s in front of a run-down, abandoned house. He seems nervous, fidgeting with the stole around his neck.
JAMES: “Okay, so, uhm. I am Father Barlowe, and, uhm..I kind of thought Nick was gonna be here. He- He told me he was gonna be here. I dunno. Uhm. Today I’m going to exorcise this ghost. I, uh, don’t know if I’m allowed to do that anymore. But I know how.”
James turns the camera around, and starts to walk into the house. The front door opens into a hallway, which leads to a living room. The camera shakes as James fumbles with his pockets, then brings out a cross. He holds it out in front of him.
JAMES: “Uhm, if there are any ghosts here, show yourself.”
Nothing happens. James mutters something about editing. He waves the cross around dramatically.
JAMES: “Ghost, or demon, or whatever you are, please come and-”
A loud bang comes from somewhere within the house. James seems to flinch. He can be heard heavily breathing as he turns the camera towards the sound.
JAMES: “Uhm..Okay. That’s okay. I’ve got a cross. I’m okay.”
James begins to walk down the hall, where the sound was heard. The camera is shaking, and James is holding out his cross.
JAMES: “Okay, uhm- I think..I think the ghost is in there.”
James points to the doorway at the end of the corridor, then advances towards it. He walks through, and into what appears to be a study. There is a desk and chair in the corner. The chair has a pitch-black figure in it.
JAMES: “Oh god, okay, uhm- Okay. Okay. Uhm. Uh- Demon!”
The figure turns to face James. He holds out his cross with a trembling hand.
JAMES: “Foul creature, begone from this home-”
The figure stands up and begins to walk towards James. The camera is dropped.
JAMES: “Oh God, oh God!”
James can be heard running away.
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This first tape is very intriguing to me. The figure has not been identified. At least, not as anyone in the town.
I interviewed both Nick Robin and James Barlowe (they had not gone missing after this video. quite the contrary, in fact. James Barlowe is the one that brought the video to police), and they revealed that most of the content in their videos was fake.
They said that the events of the video were not planned.
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The camera appears to be moved around a bit, before setting up to show a man in a red hoodie (identified as Daren Redd) sitting in an office chair. It can be assumed that he’s at his desk. He smiles at the camera.
DAREN: “Uh- Hi. This feels weird, haha. I don’t think I should introduce myself? I don’t know. No one but me’s gonna see this anyways. Unless I make, like, a giant scientific discovery. Or break a world record.”
Daren fidgets with the strings of his hoodie, twirling one between his fingers.
DAREN: “So. My sleep schedule sucks. I’ve been trying to fix it for weeks now, it isn’t working. I’ve decided, fuck it, I’m just gonna roll with it. So! I’m gonna try and stay up for 12 days straight.”
Daren grabs the camera, and shows a calendar up on the wall. The month and year are cut off. Two days are circled (Tuesday, then the next Saturday).
DAREN: “I’ve got a calendar here so that I can figure out how long I’ve been up. If I do more physical stuff, maybe I’ll stay up longer! Haha.”
The camera pans back to Daren.
DAREN: “I’ve got my room-mate watching over me. He’s actually in here right now- Say hi, Nick!”
(PRESUMABLY) NICK, IN THE BACKGROUND: “Hey.”
DAREN: “I rested up real good to prepare for this, so I’m hoping that my plan works. So, uh..Yeah. D-Man out.”
The next tape starts out with Daren holding the camera up to Nick Robin.
DAREN: “Niiiiiiiick.”
NICK: “Why are you recording me?”
DAREN: “Nick how long have I been awake?”
NICK: “Since yesterday, I think.”
Daren flips the camera around to face him. He has a large grin on his face.
DAREN: “That’s right, baby! D-Man has been awake for one whole day! Well- Two? One? Since Tuesday. It’s, uh, Wednesday.”
Daren shows the calendar to the camera. Tuesday is crossed off.
DAREN: “So far, nothing weird has happened yet. I’m tired, but I’ve been drinking a ton of Monster.”
The camera pans to a trash can, with several cans of Monster in it.
DAREN: “So! I should be able to stay up as long as I need. World record, here I come!”
The third tape begins with Daren dragging a trash bag outside.
DAREN: “Ok so I forgot to record a tape today, and I know that if I don’t do it now I’m gonna forget again. But, uhm, I’ve been up for..Uh..I dunno. Time is a concept, anyways. It’s Thursday now, though!”
Daren heaves the trash bag into a can. He walks back inside, and sighs with relief as he enters.
DAREN: “Whew, I love air conditioning.”
NICK (IN THE BACKGROUND): “Dude- Why don’t you take your hoodie off?”
DAREN: “Ah, y’know.”
NICK: “I really don’t.”
DAREN: “See, you get it!”
Daren chuckles and brings the camera into his room. He sets it down on his desk, and sits down in the office chair. He has bags under his eyes, and his hair looks messier than usual.
DAREN: “So. Recently, I’ve been tired. Like, horridly tired. To the point where even sitting down is a..” Yawn. “Risky move for me. But, working from home is keeping me on my toes. Who knew that writing reports could be so exhilerating!”
He looks over his shoulder for a moment, before turning back to the camera. His eyes appear wide and frightened, but he’s still smiling.
DAREN: “Uh, pro tip, maybe don’t try this stuff! I’m stupid enough to try and get a world record, but you, uh, shouldn’t be. Anyways, uhm, D-Man out.”
The fourth tape shows Daren in the hospital, sitting next to Nick, who is in a bed with an IV in his arm. Daren’s eye bags have gotten worse.
DAREN: “Hey, uhm. I don’t know if I’m supposed to record in here. I had to drive Nick to the hospital- He had a dairy allergy thing.”
NICK: “I said he could record in here, don’t worry.”
DAREN: “Yea, he- He said I could record this. I think I’m gonna stay the night here- People do that at hospitals, right? But, uh, they don’t need a bed for me. Because I’m not sleeping! I’m just gonna, uh, play on my phone for the night.”
Daren looks over his shoulder, before turning back to the camera.
DAREN: “Well! It’s Friday now. Been, uh, four days, I think? Yeah. I’ve been awake for four whole days! Well, uhm, this is more filler than anything. Nothing to note. D-Man out.”
The fifth tape is corrupted. Nothing is salvageable.
