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Bitter Sweet | So get a call from a customer at 10 p.m. They came home from a trip to a hot house and no A/C. I really wanted to just say sorry I’ll come tomorrow but I could hear the hurt in his voice. He is the type that If I said It would be tomorrow he would have said okay and not had any hard feelings toward me. Past 2 days have been In the high 90s so I know it was an oven In there. So basically I just told him I’ll come but will have to charge an emergency after hours service fee of 350 if i come tonight. Hoping he would say he would wait but forgot he is rich so he didn’t think for a second just said ok come on. Showed up stat was reading 99 so was well into the 100s. Bad capacitor simple swap and was on my way. Scheduled a maintenance visit with him to address any issues that would have caused the cap to fail. He was due one anyways. So yea made a good payday but did not get back home until almost midnight. May have to raise my emergency fee to 400 from now on. | 4 | HVAC |
Entertaining a new company | So I have 14 years in the HVAC trade, but currently in an adjacent repair trade. I don't have the ability to pull permits in the new state I live in so had to cough up the cash to out source. Ended up having a 2 hour phone conversation with the owner, and an hour and a half in person conversation with the head of his resi installs division while he was at my house.
They were impressed to say the least. But today I was formally extended an interview and the owner and his wife want to take me to dinner as part of the interview process which feels weird. Then again the position they are interviewing me for would pay 6 figures so maybe I'm over thinking it?
The question is have you ever been offered dinner at the restaurant of your choice as part of a first interview? Like there was no let's meet at Chili's shit. This was pick any restaurant you want (big city there are Michelin Star restaurants here) and we will meet there for dinner and a conversation.
Not gonna lie this is the weirdest way I have ever been offered a job. Just curious if anyone else here is at the 6 figure salary range in this trade and has had companies do things like this while in the interview/consideration process? | 4 | HVAC |
Recovering & weighing in 410A on a RTU | New tech here, I’m working on a rooftop unit that has two refrigerant circuits with 7lbs 8oz of 410A in each. I got a call that it wasn’t keeping temps down in the store. When I opened the unit I immediately noticed that the second circuit liquid line was scorching hot coming out of the compressor. I checked the whole circuit and there weren’t any abnormal temp drops across the components. The manufacturer has a refrigerant charge and check chart on the door, so I checked according to that and started adding refrigerant. The numbers just started to come closer to normal ranges after adding 7lbs of refrigerant. While I was charging it I was paying close attention to the sound of the compressor, and after about 7lb 4oz it started to lug so I turned it off and recovered the unit to 0psi. Total recovered was 8lb 1oz.
My question is now, do I need to add oil back into the system when I weigh in the charge? I’ll be using what I recovered to recharge it, but with it being low do I need to worry?
This unit hasn’t had issues since it’s been put in, and I’ll be checking for leaks on it next week. I just need to get it running for the next few days. | 4 | HVAC |
Phone for attic heat | Does anyone have a good smart phone that can withstand the attic heat, preferably one with a solid case that can still not overheat in 2 min? Been doing this for years and now it's time to change out personal phones so hoping my fellow techs have some solid suggestions. I currently have a OnePlus 8T that's has served me well for 3 yrs, thinking of the OnePlus 12R. Thanks y'all!
For the mods, I am a tech, this is a tech question. TXV stand for thermo expansion valve and will rarely fail if the install was correct. So stop dropping my posts mods! Lolz | 3 | HVAC |
How do yall stay sane in the summer? | I’ve done this for almost 3 years now but this is my first time as an installer and not as an apprentice or duct crew lead. I am starting to break with how long each day is and I feel like I’ve hit a cap and can’t get better. The earliest I’ve gotten off since like 2nd week of June has been 5:30, I’ve worked as late at 9:51 since. I’ve dealt with long days in duct but the latest I stayed was maybe till like 5. I am absolutely burnt out and idk how much more I can take of this
My lead is a cool guy and has been super patient with everything but I’m nearing my breaking point with this job. How do you guys stay sane during this time of year? | 12 | HVAC |
Anyone else starting to physically break down? | I’m only 33 soon to be 34 and my knee is fucked from this job. I do residential and am constantly kneeling on concrete floors to work on furnaces or outside working on AC’s. I wear knee pads but that’s only useful for the sharp pain on my bones of being on concrete but what I’m talking about is the cartilage. I woke up today and my knee is totally fucked if I had to work today I’d have to call in sick cause if I managed to kneel down on the floor I’d never get back up it’s like seized and in constant pain.
Only been in this trade since I was probably 25-26 and my body is already failing me and have absolutely no clue where to pivot from here. Maybe commercial? I imagine there’s less kneeling on concrete floors.. maybe sales? I do set a lot of leads. Just not sure what to do and also curious how it’s been for you guys.
What’s the end game here run service calls til you go on permanent disability at 40? Starting to understand why I’ve never worked with an older service tech they just don’t exist. | 103 | HVAC |
Shrader valves, are they worst? and why is the answer yes? | Am I the only tech that thinks shrader valves are straight garbage. They're convenient I suppose but they leak if you look at them the wrong way. Old, new, caps on, caps off, it makes no difference. I've seen so many leak right out of the box, or you put your gauges on a system and then they won't seal again, so you replace the valve core...and that one leaks! so you try another and that one leaks, and then you go as far as replacing the whole valve and the next time you come back to it for service....IT'S LEAKING!!! Were they better constructed years ago? I have no idea why industry standard is something that is so often a problem. I've even seen ones that leak in the summer but not winter and ones that leak in the winter but not the summer! make it make sense!
Before anyone asks or accuses me of doing something I shouldn't, yes I'm using a valve core tool, yes I'm being carful not to over or under tighten them, and yes I remove them before I braze anywhere close to them. If someone out there has a super secret torque value and a double top secret valve core torque wrench supplier let me know. At this point I'm just desperate enough to buy it, along with some blinker fluid and a pipe stretcher. | 11 | HVAC |
Transitioning from install tech to install manager. | A little bit about me and our company: I've been working in the industry for 11 years, did 5 years with my previous company and now 6 with the current company. Throughout my time I've been switched back and forth between residential service and install, basically filling whatever position they need me for at the time. Overall my bosses/managers have been very happy with me, praising me on my quality of work and ability to troubleshoot complex systems, we do everything from combi boilers, geothermal, zoning, light commercial, generators, furnaces, oil, heat pumps, etc..Right now we are a small-ish family owned company, been in business for 60 years since the company was started by the current owner's grandfather. They pride themselves on the business being focused towards a high level of quality service for the customer and providing high end equipment and repairs for people. They are very good about not rushing the techs or having pushy sales-numbers driven service. We have 8 service techs and a service manager who's been with the company for 10 years, and right now the service department is sound and basically running itself. On the install side we have 3 full-time install crews, of which I am the lead for one. I am the highest seniority install tech and every other lead and helper has worked with me and been my helpers at some point, so I personally know each of the guys and how they work. The department doesn't have a dedicated manager or leader at the moment and things have been a little hectic for the past 6 months is so.
Yesterday the owner pulled me into his office and we talked about how he isn't happy with the way the install department is running right now, and he wants to appoint me as the install manager. Everything's in early stages right now but he's named a few of his concerns and what he would like fixed, and basically I have free reign to run the department and address his concerns any way I see fit. I'm very excited about the opportunity, the owner is putting a lot of trust in me and I feel like I can do a lot of good for the department as a whole. Obviously this is a huge change for me and I can't help but feel a little anxious, and wonder if I'll be good enough to meet his expectations.
I'm curious if there's other managers in this sub, does anyone here have a similar experience to this? And does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do to be a good manager? What do/don't you guys like about your managers? | 10 | HVAC |
What’s the worst install you’ve ever seen? | This one I was on today has got to be close to a record, I walked up to the unit and just laughed.
Condenser Unit was definitely installed used as the house numbers put on the unit don’t match the numbers on the house.
In chance you didn’t notice, Suction line was using 3/8 line and high pressure was 1/4! Pressures were reading 50/220 and started started freezing after about 60 seconds. Evidence showed the evaporator to be nearly completely clogged (likely from the filter rack missing screws and several air leaks.) condenser was also clogged.
Landlord said it has been there for about 5 years. | 9 | HVAC |
Just messed up my first ever install and first ever mini split install, AMA | I’m so demoralized right now, i purged with nitrogen i pulled a vacuum on a 2 indoor head unit, I assume i was in denial about a leak but my pressures and my vacuum held? I don’t know but it started out cold and quickly started blowing warm, i never heard an audible leak so I don’t even know what flare it was. I was supposed to have an experienced guy there that i’d be helping but he ended up sick, so the boss told me to just do it myself. I said it could possibly be a hot pulldown and my god that’s all i hope it is, I really enjoy hvac work and I thought i was ready but sheesh, it’s defeating. | 28 | HVAC |
Me traje a la gata de mi papá a mi casa, un mes después de haberme llevado también al perro. | Básicamente estoy que no puedo más de estrés. No voy a explicar por qué me la tuve que traer porque eso merece un post aparte.
El tema es que hace mes y medio me traje al perro pensando que eran solo nas semanas por unas heriditas en una pata y una de esas heridas era un tumor. Él por suerte ya se está recuperando de la cirugía, y venía todo mas o menos encaminándose hasta que hoy me tuve que traer a la gata, a un monoambiente minúsculo en el que también vive un perro grande. Ellos dos ya se conocen de toda la vida y se llevan bien, pero ahora el perro está estresado porque la ve estresada y maullando a la gata, y yo no sé cómo ayudarlos, a ella sobre todo para que se pueda adaptar, más teniendo en cuenta lo viejita que es pobrecita, y para tranquilizarlo a él.
Así que se aceptan consejos y sugerencias. Y mucho apoyo moral, y por favor antes de bardearme como ya lo han hecho cuando conté lo del perro pónganse un poquito en mis zapatos y entiendan la responsabilidad que acabo de asumir. | 3 | uruguay |
Estafa de Crypto en Tinder | # Introducción
Hice match con una chica en Tinder. Me contó que su familia había comprado un apartamento en Carrasco y que ella estaba por venir a vivir a Uruguay. Supuestamente llegaría a fines de julio, ya que su familia ya estaba viviendo aquí, pero ella seguía trabajando en Singapur.
Conversamos un poco en la aplicación y luego me pasó su número. Empezamos a hablar por WhatsApp. Hicimos una videollamada, que aunque fue breve y no se parecía en nada a las fotos de perfil, parecía normal. Después, todo fue por mensajes de texto. Me contó que hacía trading de cripto y ganaba muchísimo dinero. Decía que había perdido 300k porque su ex la había estafado y que ahora se dedicaba a la logística.
# La Estafa
En una de nuestras charlas empezamos a hablar sobre inversiones. Me mostró unas capturas de pantalla donde supuestamente había ganado 6000 USD en un trading de 300 segundos (5 minutos). La felicité por sus ganancias y seguí con mi vida.
Con el tiempo, me fue insistiendo para que probara hacer trading con ella para demostrarme que yo también podía ganar dinero. Yo tenía una cuenta de Binance con algunos dólares que había puesto por curiosidad hace tiempo, pero ella insistía en que lo hiciera todo por Coinbase Wallet (una wallet caliente) y las Dapps que se pueden buscar ahí mismo en el navegador de Coinbase.
Así llegamos al sitio de la estafa: moonex . site <<<< **ADVERTENCIA: es una Dapp Scam**.
El sitio solo se veía en modo móvil, el código JavaScript era un desastre y era evidente que fue montado para estafar. Cada vez que mirabas las wallets para depositar, alternaba entre unas pocas. Me mostró fotos con márgenes de ganancias alocados y fuera de toda realidad.
Si envías cripto a este sitio, (seguramente) perderás tu dinero y no podrás retirarlo. Revisé el certificado SSL del sitio y vi que había sido registrado hace solo 2 meses, otra señal de alarma. [/domain-age?q=moonex.site](/domain-age?q=moonex.site)
Cuando le dije a la estafadora que el sitio no era seguro, me respondió que todas las Dapps son iguales y que incluso las páginas grandes de trading tienen su propia historia.
Una vez que esta estafadora se dio cuenta de que no podía robarme dinero, dejó de responder a los mensajes.
Les dejo por aca [Imagenes](/a/MVIQpRG) del chat/scam/perfil
# Conclusión
Si te metes en cripto y quieres hacer trading, ten cuidado con este tipo de estafas. Solo usa Dapps correctamente auditadas. Aquí hay una guía de seguridad: [Coinbase Security](/en/wallet/security/avoid-malicious-dapps).
O, más fácil, si no sabés, no te metas en sitios raros.
Buen finde
P.D. Hice la denuncia del perfil en Tinder, pero dudo que hagan algo al respecto. | 27 | uruguay |
Nosé que estudiar y se me acaba el tiempo | Tengo 30 años y vivo con mis padres,me da curiosidad la psicología pero nosé si hay mucha demanda laboral y sé que uno puede hacer su cartera de clientes pero nosé cuánto podría salir alquilar un lugar para atender pacientes,por otro lado podría estudiar alguna tecnicatura de 2 años para tener un título más rápido algo así como administración de empresas o logística,creo que hay más demanda laboral,también pensé en informática que dura 3 años solo porque de seguro hay más demanda laboral.
Quiero estudiar algo en lo que hayá trabajo y se pueda ganar por lo menos 40 al mes no sé que hacer. | 11 | uruguay |
Estoy orgulloso | Pensar que al principio no me gustaba Bielsa, hoy puedo decir que soy bielsista al 1000%. Si algo le faltaba a ese señor para convencerme era mostrar esas pelotas gigantes para decirles en la cara a toda la conmebol, y el organizador del torneo lo corruptos de mierda que son amenazando con consecuencias deportivas.
Estoy tan orgulloso como cuando Tabares renunció a los privilegios de FIFA para defender a un deportista que estaba siendo tratado peor que a un terrorista.
Somos chicos y seguramente haya consecuencias deportivas pero bueno, en esta vida hay algo más importante que la copa. | 160 | uruguay |
alguien podria darme una mano? | Mi hijo mayor esta privado de libertad hara año y medio(larga historia de abuso de substancias, problemas de salud mental y malas juntas ¡). Hace 5 años habiamos perdido contacto por esos asuntos y por que vivia con la madre en la capital y yo vivo en el interior.
Me consta que ha venido recibiendo asistencia psiquiatrica y que viene mejorando cada dia. Hace un tiempo le comentó a la madre la intención de retomar un pasatiempo que tenia de escribir historias y letras (estaba vinculado a los mundo del hip-hop) ... Le pidio a la madre material su antiguo material para retormar desde ahi, la macana es que antes de caer en cana tiro sus cuadernos en una d sus crisis nerviosas y el unico lugar donde quedaría algo de ese material sería en esta red social. No recuerda si borro su cuenta, por lo que recurro a su saber colectivo si recuerdan a algo que pueda ayudar a localizar sus letras e historias. Tal vez existe algun grupo de literatura o hip-hop donde pueda encontrar su material, pero hasta ahora lo desconozco.
Garcias desde ya por si alguno sabe algo | 5 | uruguay |
Mi novio es obsesivo con la plata… qué hago? Opiniones? | Bueno, tal como dice en el título, me pasa que estoy en una relación donde somos muy distintos con respecto al dinero.
