Mountain time to est

Many years ago, I used to be a Lakers fan and I was a big fan of Kobe. However, over time, I stopped watching sports because as the years went by, I realized that whether my favorite team won or lost, it had no real impact on my life. Instead of feeling joy when they won, I would just feel a profound sense of emptiness every time I turned off the TV.
Some might argue, "Well, then watching movies or reading books is also meaningless!" But reading good books allows me to gain knowledge and insights, subtly changing myself. Watching movies allows me to experience different lives and gain wisdom from them.
And while some might say, "Well, playing video games is also meaningless!" Playing video games involves active participation and wholehearted engagement. When you successfully complete a game, you feel a sense of accomplishment. But what do you gain from watching a sports game? Nothing, except for a victory that has no connection to you whatsoever.

My wife and i have tried several times now. Between mini bosses being perma invincible and the last boss falling through the floor, im about to give up. Are there any tricks to not having to restart the entire dungeon over again? Why does the dungeon that is the gatekeeper for WT3 feel like it has so many bloody issues?

My personal theory is that they’re trying to sabotage the mode by putting them in horrible times so that they don’t have to continue them for very long.

I got hit with the "Game crashing at load" bug, the "unable to knock out enemies bug", the one where filters never expire or never reset after being replaced. All passible, if annoying. But now I'm in Red Square. I've been in sections where I've died several times and needed to reload but always was able to make it past...but now, despite me cranking the difficulty down to the easiest setting I simply, after three weeks, can not get past this. I get insta-killed by the first burst of bullets that hits me, that seem to make it through any barrier I'm behind (though mine are blocked by the same barrier). Grenades do nothing. Claymores are avoided. Soldiers just come up and shoot me, shrugging off my shots.
Have I run into yet another bug, or is this level just that hard?

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Hello. Kind of lenghthy post. Not sure if this is the right sub but I just want to ask if anybody here is familiar with health insurance, maxicare or medicard? I am not really good at story telling but I will try..
Currently, nasa hospital kami ni mama, na severe sepsis kasi sha nang hindi namin nalalaman. Btw, she is already 65 years old. Year 2021 she was admitted to the hospital 4 times. Mga tagal namin dun 2 weeks per admission. Nag start noon nung na severe covid siya and sunod2 na. Immuno compromised na sha. Bilib ako sa resistensya ni mama na kinakaya pa nya lahat2 ng nangyayari sa mga organs nya.
Gusto ko lang sana humingi ng tulong kung ano ang best option namin na kunin, thinking of Maxicare pero cover ba dun yung hospitalization?
I know parang too late na kumuha ngayon pero gusto namin na makapaghanda na in case of emergency. Mahirap talaga magkasakit ngayon.
Salamat po and I hope meron po mag reply dito.

Today happened bc of Ross. Him finding Nat Kovitz led him to David. If you haven't yet today, you need to watch Ross's Need to Know podcast he put out today. It's incredible. This story is essentially his. He is the one with the absolute best sources on this subject on this planet right now. We are so lucky he's on our side.
There's a lot of new eyes on this sub today but a lot of us have been here a long long time. Before Ross was in it himself. The work he has put in in the past few years has been invaluable. He will go down in history.
What a great day! We'll never forget June 5th of 2023 on this sub

ILM LGA 1700 crash boot loop on 2 different motherboards . (1.MSI Tomahawk z790 & 2. Asus z790)

• PC will not boot if ILM is fully locked.
• PC will boot loop if ILM lever is half hay closed.
• PC will post bios if ILM lever is fully open and cpu is slightly pressed

I was certain that the issue was a DOA motherboard. Asus z690-P wifi But when it happened on another I was suspicious. The 2nd Motherboard MSI tomahawk z790 was completely dead, no power anywhere, but when I removed the CPU and tried to power it up, literally everything came to life. and Q-LED indicated for the 1st time.

