So just today I noticed my K&N filter on my 05 2500HD duramax was completely off the intake pipe, just resting on the parts below it. Tried to simply put it back on and retighten it but no matter how hard I tighten it, it’ll just slip off. Super frustrating I’ve tried cleaning the oil off the lip, and sanding it down with sandpaper for it to have something to grab on to but still nothing. Pretty urgent I use this truck daily for work if anyone can help me it would be appreciated !!

I regularly commute over the Ballard Bridge by bike. I’d prefer any other route but it’s often necessary. Lately I’ve been noticing that drivers are going about double the posted speed limit (limit is 30 mph and most seem to be driving between 45 and 60), which is terrifying to bike next to, especially given the already harrowing crossing (cracked, debris-laden sidewalk with a low barrier between pedestrians and traffic as well as walkers, bikers, scooters needing to negotiate passing each other within a narrow strip). It’s getting scarier daily as drivers realize there are zero repercussions for grossly speeding (I regularly go 9 miles over the speed limit but double the limit seems profoundly irresponsible). What can be done here and elsewhere in the city where doubtless the same gross speeding behaviors are making biking (and probably walking) less safe? If the city doesn’t have the cash to pay for legions of traffic cops can we at least get some photo enforcement cameras? What would be the process for bringing about something like this? Are petitions remotely useful? Do I need to connect with a cyclist group with some lobbying clout (Cascade Bicycle Club?) to make this happen? Thoughts?

Ive had almost all of them at some point, The Jordan 1's are really uncomfortable, I use my shoes for everything. walking around running etc. The insole is way too thin, I step on a sharp rock and It litteraly hurts, My daily beaters are the air force 1's *in black of course* theyre really comfortable and can be used for anything.. literally.
I am looking to swap out my af1's for some Jordans, Leave a comment on which one is most comfortable!

