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2023.05.30 01:04 MKULTRA_Escapee UFO information from other countries, and debunking esri.com's cherrypicked UFO sightings map
As I'm sure everyone is aware, over the last several years, esri.com's "A Century of UFO Sightings" received enormous publicity. Here is a tweet from a couple weeks ago with 4 million views: https://twitter.com/Xongkuro/status/1657553674942525440
Other people have made their own variations of the argument. For example, here's a tweet with 18 million views: https://twitter.com/bosslogic/status/1624765274498154497
Another older post with the map: https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1411671138355253256
But you can find tons of these. There has been a steady stream of references to this map since its inception, but even before this map was created, the argument has been there all along. People falsely claim that the vast majority of UFO sightings happen in the US, implying that the concept of UFOs must be a cultural issue, not a reality.
However, esri.com states in the description on their video, the data source is NUFORC, which is a US-based, English language UFO information collection org. Of course it will be heavily biased towards English language reports, primarily US, exactly as the map implies.
Previous to this, another variation of this map from Larry Hatch was floating around. Here is the distribution of sightings in Europe.
A post on Ask an Astronomer says:
Numbers comparison between countries:
I have a quick preliminary tally on some of the total unknowns and total sightings per country below, and the US doesn't seem any different from other countries, especially when you adjust for population. It is extremely surprising that the amount of unknowns, and even the percentage of unknowns, is about what you should expect. If anyone has more info, please add in the comments, but there is already enough here to completely debunk esri.com's map.
Total Sightings collected by a government- United States: 12,618 collected during Bluebook era, plus several hundred more in later investigations, so 13,128. France: 1,600. Uruguay 2,100. Denmark 15,000.
Total Unknowns- United States: 701 during Bluebook era, total of 872. Denmark: 200. France: 400. Uruguay: 40. Germany: 500 (not official tally for Germany)
Comparison 1, Unknowns: Uruguay has about 3 and a half million people with 40 unknowns, whereas the US has 330 million+ with 872 unknowns. The US has almost 100 times the amount of people, so if Uruguay had the same population, they would have about 4,000 unknowns. Uruguay actually has far more unknowns than expected when you adjust for population.
Comparison 2, Total Sightings: Uruguay has about 2,100 total sightings, whereas the US has 14,000 collected by a government. The United States has almost 100X the population, so Uruguay should have approximately 200,000 sightings if their populations were similar.
Comparison 3, total sightings and total unknowns- France has 1,600 cases, of which about 400 are unknowns. The population of France is 65 million, or about one fifth the population of the US. This means if they had the same population as the US, France would have 8,000 sightings and 2,000 unknowns, which is very similar to the United States, which has 14,000 sightings and 872 unknowns.
[Note: the numbers are going to be off a little bit because different countries started tracking UFOs later on, different requirements for collection, etc, but it doesn't matter that much. These are ballpark comparisons from what governments have collected]
[Note 2: Between Mufon and Nuforc, they collected maybe 10 times as many reports as the government did for the US. However, if we were to do a fair comparison, we can only compare between countries in which several civilian UFO organizations from that country collected reports over similar periods of time. Restricting to government collected reports is at least a fair way to do it because we have more information. And even if we compared the US civilian-collected numbers to Uruguay's officially collected reports, Uruguay still beats the US when adjusted for population (100k+ versus 200k), and the same for Canada. Germany, a much smaller country, also has way more total civilian collected reports than the US as well.]
UFO cases collected by Governments:
United States (population 330 million, 13,128 UFO cases, 872 unknowns):
Germany (population 85 million, 140,000 sightings, of which 5 percent are unexplained, 500 cases with no possible explanation):
In a small town in Japan of 5,000 people, the town had about 450 sightings in one year: https://www.indiatvnews.com/trending/news/home-of-aliens-japanese-town-has-452-ufo-sightings-in-one-year-viral-story-fukushima-japan-2023-05-03-868661 But I would prefer a better citation than indiatvnews.com.
If anyone has any information and citations to contribute, please add in the comments. I know I'm missing a lot of information on various other countries, some of which have had official UFO agencies, but it's difficult for me to locate the information.
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Other people have made their own variations of the argument. For example, here's a tweet with 18 million views: https://twitter.com/bosslogic/status/1624765274498154497
Another older post with the map: https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1411671138355253256
But you can find tons of these. There has been a steady stream of references to this map since its inception, but even before this map was created, the argument has been there all along. People falsely claim that the vast majority of UFO sightings happen in the US, implying that the concept of UFOs must be a cultural issue, not a reality.
However, esri.com states in the description on their video, the data source is NUFORC, which is a US-based, English language UFO information collection org. Of course it will be heavily biased towards English language reports, primarily US, exactly as the map implies.
Previous to this, another variation of this map from Larry Hatch was floating around. Here is the distribution of sightings in Europe.
A post on Ask an Astronomer says:
But to me, it seems a little far-fetched that aliens would recognize national borders, and visit one country much more than another if the two countries are geographically close, and similar in population, population density, and economic development. So a map like this suggests to me that UFO sightings are likely to be a cultural phenomenon.However, if you actually read the text on the page with the map on it, it says:
Note the disproportionate sightings densities for Britain and France, compared to Germany, Holland and points east. The biggest single reason is that Larry Hatch can't read German, Dutch, Polish etc., introducing a very definite "cultural bias".That is a very different kind of "cultural bias" than people have been claiming. The actual problem is the language barrier, preventing knowledge of sightings spreading from one country to another, but people have been insisting that it actually means UFOs are all made up nonsense and the result of "UFO culture." But if you actually look for information on UFOs in other countries, the distribution of sightings is surprisingly consistent across all countries that I have found information on.
I have a quick preliminary tally on some of the total unknowns and total sightings per country below, and the US doesn't seem any different from other countries, especially when you adjust for population. It is extremely surprising that the amount of unknowns, and even the percentage of unknowns, is about what you should expect. If anyone has more info, please add in the comments, but there is already enough here to completely debunk esri.com's map.
Total Sightings collected by a government- United States: 12,618 collected during Bluebook era, plus several hundred more in later investigations, so 13,128. France: 1,600. Uruguay 2,100. Denmark 15,000.
Total Unknowns- United States: 701 during Bluebook era, total of 872. Denmark: 200. France: 400. Uruguay: 40. Germany: 500 (not official tally for Germany)
Comparison 1, Unknowns: Uruguay has about 3 and a half million people with 40 unknowns, whereas the US has 330 million+ with 872 unknowns. The US has almost 100 times the amount of people, so if Uruguay had the same population, they would have about 4,000 unknowns. Uruguay actually has far more unknowns than expected when you adjust for population.
Comparison 2, Total Sightings: Uruguay has about 2,100 total sightings, whereas the US has 14,000 collected by a government. The United States has almost 100X the population, so Uruguay should have approximately 200,000 sightings if their populations were similar.
Comparison 3, total sightings and total unknowns- France has 1,600 cases, of which about 400 are unknowns. The population of France is 65 million, or about one fifth the population of the US. This means if they had the same population as the US, France would have 8,000 sightings and 2,000 unknowns, which is very similar to the United States, which has 14,000 sightings and 872 unknowns.
