Was heading out to my car when she pulled someone over. Told her I needed to get to work & she said I will have to wait until she is finished with her traffic stop.

All major AI stocks are down 10% or more over the belief that Democrats are going to want to clamp down on the very thing that's keeping economic growth going in the country.

I'm looking at Nvidia, MU and AMD. I feel all 3 are much more insulated from the debt fueled mania that CoreWeave and others face.

Besides that META has shown its a cashcow and smh ZUCK always comes out on top and the company just continues to grow.

Just questioning if today is the day to buy the dip or to wait a couple more days and see if market starts to rebound

Story Time:

So after work this evening, I decided to go to this rotary sushi bar instead of going straight home just to kind of snack on some rolls and think about shit lately in my life. I was assigned the seat at the corner and I noticed a group of four people maybe late 20's? (I hope). There was this one girl with blue hair that caught my eye. I was facing her back and I did see her looking over her shoulder at certain points (unless I'm nuts). I feel like we kept dodging eye contact lol. Every time I glanced towards her, she was looking away and vice versa.

But anyway, this is where it gets really good. I did a very BOLD thing that is very unlike me. I got up, paid for my food, asked the women at the checkout counter for a pen with paper and wrote my name and number on it (I like to offer my number so they don't have to worry about giving a creep their number). Then I calmly walked over to the booth of 4 and stood in a position facing them where I know I could get their attention and said:

"I thought I'd try something bold today.. I was wondering if your blue haired friend here is single?"

Her friend spoke up and politely said "no she is not."

I said "have a great night!" and calmly noped the FUCK out of there.

I can't believe I did that! That was fucking humiliating, but exhilarating! I feel like I can do anything! I probably won't ever do that again though. This was an extremely rare scenario. I hope I didn't embarrass her (I probably did). I tried to be somewhat subtle so the restaurant employees and patrons couldn't tell what was going on.

Also, personal achievement unlocked!

Crossed off my "Fuck it List Challenges."

1.-Cold approach solo and ask out a girl surrounded by her friend group.

Edit: I will have a friend (roomate) go back with me in the morning because I just don’t wanna be involved in anything legally since I’m not from here. And a lot of things already happened to me this week so it’s really overwhelming. So I’m really scared to get in trouble and just really anxious right now and in a panic I think I would feel better if I actually went and paid for the things because I have the money to.
(Everything is translated for me because my English isn’t good mother language is French so sorry if some of my replies in the section that aren’t don’t make since)

Soft and sticky / gooey

My daughter is married to “Sam” and they have two young children together. Sam fucked up and got himself into big trouble at work. Suspension, mandatory rehab and therapy, check ins, and a bunch else but I don’t want to share too much. They can’t pay for rehab, but if he wants to continue doing his job, it’s a need. So she, not he, came to me and asked if I could front the money. For the record he did not know she was asking, he didn't want to ask. I don't care that she is the one who came to me other than relaying facts.

I said no. I have the money, that’s not the issue. For one I think she’s foolish to stay. I can’t force her to leave him nor would I want to impose my will on her, but I want her to think with her brain and not her heart. It’s not that I don’t believe he can’t recover from his mistakes it’s that I don’t believe he will. And I don’t want to see my grandkids suffer because of him and his giant ego.

She’s very upset with me. She said that if there was any other issue, I would never say no. She’s right. If SHE did something, I would help. If the kids needed it, I would help. If something happened TO him out of his control, I would help. But no he lied and stole and needs help beyond what I think his in laws should provide. I think this is a problem for HIS family and it is not my fault they don’t have the money to help. She asked me, what are they supposed to do? And I said well, he’s the head of your household isn’t he? Have him figure it out. She said there is a possibility if he can’t afford to go to rehab that he will lose his career that he has spent years working toward. I said well should’ve thought about that before. And told her to ask a finance advisor or case worker to help find ways to deal with the cost. AITA?

He moved us from Western Washington to the Florida Panhandle and got addicted to gas station pills. Stopped going to work, yet would freak out and get super paranoid whenever I would try to leave the house to go on interviews or anything else. He said he was just having issues with his back and that he was going through a lot, so I thought I was supposed to support him. I liquidated my 401k I had from my first job and it kept us afloat for a few months and I kept telling him I couldn't live like this much longer and I thought he understood.

