I know I’ve asked this before. But I just want to clarify. I’ve applied to the IRS for both the special agent and revenue agent position. I did the interview for both and got the TO incoming letter for special agent on Friday. Will accepting the TO kill my chances for revenue agent? My goal is to get into the IRS as fast as possible and if it takes too long for the special agent position I’m going revenue agent. Please let me know how to play this. I can’t even sleep as my worst fear is being stuck at my current job.

This is a desktop machine running Win10. The other day when booting my PC it booted into UEFI for some reason. I didn't think much of it at first but since then I've been having problems.

1. When I right click the start menu and go to "shut down," nothing happens. When I press the power button and wait on it to power down, it is stuck on "shutting down." The only way to power off the machine is to hold the power button.
2. Files remain visible after deleting. When I click a file and hit the delete key, it still shows. If I try to open it, it tells me it can't be found. Refreshing the window clears it. Likewise, files are not visible after creation until I refresh.
3. I can't seem to install software. I tried installing a program earlier and it freezes every time I try.
4. I tried running CCleaner, but none of the functions are working. It can't even empty the recycle bin.
5. Everything is slow to the point of being unusable. I can't even go to "This PC." It just has the green loading bar up top that never fills up. Earlier today, the web browser was unusable as well but now it seems to be working again.

I've tried:

1. Updating my computer
2. Running a virus scan (Windows Defender, full scan). It took over 3 hours and found nothing.
3. I thought maybe my drive (4 year old NVMe drive) was going bad. I ran "wmic" and "diskdrive get status" in a command prompt. It says my drive is "ok."
4. I ran DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
5. I ran sfc /scannow

This all seemed to happen out of the blue. No software was installed around the time this started happening. No obviously suspicious processes are running.

I am a non-exempt hourly employee that works until midnight every night. Most nights we will have to stay an extra 5 to 15 minutes waiting on the overnight crew to clock in. As a new employee, I came forward over email when a group distribution email was sent about clock in times saying when you go live into a call queue is when you clock in and I informed the manager that the FLSA states that you get paid for the first principal task which is when you turn on a computer. They quickly corrected their language.
A few weeks later that same manager asks me to subtract the extra time spent after midnight and add it to my clock-in time. I didn't think much of it and accepted it at the time, but less than 2 weeks later I have realized I was the only one who was told to do this after discussing this with my coworkers. I happen to find this odd.

Amazon wanted me to re-verify my account, so I did. I then got an email from Amazon a day later that said :
"...We have completed verifying your identity. As next steps, please log into your Seller Central account to activate your account and check if any further action is needed."
So I did, and my account still says:
"Currently, you have one or more verification action items pending. Please r e v i e w the list below and visit the Seller Account Information page to start verification."
Then I click on the list and it says:
"Verification Completed Successfully
Your information has been verified successfully. Any changes made to the provided information will trigger a new verification and will disable your listing and disbursements."
What gives?

Met a girl in her home country recently 6 months ago. 2 months later she leaves to my home country to be an au-pair. We talk all the time via text and facetime. I come back and we do a 8 day trip roadtrip - it was fantastic. 2 weeks later - she tells me she's not available for a formal relationship - and that she wants to be honest with me and its better to tell me sooner than later because she cares for me. She isn't ready for the pressure and commitment of it - and doesn't want me to have expectations - like her inviting me on her vacations, etc. (The vacation thing is what sparked this btw)
She said, when the trip was over - she felt broken and sad. She missed me. And she's not ready for a long distance type of relationship and wants to take this moment in her life to make friends in her new city, experience new things, meet people - etc. She said she was falling in love with me, that we work well together - she loves sharing moments with me.
Since she doesn't want the pressure of a relationship in her life right now (AT THIS MOMENT - in her words) - she is willing to offer me an open relationship - where we see what happens when we meet again next - and see where it goes. But right now, she has other plans - vacations, trips, etc.
Its been a couple weeks now - we've slowed down on our facetimes... but we still text. Shell ask me what im doing, how my day is going, that she misses me, etc. She even texted my mother when it was her birthday last week.
Anyways, I get it. She had the experience planned before she even knew I existed - I entered her life unexpected. Its not fair for me to pressure her into a relationship during this moment in her life... at the same time - plans change for special people. I live 6 hours way via a plane - I do work remote and can always go visit her.
The hardest part i'm dealing with right now is whether to continue talking to her or not. This wasn't a bad breakup - nobody did anything wrong. We both care for each other... but to continue to talk to her via text - saying she misses me, she really misses me, how im doing, etc. without any sort of commitment feels strange. At the same time, I don't want to lose her - and never talk to her again. But maybe thats what i'm supposed to do here? I'm fucking confused and lost.

