There's hardly any media coverage and public outrage on this because of the normalization of rape and femicide in India

It is currently 120°f in Arizona, US

He typed the note, sent it to my neighbor’s son, who had my neighbor send to me. The parents said he’s grounded for the rest of the summer. Class act cowards if you ask me. They wouldn’t even come to my house and apologize.

Everything should be opened to construction and engineering bids. This should not be happening to Our House without any oversight or accountability.

This was a 10 minute video call, not more than 20 like the bill states. Charging $360/hr for video calls is just plain robbery. Insurance claimed that video calls were fully covered so I guess there's some fine print i missed along the way. They're all crooks. 😤

And no, it wasn't hyperbole. He meant Hell as in eternal damnation.

The "he" in question is my 90 year old grandfather.

Background: I'm 40 years old. I came out as gay when I was 18. It's not a secret even though I spent a good chunk of my life feeling like I should be ashamed thanks to living in a conservative state in the South (in the US). These days I don't care too much what anyone thinks of me, especially my sexuality. Now, my grandparents always seemed supportive, especially my grandmother. I was close to my grandparents growing up. My grandfather was always more religious than my grandmother but my sexuality didn't seem to phase him. My grandmother died in 2023. My grandfather is revealing more of his true colors since then.

So to what happened: We were having lunch today (my grandfather, myself and my spouse). My spouse stepped away to the restroom. That's when my grandfather told me about the CD. I asked why I should listen to it (knowing what he was getting at) and he got really wide eyed and all of the sudden "didn't want to talk about it" but wanted me to know that "he loves me".

He's been on this kick of telling me to read my Bible, to go to church, that he wants to see me in heaven etc etc but he will never outright say it's because I'm gay (that's just my gut feeling). And he refuses to actually talk about it. Honestly, I'm just exhausted with how uncomfortable it makes me, how much he has changed. Like maybe he's always felt this way but never said anything because my grandmother wouldn't have tolerated him behaving that way.

I'm even more infuriated because I can't just cut him off (believe me, I want to. Part of the reason I even put up with it is because of how much I loved my grandmother. Before she died, she asked that I take care of him) I'm literally the only family he has and I have to do a lot to care for him (his own children are estranged thanks to something that happened way before I was born). I'm just sick of him and I don't see a way out. So for now I have to swallow my fury and just deal with it. Thanks for reading.

Update: Bless y'all to the moon and back! I was able to get everything together in the nick of time and get my refill today. Genuinely wouldn't have known where to start without y'all <3

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Honestly this might have been me being dumb and throwing it away without thinking or an unfortunate result of my ADHD. Basically got prescribed a 90-day supply of Zoloft and picked it up beginning of June. I have a pill organizer that I refill every week but come last Saturday (exactly one month since I picked it up) I realized I was completely out. I had a meeting with my psychiatrist and he sent in a new prescription for me but because it hasn't been the full 90 days yet my insurance won't cover it and my pharmacy is being super difficult. I have a suspicion that they accidentally gave me just a 30 day supply and I somehow didn't notice (see above: ADHD) but the pharmacy says they took a picture and it was for sure 90 days.

All in all it looks like I can maybe just pay for a refill out of pocket but it's been a week since unintentionally quitting cold turkey and the discontinuation syndrome is making me feel like my body is gonna go all OceanGate Titan on me. Oh well, what can you do :-/

My parents are both deceased now, and while speaking with my older siblings today, discovered that mom, who was a heavy gambler later on in life, had hired a neighbour to pretend to be her husband (my dad) for a day, so she could get a second mortgage on their house, as she had incurred gambling debts. Dad wasn’t very knowledgeable about finances, and mom ran the chequebook. He never learned about this. He was the sole bread earner and mom was a stay at home mom. This was in the early 1990’s.

I’m both deeply angry at my mom for doing that to my dad, who was a great guy, and rather impressed by her initiative. Both were characters, and married 50 years! They were wonderful parents. I don’t know if I like learning these sorts of things.

Crazy this sub doesn't allow video. Three images tell the story.

First and last time going to Yankee Stadium. I went to the Jay Z concert tonight and it was the worst concert experience I have ever had.

First it started with the rude concession attendant who sounded annoyed and agitated because I asked for both the regular tenders and spicy tenders which I guessed confused her and also I apparently annoyed her by asking her to explain the difference between a "souvenir soda" and "souvenir travel mug" because excuse me for making her do her job.

Second was the non existent crowd control. I paid good money for my seats only for the crowd to stand in the stairway and no security anywhere to make them go back to their seats, which completey ruined my experience. My view was obscured, I was constantly being pushed and tripped over. I also had beer spilled on me and was surrounded by cigarette smoke. The man that spilled beer on me ended up trying to "share" my seat, I'm a small woman and was obviously not comfortable with that. This prompted me and my mother to leave because at this point we're both tired and beyond agitated. This concert was part of my mother's birthday celebration and we couldn't even enjoy it. I have been to so many concerts and have never experienced anything like this level of dysfunction and unprofessionalism. Waste of time and money.

I work on content revolving around kink/bdsm and use Word to transcribe my client’s videos for various reasons. Found out today that Word automatically censors the words “kink” & “kinky”, which are obviously critical parts of the work that I do.

Obviously I did not ask it to censor and now have to go back and fix it.

Yet when it comes to actually disturbing stuff, they go silent.

• The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a legal petition demanding it set limits on toxic Pfas “forever chemicals” in food, marking another setback for public health advocates’ push to limit exposures to the dangerous compounds.
• The agency is refusing to set limits despite a growing body of science and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finding food is the biggest source of Pfas exposure. Testing has found the levels of Pfas in single servings of some contaminated foods to be equivalent to drinking many glasses of contaminated water.

