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From what you have writtten above it is quite clear that you are not "retarded". You seem to be quite able to express yourself and, if fact, do so in a clear and concise manner. Don't be so hard on yourself.

Have you been tested for any learning disabilities that may effect your ability to do well in tests? If you have and are all clear then it could just be the case that you need a different teacher. Have you tried looking online for learning opportunities such as with Khan Academy? You may just need to find a teaching style that works for you.

I knew it! I said in the original thread that something seemed fishy (why would he hide the tub in his own closet? He's supposed to be a thief, not an idiot.)

Looks like your step sister was making some plans. I mean, why the f would she put the tub in her... (step-nephew who's the same age????)'s closet? The container full of money was under a bunch of junk? Why did she put it under a bunch of junk????

Kid was planning to steal the fuck out of that, but wanted to test the security standards first. You need to lay some fucking smack down with your step-mom. That little shit tried to steal the money and pin it on your son, and that's BULLSHIT.

Do not let this drop.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/the-strongest-woman-in-america-lives-in-poverty

This article was posted on fittit about a week ago. Seems to corroborate OP's experience. Woman weight lifter is living at poverty level in order to compete.

Ironically, it is you who have not tasted grapes - at least not the right variety. According to this, you want to hunt down some Concord grapes.

I used to think the same thing, until I happened upon actual grapes that tasted like "Grape." My mind, was blown - though I didn't know the variety of grape at the time. I think I might try to find some Concords at the store today.

Regarding these two things:

> - On 9/11, for far too long after it was clear flight 11 had been hijacked, no fighters were scrambled to intercept the flights heading toward NY or DC, even though ATC had informed NORAD that planes were being hijacked. However, once planes were scrambled, they flew far below top speed towards NY and DC and their pilots weren't even informed of what was happening in NY nor were they told to intercept the second plane heading toward NYC.

> - There were well-established automatic procedures for intercepting aircraft that were either off course or had lost communication. Yet there were no interceptions of any of the four hijacked aircraft on 9/11. Real nice.

It simply was not as cut-and-dry as you make it out to be. These audio recordings might help you gain a better perspective on just how chaotic 9/11 was for flight responders as well as military personnel.

Install Stylish and add a new style for Reddit. Type this into the box -

@-moz-document domain("reddit.com") {

span[class="score unvoted"] { display: none; } }

See pic. This will hide the score until you up or downvote a post, then it will be revealed (hopefully).

EDIT : Using Firefox you can just cut/paste the above into 'userContent.css' (create the file and add it to your profile in the 'chrome' folder), no need to install Stylish just for one scrap of CSS.

If you need additional help you might want to check out Khan Academy. It's basically the largest free online school and it's designed to help you all the way from 1 + 1 to advanced calculus, along with lots of other subjects. If you want to learn more about it you can watch a good video about Khan here. Hope this helps!

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

-John Gilmore, American computer science innovator, Libertarian, Internet activist, and one of the founders of Electronic Frontier Foundation; quote from an interview in Time magazine, December 6, 1993

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore

A quote I quite liked from "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance":

>Happiness and good are not objective terms. We cannot deal with them scientifically and since they aren't objective they just exist in your mind. So, if you want to be happy, just change your mind. Ha-ha-ha

I am a white sixty one year old and this bothers me and has been bothering me since I was seven.

It should bother you too.

Believe me there is indeed systemic racism.

Watch "13th" on Netflix if you don't believe me.

I am sorry this is still going on, but the last thing any of us needs to do is excuse it.

Hang in there, but by all means avoid rope burns.

My best friend's a detective for the state police whose entire job is in crimes against children.

She has told me that people who molest kids, in general, think their feelings are normal and that society is fucked up for criminalizing pedophiles.

The fact that you're disgusted by your impulses makes me think that you are a victim of intrusive thoughts, which are a symptom of anxiety or OCD.

Try cognitive behavioral therapy for OCD or anxiety. You don't have to reveal the contents of your intrusive thoughts right away. It doesn't actually matter what the thoughts are, the treatment is the same.

I have generalized anxiety disorder and when my kids were little I had intrusive thoughts about hurting them (drowning them, dropping them, car "accidents"...). I was disgusted with myself and the thoughts were killing me and destroying my life until I got counseling.

If therapy isn't possible, try "The Feeling Good Handbook" by David Byrum. It might even be available at your library.

You are not your thoughts. I hope you get this figured out.

Don't mean to hijack this top post but here is the best way to remove it.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-win-7-security-2012

Took me under an hour, and no there is not one trace of it on my computer. It's like it was never there!

Also it asks to download things from a non-infected computer, I didn't have an extra one on hand and I downloaded it on the infected PC, still worked fine.

That kind of thinking about personal responsibility is addressed so nicely in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

First the options were inside the installer.

Then, the option was placed before the download.

Then, they moved the option further and further away from the download button. Guess not enough people were tricked into doing so.

N.B. Why the fuck is this entire self post a repost?! I can't even reproduce the issue anymore (though that may be because of platform detection or so - I'm on Linux.)

Just going to leave this here..

Firsttimerwtf - look familiar?

