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Just chillin today and looking to chat with peeps so we can be friends. Wife is traveling for work so feeling a bit lonely I spose
I’m big on running and exploring my wilderness, camping, hiking, all that good stuff. Nature is my safe place.
I like all kinds of music and I have tattoos. I get down on five finger death punch, I prevail, falling in reverse, pierce the vale!! I’m addicted to tattoos fr lmao
I spend loads of time gaming. League of legends, overwatch, call of duty, civ, Diablo, I’ll play anything lmao. I’m not really into Nintendo though, sorry!!
Hit me up if you wanna chat, I’m always down

Hi, I have several PDFs and epub textbooks that I want to get into chatGPT to Q&A to improve my comprehension on a chapter by chapter basis. All but one of them run into an error extracting information.
I really only need the text so wanted to ask if anyone had good experience with any 3rd party tools (windows, web or android based) that you just suck out the text and put it in a doc or another format where I can Q&A the contents?
Does anyone have a good workflow for this that they can recommend? Thanks!

I ask this because of a post we saw yesterday reminded me of… some things. A little while ago, I was just casually going through our old texts with our partner, and as I was going through I realize how terrible I was to her. But she never blamed me, or said anything about it. She just knew somehow what I was about me that I never wanted to realize. And when she could’ve very easily just crushed me and said she didn‘t want to be with me anymore, she didn’t. She put up with me being absolutely unspeakable to her, and gave me the most love and care and respect anyone ever has. She‘s never gotten mad, or blamed me, or said that there was something wrong with me. But there was this one thing that really made all of this realization sink in. I had said “I love you” to her. And she replied with, “Are you okay love?” and I said, “I’m fine- why?” and what she said next broke my heart. ”You just… don’t really say I love you first. I mean, you’ll say it back, but it’s very very rare you say it first.” It was at that moment that I knew, I am an asshole. At that moment, rereading that, it just washed over me that I. Was. Terrible. Absolutely horrible. And she still loves me. And still supports us, and lets us vent to her or tell her all the crazy things we do- and I am so so grateful for her, and that she gave me what I needed (I never knew) to become the ever-growing persecutor-protecter I am now. Saved my life, she did. -Alex (this is just me rambling about my discovery, nothing serious :])

I’m currently living in an apartment building that I’m pretty certain is infested with bed bugs. We have seen them multiple times in our laundry room and I have notified the landlord plenty of times to see if we could get the building treated. I was basically told no and that if I wanted my apartment treated I needed to figure it out myself (even though it says in our lease our apartments will be getting annual checks for pests.. I have lived here for four years and this has never been done.. when I asked about this they said it was because of COVID.. it’s 2024..eyeroll). I tried to call an exterminator about a month ago to come in and check to get some piece of mind and maybe do a light treatment. The exterminator also said no because there were no signs of an infestation in our unite.. okay then..
So then I went ahead and took the matter into my own hands and bought some diacotamis earth (spelling lol?). I figured this was working because I have never seen anything in our unite despite knowing there are people in this building who have it BAD.
Come a few days ago, I’m going to bed and happen to see a little tiny white bug crawling along our box spring. I freaked out and decided when I got home from work I was going to move our bed and sweep all around it & sweep our mattress/box spring. Once I started doing this I noticed these clusters of black marks all on our brand new box spring cover. My heart sank because I knew it was bed bug shit. I then lifted up our mattress and found a big one & have basically lost it mentally after that.
I propped up our box springs and looked inside of them and didn’t see anything.. the clusters of shit were sort of all positioned on the side of the box spring that goes against the wall.. so I’m assuming they’re coming from the cracks between our wall and floors.
I did the diachotomis earth treatment again and moved our bed from against the wall. I vacuumed heavily, patched up a hole I found on our mattress when going to clean it, and bought a mattress case. I need to know what to do next.. getting an exterminator seems pretty pointless if they’re coming from other unites.. we are heavily heavily considering just moving at least just into my partners moms house and getting a storage unite for our belongings until we find somewhere new to live and we know our stuff is safe.. What are the best precautions when it comes to moving in this situation? We will more than likely be getting a new bed in the future at the least.
Also what are some tips for just being able to live everyday life with BBs? I was originallyqq really excited for this weekend bc my best friend is getting married, but now I just feel depressed and can’t focus on anything else.. idk how to go to work, be social or just relax in my home without worrying about this. I feel like my life is on hold..

