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salesman voice Just in time for summer I’ve got 3 Divers of varying sizes and styles ready for you….. is it working? 😅 Anyways seriously I have worn all 3 of these, the citizen very sparingly. See the following for the technical details.
[C] Seiko SRPC39 Prospex Mini Turtle - $400 OBO
Selling this with a fitted Crafter Blue strap that I wore very sparingly, and a Strapcode Oyster Bracelet. Beautiful watch just have moved on to other timepieces.
4R35 movement, Beautiful Blue Dial, Hardlex Crystal with Cyclops, Aluminum Insert, Diver's 200M, engraved wave caseback.
[B] Citizen Promaster Aqualand BJ2169-08E - $350 OBO
Purchased this guy from my local Citizen store. See this link on Citizen's website for minute details:
https://www.citizenwatch.com/us/en/product/BJ2169-08E.html
Here are the highlights, DIVER's 200m rating, 50m depth gauge that automatically starts when you submerge the watch, ecodrive solar quartz, divers chrono with screw down pushers, a CRISP 120 click unidirectional bezel, 22mm thick and soft silicone strap. It's really a nice feeling piece. Normally $500+ just about everywhere.
[C] Islander Spork Homage - $100 OBO
Don't recall the ISL number I think it's 175, but its a no date Spork homage with a fully lumed ceramic bezel, sapphire crystal with AR, and 200m water resistance. NH35 Automatic movement with all the parts for the date removed so it has a ghost position.
All prices are shipped to anywhere in the CONUS. Let me know if you have any questions.
I have 61 confirmed trades on Knife Swap, I just usually don’t post over here.

I hate to say it, but it really bothered me when she blocked and un-blocked me. She Dumped me about two months ago, we ended on good terms there was no fighting or yelling. I wanted this break up to be drama-free, because I didn't want to be made out to be the bad guy. And I didn't tell her I was dating again, my brother did, he saw her in a grocery store. She asked how I was, and he told her I downloaded tinder and bumble.
When she dumped me she said, "maybe we can try again in the future" but I'm not dumb I know thats really code for "I feel bad that I'm dumping you and I don't want you to hate me; so I'm letting you down easy." I know when she walked away, she was never coming back; however it still felt like she shot me in the heart when she blocked me and unblocked me.
Because I saw myself marrying this girl and starting a family ( I really thought she was the one).... I've been going to the gym, and finding other hobbies; however she's still on my mind. I realize I've been fixated on her, she's been the only woman on my mind. I don't want to find a new relationship necessarily, I need to see the different fish in the sea. Just because she doesn't want me anymore doesn't mean, that someone else might not want me.
At this point I'm still heart broken over her, but I know I gotta let her go and just because I'm letting go. Doesn't mean I don't still love her, my friends keep saying I shouldn't care; but I do. :(

Hi everyone,
My employer incorrectly deducted FICA taxes in FY22, I am on F1 visa and they shouldn't be deducted. I checked with my company's Lawyer and they agreed the amount shouldn't have been deducted. My employer said they can't run the payroll again for 2022 and I need to file the form f843. I am very confused about the form. Would appreciate any help. My visa has expired and I'll be leaving the states by the end of the month so I am very tensed.
1 Period. Prepare a separate Form 843 for each tax period or fee year: my FICA taxes were incorrectly deducted from 1/1022-12/15/2022. So will this be the period or should I fill it separately for each pay stub? (i get salary biweekly, so do i need to fill it for each of them?)
2 Amount to be refunded or abated: MED & SOC were the 2 taxes decudted. Should I add the total amount for both across all pay stubs and put it here?
3. Type of tax or fee. Indicate the type of tax or fee to be refunded or abated or to which the interest, penalty, or addition to tax is related.
Employment Estate Gift Excise Income Fee:
From the above options, which one should I select? I am assuming its should be either Employment or income.
4 Type of penalty. If the claim or request involves a penalty, enter the Internal Revenue Code section on which the penalty is based (see instructions). IRC section: What do i put here?
5a Interest, penalties, and additions to tax. Check the box that indicates your reason for the request for refund or abatement. (If none apply, go to line 6.)
a)Interest was assessed as a result of IRS errors or delays.
b) A penalty or addition to tax was the result of erroneous written advice from the IRS.
c) Reasonable cause or other reason allowed under the law (other than erroneous written advice) can be shown for not assessing a penalty or addition to tax.
What to select here?
b Date(s) of payment(s) ▶: the dates in fy22 for which the taxes were deducted? ie 1/1/2022-12/15/2022
6 Original return. Indicate the type of fee or return, if any, filed to which the tax, interest, penalty, or addition to tax relates.
706 709 940 941 943 945
990-PF 1040 1120 4720 Other (specify) ▶ : the original form I filed for my taxes?
7 Explanation. Explain why you believe this claim or request should be allowed and show the computation of the amount shown on line 2. If you need more space, attach additional sheets.:
Explanation why FICA shouldn't be deducted for F1?

Get to the Watchman's room while grabbing the ammo in the press room and run back. You should now have the Combat Knife. Go through the shutters on your right. Make your way down the hallway (watch out, there **will** be zombies) and enter the doors at the end of the hallway. Go into the room, grab the handgun ammo and map, then jump out the window. You can enter the West office to get the pouch, but that takes longer. If you decide to, the code is 9L, 15R, and 7L. Kill the zombies in the West Hall, board the windows, and go upstairs. 

