What's going on?

A recent Reddit policy change threatens to kill many beloved third-party mobile apps, making many quality-of-life features not seen in the official mobile app permanently inaccessible to users. If you, or someone you know has a visual impairment - these changes will also block the tools they use to access reddit, as the reddit website and official app are ill-designed and un-equipped to aid those with accessibility issues.
On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API from being free to a level that will kill many useful third party apps on Reddit, from Apollo to Reddit is Fun to Narwhal to BaconReader.
This isn't only a problem on the user level: many subreddit moderators depend on tools only available outside the official app to keep their communities on-topic and spam-free.

What's the plan?

On June 12th, many subreddits will be going dark to protest this policy. Some will return after 48 hours: others will go away permanently unless the issue is adequately addressed, since many moderators aren't able to put in the work they do with the poor tools available through the official app. This isn't something any of us do lightly: we do what we do because we love Reddit, and we truly believe this change will make it impossible to keep doing what we love.
The two-day blackout isn't the goal, and it isn't the end. Should things reach the 14th with no sign of Reddit choosing to fix what they've broken, we'll use the community and buzz we've built between then and now as a tool for further action.

What can you do?

1. Complain. Message the mods of /reddit.com, who are the admins of the site: message reddit: submit a support request: comment in relevant threads on /reddit, such as this one, leave a negative review on their official iOS or Android app- and sign your username in support to this post.
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How does it affect you?

In 2021, Reddit opened a Canadian office. This new office symbolised a recognition of the Canadian market being a model for what Reddit was seeking in other international market places. Reddit's own COO, Jen Wong has said, “Canada is already home to a deeply engaged Reddit audience that is growing steadily by the day and it is a top priority for us and our internationalisation strategy." source
Canadians are a largely sought after market, we have a disproportionate voice to lend to this important issue. Canadians on reddit punch way above their weight class, Nanaimo will join with countless subreddits in defense of these third party apps. These applications provide us as users, and as moderators, tools that make Reddit more usable, accessible, functionable, and easier to moderate.
Countless users have reached out on this important issue, and we are in agreement. Reddit's failure to listen to the community means we must speak in unison to protect these services. For those in disagreement, we will see you back on June 15.
We acknowledge that Reddit has been reaching out to moderators, and is recognizing the concern raised by the communities. We will keep users updated through this post as the situation changes.

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Hello fellow Apes,
I am supposed to be playing D4 with my kids but instead I am writing this post for you. It's ok. I'm having fun because I'm actually into talking about this shit. Anyway, I was inspired to write an explanation regarding other companies used of AI based on u/Sandro316 's reply from this post I made earlier https://www.reddit.com/CLOV/comments/144na72/the_reasons_why_big_names_are_linked_with_this/. I'm posting it here to we can highlight this topic, and the information doesn't get lost in the comments section.
The purpose of this post is to explain in laymen terms what these companies are doing in AI from the perspective of a healthcare administrator. A little bit about my background. I started out in healthcare research and did my fellowship at NIH. I have 13+ years of experience working at director and c level positions in healthcare and social services. I'm also a big computer geek, and I current have my staff working on an AI system so I can train staff faster and equip them with the skills to help clients/consumers/patients navigate the complex healthcare and social service systems that we have in California. With that said, let get started.
As a side note, I will make another post regarding the patents CLOV has which pertain to how its AI's is and will be functioning in the future.
Humana for example is mainly focused on improving the customer experience and streamlining administrative tasks
https://www.forbes.com/sites/neiledwards/2020/03/02/why-doesnt-your-healthcare-insurer-use-ai-like-humana-does/?sh=f6faed5608ea
This article is using a lot of big words to explain to you that they trying to build a system that mimic Kaiser and a automated call bot that will hopefully answer all of your questions. Here is a same quote
" Call Center Experience
Humana members call for many reasons: understanding a claim status, inquiring about benefits eligibility, placing orders for new or re-filled prescriptions or appealing a medical coverage decision.
The answers to these questions are stored in different information systems. The company uses artificial intelligence and intelligent automation to help bridge gaps between systems. The aim is a better call experience. "
This is just a small reduction of the current problem regarding claim processing. They are not giving providers a better tool to process claims faster and more accurately. They are just improving their call bot.
The rest of the stuff that was wrote in the article are just Humana trying to copy Kaiser's current system. IF you have Kaiser and appreciate how fast and seamless they make some process such as drug refill, you should get a rough idea of what Humana's AI is trying to achieve.
"United is a little closer to Clover with their optum subsidiary but it is mainly focused on improving patient outcomes by getting them care faster and with the right physician for their case."
https://emerj.com/ai-sector-overviews/artificial-intelligence-at-united-health/

• An AI-enhanced virtual assistant platform to collect patient data and offer customized solutions: UnitedHealth Group’s virtual assistance platform uses conversational AI and enhanced agents that reroute calls to sufficient internal resources, collect and classify patient information, and offer services that bring down costs and improve patient service experiences.

This is exactly what you think it is. They are creating an AI to hopefully understand patients and providers communication better so that they can route them to the appropriate people to process the claim. The reason why United is doing this way go back to the comments I made in my previous posts. They are a very old healthcare company that has a lot of money. However, because their system is so old and deeply rooted in their money making process, it is hard for them to build something like CA which can process treatment, make recommendation, and process the claim--"giving providers more time to treat patients instead of doing paperwork." Want to know what happen when a provider fuck up on their claim? They delay your treatment until the claim is approved by the insurance. This is what United System is trying to reduce with AI.
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• Developing a centralized data platform to improve patient outcomes: UnitedHealth Group’s resident tech-focused subsidiary, Optum, develops a platform that uses data analytics, NLP, machine and deep learning models to improve patient outcomes by predicting conditions and decreasing the cost of care.

