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First of all maybe this is written awfully but I just don't know from where to start and I need desprete help. I (16F) my boyfriend (16M) we knew each other since 8th grade but we started getting close back in March 2024. him and I have been dating for good two months and let me tell you the amount of shit we had to go through to just date were uncountable from fighting my crazy Psycho ex who SA me which I kind of didn't move on from plus his mum finding out Abt our relationship and threatened to call my mum also she tried to manipulate him into thinking I am playing him and I am dating two guys at the same time. It was horrible, really bad era that I would never wish to go back to. And Bec of the trauma my late ex caused my mental state probably isn't the best plus I got a lot of issues like I get really stressfed, anxious and worried over any minor inconvenience, I need attention and love 24/7 and lastly I get really moody at times but I still try to be my best for him...we are really great couple and I know it's pretty early to judge but the things we went through were not easy nor little, at least that's what 16 years old think. Through my relationship with him most of the time I am the needy and clingy one in the relationship but today It was the way around which scared tf out of me right away. Today morning he texted me and said that he might not be responsive Bec he got issues at home, I knew that a long time ago, his family issues are real bad. His parents fight all the time, they never were a great match. Moving on, him and I talked a lil bit through the day, we were texting in TikTok, we were laughing, happy and yk everything is fine (kind of) then he randomly went like "can I ask u favour?" I didn't reply right away cause I didn't notice the notification (I didn't take long like a min or less) then he send another text saying "sweetheart are u there?" I was confused asf, I texted back and asked him what is it. He said "please never leave me" that stabbed me and anxiety hit me, what's going on? What is happening??? I asked him if he is okay and he said he is fine. I didn't believe it so I kept asking more questions and that's when he gave in and told me everything. He said his father hasn't been constantly at home and he hasn't been home the last 4 days, however, today early morning at 4 am to be exact he tried to sneak in to take some of his stuff. His mother woke up and his parents talked for a lil bit then for some reason she opened his backpack and fucking saw protections and sex related medicines. Her only response to that was screaming her oldest son name which is my bf, he woke up went running to her and saw both of his parents standing in their bedroom. The moment his father saw him he closed the door but he could still hear them fight. His father admitted that he got married secretly to a second wife, he also have intentions to have kids with that woman and his only excuse for cheating and abounding his three children is that he didn't feel loved through this marriage. He kept telling her Abt how hot and perfect his new wife is which brought my boyfriend's mother into tears, he also told her his grown ass used to watch porn Bec she left him deprived. I was honestly left speechless when my boyfriend told me Abt the whole thing, he will have to take care of his younger siblings (they are twins 10f and 10m) and also his mum. His father absence means that he have to fill that rule at fucking sixteen. Fucking sixteen, he didn't even make it to college yet. I am scared for him, I don't know what to do. I comforted and assured him that I will take care of him but i can't help but cry for him, I am really weak and fragile..I want to get stronger mentally to take care of him but I don't know how. Please someone help me and give me tips. I need that.

I went home for the summer and I had a talk with her to ask what she sees and she said she wants somebody to fit into her life and I asked if she sees me in her future and she said yes. It’s been a week since I’ve been home and we FaceTimed for 4 hours and it was good but before we hung up she said call her tomorrow when I got back home from work so I texted her asking if she was awake yet and she didn’t respond for awhile and she kept giving reasons why she couldn’t call and then she said her sister and mom got in a fight so I just said I understand if you can’t call. I can be here if you need to talk or if you need space I can give you space she left that on read. So I don’t contact her for a few days and then she texts me randomly “wyd” and I said “nothing really wyd” didn’t text me back so I called her a couple days later and she declined it so I haven’t heard from her since then. I feel like I’m person she’s really good she hugs me a lot, she makes effort touch my hands or puts her head on me to rest but I just don’t know what her deal is

i met this guy on hinge and he seemed like a chill vibe. Based off of his photos he seemed to be someone i would be attracted to. dark complexion, medium build , introverted, and kind of nerdy. We had matched, exchanged numbers, and developed somewhat of a connection but nothing serious. we had mutual interest like video games, and x-men comics. i wanted to get to know him better outside of messaging and asked him if he wanted to see a movie. he responded with “i would love to, but i am currently not working and wouldn’t be comfortable with you paying for your own ticket on the first date.” i found that commendable, and understood that it was currently hard to get a job in our city at the moment (Toronto/GTA AREA). as we continued to talk he became eager to meet me in person, and asked if we could go on a walk. i agreed, but he proposed that we meet him somewhere five minutes away from his house, which was a 30 minute drive away from mine. i expressed that i didn’t feel comfortable doing that because i didn’t see the difference in paying for my own movie and paying for my own gas there and back to see someone for the first time. he also didn’t offer to meet anywhere in between which i would’ve been fine with. for context he told me he didn’t drive or have his license. he agreed with my sentiments and apologized, so we met somewhere in between the both of us. we walked around a local mall for an hour and i told him where to meet me. he had a little bit of trouble but we saw each other and embraced each other with a hug. he then pressed me for not giving him better details on where he could find me but i never thought anything of it. if i’m going to be honest i expected him to look different. firstly he lied about his height, which didn’t make any sense to me but whatever i don’t care for height. i also noticed his hygiene was off. he had insanely cracked dry skin, peeling lips, foam in the corner of his mouth, and an insane amount of build up under his long finger nails. i ignored it and just continued to walk and talk. i notice he couldn’t hold a conversation for his life making it very awkward but i sympathized with him, as he could’ve been nervous. time goes by we’re just walking, window shopping and then he asks for us to go get patties. we went to the patty shop, i bought a patty and he bought one. he noticed the hiring sign, and while on the date he filled out an application for that job. while he was filling out the application i was planning an exit in my head out of this situation. i found it a bit awkward and maybe rude to do so on your first date with someone. i didn’t say anything and then we went home. i went to my car and asked if he needed a ride. he said no, i drove here. at this point i wanted a gun to shoot my self. he had already told me he doesn’t have his license so i was confused how he drove here and why he wanted me to drive all the way to his end of the city if he could drive. i confronted him and told him i thought he didn’t drive. he told me its his dads car and he just takes it sometimes. we then hugged and went our separate ways. the next day he messages me talking about the kind of relationship he wants and tells me he just wants a sexual relationship but nothing serious. i was thinking of a response as this was random and we never had this convo or any conversation like this before. but as time went on i couldn’t think of a reply and ended up ghosting him. do you think i was justified in my actions, or should i have made a better effort to come up with a response?

