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2023.05.29 23:17 Defiant_Screen2100 My experience with social anxiety
I wanted to make this for a few reasons I have been dealing with SA for a few years now, maybe this will help someone going through a similar situation, I want to also so I apologise for thins being a long one.
I have been suffering with general anxiety and SA for about three years now, I know that doesn’t sound that long and it isn’t really compared to most people on this sub Reddit but I am only 19, 3 years ago I was in my finale year of school getting ready to sit my exams and starting to think about college. I never suffered with any mental health issues at all. I must mention that I have never been shy or awkward I was popular in school not to be cocky or anything, I had plenty of friends, never struggled with girls and never struggled with my confidence and I have never been bullied. Then in 2020 Covid happened, I live in the uk so I think school ended in February we’re usually it would end in July. I was a little sad that I didn’t get to finish my final few months of school but tbh I was looking forward to the time off. My mom took Covid very seriously she was a nurse during Covid, so me and my siblings were literally never allowed to leave the house for about six months. So you can understand what that would do to someone socially. I’ll be honest those six months off school wasn’t that bad I passed all my exams to, and was ready for college. This is when I realised I had anxiety being locked in my house for six months then straight into college with hundreds of people really messed me up. I put up with it for a year which was how long my course lasted but struggled to make new friend but didn’t really care as I still have my friend group from school. Then after college I really struggled to get a job my anxiety got so bad. Another thing I was struggling with was health anxiety. And I pretty much wasted two years of my life doing nothing. It’s been like almost unliveable I have been pretty suicidal. The past six months I have been really trying to improve my anxiety I have had a few jobs I go out with friends instead of staying in but it’s stilll and probably will always be there.I still feel unfulfilled with my life haven’t really done anything career wise to be proud of. Right now I’m working sole shitty lonely security job depressed because I don’t know if I’ll have an actual career that I can be proud of. My dream is to be in the fire service this is more of a life long goal as I’m way to skinny and not fit enough to pass any of the physical tests lol . But ye this is we’re I’m currently at if anyone has any questions ide be more then happy to answer and would be interested in talking to someone who is going through a similar situation.
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I have been suffering with general anxiety and SA for about three years now, I know that doesn’t sound that long and it isn’t really compared to most people on this sub Reddit but I am only 19, 3 years ago I was in my finale year of school getting ready to sit my exams and starting to think about college. I never suffered with any mental health issues at all. I must mention that I have never been shy or awkward I was popular in school not to be cocky or anything, I had plenty of friends, never struggled with girls and never struggled with my confidence and I have never been bullied. Then in 2020 Covid happened, I live in the uk so I think school ended in February we’re usually it would end in July. I was a little sad that I didn’t get to finish my final few months of school but tbh I was looking forward to the time off. My mom took Covid very seriously she was a nurse during Covid, so me and my siblings were literally never allowed to leave the house for about six months. So you can understand what that would do to someone socially. I’ll be honest those six months off school wasn’t that bad I passed all my exams to, and was ready for college. This is when I realised I had anxiety being locked in my house for six months then straight into college with hundreds of people really messed me up. I put up with it for a year which was how long my course lasted but struggled to make new friend but didn’t really care as I still have my friend group from school. Then after college I really struggled to get a job my anxiety got so bad. Another thing I was struggling with was health anxiety. And I pretty much wasted two years of my life doing nothing. It’s been like almost unliveable I have been pretty suicidal. The past six months I have been really trying to improve my anxiety I have had a few jobs I go out with friends instead of staying in but it’s stilll and probably will always be there.I still feel unfulfilled with my life haven’t really done anything career wise to be proud of. Right now I’m working sole shitty lonely security job depressed because I don’t know if I’ll have an actual career that I can be proud of. My dream is to be in the fire service this is more of a life long goal as I’m way to skinny and not fit enough to pass any of the physical tests lol . But ye this is we’re I’m currently at if anyone has any questions ide be more then happy to answer and would be interested in talking to someone who is going through a similar situation.
2023.05.29 23:16 steveo199 They will not raise the debt ceiling... and heres why...
This post is satire.
Citadel owns the government by buying out key politicians. They buy key politicians who peer pressure other ones to vote the way they want. Now this is a problem because we know they are shorting treasuries right.... Now how do they make sure they escape this mess they are in, they short the treasuries and implode the markets by ensuring the us defaults so that they never have to cover because they will have a lot of money to keep this going. Knowing citadel has politicians on their side this is what I expect? The whole they have reached a deal is smoke and mirrors. Come Wednesday they will not pass the bill. By next 2 weeks the US starts the defaulting process. BRICS System miraculously comes alive then nations start dumping the dollar, selling their bonds. The value of treasury bonds flat lines and the US Stock market which trades in the dollar collapses. Citadel makes a ton of money. The media distracts America by focusing on the dollar collapse. Citadel doesnt cover even though they will have made billions if not trillions because if they US Stock market implodes they will have the money they need to continue to short amc while America implodes.
Well thats my tinfoil hat thinking bullcrap. This is Satire by the way but just imagine this was their backup plan instead of covering. Absolutely mad.
If they dont pass the bill we will have more problems than just naked shorting, not raising the debt limit will result in government workers not getting paid, social security not getting paid, disability not getting paid, a lot of other miscellaneous government services not getting the funding they need to serve the American people.
If I were Citadel I would be in the background making sure no bill passes. Knowing Citaddel they most likely have their money in many assets like other currencies, crypto, real estate, precious metals, and whatever else. They could literally get away with this if they dont pass the debt ceiling bill.
Imagine the dollar collapses and prices of goods/infltaion goes through the roof. Could be citadels get out of jail plan. Cant get squeezed if the market is suddenly gone. Also if this scenario does play out all citadel would have to do is take whatever money they made from the market crash/ shorting bonds and place it in another foreign market to be used as collateral to continue naked shorting us. Knowing if the us dollar does collapse most likely so would the world follow so then all citadel would need to do is stock up on assets like Gold/land assets that have value when we enter a depression.
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Citadel owns the government by buying out key politicians. They buy key politicians who peer pressure other ones to vote the way they want. Now this is a problem because we know they are shorting treasuries right.... Now how do they make sure they escape this mess they are in, they short the treasuries and implode the markets by ensuring the us defaults so that they never have to cover because they will have a lot of money to keep this going. Knowing citadel has politicians on their side this is what I expect? The whole they have reached a deal is smoke and mirrors. Come Wednesday they will not pass the bill. By next 2 weeks the US starts the defaulting process. BRICS System miraculously comes alive then nations start dumping the dollar, selling their bonds. The value of treasury bonds flat lines and the US Stock market which trades in the dollar collapses. Citadel makes a ton of money. The media distracts America by focusing on the dollar collapse. Citadel doesnt cover even though they will have made billions if not trillions because if they US Stock market implodes they will have the money they need to continue to short amc while America implodes.
Well thats my tinfoil hat thinking bullcrap. This is Satire by the way but just imagine this was their backup plan instead of covering. Absolutely mad.
If they dont pass the bill we will have more problems than just naked shorting, not raising the debt limit will result in government workers not getting paid, social security not getting paid, disability not getting paid, a lot of other miscellaneous government services not getting the funding they need to serve the American people.
If I were Citadel I would be in the background making sure no bill passes. Knowing Citaddel they most likely have their money in many assets like other currencies, crypto, real estate, precious metals, and whatever else. They could literally get away with this if they dont pass the debt ceiling bill.
Imagine the dollar collapses and prices of goods/infltaion goes through the roof. Could be citadels get out of jail plan. Cant get squeezed if the market is suddenly gone. Also if this scenario does play out all citadel would have to do is take whatever money they made from the market crash/ shorting bonds and place it in another foreign market to be used as collateral to continue naked shorting us. Knowing if the us dollar does collapse most likely so would the world follow so then all citadel would need to do is stock up on assets like Gold/land assets that have value when we enter a depression.
2023.05.29 23:14 pnwgirl0 Any other germaphobe moms with kids in daycare?
Ok, I’m a weird germaphobe after the pandemic. My kid was not eligible to get the rotavirus vaccine in infancy because I took immunosuppressants and his immune system was affected.
He is now a healthy, normal 4 year old. After having nanny’s over the last few years, it’s clear no nanny can recreate a preschool environment and he needs socialization win kids his age. We’re going to do an AM nanny, lunch with me at home, and go to daycare in the PM for 3-4 hours.
We’re trying PM drop-in, daycare, 4 days/week. It’s a very cool daycare that has a small number of kids age 3-5 (it’s really a preschool program). It’s geared towards working parents and I can rent a private office space above the daycare that comes with wifi, coffee and it’s a KID FREE space. It’s very clean. There’s an AM preschool program but they sanitize everything between AM and PM and there’s less kids in the afternoon. It smelled like bleach when I went in and I secretly loved that. The last preschool he went to was "ok" and they had three classes of kids come through, didn’t sanitize and everything was cleaned at the end of the day.
I’m nervous about germs. His pediatrician said he will probably do fine because he is already getting sick every 6-12 weeks right now, has already been exposed to most viruses, and we will get run of the mill seasonal viruses that pass and he recovers quickly.
I don’t know why I’m nervous. Fear of the unknown? I need to be able to work without my kid running into my office and he is in desperate need of PLAY with other kids. I don’t know what I’m looking for here - comfort maybe that things will be ok?
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He is now a healthy, normal 4 year old. After having nanny’s over the last few years, it’s clear no nanny can recreate a preschool environment and he needs socialization win kids his age. We’re going to do an AM nanny, lunch with me at home, and go to daycare in the PM for 3-4 hours.
We’re trying PM drop-in, daycare, 4 days/week. It’s a very cool daycare that has a small number of kids age 3-5 (it’s really a preschool program). It’s geared towards working parents and I can rent a private office space above the daycare that comes with wifi, coffee and it’s a KID FREE space. It’s very clean. There’s an AM preschool program but they sanitize everything between AM and PM and there’s less kids in the afternoon. It smelled like bleach when I went in and I secretly loved that. The last preschool he went to was "ok" and they had three classes of kids come through, didn’t sanitize and everything was cleaned at the end of the day.
I’m nervous about germs. His pediatrician said he will probably do fine because he is already getting sick every 6-12 weeks right now, has already been exposed to most viruses, and we will get run of the mill seasonal viruses that pass and he recovers quickly.
I don’t know why I’m nervous. Fear of the unknown? I need to be able to work without my kid running into my office and he is in desperate need of PLAY with other kids. I don’t know what I’m looking for here - comfort maybe that things will be ok?
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2023.05.29 23:13 vark1222 Worst Divorce Ever... And it's not over
My wife Shanda is a nurse who has been fired from four hospitals for stealing and consuming patients prescribed narcotics. She has had her nursing license on probation 2 times. Addiction is only one of her flaws. She has been with her husband for 18 years, married for 11. In October of 2022 they went away for the weekend to celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary. After returning from their trip, Shanda wasted little time by starting an affair with a co-worker just 2 days later. She had laid the ground work for this affair before leaving town. This winner she cheated on her husband with, is 7 years older than her (50 years old). He is also married, actually been married 3 times. He is also a nurse. She confided or should I say spread lies to her coworker about her husband to gain sympathy and attention from him. She also told him all of her husbands business and secrets.
A little bit abour her husband. They have 3 children 17, 7 and 5 years old. Her husband workes 80 hours a week to ensure that Shanda could buy anything and everything she wanted. He loved her deeply, and tolerated everything she threw at him. Fast forward to 11/29/23. the affair had picked up steam, she spent less and less time at home and taking care of their children. She was 6 weeks in and played her wife role to ensure her husband did not suspect anything. A week prior, her husband was starting to notice weird things like changing passwords, less communication from her on a daily basis and she had become increasing guarded of her phone and spending more time than she ever have had on her social media accounts. Her husband finally had an opportunity on 11/29 when she left her phone upstairs and he grabbed it went straight to recently deleted messages and there they were 490 text messages that chronicled everything, the entire evolution of their affair. By the first week of November they were full blown sexting. She became enraged and assaulted him, saying she didn't love him anymore and didn't want to be with him. He was beyond hurt, he sacrificed his own happiness for years for her. December and January were brutual, she continued to cheat after telling him and the 17 year old daughter that she was sorry, used bad judgement and was going to focus on repairing their marriage. Her treatment of her husband was absolutely disgusting, she would assault him, broke his Imac twice, the 2nd time she hit him over the head with it. She's the one that caused all of this and she felt she had the right to take out her anger on him because he caught her. She had opened up 3 different snapchat accounts because this was her preferred way to communicate with her affair partner. Her husband had been documenting all of her violence and continued to stand by her hoping she would realize how her actions were destroying him and their children. Most of the arguing and fighting took place in front of the 7 and 5 year olds.
By January she was openly cheating in the face of her husband. January 23, 2023, her husband had found a way to have her text messages sent to his phone, that evening she gets home from work, he pours his heart out to her, begging her to stop her affair and recommit to her family. While he is doing this she is texting affair guy lies about her husband, he is telling her how much fun the day before with her was and how he is divorcing his wife and wants her to refinance his house with her, she responds with I need to make plans to leave him and spend the rest of my life with you. The whole time her husband is reading this exchange in real time, he puts his phone down but didn't close out the messaging app, Shanda notices this because the last text sent from her was a blowing kiss emoji. I forgot to mention that in the middle of January her husband got into her snapchat account and found a message from her to him where she proclaimed her love for him. In the beginning of January she was busted by her nurse probation case manager for failing a drug test which resulted in an addtional year tacked on to her probation and mandatory outpatient rehab for 30 days. Anyways after she noticed his phone she got pissed and chased him around the house trying to get his phone from him, grabbing his car keys to prevent him from leaving the house. He shouted for her to stop and not in front of the kids, put the kids to bed and i'll give you my phone he said, but she wouldn't stop. Finally, he grabbed her to get his key from her, he leaves she calls the cops, he is arrested and put in jail for domestic assault. She gets him out the next day, he notices that while he was in jail she spent most of her time on the phone with her affair friend. She tells her husband that she will go to court and not press charges, that was a lie, and on Feb. 3, 2023 she files for divorce telling her husband she was going to have the charges dropped, he knew she was lying because he put a gps tracker in her car and new she as at a divorce lawyers office. February she claimed to have ended her affair, but really it was her lawyer telling her to be more careful with her affair till this is over. Her husband, is devasted by this, but vows to get her to change her mind. she at one point tells him she will stop the divorce and another time says she will pause the divorce to attempt reconciliation. Both these times were straight lies. By this time she is telling her husband "why are you here? No one here cares about you".
She became very emotionally abusive after filing for divorce. So much so her husband contemplated taking his own life and actually staged an event to make it look like he was trying, that all backfired though. Then came March 29th, this was the anniversary of their first date, her husband comes home for work, he notices she has regular clothes on and not pajamas, she always changes into pajamas. She starts an argument on purpose for an excuse to leave and stay the night at her moms house. She leaves, he can't sleep at around 3:30am, he has a funny feeling, looks a her email and notices a hotel receipt from 12:21am that morning. He jumps in the car and races to the hotel, sure enough their is her car in the parking lot of a neighboring hotel and their is his car in the hotel parking lot that matches the reciept. Her husband calls the hotel and asks to be transferred to her room, no answer, he goes in the hotel and asks the front desk to try again, no answer, tries one more time. This time someone picks up but says nothing, he cries to her on the phone asking why? He returns to his car and now can tell what room they are in, he waits, 30 minutes later the punk ass 50 yr old walks out of the hotel and to his car, her husband just stares at him, he drives off. Hours later, she returns home packs a bunch of clothes and moves out to stay with her mom. 3 weeks later her husband has to appear in court for the charge, her divorce lawyer shows up and has the case prolonged for 2 more months. She appears to feel bad and returns home but says no affection or sex and she will let him know if she feels anything. Back up to her moving out, her affair friend started sending text messages to her husband threatening him and bringing up things only his wife knew about him, he crossed the line when the affair guy brought up his daughter's name. By this time it wasn't enough to for her to fuck another man and tell her how much she loves him, she had to mentally torment him and talk of their children to this low life piece of shit.
Now here we are in May, he tries to give her a good mother;s day and she insults him. Four days later, here comes the phone call from CPS. They interview all 3 children and Shanda and her husband, now this has gotten way out of hand, he plans to comply with CPS, Shanda has no plans to comply, that is where we are at right now. She is a cheating whore who never had the balls to tell her husband that she was unhappy before spreading her legs for someone else. She has mentally destroyed her husband and their kids, she never has shown a bit of remorse, she is looking for an apartment because their house will have to be sold because her husband cannot afford it by himself. The kids will have to lose their house and change schools. Her husband is in financial turmoil and he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She never put one ounce of energy into saving their marriage and has never apologized for the things she has done. Mediation is not scheduled till July 22nd, so this is far from over, who knows what the hell will happen next. This is a great example of how one person can destroy another persons life and makes you question if you even know your own wife. I will surely post updates as this seems to be far from over. I apologize for this post being in the 3rd person.
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A little bit abour her husband. They have 3 children 17, 7 and 5 years old. Her husband workes 80 hours a week to ensure that Shanda could buy anything and everything she wanted. He loved her deeply, and tolerated everything she threw at him. Fast forward to 11/29/23. the affair had picked up steam, she spent less and less time at home and taking care of their children. She was 6 weeks in and played her wife role to ensure her husband did not suspect anything. A week prior, her husband was starting to notice weird things like changing passwords, less communication from her on a daily basis and she had become increasing guarded of her phone and spending more time than she ever have had on her social media accounts. Her husband finally had an opportunity on 11/29 when she left her phone upstairs and he grabbed it went straight to recently deleted messages and there they were 490 text messages that chronicled everything, the entire evolution of their affair. By the first week of November they were full blown sexting. She became enraged and assaulted him, saying she didn't love him anymore and didn't want to be with him. He was beyond hurt, he sacrificed his own happiness for years for her. December and January were brutual, she continued to cheat after telling him and the 17 year old daughter that she was sorry, used bad judgement and was going to focus on repairing their marriage. Her treatment of her husband was absolutely disgusting, she would assault him, broke his Imac twice, the 2nd time she hit him over the head with it. She's the one that caused all of this and she felt she had the right to take out her anger on him because he caught her. She had opened up 3 different snapchat accounts because this was her preferred way to communicate with her affair partner. Her husband had been documenting all of her violence and continued to stand by her hoping she would realize how her actions were destroying him and their children. Most of the arguing and fighting took place in front of the 7 and 5 year olds.
By January she was openly cheating in the face of her husband. January 23, 2023, her husband had found a way to have her text messages sent to his phone, that evening she gets home from work, he pours his heart out to her, begging her to stop her affair and recommit to her family. While he is doing this she is texting affair guy lies about her husband, he is telling her how much fun the day before with her was and how he is divorcing his wife and wants her to refinance his house with her, she responds with I need to make plans to leave him and spend the rest of my life with you. The whole time her husband is reading this exchange in real time, he puts his phone down but didn't close out the messaging app, Shanda notices this because the last text sent from her was a blowing kiss emoji. I forgot to mention that in the middle of January her husband got into her snapchat account and found a message from her to him where she proclaimed her love for him. In the beginning of January she was busted by her nurse probation case manager for failing a drug test which resulted in an addtional year tacked on to her probation and mandatory outpatient rehab for 30 days. Anyways after she noticed his phone she got pissed and chased him around the house trying to get his phone from him, grabbing his car keys to prevent him from leaving the house. He shouted for her to stop and not in front of the kids, put the kids to bed and i'll give you my phone he said, but she wouldn't stop. Finally, he grabbed her to get his key from her, he leaves she calls the cops, he is arrested and put in jail for domestic assault. She gets him out the next day, he notices that while he was in jail she spent most of her time on the phone with her affair friend. She tells her husband that she will go to court and not press charges, that was a lie, and on Feb. 3, 2023 she files for divorce telling her husband she was going to have the charges dropped, he knew she was lying because he put a gps tracker in her car and new she as at a divorce lawyers office. February she claimed to have ended her affair, but really it was her lawyer telling her to be more careful with her affair till this is over. Her husband, is devasted by this, but vows to get her to change her mind. she at one point tells him she will stop the divorce and another time says she will pause the divorce to attempt reconciliation. Both these times were straight lies. By this time she is telling her husband "why are you here? No one here cares about you".
She became very emotionally abusive after filing for divorce. So much so her husband contemplated taking his own life and actually staged an event to make it look like he was trying, that all backfired though. Then came March 29th, this was the anniversary of their first date, her husband comes home for work, he notices she has regular clothes on and not pajamas, she always changes into pajamas. She starts an argument on purpose for an excuse to leave and stay the night at her moms house. She leaves, he can't sleep at around 3:30am, he has a funny feeling, looks a her email and notices a hotel receipt from 12:21am that morning. He jumps in the car and races to the hotel, sure enough their is her car in the parking lot of a neighboring hotel and their is his car in the hotel parking lot that matches the reciept. Her husband calls the hotel and asks to be transferred to her room, no answer, he goes in the hotel and asks the front desk to try again, no answer, tries one more time. This time someone picks up but says nothing, he cries to her on the phone asking why? He returns to his car and now can tell what room they are in, he waits, 30 minutes later the punk ass 50 yr old walks out of the hotel and to his car, her husband just stares at him, he drives off. Hours later, she returns home packs a bunch of clothes and moves out to stay with her mom. 3 weeks later her husband has to appear in court for the charge, her divorce lawyer shows up and has the case prolonged for 2 more months. She appears to feel bad and returns home but says no affection or sex and she will let him know if she feels anything. Back up to her moving out, her affair friend started sending text messages to her husband threatening him and bringing up things only his wife knew about him, he crossed the line when the affair guy brought up his daughter's name. By this time it wasn't enough to for her to fuck another man and tell her how much she loves him, she had to mentally torment him and talk of their children to this low life piece of shit.
