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Upper West Side

2012.08.01 05:37 phil_s_stein Upper West Side

NYC, UWS
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2014.11.30 16:36 KayJustKay NYC Upper East Side

Updated Upper East Side Subreddit at /TheUpperEastSide https://www.reddit.com/theuppereastside
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2009.11.02 04:43 Captaintripps A little wonder in Northwestern Queens.

We are a neighborhood of 170,000 people in the most-diverse county in the United States. This is a highly-moderated sub.
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2023.03.30 04:32 Meko262 Confession letter to my ISEP classmates and Instructors

Many things have happened since three months ago I landed back into Canadian border. This letter is an International student's self reflection of guilt by his own stupidity .It's the remorse and confession to my previous people who were my supporter but I turned a blank eyes for.
It was 2021 that I graduated from my high school in Mississauga, Clarkson, a small rural community. I was an excellent student until Covid hits and our courses went fully online. I know, no excuses but tbf I just cannot do online class. I felt this is a great insult to my ideal academic model so I keep dropping classes until I still somehow manage to get my high school diploma. As a result I got only passing mark which is 50% on English 12. Did my math class in 2019 so it was fairly well done by me, passing 90&s with awards from school.
After Covid due to physical and mental health concern my parents support me to went back China, Shanghai. I grew up in Shanghai but as I grow I found society in China get more and more toxicity and contagion. Me and my dad later moved to the place where I was born, a small town in Hangzhou behind the West Lake on the mountain side and enjoy a peaceful one year. Very luckily we did not suffer and severe consequences from CCP's lockdown policy (Shanghai severely got hit), perhaps it's the blessing from my born place.
Going through all of this I understood my responsibility to complete my education and support my family in a better way. My Dad is at his 50s, would be to reluctant to force him back to his work as a coder. I have heard some good words from my high school teachers about BC previously so I started to look for a college in lower mainland (only 2 years compare to Unis to save some funds and give less stress to my Dad. He's the only person supporting me until now.)
I checked about job relative information and decided CST program to be the great start of my career path. Since the entry requirement is extremely high I decided to apply for ISEP program to improve my English better.
At that time I was completely unaware of how insane the cost of living and rent is in Lower Mainland.
Due to more misinformation I did not know ISEP program was in Downtown. I ended up living in an AirBNB home taking around 40 minutes bus ride and 1 hour skytrain to downtown. Did not have a UPass so I paid for zone 3 month pass.
Unfortunately two weeks after starting ISEP I got infected with Covid-19. I went to three community pharmacist trying to get the quick test kits while having Covid and I finally met a kind person to provide me two box of it.
For the next 12 days I isolated myself at home, taking the tests everyday but it keeps showing positive. I tried going to school once but I can feel atmosphere wrong. (I informed my instructors about it because I do not want to be a scumbag who got everyone in a class infected). I wore N95 and tried my best but finally discovered I cannot do it really.
And then I quit. Being a real scumbag, I quit. I left my peer in the middle of an important journal assignment and I quit. I do not know what happen next.
My Airbnb landlord charge my 2400 CAD per month for rent. I checked my money left and discovered I might have to change a place to just live. I am not a very social person thus I deserve no helping hand . After doing some research I decided to go to a "cheaper place", and found myself in Calgary, and then discover something is heavily wrong here.
Alberta's current government is UCP, I do not know about politics much but I have heard from people that they cut funding for healthcare , tuition and public transit significantly.
I rode CTrain a little bit at the beginning. I thought public transit is the same everywhere in Canada, just like Toronto, just like Vancouver. I was terribly wrong.
Homeless people smoke Heroin, meth and every kind of drug on CTrain. Sometimes they got escorted out by peace officers, sometimes they just keep high on drug like that. The air is suffocating.
Making matter worse, I wear mask and hat but it's still very easy to spot me as an Asian. The hostility is real. There is some guys passing me by and stop right in front of me just to say "fuxk you“
Calgary's industry is hit deeply be high interest rate and recession. Housing crisis and rent's insane increase happens here too. So I'm guessing there is always a very great proportions of society have a very hostile attitude against immigrant because they immigrants rob their out of jobs and affordable houses.
I end up taking Uber as the only option to come back from my classes at night.
Every night I lay on my bed thinking about my complete messed up life I cried. I am a scumbag and I knew that. I deserve every single shit cause these were the consequences of my own choice. Even after all of this I am still shamelessly applying for BCIT's CIT program and maybe hoping to find someway out to get support from my family.
I know I deserve no pardon from anyone but I just cannot hold my remorse and thoughts any longer..
I AM REALLY SORRY FOR WHAT I DID!!
I really wish myself being able to make it through. News of stabbing, assault and robbery happens. Very fortunately I got a safe shelter in SAIT, people here are generally very nice and they helped my out from my current situation... I am still trying my best, really wish I could make it through.
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2023.03.30 04:31 Huntermuze Burning/Stinging Pain From Left Elbow to Left Neck

Apologies in advance for the excessive length of this post. I want to provide as much detail as possible, because I am so damn desperate for a solution that works. Profile Age/Sex: 20M Height: 178cm Weight: 78kg Race: Caucasian Complaint: Burning/Stinging pain Duration: 7 months Existing Medical Issues: Partially torn left knee patellar tendon Current Medications: I started (2 weeks ago) taking Cenovis Men's Multi-Vitamin Tablets. Drink/Smoke/Drugs: N/A Country: Australia
Context I am studying Computer Science, and used to work a desk job (programming), so I sit down a lot. I have been lifting weights for about 5 years and boxing for around 6 years. Three of those were years spent inconsistently at the gym, whereas I have been consistent for the last 2. I have had plenty of personal trainers, an Olympic lifter, and a few other knowledgeable people instruct me on form and technique. I won't lie and say my technique is great or even decent. Before I met my most recent PT, it was pretty poor, as these knowledgeable people only came later towards my fitness journey. It probably resulted in my partially torn patellar tendon on my left knee. However, I do have feet issues that have made me fairly flat footed (specifically talus misalignment), which puts my knee angled in-wards and caused feet pain (this is being sorted with a podiatrist though, and my pain has disappeared for my feet). This, coupled with fairly heavy lifting likely had something to do with it.
Diagnosis Journey Around 7 months ago I started developing this weird pain in the side of my LEFT arm (near the lower bicep, lower brachialis and lower brachioradialis). Refer to this (black circle).
This was also when I started getting pain in my left knee, however, it was only when doing weighted squats or deadlifts. Eventually, both started getting worse. I persisted, not paying much attention to them, until it became pretty unbearable for my knee. I got an MRI for the knee, and it showed a partially torn patellar tendon. So, I stopped doing legs and continued with upper body exercises. I tried to work out what was wrong with my arm at the same time as my knee, but I got nothing from my GP and physio. Eventually, the same fate occurred for my arm, and an oft-intense burning pain developed. I started seeing more doctors. I saw two different physios regarding my arm (on the advice of my GP).
In the meantime I had stopped going to the gym. I tried working around my arm as much as I could with my PT, but to no avail. I began resting my arm on-and-off, because the two phyios and my GP were telling me different things, which only confused me more. I began researching for hours each day to try and figure out what was going on with my arm. In the meantime, I found using B-Bars to do suspended dips, L-sits, pull-ups, and one-handed pushups was quite comfortable for my arm. However, the pain escalated, but I stubbornly persisted, while seeing the physios, who both told me (bad advice in retrospect) I could continue boxing, lifting weights, and the calisthenics activities. Strangely, I started developing a different constant burning pain in my left neck and upper trapezius. All of this has been happening on the left side of my body (including my knee injury). Eventually, I saw a new phsyio as the last two only made matters worse, and both the middle arm and upper trap/neck pain weren't getting any better. This one was great. He told me to stop working out all together, and to do very basic and simple exercises.
At around this same time, I saw orthopedic surgeons who specialised in the bicep/arm region, and got an MRI for the upper forearm/middle bicep area AND the shoulder. Both MRIs showed nothing. Mind you, I have also had ultrasounds and X-Rays for my middle bicep part. The specialists could not help. They gave me a referral to get a cortisone injection, and suggested I get a blood test to check for autoimmune diseases. This was the last time I saw them. I went through with the blood tests with my GP, and everything came back normal, and I tested negative for the autoimmune diseases associated with enthesiopathy (given the knee tear was at the insertion point, and my burning pain appears to be at my insertion points too - doctors thought it might be related).
So, I continued seeing this one physio, and after countless appointments, he still doesn't know what's going on. And so, we are testing out heaps of different solutions. So far, none have worked. Perhaps I'm not giving my body enough time to heal? Its been 2 months back and forth with this physio, and I have not been doing any exercise whatsoever - recently though, I have started going on long walks because my knee has gotten a fair bit better, and so I can finally walk properly again. We have tried strengthening my rotator cuff and scapula muscles with resistance bands, and 1-2kg weights for a month. We have tried all sorts of stretches, foam rolling, regular massages, therapies, and different exercises, but the pain is still there. It was at around a 8/10. Now it is at a 6/10. However, I believe that is the case because I haven't been working out at all, and not due to the physio's exercises. A lot of the exercises he gave me tended to irritate my middle bicep or trap/neck region more, so I had to find ways that barely irritated it and cut out a lot of the exercises.
Symptoms & Insights Here are all the things I have noticed whilst dealing with this incredibly frustrating issue:
Left Forearm/Middle Bicep Pain This pain is solely a stinging/burning pain. It does not feel like a typical muscular pain, and it does not respond much to massaging. The best way to describe it is as if you had sunburn on both forearms, and you were to rub the sunburned spots against each other OR if you had sunburn on your traps/neck, and your jumper rubbed against it. This is almost exactly how it feels. Massage lotions that create that burning/cold/numbing sensation do provide almost immediate relief when it is irritated. This pain can be constant for days at a time. Recently though, it has been on and off. Sometimes its great when doing everyday activities, but others its not so great.
Left Upper Trap/Neck Pain This pain is also a burning pain, but it feels more like muscular soreness, and it responds well to massaging and the same massage lotion described above. The only pattern I have noticed with this pain is that it is aggravated more so by excessively dropping my left shoulder, and I can feel a significant pull when I tilt my head. Physio said I have excellent neck range of motion, and that my neck appears to be very painful when he presses at "C4" and "C6" - not sure if that is helpful or not. This pain is quite constant and typically feels a lot better the next morning (after I sleep).
This is where I feel the pain (black circle).
Closing Question Does anyone have any idea what this could possibly be? It's driving me up a wall, and has significantly impacted my mental health and changed the way I live. I have purposely stopped researching this stuff for the last few months, because it made me depressed and anxious. My mental health is quite a lot better (not fully better) after doing lots of mindfulness practices since. Could it be a psychosomatic condition? Open to all and any suggestions at this point.
TL;DR I have pain on my left middle arm (burning/stinging) and left neck/upper trap (more of a muscular burning). I used to exercise a hell of a lot, but had to stop due to this and a knee injury.
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2023.03.30 04:28 Confident_Ad6359 ANAHEIM FOLKS 13 GETTING SMASHED OUT BY WEST SIDE DEL MONTE BLOCC GANGSTER CRIP

