We're buying a house in the next few weeks, and it has a one crock, two sump pump setup (a main one and a backup higher up). I want to add a backup, but not sure if I should go battery backup or water powered backup. I want to get a home generator in the next year, so I don't know if that really factors into the decision. Also, with battery backups, do they sell good ones the existing pumps can plug into, or are they all pump/battery combos?
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Hello everyone this is a throw away account. But I need some advice from long term ldrs. So I have been in my LDR for about 4 years. We have met up and lived together for a while but since we live in different countries it’s difficult to stay for longer than 6 months. Anyways recently my partners old online best friend came back into their life. And my partner has been spending time talking, watching tv and movies texting and doing projects together with their bestie. The deal is my partner hasn’t talked to this bestie at all during our relationship so I haven’t had to deal with this feeling of jealousy yet. (I honestly CANT keep my thoughts together while typing this I have so much anxiety over it) Anyways, I feel jealous for two reasons. 1) this bestie is my age and my (gender) and has known my partner during their teen years. (Which I met my partner in uni) 2) they have started doing all the things together that make me feel special. (Plus my partner is inviting this bestie to do stuff that my partner started solely to spend time with me) (like games and stuff) which has been making me really sad and feel less than. I already have mental issues and stuff, but I feel like I am not so special anymore. That everything that we did together that made me feel special is just something that my partner can do with anyone they get along with. And I feel incredibly jealous of this and my partner knows and I’ve been crying and sobbing over it for a week. Idk how to deal with these feelings and get over it like my partner wants me too. If anyone has advice or a piece to say about my situation pls help. I just want advice from other ldr relationships.
TLD My partners old online best friend came back and they are doing everything that makes me feel special with their old bestie. Which makes me feel jealous and obsolete.

I recently got my second-ever "high-end" pen, the Lamy 2000 and have been using it non-stop to get a feel for it. My feelings are mixed, an I thought I'd do a review.

Design

After a week, I now love the design. That wasn't immediate -- it's something that takes a while to appreciate. When capped, it doesn't look special at all (I'd even say clunky). Uncapped even, it looks a little unique but nothing that makes you scream 'wow!' like some of the fancier pens I've seen here. But, there's something deeply connected and deliberate about the design... it feels unified. Like it's not a nib, piston, body, cap etc, but it really is a cohesive and deliberate single object. When you use it for a bit and then switch to almost any other pen (ballpoint or FP) you become aware of all the noticeably separate parts in almost any other design and appreciate the L2K even more.

Writing Experience - feeling the paper (but why?)

Some of this might be different based on the nib size you get (I got extra-fine).
Most of the other fountain pens I own (both low and high end) feel like they make a little puddle of ink underneath them. You feel the paper a little bit, but mostly you're gliding on the ink puddle when you're writing. Sometimes the puddle doesn't form fast enough or isn't thick enough and you get too much of the paper on the nib and people call it 'scratchy' because it's jarring and probably unintentional.
This doesn't feel 'scratchy' in the same way. But it feels a lot more friction-full, like you're deliberately dragging more of the nib on the paper than you ought to. So you feel the paper. You're gliding a bit, but barely compared to even something like the Lamy Safari. It seems to be a very deliberate feeling (alluded to in this great review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jYS0o3RAFw)
I don't like it though. I enjoy gliding around on a puddle. It's fun and effortless. This is more effortful. Also my basic understanding of friction tells me that the more of a puddle is under the nib, the less of the nib is touching the paper and wearing down. I'm definitely in very close contact with the paper here, all the time. It feels like this nib might not last a lifetime because of this, but maybe I'm drastically overestimating the effects. Lots of people say this is their everyday pen and it works fine. Maybe I'll do a follow-up in 60 years and see how it held up :)
Note also that there's a review from Goulet pens where he says how much of another level it is writing with the broad nib on this pen. I suspect that's because the broad nib would create enough of a puddle that you get that standard "glide" the way a Safari or almost any other pen does. Definitely not there on the Extra-Fine though.

