I really do think that a lot of them just hate Mikasa bc they’re always calling her a dog, a psychopath, a yandere and a lot of stupid other insults. Saying that she will die and being happy for that. And one of the whole point of the theories is just to say how horrible she is and how she takes Eren’s freedom far away from him. And I also saw a drawing about Eren grabbing her d€capited head proudly.
They even said that on the new ending cover she looked dead and then started to use it at a proof 💀 and the comments were so mean too.

If I'm doing things for myself like trying to explore, getting a new job, or trying new things, she always has something to say like it's dangerous or it's a waste of money.
But when it comes to church responsibilities, she smiles and is always saying she's proud. To be honest, hearing her being proud of me irritates me than making me happy.
I remember in 2020 when I insisted to grab the job offer I had, she almost kicked me out because she's too scared of covid. Yet in 2021 when I missed one WS, she tells me how disappointed she is.
I remember one time she wouldn't let me accept a job that pays 13k/month, saying it's too low. Yet would want me to offer free services to the church.
Sad life.

My girlfriend and I have been dating just over a year and are graduating college in may. Her parents are manipulative and toxic, but she isn’t. She is stressed and doesn’t know what to do because she is still financially dependent and culturally is very integrated with her family and cutting them off isn’t able to be a reality for her. She won’t meet my parents even thought it’s been a year, because she doesn’t want to do so behind her own parents back. They don’t even know me, but they don’t like me, even though I Have a future, live independently and am almost done with my masters degree. I totally see a future and we’ve talked about it but it means she has to choose between me or her parents and I don’t feel like that’s fair of me to ask her to do that. If she isn’t in a relationship with me she might be able to mend things with her family. But she is confused right now and we are in a limbo as I patiently wait for her to work things out.
Idk what to do because I have to look out for myself and how much emotional stress I can handle - but I don’t want to be selfish since it’s really not her fault but her parents. (Yes I’ve told asked to set boundaries with her parents but that hasn’t happened because she still needs their money)
I feel like I’m in the way of her having a relationship with her parents but I know she is the one who has to decide that- but nothing really is happening it just comes to a boiling point every other week or so where she breaks down crying after an argument with her parents over me. She is fighting for me but it’s a losing battle so I’m just confused what to do.
Should I break her heart and move on or stick it out at risk of a dead end?
TLDR: GFs parents are toxic-she is financially dependent-it’s getting in the way of our relationship

Today Cherokee Nation remembrance day - remembering all those murdered by the Americans, and those who survived the Trail of Tears
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Navajo Tech 1st among tribal universities to offer PhD
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2023/03/24/navajo-tech-1st-among-tribal-universities-to-offer-phd.html
A university on the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. launched its accredited doctoral program, becoming the first among more than 30 accredited tribal colleges and universities across the country to offer such a high level degree.
The program at Navajo Technical University will be dedicated to sustaining Diné culture and language. Diné is the Navajo word meaning “the people” and is commonly what tribal members call themselves.
A celebration is planned on the Crownpoint campus in western New Mexico in April, and the school already started accepting applications for the fall semester.
The offering marks a milestone for the university, which already has more than 30 degree and certificate programs spanning science, technology, engineering, business and liberal arts, Navajo Tech President Elmer Guy said.
Guy told The Associated Press on Friday that he believes the program in which students will receive a Ph.D. in Diné Culture and Language Sustainability will have a profound impact on the future of the tribe’s language and culture. He said he’s excited to see how students shape their dissertations.
The idea was to create a program that would lead to employment opportunities and effect change for Navajo communities on the reservation that stretches into New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.
“I thought it would be important to make that connection,” Guy said, explaining that it’s a step beyond the call by tribal leaders for their people to learn the language and stay engaged with their culture. “Individuals will get a degree and they’ll be professionals. You have to make it applicable. By making it more meaningful, people will have an interest in it.“
The effort is paying off. About 20 students have applied so far and will be vying for five coveted spots in the inaugural class, said Wafa Hozien, an administrator who helped with the program’s creation.
SKIP ADVERTISEMENT A collaboration with other academic institutions and community partners, the doctoral program was developed with the help of tribal elders, university professors and linguistic experts. Community-based research and internships will be part of the curriculum so students gain practical experience they can apply in the real world.
Guy said he’s hopeful this inspires other tribal colleges and universities to create their own programs.
Hozien said Navajo Tech’s program represents a paradigm shift in that learning through a Diné lens — with culture and language — creates leaders who can advocate for their people in the judicial system, education, land management, business, technology and health care, for example.
Guy said the work done by the university to train court reporters to document Navajo testimony and translators to help with reading ballots during election season already has addressed some of the pressing needs within communities.
The possibilities will be even greater as students earn doctoral degrees, he said.
“They will be part of solving problems,” Guy said. “These students have energy and creativity, and our job is to give them the tools.”
Montoya Bryan reported from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, author of ‘Moore’s Law’ that helped drive computer revolution, dies at 94