1. Reinstalled the CPU & cooler .. everything was dead again. Hmm interesting.
2. Removed cooler, still dead.
3. Held the cpu with finger pressure, BOoTED! (forced shutdown before thermals became issue)
4. Sat a copper slug on CPU, BOoTed!
5. Determined the ILM is causing the crash, and Boot-Loops

I think I'm outside the return window. and the CPU boots the original system it came from Z690 Was wondering what options I have to make this work.? Is the CPU warped?
The ILM on both z790's feels like it's putting WAY MORE PRESSURE on the CPU.
^{TL;DR version: Two different motherboards (MSI Tomahawk z790 and Asus z790} experienced boot issues and crashes with the Intel LGA 1700 socket.) ^{Full locking of the Integrated Load Module (ILM} prevented the PC from booting.) ^{Half-closed ILM lever caused the PC to enter a boot loop. Opening the ILM lever fully and applying slight pressure to the CPU allowed the PC to post the BIOS. Suspected the first motherboard (Asus z690-P wifi} was dead, but the issue occurred on a second motherboard (MSI Tomahawk z790).) ^{Removing the CPU from the second motherboard caused it to power up, suggesting an issue with the CPU-Motherboard interaction. Reinstalling the CPU resulted in a dead system again. Applying finger pressure or using a copper slug on the CPU allowed the system to boot. Concluded that the ILM was causing the crashes and boot loops. Concerned about being outside the return window and wondering about options to make it work. Questioning if the CPU is warped. Noted that the ILM on both z790 motherboards exerts excessive pressure on the CPU.}

Had a very successful first wedding gig over the weekend and it looks like there will be many more to come. Multiple engaged couples took down our info and a few have already emailed us their plans. The problem is we have no idea what to charge. We are virtually unknown (no online presence) and this initial wedding we were performing for a friend of our guitarist. We're also a 3 piece, so that somewhat limits song choices, but we played songs from every decade of popular music. Guitarist sings, I sing and play bass/keyboard, drummer sometimes sings.
There was no negotiation. We received $1,800 + gas + wedding food/drinks + 2 nights lodging for:

• 30 songs split into two ~1 hour sets
  
• 1 song sang by bridal party and groom, which required about 30 minutes of rehearsal the day of
  
• 1 request from the bride's uncle, prepared in 15 minutes between sets (We denied a song request from bride's nephew. It would've been a mood killer. We also never discussed requests beforehand. Whoops)
  
• Emceeing the bridal party's intro
  
• DJing for an hour in between sets
  
• Soundsystem for speeches
  
• Dance lights
  
• 9 total hours of work on the day, including setup, soundchecking, rehearsal, 3.5 hours emceeing/performing, and breakdown
  
• 8 hours total travel time
  

1) Was this a reasonable fee for a friend?
2) What should we charge for non-friends? Ideally, it would be a flat per song rate or something, but I really have no idea.

(excuse the alliteration :))
hi friends! i hope everyone’s feeling well (or if you’re in an episode, that it ends very soon) :).
this is a bit of a novel, so tl;dr:
work with your doctor, and be sure advocate for your self and care. check your test results on your own and compare them over time; keep in mind, what’s normal for everyone else may not be for you. the data you get from both those results and your own experiences are invaluable, especially when you take the time to visualize them!
— story time!
i’ve been lurking for a while, but i wanted to share my experience in trying to identify the cause of my symptoms, and starting to feel a little bit better.
for early context: i’ve had nausea and symptoms of ibs my entire life, but they started to get a lot worse somewhere around 2019/2020; it got to a point where i would spend weeks in my bed with a heating pad on my belly, only being able to eat soft-ish foods. i also have a few mental health issues, so my doctor assumed it was stress related for a while, especially because every test came back “normal”/negative.
i’m a computer scientist and nerd, so during an awful episode somewhere around spring 2021, when i was—quite literally—about to lose my mind, i put every molecule of energy i had into trying to find out why, using data I gathered from here (thank you all!!!), and my own biomarkers.
i’d had god-knows how many blood draws in the two years before then, and was able to load them into Apple Health on my phone (yay technology!) to get some nice visualizations. i noticed almost all of the draws were taken during the spring/summer (when my allergies were their worst), and that everything was within the generally acceptable range, but my eosinophil count was riding the top during my summer draws—when my symptoms were worse. it likely would never have been flagged by a doctor, but i noticed the pattern, did some research, and went to my doctor with all of that.
i was horrified of being scoped, so i hadn’t had a biopsy, or anything of the sort, but since treatment for eosinophilia is usually an antihistamine, my doctor agreed treating it was worth a try.
fast forward two years, i’ve been taking OTC cetirizine daily and am basically symptom-free, aside from the days i accidentally forget to take it, or accidentally eat a trigger food, which are absolutely brutal.
now, i’m working on building apps that use bioinformatics for treatment and diagnosis, where helping people with IBS and mental health disorders are at my highest priority. maybe one day—a far away day—a teensy bit of code i write will help y’all find some answers too :,).
ps: like i touched on earlier y’all’s posts and comments were and continue to be invaluable to me. i don’t even know how to express my gratitude in words, y’all are the reason i even tried to figure out what was going on inside me in the first place. also, excuse any goofs in this, my brain’s in fuzz mode after work right now.
^❤️abm

I’m looking to start on Zoloft again… pats year has been very rough and I get random bursts of anxiety/heart racing, especially at night. I take metoprolol 25mg currently, but I feel that not addressing the anxiety is making it worse. I read online that they can interact, but I’m not in a place to wean off of metoprolol just yet, maybe once I get a handle on the anxiety. Anyone else take this combination? I take it twice a day, 12.5mg each time.

