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On top of Basics, Orange Peel, Murdick's... a lot of closures recently!

I live in Berkeley but visit my parents in Edgartown. Had no idea we have a Bryan Walker location here too.

I have lived in Oakland the last couple years from Massachusetts and somehow only visited Albany recently, because my friend started in grad school at Cal and I learned they have grad school housing in Albany. I had no idea! Anyway, the downtown seemed super cool and we went to a chill bar -- I think it was Lama Bar? Also a taco truck called Tacos El Autlense.

Albany seems super cool! Can't believe I'd never been over there.

Anyway, my friends wants to go somewhere again tomorrow night. I could just Google it but I was wondering if anyone has recommendations for casual dinner spots around that area on San Pablo Ave. Any cuisine is fine, just looking for what people in the area like. Thanks!

Someone assaulted me in the city in March -- details not important, they were unhappy with some things I said and smashed my iPhone and knocked me hard to the ground twice. I stupidly didn't do anything to report it at the time, but besides destroying my iPhone they did some sort of damage to my shoulder that I haven't gotten looked at yet. You can see a bone sticking up higher on the side I fell on and it hurts to lift weights above my head.

This person continues to menace and contact people I know, so I decided I need to do something. I still have the smashed iPhone as well as messages I sent to people about it the day after.

Do I need to go in person to a police station? What should I provide? I'm assuming it's not too late to report this right?

I had so much optimism about this drug. My friend recommended it to me 3 months ago because I among other things have chronic low energy/fatigue and overthink constantly, like she did. Apparently it was like a miracle drug that calmed her brain and made her more motivated and enthusiastic to get up and do things. She described to me how she used to obsessively worry about things and after starting wellbutrin she was able to look at a problem and then put it aside and keep moving forward instead of being distracted and obsessing on it. I have that too.

For me, three months in it has done... absolutely nothing at all. My doctor wants to try Zoloft or something else. I'm just a little disappointed because I heard so many positive things about Wellbutrin/bupropion. I have been on 300mg XL for months and literally it feels like maybe I just took sugar pills? No effect at all. Anyway good luck to all of you

So, I'm in my final semester of community college. I just turned 30 years old a few days ago. After high school I started college and then dropped out, started and dropped out again sporadically over the years. But I guess because I'm getting older and mellowing out, I have finally stuck with it for the last year without dropping out. This is my last semester before I get an AA, and I just have two classes left, anthropology (+lab) and statistics. I already did one science class, geology, and got an A, so I'm not super worried about anthropology.

Unfortunately I haven't taken a math class since high school, so 10+ years. And I went to an online high school, so I cheated all throughout unsurprisingly. Today was the first day of statistics, the only math class I could get, and the professor handed out a "math review" sheet with some problems to get us warmed up for the semester. They were very basic math problems and I could not answer any of them. Like none of it. Division, square root, etc... can't do any of it. I've had a reasonably successful career in journalism the last decade but I haven't used math basically ever in my life. There's a meme in journalism that everyone uses a percent change website but it's true, I do use that website a lot to get the percent change between two numbers, lol.

I'm thinking now that I'm basically fucked. What do I even do... I only have these two classes between me and an AA but I see no chance I can pass this.

I had so much optimism when I started this drug. My friend recommended it to me and said she felt effects immediately -- it changed her baseline, noise in her head quieted down, she stopped ruminating... I have always been an overthinker, constant fatigue and low motivation, I have emotional imbalances... common things that wellbutrin is supposed to help with, and she saw those signs in me which is why she recommended I try it as well. Doctor of course recommended it also and gave me a prescription.

I was so excited when I started that it would help but I just hit 8 weeks and nothing... I haven't felt a single thing. Still My generic is from Vitruvias Therapeutics. Has anyone else been on it for 8 weeks and felt nothing at all? My overthinking, emotional problems, fatigue... it's all still there just as always. I doubt going up to 450mg will make a difference

Location: San Francisco

I was assigned to film the outside entrance of OpenAI's offices for a documentary. Unfortunately for the project they want a lot of B-roll and asked me to stand on the sidewalk in front of OpenAI recording for 3 hours. I'm sitting far on the public sidewalk, pointing my camera at the entrance where people come and go.