Pressure and control, tiring

Because this pen has so little of a 'puddle', it means there's a smaller range of positions and angles you can hold the pen where it'll actually produce a mark on the page (the so-called 'sweet-spot' some people talk about). You can extend this range quite a bit just by pushing down, so if you're person who pushes on your pens a little bit, this isn't an issue. However, I like to barely touch the page, so this is an issue for me.
I also like to hold the pen very loosely. "Hold" isn't even the right word. I like to flail with a pen barely connected to my hand. If you refuse to push down, then the only other way to hit the 'sweet spot' is to have some moderate level of control in your grip so the pen is roughly hitting the page in the same spot every time. This also presents an issue for me.
Now, I'm not just a pure anarchist (for the purposes of this sub anyways). My non-contact flailing exists to let me write without tiring. Modifying either of these parameters (pressure or control) means using more finger muscles (the ones you use with a ballpoint pen that tire your hands out and get them to cramp after about 1-2 pages of writing). It's nowhere near as bad as ballpoint writing, but it's still there, and I can feel hints of it in my hand more with this than with my other (mostly cheaper) pens.

When used as intended - beautiful results

Rather than giving up entirely, I decided I'd trust German engineering a bit and lean into it. What happens if I use it 'as intended'? I'd played around with it enough to get an understanding of what 'as intended' might feel like (speed, pressure, control etc).
The results were amazing! It's the best my handwriting has looked with the least amount of effort. I mentioned effort and exertion above and this might sound like a contradiction but it isn't.
Basically, when I do my flailing, it's fast and fun but barely legible. Some people spend years practicing so the right swift swooshing motions produce beautiful, calligraphic text. I don't have that under my belt so the swooshing produces uncontrolled scribbles. However, as mentioned before, I can produce those scribbles indefinitely.
On the other side of this, exerting maximal control with all my hand, I can produce really nice letters (with whatever kind of pen I have) at the cost of tiring my hand out really fast.
What if a pen were made with a trade-off here? Where it required a non-calligrapher to exert a bit of the control they need to produce good lettering (the kind they're used to in everyday life) but still had enough of the energy-saving glide of a fountain pen?
I think this pen hits that balance beautifully, and I think that's why so many people like it so much and use it as their 'workhorse'.

Weight

A quick note, even when using it as 'intended' I felt like it was a little too light. Like it would be even less effort if the pen was a bit more top-heavy and dragging itself on the paper via gravity. I saw that there's a more expensive all-metal version of this pen, so I think that actually addresses this concern.

'Line too thick' critique

I've seen a lot of reviews that talk about how the line width is 'wrong' with the pen and EF is much thicker than what you'd expect. This is actually why I bought EF when I really wanted an F size. This was the wrong move. It definitely created a line that was thin.
I will note that I saw more variance from paper to paper than I've seen with my other pens. When I used Leuchturm 1917 paper, the line was actually pretty thick. On Kokuyo paper, it was very thin. On generic 70g notebook paper, it was also pretty thin. A majority of my tests had it come out thin, so I'm saying it's thin.
Also, note that even when it came out thicker, it didn't significantly take away from the 'draggy' feeling I got. It also wasn't like 'M' thick or anything, just maybe closer to F.

Final thoughts

Like I said, it's mixed for me. I don't want to drag the nib on the paper (really feels like it's bad in the long-run!), and I enjoy the careless wooshing of an ink puddle. So, this pen isn't a delight for me to use in the same way some of these more 'runny' pens are.
But, if I'm going to write something someone else has to read and make it look as nice as my personal skillset allows, and I want to do it for a sustained amount of time? This would be my go-to. If you made it here, thanks for reading!
Notes: I used several papers of different weight and Pelikan and Lamy inks. These all created their own experiences, but results above were generalized based on all of the above.