Foresight Magazine
ISSN: 1343-5213
You're probably looking for Vol. 8, Number 5 or 6 (depending)

@.... [Library of Congress](http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Title&SEQ=20111208195029&PID=LADLfxBFyOTarPpLerkby78OnVyZ&SA=Foresight+(Tokyo,+Japan)

WorldCat
The Library of Congress might be able to make you a photocopy or scan it for you. The WorldCat link will show you what libraries might have it, and if they do, which issues they have.

*edit: formatting. Also, the LC link might not work (I don't think you can permalink to their individual catalog entries, so just go to catalog.loc.gov and type in the ISSN to find the record.)

At the bottom: "create an account using your e-mail address". I think that should work for you, it's tiny text and isn't outlined at all, but it should be the way.

Not a doctor.

I've experienced vasovagal syncope. It's a condition where you'll occasionally pass out from a sudden drop in blood pressure caused by the 'vasovagal reflex'. Often there's a trigger (heat exposure and urinating/defecating are two), but not always. For me, it's the sight of blood or strong pain - I've learned to control it and I know how to stop it when I feel it coming.

A tip: If you ever get those symptoms again (head rush, your vision going black and white, ringing in your ears, dizziness), lie down. Get your legs at the same level or above your head. It's a lot harder to pass out this way - the mechanism for passing out from vasovagal (or any other reflex syncope) is a sudden loss in blood pressure causing blood to pool in your feet, so your head doesn't get enough blood. If you lie down, the heart doesn't have to work as hard, and you get some blood to your head.

But yeah, see a real doctor for a real diagnosis. This is just my personal experience, thought I'd tell you since it sounds like you're freaking out about aneurysms and other really serious stuff - I have something similar and it's not at all debilitating.

I thought this was already a pretty well established fact.

I think the thing that makes Tai unique is that even his critics will admit his advice isn't "bad". But from a cost/value perspective, it is terrible.

His advice is only good because he simply stole as many principles from self-help and business success books as he possibly could and rebranded them as his own advice.

I'd say about 90% of modern literature/workshops about success are just blatantly stolen from the book "Think and Grow Rich".

Since all weather apps, channels, and webpages source their information from the NOAA and try to "improve" it for their audience or fan base, I use this app which the developer keeps updated and sourced directly from the NOAA.

It's simple, informative, and once you dig in and click around, everything on NOAA is just a couple taps away. I love it!

I have only recently heard of bronies. I didn't think they existed, but they seem to be all over. I find this general advice applies to all sorts of things: Like whatever the hell you want to like. Shame just makes people less interesting.

I read this story somewhere (I can't find it now) about a guy who [REDACTED](just go read it, its like three pages) I won't spoil it here, but it seems similar.

Edit: Found it.

Reminds me of a story in Victor Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning:

>Once, an elderly general practitioner consulted me because of his severe depression. He could not overcome the loss of his wife who had died two years before and whom he had loved above all else. Now how could I help him? What should I tell him? >I refrained from telling him anything, but instead confronted him with a question, "What would have happened, Doctor, if you had died first, and your wife would have had to survive you?" >"Oh," he said, "for her this would have been terrible; how she would have suffered!" >Whereupon I replied, "You see, Doctor, such a suffering has been spared her, and it is you who have spared her this suffering; but now, you have to pay for it by surviving and mourning her." He said no word but shook my hand and calmly left the office. > — Viktor Frankl

I'm just renting a room in her house, so unfortunately there's no-one else here to talk to.

> I'm pretty sure the police can sort it for you or maybe a small claims court.

Isn't this technically a civil matter though? I imagine the police can't do anything. I'd love to take her to court if it came to that, but I'm leaving tomorrow morning, and it seems infeasible to bring her to court from across the ocean. That's why this last-minute thing is so nasty...

> If she tries to involve the police or tries to take you to court, get in contact with your university contact or embassy.

Well right now she has all the cards, since she has my deposit, and can return as much or as little as she wants, so I don't see why she would try to get the police or courts involved. Unless I retaliated somehow, which I'm not planning to*.

(*Despite a brief fantasy of sewing shrimp into her curtains, like in that old urban legend.)

The community college stuff is a great idea. I'll just add that, while waiting to do that, you may want to buff up on some remedial stuff (chem, bio, algebra, trig, maybe calc, etc.) with the Khan Academy.

When Things Fall Apart - Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron

Check out the reviews.

My Boxer girlfriend is 12 1/2. I'm pretty sure she has a slow-growing mass in her gut. She's way too old for surgery, even if I could afford it. I don't know if we'll make springtime, so I just give thanks for every day.

I wish you Peace.

In psychology there is a factor called an explanatory style. It's how you explain past events in your mind, and most importantly, it strongly influences the way you predict how you will do on future ones.

So, even if you are getting good grades and such, if you are conditioned to "explain" those successes to yourself or others by attributing them to impermanent, external causes (you got lucky, the professor made the test easy, etc), rather than due to permanent personal characteristics (e.g. you're intelligent and a hard worker and always prepare well) you'll not gain the self-confidence from those successes that you might otherwise. Likewise, if you tend to explain failures as being due to permanent personal characteristics (you always make this type of mistake, you're never any good at this, etc) instead of attributing them to temporary external factors (things just weren't working out that day, you were busy and couldn't focus) you'll likely blame yourself and discredit any future successes.

Explanatory style might seem like it could be a minor factor, yet a lot of research indicates otherwise... it can have a significant impact upon not only self-confidence but other major things like anxiety and depression. Fortunately, a number of cognitive therapy techniques exist that you can use to correct distorted thinking and give your self-confidence a boost.

