Tasty time with zefronk season 2

I was on my regular yearly rewatch and just reached “The short list”.
I have to say the points Sam raises about, how the next 2 decades are gonna be all about privacy even when social media as we know, wasn’t a thing when the episode aired, is just a great example of how much I appreciate this show and how forward thinking it was.
This, Galileo and the argument that Sam has with Mallory regarding the school vouchers are some of my favourite Sam Seaborn moments from Season 1.
Would love to hear from others.

Hello reddit. Veeeery long story about deep friendship.
I (20F) have a friends, a couple, where my bestie is Ann (22F) - wife and her husband (24M) is my good friend. We have a business together and are very close. I talk with Ann everyday, about work and about personal stuff. We have a lot between us and in our past, even some big mistakes between us but we decided to go in our life together. A little about Ann. She is very hot-tempted person. She can be rude sometimes when something goes wrong, she can be really angry, her emotions are very very strong, both positive and negative. We even noticed I feel her emotions on distance, It made us happy and we felt connected somehow. But I feel it is getting unhealthy. She also, like me, anxious and depressive, but feel she is also something like bdp I dunno. Her emotions are like rollercoaster. A positive ones are soooo strong, but negative are worse. And I am like an empathetic person feel this really hard. if she feels bad her answers are angry, and she won’t ask me how am I doing. She feels bad pretty often last year. Especially towards me, as I am a person who eat all bad emotions of people and try to avoid quarrels. She started to talking about old mistakes which she forgived me for, blaming me, just started being not that caring friend like before. I see she do it with very close people. I didn’t saw it that much before, it was little quarells I never had anyone with. Very intense. But I forgot it fast cause after I say ok lets finish this you are right she will say I love you xx and gave me all that love bombing.
We are also having some troubles at work now and income is not great. So we have to withdraw money in parts like hundred dollars every day or two. Ann and her husb always ask to withdraw saying that they need money for living (each of them have the same part from income as me), and it feels to me our business may finish in debt pretty soon. I told them we don’t have any savings and we need to try withdraw less but they don’t see other option than just lead the same good lifestyle and hope we will make money. We could make, but we also could not. It is not very planned in our field. I feel it affects her mood. A lot of things can affect. And then, she will ruin mine. I feel her mood very deep, even before she writes me.
Last time she wrote me and asked me to help her with work in my day off, her work day. She can often ask me to do something in her work days cause she has to go somewhere and I accept, despite the fact there is her husband in work and he also could help. 90% of time I would answer in a second, always be in touch, if no she will call me and I do everything asap. I could ask her something in her work day too, if she is not answering my text I am ok with it and wait. This time when she asked me I told her I am kinda busy now, and will do it in the evening. The task takes about 30+min of attention to client. She got so angry, started telling me she is very tired from work she is doing everything and all stuff (I do a lot as well, like she). She told me it is 3 min to do when it is not. Then she said ‘ok I will never ask you again thanks’ and started doing it by herself. Also told me I don’t do my HR work good enough and that she wants to change our days off: ‘well then lets everyone will work everyday’. This time I didn’t swallow this shit, like I did before to save peace. I wrote her in a calm mood and asked, how she wants to change our days off? I wrote her like 2-3 sentences about what I do in this work and that I want her to notice it. I was very kind and tried to not hurt her lol. I wrote that I really appreciate her work and I want her to have specific days off (she doesn’t cause she changes with her husband often), and I offered her a few days in a week when we can work together and when we have days off. She got so pissed off and crying telling me ‘I knew you would switch all the conversation to your own, like you always do, for what did you write me what are you doing in the company? I wanted some appreciating, some ‘thank yo u’ words and not all this, now my mood ruined. I didnt even talk about you, I talked about me!’. Well I got shocked this time, cause she told me I am not doing my work good enough in some part, she wants to change our days off meaning that everyone should work the same amount of time. I work the same as her, and she works for her husband often, it is not my problem. Of course I got protecting and I told her what I do in work. Without any rudness. She ended up crying telling me I ruined her mood. When I told her okay lets forget she sent me kisses and love messages…. it pissed me off. I felt like my feelings are not even allowed in our convo. She often speaks about her. Btw she did that task by herself that day and it took a lot of time so she still had to ask for my help...
Another freaking situation today, which made me write this post. We have a dancing lessons we go only together. It is cheaper to go to a group lessons where only we are both and teacher. And for me is better to go to group lessons at all. She often cancels training and I am ok with it. Lately she started to cancel training 30 min before it started. I cancelled with her, then I went by myself ones. Understood it is too exhausting for me, I dont have much to talk with this teacher so I feel some tension, and I also had to pay for this individual lesson separately. Today she wrote me she is in a bad mood 30 min before and she doesn’t know how to go to lesson. I wrote her supportive words, asked what happened, she didn’t answer. I told her we can cancel lesson it’s not a big deal. She asked me to go by myself to not disturb our trainer with another cancelled lesson from her. I told her it costs money and I dont like individual trainings. She got angry saying ‘OK THANKS» sarcastically. I wrote her, that if she want to go separately, she can tell, and I will go to big group training, cause I dont like individual ones. Ann was really, really angry, telling me what is the point for me to go to dancing classes if I dont want to go alone, that I ruined her mood, I made a mess, she had a bad mood now it is worse. That I could go to her home after training and support her. I hate when she saying like this. I feel like my feelings are not important. My opinions. Btw she stopped coming to my home this year and always asked me to come to her to work or do stuff. Quarrels will never end if I dont end this. She can extend this bullshit for very long time and when I started to answer her what I feel, very patient and nice, our quarrels got crazy. I always was the person who stopped this , even in all this situations I told her some words like I understand you have a bad mood and all this stuff. But she never understands me. Even in this situation, she wanted me to do like she wanted. Ann told me she doesn't understand me. I feel used. Every time we have a quarrel, I have strong physical symptoms. Now I feel so cold and shaking and all I want it cry, and sleep, and I dont have any power. I feel not respected, I feel small. She often says she ends up business with us, she leaves but she never does. Happened like 10 times at least. I told her 2nd time in my life, after all that, that I am tired and I dont see what is the point for me to be her friend and work together. That she will feel better without me, if I ruin her mood so often, and everything I say makes her feel worse. She only answered me ‘talk to this shit to your psycho, your brain is messed up… oh now I am wrong? You said me you want to end this friendship! Maybe you feel better without me?’ and all this manipulative stuff. And started to record millions of voicemails. I didn’t listen yet. She wrote ‘Ok stay silent LOL’. I hate when she talks like this to me. She knows it. Should I cut her off? For sure she will try to finish this saying she only had bad mood and I could support her lets forget blah blah. All for her. But rarely she gets me this attention and love I am waiting for, and I forget everything. I am really tired of feeling like this and being someones towel. I dont know what to do. I love her, and understand we are just different and her emotions are maybe veery hard to control for her. She just doesn’t understand me, she doesn’t say sorry if she got angry like she did before. Cause I started tell her how I feel. Her family, she, our work and all we have is a very big part of my life, I love it and appreciate it, but I dont feel same from her. Should I start everything over in my lufe and just leave? I can start new business and move in another country. She doesn't want me to leave maybe because of business or because she doesn't want to stay alone (she also quarrels a lot with husband), maybe she is just bpd, idk, but with all her words I feel I need to leave and it will be better for us both.
Upd: in the end of the last quarrel she told me sorry and that she is depressed and nobody can understand her. I hear this is everytime in the end as an excuse, but I had to spend 4 hrs talking to her patiently about how I understand her feelings while she is angry. She skipped her meds like a month ago, despite the fact she was getting better in therapy. I think I should leave? I love her so much. But I am so tired.