[Note: the numbers are going to be off a little bit because different countries started tracking UFOs later on, different requirements for collection, etc, but it doesn't matter that much. These are ballpark comparisons from what governments have collected]
[Note 2: Between Mufon and Nuforc, they collected maybe 10 times as many reports as the government did for the US. However, if we were to do a fair comparison, we can only compare between countries in which several civilian UFO organizations from that country collected reports over similar periods of time. Restricting to government collected reports is at least a fair way to do it because we have more information. And even if we compared the US civilian-collected numbers to Uruguay's officially collected reports, Uruguay still beats the US when adjusted for population (100k+ versus 200k), and the same for Canada. Germany, a much smaller country, also has way more total civilian collected reports than the US as well.]
United States (population 330 million, 13,128 UFO cases, 872 unknowns):
By the time Project Blue Book ended in 1970, it had collected 12,618 UFO reports... 701 reports were classified as unexplained, even after stringent analysis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_BookFrance (population 65 million, 1,600 UFO cases, 400 unknowns):
These 366 additional reports, when combined with the 144 reports identified in the preliminary assessment, bring the total UAP reports catalogued to date to 510.
Since its establishment in July 2022, AARO has formulated and started to leverage a robust analytic process against identified UAP reporting. Once completed, AARO’s final analytic findings will be available in their quarterly reports to policymakers. AARO’s initial analysis and characterization of the 366 newly-identified reports, informed by a multi-agency process, judged more than half as exhibiting unremarkable characteristics:
-26 characterized as Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) or UAS-like entities;
-163 characterized as balloon or balloon-like entities; and
-6 attributed to clutter.
Initial characterization does not mean positively resolved or unidentified. This initial characterization better enables AARO and ODNI to efficiently and effectively leverage resources against the remaining 171 uncharacterized and unattributed UAP reports. Some of these uncharacterized UAP appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities, and require further analysis. https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Unclassified-2022-Annual-Report-UAP.pdf
The team is called Geipan. That's a French acronym for Study Group and Information on Non-Identified Aerospace Phenomenon. Its boss is Xavier Passot. Surrounded by dozens of books on UFOs, and stacks of documents, he tells me his mission is to be as transparent as possible about strange sightings and to follow up on each one that his team receives. They publish their results on their website which gets 30,000 hits a month. The team receives, on average, two UFO sightings a day. The department insists an 11-page form is filled out for each one. The idea is to provide details including photographs where possible but also weed out jokers and time-wasters. ... But there are around 400 UFO sightings going back to the 1970s that the French team cannot explain. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29755919Uruguay (population 3,500,000, 2,100 cases, 40 Unknowns):
Of the 1600 cases registered since 1954, nearly 25% are classified as “type D”, meaning that “despite good or very good data and credible witnesses, we are confronted with something we can’t explain”, Patenet says. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11443-france-opens-up-its-ufo-files/
The Uruguayan Air Force has had an ongoing UFO investigation since 1989 and analyzed 2,100 cases, of which they only consider about 40 (2 percent) to be definitely lacking any conventional explanation. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Ultimate_Collection_on_UFOs/eQj1AwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=uruguayan+air+force+ufo&pg=PA160&printsec=frontcoverCanada (population 39 million, 20,000 UFO cases):
The talk and presentation mark Rutkowski’s donation to University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections of his extensive personal collection and files on this case and other UFO sightings and related phenomena from across Canada. These include more than 20,000 separate UFO reports filed with various agencies since 1989 https://news.umanitoba.ca/the-falcon-lake-ufo-files/Spain (population 47 million, no useful numbers):
UFO sightings in Spain are in excess of 7,000, but less than 2 percent of these have been reported to the Spanish Air Force (people may not have known they could, or how to report such things to the Air Force). Out of 122 cases analyzed by an international team directed by Ballester Olmos, 99 had conventional causes, 14 insufficient data for evaluation, 9 unexplained. - UFOs and Government, Michael Swords and Robert Powell, page 430.Denmark (population 6 million, 15,000 sightings, 200 Unknowns)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The Danish Air Force has released 329 pages of previously classified archives on UFO sightings, including details on more than 200 unsolved cases. https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/01/30/Denmark-releases-UFO-archives/90411233360944/New Zealand (population 5 million, no useful numbers yet):
The Danish Air Force has opened its UFO files, which were treated as state secret up until today. The archive features information on over 15,000 reported extraterrestrial sightings. https://denmark.net/denmarks-secret-ufo-files/
Danish UFO Files https://archive.org/details/DanishUFOFiles/page/n21/mode/2up
Unidentified flying objects (UFO) files : copies for release to the public / By New Zealand. Defence Force.Civilian UFO case collection:
"These copied and redacted files of correspondence ... dating from 1952 to 2009 have been declassified and released to the public ... under the Official Information Act ... The files contain reports of sightings by private individuals and military personnel, investigations by Defence and other government departments and agencies into these reports, newspaper clippings on UFOs and letters from individuals who claim to be in touch with alien beings and craft"--Preliminaries. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22979464
Germany (population 85 million, 140,000 sightings, of which 5 percent are unexplained, 500 cases with no possible explanation):
"Germany has a high level of UFO sightings," Robert Fleischer, the coordinator for the German Initiative for Exopolitics, told Deutsche Welle.Japan (population 125 million):
He said that, since 1974, over 500 so-called "real" UFO cases - reported sightings that, after careful consideration by specialized experts, cannot be related to any conventional information - have been recorded.
"However, there has never been any official recognition by the German government relating to UFOs or UFO activity," Fleischer added. "So if the Germans were to open any files relating to UFOs, all we would find out is that they pass all their information to the Americans." https://www.dw.com/en/despite-partial-disclosure-europes-ufo-files-remain-mostly-under-wraps/a-4783950
In Germany, there seems to be an endless list of hobby clubs and nonprofit associations. The Association for UFO Research (GEP) is one of them. Their databank includes 140,000 entries, and 95% of them can be explained. https://www.dw.com/en/ufos-and-aliens-in-germany/a-58077707
In a small town in Japan of 5,000 people, the town had about 450 sightings in one year: https://www.indiatvnews.com/trending/news/home-of-aliens-japanese-town-has-452-ufo-sightings-in-one-year-viral-story-fukushima-japan-2023-05-03-868661 But I would prefer a better citation than indiatvnews.com.
If anyone has any information and citations to contribute, please add in the comments. I know I'm missing a lot of information on various other countries, some of which have had official UFO agencies, but it's difficult for me to locate the information.
2023.05.30 01:04 bigtallcurlyhair Please remember me in prayer it’s a rough situation
Sometimes I just feel like giving up. I seriously don’t know what hurts worse, my heart or my legs. I am doing this is a last resort because I am hungry and pretty much on the brink of homelessness. Please pray for me. I lost a loved one in early fall that I took care of and have been in between work from home jobs and now have no job and will have no home in two weeks. I lived off my fathers income because I took care of him. I am now down to nothing and live in a rural area and I have my rent internet and everything due. No speakable family and no transportation. I have tried churches and organizations to no avail. I also have no speakable family because they have disowned me. I’d appreciate anything if anyone could help, and even if you can help financially please send me prayers. I have thought about giving up but I don’t want to but it makes it dang near impossible not to. I am also ostercized for living in a small southern town and being lgbtq. Anyways I’m sorry to ask for this but I need money in the worst way I literally don’t know where my next bill or meal is going to come from? And if you say I’m faking I don’t care and won’t respond. Please help me even if it’s prayer. My cash app is $captainmidnight515
It feels better just to vent but thanks so much for reading this and I know it looks suspicious but I swear to you i am not lying. Thank you and sorry it is embarrassing to do this but I am desperate.
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It feels better just to vent but thanks so much for reading this and I know it looks suspicious but I swear to you i am not lying. Thank you and sorry it is embarrassing to do this but I am desperate.