Hey! This post is mainly about roleplaying online, but there are things involving D&D too. I hope it is okay to make a post like this! If anyone wants to use this story for their video, feel free to.
Disclaimer: I talk about self worth a lot, and how I harmed myself mentaly by thinking how worthless I was. Also there is a subtle mention of my self harm past. Just in case someone has problems being confronted with this!
Disclaimer 2: There is a transphobic comment coming from a person, that I don't see as to bad, but some might see as worse than I do. Also there is transphobia towards genderfluid people, so look out for yourself.
Disclaimer 3: This person is NOT transphobic, but they were pretty uninformed and unsensitive. This doesn't make it better, but I clearly want to seperate transphobic statements from being actively hateful towards trans people.
So I was roleplaying ever since 2016, when I was 14 years old. A few years later, I met a guy, which I'll call Chris in the context of this post. Our first time meeting online was tied to some drama. For roleplaying, we made wikis for our characters, and often would use existing characters from games and medias as a design reference. When I used a reference, Chris was really pissed, because he announced that he would use this character a few dqys ago, and I was already writing a character with that as their reference. I knew he planned that, and didn't say anything, thinking it would be better to just speed it up. Dumb decision of me, rough start, but soon we'd get along. It was pretty fun, we were both sorta the memeish people, and he seemed to be a nice guy.
We soon became friends, after I went into an RP break. During that break I needed to sort things out, due to covid and my outing as a trans fem, and a difficult relationship with my parents. I had a bad case of... thoughts and it hurt my self awareness, and self view on my "worth in life", but once that was sorted out, I decided to play again, and went into a older Roleplay, hosted by Chris. There were still some leftovers of lacking self love, though it got eventualy better during roleplay. Soon I realized that Cris and I would argue often about the simplest things. I decided it was not a big deal, and we would get passed these issues, sometimes without resolving it, sometimes with me being able to lay my stubborness away, which I am not proud of. In the cases in which he started the fight, I sometimes felt gaslit into thinking that I was the problem. It hurt my vision of my own worth, and I started to skill evasion, to not talk about certain things, just not to get reminded of how "worthless" I am. Sometimes I told Chris about this issue, and he'd be empathetic, but calmly said I need to work on it. He had a lot of self love, it felt like he couldn't understand my issue, but I don't know anything specific, after all I can't look into someones head. I think he meant well, but it felt unsensitive, and unempathetic at the end.
The roleplay he hosted took place in a big world, with a really awesome lore, not only in terms of world building, but also in terms of characters and species. The big issue I had was, that Chris introduced enemies to me, that he planned to be introduced in the roleplay way later, while he planned more and more main enemies to exist. As far as I know, the first main enemy still is the main enemy, despite being introduced for almost 4 years now. And paired with his situational motivation to roleplay (which is completely fine generaly, but then we'd need a solution for the main enemies), and his and my tendencies to create character after character (I had 63 characters for that roleplay), we never got to progress, and instead thickened our own characters plots.
One situation was pretty odd. When coping with trans discrimination, I often write stories or characters, that faced these problems too. That way I often felt like I could make it out of my strange situations too. I made a character that I was really proud of, gave her a trans fem backstory, that was one of the better one's I have written at that time and made her a badass, etherial bookworm with magic powers. Chris said that her issues with her trans discriminatory parents would be unrealistic, due to the utopic monarchy they'd live in, and because his queen character could change trans peoples bodies if they'd like to, by using magic. It was honestly weird, because I didn't know if he was supportive there, or unsupportive in that moment, but I know that it made me sad, and I stopped making her trans identity imoortant to progress the plot between her and her parents. This was also a character he often talked down, and Chris often stated his dislike towards her. (That was not of transphobic background, he just didn't like her character and I guess her skill set)
I also made a character that could shift from male to female, and the other way around, based on the skills used. It also was a solution for me wanting to use two design references without having to chose one, and dable into non-binary umbrella story writing, and play a genderfluid person, because I never did that before. After researching on those gender identities, I was hyped to try it out. He also stated, that he thought her being female-only would be cooler. My mind told me, that we potentialy would have this conversation more often, so to not get annoyed by him later on, I changed that person into a cis-female, which I think was really sad.
We had a solidified group of 5ish players that often did stuff together on discord. Sometimes some other people would join our discord server and talk. Daily roleplay players were peaking at... idk 10-15 players probably. Chris, me, and Arin (a friend of us, not his real name) often would hangout in the discord, talk about the roleplay and some funny, silly stuff. Memes were made, we made fun of each others characters (consentualy) and talk about nerdy shit often. At one point, we'd make silly tier lists, which I sometimes took to serious, because most of them were just silly stuff and I got offended by those... which I am also not proud of and have apologized for.
