Now that I think about it— amateurs are people who don’t get paid for doing something. So I guess we’re all amateur daters…
Anywho. I found someone on this sub before, and though we had a great time, it ultimately didn’t work out but we remain as friends. So I’m back and hoping for another success. Hopefully an even greater one.
There’s a lot of things I can say about who I am or what I like. But I think the best way to do it is paint a picture; of what I’m looking for in life and how I’m building mine.
And that is by sharing what I’d do if I had F-U money. I’d become a traveling author writing a fictional epic as I wander through hotels in different countries. I’d run through my giant backlog of books, anime, restaurants, and games— and also become a massive donor to a bunch of aquariums because I think they’re absolutely beautiful places. And I’d also want to create some sort of social nonprofit that teaches people: both kids and young adults on things that I think society has forgotten or doesn’t know to teach: personal finance, understanding and being comfortable with emotions, finding meaning in life and being kind. Then there's family plans too, but all I'll say is that I'll be sneaking the kids out of school to show them theres more to life too much and become their teachers' least favorite parent.
I’d like us to start slowly, chat throughout the day and get to know each other. If we just stay as friends, that’s perfectly OK. If it does get romantic: I’m pretty free-form; I dont have an age range as long as we have similar values and compatible perspectives. You can be taller or shorter. You can be unemployed or studying or changing careers. My only condition is that health is something you prioritize, and ideally you exercise and care about your diet. And that you're a good person: kind, empathetic, and looking for the same.
As for me: I’m 28. Male. American-born Chinese. Speak Cantonese and Japanese (worked and studied there for a few years). 5’7 and have a lean-fit body type. Open to trading pics or video chatting if it gets there. I live in NYC but am open to out-of-state as long as you either travel here sometimes or do not mind eventually moving. If you’re interested; tell me about yourself— age, location, and what you’d do with FU money!

Spoilers ahead…
I’m surprised that the overwhelming majority of people here seem to think that Ray doesn’t meet his end.
My interpretation of the ending was that even though Ray had tried to put his past behind him to live a simpler life , he wasn’t able to.
Why:

• He picked those guys up from a bikie bar
• He’d killed a bikie boss
• The bikies tried to kill him prior to paying him. So he killed another 2 bikies.

So as revenge, he had a whole lotta bikies after him for killing fellow members. The young guys were the next generation that had stepped in to fill Ray’s void in the “industry”. I think this because of the guy in the back seat saying “a bit of this and a bit of that” which Ray previously said when responding to what he does for a living.
So my interpretation is that Ray had to dig himself a hole and took a bullet in the back of head.
Run is an ambiguous line, but my interpretation is for us viewers to not consider it as a way of life.

I am a female 19 year old college student. When I was in high school, I became friends with a girl whom we’ll call Joe(18). She and I became friends and bonded over our love for plants, music, books, tv, and art. To paint a picture of her, she grew up in a religious christian household, and left christianity sometime in early high school. She was on and off of different antidepressants and mood stabilizers throughout our friendship. She had the same therapist for many years and had a close relationship with her. She loves her animals and urges me and our other close friend, ( we’ll call her ember ) to let her dogs and cats lick our faces because that’s how they connect to people. She saves baby birds with broken wings, loves kids, and is generally just a positive and happy go lucky kind of chick.
I left for college in the fall of 2022, and she was still in high school, so we didn’t talk or hang out for almost a year. We also didn’t speak the summer leading up to the school year, because there had been a split down our friend group and joe, ember and I had gone our separate ways. She reconnected to me sometime in early 2023 asking to start hanging out and I told her no and made excuses because of the abrupt nature of our friendship ending the summer prior. I started working with her again at my summer job in my hometown a month ago and have since noticed many changes in her demeanor, verbiage, and overall personality, and I started smoking with her after work sometimes like we used to, including ember.
She talks way less, and frequently zones out or stays completely silent when anyone is talking to her. She often tells me she doesn’t understand what we’re talking about, or what’s “ going on “. She speaks in a kiddish manor, often reciting omens about forgiveness and peace. Almost scripture like. Like a kid in bible school. Anything that she liked before, books, art, tv, etc, she has no interest in now. The only tv she watches are kids cartoons, and says the reason why is that “ tv is meaningless so i just watch happy stuff “ which seems just like some hippie shit she would say so I didn’t think much of that. I noticed as we all hung out that when ember or I would talk about anything we liked, our hobbies or interests, she never had any of her own. She takes care of her plants, and reads and meditates. The thing is, she only reads one book. Over and over. It’s called, “ A Course in Miracles “.
As time has gone on she mentions this book more and more. In fact 9/10 times I hear her say ANYTHING it’s just a reference to the book or peace or forgiveness or how nothing matters and reality isn’t real. She claims that the only “ real “ thing is love, and anything else in this world or life other than that, is ego.
One day ember and I went to her house to smoke and when we get there we enter her room like usual, and to sit on the bed, I had to close this big blue book that was opened to the smack dab middle in the middle of her bed. I hand her the book to sit down, and I’m reading the title as I hand it over. She takes this action as interest, and starts explaining the book to me.
I hate to use this word, but she truly sounded completely delusional. She claimed she was just “ further along on her spiritual journey” than we were, and she had reached enlightenment by discovering that reality is an illusion, and sin doesn’t exist because nothing is real. She no longer believes in personal accountability, and recently has made plans with me 12 hours in advance and blown me off as I’m sitting there waiting in the parking lot for her to show up. I recently told her how upset this recurring action is, and she told me “ I’m not a planner. I’m a free spirit, I just go with the flow. What’s supposed to happen happens and what doesn’t, doesn’t. “
The issue with this of course being that she wasn’t that much of a free spirit to reach out and make the plan in the first place.
I started looking into this book and it turns out that the author regretted writing the book immensely, and said she “ hated that damn book “. She died of cancer, which according to the book, isn’t possible because enlightenment cures ALL sickness. The book has been openly criticized for it’s sketchy ties to christianity, the bureaucratic shit the author did to call this a self help book even though it’s more of a religious book, and also the insane contradictory statements it makes. The author of the book claimed that Jesus spoke to her and told her to rewrite the Bible, because it was wrong. Hence, this book. I’ve also read that this book preys on young minds that were indoctrinated by christianity and escaped it. Some call it new age woo.
The more I see the worse it gets. The author says she regrets writing it in the first place. This book sends people into a state of dissociative psychosis. I remember Joe saying to me, “ Before I found this book, I wanted to kill myself. “ I am afraid that she’s already too deep in and has no grip on reality at all, not that she believes in it anyway. And the loss of it might send her off the deep end.
I have lots of shit on my plate, so does everyone, but this is a really large topic, and I definitely don’t have any energy to entertain this further. She feels hollow. She has no passion for anything, except her belief in nothing. As her friend, and just as a human that is concerned, I feel some sort of obligation to do something about this. I also feel the urge to just not speak to her anymore and call it done. Her actions are very selfish and it is hard to empathize with her when I know that she didn’t do any research. It’s hard to even take it seriously in a way.
She didn’t do as much as a Google search before devoting her life to this book. She lives by its scriptures and uses them to do whatever she wants, whenever she feels like it.
Would stepping in at this point even help? Would she dismiss me as not real if I even had concerns about it or brought it up?
I am wondering if my friend is still in there somewhere. She’s just graduated high school and is still very young, but has always been a little naïve and uninformed. Do I jump off a sinking ship? Or is that selfish and I need to help her? I just had to get this out of my system because I cannot stop worrying about the consequences this is going to have.

Welcome to PG For Ladies in Sarjapur! Are you searching for a comfortable and safe place to stay in Sarjapur? Look no further! Our PG at Sarjapur offers cozy rooms and a serene environment. Experience hassle-free living with our 24/7 security and well-maintained facilities. Book your spot now and enjoy the best of Sarjapur living! Visit our website for more details.

Running a contest to grow this group.
Which ever user does the most shares you will win the following:
​

1. Best print on demand course - SEOBetter - Value $49
2. Woocommerce droppshipping course (amazon & ebay included) - SEOBetter - Value $149
3. SEOBetter shop buy followers, subs or views on any social channel. - $30 coupon
4. $20 in $ATOM
5. 1 free SEO audit PDF of your website
6. 1 Hour consulting on your side hustle to show you what you need to improve on to grow your passive income

----
Share thesidehustle in these subreddits.
What I suggest: Look for the most upvoted comment on a post and reply with "Get help with this on thesidehustle".
Or something similar.
​

• Marketing
• AskMarketing
• SocialMedia
• CopyWriting
• Advertising
• WebMarketing
• EmailMarketing
• Sales
• Plugyourproduct
• coupons
• growmybusiness
• GrowthHacking
• alphaandbetausers
• growmybusiness
• indiebiz
• startup
• Roastmystartup
• sweatystartup
• SmallBusiness
• Entrepreneur
• startup
• advancedentrepreneur
• roastmystartup
• sweatystartup
• SmallBusiness
• advancedentrepreneur
• startups_promotion
• EntrepreneurRideAlong
• MadeThis
• VentureCapital
• VenturedCapital
• Crowdfunding
• Kickstarter
• HWStartups
• LadyBusiness
• hwstartups
• streetwearstartup
• startup_resources
• startup
• Businessideas
• Business_Ideas
• EntrepreneurRideAlong
• AccountingDepartment
• Restaurateur
• Retail
• ladybusiness
• RantsFromRetail
• eCommerce
• GrowthHacking
• NoCodeSaaS

​
If you want to enter just get started, then send a DM at the end of the month, i will check your profile who has put in the most work, then you get the free money and courses.

My husband is currently a second year general surgery resident on a regional rotation and we have our own place in our home city but we have been living separately off and on as I work in our home city and he works four hours away. I try to visit him every few weeks and stay a week or two with him if I can as he rarely wants to drive to see me, even though his family & friends are in our home town also. This rotation is seemingly more ‘chill’ as he starts at 6:30-7am and often finishes before 5pm so he has more free time. However I’ve noticed that he has no interest in going out, seeing friends/family etc and watches YouTube/tv for hours on end every single weekend and during weekdays too. He doesn’t go to the gym because he says he is too tired, pre-marriage he would go multiple times every week then he moved away from work and just stopped. He has stopped getting routine haircuts & watching his diet, he mostly eats junk food and has gained around 30kgs in the 1.5 years that we have been married. He has also become increasingly impatient & critical of everyone & everything, for example we will be driving and he will get extremely annoyed if someone does not let him merge or if a pedestrian is taking too long to cross a path. He also appears to be tired all the time except when he is watching YouTube and has no interest in sex, he has stopped initiating, he will only be interested once a month & only if I initiate. I sense an overall decrease in interest in me and other aspects of life. He has mentioned that he needs a holiday just yesterday. I was wondering if this is relatively normal during residency or should I be concerned?