Long post. My wife and I both grew up poor and have next to zero financial knowledge. I’ll give a little background about where we’re at, what we have planned for the next few years, and I would really appreciate advice and suggestions about where we should go from here.
Background of where we are at now: My wife and I are both 26 and have no kids yet but plan to within the next few years. I’m military (E-4, ~3k with my special pays after tax) and my wife is about to start a GS-6 with a locality pay that brings her a little below 50k/annually. We have 25k student debt in the government loans for my Bachelor’s and my wife’s nursing program, however, it would all go away if student loan forgiveness is upheld this Summer. Not really counting on that, though. We are about to start a $140-160k mortgage (still deciding down payment) on a property and home of about $250k in value. We got a big family discount and intend to hold on to this home as our family home once we get back full-time in 6-10ish years.
Both of our cars were paid in full with cash and are good for the foreseeable future.
We presently live in base housing so our housing and utilities are a set amount each month and removed from my check. The home that we are in the process of inheriting/buying will have a house payment around $1,300-$1,500 for 15 years depending on the home insurance we’re able to find and if we’re able to get the property tax discount. It will have a mid 5% APR. We would like to pay this down quickly and we estimate we could probably do so in 7-10 years. In addition to my wife living in the home while I’m on deployments and such(she will take a leave of absence from her main job, will likely do short term contracting for a higher wage during this period) a sibling of mine will be staying in the house full-time as a caretaker until we return in a few year and they will be paying around half of total payment plus utilities. Raising the rent any higher for them is not something we will consider.
I’ve recently started receiving TSP match for my military retirement account and only recently began contributing meaningful amounts for my portion. I’ve got it going with 5% Roth and the government matches 5% (which goes into traditional I believe) so I have 10% (~$300) of my pay going into TSP each month. To date it’s about $2.5k. My wife is beginning her federal job soon and will also have access to starting a TSP.
We will have around 15k left in a MMSA account that has 1.1% APY after our down payment for the home.
After taxes, my Roth contributions(wife hasn’t started her TSP yet), and all of our bills are paid we’ll have between $6,000-$6,500 extra each month. That doesn’t include home owning costs which will start in late Summer. After including my sibling’s rent ours will be ~$750 per month at the highest.
Where we see the next few years: I have a little less than 3 years on my current contract but I’m considering a 3 year re-enlistment if the proper conditions are met. I’ll be promoted to E-5 in less than 2 years and then E-6 if re-enlist. I then intend to switch over to the reserves as an E-5/very close to E-6 or commission if the timing allows. It would depend upon unit location, school start, and healthcare costs. It will be hard to give up Tricare with a family, plus I’m content staying in the military until reserve retirement or until I get my professional career up and running.
Once I get out I intend to go to medical school (I’ve been accepted to one in a low COL area, will immediately commission into the reserves in a program specific to medicine with this option) or law school (will only consider the top few schools and they are mostly in high COL, will most likely stay reserves until around graduation). We intend to buy a home in whatever city I do one of these programs in. The GI bill has a good housing allowance(E-5 BAH at school zip code) and the entirety of tuition for all of the schools that I’m considering. I plan for us to have a significant amount of savings by this point and my wife plans to work at least part-time (if we have kids by then) while I’m in school and she might be around a GS 7 or 8 by this point, or she might switch back to contracting. She wants to take off a few years after I finish professional school to stay home with the kids when they are young. I absolutely support this and it’s possible that she never returns to work. I’d like to switch down to part time work in my late 40’s/50’s. We plan to see a financial advisor on base within the month for a short term plan but I’m interested in a variety of recommendations and outlooks for our long term plan.
Where to we go from here?
What are some benchmarks for savings that you recommend for our situation?
What do you recommend for our TSP contributions?
What timeframe do you recommend for paying off the house?
What extra investments do you recommend?
What are your recommended financial literacy resources?
Basically, where do we go from here?

Hi, I just got into the game recently and it's been really fun, however, I've run into an issue with my key binds. Whenever I left click to grab, I jump at the same time. I've tried rebinding my jump button and resetting to default controls etc but nothings work. I've also tried restarting my game and that hasn't helped either. Does anyone know what I could do to fix it? :')