Went on a Hinge date last month that went really well, she was adorable and we had good vibes and similar interests. Leading up to it, she wasn't the most consistent texter, sometimes taking till the next day or so to respond, but she always seemed enthusiastic.
I hit her up again the next week saying what a good time I had, and she agreed, and we scheduled a second official date. Then we chatted a bit one day, I told her I was out furniture shopping, and she suggested an impromptu IKEA trip the next morning! So now, we had two dates in a row, and she had been the one to excitedly schedule one of them, even saying she could pick me up in the car she had rented for the week. I was on top of the world.
Then, disaster struck. That same day, weirdly, we both had to cancel due to sudden family emergencies that took us out of town. Obviously, texting slowed way down at this point, with two or even three days between messages. But understandable, strenuous circumstances and all that.
She ends up getting back in town quicker than me, by about two weeks. Sadly, a member of my family ended up passing away during this time, and I was honest and told her as much while trying not to trauma dump/freak her out. She offered an ear to talk to, but texts were still a couple days apart. But still, I was hopeful, as the last thing she sent me was expressing a desire to see each other again when I got back. I texted back asking when she was free.
This was a week ago now, with seven days having gone by without me hearing from her. I'm not proud to admit I double texted her the day after I got back in town, offering a specific time and place.
Still nothing, radio silence.
It's just so incredibly frustrating. How did she go from impromptu last-second date scheduling the next day to ghosting me? What the hell happened within that time that made her decide I suddenly wasn't worth the effort? I've been ghosted plenty of times before, but this one in particular really hurts and is so frustrating because before shit hit the fan, she seemed so excited to see me again.
It's honestly taking everything in me not to spam her until I get a response, and at least figure out why she suddenly lost interest despite her last message literally saying we should hang out.
How do I keep trying if this is what's going to happen? Circumstances beyond my control dashing my chances even when I seemingly have a sure thing? I wish I could just turn off my need for romantic affection, just be happy single, but I just want it more and more. Even though we only went on one date, it's been hard to get this girl out of my head.

I'll try and keep this brief but basically I received a frantic phone call from my best friend in the middle of the night. I knew something was wrong so I got up and answered immediately.
A long text message had been sent which was both vicious and abhorrent. It said that they had been waiting and watching my friend foe over a year and collecting a dossier on her and had decided now was the time to act. They basically stated that they had got photos of her doing recreational drugs, and videos of it, from her past, and told her all about her finances, how she was in debt with her car, how she was just clinging onto paying her mortgage payments so they knew there was equity in her house and also said terrible things about her that were not true.
They also knew she has a Rolex hidden away that she had been gifted from long service to her work and that they didn't believe a @"@& like that had it but they hoped she had as now she was going to have to start consolidate everything to pay them off.
They said that they had created 4 folders of identical information which they would send to her workplace to get her fired, to her dying mother, to 2 other significant family members and 1 "to keep just for fun to torment her with.
. They also said they would call social services and laugh at her, and her street with photos of her in compromising situations.
To cut a long story short she was absolutely petrified. Someone for the prior 6 months to the text arriving had been cloning her card and trying to buy items and had gone so far as to order a 2k laptop to her house which had been left in the porch as she works full time. It didn't take us long to work out that they were going to porch pirate it but it just so happens that day my friends mother was there and intercepted the parcel and my friend sent it back.
So we worked out who it was but kept it to ourselves. She didn't respond to the deadline and nothing happened. The person is a male "friend" of hers who fancied her but got rebuffed (he is living with someone and hasn't declared it). He doesn't know she knows it's him as she has literally kept a wide berth since despite his ongoing efforts to "see" her in the community or kept calling her to"see how she is"
My friend is a single parent and struggling and he knew that. We can't think of anything that doesn't grossly break the law but to instead get her own back. We have thought of many things along the spectrum and keep coming up blank.
Any ideas anyone ? Tiya

A little background here: I’ve had a crush on a coworker of mine for months. I thought we were flirting a bit, but couldn’t really tell (we always talk at work events, if I was leaving an event, she’d leave too, we’d bring each other the other one’s favorite snacks, etc.). I finally asked her out via text and she said she appreciated me asking her, but that she just got out of something long term and wasn’t looking to date right now.
I didn’t know she was recently out of something long term. When I texted her, it took her a few hours to respond after seeing my message.
I know it’s sometimes a line, “I’m not looking to date right now,” but I talked to some people and they said, “the fact it took her a while to reply could be a good thing. Like if she wasn’t interested at all, it would have been a different line or she would have responded sooner.”
What are your thoughts? Do you think I was fully rejected or is there a chance, she may be interested down the road?

