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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is relenting, for now, on his planned judicial overhaul.
One poll suggests nearly 1.5 million people may have participated in the ongoing protests against Netanyahu's attempts to seize and cripple the judiciary.
Israeli embassies from Dublin to Washington, D.C., shuttered their doors on Monday in tandem with government workers protesting within Israel.
The protests have become so ubiquitous that even Israeli President Isaac Herzog has called on Netanyahu to suspend the judicial overhaul.
Of course, as the snowballing protests are part of a larger movement that has stood for weeks and months against Netanyahu's increasingly extremist governance, they also serve as a reminder that calls for "Protecting democracy" have not been as loud when it has come to the occupation of Palestine.
So while Israeli officials frame this mass protest as an effort to preserve Israel's democracy, it would be prudent to note how short it still is from actually being one, even if the masses can stop Netanyahu; just as well, how readily they could become a true democracy, if they really want to.

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Hey everyone! New to Reddit and new to Belize forums so please be kind.

1. I googled “moving to Belize Reddit” and the first post I found said to stay away from Facebook groups which is HILARIOUS because I had just joined one of the groups and immediately was like “yikes” 😂
   
2. I live in Tennessee, outside of Nashville, so if you have been following the news I’m sure you can guess why I am now planning my exodus.
   

I would like to move to Belize within a year… my partner and I have the means to buy something modest, although he would prefer to build something off grid….
I work remotely and for now would just keep my TN address and have a tourist visa (or whatever is best) and work towards a more substantial long term option…
What I’m curious about is what is your favorite community/area to live and why? Why did you choose to move to Belize and why did you pick the area you did? 😃
Thanks everyone ✌️

A lot of you are frustrated (understandably) for having your dreams shattered. I want to say that it is not end of the world, but it surely feels like it for many. I am sorry that it didn't work out and I hope you have better things in your future.
Having said that, it is appalling to see so much misdirected anger and hatred towards an issue that exists but in no way is the primary reason for ever decreasing odds of lottery selection odds. I know we all feel like blaming someone when things go as well as we want them to. But that does not mean we simply get to blame and hate some random folks who may or may not be responsible for what is happening. You are free to think for yourselves and make a judgement. Someone posted a detailed message on one of the posts that explains the situation accurately.
I agree that body shops exist that do morally questionable things like taking money from people to file petitions that makes it worse for genuine candidates, but I don't think that is the main reason for increased H1B applications.
I hope you all educate yourselves and understand what's going on.
It is not easy to cheat USCIS. People say as if body shopping H1Bs is a risk free task. Look at this youtube video from RedBus2US that talks about the steps taken by USCIS to mitigate multiple filing issues. Body shop consultants cannot generate thousands of repeat applications without getting caught - https://youtu.be/FBp4LxHADEE?t=512
Here is the link to the post: https://www.reddit.com/h1b/comments/123ynks/comment/jdxiojf/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
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I am so sorry that a well qualified person like you is having to go through so many hoops and a deeply faulty system like "lottery" in order to simply keep working in their job that they currently already have. It is unfortunate both for you and for US economy at large.
When I say "people" in my following paragraph, I don't mean you, but I mean people in general who are looking to immigrate to USA. I have been in the USA for past 18+ years and I say this based on my experience. I make these points to everyone who ask my opinion/suggestion about coming to USA, including my own family members.

• First and foremost, not getting selected for H1B is probably the best thing that could have happened to you as you can seriously consider getting out of the complex web of US Immigration process. Trust me, H1B is only 1st step in many immigration related headaches. I wish I was brave enough to move to a different country when I was young.
• Lottery for H1B has been in existence since 10+ years so anyone who came to USA recently should have already done their research into their chances of getting H1B. At no point in the recent history, getting a H1B was a 100% given. So have realistic expectations.
• There are no "scammers" here. Everyone is doing what they are doing within the law (at least trying to). US universities need fees paid by international students in order to survive. They lobby and tie up with Indian consultants to attract Indian students. US Consulates in India issue visas so it is not the students fault.
• The whole thing about consultants is overblown in the forum (echo chamber). These posts prop up every year during H1B lottery. Do these consultancies exist? Absolutely yes. Are these consultancies the reason for people like you having reduced odds at lottery? ABSOLUTELY NO. Is it easy for some racist and uneducated bigots to blame consultants and people of certain region for their bad luck? Absolutely Yes.
• I have worked in Seattle area for over 10 years so I speak with experience. You want to know the real reason for increased applicants? It's Indian IT companies like TCS, Accenture, Wipro etc., They apply for thousands and thousands H1B visas even when they need only a few hundred. Now, why do they do that? Because they probably realistically need 700 visas but want to have 1,000 visas just in case. But they know they need to apply for 15,000 visas in order to get 1,000 selected (lottery odds). This cycle repeats every year and they keep applying for more and more visas. More projects these IT consultants get, more applications they send. Again, they don't do it to harm others but to grow their presence in USA. Any company would do the same - look after themselves.
• If you look at some of the official numbers released (during Trump admin), you will clearly see that most visas were applied by these large Indian IT companies.
• The only entity to blame is USA. The congress is not going to act. They will not stop "scammers". They will not stop issuing unlimited F1 visas. They will not increase H1B quota. They will not make H1B lottery process any fairer. They will not limit any one company from applying for overwhelming number of visas. They will let YOU spend all your money for university fees, collect taxes while you work, let you spend money for USCIS fees, let you spend money for attorney fees, and eventually make you hate your fellow immigrant for your misfortune.
• Even if someone gets a H1B visa, it is a never ending immigration battle. 150+ year wait for Green Card. H1B extension every 3 years. Stamping every 3 years. No freedom to travel. No freedom to move jobs easily. No freedom to do business. No freedom to do multiple jobs. Talk to the people who are stuck in Green Card queue for past 10+ years and you will understand that getting H1B or not getting H1B wouldn't make much difference in a bigger scheme of things.

I wish you the best of luck.

Things to keep in mind.

• Oldest son is high functioning autistic, he still has issues with change, breaks in routine, loud noises. Sees things very plainly.
• When on good terms, we would be over any time S/O had off work. Mini day road trips with MIL. Constant random gifts for MIL... small and large. She's been remodeling and we would buy things she wanted, but wouldn't justify buying herself.
• S/O family is a weird matriarchy. If you are male you are lower than human in their family.

