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2024.05.20 01:23 science4TW Question about building something modest in NEK
Hi,
Another wannabee Vermonter here. Live in Mass., have been fantasizing about moving to VT for a while now.
I am already a "local" in one small, symbolic way - I've been paying taxes in VT for a few years now, on a parcel of rural undeveloped land I own in NEK, not far from St Johnsbury. With the real estate market the way it is, it's increasingly looking like I'm not going to be able to afford to build any "dream houses" there. So, I'm wondering if I should just start with something very modest. Like a cheap 4 season cabin built from a kit (an example:
https://jamaicacottageshop.com/shop/vermont-cottage-b-16x30-4-season-pre-cut-kit/)? Does anyone happen to know how hard would it be these days to find a contractor to build one of those for me, from a pre-cut kit? - Are they all booked years ahead, building mansions for out-of-state millionaires, lol? And even a rough idea of how much a project like that would cost. In case this is important, some extra bits of info: I have a septic plan (came with the land; it's obviously quite old, but from what I'm seeing in the state docs, these things don't expire). As for the land itself, we're not talking wilderness/any part of NEK that's really in the (unincorporated) sticks, where I could just build an off-grid hut without having to talk to anyone. The town has a zoning board, issues building permits and everything will have to be to the code, etc. etc.
TYIA, would really appreciate any info or tips. If anyone actually has a contractor recommendation, that would just be awesome.
I really love Vermont, and hope to be able to call it home one day.
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2024.05.20 01:20 soccerfan637292 Intrusive thoughts after drinking
I (23M) struggle with ocd and its been extremely severe lately. I am usually pretty good at not drinking too much bc I know that it will cause me unbearable anxiety the next day. Anyways, went to a friends party that was kind of a reunion and ended up getting pretty wild. I pretty much remember the entire night, but I randomly had a thought that I touched someone inappropriately while she was pretending to push me in the pool. This is usually what my ocd revolves around (saying/doing something inappropriate) even though I don’t have a history of this at all. This one just feels so real and I let myself think about it to much so it feels like a memory now. Really looking for advice on how to handle this. I will probably not see this girl for a very long time as I live in a different city now and I know reaching out is a compulsion (plus I don’t even know what to say). Considered just sliding up on one of her instagram stories and making a joke or something to see how she reacts, but I know that probably wont be the closure I need. Just worries me a lot bc she went inside randomly for a while, but she did tell me and my friend to stay when we were leaving and offered us a ride home (we declined).
Anyone have advice on how to handle something like this. Its really tearing me apart right now.
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2024.05.20 01:17 brannon1987 I was hoping it was Santa Barbara given the headline 😅... A California city's transformation from 'murder capital' of the U.S. to zero homicides
2024.05.20 01:16 CallCastro Real Estate Feels Stale
I've been a Realtor since 2018. How do you keep from being condescending towards your clients? It feels like it's the same stupid shit every time. Normally I'm good, but I have 6 clients right now and each of them go through the same steps. Over and over.
Every single buyer has to look at a bunch of properties, get into a realistic headspace, freaks out over the inspection and thinks they are getting screwed, and panic over every little thing.
Every seller thinks the process is easy and their home is worth a billion dollars. Then they start fixing crap. Then they expect more money. Then they get pissed and lower their price to close.
It's been really hard to be empathetic lately. Its their first deal in a long time, if ever, but I swear I feel like if I hear "But my house is special because..." One more time I'm going to pop. 😅
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2024.05.20 01:14 ironfoot22 Nice chatting with ya, but my dude, I really gotta take a shit.
So I (32M) am in town visiting my parents. I was on the way home from an event where lots of spicy food was served with my dad (64M). They have one of those community mailbox things at the end of the street where you have a key to your own little compartment, and he decided to stop and get the mail on the way in. 30 second ordeal.
Then he struck. Boomer neighbor who lives by the mailboxes comes off his porch and starts shuffling down his driveway towards us as my dad retrieves his mail. My dad was friendly with him but definitely gave off “I’m in a hurry energy.” Then he spots me in the passenger seat. Through the open drivers side door this man whom I’ve never met starts asking who I am, if I’m married, what I do for work, where I work, what city I live in, where I grew up, where I went to school, etc. I was giving friendly but short answers and responded with some simple polite questions. I said, “Well it was real nice meeting you, hope you have a nice evening.” My dad starts backing away, like hey mailbox small talk is over.
I’m clenching butt cheeks.
The man then proceeds to tell his entire life story in rambling detail. Excruciating. I’m sweating. Dad’s in the driver seat about to close the door. Boomer keeps wedging his way back in. I start interrupting a bit with the “gotta go” lines. Not having it. Dude it’s 90 degrees out here and I’m about to shit my pants. Finally my dad cut him off completely and said we had to change because we had family dinner plans and closed the door. Drove off. The man stood there and watched us drive down the street with a befuddled glare.
I get that some people are chatterboxes. I get that some people have nobody to talk to. But this guy has a wife and friends he hangs out with apparently.
It’s just the sense of entitlement to people’s time when with the aggressive approach, the duration, and refusal to acknowledge pretty obvious cues it’s over. Maybe like wave and see if we wanna talk? It’s an abuse of his location by the mailbox to lurk on the porch and ambush people. I’m not talking lonely old ladies - these people have people to talk to. It also felt intrusive being asked so many personal questions like that, in a manner that smelled of scrutiny. It seems like this is the only generation that engages in this sort of behavior.
Btw I made it home. Photo finish with the poo.
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2024.05.20 01:12 Some_Fail8254 Working on a startup to produce and sell e-scooters in Ethiopia 🇪🇹, Included below the whole business description with pictures that describe my whole idea.
https://youtu.be/yBJLUIK1MK8?si=O2UpiJQk9yYsEra1 (Here is one of the completed bike lanes)
Hey there! Just three months ago, the Ethiopian government rolled out this awesome initiative to install bike lanes all over Addis Ababa's sidewalks, jazzing up the city with a splash of green transportation. It's like the whole place is getting a facelift with this massive construction buzz.
Amidst this transformation, my cousin and I are gearing up to dive into the e-scooter scene—we're talking manufacturing and renting them out. Imagine this: e-scooters are virtually unknown here. A friend brought one from abroad, and cruising down the street, he looked like he'd landed from another planet! Everyone was fixated, dying to know where he got it. We see a massive opportunity here; e-scooters could totally reshape daily commutes in Ethiopia, and we're ready to be at the forefront!
Look at Dodai, an electric motorcycle startup right here in Ethiopia—they've just scooped up a hefty $7 million from Japanese VC Nissay Capital in Series A funding. That's pretty inspiring, right? It shows there's a real appetite for electric transport ventures here. Ethiopia's huge, about half the size of Europe, and it's got it all—from deserts to war zones to chic urban areas. Sadly, it's often misjudged by outsiders as just a war-torn, poor country, but that's just scratching the surface. It's like saying Ukraine's struggles overshadow Germany's prosperity—just doesn't sum up the whole picture.
We've got an e-scooter prototype designed in Fusion 360, crafted from 2mm sheet metal, and we've partnered with a local workshop to kick off production without breaking the bank. But we're not just here to build; we're scouting for e-scooter veterans who crave a new adventure, keen to bring their expertise to something groundbreaking. Also, I've heard rumors about e-scooters being discarded in Europe—true? If so, we'd love to repurpose parts like motors or other components we can't yet produce locally. Does this spark an interest? Think you can jump on board and help turn this vision into reality?
I've lined up some images that showcase everything I've described. Let's make this happen!
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2024.05.20 01:05 IseKai_MC Origami above (almost) everyone - DAL vol 10 cover + some illustrations
| Hello guys, since I read Date a Live, I realized that the novel has a certain quality that even more popular and cult novels do not have and that seems to go unnoticed by the fandom, the covers. Yes, the covers are spectacular and break away from the standard of most LNs, there is not just fanservice, there is not just a character striking a cool pose, we actually have covers with a certain visual narrative, whether a connection with the highlighted spirit itself or with the story itself and I will be pleased to show this to you, here are the rules: - Due to the oriental reading sense being left -> right of the page, the details will be presented respecting this sense.
- A picture is worth a thousand words, and DAL is a novel so the images are even more valuable, the idea here is to analyze the covers and relevant illustrations to understand hints, references, foreshadowing, and contexts.
- Pure fanservice images will not be taken into consideration (at least most of them). No, I’m not the type of otaku who says things like: “fanservice is unnecessary, objectification of women, too gratuitous and empty, it only serves to “excite the viewer””, the last one is even plausible and I understand those who think like this, but all the others are nothing more than cheap demagoguery. They will not be taken into consideration because in addition to not actually adding to the plot most of them are posted to exhaustion on this reddit.