The only exception in which things were rather weird, were the power scale tierlists. My characters usualy got ranked into the higher middle spots, but sometimes I felt like Chris would talk some of them down a little. Having some characters be weaker was sometjing I was always open too, sometimes I would make younger and unexperienced characters after all. Even if he didn't talk down on my characters (which is possible too, those tierlists were subjective after all) then he definitely did with others. Other players characters we wouldn't regularly play with, were seen as weaker, which I thought was weird. Knowing all of those characters was impossible, because there were 120ish at the time, but they were still ranked, and the tierlists were publicaly posted in the roleplay chat. Some people got offended by that, which I can understand.
There was some out of rp stuff too, that annoyed me about Chris. Often it was about being the #1 simp of media character X, Y, Z... you name them. It got pretty out of hand, but once I told him directly, that I think that this attitude was annoying, and that he can't look at other people and be like "Yeah, this person doesn't love my waifu as much as I do", and that it was a weird thing to rank ik the first olace, it got quiter in that region.
Sometimes we argued about music, and he tried to come off as more informed as me, a metal/death screamer, and djent guitarist, with music theory as a hobby. And I'm not trying to say he couldn't, but he said some very uninformed stuff, and tried to gatekeep... I guess the subject "Favorite music"? by saying stuff like "People who don't know their favorite songs lyrics obviously don't have that as their favorite". That statement is weird, because as a guitarist, in some songs I pay more attention to the guitars more, than the lyrics. Especially because I have ADHD and often get distracted when trying to listen to song lyrics. We both regularly listened to japanese music too, which we both can't speak nor understand. It'd bring me down into thinking, that I might not be a great musician, or that I was to radical when someone hurts my feelings, or simply says something weird and uninformed. But I showed this to other friends, and they said that I was not. Even Arin often would find the reason for the arguements rediculous, and 9/10 times it was coming from Chris.
Arin would soon start to feel like me and Chris fighting would be nothing unusual, and that was a reality check for me if I ever had one. At some point, I realized when I got into a different discord server, and was being more involved with my real life friends again, that something fell off in the friendship between me and Chris. But at that time, me, Arin and Chris prepared a pirate setting D&D campaigne, which I was extremely excited about. I used to play D&D when I was 15-16 years old, and remembered having fun, so getting back to it was a great thing for me. I made a female babarian, weilding a sword and a axe, with a high roll of 15 strength, and was really happy with her. Her backstory was sorta basic, but it was still tragic and it was good enough for me to enjoy. I roughly remember, it was about her losing her family, and her becoming a mercinary, that would be part of a two people pirate crew now, because she got payed to.
All of this was for nothing though. Me and Chris fought again. The fight was about a word, that I used in a romantic context, him not knowing the word, and after googling the definition, thinking it couldn't be used in that situation. Both of us would get stupidly mad. He said some really hurtful shit, saying that I would weigh my friendships now, and that my new friends would be more important to me now. Me, Chris and some other frienfs had a Gartic Phone session coming up, hosted by me, and we didn't talk before or after that, because I told him that I need distance to sort things out. But sorting things out would mean to finally distance myself from him this time, and thus I ended the friendship.
The D&D campagne dropped, I spent more time with my other friends, and... never got to play D&D ever since. (It's been 2 years now) The same campaigne was DMed by Arin later on, when his girlfriend took my place instead. I can understand Arins decision, and we are not in bad blood, he is still my friend. Yet it felt like a kick in the face, because all my friends would have a campaigne now, and I was left in the dark, noticing people get to play D&D left and right. And his girlfriend told me that she thought Chris was really exhausting to play with too. To be gair though, I never adressed this issue with Arin, because he is constantly DMing for 2 years now, in a group with Chris. I feel like telling him this would make things either worse, and it feels like I'd pushy.
What was worse though, I talked to Chris nearly every day, leaving me with a feeling that something really important was torn away, because I ended the friendship. It felt like I did something stupid again, and I felt worthless again, until I got told otherwise. I tried coming back to that specific roleplay multiple times again, and roleplay with a friend of me and Chris, even trying to be in contact with Chris again. He has definitely changed, but after a few weeks of contact, I decided we couldn't stay in contact, and slowly let the contact slip away from us, without starting any fight. Any attempt for roleplay is ruined for me now, but I think I'd give D&D another try.
I definitely did some stupid shit too, because I got really emotional. But after building a wall between me and Chris, I noticed that a lot of the crap in our friendship was not just coming from me. That I was allowed to love myself too, and that he gaslit me often. I'm not sure if I ever get back to pure roleplay, but after 2 years, I am willing to give D&D another chance, after feeling left out for such a long time now.