4 years ago my S/O and I got together, his mother would call me every day and talk for hours. Her heartbreak, relationships in the family, what was happening with her work, anything and everything. A couple months later spend the first Christmas Eve with his family, and it just decimates my traditions, with my sons, and they are thoroughly upset. future SIL says "these things happen" At that Christmas his sister plainly tells me I need to leave my career and start thinking about children with S/O, that kinda sets the tone with interactions with her. Everything is still kosher other than snide comments and little lies we catch his mom and sister in. Occasional shitty comments from his cousins that I'm sure were to make me uncomfortable.
Halloween comes along, at his aunts house with the entire family. MIL leaves. S/O goes to have a nap in the front living room, cousins and aunt start shit talking S/O and his mother. Saying she's sleeping with her first cousin and how messed up their babies would look if she wasn't barren now. Saying S/O is a POS and has always been a POS. Sleeping with all their friends and then not pursuing relationships. I start losing it, politely... "oh, that's interesting, I remember the story of you, Male cousin1, getting excited when your cousin, Female cousin1, grew into her breasts" Both cousins are mortified. Turn to female cousin2 "I also remember that you slept with Male cousins's friend *insert three guy friends she slept with*" I continue this around the circle. We end up leaving not long after. SHIT HITS THE FAN. Aunt and cousins go to MIL and say I was talking shit(I was); bringing up my comment on Male cousin1 being sexually excited by Female cousin1's breasts, and so forth but conveniently leaving out their nastiness. I try to tell MIL and I am demonized.
So we skip Thanksgiving at his Aunts and have it at home. Drama ensues. I have major surgery removing a nipple and breast tissue around mid december. Christmas Eve is coming so we try to consolidate their traditions with mine and my sons. We normally do The Feast of the Seven Fishes. Boiled it down to just the pasta. We also have the tradition of opening christmas jammies, they get a new christmas mug, a new christmas movie, and we sit down and watch the movie with homemade hot chocolate, in bed by 9pm. Their christmas party starts at 6. So we are only doing the pasta at home and hot chocolate there. Pasta sauce burns. Get there and instead of using the stove they put me in the back room with a crockpot to try to make hot chocolate from scratch. SIL's youngest keeps climbing all over me. I ask BIL to watch nephew because he keeps hitting my breast. No one is watching him. S/O checks on me and I am done. My breast is weeping, and I'm in excruciating pain. He goes and tells MIL that dinner the 26th might not happen, but she's still due to come over in the morning, christmas morning. She loses her cool, goes sobbing to SIL. SIL comes in holding her 1yo and ready to box. Screaming inches from my face. MIL and SIL proceed to scream in front of the children how evil I am and I am after S/O for his money... He had no money. Anything and everything a toxic in-law could say, came out. We finally go home, S/O and I argue all night, kids wake up and open presents slowly. S/O and I go upstairs to nap and wake up to him having missed calls from MIL and SIL saying I must be keeping his phone from him and that they were on their way to check on him. He calls back and says not to show up after everything they pulled the night before, they pull in about then and try to FORCE their way into my home. I tell them I will call the police and they proceed to scream outside my home how demented I am, I am stealing him away from his family, he needs to leave me and the children because they aren't his kids, I am using him to support the kids, how could he turn his back on his family, that I was faking my breast issues. They finally leave and S/O and I are just drained. HE STILL GOES to the 26th to open presents with SIL and MIL, I deep breathe through it. On his way home, he's on the phone with me and his mom is blowing him up "come to the casino with me" "we can just go drive with music on" "you need to take a break, we don't need to talk about anything, just drive" He tells her he is going home to his family and that's that. More drama ensues, they blow me up, to which I reply that she if she's upset about her christmas being ruined she'll be upset about missing every holiday, birthday, and such moving forward. We stuck to that missing NYE, MIL and SIL birthdays, anyone else's birthday, mother's day, July 4th. We found out after christmas one of the reasons I was in so much pain was my sutures weren't dissolving and my breast was infected.
Here's the kicker, we find out I'm pregnant around may-June and decide to try to smooth things over with the caveat from the kids that she isn't allowed at the house. Which is fair, she invaded their space and tried to tear apart their family and won't apologize to anyone about it. July comes around and we are invited to Male cousin1's birthday, we show up to SIL's house, having called saying it was important, prior to the party, with a bottle of wine and a note that read "pairs well with being an aunt" Her and her husband pull up behind us and she gets out of her truck looking to fight and I hand her the bottle, she reads the note, handful of emotions cross her face, she starts crying. She's already told MIL that S/O was coming over. She decides to stir that pot, because we swore her to secrecy about being pregnant, by telling MIL that we are moving out of state and needed to store furniture or something outlandish like that. MIL and S/O share a phone plan, that he pays for but is in her name. She removes him as an authorized user, but SIL convinces her not to turn off the phone, which was MIL's goal. We go to Male cousin1's party with baby balloons in hand (we got permission beforehand to steal some of the spotlight) and announced I'm pregnant with everyone there. MIL had been ignoring us, now breaks down saying we are taking her grandchild away and how could we be so cruel. We tell her we aren't moving, that SIL was messing with her. That we are trying to move forward.
MIL comes to 4D sonograms to see baby's face. Is the first person outside of us to see baby's face. We do family Halloween, stay home for Thanksgiving, and stay home for Christmas Eve, Go to Dinner the 26th for family christmas, everything is alright. There's cheek turning and deep breathing, but we were trucking. We invite MIL to Tennessee for baby's first christmas, before he is born. The idea of meeting my family half way so no one misses out, she's for it until SIL isn't invited. We get MIL birthday gifts in january. Baby comes in feb. is moved to nicu for week. S/O is at work when Baby is set to be released, offers MIL to go with me to get him. She is the first person to meet our boy. Gave him his first bath. She's in love. It slowly becomes glaringly obvious she doesnt care for our oldest two like she does her blood grandchild. Oldest two ask to garden with her, we go over and she has S/O wire her spa, ignoring the kids. They ask for time with her, ignored. They ask to make cookies with her like their cousins get to, she declines. They ask to go riding with her, another time maybe. Birthdays come around and oldest wants to see new jurrasic movie with her, she asked what can she buy him instead. All the while, when we call to ask her what she's up to in the car and she knows she's on speaker with everyone, she will brag about making cookies with the cousins or how they have been staying the "night" all week. Middle childs birthday comes around and asks again to come riding with her, she asks what can she buy him. S/O asked for her to have a birthday party at her house for middle child as a birthday present to S/O. MC AND SO's birthday are on consecutive days. She says yes. We show up the night before to start prep. SIL shows up around 6pm with her two hellish kids and lets them lose in the house while she hides on the porch. She doesnt leave until 2am, keeping us and our kids awake. MIL had invited us to stay overnight. We get up in the morning having not achieved half of what we should have the day before. Between us and our kids watching hers. SIL is over shortly after with the kids again making snide comments about how its a circus and every time she looks at us all she hears is circus music and again hiding outside while her kids destroy everything in sight. Birthday party was ROUGH, but our son appreciated it. SIL was left with cheese dip, came back and it was ruined in the crockpot with the excuse it must have been the quality of the cheese I bought. Birthday candles disappeared, a friend of mine helped search, no one had an alternative. MIL said "I don't keep candles" We start cleaning up. I leave her home cleaner than I found it. Kitchen, bathroom, living room scrubbed. Even set up her robot vacuum to run on a schedule, because she couldnt figure it out and was bummed about not being able to use it. We are about to leave and she disappears to her neighbors house and brings back a cheesecake. Says that I took too long on middle childs cake and she had planned to bring out the cheesecake, CANDLES, and celebrate S/O's birthday. Our friends that were there are convinced that they sabotaged the birthday in hopes we'd fight and they'd get S/O for his birthday.
We do family Halloween, both parties. Skip Thanksgiving. December hits, we start trying to figure out christmas eve. Ask if its okay to stay christmas eve because she lives nextdoor to the grandmothers house where their family party is held. We live 45 minutes from his mother and can't achieve the traditions in place since before my kids were born and theirs unless something gave. Could I use her kitchen to make a simplified version of the seven fish and the kids hot chocolate and her couch for movies. Intially S/O was overzealous and asked to stay for like 4 days because it was the first time in months he wasnt working 6 days a week and MIL had been begging for a while for us to come stay a weekend. S/O thought she'd be on board for the christmas magic. Baking cookies, first christmas handprint ornaments, the whole shebang. Baby's first christmas and likely the Oldest's last christmas believing in Santa. She said "no" not a soft no, but an are you batshit crazy, no. S/O kept trying to negotiate down to having a camp out christmas eve in the backyard in all weather tents and use of her kitchen. A resounding no to everything. "No one would want an entire family staying in their house on Christmas." She makes clear she still expects us at Christmas Eve, we tell her we tried and we are staying home.
At this point, I'm upset. I know my family would wade a river of glass to have us and their grandchildren in their homes on christmas. Tried to convince us to make the drive up, but 4 days isnt enough time to travel 3600miles round trip and enjoy any sort of holiday.
Christmas Eve comes, we are having a good time, kids are winding down to bed. Make cousin1 calls " hey, where are you guys?" we explain. He tells us MIL is there telling everyone she doesn't know where we are, how upset she is that we didn't come again, and is crying. S/O is slow burning upset. We leave it, we are supposed to see her the 26th. Christmas morning we post pictures and call MIL. She tells us christmas at her house is canceled, that she didn't want to talk about it. S/O asks her if she is having christmas without us, 15 minutes later his sister messages him saying "what did you think would happen" and blows up about us not showing up to any holidays or anything. We went to Easter, baby showers, her kids birthday, mother's day, cousin's birthday's, halloween, and tried to figure out christmas. We throw our hands up, whatever. We let the kids know we weren't going over to gma's, just like that. "hey guys, we aren't going to gma's tomorrow. Something's come up" Oldest starts crying because he's not slow "She's selfish just like our dad." says he wants nothing to do with her. We need space. We'll reconvene after the new year. We drop our presents to MIL and SIL and her family outside MIL's house while they have christmas without us. MIL starts in. S/O messages everyone saying he's done talking and he needs space. SIL starts in that she didn't ruin christmas, she shouldn't be punished. When that gets her nowhere with SO, starts in on calling me names. MIL states how before me if she called and was upset he would drop everything and just show up at her house. She wanted him to drop everything Christmas day and go running to her because she was upset... We have every year offered to be at her house christmas day, but she declines. Rich and Aunt inform us MIL is upset she isn't allowed in our home still, but has not tried to make amends with the kids aside from maybe MC birthday party, but that was more a favor to S/O. Doesn't believe she should apologize to them.
That is the saga bringing us to now. We dropped off a birthday present to his mom and her birthday, she is still on our facebook, but we are loving from a distance. His sister called the day after her birthday and S/O didn't answer. He's over me being attacked when things don't go their way. He's over the micro aggressiveness.
We have turned our cheeks on a lot. Like our oldest having a rough week from testing and her wanting us to visit, we asked if the hellish cousins were there and explained it was a bit much for the oldest at the moment and he couldn't handle the noise and chaos. She said they weren't there and he could relax in the side bedroom if he wanted. 45 minutes later we pull up and she has gone and gotten the kids! Oldest starts to tear up, but plays with them because he does love them. We wrap it up quickly and leave. All of us playing with our new baby and they do a horsey knee bouncing song and told me it was solely their families and I said we had one in my family too and sang it for them to which his sister replied "Well, isn't that some corn f*cking hick shit" Any gifts S/O says I have picked out, we have seen hidden in the back of cabinets, closets, never being used. We go over and she shoos the kids into the play room at all times. After all of this we have his cousins telling us I haven't been liked from day one, MIL and SIL have done nothing but run their mouths. We stopped by Male cousin1's the other day and started talking about us going to family easter at one of the cousins houses, because its about the kids and they asked if we could go and just not talk to gma and Auntie. Male cousin1 brought it around to MIL and was defending MIL and said "They aren't her grandchildren and aren't your kids" SO replied "They are my sons". Male cousin1 "I guess after 4 years you could view it that way" We then find out MIL has given Male cousin1 all of the christmas gifts, we gave her, for him to return... Not to us, but the store. After Male cousin1's comments, SO wants to cut him out as well. There is so much more that happened in the in-between. I could go on and on.
I know there are two sides to everything, but his entire family except one or two seem to think we are are in the wrong. Coming from all side that the oldest two and I aren't SO's family. Aunts and cousins echoing that we are tearing the family apart. We are overwhelmed and don't know what to do, but maintain our boundaries. Is it normal for people to treat step-children/grandchildren/cousins like this?

