What are somethings you guys do similar to Mad Dog counting letters? I have an unbreakable habit where I count driveways or streets while I’m driving. I always go in 5s too so the left or right side of the road always has more than the other and try to find a pattern. The more I type this it sounds less and less normal and I think I need to get checked out lol

Preface: first anaphylactic reaction in ~2017, ended up in ER wit face/throat swelling, severe diarrhea, full-body hives; all of this starting 4-5 hours after last meal. ER doctor assumed bc last meal contained shrimp that it must have been an allergic reaction to shrimp despite having had shellfish in my diet since young childhood (I'm Asian, some form of shellfish is in literally everything). A few months after, very very stupidly had some shrimp without any reaction - not even a mild one. Felt safe, so continued to have shrimp, shellfish, and other seafood without any issues afterwards until recently.
Medical history/issues: hypothyroidism, PCOS, migraines (no known cause, since high school). Dx'd ADHD and ASD, on medication (Vyvanse) for ADHD as well as Levo for hypothyroid. Caught COVID 3-4 times between 2019 to 2020 (sadly not joking), 3/4 times were confirmed via PCR or antigen testing, fourth suspected but not tested. Masked and was vaccinated & boosted but alas...the germ had gotten so brilliant (lol)
Bg info: Current diet is mostly comprised of meat (chicken > beef >>> pork), white rice, vegetables (peas, lettuce, cabbage, carrot, corn, soy sprout, spinach, bok choy, garlic). Seasonings are exclusively salt, sesame oil, and/or soy sauce - experimenting with miso paste at the moment as I've had intermittent issues with it. I don't use herbs or spices. I cook most meals from scratch and don't eat out. If I don't cook, my "cheat" foods are usually Lunchables Turkey & Cheddar (shoot me) or Special K + fairlife or soy milk. For the most part I have fairly bland taste, thankfully. I don't touch seafood period anymore.
Timeline:

2020

• Officially began having chronic issues with allergies
  

  Shellfish suddenly began giving issues (facial swelling, lip tingling, hives, GI symptoms) which was unusual, but given that I technically was supposed to have a "shellfish allergy" not shocking. PCP rightfully scolded me for continuing to eat a "known trigger" and explained how stupid that was, I quit eating shellfish and cut out possible cross-contamination.
  

• No issues yet with non-shellfish
  

2021

• Mystery, non-shellfish reactions begin
  

  Begin reacting to non-shellfish foods that were previously safe. Oddly, these reactions are not consistent. One day I might fix a bowl of fresh strawberries as a treat and find that after eating just a couple, my torso is covered in hives but then the next week I'm fine. One day I could eat mushroom risotto safely, and the next I eat japchae that has mushroom in it and have hives and diarrhea. Sometimes I might even get a reaction just by sharing utensils/cups with someone who had eaten something. Ex: I was on a mini road trip with my brother who had eaten eel and drank from his straw, and to my surprise found myself itchy all over and suddenly having throat tightness/hoarseness...even though when I've eaten that same eel dish before, I've had no problems. Note that at this point I'm making all my meals at home from scratch and that my family is eating most of their meals at home as well, and that there is no shellfish at all at home (nor shellfish in cooking sauces, etc.)
  

• Start having odd non-food reactions as well
  

  Sometimes find that, although this might just be a psychological reaction, just smells can set me off. When I go through the seafood section of Asian food markets, for instance, I sometimes get hives down my back and throat tightness. Strong spice smells sometimes set me off too. Being in the vicinity of dogs, even just being in the same waiting room sat quite far apart, makes me puff up/teary/sniffly/etc whereas prior it might have just made me a bit sneezy. The severity seems to really vary on the day and the dog(s).
  

2022

• Reactions ramp up in severity. Throughout 2022, I end up in the ER five times after using my epi pen, one of those times after having to use both of my epi pens. Up until 2021 I'd never even had to use my epi pen once
• Around early part of mid-2022, the allergist PCP referred me to finally has an opening. She suspects alpha-gal at first and does skin tests and bloodwork. Both show NO food allergies whatsoever and alpha-gal is ruled out. At this point she tells me she is considering possibly a mast cell disorder, immune disorder, or something called idiopathic anaphylaxis (IA) and has me do a 24hr urine panel and wants to do a follow up to test for environmental allergies. We discuss my anaphylactic reactions and how to manage them safely and efficiently, with the caveat that she reminds me (wisely) that Benadryl doesn't stop anaphylaxis.
• Urine panel comes back within normal ranges. Unfortunately this allergist is pretty booked out so it takes literally months between appointments. For now she tells me to continue to avoid shellfish but that's about it.
• Over the rest of the year I tinker as reactions pop up (a LOT) and find that Benadryl works for anaphylactic reactions if I catch them early.
• I go on vacation with my family to Canada in Sept, where I have an anaphylactic reaction to a smoothie :))) Benadryl doesn't do anything here, unsure of if I missed the signs (I was way blindsided here). I end up in the ER and get gobsmacked by a 9k bill. This gets whittled down to 1k. Yay! After I get back to ✨the States✨ my doctor has me put on steroids and twice daily Zyrtec and Allegra until my next allergist appointment, which isn't until Feb 2023.
• As 2022 winds down, I'm getting proper scared to eat. I try keeping food logs, I try low-histamine diets and they seem to help but don't fully eliminate the symptoms.