I've ran classic about 10-15 times and not once made it past wave 25, the second rival fight. Every time I get there its been a fully helpless stomp, usually because his lead starter tends to be level 18 while my party ranges between 17-14, and if they have any particularly cheesy stuff like a water starter with aqua jet I can't seem to do anything. I ran the daily run and made it all the way to 50 but couldn't beat the legendary at the end, Landorus just spammed earthquake and I didn't get enough heling items in the lead up to not just get swept. Along the way I got a shiny Naclstack which from what I've heard is great because Gargancl is strong, so I mainly had a few questions

1. Is it worth running a shiny Nacli now that I have him even though he takes absolutely forever to level up? I feel like he'd be dead weight for too long given he evolves at 28 and 38 and would be starting at 5
   
2. How valuable are the upgrades from candies? Are the passive abilities just always active or do they just let you swap their ability? How much does the cost reduction actually reduce, and what (if any) methods are there to get candies other than just catching that type of mon repeatedly?
   
3. During my daily run I got egg vouchers, but I haven't used them because I'm not sure how they work yet. If I get an egg from a gacha in the middle of a run and it hatches, does that just unlock the pokemon for future runs? or do I get to use it then and there? If I get an egg mid run and fail the run, do I keep the egg? Should I be focusing on Shiny/Legendary/Move Eggs?
   
4. For starter pokemon I've just been sticking to a fire/wategrass, typically with starters that I either like for personal/nostalgia reasons, and sometimes for the strength of their lategame type combos. Does this initial choice matter as much as I think it does? Or are starters more or less abandoned at a point?
   

Any other tips you might have I'd appreciate, I've been having a lot of fun despite getting completely slapped by my rival every time which speaks a lot to the merits of the game itself lol

Hello! I've had my cmax for 2 years now. It was my daily drover. Recently, I purchased a new car and that car has been in the driveway charging instead.
For about 2 weeks now, we've been using the cmax and plugging it in but leaving it parked in the street as a regular hybrid.
Today, I went outside and the car was dead. I had to jump it, then I started reading about battery issues and learned this thing has to have the whole trunk taken apart to remove the battery.
My question is: Do I have to charge this in the driveway to somehow charge the 12 volt battery as well? Or is the battery just bad for some reason? I would normally just assume the battery is dead and needs to be replaced, but I've been reading that the batteries in these are not very good, and it has me wondering.
Thanks!

I’ve just started getting into jazz during the pandemic, and it was a bit of a struggle transitioning from classical to something less formal. I’ve learned so much, such as the common vernacular ie, comping, vamping, leading, rhythm, and other terms that I’m sure I haven’t mentioned that are used in jazz.
Today, I was tidying up my music folder and realized, “Wow! I’ve played a lot of tunes in a month.” This leads me to wonder: how do you fit a piece or a few into your repertoire that you REALLY want to memorize and perhaps turn into a sol but excited about jamming at a session with others which goes through so many songs? And at what point do tunes become recognizable by their chord progressions?
Mind you, I work on my 2-5-1 progressions daily with chords, scales, arpeggios, and chord inversions using the Circle of Fourths. When I took a jazz ensemble course at our local community college, our teacher said that we would eventually notice these patterns. Perhaps I’m a bit tardy and not seeing it right now.
Oh, and by the way, when I was in the college jazz ensemble, I was stressed every day! The music was fast-paced, and I was just getting used to four chord changes in each measure and in cut time. Ugh. I really struggled with it. But on the other hand, the community jazz jam rocks! I’m not a star in the group, but on a personal level, I’ve learned so much.
Thank you for reading. This has been an incredible journey for me.

Good morning,
This morning I received a notification from Apple Pay that my payment to SMRT was declined. I’m using a debit card and when I checked my bank account, I confirmed there are still sufficient funds available. However, when I tried to tap in to the transit system, it didn’t work.
Interestingly, I was still able to withdraw cash from an ATM and book a Gojek ride to work without any issues.
I called my bank to see what was going on, and they said there was no declined payment on their end. I also checked my daily spending limit, and I’m well within it.
Has anyone else experienced this? What could be causing the issue, and how can I fix it?
Thanks in advance for your help!

