Old folk sayings about storms

I’m a 16-year-old who just got my 10th board CBSE results. I barely passed math and got below average in science, but my performance was better than expected considering my tough year. Last year, I had two leg surgeries in October and December, which seriously affected my studies. I was very anxious before the surgeries and sick afterward, so I only had a month to study for my exams. My parents and I were happy that I passed, given the circumstances. However, I really want to take the non-medical stream, but my school won’t allow it. I don’t want to change schools because I’ve been there since 2nd grade and was looking forward to returning after lockdown. Other schools won’t allow me either, and my only option would be a dummy school, which I really don’t want because I didn’t go to school for 2 years due to my surgeries and before that because of lockdown. I really dream about going back to my school—I miss it so much, and only 2 years are left. A family friend, who is a teacher at my school, promised to help me get in despite my scores, but he backed out after seeing my results. My parents and I have been asking everyone we know for help, even my friend is trying, because other students with similar scores got into PCM without problems. Tomorrow, my parents and I are meeting with the principal, who is our last hope. I need advice on what to say to the principal or any tips to help convince him to let me pursue the non-medical stream. Any help is appreciated! Dm me if you can help.

My mom passed alittle over a month ago, her cancer had came back and was destroying her liver, long story short she only lived about 2 more weeks after we found out it was back. My parents were married almost 40 years. My dad (54) has been talking to this 32 year old woman who works at the bar he frequents. I noticed 2 weeks after my mom died they were texting frequently, and I didn’t think too much of it. She showed up to my mom’s funeral, he’s been having dinner at her place and yesterday on my birthday I found out that he is taking her to a 2 day music festival by the beach. He claims that they are “really good friends”. Mind you I’ve never heard him mention this woman ever before my mom died. It’s starting to really affect me and hurt me that he is doing this. I haven’t said anything about it yet because I’m just shocked that I would be put in this position so early on. He says that she went through something similar, she was married to someone for a year but they separated and once separated he killed himself. So I need advice, am I freaking out for no reason? Should I say something to him? Please any advice would help.

I was reading an old review on IGN DVD of the first Lord of the Rings movie on DVD. The writer is gushing about how he saw the movie 12 times in theaters, and how the widescreen anamorphic transfer on the DVD “looked even better!” I’m no expert, but surely a standard definition 480p DVD from the early 2000s, even on the best TV available, could not possibly look better than a 35mm print of a film projected on the big screen. And yet I remember my dad who was big into AV tech at the time watching the film and saying similar things!
Does anyone else go back and read some of these reviews and get a kick out of them?

Hey! I figured why not do as the title says. I always message people but my profile is a bit barren soo…..
I’m 26 years old, Pansexual top man from Southern Ontario, Canada. I’m 6’2”, have Size 14 US feet, large hands.
Kinks/Likes: - Shiny shorts. Anything like basketball shorts, soccer shorts, mesh shorts, gym shorts. I love a good cock print and ass in them. If you ever want to send pics throw a pair on and get me going 😈 - Breeding. I shoot thick massive loads. Seriously huge. And when I’m super turned on and raging it’s like a firehose. Pumping a pussy or ass full of my seed is so hot. - Kissing. I’m dominant and all but making out sensually as I tease the bottom is hot. Take my tongue in your mouth as I feel you up and make you lose your breath.
(I’ll add more as I think of them)
Dislikes: - Bad manners. Don’t be a bitch and say you’re naughty/a brat. There’s a huge difference. - Bathroom stuff. Not my cup of tea -Bigger folks. I know i’m big myself and I feel like a hypocrite but I’m just not attracted to heavier people. - Excessive body hair. If I’m giving oral I don’t need a bush in my face
These are about me. If you don’t like, don’t interact with me. I’m allowed to have my own opinions and likes.