The sixth tape begins with Daren sitting at his desk. He looks tired beyond comprehension. His knee is bouncing, and he’s tapping his fingers on the table.
DAREN: “Uh, day..Six. I think. It’s Sunday now. The Lord’s day, ha-ha! I’m- I’m not religious. But, uhm, I know one of Nick’s friends is. James something. Maybe I should call that guy. I-”
Daren cuts himself off by looking over his shoulder. He looks back. His eyes are wild and terrified.
DAREN: “I think this was a bad idea. A horrible idea. I- I tried to sleep yesterday. But I couldn’t. I can’t- I can’t close my eyes for too long. Uhm..Nick has been in the hospital since Friday. He’s- He should be back by now. His visits never take this long.”
Daren chuckles. His voice sounds nervous.
DAREN: “He should be back soon, though, right? Right. He’s just taking a bit longer than usual. Uhm, Darry out.”
The seventh tape shows Daren sitting under his desk. He sets up the camera and brings his knees to his chest.
DAREN: “Nick came back today. He, uhm. He’s acting different. I was- I was talking to him, and he, uhm. He forgot he had a dairy allergy. He just..Forgot. I reminded him and he went- He went, oh, yeah. Like he didn’t go to the hospital for it a couple days ago.”
Daren appears to be trembling. He pulls his hood over his head.
DAREN: “..Been awake for seven days, ha-ha. So close! Just, uhm..Five? Four? Something around that. That many days left. I don’t- I don’t wanna do this. But I think I have to. I think it’ll leave me alone if I..”
Daren looks up at something offscreen, and screams.
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Daren Redd went missing after this video. I’ve been looking for him for years. I’m trying to stay professional here, but I really don’t know what’s going on. I still sometimes try to figure out what he was looking at in the last tape. But there’s no reflection in his eyes- No shadows anywhere. Nothing. Could he be hallucinating?
I don’t think he is. I think he’s seeing things, sure, but they’re real. They have to be real.
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This last section begins with Nick Robin in a car. He’s driving this time, with the camera on the dashboard. James is in the passenger seat. There’s camping gear and a few bags in the back seats.
NICK: “Hey! Welcome back to the PDC (later identified as Paranormal Discovery Channel, the youtube account that both Nick Robin and James Barlowe share), today we’re gonna be exploring a whole abandoned town! It’s called, uh..What was it called again?”
JAMES: “Sasbol heights.”
NICK: “Right, right. Sasbol heights or whatever. Anyways! It’s gonna be cool. Oh- There it is! Dude dude dude- Look!”
The camera points to a charred-looking town. Maybe burnt down?
NICK: “We’re gonna get settled, then get back to all of you. I’ll see y’all soon!”
The next tape begins with Nick sitting in a tent.
NICK: “So! It’s been, like, a day. The first night was pretty underwhelming- Just some creepy old town with bugs and stuff. Nothing too special. Just a bigger version of a haunted house.”
Nick looks off screen- Presumably at James. Nick chuckles.
NICK: “James is sleeping right now. Apparently he’s been having nightmares? That’s, uh, pretty normal for him, though. Oh! Today I started setting up the ghost hunting stuff. Unpacking, putting up cameras, all that jazz.”
There’s shuffling from behind the camera. Nick smiles at (assumedly) James, and winks at the camera.
The third tape starts with Nick and James going into one of the abandoned houses. Nick seems much more enthusiastic than James.
JAMES: “We’re gonna put a voice-over on this, right?”
NICK: “Yea, yea. Something something, abandoned house, something something.”
JAMES: “Good, good, uhm..Nick, man, you know I like doing this and all..But I don’t think I like this episode. It’s like- It feels wrong, y’know?”
NICK: “Mm..You’re right, you’re right. But hey! Think of the money we’ll get from this. Our reactions are gonna be authentic and shit. Plus, we’ve only got a day left.”
Nick pats James’ back, and James smiles.
JAMES: “Right. You’re right.”
The fourth tape is corrupted.
The fifth tape doesn’t include James or Nick’s face, but we can assume who is talking.
NICK: “Listen, man, it- It just got corrupted. It’s fine, right? It’s cool. We can redo it-”
JAMES: “I’m fucking serious, Nick! This isn’t normal! None of the shit we saw yesterday was planned!”
NICK: “I know, I know, but come on man! I need this money!”
JAMES: “Money isn’t worth it, at this point. Please, God, let’s just leave.”
NICK: “If you wanna leave, just go! I can do the video without you.”
JAMES: “I’m not just leaving you with these demons!”
Both Nick and James are quiet for a while. Nick silently walks back to the tent, bringing the camera with him.
The sixth tape is shot from within Nick’s car. Nick is driving, the camera is on the dashboard. He seems terrified.
NICK: “I’m not publishing this. I’m keeping this for myself, and- I don’t know! The police, probably! Jesus Christ- I’m fucking speeding. Are there even road laws here?”
Nick looks at his gas tank, seeing the needle nearing the E. He begins to tear up.
NICK: “Fuck- Uhm. What happened. James tried to kill me, and- And I don’t think he’s James anymore. I really don’t. He’s- He’s not that guy I went to high school with. There’s actually no way.”
He looks at the camera briefly, doing a quick double take.
NICK: “What- No. No. No- Goddammit! Leave me alone!”
The car swerves, and the camera topples over.
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I’ve been thinking about these cases since I found them. The actual police department doesn’t know about them- And I haven’t told my superior about them. These tapes just kind of appeared at my doorstep one day, along with a camera.
I looked at the camera’s film, and found three images.
The first one is a picture from the first set of tapes. It seems edited, though. James has a halo.
The second one is from the second set. It shows an image of Daren, with some kind of pitch-black figure behind him.
The third one is, supposedly, from the third set. Though nothing like it is seen anywhere in the tapes. It’s an image taken from the driver’s seat of Nick’s car, showing the camera from the video on the dashboard. On the screen of the camera is Nick. The image is edited to show a car tire over Nick’s face.
If anyone knows anything about James Barlowe, Daren Redd, or Nick Robin, please tell me at [xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]@gmail.com.

