I experienced a deeply distressing incident that involved a brutal assault and an unjust arrest at the Bungalow, a local bar known for serving alcohol, in the early hours of Saturday. While I was attempting to hail an Uber cab, a bouncer confronted me aggressively and forcefully escorted me to the entrance of the Bungalow. Shockingly, he savagely twisted my arm, and with the support of the Santa Monica PD, I was violently slammed onto the ground, causing injuries to my chest and face. The excessive use of force inflicted upon me was completely unwarranted and witnessed by numerous individuals at the scene who were disturbed by the incident. The bouncer, in collaboration with the Santa Monica PD, subjected me to extreme pain by twisting my arm, leading me to cry out for help. Despite my desperate pleas, made through immense pain, I tried to explain that I had committed no crime and implored them to act reasonably, emphasizing that I was scheduled to sign a government contract the following week to serve our nation. However, my pleas fell on deaf ears, and I was brutally treated, with my face forcefully struck against the concrete and knees pressed into my lower back. I repeatedly begged the officers and the bouncer to allow me to call my Uber or at least inform my absent friend of the situation, but my requests were ignored.
It is crucial to emphasize that I am innocent of any crime and the use of excessive force against me, along with the baseless charges brought forth, are an affront to my rights. Contrary to the allegations, I did not obstruct any sidewalk, as I was under custody and unable to freely move. The obstruction that occurred was a direct consequence of the vicious assault I endured, an assault that I never should have experienced. As a result of this unjust brutality, I now suffer from multiple medical issues and bear both a medical and criminal record, which may prove detrimental to my career advancement. Furthermore, the incident has placed my recently submitted SF86 application for TS/SCI clearance at risk, which has significant implications for my professional aspirations.
After being unjustly arrested, beaten, and detained, I faced further mistreatment at the hands of those in charge at the jail. Despite my desperate pleas, they callously denied me access to vital medical assistance. I pleaded for my medication, fearing for my well-being, as I felt my heart reaching a critical point. Hematomas formed on my skull, and my face was marred by open wounds. Throughout my time in the cell, I continuously demanded legal representation and emergency aid. My mental state deteriorated, leading to intermittent blackouts. It was only when the swelling became too severe to ignore that a nurse finally arrived, and this was around 9 am. The nurse recognized the urgency of my condition and insisted that I be taken to a hospital immediately, given the extreme facial and body swelling, along with a blood pressure reading of 178, indicating a hypertensive crisis, a potentially life-threatening medical emergency that could lead to heart attack, stroke, or other severe health complications. Shockingly, the Santa Monica PD refused the nurse's recommendation and, at times, callously laughed at my distress. This inhumane treatment not only violated my rights under the 8th amendment but also reflects a consistent pattern of civil rights violations I have experienced. Subsequently, upon my release, I promptly sought medical attention at an emergency room, where comprehensive scans and examinations were conducted. The diagnosis revealed heart palpitations, a severe concussion resulting from blunt head trauma, and extensive disc bulges in my lumbar spine that will require extensive treatment and may even be permanent. As a result of this incident, I am now compelled to consult with various specialists. Additionally, it is important to note that my blood alcohol content (BAC) was recorded as "<10mg/dL not detected." I possess detailed medical documentation related to this incident and will continue seeking treatment to address the consequences of this brutality. With a legal team at my disposal, I am resolute in my determination to hold the responsible individuals accountable for their actions. This incident represents a flagrant violation of my rights and demands justice.
According to the California Penal Code 647(f), it is considered a crime to be under the influence in a public place if you are unable to ensure your own safety or if you obstruct or prevent the use of a public sidewalk or street. However, based on the details provided in my previous statements, I firmly believe that I cannot be found guilty of this charge for the following reasons:

1. Inability to care for my own safety: There is no evidence or indication that I was unable to ensure my own safety. My attempts to hail a cab using Uber demonstrate a conscious effort to secure safe transportation and take responsibility for my well-being.
   
2. Obstruction of public sidewalk or street: I was not in a position to obstruct or prevent the use of a public sidewalk or street since I was already in custody and unable to freely move about. The obstruction that occurred was a direct result of the bouncer's aggressive actions and the subsequent assault, which left me incapacitated and unable to navigate my surroundings.
   