And I'm tired of pretending it's not. I remember when that video was first released, and you can't convince me that the poisoned, hypocritical discourse surrounding this game didn't originate from him. He was one of the pioneers of the "long-form video game analysis" format that so many have made their careers with, and for whom so many have carried on his tradition of only viewing DS2 through the lens of what he interprets as mistakes and misdirections of what the "souls series" perfected with DeS and DS1. It also wouldn't surprise me if this bizarre sentiment of "DS2 is a bad game but it's still better than most games" also comes from this video, as he expresses a similar sentiment less than 3 minutes in.
He laments that it's a "major problem" that the game doesn't unceremoniously throw you into a character creation menu immediately upon selecting New Game. He calls the opening cutscene, "utterly pointless" with no further exploration of what might be being communicated to him. He also refers to it as "tonally out of place with the Souls series" without acknowleding that DS2 has a distinct tone in itself and doesn't necessarily need to ape whatever he thinks should be mainstays of the "souls series" (which was still in its infancy when this video released mind you). He says that the opening character being male is a mistake, and that his identity is being "poorly hidden" by the developers to maintain the illusion that you're playing as the player character.
I mean, this is clearly not what's being communicated to the player. I think there are multiple valid interpretations of the events of the opening cutscene and arrival in Things Betwixt (that's probably the point of the vague storytelling) - who the man is, why he finds himself in a cursed land, and what it means for him to change into a wholly new person upon being given the human effigy. But rejecting all this as just a collection of mistakes is akin to a toddler throwing away a new toy because they don't immediately understand its function.
Could it be that who this man was before doesn't matter? That perhaps certain forces at play in a land ravaged by an unrelenting curse erodes one's humanity and allows it to be reborn or reshaped like the countless kingdoms that have fell and risen anew? It's not like we don't have multiple other instances of this theme being expressed in the game. From most NPC's forgetting why they came to Drangleic and who they even are, to a coffin that literally allows you change your sex at will. Perhaps personal identity and history being fluid in the land of the everlasting curse is part of the theming and not just stupid developers making mistakes? Again, this is just my interpretation, but I think it's wholly more valuable than just calling the opening pointless. My point is there's a surprising lack of actual analysis in this critique so celebrated by the vocal minority of DS2 haters.
He interprets the old firekeepeers warning you of the fate of the accursed as the developers taunting you with a meaninglessly difficult experience to come. Seeing as you can revisit these ladies and learn more about their place in the world, this is also a surprisingly shallow interpretation of their inclusion.
He claims difficulty being a focus of DS2's design was a "misunderstanding" of Miyazaki's intent in designing DeS and DS1. This is just baffling and utterly baseless. In what other series known for its difficulty, would the inclusion of challenge be widely dismissed as a "misunderstanding"? Personally, I don't find it valuable to speculate why DS2 is difficult anymore than I speculate why Mario can jump. Ultimately it's a video game, and it's level of challenge should be critiqued based on its quality and implementation, not that it's philosophically misguided or some such sophistry.
I'd be here all day if I wanted to dissect all of the bizarre and surface-level analysis he provides, so I'm going to list a few more wild takes of his:
--Royal Rat Authority is somehow a "retread" of Sif with "random enemies" thrown in. His only reasoning here is because RRA resembles a dog, even though their respective fights are different in literally every other way. He claims it's a "crapshoot" if you can take out the small rats if you aren't a pyromancer (like, what?), even though he shows footage of himself doing exactly that with a bow. And that the fight is "practically over" afterwards, even though he shows footage of himself struggling to land a hit on RRA by itself. No further analysis.
--He claims most of the boss fights in DS2 that involve more than one single enemy "feel as lazily designed as the Capra Demon". I'm sure I don't have to explain why this is complete nonsense. Capra Demon's problem wasn't solely that it was more than one enemy. You couldn't even get your bearings before being immediately wailed on in a tight corridor with few means of escape. And absolutely no fight in DS2, including Royal Rat, has this problem.
--He claims the "mechanics of the souls series" are built for one-on-one engagement. No analysis of the multitude of tools and resources DS2 provides you to deal with multi-enemy encounters. From a wide variety of weapons with differing movesets, to environmental hazards, to AoE spells, to actually effective throwables and ranged weapons. Nope, the Gods of the "souls series" have decreed to him that if every single encounter wasn't made to cater to a locked-on sword and shield playstyle, that it's a mistake not in keeping with the rest of the series. WHY this game's design needs to be so concerned with these supposed laws of the series also goes unexplained.
--He says attack tracking is "unnecessary" and not an improvement from the previous entries in the series. What goes unspoken and apparently unrecognized is just how dominant circle-strafing and backstabbing is in these previous games. And while still an effective strategy in DS2, is understandably punished in predictable ways that the player can and will absolutely adapt to. It sometimes looks a little goofy, sure. But it's not misguided design that you can't rely on crutch tactics as reliably as in the previous games.
I'm going to stop here, because honestly an experienced player could (and should) rebut every single one of his simplistic "critiques", but a consistent theme of his video is that every single design decision is random, haphazard, misguided, mistaken, poorly thought out, meaningless etc. And he'll provide a counter-example of how DeS or DS1 does things in a way that's apparently better. But he offers no discussion or analysis about how these mechanics fit into the context of DS2's design, only how they are not in keeping with "the souls series". This says far more about how he engages (or rather doesn't engage) with video games as distinct pieces of art and entertainment, than it does about Dark Souls 2.
And if you've been following the long-form game analysis scene like I have, you'll find no shortage of content creators essentially parroting MM's perspective. There's a youtuber called Creetosis that made somewhat of a spiritual successor to MM's DS1 commentary, but with a full playthrough if DS2. And similarly to MM, everything he sees is pointless, annoying, stupid, and mistaken.
Other fandoms don't tolerate stupid critique from tourists and we shouldn't either. I've been a fan of MM and the scene he inspired since his first few videos, but I'm not going to pretend that this stupid trend of being ignorantly critical of DS2 didn't come from him at least in part.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5507812/2024/05/21/rockets-nba-draft-no-3-pick-donovan-mitchell/?source=user_shared_article