So, I made a post earlier today about wanting an American Girl doll from my home state of Utah. It made me wonder how many states are represented by American Girl and how many girls are from each state. In total, I found 16 total states and DC represented. Before I start the state by state break down, I have to mention that there are two Nicki characters with the same spelling, one a GOTY and another a recent historical character. I'll be referring to them as Nicki 2007 and Nicki 1999. Also, Kaya is the only American Girl to not have a home state because her story takes place before the land resembled states or had names we would recognize today.
I'll be going in alphabetical order by state. In California we have Julie, Courtney, Joss, and Kailey. In Colorado we have, Nicki 2007 and Corinne. In DC, we have Isabelle, Evette, Maritza, and Makena. In Florida, we have Maryellen. In Hawaii, we have Nanea and Kanani. In Illinois, we have Molly, Lindsey, and Marisol. In Louisiana, we have Marie Grace and Cecile. In Massachusetts, we have Lanie and Grace. In Michigan, we have Melody, Kira, and Jess. In Minnesota, we have Kirsten and Chrissa. In Missouri, we have Lea. In New Mexico, we have Josefina, and Saige. In New Jersey, we have Kavi. In New York, we have Claudie, Rebecca, Samantha, Caroline, Mia, and Blaire. In Ohio, we have Kit. In Pennsylvania, we have Addy and Gabriela. In Tennessee, we have Tenney. In Virginia, we have Luciana and Felicity. Finally, in Washington state we have, Z, McKenna, Isabel, and Nicki 1999.
Use this information however you want to. I do want to point out, Claudie and Rebecca are both from NYC. Also, all the girls from Washington are more specifically from Seattle. Finally, Nicki 2007 is old enough to have been 2 during Nicki 1999's story. In fact, all GOTYs before Lanie are old enough to have been alive in 1999. Some of them might even be old enough to remember Y2K, though I'm not sure who because what you can remember and how much at what age varies from person to person. Take me, for example. I was technically old enough to remember the GOTYs that were released during my early elementary school years (Mia, Chrissa, Lanie, and Kanani), but I wasn't aware of American Girl until McKenna because the trailer for her movie was included in my DvD of The Lorax. It makes me wonder how Lindsey in particular would have reacted to 9/11.
Edit: I originally put Kavi in the New York group because of how close her town is to NYC. I fixed it. I also said Kit was from Connecticut. Oops. And I forgot about Z, Tenney, and World by Us. I think that's it for the edits. Okay, one more, in oversimplifying why I couldn't declare a single state for Kaya, it might have seemed like I was disrespectful or singling her out when she's not the only American girl that lived in her state before it was officially a state. For that, I apologize.