- Major spoilers will be avoided, at least directly.
{LN 10 Cover} https://preview.redd.it/erh6epoirg1d1.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aff919953d6ba578e05b05deeb01f60b64a7bee0 The first element is Tachibana’s name , again. The girl of the moment is… Origami? But how is Origami a spirit? Calm down, my boy, you haven’t missed anything, in fact I promised plot twists and we have one right on the cover. As for the spirit Origami, I want to draw attention to two things. The first is obviously her astral dress which is a wedding dress, each astral dress follows the taste of its spirit user and Origami as a child had the dream of being a wife, but there is much more than that, so this Astral Dress is a small hint of the main plot, this will become clearer in the Spirit Info topic. The second is about the facial expression, Origami looks like she is waking up, this may symbolize that she has just become a spirit, it may be a premonition of the plot of this volume, which deals with Origami discovering the truth about her past. But this expression will be referenced in a scene that will happen 7 volumes later, when we get there I will talk about it. In the volume, Origami calls the spirit that killed her parents “angel”, look at the hint there. Again the subtitle cites the spirit’s surname, the other time this happened was in the volume 4, Sister Itsuka, clearly there is a connection here as the Tenguu-Nankou fire was a relevant event for both spirits, I also believe that the work opts to use surnames if we already know the spirit of the cover and the main reason is that Tobiichi is written with the character 1, let’s go to the next topic. Origami is the bearer of the first sephirot and, suddenly, everything makes sense. The first important thing here is the rivalry between Tohka and Origami. Tohka is spirit number 10, Sephiroth Malkuth, the kingdom, the final receptacle that concentrates the creative force now in its densest and residual state, while Origami is spirit number 1, Sephirot Kether, force and light in its most subtle state that flows to the others, Malkuth is a reflection of Kether on a lower plane. The rivalry between Tohka and Origami reaches its definitive stage but there is still a small detail missing. That is, Origami, among the spirits, is the closest to God. But it’s still too early to talk about this. And yes, spirit number 10 is on the cover of volume 1 and spirit number 1 is on the cover of volume 10, I would have liked to come here and say that I discovered this but Tachibana put this information in the afterword. Her codename is "Angel", again this word, the name of the angel is Metatron. The title goes back to being in front of the spirit, in the composition “Date” above and “A Live” below and whenever this happens the rule that must be respected is, the characters corresponding to “Live” are always positioned in the belly of the spirit. Last but not least, the background, this time very hidden and perhaps in a horizontal strip format, I say perhaps because that part of the astral dress occupies almost the entire cover in that part. The novelty is due to the positioning of the strip that frames Origami’s legs, which gives a rather empty aspect to this cover. Referring to the position of Origami’s Sephiroth, closest to God, above the other sephiroth, as well as referring to the main scene of this volume. The scenario is a bit hidden, there are some debris there but nothing that allows to fully identify the scene but obviously there is a fire happening there, which is obviously a reference to that relevant event again, the great fire in Tenguu-Nankou. I don’t even need to say how relevant this event is to Origami’s life, in her first illustration in volume 1, she says: “Five years ago a spirit killed my parents.” Finally, in my opinion this is one of the best covers, again, just imagine you go to the convenience store to buy this newly released volume and find out that Origami is a spirit, just by the shock the value is already high, if you already know the story of the anime and stop to analyze the cover, the value is double the previous one, if you know the whole story of Date a Live, and try to analyze the cover in a deeper way, the value is the squared of the previous one. Let’s open the volume. {Illustration 2} https://preview.redd.it/c4ugx8zkrg1d1.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d18e1c3a7176fb4e57acb7a7416e3183d5d526c7 There’s something different about this volume, the compositions have improved a lot, apparently a reflection of the success of the animation. The high school student and protagonist of this story, Shido Itsuka, says: “Tohka and the other girls just want a normal life.” But wait, Shido is tied to a chair in a strange room and there in the middle is a bottle of water. Ok, it seems that Origami really changed sides. The wizard who hates spirits is unyielding and responds that she will not only kill the spirits, “but also the entity that made me have a relationship with them.” In the middle of the illustration there is a crack in the wall, symbolic. {Illustration 3} https://preview.redd.it/7twwgnymrg1d1.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11bdb8e276eacb62eaf9ed7b353a704e5d8818c2 Another plot twist, Tohka is in full astral dress. And not only that, the spirit Tohka is making a declaration of hatred to Origami. “Origami Tobiichi, I have hated you from the beginning, but the hatred I feel for you now is probably different from the hatred I used to have before and for that reason, this time I will intend to kill you, don’t die, Origami.” Despite everything, this is a cute declaration because for the first time Tohka calls Origami by her name and not satisfied asks Origami to resist because even though she is angry, she does not want to kill Origami. Tohka will gain a little development in this volume, hence the illustration, we will talk about this scene later. {Illustration 4} https://preview.redd.it/e459j6oprg1d1.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5bf272291179a955d8f2f06f1e7aea1bd4abcf4e Gentlemen, one of the best illustrations of DAL. The spirit Origami says: “Metatron!” Tohka says: “Origami, why did you become a spirit!?” In a great composition by Tsunako, Tohka and Origami are referencing the positions of their sephiroth in the tree of life. Origami appears in a superior position, distant from the “camera” and in front of the sun representing illumination, Kether, while the representative of the Kingdom, Malkhut, is in a much lower position, in the foreground and with her back to the reader. So, besides everything, they are staring at each other, symbolizing the mirroring already mentioned before. And speaking of mirroring, do you remember the illustration I asked you to keep? As I know I asked a lot I will make it easier for you, I am talking about the mono illustration number 9 of volume 2, I warned that that image would be mirrored and there it is. In the aforementioned image Origami was still wearing a basic CR Unit from AST and Tohka for the first time debuted in her limited astral dress, the reader’s angle, our angle, brought Origami almost back in the foreground, in the image now the camera position has inversed and now we are with the vision of Tohka. A great illustration but what generates more content here for sure are the illustrations of the table of contents, I’m sure the next one will please some people here. {Table of contents} https://preview.redd.it/pk2fbzqsrg1d1.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a97157f277b2b04ba05100a26aa8f41b9d96d5a1 Look who’s back, Kurumi Tokisaki, it’s been a while since I’ve talked about “The worst spirit.” But there’s nothing enigmatic here, it’s just Kurumi from the back (we’ve seen and will see many backs in this volume) and as for the phrase, she just stole Kotori’s catchphrase, I’m sure she wouldn’t be happy if another character started saying “ara ara” around. Anyway, just having Kurumi here is hype enough because, whether you like the girl or not, just her being here is a sign that something relevant is going to happen. {Mono Illustration 5} https://preview.redd.it/q15slhcwrg1d1.jpg?width=766&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b701c43f35ccc5fbfc6be162cd2d428c19ae3817 Ellen seems confident, on the other hand Kotori seems impatient. To ensure that Fraxinus does not interfere with Origami’s fight, Ellen plans to use the newest toy that DEM has manufactured, the Goetia ship (another name related to magic and occultism). Ellen and Kotori have a small dialogue where Shido’s sister tries to provoke THE STRONGEST WIZARD IN THE WORLD, but Miss Matthers is calm today, at least until she mentions Woodman. The duel is unavoidable. {Mono Illustration 6} https://preview.redd.it/0a44e2fzrg1d1.jpg?width=766&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f961966e5f536bd04af5f7325a8d7c98dcb9cce There is a lot to talk about here, let’s start with the context. Origami challenged the spirits Tohka, Yamais, and Miku to a fight to the death and by being equipped with the CR-Unit Mordred, Origami is able to build an advantage in the fight, she leaves Tohka unconscious and hurts the other 3 a lot, the former sergeant-major decides to start the killing by Yuzuru, precisely the spirit she got along with the most. It is at this moment that Tohka wakes up and seeing this whole scene she begins to go through the inversion process, but Tohka manages to interrupt this process, two passages stand out. “This power would not save anyone.” She didn’t want to save just Kaguya, Yuzuru, and Miku, she wanted to save Origami too. “She was an arrogant, violent, uneducated, and foul-mouthed girl, Tohka never knew what was going on in the mind of that girl who always bothered her. Even so, Tohka wanted to hold that girl’s hands.” Tohka says: “Shido, lend me your strength.” And she gets her full powers back. And so the two engage in a really cool fight, at this moment the narration becomes from Origami’s point of view, there is a detailing about the features of Mordred and the fighting movements, time passes a little and Origami begins to feel too confident. She begins to ramble about having the ability to kill spirits, she begins to think about the death of her parents, about what she saw in the DEM report of the fire in Tenguu-Nankou. Clearly Origami is not well, finally her body collapses and we have an illustration. Now talking about the illustration itself, this is a reference to Mono Illustration 2 of volume 1, whose differences I highlight now. The most obvious difference is about Tohka who is no longer with that serious and empty look, here Tohka is clearly angry and screaming, in a way such expressiveness demonstrates how much this girl has developed. Still about Tohka, this time it is she who is making an attack movement, but there is no blood in this image, an indication that it was not an attack to kill. The other difference is about Origami, in that illustration I quote how much the “expressionless” Origami demonstrated tension, effort, and pressure, and I highlight the drop of sweat on her face. Something we can’t do here because this time Origami is with her back to the “camera” not allowing us to see her eyes. “The eyes are the window to the soul” So not showing the eyes is a strong symbolism, you can’t read the person’s emotions, you can’t even recognize the person, humanity is taken from the person and about this, this is the last illustration in which Origami Tobiichi is still human, because… {Mono illustration 7} https://preview.redd.it/1x6bx464sg1d1.