He moved everything in and built all my furniture. He left and called me that night saying he had a great time and that he wanted to see me again to talk. A few days later, we talked and he told me that he loved me, that he doesn’t want to be with anyone else and he can’t get me out of his mind. That he tried to see someone else but that he told her that it wasn’t going to work out because he still was in love with me and that there’s no one else for him. He asked if we could try again, and how could I say no? I loved this man. No matter how much I tried to forget him I couldn’t get him out of my mind either. We started seeing each other again and everything was going well for about a month until he started being unresponsive to my texts.
We had plans that weekend that I had made specially for him and he canceled the day before with no explanation. I was upset, and I started cleaning my apartment (I clean when I’m sad/mad/anxious) and got to the bathroom, and saw a box of tampons, and realized I hadn’t gotten my period. So I ran to the pharmacy across the street…and you guessed it, I was pregnant. I was a wreck. I was still reeling from the trauma of being disowned by my family, trying to pick my life back up, starting a new job, and figuring out my relationship. He had just started medical school and I didn’t want to get in the way of that.
I cried for a good hour and then called him. I asked him to come over because I needed to discuss something important with him. He was reluctant to come at first but after pleading with him about it being an emergency he eventually came. It took me a while because I was still in shock and I was scared but I told him I was pregnant. Turns out he found out the day before that the girl he slept with to get over me was pregnant too. Long story short, he walked out after I still wanted to work things out because despite everything, it was an accident, we were broken up when it happened and we still loved each other. Neither of us went through with our pregnancies. Admittedly mine went on longer than I wish it did because of my trauma and things being shut down due to covid, but my fiancé did the best that any person could and was supportive and kind and apologetic to both parties. All while being in medical school (idk how he did it). We both went to therapy and overcame everything and have built a life together and are engaged to be married. I have a life, a family, and a home with this man. I love him, but I recently found out after he finally came clean, that he had actually cheated on me with that woman 3 years ago, a week before he had broken up with me. I always had a sinking feeling in my heart over the years that that was the case but he was always adamant that it never happened, that he had slept with her only after he broke up with me.
I was grateful that he was honest with me and vulnerable about his mistakes and he already beat himself up enough for almost two years afterwards, always thinking that he didn’t deserve me. Was always really hard on himself. He wasn’t as ready to move forward in our relationship as I was . I just thought he was being complacent and not wanting to move to the next step.
I have a great job and have been supporting him through school and am happy to do so because I love him. He’s now done with school and stepping into his career. It was a long and tough road, but we made it. We got engaged last year and I was the happiest I’ve ever been, I was so excited about our future and finally being able to move forward and have a family with him, but knowing that he cheated on me and put himself in a position to do that in the first place is shocking to me. Those are not the actions of the man I have known for 7 years. For him to know the intense trauma that I was going through and what I was sacrificing/have sacrificed for us to be together and for him to cheat on me while telling me how much he loves me and wants me to be there and beg me to leave to be with him, how could he also have a part of him that would sleep with someone else at the same time? What kind of a person does that? My mind can’t wrap itself around it. To know someone’s intentions and allow them to be around? To feed into it and allow boundaries to be crossed? It just doesn’t make sense to me. He was depressed and wasn’t himself at all at the time. He felt helpless and hopeless in our relationship then and was past his limit. I do understand what he was going through on the other side and he regrets it and wishes he could’ve done things differently. He has so much remorse. I know he would never do it again. He has learned, and grown and matured. He’s a very different person now, and we have a very different relationship. There’s just a part of me that thinks that I can’t look at him the same after he confessed everything to me. We’re supposed to get married in two weeks and I just don’t know if I’m doing the right thing anymore. I am emotionally mature enough to be understanding and love him for being honest but I feel as if I’d be stupid if I didn’t question my feelings anymore. At first I was so at peace and loved him more than I ever have for being so vulnerable and honest and patient and self aware to have this conversation with me even though it made him upset and uncomfortable. He stayed calm though visibly sad and uncomfortable about his actions in the past. He knows how I feel about infidelity and I know he was scared to tell me so he wouldn’t lose me again, but I feel like it was manipulative and cowardly to keep that from me, especially if I was supposed to be his wife. I sit up at night wondering if I could truly love someone who could do this to me and wait 3 years (and 2 weeks before our wedding) to finally be honest to me about it. And knowing that the only reason why I know right now is because I asked him to be honest about everything because I don’t want to go into our marriage without fully knowing about what happened and laying those lingering feelings to rest. I want to go in with a full and happy heart. Part of me feels at peace but the other part is torn up. I’m so confused that I’m questing whether I’m still in love with this man. For who he is today and not who he was. I am a very forgiving person and I don’t judge people on their mistakes. No one is perfect, what is alarming to me is how it happened and questioning how he could have conflicting words and actions and how long it took him to be honest with me. It’s alarming that he could keep something like this from me for so long.

Chose promise, chose due.

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Le respect du code de la route présente de nombreux avantages importants voire très importants. Il serait très appréciable que tout le monde les respecte (mais on sait que c'est pas le cas) alors voici quelques raisons pour lesquelles il est essentiel de respecter le code de la route.
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• Sécurité routière : Le principal objectif du code de la route est d'assurer la sécurité des conducteurs, des passagers et des piétons sur la route. En respectant les règles de circulation, vous réduisez les risques d'accidents et de blessures graves.
• Prévention des accidents : Le code de la route est conçu pour prévenir les accidents en établissant des règles et des normes de conduite. En les suivant, vous contribuez à maintenir un environnement routier plus sûr pour tous les usagers de la route.
• Fluidité du trafic : Le code de la route organise la circulation et facilite la fluidité du trafic. En respectant les règles de dépassement, de priorité, de stationnement, etc., vous contribuez à éviter les embouteillages et les situations de blocage.
• Responsabilité civique : Le respect du code de la route démontre votre responsabilité civique envers la société et les autres usagers de la route. Cela témoigne de votre respect envers les règles communes qui permettent à tous de se déplacer en toute sécurité.
• Respect de l'ordre public : Le code de la route fait partie de l'ordre public et le respecter est une obligation légale. Ne pas respecter les règles peut entraîner des sanctions légales telles que des amendes, des points de pénalité sur le permis de conduire, voire la suspension du permis.
• Protection de l'environnement : Le respect du code de la route peut également avoir un impact positif sur l'environnement. Des règles telles que les limitations de vitesse visent à réduire la consommation de carburant et les émissions de gaz à effet de serre.

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Pourquoi BAS ? C'est une manière de contribuer à la sécurité et au bien-être de tous les usagers de la route.
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u/balalaykha, celle-ci elle est pour toi, hâte de connaitre le sujet imposé pour demain !

I've had 26 hours of professional instruction including the lesson I had today. I was driving around the city centre to get used to the traffic conditions and high pedestrian levels etc. Needless to say I got confused several times at roundabouts and in lanes (so I would go the wrong way or take up the wrong lane etc.). To top it off when I was coming off the motorway, I for some reason stopped at the end of the slip road despite the traffic lights being green which could of caused an accident (thankfully it didn't). Even my instructor clearly got a bit panicky, who is a fairly calm and patient person
Last lesson was really good (he said this himself). Never stalled once, never had any real issues with my positioning on the road (never got too close to curb or opposite traffic). I stalled like 2 or 3 times this lesson but that was because I thought I had the car in neutral when stopped at a red light. It's annoying because I was going to ask him about the possibility of a mock driving test in the near future at the end of the lesson. Only real good takeaway from today's lesson is that he never had to use his dual-brake (well actually I think he did when I was pulling up in a parking space with a car in front but only as a precautionary measure).
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Next lesson I'm going to do roundabouts to fix up on today's problems.