Now here we are in May, he tries to give her a good mother;s day and she insults him. Four days later, here comes the phone call from CPS. They interview all 3 children and Shanda and her husband, now this has gotten way out of hand, he plans to comply with CPS, Shanda has no plans to comply, that is where we are at right now. She is a cheating whore who never had the balls to tell her husband that she was unhappy before spreading her legs for someone else. She has mentally destroyed her husband and their kids, she never has shown a bit of remorse, she is looking for an apartment because their house will have to be sold because her husband cannot afford it by himself. The kids will have to lose their house and change schools. Her husband is in financial turmoil and he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She never put one ounce of energy into saving their marriage and has never apologized for the things she has done. Mediation is not scheduled till July 22nd, so this is far from over, who knows what the hell will happen next. This is a great example of how one person can destroy another persons life and makes you question if you even know your own wife. I will surely post updates as this seems to be far from over. I apologize for this post being in the 3rd person.
2023.05.29 23:11 Supercool_2023 I want to use tails but I want to find ways to hide the USB sick on my person and get it anonymously.
I am the most concerned about governments/corporations The data that I’m trying to protect from them is Internet, traffic this includes sites visited, social media activity, and chats I have This data has value to corporations and governments because the things I do on the internet relate to what I do IRL,I don’t feel comfortable about a single corrupt gov or a exploitive business knowing more about me then most people ,and I don’t want a controversial question about a random topic to be linked back to me because someone with power doesn’t like it I would most likely not be in legal trouble if this falls but it needs to change if I am doing something that could result in legal trouble
Adversaries I could be targeted from a different government because I am a citizen (I left years ago)of that country and is worried that I could be in trouble when I go back because I say things against the government (I am not a reporter I am a just a citizen but still) I am worried about the US government because of Mr Snowden leaks on how much data is available for the NSA to look at for “ terrorist prevention” and how easy it is to know all about someone just like that regardless if they want to or not The company’s that I am most worried about is big tech and big data.The reason that I am not listing names is that there is too many to name Capabilities of adversaries My government is democratic but I feel like people in power have too much power. The measures include the ridiculous amount of spying in the patriot act.Using privacy tools is not illegal but the government/people could be suspicious of me The fourth amendment and other things protects from unreasonable and unnecessary searches but I feel they do that anyway but under “national safety”
The risks My data is under my control but they could find out about it because of things that I had to give my real name. The access to this data is though companies, some of it is on my computer, and some is on the cloud which that the government could find it. The data is at the risk of data breaches and some is public accessible and the purpose of this is for (best case) no one has access to this data but the more realistic is that that some info will be able to be collected.
The impact, if this threat model fails is that my data could be sold or other people know my personal information without my consent. The likelihood is very high that someone is trying to know what I am doing The safeguards I have in place is that I use Tor for most of my browsing . I mainly use Tor Bridges instead of a VPN. I only use VPN if Tor Bridges fails. I use tails as my main OS. I have one computer that only uses tails and one computer that uses windows (only the windows computer gets personal information).Most services that I use do not get any personal information about me that I willingly give it. (with the exception of services that I legally have to put information in example banking which go on the windows computer)
The consequences if it falls is that info that I don’t want out would be available to see (either by government or the people)
I don’t want to spend anything because of traceability but if I was going to spend money it would be cash or Manero
I am able to take medium inconvenience for anonymity but I can deal with a higher level of inconvenience, if certain circumstances require it (protest, going to a country with more surveillance)
I am somewhat tech savvy.I know basic things about OPSEC and cyber security. The tools I can use should be free and open source
(i have read the rules)
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I am the most concerned about governments/corporations The data that I’m trying to protect from them is Internet, traffic this includes sites visited, social media activity, and chats I have This data has value to corporations and governments because the things I do on the internet relate to what I do IRL,I don’t feel comfortable about a single corrupt gov or a exploitive business knowing more about me then most people ,and I don’t want a controversial question about a random topic to be linked back to me because someone with power doesn’t like it I would most likely not be in legal trouble if this falls but it needs to change if I am doing something that could result in legal trouble
Adversaries I could be targeted from a different government because I am a citizen (I left years ago)of that country and is worried that I could be in trouble when I go back because I say things against the government (I am not a reporter I am a just a citizen but still) I am worried about the US government because of Mr Snowden leaks on how much data is available for the NSA to look at for “ terrorist prevention” and how easy it is to know all about someone just like that regardless if they want to or not The company’s that I am most worried about is big tech and big data.The reason that I am not listing names is that there is too many to name Capabilities of adversaries My government is democratic but I feel like people in power have too much power. The measures include the ridiculous amount of spying in the patriot act.Using privacy tools is not illegal but the government/people could be suspicious of me The fourth amendment and other things protects from unreasonable and unnecessary searches but I feel they do that anyway but under “national safety”
The risks My data is under my control but they could find out about it because of things that I had to give my real name. The access to this data is though companies, some of it is on my computer, and some is on the cloud which that the government could find it. The data is at the risk of data breaches and some is public accessible and the purpose of this is for (best case) no one has access to this data but the more realistic is that that some info will be able to be collected.
The impact, if this threat model fails is that my data could be sold or other people know my personal information without my consent. The likelihood is very high that someone is trying to know what I am doing The safeguards I have in place is that I use Tor for most of my browsing . I mainly use Tor Bridges instead of a VPN. I only use VPN if Tor Bridges fails. I use tails as my main OS. I have one computer that only uses tails and one computer that uses windows (only the windows computer gets personal information).Most services that I use do not get any personal information about me that I willingly give it. (with the exception of services that I legally have to put information in example banking which go on the windows computer)
The consequences if it falls is that info that I don’t want out would be available to see (either by government or the people)
I don’t want to spend anything because of traceability but if I was going to spend money it would be cash or Manero
I am able to take medium inconvenience for anonymity but I can deal with a higher level of inconvenience, if certain circumstances require it (protest, going to a country with more surveillance)
I am somewhat tech savvy.I know basic things about OPSEC and cyber security. The tools I can use should be free and open source
(i have read the rules)
2023.05.29 23:08 ohhidied LEGACY: From the Book of SAW (CHAPTER 26, 27, & 28) Converging Paths
Read Chapter 25 Here: https://www.reddit.com/saw/comments/13kih9q/legacy_from_the_book_of_saw_chapter_25_the_final/
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*** CHAPTER 26 **\*
Traveling to the warehouse, Logan felt relieved knowing Melissa was in good hands, but his momentary comfort was quickly replaced with apprehension when he arrived at Hoffman’s lair. Checking his surroundings, Logan was unfamiliar with this place, despite living here for over a decade. Stopping the car, he tilted the visor down and looked at the photo of his wife.
Through the security camera positioned outside, Hoffman watched Logan enter the parking lot and smiled. He grabbed the bottle of chloroform that sat next to the aqua green box and a cloth from the table, then switched on the furnace. Walking towards the entrance, he turned off all the lights except the one shining on Elanor, who sat unconscious beneath the aluminum dispenser.
Walking towards the entrance, Logan removed a tactical knife from his pocket and held it surreptitiously. Finding the door unlocked, he breached the doorway and stepped into the building, his chest full of anxiety. Logan shuffled through the inoperable machines, boxes, and various tools until he found Elanor under the strobe light. On the floor, he noticed the chrome pool of aluminum that had dried and discovered the dispenser above her. Quickly pulling the chair out of reach, he removed the gag from her mouth just as the liquid started to pour.
Slipping out of the darkness, Hoffman watched as Logan attempted to cut through the ropes that bound Elanor, and while he was distracted, Hoffman slammed the grip of his gun into the back of Logan’s head with traumatic force. Falling to the floor, rattled and disoriented, Hoffman used this moment to render him unconscious with a considerable dose of chloroform.
***
Seth’s body is brought to the triage center, where the on-call doctors get to work. They extract the bullet from his neck and clean the wound. Then, fill several vials with his coagulating blood and immediately begin several tests. It doesn’t take long for them to find something unusual in his blood. The pathologist examines the results and calls the precinct.
Waiting to hear from Agent Kullen, Lincoln left a message for Autumn and contacted the patrol unit, which was watching over her. They spoke briefly and assured him she would be brought to the station as soon as possible.
With her safety guaranteed, he reached out to the crew sent to Gavin Beck’s residence. They informed him that an officer was found in the garage with his arms, legs, and mouth wrapped in duct tape, but he was still alive, suffering from a major contusion on his head. He was currently being transported to the hospital for evaluation.
Fixing his posture, Lincoln loosened the cilice, providing a moment of comfort, and sank into his chair. Through the window, he caught another glimpse of the remaining survivors. Obstructing his view and thoughts, Marlow entered his office.
“Linc,” he says, “I’ve been in touch with Agent Webb. She’s in recovery and would like updates on the case. Additionally, I’ve been in contact with Dr. Steward’s wife and son. They’re both okay. Presumably an empty threat. The same for Renee’s family.”
Lincoln squints his eyes, contemplating, and suggests, “They didn’t fit the code.”
Marlow shrugs and is about to speak when a call comes through, “Detective,” the pathologist says, “Please come to the triage center at once. There’s something you should see.”
Taking his jacket from the chair, they leave the room hastily and head next door, cutting a path through the other corpses, beelining for Seth’s cadaver. The site of the body hits Lincoln in the gut. They shared a long history, and this wasn’t how he imagined their friendship would end. Saddened by the loss, Lincoln backed away and placed his hands in his pockets.
Inside, he found the last canister of Nitrous Oxide, which he had forgotten about. Already inserted into the cracker, it was taunting him. With the pain of losing another friend, Lincoln’s urge to use was returning, and he felt he would never escape its grasp. Checking for an exit, Lincoln was about to give in to his compulsion when he caught sight of the pathologist using a centrifuge.
Detailing her findings into a computer, she greets Lincoln, “Thank you for coming.”
“What did you find?”
Moving around the device, she grabs a portfolio and takes a blood-filled vial from the rack. She hands the vial to Lincoln and says, “When we ran the first test, I found Seth’s blood was contaminated with some sort of bacteria.”
Holding up the vial and looking closely, “Agent Kullen said he was sick….” Lincoln explains.
Her expression is one of doubt, “I checked that too, but these cells reacted differently than a common cold. It’s microbial.”
Turning a page in the portfolio, she removes another vial from the rack that is filled with green fluid.
“Do you recognize this?” She asks.
Swapping vials, Lincoln shakes the cylinder and watches the fluid splash against the walls.
The pathologist elaborates, “It was confiscated from Dr. Gordon’s apartment.”
“So?”
“Well, Detective, my theory is that poison not dissimilar to this was injected into Seth’s body. I’m certain we will find an entry point with a little more time.”
Handing the vial back to the pathologist, Lincoln displays concern.
He says, “Have Logan assist you with the autopsy. Find the entry point and get back to me.”
Confusion drapes the pathologist, “Logan isn’t here, Detective. I thought you knew that.”
“Fine, get Elanor on it immediately.”
“I’m sorry, Lincoln, but she’s not here either.”
Marlow looks worried, and Lincoln says, “What are you talking about?”
“The on-call Doctors are here because Logan and Elanor never came in. I assumed they requested a break….”
Lincoln pushes past the physician, and Marlow tries to keep up. “Get a unit to Logan and Elanor’s addresses.” He says, “If you can’t get in touch with anyone, I want an APB out within the hour.”
“Chief Savino?”
“My orders, just do it.”
They enter the precinct, and Lincoln breaks off from Marlow, heading to his office while Marlow requests the attention of the other officers. Perched in the seats, eyes fixed, they await instructions. He explains, “Two of our colleagues are missing, Logan Nelson and Elanor Bonneville. Logan was last seen leaving the precinct between 7 pm and 8 pm last night. We must track them down as soon as possible.”
Listening to Marlow in the distance, Lincoln paces his office, trying to call Autumn. He leaves another message and fidgets with the Nitrous Oxide in his pocket. Needing a distraction, he contacts Agent Kullen.
**\*
Outside the Convention Center, Agent Kullen acquired an identical parking slip to the one they procured from Seth. He stood beside his vehicle, surveying the surroundings, taking mental notes of the area, including the security cameras and the construction site for the museum across the street then headed inside.
At the front desk, he finds two staff members and security personnel. Flashing his badge, he requests to see the surveillance footage taken from the last forty-eight hours. They informed him that a power outage corrupted the data, and the footage was essentially erased. Incensed by the revelation, Kullen shows them a picture of Seth Steward and asks if they’ve seen him on the property. The security guard holds the photo close to his face and recognizes the man. He saw him the night before, smoking in the parking lot, but he never entered the building.
Kullen’s stomach churned, and his hand twitched as he exited the convention center. Retrieving his medication from the car, Kullen consumed two pills and evaluated his surroundings once more. Walking towards the street, he looked up and down the road diligently.
Near the shoulder, across the street, he saw something glistening off the sun. About to head over, a call rang through his cell, “Kullen,” he said, still curious about the object.
“It’s me.”
Hearing the Detective's unsettled tone, Agent Kullen asks, “Lincoln, what’s going on?”
“Elanor and Logan are missing. Marlow is pursuing leads. Where are you?”
Crossing the street, Kullen discovers the reflective object to be a broken padlock. He carries the item towards the gate and says, “I’m near the Convention Center.”
He stops at the entrance and discovers that a new padlock has replaced the broken one. Suspicious, he looks to the Convention Center and then back to the gate.
Overwhelmed by his sudden emotions, Lincoln pushes through a fog of anxiety and asks, “Have you found anything?”
Kullen tilts the new lock in his direction and discovers a keyhole. “Send a team to the museum, now.”
Quickly returning to his vehicle, Kullen starts the ignition and drives towards the parking lot's exit. He waits anxiously for the road to clear before pulling out onto the street. When he reaches the gate, he makes a sharp turn and slams his foot into the accelerator. Crashing through the barrier, he speeds toward the construction site.
Pedestrians outside the Community Center observe the unexpected breach and appear excited and perplexed, with at least one individual phoning 9-1-1.
*** CHAPTER 27 **\*
Sitting at his workstation, watching the news, Hoffman can hear Elanor’s muffled cries for help. In front of her, she could see the limp body of Logan, handcuffed to a metal fixture that Hoffman bolted to the floor below the aluminum faucet. Pleading for him to wake up, she quivered in fear.
Unaffected, Hoffman increased the volume of the television. Showing footage of the National History Museum from a helicopter, it was reported that a new game had been discovered. In the video, Hoffman saw several cop cars and news vans positioned outside the building. They revealed that triggers and tripwires had been placed throughout the museum, preventing safe entry.
Photos of the victims flash on the screen, and Hoffman sees Renee Walsh, a test subject of John Kramer, who he had captured over a decade ago. For her game, John requested an eye for an eye, forcing her to remove the organ with a sharpened spoon. Unbeknownst to Jigsaw, Dr. Gordon provided a numbing agent for Renee that would aid her in the endeavor.
Hoffman’s eyes glazed over, and the memories of previous games rushed to his mind. Staring through the television, he heard a voice.
Hovering over his shoulder was the rotting corpse of Amanda Young, who said, “Hello, Mark….”
“You’re dead,” he replied calmly.
Watching the news, Amanda folded her pale arms and said, “I know it’s hard to concentrate.”
Having been haunted by these hallucinations since he escaped the bathroom, Hoffman felt exhausted and tortured, “Why?” He said, his voice drained of emotion. “Why are you still here?”
Amanda stared out the window while Hoffman watched the blood ooze from her neck, and she said, “By creating a legacy, by living a life worth remembering, you become immortal.”
“When this is over, you’ll be gone….”
Smiling, Amanda responds defiantly, “Somehow, I doubt that.”
Photos of John Kramer are displayed on the television, followed by images of Dr. Gordon.
Seeing the pictures, Hoffman remembered sending letters to various news stations, hospitals, and local law enforcement, implicating Lawrence Gordon as an accomplice. For many years, he had planned his revenge on the Doctor, which started by exposing his true identity. However, with Gordon’s upstanding reputation, the implications were deemed a slanderous rumor, and nothing ever came of it.
Now with Gordon gone, only one obstacle remained; there was only one accomplice left; Logan Nelson.
*** CHAPTER 28 **\*
The sun is chased out of the sky by a flurry of dark clouds, creating a reddish-black horizon. An aft beautiful sight, if not for the crowd that has formed outside the precinct. Families of the deceased Jigsaw victims have led a throng of supporters to the parking lot, where they demand an end to Jigsaw’s legacy and the police department that has allowed this to go on for so long.
Among the swarm of bodies are the ex-husband and children of Sarah Harper.
Inside, Chief Savino preps a SWAT team on the situation at the museum, reminding them to be wary of traps, and displays a picture of Hoffman on the television for each of them to memorize. He insists that no one enter the museum until all the traps have been disarmed.
After the speech, Lincoln is informed that Autumn has arrived at her house and is collecting her belongings. The officer estimates that they will reach the precinct within the hour. With one problem solved, Lincoln allows himself a moment of comfort. When he is about to leave, Marlow approaches with more good news.
“We just spoke to Cameron, Logan’s Mother-in-Law,” He says, “She has Melissa, they’re fine, and Logan left around 7 am this morning.”
“Did she say where he was going?”
“He said he was going to work but to contact you if there’s trouble. Chances are he’s inside the museum with the others.”
Lincoln considers the possibilities and says, “Let’s retrace his steps. He took his vehicle, right? I don’t care how long it takes, pull CCTV, check gas stations in the vicinity, schools, everything. If we can triangulate his phone, do it. Find him."
“I will, sir,” Marlow says, without moving, "What about him?"
Lincoln glances at Daniel inside the Infirmary, “He doesn't leave my sight," he says.
“Sir?"
“What other options do we have? I'm not losing anyone else."
Forgoing his apprehension, Marlow said, “It’s your call, Lincoln.”
Within twenty minutes, Lincoln arrives at the museum with a SWAT team. Staring at the building, he feels a sudden surge of anxiety, dread, and a strange sense of relief, knowing this will all be over soon.
“Are you okay?” a voice asks.
His eyes move to the rearview mirror, and Lincoln can see Daniel Matthews in the back seat. Still awaiting a response from Autumn, Lincoln checks his cellphone and re-reads his message to Lynn.
“I'm ready for this to be over,” he said, tightening the cilice around his waist.
Looking through the window at the commotion outside the museum, Daniel responds, “This isn't your fault, Detective.”
Reminded of his conversation with Seth Steward, Lincoln ignores the words, "Let's go."
Both men exit the vehicle, and Marlow joins them.
"Kullen is sending in a bomb squad," Marlow said, "We've set up an observation terminal towards the south entrance. I'll move the witness there."
As the men separate, Daniel, notices the news crews positioned themselves just outside the parking lot. He stares at them approvingly.
Lincoln waded through his grief and reached Agent Marlow, who was relaying a message via radio.
“Get it done,” Kullen said.
Standing with the Agent, Lincoln asks for a breakdown of the situation.
“Come with me.”
Lincoln follows Kullen towards a police car, and the Agent removes the museum floor plans from his pocket. He lays the map on the car's hood and specifies the trap locations.
“The entrances are blocked off,” he said, “There’s no way through. Now, I’ve got a team working to deactivate the traps, but it’s going to take some time.”
“Have you had any communication with the survivors?”
Drawing a line on the map with his finger, Kullen says, “Not yet, but I’ve spoken with the construction crew, and they’re building an expansion right over here.”
***
TO BE CONTINUED
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*** CHAPTER 26 **\*
Traveling to the warehouse, Logan felt relieved knowing Melissa was in good hands, but his momentary comfort was quickly replaced with apprehension when he arrived at Hoffman’s lair. Checking his surroundings, Logan was unfamiliar with this place, despite living here for over a decade. Stopping the car, he tilted the visor down and looked at the photo of his wife.
Through the security camera positioned outside, Hoffman watched Logan enter the parking lot and smiled. He grabbed the bottle of chloroform that sat next to the aqua green box and a cloth from the table, then switched on the furnace. Walking towards the entrance, he turned off all the lights except the one shining on Elanor, who sat unconscious beneath the aluminum dispenser.
Walking towards the entrance, Logan removed a tactical knife from his pocket and held it surreptitiously. Finding the door unlocked, he breached the doorway and stepped into the building, his chest full of anxiety. Logan shuffled through the inoperable machines, boxes, and various tools until he found Elanor under the strobe light. On the floor, he noticed the chrome pool of aluminum that had dried and discovered the dispenser above her. Quickly pulling the chair out of reach, he removed the gag from her mouth just as the liquid started to pour.
Slipping out of the darkness, Hoffman watched as Logan attempted to cut through the ropes that bound Elanor, and while he was distracted, Hoffman slammed the grip of his gun into the back of Logan’s head with traumatic force. Falling to the floor, rattled and disoriented, Hoffman used this moment to render him unconscious with a considerable dose of chloroform.
***
Seth’s body is brought to the triage center, where the on-call doctors get to work. They extract the bullet from his neck and clean the wound. Then, fill several vials with his coagulating blood and immediately begin several tests. It doesn’t take long for them to find something unusual in his blood. The pathologist examines the results and calls the precinct.
Waiting to hear from Agent Kullen, Lincoln left a message for Autumn and contacted the patrol unit, which was watching over her. They spoke briefly and assured him she would be brought to the station as soon as possible.
With her safety guaranteed, he reached out to the crew sent to Gavin Beck’s residence. They informed him that an officer was found in the garage with his arms, legs, and mouth wrapped in duct tape, but he was still alive, suffering from a major contusion on his head. He was currently being transported to the hospital for evaluation.
Fixing his posture, Lincoln loosened the cilice, providing a moment of comfort, and sank into his chair. Through the window, he caught another glimpse of the remaining survivors. Obstructing his view and thoughts, Marlow entered his office.
“Linc,” he says, “I’ve been in touch with Agent Webb. She’s in recovery and would like updates on the case. Additionally, I’ve been in contact with Dr. Steward’s wife and son. They’re both okay. Presumably an empty threat. The same for Renee’s family.”
