u/Focus-Interrogative

I went to school for dental assistance and never entered the field for a few reasons. One of those reasons was dentists. My god can they be pieces of shit. My wife went for help today, and now I'm filing a complaint with our insurance company, the state attorney general's office and the state dentistry board. She went in with an abscess and this asshole dentist was prioritizing the volume of patients he can pump out because he gets paid by how many patients he sees in this franchise he works at. She wouldn't of gone to this franchise unless it was an emergency. So instead of getting actual help, they did x-rays, acknowledged her abscess, told her she need a root canal redone but they won't touch it so they referred to her to an endo specialist - the doctor wasn't just dismissive he wasn't even paying attention. He asked my wife if she wanted a crown put back on that had came off due to her gums being inflamed from the abscess. He gave no input he just asked, so she asked him if it would hurt, he said no, she asked to have him put it back on.

Well, he didn't even check her fucking bite. He glued the crown back on wrong, didn't do any anatomy work and left the room. A tech ended up filing down the anatomy on the crown until she was afraid it would break, and my wife still can't bite down the hole way. Let me clarify: One side of her mouth needs a root canal and has an abscess, the other side needed a crown put back on and he stuck it on like it was a fucking lego piece. Between the pain and the lack of function, she literally can't fucking eat solid food right now.

All this paired with her waiting 2 hours late to get into her scheduled appointment, another hour in the office waiting while the doctor kept pumping out quicker cases, and a whole bunch of other just, insane things. He didn't even use the correct dose of Novocaine. The hygienist and the tech were literally in tears, apologetically breaking professionalism to my wife that this dentist puts people through this type of behavior, constantly. Maybe I'm not describing my wife's experience well enough I'm not sure, but think of it this way: This guy was a walking red flag of greed driven unethical behavior. My wife didn't even get properly discharged, the tech and hygienist couldn't find the dentist after he slapped the crown in her mouth without checking her bite and just, walked out.

Two of our cats have died and one grandfather has been put into a nursing home in the last 90 days. I've gone broke making sure our bills are paid because someone who I'm not allowed to kick out of this house doesn't know how to balance a checkbook. I lose my license in a month for 9 months. This is my first year sober. Now I come home to hear about all of this fucking shit. If life keeps going this way, I'm gonna become a lawyer.

I'd like to ask for the best books, youtube channels, whatever resources you have in mind for some specific parameters.

-If I had to guess what style of diet I'm leaning towards the most, it would be something loosely mediterranian.

-My partner is vegan but I'm not, and I've found the compromise almost painless. I'm the opposite of a picky eater.

-I want to contribute to my household more by taking charge of meals and developing some amount of regularity. I also need to figure out healthy work lunches for myself, or just well rounded meals that make leftovers. However, I'm not a vastly knowledgeable cook. I make a mean hangover breakfast, that's about it.

I need simple budget meals, without ingredients I'll never use again or other snags. Something I can meal prep for throughout the week is great but I'm looking to cook dinner too. Stuff you throw in the oven is awesome. Crock pot meals.

Meals you can substitute protein in is great, like if there's a dish I can keep on file for myself that can use either chicken or beans. Which brings me to my next thing.

-I'm rapidly losing weight by making really simple decisions and now I'm eager to start exercising again and putting on muscle. So a mediterranian/vegan crash course on sources of protein is probably in order, too. Or whatever else you might recommend

-Recommendations for "snacks" that somehow fit into all this are welcome too. We're a really snack heavy household and I'm tired of seeing my family throw corpo trash down their top hatches.

I think that covers it. Thanks a lot.

So, I got BG3 months ago knowing full well what I was getting into, but not how my patience with it would go. I respect the process so much, I got BG1 and 2 for my phone to play and I'm starting BG1 on story mode. Totally, totally unlike me, it's like blasphemy compared to my usual attitude, but I just want to learn at this point.

I like playing somewhere between chaotic neutral and neutral good, and I noticed BG1 literally has you choose your alignment. How all does this effect the game overall? MASSIVE difference? Certain ways skew the story to be less satisfying or involved? I noticed it said that chaotic neutral is typical of madmen. I don't like alliances persay, but I don't like robbing everyone blind either.

anything else I should keep in mind?

