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...The closest relationship I ever had was with someone who had a similar story to me. We connected on a level deeper than anyone we had ever met and fell off a cliff into a wonderful life of knowing at least one person truly, deeply understands your troubles and pains and struggles in life.
You find solidarity and seem to always be thinking on the same wavelength and know how the other person feels long before they ever tell you. You relate to everything they like and understand how they cope and know exactly what to say to make the other feel safe and wanted.
Where you just know immediately that you have found something special and know your whole life just changed the second you started talking. Just a feeling that you already seem to know everything about them and could fall in love so easily because you know what they want out of life is the same thing you do. Just some peace and an effortless kind of love that you never have to try and force and naturally falls into place as you melt into each other's hearts.
I have only ever had that with someone once and while it's over now I don't regret it and know that love does exist and I want to find it again.
I have lived a very rough life and there are very few points where I wasn't really struggling somehow and now that I have found some peace and stability I just want to love. To relax. To actually settle down and find the last person I ever go on a first date with again.
Getting to know people over and over again just to be disappointed or let down is very draining on the soul and heart. I long for an easy kind of love that I can count on and won't suddenly end at the first sign of problems because they know no relationship is perfect. Someone willing to work through things with me and be kind even if the world hasn't been very kind to them.
Someone who just wants to be loved and love in return who is emotionally ready to be with someone for sure. Because I don't do games or uncertainty. If you never tell me how you feel or what you want then there is no working through things easily. Communication is important to me and you will always know what I am thinking and feeling.
If you like tall white boys who never shut up and will forever be a bit of a stoner then you would like me.
So tell me how you're feeling. Honestly. Not the bullshit you tell every random person who asked. The real answer.

Hey all, sorry if this is jumbled up but I’m pretty confused and a little upset right now so please bear with me. I’m a student pilot and I’ve been training with my current instructor for about a year now. It’s been pretty great most of the time and I’m pretty comfortable with how she teaches and everything and haven’t had any problems up until now. I’m very close to finishing my training and have already finished all my solo hours and other requirements so it shouldn’t be long until I have my liscense. And since my instructor is on her way out having gotten some offers from some airlines I’ve been trying to finish everything up quickly so I get my liscense without having to start with a new instructor. My main problem now is that I’ve been done with most of my requirements since the beginning of April and my flights keep getting canceled. Some are due to weather and others are for strange reasons like the planes having issues and other stuff like that. I’ve believed all of it up until now but I’m not so sure after this. I was supposed to fly yesterday but I missed a call from my instructor saying that the plane has an engine problem and won’t start and that we’d have to cancel my flight. I got the voicemail while at work and didn’t see it til I was out so I figured, “ok no big deal I’ll rebook it for later this week like I always do”. Then about 20 minutes after the scheduled time I was supposed to fly at I got a text from the new director (I’m not sure what his title actually is but he manages everything at the flight school) asking if I had meant to cancel my flight or if I was going to be late since he noticed my instructor and I hadn’t shown up yet. I thought it was a simple misunderstanding and that my instructor had forgotten to cancel it in the computer so I responded and said that she had reached out earlier and that we wouldn’t be coming. He then asked me if it was ok if he canceled it on the computer so someone else could fly the plane tonight if they wanted. This really confused me because I thought the plane was down with engine issues like my instructor had said. And the director would know if the plane was actually down or not. I like my instructor and I’m comfortable flying with her and I don’t want to over react and have to switch instructors this close to the end of my training. I guess what I want to know is does it seem like my instructor is lying? And if so what do I do. She knows I really want to finish everything quickly so I have no idea why she’d lie about an engine problem to cancel what was supposed to be one of the last few lessons I did. I mean I get it if she had a family emergency or something else come up but if that was the case then she could have just been straight forward and I would have understood and rebooked with a different instructor for that particular flight. Any advice would be appreciated.

Greetings fellow parsnip planters!
For context, I'm starting a runthrough to generate events for a fanfic to try to get rid of writer's block, so I want the year to be closer to its real length.
I found the Longer Seasons mod https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/10108 and it looks like it would meet my needs but doesn't work in 1.6. I saw elsewhere that the author either has quit or is taking a long term break, so, not willing to just wait for the update.
I haven't been able to find anything similar that does work in 1.6. Does anyone know of something that does? Or, the mod author has posted the source code at https://github.com/aedenthorn/StardewValleyMods/tree/masteLongerSeasons -- would anyone be willing to help me figure out how to get an unofficial update running? (I have some coding experience but not closely related.)
Yoba's blessings and rainy days to all!

So like many, histamine raises my blood pressure. I tested this many times before, and noticed my blood pressure was always much higher when I had consumed more histamine. When I would go low histamine, my blood pressure was in the normal range. It would confuse the life out of my doctors.
I want to really begin eating healthier, and more consistently. For instance I used to consume a lot of pomegranate juice which is good for overall health in normal cases, but with it being a trigger for my MCAS like most fruits, it was likely raising my blood pressure. (in this case I assume because I never tested this exactly.) I seem to struggle with salicylates in particular, and fruits commonly fall into this category.
So I wondered, how does this work more long term? Will consuming these healthier products be good for me because they’re meant to be good for the body, or not because they trigger my MCAS? Just slightly confused how it works.

For context, I haven't slept in two days. My job has drained every bit of life in me to the point I couldn't sleep. Super toxic environment. Constantly changing policies left and right and only discussing policy changes once someone who isn't aware of the policy change does something wrong. Company was so bad that almost 4 months ago when my mother passed away, I still had to go to work the day after, because I called to see if I qualified for paid time off (NOPE-- shocker). When I came in I was obviously beside myself after just learning that my mother passed away. I went on break and took a small extended break because, I literally had a break down inside the break area (guess it was a good place to have a full on mental break down). The manager comes in the back and stands at the door and goes "So when are you going back to work?" When I was OBVIOUSLY crying.
I told him that I wasn't going back on the floor until I calm down because, I can barely stand the public the way it is NOT at work. He rolls his eyes and goes "Okay but I can't just have you sitting over here. I need you back as soon as possible."
Today, this customer was actually the one that broke the camels back. Just one of those days I sat down and went "FUCK. I can't take this shit anymore!"
This customer comes waltzing in. You can tell he's the type to be argumentative. He drops a product on the desk amidst another identical product and literally tells me he doesn't agree with the price. I said "I'm sorry?" and he said "This is made cheaply. I'm not paying this price. I want it for $20." I literally thought he was kidding. So I awkwardly chuckled and he said "No. I'm serious. If you can't do it for me then I need to speak to a manager." I said "Okay?" and called my manager up. The manager comes up and the customer changes his ENTIRE demeanor. Super nice to the manager and tells the manager (lying) that I said that he could have the product for $20. My manager looks at me and I was like "I never said that". Customers behind me were even saying "Yeah, she didn't say that."
So the manager at this point is trying to figure out what happened. The bar code on the product wasn't scanning anyways so he went back to another price. While the manager was back getting a proper price quote, this customer is literally standing there trying to tell me how to do my job. While I'm in the middle of a customer he goes "You need to help them". Our computer system is INCREDIBLY slow so I was actually just waiting for the computer to load. While he's standing there trying to tell me how to do my job. I said "Thanks for that." and proceed to check the other customer out while he waits. It takes the manager an extremely long time to get another price quote and this guy is doing this to every- fucking-customer.
Finally, the regional walks in and hears this and says "You don't need to be telling my associate how to do her job" THANK YOU!
The manager comes back and gets the correct price. BIG SHOCKER it's not what the customer wanted to pay. The customer becomes huffy and says that he wants proof of the price he was quoted because, he's going to corporate. There's no way that this cheaply made product is being sold for anything over $20." My manager shrugs and hands him the price quote so he can take a picture and says "You can do that, sir, but these prices are company wide. Corporate won't do anything for you."
The customer huffs and goes "How do you know what corporate will do? Do you work for corporate?" The manager at this point is also getting agitated. He calls over the regional manager to talk to the customer and the same thing "Do you work for corporate?"
As a matter of fact, yes he does... Idiot. . . -_-
After everything I was so incredibly irritated I went on a break to write my resignation. NOPE! Can't do it anymore. Not with these customers, not with this company. I'm done.

