I moved out of Canada for work a couple years ago, a couple months after I moved out I noticed my credit score dropped 200 points. I paid for Equifax to see what was going on and a card I signed up for in 2016 but never activated had $1500 in overdue charges from Amazon purchases made on the card. I have never used this card or even called to activate. I called mbna to clear things up and after they confirmed it was fraud they cleared it up and I said I wanted the card cancelled for good. And they assured me that it was cancelled. This all happened back in 2021.
I went back to visit my family in 2022, and while I was back I just closed all my credit cards. I never use them where I live, and after dealing with the whole fraud ordeal I just felt it was a liability to keep them around. So I currently have no Canadian credit cards that I can use. Only a debit card. And it’s been fine for the past year.
However, my mom just got a letter from MBNA addressed to me saying I had $0.08 in overdue payments on the card that MBNA assured me was cancelled. AND and a letter from CIBC telling me I had $0.02 in overdue payments for another card I had cancelled.
Since it’s such a small amount I don’t mind just paying it, but I literally have no access to these accounts. Also it’s worrying to me that these cards that I’ve had cancelled are still somehow active. And I have no idea where these charges are from and why they suddenly showed up even though I never used these cards.
Does anyone know what’s going on? And if it’s normal for closed accounts to still be active?

I have a stutter, I'm 33 and I really struggle to say my first name Jesse. I get stuck and people often get frustrated and think I'm stupid. It's often the "G" and L" sounding words I get stuck with.
Has anyone as an adult legally changed their first name? What does it feel like?

Thanks to this subreddit, I am now obsessed with only using amazing LEDs. I have been on the search for the perfect LED light bulbs that meet the following criteria:

1. Flicker-free: Does not use PWM (ideally) or uses an extremely high PWM frequency. Very low flicker rate and flicker index.
2. CRI: 90+
3. CCT: 3000K
4. Tint: Neutral or rosy

I am looking for both can lights (BR30) and general lamps and light fixtures (A19).
Waveform Lighting has been my go to, but they have let me down in the following ways:

• A19: Their A19 bulbs meet all of my requirements, but they are very expensive and they have a high failure rate. I have had 4 of these bulbs start dying (actually visibly flickering).
• BR30: They were advertised as "flicker-free" at one point, but now their website has removed that phrase and says: "Low flicker - 6% or less flicker & flicker index of 0.02" -- This is an unacceptable flicker rate and flicker index.

With all of that said, I am just wondering what my fellow flashlight enthusiasts use for light bulbs. I have found some really good "flicker-free" light bulbs except they are only 80 CRI.
There are a few other threads on this topic, but I would love to have a reference for specific light bulbs that meet this criteria.
We all care about our quality of light.

Some key points to my arguments :
+His magical water pots just feels so unique from all other demons
+All kind of ridiculous creatures came out from them , while maybe goofy is not less any dangerous . It`s versatility is insane . Gyokko can cover almost any situation and any range(melee , aoe .... ) based on his pots and who knows what more does he got in store so the potential is limitless
+It`s got the right amount of mysterical and sinister touch to it whileas not less visually beautiful (both the pots and whatever comes out of it ...)
Comparing to other upper ranks `s blood demon arts
-Kokoshibo , Gyutaro + Daki are all feel way too lame and basic :
Kokushibo just generates some blades form his body , Gyutaro has poison which Gyokko also has , Daki `s sash is lowkey just another doctor octupus copycat
-Douma`s bda imo comes close as the second best designed bda , it`s some what more overpower , his frost air is a direct counter to demon slayers`s breathing , crazy versatility with differents forms as well . It would be visually stunning when animated i`m sure but still not yet has the narrative aspect + visual elements of Gyokko` magic pots
-Akaza`s bda ( compass ) is not bad designed but not great either , still a bit lame and simple though
-Hantengu`s one seems tricky , each clones represent his emotions is a cool concept but each demons alone just feels really lame and lacky , The sum totall - Zohakuten is magnificent but i wouldn`t say his wooden dragon looks that visually standout though . Overall , i just found Hantengu`s bda is an annoying pain in the ass .
-Nakime`s one , lmao . Her only jobs is deliver people in the infinity castle , lol

This is the catch-all design sub, from fashion to interior to product design, graphic design UI design and Christ knows what else
A lot of the posts I see here are asking who designed this chair - so assuming product designers and students? Interior questions, people asking about how to best layout or design their houses so their hoping for interior designers, and UX and UI posts and cars
Thought be interesting to see how this sub does lean, are you a student or a professional or a hobbiest? And what sector under the design umbrella have you chosen?