I’m 23 years old and my current job is making me absolutely miserable. I work for a manufacturing corporation as a machine operator. This is only my second job and at first everything was going well since it was the first job where I was starting to make some real money and had some better benefits than my previous job. I’m now approaching 4 years at this place and I’ve never been so desperate to jump ship.
The people at this job are so toxic and the management/company are cruel and unbearable to deal with. My coworkers are mostly salty old people. There’s a lot of racism, micromanaging and people get treated unfairly/poorly all the time. I now see this place for what it is and it’s starting to really take a toll on my mental health having to show up to such an awful place everyday just to support myself. The money isn’t even worth it anymore and I really don’t want to spend any more time there than I need to and definitely do not want to end up like all the miserable people who are close to or planning on retiring there.
I’ve only worked entry level jobs thus far but I’m ready to learn some actual meaningful skills not just do useless slave labor to make some no name rich it’s so depressing. I want to come home feeling fulfilled about the work I did.
At this point I’m thinking I want to get into a trade or either go back to school to enter more valuable career fields. Both of which are going to be a financial hit as I’m getting into them but I think the risk would be worth it in the long run. Nobody in my family has gone to college I would be a first generation student so it’s kind of intimidating.
I just feel so drained and lost right now and I’m not sure how to proceed, I’m really hoping I can get some good advice here on how to progress career wise and escape my super toxic job.
Thank you!

Hey darling she probs didnt tell you coz she's a full blown narc and thinks she is hot as fuck... she gave you the clap and you gave Max the clap you dirty fuck and you can kiss the $200k goodbye coz you stoke my mum's shit owe tax and were in a defacto relatioship at the time you won it oh i also took a baseball bat to the nav and your dirtbike
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have fun in jail fuckers
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hey brycey boy, you are free to come round whenevs you can bring the general too if ya like winky face

Lol so at one point in time I was financially stable (about $60k to my name) and all of my family kept asking to borrow money. They would ask for about $300~$1000 every other month and sometimes I would forgive the debt because I know how hard some of them were struggling.
Now that some terrible things happened to me and I need financial help, I ask those same family members for $50~$100 so I can afford food for the week and literally none of them can help me out.
I know it’s not their obligation to help me out but I cried today because I feel like they don’t care about me as much as I did for them and it’s angering me so much that once I get my money up again I’m moving to a different state and never speaking to any of them again.

I’m looking to start on Zoloft again… pats year has been very rough and I get random bursts of anxiety/heart racing, especially at night. I take metoprolol 25mg currently, but I feel that not addressing the anxiety is making it worse. I read online that they can interact, but I’m not in a place to wean off of metoprolol just yet, maybe once I get a handle on the anxiety. Anyone else take this combination? I take it twice a day, 12.5mg each time.

Wasn't loved as a kid. Will always want to feel loved and wanted as an adult. Not all the time, but yeah, when night time rolls around and it gets lonely...
Has anyone found an ACTUAL solution to this problem other than:

1. Practice Self Love
2. Do some sort of activity that basically distracts you from it

I'm pretty sure I love myself a lot already. I'm very understanding of myself, and I basically already embody everyone of these things: https://psychcentral.com/blog/imperfect/2019/05/what-is-self-love-and-why-is-it-so-important#What-does-self-love-look-like? I'm in tune with all my feelings. I'm not going to deny that I have some needs, but unfortunately I can't satisfy those needs myself.
Like I can't 'hug' myself. That shit doesn't work. A pet cuddling is also not going to fill that void. You also can't be your own best friend and all that BS. Humans are social creatures.
Any actual solutions instead of dumb pop psychology for people that have done zero self work before... When I'm in one of these moods, all I want to do is go out, and sit at a bar and find people to talk to. But in my area, it's a weekday night and there aren't usually people out... I'll feel worse spending money on a drink, and not even coming across someone I want to talk to.
I've done group fitness, group classes and stuff, but after once or twice and you don't find someone you are interested in or want to connect with, you feel the same feeling while going to those classes.