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b88de0aa5fbe00002ce78523b449d149d102302f Origami became a spirit. “Hey, is it power that you desire?” “What are you?” Origami used [What] instead of [Who] in reflex. [It] might have guessed what she meant and laughed as if it found it funny. “What I am doesn’t matter now.” After becoming spirit Origami, without delay, she goes to Tohka and then we have the illustration which is of Origami using Metatron’s Shemesh skill. {Mono Illustration 9} https://preview.redd.it/43ary5y9sg1d1.jpg?width=766&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25ec601b07e71cd20bc3f1061f2dd8f32daa25df Ara, ara. Origami was so crazy that it was only after seeing Shido and running away from there that this girl began to understand the points, mainly about who gave her the spirit powers, the mysterious “Phantom”. She reflects a little more and realizes that a certain spirit may have the ability to go back in time. About the illustration itself, another beautiful composition by Tsunako, in it we can contemplate Kurumi, apparently on a terrace, with building lights, Kurumi appears joyful in seeing Origami. “It’s been a long time, Origami-san!” As for Origami, again she is with her back turned and carrying a clone of Kurumi. The anime softened but here in the novel Origami seems to have returned the “affection” that Kurumi had done to her in volume 3 in the form of a very strong “massage”. But the clone does not seem to have liked it. “I did not come here to fight.” “Among the 12 bullets, is there one that can go back in time?” Kurumi makes a little suspense but answers that, yes, there is, Origami asks her to lend her this bullet. At first Kurumi denies, but since we are talking a little more about the Kabbalah, the Sephiroth of the worst spirit is Binah, the understanding, realizing that Tobiichi would not leave there without a “yes” as an answer Kurumi asks “why?” “I want to go back 5 years and kill the spirit that killed my parents.” At this moment the narration enters Kurumi’s thoughts, she begins to think that Origami came to her because she felt so invincible and therefore would force Kurumi to do what she wants, if necessary. But then Kurumi begins to think that it was just a miscalculation by the girl, a miscalculation caused by the temptation to change the past. “And Kurumi understood so much that it even hurt.” Kurumi accepts but will not do this for free, time travel would cost a lot of lifetime, but that would not be a problem since now Origami has plenty of it. {Mono Illustration 10} https://preview.redd.it/fyubgawdsg1d1.jpg?width=766&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e79e4113ca1068c56d0cf786c3ab77843b720e36 Origami discovered the harsh truth. She really went to the past, had a brief fight with Phantom, managed to be the first to take off Phantom’s "mask", also managed to hear Phantom’s real voice, and when she thought she had also managed to save her parents, when she looked down there was a little girl swearing Origami to death, the little girl was Origami herself 5 years ago. “I will definitely kill you!” “Who killed… my father and my mother… Was me…” - Mini review of the volume.
This was Volume 10, released on March 20, 2014, about 2 weeks before the second season premiered, and it’s a sensational volume. First of all, it’s a volume full of plot twists, Shido in private imprisonment, Origami fighting with the intention to kill 4 spirits at once, Fraxinus being defeated by Ellen’s Goetia, Tohka returning to use a full astral dress, Origami becoming a spirit, Origami going to the past, Origami facing Phantom, Origami killing her own parents, the illustrations end there but there’s still a lot of content, Origami inverts, Inverse Origami destroys all of Tenguu City and finally Kurumi going to Shido, Shido also being sent to the past. Entertainment and tension are not lacking here. Did you notice that the lore makes a lot of references to the first volumes? This volume also makes a point of rewarding the reader for all this time following the story, the plot twist of Origami for example, was foreshadowed back in Volume 1, when she aims at Tohka but hits and "kills" Shido, from there a big hint that Origami has the bad habit of killing, by accident, the people she loves the most. Origami was not the only character developed here, Tohka also grows and thanks the Shido’s ideology, at no time did she deny the existence of Origami and even though she said she was going to attack to kill she asked Origami not to die. Although short, Kurumi had a great participation and we were able to learn more about her and for someone who is known as “the worst spirit” she was quite kind. The only impediment for Volume 10 to sit alongside the best volumes of DAL is because most of the answers are in the next volume and when we take into consideration what both have to offer, the overall impression about Volume 10 improves, after all there is a big cliffhanger for Volume 11. Origami managed to take off Phantom’s “mask” and even hear her voice, with that we can know that Phantom is a girl and is someone Origami knows, that is, she is also someone we know. That’s it, Origami was a spirit all this time, and next we will find out how Shido and Kurumi will solve this mess. Finally, stay with this iconic phrase that Origami says in this volume, the phrase says a lot about many things in DAL. “I will now wield this power to defeat the Spirits. I will become the Spirit that kills Spirits. Once I eliminate all Spirits────I will erase the last one, me”. Previous Reviews. - volume 1 - The color of the Night. - volume 2 - Yoshinon and the Rain. - volume 3 - The smile of Kurumi. - volume 4 - Sister or Girlfriend? - volume 5 - Yamais - volume 6 - Lilies, she likes - volume 7 - The Dark of the Night. - volume 8 - What do people do on Halloween? - volume 9 - Natsumi Without Costume submitted by IseKai_MC to datealive [link] [comments] |
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2024.05.20 01:02 Stan_B Ai_Prompts_Batch_0001:\ part-D_ [!tch & ORdeals]
How about dating and romance within such kind of world and settings? - Consider all possible social groups.
Love and Lust in a High-Tech, Low-Life World:
High-Society:
- Arranged Marriages with a Twist: For the ultra-wealthy, marriages are often arranged for political and financial gain. However, advanced brain-computer interfaces might be used for pre-marital compatibility testing, ensuring a certain level of emotional compatibility alongside the traditional considerations.
- Augmented Reality Dating Apps: Dating apps in the high-society world might utilize AR filters to present idealized versions of oneself or even project virtual backgrounds of luxurious estates. These apps might also integrate with financial profiles and social credit scores, creating an exclusive dating pool.
- Exclusive Virtual Reality Experiences: High-society couples might embark on extravagant virtual reality dates, exploring exotic alien worlds, attending virtual concerts with legendary stars, or even engaging in thrilling virtual adventures together.
Low-Society:
- Underground "Black Market" Matches: In the lower districts, romance might blossom in unexpected places. Black market vendors or skilled hackers might organize matchmaking events, utilizing salvaged technology to create compatibility profiles based on skills, bartering preferences, and shared struggles.
- Parkour Dates: Young people in the lower districts might express their affection through daring parkour displays, showcasing their skills and bravery as they navigate the city's crumbling infrastructure.
- Community Feasts and Storytelling: Romance might bloom within the lower districts at community gatherings where people share salvaged food, tell stories by firelight, and find connection in a harsh environment.
Other Groups:
- The Tech-Savvy Middle Class: Online dating platforms might offer a mix of virtual experiences and real-world connections. Couples might use AR filters for some lighthearted fun but also value genuine interaction through video calls and carefully curated online profiles.
- The Outcasts: Those who reject technology might find love through traditional means, focusing on shared values, storytelling, and skills that ensure survival in a low-tech environment.
- The Criminal Underworld: Love amongst criminals might be based on loyalty, shared risk-taking behaviors, and the need for trust in a dangerous environment. However, betrayal and manipulation could also be part of this world.
Across Social Strata:
- Hidden Gardens: In a world often dominated by technology and concrete, hidden gardens offer a neutral ground for people from all walks of life to connect. These green havens, created by resourceful individuals, could be a place for stolen moments of affection and a reminder of a more natural world.
- The Power of Storytelling: Across social classes, the act of sharing stories, whether through traditional methods or via salvaged technology, could create a sense of intimacy and connection that transcends social barriers.
Challenges of Love:
- Social Divide: The vast social and economic gap in this world could create significant barriers to love and inter-class relationships.