I left my ex 4 years ago bc of his addiction and infidelity. Ive been trying to heal since but in all honesty it’s been challenging. We never spoke after the breakup. Late last year, he messaged me to say he needs to make amends and that he is sober now. He included a lot of apologies but also tried to insist he wasnt unfaithful, which he absolutely had been (with or without alcohol). I took months to reply. I talked to my friends and therapist about what to do. I knew I wanted to say something. I felt Id never had the chance to stand up for myself and call him out on his BS in our previous relationship, so I took the chance to text him back basically calling his sobriety a lie and biting his head off about the women he hid from me. I then blocked his number so he couldnt reply. I felt pretty good about it and found it cathartic. It was reactive but I felt justified. But the healing still felt incomplete. Flash forward to a couple weeks ago when a mutual friend tells me they ran into him and he does seem to be making sincere efforts to make amends with others. Mutual friend (who had seen his addiction at its peak) was inclined to believe he is making real changes. Im more ready to believe this friend than i was him. Now i want to reach out again and see if i can still receive amends. To be honest, Ive always felt an honest conversation would be helpful. I still think theres things i cant forgive but I still cant help wanting to talk. Avoiding him and yelling at him havent helped. Has anyone been in a similar position?

i met this guy on hinge and he seemed like a chill vibe. Based off of his photos he seemed to be someone i would be attracted to. dark complexion, medium build , introverted, and kind of nerdy. We had matched, exchanged numbers, and developed somewhat of a connection but nothing serious. we had mutual interest like video games, and x-men comics. i wanted to get to know him better outside of messaging and asked him if he wanted to see a movie. he responded with “i would love to, but i am currently not working and wouldn’t be comfortable with you paying for your own ticket on the first date.” i found that commendable, and understood that it was currently hard to get a job in our city at the moment (Toronto/GTA AREA). as we continued to talk he became eager to meet me in person, and asked if we could go on a walk. i agreed, but he proposed that we meet him somewhere five minutes away from his house, which was a 30 minute drive away from mine. i expressed that i didn’t feel comfortable doing that because i didn’t see the difference in paying for my own movie and paying for my own gas there and back to see someone for the first time. he also didn’t offer to meet anywhere in between which i would’ve been fine with. for context he told me he didn’t drive or have his license. he agreed with my sentiments and apologized, so we met somewhere in between the both of us. we walked around a local mall for an hour and i told him where to meet me. he had a little bit of trouble but we saw each other and embraced each other with a hug. he then pressed me for not giving him better details on where he could find me but i never thought anything of it. if i’m going to be honest i expected him to look different. firstly he lied about his height, which didn’t make any sense to me but whatever i don’t care for height. i also noticed his hygiene was off. he had insanely cracked dry skin, peeling lips, foam in the corner of his mouth, and an insane amount of build up under his long finger nails. i ignored it and just continued to walk and talk. i notice he couldn’t hold a conversation for his life making it very awkward but i sympathized with him, as he could’ve been nervous. time goes by we’re just walking, window shopping and then he asks for us to go get patties. we went to the patty shop, i bought a patty and he bought one. he noticed the hiring sign, and while on the date he filled out an application for that job. while he was filling out the application i was planning an exit in my head out of this situation. i found it a bit awkward and maybe rude to do so on your first date with someone. i didn’t say anything and then we went home. i went to my car and asked if he needed a ride. he said no, i drove here. at this point i wanted a gun to shoot my self. he had already told me he doesn’t have his license so i was confused how he drove here and why he wanted me to drive all the way to his end of the city if he could drive. i confronted him and told him i thought he didn’t drive. he told me its his dads car and he just takes it sometimes. we then hugged and went our separate ways. the next day he messages me talking about the kind of relationship he wants and tells me he just wants a sexual relationship but nothing serious. i was thinking of a response as this was random and we never had this convo or any conversation like this before. but as time went on i couldn’t think of a reply and ended up ghosting him. do you think i was justified in my actions, or should i have made a better effort to come up with a response?

So not too long ago in December 23’ my ex and I had a still birth lost that lead me to major post partum depression, he then cheated on me a month after and as I was sobbing about it he said “are you really going to be fucking crying all night?” I then became so emotional and distraught I tried to kms this lead him to calling the cops on me and I was sent to CBI (a mental institute) for the night A few weeks later after I got out the hospital he got a restraining order on me and said that I tried to kill him which wasn’t true, I only put a knife to my wrist and when he said he was calling the cops I dropped it and collapsed on the floor and cried so hard. When the cops came I told them “I don’t want to be here anymore” so they took me to the hospital.
Fast forward Ruben wants to get back with me but never dropped the restraining order, he told me since seeing me it had dropped when I repeatedly told him if he were to be living w me again in my apartment he needs to drop it. He then told me what I said before so I thought it was dropped. We got in a huge argument later on and the cops were called, he was breaking things in my apartment When the cops pulled our names he found the restraining order and told me I could be getting arrested but instead they arrested him for disorderly conduct. Well after he got out of jail, he called me I picked him up and again kept being on him to drop the order. We later then break up because he was upset about the arrest and would blame it on me and then would repeatedly threaten me to remind me he has the restraining order on me. Again later he wanted to get back together and was begging to see me. He said if I saw him everything is dropped and was being emotionally manipulative for me to see him which I have proof of. So I saw him like an idiot I am. When we met up he had sex, told me he missed and loved me but then the next day wouldn’t respond to any of my text messages. I kept repeatedly calling him bc I’ve also been paying for his phone (mind you he broke mine and his phone broke bc he dropped it and I bought him a new one under my name) he told me he would be paying it, when he answered he and his friends laughed at my face over the phone and were saying some degrading things to me. This sent me in a spiral where I consistently was spamming his phone. He called the cops on me and now I may be facing a dv charge. I’ve called a lawyer and honestly I have a lot of proof of him reaching me after the PO What am I expecting? Am I going to jail? I’ve been nervous all day and have a sick feeling to my stomach. I just need help any advice?