So we're clearing out the basement, and part of that is selling a bunch of wargaming stuff I had lying around. For sale is the following:
GW Minis:
Indomitus Necron Half NOS - $140
Indomitus SM Half NOS - $140
Dark Imperium DG, Built - $100
*A few bits fell off but are included
​
GW Terrain:
Sector Imperialis Basilicanum NOS - $130 (Willing to negotiate)
Large Magnetized Terrain Set - $250 (Willing to negotiate)
*This set is made up of what I believe is a basilicanum set, administratum set, and 3 ruins sets. Various spots have been magnetized for easier breakdown and storage. Some magnets have fallen off, but can be easily reglued or replaced. I do have the various bits for lights and column stubs bagged up, just not in the pictures.
Ryza Pattern Ruins Half NOS - $20
​
3rd Party/ Proxy
Raging Heroes, various Iron Empire - $150 (Willing to negotiate)
*This is a set of minis I've collected years and years ago. Has troops and various characters. Some bits are separated or misplaced. If purchased, I'll take another look and find every missing bit I can to include.
Mad Robot Miniatures, Galahad Battle Tanks - $50/ea (Willing to negotiate)
*Have a relatively recent post with these showing a complete breakdown of the parts. Missing a few bits. 3 of the kits are magnetized, 2 are completely unassembled.
​
Secret Weapon Miniatures, Tablescape Tiles x24 - $250
*This is a BIG one. Unfortunately SW Miniatures is no longer around, and this product was discontinued even before that, but info can still be found online. Essentially huge 1'x1' injected plastic table tiles somewhat like the ones GW used to do. A normal set was 16 tiles, but I grabbed an 8 tile expansion for a full 4x6' table. They're painted from when me and a friend first started getting into airbrushing and had some weathering pigment applied. Must be stated again, this is a big set of tiles and weighs a considerable amount as far as plastic wargaming is concerned.
​
*Timestamps/ Pictures*
https://imgur.com/a/cgKrWjn
​
Prices are without shipping due to the various sizes of the items here and depending if anyone decides to buy multiple items. I'm leaning towards splitting the shipping cost, but I honestly have no clue what some of this stuff would cost (especially that tablescape box). Willing to do local sales around 48146, or Ann Arbor, MI.
​
Please feel free to ask any questions/ make offers or if clearer pictures of an item are needed. I just really want this stuff to go to people willing to actually use it, instead of me wasting some great quality plastic.
​
Thanks for taking a look!

Hello, everybody. I (male, 25) am in a bit of a pickle. A few days something happened that now makes me feel infinitely guilty and afraid. But here's a full story for you: I met my gf(female 21 now) 4 years ago, at a university. We live in Europe, and had to study the language together. In a few months after meeting each other we started dating. And it wasn't a smooth sailing. Both of us didn't have any real dating experience and didn't know what we needed from relationships. Same goes for sexual experience - i had some, but very little, she had none. But through talking and overcoming difficulties, we made it work. For three years the relationships were basically perfect - lots of love, we created our personal little world, and needed no one but each other. She became the only person I wanted to talk to, the only person i wanted to see. But we moved in together around 8 months ago, and she had to find a job... which basically meant she had 40 hour job and around 30 hours of uni every week. And her and mine works are from home, so we spent a lot of time seeng each other. THis started to slowly make our sex life less and less active, since it got harder and harder to find time for it, since the pressure from uni and work on her side made her really tired and emotionally fatique. My job also took a lot of time and thoughts. So we kinda became super boring, but still enjoyed our time together. And in those rare weekends when we were free, we rarely thought about having intercourse. Which is a part of the problem. But in the same time over the past half a year I had to travel a lot for work and other things, which made things worse. When we're not close, I start seeing issues that I didn't see before. When something interesting is happening in my life, and hers is just work and uni, I felt lke im dating a boring person. Or I started seeing issues with her character. Nn-critical issues, the ones that you can live with, but it still made me somewhat disappointed. And the lack of intimacy made me more and more sad whether I chose the right woman from a visual and sexual standpoint. But again, we managed to live and have some happy times. But the worst things started to happen when I needed to travel to Taiwan for a month. And here my brain just started to fuck things up. I started feeling obsessed with ideas like: "we didn't have time to explore the world, to see ourselves and learn what we like and want, both sexually and from people and life." And this thought started to bake into my brain, to the point that I decided to start talking to a psychologist as soon as I have a chance. And on one day a woman texted me on couchsurfing, suggesting to show me the city. She's a beautiful and confident 40-year-old taiwanese. And we instantly got the chemistry, at least sexually. On the second time I met her I told her about my gf, and explicitly stated that nothing could happen, only sightseeing. But it seems like for her it became a challenge. She started testing my boundaries and how far can she go. To be fair - i didn't know my boundaries either, I thhought I'll feel when its rong. But nothing crazy happened. Until the weekend trip. The woman offered to go on a motorcycle trip. I asked my gf on what to do, and she said that motorcycle trip in taipei is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,a dn that I should go but make sure the woman doesn't do anything. And in that trip... The woman started to slowly seduce me. I rejected her as much as I could, saying no to everything, but she kept pushing, and pushing, and pressing me with words like: "i just want you to have good memories of your trip." So on the second morning of the trip she started seducing me more, rubbing herself on me. And to me the feeling of being desired by someone but my gf was so surreal , that I didn't know how to react. I just kinda let her do what she thought, but I didn't do anything myself. Before that it was only her hugging me and kissing my ear. I wasn't really enjoying what he did, but somehow couldn't find any strength to stop it. I knew that I was sexually attracted to that woman, but no romantic emotions were involved. So she asked me to masturbate together. I refused. Then she asked whether i could do it in a room nextdoor. I don't know why, but I agreed. I wasn't thinking straight, the hormones and desire were controlling me. So I kinda moaned a little, finished in a shower by myself, and went along with the day. Didn't feel shitty then, since all I did was what I usually did many times before. The only difference was that instead of porn I had someone moaning nextdoor. After that we still met a couple times, but the meetups didn';t involve anything sexual. She just hugged me, I petted her hair, and that's all. Basically did the things I missed doing with my gf. But a few days ago when it was the last time we met... It was supposed to be a farewell meeting - I'd say my goodbyes and go. But she offered to show me a hotel with jacuzzi. For four days I was avoiding agreeing. But then I thought - I wasn't bad at keeping boundaries before, I can do it now... Long story short, she startted seducing me again, eventually rubbing herself on my, which resulted in me nutting. We were in clothes, but she repeatedly placed my hands on her tits and ass... I know I behaved as an animal and wasn't thinking straight, but I kinda felt powerless to stop somethjing.. I felt really powerless... No sex happened, no penetration. I just touched boobs and ass a couple times, she rubbed herself on me, and I finished. Just couldn't resist it for some reason. Then I felt really dirty and left. I first called by best friend to tell him, ask for advice. Then I called my gf to tell her about what happened. I just can't keep secrets from her, especially like this. And now I feel like I betrayed her. I didn't want that, I wasn't going to those meetups for sex or anything like that. I was just fascinated with the fact that someone desires me without knowing me as a person, without building relationships first. I feel used, abused in a way, and so broken. I feel like I broke the trust we used to have, and that I won't be able to look in her eyes. That she won't see me as the man she fell in love with, that the guilt and weight of what I allowed to happen will haunt me till the end of my days. That eventually we're gonna brealk up because of it, and I'd end up absolutely lonely, scarred and afraid to meet someone else. I just want to rewind time and never agree to meet that woman... To never see her, to erase all memories of her and what happened. I want to continue the relationships with my gf, because I know that it is almost impossible to meet a person like she. She feels betrayed now, and I feel like I betrayed her. My parents and psychologist say that I might overthink, and that some flirt is a part of life. That I still did the right thing that I didn't fall completely into thhe trap laid by that woman. That it's just a misstep, an honest mistake of an inexperienced person, who I am. But I just can't shake the feeling that I failed and that my life is broken now. I don't know what to do, don't know whether my gf will understand and forgive me, and whether we'll be able to restore our relationships. Because I don't want to be with anyone but her... But now I blew all my chances... It hurts like hell... How can we save our relationship???