2023.05.30 01:03 sketchyaccountant Travel to Union station
Hello!
We are looking to purchase a house in Cambridge. However, I wanted to hear your perspective on this one issue.
There are chances that my work may ask me to come back 3 days a week. Office is near Union station. I was wondering what are the options to travel from Hespler village to Union station? I won't have a car.
Any ideas ? Or do you folks think it's better to move near Guelph go station or kitchner ?
Thanks
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We are looking to purchase a house in Cambridge. However, I wanted to hear your perspective on this one issue.
There are chances that my work may ask me to come back 3 days a week. Office is near Union station. I was wondering what are the options to travel from Hespler village to Union station? I won't have a car.
Any ideas ? Or do you folks think it's better to move near Guelph go station or kitchner ?
Thanks
2023.05.30 01:03 bigtallcurlyhair Please pray for me I am going through it
Sometimes I just feel like giving up. I seriously don’t know what hurts worse, my heart or my legs. I am doing this is a last resort because I am hungry and pretty much on the brink of homelessness. Please pray for me. I lost a loved one in early fall that I took care of and have been in between work from home jobs and now have no job and will have no home in two weeks. I lived off my fathers income because I took care of him. I am now down to nothing and live in a rural area and I have my rent internet and everything due. No speakable family and no transportation. I have tried churches and organizations to no avail. I also have no speakable family because they have disowned me. I’d appreciate anything if anyone could help, and even if you can help financially please send me prayers. I have thought about giving up but I don’t want to but it makes it dang near impossible not to. I am also ostercized for living in a small southern town and being lgbtq. Anyways I’m sorry to ask for this but I need money in the worst way I literally don’t know where my next bill or meal is going to come from? And if you say I’m faking I don’t care and won’t respond. Please help me even if it’s prayer. My cash app is $captainmidnight515
It feels better just to vent but thanks so much for reading this and I know it looks suspicious but I swear to you i am not lying. Thank you and sorry it is embarrassing to do this but I am desperate.
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It feels better just to vent but thanks so much for reading this and I know it looks suspicious but I swear to you i am not lying. Thank you and sorry it is embarrassing to do this but I am desperate.
2023.05.30 01:03 bakariwolf The Saga of the Professional DM. Part 1
New here so not fully sure if horror story is right but it seems the best fir for this. So this took place four years after fifth edition had come out, I had already been playing 3.5 and pathfinder for a good few years and even dabbled in 4e. A friend had informed me a game was starting up in 5e at the local shop and even though we had never played we figured it would be good to get in with the going trend. The group consisted of the veteran players: Myself, my friend we'll call Cleric, and another we'll call Wizard, The new players who had maybe played in one game before and knew the game mostly through memes Druid, Barbarian, and Bard and finally the DM who introduced herself as a Professional DM who had 15 years of experience under her belt. To give you context she was rather young and even though I am not the best at guessing ages her general look and the fact that her boyfriend, bard, was only 21 and they met in high school I'm guessing she was close to that age which meant if her boast was true she had to start DMing around age 6. Not impossible but first red flag for me.
We all made our level 2 characters and since it was so low level we got to play for 3 hours. Our first mission was standard. Our king had enlisted us to deliver a very important treasure chest to the neighboring kingdom for a birthday present. The chest was super fancy, made out of near indestructible metal and with a mechanical code lock with a magical rune needed to even enter the code that had already been sent ahead by carrier pigeon. The trip would take us several weeks in character so we were off. We did the whole meet and greet, introduced ourselves to each other, and compared what we had and what we could do to help the party. I was a rogue so I was rather skillful, Bard and I got along well and our chosen skills complimented each other well. We told the DM we were headed off and waited to find out what the road had in store.
DM "ok who's driving the cart?" Me "Oh I'll take care of that. Shouldn't be too hard right?" DM "How are you all riding? Who is in front? Who is behind? Are you assigning scouting riders?" Everyone chose where they were riding and we decided not to scout ahead and take our chances. DM "Ok roleplay." Everyone looked bewildered a moment and I finally broke the silence with "What?" The DM looked angry at me and said "Geez I thought you guy's said you've played before. You know roleplay. Tell me how you're riding, what you're doing, make conversation, interact!"
We were all a little confused since she hadn't given us anything that was happening but played along, I figured maybe she was trying to get background information to wave into the story. So I went first telling my backstory and encouraging others to do the same. This continued until all backstories were told and the table went silent and we looked to the DM. DM "Well continue." Cleric "Is there anything going on?" DM "Nope you're on the road I don't roll random encounters until night because that's the rules." Cleric "Ok we'll keep traveling until it's time to make camp." DM "Excellent. Roleplay it."
Everyone looked back and forth to each other and just kind of seemed lost. So Wizard spoke up then. Wizard "Usually we skip over this till something happens in the story. So we'd like to skip to setting up camp." DM "Duh I know that I've been DMing for fifteen years. Just figured you'd want to roleplay a bit. Fine, skip to setting up camp. How are you doing it?" Wizard "We'll set up tents, a camp fire, cook each and...." DM "Don't jump ahead roleplay it!"
Again all of us looked lost, we went with it though and over the next hour described in as much detail as we could gathering sticks, making a fire, cooking rations, conversations, making rolls hoping SOMETHING would happen. Finally we had our characters go to bed and start watches. She pulled out her dice then. DM "Now I've been doing this for 15 years so I have a method. You have a 25% chance to have a random encounter but it's boring to just have it be 1 to 25 on the dice so pick a number and the percentage will be in that range." We picked 35 randomly and she rolled. DM "Wow you guys are so lucky, no encounter tonight." We roleplayed packing up camp and riding for the rest of the session, I left feeling so freaking bored.
It was a rough start but we figured it could only get better from here. We were a new group so we'd give it a chance. So next week we found ourselves back at the table. Again she insisted that we roleplay EVERY little thing. How we were dressing, cleaning our clothing, brushing our teeth, were we making bathroom stops! Now for a little more background on me I'm an armature writer so all these things were bugging me so much more because this is an example of horrible writing! You don't center a story around mundane stuff because it will loose the reader, and here we were hours into a game and we had essentially done nothing to further the story. I was scouting ahead now in the hopes that I could find an NPC of some sort, someone on the road, an enemy, a wild animal ANYTHING to bring some excitement to the game. Nothing, it was just a road, we made camp again and the encounter dice came out. We chose 62. The dice rolled.
DM "Another lucky roll, no random encounter." I looked around the table and everyone was disappointed. More roleplay happened and more of us trying to dredge up something for these characters to talk about in the hopes of pleasing this "Professional DM of 15 years!" so she would give us something to do. The hours are stretching on and we are almost done the session.
Suddenly she starts talking and I nearly scream YES! She describes the area we are riding through. It's a rocky area with the road cutting through the center of large hills that have mine shafts dug into them. She describes the sound of miners working and pick axes echoing out into the open. The three new players are leaning on the table but myself, Wizard, and Cleric are all excited because we know if the DM described it, it has to mean something!
Wizard "I'd like to roll History, that's a 16, is this mine currently known to be in use?" DM "Yes it is well known, owned by the king, it's an iron mine." Cleric "Insight 14. Is this the normal time of day that workers would be mining?" DM "Yes, this is normal hours of operation." Me "Perception, Hah nat twenty! Do I see anything of interest?" DM very casually "You see some ants crawling on the wall."