They have a ton of security at OpenAI because of all the protests and other issues, so that's understandable. But their security keeps coming up to me, harassing me, telling me I should go. I am not on private property though, I am at the furthest reach of the public sidewalk. They said I'm violating privacy by pointing it at the entrance where you can see inside as people open the entrance door. I don't think that's true because I'm not zooming in or anything, and you can see from the street anyway.

what's the best thing to say if they threaten to call police? Do i need to show ID to a police officer if they come by to check out the situation? I don't think I would have to show ID for exercising my first amendment rights on the sidewalk, but I don't know

So I signed up for Instagram+ when it was launched and only recently they started showing the time when each viewer of your story watched it. Below each name in the viewer list it will say "1 hr" or "25 min" etc. But what I realized is that this updates if they view your story again. So now I'm able to see which users are rewatching -- particularly useful if you're interested in someone, being able to see that they keep rewatching haha. I noticed this one girl I like, it said "5 hr" meaning she watched it 5 hours ago... checking later it said "7 min." also the "rewatching" count at the top ticks up. Now I know she keeps rewatching

Thought that might be a useful tip for some of you. Sorry if this has already been posted

I just hit 7 weeks on 300mg XL with no noticeable changes. Still lack energy, still overthink and ruminate for days on things, etc. I'm still hoping I'll notice some positive benefits soon but just wanted to let ya'll know. A lot of people have reported it working immediately so just feeling a bit discouraged. Mine is made by Vitruvias Therapeautics

I [29m] am having an experience that's new to me. I started talking to this woman [25f] on Hinge about a week and a half ago and we're supposed to be going on a date tonight, dinner and walking around, a ferry ride. She seems very enthusiastic about me, I have a very online presence for my job and she found my name, studied all my work. She remembers lots of details about me, teases me a lot. She sends me voice messages where she references things I've said. Pictures of herself, etc.

The only thing is, she seems VERY intense. She told me herself that she is intense when it comes to dating and wishes courtship would come back, and I've definitely got that energy from her. And meanwhile I have always been low energy, laidback. I prefer to go on a casual first date just to make sure we are compatible IRL, but she wants the full service -- pick up her, bring flowers, go to dinner, ferry ride. She wanted to see "how thoughtful and chivalrous I am." I just... I have been on lots of first online dates and frequently we vibe online but when we meet IRL the connection isn't there. So I normally do a lowkey first date, coffee or drinks, maybe a walk, and then escalate once I know we're still compatible. This is the first woman in my nearly 30 years that has wanted the full treatment on a first date.

I guess I made a mistake saying I would meet her at the restaurant, because most women I have been on dates with have preferred to meet me rather than giving me their addresses on the first date. She responded with just "how chivalrous," so clearly mad. I then offered to get an Uber and add her apt as a pickup stop and she responded "I'll just get my own ride not to inconvenience you..."

I feel like our respective expectations for a first date are so out of wack. We are supposed to go for dinner in a few hours and it just feels so negative already, I'm not really feeling it now.

I'm really not sure what to do. This is stressing me out, maybe it's a bad sign and I should just cancel. Thoughts?

So many people hate on Credit One I just wanted to post my experience. I destroyed my credit at 20/21 years old. I got an AMEX Platinum, AMEX Gold, Chase Freedom Unlimited, Citi Diamond Preferred, Capital One Quicksilver, HSBC Cash Rewards, Discover it, maybe even another I'm forgetting. I was 20 years old and issued all these cards, and I was extremely stupid so I blew all of it with no ability to pay it back of course.

Eventually most of these cards went to collections, though I paid off some of them before they were closed after my score tanked. I couldn't get a credit card for years besides using a Chime secured card. Not even Capital One or Discover secured would give me a card. Eventually I got my college degree and started making decent money, but credit in the dumpster. I was approved for a Credit One card with $500 limit and no deposit. The $75 annual fee sucked, yes, but the card worked fine, and I could make instant payments and restore my credit limit immediately. They offered me regular credit line increases. I ran charges through it often and would pay it off almost immediately, or within a few days. It was a fine card, even though I was going on dates sometimes and didn't want girls to see that card haha.