It’s not easy for me to trust anyone. I have a hard time connecting with people. Thought my wife was the one.
2 weeks ago she claimed she was wrong for wanting a divorce. I moved my stuff back into the apartment and told her I was trusting her. She said she jumped to conclusions last time.
About a week later I’m once again ready to move out as she finally admitted she cheated on me physically. She told me she wanted to work on things, go to a therapist, and really try this time. I guess a week of being around me changed that!
Now I’m here feeling like a bigger fool. I was always open to making things better but she’s over me. 10+ years feel wasted and I have very few people who I can talk to.
It all feels like a waste.

I had a conversation with a buddy on this topic so I thought I’d share some talking points.
Ephesians 2:8 states this - For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.
So what does this mean? If you just believe in Jesus is that it? What does believing in Jesus mean?
Romans 10:9 states- If you declare with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
When we continue reading it goes on to state this - Romans 10:14-15 - How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!
You are not obeying God by being “good and loving.” If we love God, we will actively strive to help advance His kingdom as He has changed our hearts.
Let’s look at what John 21:15-19 states -
When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”
16 Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”
He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.”
17 The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”
Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Feed my sheep. 18 Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” 19 Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, “Follow me!”
Jesus tells Peter if you love me, feed my sheep. Jesus knows that if Peter really loves Him, Peter will continue to spread the gospel when Jesus is no longer physically there. If we truly love Jesus, we will put in effort to try and advance God’s kingdom.
Matthew 28:16-20 is the great commission. It is a command to go out and spread the gospel. If you are struggling with sin, the solution is to produce good fruit so that God will prune you. Look to John 15, when we abide in Jesus, we are pruned to bear more abundant good fruit. If you love God, obey what he told us to do. If you are not putting in effort to evangelize or disciple, you are being disobedient. Even if you think you’ve “conquered all your sin”, if you are not trying to advance God’s kingdom, you are being disobedient. Stopping sinning doesn’t save, only Jesus does. This was a call for everyone, not just for some.
Now let’s look at John 12:26- Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
Ok great so if we serve Jesus, we will follow Him. To where?
Jesus told us where. Look to Matthew 4:19- And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
If we are going to follow Jesus, we will become fishers of people. It is not our job nor can we change anyone, but it is our duty to spread the gospel and plant the seed. It’s not about the success, as only God can make the change. It’s about our effort in being promoters of God’s kingdom. WE ARE THE PROMOTERS, those who follow Jesus. This is our duty, not just a suggestion.
Finally, I’ll end it with this. I can assure you that whatever sin or problem you think is the biggest, you have bigger fish to tackle. Nothing is holding you back from spreading the gospel. Since so many struggle with porn in this sub, this doesn’t mean you cant preach. By producing good fruit, God will prune you of this sin so you can produce good fruit.
Wait, you mean a sinner can spread the gospel lol? Yes as we all are sinners. You don’t have to be perfect to go out and preach. Look to Philippians 1: 15-18: It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill. 16 The latter do so out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. 17 The former preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can stir up trouble for me while I am in chains. 18 But what does it matter? The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice.
To be clear, this does not mean go sin and do what you want, as well Paul mentions this. This means by bearing good fruit by preaching the gospel, the one that can penetrate the heart, God will prune you of the sin in your life so you can bear more good fruit.
That’s all have a good night and make sure to be Heaven’s biggest promoter.