This second part of their AI is exactly what CA is currently doing. While Optum and United are in development of a system that they still have to figure out how to integrate into their legacy system without causing catastrophic errors--CA is being used and has proven to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce cost (MCR). As a side note, if you think integrating, migrating, or switching to a new system is easy, just take a look at the shit show that is redetermination for Medi-caid that is currently going on. So many people are being dropped from Medi-caid and they don't even know it.
As for the rest of the article and the fancy words they used, it's fucking Kaiser. I'm sorry that I get annoyed, but whenever I read an article that used fancy words to trick laymen people, I get mad. I advocate for the people with 9th grade literacy, and this kind of shit are just describing Kaiser's system which is the current king of primary care if you haven't heard about it. Their system is used at the role model at so many meetings, it's not even funny. They have amazing coordinated care because they are the insurance and provider.
Anyway, next article..
"Oscar is again trying to improve outcomes by routing members to the correct place. Then also improve efficiency."
https://www.hioscar.com/deepdive/oscar-strategy
The AI being deploy here is to reduce the amount of fraudulent claims basically medical misuses. I'm actually very knowledgeable about Oscar, and they not investing in AI as much as they should. They are just improving their current system to detect bad claims and speed up the processing time.
In summary, CLOV's current competitors are trying to build AI on top of their current medical billing systems/platforms. Consequently, due to the limitation of those systems/platforms, they are not able to innovate as much as CA. By the end of the day, their system is still heavily reliant on a human being on insurance side to process the claim and another human being on the provider side to file the claim correctly.
This is very different than providing providers with the tools to
1) process claims
2) make recommendation on what claims (treatment) should be used based on the data from previous patients.
The big problem with health insurance companies now a day is they are so out of touch with the amount of time a provider need to invest into their staff to understand each company's process to file claims, reconciliation, out of network referral, and etc so they keep finding ways to make it easier for their staff while introducing a bunch of new rules and procedures that are not helping providers. Providers cannot provide services without authorization. Authorization should not require a fucking manual for every god damn insurance company. Ever wonder why you have to check whether your provider accept your insurance? What you are really checking is whether or not they are vendorized or are on the panel to bill the insurance company. Low payout and complicated procedures for processing claim and vendorization are barriers to care.
The only company that even come close to CLOV is United and they are still in development. CLOV's AI is live with multiple patents. https://www.reddit.com/CLOV/comments/144pi0m/clover_health_54_patents_from_2018_to_2023/
The best analogy I can give here to compare Tesla (pre-big-ass company) to GM during the EV1 era. GM made the first electric car and was much bigger than Tesla. Tesla was testing out it's battery powered roadster. However, Tesla had years to test out building their car, battery, and production line.
While CLOV is working on testing and proving the profitability of its AI, other companies are just in the process of developing them. Some of them aren't working on it at all.
Before I forgot, all of the healthcare company mentioned above are basically trying to reduce their turnaround time for when a claim is submitted for both new and prior authorization.