My boyfriend of 1 year ended things with me 2 weeks back. I have been having issues with him for a while now. He disappears for an entire day or sometimes the entire weekend. We have spoken about this multiple times and I have told him that it makes me anxious when he does not contact me. I have anxious attachment and he is an avoidant. For a while the dynamics worked for us. He'd reassure me and tell me that he isn't going anywhere.
I have told him that If he needs space he can text me that and go do his thing for as long as he wants. He doesn't. During the Memorial Day weekend, I had planned for a day trip. I told him about it a couple of weeks back. I am the one who plans these places and we go to these places. We went to an art museum for the evening instead and he stayed over at my place until the next afternoon. I tried to talk him about how he doesn't give us enough time that evening. But he went back home and gone. Sunday evening I got a text from him asking me about my day - I responded to it. Then gone. Nothing. On Monday, I didn't hear from him at all. I called him twice after texting him. No response. So I sent him a text that implied that he has to meet me half way if not we should end things. I have done this a couple of times before as well to show my anger (I acknowledge that this is toxic because I didn't really want to break up)
Tuesday I get a message from him like nothing happened. He then tells me that he went off to a place that was literally on the other side of the city with his friends. He then tells me "And yes, you are right. This is not working out". I asked him if he wanted to end things. He told me yes. And the begging and pulling away started. This went on for 2 weeks. I'd beg and he'd stick to "You wanted to end things and I agree with your reasoning. You weren't asking for the moon. The basic things and I cannot give it to you. You want me to be better but I regress more" I told him that this is not something that we cannot talk through and sort out. He wasn't willing to. Kept telling me that if we date again nothing is going to change and he might regress more. I gave up after a certain point because it was exhausting to me and of course, I cannot talk to someone who isn't willing to have a conversation. He told me to be an adult about it. I do't know how to be an adult and move on from a year old relationship because your boyfriend decided to throw it at your face one fine day.
One of the things he does every morning is sending "Good Morning" He continued doing it the day after he said he wanted to end things. I continued talking about the conflict and asked him if we are ok. He pulled away. Since that day any time I wanted to end things and close the communication. He sends me a "Good Morning" I'd think we are ok and talk to him. Only to be ignored.
On Thursday I stopped communication with him abruptly. Friday morning I got the "Good Morning" I ignored it again. Around evening though I responded to him and we had our first normal conversation in 10 days. So I asked him if he'd reconsider going on a date again. Start over. No response. So I told him that I cannot continue talking to him because I don't talk to my ex. I don't do that and I've told him that before. To which he asked "Does that rule apply only to exes or hook ups too?" I asked him what was the point and he said he knows that I've been in touch with a hook up of mine (he knows this from our past conversations. Not a taunt). We continued chatting normally. I told him my weekend plans - Ignored and disappeared again.
Got a "Good Morning" again this morning. I didn't respond. I can tell from his responses which are mostly sarcastic and blunt that he is really mad at me. He is the gentlest person I've met. My therapist has asked me to go no contact because this is messing with my head and I don't know what he wants. My friend who is dating an avoidant mentioned that I should just let the conflict and him go and he will come back. I don't know about that. But I am going to start my no contact from today. It takes everything to not respond to him. But also the peace that I experience with it is incredible. I miss him terribly and a lot of you might hate me for saying this but I love him to bits and wouldn't mind giving us another chance. But it is not in my hands. Like my therapist said - Unfortunately break up does not require the consent of two people and you cannot force the other person to talk to you. All you can do is give them the space and grace. My boyfriend is a good person. He didn't cheat on me on weekends because I know him like the back of my hand as does he. I hope we could see past this. if not, please send me some strength to move on. I am shattered and I could use some!
If you have read so far thank you for reading. I just wanted to get this out of my chest because this is hell!

Hi again!
Whew another big THANK YOU to everyone who commented on my last post. I'm here with the update as promised (and another question at the end in case I'm not allowed to just post an update in this sub).
So, today we had plans to see each other and I still honestly hadn't really figured out what my 'script' was going to be but I had planned to at the bare minimum put my foot down about moving. My logic was if there is a positive and understanding response to me stating my concerns perhaps there is something here that's worth working on. If I get an angry belligerent response.... well.... that's that.
So I said point blank period that I will not be moving out with him this year (he was actually expecting it to be by SEPTEMBER apparently, so 2.5 months from now) and then HE immediately ended things. Right there. No conversation. No hesitation. Nothing. It was simply either I give into his demand or the relationship is over.
I accepted it, didn't argue or try to change his mind in an emotional panic, and most importantly didn't back down on my boundary.
He said he would drive me back home so after we ate I got back in the car and boy oh boy did the 'calm' facade ever slip. It started with petty comments and when I said something in reply along the lines of "stop being petty" (don't remember exactly what I said) he immediately got aggressive and started shouting, saying demeaning things, basically calling me 'crazy' and 'unstable' for not wanting to move in with him in the next few months. He also made a snide 'reddit' comment which was odd so theres a chance he's seen my prior post but i'm not sure (i hate putting my personal business online so it's not like going to reddit with problems is a habit of mine but who knows).
I decided to go for a walk with my Dad after I got home and told him all of what's been going on and he of course also agrees that I made the right choice to not give in to a demand and that I should never give into a 'demand' in a relationship.
So uh.. yea that's the update. I'm ok-ish. I'm not happy but i'm feeling decently stable. I am a little bit grateful I didn't actually have to make the choice myself but also rather upset that me enforcing what I think is a very reasonable boundary was enough to end it all after all his promises. I kind of don't know what to feel there is some relief and some grief and some shock I guess too. I will absolutely miss him a lot but I know it will eventually pass and he'll just be a part of my history. Perhaps a story I can tell a younger person asking for advice one day lol.
Anyways my follow up question is: How did you all heal from a difficult breakup? and how were you able to maintain a hope for the future in your saddest moments? I know i'll have moments where I'll just feel so sad I'll want to reach out but I also know I can't without restarting this toxic cycle. I have obviously had breakups before but never with someone who has been in my life for quite so long (8 years total if we include the years we were friends). So yea, give me your best self care tips please!

Background: I've been infected over 30 years, never diagnosed or started treatment until about 10 years ago. I've tried the buhner herbs, cowden herbs, tons of supplements, and some abx. Here's what I'm doing now and feeling good and hopeful:
100mg doxycyline/day (I'm on day 14, plan to continue for 30 days)
serrapeptase and other enzymes (to hopefully break through the biofilms so the doxy can kill the persister lyme)
probiotics (s.boulardii primarily) and charcoal to try to repair the gut and repopulate with good stuff
gluathione powder mixed in water to support detox/immune system
With this about 60% of my symptoms are gone or far less. Even after the first dose of doxy, the next day I woke up at 7am alert and wide awake. (I normally wake up around 9/10 and feel like hell for a few hours) It's amazing to me to wake up everyday around 7/8am and actually feel alive and alert. My sleep is more well regulated. I feel tired at night when I should and go to bed earlier. My appetite is bettestronger, I wake up actually wanting to eat instead of feeling nauseas. My brain fog is significantly less. My body pains are almost completely gone on this. I do still have some vertigo and dizziness and cannot "overdo" work or I will crash and need a nap but overall I feel 60% better. This gives me so much hope and I hope it does for you too......
now for the sobering bit.......I did 30 days of doxycyline about 10 years ago soon after I finally got my diagnosis and I also felt great and was waking up at 7am everyday with clear focus and energy but within weeks of stopping doxy, all my symptoms came back. I know that many of you know this game as we have learned that doxy usually only puts the lyme in hiding or cyst form so that's why this time I'm taking the biofilm busters (enzymes) and hoping its going to do more damage to this bug. I'm also thinking that towards the end of the 30 days of doxy, I'm going to start taking the anti lyme herbs again and transition back to those in hopes that the herbs can keep the lyme in remission if not kill it as herbs are safe to take long term. As most of you know, we cannot take abx forever as it causes all sorts of other issues. But anyways I'm feeling hopeful and I've never been able to feel this great on the herbs alone.
I'm also wondering if anyone has found similar or better results by combining different things with the abx? Also wondering if I should add another abx with the doxy? I've only ever taken doxy for this (and this is only the 2nd time)
thanks for reading, would love to hear how your treatment protocols compare to mine ?
This is the best I've felt in years...even if it doesn't last, its really nice to have a slice of hope once in a while....

