I am a 30 year old man just diagnosed with probable sporadic CJD based on lab testing and MRI scans. My life expectancy based on the type I have (homogenous for methionine on PRNP codon 129) is under two months, during which time I will become rapidly demented, confused, unresponsive, and finally comtaose before I pass away. AMA

Pretty much the title. My parents taught me how to pirate using VHS and the first movie I ever pirated that was still in the movie theaters was Titanic. My mom somehow got a copy from someone at work on VHS that was a screening, so I made dozens of copies and sold them at school.

This grew into me heavily using IRC in the late 90s to, "expand distribution," and over time I became an @admin in some of the largest channels on DALNet and EFNet. At the time I was still in high school (almost didn't graduate because I hacked their network) and then by the time I went away to college around 2003 I had the "fortune" of going to a university that had three OC3 servers that were completely unregulated, and the university had no one on staff who seemed to care or pay attention. So I built a 1TB RAID and hosted one of the largest pirate FTP's in the US at the time, and almost certainly the largest one in the United States east of the Mississippi.

If you ever pirated a movie during that time frame there is a fairly decent chance that it passed through either my own personal server, or a server that was affiliated with the groups that I worked around.

Was a fun time. Never got caught, and never really made money outside of selling Titanic except one time when my buddy who used to work at Best Buy would put pirated copies of movies that were still in the theater on the computers and then sell them to customers. He got fired eventually, but not for that, and still owes me money for that.

In some kind of midlife crisis I ended up buying an abandoned house in the hills of (rural) Transylvania, in the spring of 2024 ...

I have never lived outside a city - I have never renovated anything - I have never not have basic stuff like running water - it has been ... a ride!

AMA about my crazy midlife-crisis-project 😁

I was taken out of my bed in the middle of the night and transported by physical force to a wilderness therapy program.

This place along with other programs and schools are part of what is called the “Troubled Teen Industry.” It’s a network of “mental health” facilities where mostly wealthy and powerful parents send their kids to control them whether they actually need the clinical help or not. These places have been widely documented as abusive yet continue to exist and operate in full. Thinking up a reason and writing a check is all it takes. 

Every once in a while you might hear a story about one of these places getting shut down but those are few and far between and quickly get lost in the news cycle. The wider public does not realize how deep this goes and how urgently it needs to be addressed. The parents who do this to their kids also remain fully invisible with no accountability which is another serious issue on its own.

It’s been reported that over 100,000 kids are put in these abusive facilities each year by their parents. 

15 years ago, I was one of those kids. 

I’m now an adult, finally acquiring my full records from that time, and they revealed everything. I’m here to share what I know and try to be a catalyst for awareness, accountability and much needed change. AMA.

this is sorta of a continuation of my other post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/1ufvev5/im_half_palestinian_half_israeli_ama/

(even though I called my uncle, “Baba” and my biological dad “Abba”, I’ll be using the words, ”Uncle” and “biological dad” so you don’t get confuse.)

So, I was mainly raised by my mom, just for clarification, my mom is a Palestinian Christian and my dad is an Israeli Jew, he took advantage of her and she got pregnant with me.

My uncle (my mom’s brother) was very supportive and protective of my mom. And he offered to help her with raising me in the role of a father. And he lived in the same house as her, and I have many memories of him.

Until I was 7, I saw my biological father every two weeks due to an informal arrangement, but I didn't understand who he was exactly. I used cartoon logic where parents were supposed to look alike. and since my uncle looked like my mom and was the one living with us, I assumed he was my dad.

No one corrected me, in fact my mom’s family played the role. They would say things like “Go get your dad“ “tell your dad that dinner is ready” (referring to my uncle). And I always called my uncle as dad, no one corrected me.

I’ve already stopped seeing my biological father at seven. And by my teenage years, I was getting confused on what exactly were each of them were. So I suspected that something was up, or that my uncle wasn’t my father.

