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Alright, so hi, everyone.
I've been single longer than I'd like to admit- and I'm sick of it.
I don't want it any more.
I want to share stuff with someone. I want to share life with someone. Someone I can kiss. Hold. Make laugh with terrible jokes, ridiculous stories, and my stupid fake Irish accent I slip into without realising it. Someone I can associate with places and feelings and songs. Someone who'll come to my mind, completely unbidden, and linger there for a while. Someone who I can read bits of my favourite books to. Someone I can recite poems for. Write poems for, too, come to think of it. Someone I can cook for. Someone I can make memories with.
I want someone I can hand my heart to, and say 'here, you take this, it belongs to you now'.
I don't expect much to come of this. I don't really think I expect anything to come of this. I haven't told you any cold hard facts about myself, so how would you even know if you'd like me or not? Here, see if these help you decide; my favourite colour is purple, my favourites animals are the okapi, the red panda, and my favourite birds are herons and hoopoes because they're fun to say. I'm scared of the dark but I can't sleep unless there's no light around anywhere. I love old musicals and romantic comedies. I am a huge romantic at heart( no, duh). I love cats, but I'm terrified of dogs- though I'm getting over it, bit by bit. I'm scared of spiders but I'm trying to stop that.
I like simple things, like the feel of clothes right out of the dryer, or the taste of the first sip of water when you’re really thirsty. I like the sound of wind rushing through tall grass, and the feel of mud between my toes. I like drinking chilled apple juice (with cinnamon, or elderflower, or both) on a hot day, and hot chocolate with cinnamon and nutmeg on a cold one. I like watching cheesy old movies in the middle of the night, and reality shows about cops or ambulance people during the day. I like shining a torch under my chin and pretending to be a ghost when it’s really dark. I like pretending I’m a mad scientist during thunderstorms; when I'm not busy being utterly terrified of them. I like to order in numerical order when I get a takeaway; so one time, I’ll get 87, the next 88. I like to pretend the car I'm in has lasers coming out of the side of it, and anything that gets in the way gets sliced. I like to people watch. I like to stop once in a while, and really think about what it'd be like to have a hook; would I be a pirate, or would I hire myself out as a freelance backscratcher? I like to wave at trains, swear at helicopters, and salute planes; sometimes I mix it up a little, though. I like to stick my tongue out and catch snowflakes, or try and get a mouthful of raindrops. I like to pretend I can talk to animals, though I'm far from being Dr Dolittle.
Some stuff I've done and seen recently to act as conversation starters:
I've watched Crazy Ex Girlfriend (and boy do I have thoughts), and the first few eps of The Last Of Us. I'm also watching, or rewatching Wynonna Earp, Killjoys, Coupling, three different Star Trek shows, Lucifer, and Bosch.
I've recently read Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive and Mistborn series, Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastard books, Rothfuss' Kingkiller chronicles, everything by Brent Weeks, and the Emaneska books by Ben Galley. It's safe to say I totally have a literary type.
I've listened (in the past) to a ton of the Thrilling Adventure Hour podcast, and absolutely need someone to agree with me about how Sparks Nevada is the greatest thing ever. Also about how it's bullshit that you have to donate to be able to hear the whole back catalogue.
I've been playing a fair bit of several games that I've modded the hell out of. Minecraft, Fallout 4, Skyrim, Rimworld. Also Hitman, and Red Dead Redemption 2. Cyberpunk. Also I'm playing my way through the Dead Rising games. Like two thirds of my computer storage is just games. The last game I completed was the main game and dlc if Resident Evil Village. I've also been playing Animal Crossing, too.
I'm just looking, really, for some conversation. Whether that's as friends, or as something more, so be it. I miss having someone to share my life with- though my life is pretty boring at present, so be warned. Mostly, I miss the comfort of knowing there's someone out there who'd give a damn, really.

I currently have an A50 headset which I use with my desktop, which I love but am looking for a secondary headset for my laptop/ on the go. the A40 looks fairly similar to the A50 in terms of adjustability, but its a wired headset, which puts it out of the running for me. The A30 looks nice, but I'm wondering how much it adjusts as I tend to keep the A50 nearly fully extended (have a big head).
Final question, are the ear cups of similar size to the A50? I like that they completely envelop my ears rather than sitting on top of them like most headsets I've tried in the past.