Lincoln squints his eyes, contemplating, and suggests, “They didn’t fit the code.”
Marlow shrugs and is about to speak when a call comes through, “Detective,” the pathologist says, “Please come to the triage center at once. There’s something you should see.”
Taking his jacket from the chair, they leave the room hastily and head next door, cutting a path through the other corpses, beelining for Seth’s cadaver. The site of the body hits Lincoln in the gut. They shared a long history, and this wasn’t how he imagined their friendship would end. Saddened by the loss, Lincoln backed away and placed his hands in his pockets.
Inside, he found the last canister of Nitrous Oxide, which he had forgotten about. Already inserted into the cracker, it was taunting him. With the pain of losing another friend, Lincoln’s urge to use was returning, and he felt he would never escape its grasp. Checking for an exit, Lincoln was about to give in to his compulsion when he caught sight of the pathologist using a centrifuge.
Detailing her findings into a computer, she greets Lincoln, “Thank you for coming.”
“What did you find?”
Moving around the device, she grabs a portfolio and takes a blood-filled vial from the rack. She hands the vial to Lincoln and says, “When we ran the first test, I found Seth’s blood was contaminated with some sort of bacteria.”
Holding up the vial and looking closely, “Agent Kullen said he was sick….” Lincoln explains.
Her expression is one of doubt, “I checked that too, but these cells reacted differently than a common cold. It’s microbial.”
Turning a page in the portfolio, she removes another vial from the rack that is filled with green fluid.
“Do you recognize this?” She asks.
Swapping vials, Lincoln shakes the cylinder and watches the fluid splash against the walls.
The pathologist elaborates, “It was confiscated from Dr. Gordon’s apartment.”
“So?”
“Well, Detective, my theory is that poison not dissimilar to this was injected into Seth’s body. I’m certain we will find an entry point with a little more time.”
Handing the vial back to the pathologist, Lincoln displays concern.
He says, “Have Logan assist you with the autopsy. Find the entry point and get back to me.”
Confusion drapes the pathologist, “Logan isn’t here, Detective. I thought you knew that.”
“Fine, get Elanor on it immediately.”
“I’m sorry, Lincoln, but she’s not here either.”
Marlow looks worried, and Lincoln says, “What are you talking about?”
“The on-call Doctors are here because Logan and Elanor never came in. I assumed they requested a break….”
Lincoln pushes past the physician, and Marlow tries to keep up. “Get a unit to Logan and Elanor’s addresses.” He says, “If you can’t get in touch with anyone, I want an APB out within the hour.”
“Chief Savino?”
“My orders, just do it.”
They enter the precinct, and Lincoln breaks off from Marlow, heading to his office while Marlow requests the attention of the other officers. Perched in the seats, eyes fixed, they await instructions. He explains, “Two of our colleagues are missing, Logan Nelson and Elanor Bonneville. Logan was last seen leaving the precinct between 7 pm and 8 pm last night. We must track them down as soon as possible.”
Listening to Marlow in the distance, Lincoln paces his office, trying to call Autumn. He leaves another message and fidgets with the Nitrous Oxide in his pocket. Needing a distraction, he contacts Agent Kullen.
**\*
Outside the Convention Center, Agent Kullen acquired an identical parking slip to the one they procured from Seth. He stood beside his vehicle, surveying the surroundings, taking mental notes of the area, including the security cameras and the construction site for the museum across the street then headed inside.
At the front desk, he finds two staff members and security personnel. Flashing his badge, he requests to see the surveillance footage taken from the last forty-eight hours. They informed him that a power outage corrupted the data, and the footage was essentially erased. Incensed by the revelation, Kullen shows them a picture of Seth Steward and asks if they’ve seen him on the property. The security guard holds the photo close to his face and recognizes the man. He saw him the night before, smoking in the parking lot, but he never entered the building.
Kullen’s stomach churned, and his hand twitched as he exited the convention center. Retrieving his medication from the car, Kullen consumed two pills and evaluated his surroundings once more. Walking towards the street, he looked up and down the road diligently.
Near the shoulder, across the street, he saw something glistening off the sun. About to head over, a call rang through his cell, “Kullen,” he said, still curious about the object.
“It’s me.”
Hearing the Detective's unsettled tone, Agent Kullen asks, “Lincoln, what’s going on?”
“Elanor and Logan are missing. Marlow is pursuing leads. Where are you?”
Crossing the street, Kullen discovers the reflective object to be a broken padlock. He carries the item towards the gate and says, “I’m near the Convention Center.”
He stops at the entrance and discovers that a new padlock has replaced the broken one. Suspicious, he looks to the Convention Center and then back to the gate.
Overwhelmed by his sudden emotions, Lincoln pushes through a fog of anxiety and asks, “Have you found anything?”
Kullen tilts the new lock in his direction and discovers a keyhole. “Send a team to the museum, now.”
Quickly returning to his vehicle, Kullen starts the ignition and drives towards the parking lot's exit. He waits anxiously for the road to clear before pulling out onto the street. When he reaches the gate, he makes a sharp turn and slams his foot into the accelerator. Crashing through the barrier, he speeds toward the construction site.
Pedestrians outside the Community Center observe the unexpected breach and appear excited and perplexed, with at least one individual phoning 9-1-1.
*** CHAPTER 27 **\*
Sitting at his workstation, watching the news, Hoffman can hear Elanor’s muffled cries for help. In front of her, she could see the limp body of Logan, handcuffed to a metal fixture that Hoffman bolted to the floor below the aluminum faucet. Pleading for him to wake up, she quivered in fear.
Unaffected, Hoffman increased the volume of the television. Showing footage of the National History Museum from a helicopter, it was reported that a new game had been discovered. In the video, Hoffman saw several cop cars and news vans positioned outside the building. They revealed that triggers and tripwires had been placed throughout the museum, preventing safe entry.
Photos of the victims flash on the screen, and Hoffman sees Renee Walsh, a test subject of John Kramer, who he had captured over a decade ago. For her game, John requested an eye for an eye, forcing her to remove the organ with a sharpened spoon. Unbeknownst to Jigsaw, Dr. Gordon provided a numbing agent for Renee that would aid her in the endeavor.
Hoffman’s eyes glazed over, and the memories of previous games rushed to his mind. Staring through the television, he heard a voice.
Hovering over his shoulder was the rotting corpse of Amanda Young, who said, “Hello, Mark….”
“You’re dead,” he replied calmly.
Watching the news, Amanda folded her pale arms and said, “I know it’s hard to concentrate.”
Having been haunted by these hallucinations since he escaped the bathroom, Hoffman felt exhausted and tortured, “Why?” He said, his voice drained of emotion. “Why are you still here?”
Amanda stared out the window while Hoffman watched the blood ooze from her neck, and she said, “By creating a legacy, by living a life worth remembering, you become immortal.”
“When this is over, you’ll be gone….”
Smiling, Amanda responds defiantly, “Somehow, I doubt that.”
Photos of John Kramer are displayed on the television, followed by images of Dr. Gordon.
Seeing the pictures, Hoffman remembered sending letters to various news stations, hospitals, and local law enforcement, implicating Lawrence Gordon as an accomplice. For many years, he had planned his revenge on the Doctor, which started by exposing his true identity. However, with Gordon’s upstanding reputation, the implications were deemed a slanderous rumor, and nothing ever came of it.
Now with Gordon gone, only one obstacle remained; there was only one accomplice left; Logan Nelson.
*** CHAPTER 28 **\*
The sun is chased out of the sky by a flurry of dark clouds, creating a reddish-black horizon. An aft beautiful sight, if not for the crowd that has formed outside the precinct. Families of the deceased Jigsaw victims have led a throng of supporters to the parking lot, where they demand an end to Jigsaw’s legacy and the police department that has allowed this to go on for so long.
Among the swarm of bodies are the ex-husband and children of Sarah Harper.
Inside, Chief Savino preps a SWAT team on the situation at the museum, reminding them to be wary of traps, and displays a picture of Hoffman on the television for each of them to memorize. He insists that no one enter the museum until all the traps have been disarmed.
After the speech, Lincoln is informed that Autumn has arrived at her house and is collecting her belongings. The officer estimates that they will reach the precinct within the hour. With one problem solved, Lincoln allows himself a moment of comfort. When he is about to leave, Marlow approaches with more good news.
“We just spoke to Cameron, Logan’s Mother-in-Law,” He says, “She has Melissa, they’re fine, and Logan left around 7 am this morning.”
“Did she say where he was going?”
“He said he was going to work but to contact you if there’s trouble. Chances are he’s inside the museum with the others.”
Lincoln considers the possibilities and says, “Let’s retrace his steps. He took his vehicle, right? I don’t care how long it takes, pull CCTV, check gas stations in the vicinity, schools, everything. If we can triangulate his phone, do it. Find him."
“I will, sir,” Marlow says, without moving, "What about him?"
Lincoln glances at Daniel inside the Infirmary, “He doesn't leave my sight," he says.
“Sir?"
“What other options do we have? I'm not losing anyone else."
Forgoing his apprehension, Marlow said, “It’s your call, Lincoln.”
Within twenty minutes, Lincoln arrives at the museum with a SWAT team. Staring at the building, he feels a sudden surge of anxiety, dread, and a strange sense of relief, knowing this will all be over soon.
“Are you okay?” a voice asks.
His eyes move to the rearview mirror, and Lincoln can see Daniel Matthews in the back seat. Still awaiting a response from Autumn, Lincoln checks his cellphone and re-reads his message to Lynn.
“I'm ready for this to be over,” he said, tightening the cilice around his waist.
Looking through the window at the commotion outside the museum, Daniel responds, “This isn't your fault, Detective.”
Reminded of his conversation with Seth Steward, Lincoln ignores the words, "Let's go."
Both men exit the vehicle, and Marlow joins them.
"Kullen is sending in a bomb squad," Marlow said, "We've set up an observation terminal towards the south entrance. I'll move the witness there."
As the men separate, Daniel, notices the news crews positioned themselves just outside the parking lot. He stares at them approvingly.
Lincoln waded through his grief and reached Agent Marlow, who was relaying a message via radio.
“Get it done,” Kullen said.
Standing with the Agent, Lincoln asks for a breakdown of the situation.
“Come with me.”
Lincoln follows Kullen towards a police car, and the Agent removes the museum floor plans from his pocket. He lays the map on the car's hood and specifies the trap locations.
“The entrances are blocked off,” he said, “There’s no way through. Now, I’ve got a team working to deactivate the traps, but it’s going to take some time.”
“Have you had any communication with the survivors?”
Drawing a line on the map with his finger, Kullen says, “Not yet, but I’ve spoken with the construction crew, and they’re building an expansion right over here.”
***
TO BE CONTINUED
2023.05.29 23:07 kejmuji [Foster] relocating & need temporary housing for an elder dog
hello everyone, i am currently in the middle of relocating back to long beach from LA and could use your guidance.
i have a dog (ellie) who I was originally caring for last summer after her owner had to leave the country. you might have seen a post about her when i was looking to have her adopted. happy to report that I ended up keeping her and found a way to make it work where we were living. she was honestly thriving, and ultimately i am so happy to have her with me now :')
on that note, I did have to leave my last place a bit abruptly, womp womp. while i am leaning into my friends/fam during this less ideal circumstance, bopping in between places, I am also struggling caretaking for ellie on top of logistical shenanigans that come with moving/relocating. frankly, my options to bring ellie w/me to friends and fam are very limited/non-existent, which is contributing largely to my current stress/overwhelm.
i am planning on contacting local shelters tomorrow about how to find fostering contacts otherwise, but in the meantime I wanted to ask if anyone can share local/direct resources, tips etc. alternatively, if anyone you know has fostered before & has capacity to temporarily house my 12 yr old bb until I secure a spot for us, i would so so so so so so be forever grateful. i can provide more details & happy to answer q's if needed via dm.
ellie & i say thanks LB :'')
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i have a dog (ellie) who I was originally caring for last summer after her owner had to leave the country. you might have seen a post about her when i was looking to have her adopted. happy to report that I ended up keeping her and found a way to make it work where we were living. she was honestly thriving, and ultimately i am so happy to have her with me now :')
on that note, I did have to leave my last place a bit abruptly, womp womp. while i am leaning into my friends/fam during this less ideal circumstance, bopping in between places, I am also struggling caretaking for ellie on top of logistical shenanigans that come with moving/relocating. frankly, my options to bring ellie w/me to friends and fam are very limited/non-existent, which is contributing largely to my current stress/overwhelm.
i am planning on contacting local shelters tomorrow about how to find fostering contacts otherwise, but in the meantime I wanted to ask if anyone can share local/direct resources, tips etc. alternatively, if anyone you know has fostered before & has capacity to temporarily house my 12 yr old bb until I secure a spot for us, i would so so so so so so be forever grateful. i can provide more details & happy to answer q's if needed via dm.
ellie & i say thanks LB :'')
2023.05.29 23:05 vark1222 I thought i knew my wife........
My wife Shanda is a nurse who has been fired from four hospitals for stealing and consuming patients prescribed narcotics. She has had her nursing license on probation 2 times. Addiction is only one of her flaws. She has been with her husband for 18 years, married for 11. In October of 2022 they went away for the weekend to celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary. After returning from their trip, Shanda wasted little time by starting an affair with a co-worker just 2 days later. She had laid the ground work for this affair before leaving town. This winner she cheated on her husband with, is 7 years older than her (50 years old). He is also married, actually been married 3 times. He is also a nurse. She confided or should I say spread lies to her coworker about her husband to gain sympathy and attention from him. She also told him all of her husbands business and secrets.
A little bit abour her husband. They have 3 children 17, 7 and 5 years old. Her husband workes 80 hours a week to ensure that Shanda could buy anything and everything she wanted. He loved her deeply, and tolerated everything she threw at him. Fast forward to 11/29/23. the affair had picked up steam, she spent less and less time at home and taking care of their children. She was 6 weeks in and played her wife role to ensure her husband did not suspect anything. A week prior, her husband was starting to notice weird things like changing passwords, less communication from her on a daily basis and she had become increasing guarded of her phone and spending more time than she ever have had on her social media accounts. Her husband finally had an opportunity on 11/29 when she left her phone upstairs and he grabbed it went straight to recently deleted messages and there they were 490 text messages that chronicled everything, the entire evolution of their affair. By the first week of November they were full blown sexting. She became enraged and assaulted him, saying she didn't love him anymore and didn't want to be with him. He was beyond hurt, he sacrificed his own happiness for years for her. December and January were brutual, she continued to cheat after telling him and the 17 year old daughter that she was sorry, used bad judgement and was going to focus on repairing their marriage. Her treatment of her husband was absolutely disgusting, she would assault him, broke his Imac twice, the 2nd time she hit him over the head with it. She's the one that caused all of this and she felt she had the right to take out her anger on him because he caught her. She had opened up 3 different snapchat accounts because this was her preferred way to communicate with her affair partner. Her husband had been documenting all of her violence and continued to stand by her hoping she would realize how her actions were destroying him and their children. Most of the arguing and fighting took place in front of the 7 and 5 year olds.
By January she was openly cheating in the face of her husband. January 23, 2023, her husband had found a way to have her text messages sent to his phone, that evening she gets home from work, he pours his heart out to her, begging her to stop her affair and recommit to her family. While he is doing this she is texting affair guy lies about her husband, he is telling her how much fun the day before with her was and how he is divorcing his wife and wants her to refinance his house with her, she responds with I need to make plans to leave him and spend the rest of my life with you. The whole time her husband is reading this exchange in real time, he puts his phone down but didn't close out the messaging app, Shanda notices this because the last text sent from her was a blowing kiss emoji. I forgot to mention that in the middle of January her husband got into her snapchat account and found a message from her to him where she proclaimed her love for him. In the beginning of January she was busted by her nurse probation case manager for failing a drug test which resulted in an addtional year tacked on to her probation and mandatory outpatient rehab for 30 days. Anyways after she noticed his phone she got pissed and chased him around the house trying to get his phone from him, grabbing his car keys to prevent him from leaving the house. He shouted for her to stop and not in front of the kids, put the kids to bed and i'll give you my phone he said, but she wouldn't stop. Finally, he grabbed her to get his key from her, he leaves she calls the cops, he is arrested and put in jail for domestic assault. She gets him out the next day, he notices that while he was in jail she spent most of her time on the phone with her affair friend. She tells her husband that she will go to court and not press charges, that was a lie, and on Feb. 3, 2023 she files for divorce telling her husband she was going to have the charges dropped, he knew she was lying because he put a gps tracker in her car and new she as at a divorce lawyers office. February she claimed to have ended her affair, but really it was her lawyer telling her to be more careful with her affair till this is over. Her husband, is devasted by this, but vows to get her to change her mind. she at one point tells him she will stop the divorce and another time says she will pause the divorce to attempt reconciliation. Both these times were straight lies. By this time she is telling her husband "why are you here? No one here cares about you".
She became very emotionally abusive after filing for divorce. So much so her husband contemplated taking his own life and actually staged an event to make it look like he was trying, that all backfired though. Then came March 29th, this was the anniversary of their first date, her husband comes home for work, he notices she has regular clothes on and not pajamas, she always changes into pajamas. She starts an argument on purpose for an excuse to leave and stay the night at her moms house. She leaves, he can't sleep at around 3:30am, he has a funny feeling, looks a her email and notices a hotel receipt from 12:21am that morning. He jumps in the car and races to the hotel, sure enough their is her car in the parking lot of a neighboring hotel and their is his car in the hotel parking lot that matches the reciept. Her husband calls the hotel and asks to be transferred to her room, no answer, he goes in the hotel and asks the front desk to try again, no answer, tries one more time. This time someone picks up but says nothing, he cries to her on the phone asking why? He returns to his car and now can tell what room they are in, he waits, 30 minutes later the punk ass 50 yr old walks out of the hotel and to his car, her husband just stares at him, he drives off. Hours later, she returns home packs a bunch of clothes and moves out to stay with her mom. 3 weeks later her husband has to appear in court for the charge, her divorce lawyer shows up and has the case prolonged for 2 more months. She appears to feel bad and returns home but says no affection or sex and she will let him know if she feels anything. Back up to her moving out, her affair friend started sending text messages to her husband threatening him and bringing up things only his wife knew about him, he crossed the line when the affair guy brought up his daughter's name. By this time it wasn't enough to for her to fuck another man and tell her how much she loves him, she had to mentally torment him and talk of their children to this low life piece of shit.
Now here we are in May, he tries to give her a good mother;s day and she insults him. Four days later, here comes the phone call from CPS. They interview all 3 children and Shanda and her husband, now this has gotten way out of hand, he plans to comply with CPS, Shanda has no plans to comply, that is where we are at right now. She is a cheating whore who never had the balls to tell her husband that she was unhappy before spreading her legs for someone else. She has mentally destroyed her husband and their kids, she never has shown a bit of remorse, she is looking for an apartment because their house will have to be sold because her husband cannot afford it by himself. The kids will have to lose their house and change schools. Her husband is in financial turmoil and he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She never put one ounce of energy into saving their marriage and has never apologized for the things she has done. Mediation is not scheduled till July 22nd, so this is far from over, who knows what the hell will happen next. This is a great example of how one person can destroy another persons life and makes you question if you even know your own wife. I will surely post updates as this seems to be far from over. I apologize for this post being in the 3rd person.
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A little bit abour her husband. They have 3 children 17, 7 and 5 years old. Her husband workes 80 hours a week to ensure that Shanda could buy anything and everything she wanted. He loved her deeply, and tolerated everything she threw at him. Fast forward to 11/29/23. the affair had picked up steam, she spent less and less time at home and taking care of their children. She was 6 weeks in and played her wife role to ensure her husband did not suspect anything. A week prior, her husband was starting to notice weird things like changing passwords, less communication from her on a daily basis and she had become increasing guarded of her phone and spending more time than she ever have had on her social media accounts. Her husband finally had an opportunity on 11/29 when she left her phone upstairs and he grabbed it went straight to recently deleted messages and there they were 490 text messages that chronicled everything, the entire evolution of their affair. By the first week of November they were full blown sexting. She became enraged and assaulted him, saying she didn't love him anymore and didn't want to be with him. He was beyond hurt, he sacrificed his own happiness for years for her. December and January were brutual, she continued to cheat after telling him and the 17 year old daughter that she was sorry, used bad judgement and was going to focus on repairing their marriage. Her treatment of her husband was absolutely disgusting, she would assault him, broke his Imac twice, the 2nd time she hit him over the head with it. She's the one that caused all of this and she felt she had the right to take out her anger on him because he caught her. She had opened up 3 different snapchat accounts because this was her preferred way to communicate with her affair partner. Her husband had been documenting all of her violence and continued to stand by her hoping she would realize how her actions were destroying him and their children. Most of the arguing and fighting took place in front of the 7 and 5 year olds.
By January she was openly cheating in the face of her husband. January 23, 2023, her husband had found a way to have her text messages sent to his phone, that evening she gets home from work, he pours his heart out to her, begging her to stop her affair and recommit to her family. While he is doing this she is texting affair guy lies about her husband, he is telling her how much fun the day before with her was and how he is divorcing his wife and wants her to refinance his house with her, she responds with I need to make plans to leave him and spend the rest of my life with you. The whole time her husband is reading this exchange in real time, he puts his phone down but didn't close out the messaging app, Shanda notices this because the last text sent from her was a blowing kiss emoji. I forgot to mention that in the middle of January her husband got into her snapchat account and found a message from her to him where she proclaimed her love for him. In the beginning of January she was busted by her nurse probation case manager for failing a drug test which resulted in an addtional year tacked on to her probation and mandatory outpatient rehab for 30 days. Anyways after she noticed his phone she got pissed and chased him around the house trying to get his phone from him, grabbing his car keys to prevent him from leaving the house. He shouted for her to stop and not in front of the kids, put the kids to bed and i'll give you my phone he said, but she wouldn't stop. Finally, he grabbed her to get his key from her, he leaves she calls the cops, he is arrested and put in jail for domestic assault. She gets him out the next day, he notices that while he was in jail she spent most of her time on the phone with her affair friend. She tells her husband that she will go to court and not press charges, that was a lie, and on Feb. 3, 2023 she files for divorce telling her husband she was going to have the charges dropped, he knew she was lying because he put a gps tracker in her car and new she as at a divorce lawyers office. February she claimed to have ended her affair, but really it was her lawyer telling her to be more careful with her affair till this is over. Her husband, is devasted by this, but vows to get her to change her mind. she at one point tells him she will stop the divorce and another time says she will pause the divorce to attempt reconciliation. Both these times were straight lies. By this time she is telling her husband "why are you here? No one here cares about you".
