Any working Text Bombers in the US?
Long story short I have a friend who’s dating someone extremely abusive and is trying to end things with them. This psycho uses his phone to harass her by calling/texting over and over and over again and I want to render his phone useless. I’ve tried to find some Text Bombers on GitHub, but none of them seem to work when I test them on my own phone. Is there a working text bomber out there?
What style of Metal would you consider this?
I’m writing my second album currently and this is the first one I’ve decided to “release”, but I was curious as to what type of style would you call it? I am very inspired by old school death metal, but have heard others call my stuff thrash. What would you call it? Also, how’s the quality? Decent enough for an amateur recording?
Is paying $1,200 for an Order of Protection worth it to a broke college student?
There is an ex-coworker of mine that I have talked to a lawyer about getting an order of protection against. This particular person installed a spy app on their significant others (my friend) phone without their knowledge to spy on our conversations. They also outed my sexual orientation to coworkers using information I believe they received from text messages they intercepted from me to their SO and tried creating a hostile work environment, forcing me to quit after my employer would do nothing to rectify the issue. This particular person, according to my friend, has made threats about the only way they would break up would be though “murder/suicide” which concerned me. I took my friends handgun from them as they were concerned that the person would either use it against themselves or my friend. I have gone to the police and made a report, which I have a copy of, but my friend decided not to pursue any charges. After a while, my friend reached out to me and told me that they would like to work on their relationship with this person and asked for me to return their handgun. I returned it without giving a time or date as I was nervous about going back to their place with the person living there. I told my friend that unfortunately, given that they are still with person, I would like no contact from here on out and they understood. A couple of months later, I receive a message from my friend on instagram asking how I was, I told them how I was, only for my friend to respond back to me much later in the day letting me know that they did not send the original message, the person took their phone and did. This person has shown that they are clearly not right mentally, and while I do not know if they would, I am still concerned that this person may show up to my house one day now that they have the gun back. But I mainly want to seek an order of protection to get this persons actions on record. The lawyer said I may have a case, but the price at $1200 is what is pushing me away. Given the situation, do you believe the order of protection is worth pursuing with the price tag of $1200 for a broke college student?
Fuck the South
The Southern States of America have some of the most beautiful landscapes and climates this country has to offer. It also harbors some of the worst people and culture this country has to offer. Having traveled all over the US, being to every state other than Hawaii and having lived in a total of seven, four of them being Southern States, I’ve had the chance to see what the country is like, it’s various cultures and the people that make up those cultures, and have a developed a strong opinion from my experiences. That opinion: Fuck the South. I vividly remember moving from a North Western state to a southern state as a child and experiencing the utter culture shock from the move. In the NW, I was welcomed for who I was. In the South, I was not. In the NW, I was able to be who I wanted to be. In the South, I had to be like them. In the NW, you were judged by your character. In the south, you were judged by the cost and size of your material items. This is not Red vs Blue States. This is the South vs the rest of the United States. The utter amount of corruption in Southern governments from the Governors offices’ down to the local police departments is both appalling, but extremely apparent if you just stopped to actually take a look. There’s a massive amount of suffering from those in poverty in Southern States because of the rugged individualism in the culture and the utter lack of empathy towards those they do not know. As long as they get theirs, that’s all they care about. In the Southern Culture, the mentality is not “we’re in this together”, it’s “not my problem if it doesn’t affect me”. The South = “Me, Myself, and I” and always has been. Disagree? Then how else can you explain their history if not for their own selfish reasons? Everyone’s main focus is themselves and their immediate family/friends. Everyone else just exists (barely) and if their existence is worse than the Southerners, then that’s their problem and the southerner will not lose any sleep over it. The South’s education is abysmal. During my time of puberty I was living in southern states. I had no idea what sexual intercourse was or how it was performed until I was 14 because my health classes sex education was “abstinence only”. I learned by watching pornography. I didn’t know about the female reproductive system or how it worked until I was 16 when my girlfriend told me about it. When we talked about sexual intercourse and the reproductive systems of both men and women, we talked about solely about STDs and how losing your virginity causes you to lose a part of yourself (this was an actual lesson in the sixth grade, I shit you not. My teacher also talked about how pornography created Ted Bundy. Again, I shit you not). It’s not at all surprising that teen pregnancies ravage southern states. How could it not? They purposely keep teenagers in the dark as a form of control. And if a teenager breaks out of that control and gets pregnant, then their punishment is to have the child and be a teenaged parent. But this isn’t surprising. The culture of the south has always been about controlling others. They literally betrayed and fought against the United States because of it. And even after they lost, they still could not accept losing control. The KKK was formed, Jim Crow laws established, and repealed the rights of their fellow Americans. And this mentality still affects Southern Culture to this day with their weaponization of religion and identity politics. Southern culture is also a very cruel and hateful one. (I know! That seems ridiculous to think! But is it when compared to the rest of American Values?) “What about Southern hospitality?” You may ask. This is true. The South is known for being polite. But being polite is not the same as being kind. Politeness is the social norm of the south, but kindness is not. Southerners only take kindness at face value. It’s not done out of the kindness of the heart, it is done out of egotism and the need to feel morally superior than those around them. In my experience, the southerner is the first to judge, but the last to take any criticism. I could go on and on with little intricate criticisms like the priority of athletics over education (SEC is absolute proof of this), or how you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a picture of a village in a developing nation and small town in rural Mississippi, but I don’t want to be here writing all night. Obviously the world is not black and white. I know not every southerner is a bad person. I know you can’t put everyone in a singular box as every person is different. But when it comes to defining the culture of the American South, it is an utter embarrassment of the United States and against what our forefathers wanted the country to represent. Freedom and Tolerance of others (Benjamin Franklin actively pushed for the tolerance of other religions in the US. Would the average Southerner do that?) Our biggest mistake as a country was not completing the Reconstruction of the American South. It is because of this failure you still see confederate flags on the back of their trucks and monuments of traitors in the center of their towns. And now the democracy of the United States is at risk because of it. Fuck. The. South.