The casual nature of the combine — conversations with league executives, agents, media and scouts held either in the lobby and restaurant area of the Marriott Marquis or on the concourse of the adjacent Wintrust Arena — gave an early peek into outside interest in the Rockets’ No. 3 pick. Talks have largely been informal, the bulk of concrete offers likely won’t come in until draft night, but a handful of teams have expressed interest in acquiring the pick, team and league sources told The Athletic. Interested teams would either like to move up to No. 3 or ones that would like to move into the first round altogether, sources said.
Team sources said Houston will listen to offers. For example, moving back and collecting additional assets should not be ruled out as a possibility, not this early in the process. Since 29 other teams may have 29 opinions on the top of the draft, big boards could vary. Last season, the Rockets expected Cam Whitmore (who had been highly graded) to be gone by the time their 20th pick came around. They were prepared to trade out of the draft entirely — and were surprised he was still on the board when the pick arrived. A similar situation could arise next month, with a player they like at No. 3 potentially available at say, No. 9.
Another possibility, if the Rockets were to move the No. 3 pick, is packaging it with additional assets for a star. Houston is flush with young talent and draft capital that could appeal to teams with elite talent in flux. One player who fits is Cleveland’s Donovan Mitchell. The Rockets are among those interested in the 27-year-old and have been monitoring his situation for months, league sources say. The Cavaliers guard’s delay in inking a long-term extension, coupled with another disheartening playoff exit, only adds to speculation about his future. Such a move for an All-NBA type player would be more suitable than for others who could potentially be available — New Orleans’ Brandon Ingram and Brooklyn’s Mikal Bridges — for example.
Houston also could look to acquire future draft picks, such as Brooklyn’s array of assets courtesy of the Phoenix Suns/Kevin Durant trade. The Houston Chronicle first reported the Rockets’ interest in the Suns’ unprotected first-round picks (Brooklyn has ownership of 2025, ’27 and ’29 Phoenix firsts in addition to swaps beginning in 2028). Per team sources, the Rockets will re-engage with the Nets leading up to the June 26 draft.

okay so this might seem bad but i was just on a bus and it smelt so bad. it literally smelled of shit, piss, bo and vomit all in one. it was genuinely unbearable like i couldn’t breathe. so i pulled out my deodorant and like sprayed it upwards, not on anyone else. then some old lady turned to us and said stop being horrible. like we were talking loudly about it stinking but we weren’t saying it was anyone on the bus… am i the asshole?

Hi y’all,
Wanted to share this insight (in the hopes also the folks at CZM see it) about the effects of neglect on childhood development, and that Schraber may not have been schizophrenic at all. I say this having not read anything further and just from listening to the podcast so I may be missing crucial information.
When children are physically neglected their brains develop differently. Often times the child creates a rich inner world to compensate for reality. The distinction between young children (under 5) and adolescents or adults experiencing trauma is that young children have more vibrant and real feeling imaginations (for example, my teddy bear has the same emotions I do so must care for him). This can lead children to develop a dissociative identity disorder. This diagnosis has gotten blown up by TikTok unfortunately. In reality, that will typically mean the child becomes an adult whose inner world is more “real” than the outer world. This happens out of necessity, so they can cope with how terrifying real life is. They will often blame themselves or fictional others for their suffering, rather than the parent. For a parent to be “bad”=death in a developing mind. So all these other fantasies and/or self blame step in to compensate.
For further context, I’m a trauma therapist and have had a rare few clients who have developed in this way and it’s because of physical, emotional neglect and torture. They get screened for schizophrenia/bipolar spectrum and do not meet the criteria. Further, it was typical to call pretty much any mental illness schizophrenia up until maybe the 70s or 80s (don’t have the exact dates in my brain). So it’s good to be skeptical when you hear that diagnosis historically. I’m sure Robert is aware of that, but maybe not this other facet of how specific kinds of trauma affect brain development.
I also share this to highlight the significance of neglect. It’s now more commonly understood in trauma therapy that physical and emotional neglect can have the absolute worst effects on children. It’s understandable that people gravitate to CSA as the worst (because it’s disgusting and horrible obviously) but kids who experience that kind of trauma (if not combined with torture and neglect) have better outcomes as adults than kids who were never touched lovingly as children. That distinction is only to highlight how we really need to give one million shits about poverty first and foremost. And that’s not blame for parents, rather if parents aren’t able to care for and nurture their children they will have worse outcomes as adults. It also makes these back to back series about horrible childcare so fascinating, and to consider what neglect does to a society at large.
Anyways, thought you all might find that interesting or useful. Not a cool brag but I can handle CSA content but when I hear about babies and very young kids being left in the cold it makes me feel like I’m about to pass out because I know what’s happening in their poor brains (example of this: You’re Wrong About ep on crack babies, I feel nauseous thinking about it still).
Would love to hear thoughts from my fellow clinical psychologists!