I know this has probably been talked about often, but I think I have some points a lot of people don’t touch on. I also find this relevant to the sub due to how Henry VII took the throne and Richard III’s legacy in Tudor England.
I’m definitely not saying Ol 68 inch Dick was a saint, but I’d start off with what we know of the mans character. We know that Richard III was deeply loyal to his brother and loved him, and that he cried at the news of his brothers death. We also know that he protested against his elder brother George’s execution, something his sister in law Elizabeth was greatly in favor for. We also know that he was close to his wife and beloved in the north as a just, charitable, and chivalrous man. This is a man, who, evidently loves his family.
Secondly, we have political reasons. Richard wasn’t an idiot. The very worst thing you can do to eliminate a political rival is to just have them disappear, especially with the predicament Richard was in. If he did want to avoid rebellions on the boys behalves, it would have been best to have them die of “natural causes” and give them a public funeral. The best thing to do would be to keep a close watch on them or bring them north. But killing them secretly would inevitably lead to fakes like Perkin down the line and hatred for him.
But you could also say, well then why would Richard usurp his nephews throne in the first place? What kind of good guy would do that? And that’s definitely true. First of all, though, this is the Wars of the Roses. The only king who didn’t do some heinous shit was Henry VI. Edward IV had his brother drowned, Henry VII imprisoned a child and then executed him a decade later, and Richard III usurped the throne. But ol Dick was in a terrible situation, due to the Woodvilles. He and his in laws hated each other from the beginning, as Edward IV injected the Woodvilles almost shamelessly into English politics. There’s a reason why kings shouldn’t marry English women. They were considered grasping and proud and it tore apart the Yorkist side. And putting Edward V in the hands of Anthony Woodville only made it worse. So when the Woodvilles attempted to take the protectorate and Ritchie struck back with some executions, it was only a matter of time before Edward Woodville grew up and decided to take revenge.
But here comes Stillington. A lot of people believe that Stillington’s story is made up and too convenient. But it was probably a godsend to Dickon York Plantagenet. It was a way to save his life and ensure his young sons prospects. But, personally, I believe Stillington’s story to be believable. For one, Edward was definitely the type to agree to a plight troth to get into a woman’s wimple. Second, agreeing to marriage before a priest and then having sex means you’re married in medieval times, thus making Edward V and his siblings bastards, which is a big deal. Another point is that Edward IV cast Stillington into jail for a bit in 1478. To scare him to silence?
And that begs the question: who killed the princes? It’s my personal belief that it was Buckingham. With the princes dead, Richard III stands between Buckingham and the throne as he can trace his descent to Edward III as Richard can, by a younger son. And soon after the princes die he rebels in favor of Tudor. Why? It’s not like he’s a nice guy with a liking for Woodvilles and what would he get out of it? He’s one of Richard’s favorites. But if he takes out Richard, he can challenge Harry and take the throne himself.
So that’s it. That’s my point and I’ve been wanting to get out for a while. Ignoring Tudor Propaganda, Richard III is a suicidally brave man who loved his brother and wife, hated the Woodvilles, and was loved by the north.

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I am almost 60. My dad is dead. My mom is alive. I am married with 1 young adult child. 30 plus years ago I was in therapy for depression and self destructive behavior. I binge ate and was bulimic. I brought family pictures in once for some exercise, and one thing that was very clear was that something happened to me between ages 3 and 4. We kids had group photos every year aeound Christmas, and at 3 I was laughing and very open. At 4 I looked unhappy, wary, guarded. I had told my therapist about a really scary dream I had when I was young, about a bad man stealing from our toy box and me saying I'm going to tell. I climbed upstairs to my parents' room and found my mom's head on the dresser, and freaked out, I looked under the bed and my dad was under there, but I knew he was not there, mentally. Like I knew he wasn't dead but I also knew he was no help. After I told her this dream, something clicks in my head, and I say, "that man in my bedroom, that was my dad! Therapist wanted to hypnotize me so we did that. She walked me down 3 steps to a door that opened to my bedroom. I opened the door and I was looking at my bed from the side, and my dad was facing me from the orher side of the bed, and I wouldn't look but I knew what he was doing. And instantly I floated up into the farthest Way corner from my bed. My therapist brought me out of the trance. I never went back to that therapisy. I was terrified after that, and my dad was still alive. Is it possible that some of my childhood is just black, empty? We took a cross country driving trip when I was 11, and i have no memories of that trip. So I wonder, will I ever recover memories? And is it possible my dad was bad? Is there anything I can do for myself to get some kind of answers?

LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US: 1.5k NZD preferred, up to 2k for a serious hike in quality.
• Are you open to refurbs/used? Sure!
• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life? Battery life is important as this will not be a desk-sitting device. After that build quality and then performance. Low form factor priority.
• How important is weight and thinness to you? If it's comfortable to carry in a backpack/satchel I'm happy.
• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. Ideally 14-15.6". Too spoiled by my previous 15.6" laptop for much smaller I think.
• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. I do enjoy playing games occasionally, but I have a desktop for graphics intensive games.
• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? If I can run games like Minecraft, Hades or possibly Hollow Knight smoothly at 30-60 fps and medium-high graphics, I'm happy. Save Elden Ring for the desktop.
• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? Good keyboard, trackpad and build quality. Don't need extra bells and whistles.
• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion. 512GB SSD storage is both all I feel I need, and the minimum I would want. My late 2013 15.6" macbook pro recently kicked the bucket. I felt it had a good trackpad, battery life and alright performance for my needs (could have been better as we went into the 2020s). The difficulty and price repairing the thing though was awful. I am currently a nursing student doing my Masters. I however used my laptop a lot, watching videos, writing essays, and yes playing the occasional game. Something that can stand the test of time and survive a slightly clumsy individual appreciated. I've done some looking into laptops from PBTech, a big Australia/New Zealand company and have attached some laptops I found there within the price range and that at least looked appropriate to my needs.