Yo no soy la más ordenada, es cierto, y me gusta mucho regalar y ayudar a mi familia en cosas que ellos no se pueden costear… Pero gracias a que tengo un salario bastante “bueno” digamos, eso no me impide pagar mis cuentas, jamás pido dinero prestado y consigo ahorrar todos los meses. Es decir, tampoco soy una persona que gaste y gaste, y eso me termine trayendo problemas.
Por otra parte, mi novio es bastante más cuidadoso, pero al punto que su familia lo ha llamado “rata”… cuando recién empezábamos a salir, él se quedaba siempre en casa (yo vivía sola), a comer, haciendo uso de todo y pocas veces ponía dinero. Aún así, decidí irme a vivir con él, planteando previamente que ambos ibas a asumir un compromiso no solo a nivel relación, sino económico, donde íbamos a dividir las cuentas 50% y 50%…
Hoy, hace poco más de 2 años que estamos juntos y casi 2 años que alquilamos juntos. La casa en la que estamos, a mi no me resultó realmente cómoda/ni funcional, es una casa bastante fría y a mi me pesa bastante el hecho de que cambié de trabajo y al trabajar el 80% tiempo remoto, mi casa es además de mi casa, mi lugar d trabajo y paso muchas horas en ella.
Le plantié a mi pareja hace meses que me quiero mudar, a lo cual por X motivo, siempre tenía una excusa para no hacerlo… Si bien algunas fueron excusas válidas y lo entendí y no insistí en ese momento, hoy esas situaciones ya pasaron y no tendría excusa para no hacerlo.
La cosa es que, el alquiler actual es “barato” y él no quiere mudarse para no gastar más… Por lo cual cada casa que le muestro, le encuentra un defecto, algunas veces hemos ido a verlas y otras ya solo por foto las ha descartado.
Dicho esto, hace dos días decidí hablar nuevamente el tema del alquiler, manifestándole que realmente no me siento cómoda acá, que paso frío todo el día… y su respuesta fué “ si es invierno, en todos lados te vas a cagar de frío, así que lo tuyo es un capricho”. Yo le decía que no, que consideraba que uno en su casa debía estar cómodo, que la casa de por sí era fría y que no teníamos calefacción (aire, cosa que él tampoco quiere poner por el gasto de comprarlo, la colocación y el consumo).
Seguimos hablando y llegó un momento en el que me empezó a levantar la voz y me mandó a cagar… LITERAL. Cuando yo le estaba hablando bien y tratando de llegar a un acuerdo.
Como decía, somos distintos con respecto al dinero, pero mi postura es que si puedo pagarlo, no voy a sacrificar bienestar por plata. No tenemos hijos y entre los dos cobramos líquidos unos 200 mil pesos mensuales o un poco más, y ganamos prácticamente lo mismo.
O sea, creo que podemos estar más cómodos… No es una cuestión de que la plata no nos dé, que en ese caso me lo bancaría.
Sumado a esto, hace meses que tenemos que cambiar el colchón de la cama, el sillón, etc… cosas algunas medio básicas, pero él se niega o se hace el boludo por el gasto.
Perdón por el choclo este tan largo, pero realmente me frustra no poder vivir cómoda por esto. Ganamos bien, creo que la plata debería ser el último de nuestros problemas… Me frustra muchísimo que sea tan inflexible y que yo tenga que poner la plata para dormir cómoda comprando un colchón nuevo o tenga que cagarme de frío porque él no quiera calefacción y/o mudarse.
Dato: tenemos 2 años de diferencia y los dos estamos entre los 30 y los 35 - o sea, no somos dos niños.
Por último, la única opción que encontré para que los gastos fueran justos, fué registrar todo en una app compartida. Al principio solo cargábamos los gastos grandes (alquiler, cuentas, etc) y yo hacía prácticamente siempre los mandados y nunca salía de él poner un peso, con lo que yo terminaba pagando 8-10 mil pesos más mensuales.
Esto igual, me RE paspa, quisiera que saliera de cada uno, el considerar ser justos con los gastos, pero en fin… me sentía estafada.
Ayer me dijo que cargue un gasto que él había hecho ($150 pensé que eran) y después me dijo que había cargado mal porque eran $180. O sea, me reclamó por TREINTA pesos, que a mí ni se me ocurriría registrarlo…
No lo hace de malo, de hecho en otras cosas es tremendo compañero, sensible, atento, bueno… Pero esto me está generando un malestar diario, no sé qué hacer. Escucho consejos, opiniones, experiencias. Me siento re angustiada e impotente. | 41 | uruguay |
Colombiano respecto a la pelea luego del partido | Un colombiano acá.
Solo decirles a los Uruguayos que los colombianos que se pusieron a formarle pelea a los acompañantes de los jugadores Uruguayos luego del partido, no nos representan a la mayoría.
Desafortunadamente es un deporte al que se le hace mercado junto con el alcohol y las subscripciones de TV, y atrae a la peor calaña de nuestra sociedad, lo más guiso gamín y ordinario, y mucha de la gente que viajó a ver la copa no tiene ni educación.
Esos nacionales atarvanes no nos dieron sino vergüenza, repudio y pena ajena. No les voy a pedir disculpas porque ni yo puedo disculpar a esa caterva de energúmenos.
Solo vengo a decirles que los colombianos normales no somos así, fue un partido reñido, un espectáculo muy bueno e impredecible, perdieron el partido pero no el respeto.
Un abrazo y que disfruten la violada que nos va a meter argentina. | 143 | uruguay |
Balance Copa America | Pasada la calentura de anoche hago comentarios de está CA:
\-Uruguay era el equipo más joven de la copa, aún se puede crecer y Bielsa no va ni 1 año en el puesto.
\-Se detecta que Ronald Araujo es totalmente irremplazable. Nahitan mete mucho huevo, pero se lo puede compensar si no está, la pérdida de Araujo fue una tragedia que tuvo que cambiarse todo el sistema de juego (a 343).
\-Ugarte otro irremplazable, que tenga solamente 23 es una locura y da esperanza.
\-No se que mierda pasa con las lesiones y Uruguay pero siempre tenemos algún drama desde hace años (perder a Cavani en 2018 para Francia), ayer la pérdida de Bentancur contra Colombia desarmó todo, más sumado a lo de Araujo antes (no se puede lesionar Kike Olivera? ajsjaj justo siempre se lesionan los clave).
\-El partido contra EEUU fue un desgaste innecesario y si hubo una "Bielsada" fue jugar ese partido con todos los titulares al pedo.
\-Con el diario del lunes, Bielsa debió haber llevado más delanteros. Cavani, Merentiel, Luciano Rodriguez, lo que se te cante el orto. Darwin estuvo muy exigido y Suarez solamente puede meter a full unos minutos por la edad. Kike Olivera no lo podés meter a lo loco cerca del final por desesperación cuando no tuvo minutos casi antes.
\-Darwin y Valverde, jugadorazos, pero les sigue faltando con Uruguay. Darwin TIENE que mejorar la puntería o aprender a hacer más asistencias y Valverde, no se papi no podes meter uno de esos golazos de mitad de la cancha que haces con el Real acá?
\-Rochet es un arquero SÓLIDO y CORRECTO, pero no más.
\-Josema, no se que le pasó pero en vez de 29 ya parece de 36.
\-Uruguay se fue apagando conforme avanzaba la Copa, fue distinto al Uruguay de la eliminatorias porque ahí pueden jugar con intensidad a full y tienen descansos. Hay que aprender a distribuir la fatiga y el esfuerzo.
CONCLUSIÓN: Más allá de todo, se puede aprender mucho de esto y con la mayoría de los jugadores jóvenes, tengo esperanzas. Ojalá se aprendan las lecciones para el mundial.
​ | 18 | uruguay |
Dejen de ser pecho frío | Vengo viendo post tras post relajando a los jugadores, a Bielsa, diciendo que jugamos como el orto, que la selección es un asco, QUE NOS MERECÍAMOS PERDER.
A ver, ¿juagmos al 100%? No, jugamos tirando a mal, más en el segundo tiempo con toda la perdida de tiempo (valga la redundancia), era obvio que Uruguay jugaba con la cabeza re quemada y eso se reflejó en el campo. Por otro lado, Colombia no fue un equipo difícil a nivel de juego, la verdad que fue el partido más asqueroso, con colombianos haciendo tiempo cada que podían, era increíble cómo estaban los 9 defendiendo, eso daba ASCO, ni siquiera intentaban hacer otro gol, y si Uruguay hubiese estado más tranquilo a la hora de definir, muy seguramente hubiésemos ganado, pero gracias a estar calientes a más no poder pasó lo que pasó. Y ni hablar del relajo en la tribuna, eso ni lo voy a tocar.
El arbitraje no fue un robo, pero podía haber sido mil veces mejor, y lo dejo por ahí a esto, ya que para mí lo ideal sería que en copas americas la terna fuese europea, y en la eurocopa hubiese terna latina, pero ta, opinión personal.
Ahora, ¿y si nos dejamos de insultar, quejarnos y tirar bosta? Cada día más parecidos a los porteños en cuestión de hinchada, ¿dónde quedó el Uruguay que recibe a los jugadores con alegría así pase lo que pase? Mírensen un poco.
Y sí, puteenme todo lo que quieran, que eso solo refuerza mi punto.
Pd. Colombia no juega como lo pintan, y Argentina no ha tenido ningún rival realmente complicado, quiero ver qué va a salir de la final este domingo, porque siento que va a ser un partido con mucha falta e intento de ganar tiempo tirados en el piso, va a ser más relajo que juego.
Edit. Porque me cansé de responder lo mismo:
1. Esto no va dirigido a los jugadores, va dirigido a los hinchas uruguayos
2. Si no sos uruguayo, NO OPINES, esto no va dirigido a vos, ni sé qué carajos haces acá.
3. "¿Cuándo será el día que no se agarren a piñas?" ¿Qué ejemplos me dan? ¿Este y la vez que jugamos contra Chile en la copa américa 2015? El uruguayo no va a armar relajo, solo responde ante los demás, si a mí me encajan una piña, probablemente la devuelva, y vos seguramente hagas lo mismo, acción, reacción.
4. Con bardear a los jugadores y al técnico no consiguen nada.
5. Dejo de responder por que no leen y parecen pelotudos comentando cosas que nada que ver con lo que publiqué de entrada. | 37 | uruguay |
Siento que merecíamos la derrota | tenemos un futbol de igual calidad que la mentalidad del uruguayo promedio: mediocre.
antes era caracteristico del uruguayo la humildad y el respeto. ahora se está copiando las malas costumbres porteñas de babosear y agrandarse. vi mucha gente que lo hacía antes de tiempo por haber llegado a la semifinal. bien dice el dicho de no poner la carreta delante de los bueyes.
la ultima copa que ganamos fue hace 13 años y seguimos sacando chapa de eso, cuando debería ser vergonzoso siendo que todo el plantel juega en el futbol de primer nivel | 88 | uruguay |
Refund on Best Buy installation | Purchased oven and cooktop from Best Buy, including delivery and installation. Guys showed up and delivered the appliances, but upon looking at the electrical situation, told me they could not install the cooktop. Told me I'd have to either buy a gas cooktop or hire an electrician to complete the proper wiring. Also told me they couldn't install the wall oven, since in doing so, the electrician would have to move it, "voiding the warranty". Told me to call them back when the wiring was done and they'd do the install.
I was left with an unboxed oven, and the unopened cooktop. No installation performed, just delivery. On a Friday afternoon.
I got lucky, found a local electrician who came over almost immediately, and not only hooked things up vis-a-vis wiring, but went ahead and installed everything for a very nominal fee.
So, I figure since Best Buy contractor did not install anything, Best Buy should refund the several hundred $$$ of installation fees, or most of it. Getting ready to call them, but wondering what kind of run-around I'll get. Thoughts? Your experience in similar situation? | 5 | homeowners |
CA: Most homes in this subdivision are investment properties | Just discovered that the new construction home I'm about to close on is filled with empty investment properties. I have wondered why homes marked SOLD in neon red were sitting empty. I drove by today to check on the progress of my home and met a potential neighbor who was there to get his backyard paved. He kindly informed me that he'd met the other neighbors at various times and that all but 4 out of the 30 odd homes (first phase of the subdivision) are investment properties. Two are supposedly college homes for adult kids attending a nearby university so sitting empty in the summer.
I am quite upset. It's sort of isolated and I was hoping for a neighborhood full of residents and now realize that there won't be many of us here (which worries me).
Any thoughts / advice / feedback? I'm a first time homebuyer who has lived in crowded apartment & townhome complexes all my life so this "isolation" concerns me. | 3 | homeowners |
Suspicion confirmed, my property line is 3 feet further to the left... | /gallery/UBvdTQ0
I'd known this might be the case based on county property maps, but it could have been chalked up to misaligned overlay of property lines on the aerial images.
Surveyor confirmed, our property line is parallel to the neighbor's wall, and 3 feet into their structure.
The deed is clear, no easement for the neighbors, both built in '48
The landlord who owns the 4 unit building uses the space here to drive his huge, commercial size riding mower into the backyard, but hey could do so on the other side if he moves some landscaping and cement curbs from their parking lot.
He's nice enough, but this may complicate our privacy fence planning.
Anyone had a similar situation? | 99 | homeowners |
Help! Nightmare foundation on our 1st buy 1920s home | My husband and I just bought our first home. 3 weeks ago. Everything passed inspection flawlessly. The day after we moved in, it rained heavily. And water was coming through the closet baseboards in the bedroom. Upon inspection of the outside foundation and the use of moisture meters, we found a significant crack in the foundation under a foot of soil, as well as a big chunk just crumbling off. We knew we had a big problem. Today, we got an excavator out and dug 8 feet down to the very footing of... what you could try and call a foundation. It's like the whole foundation is just crumbling away. Nothing is flat, it's like they just poured concrete into a hole that they dug. There's multiple big cracks. I don't even know how else to describe this. I've attatched some photos. The crew that dug said they've worked on foundations for 30 years and have never seen anything like this. Does anyone have any advice? They mentioned maybe using a controlled density fill all around to seal up any cracks, as well as grouting in the cracks. Could this crazy idea work? Any other ideas are super welcome. We're already hundreds in credit card debt and this isn't even our only problem. With water... comes mold. That's a problem for after this though. Thank you in advance. | 17 | homeowners |
Neighbors from hell - San Diego | I need help. We have the neighbors from hell. It’s kind of a long story but when we bought our house in San Diego in 2019, the house next door was basically abandoned. Owned by a very old woman who was in a nursing home. So my husband called the city, complained and one of her family members friends ended up staying in the home. Things just got worse from there. There’s a lot to explain, but basically they’re extreme hoarders and there are multiple family members in this home. Their front yard is trashed with garbage and things thrown everywhere. Nothing is maintained in anyway at all. It looks like a garbage dump and I promise I’m not being a Karen, it truly does. From what I can see through the fence, their backyard is absolutely disgusting. Filled with piles of trash. They have four children and 4 adults living there and it’s different families. I believe it’s a three bedroom home. They had a dog living there for a while and he was just in the backyard the entire time. We had never even seen the dog or ever seen them walk the dog. So it was just peeing and defecating all over their concrete patio. We have had animal issues, mosquitos problems and the worst of it all (for the past few months) there is an AWFUL SMELL and I can’t even play outside with my kids in our yard because it smells so bad. The dog has left recently, but the smell is still there. I can’t imagine the filth the children live in.