She became very emotionally abusive after filing for divorce. So much so her husband contemplated taking his own life and actually staged an event to make it look like he was trying, that all backfired though. Then came March 29th, this was the anniversary of their first date, her husband comes home for work, he notices she has regular clothes on and not pajamas, she always changes into pajamas. She starts an argument on purpose for an excuse to leave and stay the night at her moms house. She leaves, he can't sleep at around 3:30am, he has a funny feeling, looks a her email and notices a hotel receipt from 12:21am that morning. He jumps in the car and races to the hotel, sure enough their is her car in the parking lot of a neighboring hotel and their is his car in the hotel parking lot that matches the reciept. Her husband calls the hotel and asks to be transferred to her room, no answer, he goes in the hotel and asks the front desk to try again, no answer, tries one more time. This time someone picks up but says nothing, he cries to her on the phone asking why? He returns to his car and now can tell what room they are in, he waits, 30 minutes later the punk ass 50 yr old walks out of the hotel and to his car, her husband just stares at him, he drives off. Hours later, she returns home packs a bunch of clothes and moves out to stay with her mom. 3 weeks later her husband has to appear in court for the charge, her divorce lawyer shows up and has the case prolonged for 2 more months. She appears to feel bad and returns home but says no affection or sex and she will let him know if she feels anything. Back up to her moving out, her affair friend started sending text messages to her husband threatening him and bringing up things only his wife knew about him, he crossed the line when the affair guy brought up his daughter's name. By this time it wasn't enough to for her to fuck another man and tell her how much she loves him, she had to mentally torment him and talk of their children to this low life piece of shit.
Now here we are in May, he tries to give her a good mother;s day and she insults him. Four days later, here comes the phone call from CPS. They interview all 3 children and Shanda and her husband, now this has gotten way out of hand, he plans to comply with CPS, Shanda has no plans to comply, that is where we are at right now. She is a cheating whore who never had the balls to tell her husband that she was unhappy before spreading her legs for someone else. She has mentally destroyed her husband and their kids, she never has shown a bit of remorse, she is looking for an apartment because their house will have to be sold because her husband cannot afford it by himself. The kids will have to lose their house and change schools. Her husband is in financial turmoil and he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She never put one ounce of energy into saving their marriage and has never apologized for the things she has done. Mediation is not scheduled till July 22nd, so this is far from over, who knows what the hell will happen next. This is a great example of how one person can destroy another persons life and makes you question if you even know your own wife. I will surely post updates as this seems to be far from over. I apologize for this post being in the 3rd person.
2023.05.29 23:05 hubsixtycoworkspace Empowering Lagos Youths and Elevating the Standard of Living through Co-workspaces
Hey fellow Redditors!
I wanted to take a moment to shed some light on an exciting trend that is shaping the landscape of work and employment in Lagos, Nigeria. Co-workspaces have emerged as a game-changer, addressing the challenges faced by our vibrant and aspiring youth population in Nigeria, while simultaneously raising the standard of living in our cities.
Lagos, with its bustling economy and entrepreneurial spirit, is home to a multitude of talented young individuals. However, many of them face hurdles when it comes to securing suitable work environments and opportunities. Traditional office spaces can be expensive, rigid, and inaccessible to many budding entrepreneurs, freelancers, and start-up teams.
This is where co-workspaces come in to bridge the gap and provide a solution. These shared workspaces offer a flexible and collaborative environment that fosters innovation, creativity, and productivity. They provide affordable access to state-of-the-art infrastructure, amenities, and networking opportunities, leveling the playing field for individuals who might not have the financial means to establish their own offices.
One co-workspace that is making a significant impact in Lagos is Hub Sixty. They have recognized the potential of our talented youth and are actively contributing to the growth of the city by offering a dynamic and inclusive space for collaboration and growth. Hub Sixty provides a supportive community that nurtures entrepreneurship, empowers young professionals, and facilitates meaningful connections.
By breaking down barriers and providing affordable access to resources, Hub Sixty Co-workspace is enabling Lagos youths to turn their ideas into successful ventures. It offers a range of flexible membership options, ensuring that individuals from various backgrounds and industries can benefit from their services. Whether you're a freelancer, a small business owner, or part of a growing team, Hub Sixty has tailored solutions to meet your specific needs.
The impact of co-workspaces like Hub Sixty goes beyond just providing a physical space. They serve as incubators of talent and innovation, fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing among diverse professionals. By creating a supportive ecosystem, they facilitate skill development, and the exchange of ideas, nurturing the next generation of leaders and change-makers.
Additionally, the growth of co-workspaces in Lagos has a ripple effect on the overall economy. By empowering individuals to establish and grow their businesses, co-workspaces contribute to job creation, reducing unemployment rates and providing opportunities for sustainable economic growth. This, in turn, leads to an improved standard of living for the citizens of Lagos.
So, whether you're an entrepreneur looking for an inspiring work environment, a freelancer seeking a supportive community, or a start-up team in need of affordable office space, consider exploring co-workspaces like Hub Sixty. Embrace the power of collaboration and tap into the endless possibilities that these spaces offer.
Let's unlock the potential of our youth, create more employment opportunities, and elevate the standard of living in Lagos, one shared workspace at a time. Together, we can shape a brighter future for our city!
*Have you had any experiences with co-workspaces in Lagos? Or do you know any location in Lagos dire need of a co-workspace? Share your thoughts and stories in the comments below! Let's inspire and support one another on this exciting journey.*
[Disclaimer: This post is not sponsored by Hub Sixty or any other co-workspace. It is solely meant to highlight the positive impact of co-workspaces in Lagos and encourage discussion on the topic.]
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Hey fellow Redditors!
I wanted to take a moment to shed some light on an exciting trend that is shaping the landscape of work and employment in Lagos, Nigeria. Co-workspaces have emerged as a game-changer, addressing the challenges faced by our vibrant and aspiring youth population in Nigeria, while simultaneously raising the standard of living in our cities.
Lagos, with its bustling economy and entrepreneurial spirit, is home to a multitude of talented young individuals. However, many of them face hurdles when it comes to securing suitable work environments and opportunities. Traditional office spaces can be expensive, rigid, and inaccessible to many budding entrepreneurs, freelancers, and start-up teams.
This is where co-workspaces come in to bridge the gap and provide a solution. These shared workspaces offer a flexible and collaborative environment that fosters innovation, creativity, and productivity. They provide affordable access to state-of-the-art infrastructure, amenities, and networking opportunities, leveling the playing field for individuals who might not have the financial means to establish their own offices.
One co-workspace that is making a significant impact in Lagos is Hub Sixty. They have recognized the potential of our talented youth and are actively contributing to the growth of the city by offering a dynamic and inclusive space for collaboration and growth. Hub Sixty provides a supportive community that nurtures entrepreneurship, empowers young professionals, and facilitates meaningful connections.
By breaking down barriers and providing affordable access to resources, Hub Sixty Co-workspace is enabling Lagos youths to turn their ideas into successful ventures. It offers a range of flexible membership options, ensuring that individuals from various backgrounds and industries can benefit from their services. Whether you're a freelancer, a small business owner, or part of a growing team, Hub Sixty has tailored solutions to meet your specific needs.
The impact of co-workspaces like Hub Sixty goes beyond just providing a physical space. They serve as incubators of talent and innovation, fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing among diverse professionals. By creating a supportive ecosystem, they facilitate skill development, and the exchange of ideas, nurturing the next generation of leaders and change-makers.
Additionally, the growth of co-workspaces in Lagos has a ripple effect on the overall economy. By empowering individuals to establish and grow their businesses, co-workspaces contribute to job creation, reducing unemployment rates and providing opportunities for sustainable economic growth. This, in turn, leads to an improved standard of living for the citizens of Lagos.
So, whether you're an entrepreneur looking for an inspiring work environment, a freelancer seeking a supportive community, or a start-up team in need of affordable office space, consider exploring co-workspaces like Hub Sixty. Embrace the power of collaboration and tap into the endless possibilities that these spaces offer.
Let's unlock the potential of our youth, create more employment opportunities, and elevate the standard of living in Lagos, one shared workspace at a time. Together, we can shape a brighter future for our city!
*Have you had any experiences with co-workspaces in Lagos? Or do you know any location in Lagos dire need of a co-workspace? Share your thoughts and stories in the comments below! Let's inspire and support one another on this exciting journey.*
[Disclaimer: This post is not sponsored by Hub Sixty or any other co-workspace. It is solely meant to highlight the positive impact of co-workspaces in Lagos and encourage discussion on the topic.]
2023.05.29 23:05 TheRetroWorkshop Hard & Accurate Sci-fi Tip #2: Space Military Structure (Namely, Space Opera):
This is going to be one of my more serious, long posts, so strap in, as they say (though I cannot possibly detail out everything you might need to know. That would require at least three posts). To quote -- and set the stage through -- Dostoevsky (from Notes from Underground):
'Is it [history] many-coloured? May be it is many-coloured, too: if one takes the dress uniforms, military and civilian, of all peoples in all ages--that alone is worth something, and if you take the undress uniforms you will never get to the end of it; no historian would be equal to the job. Is it monotonous? May be it's monotonous too: it's fighting and fighting; they are fighting now, they fought first and they fought last--you will admit, that it is almost too monotonous.
In short, one may say anything about the history of the world--anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational. The very word sticks in one's throat. And, indeed, this is the odd thing that is continually happening: there are continually turning up in life moral and rational persons, sages and lovers of humanity who make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rationally as possible, to be, so to speak, a light to their neighbours simply in order to show them that it is possible to live morally and rationally in this world. And yet we all know that those very people sooner or later have been false to themselves, playing some queer trick, often a most unseemly one.
Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself--as though that were so necessary--that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar.'
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I would only add that he was rather harsh on the soldier and his general. Many-coloured, is he! The eternal shine of the ten million blades, the wooden hilt; the forgotten hammer, the ships of our forefathers. Ah! Such a pity to see nought in it but blood and sand -- now, that is monotonous. If man is to mean anything at all, it must be finding some honour in life... and death. War, it must be known, is the great stage-play of time. Surely, then, the warrior is the greatest (male) part to play? Otherwise, it's all for nought!
If you're going to, as the author, gift your setting a military and its honour, you have to actually put yourself inside the mind of the general, the trooper, the law-maker, the wife at home, the child in the street; otherwise, it's going to be a hollowed-out system, a mere mote. It does not matter to me if you believe in war or not, or if all war is just (certainly, it's not): what matters is that you do your setting and peoples justice, regardless of what they may find themselves. After all, this is your job as the writer, as the artist. It's your job to let your characters and their stories free, and follow them, as to see where they may lead.
I'm not even going to dig into the elements at play, such as brotherhood, inter-national conflict resolution, national defence, social structure, and physical fitness. These elements ought to be known to you all: they are some of the clear benefits to warfare and boot camp/training, in general. I have not yet found a defeatist army, for example -- or yet a nation without some kind of guarder force, vast or not. (Note: there are some claims that actual warfare did not exist until around 9,000 BC, but I find this very difficult to believe, and have seen some counter-evidence. For example, Jane Goodall and de Waal find that chimps go to war (raiding parties, sometimes wiping out entire tribes); and there are strong indications that pre-historic human tribes were war-driven, just on smaller scales, and often using wooden weapons (thus, no direct evidence is found). We know that modern hunting (and fire-making, and related matters) existed at least 1.5-2 million years ago, according to the books I own and more recent research. That's the entire history of humanity, ultimately. There is no way these spears and slings were not used against man.)
Well, a big part of space opera is, indeed, warfare (typically in relation to defence of the Good [nation] and psychomachy). Anyway, without further ado, I give to you...
Part One: A Brief History of Battles, Great and Small
Let's begin with Alexander the Great, because why not (though I could have started with Sargon of Akkad many years prior). Alexander's army was a powerful, fast-moving, and relatively small force of 40,000 men (equal to a Napoleonic corps or so). Often credited with inventing genius 'shock' tactics (the so-called hammer and anvil tactic) to overwhelm equally-sized forces. He even managed to break up, and then defeat, the vast Persian army under King Darius III (around 1500,000 strong). Alexander the Great's army is as close to the cinematic glory of 300 (2006) as you're likely to find. Soon after, Alexander was crowned King of Asia in a lavish ceremony.
Moving forward a few hundred years, at its peak, the Roman military possibly had over 500,000 soldiers across its regions (around 0.5% of citizens -- which is a fairly reliable standard across history) by 306 AD during the reign of Constantine I. Compare this to the Roman conquest of Britain under Plautius, with just a 40,000-man force (four legions and 20,000 auxiliary troops, including Thracians) in 43 AD. (It's also worth mentioning, if you're in a long-term space war, individual companies, legions, or otherwise could stay outfitted for as long as 500 years at a time without issue. The Roman Legion, Legio IX Hispana, for example, existed for at least 150 years, and led the conquest of Britain. And, within the Warhammer 40,000 universes, a single Space Marine sees battle for about 400 years before he's KIA (killed in action).)
During the Battle of Hastings in 1066 AD, each side only had upwards of 5,000-8,000 men (around 15,000 in total). This was actually a common trend, from what I found: equally common was the notion of 'law of war' and related, which meant that each side wanted to be roughly equal to the other side. This is one of the most profound discoveries of my life (more on this later). (The Japanese invasion of China, for example, taught me that having too much control over your enemy leads to madness -- there must be an innate drive to some sense of honour, fair challenge in war-making. When men are without equals, they become titans, as it were. And, if you know anything about some of the Greek titans: they were not very friendly or sane.)
Around this time (960-1279 AD), the Song Dynasty of China had a remarkable standing army of over two million men, and made use of tank-like carts and newly-invented 'grandes' (known as 'thunder crash bombs'). However, this was financially exhausting, but it was sometimes capable of fighting against invading Khitans, Jurchens, and Mongols, largely thanks to the great iron industry. Individual battles, however, were quite small.
By the time of the First Italian War (1494 AD), Europe was really starting to take its modern shape, and there were hundreds of what are ultimately power struggle wars and rebellions across Europe as we moved out of the Middle Ages. This was the opening phase of the Italian Wars, which existed between 1494 and 1559 AD. The Battle of Marignano was the last major engagement of the War of the League of Cambrai (aka the wars between 1508 and 1516 AD, within the Italian Wars. The main participants were the French, Papal States, and Republic of Venice) and took place in 1515 AD, southeast of Milan. The Battle of Marignano pitted the French army, led by Francis I and the best heavy cavalry and artillery in Europe, against the Old Swiss Confederacy (within the Holy Roman Empire -- this was the precursor of the modern state of Switzerland), whose mercenaries until that point were regarded as the best medieval infantry force in Europe. The French had German landsknechts (mercenaries famed for pike and shot formations) on their side. The French won and suffered just half the losses, and did so with a fairly stronger force -- possibly 35,000 men compared to 22,000 on the Swiss side. This led to the Treaty of Fribourg, which established the 'Perpetual Peace', and ensured good relations between the two nations for nearly 200 years. This event is largely what led to Switzerland's world-famous diplomatic autonomy and militaristic neutrality. Nonetheless, this battle -- and countless others at the time -- saw similar numbers to centuries past: roughly 20,000 on each side.
Part Two: An Introduction to Military Divisions & the Numbering System
Enter Maurice de Saxe circa 1710 AD, whom you can thank, at least in part, for the modern military system, largely due to the major increase in soldiers by the 18th century, and his advanced thinking in response. A major battle felt by a young de Saxe was the Battle of Malplaquet during the War of the Spanish Succession. Battles pressed on in this manner, and at some point, de Saxe began to write about it. He wrote Mes Reveries, a profound work on the art of war, which was published after his death in 1757 AD.
He had the grand idea of reshaping the regiment system into large 'legions' (modern divisions), so that the effective officers were not wasted on smaller, single regiments. These divisions would consist of four regiments and would have a more even mix of veteran soldiers and new recruits, as well. On top of this, he -- along with some other key theorists at the time -- had the idea of simply numbering the divisions and regiments, replacing the traditional system of naming them by their commanders or by locations/regions: because that's a very temporary, rigid system that only works for small, tight-knit groups. The divisional system also allowed soldiers to climb the ranks, and effectively learn from the veterans.
The regimental system shatters command structure and weakens mobility, despite the fact you have smaller, often lighter units. Too many small, separate, disorganised units is highly ineffective when you're dealing with large armies, and quite an advanced enemy (be it the British or Prussians, in this case). What de Saxe noticed was a failing system of rigid tradition. He also hated this sort of grenadier mentality of the 17th and 18th centuries, as it displaced all the strongest and most experienced soldiers. Of course, de Saxe was not against the existence of grenadiers: the strongest soldiers, leading the assaults, such as storming fortifications. He simply wanted to evenly spread them out across all the regiments, and legions, so that every single unit was an effective tool. (This grenadier concept actually survives to this day, as a grenade launcher specialist of a typical four-man fireteam (traditionally, sharing much in common with WWII-era shock troops), and you see it all the time in movies, where he is still typically the biggest, strongest of the team.)
Battles were increasingly crossing the 100,000 mark in terms of soldier count; whereas, not long ago (that is, around 1650 AD), the numbers were more likely in the range of 20,000 for most battles, other than a few outliers.
Then, de Saxe died before he had the opportunity to actually implement his system, though the Duke de Broglie led some successful experiments with it during the Seven Years War, but it took until the French Revolution for the 'division' concept to be enforced, systematically. This ultimately fell at the hands of the French Revolutionary Army.
Enter Lazare Carnot. Like de Saxe, Carnot saw that some regiments were full of veterans, whilst others -- namely, the new revolutionary brigades -- were filled with barely-trained recruits. And, like de Saxe, his solution was to separate out the veterans and embed them within these new brigades. More importantly, he embraced de Saxe's idea of the 'division'. The new demi-brigades (regiments, as the Revolutionary Government hated and removed the term regiment) would be combined into brigades, and brigades would be combined into divisions. Later, under Napoleon, divisions themselves were combined into corps (which is and has always been the highest level of operational units for actual combat, with all units larger than corps being purely administrative, with a clear exception being Napoleon's Armee (i.e. modern field army), and a few other, smaller army groups).
This wonderfully created an intermediate level of control between the general and the brigade commanders. The Revolutionary Army became at once an army of mass and mobility. This allowed the army to move faster and more decisively than their enemies, who were still commanding at regiment or brigade level.
Full implementation of the divisional system was not realised until the French Revolutionary Government, in their centralising and anti-aristocratic ways, when they decided to entirely remove the old system of naming regiments after their commanders. They saw all of this as part of the 'ancien regime' (i.e. 'the System' or 'old system', language also used by Hitler in relation to what he called the 'Weimar Republic'. Not uncommon language from any new system). The second factor at play was that the French Revolutionary Government also didn't like the idea of merely naming regiments after regions of France. The final factor was scale: the Army was larger than ever, which made it very difficult to give specific names.
As a result, the Government began numbering their units by the late-1700s. Although the Roman legions themselves had been numbered, and de Saxe argued for it many years prior, some scholars believe that this was purely an administrative decision. (Obviously, your naming convention can be more on the religious/traditional or seculamodern side, depending on just how the entire system is set up. Warhammer 40,000 is a good example of a more Roman-inspired system, despite its far-future nature, so it's not uncommon to find very traditional, religious naming conventions within Warhammer 40,000, coupled with simple, administrative systems. And, again: Nazi Germany and other 20th-century powers, such as America and England, also shifted towards numbered and/or lettered systems for pretty much everything. Not shockingly, this is heavily featured in sci-fi, as well.)
Part Three: Napoleon & the Birth of Modern War:
Although the concepts of the 'corps' and 'battalion carre' (that is, four corps) existed, they were also not implemented until the time of Napoleon in the early-1800s. He began grouping divisions into corps, making the largest units in history -- equal to entire armies of older periods (three divisions and some cavalry regiments, for upwards of 30,000 men). He commanded dozens of these corps (I think, around 20 of them for his Grande Armee when he invaded Russia in 1812 AD -- or, 500,000-600,000 men, equal to the entire core Roman military at the height of its power).
Napoleon's genius -- despite his supreme failure to invade Russia -- was ensuring that these corps were typically independent fighting units. This meant they were self-sufficient armies unto themselves. This allowed for a vast force, without the whole system becoming sluggish and disorganised. Of course, as with Alexander the Great before him, this ultimately led to major decentralization and failure once the leader is defeated; thus, without a singular ruler, and without endless success, the entire system breaks down (unless there is something else binding them).
Nonetheless, by now, all the European powers had adopted the divisional system. The first British divisions were established by Arthur Wellesley in 1809 AD, for example. The Napoleonic corps system then became standardised, as well.
On the other hand -- and other side of the world -- the U.S. had its own 'legion', wholly separate from the European divisional evolution. They were independent units for the western wilderness, not sub-elements of a larger army. The U.S. finally adopted a more European system by WWI, however. (Mostly because the U.S. was simply not a large enough force yet, though it did have some major battles and unit examples.)
Regardless, the primary building block for all was still the regiment or division. This remained true through WWII and beyond.
