Poker Plant Puns

He was told to 'Weed 'em and reap'

http://steamcommunity.com/id/purplespandex/ [1]

Oh and I'll trade tf2 items for sweet sweet trading cards.

Since coupons are about to expire, feel free to ask for any you want. I don't really care about them. I'd rather they get used.

Hit me up. I'm just about out of the trading game, so if you want coupons, I'll give them away, but if you wanna toss me something, that'd be cool.

EDIT: Link to inventory's in my flair, etc, etc. Add me, post here, whatever. I don't care.

What do you think guys? Found a three season garden on pinterest that I want to set up but I want to get as much planted in the fall as possible.

How much for this garden can I plant this weekend if I get all the plants? http://www.urbandomesticdiva.com/2011/03/gardening-garden-plan-week-week-2-three.html

[H]

• Counter Strike: Global Offensive (tradable)
• Plants vs Zombies
• Half Life 2
• Sanctum

[W]

• Poker Night at the Inventory
• Any offers. :)

Thanks for looking.

• Poker Night at the Inventory
• COH Complete Pack
• Railworks 3
• Plants vs. Zombies GOTY
• Starvoid
• Beyond Good and Evil
• Machinarium

So I have only seen this therapist three times and one side of me is saying I should see her a few more times and give her a chance but another side of me is saying I should just tell her that I don't want to continue. Since my first session with her my anxiety has been much worse and I have a horrible feeling about her and going to the sessions in general. But I don't know if it's just me being anxious and paranoid. Here are some examples of some of the things that have happened during sessions. This is long I'm sorry.

1. during my first session she jumped out at me from behind the door to give me a fright... This was my first time meeting her and when I jumped and kinda screamed a bit as a I got a shock, she just kept laughing at me and said it's something she does to all her new clients to get a better understanding of how they react to circumstances. After I calmed down I kinda laughed with her but found it a bit weird.

2. she has loads of horror movie dvds on a shelf in her office and asked if I liked horror. When I said I didn't she told me I should give it another chance as she finds that horror movies are healing for people as this can help them put their own traumas into perspective. I laughed when she said this but she had a poker straight face on I think she was being totally serious. I feel like horror movies increase my anxiety a lot but maybe she is right. She also spent 5 mins talking about her grand plan for if there was ever a zombie apocalypse which also increased my anxiety because now I can't stop worrying about another pandemic happening that's even worse than this one.

3. She has creepy clown dolls and other weird looking dolls sitting on another shelf which are giving me a huge amount of anxiety and she noticed me staring at them and asked why and I said I found them scary and she just didn't say anything, she just shook her head and looked at me and then at her feet for a bit. I am worried I offended her so have anxiety about that now.

4. I told her one of my main anxieties is around climate change and the planet becoming overpopulated. She said that climate change has been proven to be a hoax by a scientist and that the world will adapt to humans and a larger population etc with time. I think she was trying to help me and be kind but I know that's not true and now I just feel like I can't discuss this because she doesn't believe in it?

5. She eats during the sessions. The whole time. I feel so bad moaning about this a

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

TNG liked to do this thing where the characters' interpersonal problems were synecdoche for the larger morality play -- "it's forbidden to disturb new plants" -- and that's how a lot of the storytelling worked. A poker gambit to symbolize diplomacy or some other simile to miniaturize the larger plot.

Discovery does the opposite. It's about self-Discovery. I balked at how there were so many moments where a character "wasn't themselves" as the episode's primary crisis. Ash/Voq's internal duality, Saru's weirdness with the forest spirit planet, Stamets's dissociative mushroom cataracts period, Hugh's crisis of self after coming back from the upside down the mycelial network. But then I realized what was happening: the larger plot was symbolic of inter- and intra-personal conflicts of the characters, and these full mental breaks were each individual's climactic moment as they discovered themselves.

Burnham isolates herself and can't take help when it's offered. She feels responsible for the whole world. So the show, to symbolize that, makes her literally responsible for the whole world.

Stamets has trouble connecting with others, has a superiority complex, and he gets handed a Buddhist oneness with everything. An acid trip that lets him literally see the big picture.