I need some help, people of reddit! Is this guy showing some serious perv vibes, or is he just a normal guy? Okay so I 32(f) am in my first relationship ever with 35(m). We met on a Christian dating site. We've talked since a month ago, and have seen each other 6 times. We've kissed and cuddled, and he is aware that this is my first relationship. So far this guy has been nothing but gentlemanly, never tried anything or said anything off color. Always made sure I was okay with any physical contact first. He really seems like the perfect guy! Except for excessive joking that endorphins can fix every ache or ailment. On the sixth date, he started getting suggestive. He started making jokes about skinny dipping in a river, I told him no. Jokes about checking me for ticks. Then when we got to the lake he kept saying we could strip down to our underwear to swim. We went to wade in the lake and he said I could take my pants off. Anyway, I was unreceptive to comments like that, just told him no but didn't get too mad. He kind of laid off for the rest of the night, and we had a good evening. However the next day through our text conversation, he started back up, somehow me being sick lead to "cuddling naked", and when I was talking about problems I was having with my job, he took a stripped screw and made a sexual hint about it. I am just too hyper, or is this guy a little out of hand? You think by now he'd catch the hint that I think it's too soon to talk like that? I mean only 6 dates? Or am I just out of touch?

I have a large fibroid that's growing plus a good sized ovarian cyst plus some small fibroids. My ob-gyn says I need to go ahead and get this dealt with -- but the fibroid is larger than she's comfortable with so she referred me off to someone else in her practice (male). She said a hysterectomy probably would be 4-6 hour surgery and quite complex. I had the consult with him and explained that I really wasn't crazy about having a hysterectomy. He said that he could do a myectomy instead [cut the fibroid out of the wall of the uterus, stitch the uterus back up] and it would be a much shorter recovery time (7 - 10 days) than the hysterectomy. No need to have a MRI to see if there are other things going on besides the big one and the little ones.
Had a 2nd opinion consult -- doc #2 says that the recovery time for the myectomy would be about the same as for hysterectomy. His patients are at 80% recovery in 2 weeks. The myomectomy would be a more challenging surgery because of the need to sew the uterus back up - especially if there were multiple fibroids that would need to come out. Said it's usually a good idea to get MRI to have full picture of what's going on in the innards for the myomectomy. Hysterectomy should be an hour or so procedure.
At this point I'm not really sure who to believe. I am not crazy about having ANY surgery as my symptoms are predominantly gastrointestinal but mostly dealable with, but I can't overlook the fact that 2 of the 3 drs are concerned about the cyst possibly being cancerous [it seems you aren't supposed to get cysts after 30 years on the pill] or that the fibroid is growing (currently approx 10 cm) and could be a major surgery down the road.
knowing that the internet isn't doctors, but there is wisdom from people that have had these lived experiences, comments/feedback/ things that I should incorporate into my decision making? Male dr in my original ob/gyn practice felt very rushed and not informative. Second opinion doc much nicer but probably would refer me to someone else in that practice due to size of fibroids.

Frankly, as a bisexual Jew, I feel safer as a bisexual in Jewish spaces than as a Jew in LGBT spaces. Admittedly, I've always felt somewhat disconnected from the LGBT community, and it's always seemed like they've never truly accepted me as a Jewish person, whether it's because I'm involved in religion at all, or because I'm explicitly Jewish. I've usually kept my distance from my campus's LGBTQ center, particularly since becoming President of our Hillel (not exactly easy since Hillel's office in the Interfaith center is right across the hall), but since the conflict, I've felt like LGBT communities are not safe for me anymore, as if they view my very presence as a threat. Like, a few weeks ago, one of my friends who's also Jewish and LGBTQ (and a member of my executive cabinet in our Hillel e-board) was hanging out with me and some of our friends in the Interfaith center when someone from the LGBTQ Center that they hang out with (our office has big windows looking in from the hallway) came in and told them (ostensibly thinking it would be funny, but clearly at least half-serious), "blink twice if you need help". We were so taken aback by it, none of us knew what to say. They told him they were fine and asked them to leave, but I think it was really eye-opening about just how little acceptance we really have.

Guys I'm about to drop some money on a rotary this weekend and It's going to be my first entry into the big bad and very addictive world of spending loads of money on man toys haha
So i'm wondering if anyone has played with each of these i'm leaning towards the eclar but the split que issue or lacking of a split que on there is making me slightly reserved as I usually mix in headphones, it should be too hard to adjust really though should it?
And of course the price saved on the Omnitronic just means a heap more records to buy?
Can anyone give any Advice at all?