Rest of Egghead Cut back to egghead. We get the Kuma backstory (probably God Valley) and Saturn and Kizaru arrive. Lafitte and Devon also show up on the Blackbeard ship unnoticed. The Kuma flashback ends at the same time Kuma accomplishes whatever hee doing at the red line (probably exploding himself).
Between the seraphim, Saturn, Kizaru, and 100 navy vessels, the straw hats are overwhelmed. Bonney confronts who she thinks is vegapunk, but it’s actually Devon who kidnaps her. York ends up telling Saturn about Ohara’s research being kept on Elbaf, who then kills her.
Right as the straw hats are about to completely lose, the grand fleet shows up to save them. The lower level navy ships get taken out and spread the navy out enough for the straw hats to escape. As everyone escapes, Kizaru demonstrates what an awakened logia does by completely destroying egghead, turning it into a hole in the sea where it’s permanently daytime. Luffy decides they need to go save Bonney from Blackbeard. The Straw Hats are headed to Fullalead.
Fullalead Arc The arc begins before they arrive, with Luffy handing off Vegapunk to the revolutionaries at sea (from Shaka’s call). They receive new bounties for “”kidnapping Vegapunk””, with Luffy now sitting at 3.8 billion. At Fullalead, the Blackbeard pirates have apprehended Monkey D Garp, while Coby, Perona, and Moria have escaped. Blackbeard is elated by this, as Garp is a MUCH better bargaining chip than Coby. The straw hats soon arrive, much to Blackbeard’s displeasure.
The matchups are: Luffy vs. Blackbeard Zoro vs. Shiryu Sanji vs. Pizarro Jinbei vs. Burgess Robin vs. Kuzan Franky vs. Sanjuan Wolf (sunny robot form with help from Vegapunk) Brook vs. Van Augur Bonney vs. Catarina Devon Nami vs. Lafitte Chopper vs. Doc Q/Stronger Usopp vs. Van Augur
The straw hats eventually take down all 10 titanic commanders (Robin wins via narrative with Kuzan deciding to defect and revealing his motives), followed by a harrowing and extremely destructive fight between Luffy and Blackbeard. Luffy prevails and everyone in the island is freed. Luffy decides to have Bonney join the crew. The straw hats set sail to wherever the log pose takes them next.
Back at Mariejois/Navy HQ, Akainu/the gorosei learn about Ohara’s research being left on Elbaf. Akainu is finally given permission to launch everything the navy has at Elbaf.
Elbaf arc Before they arrive, we get bounty updates. Zoro eclipses 2 billion while Sanji is at 1,999,999,999. Luffy’s full crew arrives on Elbaf. The usually introductory scenes follow, with Robin finally getting to reunite with Saul. Luffy talks with the giants about Shanks. Robin reads the poneglyph that was on Ohara, which reveals the location of the ancient weapon Uranus. It’s stated that the world government took control of it. The straw hats learn more about the lunarians from historical texts.
Soon, the full force of the navy shows up. Akainu, Kizaru, and Ryokugyu are among them (Fujitora makes up some crazy mental gymnastic reason that he can’t go because he isn’t allowed on military installations). They proceed to start devastating the island, attempting to eradicate every trace of Ohara’s texts.
The main matchups are: Luffy vs. Akainu Zoro vs. Ryokugyu Sanji vs. Kizaru Rest of crew vs. vice admirals
Ryokugyu shows that he’s every bit as strong as every other admiral, pushing zoro to his absolute limit. He has a black blade. He uses it alongside his fruit power extremely well. Zoro finally ends up turning his blades black in this fight. Zoro’s final attack consists of him cutting down an entire forest in one swing, defeating Ryokugyu in the process.
Sanji vs Kizaru begins fairly evenly matched, as Kizaru is still being lazy as usual. After Sanji lands a few hits, however, Kizaru decides to finally get serious. It seems Kizaru is too much for Sanji. Sanji ends up taking his abilities to the next absolute limit, continuing to go faster and faster so he can perceive Kizaru’s movements. The speed ends up taking a huge toll on Sanji.
They both keep getting faster and faster, until eventually Sanji prevails, using “speed is weight” to apply the properties of relativity to his combat, allowing him to move faster than Kizaru due to slight relative time dilation, nearly killing himself in the process.
Akainu is Luffy’s absolute toughest opponent, unlike anything Luffy has gone up against before. Despite not having to touch Akainu, he shows how truly powerful a logia awakening is, turning the ground to magma. This, alongside Akainu’s advanced conquerors, makes him a perfect wall for Luffy. Luffy’s ability to use flames on his attacks is used heavily in this fight.
Akainu eventually ends up almost killing one of his crew members (probably usopp) and Luffy snaps, getting the classic anime rage transformation (extremely shadowy look, flames, etc.) Luffy’s flame attacks become “like magma” similar to king, heavily implying there’s some lunarian mixed into “Nika”. Luffy shows an extreme desire to avenge ace and usopp.
Akainu’s final attack involves him shooting up towards Luffy in the sky in a massive dog form made purely from his magma. During this final struggle, we get a flashback of Akainu’s family getting killed by pirates as a child, and Akainu killing ace. Luffy ends up not just beating, but killing Akainu, launching him deep underground, upon which his magma hardens.
With that, Luffy throws a huge party on Elbaf, with usopp finally having become a brave warrior of the sea. The straw hats set sail.
Post Elbaf arc We get a bounty update. Luffy now has a bounty of 4.9 billion berries. Zoro and Sanji both cross 3 billion and are dead even. Fujitora has become the new fleet admiral, with Coby, Smoker, and someone else as admiral. The straw hats soon run into a pitch black ship surrounded by whirlpools.
The pitch black ship belongs to a former whitebeard pirate. Whitebeard had the poneglyph moved before he died so Fishman Island wouldn’t get attacked by pirates, and decided that keeping it on the water would best prevent island conflict. They give the final poneglyph to Luffy as thanks for avenging Ace, and the crew heads to laugh tale.

My fiancé is the light of my life. He is the sweetest and most thoughtful person I’ve ever met in the world. He is kind and considerate and compassionate to me and his friends and my friends and any animal he could ever meet on the street. I could swear on my life that he hung the stars in the sky. He is literally the most beautiful and brightest soul in the world. And I can see where he gets it from: even though his parents are divorced (since he was a young child) they are civil and understanding and ask about each other often. They were, from everything I hear, encouraging and loving and wonderful in every capacity. I’ve also been lucky enough to witness it, because from the moment we started dating they have been nothing but accepting and supportive and loving to me as if I were their own. I dont have a great relationship with my parents so this has meant a great deal to me and Im extremely attached to his parents. Unfortunately, his dad’s lung cancer has come back after he was diagnosed stage 4 and “beat it” around 5 years ago. His dad is his best friend. It’s very rough and we’re getting good news very rarely. We are getting married next year and we planned to start trying for a child immediately after. It’s been hard to think he won’t be around for any of it. And harder still to think he maybe won’t be around at all soon. I know as hard as it’s hitting me, my fiancé is taking it much worse. He’s having a horrible time, keeping it together as best as he can, but it’s so hard on him and he breaks down regularly from it. I know there is nothing I can do to remedy the situation or to make it any better but all I want to do every day when I wake up is make him smile and make his life easier because he does it so effortlessly for me every day and he deserves the world. I’m just looking for ideas for gifts, gestures, etc that will make him happy. Take his mind off everything if only for a moment. Any ideas for him and his dad together, or just things to do for him or give him. He’s huge on Zelda (esp because it was the first game he ever played through and he played it with his dad), we’re both big fans of the Soulsborne games, he loves all things JRPG and honestly gaming in general. He’s a musician (guitarist in a death metal band) but I don’t know anything about his gear or anything he could want or need. Loves otters. Loves animals in general. Big on tattoos & pretty inked up already. I’m also just looking for help on how to best emotionally support him. He always tells me I’m helping just by being around and I’m his comfort person, but I get so scared I’m not dealing with it correctly or supporting him enough or saying the right thing. More than anything I want to be there for him to make everything easier in any way I can, especially emotionally and mentally. I would lay down my life to take away his pain so any gesture or efforts I could put in to ease it, I’m more than willing to do. Any help is greatly appreciated. I just want to see him happy as often as I can and try to help him through this in any way possible.

