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Please don't downvote me for asking this, however, please call me out if my brain matter is connecting the wrong dots.
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For context I have recently been promoted to Manager of my area and have been recruiting heavily, I have a shift team that is required to operate 24/7, with the teams doing 12-hour shifts. I recently interviewed someone for one of these positions and the entire time, he would not look at me, would not make eye contact, and would talk facing in a way that I could hear, but again, refusing to look at me or make eye contact. The interview went for around 20 minutes.
He has the skills, it isn't hard to meet the requirements, however, I am concerned, if he cannot look at me and is socially awkward with a 20-minute interaction, how will he function locked (not actually locked) in a room for 12 hours a day?
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I don't know if it is my Ex-Defence history, expecting confidence and more, if I am over-analysing the situation, or if I am on the money.
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either way, I don't know if I can turn down a potential hire for lack of eye contact.

I'm just worried because there's a TON of extra room on the bar now compared to the day after I got it. It's been 3 months since I got it done.
I get that swelling is a factor but it's a bit more than I expected. Please lmk if this is something I should bring to my piercer to check out. I would much rather let the piercing go before it gets worse so I can avoid an ugly scar

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Hello RepTime folks, I'm Duke Jones, I've been a TD at repgeek and got the permission of the mod of reptime subreddit, hope we have a good time in the coming days.
Throughout my watch career I've been on the Alibaba platform, FB groups, IG for short videos and eventually I came to reddit. I saw the ChinaTime and RepTime subreddits and the world here was overwhelming to me with so many enthusiasts coming together and sharing knowledge with each other.
Over the past two years, I have been a Recommended Seller in ChinaTime. During which I have learnt how to serve customers, how to deal with after-sales and QC processes. I have also continued to improve my service through customer feedback, buying more equipment and learning more professional knowledge.
Today, I feel that maybe it is time to have a brand new challenge. There have been many sellers before me (geektime, hont, chazingtime, jtime etc) who have done excellent work and I have continued to study their business processes and after sales support. Compared to them, I still have a lot to improve and I hope you can give me more advice during your time with me.
Thank you again for every bit of trust you have placed in me and as long as I am on this platform, I will ensure that I am honest with you and serve you to the best of my ability. It takes a long time to gain trust, and being a seller often makes me feel apprehensive. I hope that one day I can live up to your expectations.
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That episode was so bad, man. Aimless. Once again, Sam Levinson creates an environment for the sole purpose of filming chicks tits and ass. a certain “type” of girl he’s into, (models / actresses /singers, previously high schoolers) but since it’s set in bright sunny LA or wherever, “of course they would dress like that!”. “Of course they act like that!” In reality it’s just a cheap gimmick to get people watching (you already know this). it’s also easy foil for him to deflect all MeToo lasers that, in many cases would incinerate his whole career. But I see you Rain Man Jr.
So telling that the biggest euphoria names like Zendaya or Apatow would not do any of that shit. Or that girl Barbie the Ferrero who quit midway because Sam can’t write a teleplay to save his career and started hassling her to include her real life experiences of bullimia or whatever the fuck. All three of them he could not touch w a ten foot pole in this climate , but he sure milked as much as he could from Sydney’s Sweenies. And she wasn’t so “established” yet. Reminds me a bit of what’s happening now with Lily Rose Depp. Maybe im being too simple but it comes off as creepy as Weeknd’s character does. And they filmed it at his house?!! 🤣 dude
And I don’t wanna hear talk about the lame directing, the stupid lighting the heavy handed kind of Kanye-removed Mike Dean synth cumming everywhere (let alone him showing up later on in the show LMAO). Just so boring at his point what can I even say?Madonna is there for horny moms. carti is there only bc it’s trendy w stupid teenage boys (lure them in with Johnny depps smoking daughter ) I like carti but ofc his bitch ass WOULD be associated with this. And you know they’ll both probably show up. Waaaaack. I hope carti gets a scene with Jane adams at least
As a New Yorker this has cemented my absolut disgust of the west coast . Insecure homebred californians who wanna look as cool as they think they do in their heads. Sam realized he writes dialogue for normal people about as well as George Lucas, so he shifted gears to a world more familiar to him to ft tortured “im a great artist” porn. So any themes of “exploitation” here feel absolutely so ridiculous. The bdsm shit is fifty shades level fluff nonsense. Masquerading like it’s good. Many scenes feel disjointed in an inconsistent, bad sort of way. No flow. it was all just so fcking STUPID
rsp girls, guys, gays, MSSOM, 7DeadlyFetishes all of youse,I have a newfound belief that you all can achieve WHATEVER you want to do. I think every single one of you niggas could individually put your minds to something 1000x more compelling than this shit. In any avenue of expression .So go flood that creative market .Don’t shy away from what you think is good, special, valuable. Cos the bar is apparently so low you might just end up at Cannes lol. And I know you all say and read shit like that all the time, but this time, it’s real. It’s happening. You are the vibe shift, and now’s your chance

