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writing this on (3/29) , so theres a lot to uncover here. i havent had something like this happen before so i am kinda confused on the process and what to do.
a little over a month ago (2/23) i had a listing up on website grailed selling a pair of my shoes off of there. someone buys them and i give the package to a ups drop location (i have done this plenty of times before with no problem). tracking info updates to waiting on ups to pick up item. days go by with no update and me and buyer are both confused about this.
buyer paid using paypal and filed a claim with them after a couple of weeks without update and won claim and got his refund for the package , at this point i am now out on my money and the package.
i call ups to help me open an investigation on the package and after that process they were not able to locate it so i got sent a claim form via email.
i fill everything out correctly and request that package value was $446.38, as that was how much i now owed paypal.
i now have a email saying that my amount for reimbursement was only $107.98 and i am confused as to why. i call ups support and they say that the package was not insured so that was the max amount that i could get back (i didnt have an option to insure it or not as the label was created through grailed.)
they suggested that i contact grailed to see if they would give me the rest of the reimbursement as they were the ones to apparently not insure the package.
is there any advice on what to do in the situation? am i going to get my money back? is it best to just be patient? any question or comments help. thanks.

Basically if you write an angry "manifesto" society labels you as "bad".
Why? If everyone is always content, how are we going to bring awareness to brainwashing and injustice?
How do we know that the authorities and "powers to be" aren't BRAINWASHING us to think and act in a certain way and making anyone "discontent" to be an outcast, a danger, a threat to society(when really they are just a threat to the "powers to be"?)

This is a rant
While I would say Nadia has been one of the smartest characters on the show, her impulsiveness to do random shit without putting a single thought into it kind of cancels out the smarts. Yes, I do love the whole academic smart ass type thing she’s got going but when push comes to shove, first of all, nosy as hell and second, ABSOLUTELY the same as a headless chicken running around.
Yes, super nice of her to do all the stuff she did for Marianne but let’s be serious, it could’ve gone worse so much earlier when she’d be snooping around anyways and doing her research on Joe. She’s lucky she got out of it easy. She brought her ending on herself and it was obvious. Joes an experienced murderer, how in the hell would he not really miss Nadia hunting through his flat. I don’t think Nadia will come in for season5 however, she’d be too frightened to take a step for herself

I guess I'm having a brain fart, so could someone please explain to me how, If you are in debt, and inflation is "eating away at the debt"
IE: debt at this time will be proportionally less in the future as the value of the dollar decreases.
However, If you are at the top of your career, and will never make more than you are currently making, and have no appreciating assets, how does the debt ever decrease with inflation if these other factors stay static?

Hi so I’ve been doing some research on how to improve my credit score and saw the method on using your statement date and payment due date. While also keeping utilization as well. In my situation how would I do this I’m a bit confused. My payment due date is the 2nd of every month but I’m unsure which date is my statement closed. On my statement for March it said the dates were from Feb 7-March 6. Which date would be the closing for next month?
For my next cycle this April, should I pay my full balance on the 1st or 2nd and before my statement closes, which should be the 6th or 7th, have a .5 utilization before then? So make a small purchase.