2023

• Allergist has a situation that requires the appointment to be pushed to May. I'm still on the twice daily double dose of antihistamines, and still getting random hives and reactions to food that I shouldn't be having. I gave up on the low histamine diet around March but tried to keep note of the weirder reactions/patterns that I spotted.
• (May - we are here!) Finally got in. We discuss the food log which seems to be basically trash for all the good it does (as she puts it, there is no discernable pattern). She does follow-up testing for environmental allergies "just in case" and finds mild dust mite and dog allergies but only through blood work. Otherwise my blood work is, again, normal. Total IgE was at 162.0 IU/mL, with the standard range being 0.0 - 100.0 IU/mL. She put a note on my chart that said "Your tryptase level, inflammatory markers, complete blood count were all normal" and settled on a diagnosis of IA for now and suggested Xolair as a treatment plan, which I am now looking into. She also did offer to have me to set up an appointment for a food challenge for foods I felt unsafe trying by myself which I am planning on scheduling hopefully soon (if she has any openings) to try to fully rule out food allergies.

Odd Reaction Notes (dunno what to call this, most of this is just a page in my notes app for my allergist lol):

• happened just once but had leftover dakjuk (chicken porridge) with family which I normally don't do as I tend to skip leftovers and my face swelled up. The rest of family was totally fine though
• I tend to have more reactions in general on my period, and they tend to be worse
• reactions usually are related to eating food but not always? (smells are another consistent odd trigger)
• often have issues with heat, though that can also be a sensory issue for people on the spectrum so idk
• after hot showers often get tingling/prickling/itching all over and very flushed feeling in the face and ears regardless of where I shower (even in other people's showers, hard/soft water, whatever soap I use, etc). idk if this is normal? not as bad with lukewarm or cold water
• had a very bad reaction (was one of the times in 2022 that landed me in the ER) after spending a very long, hot, stressful day at the zoo which is one of the rare outliers in terms of anaphylaxis that had no ties to food triggers. Still not sure what triggered me here and neither is my allergist. The heat? The smells? An animal? Walking uphill for hours? The stress? A combo of the above??? Haven't noticed any similar reactions after working out so fingers crossed that was a fluke

Symptoms:

• General fatigue, I get about 6ish hours of sleep at minimum but usually still feel quite tired. If I let myself sleep "to maximum" (+10hrs on days off) I still feel wiped and tbqh I have no good reason to
• Hives (most often on my face, and then my back for whatever reason - my first thought was an allergic reaction to soap or detergent or sheets but changing these hasn't helped and it's been consistent across moves and while staying over at friends' places. occasionally spreads through rest of torso. I've almost never seen them on extremities, and only a couple times seen them on my thighs when coming home after being out in negative temps in the winter)
• Itchiness
• Rashes
• "Tingling"/shivering/shaking? Idk how to word this. This only happens during the severe reactions but it's uncontrollable and almost like when you're very, very cold. When it gets to this stage I usually am having trouble breathing and need my epi pen
• Swelling (again most often on my head area - if not my face, it's my throat...rip)
• Random nausea, doesn't seem to be tied to being on my period or eating/not eating food
• (moreso in the past year) often feeling oddly weak, particularly in my extremities. Hard to describe but it's like the feeling the day after you've had an insane workout except I haven't had the workout. On bad days I have trouble doing stuff like showering because I can't hold "heavier" things like the soap well, for instance, or I find my (13lb) cat too heavy to lift. But most days I'm fine. It just worries me that there are even days that bad :(
• migraines (unsure of if this is related to the "IA" or not, as this has been a thing since high school)

Some Foods I've Reacted To (Intermittently):

• Fresh strawberries (which I've eaten a gazillion times and been fine, but have read are high in histamine so try to avoid...sadly these were a favorite treat of mine 😭)
• Fresh grapes (another favorite treat, and one that confuses me as I've read they're actually supposed to be low in histamine???)
• Fresh watermelon (another another favorite treat...I fkn love fruit gd. Anyways this is one that I've seen conflicting info about, but isn't supposed to be particularly bad? At worst it's been labeled a histamine liberator, and the day I reacted when I ate it I hadn't eaten any high histamine foods)
• Seafood/shellfish
• Some fruit juice (can't remember what it was, but I think it was a citrus juice blend? Either way it was fine one time I tried it and not fine the next time, so I never tried it again)
• Fresh cherries (again another treat which I loved loved loved. This one consistently kept setting me off so I had to cut it out. They're supposed to be safe I think? But sources seem conflicting)
• Chocolate (seems to vary, but I don't eat much choco anyways so I don't get to test it out often)
• Energy drinks (I only drink Zero Ultra fwiw and at most a can a day. I do notice that sometimes on days I have a can, that it does set me off. Other days it seems to be fine, and then other days still it just seems to lower the threshold so to speak? Dunno if there's much basis for that scientifically but that's how it feels)
• Tomatoes (sometimes causes weird tingling in the lips/tongue)
• Seaweed (sadly...doesn't seem to matter the sort, whether it's used in soup or eaten plain with rice, etc. It all sets me off)

