Verge And Foliot Puns

To set up the scene, this is what I'm dealing with: I have been fighting for disability since 2008. I have multiple complicated health issues including EDS, PID, gastroparesis, brain fog, possible POTS and Cushing's, and confirmed depression, anxiety, BDD and PTSD. in the mean time, I have no health insurance and no income. So yes, I am living here rent-free and pretty much always have. I fully, wholly, completely get what a huge ask this is, and i don't want or need "tough love" or a "harsh dose of reality." I already get it. I have done and continued to do everything humanly possible to make my situation better and to increase my chances of winning my disability case and stabilizing my life. My roommates are aware of this and have always been aware of this. They see the social media posts, the GoFundMe updates, the mail from the SSA and my lawyer coming to the house, etc. They know I'm working on it.

What they ask of me is twofold:

1. Basically relinquish control of my food stamps card and let the homeowner spend it all on food for the household. She cooks a dinner for everyone most days, and that's as far as the money goes. I get nothing until dinner time, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

2. Clean up the kitchen. This means loading, running, and unloading the dishwasher, hand-washing multiple items, wiping down the stove and counters, and sometimes sweeping the floor. It's a struggle, and while I do the best I can, I'm disabled. Because of the brain fog and fatigue, sometimes I forget to run the dishwasher, or accidentally leave food on one of the dishes.

I have also managed to get them pest control services, a new stove, new kitchen floors, a used car, a used transmission, extensive car repairs, and some other things.

But they're seeing that I'm making mistakes, and I'm guessing they're taking it as a personal attack, as if I do it on purpose. I don't know.

Today, I heard one of them screaming in the next room about how I left bits of cheese in the cheese grater, and she discovered it right as she wen to cook them breakfast. "If she doesn't get it together, she needs to find somewhere else to live!" she screamed. This is at least the second time this has happened that I know of.

What I REALLY think this is about is their burnout from my situation. They're sick of me not being able to help out financially, and that's understandable. I'm just guessing though. I'm so stressed out that I'm literally shaking. I've tried to talk t

finna get my ass beat when I get home

WHY APPLE WINS AND REVIEWERS LOSE: i

Phone XS & XS Max AREN'T for people who already use an 'iPhone X'. They are, as is the case with every new iPhone, aimed at people coming from OLDER iPhones (such as 7, 6s or even 5s/5).

The idea that Apple makes iPhones ONLY for those who bought last year's iPhone is INSANE. You don't buy an iPhone every year (!) unless you are a famous Youtuber or are filthy rich.

MOST people that buy one use their iPhone for AT LEAST 2-3 years (some for '5' years, even) before upgrading. Unlike Android flagships, iPhones are traditionally extremely future-proof: the '5S', which released all the way back in *2013*, is STILL getting software updates & running smooth as butter in '2018'.

So.. The industry-first '7 nm processor', the '8-core ML neural engine', the crazy-powerful GPU & ALL the other super hardware upgrades that might seem 'overkill' today are actually there, IRONICALLY enough, so 'people WON'T need to buy a new iPhone for the next few years'..

Reviewers always fail to take all that into account & end up judging the latest iPhone purely in relation to how it stacks up against its immediate predecessor: So they simply quote the '15%' jump in this and '30%' boost in that. They don't see the '300%' jump that someone coming from a 5S or 6 would experience. Shallow A....F.

While long-time customers, aka the MAJORITY of iPhone buyers, understand Apple's long-term approach & ignore these reviews.

Which is precisely why iPhone sales are NEVER affected by reviews, however negative or even positive they might be. Cuz for the most part, they're 'unrelatable'.

I want to start by saying to anyone who is generous enough to read all of this, I’m sorry it’s so long its just really something I need to tell someone.

I am a 22 year old living in my parents house. My family is pretty close to one another and we live in a tight knit, blue collar community where everyone knows everyone. I have a big group of friends that I’ve known since I was very young and we still consider each other all best friends and probably will till the day we die.

A couple of years ago I went to college without knowing what I wanted to major in or what I wanted to do at all. But college was just something that everybody did so I knew I had too as well, so I just picked the college I thought would be the most fun. Seeing as I had no idea what I wanted to do, I took very little interest in any of my classes and just stopped going, focusing on work and partying. So after a couple semesters my GPA was awful and I knew it was time to go back home and eat the thousands of dollars that I wasted.