Grab the ammo and red herb on the second floor and go upstairs. Grab the ammo on the drawers, then head into the busted hallway to grab the spade key. Go into the Library through the storage room while making sure you shoot down the zombie in the doorway and go down the stairs. NOT the Ladder. Kill the zombies however you see fit, grab the ammo behind the bookshelves, and exit the Library using the spade key.
Get the Lion Medallion (Code Lion, Branch, and Bird). Go through the Reception room using the Spade Key, and head to the fire exit. You can also head left to the art room and get the Weapons locker key for the shotgun, but that takes longer, and it will appear in the N.E.S.T later on. Grab the Bolt Cutters, and move through the two bolted doors grabbing the valve and fuse. Get to the main hall and go to the shutter doors on the other side of the room. Now, you have to go through that hall with the zombies again. If your ammo's running low, you can grab some on the bench to your left. Get to the operations room again, but this time, go through the chained door to the right of where you picked up the map.
Discard the Bolt Cutters, and pick up the Device and flash grenade. Go through the padlocked door to the left of where you came from, and go upstairs. Use the valve in the Shower room, and go through the smoke. There is some ammo on the first locker to your left, and you should probably pick it up. Move through the door, but be fast, because there is a licker "cutscene" that you can ignore and run into the S.T.A.R.S. office to your left. There is a red herb to your right and the Chief's office to your left with a battery on the desk, which you can combine with the Device to create a Detonator. If you're quick enough, you can outrun the Licker, but I suggest walking past him and through the hallway on your left. Go through the door with the padlock, as the other is locked.
You are now in the Lounge. Grab the 2F map and the Unicorn Medallion(Code Fish, Scorpion, Water). Exit the room into the Library, go upstairs using the ladder, and enter the West Storage room. Grab the hip pouch on your left, and put the Detonater onto the C4. Quickly run back into the Library so the door doesn't become blockaded. Once you hear it explode, run back fast because if you're too slow or didn't shoot down the zombie in the door before, you will get hit. Go to the statue inside the C4 room and get the final medallion (Code Girl, Bow, and Snake).
Go down the ladder and exit the Library using the door next to the stairs, go downstairs to the Main Hall, and put in your medallions. IF YOU ARE GOING FOR S, YOU SHOULD'VE GOTTEN HERE IN 25-30 MINS, AND IF YOU DIDN'T, RESTART. I hope this helped!

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Hello, this is the first game that I've actually enjoyed enough to play longer term and keep up with so I'm still figuring things out on how to get information. I stumbled upon an article about a golden potato quest and found out there are redemption codes. So I found a list of them.when the reward showed up in my mailbox in game it says festival of foolishness and I realized I missed something. What does everyone do to stay up to date and not miss anything?

In the web development, Node.js has gained significant recognition. This JavaScript runtime environment is lauded for its speed and efficiency, but like any technology, it comes with its own set of strengths and weaknesses. Let's delve into the pros and cons of using Node.js in web development.

The Pros of Node.js

1. JavaScript Everywhere: One of the most significant advantages of Node.js is the ability to use JavaScript on both the client-side and server-side. This means developers can write both front-end and back-end applications in the same language, increasing efficiency and simplifying the development process.
2. Non-Blocking I/O: Node.js operates on a non-blocking, event-driven I/O model. This allows it to handle multiple operations simultaneously without waiting for tasks like database operations to complete, making it ideal for applications with heavy I/O operations.
3. Real-Time Applications: Node.js shines when it comes to developing real-time applications. Its event-driven architecture is perfect for creating chat applications, online games, and collaborative tools where real-time updates are crucial.
4. NPM Ecosystem: Node.js comes bundled with npm (Node Package Manager), the largest ecosystem of open-source libraries in the world. This repository of reusable components can significantly speed up development time and increase code quality.
5. Scalability: Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications. Its ability to handle many concurrent connections with high throughput makes it a great choice for microservices architectures and real-time applications.

The Cons of Node.js

Despite the numerous benefits, Node.js isn't without its drawbacks.
1. Not Suitable for CPU-Intensive Tasks: Node.js isn't the best option for CPU-intensive tasks, like computations and logic. Due to its single-threaded nature, such tasks can block the processing of incoming requests, slowing down the application.
2. Callback Hell: A notable challenge with Node.js is "Callback Hell." This occurs when asynchronous functions are nested within other asynchronous functions, leading to code that's difficult to read and debug. While modern versions of Node.js support async/await syntax to mitigate this issue, it still can be a challenge for beginners.
3. Lack of Consistency: The Node.js ecosystem is vast and ever-changing, which can be both a boon and a curse. New tools and updates are continually emerging, which, while good for innovation, can lead to a lack of standardization and consistency.
4. Young and Unstable API: The Node.js API is still relatively young and not fully stable. This means it can change frequently, potentially resulting in compatibility issues.
5. Lack of Strong Libraries: While the npm ecosystem is large, the quality of libraries can be uneven. Some important functionalities like working with databases, handling dates, or image processing lack strong, robust libraries, often making developers turn to other languages for these tasks.

Conclusion: Is Node.js Right for Your Project?

