So far I have 4 out of my 5 motives. Chapter 2's motive is the one that's missing.
Chapter 1 is "Two truths and a Lie about your memories", allowing for a kinda evolution of a few of the original games motives.
Chapter 3 is an Isolation escape game. You will have only the minimal food, and only one hour every week to leave, socialize, and eventually kill, unless you find a way to escape. The whole time, Monokuma is giving you daily visits to manipulate them. The killer is actually the only one who beat the escape game before the killing happened.
Chapter 4 is a bit of a sadder and probably controversial one. So context, half the students of the game are descendants or trainees or just emotionally tied to past characters in the series. The motive is that by the end of the week the motives introduced, captured past characters will be executed. They are allowed to talk to the captives for the first day, the captives having figurative and literal guns to their heads to not "spoil" the truth to the students. (Timeline wise, this is many years after the end of Danganronpa 3, and Makoto is on class 90 of Hopes peak, which he named New Hopes Peak, to symbolically prove that this time, they won't let the world fall like the last Hopes Peak.)
Chapter 5 is the Traitor's true identity as the Ultimate puppet. An Android with a perfected conciseness that the mastermind can chose to pilot instead of Monokuma. The Android has hard wired codes to keep them from revealing themselves, and the Mastermind (who watched saved videos of each killing game, including SDGR2,) coded hard code for them not to be able to give in and give hints like Chiaki did.
Chapter 6 is not much of a motive but a finale planned by the Mastermind. They reveal that the entire setting (an underground city with 6 districts) can be made into a final class trial room, and have the survivors go all around and collect the clues around the place, while activating each area's transformation button.
Sorry for the long post, I just wanna hear some critique and opinions.

I am currently in university with one exam remaining, it's an online exam in 3 days. After an hour-long phone call with my friend from high school who I hadn't spoken to in months, I mentioned how my motivation to study for this final exam is low as it's online and the last one of the year.
*Context, I started university at 22 because while everyone else was going at 18, my father (who was violent and abusive) was dying of brain cancer and I had to look after him while he slowly deteriorated. I also delt with bullying and severe unmedicated ADHD which cause me problems everywhere in life. Since I got on medication and went through therapy for my past my grades went through the roof and I was able to secure a place at a top 20 university in the world in London. I have many good friends, high self esteem and high quality internships.
Now that you know the context my friend said to me (paraphrased): "Bro you are one of the bravest, toughest smartest guys I know. Saying you can't find motivation for this last exam is a lie and an insult to yourself. I've seen you go through hell in this life, have everyone doubting you, and you never gave up and ended up proving everyone wrong. To tell yourself you cannot find motivation now goes against every single time you have pulled through when nobody except you and our friend group thought you could. You havent always seen the good in yourself, but I have always seen the good in you, and I cannot stand by listening to you undermining the phenomenal person you have become, because it is an insult to what you and me both know to be true. You aint perfect, you don't always act like the smartest guy, I suppose the ADHD doesn't help with that, but I know how special you are because I have seen you do the impossible time and time again, and you owe it to yourself, for all the hell you've been through, to give yourself the credit and the belief you have earned, that you deserve".
I have tears in my eyes rn. My friend usually doesn't express himself emotionally like that, but he's so right. I am so lucky. It's crazy how you can have one million people (including yourself) tell you you're worthless and should give up, but all it takes is for one person to come into your life and tell you you have value, that they believe in you, that you're special. That one person makes you ignore everyone who said otherwise. It feels so good to be recognised, and to be reminded. I had to write this down and share this while its fresh in my memory, but I am going to remember his words forever now. This has lit a fire in me, I am going to get right back to my studies, but I had to share this first..
Anyone who's reading, please be that one person to someone else. and be that person to yourself.

So for context, from 1st-7th grade I was attending school in a district that is known to be in a bad area. The school adopted some extreme measures to deter fighting and other issues one of which was “if you are involved in a fight in any way, you get arrested and get a ticket.” Which is what happened to me on 2 occasions. Both occasions, I was bullied severely and got involved in altercations when standing up for myself (did not start the fight and only fought back when I had no other option, yes I tried to leave and walk away both times but was blocked off), both cases in court I paid no fines and was let off while the others involved were punished legally. Fast forward to MEPS, I was told juvenile records came up on a background check so I assumed they knew about it and I said I don’t have the court docs because they were basically thrown out by the court and it was 12-13 years ago and again, I was a child. They sent me home to get the court docs and I did, much to my recruiter’s annoyance. When choosing a job, basically all of my top jobs I was told I was disqualified for. Are they really that picky? Could it have been my biological father’s background too that came up? I’ve asked family and friends and recruiters and they all said that shouldn’t be why I was disqualified given the circumstances and that the school district screwed me with their no tolerance policy. (Note: MEPS did not tell me why specifically I got disqualified from those jobs, just that it was a background issue.)
There was a note for single drug use (marijuana) which my waiver was approved. I did not tell my recruiter, because it was 8 years ago one time with biological dad that is no longer part of my life he’s basically a ghost. My mother went with me and when I said no drug use (because there was nothing on record and no way it’d come up) my mom said “uh yes you did with you dad” and then I had to fill out the waiver. (Note: my mom did not have bad intention outing me like that, she’s just very honest and she thought if I lied about a single time drug use or anything else it would disqualify me and didn’t think it’d hold me back)

Sorry that this is so long.
Tldr: My boyfriend is extremely insecure about several topics and I'm afraid it'll destroy our relationship.
My (F21) boyfriend (M21) of a few weeks is very insecure and I have a feeling I am making it worse. When I first pursued him he actually accidentally rejected me due to insecurity because he couldn't imagine a woman like me would ever be interested in a man like him (so he thought I was making fun of him). I made it more clear that I really want him and now we're together but I know that he's feeling super insecure. When we kiss he oftentimes opens his eyes after and mutters something like "I can't believe you actually like me" or "I don't know what I've done to deserve you" and a few days ago I found him crying because according to him he doesn't deserve me and I'm apparently to good for him, which I don't get. I wanted him first. Still, I'm scared that this insecurity will destroy our relationship again and it's really not healthy at all so I want to help him get over it. I told him even though I like him no matter what that if he feels like he doesn't deserve me he can try to become a guy who he thinks he deserves me but I don't know if that was too harsh so I might have to try another approach .
From what I've gathered there are 4 main areas of insecurity for him. 1. Our social circles, 2. Our grades, 3. Our looks and 4. The romantic attention we get/our experience.

1. Our social circles: He is a pretty nerdy guy who is introverted to the point where I'm suspecting him to have social anxiety. He especially struggles talking to women. I'm pretty sure he was only able to talk to me since did most of the heavy lifting in terms of our early conversations and never stopped trying to get to know him. He has a small group of close-knit friends who he cares a lot about. They're like brothers which is really cute to me. The problem is that outside of that group of friends he is definitely less than popular, I think because he is socially awkward like that with a pretty peculiar sense of humour, which I like however.

My social life looks very different. I'm just as nerdy as him behind closed doors but since I had a pretty massive glow up people don't expect that from me. I'm fact outwardly I'm definitely someone in the popular crowd and I gotta admit- I got a pretty big social circle with four groups of friends, two of which are really close as well and I'm basically the centre of.
Whenever he and I are walking together and I have to greet someone again (which happens pretty often, especially on campus) he gets annoyed, especially when it's a guy. A little more than half of my group of friends are guys and I already made him aware that that's not gonna change since I've known most of them for years- still, he suspects almost every one of those to be interested in me which can be quite annoying. There have been some who confessed but that was before my boyfriend and I got together and I established clear boundaries with those. That's the first problem caused by insecurities.

1. grades and achievements: He is a smart man, a former gifted kid, It's a part of him that first caused me to be attracted to him, but the problem is- I as well was a gifted kid. We have lived very different lifes up to this point. He had a pretty relaxed upbringing while I spent my time growing up in debate competitions, dance competitions and participating in youth politics since my parents wanted to prime me for success. I think he has just always been the smart kid and at the beginning he was fully convinced that he was way smarter than me because I asked him to explain things to me since I like to hear him explain and he didn't think that someone like me would be able to have intelligent thoughts or something which he admitted was stupid of him and just based on stereotypes. Now that we spend pretty much every second day together he knows that I actually have a better GPA than him and that I'm according to him "more gifted than him" (which partially has to do with me being on the spectrum) he doesn't openly say it but I know it bothers him. As a formerly gifted kid myself I know how much it hurts when someone is better than you when the thing you were growing up was always just the 'smart kid'. He said that he wants to work harder so he can take care of me sometime in the future but knowing him I know that's only half of the story. Just like he started going to the gym more because at the beginning of our relationship I was stronger than him (Years of competitive dance, martial arts and just being a gym girl). He now is stronger than me again but he still talks about how emasculated he felt because of it.
   
2. Our looks: I was told I have pretty privilege and I got to admit myself - after my glow up I definitely felt how different people treat me now and I get quite a lot of attention now to the point where it's uncomfortable, especially since before my glow up I definitely wasn't as conventionally attractive and was also treated as such. I think my boyfriend looks good. He is cute. His lips are pretty and heart shaped and his eyeshape and lashes are to die for. He doesn't see that though. I know he's not everyone's cup of tea. I gathered so much when I told other people that we're dating but he's my cup of tea so that shouldn't matter. Even his friends teased him about his looks in comparison to mine when he told them and when he told me- I swear I was ready to explode. I try to give him compliments about his looks but he doesn't know how to accept them. He says I'm the only one who'll ever compliment him this way anyway so what's the point. My boyfriend says that when he first saw me he thought I was the most beautiful woman he's ever seen which is why he couldn't believe why I would keep on talking to him. I think being with me makes his insecurities about his looks worse because according to him an 'ugly guy' like him doesn't deserve a girl like me. I think that's bullshit. There is way more to a relationship than looks and I think he's cute and way too harsh on his looks.
   