I feel like a total crap mother. My almost five-year-old is in a stage where she considers anything. That's a shirt an abomination. She only wants to wear dresses, which makes getting ready hard when trying to plan for weather. Appropriate attire. To make my long story short, it's Hawaiian day at preschool, then she had a summer dress that had it Hawaiian and jungle leaves on it. I am in a rush, and we go through the drive-thru to get breakfast, and I open the lid to her milk, and put it back on, but let her know that she needs to put it in her car seat cup holder. Holder. She decides to put her breakfast sandwich on the cup holder and instead hold a balloon that she is obsessed with. She then decides to undo the cap to the milk, and balance it on her car seat arm, which then spills all over her lap. Not only is she screaming while I'm driving which is scary enough, then triggers my anxiety which presents itself as frustration and anger. I almost sent her to daycare just like that, but thought better of it, and decided to loot back around and go home. Being frustrated, I told her that she needs to start using her critical thinking skills, and not prioritize items that are not important like a balloon. And she should not have uncapped it if she had no place to put it. This is not the first time this is happened either. We get home and go upstairs to change into a shirt and shorts outfit that is also Hawaiian theme, and I told her before we even change. She's not going to give me any drama behind it. That by her dropping the milk all over herself on accident, the consequences that she now has to change all of her clothes, and wear an outfit that she isn't exactly keen on. She then comes down the stairs and decides to ask me about washing her dress, and isn't paying attention and not holding the rail properly and decides to slide her foot over the edge of the stair and then slides down two steps. This causes her to land on her butt. She then gets extremely upset and starts crying and screaming at the top of her lungs. She did not get hurt, but it was more of a shock to her. She has done this several times as well, and has a bad habit of jumping off the last two steps as well. I then get so irritated after hugging her and trying to soothe her and she just won't stop crying, I just stand up and say we got to get going. In the car because she is then freaking out about the balloon and how she wants the balloon, and is yelling at me about why I put a towel in her car seat, that I start listing off how all of this started by a bad decision with the milk. I get so fueled by explaining the consequences to her, that my instant karma for reiterating how this is all stemmed from her not learning from past mistakes, using her memory, or paying attention, I end up getting a flat tire a block away from preschool. I get so pissed off, I blurted out that this most likely wouldn't have happened if I didn't have to loop back home to change her.
We walked the block carrying a lot of supplies that were planned for today's festivities at school. Usually at drop off even when it's not a good morning, we do hugs and kisses. This time. She only wanted hugs, and didn't say goodbye or do kisses. It made me feel like garbage, because now I think that I expressed my frustrations a little too much this morning, and now I'm stuck at my car for the last hour and a half waiting for it to either be refilled, or to be towed. This is now costing me over $250, and I just don't have it right now.
I don't expect anyone to say that it's not that bad, or that I am a crappy mom. I just feel so overwhelmed, and tired. It didn't help that when she was first screaming about the milk in her lap, I almost got into an accident because it was a high traffic route, and you have people slowing down at an instant or completely hitting their brakes. I'm undiagnosed for ADHD, and I have high anxiety and depression.

Pretty sure I'm SOL here, but just want to see if I had any option here.
So I got into a car accident in April in Atlanta. Very quick and easy claim, the person drove into the back of my car and they were deemed at fault less than an hour later.
Now their insurance covered my rental indefinitely, until the car was fixed. Which is great except it was fixed over a week ago and no one reached out to me. Here are the steps I've taken.
10 days ago I call the shop. The tell me car isn't ready and I tell them to alert me as soon as it's done. The at-fault parties insurance sends me a check for the repairs a few days prior to that.
3 days ago I call Enterprise. Tell them to let me know when the car is no longer covered. They said if it wasn't covered they would've called me.
Flash forward to today. Enterprise calls me and says the car hasn't been covered for a week. They charge me. I tell them that no one let me know and they said someone called me a week ago (definitely not).
So essentially that persons insurance was contacted by the auto shop to say the car was fixed. Insurance tells enterprise that the car is fixed and they are no longer covering it. No one reached out to me.
Is there anything I can do here? It's only $250 but that's money I feel I shouldn't have to pay.
So what can I do here?

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Texas Roadhouse	Texas Roadhouse Service Manager	Concord
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Allied Universal®	Allied Universal Security Officer	Nashua
Texas Roadhouse	Texas Roadhouse Service Manager	Nashua
UniFirst	Route Service Representative - UniClean	Nashua
Avantor	Sr. Facilities & Maintenance Technician	Nashua
Andover Services, Inc.	Electromechanical Technician - 1st Shift	Portsmouth
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Henkel	Production Supervisor	Seabrook
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Hey guys, here are some recent job openings in nh. Feel free to comment here or send me a private message if you have any questions, I'm at the community's disposal! If you encounter any problems with any of these job openings please let me know that I will modify the table accordingly. Thanks!

Hello. I am 21 and M. About a month and a half ago, I quit Oxycodone 30s (was doing about 2-5 a day) because I couldn't financially support it anymore and my relationship was at stake. I was on them for about 2 and a 1/2 months. I lost my good paying job because of it. I accidentally got hooked on them. I was self medicating for a genuine health problem I went to 2 urgent cares for and the ER that they were not willing to fix except for antibiotics that one of the urgent cares said wouldn't help anything because an infection wasn't the problem. I had agonizing pain in my di*k whenever I went to pee. It felt like almost like a blockage was in there and everytime I would try to pee, it would burn beyond belief. I theorize it may have been kidney stones, because 2 weeks after using the Oxy it just disappeared without a trace. When I decided to quit the Oxies because I had no use for them anymore.. my body subliminally adapted to them very fast and I got super sick at work, couldn't sleep that night because of unbearable restless leg syndrome and I got fired the next day because of my lack of ability to function throughout the day.
I failed to quit the first time because of how awful the withdrawals felt that it terrified me it was going to last forever.. which led me to buying more Oxies behind my girlfriend's back (no worries, her and I already talked about it, I came through to her after a week of doing it because I couldn't stand myself hiding it from her)
Even though the agonizing physical withdrawals have subsided after a week or 2 of quitting, I still have strong mental urges to just get high. Not get high off of Oxies, but just get high in general. It feels like I cannot go a day without using something: specifically Adderall (not prescribed yet. I have been diagnosed to have ADHD by my girlfriend's psychiatrist she referred me to. I love her so much.)
However, I have tried Suboxone during the physical withdrawals (recreational and sold from a trusted friend I've known since Elementary).. about 4 to 5 days after. The results: It didn't do shit. I was told to do only a half a quarter, move up to a quarter if I don't feel anything, then a half, then the rest. I did the whole 8mg Suboxone that day and it didn't do anything. Fast forward to a month later.. a week and a half ago from today.
I decided to try the Suboxone route again because I was getting really desperate.. I have come to the conclusion that the Oxies gave me really bad Anhedonia and Avolition. This time just doing a quarter, it made me feel normal. A little euphoric, but I wasn't craving to chase the euphoria. I actually managed to do things without the unmotivation and the cravings for some kind of drug to push me forward. My Anhedonia and Avolition seemed like it got temporarily banadaged. The next day I did a quarter again and it didn't do much, except this time it made me feel just "okay" but it wasn't like the first time. The next day I did a half and it didn't do much else besides make me nod in-and-out after a few hours of being on it. Ever since then, I've been doing Suboxone almost every other day. Yesterday I did a whole one and it didn't do anything much after a 2-3 day break (sorry my time lines are so jumbled that I have to give a general estimate).
I have 2 8mg Suboxones left. I don't want to use them if the fast-tolerance build up is a sign or if it's just from the Naloxone that's still in my system from using them for the past couple weeks. I have also noticed a strange anxiety the next day whenever I come down from them that's damn near scary.. it kind of reminds me of what the Oxy withdrawals felt like. It was condescending.
The Oxy withdrawals traumatized me and about destroyed the best relationship I could have ever hoped to receive in this lifetime. I want to be able to function throughout the day without the sheer weight of dopamine deficiency and apathy take the steering wheel of my life when we just downsized into an apartment because the house we were at was way too expensive for either of us, even with the job I had.
I want to be able to use this medicine without my body becoming dependent on it.. because from what I have heard, Buprenorphine withdrawals are significantly worse than Opiate withdrawals and after what I just went through with the Oxy's without realizing what the hell I was getting into, I am utterly terrified of the thought of ever having to go through something like that again, because I don't know if I would be able to bear it.
**TO GENERALIZE MY QUESTION: After 2 weeks of off and on Suboxone use, generally 1-4 days of straight using it, either dosing one quarter a day/a half a day, then coming off of it for a few days and going back to get more, would my body in theory develope a dependency on it? I can already do a whole one without feeling much after 2 weeks ago when doing a quarter gave me the medicinal lift I needed.
Take a break or is it safe to move up and do more?
Advice! Thank you.. also, substitute medicines that has helped you is also very welcome. I welcome all feedback.