My husband has called the city again and they came out and forced them to get a garbage dump a few times and I don’t even think that it is made a dent. When the dog was chained up in the backyard, we reported them for animal cruelty and I’m not really sure what was done. My husband has tried communicating with them, but it’s as though they don’t care at all, and this is just normal for them. He’s expressed how much this has affected us, the smell, everything. He’s begged them to just hose down the back patio because of the smell and nothing is done. My husband has picked up trash from their yard several times, has taken a weed wacker to their extremely overgrown lawn several times, PAID our lawn guys to cut down their lawn and has moved things to the side of the house.
Beyond the house, just looking completely trashed and a garbage dump, this is affecting my family and how we live our lives now. I have cried over this so many times I don’t know what to do anymore. We want to sell because we have also outgrown this house but ugh because of housing costs in San Diego and interest rates it’s just not possible right now. But selling is also going to be a big issue too because of these neighbors!
If there is anyone with some advice, insight to what we can do, I would love anything because I am at my breaking point. | 15 | homeowners |
Buying grandparents home or stay put? | Very long story, but essentially both my grandparents passed away 2 years ago within 3 months of each other. They’d grown up together got married young, had two children and eventually built their own barn conversion together in which they lived until the end.
I grew up around the house, and have many fond memories with both grandparents there. Before my grandparents passing I remember him clearly saying ‘you’ll live here one day, it’ll all work out’.
Ii would love to live there, but in the meantime our third child was born making a move harder, as the property only has 3 bedrooms, and the increased mortgage would mean no spare funds to pay for an extension to get the children their own rooms.
I believe the more rural setting would bring a better quality of life for the children, much like what I had growing up but it would come at a cost of less holidays and possibly sharing rooms for maybe 10 years.
Staying put would mean we’d have the money soon to extend our bungalow to a 4 bed, and probably afford 4/5 acres of land separately but local to enjoy on weekends.
Staying put:
4 bedrooms
Separate land
Holidays
No sentimental value
Not following my Grandad’s word (eat away at me!)
£250k mortgage ending at 56.
Moving to grandparents:
History and sentiment
Outstanding views
Rural
Scope to improve when money allows
£350k mortgage ending at 65.
We’ve been driving ourselves mad over what is the right thing to do for our family of 5, not just my wife and I.
Please share your opinions however harsh! | 7 | homeowners |
How to catch a seemingly smart mouse? | So I have an older home in upstate New York. Recently I have seen a mouse (probably plural, mice) scurrying around my downstairs. I have set traps all throughout the house, against walls, darkened corners etc. none of the traps seem to be working. I used the classic wood traps, black box traps and even decon stations. The bait I am using varies. I tried the dog food hot glued to the trap, peanut butter and nothing seems to catch this pesky mouse. It’s like he is taunting me!
They seem to keep running into the floor vents. The weird thing is, there is no site of droppings. | 8 | homeowners |
Please help settle dispute with neighbor | There's a tree on our property, its trunk entirely on our side of the property line, but some of its branches extend over the property line onto our neighbor's property. You can probably see where I'm going with this. During a recent storm, a huge branch broke off and is now entirely on our neighbor's property. The law in our state (and probably most states) says the cost of removing the branch or tree and/or repairing property damage falls to the owner of the property that sustained the damage. My neighbor is asking us to get a tree service to clean up this branch because it came from our tree. We are saying it's not our responsibility to clean up debris in their yard. The law is on my side, but our neighbor thinks it's the "neighborly thing to do" to clean up the mess. What does everyone think?
It's ironic that our neighbor would talk about "being neighborly" when she has always been nasty as hell towards my wife and me ever since we moved in. But I'm wondering if this happened to you—a neighbor's tree dropped a huge branch onto your property—would you feel it's your neighbor's responsibility to clean it up even when the law says it's your problem? I see this as kind of a philosophical problem. I'm very interested in your take on this matter. | 90 | homeowners |
Where do you store your luggage? | We’re big travelers, both for pleasure and work, so we have a lot of different luggage. We have two of the large checked bag size, two larger carry-on rollers, one small carry-on roller, two adventure backpacks, one business backpack, one regular backpack I use for day trips, an overnighter bag and a backpack for our toddler.
We pack them inside each other as much as possible, but we have the two big ones of course, then both carry-ons and my two backpacks we have to have easy access to.
Where in the world do people store these?! They were in a closet in our powder room but it was a pain to access and we moved holiday decor in there. Now they’re in our primary closet but they don’t really fit well. | 12 | homeowners |
Taxes not paid on house I’m interested in buying. | The title generally sums up my concern/question.
I recently toured a house for purchase that I’m very interested in. I’m a first time home buyer as well so bear with me if I have a stupid thought. After looking through old property tax paperwork, I noticed the property taxes have not been paid since September of 2022.
For the year 2022, the payment due dates were September of 2023 and March of 2024, both of which have NOT been paid yet.
How do I go about this? Does the seller have to pay the taxes or am I going to have to come up with these late payments?
I’m aware of tax liens also and how you can pay them off. I have not looked into the counties liens yet to see if they’ve published this house yet. | 24 | homeowners |
Automate The Process of Updating PPT | Howdy!
I'm currently in school, and we're doing a consulting project for a company. Our goal is to create a better way to recognize their employees, who are solely based on door-to-door sales. We have various proposals, but the company wants to scale whatever processes we develop to a nationwide level, accommodating over 1,000 employees.
I won't get into all the different processes we've come up with, but there's one particular challenge we're struggling to solve. The company holds weekly nationwide meetings where they present a PowerPoint that includes information about the top 5 performers in the nation. This presentation includes their location/region, the team they belong to, and other categories like the number of contracts sold, best monthly seller, weekly seller, and daily seller.
However, the person responsible for creating this PowerPoint spends about an hour each week gathering information from their CRM database, getting pictures of each performer, and updating the same PPT. She finds this process extremely time-consuming and is looking for a more efficient way.
That's why I come to Reddit.
Is it possible to create a script or automate the process of updating the information for the top performers each week and month, including their picture, name, region/location, and team name? If so, please enlighten me because my semester is almost over, and we're about to present our other proposals. We would love to present a solution for this challenge as well, but we're not sure how to approach it.
Any help, recommendations, or criticism are welcome.
Thanks! | 3 | powerpoint |
Need help linking a Powerpoint presentation to Excel. | I'm having trouble with a presentation i'm making about next year's budget. I have a slide with tables linked to an excel file, where i'm working with powerpivot. These tables i pasted them with the special copy and paste option where you link the tables so that any change made to these slides, but this is so fragile, like the link between powerpoint and excel breaks between every hour or so and if there's any changes to the database i just have to start copying and pasting all the tables again, and right now there's about 80 slides, each with at least one table. What is the best way to solve this? | 3 | powerpoint |
Does anyone know where I can get a DETAILED explanation of powerpoint theme placeholder idx behaviour? | Background:
So you know how if you have a relatively complicated powerpoint theme, sometimes when you switch the layout on a slide that already has content, all the content moves around weirdly? That's cause powerpoint has no way of telling which placeholders in one layout should correspond to the ones in the other layout, except by looking at a hidden idx variable.
The idx variable can't be easily looked at or edited by a user. When you create a placeholder, it just gets assigned one in increasing order. If you create your theme incorrectly it will mess up the idx values and then switching a slide's layout will cause chaos as content from one box will shift around unintuitively.
Anyway, i've gone a little deeper into the rabbit hole and started manually going into the xml with notepad to alter the idx values. I've successfully changed them a few times.
Actual Question:
There's a system for what powerpoint does when there isn't an exact 1:1 correspondence of idx values and I'm trying to find documentation of these edge cases.
eg. I know if there's a mismatch it moves content to the next higher idx value, but I don't know what happens if that idx value is also occupied.
Failing that, I was wondering if anyone has figured out best practices or a system for numbering their placeholders. | 3 | powerpoint |
Embedded fonts not working | The following situation: A PPT should be created for an event. The PPT must inevitably contain different fonts within the CI. The fonts were fully embedded. In addition, the fonts were installed on the end devices in advance.
On some devices the presentation is displayed correctly, on others the presentation opens entirely with Arial. The problem seems to occur primarily on various tablets with iOS.
The font itself is a .ttf. Changing it manually may cause errors and would take too long, an automatic change by replacing fonts does not work as more than one font has been changed to Arial.
Saving with partial embedding, full embedding, saving in other PPT versions and removing master slides did not work either.
Does anyone have a solution for us? | 3 | powerpoint |
How many of you essentially have the job title of 'slide monkey'? | I’m a relatively green consultant and I feel like I’m a slide making monkey. I get told what slides to make and I make them in return of sweet meaningless bananas (my manager's validation). **Anyone else in this position? If so, what's your actual job title and how are you managing this?**
**Context:** This post was prompted by a blog I recently read (‘[How I got 3 times faster at PowerPoint this year](/@leboeuf.pl/how-i-got-3-times-faster-at-powerpoint-this-year-3c9b7ec00824#:~:text=Quick%20access%20toolbar%20and%20shortcuts,number's%20position%20on%20the%20toolbar)’). The ppt tips are pretty good (delves into slide building mindsets and tools) but whatever. The REAL takeaway for me was how much I relate to this guy’s story and how much I hope I’m not alone in this.
Best lines from that article: “I sucked at building PowerPoint slides and now I suck a little less. Here’s how I went from spending my days building slides to, well… spending a part of my days building slides.” … “Hours spent on moving virtual boxes around on a slide, experimenting with new layouts, and changing seemingly insignificant visual details like font colors. I felt like I wasn’t using my brain much on the problem-solving work that first interested me in the job.”… | 11 | powerpoint |
Powerpoint breaks on new wifi. | I teach in different classrooms around the school, each of which have their own separate wifi connection. When I prepare a PowerPoint in my home room, then go to a new classroom with a different connection, the presentation breaks. Mp4 files suddenly can't be played and the audio files wont work either. The files are stored in a folder on my computer, no onedrive no upload center, they are ON MY COMPUTER!!!! And yet they won't play unless I go back to my homeroom wifi. Basically, I spend hours preparing a PowerPoint lesson, only for it not to work, ruining my lesson and hurting my reputation as a teacher. Insanely frustrating. Anyone else experienced this ridiculous behavior by powerpoint? | 3 | powerpoint |
Paste special graphs always resizing | Hi! Looking for some help on a PowerPoint I use for multiple clients with graphs on slide updated via excel worksheet objects.
The graphs are in the presentation by selecting Paste Special > Paste Link > Microsoft Excel Worksheet Object.
To update the graphs in the workbook, I right click and press Update Link.
Upon doing so, some graphs in the workbooks will either get much larger or much smaller needing to resize them back to fit within slide each time.
Any advice on why this might be and how to fix it permanently as it is extremely annoying and time consuming.
TIA | 3 | powerpoint |
How do you normally plan our initially outline your ppt presentation? | I have to create a ppt presentation for work tomorrow, in preparation for a keynote company address. Are there particular methods people like to use for laying out the narrative and “story” of their presentations before putting it in slides? E.g doing an outline via bullet points (to break out points vs sub points) in Microsoft word? Or any other technique where you first focus on the overarching flow before doing the individual slides and coloring in the details?
Thanks in advance for your suggestions or input, I really need some creative thoughts to get me started… | 3 | powerpoint |
How to group text and icons in a powerpoint text box | Hi,
I have some text and a arrow icon in a text box, and I would like to group them so when I move the text box everything moves together and I don't need to readjust the arrow icons. I'm including 2 screenshots to show you
Right now if I move the text box, I need to re-arrange the arrow icons as they aren't grouped together.
Thanks for everyone's help on this!
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/c63opyxd5r6d1.png?width=294&format=png&auto=webp&s=7a66fe7fff93f1a2170b3c1961b590b51441c7bb | 6 | powerpoint |
Youtube Video to PowerPoint Converter | 🚀 Hey everyone! 🚀
I know this might sound a bit out of the ordinary, but have you ever needed to convert a YouTube video into a PowerPoint presentation? 🤔 I know, who would've thought, right? Well, I scoured the depths of Google and found nothing that offered this magical service for free.
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So, what did I do? I took matters into my own hands and developed a converter myself! 🛠️✨ If you ever need to transform those epic YouTube clips into slides, you can use my tool for free.
Just one small favor: please don't try converting a 15-minute video into a PPT. Unless you want to see my server burst into flames and me crying in the corner. 😅🔥💻
Enjoy and happy converting! 🎉
#TechWizard #PPTMagic #ServerStressTest | 3 | powerpoint |
Wanting to know how to come out and contact police about a situation with my family back in 2020 | Howdy there. I'm in a bit of a pickle of sorts for this, and advice would be needed (what advice I need mainly at the bottom). If anyone is a cop who could tell me how they'd react to this sort of situation, it would help greatly.
I was raised back in Arizona, and my egg donor sure was someone. She was very controlling, scary, and being we were religious, her name was practically synonymous with God. Being that she was abusive towards me (mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, tiptoes around sexually), that I clung onto her and believed her every words bc if I didn't I'd go to hell, and that I was afraid she would smite me if I betrayed her, I wasn't in much of a space to speak out. She also owned guns, and old medications she never fully used up or ones bought from Mexico that she could easily give me to mess me up, and like to spank me until I was black and blue. Suffice to say, I was under her thumb very much.
My oldest sister wasn't much better, either; she would scream and yell at me, intimidate me by smacking nearby walls and grabbing the paint sticks that my egg donor would hit me with, and often used starvation as a punishment (our egg donor, at one point, could have gotten her arrested for neglect because of this; somehow, she ended up not reporting her.)
My egg donor taught me a lot of things, but one thing she told me that police were corrupt and (later on) would arrest me if I ever spoke out about what happened to my dad. So... here's the situation that happened back in 2020.
One summer my egg donor and I were on a small trip to a nearby city before we went back home, and when we came back, it turns out my oldest sister hadn't given him anything to drink the whole day we were gone. Being he was diabetic, this was horrible, and while my egg donor and I did our best to water him and feed him, he ended up going into a coma later in the night.
There was many arguments to be had that day, and I fortunately do have a recording of my egg donor confronting our oldest sister about it. In the end, we loaded him into the car, and drove to go to a hospital.
I was under the impression that we would be going into a hospital in Phoenix, and not the one closest to us, considering they have more extensive medical equipment. During the night drive there, I fell asleep, and the next thing I knew, we were going to /California/.
I believed we had already passed Yuma by the time I was awake (we left around 1-2ish? and I gotten woke up around 7ish). However, once we got to California, well. Instead of taking him to a hospital, my egg donor decided that instead of doing that, we would try and go into a diner and make it seem like he never "woke up" from a nap. Mind you, this was in the summer of 2020, so places were only open for pickup.
And... she kept doing this for hours, trying to find out a way to make it an "accident". And for the long gruelling hours of this, I had to endure being squished in the backseat of a car, in 100 degree weather, with very little liquid. Later in the night, as she made me call crematorium and how they said to call the police, she decided to drive to a random hospital well after we all knew he was dead. My egg donor wouldn't allow me to sleep well into the night until what was probably 12 am.
Police came to the hospital we went to, I was thankfully able to sleep some more after about an hourish of sleep in the car, and I remember one specific guy waking us up in the hospital and yelling at us, saying about this being a dead body and such- I can't remember much of what was said but with the way the guy acted, it only confirmed to me that if I spoke out, it would get me locked up in jail- and though now my logic side of me tells me "you were 17, didn't have a driver's license or keys to the car, your glasses that you need to see were broken and you were scared for your life because of your egg donor's extensive threats, abuse, and as she just demonstrated, her ability to let someone die," I can't help shake that feeling even despite knowing I was helpless and afraid in that moment.