Hello reddit. Veeeery long story about deep friendship.
I (20F) have a friends, a couple, where my bestie is Ann (22F) - wife and her husband (24M) is my good friend. We have a business together and are very close. I talk with Ann everyday, about work and about personal stuff. We have a lot between us and in our past, even some big mistakes between us but we decided to go in our life together. A little about Ann. She is very hot-tempted person. She can be rude sometimes when something goes wrong, she can be really angry, her emotions are very very strong, both positive and negative. We even noticed I feel her emotions on distance, It made us happy and we felt connected somehow. But I feel it is getting unhealthy. She also, like me, anxious and depressive, but feel she is also something like bdp I dunno. Her emotions are like rollercoaster. A positive ones are soooo strong, but negative are worse. And I am like an empathetic person feel this really hard. if she feels bad her answers are angry, and she won’t ask me how am I doing. She feels bad pretty often last year. Especially towards me, as I am a person who eat all bad emotions of people and try to avoid quarrels. She started to talking about old mistakes which she forgived me for, blaming me, just started being not that caring friend like before. I see she do it with very close people. I didn’t saw it that much before, it was little quarells I never had anyone with. Very intense. But I forgot it fast cause after I say ok lets finish this you are right she will say I love you xx and gave me all that love bombing.
We are also having some troubles at work now and income is not great. So we have to withdraw money in parts like hundred dollars every day or two. Ann and her husb always ask to withdraw saying that they need money for living (each of them have the same part from income as me), and it feels to me our business may finish in debt pretty soon. I told them we don’t have any savings and we need to try withdraw less but they don’t see other option than just lead the same good lifestyle and hope we will make money. We could make, but we also could not. It is not very planned in our field. I feel it affects her mood. A lot of things can affect. And then, she will ruin mine. I feel her mood very deep, even before she writes me.
Last time she wrote me and asked me to help her with work in my day off, her work day. She can often ask me to do something in her work days cause she has to go somewhere and I accept, despite the fact there is her husband in work and he also could help. 90% of time I would answer in a second, always be in touch, if no she will call me and I do everything asap. I could ask her something in her work day too, if she is not answering my text I am ok with it and wait. This time when she asked me I told her I am kinda busy now, and will do it in the evening. The task takes about 30+min of attention to client. She got so angry, started telling me she is very tired from work she is doing everything and all stuff (I do a lot as well, like she). She told me it is 3 min to do when it is not. Then she said ‘ok I will never ask you again thanks’ and started doing it by herself. Also told me I don’t do my HR work good enough and that she wants to change our days off: ‘well then lets everyone will work everyday’. This time I didn’t swallow this shit, like I did before to save peace. I wrote her in a calm mood and asked, how she wants to change our days off? I wrote her like 2-3 sentences about what I do in this work and that I want her to notice it. I was very kind and tried to not hurt her lol. I wrote that I really appreciate her work and I want her to have specific days off (she doesn’t cause she changes with her husband often), and I offered her a few days in a week when we can work together and when we have days off. She got so pissed off and crying telling me ‘I knew you would switch all the conversation to your own, like you always do, for what did you write me what are you doing in the company? I wanted some appreciating, some ‘thank yo u’ words and not all this, now my mood ruined. I didnt even talk about you, I talked about me!’. Well I got shocked this time, cause she told me I am not doing my work good enough in some part, she wants to change our days off meaning that everyone should work the same amount of time. I work the same as her, and she works for her husband often, it is not my problem. Of course I got protecting and I told her what I do in work. Without any rudness. She ended up crying telling me I ruined her mood. When I told her okay lets forget she sent me kisses and love messages…. it pissed me off. I felt like my feelings are not even allowed in our convo. She often speaks about her. Btw she did that task by herself that day and it took a lot of time so she still had to ask for my help...
Another freaking situation today, which made me write this post. We have a dancing lessons we go only together. It is cheaper to go to a group lessons where only we are both and teacher. And for me is better to go to group lessons at all. She often cancels training and I am ok with it. Lately she started to cancel training 30 min before it started. I cancelled with her, then I went by myself ones. Understood it is too exhausting for me, I dont have much to talk with this teacher so I feel some tension, and I also had to pay for this individual lesson separately. Today she wrote me she is in a bad mood 30 min before and she doesn’t know how to go to lesson. I wrote her supportive words, asked what happened, she didn’t answer. I told her we can cancel lesson it’s not a big deal. She asked me to go by myself to not disturb our trainer with another cancelled lesson from her. I told her it costs money and I dont like individual trainings. She got angry saying ‘OK THANKS» sarcastically. I wrote her, that if she want to go separately, she can tell, and I will go to big group training, cause I dont like individual ones. Ann was really, really angry, telling me what is the point for me to go to dancing classes if I dont want to go alone, that I ruined her mood, I made a mess, she had a bad mood now it is worse. That I could go to her home after training and support her. I hate when she saying like this. I feel like my feelings are not important. My opinions. Btw she stopped coming to my home this year and always asked me to come to her to work or do stuff. Quarrels will never end if I dont end this. She can extend this bullshit for very long time and when I started to answer her what I feel, very patient and nice, our quarrels got crazy. I always was the person who stopped this , even in all this situations I told her some words like I understand you have a bad mood and all this stuff. But she never understands me. Even in this situation, she wanted me to do like she wanted. Ann told me she doesn't understand me. I feel used. Every time we have a quarrel, I have strong physical symptoms. Now I feel so cold and shaking and all I want it cry, and sleep, and I dont have any power. I feel not respected, I feel small. She often says she ends up business with us, she leaves but she never does. Happened like 10 times at least. I told her 2nd time in my life, after all that, that I am tired and I dont see what is the point for me to be her friend and work together. That she will feel better without me, if I ruin her mood so often, and everything I say makes her feel worse. She only answered me ‘talk to this shit to your psycho, your brain is messed up… oh now I am wrong? You said me you want to end this friendship! Maybe you feel better without me?’ and all this manipulative stuff. And started to record millions of voicemails. I didn’t listen yet. She wrote ‘Ok stay silent LOL’. I hate when she talks like this to me. She knows it. Should I cut her off? For sure she will try to finish this saying she only had bad mood and I could support her lets forget blah blah. All for her. But rarely she gets me this attention and love I am waiting for, and I forget everything. I am really tired of feeling like this and being someones towel. I dont know what to do. I love her, and understand we are just different and her emotions are maybe veery hard to control for her. She just doesn’t understand me, she doesn’t say sorry if she got angry like she did before. Cause I started tell her how I feel. Her family, she, our work and all we have is a very big part of my life, I love it and appreciate it, but I dont feel same from her. Should I start everything over in my lufe and just leave? I can start new business and move in another country. She doesn't want me to leave maybe because of business or because she doesn't want to stay alone (she also quarrels a lot with husband), maybe she is just bpd, idk, but with all her words I feel I need to leave and it will be better for us both.
Upd: in the end of the last quarrel she told me sorry and that she is depressed and nobody can understand her. I hear this is everytime in the end as an excuse, but I had to spend 4 hrs talking to her patiently about how I understand her feelings while she is angry. She skipped her meds like a month ago, despite the fact she was getting better in therapy. I think I should leave? I love her so much. But I am so tired.