I have been thinking on some things recently, and revisiting a disagreement I have had with Destiny in the past. This disagreement, best exemplified in this thread from years ago, was about whether or not someone could face repercussions at their job/school for being an extreme racist/Nazi, even if those activities did not technically involve their academic or occupational life.
I want to be clear in my change on opinion that it is not on the moral/principle of the disagreement. I still believe that in principle, it is good for society to assign a social cost to having such a harmful view (especially as it will lead to harmful actions). However, even at the time, I was concerned of if this was something that would ever work practically, or if it would only ever remain in the realm of theory and principle.
I've moved now past that to considering that idea in and of itself to be negative. There are a multitude of reasons, a bunch of which were known to me at the time, and were pretty much the anti-"cancel culture" reasons always given: these have just become more of an issue as time has gone on. I'm not going to go into all of them, but the concept of the mob mentality, the witch hunt, the desire to find a victim, the question of who decides what is bad enough, etc. They're not shocking, and are ones that Destiny and people before him have brought up.
These were, as I said, ones I'd considered at the time. They seemed to me to be pretty much level one arguments in this kind of discussion. Were these bad things? Of course, and they were the reason that I thought applying this concept in a practical way would be extremely difficult even then.
But there have been a few things I've realized and seen since then that have changed my mind and pushed me away from it even more, with the third and final being the straw that broke the camel's back.
#1: Harm Done, Harm Perceived, and Harm Intended
This was a consideration that mainly came to me from having a somewhat unique group of friends, due to being in substance abuse recovery. Because of this, a lot of my friends are also in recovery. Because they used to be, well, drug addicts, some of them has done some pretty bad things. Doing a home invasion, robbing someone at gunpoint, selling someone potentially lethal drugs, etc.
I found it very interesting, especially in the relatively younger circles of recovery, that as bad as these things are, someone would rather admit to, for example, a home invasion than being a white guy who *used* to say the N-word. Not everyone would castigate like this, of course, but there were enough to create an atmosphere that made it clear which would be worse to admit.
This made no sense to me. It is extremely clear which action is worse. It was extremely clear that even for the people who would have admonished, they knew which would do more harm (if they were asked if they'd rather hear someone use the N word casually or have their house robbed, we know which one they were picking). So then, why the difference in judgment?
The conclusion I came to is that racism- and indeed all kinds of bigotry- has a unique element to it in which a single action (and a single person) serves as a stand in for a lifetime of hurt felt. There's a great scene from Louie that does an excellent job of laying this out, basically talking about that when you see an action or even hear a slur, it evokes this intensely negative lived experience. This- what I refer to as the harm perceived- is all that ends up mattering, because it transforms you from a person into a mere symbol for pain and suffering that can't be dealt with through other ways. It is also why the harm intended doesn't matter, because with that action they're no longer seeing you as an individual.
And this is even in a friend group, where they do know you. In this, you might be shown some leniency and understanding, especially if it was the past, especially if you have other friends and people vouching for you and reminding the hurt person of the individual and the person there. But what about on the anonymity of the internet? What about when hundreds, thousands, millions of people are in agreement about this person being awful and horrible?
#2. Amplification of Power is Not Inherently A Good Thing
A major issue that arises in an area of discrimination and oppression is, of course, a power imbalance. The person harmed is often unable to seek redress because of this, and even to fully speak out for fear of further retribution and being further hurt by individuals in more powerful positions.
The internet, and "cancel culture", offered a way to somewhat balance the scales, to give power to these people. We saw this with something like the early days of #MeToo. Women who were being seriously taken advantage of and horribly abused, that weren't getting adequate redress in other areas of their life, were able to come together and share their stories and use the public outcry to fight back against these abuses. They also empowered and inspired other women to do the same.
But as things went on, we began to see the trouble with amplification of power. When you know that you can get a public outcry, outrage, and massive support directed towards you by doing something like this, it becomes very tempting to do just that. And as it became more and more common place to do exactly that, what warranted it became less and less.
So take the above, and now imagine you can film it, clip it, put it online. If you already feel hurt- if you're already looking at this person as just a piece of shit who represents the worst things that have happened to you in your life- then who cares about him? He deserves it right, you're just calling it out.
But once it starts, why does it keep spreading? Why doesn't anyone speak on it?
#3. The Bystander Effect, White Guilt, and Diffusion of Responsibility
In 1964, Kitty Genovese was murdered, and the New York Times made the murder infamous with the (erroneous claim) that despite the murder having 38 witnesses, none of them contacted the police or came to her aid. Because of this story, her murder has become a gruesome anecdote and the inspiration for research into why bystanders sit around and do nothing, even in the face of great injustice.
This is a question that dovetails nicely into what we're talking about above. Our natural feeling- that to do nothing to help, to be neutral, is almost as bad as doing the act yourself- is echoed in countless sentiments related to racism and prejudice. There is the famous "First they came..." poem that is engraved at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, there is Desmond Tutu's powerful "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.", and there is Martin Luther King's oft-quoted (and often, especially if you're a dipshit fucking brain dead leftist, mis-used) "Letter From Birmingham Jail" (aka the white moderate since that's all people read).
This is a good point. We should of course stand up in cases of injustice, we should speak out, and we should work against oppression, even if it does not directly harm or target us. The problem is when this combines with white guilt to result in some very stupid and some very counter productive actions.
When I say white guilt, I don't mean the general meaning, of like a guilt or shame because of white people's history of racism. I mean this idea that you're not doing enough as a white person to combat racism, and guilt that you should be doing your part to be "an ally". It results in you being so desperate to get this feeling and to do something that makes you feel you've done something that you'll do it through retweets, or Reddit upvotes, or Tik Tok comments, or putting your black square up so people know you're sad George Floyd died. And if you initially didn't want to, you're going to feel both internal and external pressure to do so, because if you don't make sure people know you're condemning racism, how do they know you're not the racist?
These are small actions, but that is a double edged sword. The fact that they are small actions allows for what is an actual negative discovered through research into the bystander effect, which is diffusion of responsibility. You are providing one little cut into the person whose life is being ruined, and you're doing it in a way that's disconnected and removed from actually seeing the consequences. And even worse, you're doing it while thinking you're acting in the service of something good.
#4: Internet Journalism Fucking Blows, and People Don't Know How To Read, and Writers Don't Even Know How To Write
This was the straw that absolutely broke my back. I think the situation described above is bad enough. But what is to happen when the "journalism" and actual reporting of the facts just continues to erode and get even worse, where even what actually happened and is known is completely lost?
There are some obvious examples of how this happens, like the recent "Bike Karen" incident. For one thing, increasingly the way stories are "broken" is through online social media platforms, being reported on by people who aren't journalists. There is no accountability to these people, there is no background, and there is ultimately really no skin in the game for the people who are resharing and giving opinions on it if they completely fuck it up.
This especially sucks because now, we've gotten so used to the cycle described above that we actively look for it. We didn't even wait on this video, we saw it and thought "racist white woman, TARGET ACQUIRED", and ran with it because it seemed to fit exactly what we wanted. It allows people to tear down and attack someone, potentially completely ruin their life, all for the purpose of making them feel like they made some grand societal change.
But what about real media, and real journalists? What if these are the ones who are covering and talking about these things?
Well, that gets to what started the inspiration for all of this. Was looking into what happened to No Jumper, and discovered this Rolling Stones article about Adam and his link to "white supremacy". A lot of it I don't disagree with: people like Richard Spencer and Nick Fuentes are undeniably white supremacists.
But then, I got to this section: "On the same episode, Fuentes claimed 'Black people are committing the majority of the violent crime.' An FBI report, cited by Media Matters, debunks this, saying there was “no statistically significant differences by race between offenders” regarding arrests for violent crimes."
I have looked at this FBI report before (the joy of arguing with racists online). The FBI report begins by stating: " In 2018, based on data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, black people were overrepresented among persons arrested for nonfatal violent crimes (33%) and for serious nonfatal violent crimes (36%) relative to their representation in the U.S. population (13%)." Interesting... seems to not at all say what the article (and Media Matters) is suggesting it says.
So I searched out the specific sentence cited, which reads (in full context): " Among the most serious incidents of violent crime (rape or sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault), there were no statistically significant differences by race between offenders identified in the NCVS and persons arrested per the UCR. White and black people were arrested proportionate to their involvement in serious nonfatal violent crime overall and proportionate to their involvement in serious nonfatal violent crime reported to police."
In other words, the section they cited was talking about whether or not the arrest rate was proportionate to the rate of offending. It had nothing to do with which race was committing the most crime, and does not at all make the claim the article is arguing it does.
But worst of all: the Rolling Stones article ends with a note that: "Update: This story was updated on March 30th at 11:41 p.m. EST to clarify the language from the FBI report debunking one of Fuentes’ claims."
...It's been updated. The language I showed you is the update. They were informed of a problem, and even after this, they kept a blatant lie in their article. And yes, it's Rolling Stone, I understand it's not the bastion of journalist integrity, but if you search "Adam No Jumper" on Google, the number one result- after his YouTube, Instagram, and website- is a Rolling Stone article that links back to this one.
Now I might be being pedantic. But this blatant of a lie, especially when there was an update for a correction, was extremely worrisome to me. I don't know if it's even a lie or just outright incompetence, or indeed which one is scarier. I do know that in a world where people can't even wait a day for more context on a video, people can't even read past the headlines most time, there's no way that they're going to click on this FBI report, find the sentence, and realize they've been lied to.
And when this lie just helps to feed an engine that's already going to take every fact in the worst possible light, it only makes things worse. And for everyone who's in the middle, who can see something like this and have it pointed out to them, it just makes this stuff look even worse. It is lies and Internet terrorism masquerading as social change and progress, and it is a monster that the left needs to deal with.
Conclusion/TL;DR:
Thanks for everybody who read this, sorry if it just came out too much like a rant. It's something I've been thinking on a lot recently, and I figure that for all the times I call out Destiny when I think he's saying something dumb, I should probably acknowledge it when stuff is bringing me closer to his position.
For a TL;DR, it's basically just that four factors of

1. People being seen as faceless symbols for racism/transphobia/bigotry
2. Any online minority having the ability to start canceling and dealing with that temptation
3. A bunch of wannabe-allies hopping onto a "cause" with no regard for who it's hurting
4. Incompetent/dishonest reporting, both from amateurs and professionals

have led to something that could have in theory be good turning into one of the worst things to happen to online progressive politics.

So I (24F) and my husband (24M) just had a baby a few months ago. We live across the country so we don’t see family much. Most of the time, we come to them because my family can’t afford to come out here and his family, its hard to find time in their work schedules. Well, we planned a trip for an upcoming holiday and already booked the Airbnb for the entire family. It took some digging to find one available and it was pretty expensive, but we divided the costs for each person.
Well a few weeks ago, MIL came to visit. She was making very passive comments about my parenting skills and she bought formula for our son knowing that he’s only breastfed. Everything we give to him (breastmilk, pacifiers, bottles, diapers, soaps, lotions, etc.) works well and he’s had 0 issues but she spent her own time and money shopping for a whole new set it items. Literally trying to replace everything we have for him. I told her to return the things because we won’t use them but she said “just in case! Trust me!” Mind you he’s 7mo. Not a newborn. So we obviously know what works now.
2 days after she left, she sent us a text offering to babysit the baby for a week every couple months so we could have a break and he could bond. She would even pay for his missed daycare and plane tickets. I said absolutely not. He’s never spent more than 4 hours away from me. He still spends half the day nursing on breast. Am I supposed to send a week’s worth of breastmilk across the country? Nope. Formula obviously.
After that conversation, I decided that I was going to take the baby and myself to go visit my parents instead. My husband wants to spend time with his family that he never sees so that’s understandable. He thinks I’m in the right, as do my parents, but MIL has been talking about how backstabbing and awful I am to DH’s siblings and SIL. I don’t talk to them really so I don’t know what they think tbh.
I didn’t ask for a refund on my portion of the Airbnb to not cause drama and am trying to work it where they will see baby at least a full day of their trip, I don’t want to punish the masses but I really cannot be around MIL without my anxiety shooting through the roof. I will have to sit in another room otherwise dread, panic, and anger will fill my body. I feel terrible about my decision because I know DH’s grandparents and siblings are coming, but MIL will definitely hoard the baby and undermine me in front of everyone. If she does it in my own house, who’s to say she wouldn’t be worse when I’m in an unknown territory?

