AvocadoPanic
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AvocadoPanic
1d ago
I spoke to an attorney last week. It was sad and depressing. I completed the documention exercises he recommended before I blocked the the extremist content from the network. This is a non-perfered option.
There are areas for improvement. 2 years ago, she insisted on homeschooling. I'm reenrolling the children for the start of school in the fall. It's challenging, I work full-time, I've not been to the office in several weeks. I may switch to a full remote work plan. 12, 10, 8, 6
AvocadoPanic
1d ago
I had a black bear in my driveway Monday evening. Just outside 495 in Massachusetts.
AvocadoPanic
1d ago
I've been meeting with our pastor weekly for several weeks now.
Today during the crisis intervention counseling she agreed to both individual therapy / psychiatric care beginning tomorrow, and couples / marital counseling at a TBD date.
I spoke to an attorney last week. It was sad and depressing. I completed the documention exercises he recommended before I blocked the the extremist content from the network. This is a non-perfered option.
Being a suspicious sysdmin I was already viewing flows in real time with ntop. I'm blocking tor, outbound VPN from the VLAN her devices are on and also run several domain block lists in DNS. I also trap and force all DNS though my DNS servers and use a block list to block all the well know DNS over https servers. Opnsense firewall.
After I confronted her with the emails and transactions she agreed to go to a crisis counseling service. She now agreed to engage with a therapist / psychiatrist. She goes back tomorrow. She says she knew it was a scam but sent the money anyway because they were nice to her. I don't understand.
White well-being / nowhiteguilt.org is the bailey I'm sure you can imagine the motte.
AvocadoPanic
1d ago
US.
After confronting her with the email and the screenshots of the transactions she agreed to go to a crisis counseling walk in service. They saw us right away, she was much more amenable to seeing a therapist / psychiatrist after talking through things with the crisis counselor. She goes back tomorrow.
I'd reached out to her brother several weeks ago. Unfortunately they were estranged when we ment and married. Didn't really reconcile until ~14 years ago, and we've only seen him in person once in the last 12 years.
I was really very surprised how supportive and engaged the local police department was when I reached out about options, thankfully I did not need to go down that path. Small town life.
She now says she knew it was a scam and sent the money anyway because they were nice to her and it was part fantasy. Though the money and bitcoin was very real and not fantasy.
I've a friend who's a psychiatrist in the UK. He and my wife did A&E rotations together in Ireland. He and I are talking tomorrow.
I really appreciate your advice, thank you.
AvocadoPanic
1d ago
I'll know in a bit. She's out at the moment.
She's been very resistant to any sort of help. She's refused to speak to our pastor either alone or with me and has refused all suggestions of counseling, therapy or psychiatry. I've been speaking with our pastor regularly in person in addition to frequent texts and emails.
Speaking to her nurse practitioner today, the NP recommended taking her to the walk in psychiatric service at our hospital. I anticipate she'll refuse.
If she persists in the delusion that she's been speaking to Elon Musk after being advised of the scam, I thought I'd see if our local PD would assist in having her sectioned. I've already left a message with the detective regarding the scam.
AvocadoPanic
1d ago
Lost and overwhelmed.
My wife (20 years) and and have been having marital difficulties, I believe she's depressed and has become involved in some online extremist communities. Her online 'persona' had been bleeding through in real life more and more.
Yesterday being the netadmin for my own network I undertook a block of many of the apps and sites.
Today while she was collecting our 4 children from vacation bible school, I saw she had left her laptop open. She'd been very secretive with it recently. I snooped.
She's been sending bitcoin to someone in control of an @aol.com address apparently believing she's arranging an in person meeting with Elon Musk, who she says in her email she has been in contact with for a while. They're expecting 10k for a meeting with Elon.
She's refusing to see a therapist alone or with me, she's refused to see a psychiatrist.
Anyone encountered anything like this?
Any suggestions?
AvocadoPanic
5d ago
You have to apply and pay a subscription. It's essentially a private members club though they do have a small museum. After we moved out of London it was very convenient and affordable accommodation.
The Royal Overseas League is lovely for lunch and drinks outside, also need to be a member.
The Goodenough College Club also had very reasonable accommodation, they had a receipricol agreement with with the RSM or the RSOL I don't recall which.
AvocadoPanic
5d ago
Are you not a member of the Royal Society of Medicine? The lounge is lovely to drink in and the rooms are very affordable by London standards.
western civilization despised these people
Not only western civilization, also ancient Mesopotamian civilizations, rooted in the Near East; The Assyrian and Babylonian empires, also Egypt.
AvocadoPanic
7d ago
far greater chance
Might this be a distinction without a difference.
If Hamas have a sufficiently low probability of success doubling, tripling or even 10 x, while a greater chance is still very, very low in absolute terms.