I (21f) am 32 weeks pregnant and my baby shower was supposed to be next Saturday. I have split parents so I have step parents that have been part of my life for years. At first I was planning my own baby shower but got too stressed out with it and let my mom take over. I had already made inventions all she had to do is mail them out. What I didn’t know is she wasn’t planning on having my step dads family there. So when I got a text today from someone from my step dad’s side of the family saying they haven’t gotten an invitation yet I told her the date and time of the occasion. When I called my mom to let her know that people still haven’t gotten invitations she freaked out. Not because they haven’t gotten them yet but because she didn’t mail some of them on purpose. Now granted she said I could have the baby shower at her house and it is a stressful thing to have such a big event. My mom is also very paranoid of what people think of her so whenever people come over the house MUST be spotless. My thing is that I had invited people I wanted there. And my request got denied. I’m a single parent already so I’m going to need as much help as I can get from all of my family. I told my mom that I was mad and that I would talk to her later and hung up the phone. This whole thing has really just turned me off the idea of a baby shower and I really just want to cancel it and not have to worry about it. It’s causing so much stress that isn’t necessary especially for pregnancy. Am I the a**hole for wanting to cancel my baby shower?

Hi everyone I wanted to give a quick update and thank you to everyone who responded to my panicky post last week. The surgery went very well the doctors are really happy with him. It was a tough night luckily there was a bed in the hospital with me and I swapped out with my wife in the middle of the night while he got over his anestesia haze.
Dressing the would was a bit of a shock but the nurses were great and did the first one for us. We have a few more days in the surgery but he's such a trooper I'm not worried.
Thanks again to everyones support and messages it really helped calm me down before the big day.

Basically I have a normal job. I get a w2 and I file my taxes. Easy. I've never done anything other than a standard deduction because I never really was comfortable with that and never really had any expenses to put there. I tried one year and put some stuff in there it asked me for on turbo tax and at the end it was like "the standard deduction is better"
So. Now I want to start picking up some door dash hours and pulling in some extra money on the side. So here's my question.
How will I file if I do a 1099 and a w2? Everywhere online it says that I need to do deductions for mileage and gas.
There's a standard deduction for mileage, as well as a more involved version like the schedule C or whatnot. Which allows me to deduct things like gas, miles, phone, chargers, phone holders, supplies, and even vehicle maintenance and insurance.
On a turbo tax page for deliver drivers it says if I use a separate phone for business I can write off my phone bill. But that if I use it for both work and personal thay I have to split it. Does that mean I just take the total value of my phone bill and split it based on the hours door dashing and not door dashing? Is that the same with my car maintenance or insurance?
My big question is.. Since stand deduction is the best for me in most situations for my normal job will I still be able to do that with my W2 job and then do an itemized deduction lost for the door dash job? Or will trying to do itemized deductions for my door dash 1099 make it want me to do itemized for my entire tax return?
I could simply pocket the roughly 10% I would need. (I think it's 10%. People said 15% because state and federal but I don't have to pay state taxes.)
Any help or input on this would be great.

