Hi people!
I am trying to make a shortcut to easily check my power consumption with the click of a Shortcut. I have with the help of chatgpt made this script (which works locally on my mac in a html file) and gives the desired result: Month total (2023-03-01 to 2023-03-28): 9168






Fetching data...




I enter this as text in the Shortcut app, then Show Webpage at Text which gives the message: "Couldn't find the requested file /dist/cors-anywhere.js in cors-anywhere."
Any pointers would be appreaciated. Also, I am NOT a programmer or webdeveloper. Am I doing it wrong?

Since I stopped drinking, I’ve been up sometimes until 5-6 AM. I work at 9 AM, it’s not exactly sustainable. I workout and take care of the house, I move around enough to try to make myself tired. Sometimes I’ll get lucky and go to bed by 1-2 AM, but wake up around 4-5 AM and lie awake until about an hour before I need to actually wake up. I have a ton of energy but I’d actually like to sleep more. Before I stopped, I wasn’t drinking a ton (it’s all relative). I was drinking about 4 days a week. On the weekends, up to a bottle of wine by myself on a Friday or Saturday. But during a week day, maybe 2-4 drinks.
I’ve always had sleeping trouble but it’s more obvious when alcohol is removed. What’s worse is that I can’t nap during the day. I’m too wired. But my body definitely feels it - my heart rate is higher, I have irregular palpitations and my tinnitus zings when I haven’t had much sleep. I’m wondering if this will go away eventually. My anxiety is pretty bad, so I think the alcohol helped to tune out of that radio station. Now I’m all up in it.

So I have no clue anymore what to do so I've came to reddit... I don't really know how many people will actually see this since I just made this account. I know this post length may drive people away but I want some people's advise and there's a lot to go over. I know this girl that I ended up falling in love with on December 13th 2021 and I texted her at 10:42 that night asking how her day was going just on a whim that she'd respond because well... I thought she was really cute and... well... she did... We called from that time all the way till 2 in the morning (and I had to be at work by 6:30 that morning). We had a lot in common and we seemed to hit it off right from the start.. Both having basically the same car (She liked the R32 Skyline as her dream car, Mine was the R33 Skyline. Same favorite color, hobbies, etc). Well I fell deep really hard. It took till me the next day checking my phone at work like a maniac who wasn't had something for days to realize that I was in really deep. Well... We ended up going on our first date on the December 18th. We had blankets in the back of my car and watched the sunset and it was honestly the best date I've ever had. We watched movies, cracked jokes and just had a blast. She actually let me have a body pillow she had bought for the date and sprayed her perfume on it. After the date was over I drove her back to her apartment and headed home (I live 30-35 mins away). After work I would go home and get dressed and cleaned up and then start going over to her apartment regularly. Which she has 2 kids also (One was 3 and one was a few months old, which doesn't bother me even though I'm still pretty young 20 at the time, wanting kids eventually and she was 22 when I met her). To summarize how the regular interactions when I was at her was... I'd bring her some snacks/gifts for her or the kids, run around the apartment chasing the oldest (Which will be represented by the letter C) around the apartment playing with him, while she would take care of the youngest (Which will be represented by the letter B) doing whatever se needed to do. After she ended up putting them to bed, we'd cuddle on the couch and watch movies and after a while "ended up doing the deed". I was honestly really happy. Not even just by the sex. I felt so loved and just felt genuinely happy and never been this happy before. After 2 weeks of this goes by and she texts me one day that she needs to tell me something in person. Well, the next time I was over, after a while I was there and a bit of asking, She tells me that she's been with the father of the 2 kids for 5 years (Who would be represented with the letter J), and has known about me the whole time and x y and z and he was okay with her seeing me. It honestly threw me for a loop but everything I was skeptical of, made sense (She had a really nice apartment, nice car but not the greatest job and said she was sharing the car with someone). I don't know why I said the next thing I did. Maybe because I was happy with her or what but I told her I was okay with it even though I was 50/50. Part of me was angry she kept it from me and also upset, but she made me happy. I ended up staying the usual time I'd stay over (and did the deed again) but on the ride home, I cried the whole time. I had so many mixed emotions about it. I've already spent a lot of money (which is replaceable I know) on her and the kids (which was mainly snacks) but I'm a very emotional person. I ended up continuing to see her (all the way to May of 2022) and it was honestly really really rough. I did kind of see her the usual amount I normally saw her (Because J worked nights and I worked days) for the first bit until J started to get jealous of how much attention I was getting from her. J would go though mine and hers conversations randomly and get mad for what was said (Me saying I love her and her saying it back and normal relationship type stuff) and she ended up removing me off snapchat but we talked on Instagram after that. After he saw that we were talking on Instagram, we moved to discord (When she removed me off snap, she wrote down my number and snap). And She actually told me that it was upsetting her that she wasn't getting to talking to me as much saying stuff like "This is BS" " I barely got to talk to you today" and "I didn't think I would feel like this but I do". There was times she'd hop in discord and watch me play Val with my friends and actually talk to them, watch my races on iRacing and support me and my hobbies. I've never had that before. It was great having her around. I was there for her when she needed it. Whether she wanted to rant about J (Who imo, doesn't treat her the greatest), rant about work, or anything she needed. We ended up sneaking around for a few months after J told her that he doesn't want her seeing me anymore. I'd drive to her work and hang out with her on her breaks (since I had buddies in the area I could make plans with after) and sometimes when he was at work (which was 30 mins away at the time), I'd come over like I used to. When he found out, he wasn't happy. He quit his job on the spot and drive back (He found out that we were still talking due to a call log). Which it only stopped us for a few weeks. J ended up getting another job (even though it was day shift and only 10 mins away) I still found ways to go see her (mainly though texting on Instagram on a different account I had or a different messenger she had). I only went to her apartment for like... 30 mins. Just to help her do some small things around the apartment (since from her words, he never wanted to help) and help keep the kids entertained so she could do some work. That went on for a little bit until she just ghosted me completely. Not a goodbye or anything. I was devastated. I cried all the time and dropped all the friends I had and just started staying alone. I end down a really dark path and honestly almost took my life. She was meant so much to me and she left without a word. I messaged her Instagram everyday for 3 months while she was gone (for 8 months). One day I just stopped texting her and it was nothing. She still viewed my story on Instagram but never messaged. Even J got on her Instagram and messaged me and said "IDK why she doesn't message you anymore. I've told her that its okay. I'll let her know that you messaged again" and then I just messaged on holidays. Then her birthday came up and I messaged her as soon as the clock struck midnight to her birthday telling her happy birthday and she responded right away and we talked all the way until 2 am (and now I have to be up for work at 5 am). We've been talking every day since then (Her birthday was the 2nd of this month) and we've been talking like how we used to. But I don't know how to handle this. I'm still at a loss and don't know how to process it.