The decision to use Node.js depends on your project needs. If you're building a real-time application, need high scalability, and have a team skilled in JavaScript, Node.js can be a strong choice. However, if your application involves heavy computations or requires strong libraries for specific functionalities, you might want to consider other options.
Remember, every technology comes with trade-offs. Understanding both the pros and cons of Node.js is vital to make an informed decision. Assess your project requirements, weigh them against what Node.js has to offer, and you'll be well on your way to choosing the right tool for your web development needs.
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[This is a translated excerpt from Clemens Traub’s “Future for Fridays?”. It’s a reflection about his time as an activist in “Fridays for Future” – the German branch of “School Strike for Climate”. The specific problems of western environmentalism adressed therein is germane to the issue of dysfunctional leftism often discussed on stupidpol and as far as I can tell nothing of this unique to Germany. The book is from 2020 and by now the movement “Fridays for Future” basically defunct. Meanwhile, the preferred tactic of current activists is it to glue themselves on main roads during rush hour. This protest method obviously affects working class people most, who usually have to physically show up at work (and often have to use cars to do so), and is less disruptive for the WFH email caste. The result of this is, surprisingly, a staggering 80+% disapproval rating for the climate organization “Last Generation” which is doing this.]
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I know the typical milieu of most “Fridays for Future” protesters well. In a way, it's my own and that of my current circle of friends: metropolitan, left-liberal, hip. A space for the daughters of doctors to meet the sons of lawyers. Gin tasting and discussions about plastic-free shopping and zero waste are equally high on the agenda. Veganism is as much part of the unspoken code of being trendy as frequenting second-hand shops. And the organic grocery store around the corner naturally enhances the location of your own home.
The offspring of the professional class keep to themselves. Does the climate movement represent a cross-section of society? Not even close! Fridays for Future is the rebellion of the privileged, and the movement offers them the perfect opportunity to flaunt their own cosmopolitan lifestyle and talent.
Many of my climate-concerned friends are questioning whether the social background of the demonstrators matters at all. Isn't that absolutely unimportant? The main thing, they are convinced, is that the earth is saved. It doesn't matter by whom. The population has been silent for long enough, and now it is finally time to stand up.
I admit that the consistency of this chain of thought was extremely appealing to me and that using social origin as an argument against a group is of course nonsensical. The outlined combative spirit also enthralled me at first. At the beginning of my participation in "Fridays for Future", saving the world was the only thing that counted for me. It didn’t matter who stood by my side. And it still wouldn’t matter for me today.
But what matters to me is the behavior and reasoning of the people protesting with me. And here the circle closes, because the social background reveals more about the movement than the demonstrators would like to admit.
In fact, I take the view that the exclusive social background of the young protesters is the actual birth defect of "Fridays for Future". But because the movement was far too homogeneous, far too elitist and correspondingly far too aloof right from the start, its members remained oblivious to it. Ultimately, only those who are doing well in material terms have the time and leisure to consider climate protection as the most important and also the only political issue of our time and to subordinate everything else to it.
Located in its ivory tower, the movement doesn't even notice that its criticism is leveled at the lifestyle of many economically disadvantaged people, who for financial reasons do not always have a choice. They are denounced as climate sinners because they don't shop in health food stores but at discounters. It never occurs to the demonstrators that there are people whose worries about ever-increasing electricity bills and rental charges make a discussion about forgoing air travel irrelevant from the outset.
And how could they? In their sheltered world, all of that is very far away. But that is exactly what makes the movement a risk, because it jeopardizes the already fragile cohesion of our society. For a large part of the population, however, other, more pressing everyday concerns prevail. For those who are afraid of being affected by job cuts in view of the announcements by the industry, the slashing and burning of tropical rain forest is currently of secondary importance.
Likewise, the extinction of exotic animal species is very far away for someone who worries every day about their tenuous retirement arrangements. That doesn't mean that everyday worries should completely obscure the problems of climate change, but it does explain why climate change is not the first priority for people with existential concerns.
It also explains why measures to save the climate must take economic concerns into account. And it explains why more and more people are wondering whether protesters will finally also take to the streets to deal with their everyday distress: lack affordable housing, declining pensions... plenty of issues exist.
The entire political discourse, both between the parties and outside of parliament, on the street, completely ignores the reality of life for many people in Germany! And I can well imagine that that's not a good feeling for many. The public discussions, which are often far removed from everyday life, exclude less privileged people. The result: we are all sitting on a social powder keg.
I don't originally hail from this metropolitan milieu, but grew up in a region that is often dismissed as "rural backwater". Publications such as "Landlust" and "Landleben" [trendy magazines promoting life in the country side] fulfill the longing of city dwellers for pure nature, but this dream only seems to apply to those people who consciously decide to have a weekend house in the forest. However, anyone who grew up in a rural environment will hardly benefit from this.
My parents live in the Palatinate. I grew up there too. My heart clings to the region, it is scenically beautiful with rows of wine-growing villages. But for an urbanite in pursuit of self-actualization it has to be the worst nightmare. In case your are unfamiliar with Palatinate’s culture: Schlachtfest instead of whiskey tasting. Very few apartments are actually furnished in this “country style” featured in the magazines. My home village isn’t shooting location for documentaries about gentrification. Maybe a camera team will get lost in one of our many hamlets at a Saumagen-centered village festival. But that would be pretty rare.
Drowsy villages provide the perfect backdrop while growing up. An ideal, idyllic world. But the older I got, the more I was drawn to the big city. I longed for a place that was more vibrant than the Palatinate and which could offer me more adventures and opportunities on the way to adulthood. Precisely this big, wide world I longed for. And I today I indeed enjoy its advantages. Whenever I drive home today, I have a feeling that two worlds that don't really have much to do with each other are colliding.
Shortly after attending my first Fridays for Future rallies, I paid another visit to my old homeland – these are becoming less and less frequent. When I enthusiastically told my acquaintances there about my experiences at the recent "Fridays for Future" demonstrations, I quickly realized how little they were interested. Out of pure friendship and politeness, they listened to me with half an ear.