I recommend picking up a copy of Martin Seligman's book "Learned Optimism". He's the fellow who more or less discovered this. You can find a used copy for a few bucks pretty much anywhere. It covers not only an in depth description of explanatory styles, but includes a survey to evaluate what areas you might have a pessimistic style, and thoroughly discusses the various diy cognitive therapies you can practice to get to a more optimistic mindset.

He means that Reddit is literally American.

>Reddit (stylized as reddit, /ˈrɛdɪt/)[5] is an American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. 

Not to mention that 57.3% of users are from the United States.

Google is your friend.

How to Electronically Sign Documents Without Printing and Scanning Them

https://lastpass.com/

Use this (or another password manager) and make long, obnoxiously hard passwords.

On important sites, like banking/paypal/etc, change them every few months.

With a password manager, you won't have to worry about remembering them, so they can be along the lines of ETj%LJjWXS476hIrNfk&af7#Gzj^Lo

Use gmail? Enable two-factor auth as well. (gmail's not the only one that has this, so check settings if you use hotmail or such) This makes it nearly impossible to access your email account, which is what a lot of hacks rely on as well; they'll get into your email, then use 'forgot password' anywhere they want to access.

Screen addiction is seriously killer. I'm on reddit right now, even though I would rather do something else. I've been on for at least 40 minutes.

I could be reading my book, practicing piano, applying for jobs, or just working on some other skill. Its just that dopamine rush and complacency that comes with scrolling thats me continue mindlessly.

Webtime Tracker is another good chrome extension to help with this. Its difficult to use website blockers if you have the ability to turn them off. This just tracks your time on each website. Helps me shame myself when I know that I spend on average 30 minutes a day on reddit. That means in the 46 days sense I got the extension, I have spent nearly an entire day on reddit. What a waste of time!!

>I very much doubt that, given the very limited availibility of Netflix. Also Youtube is the 3rd most popular website on the internet, Netflix is at place #91 (Source: alexa)

You can't compare this to anything. Wiki is #1 but hardly consumes any BW.

Take a look at this: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/17/netflix-largest-internet-traffic/

>Netflix video streaming is now the single largest source of peak downstream Internet traffic in the U.S., according to a new report by Sandvine. The streaming video service now accounts for 29.7 percent of peak downstream traffic, up from 21 percent last fall.

>That puts Netflix above HTTP websites (18 percent), BitTorrent (11 percent), and YouTube (10 percent) as a source of downstream traffic during peak times in North America. (BitTorrent still accounts for half of all upstream traffic)

HOW TO FIX IT

Go here, read the instructions: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-win-7-antispyware-2012

Just did this three days ago to fix my friend's computer, it worked fine.

We took a shortcut - after the 'RKill' step, which allows executables to run again, we updated and ran MalwareBytes as instructed, and then just used System Restore to revert to a clean version. Not a big deal, seems to have worked OK.

90% of people prevented from committing suicide once do NOT die by violent means (including suicide).

Conclusion: Your feelings are corrupting your thoughts. Don't let that lead you to something stupid.

I thought the draw-off was a good idea, as did many other Redditors as seen by the large numbers of votes. While SIDT's response may have come across as "classy" to many, I saw it as a subtle way to say "go F yourself" which was a bit uncalled for so I can totally understand this response.

That being said, I enjoy everyone's drawings and sketches that I see on Reddit and look forward to enjoying many more in the future. Keep up the good work - it is appreciated.

This is amazing. Chase that feeling; it's worth it.

You'll probably hit a wall and feel intense sadness and despair at some point. That's awesome. At least it's not numbness.

Being vulnerable is the most terrifyin and yet, exhilarating thing a human being can do.

This TED talk really helped me understand the power of opening up. Now, when I'm hurting, or in need, I let someone know. I put myself out there, because I know the alternative in my past is anxiety, and depression. ^ http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html

Check it out if you have 17 minutes. It's inspiring, and might help cement this high of yours into something long-lasting.

Four years ago my son came home with his first report card and it didn't have the A-F grades on it. Out of my mouth came the five words that defined the exact moment I became old.

When I was your age...

to take your great advice a step further to anyone else who cares to listen: get off the internet.

hear me out, I know a lot of good comes from communities like Reddit and the like but there's no denying it can be very easy to get addicted to these sites, always checking to see the latest posts and making sure you didn't miss anything interesting or informative or funny. that thing "well, nothing on Reddit, let's see what's on Reddit" is hilarious, don't get me wrong, I do it all the time. but in a way it is a mild form of an addiction, or maybe just a habit that doesn't add a lot of value to your life.

next time you run out of sites and forums and blogs to check, instead of cycling through them again head to your local library. seriously, some of the greatest minds the world has ever known have spent countless hours compiling so much useful information into books it's mind boggling. if you're trying to get out of a rut, if you're not happy with where you're at in life, start with The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. when you're done with that read Think and Grow Rich. how about How to Win Friends and Influence People after that? want a change of pace? try out The Last Lecture. there's just so much great stuff out there that can kick start you, give you some direction, change the way you see the world or yourself. and you gotta love yourself for anything else to fall into place. books are just so dense with information that you can get way more out of an hour of reading than you ever could aimlessly browsing the web. it's all out there waiting for you, it really is.

anyway that's my unsolicited two cents for anyone in a similar situation. think about it, try it out. there really is a whole other world of help and support waiting for you to discover it.