In my community, when people don’t finish school, they come home and get into a trade. Like construction or plumbing for example. So to get everybody who kept asking me what I was going to do, I just told them I was going to do that. But doing something like that was and is the last thing I want to do. It’s what all the people in my community do when they have nothing else to do and I don’t want to get into that when I am so young.

Now these past couple of months have been hard for me. I don’t know what my identity is and have really been lost. I’ve recently got out of a relationship, I don’t communicate with my parents, and I’ve been pretty much ignoring my friends calls and texts. I do not want to be here and haven’t for a while.

When I say I don’t want to be here anymore I don’t mean I don’t want to be living anymore. That is the opposite of what I want. I actually really love myself and think I could have a bright future somewhere. I just don’t want to be where I am now with all these same people and same places. I want to get out of my comfort zone and leave here and go to start somewhere new. Meet new people, see new things, and find something that I truly want to be doing the rest of my life.

I know this is definitely something I want to do, I have been thinking about it since March. I have confidence that I will look back at it and it will be where my life changed for the better. I also know that it will be the hardest thing I will ever do.

Not hairloss related but my life isn’t bad at all in fact I’m grateful for waking up everyday to the things I have but I just have that guilty remorse feeling inside of me all the time. I’m always thinking of worst case scenario. I don’t feel great going out. I don’t feel great sitting on my own. I have no friends (well now). Never had a proper girlfriend and just do most things on my own like going to the cinema. I like my own company but I would love to have someone close by to just talk to. I work night shifts so it’s made it harder to find a social life but years and years of depression and isolation has led to this and it’s all my fault. I feel like my life is slipping and I need a reason to stay. Please someone give me the right guidance.

The Sixers were by far the favorite to reach the ECF on their side of the bracket with Boston’s injuries. Instead it looks like the Milwaukee Bucks will be more of a challenge to the Celtics than the Sixers.

Is this because the Bucks had shot creators in Giannis, Middleton, Brogdon, Jabari, and Bledsoe (for 2 games) and were able to still score on this tough Boston D. Was Boston just underrated or was Philly overrated?

Also, Stevens is a fucking genius and that’s why the I need the Bucks to not fuck up this HC hire.

My now-wife (34) and I (35) have been together for 14 years. We met during our first year of college and within six months, we knew we would one day marry each other. She was a courageous, strong, open, brilliant person who was up for any adventure, yet had a remarkably level head. In the bedroom, she was a kinky, sexy tigress in every sense -- I had a hard time keeping up, to be honest! She wanted to be a psychologist and I wanted to be a computer programmer. She warned me that her career would require many years of study and that she wanted a family later on. Knowing that computing at times is an unstable field (especially in those post 2000 years) I changed my plans to become a MD, and for those four years at college, we supported each other through thick and thin. We would teach each other the material and at times we even did each others' assignments. When we graduated, we agreed to wait until our education was done and then tie the knot officially. We joked that when we finally got married, we'd add up to one psychiatrist.

I moved 1,000 miles to attend med school. Every night, we Skyped. My fiancee's post-grad psych plan changed to rehab counseling, then to social work, then to child protective services, then back to social work. She said these were backdoor strategies to become a psychologist, then finally she admitted she wasn't getting her doctorate. We still tried to support each other, but steadily her help was less helpful -- I would sometimes write papers for her when she was swamped, but flashcards and things she would make me became more and more obvious copy-pastes. Pointing this out made her become very defensive, with her saying that even if we were still teaching each other the material, my studies were too advanced.

I entered residency and we reunited. I was a newly minted doctor, she was a social worker -- and an entirely different person. The vibrant girl of my college years had become a withdrawn, fearful, timid, and at times frigid and moody woman. I was shocked by the change, which had NOT shown at all in our nightly Skype sessions. She said that her post-college counseling and social work had given her PTSD and had been traumatic. Given time, love, and a safe place, she would find her old self, she said. She wanted to change career -- to computer programming. She asked me to support her while she retrained.

Her one job was to learn programming and either work for someone or start her own company. In my brief time off residency,

I'm not sure why The Verge does not provide a link to their full resolution images because they are linking to full resolution pictures.

Anyways, here's a comparison of the quality. View them at 100% resolution.

Fabric - Pixel, iPhone. Look at how much more detailed the iPhone shot is. It is clear.

Church - Pixel, iPhone. Clearly more detail in the iPhone picture. It looks sharper and more "lean". Pixel's lines are thick and it's not as detailed.