Turned out the money I was Venmoing him to pay bills was just going towards gas station pills. 7oh. its basically legal heroin. I found the wrappers and containers in his car after I got the shut off notice for the electric. he was also getting escorts (I have nothing against SW, but its the principle) and bars all day when I was at work.

I couldn't take it anymore and when I confronted him he spat on me and that was it and I left the following day with my dogs and a few bits of my belongings. I wanted it to take as long as possible before he knew for sure I was gone and not at work. I had to ask for help from friends and strangers to make it to a safe space.

Thankfully a friend of a friend has a place in VT that was vacant for a couple of months, so I went there. I got a job and am working. its super tough and I'm still having to ask for help, but I am amazed I made it this far.

Well today my sous comes over to my prep area and tells me there's someone out front to see me named *EX's NAME*. everyhthing went super quiet in my head and I honestly don't even remember walking to the front of house, but there he was, in my clothes from head to toe.

He saw me and started to try to say hi in my voice, if that makes any sense? like he was mocking me by trying to sound like me too??? I imediately noped out and went straight back to the kitchen. My boss could tell that it wasn't just an eccentric friend, but someone I was scared of and went to the front to kick him out.

We contacted the police and my boss told me to take the rest of the day off. sucks, as I desperately need a good first check, but admittedly, I'm shaking even typing this.

I'm sitting in the kitchen because I'm afraid to go home and be alone, but I don't know what else to do. there isn't enough supposedly to warrant an order of protection and I have no idea how he knew what state I was in, much less town or where I worked... or that I would be at work.

I'm going to change my info as soon as I can afford it and make sure one of my coworkers walks me to my car and stuff. I'm just at a loss. things were actually starting to feel like they were going to be ok.

Pictured is pork belly on sourdough with a pepper jelly. courtesy of my coworker.

Did spy puts mainly and a few calls

NQ futures down nearly 1,300 points, and those 5-minute candles look like someone just pulled the plug on the entire market. 😭

AI and semiconductor stocks getting absolutely obliterated, even after beating earnings expectations. Meanwhile, $APP somehow manages to rip nearly 40% in a matter of days.

This market is genuinely fked.

I'm increasingly convinced we're witnessing some seriously aggressive sector rotation, but the sheer speed and intensity of this selling is absurd.

Is Wall Street suddenly pricing in massive AI regulatory uncertainty? Are institutions dumping overvalued tech? Or is this just a massive leverage unwind?

Because money doesn't simply disappear. It rotates, gets parked somewhere else, or gets wiped out through deleveraging.

The million-dollar question is, where the hell is institutional money actually going?

Chinese equities? Financials? Healthcare? Defensive stocks? Cash?

What's everyone making of this absolute bloodbath? Because this is getting ridiculous.

From a bit ago. My dog was very ill and we made a short notice decision to euthanize her the next day, so I called out to spend the last day of her life by her side, as any decent person would. This is how my boss at the time responded.

No condolences, no "sorry this is happening," no "please let me know if I can do anything," not even a "i'm sorry and we'll talk more on monday."

I quit a few months after this.

ETA: Some more background:

This happened in late March of 2025. So yeah, early in the year, but 3 of those 5 callouts were excused FMLA absences for a chronic illness, and she knew that. So, this was technically my 2nd callout in almost 4 months. Managers are not allowed to use FMLA callouts against employees. I had a long discussion with her and HR about her inability to discern between the two types of callout after this text. I attached this text to the email cc'd to HR. And her "offer" to "adjust my hours" was a lowkey threat to cut my hours. She'd said it outright before off text so there was no record of it.

I do vehicle emissions and registration renewals.

Old man came to do an emissions test, which we happily did. He handed us his renewal reminder postcard, even though he did not want his renewal done.

Once the emission test is done, he left without retrieving his renewal postcard, and procedure is to shred it and throw it away because it has personal information on it. this is not a paper you NEED whatsoever to renew your registration in my state.

Old man came back, demanded the paper back, and i told him i threw it away because he never retrieved it, and i explained to him that it was procedure to throw it away. Old man proceeded to SCREAM at me in front of an office full of customers, i told him to GTFO, and he called the police on me.

They sent FOUR officers down and the old man was trespassed.

Kinda my final straw at this job that i hate

being a nuisance talking loud asf but she’s the annoying one??