I rode my bike (CBR600 F4i) to Nashville TN for work, just had my tools in a backpack, helmet jacket, jeans. I'm on my way back and am riding fast probably crusing at 100 with spurts above. I'm keeping a good eye out for any cops as well as checking my map for speed traps. I'm passing an on ramp and see a bike out of the corner of my eye, I wave then snap my head back realizing its a 'Busa. I know my 600 is no match so I dont slow or anything just keep crusing. He doesnt catch up to me for 5+ minutes. When he does he wont pass me and is riding slightly behind me and wont acknowledge me when I slow down and wave, or speed up. So we ride like this for 5 minutes at 95 mph when I look in my mirrors and see that 2 State Troopers are riding about 5 feet away from our tails. I start cussing and easing off the throttle waiting for the blue lights, which they do about 15 secs later. I start pulling over but the Hayabusa takes off and both troopers take after him. I think Im all clear but nope 10 mins later theres one of them waiting for me parked on the right shoulder and pulls me over. They end up letting me go even though they had me clocked at 93 after accusing me of the Busa rider being my buddy which I denied, and me saying that Im fully insured bike with license plate in full view and he probably used me as bait knowing I would pull over distracting the cops

I don’t expect anyone to believe me but since I was a child I have had a premonition shortly before anyone close to me has passed. I can’t find someone who has had a similar experience with this happening multiple times but it has been ongoing my whole life. In these dreams I feel so overwhelmed I wake up crying. I feel an immense about of weight on my chest and it doesn’t go away for a few days. Every time I have these dreams I try to talk to someone but it’s hard to put into words what’s going on. Even this post was difficult to type out because I feel like it doesn’t fully capture the weight of these events and it sounds like a silly ghost story. Right now I’m lost and worried and I have no one to talk to as I don’t want to make someone’s pain about me. I just feel guilty? Idk please be kind. This is a summary of some of the dreams I’ve had since I was a child:
In elementary I had dreamt my classmate was stuck in a tree and couldn’t get down. He passed the next week. I was so taken aback by this I didn’t tell anyone except my mom who told me I “had a gift” which just further confused me. She is very religious and I guess this was her way of trying to calm me.
I dreamt my grandmother on hospice and I were in the kitchen making scrambled eggs and then the power went out. We went to light candles and I woke up. The next day her health rapidly declined, she was in the hospital for a few days and then passed. That one I can kind of see the coincidence. Still I felt hurt because I didn’t get to be there when she passed. I felt like if I had been there I would’ve had at least a small amount of closure.
I dreamt my uncle and my grandpa were on a sinking ship and I couldn’t swim fast enough to them to save them. I woke up before it ended. The next day we got a call my uncle had driven off a cliff and passed. I was in such shock I had a breakdown and starting screaming. It was so confusing and painful. I had no one I could talk to and when I tried asking for help I was told I needed to stop being dramatic.
I dreamt my high school classmate and I were on the track racing and catching up when she suddenly had to leave to go to a picnic. I told her goodby and it was actually quite peaceful. The rest of that day was not, I woke up and that same day she was killed in a horrific car crash about 500 feet from where I was eating lunch. I heard the sound of the collision. I was literally right there. I can’t go to that restaurant without feeling an intense amount of anxiety. For years when I passed where they put up a cross for her I would feel my heart ache.
I dreamt I was fishing with my Uncle’s family and I was looking for his mom and I couldn’t find her. This was weird because I don’t really spend that much time with them. I called my mom and found out she had passed the day before.
When I met my boyfriend he had a dog named Daisy and she quickly became my best friend. Throughout all of my mental health issues she was always there and comforted all of us and was just the sweetest dog I’d ever met. The night she passed I was dreaming I was in a room with her and I was holding her in my arms as she passed and I was sobbing. I woke up at 4am that day shaking uncontrollably and crying. We found out later that day she had passed and when she passed was the same time I was dreaming she was passing. I was depressed for months. I felt like I was there with her even though I wasn’t. I still can’t make sense of it.
Three days ago I dreamt my future mother in law was sick in the hospital in Mexico and I had to fight through a lobby filled with stray dogs to get to her and make sure she was okay. I finally got through to her and she was crying and we were hugging. I was trying to ask her what was wrong but I couldn’t get the words out. Today she is taking an emergency trip to Mexico to spend time with her mother in the event she passes because she is very sick.

Hi all. I am reposting this since I don’t think the pictures were available in my last post. I’ve noticed a cluster of small bumps around my penis shaft and near the foreskin. These bumps are slightly noticeable when I’m flaccid, but much more pronounced when I am erect or if I stretch the skin out. They do not itch or burn, and none of them have ever broke open. I have tons of fordyce spots on my scrotum, but I wasn’t sure if these are more of those or something STI related. The reason I think it could be STI related is about 3 months ago I received a nuru massage. At the end of the massage I received a handjob (no oral or penetration), but she sat on my thigh while giving the massage so it’s possible genitals came into contact. The entire handjob lasted about 2 minutes. Thanks for any insights you can share
Here are the pictures while semi-erect: https://imgur.com/a/609kmzY/
Here are the pictures when flaccid: https://imgur.com/a/hwy09xz/
Please let me know if the pictures are not accessible via that link, I’ve had trouble posting the pictures here on Reddit.
Thank you so much!