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2023.03.30 04:20 ball-peen FSOT 9 disc lot for $60 shipped

Would prefer to sell but I could also trade. Prefer to keep it as lot.
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2023.03.30 04:17 Huntermuze Burning/Stinging Pain From Left Elbow to Left Neck

Apologies in advance for the excessive length of this post. I want to provide as much detail as possible, because I am so damn desperate for a solution that works.
Context I am studying Computer Science, and used to work a desk job (programming), so I sit down a lot. I have been lifting weights for about 5 years and boxing for around 6 years. Three of those were years spent inconsistently at the gym, whereas I have been consistent for the last 2. I have had plenty of personal trainers, an Olympic lifter, and a few other knowledgeable people instruct me on form and technique. I won't lie and say my technique is great or even decent. Before I met my most recent PT, it was pretty poor, as these knowledgeable people only came later towards my fitness journey. It probably resulted in my partially torn patellar tendon on my left knee. However, I do have feet issues that have made me fairly flat footed (specifically talus misalignment), which puts my knee angled in-wards and caused feet pain (this is being sorted with a podiatrist though, and my pain has disappeared for my feet). This, coupled with fairly heavy lifting likely had something to do with it.
Diagnosis Journey Around 7 months ago I started developing this weird pain in the side of my LEFT arm (near the lower bicep, lower brachialis and lower brachioradialis). Refer to the diagram below (black circle).
https://preview.redd.it/bqhfavzcasqa1.jpg?width=928&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44ca40fdeca0103e207df8985f579e8e07adb273
This was also when I started getting pain in my left knee, however, it was only when doing weighted squats or deadlifts. Eventually, both started getting worse. I persisted, not paying much attention to them, until it became pretty unbearable for my knee. I got an MRI for the knee, and it showed a partially torn patellar tendon. So, I stopped doing legs and continued with upper body exercises. I tried to work out what was wrong with my arm at the same time as my knee, but I got nothing from my GP and physio. Eventually, the same fate occurred for my arm, and an oft-intense burning pain developed. I started seeing more doctors. I saw two different physios regarding my arm (on the advice of my GP).
In the meantime I had stopped going to the gym. I tried working around my arm as much as I could with my PT, but to no avail. I began resting my arm on-and-off, because the two phyios and my GP were telling me different things, which only confused me more. I began researching for hours each day to try and figure out what was going on with my arm. In the meantime, I found using B-Bars to do suspended dips, L-sits, pull-ups, and one-handed pushups was quite comfortable for my arm. However, the pain escalated, but I stubbornly persisted, while seeing the physios, who both told me (bad advice in retrospect) I could continue boxing, lifting weights, and the calisthenics activities. Strangely, I started developing a different constant burning pain in my left neck and upper trapezius. All of this has been happening on the left side of my body (including my knee injury). Eventually, I saw a new phsyio as the last two only made matters worse, and both the middle arm and upper trap/neck pain weren't getting any better. This one was great. He told me to stop working out all together, and to do very basic and simple exercises.
At around this same time, I saw orthopedic surgeons who specialised in the bicep/arm region, and got an MRI for the upper forearm/middle bicep area AND the shoulder. Both MRIs showed nothing. Mind you, I have also had ultrasounds and X-Rays for my middle bicep part. The specialists could not help. They gave me a referral to get a cortisone injection, and suggested I get a blood test to check for autoimmune diseases. This was the last time I saw them. I went through with the blood tests with my GP, and everything came back normal, and I tested negative for the autoimmune diseases associated with enthesiopathy (given the knee tear was at the insertion point, and my burning pain appears to be at my insertion points too - doctors thought it might be related).
So, I continued seeing this one physio, and after countless appointments, he still doesn't know what's going on. And so, we are testing out heaps of different solutions. So far, none have worked. Perhaps I'm not giving my body enough time to heal? Its been 2 months back and forth with this physio, and I have not been doing any exercise whatsoever - recently though, I have started going on long walks because my knee has gotten a fair bit better, and so I can finally walk properly again. We have tried strengthening my rotator cuff and scapula muscles with resistance bands, and 1-2kg weights for a month. We have tried all sorts of stretches, foam rolling, regular massages, therapies, and different exercises, but the pain is still there. It was at around a 8/10. Now it is at a 6/10. However, I believe that is the case because I haven't been working out at all, and not due to the physio's exercises. A lot of the exercises he gave me tended to irritate my middle bicep or trap/neck region more, so I had to find ways that barely irritated it and cut out a lot of the exercises.
Symptoms & Insights Here are all the things I have noticed whilst dealing with this incredibly frustrating issue:
Left Forearm/Middle Bicep Pain This pain is solely a stinging/burning pain. It does not feel like a typical muscular pain, and it does not respond much to massaging. The best way to describe it is as if you had sunburn on both forearms, and you were to rub the sunburned spots against each other OR if you had sunburn on your traps/neck, and your jumper rubbed against it. This is almost exactly how it feels. Massage lotions that create that burning/cold/numbing sensation do provide almost immediate relief when it is irritated. This pain can be constant for days at a time. Recently though, it has been on and off. Sometimes its great when doing everyday activities, but others its not so great.
Left Upper Trap/Neck Pain This pain is also a burning pain, but it feels more like muscular soreness, and it responds well to massaging and the same massage lotion described above. The only pattern I have noticed with this pain is that it is aggravated more so by excessively dropping my left shoulder, and I can feel a significant pull when I tilt my head. Physio said I have excellent neck range of motion, and that my neck appears to be very painful when he presses at "C4" and "C6" - not sure if that is helpful or not. This pain is quite constant and typically feels a lot better the next morning (after I sleep).
This is where I feel the pain (black circle):
https://preview.redd.it/cowmoi5d9sqa1.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3848c68629d91c4e49363454d58b5b4f91235b25
Closing Question Does anyone have any idea what this could possibly be? It's driving me up a wall, and has significantly impacted my mental health and changed the way I live. I have purposely stopped researching this stuff for the last few months, because it made me depressed and anxious. My mental health is quite a lot better (not fully better) after doing lots of mindfulness practices since. Could it be a psychosomatic condition? Open to all and any suggestions at this point.
TL;DR I have pain on my left middle arm (burning/stinging) and left neck/upper trap (more of a muscular burning). I used to exercise a hell of a lot, but had to stop due to this and a knee injury.
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2023.03.30 04:14 lukafromchina Learn these 6 points to easily identify chicken respiratory diseases!