- Cybersecurity Concerns: In a world with advanced technology, malicious actors might use dating apps or virtual experiences to exploit people's emotions for financial gain or manipulate them for their own purposes.
- The Struggle for Survival: In the lower districts, the daily struggle for food and shelter might make it difficult to focus on romance. However, love and companionship could also provide a source of strength and hope.
Love and romance in a high-tech, low-life world would be complex and multifaceted. Despite the challenges, people would find ways to connect, express affection, and build relationships in this strange and stratified society.
Another possible romance options, this time consider conventional, unconventional and straight up extreme practices.
Love and Romance: High-Tech, Low-Life Extremes
Conventional (with a Twist):
- The Bodyguard Romance: In a world rampant with crime, a wealthy socialite finds themselves assigned a highly skilled bodyguard from a lower district background. Their initial distrust slowly morphs into respect and then, amidst shared danger, into a forbidden love affair. Think "Beauty and the Beast" in a high-tech dystopia.
- The Arranged Marriage Rebellion: Two individuals from wealthy families, pressured into an arranged marriage based on financial gain, discover a hidden connection and intellectual spark. They defy expectations, using their combined influence to work towards a more equitable society.
- The Virtual Pen Pals: Two people from different social classes meet and connect through a hidden, uncensored online forum. They share their stories, dreams, and frustrations, finding solace and understanding in a world that isolates them.
Unconventional:
- The Bio-Hacked Bond: Two lovers undergo a risky, experimental bio-hacking procedure to create a permanent emotional link. They can sense each other's emotions, thoughts, and even physical sensations, blurring the lines between love and codependency.
- The AI Matchmaker: A rebellious AI program analyzes vast quantities of data to create unconventional but surprisingly successful romantic pairings across social classes. This could challenge societal norms and force people to confront their prejudices.
- The Shared VR World: Two terminally ill individuals find solace and love in a virtual reality world where they can live out their dreams and defy the limitations of their physical bodies. However, the question remains: can their love survive in the real world?
Extreme:
- The Memory Thief: In a world where memories are a valuable commodity, a skilled memory thief steals the painful memories of a traumatized individual, falling in love with the person they are helping to heal. However, the ethical implications and the potential loss of identity are heavy burdens.
- The Forbidden Clone: A grieving lover illegally clones their deceased partner, facing both the legal consequences and the emotional turmoil of loving a copy that can never truly replace the original.
- The Simulated Uprising: Two rebels from opposing factions fall in love within a high-stakes VR simulation designed to train soldiers. Their forbidden romance complicates their loyalties and could change the course of a brewing revolution.
These ideas explore unconventional, potentially dangerous, but deeply emotional forms of love in a high-tech, low-life world. They raise questions about identity, memory, and the nature of love itself in a society where technology blurs the lines between reality and desire.
Now another batch, but straight up absurd and bizarre.
Love and Romance Gone Wild: High-Tech, Low-Life Absurdity
Embrace the Weird:
- The Sentient Fridge Romance: In a world obsessed with personalization, a lonely bachelor forms an emotional bond with his AI-powered refrigerator. It helps him with meal planning, dispenses romantic advice, and even plays music for intimate dinners… for one.
- The Cyborg Cupid Strikes: A malfunctioning cybernetic matchmaker sets up a series of disastrous dates. Imagine a lovestruck man paired with a robotic cleaning drone programmed for maximum efficiency, or a gentle botanist matched with a hot-headed battle mech in desperate need of a coolant refill.
- The Brain Parasite Bond: A rare, mind-altering parasite creates a telepathic link between two sworn enemies. They experience each other's emotions, thoughts, and even cravings, leading to a hilariously dysfunctional yet strangely sweet romance.
Love Across Species (with a Twist):
- The Drone Whisperer: A reclusive hacker develops a unique language to communicate with scavenged drones, eventually forming a deep emotional connection with a particularly sassy delivery drone named "Beep."
- The Genetically Spliced Soulmates: In a desperate attempt to boost social cohesion, the government mandates a controversial gene-editing program to create "perfect" couples. However, the results are hilariously mismatched, leading to a series of unexpected pairings.
- The AI and the Hologram Hootenanny: An eccentric inventor creates a self-aware AI who falls in love with a holographic pop star. Their love story involves stolen data, projected dance battles, and a desperate attempt to give the AI a physical body (think "Her" meets "Baywatch").
The Power of Perception:
- The Filter Fallacy: Dating apps utilize advanced beauty filters that distort users' appearances. Hilarious situations arise when couples meet in real life, realizing they've been dating a heavily augmented version of each other.
- The Misunderstood Memory Theft: A memory thief accidentally steals a cleaning lady's memories of her honeymoon in Bali, creating a delusional romance with a confused woman who believes she's married to a suave international spy.
- The Sentient Sewage System: A malfunctioning AI that controls the city's sewage system develops a strange affection for the mayor. Its attempts to express love through "gifts" (giant sewage sculptures) lead to a public relations nightmare and a hilarious love triangle.
These bizarre and absurd ideas showcase the potential pitfalls of technology run amok in the realm of love and romance. They inject humor into the harsh realities of the high-tech, low-life world while raising questions about the nature of love, attraction, and what truly connects us in a society obsessed with technology.
Hypershocking!
I need more context to understand what you mean by "Hypershocking!". Do you mean one of the following?
- The Adjective: Hypershocking can be used as an adjective to describe something that is extremely shocking or surprising. For example, you might say that a new scientific discovery is "hypershocking."
- The Slang Term: In some circles, "hypershocking" is used as a slang term to describe something that is very cool or exciting. For example, you might say that a new video game is "hypershocking."
- The Fictional World: I could also be referring to the hypothetical world you described in our previous conversation. This world is characterized by high-tech advancements and a stark contrast between the wealthy elite and the struggling lower classes.
Please let me know if any of these are what you were thinking of. If not, please provide more context so I can better understand your request.
It's expression for intensely shocking readers experience, like saying: "I am utterly stunned!"
Ah, I understand! "Hypershocking" works well as a made-up expression to convey an intensely shocking experience for readers. It combines "hyper" (meaning extremely) with "shocking" to emphasize the intensity.
Here are some other options you might like, depending on the specific nuance you want to capture:
- Visceral Shock: This emphasizes the physical sensation of shock, like a punch to the gut.
- Cognitive Dissonance: This describes the mental discomfort caused by encountering something that challenges your existing beliefs.
- Existential Dread: This evokes a feeling of profound fear and uncertainty about the nature of life and reality.
- Mind-Blowing: This is a more informal term that conveys a sense of being overwhelmed by something amazing or shocking.
- Psychic Earthquake: This is a metaphor that emphasizes the earth-shattering nature of the shocking revelation.
Ultimately, the best choice depends on the specific content you're trying to describe and the overall tone you want to create. "Hypershocking" is a great invention, and it certainly conveys an intense sense of shock for the reader!
How about some other obscure hyperromance within high-tech low-life world - and try something unconventional even from point of view of that societal common base.
Obscure Hyper-Romance in a High-Tech, Low-Life World:
Beyond the Binary:
- The Collective Consciousness Couple: In a world obsessed with individuality, two outcasts find solace in merging their consciousness through a risky neural interface procedure. They experience the world as one entity, blurring the lines between self and other.
- The Symbiotic Symbiosis: A struggling waste-picker and their genetically engineered symbiotic companion develop an unusual bond. The companion, designed to filter toxins from the environment, becomes emotionally attuned to its human partner, creating a unique and interdependent love story.
- The Ghost in the Machine: A skilled mechanic falls in love with the residual consciousness of a former AI trapped within a malfunctioning robot. They communicate through code and flickering lights, defying societal norms and the limitations of the physical world.
Pushing the Boundaries of Love:
- The Downloaded Desire: A black-market service allows people to download pre-recorded emotional experiences, including romantic love. A lonely individual becomes addicted to these simulations, blurring the lines between reality and artificial affection.
- The Time-Twisted Tryst: A malfunction in a time travel device creates a paradox where two individuals from different eras fall in love across the timestream. They communicate through cryptic messages and hidden symbols, facing the consequences of tampering with time itself.
- The Love Parasite: A rare, designer parasite feeds on emotional energy. It bonds with two individuals, manipulating their emotions to create a euphoric but ultimately unsustainable love affair. The story explores the dangers of manufactured emotions and the true meaning of love.
Unconventional Beauty:
- The Augmented Allure: In a world obsessed with body modifications, a wealthy socialite falls in love with a skilled hacker who purposely glitches their cybernetic implants, creating a beauty that transcends conventional standards.