I was diagnosed with melanoma about 5 years ago. I work a job where I’m outside most of the day. I’ve been using Banana Boat as my daily but was looking for something that maybe lasts a bit longer so I don’t have to apply it as often and something possibly better quality as well. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

Good evening dear fellas. I've been playing this game since the release, and sadly, the game is still great, but the community feels full of angry kids. It is really unplayable, and im not tryharding so from c2/c3 im around plat/dia now not rly caring to rank up too much. And good Lord, there are some decent players, but nowadays u can't talk at all to get the feeling of others because u will be called a "smartass" "kid" "whateverinsultavailable" etc. It's ridiculous now, normally when we play i try to feel the player, and if he doesn't follow for example i'll say in spare time that i will try to passback for setup shot for him, so try to position in middle. And i kid u not, over 90% of the time ill hear "bro thinks he smart xD" or "u suck 12kid" . When i ask why do they think so or why the insults im reported for writing "bibles" or "paragraphs" for using 1 longer sentence. Are people so belittled today that they take anything as insult? What's up with the community? It changed sooo much and i just noticed that it's really impossible to communicate. I assume the better players have chat off cause they are silent usually. But my god, its stupid, it is the way i learned a word "double commitment" years ago and the meaning, but now people automatically assume they are insulted and respond with negativity. Do You have any advice, i just want to enjoy the game, passes, plays, etc, but im introvert and most my friends are either done with this game, or playing 5 min daily. I can't seem to communicate with people like i used to here, even to say how i play, which was always normal in every game i played, even here. Not now apparently. Am i just having hard time cause of any matchmaking reasons? I try to be more delicate than with my own gf, but the more i try to explain i don't want to insult someone, the more they seem to just ignore whatever i write and take for granten they are being insulted somehow. When i ask how they throw insults not related anyhow. I play daily in "tough" communities of varying games, round of League,cod,fifa, name the worst, but only here i can't seem to get any "understanding" with people.

