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AITAH for cutting off my best friend because she wouldn't stop cheating on her husband? My(25 female) best friend (27 female) I'm going to call diamond has been in my life for about 8 years. We met when we were teenagers working at a local diner. We did everything together from going to the mall and just driving around listening to music, bringing me food to school after she graduated. She has always been very wreckless, starting fights slitting tires sneaking into abandoned places. Diamond grew up in a broken home and lost her dad before she was born. She used his death to continue the naritive that in any and all situations, she was the victim. I didn't have a great life ei...

I’ve been thinking about what consciousness actually is, and I keep landing on something simpler than magic or mysteries. Pattern matching is the whole game Maybe intelligence is just pattern matching, recognising stuff, comparing it to what you’ve stored, and reacting. The smarter something is, the faster or wider it matches patterns. But consciousness feels like the experience of doing that matching while it’s happening. Like, not just processing, but feeling yourself process. **It’s a loop**: you take something in, you match it to memories, you generate a response, and that response becomes the next input. That recursive space, that’s where "you" live. Emotion is...

I am a senior graduating from high school and college next month with my AAS. (free through dual credit) I have applied to a couple of colleges but have been so busy working at a store 25 hours a week, and doing both high school and college every day. I have had no time to really stop and think, what do I actually wanna do in my future/ go to college for. I really have been wanting to do a gap year, but everyone tells me if i do ill never go back to school. Just wanting some opinions if a gap year could/is helpful.

Hey r/nocode, I've been deep in the no-code/AI app builder space and keep hitting the same frustrations with existing tools: * FlutterFlow is solid for visual Flutter builds and code export, but complex backend logic, offline support, and deep native features still require manual tweaks or extra devs. * Bubble is powerful for web workflows but native mobile feels like a wrapper — slow perf, limited hardware access, scaling issues. * Rork (and similar prompt-to-app tools) is insanely fast for MVPs ("describe your app in English → test on phone in minutes"), but falls apart on production-grade stuff: buggy complex logic, weak full-stack (auth, payments, sync), deployment h...

New to Parallel? Trying to figure out which scent is for you? This is your one-stop guide. --- ## Men's Fragrances | Scent | Price (1 oz.) | Price (4 oz.) | Vibe | Best For | |---|---|---|---|---| | **1997** | $35 | $120 | The signature. Warm, bold, magnetic — our #1 bestseller | Everyday confidence, date nights, compliment magnet | | **Gentlemen's Touch** | $35 | $120 | Refined and sophisticated | Business settings, evening events | | **The Pinnacle** | $40 | — | Peak masculinity, commanding presence | Making a statement | | **Mr. Manhattan** | $40 | — | Urban, sharp, modern | City nights, going out | | **Romeo** | $40 | $120 | Romantic, warm, inviting | Date nights, clos...

Hello friend, I woke up to rain this morning. Soft. Steady. The kind that doesn’t rush you out of bed— just sits there with you. Random Airbnb. 7 AM. Jumanji playing in the background on Netflix— not because I chose it, but because I fell asleep to noise after a long night. A dance event. New faces. New energy. A lot of people. A lot of conversations. A lot of opportunities showing up all at once. And if I’m being honest… it drained me. Not in a bad way. Just… full. Like my social cup overflowed and I didn’t realize it until this morning. I laid there for a bit, listening to the rain, watching a movie I wasn’t really watching, and I had a decision to m...

Recently, I've been itching to leave the house for good and go to college, but I still have over a year left (I'm a junior), but my mom is driving me crazy and I don't know if I can live that long. All my life, my mom has said hurtful things that I'm sure she didn't mean, but it's been a lot worse lately. Before spring break, I had to get new snow pants to go skiing, since I didn't fit into the ones that were kinda tight two years ago. When I tried the old ones on, I realized immediately that they wouldn't fit. They wouldn't go over my hips, which makes sense since they didn't fit super well TWO YEARS AGO, when I still did gymnastics. Anyway...

(hopefully this is allowed!) My own house! Pretty and clean clothes! A full stomach! A blossoming love story between me and my neighbor! Life sounds amazing doesn't it? It would be. If it wasn't for that store. I asked for it. I wanted new clothes. Mine were fraying at the seams. So why have I been banished to spend eternity inside my house? I just asked for clothes! I want out and yet everytime... Everytime I go to swing that door open... It's there. Just staring back at me. Retail version. What does that even mean? What the **** is a retail version? Why won't it let me leave? My neighbors get to leave! I see them outside talking all the time! Why am I the only o...

H.R. Welch It was around midnight a few years ago when I heard someone breaking into my house. I don’t think I had more than twenty minutes of sleep but as soon as I heard the window being broken I was wide awake and looking for my phone to call the police.  My heart sank when I remembered that I left it downstairs, charging in the kitchen. The source of the break in.  I live alone and don't have a gun, so I grabbed the only thing that could pass as a weapon: a baseball bat. Once I had that, I psyched myself up to go downstairs to face the intruder.  Once I reached the bottom step I saw the silhouette of a man sitting at my kitchen table. It was dark so I could not see what ...