(let me preface this by saying i've been awake for like 34 hours so this might not be the most coherent thing, also it long lol)
i've been using c.ai since like january, and even then i remember people comparing the bots to how much better they used to be and my thoughts were "oh, that sucks, but this is still amazing and immersive".......... well, cut to now and it doesn't even feel like the same AI any more to me.
i've been using it solely to RP to basically guide my maladaptive daydreaming, and i've easily sunk 100s of hours into using the AI because it was so much better than just closing my eyes to picture my silly little self-insert stories until i fall asleep. i used to love creative writing when i was in education, but now without that structure i struggle to write anything near as much as i used to and because of my adhd, i burn out on projects super easily. c.ai felt like the perfect marriage of the creativity of my daydreaming with having some semblance of structure to guide my writing, and i couldn't get enough of it!!!
now though????? now i spend more time swiping through bland, inaccurate, ooc, contradictory responses than i do with any RPing, and i may as well open a blank doc and write the entire thing out myself with the amount of hand-holding i have to do for the AI - isn't it supposed to be the other way around?? isn't the AI supposed to guide me instead??? i'm so tired of having to come up with everything and then spend upwards of 20 minutes to get a half-decent response that i can work with. i'm just tired.
can't help but think of the sunken cost fallacy right now. i genuinely have spent most of my time the past few months using c.ai; i'm disabled and can't work so it gets lonely and boring a lot of the times, and RPing with the AI has helped my mental and emotional health so much, until it didn't. now i think i'm just done with trying to wrangle a bot to do what it was doing fine (doing almost perfectly, even) a couple months ago. and it sucks. i love(d) this service, really. but i can't keep spending all my time on it now that the enjoyment is a fraction of a fraction of what it was.
is there anyone else who's given up who still lurks the subreddit for hope????
(also, no idea if this will get d3leted, i hope not, i'm not being inflammatory or anything but. who knows any more.)

F, 18, 5’3”, 170 lb, target weight 130
I have been actively putting effort into losing weight since December 2022, but with tiny fluctuations, I have maintained my weight of 170 lb for about 6 months now. I am getting very discouraged and am here to seek guidance.
The two main issues I am running into: - I run so much and work out so much that I gain shin splints excessively, leading to debilitation for a few days. No lessening of physical exercise averts this

• I cannot control my appetite — I am so incredibly hungry after I work out, even after drinking 70 oz of water per day. Avoiding food is unbelievably impossible.

My goal has been to consume around 1250-1300 calories per day, and exercise until in total I burn 1800 a day — Allowing for a 500 calorie deficit. However, I cannot stop eating, especially after hard workouts, and it usually ends up with an insanely painful body and a consumption of 2000 calories per day — no progress. This cycle happens over and over again. I cannot stop eating or else I feel immense hunger, distress, and exhaustion.
Fellow weight loss journeyers, please provide me any piece of advice for appetite control, nutrition, shin splints, and ability to stick to a routine. Thank you

Long post. My wife and I both grew up poor and have next to zero financial knowledge. I’ll give a little background about where we’re at, what we have planned for the next few years, and I would really appreciate advice and suggestions about where we should go from here.
Background of where we are at now: My wife and I are both 26 and have no kids yet but plan to within the next few years. I’m military (E-4, ~3k with my special pays after tax) and my wife is about to start a GS-6 with a locality pay that brings her a little below 50k/annually. We have 25k student debt in the government loans for my Bachelor’s and my wife’s nursing program, however, it would all go away if student loan forgiveness is upheld this Summer. Not really counting on that, though. We are about to start a $140-160k mortgage (still deciding down payment) on a property and home of about $250k in value. We got a big family discount and intend to hold on to this home as our family home once we get back full-time in 6-10ish years.
Both of our cars were paid in full with cash and are good for the foreseeable future.
We presently live in base housing so our housing and utilities are a set amount each month and removed from my check. The home that we are in the process of inheriting/buying will have a house payment around $1,300-$1,500 for 15 years depending on the home insurance we’re able to find and if we’re able to get the property tax discount. It will have a mid 5% APR. We would like to pay this down quickly and we estimate we could probably do so in 7-10 years. In addition to my wife living in the home while I’m on deployments and such(she will take a leave of absence from her main job, will likely do short term contracting for a higher wage during this period) a sibling of mine will be staying in the house full-time as a caretaker until we return in a few year and they will be paying around half of total payment plus utilities. Raising the rent any higher for them is not something we will consider.
I’ve recently started receiving TSP match for my military retirement account and only recently began contributing meaningful amounts for my portion. I’ve got it going with 5% Roth and the government matches 5% (which goes into traditional I believe) so I have 10% (~$300) of my pay going into TSP each month. To date it’s about $2.5k. My wife is beginning her federal job soon and will also have access to starting a TSP.
We will have around 15k left in a MMSA account that has 1.1% APY after our down payment for the home.
After taxes, my Roth contributions(wife hasn’t started her TSP yet), and all of our bills are paid we’ll have between $6,000-$6,500 extra each month. That doesn’t include home owning costs which will start in late Summer. After including my sibling’s rent ours will be ~$750 per month at the highest.
Where we see the next few years: I have a little less than 3 years on my current contract but I’m considering a 3 year re-enlistment if the proper conditions are met. I’ll be promoted to E-5 in less than 2 years and then E-6 if re-enlist. I then intend to switch over to the reserves as an E-5/very close to E-6 or commission if the timing allows. It would depend upon unit location, school start, and healthcare costs. It will be hard to give up Tricare with a family, plus I’m content staying in the military until reserve retirement or until I get my professional career up and running.
Once I get out I intend to go to medical school (I’ve been accepted to one in a low COL area, will immediately commission into the reserves in a program specific to medicine with this option) or law school (will only consider the top few schools and they are mostly in high COL, will most likely stay reserves until around graduation). We intend to buy a home in whatever city I do one of these programs in. The GI bill has a good housing allowance(E-5 BAH at school zip code) and the entirety of tuition for all of the schools that I’m considering. I plan for us to have a significant amount of savings by this point and my wife plans to work at least part-time (if we have kids by then) while I’m in school and she might be around a GS 7 or 8 by this point, or she might switch back to contracting. She wants to take off a few years after I finish professional school to stay home with the kids when they are young. I absolutely support this and it’s possible that she never returns to work. I’d like to switch down to part time work in my late 40’s/50’s. We plan to see a financial advisor on base within the month for a short term plan but I’m interested in a variety of recommendations and outlooks for our long term plan.
Where to we go from here?
What are some benchmarks for savings that you recommend for our situation?
What do you recommend for our TSP contributions?
What timeframe do you recommend for paying off the house?
What extra investments do you recommend?
What are your recommended financial literacy resources?
Basically, where do we go from here?