3. Our romantic experience and the attention we get.
   

I am his first. The first girl he kissed, his first date, his first time holding hands, his first in general. He told me that before we met again he had given up on love- concluded that it wasn't happening for him and that after his parents passed on he should just follow them- and then I showed up again and made it obvious how much I wanted him. I feel so honoured to be his first but not getting any attention before me took a real toll on his self perception I think. He says that I'm the only woman he'll have in this lifetime though. That if I don't work out he'll give up on dating which worries me.
I am the exact opposite. Sure I wasn't in a relationship before him, I also was still a virgin and also never kissed anyone willingly but I get attention. I get asked for my number on the streets or in uni, I get asked on dates and I also went on dates before. I just never felt it. Where he feels like he doesn't get seen by women I feel like I only get seen as a piece of meat, as a love interest, a manic pixie dream girl or a sex object by men. I had so many bad experiences with that just being treated like a normal person by him (partially because he thought he didn't have a chance anyway) had me falling head over heels for him.
He feels insecure about the attention I get however, especially if it'd be men he perceives to be good-looking, successful or simply cool. He often mentions that apparently there were several guys in the friend group we met in that wanted to pursue me and he feels bad for them that he's the one who got me because he's just a 'bastard' in his own words. I think this is another one of the things that bothers him the most based on how often he mentions it. Whenever he finds out that a guy we know ever was interested in me I never hear the end of it. I even was asked for my number while he was right next to me and while in a conversation with him which is not only mad disrespectful but also made him really angry and caused his insecurities to skyrocket. I feel really sorry to make him insecure that way but I really can't control it. He also likes when I get really dressed up for dates and I like that too but whenever he sees the stares I get from men he seems to regret it.
All in all he seems to put me on a pedestal and seems to compare himself to not only me but also other men in my life though I don't want them. I only want him. He says it's suspicious how little is wrong with me, that I'm too good but that's not true. I'm possessive (which I'm working on), at least as competitive as him, all of the social skills he admires so much in me I trained myself to have since I'm pretty much lost in social situations. I can be quite clumsy and scatterbrained sometimes and when I get to talk about my special interests I won't stop for hours. I was training for discipline from a young age to the point where I sometimes don't sleep or eat enough to manage to do everything I planned. I am a perfectionist to an unhealthy degree and sometimes I feel like a robot who just has to function no matter what. I tried to show him, tell him all my flaws but no matter what he doesn't see them as flaws.
He for example sees all of the achievements, the medals my perfectionism brought me but not that I lost so much sleep and ate so little for extended periods of time when I was little that I just stopped growing.
I try to show him that I really like him. He is smart, witty, funny and even though he tries to hide it incredibly kind. He takes care of his friends, family and now me. I feel so safe around him and ...just like myself. I try to tell him that. I try to give him gifts, I try to spend as much time as possible with him and take care of him. Whenever he expresses his boundaries I try to comply (for example he dislikes when I show my cleavage when he isn't around so I stopped) but I feel like that's no use as long as that little voice in his head tells him that he's not enough and that he doesn't deserve me.
I just don't know what to do so that he finally sees himself the way I see him- a person who of course has flaws but is beautiful and kind and a person who deserves to be loved and I'm pretty sure I love.
Thank you for any advice. (And sorry for my English. English is actually my fourth language so I'm not as articulate in it as I would like)

Hello, I’m mostly trying to reach students who currently attend the mathematical and computing sciences for AI course at Bocconi to ask basically what stated in the title. Since it’s a quite original course I was wondering what different possibilities graduates have: immediate job opportunities, continue studying for what masters degree and where?
Ps. Additional context if your interested:
Admitted to first choice BAI, and although I’ve always really liked the course and some while ago I was like 100% sure about it now I’m not… my passion has always been physics, so in the past few months I’ve been more convinced about doing a just pure physics course + I’ve also always been keen into philosophy, and have applied and been accepted (conditional offer based on end year grades though so no 100% sure yet) to Physics and philosophy joint honors Bachelor at King’s college. No idea what to do with my life rn honestly

GOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING SUPERSTONKERS! HAHA. It's me again. Yeah, i slipped past the defenses again to drop this off so you can all refresh yourselves on the state of FUD and disinformation in this protracted fight against the legal larcenists doing their best to try and get you to sell. Please spread this amongst the holders, the more people know the less power they have over us holders. We don't sell until we get a call from marge, and that's always been the play.
TLDR: This is a set of tactics used by the Alphabet Boys(CIA, FBI, DEA) to control and manipulate us into drama to collapse our communities and movements. And should be read in full by anyone willing and wanting to learn how these things work.
I've come to notice recently, people keep asking me to repost this for the sake of keeping the new people abreast on what needs to be done to protect the holders of GME. Beneath here will be a detailed account on what you need to be aware of in your online interactions, to avoid being taken for a fool!
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1. COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum
2. Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation
3. Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist
4. How to Spot a Spy (Cointelpro Agent)
5. Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