But... I have a disabled sister that, though she was my egg donor's golden child, is just as if not more helpless than I, due to being unable to speak or have a lot of autonomy. And considering my oldest sister's history of neglect, even if she is/was just as scared of our egg donor as I am, it makes me worried. But this also provides another hurtle for me, and for this I really need some advice.
1: What do I do? I live in a different state now, and he could have died between Arizona and California. Do I contact Arizona police? California police? My current state's place?
2: Would I be jailed for keeping quiet?
3: The person who is housing and taking care of me while I get on medication and therapy is a government worker. Would their job be affected if I told someone this? I currently rely on them for food and housing until I can get my brain back in order and I'd rather die than affect their life because of this.
4: If I had to take care of my disabled sister since I'm next of kin, I nor the person housing me wouldn't be able to afford it; what kind of programs are there to help people in this sort of situation? Foster care wouldn't be preferred, but is an option so long as I could visit her often.
5: Ever since I left, my egg donor, oldest sister and disabled sister have gone rogue and I haven't the slightest clue on how to navigate reporting them as missing, or what to really... do. All I have for information on how to locate them is appearances and a slightly blurry photo of the back of her car (that she took) when she bought it, but I never thought to take a picture of her car's plate or make and model up close before I left, and all I've really been able to do was call APS before that case was closed due to them abandoning the house since I've left.
If there's any questions you have I'll see if I can answer them. The abuse I went through is... quite extensive and I only put what I thought was relevant. I need as much advice as I can to know whether keeping silent or speaking up would be best here. | 7 | RBI |
Help me find info about an incident that happened in Scottsdale, AZ in 2002? | As per the title, this happened in Scottsdale, AZ in January or February of 2002. My mom, my friend, and I were walking back to our apartment when a woman ran up to us. She was panicked, frazzled, and covered in cuts and bruises, and begged to use our phone to call the police. Apparently, she'd met a guy online who was supposedly from England and fallen for him. She invited him to come spend Christmas and New Years with her and when he arrived, he took both her and her elderly mother captive and spent several weeks torturing and sexually abusing them both. She told us that he'd been keeping her locked in a closet but she managed to escape while he was in the shower, and that's when she met us. She was probably in her 50s so the guy in question would presumably have been around the same age. I think she said her mother was in her 70s or early 80s and suffering from dementia. These are all the details I remember. For some reason, I've been thinking about this a lot lately and I'd just like to know what became of it, if anything.
I don't know if this made it in to the local news, and if it did, I don't know if it would've wound up on the internet since it was still relatively early in the digital age. I haven't been able to find anything about it, but I'm also not great at searching out these sorts of things. If anyone can find anything about it, I'd appreciate it. | 10 | RBI |
Weird letter/cd hand delivered to my house. | I wish I could attach a photo because this stuff is creepy. A homemade CD was hand delivered to my house, it had scribbling all over the CD things like “Holy spirit Jesus christ” and an A4 piece of paper covered front and back with bible verse numbers and arrows pointing to their order also Hebrew and English writing.
From what I can make out in English it says “and this life is eternal” “me whom they have stabbed… pierced” “to break up, to violate, frustrate, break, make void”
The CD didn’t play anything.
I don’t know whether to report it to the police or if it is just some religious nut spamming everyones letterboxes.
Thoughts? 🤔 | 6 | RBI |
Help me identify the clothes of these robbers! | These people broke into our local general store and stole a bunch of stuff. The police haven’t been any help. We think it may be tied to a recent string in garage break ins that have all involved 1 female and multiple males in our area which have been going on since November. I noticed that the shoes of one of the robbers might be easy to identify, so I thought I’d post it to see if anyone would be able to help out. [Here](/scl/fi/cvwxhbdg7jnbhzwxqnae0/Video-2024-07-13-8-17-43-AM.mov?rlkey=laq8who6554aehnd8l2p72ugl&dl=0) is the link to the video.
Is anyone able to recognize the shoes of the person grinding the lock? | 7 | RBI |
Received mysterious envelope in mail | I got a black padded envelope in my mailbox a couple days ago.
1. It showed up in my mailbox after the regular mail had already come that day
2. It has a USPS shipping label on it but I took it to the post office and they said it isn't real
3. The return address on the label is a man's name l don't recognize, and an address to a house in MD that just looks like a regular house on Google street vIew.
4. The ONLY thing inside is a thank you card, like the kind you get with some online purchases, asking to "Leave a review" but there's no business name, no product name, no web links, no QR codes, nothing to identify where it's from or what it's in reference to. From the card: "THANK YOU. You're the reason why I love doing what I do! I really appreciate your trust, and I hope that your package brings you all the good vibes you deserve. Love what you got? Leave a review"
5. I believe it was hand delivered because our regular mail had already been dropped off earlier that day
6. I wonder if the person who dropped it off was watching me through my windows because I was home all day (as I always am) and it was delivered while I was upstairs taking a shower
I can’t post pictures here, but I did post them in r/scams if you’re interested. | 18 | RBI |
Car Accident - Dude Refused to Give me his Info (California) | Some dude hit my car when trying to turn left into my lane. He refused to give me his license and insurance information when I asked. Tried to call the police, but they said they wouldn't come unless someone was hurt. The damage that I know of is pretty minimal, but I'm worried my hub cap came off and there's pretty clear scratch marks on my left side. I took pictures of his vehicle and recorded him refusing to give me his information.
I tried to look up his license plate number when I got home, but it says no data found. I filed a claim with my insurance, but don't really want to fix my car if it's just going to make my insurance pay for it and make my insurance go up on /vin-report/. Does anyone know how I can get this guy or his insurance to pay for the damages done to my car? Am I just screwed? | 14 | RBI |
FINALLY HAVE AN UPDATE to weird guy shows up at my parents door using details about my life that were valid 20 years ago | Alright, one year later I FINALLY have an update to this mystery. I will include the original story here first followed by the update:
(Original story from a year ago): This happened three nights ago and I am going crazy trying to figure it out. I just moved into a new apartment one month ago and I am still unpacking and settling in. I have been using my parents address as my mailing address (who live a few towns over, twenty minutes away) all of my life. Three nights ago my parents call me at 2:00am freaked out and proceed to tell me this story. Apparently at 1:00am someone starts banging on their front door and repeatedly ringing their doorbell. My stepdad walks downstairs and opens the door, leaving the front glass door closed and locked. There was a man standing outside, who looked to be in his 30s, with a black hoodie on with the hood pulled up around his face. He didn’t have any distinguishing facial features, facial hair or tattoos. The only thing my stepdad said was that he looked to be Hispanic. Neither my stepdad or my mother (who was watching the whole thing out a window) recognized the man.
The man says, “I’m so sorry to bother you, but I’m looking for “my full name.” My stepdad plays dumb and says “who?” The man proceeds to state my full name again and says that my boyfriend is worried because I didn’t come home that night. He claims to be a friend of my boyfriend and tells my stepdad that they are both out looking for me, worried because I didn’t show up at home.
I don’t have a boyfriend. I live by myself with my three dogs and haven’t been in a relationship in the past 5-6 month. Here’s the weird part. My stepdad asked the guy what boyfriend he was talking about and the man tells him the name of the boyfriend I had when I was in 10th grade, nearly twenty years ago. My boyfriend in 10th grade has a very, very unique Italian name, I’ve never met anyone with a full name even close to his. He says my high school boyfriends name a few more times to ensure my stepdad heard him and repeats that they are very worried about me, is my stepdad sure I’m not inside. At this point my stepdad is weirded out and closes and locks the door in his face.
The man does not leave. He lingers in front of my parents house for the next ten minutes, smoking cigarettes and talking on the phone. Finally, my parents calls the cops. About five minutes before the cops arrive, the man walks down to the dead end on their block and drives away in a silver car. Stepdad was unable to get the license plate. My parents file a police report and nothing else happens.
After I hear this story I am going nuts over the weird details. How would someone know who I dated nearly twenty years ago and what would the motive be of making up a story that included that weird detail about my past? I have not had contact with the tenth grade boyfriend in over a decade. Yesterday, I decide to message him on a facebook to see if he has any insight. I tell him the whole story, he’s just as confused as I am and claims to have no part in it.
I am at a loss. I’m also really freaked out that some strange man is going through that much trouble at 1am to look for me. Any insights or ideas would be greatly appreciated. No, nothing else weird has happened since then.
RECENT UPDATE: After this happened, me and my family and a couple of my close friends have been talking about this mystery in depth to try and put our heads together to figure it out. We all have our own theories, but ultimately no definitive answer as to what happened or who this creeper was. So we pretty much put it to rest and only continued to joke about it once in a while.
Here’s the update….my stepsister (my stepdads daughter) and her fiancé were at a house party right after the holidays (around early January of this year). While they were there, they started talking to a girl that neither of them knew. After some time talking together, the girl started talking about her ex-boyfriend and how they were going through a really tough time together. They had just recently broke up and she felt really bad because he was a wreck over it. Somehow, it came up that this girls ex-boyfriend was MY 10th grade boyfriend, the one with the really unique Italian name. The whole situation wasn’t that big of a coincidence, since I went to high school with my step-sisters fiancé and we have a lot of mutual friends. So it makes sense that they were at a party that would include some people I went to high school with. As soon as my stepsister and her fiancé hear this, they both start freaking out and without revealing too many details, they tell the girl about the whole mystery and how weird it was. As they are telling the story, the girls face starts to go white and she looks like she’s about to cry. My stepsister and fiancé try to console her and ask her what’s wrong. The wine/beer had been flowing at this point so I’m sure everyone was a little tipsy. The girl starts to tell them that a few nights ago, she was sleeping, and someone started banging on her door at…get this…fucking 1am! Just like what happened to me at my parents! The girl jumps out of bed and says she was absolutely terrified by how loud and aggressive someone was banging on her door, she said she literally thought it was going to break in. The girl has a ring camera, so looks on her phone. There on the camera, is a guy, IN A BLACK HOODIE, banging on her door. She obviously pretends like she isn’t home and keeps all of the lights off. He continues banging. As she is getting ready to dial 911, the guy stops and leaves. She said she was absolutely terrified. For whatever reason, she didn’t end up calling the cops, but may have went to stay with a friend that night or the night after. My stepsister and fiancé are SHOCKED by the details and how similar it is to my story, especially because of the mutual EX-BOYFRIEND WE SHARE, except this girl literally JUST broke things off with him. They ask the girl if she has any idea who the guy is and she said no, but that it definitely is NOT the actual ex-boyfriend. She said this guy was much taller and heavier than our shared mutual ex. HOW FUCKING WEIRD?! This mystery is still unsolved and these new details honestly just make my head spin even more. No one else has showed up to my parent’s door since the actual incident a year ago. | 3,518 | RBI |
Need help finding a lost Toyota Highlander | Edit: It's been found!!
My stepfather has a horrible memory which has gotten a lot worse after my mom recently died (apparently that's a normal grief response). He went into Seattle on Wednesday and parked in a random parking garage trying to go to Pike Place, but can't remember where it was. He's walked around for many hours trying to find the vehicle the past couple days, but ultimately couldn't. A SPD officer has been helping look as well, but no luck. I have been calling a ton of places and have gotten a few others to call and search as well, but it still hasn't been found. There are just SO many parking garages around there. His Google maps history hasn't been very helpful. It shows him stopping at Pitchbook, but we and others have checked all around there and not found it. Otherwise his maps history shows him going all over the place. Despite that, the SPD officer helping looked along it and still didn't find the vehicle. I don't think it's been towed since the garages have said that tow trucks can't get in there to tow.
Need help locating it. The first to find it gets a $100 gift certificate to The Capital Grille (since they helped him and even got him an Uber home after he gave up looking. I highly recommend them after this experience!) or a local restaurant to you that I can purchase online. It's a dark blue 2020 Toyota Highlander hybrid. License plate BWA3065
He parked the vehicle around 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday. The following information is what I've been able to get from him. He says he drove uphill and turned left into the garage. He doesn't know what streets. It seemed to him when he entered the garage there was a slightly down angle. After that he doesn't remember where he went other than he parked in a disabled spot. He took an elevator from the parking garage up to the lobby and thinks it only went 1-2 floors. He doesn't remember anything other than the lobby had 2 revolving doors. The lobby in the building was quite newish/elegant looking. Pretty but not decorative. Professional looking. He said he thinks the garage wasn't dark or bright, just in the middle. Doesn't remember anything else about it. He exited the building at street level through revolving doors. He says he thinks he turned left out of the building and then he walked to Pike street, turned left on Pike st, and walked down to Pike Place market. He doesn't think he walked very far. He says he thinks he walked more than one block to get to Pike street. Also he says the garage was above Pike Place market up the hill, not below.
His memory could possibly be wrong though. All I know for absolute sure is he parked around 6pm on Wed and walked from the garage to the market. Also he almost always parks in a disabled spot.
Other things I've tried: setting up the Toyota app and Toyota connect, but you have to have access to the vehicle to set it up. Talked to Toyota and they said they can only track the car with a stolen car police report.
I'm totally exhausted and overwhelmed, so really hope maybe someone else can find it. Been calling and researching nonstop only falling asleep a few hours each night trying to find it
Edit: requested Google Maps Timeline info: [/a/ubApdPu](/a/ubApdPu) | 76 | RBI |
weird bouncy frog noise in room | Sorry it’s my first Reddit post and not sure if it’s the right subreddit, but have seen similar issues posted here already …
I’ve started noticing a weird noise coming from the corners of my room during night time and very occasionally day time. The only way i can describe it is how those musical wooden frog toys sound but a lot more quieter? Or maybe like a really dull and muted saw cutting through wood? It’s quite sporadic and way too quiet for me to be able to record it.
I don’t think it could be rodents or a structural thing… but maybe im underestimating it. Wondering if anyone here has any better ideas? Thanks in advance! I hope it’s not ghosts. | 4 | RBI |
Need help finding death certificates | No identifiable information shared.
Years ago (30ish years) my grandfather committed horrid crimes against a family member, was arrested but then released due to victim being unwilling to testify despite dna evidence. When crimes were discovered he emptied savings accounts, sold property in secret and ran. Leaving my nana almost destitute and my mother emotionally ruined.
A few years ago using 192.com I kind off tracked him down, found his address and woman living with him however it was on the other side of the U.K. Given that he is now 95 (born 1929), his electoral role registration ceased in 2021, and the house he was living in was sold April 2023 we now believe him to be dead. And as my nana is still legally married to him I am trying to ensure that if he had any money to his name she gets her legal share, and his death certificate so she may remarry her partner of 15 years.