Yeah so, there's a whole bunch of really non-helpful posts here so I'll give you some actual advice.

I'm not sure on the type of hard drive apple laptops use but its kinda irrelevant. The best possible thing to do right now is to ignore anybody who says anything about a freezer, that will do more damage than good. Secondly you're going to need access to another computer for my trick to work and thirdly you're going to need about 30 bucks.

I've gone through many a failed computer and hard drive due to my clumsiness and the best solution to getting as much data off the drive as possible is to buy an external hard drive enclosure. These retail for about 30 bucks or so in stores but they can be found as cheaply as 5 or so bucks on newegg.com

To use these bad boys, you take out your hard drive and put it into the enclosure, then using the enclosures usb wire, hook it up to another computer, if it works then you can simply go into my computer (or whatever) and drag and drop the most critical files first onto the host computer. Double check of course to see if they are corrupted.

If the disk just doesn't wind up try sitting it at different angles, holding it with your hand, and all sorts of odd placements. Unfortunately I don't know of any data recovery softwares that are actually worth it so the best I can do is clue you in on the hard solution.

http://www.newegg.com/store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=92&Tpk=external%20hard%20drive%20enclosure

If you've got some cash (but not enough to start renting) you could find an AirBnB. Cheapest I can see in the LA area:

Here's some cheap ones (all under $1000/mo before taxes, all in LA, all have at least a bed and a bathroom)

I'm not a shill for AirBnB, but it's what I used to get through a month of otherwise homelessness (found a place for $450/mo, but was small and lacked AC during a really hot summer in Tokyo), and I'm not sure of alternative ones.

> I feel like the friend zone is when someone feels entitled to someone else's romantic feelings which is a result of being too immature and inexperienced to properly navigate romantic relationships.

Indeed, that's incorrect.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/friend-zone > A situation in which a friendship exists between two people, one of whom has an unreciprocated romantic or sexual interest in the other.

Anyone else immediately do this?

Firsttimerwtf - look familiar?

There's no mention of where this happened so I'll assume he's in California since that's the most populated state and because it was the first link from google that showed me how much it costs to keep someone in jail.

On average it costs $47,000/year to keep someone in jail, or roughly $130/day. The OP's stay in jail cost taxpayers $520 and in return he paid $30 for bail and lets assume $250 for a speeding ticket.

Every voter needs to make sure their elected representatives "gives two shits" about what we think. If not, shit is going to get a hell of a lot worse than what they already are.

*disclaimer: the above amounts are probably off because the OP didn't really clarify much about where he's from or what his ticket was for.

I do know there are multiple programs available that bypass the end user agreement by allowing you to click "next" regardless of whether or not you agree. This is hilarious considering that, by not agreeing, you don't agree to the clause that often states "no modification". Perfectly. Fucking. Legal.

This is one such tool. This doesn't ALWAYS work if there are additional checks, but there are some other tools as well that let you skip the EULA screen.

There is an awesome plugin for foobar2000 that will do this automatically for you, sorting the tracks in you music library by a certain artist by lastfm popularity. It has other great features as well, but this is its main feature.

Unfortunately it only works well if the track titles are accurate. For classical music, track naming is so complicated it probably wouldn't work well.

It's a simple javascript function:

window.onload = function() { document.getElementById('username').focus(); }

"username" is the id of the element you want to focus on. (And this will put it right in the input field.)

Here's an example on jsfiddle. (And this didn't work when I put the jsfiddle to 'onLoad' and only when I put it to 'onDomReady'. I wonder why that is.)

> The mobile app is trash

But Opengur is really good. Free. Zero ads. Open source. It is super fast, and very lightweight; it opens Imgur links faster than opening it in Chrome or even in the official Imgur ~~cr~~app. I honestly cannot recommend this app to people highly enough.

It's simple to upload images and after you upload an image, you can copy the direct image link right from the notification (unlike with the official Imgur app, which only lets you copy the gallery page for the image) and uploads are not automatically submitted to Imgur's public gallery.

The only downside is that, a couple of months ago, the app's developer announced he was no longer going to be actively developing the app. But it doesn't really matter, right now, because everything in the app that matters still works, and if/when something stops working, I'm certain that somebody will come along to fork the code, update the app, and re-release it.

I have a lego flash drive that I've had for two years.

It has been in my pocket for years, has been washed, fallen on, bitten on, chewed on, stepped on,... and it still works.

I cannot recommend this site enough!

Khan Academy

It's all free. Thousands of easy to follow instructional videos on everything from basic math to advanced math, and tons of other subjects too! Scroll down to the section "Arithmetic" to catch up on multiplication, division, other basics, and then check out the algebra section too.

You are a pleaser. It is your personality. Sadly, you didn't marry someone who compliments you. Your husband sounds entitled. He feels like he is entitled to excessive amounts of alone time for a father with young children. Honestly, he should get maybe 20 minutes to unwind when he gets in the door. From there, he should be busy with you and the kids until the kids go to sleep. You are team with your husband, not his babysitter, cook, and laundress. After the kids go to bed, you and him should relax together and separately (this should interchange throughout the week.) Why can't your husband handle feeding, bathing, and putting the kids to sleep independently? He is not putting in any effort. He should be doing this at least once a week. It sounds like you need to set up a responsibility chart for the adults in the household of who should be doing what each night (this is just to get him used to doing things with the family, rather than isolating himself.) Maybe M, W, F you will make dinner while he plays outside with the kids. Then, Tu and Th he makes dinner while you do laundry and supervise the children. Then, each night both of you bathe the children and prepare them for bed together. I'm sorry he's tired when he gets home at night but you know.. tough luck. He has young children that he needs to spend time with and a household he needs to contribute to in a non-financial way.