does anyone know how durango joes gets away with not providing any breaks? meal breaks specifically?? it’s my understanding that the labor laws in colorado require breaks for shifts 5+ hours. most shifts at DJ are that long or more. i worked there for a few months a couple years ago and never received a single break. i left for a while and tried to reapply about a year ago and they told me in the interview that they started allowing 10 minute breaks but ive heard that those breaks haven’t actually been executed….. am i missing something that allows them to not offer any breaks to employees ? maybe it was just the 3 stores i covered at that didn’t have breaks … ? apologies if this has been discussed here before … honestly a lot of jobs in durango don’t offer breaks even for full 8 hr shifts, especially family businesses on main street.

Hi! Obvious throaway account, for obvious reasons, but I just wanted to post here a small rant as I have been undergoing a slight faith crisis and I'm not really sure what to believe I guess.
For context, I never really grew in a religious household, so for a lot of my life, I have been more of a cultural muslim as I never really practiced. But issue is, I've been wanting to become more religious, start praying and stuff, since I already do Ramadan and some other stuff.
But the thing is, as I looked into Islam, I found some slight issues. Plus, I've never really read the Quran in whole, and I've now forgotten how to read arabic (but I can read transliterations, though I don't always 100% understand them). Also, as I try to read the Quran, I do, I guess, sometimes find it kinda boring? After seeing a post here, I realised that due to the nature of the Quran being an oral tradition that was compiled by Uthman (trusting his intentions were good), it just doesn't work as a "book" per say. And it really is just an abstract list of commandments, with stories, and consistent reminders and praises of Allah, and occasionally the Prophet PBUH ig.
But what really broke me is when I saw this very comprehensive breakdown of how ISIS does in fact align with Shariah law, and where they do fall short, but also learning the story of the Banu Qurayzi tribe. I mean, I just can't come to terms with a God who greenlighted an entire genocide, and who in fact, has on multiple occassions, led what I could best describe as "divine genocide". He has massacred entire tribes, multiple times, with their stories retold in the Quran as a "lesson". I mean, I never understood the point of Hell if we get tortured or tested or whatever in the real world. And in a way, since I feel kinda conditioned to view a lot of hardships as tests, I started developing this angst with God (which makes no sense i know) because I began getting very, very tired, of his tests. Like sure, some great reward comes eventually, and I have it better than some people, but consistently being tested day and day out is starting to wear on me. And the concept of prayer as healing you is something I kinda want to try, but I'm not really sure if it would work anymore on me, especially since I'm in the midst of a university psychology course and for all I know I could just be putting myself under a placebo since the brain is easily conditioned or tricked.
On the other hand, I feel like a God should exist, because I've had too many instances of "coincidence" that felt like a divine intervention tbh. But, I don't know who this God is? I just, I can't accept that a God, who claims mercy, could yet be so inherently violent. Across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the inherit traits of violence from God seem rather apparent with how many tribes got massacred in "punishment" (and still get sent to hell after??). Or how punishments like stoning, beheading, and so forth are "purifying"; you telling me you gave us an entire bookworth of shit to do to get your mercy, yet for some sins, we just have to die painfully and we're clean???? tf?? that makes literally 0 sense.
And within my family circle and even country we're skeptic of Hadith, which inherently makes us skeptic of most of Shariah, but I'm realising Shariah is rlly maybe not the best? not the purest? because it also works as a justice system of avoidance more than yk giving justice. its commands are in the name of avoiding crimes from happening, and if they do, like tons of shit are needed for conviction which means justice is hard to bring (so ig fuck you if you got raped or smth and wanted god's justice on earth, you might get it in the afterlife).
but even if hadiths are thrown out of the window, the quran itself is still problematic. for a book for humanity, it sure loves to circle itself with the dessert, especially the middle east, and for some reason requires an entire history degree to be understood? like everything is always "in context" or "abrogated" which is just weird because why? and when you see the tafseers or hadiths, it becomes apparent that some of these verses came about too conveniently. And it rlly contradicts the quran's claim that it is a perfect book needing no other (there's a verse about it), which ig created Quranists, but the requirement of context kinda contradicts it. And it's true, some of the most violent verses can be "subdued" by the fact they were revealed in times of war and only apply in times of war. But then there's apparently offensive jihad?? which is how ISIS and these groups justify what they do ?? and I guess it would make sense that Muhammad eventually would have to go on the offense, and ik some justify it by saying "oh if they sat like idling ducks the others would get them", but i mean would they? i feel like the romans and persians have been in that area for ages by then and eating each other, no real time for looking south id think.
and also apparently a verse in the Quran is dedicated to telling people to leave the prophet's house cuz his shy? huh??? and it is true that if taken literally the book kind of lacks in science, and i know it has some "scientific miracles" if you do enough linguistic and mental gymnastics, but ive seen people put a lot of contending towards it? and i just idk idk what to believe anymore
im mainly broken by the banu qurayzi tribe thing, and honestly i dont understand why God would forbid homosexuality, I mean even animals in nature show signs of such acts meaning it is inherently natural.
plus i have a sister, who isn't rlly religious like me, but kinda has basically only been going for so long due to the belief of a God existing, and does tend to nitpick Islam to remove the bad parts. But because Shariah is Shariah, you can nitpick, but you're inherently still in a, ig, bad system?? and also also islam permits child marriage, tho how did a God not decide to set an age gap, and reveal pedophilia as a thing?? like the research is solid as far as i know and has been in the works for ages, so it is weird an almighty God just said "yea no age gaps, just marry once puberty comes, is all good" knowing we'd discover what He chose to hide? or maybe just didnt reveal for some reason?
and im not sure which direction to go in anymore. this has been driving me crazy and increasing stress ontop of usual uni stress. i just want to hide in a hole tbh lol. but yea, if anyone can help sure, but this is just an unstructured and spammy ish rant (sorry about that). plus i feel most exmuslims do a level of research, all ive done is watch videos that present research, and browse this sub, and look shit up. which ig counts in a way.
either way, if you read this far, thank you. ill take anything you have to say : D

OKOKI need to talk about this.Cause this just came into my mind.But I just re-learned that the dunk was Really short bu the measurements in all that make kind of sense.But how does that work with eels Or other very long fish. Please explain (I'm doing this on mobile)