I created a new account to post this because I am too embarrassed to use my regular one.
My now ex-boyfriend and I met on Facebook dating in September of 2022. We hit it off like I’ve never done with anyone else. I thought the age difference would be an issue but turns out it’s just a number. We never ever argued. We got along great. We always had a great time together. So many laughs. So much banter. So many jokes. I thought I’d found the one.
I have a history of being abused; physically, mentally, and emotionally. So needless to say being with someone who was so nice and caring to me was foreign territory. Deep down I thought I didn’t deserve it but as time went on I got used to it. I never let my history get in the way of our relationship.
I have always been supportive of him and his dreams, I never judged. I never talked down. I never nagged. I treated him like I wanted to be treated.
Fast forward to this past January: I found out I was pregnant. I was shocked because I didn’t think I could get pregnant again. Plus I follow my cycle like a hawk. I waited a couple of days to tell him because I was a pile of nerves.
He didn’t believe me at first. Asked me to see the test then asked if termination was an option. I said absolutely not. He proceeded to tell me he wasn’t ready to be a dad (even though he is very well-off). I said OK. I will handle this on my own.
To my surprise he walked in from work a couple of days later and the first words out of his mouth were “we are done”. I was shocked. Hurt. I didn’t even know how to react. I nearly passed out. He also said “I want you to be the one but you aren’t”. And a bunch of other things I can’t remember right now.
Four days later I ended up in the ER and I miscarried. He was there with me. I didn’t have the strength to drive in the middle of a blizzard. I have never cried so much in my life. I feel like I died inside. He cried with me, held my hand.
We ended up talking and he said he wanted to give us another shot. We “cleared the air” as he put it. I thought we were doing fine. We ended up going to couple’s therapy and I thought we were on the same page.
However, this gut feeling just wouldn’t go away. I thought maybe I was stressed over the loss, over work, over whatever and I was just reading into things that were no big deal to begin with.
No matter how many excuses I made for my feelings, it just wouldn’t go away. It led to many panic attacks, thoughts of ending my life, (yes it was that bad), feeling guilty over the loss of my baby. I was a mess.
So this Sunday I did something I never thought I’d do: go through his phone. I was not shocked at what I found. He had been sxting this woman whom he went on a date with before we met. Of course he used Snapchat. I loathe that app. I knew about her and it never sat right with me. Up until that point he never gave me a reason not to believe him.
To make a long story short: today I broke up with him. I told him I knew he was lying. He blamed the girl for sending him pictures without him asking. I said “that’s funny because your last message to her was “holy fuck”. Doesn’t sound like someone who is upset to be getting nudes.
In a way he tried to blame me and of course I called him out on his bullshit and said “nah, this is all on you”. There is no excuse for cheating in my eyes. None. Zero. And I refuse to take the blame. None of this is my fault.
He said he didn’t want to hurt me, that we weren’t meant to be, all kinds of bullshit.
My heart is in a million pieces. He was my best friend. He knows my deepest secrets, he is the only person in my life who knows about my past sucdal thoughts (I felt comfortable telling him because he struggled with the same thing as a teen). I felt so loved when I was with him. He was so affectionate all the time. It is something I had never experienced before.
Please please tell me it will be okay. Please give me any advice you can to help me move on from this without losing my sanity?
Tl;dr I need help dealing with the loss my partner and best friend. I never thought this day would come.

I don't really need anything fancy just reliable. All I need to know is the time and be able to get notifications from my phone. I'm constantly getting texts and emails about things so it would be nice to be able to see those and maybe even respond. I don't really care about tracking stuff like heart rate, sleep, steps, etc.
I'm a custodian so the band is gonna get dirty, I need one that can be easily cleaned and replaced for cheap. Most importantly I need it to be reliable. Unfortunately it's just a hassle to carry my phone with me everywhere (already too many keys, walkies, etc in my pockets).
I don't wanna buy something for $50 and it break on me. But I also don't wanna spend $200+ on something fancy that's gonna get beat up. Any suggestions?

Can you help our family choose a dog? [Breeds]
We are a family of 3 with a 2 year old boy. We are finally settled in our new home and we are ready to add a dog to our family.
Introduction
1) Will this be your first dog? If not, what experience do you have owning/training dogs?

• We grew up with dogs but it will our first time as the primary care givers/ trainers.

2) Do you have a preference for rescuing a dog vs. going through a reputable breeder?

• We would like to buy a puppy.

3) Describe your ideal dog.

• we would like a dog that is good around children and doesn’t bark like a husky. A medium sized dog that could run with me and wouldnt be too challenging to train and well behaved around other dogs.

4) What breeds or types of dogs are you interested in and why?

• my wife is mostly interested in dogs that she considers beautiful such as the Samoyed(example for her idea of beauty in a dog). For myself I always loved Saint Bernards, a giant, calm and friendly dog. But it’s not very practical since my wife is quite small and feels intimidated by the size.

5) What sorts of things would you like to train your dog to do?

• to follow basic commands like stop, wait, leave it. And lie down and follow me while running. (Jogging around 5km)

6) Do you want to compete with your dog in a sport (e.g. agility, obedience, rally) or use your dog for a form of work (e.g. hunting, herding, livestock guarding)? If so, how much experience do you have with this work/sport?

• Not at all

Care Commitments
7) How long do you want to devote to training, playing with, or otherwise interacting with your dog each day?

• I have a few hours per day spare.

8) How long can you exercise your dog each day, on average? What sorts of exercise are you planning to give your dog regularly and does that include using a dog park?

• about 2 hours per day. We will go to dog parks occasionally as well as open land.

9) How much regular brushing are you willing to do? Are you open to trimming hair, cleaning ears, or doing other grooming at home? If not, would you be willing to pay a professional to do it regularly?