Learn these 6 points to easily identify chicken respiratory diseases!

https://preview.redd.it/95d939clcsqa1.png?width=731&format=png&auto=webp&s=8aafed7ae39906c3ae109a84cd764f29c8d2cc08
  1. Symptoms of chronic respiratory disease in chickens There are air bubbles in the eyes of sick chickens, and swelling of the upper and lower eyelids. At the beginning of the disease, young chickens make the sound of "spraying red and spraying red", with serous and mucous nasal fluid, coughing, sneezing, and respiratory rales. There may be cheese-like substances of different sizes in the eyes with a long course of disease, which may oppress the eyeball in severe cases. Cheese-like substances accumulate in the infraorbital sinus under the eyelids and protrude outward, like "goldfish eyes". Adult chickens are recessively infected, the egg production rate decreases, and the proportion of soft-shell eggs increases. Necropsy of sick dead chickens revealed secretions in the nasal passages, trachea, and bronchi, swelling of the mucous membranes, and off-white mucus on the surface of the mucous membranes. The walls of the air sacs are turbid, and there are plant-like dots on the air sacs. During the course of the disease, there are various yellow cheese substances under the thoracic air sacs or abdominal air sacs, and there are a lot of air bubbles between the intestinal tubes in the abdominal cavity.
    1. The symptoms of chicken infectious rhinitis show that the incubation period of the disease is short, 1-3 days for natural infection, and 16-48 hours for artificial infection through nasal cavity and sinuses. The main symptoms are rhinitis and sinusitis. The first is the discharge of serous fluid, which is especially prominent when feeding and encountering cold air. One or both sides of the sick chicken's face, infraorbital sinus, swelling, eyelid edema, purulent cheese accumulation in the corner of the eye, and foul smell Odor, mouth breathing often occurs, and with a grunting sound. Cut the middle part of the nose, there is a lot of nasal fluid and yellow exudate in the nasal cavity, and mucus flows out when it is lifted upside down. If the course of the disease is long, it can be seen that the nasal sinuses, infraorbital sinuses and conjunctiva accumulate cheese-like substances. Excessive accumulation often makes the eyes of sick chickens protrude outwards, causing eyeball atrophy and damage in severe cases, and eyes are blind. The follicles of laying hens are soft and easily broken, causing yolk peritonitis, and the egg production rate can drop by about 25%.
    2. Symptoms of chicken-borne throat-borne respiratory disease The typical symptoms of sick chickens are mouth stretching, "hemoptysis", elongated sound, strange cry, commonly known as "back and forth sound". Acute cases show obvious dyspnea, cough up bloody mucus hanging on the chicken coop or throwing on the ground. In chronic cases, the throat is blocked by light yellow cheese, and often dies of suffocation. The dead chicken was autopsyed, and the nasal cavity was severely congested, hemorrhaged, and there was a lot of nasal fluid. In acute cases, the throat and tracheal mucosa of chickens were festered and bleeding, with needle-like bleeding points, and there was a lot of bloody sputum in the trachea; in chronic cases, the throats or trachea of chickens were blocked by yellow-white cheese.
    3. Symptoms of chicken transmission Infectious bronchitis is divided into respiratory, renal, and reproductive types in terms of clinical symptoms. a. Respiratory: Sick chicks show dyspnea, try to stretch their necks, open their mouths to breathe, and can't make a sound. The mortality rate can reach 25%. Autopsy of dead chickens revealed serous or yellow-white cheese-like substances in the lower segment of the trachea and bronchi. b. Kidney type: There are slight respiratory symptoms, which can only be heard at night. The sick chickens huddle together and discharge white watery feces. The mortality rate of chicks is 10-30%. Autopsy of the dead chicken revealed that the kidneys were enlarged, light pink like peanuts, white urate particles could be seen on the surface of the kidneys, and the ureters were enlarged and white. c. Reproductive type: Adults do not lay eggs, walk like penguins, have more deformed eggs, and egg whites are as thin as water. The fallopian tube is dysplastic, short and occluded, and sometimes serous cysts of different sizes are formed in the enlarged part of the fallopian tube, which looks like a bladder and cannot produce eggs.
    4. Symptoms of chicken plague The typical symptoms of sick chickens are neck twisting, neck bending, turning in circles or looking up at the stars, straight forward or backward and other mental symptoms, dark red combs, and abnormal or strange sounds of "generlou". Green and thin feces are discharged, the crop is inflated, and the crop is filled with sour liquid and gas, and mucus is poured out of the mouth. The characteristic lesions of the dead chickens after necropsy were below the 1/2 of the descending part of the duodenum, 2-5 cm below the yolk pedicle, the corresponding parts of the two cecum and the ileum, and three lymphatic aggregation bubbles in the form of "jujube stones". "like" hemorrhagic ulcer; gastric content green, glandular stomach papilla bleeding, swelling, glandular stomach and gizzard junction bleeding; cecum tonsil swelling bleeding ulcer, rectal bleeding in spots or streaks; follicles deformed in a "cauliflower-like" shape, or The follicle ruptured, and there was a liquid yolk-like substance in the abdominal cavity; slight bleeding in the larynx, and needle-like bleeding in the heart and coronary fat.
    5. Symptoms of Avian Influenza The symptoms of low pathogenic avian influenza and highly pathogenic avian influenza are similar, but low pathogenic avian influenza usually has a mild onset and milder superficial symptoms. Affected chickens discharge yellow-white-green loose stools, black and purple crowns, dry necrosis at the edges, and edema on the face and beard. The typical symptoms of sick chickens are bleeding from the scales on the feet, and some sick chickens scream strangely, stretch their heads and necks upwards, and make roaring sounds. The egg production of laying hens decreased until it was completely produced, and the number of soft eggs, sandy eggs, and blood-spotted eggs increased. Autopsy of the sick dead chicken revealed that the breast muscles were purplish red or white like boiled meat, the base of the glandular stomach papilla was bleeding and covered with a layer of secretion that could not be scraped off, the junction of the glandular stomach and the gizzard was bleeding, and the horny layer of the gizzard was Easy to peel off. The pancreas is purplish red with transparent or dark red necrotic foci, which are characteristic lesions. Follicle congestion and bleeding, from golden yellow to bright red, fallopian tube congestion and edema, with a lot of sticky white secretion inside. The liver is enlarged and hemorrhages, with yellow stripes, crumbly like bean dregs. The kidneys are enlarged and show a mottled kidney. Coronary fatty hemorrhage, sometimes epicardial hemorrhage. Laryngeal and tracheal mucosal bleeding, tracheal ring bleeding, more bloody sputum.
https://www.arshinefeed.com/Knowledge/learn-these-6-points-to-easily-identify-chicken-respiratory-diseases
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2023.03.30 04:08 Quiet_Boysenberry932 F19 looking for Daddy to help me

Hi everyone! I want someone thats willing to help me mentally and financially. I live on the west side of the united states. I am more than willing to please you sexually if needed, but platonic is also okay. Willing to discuss meet ups in future if we make some type of connection :) please only message me if youre serious
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2023.03.30 04:03 alex_is3 severe chest pain

does anyone here experience chest pain whenever they stretch their upper body? I don't workout because I'm too busy with school so chest pain due to lifting weights is ruled out. is this yet another side effect of Accutane? I'm worried because the pain sometimes gets too severe that I feel like I am having a heart attack. for ref, I'm on 20 mg
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2023.03.30 03:57 kitchen_reno Kitchen Layout Ideas

Hello! Looking for advice / input on a couple ideas we have for redesigning the kitchen. Also open to additional ideas - due to wall removals we have a pretty blank slate -can even move exterior windows on the back wall.
Current options we're considering:
Option 1. Fridge and stove against back wall. Dishwasher under counter beside sink or in island. Microwave under counter on back wall or in island. Stove on side wall surrounded by countertops. Upper cabinets above almost all countertops. Island/Kitchen table end to end. Seating area in the front room. I think I like this option, but I'm a little worried about distance between the stove/sink (it's about 11 feet from the center of one to the other)
Option 2. Sink and stove against back wall. Dishwasher under counter beside sink or in island. Microwave under counter on back wall or in island. Fridge and wall ovens on side wall, with floor-to-ceiling pantry cabinets beside them. Likely no upper cabinets, but maybe some above countertop beside sink if we can squeeze them in. Island/Kitchen table end to end. Seating area in the front room (not drawn, but same idea as Option 1). This option has the sink/stove closer together, but I'm a little worried the floor-to-ceiling look on the side-wall may be too much. I suppose I could do countertop with uppers on the side wall, but not sure how that will look either.
With all options, I want the stove on an exterior wall for venting.
Thanks in advance!
Option 1

Option 2
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2023.03.30 03:51 BlessYourHeartSweety [WTS] Aero Enhanced upper, slickside /no FA, black, with dust cover $95

Paypal please, prices are shipped OBO
timestamp: https://imgur.com/a/XuuqAhz
Aero Enhanced upper black, slick side / no forward assist.
pics: https://imgur.com/a/YM2fhnN
very small nick on the left side (see pic), and small charging handle marks. otherwise no salt. comes with barrel nut. Bought it straight from Aero, used for one build, ~200 rds.
$95
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2023.03.30 03:51 Cody_97K I've wanted a Challenger (Scat Pack or even better, Hellcat) since I was a kid in HS a decade ago. Now this year is the Last Call. Want to find a way to make this work. Advice?