How can I find him? | 6 | RBI |
¿Soy un fracaso?¿es un proceso?¿que putas hago? | Tengo 30, no se que putas hacer con mi vida, siento que no he hecho mucho por mi vida, pero veo que hay personas que sienten que soy ejemplo, aun sin sentir serlo. ¿Acaso me estoy dando muy duro? no soy profesional pero soy tecnologo, no tengo en este momento trabajo pero ando en camino a un emprendimiento, el contrato termino hace 2 meses y el proceso para el siguiente se aplazo hasta hace una semana que volvi a enviar documentos. el emprendimiento esta aun contruyendose poco a poco, no es tan reconocido pero trato de trabajar dia a dia para que salga bien, no espero tampoco a tener todo para larzarlo, ya lo hice pero poco a poco y con oos pocos recursos que tengo. Vivo solo desde hace un año, ya tengo lo basico para vivir, cama, nevera, estufa, loza, computador donde hacer mis ediciones y mis cosas y otras cosas mas. Ademas estoy entre dos carreras, terminar de estudiar por el lado deportivo o continuar con diseño y publicidad. Soy bueno en ambas cosas pero tambien siento que al estar en un lado y otro no me siento y especializo en ninguna de las dos, aunque creo que soy bueno en ambas. Desde pequeño quize ejercer las dos, despues me di cuenta que de alguna forma puedo unirlas en mi proyecto o emprendimiento. no se que hacer y tengo un puto enrredo en mi cabeza. | 9 | Colombia |
Me cansé de Movistar y sus malas prácticas de ventas así que decidí pagarle con su misma moneda. | Me llaman múltiples veces para ofrecer elnseecicio pospago y a pesar de mi reiterada negativa y decirles que no me interesa, insisten a través de llamadas de operadores, llamadas automatizadas, mensajes de texto, etc.
Como no escuchan y no les importa seguir importunando a sus clientes, he decidido ofrecerle a los operadores un servicio cada vez que llaman. Uno más ridículo que el anterior. Hago uso de sus mismas tácticas y vocabulario para que entiendan la gran oportunidad que es.
No les doy chance a que me ofrezcan nada, apenas me dan su nombre y me dicen de dónde llaman, les digo que me alegra que me llamara porque hay un servicio que les quiero ofrecer y ahí me largo a darles la explicación.
No me va a resolver el problema pero al menos me divierto. | 35 | Colombia |
Desahogo | Tengo 19 años y estudio ingeniería en sistemas. Nunca he trabajado y dependo económicamente de mis padres. Mis padres están separados: mi madre trabaja en Alemania y es quien me mantiene, mientras que mi padre, pensionado como profesor, ha reducido su apoyo desde que cumplí 18 y solo me paga la universidad. Vivo con mis tíos y me siento como una carga para mi madre, lo cual me ha llevado a una profunda depresión.Me preocupa el futuro, especialmente encontrar trabajo después de graduarme. La presión económica y la sensación de ser inútil me abruman, y he llegado a pensar en quitarme la vida. Mis estudios son lo único que me motiva, pero temo que sin dinero no podré salir adelante en esta sociedad. No tengo amigos ni nunca he tenido una relación amorosa, por eso acudo a esto porque quizá ustedes me den opiniones respecto a esto. Muchas gracias por escucharme, es un desahogo. | 25 | Colombia |
Descubrí que mi papá está vivo (o por lo menos tengo la sospecha), ayuda | Les doy un poco de contexto: mi familia es oriunda del Valle del Cauca. Por razones del destino, mis padres se separaron cuando yo era muy pequeño. Tiempo después, mi familia materna se vino a vivir a un pueblo en Antioquia. Con mi papá mantuvimos comunicación (cada ciertos meses, no muy frecuente). Cuando empecé a trabajar, decidí visitarlo. Para mí, era como una despedida, ya que sospechaba que no nos veríamos por mucho tiempo. Además, mi papá ya era mayor y decía estar enfermo. Recuerdo haberlo visitado después de muchos años, lo reconocí, hablamos y nos despedimos. Después de eso, seguimos en contacto, pero igual que antes, cada cierto tiempo yo lo llamaba o él me llamaba.
La comunicación con él era muy difícil porque su familia le prohibía hablar conmigo. Cuando lo llamaba y alguien más contestaba, tenía que fingir ser otra persona o colgar. El Día del Padre de 2019 estaba pensando en llamarlo, pero mi mamá se adelantó y me dijo: "Mijo, hemos estado tratando de comunicarnos con tu papá. Le pedimos a tu cuñado que lo llamara y se hiciera pasar por un amigo, pero su esposa contestó y, después de insistir, le dijo a tu cuñado que él estaba muy grave en el hospital y no quiso dar información de dónde estaba". Después de un tiempo, cuando intenté llamarlo, su celular estaba apagado y nunca me llamó. Esto me hizo pensar que mi papá había fallecido. Fue triste porque no pude despedirme.
Hoy mi mamá me dijo: "Mijito, he estado soñando con tu papá." entonce mi hermana dijo: "Yo también, y en el sueño me dijo '¿Quién dijo que estoy muerto?'" Entonces, comenzamos a hablar y pensamos en la posibilidad de que la familia de mi papá eliminó el contacto o de alguna forma mi papá perdió el número de mi mamá (ella aún tiene ese número). Empecé a buscar su número de cédula y al validar el registro de defunción, aparece como vivo. Cuando vi eso, se me partió el alma. A pesar de que no teníamos mucho contacto, al menos me daba buenos consejos y me ayudaba en mi época de colegio.
Espero que no sean muy duros conmigo. Debí haber consultado antes el registro de defunción, pero realmente creíamos que había fallecido. ¿Alguna vez han sentido que podrían haber aprovechado más el tiempo con alguien? Ahora me siento así. Me va a costar dormir. Quisiera que me dieran consejos o ideas de cómo puedo contactarlo. Seguramente él debe vivir en el mismo pueblo, pero nunca supimos en qué casa vivía. No tenemos contactos de su familia, además de que me odian. Agradecería cualquier ayuda que me puedan brindar.
Quisiera tener una conversación con él y decirle: "Papá, seguí tus consejos y ahora soy un ingeniero exitoso." | 5 | Colombia |
Un beneficio de alejarse del nopor del que poco se habla | Que hptas sueños húmedos tan intensos y vividos me han estado llegando, parce, jajaja mi liberación sexual en el “mundo despierto” es nula ahora mismo (llevo así unos meses) y pues creo yo que eso obliga a mi mente a expresarse así
Pero en plan heavy, no se con que compararlo, como que todas mis fantasías se manifiestan y he tenido mejores polvos en mis sueños que en el mundo despierto (y si he tirado un buen)
El caso es si no lo han podido dejar por arrechos pues ahí les dejo el dato, la verdad esos sueños le ganan x1000 a cualquier paja o cualquier encuentro con prepago, inténtenlo y me cuentan, suerte pirobos y Colombia a ganar la copa | 3 | Colombia |
La farsa de estudiar lenguas modernas... | Hace unos días vi un post en el que se tocaba el tema de si la universidad es una farsa o no... quiero comentarles que desde mi perspectiva la carrera más inútil es Lenguas modernas y les contaré porqué.
Ojo, no estoy diciendo que los idiomas no son importantes, de hecho, considero que hablar vatios idiomas es lo más útil que una persona puede aprender y personalmente hablo varios.
Les comento que durante bastantes años tuve que trabajar con personas graduadas de lenguas modernas, en su mayoría de la EAN, y de verdad que parecía que hubiesen pagado por el título. Se supone que una persona graduada de lenguas modernas debe tener la capacidad de manejar mínimo 2 idiomas además de su idioma nativo. Pero les comento que absolutamente todas las personas que conocí que tenían dicho título apenas medio manejaban mediocremente una segunda lengua y en su mayoría era el portugués, pero ni siquiera tenían la certificación del Celpe-bras ni nada por el estilo. En inglés podían medio presentarse pero de ahí no pasaba y no podían hablar francés, italiano o mucho menos alemán. | 34 | Colombia |
Estoy mal por querer que mi novia se abra emocional y psicologicamente conmigo? | Bueno, mi novia y yo ya llevamos un año y varios meses juntos. En todo ese tiempo me he encargado de abrirme intima, emocional y psicologicamente con mi novia, literalmente soy como un libro abierto que se lee solo para que ella pueda conocerme bien.
Para dar contexto, soy una persona reservada, callada y poco expresiva pero cuando conoci a mi novia y nos volvimos pareja salio a relucir esa personalidad amorosa, detallista, expresiva y extrovertida, eso si, solo con ella, con el resto del mundo soy muy reservado y resulta que mi novia es algo igual a mi en ese sentido.
Las diferencias vienen en que los padres de ella son de las personas que piensan que hablar de sus emociones esta mal, que fallar esta mal, que no obedecer a sus padres esta mal (asi le digan que haga algo que ella sepa que esta mal o no le gusta), que expresarse esta mal. En si para sus padres todo esta mal y para rematar. A sus padres les gusta mucho controlarle la vida a ella. Mientras que mi suegra controla la forma de vestir de mi nocia y su comportamiento, mi suegro la controla teniendola encerrada en la casa sin mucha oportunidad de salir y si ella llega a salir solo piede ser con sus amigas mujeres y si ella sale conmigo deben ir sus padres tambien y la verdad es que es una situación estresante
A ella la criaron para que obedezca sin cuestionar, que la familia es lo primordial y debes darlo todo por ella aunque tus familiares sean una mierday te hayan hecho daño. En fin, creo que me hice entender, yo en mi caso soy todo lo contrario a ella.
Últimamente he tratado de que cambie esa forma de pensar y que se suelte un poco mas por asi decirlo, que cree su propio criterio y ¿por que no? Que desobedezca a sus padres y se de algo de libertad y he visto que he tenido un buen avance con ella. Cabe aclarar que ella es mi primera novia al igual que yo soy su primer novio y entiendo que para ella, que llegue alguien como yo que soy lo contrario a ella sea como un gran choque devastador de mundos y le cueste soltarse y volverse ella misma.
El punto de todo esto es que ella y yo en un futuro pensamos vivir juntos y hacer nuestra vida juntos pero ella me dijo que ¿Y si da la casualidad de que ella no quiera ir a vivir conmigo por que a veces le hartan las personas y se pone demalas y le dan ataques de ira por que si? (Lo de ponerse demalas y que le den ataques de ira poco a poco se ha contagiado de su madre) Yo obviamente como el novio comprensivo que soy le dije que podia ir, darse una vuelta, calmarse, respirar y hacer algo que le guste para mitigar esas emociones y le dije que por favor no me vaya a tratar mal por que pues no me gusta que me traten mal y ella me dijo que no le pida milagros.
A lo que yo le pregunte ¿Cual seria ese milagro? Y ella me respondio: que no te vaya a tratar mal y pues le dije que esas cosas debia controlarlas y le dije que ahi voy a estar con ella para hacerlo y le dije que la amo mucho y que me importa tanto que por eso quiero conocerla a ella con toda su paleta de colores a lo que ella me dijo que preferia no hablar de eso (ese tipo de temas siempre le resultan dificiles de hablar por que en si, ella esta acostumbrada al ambiente de su hogar donde como en un inicio, dije que son con ella) y yo le dije que ella prefiere no hablar de esas cosas por que le da miedo perderme y que deje de amarla y todo ese cuento a lo que ella me respo dio que si, que ese es el motivo por el cual no quiere hablar de eso por que aun no se siente capaz de hablar conmigo.
Quiere decirme mucho pero la lengua no la deja y entiendo que sea algo duro para ella pero al final yo solo quiero poder volverme uno con ella, metafóricamente hablando. Y mientras que yo soy un libro abierto con ella, tengo que esperar a que ella de a poco se vaya desenvolviendo conmigo y bueno, en fin.
¿Soy el malo por querer que ella cambie ese tipo de forma de pensar que a mi punto de vista es perjudicial para ella? No quiero que ella deje de ser ella pero si quiero que ella este bien y que en si, ella sea un caballo salvaje, que sea tal y como ella desee ser. | 5 | Colombia |
Hijo bastón y hacer tu propia vida en Colombia | Sé que preocuparse demas por el futuro no es sano pero es inevitable.
Les cuento el hijo bastón es aquel que se hace cargo de sus padres para que tengas una vida medianamente digna en su vejez en economías emergentes como la de este país.
Ahora tengo 25 años y desde que incie la universidad todo lo que he ahorrado es para darle una casa a mis papás y por supuesto aportada a los gastos como servicios, alimentación y arriendo.
Actualmente pago arriendo donde vivimos repartido claro porque todos trabajamos pero a la vez ahorro para el retiro de ellos y su casa.
A estas alturas me hace pensar, cuando empezaré la mía? Mi vida últimamente están celosos porque gasto saliendo con mi novia o amigos.
Hice 1 viaje este año y obviamente me objetaron porque no compré una nevera nueva que necesitamos porque casualmente se descompuso días después que regresé del viaje con amigos.
Estoy aquí poeque me encuentro en un dilema aporto al hogar, ahorro programado para una casa y lo que me queda me alcanza para un par de salidas al mes. (Sueldo de 3.5MM)
Mis papás están lejos de una pensión decente porque no alcanzan las semanas a sus 50 años cada uno, ellos solo ven viable que yo construya 2 casas una para que vivan y otra para cobrar el arriendo.
Ya necesitan medicinas por la edad y achaques. Ese sueldo no alcanza para tanta planificación y estoy desesperado porque no quiero ser bastón pero deseo ayudarlos para que tengab una vejez digan. Será Acumular un patrimonio de 300MM para que vivan de los interés de un CDT o cuenta Nu bank ?? Están pagando 1% mensual sería alrededor de 3 millones.
Ellos casa uno gana poco más de mínimo, siempre ganaron eso y hubo escasez. Me gané una beca, estudié y gracias a Dios encontré un trabajo relativamente estable pero siento que esos 3.5MM se quedan cortos | 5 | Colombia |
"¡Increíble! Mi hija de 8 años fue robada en el centro comercial. | Estaba en el centro comercial con mi familia viendo el partido. Había un grupo de niños frente a nosotros (de 15-19 años más o menos) . Uno de ellos, un joven claramente un idiota estúpido, le robó el juguete a mi hija. Era un pequeño tigre que ella había pintado con los colores de Colombia durante el partido. No tengo ni idea de qué lleva una rata a robar un juguete sin valor a una niña de 8 años. Pudimos confrontarlo y mi cuñado lo registró y lo encontró, y después de eso, el chico salió corriendo. De todas formas, como estábamos tomando fotos y videos, tenemos una foto de este chico y me pregunto si debería publicarla para que sienta la vergüenza de robar a una niña. | 81 | Colombia |
Fui rechazado por el ejército | Como pueden leer en el título, fui rechazado para entrar al ejército. En el último mes habrán visto varios de mis posts donde pedía consejos para presentarme al curso de sufi ya que la vida universitaria y de oficina me parece bastante aburrida. Empecé el proceso y realice mis pruebas psicotécnicas, pero al momento de pasar a hablar con la psicóloga esta me calificó como no apto. Para mí fue una sorpresa, pues tengo un núcleo familiar estable, buena economía, y muy buenas notas de estudio. La verdad me sentí muy desconcertado y a la vez desanimado ya que era mi última oportunidad para hacer curso debido a mi edad. Al momento de salir un sargento me preguntó por el resultado y al escuchar que no había pasado me preguntó si yo estaba haciendo una técnica a lo cual le dije que no, que en realidad me encontraba haciendo un pregado, él me respondió "Debió ser por eso, a los que están haciendo técnicas se la ponen más difícil porque pueden entrar a las áreas administrativas y falta mucho personal para esos campos". Dentro de mi ignorancia le dije al sargento que a mí ser administrativo no me llamaba la atención, que yo queria era tirar monte y tener mando de tropa, a lo cual él simplemente respondió "Las cosas pasan por algo". Salí bastante desmotivado y ahora solo pienso en cuál puede ser el próximo camino a tomar, puedo presentarme a la polnal, pero al igual que la mayoría no me gusta para nada esa institución. Pensamientos, recomendaciones, ideas? | 31 | Colombia |
🎮 What features would you like on your Controller to race on NSF? 🎮 | Hey NFS Enjoyers! As a Need for Speed controller player, I chose to study Gamers' favorite features and their expectations for the Controller of Tomorrow 🎮
I'm sure Need for Speed players have a lot to say on the topic, and I'd really appreciate your opinion of current features and your expectations for features of tomorrow through the survey below. It only takes a maximum of 2 minutes. Thanks in advance 🙏🙏🙏
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See you in the streets :)
PS: Sorry if you feel this is a bit too broad for this place. I am trying to gather feedback from different playerbases and as a huge Need for Speed player myself, I really value feedback for this r/ | 4 | needforspeed |
How can you play MW05 online nowadays? | I first got MW in 2020, and for a couple of years, whenever I wanted to race someone, we'd fire up GameRanger and use that to do emulated LAN play. Problem is, GameRanger is seemingly dead now, so that's no longer an option. The regular online play option in the game presumably hasn't worked in years, since the death of Gamespy.