This is a repost that got taken down from the r\Physics subredit.
Hey everyone, I am looking for advice and opinions. Sorry for the disordered thoughts.
I´m a first year MS student specializing in classical canonical gravity and I´m quite interested in the field of quantum gravity [QG] as a whole as well as a few other branches of mathematical physics (String theory [ST] or deformation quantization for example).
I´ve had the idea of doing a PhD in theoretical physics since i was 16 (I´m 23 now) and doing research in this highly mathematical fields. Of course I didn´t know nearly enough to justify wanting to go this route back then, but from everything I´ve learned in UG and so far in my MS, I´m just extremely curious about fully studying and understanding topics like LQG or ST and contribuiting something even if very little.
The thing is, I am aware that there isn´t much work (even less well paid) in mathematical physics and even less in areas deeply related to QG, besides in my country it also is usual for scientists to wait up to 10 years (sometimes more) after finishing their PhD for a tenured position and thus decent pay, so I wouldn´t mind leaving academia at some point to find an industry job with a much better workload-pay ratio in a field such as Data Science [DS] or any other math-heavy related job.
I chose to do an MS in this area and right after undergrad [UG] because I wanted to keep learning physics since I felt there was so much more to understand and because I wanted to learn more about areas related to my UG research (minimal length brane cosmology).
I have considered working an industry job while doing a PhD but I´m not sure it´s reasonable given the crazy workload I´d have. I´ve also considered working in industry for a few years to get a feel for it and experience in my CV so if I´m still interested in a PhD after, I´ll just get it and once I finish I´ll be able to pick right up where I left industry since I´d already have a few years of experience, but I´m not sure it´s a good idea, besides I´m scared that PhD admissions will be harsh due to me being slightly older and not coming fresh out of an MS.
Is anyone else in a similar situation? What would you do? Thanks for reading me :)

Alright, so hi, everyone.
I've been single longer than I'd like to admit- and I'm sick of it.
I don't want it any more.
I want to share stuff with someone. I want to share life with someone. Someone I can kiss. Hold. Make laugh with terrible jokes, ridiculous stories, and my stupid fake Irish accent I slip into without realising it. Someone I can associate with places and feelings and songs. Someone who'll come to my mind, completely unbidden, and linger there for a while. Someone who I can read bits of my favourite books to. Someone I can recite poems for. Write poems for, too, come to think of it. Someone I can cook for. Someone I can make memories with.
I want someone I can hand my heart to, and say 'here, you take this, it belongs to you now'.
I don't expect much to come of this. I don't really think I expect anything to come of this. I haven't told you any cold hard facts about myself, so how would you even know if you'd like me or not? Here, see if these help you decide; my favourite colour is purple, my favourites animals are the okapi, the red panda, and my favourite birds are herons and hoopoes because they're fun to say. I'm scared of the dark but I can't sleep unless there's no light around anywhere. I love old musicals and romantic comedies. I am a huge romantic at heart( no, duh). I love cats, but I'm terrified of dogs- though I'm getting over it, bit by bit. I'm scared of spiders but I'm trying to stop that.
I like simple things, like the feel of clothes right out of the dryer, or the taste of the first sip of water when you’re really thirsty. I like the sound of wind rushing through tall grass, and the feel of mud between my toes. I like drinking chilled apple juice (with cinnamon, or elderflower, or both) on a hot day, and hot chocolate with cinnamon and nutmeg on a cold one. I like watching cheesy old movies in the middle of the night, and reality shows about cops or ambulance people during the day. I like shining a torch under my chin and pretending to be a ghost when it’s really dark. I like pretending I’m a mad scientist during thunderstorms; when I'm not busy being utterly terrified of them. I like to order in numerical order when I get a takeaway; so one time, I’ll get 87, the next 88. I like to pretend the car I'm in has lasers coming out of the side of it, and anything that gets in the way gets sliced. I like to people watch. I like to stop once in a while, and really think about what it'd be like to have a hook; would I be a pirate, or would I hire myself out as a freelance backscratcher? I like to wave at trains, swear at helicopters, and salute planes; sometimes I mix it up a little, though. I like to stick my tongue out and catch snowflakes, or try and get a mouthful of raindrops. I like to pretend I can talk to animals, though I'm far from being Dr Dolittle.
Some stuff I've done and seen recently to act as conversation starters:
I've watched Crazy Ex Girlfriend (and boy do I have thoughts), and the first few eps of The Last Of Us. I'm also watching, or rewatching Wynonna Earp, Killjoys, Coupling, three different Star Trek shows, Lucifer, and Bosch.
I've recently read Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive and Mistborn series, Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastard books, Rothfuss' Kingkiller chronicles, everything by Brent Weeks, and the Emaneska books by Ben Galley. It's safe to say I totally have a literary type.
I've listened (in the past) to a ton of the Thrilling Adventure Hour podcast, and absolutely need someone to agree with me about how Sparks Nevada is the greatest thing ever. Also about how it's bullshit that you have to donate to be able to hear the whole back catalogue.
I've been playing a fair bit of several games that I've modded the hell out of. Minecraft, Fallout 4, Skyrim, Rimworld. Also Hitman, and Red Dead Redemption 2. Cyberpunk. Also I'm playing my way through the Dead Rising games. Like two thirds of my computer storage is just games. The last game I completed was the main game and dlc if Resident Evil Village. I've also been playing Animal Crossing, too.
I'm just looking, really, for some conversation. Whether that's as friends, or as something more, so be it. I miss having someone to share my life with- though my life is pretty boring at present, so be warned. Mostly, I miss the comfort of knowing there's someone out there who'd give a damn, really.