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/tech/gordon-moore-obituary/index.html

Principal fired after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue

A principal of a Florida school has been forced to resign after a parent complained that students were exposed to pornography.
The complaint arose from a Renaissance art lesson where students were shown Michelangelo's statue of David.
The iconic statue is one of the most famous in Western history.
But one parent complained the material was pornographic and two others said they wanted to know about the class before it was taught.
The lesson also included references to Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam" painting and Botticelli's "Birth of Venus".
Principal Hope Carrasaquilla of Tallahassee Classical School said she resigned after she was given an ultimatum by the school board to resign or be fired.
Local media reported that Ms Carrasquilla did not know the reason she was asked to resign, but believed it was related to the complaints over the lesson.
They also said Ms Carrasquilla had been principal for less than one year.
On Thursday, Florida's governor moved to expand a law that banned public schools from teaching sexual education and gender identity.
Teachers who violate the law face being suspended or losing their teaching licences.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65071989

The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library — A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in a lawsuit brought by four book publishers

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23655804/internet-archive-hatchette-publisher-ebook-library-lawsuit
Excerpt from the linked content¹ by Jay Peters and Sean Hollister:

A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hatchette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library.
The lawsuit came from the Internet Archive’s decision to launch the “National Emergency Library” early in the covid pandemic, which let people read from 1.4 million digitized books with no waitlist.
In his ruling, Judge Koetl considered whether the Internet Archive was operating under the principle of Fair Use, which previously protected a digital preservation project by Google Books and HathiTrust in 2014.
Fair Use considers whether using a copyrighted work is good for the public, how much it’ll impact the copyright holder, and whether the use has “transformed” a copyrighted thing into something new, among other things.
But Koetl wrote that any “alleged benefits” from the Internet Archive’s library “cannot outweigh the market harm to the publishers.”
Judge John G. Koeltl decided that the Internet Archive had done nothing more than create “derivative works,” and so would have needed authorization from the books’ copyright holders — the publishers — before lending them out through its National Emergency Library program.

¹ Jay Peters and Sean Hollister for The Verge/Vox Media, 24 Mar. 2023, https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23655804/internet-archive-hatchette-publisher-ebook-library-lawsuit
https://www.reddit.com/technology/comments/1214mv6/the_internet_archive_has_lost_its_first_fight_to/jdkbxvo/

Parent demands removal of bible from school using republicans “pornographic” law

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https://www.reddit.com/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/120j6uparent_demands_removal_of_bible_from_school_using/
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1 in 8 People Worldwide Live with a Mental Health Disorder, But Stigma Prevents Help-Seeking

https://blog.mdpi.com/2023/03/14/help-seeking-behavio
https://www.reddit.com/psychology/comments/120i8rj/1_in_8_people_worldwide_live_with_a_mental_health/

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https://www.reddit.com/MkeBucks/comments/120thg4/giannis_antetokounmpo_i_know_not_everyone_who/
https://www.reddit.com/milwaukee/comments/120thxz/giannis_antetokounmpo_i_know_not_everyone_who/

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Have you ever faced a difficult situation where you had to make a choice between your own happiness and someone else's happiness? How did you handle it?

