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ive been thrifting all of the twilight saga (books and movies, hopefully ill find the soundtrack cds eventually) and i just started actually using my DVDs of the movies because they left the streaming service i was watching them on, and its so wonderful

i love being able to pause the movie (or bonus content!) and leave the room and come back 20 minutes later and there not be an ad on my screen. not having to worry about my wifi going out or lagging is also wonderful, and its literally just such a good feeling to use a dvd and know i own the movie.

its also just so nice to go back to how it was for me growing up with DVDs, since i still have the same TV i grew up with which has a built in DVD player, so its nostalgic and also just feels good to use physical media anyway instead of just interacting with a touch screen or buttons on a remote

i love physical media!!!

i cannot stand it when a nice apartment complex has a nice gym but decides to build it in a spot where every single car that drives by outside can look in and see you working out. i get they want to show off “look we have a nice gym, rent here!” but i dont want to work out in there, i dont want to be on display when im working out 🫩

half the time i try to go to any given website on my iphone, i get an error along the lines of “Website cant be reached” “This site may be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address” or whichever version of that error the various browsers ive tried use, including google, brave, and safari.

ive tried going to the same websites on my computer on brave and chrome, and i just get the same thing. on brave specifically, i get “This site cant be reached” “(website)’s DNS address could not be found. Diagnosing the problem”

i know the websites arent down because sometimes it will do it when im literally just trying to look at google images, and it does it for various other websites i used to use often

ive tried turning my wifi off on my phone and just using data, ive tried vpn on and off on both my phone and laptop, and nothing changes. its driving me crazy and literally preventing me from being able to apply to jobs. please help

im reading breaking dawn right now and i have midnight sun to read after i finish breaking dawn, but i dont have life and death or the short second life of bree tanner yet, and im wondering what youtube videos or posts on here yall would most suggest i read once i finish the books and movies?

right now, i have a bunch of tiktoks saved that seem to have spoilers so im waiting to watch them, and i have a couple youtube videos saved to watch

• “twilight was all in bellas head” by alex bale
• “8 things i hate about twilight” by caroline easom
• “twilight” by contrapoints

what other videos discussing twilight should i watch?

i had two things recently i just wanted to talk about and get out of my system, so of course i went to r/ vent to vent. i wrote out all my thoughts into organized paragraphs the way i would write anything else, i have plenty of karma within (from comments) and outside of the subreddit itself, i followed every rule, i didnt say anything harassing a specific person, nothing, and yet both times my posts got taken down.

i tried messaging the mods after the first post got taken down saying essentially“hey uh what happened lol” and got no response. after i wrote the second post i did the same thing, no response.

i finally just unsubbed because i opened the app to see a post from r/ vent in my feed, and i wont go into detail to not harass that person, but it was just a very low effort post written bizarrely that wouldve fit better in a plethora of other subreddits, not r/ vent. if that kind of post gets to stay up, but mine dont for no apparent reason, i evidently do not need to support them.

I submitted my application online and then I got an email for the video interview, did the video interview, and it says I should hear back within two weeks if I got the job. Could it really take that long for me to hear back? Or does it just say that just in case?

I’m so paranoid because I don’t think I did very well in the video interview because I was extremely nervous, but I also do think I had good answers, I was just stuttering and visibly nervous, but it’s only been 4 days since i submitted it so I’m trying to remain reasonable but I’m just terrified tbh 😭

if you’re visiting from other countries for the world cup, and you’re one one of the people walking to the metlife stadium down i95, what the fuck are you doing? its illegal, extremely dangerous, and generally absolutely insane to do. i keep seeing the excuses like “well theres no other way” and the typical fat lazy american stereotypes.

what y’all aren’t realizing, is the way youre acting is comparable to if someone went to venice and jumped in the canals to swim to their destination, and then called the locals lazy for taking boats. its illegal to swim in the canals, you’d get all wet, and you’d look insane. you simply do not swim in the canals in venice, and you simply do not walk down the INTERSTATE in the usa. sure, it sucks that you can’t safely walk to the stadium, but if you die or get arrested on your way there, you aren’t gaining anything or making some cool european point like you think you are.

i know the usa has terrible car dependent infrastructure, notjustbikes was in my top 3 youtube channels watched last year. i know, i get it, i know the size of the usa isn’t an excuse, etc, i agree with you. i hate that i live off an 8+ lane wide stroad where people regularly get hit and killed while walking. i’ve literally witnessed a horrific crash where two pedestrians got obliterated right before my eyes, only a mile from my house.

however, the average citizen has ZERO control over how new roads and highways are built. a lot of us DON’T LIKE IT! i would much rather my city bring our trains (that i’m grateful to have to begin with) over to my area to cover more of the city so i could take a safe route to work and not have to sit in the pointless inefficient car traffic.

i do not have a drivers license and do not even want to drive here because of how unsafe it is, however it is inevitable. considering the only two other options here are the buses that exist almost exclusively for homeless people in my area and are constantly late and off schedule, and ubers that cost an exorbitant amount of money and have their own issues, i will have to get a license and a car eventually. i do not want to pay for a car, insurance, gas, maintenance etc just to get around, but until i move somewhere where that isnt necessary, i have zero power or control over the situation.

edit: no longer replying to anyone who intentionally misses the point of this post

hey so actually if you ask someone if they committed a literal felony, theyre not just gonna say “yep sure did.”