This bed is too big
It is very lonely
This is lonely
It's too big
A sea of quilt
Swelling over me like waves
This bed is too big
It's lonely here
My hearts a ship but all the winds gone out of my sail
I don't think I can tread this kind of water
Thick and heavy like syrup or iron
At the same time earthen and dark
Grief is harsh and twisting like a punch to the gut that makes a sound like thunder
This bed is too big
All I want is someone near me, hands crossing waves like Ellis Island families torn and shorn
Held and ripped by grief at once
Warm skin in my bed
Held and ripped by grief at once
Soft hair on pillows
Held and ripped by grief at once
Held up by swelling quilted foam
We're coated in that grief syrup
Even with someone here
The bed is too big
I'm too small, the wound in my chest too big, Ellis Island hands too small to stitch
And the beds still too big.

Me (22M) and my girlfriend (23f) have been together for nearly 2 years. It’s been great up until now, me and her family were close.
A few nights ago my friends invited me out for a few drinks and they also invited my girlfriend. It was all going great until my girlfriend got up to get us another round. She walked up to the bar, i was preoccupied talking to my friends until i noticed her and this random man shouting at each other. She kept glancing at me but the bar was too crowded to go near her. He suddenly swings at her and it just turns into a full fist fight. I tried to go to her but the bouncers dragged both her and him out.
By the time I went outside to see if she was alright, I saw her talking to this man and offering him a cigarette. She noticed me and shook his hand and he left. I asked her why she was talking to the man that hit her, she even had a bloody nose from him. She just brushed it off as “settling the water” and avoiding a lawsuit. I told her to be more careful and how her getting into a fight made everyone uncomfortable. She blew up at me screaming about how she didn’t expect to get punched for accidentally skipping the queue. I tried to calm her down but she kept avoiding me. She got angry again and saying how I should’ve helped her when she signalled it. I tried to explain to her how I can’t exactly push pass people to help her.
Typically she rolled her eyes and mentioned how her father was right, I questioned her because I considered myself close to him, he was in the military and I was wanting to join so I leaned on him for support. She brought up the fact that her father told her that I would be as useful as a sheet of paper if she was in danger. After she said this I was hurt since I considered me and him close.
She signalled for a taxi and just like her she has to have the last word, she told me to rethink my career as being in the army requires “situational” awareness.
I haven’t heard from her since, she keeps ignoring my texts and I don’t know what to do.

after I unfriended this girl for toxic behavior (talking crap abt me in front of me to my other friends, telling me to shut up just because she felt like I was talking too much, giving me the silent treatment when I asked her not to tell my private business to other people, telling me I was her least favorite friend, etc) She started trailing me the next day telling me we need to talk. I was trying to walk with my friend and she wouldn’t leave and kept shouting at me and it was kind of scaring me. I thought she had gone but she took another girl with her and secretly followed me to one of my classes to insult and yell at me in the closet. (Compared me to the devil, told me my friends hate me, told me I talk about my add too much (I mentioned my med struggles when I’m at work twice), called me a victim player (I’m not trying to be a victim I just didn’t want to be her friend). The other girl blocked the door and my other friends were waiting outside because they didn’t know what was going on but they tried to get the teacher to make them leave. Later on the ex friend starts randomly yelling at me in our actual class and repeatedly calls me the b word repeatedly. Our friendship had already nearly completely fallen apart so I didn’t really understand why she was reacting like this. When I unfriended her it was basically just asking to go separate ways because she didn’t try to understand my feelings. It was nothing brutal or mean just honest. I stayed out of school for a week and had to get a non verbal contract because I didn’t feel safe around her anymore. Even her best friend was on my side and thought she was being insane.
A couple days later I get called to the office and they asked if I knew a girl named J. Apparently one of my best friends (J) saw my ex friend in the bathroom and asked her why she was harassing me. She called me the b word and said that outside of school it would be on sight. She said she would beat me up and some stuff like that. My friend apparently told her after that if she touched me that she would beat her a**. My ex friend got really mad and asked for her name and reported her. I asked J not not to talk to her again because I didn’t want her to get in trouble for me and it would be best to just move on and let the matter rest.