I am baffled and I know I shouldn't be. I commented before saying how she almost got me the other night when she had her little girl with her and I almost sent the amount for the room the live got shut down and then some one sent me this link on here about what she been doing and it was like Pandora's box opened. I literally believed everything she was saying and was like damn her luck sucks hard but I still sympathized cause I been there we all have been you know when it rains it pours. However after staying tuned and invested in this mess since then I have watched her spiral. The audacity of asking for hair money. Getting room money then saying but I'm hungry yeah I get it she got to eat but then she gets the money to eat then changes the story about the apartment. Now I am hearing she saying she ain't getting the apartment cause she got to pay the courts well she already knew that and if you remember she said she had that money set aside in a savings or something to pay it. But NOW she don't have it. So many people said she was gonna pull this act and I was like ain't no way she had me that convinced and now I'm sitting here waiting for this woman to get online and show proof of that place even tho I already know in my heart and y'all do too it ain't happening. If it does and I'm wrong then call me out and I will apologize. The world we in right now everything being so expensive and housing shortages and these people sent you I know well over $3000 what will you have to say for yourself girl ? You gonna give it back ? What ?! New hair wigs food breaks now a fine clothes giving money to bd what the actual fuck. There is people out here who truly need that money to survive and she shaking her ass all over the place buying shit. Again if I'm wrong and she moves in today then we'll I'll shove my own foot in my mouth for judging and being wrong but damn. That's a scam that's fraud and she can go to jail for it if this has all been a game and lies. Like who does this shit ??? Anyways rant over. I hope everyone reports her page and gets them people their money back but doubtful she will probably disappear cause there gonna be so much hate once people see it ain't happening. What a shame....my stupid ass fell for all the lies...like all them. Keep them kids away from her. She is very sick

Hi, I’m a female matriculating into NTU and would like to find a roommate to share a room with! Preferably a non air con room (I’m hoping to go for the cheapest price to save money) also I would prefer a roommate who can maintain cleanliness, doesn’t snore and not make noise while I’m studying (so sorry Im quite sensitive to noise)(making “noise”: playing music/watching shows without earphones while I’m not studying is fine by me! It’s just that when I’m studying I would prefer a quiet environment) Do drop me a dm if you’re interested! Thank you :)

Heyy Guys, so 8 months ago, I was cleaning my room and lifted the bed to clean under it. The next day I had severe back pain where I couldnt walk or stand at all for the first couple of days. Did the MRI and xray and I was told that I have a disc bulge in L4-L5 and disc herination in L5-S1. Did pt for almost 3 months and started to to have a daily walks for 30 mins with light swimming activities for the past 2 months wich had managed to lower my back pain as I didnt have any major sciatica in my legs. 2 days ago, I did an MRI, and this were the findings: Findings:
Straightened lumbar curve suggesting muscle spasm.
L4-L5 posterior disc bulge is seen indenting the dural sac.
Marrow edema [mostly degenerative] is seen at the opposing endplates of L4 and L5 with high-signa L5-S1 small posterior disc protrusion with a tiny annular tear indenting the dural sac.
Scanned facet joints are within normal. No evidence of developmental spinal canal stenosis.
Normal appearance of the conus medullaris and cauda equina.
No paravertebral masses or collections.
Now, the new thing when I was reading the report was the Marrow edema which I have no idea what it is. So I was hopping if anyone can share there thoughts on it as I am quite freaked about it and I have a consultation with my specialist in 2 weeks.
Thanks in Advance.