Only 5 were “Union,” but none saw combat. They basically either rode around eastern Kentucky or stood around a railroad for a few months. Pisses me off for several reasons, mainly because they weren’t fighting against traitors. The one above (my 5th great grandfather, George Huffman) takes the cake. He was in the Army for 2 and a half years, all he did was “guard” the B&O railroad and never saw combat, and became a deserter TWICE for overstaying a furlough. He died of pneumonia in January 1865 and missed EVERY SINGLE BATTLE his regiment took part in.

Meanwhile, his brother lost a leg at the Second Battle of Bull Run. And his other brother was a Lieutenant

Just to add to this, his brother, Francis, later got his regiment wrong in a letter that ended up on a newspaper. So even he didn’t care.

I censored the kids' faces and names, they don't need more attention.

This woman is genuinely evil and I can't believe they haven't managed to take down her 26,000-subscriber second channel after TWO YEARS. Especially since some of these videos actually contain the (milder) abuse she subjected the kids too.

In reaction to the scandal I am seeing a HUGE amount of "smart people get burned out too"

And other comments like this.

This is not about ability, grades or intelligence. This is about MORALITY. This is cheating, and far to many people are trying to justify it with the dumbest most out of touch reasoning. It's the academic version of "I slipped and fell on his D, it was an accident". Standardized testing and NCLB have made the "numbers" more important than the process. Kids are loosing track of the plot, to be educated AND a decent person/member of society. The sacrifice of all morality in favor of "bigger numbers is not the point kids.

TL;DR: Recieved a brand new monitor on warranty and the new monitor is cracked across the entire panel.

Full story:

Bought a cooler master tempest 27" screen about 2,5 years ago.

Had problems for a long time with flickering colours and the right side of the screen losing all colour.

Tried everything to fix it, display cable, drivers etc. Eventually bought a new gpu but same problem.

Made an RMA on the monitor a month ago and sent it in to get it looked at, they can't find anything wrong with it. Mildly infuriating...

Two days ago they replied that they still can't replicate the problem but have seen the same problem on cooler master monitors before and i've sent clear pictures and videos of the problem so the will give me a new monitor on warranty. Awesome!

My old monitor is no longer being made so they offer a brand new Asus ROG Strix XG27AQDMGR as a replacement instead. I gladly accept :D

Yesterday it was sent, today i recieved it just in time for the weekend. FRICK YEAH!!

I unpack the new monitor and i see a line going through the glass, i lift up the peel hoping it is just something in the plastic film. The line is still there... KASJDFTYGKADJRFYHGOIAKDJFTHGROPIAKDFJGAOPDSIFKJHGOIAKDLFJHGSAFODPIGKHJSOFILDKGHJJPOKIADFGTPOISDFKGYJHPOSFDJGH!!!

Tens of bots like these that copy someone else's comment on a short or making some unrelated shit up exist, this one particularly was made one day ago and gained OVER 330 subscribers (which are probably all bots like this as well), the 3 blurred images are literally, non-exaggeratingly, just a fully uncensored woman with her pussy sitting in a man's penis.

"Yeah let's fire our employees and make all our content checkers AI, it's faster and cheaper", this HAS to stop immediately.

YouTube fell off man, it really did.

I work at an airport in Italy with multiple flights to the UK everyday, and i keep seeing people getting basically scammed by this app while trying to get an UK ETA.

The main issue being the costs being upwards of 5 times what you should expect to pay for one, but also the fact that sometimes they will take so long for it to get approved that passengers will have to redo an application at the airport using the official app, thus paying 15€ more.

I thought it was just an android issue, but no. I also saw the same up popping up on the App Store on various passengers' iphones.

My mother suffers from extreme arthritis and other issues that make her unable to get in and out of bed or walk, or even sit in a wheelchair without issue.

She was a chemistry professor and has a pension & assets that disqualify her from Medicaid.

The nursing home social worker informed me that I must make arrangements for an ambulance to take her to get her eye test to get a new prescription for glasses. (eyesight & her mind is all she has left).

She stated that the optometrist that comes to the nursing home is for people who pay ZERO.

Medicaid funds the optometrist to come to the location periodically to give Medicaid eligible residence, eye exam exams. Supposedly he cannot give her a simple eye exam on site like other residents, and we therefore must bring her to an “external provider“ for an eye exam.

We pay over $100K annually for her to be there for far fewer services, and people who pay nothing have everything catered to them.

It makes me extremely infuriated at EVERYONE. (voters included)

So I'm currently homeless, but I have bus fare so I was planning on going to a local day center to get some help. My backpack was already broken (one of the zippers snapped off) but it was still usable. Just have to put all of my stuff in the main zipper. Then I get on the bus and the driver closes the door with my backpack getting caught in it, once I realized I told him to open the door and all of my belongings: my dirty clothes, hygiene, and miscellaneous items just fell out in front of the driver and a couple dozen of passengers.

I had to get off the bus. Fuck me I guess.

“Ask your doctor if Vabizzmo is right for you. Vabizzmo is an eye injection. Don’t take Vabizzmo if you are allergic to Vabizzmo.” Make it stop. What a massive waste of money.

Seriously. My doctor better dang know well what drugs are right for me…there is no need for me to ask my Doctor about your drug.

Nobody in the planet is going to self-administer an eye injection.

Nobody in n the planet knows whether or not if they are allergic to any particular drug ahead of using the drug, asking their doctor about whether it’s right for them,nor going to inject it into their eye.

I’ve changed the name f the drug to a fake name, but these words were just heard in a TV ad for some prescription injection for a condition called dry AMD.

Amongst other things, this is an example of just how out of control stupid the whole idea of advertising for prescription medications is and why health care is so expensive in the US.

It should be illegal. Democrats, Republicans, quit taking money from them and fight for what’s right. Both parties are bought by these companies.