If you are someone who only likes or is only looking for modeling data that lists prospects based on an objective scoring principle, unfortunately I have nothing like that to offer here. I have published official rankings for the current rookie class every couple months dating back to the end of the 2021 football season. As such, this compilation of ratings is a rough estimate that is well supported by post history. There are a few minor adjustments for a few reasons. If you don't care about the adjustments, just skip the text. If you have any questions about rankings, I'll answer in the comments.
First and foremost, remember that every 2022 player is being ranked as the best estimation to how I valued them prior to the 2022 draft, not now. These are prospect considerations only.
I rank at several stages because rankings are more like snapshots of evaluations at different stages. New information changes rankings constantly for me, but most changes are too minor to create post updates because "I slightly like Spears more now" doesn't feel like valuable content.
For example, Isaiah Spiller is ranked in the same place amongst 2022 RBs as he is in my post-combine ranking last year, but it is behind quite a few 2023 RBs that probably would make the big board a mess if you compared Spiller's relative placement on my 2022 Big Board.
As much as a Big Board should always be BPA, there is also an element in how I do my pre-draft boards that may be affected by presumptions in cost within the draft. One example would be that, while I did not cover QBs in my ‘22 big boards, Ridder’s potential high floor projection pushed him to my 2022 QB1. Projected relative cost for the QB1 made Ridder’s floor more valuable, but in an exercise where that isolated variable (2022 Draft Cost of "the QB1") does not matter, I would rather bet on Howell’s upside. These two were ultimately my 1A and 1B last year, so it is not a huge gap, but worth noting because it is an objective change.
I am probably still a bit higher on the 2023 Class than most people. Evans, Tucker, and Bigsby failing to capture expectations was certainly disappointing. I am an Achane believer though, as well as someone who has started to become higher than consensus on JSN, Addison, and QJ on a relative scale. As doubts flourish about these players-- and they certainly are not perfect-- I still like them quite a bit as gambles.
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I don’t have a longer piece / google doc, so I will explain any Ranking or any discrepancy I may have with a presumed consensus in the comments, so please ask if you want to know.
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Line breaks mark tier gaps. 2023 in bold for slightly easier viewing.
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QB
1. Bryce Young, Alabama
2. C.J. Stroud, Ohio State
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3. Anthony Richardson, Florida
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1. Sam Howell, North Carolina

5. Will Levis, Kentucky

1. Desmond Ridder, Cincinnati

7. Hendon Hooker, Tennessee

1. Kenny Pickett, Pittsburgh

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9. Tanner McKee, Stanford

1. Malik Willis, Liberty

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RB
1. Bijan Robinson, Texas
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1. Breece Hall, Iowa State
   
2. Kenneth Walker, Michigan State
   

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4. Jahmyr Gibbs, Alabama
5. Devon Achane, Texas A&M
6. Zach Charbonnet, UCLA
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7. Tank Bigsby, Auburn
8. Tyjae Spears, Tulane
9. Sean Tucker, Syracuse
10. Dewayne McBride, UAB
11. Zach Evans, Ole Miss
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1. Isaiah Spiller, Texas A&M
   
2. Dameon Pierce, Florida
   

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WR
1. Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Ohio State

1. Garrett Wilson, Ohio State
   
2. Drake London, USC
   

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4. Jordan Addison, USC

1. Jahan Dotson, Penn State
   
2. Jameson Williams, Alabama
   

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7. Quentin Johnston, TCU

1. Treylon Burks, Arkansas
   
2. George Pickens, Georgia
   

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1. Chris Olave, Ohio State

11. Zay Flowers, Boston College

1. Skyy Moore, Western Michigan

13. Jalin Hyatt, Tennessee
14. Marvin Mims Jr., Oklahoma
15. Josh Downs, North Carolina
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1. Jalen Tolbert, South Alabama
   
2. Alec Pierce, Cincinnati
   

18. Cedric Tillman, Tennessee
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TE
1. Michael Mayer, Notre Dame
2. Dalton Kincaid, Utah
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1. Trey McBride, Colorado State

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4. Darnell Washington, Georgia
5. Luke Musgrave, Oregon State
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6. Sam LaPorta, Iowa
7. Tucker Kraft, South Dakota St.
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NR: James Cook and Christian Watson are two players I was fairly low on before the draft and rose comparatively more than anyone else on my lists. Just wanted to make note of them as they are fairly substantial names, but were simply not ranked highly enough to feature on this list without expanding it quite a bit more.
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Again, willing to explain all placements.
Cheers,
CJ

Okay, first time poster here. Names are changed.
Things to keep in mind.

• Oldest son is high functioning autistic, he still has issues with change, breaks in routine, loud noises. Sees things very plainly.
• When on good terms, we would be over any time S/O had off work. Mini day road trips with MIL. Constant random gifts for MIL... small and large. She's been remodeling and we would buy things she wanted, but wouldn't justify buying herself.
• S/O family is a weird matriarchy. If you are male you are lower than human in their family.