I was quite surprised by that. What was the most hotly debated topic of recent weeks in my university town was met with absolute indifference among my old school friends here. They were more interested in the last day of the Bundesliga match or their last Tinder date than in the great climate revolution.
To be honest, I was initially disappointed and then increasingly angry at this lack of interest. While we young people in the big cities are trying to save our planet, the people in my home village are letting us down, I thought. Don't they understand that they too only have one planet at their disposal, just like us from "Fridays for Future"? Luckily, out of politeness, I kept those thoughts to myself.
In the days that followed, I started hearing disparaging comments about Fridays for Future with increasing frequency. In the eyes of my old friends, the movement was an "eco-sect", the self-promotion of big-city, left-wing weirdos. Someone called Greta Thunberg a "deranged menace". In addition to insults, they appeared to become increasingly bothered by the patronizing demeanor of many Fridays for Future protesters, who seem to perceive ICE-car drivers and meat eaters as second-class citizens.
The more often this happened, the deeper the wedge was driven between my current city life and my origins in my home village in the Palatinate. Between my old and my new world. For the first time in my life, I was just happy when I was able to drive back to the big city: finally the ideal world again, even if it was on the verge of collapse.
Ever since that visit, I've been quite hypersensitive whenever my enthusiasm for "Fridays for Future" wasn't shared 100 percent. In my eyes, there were simply only climate heroes on the one hand and climate sinners on the other. The absolute good or absolute bad – and nothing in between! It was only later that I realized how much I was already influenced by the “Fridays for Future” movement.
At first I could only offer my my old acquaintances reproaches. I accused them of being apolitical and uninformed about the world anyway. A mechanism of exclusion that is very common in "Fridays for Future", as I later realized. After all, at university I even mocked my old acquaintances as provincials, something I had always hated myself when my new metropolitan friends teased me about it.
But it was so much easier to just dismiss them as uninformed "provincials" than to argue with them and take them seriously. I didn't ask why my friends from my old home country saw "Fridays for Future" as arrogant or aloof, I didn't care at the time. Possible self-doubts could not arise in the first place.
I didn't anticipate, that this would actually fiercely play up in me over the coming weeks! I thought more and more about the experiences in my home country. It just wouldn't let me go. Where does the rejection of “Fridays for Future” come from, I asked myself. Where does the indifference in the face of urgent global climate problems come from? How could it be that my friends didn't see those and that they didn't comprehend the seriousness of the situation? I looked for answers but couldn't find any.
For several weeks, every Friday, there was no longer any plastic dishware in the university cafeteria. This gesture, following the "Fridays for Future" demonstrations, was intended to set an example for environmental protection. What should have caused storms of enthusiasm in theory, however, meant a very special kind of chaos in practice: balancing a piece of raspberry cake on your bare hand without a plate is more difficult than it might sound. Once the first piece of cake hit the floor, a discussion about the plastic boycott quickly broke out in the canteen.
It immediately turned out that the cashiers could only laugh at what they considered to be an idiotic ban on plastic. Their statements shocked many of my fellow students, who are big "FfF" fans. Instead of relaxed humorous small talk, my fellow students reacted with deadly seriousness. In the heat of the moment, the cashiers were even treated with extremely condescending insults. I will never forget how my fellow students lost all human decency that day in the supposed fight for climate protection. For the first time I noticed how fanatical and arrogant many of my "FfF" acquaintances had long since become.
After that event, something actually changed in me. But I didn't want to admit it to myself at first. But the more often I demonstrated at "Fridays for Future", the more alien the movement became to me. Today I know: It took an event like the one in the university canteen or a stay in my old home country to open my eyes and to realize how important sincerely attempting to understand other realms of experience before applying crude labels to people. Due to its exclusionary megalomania, “Fridays for Future” is incapable of this realization. But only a person who approaches other people, takes them seriously and wants to understand their everyday lives will be listened to. Only those people can actually affect something. They might even, in the best case scenario, save our planet!
While "Fridays for Future" was unable to make inroads my home village’s community, the media was showed more interest. Interviews with activists became more and more frequent on television. The talk shows couldn't get enough of them. "Markus Lanz", "Anne Will" or "Hart aber Fair": All of them had at least one "FfF" activist to visit. The more I saw them there, the more their arrogant demeanor bothered me. I suddenly switched off people who I still saw as inspiring personalities a few months ago. They kept raising their index fingers admonishingly. Looking down from the ivory tower at anyone who disagreed.
Finger wagging was slowly but surely becoming the hallmark of the movement. Their image of the enemy was crystal clear. Their worldview is dangerously one-dimensional. My big city friends suddenly fought everyone they saw as being complicit in the misery of the world: the meat eaters, the plastic bag carriers, the ICE-car drivers, the short-haul fliers, the long-haul fliers, the cruise tourists, the farmers, and of course the evil SUV owners. But honestly, don't we all belong to one of these groups from time to time?
Once they suddenly started cursing anyone who accidentally commits a tiny climate sin, even if it's just incorrect sorting of trash, I felt like they were in the ultimate battle against the rest of humanity. Elitist hubris everywhere I looked. In their moral arrogance they were (and still are) completely unaware of how many "normal" people they alienated by doing so. My assessment that "Fridays for Future" is primarily a movement of socially privileged young people has now been backed up by corresponding figures. The Berlin “Institute for Protest and Movement Research” got to the bottom of the social composition of the climate movement. On March 15, 2019, it surveyed “Fridays for Future” protesters at rallies in Berlin and Bremen. The study was financed by the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen-affiliated "Heinrich Böll Foundation".
The study’s results were illuminating: More than 90 percent of those surveyed stated that they had at least completed their Abitur (or advanced technical college entrance qualification) or were currently striving to do so. An overwhelming majority of 90 percent! Not even 1 percent of the demonstrators attended secondary schools [which prepare pupils for non-academic vocational training]. Almost two-thirds of the students considered themselves to be in the upper-middle class. Even before that, I had no doubt that "Fridays for Future" is a movement of the affluent. But what I read in this study surpassed my estimated. "Fridays for Future" does not in any way represent a cross-section of society, as has often been claimed.
I was surprised how little the sobering result of the study was then discussed. Society had to be informed about the privileged background and the resulting aloofness of the young protesters. Doesn't this change the entire perspective on the defining social debate of the last few months?