Reddit Username: PlumpPhoenix
Discord Name: plumpphoenix
Name and House: Torrhen Hornwood
Age: 21
Cultural Group: Northerner (First Men)
Religion: Old Gods
Appearance: Torrhen has short dark brown hair that is at most ear length, and is clean shaven. He is of average height but has a robust build. He is very much a warrior. He is slightly darker than the average Northman, a tan that was obtained over his years as a sellsword in Essos. He has dark gray eyes that are prototypical of a Northman. He dresses simply, wearing furs and leathers with little adornment to them. The only symbol on his clothing is that of his house, that of the bull moose. Even then, the adornment is small in size.
Trait: Strong
Skill(s): One-Handed Swords (e), Two-Handed Weapons (e), Riding , Vanguard (e), Tactician
Talent(s): Games (Board/Card), Gardening, Cooking
Negative Trait: N/A
Starting Title(s): Lord of the Hornwood
Starting Location(s): White Harbor (changed this on advice of another player)
Alternate Characters: N/A
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Bio:
Torrhen Hornwood was born the last of four children to Lord Jorah Hornwood and Lady Alys Glover. His elder siblings in order of birth are Beron Hornwood, Alaric Hornwood, and Alarra Hornwood. As the third-born son and the youngest in the family, it was generally expected that he would not inherit into any lands or holdings. In most other families, it would have been likely that Torrhen would have received a lord’s education from a Maester before going off to find his own destiny and life. However, Lord Jorah Hornwood was a man who was a meticulous planner, and assigned every child’s destiny to them shortly after birth. He had dreams of making House Hornwood a house of great repute and renown, and wished each child of his to form a part of a greater whole. Therefore, Beron Hornwood, as the eldest, was specifically trained to be the lord’s heir, to be a master of diplomacy and intrigue, to charm and to impress. Alaric, the lord’s spare, was educated in numbers and administration, so that he would serve as his brother’s steward and principle advisor. Alarra was raised to be the perfect lady, so that she might help to forge a marriage alliance with another noble house. Finally, Torrhen was raised to be a soldier, so that he might server as the master-at-arms and lead his brother’s armies. Although his father had his plans, he could be cruel in crushing his children’s other interests and hobbies.
As such, when it came to skill at arms, although all the sons received some training, it was Torrhen who was deemed the primary focus of the master-at-arms instruction, and worked in a brutal regime, drilling for hours each day every day. He was additionally brought up learning military strategy and tactics, and studying ancient battles from before and after the Conquest. He did learn what would be considered an acceptable education for a noble in numbers and letters from the Maester, but beyond that his father demanded that Torrhen focus on martial skills. This decision did not disappoint Torrhen, as he largely did not really care about nor have any particular talent or gift for numbers and administration.
He was not particularly close with any of his brothers or sister, in part due to an 6 year age gap between the younger two siblings and himself, and also due to a difference in upbringing, as the other three siblings were educated together largely under the care of the Maester, whereas Torrhen was largely educated out in the field. The only member of his family with whom he was close to was his mother, who secretly taught Torrhen how to garden, as such a hobby was considered by Lord Jorah Hornwood to be beneath Torrhen. On his 14th name day, Torrhen was given a fine crafted bastard sword as a gift and has subsequently used that blade in every battle and fight he has been in.
In 195 AC, when Torrhen came of age, Lord Jorah Hornwood announced that Torrhen would depart for Essos at once, where he would take up residency and arms among the Ragged Standard, so that he would further hone his martial skills in genuine live combat. All the necessary arrangements had been made, and Torrhen departed that evening. Whilst overseas fighting in the Disputed Lands, he became familiar with foreign cultures and developed an interest in them. During this time, he became acquainted with various board and card games that were frequently played among sellswords, and was halfway decent at them. He additionally began to learn the basic tenets of cooking, after he grew tired of eating the same gruel that the Ragged Standard called food. This skill came particularly useful during a difficult campaign in the Disputed Lands, where the sellswords of the Ragged Standard were forced to consume rats and insects to survive. However, life was not all perfect in the Hornwood. In 198 AC, Beron Hornwood disappeared without a trace one evening. Servants had opened his chamber door to find the bed neatly made and empty, with no evidence of any struggle. None of the guards had seen him depart and to this day his disappearance remains a mystery. When Lord Jorah sought to recall his second son, Alaric, home from the Free Cities where he was being educated more deeply in numbers, the ship that was carrying Alaric was destroyed in a storm and sank without even seeing White Harbor. In the face of many of his sons dying and his lifelong established plans being torn asunder, Lord Jorah died in a fit of rage.
The news of Lord Jorah and his two elder brother’s deaths only reached Torrhen in 200 AC, when he had returned to Lys after a final campaign in the Disputed Lands. Upon finding out the news, he chartered a ship to White Harbor, where he expects to assume his duties as the Lord of the Hornwood.
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Timeline:
179 AC - Torrhen Hornwood is born the fourth child of Lord Jorah Hornwood and Lady Alys Glover
183 AC - Torrhen begins learning the basics of gardening from his mother
185 AC - Torrhen begins his training in arms with the Master-at-Arms of the Hornwood
193 AC - Torrhen is gifted his bastard sword
195 AC - Torrhen departs Westeros to join the Ragged Standard and engage in combat in the Disputed Lands
197 AC - Torrhen distinguishes his skill as a commander and fighter in a difficult campaign while in the Disputed Lands.
200 AC - After returning from campaign, Torrhen discovers the news about his father and brothers and opts to return to Westeros and the North.
200 AC - Torrhen arrives in White Harbor. Present Day.
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Hornwood Family Tree
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NPCs
Alarra Hornwood: (Archetype: Castellan) Alarra is not considered a comely nor homely woman and is tall and strong, taller than Torrhen. She wears her dark brown hair with braids and it flows down to her shoulders. She possesses intelligent dark gray eyes, and has a mind suitable for administration and numbers. She enjoys wearing subtle grays and whites as color in her clothing, and wears slightly more elaborate clothing, such as fine linens and silks.
Lady Alys Glover: (Archetype: Trader) Lady Alys, the mother of Alarra and Torrhen, is still alive. She has black hair that has begun to gray, and has brown eyes that are soft. Despite her age, she still possesses a strength in her posture and eyes. She is a woman of average height and build. She dresses similar to her daughter, but wears more reds and grays in the color of her house.
Maester Walder: (Archetype: Medic) The Maester assigned to serve the Lord of the Hornwood. He is a man of middle age, with a slight receding hairline of gray hair.