I just finished watching season 19 for the first time, and I have seen posts on here before about how annoying/insufferable Amber is. I fully expected her to be annoying - Elise level annoying, but I was never bothered by her?
It was a bit funny that she would talk so highly of herself and then fuck up - but she easily wouldn’t even be on my top 10 of annoying contestants. She also seemed like a really great chef but just not a chef that could adapt or pivot when necessary. I think her doing her own menu, she would do very well.
But I never found her scenes to be particularly annoying. I even felt bad for her a couple times! Though I do think she got further than she should have.
Does anyone else feel the same?

around 2021 I noticed I couldn't use my wh1409 with my windows laptop anymore because it started lagging so bad, it started doing the same like august last year on my windows desktop too randomly :/ now a mac laptop I've got has the lag but now its only detectable as a cursor and one of the keys turn the laptop volume up?
any idea on what I could do at this point? It does it in every program on all devices but now the mac laptop even does it on the desktop.
tysm if anyone can figure out what in the world is going on

I didn't see a clear answer to this elsewhere but feel free to redirect me if it has already been asked.
If I start a job at the end of June which would likely disqualify me from SNAP, I believe I would have to report the changes before the 10th of the following month. From what I'm reading, it appears that SNAP has to give me ten days notice about any changes about how much I'm getting. If my snap usually get disbursed on the 12th, this would be before the ten days. Does this mean that I would be allowed to spend the July money that's disbursed already, or is it considered an overpayment that I would eventually have to repay?
Thank you in advance!

Decade-old wrestling fan here with SF6 as my first ever Street Fighter game. I took notice to Zangief’s entire vibe and was able to see that he was a wrestler, and besides being a very easy to sense powerhouse/bruiser kind of fighter, I wanted to take note of all of the moves he does in terms of what I’ve seen pulled off in the ring in my decade of watching professional wrestling.
NOTE: Admittedly (and embarrassingly), I don’t know the codes for moves that’ll probably make this easier to understand for long-time fighting game players. That being said, this is just gonna be a general list of moves he does that I’ll probably update the more I play as him.
-German Suplex -Sit-Out Powerbomb -Spinning Heel Kick -Sit-Out Piledriver -Spinebuster -Belly-To-Belly Driver -Dropkick/Rotating Dropkick -Jackhammer -Spinning Lariat -Belly-To-Belly Underhook Slam (Could be a God’s Last Gift or Exploder Suplex)
That’s all I’ve been able to identify for now. If anybody else finds more from him, feel free to comment them!

I've been playing since January, Collection Level 3400, and I just today realized that Daredevil lets you tap on your opponent's cards to see what they are. I always thought you just got to see how many cards they played and where. No wonder I've never gotten to Infinite lmao

I plan to pursue a Masters or PhD (or both) in neuroscience. What does a typical day in the life of a grad student look like? Will I have time for extracurriculars or will all of my evenings be spent in the lab? Please share your experiences

For me, when I go out for a drink (or two), I usually tend to start feeling better and even the next day I’m totally fine. I feel like it relaxes my muscles, anxiety or both.
I’m starting to realize how much impact my anxiety has on pain and flare ups.