I want to start off by saying that I know my MIL isn’t as bad as some of the posts here. I’m not sure if she is a mildlyno and I’m dramatic/hormonal or if she is a justno.
A few major things over the years that make me think this: - We lived with in-laws for about six months after I graduated college. Husband got metal in his eye, MIL got mad at him for calling out of work because he would be “disappointing the company”. Constantly tried to monitor his days off. - Got mad at us for wanting to elope. Husband thought it would be a good idea to tell his parents before we eloped (I know, I know). She ignored us for days and then FIL made us apologize and basically forced us to invite her. She ruined the day (I was still trying to keep the peace and save husbands relationship with them) - Asks misleading questions to trick us into agreeing. For example: “how many days off do you have this year” and when my husband answers she says “ok I planned a vacation for xyz” and when I tell her no, I’m treated like a villain. - Treats BIL soo much better than husband. Paid for his college in full, gave him a $20k car, lets him complain about work. Will not even buy us a high chair for baby. They make close to half a million per year. Even requested husband give his Christmas gift to BIL. - Bullies husband for enjoying video games. Treats him like he is worthless for having a personality and for being a blue collar worker (she doesn’t have a degree either?)
There are so many more things I can’t even remember but I have been able to sweep them under the rug until now. When we announced our pregnancy, we told her no social media/sharing. Before she even said congrats, she was messaging everyone in her contacts list to tell them. She surprisingly hasn’t posted to fb but she asks us every few weeks. She also started messaging me non-stop out of nowhere. She thinks we’re besties or something and I really just don’t want to talk to her or have a close relationship. I stopped replying as much and told husband we really need to start setting boundaries now because I know it’s going to be impossible when baby is here.
He agrees and I told him I’d skip out on Easter this year to just test the waters and slowly start putting up walls. Husband told her I wouldn’t be there and she ignored his text and had her pity party. She then texted him while he was at work to get info out of him. He tried to give explanations to keep the peace (he has since learned to not do this) and it seems to have made things worse.
I already know she is going to be mad that we aren’t having visitors for a few weeks after birth and I think she is expecting to come over regularly. We are also rotating holidays after this year since I never get to see my family and she dictates them every year. We have both agreed to go no/low contact if she has an issue with this.
What is hurting me now is that my husband is starting to feel the effects. He has been reflecting on his childhood more and realizing MIL has destroyed his self confidence and has made him feel inadequate. He is actively trying to accept that he will never receive validation from her. And it just pisses me off because he is the best human and her comments have hurt him long before I was around. She thinks our baby is a trophy to show off because all she cares about is having a picture perfect life online. I’m just tired of having anxiety over this.

Like many of us have experienced with today's (March 29) update, we often find ourselves on the bus skipping the pre-game lobby/waiting area all together.
After trying to figure out what was causing this for a few hours today, I realized by simply turning off Nanite, the game loads fast again. Obviously not a "fix" since Nanite looks fantastic and also disables Lumen too which makes it twice the loss, but it's how I've had to run the game to avoid starting on the bus often near the edge of the map.
I'd be interested to hear if this works for others too, maybe we can help Epic actually correct what broke since everything was fine yesterday.

i was watching some video on YouTube which talked about the shows poor handling of the homeworld gems and i have to agree that lapis and peridot were not utilized fully. and it occurred to me, that had lapis and peridot had flipped arcs in the show, things would have played out a lot better. so here is how it probably would have played out if lapis took up peridots spot on the crystal gems as the main source of redemption, and peridot remained very logical and hallow.
lapis: i think this timeline starts where if lapis cracked gem was never healed. this would have trapped her on earth. (yes Steven would convince her to give the ocean back, its his show it would have happened) i think "same old world" would happen shortly after, (changing its position in the timeline) to a smaller extent, with Steven showing lapis around beach city and her eventually settling on the barn because of her hatred for the crystal gems. "the return" would be placed as it already is, but i think lapis would have somehow gotten on the hand ship, most likely as a stole away, thinking its her one and only ticket back home, then after the ship crashes, jasper realizes she's effectively trapped, and try's to get lapis to fuse with her, only for lapis to refuse, having no bearing for jasper at this point. jasper then runs away. lapis then stays in the barn for the remaining time, up until the gems and peridot go there to try and work on the drill. lapis stays fairly uninvolved, but with her being there, she inevitably starts getting involved in conversation. eventually has her own version of "log date 7 15 2", where she learns not only how good earth is, but that the crystal gems are not the postotic revolutionary's that homeworld portrayed them as, effectively shattering (no pun intended) the vison of homeworld she knows, making her more willing to question her loyalty and think for herself. (i think this concept especially would have been good to explore given we don't see much of how the rebellion was viewed by homeworld prior to the actual gem war) and i think over time, we see her start to possibly entertain being on missions like the moonbase in "it could have been great" for example. "barn mates" would have probably had flipped roles, with peridot being much more antagonistic towards lapis and more unwiling to remain on earth, while lapis is kind of just taking it day to day. then by the time "diamond days" rolls around, lapis's willingness to join the gems and bere a star would have been more warrented.
peridot: peridots arc would have remained the same for the most part, however i think what would have changed would be if after she was cought and bubbled, her limb enhancers were kept around, probably under garnet saying so by foreseeing there importance. then when steven releases her, the gems offer that, in exchange for solving the issue of the cluster, they'll give her the limb enhancers back. she then obliges to it, only for her own self preservation and dependency on the limb enhancers. over the course of the cluster arc, peridot continues to live in her own mindset, blocking out the earth in favor of finishing the drill and getting the limb enhancers back. during this version of "it could have been great ", peridot steals the diamond communicator, but it is promptly broken (I'm gonna say, probably by lapis in a fit of rage, going on about how homeworld lied to them and peridot is an idiot for continuing to believe it.) the cluster is then taken care of, and peridot is not given the limb enhancers back as a punishment for the communicator. she is understandably angry. "when it rains" would mark the beginning of peridots redemption arc, with her learning that earth isn't a huge waste of time and potential, but its blooming with life and beauty. it would be placed after barn mates, and over time, we learn about peridots dependence on the limb enhancers because of era 2 and blah blah blah. essentially, peridot remains the way she always has been, very sterile and reserved, however she more or less aligns herself with the crystal gems by the time the diamonds atack, however i don't think she ever joins them like lapis does in this timeline. i also think that it would have made for a better storyline if the gems offered to give her the limb enhancers back by the end of the season, but with her discovering her metal bending and learning to live without them, she would have said no.

