u/Chengweiyingji

My iPhone 11 got a few drops of water on it last week. There was a crack in the screen on the left side (even though the screen protector and a case were on it) but the ghost taps are on the right. At first things were fine, but ever since the ghost taps developed it has been driving me insane. Opening images on social media constantly. Sending half-written texts. Trying to add stops to my route when I have Google Maps open. I cannot get it to stop. I've restarted it and removed the case to see if either will help. They do not. I have removed the screen protector, and that did nothing. I cannot afford to replace it right now despite how often people tell me I should. What do I do?

I am down to my last 30 miles at most (my car says “low fuel” below that) and work is too far for me to make it and back. I’m in Connecticut. I just need $20 to get through to payday on Friday. I have PayPal, Cashapp and Venmo.

Both of them are authors (heavy quotation marks on Del Arroz since he uses AI) and all, but it's clear from their social media presence that they both are aiming for that right wing audience who dislike the modern state of franchises. How genuine are they in that? Like if they weren't being chuds and wrote their stuff the same way, would they have a bigger audience? Or is this right wing stuff just a ploy to get an audience because they think they can't elsewhere?

I am planning to start drafting for a sci-fi story to eventually pitch to publishers that accept from unagented writers. I figure I will have to use lunch breaks at my job, but I can’t be on computers during my lunch. What’s the better notebook line height to best emulate the standard manuscript so I can have an idea of how long the story is?

EDIT: Guys, of course I’m going to type it up. I just wanted to have a plan for when I can’t be at a computer and wanted a rough idea for how close I can get to a page count beforehand.

I personally own about 135, but I’ve only read about 20 of them so far.

So if I shared a video in, say, a Discord server, anyone who clicked on the video would get a pop up saying “(name) shared this.” I obviously don’t want to be sharing my identity like that - any ideas on how we can get around that?

I paid all my bills and was blindsided by having to pay a higher sales tax to register my car, so I'm left with just about nothing. I want to make sure I can make it to payday next week.

I’m turning 26 soon. I’m dreading it. I feel like I have achieved nothing - no career or career goal, no degree (I graduated high school), dead end job I hate, barely getting by, blah blah blah. But whenever I get close to my birthday, I feel it at its worst. The feeling that time is running out.

I know it isn’t. I know 26 is “still young” and there is plenty of time and all. Lots of people have told me that. But I can’t shake it. I hear about people my age and younger making big movies or other major achievements and I hear about older people finally hitting their stride, and none of this makes me feel better.

And even worse, every time I get the notion that I might want to do something, something in my brain makes up ten different reasons why it won’t work or why I can’t do it. I hate it when people tell me to just start something because I immediately think why it’s a bad idea and I don’t consider it. Sometimes the only thing that seems to stick is death, and I don’t want my life just to be “I was here and then I died.” I get so worked up about it and yet I feel so powerless.

I have had coworkers pull me aside to talk about ambition, I have had people affiliated in my current field pull me aside and tell me to get a move on and I can’t. I feel paralyzed.