Given these circumstances, it is clear that I should not be deemed guilty of violating California Penal Code 647(f). The charges brought against me are unjust and unfounded, further emphasizing the need for a thorough examination of the actions taken by the bouncer and the Santa Monica PD.

Hello everyone. The moderation team of asoiafminiaturesgame wants to share some serious concerns we have about recent changes to Reddit.
A recent Reddit policy change threatens to kill many beloved third-party mobile apps, making a great many quality-of-life features not seen in the official mobile app permanently inaccessible to users.
On May 31st, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API from being free to a level that will kill every third party app on Reddit, from Apollo to Reddit is Fun to Narwhal to BaconReader.
Even if you're not a mobile user and don't use any of those apps, this is a step toward killing other ways of customizing Reddit, such as Reddit Enhancement Suite or the use of the old.reddit.com desktop interface (which is beloved by our modteam, and our preferred way for you to view this subreddit on desktop, by the way).
This isn't only a problem for users: many subreddit moderators depend on tools only available outside the official app to keep their communities on-topic and spam-free. It’d be wonderful if Reddit’s official apps supported these tools, but they do not, and are years behind what third party apps can do.
On top of everything else, for the visually impaired, iOS is a disaster.

Reddit to the Visually Impaired: "You no longer have a voice on this site."

"As one of the mods of blind I depend on third party apps. Once the apps are gone, I may be left with no choice but to step down and close my 17 year old account. I hope it wont’ come to that."
- u/fastfinge

What's the plan?

The moderation team of asoiafminiaturesgame is declaring its opposition (along with hundreds of other subreddits) to this API pricing change, and will be shutting down the subreddit in solidarity for 48 hours on June 12th through the 14th (and may even shut down indefinitely) until the tools to provide effective moderation are available once more. This isn't something any of us do lightly: we do what we do because we love Reddit, and we truly believe this change will make it impossible to keep doing what we love. This subreddit is honestly one of my pride and joys on Reddit.
The two-day blackout isn't the goal, and it isn't the end. Should things reach the 14th with no sign of Reddit choosing to fix what they've broken, we'll use the community and buzz we've built between then and now as tools to take further action.

What can you do?

1. Complain. Message the mods of reddit.com, who are the admins of the site: message u/reddit: submit a support request: comment in relevant threads on reddit, such as this one, leave a negative review on their official iOS or Android app, and sign your username in support on this post.
   
2. Spread the word. Rabble-rouse on related subreddits. Share your thoughts here at asoiafminiaturesgame, and in every Mod post like this you see. Suggest anyone you know who moderates a subreddit to join us at the sister sub ModCoord.
   
3. Boycott and spread the word...to Reddit's competition! Stay off Reddit entirely on June 12th through the 14th. Instead, take to your favorite non-Reddit platform of choice and make some noise in support!
   
4. Don't Be a Jerk - Be Respectful. Follow Reddit's rules and "reddiquette". As upsetting as this may be, threats, profanity and vandalism only serve to make things harder to get people on our side. Please make every effort to be as restrained, polite, reasonable and law-abiding as possible.
   

Find out more at Save3rdPartyApps, or if you moderate a subreddit, its sister sub ModCoord.

Thank you for your patience,

-Mathias, speaking on behalf of the whole asoiafminiaturesgame moderation team.
P.S. Please don't spend money on Reddit awards for this post. That's another source of revenue for them, and the single most efficient [legal] way to tell a company that you're unhappy is to not give them money.