Landscape - Pixel, iPhone. This is a very similar shot, but I still prefer the iPhone and how the trees are rendered on it.

Police Station - Pixel, iPhone. Clearly the iPhone is more detailed, look at the "CCTV" or "Police Station" text, also has much less noise. You can clearly see that familiar, Pixel haze, noise and grain.

Police Car - Pixel, iPhone. Again, clearly the iPhone is a much better image that has much less noise. I don't know how people can defend Pixel's very familiar noise/haze/grain that look like an image was taken in a radio active environment at this point. Look at the bumper and the wheel at 100% resolution. It is present in all Pixel and Nexus (5X/6P) phones, including my first gen one. Some justified as "it's grainy because Google does not use aggressive smoothing, so it retains details", well that's false, because the iPhone has much less noise and more details. Also, if you look at the ground, there is the familiar purple tint and Pixel likes to sneak into photos.

I think the iPhone has a better colours as well. Pixel makes bright, warm daylight images look cold, whereas the iPhone makes them look realistic.

Google has been very, very lazy with their camera. They got it right the first time (Nexus 5X/6P) with their software and all they've been doing since then is doing very small tweaks. Yes, the Night Sight was amazing but the rest is pretty much the same. As I mentioned above the familiar Pixel noise/grain and haze is still present, they haven't done anything about it. The sensor hasn't had a meaningful update at all. Look at Huawei with their big sensors. Now Apple has not only caught up but overtaken Pixel too. You'd think Google wou

Hi Reddit, throwaway since my gf browses this sub. A lot going through my head so it's hard to translate to writing. Sorry if the story jumps from place to place. TL;DR at the bottom.

My gf would like us to move out together so that we can start our lives on our own. We live in Toronto so affordability is a huge concern. My mother has offered my gf the option to move into our 2 bed condo where I currently am so that we can save for a couple more years. Gf currently stays with her family in a small apartment. Neither of us are being forced out, we just want to see what it's like if we lived by ourselves and if we are compatible that way. The alternative is to rent somewhere for around $1.8k/month. We can afford it together, but savings would be limited. The problem I'm having is that my mother would not be able to afford living on her own. I did some quick math and her expenses would outweigh what she brings in. I currently help contribute $550/month for expenses so it eases the costs. One of the largest expenses are life insurance policies she has on both of us for eachother, which is about $500. If I move out, I would no longer be able to contribute as much to the expenses. We can't let them lapse since she would lose what she's already put into it (not sure of the name of that type of policy). I feel obligated to help her since she has taken care of me most of my life and have never asked for anything in return. I only started paying monthly because she got laid off from her job maybe 5 or 6 years ago.

My gf and I have run the numbers and it makes more sense financially to move into the condo. However, here's another problem: my gf hates my mother. Gf says that early in our relationship she said some things to her and has done some things that upset her. I admit that my mother isn't the easiest of people to speak to, let alone live with. Gf has agreed to stay at the condo so that we can save some money, but there are some stipulations suggested by my mother. They are not set is stone or written in a contract, it was just a general idea thrown out when discussing about the process. My mother wants her to give $100 for the increase in hydro and to share some of the expenses for internet, TV, etc.. No rent. My gf and I would need to buy our own groceries and we would share the costs between us. My gf would be the first one home Monday to Friday. She works about 15 mins by car from my place and would usually be home by 5:30 latest. I work downtown so

This episode blended reality with heightened-reality. I truly believe this is where the show needs to pivot. The most emotional/pivotal scenes this season have been those where Colton interacted with producers and crew. It was incredibly real and endearing. In the past, it's been insisted that the crew is not seen.

What if the crew becomes PART OF THE SHOW?

What if the lines between the filming and the show become blurred?

I really think that this is a huge opportunity for the franchise.

Chris Harrison, please hire me.

I need help before I completely lose it

I have a full time job, and I’m a full time student. I have been feeling extremely stressed out lately and all I want to do is go out and buy all the things on my makeup list. (Roughly 300 dollars worth of makeup).

How can I not want to do that? Makeup has always been my go to when I feel down.

Edit: Just wanted to let everyone know that I made it through the night without purchasing anything! All of y’all’s kind words and advice really helped me push through!

I just ended up turning on New Girl and eating something I haven’t gotten to eat in a long time! Thanks lovelies!