The figureheads of the movement in particular all come from the “most bourgeois” background. For example, we have Luisa Neubauer, the best-known German "Fridays for Future" activist. She grew up in the relatively expensive Elbe suburb of Iserbrook in Hamburg. Everyone in Hamburg knows: Not exactly a residential area that is known for its social housing. She did her Abitur in Hamburg-Blankenese. It is Hamburg's villa district par excellence. Sightseeing buses now offer tours through the district to present the magnificent villas to curious tourists. She is a scholarship holder of the party-affiliated foundation Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and is also a member of the party. So nothing stands in the way of a career in politics, she says so herself. "I don't want to rule out a career in politics," she told Zeit Campus, for example. [Neubauer is, in fact, a scion of the oligarchical Reemtsma clan; so is her cousin, another figurehead of the movement]
It’s less a rebellion from below and more a case of perfect self-marketing. But now cracks do appear in this underdog stage production. Today Luisa Neubauer can only be reached via her management. Demonstrators as pop stars! And of course you can't just talk to them on the street when you're demonstrating together. At least not with “Fridays for Future”. Please, what a naive notion! Although there are also critics of the excessive portrayal of people within the "Fridays for Future" movement, there is no real change in sight.
In the meantime, the climate movement has become one thing in particular: a career springboard for ambitious young elites. "Fridays for Future" is the perfect stage to make a name for yourself. Many of the educated offspring of academics are of course aware of this. The more media attention, the more attractive it is to be in the front row. Supposedly idealistic activism can now be marketed very well.
But not only the figureheads like Luisa Neubauer want to get some of the public spotlight. More and more "Neubauer disciples" are trying their luck in the "Fridays for Future" profiling machine. There we have, to name just a few examples, Linus Steinmetz, Carla Reemtsma or Sebastian Grieme.
Getting an appearance on a talk show or at least being able to read your name in the newspaper - all of this can become an opportunity of a lifetime. Being in the front row not only feels incredibly good, it is also a kind of free ticket for later professional life. And as if that wasn't enough: A flood of new Instagram followers is of course also a fantastic side effect. With this in mind: full speed ahead!
Who could object? Everyone is looking for recognition. Doesn't everyone want to take advantage of the opportunities in their life? And finally, every society needs ambitious young people who will later enrich politics, business and culture.
At best, people who want to be the center of attention also bear responsibility for themselves and others. So far no problem, you might think at first.
But how will many people with limited financial resources feel when those rebels who constantly lash out at the lifestyles of others take advantage of it for themselves? While many citizens have to accept new climate costs in their everyday lives, they also experience how Luisa Neubauer is offered a position on the supervisory board at Siemens. In view of this, the suspicion of many people that climate activists are making careers at the expense of other citizens is all too understandable.
I have other concerns as well. In our time, the frustration with the elites is growing. The "enraged citizen phenomenon" has become one of the most discussed topics of this decade. Intellectuals around the world are concerned about the cause of this worrying development. Our society is currently experiencing a "rift" between two major population groups. In an anthology they edited, the political and social scientists Wolfgang Merkel, Ruud Koopmans and Michael Zürn differentiate between “cosmopolitans” and “communitarians”.
There are those who benefit from the future and are therefore relaxed about it. Above all, they see opportunities in it and view the globalization of our world with optimism. This group is referred to as cosmopolitans. But many people are also afraid of change. They believe that the future will not hold anything good and, potentially, only the ever-possible economic decline. Given the "opening" of the world, communitarians see the dangers in particular. They often have the feeling that they are not really noticed by society's elite.
The well-known distinction between “anywheres” and “somewheres” by the British journalist and author David Goodhart supports this finding. Goodhart distinguishes "anywheres" who are educated, wealthy and will feel at home in their circles around the world, and "somewheres". They belong to completely different social milieus and are relegated to a specific place where they work, live, have their friends and struggle to assert their status.
Most "Fridays for Future" activists know: the future belongs to them. Many have the classic biography of a cosmopolitan. Because of their social background, they were born with everything they needed to benefit from our system. Everything is just right: the appearance, the social environment and of course the education.
Although they face the end of the world as a constant threat, their future does not scare them. Why? The doors are wide open for them. They master the complicated rules of our individualized knowledge society very well. You will do your internship in Brussels and not in Bottrop. Better the EU Commission than retail, a sector without future anyway. And also: cultivate connections! Your English vocabulary is usually larger than German. Perfectly prepared for the future, come what may - because they are the elite of tomorrow. The dangerous thing about it: most of the demonstrators are not even aware of this.
The well-trained "Fridays for Future" activists prefer to see themselves as misunderstood outsiders in society. Being an outsider is what makes rebellion sexy. At the same time I say to myself: What must a socially disadvantaged person think when suddenly wealthy cosmopolitans like to play the role of the outsider! And they don't just like it the role. No, they are really putting effort into staging it.
The classic distribution of roles between "perpetrator" and "victim" in the social context is thus turned upside down in a negligent manner: no longer the single mother and multi-jobber is seen as a victim of the existing social conditions, but the climate-conscious scholarship holder who has to experience how the consumption of affordable meat endangers our environment.
But that's not all: instead of listening to the concerns of hard-working people, they blame them for their environmentally unfriendly diesel car, which they need for their daily commute to work.
Instead of considering questions of justice with "Fridays for Future", the movement reduced itself from the start to questions of lifestyle. In my circle of friends, too, the extinction of species is simply cooler than poverty in old age and the issue of gender is hipper than low basic pension.
Above all, the privileged know the social code of the new “morally good” life. The new green-bourgeois bearing regulates the friend-foe scheme of the climate debate. A mechanism of exclusion that often pushes fellow citizens who are already worse off even further aside. A good person has long been only someone who can show an ecologically sound certificate of good conduct. The existential feeling of many that they just have to somehow make ends meet does not exist in the living environment of the (upper) bourgeois offspring. In the climate debate of the last few months, worlds have collided that couldn't be more different. Worlds that are moving further and further apart.
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[The author doesn’t mention it, but the social milieu that makes up the bulk of the climate movement is also very fond of importing Anglo-inspired race discourse. Towards the end of its decline, they were increasingly caught in purity spirals. For example: should white musicians with dreadlocks be allowed to play during happenings?
The study from “Institute for Protest and Movement Research” also examined ethnicity of the protesters: they are predominantly of ethnic German stock, much more so than the average German citizen. Who could have known?]