All three of us are confused. We thought this was a plot hook but our rolls got us nothing. The mine was in use, it was normal to be working, and all I saw with a nat twenty was some ants on the wall? We looked for anything else out of place but nothing. So we asked the others. "Do you want to try and talk with someone or move on?" The new players wanted to move on. We roleplayed, had one more night of sleep and one more random encounter roll. Everyone waited with anticipation but the dice came up with us "lucky" once again and no encounter.
Now I normally don't like to but into a DM and their style but this was getting insufferable. Two games now with hours spent on tediously describing every step our character makes. The DM had given her number so I called her in hopes of getting to the bottom of this. When I brought up everything she said. "Well you skipped over my planned encounter. You didn't even give it a second glance." I asked what encounter and she said. "I told you the ants on the wall. You saw a bunch of Formians and you didn't even try to talk to them."
I freaking lost it. I was a babbling mess. "What!" "No you, for, oh my, why. Formians?! Those were Formians? You said I saw ANTS on the wall not freaking Formians. Formians don't look like ants they are large insectoid centaur like creatures with four arms, they wear armor, and use weapons! Of course we didn't try to talk to them you described them as ants...."
She came back saying "I don't appreciate being talked to that way, you guy's dropped the ball on the adventure I planned out so well, just because you didn't pay attention isn't my fault. Remember I'm a professional who's been DMing for fifteen years!"
I calmed down a little and figured I wasn't going to win this one. I told her. "Ok, I'm sorry but I think the party would love to have another chance to meet the Formians. We missed it the first time I know but old DM trick if your party misses an adventure just pick it up and move it to the front of the path. No one will know and this time just describe them a little more than ants, please."
Her "No you walked by it so you miss it, the adventure moves forward." I should have quit then but I was starving for a game and I knew I had at least three people on my side so I'm sad to say I went back. Can it get worse? See part two, coming soon.
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We all made our level 2 characters and since it was so low level we got to play for 3 hours. Our first mission was standard. Our king had enlisted us to deliver a very important treasure chest to the neighboring kingdom for a birthday present. The chest was super fancy, made out of near indestructible metal and with a mechanical code lock with a magical rune needed to even enter the code that had already been sent ahead by carrier pigeon. The trip would take us several weeks in character so we were off. We did the whole meet and greet, introduced ourselves to each other, and compared what we had and what we could do to help the party. I was a rogue so I was rather skillful, Bard and I got along well and our chosen skills complimented each other well. We told the DM we were headed off and waited to find out what the road had in store.
DM "ok who's driving the cart?" Me "Oh I'll take care of that. Shouldn't be too hard right?" DM "How are you all riding? Who is in front? Who is behind? Are you assigning scouting riders?" Everyone chose where they were riding and we decided not to scout ahead and take our chances. DM "Ok roleplay." Everyone looked bewildered a moment and I finally broke the silence with "What?" The DM looked angry at me and said "Geez I thought you guy's said you've played before. You know roleplay. Tell me how you're riding, what you're doing, make conversation, interact!"
We were all a little confused since she hadn't given us anything that was happening but played along, I figured maybe she was trying to get background information to wave into the story. So I went first telling my backstory and encouraging others to do the same. This continued until all backstories were told and the table went silent and we looked to the DM. DM "Well continue." Cleric "Is there anything going on?" DM "Nope you're on the road I don't roll random encounters until night because that's the rules." Cleric "Ok we'll keep traveling until it's time to make camp." DM "Excellent. Roleplay it."
Everyone looked back and forth to each other and just kind of seemed lost. So Wizard spoke up then. Wizard "Usually we skip over this till something happens in the story. So we'd like to skip to setting up camp." DM "Duh I know that I've been DMing for fifteen years. Just figured you'd want to roleplay a bit. Fine, skip to setting up camp. How are you doing it?" Wizard "We'll set up tents, a camp fire, cook each and...." DM "Don't jump ahead roleplay it!"
Again all of us looked lost, we went with it though and over the next hour described in as much detail as we could gathering sticks, making a fire, cooking rations, conversations, making rolls hoping SOMETHING would happen. Finally we had our characters go to bed and start watches. She pulled out her dice then. DM "Now I've been doing this for 15 years so I have a method. You have a 25% chance to have a random encounter but it's boring to just have it be 1 to 25 on the dice so pick a number and the percentage will be in that range." We picked 35 randomly and she rolled. DM "Wow you guys are so lucky, no encounter tonight." We roleplayed packing up camp and riding for the rest of the session, I left feeling so freaking bored.
It was a rough start but we figured it could only get better from here. We were a new group so we'd give it a chance. So next week we found ourselves back at the table. Again she insisted that we roleplay EVERY little thing. How we were dressing, cleaning our clothing, brushing our teeth, were we making bathroom stops! Now for a little more background on me I'm an armature writer so all these things were bugging me so much more because this is an example of horrible writing! You don't center a story around mundane stuff because it will loose the reader, and here we were hours into a game and we had essentially done nothing to further the story. I was scouting ahead now in the hopes that I could find an NPC of some sort, someone on the road, an enemy, a wild animal ANYTHING to bring some excitement to the game. Nothing, it was just a road, we made camp again and the encounter dice came out. We chose 62. The dice rolled.
DM "Another lucky roll, no random encounter." I looked around the table and everyone was disappointed. More roleplay happened and more of us trying to dredge up something for these characters to talk about in the hopes of pleasing this "Professional DM of 15 years!" so she would give us something to do. The hours are stretching on and we are almost done the session.
Suddenly she starts talking and I nearly scream YES! She describes the area we are riding through. It's a rocky area with the road cutting through the center of large hills that have mine shafts dug into them. She describes the sound of miners working and pick axes echoing out into the open. The three new players are leaning on the table but myself, Wizard, and Cleric are all excited because we know if the DM described it, it has to mean something!
Wizard "I'd like to roll History, that's a 16, is this mine currently known to be in use?" DM "Yes it is well known, owned by the king, it's an iron mine." Cleric "Insight 14. Is this the normal time of day that workers would be mining?" DM "Yes, this is normal hours of operation." Me "Perception, Hah nat twenty! Do I see anything of interest?" DM very casually "You see some ants crawling on the wall."
All three of us are confused. We thought this was a plot hook but our rolls got us nothing. The mine was in use, it was normal to be working, and all I saw with a nat twenty was some ants on the wall? We looked for anything else out of place but nothing. So we asked the others. "Do you want to try and talk with someone or move on?" The new players wanted to move on. We roleplayed, had one more night of sleep and one more random encounter roll. Everyone waited with anticipation but the dice came up with us "lucky" once again and no encounter.
Now I normally don't like to but into a DM and their style but this was getting insufferable. Two games now with hours spent on tediously describing every step our character makes. The DM had given her number so I called her in hopes of getting to the bottom of this. When I brought up everything she said. "Well you skipped over my planned encounter. You didn't even give it a second glance." I asked what encounter and she said. "I told you the ants on the wall. You saw a bunch of Formians and you didn't even try to talk to them."
I freaking lost it. I was a babbling mess. "What!" "No you, for, oh my, why. Formians?! Those were Formians? You said I saw ANTS on the wall not freaking Formians. Formians don't look like ants they are large insectoid centaur like creatures with four arms, they wear armor, and use weapons! Of course we didn't try to talk to them you described them as ants...."
She came back saying "I don't appreciate being talked to that way, you guy's dropped the ball on the adventure I planned out so well, just because you didn't pay attention isn't my fault. Remember I'm a professional who's been DMing for fifteen years!"