Hey, I am Frankly, from the Frankly I Don't Give a Fork community, I am looking to hire a video editor. We have a bunch of long-format VODs that we'd like to transform into engaging shorter videos. My channel concentrates on the TTRPG Community, Video Games & Demos, and Just Chatting vibe videos. We primarily post on Twitch, we have a YouTube channel and I am not experienced and have been trying to learn Davinch Editing, but I have such a back pile of VODs that I am feeling very overwhelmed. I don't like the idea of uploading 3-hour, unedited VODs, and have been reluctant to do so.
I am a member of the LGBTQIA+ Community, I am Autistic / ADD, as are many of our followers.
Socials: Here is our website and other socials, if you'd like to learn a bit more about Frankly I Don't Give a Fork.

• https://franklyidontgiveafork.com/
• https://www.twitch.tv/franklyidontgiveafork
• https://www.youtube.com/@FranklyFork

Responsibilities:

• Edit long-format (2 - 3 hour long videos) TTRPG VODs into shorter videos.
• Edit long format (1 - 2 hour long videos) Game VODs into shorter, attention-grabbing videos.
• Ensure smooth transitions, audio enhancements, and visual effects.
  • Letting me know if I, or a team member, need to make a voiceover when needed due to inadequate audio.
• Incorporate any necessary graphics or animations.
  • I can provide our intros, outros, adverts, etc. that we have used in the past.
• Optimize videos for different platforms, ensuring compatibility and quality.
• Collaborate with me to understand the vision and goals for each video via email.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a video editor, with a portfolio demonstrating your skills.
• Proficient in using video editing software (e.g., Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Davinchi, etc.).
• Understanding of storytelling, pacing, and visual aesthetics.
• Communication via email to make sure we are on the same page, and deadlines are being met.
• Familiarity with gaming, TTRPGs, and entertainment content is a plus.

What I need:

1. A brief introduction about yourself and your experience as a video editor.
2. Your rates for editing long format VODs into shorter videos (per hour or per project).
3. How do you prefer to be paid, and what platform do you prefer?
4. An estimated project turnaround time for editing a typical video.
5. A link to your portfolio or previous work samples showcasing your editing skills.
6. Are you over the age of 18?
7. Your name and pronouns.
8. Any additional information you think would be relevant.

Important Details:

• We are looking for someone who can commit to a long-term collaboration, as we have an ongoing need for video editing services.
• The workload may vary depending on our content creation schedule, but we will provide clear expectations and deadlines for each project. I am definitely able to adapt to your schedule if needed.
• Compensation will be discussed individually based on your rates, experience, and the complexity of the videos.
• No exclusivity agreement: Hiring you does not create an exclusive relationship between us. FranklyIDontGiveAFork is free to engage others to perform services of similar nature, and you are entitled to offer and provide services to others.

Please email me [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) if you're at all interested.

I am a female 19 year old college student. When I was in high school, I became friends with a girl whom we’ll call Joe(18). She and I became friends and bonded over our love for plants, music, books, tv, and art. To paint a picture of her, she grew up in a religious christian household, and left christianity sometime in early high school. She was on and off of different antidepressants and mood stabilizers throughout our friendship. She had the same therapist for many years and had a close relationship with her. She loves her animals and urges me and our other close friend, ( we’ll call her ember ) to let her dogs and cats lick our faces because that’s how they connect to people. She saves baby birds with broken wings, loves kids, and is generally just a positive and happy go lucky kind of chick.
I left for college in the fall of 2022, and she was still in high school, so we didn’t talk or hang out for almost a year. We also didn’t speak the summer leading up to the school year, because there had been a split down our friend group and joe, ember and I had gone our separate ways. She reconnected to me sometime in early 2023 asking to start hanging out and I told her no and made excuses because of the abrupt nature of our friendship ending the summer prior. I started working with her again at my summer job in my hometown a month ago and have since noticed many changes in her demeanor, verbiage, and overall personality, and I started smoking with her after work sometimes like we used to, including ember.
She talks way less, and frequently zones out or stays completely silent when anyone is talking to her. She often tells me she doesn’t understand what we’re talking about, or what’s “ going on “. She speaks in a kiddish manor, often reciting omens about forgiveness and peace. Almost scripture like. Like a kid in bible school. Anything that she liked before, books, art, tv, etc, she has no interest in now. The only tv she watches are kids cartoons, and says the reason why is that “ tv is meaningless so i just watch happy stuff “ which seems just like some hippie shit she would say so I didn’t think much of that. I noticed as we all hung out that when ember or I would talk about anything we liked, our hobbies or interests, she never had any of her own. She takes care of her plants, and reads and meditates. The thing is, she only reads one book. Over and over. It’s called, “ A Course in Miracles “.
As time has gone on she mentions this book more and more. In fact 9/10 times I hear her say ANYTHING it’s just a reference to the book or peace or forgiveness or how nothing matters and reality isn’t real. She claims that the only “ real “ thing is love, and anything else in this world or life other than that, is ego.
One day ember and I went to her house to smoke and when we get there we enter her room like usual, and to sit on the bed, I had to close this big blue book that was opened to the smack dab middle in the middle of her bed. I hand her the book to sit down, and I’m reading the title as I hand it over. She takes this action as interest, and starts explaining the book to me.
I hate to use this word, but she truly sounded completely delusional. She claimed she was just “ further along on her spiritual journey” than we were, and she had reached enlightenment by discovering that reality is an illusion, and sin doesn’t exist because nothing is real. She no longer believes in personal accountability, and recently has made plans with me 12 hours in advance and blown me off as I’m sitting there waiting in the parking lot for her to show up. I recently told her how upset this recurring action is, and she told me “ I’m not a planner. I’m a free spirit, I just go with the flow. What’s supposed to happen happens and what doesn’t, doesn’t. “
The issue with this of course being that she wasn’t that much of a free spirit to reach out and make the plan in the first place.
I started looking into this book and it turns out that the author regretted writing the book immensely, and said she “ hated that damn book “. She died of cancer, which according to the book, isn’t possible because enlightenment cures ALL sickness. The book has been openly criticized for it’s sketchy ties to christianity, the bureaucratic shit the author did to call this a self help book even though it’s more of a religious book, and also the insane contradictory statements it makes. The author of the book claimed that Jesus spoke to her and told her to rewrite the Bible, because it was wrong. Hence, this book. I’ve also read that this book preys on young minds that were indoctrinated by christianity and escaped it. Some call it new age woo.
The more I see the worse it gets. The author says she regrets writing it in the first place. This book sends people into a state of dissociative psychosis. I remember Joe saying to me, “ Before I found this book, I wanted to kill myself. “ I am afraid that she’s already too deep in and has no grip on reality at all, not that she believes in it anyway. And the loss of it might send her off the deep end.
I have lots of shit on my plate, so does everyone, but this is a really large topic, and I definitely don’t have any energy to entertain this further. She feels hollow. She has no passion for anything, except her belief in nothing. As her friend, and just as a human that is concerned, I feel some sort of obligation to do something about this. I also feel the urge to just not speak to her anymore and call it done. Her actions are very selfish and it is hard to empathize with her when I know that she didn’t do any research. It’s hard to even take it seriously in a way.
She didn’t do as much as a Google search before devoting her life to this book. She lives by its scriptures and uses them to do whatever she wants, whenever she feels like it.
Would stepping in at this point even help? Would she dismiss me as not real if I even had concerns about it or brought it up?
I am wondering if my friend is still in there somewhere. She’s just graduated high school and is still very young, but has always been a little naïve and uninformed. Do I jump off a sinking ship? Or is that selfish and I need to help her? I just had to get this out of my system because I cannot stop worrying about the consequences this is going to have.

Hello everyone, Have some items up for trade
All the buyouts for the selected items are just because of the rules.
I am open to discussing trades on Steam or Discord: Ab1r#1680 , feel free to add me there to discuss.
Some of the tradeable items are listed as follows:
TradeLink: https://steamcommunity.com/tradeoffenew/?partner=201510509&token=5HbDjuiH
-
Item Condition Float B/O
★ Stiletto Knife Damascus Steel MW 0.10 360$
★ Gut Knife Case Hardened MW 0.12 220$
★ Gut Knife Doppler Phase-2 FN 0.03 218$
★ Gut Knife Lore FT 0.27 210$
★ Paracord Knife Blue Steel MW 0.13 207$
★ Ursus Knife Blue Steel MW 0.13 206$
★ Gut Knife Doppler Phase-3 FN 195$
★ Moto Gloves Blood Pressure FT 0.37 187$
★ Nomad Knife Boreal Forest FT 0.19 186$
★ Stiletto Knife Boreal Forest BS 0.67 185$
★ Survival Knife Night Stripe MW 0.13 170$
★ ST Huntsman Knife Freehand FT 0.23 160$
★ Ursus Knife Night Stripe FT 0.34 157$
★ Falchion Knife Freehand BS 0.45 140$
★ Moto Gloves Cool Mint BS 0.75 136$
★ Falchion Knife Ultraviolet FT 0.21 130$
★ Bowie Knife Bright Water BS 0.47 127$
★ Ursus Knife Urban Masked BS 0.71 126$
★ Gut Knife Ultraviolet FT 0.16 111$
★ Gut Knife Scorched FT 0.23 96$
★ Moto Gloves Smoke Out BS 0.66 85$
★ Driver Gloves Rezan the Red WW 0.38 78$
★ Specialist Gloves Buckshot FT 0.34 76$
★ Hand Wraps Desert Shamagh BS 0.48 66$
★ Hand Wraps Duct Tape BS 0.65 65$
★ Hand Wraps Constrictor BS 0.45 64$
★ Hydra Gloves Emerald FT 0.30 63$
★ Hydra Gloves Mangrove FT 0.37 52$
AWP Wildfire FN 0.06 168$
M4A1-S Golden Coil MW 0.14 83$
UMP-45 Crime Scene FN 0.06 66$
USP-S Printstream FT 0.36 59$
AK-47 Asiimov MW 0.12 53$
AWP Chromatic Aberration FN 0.04 48$
M4A1-S Golden Coil FT 0.35 47$
ST AK-47 Redline FT 0.30 47$
M4A4 The Emperor MW 0.09 46$
ST M4A4 In Living Color MW 0.07 42$
M4A4 Neo-Noir FN 0.05 35$
AWP Hyper Beast FT 0.22 34$
Sir Bloody Darryl Royale The Professionals 21$
AK-47 Redline FT 0.27 19$
Glock-18 Bullet Queen MW 0.13 17$
P250 See Ya Later FN 0.06 12$
& more
Some prices might be outdated.
Note: I have new items coming and going daily and everything is not included in this list but everything is up for trade just send an offer!
TradeLink: https://steamcommunity.com/tradeoffenew/?partner=201510509&token=5HbDjuiH

Skip to the Last part for 2023 specifics reading everything would really enlighten you tho.
Location and Alliances

• Senegal is located in West Africa bordering Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Bissau Guinea and Gambia. Senegal is also part of ECOWAS ( Economic Community of West African States) and AU (African Union). ECOWAS has an economic centric objective and AU is justice and development of Africa focused.
• Every single one of the nations that border Senegal has had a military coup in its history except Senegal. Every attempt in Senegal failed and Senegal was regarded until today as a model of democracy.