I am trying to buy a new to me car that is going to cost 24k total with tax/title/registration and their extended warranty.
I wanted to put 4200$ down (because the car itself before everything else is 21k) but that gives me a monthly payment of around 550$. I've got a credit score of around 630 so I have a 15.7% apr.
I'm getting 10k in about one week from my mother's will and I planned to use a good chunk of it for the downpayment.
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I donate plasma on a weekly basis and get 100$ from it each time, so I will make enough in plasma donations to pay my car payment every week. I also have 1300$ saved up from previous donations, and plan to use it all for the downpayment along with the life insurance money.
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or
B) Pay 8250$ in downpayment to get a 395$ monthly payment that I can afford, but I will have to spend 7k of the 10k I will be getting and only have 2 months ahead on my 1590$ mortgage.
This car is needed as my current car needs far too many repairs and it'll cost more than the car is worth to get it fixed. Plus, a friend of mine wants to buy it off of me and fix it himself. For him, he'd much rather put 3k into a car that he has to fix from someone he knows who has the maintenance records. A local towing company quoted me 525$ for it so I screenshotted it and sent it to him and asked for 550$. He's ready when I'm ready. I'm more than willing to sell him the car, since he doesn't have one but knows how to work on them.
I might've been able to just buy less car, but I got it in my head that I needed a very reliable vehicle for years to come, I wanted it to be a 2017 to represent the year I moved to the USA, and I just really like the look of a white toyota camry. I couldn't get a white 2017 toyota camry out of my head and that was the cheapest one with the best record on Carmax. Plus, I've already paid the 200$ shipping fee and I don't want to not go with this car, now.

So after playing only warhammer fantasy (6th edition in early 2000) I want to dive into 40k. A few questions I know 10th is coming soon is the game/rules/armies going to change. Am I better waiting till then? What would be the best newbie army for 40k (there are so many of them)
I’m definitely more of a close combat, hit hard player (well I was in fantasy) is there an amry that would be more melee bases but would have supplementary unit that would do shooting to chip away at open unit

Hello. Some background info, I had it bad for a few years financially but now have a stable job making minimum 3k$ after tax a month (without OT). I want to fix my credit score but I have 2 unpaid credit cards that were open in 2013 & and 2019.
When checking my credit accounts I have a Visa card but it doesnt show that it is in collections. Shows that a last payment was made 02/28/2020 and from what I understand it is past the statute of limitation and can no longer affect my credit score. (I am from Quebec)
I have another card from Canadian Tire showing in collections, indicating a last payment made on 06/29/2020 (3 years coming up in 1 month).
What is the best course of action to improve my credit score going forward? If I don't have to pay these accounts because they are past the statute of limitation will I have trouble getting credit once my score is higher?
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Our goal is to clear by week 3 so we are looking for dedicated raiders who will bring their best attitude as we are looking to raid every day or close to every day. Ideally, you have experience clearing a new Savage tier quickly within its release.
LF Shield Healer - SCH SGE LF Phys Ranged - MCH DNC BRD
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• Recording your own gameplay is not required but is helpful for review.

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• Advance notice must be given in Discord if going to be late.
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Important:

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I broke up with her after all this time because she was not as invested in me as I would have liked. She said herself that she thinks I was more invested in this than she was. She didn’t fight the breakup but did cry. The other part that bothered me was that she was not willing to take the relationship seriously at this point.
I really liked her and the time we spent together though. She was affectionate in person and great to hang out with.
I can’t help but feel like I fucked up by ending it. I worry that I rushed the relationship causing her the back away and then ruined it over stupid stresses. Then I just tossed away one of the best things I ever had going on in my life because I couldn’t take a step back and just enjoy it.
Any tips for coping with my decision? Every second since I did it, I’ve been wanting to text her to say I fucked up.
tl;dr broke up with a girl because I wanted more out of her at this point in the relationship that she couldn’t give and now I feel like I fucked up.

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