[fucking long] (22m) I genuinely don't remember when I was last happy, like I remember when my parents were together in a decent looking house in a higher middle class neighborhood when my second sibling was born enjoying the time we spent together just playing outside with our rude neighbors and petting our cats indoors and just being kids. Not long after that we went for a walk by a pond with some geese and my mother became irate with my father said some stuff (that I honestly don't remember) and took his tin of dip pouches, told me to eat some and threw the rest to geese. Afterwards my father tried to get me to spit them up we went home. I don't think we talked about it or even went to a doctor. 2 years after that we were staying at my grandparents house bc my grandma was terminal, and maybe a week or two after she passes. We went to the funeral I was crying and crying and I don't remember what else happened. I don't know why but after that I was told that we were going to go see Grandpa again and to get ready, when I went to my room I remember crying and choking myself with a cord to some kids magnify glass (I don't know why I did that) and I don't remember the trip. We ended moving again but were in the same town. My last sibling was born, I ended up getting to choose his middle name pretty prideful of it. My father and mother fight bc my mother feels neglected, so my father ops to work nights. My mother feels that my father doesn't help with the family, he cooks meals 4 times a week. My mother thinks we should be going to therapy, so we do. The therapist thinks I have depression, so I get prescribed antidepressants at 8. Turns out I'm allergic and break out into hives, ended up going to the hospital and getting prescribed steroids. (This happened 3 times total) Parents have a big fight bc Mom was caught with another man in the house, mother moves us to a different town closer to her family. Mom takes me with her to see father in original house at night, he's on the porch sitting in the doorway just sleeping and loopy. Mother is waking him up saying something about him having a problem. (Years later he told me that paramedics were called on him since he nearly ODed on opioids, and he nearly died) Dad comes to check on us and parents are being happy again. Mother's family doesn't like dad (apparently my grandfather is super racist and found out that my father is 1/4 aa from his grandmother. IDK why he never said bitched about it years before, but different matter.) They get back together in the original house, and not even a year later I see my mother talking to a random guy in a laundry mat bring it up to her and she starts hitting me telling me to forget it. More time they fight, we end up leaving in the middle of the night with my father being put into a cop car. (He was released a day later doing nothing to my mother. But what's funny is that the expensive stuff that was bought for my siblings and self was seemingly gone, with my father saying that he assumes that it was my mother and our pothead neighbors nextdoor.) Mother ended up moving us around three times before we stayed in a the same shitty town that my mother was born in with 3 potheads my mother said were her friends. (Personal hatred of stoners) I licked a spoon from a pot of jambalaya, so the prick that my mother was dating waited until I went to sleep and scared me awake [while wearing a balaklava and all black] holding me down, before getting off of me saying that he scared me and to never eat from the ladle again. My cousin let me smoke some weed with him that he never said was laced until I later asked(I don't remember what is was but I remember everything looking static and blocky). I threaten to call the cops on the prick that my mother was dating if he did anything to them. So my mother puts me in a program called options, I was there for a month before my father pulled me out of it. My mother moves to a trailer next to a daycare, I end up riding a short bus and end up going to the daycare. I ended up fighting with the caretaker saying that I could just take care of myself over at my home, and later that night I get into another fight with the prick my mother was dating. Got put in another options clinic further away and labeled with Asperger's before getting it changed to autism and AdHD without even testing me, was two weeks before my father pulled me out. My mother gets me again, takes me with her to a Kroger parking lot where she sells her pills to someone. I mentioned it to my father when I saw him again. Some time later we went back to the stoner house and my father goes there and started yelling and following my mother outside where she was putting us kids in the car. (Apparently he found out that my mother was letting us be around these people who 2 of them had SA charges with one of them being with a minor.) Before decking the shit out of the prick and break his jaw (unfortunately only needed to get his jaw wired for a month). Aunt saw a text message from my father on the phone that was given to me [said that he was sorry that my siblings and me had to experience all of that] and ripped it out of my hands saying that I should never talk to him. My father ended up being put in jail for a year. My mother left the prick and got together with a dirt bag that my father used to be friends with. They would typically go out to eat with his daughters leaving us at home and give us the scraps from their take out or just tell us to make something ourselves (I was 13 and never taught anything), after that I got pissed and ended up disappearing for a whole day because I didn't want to go to school and ended up having some cops looking for me and amber alert and being sent to live with my dad. (I don't care I fucking won) Some time later I ended up breaking my leg from roller skating in school and permanently getting it removed from the criteria and ruining everyone's 7th grade year. (feel like a winner) Moving to a new town with dad(final town to this day), going to highschool. [Retrospect] Some cute girl sat across from me at the library wanting to interlock hands, so I did. She asked if it felt special (I didn't know what that meant to me), I said no and she never talked to me again. Another cute girl, asked me on the last day of middle school if I was interested in anyone and if I wanted to date. I said no (I didn't think I deserved anything and didn't want to waste her time) Freshman year I ended up "e-dating" two people I met on Wattpad(I am aware how cringe I am). First person was someone who suffered anorexia and we used Skype would talk daily and she ended up breaking things up 3 weeks after. Second person was someone who wanted to talk and watch each other sleep before she ultimately changed it to having us sext(hoimomes and teens) her friend wanted her to break up saying that I was probably some old man who was a pedo. (I did not leave that area of the Internet in the healthiest way possible, both for my mental being and how I left the people on there) Pretty much zoomed though highschool stabbing someone freshman year, being thought to be a potential shooter, and overall being treated with fear and respect. Though some people did think I was wasting my potential, especially since I never did my homework but always scored high on my tests and was always asleep at home. Highschool graduation was ruined by COVID, I didn't care. Got a job working on a warehouse dock buying knifes and testing how sharp they were on the top side of only one of my arms, slowly breaking mentally before asking a friend(19m) out saying that was fearful that I was nothing more than a background friend.. 9 months and 3 grand later we broke up (and I don't talk to him to this day) Quit the job, was unemployed for a year just sleeping in bed all day, wound up poisoning my self with caffeine pills so bad that I was taken to a hospital. Got another job, wound up continuing the knife hobby before stopping (stopped feeling any emotion related to the pain, so it was pointless) and got into a different hobby (to burry any resentment or negative feelings) And that's been going up until today with me getting so bored that I was curious how much weight I would lose if I stopped eating every other day. (Lost 25lbs from 210 to 185 yoyo-ing 180 if I don't eat enough calories)
all I feel daily is nothing but empty and tired. The only reason that I am still here is the self hatred for everything I've done wrong by own admission or what I've been told by horrible mother.
Tldr: I am the mistake of two fuck ups and am still here by the means of so much self hatred that I ignore my loneliness.