Here I want to talk about someone who came from a small town with big dreams. Whose childhood has not been very good and whose parents have thought that this is our hope, he will remove our poverty. And then with a lot of hard work it has changed, sometimes your past experiences change your nature and thinking, this is the way of the world. We only see external things and on that we judge people. But very few people talk about someone's life and the difficulties of his life. We don't realize those things until we go through such situations. जिंदगी किसी को भी थाली में परोस कर कुछ नहीं देती।

So it’s time I finalize all of this. About 2 months ago, my pwBPD of 3 years dumped me for the final time. She literally was BPD personified and stuck mentally at the age of 13: ate nothing but candy and ice cream, got mad at things out of my control, thought everyone saw her as fat, developed an eating disorder and got big on eating disorder Twitter, always gave me the “you deserve better” or “I’m sorry” after every fuckup she got caught in. The list can go on. We both go to the same college and live in the same apartment complex so I have to see her every damn day. The day of the breakup, I decided to finally fight back and explained to her that she is childish and judgmental and that she’ll live a very sad life due to her being a slave to herself. Told her good riddance and she immediately blocked me on everything as expected so I blocked her on everything in return. Not even a week later, my friends show me her snap stories of her posting “lucky girl” with the guy she told me not to worry about but towards the end told me “I’ve never clicked with someone like this before.” She even posted “happy 7 weeks” With this guy less than a month after we broke up. He played her favorite guitar songs and I could see that they were sending paragraphs to each other before the breakup but could never read any of them as she’d turn her phone to the side. I even picked up my old guitar and played her favorite song and she had the audacity to tell me “you can’t play it as good as him.” All that led me to telling her good riddance. She even told me she wished we could stay friends and I told her that is impossible. It really does suck because her new guy also goes to the same college and lives in the SAME apartment complex as all of us so I have to watch her go over to his place out my window all the time. We even got a dog together that she would have happily died for but it’s like that doesn’t even matter to her anymore. It’s so pathetic and the more I think about it the angrier I get but I know there’s nothing I can do now. All in all, I still can feel my blood boil when I see her with this new guy everywhere I go but I know I definitely deserve better and mind my business and never make eye contact other than a glaring side eye sometimes. It just sucks seeing her happy with this new guy while I’m left to alone in my bedroom. The thing is is that I’ve always gone to the gym. I’ve always had hobbies. I’ve always been on the road to bettering myself so it’s no surprise that she felt “neglected” because I was focused on school, dieting, and exercising before, during, and, after the relationship. I feel like I’ve definitely recovered from the relationship and I’m enjoying going on dates with other girls but that relationship was my first so it’s definitely warped my perception of love. To top all of this off, my father also had BPD when he was around while growing up and did so much fucked up shit to me and my mother. Then my grandmother had a failed suicide attempt and forced my mother to take care of her for 9 years until she died. I have never known peace and this pwBPD gave me the peace I always wanted and left just like that all because HER father had BPD and left so that gives her an excuse to project her abandonment issues. I feel like I went through so much worse shit (even thought she admits she’s be raped) and yet I turned out as healthy as can be (she even admitted that I had it worse growing up). My question is this. As hate-able as she is, how do I let go of that hate and get her off my mind for good? Also, do you think this new relationship of hers will work out? I’m really going karma gets her good for leaving me with nobody to turn to.

I’ve narrowed down my choices to SJI (I) and ACSI, I’ve asked around and my lack of decision making boils down to two factors, 1, I go to SJI for a better school environment, but I have to fork out $550 a month, which amounts to about 5k a year (I don’t know how long the year is so I’m just taking 9 months, I might be wrong), or 2, I go to ACSI for a slightly cheaper cost of $500 a month, amounting to 4.5k a year, but their environment is less conducive. I’ve talked with my parents and they’re willing to fork out the money for my education, but from what I hear, ASCI (well most asc schools) will sometimes ask for donations, high and low alike, and knowing my parents, they’ll just give without consideration as to where the money is going 😭
So yeah it’s down to 5k a year for condusive environment but slightly more expensive school fees, or 4.5k + donations for a more party attitude but slightly cheaper school fees
EDIT: could students from sji(i) and acsi/people who have friends in those schools also give more insight to the school environment because school environment plays quite big factor for my school choices

38 male currently dieting and working out. When I started losing weigh vial calorie deficit my libido tanked. Brought it up to my dr so we tested my T and it came back at 360 with range being 264-915. I know know with losing weight and exercise my t levels might increase. Started taking DIM a week ago and I’m starting to get erections during my sleep cycle again. ( used to be a rare occurrence).
He said that trt isn’t off the table but wants to wait and check my level again in 6 months and put my on cialis to help me with my low libido.
I informed him about a gene that a carry that’s called the Kallmann Syndrome. It’s a defective gene in ones dna that can effect children from starting puberty, late puberty or infertility issues. (Found this out 6 years ago when my daughter was born and they wanted a gene study of the baby and parents due to a birth defect). Through some reading and asking questions, I’ve discovered that this can lower a man’s T levels. So that’s why my dr told me that trt is still on the table even though I’m within the range.
Im hoping that I can increase it naturally through exercise, losing weight and eating properly, currently down 32 lbs.
Been reading the posts and trying to take in as much information as possible and I’m open to and tips along the way. I’m just glad the random boners are back, and hope that my libido comes back soon and better recovery time between orgasms. Thanks for listening to me.