To clarify I'm in Australia 🇦🇺
Hello, I've been working at this company for about 3 years now, I started off as an admin, took a $10k rise with a new accounts position about 9 months ago. My pay was $56k which is OK for where I live but obviously not the best. After I did some research on the market for my job (yes, I know that I should've done this beforehand but I was just honestly so excited about being promoted and didn't want to dick the manager around as other staff members were interested in the position), I saw that I was getting paid way under the average pay.
In March, I asked my boss to be put on a wage that at least makes the lower end of the average scale, an extra $2 per hour. This would bring me up to $60k per year. He hummed and harred, and said because I'm still new to the role he wasn't comfortable with presenting this to the board yet, but that he agreed what I was asking for wasn't unreasonable. I also cited that I already had gotten a $10k "pay rise" for the position, but I think that's a load of bs because if I stuck to the original pay it would've been below the award rate for accounts.
It's now June, and I got an email today saying I finally got the pay rise, so now I'm on $60,000. But I suspect this isn't actually a rise, and it's a result of the minimum wage going up? I understand I asked for this very wage, but had I known the rates and everything were still going up I would've asked for more. My coworker, who is in the exact same role as me, has informed me her wage has gone up $7,000 so she is now on $70k, furthering our wage gap. She has been with the company for over a decade though, but would this warrant a $10k wage gap when we do the exact same work? She was already furious that I'm getting paid less than her, and even brought that up to our boss.
Clearly I'm new to asking for pay rises and such, I'm just looking for some extra guidance. I plan on taking advantage of the free Tafe courses offered for accounts to further my knowledge & experience should I find a better job role, or use it to leverage another pay rise. I love this job, and don't really want to go to another one.

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DESCRIPTION: Code VBA in Microsoft Excel which disables the load prompt (when the Microsoft Excel logo pops up). Instead, the Excel Workbook automatically boots once the file is clicked. The Workbook must be unlocked. The Sheet must be unlocked. The VBA code must be unlocked. The VBA code must have comments describing each line. Once this task is completed, a similar task is available.

I read this on a PS1 sub.
Essentially that while the PS1 was successful especially in 1996, the outcome of the at the time three way console war was in no way uncertain until 1997.
For one, 16 bit hardware by Sega and Nintendo sold strongly even compared to the new machines. 16 bit systems outsold 32 bit systems for Christmas 1995. Some of the bigggest games in 1996 were still 16 bit.
Sony also reported that between December 1994 and March 1996, they had only sold 6.7 million units worldwide.
This while successful is small compared to their overall 100 million units sold by the end of the Ps1’s life.
Sega despite being in 2nd place was still competitive with the Saturn under Q4 of 1996 when the N64 dropped.
Then in 1997, with PS1 massively outselling the other two, it became clear who would win that generation
Does this seem accurate?

Been staring at my screen for an hour and I have no idea why this code isnt working. Basically nothing is happening or printing anything out when i click on any of the card buttons. Even ChatGPT doesn't know what's happening so i'm forced to ask here. any help is really appreciated
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import javafx.application.Application; 

import javafx.event.ActionEvent; import javafx.event.EventHandler; import javafx.scene.Scene; import javafx.scene.control.Button; import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane; import javafx.stage.Stage; import java.util.ArrayList; import javafx.scene.layout.GridPane; import javafx.geometry.Insets; import javafx.geometry.Pos;
public class App extends Application {

public Card centerCard; public Button centerCardButton; public GridPane playerHand; public Button cardButton; public void renderCards(ArrayList cards) { playerHand.getChildren().clear(); for (int i = 0; i < cards.size(); i++) { Card card = cards.get(i); cardButton = new Button(); styleCard(cardButton, card); playerHand.add(cardButton, i, 0); cardButton.setOnAction(e -> { System.out.println("Card pressed"); if (checkCard(card, centerCard)) { cards.remove(card); centerCard = card; styleCard(centerCardButton, centerCard); renderCards(cards); } }); } } public boolean checkCard(Card card, Card centerCard) { return card.number == centerCard.number card.colour.equals(centerCard.colour); } public void styleCard(Button cardButton, Card card) { cardButton.setText(String.valueOf(card.number)); cardButton.getStyleClass().add("card-button"); cardButton.getStyleClass().add(card.colour); } public Card generateCard() { String[] colours = {"red", "green", "blue", "yellow"}; int coloursIndex = (int)Math.floor(Math.random()*colours.length); int numberIndex = (int)Math.floor(Math.random()*8+1); return new Card(colours[coloursIndex], numberIndex); } @Override public void start(Stage primaryStage) { primaryStage.setTitle("Crazy 8"); ArrayList player1Cards = new ArrayList<>(); ArrayList player2Cards = new ArrayList<>(); for (int i = 0; i<=7; i+=1) { player1Cards.add(generateCard()); player2Cards.add(generateCard()); } StackPane layout = new StackPane(); GridPane gameBoard = new GridPane(); gameBoard.setAlignment(Pos.CENTER); gameBoard.setHgap(10); playerHand = new GridPane(); playerHand.setVgap(10); playerHand.setPadding(new Insets(10)); playerHand.setAlignment(Pos.BOTTOM_CENTER); playerHand.setHgap(10); GridPane opponentHand = new GridPane(); opponentHand.setHgap(10); opponentHand.setVgap(10); opponentHand.setPadding(new Insets(10)); opponentHand.setAlignment(Pos.TOP_CENTER); for (int i = 0; i < player2Cards.size(); i++) { Card card = player2Cards.get(i); Button cardButton = new Button(); cardButton.getStyleClass().add("card-button"); cardButton.getStyleClass().add("facing-down"); opponentHand.add(cardButton, i, 0); } Card drawPileCard = generateCard(); Button drawPileCardButton = new Button(); drawPileCardButton.getStyleClass().add("card-button"); drawPileCardButton.getStyleClass().add("facing-down"); gameBoard.add(drawPileCardButton, 0, 1); centerCard = generateCard(); centerCardButton = new Button(); styleCard(centerCardButton, centerCard); gameBoard.add(centerCardButton, 1, 1); layout.getChildren().add(gameBoard); layout.getChildren().add(playerHand); layout.getChildren().add(opponentHand); Scene scene = new Scene(layout, 850, 700); scene.getStylesheets().add("styles.css"); primaryStage.setScene(scene); primaryStage.show(); renderCards(player1Cards); System.out.println("Program started"); } public static void main(String[] args) { launch(args); } 