Have you thought ‘tomorrow is the day, the day I finally get up early and attack the day, new day, new me’ and then the alarm goes off, you hit snooze and wake up the same time you always have? Of course you have, we all have.
Good intentions really don’t account for much, it’s our actions that determine our success or failure in becoming an early riser.
It wasn’t until I embarked on my own journey I realised that without changing my evening habits I could never change my morning habits.
By tweaking just a few habits before jumping into bed we can drastically increase our chances of waking up early and get our first big accomplishment of the day out of the way - not hitting snooze!
Here are the 7 super simple tweaks I have made to my evening routine that have enabled me to stick to my wake up time.
Read to the end to find the one thing that makes all 7 of these habits IRRELEVANT!

Reverse engineer your wake up time

‘Right that’s it, tomorrow I’m waking up at 6.30am and I’m attacking the day with vigour’. You’ve had this thought before right? And when you wake up 3 hours later, you instantly blame the alarm clock. ‘It didn’t go off! I slept right through it!’.
What actually happened is you were so tired you turned the alarm off and before your conscious brain could even kick in you were asleep again within 9 seconds and you totally forgot that this happened just a few hours ago.
We have all been there.
You didn’t reverse engineer your wake up time. See me, I need 8 hours. I can function on less but my body really does need a solid 8 hours. However, I typically fall asleep around midnight, sometimes around 1am if I’m particularly restless.
Now if I want to get up around 7am then I’m waking up after just 6ish hours of sleep. The amount of times I’ve smashed the snooze button and turned the alarm off in just 6 hours of sleep is staggering. I have ZERO discipline when I have a poor night's sleep.
My failure was that I didn’t reverse engineer my wake up time. I want to wake up at 7am and I need 8 hours, then I MUST be asleep by 11pm. I can safely say that whenever I’m asleep at 11pm then waking up at 7am is easy.
I backed up my clock and set a time I must be asleep by. Now for me, I take around 20 mins to fall asleep. So I have to be in bed at 10.40pm. If I fall asleep quicker than 20 mins then that’s a bonus. If it takes me 30 mins it’s not the end of the world. I can survive on 7 hours 50.
Our body clocks are different. Some people only need 6 hours, others need 9. Start at the time you want to wake up and back up your clock the amount of hours of sleep you need.
Want to wake up at 6am but you need 9 hours sleep, then you must be asleep by 9pm. Woke backwards from here. You might need to make dinner earlier or record your favourite show between 9 and 10 and watch it the next day.
In some cases, this is going to be difficult because of life and work commitments. So choose a wake up time that fits your lifestyle.
The important point here is to set your wake up time, recognise the time you must be asleep by and aim for that. But experiment with different wake up times and sleep times to find what works for you. We are all different.

Blocking blue light after 7pm

I just wrote an article called ‘The science of blocking blue light before bedtime’.
You can read this for why this is important. But a quick hack to block blue light on your iPhone is:

1. Go to settings
2. Display & Brightness
3. Night Shift
4. Slide the colour temperature to ‘More Warm’

I have set mine to block blue light between 7pm and 9am. This is a super simple hack to limit the amount of blue light you get before you go to sleep, which numerous scientific studies have found greatly improves sleep length and sleep quality.

Prepare for the first task of the day only

I recently wrote about how my jump rope workout plan faded when I forgot to prepare my workout clothes before I went to sleep.
The simple act of getting my workout shorts, top and socks out and having them ready for me to jump into made the jump rope workout a much easier habit to adopt.
Think about what the first thing you want to do is. Workout? Get your workout clothes ready. Walk the dog? Get your outfit including coat and scarf ready and put the dog lead on top of it.
There is a famous speech by Admiral William H. McRaven who emphasised making the bed. It was a win. The first win of the day. A small insignificant win that made it easier to complete more tasks and set the day up for a series of wins.
So focus only on the first task of the day and prepare your outfit the night before and when you wake up all you need to do is complete that task. By outfit, I’m obviously talking about clothes. But if you want your first task to be journaling, then get the pen and pad, write tomorrow’s date at the top and leave the pad open on the table ready for you.
You will be greatly surprised, as I was, at how easy it is to start the morning on the right foot just by preparing for the first task of the day.