Saru has an anxiety disorder built into his DNA, so he gets an opportunity to face his greatest fear, overcome it, and be rid of his anxiety.

Tilly... Tilly is honestly kind of a hamfisted look at autism. I think the third words out of her mouth were "special needs". I'm still figuring out how I feel about the character. I like the actress's portrayal but the way she's written bugs me a little, but I have some sensitivity about autism and the way it gets depicted in media and my own bias really clouds my judgement here.

At any rate, where the extremely high stakes of the show bothered me at first, I came to realize that the Klingon war plot, escaping the mirror universe, saving all life from runaway AI, these are just vehicles to carry the real plot, the journey inward, boldly going not to space, but into the self.

It's clumsy sometimes, but this interpretation has really turned me around on how and why the writers and directors make their choices and has helped me better frame my opinion of the show. I like it now, even if the Klingons in Season 1 sounded like and old man trying to get a piece of popcorn kernel unstuck from the back of his throat.

As usual, this post is also on my blog with footnotes and inlined images.

It's commonly said that "cryptocurrency markets are manipulated". Today, you'll see one example of how that particular sausage is made.

[The SEC][1] cites price manipulation as a primary concern when rejecting bitcoin ETF applications. Some [crypto hedge funds][2] retort that "markets can't be manipulated because they're too big", which we'll show is nonsense.

While cryptocurrencies have grown in popularity and market capitalization, the volatility of the price has not diminished. One recurrent feature of crypto price is the [BART pattern][3], where periods of low volatility are punctuated by spikes of extreme volatility. The name comes from the resemblance to Bart Simpson's head

Volatility spikes like the ones in BART patterns are caused by cascading liquidation events. Speculators making [leveraged bets][4] get forcefully wiped out.

Today, we'll dive into one such market manipulation event with loving detail, the July 26th Bitcoin short squeeze. The data I've used to research this is the full Binance orderbook (data courtesy of [CoinStrats][5]) at the millisecond level. Here's what the price data for the event [looks like:][6]

Note: All charts have hi-res versions if you click on their links

Note the extreme spike in BTC Futures price compared to other markets. Among Bitcoin mass liquidation events in 2021, this isn't the largest

The largest liquidation events are forced selling (red bars on the bottom chart, AKA long squeeze). This is because many more crypto speculators are taking leveraged long bets (borrowing to buy more BTC) than short positions (betting that the BTC price goes down). People who speculate on Bitcoin are as a group an optimistic bunch.

The reason we're looking at July 26th rather than [April 18th][7], [May 19th][8], or [December 4th][9] is that it's a better example to write an article about.

The July 26th event has both a clear order book manipulation as well as a classic media manipulation campaign, showing how actors that profit from these events operate.

The Bullshit Amazon Bitcoin story

The BART pattern in this short squeeze is punctuated by two major pieces of news.

Leading into the upw

Do your worst!

This is not a GTA VI “leak” - this is just a story. I took Rockstar’s advice and took peyote every day for 7 days (starting on Sunday), and a portal opened up where I was able to access Gaia’s collective consciousness and view a version of GTA VI. Unfortunately, I was only able to view the prologue and the first 22 missions before the gateway closed. I have not been able to reopen the portal since. The rest of this post will be a transcription of this vision of GTA VI.

Prologue

We are dropped right into the action. It’s the end of Scarface (literally the same house). Instead of Al Pacino snorting a mountain of cocaine we see two dark-skinned men in brightly-colored suits (one being the same outfit Tony Montana wears at the end of Scarface) doing cocaine and dancing with a handful of scantily-clad women. You see men breaching the walls on the screens of the security display, but the men are too distracted to notice. Shots ring out as the first few guards are killed. Somebody runs in and tells the two men in suits what is happening. One of the men opens the closet door where there is an arsenal of heavy weapons. The two men take identical guns (the same automatic AR-15 with attached grenade launcher that Tony uses at the end of Scarface) and body armor. The camera switches to third person and the player is now controlling the man dressed as Tony Montana. Quick tutorial for movement, aiming, shooting etc. You gun down a few waves of bad guys. A cutscene shows a guy sneaking up on your character with sunglasses and a shotgun (just like in Scarface), but your buddy comes up behind him and blows his brains out. The two men continue to absolutely wreck all of the gangsters coming in. You can even fistfight them if you want. You are basically an OP bullet-sponge. It's nearly impossible to die, even as your character is riddled with bullets. The music for the scene is very reminiscent of a Tangerine Dream score.