Hi folks
Been doing a bit of reading about this and I am totally lost.
Currently have a small business, running server 2012, with remote desktop user CALS.
A piece of software runs on the server and the 4 users access it remotely across the internet using RDC. The software now no longer supports server 2012 so I am looking at what my options are.
Server 2022 Essentials -So can it be used as a domain controller and remote desktop host - do I also need user cals for both windows and the remote desktop - is that even possible, the information is so unclear. It says "Requires no client access licences" but that surely can't be right?
Have I any other options that I have overlooked?
Thanks in advance

I’m 26 years old, and I live in Colorado. Last year in January I was found at fault for a collision. Somebody was driving dangerously and I swerved to avoid them, lost control of the vehicle, and hit the back end of a pickup truck. We exchanged information, my vehicle was a lot more damaged, we both drove away after making a few phone calls.
I was going about 35-40 mph so around the speed limit. I hit the brakes before we collided but it wasn’t enough. His rear tail light, quarter panel, and possibly his bumper were damaged. It was a company truck and he was very nice about it, I think he works in commercial construction.
Now yesterday I get a court document handed to me at my front door letting me know I am to appear at court for mediation, they are asking a judgement of 7500 dollars, the maximum allowed by small claims court. Apparently, my insurance gave them an amount that was (according to them) 1200 dollars short of the repair cost. Additionally, the vehicle was in the repair shop for 5 months while they fixed it, which resulted in a loss of use amounting to (according to them) 7500.
I’m wondering what I should do and what is a likely outcome. I feel like their problem is with Geico. My liability covers 15,000 dollars. That should be enough to fix a fender bender. I have no say in what my insurance pays out, I have no sway with them. Also, I don’t govern repair times, shop choice, or parts availability. I’m studying to be a mechanic, I know what this stuff costs and how long it takes. Saying they need me to pay out of pocket for something that took too long due to someone else’s inconsideration is frankly ridiculous.
I have no money. I am a student and a new parent, my baby is 8 months old. I can barely afford groceries, my family helps me put gas in my car and feed me. I have almost no money in my checking, no savings, and my credit card is maxed out. I am waiting to start a part time apprenticeship in the fall and right now I work <20 hours per week driving Uber. I made 24,000 dollars last year. I have never possessed more than 1500 dollars at once in my life. Even if I paid 50/month (way more than I can afford) it would take over 10 years to pay off. 50 dollars is nothing to sneeze at. That is 3 meals, a day the zoo, or a pair of shoes for my daughter. I’m worried they’re gonna take that away from me. I grew up poor and I’m worried I’m gonna be burdened with this for so long.
I’m just curious what my next steps should be and if it’s likely I will have to pay this judgement or what. Just not really sure how this process goes. Thanks in advance

I know a lot of people are talking about her recreating the Bejeweled music video in her relationship with Travis but she’s obviously doing Blank Space too. Not a new thought but worth diving more into.
Travis says it’s his favorite song. The Lake Como Villa looks a lot like the one in the Blank Space MV. I was also realizing that at the end of the MV, the next guy/PR relationship shows up in a red convertible which reminded me a lot of the convertible we first see them get into after the first football game she attended.
The lyrics of Blank Space fit so well. I’ve got my thoughts below. What else do you all see?
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Nice to meet you, where you been? I could show you incredible things Magic, madness, heaven, sin Saw you there and I thought "Oh, my God, look at that face You look like my next mistake Love's a game, wanna play?" Ay

Taylor chooses her next beard - this time it’s Travis. Love’s a game, wanna play? Might as well pick a football player to make the game analogy more obvious. She can show him amazing things. Make his Hollywood dreams come true.

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New money, suit and tie I can read you like a magazine

Travis is the epitome of new money, suit & tie with his flamboyant dressing style. Pin stripe three piece suits, etc. She can read him like a magazine because he’s not deep enough to be a book.

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Ain't it funny? Rumors fly And I know you heard about me So hey, let's be friends

Travis goes on his podcast and talks about wanting to give her a friendship bracelet (lol) causing rumors to fly.

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I'm dying to see how this one ends Grab your passport and my hand I can make the bad guys good for a weekend

Travis says how they are planning to travel all over Europe together this summer during Eras. Get that passport ready Buddy.

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So it's gonna be forever Or it's gonna go down in flames You can tell me when it's over, mm If the high was worth the pain Got a long list of ex-lovers They'll tell you I'm insane 'Cause you know I love the players And you love the game

Is it going to be worth it Travis? We know you love the game.

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'Cause we're young, and we're reckless We'll take this way too far

Will they actually get engaged? Will they get married? How far will they take it?

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It'll leave you breathless, mm Or with a nasty scar Got a long list of ex-lovers They'll tell you I'm insane But I've got a blank space, baby And I'll write your name

Travis’s favorite song? She blows him a kiss during this song? C’mon

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Cherry lips, crystal skies I could show you incredible things Stolen kisses, pretty lies You're the King, baby, I'm your Queen

I feel So High School. Almost like Tayvis is Homecoming King & Queen right? Stolen kisses backstage, on a boat in Italy… it’s true, swear, scouts honor.