Hello, whoever you are on your side of this screen.
Predictability and ordinarity bore me. The idea of casual sex makes me more asleep than a Snorlax. I also don't want to be asked "How are you?" for the millionth time. And photos - well, one is always more than enough.
I'm sure I'm not everyone's cup of tea, but I don't seek anything ordinary, either. I'm just an author and researcher currently living in Portugal, and looking for someone new and truly unique to inspire me. We can talk about pretty much anything, plus you can learn a ton of super unusual but cool stuff if you're also into culture, literature, legends, stories, etc. What else can I tell you about me? Well, I'm often told I'm the most interesting person people have ever met, but let's go here for ten groups of facts about me and my life:
1- I've travelled to over 100 countries in search of knowledge, my favourite place being the streams of water and forests in the north of the Pyrenées, where I once placed my feet in the water and meditated for days.
2- I do not have a favourite book, but I do feel many marked my life. For example, Ovid's "Ars Amatoria" (as a teen), Cicero's "De Senectute" (as an adult), the "Ramayana" (as someone eager to explore other cultures), the "Nag Hammadi Library" (as a person interested in almost-lost religious texts), etc.
3- I once met a really amazing woman, we were together for 10+ years, we never married but we both knew neither of us was going anywhere else, I lost her in 2014 (and I don't want to talk about it), and I'm perfectly comfortable being single.
4- I've published over 80 books, between my real name and various pseudonyms, with the most sold having been top 100 on Amazon, and the least sold still stuck at under 10 copies (and it's intentionally supposed to sell very little).
5- In college I studied Computer Science, Psychology, French "LLCs" and Classical + Medieval Studies, but among my many passions you can also count Theology, Philosophy, Art, Mythology, Classical Music, Western Mysticism, Languages, etc.
6- I dislike social media and photos of people. I hardly ever take photos of myself or others, but I do have an enormous collection of photos I've taken around the globe, where I mostly tried to eternalize places and moments.
7- Apart from writing, I spend most of my free time as a volunteer for projects related to Culture, Children, and Mental Welfare. I also tend to donate to charity on a monthly basis, because I feel we should try to spread to others the good things we have in our lives.
8- Although I'm 39, I'm perfectly okay talking to much younger, or much older, people, because I feel they can also teach me a lot of things that I'm not necessarily familiarized with. And, in fact, one of my biggest pleasures in "real" life is talking to random people and learning new stuff from them.
9- I survived cancer and meningitis. I'm 99% okay, with the exception of a small physical problem most people never even notice.
10- I was recently "rejected" from a buddhist monastery for health reasons, since it seems my constant need for medication for an auto-immune disease would contrast with the simple life their monks need to have. So, yeah, that's mostly why I'm back online and posting this message.
So... if you are indeed tired of the usual messages and conversations, write me. Maybe you are indeed what I seek.

I'm contemplating using an alternative to tools/function-calling feature of LLM APIs, and instead use Python code blocking.
EXAMPLE: (tested)
System prompt:

To call a function, respond to a user message with a code block like this: ```python tool_calls value1 = function1_to_call('arg1') value2 = function2_to_call('arg2', value1) return value2 ``` The user will reply with a user message containing Python data: ```python tool_call_content "value2's value" ``` Here are some functions that can be called: ```python tools def get_location() -> str: """Returns user's location""" def get_timezone(location: str) -> str: """Returns the timezone code for a given location""" ``` 

User message. The agent's input prompt.

What is the current timezone? 

Assistant message response:

```python tool_calls location = get_location() timezone = get_timezone(location) timezone ``` 

User message as tool output. The agent would detect the code block and inject the output.

```python tool_call_content "EST" ``` 

Assistant message. This would be known to be the final message as there are no python tool_calls code blocks. It is the agent's answer to the input prompt.

The current timezone is EST. 

Pros

• Can be used with models that don't have support for function-calling
• Responses can be more robust and powerful, similar to code-interpreter. Functions can feed values into other functions.
• Possibly fewer round trips, due to prior point.
• Everything is text, so it's easier to work with and easier to debug.
• You can experiment with it in OpenAI's playground
• User messages could call functions (maybe)

Cons

• Might be more prone to hallucination
• Less secure as it's generating and running Python code. Requires sandboxing.

Other

• I've tested the above example with gpt-4o, gpt-3.5-turbo, gemma-7b, llama3-8b, llama-70b.
• If encapsulated well, this could be easily swapped out for a proper function-calling implementation.

Thoughts? Any other pros/cons?

I'm contemplating using an alternative to tools/function-calling feature of LLM APIs, and instead use Python code blocking.
Seeking feedback.
EXAMPLE: (tested)
System prompt:

To call a function, respond to a user message with a code block like this: ```python tool_calls value1 = function1_to_call('arg1') value2 = function2_to_call('arg2', value1) return value2 ``` The user will reply with a user message containing Python data: ```python tool_call_content "value2's value" ``` Here are some functions that can be called: ```python tools def get_location() -> str: """Returns user's location""" def get_timezone(location: str) -> str: """Returns the timezone code for a given location""" ``` 

User message. The agent's input prompt.

What is the current timezone? 

Assistant message response:

```python tool_calls location = get_location() timezone = get_timezone(location) timezone ``` 

User message as tool output. The agent would detect the code block and inject the output.

```python tool_call_content "EST" ``` 

Assistant message. This would be known to be the final message as there are no python tool_calls code blocks. It is the agent's answer to the input prompt.

The current timezone is EST. 

Pros

• Can be used with models that don't support function-calling
• Responses can be more robust and powerful, similar to code-interpreter Functions can feed values into other functions
• Possibly fewer round trips, due to prior point
• Everything is text, so it's easier to work with and easier to debug
• You can experiment with it in OpenAI's playground
• users messages could also call functions (maybe)

Cons

• Might be more prone to hallucination
• Less secure as it's generating and running Python code. Requires sandboxing.

Other

• I've tested the above example with gpt-4o, gpt-3.5-turbo, gemma-7b, llama3-8b, llama-70b.
• If encapsulated well, this could be easily swapped out for a proper function-calling implementation.

Thoughts? Any other pros/cons?