My [28M] Fiancée [27F] and I have a good relationship and we live together with two cats. Recently we've been bickering because she's started to call me "controlling". I think that's a strong word and implies abuse and I think shes I being unreasonable. I frame it that I've been trying to push her to better herself and achieve her goals because I think a couple is responsible for parenting each other.
I'll give you a few examples of situations that have caused her to claim I'm controlling:
My Fiancée works at a French café/bakery that is very casual with their dress code, but even so, it's a work environment and they're expected to dress semi-formally. I frequent the café a lot and understand the general vibe of what they wear; jeans and black tops, modest dresses, dungarees etc.
Today my girlfriend was getting dressed up for work and she decided to wear one of her lovely summer dresses. It really is a pretty dress and very flowery and bright, but not suitable for work in my opinion. I told her that's the kind of dress you go on a date on or wear to a wedding, definitely not to work at a cafe. I told her to try another more modest dress or something different entirely. She told me that I shouldn't be telling her what to wear and it's none of my business. I know that her boss probably wouldn't say anything but everyone would secretly judge her and she'd mildly embarrass herself in front of all the customers and be judged as out of touch and a bit fashion unaware. Eventually I convinced her to wear a less flashy and basic dress but she said I was very controlling. (I'll link what her dress looked like in the comments)
My Fiancée also has a problem with acne. She is very strict with her skincare routine and changes the sheets a lot and complains at me when I don't wash my hair enough. I understand my hygiene likely has a big effect on her skin so I try to maintain it more than I normally do for her. However, I notice she touches her face a lot. In the space of a 30 minute episode she'll touch her face to scratch it or stroke it almost once a minute. She's developed excema on her upper lip and everywhere she's constantly touching. I know that face touching is a big "no-no" in the skincare community and your hands are the dirtiest part of your body, so I'm constantly reminding and pestering her to not touch her face. It started to annoy me because she'll get so worked up and sad about her acne yet in the same sentence continue to itch and scratch at her face. I understand her face probably is itchy and its a reflex action, but its still something she's got to unlearn and unprogramme if she ever wants her skin to clear. I started grabbing her hands or slapping them away when I see her reach for her face, jokingly at first but now quite seriously, like with a child. I'm hoping it migh help her uncondition the need to touch her face if i can interrupt the automated reflex program. She says it's controlling and I should just let her do it.
Lastly, my Fiancée has serious phone anxiety. She never picks up the phone unless its me and she's really awkward on phone calls, to the point its a bit embarrassing. She's an anxious person in general and that's okay but her refusal to use the phone is now becoming a bit of a problem, especially considering she's 27 years old. She's not a kid anymore and you need to be able to make phone calls as an adult. When I'm driving in the car I sometimes need her to make a call for us that's important but she refuses to. Yesterday I needed her to make a call to the vet because we're registered at the vet with her details but she refused to again, so I had to call and give her details and it was all very confusing and harder than it needed to be.
I keep trying to force her to make simple phone calls and keep pushing her to just get over her fear and do it. I understand you need to warm up into these things and it's a fear for her, so I started off soft and understanding at first and did some practices together but it's been 4 years now and I'm losing my patience and just need her to stop being so scared of insignificant things and adult up when it matters. She calls me controlling and pushy and to just leave her alone, but if i don't push her to overcome these fears who else will?
These are the kinds of things she calls me controlling about. I feel like I'm pushing her to overcome her fears and anxieties, be more socially aware and be more serious about the things she wants to achieve (her skin hygiene). I feel like as her partner it's my responsibility to help her grow and she should do the same for me (and she does, I have shortcomings she helps address, like when I game too much she bullies me about it and when I stop exercising or have bad posture she points it out).
I may just be coming across as naggy and controlling though, I'm not sure. I don't think I could just leave her alone to fail, embarrass herself or avoid personal growth. Am I the asshole?

