Gate City Bank Chairman Sponsors ID Check for Adult Content?
Genuinely confused by the news around H.B. 1561. I get that we have legislators who have other jobs here, and that Steve Swiontek has been in and out of politics for like forever, but isn’t it weird to have the Chairman of the Board of Gate City Bank is out sponsoring a “Verify ID to view porn” bill like Montana? First of all this bill is dumb as f*** since North Dakota doesn’t make laws in places like Montreal or Cyprus where a lot of that stuff is headquartered. Sure Pornhub will just block the whole state outright like Montana, but all the sketchy sites won’t. Also those young whippersnappers who view obscene content on their teletype computers know how to use a VPN to get around all these blocks so it’s ineffective from Day 1. Not only that but are there no national security concerns around having today’s randy college freshman type in his drivers license number to get into some third tier porn website using some weak encryption and a leaky integration to some fourth rate cheapo ID verification service. I know it’s supposed to be ephemeral, but if the system is compromised even data in motion is vulnerable in crappy implementations. What if in a few year’s he joins the Air Force or intelligence community, and because of some half-assed technical implementation, Russia or China has a ton of kompromat on his secret foot fetish? No plausible deniability - his drivers license is directly associated to his account or session. So he flips to the Russians. Nobody thought about this of course. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. So this is along with H.B. 1150 (Blue Laws Redux - died in committee) and H.B. 1145 (Ten Commandments must be displayed in school and college classrooms) is the priority here in North Dakota? We don’t care about growing our high-tech sector or making life more affordable for North Dakotans (looking at you Xcel)? Instead, we need to make sure we recreate Colonial Williamsburg in 21st Century Fargo? And what’s the deal with the Chairman of Gate City Bank being a legislator and sponsoring such a bill. Isn’t Gate City a kind of “mutual bank” where the account holders are the shareholders? Isn’t it a major conflict of interest on the government side to have a bank board member as a legislator, and a major liability on the business side, to have a corporate leader proposing regressive bills like this? Would we let Jamie Dimon be a sitting U.S. Senator and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase at the same time? I know Gate City has their shareholder meeting later this week. Maybe I should show up and ask the board why they feel this is in the best interest of the bank and its customers. In the meantime, let me find my buckle on shoes and blunderbuss.
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What would you do- quit or stay ?
I have been at the current Rheum job I have posted about before. 4/10.5-11's. My training: 2 "weeks" 8 days (dr showed up at 1000 -500 pm- i was there at 8 am with no guidance or structure and no laptop, just an Ipad to view the EMR). Saw total 47 patients with the MD (13 were telehealth and 1 was a new visit). 3rd week was on my own expected to see everyone under the sun, including a new patient and I gave push back. Had a MA from hell for my first 80 days until i gave my resignation then MA left and as of last week new hire MA which is great. I gave push back on new treatment plans because i did not feel adequately prepared to do so. I am so stressed out not due to patient load but poor previous charting, all the admin hurdles that are now better after me literally crying, but now I am finding myself anxiety ridden again because i am being asked my patients to fill out permanent disability/legal paper work. I did one and I am so mad for not just giving it to the MD since i have seen/met these patients twice. I teach myself everything and I have no peers. MD still works 11-5 with a one hour lunch. I took the last three days off (unpaid because even as a salary employee i have no vacation for a year and start to accrue sick time after 90 days) I am 2 weeks out from my 90 day period- should i suck it up or leave?AITA for not caring about an abusive ex friend after she recieved a devastating diagnosis
I (24 f) have an ex bestfriend (28 f) lets call her Trisha, who I fell out with quite some time ago after I realised she was being abusive to me for years. For context, she controlled everything I did, started fights and arguments when she didn't get her own way and made sure that I was never in a relationship so she could have all of my attention. This girl made me feel like the most important person in the world, like I was wanted, worthy, loved, but this was all for her own self gratification. She bankrolled everything, wouldn't let me spend a penny on anything (this will become clear as to why as the story goes on), and helped me through the darkest time in my life. As anyone would think, I thought she was the best friend ever. So selfless, so loving, but the day I realised she literally did this all to benefit herself, it broke me. So, going back to the beginning, we became friends through a mutual group of people. As soon as we met, we clicked. We had so much in common and we both seemed to be very similar. We started spending everyday together, you never seen one without the other, we were just inseparable. The first year of our friendship was amazing, travelled places together, had new experiences, our boyfriends at the time really got a long. I couldn't ask for anything more. I had the perfect team. After that year my relationship with my boyfriend, lets call him Kyle, also 24, broke down, one day I came home, his bags were packed and he just left with no explanation or conversation. I was obviously devastated, but Trisha showed up, she was there. As soon as my relationship was over, Trisha started to really bad mouth Kyle, which even at the time I found really strange because we actually never had any huge problems, he was a perfect gentleman and treated me like a queen. Whenever I got emotional over the breakup Trisha would've gotten really mad, often telling me to shut up and get over it. Me and Trisha's friendship then got alot tighter, I was always with her and her bf Marcus, 31. At the time I seen it as Trisha just being a good friend but this is when the abuse started. Any time I wanted to be alone or didn't want to leave the house she started to get really bitchy and started to insult me. She would've told me I was pathetic and needed to grow up. My mental health started to deteriorate. When I was honest about how I felt, Trisha said to me "it would be really pathetic of you to kill yourself you know that" I never ever mentioned being suicidal or having suicidal thoughts, so when she said that, I was flabbergasted. Anytime we went anywhere, whether it was for lunch/dinner, a spa day, a night away, she paid for everything and would not let me contribute. Any time I tried to, she returned the money back to me. Anytime I went on dating apps or started to talk to men, she got really passive aggressive and picked on all of my insecurities saying things like "you're not pretty enough for him" knowing that would get me to stop