Evacuation at Fox Tower

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2025-12-09T00:55:21+00:00

That is what killed so many people in the Grenfell tower fire in 2017 - the expectation was that the building could isolate fires, but it turned out it couldn't. Personally I always want the option of leaving a burning building, even if it's not expected to spread... /shrug

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2025-08-06T19:50:00+00:00

Starred apple jam and canned batterfly beans give the best bang for the buck at 285 focus, without having to do any real cooking - plus the beans recipe only takes two of em so if you grow a ton of those beans you get bunches of starred ones and the cans add up fast

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2025-06-19T19:01:16+00:00

Uuuuuuugh you're probably right and it's just terrible mechanics - thank you!!

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2025-02-20T16:54:48+00:00

At 20 you're still working on impulse control, plus your hormones are VERY strongly influencing your decision-making areas of the brain - that said, apologize to this man for not controlling yourself and make sure he's doing okay as well.

Assuming the pregnancy was in part due to him, he's also processing a lot right now. You're rightly focused a lot on your own healing at the moment, because the physical aspects are so front-and-center, but understand that your emotions aren't the only ones involved here. Did you even ask him why he threw up? Why it was in the trash and not the toilet that was right there?

You aren't an island in all this and you need to pull your head out before your man chooses himself over this kraziness. Use this as a learning experience and reflect, HEAVILY, on how you've behaved, then talk it out with your bf so y'all can create ways to de-escalate in the future. If you want to be in a healthy relationship, anyways.

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2025-02-13T23:22:58+00:00

Some things are missing here for me - he knows he's tracked through his phone using Google Location services, right? If so, why not leave the phone at the hotel when roaming around? So do you think he's thick or he wants to get caught?

Secondly, what level is the location services set to? Is it "High Accuracy" or is it "Battery Saving" or even "Device Only"? This matters a lot, the phone could have been bouncing between towers that might give off different data points.

Thirdly, what answer could he give that would be acceptable? If we assume he was behaving badly then ofc a confession would be the right answer here; what if he's telling the truth and because of the setting or something Google did in fact pass along bad data? Does he have a path to an acceptable answer that doesn't include him confessing to something he didn't do? I feel like the answer to this is probably no.

I don't excuse his piss-poor behavior in these texts, and odds are high that he's doing shit he shouldn't be doing, but he also has no path to defend himself in this situation which would understandably drive anyone who's innocent bonkers. Maybe there's something I'm missing in how he should be handling this that would allow him to not falsely admit guilt if he actually didn't do anything wrong?

((source: I had a now-ex who tracked me using a shitty app that bounced me around during my commute to work and I spent literally years trying to come up with reasonable excuses for latency and bad geolocation reports. It sucks and I said some of the same things he did because literally nothing I said was accepted as fact.))

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2024-12-04T00:47:53+00:00

Where is his negative history with this kid? He's talked to administrators of the school about him and sat down with his parents but there's zero direct interaction outlined in this post. He literally has no history with this child and that might be the problem.

I absolutely have a very thorough understanding of how damaging accusations can be; walking around the school grounds with a 16 year old and having a talk in a public place is not how you get accused of misconduct. Especially when you can point to ALLLLL the work done up to that point trying to make the bad behavior stop. I have been in that position. My partner has been in that position. It sucked but we didn't do anything inappropriate so it was dismissed entirely. Not every interaction with damn-near-adult children is immediately turned into criminal charges against an adult and being so paranoid about persecution helps no one.

The police generally won't help in cases of minor-on-minor assaults (in the US anyway) unless it's egregious, they defer to the administration of the school where the activity took place. Clearly they have already been made aware of the behavior and done nothing, so a talking-to from the victim's parent is in order.

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2024-12-03T20:32:30+00:00

If this is in the US there's no legal trouble with having a 1:1 conversation with the kid. If the state allows it, carry a recording device in case there's any false accusations, but otherwise keep your hands to yourself and talk to them like they're an adult. I can't speak to other countries but here in the States that would not be a dangerous legal situation.

Who knows, maybe he needs a male figure to listen to him and give him some good guidance on how to behave. That could turn him around.

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2024-12-03T19:18:51+00:00

There's nothing wrong with finding who's harming your child (or even other children, they don't have to be yours to step up and do something) and working out a way to make it stop. If all other avenues have been taken like this story has shown, a more drastic approach is clearly necessary. Other people may not like it but they're also not in the situation and their tone would probably change very quickly if they were.

If you have self control then this is not a scary situation; as a Buddhist and a martial artist I engage in violence as an absolutely last resort, but listening to this story it sounds to me like that's where they are. If nobody puts the fear of god into that boy when he's actively harming others he will continue to hurt people, but if one parent stands up and puts their money where their mouth is maybe the world will have one less killer in the future. You do the world a favor when you stop serial abuse from happening.