}
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Hi
Found this sub recently and I thought I would share my story. I am not the best writer so forgive me if this does not flow so well. About 18 months ago, during a move I got severe pain in my abdomen, really severe. I chalked it up to stress from the move, but I was useless for about 3 days and eventually it went away. During this time I was in bed and did not eat a thing and had those recurring "cramps" that are oh so painful, but really I thought it was stress so no action on my part.
About 6 months after that I had another episode. I tried to deal with it, my wife was out of town so I just stayed in bed and hoped it would go away. Finally the pain was to much and I went to the hospital. After some tests the determined AP, admitted me and refused me food for 5 days :). Found out later that is an old method of treating AP but the hospital was very small in the middle of BFE LOL. this hospital did CT scan and ultrasound but other that inflammation found no stones or anything unusual.
Anyway, pain never really went away and I started having some other issues (stool, weight loss etc) you guys know the drill. I was afraid to eat, constant pain in my back, miserable. I ended up at a gastro doctor that ordered an mrcp referred me to another doctor for an ercp. However this doctor did not feel an, ercp was warranted based on my mrcp results, and just did an eus. Anyway the results from these test again showed no stones or anything unusual in the gallbladder or ducts.
Still, I was having issues and because I have history at the Mayo clinic I convinced them to look at my tests. Mayo doctors determined my mrcp showed pancreas duct dilatation and agreed to see me. So I go to MN to have another CT and based on those results possible ercp. New CT showed my duct was getting worse in the short time between tests, which were about 6 months apart. Suggested ercp with possible stent placement based on findings. In the meantime I had numerous blood tests testing for cancer markers, genetic, triglycerides and autoimmune causes. All thankfully came back negative. I think my case was perplexing them.
I should add that I am(was) a very occasional drinker. It's funny in the beginning the doctors kept telling me to stop drinking. When I denied drinking the would test my liver enzymes and they would be normal. Like so many times they told me to stop drinking it was pissing me off. Anyway,
Went in for my ercp / stent procedure at Mayo thinking I would finally find something out. Woke up from the procedure with doctor standing over me in the recovery room. First thing he says to me "ambulance is on the way, I'm sending you to St Mary's (the hospital)" I was like WTF is going on? Told me they decided to place the stent but the duct was so restricted that the guide wire they use broke. In addition the stent is in the wrong place. To top it off on the short ride to the hospital that familiar pain started coming back, yup all this triggered and AP episode. 4 days in the hospital, they wanted me longer but I begged them to let me go home. At least this time I got food :)
So after all that, they wanted to do surgery to remove a portion of my pancreas, my gallbladder and my spleen. So far I have denied them that option. I have found a surgeon local to me that has agreed to monitor me and take the wait and see approach, even though I have been advised I can reach a point of no return. I have CT scans set up every few months to make sure the wire is not moving and monitor my pancreas.
Also I need to get the stent out but I am terrified it will cause another attack, that appt is coming soon and I have dread :(
I did have a stool test and of course have high fecal fat and low elastase (108) so I am on creon and that seems to help. Diet change helps, and of course a fantastic family that has been supporting me through this.
Anyway that's my story, sorry it was so long.

So I was vaping some weed out of my v tower. It has a silicone whip that does normally end up with some resin buildup, however when I was vaping this particular weed the resin buildup was so crazy it was like I was sucking from a juicbox. It literally made it down and into my mouth. Is this normal? I think something might be up with the weed I did order it online from a Canadian grey market. It smokes fine and feels normal but it does have an oddly strong smell kind of like an ammonia and fermented smell. Not too unusual but my only idea is maybe it’s been sprayed with terp enhancer or something? Maybe it’s straight up just sprayed hemp? Sorry for all the words I really hope someone can help me out.