hi so i’ve had like 3 jobs within this year so far but things keep on happening where i can’t keep them, i lost my job at panera because i had to call off and i didn’t give enough time (i know this is mostly my fault), i quit at mcdonald’s because a 30 yr old man said he’d get me a job at panda which pays more if i gave him my number so i did then he told me he has a crush on me and i’m so beautiful and when i said i’m 16 he said he’ll wait for me to be legal but he likes me a lot and this was after a girl in my town got killed by a coworker she rejected so i got scared and left, then at chick-fil-a they said i wasn’t happy enough or fast enough to be there and they gave me two weeks to improve but i got hit w anxiety and i quit before they could fire me then i got a job at dunkin and it was finally going well until i asked to transfer to a store closer to mine and suddenly my managers got mad and said they won’t transfer me because they don’t give me hours because i roll my eyes at them and i don’t have a sense of urgency then i was like ok should i quit and one said no and the other said if that’s what i want, i told my mom and she said i need to stick it through because i always run from my problems so i stuffed my ego and stayed (i tried telling them i don’t roll my eyes and i get everybting im suppose to do in my role but they kept on saying they see a problem so it’s a problem) i decide to stick through and everybting got better i later asked my manager if i still need to improve anyhting and she said nope i’ve fixed everything and she’ll give me all the hours i want (the other manager coming at me with her that time was later fired for having someone behind the counter) and everyhting was jolly before she started hiring a ton of new employees and so she over scheduled this sunday so i told her i could take off if she needed me to and she said no she doesn’t need me to then the next morning she texts me i don’t need to come in and to enjoy my day off and i asked her if it was due to high labor or something else and she said it was due to high labor and i thanked her and that was that then the next weeks schedule came out and i saw i’m only scheduled 5 hrs (i’m suppose to have 15) and all the new employees have way more hrs then me and i have the lowest hrs significantly in the whole employee list i asked her why i only have 5 hrs and she never answered me, i’m thinking is there something so wrong with me no one wants me and i’ve tried everything to fix myself to be liked by people and companies but i’m always in this situation and it’s scaring me bc it’s showing me i’m not capable or something but i need money to get through college now (i bought my first car with all the money i have made previously) advice would be GREATLY appreciated and my parents don’t help they just say i don’t know to anything regarding any advice i need in life and dismiss me and talk about their life together excluding me. Thank you for listening to me. Please help. -i have illness anxiety -i have anxiety -i’m adopted -i have hidden childhood trauma -i don’t do drugs or alcohol -i’m mostly an A’s or B’s student -i hope this information might help a little

I'm in the middle of building a house in Alberta, Canada with a legal basement suite. The home has 100A service so we've swapped the ranges to natural gas. We'll still have two dryers, furnaces and every other appliance though. I'd want to add AC down the road and I'm worried about power consumption. When I asked about upgrading to 200A service they said they didn't offer it and also sent the following email.
" just getting back to you regarding 200 AMP power.
So it's not something that is impossible to be done but it is not a path that we really go down unless it were for a whole bunch of houses in a group or done pre land development.
We have explored this in other developments and it was going to be tens of thousands of dollars to go back and do an individual home. If it were for many houses it would spread some of the costs out. Solar would come in at a much lower cost.."
This doesn't really make sense to me. Is it possible that the electric box couldn't handle another 100A? My understanding is that it would require trenching a line from the box to the house that would be able to handle the load, installing a new meter, breaker and circuit breakers. The green electric box is in the neighbours yard. I'm seeing in forums that people are able to do this for under $8k in my area.
Am I wrong that this shouldn't cost "tens of thousands"? I'd rather do it before the build but should I just do it after? Is it really necessary or should I be good power consumption wise?

I(22M) currently live with my father(52M), and recently went away for a couple days to attend my sister's graduation in Florida. When I got home, I walked into my room to find a pair of my father's dirty boxers on the floor in my room. Immediately I was disgusted and annoyed, but I just took it and threw it in his room. When he got home, I brought it up. He said he went into my room to put some plants near the sun and must've dropped it while doing that. I thought very little of it and move on with my day. Later in the evening, I went into his room to return an iron that I just used. My father, with his girlfriend in the room, brought up the fact that I called him out on his mistake, and they both looked at me like I did something terrible. There was a short back and forth, then I just walked out of the room. Then, while I was in the kitchen, my father walked in saying that he's still "in shock" over what I said, saying "I can't believe you think so little of me to do something like that on purpose." I said to him that all I did was point out a strange observation. He walked away saying that I was acting strange. This whole situation is strange to me because it could've been a simple thing, but he kept bringing it up and made it a bigger situation than it needed to be. Am I missing something here? Am I the bad apple?

So we hardly use our basement. It is finished, but no separate entrance, or window egress or any bedrooms/bathrooms/kitchen. It could be a costly affair to make all changes, get permits to legalize, etc… The main rationale behind this idea is to get some additional income, make fair use of space and eventually appreciate value of property. We are also not thinking of selling house in near future. Is it a good idea to think about this? I’ve never been in such a situation before so asking for any suggestion.