Hey guys. I feel the need to speak on this because it has been affecting me for some time.
I recently found out about sexual coercion. In my last relationship, the sex life was awful. I, the HL partner, felt rejected and hurt a lot of the time because we barely had sex (about 2 month intervals). Every time I tried to communicate about how I felt rejected or was questioning if my ex wasn't attracted in me, I would be met with intense guilt-tripping. After a point I felt like I couldn't even talk about sex. I would sometimes get sad or quiet when rejected for sex, and this made my partner feel guilty. Then they would say "well guess I'll fuck you to make you happy." Well, I don't want to have sex if the other party isn't enjoying it. I would decline.
I didn't want to remain in a sexless relationship but I also didn't want to leave earlier. I felt really fucking stuck. I thought communicating about how I felt rejected or hurt and trying to say what sex meant to me would fix things. I thought this was a miscommunication problem, and I wasn't trying to coerce or force anything. I just genuinely felt rejected and upset.
I didn't know what sexual incompatibility was because I took everything personally. I thought that I was somehow failing them and all the responsibility was on me. I thought I could fix things if I just talked the problem out. The problem was, it lasted for years. We fought over sex for so long and the relationship just collapsed.
The is, this relationship did not end well at all. I have been having OCD level thoughts questioning if I am a bad person. I do not want to inflict sexual harm on anybody but I am worried I might have. My own sexual self is so damaged that it is hard for me to have sex without crying because I have associated it with shame / guilt for so long.

The drawings are by far the most compelling to me, also, they seem to copy the stranger things episode 1/scene 1 format in which the children play an innocuous game of DnD but it actually shows you the main plot of that season.
Ethan playing with his toys in season 1/episode 1 does this as well. Two friends on their quest, one falls, faeries from the lake of tears etc. So Ethan, in my eyes, plays a crucial role that we haven’t seen play out.
I don’t believe this is a simulation or an experiment, I believe this is mystical. I also believe based on Ethan’s lines that we have tiers of monsters, let me discuss what I think they are.

1. Smilers: After the autopsy, it is revealed the creatures were human but desiccated, removed of fluids except for bile. They do not seem to kill for sustenance in traditional human patterns, rather, killing is incidental to the torture and fear that they seem to relish. They can shapeshift in to these evil creatures to do so, but revert to human form in order to trick, intimidate, and scare their prey.

Desiccated….what animal sucks the fluids from its prey?

1. Spiders: Spiders are big theme in both the pictures and in Ethan’s account. He wakes from his operation and recalls a dream wherein a scream is heard and a spider comes down from the ceiling.

Spiders make an appearance near the end of season 1, with Boyd and Sara finding themselves pulled by something to a nest of webbing. Boyd hallucinates his wife abbey stuck in the webbing, which freaks him out when she lunges at him and his backing up releases spiders that bite him.
I feel that the spiders have somehow converted the creatures from their human form, with the dates seen on the lighthouse when Tabitha dreams shows early and mid 20th century dates, which helps account for their odd period clothing.
Personally, I feel that the spiders at the end of their cycle (the town’s cycle where people are killed as seen with Victor) will harvest these survivors and concert some to new creatures. However, does that mean spiders are the big baddies? No.

1. The entity/entities. This is based on the 1 picture above. I believe the place they are in is an evil entity that feeds off this process. It feeds off the fear, terror, and death of the land.

I believe that when they bury the bodies, those souls become one with this collective consciousness. Which is why we have Abby reaching out to Sara and other voices reaching out with varying intents.
When the group started to push back against the process of being afraid, hiding , and getting tortured and killed the entity started to fight back harder. Think the trees reclaiming the land, the storms coming in from nowhere, and now a buss full of more people to sow more chaos.
I believe they exist in some place and time out from our own. This is a place to marinate them with fear and digest them, furthering the cycle that has been happening for a long long time.
I also believe there is a huge time travel component but i’ll spare you.

I miss my ex so bad, should I text her I miss her? She (F19) dumped me(M23) and I went straight into no contact the minute she walked away from that bench in the park. I haven't reached out to her, I was hoping she would reach out but she hasn't either.
I really miss her, couple days and weeks before breaking up she was a little different but still telling me she loved me, then all of a sudden she wanted to brake up, saying that she wasn't ready for a relationship and that she didn't want to hurt me.
I thought maybe she was confused and didn't actually want to break up with me because of all the beautiful things she was saying to me just a few days before breaking up. But apparently she wanted to? I asked her if she had fallen in love with me during our time together, we were together for 3 months, and she said "I didn't fully fall in love with you" like what does that even mean?
I haven't contacted her since the day of the BU and I want to but I don't know if I should, I feel that I'd just be wasting my time and dignity, but you never know right?
TLDR: My gf of 3 months broke up with me, I really miss her and don’t know if I should text her.