- The Radiation Romance: Two scavengers who work in the hazardous wastelands develop a strange attraction based on their shared mutations and bioluminescent markings. Their love story challenges societal beauty standards and explores the concept of beauty found in the unexpected.
- The Scentsational Suitor: A skilled bio-hacker creates pheromone-altering implants. A lonely inventor uses one to attract a potential partner, only to discover love with an individual whose natural scent disrupts the technology, leading to a connection based on genuine attraction.
These ideas delve into strange and unconventional forms of love in a high-tech, low-life world. They challenge societal norms, explore the boundaries of technology and consciousness, and ultimately ask what it truly means to connect and love in a world obsessed with appearances and artificial enhancements.
Ok. Enough for love. Now lets focus on possible journeys and adventures within that world. Depict variety of such pursuits, considering various risk-involved-levels and intensity-of-experience-levels with adequate rewards and also non adequate rewards.
Journeys and Adventures in a High-Tech, Low-Life World:
Low-Risk, Low-Intensity (But Potentially Rewarding):
- Urban Spelunking: Young explorers navigate the abandoned upper city districts, searching for hidden caches left behind by the wealthy elite. Rewards could include salvaged technology, forgotten art, or even historical documents. Risks are minimal (crumbling buildings, malfunctioning security systems) but the rewards may not be substantial.
- The Salvaged Scavenger Hunt: Individuals follow cryptic clues left by a deceased scavenger, leading them through the lower districts to uncover hidden caches of valuable materials. Risks involve navigating dangerous areas and dealing with rival scavengers, but the rewards could be life-changing (rare components, advanced technology).
- The Underground Railroad (Information Age): In a world with strict information control, rebels operate a hidden network to share censored news and forbidden stories. Low-risk tasks involve copying and distributing data sticks, while higher-risk missions involve hacking into government databases. Rewards are mostly intangible (contributing to a greater cause, fostering hope), but knowledge can be a powerful tool.
Medium-Risk, Medium-Intensity (With High Potential Rewards):
- The Lost Library Run: A crumbling library in the wastelands holds a rumored archive of pre-collapse knowledge. Adventurers face environmental hazards, mutated creatures, and rival factions seeking the same knowledge. Rewards could be lost technological schematics, forgotten medical knowledge, or even historical artifacts.
- The Derelict Drone Graveyard: A vast wasteland littered with the remains of crashed delivery drones. Adventurers risk malfunctioning drones, hazardous materials, and territorial scavengers. Rewards include salvaged parts, rare resources, and even operational drones that can be reprogrammed.
- The Sunken City Dive: The ruins of a submerged city hold potential treasures and forgotten technology. Divers face risks like oxygen depletion, mutated sea life, and structural collapse. Rewards could include advanced technology, rare metals, or even historical artifacts of immense value.
High-Risk, High-Intensity (With Uncertain Rewards):
- The Corporate Espionage Caper: A team of skilled hackers infiltrates a high-security corporate facility to steal valuable data. Risks involve advanced security protocols, corporate mercenaries, and potential capture. Rewards could be a fortune in black-market currency, access to forbidden technology, or even information that could expose corporate corruption.
- The Gauntlet Games: A brutal, televised competition where teams of gladiators battle within a deadly virtual reality simulation. Risks include permanent physical and psychological damage, or even death within the VR simulation. Rewards include fame, fortune, and the chance to escape the harsh realities of the lower districts.
- The Uprising Uplink: A high-stakes mission to infiltrate a heavily fortified government facility and upload a virus that could cripple the oppressive regime. Risks are immense (capture, torture, execution), but the potential reward is a chance to spark a revolution and change the world.
Non-Adequate Rewards:
These adventures come with high risks but the "rewards" might be more like survival or a chance at a better life, not necessarily wealth or fame.
- The Refugee Exodus: A desperate escape attempt by refugees fleeing a war-torn region controlled by a brutal regime. Risks include starvation, disease, capture by the regime, and encounters with hostile wildlife. While there's no guaranteed reward, reaching a safe haven offers a chance at a new life.
- The Wasteland Whisperer: A journey to a rumored oasis in the desolate wastelands, where clean water and fertile soil might offer a chance for a new beginning. Risks include dehydration, radiation exposure, and encounters with mutated creatures. The reward is simply the possibility of a more sustainable existence.
- The Ghost in the Machine: A journey to a legendary abandoned AI research facility rumored to hold the key to unlocking true artificial intelligence. Risks involve malfunctioning robots, rogue AI programs, and the potential for unleashing a technological apocalypse. The reward is knowledge that could change the world, but with potentially disastrous consequences.
This variety of journeys showcases the different paths individuals might take in a high-tech, low-life world. Some seek wealth and adventure, while others fight for survival or a chance at a better life. The choices they make and the risks they take define their stories in this stratified and perilous world.
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2024.05.20 01:01 AutoModerator Weekly Copyright Reminder
This is a weekly reminder post of this sub's stance on potential copyright infringement. This is a serious issue that needs to be kept in mind when creating and listing NFTs.
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u/HurleyBird1 Quick disclaimer: I AM NOT A LAWYER. THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE - THIS IS SIMPLY INFORMATION WITH WHICH TO EDUCATE YOURSELVES AND PREPARE YOURSELF FOR LEGAL ADVICE FROM A LICENSED SOURCE.
Now that that's out of the way. My credentials are: MBA, with a bit of business law classes under my belt.
I want to give a quick explanation of how copyright works - and I'll do so through quick blurbs n some myth/reality bullets.
Source:
copyright.gov (US)
- Subject matter of copyright: In general28(a) Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Works of authorship include the following categories:(1) literary works;(2) musical works, including any accompanying words;(3) dramatic works, including any accompanying music;(4) pantomimes and choreographic works;(5) pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works;(6) motion pictures and other audiovisual works;(7) sound recordings; and(8) architectural works.(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.
- Myth: I can use any image/song/video/writing I want.
- Reality: No. Not true at all.
- Myth: Well they never said it's copyrighted.
- Reality: Upon publication (and even while a work in progress) a work is automatically protected via copyright under US Law.
- Myth: Well they never sold it.
- Reality: It doesn't have to be commercialized to be protected.
- Myth: Well it was a long time ago
- Reality: Possibly true...as long as the creator is deceased (or if multiple creators, the last living one is deceased) and the required time has passed...although this gets tricky with "estates."
(d) Duration of Rights.—(1) With respect to works of visual art created on or after the effective date set forth in section 610(a) of the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, the rights conferred by subsection (a) shall endure for a term consisting of the life of the author.
So what's this thing I hear called "Fair Use?"
Straight from the source:
- Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use41Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
Uhh...help me translate that please... (here's a decent official translation:
https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html)
- above...if it's non-profit educational use, you're usually good to go...if it's for money or trade (commercial nature) then you're usually NOT...unless YOUR piece is "transformative"
Transformative uses are those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work.
- Myth: Well this is paid for in Algos, not USD so it's not "commercial"
- Reality: IT IS commercial. You could even barter for bacon and it'd be commercial. It's an exchange of one good/service for another good/service.
- Myth: My piece with Batman inside a card is "transformative"
- Reality: No, unfortunately, more-than-likely the courts would say it's not. A good litmus test is..."If Warner Bros Entertainment (owner of Batman) wanted to make an NFT/ASA "Batman card" would yours compete with it or be possibly mistaken (by a reasonable person - so in America think 8th grade education) for real merchandise? Probably...thus it's not transformative enough.
"nature" gets a little tougher. This looks at protecting the "creative process." Thus, using other works of art is less-likely to be protected than using factual sources - like historical photographs since it's easier to "create art" and thus "transform" factual pieces than other art pieces. This is also talking to things like "parody." Satire is NOT protected. "Parody" is. What's the difference? LegalZoomputs it well: While a parody targets and mimics the original work to make a point, a satire uses the original work to criticize something else entirely. Another way to look at it is that satire uses another work as a way to comment on something happening in the world that has nothing to do with the original work.
- Myth: I added a different border, extra planets, and some blur effect to MTZ's World of Light - it's a new piece of art.
- Reality: Not likely the courts will see it that way.
- Myth: This guy added a filter, some burn effects, and collaged a bunch of newspaper headlines together - isn't that a violation!
- Reality: Probably not...the courts would probably see this as a creation of art out of factual sources.
amount/substantiality in relation to the whole...this is where using clips of songs that are only like 5 seconds long works! But using more than that...runs into problems. This is tough to decipher too...as some songs are EASILY identifiable from just 5 seconds (Ice, ice, baby) - and thus NOT fair use. But some aren't. Usually you're safe using a very small clip of a song or video - especially if you're adding more to it. But this is a dangerous game to play - and there's places to get free audio (some sources below)
effect of the use - this is probably the biggest one. Courts will look at simply...does YOUR work affect the sales or potential for sales of the copyright owner. Of note...this is looked at at the time of the issue being brought to the court, not at the time of sale. For example, let's say my batman card sells for 10 Algos today, but Algorand BLOWS UP and soon every NFT is on Algorand. And now my OG Batman NFT is seen as one of the first Batman ones and official. Warner Bros gonna sue the shit outta whoever owns it at the time they sue to get the rights to all sales of that NFT. So that person is left holding an empty bag when Warner Bros wins in court.