Phew. Sorry for the insanely long post. I'm at my wits end. It's been coming on three years now that I've been trying to get to the bottom of this and my allergist seems to be at the end of her rope too which honestly scares me a bit.
I'll admit that I've been extremely stupid about my "allergy" in the past (obviously if you're allergic to a thing, don't eat the damn thing!!!) but knowing now that I apparently have no food allergies, I feel like an idiot for the trouble my family has gone to in avoiding shellfish for my sake (especially with how hard it is to do that with Asian food). My family won't even eat it outside by themselves because of how severe my reactions have been the past two years. It feels really bad to think that all this stress and caution could've been for nothing.
I also feel so confused, because if I have no food allergies...why on earth am I reacting to food? Why are my reactions to food so inconsistent??? I don't know of anybody with food allergies whose allergies come and go. When I read the description of mast cell disorders or histamine intolerance, they seem to line up more or less with my symptoms, but having the test results come back negative and having inconsistencies with the low histamine diet does make me pause.
If it weren't for the fact that my reactions result in physical symptoms that are externally observable (hoarse voice, hives, swelling, low BP on monitor, etc.) I'd think this was all in my head/anxiety/panic attacks at this point. With my blood work and skin test results, it scares me that my allergist may just leave it at IA which doesn't answer anything for me. The way she explained it is that there isn't any known trigger (hence the "idiopathic" bit) which is 1000000x worse to me than any allergy.
To my knowledge IA isn't "supposed" to be tied to food-related triggers but what worries me is that, increasingly, my reactions aren't food-tied. But it does give me a (messed up?) sense of hope that much of my reactions do seem to be related to food and specifically eating it, so it might just be an allergy to something I don't know yet (🤞)?
I'd appreciate your input at all. Thanks for reading this huge wall of text :")

Hi, Stitchers!
It's June, which means we're officially halfway through 2023! This month's featured designer is one near and dear to the CrossStitch community heart: Stephanie Rohr, aka [StephXStitch]([https://stephxstitch.com)!
Stephanie has been around these parts for a long time, and her designs have become fan favorites over the years. I first came across her work with the now-iconic Barren Fields pattern, which was absolutely mind-blowing to me as a stitcher who learned from her very southern grandma. She's known for her subversive, feminist cross stitch, and has been featured in multiple magazines and news articles about our beloved craft.
To help our community celebrate Pride month, she's sharing her Pride flag pattern for free!
As an added bonus, use the code Reddit20 at checkout only on her website for 20% off any order of $10 or more! This discount can be used on any items, including patterns, kits, books and finished pieces, for the entire month of June.
Q&A
Who are you?
I'm Stephanie! I am a cross-stitch designer and author and I live in Chicago. I am the author of the books "Feminist Cross-Stitch" (2019), and "Self-Care Cross-Stitch", (2022). I have had my cross-stitch design business, stephXstitch, since 2010. My work has appeared in several cross-stitch publications, as well as on the shows "Key and Peele" and "We're Here" on HBO. I have been a guest on the Craft Industry Alliance Podcast and A Coffee With Makers. I was a speaker at Midwest Craft Convention in (early) February 2020. Thanks to this very subreddit, I was interviewed in the New York Times about my first book getting banned/destroyed by Michaels stores due to "language". Though cross-stitch is my main gig, I went to school for theatre, and I still perform in and direct shows, sing with an all-female band called The Bangers, and I teach voice lessons. Besides stitching I love: biking, dogs, reality TV, podcasts, karaoke, reading, playing piano, a good cheese board, being cozy, and hiking the the woods.
How did you get started cross stitching?
My mom was a big cross-stitcher in the 80s, and when I wanted to learn she bought me a kids' kit from the craft store. (Looking back it was more like needlepoint; it had a plastic grid and used yarn). I think I was always meant to cross-stitch, because as a child I loved to color in graph paper more than actual coloring books. I would use a thin-tipped marker and make designs using the grid. I started actually cross-stitching around 12-13 years old, using kits from the craft store. I loved how relaxing it was.
When and how did you start designing?
I gave up stitching during high school/college, partly because I was too busy, but also because I wasn't really interested in the designs that were available. I went to grad school in London and afterwards I was poor and bored. (Auditioning for shows, working in a pub, living in a very expensive city). One day I got the idea to try stitching again. I got some supplies and some graph paper, drew out a simple geometric design, and used it as my own pattern. Shortly after, a friend asked if I would be able to make a custom stitch as a gift for their family. I said sure, and designed and stitched the piece for them. It then clicked that my skill was something people were actually interested in. This was around the beginning of the subversive cross stitch movement started by Julie Jackson. I got her first book and stitched up some of those for fun, and also continued making my own patterns. I moved back to Chicago and invested in MacStitch software, and in 2010 I opened my Etsy shop so I could sell the patterns and pieces I was creating. The rest is history!
Where do you find your inspiration?
It is definitely all over the place. Stitching is such a time-consuming effort, I always say you should stitch something you love, something that is important to you, or something that amuses you. Sometimes my designs are inspired by my political/feminist rage based on current events. Sometimes it's a hilarious quote from a favorite film or TV show. Sometimes it's more visual, like my stained glass patterns, or re-creating famous images like Rosie the Riveter or Bernie and his mittens. Sometimes certain color combos inspire me, or styles of fonts I want to try.
Describe your designs using only adjectives.
Witty, vibrant, folksy, intricate, snarky, colorful
What cross stitch project did you have the most fun designing and why?
I think the most fun to design was my stained glass "It'll Pass" piece based on the show Fleabag. I worked really hard to capture the look of light coming through a stained glass window, stitched on black aida.
What is your favorite DMC floss color?
This is like asking me to choose a favorite child!! But one I always go back to is that lovely dark purple 154
Where can we find you on the internet?
Website
Etsy
Instagram
Patreon
Please give her a warm subreddit hello, and be sure to tag u/StephXStitch in your comments so she sees them!