I'm 25 and I'm making 90k. I've wanted a Challenger forever. When I was 20, for a week I rented a T from Hertz somehow, did a big road trip out west, it was a blast and I've been even more obsessed ever since.
In a sane world I'd wait a couple years and buy one once I have more money and interest rates are lower. I remember 2 years ago I made dogshit money, yet the Scat Pack was only $400 a month to lease and I semi-seriously considered it. But this year is the Last Call and never again will I have the chance to buy one new.
Realistically I'm only interested in either a Scat Pack or a Hellcat. Even the T feels like a compromise. I see that I can save a bit by buying the 22 instead of the 23.
Current vehicle: 2012 F150 Lariat SuperCrew 4x4, 6.5' bed with camper shell, 153k miles, giant 3 foot dent on the side (quoted 3000+ to fix), speedometer reads 40mph too high, oil pressure sensor is fucked and sometimes flashes spurious low pressure warnings. Sluggish acceleration on uphills, I think the transmission fluid is cooked after having to accelerate real hard back and forth to get unstuck from deep must last year, haven't had it looked at yet. KBB claims 10k dealer value for "fair" condition. I suspect I'd get more like 8k for it, if that.
Finances: 90k base pay pre-tax. After taxes, rent, and other expenses 2800 a month left over, of which I put 800 a month in savings. I've only been at this job 3 months. Got a few grand in savings. Like I said, if not for this being the Last Call I'd wait a couple years for sure. According to the Dodge website, if I trade in my truck for 8k and put another 2k down, for a Scat Park it's $750/month to finance and $550/month to lease. For a Hellcat, 1200 a month to finance or 1000 a month to lease... probably unattainable even though my heart really wants it. And that's if they're selling at sticker price, I wouldn't be surprised if it's higher due to this being the last year.
Insurance: I have one speeding ticket on my record (from when I lived in CA... it doesn't seem to show up on my record in VA for some reason, which is cool). I pay $140 a month for insurance on my truck. No idea what typical insurance rates on these bad boys are.
Parking situation: I live in an apartment. Options are street parking and a small outdoor gravel lot. I live in a very nice neighborhood, but Arlington VA where I live is across the river from DC and I gotta wonder about theft. Are there effective countermeasures? Also wondering about deterioration from outdoor parking in a mid-atlantic climate.
I feel like if I miss this chance I'm never going to forgive myself for it for the rest of my life. On the other hand this feels like a financial disaster waiting to happen, plus the worries of theft and deterioration from outside parking. My heart is screaming yes, my brain is screaming no. Of course I could always split the baby and get a used scat pack or a new T but that feels wrong somehow... idk. Am I insane? What would y'all do in my situation?
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2023.03.30 03:32 ghramsey Freelancer mode showdown: rolling my eyes moment... target runs due to guard slip and fall *across the map*.

Rolling my eyes. I removed a wet floor sign in a bathroom in NYC. A guard fell. And suddenly the target is "28m" from the exit and running for it. W T F ? They just ESP'd the slip and fall since they're not in the same room nor even on same side of the map (actually this is my 3rd attempt; the target is on the top floor) and then immediately made a break for it. Yeah. SUUURE. :ROLLSEYES:
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2023.03.30 03:17 el_dumass PART 3, SECOND COLONY ROUND 2: Seth Freeman vs Kaito Sasaki

PART 3, SECOND COLONY ROUND 2: Seth Freeman vs Kaito Sasaki
6:00 PM, 18-3-2019, On a street in Hong Kong, China
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LET THE JUJUTSU KAISEN BEGIN!!!
Seth Freeman (by u/Oonoroi)
[Appearance & Personality]Seth is a dark-skinned, Jamaican-American man. He is tall, being 6'4" (193 cm) at just 19 years old, and he has a powerful, athletic build due to his background in boxing and capoeira. He has long, black hair that he twists into dreadlocks. He can normally be seen wearing an all-black hoodie and sweatpants, accented only by the golden design on his basketball shoes and a thin gold chain he wears around his neck. Also worn around his neck is a heavily-decorated painter's mask, which he puts on when doing aerobic exercise as a form of training. He keeps a pair of small, wire-framed glasses in his pocket for reading and fine work, as his vision is bad for small things up close. Seth has used his own body as a canvas, as from the neck down, he is covered in tattoos of all shapes and sizes, and even the palms of his hands are marked with temporary art penned into his skin.
[Physical Attributes]High agility/elusiveness (dodging and reaction timing), High stamina (ability to continue higher amounts of physical output without tiring)
[Cursed Attributes]Has a cursed trait, has a non-combative domain that allows for it to be re-casted frequently or early in battle (ex. Kinji's "Idle Death Gamble" or Higuruma's "Death Sentencing")
Seth's cursed energy feels like a mass of hot, gritty particles. It is a deep black in color and is less transparent than normal cursed energy. Skin gets rubbed raw where strikes land, and it causes irritation in any orifice of the body it interacts with. While still fluid, the energy is more solid than previously seen forms and can be shaped into single-attack bludgeoning weapons for small moments at a time, and small pillars can be explosively formed under his feet or into walls to allow for quick, unexpected bursts of movement and faster sustained sprinting speed. Thick layers of his cursed energy can weakly dampen all kinds of energy and shock, and his cursed energy can be layered over wounds to prevent blood from escaping. The overall effect makes fights with Seth increasingly uncomfortable and distracting the longer they go on, as well as increasing his range, bruising attack power, and defensive ability against striking and energy-based attacks.
[Cursed Technique & Applications]Division of the Soul: Ren.The ancient Egyptians believed the soul was divided into five parts; Ba, Ka, Sheut, Ib, and Ren.Ren was the name of the soul, and it was believed to be a person's identity, their experiences, and their entire life's worth of memories. This cursed technique allows Seth to copy 1/5th of the soul of an individual whose full name he knows, and imbue it into a piece of art he creates. After learning a person's name, Seth can create a work of visual art in their likeness or an abstraction thereof. This can be, but isn't limited to a sketch or drawing, a clay or wire sculpture, an oil or finger painting, or a stone or wood carving. Seth can then "attach" the target's name to the finished work, animating it completely under his command. The work has the same cursed technique as the named target and 1/5th of the target's original cursed energy reserves. It also possesses all knowledge that the target held at the time of the work's creation, including how to do domain expansions, RCT, simple domains, create curtains, or other secret techniques that the target knew, even if they don't necessarily have the cursed energy supply to perform them. Seth can only use the target's name for one work at a time, and attaching the name to a new work makes the other work burn up and dissolve into black sand. Works only consume cursed energy when they are first animated, and maintain themselves with no further energy input on Seth's part. For the name to work, it must align with the target's sense of self, and the target must have a soul (Important note: We do see Mahito's soul in the series so I do believe cursed spirits, shikigami, and likely animals are as prone to this ability as humans are.)
Applications
1. Presumably, all other cursed technique applications at 1/5th power given enough time and resources.
2. Osiris's Blessing- He can speak and gain information from dead people who are animated in his work (Important note: We know from chapter 176 that the underworld, popularly a place for souls to rest eternally, is a confirmed thing in the JJK universe, so this application should work.)
3. Army of the Pharaoh- Seth retreats into his domain and animates every possibly offensively-capable work of art, creating a veritable army of both normal people, sorcerers, cursed spirits, and animals.
4. Gift from the Djed Pillar- Through heavenly restriction on Seth's own attack power and physical defense, he can grant functionality to any cursed tool or weapon that a work of his may possess.
Fun Fact: In ancient Egypt, person was believed to "live" as long as their name lasted even if they were physically dead, hence why the pharaohs build all those monuments to their name.
[Domain Expansion]The Second Great Library of Alexandria is a Domain Expansion that brings the innermost parts of Seth's mind into reality. It manifests as a maze of bookshelves, with glass cases and open walls for displaying art. In exchange for not having a sure-hit effect, it has the property of being much larger on the inside than the barrier looks on the outside. The floor is composed of the same hot, dark sand as that which makes of Seth's cursed energy trait, and falling into can be disastrously distressing for anyone who isn't Seth. Inverse to most domains, it is sturdy from the outside but easily escapable from the inside. If a target is within a domain at the moment of its expansion, Seth learns their name. Within the Library, indestructible books containing a description of every bit of knowledge Seth has ever acquired sit on the shelves, excluding that which has been given up in a binding vow. This includes every memory he has forgotten, every piece of information that he has noticed, even in passing, and every thought or idea he's ever had. The Library also has perfect copies of every piece of art Seth has ever made on display, which Seth can transfer names to by sacrificing the original. This makes it so any work that Seth makes is never truly destroyed, and can be instantly and repeatedly re-created once they are reached within the library. Seth has an intuitive understanding of the layout of the library and where everything is within it.
[Extra Information]Seth's art is known to be extremely lifelike, able to perfectly capture the imperfect beauty of the human form or the horrifying configuration of unknown creatures. Though as a self-proclaimed "anarchist", Seth often uses his work to terrorize the rich people who buy his works. He works outside of the greater jujutsu community and mostly found about the world of curses on his own, though he has done thorough research and has close contacts within the jujutsu world, and thus has knowledge of most of its public figures. He does not go out of his way to exterminate curses and usually captures them to use as subjects for his art. He does boxing and capoeira at a competitive level, and a little breakdancing as a hobby, and trains for all of this wearing a painter's mask, putting on the upper end of athletic physicality. Within the ring and while fighting other sorcerers, Seth's fighting style is to wear out and disorient his opponent with uncomfortable chaos while evading their attacks until he is able to find the moment where he can land a clear finishing blow. While cocky and overconfident, Seth has an artists' eye, and notices and thinks a lot about his surroundings during a fight, and he is keen on doing extensive research into any opponent he faces before they meet. After winning a battle, he likes to graffiti an abstract image representing the opponent he faced onto the location of the battle using spray paint. He's aroace and doesn't really have a type, but he thinks Goths are nice, and would tell Todo as much.