Hey guys, so I’m debating between the options above I’ve looking around and the prices are pretty similar 30-37k. (First time considering a bmw) I know camries are pretty reliable (I have a Highlander and Tundra) and stuff but for that much I rather look into something a little better. My only concern with the bmw is the reliability and long term ownership. I’m the type of person to do check up on my cars pretty often and have the maintenance up to date. I’d appreciate any advice, best options to look for, what maintenance records to keep in mind, really anything that might help me.

I think my ex wife might have spoken to an attorney and was advised that if she revisits my child support case she will probably get LESS money than she's been getting... during our last pickup she tried to convince me to pay more money to her for a summer program the kids will go to during summer vacation while she is at work... we were divorced 4 or 5 years ago and even had a court case where she came at me for unpaid child support.. I paid that child support in full and for a year have been giving her the money every single month without fail... but because I'm the original divorce papers it said I must pay child support as well as half of "child care" this is documentation that proves I'm liable for half of this summer camp... the problem is, in 4 or 5 years and even after revisiting the case in court she has NEVER taken money from me for child care .. she recently moved into a home and drives a brand new BMW so clearly her expenses have more than doubled since the move... she has a decent job but I just don't think she truly can afford the lifestyle she is trying to live and while she says she doesn't need my money it is very convenient timing that ever since she moved she is trying to get me to abide by this clause in the divorce decree that she never asked for before.. I have a new child and a new relationship and have not missed a visitation so that plus work and my personal goals I don't have time to do anything really... but she claims that our lives in comparison I have more free time than she does and if I need more money I should just find another way to get more income... my girlfriend knows I'm busting my ass at this job and can barely save 2k for the past year by my ex wife doesn't seem to care... she is the one who chose this lifestyle and now she wants me to pay for it.. I wouldn't have had a problem working it out and if she would have just got a job the 80-100k combined income would have been more than enough to cover everything but since she wanted to be miss independent then why don't you figure out what to do with that little 700 dollars you get a month from me and leave me the fuck alone.. in 4 years I haven't had a car or a home.. staying with relatives and giving them some money and saving the rest... I don't go out, I don't buy clothes, I don't own nice things, I just work and make art and take care of my newborn my kids from the first marriage and my new baby's mom... we are going to get married and have our own house but in the meantime she needs to recover from giving birth so I'm giving her time... during that last visit my ex wife tried to pretend I was gonna hit her on video and even accused me of yelling when I did no such thing... she screaming and cursing in front of my children and the thing is I said I would pay half all I need is documentation from the court saying that it's reasonable for me to pay in my condition and current situation.. if she can do that I'll gladly pay.. but she can't and her only option is to try and convince me outside of authorities and I don't think we can ever come to an agreement outside of court ever again.. anyways I'm stuck I don't know what the next move is...