AvocadoPanic
13d ago
That wasn't a great area when I was young. The Florin mall was always a bit iffy. That Costco is 2.6 miles from where this happened in 1991 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Sacramento_hostage_crisis
AvocadoPanic
13d ago
Elk Grove has certainly seen demographic change.
AvocadoPanic
13d ago
I recognize the moral framework and lecturing
In the 60's Captain Kirk could kiss green space ladies and his black colleague, even if he was being forced by aliens with telekinetic powers.
AvocadoPanic
13d ago
Being that there > 100 episodes, it persisted in syndication for some time after it's initial run completed. I remember it on Nick at Night in the late 90's.
Denzel Washington - 137 episodes
AvocadoPanic
13d ago
Where / which Costco in Sacramento?
I grew up in Sacramento, the unincorporated areas of Sacramento County.
Sacramento has frequently seen demographic change, and there were often 'ethnic' neighboords or areas. I've of photo of my grandmother's nearly all white graduating class (1939) from C.K. McClatchy High School. Even the suburbs (built in the early 1950's) my grandparents lived in have seen substantial changes. It had been tree lined and owner occupied, now mostly rentals and all the Modesto Ash were cut down.
I had been away for ~15 years before going back for the first time in 2015. I made another trip in 2016.
The people and places I miss aren't there anymore.
I don't think she meant me specifically, but America / 'Jews' / whoever is white erasing 'western kind'. In this instance the 'us' I think is Germans or Germanic people, but the specifics on these are often fuzzy when pressed.
There's not much opportunity for IRL radicalization in our community or social groups.
Strangely I think I'd mind actual National Socialism less, at least there's a political ideology and the aesthetics are better.
This guy has a horrible aesthetic https://x.com/NoWhiteGuiltNWG
AvocadoPanic
14d ago
The Republicans are propped up by Adelson money and now Yass, while the Democrats get lots of money from Soros and some of the other liberal Jewish donors.
There's a frequently expressed desire by the public to 'get money out of politics', might this money be a good place to start?
AvocadoPanic
14d ago
Do you know anyone who has 'self radicized' online, and then returned to normal?
I used to think self radicalization was a meme until I saw it happening to someone close to me.
It's not even that there's no truth to the root of her complaints it's that viewing the world and your interactions though a lens of 'white erasure' and 'white well-being' doesn't really provide a useful or helpful narrative to act on. To me it's just the inverse of other popular victimization narratives.
We can't seem to have a pleasant evening out without;
You've your boot on the neck of Germany, holding us down.
We don't live in Germany and haven't for ~20 years.
Any similar experiences?
AvocadoPanic
14d ago
Aren't
people think that if we don't deport 50 million brown people the country is doomed
and
people think we're sliding into fascism and non-white people are going to be put in camps soon
the same people, if they think both are a good thing?
would Spain be better if the Spaniards believed, to this day, that God and St James chose them to militarily reconquer thé land for Christendom?
Yes, it would be much better.
England would be better if the English believed, to this day, that God chose them to build a global empire to spread Christian civilization and Protestant values to the world.
AvocadoPanic
22d ago
They have a strategic stockpile of rice! (What a thing for a government to choose to do, have the expertise to manage, etc.)
I'm having difficulty parsing the sentiment behind this.
A number of nations maintain a variety of strategic reserves or stockpiles. The US has a petroleum reserve, Japan too. Italy a natural gas reserve, China and India have food stockpiles. Canada has maple syrup and butter.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
Once your in these stores in the shitty area of town they ask to see your ID because offering pornography to minors is a crime.
AvocadoPanic
1mo ago
There isn't a crime rate minimum for opening an adult bookstore.
No. But typically they can't be near schools, parks, houses of worship, other areas frequented by children etc.
They are excluded from some areas because of the nuisance they bring.
No relatives really. I am only child, both my parents have passed. I'm the youngest of my cousins, and they're all 3000 miles away. Only one of my cousins would really be able / competent to help. My wife's mother and brother are in Germany. Their relationship is odd / tense.
The mother and brother are in the same Regierungsbezirk and don't see eachother that often. We traveled to Germany late last fall. We were there for 3 weeks. It was the first time she met 3 of her grandchildren and her only granddaughter and the first time she'd seen our oldest in 10 years. We saw her twice. The brother and his family we saw 4 or 5 times though 2 of those were with their mother and 2 were activity outings with the children.
We're active in our local church. I've shared all of this with the pastor and his wife. They've been incredibly supportive. I shared this yesterday with my 'work wife' he was shocked but very supportive. I've a good group of friends in my men's bible study group. I've not shared any of this with them. I feel if I were to they would be supportive but I also feel it would make church uncomfortable for my wife.
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