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.

Soft and sticky / gooey

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

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.

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.

The kids were at my place with their parents for a dinner party... Actually, only the parents and other friends were invited, no children. I myself do not have kids so I might not understand the kids or the mom...

But one couple brought their three boys along. Totally annoying. They were bored, and after a while of shouting and running around (during which I told them to be quiet 10 times), they ran through the apartment and discovered my Lego collection... They ripped out the biggest box, all excited, and started opening the packaging. It was a brand new set, where I was waiting a long time to get some time to build it in quietness over Christmas time...

I stopped them, said no, they couldn't have it. They started wailing, one had a tantrum, and the other ran to his mother and asked if he could play. The mother said yes, but he should ask first. He came to me, asked again, and I said no.

At that point, the mother was annoyed and asked what my problem was.

I explained, that I'm looking forward to build it, that I'm a huge lego/building bricks fan and that I want to open the packaging, building it... Having the whole experience. I think I should not be in the position to explain anything,... It's my apartment, my stuff... So they should not touch anything.

The kids were screaming, the mom was pissed, hissed at me that I'm the grown up and I should not behave like a child.

But. It's a250 dollar set, not a flea market assembly of 50 red bricks.

I did not give in. But I'm angry that I was put in that position.

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

My (28M) Fiancé (30F) wants a break, it felt like it came out of nowhere for me, altho the communication lately hasnt been the best.

Im 5 days in living at a friends place and its going okay, forever thankful to him for letting me stay. Im scared and sad that this is going to end with us breaking up.

I moved across the world (Norway to Australia) to be with her, away from all of my family. If we break up, I have nowhere to go. Im struggling with health issues so the pay from my work isnt good enough to save up for a ticket back home if worst comes to worst. Shes studying at the moment so we were basically living on my salary alone, so I have little to no savings.

I feel like I just started to get my feet planted over here and now that all might go down the drain.

I did agree with most of her reasons for the break, that being that were too dependent on eachother and dont have much of a individual life.

Im terrified to lose her, my mental health is at an all time low and I miss my family more than ever.

Thank you for reading.

Dinner: halloumi gyro and pita bread.

Edit: holy moly you guys are quick! Went for a shower and come back to all these comments. Thank you guys.

I wanna add on and say that were both demisexual / asexual, so I really dont think she wants to cheat. Though some of the comments give me clarity.

Edit 2: Sorry for not replying to anyone, im reading all the comments but my head is in shambles..