Honestly you would be well served with a reliable laptop. If you want the standard desktop setup you can always plug in a monitor, keyboard and mouse, but now you also have the ability to carry it with you. The only reason people need desktops now-a-days is if they require high-end graphics for gaming or other media-related tasks.

Something like this should be more than enough for your needs. Obviously searching for better deals is always advisable.

/r/suggestalaptop would be a good place to ask for further advice.

I've kept to myself, but not by choice. All of the friends I had in elementary school stopped talking to me a while after I left, despite attempts to keep in contact. I have no friends in the immediate area. But I'm a friendly person, and I'm easy to get along with. Even so, I still have doubts on how quickly I can make friends.

As for what I've been doing the past several years... I've been watching TV shows and movies, playing a variety of video games, and making friendships that will potentially last me my whole life.

Not to say I haven't tried teaching myself, because I have. Early this year I found a website called Khan Academy which has helped tremendously with math, but I'm still very, very behind. I've obviously learned a lot about writing through all of my time on the Internet. Lots of roleplaying has gotten me this far.

Thank you for answering my questions. :] I'm not sure if alternative schools have language courses either, I don't imagine they do. If only the school had a website! Then I would know for sure. But really, thank you for taking the time to answer.

There's Better Pop-up Blocker for Chrome and Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon for Firefox. BPP works exceptionally well (although some porn sites might crash your browser in retaliation, lol).

I looked up the fees:

PayPal: $0.30 + 2.9%

Google: $0.30 + 1.9% to 2.9% (based on volume)

If we assume that $0.33 gets deducted from each $1 payment and stick to your earlier guess that 100 of $4 payments could be replaced by 500 of $1 payments:

~~500 * $0.77 = $385~~
500 * $0.67 = $335

$4 payments work out to: $4 - $0.30 - (0.03 * $4) = $3.58

which makes:

100 * $3.58 = $358

~~Unless I screwed up very badly, it seems viable provided the $1 payments become popular.~~
Edit: I screwed it up. $1 income is less than I first calculated. Thanks /u/caetel for the correction!

(Note that I haven't considered some variables, like smaller fees that go with higher sales volume or extra international payments charges which PayPal seems to have.)

You should try this if there is no one available and you need to talk to someone. A Redditor made this for People that really needs someone to vent with

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xbsdeset.buddy247

I'd love to talk but I'm unavailable right now

That's the big question, isn't it?

I find that the best response to the pointlessness so far has been reading The Myth of Sisyphus. The book by that name is worth reading, but that's a lot to ask of a stranger. The essay by that name, from the book is about a 10-15 minute read, and very poetic.

Camus makes a compelling argument that there is no point to life, that everything we do is ultimately meaningless once we die, and that this point of view liberates us to try and make the most of our lives anyway.

>The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Of course, feeling the way you do is also just part of being in your early 20's and in college.

I suggest you try meditation.

Meditation helps you be more in control of your actions, and more mindful of where you are in spacetime.

Maybe with a better awareness of yourself and the moment you will be less apt to fill the void of silence with inappropriate remarks.

Mindfulness in Plain English is an excellent free tome on how to and why you should meditate. Check it out.

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Unlike the other guy who replied to me, you are incorrect.

Violent crime has decreased significantly in the last twenty years in the USA. I unfortunately can't quickly find data for other first world nations.

Actual Impostors don't get Impostor syndrome.

Remember that. You are doing everything right, no one actually knows wtf they are doing, all your put together friends feel the same way in varying degrees.

You are carrying around a lot of baggage from your past. I remember reading somewhere that we should only glance at our past like we glance at the rear-view mirror while driving a car. The main focus should be on the road ahead, the future. You have been doing an excellent job at it. Visualizing yourself as the person who you wish to be will help a lot, imo. Make your default personality the one you wish you had. It'll be hard in the beginning and probably you'll feel that you are faking it but you are just letting the positivity shine through. Positive self-feedback also helps a lot. I'd recommend trying the SAVERS for at least a month - https://lifehacker.com/start-your-day-off-right-with-the-savers-morning-routin-1716241117

Paypal's currency rate info page

It seems they adjust their wholesale rate twice a day and add a 2.5% to make it their retail rate. It seems that they also allow you to review your transaction and currency rate prior to conversion. How is that a scam?

Hooray - a fellow drunk on ~~youtube~~ reddit.

Does Amazon do pizza? I really reccommend a $40 pizza. (That would be awesome right now.)

Does Amazon do weed? From Colorado or something...? That would be pretty sweet, too.

Maybe download TF2 (it's free) and buy some hats?

If you're drunk, then pick something totally stupid and regret it later. I usually do. Cheers, friend. Oh and Happy Birthday....

He released the best reviewed album of 2010. I know that music critics aren't always the best arbiters of taste, but given that music is subjective there really is no other "objective" indicator of what's good. Plus, he directed this video. I mean, the guy obviously has some talent.