replying. Eventually I just deleted all apps and stopped trying to make connections. After the second year of our friendship, things just got worse. We were fighting almost every day, she argued with me when I had to go to work, saying things like "you just work to get away from me" "you hate me" "if you really were my bestfriend, you would reduce your hours to be with me". I did eventually get a new job with less hours because I couldn't take the arguments anymore.if I ever spent time with other friends or even my siblings without her, that turned into a 3 day argument about how I'm ashamed of being her friend and I don't want her to mix in with my other friends, when that wasn't the case. I seen her everyday, I could've went 6 months without seeing anyone else, including my own family. So when anyone reached out to me I would've shown up for them because I wanted to show them that I was still there for them. Trisha then started to isolate me from everyone. Making sure that anytime I had plans with someone else, she would've had an "emergency" I became a shell of myself. I didn't recognise who I was. It came to the point where I was then convinced I could not go anywhere or do anything without her. As my mental state continued to spiral, Trisha suggested I moved in with her and Marcus for "extra support". I decided not to moved in with her but the 3 days a week I had off work, I did stay with them as a compromise. It came to a point that I felt like I couldn't do anything, go anywhere or talk to anyone without trishas permission. One day when Trisha and Marcus were out, I facetimed my older sister, Diana, 30. As soon as she answered the phone, she could tell something was wrong so she asked to meet me for coffee. When she asked this I said "let me check if Trisha wants to come" and Diana said "no, I want you to come alone" So I agreed and said I'd text trisha just to let her know I was out. Again Diana said "no, just get dressed and meet me, she doesn't need to know your whereabouts 24/7" Just for more context, we lost our mother when I was 18, but she was ill most of my life so Diana took on the mother roll and loved me as if I was her own child. Meaning she also very protective of me. As soon as Diana seen me, she almost cried, I was a shell of myself. I was always the type of person who was very well presented when i left the house, no matter where i went, hair and nails done, nice clothes, makeup on. But when I went to meet Diana, I was wearing a tracksuit that was practically falling off of me because I had lost so much weight, no makeup, no nails and my hair scraped into a bun. I was not myself and it showed. While I was there, I was jumpy, anxious and very paranoid (which was out of character for me because I am a very bubbly and confident person) because Trisha wasn't with me. Diana asked what exactly was going on, so I explained how my mental health was just getting worse but Trisha and Marcus were there for me and helping me, making sure I was never alone, about how they looked after me and wouldn't let me put my hand in my pocket. I started to go on about how I felt bad for not telling them where I was and Diana asked why. When I told her that trisha would argue with me, call me names, pick on my insecurities and make me feel as if she is the only one that cares about me, Diana lost it. Diana broke it all down for me. Trisha was masking herself out as the supportive bestfriend, but she was actually controlling me and making sure my mental health stayed low so I would feel as if I needed her. I still had my own place, so Diana decided to drive me to Trishas (luckily she was still out) made me pack up whatever stuff I had there and took me home. Diana said she was going to stay with me for a few days because she knew I didn't want to be alone. I was home about 3 hours and I get a call from Trish. I answered, but put her on speaker. I didn't even get to say hello and I was met with Trisha screaming down the phone "WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU" I told her I had went home because I wanted to be alone. That's when the monster showed and she started to be very verbally abusive. She called me weak, ugly, fat, a freeloader, pathetic, ungrateful. Every insult she knew would get to me. She accused me of sleeping with Marcus and saying that was the real reason I left. She told me no one would ever care about me they way she did. But the one that really got me, "after all of the money I spent on you and everything I've gotten you, this is how you treat me, you're mother would hate the person you've become" I broke down because at that moment I realised exactly why she wouldn't let me spend a penny, she was controlling me. But mentioning my mom was where she really twisted the knife. Diana took the phone and tore trisha a new a one. The mama bear in her came out and trisha knew not to fight back. Diana told trisha to leave me alone and to not contact me. She surprisingly listened and left me alone. After getting away from her I decided to reach out to Kyle. It had been 4 years since we broke up, and I felt like the dust had settled enough for him to give me an explanation as to why he just moved out. He came over and had explained to me that Trisha had told him that we were having an affair and had shown him screenshots of conversations between us that were, let's just say, explicit via messenger. These conversations never happened. And were not in any way romabtically involved ever.So we were both confused. But I asked him why he just believed her. Kyle said trisha made it so convincing, especially since there were screenshots. After some deep diving and investigating we figured out that Trisha had made a fake account using my name and profile picture at the time and was sending the messages to herself. I deleted my Facebook and messenger about 3 years ago so you could imagine my surprise when an account for me actually did show up when kyle searched on his own account. She forgot to delete the account. Its still there with my profile picture at the time. It doesnt look like it has been used so it was opened and the account has no 1 friend. Trisha. So after a really good conversation, me and Kyle are now friends and working on things slowly as I'm still very fragile. It's now 9 months later, my mental health has massively improved as ive started therapy, I've gained weight, I've started taking care of myself again, I can honestly say I am on my way to being the best version of myself. I haven't spoke to trisha since that day, but a few days ago I seen a mutual friend of ours and she's told me that trisha is seriously ill. Although I wish her the best and hope she recovers I still don't want to reach out. Ill or not, she still mentally abused me for years, isolated me and had me become the lowest version of myself. So, AITA for not caring about her diagnosis or reaching out?Which year do you think YanSim should take place in?
I mean 202x mode/the year in Ayano's mode. YandereDev keeps changing the year and it's really annoying. Personally I believe 2015 fits.Enemy trucks getting stuck
Has anyone noticed that the 50 cal enemy trucks are getting stuck at spawn points since the crossplay update ?"> (Photo attached for attention on post, not mine)