VS

Kaito Sasaki (by u/0rokin)
[Appearance & Personality]
Kaito Sasaki is a sorcerer who stands at 1.8m or 5'11". He's 23 years old, on the younger side of things, has stark white hair, and deep purple eyes.
This a genetic result of not only being a member of the Sasaki Clan, but direct heir to it. He weighs in at 75kg or 165lbs, being on the more lean muscular side, rather than just pure muscle.
Kaito is seen most often with terrible eye bags, as he does suffer from insomnia most of the time, despite how often his students see him 'sleeping.' He wears a standard Jujutsu Tech uniform, though it's usually black in color, and the badge on the uniform is purple color, rather than the simple gold.
Along with that, on the back of the uniform there's an Inazuma Guruma kamon, with the middle point being a purple, the shade of his eyes, and the other trailing parts being a light grey in color.
This is crest of the Sasaki Clan.
(For a basic look at how Kaito looks headshot wise, check profile, the art there is made by u/kaneki.)
[Physical Attributes]
High intelligence (ability to find ways to counter cursed techniques with their own), High adaptability (ability to adjust to the environment quickly and use it to their advantage)
[Cursed Attributes]
Uses a cursed tool/weapon, Immense cursed energy supply.
Raitaro is a katana cursed tool, from the Sasaki Clan vault. The blade is 60cm or 1'11" long. The saya of the blade itself has a dark purple coloration to it, with some bolts of lightning on the kojiro of it, traveling upward.
The upper portion, right before the tsuba meets the saya, is the Sasaki Clan crest in the saya itself. The blade however, is a perfectly sharpened blade, with one unique detail: a black lightning bolt traveling along the groove of the blade.
This bolt is actually part of the Cursed Tool's technique. The technique of Raitaro absorbs the user's excess Cursed Energy in battle to not only temper the user's usage of Cursed Energy, but store it within the blade as well.
Upon the lightning bolt glowing a deep purple in color, the blade upon hitting contact with the opponent, or anything in its path, it releases a destructive wave of lightning in the path when the point of impact was made.
[Cursed Technique & Applications]
Sasaki Clan Lightning Generation
This familial technique when it has first awakened in the user, only allows them to generate lightning from any point on their body. They cannot control this lightning at first, and they can’t do much with it either.
The most they can do is enhance their speed by cloaking themselves in cursed energy, which causes lightning which is usually purple in color to spark around them.
However, as the user practices more and more with the technique they will then fall into one of the “Sasaki Clan Squads”, which are usually specialized based on what the user can then do with the technique. Being the heir to the Sasaki Clan, Kaito knows a total of 5 out of the 8 applications his clan knows of;
• Constructs - Able to form constructs made out of the lightning into very basic things, such as a Bo staff or a spear. These constructs still have an electrical charge to them especially when hitting someone. Basic constructs only.
• Precision - The user can form beams of electricity that are laser precise and have large range to them, like a sniper.
• Redirection - A skill that most if not all Sasaki Clan members want to get or fall into since it allows them to redirect any form of cursed energy lightning back at the attacker.
• Arcs - The most powerful of the aforementioned abilities, the Arcs abilities will burn a lot more than the regular projectile and can hurt a lot more as well as the direction being unpredictable once an Arc is fired off. It takes practice and patience to be able to use this ability to its fullest potential.
• Strike - This is one of the rarest and hardest to learn applications of the entire clan. Not much is known about it, but people know it’s activated once the sky darkens, thunder begins to boom, and lightning begins to flash. From this, the user imbues their cursed energy into the sky, and can call forth a bolt of lightning from the sky, this is a lot more powerful than the average lightning generated from the technique.
[Domain Expansion]
Wrath of Raijin:
At first all the opponent will see inside of the domain, is complete darkness. No visible light until the storm builds up around them. From here, it begins to rain extremely hard on the opponent, and on a difficult terrain that the domain hosts, which is upon a mountain, it's easy to slip and fall.
However, the user of the domain is then free to use ANY of the eight applications the clan knows of, and even some they might not have even considered, or have discovered yet. In the domain, the user is granted near perfect electrokinesis.
When using the application "Strike" its damage output is increased tenfold.
Along with the heavy rain that exists within the domain itself, lightning bolts will strike the ground at random intervals, NOT caused by the sorcerer therefore not wasting more Cursed Energy than is required keeping the Domain Expansion up.
The user as well, is unaffected by what occurs inside of the domain, and their presence practically vanishes inside of it. Notice, the word practically, as any sensory technique that is focused on Kaito enough can pinpoint him, but that's also if they can withstand lightning bolts hitting them.
[Extra Information]
Kaito Sasaki is a Semi-Special Grade Sorcerer, meaning that he's a part of the in-between of First Grade Sorcerers, and Special Grade Sorcerers/Spirits. What does this mean exactly?
Well it means he has much more power than a First Grade Sorcerer will, but not so boundless that he's classified as a Special Grade Sorcerer. It's the best way I can explain it. On top of this, being the direct heir of the clan means that he is very physically fit and knows a lot.
Specifically that of various martial arts from the world. Specifically, Kung Fu, Sambo, Silat, Vale Tudo, and Krav Maga. Kaito's father wanted to make a weapon out of his heir, and that he did.
Although Kaito is not listed as having High Strength or Agility, it should be kept in mind with these practices that he does have a more refined strength and agility when it comes to battle, rather than raw strength and agility.
He is versed in Iaido, and Kendo, though not as much as say a Samurai or one who is deeply invested into the Way of the Sword.