4 years ago my S/O and I got together, his mother would call me every day and talk for hours. Her heartbreak, relationships in the family, what was happening with her work, anything and everything. A couple months later spend the first Christmas Eve with his family, and it just decimates my traditions, with my sons, and they are thoroughly upset. future SIL says "these things happen" At that Christmas his sister plainly tells me I need to leave my career and start thinking about children with S/O, that kinda sets the tone with interactions with her. Everything is still kosher other than snide comments and little lies we catch his mom and sister in. Occasional shitty comments from his cousins that I'm sure were to make me uncomfortable.
Halloween comes along, at his aunts house with the entire family. MIL leaves. S/O goes to have a nap in the front living room, cousins and aunt start shit talking S/O and his mother. Saying she's sleeping with her first cousin and how messed up their babies would look if she wasn't barren now. Saying S/O is a POS and has always been a POS. Sleeping with all their friends and then not pursuing relationships. I start losing it, politely... "oh, that's interesting, I remember the story of you, Rich, getting excited when your cousin, Tina, grew into her breasts" Both cousins are mortified. Turn to other female cousin "I also remember that you slept with Rich's friend *insert three guy friends she slept with*" I continue this around the circle. We end up leaving not long after. SHIT HITS THE FAN. Aunt and cousins go to MIL and say I was talking shit(I was); bringing up my comment on Rich being sexually excited by Tina's breasts, and so forth but conveniently leaving out their nastiness. I try to tell MIL and I am demonized.
So we skip Thanksgiving at his Aunts and have it at home. Drama ensues. I have major surgery removing a nipple and breast tissue around mid december. Christmas Eve is coming so we try to consolidate their traditions with mine and my sons. We normally do The Feast of the Seven Fishes. Boiled it down to just the pasta. We also have the tradition of opening christmas jammies, they get a new christmas mug, a new christmas movie, and we sit down and watch the movie with homemade hot chocolate, in bed by 9pm. Their christmas party starts at 6. So we are only doing the pasta at home and hot chocolate there. Pasta sauce burns. Get there and instead of using the stove they put me in the back room with a crockpot to try to make hot chocolate from scratch. SIL's youngest keeps climbing all over me. I ask BIL to watch nephew because he keeps hitting my breast. No one is watching him. S/O checks on me and I am done. My breast is weeping, and I'm in excruciating pain. He goes and tells MIL that dinner the 26th might not happen, but she's still due to come over in the morning, christmas morning. She loses her cool, goes sobbing to SIL. SIL comes in holding her 1yo and ready to box. Screaming inches from my face. MIL and SIL proceed to scream in front of the children how evil I am and I am after S/O for his money... He had no money. Anything and everything a toxic in-law could say, came out. We finally go home, S/O and I argue all night, kids wake up and open presents slowly. S/O and I go upstairs to nap and wake up to him having missed calls from MIL and SIL saying I must be keeping his phone from him and that they were on their way to check on him. He calls back and says not to show up after everything they pulled the night before, they pull in about then and try to FORCE their way into my home. I tell them I will call the police and they proceed to scream outside my home how demented I am, I am stealing him away from his family, he needs to leave me and the children because they aren't his kids, I am using him to support the kids, how could he turn his back on his family, that I was faking my breast issues. They finally leave and S/O and I are just drained. HE STILL GOES to the 26th to open presents with SIL and MIL, I deep breathe through it. On his way home, he's on the phone with me and his mom is blowing him up "come to the casino with me" "we can just go drive with music on" "you need to take a break, we don't need to talk about anything, just drive" He tells her he is going home to his family and that's that. More drama ensues, they blow me up, to which I reply that she if she's upset about her christmas being ruined she'll be upset about missing every holiday, birthday, and such moving forward. We stuck to that missing NYE, MIL and SIL birthdays, anyone else's birthday, mother's day, July 4th. We found out after christmas one of the reasons I was in so much pain was my sutures weren't dissolving and my breast was infected.
Here's the kicker, we find out I'm pregnant around may-June and decide to try to smooth things over with the caveat from the kids that she isn't allowed at the house. Which is fair, she invaded their space and tried to tear apart their family and won't apologize to anyone about it. July comes around and we are invited to Rich's birthday, we show up to SIL's house, having called saying it was important, prior to the party, with a bottle of wine and a note that read "pairs well with being an aunt" Her and her husband pull up behind us and she gets out of her truck looking to fight and I hand her the bottle, she reads the note, handful of emotions cross her face, she starts crying. She's already told MIL that S/O was coming over. She decides to stir that pot, because we swore her to secrecy about being pregnant, by telling MIL that we are moving out of state and needed to store furniture or something outlandish like that. MIL and S/O share a phone plan, that he pays for but is in her name. She removes him as an authorized user, but SIL convinces her not to turn off the phone, which was MIL's goal. We go to Rich's party with baby balloons in hand (we got permission beforehand to steal some of the spotlight) and announced I'm pregnant with everyone there. MIL had been ignoring us, now breaks down saying we are taking her grandchild away and how could we be so cruel. We tell her we aren't moving, that SIL was messing with her. That we are trying to move forward.
MIL comes to 4D sonograms to see baby's face. Is the first person outside of us to see baby's face. We do family Halloween, stay home for Thanksgiving, and stay home for Christmas Eve, Go to Dinner the 26th for family christmas, everything is alright. There's cheek turning and deep breathing, but we were trucking. We invite MIL to Tennessee for baby's first christmas, before he is born. The idea of meeting my family half way so no one misses out, she's for it until SIL isn't invited. We get MIL birthday gifts in january. Baby comes in feb. is moved to nicu for week. S/O is at work when Baby is set to be released, offers MIL to go with me to get him. She is the first person to meet our boy. Gave him his first bath. She's in love. It slowly becomes glaringly obvious she doesnt care for our oldest two like she does her blood grandchild. Oldest two ask to garden with her, we go over and she has S/O wire her spa, ignoring the kids. They ask for time with her, ignored. They ask to make cookies with her like their cousins get to, she declines. They ask to go riding with her, another time maybe. Birthdays come around and oldest wants to see new jurrasic movie with her, she asked what can she buy him instead. All the while, when we call to ask her what she's up to in the car and she knows she's on speaker with everyone, she will brag about making cookies with the cousins or how they have been staying the "night" all week. Middle childs birthday comes around and asks again to come riding with her, she asks what can she buy him. S/O asked for her to have a birthday party at her house for middle child as a birthday present to S/O. MC AND SO's birthday are on consecutive days. She says yes. We show up the night before to start prep. SIL shows up around 6pm with her two hellish kids and lets them lose in the house while she hides on the porch. She doesnt leave until 2am, keeping us and our kids awake. MIL had invited us to stay overnight. We get up in the morning having not achieved half of what we should have the day before. Between us and our kids watching hers. SIL is over shortly after with the kids again making snide comments about how its a circus and every time she looks at us all she hears is circus music and again hiding outside while her kids destroy everything in sight. Birthday party was ROUGH, but our son appreciated it. SIL was left with cheese dip, came back and it was ruined in the crockpot with the excuse it must have been the quality of the cheese I bought. Birthday candles disappeared, a friend of mine helped search, no one had an alternative. MIL said "I don't keep candles" We start cleaning up. I leave her home cleaner than I found it. Kitchen, bathroom, living room scrubbed. Even set up her robot vacuum to run on a schedule, because she couldnt figure it out and was bummed about not being able to use it. We are about to leave and she disappears to her neighbors house and brings back a cheesecake. Says that I took too long on middle childs cake and she had planned to bring out the cheesecake, CANDLES, and celebrate S/O's birthday. Our friends that were there are convinced that they sabotaged the birthday in hopes we'd fight and they'd get S/O for his birthday.
We do family Halloween, both parties. Skip Thanksgiving. December hits, we start trying to figure out christmas eve. Ask if its okay to stay christmas eve because she lives nextdoor to the grandmothers house where their family party is held. We live 45 minutes from his mother and can't achieve the traditions in place since before my kids were born and theirs unless something gave. Could I use her kitchen to make a simplified version of the seven fish and the kids hot chocolate and her couch for movies. Intially S/O was overzealous and asked to stay for like 4 days because it was the first time in months he wasnt working 6 days a week and MIL had been begging for a while for us to come stay a weekend. S/O thought she'd be on board for the christmas magic. Baking cookies, first christmas handprint ornaments, the whole shebang. Baby's first christmas and likely the Oldest's last christmas believing in Santa. She said "no" not a soft no, but an are you batshit crazy, no. S/O kept trying to negotiate down to having a camp out christmas eve in the backyard in all weather tents and use of her kitchen. A resounding no to everything. "No one would want an entire family staying in their house on Christmas." She makes clear she still expects us at Christmas Eve, we tell her we tried and we are staying home.
At this point, I'm upset. I know my family would wade a river of glass to have us and their grandchildren in their homes on christmas. Tried to convince us to make the drive up, but 4 days isnt enough time to travel 3600miles round trip and enjoy any sort of holiday.
Christmas Eve comes, we are having a good time, kids are winding down to bed. Rich calls " hey, where are you guys?" we explain. He tells us MIL is there telling everyone she doesn't know where we are, how upset she is that we didn't come again, and is crying. S/O is slow burning upset. We leave it, we are supposed to see her the 26th. Christmas morning we post pictures and call MIL. She tells us christmas at her house is canceled, that she didn't want to talk about it. S/O asks her if she is having christmas without us, 15 minutes later his sister messages him saying "what did you think would happen" and blows up about us not showing up to any holidays or anything. We went to Easter, baby showers, her kids birthday, mother's day, cousin's birthday's, halloween, and tried to figure out christmas. We throw our hands up, whatever. We let the kids know we weren't going over to gma's, just like that. "hey guys, we aren't going to gma's tomorrow. Something's come up" Oldest starts crying because he's not slow "She's selfish just like our dad." says he wants nothing to do with her. We need space. We'll reconvene after the new year. We drop our presents to MIL and SIL and her family outside MIL's house while they have christmas without us. MIL starts in. S/O messages everyone saying he's done talking and he needs space. SIL starts in that she didn't ruin christmas, she shouldn't be punished. When that gets her nowhere with SO, starts in on calling me names. MIL states how before me if she called and was upset he would drop everything and just show up at her house. She wanted him to drop everything Christmas day and go running to her because she was upset... We have every year offered to be at her house christmas day, but she declines. Rich and Aunt inform us MIL is upset she isn't allowed in our home still, but has not tried to make amends with the kids aside from maybe MC birthday party, but that was more a favor to S/O. Doesn't believe she should apologize to them.
That is the saga bringing us to now. We dropped off a birthday present to his mom and her birthday, she is still on our facebook, but we are loving from a distance. His sister called the day after her birthday and S/O didn't answer. He's over me being attacked when things don't go their way. He's over the micro aggressiveness.
We have turned our cheeks on a lot. Like our oldest having a rough week from testing and her wanting us to visit, we asked if the hellish cousins were there and explained it was a bit much for the oldest at the moment and he couldn't handle the noise and chaos. She said they weren't there and he could relax in the side bedroom if he wanted. 45 minutes later we pull up and she has gone and gotten the kids! Oldest starts to tear up, but plays with them because he does love them. We wrap it up quickly and leave. All of us playing with our new baby and they do a horsey knee bouncing song and told me it was solely their families and I said we had one in my family too and sang it for them to which his sister replied "Well, isn't that some corn f*cking hick shit" Any gifts S/O says I have picked out, we have seen hidden in the back of cabinets, closets, never being used. We go over and she shoos the kids into the play room at all times. After all of this we have his cousins telling us I haven't been liked from day one, MIL and SIL have done nothing but run their mouths. We stopped by Rich's the other day and started talking about us going to family easter at one of the cousins houses, because its about the kids and they asked if we could go and just not talk to gma and Auntie. Rich brought it around to MIL and was defending MIL and said "They aren't her grandchildren and aren't your kids" SO replied "They are my sons". Rich "I guess after 4 years you could view it that way" We then find out MIL has given Rich all of the christmas gifts, we gave her, for him to return... Not to us, but the store. After Rich's comments, SO wants to cut him out as well. There is so much more that happened in the in-between. I could go on and on.
I know there are two sides to everything, but his entire family except one or two seem to think we are are in the wrong. Coming from all side that the oldest two and I aren't SO's family. Aunts and cousins echoing that we are tearing the family apart. We are overwhelmed and don't know what to do, but maintain our boundaries.