Part Four: The Four Spatial Forms of Sci-fi
I shall skip modern history, because it's -- shockingly -- not much different to older history. This further tells me that there are some universal themes and elements to warfare, unless something changes beyond measure. As of 2023 AD, the basic building block of most armies is still the regiment or division, and 'shock' tactics, of smaller units are back in style, and have been since the 1960s or so. (I do have a few things to say about WWI and beyond, but I cannot fit it in this post, and it's not required reading.)
Technically, there is a fifth: space warfare proper (an admixture). But, we shall simply focus on the four primary. I use the term 'spatial forms' because I don't know a better term. See below.
An interesting, real-world example is America's Space Force. This is fundamentally army-and-naval driven (i.e. Marines), despite its primary air force-like nature in simple terms of the vessels and how it would function in a war. This is evidenced by the fact its ranking system and such is built around the Marine Corps. I guess, that means, going with American Marines (a complex admixture of both soldier and sailor) is not such a bad idea in sci-fi. We all know this is a decent idea, anyway, and it's seen heavily in sci-fi since the 1940s (hence, the term 'space marine'). Other marine forces are fairly in line with this, as well. The typical route here is space as an ocean. The ships are merely carrying the marines to their location (planet or otherwise). You see this with Star Wars' Stormtroopers (though I did not mention such above, I shall now: this stems from late-WWI when Germany created new advanced tactics for storming British trenches. But, most of all, it speaks to Hitler's Stormtroopers, fused with some kind of space marine position; thus, we end up with Lucas' forgetting Stormtrooper force). (Of course, the Rebels of Star Wars and the Empire's TIE Fighters go with the space as air with less stuff trope. And, there is a general sense of both army and navy from the Empire. You rarely get the 'submarine feel', in this case.)
Star Trek (at least, the original) takes the spaceships as submarines trope much of the time (other than the fact, their ships are far too wasteful, volume-wise -- but that's mostly for filming purposes, so I can accept it). I actually love this mode (though I don't care for Star Trek's version so much).
Battlestar Galactica (new series), among others, seems to take a mixed view.
Which form or mode you run with, primarily, really depends upon the exact setting, culture, story, theme, and style you're going with. I suggest figuring out which you want/which fits best, and then trying to stick to that singular vision as much as possible. To get ideas, you can research as much as possible -- both real science/history and fiction.
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'Is it [history] many-coloured? May be it is many-coloured, too: if one takes the dress uniforms, military and civilian, of all peoples in all ages--that alone is worth something, and if you take the undress uniforms you will never get to the end of it; no historian would be equal to the job. Is it monotonous? May be it's monotonous too: it's fighting and fighting; they are fighting now, they fought first and they fought last--you will admit, that it is almost too monotonous.
In short, one may say anything about the history of the world--anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational. The very word sticks in one's throat. And, indeed, this is the odd thing that is continually happening: there are continually turning up in life moral and rational persons, sages and lovers of humanity who make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rationally as possible, to be, so to speak, a light to their neighbours simply in order to show them that it is possible to live morally and rationally in this world. And yet we all know that those very people sooner or later have been false to themselves, playing some queer trick, often a most unseemly one.
Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself--as though that were so necessary--that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar.'
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I would only add that he was rather harsh on the soldier and his general. Many-coloured, is he! The eternal shine of the ten million blades, the wooden hilt; the forgotten hammer, the ships of our forefathers. Ah! Such a pity to see nought in it but blood and sand -- now, that is monotonous. If man is to mean anything at all, it must be finding some honour in life... and death. War, it must be known, is the great stage-play of time. Surely, then, the warrior is the greatest (male) part to play? Otherwise, it's all for nought!
If you're going to, as the author, gift your setting a military and its honour, you have to actually put yourself inside the mind of the general, the trooper, the law-maker, the wife at home, the child in the street; otherwise, it's going to be a hollowed-out system, a mere mote. It does not matter to me if you believe in war or not, or if all war is just (certainly, it's not): what matters is that you do your setting and peoples justice, regardless of what they may find themselves. After all, this is your job as the writer, as the artist. It's your job to let your characters and their stories free, and follow them, as to see where they may lead.
I'm not even going to dig into the elements at play, such as brotherhood, inter-national conflict resolution, national defence, social structure, and physical fitness. These elements ought to be known to you all: they are some of the clear benefits to warfare and boot camp/training, in general. I have not yet found a defeatist army, for example -- or yet a nation without some kind of guarder force, vast or not. (Note: there are some claims that actual warfare did not exist until around 9,000 BC, but I find this very difficult to believe, and have seen some counter-evidence. For example, Jane Goodall and de Waal find that chimps go to war (raiding parties, sometimes wiping out entire tribes); and there are strong indications that pre-historic human tribes were war-driven, just on smaller scales, and often using wooden weapons (thus, no direct evidence is found). We know that modern hunting (and fire-making, and related matters) existed at least 1.5-2 million years ago, according to the books I own and more recent research. That's the entire history of humanity, ultimately. There is no way these spears and slings were not used against man.)
Well, a big part of space opera is, indeed, warfare (typically in relation to defence of the Good [nation] and psychomachy). Anyway, without further ado, I give to you...
Part One: A Brief History of Battles, Great and Small
Let's begin with Alexander the Great, because why not (though I could have started with Sargon of Akkad many years prior). Alexander's army was a powerful, fast-moving, and relatively small force of 40,000 men (equal to a Napoleonic corps or so). Often credited with inventing genius 'shock' tactics (the so-called hammer and anvil tactic) to overwhelm equally-sized forces. He even managed to break up, and then defeat, the vast Persian army under King Darius III (around 1500,000 strong). Alexander the Great's army is as close to the cinematic glory of 300 (2006) as you're likely to find. Soon after, Alexander was crowned King of Asia in a lavish ceremony.
Moving forward a few hundred years, at its peak, the Roman military possibly had over 500,000 soldiers across its regions (around 0.5% of citizens -- which is a fairly reliable standard across history) by 306 AD during the reign of Constantine I. Compare this to the Roman conquest of Britain under Plautius, with just a 40,000-man force (four legions and 20,000 auxiliary troops, including Thracians) in 43 AD. (It's also worth mentioning, if you're in a long-term space war, individual companies, legions, or otherwise could stay outfitted for as long as 500 years at a time without issue. The Roman Legion, Legio IX Hispana, for example, existed for at least 150 years, and led the conquest of Britain. And, within the Warhammer 40,000 universes, a single Space Marine sees battle for about 400 years before he's KIA (killed in action).)
During the Battle of Hastings in 1066 AD, each side only had upwards of 5,000-8,000 men (around 15,000 in total). This was actually a common trend, from what I found: equally common was the notion of 'law of war' and related, which meant that each side wanted to be roughly equal to the other side. This is one of the most profound discoveries of my life (more on this later). (The Japanese invasion of China, for example, taught me that having too much control over your enemy leads to madness -- there must be an innate drive to some sense of honour, fair challenge in war-making. When men are without equals, they become titans, as it were. And, if you know anything about some of the Greek titans: they were not very friendly or sane.)
Around this time (960-1279 AD), the Song Dynasty of China had a remarkable standing army of over two million men, and made use of tank-like carts and newly-invented 'grandes' (known as 'thunder crash bombs'). However, this was financially exhausting, but it was sometimes capable of fighting against invading Khitans, Jurchens, and Mongols, largely thanks to the great iron industry. Individual battles, however, were quite small.
By the time of the First Italian War (1494 AD), Europe was really starting to take its modern shape, and there were hundreds of what are ultimately power struggle wars and rebellions across Europe as we moved out of the Middle Ages. This was the opening phase of the Italian Wars, which existed between 1494 and 1559 AD. The Battle of Marignano was the last major engagement of the War of the League of Cambrai (aka the wars between 1508 and 1516 AD, within the Italian Wars. The main participants were the French, Papal States, and Republic of Venice) and took place in 1515 AD, southeast of Milan. The Battle of Marignano pitted the French army, led by Francis I and the best heavy cavalry and artillery in Europe, against the Old Swiss Confederacy (within the Holy Roman Empire -- this was the precursor of the modern state of Switzerland), whose mercenaries until that point were regarded as the best medieval infantry force in Europe. The French had German landsknechts (mercenaries famed for pike and shot formations) on their side. The French won and suffered just half the losses, and did so with a fairly stronger force -- possibly 35,000 men compared to 22,000 on the Swiss side. This led to the Treaty of Fribourg, which established the 'Perpetual Peace', and ensured good relations between the two nations for nearly 200 years. This event is largely what led to Switzerland's world-famous diplomatic autonomy and militaristic neutrality. Nonetheless, this battle -- and countless others at the time -- saw similar numbers to centuries past: roughly 20,000 on each side.
Part Two: An Introduction to Military Divisions & the Numbering System
Enter Maurice de Saxe circa 1710 AD, whom you can thank, at least in part, for the modern military system, largely due to the major increase in soldiers by the 18th century, and his advanced thinking in response. A major battle felt by a young de Saxe was the Battle of Malplaquet during the War of the Spanish Succession. Battles pressed on in this manner, and at some point, de Saxe began to write about it. He wrote Mes Reveries, a profound work on the art of war, which was published after his death in 1757 AD.
He had the grand idea of reshaping the regiment system into large 'legions' (modern divisions), so that the effective officers were not wasted on smaller, single regiments. These divisions would consist of four regiments and would have a more even mix of veteran soldiers and new recruits, as well. On top of this, he -- along with some other key theorists at the time -- had the idea of simply numbering the divisions and regiments, replacing the traditional system of naming them by their commanders or by locations/regions: because that's a very temporary, rigid system that only works for small, tight-knit groups. The divisional system also allowed soldiers to climb the ranks, and effectively learn from the veterans.
The regimental system shatters command structure and weakens mobility, despite the fact you have smaller, often lighter units. Too many small, separate, disorganised units is highly ineffective when you're dealing with large armies, and quite an advanced enemy (be it the British or Prussians, in this case). What de Saxe noticed was a failing system of rigid tradition. He also hated this sort of grenadier mentality of the 17th and 18th centuries, as it displaced all the strongest and most experienced soldiers. Of course, de Saxe was not against the existence of grenadiers: the strongest soldiers, leading the assaults, such as storming fortifications. He simply wanted to evenly spread them out across all the regiments, and legions, so that every single unit was an effective tool. (This grenadier concept actually survives to this day, as a grenade launcher specialist of a typical four-man fireteam (traditionally, sharing much in common with WWII-era shock troops), and you see it all the time in movies, where he is still typically the biggest, strongest of the team.)
Battles were increasingly crossing the 100,000 mark in terms of soldier count; whereas, not long ago (that is, around 1650 AD), the numbers were more likely in the range of 20,000 for most battles, other than a few outliers.
Then, de Saxe died before he had the opportunity to actually implement his system, though the Duke de Broglie led some successful experiments with it during the Seven Years War, but it took until the French Revolution for the 'division' concept to be enforced, systematically. This ultimately fell at the hands of the French Revolutionary Army.
Enter Lazare Carnot. Like de Saxe, Carnot saw that some regiments were full of veterans, whilst others -- namely, the new revolutionary brigades -- were filled with barely-trained recruits. And, like de Saxe, his solution was to separate out the veterans and embed them within these new brigades. More importantly, he embraced de Saxe's idea of the 'division'. The new demi-brigades (regiments, as the Revolutionary Government hated and removed the term regiment) would be combined into brigades, and brigades would be combined into divisions. Later, under Napoleon, divisions themselves were combined into corps (which is and has always been the highest level of operational units for actual combat, with all units larger than corps being purely administrative, with a clear exception being Napoleon's Armee (i.e. modern field army), and a few other, smaller army groups).
This wonderfully created an intermediate level of control between the general and the brigade commanders. The Revolutionary Army became at once an army of mass and mobility. This allowed the army to move faster and more decisively than their enemies, who were still commanding at regiment or brigade level.
Full implementation of the divisional system was not realised until the French Revolutionary Government, in their centralising and anti-aristocratic ways, when they decided to entirely remove the old system of naming regiments after their commanders. They saw all of this as part of the 'ancien regime' (i.e. 'the System' or 'old system', language also used by Hitler in relation to what he called the 'Weimar Republic'. Not uncommon language from any new system). The second factor at play was that the French Revolutionary Government also didn't like the idea of merely naming regiments after regions of France. The final factor was scale: the Army was larger than ever, which made it very difficult to give specific names.
As a result, the Government began numbering their units by the late-1700s. Although the Roman legions themselves had been numbered, and de Saxe argued for it many years prior, some scholars believe that this was purely an administrative decision. (Obviously, your naming convention can be more on the religious/traditional or seculamodern side, depending on just how the entire system is set up. Warhammer 40,000 is a good example of a more Roman-inspired system, despite its far-future nature, so it's not uncommon to find very traditional, religious naming conventions within Warhammer 40,000, coupled with simple, administrative systems. And, again: Nazi Germany and other 20th-century powers, such as America and England, also shifted towards numbered and/or lettered systems for pretty much everything. Not shockingly, this is heavily featured in sci-fi, as well.)
Part Three: Napoleon & the Birth of Modern War:
Although the concepts of the 'corps' and 'battalion carre' (that is, four corps) existed, they were also not implemented until the time of Napoleon in the early-1800s. He began grouping divisions into corps, making the largest units in history -- equal to entire armies of older periods (three divisions and some cavalry regiments, for upwards of 30,000 men). He commanded dozens of these corps (I think, around 20 of them for his Grande Armee when he invaded Russia in 1812 AD -- or, 500,000-600,000 men, equal to the entire core Roman military at the height of its power).
Napoleon's genius -- despite his supreme failure to invade Russia -- was ensuring that these corps were typically independent fighting units. This meant they were self-sufficient armies unto themselves. This allowed for a vast force, without the whole system becoming sluggish and disorganised. Of course, as with Alexander the Great before him, this ultimately led to major decentralization and failure once the leader is defeated; thus, without a singular ruler, and without endless success, the entire system breaks down (unless there is something else binding them).
Nonetheless, by now, all the European powers had adopted the divisional system. The first British divisions were established by Arthur Wellesley in 1809 AD, for example. The Napoleonic corps system then became standardised, as well.
On the other hand -- and other side of the world -- the U.S. had its own 'legion', wholly separate from the European divisional evolution. They were independent units for the western wilderness, not sub-elements of a larger army. The U.S. finally adopted a more European system by WWI, however. (Mostly because the U.S. was simply not a large enough force yet, though it did have some major battles and unit examples.)
Regardless, the primary building block for all was still the regiment or division. This remained true through WWII and beyond.
Part Four: The Four Spatial Forms of Sci-fi
I shall skip modern history, because it's -- shockingly -- not much different to older history. This further tells me that there are some universal themes and elements to warfare, unless something changes beyond measure. As of 2023 AD, the basic building block of most armies is still the regiment or division, and 'shock' tactics, of smaller units are back in style, and have been since the 1960s or so. (I do have a few things to say about WWI and beyond, but I cannot fit it in this post, and it's not required reading.)
Technically, there is a fifth: space warfare proper (an admixture). But, we shall simply focus on the four primary. I use the term 'spatial forms' because I don't know a better term. See below.
- Space as an ocean (navy propeoceanic)
- Spaceships as submarines (navy/subaquatic)
- Spaceships as tanks (army/ground)
- Space as air with less stuff (air force/air)
An interesting, real-world example is America's Space Force. This is fundamentally army-and-naval driven (i.e. Marines), despite its primary air force-like nature in simple terms of the vessels and how it would function in a war. This is evidenced by the fact its ranking system and such is built around the Marine Corps. I guess, that means, going with American Marines (a complex admixture of both soldier and sailor) is not such a bad idea in sci-fi. We all know this is a decent idea, anyway, and it's seen heavily in sci-fi since the 1940s (hence, the term 'space marine'). Other marine forces are fairly in line with this, as well. The typical route here is space as an ocean. The ships are merely carrying the marines to their location (planet or otherwise). You see this with Star Wars' Stormtroopers (though I did not mention such above, I shall now: this stems from late-WWI when Germany created new advanced tactics for storming British trenches. But, most of all, it speaks to Hitler's Stormtroopers, fused with some kind of space marine position; thus, we end up with Lucas' forgetting Stormtrooper force). (Of course, the Rebels of Star Wars and the Empire's TIE Fighters go with the space as air with less stuff trope. And, there is a general sense of both army and navy from the Empire. You rarely get the 'submarine feel', in this case.)
Star Trek (at least, the original) takes the spaceships as submarines trope much of the time (other than the fact, their ships are far too wasteful, volume-wise -- but that's mostly for filming purposes, so I can accept it). I actually love this mode (though I don't care for Star Trek's version so much).
Battlestar Galactica (new series), among others, seems to take a mixed view.
Which form or mode you run with, primarily, really depends upon the exact setting, culture, story, theme, and style you're going with. I suggest figuring out which you want/which fits best, and then trying to stick to that singular vision as much as possible. To get ideas, you can research as much as possible -- both real science/history and fiction.
2023.05.29 23:04 illusiveconsistence Working in-person again soon. Ahhhhhh man I'm too spoiled. The remote life has been too good to me.
I've been living the good life so far this year where I've been working from home, making decent pay, and mostly enjoying my semi-isolation. The remote tech bro life has spoiled me.
Now that I have to go back in-person for a new job, it's going to take some adjusting on some vampire shit lol. I really do hope that at least half is remote.
Once I tasted the sweetness of working from home, it'll be hard to go back, unless I make like 10k+ in terms of salary. Travel times, waking up earlier, moving my body when I'm tired af, office persona on 24/7 and ruining my performance unlike at home where I'm in my boxers and with my mask off etc.
Working in-person is more draining from the social and mask and physical aspect tbh than the mental energy of the work or even the boringness of meetings. Not only is everything less efficient but I have less resources to focus on my work.
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Now that I have to go back in-person for a new job, it's going to take some adjusting on some vampire shit lol. I really do hope that at least half is remote.
Once I tasted the sweetness of working from home, it'll be hard to go back, unless I make like 10k+ in terms of salary. Travel times, waking up earlier, moving my body when I'm tired af, office persona on 24/7 and ruining my performance unlike at home where I'm in my boxers and with my mask off etc.
Working in-person is more draining from the social and mask and physical aspect tbh than the mental energy of the work or even the boringness of meetings. Not only is everything less efficient but I have less resources to focus on my work.