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Find out what you want Be that girl for a month

Travy wants a WAG, right? Taylor says bet, I can be the Waggiest Wag to ever Wag. I’ll drape myself in Chiefs gear and show up to every game. She can be that girl for a while…

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Wait, the worst is yet to come, oh, no Screaming, crying, perfect storms I can make all the tables turn

Until she drops TTPD. Completely about an ex. She’s screaming, she’s crying, she’s craaaaaaazy. Wait where did the fun, bubbly WAG go?

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Rose garden filled with thorns Keep you second guessing like "Oh, my God, who is she?" I get drunk on jealousy But you'll come back each time you leave 'Cause, darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream

Stories come out about how she can’t bear to be without him. She’s insecure, maybe jealous? Photos show them looking sad, bored, over it. Is the daydream starting to feel like a nightmare?

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Boys only want love if it's torture Don't say I didn't, say I didn't warn ya Boys only want love if it's torture Don't say I didn't, say I didn't warn ya

Don’t say she didn’t warn you Travis. You already know, babe.

I took my 1999 Ford Ranger in for an oil change, alignment check, and new tires. This truck has 137k miles and was owned by mechanics for the first 20 years/70k miles. I have gone a few thousand miles over on ONE oil change, otherwise this thing has been well maintained and I always get compliments from mechanics that it looks really good.
I knew the alignment needed to be fixed because my wheel was pulling slightly to the drivers side and the steering wheel was shuttering at high speeds. I could tell the shuttering was directly correlated to how fast I was going. My tires were also old (but not bald) so I just have been using my other car as much as possible and haven’t gone over 60mph to keep it from shuttering the last few months until I could bring it in. They said the toe on the passenger side was really off, but that they fixed that. They said everything else looked good and they recommended flushing my engine which I declined.
I pick up the car yesterday and as soon as I get on the highway, I can tell something was very wrong. The previous shuttering of the steering wheel was gone, but every time I hit the smallest imperfection in the highway the whole car and then the steering wheel would start oscillating. I felt like I was going to lose control of my car. I drove straight back to the shop. I was on the road for about 10-15 minutes. As soon as I get out, I smell burning rubber. My rear driver’s side wheel had smoke pouring out of it. I got a video of that then took photos of all the wheels front and back. I put the keys in the drop box as they were closed and left a voicemail demanding them to fix everything they just damaged for free the next day (today).
I called first thing this morning and they kept trying to blame me. I kept saying I was worried my brakes were ruined and they were saying, “we didn’t touch your brakes”, “bad alignment or balance does NOT cause excessive heat or damage to brakes”, “well, you’re driving a 1999 Ford Ranger, so….”, “we see you had a BUNCH of work done by everybody else”. They were referring to my replaced shocks, ball joint, and sway bar links on the FRONT of the car over a year ago. They said when they got into the brakes on the right side this morning, something that was already damaged fell out that they’ll fix for free. I can’t remember what it was.
I argued with them for 20 minutes until they finally agreed to repair whatever happened. However, I’m worried that when I go in to pick it up they’re going to keep being dodgy and say my car is fine and leave me with thousands of dollars worth of damages. I am planning on calling another mechanic (who I already trust and should have gone to in the first place, this one was just right by my house so it was convenient). I was going to call the other shop while in the first shop’s lobby and explain everything that happened and tell them I’m bringing the car straight to their shop and leaving it there to get a diagnostic and make sure it’s safe. I’m getting as much of a paper trail as I can. I want this place to put EVERYTHING in writing too, if they don’t write down their side of it I’ll do it myself in the shop. Anything else I can do to protect myself??

Thank you in advance if you will read this 'till the end.
A person spent his childhood quite pretending because he was "a kid" and he didn't know histone identity.. People around him got used to his weak fake personality "yk, like they saw him in the type of person that gets bullied and so on".. and when he tried to improve and explore himself; like his shape, personality, health and so on.. but he found people around him still doesn't take him seriously and still see his inner child because they are used to it.. and these acts remind him of how people bullied or beweakened him or disrespected his inner child in the past..
Firstly, how can he still have confidence in himself in improving and exploring himself, while also not thinking about the past and how his inner child was to people around him.. secondly, how can he be focused and not think about the past and how he pretended in the past..
Thirdly, and that's the most important, how can he get out to them with his true identity without them saying "stop pretending," "why are you depressed," or "why are you a changed person".. I hope someone would understand that.. some people advised me with "ghost mode" and I'm really thinking about doing it for a good while to wipe out any triggers for my identity disorder and wipe out any triggers for old memories for the inner child and how people treated him..