Hey all,
I played violin as a child until my late teens and haven’t touched a violin since. My 5 year old has been begging me weekly if not nearly daily for a violin and to teach her how to play since last October. She just turned 5 in December.
I used to play videos of violinists playing Disney songs and just random music on our television while they were playing with their toys so I think that’s where she may have made the decision that she wanted to learn.
I was going to order her either a 1/8 or 1/4 off Amazon since they’re only $60-$80 and there’s no rental places near me.
Am I crazy for wanting to introduce it to her this early? I’ve been putting it off thinking it’s a phase of wants but she’s been relentless about asking to learn. Would it be detrimental to get it for her, help her learn how to hold it and make noise while we look into the possibility of Suzuki in the fall? Is she too young for Suzuki? I don’t want to avoid exposure because I think it’s too young if she does have a genuine interest. Any thoughts?

I use my new world translation for rolling joints now. My partner and I call them holy rollers. What kinda of things do you do in your daily life that make you smile because you can do them now, or because it made you happy to be a little spiteful?

**What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.**

Gaming, that’s pretty much it. My daily computer for photo editing and the like is a Mac (sorry pc builders).
I play a lot of OW2 on my boyfriends computer, but I want a computer where I can play most games. I'm expanding from console and looking to explore.
I asked my PC building buddy for some ideas and this is what he gave me, please let me know thoughts or any suggestions for changes: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/6MZ334

**What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?**

Probably around $2,000, though this is not super firm. I can be semi-flexible if needed, but I would prefer to be sensible and not go too crazy with my spending.

**When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.**

Pretty much ASAP. I’ve been hoarding savings and now that I’m out of school with a stable job I can afford to treat myself. I’d like to start right away.

**What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc\)**

Tower & OS

**Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?**

BC, Canada

**If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.**

Logitech MX Master Mouse & Keyboard. ASUS monitor, though I will upgrade later on down the line.

**Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?**

Nope, don't know enough about it

**Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)**

Thinking at least 32gb RAM, probably at least 2 tb storage.

**Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?**

I like the Fractal North case. Not sure if XL is needed?

**Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?**

Yes, but I wouldn’t know where to start as my daily laptop is MacOS

Hello veggit friends from the United States, Canada or Mexico
I am a new vegan and I have recently tried some fantastic dehydrated quinoa burgers. I would like to know who here knows and/or likes quinoa burgers? If so, how often do you consume them?
I would appreciate your answers and if you could tell us where you are writing to us from.
Thank you very much for your answers, I would appreciate it if you could also answer the following questions

1. What are your favorite brands of quinoa burgers and why? (flavor, texture, ingredients, price, etc.)
2. In what type of establishments do you prefer to buy quinoa burgers (supermarkets, specialty stores, restaurants, etc.) and at what price do you get them?
3. What do you think about the current availability of quinoa burgers in the market? Do you think there is enough variety and options to choose from?
4. What factors would motivate you to try a new brand or type of vegan/vegetarian burger?
5. Do you have a preference regarding the format of the quinoa burger? (frozen, refrigerated, fresh, etc.)
6. Did you know that dehydrating quinoa helps preserve its nutritional content, including vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, for longer storage periods compared to frozen quinoa? What do you think then about purchasing dehydrated quinoa burgers for quick and nutritious use in your daily life and what price would you be willing to pay for this product?