Using an app like Google's PhotoScan can help making high quality digital copies without a flatbed scanner, using your phone's camera. It takes multiple photos and stitches them together to remove reflections from lights

My snark comes from seeing that the majority of the titles listed are Western/American authors quite popular amongst the angsty crowd/typical teenage cynicism.

Specifically 1984, Hitchiker's Guide, Crime & Punishment, Brave New World hit all the major flags for angst/teenage idealism & rebellion.

Then there's the ethical development/spiritual insight list: Siddhartha, Ishmael, Man's Search for Meaning.

Other's are just straight up fantasy tales popular with teenagers: LOTR, Harry Potter, Dune, Game of Thrones.

These are all good reads. They're just the list of the target demographic teenage white American kid, that's all. Do you disagree? Would you argue this list appeals to a wider audience?

By indifferent, do you mean content? It sounds like you're slightly perturbed, so I would assume not. It's possible to force yourself into going out, but if you're anything like me, that's just not very fun. It's possible to push yourself to excel at your job, but will that make you happy?

You're consumed with a feeling that you want something, but you can't really figure out what that something is beyond the motivation to do it. If you stop to think about it, life is really good -- you have a boyfriend, a job, drinking buddies, and the capability to do just about anything you want.

Step back and enjoy the moment. Enjoy the hard work you've put into your life thus far. Let go of those desires that constantly fill your head: I wish I was more creative, I want to be rich, I need a better social life, or whatever else. Accept the things you try to reject, the things you don't like -- that's just how they are, and there's no point getting your panties in a bunch.

I was having a lot of problems in this area. I decided to pick up mindfulness / insight meditation. It's not religious and it's only as spiritual as you make it. At the end of the day, it's simply becoming aware of how your mind and body are constantly grasping at things you don't have and rejecting the things you're afraid of. When you can clearly differentiate those thoughts, it becomes pretty easy to actually feel fulfilled with what you do have.

Mindfulness in Plain English

Yeah... With a broken rib, you'd probably want to go to a doctor just to be safe, broken ribs can puncture organs, it could be serious.

If you're completely adamant about not going to a doctor or hospital, you could Bandage yourself or rather get someone else to do it for you- and even these instructions say going to a doctor is something you should do

No. You're remembering the 90's through a filter, like everyone does with nostalgia. Think about it a little harder and you'll see that there was just as much crap music in the 90's as there is now.

www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/whats-the-worst-song-from-the-90s

www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/readers-poll-the-worst-songs-of-the-nineties-20110831

I'm glad he ended up being fine and found his way back. We had a scare over the holidays as well, the in-laws were in town and let one of our cats out. She used to be indoor/outdoor too so that was somewhat comforting, but her previous owners had declawed her and we had just shaved 50% of her fur off a week before (she's a longhaired calico and gets debilitatingly matted) so that was very concerning as it froze (20 deg F) the first night she had gotten out. Thankfully she showed up in the driveway 72 hours later no worse for the wear.

Literally just came across this: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/31/read-what-facebooks-sandberg-calls-maybe-the-most-important-document-ever-to-come-out-of-the-valley/

The fact that Netflix is doing that is heartwarming, I would like to work some place that strives for that.

Hope you're feeling better now that your little sister is fine :)

I suggest you and her come to terms in order to minimize confusion if you can't reach her (i.e. getting locked outside of home). Also, make SURE that she keeps her cell phone charged and keeps a charger in her bag in case the battery drains - nothing sucks more than not being able to contact.

Also, check this out, it keeps track of location when you create an account and connect to each other.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_long_can_a_insurance_company_keep_a_lien_on_your_driver_license Most states have Financial Responsibility Laws that require owners and operators of vehicles to maintain liability insurance. Some states allow other ways to show financial responsibility for the payment of damages caused by you to others, such as a bond of some sort. In general, a license suspension can result from a collision in the following way: 1. Collision results in damages exceeding an amount provided by the Financial Responsibility Law 2. You are ticketed for the collision and convicted of the offense 3. You fail to voluntarily pay the damages resulting from the other car. At that point, the insurer that paid for the repairs of the car that you hit, which has acquired its inured right to collect the cost of repairs, can apply for the suspension of your license. If done then, the suspension is only for a limited period, such as 1 year. 4. If the insurer then sues you to get its money back (a process called subrogation) and wins, a judgment will be entered against you. 5. If the judgment remains unpaid for a stated period of time which varies by state (often, 30 days), the insurer can send a certified copy of the judgment and other court documentation to the driver's license authorities. Your license will then be suspended until arrangements are made to pay the judgment. 6. In theory, if you do not make those arrangements or have the judgment discharged in bankruptcy, your license will remain suspended for the life of the judgment. That period of time varies by state.

Check out Khan Academy first. It has a great deal of Mathematics but it also has computer science, Finance (!!), Biology, Chemistry, Astronomy, History, and so on.

Id also recommend doing a poll/survey (Survey Monkey comes to mind). it will also give users a sense of privacy as their data wont be linked to any account. feel free to post it here as well if you do make one, im sure that will also increase your likelihood of responses. ill participate gladly through a survey.

best of luck! im curious to know the results of said survey as well.

edit* google docs also has surveys I believe.

https://www.nytimes.com/store/front-page-new-york-times-reprint-nskeep.html

It displays a preview. Adjust the date on the right.