Need to tell this story 2013
Hi there
This happened in 2013 but I still remember it like it was yesterday. Since my experience, I read a lot of stories from others about sleep paralysis/obes/ astral projection but none of them ever seemed like what happened to me.
I’m sharing because I don’t know what this was and I’m curious if anyone has had this experience as well.
I was living in a little studio apartment by myself. I remember I didn’t have bed yet I had just moved in. I was going to sleep for the night I remember it was a weeknight because I had work in the morning.
I had had sleep paralysis happen I would say maybe 4 times before this from age 14-22. Never SAW any shadows or demons but I did hear them in my ear.
You know that feeling you get right before you are about to go into sleep paralysis where you’re kind of vibrating and feel like you’re about to lose control? Well I had that happen, but usually it only happened when I was on my back and this time I was laying on my side. I felt like my spirit was about to detach and I was freaking out. I thought ok I all I have to do is focus on being in my body and I’ll stay but it didn’t work. I felt my ears kind of pop and heard a sound kind of like what an old refrigerator sounds like when it’s on at night.
This is hard to explain but, as I felt my spirit leaving it felt like somehow there was a way for me to choose to NOT see anything. I wanted to keep my eyes closed even though I knew it was my spirit traveling. And it worked. I didn’t see a THING. And I was very aware of the face that I was trying to keep my “spiritual” eyes closed. I had this feeling that if I let my eyes see them I would have seen my body . I knew there was a cord keeping me to my body somehow.
So, once I detached from my body it felt like I was traveling SO FAST. I didn’t get that pit in my stomach like how you get when you’re falling or on a roller coaster, but I knew I was going fast because and only because wind was going past me SO FAST. And get this it was kind of cold. Not unbearably but. Felt like 60 degrees wind. So fast. Then all the sudden no wind and I was aware that wherever I was (choosing not to see) and I heard a ding. Yes a ding like a loud ding you would hear if your order is ready from a diner in the movies. Then no wind. And somehow I “knew” that I had landed in some other little realm.
I couldn’t see. But I FELT like there were beings there that NEW I was there and not supposed to be there. Didn’t feel “evil” necessarily but it still felt terrifying. It felt like all these beings were talking to each other and living life then I show up and everyone stops and just stares at me and is thinking why and how are you here??
So I guess I “Willed” myself to keep traveling because I had to get out of there. So the wind continued and I kept going to different places (again I couldn’t see so what I could see was darkness just how it is when you’re closing your eyes on purpose)
This is where it gets weird
The only place I “landed” where I could hear people actually talking was the last places I landed
I heard the song TLC Don’t go chasin waterfalls. And it was the band and they were going that dance.
I was never even a fan of them I was sooo little when they came out and I wish I had some deeper more exciting experience but this is literally what it was and I don’t know why.
Now I still couldn’t see because I wouldn’t let myself but somehow I knew they were dancing. But again they seemed to stop and be freaked out that I was there
At this point I told myself just focus on ur body as hard as u can maybe that’ll work. At that point I felt myself falling. Same huge rush of wind and minor just minor stomach drop feeling. Finally I was in my body and I heard like a thump and then a final DING. After the ding I instantly opened my eyes and my heart was racing
I was so scared I would forget what happened so I opened up my iPhone and wrote in my notes “tlc don’t go chasing waterfalls” and literally nothing else LOL
I haven’t had any sleep paralysis happen since thankfully but I’ll never ever ever forget this

So, I am a popular content creator (prefer to stay anonymous on Reddit) with over 8M followers across socials. I am monetized on all of them EXCEPT for Facebook. I grew an account (at snail speed) last year to 20k followers but got a Facebook Monetization Violation flag somewhere along the way, and despite trying to clean up/delete any posts that may have caused the issue, I could never get rid of it. I also got to the point where my “Request Another Review” was greyed out. On that Page, I had Stars and Bonus on regular posts, but I could never get onboarded for Ads on Reels, which is what I wanted because those earnings would actually be meaningful. I also was restricted on some level because my posts would never hit the millions despite the same posts hitting multi millions on my other socials.
About a month ago, I decided to start over. I deactivated that Profile and Page, and made a new account Profile and then a new Page. When I first started, I immediately had a video shoot to almost 4M views, followed by two other to half a million, so I knew the restriction was gone. As far as policy violations, I still had to things keeping me from Monetization but I wasn’t deterred because one was for being a new account less than 30 days old and the other was a violation that I saw on YouTube most people get that eventually goes away once you hit 5,000 followers and are over 30 days old. Please note I did get a Monetization Policy Violation on the first video I posted (most likely because it was one of my very viral videos last month and someone had posted it to Facebook before I made this account) and so I deleted it and the MPV went away.
Fast forward 6-7 posts and everything is going well and then I noticed a MPV again. So I decided my latest Reel and it didn’t go away. Deleted the next one, and still there. So, I went back and deleted all the Reels I’d posted since the start, AND even used a brand new profile picture and background. Still there.
Since then, I’ve posted three more Reels. Good news- restriction is still gone because one got 3.6M views and one got 1.6M. Bad news- MPV is still there and now I don’t know what to do. Also important to note, the “Request Another Review” button has been greyed out since the issue started. When I float my cursor over it, it says I can’t request a review because I don’t have any current violations.
Has anyone had any issues like this? I know my latest three reels are completely clean so I’m at a loss.