2023.05.29 23:02 Radigand (SHS/Model G) DCNH in relation to social mission
It is a well-know approach in School of Humanitarian Socionics (SHS) not to only recognize 16 sociotypes, which serve the society by performing 16 unique social missions, but also four variants (let's put aside the combined subtypes for the time being) of how each sociotype can perform their respective social mission. One way to understand what place each subtype has within a grand way of things is to look at each being some kind of specialist tasked to solve a particular problem the social mission faces. Those problems being
1) normal performance of the social mission (Normalizing specialist) - focusing on the tasks outlined in the social mission without paying attention to distractions, bringing the tasks to completion - you can think of this specialist as a vanilla version of the social mission (debatable for some cases)
2) introduction and implementation of the social mission (Dominant specialist) - focusing on getting out there and proactively promoting the social mission, trying to achieve certain results - compared to Normalizers, they are more assertive with the implementation and introduction of the social mission into the social environment, can be more contacting, more in your face
3) solving problems met when trying to perform the social mission (Creative specialist) - coming up with solutions to go around obstacles that get in a way of the social mission, taking certain risks - compared to Normalizers, they are less focused on performing the social mission to completion, but rather finding ways around the obstacles and coming up with creative solutions
4) being open to alternative ways a social mission can be performed (Harmonizing specialist) - accepting inputs from the environment that may carry information on how to modify the social mission so it can change and evolve - compared to Normalizers, they are more soft, more open, more receptive and little bit neboulous
Example 1 - Inspector (LSI)
Inspector's Social Mission (SM) is to bring stability into the society based on what's familiar and comfortable, and to eliminate illogical inconsistencies - N-LSI - a Reliable Inspector (vanilla performance of SM): follows all the rules and procedures based on the established conventions and traditions, polishes system to perfection - D-LSI - a Demanding Inspector (implementer of the SM): brings a strict order to their field of activity initially, then spreads it throughout the territory of the program/system - C-LSI - a Rescuing Inspector (problem solver for SM): controls and performs sudden checks on the system; attends to emergencies and rescues operations, liquidates nonstandard outcomes of the system - H-LSI - a Picky Inspector (feedback mechanism for SM): approaches the system selectively, shows optional noncomformance to the system; selects and keeps system's quality segments
Example 2 - Mentor (EIE)
Mentor's Social Mission (SM) is to turn intuitive thinking into new ideas that inspire people, gets people involved through artistry and emotional influence, brings them to new lifestyle, turns them to a new direction; as many people as possible - N-EIE - an Educating Mentor (vanilla performance of SM): formulates and cohesively explains a new direction, idea or worldview; finds worthy people for the cause - D-EIE - a Leading Mentor (implementer of the SM): leads a very large group of people towards new ambitious goals - C-EIE - an Acting Mentor (problem solver for SM): tests the extent to which the program or an idea liberates people from the old limitations, opens up their talents - H-EIE - an Imaginative Mentor (feedback mechanism for SM): turns an idea into visible and easily understood images via art of performance; creates myths and beliefs for others
Example 3 - Politician (SEE)
Politician's Social Mission (SM) is to find win-win solutions among competing factions and secure resources - N-SEE - a Supplying Politician (vanilla performance of SM): offers trade deals and bargains, moves product and services from saturated to deficit markets, saturates market with mass product - D-SEE - a Representing Politician (implementer of the SM): represents interests of a strong and influential side, closes deals, may follow a tactic of "divide and conquer" - C-SEE - a Switching Politician (problem solver for SM): advertises and handles PR matters, media projects and helps abolish ideologies that stand in the way, turns inconsistencies into absurdity, switches attention of a person from hurt to amusement - H-SEE - a Nudging Politician (feedback mechanism for SM): explorer of markets and technologies of subtle influence, uses triggers, bait and seduction to interest party in its products
Example 4 - Critic (ILI)
Critic's Social Mission (SM) is to predict how events will evolve, to take action to balance and polish the system, to make it foolproof from the past mistakes, to create a system of checks and balances, to correct for errors, to prepare and negate unfavourable outcomes - N-ILI - a Collecting Critic (vanilla performance of SM): collects and analyses lots of detailed information, fills out databases, archives, creates collections, encyclopedias, and reference manuals for posterity - D-ILI - an Optimizing Critic (implementer of the SM): reforms systems for the purpose of its optimization and stability against crises via the means of checks and balances, balance of business and politics - C-ILI - an Ironizing Critic (problem solver for SM): laughs at extreme deviations, criticizes fools and wannabe's, strives to liberate information, offers pluralistic viewpoints on the current events - H-ILI - a Foreseeing Critic (feedback mechanism for SM): sage and philosopher, based on the accumulated knowledge and information makes negative predictions of the made decisions
Further Reading - A brief about the subtypes - DCNH and Temperaments - Social Missions in SHS
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1) normal performance of the social mission (Normalizing specialist) - focusing on the tasks outlined in the social mission without paying attention to distractions, bringing the tasks to completion - you can think of this specialist as a vanilla version of the social mission (debatable for some cases)
2) introduction and implementation of the social mission (Dominant specialist) - focusing on getting out there and proactively promoting the social mission, trying to achieve certain results - compared to Normalizers, they are more assertive with the implementation and introduction of the social mission into the social environment, can be more contacting, more in your face
3) solving problems met when trying to perform the social mission (Creative specialist) - coming up with solutions to go around obstacles that get in a way of the social mission, taking certain risks - compared to Normalizers, they are less focused on performing the social mission to completion, but rather finding ways around the obstacles and coming up with creative solutions
4) being open to alternative ways a social mission can be performed (Harmonizing specialist) - accepting inputs from the environment that may carry information on how to modify the social mission so it can change and evolve - compared to Normalizers, they are more soft, more open, more receptive and little bit neboulous
Example 1 - Inspector (LSI)
Inspector's Social Mission (SM) is to bring stability into the society based on what's familiar and comfortable, and to eliminate illogical inconsistencies - N-LSI - a Reliable Inspector (vanilla performance of SM): follows all the rules and procedures based on the established conventions and traditions, polishes system to perfection - D-LSI - a Demanding Inspector (implementer of the SM): brings a strict order to their field of activity initially, then spreads it throughout the territory of the program/system - C-LSI - a Rescuing Inspector (problem solver for SM): controls and performs sudden checks on the system; attends to emergencies and rescues operations, liquidates nonstandard outcomes of the system - H-LSI - a Picky Inspector (feedback mechanism for SM): approaches the system selectively, shows optional noncomformance to the system; selects and keeps system's quality segments
Example 2 - Mentor (EIE)
Mentor's Social Mission (SM) is to turn intuitive thinking into new ideas that inspire people, gets people involved through artistry and emotional influence, brings them to new lifestyle, turns them to a new direction; as many people as possible - N-EIE - an Educating Mentor (vanilla performance of SM): formulates and cohesively explains a new direction, idea or worldview; finds worthy people for the cause - D-EIE - a Leading Mentor (implementer of the SM): leads a very large group of people towards new ambitious goals - C-EIE - an Acting Mentor (problem solver for SM): tests the extent to which the program or an idea liberates people from the old limitations, opens up their talents - H-EIE - an Imaginative Mentor (feedback mechanism for SM): turns an idea into visible and easily understood images via art of performance; creates myths and beliefs for others
Example 3 - Politician (SEE)
Politician's Social Mission (SM) is to find win-win solutions among competing factions and secure resources - N-SEE - a Supplying Politician (vanilla performance of SM): offers trade deals and bargains, moves product and services from saturated to deficit markets, saturates market with mass product - D-SEE - a Representing Politician (implementer of the SM): represents interests of a strong and influential side, closes deals, may follow a tactic of "divide and conquer" - C-SEE - a Switching Politician (problem solver for SM): advertises and handles PR matters, media projects and helps abolish ideologies that stand in the way, turns inconsistencies into absurdity, switches attention of a person from hurt to amusement - H-SEE - a Nudging Politician (feedback mechanism for SM): explorer of markets and technologies of subtle influence, uses triggers, bait and seduction to interest party in its products
Example 4 - Critic (ILI)
Critic's Social Mission (SM) is to predict how events will evolve, to take action to balance and polish the system, to make it foolproof from the past mistakes, to create a system of checks and balances, to correct for errors, to prepare and negate unfavourable outcomes - N-ILI - a Collecting Critic (vanilla performance of SM): collects and analyses lots of detailed information, fills out databases, archives, creates collections, encyclopedias, and reference manuals for posterity - D-ILI - an Optimizing Critic (implementer of the SM): reforms systems for the purpose of its optimization and stability against crises via the means of checks and balances, balance of business and politics - C-ILI - an Ironizing Critic (problem solver for SM): laughs at extreme deviations, criticizes fools and wannabe's, strives to liberate information, offers pluralistic viewpoints on the current events - H-ILI - a Foreseeing Critic (feedback mechanism for SM): sage and philosopher, based on the accumulated knowledge and information makes negative predictions of the made decisions
Further Reading - A brief about the subtypes - DCNH and Temperaments - Social Missions in SHS
2023.05.29 23:01 Alternative-Fix5164 Yellowstone Security Guard from Hell
So, this was last year 2022, I'm a 31-year-old white man from Eastern USA was given a job as a tour guide driving visitors across Yellowstone National Park. My job is a very serious one as I have to drive buses as I give my visitors a tour of the park. It was a 6-month seasonal position. I am 31-year-old man being given a room at a dormitory in the middle of the wilderness.
I did enjoy my job and exploring the park. For the first time, I got to see wolves, grizzly bears, and bison. It was amazing to see geysers for the first time too. I made a lot of friends as I explored the park.
As a tour guide, I had to get a good amount of sleep, in order to drive a bus full of visitors. But there are employees in the park that are either housekeeper, servers, security guards, retail, and office workers. They did come to the park to party in their dorms and not take their jobs seriously.
But I did.
Anyway, back to the story,
It was 8:30pm, as I got in my bed, there were drunk people in the hallway shouting and blasting music while drinking. I was in bed trying to get some sleep because I had to do a ten-hour tour. from my bed, I shouted at them to quiet down like two times. They eventually did, left the building, and I was able to get to sleep.
30minutes later,
I suddenly woke up with loud pounding at my door. Some guy was shouting "Security!" A security was banging on my dorm door. He was banging so loud as if I committed a crime.
As a person with autism, I freakout at things relating to police or bullies. Sadly, this guy was both.
It was difficult to answer the door because I was not really dressed. I shouted to wait, but that caused him to bang even louder and scream security many times. Panicking, I rushed to get my clothes. The banging of the door and the screaming from the security guard was hurting my ears and I was very frightened.
I told him to wait and stop as I was getting my clothes on, but that made him angrier and more continued to bang on my door harder. Everything was shaking. He was screaming and then switched to a roar. I was panicking as I was trying to get dressed.
I finally got dressed and answer the door. My heart stopped. My legs became Jell-O. I couldn't breathe. All because of what was in front of me.
That security guard was a giant! We will call him Moose. His head nearly touched the ceiling of the hallway. His body was all bulky with extremely thick muscles. His head was bald, typical for a security guard I suppose. He roared that quiet time is at 7pm and roared a warning to be quiet. He even roared at me to answer the door whenever he knocks because he roared that I took too long to answer him. I couldn't speak to him as I was scared out of my mind. I just nodded and said yes sir just so he can go away. He stomped away, out of the building, and I was shaken and teared up.
Long story short, I did not sleep well at all, my tour was not a good one and needed a load of coffee to do my job. Moose was terrifying. He should never have been hired at Yellowstone if he treats people like that.
What a horrifying night.
I told this to my friends the following day. My friend Michael believed that the party goers decided to call on me as a prank because I wanted to sleep, and they did not. I was just wanting to sleep, and they wanted to make my night miserable, which they succeeded. Michael was a former security guard for a hotel before and someone complained to him about a guest being loud. When he got there, there were no loud noises, so he figured that they wanted to get an innocent person in trouble for fun. Which was what happened to me.
So, after that night, I tiptoed into my dorm and make no sound, fearing he would come back. I even make sure my clothes are on before going to bed. I didn't have a roommate yet and eventually did a week later. I just traveled to different buildings to hang out with friends, even got my own roommate who I became best friends with, eat cafeteria food, worked out as I try my best efforts to avoid another confrontation with Moose.
Eventually, he got fired and moved out of Yellowstone and I was able to spend the rest of my season exploring and working as a tour guide.
So, based on my personal experience, AITA?
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I did enjoy my job and exploring the park. For the first time, I got to see wolves, grizzly bears, and bison. It was amazing to see geysers for the first time too. I made a lot of friends as I explored the park.
As a tour guide, I had to get a good amount of sleep, in order to drive a bus full of visitors. But there are employees in the park that are either housekeeper, servers, security guards, retail, and office workers. They did come to the park to party in their dorms and not take their jobs seriously.
But I did.
Anyway, back to the story,
It was 8:30pm, as I got in my bed, there were drunk people in the hallway shouting and blasting music while drinking. I was in bed trying to get some sleep because I had to do a ten-hour tour. from my bed, I shouted at them to quiet down like two times. They eventually did, left the building, and I was able to get to sleep.
30minutes later,
I suddenly woke up with loud pounding at my door. Some guy was shouting "Security!" A security was banging on my dorm door. He was banging so loud as if I committed a crime.
As a person with autism, I freakout at things relating to police or bullies. Sadly, this guy was both.
It was difficult to answer the door because I was not really dressed. I shouted to wait, but that caused him to bang even louder and scream security many times. Panicking, I rushed to get my clothes. The banging of the door and the screaming from the security guard was hurting my ears and I was very frightened.
I told him to wait and stop as I was getting my clothes on, but that made him angrier and more continued to bang on my door harder. Everything was shaking. He was screaming and then switched to a roar. I was panicking as I was trying to get dressed.
I finally got dressed and answer the door. My heart stopped. My legs became Jell-O. I couldn't breathe. All because of what was in front of me.
That security guard was a giant! We will call him Moose. His head nearly touched the ceiling of the hallway. His body was all bulky with extremely thick muscles. His head was bald, typical for a security guard I suppose. He roared that quiet time is at 7pm and roared a warning to be quiet. He even roared at me to answer the door whenever he knocks because he roared that I took too long to answer him. I couldn't speak to him as I was scared out of my mind. I just nodded and said yes sir just so he can go away. He stomped away, out of the building, and I was shaken and teared up.
Long story short, I did not sleep well at all, my tour was not a good one and needed a load of coffee to do my job. Moose was terrifying. He should never have been hired at Yellowstone if he treats people like that.
What a horrifying night.
I told this to my friends the following day. My friend Michael believed that the party goers decided to call on me as a prank because I wanted to sleep, and they did not. I was just wanting to sleep, and they wanted to make my night miserable, which they succeeded. Michael was a former security guard for a hotel before and someone complained to him about a guest being loud. When he got there, there were no loud noises, so he figured that they wanted to get an innocent person in trouble for fun. Which was what happened to me.
So, after that night, I tiptoed into my dorm and make no sound, fearing he would come back. I even make sure my clothes are on before going to bed. I didn't have a roommate yet and eventually did a week later. I just traveled to different buildings to hang out with friends, even got my own roommate who I became best friends with, eat cafeteria food, worked out as I try my best efforts to avoid another confrontation with Moose.
Eventually, he got fired and moved out of Yellowstone and I was able to spend the rest of my season exploring and working as a tour guide.
So, based on my personal experience, AITA?
2023.05.29 22:58 Obvireal The Philosophical Nature of Bitcoin
The human desire for more is deeply ingrained in our evolutionary history. Our ancestors lived in a world of scarcity, where resources were limited and survival was dependent on securing those resources. As a result, humans developed a natural drive to seek out more, whether it was food, water, or shelter.
Today, we live in a vastly different world. Our industrialized societies produce an abundance of goods and services, yet our instinctual drive to acquire more remains strong. This is reflected in our economic systems, which are built on the principles of growth and consumption. Capitalism, for example, incentivizes individuals and businesses to constantly pursue economic expansion, as success and progress are often measured in terms of increased wealth, market share, and material possessions.
The media and advertising industries further fuel our desire for more by creating and perpetuating a culture of consumerism. Through carefully crafted marketing strategies, they present us with an idealized vision of happiness and fulfillment that is closely tied to the acquisition of goods and the pursuit of novelty. We are bombarded with messages that imply that owning the latest products or experiencing the latest trends will bring us joy, status, and a sense of personal satisfaction.
Social comparison plays a significant role in our desire for more. In a world where social media platforms provide a constant stream of carefully curated and often exaggerated portrayals of others' lives, we can easily find ourselves comparing our own circumstances and possessions to those of others. This can lead to a perpetual cycle of wanting more as we strive to keep up with or surpass our perceived competitors.
While our evolutionary past shaped our inclination for accumulation, the modern context amplifies and exploits this drive. However, it is important to recognize that our desire for more is not inherently negative. It has been a driving force behind innovation, progress, and the development of complex societies. It is through our desire for more that we have been able to improve our standard of living, create technological advancements, and explore new frontiers.
Nevertheless, the unchecked pursuit of more can have detrimental consequences. It can lead to overconsumption, environmental degradation, and social inequality. It is crucial that we strike a balance, acknowledging our desires while considering the long-term effects of our actions. This requires cultivating a mindset of mindful consumption, focusing on quality over quantity, and finding fulfillment in experiences and relationships rather than solely in material possessions.
Ultimately, our desire for more is a complex interplay between our evolutionary heritage, societal influences, and personal values. However, the rise of Bitcoin presents an opportunity to rethink our relationship with value and challenge the conventional notion that more is always better. Bitcoin's deflationary nature, where its value increases over time instead of decreasing like traditional fiat currencies, introduces a new paradigm where less can actually be more. This scarcity-driven model of Bitcoin demonstrates that the inherent value of a resource lies not solely in its abundance but also in its limited availability, offering an alternative perspective on our desire for accumulation. By embracing this shift and understanding the potential of alternative systems, we have the chance to navigate a world of abundance with greater mindfulness, sustainability, and well-being.
But in order to fully embrace a new economy, we need to move beyond our primitive instincts and learn to want better rather than more. We need to shift our focus from the accumulation of material possessions to the pursuit of personal growth and development. Instead of constantly seeking out more, we should aim to improve the quality of our lives and the world around us.
This is not to say that the desire for material possessions is inherently bad, but rather that we should strive to find a balance between our primitive instincts and our higher aspirations. By embracing the deflationary nature of Bitcoin and learning to want better rather than more, we can create a more sustainable and fulfilling economy that benefits everyone.
In today's world, we are faced with a multitude of challenges that threaten our planet's health and wellbeing. From food shortages and disease to climate change and tyrannical nations, the world is increasingly dominated by the thirst for power. But what if we could take that power and put it into the hands of the average person everywhere? What would the world look like? Would we even need borders at some point? These are difficult questions, but they are at the heart of what makes Bitcoin more than just a currency.
Bitcoin is unlike anything we have ever seen. It is the first e-currency, the granddaddy crypto, the grandfather to all other cryptocurrencies. Its creation by an anonymous person with the alias Satoshi Nakamoto gave Bitcoin its true power, the power to not be controlled by any single entity. Governments cannot just reach out to Bitcoin's creator and threaten to arrest or bribe them because they are unknown. Furthermore, Bitcoin is open source and requires a supermajority agreement to pass a submitted change to the programing, making it impossible to change its programming against the wishes of the community.
Bitcoin represents a new way of thinking about power and control. It is a decentralized currency that is not subject to the whims of a single entity or government. It is a currency that belongs to the people, and its value is determined not by any central authority but inadvertently by the community that supports it.
In many countries, citizens are subject to restrictions on what they can bring in and out of the country. This can include limits on the amount of currency or precious metals that can be taken out of the country, as well as restrictions on other stores of value. For citizens who want to move their wealth to another country or simply have the option to do so, these restrictions can be frustrating and limiting.
With Bitcoin, all of one's wealth can be stored on the blockchain, which is accessible anywhere in the world. This means that citizens of countries with restrictions on wealth transfer can store their wealth in Bitcoin and access it from anywhere they choose to travel.
This is a significant advantage for people who value the ability to move freely and have control over their wealth. By storing their wealth in Bitcoin, they can bypass the restrictions imposed by their hostile government and have the freedom to travel with their wealth to safer more stable countries. The process of storing wealth in Bitcoin is easy and super accessible. With the advent of user-friendly digital wallets and online exchanges, individuals can securely store and manage their Bitcoin holdings with just a few simple steps.
Unlike traditional financial institutions, which may have barriers to entry or require extensive paperwork, Bitcoin allows for a more inclusive approach to wealth storage. Anyone with an internet connection and a smartphone or computer can participate in the Bitcoin ecosystem, making it accessible to individuals around the globe, regardless of their socioeconomic background. This accessibility not only democratizes the storing of wealth but also empowers individuals to have greater control over their financial future, promoting financial independence and fostering a sense of ownership and empowerment.
This is a powerful example of how Bitcoin can provide true financial freedom to individuals, even in countries where there are restrictions on wealth transfer. By using Bitcoin to store their wealth, people can have the freedom to travel with their wealth, access it from anywhere in the world, and control it independently of their government's restrictions.
Bitcoin can be compared to essential infrastructures such as transportation, phones, and the internet, as it serves as a network for sharing wealth. Much like transportation infrastructure enables physical mobility, phones facilitate social connectivity, and the internet allows global communication through servers, Bitcoin provides a financial network accessible to anyone with internet access.
Transportation infrastructure grants individuals the ability to freely move and travel. Sidewalks, roads, and air travel options are available for anyone to utilize, enabling them to reach their desired destinations. Similarly, phones have evolved to become ubiquitous devices that allow people to connect socially from anywhere. The vast network of phone lines and towers supports this connectivity, enabling individuals to reach out to others across great distances.
The internet revolutionized global communication by connecting people worldwide. It provided a platform for individuals to create websites, share information, and connect with others regardless of geographical boundaries. The internet's expansive network of servers ensures that anyone with internet access can contribute to and benefit from the wealth of information available.
In a similar vein, Bitcoin functions as a financial network. It allows individuals to buy and send bitcoin seamlessly, utilizing the internet as its infrastructure. Just as transportation, phones, and the internet networks have become accessible to a wide range of people, Bitcoin's accessibility extends to anyone with internet access. It offers a decentralized financial system that enables peer-to-peer transactions and wealth sharing on a global scale.
By drawing parallels between Bitcoin and these advancements, we can appreciate the transformative potential of this cryptocurrency. Like transportation, phones, and the internet, Bitcoin represents a significant advancement in our interconnected world, providing a decentralized and accessible network for financial transactions and wealth transfer.
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Today, we live in a vastly different world. Our industrialized societies produce an abundance of goods and services, yet our instinctual drive to acquire more remains strong. This is reflected in our economic systems, which are built on the principles of growth and consumption. Capitalism, for example, incentivizes individuals and businesses to constantly pursue economic expansion, as success and progress are often measured in terms of increased wealth, market share, and material possessions.
The media and advertising industries further fuel our desire for more by creating and perpetuating a culture of consumerism. Through carefully crafted marketing strategies, they present us with an idealized vision of happiness and fulfillment that is closely tied to the acquisition of goods and the pursuit of novelty. We are bombarded with messages that imply that owning the latest products or experiencing the latest trends will bring us joy, status, and a sense of personal satisfaction.
Social comparison plays a significant role in our desire for more. In a world where social media platforms provide a constant stream of carefully curated and often exaggerated portrayals of others' lives, we can easily find ourselves comparing our own circumstances and possessions to those of others. This can lead to a perpetual cycle of wanting more as we strive to keep up with or surpass our perceived competitors.
While our evolutionary past shaped our inclination for accumulation, the modern context amplifies and exploits this drive. However, it is important to recognize that our desire for more is not inherently negative. It has been a driving force behind innovation, progress, and the development of complex societies. It is through our desire for more that we have been able to improve our standard of living, create technological advancements, and explore new frontiers.
Nevertheless, the unchecked pursuit of more can have detrimental consequences. It can lead to overconsumption, environmental degradation, and social inequality. It is crucial that we strike a balance, acknowledging our desires while considering the long-term effects of our actions. This requires cultivating a mindset of mindful consumption, focusing on quality over quantity, and finding fulfillment in experiences and relationships rather than solely in material possessions.
Ultimately, our desire for more is a complex interplay between our evolutionary heritage, societal influences, and personal values. However, the rise of Bitcoin presents an opportunity to rethink our relationship with value and challenge the conventional notion that more is always better. Bitcoin's deflationary nature, where its value increases over time instead of decreasing like traditional fiat currencies, introduces a new paradigm where less can actually be more. This scarcity-driven model of Bitcoin demonstrates that the inherent value of a resource lies not solely in its abundance but also in its limited availability, offering an alternative perspective on our desire for accumulation. By embracing this shift and understanding the potential of alternative systems, we have the chance to navigate a world of abundance with greater mindfulness, sustainability, and well-being.
But in order to fully embrace a new economy, we need to move beyond our primitive instincts and learn to want better rather than more. We need to shift our focus from the accumulation of material possessions to the pursuit of personal growth and development. Instead of constantly seeking out more, we should aim to improve the quality of our lives and the world around us.
This is not to say that the desire for material possessions is inherently bad, but rather that we should strive to find a balance between our primitive instincts and our higher aspirations. By embracing the deflationary nature of Bitcoin and learning to want better rather than more, we can create a more sustainable and fulfilling economy that benefits everyone.