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COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum..
There are several techniques for the control and manipulation of a internet forum no matter what, or who is on it. We will go over each technique and demonstrate that only a minimal number of operatives can be used to eventually and effectively gain a control of a 'uncontrolled forum.'
Technique #1 - 'FORUM SLIDING'
If a very sensitive posting of a critical nature has been posted on a forum - it can be quickly removed from public view by 'forum sliding.' In this technique a number of unrelated posts are quietly prepositioned on the forum and allowed to 'age.' Each of these misdirectional forum postings can then be called upon at will to trigger a 'forum slide.' The second requirement is that several fake accounts exist, which can be called upon, to ensure that this technique is not exposed to the public. To trigger a 'forum slide' and 'flush' the critical post out of public view it is simply a matter of logging into each account both real and fake and then 'replying' to prepositioned postings with a simple 1 or 2 line comment. This brings the unrelated postings to the top of the forum list, and the critical posting 'slides' down the front page, and quickly out of public view. Although it is difficult or impossible to censor the posting it is now lost in a sea of unrelated and unuseful postings. By this means it becomes effective to keep the readers of the forum reading unrelated and non-issue items.
Technique #2 - 'CONSENSUS CRACKING'
A second highly effective technique (which you can see in operation all the time at www.abovetopsecret.com
) is 'consensus cracking.' To develop a consensus crack, the following technique is used. Under the guise of a fake account a posting is made which looks legitimate and is towards the truth is made - but the critical point is that it has a VERY WEAK PREMISE without substantive proof to back the posting. Once this is done then under alternative fake accounts a very strong position in your favor is slowly introduced over the life of the posting. It is IMPERATIVE that both sides are initially presented, so the uninformed reader cannot determine which side is the truth. As postings and replies are made the stronger 'evidence' or disinformation in your favor is slowly 'seeded in.' Thus the uninformed reader will most like develop the same position as you, and if their position is against you their opposition to your posting will be most likely dropped. However in some cases where the forum members are highly educated and can counter your disinformation with real facts and linked postings, you can then 'abort' the consensus cracking by initiating a 'forum slide.'
Technique #3 - 'TOPIC DILUTION'
Topic dilution is not only effective in forum sliding it is also very useful in keeping the forum readers on unrelated and non-productive issues. This is a critical and useful technique to cause a 'RESOURCE BURN.' By implementing continual and non-related postings that distract and disrupt (trolling ) the forum readers they are more effectively stopped from anything of any real productivity. If the intensity of gradual dilution is intense enough, the readers will effectively stop researching and simply slip into a 'gossip mode.' In this state they can be more easily misdirected away from facts towards uninformed conjecture and opinion. The less informed they are the more effective and easy it becomes to control the entire group in the direction that you would desire the group to go in. It must be stressed that a proper assessment of the psychological capabilities and levels of education is first determined of the group to determine at what level to 'drive in the wedge.' By being too far off topic too quickly it may trigger censorship by a forum moderator.
Technique #4 - 'INFORMATION COLLECTION'
Information collection is also a very effective method to determine the psychological level of the forum members, and to gather intelligence that can be used against them. In this technique in a light and positive environment a 'show you mine so me yours' posting is initiated. From the number of replies and the answers that are provided much statistical information can be gathered. An example is to post your 'favorite weapon' and then encourage other members of the forum to showcase what they have. In this matter it can be determined by reverse proration what percentage of the forum community owns a firearm, and or a illegal weapon. This same method can be used by posing as one of the form members and posting your favorite 'technique of operation.' From the replies various methods that the group utilizes can be studied and effective methods developed to stop them from their activities.
Technique #5 - 'ANGER TROLLING'
Statistically, there is always a percentage of the forum posters who are more inclined to violence. In order to determine who these individuals are, it is a requirement to present a image to the forum to deliberately incite a strong psychological reaction. From this the most violent in the group can be effectively singled out for reverse IP location and possibly local enforcement tracking. To accomplish this only requires posting a link to a video depicting a local police officer massively abusing his power against a very innocent individual. Statistically of the million or so police officers in America there is always one or two being caught abusing there powers and the taping of the activity can be then used for intelligence gathering purposes - without the requirement to 'stage' a fake abuse video. This method is extremely effective, and the more so the more abusive the video can be made to look. Sometimes it is useful to 'lead' the forum by replying to your own posting with your own statement of violent intent, and that you 'do not care what the authorities think!!' inflammation. By doing this and showing no fear it may be more effective in getting the more silent and self-disciplined violent intent members of the forum to slip and post their real intentions. This can be used later in a court of law during prosecution.
Technique #6 - 'GAINING FULL CONTROL'
It is important to also be harvesting and continually maneuvering for a forum moderator position. Once this position is obtained, the forum can then be effectively and quietly controlled by deleting unfavourable postings - and one can eventually steer the forum into complete failure and lack of interest by the general public. This is the 'ultimate victory' as the forum is no longer participated with by the general public and no longer useful in maintaining their freedoms. Depending on the level of control you can obtain, you can deliberately steer a forum into defeat by censoring postings, deleting memberships, flooding, and or accidentally taking the forum offline. By this method the forum can be quickly killed. However it is not always in the interest to kill a forum as it can be converted into a 'honey pot' gathering center to collect and misdirect newcomers and from this point be completely used for your control for your agenda purposes.
CONCLUSION
Remember these techniques are only effective if the forum participants DO NOT KNOW ABOUT THEM. Once they are aware of these techniques the operation can completely fail, and the forum can become uncontrolled. At this point other avenues must be considered such as initiating a false legal precidence to simply have the forum shut down and taken offline. This is not desirable as it then leaves the enforcement agencies unable to track the percentage of those in the population who always resist attempts for control against them. Many other techniques can be utilized and developed by the individual and as you develop further techniques of infiltration and control it is imperative to share then with HQ.
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Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation
Note: The first rule and last five (or six, depending on situation) rules are generally not directly within the ability of the traditional disinfo artist to apply. These rules are generally used more directly by those at the leadership, key players, or planning level of the criminal conspiracy or conspiracy to cover up.
1. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Regardless of what you know, don't discuss it -- especially if you are a public figure, news anchor, etc. If it's not reported, it didn't happen, and you never have to deal with the issues.
2. Become incredulous and indignant. Avoid discussing key issues and instead focus on side issues which can be used show the topic as being critical of some otherwise sacrosanct group or theme. This is also known as the 'How dare you!' gambit.
3. Create rumor mongers. Avoid discussing issues by describing all charges, regardless of venue or evidence, as mere rumors and wild accusations. Other derogatory terms mutually exclusive of truth may work as well. This method which works especially well with a silent press, because the only way the public can learn of the facts are through such 'arguable rumors'. If you can associate the material with the Internet, use this fact to certify it a 'wild rumor' from a 'bunch of kids on the Internet' which can have no basis in fact.
4. Use a straw man. Find or create a seeming element of your opponent's argument which you can easily knock down to make yourself look good and the opponent to look bad. Either make up an issue you may safely imply exists based on your interpretation of the opponent/opponent arguments/situation, or select the weakest aspect of the weakest charges. Amplify their significance and destroy them in a way which appears to debunk all the charges, real and fabricated alike, while actually avoiding discussion of the real issues.
5. Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule. This is also known as the primary 'attack the messenger' ploy, though other methods qualify as variants of that approach. Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as 'kooks', 'right-wing', 'liberal', 'left-wing', 'terrorists', 'conspiracy buffs', 'radicals', 'militia', 'racists', 'religious fanatics', 'sexual deviates', and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same label, and you avoid dealing with issues.
6. Hit and Run. In any public forum, make a brief attack of your opponent or the opponent position and then scamper off before an answer can be fielded, or simply ignore any answer. This works extremely well in Internet and letters-to-the-editor environments where a steady stream of new identities can be called upon without having to explain criticism, reasoning -- simply make an accusation or other attack, never discussing issues, and never answering any subsequent response, for that would dignify the opponent's viewpoint.
7. Question motives. Twist or amplify any fact which could be taken to imply that the opponent operates out of a hidden personal agenda or other bias. This avoids discussing issues and forces the accuser on the defensive.
8. Invoke authority. Claim for yourself or associate yourself with authority and present your argument with enough 'jargon' and 'minutia' to illustrate you are 'one who knows', and simply say it isn't so without discussing issues or demonstrating concretely why or citing sources.
9. Play Dumb. No matter what evidence or logical argument is offered, avoid discussing issues except with denials they have any credibility, make any sense, provide any proof, contain or make a point, have logic, or support a conclusion. Mix well for maximum effect.
10. Associate opponent charges with old news. A derivative of the straw man -- usually, in any large-scale matter of high visibility, someone will make charges early on which can be or were already easily dealt with - a kind of investment for the future should the matter not be so easily contained.) Where it can be foreseen, have your own side raise a straw man issue and have it dealt with early on as part of the initial contingency plans. Subsequent charges, regardless of validity or new ground uncovered, can usually then be associated with the original charge and dismissed as simply being a rehash without need to address current issues -- so much the better where the opponent is or was involved with the original source.
11. Establish and rely upon fall-back positions. Using a minor matter or element of the facts, take the 'high road' and 'confess' with candor that some innocent mistake, in hindsight, was made -- but that opponents have seized on the opportunity to blow it all out of proportion and imply greater criminalities which, 'just isn't so.' Others can reinforce this on your behalf, later, and even publicly 'call for an end to the nonsense' because you have already 'done the right thing.' Done properly, this can garner sympathy and respect for 'coming clean' and 'owning up' to your mistakes without addressing more serious issues.
12. Enigmas have no solution. Drawing upon the overall umbrella of events surrounding the crime and the multitude of players and events, paint the entire affair as too complex to solve. This causes those otherwise following the matter to begin to lose interest more quickly without having to address the actual issues.
13. Alice in Wonderland Logic. Avoid discussion of the issues by reasoning backwards or with an apparent deductive logic which forbears any actual material fact.
14. Demand complete solutions. Avoid the issues by requiring opponents to solve the crime at hand completely, a ploy which works best with issues qualifying for rule 10.
15. Fit the facts to alternate conclusions. This requires creative thinking unless the crime was planned with contingency conclusions in place.
16. Vanish evidence and witnesses. If it does not exist, it is not fact, and you won't have to address the issue.
17. Change the subject. Usually in connection with one of the other ploys listed here, find a way to side-track the discussion with abrasive or controversial comments in hopes of turning attention to a new, more manageable topic. This works especially well with companions who can 'argue' with you over the new topic and polarize the discussion arena in order to avoid discussing more key issues.
18. Emotionalize, Antagonize, and Goad Opponents. If you can't do anything else, chide and taunt your opponents and draw them into emotional responses which will tend to make them look foolish and overly motivated, and generally render their material somewhat less coherent. Not only will you avoid discussing the issues in the first instance, but even if their emotional response addresses the issue, you can further avoid the issues by then focusing on how 'sensitive they are to criticism.'
19. Ignore proof presented, demand impossible proofs. This is perhaps a variant of the 'play dumb' rule. Regardless of what material may be presented by an opponent in public forums, claim the material irrelevant and demand proof that is impossible for the opponent to come by (it may exist, but not be at his disposal, or it may be something which is known to be safely destroyed or withheld, such as a murder weapon.) In order to completely avoid discussing issues, it may be required that you to categorically deny and be critical of media or books as valid sources, deny that witnesses are acceptable, or even deny that statements made by government or other authorities have any meaning or relevance.
20. False evidence. Whenever possible, introduce new facts or clues designed and manufactured to conflict with opponent presentations -- as useful tools to neutralize sensitive issues or impede resolution. This works best when the crime was designed with contingencies for the purpose, and the facts cannot be easily separated from the fabrications.
21. Call a Grand Jury, Special Prosecutor, or other empowered investigative body. Subvert the (process) to your benefit and effectively neutralize all sensitive issues without open discussion. Once convened, the evidence and testimony are required to be secret when properly handled. For instance, if you own the prosecuting attorney, it can insure a Grand Jury hears no useful evidence and that the evidence is sealed and unavailable to subsequent investigators. Once a favorable verdict is achieved, the matter can be considered officially closed. Usually, this technique is applied to find the guilty innocent, but it can also be used to obtain charges when seeking to frame a victim.
22. Manufacture a new truth. Create your own expert(s), group(s), author(s), leader(s) or influence existing ones willing to forge new ground via scientific, investigative, or social research or testimony which concludes favorably. In this way, if you must actually address issues, you can do so authoritatively.
23. Create bigger distractions. If the above does not seem to be working to distract from sensitive issues, or to prevent unwanted media coverage of unstoppable events such as trials, create bigger news stories (or treat them as such) to distract the multitudes.
24. Silence critics. If the above methods do not prevail, consider removing opponents from circulation by some definitive solution so that the need to address issues is removed entirely. This can be by their death, arrest and detention, blackmail or destruction of their character by release of blackmail information, or merely by destroying them financially, emotionally, or severely damaging their health.
25. Vanish. If you are a key holder of secrets or otherwise overly illuminated and you think the heat is getting too hot, to avoid the issues, vacate the kitchen.
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Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist
1) Avoidance. They never actually discuss issues head-on or provide constructive input, generally avoiding citation of references or credentials. Rather, they merely imply this, that, and the other. Virtually everything about their presentation implies their authority and expert knowledge in the matter without any further justification for credibility.
2) Selectivity. They tend to pick and choose opponents carefully, either applying the hit-and-run approach against mere commentators supportive of opponents, or focusing heavier attacks on key opponents who are known to directly address issues. Should a commentator become argumentative with any success, the focus will shift to include the commentator as well.
3) Coincidental. They tend to surface suddenly and somewhat coincidentally with a new controversial topic with no clear prior record of participation in general discussions in the particular public arena involved. They likewise tend to vanish once the topic is no longer of general concern. They were likely directed or elected to be there for a reason, and vanish with the reason.
4) Teamwork. They tend to operate in self-congratulatory and complementary packs or teams. Of course, this can happen naturally in any public forum, but there will likely be an ongoing pattern of frequent exchanges of this sort where professionals are involved. Sometimes one of the players will infiltrate the opponent camp to become a source for straw man or other tactics designed to dilute opponent presentation strength.
5) Anti-conspiratorial. They almost always have disdain for 'conspiracy theorists' and, usually, for those who in any way believe JFK was not killed by LHO. Ask yourself why, if they hold such disdain for conspiracy theorists, do they focus on defending a single topic discussed in a NG focusing on conspiracies? One might think they would either be trying to make fools of everyone on every topic, or simply ignore the group they hold in such disdain. Or, one might more rightly conclude they have an ulterior motive for their actions in going out of their way to focus as they do.
6) Artificial Emotions. An odd kind of 'artificial' emotionalism and an unusually thick skin -- an ability to persevere and persist even in the face of overwhelming criticism and unacceptance. This likely stems from intelligence community training that, no matter how condemning the evidence, deny everything, and never become emotionally involved or reactive. The net result for a disinfo artist is that emotions can seem artificial.
Most people, if responding in anger, for instance, will express their animosity throughout their rebuttal. But disinfo types usually have trouble maintaining the 'image' and are hot and cold with respect to pretended emotions and their usually more calm or unemotional communications style. It's just a job, and they often seem unable to 'act their role in character' as well in a communications medium as they might be able in a real face-to-face conversation/confrontation. You might have outright rage and indignation one moment, ho-hum the next, and more anger later -- an emotional yo-yo.
With respect to being thick-skinned, no amount of criticism will deter them from doing their job, and they will generally continue their old disinfo patterns without any adjustments to criticisms of how obvious it is that they play that game -- where a more rational individual who truly cares what others think might seek to improve their communications style, substance, and so forth, or simply give up.
7) Inconsistent. There is also a tendency to make mistakes which betray their true self/motives. This may stem from not really knowing their topic, or it may be somewhat 'freudian', so to speak, in that perhaps they really root for the side of truth deep within.
I have noted that often, they will simply cite contradictory information which neutralizes itself and the author. For instance, one such player claimed to be a Navy pilot, but blamed his poor communicating skills (spelling, grammar, incoherent style) on having only a grade-school education. I'm not aware of too many Navy pilots who don't have a college degree. Another claimed no knowledge of a particular topic/situation but later claimed first-hand knowledge of it.
8) Time Constant. Recently discovered, with respect to News Groups, is the response time factor. There are three ways this can be seen to work, especially when the government or other empowered player is involved in a cover up operation:
a) ANY NG posting by a targeted proponent for truth can result in an IMMEDIATE response. The government and other empowered players can afford to pay people to sit there and watch for an opportunity to do some damage. SINCE DISINFO IN A NG ONLY WORKS IF THE READER SEES IT - FAST RESPONSE IS CALLED FOR, or the visitor may be swayed towards truth.
b) When dealing in more direct ways with a disinformationalist, such as email, DELAY IS CALLED FOR - there will usually be a minimum of a 48-72 hour delay. This allows a sit-down team discussion on response strategy for best effect, and even enough time to 'get permission' or instruction from a formal chain of command.
c) In the NG example 1) above, it will often ALSO be seen that bigger guns are drawn and fired after the same 48-72 hours delay - the team approach in play. This is especially true when the targeted truth seeker or their comments are considered more important with respect to potential to reveal truth. Thus, a serious truth sayer will be attacked twice for the same sin.
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How to Spot a Spy (Cointelpro Agent)
One way to neutralize a potential activist is to get them to be in a group that does all the wrong things. Why?
1) The message doesn't get out.
2) A lot of time is wasted
3) The activist is frustrated and discouraged
4) Nothing good is accomplished.
FBI and Police Informers and Infiltrators will infest any group and they have phoney activist organizations established.
Their purpose is to prevent any real movement for justice or eco-peace from developing in this country.
Agents come in small, medium or large. They can be of any ethnic background. They can be male or female.
The actual size of the group or movement being infiltrated is irrelevant. It is the potential the movement has for becoming large which brings on the spies and saboteurs.
This booklet lists tactics agents use to slow things down, foul things up, destroy the movement and keep tabs on activists.
It is the agent's job to keep the activist from quitting such a group, thus keeping him/her under control.
In some situations, to get control, the agent will tell the activist:

• "You're dividing the movement."

[Here, I have added the psychological reasons as to WHY this maneuver works to control people]
This invites guilty feelings. Many people can be controlled by guilt. The agents begin relationships with activists behind a well-developed mask of "dedication to the cause." Because of their often declared dedication, (and actions designed to prove this), when they criticize the activist, he or she - being truly dedicated to the movement - becomes convinced that somehow, any issues are THEIR fault. This is because a truly dedicated person tends to believe that everyone has a conscience and that nobody would dissimulate and lie like that "on purpose." It's amazing how far agents can go in manipulating an activist because the activist will constantly make excuses for the agent who regularly declares their dedication to the cause. Even if they do, occasionally, suspect the agent, they will pull the wool over their own eyes by rationalizing: "they did that unconsciously... they didn't really mean it... I can help them by being forgiving and accepting " and so on and so forth.
The agent will tell the activist:

• "You're a leader!"

This is designed to enhance the activist's self-esteem. His or her narcissistic admiration of his/her own activist/altruistic intentions increase as he or she identifies with and consciously admires the altruistic declarations of the agent which are deliberately set up to mirror those of the activist.
This is "malignant pseudo identification." It is the process by which the agent consciously imitates or simulates a certain behavior to foster the activist's identification with him/her, thus increasing the activist's vulnerability to exploitation. The agent will simulate the more subtle self-concepts of the activist.
Activists and those who have altruistic self-concepts are most vulnerable to malignant pseudo identification especially during work with the agent when the interaction includes matter relating to their competency, autonomy, or knowledge.
The goal of the agent is to increase the activist's general empathy for the agent through pseudo-identification with the activist's self-concepts.
The most common example of this is the agent who will compliment the activist for his competency or knowledge or value to the movement. On a more subtle level, the agent will simulate affects and mannerisms of the activist which promotes identification via mirroring and feelings of "twinship". It is not unheard of for activists, enamored by the perceived helpfulness and competence of a good agent, to find themselves considering ethical violations and perhaps, even illegal behavior, in the service of their agent/handler.
The activist's "felt quality of perfection" [self-concept] is enhanced, and a strong empathic bond is developed with the agent through his/her imitation and simulation of the victim's own narcissistic investments. [self-concepts] That is, if the activist knows, deep inside, their own dedication to the cause, they will project that onto the agent who is "mirroring" them.
The activist will be deluded into thinking that the agent shares this feeling of identification and bonding. In an activist/social movement setting, the adversarial roles that activists naturally play vis a vis the establishment/government, fosters ongoing processes of intrapsychic splitting so that "twinship alliances" between activist and agent may render whole sectors or reality testing unavailable to the activist. They literally "lose touch with reality."
Activists who deny their own narcissistic investments [do not have a good idea of their own self-concepts and that they ARE concepts] and consciously perceive themselves (accurately, as it were) to be "helpers" endowed with a special amount of altruism are exceedingly vulnerable to the affective (emotional) simulation of the accomplished agent.
Empathy is fostered in the activist through the expression of quite visible affects. The presentation of tearfulness, sadness, longing, fear, remorse, and guilt, may induce in the helper-oriented activist a strong sense of compassion, while unconsciously enhancing the activist's narcissistic investment in self as the embodiment of goodness.
The agent's expresssion of such simulated affects may be quite compelling to the observer and difficult to distinguish from deep emotion.
It can usually be identified by two events, however:
First, the activist who has analyzed his/her own narcissistic roots and is aware of his/her own potential for being "emotionally hooked," will be able to remain cool and unaffected by such emotional outpourings by the agent.
As a result of this unaffected, cool, attitude, the Second event will occur: The agent will recompensate much too quickly following such an affective expression leaving the activist with the impression that "the play has ended, the curtain has fallen," and the imposture, for the moment, has finished. The agent will then move quickly to another activist/victim.
The fact is, the movement doesn't need leaders, it needs MOVERS. "Follow the leader" is a waste of time.
A good agent will want to meet as often as possible. He or she will talk a lot and say little. One can expect an onslaught of long, unresolved discussions.
Some agents take on a pushy, arrogant, or defensive manner:
1) To disrupt the agenda
2) To side-track the discussion
3) To interrupt repeatedly
4) To feign ignorance
5) To make an unfounded accusation against a person.
Calling someone a racist, for example. This tactic is used to discredit a person in the eyes of all other group members.
Saboteurs
Some saboteurs pretend to be activists. She or he will ....
1) Write encyclopedic flyers (in the present day, websites)
2) Print flyers in English only.
3) Have demonstrations in places where no one cares.
4) Solicit funding from rich people instead of grass roots support
5) Display banners with too many words that are confusing.
6) Confuse issues.
7) Make the wrong demands.
8) Compromise the goal.
9) Have endless discussions that waste everyone's time. The agent may accompany the endless discussions with drinking, pot smoking or other amusement to slow down the activist's work.
Provocateurs
1) Want to establish "leaders" to set them up for a fall in order to stop the movement.
2) Suggest doing foolish, illegal things to get the activists in trouble.
3) Encourage militancy.
4) Want to taunt the authorities.
5) Attempt to make the activist compromise their values.
6) Attempt to instigate violence. Activism ought to always be non-violent.
7) Attempt to provoke revolt among people who are ill-prepared to deal with the reaction of the authorities to such violence.
Informants
1) Want everyone to sign up and sing in and sign everything.
2) Ask a lot of questions (gathering data).
3) Want to know what events the activist is planning to attend.
4) Attempt to make the activist defend him or herself to identify his or her beliefs, goals, and level of commitment.
Recruiting
Legitimate activists do not subject people to hours of persuasive dialog. Their actions, beliefs, and goals speak for themselves.
Groups that DO recruit are missionaries, military, and fake political parties or movements set up by agents.
Surveillance
ALWAYS assume that you are under surveillance.
At this point, if you are NOT under surveillance, you are not a very good activist!
Scare Tactics
They use them.
Such tactics include slander, defamation, threats, getting close to disaffected or minimally committed fellow activists to persuade them (via psychological tactics described above) to turn against the movement and give false testimony against their former compatriots. They will plant illegal substances on the activist and set up an arrest; they will plant false information and set up "exposure," they will send incriminating letters [emails] in the name of the activist; and more; they will do whatever society will allow.
This booklet in no way covers all the ways agents use to sabotage the lives of sincere an dedicated activists.
If an agent is "exposed," he or she will be transferred or replaced.
COINTELPRO is still in operation today under a different code name. It is no longer placed on paper where it can be discovered through the freedom of information act.
The FBI counterintelligence program's stated purpose: To expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, and otherwise neutralize individuals who the FBI categorize as opposed to the National Interests. "National Security" means the FBI's security from the people ever finding out the vicious things it does in violation of people's civil liberties.
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Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression
Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a mere token opposition party.
1. Dummy up. If it's not reported, if it's not news, it didn't happen.
2. Wax indignant. This is also known as the "How dare you?" gambit.
3. Characterize the charges as "rumors" or, better yet, "wild rumors." If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still able to learn about the suspicious facts, it can only be through "rumors." (If they tend to believe the "rumors" it must be because they are simply "paranoid" or "hysterical.")
4. Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspects of the weakest charges. Even better, create your own straw men. Make up wild rumors (or plant false stories) and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all the charges, real and fanciful alike.
5. Call the skeptics names like "conspiracy theorist," "nutcase," "ranter," "kook," "crackpot," and, of course, "rumor monger." Be sure, too, to use heavily loaded verbs and adjectives when characterizing their charges and defending the "more reasonable" government and its defenders. You must then carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you have thus maligned. For insurance, set up your own "skeptics" to shoot down.
6. Impugn motives. Attempt to marginalize the critics by suggesting strongly that they are not really interested in the truth but are simply pursuing a partisan political agenda or are out to make money (compared to over-compensated adherents to the government line who, presumably, are not).
7. Invoke authority. Here the controlled press and the sham opposition can be very useful.
8. Dismiss the charges as "old news."
9. Come half-clean. This is also known as "confession and avoidance" or "taking the limited hangout route." This way, you create the impression of candor and honesty while you admit only to relatively harmless, less-than-criminal "mistakes." This stratagem often requires the embrace of a fall-back position quite different from the one originally taken. With effective damage control, the fall-back position need only be peddled by stooge skeptics to carefully limited markets.
10. Characterize the crimes as impossibly complex and the truth as ultimately unknowable.
11. Reason backward, using the deductive method with a vengeance. With thoroughly rigorous deduction, troublesome evidence is irrelevant. E.g. We have a completely free press. If evidence exists that the Vince Foster "suicide" note was forged, they would have reported it. They haven't reported it so there is no such evidence. Another variation on this theme involves the likelihood of a conspiracy leaker and a press who would report the leak.
12. Require the skeptics to solve the crime completely. E.g. If Foster was murdered, who did it and why?
13. Change the subject. This technique includes creating and/or publicizing distractions.
14. Lightly report incriminating facts, and then make nothing of them. This is sometimes referred to as "bump and run" reporting.
15. Baldly and brazenly lie. A favorite way of doing this is to attribute the "facts" furnished the public to a plausible-sounding, but anonymous, source.
16. Expanding further on numbers 4 and 5, have your own stooges "expose" scandals and champion popular causes. Their job is to pre-empt real opponents and to play 99-yard football. A variation is to pay rich people for the job who will pretend to spend their own money.
17. Flood the Internet with agents. This is the answer to the question, "What could possibly motivate a person to spend hour upon hour on Internet news groups defending the government and/or the press and harassing genuine critics?" Don t the authorities have defenders enough in all the newspapers, magazines, radio, and television? One would think refusing to print critical letters and screening out serious callers or dumping them from radio talk shows would be control enough, but, obviously, it is not.