I calmed down a little and figured I wasn't going to win this one. I told her. "Ok, I'm sorry but I think the party would love to have another chance to meet the Formians. We missed it the first time I know but old DM trick if your party misses an adventure just pick it up and move it to the front of the path. No one will know and this time just describe them a little more than ants, please."
Her "No you walked by it so you miss it, the adventure moves forward." I should have quit then but I was starving for a game and I knew I had at least three people on my side so I'm sad to say I went back. Can it get worse? See part two, coming soon.
2023.05.30 01:03 FunFaithlessness6316 I feel like a monster for marrying a man while liking his brother
Yea basically the text.
I saw this guy on Instagram once, like 30k followers, insanely insanely attractive. I wanted him but I knew I couldn't have him because guys with 30k follower think they're all that and won't reply to dms, and I don't post myself ever so...
I did some digging and found his brother. Very attractive but not as attractive as the other. So we started talking, I continued taking with him in hopes of getting closer to his brother, maybe get his brothers number or something. Yea that didn't happen. Dug myself way to deep into all this and now I'm 18, married, pregnant with the child of a man I don't love. Great 👍
If you're wondering why I'm married at 18, I'm muslim and his parents found our conversations and yea he had to propose. Funny thing is, our conversations were so innocent though anywayyys...
Ik his brother likes me too, I mean he straight up told me he does. And he knows his brother likes me. I want to leave him, because I feel like he deserves so much better then me, his beautiful, heart of gold, pious and has ghairah and all around near perfection. Except that he has tons of insecurities, mostly because of his brother always being better, more attractive ect ect. But if I leave him for his brother, would that just not add more onto his insecurities !?
Is his brother really the guy I want to raise a child with !? Honestly it's all just physical attraction, he is beyond beautiful, like supermodel beautiful. He has a terrible personality, also him and I are too alike.
I'm really regretting my life choices rn
I care for him, I just don't love him. I feel in time I will, his really not a difficult person to love. But he deserves someone who will truly love every part of him. I'm not that person at this given moment, but I want to be, I will be. I will love him the way he loves me.
If there's anyone here below the age of 25, don't get married and don't have children. I literally have "petty" issues but they aren't "petty" anymore. We are all children, but now with massive responsibilities and it's crazy, would not recommend.
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I saw this guy on Instagram once, like 30k followers, insanely insanely attractive. I wanted him but I knew I couldn't have him because guys with 30k follower think they're all that and won't reply to dms, and I don't post myself ever so...
I did some digging and found his brother. Very attractive but not as attractive as the other. So we started talking, I continued taking with him in hopes of getting closer to his brother, maybe get his brothers number or something. Yea that didn't happen. Dug myself way to deep into all this and now I'm 18, married, pregnant with the child of a man I don't love. Great 👍
If you're wondering why I'm married at 18, I'm muslim and his parents found our conversations and yea he had to propose. Funny thing is, our conversations were so innocent though anywayyys...
Ik his brother likes me too, I mean he straight up told me he does. And he knows his brother likes me. I want to leave him, because I feel like he deserves so much better then me, his beautiful, heart of gold, pious and has ghairah and all around near perfection. Except that he has tons of insecurities, mostly because of his brother always being better, more attractive ect ect. But if I leave him for his brother, would that just not add more onto his insecurities !?
Is his brother really the guy I want to raise a child with !? Honestly it's all just physical attraction, he is beyond beautiful, like supermodel beautiful. He has a terrible personality, also him and I are too alike.
I'm really regretting my life choices rn
I care for him, I just don't love him. I feel in time I will, his really not a difficult person to love. But he deserves someone who will truly love every part of him. I'm not that person at this given moment, but I want to be, I will be. I will love him the way he loves me.
If there's anyone here below the age of 25, don't get married and don't have children. I literally have "petty" issues but they aren't "petty" anymore. We are all children, but now with massive responsibilities and it's crazy, would not recommend.
2023.05.30 01:03 Shady039 Use at an Early Age
After scrolling through this sub for some time, I realized that a lot of us on here started our use at a relatively young age. It makes me wonder if that has to do with out inability to have a healthy relationship with weed? I know people that use and don't have nearly the problems that I do, but the people I do know who still smoke weed in what I would consider a more controlled, healthier way (atleast healthier than what I was doing) seem to mostly be people who started closer to their twenties.
Anyways, I was just curious at what age you started, and if you think that contributed to the problems you have today.
Thanks in advance for your time!
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Anyways, I was just curious at what age you started, and if you think that contributed to the problems you have today.
Thanks in advance for your time!
2023.05.30 01:03 Solidu_Snaku Can I still get a graduate job with 2 years experience?
Hi, I have already completed a role as graduate software engineer had 6 months training and 1.5 years as a Junior DevOps engineer. Despite this I don't think I have gained many skills and still very beginner level. My salary is ATROCIOUS (I still get paid the same as graduate nearly 2 years on no increment despite 2 "promotions") and I feel like I got trapped by this graduate job.
Is it possible for me to restart from the beginning or any other advice for me? I still want to pursue DevOps but in interviews whenever they ask me what I've done for past 2 years I really haven't done much nor have extensive experience with tools and processes. I've mainly acted as a release manager of sorts and clicked the "deploy" button on Jenkins and ran feature tests and reported back to the devs.
I see that graduate roles in most companies offer better salary than what I currently get and I'll have a whole new set of training again maybe might get out of DevOps or stay in it not sure, just feel like my knowledge is not up to scratch in general.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks
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Is it possible for me to restart from the beginning or any other advice for me? I still want to pursue DevOps but in interviews whenever they ask me what I've done for past 2 years I really haven't done much nor have extensive experience with tools and processes. I've mainly acted as a release manager of sorts and clicked the "deploy" button on Jenkins and ran feature tests and reported back to the devs.
I see that graduate roles in most companies offer better salary than what I currently get and I'll have a whole new set of training again maybe might get out of DevOps or stay in it not sure, just feel like my knowledge is not up to scratch in general.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks
2023.05.30 01:02 Bright-Scholar1665 Any advice for being unsuccessful in an internal role, to a less qualified person?
Hey redditors, seeking some guidance as per my title. (Long post).
So backstory; I'm a nurse in Australia. I have worked at the same hospital for 7 years, and in the same area for nearly 5. Have done a postgraduate certificate of my area and completed that at the end of 2020.
Recently I applied for a more senior role in my area, kind of like a specialist. It comes with a title (oooh shiny) and a payrise (which isn't my main motivation at all). This is my 3rd time applying for this role. The role itself isn't one where there's only one vacancy each advertisement, and have confirmed with my manager budget is not a factor: when I had my rejection meeting yesterday, I brought this up and she confirmed this doesn't come into it, nor a maximum number of spots to be had. Depending on applications, if 20 strong candidates applied and she liked all of their interviews and project ideas, she'd hire 20, all applications internal. Straight from the horse's mouth.
One of the successful applicants this round (there's 2 every year) is far less qualified and it's eating me up inside. So im seeking advice on how to approach this.
For context: he was a graduate nurse in 2020, recently completed the same post graduate degree I have had for 2 years now, and thus has not has as much time or exposure to the more high acuity, skilled areas of work. He was a grad, when I was doing my postgrad.
I have had 4 more years nursing experience than him, 2 more years of consolidation of my degree, much more time in the acute areas I mentioned (which was a reason for a previous failed attempt at this role, I've had 3 applications. I was told they really prefer us to be working in X Y & Z acute areas for at least 12months to be a 'specialist' in this area). To top it off, in the actual job application guideline and advertisement, it states needs minimum 4 years post initial registration experience, 3 of those in the area you work in. So in my mind he's not even meeting eligibility criteria (or am I calculating this wrong?).