In today's world, we are faced with a multitude of challenges that threaten our planet's health and wellbeing. From food shortages and disease to climate change and tyrannical nations, the world is increasingly dominated by the thirst for power. But what if we could take that power and put it into the hands of the average person everywhere? What would the world look like? Would we even need borders at some point? These are difficult questions, but they are at the heart of what makes Bitcoin more than just a currency.
Bitcoin is unlike anything we have ever seen. It is the first e-currency, the granddaddy crypto, the grandfather to all other cryptocurrencies. Its creation by an anonymous person with the alias Satoshi Nakamoto gave Bitcoin its true power, the power to not be controlled by any single entity. Governments cannot just reach out to Bitcoin's creator and threaten to arrest or bribe them because they are unknown. Furthermore, Bitcoin is open source and requires a supermajority agreement to pass a submitted change to the programing, making it impossible to change its programming against the wishes of the community.
Bitcoin represents a new way of thinking about power and control. It is a decentralized currency that is not subject to the whims of a single entity or government. It is a currency that belongs to the people, and its value is determined not by any central authority but inadvertently by the community that supports it.
In many countries, citizens are subject to restrictions on what they can bring in and out of the country. This can include limits on the amount of currency or precious metals that can be taken out of the country, as well as restrictions on other stores of value. For citizens who want to move their wealth to another country or simply have the option to do so, these restrictions can be frustrating and limiting.
With Bitcoin, all of one's wealth can be stored on the blockchain, which is accessible anywhere in the world. This means that citizens of countries with restrictions on wealth transfer can store their wealth in Bitcoin and access it from anywhere they choose to travel.
This is a significant advantage for people who value the ability to move freely and have control over their wealth. By storing their wealth in Bitcoin, they can bypass the restrictions imposed by their hostile government and have the freedom to travel with their wealth to safer more stable countries. The process of storing wealth in Bitcoin is easy and super accessible. With the advent of user-friendly digital wallets and online exchanges, individuals can securely store and manage their Bitcoin holdings with just a few simple steps.
Unlike traditional financial institutions, which may have barriers to entry or require extensive paperwork, Bitcoin allows for a more inclusive approach to wealth storage. Anyone with an internet connection and a smartphone or computer can participate in the Bitcoin ecosystem, making it accessible to individuals around the globe, regardless of their socioeconomic background. This accessibility not only democratizes the storing of wealth but also empowers individuals to have greater control over their financial future, promoting financial independence and fostering a sense of ownership and empowerment.
This is a powerful example of how Bitcoin can provide true financial freedom to individuals, even in countries where there are restrictions on wealth transfer. By using Bitcoin to store their wealth, people can have the freedom to travel with their wealth, access it from anywhere in the world, and control it independently of their government's restrictions.
Bitcoin can be compared to essential infrastructures such as transportation, phones, and the internet, as it serves as a network for sharing wealth. Much like transportation infrastructure enables physical mobility, phones facilitate social connectivity, and the internet allows global communication through servers, Bitcoin provides a financial network accessible to anyone with internet access.
Transportation infrastructure grants individuals the ability to freely move and travel. Sidewalks, roads, and air travel options are available for anyone to utilize, enabling them to reach their desired destinations. Similarly, phones have evolved to become ubiquitous devices that allow people to connect socially from anywhere. The vast network of phone lines and towers supports this connectivity, enabling individuals to reach out to others across great distances.
The internet revolutionized global communication by connecting people worldwide. It provided a platform for individuals to create websites, share information, and connect with others regardless of geographical boundaries. The internet's expansive network of servers ensures that anyone with internet access can contribute to and benefit from the wealth of information available.
In a similar vein, Bitcoin functions as a financial network. It allows individuals to buy and send bitcoin seamlessly, utilizing the internet as its infrastructure. Just as transportation, phones, and the internet networks have become accessible to a wide range of people, Bitcoin's accessibility extends to anyone with internet access. It offers a decentralized financial system that enables peer-to-peer transactions and wealth sharing on a global scale.
By drawing parallels between Bitcoin and these advancements, we can appreciate the transformative potential of this cryptocurrency. Like transportation, phones, and the internet, Bitcoin represents a significant advancement in our interconnected world, providing a decentralized and accessible network for financial transactions and wealth transfer.
2023.05.29 22:58 vark1222 You think you know your wife.......
My wife Shanda is a nurse who has been fired from four hospitals for stealing and consuming patients prescribed narcotics. She has had her nursing license on probation 2 times. Addiction is only one of her flaws. She has been with her husband for 18 years, married for 11. In October of 2022 they went away for the weekend to celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary. After returning from their trip, Shanda wasted little time by starting an affair with a co-worker just 2 days later. She had laid the ground work for this affair before leaving town. This winner she cheated on her husband with, is 7 years older than her (50 years old). He is also married, actually been married 3 times. He is also a nurse. She confided or should I say spread lies to her coworker about her husband to gain sympathy and attention from him. She also told him all of her husbands business and secrets.
A little bit abour her husband. They have 3 children 17, 7 and 5 years old. Her husband workes 80 hours a week to ensure that Shanda could buy anything and everything she wanted. He loved her deeply, and tolerated everything she threw at him. Fast forward to 11/29/23. the affair had picked up steam, she spent less and less time at home and taking care of their children. She was 6 weeks in and played her wife role to ensure her husband did not suspect anything. A week prior, her husband was starting to notice weird things like changing passwords, less communication from her on a daily basis and she had become increasing guarded of her phone and spending more time than she ever have had on her social media accounts. Her husband finally had an opportunity on 11/29 when she left her phone upstairs and he grabbed it went straight to recently deleted messages and there they were 490 text messages that chronicled everything, the entire evolution of their affair. By the first week of November they were full blown sexting. She became enraged and assaulted him, saying she didn't love him anymore and didn't want to be with him. He was beyond hurt, he sacrificed his own happiness for years for her. December and January were brutual, she continued to cheat after telling him and the 17 year old daughter that she was sorry, used bad judgement and was going to focus on repairing their marriage. Her treatment of her husband was absolutely disgusting, she would assault him, broke his Imac twice, the 2nd time she hit him over the head with it. She's the one that caused all of this and she felt she had the right to take out her anger on him because he caught her. She had opened up 3 different snapchat accounts because this was her preferred way to communicate with her affair partner. Her husband had been documenting all of her violence and continued to stand by her hoping she would realize how her actions were destroying him and their children. Most of the arguing and fighting took place in front of the 7 and 5 year olds.
By January she was openly cheating in the face of her husband. January 23, 2023, her husband had found a way to have her text messages sent to his phone, that evening she gets home from work, he pours his heart out to her, begging her to stop her affair and recommit to her family. While he is doing this she is texting affair guy lies about her husband, he is telling her how much fun the day before with her was and how he is divorcing his wife and wants her to refinance his house with her, she responds with I need to make plans to leave him and spend the rest of my life with you. The whole time her husband is reading this exchange in real time, he puts his phone down but didn't close out the messaging app, Shanda notices this because the last text sent from her was a blowing kiss emoji. I forgot to mention that in the middle of January her husband got into her snapchat account and found a message from her to him where she proclaimed her love for him. In the beginning of January she was busted by her nurse probation case manager for failing a drug test which resulted in an addtional year tacked on to her probation and mandatory outpatient rehab for 30 days. Anyways after she noticed his phone she got pissed and chased him around the house trying to get his phone from him, grabbing his car keys to prevent him from leaving the house. He shouted for her to stop and not in front of the kids, put the kids to bed and i'll give you my phone he said, but she wouldn't stop. Finally, he grabbed her to get his key from her, he leaves she calls the cops, he is arrested and put in jail for domestic assault. She gets him out the next day, he notices that while he was in jail she spent most of her time on the phone with her affair friend. She tells her husband that she will go to court and not press charges, that was a lie, and on Feb. 3, 2023 she files for divorce telling her husband she was going to have the charges dropped, he knew she was lying because he put a gps tracker in her car and new she as at a divorce lawyers office. February she claimed to have ended her affair, but really it was her lawyer telling her to be more careful with her affair till this is over. Her husband, is devasted by this, but vows to get her to change her mind. she at one point tells him she will stop the divorce and another time says she will pause the divorce to attempt reconciliation. Both these times were straight lies. By this time she is telling her husband "why are you here? No one here cares about you".
She became very emotionally abusive after filing for divorce. So much so her husband contemplated taking his own life and actually staged an event to make it look like he was trying, that all backfired though. Then came March 29th, this was the anniversary of their first date, her husband comes home for work, he notices she has regular clothes on and not pajamas, she always changes into pajamas. She starts an argument on purpose for an excuse to leave and stay the night at her moms house. She leaves, he can't sleep at around 3:30am, he has a funny feeling, looks a her email and notices a hotel receipt from 12:21am that morning. He jumps in the car and races to the hotel, sure enough their is her car in the parking lot of a neighboring hotel and their is his car in the hotel parking lot that matches the reciept. Her husband calls the hotel and asks to be transferred to her room, no answer, he goes in the hotel and asks the front desk to try again, no answer, tries one more time. This time someone picks up but says nothing, he cries to her on the phone asking why? He returns to his car and now can tell what room they are in, he waits, 30 minutes later the punk ass 50 yr old walks out of the hotel and to his car, her husband just stares at him, he drives off. Hours later, she returns home packs a bunch of clothes and moves out to stay with her mom. 3 weeks later her husband has to appear in court for the charge, her divorce lawyer shows up and has the case prolonged for 2 more months. She appears to feel bad and returns home but says no affection or sex and she will let him know if she feels anything. Back up to her moving out, her affair friend started sending text messages to her husband threatening him and bringing up things only his wife knew about him, he crossed the line when the affair guy brought up his daughter's name. By this time it wasn't enough to for her to fuck another man and tell her how much she loves him, she had to mentally torment him and talk of their children to this low life piece of shit.
Now here we are in May, he tries to give her a good mother;s day and she insults him. Four days later, here comes the phone call from CPS. They interview all 3 children and Shanda and her husband, now this has gotten way out of hand, he plans to comply with CPS, Shanda has no plans to comply, that is where we are at right now. She is a cheating whore who never had the balls to tell her husband that she was unhappy before spreading her legs for someone else. She has mentally destroyed her husband and their kids, she never has shown a bit of remorse, she is looking for an apartment because their house will have to be sold because her husband cannot afford it by himself. The kids will have to lose their house and change schools. Her husband is in financial turmoil and he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She never put one ounce of energy into saving their marriage and has never apologized for the things she has done. Mediation is not scheduled till July 22nd, so this is far from over, who knows what the hell will happen next. This is a great example of how one person can destroy another persons life and makes you question if you even know your own wife. I will surely post updates as this seems to be far from over. I apologize for this post being in the 3rd person.
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A little bit abour her husband. They have 3 children 17, 7 and 5 years old. Her husband workes 80 hours a week to ensure that Shanda could buy anything and everything she wanted. He loved her deeply, and tolerated everything she threw at him. Fast forward to 11/29/23. the affair had picked up steam, she spent less and less time at home and taking care of their children. She was 6 weeks in and played her wife role to ensure her husband did not suspect anything. A week prior, her husband was starting to notice weird things like changing passwords, less communication from her on a daily basis and she had become increasing guarded of her phone and spending more time than she ever have had on her social media accounts. Her husband finally had an opportunity on 11/29 when she left her phone upstairs and he grabbed it went straight to recently deleted messages and there they were 490 text messages that chronicled everything, the entire evolution of their affair. By the first week of November they were full blown sexting. She became enraged and assaulted him, saying she didn't love him anymore and didn't want to be with him. He was beyond hurt, he sacrificed his own happiness for years for her. December and January were brutual, she continued to cheat after telling him and the 17 year old daughter that she was sorry, used bad judgement and was going to focus on repairing their marriage. Her treatment of her husband was absolutely disgusting, she would assault him, broke his Imac twice, the 2nd time she hit him over the head with it. She's the one that caused all of this and she felt she had the right to take out her anger on him because he caught her. She had opened up 3 different snapchat accounts because this was her preferred way to communicate with her affair partner. Her husband had been documenting all of her violence and continued to stand by her hoping she would realize how her actions were destroying him and their children. Most of the arguing and fighting took place in front of the 7 and 5 year olds.
By January she was openly cheating in the face of her husband. January 23, 2023, her husband had found a way to have her text messages sent to his phone, that evening she gets home from work, he pours his heart out to her, begging her to stop her affair and recommit to her family. While he is doing this she is texting affair guy lies about her husband, he is telling her how much fun the day before with her was and how he is divorcing his wife and wants her to refinance his house with her, she responds with I need to make plans to leave him and spend the rest of my life with you. The whole time her husband is reading this exchange in real time, he puts his phone down but didn't close out the messaging app, Shanda notices this because the last text sent from her was a blowing kiss emoji. I forgot to mention that in the middle of January her husband got into her snapchat account and found a message from her to him where she proclaimed her love for him. In the beginning of January she was busted by her nurse probation case manager for failing a drug test which resulted in an addtional year tacked on to her probation and mandatory outpatient rehab for 30 days. Anyways after she noticed his phone she got pissed and chased him around the house trying to get his phone from him, grabbing his car keys to prevent him from leaving the house. He shouted for her to stop and not in front of the kids, put the kids to bed and i'll give you my phone he said, but she wouldn't stop. Finally, he grabbed her to get his key from her, he leaves she calls the cops, he is arrested and put in jail for domestic assault. She gets him out the next day, he notices that while he was in jail she spent most of her time on the phone with her affair friend. She tells her husband that she will go to court and not press charges, that was a lie, and on Feb. 3, 2023 she files for divorce telling her husband she was going to have the charges dropped, he knew she was lying because he put a gps tracker in her car and new she as at a divorce lawyers office. February she claimed to have ended her affair, but really it was her lawyer telling her to be more careful with her affair till this is over. Her husband, is devasted by this, but vows to get her to change her mind. she at one point tells him she will stop the divorce and another time says she will pause the divorce to attempt reconciliation. Both these times were straight lies. By this time she is telling her husband "why are you here? No one here cares about you".
She became very emotionally abusive after filing for divorce. So much so her husband contemplated taking his own life and actually staged an event to make it look like he was trying, that all backfired though. Then came March 29th, this was the anniversary of their first date, her husband comes home for work, he notices she has regular clothes on and not pajamas, she always changes into pajamas. She starts an argument on purpose for an excuse to leave and stay the night at her moms house. She leaves, he can't sleep at around 3:30am, he has a funny feeling, looks a her email and notices a hotel receipt from 12:21am that morning. He jumps in the car and races to the hotel, sure enough their is her car in the parking lot of a neighboring hotel and their is his car in the hotel parking lot that matches the reciept. Her husband calls the hotel and asks to be transferred to her room, no answer, he goes in the hotel and asks the front desk to try again, no answer, tries one more time. This time someone picks up but says nothing, he cries to her on the phone asking why? He returns to his car and now can tell what room they are in, he waits, 30 minutes later the punk ass 50 yr old walks out of the hotel and to his car, her husband just stares at him, he drives off. Hours later, she returns home packs a bunch of clothes and moves out to stay with her mom. 3 weeks later her husband has to appear in court for the charge, her divorce lawyer shows up and has the case prolonged for 2 more months. She appears to feel bad and returns home but says no affection or sex and she will let him know if she feels anything. Back up to her moving out, her affair friend started sending text messages to her husband threatening him and bringing up things only his wife knew about him, he crossed the line when the affair guy brought up his daughter's name. By this time it wasn't enough to for her to fuck another man and tell her how much she loves him, she had to mentally torment him and talk of their children to this low life piece of shit.
Now here we are in May, he tries to give her a good mother;s day and she insults him. Four days later, here comes the phone call from CPS. They interview all 3 children and Shanda and her husband, now this has gotten way out of hand, he plans to comply with CPS, Shanda has no plans to comply, that is where we are at right now. She is a cheating whore who never had the balls to tell her husband that she was unhappy before spreading her legs for someone else. She has mentally destroyed her husband and their kids, she never has shown a bit of remorse, she is looking for an apartment because their house will have to be sold because her husband cannot afford it by himself. The kids will have to lose their house and change schools. Her husband is in financial turmoil and he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She never put one ounce of energy into saving their marriage and has never apologized for the things she has done. Mediation is not scheduled till July 22nd, so this is far from over, who knows what the hell will happen next. This is a great example of how one person can destroy another persons life and makes you question if you even know your own wife. I will surely post updates as this seems to be far from over. I apologize for this post being in the 3rd person.
2023.05.29 22:56 lucy1146 When is it ok to give up on change?
Hi, I just discovered this community and I think it’s a wonderful way to support each other. I can’t talk to any of my family or friends about the details of my situation because I’m so embarrassed and ashamed. I don’t want to make my boyfriend out to be a bad guy in their eyes.
History: my boyfriend (26) and I (25) met 10 years ago, he had a big crush on me and always wanted to hang out. We only hung out 3 times in the span of 2/3 years , 2 of those times we had sex. Both times I later found out he had a girlfriend.
I thought he was an ass and I deleted him from everything and didn’t speak to him again. Just over a year ago I ran into him at a yoga class. I was friendly and polite and he asked me out. Our date went better than either one of us expected and we have been in a relationship ever since. When we were making things “official” I told him how much our past had hurt me and that I had a hard time trusting him. He assured me that he was in therapy and was addressing his issues, he even started medication.
I gave him the benefit of the doubt and continued the relationship. We have also had to be long distance for months at a time. In the 1+ years we have been dating there have been multiple conflicts where I caught him crossing lines with other women. Following them on instagram, saving photos, paying for onlyfans and messaging with models, deleting dms, being inappropriate with women at bars, etc. I keep telling him how badly he hurts me and he’s assured me that none of it means anything and I’m the only one he wants. He promised to stop but invariably I have caught him returning to the same behaviors.
For context I’m very good looking, and I always want to please him sexually. When we are together physically we have sex almost every day. When we’re apart I put effort into sending him nudes and videos, I’m open to sharing his fantasies. We have FaceTime sex once in a while (it’s a bit tricky bc of time zones). I’ve put an enormous amount of effort into being physically attractive to him and I try to shower him with love and praise whenever I can. I want him to feel safe with me, secure enough to come forward with issues instead of me needing to be paranoid and go looking for proof that he’s gone back on his promises.
In the last month I’ve caught him 3 different times in lies and engaging in inappropriate behavior online. The most recent incident being him posting nudes on Reddit and asking people to message him.
After discovering this I am really at my wits end. I said I need some space and didn’t speak to him for about a day. Last night he called me and finally admitted that he has an addiction that is out of hand. He promised me that he would delete his social media accounts, go to SAA/PAA meetings, and begin meeting with his therapist regularly again. He promised to check in with me more and to finally be honest about his struggles. He’s asking for my forgiveness and support.
I love him so much, aside from this our relationship is great. He is so good to me in other ways but this addiction has just destroyed my heart. We were supposed to be getting engaged in a few weeks. I feel like if I stay I am being a doormat just like all the times before and I am signing up for a lifetime of pain. I don’t want to lose him though. I’d help him through anything if he was honest with me, but I’m just not sure I believe he can be.
I’m so confused and hurt right now. If anyone has insight into what I can or should do please share.
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History: my boyfriend (26) and I (25) met 10 years ago, he had a big crush on me and always wanted to hang out. We only hung out 3 times in the span of 2/3 years , 2 of those times we had sex. Both times I later found out he had a girlfriend.
I thought he was an ass and I deleted him from everything and didn’t speak to him again. Just over a year ago I ran into him at a yoga class. I was friendly and polite and he asked me out. Our date went better than either one of us expected and we have been in a relationship ever since. When we were making things “official” I told him how much our past had hurt me and that I had a hard time trusting him. He assured me that he was in therapy and was addressing his issues, he even started medication.
I gave him the benefit of the doubt and continued the relationship. We have also had to be long distance for months at a time. In the 1+ years we have been dating there have been multiple conflicts where I caught him crossing lines with other women. Following them on instagram, saving photos, paying for onlyfans and messaging with models, deleting dms, being inappropriate with women at bars, etc. I keep telling him how badly he hurts me and he’s assured me that none of it means anything and I’m the only one he wants. He promised to stop but invariably I have caught him returning to the same behaviors.
For context I’m very good looking, and I always want to please him sexually. When we are together physically we have sex almost every day. When we’re apart I put effort into sending him nudes and videos, I’m open to sharing his fantasies. We have FaceTime sex once in a while (it’s a bit tricky bc of time zones). I’ve put an enormous amount of effort into being physically attractive to him and I try to shower him with love and praise whenever I can. I want him to feel safe with me, secure enough to come forward with issues instead of me needing to be paranoid and go looking for proof that he’s gone back on his promises.
In the last month I’ve caught him 3 different times in lies and engaging in inappropriate behavior online. The most recent incident being him posting nudes on Reddit and asking people to message him.
After discovering this I am really at my wits end. I said I need some space and didn’t speak to him for about a day. Last night he called me and finally admitted that he has an addiction that is out of hand. He promised me that he would delete his social media accounts, go to SAA/PAA meetings, and begin meeting with his therapist regularly again. He promised to check in with me more and to finally be honest about his struggles. He’s asking for my forgiveness and support.
I love him so much, aside from this our relationship is great. He is so good to me in other ways but this addiction has just destroyed my heart. We were supposed to be getting engaged in a few weeks. I feel like if I stay I am being a doormat just like all the times before and I am signing up for a lifetime of pain. I don’t want to lose him though. I’d help him through anything if he was honest with me, but I’m just not sure I believe he can be.
I’m so confused and hurt right now. If anyone has insight into what I can or should do please share.
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2023.05.29 22:44 jhk84 First time playing. Going in blind. Just beat the 4th Palace here is my 4th wave of way off predictions.