It’s already a given na taking up law is extremely difficult, pero would it make a difference if a law aspirant has a health science undergrad? As compared to having a trad undergrad in humanities. Like, what’s the avg amount of readings in a day/week in law school? How many hours do you normally spend studying daily? Is it essential to be extremely good at memorizing? Kasi in my undergrad exp, we had to be good at critical thinking and understanding, not much in memorization
I’m currently a nursing grad, will be taking my masters (either an MS or MBA in health management) abroad at around next year.
My parents are making me decide between taking up law or medicine after I finish my masters (kasi mabilis lang daw yun, 2-3yrs). As early as now, my parents want a solid plan from me so they know what to expect daw, but I’m honestly lost. I’ve had a prof naman na nag nursing for her undergrad before mag law, and according to her, it was hell. Insights would be helpful, as I’m really struggling in making a decision.
Fyi, I was asked to choose between med and law because regardless of what I pick, it’ll be utilized for a business in healthcare anyway.

So I’m posting here bc I don’t always see straight when it comes to my (29f) JNMum (62f), and I’m honestly not sure if this is an instance where she was reacting in a reasonable manner or what.
A quick history: JNMum shows some definite BPD tendencies. She and my dad divorced when I was 10 and from age 10-27 we were honestly quite badly enmeshed. She also abused alcohol and threatened suicide multiple times a year if I showed signs of wanting to be independent of her. I started dating FH four years ago (then 29, now 33m) and she threw me out of the house- then when I took her at her word and went to live with my dad, then on my own, she rewrote the story to be how I needed ‘space’, complete with occasional calling me to cry about how I should have been a better daughter and stayed home to care for her. Lord, do I have STORIES.
Anyway, there was a reckoning a few years ago in which I finally had enough and told her that she either straightened out or we would not have a relationship. She has since more or less toed the line- only because I proved I was willing to put my money where my mouth was and blocked her on everything for like, four months. But anyway, from telling me that all men of FH’s coloucommunity “beat their wives” she now has met his parents etc and puts all best feet forward in his presence. More than I initially hoped for, if I’m honest.
FH proposed in December, and since then wedding prep has brought a number of things up, including the plan for children. FH and I don’t plan to have biological kids. There are some hereditary genetic things on his side and a bunch of health predispositions on my side that make it honestly a bad idea. But, we have agreed to try and adopt, and to have many dogs in the meantime.
Today while I was having my weekly lunch with JNMum, this came up. I tried to treat it like it wasn’t a big deal but immediately it was like she had totally deflated. She did say that it would be a “shame if [I] don’t pass on my genes because [I’m] very intelligent.” and despite some determined small talk on my end decided she wanted to cut mall trip short and go home.
About an hour later it came up again - this time she opens with a) what about the X amount of money I was going to give you to help try for a baby, (“You don’t have to give me money mum”), won’t you at least try? and then tops it off with It seems like a shame because you’re all I have, and if you don’t have kids, that’s the end of the bloodline.
She started to cry, then brushed it off by saying she’s fine. I did not engage, diverted to something else, and left as soon as I could.
My dilemma is- on the one hand I can understand being disappointed but on the other she always manages to make me feel like some sort of prize breeding bitch and I can’t help but get very defensive. She has made comments about my ‘pedigree’ before, and outright said I would be sullying my grandfather’s bloodline when I first started dating FH (different race than me, if you hadn’t already figured that out).
Idk. I’m anticipating a weepy message or two from her as the evening wears on. I’m trying to gauge if she has reason to be upset or what, so that I can figure out how to respond.
PS. In case it needs to be said, I am in no way shape or form a child of a royal bloodline or whatever such- she’s just delusional.

anyone know how late you can arrive and still be allowed in? my #2 works and wouldn’t be able to make it on sunday til dumb late - 8:30pm at best. any intel on the matter would be greatly appreciated. thanks and happy ultra!