French Control / Neocolonialism
Senegal was a well ruled country despite its politics being mainly ruled by France from the shadow, France hold the reserve of CFA Francs currency and print it for 15 countries. 15 sovereign nations are entirely dependent on France's currency. France also control most of their seaports and has priority in every new market offering with mandatory acceptance for these nations. Despite its many resources Senegal is a very poor country it has gold, zircon, lots of sea territory for fishing, clay and many more industry needed resources and forestry that I can adequately explain. France also has military bases in most of these countries until recently they've been kicked out by Burkina and Mali. Recently lots of Gas and Oil sources have been found in Senegal and that could change the lives of millions of Senegalese citizen (keep that in mind as you read)

Abdoulaye Wade, Macky Sall, Dirty Politics and Spiraling Debt

​

• Macky Sall is the 4TH president of Senegal, elected in 2012. Before him It was Abdoulaye Wade who was president since the year 2000. It's mainly under Abdoulaye Wade that the country started changing landscape major road construction, more and more building and a decade long plan to move the airport to a less cramped space thus giving us the AIBD Airport replacing LSS airport. A new agriculture program GOANA and many more projects.
• But it's also under Wade that nepotism got higher in his government were new ministry official position created for his "friends" in ridiculous position. A government in which Macky Sall took part and eventually became prime minister.
• With the rising nepotism the first embezzlement campaign started with ministers and deputies having safes filled with billions of cfa. For context back in 2007 a billion wasn't an imaginable number it had just became mainstream. It first rise with their own son stealing from them, then their sons and daughters traveling all over the word as new millionaires. For context their parents were poor prior to being in the government. Then arrest for drug usages, luxury car crashes. In a blink of an eye rose a new wave of billionaires and families that were above the law. Coincidentally the economic crisis of 2007 made the population even poorer in comparison.
• Politics mixing with religious figures, violence at political rallies and the birth of "nervis" basically political henchmen paid to beat opponents or whoever stand in their way and the police ignored them since they were being paid by people that were very high in the political ladder (ministers, friends of the president etc....)

3rd Mandate, Abdoulaye Wade vs The People (Macky Sall and Youssou Ndour incl.)

​

• In 2011, at the end of his 2nd mandate Abdoulaye Wade pushed for a new legislation that would make him able to push for a 3rd mandate and have his good-for-nothing son as vice-president a novelty that the people didn't welcome at all. His former Prime Minister Macky Sall and a lot of opposition political parties and social justice movements, and rappers and Youssou NDOUR (famous singer) banding together and protesting initially peacefully and gradually throwing rocks at the FDS (Forces of Security, police and Constables)

Link Archive Protest Youtube: https://youtu.be/i224i8CTB64
Link Archive Macky Sall Coallition : https://youtu.be/P_wigR7JFYY

• Macky Sall was appointed leader of the movement, and toured Senegal to present his ideas. Despite his opposition to Wade he never suffered persecution or attacks by police forces or any other charges by the justice system. However Dirty Politics was Macky Sall never physically suffered and had his constitutional rights respected. [Remember This it's relevant in 2023]
• Occasionally he would be pelted with pebbles by some people that were against his ideas but never by the police or any other FDS.
• Ultimately Abdoulaye Wade would give up and lose the election and leave graciously without anything in fact the police forces allowed the protesters to walk freely up to the gates of the Palais Presidentiel.

Hopes, Justice, Regrets and Embezzlement of Funds

• In Macky Sall, Senegalese people had high hopes, not so charismatic a leader he had a humble upbringing which inspired hope. He had worked under the previous govt and had extensive knowledge of the populations suffering, the poverty and nepotism.
• He would go on to track the people that embezzled funds under Wade's presidency : La traque aux biens mal-acquis which recovered 200 Billions of CFA Francs (305 millions euros) in 2012 according to Macky Sall's prime minister of the time Aminata Toure

Dynasty Faye-Sall, War of Gains and Scandalous Deals (Petro Tim Oil & Gas)

Then slowely but crescendo new names started popping in the government, branded as the FAYE-SALL dynasty : Macky Sall, his wife Marieme Faye and the in laws Aliou Sall and Mansour Faye.

• A war of opportunities between Aliou Sall, brother of Macky Sall and Marieme Faye, the first lady.
• Petro Tim $10 Billion Scandal Sunu 400,000
• Aliou Sall would make the news for signing scandalous deals mainly the Petro-Tim Scandal for embezzling 10 billion dollars (from here on out we will be talking in dollars because the amounts are ridiculously high). He would be accused of corruption, fraud, embezzlement, money laundering and criminal association. A report by BBC and Africa Eye states that Alious Sall had also been by Petro Tim through a fictive company that he owned.
• In a statement**, Ousmane Sonko called the senegalese youth to demostrate against these scandals until appropriate measures are taken**. Another revelation of the report was the takeover of Franck Timis' group's stake in 2017 by British Company BP. Timis Corp is a firm run by Romanian-Australian tycoon Frank Timis. According to the BBC report BP had agreed to pay Timis $10 billion in royalty payments for its stake in the two blocks. Senegal's offshore oil and gas reserve have the potentiak to transform the country when they begin flowing in the next decade with volumes expected to rival some of the region's biggest producer.
• A campaign started online in which every citizen claim they are entitled to at least 400,000 CFA ($653 usd) from each of the payment that Aliou Sall received with the catchphrase << sunu 400,000>>
• Despite all of that, the judge would squash the procedure rather quickly, it helps to have your brother as president.
• Mansour Faye, The Arrogant Baron (SDE - SEN'EAU / COVID 19 Funds)
• Mansour Faye has a reputation of being a vindictive and arrogant public figure. He will first be remembered for signing a contract for water distribution through SEN'EAU with french company Group Suez killing in the process local company Sénégalaise Des Eaux (SDE) a company that oversaw the water distribution for decades.
• Mansour FAYE is also mentioned in the Cour des Comptes report regarding the misuse and embezzlement of the Covid 19 relief funds. The covid 19 relief funds was of 1000 billion CFA FRANC (over $1.6 billion USD)
• Mansour Faye's daughter studied in the US and came back portrayed as a model for the youth with her ranch and agribusiness which is an insult to the senegalese citizen who can't even afford school fees in some part their own country let alone own land and get a degree in the US. A nepobaby fed with nepotrustfunds and nepoland to build her nepomoney paid business. She said : << you shouldn't be afraid of failure>> easy to say with billions in the bank.

See here the BBC documentary that angered the Senegalese citizens: https://youtu.be/1TAN6PsxKAc

• Mansour Faye will also have some of the harshest comment when several fatal car crash happened in early 2023 in which 63 people died in 8 days. In light of the lack of regulation, the state of the roads and the laissez-aller in the transportation industry, many asked for his resignation in which he would coldly reply : << To the people expecting my resignation, they will need more stamina>>

See video here: https://youtu.be/eS8UV8EtykQ

• Which only proves their lack of empathy towards the citizens they are supposed to serve. One thing that is very common with the entire dynasty Faye-Sall is the disdain, and hatred toward the suffering and needs of the senegalese citizens.
• When people asked in 2021 for better roads and that the tollgate highway was expensive. President Macky Sall replied that: <<It is what is. If you want to drive on fancy road with no plot holes you pay and you use the tollgate highway. But we have an alternative which is the RN1 (National Road)>>

see video here: https://youtu.be/r4DHowh8KLo

• And I can't think of the countless lawsuits for defamation against anybody that tried to expose their true natures. Mansour Faye is very fond of lawsuits and has had a few in his arrogance and power he seems out of touch with reality.
• Whenever addressing the nation he would do it in a patronizing and arrogant way, so much so some people do not listen and would just read the ministry's tweets.

The others (Moustapha Niasse, Youssou Ndour, Mame Mbaye Niang...)

• As mentionned earlier Youssou Ndour was part of the coalition and protesting alongside Macky Sall against the 3rd mandate of Abdoulaye Wade. Youssou Ndour was in fact a candidate for the election but his candidacy was invalidated because his taxes. Youssou Ndour was not a law abiding tax paying citizens according to reports of that era.
• Taxes that he never proved having paid, he would later join Macky Sall's government as Minister-Adviser. Yet another nepo-position in which he will bask in even more riches and allegedly not paying his taxes.
• The most notable thing about him is how loud his silence is regarding every protest against the current regime, in 2021 and 2023.
• You can see him in this video actively protesting in 2011 along with the M23 movement: https://youtu.be/H0hZhNKLUXg
• Moustapha Niasse, the political dinosaur born in 1939 he has been invested in politics as early as 1970 and has been part of every government since. Nothing notable about him beside him clinging to a hope of becoming president he has always been at side of the regime even when the regime is unjust and flat-out wrong. Nothing to say beside good riddance in September 2022 his term as President of Congress ended. He will be remembered for turning the Congress into a shitshow where legislation from Macky Sall passed as will.
• Mame Mbaye Niang the good-for-nothing turned billionaire he was a protestor in 2011 you can see him here protesting at the gate of congress (the coward in brown shirt and jeans who fled when the cop came close) : https://youtu.be/nklxXTZF_no
• A report by the IGF (General Inspection of Finances) revealed how funds have been embezzled once again by a small group of political figure in which we count Mame Mbaye Niang (then minister of Youth, Employment and Infrastructure) and his close friend Ibrahima Cisse; The funds amount to over $800,000 USD (517,864,401 CFA Francs) for the PRODAC project which earned him the nickname Mbaye Prodac. A project that should have created 180 000 jobs provided only 1500 between 2014 and 2018. Coincidentally Mame Mbaye Niang became a billionaire in the same period.
• Ousmane Sonko would go on to make that report public by accusing Mame Mbaye Niang of stealing from the State and the citizen. A deficit of 178,500 jobs from the PRODAC project is beyond criminal knowing that Unemployement Rate of the active population in 2018 was of 14,3% according to the National Statistics Agency (ANSD)

The Claws of France gripping harder

• Between 2012 and 2023, the arrival of French companies surged to a new high with Auchan and Carrefour competing directly with local businesses at lower prices due to allegedly lesser taxes, SEN'EAU killing SDE for water distribution.
• Major civil engineering projects being given to french companies such as Eiffage. In fact EIFFAGE, ALSTOM, SYSTRA and SNCF together built the TER (Train Express Regional) an airport rail link of only 36km for the first part already built for the price of over $1 billion USD (656 billions CFA) a project the government is really proud of.
• The project is putting Senegal in even greater debt since Senegal only funded the project with 142.5 billion cfa and 3 loans from La Banque Islamique de Développement (196 billion CFA), l'Agence Française de développement et le trésor français (196.5 billion CFA) and la Banque Africaine de Développement (120 billion CFA)

Harder Living Conditions

• With inflation, soaring prices of virtually everything such as housing, house essentials, food, transportation and gas...
• Under equipped school with huts as classrooms in some remote region of Senegal Abris Provisoire au Sénégal
• The NGO workers are gentrifying Dakar these people who are supposed to work socially on topics of poverty, are the one actually escaping poverty they are in Dakar partying spending lots of money in places raising significantly the cost of leaving.
• Under equipped hospitals with aging/failing equipment as in Kedougo where a small outpost with barely nothing it's not covid 19 that kills people rarther illnesses that can easily be cured in bigger cities such as malaria, transport of patients is also a huge challenge with patient being transported to bigger hospitals 200 or 300km away with no ambulance rather horse-drawn carts. The same problem in several regions of Senegal. In contrast, the political figures leaving the country every now and then to get medical treatment in France or the US. A symbol of their own failure in building anything important in this country.