In my opinion, assault rifles are weapons that need rebuilding. This category of weapon is literally functionless: Assault rifles have nothing but problems, with virtually no advantages. A shotgun, rifle or smg will always work better. Sorry for bad english in this textwall.
FIRST PROBLEM Low DPS for this weapon category. Despite the high rate of fire, due to the low damage of all but the adjucator, they inflict low damage and have problems with killing medium-sized bugs or automatons, unless you hit them in the head. Most "good" or considered so weapons in the game have much higher DPS. Low DPS of assault rifles means that shotguns are always a better answer to targets with a large HP pool.
SECOND PROBLEM Low damage per bullet. They cause the need to waste bullets and time when cleaning smaller enemies, make it difficult to kill stronger by hitting weak points, and contribute to the previous, i.e. low DPS. In my opinion, assault rifles have no problem with magazine capacity - this one is adequate. Because it would allow, with the appropriate bullet force, to quickly eliminate targets with a large HP pool with continuous fire, providing a more controlled fire tool for killing those with weak points. It's typical Gamism that an assault rifle in this game almost always deals less damage than a pistol or smg! The biggest casualty here is the Liberator Penetrator with a downright pathetic value of 45 points. Currently, this category of weapons is the worst at killing an enemy if it cannot be eliminated with a headshot. However, all precision rifles are better at this, not to mention the Dominator.
THIRD PROBLEM One of the most serious is the low damage per magazine (DPM) rate. This class of weapon has it so low that only precision rifles and knight smg are comparable. Comparable with the BEST assault rifles in this aspect. Shotguns completely outclass this type of weapon, having this key parameter 2-3 times better. To put it simply, they are 2-3 times better for crowd control or killing tough enemies without easy-to-exploit weak points/when you don't have time to aim, because you have to reload much less frequently. Again, the hopeless liberator penetrator is so weak that the redeemer has a higher DPM than it! The best choice here is a regular liberator, then an adjucator. The low DPM is apparently offset by a larger number of magazines - while most weapons have 6 or 8, assault rifles have 7-10. However, this is an illusion, because these additional magazines mean wasting time on reloading and extending the process of dealing damage. In addition, shotguns usually have a 0.5 second faster reload, SMG's reload is 0.2 faster and only the Dominator has a noticeably longer one, almost 4 seconds. So not only do assault rifels reload slower than automatic shotguns, they also deal less damage per clip!
The result of these three problems is an unsatisfactory feeling when shooting with assault rifles - they kill enemies slowly and cannot cope with groups or stronger opponents/weak spots. They don't do anything well, other classes of weapons are so much better at everything that it's not worth thinking about them.
FOURTH PROBLEM The above problems make the rifles kill poorly at close range. Unfortunately, killing enemies from a distance is not their strong suit. There are two reasons. The first is the existence of precision rifles and their explosive derivatives, which are much better at eliminating enemies from a longer distance while hitting weak points. Again, in long-range combat, sniper rifles and derivatives should be better.
The second is the behavior of opponents in this game. Enemies always try to shorten the distance, weapons do not have clear scopes and maps are too small/constantly foggy to allow you to shoot at targets from a distance greater than 100 meters. Which means that shotguns are almost always within the effective range, and sniper rifles are ultra-accurate at weak points, which gives them instant time-to-kill on enemies like devastators with one click, when an assault rifle needs to fire a burst. And if you can hit weak spots, why would you need an assault rifle instead of a precision rifle or dominator? The lack of enemies that keep their distance and are too fast to be easily hit with sniper rifles means that assault rifles do not have their "favorite" combat distance and target category.
In addition, the form of enemy reinforcements, which discourages firing at enemies from a longer distance, and the ubiquitous fog and rough terrain do not provide many opportunities to use the accuracy of this weapon at distances longer than 50 meters.
Another problem is the design of the enemies. Medium targets either have armor that this weapon category cannot respond outside of the adjucator, or a life pool that is too large to kill quickly due to low overall damage of assault rifles. So at higher levels, the number of medium targets necessitates shotguns or precision rifles. Because you have to deal precise damage to weak points with 1-2 shots or flood the target with pure brutal firepower because it has a lot of HP. Automatic rifles can't do both very well.
FIFTH PROBLEM The fifth problem is how half of the submachine guns available in the game are presented. Two work as they should - rapid-firing weapons with quite high DPS, quite low DPM and low effectiveness at longer distances. Of which, the Redeemer in the pistol category is considered a very good secondary weapon, and the Knight SMG from the Super Citizen Edition is plagued by several problems, which makes it as useless as assault rifles. However, two others have specifications more suited to carbines than smg.
The Defender and Pumeller may not have sky-high DPS, but they have good accuracy, large magazines, good damage per bullet (higher than all assault rifles except one!), the ability to use a shield/carry drives, and the Pummeler makes up for its slightly weaker features with a fantastic stagger. That's why they are much more popular than assault rifles, because they are universal in their parameters and simply work, being somewhere in the middle between power, rate of fire and accuracy, and effective both at close range and at medium distance against bugs and automatons. Looking at the features and what they are supposed to reflect, the Liberator and Defender should have their parameters swapped, because the Defender's features are much more suited to a low-caliber rifle like the Liberator than to the SMG.
SUMMARY OF PROBLEMS Currently, automatic rifles are weapons that fire weak bullets, have low knockdown power and the ability to stagger opponents, with unsatisfactory DPS and DPM that does not allow them to effectively combat numerous or resistant targets, there is a class of weapons that are better as assault rifles than assault rifles themselves, opponents in the game overly reward weapons that are good at close quarters, the design of the maps and the reinforcement system make it difficult to use accuracy combined with the hight fire rite at longer distances.
To this we could add the fact that there are actually only 2 models. That is, liberator and adjucator. Because the liberator variants are terribly weak compared to the regular version, and the tenderizer is practically a copy of it. In addition, the description, size and probably the creators assumptions mean that we have 3 models designed to fill the same high powepenetration niche and only one of them succeeds. So we have weak, boring weapons that are not very fun to use. Instead of a universal weapon, good for killing most small and medium-sized targets, not the best in a given situation, but making up for it with flexibility, we have glorified submachine guns pretending to be assault rifles.
SOLUTIONS Enemy behavior, map design, and gameplay systems are too major a changes to fix a single weapon class. So I will focus on suggestions for fixing assault rifles in the current game environment.
This category of weapon requires much greater bullet power. This should be a class of weapon with a bullet that is weaker than shotguns or precision rifles, but noticeably more powerful than regular pistols and submachine guns. Increasing damage should also result in much better DPS and DPM. At the same time, the number of magazines should be limited to that similar to other categories of weapons. In my opinion, most weapons in the game, apart from submachine guns and secondary weapons, should be designed for 6 magazines and 7 for the basic model. Then we can keep different magazine sizes - from 25 to 45 bullets for given types, to differentiate them by the ability to divide their firepower into smaller fire units. So that models with a smaller capacity aim to better eliminate medium-sized targets at longer distances, and models with a larger capacity perform better at close range and against numerous weak enemies.
In my opinion, the Liberator is currently the only relatively pleasant rifle to use. Easy to control, it has the best-in-class DPM of 2700, the second-best DPS of 640, and the second-lowest recoil of 15. Combine this with a 45-round magazine and you have a weapon that performs reasonably well. However, it has lower DPM than the Defender with 3150, although slightly better DPS, and its bullet is weaker than that of the SMG and the regular pistol.
My proposal is to increase the damage from 60 to 75 per bullet, which in my opinion should be the minimum in this category of weapons and fits the description of this model as low caliber-easy to control rifle. It then receives a DPM of 3375, have a nice equal DPS of 800. I would leave the number of magazines at 7, so that the liberator, just like the basic breaker, would have an advantage in their number over his variants and stronger models. So we have a weapon that is noticeably more dangerous than the Defender, but with greater recoil. Because the Defender, as a smaller SMG, can be used with one hand and gives easier control as a balance to less raw power.
The Liberator penetrator is a terribly weak weapon. It has a extremely low DPM of 1350 due to only 45 bullet damage and a small magazine capacity of 30 bullets. It also gives a weak DPS of 480, but still has relatively low recoil of 19. The only advantage is supposed to be average penetration, but with such low DPM and DPS it cannot be used efectly. The result is one of the worst weapons in the game, poor at killing large groups of weak targets, and due to its low power, even worse at eliminating medium-sized enemies. It could also be criticized for the fact that the much larger version of the weapon has a weaker stopping power.
My proposal is to increase the damage from 45 to 80, while perhaps increasing the recoil. It then receives DPM 2400, DPS 853, I would reduce the number of magazines to 6. So we have a weapon that sacrifices the ease of eliminating numerous targets in favor of greater firepower needed to eliminate medium ones more effectively. Moreover, it is more difficult to use due to its greater recoil.
The Liberator concusive is probably the least pleasant weapon in the game. Its DPM is 1950, which is only 1000 less than the pumeller who does EVERYTHING better. A terribly low DPS of 346.67 due to the fact that this version only has half the fire rate of other Liberator variants. Low magazine capacity, i.e. 30 bullets and bullet damage of 65. In addition, the second highest recoil in the class - 28. The advantage is high stagger and push statistics, but this weapon literally has a problem killing targets stronger than the basic Terminid.
This weapon should be changed so that it fulfills its function, but does not eliminate the purpose of the Pummeler. SMG should be better for close combat and flooding enemies with stagger. So I would leave the L-C with a low rate of fire, but it would increase the bullet's power quite dramatically. You could also give it an area effect or change the carbine category to an explosive weapon.
I have two suggestions. The first is to improve the current version while maintaining a low rate of fire while increasing the damage from 65 to 95. It then receives DPM 2850, DPS 506, the number of magazines would be reduced to 6. So we have a weapon with relatively low DPS and overall damage, but it is used to support others with its push and stagger. However, still having a weapon that can kill something, and not just spray useless bullets.
The second proposal is to turn it into a full-fledged explosive liberator. I would also leave the damage at 95, but increase the fire rate to the level of a regular Liberator and add an explosive effect to hit the sensitive points harder. We then get a weapon with a DPM of 2850, but a DPS of 1013 and greater recoil, making it difficult to use it in continuous fire at longer distances. So we have a liberator that specializes in quickly dealing more damage at close range, with significant recoil and worse ammunition economy, because the total DPM of all magazines is noticeably lower than in a regular liberator.
According to the description and appearance, the Tenderizer is supposed to be the equivalent of the battle rifle from Halo. That is, an assault rifle with high knockdown power, but quickly running out of ammunition. Currently, it has a DPM of 2100, DPS of 600, bullet damage of 60 and the lowest recoil of 10. In addition, it has a magazine of 35 bullets and as many as 10 of them. Drag, push and stagger are exactly the same as the liberator. So we have a Liberator that is easier to control, deals damage slower, but has a bit more bullets distributed over more magazines. The weapon fails as a paid warbond item because it is more similar to the Liberator than its own variants.
My proposed change is to focus on pure damage, making it the highest in weapon class, but without medium penetration. Additionally, the tenderizer is visually much larger than the liberator. So I would increase the damage to 100, while maintaining low recoil, at the price of worse ergonomics than the Liberator - noticeable drag, and reducing the rate of fire to 500 or only burts fire mode. It then receives DPM 3500, DPS 833, number of magazines 6. So we have a powerful carbine capable of quickly eliminating targets at medium distance. With particular emphasis on shooting at weak points, but less flexible for larger groups of enemies. Low recoil and high damage per bullet combine well with burst firing - allowing to accurately eliminate weak points at short and medium distances.
The Adjucator is a problematic weapon because it is a de facto precision rifle that was relegated to another category because it performed poorly in its own category. It has a DPM of 2000, a highest DPS of 733.33, a bullet with a damage 80 and medium penetration, but also the worst recoil 40.
This is where the problem of crowding comes in - repairing the tenderizer and the penetrator liberator causes the adjucator to lose its uniqueness as assault rifle. Because the above two carbines really just want to be adjucators, only faster or less difficult to use. Simply increasing adjucator damage by 20-30 points will make it a better precision rifle than the Diligence/counter-sniper, because it will have enough power to eliminate automatons very efficiently with accurate headshots, while also providing better DPS and close combat ability.
My proposal is to return this weapon to the precision rifle category and slightly rebuild it. So that the diligence should be replaced with adjucator, the counter sniper's statistics should be trasfer to normal deligence, and the Counter sniper should be changed into a sniper rifle with a small bullet capacity, e.g. 10, but a very high single bullet damage of somewhere around 250-300.
If you have read this to the end, thank you for your time. I encourage you to think about improving assault rifles and comment on this post.