No late meals or snacks

You know that feeling of climbing into bed with a stomach full of food, I find this uncomfortable and it makes me restless. All I can think about is how full I am.
I try to eat 2-2.5 hours before going to bed. This is enough time for my body to digest the food and I can sleep well fed.
Think about what you are asking your body to do when you eat late night snacks or go to bed right after a big meal. You’re asking your body to kick into gear and start breaking down the food for nutrients. We want the body and brain to be at rest so that we can fall asleep more easily.
Intermittent fasting is a great way to stop eating late night snacks. Choose one of the many apps, my personal favourite is ‘Zero’ and start eating during your eating window only. This will help to know when to eat and when not to eat.
Maybe one day I’ll do a breakdown on how IF affects sleep quality and patterns.

Pick up a book

This is a personal favourite. I love to read. One because I just enjoy learning new things (I’m a big non-fiction fan) but also because IT MAKES ME SLEEPY.
I read a kindle which means I’m not absorbing any blue light late at night, my wife reads a proper paperback. But both of our eyelids slowly begin to close after about 15 minutes and all of a sudden we are asleep.
I genuinely think reading is life’s cheat code and a form of time travel. If you read a book written in Ancient Greece you are literally travelling back in time to the mind of the person that wrote it.
But one of the hidden benefits of adopting a reading habit is that it helps me to unwind at the end of the day, away from my phone and social media and before I know it I’m asleep.
Pick up a book, any book that you fancy and for the final 15 mins of the day, just read it. You’ll soon see what I mean.

Set a Do Not Disturb schedule

Notifications are how apps like Facebook and Twitter make you become addicted to them.
WIthout notifications you probably wouldn’t think to open 75% of the apps you have installed on your phone.
The notification creates a trigger that turns into action.
Set a Do Not Disturb schedule on your phone, perhaps the same time you have your blue light block set for. During this time you won’t receive any notification pop ups. This helps in two ways:

• It limits the use of the phone in the evening
• When you wake up there are no notifications pulling you in

For reasons we will explore another time, limiting the hours spent on our digital devices either side of going to sleep is hugely beneficial.
A great morning routine is one that doesn’t involve diving right into social media as soon as you wake up.
This is infinitely more difficult when there are tons of notifications from 10+ apps compelling us into action.
Setting the phone to Do Not Disturb is also great if you need to focus and be productive and much like the blue light blocking hack is super simple to start.
Bonus: The one thing that makes all 7 of these totally useless and irrelevant.
Going out after work for a few drinks? Going for a meal with a loved one and getting deep into a bottle of Merlot? Fancy a few cold cans on the sofa after a long stressful day?
I have found alcohol to be the biggest nullifier of the morning routine.
Yes you could still do these 7 things but the effects alcohol has on the length of sleep and how many good quality hours of sleep you get make it very hard to have discipline in the morning.
But that’s ok. You don’t need to stop drinking (unless you want to), but recognise that tomorrow you need a different approach. A later wake up time, a different morning task, whatever.
When I am out with work friends for a few drinks, I set my alarm to a more suitable wake up time simply because I know that the effect those few drinks have on me is going to make it difficult for me to rise as early as I would like.

