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Just wanted to say I appreciate the folks who referred me to this community after my call for community discussion in r/antiwork was deleted 3 times as "low effort shitpost" and "off-topic." I look forward to productive discourse here...

Edit: huh, first time I've had a post blow up. Glad to see lots of discussion. Let's make this new sub a positive, productive place to actually organize and drive labor reform. For example, I'd love to see discussion around unionizing in the corporate workplace, especially in the age of remote work. Let's keep the vitriol and hatred out of our discussions; division will destroy us, and with an increasingly globalized workforce, greater unity amongst labor across the world will be crucial.

Keep up the struggle, folks. We're all in this together.✊

I've cleared the game with all the weapons and gotten the "true ending" and have aegis up to heat 5 and I am starting to get real burnt out by Elysium each run.

The thing is, I love the boss. Asterius and Thesius are probably my favorite in the game, not to mention Patroclus being awesome. But every other enemy and chamber in Elysium just gets so tired after a while. It doesn't feel like it's difficult, I haven't struggled here since before my first clear. The enemies just take forever to beat most of the time (shielded spear/bow/shield guys or chariots being the biggest offenders) unless I'm running specific builds.

A few weeks ago I (17f), along with my friend,"Martiza"(17f) went to a Halloween party. We both got the jab, so we were all good there.

On the way there Martiza informed me that she had changed her mind about leaving the party at our agreed time and was more than likely going to spend the night and just skip class the next day. She told me this as we were in her car. I was going to be the designated driver on the way back.

I would've been fine with this if she hadn't waited to tell me the unilateral change of plans 5 minutes before we pulled up to the house. So I was already a little peeved when went into the party.

I knew I was either going to have to pay $121 (halloween rates IG) to get home or call my mom and have her come pick me up. I chose my mom. 1. Because I knew she would be upset if I paid $100+ for a 45 minute car ride. and 2. my parents have always made it very clear to me that I can call them whenever I need them and they won't hold it against me.

Anyways, we got to the party around 8:30. But around 9 a lot more people started coming in. Some I recognized because I do dual enrollment at my community college. Unfortunately one of the people that came in was someone I had French with. I tried avoiding him but he saw me anyway and proceeded to follow me around the party. Martiza had disappeared off the face of the planet like 2 minutes after we step foot into the door, so I was all alone.

"Mark" is 24. I have no interest in him. He is 24. Which is pretty gross and old imo. I dont want to date someone 7 years old than me. I'm also gay...so yeah. I've told him this multiple times. But he "wants to make me straight"

I get away from Mark and around 9:30 I call my mom and ask her to pick me up. I explain to her whats going on. I leave out Mark on purpose. I text Martiza and tell her that I'm leaving. She doesn't respond so I go looking for her. I spend like 40 minutes looking because I started on the top floor. But she was in the kitchen doing shots and says whatever when I tell her I'm heading out.

I go wait outside and Mark manages to find me while I'm waiting. I keep trying to walk away from him but he continues to follow me. I see my moms car pulling up at this point. She must've recognized my costume because she got from the end of the driveway, out the car, and pulled Mark by his collar away from me in like 2 seconds.

Lo and behold, Martizas mom is also there because Martiza had told her she was spending the night at my house. **I d

I see posts on here from those who (rightfully) are skeptical of the vaccine and have come down with the coof, but I don't see as many follow up posts about the aftermath.

This probably means that they have all died, but just on the off chance that you all haven't, what are your stories?

Don't be afraid to post the bad stuff either, unless you're uncomfortable or unable to disclose sensitive information.

Thank you to everyone for giving me the confidence to move forward with the situation! There were a few questions in my last post regarding how my wife, BIL, and SIL were involved in the situation that I wanted to shed some light on. Unfortunately, the outcome isn't the best.

The first thing I want to clear up is that BIL is, in fact, my wife's brother. Secondly, the "allow" comment regarding my wife's choice in dress was from my BIL. I have no interest or power in dictating what my wife choses to wear regardless of the occasion. Thirdly, while I won't reveal the cost of the necklace, I can assure everyone that it was in a reasonable price range that definitely wouldn't turn any heads if worn out running errands, but was still special enough to my wife and myself.

I initially wanted to keep the text messages from my wife in fear that it would sour the sentiment behind the necklace, but we're not the type to keep secrets from each other. When she read the texts, she was LIVID. I've never seen her so upset, especially at family. She immediately called her brother and just reamed him out for his insensitivity. We were on the phone together, but I didn't really pipe up once they started arguing since I felt like they should work it out as siblings. The got in a long argument and her brother said he was worried that she was going down a "slippery slope" of becoming a "superficial bitch". And that we shouldn't "force" our financial success on other people.