So from what I gather, you guys cram multiple jobs into 40 hours/week. A lot of you guys seem to be leveraging work from home stuff to do this. How does one go from say, being a complete normie, to this?

I'm going to be vulgar and speak in some extremes here because I'm in the mood to give some people a taste of their own medicine. On top of that, I don't talk this way unless people know my background but we're gonna be ruthless here.

If you go through life victimizing everyone around you and play victim, I no longer give a fuck if it's because you're weak, or pathetic, or sad, or need therapy and medication. Your trauma is not an excuse not to get help, or to harm others. The world does not revolve around you. No one owes you anything, and out of the various narcissists I've met in my life, literally all of them would make the world a better place if they ceased to exist.

I am not talking about your mean ex or your drunk boss, I'm talking about people who shouldn't even be allowed in a free society because everything they touch burns. People they date commit suicide. Small businesses who employ them go out of business. Their children get sold into servitude for drugs or, whatever. I used to think it was society's job to try and fix people but the older I get I think we just need to study people who end up incarcerated to remove negative environmental factors for future generations.

I have spent far too much time in my life, trying to ease people away from narcissistic exes or loved ones, trying to explain to them what the nature of the beast is like, and I've decided that in many cases these people just don't deserve anything. We should abandon them, ignore them, completely leave them socially isolated and as desolate from victims as possible.

Stop forgiving your grandparent, or your kid's parent, or your mom or whoever, do what needs to be done, and leave these people to rot in their own fucking misery. And when they come crawling back like the parasites they are, drowning in a puddle? Throw them a fuckin barbell.

I live with a narcissistic elderly woman who is not my family member, and one other person and, quite frankly I don't know if the elderly woman fucks up the finances because she's an idiot or if she literally does it on purpose so she has drama to bitch about in life. I have insisted on helping but I meet resistance at every turn.

If she doesn't unfuck herself within the next month so help me god I'll leave this house and let the electricity go out. Newsflash: Homeowner's insurance doesn't cover not knowing how to pay your bills, dipshit. Have fucking fun with that.

I don't work full time to watch this dog shit go down with no regard for my contribution to this household. I'm also tired of no one taking my anger seriously.

I recently ran into a tiktok account that led to a fanvue, where customers pay for services similar to an OF account. What intrigues me about this, is that the Fanvue account is labeled that the girl is A.I.. This is really interesting to me and, as much as I appreciate that the model is gorgeous I'm more curious from a market and business standpoint. Where do I go to ask my questions like, what's the whole digital stack look like? What does revenue look like? I don't know that I would go down this route but I'm studying A.I. and I want to hear about *all* workflows, especially things that may be single man entrepreneurial ventures.

For fucking weeks I've been trying to warn my wife that if she doesn't figure out the situation about how her grandmother is fucking up our finances, there's going to be consequences. Well, here we are with a shutoff notice from our electric company and not only does it make zero fucking sense for us not to have been able to cover all our bills, for months, this entire time, grandmother also told us she only has $100 to put towards the bill.

This is after three thirty day extentions and/or grants towards our power bill we got from a doctor because for a while a person with insulin lived with us and they can't just shut off your power if you push back with a doctor. But that can only be done three times.

Now, how we even got into a situation where we couldn't pay the electric bill is a mystery to me, because I didn't ask, because all I know is grandmother was paying bills she shouldn't be paying. I trusted my wife to reign her in because frankly, grandmother is also a narcissist and I don't have the tact not to tell her about herself. For weeks I have been asking, and telling her there's gonna be hell to pay if the electric goes off.

So now I'm pissed and fed up enough that I'm experiencing this because I trusted people to act like fuckin adults, so here's the deal: If grandmother doesn't give my wife the credentials to the social security money and relinquish her financial responsibilities, I'm moving the fuck out at the end of the week.

Fuckin done with this shit. I'm not leaving my wife, but I'm not gonna enable this fuckin shit either.

Pretty simple question. I'm the holder of attention span between my wife and I. She won't even "suffer" through the godfather because she can't follow the plot over that long of time (honestly this is probably the single biggest difference between us, which is good because it somehow doesn't bother me).