Context: I’m planning to leave my relationship, but haven’t yet.
Me and my child’s father are not married, but obviously by my phrasing we have a kid together. I cannot for the life of me remember if we signed a paternity agreement in the hospital after I gave birth or not.
If he didn’t, cool. If he did, that makes leaving even harder because he is the type to call the cops and say I kidnapped his child. (Idek if he can do that tbh but he’s the type to try)
The biggest part of leaving that is so stressful is figuring out how the hell the custody/support thing is going to work out and how I’m gonna get from FL to NJ when I haven’t had a job in over a year. I don’t have any income to pay for childcare, and his paycheck won’t cover it (I have absolutely no idea where his 70k salary goes at all. I’ve tried to budget, talk about finances, I have no clue) so I can’t go for interviews or nursing school or any other classes I’ve wanted to. I mean I can even go to the gas station without bringing my son.
I have absolutely no assets, no money, no credit, nothing to my name. I guess I’m just happy I’m getting away when I’m 21 and not 40 (no hate to anyone here, your time is your time!!). This whole thing is so stressful and it so makes you just want to stay unhappy, rather than go through all the hard to leave. I know I’ll be more successful and less stressed on my own, but that’s terrifying. After years of financial, emotional and even at times light physical abuse, I’m still okay with staying partly if it means I don’t have to go through anything hard. I feel weak, like a failure. I’m just ranting, looking for people who relate or have advice I guess because I am so lost

I’ve only just started, im 22 for context. I’m doing absrm grade 2. I’ve tried to join more piano communities in my area, and the rumours were upsettingly true :/
Very snobby and dismissive of late learners - usually unintentional (i hope). I feel immense shame around these people and it’s making me want to just give it up.
I’ve always seen instruments such as cello, violin, piano etc as very upper middle class to middle class hobbies - so tbh it’s not like i wasn’t aware. I joined a piano society at my skl before I started uni, a lot of the ppl in the society (including the head) would go on ‘society trips' to Taylor swift concerts and society trips overseas (watching performances in Tokyo and Poland etc.) - obviously things the average person cannot afford, yet alone a 16 year old, so the few of us who couldn’t afford it just ended up being left out and we stopped coming. This is when i realised the kind of money that a lot of these early piano/classical musicians had at hand.
I naturally understand it’s a middle class / upper middle class thing to have your parents invest in tutoring of any kind at a young age - whether piano or motorsports. It takes time and is incredibly expensive. Those with more money may even buy or inherit an actual piano. But even just buying a keyboard of a couple hundred pounds to encourage your child to start piano is still a lot, and a privilege I don’t believe most children have. I know if i asked my mom for a £200 keyboard because i wanted to start piano at 9 yrs old, my mom would’ve simply given me a 'no, end of' - as would a lot of ppl.
My mom has cried to me when she was older, saying she wish she could’ve afforded to get me in hobbies. We would often go to taster days (from dance to fencing to piano) as they were free, but we could never carry them on as lessons were just too expensive. Most frustrating thing is I’ve known ive wanted to play piano since 6 or so, but i wasn’t able to do anything about it until i had my own stream of income (so until i was 18). I’ve saved so much and worked so hard, i worked 40 hours weeks, brought my own keyboard, bought practice books, bought music lessons, signed up to examboard, spent hours on YouTubes looking for a suitable ABRSM guide during my gap year.
And now im at uni (not studying anything music related) and barely in, these communities don’t even want me around. At some point i was asked 'why are you even here?'. It was an informal session where everyone was trying out on the piano, i didn’t feel comfortable playing but they were chanting my name and encouraged me so i went for it - it was nothing complex as i wasn’t trying to impress just join in. I guess that set alarms bells off for them.
I’ve been blatantly ignored. most conversations are around what public school they went to (all the public skls in the uk know eachother for some reason). I’ve been sneered at for using a keyboard and not a piano (was unironically told to 'just buy a second hand bechstein, there’s looadds available'). A lot of them still have the tired out 2016 take ‘rap isn’t music’ - that kind of attitude. Idk im just ranting now, but i feel like I’ve hit brick wall. im being a baby about this but it’s a stabbing feeling, this just might not be a space for me.

I cannot sleep getting bummed up, so please let me lol it's a bit long so please do bear with me. And please don't hate, I hate myself enough already haha
For context, I have ADHD. I want to do things. I can do those things with ease. But I CANNOT do it. Gulo no? Haha.
It's like sabihin natin, yung goal mo is compared to say, magsaing ng kanin. Bigas? Yes meron, mamahalin. Tubig? Shet, mineral water. Kaldero? Aba complete set. Except, there's no fire. Hinalo halo mo na lahat, pero the fire cannot start at all. Ganun sya sa pakiramdam. You know you can pero di mo magawa. Ginugusto ko ba? Of course not.
Dati nung nag aaral palang ako di kosya ramdam e. In fact, I excelled in school kasi everything's interesting, I hyperfocused here and there, and nahihila ng matataas kong grades yung kakulangan ko sa ibang bagay. I maintained high grades kahit di ako nakakapagpasa ng projects. When I took the boards, I was hyperfocused on the first month and lost it the months following that. Himalang nakapasa ako without fucking it up.
Pero iba ngayon e. There's no room for a lacking piece, if may need gawin, need gawin. Kahit anong pilit kong imotivate sarili ko, di kaya. I starved myself, binubugbog ko na sarili ko, held myself from going to CR hanggat di tapos, agstay sa opisina until midnight hanggat di tapos, alaws. This work is not a complicated one ha, kasi on a hyperfocused setting this is something I can finish in an hour or two. The more I tried to force the work on me, the dumber I became. Mas malala pa dyan, my already faulty memory became worse and with my nonexistent attention span aba I can't even learn anything new anymore. Trying to learn new things is just painful now I always end up crying nalang haha
Mas masaklap pa dyan, I work from home. Madaming distractions, non existent na social life, walang pera, walang pwedeng galaan, yadda yada. And trust me when I said I tried doing new things, mag invest sa skincare, mag invest sa gym, mag invest on anything that will make me move and ang ending, gastos lang, sakit sa ulo lang, disappointment lang. I even had this one time na I actually paid for the whole month sa gym in advance just to guilt myself na gumalaw galaw at di masayang ang pera. Ganun parin. Haha
Meds, ganun din. Di biro meds, super mahal andmas masama pa nun, I crash after the effects run out. Either I get drained ng energy or I get twice as depressed after. Ah di ko maintindihan sa totoo lang
Sa totoo lang, I feel very cornered. Halfway na ng 2024. I am just a shadow of what I was siguro 5 years ago. With how bad (and fast) I am regressing mentally I can't imagine myself living five more without becoming flat out stupid hahaha
Please do drop some advice for me, but please do not hate me if I end up telling you I tried that method already or something, kasi I tried all I can think of my whole life maibsan lang haha pasensya na if I ended up dumping it here ngayon lang to matutuloy after months of discard-and -type sa ibat ibang subreddits haha