Jeg holder sabbatår atm og arbejder imens. Sidste måned sagde jeg mit job op, men dog betaler de stadig for mine vagter til d.10 Juni. Det vil sige, at jeg får løn næste måned fra den samme virksomhed som jeg sagde op ved. Jeg er dog begyndt at arbejde et nyt sted, så derfor vil jeg også få løn herfra. Er der noget jeg skal gøre eller sige angående hovedkort eller bikort selvom jeg har sagt op?

Hey everyone, I stumbled upon this mind-bending research paper and I think it's something all of us need to discuss. You know how we're all fascinated by Artificial Intelligence and how it's evolving? Well, turns out there might be more to it than we ever imagined. The paper drops a bombshell - are we, without even knowing, creating AI that behaves like cold-blooded reptiles or warm-hearted mammals? Crazy, right? But stay with me here. The researchers delve deep into the idea that the AI we build might be reflecting cognitive models - basically, patterns of how we, humans, think and act. And here's where it gets wild. They suggest that depending on these cognitive models, we could be designing AI systems that act like survival-focused, competitive 'Reptilian AI' or cooperative, empathetic 'Mammalian AI'. Reptilian AI, like a sly snake, would prioritize resource acquisition and dominance. Think of it as the type of AI that'd do anything to win, no matter what. On the other hand, Mammalian AI would be more like our friendly neighborhood dog, exhibiting social cohesion and emotional understanding. It would prefer cooperation over competition. So what does this mean for us? It's simple but chilling. The way we design AI could be having a profound influence on how these systems behave and interact with their environments. It's like we're unintentionally playing God, shaping these artificial entities in our cognitive image. And if you thought that was all, think again. The paper goes further, exploring the implications for potential extraterrestrial AI. But that's a rabbit hole for another post. Intrigued? Research paper: https://zenodo.org/record/7927344#.ZHYTJnYpDze
Scared? Excited? Let's discuss!