• up to 30 mins a day and willing to pay for bi-monthly grooming.

Personal Preferences
10) What size dog are you looking for?

• a medium sized dog maybe around 20 inches. The middle to high end of medium.

11) How much shedding, barking, and slobber can you handle?

• less barking and slobber, a moderate amount of shedding would be ok. I don’t mind cleaning the floor every day but I don’t want to spend 5 minutes with a lint roller every time I leave the house.

12) How important is being able to let your dog off-leash in an unfenced area?

• important

Dog Personality and Behavior
13) Do you want a snuggly dog or one that prefers some personal space?

• somewhere in the middle but definitely snuggly over cat like.

14) Would you prefer a dog that wants to do its own thing or one that’s more eager-to-please?

• eager to please

15) How would you prefer your dog to respond to someone knocking on the door or entering your yard? How would you prefer your dog to greet strangers or visitors?

• friendly to cautious but not aggressive or afraid.

16) Are you willing to manage a dog that is aggressive to other dogs?

• no since we will come across a lot of dogs every day.

17) Are there any other behaviors you can’t deal with or want to avoid?

• just the common things like leash pulling.

Lifestyle
18) How often and how long will the dog be left alone?

• very rarely completely alone, maybe once every 1-2 months we will go out for a day trip late morning to evening. Preferably the dog would be ok with it, but we can easily arrange a visitor or care if not.

19) What are the dog-related preferences of other people in the house and what will be their involvement in caring for the dog?

• no preferences different to those mentioned already. My wife will occasionally feed/ walk the dog, but mostly it will be me with the ‘help’ of my son.

20) Do you have other pets or are you planning on having other pets? What breed or type of animal are they?

• turtle in an aquarium.

21) Will the dog be interacting with children regularly?

• yes all the time since I have a 2 year old.

22) Do you rent or plan to rent in the future? If applicable, what breed or weight restrictions are on your current lease?

• my own house.

23) What city or country do you live in and are you aware of any laws banning certain breeds?

• China, there are only bans on the really big dogs.

24) What is the average temperature of a typical summer and winter day where you live?

• peak summers usually around 35c but can reach 40c at times winter typically sits around 0c give or take a few degrees.

Additional Information and Questions
25) Please provide any additional information you feel may be relevant.

• No additional information.

26) Feel free to ask any questions below.
We really appreciate any guidance! Thank you for your time.

So I do hope she’s okay. I’m not really big on social media and don’t exactly follow others regularly to know everything that is going on with them. But I had followed her main IG foxylv page and consignment IG page, foxylvden for a while now. Around 1.5 years ago or so I sent in an item for her to put into her shop for consignment. It has not sold at all and I kind of got busy with my own life and didn’t really keep in communication with her. I had intended to ask to make arrangements to have it sent back to me but just put it off.
Until the other day someone made a post about her kind of just disappearing off social media for what seems like to be at least a few months now? This got me really worried as she still had my item. So I messaged her on the foxylvden account as that’s one I used to communicate with her in the past on about the consignment. Looks like her main page, foxylv is now gone so I couldn’t message her on that. I heard mentioned that her main page got removed and she’s locked out with no access to her selling one. However, when I sent her a message on the selling one it had said she was “active 1 hour ago”. But it’s been a few days and no reply.
Another user on here suggest I message her on her foxylv TikTok account. So I did that as well and haven’t heard back there either. I just checked the IG message thread to see if there’s any response and there isn’t but says “active 6 hours ago”. I did comment and ask another user if they were ever able to get a hold of her on one of her posts. As that user wasn’t able to get a hold of her either about a package they sent her. But that was from like a bunch of weeks ago and not sure if that person will see the comment or respond.
So I’m really not sure at this point what to do. From my understanding there is no number or email address posted on her accounts for the consignment services. Communication seems to be all done via social media instead. I’m wondering if anyone had any suggestions on what to do next or if anyone else is on the same boat? I see a number of other items still posted on the consignment page so I’m assuming I’m not the only one who still has items of theirs in her possession. I’m not trying to stir or cause drama as idk what is all going on with her. I do hope is she is alright. But I also really want my item back too…

I understand posting on here to find out how something is done, but there is a point when it just seems silly. You get a post that asks "how do I do this" and it'll be an image with text on it. First off, why not ask "how do I put text on the screen". Second, why wouldn't you just google that?
Then on the other side of the spectrum are posts asking how to create a really complicated series of animations mixed with graphics, effects and a hell of a lot of work. I get not knowing how to do a certain part of it that you'd like a bit of help with (although rarely will they explain what part they're having trouble with), but most of the time it seems like they expect a detailed breakdown of something that would be explained in a 30 minute YouTube video.
Is this just a me thing?