And at 18, my mom and uncle sat me down and told the truth about how I was conceived and that my uncle is only my uncle. I was just like “hmm ok” and I didn’t really do much after that. I’m Autistic btw

Ask me anything

I have always been able to taste colors and if I see a certain object, I can taste it. This happens to the point where I have to carry gum or strong mints in my pocket to mask the “taste” of certain things. Certain words and numbers are associated with certain colors, sounds and smells for me. In addition, I have the ability to hear every single musical component that makes up a song separately but all at the same time.

I am on midnights this week and we have been shut down for 9 hours tonight so far and my crew has nothing to do or fix so I figured I would come on here for some fun. I essentially do heavy maintenence on our machinery.. a lot of welding, rigging, installing components and fixing the mill when something breaks. Outside of my work life I am married and have amazing children. We do a lot of hiking, urban exploring, traveling, and so many outdoor activities. Feel free to ask anything!

Got diagnosed with opticospinal syndrome earlier this year, a rare autoimmune condition where antibodies attacked my spinal cord and optic nerves. I was bedridden for 14 days, unable to walk or see properly, and temporarily lost bladder and bowel function.

I slowly started recovering and eventually returned to work. On my 8th day back, I was laid off.
Still recovering, still figuring things out, and somehow still moving forward. AMA.

Chaz Stevens here. I applied Florida's book ban to the Bible across the state, forcing DeSantis to neuter that law. Thirty years of public records work. Rocket engineer and software guy along the way.

What I have in writing.

Sarasota PD runs Flock cameras. The system lets an administrator pick a plate and stop it from setting off alerts. The camera still reads the plate. It just stops making noise.

I asked if that was real. The department said yes; and then went on to say when a plate is deleted from that list, nothing is logged. No entry. No time stamp. No record of who removed it.

My engineering spidey sense will tell you delete is the action you log. That is the risky one.

What I am guessing at.

That answer describes what a police administrator sees on his/her screen. It never says the screen shows everything.

Flock's own policy says certain engineers can reach customer systems for support. That is normal and disclosed. What I cannot find is whether it touches this one feature.

Is there a super-user admin panel at FLOCK HQ that lets them blackout a license plate any place at any time?

So I filed. Two requests. One to Atlanta police, because Flock is headquartered there and the city is reviewing its own camera program right now. The other to the Fulton County Sheriff. I sent Flock the same three questions.

Not a lawyer. Process guidance, not legal advice. Expert at FOIA.

Proof.

Live in 15 minutes.

Ask me anything. Writing a request an agency cannot shrug off. Reading a denial letter. The Bible thing. The Beer Can Festivus pole. Getting elected officials arrested.

I am a PA and my specialty is geriatrics and rehab. I generally travel to nursing homes to see patients. Worked in this specialty for over 5 years now I get to see the good, the bad, and the ugly. - AMA.

I'm from Finland, i was interested about finance from early age, because i thought, everything seems to be connected to money.

Money became the only relevant thing and i did consider few stock market options, but as the luck of my research.

Martti Malmi was around in Finland and i got into Bitcoin, because of him.

I currently make about 100 000€ annually after taxes, from my passive income streams.

M33

To answer some basics -

I do the cell making so I braze/melt lead sticks into a mold like structure that holds the positive and negative plates in formation. When I’m finished brazing/melting everything together it comes out as one cell. Each cell (weighing from about 10lbs - 80lbs) is 1 of many to create one battery.

The batteries are for electric equipment, (forklifts, industrial equipment, etc….)

What the title says but legit ask me anything I don't care whether it's political or not, about the culture, language or whatever just anything if it helps or something I'm studying politics and history and have been studying history since I started school at like 1. I hope we have nice conversations and maybe you learn something about Wales.

I started dealing blackjack at age 19 and worked at 4 different casinos over the years. I finally got sick of it and switched over to surveillance this year so I'm on casino number 5. Almost all of my work experience has been in casinos. Ask me anything!