I kept myself busy stocking bags of chips. I mopped the muddy shoe marks on the entrance floor as the refrigerators hummed in the background. That electrical hum was annoying, but it served as a kind of musical replacement to the radio, which wasn’t working that night.
My friend Ethan secured for me this job at his father’s gas station. It’s not that working at a gas station is an impressive feat or anything, but I’m certainly not one to complain about getting a job - any job. After all, as my own father would often tell me, “That’s what you get when you major in English, Andrew. Nothing.” He warned me when I was younger to always keep my nose stuck in a book, but then lamented my decision to do just that. But he was right, actually. It’s not a practical skill.
It was around 2:00 AM when I spotted a frantic man in the parking lot. I refused to take a single step outside and get myself wet, but he kept waving, almost jumping up and down as he did. I worried for a moment that he might have been injured, or was at least in some kind of emergency. It definitely looked urgent.
It was dark, but the gas station’s logo illuminated the entire parking lot, coloring it in white and blue. I waved for the man to come closer as he was too far into the dark. I yelled over the rain, waving and waving, until he finally came forward. He took off his hat, his eyes squinting at the logo’s light. He raised one hand up to his face to shield his eyes from the brightness, and that’s when he was finally able to spot me, standing just outside the entrance.
The man was quite tall. He was wearing a dark-brown business suit with a white vest, his feet sporting shiny, black loafers. He had a set of uncombed grey hair and thick eyebrows, eyebrows which looked worried, always pointing upwards throughout our conversation.
“You know we’re open, right?” I yelled, hoping he’d hear me over the rain. “We’re twenty-four hours, sir!”
The man stepped forward, his loafers clacking against the wet concrete with each step.
He dropped his umbrella on the ground, allowing the rain to soak his hair. “Have you seen my son?”
“Your son?” I replied.
I didn’t think it was possible, but very suddenly, the man looked even more worried. His face changed and his mouth tightened as if to cry.
“Sir?” I asked, concerned.
He looked at me as if he forgot I was there. “You-you haven’t seen him, have you?” the man stuttered.
“What’s his name? I don't have any customers here right now, but maybe he came by earlier. You wanna come inside? Maybe get outta this rain?”
The man fell to his knees. It looked like he was preparing to plead with me, as if I had his son, as if I was holding him hostage back in the freezer room.
He gazed at me with those worried eyes. He looked hypnotized almost. “He’s my son, you see.”
The man was beginning to scare me, emitting from himself quite the creepy vibe. “Sir, I’m going back inside to call the police. Maybe they can help you. Okay?”
As I walked back to the counter, I watched the man from window to window. Before I could dial the second “1”, I looked through the small, square glass next to the counter to find that the man was gone.
I went outside, sheltered under the roof of the gas station, and scanned the parking lot. I didn’t see him.
When my shift ended at 7:00 AM, Ethan arrived.
“Anything new?” he asked, zipping up his work jacket to prepare for his shift.
“Yeah,” I replied. “Before I go home, I think I should warn you.”
“About?”
“Well,” I began, moving closer to him. “Around two or two-thirty in the morning, just a few hours ago, a man showed up. He didn’t come inside or anything, but he kept screaming about his son. He left eventually, but just in case he comes back-”
“Oh, don’t worry about him, man. That’s Mr. Carson. Yeah, he’s crazy, don’t know how else to put it. He comes by often, yelling about weird things,” Ethan said.
I tilted my head in confusion. “You sure, Ethan? Because if he’s been coming here and doing that, that’s harrass-”
“Andrew,” he interrupted me. “Don’t worry.”
I arrived at the gas station the next day at 11:00 PM. The night went about normally the first few hours. Customer after customer stopped by, purchasing gas, cigarettes, snacks, cheap pizza, and on and on.
It was around two in the morning when the man showed up again.
I was behind the counter when I heard his faint yell. It sounded like someone repeatedly calling out, trying to get my attention through the weatherly ruckus. I looked out the gas station window and made out the figure of a tall man standing in the parking lot, but the shapes were blurred by raindrops racing down the pane.
I reluctantly got up and walked over to the entrance. When the automatic doors opened, a forceful wind blew my hoodie off. I had to hold it in place to keep it on.
“What do you want?” I yelled. “Ethan told me about you. You come here often, don’t you? Well, if you come again, especially when I’m here, then I’m calling the cops!”
The man stepped forward into the white-blue lights that shone against the glossy, puddled concrete.
“My son,” said the man, “have you seen him?”
Before I could turn around and walk back to the counter in frustration, the man fell to his knees and yelled.
“Please!” he cried. “Haven’t you seen him? I’m sure he was here! I’m sure of it!”
His screams were not normal. When he spoke, his voice almost echoed, and it shook me to my core. His eyes widened abnormally as he looked up at the clouds, begging and begging. And from that moment on, whenever I tried speaking with him, he ignored me, like I wasn’t even there.
A bolt of lightning struck across the black sky, accompanied by a sharp clap of thunder. With that, all the lights went out.
With the electricity momentarily cut, the gas station was pitch black and the automatic entrance doors left open. No longer was the logo illuminating the parking lot, or the man. I could see nothing at all.
But, as I swore back then and as I’ll swear now, I heard something. Before the lights flipped back on, as I stood frozen in fear between the snack aisle, I heard the distant sound of a terrible crash - a car crash. I heard a set of wheels scrape and burn against tar before hearing the smashing of metal against something. It was unmistakable.
When the electricity came back, the man was gone.
The next day, when I told Ethan about the man, he dismissed him, and me. He said that the man, Mr. Carson, was just a creepy guy who was no stranger at all to the gas station. Ethan’s dealt with him before, as well as his father.
I asked Bobby, a customer who I had grown fond of, if he had any information on the strange man and why he was doing this.
“You mean Mr. Carson?”
“Yeah. Him,” I replied.
“His name’s not Carson, you know.”
I paused. “Really? That’s what Ethan said his name was.”
Bobby gave me a look of pity. “Oh, no. That’s just what us folks around here got to calling him. I guess Ethan and his dad never told you, huh? Well, in that case, I won’t either. They must have a reason for not saying nothing. Probably didn’t wanna scare you.”
I responded by squinting my eyes at Bobby. “What? What are you talking about they didn’t wanna scare me? Could you at least tell me this tall, mysterious, umbrella man’s name? I’m the one who has to deal with him during the night shift, you know.”
He put down a pack of mint gum on the counter and looked behind himself. “I really shouldn’t tell you this, Andrew. But his real name is-”
Bobby’s phone interjected into our conversation. It did look like an important call, so he gave me an apologetic look and left the gas station.
But just when I thought he was gone, Bobby came back inside and slapped a note onto the counter. He told me to give him a call when I was able to if I ever wanted to learn more.
And so I did.
Bobby revealed everything to me, but not before making me promise multiple times not to share it with anyone else, especially Ethan and his father, who valued me as an employee at their business. Apparently, everyone who’s ever worked there ended up quitting when they found out about the mysterious man. Or Mr. Carson, or umbrella man, tall man - whatever you want to call him. But his real name is Weston Campbell.
Bobby said that one night, a boy named Alex got in his car and fled from his home after a heated argument with his parents. Alex drove past a nearby gas station around two in the morning. Some say it was an accident, but others suggest something more sinister. And still others, suicide. Nobody knows, of course, but the fact remains that Alex's vehicle went off a bridge that rainy night. He died on impact.
The words that came out of Bobby’s mouth told my ears a tragic story. But it’s what he said next that truly shocked me, sending shivers down my already shivering spine, shaking my beliefs, shaking them out of me like loose change.
Weston Campbell, Alex’s father, got into a vehicle of his own when his son fled the house, trying to catch up and follow him. He knew that Alex frequented a nearby gas station for cigarettes and what not, so he stopped by to ask the employee that night if they had seen Alex.
Weston exited his vehicle with an umbrella and asked the employee over and over again if they had seen his son, or if they had seen his car go by. And when the employee answered no, Weston got back in his vehicle.
Weston continued down the road, but didn’t get too far. He sped until he, too, lost control. His vehicle swerved as he made a sharp turn against the wet streets, crashing into a large tree. And that was the end of it.
Weston Campbell has been dead for ten years.
That night saw the loss of two people, leaving behind a shattered Maria Campbell, who became a childless widow.
Apparently, this tragedy was well-known to the townspeople, especially anyone who lived near the gas station. What wasn’t well known, except to those who dared to work the night shift, was Weston’s hauntings.
I’ve kept my mouth shut about it, especially at work. Whenever I see Ethan or his father, I act normally, stocking the refrigerators and mopping the tiled floors. And whenever Bobby walks in, which is quite often, we share a look with each other, a look of secrecy.
Whereas employees before me ran for the exit at the sight of Weston - and worse, when they learned his story - I, on the other hand, stayed put.
He wasn’t going to hurt me, nor was he going to hurt anyone else. He just wanted to find his son.
Even as I finish writing this, as the rain pounds heavily against the roof of the gas station, I can hear a faint yell, a yell fighting against the weather to get to my ears. And looking out of the window to my left, I can even see him now, waving.
I think it's about time for me to get up from behind this counter to greet him once again.