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H.R. Welch It was around midnight a few years ago when I heard someone breaking into my house. I don’t think I had more than twenty minutes of sleep but as soon as I heard the window being broken I was wide awake and looking for my phone to call the police.  My heart sank when I remembered that I left it downstairs, charging in the kitchen. The source of the break in.  I live alone and don't have a gun, so I grabbed the only thing that could pass as a weapon: a baseball bat. Once I had that, I psyched myself up to go downstairs to face the intruder.  Once I reached the bottom step I saw the silhouette of a man sitting at my kitchen table. It was dark so I could not see what ...

I’ve been thinking about what consciousness actually is, and I keep landing on something simpler than magic or mysteries. Pattern matching is the whole game Maybe intelligence is just pattern matching, recognising stuff, comparing it to what you’ve stored, and reacting. The smarter something is, the faster or wider it matches patterns. But consciousness feels like the experience of doing that matching while it’s happening. Like, not just processing, but feeling yourself process. **It’s a loop**: you take something in, you match it to memories, you generate a response, and that response becomes the next input. That recursive space, that’s where "you" live. Emotion is...

How do you know when your relationship is over? Or to keep fighting? For context were both in our 30s but his family lives in a different state and I know one day hed like to move back home (he came to my state for work but ended up staying for our relationship) but I know in the long haul he wants to move back home and I do not. We have almost 7 years together, live together but no children together and not married but engaged. I also do all the cooking and cleaning as he works and always says hes to tired to do anything else. His job is early hours but not exactly like hard work like construction or something like that. He told me "you already have to do those things as an adultnyou j...

By The Next Generation **Warning — Consent Required:** Do **not** force anyone to read this text. It strips illusions and exposes reality without comfort. Read only if you knowingly accept being confronted by the truth and take full responsibility for your reaction. **Astral Projection** Astral projection is when a person feels like their consciousness has separated from their body. One way to understand this is that many frequencies exist around us that we normally cannot sense. Right now, we only sense certain ones, like light and sound. Beyond those, many other frequencies are present but undetected. Imagine these frequencies floating around us, and one of them touches us. Our bo...

I’ve been thinking about what consciousness actually is, and I keep landing on something simpler than magic or mysteries. Pattern matching is the whole game Maybe intelligence is just pattern matching, recognising stuff, comparing it to what you’ve stored, and reacting. The smarter something is, the faster or wider it matches patterns. But consciousness feels like the experience of doing that matching while it’s happening. Like, not just processing, but feeling yourself process. **It’s a loop**: you take something in, you match it to memories, you generate a response, and that response becomes the next input. That recursive space, that’s where "you" live. Emotion is...

10 days 🥹 Yesterday’s question: “What are some foods you’d want in the new game?” Today’s question: What are some clothing items you’d personally want in the clothing store?

Corrupted Archive: Static Manifest Core Concept The user’s cursed energy behaves like a damaged recording archive, where: “Static” = control over perception “Lost tapes” = stored cursed entities Instead of just summoning creatures, the user injects them into reality through sensory corruption. Basically: you don’t summon the monster into the world… you force the victim into the monster’s world. Base Ability : “Static Injection” The user emits cursed static that: \- Infects a target’s senses (vision, hearing, spatial awareness) \- Creates “signal gaps” where reality becomes unreliable Inside those gaps, entities from lost recordings manifest but only ...

The town of Spectral Lakes, Washington, is known for the mass of ghost stories choking the annals of our history. You can’t enter a single gift shop, motel, or museum without gaudy flyers advertising our “ghost tours” on every kiosk. Most of the stories are relegated to Lake Spectral, the biggest of the town’s lakes, but I’ve always felt a much deeper connection to Lullaby Lake, mostly because my Uncle Chung-Ho ran the summer camp there, and I lived near it for my whole childhood. But after my brother was born, Dad got a job in Seattle, and we moved away for a while, only returning after I was sixteen. The small town now thoroughly bored me. Staying at home wasn’t an option. D...

Hi, We run a clothing store on Shopify and have attempted to open a tiktok seller account to start selling our clothing. It's designed in the UK and ethically made in Portugal. Initially there was a "Fake qualification" validation, I provided everything that was required, including a video of me talking with identification and with our stock (over £15k's worth in boxes and showing each item). We were then permanently closed. I contacted tiktok support who could not provide any further information other than "Missing supporting material" and that the decision was final and closed. Incredibly frustrating, as there's drop shippers all over tiktok shop and...

Hi, We run a clothing store on Shopify and have attempted to open a tiktok seller account to start selling our clothing. It's designed in the UK and ethically made in Portugal. Initially there was a "Fake qualification" validation, I provided everything that was required, including a video of me talking with identification and with our stock (over £15k's worth in boxes and showing each item). We were then permanently closed. I contacted tiktok support who could not provide any further information other than "Missing supporting material" and that the decision was final and closed. Incredibly frustrating, as there's drop shippers all over tiktok shop and...