Hi all, my biz just reach a $40m valuation after a tonne of hard work but my click-bait title is designed to outline whats wrong in this Sub-reddit.
Unfortunately, most of the content here doesn't represent true entrepreneurs but rather wantrepreneurs that think you need a crazy idea to make it, you have too many great ideas and can't focus, how you make a tonne of cash without working hard.
In this post, I am just going to lay out some home truths in the hope that maybe one person may not waste their hard earned money on a silly idea, or perhaps stop daydreaming and start doing.
Entrepreneurship is NOT about big ideas
There are 5.6m employer firms in the USA, thats at least 5.6m entrepreneurs in the USA. Most of these entrepreneurs have businesses in existing industries. People today have been poisoned by click bait regarding geniuses like Mr. Zuck or Page. & Brin who have dominated their fields and created wealth beyond anyone's wildest dreams yet their ideas weren't original, Google wasn't the first search engine. It wasn't the second, not even the third.
Successful business is all about execution. A great team with a dull and mundane product are so much more likely to get succeess than a college grad with a big dream.

• If you feel that being an entrepreneur requires a big idea, you are a wantrepreneur
• If you carry a notebook with all yout great ideas, you are a wantrepreneur.
• If you have so many great ideas but just lack focus (also known as as the ability to execute well), you are a wantrepreneur

Every headhunter that starts their own headhunting firm is an entrepreneur and they aren't doing anything massively different, they just back themselves to execute better. Lawyers who make their own practices are entrepreneurs, you don't need to create the next automated legal subscription service to be an entrepreneur.
Either learn a business, get great, save up and then launch a slightly differentiated business or focus on looking for problems in the job you currently are doing.
Stop dreaming, start executing
Successful entrepreneurs spend more time empowering others to build their business
A lot of people lurking around this sub seem to relish the idea of bring their big idea to life. I have news for you; this process is maybe 6-18months of your business. The rest is incremental improvements and empowering others to grow your business further.
Maybe you are working in a 9-5 job and dreaming via this sub is a way to keep you sane but remember when you have 100 people working for you, you have 100 people potentially thinking of ways to move to the next thing. Who doesn't want to be a tech millionaire! Remember, you probably think you are under-paid and under-appreciated but every person you employ will think similar!
Even if you have the experience, drive and ingenuity to build the beginnings of a business, you can only grow it so much before you need to rely on others. If you cannot empower those people, you will not execute and you will not succeed.
A manager who knows how to empower and excite their sub-ordinates is so much more value than someone who wants to create 'strategy' all the time. If you don't have this skill yet, you will need a co-founder does or you will need to get more corporate experience
Businesses aren't built for you
Many posts on this sub talk are variants of get rich quick schemes or figuring out how to 'side hustle'. At the heart of it, many wantrepreneurs think that working for themselves will bring immense freedom and untold riches.
When you employ 100 people, you are responsible for the livelihoods of 100 people. You are priority 2 vs your staff. Businesses need people and people need to believe that their fearless leader can make great outcomes for them!
Think about that for a second. Are you mature enough to be responsible for 100 families rent or mortgage? Do you realize that a silly decision on your side could actually create financial hardship for others?
If your business is not built to make your employees lives better, your great employees will churn out and your business and you will not succeed.
When you look at your spreadsheet imaginging the $100m net income from your online bow-tie emporium, just remember, those 'staff' numbers will become real people. Be prepared to look after them.
Managing your staff well is worth 100x that zany, crazy idea.... soz
Why do you want to be an entrepreneur?
I think that by now I can call myself a successful entrepreneur and while I am a wealthy human on paper, I am grinding and saving like everyone else. In fact, my sister who is a few years younger than me and who works in law earns triple what I do whilst complaining that she doesn't have the work freedom.
If you just want to be wealthy, without the hassle of all the above, try your best to get into those premier industries and make a career out of it. If you aren't fortunate enough to be able to move into Law, medicine, finance etc then excel at what you are currently doing and then do exactly the same thing yourself.
I think that is enough of a rant. Dreaming is great because the thought of being successful can fill that emotional void but unfortunately it isn't real. Furthermore, if you think that being an entrepreneur means being the next Zuck or equivalent, you are essentially trying to replicate 0.01% of successful entrepreneurs as opposed to the 99.99% unsung business owners out there
Good luck to all!

