Buckle in y'all, this might be really long. So for some backstory, my mom is a trust fund kid. She went to private Catholic school and had her entire college paid for by my grandparents. While in college, she had a one night stand and got knocked up with me (at least that's what she told me) and I never knew my father. It was very clear during my childhood that my grandparents resented me - then my mom got married to my two younger siblings father and the favoritism showed heavily. I just found out a couple weeks ago that my grandparents set up a college fund for my younger brother and sister, but not me. :') Just fuck the bastard kid I guess. My mom has a really nice cushy government job and gets alimony + child support from my younger siblings' father. So...safe to say she's kind of got it made.
Now I'm a mother to a 5 month old. Her father sucks butt. But, unlike my mother, I refuse to just not let him have anything to do. It takes two to make a baby and even though he is just lazy and uninterested in the best damn thing that's ever happened to me, he isn't gonna get away scott free with not paying child support. After 5 freaking months...I am finally awarded...37 dollars a week in child support. Yup. I can't complain because I know some mom's get jack shit. That little bit of money every week is how I'm keeping a roof over my head + my lights on. I'm unemployed and it sucks butt being on government assistance, but without it, my kid would starve and we would have no heat. My landlord has been cool with me paying what I can when I can and right now, that little 37 dollars a week is keeping us in my apartment.
You see, my mother knows this. She knows right now I'm not working. She knows I got fucked over by my previous employer and got denied for unemployment. She knows I am struggling and go to the food bank every two weeks and that I use WIC to make sure my daughter gets her formula. I've called my mom crying because I've been belittled at the fucking grocery store checkout for using my ebt card.
And yet, my mother continues to show she just...doesn't get it. She called me earlier while my daughter was napping. The conversation went as follows:
Mom: Hello Cantaloupe! What are your plans for coming down for Christmas? (Mom lives at least a 6 hour drive away...probably more tacked on to that seeing I will have to stop several times to feed + change my daughter)
Me: I don't know mom.
Mom: Well just so you know, your little brother wants a
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We have been together since the first semester of college and has lived together for 3 years. After college I wanted to go to grad school to continue pursuing pure science, but was nervous about long distance, so we both spent an entire gap year together to consolidate our relationship. Then I went to Europe in October and he stayed at a big city back home where his family gave him an apartment in the city center. Today is the 7th day I've came back for Christmas. Things have been amazing and I miss him and love him so much. But this morning I felt something was wrong and checked his phone. Apparently he was dating another girl at work and they only broke up the night before I went back, and yet he still cared about her and comforted her yesterday at night after I've fallen asleep. Yes I know once a cheater always a cheater, and yes I am going to break up with him. I just called my friend and she demanded me to book tickets and fly to her. But then there will be no closure. I know I still want to kiss him and hold him, and some part of my heart just keeps telling me that it is not a big deal, they did break up, and I can forget about this and continue being happy for the next 23 days of my winter break with him. He is at work and he had no clue. I am crazy and a mess, please someone say something rational and wake me up. Thank you :_(
TL;DR; : Just found out 2 hours ago that my boyfriend of 5 years dated another girl and broke up the day before I went back for Christmas. I still love him and want to forget about finding out.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Festivus, etc.
I wasn't sure how I would feel this morning.
I am pretty much alone in a foreign country (save for a few other Americans who also live here) where December 25th is just another work day.
I had prepared myself for a sad, depressing day with a lot of senseless lamenting and pining over my LO. But today so far, so good.
I am particularly clear-headed and rational about my situation, at least now. I attribute this, in part, to getting together with friend last night and to looking forward to leaving the country on Saturday to celebrate New Year.
I also attribute it to exercising and trying to stay active.
Today I am of course thinking of my LO and logically counting the reasons he is not right for me, even as a friend.
I am trying to move past harboring feelimgs of hate and disdain for him. That has been a necessary defense mechanism for me to cope with the pain and feelings of rejection and worthlessness.