Do the same 3 things before you go to sleep

Do the exact same things just before going to sleep.
For me, I clean my teeth, prepare my outfit for the next day, read a book, sleep.
I want to train my brain and body to recognise that I am about to fall asleep.
I choose those three actions as my cue to the brain to start getting prepared to fall asleep.
This mini-routine within my evening routine is as important as my entire routine. This consistency takes away any decision making I need to make and I can go through this mini-routine with ease.
Try it. And then experiment with doing something random one night and you will notice the difference in your ability to fall asleep. Then again, this might just be the effect it has on me! This is a journey of self-discovery and you should do the same!
So there you have it, 7 super simple evening habits you can adopt to set yourself up for early riser success.
How many of these do you do? Is there anything you recommend?
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Ignoring or failing to recognize our own personal reality can have negative consequences that extend far beyond our own lives. When we are not in touch with our own thoughts, feelings, and needs, we become disconnected from the world around us. We may start to make decisions that don't align with our values, engage in behaviors that are harmful to ourselves and others, or miss out on opportunities for growth and fulfillment. This story will show how Dave made this mistake and came to understand the repercussions of his ignorance.
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Dave had been hearing the strange footsteps coming up the stairs for weeks now. Every night, just before midnight, they started, echoing through his house like the hammering of a restless ghost.
He had lived in the old Victorian house for just over a year now inherited by her parents, and it had always given him a sense of unease. The creaking floorboards, the drafty windows, the flickering lights - they all seemed to hint at something ominous lurking just out of sight. Doors would slam shut on their own, objects would move from one place to another, and Dave had even caught glimpses of something moving out of the corner of his eye.
But it was the footsteps that really got to him. They always started at the bottom of the basement, slow and deliberate, like someone was taking their time, testing each step. Then they would pause, as if listening for something, before continuing on up the stairs, step by step, until they reached the door.
He'd lie awake in bed, listening as the steps grew louder and clearer, but when he'd get up to investigate, the sounds stopped.
At first, he tried to ignore them and pretend they weren't there, but as time went on, he found it harder and harder to do. He was consumed with curiosity and the dread of what might be lurking in his house.
He was certain that the origin of the inexplicable and eerie occurrences that had been plaguing him lately must have been emanating from the depths of his basement. His intuition was fueled by the fact that the basement was a secluded, dark, and damp place, providing the perfect atmosphere for anything paranormal to thrive.
However, to his dismay, he realized that the basement door was a colossal iron door, firmly locked by a key and he did not remember locking it or why the door was locked – he lived alone in that house and nobody else could have locked it. His initial excitement at finally identifying the source of the bizarre events quickly turned to frustration as he began an exhaustive search for the elusive key. He scoured every corner of his house, ransacked drawers, and turned over furniture, but to no avail. The key remained elusive, adding to his growing anxiety and fear.
The fact that he had no recollection of why the door had been sealed off only added to the mystery and fueled his imagination with possibilities of what could lie beyond the door.
He was now trapped in a state of confusion and fear, constantly haunted by the unexplainable occurrences in his house and the enigma of the locked basement door. It seemed as if the more he searched for the key, the more distant the solution became, and the deeper he fell into the unknown abyss of fear and paranoia.
One night, as Dave was sitting in his living room watching TV, he felt a sudden chill in the air. The room had grown cold, and he could see his breath misting in front of him. Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a shadow move across the wall. He turned to look, but there was nothing there.
Suddenly, he felt a cold hand on his shoulder, and he jumped up in terror. He spun around, but there was no one there. The hand had vanished, leaving only a lingering sensation of icy fingers.
Another night, as Dave lay in bed, he suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. The air in the room had turned cold, and he could see his breath condensing in the darkness. He tried to sit up, but something held him down, a weight on his chest that felt like a thousand pounds.
As he struggled to breathe, Dave felt a presence in the room with him. He couldn't see anything, but he knew that he was not alone. The hair on the back of his neck stood on end, and he could feel the static electricity in the air.
Suddenly, he saw a shadowy figure at the foot of his bed. It was humanoid in shape, but its features were indistinct as if it were made of smoke or mist. Dave tried to scream, but no sound came out of his mouth. He was frozen in terror, unable to move or speak.
The figure slowly moved closer to him, and Dave could see that it was holding something in its hand. It was a book, bound in black leather, with strange symbols etched on its cover. The figure placed the book on Dave's chest, and he could feel its weight pressing down on him, suffocating him.
He struggled to break free, but the figure was too strong. It spoke to him in a language he did not understand, its voice a deep, guttural growl that filled the room. Dave could feel the words vibrating through his bones, and he knew that they were not meant for mortal ears.
Suddenly, the figure disappeared, and the weight on Dave's chest lifted. He gasped for air, his heart racing in his chest. He looked around the room, but it was empty. The only sound was the pounding of his own heartbeat in his ears.
Dave lay back down, his body drenched in sweat. He knew that what he had experienced was not a dream, but a terrifying encounter with the paranormal.
Then one evening, as Dave was tidying up the living room, he noticed a small, rusted key lying under the edge of the carpet. He couldn't recall ever seeing it before, but something about the key intrigued him. It was as if the key had been deliberately placed there, hidden away from sight. He wondered if he had placed it there and if so, why? The more he thought about it, the more he became convinced that it must be the key to the basement door, the one that had been eluding him for so long.
A sense of unease crept over him as he held the key in his hand, his mind flooded with questions. The more he thought about the basement, the more he felt drawn to the basement, compelled to uncover the secrets that lay hidden behind the iron door.
With trembling hands, he inserted the key into the lock, feeling a sense of anticipation mixed with fear as he turned it. The lock clicked, and the door creaked open, revealing a dimly lit staircase leading down into the depths of the basement. The air was incredibly stinky as if something had been rotting there for weeks.
A chill ran down Dave's spine as he stepped into the murky depths of the basement, his eyes straining to see through the gloom. As he made his way deeper into the shadows, he could feel a palpable sense of unease settling in the pit of his stomach, the hairs on the back of his neck standing on end.
The stench of decay was overwhelming. It was a pungent, nauseating smell that filled the basement, a miasma of putrefaction and rot. The scent of moldy bread, sour milk, and souring meat lingered in the air, mixed with the sickly-sweet smell of something decaying. Or maybe the smell was like rotten eggs and stagnant water.
He fumbled around in his pocket for his mobile phone, his hand shaking with anticipation and dread. As he switched it on its flashlight, the beam of light cut through the darkness, revealing the cobweb-covered walls and the old, rusted pipes snaking along the ceiling.
The light beam of his flashlight cast shadows onto the walls as he looked around. There were several shelves lined with overturned buckets full of soil, and marijuana leaves were sprouting out of them.
The flashlight then illuminated small plant pots filled with lush green marijuana plants. The wooden shelves against one wall contained an array of growing equipment such as lamps, fertilizer, and watering cans.
The walls were made of cracked concrete, and the floors were covered in dirt and dust. Normally, strands of white UV light would have filtered through the air if there had been electricity but for some reason, the lamps and the lightbulb on the ceiling did not work.
It was his secret marijuana plantation. How could he forget about it? He recalled locking the door whenever he came down to this clandestine room to keep unwelcome visitors away.
Suddenly, his toes struck something cold and unyielding on the ground. The flickering light of his flashlight spread across the floorboards and illuminated what lay before him. At first, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. His eyes strained to take in every detail, yet it still seemed unreal. But then he realized, with a creeping sense of horror, that it was indeed real. Lying there before him, bathed in blood and twisted at an impossible angle, was his own lifeless body.
For a moment, he couldn't process what had happened. It was as if his mind simply refused to acknowledge the truth. But slowly, like a tide coming in, the realization washed over him. He had fallen down the stairs, snapped his neck, and died right where he lay.
It was then that he felt something stirring inside him. A presence, hovering just beyond his understanding. He knew deep down that it was the residue of his own essence, no longer bound by flesh and bone. Imploring him to understand that he was gone forever.
As the full weight of this realization hit him, he sank to his knees in despair. For a long moment, all he could do was stare at the twisted shell of his former self and contemplate the finality of death.