so i’ve known this guy for almost four years.
i used to have a REALLY strong crush on him, and a part of me still does. he’s aware that i had feelings for him for about 2 years straight but not that i still have some feelings.
he got a girlfriend in January and i tried keeping distance from him. however we became friends again and he started talking trash about her. he would make comments like “i’m not attracted to her” “i think she needs to lose weight” “i don’t care about women right now but i stand with you” and even openly talked about talking to another girl in front of me and his homeboy. when he first started dating her, he asked if i wanted to get food with him and i said no. the whole course of their relationship, he would tell her he loves her on social media comments.
HOWEVER. they recently broke up and i’m pretty sure she dumped him since she’s going to college in the fall. and he kept reposting these tiktoks about fighting for love???? i don’t get how he can “love” her and say he loves her while also saying those sort of things about her.
this type of behavior seems normal for guys, especially the ones at my school. but why? i really don’t get it.

A cousin of mine (M, 16) was traveling from Kansas City to Ft. Wayne by bus to visit family. He had valid tickets for all transfers. While waiting for his transfer in Indianapolis, he was picked up by city police under suspicion of being a runaway.
He explained that he had family in Ft. Wayne and gave the police their contact information. They held him for two hours while they attempted to reach his family there but couldn't. (The officers did eventually reach them but it was too late by then.)
Instead of holding him until they were able to reach someone or sending him on to Ft. Wayne (or even sending him back to Kansas City) they confiscated his remaining tickets, including those for his return trip next week and put him on a bus to St. Louis.
He's currently at the bus station, waiting for his dad to pick him up. (A 3-hour drive)
There is so much wrong with this whole scenario I'm not sure where to start.
Firstly, they had no reason to detain him. His father had completed the unaccompanied minor form with Greyhound and he was cleared to travel alone. According to him (my cousin) he was sitting alone, listening to music when the police approached him.
Second, if it's their desire to keep him safe until they could reach a family member, why wouldn't they wait until they actually reached someone before turning him loose?
Third, why St. Louis? His origin City was Kansas City and he showed the officers his learner's permit, which has his (not St. Louis) home address on it, which is much closer to KC than StL. They didn't arrange for anyone to meet him in StL, and didn't give him any compensation for the tickets they confiscated and he wasn't traveling with much cash. (He has a CC for emergencies, but they didn't know that)
His family feels the Indianapolis Police put him in danger for no good reason and stole around $300 in bus fare from him (again, for no reason). He wasn't charged with anything and basically they just ruined his trip under the guise of "keeping him safe."
I guess I'm looking for ideas about where to go from here. Monday his dad is going to call the Indy PD and talk to the officer's supervisor. (My cousin was smart enough to get the officer's badge numbers and names) He and his dad are understandably freaked out about the whole situation and I doubt he'll be able to visit his Indiana family until he turns 18 in order avoid this again.
[Edited for clarity].
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I'm 33 years old with absolutely no prospects. I live at home with my mother.
My teeth are terrible. Poor dental hygiene and terrible eating habits for years. At one point I probably didn't know any better, but once you are old enough you should. I guess I didn't understand why I should care. It's something I am now painfully aware of. Any potential love interest will instinctively think 'ick' 'gross' when they see me smile. I am missing 4 teeth, 2 need to be removed still. On the plus side, I fell into enough money to start getting implants put in. I will be in debt with my mother or the dentist depending on how it shakes out. This has been eye opening enough for me to start saving $1000 a month(about %50 of my income) so I can actually complete the work. My teeth will still be off white, but my cavaties will be gone, my rotting teeth out of my mouth, and I will be able to eat properly.
I have no education, and at this point it would take more support than I have to change that. I don't have the will to overcome that obstacle alone. Not to mention I need a full time income to get the above done as well as be prepared for anything life could throw at me.