I lived 2 years in a different country, there I met this guy and we were together as a couple for the 2 years I lived there. Since the very beginning I told him that my plan was to staying there 2 years and coming back to my country, that if he wouldn't see himself moving with me to my country it would be better to split there and not postponing the breakup. Initially, he said he would like to move with me or at least try it in a future blabla but he didn't seem too convinced. I didn't insist him more because I wanted to give him time to think about it carefully.
However, when my time was almost finishing there I gave him an ultimatum: "I'm moving back soon, are you coming with me or not?" I also proposed him to have a long distance relationship as long as he had the conviction of moving a future. He said he would think about it (again, yes) and after two weeks he broke up with me saying that he didn't want to move with me because he couldn't see himself living in another country, which is something that I understood.
Anyway, we had a friendly break up and we both ended up crying, because despite of this issue, we really enjoyed our time together as a couple. He wanted to keep in touch with me and I agreed with the condition that it would take me a couple of months with 0 contact before being emotionally able to have a conversation with him. He agreed too and said "don't worry you can text me to catch up with whenever you feel ready".
After 5 months dealing with the stress of moving countries again, the break up and so on I decided to text him for his birthday (he never took his birthday seriously but I thought he would like the typical "happy birthday" message). I took the chance to ask him in the same message how was him etc. His answer was dry as a desert, I was expecting something different after all I've been through in the last months. He just answered with a "thanks I really appreciate it" nothing else.
4 months after that "conversation" have passed and he hasn't texted me or anything similar. That annoyed me so much that I've been reconsidering some aspects of when we were together. Yesterday I decided to delete him from every social network (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp etc) and pretend that this never happened. Honestly I think I deserved a better answer, even if for him was painful to read my message or whatever.
Then, my question is: do you think he had something against me or its just the typical "I don't know what to do" thing that men do when they feel vulnerable in a situation?

Hi, I am working with import data table from pdf tool. But since it is not perfect it adds some random text breaks in the cells that contain text. It is too time consuming to fix that manually so I am looking for help with this problem. I tried using replace tool and trim function but both of them do’t work.

All Names used are Fake!
Context: In 2022, I (14FtM, haven't transioned bc parents don't support) changed class periods in my old school, I met him (15M, let's call him Jake) on my new class bc the seating chart put me infront of him. We got along really fast since we were both part of the community and didn't have accepting parents, he told me he was Pansexual and the only reason that they woudn't curse at him was that they believed it was a phase and he would go back to his senses. We became best friends and spent the entire year hanging out and having fun, he would go to my house to do school projects so my parents knew him, i only met his parents months later because his mom invited me to a sleepover. Jake also told me that the reason his parents liked me was because they saw me as a 'well behaved girl' and that i was a good influence on Jake. On january 2023, my parent decided to move, so we packed our bags, said goodbye to family members and friends and went to live in a different city 3 hours away.
All of the main people mentioned in this post know eachother from the same class in 2022.
Story : In 2023, a week after our friendship bithday, his mom invites me to go on a trip with them to an amusement park (she said she would pay for me), I ended up going and we had a really good day. At the end of day when we were leaving the park, Jake stops me and gives me a silver ring with his name engraved into it and shows me his hand with a matching ring (we had matching jewelry already, matching bracelets and those bff necklaces, so i didn't think much of it and just brushed it of as another gift). After the trip I went back to my city and we didn't see each other until 3 months later (we would travel every few weeks to visit family, but my parent had been really busy). When I came back to visit, we got together to throw a secret birthday party to a friend of ours the day of the party comes, our friend was super happy because she thought she was going to be spending her birthday alone, it wasn't a big party either, just our 5 friends in Jake's parent's house, a few presents and a pretty cake but we were all having fun. Less than an hour after the party started, his godmother, who was in the house with us to make sure we didn't do any stupid teenager thing, calls for me and Jake and says that she wanted to take a picture of the rings to send it to they're family groupchat, I was confused but let her take the picture anyway, then she asked me when could they meet my family so that we could be an official couple. That's when it dawned on me that I was dating my best friend for almost 4 months and didn't know. I spent the next 3 months lying to him and saying that my parents were to busy with work and that we wouldn't be visiting for a while, when in reality we were actually there already, many anxious nights asking a few trusted friends on what I should do, because while I didn't have any romantic feelings for him and didn't want to be in a relationship, he was still my best friend and I knew that it wouldn't be the same after it (also the fact that my parents didn't know about this and were already upset with me because my grades weren't the best). After all this time ignoring him I ended up losing the ring and couldn't bring myself to ever look him in the eyes again so I deleted his number and just never messaged him again.
Now this year, he made a few moves to try and get in contact with me after i moved again (still 3 hours away, just moved to a nicer house) so i went ahead and changed numbers, i've heard from the 2 friends i kept contact and still hang out with that he sometimes questions about me, but as per my request, they just give vague answers. (Important to mention that these friends are also Jake's acquaintances, and it doesn't bother me that they talk, even if it did that would be my personal issue)
I hadn't heard from Jake since march, until last weekend. We went to visit family again and i had planned to hangout with my friend (16M) on saturday, we just walked around the city, got ice cream and talked for the few hours we were together and it was really fun, we also posted a few things on social media. And it was from these pictures that a girl from our class in 2022 (Anne) that still followed me on Instagram, messaged me and asked if i was dating this friend, to which i responded with no, and then just a few hours later my friend told me that Jake had messaged him and talked about Anne, saying she had been exposing my texts with her from 2023 ever since jake announed that i had broken up with him. Turns out she was telling him all about texts from when i was looking for advice on how to break up with Jake up to pictures on my socials of other male friends from my new school, she would always ask me on every single photo i had with a boy if i was dating them and always be really pushy about getting a 'Yes' for an answer, which she never did.
After my friend told me about this i blocked her on all acounts (she had 3 and followed me on all of them) I also deleted every text i had with her. I hope i never have to see her again.

I'm contemplating using an alternative to tools/function-calling feature of LLM APIs, and instead use Python code blocking.
Seeking feedback.
EXAMPLE: (tested)
System prompt:

To call a function, respond to a user message with a code block like this: ```python tool_calls value1 = function1_to_call('arg1') value2 = function2_to_call('arg2', value1) return value2 ``` The user will reply with a user message containing Python data: ```python tool_call_content "value2's value" ``` Here are some functions that can be called: ```python tools def get_location() -> str: """Returns user's location""" def get_timezone(location: str) -> str: """Returns the timezone code for a given location""" ``` 

User message. The agent's input prompt.