Hi all!
I was hoping to get some advice on a missing chimney cap that was noted during a home inspection before buying a house. The previous owners noted that they had “purchased everything needed and it just needed to be installed”; however, when going to install it, I realized that it wasn’t the right size for what was needed.
I had a couple of questions about the project as I haven’t ever done anything with a chimney.
Pics - https://imgur.com/a/HwI6YrA
1) Does flashing need installed around this similar to the ones next to it?
2) Should I go ahead and get something that covers all 3 openings or find something similar to the ones left of it?
3) Is this a fairly easy fix? If not, any guess on how much this would run to get someone (roofing co?) to do the install?
I appreciate everyone’s help and advice; happy to provide any additional info needed.
Thank you everyone!

So let me preface this by saying I am estranged from my mother and have been for most of my life. She is a paranoid narcissist, a racist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, and just all around terrible person. She abused me growing up so I cut loose in high school, got emancipated and got on with my life. For years I had a happy queer relationship with another woman and we had a son together (I carried with a sperm donor). When my kid was 5 his other mom died and I was alone for 5 years before I met someone. A year later, that someone and I got married. Previous to said wedding my husband’s parents felt it would be important to meet my parents. My father died when I was 19 so that left my mother and her husband. I struggled over the decision to try and reconnect with my mom, knowing how bad this can get for me in these situations (I suffer severe ptsd from the abuse trauma).. but it was a wedding and everyone kept telling me it “was important to have family together.” So fine, let’s do this.
The problems started fast and furious. My mom came to our coast (we live on opposite coasts) to meet my fiancé and my son. Right away she was pulling my husband to the corner to tell him all the “dirt” she could on me, or conversely, telling him he better get me nice cars and plastic surgery. Then she stated calling all of her friends and putting my fiancé on the phone to “prove to them that her daughter was marrying a doctor” (even if he is a goyem (a Yiddish term for non-Jew. Has slightly derogatory tones).
Cut to lunch and my mother is asking how many tables she “gets” at the wedding. I ask “huh?” She explains she needs a least 5 tables at 10 per table for HER guests. I was really confused. I explained that our whole wedding venue seated 50 people total and those seats were spoken for. I had invited several people my mother asked me to have already. She went absolutely bananas demanding we change venue (we’re now 6 weeks from the wedding) to accommodate HER GUESTS. I painfully explained we can’t do that.. it’s not possible.. just no. She then switches gears like she always does and asks about our honeymoon. We were heading to Mexico for 2 weeks and my son would be staying with his donomyBFF. My mom screamed “what??? He needs to be with HIS FAMILY.” I reminded her that he was staying with family. She demanded time with my son so I half heartedly said she could have him half the time. (This will come back to haunt me later.)
Cut to the wedding. Did I mention my mom is a low key alkie? So it’s about 2pm and she’s in the bridal suite in the bathroom. I’m in the dress and the photographer is waiting for my mother to come and use an antique button-holer to button up my gown. I’m nervous and excited and emotional because I’m in the dress and this is my day. This is one of the photos we had pre-planned to take. I asked my mother if she would do the honors. Instead, my mother is in the bathroom half dressed with her fireball and ice screaming into the phone at her husband “you are so stupid, how can you not find it!? I put it on the damn dresser! I can’t f**ing believe I married you…” you get the picture. It’s so loud the guests in the living room can hear it. I finally give up and have my son do the buttonholing for me (the pics were so special). Thank goodness it wasn’t video because you would have her my mother screaming “Can anyone get me another drink?? Does this room even have room service??”
Cut to walking down the aisle. We do the ceremony, it’s perfect, and my delightful friend and officiant announces “Introducing Mr. & Mrs Jon— when suddenly my mom stands up and screams “It’s DOCTOR not MISTER, get it right!”
Now I knew we had a problem on our hands ahead of the big day so I put in some contingency plans in place to buffer her. My wedding planner was under strict instructions to not allow my mother to make a speech (she loves to humiliate me by saying personal things about me to anyone who will listen and then she loves to announce what a terrible daughter I am and how much of a disappointment to her.) Second plan was my SIL faking a heart attack if she got her hands on the mic. About half thru dinner my delightful planner comes to me crying saying she’s so sorry but my mom is demanding to make a speech. That’s right, this tiny demon of a woman made my wedding planner CRY. Right then she stood up (have no idea how she got the mic) and said, “So my daughter didn’t want me to say anything. I guess she gets embarrassed, but I’m her MOTHER, and I get to say whatever I want. I’m here to say that I always knew she was going to marry a doctor, it didn’t surprise me at all. What did surprise me is when I gave birth to her and the nurses told me she was a girl, but I didn’t believe them so I had to take her diaper off and spread her legs and look at her vagina to make sure she was a girl.” She illustrated this by spreading her two fingers open. You could here jaws dropping around the room. She then went on to say “how disappointed she was in me that I don’t see her more often and that she hopes now that I have a doctor husband I’ll be able to see her more frequently”. Sadly my SIL was in the loo and plan 2 failed.
Cut to the dancing. I am dancing with my husband and my friends. We’re all having a good time when somebody comes up to me and taps me on the shoulder and says “hey, I don’t wanna cause a scene or anything but you might want to look at your mom”. I look over at my mother and she has taken off the jacket to her dress and now she’s peeling off the shoulder straps one by one and waving her head around to the music saying “oh my goodness it’s getting so hot in here!” This b*tch was trying to take her clothes off on the dance floor. Oh, I forgot to mention earlier that she had a three drink maximum, but she was getting around this by asking other people to get drinks for her.
The next morning I of course got to hear alllllll the embarrassing stories from the night before. She asked why my friend married “an Arab,” called another guest “not Jewish enough to attend the wedding” and complained to anyone who would listen that I didn’t even allow her 50 guests, and the party would have been so much more fun if she had done it.
And the pièce derésistance? Right as we were leaving for our honeymoon I got a call from her saying “I know you need me to watch your kid, but not unless you do something for me. You’ll need to call your brother and make nice with him again.” My brother and I are estranged for reasons I can’t get into now. I said no, he’ll go to his real family, the one that cares for him without strings attached. There is so much more she did around my wedding but to would be way to long to include everything!
There you have it! One cluster fuck of a mother story! For anyone interested, we don’t talk anymore and I couldn’t be happier. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