First persona game. I'm going in semi-blind just cheating on class answers and confidant responses. I just beat the 4th palace and saw the results with Medjed. Things are starting to come into focus and the dots are starting to connect. Still waiting for the plot twist.
I tried to keep it short (I failed) but this what I have so far. Some things contradict each other or would introduce huge plot holes if both were true but I'm just throwing every Idea I have out there. There are some opinions and random facts that I think are important but not sure where to fit them yet.
Please no spoilers for any Persona games as I plan on picking up 3 and 4 later on.
palace one predictions : https://www.reddit.com/Persona5/comments/13odesi/first_time_playing_going_in_blind_my_horribly/
palace two predictions : https://www.reddit.com/Persona5/comments/13q3q9j/first_time_playing_going_in_blind_just_beat_the/
palace three predictions : https://www.reddit.com/Persona5/comments/13sl0vp/first_time_playing_going_in_blind_just_beat_the/
Futaba /Alibaba and somehow Morgana
Wakaba, Shido and the Owls
Twins / Butterfly Lady
The number of new confidants that unlock after the 3rd palace was a bit overwhelming but It did give me plenty of chances to watch the new confidant unlock scenes. I was a little too hung up with her voice to really pay attention.
Sae and Sajiro conversation
was going to have a huge section here but most of my questions got answered after the 4th palace I typed up my initial thoughts right after the convo took place I'll leave it here since it was part of my thought process but this can be mostly ignored.
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I tried to keep it short (I failed) but this what I have so far. Some things contradict each other or would introduce huge plot holes if both were true but I'm just throwing every Idea I have out there. There are some opinions and random facts that I think are important but not sure where to fit them yet.
Please no spoilers for any Persona games as I plan on picking up 3 and 4 later on.
palace one predictions : https://www.reddit.com/Persona5/comments/13odesi/first_time_playing_going_in_blind_my_horribly/
palace two predictions : https://www.reddit.com/Persona5/comments/13q3q9j/first_time_playing_going_in_blind_just_beat_the/
palace three predictions : https://www.reddit.com/Persona5/comments/13sl0vp/first_time_playing_going_in_blind_just_beat_the/
Futaba /Alibaba and somehow Morgana
- The squid girl from the movie finally gets a name.
- Futaba's mom is the curry lady!
- The phone call Sojiro had about a printer makes so much sense now. When I thought he was taking care of an old lady I was like what is she printing out pictures of snowball or something.
- 2nd person to get the metaverse nav before awakening their persona. How does Igor know?
- the images that Futaba sees are the metaverse bleeding in or ... shes just plain nuts.
- translated some of the binary on the walls of her palace in to ASCII looking for a secret message but they were just the same odd symbols that were on the doors and such.
- Futaba picked Alibaba as her hacker alias. before we get to see the whole Egypt /pyramid theme of her palace it seemed like a really odd choice.
- It could be just a cool name that the writers picked but "Chekhov's gun" states that every element introduced in a story should be necessary to the plot. If the gun isn't going to be fired then the audience doesn't need to see it being loaded - or something like that.
- It got me thinking and for sure I remembered the name Alibaba but had forgotten the details of the story. I did a quick search and was able to find the story pretty easily.
- Short version: Alibaba was a dude who stole a bunch of riches from some thieves. Alibaba is living the good life when the thieves track him down and make plans to kill him. The plans are stopped by Alibaba's slave who kills the thieves.
- Also Alibaba's slave was named...... Wait for it....... Morgiana! Mind effing blown! If I'm not reading too much into that then its a friggin huge easter egg. It's way too similar not to be important.
- Morgana is a slave of the big bad. Slaves can be freed.
- Since I haven't seen the relationship between Futaba and Morgana develop yet it could just be she treats Morgana like a slave.
- this one is a bit of a stretch but the creature Alibaba uses in chat kind of looked like a "dark Morgana" it could just be the style that the artist uses for all creatures.
- Morgiana was female. Early in the game Ann ask Morgana if it's a boy or a girl. It says of course it's a boy, but it also says that it is human. (it's def still not). Morgana might be the Male version of Morgiana but this throws it's gender into question too. It's not like anyone had checked between it's legs as far as I can tell. (also where does it do it's business I haven't seen a litter box).
- Morgiana killed the thieves going after Alibaba. The big bad will take control of Morgana at one point and we will have to fight Shade / Evil / Controlled Morgana (not a shadow this will be different) to get the cat back.
- Was almost thinking Morgana could be the one who betrays us but no one can understand him and even Akechi would have trouble selling the whole "my informant is a cat" thing to Sae.
Wakaba, Shido and the Owls
- The curry lady finally gets a name.
- The bald glasses man gets a name .
- In ancient Egypt owls were associated with death and mourning. Will be referring to the Agents as Owls for now on because I think it makes a great name for a secret organization.
- Wakaba discovered the metaverse independent from the government.
- She was working on a way to enter the metaverse without the use of the metaverse nav.
- The Owls that killed her work for Shido and Sae's boss.
- Not only did the owls deliver the news to Fatuba (mourning) but they also were the people who killed her (death)
- The owls killed Wakaba to keep her silent and then stole her research which they hoped would let them make a metaverse nav of their own
- The black mask user is an owl.
- Do owls eat butterflies ?
- We learn medjed it's not so much of an international organization but rather was started by Futaba and then a bunch of posers co-opted the name.
- One of the owls came up with the medjed plan. They had leverage on a member or had a mole, informant etc.
- Sae's boss has a conversation about it where he mentions he didn't think *he* could come up with the plan on their own. he = Akechi
- Igor came up with the plan and told Akechi.
- The Owls couldn't expose the PT without exposing the metaverse. Sae's boss says something like if they (PT) keep this up then the public may find out about the metaverse.
- He called it the metaverse and not the cognitive world. Could be the writers didn't want to confuse the player by introducing a new term with no context. Could be that the Owls initially learned about the metaverse from an otherworldly being.
- The plan was to use the threat of an economic crash to get the PT crew to expose themselves and using misdirection to make them think it was medjed.
- additional benefit was to cause social unrest allowing Shido to make his power grab.
- They were going about the metal shutdowns slowly at first (Sae mentioned it has been going on for 2-3 years) messing things up so that certain government officials would resign in shame. After the PT crew became active they had to accelerate their plans to stay ahead of the curve or such.
- Akechi says hes a psychic. He comes off as joking but in the same convo you can strait up tell him that Ryuji is a PT. Could be he is telling the truth and just expects no one to believe it. this would be his special "gift" that allowed him to hear Morgana. +1 for Akechi is good
- Akechi clearly puts the idea that the PT are involved in the mental shutdowns in Sae's head. +1 for Akechi being bad.
- Actually starting to trust him after spending some time with him. +5 Akechi is bad.
- At this point Akechi knows who the PT are. not 100% but hes like 95% sure. He's playing the long con and trying to get on Jokers good side.
- He got super pissed when he saw the PT made the 3rd change of heart happen. We already know he doesn't like them but he was PISSED.
- He cares too much about fame and the PT crew are stealing his thunder.
- I was told I can't sit on the fence with Akechi lol. My gut says he's bad but the cynic in me says the writers are setting him up for a plot twist.
- If I'm forced to pick one then Akechi is bad. I thought they were setting Sae's boss (really with I knew his name) up to look bad but be really good, but every palace there is another scene with him scheming. I don't think the writers are going to go for such a cheap plot twist with Akechi.
- Akechi being bad also is also now needed for one of my Kasumi theories to work so I'm firmly planting my feet in the Akechi is bad camp.
- Knows Akechi because her dad works at a TV station. Could be a lie. Every owl needs a cover story.
- Said she had a sister that was killed.
- Never had a sister it was her other personality.
- At the casino heist when she says My weak self depended on you that all ends today line that was the "sister" talking and Kasumi is the weak self she mentions.
- At some point it will be mentioned that she has no pictures of her sister.
- Her sister was an owl but had a change of mind (would say change of heart but that would be confusing ). regarding the agency and was going to leave / rebel / expose them / take them down etc. so they owls had her "killed"
- When her sister "died" it was actually Maruki suppressing her other personality.
- Her sister was the gymnast. Being an agent for the owls would require tons of training Gymnastics would be easy for someone like that. Her slump only started when her sister "died".
- Only has 5 star confidant rank. The other 5 will be with her sister.
- Kasumi started off as an owl but joined a group that opposes them. She was captured and then brainwashed by Maruki
- she had to transfer schools because her old classmates would know she didn't have a sister and notice the change in personality
- should have been a red flag earlier. new girl transfers and a month later her doctor gets assigned to her high school. Given what we know about the principle and his connection to Sae's boss this is more then just a happy coincidence.
- after the incident with Kamoshida the owls were worried that the personality suppression didn't take so they sent him to keep a close eye on Kasumi.
- After the 2nd exam he calls you into his office for a little chat. the whole feel of this was different than the others I've had with him.
- It was like there was a sense of desperation under his statements. He was like how do you think people will react when someone fails to meet expectations after being given special treatment desperate people to crazy things. There's some misdirection here since the two girls in the hall were talking about Kasumi's exams being moved up a week. The writers want you to think he's talking about Kasumi and all the expectations the school put on her. but that makes no sense why would he be asking about what two random girls were talking about in the hall. He was actually talking about himself and the expectations the Owls put on him .
- The owls are putting pressure on him to complete some project and hes going to make a mistake when he rushes to meet the deadline they set for him.
- someone he knows is really depressed or has some other crippling emotional trauma. this was his original motivation but has since warped.
- wants to save people by fixing their hearts in a scientific way. want to go above counseling and actually remove/repair bad emotions.
- cognitive psience will be involved. he already knows about it and is almost done with his device/gizmo/doodad that will allow him to fix hearts. The conversations he's had with joker so far is his way of asking for "permission" to set his plan in action. He even says he wished he had the powers that the PT have.
- is it better to feel nothing than to feel pain? could see this being his "I really think I'm still a good guy" logic
- plan is to use his gizmo to turn every into emotional zombies where no one feels anything. This is what Shido meant when he was talking about his ideal society.
Twins / Butterfly Lady
The number of new confidants that unlock after the 3rd palace was a bit overwhelming but It did give me plenty of chances to watch the new confidant unlock scenes. I was a little too hung up with her voice to really pay attention.
- I am thou, thou art I" - we are one and the same
- thou hast acquired a new vow. - you just unlocked a new confidant. to quote Jose "Good Job!"
- It shall become the wings of rebellion that breaketh thy chains of captivity. - butterflies have wings also still talking about Joker "thy chains of captivity". Joker is like a caterpillar and when he obtains his true power he will become a butterfly (not literally). the chains could be a the cocoon that the butterfly breaks out of.
- With the birth of the Fortune Persona I have obtained the winds of blessing that shall lead to freedom and new power - creatures with wings (like a butterfly) ride the wind. She is now referring to herself in this line "I have obtained..."
- The butterfly lady is our persona or at the very least out power levels are connected.
- Part of the butterfly lady's power is sealed in joker. Was not intentional but will be the key to rejoining the twins.
- When there is a fusion alarm the twins do this adorable back stretch where one kicks her legs. They then do this weird like side stretch that looks like the fusion dance from Dragon Ball Z.
- the recarm ability has a blue butterfly reviving the party member. butterfly = rebirth ?
- Is in the opening movie both the heist scene and the smash the city part. Will be joining up.
- Ran in to her in the hall at the star of the game she was labled as a senior
- Riding in a limo. daddy is loaded.
- At the park cleanup she asked Mishima for the bottle cap so they can be used for medicine. What we should take away from this scene is she's a really good person.
- We need to know see that she's super duper good because her dad is bad like really bad.
- daddy's money is dirty money and she knows it or at least suspects.
- We will change daddy's heart and make him admit his evil ways.
- Shido is her dad.
- We don't know when she's going to join up or if the casino heist is her first. Stealing her dad's heart will prob be her first mission so the fact that shes on the comms at the start of the game isn't too much of a problem.
- on 7/29 Morgana says "But it's true that an observant criminal could have a true to reality city in their Palace."
- The opening casino heist wasn't in the real world but was the Shido's heart. His palace just included a 1:1 of the city in it. He also says in the scene at the start of the game where joker has a flashback that he owns the cops. Would make sense that the shadows in his cognition would take the form of the police and security guards. The 2nd palace had two types of shadows (male and female) and the 3rd/4th had people/dogs. Multiple types of shadows is not unheard of
- Also looks like we did manage to steal his treasure but not sure if they were able to get it out.
- We don't actually see joker get taken in by the cops. It's possible that the traitor grabbed us after the shadow cops took us down and turned us in to the real world cops. Doesn't mean the world's can't be merging but my reasoning for it is off.
- One thing that bothers me is when they ask if everyone remembers where they have to meet up. Why was joker separate from the rest of the PT? The PT all leave the metaverse together so far. Could just mean where they're going to meet up near the exit (if there is an exit with the palace being the whole city). Hoping for more clues to clarify this.
- at the meeting for the 2nd palace Ryuji says something like I never even thought there were other worlds besides ours. Morgana responds with eh don't worry too much about it.
- Igor says the Velvet room exist between mind and matter dream and reality
- If the real world is the matter and the metaverse is the mind then the velvet room exist in the place between them
- If there is more than one prison (everyone Igor recruits gets there own) then it's possible that there are other "rooms" in the space between the two worlds
- the big bad is trapped in one of these other rooms. the key and or entrance is located in mementos.
- on 7/19 Igor says "After all, you must hone your powers.... and become a magnificent thief..."
- he is being literal as he needs is to steal the key to the big bad's room.
- before the big bad was imprisoned the metaverse was formless. His presence started the corruption and gave it form. this is the sea of souls that the personas mention then you capture them.
- They are getting pulled out of the collective and twisted into shadows.
Sae and Sajiro conversation
was going to have a huge section here but most of my questions got answered after the 4th palace I typed up my initial thoughts right after the convo took place I'll leave it here since it was part of my thought process but this can be mostly ignored.
- "as long as there's a possibility that cognitive psience can be linked to psychotic breakdowns."
- what is cognitive psience ? did the curry lady make it ?
- Psi as in Psionics ? Mental powers are always cool.
- Curry lady was trying to fix her maternity neurosis but some how created her own metaverse nav.
- Or she never had maternity neurosis and that was just part of the coverup. (Tried to search if maternity neurosis is an actual thing. most links came back to this subreddit so I didn't go any deeper to avoid spoilers) --- got this one right lol
- The tech was stolen by Sae's boss and he had her killed her by doing something in the metaverse that made her jump in front of the car. -- half right (i think)
- The black mask person doesn't work for Igor but used the Curry Lady's device to enter the metaverse.
- Igor not bad or is bad but not affiliated with black mask.
- Makoto - the scene where the lights go out and she grabs jokers leg just made her more endearing. Amazing driving skills the PT would have died after the 4th palace if not for her. She asked joker to be her "fake" boyfriend. she may have had pure intentions but on some level she wanted to gauge his reaction to the idea.
- Futba - who doesn't like a quirky redhead. Her being Boss's adopted daughter is a good thing as he seems to like Joker at this point in the story so he wouldn't have to give him the whole "let me show you my gun collection" talk. Although I'm thinking shes more like the quirky best friend type then best girl material (so sorry Fatuba Fans plesedonthateme)
- Dr.Death - shes a doctor who really cares about her work. Cares more about helping the little girl then getting the credit for it. She basically broke down when she thought the girl was dead. Also SP Adhesives are amazing.
- Kasumi - 100% little sister vibe. The batting cage scene just oozed I want my big bro to be proud of me. Maybe her "sister" is more likeable.
- Chihaya - nice lady with a super power. A bit too gullible. Could totally see her sending all of Joker's savings to a Nigerian prince.
- Chess girl (I know it's not chess) - mid maybe she will get more interesting. If she does I might remember her name.
- Ann - Not even in the running really because She's going to end up with Ryuji. If Ryuji wasn't around I would say shes not the brightest bulb in the pack. shes not dumb and seems to at least have passed her exams but we have honor student Makoto and super nerd Futaba to compare her to. she is empathetic and has a high emotional intelligence. No way shes going to make it as an Actress with her (lack of) skills I cringe every time she tries. She would make a great councilor though with how she relates to people and to seems to be able to get along with everyone. Alternatively she could end up in professional sports with her throwing arm. She launched Morgan like she was shooting off a rocket after the 4th palace.
- Kawakami - Yes she's ranked lower than someone who's not even in the running. First off she lied about her sister WTF! She just seems like a mess. Her clothes don't fit and her hair is never brushed. Shes going to end up as a cat lady. She is forever in "the help" tier doing my laundry and making me coffee.
- Ryuji - dude is our bro 100% He's the bad influence with a heart of gold and will stick with Joker to the end. He's the Ron Weasley to Joker's Harry Potter. He would be the most fun to go drinking with.
- Yusuke - you will only ever be his 2nd best friend. His true loyalty lies with art. If Joker was hanging off the side of a cliff and Yusuke had to make the decision to save Joker or paint the perfect sunset it would be a real nail biter to see what he decides
- Sojiro - Ok so not our bro but the Boss-Chief is the man. He took us in feeds us and is teaching us how to pick up chicks with coffee. He took in Fatuba because he felt guilty about not preventing her mother's death (even though chances are if he tried to help the owls would have killed him too). Would take a bullet for Joker and his friends and would die with a smile knowing he saved someone (may this never happen). Would not be surprised if he is the get away driver when the PT crew breaks Joker out.
- Akechi - he's too full of himself and his sweater is dumb. Hanging out with him you would only ever be "Akechi's friend"
- Mishima - such a wimp physically and emotionally. We just chilled at the park after he got picked on at the Diner. Unless he can fix his issues without the help of the PT crew then he's bottom tier for sure.
- Snowball - he didn't deserve to go out like that.
- Morgana - is a spy and slave of the big bad. Also needs stop hitting on Ryuji's girl or it's desires are gonna get all warped and it won't be able to summon it's persona.
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2023.05.29 22:42 bcndjsjsbf [URGENT] Need Advice: Potential Employment Scam - Shared Sensitive Information
I need your advice on a concerning situation I've found myself in. Recently, I was contacted by a potential employer who found my resume on a job board. The job description seemed legitimate, matching my skills and experience perfectly. Excited about the opportunity, I expressed my interest and proceeded with the application process.
I received follow-up emails from a person, claiming to be the HR manager. Shortly after, I had a brief phone call where we discussed the position, benefits, and background checks. He had a noticeable Russian accent. After this conversation, I received an email stating that I had been selected for the position and was provided with an employer-employee agreement.
Here's where things took a suspicious turn. I filled out both a W-2 and a 1099 form, disclosing all my sensitive information, including my Social Security number. A few days later, I received an email granting me access to a CRM portal. During the sign-up process, I had to wait for my identity to be verified. To my surprise, the HR emailed me my chosen username and password, raising doubts in my mind.
Within the CRM portal, I received detailed instructions for my job responsibilities. It involved receiving packages, inspecting their contents, and reshipping them with new labels. Following these instructions, I completed tasks for four weeks, receiving payments for my work. The first paycheck was a $20 check from PayPal, which I successfully cashed. The second payment of $80 was wired to my bank account after providing my banking information.
Throughout this experience, I noticed some red flags, but since I was being paid for my work, I dismissed them. The position was explained to me as package insurance-related. I was led to believe that I was acting as an inspector, ensuring packages were undamaged before sending them to customers. This would provide photographic evidence in case of damage claims.
However, my concerns grew when I was contacted by a different company, Smart Works Logistics Ltd, for a similar position. Despite my excitement, I never heard back from them. My subsequent online research about this type of job led me to articles about "reshipping scams." Alarmed by this information, I delved deeper and discovered a victim who experienced the same situation I did: same company, same phone number, and same manager.
Now, I'm aware that I might have unknowingly participated in a reshipping fraud scheme involving stolen credit cards. This realization has left me worried, and I definitely want to distance myself from this situation. However, they have all my sensitive information, and I'm unsure who to report this to.
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Thank you in advance for your support and guidance.
[Please help me escape this scam and protect my information!]
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I received follow-up emails from a person, claiming to be the HR manager. Shortly after, I had a brief phone call where we discussed the position, benefits, and background checks. He had a noticeable Russian accent. After this conversation, I received an email stating that I had been selected for the position and was provided with an employer-employee agreement.
Here's where things took a suspicious turn. I filled out both a W-2 and a 1099 form, disclosing all my sensitive information, including my Social Security number. A few days later, I received an email granting me access to a CRM portal. During the sign-up process, I had to wait for my identity to be verified. To my surprise, the HR emailed me my chosen username and password, raising doubts in my mind.
Within the CRM portal, I received detailed instructions for my job responsibilities. It involved receiving packages, inspecting their contents, and reshipping them with new labels. Following these instructions, I completed tasks for four weeks, receiving payments for my work. The first paycheck was a $20 check from PayPal, which I successfully cashed. The second payment of $80 was wired to my bank account after providing my banking information.
Throughout this experience, I noticed some red flags, but since I was being paid for my work, I dismissed them. The position was explained to me as package insurance-related. I was led to believe that I was acting as an inspector, ensuring packages were undamaged before sending them to customers. This would provide photographic evidence in case of damage claims.
However, my concerns grew when I was contacted by a different company, Smart Works Logistics Ltd, for a similar position. Despite my excitement, I never heard back from them. My subsequent online research about this type of job led me to articles about "reshipping scams." Alarmed by this information, I delved deeper and discovered a victim who experienced the same situation I did: same company, same phone number, and same manager.
Now, I'm aware that I might have unknowingly participated in a reshipping fraud scheme involving stolen credit cards. This realization has left me worried, and I definitely want to distance myself from this situation. However, they have all my sensitive information, and I'm unsure who to report this to.
Any advice or suggestions on how to handle this delicate situation would be greatly appreciated. I will definitely quit this job, but I need to take steps to protect my personal information and report this incident appropriately.
Thank you in advance for your support and guidance.
[Please help me escape this scam and protect my information!]