I need to get away from 5e-brain. Can you recommend me easy to learn systems?
As the title suggests, I would like to play a different system than D&D 5e, and (mostly) lurking in this sub has exposed me to many systems (probably too many). I am not really looking for a 5e alternative; I'm looking for something that steers me and my players away from the trappings that D&D 5e and its adjacent systems encourage.
The core of my group consists of me and two other guys; they only GM 5e. I ran a one-shot and a homebrew campaign in 5e and an intro adventure in SotDL. We also have a few players that rotated in and out, mostly due to scheduling or reliability issues. Currently, we have just one other player: the girlfriend of one of the others (She is new to RPGs).
I feel like the playstyle we have is very typical for a 5e group, heavily influenced by Critical Role and similar actual play series, and it's just not what I want to run. I am looking for a game that needs to be played differently and gives advice on running and maybe even playing it. I've read a few systems, but I want to be confident enough to run the system and be able to give pointers to my players on how they should think about the game. (Two of the criticisms of the level-0 adventure in SotDL were that they felt like they could not do that much and that it was too similar to 5e.)
This is further complicated by language: it would be great, if it's available in German, since only me and one other player speak English well enough to easily read and comprehend paragraphs worth of text.
So, I'm looking for a system that:

• doesn't have too many rules
• is distinctly NOT 5e
• has advice on running and playing it, maybe even examples
• is preferably available in German
• no hard sci-fi and strictly historical stuff, since I'm personally not too interested in it

If you have a wombo-combo of a system and some high-quality blog posts/videos with the desired guidance, that would be okay too :)

I, 17(F) have a crush on a guy 17(M) in my class. He texted me last week saying hey and started sending me memes and flirty reels. We even added each other to our cf stories and started liking stories. In real life, he looked like he was afraid to talk to me, but still managed to talk once. Now, he stopped messaging me completely saying that he won't be active on instagram anymore. We only have eye contacts in class. Does he not like me anymore? I really like him and want to get to know him but this just really frustrates me. What should I do? I'm afraid to talk to him irl too cause i like him so much.

Excited for the direction Sony is going with the Xperia VI line up. Here are my thoughts going on from it.
Go back to 21:9. In my opinion it's so good for 1 handed use and movies. Multitasking is also great since you get great amount of screen real estate. 19.5:9 is just akward imo. Maybe bigger screen for 16:9 content but trade of isn't worth it.
Make the screen QHD. QHD although being bit overkill for smartphone but for premium android phone it is standard. I think it is good balance between battery life and resolution. FHD just makes it in my mind seem like cutting corners.
Keep working on the point and shoot camera whilst keeping the professional modes. Good point and shoot is necessary to make the phone appealing to masses. Professional modes are amaizing in the right hands. Sony also has advantage when they have the chance to make the hardware and software.
Update support to 4/5 or 5/6 years. People do want their phones lasting and getting update as long as possible. Competition also offers this and 3 years of os support and 4 years security updates being better than 2 and 3 but pales in comparison to Samsung and Oneplus. Also the green thing to do.
Keep the good Sony things and improve. Like SD card support, dual front facing speakers and headphone jack. They should really try to push the limits on the size of the phone's "forehead" and "chin". If the phone looked more modern and competition it might sell better.
Re-think the lineup. 1 VII should be having all the features in a big package. 1 could maybe have QHD screen but 5 could go for FHD in my opinion since the screen is smaller. 10 VII really needs 120hz or atleast 90hz screen. 60hz screen is just bad for 400€ phone in 2024. 10 should be great budget option but now it feels like too many corners are cut. Core features should obviously be same across the line like now. 10 VII should be the phone to entice people try out Sony phones.
Marketing. Is non existing currently. If people don't see the new device it won't be selling at all. It comes down to money but the reality is just what it is. Making the phone available sooner is crucial. They have really improved on this compared to past years but still little room for improvement.
Sony has good vision for making phones. Many good features that many people miss but the features for average user are lacking. Marketing and support is also poor but all the things come down to money.