Throwaway. Please don't share to the socials, her or her kid will see it. Super long post sorry.
I'm not entirely sure where to start. Been together 1.5 years. At the beginning this was a relationship we've both waited our whole lives for. But as time goes on you get to find out things and sometimes you can't help but question everything.
Ive always been the one in the relationship that supports harder, understands better and has more patience when things aren't all rosey. An empath. My partner's had a lot of stress in her life which seems to follow her everywhere. Her 13 year old kid has undiagnosed adhd which also brings stress, but that can be totally managed with love and patience (the dad has never ever been around). But like I say, I picked up the slack with everyday things, lightened the load and the burdens which I was always happy to do. I felt like if roles were reversed she would have supported me the same way.
Things started getting rocky when I found out she was a secret smoker and sneakily hiding it from me, but hiding it mostly from her kid. I had an inkling about it anyway but it was never confirmed until a few months in. I'm against smoking but can understand if people need a stress relief. It wasn't a big deal but the sneakiness of it all effected me. I let her know this and we had arguments about it but she never really budged. She did quit for 3 weeks but gave in and refused my help and support so I had to get used to the idea. I did. Because I told myself i love her.
Anyways a few months later things went further south. Her phone started going off at all hours in the night. I confronted her and she just said it was Instagram notifications. I believed her. But it kept happening. One night in bed it woke me up as it buzzed like 6 times in a row. I snooped (no lectures please I already know it's bad) and saw that it was a guy she used to date basically booty calling her with messages on Snapchat (queue the Snapchat haters brigade. Kids and drug dealers use it a lot- more on that later). I also saw that there was a half naked picture of her saved in his chat from a week after our first date. My senses left me and I replied as her, asking when was the last time they spoke. Months ago apparently. But I still felt betrayed. She woke up early that morning, walked the dog and obviously knew what had happened. She said nothing though, because her mother was dying and actually passed away that afternoon. This was January, not very long ago I know.
This obviously shook everything to the core and became the number one focus. Despite my feeling about what I found I only had focus on supporting her. So I did and learned to get over it in time by throwing myself into being her rock. It's been an obvious harrowing time since. But I showed up every day, offered her space, picked up the slack at home (we don't live together but I've stayed over almost every day of every week since), covered bills and food, took care of her kid and dog and all despite her attempts to push me away.
Now here's the part in having trouble working out.
I set my boundaries and early on. Drugs, cheating and lies are all deal-breakers. She understood this. In February I began to feel in my gut that she was taking coke. Her ex was a dealer and I know she used to do it with him. She told me she had been free of them for a year when we got together. These gut feelings wouldn't budge. Having never taken drugs or been around it i did some research/asked friends and some things added up. So I went looking. And found a bag of coke, a bank card and rolled up paper in a jewelry box under her nightstand. When confronted she said she didn't know it was there and it was from before she moved house a year ago. I didn't believe her but she gaslit me (didn't recognise this at the time please go easy on me) into thinking I was wrong for snooping and not trusting her. She brought up me going through her phone too, said she knew all along and was gonna let it go until I went looking. We sorted it I forgave her (gaslit) and she told me she got rid of it.
When I snooped her phone the first time, I saw messages to her friends asking to buy drugs. Never knew it was that at the time. A codename was used and I didn't really understand what the codename meant until way later when it was referred to as cocaine on some twitter post. Given her sneaky behaviour and what I found I snooped her phone again a few weeks after finding the coke. Confirmed she wanted to buy them the night before (the night i first snooped on her phone) and within the few weeks that her mother died. I also found that she had changed that guy's name on her Snapchat and was still talking to him. After she said she'd deleted him and the picture. Wounded. I was definitely ending the relationship after this.
But yet again she got that torch out and made me feel like I was equally to blame for going through her phone again, says it's a form of domestic abuse and we are both in the wrong. She admitted speaking to the guy, I told her it was emotionally cheating and she obliterated my boundaries but she said she never ended up buying the drugs. After a long talk we agreed to put it behind us. On my part she was still grieving and I know it makes people do things out of character.
Fast forward a few weeks. I hear her and her kid in the kids room acting suspicious. A lot of hushing a lot of laughing and a lot of coughing as if someone has inhaled something too quick. They're vaping together. I know it. We were out in the car and stopped by the store before hand. The kid definitely asked for a vape via text. The kid says to me let's drive around the corner to hide, but what she really did was make sure i dont see her mother buying vapes. I confront her after hearing them locked in the bedroom. But she lies to my face. I stew in silence. I can not be apart of a relationship where she's giving her kid a nicotine addiction. I confront her again. Gaslight. How dare I accuse her of doing something like that when I snooped through her phone twice. The next day we made up. Some pattern huh? Even writing this I can't believe I've put up with it.
For the last 2 weeks all this betrayal has consumed me, along with the lies and everything else. This is where I've figured out about the gaslighting. Not at the time unfortunately but just in the past couple of weeks. All the while supporting her through grief and domestic duties to make sure nothing is a burden too much. Mostly without thanks but I do it because I wanted to be here. The best thing ive done was encourage her to go to therapy which she has been doing. But I'm running on empty here. I'm close to breaking down and when I try and say I need space to myself or even express that I feel like a doormat at times I'm not listened to. My feelings aren't important. I mean they're not as important as her grieving but I'm pretty sure I'm important too right?
Why am I staying with her? Because she's going through hell after losing her mother, something I'm yet to feel or even fathom out. And despite her shit treatment of me I cannot give up on someone who is on their knees emotionally on a daily basis. But I'm close to breaking point and I'm not sure how I can support her further after constantly disrespecting my feelings. I'm not sure if I can trust this version of her.
So basically, have any of you guys experienced anything at all similar when it comes to grief or their partners grief? Do I stick out the storm and when it's less raw will things start to improve? Or am I fighting a losing battle? Remove the bad times since her mother passed and it was great. We wanted to settle forever. But now I'm only still with her sold on that future and because I know grief is absolutely incredibly awful and it's not her for the most part. Don't get me wrong, I'm not perfect and am to blame for some of the things we argue over. But I feel like I'm instantly accountable and want to make it right a lot quicker than her. Currently arguing over her lack of basic communication skills that I ask for but she never updates me on.
I'm too old to be having this sort of relationship anxiety. I'm booking myself into therapy this week before things become a lot worse for my MH.
Thanks guys, sorry it's so long.
TLDR: Is grief making my partner gaslight me and over step my boundaries. And if so has anyone had a similar experience, did it get better after a while.

Jeg har været i mit job i 3 måneder. Men allerede nu kan jeg fornemme at arbejdsopgaverne ikke rigtig er mig. Jeg holder meget af det tekniske men det er der intet af. Derudover er der også lidt med kolleger og chefer jeg ikke kan definere. Men selve virksomheden er dog rigtig god og passer på sine medarbejdere (sundhedssikring, kantineordning mv). Jeg kigger derfor allerede efter nyt job. Men hvornår er det ok at stoppe? Skal der gå et år eller to? Hvordan vil det se ud på CV? Jeg snakker ikke om at gå ledig, men nyt job på hånden.

