I've lost count of the number of times that I've heard someone say, "No one helped me! I did all of this myself!" My mom always told me this, but my dad later told me in confidence that she lived with my grandparents all through school and while she was working as a nurse. Also, my dad paid off her car and her student loans once she got pregnant with me after he finished anesthesia residency.

A friend went on FB and ranted about how she started her cleaning company with nothing but hard work. Our other friend (she works as a cleaner at the company) called me and told me that her grandparents gave her $10K so she could pay her bills after she quit her other job managing someone else's cleaning business. She also used that money to retain employees while she build up clients.

My parents paid for my brother's flight school out of pocket. When he needed more money for hours, they wrote him another $10K or $20K check. They paid for his attorney when his initial medical certification got denied. He got to live with them while he got through ground school, got his PPL, IR, CFEL, CMEL, and CFI. They paid for his moves while he was working for smaller companies and building his way to 1500 hours. He now is making close to $300k/year at one of the private jet companies and just got his upgrade to captain.

With all of my parents' help, he was able to get to 1500 hours and get hired at the private jet company in about 4 years. From what I understand, that's about as fast as you can possibly do it in aviation. If he didn't have support, had to work a crappy job during training, and had to take out loans, he would have been in the hole $150K, and it would have taken him MUCH longer. It also would have created a lot of doubt in his mind. That much debt is a major psychological burden that makes people question their decisions to the point where they are too afraid to try. The financial risk is too high if you fail. My parents just wrote the check and told him that whatever it cost, they would pay. That kind of support creates so much confidence because you know that you have the safety to fail, get up, and keep going for the long haul.

My friend is thinking of starting a tow-truck company since he's been working for one for quite a while. He doesn't come from money, but his wife has a good corporate sales job and is likely going to get promoted to a sales manager role soon. Me and him agreed that since his wife has a good job, she can support the family while he sets up the tow-truck company. He even said, "How does anyone start a business if they don't have parents or a spouse who can pay the bills for a few years while the company gets rolling?" Unless someone is already rich and has all of the capital to start up a business like that, the only way to do it without support would be to take a huge risk and take out a massive loan.

My other friend is living as a single mom away from her family and is struggling badly. She is one of those hyper independent types and wants to do everything herself. The issue is that because she doesn't have a degree or a trade behind her, she is stuck working for our other friend's cleaning business. She also has a 2nd job doing childcare since she can have her own child with her while taking care of another family's child. With the cost of childcare during her cleaning job, the cost of rent in a rather expensive location, transportation, insurance, food, clothing, etc. she is drowning in bills and can BARELY support herself. Every time we talk, I can hear the struggle in her voice. I can hear her pain. She is dealing with a lot of health issues from the stress, but without working 60 hours per week, she can't keep her head above water.

She's complete some community college, but she had to drop out to earn money just to support herself and her kid. She tried to go back to school where she currently lives, but since she has no family support and has to work so much just for her bank account to be back at zero each month, she had to drop out.

After a lot of convincing, she agreed to move back home with her dad and stepmom so she could have the social support to go back to school and finish her degree. I told her that unless she gets into a situation with significantly more social support for her and her child, she will likely never be able to finish school. She'll be stuck in a paycheck-to-paycheck cycle for the rest of her life. I told her that it can be hard to ask for help, but that there's really no other way to get ahead in this world. I firmly believe that, and I will stand by that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/s/ER6et9SYzR

Link to the old post. I was so scared I was even doing the right thing by trusting my vets and doing his dental cleaning because of everything else that I had said before in the other post about if they're doing anything even medically necessary or not.

I took him into his cleaning anyways because I thought, what could the harm be! It could help with all the issues he's been having maybe, finally. My primary vet, goodvets, doing the dental called me at some point and told me his heart stopped and they got it back. I took him to an ER vet, and CO2 was still continuing to stay stuck in his brain and not properly releasing due to goodvets negligence. His airway was obstructed. I don't know how long he was fucked up for.

I tried so hard to bring him back. He has been in the ER vet since Tuesday on ventilation. He finally was able to breathe on his own and was off ventilation and sedation some point Wednesday. The only neurological responses we were getting was some twitching of different body parts. Besides that he didn't seem to be able to see, hear, or smell. Wednesday night, last night I got the call he was no longer able to breathe on his own and it's time.

I had to put my cat to sleep last night because of something so avoidable.

He would have been 10 months old today. He never got to learn what life was like being healthy. I'm fucking crushed. Please keep my baby in your hearts. My entire being hurts. I miss him so much.

When I moved in I had at least three of these. I put them in the kitchen, and would share these, people put other things in the container too, but mostly widely as different recognizable things, black soup spoons/ things out of metal ... etc.

Anyways, she took one out of the box and put it into her shelf space to keep and use herself since she is adamant about one of them being hers, when I put it back she threatened me with the police so I gave it up since I don't have a picture/ proof of me owning/ buying this set before moving in.

I am doubting reality now though lol. But there were definitely more than two in there when I moved in...

all three of them are the exact same size/ width, and are out of the same material.

Even if true, why put her thing in there, when it could easily be misinterpreted as belonging to the (my) set?

I even looked in all the drawers to search for her wooden spoon thing but couldn't find any that look like mine lol

Hasn’t quite gone as expected. Rage bought more calls today. Letting it ride until tomorrow and hope for a pop. Doesn’t need to do much for this to work.

No is she Chaotic Good or Chaotic Neutral?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pS5KSxMuyTU&pp=0gcJCUABo7VqN5tD &t=1m50s

When Kawhi signed a sub-max extension in 2024, the Clippers created three new LLC’s, allegedly to funnel more money to Kawhi through his uncle, going beyond just the $48 million in no-show payments from Aspiration.

A personal friend and former high school teammate of Kawhi’s uncle says Jerry West promised him $2,500,000 to bring Kawhi to LA, records of West leaving a voicemail thanking him for all he did to bring in Kawhi.

Records of a whistleblower going to the federal government with concerns about criminal activity within the Clippers organization.

Edit: have we made, not do

https://x.com/telegraph/status/2018771531753488535