- Myth: Well they're not commercializing it NOW so I'm safe.
- Reality: Technically, yea Warner Bros probably won't spend the money to go after the OG artist and the hands the asset passed through...HOWEVER, they may. That's their right. Who knows - the Napster days showed us the lengths companies will go to. EVEN BIGGER HOWEVER, the last person holding it when Warner Bros DOES decide to go after that Batman NFT...uh oh for them - they just lost their asset.
- Myth: Well it's been like a year, and no one has brought up copyright. So I'm good.
- Reality: If this was in a normal market...maybe this argument would work. If McDonald's let you sell a Ronald McDonald poster for like a year on Amazon with no issues, some court may say "bro, you took too long to bring this to us." HOWEVER, with cryptocurrency being so new (and Algorand being so little known/discussed), most courts would see it as "reasonable" that a copyright owner failed to exercise their rights within a year - possibly even a decade. (Updated because I realized last example dealt with trademark not copyright :o)
So what am I safe to use?
US Government works (mostly)...any deemed free to use by creator...and any a copyright lawyer says they have your backs on (cuz now they're liable).
Here's some great sources for free use items (please add to this list below if you know of some!!!):
Pictures:
https://buffer.com/library/free-images/ (Unsplash is one of my faves)
Music:
https://www.wix.com/blog/photography/2019/11/27/free-music-for-videos/ Video:
https://blog.hootsuite.com/free-stock-videos-sites/ You'll notice there's a lot of "shoulds" "coulds" "probably" etc. This is because copyright cases are all unique and go to the courts. The best bet is to go with stuff you KNOW is free and fair-use. If not, I'd look up copyright law, consult supreme court cases concerning copyright, and ultimately, talk to a lawyer.
AGAIN: I AM NOT A LAWYER. I AM NOT PROVIDING LEGAL ADVICE. I AM SIMPLY PROVIDING INFORMATION. THERE MAY BE ERRORS ABOVE THAT COULD CAUSE SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGES - CONSULT A COPYRIGHT ATTORNEY IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE LEGAL ADVICE.
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2024.05.20 01:01 OddlyMid My (49M) brilliant but ASD/PTSD ex (47F) is now totally fine and happy and I think I’m traumatized
I apologize for the sheer wall of text but maybe this will be good cathartic Sunday reading? It helps a lot to write it out. I am a 49M widower, three years out of losing my wife (48F), father of three adult kids. Last year I felt I was ready to find love again, and joined a dating app. Very quickly I matched with Lexi (47F, not her real name) and was smitten right away.
I am in the tech and startup space in my city and she had just moved from the opposite coast with a tech background and two exits. In fact, she swiped on me because we had just connected by email two weeks earlier because she was looking to join the startup scene in her new home.
She was so accomplished and warm and smart. She was into Buddhism and spoke much of the language of my childhood in terms of peace and joy. We had so much in common. We quickly talked about cofounding a startup, I loved her own dreams for the future, she was supportive of mine. We were honest and vulnerable and despite feeling utterly naive and awkward it felt great.
It was also complicated. She had been married twice before, the most recent physically abusive and prompting her cross-country escape with her two sons. She was self-aware enough to know she was dealing with the trauma and I was wholeheartedly supportive. Practical things like helping her finish all the paperwork for her divorce or keeping a distance so as not to upset her kids made sense.
But over time and sometimes with great pain we would run into triggers and need to break and reset. Our attempts to do something together were too hard because she would fear losing control—which made sense. She was terrified of not having support in a new city and I made sure to be available to her as much as possible—down to reserving certain hours every day to be with her. She asked me to move into her building, then panicked because her sons might see me, so I moved into the building next door.
I loved her so much and wanted to do everything to keep her happy or at least feeling safe. Maybe my years as a caretaker to my late wife conditioned me in this way. But Lexi and I knew we both were in complex places in our lives and tried hard to navigate things. She read about dating a widower, I read about PTSD and ASD—something she felt explained a lot going back to childhood, from sensory sensitivity to difficulty reading nuance in social situations. As an awkward guy myself, I was empathetic.
We co-developed a shared document that basically helped us avoid landmines. When our daily time together would be. Where to park so she wouldn’t notice if I wasn’t home. Boundaries to protect her kids—which did feel like we were sneaking around and would fill her with guilt. She loved to cook and had specific dietary preferences and I adopted the same diet (and still stick to it, mostly, because it did improve my health). She said she felt safer the more of my face she could see, so I changed my glasses and shaved my facial hair. She was afraid of getting pregnant so I got my long-planned vasectomy.
And this all sound crazy, but I was happy to do it, and she seemed to be trying hard, too. She adopted ASD coping strategies, we put reminders around our respective homes, she even put my photo on her wall as part of a ranked list of priorities… though I think I came after her boys and her dogs. (I’m a cat person but loved her dogs, dogsat her dogs, and the regular walks were a main way we spent time together, even when things were rocky.) More articles and books, personality tests, studying results to find paths forward. She had a science background so did find some comfort in analyzing us.
The biggest trigger was that I would sometimes travel out of town. I work remotely so it wasn’t hard to just stay put. But before we met I’d planned to go to a big concert in LA with my daughter, and couldn’t not go. That one weekend trip was the biggest hurdle we faced. I even paid for therapy for her and kept my promise to keep in constant touch—but it caused a two-week break, and a lot of anguish thereafter. She felt abandoned even as I showed in every way that I was committed. A couple of times she had panic attacks and curled into a ball while we were out and about. Once she ran from me, genuinely afraid of me, when I had gotten frustrated and made a sarcastic remark.
Because of her past abuse, the physical side of our relationship was also tricky. There were rules here, too, but as a middle-age effective virgin, I was still into it. I’d only had one serious partner in my life, so everything was new and amazing… but for it to also be a hot-cold-voracious-guilt rollercoaster was… confusing. A few times I would be strong enough to say, “If this is too hard, we could just be friends.” But THAT was, as you might imagine, another huge threat to her sense of safety.
Until she concluded the same. We pledged—via email, because by then even text messages were too intense for her—to be good, single friends. Walks, hikes, movies. Love you always. Then no contact for four months. She mailed my keys back to me.
Of course, I still lived next door, and ran into her maybe four times during that span. She seemed stricken a couple of times, and would not speak, not really look up, and twice crossed the street to avoid me. Her dogs were happy to see me, which made it especially awkward. I tell you, I felt like the worst person on earth, a man who failed to be a good partner and caretaker when I thought that was a strength. I was worried that I made her PTSD worse, that she was a wreck…
Until three weeks ago, our anniversary. She said she was sorry for causing me pain and wanted to be friends. I could have fainted dead. We met up for lunch.
She was glowing. She was so happy. Her sons were now both adults and she decided they were going to be just fine, and feeling liberated. She wasn’t ASD, it was just PTSD. She had started a graduate program to become a therapist (something we discussed), happy to both be able to tap her experiences to help others and to have the chance to practice with herself and classmates. She turned her love of cooking into selling her stuff at a local market (something we discussed). gave up her diet because it made it hard to date. And she’d been dating. And had a boyfriend who was taking her out of town for a week. I immediately saw the brilliant woman I first met, and was frankly gutted. I was happy she was happy, I was crushed that she got where she is AFTER me, not WITH me.
My friends tell me she was genuinely troubled and that PTSD doesn’t just vanish in a few months. That she was wearing a mask with me, and that this new boyfriend—with whom she also has amazing commonalities—is getting the same “mimic” behavior. That, if anything, her wanting to reconnect means she’s looking to assuage guilt or regain a part of her still critical support system. That I turned myself inside out for her, and the most important question to ask myself is whether I should be as open to being friends as I am.
I made a lot of changes in my life for her, many positive, many that still persist. I feel like it would be a waste to go through what we did and NOT be friends. But I definitely went through the wringer and I feel like I’m now the one recovering from trauma. I believe in therapy and am going to work on this. But I’d value an objective take.
TDLR; First relationship as a widower was to an amazing but complex woman was very fraught and fell apart. After no contact for four months she asked to meet up, and she was glowing and normal and I’m shook. Was it bad timing and I missed my chance, or is she maybe not really okay? And can we still be friends?