So, we already discussed what DC was doing to match the tenor of the early years of the War on Terror: A grim, smarter-than-it-thinks miniseries full of gratuitous rape that was meant to take the shine off the Silver Age by showing the darker side of its greatest heroes. Marvel, on the other hand, was trying to find a way to capture the zeitgeist of a post-9/11 era of existential threats, constant government surveillance, and the idea that if you weren’t with America, you were against it. A Captain America storyline saw Cap wrestle with the very concept of Guantanamo Bay; like any story arc that involves Cap doubting whether America lives up to its ideals, this made certain conservatives pissy, to the point that bad movie cataloguer Michael Medved wrote an entire article asking if Cap was a traitor. Avengers Disassembled briefly saw the Avengers face down their demons, as the Scarlet Witch goes crazy (again) and starts killing team members, her reality manipulations causing fault lines to form among Marvel’s greatest superteam. But there hadn’t yet been a storyline that would tie the entire Marvel Universe together with the burning question, “Which side are you on?”
Yeah, it’s got nothing to do with the Sokovia Accords. We’d be a lot better off if it did.
Part 1: Mark Millar’s March to the C-Word
Content Warning: Sexual assault. None of this is germane to the topic of the drama, so feel free to skip ahead to Part 1.5 if you don’t want to deal with this. Tl;dr: Mark Millar, the writer of the event, has a near pathological need to be a 3edgy5u contrarian.
Every comics crossover is ultimately a chance for one creative in the stable to shine or falter. The editors pick a writer who has turned out dependable work and give them a chance to try to alter the status quo but good. And for Civil War, Marvel’s EiC Joe Quesada decided the best person to lead the charge was Ultimates writer Mark Millar.
But who is Millar? Well, we could say “edgelord” and leave it at that, but we’re trying to dig deeper. Millar came up in comics alongside fellow Scot Grant Morrison, long before Morrison said the only time they want to bump into Millar on the streets of Glasgow is while going at 100 miles per hour. This antipathy is alleged to have stemmed from Millar copping several ideas from Morrison that went into Superman: Red Son. But after getting a start on Superman Adventures and as a cowriter on parts of Morrison’s JLA run, Millar soon branched out to WildStorm, where he took over The Authority from departing creatowritesex pest Warren Ellis.
The reason I bring up Red Son (for those non-geeks, an alternative universe comic premised on “What if Superman’s rocket had landed in Soviet Russia?”) is to frame a constant refrain about Mark Millar. He has good high-concept ideas… which often get trammeled up in an almost Pavlovian urge to shock, disturb, and/or titillate the reader. For instance, in The Authority, Ellis had introduced Apollo and Midnighter, two close companions who just happened to share the rough power sets and demeanors of Superman and Batman, with a few tweaks. Then he revealed they were boyfriends, which was a pretty bold move for a late Nineties comic book full of widescreen action and lovingly-rendered eviscerations.
In Millar’s first arc on the title, centered on a villainous Jack Kirby clone sending out a team of baddies who totally aren’t the Avengers, Apollo is subdued and is strongly implied to have been raped by someone who’s not Captain America. Apollo gets revenge by destroying EvilCap’s spinal column with his laser vision, then leaving him to the tender mercies of Midnighter, who is strongly implied to have sodomized him with a jackhammer.
In case you can’t tell, Millar loved him some rape. And it kept showing up in his creator-owned titles as well, all of which were basically written as Hollywood pitch docs. Wanted asks the question, “What if the supervillains won and secretly ruled the world from behind the scenes?” Well, an Eminem clone would take the opportunity to step into his dead villainous dad’s shoes and commit a lot of rape (yeah, there’s a reason the movie version replaced this with basically the Euthanatos from Mage: the Ascension getting orders from a magic loom). Chosen asks the question, “What if Jesus were born today?” Well, in a blatantly obvious twist, it turns out he’s actually the Antichrist, and part of his journey into realizing his evil nature involves being raped by all the demons of Hell.
It’s not that Millar can’t write innocent or restrained; he got started on the Superman: the Animated Series comic spin-off, and some of his titles such as Huck and Starlight have been praised for being relatively wholesome (keep in mind Huck is basically “What if Superman was Forrest Gump?” when I say “relatively”). And, as mentioned above, his works are made for high-concept log lines. You might recognize some of his various pitch docs: Kick-Ass, The Secret Service (source for the Kingsman movies), and, as mentioned above, Wanted. It’s just there’s this unctuous contrarian streak to a lot of his titles, a tendency to focus on venality, grotesquerie, and sodomy, with an air of pop culture edge. This also leaked into his image outside of his writing, with comments like “Games are for pedos” and ventures like the creator-owned comics periodical CLiNT (yes, the kerning is intentional). This streak continues to this day, as The Magic Order, a title that emerged from his deal with Netflix, features a magical escapologist who, she feels it very important to tell the reader in a direct monologue, escaped her own abortion. Bottom line, Millar has a sense of vision, but it’s betrayed at times by this reflexive desire to prove he’s smarter than the reader, to rub your face in the contradictions and make you a party to the artifice of it all. Usually with a dash of rape.
But at Marvel, Millar was riding the lightning of the Ultimate Universe. His Ultimates title was drawing on the wide-screen action image of JLA and The Authority, creating the cinematic language that would come to define the MCU. The choice to fantasy cast Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury is why we have Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. He also painted the Hulk as a cannibalistic monster, cemented Hank Pym’s reputation as a wifebeater, and gave us Captain America yelling “Surrender? Do you think this A on my head stands for France?”, so let’s just keep that in perspective.
But the Ultimate Universe was its own pocket universe. Millar was being tapped to write a story for Earth-616, the main Marvel Universe. And he had a vision:

“I opted instead for making the superhero dilemma something a little different. People thought they were dangerous, but they did not want a ban. What they wanted was superheroes paid by the federal government like cops and open to the same kind of scrutiny. It was the perfect solution and nobody, as far as I'm aware, has done this before.”