Like 99% of you, I started listening somewhere back when the show was in afternoons on ESPN Radio (afternoons in California, that is). I immediately fell in love with it, and most of the factors that brought that about are still in place:

1. Dan is legitimately funny. When he's directing traffic, adding to and amplifying comments, bringing others into the conversation, it's laugh-out-loud funny
   
2. Mike is a comedy genius. His production bits, like taking sound bites and mixing them into EDM, his drops, his personae, etc...hilarious
   
3. The Shipping Container also cracked us all up regularly. Whether it was Roy's Realm or the oaf screwing things up or Billy in the Music Dome etc., all gold
   
4. Stugotz basically came along for the ride, but added his Weekend Observations (although Mike wrote most of the funny parts and Billy fed him the one-liners) which we loved. His main additions were going oven-mitt hot takes without thinking them through so he'd end up saying "I'm sorry but I'm not going to apologize", which led full-circle to Dan amplifying it into something classic.
   
5. Greg Cote hasn't really changed, and is so historically un-funny that it's side-splittingly funny. Of course we all miss the HNOs, but he's still golden.
   

There's a lot more of course: the callers, especially having them in lightning rounds doing limited fake Sean Connery or smthg, Ron McGill, Tom Kirkjian, Allyson, Celebrity Prognosticators and so on.
This is why we hang on, because of what it was and at times still shines through.

Sorry for the lame title lol.
Found this subreddit after getting sucked back into Eden when he dropped (2019)(2022) earlier this year. fell out of touch with him a while back. Had a crew that was equally as into him as I was but I moved and not having them kinda killed it for me. I don't know it kinda felt like a when you break up with someone and then you feel like you can't watch the shows you use to watch together.
Anyways! like I said getting super back into him since the recent releases and was really curious if any of you could share some favorite Eden related memories? Really miss that comradery I use to have and I think hearing some of your guys stories might be just the thing I need!
I remember when Vertigo dropped me and the guys all got together and we just listened to the entire Album together! Nobody said a word the entire album, we were all just laying on the floor all around the room, lights were off, my buddy had one of those galaxy projectors, may or may not have had some herbal enhancement and we just vibed. I'm sure there's a cooler story related to Eden in the old memory bank but I'm just really missing my homies and that's a good memory where all of them were there!
Thanks for reading my memory PLEASE tell me yours!!!

Lord don't judge lol i remember reading this book on my kindle back in highschool, i wanted to find this book to see if its as crazy as i remember it being. A badly remembered summary: it's a romance about this girl who moves towns to live with her bestfreind for college, this girl is a artist and when she goes to a old (either factory or broken down house) a fox is like trapped behind a cage and she goes to release it and gets bit. She starts like getting orange hair and getting a lil foxy (HAHA) she for whatever reason ignores that. She keeps bumping into this dude (ends up being a ww or whatever and when she goes to a club there's a second dude (also supernatural but he's suppose to be bad) and there's a feud between the two (it's giving twilight ) she ends up like dating the ww guy and a plague breaks out??? From what i remember it gets absolutely wack torwards the end. For a majority of the first book it's a big love triangle between her and the two supernatural dudes, But one of the guys is a bit more crazy and not in the cute way.