Hey Chefs,
I'm relatively inexperienced (~2 years in the restaurant industry) and I recently started at a new place about a month ago. I'm still getting the hang of my daily tasks and definitely improving, but what really bothers me sometimes (and definitely others) is I make dumb decisions when under pressure. Like I hesitate a lot and don't confidently make the correct moves, even though during non-busy times, I think I know what I'm supposed to be doing.
Here's an example, in the middle of a service rush, I had to mix a spicy mayo sauce. I think if you had asked me when things weren't busy, I'd be able to recite the sauce recipe from memory. But, because I was under pressure, I kind of knew it... but was hesitating to actually mix the ingredients together and I spent several seconds just being lost lol... And of course got the heat from head chef LOL
Here's another example. We got avocados from produce delivery while I was in the middle of a semi-busy prep. I noticed some of the avocados were pretty ripe so used the most ripened ones for service and left some of the other ripe ones in the box. I looked in our walk-in fridge, noticed the shelves were pretty packed and there wasn't room for the box of avocados so decided to just leave them out for now and use the other ripe ones first tomorrow - our restaurant goes through avocados super fast, so it shouldn't be a big deal. Welp, head chef noticed the ripe avocados were out and nailed me later on. He spent a couple of minutes re-organizing the walk-in while also complaining to me that I don't prioritize food well enough, which I guess is fair in this situation lol. I guess I probably could've spent those extra minutes to reorganize stuff too, but... idk maybe I felt rushed during prep and don't exactly feel comfortable moving things I'm not familiar with around, especially if it's other kitchen staff's stuff. This situation made me feel a bit discouraged because I noticed the avocados were ripened and picked them out to use first, but the head chef still thinks I don't treat ingredients well :(
I understand maybe it's only been just a month, but I feel like a common pattern has been I usually notice the correct things, know what to do, but either because I rush myself or when others rush me, I make mistakes or just get lost. It also doesn't help that I have a reputation of being slow at what I do :/
Is it really just that I need more time so I can slowly build confidence?
Or is there a fundamental mindset shift I need to make to succeed? I'm also worried about in the future, when I'm more experienced, if I eventually start working at another restaurant, I'll just fall into the same patterns again of being dumb.... even though maybe I'm not that bad lol.
TLDR: I'm an idiot when I'm nervous. IS THERE A WAY TO CHANGE THIS?
Hope other people have gone through this as well. Thanks in advance!

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So, my friend is visiting me for a week from Berlin. We've met 5 years ago on Fortnite and quickly started to be best friends. We met 2 years ago once and this time he came again. I appreciate him as a friend, he is very kind, he helps without asking anything back, he knows I study and recently got fired so he doesn't want me to pay etc. There js one thing that make me being with him 24/7 suck though.
I don't like to be with someone that much but leaving him alone in a hotel room sucks. That one thing is- he is childish. He doesn't understang we are two different people, it's cold and he thinks of stuff as let's go hile to the highest mountain we have and gets frustrated when I said no. He acts annoyed that I don't show him anything even though he saw everything, I live in a small time in Europe. He is also very touchy, always like a child as in taking your phone and acting like he doesn't have it then finds it as the best joke. He always hugs me and as a person who doesn't like touching it's just annoying. He doesn't understand my point. I catch myself speaking my mother language to my cousin and he gets mad even though I told him I don't even realize I do it I am used to it. It's weird talking in English to my cousin I've talked to in my mother language for 20 years. I try though.
He doesn't fit. I am very sorry to say but he is cringe af. Imagine, you're with someone 24/7 and then he gets mad when you use your phone when there's literally quiet and you're bored af. There is a party on Friday, I know it sounds meand but damn, I am thinking of just not taking him. I know I won't party a lot and this may be my last one for a while. I know he would get weird with my friends, I know he would want to do things I am just too grown to do and then get mad. I know he would make fun of me in front of my crush or get touchy and I am just not dowm for that. WTF should I do?