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2023.03.30 03:16 Superliminal96 Every base scenario, ranked

15th: 1964
Despite not being made by Dan Bryan, this scenario is apparently in the base loader due to being the oldest mod. And sorry, it's not good. Riddled with spelling and grammar issues, a significant number of one-answer questions, and results inaccurate to the actual election (e.g. California far too Democratic, Maryland far too Republican). You can claim, as Lyndon Johnson, that you want to gut the Great Society, and it has no effect on the campaign. Badly in need of a remake, and shouldn't be on the default loader at all.
14th: 2016a
With all due respect to Dan Bryan, this shouldn't exist--making a 2016 general election scenario during the primaries meant that the actual events of the campaign, which were a roller coaster ride, are replaced with either generic policy questions or alternate events like a recession or Islamist terrorist attacks, and winning as Trump basically requires RNG handing you at least a couple of these alternate scenarios (which uniformly help you and hurt Clinton). Clinton and Trump's real-life running mates aren't even selectable options. This is, in effect, an alternate history of a more boring 2016 election.
13th: 1860
Arguably the most important and unique election in American history unfortunately makes for a mediocre scenario by its own design. It's difficult to not win with Lincoln outside of intentional sabotage, but his non-presence on the ballot anywhere in the South (and his obvious unpopularity in the border states) means there's literally no room to improve on his real-life performance. "Winning" as Douglas is picking every right answer, with no room for deviation, and hoping you get good RNG in New York to deadlock the electoral college. Realistic, to be sure, but just not that fun.
12th: 2012
The original scenario is infamous for not being particularly good, but as the base for everything that came after it I can't put it below the scenarios I actively dislike. And there are some good qualities to it--the opening questions let you set the tone of your campaign, and there are multiple paths to victory as either Obama or Romney. But whereas newer scenarios and most mods take the tone of a campaign, the vast majority of 2012 consists of policy questions, many of which played little to no role in the real election (forest management? Euthanasia? Come on now), while overlooking things like the debates and only lightly touching on the nature of Obama's aggressive negative campaign centered around Bain Capital. A remake mod would be neat. As has been pointed out, there were also alternate scenarios planned for alternate Republican nominees and third parties, though these were ultimately scrapped.
11th: 1844
The 1844 scenario is alright--it's historically accurate and offers multiple paths (especially as Clay) depending on how you address the big issues of the day (Texas and slave power). Unfortunately, despite how close the election was, it's extremely difficult to win as for some reason (note: I'm only judging these scenarios based on how they play on Normal difficulty), rendering a lot of these strategies moot. You can pick the optimal answers for literally every question for Clay (Polk is a bit friendlier) and still lose to RNG.
10th: 2020
2020 is fine. Bryan is a good writer and there's room for a range of outcomes as both Biden and Trump, and the built-in polling error is a nice touch. Unfortunately, a lot of the questions don't really matter, with answers that are either similar at face value or have near-identical effect (or lack thereof) on the polls. It also kind of under-sells how outrageous 2020 as a year was. The scenarios above it are also just...better.
9th: 2000
2000 is a solid scenario that, like 2020, falls into the trap of having a lot of uninteresting questions that do little to change the electoral standings. Ironically, winning as Bush is (in my experience) more difficult than winning as Gore--even Powell can occasionally cause you to choke due to bleeding to Buchanan, and with the other running mates it always feels like an uphill battle. Not inherently a bad thing but I wish there was more room for movement in what was an election with a lot of seriously contested states.
8th: 1968
I assume this is far lower than anyone else would put it, but hear me out. In real life 1968 was an incredibly fascinating year--the Ted offensive, the assassinations, the Chicago convention, etc., and the 1968 scenario does a pretty good job at showing this off. If I were only ranking the Humphrey side, this would be a lot higher thanks to the range of outcomes you can get. Unfortunately, the Nixon and Wallace sides are a lot less interesting--you run as a moderate conservative as Nixon and tread water until the final RNG hurdle, which is fine but could be better, while as Wallace you can maybe win Tennessee with perfect answers and great RNG, but deadlocking the Electoral College or even winning South Carolina is out of reach even with Thurmond (which is weird, since Nixon probably only won SC in 1968 due to Thurmond's endorsement) and you're probably locked into capping out at just a little better than Wallace did in real life.
7th: 2016
Easily my favorite of Dan's 21st century election scenarios, the final version of 2016 is good all around--multiple paths to win as either Clinton or Trump, RNG that's variable without being either unfair, and unlike the cursed 2016a does a great job of following the events of the 2016 election, with the final few questions throwing you into chaos between the Access Hollywood tapes, the Wikileaks emails, and the Comey letter. Also, you can actually select Tim Kaine and Mike Pence! Wow!
6th: 1896
A fascinating election between two radically different candidates is a recipe for a solid scenario, and 1896 mostly delivers. There are a good mix of campaign and policy questions, differing paths to victory for both Bryan and McKinley, and the scenario is well-written and knows its history. While it's arguably too easy (especially as McKinley, though as Bryan you almost instantly win by "striking a moderate tone" at the beginning) but on the New Campaign Trail site it becomes an actively worse scenario due to the 25 question limit locking some questions behind certain VPs and others (including a very notable one where McKinley can seriously crack open the South by openly siding with the lily-whites), costing it some points and probably the #5 slot.
5th: 1960
A great and well-written scenario with many options to explore, and one of the few where every running mate creates a seriously different map, and one that captures the back-and-forth of this closely-contested election very well. Unfortunately, it's a bit too railroaded on how the many close states ultimately fall, and if RNG significantly alters the real-world map on a Kennedy/Johnson or Nixon/Lodge run, it'll be to your detriment.
4th: 1916
1916 feels like a much better version of 1844--two different candidates, one who needs to hold together opposing factions of the same party, and offering multiple geographic paths to victory with, say, a progressive Hughes or a more hawkish Wilson, while still providing a fair challenge in each case. The worst I can say is that despite the number of close states, most will still settle in the same way that they did in real life unless you either score very well or very poorly.
3rd: 1948
Dan Bryan does the greatest upset of the 20th century justice with a dynamic scenario that lets you either right Dewey's campaign wrongs or follow Truman's plucky path to victory. Alternatively, you can place real challenges on yourself by trying to win as Truman after appeasing the segregationists (thus making Wallace a real factor in key Northern states). I do wish there were more of an upside to the Dewey side, letting him win the landslide that had been forecasted by most pundits, but that can only really be simulated on lower difficulties--as it stands, the upper limit for Dewey on normal is narrowly winning the popular vote and maybe snatching Utah with great RNG.
2nd: 1988
In the real world, the 1988 campaign started as a Dukakis landslide and ended up as a Bush landslide owing mostly to the dynamic and highly negative campaign, and appropriately, 1988 is your canvas. It's easy to follow Bush's real-life path and win a mandate, and equally viable to win comfortably as Dukakis by knowing how to hit back. Running as a more tepid Bush or making Jesse Jackson your running mate also add a twist to this otherwise quite easy but extremely fun scenario.
1st: 1976
As close to perfect as Dan Bryan's scenarios get, 1976 represents an intermediate period in America's political realignment where almost every state was up for grabs (20 states were decided within 5% in real life!) letting you either mirror the real-life results or pursue alternate strategies like a West Coast-focused Carter or a Northeast-focused Ford, where your running mates can help you in one direction or another (though not as much as, say, 1960). The questions perfectly capture the tumultuous campaign which went from a potential 50-state landslide for Carter into a real nailbiter, with both candidates struggling to balance appealing to swing voters while keeping tepid bases on board (especially the Reaganites for Ford). RNG is variable but fair--if you know what you're doing, you should get the result you were aiming for. It gets just about everything right and I struggle to even really nitpick it--for a moment I wondered if an alternate path where Carter doesn't do the Playboy interview would be desirable, but there wouldn't really be any fun to it other than winning a massive landslide. Maybe Connally and Baker should do more to help Ford in the south, but it's not hard to flip Texas or Mississippi anyway. Whatever, it's just great.
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2023.03.30 03:12 charlie_nosurf (25M) Had the flu, now I have a sharp pain that radiates through my upper back when I cough or breathe deeply or move. Pulled muscle?

25 / Male / 5’11 / 150 lbs / No smoking / No medications
Had the flu for a week which came with a terrible dry cough. So bad that I couldn’t sleep at night. Now the flu is gone but the cough is still here and I’m still not sleeping. Yesterday I developed an extremely sharp pain in my upper right back near the spine that radiates through my entire right side when I cough. It also appears when I breathe deeply or lean up.
Went to urgent care today and they did a chest xray and ruled out fractured ribs and pneumonia. Lungs seemed healthy. So it seems like a pulled muscle in my back region. Doctor prescribed Naproxen for the pain, Benzonatate (Tessalon Perles) and Albuterol (Ventolin HFA inhaler) for the cough.The pain is so bad that my body cannot physically cough anymore, but I still feel loose mucus in my throat. I’m afraid of eating and needing to cough.
I’m just waiting for those to fill which will hopefully help and I wanted to share my symptoms to see if anyone else has dealt with this. It’s truly one of the worst pains I’ve ever felt.
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2023.03.30 03:08 Alternative-Ad2401 Looked up the hoods of Jacksonville since when we had a oblock 😭 and old Middleburg anit een hood

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2023.03.30 03:08 likeatether TIFU letting out gas when I thought I was alone

I (33F) have a new boyfriend (40M) I am head over heels about. He is smart and handsome and kind and so sexy. We have been going out for a couple of months and I am completely enamored. We decided to go away for a weekend to NYC and he surprised me at the hotel with the most decadent, buttery pastries and I couldn't stop myself. I ate them despite knowing my stomach wouldn't be happy after. And it wasn't. It was rumbling and cramping. But I held the gas in like a trooper. There was no way this Romeo was gonna see that side of me. So I went to to take a shower. I made sure the water was coming down nice and loud. My dream man was in the other room. Door was closed. Coast was clear. It was good, I would just let a few controlled toots out so there was no way he could hear it. Alas, as the little trumpet let out it's first notes, I felt the arms of this beautiful man wrap themselves around me from behind. He wanted to surprise and join his sexy new girlfriend in the shower. The poor man was hoping for a soapy hot babe but instead was met with wet naked farts (which are the worst kind.)He couldn't stop laughing- oh well.
TL;DR: farted in front of new boyfriend when I thought I was alone. He surprised me in the shower - so mortifying
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2023.03.30 02:57 Legal-Fuel2039 Random beeping and explosion near observatory

anyone run in to this I was running up the mountain on West side of the observatory from the mall and I stopped by a small building near what looked like a car tunnel but it was walled off with a big metal door and I hear this beeping it last for a good minute before picking up in speed and exploding.
It seemed like it was behind the metal door has anyone else run into this is it an Easter egg for that location? does it happen anywhere else?
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2023.03.30 02:55 autotldr Putin’s top security adviser holds talks with India’s prime minister as Moscow seeks closer ties.