I think I need to buy dedicated daily training shoes. I've been using a Saucony Kinvara 14 for my long runs, about 10k or at least an hour and a half. They fit me well and are very comfortable and soft but along the end of my long runs I can sense a feel of sluggishness and my legs getting more tired. So I thought maybe I needed something with more stack underneath to help keep my legs fresh and so I've thought of these two.
So, does anybody have any experience in wearing both? I would like your thoughts on them. Personally, I'm a bit partial to the Mach 6 since I know they have a lower drop and higher stack but if the comfort and the probably better upper that the Ride 17 has going on is making conflicted.
Would appreciate any thoughts on either shoes. Thank you very much.

My boyfriend (25m) of 3 years has been the literal bane of my(24f) existence as of late and I'm so tired of it.
I want to give some information on our relationship for context. We are a generally happy couple, we both have been through alot of stuff together which I'm not going to get into entirely because it's not relevant. One thing I Will mention is drug addiction was a big issue for us but both of us have worked on our selves alot and have grown from the past. We are best friends who love each other so much, people always say they want a relationship like ours.
Now for the problem. I have always had issues with looking after myself, I have bpd and I'm in the process of being diagnosed for ADHD and in recent months since starting medication I have been alot happier and more productive but I'm definitely still a messy person who doesnt shower every single day. My bf hates this and calls me lazy because I don't tidy enough or clean myself daily. He knows I've always struggled with this and I honestly do try to keep on top of it but he doesn't see it like this and always jokes about me being really gross and smelling bad. I used to be picked on alot because of my hygiene and he knows this, so this does sort of trigger me in day to life because I'm extremely self conscious of my smell. I know I don't smell bad but he does this alot that I almost believe it.
He's been very angry and nitpicky at me because of the issue mentioned, but he being like this with almost everything that I say that's slightly positive. The dynamic has been going like so.I'll say something, he will disagree with little to no reason, Ill push back and he'll get really angry and a fight will happen. For example; he had finally gotten a job and passport (I was the breadwinner for a while) and I suggested booking a vacation, and I was met with an attitude and him saying "no, I'm not booking a vacation. I'm saving this money to buy a house!" He had this job for 3 days when he said this btw, and when I pushed back about him being negative, like clockwork he snapped. This is the way we've been for a few weeks on almost any topic that I bring up that's ANYTHING and I mean ANYTHING positive and open minded. I'm really starting to think he might secretly hate me or something because who the fuck wouldn't want to go abroad after finally getting a new passport?? WHAT WAS THE POINT? I asked him for a break for a few days after we had a pretty bad fight, and he was really offended by it. He seemed surprised too, which I don't understand because I've literally been like a ticking time bomb from the shit he's been giving me. I want peace and joy in my life and he is literally draining me of it.
I just really need some sort of level headed advice. Like am I pushing him too much? Is he just an asshole? Am I crazy? I feel like I hurt him so I feel guilty and I just want things to be okay.

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Who here suffers from slow transit constipation? I will go 4 or 5 days with going if I don’t force it. Longest I went was 2 weeks. I have SEVERE hemorrhoids both internal and external. I can’t seem to find the right med. NOT LOOKING FOR MEDICATION RECOMMENDATIONS. I have tried linzess and it just caused horrendous diarrhea. I use miralax but taking it daily will also cause that. Any natural remedies you have found helpful? M

Is anyone successfully using one bag for the daily urban commute (i.e. bus/metro/train not car)? I have to take a laptop to and from the office 3 days a week on a hybrid schedule. Backpacks are more comfortable but I always struggle with needing my commuter pass to be easily accessible. A backpack plus a small crossbody would work but then I feel like a bag lady. Anyone managing it with just one bag? If so please share which one. Thanks!