I stumbled across this in my Google Drive from more than ten years ago, and I'll be damned if it isn't more relevant today than it was then. I hope someone gets something out of this, and comments are absolutely welcome!
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Originally written May 13, 2012 by Perihelion
Lately, it seems more and more that any time I put my mind to it, I am coming up with simple, rational solutions to many of the issues that we as Americans have to deal with. It seems to me that we have forgotten (or, more accurately, we've been conditioned to ignore) the fact that WE are the ones who are in charge. The people are the ones who ultimately make the decisions, but through years of lies, propaganda, and apathy, most Americans have become convinced that nobody can do anything about anything - that the Government is an immutable, unchangeable, unstoppable juggernaut without checks and balances. For the most part, I think they are right, but nobody seems to understand that we GAVE them this power - at some point, we decided that we didn't NEED to make any more decisions, because there are such 'intelligent' people there to do it for us.
It has led this society to a massive catch-22: We all agree that the government has too much power, doesn't do anything efficiently, and is chock-full of corruption, but at the exact same time, we drop to our knees and make the sign of the cross and tell ourselves that 'the Government is smarter than I am, and while I don't understand the decisions that they make, I will go ahead and accept them and stand by them'.
What? How can we be CONVINCED that the government is full of self-righteous, corrupt idiots, and yet STILL decide to adhere to every single arbitrary rule? According to what has been drilled into me for as long as I can remember, the people who make up the government are OUR EMPLOYEES - and what do you do with an incompetent employee?
The Federal Government needs to be reminded that WE tell THEM what they are allowed to do and to not do, not the other way around.
Here is an example of just how stupid we have all become - America has always been self-deluded with the idea that it is the greatest country in the world. However, if you look at our history, it is extremely difficult to come to that conclusion.
From the absolute beginning, we have built a country upon double-standards and racism. The 'Founding Fathers' was a group of slave-owning white men who decided that they shouldn't have to abide by the laws and decisions handed down by a faceless tyrant from 3000 miles away because nobody asked them their opinion. So what do they decide? They decide to create a government where the only people who have any power are white male landowners, and they built this government on the rotting carcasses of the Indians, Blacks, and British who stood in their way. What's worse is how they went about it - they made grand gestures and impassioned speeches about 'Freedom'. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.." The Declaration of Independence is drafted in order to try to justify the treason that was being committed (refusing to accept the rule of law from the Crown of England) by making the argument that 'all men are created equal'! However, the MOMENT that Independence is won and the Founding Fathers begin to decide how they will run their new Government, the promises made in the Declaration of Independence are quietly and quickly forgotten. They used Equal Rights as the 'Selling Point' for getting everyone on board for rebellion against the English Crown, and then once they won the Revolution, these same Equal Rights would be conveniently hidden under a stack of rocks. You could almost say that the Declaration of Independence was the first 'Campaign Promise' made on American soil (and, therefore, the first to be broken). The Constitution of the United States is then created as the structure and foundation of the newly born United States Government.
It is 2 years before any Americans are actually granted any of the 'rights' that the Declaration of Independence had promised 'All men are granted by their Creator' - apparently the 'self-evident' truths needed a little clarification, and it is decided that the brand spanking new Constitution already needs a little work - the first 10 Amendments are introduced and collectively called the 'Bill of Rights'. I guess the 'Creator' which has the power to grant 'unalienable rights' must have been the United States Government.
Apparently, the 'Powers' that are granted to the United States Government in the Constitution are so confusing and misunderstood, that the 10th Amendment has to be drafted and ratified, which LITERALLY declares that ANY power that the government has not been specifically granted, has not been specifically granted. The Founding Fathers spend years and years discussing, deciding, and painstakingly specifying all of the exact wording for the specific powers that the Federal Government would be allowed to have, and the wordsmiths and the lawyers spend countless hours writing and rewriting the articles to make absolutely sure that there is no room for misunderstanding. After carefully reading and re-reading what must have been stacks and stacks of legal papers, I guess someone must have asked "But we still get to do whatever we want, right?".