Yeah. About that.
Part 1.5: What Has Come Before
Ultimately, the crux of Civil War is something that has been explored lightly in the past at Marvel: The idea that, instead of being unlicensed vigilantes who decide the best solution of societal issues is to beat up assholes in spandex, superheroes become licensed government officers that register their true identities with Uncle Sam and solve societal issues by beating up assholes in spandex. In Marvel’s history, it hasn’t gone well. The reality of government liaisons to superhero bodies has ranged from Valerie Cooper, who worked with government mutant team X-Factor but still found herself backing the genocidal Sentinel program as a big “Yeah, but what if…?”, to Henry Peter Gyrich, an inflamed obstructionist asshole who had to be held back from flipping a switch that would depower every superhuman individual on Earth. The idea of heroes themselves bristling against a government they disagreed with had a long history, as there was a period where Steve Rogers quit being Captain America, and the government had to find a replacement while he rode around on a motorcycle in a surprisingly slutty costume. But the idea of registering with the government has usually ended up on the “No” side due to one big cohort at Marvel: Mutants.
Ever since the days of Chris Claremont, a general conceit of the Marvel Universe is that mutants are a stand-in for your minority group of choice. Hated and feared, born different and feeling alienated, painted as an existential menace and threat to the status quo. Of course, it’s long been pointed out that the metaphor breaks down on the general grounds that, say, gays can’t shoot laser beams out of their eyes. I have my thoughts on that which I might share in the comments if someone pokes me hard enough, but it’s been general editorial consensus that people with powers, especially those of persecuted minorities, being compelled to share their true names, addresses, and natures with the federal government is a “That train’s never late!” move. Not only that, it’s a slippery slope. The classic X-Men story “Days of Future Past” is entirely premised on the idea that a government program of genocidal robots built to wipe out mutants will eventually run out of mutants… and then start turning on humans who could give birth to mutants, and then it’s Skynet all over again.
Another running meme in the Marvel Universe is that the X-Men usually exist in a Schrodinger’s cat situation with the rest of the superhero universe, both coexisting and in their own worlds. Yes, mutants have served on the Avengers, and yes, Thor intervened when the Morlocks were nearly wiped out in the sewers under New York. But Captain America, for all his proud statements of living up to America’s ideals, has a habit of missing the plot whenever the US government (or Canada, seat of all the Marvel Universe’s governmental evils - no, really) decides it’s Genocide O’Clock. And when the mutant nation of Genosha was completely wiped out by said murder robots, the Avengers seemed to be all “New phone who dis?” But when the two do intersect, there’s usually support for the mutants. One story in Fantastic Four had Reed Richards - Mr. Fantastic, stretchy man, greatest genius in the Marvel Universe, guy who’s probably being cucked by a fish-man - get tapped by the US government to make a device that detects mutants and other people with powers. He does… and then uses it to show why the government probably doesn’t want it, as it pings several members of Congress as having just enough genetic variation to qualify as “mutants,” even if they don’t have powers.
All in all, while the argument has some merit, for years, Marvel has come down on the position that asking people with powers to reveal their identities to the federal government is something that could go really bad if somebody with a hate-on for superheroes ends up in power. Something that would never happen oh yeah it totally did. But before it all went to Hell, Civil War at least gave an opportunity to reexamine the concept and see if it had merit.
It might have. But not with this argument.
Part 1.75: What Else Has Happened Before?
And now, some things that will ultimately give context for what happens next:

• In the pages of Thor, all of Asgard eventually runs headlong into Ragnarok. Thor and the rest of the Asgardians give their lives to save the earth, taking Thor off the board… for now.
• As mentioned above, the Avengers experience a critical fault due to Wanda going batshit (a common lament). With Avengers Mansion destroyed and the team at odds, it is eventually reunited under Tony Stark, who put the Avengers up in a tower he built.
• Nick Fury has vanished due to doing some skullduggery in the pages of the miniseries Secret War (no, not Secret Wars, this is different). Acting head of SHIELD, the all-purpose super spy squad of Marvel, is Maria Hill, who can’t seem to draw her pistol without shooting herself in the foot.
• Due to Wanda continuing to go batshit, the House of M crossover event ends with her casting a spell: “No more mutants.” While the damage is staunched, Earth-616’s population of mutants (which was recently established to be somewhere around 16 million) is reduced to 200, the rest being depowered or dying as a result of being depowered. This was because, as Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada said, the idea of mutants being everywhere made them “boring.” The fact that mutants were starting to be written less as a minority stand-in and more as an actual minority group with fashion, culture, music, and neighborhoods might have had something to do with that. From the wake of this event emerges Sally Floyd, a journalist whose own mutant daughter died before the mass depowering due to having a power that was more curse than blessing. The series Generation M follows her as the viewpoint character as she investigates the stories of former mutants.

Part 2: Connecticut Can’t Catch a Break
The big kick-off for Civil War involves the New Warriors, a team of teen heroes who have, as of a recently canceled series, been trying to make it big as reality TV stars. They get in a fight with a bunch of villains in the small town of Stamford, CT, when exploding villain Nitro goes positively nuclear, resulting in a blast much bigger than any he’s generated. [1] Not only does this mostly wipe out the New Warriors (save for kinetic energy-absorbing goofball Speedball), but it also happens to hit a nearby school. In the end, 612 people are dead, many of them children, and the nation wants answers.
With public opinion turning against the New Warriors, former member Hindsight starts leaking secret identities to get the heat off his back. This only makes things worse. Secret identities have only recently stopped being a thing for some heroes: Captain America only came out a few years ago, it was only recently that Tony Stark stopped pretending Iron Man was his bodyguard, and Daredevil was almost outed in the pages of his book. But something needs to be done, so Tony helps work with Congress to pass the Super Human Registration Act, which requires that all people with powers or working as vigilantes register their identities with the government to receive training and oversight. If you don’t? Believe it or not, jail, right away.
Fault lines quickly develop in the superhero community. While Tony is leading the “pro” side, alongside Reed Richards (yeah, we’ll get to that), Captain America, usually painted as the embodiment of the dream of America despite its compromised history and many sins, is against it. He’s lived through Richard Nixon being a secret fascist and shooting himself in the head after being fingered as mastermind of a vast criminal conspiracy (yes, that happened ); he knows how badly this could go in the wrong hands. Needless to say, Maria Hill and SHIELD hear his concerns, understand his problems with it, and are willing to iron out the kinks through reasoned debate.
Just kidding. Before the law has even been signed, Maria sics SHIELD’s elite Cape-Killers squad on Cap with the intent of getting him behind bars. Cap swiftly goes underground and starts his own group of anti-registration superheroes.
The fight continues for the next few issues. Spider-Man, caught in the middle, reveals himself to be Peter Parker at a press conference, declaring his support for the SHRA. Doctor Strange is so powerful that he tells the government to fuck off, and somehow, Maria Hill doesn’t decide to go charging up his asshole. Ben Grimm, the ever-loving blue-eyed Thing, is so sick of all the conflict he goes to France. But things are still at a stalemate, and while SHIELD may be acting like a bunch of merry assholes, it seems like there’s a debate to be had that could still be resolved reasonably… except for one key factor.
Part 3: I Fought the Law, and the Law… Huh?
No one ever really defined what the Super Human Registration Act, the legislation that tore the Marvel Universe’s superhero community asunder, did. Every book that had an issue that touched on the event seemed to have a different understanding of its principles, as well as just how fascist it might be in the long run. In the pages of She-Hulk, attorney Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk argues the law is a net good, as it gives heroes the backing and resources they need to not have to go it alone, while also having some measure of government oversight. In the pages of Civil War Frontline (oh, and we’ll get back to Civil War Frontline, don’t you worry), Wonder Man is told by the government that he needs to do a job for them, and if he refuses, well, one thousand years dungeon.
Which then leads into the other issue behind the SHRA. Namely, that everyone in favor was either starting to swing towards fascism or embracing bootlicking as a lifestyle, not a kink. In the pages of Amazing Spider-Man, Peter asks Reed Richards, who has always bucked authority and once stopped the US government from doing something just like this with mutants, why he’s pro-registration. Reed then reveals that an uncle who has never been mentioned before was called before HUAC; he refused to name names, his career was ruined, and he killed himself. From this, Reed - the man who stole a rocketship because the government said “no” to his planned space voyage - has learned that the government is always right, especially when they could step on your neck (this was received so badly that a later comic revealed he’d actually borrowed the concept of psychohistory from Asimov’s Foundation, he’d made it work somehow, and his calculations showed that this was the only way to avoid a greater disaster). This comic also revealed that people who were in violation of the SHRA were sent to a literal extradimensional Gitmo, a prison in the Negative Zone that later comics would reveal was overseen by… Captain Marvel. No, not that one. No, not that one. The Kree superhero Captain Mar-Vell, who had famously died of cancer decades before. How did he come back from the dead? Fuck if we know.
This “the law says what you want it to say” approach spread across various books and miniseries meant to cross over into the event. In the pages of a crossover mini between the Runaways and the Young Avengers, this meant SHIELD Cape-Killer squads were using lethal force against teenagers. The second-to-last issue of the mini ends with several members of both teams in extradimensional Gitmo, about to be dissected by a guy who’s horny for torture. The fact that all the captive heroes were the queer members of both teams? Total coincidence. Honestly.
So, it quickly becomes clear that the editorial control on this event is less than cohesive. There are different ideas all over as to what the SHRA does, and some of those ideas are tacking pretty fashy. But if the law is being painted as that bad, then clearly, there must be some greater statement of freedom vs. security. Maybe Millar’s really painting a subversive picture of what happens when you trade liberty for control, right?
Part 4: Why Do You Hate the Good Thing?
After the publication of Civil War #3, Millar would say in an interview he was actually pro-registration. I can’t find that interview, but here’s a similar sentiment shared years later:

“Weirdly, some of the other writers would often make Tony the bad guy, which I thought was a strange choice because I was actually on Tony’s side... In the real world, if somebody had superpowers, I’d like them to be registered in the same way that somebody who has a gun has to carry a license. But a gun can kill several people while a superhero can kill several thousands of people, so on a pragmatic level I’m 100% on Tony’s side. Maybe on a romantic level, Cap’s position makes sense but I don’t think anybody in the real world would really want that."”

And again, here’s the thing: He’s not entirely wrong. As said above, the idea of civil liberties for all and “free to me you and me” falls down a little when one of your neighbors can blow up a city block by thinking real hard. But Millar is fighting against years of ideological inertia in the Marvel Universe, as well as painting Captain America, the guy who has always embodied the ideal of a righteous, just America, as in the wrong. He needs to make one hell of an argument.
So here’s what happens in the pages of Civil War #3 to sell the audience on the SHRA:

• Thor comes back from the dead… and he’s on Tony’s side! Well, not really. Tony and Reed both realized that having one of the most beloved gods of the Marvel Universe come out on their side would be a big win… if only he wasn’t dead. So, they cloned him. Or rather, they T-800’d him, putting cloned divine flesh on a robot skeleton. But I’m sure he’s perfectly under control, and - oh, he just killed Goliath. In the next issue, one of Marvel’s black male heroes, frozen at the size of a small townhouse in death, will be buried in a gigantic ditch, wrapped in a tarp and chains. You’d think Hank Pym could grow a large enough coffin, at least.
• With Cap and the anti-registration side escaping once again, Tony decides he needs a dedicated team that can track down fugitive superhumans. To do so, he creates a new version of the Thunderbolts, a concept long associated with “villains acting like heroes.” And who does he put on this team? Venom, the Spider-Man villain who eats people’s brains; Bullseye, the Daredevil villain who will kill anyone for the lulz; and Norman Osborn, a.k.a. The Green Goblin, who famously murdered Spider-Man’s girlfriend Gwen Stacy.

Again. Tony’s in the right. The SHRA is good.
Part 5: Yadda, Yadda, Yadda
The next few issues of Civil War might best be described as “They fight, and fight, and fight and fight and fight.” The anti-registration side picks up The Punisher, Marvel’s most avowed murderer of criminals - and Cap is somewhat shocked but not entirely surprised when two minor villains join the anti-registration side and Frank promptly kills them on sight. Spider-Man starts realizing things are weird on the pro-reg side and defects, after he has set his entire life on fire. The X-Men have continued to stay out of this whole mess. In the lead-up, Emma Frost called Tony out on the Avengers’ complete absence when Genosha got nuked. Later, Carol Danvers (then Ms. Marvel, now Captain Marvel) will show up at the Xavier School to pitch the SHRA just after a massive terrorist attack kills dozens of students. Emma responds by telepathically dogwalking her.
By the final issue of the miniseries, the SHRA has expanded out into the Fifty States Initiative, wherein each state gets its own superteam. There’s a big final battle, Hercules kills Robo-Thor, and Cap nearly takes out Tony, only to be stopped by… the heroes of 9/11. No shit, Captain America is subdued by cops, firefighters, and paramedics. And when that happens, Cap finally takes a look around, realizes their big ideological street brawl has resulted in collateral damage, and surrenders. The SHRA wins, though Tony feels a little bad about it. Cap is ready to stand trial and to argue that, while he may have done something wrong, he did it for the right reasons.
Once again: Yeah. About that.
Part 6: MySpace Tom Didn’t Die For This
Running alongside Civil War is Civil War Frontline, a street-level book written by Paul Jenkins that managed to capture this world-breaking conflict through the eyes of people on the street. Though it has side stories, its main leads are Ben Urich, Peter Parker’s journalist buddy at The Daily Bugle, and the aforementioned Sally Floyd. Throughout the series, they start to realize there’s a story underneath the SHRA, as if somebody is playing the angles.
Before we talk about that conclusion, let’s talk about a side story. Remember how we said part of the comics community saw Identity Crisis as a driven effort to make things less “wacky” and intentionally darken the DCU? Well, that same tonal approach led to one of the more laughable moments of a pretty laughable arc. See, despite the fact that, as established, it was Nitro who blew up Stamford, it’s Speedball, the only survivor of the New Warriors, that views himself as responsible and is held up as a scapegoat by the general public. In addition, the blast screwed up his powers. Now, he doesn’t absorb and reflect kinetic energy; rather, he generates energy based on pain. So, he builds himself a new, extreme outfit lined with 612 spikes, one for each person who died in Stamford. This will drive his crusade to make things right - not as Speedball… but as Penance.
It was so laughably DeviantArt “OC do not steal” that no one could take it seriously. Look what you did, you took a perfectly good goofball and gave him an emo streak. The turn is swiftly mocked in other Marvel books, and it’s eventually revealed that Speedball still had his original powerset and always intended to put Nitro in the Goofy Suit of Dark Inner Torment as punishment for his crimes. But this turn gives you a sense of the tone and heft Jenkins was bringing to the proceedings.
Anyway, back to the main plot. Ben and Sally follow the thread as Namor, as he is wont to do, declares war on the surface world after an Atlantean diplomat is shot. But it turns out the assassination was arranged by Norman Osborn, who decided it was better to beg forgiveness than ask permission and manipulated Atlantis into war so that Tony could have another piece of evidence for getting superhumans on a leash. And the two journalists deduce that, on some level, Tony had to know this would be an inevitable outcome of giving state backing to an unhinged mogul who dresses like a Power Rangers villain. Weighing what to do with this information, Ben and Sally, who are kind of sick of the collateral damage by this point, sit on it while they go in for an interview with Captain America, now in custody and willing to tell his side of the story.
And then. And then. The monologue. If you want a lesson in how to assassinate a character in 30 seconds or less, this monologue is a great example. Sally Floyd calls Captain America out as completely divorced from American values. Now, again, Captain America has long served as the beating liberal heart of the Marvel Universe. He has always represented an America that reckons with its legacy of things like internment camps, Manifest Destiny, and Jim Crow, in order to transcend these scars and embody the promise offered by Emma Lazarus’s New Colossus, carved on the side of the Statue of Liberty. Why is he out of touch with Americans at the dawn of the 21st century?
Well, he’s never heard of MySpace. [2] He doesn’t watch NASCAR. He doesn’t follow American Idol. There are pop culture moments that have aged like milk; this one had all the permanence of an ice cream cone in a blast furnace. But despite the inanity of Floyd’s argument - and trust me, there are fan edits dedicated to Cap pointing out how full of shit this argument is - it’s clear it represents something else. This is a post-9/11 world. Fuck civil liberties, we have a no-fly list and Gitmo, and if the American people really cared, they’d do something other than watch Simon Cowell read aspiring singers to filth. What does Captain America stand for in this moment of crisis?
Nothing. Because he just looks away from Sally Floyd. No doubt thinking, “Oh my God this bitch.” But to underline the argument in question, Sally storms out of the interview, Ben in tow. She still has that information on Norman Osborn’s false flag operation… and while she and Ben confront Tony on everything that went down, they decide the story should never see the light of day. Because they wouldn’t dare jeopardize the SHRA, because security is more important than the truth.
Oh. And then Cap gets shot. And dies. He totally dies (except he doesn’t but we’ll get to that). If ever there was an unintentional thesis statement for this event, running in the late stages of the Bush era, it would be this: “It’s better to trust that the powers that be who oversee the new America will keep you safe, even when they stage false flag operations, stick you in a gulag, and put their trust in monsters. All that civil liberty stuff was the old America. And the old America was hopeless. It wasn’t even on MySpace.”
Epilogue: Consequences Keep Consequencing
As you can tell from that last paragraph, a lot of the fan reception to Civil War likely had a lot to do with the period. This was the Bush era, a time where you were for America or against it. We were in the shadow of the Patriot Act, Gitmo, and widespread wiretaps, paranoid about what civil liberty we’d be asked to put on the pyre next in the name of Freedom. A story all about the warm, clenching fist of government control that tells you to ignore the collateral damage… well, it wasn’t great for the cultural moment.
The ideas of Civil War aren’t necessarily bad ones. I frame Cap as the liberal dream of what America could be, but there are good arguments to be made that America has never been that and Cap is just copium for liberals. His most recent title, Sentinel of Liberty, opens with Steve saying he is out of touch with the average American - not because he doesn’t watch NASCAR, but because he’s a WWII veteran who looks maybe 30 years old at most and whose best friends are all superheroes or spies. A narrative that has him on the wrong side of the issue and detonates his beliefs isn’t impossible, but it probably shouldn’t be one where people who got powers due to a fluke of birth or a radiation accident are told by the government, “Join with us or we’ll send supervillains after you.” Hell, as the Civil War movie proves, there is a way to tell a story about a superhero community torn in half by the idea of mandatory registration as government-controlled actors, and just why people would think that could be a bad idea (“Hey, remember when a good chunk of our intelligence apparatus turned out to be Nazi stay behinds?”).
But in the context of the era, and coupled with the execution, Civil War felt like a hard sell, and you could feel the thumb pressing on the scale every second while reading it. The moral center of the Marvel Universe is wrong, the winning side employs sadistic murderers and has an extradimensional Gitmo, and the writer is telling you that any sane individual would be on Team Green Goblin Employer.
So how did that all work out? Well…