Hello reddit. Veeeery long story about deep friendship.
I (20F) have a friends, a couple, where my bestie is Ann (22F) - wife and her husband (24M) is my good friend. We have a business together and are very close. I talk with Ann everyday, about work and about personal stuff. We have a lot between us and in our past, even some big mistakes between us but we decided to go in our life together. A little about Ann. She is very hot-tempted person. She can be rude sometimes when something goes wrong, she can be really angry, her emotions are very very strong, both positive and negative. We even noticed I feel her emotions on distance, It made us happy and we felt connected somehow. But I feel it is getting unhealthy. She also, like me, anxious and depressive, but feel she is also something like bdp I dunno. Her emotions are like rollercoaster. A positive ones are soooo strong, but negative are worse. And I am like an empathetic person feel this really hard. if she feels bad her answers are angry, and she won’t ask me how am I doing. She feels bad pretty often last year. Especially towards me, as I am a person who eat all bad emotions of people and try to avoid quarrels. She started to talking about old mistakes which she forgived me for, blaming me, just started being not that caring friend like before. I see she do it with very close people. I didn’t saw it that much before, it was little quarells I never had anyone with. Very intense. But I forgot it fast cause after I say ok lets finish this you are right she will say I love you xx and gave me all that love bombing.
We are also having some troubles at work now and income is not great. So we have to withdraw money in parts like hundred dollars every day or two. Ann and her husb always ask to withdraw saying that they need money for living (each of them have the same part from income as me), and it feels to me our business may finish in debt pretty soon. I told them we don’t have any savings and we need to try withdraw less but they don’t see other option than just lead the same good lifestyle and hope we will make money. We could make, but we also could not. It is not very planned in our field. I feel it affects her mood. A lot of things can affect. And then, she will ruin mine. I feel her mood very deep, even before she writes me.
Last time she wrote me and asked me to help her with work in my day off, her work day. She can often ask me to do something in her work days cause she has to go somewhere and I accept, despite the fact there is her husband in work and he also could help. 90% of time I would answer in a second, always be in touch, if no she will call me and I do everything asap. I could ask her something in her work day too, if she is not answering my text I am ok with it and wait. This time when she asked me I told her I am kinda busy now, and will do it in the evening. The task takes about 30+min of attention to client. She got so angry, started telling me she is very tired from work she is doing everything and all stuff (I do a lot as well, like she). She told me it is 3 min to do when it is not. Then she said ‘ok I will never ask you again thanks’ and started doing it by herself. Also told me I don’t do my HR work good enough and that she wants to change our days off: ‘well then lets everyone will work everyday’. This time I didn’t swallow this shit, like I did before to save peace. I wrote her in a calm mood and asked, how she wants to change our days off? I wrote her like 2-3 sentences about what I do in this work and that I want her to notice it. I was very kind and tried to not hurt her lol. I wrote that I really appreciate her work and I want her to have specific days off (she doesn’t cause she changes with her husband often), and I offered her a few days in a week when we can work together and when we have days off. She got so pissed off and crying telling me ‘I knew you would switch all the conversation to your own, like you always do, for what did you write me what are you doing in the company? I wanted some appreciating, some ‘thank yo u’ words and not all this, now my mood ruined. I didnt even talk about you, I talked about me!’. Well I got shocked this time, cause she told me I am not doing my work good enough in some part, she wants to change our days off meaning that everyone should work the same amount of time. I work the same as her, and she works for her husband often, it is not my problem. Of course I got protecting and I told her what I do in work. Without any rudness. She ended up crying telling me I ruined her mood. When I told her okay lets forget she sent me kisses and love messages…. it pissed me off. I felt like my feelings are not even allowed in our convo. She often speaks about her. Btw she did that task by herself that day and it took a lot of time so she still had to ask for my help...
Another freaking situation today, which made me write this post. We have a dancing lessons we go only together. It is cheaper to go to a group lessons where only we are both and teacher. And for me is better to go to group lessons at all. She often cancels training and I am ok with it. Lately she started to cancel training 30 min before it started. I cancelled with her, then I went by myself ones. Understood it is too exhausting for me, I dont have much to talk with this teacher so I feel some tension, and I also had to pay for this individual lesson separately. Today she wrote me she is in a bad mood 30 min before and she doesn’t know how to go to lesson. I wrote her supportive words, asked what happened, she didn’t answer. I told her we can cancel lesson it’s not a big deal. She asked me to go by myself to not disturb our trainer with another cancelled lesson from her. I told her it costs money and I dont like individual trainings. She got angry saying ‘OK THANKS» sarcastically. I wrote her, that if she want to go separately, she can tell, and I will go to big group training, cause I dont like individual ones. Ann was really, really angry, telling me what is the point for me to go to dancing classes if I dont want to go alone, that I ruined her mood, I made a mess, she had a bad mood now it is worse. That I could go to her home after training and support her. I hate when she saying like this. I feel like my feelings are not important. My opinions. Btw she stopped coming to my home this year and always asked me to come to her to work or do stuff. Quarrels will never end if I dont end this. She can extend this bullshit for very long time and when I started to answer her what I feel, very patient and nice, our quarrels got crazy. I always was the person who stopped this , even in all this situations I told her some words like I understand you have a bad mood and all this stuff. But she never understands me. Even in this situation, she wanted me to do like she wanted. Ann told me she doesn't understand me. I feel used. Every time we have a quarrel, I have strong physical symptoms. Now I feel so cold and shaking and all I want it cry, and sleep, and I dont have any power. I feel not respected, I feel small. She often says she ends up business with us, she leaves but she never does. Happened like 10 times at least. I told her 2nd time in my life, after all that, that I am tired and I dont see what is the point for me to be her friend and work together. That she will feel better without me, if I ruin her mood so often, and everything I say makes her feel worse. She only answered me ‘talk to this shit to your psycho, your brain is messed up… oh now I am wrong? You said me you want to end this friendship! Maybe you feel better without me?’ and all this manipulative stuff. And started to record millions of voicemails. I didn’t listen yet. She wrote ‘Ok stay silent LOL’. I hate when she talks like this to me. She knows it. Should I cut her off? For sure she will try to finish this saying she only had bad mood and I could support her lets forget blah blah. All for her. But rarely she gets me this attention and love I am waiting for, and I forget everything. I am really tired of feeling like this and being someones towel. I dont know what to do. I love her, and understand we are just different and her emotions are maybe veery hard to control for her. She just doesn’t understand me, she doesn’t say sorry if she got angry like she did before. Cause I started tell her how I feel. Her family, she, our work and all we have is a very big part of my life, I love it and appreciate it, but I dont feel same from her. Should I start everything over in my lufe and just leave? I can start new business and move in another country. She doesn't want me to leave maybe because of business or because she doesn't want to stay alone (she also quarrels a lot with husband), maybe she is just bpd, idk, but with all her words I feel I need to leave and it will be better for us both.
Upd: in the end of the last quarrel she told me sorry and that she is depressed and nobody can understand her. I hear this is everytime in the end as an excuse, but I had to spend 4 hrs talking to her patiently about how I understand her feelings while she is angry. She skipped her meds like a month ago, despite the fact she was getting better in therapy. I think I should leave? I love her so much. But I am so tired.