As we all know most men coming out of the African American community are coming from single mother households. A lot of these young boys are surrounded by feminine energy since birth and the African American community being a matriarch is not helping them.
They have to go through life searching for masculine role models to fill that void of where their actual father should be. Those that go the bluepill route will Idolize rappers and chase pussy for the rest of their lives. The higher IQ ones that want to be something and improve tend to eventually find the redpill and end up on this side of the internet.
Those that peak and see shit for what it really is and want to break the cycle eventually become men like Kevin Samuels, CGA, Tommy Sotomayor, FNF, Minister Jap, Steph IS Cold. The list goes on... In my opinion the men that tend to be the most critical of this community actually care the most.
In conclusion, the African American community as it stands is the result of taking the strong father figure out of the family and letting women take the reigns. Don't end up like us.
Also shout out to u/eventualwarlord for holding these German shepherds accountable SYSBM

So I’ve had a minor sore throat for id say the past 3-4 days constant. It’s a sore feeling by the back of my tounge that I notice when I swallow. Not super painful or anything just feels like a sore throat on the side where I had the impacted tooth. Not sure if it’s for concern or what cause the socket itself doesn’t really hurt it’s just sore by the site. I went thru a dental school (professional surgeon) but they are closed for like a week, so I can’t get ahold of them. Just wondering if this is normal and should give it a couple more days or if I should get in contact with a different office and get it checked out? Just worried about maybe having an infection but I know that’s usually really painful which this isn’t.

Hi! Im really confused, sooo at school there is this guy that i’ve always “liked” from a distance but thankfully this year we got to talk a bit. We came to a point that everytime we passed by eachother in the hallways we would say hi, and for me it was enough but after that i started seeing him like walk towards me and then go back, linger around me.. things like that, and one evening we were out where everyone goes on saturdays and i say hi to him and give him a hand but then he says no no! and kisses me on the cheek(is not so strange where in from but we dont know eachother that well). then the same night he comes to me and asks me whats up (fyi he had never before come to me like that, usally the little times we talked frineds where involved) we start to chat but then he has to go home and ignoring everyone he just says bye to me and asks for a kiss on the cheek. the day after i asked him to go to a museum with me by text( we talked about museum that night) and he answered “yes at the end of the week”then i asked him saturday? and he mever texted me back, 2 days have passed… idk what to think, is he interested or what??? why would he ignore it? btw thank you to everyone who read until now! have a good day :)