After my meeting with my manager yesterday I had some good feedback and a valuable discussion. I wanted to bring up my disappointment and disgruntled feelings, and almost these feelings of injustice. Like, how on earth is he MORE of a specialist, or expert in the area, than I? We have the same registration, same role, responsibilities, same post grad degree, same everything. With exception to my experience, time, consolidation etc. I didn't end up mentioning him and my feelings thereof, as I didn't want to compare us, and come across as a petty sore loser.
However the more I think about it, it just feels so very wrong and unfair. If another person had been successful, similar to my experience level, fine. I understand that. maybe they interviewed better on the day. But someone vastly less qualified and seemingly not having to adhere to eligibility criteria, or the rules that I was turned down previously for? It feels so yuck.
Im sitting here contemplating writing my manager an email expressing my concerns on this, but again don't want to come across petty or unprofessional, and more so potentially damage any future applications. I'm also feeling so upset about it my brain just tells me "quit. Thatll show em", which feels like an irrational, immature thought and decision to carry out.
So, after this very long post (sorry) I'm seeking your knowledge and advice on what to do? Should I express these concerns to my manager? Shut up, take it professionally and work on myself? Work towards the next round and ignore this?
Any insight, advice or kind words would be appreciated.
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So backstory; I'm a nurse in Australia. I have worked at the same hospital for 7 years, and in the same area for nearly 5. Have done a postgraduate certificate of my area and completed that at the end of 2020.
Recently I applied for a more senior role in my area, kind of like a specialist. It comes with a title (oooh shiny) and a payrise (which isn't my main motivation at all). This is my 3rd time applying for this role. The role itself isn't one where there's only one vacancy each advertisement, and have confirmed with my manager budget is not a factor: when I had my rejection meeting yesterday, I brought this up and she confirmed this doesn't come into it, nor a maximum number of spots to be had. Depending on applications, if 20 strong candidates applied and she liked all of their interviews and project ideas, she'd hire 20, all applications internal. Straight from the horse's mouth.
One of the successful applicants this round (there's 2 every year) is far less qualified and it's eating me up inside. So im seeking advice on how to approach this.
For context: he was a graduate nurse in 2020, recently completed the same post graduate degree I have had for 2 years now, and thus has not has as much time or exposure to the more high acuity, skilled areas of work. He was a grad, when I was doing my postgrad.
I have had 4 more years nursing experience than him, 2 more years of consolidation of my degree, much more time in the acute areas I mentioned (which was a reason for a previous failed attempt at this role, I've had 3 applications. I was told they really prefer us to be working in X Y & Z acute areas for at least 12months to be a 'specialist' in this area). To top it off, in the actual job application guideline and advertisement, it states needs minimum 4 years post initial registration experience, 3 of those in the area you work in. So in my mind he's not even meeting eligibility criteria (or am I calculating this wrong?).
After my meeting with my manager yesterday I had some good feedback and a valuable discussion. I wanted to bring up my disappointment and disgruntled feelings, and almost these feelings of injustice. Like, how on earth is he MORE of a specialist, or expert in the area, than I? We have the same registration, same role, responsibilities, same post grad degree, same everything. With exception to my experience, time, consolidation etc. I didn't end up mentioning him and my feelings thereof, as I didn't want to compare us, and come across as a petty sore loser.
However the more I think about it, it just feels so very wrong and unfair. If another person had been successful, similar to my experience level, fine. I understand that. maybe they interviewed better on the day. But someone vastly less qualified and seemingly not having to adhere to eligibility criteria, or the rules that I was turned down previously for? It feels so yuck.
Im sitting here contemplating writing my manager an email expressing my concerns on this, but again don't want to come across petty or unprofessional, and more so potentially damage any future applications. I'm also feeling so upset about it my brain just tells me "quit. Thatll show em", which feels like an irrational, immature thought and decision to carry out.
So, after this very long post (sorry) I'm seeking your knowledge and advice on what to do? Should I express these concerns to my manager? Shut up, take it professionally and work on myself? Work towards the next round and ignore this?
Any insight, advice or kind words would be appreciated.
2023.05.30 01:02 ReallySkroober Worth signing up for two different events right away?
There are two 25m events at different ranges near me a month apart. One is 2 day the other 1 day. Think its worth signing up for both?
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2023.05.30 01:01 bigtallcurlyhair Please pray for me I am going through a rough time.
Sometimes I just feel like giving up. I seriously don’t know what hurts worse, my heart or my legs. I am doing this is a last resort because I am hungry and pretty much on the brink of homelessness. Please pray for me. I lost a loved one in early fall that I took care of and have been in between work from home jobs and now have no job and will have no home in two weeks. I lived off my fathers income because I took care of him. I am now down to nothing and live in a rural area and I have my rent internet and everything due. No speakable family and no transportation. I have tried churches and organizations to no avail. I also have no speakable family because they have disowned me. I’d appreciate anything if anyone could help, and even if you can help financially please send me prayers. I have thought about giving up but I don’t want to but it makes it dang near impossible not to. I am also ostercized for living in a small southern town and being lgbtq. Anyways I’m sorry to ask for this but I need money in the worst way I literally don’t know where my next bill or meal is going to come from? And if you say I’m faking I don’t care and won’t respond. Please help me even if it’s prayer. My cash app is $captainmidnight515
It feels better just to vent but thanks so much for reading this and I know it looks suspicious but I swear to you i am not lying. Thank you and sorry it is embarrassing to do this but I am desperate.
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It feels better just to vent but thanks so much for reading this and I know it looks suspicious but I swear to you i am not lying. Thank you and sorry it is embarrassing to do this but I am desperate.
2023.05.30 01:01 honeybee2601 Long term car park suggestions around Beach Road
Hi all, I will be buying my first car very soon. Unfortunately my apartment doesn’t have parking facilities. I live around Beach Road and I would like to get suggestions regarding good car parks near to me. Also, let me know how much the suggested car park costs weekly/monthly. TIA!
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2023.05.30 01:01 PS0312 Frustated because I know I'm not playing my best in a new team (m24)
This year I decided to join a football club. (m23)
I have never played football competitively, and all my life i have only played 5side football / futsal , so basicly no cleats and no grass and no bouncy balls or high balls to receive. But I am aware that I am very decent playing football. Passing, dribbling, shooting, quick feet and very fast decision making.
Because of that I entered a football club. it is a really low division locally and I dont intend on becoming the next mega star but I would like to be a key player. I had 6 trainings since I joined. All of them were 9v9, 11v11 basicly only practice matches and I feel so frustated with some of the players in there but mainly myself.
We are currently playing togther with sub-23 so I feel like some guys in there still have some childish behaviour. Such as laughing at new players between them, or talk in our back because we did something bad, or the most obvious one not passing to me because they dont trust me. And what pisses me off even more is that there are players in there that don't play good at all or basicly as bad as me, but they don't make them feel bad or laugh at them because because they are friends and know each other.
And of course I am very frustated at myself, I struggle when receiving the ball i panic I don't have the confidence to try and dribble because I am afraid I can fail (I am aware that I should not drible as much in 11 side games but I am talking of simple body feints in safe spots)and be judged even though this is a training session... if i manage to receive the ball I try to get out of my feet as fast as posible because of habits from small pitch football and because I am scared of losing the ball. i got to the point that I would mark myself behind the opposite team so that i couldnt receive the ball and mess up.