Any groomers have trouble bulk selling packages (ie buy 7 get one free). We’re still getting our pup used to grooms so we’re looking for just the bath and full cut w/ chi shampoo and conditioner. I tried to purchase it online and the system would only let me pick shampoo or conditioner not both. Asked our groomer and she couldn’t get it work either. Groomer could only get both by doing the luxury package which would defeat the purpose.
Both her and the head groomer said that was weird and I should contact customer service. That has gotten me nowhere. First person: you need to make an account (already had one that clearly didn’t read my question). Second person: apologizes about the first person and forwards me grooming. Third person: tells me to go talk my groomer.

Hey, I just want clarification on a couple of things;
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• Scatter feeding: Do you normally leave the food on flat surfaces various places in the enclosure, or do you spread it around randomly? The reason I ask is because I wonder if the hamster will find the tiny pieces of food that falls between the bedding. I guess they will smell it and find it?
• Spot cleaning: How to spot clean when I use a natural brown colored bedding? I can't see pee spots in the bedding, and I don't want to stick my hands into her burrows to try to find it in case she gets stressed out by me ruining her neatly built burrows. Luckily she pees in one of her sand baths so it's easy to get some of it, but I am guessing she also pees other places.
• Enrichment: My hamster is extremely demanding and gets bored quickly. What's worse is that she's really picky with her toys (she doesn't care about toilet paper rolls, and other toys gets boring after a couple of minutes). Sprays lasts minutes, literally, so I can't keep giving her more sprays every 10 minutes both for my sanity and wallets sake. She also goes through chews very quickly, or just leaves them laying around when she gets bored of them. She's got pretty much everything she needs in terms of tunnels, hides, burrowing space and horizontal space, wheel, and everything else. I gave her a walnut with the shell on, but she quickly gave up on it and now it's laying around in there somewhere together with all the other toys she never uses. What are some toys that have worked well for you that will last a long time? I can buy her a couple of things per week, but daily toys is a bit much...
• Lights: I know hamsters prefer darkness, and they are basically blind in bright environments so I have been keeping her in my bedroom where it's dark 24/7. Should I get her a bit of light during the daytime hours to activate her natural day/night cycle? In nature it's bright during daytime, so wouldn't the natural thing be for me to open the blinds slightly to get some light in, and let her hide from the light in her burrows like she would in nature?
• Injury: Hamsters hides their injuries until it's too late, but how can I make sure she's not injured if she's hiding it? There are no places she can fall down from in her enclosure, but you never know what kind of shenanigans they're up to that might possibly hurt them. She's not too keen on being handled, so inspecting her is hard.
• Biting the enclosure: She's notorious for trying to escape by biting the edges of the enclosure. I had to foolproof the enclosure by putting tempered glass panels on the sides. She's not stressed it seems, since she's not running around frantically like she normally does if she's stressed, and she does not show any signs of distress at all. Giving her more enrichment does not seem to reduce her need for trying to escape, and her enclosure is more than large enough for Syrians with more than enough bedding. I guess out of cage time can help with this, which leads me to the next question:
• Play-pen or hamster-proof room: She seems to become stressed when I take her out of her cage. Even though she's got hides, sand baths and whatnot in a hamster-proof room she seems to become increasingly stressed when I take her out. She starts out calm enough, until she's frantically running around the room, trying to scale the walls everywhere. Because of this I have started reducing the time out of her enclosure by a lot. I take her out every day, but only for a short time. As soon as I see any signs of stress at all I put her back again. She seems stressed for a short time even after putting her back, so I'm considering no time out at all. This is a bit surprising to me, since hamsters are natural foragers and likes to explore/run around.

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With all this being said, she must seem like an extremely demanding and hard hamster to handle, but she's actually very sweet. She never bites, even though my fingertips are close to her mouth (she's also very gentle when taking food from my fingers, taking great care not to bite me). She walks into my hand willingly, even though she doesn't like being held for a long time (probably only because she thinks I have treats lol).