***Lily***
“Stupid gnome prejudice. I may not be the biggest fan of gnomes but, just because we are small doesn’t mean we can’t cause some damage.” Mogsten says as he walks over, kicks the fishman, and picks up the horn and dusts it off. “I’m hesitant to admit this since, when he regains consciousness, he will do what he could to ruin my business even more but, still, thank you Wabbajack.” He says.
“Don’t mention it Mogsten, this guy’s haggling game was all over the place.” Wabbajack responds.
“Indeed, he has no understanding of value.” Mogsten says with a smirk on his face.
“Well, unless he knew that you had about another sixty of those in the back that is.” Wabbajack says as he chuckles.
Mogsten quickly turns around as he says, “Shh. That’s a trade secret.” He then lets out an “oh ho ho” chuckle. He then looks down and yells, “Gourdsten! Clean up!”
Just like that, Gourdsten comes out from the back and drags the body off. Soon after the body disappears towards the back, Gourdsten reappears with a spray bottle, gloves, and a sponge.
“What happened to him?” I ask Mogsten.
“Don’t worry, I can’t afford a bloody reputation. He is just in stasis until the authorities get here.” Mogsten answers with.
“Stasis?” I ask.
“She really is new to all this huh? Stasis is basically freezing someone in a state of time. In this state however, while nothing can happen to them, they can’t function. Depending on the state they are in when they go under, they may be aware of the environment around them. Sometimes, certain criminals may undergo such punishment for their crimes.” Mogsten explains, looking at Wabbajack for some reason.
Mogsten then looks at me and asks, “So, did you find all the ingredients?”
I nod my head.
He then rubs his temple as he asks, “And you Really intend to go through with this?”
“There’s no other option!” I exclaim.
“Well, there are quite a few, just that they would take a LOT longer.” Wabbajack points out.
I look at him in annoyance and he responds with, “What? Just saying.”
I sigh and look at Mogsten and hand him the “ingredients”.
“Let’s see what we have. A fur scarf, a pistol, a lantern that looks like a child tried to make it, a… rubber duck. And what the world is this?” Mogsten asks pulling out the leg.
“It’s a prosthetic leg for a dragon-sized crocodile. Well, a smaller scale version at the very least.” I explain.
“Who would put a prosthetic leg on a Dragon-sized crocodile?” he asks.
“Right?” I ask in return.
He then looks back at the leg, strokes his fake beard, and says, “Well, when you put it like that, makes sense you would want to use it as an ingredient.” He then looks back at me and asks, “Are these the ingredients that you Really want to use?”
“They fit the descriptions that you gave me.” I point out.
He then looks at the ingredients again and says, “Yes… this may actually work then.”
“Come again?” I ask him.
“Well, one of the Biggest reasons, after that whole dark nature I mentioned, that this fails is that people try to influence their familiar by using ingredients that don’t inspire these feelings.” He explains.
“Because of this disconnection between the host and the familiar, that may also cause the familiar to go berserk as well.” Wabbajack then explains.
“Exactly!” Mogsten exclaims as he points towards to Wabbajack. He then looks back to me and asks, “With that in mind, are you one-Hundred percent sure that these ingredients are correct?”
I nod again and explain, “I can explain my reasons if you want.”
“No. As long as you are certain, then follow me to the back.” He says as he picks everything up again and starts waddling towards the back.
“Would you like some help?” I ask.
“No, I have to prepare everything anyways so it’s best I handle most things from here.” He explains.
Wabbajack walks past me but, I notice he is holding his banjo-thing upside-down. But, its neck is awfully long. Long enough to reach the ground and have the base be about level to his head. Which is pretty impressive since he is not that much taller than me. I want to ask about it but, I figured that is better left for later. Besides, I could probably guess that it can switch between a staff and an instrument. So, I shrug and follow them towards the back.
As I pass the flaps, I let out an audible, “Wow” because the room is massive! There is so much stock in here. I would have never guessed it from the gypsy-sized tent I see from the outside.
I guess Mogsten hears me as he says while putting the items in a pattern, “Spatial compression spell. It’s like that bag you are probably holding. It’s a pocket of space that you can mess with everything as long as it’s registered to you. Any merchant worth his salt at least attempts to lessen the target on his store to wannabe burglars. For example, there was a tannery that was completely torn apart for scrap. I hear the owner left it unattended And unlocked. I hope he can recover from that, it’s a pretty costly mistake.”
I look off towards the side and say, “Oh, I hear he is doing alright. Hehe.”
He pulls out a spray can and says while he shakes it, “That’s good.” He then starts spraying the ground.
I look over towards Wabbajack, who is standing sideways towards the thing Mogsten is working on. He has his free hand about chest level, fingers-spread, and it looks like he has a weird circle thing again like when I think I have seen him do before when he casted magic. Like when he summoned that ghost thing. I guess he is on guard duty.
I look back at Mogsten and see he is about halfway done at this point. He works fast since the design is very intricate. Now that I think about it, it looks like that circle Wabbajack has but… different. I think I remember reading about this. These must be magic circles. While they look similar, they must be different since each magic circle represents something different. Kinda like snowflakes. I can’t help but ask, “What’s that you are spraying to make that magic circle?”
“Ah, someone has been studying. It’s a mixture of compounds for creating the familiar summoning circle. I kept a few around just in case that someone managed to convince me to do this.” He explains. He then stands up and shakes it some more as he says, “I thought it was unlikely but, a smart businessman looks at every opportunity.” He then goes back to spraying and says, “Now, no offense, but mind letting me focus? I got to make sure I get this perfect. I want to lessen the margin of error as much as possible.”
“Oh! Sure. Sorry.” I say. Now that I think about it, I look towards my bag and think about what he said, “Like my bag.” I open it and it looks like a normal bag. Either it needs to be activated or it doesn’t have that spell yet. I’ll have to ask about that after we are done.
“Before I forget, leave your bandolier and bag over by Wabbajack there. We don’t want to add unnecessary items to the circle.” Mogsten says as he shakes the can again.
“Oh! Alright!” I respond. I take off my bandolier and put it down by Wabbajack.
“Don’t worry. If worse comes to worse, I’ll protect you. And come whatever may, we’ll figure out what to do next.” Wabbajack says.
I feel a little relief hearing him say that. Next thing I know, Gourdsten runs up to me with a simple white robe. “Oh, what’s this?” I ask.
“It’s a robe.” Wabbajack says.
As I look at him, annoyed, Gourdsten says, “Robe! Wear Robe!”
Mogsten then explains, “You’ll have to take off the rest of your gear as well and wear just that robe. Like I said, No unnecessary items. Only simple clothes.”
I look at the robe and say, “Oh… There is a changing room, right?”
“This way! Here, here!” Gourdsten says as he pulls my arm.
“Alright! Calm down.” I say.
I follow him to a wooden stall. “I guess I change in there, huh?” I ask.
“Yes! Correct!” Gourdsten says.
I sigh and open it up, step inside and change. Afterwards, after I step out in the robe, Gourdsten then says, “Shoes! Too!”
I look down and sigh. I then ask, “Can that wait till we get back?”
“Shoes! Shoes! He repeats.
I then puff my face in annoyance as I sit down and take off my shoes. “Happy?” I ask.
He just jumps up and down and starts walking back.
All I can think is that it’s a good thing that the floor is at least wooden. I then get up, grab my stuff, and chase after him.
As we get back, Mogsten appears out of nowhere and points behind him as he says, “Circle is done. All that is left is the blood of the subject.”
“You’re not going to slit my wrists, are you?” I ask with a meek chuckle.
“Heaven’s no!” He says as he pulls out a syringe. He then grabs my wrist under these large sleeves and asks, “On three. Ready?”
I nervously nod my head. Just as he opens his mouth, I quickly say, “Wait! Why do we need blood again?” Trying to delay the inevitable.
He looks at me and explains, “A familiar is an extension of yourself. Quite literally. In order to cement that bond, it needs the blood of the host. That bond will allow you and your familiar to share experiences but, still allow autonomy for individual thought. You can live without it but, for it to retain its presence, it needs you alive.”
“Fascinating. Mind going into more detail?” I say with a weak smile.
He then stabs the syringe into my wrist as he says, “No.”
“Ow!” I yelp.
Just like that, he pulls the syringe out and empties it out into a bowl. “Alright, here you go.” He says as he hands me the bowl.
As I stare into a small bowl of my own blood, I ask, “What am I supposed to do with this?”
“Now, You stand at the center of the circle. As I activate the circle, the blood will start sloshing around in that bowl. Do NOT let a SINGLE drop fall out until the last item is floating. When the last item does start floating, pour the blood in the center and take four steps back. Got it?” he explains.
I look over back to the circle and then look back to Mogsten and repeat, “Don’t let it spill until the last object starts floating. When it does, pour it all out and take four steps back, right?”
He nods and says, “Correct.” I think I then hear him mumble, “I can’t believe I was convinced to do this.” As he walks away.
I then take my place at the center of the circle. I am somewhat trembling at this point.
“Are you sure, you want to do this?” Mogsten asks again.
“Just do it already!” I yell back.
He lets out a sigh and starts mouthing something as he levels out his arms towards me.
I could feel the energy around me shifting and moving. I start seeing the objects that were placed start floating one by one. Slowly but surely. I then look down at the bowl and it is sloshing around. So far, not too bad. Around the time the fourth object starts floating, the blood really starts flying around to the point I have to actually adjust to make sure it doesn’t go flying out.
After a few more minutes the last object starts flying up. As soon as it stops moving, I pour the blood and take four steps back. The blood stops midair and forms a bubbling ball. It then rises up about level to my face. It stops bubbling and then a flash of blinding light envelops the room and I try to shield my eyes.
After a minute, I slowly open my eyes and lower my arms. What I see before me is something pretty weird.
It’s in the shape of a sphere with a detached fox tail. The floating tail matches the fur of the body of the “familiar”, I guess. Its fur is a golden yellow with a white tip. The body looks like it has a line down the middle, with Very sharp fangs from the top row. It has fox ears and tiny fox paws and a fox nose. It’s got lines for eyes? Either that or they are just closed. Between its ears, it has a lantern dangling from a line, kinda like an angler fish. The other side of that line looks like white gator leather and it has two tiny gator feet. As it yawns, I guess, it opens its massive mouth, showing all its fangs, top and bottom rows, and stretches its fox paws, revealing some nasty looking barbed claws. It’s only as tall as, from the floor, up to my knee.
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So for Context this was in my sophmore year in college which was about 2 years ago. I had a huge crush on this cute girl that I shared a class with, and my friends helped me to get the courage to introduce myself to her.
And I did, and she was really nice. And surprisingly she gave me her phone number, and we began to hang out to other events around campus, as well as helping each other with our biology homework.
After about 2 months, she asked if I wanted to go watch a movie with her, and I said I would. I believe it was uncharted with that actor that does Spiderman. Anyways, we were having a good time until we both leaned slowly together and we kissed. And it felt so amazing.
The bad thing was I peed myself when that happened, and she saw as well. I told her I had to go and quickly left. She texted me shortly after, saying that everything was fine, but I was just so embarrassed so I didn't respond for days.
I began skipping the biology class I had but since it was near the end of the semester it didn't affect my grades too bad. However, during another class a girl who I never met told me that she heard that I pissed myself while kissing her friend.
That's when I found out that she told her friends what had happened and now more people were finding out about what I did, which explained why I was getting so many weird looks but that just might be me exaggerating.
I texted her and told her that I needed to see her, and after confronting her she told me that she did tell only a couple of her friends, but they promised her that they wouldn't tell anyone.
That's when I told her straight up that I felt like we shouldn't be hanging out anymore, and that I hope she takes care.
She tried texting me a couple more times after that saying she was sorry, and she even found me on discord but I just ignored her. We had one more class the next semester, but I never spoke to her since.
My friends found out about this as well, and while they did tease me at first they were really supportive when they saw that I was really hurt about this. If it wasn't for them I don't know what I would've done.
TLDR: Went to a movie with my crush that I met in College, we kissed and accidentally pissed myself in front of her. I ended up running and she ended up telling her friends, causing me to break ties with her.