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The Nashville shooter identified as transgender, according a police statement Monday that was later walked back.
Including JD Vance and Marjorie Taylor Greene, are suggesting the shooter's trans identity played a role.
Following a deadly shooting at an elementary school in Tennessee, some prominent Republicans are highlighting the fact that the perpetrator was transgender - and suggesting that her identity played a role in causing the violence.
As details of the shooter's identity began to emerge, some prominent Republican elected officials zeroed in on Hale's reported transgender identity.
"How much hormones like testosterone and medications for mental illness was the transgender Nashville school shooter taking?" wrote Greene on Twitter.
The Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ civil rights organization, noted in a statement about the shooting on Monday that transgender and non-binary people are "Much more likely to be the victims of violence, rather than the perpetrator of it."

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this is a rather cynical post coming from someone under 18, but hear me out.
i pretty much completely lost the genetic “lottery” for women. i’m noticeably tall (5’9), have a big nose, small lips, and chronic dark circles that make me look like i haven’t slept a day in my life no matter how much makeup i paint onto myself. i have a lot of natural lines on my face that make me look old and angry. my eyes are downturned and i’ve been told i look like i’m constantly on the verge of tears, even when i feel completely fine.
i’ve been really insecure since i was around 10, and it’s only gotten worse. i was told “you’ll grow into your face! your looks will change once you hit puberty!” and now i’m almost 17 and still resemble and overgrown, chronically depressed middle schooler. i’ve been hospitalized for extreme bouts of suicidal thoughts that come whenever i think too long about how i look. i feel like there’s always a constant mental divide between me and everyone else. it’s made me perceive the world in a really shitty way and i feel like i’ve wasted my youth waiting for a “glow up” that i’ll never have. my friends tease me for my low standards when it comes to dating, but they know as well as i do i could never be with someone conventionally beautiful. even with my low standards, i struggle. i’ve done a lot of work to improve my personality and i’m a relatively easy person to get along with, i have good friends of both genders but can never seem to make anyone interested in me.
my appearance has made me miserable for as long as i’ve been aware of it, and it truly has ruined my life.