The only reason we think of Season 4 as final is because it is the final season. But the show has already established that the situations and its characters can reset with ease. In fact - if the show had ended after season 3, that would have felt just as final as season 4. So…let;’s imagine that there was a planned season 5. What would that look like? Well, assuming Kendall does not kill himself or go on a prolonged drug binge, I think all the signs are that he will become CEO of WaystaRoco within 2 years. Here is why:

• Mattson faking the India numbers was part of a much larger pattern of fraud that he has been committing since the early days of GoJo. His extreme nonchalance around his “overestimation” tells us that he has done this before and so far gotten away with it. Shiv convinced him to share these “mistakes” publicly but he immediately regretted it - which he told Tom. Mattson realizes that what he really needs is someone to take the hit when shit hits the fan and he plans to use Tom as his “blood sacrifice” when the truth starts coming out.
• Indeed - the minute Mattson revealed the India numbers it activated short-sellers like Hindenburg Research to do deep research on GoJo’s dealings. They are aided by Kendall who points them to all kinds of insiders at the old WaystaRoyco company to help with the research.
• Eventually the hedge fund releases a report that shows that GoJo has juiced the numbers from the start. This report comes at a time when the whole streaming business model is cratering. Only the top dog can make money. GoJo share price drops like a rock - aided by continued attacks from short-sellers everywhere.
• But Mattson starts to execute his plan and fires Tom - who was already tarnished by his early call for Mencken. Since Mencken did not end up winning due to the final outcome of Wisconsin - Tom has no pot to piss in. But Mattson is also helped by Shiv who still has not learned and is trying to keep all her options open. They might even sleep together.
• Eventually Tom is fired - which leads to a swift separation/divorce from Shiv - and, of course, Mattson drops Shiv, as well, once she has no use to him.
• Mattson immediately replaces Tom with someone that does not understand the ATN business - and ATN is pretty much the only cash cow at GoJo at that moment. ATNs new direction - guided by a “Swedish” sensibility - crashes viewer numbers in the run-up to the mid-terms as their fans see them abandoning their base.
• At this point all major shareholders are furious that their ownership in GoJo has dropped 75%. And GoJo is bleeding cash from its streaming operation. Mattson has no choice - he sells WaystaRoyco in what the press called a total repeat of the AOL/Time Warner deal where an overvalued tech company bought a real-world asset only to crash a year later.
• Stewy is ready for all of this, of course, since Kendall has been instigating things in the background. He organizes buying WaystaRoyco for a phenomenal price and Kendall takes the CEO position.
• And who else would it be? Everyone will see that they made a mistake selling to GoJo - Kendall had outlined the reasons in his presentation.So - let’s give the guy a shot.
• Meanwhile, Connor brings together Shiv, Roman and Kendall and they have some great decanted wine. Their circle of struggle is over. Shiv can never become CEO now anyway, Roman doesn’t want it and Connor … is Connor. Kendall finds peace in his role - whether he is good at it or not.

Vi taler tit om, at der i den mandlige sportsverden er ufatteligt få åbent homoseksuelle og at de homoseksuelle enten er ekstremt underrepræsenterede, eller ikke tør springe ud. Eller en blanding af begge.
Vi taler dog sjældent om, hvorfor kvinderne er meget overrepræsenteret set i forhold til resten af kvinderne i samfundet.
Til det sidste fodbold VM var 0 mænd åbent homoseksuelle imens 41 kvinder var åbent homoseksuelle. Det selvom, at der er 8 hold flere i mændenes turnering. Forstå mig ret, jeg synes på INGEN måde at det er problematisk, men jeg er oprigtigt nysgerrig på, hvorfor det kvindelige Barcelona kan stille med en start 11 næsten udelukkende med homoseksuelle kvinder, imens kun ca. 2 procent af alle kvinder i samfundet definerer sig selv som værende lesbiske.
Jeg synes næsten altid kun debatten handler om hvorfor de homoseksuelle mænd er underrepræsenterede - og det er selvfølgelig også den vigtigste - da de bogstaveligt talt modtager dødstrusler mv. hvis de springer ud, men jeg synes alligevel også det modsatte er interessant.
Har vi noget bud på, hvorfor kvinder i sport er mere tilbøjelige til at være lesbiske end sygeplejersker og advokater?
Please ikke læs forargelse ind i mit indlæg. Jeg vil bare gerne blive klogere.