So for Context this was in my sophmore year in college which was about 2 years ago. I had a huge crush on this cute girl that I shared a class with, and my friends helped me to get the courage to introduce myself to her.
And I did, and she was really nice. And surprisingly she gave me her phone number, and we began to hang out to other events around campus, as well as helping each other with our biology homework.
After about 2 months, she asked if I wanted to go watch a movie with her, and I said I would. I believe it was uncharted with that actor that does Spiderman. Anyways, we were having a good time until we both leaned slowly together and we kissed. And it felt so amazing.
The bad thing was I peed myself when that happened, and she saw as well. I told her I had to go and quickly left. She texted me shortly after, saying that everything was fine, but I was just so embarrassed so I didn't respond for days.
I began skipping the biology class I had but since it was near the end of the semester it didn't affect my grades too bad. However, during another class a girl who I never met told me that she heard that I pissed myself while kissing her friend.
That's when I found out that she told her friends what had happened and now more people were finding out about what I did, which explained why I was getting so many weird looks but that just might be me exaggerating.
I texted her and told her that I needed to see her, and after confronting her she told me that she did tell only a couple of her friends, but they promised her that they wouldn't tell anyone.
That's when I told her straight up that I felt like we shouldn't be hanging out anymore, and that I hope she takes care.
She tried texting me a couple more times after that saying she was sorry, and she even found me on discord but I just ignored her. We had one more class the next semester, but I never spoke to her since.
My friends found out about this as well, and while they did tease me at first they were really supportive when they saw that I was really hurt about this. If it wasn't for them I don't know what I would've done.
TLDR: Went to a movie with my crush that I met in College, we kissed and accidentally pissed myself in front of her. I ended up running and she ended up telling her friends, causing me to break ties with her.

So for Context this was in my sophmore year in college which was about 2 years ago. I had a huge crush on this cute girl that I shared a class with, and my friends helped me to get the courage to introduce myself to her.
And I did, and she was really nice. And surprisingly she gave me her phone number, and we began to hang out to other events around campus, as well as helping each other with our biology homework.
After about 2 months, she asked if I wanted to go watch a movie with her, and I said I would. I believe it was uncharted with that actor that does Spiderman. Anyways, we were having a good time until we both leaned slowly together and we kissed. And it felt so amazing.
The bad thing was I peed myself when that happened, and she saw as well. I told her I had to go and quickly left. She texted me shortly after, saying that everything was fine, but I was just so embarrassed so I didn't respond for days.
I began skipping the biology class I had but since it was near the end of the semester it didn't affect my grades too bad. However, during another class a girl who I never met told me that she heard that I pissed myself while kissing her friend.
That's when I found out that she told her friends what had happened and now more people were finding out about what I did, which explained why I was getting so many weird looks but that just might be me exaggerating.
I texted her and told her that I needed to see her, and after confronting her she told me that she did tell only a couple of her friends, but they promised her that they wouldn't tell anyone.
That's when I told her straight up that I felt like we shouldn't be hanging out anymore, and that I hope she takes care.
She tried texting me a couple more times after that saying she was sorry, and she even found me on discord but I just ignored her. We had one more class the next semester, but I never spoke to her since.
My friends found out about this as well, and while they did tease me at first they were really supportive when they saw that I was really hurt about this. If it wasn't for them I don't know what I would've done.
TLDR: Went to a movie with my crush that I met in College, we kissed and accidentally pissed myself in front of her. I ended up running and she ended up telling her friends, causing me to break ties with her.

So I'm going to attend a full time M7 program in the fall. At my current company, which is a large F500, the sheer extreme level of ignorance about MBA programs from the average American worker is absolutely hilarious to anyone who has spent time on this sub or done their research.
First, many view the Part-Time program as far superior to the Full-Time program because "you get to keep your job" and "it shows hustle." When I told them I'm going Full-Time, they said "well, I think it makes sense only if you want to get it done with faster." They don't know about how Full-Time programs are the smoothest option for career pivoters due to the summer internship between 1st & 2nd year, as well as full availability for recruitment events during the day. They also don't know Full-Time MBAs are usually harder to get into than part time due to being more selective with higher GPAs, GMAT/GRE scores, and work experience.
Second, the schools people think are "good" is hilarious. They will say things like "Ivy League MBAs" are the best, never having heard of M7 or T15. The M7 I'm going to is a non-Ivy League, and they haven't heard about it (they might have heard of the parent university but are unsure of how to "rank" it). Meanwhile, Georgetown has incredible lay prestige - they think it's as good as some Ivies. And they think Yale is among the most prestigious MBAs, beating out Stanford.
Third, they will say stuff like "I wouldn't recommend an MBA. I know so and so who got one and they now have the exact same job as me with six figure debt!" They won't realize that the MBA was likely from a no-name state school or the person got it straight out of undergrad. Some even asked why I'm doing my MBA "late" instead of immediately after undergrad. On the flipside, people will say things like "oh my uncle got an MBA from the University of Phoenix! He said it was a great experience." And other things like "awesome! Now you can do the John Doe, MBA on your LinkedIn name," not realizing how cringe that is.
Fourth, people will say things like "Why not just go to x (our local state school)," not realizing that M7s have far great career opportunities. They might vaguely understand the "Ivy League" schools are better, but still fundamentally think all MBA programs are kind of similar. They don't know there's a vast difference in the quality, focus, and outcomes of different MBA programs when it comes to alumni networking and campus recruiting. The dark side of this is ignorant people taking out six-figure debt to attend a really low ranked program, only to graduate with poor job prospects. One co-worker even said, "isn't it best to do an MBA right after undergrad? Aren't you late?"
Fifth, people have no idea about the common post-MBA careers. If you say PM, they think of Project Management, NOT Product Management. They'll say, "Why not just get a PMP, that's what so and so did." If you say consulting, they'll say "it's not that great! I know so and so working at KPMG or Accenture during tech implementation. Avoid the Indian companies like WiPro though - they're not great." Forget Investment Banking - they thought that meant "bank teller." No one has any idea what VC, Hedge Fund, or Private Equity is. They'll also say "how can you do consulting or banking, that's totally different from what you do now!" not realizing that consulting and banking at the MBA level recruit in a background agnostic way. Tech and VC/HF/PE care about background though.
Sixth, people say things like "Study hard! You don't want to slack off on that GPA" not realizing that most top MBAs have grade non disclosure and really high curves, making academics often the lowest thing to prioritize (obviously this is a personal choice). But the general perception is that the MBA is an academically rigorous degree like law school, med school etc. They were shocked when I revealed much of the experience is often social, such as domestic and international treks for fun.
Seventh, people fail to realize how difficult it is to get into an M7 MBA. They look at me and go "hey! I'd love to go to Stanford or Harvard or Yale for my MBA, if you can do it, I can do it right?" Only for me to explain the acceptance rates and the high GPAs and GMAT/GRE scores. Only to find out they have poor (like 2.x) GPAs from state schools and likely aren't going to get near perfect GMAT/GRE scores. Their work experience or family connections aren't extremely stellar to the point they can overcome these poor raw stats.
Being "in the know" makes it hilarious to see people who know absolutely nothing give their completely wrong and uniformed opinions with such confidence.