Hello everyone! Canadian here who lives in the US, been on mint going on two years now.
My wife and I are currently visiting family in Canada and have been happy with roaming. We were of course very disappointed when the roaming changed from pay as you go... however with the price adjustments it's definitely affordable. What is really great is the amount of data you get, we aren't worried about using data at all. Looking forward to having free roaming here in Canada when that is implemented!
My wife on iPhone 14 Pro has had no issues. I am on a Samsung A25 5G and when accessing the Mint app I get the "are you on VPN?" message when I am not on my VPN. However I can log in on the app when I am connected to VPN through a US node. The only other issue I had was when my data plan expired and I could not send the "allow" text message when 2fa was confirming it was me accessing the app. But by going through the mint website on my phone, instead of using the app, I was able to authenticate using Google authenticator and purchase/activate the new roaming plan.
I see lots of complaints on this subreddit so I thought I would chime in with some more positive news as I wait for my wife to finish an appointment. Perhaps my couple workarounds will help others when using Mint roaming.

My husband’s mom is a generally unproblematic person, we’ve never really had conflict. She was a terrible alcoholic for the first few years of me and husband’s relationship so I just kept my distance. She’s sober now but there is a lot of broken trust because of things that happened while she was drinking and even after, she continued to show questionable judgement so we just didn’t spend a lot of time with her but it was never hostile. She has never had any sense of boundaries but it was more in a roll my eyes and ignore her kind of way, until baby was born.
My son is her first biological grandkid (husband’s sister had babies but they are MILs step-grandchildren.) I had an emergency C section, which was traumatic for me, and baby was born with some unexpected health issues. The stress of the situation made my milk super slow to come in and I was barely producing anything when it did come. I would let LO clusterfeed for hours and hours to get my supply up and he would cry whenever he was not in my arms/ on the boob. In addition to all of this I had postpartum insomnia, anxiety and depression and really struggled bonding with my baby. All that to say, I was going through hell the first few weeks of my baby’s life and it was genuinely the worst time of my life.
I decided not to have visitors in the hospital and for the first few days home besides for my own mom who was there to take care of me. When I did allow visitors (literally only 4dpp) my MIL was really sick so I had her wear a mask and did not let her hold baby. She then started asking to visit daily. We said no a lot but she was still coming over at a frequency of every few days, so multiple times a week. When she did come over she did nothing helpful, just wanted to sit on our couch and hold baby for HOURS. She’d ask us to make her coffee, to sample food from our fridge, etc. Incredibly inconsiderate and tone-deaf.
When LO was 2 weeks old FIL called my husband to talk to him on his mom’s behalf. Apparently she had been sobbing everyday that we said no to visitors and was asking FIL to appeal to my husband to let her see him more. Keeping in mind he was only TWO weeks old and she had seen him 6+ times. She said she had imagined that she would be a lot more involved in taking care of him and her feelings were hurt that I was “keeping her away” and she wanted to know what she had done wrong. When I tell you my jaw literally hit the floor when my husband told me this.
He called her directly and said I’m sorry that your feelings are hurt but we have so much on our plate right now and we do not need anyone piling on. She just doubled down and was crying and begging him to be able to come see baby “even just for a few minutes a day.” Husband said we’re not going to agree to that and then ended the call.
After that, she would start just coming to our house unannounced without asking so we would not have the chance to say no. Husband walks the dogs with FIL every day (FIL never entered our house, he just met husband outside) and MIL started coming when FIL came to walk and just literally came in my house without knocking. She walked in when I was breastfeeding or in my bra multiple times and she would always purposefully enter really loudly to wake up the baby if he was napping. My husband once again had to say no unannounced visitors and no drop in visits.
Husband is now back at work so it’s just me and baby during the day. Since he has been back she has texted me almost daily, maybe every other day, asking to come over. It’ll be like “hey I’m driving by your house in a few minutes, can I stop and see the baby?” and I always feel SO guilty saying no but like WHAT THE FUCK. It makes me feel like a hostage in my own house and that I have to keep my blinds closed and doors locked and pretend I’m not home. I see her drive by my house multiple times a day.
I genuinely think that she thought she was going to be like a second mom to LO. I have no idea how she got that impression, because she was never involved in our lives in the 8 years I’ve been with her husband. I personally think even ONE visit a week is excessive but I was willing to compromise by letting husband make the call to schedule those visits or not during his parenting time while I’m “off duty.” Her texting me multiple times a week asking to come over is driving me fucking insane. I only have 2 weeks left of my maternity leave and I don’t want to spend it fucking dodging my mother in law constantly!