Hi folks,
I'm in a bit of a dilemma here, and I could use some advice or input. As the title of this post indicates, I'm facing a situation that is likely to result in what would be my second dissertation advisor switch in my PhD program.
I am currently ABD, but my progress under my current advisor (whom I switched to in my first year) has been increasingly slower and more difficult, practically coming to a standstill in the last few months. For reference, I am in Internatiional Relations (adjacent but not part of Political Science), so I do not work in a lab or as part of a team. I can do a fair deal of research on my own, but I do need SOME level of guidance or feedback, and I have gotten less and less to the point where I practically have not gotten any in the last year.
My advisor has been increasingly cold, distant, absent, and even antagonistic since COVID started. I have tried to be understanding, and account for any strains COVID placed on him personally, but this alone cannot explain his behavior - and he has certainly not extended the same courtesy. I have stuck with him because he is relatively well known as an authority in my subfield, and I really do want to go into academia long-term, and thus have wanted to prevent any negative fallout (e.g. Academic politicking or gossip) that could adversely affect my chances of succeeding in this industry. I have mainly been worried about him black-balling or badmouthing within the small subfield/community I would be working in, as he has professional experience, connections, and reputation that I do not. I have heard him speak negatively (albeit) of other scholars before, so I believe this fear is not unfounded - and while other scholars in the community may put varying amounts of stock in what he says (I don't know how much such comments matter to them), I am sure that these opinions remain in the back of their mind, at least.
All this is to say that explain my hesitance in walking away from my advisor before this point. My main concerns are thus two-fold: 1) That it would look bad to switch dissertation advisors twice in one program, especially/even when ABD, and 2) that in response to my request for switching advisors, my current advisor would retaliate by spreading his negative opinions that could impact my hireability and/or other scholars willingness to work witj me in the future.
My lack of significant progress during COVID has been in part to COVID-related logistical challenges, but also mental health issues and my advisor's refusal to cooperate or guide me. However, none one will really care about the reasons my performance decreased if/when my advisor poisons the well against me, which is why I find this situation so concerning. Nonetheless, it's not like I have a high chance of finishing any time soon if I continue under him, and I fear that my mental health will only continue to deteriorate further.
At this point, it feels like the only thing I can really do to salvage my degree, my dissertation, and what remains of my mental health is to get rid of my current advisor and find someone I can actually work with (possibly my original advisor). But I cannot take this decision lightly because of the potential ramifications for my career. So for those of you who have been in a similar situation, or feel like you can answer this, I ask: HOW BAD IS IT IF I SWITCH DISSERTATION ADVISORS TWO TIMES IN A PROGRAM? AND HOW MUCH CAN IT HURT YOUR CAREER (IN ACADEMIA) TO CUT OFF TIES WITH A TOXIC, ALBEIT FAIRLY WELL-KNOWN AND RESPECTED DISSERTATION ADVISOR?