I’ve been working at this company for 8 months. They have been more than unfair with me and others. I’ve been having a weird feeling around my superiors that I’m going to get fired soon for no reason other than that I’m not quite like the rest of the company staff. I’m a productive salesman (make them 6-figures a month) but I got consistently disrespected. I don’t make commission at all either. I’m the only college educated person. Honestly their practices are just bad and mismanaged.
Im scheming up a way to get the beat on them before they let me go. They produce products that are generally not supported by liberal media and I have info that could cripple their operation badly. I want to threaten the company by exposing them to liberal media any way I can unless they give me adequate severance.
How could I go about doing this?

Fuck yes! Back in PDX
Things have been hell since the beginning of this month. Since then, I’ve been the sickest I’ve ever been (norovirus), had a seizure (yet to be confirmed, but that’s what it looked like. Fuck you for handling it so poorly and not recording outside of what you snap chatted your ex gf/best friend without my consent and didn’t even save it. Now I have a EEG coming up for testing to see if it really was a seizure or what.), been constipated af, missed my period by 4 weeks, and have hella acne.
(And fuck you for JOing right next to me, without my consent. And no apology. Just saying “But I didn’t touch you!” Right after, the night prior, we had a conversation about the importance of consent. And we’ve been hooking up for 8 months. Fuck you for that, and the rest. But I’m not typing that out, I don’t want to relive it and you hurt me deliberately. You know what you did.)
Today my doctor said stress is the most likely cause. After I talked to her, after I left your space, I took an awesome shit and got my period. RELEASE! My doctor mentioned it might be tics, idk, either way it sucks. But Tourette’s is ~trendy~ now so fuck it, either way I’ll find a solution.
Getting my meds rebalanced soon.
I had to leave you early and it cost me $400 I don’t have, and I’m probably going to be homeless soon. But it’s worth it. You were literally killing me. You broke my mind and spirit, and my body followed. I wish I could throw your ass in prison for all you did, and this ,essentially, attempted murder. You are a caretaker, you know not to do what you did to me.
I set up a go fund me. I got a job, and it’s gonna be paying well. I have tomorrow off so I can go get the resources I need from when I called 211. You are on the downhill and it’s easy to see. That’s why you hated on me so much, I’ve surpassed you in less than a year.
Just have to make it through May and I’ll be across the finish line. Proudly, loudly, what I’ve wanted to say for a long time,
FUCK YOU DAVID W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have fun fucking up your kid, getting nowhere with your career, and indulging the ex you’ve broken up with however many times. You’re moving back home, and I think the symbolism in that is beautiful.