What is the current timezone? 

Assistant message response:

```python tool_calls location = get_location() timezone = get_timezone(location) timezone ``` 

User message as tool output. The agent would detect the code block and inject the output.

```python tool_call_content "EST" ``` 

Assistant message. This would be known to be the final message as there are no python tool_calls code blocks. It is the agent's answer to the input prompt.

The current timezone is EST. 

Pros

• Can be used with models that don't support function-calling
• Responses can be more robust and powerful, similar to code-interpreter Functions can feed values into other functions
• Possibly fewer round trips, due to prior point
• Everything is text, so it's easier to work with and easier to debug
• You can experiment with it in OpenAI's playground
• users messages could also call functions (maybe)

Cons

• Might be more prone to hallucination
• Less secure as it's generating and running Python code. Requires sandboxing.

Other

• I've tested the above example with gpt-4o, gpt-3.5-turbo, gemma-7b, llama3-8b, llama-70b.
• If encapsulated well, this could be easily swapped out for a proper function-calling implementation.

Thoughts? Any other pros/cons?

Hi! I’m super bored and lonely right now, so I’m hoping to find friends (particularly PC Gamers) that would like to stay connected!
You can add me on discord and we’ll voice chat and play any games we like together!
I would love if you’re kind, understanding and non judgmental. You’ll message me often and vice versa. I never really had anybody initiate things with me, so I’d love a “good morning, are you free, let’s play!” Type of thing. Please be able to carry a conversation. I also like deep conversations.
I’m, only searching for (Female) friends at the moment who like to play a wide range game f video games on PC (Steam and Xbox App) - Roblox included!
Let’s chat in DMs and tell me about yourself first like (ASL) cus I don’t really like not knowing nothing about someone when they text me.
(I don’t know why my posts are being grey out like wtf 🤷🏽‍♂️ so I’m just adding an extra section to see if it stops that. I’ve changed up my posts a bit so idk)

Kinda funny, but when I use to get bored on here, I had an alt that I would post off of, get people from the phone sex subs, and get horny people to call the local McDonald’s, when my buddy was working(overnight location manager). They were thinking they were getting phone sex from a stranger, but it was just to fuck with my buddy. One guy got super pissed, cause when he called, he didn’t pick up on it being a listed number, and he started strong, and talked about whacking it with a random guy at McDonalds.
My buddy use to text me while at work, talking about weirdos calling, and trying to have sex with him. I don’t regret it. It was harmless fun.

Played survivors:

• Matías Recalt (Roberto Canessa): He calls Dr. Canessa “Robert”. Although they don’t resemble each other physically (other than having big noses), they do have similar personalities. Matías could not cry on set, his emotions were kind of blocked (his father had passed away very recently), but Roberto says he was never able to cry in the mountains either. Matías is also headstrong and would sometimes do things his way instead of the way Bayona asked for him, which was very Canessa of him (1).
  
• Agustín Pardella (Fernando "Nando" Parrado): He calls Nando his favorite hero and feels that he has taught him a lot about resilience, and makes him want to become a better person (2). He considers Nando a friend, someone with a lot of emotions and warmth, which he had to block in the mountains. Rather that portraying the “superhero” that the media has often painted Nando as, he focused on getting to know him as a person and bring his humanity onscreen (3).
  
• Agustín Della Corte (Antonio "Tintín" Vizintín): He and Tintín had already met before, since Tintín used to be the president of the Uruguayan Rugby Union, and Della used to be part of the national rugby team (3). They hugged when they met for the movie for the first time (4). tThey met a lot of times, and he got very interested in what Tintín felt in each moment, the emotional details, which is exactly what the survivors wanted. Him being a rugby player helped a lot. Tintín feels that he was able to capture a lot of the essence of what he lived in the mountains. The first time Tintín watched the movie, he didn’t know how he felt about it, because it transported him to the mountains (2).
  
• Felipe "Pipe" G. Otaño (Carlos "Carlitos" Páez R.): His mother made him read The Society of the Snow when he was younger, so he was more familiar with the story that the average Argentinian. He guessed that he was playing Carlos Páez before the roles were revealed because of his age, physical traits, and what lines he they made him read. He not only Carlito’s book, but also the ones written by his parents. He also watched a lot of interviews with Carlitos (3). He went to Carlitos’ house and met his family. They texted a lot during the process of filming, and still text semi-regularly (2). He also relied on Pablo Vierci on set for details of his personality (3).
  
• Tomás Wolf (Gustavo Zerbino): He didn’t only get close to Gustavo, they had a barbecue together, and he always answered his questions (3). He also got close to Lupe Zerbino, a daughter. He played in a football (soccer) match, Zerbinos vs Canessas (Zerbinos won). Zerbino still shows him support in social media, even liking more political posts (5).
  
• Esteban "Kuku" Kukuriczka (Adolfo "Fito" Strauch): He read the book as soon as he got a clue of what the movie was about. At first, they talked at the hotel for around three hours, then he went to his home and met his family, they could empathize with each other (3). Fito and his wife recently went to watch one of Kuku’s theatre performances (2).
  
• Francisco Romero (Daniel Fernández): They talked a lot. The first time they met up alone, it was in a hotel. Daniel had a lot of love when talking to Fran. Fran feels like he would have played a similar role/made similar decisions in the mountains. According to Chori Segura, Daniel is physically a lot bigger than Fran irl (4). From Daniel, Fran takes away temperance, listening to others, being able to put the group first (3).
  
• Rafael Federman (Eduardo Strauch): When they met, Eduardo gave him his book as a gift. He would always answer Rafael’s questions (3). Eduardo always received him warmly (2). Rafael took the exit sign of the plane as a souvenir from set, same as Eduardo irl (5).
  