I have absolutely no idea what to do. I have nobody to rely on. I don't know what to do. I am 19f. My life is a complete shit show. I was bullied not only emotionally but physically throughout my childhood, primarily due to being neurodivergent, though I didn't know that at the time, just thought I was "weird" and nobody liked me despite being a kind kid. I was obsesssed with early childhood education, reading books by Maria Montessori and writing teaching philosophy statements at the age of 8. I was paralyzed for about a year at the age of 11 and suffered severe medical trauma in the hospital as well. I felt my autonomy was stripped away from me and various professionals there, looking back, were abusive and negligent. There in the hospital I remember wanting to die for the first time. When I got out, the bullying just got worse because now I had the whole being-in-a-wheelchair-thing going against me too. I ended up doing stupid shit to impress my peers and try to make friends, which just meant that I was constantly getting into trouble as a younger teen, which didn't help my mental health. I tried to kill myself at 13. My mom slapped me in the face while I was bleeding from my wrists and told me I was going to ruin her reputation and that I couldn't go to the hospital. I really needed stitches, I still have very visible scars from that day. She sewed holes in some long sleeved shirts for me to put my thumbs through to hide my arms at school and told me not to tell anyone. Things were never the same between me and my parents. I began at 14 seeking validation from adult men online. It was stupid and reckless, but it helped in the moment. I was kidnapped a week before I was supposed to start high school by a 33 year old man. He drove me to a different state 500 miles away, raped me, and tried to strangle me to death before police came. They treated me like a suspect and handcuffed me and made me sit in a cold car for 3 hours in the middle of the night. There was an amber alert sent out all over. I was put in a psych ward for about a week and then began 9th grade at a new school as "the girl from the amber alert" to everyone around me. Everyone was talking about it and asking for specifics and making jokes about what happened to me. It also made me a target for older boys who thought it was evidence that I was easy to manipulate. One of them ended up being the reason I had to leave school a month later. I did online school with my now emotionally abusive parents for several months before starting at a new school. But then, covid shut everything down again, and it was all taken away from me. My mental health was terrible and my parents opted for an unhelpful tough love approach. I became very hypersexual due to my trauma, which ended in me being assaulted more times than one. My parents blamed me and began to resent me, their words not mine. I entered a long term relationship at 16 with a boy I truly loved, we will call him K. K got me pregnant and I wanted to keep it, but my parents forced me to get an abortion with illegal drugs. It was traumatizing and I spiraled. A mentor figure who was a family friend betrayed me horribly. K got me pregnant again. I was on birth control, though everyone believes it was intentional, it was not. My parents said I could either get an abortion or leave home, so I moved out at 17. I got my shit together. For a while, things were good. I got an associates degree incredibly quickly and began a successful career in early childhood education as I had always dreamed. I worked my way up to a lead teacher at 18 and loved it. K and I were so happy. He proposed. The kind of true love most people never get to experience. Most of my peers drifted away during my pregnancy. I didn't care, I had K, my unborn baby, and my job. Then, while in labor, I found out K was cheating on me the entire time. I forgave him and we tried again, though I was postpartum and heartbroken. I stayed home with my newborn son while he worked, or so I thought. Really, he got fired or never went to every job I thought he had. He would drive there and turn his data off so his location was set there all day. He would stage pictures and talk about work. Really he was cheating, doing drugs, and playing video games while I was at home with our baby. His anger issues got worse and he'd get violent but not to the extent that I couldn't justify it to myself. His whole family knew. The cycle of him being caught and apologizing profusely and then doing it again went on for a while before he said that he needed to get out of his house where his cheater DV father was impeding his progress in getting better. I love him. It made sense, his dad was clearly where the behavior stemmed from. I left my housing program to get him out and we all 3 lived in hotels for a few months. I had to sell my body to afford a place for us to live. I was working full time as a lead teacher it just wasn't enough. He still couldn't keep a job but he wasn't lying or cheating. I got us a nice apartment all on my own. Things were good for a while. His anger issues would flair up at times but not as bad, and no lying or infidelity. We had so many heart to hearts. We got married. I did great at my job. He started doordashing for income. Things were going well. Then 6 months into our marriage, about 9 months after we moved out/7 months after we got our apartment, he sprung on me that he wanted a divorce. That was about 7 months ago now. We have been living together and I have been hoping to rebuild. In his vows, he swore so sincerely and in such great heartfelt detail to do better and be better and stand by me. And then he just through it all away. He has been so mean lately. Sometimes things are okay and it's like everything is the same. But he thinks I don't clean enough even though I try and he says I don't support him emotionally even though I really feel like I do. I also pay for everything, I even bought him an 800 dollar PC a couple months ago. I got really sick a month ago. Like vomiting 10+ times a day. I thought I had a stomach bug and didn't have money to go to the doctor over something so trivial that would clear up on its own. I made too much for medicaid but still not a lot. After only 4 days of being gone and feeling like shit, my work fired me. After another week or so of feeling sick and getting so weak I thought I was dying, I went to the hospital. They said all the vomiting had made me very dehydrated and I was lacking in a lot of vitamins. They gave me medicine and an IV. Turns out I'm pregnant and have HG. I'm pretty far along. At first K was supportive but now he acts like I'm trying to "trap" him with a baby, which doesn't even make sense. We were having unprotected sex and the only birth control was that I am breastfeeding, which he knew, so it isn't that crazy of an outcome. He has been so cruel and angry, saying terrible things. He threatens to leave when he gets mad so I beg him to stay because he knows I'd be all alone and I love him a lot. He has said some terribly cruel things and it's like every tiny thing I do wrong makes me the villain. Yesterday he blew up on me and it was scary and terrible. Today, I found out the few friends I thought I had hate me. One of them sent me the most cruel message I have ever received completely unprompted. I have no family support, no friends, my husband hates me, and everyone I've ever cared about except my son (who is different because he's too young to understand and he loves everyone and he is also a responsibility) wants nothing to do with me unless they are using me. I am so suicidal. I know a lot of people are suicidal but I am genuinely at a point where I am close to doing something I can't take back. But I can't because of my kids, both the 1 year old and the unborn one. And as much as I know I should be grateful for that, it feels so unfair. I've been having to do things I don't want to for money again. I have another great teaching job lined up but I don't start for at least a month. I feel like I should go to a hospital but I live in a state with a very high child removal rate even in cases of just mental health. I am a great mom, even though my husband and ex friends do not seem to agree. I can't risk having my fitness as a parent called into question over an unrelated mental health issue, especially since K's family and lots of people in my life would love the chance to lie about me to cps, and since I'm not employed right now, it doesn't look great. I don't know what to do. I feel so alone. I'm so so hurt. It feels like everything is falling apart. Not that long ago, I was a lead teacher, a wife, I felt like a respected and respectable person. Now I just feel like my train wreck of a life full of trauma has taunted me with this perfect picket fence life that I worked so hard for just to rip it away from me and leave me a useless unemployed incubator that everyone hates and is only holding on for her kids sake. The only people who talk to me or "care" just want to fuck me. Even the people interested in a relationship with me and seem like "good Christian men" are still driven by lust even if they disguise it to themselves. I have never felt so hopeless. I feel like I don't deserve this but everyone from my partner to my parents to my ex friends seem to think I do so maybe I'm just fooling myself.

I was driving back home with my mother after getting groceries from the local Walmart. We live in an apartment complex so we normally park our car inside of the multi story parking garage provided. On this particular day I decided to go for a parking which had a car on either side.
I tried to enter the parking space forward but both cars were really close to the white line so I ended up being really close to hitting the car on the right on the way in. Personally, I thought I was in the clear but my mom thought I was going to hit the car.
This argument caused me to offer to go outside of the car and check because I was pretty certain that I was safe. I opened the door and walked around the car to the right side and along the way I saw a guy in a car watching me. I didn’t think anything of it and continue to make my way to the other side. Once I get there, I see that I would have in fact hit the other car if I went along the path I would’ve taken originally.
Before I return back to correct my mistake I notice something. The car on my right already has an injury and coincidentally, right where I would have hit it. I go back to the driving seat and proceed to properly park the car while I think about the chances of that happening.
Once we get out of the car and head to the connecting door to the apartment, I notice the man in the car has a shocked look and that he also started to take photos. That’s when I realized how suspicious that all looked. He came out of his car and told me that I can’t just hit a car and walk away. I then explain to him that I actually didn’t hit the car because the front of my car is intact. Luckily, he believes me.
TL;DR: Looking at a car to check if you were going to hit may cause people to believe you actually did.