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 0%. (I'm a bot)
A senior security adviser to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia met with India's prime minister in Delhi on Wednesday to discuss their nations' "Mutual interests," officials said, as Moscow continued its campaign to build stronger alliances with trading partners outside the bloc of Western countries helping Ukraine resist Russia's invasion.
Mr. Putin's top national security adviser, Nikolai Patrushev, "Discussed matters of bilateral cooperation" with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to a statement from Russia's Security Council.
Mr. Patrushev, the council's secretary, was in India for a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes India and China.
Neither side gave details of the talks, but they come at a time when Moscow is seeking to drive a wedge between the West and two countries in particular, India and China, which have remained neutral on its decision to seize territory in Ukraine.
Russia's invasion of the country in February of last year set off the largest conflict in Europe since the Second World War.
India has tried to strike a delicate balance since then, seeking to avoid angering Russia while maintaining its expanding relations with the United States and Europe.
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2023.03.30 02:51 beagle_duino Quote advice (noob)

Quote advice (noob)
I'm wondering whether the quote attached is reasonable given my location, roof size and other feaures listed below. I'm a complete noob. Have other contractors in the area coming through so I'll have some things to compare.
Attached images from the inspection. Some (potentially) relevant info from the inspection report/contractor. Photos of roof damage attached.
  • Style: Hip
  • Covering: Composition shingles, Architectural
  • Estimated age: 20+ years
  • Layers: 1
  • Flashings: Metal, composition, rubber
  • Skylights: Showing signs of leakage (see image attachment)
  • Sq footage: Contractor said he used ~34 (but it could be between 34-40)
I'm located in Western NY.
Quote: Complete main house roof tear off and new roof: $32k (before-tax) and $35k (after-tax).
  • Hang tarps and prep surroundings
  • Tear off complete main house roof to the wood deck.
  • Prep roof to receive new shingles.
  • Remove and replace any bad or deteriorating decking.
  • Hammer down and pull nails.
  • Remove old metal flashings.
  • Install ice and water shield 6 ft. up all eaves, over and onto fascia board behind gutters.
  • Carefully remove vinyl siding at sidewalls and set aside.
  • Install ice and water shield to the sidewalls, and 16 in. up the walls.
  • Install ice and water shield down all valleys, around all stack pipes, around skylights, around chimney, and any other roof penetrations.
  • The two valleys on the upper front dormer sides will be completely ice shielded where water staining is present due to snow building in this area.
  • Install synthetic titanium felt underlayment over rest of bare wood deck.
  • Step flash and counter flash chimney with aluminum coil stock.
  • Step flash all sidewalls with aluminum step flashing cards.
  • Flash around bay window roof in aluminum coil stock.
  • Remove and reinstall skylights with new flashing kits.
  • Install all new stack pipe flashing boots.
  • Install aluminum ODE wide-faced drip edge around the entire perimeter of roof (eaves/ rakes).
  • Install peel and stick asphalt starter roll over drip edge around the entire roof perimeter to break shingle joints.
  • The starter roll will be hung over drip edge a 1/4 in. to ensure water sheds into gutters properly.
  • Install lifetime asphalt architectural dimensional shingles over the entire roof with matching hip and ridge cap.
  • Inspect roof ventilation and install ridge vents and louver vents where needed to ensure proper ventilation.
  • Reinstall vinyl siding where previously removed to properly flash.
  • Re-roof over gazebo roof with matching shingles.
  • Remove just the ridge cap and the drip edge.
  • Install new ODE drip around perimeter.
  • Install matching lifetime shingles with matching hip and ridge cap.
  • Clean gutters of all debris.
  • Inspect them to make sure they are flowing and draining properly.
  • Cleanup and haul away all debris from site.
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2023.03.30 02:46 MyFifthSecretAcct Moved my reactive Yorkie from the loud city to a quiet rural area - but now he just seems to look for things to bark at and won’t poop in the yard?

I know I should count my blessings because my dog has chilled out a lot since he has less to bark at. But has anyone else encountered this?
My spouse and I used to live in NYC where our dog was a nightmare to walk. A month ago we moved to a large property in a quiet, wooded area. We don’t have a fence yet so we take him on leash to walk around our property (which is big - about 200ft wide and 300ft long) but it seems like he’s just looking around for things to bark at and he won’t go #2. Barely even pees. He either walks slowly staring in the distance, or aggressively pulls at the leash to go investigate a leaf blowing by. He also annoyingly tries to charge across the public road out front for whatever reason (there’s nothing but a hill with overgrown bushes on the other side).
We thought it was stress at first but when we take him to a nearby park that’s 5 minutes away he goes almost immediately. Unfortunately it’s not feasible to go there all the time and we end up having the same problem with him lunging at strollers by people also using the park.
I don’t get it and it’s honestly so demoralizing. Walks have always been something I dreaded and I’m really counting on him using the yard when the fence gets built (he’ll still get a ton of exercise in the space and we’ll go on hikes often). Today I was anxious driving home from work knowing I’d have to take him out. 😢
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2023.03.30 02:44 Dependent-Unit6091 Mana's Glade

They rode by night, sleeping what little they could in the hours before dawn each day. The land to the west seemed of little value: A stretch of flat, leveled desolation, overcome with dieback, wherein nothing flourished.
The sky hung in a low dark firmament all around them, star-spattered and electric. In the distance lightning strobed noiselessly and with such frequency that the tandem peals of thunder seemed dissonant, and altogether disconnected. The men watched in silence. The horses skittered and squealed nervously, bearing the stark white alabaster plates of their teeth in fear.
Osmand spoke of the natural world. Drafting with alacrity an overview of the universe and its slighter intricacies. That the destiny of the world had been decided at it's inception.
"The earth in all her glory lacks agency. Stones tumble where they are given. And the mind of man is much the same."
Elahan spat. "That's your way of it. Besides, it was not meant that man should know the order of the sky. Much less what is was like to do."
"Ever the lowly farmer seeks to predict the rain." Osmand answered in confidence. "And the turn of seasons is no idle thing. The moon wanes in regularity. If it was not man's place to know, then he has no right place at all. For what sober god in all his grand accounting would grant unto his children the gift and grace of curiosity, only to admonish them for pursuing it?"
The terrified horses dandled the riders in their saddles, and in the dark they resembled a pair of hopeless marionettes, driven to animus by their unseen creator.
"I'll not contest you in your blasphemies. Speak to me no more of this."
Osmand yielded the point with a delicate diplomacy, saying that the question had been put forth in earnest, and that all human knowledge was, in truth, based on speculation.