Thank you in advance if you will read this 'till the end.
A person spent his childhood quite pretending because he was "a kid" and he didn't know histone identity.. People around him got used to his weak fake personality "yk, like they saw him in the type of person that gets bullied and so on".. and when he tried to improve and explore himself; like his shape, personality, health and so on.. but he found people around him still doesn't take him seriously and still see his inner child because they are used to it.. and these acts remind him of how people bullied or beweakened him or disrespected his inner child in the past..
Firstly, how can he still have confidence in himself in improving and exploring himself, while also not thinking about the past and how his inner child was to people around him.. secondly, how can he be focused and not think about the past and how he pretended in the past..
Thirdly, and that's the most important, how can he get out to them with his true identity without them saying "stop pretending," "why are you depressed," or "why are you a changed person".. I hope someone would understand that.. some people advised me with "ghost mode" and I'm really thinking about doing it for a good while to wipe out any triggers for my identity disorder and wipe out any triggers for old memories for the inner child and how people treated him..

As the title says, apparently im diabetic now. But I've never "felt diabetic". Yes my weight has been a problem in the past, highest was 250lbs in 2017, this past year ive been down 230 to currently 225. Im a 5'5 woman, 29 years old. And im really shocked to have this to be perfectly honest. Yes my mom and mom's grandfather have/had it. But id how much of me having it is purely genetic.
I don't mean to throw the kitchen sink at you here. However, upon trying to understand my blood-results, I did look up glucose 239 and A1c levels 10. And I'm really concerned about how high they both are, especially when I've been trying to do the right thing especially within the last 6 months. Well really the last year but I say the last 6 months as that is when I started taking note of everything again.
I go to the gym 3-4 times a week, with a walk 5-6 out of the 7 days. I have a weightlifting journal and I’ve only been going up in weight, and can currently do 3ish miles in an hour (with little difficulty) when I walk my neighborhood. Most days I do about 2.5-2.75 because I like to take in my scenery when I’m walking or I get distracted by a critter or bird or a dog.
I have a 32 oz bottle that I try to drink twice a day, my soda intake is minimal. I'm known to have a week or two where I make a diet coke, my drink of choice in between the water but that's every few weeks maybe one week a month.
I track my calories a bit off and on, mostly because I get a tad obsessive about it to the point I know I need to stop. However, when I do track, it’s just to gauge what I'm eating/how much to make myself aware. My diet really doesn’t change that often, and the fast food and takeout food is kept to a minimum. As I mentioned I live with my parents so maybe once a week every other week we do a take out of some kind but that's not the bulk of my diet.
Most days look something along the line of:
Breakfast is usually a cup of coffee with no more than 1/4 cup of milk (sometimes I measure, sometimes I don't), and 1-2 teaspoons of sugar. Then most often eggs of some kind and frozen shredded hash browns with one of those spray can oils/low calorie oil sprayers.
Lunch tends to be a sandwich of some sort, a deli meat sandwich, rarely chips with it. Only if I'm craving them then I honor it and eat a few so I don't binge them later.
Or its a plate of a little bit of this and that, like a veggie and dip and yogurt with fruit and maybe some cheese and protein
Dinner is kind of a wild card in the sense that it's never the same thing twice. I'll try to get screenshots of when I used a tracking app in the past month for a general idea, but it's usually a protein and veggie. Sometimes a carb is like rice, but not really a daily thing.
Now I will also say my boyfriend has visited once a month for the last 5 months and for sanity sake I don't usually track when he's here. However when he is I normally only tend to eat breakfast and dinner with him. (He's a late riser, so breakfast for him if he has it is usually lunch time.) We tend to stay at a nearby hotel for privacy and so eating out is a bit more frequent in that week, breakfast for me is still usually eggs and potatoes of some kind, it's what keeps me the most satiated. Dinner is a bit of a wild card. But I'm always mindful to at least get protein and veggies when we do go out. So even then when he's here my eating habits don't vary too wildly.
I average between 1500-1800 calories a day, the app I use from time to time has me around 1600, i use that as a goal so to speak. I know my TDEE is about 2100 depending on the calculator I use, so I know as long as I stay under that I'm in the green. I don't find I have a bad relationship with food in terms of feeling out of control or the need to binge. If I have a craving for something, 9/10 times I'll eat what I'm craving in a reasonable amount and move on with my day. The only “out of control day” I have is a day somewhere in the week leading up to my period, I get a bit ravenous. But that is only one-two days out of the month so it’s not an all day everyday thing, and it’s been like that since I was a teenager and was never a cause for concern among past doctors.
I feel scared and sick and nervous all at the same time because I've been trying to do the right thing. I know im still technically obese but I've been working on it not to be. apparently i have really high blood pressure too even though I don't feel any of the symptoms that i guess I should have.
Ill meet with my doctor next friday but im really scared to.