Does anyone remember this artist on tiktok?
Does anyone remember this artist on tiktok?
They had a series on MHA on tiktok, this was like around 2020-2021.
It was a love story, basically Bakugo was a prince and he stumbled into the forest and found a dragon (Kirishima) and they became friends.
Then going back to present day, Bakugo is supposed to marry Todoroki (who was also a prince) but Todoroki fell in love with Bakugo’s servant, Deku, and Bakugo is in love with the dragon Kirishima.
However, Todoroki and Bakugo can’t let their parents find out they don’t like each other so they pretend to like each other when their parents were around. The TikTok to this was like this: Bakugo and Todoroki were in a room and saying how they didn’t want to marry each other, but then Bakugo’s mom (I forgot her name) came and Bakugo and Todoroki pretended to be in love and the sound playing was “shut up and sleep with me” or something like that.
Then for some reason, Deku got all depressed so he ran away to the forest and met up with Uraraka (a witch) and they ran away.
Then the day of the wedding, Bakugo ran off the balcony and Kirishima caught him, and Todoroki ran away into the forest to find Deku.
The last tiktok was about Todoroki finding Deku and confessing his love to him. The song playing over this tiktok was that song La Da Dee by Cole Simpson, that one that goes like “La da Dee da da be doo there’s only me there’s only you”
This whole serious was like 5-7 tiktoks? But idk, it was hand drawn too, if anyone knows please help me find it, I’ve been trying to find it for 3-4 years

Im a little behind on this post, I know, but it’s been on my mind heavy so here it goes. Who else noticed she took her rings off right before for the maternity pictures?? She claimed it was bc of her “hands swelling”yet she was able to magically put them back on what seemed like immediately after?! Right. It’s giving she knows how ridiculous and tacky they look for one and especially since they aren’t even engaged or married ???? Perhaps she should’ve also considered not having such trashy and tasteless inspiration for them as that should also be something she would’ve one day looked back and cringed on 🫠 really shows these “influencers” are so out of touch with reality and do whatever for views that they’ll look stupid on the internet which is around just as long as those pictures…. Forever.. but think she’s doing something by making sure they aren’t in the pictures? ORRRR which would be the more dense and Christen thing to do, she had hopes he’d surprise propose during the shoot and wanted to make sure that finger was free 🤷🏻‍♀️ idk just a thought

Sometimes I have slight symptoms before going to bed, they are not so bad and I can sleep through the night, so I don't take any medicine (I try to convince myself that I don't want to be dependent on the medicine). Rarely I wake up without migraine, but most of the time I wake up with worsened symptoms (back of the neck discomfort and pain behind eyes), and end up taking medicine. On top of that, even if I actually slept through the night, I feel my body is not properly rested.
Rest is one of the best actions to do when you feel sick, I find it insane that 8h of sleep don't do anything against my migraine...

Sorry for the shitty formating, I'm on mobile.
TLDR: Stupid idiot (probably) gets flirted with by a GORGEOUS girl, like she could just walk into a bar and everyone looks over gorgeous. Stupid guy ends up on here, not know how to react.
So this morning, I was at school, as you do you do and I had to go to the hall to use one of my schools pcs because I forgot my charger. As I start walking towards the pcs I noticed there was an aqaintance of mine sitting at a table behind me (she had a short fling with a friend of mine) I don't really pay attention so as I start logging in, I get my name called, I look over and just say hi how are ya, the basics, right?
Onto the relvant stuff we go.
I turn back, and I've been growing a mustache over the break and the acquaintances friend (I don't know her name, so I'll call her Anne from now on) tells me it looks really good on me
I'm not really good with compliments in general so I just said thank you with a big smile, then Anne asks me "Can I touch it?", I get really flustered, and without turning around from my monitor I say "sorry, only I get the privilige to touch it", and I understand that it's either just teasing, or maybe even flirting. I make a bit of a joke about it as we go back and forth, mostly without turning my face away from the screen (because I'm embarressed? Idk) eventually she jokingly tells me to face her when she talking to me, and after a bit of pushing I do, and immediately I don't know what to say because let me tell ya, she's GORGEOUS, like she's not even hot just actually gorgeos, I can't put it into words.
Then I ask her if maybe she has a mustache of her own and she could touch that instead? (????) She says no and even had my aqaintance check it to which she says; yea a little bit. Before I can say anything she immediately says but I want to touch yours! Again, I don't know if this is just a stupid joke or genuinely flirting. I tell her she can get on her knees, beg and cry however much she wants but she won't get to touch my mustache (my horrible attempt at flirting) She just straight up says ok I'll get on my knees, probably one of the most obvious innuendos I've ever heard, coming from a gorgeous girl, who seems to be into me somehow.
I don't know what to say and luckily a few more of their friends join them and I'm relieved but also frustrated that I don't get to keep talking to her. I also forgot to mention that the both of them complimented me on a few things beforehand like how I'm smart because I used the excuse "I forgot my charger at home, can I work in the hallway" to which I responded with "I know right?" Then Anne said something like "Well don't be too egoistic" I just responded with a little quip which I use far too often:"Can't help it, massive ego" She said she likes that about me (???)
So I know this seems like some random internet weirdo rambling on and on about some dumb thing, and that might be so, I just genuinely want to know why I can't just go up to her and ask for her number or instagram, you know? I'm an outgoing guy, mostly, but when there's this gorgeos girl who is almost definitely into me, I shut down? Again, I might be misreading things I have a tendency to overthink basically anything with girls and make a bigger deal out of it than it needs to be or is.
Be that as it may, what is wrong with me? Can anyone for the love of god tell me what it is that I'm incapable of? Like what the actual fuck can anyone please talk some sense into me and tell me what I should do next? Honestly I can't stop thinking about it, like I don't even know her name but since today I've been into her alot.
Sidenote, this, again might be nothing but she knows my name, which for some reason just makes me smile, like she took the time to memorize my name, however small of a thing to memorize that is, I just get butterflies in my stomach when I'm thinking about that little fact :)