I know there's the Most Wanted Online mod by MWO, but that seems more geared toward FiveM or San Andreas Multiplayer-styled custom servers (and installing it requires axing other mods like Extra Options, which, no thanks). I'm looking for a way of linking up with other online friends for the classic MW multiplayer experience. What are my options for doing that?
(Everyone I'm planning on playing with owns Black Edition 1.3, if that helps.) | 5 | needforspeed |
Why The Hate? | So I just got done playing through NFS Heat the other day (yes I know I’m extremely late to this discussion) and I thought it was pretty good actually. From what I’ve seen online though, it’s a fairly mixed bag leaning on the bad side for the most part and I’m trying to figure out why that it.
To preface, I’ll admit when NFS started doing narrative driven games, I wasn’t the biggest fan of it, but it’s something I’ve definitely come around to. In fact with this one, I will fully agree with the notion that this game ended too abruptly and honestly I wanted MORE story, not less.
Other than it ending very quickly though, I genuinely loved following the story. Sure you could easily see what would happen or where it was going and some of the dialogue was hit or miss, but, again this is a NFS game, not a movie that’s competing for an Oscar. It’s still fun and engaging nonetheless.
One of the more obvious complaints that’s become a meme at this point that I will fully agree with though is the cops. Now I’m very glad that the cops aren’t pushovers that you can evade without ever seeing them, however there’s a fine line between having cops that are easily taken out, and ones that if you get hit by three or four times you’re arrested. I have never successfully gotten the night finished at level five without getting busted. Also the busting timer is almost instantaneous even if you’re still moving, so that got frustrating. Sure if you located a jump over water in the downtown sector, you’re safe for the most part, but a lot of times I’d get stuck up in the north eastern section of the map without a prayer. That and the cop rubber banding not only when you speed up, but when you slow down is an annoyance I will say.
Other than the cops, however I did love the game. The lighting at night is pleasant to look at, the car roster is diverse, the car customization is very detailed, especially with all the community wraps that were made, and your car actually feels fast once you get it leveled up and maxed out. I, for one, couldn’t ask anything more from a game.
So needless to say, I loved the game, but what do y’all think about it? | 71 | needforspeed |
I tried NFS Mobile, here are my impressions. | It's fun. I haven't gotten very far yet, but I've been enjoying it. It's a gacha game, and I know gacha games can be a major turn-off for most, but the driving mechanics are interesting enough for me to give it a shot. I played on a Samsung A32 5G, which is a pretty shitty phone in terms of performance, but it ran NFSM surprisingly well. The soundtrack is mainly rap, and it's okay, I prefer Heat and Unbound's music, but then I heard the original We'll Be Coming Back by Calvin Harris, so I think it probably has some more tracks tucked into some places. As for the vibe of the game, it's like an in-between of Racing Master, another Chinese gacha racing game that was made with the help of Codemasters, and NFS Unbound, obviously on Heat's map. It looks different enough to be called unique, but driving around, it's very obviously a reskinned Palm City. But I've come to expect that with a mobile/handheld NFS game, take UGR or OTC or even MW Mobile, for example. Obviously I can't understand a thing so navigation should be a bitch but I was able to get along decently. Aside from connection issues (expected, im in america) and the game over time getting less and less stable (shitty phone is my guess), it's been a solid ride. I'd personally give it a solid 6.8/10. It's not mid, but it's not great. Of course my mind could change over time for better or for worse.
TL;DR: It's what UGR is to Underground or OTC to Carbon, for Unbound. Gacha aside, the game is decently fun. | 4 | needforspeed |
Everything feels so stiff and artificial | I've played every need for speed game to date including Heat (which this was also a problem) but I'm not sure if it's the Frostbite engine or whatever but everything in NFS Unbound feels so stiff compared to the good ol days of MW and Carbon.
It feels like no matter how I drift the path is predetermined and calculated.
The other big issue I have is that the fashion sense, story, and art-style just completely misses what Street Racing is. Street Racers aren't some liberation movement fighting "The Man" they know exactly what they are doing is illegal and they do it for the money why does every game as of late ham-fist in game political news through the radio and try to make it seem like we're trying to fight some unjust society.
I AM A CRIMINAL AND I'M DOING ILLEGAL STUFF THE COPS ARE CHASING ME BECAUSE I'M LITERALLY ENDANGERING THE CIVILIAN POPULATION BY RECKLESSLY DRIVING.
I don't care about racial profiling when I'M ACTIVELY BREAKING THE LAW IN A DANGEROUS WAY.
Like seriously stop trying to justify my behavior we went from taking over territory with 1v1 downhill racing in Carbon to "oh how dare the cops chase me" in heat/unbound. | 4 | needforspeed |
Rate the Ride Season 4 Episode 63: 2014 Dodge Viper. Always fear a Viper on the police’s side | [Season 1 Results](/r/needforspeed/s/53V4a5mXby)
[Season 2 Results](/r/needforspeed/s/Pk7HypjWAI)
[Season 3 Results](/r/needforspeed/s/2PSTN1GVFH)
Average Scores:
1982 Porsche 911: 9.3/10
1985 Lamborghini Countach: 8.2/10
1987 Ferrari F40: 9/10
1995 Ferrari F50: 7.8/10
1995 Lamborghini Diablo: 8.6/10
1995 McLaren F1 LM: 10/10
1997 Dodge Viper: 8.6/10
1998 Ford Crown Victoria: 6.5/10
1999 Lenco Bearcat Rhino: 7.2/10
2000 BMW M5: 9.1/10
2000 Ford Mustang Cobra: 8.3/10
2000 Porsche 911: 7/10
2001 Lamborghini Murcielago: 8.8/10
2002 Chevrolet Corvette: 9/10
2002 Ford Interceptor: 6.6/10
2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee Rhino: 8.5/10
2004 Porsche Carrera GT: 9.6/10
2005 Chevrolet Corvette: 9.5/10
2005 Pontiac GTO: 6.3/10
2006 Chevrolet Corvette: 8.4/10
2006 Dodge Charger: 7/10
2006 Ford GT: 9.6/10
2006 Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR: 9.6/10
2007 Lamborghini Reventon: 9.9/10
2008 Aston Martin DBS: 7.5/10
2008 BMW M3: 8.7/10
2008 Ford Crown Victoria: 6.7/10
2008 Koenigsegg CCXR: 9.3/10
2008 Mitsubishi Lancer: 3.3/10
2008 Subaru Impreza: 4.2/10
2009 Aston Martin One-77: 9/10
2009 Chevrolet Corvette: 7/10
2009 Ferrari 458 Italia: 9.8/10
2009 Lamborghini Gallardo Valentino Balboni: 8/10
2009 Mazda RX8: 7.4/10
2009 Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG: 9.3/10
2009 Nissan 370Z: 8.3/10
2009 Pagani Zonda Cinque: 8.8/10
2010 Audi R8: 8.2/10
2010 Chevrolet Camaro: 7/10
2010 Dodge Challenger: 6/10
2010 Dodge Viper ACR: 8.4/10
2010 Ford Interceptor: 6.8/10
2010 Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake: 10/10
2010 Lamborghini Murcielago Superveloce: 9.1/10
2010 Lexus LFA: 9.6/10
2010 Porsche 911: 9.3/10
2010 Porsche Panamera: 3.6/10
2011 Ford Explorer Rhino: 4/10
2011 Lamborghini Aventador: 9.5/10
2011 Lenco BearCat: 10/10
2011 Porsche 911: 5.8/10
2012 Aston Martin Vanquish: 7.4/10
2012 BMW M6: 8/10
2012 Hennessey Venom GT: 9.3/10
2013 Dodge Charger LD: 7.2/10
2013 Koenigsegg Agera R: 9.2/10
2013 Lamborghini Sesto Elemento: 9.2/10
2013 McLaren 12C: 8.2/10
2013 Nissan GTR: 10/10
2013 Spania Spano: 7/10
2014 Chevrolet Camaro: 8.5/10 | 30 | needforspeed |
Would Need for Speed benefit by changing the handling model to something more customizable like Forza Horizon series? | Hello EVERYONE!!!, I have been playing a few racing games lately like The Crew 2, Flatout UC, Wreckfest, and now Forza Horizon 4. What this games have in common is that none of them have the <break to drift> that is present in modern Need for Speed, yet drifting in them feel way more satisfying because it actually requires skill, or what an NPC called it in FH4: "controlled loss of control". The Crew 2 however does have specialized cars dedicated to drifting however, with practically 0 traction, but that doesn't mean you can't drift naturally in other cars.
Thing is, in Forza Horizon you can set how much control you have over your car, like steering, ABS, traction and cornering. This makes the game much more dynamic in a way that if i want a car to feel more drift-y I could just turn off Traction control and switch Steering to Simulation, meanwhile in Need for Speed Unbound you have to get specific upgrades to set a car to either more grip or more drift, which in practice grip cornering is almost always faster than drifting, though this is not the case in Forza.
And there is proof that Criterion can make this work because they also made the kino game Burnout Paradise before moving to NFS which didnt rely on break to drift and was fun as hell.
I just want Need for Speed to be fun again and not make me think that im driving either a tank or a motorboat. Cars need to feel like they have weight, Wreckfest and Flatout made them have actual weight and it felt fantastic (apart from the fact that i love crashing into other vehicles and being rewarded for it).
Feel free to discuss below. Reaction images of Colin not spinning always welcome too. | 6 | needforspeed |
Need for Speed Heat crashing | I recently got Need for Speed heat and for the first day it was okay, on the second day though it started showing some problems, sometimes It wont even launch, sometimes black screen pops up and then doesnt load and crashes and sometimes it launches just fine and crashes randomly after a few mins, I've read some other people having similar problems but I didnt really find a fix, I'm on 1440p monitor btw and Windows 11, some people said it might be cuz of that. I even reinstalled the game and it still kept crashing, help :/. | 6 | needforspeed |
Finished Most Wanted 2012 for the first time | NFS MW 2012 is the fifth game i finished in the franchise (played trough MW05, Undercover, Heat, Unbound), here are my thoughts.
First off, the whole game is very lackluster. I finished it in 11 hours. It has no story, no customization, no ideas. It is basically a reskin of Burnout Paradise, just worse. The racing is alright, but offers only very little variety. The cop chases are pretty bad, you will get crashed out multiple times without any repercussions. Getting cought will only reset the chase points. The cops feel like an afterthought. Their AI sucks and its unfair when you are out of sight. Even if you try to hide, they know where you are and drive into your direction.
The car list is very nice, altough half the cars you find are behind a paywall (i aint paying 7,5€ for a game i bought for 5€ just for a few cars). Its really annoying when you find a cool car you cant use. Theres also missing customization, you can only change the color by going through a gas station. Some cars only have 2-3 color options.
The graphics hold up very nicely and the models are nice, the city looks good, altough there are too many corners sticking out and 90 degree turns for this style of game. Burnout Paradise had a better map since it had way wider streets than this game. You will also often just get crashed out from behind by other AI racers, Cops or run into unexpected traffic you cant avoid.
The progression is good and consistent, i do like that, but you are basically driving against faceless drivers. The boss races are often way easier than normal ones and offer no challange.
The physics are not my cup of tea, i like grip physics from the Blackbox Era way more, BUT i think these driving physics are still better than Heat and Unbound. It has some issues, like when someone rear ends you slightly, you completly lose control and cant recover. Your car will just steer to one side even though the hit was from behind. Not awesome, but some of the better brake to drift physics ive driven.
The soundtrack is alright, this is really subjective so i am not gonna comment more on that.
Overall, the game is alright, but offers only very little and feels very lackluster. It is very apparent that A TON of content which was planned was cut due to crunch and bad management. It is polished, i only experienced two minor glitches/bugs but theres just no content in the game.
What are your thoughts on this game? | 6 | needforspeed |
Let's make the perfect Need For Speed game | All we want is a Need For Speed game that takes the best parts from other NFS'...
1. Progressive career and story mode like in *Most Wanted and Carbon*
2. Play as cop and racer to keep the story going like in *Rivals*
3. Full detailed customization like *Underground 2, Carbon, Pro Street, Heat, Unbound* that make you gain rep points and attention and bring back the magazines and tapes too like in Underground, and Underground 2
4. Cars divided in classes/categories and levels like Tuner, Muscle and Exotics level 1, 2 and 3 and police in Patrol, Interceptor, Enforcement and heat levels like *Carbon* or like *Hot Pusuit '10*
5. Bring back the crew aspect and wingmans like *Carbon*
6. Boss races, canyon duels like *Carbon*
7. Speedbreaker and pursuit breakers from *Most Wanted* and *Carbon* are back
8. Cars (racers and police) will be equiped (EMP, spike strips, system jammer, heli and roadblocks (for police) in 3 levels like in *Hot Pursuit '10*
9. It will be focused in the single player mode, and will be in a big open world map consisting of natural landscapes like mountains, beaches... roads, highways downtown, industrial zone, with a day and night cycle, with NPC cars, cabs, trucks, and people walking around.
10. It will be divided in legal races (circuit, sprint, drag, drift, speedtrap) and illegal races events will include, sprints, speed, drag, drift and canyon duels, like in *Most Wanted, Carbon, Pro Street and Heat*
11. Some Career missions would include delivery in time of cars, items, to meet up other characters and the police can intervene at any time like in *Undercover* (maybe bc i've never played)
12. And other carrer missions will be gain rep and money as a racer and rep and growing as police as you keep bustin' racers
13. It will have the split-screen mode back, and will be up to 4 players, and the online mode will be separated.
14. It's an Arcade game and controls and gameplay will be fun and easy
15. Customizable soundtrack
Keep going... | 3 | needforspeed |
Newbie questions on heatmaps and IDW | Hi so I am very ignorant on all things GIS and statistics, pretty much doing this just for fun and because I like looking at cool graphs, maps, and diagrams.
I have a dataset of Eurogenes G25 Coordinate values as a shape point file where the points will be rendered on a world map. The points are related to the area of where the G25 sample was taken. I then do a Euclidean distance calculation of a target G25 coords against the dataset.
An example is Italy on my map will have 5 points spread, and the points will have a calculated value of [0.03, 0.2, 0.07, 0.5, 0.02].
What is the best way to display this on a map? I currently have a proof of concept in Python with matplotlib/geopandas with IDW for the spatial interpolation between the points. My reasoning is people should be somewhat related to the values around the point. And further away they get less related I guess.