It's wild how many people who viewed Kitty as a martyr-like figure turned on him so quickly. I think these folks don't understand the broader picture or are just upset that they lost money on GME on Friday (yesterday).
I'm not sure what you were expecting from the livestream, but that was just about exactly what I expected. He MUST make all of those disclaimers because the SEC/regulators are at his throat. He can't just pump up the stock, and he doesn't have a magical power that can stabilize price when GME issues 75 MILLION shares (that is a whole lot given they had 350ish million before). He has to be very conservative about what he says, and has to make it abundantly clear that he's not giving financial advice etc, or else they will shut him down and end the party, which they'd love to do, I'm sure.
Now, about those 75 million shares. Notice GME has almost exactly 420 million total shares issued now. That doesn't feel like a coincidence to me, and one could reasonably speculate that this number was intentional. Maybe it'll stay there for a while now. But, that's a pure guess - there are no guarantees whatsoever, who knows what will happen.
Kitty seemed to me rather unfazed by the price action. That takes some diamond balls to laugh off a half a billion dollar decrease in net worth over the course of the night/day.
He made it clear he was not working with anyone. He made it clear that it was him managing his own accounts. Does he have to be more conservative now with what he says? Sure. But, I think his livestream was very informative about his overall positioning.
The most interesting part of the stream wss when Kitty was speculating that the management team has been working on a turnaround plan behind the scenes. I don't know if you guys realize this, but the ANNUAL SHAREHOLDER MEETING is JUNE 13th! That's next week guys. This is the event that his play is surrounding. I'm wonder what they'll reveal.
As always, nothing here is financial advice, but rather commentary on the recent events. Happy trading.
-yunghogungho
TLDR; haters don't understand Kitty's rationale for how he shaped the stream. A lot was learned. I think his real play might be on the annual shareholder meeting next week, and I'm wondering what management will reveal.

Sorry if this is wordy I'm young and typing in the car as my new fiancé is driving he's livid because I started crying when our parents were talking. I am a 13 year old boy (biologically female parents don't care as long as I'm getting married to this man) I tomorrow will be sleeping in the same trailer as him and same bed as him
here some background my father is the pastor of the church his father is the owner and they want us to get married and me being dumb I was 10 and he was 15 and we were dumb to say ok we didn't know the age difference was going to be concerning where I am we have no age limits on marriage and my family is really religious and most people mainly adults got married as teens the girls most BUT RARELY NOW had kids at 15 im 13 once again he is 18 which he already got legal guardian ship of me some how he has a good job good home and is religious all I want in a man.
but I'm scared I really am to meet him how will he react to me in a pretty ugly girl I'm a bit over weight I'm 120 pounds and what if he thinks I'm ugly I have short hair like a boy what if he wants a long haired bride can you guys please give me resurrection please
🫵🏻🐢God bless you have a good day or night where ever you are please if your religious I don't care who your God is pray to them that this night goes well we are heading back to church camp a summer tradition our church does during the summer for a week. We are heading back from the store and I can see his veins through his hands that's how hard he's gripping the wheel please tell me if I need to apologize to him I cried because I was worried I need advice don't tell me I need to leave I can't no one will take me I love him he's nice... handsome kind and respectful of my body and mental health and I just need advice.... please I don't want him mad
Background he speaks mostly French (he's English French) I speak German mostly (I'm German and British English) We are fluent in English so that's how we talk to each other please help . . . Here's what happens now : So me and Leo were going to dinner with our parents MIL FIL and my mom and dad during dinner they brought up when we are going to have kids once we get married and other questions like have I been disobeying him and how he had deal with me when I cried and how he was doing at work and at this point I was getting overwhelmed and started tearing up and an now I don't want to be a child mom I want to be 16 or 17 or 18 when I have a baby my body can't take it I'm to young and my fiance glared at me giving me a "don't you fucking start crying" look and sure enough I started crying I didn't mean to im sorry I really am I said my mother tried to calm me down. As my MIL scoffed at me crying and my FIL was in the bathroom at the time by the time FIL came back my fiancé was carrying me out as my father was paying for dinner let's call this the Friday January 7th 2024 incident of our marriage coming soon when we got into the car he sat me into the back seat as I sat there bowling my eyes out and trying not to throw up now I'm a sensitive person and when we got home I ended up getting scolded by him and smacked across the face as he stormed to his office slamming the door I layed on the couch and eventually fell asleep I just now woke up in his bedroom clung to him I'm being spooned right now trying to type this. He won't let go and I'm kinda scared to move I need advice what happens if he gets mad again how should I apologize?.