I've built a gym workout tracking app. I'd love to have some people test it out and provide feedback on the landing page and app itself.
Some background: I've been training in the gym for years, and have used several different apps to log my exercises and see my progression. Some of the apps I've used are amazing, but I've felt they've become stale as the developer no longer improves it or fixes annoying bugs.
My goal with this is to project is to combine the best features of all the apps out there and build on them further.
The features:

1. Log the weight, reps and sets for each exercise
2. Create/edit/delete custom workout routines
3. Instructions with diagrams for each exercise
4. See full workout/exercise history
5. Explore progression on a graph to visualise your progress for specific exercises
6. Update-to-date UI. I'm doing my best to make it look beautiful

In the future, I want to add:

1. Social features so you can see your friend's workouts. This allows you to be competitive and see where your stats rank up between each other. Like 1 rep max on the bench, squats, deadlifts etc, or the number of workouts over a weekly/monthly period etc.
2. Better analytics. Place widgets on your home page and track specific exercise progression
3. Calculators for what reps/weight/sets to do if you want to build up to your 1 rep max. Or a 531 calculator etc.
4. Full workout plans. So anyone who wants to follow a complete plan tailored just for them to meet their goal
5. Track other things like watecalorie intake, body weight
6. Even better instructions with real person videos and images showing the exercise, with male and female variations
7. Visualise muscle group fatigue and workout frequency - this will help you know what to train next and what areas you might be lacking in

And many many more The app is free but some features are locked behind a paid wall. It's really important to me for this app to be useful to everyone while still on the free plan. The paid plan is mostly an extension that lets you dig deeper into history and analytics There's a lot I want to do with this, so any feedback after testing would be greatly appreciated! I can provide free promo codes if anyone wants to access paid features.
Here's the landing page. All links to the App Store and Play Store can be found here https://repsworkoutapp.com
Thanks everyone!

If any of this is breaking rule 7, I apologize. If this is also too long, I apologize.
Growing up on the spectrum, social norms were not something that came easily to me. My emotions came and went in extremes, and it became easy to obsess on things. Being autistic was never an excuse for how horrid I was. I always felt second place to my older sister who out-shined me in every way, so it led me to treating my mother and step-father poorly. They did often blame me for things I never did, and it didn't help, but didn't excuse how I reacted. Looking back, they were trying so hard for me, but I was an ungrateful little prick. Just about every major blow-up in our house stemmed from me. I never even tried to be better. Even if I never would excel in academics, I could have strived to be a good son at the very least. I never wanted to clean up after myself, and groaned at the idea of having to learn to do my own laundry. All I cared about was sitting in my room playing video games. I never willingly helped to clean up the house or help them unless it would benefit me. The value of money was greatly distorted to me, and I'd think 10 minutes of doing the dishes would equal out to earning $20 from my parents who were already barely middle class raising 2 kids. I'd feel stolen from if I wouldn't get what I wanted and I constantly felt like I was being wronged. I had to make myself the victim in every way and refused to accept responsibility for anything. My friends at school straight up thought my parents were abusive for years because of how I would talk about them. One Christmas, my Mom saved up money she probably didn't have to get me a new laptop after mine had broken. When I saw that it was a budget laptop that "couldn't play the games I wanted it to", I threw a massive fit and told her I didn't want it. She told me she was going to just return it and since I was still out a computer, this wasn't good enough for me. Again, I was apparently a victim of abuse having my "hard earned Christmas" torn away from me by a greedy and hateful mother. I tried to run away from home. The laptop did everything I needed it to, but it looked "basic" and I didn't want my class-mates thinking I was poor, when in my city, most kids were.
I had this weird irrational fear of other people thinking I was poor and to this day I have no idea where it came from. Mom packs me a hand-made lunch rather than giving me an expensive Lunchable? I'd throw the entire thing out and not eat because I thought it would somehow make me look less poor. It was so bad that when I'd order a meal from McDonald's, I'd specify I wanted each item rung in individually and didn't want a meal deal. To me, meal deals were for "poor people who couldn't afford to get the items individually", even though all it did was make me look stupid and bad with money. Even when I finally got a job, I was bad with money. If I got an item on sale, I felt like crap because "sales are for poor people". If I had money, I'd spend it all down to the last penny, meaning I'd often have to beg my barely middle class mother for money. I'd spend hundreds of dollars on anime box sets and video games, but would leave myself no money for food. They never bothered to teach me financial literacy, but even if I they did, I already know I wouldn't have listened. I was only able to pay off all my bad debts and become good with finances a mere few years ago by realizing how badly I needed to change that before moving out of my parents house at the age of 27.
Going back to graduation, things really started to become bad. After my first love cheated on me after high school (together for nearly 3 years, met near the end of graduation) and proceeded to toy with my heart for half a year, something in me completely snapped. Considering what a loser and AH I was to my family, I can't say I blame her for losing attraction. I got revenge by publicly branding her as the worst kind of harlot imaginable and wanted to do everything I could to ruin her image. I had been cheated on, so I "knew how it felt" and would "never cheat". I became self righteous in this mindset, which is incredibly ironic considering how I went on to become. Becoming easily obsessed with things meant that when addiction took hold, it was incredibly difficult to break. I had met an absolutely amazing woman a couple years later and she treated me like gold. Literal wife material. Incredibly attractive. So what did I do? The first time a woman who wasn't her tried to flirt with me and get in my pants, I cheated on her. Apparently at this point in my life, I had become quite "attractive", because an odd amount of women started to come to me. Even ones who knew I was in a relationship already. I didn't turn a single one of them down. I even started to seek other women out on my own. I became hooked on the validation and let it control my life. I had no care for the safety of myself or my actual girlfriend who had no idea of all the women I was having sex with. All unprotected mind you. Eventually she found out and got mad at me for the years of betrayal and lying I had done, and even when I was clearly caught in the wrong, I didn't own up to being in the wrong. I didn't even try to apologize. I tried to gaslight her into making her think it was all her fault. Thankfully it didn't work and she knew that she was wronged.
I had become a textbook narcissist. I checked off just about every box. I was obsessed with my looks and put myself above anyone else.
I "didn't need her" though, with all the women coming my way. I let sex completely take over my mind and my life. There wasn't a single moment I wasn't thinking about it. I'd take expensive cabs at 2AM or later just to go hook up with someone I'd only been talking to for an hour or less. Older women went for me a lot, and I'd be in my early 20s having women in their late 40s or 50's sleeping with me. I'd bail on plans with friends, family, and would even show up late for work because I'd be too busy hooking up with anyone willing. As horrible as I was, consent was always the most important factor for me and I made sure no one was ever pressured or felt pursued if they weren't interested. This means I just hooked up with people who were easy like I was, and there was a lot of them. Several a week and sometimes multiple a day. I had met another absolutely amazing woman who was wife material and dated her for a bit over 2 years, and I absolutely cheated on her for the majority of the relationship. I shattered her heart, and she has every right under the sun to hate my guts. After several years of this behavior, I finally realized and admitted to myself that I had an addiction. None of this made me happy. In fact, I was absolutely miserable. It put an even larger wedge between my family and I, and my friends were incredibly disappointed in me. The worst that ever happened to me were two instances where I was raped by someone I had long stopped consenting with. First held a knife to me and the second beat me until I stopped saying no. I'm sure for all the damage I'd done, I deserved it. I only ever got the clap a handful of times (stopped having sex until it was cleared each time). I surprisingly ended up not getting anyone pregnant (in a city full of single mothers who chase for child support, I would know if I did). By the end of it, I'd had sex with somewhere between 150-200 different women. I stopped remembering names, faces, and mentally blocked a lot of it out. All I had was a number tally, which became less clear as more were added. I had to stop. Cold turkey.
I was beyond disgusted with myself, as I should have been. From that point on, my relationship with sex was incredibly rocky. I could no longer perform as I once did and ended up with erectile disfunction. I had finally come out of the closet as bisexual as well, because despite being a sex addict, I never let it extend to men, even though I was attracted to them. Men never pursued me either, so I never had that temptation. I wasn't completely put off of sex, and still had it when I did manage to date, but it no longer dictated how I lived my life and spent my days. Instead of sex, I let myself fall into another extreme. When people became so divided over world events, I let myself fall into the worst side of things and became a horribly bigoted and xenophobic person. I had mental mental gymnastics to justify my beliefs and met other people who shared them. I was a "free thinker" with no original views and all I did was further hurt and disappoint old friends I had. I'd post, comment, and share tons of hateful garbage to social media. People had every right to be offended. Lord knows the life I'd led prior gave me absolutely no room to judge anyone else, but I did.
I had tried to end my life on multiple occasions, but am glad I didn't.