I don't have a good relationship with my mother but I have no where else to go and no one else. I have 2 large dogs( 1 over 100lb, the other 80lb). That means even if I could afford to leave down the line, I'd need to rent a house. I have no other comparisons and I've never rented, but a 3bd 1bath is 2650 plus utilities. That's like 1250 with 3 people or 1900 with 2. That would be over half my income and id have to find 2 people who can understand the reactive nature of my dogs as well as the noise a great pyrenees makes. They don't hurt people, but can fight each other if they get overexcited and are too close to each other. I seperate them when I'm not there and my current home has enough room for them to both be inside the kitchen without threatening each other's space. I walk a fine line and have learned to manage them through the errors that I have made in the past. When I think about all that, the only thing keeping me from not wanting to live here is the stigma. I live in a small 2 bedroom on a decent lot. My mom just built an Adu for my brother. I currently don't pay rent but am going to once my teeth are paid off.
I don't have a good job or the kind of outgoing personality you need to make connections and move up quickly. I have a good work ethic, I do my job well. I've tried applying for the only other position at my job that I don't feel is a lateral move(and that I want to do) but I haven't had any luck. I had one interview once but I don't think it went all that well. It felt awkward. I haven't tried looking for positions outside my current employer. I guess I don't wanna have a commute again, or think I will find more than I'm currently making. All that to say, without some stroke of dumb luck, my financial situation is unlikely to change. I will likely never own a house. You simply cannot afford to buy a house on minimum wage. I'm making 20 an hour atm which is a jump from my employer paying me 13-14 and my previous employer paying me 10. I've only ever made slightly above minimum. My income has only went up because minimum wage has went up. Currently it's 15.50. Although now I have a bigger cushion, everything keeps getting more expensive. Only my cannabis costs have went down. My mother's house was 175 in 2010. In 2021 before she built the Adu having done absolutely no maintenance, it went up to 475. With what I'm making now, I could have saved up for a down-payment on the price of 175k or even found something for 150. It's just not doable. Even in the areas that were just coming up and selling homes for less than a 100k are now 300 400+.
With all this, I still find myself picky in my love life. The caliber of woman I want is one I'm just not worthy of. I don't want to settle for anyone who sends a smile my way. I want the kind of connection where my gut is screaming at me, with the kind of beauty that would catch my attention from across the room. I had this once before so I know it exist, but now I'm an ageing man with nothing to show for himself but the ravages of time.
The most realistic outcome I can come for is making a good friend or two, and having enough spare change to travel to other countries. I don't have any friends or acquaintances currently. Owning property and love are more than likely not in the cards for me. I'd be lieing if I said this life is worth living, but I still pray I get kept around for at least 15 more years. If I die, my dogs will have no one.

I'm toying with manim and the output looks wayyyy too much like a video from 3b1b. Is there any advice on how to change things up to make the video look a bit more unique. Ideally, I'd like to keep it dark mode.

Cycle 1-Tessa
Her photo was pretty bad and per the photographer she couldn’t model. So this feels justified because it was cycle one so I’ll give it to them
Cycle 2-Anna
She didn’t do the photoshoot so this isn’t surprising
Cycle 3-Magdalena
Her photo was pretty bad and she seemed a bit more quiet/reserved compared to the rest of cast (Tocarra, Amanda, Eva) so I can see why she got booted. But not even from Tyra??? From an envelope in Jamaica???
Cycle 4-Brita
Wasn’t her whole thing that she looked too old? It was giving “because they need someone to go home first”
Cycle 5-Ashley
I feel kind of bad for her. I don’t think she wanted to give into the reality aspect of the show, she just wanted to model and the the producers said bye.
Cycle 6-Kathy
Southern sweet girl. I don’t think she knew what she got herself into
Cycle 7-Christian
This was so sad. Her picture wasn’t that good but also the concept was kind of tacky. Could you imagine had she stayed and Melrose had gotten the boot???????????? No way.
Cycle 8-Kathleen
Lol.
Cycle 9-Mila
I’m not even sure where to begin with this girl
Cycle 10-Atalya
Again she was quiet and shy and the cycle had huge personalities (Dominque, Fatima, Lauren) so not surprising
Cycle 11-Sharaun
We all saw this coming. Sometimes you can just tell because IIRC the photo wasn’t even bad but they threw in the towel with her and it showed. Rule 101 of ANTM, don’t be cocky week one.
Cycle 12-Isabella
This was kind of sad too. I don’t think she would’ve made it much further but Sandra was obviously kept because she caused drama
Cycle 13-Lisa
I don’t remember anything about her but didn’t she have some success after the show?
Cycle 14-Gabrielle
I really liked her!! I wanted to see a lot more of her too but maybe it was her photo
Cycle 15-Annamaria
Again she was cocky and we all know how Tyra loves to serve a good dish of karma
Cycle 16-Angelia
I actually liked her photo but that cycle was super strong
Cycle 17-Britney
They did her kind of dirty. That photoshoot was a joke and then they based the elimination off of popularity and they tried so hard to make the models celebrities but how is that even fair when her cycle was years ago.
I’ve only watched up to all stars but feel free to keep it going