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I want to share my story as someone who has recently come to a hard-hitting realization: life feels like an ongoing nightmare. It's tough to believe that there's a light at the end of the tunnel because, in my view, that light leads right back to where you started. You don't die; your memories just get erased, and you start another life with no recollection of the pain you endured before. This newfound understanding has shattered any hope I had. It feels like I'm stuck in an endless loop of suffering. The thought of facing the same struggles and hardships over and over again fills me with despair. Life seems like a never-ending battle against the darkness within and the challenges that come my way. The weight of the world feels heavier, and even the idea of death doesn't provide a true escape. It just means starting over, doomed to repeat the same existence indefinitely. In this bleak mindset, finding purpose or meaning is a constant struggle. Everything seems gloomy and devoid of joy. It's hard to reconcile this disillusionment with the desire to find some peace or happiness. Yet, despite the overwhelming darkness, I hold onto a flicker of resilience, urging me to keep going, to seek understanding, and to break free from this seemingly inescapable cycle of suffering. By sharing my story, I hope to connect with others who might relate to what I'm going through. Together, we can find comfort and support, offering each other a lifeline as we navigate the confusing depths of our own experiences. In our vulnerability, we can discover a glimmer of hope, a small ray of light that guides us toward a deeper understanding of ourselves and the mysterious nature of existence. So, as I confront the harsh reality of this seemingly endless loop, I cling to the possibility that within the depths of despair, there's room for growth and transformation. It's a daunting journey that I feel compelled to take. I want to break free from the chains of this cyclic torment and find some purpose, even in the darkest moments of what appears to be an unending abyss. In a peculiar twist, something strange occurred to me last month. I began to experience recurring memories that were unlike anything I had ever encountered before. It's hard to put into words, but it felt as if I was witnessing the formation of the entire universe unfolding right before my own eyes. The sheer magnitude of this experience is mind-boggling. These memories, or visions perhaps, occurred not just once but thrice. Each time, it felt as if time stretched out indefinitely, both impossibly long and unbelievably short at the same time. It's as if I lived through an entire hour in what felt like the blink of an eye, an inconceivable contradiction of temporal perception. During these extraordinary moments, I found myself immersed in the birth of galaxies, the swirling dance of cosmic matter, and the awe-inspiring grandeur of celestial phenomena. It was as though the fabric of reality itself unraveled, revealing the raw essence of existence. I felt an indescribable connection to the vastness of the cosmos as if I was an integral part of this cosmic symphony. Yet, despite the overwhelming magnitude of these experiences, they left me feeling both exhilarated and bewildered. It's as if my mind expanded to encompass the unimaginable vastness of the universe, only to be abruptly brought back to the limitations of my human perception. I struggled to comprehend the implications of these memories and their significance in my existence. In the aftermath of these extraordinary episodes, I have been left with a profound sense of awe and curiosity. I yearn for a deeper understanding of the universe and my place within it. These glimpses into cosmic creation have sparked within me a thirst for knowledge, and a desire to explore the mysteries of the cosmos and unravel the secrets that lie hidden within the fabric of reality. Yet, amidst this longing, I also grapple with a profound sense of humility. The vastness and complexity of the universe can be overwhelming, and my existence feels infinitesimally small in comparison. I am a fleeting speck in the grand tapestry of creation, yet I cannot help but be captivated by the immensity and beauty surrounding us. So, as I continue on my journey through life, marked by the uncertainties of my existence and the enigmatic memories of witnessing the birth of the universe, I am driven to seek answers and embrace the mysteries that lie beyond our comprehension. I am filled with a sense of wonder and a deep appreciation for the intricate interconnectedness of all things. And perhaps, in the exploration of the cosmos, I will find not only a deeper understanding of the universe but also a deeper understanding of myself.