Doesn't seem to be:

Edit 01: April, March, February, January of 1943

Edit 02: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December of 1942

Edit 03: Going to bed now

Edit 04: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December of 1944

Edit 05: August, September, October, November, December of 1941

Edit 06: Back to bed. Will finish '43 and '41 later.

Edit 07: Both of those finished. So that's: 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 done. For what it's worth, I'll delve into 1945.

Edit: 08: January, February, March of 1945

Edit 09: 1945 finished (41 - 45)

Edit 10: Google: " soldiers world war 2 egypt giza "

Pretty sure this woman was recruited into the same cult. I watched the video a little while ago, but I thought I remembered mentioning of Pleiadians.

It's a short video...might give you some insight on how you can try to help them.

Looks like you're attracted to androgyny. It's an evolutionary strategy:

> Fig. 1 shows that sex-atypical gender identity is associated both with nonheterosexuality and, in heterosexuals, with an elevated number of opposite-sex partners. Nonheterosexuals have a significantly more sex-atypical gender identity than heterosexuals in both men (χ12=56.01, p<.001) and women (χ12=114.73, p<.001). With nonheterosexuals removed from the sample, sex-atypical gender identity is significantly associated with a greater number of opposite-sex partners in both men (χ12=51.15, p<.001) and women (χ12=70.92, p<.001).

> Genetic modelling results (see Tables 2and 3) suggested that the relationships above are due to correlated genetic influences. The genetic influences could not be removed in either bivariate model without significant loss of fit, indicating that the traits are influenced by genetic factors. Also, in each model, genetic covariance between the two variables could not be removed, inferring that overlapping genetic factors are partly responsible for the relationship between gender identity and sexual orientation, and the relationship in heterosexuals between gender identity and number of opposite-sex partners. Displayed in Fig. 2 are estimates of the relative variance accounted for by genes (heritability; h2) and environment, and estimates of genetic correlation and environmental correlation between traits. As can be seen, both genetic (A) and unshared environmental (E) factors influence each trait, but the genetic influences on the different traits are more correlated with each other than the environmental influences. Indeed, there is no significant environmental correlation between gender identity and number of sex partners.

Genetic factors predisposing to homosexuality may increase mating success in heterosexuals (2008)

you can use media monkey the wiki for how is here Media Monkey is free software that works better than itunes in my opinion and you can use it to sync almost any mp3 player with apple products included.

Thanks for the compliments. I don't know if horses can or do vomit. Honestly I was running off of what the poison control center was telling me and hard focused on getting some treatment for my guys to make sure no one died. I too have become much more acclimated to having various fluids from a variety of animals on me at any given time.

Just looked it up- According to Answers.com horses are incapable of vomiting. TIL!

Incognito mode doesn't do much for ads, all it really does is delete your browsing history immediately when you leave. Try downloading a free VPN just for the time being, I recommend either ProtonVPN or Windscribe. Having a VPN will hide everything, plus you can still use your web browser normally :)

I have a similarly ridiculously over-important food story. Or three or four. At least one of mine sent me into a (non-violent) rage I don't think I've ever matched. Passion has its burdens.

The 60s housewife is fictive. The real ones you know and remember had been practicing&mdash;maybe full time&mdash;for decades before you quite became aware of their skills. You "should" strive for whatever it is you want out of life. Success isn't a state; it's a process.

As for the cake disaster, it sounds like it didn't cool long enough. I once served a "cake" in a big bowl: A layer of calamitous cake chunks, a layer of frosting, another layer of cake, ... It turns out that if you do it on purpose&mdash;Warning: The Amazon link ahead features a truly hideous serving dish&mdash;it's called a trifle, and it can be an elegant way to recover.

Work your life to build your dream or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

It takes a team to amass a fortune. If you wanted to steal a fortune it would still require a team.

Read Think and Grow Rich. We are not forcing people to take jobs they apply for them and spill their heart out for them as we do too. The middle classes problem is the fear of losing their money. If you don't conquer the fear of losing your money then you will never be risk adverse to be rich. Even if you are rich you can't fear losing your money or you will be paralyzed from losing it all and one day find out you burned it all though liabilities. Cash flow is part of the puzzle that people never look at.

> From the Buddhist point of view, we human beings live in a very peculiar fashion. We view impermanent things as permanent, though everything is changing all around us. The process of change is constant and eternal. As you read these words, your body is aging. But you pay no attention to that. The book [sic] in your hand is decaying. The print is fading and the pages are becoming brittle. The walls around you are aging. The molecules within those walls are vibrating at an enormous rate, and everything is shifting, going to pieces and dissolving slowly. You pay no attention to that, either. Then one day you look around you. Your body is wrinkled and squeaky and you hurt. The book is a yellowed, useless lump; the building is caving in. So you pine for lost youth and you cry when the possessions are gone. Where does this pain come from? It comes from your own inattention. You failed to look closely at life. You failed to observe the constantly shifting flow of the world as it went by. You set up a collection of mental constructions, 'me', 'the book', 'the building', and you assume that they would endure forever. They never do. But you can tune into the constantly ongoing change. You can learn to perceive your life as an ever-flowing movement, a thing of great beauty like a dance or symphony. You can learn to take joy in the perpetual passing away of all phenomena. You can learn to live with the flow of existence rather than running perpetually against the grain. You can learn this. It is just a matter of time and training.