• Andy Pruss (Roy Harley): He got his information from the books and interviews. But also from talking to him, and how he sees himself in the mountains, 50 years later, what he did right and what he did wrong, specially about not being able to keep his emotions in check, which ended up affecting him a lot (3). Roy took him out in his car to see the places where he grew up, where he studied, his childhood house. Roy also went with Andy and his parents to the beach (2).
  
• Juan Ignacio "Juanicar" Carusso (Álvaro Mangino): Álvaro as a character had never existed in the other movies, so he felt a lot of responsibility playing him. Álvaro took him home and personally taught him how he used to crawl with a broken leg. He would always answer any question he had (3). Álvaro and Margarita also took some of their family to set, for the hospital scenes (2).
  
• Simón Hempe (José Luis "Coche" Inciarte): Once his participation got confirmed in the movie, he bought the Society of the Snow and another book about the event, on a whim. It ended up being Coche’s book (3). He feels like he bonded with Coche, since day 1, almost like a grandfather. He also got close to his family, specially his (now) widow, Soledad (2). His death was very hard on Simón (3). They talked a lot, at his house, by phone, on set. They got close enough that Simón could show up to the Inciarte household unannounced (2), and Coche called him his “favorite actor”(2). Coche personally coached him on set for the rescue scenes (told him to remember to smile) and in the hospital (him and Soledad still remembered very clearly how their reencounter was). Soledad says that the movie was something that gave Coche energy despite being ill, and that watching it made him proud. He once met some friends of Coche by chance, and they shared pictures and memories of him (3).
  
• Valentino Alonso (Alfredo "Pancho" Delgado): When they first met by themselves, they couldn’t look at each other in the eye. Pancho is still very affected by what happened, and Valentino wanted to transmit the emotions (including impotence for nor being able to convince Numa to eat enough to live) that he could still see in him, but also fears the movie broke him a bit too (2). According to ML Berch, his manners are similar to Pancho’s, also him being very good at talking while still being reserved (4). Pancho told him still considers Numa his life’s biggest friend (3).
  
• Esteban Bigliardi (Javier Methol): Javier had already passed away (2015) by the time the casting started (2021). He got his information from reading books, watching interviews. He got to know that Javier, despite having a hard life, had a very strong spirit, passion for life, compassion. He asked the survivors about him, and they would say that Javier was love (3).
  
• Rocco Posca (Ramón "Moncho" Sabella): For the last round of casting, they sent him a video of Moncho, and he says that he nurtured himself with it, he felt like Moncho (3). They became really close, and he talks to Moncho informally, as a friend, on Moncho’s insistence (2). They talk a lot on the phone (2). Rocco feels that they formed a kind of connection, that he got some of his energy. Their families stories are a bit similar (ie. Moncho helped his father in the fruit market stall, while Rocco’s uncles did the same on the other side of the river, in Argentina), and also he would get certain feelings or trains of thoughts while in character, that he would later discover were similar to Moncho’s own in the mountains (3).
  
• Luciano Chatton (Pedro Algorta): They met alone at least once in Punta del Este, in 2021. They walked together, and Pedro asked him if he had read his book. He had, but hadn’t finished. They ended up talking for about 4 hours. He doesn’t want to talk a lot about Pedro, because what he says may be different from reality. Pedro seems to still carry wonder and timidity from the mountains. (2)
  
• Agustín Berruti (Roberto "Bobby" Francois): He too is from Tacuarembó, part of the Uruguayan countryside. He went to Bobby’s house. Bobby said that he didn’t have any idea as to why they sent him there, because he wouldn’t be able to help him with anything. So they drank wine and talked about the countryside life instead (1)
  

Played Victims

• Enzo Vogrincic (Numa Turcatti): He didn’t get to meet Numa’s twin, Leonardo, as he passed away in 2009. But he did meet Daniel Turcatti, another brother, and his children. He was given a tour of the Turcatti’s childhood home, and Daniel would recall different anecdotes in each room. Numa would have absolutely hated being a protagonist. The survivors and Bayona say that he resembles Numa in the fact that he would constantly bring himself down for not being good enough (1)
  
• Fernando Contigiani (ArturoNogueira): After the dinner with the survivors, he was taken to the Nogueira’s house and had a big tea time with them (3). They also accompanied him during the whole process of the movie. Arturo’s siblings, Gabriel and Selina are very thankful towards him, say their family is open towards him, and think Arturo would have liked his work. Cristina, another sister, says he helped her close her mourning process. He was the first person Selina called after she watched the movie for the first time (2).
  
• Benjamín “Chori” Segura (Rafael "El Vasco” Echavarren): His biggest source of information were Rafael’s sisters, Daniel Fernández helped him a lot too, since he held a lot of love towards Vasco while in the mountains. He tried to see what all three sisters shared, because Rafael could have had those same things too (4). The first time he met the Echavarren sisters, they asked if he would be their brother, and he answered that he would try. They hugged and cried, they laughed and talked for hours. The sisters have both said that they love Chori and that having him is like having their brother back, somewhat (but that Rafael was more shameless) (2).
  
• Paula Baldini (Liliana Navarro): She was able to talk to a sister, a friend, and her daughters (3). The most emotional part of filming was meeting the Methols daughters in the airport, since she was dressed exactly as their last memory of her. They all cried, and thanked her a lot (5). Male Methol says that the movie helped her picture the mother she didn’t get to grow up with (1). The other children also say that the movie helped them close the cycle (3).
  
• Diego Vegezzi (Marcelo Pérez del Castillo): He says that he got a lot of who was Marcelo from the Society of the Snow book, and also from "Del Otro Lado de la Montaña", the book written by the families. He had the same role as an empathetic leader in his family, the team and in the mountains (3). When they first met him, the survivors gathered around him because he looked so alike Marcelo (6). Stella, sister, says that what she saw in the movie feels like the Marcelo she knew, that his death onscreen brought forward the feelings she had bottled up for 50 years, and that the movie remembered that the 16 that made it back did it so because of the 29 left behind (1).
  