I feel a little more calm Smoking in the car Right now... Thinking... Breathing... Allowing myself to succumb To stream of consciousness Thinking... One thing leads to the next And to the next And so on... Letting the stream flow... I've always felt Particularly content In any vehicle I've owned... That first iconic symbol of freedom... Even better than the first time, As a kid, You're allowed to ride your bike Farther than your driveway, Your block, The township... Long night drives On winding backroads... Radio on... Usually... Not lately... Still waiting For the music to come back... I can hear it's faint heart beat Slowly getting stronger... In high school, The music was Pink Floyd... Everything from the Syd Barrett days To about The Wall, When Roger Waters Split with the group... Artistic differences And power struggles, Ego clashes... Just like a real divorce... Sometimes emotions can be too brittle, And eventually shatter... Well, I shattered... No tears, thanks to modern medicine... Came close though... This time... Free falling through space... Zero gravity... The Earth getting Smaller and smaller... It's okay, though... I've been in this position Countless times by now... I always Find my way back to Earth... Got to start making better choices... Or, more precisely, Different decisions... I've patched things up With duct tape and glue guns before... Kept the craft airtight In the cold vacuum of outer-space... Waiting for my orbit to Eventually decay... My fortress of solitude... My motor-vehicle... Sometimes my home At certain times in my past... So I sit here, Outside the new apartment With the engine idling... Thinking... Letting things go... Embracing the new... Turning another page... Listening to the Engine hum.... Sitting in my Jeep...
https://jsyandow.blogspot.com/2020/12/fortress-of-solitude.html

I feel a little more calm Smoking in the car Right now... Thinking... Breathing... Allowing myself to succumb To stream of consciousness Thinking... One thing leads to the next And to the next And so on... Letting the stream flow... I've always felt Particularly content In any vehicle I've owned... That first iconic symbol of freedom... Even better than the first time, As a kid, You're allowed to ride your bike Farther than your driveway, Your block, The township... Long night drives On winding backroads... Radio on... Usually... Not lately... Still waiting For the music to come back... I can hear it's faint heart beat Slowly getting stronger... In high school, The music was Pink Floyd... Everything from the Syd Barrett days To about The Wall, When Roger Waters Split with the group... Artistic differences And power struggles, Ego clashes... Just like a real divorce... Sometimes emotions can be too brittle, And eventually shatter... Well, I shattered... No tears, thanks to modern medicine... Came close though... This time... Free falling through space... Zero gravity... The Earth getting Smaller and smaller... It's okay, though... I've been in this position Countless times by now... I always Find my way back to Earth... Got to start making better choices... Or, more precisely, Different decisions... I've patched things up With duct tape and glue guns before... Kept the craft airtight In the cold vacuum of outer-space... Waiting for my orbit to Eventually decay... My fortress of solitude... My motor-vehicle... Sometimes my home At certain times in my past... So I sit here, Outside the new apartment With the engine idling... Thinking... Letting things go... Embracing the new... Turning another page... Listening to the Engine hum.... Sitting in my Jeep...
https://jsyandow.blogspot.com/2020/12/fortress-of-solitude.html