-Mindfulness in Plain English

It's on the extension page, or here's a larger version.

Get these ones. They're also sold at Costco. They're made out of a fabric that's sort of like t-shirt cloth, but thicker and softer. They also have a large fly, which facilitates easy access for fapping purposes. I won't wear any other kind of boxers after trying these a few years ago.

Step 1: Add saved Reddit posts to Pocket

Step 2: Save your archived lists in Pocket to Evernote

Then I have to go into each Pocket and Evernote to organize which side of the fence it falls on

relevant. The fake CNN article got passed around my high school (I may or may not have been responsible for this). I only just learned today while googling it that it is for certain false (I only saw the printed copy that looked like it came from cnn.com, when it really came from here

the book suggestions are great, that's what I'm doing today since it's 77 and sunny out. Maybe play some frisbee or if you have a smartphone, do some geocaching. Depends on how active you want to be, but put on some sunscreen and enjoy the outdoors!

Are you just giving up after looking at it? You'll probably need to think about it for a while before you can get it. There's some easier challenges if you can find the really early ones. Also another source of programming challenges is project euler

They took down the "CAUTION, PREPARE TO STOP" lights at the crest of the hill when they redid the traffic lights and hadn't bothered to put new ones it. It sounded like it was because of budget reasons.

Also, this was a side impact, not a frontal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybq3FXDd_Nw

Here is an actual pic of the inside taken by the insurance company: http://tinypic.com/r/29fbkv9/6

I like Media Player Classic. You may also need CCCP depending on the files you're trying to play. I'm not a huge fan of VLC but I'm honestly shocked you prefer WMP over it.

This is exactly why I avoid flickr links. Comparison. I usually close the flickr image long before it's done loading, and there have been times where I have considered adding flickr to my ignore list.

At the risk of spoiling the party, here's how (and it works for any number of websites that haven't caught on to mailinator):

1) Go to spotify. Click Sign Up

2) Click "create an account using your e-mail address" instead of the facebook option

3) Enter whatever username you want.

4) Enter whatever email address you want, ending in @mailinator.com or one of their alter-ego domains (go to mailinator.com and look in the box on the left that says "alternate domains" to see your choices, hit refresh to see more)

5) That's it. You are signed up. If you need to see a confirmation email, go to mailinator and read it.

Some websites have discovered mailinator and won't let you sign up using an email from their domain, but this is fairly rare.

/u/glasswings said that 実 means "really", but that's not really the case. It can be used in a word that means that. As for weird dual-meanings, 実 can mean a fruit/nut/seed, but it typically means "truth" or "reality".

殊 is pretty straight forward.

common words containing 実,

common words containing 殊

Keep in mind that the rest of the characters have equal weight in the meaning of the words.

Un-check "common" for more words.

This is meant as a friendly, helpful suggestion, not a bitchy "let me google that for you" suggestion.

When wondering if a site is down or not, I use http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com

Short site - http://www.isup.me/

Crossloop Connect is so much easier than trying to deal with Remote Desktop. Install it on both machines, initiate the session on the host, your parents machine. Connect using the code on yours. They click Yes and you are on their PC.

Science isn't about trying to force its objects of study to fit into "names and labels", those names and labels arise out of patterns observed across many objects of study over long periods of time. Science doesn't force labels onto anything, but to a good scientist, things label themselves.

Also, I'd like to take issue with your idea that there sometimes isn't a reason for things; there very much is always a reason for things, even if it's down to the interactions between particles. Until proven otherwise, the universe is very much deterministic, at least on a non-quantum scale, and there are a set of behaviors that particles and bodies tend to follow given certain predispositions.

There might not be a reason the universe "decides" for certain things to happen, but there's definitely a natural order in the sense that gravity, nuclear forces, and electromagnetic forces are very well-observed and consistent throughout the observable universe as far as we know.

This is why science works the way it does; we can observe things that happen repeatedly, in order to make models of their behavior, so that we can go back and test those models to see how wrong they are, so that we can make better models. This only works in a setting where, fundamentally, there is a "natural order" consisting of deterministic outcomes given certain inputs.

If you continue to insist that something about your field doesn't "feel" right, or that this doesn't apply to people, I'd suggest you go about reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. He outlines a metaphysics of "Quality" that might appeal to you, judging from how constrictive you feel the bounds of the modern scientific approach are, which is also compatible with said modern scientific approach.

When I was 19 I started volunteering at a prison. I help inmates learn to read. for those who can read, we go over philosophical texts about living a meaningful life and ethics. For example we do Man's Search for Meaning, and a lot of existentialism. We do youth gang emancipation programs to get the younger guys out of gangs and into productive self improvement programs. I've been doing for 5-6 years now. It is the best thing I have ever done. Recently one of the inmates I worked with who was serving a life sentence got out because new evidence uncovered his innocence. he served 25 years.

a.k.a sniper shot-- When doin a female doggy-style and you are about to blow your load, you pull out your johnson and cock it twice like a gun to builid up the shot, hold your breath for 2 seconds, aim towards the back of her head and blow her away with love juice ----Urban Dictionary

Last November Wordslinger1919 made this google docs spreadsheet listing most of the main subreddits. There have been even more created since then. Hope this helps you find some good content.