So..
This hurts a lot. My best friend, we will call Jamie, started going out with this girl we will call Ann, have been going out for what feels like forever. Recently there was a formal (prom) this has brought my feelings back up. This is because I really like Ann, and when Ann first joined my school, I told Jamie that like her, I liked her so much that I started to hang out with a whole new social group, just so I could try and get closer with her. Everything was going well for a few months, I would talk to Jamie about her, because she is genuinely the nicest person you will ever meet, she cares for everyone and everything, she is smart, and is an overall better person than you or I could ever be. I started to get closer to her, and with another friend or two we would hang out, so naturally I decided that I would build up the courage to ask her out, so after a few weeks I built up the courage to ask her, but before I was going to, I found out that Jamie already started talking to her. from then on, I would get asked by both Jamie and Ann what they should say to each other, and it killed me, like to the point that I just wanted to go away, but I did what I thought was right and I help my best mate out, and I helped Ann out. From then on, I have been talked to by Jamie because he has concerns that I am trying to steal his girl because other people apparently are saying that I am flirting with her, but I see no harm in having a laugh with Ann and I don’t think that I am flirting with her. Most recently Ann and I have been spending a lot of time together due to a current school thing, we talk about any and everything, and it’s the best she opens up to me and I do the same (in part). With In the last few weeks, we have spent literal school days just her and I talking, with some of the necessary work been done. and it’s killing me knowing that she is going out with someone else. The worst part is I can’t even talk to my best mate about this. I don’t want the end result of this whole thing being the loss of my best mate, but Ann she is something else. I don’t know what I should do. If I should do anything.

I got pretty excited to try these amplifier boards from Parts Express so I bought the KABD-430 and KABD-250. Everything seemed to work fine until I ran sine sweeps to generate measurements for EQ. They both exhibit very audible distortion when outputting a sine wave. It's not immediately evident when listening to most music, but I can hear it while listening to quieter ambient type stuff. I attached a picture of the FFT output from a 400hz sinewave with the harmonics you can really hear.
Here's is what I eliminated as a possible cause:

• Input signal: I unplugged the input and used the Sigma Studio sine wave generator, no change.
• Speaker: Multiple speakers, no change. Oscope probe verified it's the amp output.
• Power supply: Ran them off a benchtop DC supply and a big 12V AGM car battery, no change.
• Ground loop: Everything isolated, no change

Before I give up on these and return them, has anyone else experienced this? Any other ideas to try? Have the non-DSP amp boards or Wondom boards done this? It seems there's something wrong with the design or manufacturing of these boards if two separate models are affected in the exact same way.

Sorry for the format I am on mobile.
So, a bit of back story is that I am the oldest daughter in my family(24f). My parents got divorced when I was extremely young and my father is not in my life. My mother got remarried when I was 11 and I have 3 younger siblings now. My stepdad is very different than my mom and they are having marital issues.
Since the beginning it's been my mother and I against the world, she is without a doubt the strongest person I know. I won't make this too long but my step dad went a lot overseas and back to his home country to study and I basically for years became a second parent. I missed out on a lot of things and have been called "mom" many times by my siblings since my mother worked to keep up aflot. We (mother and i) have a very close relationship and I am a very big pillar of the family.
About a year ago we all moved to be with my step dad in his home country, he said things will be easier but they have not been. I understand that he is doing his best but things have just not worked out the way he said they would and my mom and I feel duped. Knowing I am not his biological daughter I was very scared to move but was promised that things will work out with my residency, I always saw this move as a temporary thing in order to finally gain tools to move out by myself and see who I am when I am not the older sibling/ second parent. Problem is, my status did not work out and I am now under a refugee status meaning I can't leave or go back to my home country.
I started dating my bf (24m) in July, we are childhood friends who reconnected and he is my best friend. I see a future with him and want to be with him. We're doing long distance and he is doing ALL the work since I can't leave this place. We spoke and decided that the minute I can whatever way it is, I will do my best to get out of this refugee status and return with him to our home country since he left as a child himself and always wanted to live there. Thinking now about moving scares me. I am worried sick about my mother who is distraught about my situation and her own issues. She has no friends here and has issues daily with her husband. I am worried about moving so far away from her for the first time and possibly getting banned from visiting the country she is in for the next few years and I am just sinking in my anxiety.
This past year has not been easy for me, I have been in the house we stay in for large majority of the year not even leaving the house and working on my studies from afar. I used to be confident and social and I am a very anxious mess who sees a therapist as often as I can. I know moving to my home country will give me a chance to live again in a place where I can be confident and that I am already comfortable living in. I also know if I do not move I will most likely have to end my relationship since all the work rn is on my lovely sweet bf.
If you've read all of this I thank you so much for your time, I'm looking for some advice to help me with this, I am 24f and have never lived alone, I have always done my best to be there for my mother and the thought of moving so far away (albeit with someone who loves the hell out of me and just wants me to be happy) scares me and makes me feel overwhelmed. I am scared of how much i will miss her, I am scared of how she will cope, the longest i have been away from her is a week. I also know that losing my bf will break my heart since he is the first partner I have had who is really a partner to me and we have had the most special relationship since I remember myself. Losing it all due to fear makes me uncomfortable and heartbroken.
Please do your best to be kind it's been one hell of a year and I am hoping for some advice and kindness.. thank you all again and wishing you all peace and care 🙏