Fair warning that this is a rant. Enough with the pleas to stop "body shaming" Azam Khan and caring about his PR stunts like deleting Instagram posts or leaking sob stories for sympathy. This is professional sports; the bare minimum is fitness, and Azam Khan blatantly misses this mark. In the context of cricket, it is valid to criticize him for this shortfall. Labeling such criticism as body shaming is misplaced because the focus is not on Azam Khan the person, but on Azam Khan the cricketer, who, due to his fitness issues, becomes a liability for his team.
Azam Khan is acutely aware that he does not deserve his spot in the team on merit. His inclusion is a product of nepotism. If he claims his mental health is suffering, the responsibility lies squarely with him. Despite his glaring lack of fitness, he shows no intention to improve. Instead, his arrogance grows as his physical condition worsens. The kind of echo chamber he lives within in Karachi (iykyk) means that he is never improving.
Every time Azam Khan steps on the pitch, he becomes a liability, whether he is batting, keeping or fielding. Despite his poor form, he continues to be included in the team series after series and now is part of the World Cup team.
Consider the impact on the dressing room environment: teammates knowing they will be overlooked regardless of their fitness and ability, because an unfit player has secured his spot through nepotism. How can the team or the coach talk about meritocracy when Azam Khan's presence contradicts this principle? How does the captain justify his place as a “ruthless slogger” when he can't trust him in crucial moments for a slogger, like a super over?
The ex-cricketers advocating for a softer tone on Azam Khan's criticism just reveal his nepotistic privilege. They argue he is only 25 years old and deserves a chance. However, the Pakistan national cricket team is a professional place of work, not his daddy's academy. These ex-cricketers, who decry favoritism and dosti yaari, are now guilty of the same by supporting their friend's son.
With the number of chances he gets, Azam Khan is bound to stumble upon a decent performance eventually (hopefully?!). When that happens, Pakistan will be stuck with yet another dead weight (this time an overwhelmingly unfit one!), propped up by one or two fluke performances a year. And when that performance happens, the media and his PR will spin it as a triumph, overshadowing the fact that more talented players have been discarded more quickly. Given the same opportunities, those players might have developed into even better assets for the team.
His very inclusion simply epitomizes the rot within Pakistan cricket. It mocks the already bare minimum principles of meritocracy and professionalism, reducing the national team to a playground for the parchis. Without delving into politics, the decay that began with the revolving door of PCB chairmanship has now deeply entrenched itself. Misbah ul Haq aptly pointed this out in his analysis after the US match. The standards have plummeted and there is no cohesive long-term strategy in sight. Pakistan cricket will continue to suffer by the entitlement of a few.

Hello /youtube, this is my first post here.
I am hoping to get some other creator's opinions about the Shorts algorithm and what can be expected from it. I know it's kind of a mystery, like all algorithms, but I thought I had a decent grasp of it until recently.
I have a channel with a little over 3k subscribers, with ~75 shorts and 4 long videos. I've been working on it for about a year, with a range of success, with my most popular short receiving 2.2 million views, my second popular short in the 300k range, and then a bunch in the 80-15k and lower range. It isn't uncommon for my shorts to receive only a few hundred or a few thousand views - which is what happened with my last short, surprising me given how solid the other stats for the video look.
My main goal when uploading shorts is to have a high view rate (low swipe away). I was under the impression that if I sustained a good view rate, my short would continue to be presented in the shorts feed.
My latest short, a ~40 second video about which is the best movie villain, seemed to be taken out of the shorts feed after about 4 hours, which surprised me given the relative success in that timeframe (and was even more frustrating given that YouTube had a bug with the Shorts realtime view count, making me think it was 0 until I realized it was getting likes).
The video got about 1.5k views in the first four hours, with about 90% likes at the time (33 up 3 down), and a good 75.5% viewed 24.3% swipe rate. It received 5 comments, 1 sub. After 4 hours, it seemed to be removed from the shorts feed, with about 50 more views trickling in over the next 30 hours. Sometimes I will see shorts get picked back up and shown in the feed again - this one hasn't been.
Does anyone have any similar experience or more knowledge about which stats the algorithm values most? Did the 3 downvotes, even with so many upvotes, tank the video? It currently stands at 38 up 2 down, 95% favorable, but no sign of it getting picked up again in the feed.
I haven't yet been able to monetize the channel, but I am trying to build it up, and putting effort into what seems like a successful and well liked short video, only to have it tank within hours, is super demoralizing.

So long story short 3 years ago this August I was injured from a pallet at work that doctors insisted was a shoulder injury but was actually a c4-c7 neck injury resulting in hand and shoulder problems. I had an anterior spinal fusion of c4-c7 in March and have recovered some hand mobility but have lost neck motion. I am going through pt(my 4th round since injury)and ot. I am working with restrictions but have been hearing from people that new york does not pay out a SLU for neck injuries. Is this true? If they do a payout how much longer should I expect to deal with this until they settle? Thank you

Hi,
I'm immunocompromised so my husband and I have done EVERYTHING to avoid Covid - we mask every time we leave the house, even for outside events; we do nasal and face spray; use hand sanitizer religiously and wash hands constantly; still wipe down deliveries and groceries before they enter our home; bathe our dog when she has physical contact with people outside our home; immediately wash our clothes and have showers when we come home; avoid in-person gatherings and only see friends online, never dine in restaurants or go to theatres, etc. Literally we are the most covid-conscious people we know and have put our lives on hold because if I get Covid, I could become permanently disabled (moreso than I already am) and it could be catastrophic for me.
My husband has been forced back into the office 2-3 times a week - he wears his mask constantly at work (and eats his lunch in his car), shuts himself in a private office whilst he's there, etc. We have done all we can to stay safe. On Tuesday, he went to work and after he'd been there for 3 hours, a coworker told him that his wife currently has Covid. That coworker was unmasked at his desk and began coughing. Immediately my husband got up and left and came home. He did all the normal precautions and even took extra ones. And despite everything, by Thursday, my husband became extremely sick, and by Friday, he had tested positive.
I am beside myself with disbelief and worry. We have sacrificed everything since 2020 to stay safe. I cannot believe he has Covid. We have quarantined him in the guest bedroom, I am masking when bringing food to his door, I lysol wiped everything else in the house, I have the windows open and air purifiers on full blast. I am currently still testing negative but terrified whether I'm doing enough. There is still a chance I could get this and my life could be destroyed.
I can only assume that some part of our regimen failed. He was masking the entire time so I wonder if the mask he wears isn't as good as we thought it was or perhaps doesn't fit him as well as we thought it did. My husband uses the Good Manner KF94 masks because a few years ago there was a reputable mask reviewer who independently tested masks and said that one filtered more like 99% of virus while still being comfy enough to wear, and my husband finds these ones the most comfortable for him. My husband rotates through them so that each day is a dry one and only uses them for 40 hours total. He had just recently swapped them out for new ones when he contracted Covid. For reference, I personally use the 3M Aura masks, and tried to get him to as well but he finds them uncomfortable for his face and hot/harder to breathe through.
Can someone please recommend masks that are safer than what he is currently using? I can only assume that his mask didn't work well enough. I am terrified for him to go back to work eventually because how will we ever feel safe enough after this, when we took all these precautions and he still got sick at the office? I know masks aren't 100% (especially when only one person is wearing one) but I think if we had a mask that was a lot higher efficacy I might have slightly more peace of mind. I have a small/narrow face and his face is about average. Preferably the mask would be comfortable enough to wear for 8 hours at work. I don't care about cost really (within reason) because my risk is high enough that we really need to not be put in this situation again if we can help it.
Sorry this is so long, I am incredibly stressed and exhausted and have been panicking over this situation. I am open to either disposable masks or something reusable like an elastomeric. It just needs to be comfy while providing excellent protection (should I be looking at N99 instead of N95?) Bonus if we can somehow drink while wearing it (sip valve) which I haven't tried yet but would be useful, as I also have POTS and need to drink frequently. Thanks for any help guys, you are awesome!