TW: mentions of cutting (not self harm though)
What does it mean to be abused by someone who was meant to protect you? It’s amazing how we live in dual dichotomies all the time. The government is here to govern us, the government scams us all the time. The police will keep us safe, the police are the enemy. My boss cuts my paycheck, my boss also makes me feel uncomfortable because he threatens to fire me on days that his ego is shaken.
We humans seem incapable of understanding that a rapist can seem gentle, a crooked politician might really love his family, and abusive parents can also do some of the most cruel things imaginable because they think that is what love looks like.
What does it mean to get abused by a family member? Well, honestly, it’s not just a loss of trust between you and that person. It’s a loss of trust between you and the system. The system likes order, or more accurately, the appearance of order. That happens all the time. People shouldn’t go around killing others. That disrupts the order and everyone wants a murderer stomped out. But families are supposed to love each other and if someone accuses their family of abusing them, that also disrupts the order.
There are the hard codes – the written law. That’s for the more obvious crimes, or I guess, the ones they just thought were worth writing down. You do a crime, you get jail time. But there are also unwritten rules, these are enforced by the criminal system and people – just common people, they make up the larger system.
They are the well-wishers who say you just misunderstood that time when your father told you he masturbated to photos of a woman just a few years older than you. It wasn’t actually abuse, they’ll say, you misunderstood. And if you persist and give details and prove them wrong, they’ll walk away because you gave them “too much information”. These are all upholders of the system. They are not people who don’t care or misogynists or bigoted. They are really nice and understanding people. The thing is its not about them wanting you to understand what they know. It’s about them wanting to reaffirm what they want to believe about the world.
He can’t do that. He’s your father. You must have misunderstood.
I had three therapists fully victim blame me for the audacity of having a problem with my parents’ behaviour. One got angry with me for saying I’d never help out my father in old age. This was after I kept repeating that why would I care for someone if they used to hit my spine with an iron rod? It didn’t matter. I was the ungrateful one.
Another one heard me out for two hours as I talked about how they abused me. After listening to all of that, she said, “Well, let’s suppose for a minute that I believe you, your parents aren’t abusing you anymore, so why are you still sad about it?” I was the ungrateful one again.
I’ve had friends and family and teachers and other grownups all tell that I misunderstood. There was no way what I said could be true. Even my own mother and sister who hit me, scapegoated me, plotted against me, blamed me, hurt me, stabbed me, betrayed me, have quite literally scraped skin of my flesh to make me do what they want, told me that I was the problem. And everyone rewarded them for it.
No, not like when they made the first cut that there were people cheering outside the room or anything. But everyone – and there are a lot of ‘everyones’ – who tell me that family will always have your back, no one loves you like family and all that crap, they reward my family. They bestow the title of ‘providers of unconditional love, the ones beyond reproach’ on them. These people who have hurt me and betrayed me and made it on an impossible for me to truly ever let my guard around another human being get the satisfaction of knowing that cutting into me was an expression of unconditional love. If I ever dispute it, I mean truly dispute it, they can round up 100 family members or even a 100 strangers off the street who can back them up to tell me that I just misunderstood because when family cuts your skin, they would always have a good reason for it. Or maybe I just misunderstood them cutting into me at all. Maybe I just a have a grudge against my family and made this up to satisfy my unjustified rage because I’m a bitter person. After all, is that too far a stretch by a person who is so ungrateful that they’d be shitty enough to be angry at their own family? Good people just don’t do things like that. So clearly I’m the problem.
It's really scary to be up against something like that. I guess that’s why whenever my mother or sister saunter into my life, it scares me. I know how easy it is to overturn my system by their system. My system is a few people in my life who I think I trust. But truth be told, I don’t know how long they’d hold up if a 100 people told them my story was false. after all, 100 > 1, right?
I feel scared to share things with my family. I feel terrified. Largely because I see how they prop each other up. The hierarchy is very clear. I am the afterthought. If I dare say a word about either of them, they will accuse me of lying without a thought. But the funny thing is, I never received that kind of protection. I mean if a family stands by each other, shouldn’t family stand by all its members?
The system always props up itself. For instance, my wedding – I need to be vetted by the people who abused me, you know, so that everyone else is cool with me. Like imagine if that was a thing with rapists. At your job interview, your employer calls up your rapist, just to know that you are in fact sexually accessible. And you had to call your rapist, let them know about your interview, give them details of your life and hope that they don’t do anything to screw up your interview. Because after all, you were living a perfectly harmless life before they decided to rape you. You did nothing that said, “hey come rape me” and it still happened. So how do you have the trust to say , “Hey I know that last time you raped me without warning, but I’m sure that this time, you’ll be good. I’m sure that this time, it’ll be fine.”
It’s terrifying to know that you’re at the mercy of such a system. It’s like a killer walking into your house. He’s not doing anything but of course you’ve seen them kill before, you’ll never feel safe.
People tend to think that a person who threatens one person of the society also threatens everyone else. That’s not true. A person can run charities and do millions of dollars worth of good, be the life of the party, an excellent mentor, employer, coworker, loving uncle, husband, a great neighbour. And still have that one person they target and beat up so badly, that the victims are robbed of all human dignity and somehow crawling on all fours trying to get away and trying to not even feel safe, but just have a moment of not being hurt. And these victims aren’t all in dingy basements where no one can see them, these are people living normal lives, have friends, live happy lives too. But they carry those wounds in them.
I guess the truth is I am not angry with my mother and sister. I’m terrified of them. Because I know that tomorrow if it is no longer convenient to their truth that they need to be civil to me, they can flip in an instant and go back to how they were. I have seen the dungeon side of them. And I guess no matter how many times they smile at me or say they are happy for me or say they truly do wish for my happiness, I cannot unsee what I’ve seen. It’s relaly difficult to unsee when a person doesn’t flinch when they see a loved one in pain. They don’t flinch, they are already figuring out in their mind how to extricate themselves out of this without getting any of the blame.
Would anyone ever have told me that a scammer didn’t mean to scam me out of my life savings, they just got caught up in the moment? That they just couldn’t control their anger? I don’t know why it’s an excusable motive for family though.