But it looks kinda wrong because the points the further out get too “constrained”. Here is a map where the values min 0.02 and max 0.18. Points are in green. [map](/a/osnYsMg) | 3 | gis |
Best practice for feeding live JSON data into a map application? | I have created a desktop app that uses OpenLayers to visualise map data. I want to update this data frequently, but what would be the most efficient way to do that?
Currently, I download the JSON data from a public API each time the program is loaded, save it locally as a GeoJSON file, process it using a Node.js script to simplify it & extract what I want, save that as TopoJSON, then load it into the program. But I don't think doing this every X seconds is a good idea.
Some things to note: The API provides the data in JSON format and I am downloading four datasets from 1MB to 20MB in size. But only a small amount of this data changes randomly throughout the day. I've looked into SSE, web sockets and databases but I still don't know which would be most efficient in this scenario. | 6 | gis |
Current GIS Internship, Need Help | I'm an ag major, early on in my GIS minor. Somehow, I landed an internship with an engineering consultation firm that handles contracts for large-scale water delivery systems in agricultural areas. This is a challenging first introduction to the real GIS work.
The problems I'm working with will aid water districts/agencies with SBX7-7 compliance.
I'm dealing with database issues right now. We're trying to unify our data and transform it to make it more uniform, that way we can build district data inventories more efficiently from provided data - this would allow us to achieve a wide variety of goals beyond the scope of individual projects.
Agencies tend to provide kms/kml layers with varying feature names for similar data, which is an issue. Also, bringing these layers into QGIS, I think attribute tables often fail to populate in entirety.
Right now, I'm building out (in excel) entity types, attribute types, and a designation entity_attributes, which will be used to link and index that data somehow later, ie = fields (entity), field_ac (attribute), fields_field_ac (entity attribute). They are linked to source files. This will help us to process data later.
The current process seems to be that we take agency kmz/kmls, manually create shapefiles from them (for use in QGIS), then create maps and/or utilize the data through secondary programs to help agencies implement data tracking infrastructure.
The end goal, I think, is to automate data from client-provided layers being transformed into our naming conventions for easier access and use. Also, importing that data into other programs.
I'm also supposed to investigate alternatives for storing/managing data, such as QGIS compatible geodatabases or using geoJSON vs shapefiles. Our data is currently stored through SharePoint/OneDrive in branching folders project by project.
I am a novice and I probably poorly described what I'm supposed to do. But I would really appreciate some help in developing the right questions and in exploring options.
I know Python will be involved, I'm also new to that.
(Btw, not sure if I used the proper flair). | 3 | gis |
I start my first GIS and “real” job Monday- give me all the advice you have! 🙏🏼 | I used ArcGIS pro and QGIS for 2 classes in grad school, and that’s about the extent of my experience. If you have any advice please let me know. I’m nervous about the onboarding process and feel like I may not be able to do the job well enough 😅
I have my bachelors in political science and masters in environmental sciences and policy. I just graduated with my masters in May and am entering the work force after years of being a SAHM, with this being my first “real” job. My job will be a “GIS planning analyst” with my local school district. | 111 | gis |
Every job wants a developer now. Advice? | Seems like every single prospective job in GIS now wants you to be a software developer in addition to GIS. I got into this field specifically to avoid being a code monkey. I do not want to be a developer. Is this a new thing or have I just overlooked it the whole time? I dont mind be a database admin or whatever, but I didnt get into GIS to be a software dev. If I wanted to do that I would just... be a software developer.
Has anyone had success making a lateral move to CAD related stuff, like Civil3d etc? Im getting pretty depressed and seeing the end of my GIS career unless I go back to school for computer science (i did that once and hated it so I swapped to Geoscience/GIS). I dont mind grabbing CAD certification but I dont want to waste my time.
Is the answer just to go back to school and get into more debt? I have found countless resources for learning GIS development, but I am not good at teaching myself these things and have almost no way to apply this knowledge or prove that I have it. I have a bachelor's in Geoscience with a concentration in GIS (I just tell them i have a GIS degree) and Ive been a GIS analyst since 2018 doing random geoprocessing, mapping, database stuff, scripting, etc but the job field is drying up for my skillset. I just dont see myself learning these things without going into more significant debt | 25 | gis |
GIS Career Progression - technical vs. management vs. subject matters | Hey everyone. I'm early to mid career in GIS and I find myself battling with figuring out how I see my future career in GIS panning out. On one hand, I know I have strengths in these technical skills (although, you can't be an expert at everything in GIS/data) but on the other hand, I'm nervous to go too down the technical route and be pigeonholed into that and only that.
I'm interested in being a manager, doing higher-level tasks, especially when I get too in the weeds in the details at my current job and feel that that's all I have time for.
Also, I studied in the environment/conservation field as many do going into GIS, and find that I'm having trouble thinking about how I would pivot back to a conservation focus having more years of experience working specifically with GIS than conservation experience.
For a while I thought that the path would be lower level GIS work -> analysis/leading projects -> DBA or GIS manager. But I'm not sure if that's what I want or how I would see my career panning out (e.g., into more of the technical, systems-side of things)
Would love to hear about others' experiences whether they stayed with the technical/data focus or utilized GIS to do something more high-level, or pivoted back into the subject matter that got them into GIS in the first place. | 6 | gis |
Single Machine vs Multi Machine ESRI Enterprise deployment | I am just curious how people on here have their system set up. Quick background is we currently have Enterprise and use ArcGIS server to host our REST services to share and use in ArcGIS Online. We want to add a second server with Portal that is linked to the same Geodatabases that our existing server uses.
I understand that when deploying Enterprise you can put all the components on one machine or you can spread them out (we would probably separate portal and ArcGIS server onto 2 different machines if we did this).
The benefit of one machine is easier install and maintenance and the benefit of 2 machines is it uses less resources on each machine. But at what point is the multi machine scenario worth it? We are a medium sized city (close to 100,000 people) and have a fairly large amount of data that gets updated and viewed. Would an organization our size benefit from Multi Machine or do you think a single machine deployment would suffice?
Obviously nobody can really answer but I am curious to hear what your setup is and how it is working. | 11 | gis |
GIS Entry level | I graduated in 2020 with a BS in Geography and GIS. I had a hard time finding a job during the pandemic and bills were accumulating so my brother and I started a window repair business. It has been a successful business and I am currently running the business side of the business and working full time with one of our contractors helping run his company as well.
With that being said, this isn’t my passion - I miss the science world and after careful consideration I will be leaving my partnership with my brother and quitting the job with the contractor as soon as I land a new job in GIS.
Now - I never actually got a job in this field after college but I did gain many skills. I know I need to refresh my memory in ArcGIS, Python, SQL and possibly others. Can someone direct me to where I can possibly refresh these skills? I know of Coursera, but is there other sites that can help me? Is there anything I should know/expect in this new journey I’m about to embark of finding a job in GIS? Do you think employers will give me a hard time? I’d be okay with an entry level position as long as it means I’m gaining experience and can potentially work my way up to a higher position. Thanks in advance! | 14 | gis |
When do you create a geo database? | Hi! So I am a beginner/intermediate ArcGIS user. It was my minor in college for forestry, and I’ve made several maps depicting invasive beetle progression, wildfire boundaries, and project zones/needs while working for the state government. My job position is not GIS focused, but GIS is something I feel fairly comfortable in, and I am often requested to make maps when the dedicated GIS team is unavailable.
Through school, I was taught to create a 3 folder system with a “working”, “original”, and “final” folder. My original folder has data usually from USGS, County, state, data collected from the field, and even the default geodatabase that is created when you first create a new project in ArcGIS pro and it stores all of the default map data. The working folder is simply for whenever I use a tool such as clip or the merge tool. Then my final folder is the pdf map layout.
At what point do you make a new geodatabase apart from the default one? My maps often only have 1-2 major boundaries, and then 2-4 layers with XY point data. Other common layers are geographical layers from USGS such as roads, trails, contours, etc. I throw all of these into my original folder and I don’t store them into a specific geodatabase. I’m open to learning about better ways that I can store my data and organize my file interface!
Thank you!
Update: thanks everyone, there are lots of tips in the comment section. What I currently do works for the size and type of data that in use, I was just curious on how and when people decide to use geodatabases instead of a regular folder. I’ll practice and look into the advice, and even look into scripts as some people recommended! | 25 | gis |
Good online training course for GIS mapping? | Hello GIS users,
I wanted to ask about a good online course/training for a relative GIS newbie. I have about $1000 to spend before my job ends and I thought GIS would be a good skill to buff up. I know Esri is pretty gold standard, but I have honestly despised working in it and have been interested in something more accessible like QGIS. Does anyone have thoughts on a good training course in GIS in general? Something that would be relevant for coastal/marine work specifically would be awesome.
Thanks! | 3 | gis |
"I need a few week's off due to work-related stress, here's my FMLA" | I get these a lot, but am not sure I am handling these the best way. Often they are not my usual patients but seeing me urgently about it, and there is no psychiatric history in the chart. Here's my approach:
1. Document thorough psychiatric history in the chart, add diagnosis to problem list
2. Time off is not a vacation but an opportunity to heal. They MUST see a therapist to proactively treat. Start medication if appropriate. Check in weekly, even if mostly by email or phone.
3. Write a doctor's note to get them to the first therapy appointment, after that the therapist is to handle work-related forms (some short-term disability insurers *require* that therapists not PCP do these forms)
4. Tell patients they likely won't get paid, they may be forced to use vacation time first, and if they try for short-term disability it may be denied.
I may be stressing them out even more with this information, but better they know beforehand.
Any other tips how to handle these requests? | 28 | FamilyMedicine |
How to approach requesting PTO as new attending? | I'm joining an outpatient practice this fall and was wondering how does requesting PTO usually work as an attending? Like how far in advance to notify the medical director and practice manager? For example, I'm getting married and have something already booked for the fall and want to have the following week off. I asked without giving specific dates and they said just to request when I officially join but like is it bad to request time off 1.5 months after I join? Maybe I'm just having trouble shaking off the super formal routine of my IM residency when we had to schedule vacation 1.5 years in advance lol. Thanks! | 19 | FamilyMedicine |
1st job out of residency. Need help deciding between two offers. | Offer 1:
* 270K base with bonuses that amount to potential 365K per year for seeing 19 patients per day
* 1.5 hours outside of major city in CA; not a lot to do in the area otherwise
* 5 day work week 8-5
* I will be the only FM provider
* 3 year contract length
* 4 weeks PTO
* No work wRVU bonus
Offer 2:
* 250K base no bonuses
* 4.5 day work week; located in major metro city in CA.
* 16 patients per day on average.
* I will have be working with another FM provider who can provide some mentorship
* 3 year contract length
* 4 weeks PTO
* No wRVU bnous
Need advice on which job would be best out of residency. I am leaning towards the 2nd offer as it gives more of a work life balance but the first offer gives a good chance to pay off loans quickly.
Edit: Would appreciate comments comparing and contrasting between the two offers, I am sure you've all heard of better offers elsewhere but that wasn't the purpose of the post! | 31 | FamilyMedicine |
I am just so exhausted by how much effort I (and my patients) am required to put in just to get a specialist off their ass and agreeing to even see one of my patients. | I had to close Epic and crack 1+ beers, it's too much. Every motherfucking day it's the same struggle. I would sell a kidney to have the ability to say "nah no thank you, don't feel like it" to patients I don't want to see at the level every single specialist in my hospital system does.
Patient has what as best I can tell is an inflammatory dactylitis of several toes. A bit of a zebra diagnosis I am not at all comfortable confirming or treating on my own, but several red inflamed toes, positive inflammatory markers and autoimmune labs, responded poorly to everything trialed thus far except a prednisone taper given to him by urgent care. Tried to get him to rheumatology but nah, get 10,000 more labs that I'd bet my other kidney are going to return normal, get an XR rheumatology view of each foot that will confirm **surprise** he has inflammation in his toes (btw I could see that with my eyeballs and they don't even emit xrays). How many dollars and hours of his life does this patient need to spend to earn 10 minutes in a room with you?
His uric acid level was 0.2 above the normal cutoff!!!! Get a repeat level and try allopurinol first! You bitch this bitch doesn't have gout bitch.
I'm just so done. A patient can call in stating "hey I haven't seen a doctor since 1998 in a different country and my left nostril smells differently from my right nostril so I want an MRI and also I'd like a gallon of dilaudid sent to my pharmacy please" and my secretary will see if it's possible to get them in the same day. Specialists, please, I believe in you, you can do it, just give 1 small appointment, it'll be so much fun for everyone involved. | 407 | FamilyMedicine |
Want to do both EM and FM in rural area | Hello! I posted a while back about wanting to do EM and FM. I am now a PGY-2 and am at a spot where lots of places are more actively looking into offering me jobs. I really want to try and work something out to be able to do like 3-4 days a week in clinic, with 3-6 shifts a month in the ED. (Just an example, there is some wiggle room there. :) )
Maybe it is taboo to ask on here, but I figured I wouldn’t know unless I tried.
Does anyone know of any openings like this across the country? I am looking mainly out west, or around NC, KY, TN, SC area.
I have tried looking online but it is specific enough that I haven’t been able to figure out an effective way to filter results and have just gotten a million random job emails.
If people would feel more comfortable shooting me a message I totally understand. Or if anyone has any recommendations on how to find these types of jobs, that would be great. Thanks! | 11 | FamilyMedicine |
How to be less stupid | New intern here. What is your best advice to getting better at clinical visits? I wasn’t able to do a lot of clinic work in my med school but was mainly inpatient. I have a lot of anxiety on even the basics in when to have patients come back or what do even do during certain visits.. I think our attendings give us a lot of freedoms which is nice but I also feel so stupid so I don’t think I deserve that freedom. I want to be a good doctor but I have a lot of anxiety and guilty about my patient encounters and that I feel like they would be just much better seeing my attendings and not me.. | 63 | FamilyMedicine |
Please help me with my offer. 100% OP. Chicagoland | * 40 hours, one evening per week and rotating saturday mornings.
* 3 yr term. can terminate without cause upon 90 days prior written notice
* 230 base
* WRVU @ 47.00 above 2,447 during a six-month period attributed to the services personally performed by you. After the base salary period, Physician may be eligible to receive additional compensation, up to $2 per WRVU of Physician’s WRVU Calculation, as calculated on an annual basis and based upon the immediately preceding fiscal year (“Value Metrics Compensation”).
* 21k signing bonus
* 21 days PTO & 5 for CME - 5k reimbursement for CME | 43 | FamilyMedicine |
Questions about coding for outpatient visit | I did not have to code before in my previous practice so am struggling a bit to learn it now. I saw a new patient for a physical but did a lot more for him in that visit. In addition to STD screening and routine labs, I swabbed a lesion on his finger for possible herpetic whitlow, sent minoxidil for male pattern baldness, and sent in augmentin for otitis media. I also had to do a cerumen removal in order to evaluate for otitis media. I coded 99385 for new outpatient preventive visit. For the other issues addressed, what level would you code it? Also, would you code it as a 9920x since this is a new patient or a 9921x? We have coders but they don't help us do the coding - just review and downcode if we code incorrectly. I put level 4 but the coder told me I coded incorrectly. I thought with 1 undiagnosed new problem and medication management it would qualify for a level 4. Thank you in advance! | 18 | FamilyMedicine |
Am I wrong for not prescribing UTI antibiotics "just in case" | I'm very curious how Americans doctors approach treatment of uncomplicated UTIs in women...