I purchased the AW3423DW at launch and loved it! 6 months later bubbles appeared under the matte coating which was frustrating. Dell agreed to replace the monitor due to the bubbles under the coating. They sent a refurb (fine by me) which has been going great for another 2 months or so. Unfortunately it's also now developed bubbles under the anti-glare coating. On top of that, it's experiencing the vertical bars issue. Running a panel refresh fixes this issue, but the bars just returned again today after only about 2 weeks since the last panel refresh which is a very bad sign.
The primary use for this monitor previously was for gaming. However, these days I am working from home which will inevitably cause burn in so I'm considering trying to get Dell to either replace this faulty one with a different IPS model, or to give me a refund so that I can look at something else entirely. Wanted to get feedback on my options of where to head from here as I've been out of the loop on what's good in the IPS space for a while.
A few potential options as I see them:

• Stick with the AW3423DW and just get them to replace it again, knowing full well it'll eventually burn in.
• Try to swap/upgrade to the AW3821DW.
  • Main questions being how does this look running games in UWQHD vs. UWQHD+? My 3080 won't handle UWQHD+ well.
• Downgrade to the S3422DWG.
  • Will I miss G-Sync Ultimate if I do? I have a 3080 OC. Anything else (aside from proper HDtrue blacks) that I'll miss?
  • How much worse is VA than IPS?
• Try and get a refund and look at other options.
  • What's the concensus on best ~$500-$1000 IPS monitors these days?