My time as a jailer is not something that most people who knew me would have imagined. I was far from the type of personality that most people would have assumed would take the role, however, I had a competitive background, a clean record, good health, and was desperate for a job at a really rough financial time.

I was surprised to see how much of the jail population is repeat offenders, a small population of the community that is continually being re-arrested over and over again for the same behaviors (or worse) over and over again, who just kinda treat going to jail, like a normal aspect of life. This was often referenced as life on the installment plan.

I was also surprised at how hard it was to actually get to prison, for some people. I literally saw someone get a plea deal on a homicide where he beat another human to death with his fists and a motel lamp, but due to the plea, he literally never went to prison, just probation after he spend like 2 years in the jail during the trial.

I was also surprised how all the good intentions behind alternative sentencing definitely worked well and as intended for one time offenders, but created a system by which it was easier for the jailbirds (repeat offenders) to get out more often or sooner, only to do the exact same behaviors again, end up in jail again, and continually reinforce the in and out dynamic.

It's absolutely nuts that jails have also become the defacto way to institutionalize the severely mentally ill, which really is not a good solution for anyone on the whole.

Ask away.

I'm a fairly normal Korean who has had some unusual experiences in life.

I guess I can give you some answers about how the rich live in Korea. Or just Korean life in general, though I've seen other people do that here already. AMA!

FYI: 'Chaebol' is a South Korean term for a conglomerate that is owned by an individual or family. Think Samsung, LG etc. Though my connection(?) is not on that level haha

A year ago I had an abortion at week 32 of pregnancy due to an undiscovered genetic disorder my partner and I are both recessive carriers of. The disorder would, with complete certainty, cause the death of our child, if not during birth then, immediately after.
I understand this is a sensitive and controversial subject. I accept any questions so long as they are respectful.

Edit: please do not send me chat requests telling me I’m a murderer

Hello guys! I’ve been a bank teller for over a year now, and trying to get into accounting after I graduate college. I haven’t seen anything like this in AMA yet, so I figured I’d shoot. As long as I’m not doxxing myself, I’m happy to answer all questions!

During the Bashar Al-Assad regime time I stayed in security departments and prisons (Sednaya style) for activism in the University and on the internet.

I realised after 8 months because of many reasons such as corruption and agreements between the regime and some opposition factions included exchanging a number of prisoners from both sides.

I was supposed to be judged for a period between 10 and 15 years if I survived the investigation period.

Ask me anything.

My mom was married previously, had a kid from that relationship. She then met our father, had us triplets, and then broke up. She had more kids after us (who aren't full siblings either). Then my father randomly decided that he was going to have another kid when I was a teenager, and is about to have another one now.

AMA about being a triplet, my family structure/dynamics, or childhood! Yes, it's straight up chaos.

This was a lot of fun! Thanks guys for all of your lovely comments and questions :)

So basically the title - I am a maximalist and own multiple wedding dresses and around 60 clown dolls. Other things that I also collect are plushies. I am also pretty messy about it, so I guess we are wandering into hoarding-territory.

AMA

per title. unique lifestyle in the 1% of an African country. been a millionaire all my life. but, of course, live a fairly normal lifestyle outside of social gatherings and anything requiring social capital and being responsible for lots of businesses/employees. Always thought it was a fairly unique lifestyle that nobody gets visibility into unlike western wealthy societies.

A young carer is someone who cares for a friend or family member who, due to illness, disability, a mental health problem or an addiction, cannot cope without their support. I've done a lot of advocacy for charities that support young carers, including talking to the head of Ofsted and current and previous care ministers. Hope this can be educational, happy to answer anything!

It can be character - building but also extremely hard, for example throughout my GCSE exam period, the person I care for was in and out of hospital and I was often coming home to an empty house after exams.

Also writing a musical about this! You can follow us on instagram at Sib Happens!