Just another day more in my journey to find my half even if im starting to lose hope on this with each day that passes away 🥹
My name is Vlad, I'm 22 years old, and I currently live in Spain. I really enjoy video games, anime (I started watching it a few months ago as I was having a really hard time, and it's helping me a lot), listening to music, and working out at the gym (it's helping me a lot with my stress and my feelings), animals ( i have one dog and one cat) and martial arts. I also like more things, but I can't remember them all, so you can ask me if you want 😊.
About my looks, I can say that I have long black hair (Viking style, I think), I'm around 5'10"-5'12" tall, and I have an average body, but I'm changing that with the gym. I don't have any problem sending selfies or even voice notes, so feel free to ask about it.
About my personality, I can say that I'm a very sweet and caring person and will always give you lots of love and affection, but I need to feel that from your side too. I love to spend time together, so doing voice chats, sleep calls, or video calls its nice with me 😊 (I will adapt to your preferences, but for me, doing those is just a form of love).
A bit about me: I'm currently doing a cybersecurity degree that I will finish in a few months, and then I will start working on whatever job I can find to start saving some money, hopefully with the idea of going to live with my soulmate and be happy together.
I'm also a person who had a really bad time this last months (you are free to ask me about anything about me, I'm an open book), so I need to feel loved and cared for, and I love to be pampered in that sense. I will never say no to any kind of affection you show me.
Please im looking for something serious so just message if you are willing to put effort in the relationship. Also if you could send a picture It would be perfect (i want to see with Who im talking and well we need to see if we both feel attracted to eachother). Of course i Will send a picture too.
If you read this far thank you and i hope we can meet and see where everything goes 😊

I, 13F was at school this morning. For reference I live in a very small town and go to a tiny private school. Each morning the 8th and 7th grade meet up in our "common room" for teachers to discuss our day/ any changes in our schedules. Today there were no announcements so, we were talking to each other.
I have a friend who is not in my labeled "friend group" (I'm going to call her sue) and we are both book nerds, so we often talk about books. I am very different from my so-called "friend group". I am not super athletic or loud, I like Taylor Swifts music, and I don't really participate in pe. . . sUe mE >:) So yeah, I'm the odd one out and they let me know that. . .a lot.
So, this morning Sue came up to me and started talking to me about the Shatter Me series (which I LOVE) and I was really excited because she has never read them. My "friend" (if I can even call her that. . . also I am naming her Ava) she is the one person who gives me the most crap and unbearable headaches. (Also, our 8th grade class is going on a field trip soon and Ava and I have the best group in the 8th grade, but she doesn't like me very much so she's giving me a lot of crap about it . . . just for a little reference.) I am well aware that my "friend group" does not like it when I talk to other people outside of our "group" and especially hate it when I talk to other people about the books I read but the group is still not very nice to me . . .which I don't get.
But anyway, Ava is standing nearby when Sue comes up to me this morning and starts to talk but Ava interrupts us and says, "Are you guys going to be talking about books the WHOLE time on our trip? Like you don't know how obnoxious it is!" And I had just told her "You don't have to listen" and I continue on with my conversation. Then she proceeds to give me the biggest eye roll I have ever seen in my entire life. Then she asked me "Are you going to be talking about books the entire car ride too?!!!" And I told her "No, my dad is driving me, and the rest of our group for the trip is going to be on the bus." And she did NOT like that, she just started to huff and puff and give me dirty looks. I told her " I thought you and (girl in our class) were going to switch so you could be in another group" And she told me that our teacher " will not let her switch." But I was kind of confused because she hadn't asked our teacher if she could switch yet. So, I just turned around and continued talking and she sighed like obnoxiously hard. I'm kind of fed up. . . and I told her, "Like our groups are for ONE DAY, not the rest of our lives." And she gave me the BoMbAsTiC SiDe EyE. And talked crap about me to everyone and annoyed me for the rest of the day.
So, AITAH for not kissing up to her like everyone else does and not being sympathetic towards her?