Verse 2 definitely hints at New Orleans various times. Could Preiss have used the iconic city to point to the state of Louisiana, and then buried the casque in a nearby city? Maybe not, but a detail in the painting led me down a fun rabbit hole. Hear me out... The sleeve in painting 7 looks like this map of Plaquemines Parish Louisiana upside down. Plaquemines Parish is home to a lot of interesting (some terrible) history. They host an annual Orange Festival at Fort Jackson... At the place where jewels abound?... That led me to look into Fort Jackson. Interestingly enough, Jackson was one of three forts built postwar in Louisiana under the "third system"... Only three stand watch? (read under history section)... Then I looked at Fort Jackson on a map. Turns out there is an older fort across the river from Fort Jackson, named Fort St. Philip, with some interesting history. In 1981-1982, when Preiss was burying casques, Fort St Philip was on privately owned land. The land was home to a "nonsectarian spiritual community" called Vella-Ashby Experimental Farm... Here is a sovereign people who build palaces to shelter their heads for a night?... Coincidentally, the Vella-Ashby farm was named after the old and new owners of the land when the commune was established... gnomes admire fays delight the NAMESAKES meeting near this site (see history section for more info on commune)... Then I found this Reddit post with even more information on the commume. In that post there is a link to a letter written by someone who visited Vella-Ashby farm in the early 80's. Turns out the commume hosted groups of visitors several times per month to aid in their "mission to raise people's consciousness". Could Preiss have stayed there when he buried the casque in Louisiana? Maybe this is the namesakes meeting near this site that the poem references? If Preiss was doing experimental commune type stuff, then the fairies and gnomes make more sense in my opinion. Some of the dresses worn at the popular Orange Festival at Fort Jackson were fairy-like... As the sound of friends fills the afternoon hours could be a reference to the festival... I looked at a few pictures of Plaquemines Parish, and the architecture there has similar features to painting 7. Plus, it looks like there could be a place at Fort Jackson with 15 steps... 15 rows down to the ground?... These are probably just coincidences, as there is strong evidence that Preiss hid it in New Orleans. I thought it was interesting though.

Hi!
Maybe this would be a bit long... My gf and I have been together for a year. When we first talked about us, I told her that I wanted to know more about her past, and she told me that it was okay.
When I said past I was refering to a lot of things, including past relations, family, problems, decisions... but I think she kind of understood that I was only talking about relationships. In fact, she answered: For now, I can tell you that I have had only 2 relations.
Time starting running and she told me about two guys she kind of 'met' that had love interests with her. She said that nothing ever happened but, since more than once she mentioned them out of nowhere, we had some fights about that because I wanted to know what really happened, because she also 'lied' to me. Like, not precisely lies but, things like, if she first told me she talked to her for a week, then she changed it to months. Things like that always made me wonder if she was being honest. Other things that made me think that were things she said like that she almost had a trip with one of those persons, while she has never done that with me.
Also, after some time she changed what she said about having two relations. She started saying that she only had one.
Now, an hour ago we had a fight that basically relied on the same thing. She was telling me a story about how a male friend of a female friend of her wanted to date her (my gf). She said that by that time she had no interests with men and that she was talking with him but decided to ignore him since she tought he wanted to harm her.
I asked her why if she had no interests with men she was talking with him in first place. She answered that she took two weeks to realize that what he called 'casual' was nothing casual at all for him.
So, I told her that is basically the same for all men. That 'casual' thing does not exist, and that maybe because I'm a man I can see understand other men intentions fast, to what she replied: I'm not stupid, I know that.
Aaaand once again, I asked her then why if she knew that, she wasn't interested in men, and she knew he had love interests with her, she was talking with him. After this, the same that happened when I asked her about the other persons happened: She exploded and started insulting me.
Now I can tell you that I don't have any problems with a person's past. If you were poor, had a lot of body counts or commited a crime I don't really care. I just want to hear the true story. Something that is not contradictory to what you tell me.
The only thing I can think is that, maybe if she gets too furious when I make that kind of questions, she is hiding something. Something that is very hard. To put a reference, she told me that she broke with her ex bc she discovered he was a criminal that commited REALLY bad things, and when she told me that story, she cried but didn't get so upset like she does when she tells me this kind of stories that are supposedly 'less important'.
If you could help me to understand this situation... I'd like to hear, if possible, a girl's perspective about that thing of 'talking to a men that you are not interested in although you know he has interests with you' and in general if I'm being a jerk for thinking this way. As said, what bothers me is not the past of a person, but if they lie to me.
Shalom!

I know, it's literally the first infusion, but that's what makes this so frustrating:
I have everything in place, all of the pedestals, more than 100 essentia of Motus and Volatus, raw fish, feather, 2 enchanted fabric, 2 aer crystals... what the hell?
I followed it exactly as in the book, and when I start the infusion with my gauntlet, it starts up, sucks all the essentia out of the jars, more than it even needs each time I've tried. It knocks stuff off of the pedestals and I place it back, but the infusion ritual goes on for like 10 minutes straight for the simplest item to make... something HAS to be wrong.
My setup looks exactly like this guy's in the video here (I timestamped the part where he actually does the ritual):
https://youtu.be/0kE0rPMVa5I?t=394
I even set up a ring of candles around the altar, so I thought maybe that would stabilize it enough that the ritual can be done, but no. Nothing has worked, I went into creative mode to see if maybe I needed WAYYY more than 100 essentia in the jars, but nope. Full to the the brim and it doesn't change anything. I replaced all of the items each time they got knocked off or exploded and nothing changed anything. Can someone send me a screenshot of what I'm supposed to have my altar look like or a video of them successfully creating these stupid boots in Thaumcraft 6??
Does infusion require something special beyond the altar setup? Do I need to be in a certain type of chunk or some stupid shit like that?

I've loved mel all season, she brings great TV and i actually think her and layton do really like each other. They are the most genuine couple for me aside from ollie and tahnee. However i cant believe she would blow up over him leaving a cabinet door open, like seriously wtf, if youre going to fight about stupid shit like that, then i can see why layton butts heads with her all the time. I hope they work out but i dont think Mel is leavel-headed enough for them to work long term. She also always asks him to show emotion, but then shuts him down when he shares how he feels. i think theyre both just so used to getting their way, so its hard for them to ever see it from each other's perspectives. He can also be a Diva, proven by his episode when they had to partner swap, so maybe theyre just both too aggressive.