Dominic DeNucci vs. Bugsy McGraw: Edited off.
Ivan Putski vs. Crusher Blackwell: In typical WWE + WCW fashion the match on paper looked so much better than what wound up happening. I was hoping for an equal fat vs muscle hoss battle with good psychology. But Putski was no-selling (including an avalanche and pressing Blackwell to kick out). Crusher sold too much. in this short match. I guess he got pissed because he kicked out at 2.5 but the ref counted 3 and Vince covered him. Anyway, not even a bodyslam in this match. At least Putski was brought down to one knee. They did manage to get most of their stuff in but the clean loss was baffling to me unless WWWF just had no plans for Blackwell.
Tony Parisi & Louis Cerdan (c) vs Spiros Arion & Ivan Koloff: Edited off.
Kevin Sullivan vs. Frank Monte: Edited off.
Baron Mikel Scicluna vs. Francisco Flores: Edited off.
Pat Barrett vs. Pete Sanchez: Edited off.
Gorilla Monsoon vs. Ernie Ladd: Gorilla is one of the most underrated big men. I think it's because he's more known as a commentator and missed being active when WWF went national. This was a hoss battle, or clash of giants for the era. Gorilla did most of the work. The Big Cat works slowly like later day Andre the Giant. After some back and forth, Gorilla is busted open with a foreign object and Ladd bites him. The referee instead of disqualifying Ladd stops the match due to blood and awards the victory to Ladd. Standard Vince McMahon Sr booking to push a heel over a gatekeeping local babyface.
Bruno Sammartino (c) vs. Superstar Billy Graham: As we near the end of an era, Vince on commentary said that some fans were chanting for "Superstar". Granted it was a minority, probably edgy heel fans. The sheet majority supported Bruno as always. Vince said ominously a title change is in the air. Well, Graham won by countout and it was shocking to the fans. Gorilla Monsoon and Bruno claimed there it was supposed to be a 20-count, not a 10-count. Do referee Dick Kroll got it wrong? How many times does it take for your arm to fall down during a submission? Because I counted 6 and 4 or 5 when Graham and Bruno in bearhugs. Thought it was supposed to be 3. Anyway, this was a power vs power match. So lots of tests of strengths, keylocks, bearhugs, and stuff like that. Not the most exciting match but they have plenty of rematches to mix things up. Long match and the fans were in on every second of it, but I was getting a bit tired. This type of championship match would not be acceptable in 1976 NWA, AWA, or Japan. Graham is a 10/10 in looks and charisma, and although he didn't speak here, he's 10/10 on the mic on TV. This match was the new generation vs the old. I have no doubts that Graham could have easily been a Dusty Rhodes babyface instead of going with Bob Backlund.

Most long-timers here know that I operate my own GSM/2G phone network at home; I am also leading an ambitious project seeking to turn this network from a one-woman operation at my home into a proper non-profit org that can operate GSM service across our whole town:
https://www.reddit.com/dumbphones/comments/1bzgx7z/new_2g_project_in_san_diego/
However, I've been getting inquiries lately from people who are apparently nowhere near San Diego - the world is just too darn big, unfortunately. People who are nowhere near San Diego won't be able to help with our local 2G non-profit here, but for those who are potentially interested in setting up their own GSM/2G networks, perhaps in a less ambitious manner than my SD2G undertaking, let me share some technical details.

Osmocom CNI instead of OpenBTS or YateBTS

I do not use OpenBTS or YateBTS software, instead I use a combination of Osmocom CNI plus my own add-on software which I named Themyscira Wireless. Why do I not use OpenBTS or YateBTS? Multiple reasons:

• Familiarity: I had been hanging out near and around Osmocom community for years before I became an active member thereof, before I got into GSM network operation, back when my sole focus was trying to design and build my own GSM/2G phone handset.
  
• Technical architecture: in most aspects, Osmocom CNI strives quite valiantly to replicate the original architecture of GSM as it existed back in the glory days when 2G was current tech; OTOH OpenBTS was designed from the outset to do away with this entire architecture and turn everything into SIP instead - a stance with which I disagree on a fundamental philosophical level.
  
• Hardware support: OpenBTS and YateBTS absolutely require use of SDR hardware. OTOH, Osmocom CNI is more flexible: while it is fully capable of working with the same SDR devices as OpenBTS/YateBTS, it can also work with proper, purpose-made sysmoBTS hardware, which I currently use, and with legacy BTS hardware from Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens - an area which I am just beginning to get into.
  
• FLOSS ethics: Osmocom CNI is proper, bona fide free / libre / open source software (FLOSS). YateBTS, the current maintainers of what began life as OpenBTS, take a much more commercialized stance which I and many others in FLOSS community consider to be antithetical: they only publish a small "core" subset as FLOSS, while many other parts of their solution are provided only to paying customers, and only as binaries without source code. I have absolutely no problem with the payment part, I believe that people who do good work deserve to be financially supported, but I absolutely refuse to use binary-only software without source code - for me full access to complete source code is an absolute, non-negotiable requirement.
  
• Ability to contribute: being a proper FLOSS project per the previous bullet point, Osmocom has a solid, well-oiled process for anyone in the world to make contributions and improvement to it. Any time I find the current state of Osmocom CNI to be lacking in some way relative to my needs, I am not limited to just complaining about it - instead I can join in as a developer and actively advance it toward my vision. I am not aware of any such possibility with YateBTS, given that it is a product of a commercial company that chooses to operate under "sole ownership" model, and AFAIK the original OpenBTS is now abandonware.
  

Themyscira Wireless: my own add-ons to Osmocom CNI

Having established why I use Osmocom CNI and not OpenBTS or YateBTS, let me move to the next part: why do I not run "pure" Osmocom, why do I instead operate with a mix of Osmocom CNI plus my own Themyscira Wireless software? The main reason is that my interests extend beyond running an isolated network. If you wish to run an isolated, fully self-contained GSM network for research or lab experimentation purposes (the use case in Osmocom) or as a recreational hobby project (the more likely use case here at VMP), with no facilities for making calls to or receiving calls from the outside world, then Osmocom CNI purely by itself, without any other software (besides a reliable Linux base system to run on) is fully sufficient. However, if you do wish to interconnect with the outside world, then Osmocom CNI is not sufficient by itself - instead you always need a combination of Osmocom plus some external software. The real question is what that second software (beyond Osmocom) actually is:

• The "canonical" solution used by most members of Osmocom community who find themselves in need of outside world interconnection is the combination of Osmocom CNI plus an off-the-shelf SIP PBX, such as Asterisk, FreeSWITCH or some yet another new development along similar lines. However, I dislike this approach: while Osmocom CNI software is purpose-made for the task of operating a GSM or 3GPP cellular network (good), those off-the-shelf SIP PBX solutions are not purpose-made for such task. I dislike the idea of using highly complex software (and those PBXes are very complex) that is not purpose-made for the exact specific task at hand.
  
• My alternative is Osmocom+Themyscira: combination of Osmocom CNI and Themyscira Wireless software. ThemWi software is very purpose-specific, with an even narrower scope of application than Osmocom CNI, and in my opinion this combination is best-suited for the job of interconnecting a private Osmocom-based GSM network with the general public phone network of the host country.
  