So, last year I made a few posts covering all of the Final Four games in a complete, overall, and long manner. I...............................have no desire to do things like that this year whatsoever. They're long to read and even longer to make, so I feel like I need to change things up for both out sakes. Instead, I'm just going to highlight a key factor that contributed to that certain team's success up to and in the Final Four. These things may be obvious or minute, it'll just depend on how things play out but I want to discuss them anyways.
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To start, I wanted to put the San Diego State Aztecs into the spotlight. The South Region representatives have been relying on a top 10 defense to obtain victory once again under head coach Brian Dutcher, and it has led them to the Final Four appearance they seemed destined to make three years ago. There are many things SDSU does to stifle offenses, but the one thing that has propelled the Aztecs on this run has been their rim protection.
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SDSU has been one of the better rim protecting teams in the country over the course of the regular season. They sported an above average 57.5% FG% on close 2s with a defensive close 2 rate of 34.8%. Those are certainly good spots to be at, but teams like Arizona State, USC, Tennessee, Alabama, Indiana, Oklahoma State, UCLA, and Florida Atlantic had raw numbers that were better. In the tournament, however, the Aztecs' defense at the rim has kicked into overdrive. Over their 4 tournament matches, Aztec opponents are shooting 49.5% at the rim. That would be tied with Arizona State for the 2nd best mark in the country over the whole 2022-23 season, 1.4% higher than Utah Valley's nation-leading mark. SDSU is the only one of the remaining participants in the 2023 NCAA Tournament to have held opponents to under 50% shooting at the rim through their 4 tournament games.
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So, why has the Aztecs' rim protection been so dominant in the tourney? Well, back-to-back Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year Nathan Mensah is a significant reason why. I mean, the 6'10 230 center has the 3rd most career blocks in the MWC for a reason. I don't think anyone in this tournament has had a larger defensive impact on a per-minute basis than the Ghanaian big man. Mensah is swatting away 3 shots a game in the tournament while only averaging 19.5 minutes a contest. That's 6.2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! blocks per 40 minutes in this tournament. The only reason he isn't playing a lot more is because SDSU's frontcourt is so deep between him, Keshad Johnson, Jaedon Ledee, and Aguek Arop that Coach Dutcher has to constantly juggle minutes to get the right mix of defensive presence and interior scoring throughout a full game. Mensah is a long, rangy defensive anchor with expert timing on when to jump and when to rotate in order to affect shots around the rim without fouling. Here, he does a great job of waiting until Quinerly is already in the air and using the closest hand to the ball to time up the rejection and keep it a 2-possession game with 20 seconds left. Mensah doesn't even need to actually block the shot to affect attempts around the rim. He had a couple of clutch contests around the rim late in the Creighton game where his size and length bothered potential game-tying baskets into misses. Nathan's rim protection actually helps the Aztecs' offense too. San Diego St is a low-pace low-possession team most of the time, but Nathan's blocks have allowed SDSU to run out in transition and get some clean looks on the break. Their halfcourt offense isn't really, well, efficient in their process, so getting the opportunity to run off steals or blocks is vital for this team to score some easy points. The fact that Mensah doesn't really need help in the paint means the rest of the Aztec players can be closer to their own 3pt line, which allows them to get out on the run quicker and further up the court after Mensah blocks a shot for threes or layups. He's not just a shot blocker either, he's very good at moving in space whether in PnR or on a switch. I was extremely impressed with how he handled Brandon Miller in space. I know the Tide's presumptive top 3 pick was dealing with a groin issue, but Mensah did an excellent job of moving with him on the perimeter and helped hold Miller to a 3/19 Sweet 16.
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Nathan Mensah isn't the only guy who defends the rim on this squad. It's a total team effort to keep teams from getting clean looks around the basket. San Diego St is filled to the brim with smart, athletic, and physically strong players that all rotate on a string and keep the paint protected. There are so many stout body types in this rotation that it's hard for opposing players to get good looks off unless they have elite size, skill, and/or bounce. Even in the rare instances one of their defenders gets beat, there's always another Aztec on the back line rotating and challenging at the rim without fouling. SDSU held both Alabama and Creighton to FT rates under 22%. Just look how quickly Jaedon Ledee springs into action on this Alabama transition possession after Keshad Johnson runs the Crimson Tide player off the 3pt line. I mean, Ledee came from the arc to the rim in an instant to pin that shot on the backboard. Look at where the other SDSU defenders are standing too. One can react to a jumpstop and pivot if the ball tries to work to the strongside wing, there's another guarding a spot up shooter at the top of the arc, and another defender splitting the difference on the weakside (even if they should probably be a bit further from the key to make the closeout easier). That's how quickly SDSU can get in a shell and set up their rim protection and rotations on a transition possession. No wonder why their defense in the paint is so good.
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Rim protection has been one of the primary reasons San Diego St has arrived in the Final Four, but can it lead them to a national championship? Well, duh, of course it can. You'll always have a chance when you make it this hard for teams to get layups or get to the FT line. However, there is still room for healthy skepticism. Alabama shot 3/27 from deep and Creighton was only 2/17 from downtown as well. FAU, UConn, and Miami are all high-upside 3pt shooting teams in their own right as well. Quite frankly, I don't see SDSU getting that much defensive 3pt shooting luck against 4 highly capable shooting teams in a row. Combine that with the Aztecs' own issues generating quality looks in their halfcourt offense and things could get ugly in a hurry if FAU or Miami/UConn are cashing in their looks from deep. At the same time, Brian Dutcher's crew can completely overwhelm anyone in the country with their offensive rebounding, ball pressure, and rim protection. We'll see if the San Diego State Aztecs are the ones cutting down the nets in Houston. If so, look for their rim protection to be a crucial reason why.

Since COVID things have been pretty rough. I was really into traveling, Had a LDR that ended due to lockdown (in retrospect this is good but hard at the time), lost my studio apartment and had to move in w a roommate (bought got a cheap cool place) kind of went on a manic bender during it, got my shit together, got a new boyfriend, new job, went back to school and graduate with my bachelors, started grad school. i ended up in a hospital because i ran from a shooting in august, best friend passed from suicide in november, had the worlds nastiest fight and breakup with boyfriend and am here today alone, called out from work for the millionth time, depressed.
my boyfriend was great for a million reasons, so nice to me, i have total trust in him etc. but the problem has been that i work and go to grad school, it's long days, my job is stressing me out, i'm working towards a career i'm actually good at, i'm struggling with bills. he typically would come over 4 nights a week, more if possible, and would only leave when i'd go to work. we'd have a great time like laying in bed, smoking, watching youtube, having meals together etc. sometimes we did more. it was starting to feel like all we did though and i wanted like a female friend who could do the other stuff with me, like lil adventures or nights out, shopping, etc.
the other problem is that we've been together now for 2+ years, and my lease is up sept 1 my roommate is moving out so he could maybe move in, or i need to go somewhere else. it's all really expensive where we live though. but the biggest thing here...in the 2 years he's never worked or shown any effort to work. he seems to be getting by from saving and staying with me and family. when he's over, i buy us all groceries for the week. i pay all my rent, utilities ,etc. he does get things here and there and has been kind to me w holiday gifts and meals out. but it still feels one sided when i'm working from home monday and he's in bed snoring next to me. when i'm stressed and he can't relate. recently he's been in a band and he puts a ton of effort into this, but nothing for our future . doesn't help me look for apartments, (i look every single day and have applied to every affordable housing lottery), doesnt seem to look for work.
the band...i'm happy and proud at him for doing something other than nothing. and i do understand the need to succeed at something and be good at and happy about. i like creative stuff too and going to his shows are fun. but i do find myself sorta jealous, i'm also worried there are girls in this scene who are cooler than me, more fun. the last show he had was at this punk house and they were paying this pretty cool girl to film it (which he purposely left her gender out when telling me because didn't want me to get mad ... which just made it feel weird), and i was in class after a full day of work. not doing something fun, but a 12 hour day to afford our future life together. he talks about wanting to get married, cats, travel..i'm working towards this while he's working towards publicity likes and follows for his band.
huge fight because i was having a rough weekend, sad over having lost my only really close female friend in november to suicide, stressed about work going poorly, and kind of annoyed he was out having fun and anxious why he hid the videographer being a girl from me. i wasn;t enthused i guess enough of watching a video of his show and he blew up at me. i don't support his band (i printed their flyers for this show and helped hang them), i am just a dense jealous b-word whos mad he has friends. this hurt and was a low blow and felt below the belt as he knew i was struggling w a friends suicide. then he goes home and immediately changes his instagram pic from me and him to just him, starts promoting the band, and follows the video girl. seemed to not care at all, just promoting still..
i fucking lost it, threw out all of our shit. and then, this is embarrassing, commented rude stuff on everything he was promoting. i'm so embarrassed about it i was like just in a rage. i felt like i realized i had just been love scammed for free rent/housing, and for my boyfriend to call me a dense b**tch and say i'm jealous, for him to so quickly just change the pic.........i lost my fucking mind. i was already so low, and sobbing at work adn school and finding housing and having lost my friend...that hearing those words yelled at me, they felt like everything i was yelling at myself, by the person who was supposed to love me in this world and felt like my only real friend left and best friend. i went completely manic and spiraled. couldn't sleep, up all night, shaking, slandeirng him to anyone and everyone, disliking any band posts, drinking in the morning, not eating, going to dive bars alone crying.... it was really bad.
i settled down yesterday and wrote long apologies to his band members (who did nothing wrong), his friends, and tried to reverse all the comments and slander i could. i feel so guilty. i feel so bad. i feel so confused and i feel so lost.