pisses me off in my personal life and when i see the true crime documentaries my mom watches. itll be, lets say a husband of a wife who got lead poisoning, getting interviewed. the reporter will say “did you try to poison your wife?” and OF COURSE he says no. why the hell would he say yes? do you seriously think hes just gonna say “haha yep i gave her lead to try to kill her?”

or telling my old friends about something one of their friends did to me, and they said “well i asked him and he said he didnt do that” no shit. he would be put on a list and arrested and charged with a felony if he admitted to it. why the hell do you think he would’ve admitted to that?

how much were the tickets last tour? i dont have the money at all right now, but i have two paintings i wanna try to sell to get tickets to the houston show so i need to know how much to post them for. i know the price might not be the exact same as last time, i just want to have a general idea

i applied like a week ago and didnt see the wotc screening email until a couple days later and i went to do it and says its already been completed and i have a confirmation number? since then ive gotten the email saying i got the video interview email, im just really confused and concerned about the wotc thing? i dont really know what it is or if i need to contact them about it.

i have a 12 pound weighted blanket and it says the outside is 100% polyester and the fill material is 8% polyester 92% glass microbeads, and it says spot or wipe clean.

its not visibly dirty, it just smells and its annoying. ive tried fabric sprays and ive tried leaving it outside in the sun and neither if those did anything for the smell at all, maybe even made it worse tbh.

could i just hand wash it with a little detergent and then leave it in the sun for a few hours and rotate it every so often to dry? or is there another way to go about this? i feel like it should be fine but im not 100% sure and i dont want to ruin it and not be able to replace it

i know putting it in a washer or dryer would be loud as hell and bad for the machines because of the weight, and i dont want to piss off my neighbors, so i dont really want to try that

edit: the comment disappeared but someone suggested i try using a little green machine on it and i think that would be way easier considering it wouldn’t have to get completely soaking wet and heavy af, so I’ll probably try that!

in the book, bella goes outside to find charlie put snow chains on the tires of her truck before she got up for school on a particularly cold day, iirc charlie had already left for work that day too, so its just a nice subtle gesture that helps add a little emphasis to the awkward but loving relationship between charlie and bella. they never directly discuss it together and its just a sweet thing he did for her

in the movie though, she walks outside to him pulling in the driveway in her truck after taking it to get completely new tires. sure, thats a nice thing too, but they talk about it and acknowledge each other then and its still sweet but it has a different vibe to it, and i especially dislike that its less awkward than the book

i really like the awkwardness between charlie and bella because its something i can relate to and it makes sense considering the divorce, bella only visiting him during summers, and especially bellas overall shy awkward personality, so that little detail being changed is just a little disappointing. not a crazy change or anything but i still preferred the book there

thought of this while seeing a video of a white family adopting a chinese kid, but the chinese people in the video spoke english so i assume the kid had already heard or learned some english. im not sure how old she was, maybe like a year or two?

im just curious, if the kid had never heard english in their whole life, and then suddenly they never hear chinese and only hear english, would they be able to adapt? do they have to learn some of both at first? at what age would they not be able to adapt to the language switch if it happened then? like could a 4 year old handle that or only a young baby?

i never plan on having kids so this wont be something i ever apply to real life, im just curious!

in trying to update my carrd, but i cant see use the website at all unless i have a vpn on? it doesnt matter which browser i use, or if im connected to my wifi or just on data, i cant access the main website or even see my own carrd through its link.

one of my friends who lives across the country can still see the website and my carrd, but we’re both in the usa so im confused 😭 has something happened with carrd and texas or is there an issue with my device? ill use my vpn for now, its just annoying because i dont know what happened

there are stickers, usually made for car windows, that are designed to look like an animal or a character is peeking up over the bottom of the window frame looking out the window.

so WHY do people just stick them on the center of their window? at this point i think i see them placed wrong more often than i see them places right. it literally would’ve taken the exact same amount of time and effort to do it right…

some subreddits (thankfully not this one) require flairs for posts but all the flairs are extremely specific with no miscellaneous flair, or theyre random bizarre nonsense that you wont understand unless youve been part of their group for ages

like for example, no, i dont want to pick between “commissioned digital art painted on a wednesday evening” and “art done in middle school at 9am for my teacher whos name started with a B” when im trying to post art, why is there no basic “fanart” flair or just “traditional art” flair? why does it have to be so damn specific? 😭

or god forbid those subreddits that just have nonsense like “WHAAAATTT NO WAY REALLY???” or “IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!!” like what? how am i supposed to choose a flair for my post thats just me needing to ask a question, when every option is some super specific situation in all caps?

if you dont require a flair on every post then okay thats fine! people can use a super specific flair *if they want to*! thats nice and fun! but not every post fits into the strange categories some people come up with…

i got my earlobes pierced in late january, i know they arent fully healed yet, and i know everyone heals differently, but how do i know when they are fully healed, as in i could take my earrings out and they wouldnt close?

ive seen people say theyve had theirs done for years and they still start to close if they leave their earrings out for too long, is there any way to tell that yours are at the point they wont close? or is it just something you have to gamble with to test it?

i dont have any issue sleeping on my current earrings, i dont feel them at all surprisingly and its nice, but if i use a different pillow or get different earrings that i would notice, id of course like to be able to sleep without them in. is that just something that isnt worth risking and should be avoided to begin with, or will i be able to tell someday that i can leave them out overnight without just hoping and praying i wake up and still have holes?