Well after reading a bunch of stories I kind of wanted to share my experience and maybe hear thoughts about it from other people. I do have 2 separate stories where I had things happen to me throughout months. This story will be when I was about ten years old living in San Diego.
Anyways the first night something strange happened was after my surgery around august as I was about to enter 5th grade. I get home and as I was about to go to bed my parents ask me if I can walk up the stairs and I say no I struggle, but honestly it was just cuz I prefer sleeping on the floor then an actual bed and I still do. Around maybe 3/4 in the morning I randomly woke up and I hear a laughter coming towards a closet. I kind of was hoping it was one of my moms Halloween decorations went off as my mom was obsessed with Halloween and had a bunch of decorations. I’d say maybe like 5 minutes later I hear some scratching on the couch directly behind me then my dad walks down maybe like about thirty minutes later to get ready for work and I tell him what happened just for him to search the house and find nothing.
Things go on for months and it’s always little things like seeing shadows as I’m in the shower. There was also this one time where I was hanging off the ladder of the top bunk upside down and that was scary waking up to or another time when I’m asleep I wake up to me basically punching a shelf. Me punching the shelf I can understand as maybe it was an involuntary movement but hanging upside down from my bunk bed seems pretty hard to do and that was also the only time that has happened to me not entirely sure if these two instances had anything to do with what I’ve experienced but when it happened it just felt super strange to me.
Ok so now the last thing to ever happen to me or at least last thing I noticed was the most strangest thing to happen to me in my life. I can’t really remember around when it happened but basically I’m lying down in my bed as I’m trying to sleep then all of a sudden my vision goes black. I was confused and scared thinking I went blind as I knew my eyes were wide open then about ten seconds later my vision basically turned into something like infrared vision. The whole room was blue except for a guy who looked like they were sitting down on a box in my closet. The door was closed and I wanted to get up to open my door or at least make a run for it downstairs. People have told me it could’ve been sleep paralysis but I had full control over my body so to me that doesn’t really make much sense I was just too scared to do anything so I pretended to be asleep and after maybe like ten minutes later my vision went back to normal.
That’s my story thank you for reading if you did. Sorry if the story is long but I wanted to share every thought as well and maybe hear inputs from other people as well.