This way of thinking was something I was able to free myself of 7 months ago. What sparked the change? This final change? I have no idea. I was sitting in front of my computer watching hateful content to further cement and validate my beliefs, and I just felt sick. I thought to myself "What the **** have I been doing with my life? What is all of this?" At that exact moment, I started to remove every negative presence I'd put out to the world. I had deleted every single comment, share, post, like, etc that I'd ever put on social media across all platforms. This actually took me around 2 weeks of clicking to accomplish. Until my activity logs on all socials were completely empty. My entire YouTube history was now cleared and my algorithm had been reset. I turned off anything and everything relating to the news or world events because all those topics did was make me unhappy. Then I announced on FB and Instagram the revelation I'd come to. An entire life of self awareness hitting me at once. I didn't sugarcoat anything to make myself look better. I was not a victim. I was no longer trying to hide who I was. I made a blanket apology to everyone who cared about me who I'd hurt and disappointed, making it known I'd make individual ones later. I added anyone who wanted to keep in contact on my hiatus to Discord, and then deleted those FB and Insta accounts entirely. I unplugged from the world of social media for 2 months. You'd think I'd need more time, but I didn't. I guess the one perk of being autistic was being able to focus heavily on one specific thing. I was able to do a life's worth of thinking and personal change during this time. When I came back, I reached out to everyone I could think of that I'd wronged or not presented my best self to, apart from a few people I knew that I had no right to ever present myself to. People who are far better in their lives not thinking about my existence. I apologized and let it be known that I was not asking for or expecting forgiveness, as I have no right to it. I let them know what I was doing to be better in my life and wished them well. To my surprise, it was an overwhelmingly positive response. People actually forgave me and were happy to see me doing better. I can never truly make up for how I had spent my life before, but all I can do is spend each day being someone people can be glad to know.
I wasn't "finally getting back to being me". There was no previous version of "me" that I ever wanted to return to. For the first time in my life since birth, I was blank slate. I held no hatred or contempt for anything or anyone, besides myself. I accepted any and all blame, and didn't try to justify anything with excuses or justifications. I was able to dictate the reasons and pinpoint where I'd gone wrong in my life and fully understand why things happened as they did. Importantly, I finally started going to therapy and seeking help. Not because I fear I'll ever return back to my old self, but because I know I permanently damaged my mind and am plagued with regret.
I'm finally letting myself return to old hobbies that brought me joy, but no longer need validation to enjoy them. I'm finally playing my massive backlog of video games, hanging out with friends uninterrupted, watching movies, re-discovering my love of photography and art. I am also going to start painting, even though all I use to do was draw.
I feel that if I can become better, I hope it gives hope to others to try to be as well.
**TLDR**: There isn't really a TLDR for such a thing. If you don't want to read it, I fully understand.

Does anyone know how to tell if a watch was made in 2023? I found this linked website below.
https://shockbase.org/watches/batchcode.php
If this site is correct that means a watch could be ten years old with a code for 2022. I was wondering because I've read some comments on Amazon with customers saying they received old stock watches dated five-plus years ago. So what is expected for packaging and other things that indicate its relatively new stock as in one to two years old? For reference, I'm looking into getting this linked below, any help is appreciated.
GWM5610-1
https://www.casio.com/us/watches/gshock/product.GW-M5610-1/

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