Now, at some point, somebody decided that maybe Slavery isn't the BEST way to express the 'equality' that we're all supposed to share. What is the result? "Our bad" - the 13th Amendment declares Slavery illegal and abolishes all involuntary human servitude. One thing, though - the Government doesn't bother to enforce this 'Equal Rights' measure, and Slavery continues for many Blacks (and others) in America for a long time to come. The Amendment does not, however, make ALL Slavery illegal - the Government is still allowed to own slaves as 'Punishment for crimes". I guess Slavery is only morally wrong sometimes.
While Slavery was abolished in 1865, the United States Government doesn't officially recognize Black People as 'human beings' until 1866. Three years later, these newly-appointed 'human beings' are 'granted' the right to vote (because the 'right' to vote was apparently excluded from 'Equal Rights') by the 15th Amendment (Whatever happened to those 'self-evident' rights?). Even with this legal and binding admission of guilt by the all-white United States Government, it would be 95 years before Blacks are actually allowed to exercise these rights.
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 is enacted which declares that everyone born in the United States is an American Citizen, "without regard to race, color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude". However, apparently nobody notices these sudden new rights, because in 1868 the 14th Amendment is enacted in order to protect the rights of white Males to vote, which implies that 'white males rights' must have been in mortal danger, a circumstance that I tend to find highly suspect. To confuse matters even further, it also declares that anyone born in the United States is considered an American Citizen (does duplication of a law mean that you really, really mean it?).
So now, by 1870 we have legally declared to the entire nation that everyone has the exact same 'self-evident' rights as everyone else. By 'everyone', of course, they mean 'white males'. Blacks, Indians and Women are actively and aggressively prevented from exercising these 'rights' by contradictory laws, corrupt Government officials, and continued local racist and discriminatory policies. Of course, the 12th Amendment ratified in 1804 effectively obsoletes voting rights anyway due to the Electoral College system, so any and all 'Voting Rights' movements from this point on are, effectively, meaningless.
In 1920, the United States Government finally deigns to add one more group to the accepted list of 'human beings' who have 'inalienable rights' - Women are 'granted' the right to vote by the 19th Amendment. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." This would imply that, until now, the government has legally and rightfully had the power to 'deny or abridge the right of citizens of the United States to vote on account of sex'. Of course, the existing Constitution and its Amendments grant NO SUCH POWER, and the 10th Amendment specifically PROHIBITS the Federal Government from exercising powers that had not been granted it, but I guess people must still have been confused by the explicitly written and specifically-granted powers.
So, to summarize our history up to this point, white male British Settlers tell the Colonists that we are all equals, and they declare war on the 'tyrannical British Crown'. The United States Government is created and granted very limited and specific powers, and the Government declares that we are all equals. Elections and voting are taken from the hands of the Citizens and placed in the Electoral College, and the Government declares that we are all equals. Slavery is abolished (well, not really), and the Government declares that we are all equals. Blacks are elevated to 'human being' status, and the Government declares that we are all equals. Blacks aren't satisfied with freedom and 'equal rights' and they demand the right to vote as citizens of the United States. The Government declares that we are all equals. The Constitution is amended (for the 19th time) to elevate Women to an equal status with Men, and everyone is told that we are all equals.
Blacks, almost a hundred years after being granted 'equal rights', are finally allowed to vote, drink from water fountains, and ride in the front seats of buses. The Government declares that we are all equals.
A note - I find it extremely frustrating that the 18th Amendment, the Prohibition of Alcohol, was on the books before women were even allowed to vote - It was more important to the US to demonize one of the oldest food products in the history of the world than it was to extend our 'unalienable equal rights' to women.