• Blas Polidori (Gustavo "Coco" Nicolich): He relied a lot in Coco’s letters, since they have so much of his personality (3). He mostly talked with Álvaro, also nicknamed Coco, the younger brother. They met at his office, alongside an acting coach. They talked about what Gustavo’s essence was, their family, their parents, how them, as a family lived the tragedy. Álvaro tends to leave supportive comments on Blas Instagram from the Nicolich family business account, he says that Blas could bring Coco back in his last moments and was thankful for it, even if he saw him suffer (2). He also keeps contact with Álvaro´s daughter, Coco’s niece, Pauli (3).
  
• Emanuel Parga (Sgt. Carlos Roque): Roque’s family didn’t want to talk much with the production, because they were still angry and felt disrespected because of his portrayal in Alive (1993) (3). He got in contact with Alejandro, Roque’s son, and also people from the Air Force. The first time he met Alejandro, they couldn’t speak, but they cried and hugged, it felt like two friends meeting again after a long time. He promised that he would honour his father, bring his dignity back (2). Roque’s sister got in contact with Ema only after the release of the movie, and was both relieved and happy with it. She liked that they portrayed the love he had for his job (3).
  
• Felipe Ramusio (Diego Storm): He had played rugby as a kid. He got in contact with Diego’s brother, and also a family friend. The survivor that helped him the most was Carlitos (very close to Diego, even named one of his kids after him), who invited even him to his house. After the movie, the family contacted him again and congratulated him (3).
  
• Alfonsina Carrocio (Susana "Susy" Parrado): She mostly talked to Nando. He was very descriptive on how she was injured, what she could and could not do after the crash, how Liliana would take care of her (3).
  
• Santiago Vaca Narvaja (Daniel Maspons): He was welcomed to Daniel’s nephew’s house with tea and chocolate. He keeps contact with the Maspons sisters, specially with Rosario, the eldest. They showed him a lot of love. She thanked him for helping her understand what happened in the mountains. He does not resemble Maspons in personality, since Daniel was very shy and not very talkative, and had to learn to have a silent presence (3).
  
• Juandi Eirea (Juan Carlos Menéndez): He did play rugby for 15 years, which helped him with characterization. The Menéndez family didn’t take part in the movie production (3).
  
• Federico Aznárez (Enrique Platero): His father trained in the Old Christian’s gym as a kid, so he had always had a big connection to the story. He re-read the books after being cast. He got in contact with Roberto Canessa, before the casting even finished, and they talked for about 30 minutes in Dr. Canessa’s workplace (the hospital), mostly about how their life were before the crash. He phoned Roberto before the last round of casting, because the books had very little information about Enrique, and Canessa invited him home to practice his scenes, and also to talk a lot about Enrique and his family. Netflix wasn’t able to contact the Platero family, so Gustavo Zerbino did it instead. They had a barbecue with Enrique’s nephews and nieces, who knew very little about him, and Fede asked Zerbino a lot of questions, with some chime-ins from the Plateros (3). He later got in contact with Martín Zerbino (son), Juan Pablo Nicola (son of the Nicolas, who passed away in the crash) and, alongside Juani Eirea went to the Valley of Tears in February 2023, where they left letters for Enrique and Juan Carlos (2).
  
• Jerónimo Bosia (Franciso "Panchito" Abal): Netflix was not able to contact the Abal family, most of them had already passed away. After the movie release, a step sister sent Carlitos an audio message, which got to Jerónimo through Pipe Otaño, talking about how she could now understand that Pancho didn’t make it back so that some would be able to (3).
  
• Agustín Lain (Carlos Valeta): They told him that he resembles Valeta in his looks and his youth (3). It’s unclear who “they” are, if they were survivors, Vierci or Valeta relatives.
  
• Lautaro Bakir (Julio Martínez-Lamas): He got to meet the family while filming, which was something very impactful for him. He met a sister while filming at the airport, him in character with a beard. He got most of his information by what Pablo Vierci and Zerbino told him. He was not a rugby player, but was a big fan of the Old Christians and would always participate in the chants (3).
  
• Lucas Mascareña (Fernando “Flaco” Vázquez): He met Teresa Vázquez, a sister, and her family when they saw him characterized at the airport, and hugged him without saying anything. They recognized him, and could see both his eyes and facial expressions that he played Fernando. A friend of el Flaco says that Lucas’ acting brought him back (2). Fun fact, the actor is a commercial pilot.
  
• Federico Formento (Daniel Shaw): He was initially unable to contact the Shaw family, so he got bits and pieces from the books. He eventually met with Miguel Shaw, Daniel’s brother, after Pablo Vierci got him his contact, while they were filming the Uruguay scenes (3).
  
• Francisco Bereny (Felipe Maquirriaín): Sandra Maquirriaín (sister) was involved in the process of the movie (1). I could not find any interview with him.
  
• Toto Rovito (Alexis Hounié) and Julián Bedino (Guido Magri): Although they do have interviews, I could not find footage of him talking about whether he met the families of who they played, or if they talked with the survivors about them.
  
• Louta (Gastón Costemalle), Maximiliano de la Cruz (Lt. Col. Dante Lagurara): Although they have speaking roles, I could not find interviews with them talking about SOTS.
  
• Pablo ??? (Dr. Francisco Nicola): To Juan Pedro Nicola, son, seeing him acting at the airport was magic, like seeing them again (1).
  

Did not board the plane:
- Fran Burghi (Alfredo Cibilis): He couldn’t meet Alfredo due to schedule conflicts (3).
Sources:
1) Behind the scenes documentary/Netflix interviews
2) Actors and personal Instagram accounts
3) Interview by Moobys (YouTube)
4) Interview by Fangirleando y Chismeando (YouTube)
5) Juanicar’s livestreams
6) Society of the Snow book (newest edition)