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Hi Reddit! My name is Vivienne Vixxen and I have worked at a legal brothel outside of Las Vegas for almost three years. In my time here, I have gone through a TON of personal growth. I am also debt free, which did not seem possible three years ago.

I currently have plans to enroll in a graduate program for gender studies, but for now it is just a plan! I am enjoying my little life for the time being.

Ask me anything about my time in the industry, how I have changed, why I decided to stay, or whatever else! I cannot discuss pricing due to Nevada state law, I know that's always everyone's first question!

Hi Reddit! I’m Aundrea Mills, VP of Nursing & Chief Nursing Officer at Compass Healthcare, the leading provider of support services in the healthcare industry. In honor of Nurses Month, I’m here to answer your questions how support services elevate nursing. Are you curious about patient dining, or maybe wondering how environmental services and nursing work together?  How does outsourcing patient observation or transportation work? Ask me anything! This AMA is for informational purposes only and not intended as medical advice; hate speech or harmful comments will not be tolerated.

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During childhood and up to now, I was always the last option in friend groups, in one sided friendships, always quiet and mostly by myself at school.

A lot of my friendships were one sided and I was the backup option. I was hardly ever thought of, even by my ex friend who I was friends with for 6+ years.

After I graduated high school, I started posting on TikTok that summer, and I gone viral on TikTok due to my personality and how I present myself online.

I still don’t have anyone to hang with irl. I am 18 about to be 19 in August.

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Tuesday, May 19, is World Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Day. I'm Dr. Reezwana Chowdhury, a gastroenterologist who treats and researches inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn’s disease. I can answer your questions about Crohn's disease, including managing flares, biologic treatments, diet changes, and the mental and emotional challenges of living with a chronic condition. Ask me anything!

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tl;dr - I just published a book, China’s Backstory: The History Beijing Doesn’t Want You to Read, which explains the historical narratives fueling today’s most volatile geopolitical flashpoints: Taiwan, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and the Chinese economy. Is a war over the Taiwan Strait inevitable? How did Xinjiang become the human rights dumpster fire of the 21st century? What is the historical reality behind "ancient" territorial claims in Taiwan? The book tackles these without the academic "mumbo jumbo," focusing on the messy, human history that drives China’s role in geopolitics. AMA related to the history behind the topics Xi and Trump are talking about right now.

Hey reddit, my name is Lee Moore, I have a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures from the University of Oregon, I worked as an adjunct professor there, teaching Taiwanese and Chinese literature and film, and I occasionally write for The Economist. I also host the Chinese Literature Podcast. 

I just published a book called China’s Backstory: The History Beijing Doesn’t Want You to Read (available on my indie publisher’s site) and also from a little bookstore based in Seattle). 

The book does a deep dive into the history of the four China-related topics driving geopolitical discussions: Taiwan, Xinjiang, the Chinese economy and Hong Kong. How did Taiwan become the point that where WWIII is most likely to start? Why is Beijing conducting a genocide in Xinjiang? Is the Chinese economy the 800 pound gorilla about to dominate the world, or is it a house of cards teetering on the point of collapse? Why did Beijing deep six freedoms in Hong Kong despite having agreed with Britain to not change anything for 50 years after the Handover?

And I do it with a shit-stirring sense of humor that is meant to reach readers who would never normally pick up a book about China. The book has a chapter titled, “The Most Important Motherfucker in Taiwanese History,” discussing the 1670’s sex scandal that rocked the island and may lead to a war between the US and China. In the section of the book detailing Xinjiang’s bloody history, the book has a drinking game where, every time someone is beheaded, the reader is encouraged to do a shot.

The book discusses the China-related topics driving geopolitics. Here are some of the things the book discusses: 

Taiwan: 

• Today, as Chairman Xi is meeting with President Trump, he is telling Trump that Taiwan, since ancient times, has been Chinese. That claim  is nonsense. No power in China controlled Taiwan before 1683, two years after Pennsylvania, its 12th of 13 colonies, was established. The first documented case of a Chinese person stepping on the island of Taiwan was in 1603. Some Chinese sailing guides, written as early as the 1560’s, refer to bits of Taiwan as land that could be spotted from sea, but there is no documented case of a Chinese person stepping foot on Taiwan before 1603. China’s claim to have owned Taiwan in ancient times has zero historical evidence supporting it. 
• Today, the US Marines are training to invade southern Taiwan in case of a Chinese invasion. This is not the first time they were there. In 1867, the US Marines twice invaded Taiwan. 
• American politicians are worried about how to protect Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, the crown jewel of the Taiwanese Miracle. In fact, the Taiwanese Miracle was partially the creation of American politicians. Eisenhower pushed Chiang Kai-shek to enact the “Land to the Tillers” program, which helped jumpstart the Taiwanese economy in the 1950’s. From 1951 to 1965, the US doled out $1.5 billion in economic aid. In the 1960’s, Washington told Taiwan it needed to graduate from aid, the Stanford Research Institute cooked up a plan that would shift the Taiwanese economy from agriculture to high-end tech products. Taiwan’s semiconductor dominance is a direct result of American government investments in the 1950’s.
• Taiwanese democracy is also a product of American politicians. In the 1980’s, America grew tired of supporting despots just because they were anti-communist. American politicians like Congressman Stephen Solarz turned the screws on funding for Taiwan as it refused to democratize. The event that precipitated Taiwan’s democratization was an assassination in Daly City, California. Dry Duck, a Taiwanese gangster, walked up to Henry Liu, a China-born American citizen, and shot him in the driveway of his suburban California home. American politicians were pissed that the government officials deep in the Taiwanese authoritarian government had authorized a hit in the US. The assassination in California was the moment that Taiwan’s authoritarian government began to unravel, and Taiwan began the transition to democracy.