Some friends of mine told me that bigger pitches mean more time to think/ make a decision but comparing to what I am playing in this sessions vs what I play with my friends/ small sided pitches i think the exact opposite i feel so much more comfortable in futsal. They told me that going straight to practice matches is hard and once I get some sessions on pssing, dribbling, shooting I'll get better but I don't know about that.
I have 2 training sessions per week, and every single session since I started i get there scared of making msitakes because I dont want to be judged behind my back.
Also, there is no chance on me getting the chance of saying " i came from futsal so please just give me some time to addapt you can judge me and tell me I did something wrong or advise me but please say it in my face so I can learn" because the fact that is a very very low division club they don't give a **** about that mental adaptation of a new team / new teammates.
Could you give me some tips? I know i am insecure as hell but Im not sure if I can overcome that. But I think that if my teammates made me feel comfortable I wouldnt be scared of making mistakes in a simple training session...
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I have never played football competitively, and all my life i have only played 5side football / futsal , so basicly no cleats and no grass and no bouncy balls or high balls to receive. But I am aware that I am very decent playing football. Passing, dribbling, shooting, quick feet and very fast decision making.
Because of that I entered a football club. it is a really low division locally and I dont intend on becoming the next mega star but I would like to be a key player. I had 6 trainings since I joined. All of them were 9v9, 11v11 basicly only practice matches and I feel so frustated with some of the players in there but mainly myself.
We are currently playing togther with sub-23 so I feel like some guys in there still have some childish behaviour. Such as laughing at new players between them, or talk in our back because we did something bad, or the most obvious one not passing to me because they dont trust me. And what pisses me off even more is that there are players in there that don't play good at all or basicly as bad as me, but they don't make them feel bad or laugh at them because because they are friends and know each other.
And of course I am very frustated at myself, I struggle when receiving the ball i panic I don't have the confidence to try and dribble because I am afraid I can fail (I am aware that I should not drible as much in 11 side games but I am talking of simple body feints in safe spots)and be judged even though this is a training session... if i manage to receive the ball I try to get out of my feet as fast as posible because of habits from small pitch football and because I am scared of losing the ball. i got to the point that I would mark myself behind the opposite team so that i couldnt receive the ball and mess up.
Some friends of mine told me that bigger pitches mean more time to think/ make a decision but comparing to what I am playing in this sessions vs what I play with my friends/ small sided pitches i think the exact opposite i feel so much more comfortable in futsal. They told me that going straight to practice matches is hard and once I get some sessions on pssing, dribbling, shooting I'll get better but I don't know about that.
I have 2 training sessions per week, and every single session since I started i get there scared of making msitakes because I dont want to be judged behind my back.
Also, there is no chance on me getting the chance of saying " i came from futsal so please just give me some time to addapt you can judge me and tell me I did something wrong or advise me but please say it in my face so I can learn" because the fact that is a very very low division club they don't give a **** about that mental adaptation of a new team / new teammates.
Could you give me some tips? I know i am insecure as hell but Im not sure if I can overcome that. But I think that if my teammates made me feel comfortable I wouldnt be scared of making mistakes in a simple training session...
2023.05.30 01:01 SilverBolt0 House Flipper Save File Fix?
Hello!
I'm in a bit of a pickle, and I'm hoping some people will be able to help out! I have a House Flipper save that is nearly 500 hours in, but now when I go to a new house, I get a Unity Crash!
I figured out the issue - My save file is to large, but now I am unsure how I can fix that, is anyone able to possibly help, or point me in a direction to start fixing my save? I've put to many hours in this save to lose it now!
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I'm in a bit of a pickle, and I'm hoping some people will be able to help out! I have a House Flipper save that is nearly 500 hours in, but now when I go to a new house, I get a Unity Crash!
I figured out the issue - My save file is to large, but now I am unsure how I can fix that, is anyone able to possibly help, or point me in a direction to start fixing my save? I've put to many hours in this save to lose it now!
2023.05.30 01:01 bigtallcurlyhair Please pray for me it is just a bad life
Sometimes I just feel like giving up. I seriously don’t know what hurts worse, my heart or my legs. I am doing this is a last resort because I am hungry and pretty much on the brink of homelessness. Please pray for me. I lost a loved one in early fall that I took care of and have been in between work from home jobs and now have no job and will have no home in two weeks. I lived off my fathers income because I took care of him. I am now down to nothing and live in a rural area and I have my rent internet and everything due. No speakable family and no transportation. I have tried churches and organizations to no avail. I also have no speakable family because they have disowned me. I’d appreciate anything if anyone could help, and even if you can help financially please send me prayers. I have thought about giving up but I don’t want to but it makes it dang near impossible not to. I am also ostercized for living in a small southern town and being lgbtq. Anyways I’m sorry to ask for this but I need money in the worst way I literally don’t know where my next bill or meal is going to come from? And if you say I’m faking I don’t care and won’t respond. Please help me even if it’s prayer. My cash app is $captainmidnight515
It feels better just to vent but thanks so much for reading this and I know it looks suspicious but I swear to you i am not lying. Thank you and sorry it is embarrassing to do this but I am desperate.
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It feels better just to vent but thanks so much for reading this and I know it looks suspicious but I swear to you i am not lying. Thank you and sorry it is embarrassing to do this but I am desperate.
2023.05.30 01:00 SalemsTrials Best dating advice for t4t?
Greetings, earthlings 🌍
I’m a lonely trans woman looking for love (lol) and I’m wondering if anyone has any recs for good t4t dating spaces/apps. I’m near the Nashville area and Grindr is a scary place.
I’m not opposed to dating a cis person (most of my partners have been) but I’ve found myself imagining being in a relationship with a trans boyfriend a lot recently 😳
I‘ve had crushes on enbies before, and I think I’d be able to connect with another trans girl pretty nicely too 🥰
So that’s why I’m looking for the best ways to find t4t/st4t relationships 🙈 if it’s relevant I’m not a top and definitely looking to be the submissive one in the relationship. lol please help me I’m clueless.
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I’m a lonely trans woman looking for love (lol) and I’m wondering if anyone has any recs for good t4t dating spaces/apps. I’m near the Nashville area and Grindr is a scary place.
I’m not opposed to dating a cis person (most of my partners have been) but I’ve found myself imagining being in a relationship with a trans boyfriend a lot recently 😳
I‘ve had crushes on enbies before, and I think I’d be able to connect with another trans girl pretty nicely too 🥰
So that’s why I’m looking for the best ways to find t4t/st4t relationships 🙈 if it’s relevant I’m not a top and definitely looking to be the submissive one in the relationship. lol please help me I’m clueless.
2023.05.30 01:00 TelephoneForsaken737 [Mobile, I can't remember if it was ios or Android][ I believe that was released at some point between 1994 to 2018] likely a platformer kind of game
Please help me find this old geometry dash-like game, childhood amnesia sucks. I've been trying for over a year now to remember this very old mobile game I once played that had to do with something about this white cube the player controlled that likely had eyes and maybe a beard that likely did parkour from left to right, and ate white cubes that made it bigger, the game shared some similarities to geometry dash but it is not geometry dash, I believe it was a pixelated 2D game and I believe it existed around the time near when the mobile games like Racing Penguin: Slide and Fly, angry birds, plants vs zombies, minecraft demo, doodle jump, cut the rope, and mouse maze came out. Sadly the only info I remember of the game would be from when I was younger and some of that info may be inaccurate. I think it may have been a platformer kinda game
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2023.05.30 00:59 _kinad Tell me a little about yourself...