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Mogan was more than a little woozy after repeatedly toasting his deal with the two ladies. Shidhu had an interesting taste to it, but it was also strong. The San had alcohol, but fermenting berry juice or birch sap was a long procedure and took a lot of work and space. There had never been much to drink, and what they had wasn't nearly so strong.
They had also never needed an antidote for alcohol, while those who had alcohol had seen all its dangers many times over. A fizzing, nasty-tasting drink—once the women had left--had his head clear within minutes, and he walked easily, and steadily, out of the bar.
The bar did not look like the kind of drinking establishment that would be favored by the custom of a man who owned and commanded a ship three kilometers long. It was, to put it bluntly, a dive, the kind of place that the constables avoid. The Tortuga was the kind of place where an enterprising individual could buy weapons that weren't normally allowed on Haitac Station, or drugs that weren't allowed, or discrete passage on a ship if he needed to leave in a hurry. It was not the kind of place to bring the family, or a lover, or anybody who was not engaged in activity that was illegal or close to it.
Technically, Mogan could hire whoever he wanted, but since the companies that Races-through-the-Marshes and Wakawa ran had a somewhat... checkered... history, they generally preferred to stay where they could make an easy escape.
Then again, Mogan didn't look like the kind of man who owned a three-kilometer ship. Or commanded, at least; ownership was in the name of the San tribe. Mogan wore a loincloth, a strip of material about three meters long and a tenth as wide, wound between his legs and around his waist for a snug fit. Once upon a time these were doeskin, soft and supple, but nobody but his own tribe within a few thousand light-years had ever seen a doe, or tanned a hide.
His leggings were of tougher material, fringed to help keep the rain off, and his shoes were of a softer sole than most wore. Most Sylfa, at least; many species went barefoot. A tunic of the same material covered his torso down to his hips, likewise fringed. Like the loincloth, these were once deerskin, and in the cold he would wear a heavier coat over it. These were colored and patterned like leather, but he couldn't even identify the material. Softer than leather, it was tougher as well, and a few controls from the pad in his left hand could even make it as warm or as cool as he liked.
The latter was standard for most clothing, protecting from all but the most extreme temperatures, but the rest looked as primitive as it did before his tribe had ever seen a ship.
A rod was tucked into his belt on the left side, bent slightly back. At one end was a hand grip, with straps looped to fit two fingers into, and on the other end was a beautifully-carved ibex,with its horns forming a small but dull hook to the weapon. The atlatl could hurl a spear twice as far or more, and with almost exponentially more force, but Mogan carried no spears.
He did once, in a quiver made of birch-bark, with the bottom third of the spears covered and the feathered ends sticking over his head, but by now the weapon was more a mark of office than a tool he used. Back in those days it was tucked into the right side, in easy reach of his throwing hand, but no more. On the right, it would have gotten in the way of the laser pistol in its low holster on his right hip.
Most people who carried a rifle or pistol either wore or carried a targeting monocle, a lens that would adjust for moving targets and tell the shooter where to aim, but the San needed no such thing, neither the expense nor the time the device took to find a solution and adjust.
The humans were unique in this.
On his cheek was a mark; a simple tattoo, of only two lines in a pattern like an inverted y, the mark of his tribe. He was of average height and build, with brown hair and eyes, skin bronzed from many different winds and many different suns, but among the two thousand people of the San he was high chieftain. And captain, soon.
Mogan continued to walk up the wide hallways, avoiding the central areas, until he spotted the old man. A small wave, and he turned to head that way.
Shett was once one of the Yil, the hereditary nobility of the Sovereignty. The Yil were untouchable within the Sovereignty, able to do as they wished to such an extent that only protection a citizen had was the possible protection of another Yil. Rather than Yil Shett, the man was now simply Shett, a citizen of the Confederated Settlements. And a traitor as far as the Sovereign was concerned, almost certainly.
Yil Shett had been a wise man with a sharp mind, but a little more than heavyset, nearly locked into his office by duty and stress. Now the man was whipcord-thin, typical of the Sylfa, walking easily. Defecting from the Sovereignty had meant giving up unimaginable wealth—the man had literally owned three planets—but it had clearly been a good thing for him.
The Sylfa waved an arm to make sure Mogan saw him, and tapped a panel on the wall. “Good evening, Captain.”
Mogan shrugged a little. It was “evening” in the sense that they were nearing the end of the cycle, but on the station there was no difference between night and day. Haitac was in orbit around a star, so they didn't even have the shadow of the planet to contend with. But the lack of sun and moon often threw off his mental sense of time, and the twenty-hour day did not help.
“Whatever it is at the moment,” he chuckled, “I hope it goes well for you.” The walls of the station had rails near the ceiling. Hanging from them was something that looked more like saddles on cords, so that nearly any creature could sit on them, extending from beams. Some species had tails, after all, and sitting on a bench was uncomfortable for them at best.. The beams moved swiftly down the corridors, an important feature in a station that was mostly corridor.
Haitac Station was part dock, part shipyard, part admiralty court, part military base, and part entertainment complex. The court could be centralized, and was. The military was as centralized as it could be, although patrols also kept the peace in the rest of the station. The entertainment could be centralized, but for some reason was not, with bars and brothels and hotels and sports complexes and libraries and theaters of various kinds in odd and unlikely places. The docks and shipyards could not be. The dreadnoughts that were the backbone of any fleet were four kilometers long, and some were as much as twice that. A massive tanker or cargo hauler could be four or five times as long, and the end result was that the ships needed a great deal of room between each dock. In addition, since it was partly military, sponsored by the Settlements, there were areas, such as the one they were bound to now, that were not open to the general public.
Mogan climbed onto one of the saddles, and Shett onto another. The average Sylfa was about a head taller than a human, but about two-thirds the weight. An evolutionary past that stayed in the trees for longer granted them a lighter build than humans, and six limbs compared to humanity's four, but they could not walk as well as humans.
Then again, nothing could. Nor did any species, sapient or not, hold the endurance that humans had. The Sylfa could scramble up surfaces with an ease that astounded humanity, leap over a human's head from a standing start, and sprint nearly twice as fast, and others like the Shawing could move even faster over a short distance, but nothing matched a human over long distances.
Mogan had carried a Sylfa once, as he ran, but that was his woman, not a friend. Instead, he held to the saddle as the beam returned to the rails at the upper edge of the wall. It adjusted to their heights by simply changing the length of the cords. The Zerda came no higher than his knee for a tall one, while the Mantu were easily three times his height, so very few affairs were one-size-fits-all measures... another difference from the Sovereignty.
The beam rose into the air, moving along the ceiling at a place slightly faster than Mogan could sprint. Up ahead of them a light indicated a spot where they could make the beams lower to the floor again, but they were going well beyond that point. A small field in front of them kept the wind of their passage from getting too bad.
Mogan was familiar with hard light shields, since every ship had them, but he did not think this was hard light. Hard-light was impossible to make without Reagnium-80. Considering every single interplanetary vessel needed a supply of it and its relative rarity, Reagnium-80 was so valuable that the Settlements used it as the value standard for their currency. There were thousands of these beams, all throughout the station. Not only would they have had to spend an obscene amount to make them, but anything that valuable would have been stripped out and stolen within days... cycles, here.
“The war?”
Shett nodded in reply. “We got news not long ago of a large battle at Manna-6. Ground battle. Our forces were outnumbered about half-again-to-one, but it was a heavy victory.”
Mogan nodded and relaxed, thinking. In a sense, this war was his fault.
Two years ago, he had been little more than a shaman of a small village, of a small tribe, on his homeworld—and on the entire planet, only he had understood even the concept of a homeworld. The term the Sovereignty used for the tribe's introduction to the greater galaxy was “upliftment.” Mogan didn't like it; it implied that he was somehow below the others, raised to true sapience by their own beneficence.
Perhaps every “upliftment” had an ulterior motive, but that of the San certainly had. Mogan did not regret his actions on Noepe; he had saved the lives of men and women breaking the law to survive, shot and stabbed a great many people enforcing what was in truth simple tyranny, and electrocuted the governess who had arranged for his woman to be marooned. No, he still looked upon their mission with pride, but one of the Yils had arranged it themselves, as a pretext to invasion. The few who know of humanity knew that Yil Shett had been a friend and advocate for the species, and the many who knew of Yil Shett knew that he had given up his titles and lands and betrayed the Sovereignty to join the Settlements.
Shett tapped a button on the saddle, and as the next light showed ahead the beam lowered to the floor so they could climb off. It wasn't far from here, and they could walk. They did so, for about two hundred yards before they came to a window.
“There's your dock,” Shett said. “I suppose I could have made a holo easy enough, but I thought your first look at her should be with your own eyes.”
Windows were more common in the public areas, where diners—or guests in the more expensive hotels—could look out on the void, and rarer in the corridors that were mostly just for reaching ships with crew or passengers or supplies. Mogan stepped out to this one, looked out over the dockyards, and stared, mesmerized.