Xinjiang:

• In 2022, the Michelle Bachelet at the UN issued a report arguing that China had committed “serious human rights violations” in Xinjiang in constructing a system of concentration camps and forced labor factories where Xinjiang’s Muslims were imprisoned. 
• This is a genocide. The government is forcing many Uyghur women to become sterilized. In 2019, in Khotan, a city that is 96% Uyghur, the government  budgeted for 14,872 sterilizations, meaning that the government was going to try to sterilize about one third of all women of marriageable age. From 2015 to 2018, the birthrate in Khotan and Kashgar, another mostly Uyghur city, dropped by 84%, from 1.6% to .26%. In the concentration camps that the government made for Uyghurs, women were frequently injected against their will with Depo-Provera, a birth-control shot. In 2018, 80% of all IUDs in China were inserted in Xinjiang, a province with 1.84% of China’s population. 
• Why is Beijing doing this?
• China has long fought over Xinjiang. Beijing’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has claimed “since the Han Dynasty established the Western Regions Frontier Command in Xinjiang in 60 B.C., the Chinese central governments of all historical periods exercised military and administrative jurisdiction over Xinjiang.” That is false. Chinese forces controlled the region from roughly 60 BC to 0 AD and then from roughly 70-100 AD. Then it controlled the region from 640 AD to the 750’s. For the next millennium, no Chinese power would control Xinjiang until 1758, when Qing China took control of Xinjiang. Since then, Beijing has ruled over the region as a colony, fighting with the locals. 
• And what of the locals? Uyghurs claimed to have lived in Xinjiang for 6 millennia. That is also false. The first Uyghur Empire was established in the middle of modern Mongolia in 744 A.D. and the Uyghurs had nothing to do with Xinjiang. In 840, this empire collapsed, and some Uyghurs fled to the eastern corner of Xinjiang, setting up a small state there. But from 1500 to June 4, 1921, the Uyghurs disappeared. No one alive during this period would have said, “I am a Uyghur.” The Uyghurs, who had long been Buddhist, Christians or Manichean, but they largely hated Islam. Until the 1400’s. During this period, most Uyghurs went from hating Islam to becoming Muslims, and the ethnonym Uyghur, associated with anti-Muslim feeling, disappeared. When it reappeared, in the 1910’s, it came to denote the people not just a corner of Xinjiang but almost all of the Turkic speaking peoples settled in Xinjiang. 
• Xinjiang has long been fought over by Chinese, Uyghur and other groups. The region is a clusterfuck of different identities, and no one is indigenous to the region. Today’s genocide is another part of that long fight over who ought to rule the region.

Economy:

• Beijing says that universal values like freedom of speech, liberal economic policies and checks and balances don’t jive with China and its ancient civilization. In fact, the biggest economic catastrophes in Chinese history were when Chinese leaders abandoned these “American” values. 
• In 1069, Emperor Shenzong and China’s leading left-winger, Wang Anshi, pushed a government takeover of the economy, eliminated the relative freedom of speech that had previously been allowed and spiked the checks and balances of Song Dynasty China. The economic results were a disaster and caused Song China to almost collapse and split in half. 
• In the 1950’s, the Chinese Communist Party took over the government, but initially allowed the old economy to hum along as it had before. In the latter half of the 1950’s, Mao eliminated the relative political and economic openness of the first half of the decade. First, in the Hundred Flowers campaign, he slammed those who criticized him and made it so that no one was willing to call Mao out for his nonsensical ideas. Then, in the Great Leap Forward, the government ditched its relatively liberal economic policies for hardcore collectivization. The result was the world’s most deadly famine.

Ask me any question you want about the history behind the topics Trump and Xi are discussing!

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Hi Reddit! This is Evan Comen, senior data editor for government rankings at U.S. News & World Report.

