It's like...you spend like a solid couple of days grabbing EVERYTHING tangentially related. But you just end up reading the one old paper on your thing, the biggest semi-recent papers of sub-subjects 1 and maybe 2, and then whatever was last published about your thing.
It's not good practice but like... there are so many relevant-enough-to-cite papers.
Oh god it's the ghost of online relationship past. Apparently kids are the same 20+ years later.
In my experience, yes those are red flags, and this is NOT a good situation. You mentioned his age but not hers but I'd bet dollars to doughnuts she's younger than him.
Listen, I know from personal experience this relationship is a bad Idea and Aunt Weariedfae says get out and do not feel bad about it. She'll realize later how manipulative it was. That the power balance was way out of whack. What controlling behavior is. I think he did your friend a kindness by straight up admitting he wouldn't visit instead of scheduling trips and canceling last minute over and over.
I'm sorry your friend is in this situation. I also don't think your friend may listen to advice about decoupling. But maybe she's smarter than myself and my friend who also went through the same thing around the same time. Hopefully she is.
Gumballs. I can't buy them often because I'll just straight up eat them to excess like a weirdo. I don't know what it is, I can't stop myself and this didn't start until like 4 years ago.
I don't like your relative. Providing comfortable care of elderly and end of life pets is to be expected when you adopt an animal, even if it is difficult.
Am geologist. No one I've ever worked with or been in a class with has cared. I didn't think I've ever heard anyone even snicker. Although we're in USA which spells it dike.
I have seen a Gen X straight white man have to correct someone's spelling and then stammer over explaining that spelling it 'dyke' has another meaning here but is the way it is spelled in Europe.
I have to agree with the other commenters. It's not perfect but professionals do the same thing. I paid 10x what you did and got the same result so you honestly win.
Also you can still fix it with joint compound but you'd have to retexture and paint.
Surprisingly easy to pick up if you know Arc. I can't switch to it entirely but I've made red relief maps in it and I'm really impressed by some features.
After being forced to Pro I would be staring at this with nostalgia and sadness. A decade of work to optimize what I need out of it and I had to start all over with a laggy, crashy POS that constantly forgets my damned pinned tools.
RIP homie.
Pro did make my output maps better though, I will say that.
The conspiracy theory, which I must again say is not my opinion, states the reluctance of the purchase was either:
(A) A show put on to obfuscate "the truth", or
(B) An internal power struggle between the ruling elites and Musk
Just explaining, not advocating. Please don't @ me.
Kinda like the not-so-unsupported conspiracy theory that musk bought Twitter to silence protest coordination. That Twitter was too useful to the 'masses' and the "sinister cabal" (not my words) said it needed to be taken out.
To reiterate: this is not my position but it is one I've heard that matches the sentiment expressed in the parent comment
This hits too close to home.
It's like...you spend like a solid couple of days grabbing EVERYTHING tangentially related. But you just end up reading the one old paper on your thing, the biggest semi-recent papers of sub-subjects 1 and maybe 2, and then whatever was last published about your thing.
It's not good practice but like... there are so many relevant-enough-to-cite papers.