The manner in which Osmocom and Themyscira software components interface to each other is also an innovation on my part. In the standard Osmocom+PBX solution, the interface between Osmocom and non-Osmocom components is the internal SIP leg: a SIP leg that carries speech in GSM-encoded form (as opposed to G.711 form that is needed at the point of interconnection with the outside public phone network), and is treated in other ways as being internal to the private fiefdom, rather than an external interface to the outside world. However, for deeply technical reasons that would be too deep for this summary post, I dislike this internal-SIP interface: in my opinion, the interface itself is fundamentally flawed, and not just the non-Osmocom PBX component that sits across this interface. Therefore, instead of trying to implement my own PBX that would do a feeble attempt at competing with Asterisk, FreeSWITCH etc, I took a more radical approach: I got rid of the flawed interface itself in my solution.
The version of Osmocom+ThemWi combination that is currently deployed in production operation on my home network consists of 2023-February release version of Osmocom CNI (now getting a little old) plus a version of ThemWi which I now also consider to be old. In this stable-but-old version, the interface between OsmoMSC (a component of Osmocom CNI) and ThemWi is MNCC, an interface defined in abstract form by 3GPP and in concrete form by Osmocom. However, I now find this approach to be a bit of a dead end going forward: after 2023-Feb release the evolution of OsmoMSC went in a different direction than my vision, and even before those changes, the original architecture could not reliably support call waiting (CW works, but not reliably, and the underlying architecture is fundamentally broken), nor can it properly support ThemWi-style FR-EFR codec matching on local TrFO calls.
I am now working on a new version of ThemWi software that will better integrate with Osmocom CNI in other aspects (it will use Osmocom libraries in order to harmonize functions like logging and vty management between the two realms), but I also moving the interface point between OsmoCNI and ThemWi domains from MNCC to AoIP - the latter is the interface between BSC and MSC defined by 3GPP and extended by Osmocom. Themyscira Wireless will need its own MSC (based on OsmoMSC, but maintained fully in ThemWi), but all other Osmocom CNI components are still there, and I've made significant headway in getting Osmocom community to accept and mainline various ThemWi developments in libosmocore, in OsmoBTS and in other components.

Interconnection with the outside world

I am located in USA (San Diego area), hence the outside world with which I wish to interconnect (and with which I am successfully interconnected) is the general public phone network of USA, formally called PSTN for Public Switched Telephone Network. I use BulkVS as my USA PSTN connectivity provider: I rent a set of real 10-digit USA phone numbers from them (the price is 6 cents per number per month; at this insanely low price, I can have as many numbers as I fancy, for test phones and whatnot); whenever a phone call comes from the outside world to any one of my numbers, BulkVS servers send that call to my own server which I registered with them, and my own Themyscira Wireless software takes it from there, ultimately delivering the call to the Osmocom-based GSM network and to the actual GSM phone. I got into the habit of using one of my Themyscira Wireless numbers as my main personal phone: given the short range of my low-power GSM network, it effectively functions as a cordless home phone, but in terms of both call quality and cost, it is my best phone communication option currently.

SMS support

There is a built-in SMSC (Short Message Service Center, proper official GSM architecture term) inside OsmoMSC, but I operate with it disabled. (Technical detail: setting sms-over-gsup in OsmoMSC config effectively cuts out the built-in SMSC.) There has been a long-standing desire in Osmocom community to factor the SMSC function out into its own proper separate network element, but so far no one got around to it. I already have a plan for my own ThemWi-SMSC, but I likewise haven't got around to it yet, as I am working on the new version of ThemWi circuit-switched domain software, plus working within Osmocom community to make the needed improvements to those network elements where ThemWi still uses (and plan to keep using) stock Osmocom components.

GPRS & EDGE

Many members of VMP community like to play with WAP and MMS functions on vintage phones, functions that are built on top of GPRS or EDGE. However, I personally am not interested in such - instead my interests are standard telephony (voice plus SMS plus USSD) and circuit-switched data (CSD) for retrocomputing applications, using a GSM phone as an AT command modem and making CSD calls not with PPP over them, but for more "noble" retrocomputing applications, for lack of a better term.
That being said, the combination of Osmocom CNI software and sysmoBTS hardware does fully support both GPRS and EDGE, and many community members (plus commercial customers of Sysmocom) use those features very extensively. However, I personally don't run any of the additional components that are needed for GPRS, hence I have no experience in that area.

Q & A

Now that I've covered all of the basics, it is time for the community to ask questions - AMA. I am likewise interested in hearing from other high-standing members of this forum who also run their own GSM networks at home, but probably made some different choices. For those of you who do run your own GSM networks, can you articulate your own reasons for why you run them the way you do, in the same way how I have articulated my reasons for my choices?
In the case of people who choose to run OpenBTS/YateBTS instead of Osmocom CNI, what are your reasons? And how do you interconnect with the outside world (make calls to and receive calls from the outside), if at all? OTOH, if there are other people who also run with Osmocom software like I do, I would love to hear from you too! What configuration are you using, and how do you interconnect with the outside world?

so for some backstory my parents separated when I was 2 years old for reasons I'm unsure of and my grandma (dads mom) has made it clear she does not like my mom, when I was 8 ish years old I went to my grandmas house around/for Canada Day it was fun but my tablet died and I forgot the charger at home turns out forgetting a charger would lead to some hurt feelings and me hating my grandma for years, I tried to find a charger but sadly my mom was Samsung at the time and grandma and upa are apple so they didn't have a charger now the big problem with not having a charger meant I couldn't call my mom because at the time I had some form of separation anxiety I think because I would cry if I wasn't near a parent of mine ESPECIALLY my mom and without my tablet charged I couldn't use messenger kids to call my mom, now you might be thinking something like "oh why don't you use your grandma or upas phone right?" well my grandma let me talk to my mom kinda but she constantly was waiting for a call for something really important but the second I wanted to call my dad or stepmom she was all for it (seems kinda like favouritism to me ngl) well I guess my mom used her mom powers to be able to tell I was sad and offered grandpa (moms dad) to come pick me up because my mom needed to go to her moms place to swap cars because my moms car at the time was a point a to point b car not 3 ish hours up a mountain type of car (note that my moms parents divorced in case you get confused) anyway mom told grandma that my grandpa was going to pick me up this origainally was going to be grandpa temporarily picks me up me mom grandpa get lunch drop me back at grandmas and continue me staying their for the 2 weeks BUT my grandma isn't the most mature person I guess and very quickly scooped up my stuff yelling and screaming in a hissy fit put it in my bag and I was In tears because my grandma was yelling and I don't deal with yelling very I still don't yelling makes me cry I hate it even if its not interlay directed at me then my grandpa nocked and my grandma started cursing out grandpa and my grandpa was yelling back and grandpa took me to bobs because at the time he lived in a rv at the back of bobs place it kinda cheered me up because bob has a parrot and dog and the parrot kept saying hi to me which I thought was funny anyway mom shows up asks if we can get lunch then go back to grandmas I said no me and mom got lunch I'm not totally sure if my grandpa joined us I'm like 90% sure he did but I was 8 and my memory is kinda foggy from that day it was a very drama filled day I went home with mom, the after math basically consisted of my grandma doing a half ass apology only because I was blessed with amazing parental figures and my step mom pretty much said talk to your grandchild say sorry but sadly I was a 8 year old that was very shy with feelings and lost the little trust I had with her and went into auto pilot mode of just saying pretty much nothing so she didn't get to fully know how I felt. last time I talked to her was last summer on her birthday camping trip and even though she has indirectly asked for my phone number she still doesn't have it and she is but hurt about things and isn't talking to us right now we also might go on her birthday camping trip with ought her anyway after that unnecessarily long explanation on ever thing is my grandma an awful person or am I just being dramatic no one is really saying I'm being dramatic but sometime I think I am being dramatic about things and I would like reassurance (even if I'm proven to be dramatic I'm not gonna talk to her btw I just would like to know if I am)