Still though, is The Disaster Artist independently funny? Or does it need the full context?

edit lmao you guys are great, thanks. I'm learning a lot in a hurry. Sorry to summon the gods of cinema. Also, a lot of emphasis on the word suffering. She just doesn't love long movies, that's all.

I'm starting to see multiple articles addressing the general consensus, which at it's core in a nutshell is, "Give wildlands the engine and mechanics of breakpoint and it'd be perfect."

I haven't seen this much of an outpour of journalists acknowledging the discourse among gamers in a positive way in a really long time. This isn't like when bethesda added denuvo to doom eternal. Nothing bad has happened to bring the community together. We just know what we want, and people are listening.

So keep it up, guys. Maybe ubisoft will make a comeback.

I see a lot of posts on reddit where people are looking for support because they're not sure if they can get through a day without alcohol after a binge. I know it's ignorant of me, but all I can think is, "You should be so lucky it's only that bad for you".

I used to drink a gallon of 100 proof vodka, daily. I lived in the .3 .4 BAC range. I've had more seizures than I know about, and dragged myself out of heavy detoxes which literally took weeks, countless times throughout my life.

The highest I ever blew was .83 (this isn't up for debate, I've gotten into disagreements about it before. The highest BAC on record is over 1.5 FYI.

I see some of these people and even though I'm sober now, I literally envy them. How naive I was when my hangovers were only that bad. Wait, what am I talking about? I was never hung over - I just kept drinking.

I see everyone, anyone with a problem that isn't as bad as mine was, and I just really hope they quit soon, before they end up the way I was for a while.

Just felt like getting it off my chest but also to say to whoever needs to hear it, like... Think about what you're doing. The only state of mind waiting for you when the consequences catch up to you is sobriety.

Wish you guys the best.

Still debating on my career change and sec is a big interest of mine, but never been in the field. What type of hours can I anticipate if I decide to go that route? I'm beholden to a decent amount of family medical stuff, but I understand sec can have brutal hours depending who you work for.

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Title is a CP2077 reference, IYKYK. My question is:

Can I go through the entire main quest, then turn around and enjoy the rest of the game the way I want to? Or is there a chapter in the main quest I should stop, where everything is accessible but you don't want to progress further because it'll end the game?

Edit [Answered]: You can finish the story, and the game will place you back into the world to do as you please for the rest of the content. I wanted to treat the story like a tutorial, and that's exactly what I can do.

If you go to her non-ASMR IG, she claims the algorithms and automated A.I. censorship have "made a mistake". It would make sense as to why some of the bans don't make sense. A lot of the earliest reporting on the ban wave also seems to hold this opinion.

I don't know most of the ASMRtists who've been banned but I've been a fan of Bunnii for years, and she does have an OF but her Linktr.ee doesn't even mention it. You have to go out of your way to search her handle in a web browser to find her adult content.

Other than that, the worst she does on IG is some underboob while cosplaying. I think it's safe to say she did everything even more professionally than can be reasonably expected compared to her colleagues.

Hopefully YT has the sense to fix some of this, but I'm not sure they'll even admit they're wrong. Meanwhile, I've never read YT's ToS but I wonder if incidents like this could give rise to something like social media income insurance. Something to buy into to supplement your income should the rug be pulled out from under you.

It played like Descent, but it wasn't first person. 6DoF means 6 degrees of freedom who don't know. So, the setting was this futuristic city that wasn't exactly cyberpunk, it was cleaner, and covered in neon, and you flew around in different one man ships. I remember it had some RPG elements and, it wasn't exactly for kids but it was definitely mostly non-violent, fun and quirky.

I bought it at like, five below yeeeeears ago and have no idea what happened to it or what it's called, but I've never seen another game quite like it, ever.

Thanks guys.

Someone's gotta know what I'm talking about. It wasn't so old that it was from the era of Descent, more like a 2000's vibe.

It was a game where you flew different ships, all of a one man cockpit size, and you flew around this futuristic city that wasn't quite cyberpunk, more neonpunk. 6DoF means 6 degrees of freedom, so the game played like descent, but had RPG elements. It wasn't quite a kids game but it was quirky, and really fun. I can't for the life of me find it. If anyone has a clue I'd be eternally grateful.