After the attacking gang members are all dead, the two men regroup in a cutscene. Overflowing with adrenaline, they decide to go out and party. You exit the mansion, passing all the dead attackers and guards. Some are still struggling to survive. Guards are picking up other wounded guards and the two men don’t even acknowledge them as they stroll past and climb into the classic Vice City Infernus. Your HUD pops up for the first time (the game explains that you can hide it) and a map marker and yellow guideline appear. You get a quick tutorial on driv

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

I am what some would call "aggressively child free" or ACF. I don't like kids. I am sure there are a handful of people who are even more ACF than me. One thing I can say is I don't really do the whole "crotch goblins" or whatever I just call them kids. I have used the term breeder before (not knowing that apparently that was racist) and I have called kids that I don't know the gender of "it". So it just really depends on who you ask if I am ACF or not.

Now, I am not asking for anyone to admit to crimes, (uh duh) but have you ever been totally legally mean to a kid? The story that always comes to mind when people bring up how awful we are was the person who plants spicy chilis in his garden after he repeatedly caught kids stealing his food and had informed the parents that did not care. I don't think that constitutes as a crime and even though that is a bit mean natured (especially if it was a really spicy pepper) but perhaps it did teach the kids a lesson about stealing that the parents didn't bother to teach.

I have a decent poker face. I can be polite towards kids and 99.9% of the time I am. I can even be C+ friendly in a lot of cases. I make eye contact, always feign interest in whatever they say, tell them their toy is "really cool" you know, if some random kid on the street says "hi" I smile at them and say "hi" back (but that's it, I would never invite more conversation with some kid on the street) basic decent behavior that all humans deserve.

The only time I was mean to a kid (besides fighting with other kids when I was a young kid myself) was when had the basically absent father of a neighbor's kids and I had an altercation. He had a daughter and two sons. After school the daughter who looked to be about 15-16 would "baby sit" the sons while Dad was still at work or with his GF which included leaving the front door open while they played outside. The boys had to be somewhere between 9-12. For the most part, I didn't care. But that was until one day I was leaving to go meet with a friend and they were outside playing on the balcony. I lived on the second floor of an apartment and you had to take the balcony to the stairs. So I am walking to the stairs and in the process pass their apartment. One of them says something under their breath as I walk by, kind of close to me, and I look at them saying "huh?" not sure if it was directed towards me or not. They both just continue to giggle and not say anything so I just turn around and keep going on

They’re on standbi

So I’ve been using kratom for quite some time, off and on for around 3 years or so. I use it for a lot of different things from energy for the workday instead of energy drinks, a sleep aid, fight off anxiety, stress reliever, pain reliever, and it also takes away my depression, most of my anger issues, I mean this plant is amazing for so many different things. It has been a huge help in my life. Well recently my moms health has quickly deteriorated and it’s not looking so good.. so what do I do? Take kratom of course! I know it’s not a “healthy” coping mechanism but damnit it’s the only reason I can keep a poker face throughout the day, it’s the only thing that is keeping me emotionally numb from what is happening with my 57 year old mother.. I mean I know I’m upset but honestly it’s like when I think of this situation I don’t cry, I don’t begin to choke up when I speak.. of course I bit of sadness but it’s quickly wiped away and pushed aside..kratom doesn’t take away the constant thoughts of it; it only keeps me from really feeling the emotions and keeps me cool and level headed.. anyway I guess that’s all I wanted to write about…. For anyone that reads, thank you for taking the time to read my meaningless post. I guess I just wanted to share and tell somebody, anybody..

Pilot on me!!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

It is possible to have it all in chap 3.

Legend of the East Satchel, challenges 100% complete, full stats, nicest holster and Arthur as Legend of the East!

My Missouri fox trotter, Black Arabian and Turkoman are in stable, no place in the photo for them ;-)

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