So I have no clue anymore what to do so I've came to reddit... I don't really know how many people will actually see this since I just made this account. I know this post length may drive people away but I want some people's advise and there's a lot to go over. I know this girl that I ended up falling in love with on December 13th 2021 and I texted her at 10:42 that night asking how her day was going just on a whim that she'd respond because well... I thought she was really cute and... well... she did... We called from that time all the way till 2 in the morning (and I had to be at work by 6:30 that morning). We had a lot in common and we seemed to hit it off right from the start.. Both having basically the same car (She liked the R32 Skyline as her dream car, Mine was the R33 Skyline. Same favorite color, hobbies, etc). Well I fell deep really hard. It took till me the next day checking my phone at work like a maniac who wasn't had something for days to realize that I was in really deep. Well... We ended up going on our first date on the December 18th. We had blankets in the back of my car and watched the sunset and it was honestly the best date I've ever had. We watched movies, cracked jokes and just had a blast. She actually let me have a body pillow she had bought for the date and sprayed her perfume on it. After the date was over I drove her back to her apartment and headed home (I live 30-35 mins away). After work I would go home and get dressed and cleaned up and then start going over to her apartment regularly. Which she has 2 kids also (One was 3 and one was a few months old, which doesn't bother me even though I'm still pretty young 20 at the time, wanting kids eventually and she was 22 when I met her). To summarize how the regular interactions when I was at her was... I'd bring her some snacks/gifts for her or the kids, run around the apartment chasing the oldest (Which will be represented by the letter C) around the apartment playing with him, while she would take care of the youngest (Which will be represented by the letter B) doing whatever se needed to do. After she ended up putting them to bed, we'd cuddle on the couch and watch movies and after a while "ended up doing the deed". I was honestly really happy. Not even just by the sex. I felt so loved and just felt genuinely happy and never been this happy before. After 2 weeks of this goes by and she texts me one day that she needs to tell me something in person. Well, the next time I was over, after a while I was there and a bit of asking, She tells me that she's been with the father of the 2 kids for 5 years (Who would be represented with the letter J), and has known about me the whole time and x y and z and he was okay with her seeing me. It honestly threw me for a loop but everything I was skeptical of, made sense (She had a really nice apartment, nice car but not the greatest job and said she was sharing the car with someone). I don't know why I said the next thing I did. Maybe because I was happy with her or what but I told her I was okay with it even though I was 50/50. Part of me was angry she kept it from me and also upset, but she made me happy. I ended up staying the usual time I'd stay over (and did the deed again) but on the ride home, I cried the whole time. I had so many mixed emotions about it. I've already spent a lot of money (which is replaceable I know) on her and the kids (which was mainly snacks) but I'm a very emotional person. I ended up continuing to see her (all the way to May of 2022) and it was honestly really really rough. I did kind of see her the usual amount I normally saw her (Because J worked nights and I worked days) for the first bit until J started to get jealous of how much attention I was getting from her. J would go though mine and hers conversations randomly and get mad for what was said (Me saying I love her and her saying it back and normal relationship type stuff) and she ended up removing me off snapchat but we talked on Instagram after that. After he saw that we were talking on Instagram, we moved to discord (When she removed me off snap, she wrote down my number and snap). And She actually told me that it was upsetting her that she wasn't getting to talking to me as much saying stuff like "This is BS" " I barely got to talk to you today" and "I didn't think I would feel like this but I do". There was times she'd hop in discord and watch me play Val with my friends and actually talk to them, watch my races on iRacing and support me and my hobbies. I've never had that before. It was great having her around. I was there for her when she needed it. Whether she wanted to rant about J (Who imo, doesn't treat her the greatest), rant about work, or anything she needed. We ended up sneaking around for a few months after J told her that he doesn't want her seeing me anymore. I'd drive to her work and hang out with her on her breaks (since I had buddies in the area I could make plans with after) and sometimes when he was at work (which was 30 mins away at the time), I'd come over like I used to. When he found out, he wasn't happy. He quit his job on the spot and drive back (He found out that we were still talking due to a call log). Which it only stopped us for a few weeks. J ended up getting another job (even though it was day shift and only 10 mins away) I still found ways to go see her (mainly though texting on Instagram on a different account I had or a different messenger she had). I only went to her apartment for like... 30 mins. Just to help her do some small things around the apartment (since from her words, he never wanted to help) and help keep the kids entertained so she could do some work. That went on for a little bit until she just ghosted me completely. Not a goodbye or anything. I was devastated. I cried all the time and dropped all the friends I had and just started staying alone. I end down a really dark path and honestly almost took my life. She was meant so much to me and she left without a word. I messaged her Instagram everyday for 3 months while she was gone (for 8 months). One day I just stopped texting her and it was nothing. She still viewed my story on Instagram but never messaged. Even J got on her Instagram and messaged me and said "IDK why she doesn't message you anymore. I've told her that its okay. I'll let her know that you messaged again" and then I just messaged on holidays. Then her birthday came up and I messaged her as soon as the clock struck midnight to her birthday telling her happy birthday and she responded right away and we talked all the way until 2 am (and now I have to be up for work at 5 am). We've been talking every day since then (Her birthday was the 2nd of this month) and we've been talking like how we used to. But I don't know how to handle this. I'm still at a loss and don't know how to process it.

I did a pretty impulsive purchase this weekend and got myself a Mystery Ranch Hip Monkey 8L (my first MR bag). I’ve been wanting a bag to carry as a sling bag for EDC. I like the idea of having a bag that I can carry on my back most of the time, sliding over to the chest when I need to carry a backpack as well (like when commuting in to work).
The MR Hip Monkey sits nicely on the body and I like that it’s not right or left handed. It’s a fairly large bag but it can be compressed quite well. The jury’s still out there on whether it’s too big though. Again, it’s nice to be able to fit stuff like a water bottle when not carrying a backpack but I don’t want it to be unnecessary bulky when I do have a backpack.
One thing I don’t care for is that there are no extra fasteners to keep the straps in place, but I have ordered that separately. Another thing that I would wish for would be more internal organization, there’s really not much of that. That could be solved with pouches, but then each pouch will add bulk on its own. It would’ve been great with some mesh pockets and elastic straps to keep stuff in place.
One alternative I’m considering that’s a tad bit smaller in size is the Tomtoc EDC Sling, which can be had pretty cheap from Amazon where I live now. Unfortunately (in this regard) I live in the EU, so the assortment of bags is seriously inferior to that of the states.
So, is anyone here using the Hip Monkey and what’s your opinion?

I sleep with clay in my bed, bits and pieces that dried up under my nails, thin layers that were invisible until it rubbed against my sheets.
Trouble dolls under my pillow, thin thread and fabric carefully wrapped around a cross, sand glued on their heads for knowledge and by the morning, I would have been gifted wisdom to eliminate my worries.
On the window beside me hang posters, to ‘make’ the most of my education. In my dreams, I work to be selected, to be useful, to stay alive.
To take a nap is to sell my soul to revenge, for every yawn, every blink I fought for, to bring justice to my mind, to my body.
2pm into the next day, and I think of how wasteful I am.
(More of my poems on Substack, pls message me)

My eyes hurt m. I’m tired. I haven’t slept in almost 2 days because of school work and staying up at 7 am. I just wanna go to sleep. But the only time I’m trying to sleep early is when my body makes me stay up….