Dear M,
We were in a relationship for 8 years. That's a little bit more than a quarter of our lives. For 6 years, we were married. I messed it up spectacularly, when it was far easier not to. I caused you so much pain and anguish. You retaliated, but at this point I don't care. My claim that I love you so deeply makes little sense to you, how can I, if I repeatedly broke your trust and your heart?
I too find it hard to reconcile my love to you with the immense guilt I feel. But, using your words, you are my everything. You were. You still are, no matter how hard I try to break free. Call it unhealthy, call it "trauma bonding", I don't care about labels. I was, and still am, suffering from debilitating depression. I never asked you or expected you to fix me. My fatal mistake was living completely through you, and for you. I had no sense of purpose, and no hope, except with you and for you and around you. How can that be true, if what you feel is that I care so little about your feelings? I don't know. How can I feel that these 8 years, on the balance, were so achingly beautiful, yet you can't wait to erase them from your memory? I don't know. What I do know is that I feel lost and untethered. It's been a year, and I made little progress trying to find a purpose. I'm frozen in time, where I was 8 years ago, feeling cynical and hopeless and certain about the futility of life. I still dream about you, about your smile, your voice, your unconditional love and care, I count your freckles and watch the sun glisten through your hair. It sounds cheesy, and you think everything I say is insincere, but you are the most amazing person I've ever met, and ever will, your flaws be damned. It's presumptuous, and stupid, to "decide" that no one will be as amazing as you, but I love you permanently. I didn't think that was possible, and I understood that as people come and go, you can never love them the same way, but nevertheless, I can't fathom your absence.
I've read about "stalkers" and "narcissists" and thought, if my behavior drifts towards these labels, will I be aware of it? We all justify what we do in our heads, and I'm no exception. When you sent me an email today threatening to report me if I ever contact you again, it was like being struck ny thunder. I'm not one of "them"! Or am I?! Am I self centered for feeling pain, for crying nonstop since I read what you sent me? Am I self centered for writing this post? I'm not trying to chase you or cause you any anguish. You cut me off and demonized me with no explanation -not that I'm entitled to one, a couple of months ago, but you also mentioned potential health issues. I was trying to check on you. I love you, and I wish nothing but happiness and contentment for you. I wish you can find reasons for me to be useful to you, reasons to remember me fondly and keep me alive in your life, instead of trying to erase every trace and memory of me ever existing. I'm so sorry for hurting you, not that apologies can fix anything. The way I think you see me, as a horrible, selfish evil monster, stabs me deeply. But I'm not the victim here, so I can only complain secretly. I actually hope and pray you never see this.
You are beautiful, wonderful, and I love you forever. Nothing I can say or do can make up for the fact I destroyed us, that I broke your heart the way I did. You loved me like no other human can love. I'm sorry.
Please remember me fondly.
Yours truly until entropy balances out all energy fluctuations in a dark, dead, cold universe, -A
"The most beautiful morning, forever.. Like the ones from far off, far off away With the hum of the bees in the jasmine sway.. Don't ever let go, Try to let go Don't ever let go, Try to let go Don't ever.."

I’d placed a BOPIS order first day of SAS to ensure there were some of the throwback items I would be able to keep if I liked them. Well, I don’t like Plumeria or Juniper Breeze so when picking up my order, I returned the items right then and there. The associate asked how she was supposed to process an online return and the manager she asked said “it’s easier to just process it as a no receipt return.” Even though, ya know, I didn’t even leave the store with these items and I have the email + the slip is in the bag.
Because of this, they couldn’t refund my original payment method and put it on a gift card. I’m sure I’ll use the GC eventually but I was kind of annoyed because I would’ve much rather had the money go back into my bank account, especially considering it was NOT a no receipt return 🙃

So i had such an endsieg in kaiserreich i wanted to throw the game but also win it.
I had to fight the combined strenghth of Ukraine Belarus Baltic countries Finland Sweden Germany Poland Austria (joined after ukraine capitulated) Serbia Bulgaria Romania Armenia Italy And other
So Basically France and UOB decided to be shit and i tried my hardest to relive the pressure but it was hopeless, they gave up and there was a peace deal.
Later i was solo against all of europe. The red air and sound of naval invasions everywhere was ultra aids.
I had a airforce but i couldnt keep up, 100 factories werent enough. The medium tanks i i used (30w) would always get pinned and slow down bc of red air.
Also each country had at least 50 divisions against me FUCKING ALBANIA HAD 35
Tldr: bad rolled dice

Sveltekit is a womderful framework, ever since I have learnt it and did couple of projects in it. I couldn't go back to my older mental model. How ever what I miss is batteries included nature of Django and I recently happened to work woth Ruby-on-Rails for one project and was amazed by its boiler plate generation capabilites form cli. While sveltekit is rapidly getting matured and ecosystem of great libraries with likes of auth.js and lucia-auth for authentication are coming up, one craves a more opinionated structure for following things. 1. Cli for route generation that generated Boilerplate route based on params name and types. e.g. api route type generates only server.ts , page route create page.svelte and page.ts and put Boilerplate for load and stuff, page with server form type route creates form and associated form action Boilerplate. 2. Sessions framework. With ability to have jwt-sessions, cookie only sessions, db backed sessions with cookie having session id, redis backed sessions, phantom token style sessions. Along with session based access management like allowing only one or x number of concurrent logins and logging out oldest sessions or mechanism to revoke all session on actions like password change or device lost. 3. Authentication on top of these sessions that support configurable passwordless auth, social auth, multifactor auth etc. 4. Authorization with permissions framework backed by session as well as ability to have access control for hierarchical groups of user. Group memberships etc. 5. Opinionated database orm (choose something like kysely or Drizzle so as to keep serverless compabitility) 6. Ratelimiting strategies on routes 7. Caching framework backed by in-memory/redis/sqlite based caches. 8. Opinionated forms with ability to activate protections like CSRF and Captcha. 9. Mailers implementstions (Actually should be a notification service implementation which not only allows creating mails but also configuring push notification and sms type of stuff) 10. Scheduled and Background task queues backed by redis/nats/kafaka etc. 11. Admin panel. (Baby between Django admin and laravel nova) Once all this is available then I don't think anyone will want to use Django, Rails, Pheonix etc. I think an attempt with sailsjs is there for js based mvc... but nothing comes close to beautiful mental model of Sveltekit..... thus one desires such meta framework around it.