In town next week (M-Th) and seeking some adult companionship with someone who does not want to talk work. Can be vanilla or more kink, but need a heads up if I need to bring along some toys. ;-)
Will be downtown near the park. Can be dinner and dessert or meet up at the hotel and see where things take us.
Me? Professional IT consultant meeting with 2 new clients. Potential of something more ongoing if we hit it off, but open to a night or two if you can carve out time. 5'10" and 280 lbs. Soft Dom in nature.
You? Appreciate curves and body hair in the right places. Redheads are my kryptonite, but not a showstopper. Clean, sane, and an ability to hold a conversation are great.
Can meet for drinks/dinner and go from there.

I was involved in a major auto accident and not at fault (head-on collision where the at-fault driver completely crossed a 2-lane highway into opposing traffic). The accident required multiple surgeries, a 2 week hospital stay, and ongoing physical therapy. I have been unable to work due to disability related to the accident and long-term disability is a legitimate possibility in the end.
The at-fault driver was uninsured so I submitted an uninsured motorist claim to my auto insurance. The heospital billed my medical insurance, who immediately paid the bills and has handed subrogation over to a third party (Nexclaim Recoveries). I was never given an opportunity to decide how I wanted the billing handled.
Now my auto insurance is ready to settle the claim but my medical insurance has placed a subrogation claim for nearly double the total payout my insurance policy can pay. The initial plan with my auto insurance was to use my medical coverage policy for medical payments, and the uninsured motorist money would be intended for lost wages, pain and suffering, disability, and continued medical care. There will be no settlement money from the other party, he has less than nothing of value and doesn't keep a job (in the short stents he is out of prison). The claim money from my own auto insurance is the only money to keep me afloat until I am able to work again.
My questions are:

1. Are there any actions I can take to protect some of the money from my auto insurance from going straight to the subrogation claim?
   
2. Is it possible to negotiate with the hospital to lower the bill if my medical insurance has already paid it (the hospital is my employer)?
   
3. If I qualify for a program such as a benevolent fund through my employer would the subrogation also be able to claim that money?
   
4. If there are no other options but negotiating with the 3rd party to try to reduce the subrogation claim, any tips that may help? Cutting the bill in half would only allow the UM settlement to cover the subrogation claim, so it seems hopeless to get a reduction that would actually matter.
   

Of note, they have sent a list of charges they are quoting (though not itemized in any way) and they include the insurance discounts. The insurance plan also includes a clause stating that 'Made Whole' does not apply to the policy.

i (18m) randomly got kicked out a little over a month ago. my dad kicked me out but my mom has been trying to let me come back. i went to stay with a friend and a week later my mom said he had talked to him so i came back. i only slept a night and was woken up by my dad coming in my room. he was screaming and at one point was hitting me with a broom while i just sat there in shock and crying. he also threw my xbox and broke it. so we moved all my stuff back out to my friends house and stayed there for the next month.
i talked to my dad again at my little sisters birthday party and he said he never kicked me out and i’d always have a place to stay. he said he didn’t owe me a room or bed to sleep in though. so i took it as i could come back so i did. i asked if i needed to move out of my room though and he said it was fine. so it’s been about 3-4 days since then. today my brother gave me his old computer so i had my friend here helping me set it up and he busts into my room and i ask what’s wrong and he told me i shouldn’t be setting the computer up because i should be waiting until i’m in my new place to do it.
he has been so nice and perfectly fine these last 3-4 days and now he has a problem again all of sudden. i have no idea what sparks it. i’ve had some mental health problems in the past and this is all definitely bringing them back. i feel so dramatic but i’ve started to SH again and have had some bad thoughts of ending it.
i’m only 18. i graduated last year and was trying to save money up for school this fall. i can’t afford any housing near me even with my full time job. i work about 50-60 hours a week and am only bringing home about 1,500 a month. i’m trying to find a higher paying job but with no school i can’t really find anything.
any and all advice is greatly appreciated. i’m so lost and depressed right now because of all of this and i have no idea how to fix any of it.

Last night I had to call police due to some people showing up to "buy" my car who then quickly started becoming anti-social and aggressive towards me and refused to leave. while I was talking to one police officer a second one approached my 15 year old brother, the only other person in our house at the time, and asked if he could get a quick look at the layout of it. Soon after the police left after getting an explanation as to why I am selling the car. Im 19 and pregnant, my car is too old and too small to transport a child in so i'm selling it to buy a family car which would hopefully also be cheaper on insurance. They also asked when my mum would be home, which I found odd.
The police returned the next day, One was the officer who searched the house, the other a woman I'd not seen before. They asked to speak to me privately away from my Mum and brother. They said after the look around my house and what I told them the night before about why I'm selling my car they were concerned I would not be able to look after a child due to my current financial situation and the state and mess of my house and how I was clearly struggling. I will admit my house is a bit of a tip at the minute, our landlord has decided to sell up and give us compensation as the damp in our house is too costly to repair. Its quite clear to anyone we're packing up and preparing to move and will do as soon as we get a suitable house to move to. Despite me and my mum explaining this to the police they still thought I am going to be there when I give birth (I'm not) and I am struggling to keep everything tidy and together and still would not let up on convincing me to refer myself to adult social services as they cant make the claim for me until I give birth.
another thing they mentioned was that I shouldnt have to sell my car to afford things for my baby, that is not the case and I did not say that to either officer the night before.
Once my Mum got Involved they confirmed they had looked into our past with social services and an unrelated court dispute between my separated parents. They knew my dads address, name etc. Although they must of failed to realise I had to be put in therapy due to the Trauma caused by a social services involvement when I was 13, and that it was recommended I not get spoken to directly about getting them involved.
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were the police allowed to do this? thankfully as I am an adult i refused to let them get social services involved. both my Mum and brother also repeatedly told them we were not struggling financially or mentally etc.