First time posting here, so sorry for bringing back an argument that's already been had.
I feel like I'm going crazy when only my friends and I are seemingly not excited for the new Yakuza content we're getting. As someone who loves the heck out of the original series, I feel like 6's ending was PERFECT for Kiryu, and I didn't really enjoy seeing him again in 7. I know there is probably gonna be a reason for his reappearance in Gaiden and 8, but my problem is such stories can be made over and over again.
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6 was great, because for the first time kiryu understood that his presence alone, no matter how much he loved his kids or they loved him, was enough to put them in danger and decided to move forward. And it should have been the last time for him to realize that.
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I'm not really mad or anything like that. Even though I'm not a fan of where the series has been going recently, 0-6 really left a mark on me and I'm super pumped that the fans are getting content they love. I just think leaving kiryu for side games like Ishin or Kenzan and focusing on having more original characters wouldn't dilute from kiryu's character. What are your guys' take on this?

Now, upon seeing this, I at first thought "Oh, like a data disc similar to FFVII-R on PS4?" and then the other alternative being that the game is so large and ambitious that it will need to be handled on two discs for the gargantuan story to unfold with a "Please insert Disc 2" pop-up halfway through (similar to when Mass Effect 2 was first released).
After chewing the cud a bit, it dawned on me after pacing up and down for a minute or so, and this is a "What if?" conjecture moment of course, that what if this second installment to the new iteration of FFVII is actually far more ambitious than what we might initially think it is?
What if the second disc isn't actually a continuation of a blisteringly giant game that needs to be demarcated like the old-school days of yore, but in fact is the actual alternate timeline where Zack is alive and moderately unscathed in and of itself. The actual timeline introduced due to the defeat of the Whispers, and that Disc 1 is, lo and behold, the genuine, bonafide, unsullied, original timeline from the OG plot-wise. A literal two games with two different interpretations in one box.
If this were the case, then not only would this be absolutely revolutionary, and to my knowledge (correct me if I'm incorrect) having never been done before in a videogame of this scale and depth, but it would also remedy the division and uncertainty between the purists who don't want change and those who are open-minded to changes and would enjoy a re-telling in a new light (with the possible chance of saving Aerith and the knock-on effect and consequences that it might bring what with Zack being alive as well)
That is to say that when the third installment arrives, we will get the same deal of two discs: Disc 1 to canonically continue the OG's events to a T, and Disc 2 to hop back to however it was left off on Disc 2 of Rebirth.
That way, purists will be happy with their Disc 1 (and uber-mega purists probably will never touch nor look at Disc 2), contrarians (or the curious) will be happy with their Disc 2, completionists will be happy with both (and then will decide which timeline has the better story to offer), Clessie, Cloti, Claerith, (Cluffie?), Zaerith and whichever-shippers may get their satisfaction through whichever timeline the ship is available (Clessie most likely being a definite in Disc 2), and ultimately the community will come together and have relative harmony once more—that's of course if this "What if?" rings true.
The only bickering I would see from this, and it wouldn't necessarily be full of too much vitriol, is that the fanbase would be divided with Disc 1 zealots (like team Edward) and Disc 2 zealots (like team Jacob). Although I see those debates being somewhat healthy by comparison as fans pore through the pros and cons of each timeline story and the ramifications they bring, making for a full cherry-on-top final love letter for lovers of Final Fantasy VII where everyone, for the most part at least, is satisfied.

Hello, just made this for advice driven purposes and it’ll be a bit long. ‼️TW: abuse, pressure, s*icide‼️
When I was about 15 I was preyed on by my best friends (let’s call her F), then boyfriend.
All 4 of us (me, F, her bf and her bfs friend) would always hangout inside and hookup outside of school; so I always considered him a friend and never looked at him in a romantic way. One day after school he asked to come over and use the computer (I didn’t mind because as I said we hang out and he’s been over before with her. He came over logged into his socials and then turned on lüd videos (which I thought was weird) after a bit he ended up pressuring me into sex. I really didn’t want to but I ended up giving in after the constant nagging, this act then became blackmail fuel for him, unbeknownst to me at the time. ‼️PSA, I believe they had JUST broken up, I can’t remember the timeline.‼️ I called up my other best friend, J and told her what happened. (I didn’t truly see the weight of the situation after it happened because like I said I was a teen and just started having sex a few months prior to this (bfs friend).
Fast forward a few months, F and her bf are broken up indefinitely and J somehow started having sex with ex-bf, which caused a HUGE blowout (F ended up finding out). So now I’m looked at as the friend who did it too but wasn’t caught (by J) and the patron saint of friends (by F), and that always ate at me. Both of our relationships with J were strained and I hated it. So now, ex-bf is asking me for sexual favors and if I deny he begins to threaten to ruin mine and my F’s friendship, so I do what he asks. Until one day he asks for this insane favor, I tell him no and he threatens but this time I tell him I’ll tell F myself. I tell her and she implies s*icide so I tell her it was a lie. Do you know the extreme pressure I was under as a 15 year old?
These favors went on for months until it finally ended after we moved on to the next grade. Time goes on but this weight is still heavy in the back of my mind: his threats and the potential for threats from J. F and I end up making a new friend, N who we take with us into adulthood.
We are now in our early/mid 20s and I’m still plagued by this, so much that I’m having nightmares. I confide in N and tell her about this entire situation. (stupid me right!!) Now, N is kind of a strange character but we’ve loved her nevertheless. With this, when N and I have not so good times she brings up this situation. She’s subtly done it around F and has randomly brought it up in passing as if it’s just casual conversation.
Now that brings me to you guys, I’m debating on just telling F, after 10+ years I can’t take it anymore. I’ve had different people hold this over me and I can’t do it. Should I just tell F and risk our almost lifelong friendship or leave it until N gets upset and eventually blurts it out?