The parasitic root rot, who's genus had been so long in the ascendant, now faded, and gave way to subtle growth. The foliage thriving and expanding like a castigated people in refuge. The rising tide of flora greeted them from every turn. At first it merely choked their progress, then bloomed full, into a forest.
The treeline now before them stretched in a fixity for either direction until its boundaries were lost along the horizon: no right place where they might enter it, each possibility a replica of the one considered before. Everywhere a massive tangle of oaks and jungle vine and the deep seething pulse of life coming off the trees, as if somewhere deep in the heart of the glade lay something enormous and alive and breathing.
They followed a thin game-trail paved with the unshod hoof prints of wild ungulates, and the dainty tracks of smaller mammals in their goings. Surrounding them was a variety of foliage neither man could name, and from time to time Osmand would halt and dismount and press some exceptional flora between the pages of his notebooks. Much the botanist, he scrawled greedily for them names of his own invention.
The horses seemed at ease in this place, trotting alongside one another with their heads bent close and snickering like two brothers conversing. They browsed at their leisure on wild patches of grass that had never suffered the footfall of man. Elahan by contrast seemed ill-suited for this leg of the journey. He regarded the surroundings with open distrust, as if something lurid dithered in the fantasy of flowers that attended them.
At twilight they erected camp on the banks of a weak and shallow stream. They kept an enormous fire with which to combat the darkness. Osmand sat revising from his tomes tdhe days collection; Elahan alternately prayed and stood watch.
druids now emerged from the brush with little fanfare. A trio of filthy, painted hominids, denizens of a fevered dream. Blue-faced and solemn, clutching heavy lithic spears like troglodytic cave-dwellers. One of them was a woman and she alone had draped a withered deerskin around her waist with which to protect her modesty. The men bore antlered crowns and cloaks bedecked with bright feathers and money-shells and little black stones on a string bore through the center with god knows what. They stood just within the outer dark, like fugitive shades, as if in the warmth of the fire's embrace malingered something alien to them.
Elahan stood and unclipped the handle of his sword and watched them without speaking. Osmand sat motionless before the fire, a notebook slipping from his hand.
He was certain that if they spoke it would be no common tongue at all, until one of their numbers stepped forward, declaiming, "The outsider is much like the locust. Though oft appearing in small numbers, the swarm is sure to follow. Know that you are transgressors. We would have you leave this place."
Their pronunciations were characterized by a rough guttural utterance, and they spoke with little tact. They were altogether innocent of civilized trappings. Their matted hair fell in clutches.
Elahan in his resplendent armor seemed altogether luminous in the radiance of the animate flame. He looked like some otherworldly redeemer, and they as the set of lowly heathens he had come to scatter. "And who are you," He said, "That you might deny us passage? Surely the wood is no mans domain."
"And yet you incinerate her boughs, as if this was your claim. The arsonist is an enemy, and unwelcome. Besides, we are envoys of the Arch-Druid, the Druid-Mother, The Lady Aradia, who is keeper of this sacred place."
Elahan regarded them dimly, his brow raised in speculation. "Sacred? You mean to say you worship the woods in this place?"
Osmand snapped shut his book and secreted it away among the folds of his robe and stood. "You mean to say you are druids?" His eyes shone intensely.
"Where else might you best commune with that which made you? The true state of the world is a green expanse, in which flowers hold dominion. Would you have us believe that quartered stone is most pleasing to the eye? If you had not consumed this lie from birth, you would recognize its strangeness."
"In spite of this, I have seen in my life strangeness enough." Elahan said.
"And close at hand." Osmand quipped.
The druid continued. "It is a desecration of the mothers flesh. You gather her teeth in little piles. You wear her bones proudly upon your breast."
Elahan scowled. "You would have us worshiping the bones instead? You court damnation, truly."
"You, who have removed yourself from the ecology of your fathers, would lecture us? To remove yourself from the wheel is a fate worse than death. It is we who are reborn a thousand times."
"Aye, but none as slugs." Said Osmand, who had been widely read on the many and varied theories of druidic incarnation. "You in your conceit have been the bear, or stag, or noble lion. But which among you has been the wretched squealing boar?"
Of the two druids who had not spoken, the woman now stepped forward. "Perhaps your companion. Surely he is like enough to satisfy you."
Elahan scoffed, and drew himself up proudly.
"A thousand pagan tongues have cursed me. Like the faintest rays of sunlight upon the water, are the idle words of savages reflected."
At this the druids bristled. They clutched up their spears and the one who had remained silent thus far now emerged into a fierce ululation.
Their leader seemed to be considering the insult. "Savages? You, who reek with the vapor of smoke, would lecture us on civility?"
None spoke. A falcon sounded overheard, its voice thin and lost among the cirrus.
"No man restricts my movement. And any who seek to do so will know the truth of my faith."
Osmand now stepped forward. A thin band of solid orange flame coalesced around him, and the druids sprang back in surprise.
At this, a large and regal cat that had been lazing and watching these proceedings without apparent interest now stood and stretched and yammered loudly. The druids turned, regarding the animal with a certain deferential expression. For whatever reason, the druids refused to parley further, and sank wordlessly back into the woods. The cat now likewise retreated.
The ovate track of fire he had summoned now dissipated harmlessly, leaving him wavering slightly on his feet. He regarded the forest with a newfound weariness.
"I wasnt sure what all could be done to enhance the perils of our journey. But you seemed to have achieved all relevant possibilities on the matter."
Elahan clasped shut the hilt of his blade. He replied that the children of Mana were subject to none but Him, His Will, and that Osmand had been no still-tongued conciliator himself. Osmand shrugged, and yielded the point with a delicate diplomacy.

The days ahead would see them ride west, pursuing in its constant wanderlust the trembling eye of the sun. Navigating the forest highland with their eyes upturned like the primitive devotees of some forgotten solstic faith. Riding by day through stands of flowering golden acacia, and clutches of the pale and sinister moonflower at night. They camped on the banks of a lagoon colored roseate by the evening sun, then blanched white under the moon in its pale circumference as they slept. When they woke an egret was negotiating the break on its thin and slender stilts. It regarded them dimly with it's dull lacquered eyes.
From high on that forest shelf and in the pre-dawn light, they spotted smoke roiling upward in the vast panorama of the valley below. A clutch of flames burned uncontrolled somewhere deep in the heart of the woodland basin.
"Perhaps the druids." Elahan said. "Sat in ambush against us."
Osmand studied the flames in quiet supposition. He shrugged.
"Perhaps." He offered.
Elahan regarded him in vague disgust but spoke no more on the subject. They mounted and rode on. They would descend that morning onto the low valley floor, where they endured with less and less equanimity the constant squabbling of birds, in contest over some perch. Iridescent green boas hung from the low branches like twists of ersatz kudzu. Crouched in the undergrowth were the squat frames of ocelots, where they awaited with great discretion the missteps of more manageable prey. And in the dark, richly-coloured barn owls streaked overhead like faded and ghostly comets.

The next day they rode through a mining camp the druids had destroyed. it's laborers had been slaughtered, and deposited along with their implements into the central pit of operation, like so much chaff. Their gore-slaked corpses lay in a great heap at the bottom of that cauldron, wherein all differences had been resolved and none had been granted exception from that communal fate. As if the druids had gone about the massacre like something stipulated long ago by their forefathers, and the miners as the bloodborne legatees come to fulfill that ancestral debt. Some had been scalped, or left with bloodied lidless eyes with which to regard the cycling horizons forever, until they were dried and gone, or eaten from their heads by what carrion beasts lurked beyond the outer wood.
"Oh my God." Elahan said. 
In one corner of the camp stood the miners' meagre dwellings. It was just a clutch of sagging wooden huts sinking back into the mud. Beyond that a goatyard sat empty, the enclosure replete with prints and the dry round droppings of what stock had once populated it. Freshly laid on a table nearby were plates of roasted shoat, and baskets of hardtack, and simple glass carafes filled with meads or beers or wine. As if the two riders had encroached upon some ghostly woodland bacchanal, that could hardly have been said to have existed at all without their witnessing it. As if the spirits of the world gathered here in secret colloquoy, where they might conspire against the mortal realm.
In one of the huts the druids had festooned a man with feather bundles and daubed all along his naked body a number of twisted and outlandish symbols. The man had died on his side with his legs and arms curled against him like some late spider. And frozen in his countenance was a certain madness, and he too had been divested of his eyelids. Such was his state that it seemed as if he'd been no victim of the druids at all, but a hapless wanderer who in his travels had come up against the raw edge of the universe, past which loomed such primordial beings that any mind attempting their encapsulation was left deaf and dumb and gibbering.
"Let's go on." Elahan said.
"What does it say of God, that they might die in this way? Each of these faithful, having lived a storied life..."
"You would know the Will of God?" Elahan answered. "You would know His mind, as you do the will of the stars and moon and stone?"
"I can know only what I see. That this was the long arc of their existence. That they might live, so they could die scrabbling against the walls of that pit like terrified cats."
"Hold your blasphemous tongue. Or I wll have it out."
That was the extent of their counsel. They mounted up and rode on, neither of them keen to stay on in that place.

I'd appreciate some help with transitioning between paragraphs and events. Like when the druids first show up. I feel like the transitions are too sudden or jarring.

I also am trying to reproduce the style and feel of the bible and ancient history texts, to lend weight to my fantasy world. The story is more about the characters religious changes in response to world events. Id like the plot to be in the background, its more about how the two main characters change as people. Any help on how to achieve this would be helpful because its really hard for me, lol.

Thank you for reading.
I also dont know how to format on reddit and im not even on mobile lol
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