This is a repost that got taken down from the r\Physics subredit.
Hey everyone, I am looking for advice and opinions. Sorry for the disordered thoughts.
I´m a first year MS student specializing in classical canonical gravity and I´m quite interested in the field of quantum gravity [QG] as a whole as well as a few other branches of mathematical physics (String theory [ST] or deformation quantization for example).
I´ve had the idea of doing a PhD in theoretical physics since i was 16 (I´m 23 now) and doing research in this highly mathematical fields. Of course I didn´t know nearly enough to justify wanting to go this route back then, but from everything I´ve learned in UG and so far in my MS, I´m just extremely curious about fully studying and understanding topics like LQG or ST and contribuiting something even if very little.
The thing is, I am aware that there isn´t much work (even less well paid) in mathematical physics and even less in areas deeply related to QG, besides in my country it also is usual for scientists to wait up to 10 years (sometimes more) after finishing their PhD for a tenured position and thus decent pay, so I wouldn´t mind leaving academia at some point to find an industry job with a much better workload-pay ratio in a field such as Data Science [DS] or any other math-heavy related job.
I chose to do an MS in this area and right after undergrad [UG] because I wanted to keep learning physics since I felt there was so much more to understand and because I wanted to learn more about areas related to my UG research (minimal length brane cosmology).
I have considered working an industry job while doing a PhD but I´m not sure it´s reasonable given the crazy workload I´d have. I´ve also considered working in industry for a few years to get a feel for it and experience in my CV so if I´m still interested in a PhD after, I´ll just get it and once I finish I´ll be able to pick right up where I left industry since I´d already have a few years of experience, but I´m not sure it´s a good idea, besides I´m scared that PhD admissions will be harsh due to me being slightly older and not coming fresh out of an MS.
Is anyone else in a similar situation? What would you do? Thanks for reading me :)

So I tried to hook up my old N64, power came on but the TV is showing no input. Buy a new av cable online, try and it's a no go. Read resoldering the av connectors might fix it. Buy gamebit drivers. Open up, more corrosion than I want to deal with anytime soon. Wait for taxes. Buy N64 from retro shop. Test new-to-me unit in store before paying. Unit works fine. Bring it home. Powers on, no input showing on screen. Try all 3 tvs in the house that take that input. Powers on, no input on screen. Tried 3 different av cables on all 3 tvs in the house with both systems and one was working fine 20 minutes ago.
Am I overlooking something incredibly simple?

I just got a CTO at United and was curious if anyone knows how quickly it would take to get a French line at any base at UA? Are all of those slots very much filled? I wasn’t able to apply as a speaker as they weren’t looking for French. I currently work at another carrier and because we have so many speakers and so little international flying these days, there’s just no international to be had and it’s going to be that way for quite a while. Also because of a lack of base variety geographically at my current airline I’m about to be forced to move across the country to the east coast anyway just to have any quality of life. That said, the thought of having to be potentially on straight reserve for up to many years at UA sounds daunting as at my current airline those days are behind me. I just would like some more information if possible before I make a decision I might regret. Feeling pretty overwhelmed.

I am just starting to use the userland app in Android. Generally things work as intended I believe, but I'm doing this on my Android smartphone and it has two storage devices, one that's internal and the other that's the memory stick I've got plugged internally into it as a second storage. They are both accessible separately from file explorer apps, but in the userland app running ubuntu it regards my internal storage area as being the one it calls '/sdcard', and NOT the internally-plugged-in memory card. So my secondary issue is that I'm trying to find a way to access this additional internal memory. But my current issue as the reason I'm posting this is because I don't understand why I can't view most of the folders such as '/dev', which can be helpful to find how it's possibly referred to internally. It is my understanding that this file system is just a sandbox for the current ubuntu that's installed by the userland app. So the fact that my phone isn't rooted shouldn't matter from what I gather, particularly with it being said that userland doesn't require you to be rooted. Yet, even if I do 'su' and then 'id', confirming that I'm the sandbox's root user at the time, it still gives me access denied errors whenever I try to list most of the folders within its environment! The 'sudo' command DOES work to help with certain common situations of this sort, but NOT with this issue either. So what gives? Why can't I access the folders within the userland Ubuntu environment even as its root user?! I seem to likely need to be able to do this in order to be able to figure a way of accessing my secondary internal storage memory card. So thank you to anyone who can help on this issue. And by the way, the mode settings for the /dev folder look perfectly fine, with the only attributes being missing being the Write Flags for Group and Others, which shouldn't matter with being able to simply list its directory, being that it does have the read and execute flags set for all of the different categories, so therefore should be fully listable based on my level of knowledge at this point. So I'm not understanding why I'm getting these access denied errors and how they can be stopped so I can proceed to try to figure this thing out with my additional storage device. So any help would be greatly appreciated.