Hi y’all, to start with - my cat’s name is Ali, he is 2 years old, I had rescued him from the streets a when he was a month n half old and he was raised in my apartment with me and my flatmate who also grew extremely close to Ali. We never spoke about who Ali belongs to, since our friendship is strong we understood each other’s love and attachment towards him but now I have moved out of that apartment and took an apartment near by, in the same lane so the three of us can still be close but Ali has to now spend time between both the houses.
He is a friendly cat, who did get comfortable eventually but it still took him some time to get used to the new place and today I will go and drop him back to my ex flatmate, the question that I have as a cat parent is how do we make it easy on him because changing of the environment often can not be good for him, will appreciate a discussion if some of y’all may be experienced in similar situations. P.S - Ali is a completely indoor cat, he has other street cats who come visit him at home and they are friends but he himself doesn’t like the outdoors and gets scared easy.

So I work part time at a cafe as a student job…
We have full afternoon shifts which are from half past three and sometimes even up to 2 or 3AM and a “helper” system where more people come in much later at events to help out with the crowd.
There are a bunch of coworkers, even students, who have worked here longer than a year and that makes them all more experienced than me, therefore my seniors and I’ve been here a bit under half a year.
The thing that’s been going on latwly is so frustrating and I cannot communicate this with anyone because it falls on deaf ears.
Every shift, I’m supposed to listen to whoever is my “senior” because they know more than me… but they all tell me different shit and then get mad at me when I’m confused and have no idea who to listen to.
Here are some examples:

• one says a certain customer gets a discount, the other says they don’t
  
• one says a certain employee from the building (not the cafe) gets the first coffe for free, the other says they don’t
  
• one says we don’t sell anything after closing hours to anyone and don’t even give drinks and print reciepts the next day because it’s ILLEGAL, the other smiles and gives the customer after hours drinks and tells me it’s okay cuz it’s a returning customer.
  
• one tells me to send the newbies who just started home because it’s not yet time for them to learn how to clean the entire bar, the other comes at me why I sent them home, that it’s customary for them to learn and the third one said it was my fault because I said I’d clean the bar instead when I never voulenteered in the first place but was asked by that first coworker
  
• when I started out I was immediately sent out to serve tables for whole 8+ hour shifts and kept every single time to clean up the bar. I had no previous experience serving before that. I get yelled at by my boss when I send out the newbie for 1h to learn and the newbie gets sent home early by the other coworker and I’m left to clean the bar.
  
• I tell the newbie we have time and I can show him how to cream the milk for the coffee and he can try just to see, if it’s not okay I’ll just remake it, but doesn’t hurt to try. Then a coworker from the morning shift prances in and tells me it’s not the time for him yet and takes the milk jug from his hands and creams the milk instead of him. She wasn’t even working anymore, I was alone with the newbie as his “senior” and responsible for teaching him and my judgement and professional autonomy was completely negated by the other coworker.
  
• the event helpers who arrive at 7 or 8 pm a lot of the times stay to clean the bar and allow the person who’s been on shift for over 8 hours to go home… so I was hoping I’d recieve the same solidarity from my coworker yesterday… 1 to a maximum of 3 people was enough to clean the bar. And yet the first newbie gets sent home early by my coworker. The other coworker who worked a full shift went home after 8 hours. The “senior” coworker was left along with another coworker who is considered at my level, a second newbie stayed and I was still there. I clearly implied that we don’t really need 4 people to clean the bar and that 2 experienced workers and a newbie should be enough and that I had to wake up early the next day. The older coworker looked at me and said “no no, all 4 of us will be closing together.”
  

I was not needed though! Half of the cleaning time I had nothing to do because everything else was either being cleaned or already clean.
And this keeps on happening, literally 10 seniors of mine are conflicting against eachothers words and I can’t say a goddamn thing because I’m being gaslighted as a complicator and a drama starter. I don’t even know who to listen to anymore, nothing I do is right apparently.
Fuck this clusterfuck of an organisations.
TLDR: coworkers can’t decide on rules to follow apparently and I’m the incompetent one for being confused

I play an [[Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief]] commander deck, and every time I do, the other players immediately decide I'm the biggest threat, to the point where they come at me with [[darksteel mutation]] on turn 2 and immediately kill or exile my creatures at the soonest opportunity. My deck is capable, and I've won once or twice with it but I don't see how it's nearly as intimidating as everyone at ly lgs seems to think it is. It's my most fun and interesting deck, so I'd like to play it. They don't react like this to my other decks, including ones that are more competitive. Am I missing something?

My first contest! 😊
I work overnights (11-7) and finish all of my work responsibilities within 1-2 hours of being on the clock. I'm looking for different ways to keep myself busy after I run out of things to do. I've done surveys, coloring, watching TV, studying on different topics... Obviously I have snacks with me, but my medication doesn't let me eat too much, more like drinking a LOT of Tea or Crystal Light. Lol
What I'm looking for are some different things to keep me busy! What are some fun activities you like to do to take up some downtime? What is the cost of said activity? Why do you like it?
Requirements: Please have something on your list around $10! Please use the tag, TIME TO WAKE UP to be put on the randomizer (hopefully I can figure it out, if not, will be random selection) Contest will end when I wake up sometime tomorrow afternoon! (At work now lol) Bonus points if you can guess when I'll wake up! 😂