The Rise of Ousmane Sonko

• Ousmane Sonko is a former Chief Tax Inspector in Senegal and advocate for reformation of the Senegalese Tax System. He was fired from his position as Chief Tax Inspector for being a whistleblower in many cases of fund embezzlement of High Profile Politicians (Aliou Sall, Mame Mbaye Niang...)
• He would go on to engage in politics and became the youngest candidate to run in 2019 at 44 years old. He rose to fame in politics among the youth due to his credentials as chief tax officer and the overall ethic in his work as mentioned by many of his former colleagues. A man who turned down bribes from the biggest companies in the countries and focused on his duty. The narrative is beautiful and confirmed itself as years passed and people learned more about him. He finished 3rd in 2019 as a newbie in politics.
• An even bigger achievement when you learn about the vote manipulation in the 2019 elections as exposed in Story Killers with the employment of Team Jorge a disinformation for hire company. Ousmane Sonko was victim of gigantic smear campaign with fake documents and false claims.
• See the documentary titled : #StoryKillers: A deep dive into 'Team Jorge', the disinformation mercenaries operating worldwide
• With Ousmane Sonko rising to be the candidates of the youth (over Half of the senegalese population) several attempt at destroying his reputation took place, he would be labeled a liar until the LGE, IGF and BBC report are published.
• Ousmane Sonko became Congressman made fierce speeches in which he called out the disrespect towards Senegalese citizens by which the congress dealt with important matters. Congress was a place of chit-chat and arguments where the political affiliation was the only thing that mattered to any of the parties involved and occasionally throwing hands (fighting)
• He also authored a book called Solutions in which he advances many ideas to push this country forward, economically and socially with an emphasis on education, economy, health and employment.
• Mame Mbaye Niang would accuse him of defamation in the PRODAC case;
• He also exposed the excessive cost of the TER Project.

Macky Sall's 3rd Mandate, Sonko-Adji Sarr, 2021 Protests

• Macky Sall' 3rd Mandate
• Macky Sall is ineligible to a 3rd successive term as stated in the Article 27 of the constitution of Senegal "Nul ne peut faire plus de 2 mandat consécutifs"
• Macky Sall served a 1st term of 7 years from 2012 to 2019 but in 2016 a referendum took place in which the presidential term would go down from 7 to 5 years. Taking effect after his first term in case he get re-elected.
• Having nearly served his 2nd Term 2019 - 2024 (we are in 2023) he eluded a 3rd term trying to loophole his way into a 3rd term using the Article 27 claiming that it's his first mandate of 5 years. Which is wrong the Article 27 existed way before the 2016 referendum and it is explicitly states that no-one can do 2 more than 2 successive term.
• Curfew and Police Brutality
• In 2020 mask mandate is effective and a curfew is established, which made life very difficult for workers who had to commute. The police officers used extreme violence to enforce it. Beating people who were out at curfew with sticks making them crawl on the floor. While the population suffered inside, the rich politicians and their family hosted private parties outside
• When the first Vaccines arrived in Senegal, the first Lady Marieme Faye hosted a private vaccination party at her residence with no respect of masks or crowd control this angered people
• That was the last straw people started burning tires and protesting for the removal of this stupid curfew which they are the only one to suffer from
• Additional context: In Senegal a lot of houses don't cook dinner they buy porridge to local (diaykatou fondé/thiéré/thiakri) that sell at night from 8pm to 12pm. These cheap porridge is what feed lots of people in poor neighbourhood a bowl filled with nourishing food for 100 to 200f cfa. Some houses are overcrowded with over 20 individuals in a 2 story building during summer these people stay outside with their friends and relatives there is a sense of community and togetherness. They only leave for bedtime. The houses cramped and it gets really hot in the summer (up to 35° c / 95°F)
• Sonko-Adji Sarr
• In 2020, during the Covid 19 pandemic, Ousmane Sonko is accused at first of Rape with Threats at gunpoint by a worker at a massaging place he is a customer of. He says it's a conspiracy to make him ineligible for the 2024 elections in which Macky Sall want to be part of.
• Then discrepancies started growing, the medical examination disproved any trace of sexual violence, the officer (Captain Touré) to which the complaint was filed smelled a political conspiracy and fled. Adji Sarr the alleged victim is first believed by a portion of the population but as she goes from reporter to reporter saying different things here and there the growing sentiment of empathy turned to disdain because to many she was definitely lying.
• The case would be ongoing for 2 years 2020 to 2023 and Sonko would be proven non guilty on the counts of Rape and Death Threats since no proof or witness were presented. Everybody that went on to speak would disprove in a way or another the claims of Adji Sarr. The medical official, the officer and her coworkers, boss and his husband. BUT despite all of this Ousmane Sonko is sentenced to 2 years of prison for "corruption of youth".
• Throughout the case, Ousmane Sonko has been held at home by the police not letting him go out, he was kidnapped twice by the police while he was touring the country and forcefully taken home and every supporter of Ousmane Sonko has been labelled a terrorist or an MFDC member.( A very dangerous claim that could turn this conflict into an ethnic war. The southern people are remarquable people and the stigma of separatism they are labeled with could be very dangerous.)
• Protest erupted in march 2021 which beyond Sonko's mistreatment was a protest for everything that is wrong in the country like the Gilets Jaune in France. The police started shooting live rounds, one victim in particular Cheikh Wade is shot in the while he waved his senegalese flag by a police officer in Parcelles Assainies (Dakar) the 2 day protest would make 14 victims, 14 civilians killed.
• Mansour Faye would go on to declare that "Occult forces" are responsible of the 14 dead civilians.

Amnesty International Article : https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/03/senegal-one-year-after-march-2021-families-demand-justice

2023 Protests

After sentencing Ousmane Sonko to 2 years of prison, he is at first kidnapped while he travelled back home from Ziguinchor occasionally touring the country ,held at home and the people are out protesting to end this masquerade, for Macky Sall to either leave Sonko alone and finish his 2nd term or to leave the country altogether.
There's already 600 political prisoners before the protest.
The police shot live rounds, beat up and runned over several people.
And a new type of tear cas that can blow your limbs.
The people are fighting for a better future. Macky Sall doesn't care about Senegalese people. Senegalese so desperate for a better future that many died at sea on shipwrecks trying to reach europe on rafts or canoes.
In 2019, 210 senegalese people died in the mediteranée trying to reach europe because there's nothing left of hope of a better future in thish country, in novembre 2020, 414 senegalese people died at sea trying to ge to europe according to IOM
The 2023 protest showed an escalation of violence from the police, the constables and the 'nervis' these paid militias that have gone increasingly violent with machetes and semi automatic rifles and handguns. Fighting along side the police they have killed 28 people officially many were shot.
The Freedom to tour the country that Macky Sall was offered by Abdoulaye Wade is what Macky Sall is denying Ousmane Sonko.
The 3rd mandate that Macky Sall thought for is what he is denying us all.
Abdoulaye Wade never asked for the police to shoot at civilians, under his presidency killing in broad daylight wasn't a thing, he may have been a bad tyrant but Macky Sall infinitely a hating arrogant good for nothing that is acclaimed as Political Genius a lapdog if anything.
A warzone atmosphere against unarmed civilians.
The government issued an order for the internet to be cut off
Everybody is using vpns to keep the outside informed. Today, June 4th the mobile data were cut off only wifi network worked in order to keep protesters at home.
A terrible rumour that spent chills down my spine earlier today a senegalese citizen called on live tv saying he saw DEAD BODIES IN REFRIGERATED TRUCKSS BEING THROWN AT SEA near the Diamalaye Beach. The senegalese citizens are enquiring about it. Some people have confirmed through text but I am yet to believe it until photo or video proof is shown. We are talking about mass execution I will not believe it until I see proof of it.
This a very long and tedious thing to write and I'm doing it because I am afraid the Senegalese people will be cut off from the world and die in the dark.
The sound of an entire nations going silent is something I have witnessed once and I hope I never do.
ECOWAS took a neutral stance may the wrath of God be upon them.
For once in my lifetime I wish for Military Coup if it means the killers will be stopped. Please save the longest lasting WEST African democracy.
Please Spread the word under #FreeSenegal. A senegalese fearing for his freedom.