Hi!
So basically just the title. I'm thinking about opening an etsy store to sell some ceramics. There was an item... little glow in the dark figures, on amazon that I wanted to incoorperate into some of the pieces and I was just wondering if there is any legalaties preventing this? Just to be clear it would not be me buying on amazon and selling the same product on etsy, it would be buying a small product making it into a larger product/art piece and then selling it. Thanks in advance!

I often see nowadays the fandom commonly debating on how Anakin was and how the Jedi Order of the Prequels were. Usually, you'll see people going on about how Anakin was at fault for everything he did or that he was completely faultless in the matter. In terms of the Jedi, people often either make them out to be total good or being just as bad as the Sith. I find that strange that these are the most common positions because it's very easy for you to just take a middle ground.
Anakin Skywalker was a villain.
This does not need any explanation. Anakin as Darth Vader is made out to be the bad guy because he is; he's the right hand of the evilest man in the galaxy. He was broken by this point, but at the end of the day, it is still Anakin. Accepting that Vader is just a broken version/different personality of himself rather than a separate person is something Anakin needs in order to redeem himself; he needs to accept that he has done nefarious acts as Vader.
Anakin Skywalker was a victim.

• Anakin has been under Palpatine's grasp ever since he was a child ("We will watch your career with great interest"), and when Palpatine talks to Anakin about Anakin's first assignment in AOTC, it is very obvious that they have been around each other for a while with Anakin treating him as an uncle or father almost. Though his killing of the Tusken Raiders is often seen as his first step to the Dark Side, he was already compromised since he got there at the age of 9.
• Anakin as a 9-year-old was demeaned for fearing for his mother, something that is completely natural. When Anakin is grown up and asks for their (Yoda's) help, they have no better advice than to tell him to move on and accept it, which may be correct but doesn't make for good emotional advice. To be fair to Yoda, he probably grew up with people passing away left, right, and center, so it is reasonable for him to think this way; that still doesn't make it good advice for Anakin though.
• Anakin was still a child when Palpatine first started manipulating him. Bear in mind, Anakin is not at fault for this as he is still a child and thus under the responsibility of a guardian who failed to protect him. That guardian is obviously the Jedi Order.

The Jedi Order was good but heavily flawed.
The Jedi is still generally good:

• They are fighting the Sith, which are evidently the bad guys.
• They are generally compassionate towards others.
• They taught people about the Light Side, which is definitely meant to be the good in Star Wars.

The Jedi display very cultish or red flag behaviors:

• They are unwilling to train certain people because they are "too old" and their future is unclear, but this doesn't make a lot of sense; if their future is unclear, why not take them in so you can lead them to the light? It's certainly better than risking them turning to the Dark Side.
• They are unaccepting of attachment. Most people will think that "attachment" means unhealthy relationships, but the Jedi clearly define it in the layman's terms: deep bonds with family and friends. This is supported by the fact that Anakin was not allowed to see Shmi, and in Legends, Shmi actually sent a letter to the Jedi Temple to inform Anakin that she was freed and invite him to her wedding, yet the Jedi Temple turned it away. Additionally, Anakin was legally not allowed to marry Padmé; Anakin was scared of getting in trouble because he was going to get in trouble, not because he was paranoid. Though he wasn't legally allowed to marry Padmé, there was nothing wrong with bedding her. Also, as a side note, most people talk about how detachment (moving on) is what the Jedi encouraged, but in order to detach, you need to be allowed to attach first.
• The Jedi allow sex but not marriage. Most people like to treat this as a little joke but when actually put into perspective, this is a massive red flag. In the eyes of the Jedi, the main issue with Anakin wasn't that he was sharing a bed with Padmé; it is that he loved her enough to stay for breakfast the following day. They basically view sex as some sort of commodity and tolerate it because it doesn't threaten a Jedi's loyalty to the regime, but actually forming deep bonds with those they have sex with does.
• All of these combined is ultimately why the Jedi Order doesn't accept children; children or anyone older have lived a life outside of the order and thus cannot be easily indoctrinated and are likely to deeply care about people outside of it. Sure, they can leave, but they won't have anyone to fall back to because they are completely disconnected from their family; they might have some token connection to their birth culture and skills necessary for independence, but they are all alone.