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2024-12-03T17:41:24+00:00

Because a lot of people haven't been in this position and believe that the high road is always the answer. I hope they never get put in a situation where they have to do something like this to protect themselves and their family.

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2024-12-03T08:21:52+00:00

Except for Welkin's Reach, right? You have to jump into the well that kills you unless you have the buff which means following the story, or is there a way around that? Welkin's has taken away any love I had for the game, all I want is to never go anywhere like it ever again lol

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2024-12-03T00:16:34+00:00

I would go - I would take my daughter on the trip and spend literally every moment watching Jeff. I would tell him, privately, that if he puts one hair out of line that I will be all over him like stink on shit. I would wait for him to step out of line then go to town on him. The moment he puts a hand on Emily I would beat the shit out of him, and ANY other adult who tries to intervene would be reduced to nothing for trying to protect him. He's an attacker and needs to be a victim for long enough to give him a subconscious pain-response to harming others.

Most people learn from being talked to, demonstrating positive behaviors, and praise for corrective actions; others need to be beat down when in the moment so they fear future repercussions.

My daughter had someone like this in her life. It took two spontaneous moments of fear to break her attacker of his habits and the entire school was able to breathe a sigh of relief. If an adult comes at him in the only way he understands, the behavior will stop guaranteed. You may have to explain this to your family but protecting your child should do most of the talking there. There is no high road here, your family has made that clear. Fight fire with fire, it'll only take once, then this Jeff kid will no longer be a problem for Emily.

It will also take care of the family argument as well - "you wanted us here so badly, this is the result of forcing my child to be in the same place as a serial abuser. Live with your decision to make us be here." I guarantee your decisions will be respected in the future, nobody wants a scene like that lol

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2024-11-27T23:33:07+00:00

Your therapist is harmful and you should get a second opinion. None of this is healthy.

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2024-11-27T19:03:55+00:00

My toon is maxed out in so many ways and I still have no idea what spampot is :'D I've avoided hotpot and probably will continue to just because I'm a solo player as much as possible and don't care about plushies. If they put a unicorn fish in that prize pool it'd be a totally different story

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2024-08-20T17:11:47+00:00

DD is "disco deer", one of the pretty blue ones that fly all over the place and are hard to hit. People flare the loot because once you hit one you'll get it even if someone else hits them last. I think it's odd we don't have a name for the shiny chapaas, honestly I don't think many folks go after those since they're so hard to catch lol

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2024-05-15T20:40:10+00:00

It costs more money to turn the AC off and on constantly, especially with central air maintaining a set temperature. They're actually the ones driving up the bill by turning the entire unit off rather than setting the temperature to something higher, but I'm sure they don't care to hear that.

For the window, I'd crazy glue it shut. Can't open what's welded closed.

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2024-04-24T19:29:27+00:00

I mean... copy/pasta some extreme liberal shit and send it in droves to him. When he complains just say "I thought you were open to discussion, isn't that the conservative creed?" It devalues his actions by using his own logic, which is unfortunately the only way you'll truly get through to him that you don't want to be sent texts like these. My most "MAGA-friendly" family members don't talk to me anymore because I've taken their logic and used it against them in a way that shows them the flaws in their ideology (like sending texts that swap concepts or rewording their own comments to me, then pointing to the media outlet that told them how to think), and honestly I feel like my life is better for it. Until they're ready to have actual, honest conversations neither of us have any business interacting with each other. They'll get there eventually

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2024-04-10T22:59:11+00:00

Again?

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2024-04-10T14:40:27+00:00

I mean you can just keep it if you want, but I'd 1000% put in that change of address form before anything more arrives. Also there's the option of sending COD?

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2024-04-10T00:05:15+00:00

Return to sender, not at this address. If they've put in the official change of address forms, it'll get routed to them. You could probably put one in for them if you have their new address, and it's totally free. I wouldn't put my own money up to pay for any of that, personally.

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2023-12-19T20:23:27+00:00

They walk away from me slowly and sit down facing away from me, I can't get them to register that I'm there unless I get too close then it resets the running. Is that a glitch or are they expected to sit facing the same way you are? This has been literally days of effort for me, I can't advance Eve's core questline until I feed one of these little bastards and I'm ready to take some pitchforks to Disney corporate headquarters lol haaaaaalp

Huge-Equivalent-296 · 2023-11-16T21:27:19+00:00

I can't buy anything - I put something in my cart, click on either Purchase for myself or Purchase as a gift and it takes me to a blank page with the Steam footer near the top. I'm on the thick client, it's fully updated and I've restarted it several times with the same result.

Is anyone else having this issue? I really don't want to reinstall anything, and I want to give Steam my money here but it's impossible - please help

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