U.S. News & World Report just released the 10th edition of the Best Countries rankings and the 2026 report introduces a new, data-driven methodology that evaluates 100 nations across eight core pillars – Governance, Culture & Tourism, Economic Development, Health, Infrastructure, Natural Environment, Opportunity and Civic Health – and 24 subcategories that evaluate national well-being. The rankings serve as a strategic roadmap for citizens, business leaders and governments alike to benchmark a country’s economic, political and cultural performance and drive informed decision-making. Switzerland ranks No. 1 overall this year, standing out for its continued strength in economic, institutional and social measures. You can read more about U.S. News’ methodology here.

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Some helpful links:
2026 Overall Best Countries Rankings
FAQ
Deep Dive into Switzerland’s No. 1 Rank

Subrankings:
Economic Development, Governance, Health, Culture & Tourism, Infrastructure, Opportunity, Natural Environment & Civic Health
Project Overview

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Edit: Thanks for the questions everyone! Signing off now.

***Ok, that’s us done! Thanks so much to everyone who contributed. It's been lovely and a real pleasure. If you’d like to follow up on anything you’ve read here, or if you have a book idea you’d like to discuss, please feel free to contact me directly at lynda.cooper@jkp.com***

I’m Lynda Cooper, Senior Commissioning Editor at Jessica Kingsley Publishers where I publish books for our autism list. I have worked in the industry for over 20 years, including time as Lecturer in Publishing at the University of Plymouth. I'm also parent to two fantastic kids, one of whom has an autism diagnosis - AMA!  

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Some of the books I’ve published over the years include: 

Cathy Wassell's Nurturing Your Autistic Young Person | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - UK

Eliza Fricker's Can't Not Won't | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - UK

Catherine Asta's Rediscovered | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - UK

Pete Wharmby's What I Want to Talk About | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - UK

More about Jessica Kingsley Publishers: 

At Jessica Kingsley Publishers, our authors have been celebrated for both their lived experience and specialist expertise on autism, social work, and arts therapies since we started in 1987. Since then, we've broken ground in mental health, gender diversity, adoption, and neurodiversity, as we persist in seeking out voices that have been, and continue to be, underrepresented in our world. Our publishing aims to address the challenges our communities face, while establishing positive narratives about difference that uplift and empower. 

Hi r/IAmA, 

I’m Todd Tripp, a retired general contractor with over 40 years of experience in home construction, repair, and remodeling. 

Over the course of my career, I’ve worked as a builder, plumber, and electrician—handling everything from small home fixes to full renovations. These days, I help homeowners troubleshoot problems and think through repairs as a Home Improvement Expert on JustAnswer. 

I’ve seen just about everything go wrong in a house—from small issues that are easy to fix, to costly mistakes that could’ve been avoided with the right guidance. 

I’m here to answer your questions about: 

• Common home repair and renovation mistakes  
• What’s safe to DIY vs when to call a professional  
• Plumbing, electrical, and general home issues  
• How to approach problems before they get expensive

I’ll be answering questions starting at 1pm - 2:30pm ET today. 

A few quick notes: 

• I can’t walk you through complex or dangerous repairs step-by-step  
• I won’t be able to assess specific projects in detail  
• Everything here is general advice based on experience

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About this AMA:  
We've invited independent Experts who use the JustAnswer platform to share insights in this open Q&A. These Experts work independently - they are not employees or spokespersons of JustAnswer - and their opinions are their own. 

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>That’s all the time we have for today. Thank you all for the great questions! > >A big thank you to Todd Tripp, retired general contractor and JustAnswer Home Improvement Expert, for sharing his knowledge and helping break down common home repair issues, DIY decisions, and ways to avoid costly mistakes. > >The thread will remain open for anyone who wants to continue reading through the answers shared. > >Thanks to the r/IAmA community for participating! > >Nat from JustAnswer

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Hi Reddit pals, 

My name is Joe Mirabello (u/blankslatejoe), founder of Terrible Posture Games and long time redditor.

We’ve been building surprising and silly games for more than 13 years as a studio, most notably including FPS roguelikes Tower of Guns and MOTHERGUNSHIP, Invincible Presents: Atom Eve (in collaboration with Skybound Games), Battle Train, and others.

We’re thrilled to be launching Burgle Supply Company (formally titled Good Boy) into 1.0 today! 

It's a ridiculous co-op heisting game with hand-built levels, where your burglar masks give you unique stat boosts and looting bonuses and a giant mutant monster dog hunts you down at every turn. Also you can steal things from a Renaissance Festival. Rally your friends, don some funny masks, and loot a nightmarish neighborhood full of creepy pet monstrosities.

I’m happy to answer any questions you may have about a lucrative career in crime (in game of course…), or any inquiries about Terrible Posture Games and our projects on 5/12/2026.

I've never done one of these before... but have benefited from reading them a ton in the past and am happy to contribute back! Ask me anything about indie dev, game making, collecting classic 90's fps games, and, of course, Burgle Supply Company (annnd maybe pick it up today on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3670740/Burgle_Supply_Company ?)

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