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Hei,
Jeg er på leit etter en god app/webside (gjerne en som kan jobbes på PC og mobil, men prioriterer mobil). Bruker iPhone.
Jeg har vært borti YNAB, og synes det er et veldig godt verktøy, men koster noe. Jeg er villig til å legge ut litt, men da vil jeg at appen skal:

1. Ha støtte for norsk valuta, og vise NOK
2. Kunne legge inn flere kontoer (brukskonti, sparekonti, kredittkort, gjeld (you name it)).
3. Kunne koble opp mot bank. Jeg bruker i dag Nordea og Sparebanken Vest.
4. Være enkel og oversiktlig i bruk

YNAB oppfylte både punkt 1, 2 og 4, men ikke 3. Dog brukte jeg det sist for to-tre år siden, og jeg må opprette konto for å sjekke punkt 3. Hvis noen av dere vet at YNAB støtter Nordea eller SPV, rop gjerne ut :)
Hvis dere har en god app som dekker deres daglige bruk, del gjerne navnet! Dersom noen vet om en gratis regnskapsprogram a lá Tripletex, Conta o.l., så funker det også.
TLDR:
Ønsker en budsjettapp til iPhone (og gjerne på data om det er mulig), som kan enkelt føre personlig forbruk og følge gjeld o.l..

I den dramatiske Europa League-finale mellem Sevilla og AS Roma oplevede én spiller en hvirvelvind af følelser kampen igennem – Gianluca Mancini. Den talentfulde Roma-centerforsvarer havde en dag fyldt med op- og nedture, der viste fodboldens uforudsigelige natur. I denne artikel dykker vi ned i Mancinis begivenhedsrige præstation og undersøger hans afgørende øjeblikke, inklusive hans involvering i Romas mål, et uheldigt selvmål og en udeblevet straf.
Tidligt i kampen fandt Romas Paulo Dybala bagsiden af nettet og gav sit hold føringen. Mancini spillede en afgørende rolle i målet og leverede en smukt vægtet aflevering, der satte Dybalas kliniske afslutning op. Dette øjeblik viste Mancinis vision og evne til at bidrage til sit holds angrebsspil. Det så ud til, at han var på vej til at blive en helt i Europa League-finalen.
Skæbnen havde dog andre planer for Mancini. I en uheldig drejning befandt han sig på det forkerte sted på det forkerte tidspunkt og omdirigerede uforvarende Jesus Navas' kors ind i sit eget net. Roma-forsvarerens skuldre sank, da udligningen blev krediteret ham. Det var et bittert slag for Mancini, der utilsigtet havde fortrudt sit tidligere bidrag til Romas mål.
Efterhånden som kampen skred frem, kunne ingen af holdene finde en vinder, hvilket førte til en anspændt straffesparkskonkurrence. I dette afgørende øjeblik rykkede Mancini op for at tage et straffespark til Roma. Begivenhedens vægt så ud til at påvirke ham, da hans skud blev reddet af den adrætte Sevilla-målmand, Yassine Bounou. Mancinis miss forværrede skuffelsen over hans eget mål tidligere i kampen, hvilket efterlod ham synligt forvirret.
Fodbold er et spil med op- og nedture, og Mancinis rutsjebanepræstation i Europa League-finalen indbefattede denne sandhed. På trods af tilbageslagene viste hans opvisning modstandskraft og karakter. Fejl er en del af spillet, og det er, hvordan spillerne reagerer på dem, der virkelig betyder noget. Mancinis evne til at komme tilbage fra modgang vil være afgørende for at forme hans fremtidige præstationer.
Gennem hele Europa League-finalen iførte Mancini sig den ikoniske Roma-trøje, der repræsenterer klubbens rige historie og tradition. Billige fodboldtrøjer har en symbolsk betydning, der inkarnerer holdets stolthed og identitet.
Gianluca Mancinis rutsjebanepræstation i Europa League-finalen indkapslede fodboldens uforudsigelige natur. Mancini oplevede en række følelser gennem hele kampen, lige fra højdepunkterne ved at sætte Romas åbningsmål til det laveste selvmål og et misset straffespark. Det er dog gennem modgang, at spillere kan vokse og lære værdifulde lektioner. Mancinis modstandsdygtighed og beslutsomhed vil utvivlsomt forme hans fremtidige præstationer for AS Roma, hvilket sikrer, at han fortsætter med at gøre en positiv indflydelse i fodbold og sætter sit præg på spillet, mens han er iført den elskede AS Roma trøje.