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Deepak embarked on his journey four years ago with a bold challenge to the founder: the satisfaction of having a laptop as long as he scored 75% or more in the 12th standard. With Pehchaan The Street School’s encouragement, Deepak did what was thought impossible and scored 83%, which is unbelievable. His mastery does not only mean victory over himself but also represents the collective victory of any Pehchaan The Street School student.
For Deepak, the first one from his family to get through the 12th grade boards is recognition of the success of Pehchaan's efforts. Through remarkable high scores in the fields of economics and leadership, he has always succeeded in making his family and the entire Pehchaan The Street School community proud. After all, this accomplishment has been the direct outcome of the team's everlasting supporter and mentor roles in the process that made Deepak what he is now.
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TL;DR: roommate leaves me to take care of her dog all the time, I bring it up to her, she gets mad and tries to lock me out. I tell her not to lock me out and she starts physically attacking me. Fam says I shouldn’t press charges.
Initial context: Me (23 M) and my cousin (23 F) decided to be roommates and we both have pets but she’s never home to take care of her dog, I take her dog out more frequently than she does.
So my cousin recently got into a relationship like two months ago and she’s been staying with her partner every night practically, which is not the problem. We made agreements to take each others dogs out if one of us is not at the apartment, but she has been abusing that and essentially leaving me to take her dog out all the time. It became a bigger issue because her dog is not properly trained and is a pit bull so she has the weight to jerk her leash from my grasp. Whenever she’s free, she will run away from me and think I’m playing with her and it’s impossible to chase her down. I’ve had to chase her around our large apartment complex 4 times at this point, the last straw being when she did this before I had to go to work, making me late and almost nearly getting me fired from my job. My dog is a small poodle/bichon frise and he is well trained. So much so that in one instance I had to chase her dog down, my dog sat in the same spot (as I instructed him to) the whole 10 minutes I chased her dog around the complex. Two of my neighbors in three separate instances had to get her dog for me because I eventually just give up and leave her dog outside because I know she will wait at the door and whine.
Well, I got fed up after the fourth instance and I needed to bring this up to my cousin and try to find some solution. So the other day while I’m changing the radiator to my car in the parking lot of the complex, I notice she comes home and says what’s up to me. At this moment I stopped working on my car to let her know that she needs to be more present in her own dogs life because I cannot keep taking care of her dog ALL THE TIME because of her negligence to do it herself. As I’m telling her this, she tries to shift the goal post and bring up that my dog isn’t trained because he pees in the house. The difference here is that I’m always there to clean it up and he pees in his cage (she doesn’t even have a cage for her dog) because one of us isn’t there for a long enough period to clean it up because I work very long hours, but regardless there isn’t a single night that I haven’t been here and slept here. This is my apartment and I don’t have a partners house to go sleep at so I have to come home every day. I will admit I was wrong when I started having a rude tone when I’m telling her that she needs to take accountability for the issue at hand and not divert the issue onto me. It’s at that point she starts getting loud and cussing at me in the parking lot and we essentially are going back n forth outside for a little second before she goes inside. I go back to replacing my radiator and while I’m doing that, I sit and think to myself that I should apologize to her for my tonality and delivery because ultimately, I need a solution to the problem.
So I go upstairs to try to talk to her and I knock on the door three times for her to let me in because the door was locked. She didn’t answer the door and I know she heard me knocking because she didn’t have earbuds in and my dog was barking multiple times because I was knocking the door (he doesn’t bark otherwise because I have a bark collar on him). Luckily I remembered I left my keys outside on my toolbox and I get in the apartment. It’s at this moment I explode and open her rooms door to tell her not to lock me out of my own apartment because she was being petty. She’s yelling at the top of her lungs to tell me to get out of her room. In the midst of this, I thought I dropped my earbud in the doorway of her messy room (clothes and random objects EVERYWHERE on the floor) and I’m repeatedly telling her that I need my earbud and I’ll leave and she’s not listening and just keeps telling me to get out.
It’s at this point it becomes physical and she starts to shove and push me out of the doorway, and I’m telling her just grab my earbud but she starts to escalate the physicality and punch me and grab my hair trying to pull it out. I had not laid a single hand on her up until this point because I don’t hit women or anyone for that matter over a verbal altercation, and I had to wrestle her to the ground to calm her down and to get her to stop attacking me. She then bites both of my arms TWICE to the point that her teeth sink into both arms. I will provide images.
After a minute of this, I push her off of me completely and tell her that I’m going to call the cops for hitting me and she just doesn’t care, I didn’t and I ended up going outside to my car and calling my uncle (her dad) and he basically told me that this is just behavior that’s typical of her. Despite all of this, I try to go upstairs again to talk to her in a calm manner and apologize so we can talk things out because 1. We’re cousins and this is unacceptable behavior, and 2. We literally live together and we can’t live together with this kind of tension. She wasn’t having it, before I could even finish my sentence, she just continually starts screaming at the top of her lungs telling me to get out and that she hates me (mind you, we have neighbors and it’s 11pm at night), so I eventually just leave to go finish working on my car.
You remember when I said I didn’t call the cops? Well, I didn’t need to call the cops, because as I started back working on my car, the cops arrived in the parking lot and they told me the neighbors called because of a noise complaint. So I give them a rundown of the situation in a calm manner outside, and they automatically start to ask me if she has any bruises or marks and I tell them that I’m not sure but I show them the marks I have on my knee, the bite marks on both my arms, and they can clearly see my hair is messed up from her trying to pull my dreads from scalp. So the cops try to go upstairs to talk to her and they’re knocking on the door but she’s not coming to the door, but I let them in and I try to tell her the cops want her side of the situation, but she’s trying to storm past them and literally tells them she’s not talking to them. They were blocking the door but eventually let her leave when they realize that she’s just not going to cooperate with them. When she drives off and leaves with her dog, they then proceed to ask me if I want to press charges and initially I tell them no because I don’t want to ruin her clean record and they inform me that if I changed my mind that I have like 20 days to file a report.
Well I get off work the next day and find she’s home for once with her dog and I’m still wanting to talk things out because she’s family and I have unconditional love for my family, but she tells me multiple times that there’s nothing to talk about and she doesn’t consider me family anymore because I “disrespected” her. Cool.
I’ve asked multiple people in my family if I should press charges and everyone but my mom said no, but I genuinely feel she needs to take accountability for getting physical with me when I didn’t touch her at all prior to defending myself. This is not the first time she’s had issues regulating her emotions and it surely won’t be the last.
Would I ultimately be the asshole if I did press charges on her?

So…
which sephiroth did we see in Rebirth? There are 4 Sephiroths in Remake and the fourth was labeled as “???”
Any clues if Rebirth had more that one Sephiroth?

Just ranting here… my 13yr old son and his BFF since 3rd grade had a falling out a few months ago. This kid was such a part of our family I was literally looking at mattresses for him since he stayed over so much. He got very religious, and we are not. He started telling my son who struggled with his weight (pre puberty, he’s thinned a lot in the last few months) that “gluttony is a sin”. My kid started pushing back, and finally uninvited bestie from his bday.
They haven’t recovered yet. There’s a third friend in this group that is still friends with each individually and he told my son that while at the other boys house the mom said my son is “trash”. I have no clue what version of the story she knows, but I do know I keep a closer eye on my son than she does (reiterating here that my experience is from 3rd-7th grade. I 100% monitor my kid harder than she does) and my version is told through the text messages I read with my own eyes.
But either way, talking shit on a 13yr old to their friend feels so cruel. I’m so angry, and there’s nothing I can do besides continue to build my kid up and tell him how proud I am for him standing up for himself.
It’s not hard to be a grown-up, and I wish some of these parents were better at it.

Hey all! My son is going into 1st grade and I've really been strongly feeling led to homeschool him. I think this is the right choice but all my friends and family, except for my mom and husband, feel like he needs to be in public school because of his mental health issues. He is diagnosed with ODD and ADHD and we suspect he has autism as well but the waitlist is months out so we don't know for sure yet. I'm also struggling because I was homeschooled and absolutely hated it.
We tried to go the public school route but he did not get accepted to either of our top two choices and I just have such a bad feeling about it every time we tried to enroll him anyway. I truly think this is what I'm supposed to be doing but I'm super worried that I'm going to mess him up or do something wrong. He graduated Kindergarten through a 2 day a week program and he can read and spell and do math super well so I'm not worried about that. But he is an only child and I'm scared I'm going to isolate him. We are signed up for a co-op that's once a week for science and history and other electives but is that enough? I went to a similar co-op but I also had siblings so I'm not sure if that makes a big difference.
He's also a kinesthetic learner and he HATESSSS worksheets more than anything but he loves to learn through play and with his hands. That is not my style of learning so am I even qualified to teach him?? I've been looking at curriculums and decided on All About Reading & Spelling and Horizons Math. But what if he hates them? We don't have a ton of money so once I buy a curriculum we kinda have to stick with it for the whole year because I can't afford more than one right now.
Sorry if I'm ranting, I'm just really nervous that everyone else is right and my gut is wrong and I'm going to mess him up somehow. I want what's best for him but almost no one believes that I can do this. Again, I know his grades in 1st grade don't really matter in the long run and he's very smart but I don't want to ruin him socially. 1st grade is important for learning how to make friends and he already has issues with that and I don't want to make it worse, especially with him being an only child. He went to the 2 day a week program for the entire school year and he didn't really make a single friend because he's so different than the other kids. Maybe he does need a whole 5 day school setting to make friends. Maybe cutting it down to only 1 day a week is the wrong thing to do. I don't know. I just want to do what's best and I feel like I'm in way over my head. Will homeschooling mess him up??

Advice needed. I'm in an interesting situation. [20M/21M]
I need to vent but also need some advice. Almost two years ago I (now 20M) contacted this person (now 21M) online on a niche forum and he answered back. For context, he lives on the other side of the world.
We ended up talking for months and months on end, and eventually, after becoming "online friends" (even though I don't really believe in that) he told me he was coming on vacation to my city and therefore we met up.
Nothing happened when we met up, but during the two days we spent together I started having feelings for him. I perceived him liking my company a lot too but I thought I was delusional when thinking about a partner, since that has always been the case before.
Eventually a couple weeks later, when we end up starting to phone each other and such, I confess my feelings to him and he says he feels the same but he's not sure. We do tell each other that we love ourselves (a bit cringe if you're not in the situation but I had to include that, sorry) and that we miss ourselves. During a couple months he says he plans on coming to my city, this time to stay for a couple weeks and to live together in an apartment.
A month or so ago, when this was about to happen (he'd already asked time off work and everything), he just stopped answering me. Normally we do have breaks from talking to each other for a couple of days, which I totally understand and share, but usually we talk beforehand, it doesn't last this long and it doesn't happen at a time where I need to tell my family and need to make such big plans. He's leaving me in a limbo.
It's a shame because I do think he is a great person and he is definitely not doing it out of malice, I just wish he would just tell me if something I did was wrong. He's active on social media so at least I know he's not deceased, which is a relief.
For context I've never had anything close to a romantic experience and I thought my bad luck finally came to an end. One part of me thinks it's over and I should just let it go, another part thinks I should wait for him to come back in case he just needed time to think, and another part of me has never felt this want for a partner ever before. It's like when you go to a restaurant, and they serve you the first plate early and you have to wait for the second plate but it never comes. He's sort of awokened my (instinctal?) want for a partner and I feel like I should do something to finally fulfill that part of me, only I don't know what to do.
Sorry for the long post.
TLDR: Potential partner is a good person but randomly ghosts me before meeting up to live together. No clue what to do.

Context: I (27F) don't have a criminal history and have never interacted with law enforcement before. My boyfriend got into an altercation with a driver; I joined by boyfriend and the driver chased us with a knife. I pulled out my keys as defense, got too close to his car, and left a scratch. The driver and I were arrested; I was charged with fourth degree misdemeanor criminal mischief, and he was charged with 2nd degree menacing, 2nd degree harassment, and 4th degree criminal possession of a weapon. I have a lawyer, but how bad do you think this will be? Any chance the charges will be dismissed? This was in Brooklyn