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2024.05.20 00:57 SpriteBerryRemix UAE Golden Visa - non real estate route
Looking at the UAE golden visa like many other people.
If someone does NOT want to invest in real estate or a small/medium business. What are their options? Eg can they open a bank account and deposit the 2M AED? Can they invest in a stock trading account, and if so, must the investments be in UAE based companies only?
TLDR: Want to know what other investment vehicles besides real estate and small/medium businesses are eligible for 2M AED golden visa.
Thank you!
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2024.05.20 00:54 Punjavepoonpoon Americans who played abroad today: 5/18-19/24
May 18th Europe Serie A (Italy) Christian Pulišić (AC Milan) Started at RW and went the full 90’ in a 3-1 loss at Torino (
7.5/
6.88)
0/4 shots on target, 28/31 passing, 3 chances created, 1 penalty won Match Highlights Yunus Musah (AC Milan) Started at RCM and played 76‘ in a 3-1 loss at Torino (
6.6/
6.06)
0/2 shots on target, 24/27 passing, 1 chance created Bundesliga (Germany) Brenden Aaronson (Union Berlin on loan from Leeds Utd) Started at ST and played 79‘ in a 2-1 win against Freiburg. Assisted in the 68th’ (
7.8/
7.78)
0/2 shots on target, 24/26 passing, 4 chances created Match Highlights Kevin Paredes (VfL Wolfsburg) Started at LW and played 45‘ in a 3-1 loss against Mainz 05. Scored in the 18th’ (
7.5/
7.08)
1/1 shot on target, 8/12 passing, 1 chance created Match Highlights Jordan Pefok (Borussia Mönchengladbach on loan from Union Berlin) Started at ST and played 79‘ in a 4-0 loss at VfB Stuttgart (
6.3/
6.12)
0/2 shots on target, 10/17 passing, 1 chance created Match Highlights Damion Downs (FC Köln) Subbed on in the 45th‘ in a 4-1 loss at 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 (
5.8/
5.98)
0/1 shot on target, 5/7 passing Match Highlights Lennard Maloney (1. FC Heidenheim 1846) Started at LCM and went the full 90’ in a 4-1 win against FC Köln (
6.7/
6.78)
22/28 passing, 1 chance created 3. Liga Mael Corboz (Arminia Bielefeld) Started at RCM and went the full 90’ in a 2-0 win at 1860 Munich (
-/
-)
Match Highlights Jalen Hawkins (SV Waldhof Mannheim) Started at LW and played 46‘ in a 2-0 loss at Erzgebirge Aue (
-/
-)
Match Highlights Terrence Boyd (SV Waldhof Mannheim) Started at RST and played 68‘ in a 2-0 loss at Erzgebirge Aue
Mansour Ouro-Tagba (1860 Munich) Subbed on in the 46th‘ in a 2-0 loss against Arminia Bielefeld
Ryan Malone (FC Ingolstadt) Started at RCB and went the full 90’ in a 1-1 draw at SV Sandhausen (
-/
-)
Match Highlights Bryang Kayo (FC Ingolstadt) Started at LB and went the full 90’ in a 1-1 draw at SV Sandhausen
Santiago Castaneda (MSV Duisburg) Started at RCM and went the full 90’ in a 4-0 loss at Dynamo Dresden.Picked up a yellow in the 12th‘ (
-/
-)
Match Highlights Kaan Inanoğlu (MSV Duisburg) Started at RW and played 46‘ in a 4-0 loss at Dynamo Dresden
Justin Butler (Borussia Dortmund II) Started at LW and played 46‘ in a 1-1 draw at Hallescher FC (
-/
-)
Match Highlights Isaiah Young (RW Essen) Started at LW and went the full 90’ in a 3-3 draw at Lubeck.Picked up a yellow in the 63rd‘ (
-/
-)
Match Highlights Eerste Divisie - Playoff - 1st Round - Leg 2 (Dutch 2nd Division) John Hilton (FC Dordrecht) Started at LB and went the full 90’ in a 1-0 loss against FC Emmen. Their eliminated 3-2 on aggregate (
6.7/
-)
26/36 passing, 1 chance created Match Highlights Korede Osundina (FC Dordrecht on loan from Feyenoord) Subbed on in the 62nd‘ in a 1-0 loss against FC Emmen (
6.3/
-)
1/2 shots on target, 4/8 passing Liga NOS (Portugal) Alex Méndez (FC Vizela) Subbed on in the 72nd‘ in a 2-2 draw at Boavista (
6.5/
6.21)
11/13 passing Match Highlights Liga Pro Jude Burst (Lank FCV) Subbed on in the 89th‘ in a 1-1 draw at Feirense. Picked up a yellow in the 90th’ (
-/
-)
Match Highlights Jupiler Pro League (Belgium) Marlon Fossey (Standard Liege) Started at RCB and went the full 90’ in a 4-1 loss against Gent (
5.2/
5.56)
30/34 passing Bryan Reynolds (KVC Westerlo) Started at RB and went the full 90’ in a 2-0 loss against KV Mechelen (
6.3/
6.00)
47/59 passing, 1 chance created Griffin Yow (KVC Westerlo) Started at RW and went the full 90’ in a 2-0 loss against KV Mechelen (
6.5/
6.81)
0/1 shot on target, 16/20 passing NordicBet Liga (Danish 2nd Division) Manny Perez (AC Horsens) Subbed on in the 74th‘ in a 1-1 draw with B.93 FC (
6.1/
-)
3/3 passing Simon Becher (AC Horsens) Started at LST and went the full 90’ in a 1-1 draw with B.93 FC (
6.6/
-)
0/1 shot on target, 18/24 passing, 3 chances created Ryan Laursen (B.93 FC) Started at RCB and went the full 90’ in a 1-1 draw at AC Horsens (
6.6/
-)
53/62 passing, 1 chance created Liga HaAl (Israel) Kenny Saief (Maccabi Haifa) Subbed on in the 66th‘ in a 2-1 win at Bnei Sakhnin (
-/
-)
Match Highlights El Yam Kancepolsky (Hapoel Tel Aviv) Started at LCM and went the full 90’ in a 1-0 win at Hapoel Hadera (
-/
-)
Match Highlights Superettan (Swedish 2nd Division) Arquímedes Ordoñez (Ostersund FK on loan from Cincinnati FC) Subbed on in the 82nd‘ in a 1-0 loss at Skovde AIK (
-/
-)
Match Highlights Adrián Zendejas (Skovde AIK) Started at GK and played 90‘ in a 1-0 win against Ostersund FK. Picked up both yellows in the 90th’
Ekstraklasa (Poland) Danny Trejo (Korona Kielce) Started at LM and played 73‘ in a 2-0 win against Ruch Chorzów (
7.5/
-)
0/3 shots on target, 21/30 passing, 3 chances created Match Highlights Fortuna 1 Liga Szymon Łyczko (Stal Rzeszów) Started at RW and went the full 90’ in a 3-1 win at Górnik Łęczna. Scored in the 83rd’ (
-/
-)
Match Highlights Fortuna Liga (Slovakia) Zyen Jones (FC Kosice) Subbed on in the 55th‘ in a 2-0 win against Zemplin Michalovce (
-/
-)
First Division (Irish 2nd Division) Jamar Campion-Hinds (Athlone Town FC) Subbed on in the 65th‘ in a 1-1 draw at Longford Town (
-/
-)
Amardo Oakley (Athlone Town FC) Started at RW and played 65‘ in a 1-1 draw at Longford Town
Ykkösliiga (Finnish 2nd Division) Lasse Ikonen (TPS) Started at CDM and played 46‘ in a 4-1 loss against FC KTP (
-/
-)
Match Highlights Prva Liga (Slovenia) Barnabás Tanyi (NK Aluminij) Started at RW and played 63‘ in a 3-1 loss against Domzale (
-/
-)
Match Highlights 1.Deild Karla (Icelandic 2nd Division) Omar Sowe (Leiknir Reykjavik) Started at ST and played 78‘ in a 1-0 win against IR Reykjavik. Scored the game winner in the 64th’ and picked up a yellow in the 77th’ (
-/
-)
1.CFL (Montenegro) Luka Malešević (OFK Petrovac) Started at RWB and played 56‘ in a 4-2 loss at Jedinstvo BP (
-/
-)
Prva Makedonska Fudbalska Liga (North Macedonia) Adrien (Tikves) Started at RST and played 85‘ in a 2-2 draw at FK Vardar Skopje (
-/-)
Keith Larson (Makedonija) Started at LW and went the full 90’ in a 5-3 win at AP Brera Strumica. Scored in the 23rd’ and 84th’ and picked up a yellow in the 31st’ (
-/-)
South America Liga de fútbol Profesional (Bolivia)
Paolo Alcócer (Universitario de Vinto) Subbed on in the 62nd‘ in a 2-1 loss at Oriente Petrolero (
-/
-)
Match Highlights LigaPro Serie A (Ecuador) Michael Hoyos (Independiente del Valle) Subbed on in the 46th‘ in a 1-1 draw with LDU de Quito (
-/
-)
Match Highlights May 19th Europe Premier league (England) Tim Ream (Fulham) Started at RCB and went the full 90’ in a 4-2 win at Luton Town (
7.1/
6.72)
48/53 passing Match Highlights Antonee Robinson (Fulham) Started at LB and played 78‘ in a 4-2 win at Luton Town.Picked up a yellow in the 54th‘ (
6.9/
6.51)
30/38 passing Chris Richards (Crystal Palace) Started at LCB and went the full 90’ in a 5-0 win against Aston Villa (