I have an iPhone 11 that is running iOS 16.5 and my microphone keeps turning on at random times when I’m not using it, even on the home screen. It doesn’t show that its on in my control center, only on the upper left hand corner of the screen. If more detail or screenshots are needed please lmk. I’ve also closed all the background apps and it still kept popping up.

It is so annoying to hear. My mom says she's stressed out and does her fake tears in front of my dad to make it look like my sister and I are mistreating her. My mom scrolls through Facebook the whole fucking day, my sister plays video games 12-13 hours a day, and I do my online school in my room without her help, so my mom literally doesn't even talk to us for 99.9% of the day.
My mom always talks about how important maintaining her mental health is, and her way of maintaining her mental health is never leaving the house (no exaggeration), and avoiding people, and forces my sister and I to do the same. She says you'll live longer if you avoid everyone, which is absolute bullshit.
I'm so done with my mom saying she's stressed. What the hell does she have to be stressed about? Like I get it, mental health is important and stress happens, but my mom doesn't do anything and blames my sister and I for making her depressed when we don't even talk to her and do our own things all day. My mom doesn't even homeschool us and I'm left teaching myself and my sister.
I'm so tired of hearing "I need a vacation to get out of this home" and she thinks I don't? I've been stuck in this house for 3-4 years against my will. She wants my sister and I to be hyper-aware of her mental wellbeing, but then ignores ours.
I have so many mental breakdowns on a daily basis from all of this isolation and I have trained myself to not go to her for comfort because all she'll do is justify her actions and make me feel ungrateful. I have so much built-up rage inside of me from the hypocrisy of my "mother" I just want to explode. It's so hard to restrain myself from yelling at both of my parents for everything they've put us through.
My mom always talks about everyone having a breaking point, but according to my mom that only applies to her. Every mental breakdown I have all I hear is "how could you be sad, we live in a big house?" or "What do you have to be stressed about, you're safe from the outside world?", but then when she has a "mental breakdown" (which is when she is trying to manipulate my sister, my dad and I, and she isn't breakdown at all) she expects us to devote all of our time to her and pamper her like a little baby. UGHHHH.
I can't express how much anger I have for my mom. She knows what she's doing since I've explained to her how I feel about the isolation, and my dad has yelled at has yelled at her for isolating us, but she doesn't care. She enjoys hurting my sister and I mentally, then acts like SHE'S the one who is being hurt from homeschooling us. I've told her she doesn't have to homeschool us if it "hurts" her so much, but then she comes up with nonsense excuses to continue isolating us.
Sorry about the rant, it just pisses me off and I had to say it somewhere.

My ex broke up with me, Its been 6 months nc (ghosted me on newyears). I tried to contact her 2 months into nc, but i got no reply & i had just started to forget about her the following months. Recently, shes been watching all of my stories.. i was pirvate and i went public she just started mirroring my every move doing the exact same thing. I was just posting myself hiking & overall just having fun since its been nice out and she started posting also but she keeps up with all my stories and we dont follow eachother prior she blocked me on everything… but its bothering me i dont want her anymore idk why shes copying me (im not opening any of her stories because i dont care) and she also called my number to get my attention but i did not answer. Why is this person so mad at me for moving on after she was the one to leave me. Shes very toxic. Anyways what does this mean what is she trying to do?? Its bothering me

First time poster, long time tinkerelurker.
I scored this weird hollowbody recently. The neck was bowed to hell and the electronics were shot. Seems like someone opted to turn it into wall art instead of making it playable - there was a nail through the headstock and a couple screw holes in the back. BUT, it looks rad and these old off-brand guitars are often missing the vibrato arm in my experience, so I say it's a great find for $75. I'm gonna bring this thing back to life.
I got the fretboard off using a putty knife and a clothes iron on the highest setting, then rigged up the ridiculous system in pic #3, put the iron on low, and left it alone all day. It's straight now and the board is back on.
I fixed the crack in the headstock and filled the nail hole with a bit of dowel rod. It's still kind of ugly and the logo is missing anyway, so I'm going to paint the headstock black. Does anyone know what make and model this thing is, btw? My best guess is one of the cheaper Japanese companies from the 60's or 70's, but there are no markings other than the outline of the old logo.
Also, I REALLY like having separate volume and tone for each pickup but I'd hate to cut into that beautiful top to make room. Does anyone have experience with concentric pots? I don't see them much and I'm wondering if they suck. I'm keeping the original pickups unless they sound like ass when I get them working - they look too cool to swap out.
I'd love to hear all your thoughts on this majestic beast.