The card has no real benefits but they were the only company to give me a credit line, understandably because I had screwed nearly every legit credit card issuer in the book. But my credit score went from 560 to 650ish, then finally Capital One took me out of the doghouse and let me have a card again even though I had burned them only a few years prior (granted I burned them for like $300, not much).

I see lots of bad reviews and yes Credit One is not great, most people should avoid, but it worked for me and wasn't terrible like some people make it out to be. I knew the charges I would get from when I applied. I paid my balance off about twice a month, maybe more, and it worked fine. My score increased a lot after a year of just using that card and paying the balance off regularly. Most people shouldn't get a Credit One card but it worked well for me. Also they didn't charge me an annual fee in the second year after I called and asked them to not.

Been talking to a woman I like quite a bit from Hinge for the past week or so. She wants to go on an evening date at some point this week. I'm bringing her some baked goods, she knows about this and essentially said a walk somewhere with some cookies is what she would like to do. So where should we walk around on a weekday evening this week after 4-5pm? Lake Merritt seems like too predictable, but maybe that's fine... and we could go to Mama's Boy afterwards since we were talking about that. Any other ideas appreciated

I'm still holding out hope that I'll start noticing some subtle changes soon, but I just feel like absolutely nothing has changed in the 5 weeks I've been on 300mg XL. Still constantly overthinking, mind still busy, my fatigue and low motivation is the same as always. My friend started not long before me and told me her brain is quieter now, which is kind of what I want but just nada so far. Anyone else?

Started bupropion 300mg XL 28 days ago now. I've had some mild side effects here and there (i.e. vision going blurry for a bit with pressure on eyes) but overall can't say I've felt all that much? I definitely didn't have the honeymoon period everyone describes. I'm hoping this drug can help with my chronic overthinking, low motivation and fatigue, mild social anxiety but so far I don't think it's done much.

Anyway, today I woke up and was just really sad and down the whole day for no reason I can understand. It's hard for me to ascertain whether this is due to the drug or just a normal mood off day, but I really just didn't feel good today at all. It could also just be that I'm lonely, not sure. Hoping this drug shows me some sort of positive change soon because I really want to be normal

Yesterday was July 4th of course and I ended up going to a party where I admittedly drank a ton. It's 5pm the next day here and I still feel awful, and have bad hangxiety. But more to the point, I started bupropion three weeks ago and haven't really felt a change. I was sober for a while up until recently when I started drinking again, a couple days a week.

I'm wondering if anyone who has been on bupropion for a long time thinks that alcohol blunted the benefits of the drug? Am I just basically canceling it out by drinking?

I just hit the 3 week mark on 300mg XL and overall I feel mostly like I did before I started. But I was just sitting here in bed and it kind of struck me that I may have already experienced a change.

One of my BIGGEST problems is anxiety, and in particular it leads to avoidant behavior that ends up getting me in trouble. I don't look at an email from someone because I'm too anxious about what it says, anxious about opening the text from a girl I like, anxious about my boss hounding me over Slack. So I oftentimes just ignore the messages until I finally drink and get liquid courage to look at them. It's probably my biggest flaw and I've had it all throughout my twenties.

But it hit me sitting in bed just now... the past few days I've looked at messages immediately without getting anxious. I don't know if it's just a fluke but I was like "holy shit" when I realized I've suddenly been looking at messages and responding to them straight away. Crazy!!

title says it all. one left.

I started Wellbutrin on June 14th at a friend's recommendation because I've always had general anxiety, low energy, and low level depression. She told me she started taking it and immediately felt positive effects. Unfortunately for me, not much has happened besides I am suddenly really irritable and getting mad at people over nothing.

Somewhat ironically, one person I blew up on is... the friend who recommended Wellbutrin. She was reading my messages one night and wasn't responding and I just blew up on her. The next day she started typing out a message and taking a long time, stopping/starting, and I blew up on her again. At that point she said "I'm done" and hasn't been talking to me since.

I've also been getting mad at other people and things for no reason, and this is as someone who has always been docile and low energy. I notice the difference that I'm suddenly being an asshole.

I'm going to give my friend some space and hopefully will be able to fix this... I feel like blaming my behavior on the drugs is a cop out but I really do think it's why I've been suddenly getting mad and aggressive with people!!