That comment honestly shocked the both of us, because while they weren't close growing up he's never talked to her like that before. At that point, my wife told her brother that if he wasn't going to be happy for her, that she had one thoughtful treat from her husband after a really shitty year, then she had nothing to say to him.

A few hours later, my wife did get a text from SIL. Apparently she also heard the conversation and was mortified. She at least reassured us that she was happy for our success after working so hard and that she'd try to talk some sense into her husband (BIL).

Regardless, my wife and I decided to spend Christmas without BIL and his wife. We'll be doing it separately on Christmas Eve with her parents. At this point, there's just too much tension, and I didn't want to risk BIL ruining Christmas because I wouldn't put it past him to find the gifts we get her family "too luxurious" and pitching a fit in response. Her parents are staying out of the situation for the time being but okay

Throwaway because my BIL uses Reddit.

For starters, I absolutely adore my wife. She's my rock and has been an infallible beacon of light for me this year. I lost my job at the beginning of the year, and when things got tough she buckled up, got a part-time job to help us stay afloat, and didn't have a single negative thing to say about it all.

I finally got back on my feet again and wanted to do something nice for my wife once things settled down. She's a classic "girly girl" and loves to dress up, got out, etc. We really cut back this year, so when our finances felt stable, I wanted to splurge on something special for her. I bought her a diamond necklace, nothing too extravagant (we JUST got out of financial straits, I'm not turning around and blowing money I don't have). It's a single solitaire diamond that IMO was classy and elegant, but something she could wear on the daily.

Cue to Thanksgiving dinner, and my wife wears the necklace to dinner. Her SIL (her brother's wife, I'll call her "Mary") notices the necklace and compliments my wife on it. My wife happily tells her how it was a surprise, and Mary agrees that it was a super sweet sentiment, compliments me on my choice, and overall the family thought it was a nice gift, especially knowing that we went through hard times.

A few days after dinner, I received a text message from the BIL calling me an AH for using Thanksgiving dinner to "show off" and make it "all about me". He said that I shouldn't have let my wife wear such flashy jewelry to dinner and upstage everyone else, and that it was super selfish and conceited of us. I was stunned to be honest, because the necklace discussion only lasted several minutes, maybe 5-10, and the rest of the family only had nice things to say about it. They seemed genuinely happy for me and my wife.

I'm starting to feel like an AH because it's true that the family isn't incredibly well off, and something like my wife's necklace would be seen as something very luxurious. My BIL says that I'm now putting pressure on him to get his wife something extravagant for Christmas. On the other hand though, I don't feel like it's really my responsibility to care about how BIL feels about a gift I got for my wife, and that if he feels "pressure" it's not on me.

I don't know, was I the AH for talking about the gift during dinner?

They don’t even hide it, they had him beat Mustafa in 2 minutes the day after Crown Jewel and he hasn’t won a match since. Since then he has only been used as enhancement talent for the Garza boys and then battle royal fodder

>Senate Banking Committee, couldn’t help but remark on it a few weeks later, when questioning Christopher Cox, the then-chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission. “I would hope that you’re looking at this,” Dodd said. “This kind of spike must have triggered some sort of bells and whistles at the SEC. This goes beyond rumors.”

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>“I’ve seen the SEC send agents overseas in a simple insider-trading case to investigate profits of maybe $2,000,” says Brent Baker, a former senior counsel for the commission. “But they did nothing to stop this.”

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>According to the former head of Bear’s mortgage business, Tom Marano, the rumors within Bear itself that week centered around Citadel and Goldman. Both firms were later subpoenaed by the SEC as part of its investigation into market manipulation — and the CEOs of Both Bear and Lehman were so suspicious that they reportedly contacted Blankfein to ask whether his firm was involved in the scam.

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>Asked to rate how obvious a case of naked short-selling Bear is, on a scale of one to 10, former SEC counsel Brent Baker doesn’t hesitate. “Easily a 10,” he says.

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>“This isn’t a trail of bread crumbs,” former SEC enforcement director Irving Pollack has pointed out. “This audit trail is lit up like an airport runway. You can see it a mile off. Subpoena e-mails. Find out who spread false rumors and also shorted the stock, and you’ve got your manipulators.”

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>It would be an easy matter for the SEC to determine who killed Bear and Lehman, if it wanted to — all it has to do is look at the trading data maintained by the stock exchanges. But 18 months after the widespread market manipulation, the federal government’s cop on the financial beat has barely lifted a finger to solve the two biggest murders in Wall Street history. The SEC refuses to comment on what, if anything, it is doing to identify the wrongdoers, saying only that “investigations related to the financial crisis are a priority.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/wall-streets-naked-swindle-194908/