Hi, not sure if it's ok to post this but i appreciate the help. My wife and I are celebrating our anniversary in Japan in June, it matches with the dates of the Osaka concert (june 3rd and 4th). We tried both rounds of the lottery that was released for the allocated tickets but no luck, so this is were i turn to you... any other way we can get those tickets? Would mean so much to us.
Thanks!

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is relenting, for now, on his planned judicial overhaul.
One poll suggests nearly 1.5 million people may have participated in the ongoing protests against Netanyahu's attempts to seize and cripple the judiciary.
The protests have become so ubiquitous that even Israeli President Isaac Herzog has called on Netanyahu to suspend the judicial overhaul.
"The eyes of all the people of Israel are on you. The eyes of all the Jewish people are on you," Herzog said in a Facebook post Monday.
Of course, as the snowballing protests are part of a larger movement that has stood for weeks and months against Netanyahu's increasingly extremist governance, they also serve as a reminder that calls for "Protecting democracy" have not been as loud when it has come to the occupation of Palestine.
So while Israeli officials frame this mass protest as an effort to preserve Israel's democracy, it would be prudent to note how short it still is from actually being one, even if the masses can stop Netanyahu; just as well, how readily they could become a true democracy, if they really want to.

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Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett said there's no way to "Fix" gun violence, after a shooter killed three children and three adults at an elementary school in his home state on Monday.
"It's a horrible, horrible situation," Burchett told reporters.
Burchett also said he doesn't see "Any real role" for Congress to play in reducing gun violence, other than to "Mess things up."
When asked about how to protect children, like his own daughter, while in school, Burchett said he has opted to homeschool his daughter.
A 28-year-old former student of the Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, shot and killed three 9-year-old students and three staff members on Monday, before being killed by police.
There have been 13 school shootings thus far in 2023, which have resulted in the deaths of six students and four adults, according to Education Week.

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Since COVID things have been pretty rough. I was really into traveling, Had a LDR that ended due to lockdown (in retrospect this is good but hard at the time), lost my studio apartment and had to move in w a roommate (bought got a cheap cool place) kind of went on a manic bender during it, got my shit together, got a new boyfriend, new job, went back to school and graduate with my bachelors, started grad school. i ended up in a hospital because i ran from a shooting in august, best friend passed from suicide in november, had the worlds nastiest fight and breakup with boyfriend and am here today alone, called out from work for the millionth time, depressed.
my boyfriend was great for a million reasons, so nice to me, i have total trust in him etc. but the problem has been that i work and go to grad school, it's long days, my job is stressing me out, i'm working towards a career i'm actually good at, i'm struggling with bills. he typically would come over 4 nights a week, more if possible, and would only leave when i'd go to work. we'd have a great time like laying in bed, smoking, watching youtube, having meals together etc. sometimes we did more. it was starting to feel like all we did though and i wanted like a female friend who could do the other stuff with me, like lil adventures or nights out, shopping, etc.
the other problem is that we've been together now for 2+ years, and my lease is up sept 1 my roommate is moving out so he could maybe move in, or i need to go somewhere else. it's all really expensive where we live though. but the biggest thing here...in the 2 years he's never worked or shown any effort to work. he seems to be getting by from saving and staying with me and family. when he's over, i buy us all groceries for the week. i pay all my rent, utilities ,etc. he does get things here and there and has been kind to me w holiday gifts and meals out. but it still feels one sided when i'm working from home monday and he's in bed snoring next to me. when i'm stressed and he can't relate. recently he's been in a band and he puts a ton of effort into this, but nothing for our future . doesn't help me look for apartments, (i look every single day and have applied to every affordable housing lottery), doesnt seem to look for work.
the band...i'm happy and proud at him for doing something other than nothing. and i do understand the need to succeed at something and be good at and happy about. i like creative stuff too and going to his shows are fun. but i do find myself sorta jealous, i'm also worried there are girls in this scene who are cooler than me, more fun. the last show he had was at this punk house and they were paying this pretty cool girl to film it (which he purposely left her gender out when telling me because didn't want me to get mad ... which just made it feel weird), and i was in class after a full day of work. not doing something fun, but a 12 hour day to afford our future life together. he talks about wanting to get married, cats, travel..i'm working towards this while he's working towards publicity likes and follows for his band.
huge fight because i was having a rough weekend, sad over having lost my only really close female friend in november to suicide, stressed about work going poorly, and kind of annoyed he was out having fun and anxious why he hid the videographer being a girl from me. i wasn;t enthused i guess enough of watching a video of his show and he blew up at me. i don't support his band (i printed their flyers for this show and helped hang them), i am just a dense jealous b-word whos mad he has friends. this hurt and was a low blow and felt below the belt as he knew i was struggling w a friends suicide. then he goes home and immediately changes his instagram pic from me and him to just him, starts promoting the band, and follows the video girl. seemed to not care at all, just promoting still..
i fucking lost it, threw out all of our shit. and then, this is embarrassing, commented rude stuff on everything he was promoting. i'm so embarrassed about it i was like just in a rage. i felt like i realized i had just been love scammed for free rent/housing, and for my boyfriend to call me a dense b**tch and say i'm jealous, for him to so quickly just change the pic.........i lost my fucking mind. i was already so low, and sobbing at work adn school and finding housing and having lost my friend...that hearing those words yelled at me, they felt like everything i was yelling at myself, by the person who was supposed to love me in this world and felt like my only real friend left and best friend. i went completely manic and spiraled. couldn't sleep, up all night, shaking, slandeirng him to anyone and everyone, disliking any band posts, drinking in the morning, not eating, going to dive bars alone crying.... it was really bad.
i settled down yesterday and wrote long apologies to his band members (who did nothing wrong), his friends, and tried to reverse all the comments and slander i could. i feel so guilty. i feel so bad. i feel so confused and i feel so lost.

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Clase azul Plata and gold and GRAN CENTENARIO LEYENDA ANEJO TEQUILA
I did a quick search and it seems like the consensus here that clase is overpriced for what you get, is that true?