On a narrative level, the idea that the Jedi Order was good but heavily flawed is also supported from the very beginning in the OT. Luke Skywalker, not the Jedi Order, is meant to be the ultimate hero and, by extension, the representation of good in Star Wars, and what does Luke do at the end of Return of the Jedi? He defies both the Sith and the Jedi by not only resisting the Dark Side but also saving his father. Luke still being a Jedi clearly implies that they are meant to be good, but Luke defying Obi-Wan and Yoda, representations of the Old Order, clearly implies that the old ways were flawed.
Anakin's story is meant to be an inversion of Luke's story, so we are meant to take the same lesson from a different perspective:

• Anakin's story is a story on how the suppression of human nature can corrupt genuine love and turn it into possessive love which leads to people doing terrible deeds for the ones they love.
• Luke's story is a story on how allowing it to flourish leads to people doing great deeds for the ones they love.

I'm newly on my fitness journey and after years of working from home and barely going out, I'd love to see if I can get involved with open water swimming as a beginner to get outside, experience nature, and maybe (gasp) make new friends.
I know there's challenges that come with it, especially as my days of dolphining about the Atlantic in Florida as a kid seem very far removed from my adulthood in Boston.
I'm basically starting over with swimming, especially endurance-wise. My form is probably atrocious, and my lungs are plagued by asthma. I'm a fat, nonbinary/transmasc who works in IT and who has been sedentary for too long. But goodness, I want to SWIM in the OCEAN and find a coach/mentor help me become a mighty pinniped. I'm ready for my life to be a swimming sports anime.
If folks have recommendations for possible avenues to find someone, I'd welcome them! Any help is appreciated.

Hello all, I’m an HRBP looking for some advice how to handle a termination. I’m fine with the legality of the situation, the advice I’m seeking is specifically how to broach the conversation and what to say.
I have an employee who has been absent for several years due to a medical condition, we have now finalised a lump sum payment from the insurer which the individual will receive shortly, and there will be no further payments from the insurance provider or my company. The next step is to terminate their employment as they will not work again due to the medical condition and the individual has to be terminated in order to receive a lump sum (not sure if the individual is aware of this point though). Whilst I’ve facilitated many terminations I have never had one like this before, where the person has been ill and the termination is simply a process.
Appreciate any advice/words of wisdom please!

I am between apartments and waiting for work to be completed on a unit I will (eventually…) be moving into. Rent will be prorated and I fortunately have temporary housing at no cost, but I’ve had to pay to store my belongings during this time, and this expense is only increasing each day as I wait for any information as to when I can move in. Side note: my landlord is not communicating move-in info clearly or reliably, so I’m just left wondering.
Is there any way for the landlord to have to cover this growing storage expense? It feels ridiculous to be paying for storage and essentially rendering the prorated rent useless. It’s especially frustrating considering the poor communication from my landlord.
I know I could ask my landlord to pay that expense, but knowing landlords, that feels like a guaranteed “no”. Is there anything legally binding?

Alright Psych-Os, I need your help with something. I think I found a possible plot hole in Season 2 Episode 7, “If you’re so smart, Then why are you dead?” When Shawn is summing up the case during his Physychics (idk if I spelled that correctly) about how and why Kirk Goodall (real name Jay Masendale) killed Professor Han because he found out his secret Maybe I missed this, but how did Professor Han figure out Jay stole Kirk’s identity, his real age, and stint in juvie Also I find it odd it was alright even legal to have photos of anyone in Juvenile Hall on the internet or in a newspaper, but, maybe it was a different time? I have seen this episode numerous times and cannot for the life of me figure this part out (the possible plot hole, I mean). If anyone could shed some light on this, it would be greatly appreciated. My Mom has watched this episode with me about the same amount of times and we cannot figure this out.

In applying for jobs (in Canada) I've noticed more than a few employers asking diversity questions. Stuff like gender, sex, sexual orientation, race, whether you have a disability, and whether you're a veteran.
This is not something I'm used to. I'm sometimes not sure how to answer, or just prefer not to say.
Ethics and legality aside - in reality, are job seekers actually penalised for giving particular answers or refusing to answer?