Is there a way how I can see what it’s like dating me from the other persons perspective?
I’ve been single for 5 years now, and not really in any rush to “settle down” or “find the one”, but I’ve been on a numerous dates, have dated several people for a month of two, but they always seem to fall apart one way or another. I’m not ugly, and think I’m pretty fun to be around/positive, funny, maybe a bit eccentric, but nothing too bad by any means. I have no idea why I struggle with dating and maintaining relationships, so I wanted to know if there was any way how I can see what it’s like dating me from the opposite perspective?
Have you ever had to retake a major course you already passed in order to understand the subject better?
Why do my guitars sound dull and flat when using amp sims?
I’m not sure why, but it never fails for me to be disappointed whenever I use an amp sim. Whenever I plug in my guitar directly into the DI and load up an amp sim with a cab ir, it just sounds super flat. No dynamics, no life, just very lack luster all around and I have no idea why. I have recorded guitar tracks while running a distortion pedal into a Mooer Radar Cab IR Loader and it sounded very good. But cannot for the life of me get an amp sim to sound nearly as dynamic. What gives?
Is there anyone who actually likes the Brian Herbert Novels?
I know and have read comments on various different sites about how much fans hate these novels. I want to know if there’s anyone out there that actually likes them? I have the Legends series along with the two sequels after Chapter House. I’m currently on Heretics and also decided to start the Butlerian Jihad. I’m a few chapters into that one as well and can definitely tell a difference in writing style, but don’t think it’s that bad so far. I’m trying to go into it optimistically and while I know there’s a lot of contradictions from Franks original work, Dune is by far my most favorite universe out there. So regardless I’m interested in whatever lore is out there that can dive me deeper into it. Does anyone actually enjoy the BH novels in their own right when not compared to the original six?
[Extremely Unpopular Opinion] Nuclear Weapons should have been used is response to 9/11.
I remember 9/11 like I’m sure a lot of you do. The first time America had been attacked on their own soil since the attack on Pearl Harbor. And we were, and still are, able to watch it all unfold. There’s a massive difference between the two attacks, though. Pearl Harbor was committed against the Navy. A Military Branch that had been trained and equipped to handle and defends themselves against such a horrific event such as Pearl Harbor. It was a military committing an act of War on another military. 9/11 was not an act of war. It was the murder of thousands of innocents for no reason other than pure hatred. Such a vile act and utter disregard for human life, especially innocents who did nothing other than try to live their lives, warrants the use of Nuclear Weapons in my eyes. The sky should’ve been blackened with the launch of nuclear ICBMs towards any known, or even suggested targets of anyone in anyway shape or form responsible for such an atrocity. The War on Terror as we saw was a disaster. Thousands of American Military and innocents were killed in the warfare in the Middle East and many people hold the opinion it was all for nothing. (Obviously there’s a lot that goes into the War on Terror. I can’t sum it all up in just a short sentence.) Instead of sending military forces into the region, it should’ve been decimated by nuclear weapons. My reasonings: 1. I don’t think extremists would be focused on committing atrocities when they, and everything else around them, are dying from radiation sickness and the fires of the Sun. This would significantly hinder, if not entirely stop a lot of terrorist activity and organizations in the Middle East. You can’t recruit the dead, and you can’t rely on radical religious governments to hide and protect you when they have been wiped off the face of the Earth. 2. It would send a very strong and clear message. The murder of thousands will be traded for the lives of millions. Any government housing and aiding terrorist organizations would have their region, people, along with themselves be completely obliterated and removed from existence. If this would’ve been the case, I bet you Pakistan would’ve handed over Bin Laden immediately instead of hide him (don’t even deny it, we all know the Pakistan government knew where he was there’s no way they didn’t). I also bet you things like the Airlift of Evil would have never happened out of fear of utter annihilation, as well. Look, obviously I know I am wrong in having this opinion as I’m basically admitting that I think we should’ve killed millions in response to 9/11. I know a lot of deaths would not have been of those responsible for the horrible acts. This is not a good mindset. I know. But the victims of 9/11 weren’t responsible for the reasons Al Qaeda committed the attacks, either. This means they are not rational. They are not logical. And they infest and infect regions they live in with their irrational and illogical beliefs of the world. They’re like a cancer spreading and infecting everything in their path. And just like cancer, you should fight it with radiation. Again, I know this is the wrong outlook to have which is why I think I should never be a leader of anything, but I can’t help how I feel. And I feel like responding to 9/11 with absolute power and destruction could’ve prevented a lot of terrorist attacks that came after. Before you attack me though, I am not Islamophobic. I know Muslims are not responsible for 9/11. Evil people and governments were. And they should’ve been dealt with much more severely than they were.
Those of you who have cut out family members, how are you doing now?