Me (35F) and boyfriend has been travelling for over a year, spending almost all our time together.
The other day we were on the road and there was a flight we were to take and he asked me what day to take that flight and what to do the next day. I mentioned a day and didn’t say so much more about our schedule for the next days before the flight.
I mentioned I slept really poorly the night before, so wasn’t too much in the mood to make plans. There are several flights to the new destination, so it wasn’t critical. Also, the stayed at the place of someone in his family for the duration before the flight, which meant I wasn’t sure what the other guy wanted to do etc. They hadn’t seen each other in ages.
He completely snapped at me “I don’t know how to say this, but we need to get better at planning. You don’t make plans and schedule things. I feel like I’m a tour guide and you’re just here for the ride. I don’t want someone like that in my life, like (name of his cousin), I would not want to spend my life with someone like that. (His cousin is so whimsical and unstructured etc).”
I was really hurt by it, I do a lot of suggestions etc for restaurants, places to go etc. He is admittantly better at panning than me though. But sometimes he even gets angry when I come with suggestions and he doesn’t want to do it. I mean, he could just say no, but instead he gets angry.
He snaps easily, also at other people in his life. I told him I’ll try to get better at it, and also that when he gets angry when I come with suggestions, it makes me nervous. Also that I think it’s harder to do big planning when we meet people he knows I’ve never met before. I’m afraid he is thinking of breaking up.
2 months ago he said he is happy with me (when I asked), he even said that he could see himself having a child with me. And this issue isn’t new, but now he exploded. I’m not sure how to take it other than trying to work on improving it. I’m completely depended on him now for money etc, as I don’t have an income.
Tl:dr Boyfriend snapped at me and got really mad and it made me wonder if he wants to break up due to the way he said it

I have a g923 Playstation version that i use to play gt7 on my ps4 but i also have a xbox series x and i’m trying to connect the g923 to it using drivehub. I updated the drivehub firmware to latest and now to latest beta. But still having the same problem. Steps: 1 -Connect my xbox wireless controller to drivehub 2- connect g923 ps version to drivehub 3- connect drivehub to xbox series x
After connecting the drivehub to xbox series x the wheel enter into calibration mode and start spinning. the drivehub shows the letters “G923 G923 E” stuck on E. And there is no response from g923 on xbox….
Do you have any tip on how to make it work???
Thanks in advance.

I had a friend of mine, we used to be friends but not anymore due to some things that had happened. I won't go into it, but it definitely left me in this feeling of isolation because it felt like I wasn't given a chance to talk about my side of a story. Yet they also mocked me when I was telling them my genuine side of a story which involved the misconceptions of a note that I had a wrote which was a suicidal one, and they basically just printed it out as something else.
And for the longest time I've developed a bit of an obsession with them, in the way of like I became scared of them because I saw them as a friend of mine. And for the few last years I've tried my best to purge them out of my mind, and it's kind of scaring me how I'm still nervous when I think about them. I guess what I'm trying to say is, does anyone else just feel nervous about a certain someone that they may have met in real life for online, I'm afraid to even go to conventions now because I don't know if people think of me badly or something. Yeah I know that I'm Just a Nobody and I'm not a big celebrity, but even then if I was I would just be riddled with anxiety because OCD really does screw you up with your past mistakes on the net. It really isn't fun, I want to clarify that I'm not even texting this out, I'm actually doing a voice message to text because I genuinely just feel like venting this out verbally.
Although I know a lot of people suffer from this, it really does feel like you're alone sometimes because a lot of the things that I worry about just feel like no one can relate with. But I feel like that's normal with anything because for me it's always been OCD and being afraid of this and that, or checking this and trying to be as best as sure as I can when it comes too things. And it all stems from past mistakes I did when I was younger, when I genuinely didn't have the hindsight or knowledge about something, if you guys just want to know the truth I was canceled because of these mistakes. I don't want to go until what they were because quite frankly I'm already making myself uncomfortable even making this post, I'm not trying to Garner sympathy or even try to make myself feel like a good guy or something yet what I will say, is that I've made my mistakes, but I will not deny that there have been times where I genuinely do feel like I was not given a chance if that makes sense. I know I'm just going off the rails, but again this is just more of a vent and also just if anyone can relate to this even by a bit, because again it really does feel like I'm isolated. And then I'm realizing every day that I just genuinely don't like groups of people anymore, and the fact that I'm scared of like one or a few people out of the 7 billion people living right now breathing and talking and, I think there's actually 8 billion. The point is, if anyone can relate, or if anyone can just kind of you know anything... thanks.