I'm a GP in an European country with an universal health care system. Furagin (furazidine) is actually an OTC drug and because of its extremely low cost, availability, few side effects and efficiency is my 1st drug for uncomplicated UTI in women. Other drugs, including fosfomycin, are prescription only.
Consider this telephone consultation I recently had with a patient...
Patient: I'm going abroad for vacation. I get frequent UTIs and I'M SURE I'm going to have one there. I always do. Could you prescribe me an antibiotic?
Me: Sorry, no. You can get an OTC furagin if you'd like to have something just in case.
Patient: Furagin never works for me! Can't you get me something else?
Me: No. I don't prescribe antibiotics "just in case" for symptomless patients.
Patient: But what If I get an infection??
Me: Go see a doctor.
Patient: Ohhh, right... I'm baffled by your attitude. I don't understand why it's such a problem, I've never had any issues getting an UTI antibiotic for me or my kids.. and you're telling me to go see a doctor!!
So this situation made me wonder whether perhaps I'm being too overzealous... perhaps I could've prescribed her fosfomycin, it's a single-dose drug, risk of harm is relatively low... on the other hand I absolutely hate when patients try to treat or diagnose themselves because they absolutely suck at it. In 100% of cases when a patient comes to me after failing to treat their UTI with furagin it's because they can't figure out proper dose regimen... and from dozens of urine cultures I've done so far I have yet to see a single case of furagin resistance in the area I practice. Also perhaps if this patient stopped trying to treat herself perhaps we'd have to chance to look for the reason why she gets recurrent UTIs in the first place.
Am I the asshole or what? | 138 | FamilyMedicine |
Spilt Billing | Hi!
Currently work as a PA in a family medicine clinic. Just wanted to see what the general consensus is on split billing annual physicals and chronic care follow-ups. The physicians who own the practice that I'm at have decided that we are no longer allowed to split bill AT ALL unless absolutely necessary (only special exceptions can be made). Otherwise, we tell patients that they have to schedule another appointment to discuss anything outside of what is covered under preventative medicine. We are not allowed to send any refills or prescriptions for the patient during their annual physical. I don't mind this change but it has caused quite a bit of confusion with our patients. Many have been getting upset with us, wondering why all of a sudden they have to schedule another appointment. Some have threatened or decided to go to other clinics who are not so black and white with this rule.
I certainly understand the pros and cons of split billing. I feel that the biggest one is time - it is nearly impossible to fit everything you want to discuss for an annual physical PLUS acute concerns or chronic care issues into a short 15-20 minute appointment. That itself is a good enough reason. The reason that our physicians are giving us for this change is lost revenue - they say that when you split bill, you get reimbursed less from the insurance company? So they are encouraging us to schedule another appointment to get the full reimbursement. I myself don't know too much about how this works with insurances.
What are your practice's own policies regarding this and is it true that you get reimbursed less from the insurances if you split bill? Would love to hear any thoughts or opinions! | 17 | FamilyMedicine |
Cult of Personality | I don't know if this is gonna make me sound like a d**k or not but have any supervisors ever experienced a cult of personality kind of situation?
I'm a circulation supervisor with 7 direct reports. This week alone I've had 2 staff members cry in my office because they were anxiety laden about other aspects of the job and those 2 plus 2 others say I'm the best manager they've ever had and if I leave they "will leave too."
My dilemma is that they are extraordinary circ assists who work together really well at this branch but I fear that they actually will fall apart if I leave, and I am actually looking to leave. The branch needs this team to remain cohesive and our current branch manager and at least one of the other department heads are not good at staff cohesion, they are both better at staff fracturing.
Again, I don't think I'm being arrogant and I am confident thay I know my team. I know they will pull through whatever changes but I fear the branch/our patrons will suffer a lot until my position is filled.
I don't know, maybe this is an inflated sense of self but this feeling has been bothering me. | 11 | Libraries |
Don't shoot me... are you a librarian who doesn't like to read? | A little back story... I was raised to only read books on subject materials I needed to know about for school or to learn how to do something new pre-internet days (now we have youtube and Google- thank goodness!). To this day, IF I grab a library book it is always art/craft related, a graphic novel, or even from the children's section. I love books that let me be a child again and explore new things. I really don't care for the romance novels or millions of other fiction authors out there. Now don't take me the wrong way; if that is your jam then there are plenty of options to choose from but it is not what I gravitate towards. In fact, I rarely read as I have other obligations and hobbies outside of working at the library.
So the issue at my job comes into play when you have patrons that ask about certain books and want to discuss the author, storyline, and similar books. Many times I have to say I haven't read any books from that author and ask them what THEY enjoyed when reading the book(s). It can be a little unsettling for some patrons because I don't think they expect to receive that answer from a librarian (most assume we are avid readers and love all things books- 100% untrue). On my part I feel judged and have even been treated differently after relaying the fact that I gravitate towards non-fiction/children's books rather than fiction (such as patrons waiting on another library assistant to check them out so they can talk about books that love- doesn't bother me but I find it a bit childish as well).
Either way it's interesting to partake in working at a library and was just curious if I am a lone wolf on this topic or other librarians feel/act the same as me. | 74 | Libraries |
How we fill the gaps... | We had a guy in his 60s, blue collar his whole life, barely literate, come into the library to fill out an application as a stocker at Food Lion (grocery store, for everyone not living in the SE United States.) All the applications are online now, and they all require some fairly basic computer literacy, and this guy was grumpy from the second he walked in the door because he felt humiliated (not by us, but by the absurdity of the situation.) We helped him as much as we could, but their application page wasn't fully cooperative and we had to try and figure out a workaround to help him try and apply for this job.
Something like this happens at least once a week.
There are employment offices set up to help people like this, but they're doubtless understaffed and some patrons might not be able to get to those locations, so it falls to us to fill the gap.
In the hustle and bustle of shelving and greeting and summer reading chaos it can be tricky to remember to be patient and kind with the patrons who need just a little extra grace, and I'm grateful for the days when I have the grace to spare.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk 🙃 | 420 | Libraries |
Supervisor Dilemma | This is under all aspects of library work part of the description. Please hear me out because I’m slightly distraught and looking for the support of other people who are more experienced. I am new, and for the first time, I’m attracted to my boss. This has never happened to me and it is internally making me panic because I know it is not appropriate. Then I feel guilty and it steamrolls.
“Easy. You remain professional.” I plan to, but how do I deal with it best? Sometimes I can’t look at them because it makes me feel guilty and then I am worried they can tell. I know that will come off as avoidant/rude, so I cannot do that too much. Looking at them at all creates a pull to check them out, which I also don’t want. I just want to do my work and have a friendly, but respectful professional relationship.
I’m not romantically attracted to them, only physically. It is disarming. It does not affect my work, I treat them like everyone else, and I don’t want to act on it. I understand it is human nature, but it is mortifying in reality. Unfortunately though, they are very much my physical type. Plus, being very kind doesn’t help. A transfer won’t work and I don’t want to quit so early in my career.
If anyone has any advice on how to get past it, I would deeply appreciate it. And no, this is not a troll post- I couldn’t find any similar posts via search, so I hesitantly wrote this. Thank you in advance. | 5 | Libraries |
Hoopla | Can someone explain how to use hoopla? I feel so stupid- everyone raves about it but I can’t find ANYTHING on it. I have it linked to my library and right away I found two movies that I wanted. Now I’m trying to find audiobooks and there aren’t any. Google says there are audiobooks, and a friend recently chastised me for paying for audible when I have hoopla. So I looked up the authors I enjoy listening to and there’s absolutely nothing. What am I missing? For the record I’m looking Diane Chamberlain and Kristin Hannah. Nobody obscure by any stretch. I have also looked for music - ridiculously popular artists- and nothing shows for that either. | 32 | Libraries |
Patron using multiple outlets for charging | *ETA:I want to thank everyone who has responded so far, I knew this was likely a familiar issue and I'd hear a variety of solutions, my reply to some of the most common types of responses will be added at the end*
I work in a small library, and we've always had issues with patrons needing access to electrical outlets. To address this, we set up three study carrels equipped with power strips that include USB ports, three-prong plugs, and HDMI cables.
We have a regular patron who started using one of these carrels a few years ago to charge their phone. They would leave the library and pick up their phone at the end of the day. Over time, this has escalated to them charging multiple devices, often occupying most or all of the available outlets. This has caused problems for other patrons who want to use these carrels.
I recently spoke to this patron and explained the situation, asking them to limit their charging to one carrel so others could have access. They responded amicably and said they understood, but they continued to plug in multiple devices across all the outlets and left.
In response, we unplugged some of their devices so others could use the area, consolidating their items to one carrel. When the patron returned, they asked to speak with me. As I started to explain the situation, they went on a tirade, accusing the staff of racism, inhumane treatment, and being part of a police state. They also made statements that were not direct threats but were unsettling, such as "If I wanted to, I could hurt... your feelings." Eventually, their tirade turned into a general airing of personal grievances unrelated to the situation, and then they left.
I documented the incident and called my director. My director asked if I wanted to have the patron banned, but I declined because I didn't want to escalate the situation further, given the bizarre nature of the interaction. My director then suggested installing additional power strips to accommodate more devices, but that didn't seem like a practical solution.
Has anyone else experienced a similar situation or have any suggestions for a more agreeable solution?
Replies to some of the most common responses, suggestions
Why isn't this stuff getting stolen?: These items while plentiful are not IMO desirable, plus we are a small neighborhood library in the middle of a 100% residential area with no major road or business or schools nearby That said apparently their stuff has gone missing from time to time, they just always seem to have backups
Create a sign: We do have sign at these carrels that say that items left unattended will be removed, but because this patron has been doing this for so long (over 5 years maybe longer) and because most patrons generally ignore library signage (probably because libraries often have so many signs it causes sign blindness) this has been largely ignored
Policy: I would love to have a specific policy created, or have this issue added to our code of conduct policy or even our lost and found policy. My director seems to have no interest in this, and even if it was added, without consistent enforcement of the policy by all staff, it only serves to cover my butt in the case of a complaint and very little else.
Banning: Our library has no security so banning has little effect. Sure we can technically call the police for a trespass, but in my experience all this does is end up eroding your relationship with the local police who will get annoyed that you are using them like security guards, creating slower and slower response times to each call until often the police won't arrive until the trespasser has already left. | 165 | Libraries |
Shooter video games on public PCs | \[secondary account so as not to associate with my regular, personal Reddit account\]
Hi all,
I'm navigating a situation with a branch regular who brought concerns to me about patrons having access to and being allowed to play browser-based first person shooter games on our library's public PCs. While I'm sympathetic to our patron's discomfort with the games' subject matter, our gamers have the intellectual freedom to entertain themselves as they wish, and the games don't technically violate any of our acceptable/computer use policies.
For all of the contemporary alarm and activism regarding intellectual freedom, censorship, and content banning going on around public libraries, I haven't seen much that addresses this kind of angle: violent content accessible on public PCs vs. library users who don't want to see it or be around it. Has anyone dealt with similar situations at their library? How did your conversations go, and what were your outcomes?
Edit for context: Thanks for everyone's responses. We don't have a dedicated computer lab in my library, our public-use computers are in a general browsing/lobby area. Other patrons' computer usage is pretty hard to miss as one has to pass by the computers to get to the circulation desk, hold shelves, and restrooms/drinking fountains. Our system's youth services manager (the gamers in this situation were tweens) acknowledged this challenge in an email to me when I passed along the customer's concerns to them. The games in question, at least to me, aren't particularly gory or realistic; they're more like block-based graphics while still being recognizably shooter games. | 22 | Libraries |
Reciprocal Library Cards | With the recent meltdown in services at the Seattle library system due to malware, the staff were so wonderful publicizing the availability of the reciprocal lending program in our state.
My adult son and I spent a good number of hours yesterday driving around to 6 different systems to sign up for their cards. We were astounded by the number of creative summer activities available, in multiple languages and for all ages, as well as the different programs that we saw.
From bird watching kits to museum passes, fishing poles and tackle to park passes, we saw a bit of everything. I had forgotten during my busy years how much I loved going to the library.
I guess the point of this is to say thank you to the library staff that were so kind to us. They were so happy to share what they have with people from away who would most likely never use much of what they had to offer. Your creativity and kindness in putting things together for the public to enjoy continues to amaze me. | 74 | Libraries |
advice on cataloguing programs | My grandmother was an artist (ceramics, but also mixed media - fabrics, lace, wood, etc.) and my dad has taken it upon himself to organize and catalog everything, so when museums are interested to display some of her art he can give that information to them easily.
I've worked in libraries for ten years and am a bit of a nerd, so I would like to do this more professionally. is there any free software for cataloguing art?
more info: My idea is to take reference pictures of everything and annotate what it is, what category of art it falls under and where its place is, and then tag the art itself (on the container, bubblewrap, whatever) with a code like CGU001 (ceramic, for general use, number 1) and then of course tag the shelves so we know where's what. | 4 | Libraries |
Why is being friendly to patrons perceived unfavorably? | I work at the front desk of a public library and am known to be one of the friendlier, more gregarious staff. I remember patron names (we're a smaller library) and interact with children positively. When the desk gets slow, I'll sometimes talk with regulars and play with the children when cleaning up the play area.
I have heard from other staff that our superiors don't like how friendly I am because it makes them look bad. I have never been formally reprimanded for this, but my exceptional customer service skills have also not been reflected in my evaluation either. In other words, I have gotten the feeling that it isn't appreciated by the higher paid staff, as I am one of the few who actively greets every patron who enters and leaves the library when everyone else at the desk is engaging in conversation with one another.
I have been told that it is considered "work" to talk with fellow staff members since it's "team building," yet when I know I have down time and engage in friendly conversation with a patron, I am often given the side eye by other staff. This makes no sense to me. Shouldn't a library be a place where patrons feel welcome and that they are not beneath us?
I will add that as a younger female, I get my fair share of inappropriate advances from male patrons both my age and older. I never encourage those interactions, and I end them assertively. I acknowledge that some patrons may misinterpret friendliness as interest and try to shoot their shot as a result, but that misunderstanding is simply their fault, as I treat every patron of both genders and all ages, demographics, etc. with the same friendliness. I simply care about our patrons and want them to have as positive of an experience at our library as possible, whether it's their first time or one of many visits. I'm not going to change a core part of my personality because weirdos will always exist in the world.
I have gotten so many compliments and positive feedback overall from patrons regarding my professionalism, and I rarely receive complaints even when I do make mistakes. In comparison, other desk staff get complaints more often from patrons. They blame the fact that I don't receive complaints on the fact that "patrons don't feel comfortable complaining to someone who is so nice." That makes me wonder why they don't try being friendlier (lol). Part of why I am so friendly is because it puts everyone in a better mood, and my job is easier as a result.
I get told all the time by desk staff that I'm "too nice" to patrons, and it gets disheartening after a while. While I don't want the soul-crushing negativity and apathy of the staff culture to change me, it gets so annoying when others can't focus on their own selves. I don't ever expect others to be like me, yet they want me to conform to them. It's like crabs in a barrel sometimes.
When I see others excel in an area of our work, I don't demand that they change who they are to make myself feel better. Instead, I try to learn from them so I can improve.
Does anybody know why my friendliness might be looked down upon by other staff? | 202 | Libraries |