WARNING: The following is a massive wall of text and pretty much entirely fanfiction I came up with for fun. A tldr will be available at the end. Please enjoy.
I remember reading once that the Pokémon franchise as we know it was originally supposed to end with Gen II. I always found it fascinating because rather the the wide branching cosmology now seen in the Pokémon world with living embodiments of space and time, an omnipotent creator deity, and even their own version of a devil-like figure in Giratina, the only Legendary Pokémon would be the Legendary Birds, the Legendary Beasts, the Tower Duo, Mew, Mewtwo, Celebi, and the Unknown (assuming you count them as Legendary. I do, so that’s what we’ll go with).
But recently it struck me: What if these were the only Pokémon. Or rather, the only natural Pokémon (minus Mewtwo, of course).
Before diving into the how, first we must ask the why. More specifically, why would human create Pokémon to begin with? Well, the answer to that lies in one of the oldest mysteries of the franchise: the war that Lt. Surge fought in prior to the events of RBG. War has been the catalyst for innovation throughout human history, and in a world which is already known to have magical creatures in it, the idea of creating living weapons is fully within the realm of possibility.
Now that we know why, we can move onto how: How Pokémon as we know them came to be.
It begins with a war. We don't know who it was with, we don't even know if shots have been fired or if it was a Cold War on the verge of going hot. Either way, Kanto was involved in this war and desperately looking for something that could give them an edge. Eventually a military scientist stumbles across the tale of the Legendary Beasts, three beings who perished in a fire 150 years ago that destroyed the Brass Tower, only to be resurrected by the divine bird known as Ho-Oh into powerful elemental beings.
It is from this legend that a radical new project was conceived, to create a legion of elemental creatures to win the impending war. This would become known as Project Pocket Monster.
The first thoughts were to seek out Ho-Oh itself to obtain this power, but as the legendary bird disappeared after preforming its miracle at the Burned Tower it was soon ruled out. Lugia was deemed too dangerous to seek out and was immediately dismissed. The Legendary Beasts were oblivious candidates to study for their powers but they were impossible to track down, as were the Legendary Birds. The Voice of the Forest, Celebi, was briefly considered, but it was considered almost a myth and never seriously sought out. Nobody even knew the Unknown were real creatures to consider at this point.
Finally though, they found their lucky break in the form of a species of rare, mystical creatures from a faraway land who had the ability to transform their physical bodies at will and possessed amazing psychic powers: Mew.
Although difficult, the scientists succeeded in finding the Mew and capturing them, so many in fact that the species was believed to have gone extinct years later as a direct consequence of Project Pocket Monster. Through various experiments involving cloning and gene-splicing they managed to create what would become known as the first Normal types, seemingly ordinary creatures that nonetheless possessed power beyond any natural animal.
The first Pocket Monsters were born.
More tests ensued. The forms these creations took were random, and yet they would sometimes repeat. This occurred on and on until various breeding populations had been established. From here, two major developments occurred.
Firstly, it was discovered that Mew’s DNA was highly unstable, and if the Pocket Monsters were trained properly they would spontaneously morph in even stronger forms. Some could even undergo this process twice. This process would be dubbed evolution, and through studying it scientists found a way to turn the Pocket Monsters into energy to be stored and carried around in small capsules for easy transportation.
Secondly, the Pocket Monsters would sometimes undergo random mutations in the cloning process that resulted in creatures with new abilities, namely creatures with psychic powers like those of the Mew. And thus, Psychic types were born.
The project was a massive success, but one day it took an unexpected turn. One of the scientists happened to have a decoration in his office, a rock from Mt. Moon said to be an actual moon stone. One day as he was writing up a report one of the Pocket Monsters, a small pink creature he named Clefairy, was wandering around his office when it touched the rock. When the light died down, the scientist found that the Clefairy had evolved into a new form after coming into contact the with moon stone.
At the same time, some were becoming frustrated that they couldn’t duplicate the elemental powers seen in the other creatures of legend. When they received news about the Clefairy, however, a new plan was hatched. If random mutation wouldn’t give them powers over the elements, then they would capture the elements themselves.
And so another project was born, Project Stone: Use the unique properties of the Moon Stones to try and harness the power of the elements.
After much deliberation, four teams were put together. Three would each seek out one of the Legendary Beasts in the hopes that they might siphon off whatever power brought them back to life a elemental beings, the success of Project Pocket Monster giving them the funding to finally track them down. Although they never caught them, they did manage to get close enough to the Beasts that the Moon Stones transformed in stones containing the essences of fire, water, and lightning, respectively.
The fourth team went down a different route and sought out the Voice of the Forest. While they never found it, they did find the shrine dedicated to it deep within the woods. There they paid their respects, left offerings, placed the Moon Stones around the base, prayed, and went to sleep for the night. The next day, all the Moon Stones held within them the essence of nature itself.
With the elements now in their hands the scientists got to work, first on creating artificial Stones. While the Moon Stones couldn’t be replicated, vessels for the Elemental Stone were. With these new Stones they began giving them to the Pocket Monsters, and at long last, elemental Pocket Monsters were created.
First there were Fire, Water, Electric, and Grass types, but the unstable nature of Mew’s DNA gave rise to all sorts of new types and combinations. Fire/Flying, WateIce, Grass/Poison, and so on. These would in turn give rise to newer types still, such as Poison/Bug, Ice/Psychic, and even Flying/Dragon. Moon Stones were also applied, creating the Rock and Ground types. All four Stone were also capable of inducing evolution, but not as often as the scientists would’ve hoped for.
Perhaps the height of Project Stone came in the form of Eevee, a Pocket Monster who possess exceptionally unstable DNA and was able to evolve from exposure to three of the five Stones.
In all, a total of 17 types were catalogued out of over 200 species of Pocket Monsters. The project was an incredible success and the creatures, officially dubbed Pokémon for the first time, were issued out to soldiers to serve as their partners in battle. The arrival of these superpowered creatures immediately turned the tide of the war, and shortly after their deployment the Kanto region had emerged victorious.
But that is not the end of the story.
The powers that be knew that if the Pokémon were used in battle it wouldn’t be long before news got out to the general public. And get out it did, as almost immediately after Pokémon became known to the wider world the public protested their use as living weapons, decrying it as inhuman and a violation of ethics. This outcry only increased when it was leaked that the project led to the believed extinction of the Mew.
Faced with mounting public pressure the project was shut down and the Pokémon ordered to be destroyed. However, the scientists who created and raised them and the soldiers who fought alongside them had grown attached to the Pokémon and couldn’t bare the thought of putting them down. Instead, the soldiers kept their partners, the scientists took partners of their own, and the rest were released into the wild.
Additionally, all information on the creation of Pokémon was destroyed and the lead scientists went into hiding so that new Pokémon might never be created by those with ill intent. Some would manage to figure out at least part of the procedure later on, leading to the creation of Poryon by Silph Co. using modern computer technology in place of cloning.
With very little now known about the Pokémon, it fell to the public to rediscover them. A young man named Samuel Oak lead the charge, completely changing the world with his very first Pokédex, a catalogue of 150 different species of Pokémon in 15 different types. This was the first step to creating the modern world of Pokémon as seen in Gen I and Gen II.
There was one group of scientists, however, who refused to abandon their life’s work. Led by Dr. Fuji, these men would set their sights on creating the most powerful Pokémon the world had ever seen.
If only they had a single stand of Mew DNA…
TL;DR: In Gens I and II, only the Tower Duo, the Legendary Birds and Beasts, Celebi, Mew and the Unknown are natural Pokémon. All other Pokémon were created through Mew DNA to serve as living weapons in a war long before Gen I and were released into the wild following public outcry.
Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed.

Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a long one.
Table of Contents
1…… The Main Goal
2…… What I’m Seeking
3…… Personality
4…… Interests
5…… Physical Characteristics (with pics)
6…… Expectations of You
7…… Living Situation
8…… Deal Breakers
9…… Closing Remarks
(1)
The Main Goal:
Well if you’re browsing this subreddit then much like me, you were alone this weekend and I’m sure you’d like to change that as much as me. I won’t lie, I am going through a rough part of my life right now. It’s difficult for me to find the energy for anything at the moment and I’m just really seeking affection in general, anything that will give me a push. I don’t want to be that person who brings everyone down but I could really use someone to talk to right now. I’d really like to find someone who’s similar to me so much to the point that we do everything together and talk about everything while not having to pretend to be interested. I want someone with whom we can mutually spew our emotions onto and have those feelings reciprocated. Not an emotional punching bag, but an emotional teddy bear to hug and cuddle until everything feels better as many times as we need. There’s people who I’m sure have told you the same, they’ll be there no matter how many times you need the support, no matter how many times the insecurities and bad thoughts come back but they don’t mean it. I will be the exception, I’m not so ignorant to think some nice words and tales of relating to you will magically forever heal whatever ails you then get mad when you seek the same support again. Mental ailments are rarely temporary and I don’t care about someone because they’re perfect, caring about someone means being there no matter how many times they need you to be. It doesn’t feel like a chore, it doesn’t get old, and it never will.
(2)
(2.a)
What I'm Seeking:
I will upfront let you know if I’m clicking better with someone else or if you’re the one, I’m not here to tread the sea of fish or keep my options open, I’m here for one singular person.
(2.b)
Relationship:
A relationship is difficult for me right now, it’s been nearly half a year since I got out of my last relationship and the reasons for it ending are partially responsible for how I’ve been feeling and why it’s so hard for me to seek the comfort I so desperately crave. I will tell you about it but for the sake of not treating the entirety of the internet as my therapist, it’ll be in private. I really need the comfort of intimacy and the warmth of someone who cares. I'm not going to feel better if I just sulk and don’t move on. This is my attempt to get better, I’ll admit I’m not great right now and I don’t expect you to be either. If we can help each other heal, then I’d be more than happy :) A relationship isn’t just being there for when someone’s at their best. Even if a relationship is hard at the moment, I do want a life partner and I don’t want to be alone. Things aren’t going to get easier without you so I don’t want to hesitate. I view my other as an equal, I don’t like categorizing us into specific roles. We take care of each other and treat each other how we like to be treated, whatever that is, it's as simple as that. I don't care if you're "successful" or not, living simple lives with our days filled with love is the ultimate measure of success to me.
(3)
Personality:
(3.a)
On the Surface:
As you can tell I can be rather… stoic but that’s largely due to my current stressors, I truthfully am goofy and fun loving but I just can’t find it in me right now. I want to return to that but without someone to light up my world it’s been difficult to just have fun and enjoy stuff. I’m definitely more introverted, you won’t catch me at any parties or really outside at all. I definitely prefer being home though the occasional outing is not out of the question and one day I’d like to travel to other countries because I think that kind of perspective is important.
(3.b)
The Core of My Being:
I like being a spectator to it all and if we bear witness to humanity burning or its miraculous recovery, I want to watch it with you. I enjoy watching humanity advance, less so when it devolves but I want to watch it to the end nonetheless. I’m both a realist and someone who lives with my head in the clouds dreaming of scenarios or worlds that don’t exist. I’m saying that I enjoy a good narrative and can suspend my disbelief to enjoy something but you won’t catch me refusing vaccines or ignoring blatant facts for the sake of some pseudo science or witch doctor’s remedy. I’m an atheist but I do not rule out existence after death, not because I’m agnostic but because due to the nature of potentially infinite time at some point after how many googol years with a googol amount of 0s after that, something’s bound to replicate your consciousness perfectly at some point. It’s actually a really fascinating topic I like talking about. If infinite time and infinite possibilities exist, does non existence exist? Though that’s an awfully existentially dreadful thought process considering the ramifications of infinite existence and infinite possibilities during said infinite existence. I would say I’m confidently left leaning and I don’t think I could truly get along with anyone right leaning, at least America’s definition of right leaning. Left and right seems to have just become; do people deserve to suffer or do they deserve to live good lives? Being political is not something I expected to become but how can you not be when crimes against human rights are being passed on a daily basis and at the end of the day, everything’s political. Oftentimes I imagine the perfect moment as relaxing with my significant other playing games or cuddling in a cold room under blankets.
I value that special someone above all of the existential thoughts, the bad of the world, the good of the world, they practically become my world. So many worries wash away when I’m with them. I don’t know if that’s the defense mechanism my brain created to not feel bad 24/7 but if it is, I’m currently without it.
(3.c)
Insecurities:
I talk of philosophy and politics here but really I spend most of my time just playing games, watching stuff, and trying to not be sleep deprived. I’m also nowhere near as well spoken, heck sometimes I feel like my speech is broken. I won’t claim to be something I’m not, I sit at home while I complain about the world doing nothing about it wishing I had someone here with me. I’m not noble nor do I really want to be, I have morals I uphold but much like most other hypocrites I acknowledge that my comfortable life is built on the suffering of others without doing anything about it. Why? My sleep problems? Am I depressed? Is that why I have no energy to do anything? Do I just think nothing I could do could help? I can’t nail it down myself, maybe it’s a mix of everything, maybe I’m just a bad person. I have always told myself that if I had wealth I would help people but if I get that kind of wealth will I just become a wealth hoarder who tries to justify my riches as something I earned rather than something given to me through incredibly lucky circumstances? If I do help people is it because I’m a good person or out of guilt? Will I die alone? I feel like I drive everyone away with my clinginess, I get paranoid often and need reassurance often. It’s something I want to work on, something I’ve been trying to work on. Hearing that someone cares about me just never gets old. I value self awareness even if it’s painful.
(3.d)
Socializing:
I’m definitely a socially anxious/awkward mess, especially around strangers. I do feel a large amount of anxiety in public, people can’t tell by looking at my face since I kind of go stone faced in an attempt to block everything out but yeah you’ll notice that if we go out in public. Growing up my pediatrician said I was probably autistic, never got a formal diagnosis so that’s just great. But yeah that explains why I can’t make eye contact with people, I kinda just stare at the ground and avoid their gaze at all costs. A lot of these social struggles go away to a great degree once I know you for a bit but yeah I apologize for how terrible I am at socializing at first. Don’t let my social struggles fool you though, I love cuddling and being close with my person.
(3.e)
Sexuality:
I am a heterosexual male, though I’m not very masculine like at all. I may even be a bit feminine sometimes. Not that I believe any activity or manner of acting belongs to a gender but I don’t know how else to describe it. I’m definitely super affectionate and love it when my partner is too. I am open to dating demi people but I do have a libido so I don't think asexual would work out.
(4)
Interests:
(4.a)
Video Games:
As stated before, I do spend a lot of my time playing video games. It’s been hard lately with me having no energy but I really do want to play more games and have a good time playing them with you! I primarily play on PC though I do have a switch. I’m primarily into platform fighters, roguelikes, open world, survival, and sandbox games. As for single player story games, I enjoy watching them through twitch or youtube but for the most part I don’t play them myself. I’d watch you play them though!
Here’s a list of games we can play:
-Minecraft (Java)
-Risk of Rain 2
-Gunfire Reborn
-Roboquest
-7 Days to Die
-Phasmophobia
-Rust
-Unturned
-Bloons TD 6
-Platform fighters: Super Smash Bros. Melee, Slap City, Multiversus, Flash Party, Fraymakers
Whatever you want to play I’ll give it a shot! I will say that League bores me to death but I’ll play it for you :) I try to avoid MMOs, not because I don’t like them but because of how addicted I can get to them. I enjoy learning games in-depth so MMOs can be a fast track to addiction.
I recently got Kerbal Space Program 2 and ehhh not really worth it right now but hopefully later it will be? I’m super excited for Tears of the Kingdom! In the far off future I’m excited for Rivals of Aether 2 which is a platform fighter releasing in 2024, let me know of your most anticipated releases and I’ll see if I could play them with you!
Also I never got into FPS games but I could totally see myself playing like CoD with you or Escape From Tarkov. Any FPS really, I’m down.
I am a fan of Pokemon but with how things have been lately I don’t know how long that will last. Pixelmon is a common Pokemon mod I play for Minecraft if you want to play that! Also if I say I want to play something with you I mean it but there are often times when no matter how much I want to I'm just drained and can do little more than lay in bed so please don't think I'm making an excuse.
(4.b)
Science:
I really enjoy keeping up with the latest advances in pretty much everything, it could be biology, technology, astronomy, anything! I love seeing progression and I love talking about it! Really I could go on and on about what I’m obsessing about that day. I particularly love technology, ask me for my laptop specs I dare you. When I was little I always wanted to be a scientist of any kind but then insomnia and fear of college stuff hit me like a truck aaaand that’s the end of that dream.
(4.c)
Anime:
You got me, I like anime but I’d like to think my tastes are benign.
Here’s some of my favorites I can list from the top of my head:
- To Your Eternity
- Vinland Saga
- Spice and Wolf
- Re:Zero
- Mob Psycho
- Dr. Stone
- Attack on Titan
- Spy x Family
- My Hero Academia
- Ranking of Kings
- Demon Slayer
Okay I can go on and on but I will say I don’t like pointless fan service and the spamming of cliche anime moments. I mostly enjoy action and anything well animated if it doesn’t have a potato story. Heck Demon Slayer could be my top 3 out of season 2’s animation alone. I don’t watch slice of life often or romance but I would with you!
(4.d)
Misc:
I’m not going to go on and on about the tiniest little things when the main ones are covered but I’ll watch pretty much any show with you and anything really. I like random youtube videos that explain some kind of lore or mystery, sometimes mini documentaries too.
As for food I looove sushi and I’m a sucker for fast food. Okay and candy, definitely candy.
I used to play tennis but haven’t really had the opportunity nor friends to play it with and I’m way too socially anxious to seek it out. Also I will say that when we move to something like discord I type waaaay more casually. I’m not going to expect long paragraphs back and forth like we’re writing English papers for each other, I do enjoy long conversations but seriously don’t worry about having to put the utmost effort into every response, I just like making good first impressions I guess.
(5)
(5.a)
My Physical Characteristics:
I’m 5’8 (172cm), 128 pounds (58kg), with curly brown hair and blue eyes. I like keeping my hair long in the winter and cutting it in the summer. I’m pretty slim in general so if you’re looking for someone large, that’s not me. I don’t work out but my work is pretty physical so at least I’m not totally inactive. I don’t have the urge to work out or gain muscle but I do want to maintain my slim figure so if I start losing control of that I’ll work out. I like to keep my face shaved because I don’t think I look good with a beard/mustache so if you’re into those I apologize. I have an average amount of body hair? I’d prefer to be completely shaved but it’s easy to lose motivation with that battle, if you prefer shaved then I’d have no problem complying. Anyways here’s what I look like: https://imgur.com/a/MZZgf2t
(5.b)
My Physical Preferences:
Having physical preferences makes me feel shallow, if I could make myself not have them I would but unfortunately that’s now how that works. I don’t care if you’re shorter or taller than me and I don’t care if you weigh more or less than me. All I ask is that you’re slim-average weight. I would never ask for someone to be something I’m not. I don’t care about tattoos or piercings.
(6)
Expectations of You:
I am not looking for someone “exciting” or someone to “keep me on my toes” I’m not looking for someone to cater to my every whim or anything like that. I don’t care if you’re “boring” or if you aren’t “successful”. I know it’s a common thing for people to not want a “boring” relationship and to seek something argumentative or something with constant challenges but I just want to be with you. During the exciting times, the boring times, and everything in-between, all of it will be great with you! Maybe we do argue sometimes or maybe there will be challenges but that will never be something I purposefully seek out and I don’t want that to be something you seek out either. I will not play tricks on you and I will not play mind games, I expect the same from you. We all have personal measures of success we may or may not have lived up to but what I care about most is our commitment to each other. If we have each other we can get through tough times, near the ends of our lives I want us to look back and feel that this life together was worth more than anything. That’s not saying I want us to be haphazard, I don’t want us to make poor decisions for the sake of yolo and I want us to always be rational, especially with each other. I want you to be someone I can trust to make decisions and weigh the options with a level head, I’ll try my best to live up to the same for you. Most of all I want empathy, understanding, someone to feel the utmost comfort and trust in.
(7)
Living Situation:
Currently my life is pretty relaxed, I work 3 times a week as a night shift stocker. I currently live in a 2 bedroom apartment with my roommate but we’re looking to move into someplace larger by the end of the year if everything works out. The internet is weirdly great for Ohio too like I have fiber and later this year we’re supposed to be getting dedicated fiber so that’s neat. I’m not attached to Ohio so the ultimate goal living location wise is probably moving to a country that won’t send you into a lifetime of dealing with the repercussions from one medical emergency.
(8)
Deal Breakers:
Might as well make this simple and make it a list.
- Anti-vaxxers
- Unironically believing astrology
- Right wingers
- Hard drugs (occasional 420 and alcohol is fine, may even join you)
- Wanting children, there was a time when I was younger when I wanted children but with the state of the word that’s a definite no and I feel like I wouldn’t be able to handle the stress. I’d love a stress free life with as much time with you as possible.
- Homophobic
- Transphobic
- Racist
- Super Religious
- Don’t be a bigot and don’t deny facts.
(9)
Closing Remarks:
Well you made it, I was thinking that finding someone I’d be willing to put a lifetime of effort into at least required this much effort. If I think of anything more I’ll update the post. Also about timezones, it really doesn’t matter where in the world you are. I don’t have a sleep schedule and I have most of the week off from work so it really doesn’t matter.
I request that in your response you do put effort into it, it doesn’t have to be anywhere near as long as this but at least enough so I know that you read this and enough about you so I know why you saw potential compatibility. I will seriously read all of it and respond the best I can. I do also request a pic included in your response (sfw please) or one soon after we start talking to prove identity, I’ll send identity proving pics too. As long as this post is up, you can send a reply!