So, I'm in between 3e campaigns at the moment as I gear up for the next one I'm considering some house rule changes and a player asked me why Manipulation spells are so impossible to use because of the Threshold requirement. Doing some research into it, yeah, I think there's a problem here and I'm open to just straight up removing thresholds from most of the Manipulation spells in SR3 and MITS. But they seem so deliberately tacked on there I can't help but wonder: Why were they put there in the first place? I'm generally keen to respect Chesterton's Fence, so I want to figure out what the designers were thinking when they put these in here before I remove it.
Some background So this is a general problem with opposed rolls in 3e, but opposed rolls become very silly instantly if you do anything but roll 4 or 5 dice against 4 or 5 dice. Consider the following probabilities of one pool size vs another:
Some basic statistics for opposed checks in the raw. These are your odds of success (net successes > 0) when you have the number of dice in the top row and your opponent has the number of dice in the given column.

	1 die	2 dice	3 dice	4 dice	5 dice	6 dice
1 die	14%	74%	95%	99%	100%	100%
2 dice	2%	22%	78%	96%	99%	100%
3 dice	0%	3%	33%	70%	91%	98%
4 dice	0%	0%	10%	36%	68%	90%
5 dice	0%	0%	2%	13%	37%	85%
6 dice	0%	0%	0%	2%	12%	34%

Already, there's some really alarming stuff in here, like a single die on one side of the equation changing the success chances by 40% or more. But what if we randomly inserted a requirement that the attacker achieve a number of successes equal to half the pool size of the defender. To help the attacker out, I'll also simulate him getting more dice because he does have Spell Pool after all.
Also, let's assume the spell is Force 5 Alter Memory for now, but as I'll explain later this matters less than you might imagine.

	7 dice Sorcery Test	8 dice Sorcery Test	9 dice Sorcery Test	10 dice Sorcery Test	11 dice Sorcery Test	12 dice Sorcery Test
Willpower 1	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
Willpower 2	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
Willpower 3	98%	99%	100%	100%	100%	100%
Willpower 4	66%	74%	82%	88%	92%	95%
Willpower 5	30%	38%	46%	53%	60%	66%
Willpower 6	1%	2%	3%	4%	6%	8%

There's some pretty wild stuff going on here right at the lines where the threshold comes into play. At 3 Willpower, resisting the spell is virtually impossible. The Force of the spell doesn't actually matter all that much here. The problem is that the spellcaster is rolling a pile of dice larger than your raw unaided attribute against a TN much lower than the Force probably is and only needs a single net success (which they needed anyway to just to cast the spell). Once you hit 4 Willpower, suddenly, not only does the caster need yet another success, but the fraction of his pile that is counting successes has reduced from 66 to 50%. 4s and 5s is clearly the sweet spot that I think the designers tested with the most. The variance here isn't too bad. There are reasonable chances of success and resistance all around.
However, once you hit that critical threshold of 6 Willpower, everything goes to hell. Casting spells becomes impossible. Going from Willpower 5 to 6 cuts the attacker's successes in half and requires them to get yet another net success. Here's where I point out that if Harlequin himself popped up and slapped your Willpower 6 character right out of chargen with a Force 8 Alter Memory and threw 20 dice at it... he'd only have a 49% chance of success. We've only been talking about Willpower so far, but all of the above basically means that Manipulation spells going against Body do not work on Orks and Trolls, full stop.
So it brings me to my thread question. What are Thresholds for, exactly? They don't even matter for targets with attributes of 1 to 3. They make things a bit easier for the defender in the 4 to 5 range, perhaps important given that these are spells which can turn you into a newt or make you shoot yourself in the face, but they become absolutely prohibitive against attributes of 6+. Why not get rid of them altogether? Or, if they must be kept to help out the defender, why not make them uniform? Why not make it so that the attacker always needs two net successes, regardless of the defender's scores? The defender's score is already relevant in setting the TN.
My suspicion is that the designers started out with spells like Ignite which go against a static TN under the theory that being really tough doesn't stop me from agitating the molecules on your body, but the Threshold was there to make it so tougher characters could still benefit from that toughness. Elemental manipulations are already kinda in that vein. They roll against static TNs but you get to resist them like normal ranged attacks (being tough doesn't negate the fire I'm shooting at you, it just keeps the fire I made from causing you harm). Somewhere along the way though the static TNs got tossed out and replaced with standard resistance rolls but the Thresholds stuck around.
Is this general understanding correct? Has anyone else puzzled over this or houseruled it?

I’ve (19F) been on nexplanon for about 5 years now. It’s always caused a bit of pain in my ovaries, which I’ve had checked out. The docs say it’s just minor ovarian cysts, and nothing to worry about. However, over the past year or so, the pain has gotten substantially worse. To make it weirder, it is only really intense after orgasm, both through sex AND self inflicted. And when I say worse, I mean a 9 or 10 on the pain scale. Throwing up, shaking, blacking out, the works. Is this common? Is it the nexplanon, or something else? I should also add that it comes and goes periodically. It’ll happen for a couple weeks at a time, then I’ll be fine, then it comes back. I’m at a loss!