Sorry there won’t be punctuation in this I was never taught how to use it
I just wanted to make a little post to at least get a stupid little story out of my mistake so I don’t know how many people have noticed or if it’s a recurring thing or if I’m just blind but in the little potion spell boat thing at home u can buy permanent resizing spells for 10 regular candles and u can choose to get either bigger resizing spell or smaller spell but me and a friend wanted to get bigger but I don’t have any ascended candles so I brought the other ones and I was happy when I found out they were permanent (if u do buy them make sure there the right ones) than after my friend had left I was just collecting wax and I met another player who was taller but not like adult spell taller so I decided to use another bigger resizing spell my mistake was that I didn’t check before I used the spell I ended up using a random resizing spell that made me smaller than after realising my mistake went to fix it by using the right resizing spell but made the same mistake as before and used a 20 minute adult spell I tried to use my Chibi mask until it wore off that’s when I found out the adult spell stopped the Chibi effect from working I wasted so many spells and I’m so mad about it even if they were spells I wasn’t planning on actually using but now I have to wait 20 minutes or so to fix this
If u got to here thanks for reading about my stupidity anyways do u think sky should put a big timer on the eden portal so those of us in the wrong time zone don’t have to spend 3 hours trying to work out when eden resets?

Let’s start this way : I was always fascinated by mantides. When I studied biology I was allowed to hold one for the first time & I was so happy…
Fast forward 7 years I was doing some acid and hiking in the US with some American friends(I’m from Germany). We reached a pretty big open area where some kind building had burned down long time ago & all of a sudden I felt called to the opposite side of that area. I went closer and somehow my vision seemed to zoom in on some bushes and I new where I had to go. The bushes had thorns and on top of it was a pretty big mantis that got caught in them and couldn’t move. My friends where surprised how I could’ve possibly seen this from so far away. I carefully freed the mantis and it stayed for a minute before moving away.
I still remember the feeling of it somehow calling out to me ,how special that moment seemed & think about it from time to time . 4 years have passed since
I just recently heard about encounters with mantis beings and wondered if that falls in the same category or just being in touch with nature.

After discarding and blocking me on 2 different apps, I did them the favor & blocked them from a bunch of others, even ones they weren’t active on just so they wouldn’t pop up whenever I opened it. I left them friended and unblocked on only a couple since it was too painful for me to do so then (the discard was recent and happened in February).
I noticed they were active on one after not being for a really long time which made me upset ?? I’m not sure why since it was bound to happen sometime, but I didn’t want anything to do with them anymore especially knowing they seemed so perfectly fine after everything they did to me so I blocked them there and on all other remaining apps today.
Knowing they can post on social media about how happy they are and how great life suddenly is now so soon after all of this irks me. It all feels like lies to make me feel bad and make me feel like I was the villain because I’m gone and everything’s rainbows and sunshine now!
Blocking them didn’t help much, there’s a website they have where they update info about their life, interests etc. etc.
One of the categories they have is relationship status, which I unfortunately have been obsessed with checking at least once or twice a week just to know if they truly moved on so quickly.
Since it’s a website, I can’t block them and I’m always free to check those little life updates of theirs whenever I please and I hate it. That’s more my fault, but before the discard they would frequently change the website name & ever since I was discarded it’s been the same. Is it wrong to assume they purposely are keeping it so I know how well they’re doing?
I really am trying to stop checking it and I haven’t as much recently but it’s so hard. It’s as if I haven’t made any progress in moving on.
These social media platforms are more a big deal to me due to us being a LDR, it was how we communicated the most so it stings a bit worse. If that makes sense. I feel hopeless, they still control me.

It’s almost 3:30 am EST here. Details are non existent except that he’s been found and being checked out medically. I had been looking for updates.
As an aside the parents passed polygraphs so the police were continuing to check other area of the community

A Florida charter school principal has been forced to resign after a parent complained sixth graders were exposed to pornography during a lesson on Renaissance art that included Michelangelo’s David sculpture.
Tallahassee Classical School is reportedly required to teach Renaissance art to sixth-graders as part of the conservative Christian curriculum it follows.
However, a new rule was reportedly passed last month by the school board that made it compulsory for parents to receive a two-week warning before anything “potentially controversial” is taught.
I pity the kids in this scenario, their education will exclude what conservative christians see as “potentially controversial” which may be a long list.