I am trying to create an AI model to help people overcome challenges, issues and struggles in their life with some powerful tools I have been studying for 10+ years. These same tools and techniques helped me take charge of my life, saved my marriage, made me a better parent, and made an overall significant improvement in my finances, health, relationships, and career(became a software engineer). I'd like to make these available to everyone in the near future and I am hoping I can get some help with the development.
I am looking for volunteers, to share a little about themselves, one paragraph max. Please try to be honest since anything fictionalized will reduce the quality of the end result. In addition to sharing a little about yourself, please provide a quick, short statement about the biggest challenges you are facing in your life right now.
For those who are willing to help, once I have working Beta model, you'll be among the first to have access to it, if you so choose to.
Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help
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I am looking for volunteers, to share a little about themselves, one paragraph max. Please try to be honest since anything fictionalized will reduce the quality of the end result. In addition to sharing a little about yourself, please provide a quick, short statement about the biggest challenges you are facing in your life right now.
For those who are willing to help, once I have working Beta model, you'll be among the first to have access to it, if you so choose to.
Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help
2023.05.30 00:59 Avenger717 Who’s house? I like Sam more when he has some edge. Plus : Bonus TRUE M.O.D.O.K.
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2023.05.30 00:59 llortnite_fama23 My boss broke down in front of me
This is a freshly made throwaway so it can’t be traced back to me. I 21M for the past almost 4 years now, have worked my way up in a big retail chain from salesman to sales team manager. It was a very stressful time with my second promotion as I was brand new in my first promotion and my boss was brand new in his new role. We both were promoted up in position so I took his place and he took the store manager position. I took the position and fought for it for weeks because our old store manager told his boss we weren’t ready. But I took the challenge and for the last year have gave it my absolute all. We had a huge issue with staffing and hours issue due to the state of the economy last year. This was our challenge to figure out. And there was a lot of situations we had to face immediately following moving up. The first situation for me personally was the pay. I am payed more than I was, but for my position I do not make nearly enough to afford to invest into my future or save money. I decided that it was because I was brand new with no experience so I worked hard for months and months on end to get a very very minuscule increase in pay that was practically insulting. The next thing was one of the associates issues with attitude on the floor and timeliness on a daily basis. Giving customers attitude, showing up late EVERYDAY, and when I would try to have a conversation about these things which started with a kind and guiding approach to things, I would be met with complete silence and no eye contact. She walked away without a word. After months of this and a write up which I finally thought solved the problem she walked out on us in the middle of one of the busiest nights of the year so far. All throughout this time my boss, who we’ll call Daniel, was not very good at keeping his stress of his new position off of the floor. He would constantly lose his temper at our sales people or even customers. While some customers had it coming. Some didn’t. And the associates definitely did not deserve that from the head honcho of the store. Many of the sales people informed me that they tried to stay out of his way and were nervous around him when he got angry or stressed out because they feared that he would lash out at them for nothing. Me and the other manager in the building decided to have a talk about this with him. Daniel agreed that his attitude hasn’t been since the promotion because he fears he is doing it wrong. We assured him that no matter what we had his back seeing as we all came into our new positions at the same time and we’re a solid team when things were good. But when they were bad? Oh brother, one Saturday we had an issue with every associate on the floor. One of them practically yelled at the store manager for not doing his employee order fast enough when he was simply waiting on an email back from the person who submits orders. The next associate who has been there for two years now was avoiding talking to customers for no apparent reason so I gave a pep talk and got him moving like he usually does. One of our other associates (well call her Olivia) just like our previous problem associate that quit, had a timing issue. We brought it up and eventually wrote her up for it. Olivia is known for always bringing her home drama and stress into work which poisons the work atmosphere on the floor. We have had multiple talks about this and shown her so much support over the last 8 months and have seen no progress. So that meant the niceties are over, I was over her being late, fighting her attitude in the floor, and so much more. This was brought up to Daniel. Yet he just sighed and walked away. I went out to the floor and Daniel pulled me back to the office and told me he caught our newest associate on the floor on his phone. We closed the door and I offered solutions to the problems. However i think Daniel just wanted to vent. But got so heated that he started screaming with associates in earshot of this vent session. He threw his phone and punched his desk and cried and screamed with me there for a few minutes before kicking me out to get a minute to breathe before he apologized to one of my associates for yelling at them earlier. It’s been months since this incident, yet the mood in the store stays the same. Nothing has changed despite the talks, not with Daniel, nor anyone else. It’s a drag to come in everyday. I think of all the possible things I could be doing instead and contemplate leaving. However I wouldn’t be able to without a new job lined up and nothing in my area sounds very nice and I need a job that pays more. Just a little more at best. But I feel so stuck and lost at the moment on what to do..
Therapy appointment tomorrow but it couldn’t wait. I took a sick day off because I have a sore throat and it’s all crashing down on me. I feel lost..
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Therapy appointment tomorrow but it couldn’t wait. I took a sick day off because I have a sore throat and it’s all crashing down on me. I feel lost..
2023.05.30 00:59 TrickyWidget Yet another breed suggestion request :)
Introduction
1) Will this be your first dog? If not, what experience do you have owning/training dogs?
7) How long do you want to devote to training, playing with, or otherwise interacting with your dog each day?
10) What size dog are you looking for?
13) Do you want a snuggly dog or one that prefers some personal space?
18) How often and how long will the dog be left alone?
25) Please provide any additional information you feel may be relevant.
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1) Will this be your first dog? If not, what experience do you have owning/training dogs?
- Basically my first dog (I had one as a child, but wasn't responsible for it)
- I'd like the best odds of getting/avoiding some characteristics, so I lean towards a good breeder.
- I will work from home in the middle of a huge area of barely-populated scrubland. I need a dog with a low prey drive so it won't overly disturb the wildlife. I need a dog that can be outside and entertain itself while I'm working. I need a dog that will be happy to keep me company when I'm not.
- I'm open to options
- Coming to me, getting in the car, leaving something alone, walking near me
- No
7) How long do you want to devote to training, playing with, or otherwise interacting with your dog each day?
- 1-2 Hours
- 30-60 Minutes; Walks, fetch, open to low-key suggestions; No dog parks
- Weekly brushing; disinclined for further grooming or professionals
10) What size dog are you looking for?
- Medium
- No slobber, little barking, moderate shedding
- Essential. They'll be on 40 acres of nowhere, surrounded by thousands of acres of nowhere
13) Do you want a snuggly dog or one that prefers some personal space?
- Medium to low snuggly
- Do its own thing
- Light barking for strangers, tail wags for known visitors
- They would rarely be exposed to other dogs.
- They absolutely must have a low prey drive. The local wildlife needs to be generally left in peace.
18) How often and how long will the dog be left alone?
- I'll be home, but need it to leave me alone while I'm working; 8-10 hours a day most days
- It's just me
- None
- No
- No
- Middle-of-nowhere, Colorado, USA - No restrictions that I'm aware of
- Averages: July high 83F low 51F, January high 31F low 8F
25) Please provide any additional information you feel may be relevant.
- No additional information.
- No additional questions.
2023.05.30 00:59 StylishDragon76 The same issue with different gcodes for this print suddenly
 | I’ve done this particular print hundreds of times on this printer. Now, every print has at least one failing at the top. I’ve tried slicing it with different supports, different amount of parts, slower speeds… every single time, there’s 1 that messes up around the same area. Sometimes that will cause issues with the other parts, sometimes it’s just the one. submitted by StylishDragon76 to FixMyPrint [link] [comments] For the life of me, I can’t figure out the issue.
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