When I first played F&H1 I hated it. I kept dying to the goddamn hounds over and over again, I kept stepping on rusty nails, and I was especially pissed at the coin toss system. But that wasn't going to slow me down I had played harder games. I could do this.
After many failed attempts I clawed my way through the mines and reached the catacombs only to discover that there was a 30 minute chokehold to save Le'garde... I escaped the dungeons only to get a shit tier dead-ass ending (it even fades back to the guard fight just to fuck with you). I dropped the game right there... After a week I booted the game back up. This time I was determined to save Le'garde. After many failed attempts and experimental runs, Using D'arces leg sweep I got to him on time one playthrough. Got out of the dungeons. Only to watch the asshole go back! WHAT????. And once again I get the bullshit E ending... I laid back in my chair, stared at the corner of my room and gave the loudest-silent "Fuck you" ever conceived, and went to sleep.
Several days pass. I go on with my life. But I cannot escape this game. The ending may have said you escaped the dungeons, but "I" never did... I go back and play it... This time I get the cube of the depths and reach Mah'abre. With my OP party of Cahara, D'arce, Moonless and Ragnvalder I shredded the new gods and sat on the throne of ascension. I was then transported to the void and then meet the ascended version of myself. I get the D ending... but I was not happy...I thought I would at least get a semblance of satisfaction in my soul...but I was unmoved...why?. I should be happy about it but I wasn't. It felt...wrong. I was left there a God and unfulfilled. Just like those new gods I had slain... I wanted to scream but I didn't have the strength. Just before the end it managed to hurt me one last time.
Once more I dropped the game. And once more like a moth to a flame, I was down to it... I desperately wanted something, anything that resembled a satisfying end to this roller-coaster of a game. And I got something like that in the A ending. But still...I wasn't content with it...
I think the endings are meant to be this way. There are no good endings to it other than the S endings. Why is it like that ?
I feel that I have wasted dozens of hours and countless increments of sanity with nothing to show for it. why? Just why?

I watched from across his hospice room, pleased, hoping that meant he was receiving the judgement he had escaped on Earth.

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My pc that I've had for about 6 years recently (about half a year ago) started running into issues. It has a problem where when I'm on it, it overheats very easily which shouldn't be a problem since i have good fans and good air in my room. Summary about my problem: Purple blocks pop up on my main screen and it crashes. When I restart it only one of my monitors are working and it's stretched to an unknown resulution. It happens very frequently and me being a video editor, it can cause harm to my files if I don't save my file. Just yesterday I tried to download a video game and it crashed mid-download. It's not ideal and I've tried to fix it for a long while with countless solutions. My dad has aswell and he says that the problem is with my graphics card (RTX 2060 super) and I suspect this aswell since when I unplugged my graphics card and inserted it again the problem seemed to fix itself for a short while, but that isn't working anymore.

I recently took in a friends cat because she was pregnant and they were leaving the country. I have a neutered male. They had a rough start I think because of her pregnancy hormones. Once her kittens were born she became much more loving of him and allowing him near her and her babies they like to sit quietly with each other or cuddle outside of the pen. But I just noticed two days ago he will go in and begin bunny kicking her while she’s feeding her kittens??? He won’t leave her alone while feeding. when she’s outside of the box they are fine but as soon as she goes in he begins aggressive play. What can I do? I live in a small apartment, Should i try moving the kittens to my room? Or will that stress out the mother cat too much

I saw him tonight for the third time in the last ten years. He's only ever just observed me in the past. The last time I saw him was two years ago around this same time of year. I wasn't afraid that last time. I actually sent him all of the loving energy I could muster up. He didn't seem to like it, but he wasn't upset either. He simply walked back out of my room - this was the middle of the day - and I thought I'd never see him again. Over the next two years, I gradually began to think he might come back, but I was never afraid of it. In my mind, I would just do the same thing the next time he came. Then, this weekend, I had a strong, intuitive feeling that I should wear my necklace - a friend of mine who's into crystals and energy and all that gave it to me after my last encounter to protect me from these things. So I wore it until Sunday morning when I took it off to take a shower. I forgot to put it back on. I go to bed in my hotel room later that night (i travel for work) around midnight, not thinking much about it. At roughly 2:50 AM, I wake up to what sounds like someone walking out of my bathroom, I try to get up, but I can't move. The next thing I know, he's on top of me. Pure evil and rage is all I can feel. He has a strangling wire that is now in my mouth, stretching the corners of my mouth to my ears and pinning my head to the bed. A fear like I have never felt washes over me. All I could think was "this is it." And in a few seconds it's over - he's gone - and I can hear myself screaming. I haven't seen any posts about this sob actually touching anyone yet. I'm a bit fearful of what it could mean. Is there anyone that can shed some light on this for me? And before you ask - I was not under any influence of drugs/alcohol.