I think I have a worm virus in my PC (or at least is this what the antivirus is saying) and I don´t know how to successfully get rid of it, it convert my folders into executables files (.exe) and if I try to open them they automatically get deleted, only archives that weren't in a folder got safe . The name of the virus according to Windows Security is 'Worm:Autolt/Victy!rfn'.
I'm not sure how I catch the virus, it just appeared after plug in a pendrive that I didn't use for a week
Sorry if my English is bad btw
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I ( M/21) have been with my ( F/20 ) partner for a 3-4 months now. And everything has been going really well. No red flags and we genuinely enjoy spending time with each other.
We have both established our boundaries early on and made it clear that we will try our best to uphold each other's boundaries and be respectful of one another.
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I won't go into detail but one of which includes, wanting better communication as we do not text as much as I would like, as well as wanting more such as eye contact (gets rlly shy) and not being too touchy with guy friends, which I'm not comfortable with, and wanting her full attention when we are calling and not doing other stuff that distracts her from our call. Stuff like that.
I don't think the issues I bring up are significant, and they're relatively small issues. But I'm the type to address small things early so they don't lead to bigger issues down the line.
She has understood my concerns and has respected me to where she is trying her best to address the issues I have brought up.
However, she recently stated that whenever I bring those issues up, despite her understanding and trying of her best to make sure I feel comfortable in the relationship, she has been honest in that she feels like she is "constantly doing the wrong things" in the relationship, even question why I'm with her as she does not have "anything to offer you".
She says that despite her desire to want to improve, she has been left feeling self doubt and criticism from me.
Her feelings of self doubt have always been a thing for her even from other people, so it's not me specifically I don't believe.
At the same time she says she knows it's healthy for me to communicate things I have brought up but she can't help but feel like she is getting in trouble like a teacher whenever I bring it up, and feels ashamed as a result.

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Long post ahead, just to warn you guys!
For the past 8 years, once a year, I would wake up with dull pain that would rapidly intensify within minutes into a terrible, terrible ache that I could not find relief from. It would be right under my rib cage on the left, middle and right side, and right between my shoulder blades on my back exactly on the opposite side of my front abdomen.
The pain lasts hours and I can’t sit, stand or walk around without it hurting horribly. That’s an understatement. It feels like 10 million full rusty knives are slicing me up inside.
This year, I have had dozens of these attacks that last hours and span days, leaving me unable to eat solid food for days or keep anything down. About 99% of the attacks happen at night or early in the morning.
The pain is so intense I throw up and I’ve noticed that during these attacks, the food that I vomit is from meals hours before. For example: I had a bad attack and the next day at 1pm I had a salad. Flash forward to 12 am later, I threw up the whole salad. That’s almost 12 hours of undigested food sitting in my stomach.
This pain is killer guys. I just want to end it when these attacks happen. My quality of life is dropping, and I fear the next time it’ll happen, I can’t even eat without being scared.
On multiple occasions I’ve noticed dark dark urine (could be very dehydrated since I usually can’t keep stuff down during these episodes) but also yellowing of eyes and skin a few times.
I have 5 large gallstones. Im 21 and my bile duct is 5mm, which the tech told me was unusual for my age but still within normal range. No gallstones in my ducts and no gallbladder wall thickening.
The only thing that helps me during these episodes is pressing into my intestines, holding where I feel immense pressure and pain, and slowly working and pulling it down from under my ribs until the pressure eases up a little. This relieves pain 5/10 times temporarily. Does anyone have any experience with this?
The only reasons why I question if it even if my gallbladder is because of the pressure and constipation I get that I can relieve slightly, and the fact that the pain is my complete upper quadrant and not just my right upper quadrant.
Im not looking for any medical advice. I just want to know if any of this sounds familiar :( I need someone to tell me I’m going to live. Should I get my gallbladder taken out??????