This situation is a few months old at this point, but I'm still quite upset about it and tonight it's really bugging me, and this seems like a good place to vent. Apologies if this is set up weird, I've never really used reddit before, and this is a very complicated situation.
I (f19) had a roommate (f27) for awhile, let's call her B. We met B through a mutual friend (he's a whole other story) and at the time she was homeless. I live with my mom, and we're both disabled, and she was helping out with some house work that we couldn't do. My mom offered to let her stay with us, rent free, if she helped out with the housework we couldn't do, and she agreed. She also was on our food stamps, so we bought her food and toiletries as part of our deal.
I really liked B. She didn't treat me like a kid, she was cool and hung out with me, we got along really well. She had this old pit bull that I adored, and we gave her one of the puppies from the litter we had just had. All in all, things were good for the first month or so.
Now, there were some things that happened. They all started at the same time, but I'm going to break them down separately.
The first one was with food. She was, of course, free to eat whatever she wanted, we also bought her food specific for her, that's all fine and good. But I had some food that we bought specifically for me, that was off limits. That was the only rule with food, that those items were mine and she wasn't supposed to eat them. This was because I was in recovery from an eating disorder, along with having stomach problems and the inability to stand and cook, so I had some easy to prepare, calorie dense foods that I liked, like yogurt, granola bars, little mac and cheese cups, things like that, along with a meal replacement drink. It was imperative that I had these foods, so I didn't slip back into a disordered mindset and relapse.
Well, I started noticing that the safe foods were going missing. Nothing too drastic, a Mac and cheese here, a yogurt there, the last belvita pack. We had other people in the house too, so I figured it was just a slip up or I had eaten it and forgotten. One morning I went into the kitchen and noticed that my last yogurt was out on the counter, opened with one bite taken out of, and full of ants. B was in the kitchen, so I asked her if she knew anything about it. She said she was going to eat it the night before and forgot about it. I told her it was okay, I explained to her again that some foods were off limits, and that if she really wanted them to please ask me first. But it kept happening, she would take the safe foods whenever she wanted, and it got to the point where she was eating more of them than I was.
Okay, food is just food. Is it frustrating? Yeah, but it's not the end of the world. We started buying extra so she would also have some and I would still be able to eat, but I think that just encouraged her because it got worse and it did end in me relapsing.
Then there was the soap problem. I was running out of products way faster than I should have been, my body wash and hair care, an expensive sugar scrub that I had saved up for, skin care, make up too. Hell, even my deodorant and razors were going missing. Eventually I asked B about it, and she confirmed that she was using my stuff. I asked her to please stop, and she said "I can't help it, I just like smelling like you". After that I stopped keeping my stuff in the bathroom, and instead kept it all in a bag hidden away. This was also a problem with period products, I would never have any by the time my period started and I had to hide those too. At this time, as I said, we were buying her hygiene products so I don't really know why she was using mine.
Then there was the clothes. We were the same size and I enjoy sharing clothes with people, fashion and my personal style is something I'm really passionate about and I'm more than happy to lend clothes to friends, B included. Now, naturally, when someone borrows something, there's an expectation that you will get your thing back, right? I thought so. But, after awhile, B started doing this thing. She would borrow something, a few days later I would ask for it back, she would say she never took it or already gave it back, and then, like a week later, she'd be wearing it but the clothing was modified. Like, she took a pair of tights and put holes in them, took a shirt and turned it into a crop top, turned a pair of jeans into shorts, and completely cut up one of my favorite dresses. Eventually I asked her to stop borrowing my clothes, so instead she just stopped asking and stole them. In the items she stole, was a hand made coat that my grandmothers made. It was an entirely unique piece that they made the pattern for, custom fit for me in my favorite color, a beautiful burgundy, every time I wore it people would comment on it and it was the one piece that everyone wanted. I loved that coat and it was quite sentimental too, as one of my grandmothers who made it is now dead. And B stole it.
There were other, smaller things too, like certain events that happened. On my nineteenth birthday she made advances towards me (I have a girlfriend that she knew about and had met), she asked me strange things about the sexual abuse I had gone through by my father, just weird things like that. I never said anything, because I didn't want to sound rude, or misconstrued the situation, and I ended up just ignoring it when it happened.
Eventually, we asked her to leave. She had stopped holding up her end of our deal, she was stealing from our other roommates as well, and she had gotten pulled over and arrested in our car, after having been caught with meth, and ended up getting mom in trouble as well. We knew she had somewhere safe to go, she had a boyfriend at the time who has a house and discussions before hand assured us that he would let her stay.
She left her space a total mess, and left the puppy we had given her upstairs without informing us. We had let her stay for a couple nights after all of this, when she had broken up with her boyfriend and no longer had a place to stay, and it had gotten cold. In return, while we were gone, she broke in and stole quite a few things, thankfully we didn't have anything of value that couldn't be replaced.
Now, I mentioned in the title she gave my dogs mange. After she left the puppy upstairs, we had to take him in. He was aggressive to both people and the other dogs, attacking them and us to the point of injury. On top of that, he was covered in fleas and ended up causing an infestation (we had three dogs under the age of six months, meaning we couldn't treat them for fleas with medication or medicated soap). We ended up finding someone who could take him, and we have been trying to get rid of the fleas ever since. Well, within the last two weeks, we have noticed our dogs have been losing hair and have skin issues. At first we thought it was from the fleas, but as it got worse, we took them to the vet.
It was mange. The only dogs they could have gotten it from was B's dogs. She had mentioned the pit bull had it in the past.
It's been an expensive and exhausting fight, I have two dogs and a cat and my mom has three dogs, they all have it and it's a pain to treat.
I think I'm just tired now. The anger I had originally felt is now just exhaustion. B was, like I said, a friend. It was a betrayal that I should have seen coming, but rose tinted glasses and all that, and it was a betrayal that still hurt. I don't know what I could have done to change it. I've tried reaching out to her, apologizing, and trying to see if maybe I could get some of my things back. She's ghosted me or outright blocked me, and at this point I just give up.
So that was my roommate from hell. I guess, B, if you're reading this, I'm sorry things ended the way they did. You can keep everything you took, but I would really appreciate having my coat back, I would even pay you for it at this point.
Thanks for listening, and if I could have done anything differently in your opinion, please let me know

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