So being in my situation, what would you do?

Hello!! I’m Mina, 23F, and I’m looking for someone to write dark romance, drama, and thriller stories with me!
What I’m looking for: - Someone 18+ - Semi-lit/lit (2-3 paras average), 3rd POV — Overall, I tend to copy however long my partner writes, but I will not dip below a paragraph. - Writing Male/Masculine characters - Uses Discord!
My word bank is currently:
Horror, toxicity, unstable romance, power dynamics, stockholm syndrome, eldritch entities, yakuza, gods and goddesses, monsters, one-sided love, love triangles, hanahaki-like themes, yandere, opposites attract, otome games, etc.
Some plots, with my character being A, and yours being B:

• Dear Miss Genius Idol Unmatched (A) is an up and coming celebrity, and while her TV persona is bubbly and cheery, she is rather dreary in reality, and often struggles with problems. In comes (Character B), a crazed fan, a manager, or someone who she doesn’t know about, used to be a childhood friend — How does their relationship develop/devolve?
  
• Character A and Character B are constantly breaking up and dating due to being in a rather unstable relationship. Character B is known to be brooding and dark, while Character A strives to do better — Character B intends to drag Character A down with him.
  
• Chang’e (A) and Houyi (B) reunited?
  
• A modern pygmalion? A struggling artist (A) suddenly has to explain to her landlord why one of her art pieces (B) has suddenly come to life!
  
• A lonely god (B) takes interest in a human (A) — This could be for whatever reason, maybe he finds her life interesting, or maybe she has motives that are against his, we could def plot this out!
  
• A human (A) is suddenly turned priestess due to accidentally breaking a God’s (B) shrine, and now needs to pay off her debts.
  
• A sacrifice (A) is expected to die when sacrificed to a God (B), except he is just incredibly confused about what a human is doing in his domain.
  
• A prince (character B) finds themselves falling for a princess (character A) who lives in the kingdom next over, but happens to be engaged to another. The prince stops at nothing to get rid of his love’s partner, and does anything to woo the princess.
  
• A girl (character A) finds herself in the same situation every life she lives. Every time she is resurrected, she finds herself getting chased by some person (character b) she doesn’t love.
  

Some other things I would love to write are: Good Girl (A) x Bad Guy (B), Fan (A) x Idol/Celebrity/Band Member, Civilian/Innocent (A) x Mafia (B), Priestess (A) x Demon (B), Angel (A) x Demon (B)
If you’ve come this far, please tell me your fav color in your message!

I feel like I'm going crazy here, but when I look at myself in a mirror with the right lighting I feel like I'm a good looking dude in a unique way- but when I take a picture of myself, I look horribly sad in the licture. Like I see my pudgy body, broken smile (as in smiling but deep down you're truly sad) kinda smile, and my eyes look very sad and empty as well.
Then I turn to the mirror, and see how good I look and think "oh man I must have posed or did something wrong in the pic, I'll try again.. and then the same forced smile, sad body shape and soulless eyes still appear. I've had this same problem for years, I don't send girls or ANYONE selfies because no matter where I am or what I do-I look so broken and sad in all of them. I can recall like 2 times when I looked bright and attractive in my pictures, and thats when someone else is taking the picture of me hanging with my friends.
Does anyone else have this same issue??? WHAT THE FUCK, I JUST WANT TO HAPPILY TAKE PICTURES OF MYSELF (or with myself involved) WITHOUT PROBLEM.
What reminded me of this problem (after ywars of avoiding pictures and forgetting about them) was just a day ago I went suit shopping. I tried on a suit and absolutely loved myself in it looking in the mirror. Then I took a picture to remember the look- and all the horrors of my spirit came out in that picture. All of the sudden I looked like I was trying too hard and that im just some ugly american trying to remake himself. Turn the camera away and look in the mirror again- I look like the exact stud I was just happy about ten seconds before. This is so fucking nuts I have no clue why this shit happens. Thank you for reading and at least listening, plwase leave your insight.