Grand Theft Auto V is still going strong nearly eight years after it first debuted on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (remember those?), followed by a slightly newer re-release on Windows PCs and the the PS4 and Xbox One. To date, publisher Take-Two Interactive has sold over 150 million copies of GTA V on various platforms.
The publisher revealed the impressive sales stat as part of its earnings report for its fiscal first quarter of 2022. Looking at the data from the previous quarter, it means T2 sold an additional 5 million copies in the past three months. Not too shabby, given that GTA V is far from a new game at this point. That is not the end of it, either.
T2 plans to launch an "expanded and enhanced version" for the latest generation game consoles, those being the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, on November 11, 2021. Developer Rockstar Games had previously said the updated version will bring "new features and more" to the table, but the details are still largely a mystery.
"The new generation versions of GTAV will feature a range of technical improvements, visual upgrades and performance enhancements to take full advantage of the latest hardware, making the game more beautiful and more responsive than ever," Rockstar Games said last year.
We presume the retooled version of GTA V will tap into the fast storage capabilities of modern consoles, to drastically reduce game load times. It will also leverage the newer hardware in the latest gen consoles, namely the custom SoC based on AMD's Zen 2 CPU cores and RDNA 2 graphics.

Hey everyone,
I have a birthday coming up and really want to travel somewhere for my birthday. I was thinking of visiting NYC and want to check out it's green spaces, parks, the High Line, bike along the Brooklyn Bridge, etc. I was looking at prices for hotels and the prices are starting at around $220 a night. I was planning of staying for four nights and that's over a $1000. I really value privacy given my medical conditions and my own room, so I don't want to stay in a hostel. Airbnbs are quite pricey too and about the same cost as staying in a hotel.
Another alternative was to go to Rio de Janeiro. The prices for hotels are very low and quite affordable. Less than $75 for a night at a four star hotel. However, I've been reading a ton of horror stories about people and their time in Brazil to the point where they don't take out their phone. I currently live in a big city and take precaution when I go to downtown like not wear jewelry, my headphones, not carry a purse, and keep my personal items in my front pockets. In Rio, I really want to bike along the beaches, get some sun, watch a sunset, and meet friendly locals. I wouldn't be out past 6pm and would only roam around the area near the hotel I stay in. A flight out to Rio is less than $700, which is way less than a four night stay in NYC.
So I guess my dilemma is this: NYC hotels are too expensive and can't see paying $220 a night; Rio is the more affordable option but I worry about my safety. In NYC, I wouldn't be out at night and the latest I come in is like 6pm. Given the city I live in, I would exercise the same precaution in NYC and plan on not visiting certain areas.
Any suggestions of what I should do? Any other alternatives of where I could travel to? I'm looking for a place where I can get some "sun", it's walkable, the people are nice, and there are ton of museums, outdoor spaces and fun activities to do, and hotels are less than $100 a night!
Hope someone can give me a suggestion of what to do!

Im sure the answer will be 105, but I figured I would poll the echo chamber

Hello! I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction!
I’m wondering how I’d go about (or if it’s even possible) requesting records for my grandfather who served in the U.S. Air Force.
I was born in 1996 and he passed away in 1998 in the Philippines, so I never met him. Him and my father were estranged and hadn’t talked in nearly 20 years. I think the memories of him hurt my dad, so he never really spoke much of him, and my dad passed away of cancer in 2021. So I’m kind of left doing research on my grandfather on my own, and would love to kind of be able to fill in the missing pieces about him I never got the chance to hear.
While going through my dad’s belongings after he passed, I did find a copy of my grandfather’s death certificate. I also have his box with his metals and badges. I know for sure he was stationed in Texas, Florida, and Alaska. I’d love to know more information though, but am unsure who to contact first to submit a request, if I’m even able to. Thank you for your time to read this and respond, and THANK YOU for your service! 🇺🇸