Many of the people in this world are not human. They are draconians that have an ability to polymorph (shapeshift) into almost any form, and they've used this ability to imitate humans so they can secretly control human society from positions of influence and leadership. These supernatural shapeshifters can also take the forms of animals, grays, werewolves and other mythological creatures. They are the source of the legends about dragons and vampires. This is an ancient and highly advanced race that has conquered many of the systems in this galaxy, such as Andromeda, Orion and Arcturus. This planet is essentially a slave colony in their galactic empire where humans serve as mind-controlled thralls, imprisoned in a false world that has been made to resemble a human civilization. This is at least the third colony of theirs within this solar system, Mars and the former planet that is now the asteroid belt being the other two. Within this galaxy, they originate from Alpha Draconis, but their true origins may lie outside of this mortal material plane, perhaps a darkside celestial, abyssal or fiendish plane. Their god is the draconic archfiend Satan (a.k.a. Lucifer, Tiamat, Baphomet, Moloch, Set, Baal), who may also currently reside within this mortal plane and galaxy, having involuntarily crossed over from a celestial plane.
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All of the world's leaders, presidents and prime ministers, are draconians, as are the corporate heads and most of the people in the media. Not just the rich and powerful, many of them also live among us in the general population, appearing as ordinary people of every race and class. In some areas, there are more dracs in the population than humans, even though they all look like humans. They also have large populations in subterranean cities (the underworld), where they're presumably not required to stay in their human imitation forms, as they are on the surface. There are many of them in the moon as well, which is actually a battlestar, a mobile space fortress with an astronomically powerful gravity/antigravity generator. That's how they got here in the first place.
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I made a video that proves the existence of these draconians through demonstrations of their shapeshifting and other supernatural abilities, as well as their advanced technology. This video has effectively been banned (removed or blocked from search results) on Youtube, Rumble, Instagram, Dailymotion, TikTok and Bitchute.
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https://vimeo.com/797286787
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It is possible to identify dracs in their human imitation forms without having to see them shapeshift. While they do have the outward appearance of human bodies, the shape, texture and color, they do not have human physiology/biology/DNA. Unlike humans, they do not have cartilage in their noses or ears. They also lack real pores with sebaceous glands, so their skin never produces oil. They don't have real hair either, which grows from follicles. They imitate hair by forming their skin cells into fibers. Frequently, you can tell that someone is a drac by the lack of pores on the nose or hair on the forearms. This is especially true of female imitations.
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As I said, they've imprisoned humanity within a false world (much like the Matrix) in order to maintain long-term control over the population and effectively manipulate humans into doing what they want. They regard humans as little more than livestock, a simple-minded species that is highly susceptible to indoctrination and psychotronic/subconscious programming. As is part of the mythologies about vampires and dragons, they do drink the blood of humans and eat them, the heart being most desirable. Arizona Wilder describes this in an interview with David Icke, and they are both draconians, so they know what they're talking about. I've spoken with a drac in person who told me that they drink human blood for the adrenaline and other hormones, which matches what Wilder and Icke said. The vast majority of missing children are abducted by dracs (in human imitation forms) and used in blood rituals and eaten. This graph shows the official number of children that have gone missing in the U.S., 6+ million over a 13 year period, which I'm sure is underreported. The actual numbers in the rest of the world will be about the same per population base.
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Aztec \"god\" Quetzalcoatl
I believe that the dracs also feed on humans energetically, on their lifeforce and souls. That's what their wars are really about - generating a massive release of energy from all of the fear and anger. They may also be able to harvest souls upon death and then break them down into basic components of useable energy. The entire society is built around the harvesting of this lifeforce energy, from drug use to pornography to the spread of disease, and so on. They want to create as much emotional/pain/sexual release as possible. That's why the world is in a constant state of turmoil and conflict. They are working to make it that way. We are being controlled, tormented and fed upon by the children of Satan, who are these draconians masquerading as humans.
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The release of the COVID pandemic marks the beginning of the end of the current civilization cycle, which spans the last 5000 years. They want to dismantle the current world order, sacrifice most of the human population, and then create a new world order from the remnant. This has all been planned far in advance. They know that a mass awakening will occur if they allow the civilization to continue on its current course, so they have to preemptively work to bring about its collapse. That's what we're seeing right now. The pandemics, economic collapse, increase in crime, civil conflict, war - it's all being encouraged/orchestrated by them.
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They can't control humanity when too many humans know that their leaders, the "people" running the world, are not actually human. They are willing to kill off most of the human population to stop that from happening, and they have done it before. The problem for them is that the humans who are awake are the toughest ones to get rid of. They won't take the "vaccines" and other self-destructive suggestions. Unfortunately, the vast majority of humans are still asleep, even the ones who are aware of the orchestrated destruction, but don't know what's really behind it. They need to accept the fact that their leaders are not human and deal with the reality of their existence, that they are enslaved to an evil empire. Without that understanding, it's not possible to form any kind of resistance.

Clan Name: NEXTGEN EXILES Clan Tag: 8UG8UPLL Clan Level: 22 Clan Entry requirements: Non-rushed TH11-15
Why you should join us:

• We are members of Reddit RCS
• MASTER 2 in CWL
• We are predominantly an Adult war clan
• Virtually guaranteed to take part in the upcoming CWL due to our 2 clan flexibility.
• Inactive players and players that don't attack are removed.
• Players must use both war attacks
• We also use Discord mostly for messaging
• We don't accept rushed bases
• Constant Wars
• We have NextGen Exiles2 - a second clan to run another 15v15 CWL to make sure everyone can play.