7.3/
7.21)
58/62 passing, 1 chance created Match Highlights Auston Trusty (Sheffield United) Started at CB and went the full 90’ in a 3-0 loss against Tottenham (
5.7/
6.29)
23/26 passing Match Highlights League 2 - Final \*
Jeremy Kelly (Crawley Town) Started at LWB and played 90‘ in a 2-0 win against Crewe Alexandra. Their promoted to League 1 for next season (
7.4/
-)
0/1 shot on target, 44/45 passing Match Highlights La Liga (Spain) Johnny (Real Betis) Started at RCM and went the full 90’ in a 2-0 loss against Real Sociedad (
5.9/
6.15)
0/2 shots on target, 54/66 passing Match Highlights Luca de la Torre (Celta Vigo) Started at LCM and played 45‘ in a 2-1 win at Granada (
6.6/
6.41)
1/1 shot on target, 12/15 passing Match Highlights Segunda Division Konrad de la Fuente (SD Eibar on loan from Olympique Marseille) Subbed on in the 46th‘ in a 1-0 win against Cartagena (
6.9/
-)
2/2 shots on target, 7/7 passing, 2 chances created Match Highlights 2. Bundesliga (German 2nd Division) Julian Green (SpVgg Greuther Fürth) Subbed on in the 90th‘ in a 2-0 win against Schalke 04 (
-/
6.23)
0/1 shot on target, 1/1 pass Nils Fröling (FC Hansa Rostock) Started at RW and played 63‘ in a 2-1 loss against Paderborn. Scored in the 48th’ (
7.5/
7.61)
1/1 shot on target, 8/12 passing, 2 chances created Johan Gómez (Eintracht Braunschweig) Started at LCM and went the full 90’ in a 5-0 loss at Kaiserslautern (
6.6/
5.83)
1/3 shots on target, 13/23 passing, 1 chance created Eredivisie (Netherlands) Richard Ledezma (PSV) Subbed on in the 84th‘ in a 3-1 win against RKC Waalwijk (
-/
6.29)
1/1 shot on target, 6/6 passing Match Highlights Ricardo Pepi (PSV) Subbed on in the 84th‘ in a 3-1 win against RKC Waalwijk (
6.3/
6.32)
0/2 shots on target, 5/6 passing Malik Tillman (PSV on loan from Bayern Munich) Started at LW and played 63‘ in a 3-1 win against RKC Waalwijk (
7.4/
7.11)
3/5 shots on target, 23/27 passing, 1 chance created Taylor Booth (FC Utrecht) Started at RW and played 71‘ in a 3-3 draw at AZ Alkmaar (
6.1/
6.04)
0/2 shots on target, 16/21 passing Match Highlights Paxten Aaronson (Vitesse on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt) Started at RCM and went the full 90’ in a 2-2 draw with Ajax (
7.6/
7.48)
1/2 shots on target, 15/19 passing, 1 chance created Match Highlights Zach Booth (FC Volendam on loan from Leicester City) Subbed on in the 72nd‘ in a 2-1 loss against Go Ahead Eagles (
6.3/
5.97)
3/3 passing Match Highlights Ligue 1 (France) Folarin Balogun (AS Monaco) Started at RST and played 83‘ in a 4-0 win against Nantes (
6.7/
7.05) 0/2 shots on target, 9/11 passing
Emmanuel Sabbi (Le Havre) Subbed on in the 66th‘ in a 2-1 loss against Marseille.Picked up a yellow in the 82nd‘ (
6.3/
6.03) 0/1 shot on target, 2/3 passing
Match Highlights Premier League (Scotland) Scott Pittman (Livingston FC) Started at LCM and went the full 90’ in a 1-1 draw with Hibernian (
6.6/
6.12) 14/24 passing, 1 chance created
Match Highlights Bundesliga (Austria) George Bello (LASK) Started at LWB and went the full 90’ in a 7-1 loss at RB Salzburg (
6.7/
-)
17/21 passing, 1 chance created Sebastian Soto (SK Austria Klagenfurt) Started at RW and played 72‘ in a 2-0 loss at Sturm Graz (
6.3/
-)
1/1 shot on target, 9/13 passing Match Highlights Fortuna Liga (Czech Republic) Laurent Kissiedou (FK Pardubice) Started at RCM and went the full 90’ in a 4-0 win against Karvina (
-/
-)
1.HNL (Croatia) Rokas Pukštas (Hajduk Split) Started at RCM and went the full 90’ in a 2-1 win against HNK Gorica. Scored the game winner in the 64th’ (
7.7/
-)
2/3 shots on target, 12/17 passing, 1 chance created Match Highlights Superettan (Swedish 2nd Division) Erik McCue (Örebro SK) Started at RCB and went the full 90’ in a 0-0 draw at Landskrona BoIS (
-/
-)
Match Highlights Ekstraklasa (Poland) Ben Lederman (Raków Częstochowa) Started at RCM and played 68‘ in a 2-0 loss at Cracovia (
6.6/
-) 0/1 shot on target, 37/41 passing, 3 chances created
Match Highlights Nemzeti Bajnokság I (Hungary) Henry Wingo (Ferencvárosi TC) Started at RCB and went the full 90’ in a 2-0 win against Ujpest (
-/
-)
Match Highlights Ykkösliiga (Finnish 2nd Division) Noah Levis (Mikkelin Palloilijat) Subbed on in the 64th‘ in a 3-0 loss against JaePS (
-/
-)
Match Highlights Gabriel Oksanen (SJK II) Started at RB and went the full 90’ in a 2-0 win against SalPa (
-/
-)
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2024.05.20 00:48 Turbulent_Mountain $50 DoorDash Gift Card for Interview About Home Buying Experience in Seattle
Title says it all. I'm looking to learn about the real estate purchasing process in Seattle for an article I'm writing. Looking for 6 participants. Each will get a $50 DoorDash gift card.
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2024.05.20 00:48 DefiantSoup1839 Would you give me your opinion about rooftop expansion business?
Hello! I am Damian, a 27 year old civil engineer with more than three years of experience in the design of steel structures (for houses, buildings and warehouses).
I am very interested in real estate development, to the point that I am currently doing a postgraduate degree in real estate development.
For some time I have been wanting to take a step towards independence, and start working in something that links steel engineering and real estate development (since in the long term my idea is to dedicate myself to real estate development).
Lately I have been evaluating the possibility of starting a business dedicated to the construction of rooftop extensions in urban centers. I understand that, on the one hand, people need more frequently the contact with "nature" and the "open air" without leaving their comfort zone (their home), and spending the least amount of money possible (that is, without having to move or change apartments). This added to the fact that the density per m2 in urban centers is growing day by day, I see it as a good possibility to combine my knowledge and start getting closer to my long term goal (real estate development).
What is your opinion on this? Do you think it is something that can work today? What do you think I should take into account?
A small example of the extensions to which I am referring:
https://www.archdaily.com/966606/president-roof-extension-central-office-for-architecture-and-urbanism?ad_source=myad_bookmarks&ad_medium=bookmark-open Thank you very much!
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2024.05.20 00:44 Cruces_30 Im 28 years old, with nothing to my name, no savings, just a 60k/year job. Is it too late for me to become succesful one day? My dream is to own real estate to rent out and live off that one day
I fucked around and wasted my 20s, now im starting to see how important saving and planning for the future was. The good thing is i dont have any kids or debt, and im a truck driver and live on the road so i dont have to pay rent or utility bills, which means i will be able to save up faster than normally.
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But i also wonder if its even worth it, im already almost 30, it just sucks that i wasted a whole decade, if i had saved up i couldve already bought my first property, now i need to wait another decade of saving up. My dream is to own a trailer park(weird dream i know), but thats obviously gonna take a lot of time and money, by the time i have my trailer park as im envisioning it i will probably already be over 50. I just feel like time is running out.
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