But I don't think that this is healthy or fair, long term. He is not a bad person and he is not deliberately trying to hurt me. And if I were not limerent for him, I would not care that I don't hear from him or interact with him. I have many acquaintances who treat me the same way, and I have very friendly, albeit casual and superficial relationships with them. So ultimately, it is not fair that I hold my LO to a different standard.
But thinking today about him and rationally and dispassionately considering my own needs I have come to the conclusion that I don't need someone like him in my life, even as a friend.
He is always nice to me when I see him, but he has a very closed-minded and small town mentality. He also has a bit of a nationalist streak (I am not in America, so I'm not talking neo-Nazi or anything).
He has told me that I should not travel to neighboring countries with different ethnic populations than where I am living. Granted there has been conflict and war that his shaped his thinking, but this mentality goes against everything I believe and value so why would I want to be friends with someone like this?
He has a graduate degree but manages a cafe. Granted there are no jobs where I live, but I sent him a job opportunity in the Capital where I thought his degree we give him an advantage. He didn't pursue it, but proudly showed off the new car that his father bought him.
As I said, I spent Christmas Eve in the Capital and met some upbeat, open-minded people who have goals a
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Sometimes I feel like I am on a different planet then the people around me that are my age. (I'm in my mid 20s). I feel more connected to my parents and older women in my family for example then my actual friends. I love them but their outlook on life is all about: 'status', men, partying, porn, weed, alcohol and drugs. They do have jobs but the rest is all about what I'm stating above. While I'm certainly have fun with them and can talk to them, I feel really alone sometimes.
For example:
- I didn't watch a lot of porn before I went anti-porn, now I'm 100% against it. When I said I didn't watch porn anymore my friend said 'boring', when I told my standards about sex, my friend said 'sometimes I think you're boring in the bedroom'. Also they defend porn, 'bEcAuSe tHeYrE AcToRs' was one argument.
- They smoke weed everyday. I don't. It's their choice but I would like to have a sober evening with real connection. I know they will argue with me that it's in fact their choice, so I'm not even trying that.
These are just a couple examples. They feel like the situation now (with the pandemic) is even more boring then ever whilest I find it relaxing since there are less social expectations of me.
But now for example with New Years Eve, another friend throws a party with like 20 people, I don't know if they're vaccinated, there will be lots of alcohol and drugs and I just really don't feel like going but I notice that I criticize myself a lot for it 'Why I don't go with the flow' 'I am maybe boring' etc etc. I also know my certain friends really want to go.
My parents are going to some family and I know that they will play board games and stuff and thinking about just joining them feels more relaxing, but I'm afraid of the (self)-judgment.
I don't want to lose my certain friends. But I don't know how I can find more women to connect with and build friendships with, in this pandemic it's certainly harder for sure.
Is this recognizable since you've leveled up, you don't feel like you "fit" anymore? And how did you deal with this?
It was a webcomic drawn with a LOT of text, only a few panels but a lot of writing
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So there has been a lot of talk about how the executives at CLOV backstabbed the retail investors and are just padding their own bank accounts. However, I want to use this post as an opportunity to take a step back and to analysis why they might have done so from a corporate finance perspective. Note that everything written below is 100% just my opinion.
- Economic Forecast - The economic sentiment of many institutional investors such as Chamath Palihapitiya (who has heavy influence on high level decisions for CLOV) is that 2022 might be a volatile year. This can be for a multitude of factors such as persistent high inflation, tapering, potential increase of interest rate by the Federal Reserve.
- Corporate Finance Reaction - If a company agrees with such economic view (which I believe CLOV does), then they need to take actions to protect themselves from the economic volatility. Given that CLOV is a small company that is burning cash (negative net income), it is crucial for them to add liquidity (more cash on hand) buffer incase something goes wrong. By having more cash on hand, it would allow them to survive longer in case of an extended market down turn.
- As of Q3 CLOV has >$500m of cash on hand but with a burn rate of >$100m per year, that money can disappear fast if there is a market down turn. So it would make sense to have the ability to raise more money to create a bigger buffer.