• With Cap seemingly dead, shot by his brainwashed love interest Sharon Carter as part of a plot by the Red Skull, Bucky Barnes/the Winter Soldier becomes the new Cap. Only it turns out Steve wasn’t killed, but shot with a time bullet that Billy Pilgrims his ass. He eventually comes back.
• Thor comes back, finds out what Tony did, and beats his ass all the way across post-Katrina New Orleans (thank you to Powman_7 for the link).
• The Secret Invasion event happens next, which leads to Skrull infiltrators hitting everything (this is also the explanation for Captain Mar-Vell’s miraculous resurrection: He was a Skrull all along). With Tony caught with his pants down and Norman Osborn seeming to save the day, Norman - who has been losing his shit for some time - takes over the Initiative and forms his own fascist cabal, HAMMER. To try and stop Norman from learning everything on every hero ever, Tony goes on the run and actually starts deleting his own brain, which he then reassembles with a backup from before anyone even thought of the SHRA. The fact that getting rid of Tony’s “Oops I did a fascism” period came out alongside Iron Man hitting theaters is a coincidence, I’m sure.

As for Spider-Man? It might not shock you, but having a hero without the resources of Tony Stark out himself to the world carries liabilities. An assassin who tries to kill Peter instead hits Aunt May, and it appears she’ll die of her injuries. All this leads to One More Day… and if you thought the fans hated Civil War? Oh, BABY.
[1] This is eventually explored in the pages of Wolverine, of all books, as Wolverine decides maybe somebody should track down the person who actually killed hundreds of children. It’s revealed that Nitro was given power-boosting drugs by the CEO of Damage Control, Marvel’s designated “clean up after the super-battle” corporation, as a way of generating business. In a sign of how little this matters, Wolverine tells Maria Hill to her face that the person responsible for a mass casualty event is the pawn of a powerful conspiracy, and she basically says, “Not my problem.” Cobie Smulders must thank the gods that her Maria Hill is written as somebody with basic human decency.
[2] Hilariously, when Sally Floyd was brought back during Nick Spencer’s Captain America run because no one had piled enough dung on her corpse, this line was retconned to her asking him about Twitter. Given everything Elon’s been doing lately, we’ll see if that ages just as poorly.

Hello all-american rejects, mothers of Stacy and Hoobastankarinas! It is finally time to rate one of the subgenres of all time - pop punk! Welcome to the 00s Pop Punk Rate.

Introduction - What Is Pop Punk?

Pop punk is a genre that was invented by musical artist Machine Gun Kelly in the year 2020.
No but really, despite the sendup of it MGK contributed, the subgenre actually has a long and storied history dating back to the 1970s. One could argue bands such as The Ramones were essential foundations for the genre, if not themselves being a pop punk band. A reaction to the emergence of punk in the 70s, pop punk takes the energetic thrashings of punk music and overlays the sensibilities of pop song-crafting. Pop-punk saw an explosion of popularity in the late 90s with the rise of bands such as Blink-182, Green Day and The Offspring, and arguably hit its peak in the 00s with the creation of Van’s Warped Tour, a touring music festival that featured a lineup of some of the biggest pop-punk, post-punk and metal acts of the time. Alongside its rise, it would come to incorporate elements of ska, college rock, emo and post-punk.
Another element of pop-punk that differentiates it from punk is its lyrical focus. While punk’s focus tends to be heavily political and explicitly anti-authoritarian, pop-punk trades that topical focus for poppier subjects - love, lust, drunkenness, and how much the singers truly hate this town (worth mentioning that while this is in general true, especially of more mainstream pop punk acts, there are some notable exceptions).
In discussions of subgenres of punk, pop-punk tends to be largely ignored or snidely dismissed by both pop and punk communities but I think this is unfair. Yes, its lyrical subjects are often sophomoric and steeped in teen angst. Yes, the pop focus can cause the songs to feel derivative for some punk listeners. Yes, the culture surrounding pop punk has given us moments that are unintentionally hilarious. However, there is a reason this genre gained such attention - to borrow a phrase from pop, because it slaps. It takes pop music and thrashes it around. It fills the listener with nostalgic angst with power chord after power chord. It is an ode to the immaturity of youth. It is wildly influential; you can see pop-punk’s fingerprints in tons of modern genres - emo rap, hyperpop, and even Billboard-smashing pop songs.
Pop-punk is fun and raucous and a fantastic send-up to the teenage years many of us reminisce about. Today, it gets its due. Happy rating. - u/seanderlust
If you already know the drill because you're a regular rater, feel free to get rolling with the rate. Below are links to submit, a Pastebin ballot, and playlists for both Spotify and Apple Music:
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The songs