With the Red Sox having two potential ROY candidates in Casas and Yoshida this year, I think it's interesting to note how it could affect the Red Sox draft in 2024 for anyone that cares about that stuff. With the new CBA there is a part that grants the team with the ROY winner a pick directly after the first round as it will in the upcoming draft with the Mariners for Julio. However, this clause only activates if the player was ranked in 2 out of 3 of BA, MLB, or ESPN's top prospects. MLB and ESPN don't rank Japanese players which would make Yoshida ineligible, but would make Casas eligible. I hope they both have breakout years and help this team get to October but if only one can be ROY I'd want it to be Casas.
Obviously tomorrow is opening day and none of this may ever matter but thought it was interesting that this is how the CBA was written up to reward teams for calling up prospects and figured I'd share to anyone who's interested in the draft or player development.

I don’t see my parents and when I avoid them I find my nervous system slows down. I find pockets of peace and calm.
I’m quite agoraphobic. I don’t like being out much and the longer I go without being out the harder it is when I go out.
I see pretty girls in nice outfits and realise I don’t make the effort anymore. I see old friends who are happy and I feel so ashamed of myself for being single and lonely.
The pace of life is too much for me and I retreat back home where I can control my environment and avoid triggers.
Today I think I saw my mum in the car and it made me suddenly feel overwhelmed with all these emotions. I can’t even understand what they are.
It’s like I want to scream at her for everything wrong in my life, I want to run away, I want her to understand me and help me but know she can’t do that because she’s too affected by her own feelings. I feel unable to ground myself and the world feels unfamiliar and strange and I don’t know who I am.
I know it’s a trauma response. I know it’s the fight and flight mode. I know that when I avoid my issues they get bigger when I’m forced to confront them. I know all of this but I still am stuck going about life in a dysfunctional way.
The way I feel is I want to give up. Collapse. The world to end. I want that nuke to be land on my house. I want to pain to stop.
My mum and dad are too emotionally immature. A good example is that they went travelling last year and left me with no other family support for months. They did it at Christmas time too.
So after that I felt very hurt and decided I had to survive on my own. And I’ve thrived doing that. No doubt if they asked why I don’t want to be close with them and I used the example that I will continue to be left alone without any family so I don’t want to get used to having that only for it to end when it suits them.
A typical response would be “we’re allowed to travel. We’re not doing anything wrong”. Which is true, so that’s why I choose to keep my distance and be independent of them so it doesn’t affect me the way it did.
But the response they should have is “I understand how you would feel alone and lonely without anyone here and that’s your coping mechanism. I don’t want to make you feel worse by leaving you. “

i'm an attention seeker and tend to base my self worth on how many likes, how much interactions i have on social media, and irl how many people i can make interested in a convo if i'm unsuccessful i feel sick and upset and blame people when the issue is really me. i hate myself for this, and my family calling me an attention seeker isn't any better, it's just a constant reminder about how dependent my self worth is on others And it's nearly impossible to do tasks by myself because make me depressed if no one compliments me or prides me on doing it I also tend to be really defensive and can't take criticism without crying bawling and at rare times vomiting, i can't take it i hate when people do it they might yell at me it's so loud i hate it.

[TW:mentions of p*poplia and Sexulizeation of school girls]
I personally think now that the uniforms could stay as long as they aren't sexulized.The fact that the uniform looks really tight,has really short skirts[Especially on the gyarus]and the fact that the way its drawn makes it look like it was purposely sexulized.Of course anime does this but honestly that shows that anime itself has a problem of sexulizeing schoolgirls.
While the uniforms are inaccurate I think that doesn't matter really because if were considering for explain a catholic middle school uniform was used as the uniform for my highschool characters if were considering as long as they aren't sexulized they don't cause that much harm to catholic children because they are changed in the name of fiction for asthetic reasons and not ment to appeal to those people[Aka pedos].If those people do get horny thats not the fault of the creator because they weren't intended for that purpose.Thats like saying its someones fault because someone killed someone because there game inspired a murder.As long as the game depicted the violence in there game as morally bad and has told there fanbase to not do whats in there game then there fine.The games purpose wasn't to cause violence like how the other game with high schoolers wearing catholic middle school uniforms wasn't meant to make people horny.
I personally think that the uniform should be looser and have a knee length skirt with maybe long sleeves