It looks like my most popular tin foil post has been confirmed. A series of Ryan Cohen tweets were trying to tell us about Red Lobster over 2 years ago. Now they are bankrupt due to preditory actions from hedge funds.
Here's the link to the post. The TL;DR is Ryan Cohen tweeted about General Tsos chicken and Dumb Stormtroopers amongst other things after a popular DD entitled The Dumb Stormtroopers of the Investing World was released. This lead me to the episode of south park "Obama wins". The final climax of the scene takes place in Red Lobster. My conclusion was RC was telling us to look into red lobster or maybe KFC.
Anyway it's one of my highest effort posts to date so I would say it's worth a read.
U/deleted (RIP) commented on this post saying "Do you guys know how powerful Ryan Cohen is now? Before GME, we had regular old weaponized autism. What other person can deploy this level of enriched weapons-grade autism-232 at the mere sending of a tweet?" In response I would say probably only Roaring Kitty

I just wanted to ask here to gain some insight on my pups behavior and adjust my expectations accordingly. I have an almost 16 month old great pyr mix (55% pyr, 33% pit, and 11 % German Shepard). She is growing up to be a great dog, we had our fair share of issues through puppyhood but I see the light at the end. However she still has days where she acts absolutely nuts and seems to forget all the rules. I know this is normal for a teenage aged dog.
The reason I ask is because everything I can find online says great pyrs take 2+ years to mature but I wonder if that is mostly due to their huge size? My dog is about 70-75 pounds so bigger than a pit but smaller than a pyr. I’m just wondering peoples thoughts on f she is pretty much into adulthood or if she’s going to chill out more? So what age did your pyr or pyr mixed chill out? Hope this question makes sense!

I just started the series last week, finished season 1- so all of outlander is new to me. Loving it. But being the huge sci-fi lover I am, I keep wanting to hear more about the time travel itself. Which had me thinking, what if the timeline had been different? A 27 year old from 2024 America traveling to Scotland in 1745? The show wouldn’t last an episode. The book wouldn’t be more than a humorous short story. My lack of history knowledge makes me ashamed to say I would die quite quick in Claire’s position.
What other scenarios have you all thought of? What time would you travel back to, realistically? Where could you survive- as Claire does?
Myself, I think I would suit fine in 1955-1970. I think maybe these years I would have the most fun and understand social concepts of that time without finding myself in trouble.

I’m 17 now, and I was 13 when we got our cat. All the initial precautions and stuff were taken, and I don’t believe we let him outside until he was old enough.
I didn’t know much about the indoor cat thing and I feel a heavy responsibility here after the fact knowing that apparently its a terrible thing to let them out and that I was young and didn’t research anything
This all honestly stems from a very very well received post on Twitter where the poster said letting your cat outside makes you a bad person due to the environmental effect the cats have, shortened lifespan and risk. Generally I follow the rule of not taking anything I see on twitter seriously but I have heard people say similar things before and I’ve always felt bad.
If he’s outside now; do I bring the guy in forever or is it too late? Am I a bad person?

Hi, I’m looking for the English dub for the brazillian cartoon “Zica e os Camaleões” (Zica and the Chameleons). It was aired and licensed by Nickelodeon Brazil in 2014, and TV Brasil from 2014 to 2017.
"Zica is a 14-year-old teenager who feels black and white in a colorful world. Zica seeks to assimilate the transition period she is experiencing through her art: she draws, writes and composes songs with her band formed with her best friend Gui and drummer Batata. When she is alone in her room, she usually talks and reflects with her three pet Chameleons. The episodes are divided between the "real world" in which she lives, the "creative world" that takes place in her room, and a video clip at the end of every episode." (Translated from the portuguese Wikipedia article about the show).
A fully dubbed episode 7 along with an english promo for the show was posted on the official Vimeo account for Cinema Animadores, the production company for the show. You can find those here and here. I couldn’t find any info about the voice actors or the company.
More info: The show was created after a short pilot aired on Anima TV 2010, a brazillian project organized by the government focused on highlighting and producing brazillian animations. There’s a brazillian article that mentions that the show was featured in an online version of a "Variety" magazine. Its official international release was done after MIPCOM in 2015, a french event to buy and sell new television shows for international distribution. (all info taken from the portuguese Wikipedia page)
It didn’t have a huge reception in Brazil as far as I’m aware (most people say it got cut short because of that), so it’s probably lost to time. I’ve tried e-mailing the production company for the show about it, still waiting for a response.
Sorry if some information is vague or worded weirdly, English isn’t my first language and it’s hard for me to understand some of this. And sorry if this is formatted incorrectly or doesn’t belong here, I’ll edit or take it down if needed! Thank you!