1. The Academy Is... - About a Girl
   
2. Alkaline Trio - Mercy Me
   
3. The All-American Rejects - Swing, Swing
   
4. The All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret
   
5. The All-American Rejects - Move Along
   
6. The All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell
   
7. All Time Low - Dear Maria, Count Me In
   
8. All Time Low - Weightless
   
9. American Hi-Fi - Flavor of the Weak
   
10. blink-182 - First Date
    
11. blink-182 - The Rock Show
    
12. blink-182 - Stay Together For The Kids
    
13. blink-182 - Feeling This
    
14. blink-182 - I Miss You
    
15. Bowling For Soup - 1985
    
16. Boys Like Girls - The Great Escape
    
17. Boys Like Girls - Love Drunk
    
18. Busted - Crashed The Wedding
    
19. The Cab - One of THOSE Nights
    
20. Cute Is What We Aim For - The Curse of Curves
    
21. Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down
    
22. Every Avenue - Tell Me I'm A Wreck
    
23. Fountains Of Wayne - Stacy's Mom
    
24. Good Charlotte - The Anthem
    
25. Good Charlotte - Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
    
26. Good Charlotte - Girls & Boys
    
27. Good Charlotte - I Just Wanna Live
    
28. Good Charlotte - I Don't Wanna Be In Love (Dance Floor Anthem)
    
29. Hoobastank - The Reason
    
30. Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
    
31. Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness
    
32. Jimmy Eat World - Pain
    
33. Lustra - Scotty Doesn't Know
    
34. Marianas Trench - Cross My Heart
    
35. Mayday Parade - Jamie All Over
    
36. Mayday Parade - Jersey
    
37. Motion City Soundtrack - My Favorite Accident
    
38. Motion City Soundtrack - The Future Freaks Me Out
    
39. Motion City Soundtrack - Everything is Alright
    
40. New Found Glory - My Friends Over You
    
41. Plain White T's - Hate (I Really Don't Like You)
    
42. Plain White T's - Our Time Now
    
43. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Face Down
    
44. Relient K - Be My Escape
    
45. Short Stack - Sway Sway Baby!
    
46. Simple Plan - I'm Just a Kid
    
47. Simple Plan - Perfect
    
48. Simple Plan - Welcome to My Life
    
49. Something Corporate - I Woke Up In A Car
    
50. Sugarcult - Memory
    
51. Sum 41 - Fat Lip
    
52. Sum 41 - In Too Deep
    
53. Taking Back Sunday - MakeDamnSure
    
54. Taking Back Sunday - Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team)
    
55. The Used - The Taste of Ink
    
56. We The Kings - Check Yes, Juliet
    
57. Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
    
58. Yellowcard - Only One
    
59. Yellowcard - Rough Landing, Holly
    
60. +44 - When Your Heart Stops Beating
    

BONUS

Okay, so.
The 00s pop punk era of course coincided with the rise of a number of other genres. Seeing an opportunity for a genre overlap in the interest of gaining fans from other genres, indie punk and metal label Fearless Records put out a series of compilation albums over the 00s and 10s. These CDs contained tracks of punk bands doing covers of pop, metal, and various other genres. They referred to it under the umbrella term Punk Goes… and featured such titles as Punk Goes Metal, Punk Goes 80s, and Punk Goes Crunk.
The most popular though, and the one that garnered the most subsequent albums was Punk Goes Pop. In this series, punk bands covered various pop songs that were popular at the time in punkier stylings. Think of it as Now That’s What I Call Music, but if all the songs were sung by Mayday Parade. It was an interesting idea and gained the involved punk bands attention outside of their core fanbase. I mean come on - pop?! AND punk??!! What is this, a crossover episode?
For our bonus rate, we will be rating a sample of tracks that were recorded for the Punk Goes… series. Some of these are quite good! Some of these are certainly pieces of music that musicians decided to record! But which is the best? That is for you, dear popheads, to decide.

1. Yellowcard - Everywhere
   
2. All Time Low - Umbrella
   
3. Mayday Parade - When I Grow Up
   
4. The Cab - Disturbia
   
5. Artist Vs Poet - Bad Romance
   
6. The Ready Set - Airplanes
   
7. Go Radio - Rolling In The Deep
   
8. The Downtown Fiction - Super Bass
   
9. Seaway - Closer
   

To be clear: Rating these songs is optional. You can give a score to one of them, two of them, all nine, or any number in between. You cannot use your 0 or 11 on any of them.

Rules & Instructions

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• You must listen to and score every song in the main rate. Ballots with missing scores will not be accepted.
• Your scores must be on a scale from 1 to 10 and can include one decimal place but no more. So 7.3 is fine, but 7.31 is not.
• You may give one song in the whole rate a score of 11 and one other a score of 0, so if you want to award these scores, save them for your favourite and least favourite songs in the rate, respectively. You must leave a comment on the songs you give an 11 or a 0, and they must be songs from the main rate, not the bonus.
• We encourage you to leave comments of your general thoughts or reasoning behind your scores on any songs you wish. If you choose to do so however, they must be in this format, simply leaving one space after your score:

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One Of THOSE Nights: 3 They wanna be Juicy J feat. The Weeknd soooooo bad ```
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I Woke Up In A Car: Yeah but did you wake up in a new Bugatti? (8) (WRONG!)
The Curse Of Curves: 7: me getting a D+ on my trigonometry homework (WRONG!)
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And the playlists of all the songs in the rate.