War strategy: Ground up approach, lowest bases first. If you're looking to a new clan, and if you're a player willing to go to extremes to get your 2nd war attack in..work toilet....park bench...train...in the bath...I hope you'll consider us☝️👍🍺#8UG8UPLL

I’m around 11 weeks pregnant. Since we first told family, my fiancé has seen how upset I get when they told anyone else because we specifically asked them not to. It’s just disrespectful. It has mostly been his family telling more extended family, but my grandpa has done it too. I’ve talked extensively about how disrespectful it was and how I wished we just hadn’t told anyone yet because no one is respecting our wishes. But he isn’t even doing that for me.
A week or two ago he comes home and says “I ran into [old friend], she said congrats and she’s so happy for us.” There ensued an argument because why did he tell?? Oh, it was because she asked how I’m doing. So he had no choice but to tell her I’m pregnant 🤦🏼‍♀️ okay.
A few days ago he was chatting with a dude he worked with years ago. I said “please don’t tell him too.” His response was, “I already did a while back? I told you I did.” I can guarantee he did not tell me, because I would’ve been upset with him over it. This is his second time promising not to tell anyone else.
Today, he’s texting an old friend we went to high school with but again, haven’t hung out with in years. I asked if he told him and he said yes like obviously he was going to?? He told me he wouldn’t tell anyone else so I said “that’s the third time I’ve heard that from you.”
I understand it’s his baby too and he’s excited. But it’s my body. My pregnancy. God forbid something goes wrong and all these people will know about what I would assume to be the worst trauma I would experience. I’m trying to stay cool because my fiancé has been my rock through my whole pregnancy and has taken care of me with no complaint as I’ve been horribly sick. But holy shit I can’t keep feeling like I’m speaking to a brick wall with every single person. Family, especially mine, crossing my boundaries comes as less of a surprise. But for the one person who I thought understood and has watched me get upset about more people being told than I would’ve ever planned at this point??? I didn’t allow myself to get too angry about it earlier because I didn’t want to get in an argument over it. But now that I’m in bed and thinking about it I’m fuming.

Hi! I’ve always struggled with sleep and anxiety but as I’ve gotten older it’s become unhealthy and has gone on for months now. I get up at 5:30 for work and can never get myself to sleep before 2am.
My brain is WIDE awake despite my best efforts, even at 2am I have to fight for sleep. I’ve tried all the normal remedies (I work out, take a long walk daily, I’ve tried edibles, I meditate before bed, I’ve tried the white noise/rain sounds, no tv before bed, melatonin, reading before bed, baths, etc) but I’m hardwired to be wide awake until 2-3. My health is great other wise, I don’t drink at all during the week, I eat healthy and drink a lot of water. But I can’t keep living off of 3hrs av a night, I feel like I’m dragging a carcass around..
Anyone have any outside of the box ideas they’ve tried? I’m not a big fan of medications - I’ve tried some in the past but prefer to go a more natural route if I can.

“Jeff” (40M)(not his real name) is a friend to some of my (38F) friends. We’ve known each other for about six years. I mostly see him at events that others are hosting. We’ve bonded over a mutual appreciation for working out, but the more we talk, the more I worry about him.
Last year, he went vegan, allegedly because he cares about animal welfare. The way he talks and acts makes me think that it’s actually an excuse for calorie restriction. For example, he talks a lot about how being vegan helps him to stay at or under 1300 calories/day, which seems really low considering how much time he spends at the gym and that he’s 6 feet tall. He also makes a lot of comments about how much better he’ll look if he can drop another 15-20 pounds (he’s currently 150. I know because he complains about it a lot).
The people who are actually close to him only praise him for being so disciplined. One friend did say that he should eat more if he’s at the gym everyday and working to increase his weights, but Jeff only laughed and said she doesn’t know his body like he does.
Should I say something? I feel like it’s not my place because we aren’t close, but it doesn’t feel right to nod and smile along. How would I even broach the topic?

We have two problem cats and I know if I could communicate with them more effectively I could probably get them to get along. There are some understandings that are just difficult to communicate to an animal that does not share our languages.
I'm babbling, point is, I am looking for "Animal Controlling Spells." While I'm reluctant to police them in this way for fear of changing them, I would like to be able to stop the violent behaviors before they crop up. One of them bites, and I mean he really bites you, down to the bone.
I would be willing to bind his little ass to some spell that forced him to stop, though, so don't hold back. I'd still like him to be able to hunt, as he'll make a good barn cat one day, but I don't want him biting other cats or people. That being said, my preference is to persuade rather than force.
I know it's a bit of a long shot, even a legitimate spell may not function, particularly given my own level of skepticism about it (despite my occult background, I still find it unlikely to work, but am scientific, so want to experiment before I draw the conclusion.)
In any case, anyone with experience with such spells, I would love to hear from you.
For context, we do a lot of conventional things to keep the cats safe, healthy, and well stimulated, as well as to keep ourselves safe. It's a lot of work, though, and we know these animals would be happier if they would just mingle without violence. We're pretty educated on how to communicate with them through body language, and what they're saying to us with their body language. We've done all the spaying and neutering and even have one of them on medicine. The medicine helps a lot, but she's still a turkey sometimes. This is sort of a long shot, last resort type of consideration before we move on to rehoming as an option (I really don't want to do that.)
Much obliged to anyone who's read this far.
tl;dr: looking for legitimate cat controlling spells