I walked into the NICU last night to my baby’s normal bed and my baby wasn’t there. I was a little freaked of course because nobody said anything to me at the sign in area, nobody gave me a call. I’m her legal guardian and her aunt (not her birth giver) and it is near impossible to get any information from her care team. I’m on all of her papers as parent, I’m the one they ask medical consent for. But they don’t freely give me information. So anyway, vent aside, I found a nurse and (through a shaky crying voice) asked where the baby went. They said she was transferred to the intermediate care unit. I asked what that was or why she’s there and what it means and they just said “someone else needed her bed” She’s on all new machines and has all new nurses who seem to have no idea why I’m confused. What is intermediate care??? What does this mean???

About a month ago I made a post about how my friend was able to extract the contents of the Nepali Brihat Sabdakosh app into an acessible JSON format. We did this explicitly because we wanted to see the development of the Nepali language, and didn't think that would be possible if that data was preserved in an inaccessible format in an Android app.
About two days ago, someone from Nepal Academy decided that the best way to see the continued development of the Nepali language was to file a DMCA notice against the repository. For legal compliance, Github was forced to take down our repository and any forks of it. My friend and I filed a counter-notice, part of which is reproduced here:

I am disputing this notice for the following reasons:
Under U.S. copyright law, Nepal Academy is not the copyright holder the app in the claim. The copyright is held by Naya Yatra Pvt. Ltd., a private corporation based in Nepal, which developed and published the app. Nepal Academy is a government institution that operates under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation under the Government of Nepal. Nepal Academy is not an authorized representative of Naya Yatra Pvt. Ltd.
The notice did not make explicit what the infringing content in the repository was. Instead, it maliciously included the entire repository, including MIT-licensed code for which I am the sole copyright holder.
The purely educational and non-commercial inclusion of the dictionary data contained in the app falls under the fair use doctrine. The same complete data is distributed online, verbatim and at no charge, by a Government of Nepal institution in a different file format.
The encryption keys used in the repository do not form any substantial portion of the app in question, and must necessarily be included as they impede usage of the data in a legitimate, fair use abiding manner. The repository does not contain any copyrightable source code of the app, as implied in the notice.

Nepal Academy has about 2 weeks to sue in a United States court, after which Github should re-instate the repo. Somehow I doubt they're going to sue.
If you think that Nepal Academy is a competent steward of the data contained in the app, here's an excerpt from this article on Ukaalo where they don't even know how to deal with the private company that actually owns the app:

तर, उक्त एपको नियन्त्रण अहिलेसम्म पनि प्रज्ञा प्रतिष्ठान मातहत नआएको सदस्यसचिव धनप्रसाद सुवेदीले जानकारी दिए।
तत्कालीन परिषद्ले एप बनाउन निजी कम्पनी ‘नयाँ यात्रा प्रालि’लाई जिम्मा दिएको थियो। उक्त कम्पनीका शिरिष पाण्डेको नेतृत्वमा एप बनेको हो। आफूहरू आइसकेपछि खोजी गर्दा कम्पनीका प्रतितिधि बल्ल सम्पर्कमा आएको सुवेदीले बताए।
“मुख्य व्यक्ति जर्मनी पुगेका रहेछन्। हामीले खोजी गरेपछि कम्पनीका प्रतिनिधि सम्पर्कमा आएका छन्। एप कम्पनीकै नियन्त्रणमा छ,” सुवेदीले भने, “त्यसको प्राविधिक काम बाँकी छ वा सकियो भन्ने जानकारी लिएपछि परिषद्‍बाट निर्णय गरेर सच्याउने काम शुरू हुन्छ।”

Translation:

However, according to secretary Dhanprasad Subedi, the app is not under the control of the Academy.
The previous council commissioned a private company, Naya Yatra Pvt. Ltd., in the development of the app under the leadership of Shirish Pandey. Subedi said that they were finally able to get into contact with a representative at the company.
"It turned out that the person in charge was in Germany. After a search, we were finally able to get into contact with a company representative. The app is still under the control of the company", Subedi said. "There is still some technical work left, after which we will start correction work on the basis of the council's decision".