In short: this sub will go private on June 12th, making it unavailable to everyone for at least 48 hours. On the 14th, we will check back in to see what the next step is. This is the same time frame other subreddits are using. If you're subscribed to this community, you will stay subscribed and will still see it in your feed once we return. The only difference is that you will not be able to access /TrueCrimeBullshit during the blockout period.
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Looking to get 85% PayPal via lowest verified (>5k) on TCGPlayer
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Would love to look through binders but more than likely will not find anything we'd want to trade for.
PLEASE note whether you are solely looking for trades or are okay with PayPal.
Considering that the Pokemon TCG isn't my forte, I humbly ask that the potential buyer be as specific as possible when referring to a specific card(s) so that I can accurately price them the first time around.
Let's deal in PayPal Goods & Services, please!
Small amount of cards will be shipped in PWE for free, add $3.5 for BMWT. Purchases of $50+ will be shipped in BMWT at no extra charge. A large amount of cards that don't fit in PWE (whose total value is less than $50) I'll ask to split the shipping cost.
Much appreciated for looking through the post!

i have a preexisting pregen10k save i want to load onto a server. server freezes when generating chunks during startup process. no mods, running 20.7
i have put the save file into /containe.local/share/7DaysToDie/Saves/PREGEN10k as the folder "Artemy 2"
relevant config setup:

 World  "RWG" (see WorldGenSeed and WorldGenSize options below) or any already existing world name in the Worlds folder (currently shipping with e.g. "Navezgane", "PREGEN01", ...)  If RWG this is the seed for the generation of the new world. If a world with the resulting name already exists it will simply load it  If RWG this controls the width and height of the created world. It is also used in combination with WorldGenSeed to create the internal RWG seed thus also creating a unique map name even if using the same WorldGenSeed. Has to be a multiple of 2048 between 2048 and 16384, though large map sizes will take long to generate / download / load  Whatever you want the game name to be. This affects the save game name as well as the seed used when placing decoration (trees etc) in the world. It does not control the generic layout of the world if creating an RWG world  GameModeSurvival 

note: i do not know the world seed. i have tried leaving it blank, leaving it as the default "asdf," and on this most recent run simply setting it to the same as the name, as the directions seem to imply this should load the world?
it seems like the server attempts to generate a new world rather than loading the one provided
server log as follows:

[Panel]: Checking server disk space usage, this could take a few seconds... [Panel]: Updating process configuration files... [Panel]: Ensuring file permissions are set correctly, this could take a few seconds... [Panel]: Server marked as starting... [Panel]: Pulling Docker container image, this could take a few minutes to complete... [Panel]: Finished pulling Docker container image steam user is not set. Using anonymous user. WARNING: setlocale('en_US.UTF-8') failed, using locale: 'C'. International characters may not work. Redirecting stderr to '/home/containeSteam/logs/stderr.txt' [ 0%] Checking for available updates... [----] Verifying installation... Steam Console Client (c) Valve Corporation - version 1685487853 -- type 'quit' to exit -- Loading Steam API...OK Connecting anonymously to Steam Public...OK Waiting for client config...OK Waiting for user info...OK Please use force_install_dir before logon! Success! App '294420' already up to date. :/home/container$ ./7DaysToDieServer.x86_64 -configfile=serverconfig.xml -quit -batchmode -nographics -dedicated -ServerPort=${SERVER_PORT} -ServerMaxPlayerCount=${MAX_PLAYERS} -GameDifficulty=${GAME_DIFFICULTY} -ControlPanelEnabled=false -TelnetEnabled=true -TelnetPort=8081 -logfile logs/latest.log & echo -e "Checking on telnet connection" && until nc -z -v -w5 127.0.0.1 8081; do echo "Waiting for telnet connection..."; sleep 5; done && telnet -E 127.0.0.1 8081 Checking on telnet connection localhost [127.0.0.1] 8081 (tproxy) : Connection refused Waiting for telnet connection... Set current directory to /home/container Found path: /home/containe7DaysToDieServer.x86_64 localhost [127.0.0.1] 8081 (tproxy) open Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is 'off'. *** Connected with 7DTD server. *** Server version: Alpha 20.7 (b1) Compatibility Version: Alpha 20.7 *** Dedicated server only build Server IP: Any Server port: 27215 Max players: 3 Game mode: GameModeSurvival World: PREGEN10k Game name: Artemy 2 Difficulty: 2 [Panel]: Server marked as running... Press 'help' to get a list of all commands. Press 'exit' to end session. 2023-06-08T19:18:00 4.131 INF Started thread TelnetClient_127.0.0.1:59110 2023-06-08T19:18:00 4.172 ERR IOException in ReadLine for TelnetClient_127.0.0.1:59108: Unable to write data to the transport connection: The socket has been shut down. 2023-06-08T19:18:00 4.183 EXC Unable to write data to the transport connection: The socket has been shut down. 2023-06-08T19:18:00 4.212 ERR Exception in thread TelnetClient_127.0.0.1:59108: 2023-06-08T19:18:00 4.213 EXC The operation is not allowed on non-connected sockets. 2023-06-08T19:18:00 4.213 INF Exited thread TelnetClient_127.0.0.1:59108 2023-06-08T19:18:01 5.122 INF NET: Starting server protocols 2023-06-08T19:18:01 5.125 INF [NET] Disabling protocol: SteamNetworking 2023-06-08T19:18:01 5.149 INF NET: LiteNetLib server started 2023-06-08T19:18:01 5.152 INF StartGame 2023-06-08T19:18:01 5.152 INF NetPackageManager Init 2023-06-08T19:18:02 5.399 INF Persistent GamePrefs saved 2023-06-08T19:18:02 5.503 INF StartAsServer 2023-06-08T19:18:03 6.551 INF Loaded (local): materials 2023-06-08T19:18:03 7.050 INF Loaded (local): physicsbodies 2023-06-08T19:18:04 7.550 INF Loaded (local): painting 2023-06-08T19:18:04 8.139 INF Loaded (local): shapes 2023-06-08T19:18:25 29.003 INF Block IDs with mapping 2023-06-08T19:18:25 29.025 INF Block IDs total 13640, terr 44, last 13848 2023-06-08T19:18:25 29.048 INF Loaded (local): blocks 2023-06-08T19:18:27 30.521 INF Loaded (local): progression 2023-06-08T19:18:27 31.262 INF Loaded (local): buffs 2023-06-08T19:18:28 31.752 INF Loaded (local): misc 2023-06-08T19:18:30 33.318 INF Loaded (local): items 2023-06-08T19:18:30 33.868 INF Item IDs with mapping 2023-06-08T19:18:30 33.869 INF ItemIDs from Mapping 2023-06-08T19:18:30 33.946 INF Loaded (local): item_modifiers 2023-06-08T19:18:31 34.489 INF Loaded (local): entityclasses 2023-06-08T19:18:31 34.960 INF Loaded (local): qualityinfo 2023-06-08T19:18:32 35.502 INF Loaded (local): sounds 2023-06-08T19:18:32 36.282 INF Loaded (local): recipes 2023-06-08T19:18:33 36.749 INF Loaded (local): blockplaceholders 2023-06-08T19:18:33 37.249 INF Loaded (local): loot 2023-06-08T19:18:34 37.809 INF Loaded (local): entitygroups 2023-06-08T19:18:35 38.308 INF Loaded (local): utilityai 2023-06-08T19:18:35 38.809 INF Loaded (local): vehicles 2023-06-08T19:18:36 39.309 INF Loaded (local): rwgmixer 2023-06-08T19:18:36 39.809 INF Loaded (local): weathersurvival 2023-06-08T19:18:37 40.308 INF Loaded (local): archetypes 2023-06-08T19:18:37 40.833 INF Loaded (local): quests 2023-06-08T19:18:38 41.332 INF Loaded (local): traders 2023-06-08T19:18:38 41.833 INF Loaded (local): npc 2023-06-08T19:18:39 42.333 INF Loaded (local): dialogs 2023-06-08T19:18:39 42.833 INF Loaded (local): ui_display 2023-06-08T19:18:40 43.338 INF Loaded (local): nav_objects 2023-06-08T19:18:40 43.836 INF Loaded (local): gamestages 2023-06-08T19:18:41 44.432 INF Loaded (local): gameevents 2023-06-08T19:18:41 44.889 INF Loaded (local): twitch 2023-06-08T19:18:42 45.388 INF Loaded (local): twitch_events 2023-06-08T19:18:42 45.888 INF Loaded (local): dmscontent 2023-06-08T19:18:43 46.388 INF Loaded (local): color_mappings 2023-06-08T19:18:43 46.888 INF Loaded (local): XUi_Common/styles 2023-06-08T19:18:44 47.388 INF Loaded (local): XUi_Common/controls 2023-06-08T19:18:44 47.889 INF Loaded (local): XUi/styles 2023-06-08T19:18:45 48.388 INF Loaded (local): XUi/controls 2023-06-08T19:18:45 48.889 INF Loaded (local): XUi/windows 2023-06-08T19:18:46 49.389 INF Loaded (local): XUi/xui 2023-06-08T19:18:46 49.888 INF Loaded (local): biomes 2023-06-08T19:18:47 50.389 INF Loaded (local): worldglobal 2023-06-08T19:18:47 50.888 INF Loaded (local): spawning 2023-06-08T19:18:48 51.391 INF Loaded (local): loadingscreen 2023-06-08T19:18:48 51.591 INF createWorld: PREGEN10k, Artemy 2, GameModeSurvival 2023-06-08T19:18:48 51.592 INF Occlusion: Disabled 2023-06-08T19:18:48 51.650 INF Started thread ChunkRegeneration 2023-06-08T19:18:48 51.650 INF Started thread ChunkCalc 2023-06-08T19:18:48 51.650 INF Started thread ChunkMeshBake 2023-06-08T19:18:48 51.741 INF World.Load: PREGEN10k 2023-06-08T19:19:09 72.957 INF Started thread GenerateChunks 2023-06-08T19:19:13 76.902 INF Calculating world hashes took 3851 ms (world size 414 MiB) 

it freezes on this step perpetually. i have let it run 15 hours and it never passes this point. wtf am i doing wrong?

I am trying to leave my husband of 5 years- who is a high functioning alcoholic, has some anger issues, and has occasional issues with drugs- but he is making it super difficult on me. Everytime I try to mention that I think we should end this marriage, he tells me that I can leave but he's keeping the dog 100%. I have offered him 50% custody when we split but he says he wants 100%. He says he will never want to see me again and is taking the dog. I have said I will fight him on that and am getting a lawyer to help me with the paperwork and getting support with whatever paperwork is needed for splitting pet ownership. We have no kids, no house together, no shared assets, etc. We split all expenses with the dog 50/50 and we purchased the dog 50/50. Has anyone gone through pet custody disputes before? How did it go? Should there be evidence I should be collecting now? I have a consultation with a lawyer next week. Also, should I find a pet friendly place on my own and have it ready to move into when I give the papers or wait until after he's been served to see what my next steps should be? I really wanted the apartment we are in now and for him to leave but he has made it clear he won't be doing anything until there are papers in his hand.

What are good bra suggestions for close-set, tissue that goes back to about the middle of the armpit, but i dont think that makes it wide, probably average tissue width, also i prefer not too high of underwire, and i think i got tall to med roots? i have bought a alegro 9009A 30g, but the underwire is WAY too wide, it is at like the very very end of my arm pit, my tissue is at the middle of my arm pit, not at the very end, and id rather the gore be no higher than 1.2 inches, i looked on bratabase at this 9009A model and a 30e gore is about 1.2 inches, and if the 30g gore was any higher alot of tissue would be smashed, the gore is already kinda wide too. im getting red marks from the underwire in the front, not the band. i believe its the underwire doing this and when i slouch or something it make the red marks. i would like some recommendations from amazon, cause they gave me a refund from two bras i returned, but didnt put it on my credit card instead put it on a amazon giftcard, i would prefer a range around 0 to 35$, they have mierside, parfait, freya and others, i sort by 30g or 30i, but the underwire could be too wide on many of these.