- Why Issue Common Stock now and instead of taking out line of credit or term loans -
- Generally issuing stock is cheaper for a company than taking out loans. This is especially true for a company with low credit rating (low credit rating is normal for small companies). Besides the cost, if the goal is to raise money as a war chest to protect themselves from a market down turn, then the last thing they would want is to have more debt on the balance sheet. No one wants to be forced to pay interest on loans when their business is not doing well.
- They provided notice on expected issuance right after a strong Q3 earnings and recent positive news (ex. Average Number of Direct Contracting Lives in 2022 to Double). This is normal to issue after alot of positive news. It is much harder to issue if your stock is alr
Unless you're playing Goku as 100% rational(possibly bloodlusted, I'm still iffy on whether that grants extra intelligence), he will not do this. Goku(despite some iffy writing illustrating him as such sometimes) isn't just going to directly murder everyone on Earth just to win a fight. Now, you could argue "well what if it's an empty universe?". Well then, Goku can't IT since he needs a person to lock onto in order to IT to them, so he's still stuck in getting a mutual kill at best.
Another problem is whether Goku would even think of this as a valid answer to an opponent he can't beat. Goku is...pretty linear when it comes to his enemies. His general strategy against someone stronger is to just get stronger himself, or have a stronger attack ready. The only case where this wasn't true was with Golden Freeza, where he ran from him for a bit to make him tired. I find it doubtful that Goku, the guy whose reaction to having his limbs broken was to just try to kick harder to see if it would work better, is going to suddenly be all analytical about a fight(especially if he doesn't know the abilities of the person he's fighting)
If I can start, I love the jeopardy of the astronauts. I love the dialogue early on with the Cybermen they seem more accessible, I'd love to see a new story where the Cybermen are not generic one dimensional evil robots that need to be stopped but cold hearted pragmatists meaning they wouldn't necessarily by the enemy. The back story with the upside down earth is very silly but fits in with sci fi stories of the time.
i haven't been here much but i sorted top posts in the last month and it's up there, 24 days ago. and all the comments are people coming up with theories about it.
he says it's just a throwaway joke and that he's baffled that people don't get that -- and that every convention, there is at least one person who says "whats wrong with everything being on a cob?" i think it's in season 4 director's commentary, if i remember.
for more detail, he says it's a good example of how old, "mel brooks" kind of jokes (his words) don't seem to work anymore, and fans always want to believe that there's hidden layers of meaning in art.
dan harmon (correctly, i think) seems to believe that rick and morty is best when it's episodic. rick and morty were originally supposed to be analogues for dan and justin's relationship, and in the conversation in s5e10 where rick says he doesn't want to get into "serialized canon storylines," it's dan talking. but it's probably justin talking too. imagine if you started out making a goofball show and people spent more time than you spent on it looking for random inconsistencies and plotholes, trying to find deeper meaning where there is none. it would probably annoy you
Pretty solid thread from Godner here:
> Controversial take: Ben Simmons and Rich Paul are acting completely rationally if their goal is to get Simmons on a new team.
> This kind of a circus is built into the NBA experience if you want teams to have the best chance to retain the stars* they draft long-term.
> (Note: that's not saying Simmons is a superstar caliber player. That's saying the rules put in place to curb superstar movement have an impact down the food chain).
> You want slotted rookie scale contracts? > Restricted free agency? > Max extensions? > Designated extensions only drafting team can offer?
> Only leverage All-Star caliber players can truly exercise in first 9 yrs of career is "acting out" to force a trade. NBA designed it that way.
> That doesn't mean you can't be annoyed with Ben Simmons! But the annoyance, if I were a fan, would be much more about the previous 5 years of his Sixers career and the lack of development, not how the divorce is going.
He brings up an interesting connection to how this is related to all the rules that attempt to curb superstar movement. You mess with the free market it tends to mess back.
https://twitter.com/DerekBodnerNBA/status/1441930728896401416