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Hi guys this is my first time posting on here tbh, I am 16 years old and I really want to leave my house. Obviously, I am not old enough to leave and live on my own, as here in Dubai the legal age is 18. My parents are really strict as their upbringing was very military-like and full of rules with painful punishments (beatings), However, me on the other hand, I was born and raised in Dubai with a more liberated lifestyle so I have obviously inherited a less strict persona from people in school and outside friends, my parents really wanted me to be like them and they were always comparing me to themselves and how good they were during their youth (which is true they were very disciplined), but despite their strictness, I always felt like they treated me so badly, they are so focused on studying and they keep trying to pave my way for the future, like I get that you are so determined on me having a good future but you are doing it in the wrong way as I have no choice to decide about MY OWN life and make MY OWN decisions or mistakes, and me personally I really hate school, like more than anyone, at 16 years of age, I would rather play with toys like a 5 yr old than to study for just 20 mins, I really believe that its not because of laziness or anything because I also go to the gym and if you go to gym aswell, you would know its not so easy as it takes determination and patience, so with that said, its not because I am lazy to do work or cant be asked, its because I just don't like studying and learning things and I jus do not know if education is really my route because I have not been to college before or seen what being an engineer or a doctor is like on a more detailed scale, I know it works and provides people with jobs but its not how I want my future to be, I am more of a youtuber, actor. boxer (or muay thai) and body builder type of a guy, I really want to make videos that are funny and entertaining, I really want attention and fame, I want to become the next big thing, not through scientific research and experiments but through youtube and gym, I have (which my parents laughed at saying how sh*t of a goal it was), my parents try to give me the choice of job that I want in the future (not youtube because that is inexistent to them apparently) but everytime I have a conversation about my goals of possibly becoming an actor I never mention it because whenever they talk to me they always mention and push their ideas about becoming a doctor, engineer, lawyer, etc. And it really sucks man, like what if I want to be an actor, or an artist, or something a little more creative that fits my personality rather than jotting down equations on a piece of paper. Now the only reason why I spent most of my life in school and not spoke to my parents about pursuing a stereotyped smaller route (acting and stuff) or even quitting school overall, was because I saw how determined they were to let me live a good life which is a very good thing so I did not want to upset them.
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When I was younger I was very obedient and therefore studied 24/7 because of my mom, she kept giving me so many assignments a day to complete when I was only like 10 years old, she treated me like a highschooler with so much stuff to do and tight deadlines, obviously I was gonna do really good at school because of it, it was just too much, at that age I did not mind at all because all I thought then was my parents are right and whatever they told me to do was right, but when I grew older I realized that I was so introverted and barely went out unless it was my closest friends birthday or something, I barely had friends at school, I do not know how to conversate with people, and because I did not go out or play a sport I was becoming extremely fat (which my parents said it was because of me being lazy) with no social experiences , I decided to ask my parents to play a sport and they managed to let me play football (soccer) 2 times a week, which really boosted my wellbeing from the intensive studying I did at home. When I reached highschool my parents flooded me with outside tutors almost to the point where everyday I had an studying session with a tutor, this completely ruined my wellbeing and mental health as I was only in year 7 (grade 6), I felt so overwhelmed which made me hate studying completely and thought it was the worst thing that has entered my life, and due to my filled schedule, when I had free time, I tried my best to play video games, I started messing around in school because I do not have time for messing around at home, I started playing video games a lot more and focusing less about the stuff my tutor taught me.
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But whenever I look at my parents I get this reality check in my head and this voice appears and its like "GET UP DUDE, YOU WILL FAIL IN LIFE, MAKE YOUR PARENTS PROUD!", it was like my only source of motivation to study, I really want to make them happy, but guess what, when I finally try really hard on something, my parents do not appreciate it, like they smile and say well done but there was no emotion put to it, which is ok as they might be stressed (they are always stressed), so I take it, but if I make a mistake, even if it was not that much of a big deal, they would burst into flames, they shout at me, curse at me, they say that I do not have a future at all, and as much as I don't want to expose it as I never told anyone this before, they physically abuse me and they are proud of it. One time I tried telling my mom after she hit me with a long thick wooden stick that hitting will only teach me to rebel against her when I grew up and that it does not have any effect on me besides being more careful when committing the mistake, but she said that she felt good when she hit me and it made her feel more comfortable which goes to show that she is not hitting me to teach me a lesson but to only make her feel better (like I am a stress reliever that she can abuse), I spoke to different counsellors at school and they spoke to my parents about the hitting, and my parents fought off the school and informed them that they would continue hitting me as I am their child and they can do whatever I want, and my response to that is, that I never chose to be born by these parents, I never had a say in whether I wanted to be born by them , they made me by having fun under the sheets, and I never got to choose, so do they really own me or is it more like a controlled captive environment because of their wealth and authority over me. Like if I had the wealth I would've been outta here a long time ago, I would provide for my family and my lovely brother (who my parents are treating him the same way), my brother is another main reason why I am still here actually, he understands me and he is only 10 years old, he is so mature and I love him, and his existence made me realize the disgusting treatment my parents gave me when I was younger, and I do not want to leave him alone with my parents so hell end up being as introverted and depressed as me. because the environment at home with my parents is not it.
My parents argue with each other a lot, literally almost everyday, they always have an argument, mainly my mom starting the fight, she's a perfectionist who would kill over a small disagreement or mistake, she holds a huge grudge on you for things you did in the past even if it was over a decade ago, she always thinks she's right and never (like never) wrong. My dad, is a very angry and grumpy person, he does not know how to have a little fun, he gets mad really really easily, he always feels stressed because of work (which is completely understandable) he shouts and hits really hard when punishing me or my brother, he assumes a lot of things when he's in doubt even if I did not do anything. Overall, my family is a mess,
On the bright side, I started hitting the gym about 1 year and a half ago and started muay thai (martial arts) almost 3 months ago, I am in such a better shape, I have lost sm weight, built a good amount of muscle, I started talking to people a lot more, I have so many groups of friends and most importantly, my mental health is amazing.
However, I am still thinking about leaving, despite my parents letting me go to gym and stuff because I know they care for me, I jus cannot live with this bad environment at home, like my life is so good and bad at the same time that I do not know what to do, I just do not like school and I want to pursue a different path, like I am not so sure on what it is but I know that school is not for me. But my parents never gave me the choice, and this continued for a few more consecutive years until today, I am in the middle of my final exams and I still hate studying, I do not feel the priority to study at all, I have a feeling I am going to get bad grades, this test is pretty important and I am worried that my parents might physically hurt me really really hard me if I fail, or even abandon me on results day (on august 2023), I do not know what to do.
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I have left like 3 to 4 times before only to come back to my parents again because I have run out of money and because we are family, and once my dad found me and picked me up, but every time I go back there they treat me well during the heat of the moment but go back to their old ways after some time has passed, it really annoys me because I obviously still love them but it is what it is man. Thank you for reading this, if you have any questions you may ask, and I will be sure to update yall when I can. Any advice would be appreciated.

I’m a lil spooked. Just left my gig driving a cargo van for a DSP. For reference, I’m a 5’5” female driving in a city environment.
I was trained by an Amazon warehouse employee in a weeklong course w/ a few diff company’s DSP drivers that’d be operating out of the same warehouse.
We learned the importance of “3 points of contact” & “strange dogs” but the one they really drove home was “always use the e brake when parking”. I was taught it is Amazon policy: if my AZ Branded vehicle is not properly secured with its e-brake, rolls down a hill, & hits someone, it’s not just my DSP & Amazon that can be held reliable, but myself as a citizen with a drivers license. I get that, fine.
But then once I started my job with my DSP, the trainers told me that our company’s fleet of vehicles can be finicky. The owner himself said the the e-brakes are incredibly temperamental: for most of this fleets vans, engaging the e brake often lock up up the whole vehicles system. Every time we use the e remake it requires onsite mechanical maintenance to restart the vehicle & get back to its route (mayeb a 2 hour delay).
My question is , is it normal for y’all to be asked by your DSP management to lie on your vehicle inspections? My bosses know and we (the drivers) know that the e brakes are an issue, but we were told that reporting the problem would pull most vans out of the lineup due to Amazons safety requirements.
Also, I signed all my Amazon-branded training papers clearly stating I would abide by the company’s national safety guidelines (I.e. use the e brake): but if anythjng were to happen accident-wise do y’all think my DSP would stand me by me if if adhered to THEIR verbal off-the book orders to avoid the e-brake?
Kinda spooky by the other safety requirements I was asked to breach we well, but this is the most I pressing . ..thanks!!

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Over the last few months I quit my job and moved in with a friend cross country who confessed they’d had feelings for me for a long time. I took up a job at their family’s business, but after about 2 months the business closed down. My sister then passed away due to a medical accident a few days after the anniversary of my mum’s death, then a few days after that my girlfriend broke up with me. I got a lucky break when I got the opportunity to move cross country again to a new home all to myself, however about a week or two before I planned the drive down I got into an accident that wasn’t my fault and my car was totaled and I wasn’t able to claim anything from my insurance for it. I’ve been in the new house for a few months, but I haven’t been able to get a new job in this new town at all and it’s weighing heavily on me.
I spent the last month+ interviewing and taking tests for a city government job out here, but got word today that I failed the polygraph test that was the final step due to nerves and got told I can’t apply for any more positions with them for 3 years. So I’m stuck in a house in a new town without any friends or family remotely nearby and I can’t afford to get a new car.
I know there are people that are way worse off and I can take some solace in my situation, but it just feels like everything just keeps getting worse with no end in sight and I’m just really not sure what to do. I could really use some support or advice to know that everything is going to be okay.
I’ve even reached out to momforaminute looking for some support and positive affirmations as my mother was a big part of my life, but I was immediately told that I don’t belong there, had my posts removed and that I needed to seek financial advice instead or seek therapy, and now I’m feeling even more isolated and alone and undeserving of help. I don’t want any hate sent to them because they are doing a good thing, but this experience with them after working up to finally reaching out for help hurt pretty deeply.
I just want to know that things really will get better.