adidas official site is running extra 30% off most of jerseys now, it may expire soon.

I turned 53 last week, and yeah, I've always had a dry skin, that tight feeling after cleansing, flakiness around my nose and cheeks. The whole thing has only increased as i got older. I've been trying to stop the cycle of switching products and focus on hydration and barrier repair but stuck.

I've picked up the Vitamin C super serum and some moisturizer from CeraVe, but I'll like to know what’s worked for you. Is there any gal here with dry and sensitive skin like me? What have you used that helped? Thank you.

I've been lifting 4 days a week and doing cardio on off days, and figuring out snacks that give me energy for workouts without eating into my calorie goals too much has been a whole thing. I used to just grab a protein bar before training but honestly most of them sit like a brick in my stomach when I'm trying to squat.

What I've landed on:

Before training: half a banana with a tiny smear of peanut butter about 45 min before I lift. Light enough that I don't feel sick but enough that I have energy. Maybe 120 cals.

After training: greek yogurt with some granola. I keep the granola to like 2 tablespoons so it doesn't become a 500 calorie situation. This one is about 180 cals.

Afternoon when I'm just at my desk: rice cake with cottage cheese and everything bagel seasoning. Sounds odd but the combo works. About 100 cals.

Evening: shameless gummies or frozen fruit. I switch between the two depending on what sounds good that night.

The thing I had to accept is that my snacks on training days and rest days should look different. On rest days I eat way lighter snacks because I'm just less hungry overall. On training days I need the carbs before and the protein after or I feel terrible.

I ran a sort of accidental experiment over the last 5 months. I help my mom with her etsy shop (vintage jewelry) and I also run my own (knitted goods). Same pinterest strategy, same posting schedule, same general design templates. Her shop's pinterest is doing 3x better than mine and we cannot figure out why Vintage jewelry pins consistently get 4-6% click through, my knitted goods pins are at like 1.5%. she's posting fewer pins than I am with worse photography sometimes hahahha but the product price points are similar and the pinterest descriptions follow the same format Is some pinterest marketing for small business stuff just niche dependent in a way nobody talks about? or is there something i'm missing about visual conversion in textile vs jewelry? going slightly insane

sat down sunday night to find a melody i hummed into my phone a couple weeks back. couldn't place which clip, file names useless. when i found it the spark was gone. i just hear someone humming offkey, not what i had in my head.

my voice memos folder is mostly stuff i recorded at 1am thinking ""this is the one"" and never touched again. ratio of clips i come back to vs clips that just sit there is bad.

the part that kills me is the rhythm. i can usually figure out the notes if i sit with it long enough. but the timing, the way i landed on a particular beat or stretched a phrase, that's what i lose first. a week later it's just notes on a page.

what's your system? i've tried naming files better. tried voice-memoing the chord shape with the melody. tried looping a short bit on piano right after to anchor it. nothing's stuck.

is it discipline, a tool in the mix, or does everyone just lose most of their ideas the same way.

My family and I are considering a pretty major full home remodel and are trying to find the right company before we move forward.This isn’t just one room. We’re talking about a more complete remodel of the house, and we want someone who can help us think through the project as a whole. We’re not looking for the cheapest option. We want to work with someone who does beautiful work and can manage a bigger renovation without it turning into a nightmare. Any recs would be great, thank you.

I've been trying to figure out what's actually useful in my daily workflow versus what just sounds useful.

The ones I dropped all had one thing in common: they required work before they were useful. Import your notes, connect your apps, build your structure. By the time the tool was ready I'd already lost the habit.

The one that stuck doesn't require any setup. Press a hotkey, speak what I need, it reads whatever's currently open across all my apps and answers. The daily use case: before any meeting or context switch, I ask what the current status is. It tells me. I move on.

Curious what the load-bearing tools are for other people, not the impressive category, the quietly essential one.

Supply chain cost reduction is usually framed as a headcount problem, like it requires a team to execute, but most cost optimization opportunities are structural decisions made at the sourcing and contracting stage, not ongoing management tasks.

Freight consolidation at origin is one of them. Combining shipments within the same factory production window reduces per-unit cost significantly with no ongoing management required once set up. HTS classification accuracy is another. Wrong classifications lead to consistently overpaying duties, and once you've got the right code confirmed and documented, every future shipment runs on the corrected rate. It requires actually going through the process to get there, but the benefit compounds across every order after that. MOQ negotiation at the relationship stage locks in better terms that hold for the life of the supplier relationship without weekly effort.

The overhead most brands miss is in the time spent chasing information that a well-structured sourcing engagement surfaces automatically. That is where kanary changes the math, not by reducing headcount but by removing the tracking work entirely so the information is just there rather than requiring someone to go find it every cycle.

Where do people here consistently find the most room to move on supply chain costs?

I was so fed up doing that usual analyzing stuff like we had to check all the latest news on different sites and most of them only gave the flashy headlines and not the real updates and idea about the market. idk this caught my eye Polycool this helped me in getting all the updates before the actual news popped over the internet and haha it's more like insiders hub lol. it's much better than these flashy and fkin headlines sites and seems to be reliable and trusted as well.

I started looking for bernedoodle puppies about eight months ago and the process was more involved than I expected, I went in thinking it would take a few weeks and came out the other side with a much better understanding of how variable the market actually is.

the demand for bernedoodles has grown fast enough that there's a wide range of what's operating in it now, polished websites, good photography, all the right language about family raised and health tested, and then you ask a specific question and things fall apart pretty quickly, that gap between presentation and substance is the thing nobody really warns you about.

what actually separated the ethical breeders to consider were ones, they asked me questions before I asked them anything, they had health testing documentation ready rather than promising to send it later, they had a waitlist

the health testing piece specifically, asking which panels and certifications by name rather than accepting "we health test our parents" as an answer, that question alone filtered out a significant portion of the listings I'd been looking at.

I went with crockett doodles, the placement conversation with my adoption assistant" between 'conversation and was about which puppies in the litter might suit my household rather than which ones were available, and the documentation was there before any money changed hands .

still early days with my puppy but the process itself felt right, which I think matters.

Planning a trip to the boundary waters this summer and the mosquitoes there are legendary. Trying to figure out my bug protection strategy and I'm getting conflicting advice.

Currently I have permethrin treated clothing and a thermacell. Thinking about adding some kind of repellent sticker for my hat and backpack for when I'm hiking during the day and the thermacell isn't practical.

I picked up bugmd squito stickers that use citronella. Also looking at the para kito wristbands and the off clip on.

For people who've done serious mosquito territory camping, what combination actually kept you sane? I don't expect perfection, just wanting to reduce bites from "50 per day" to something manageable.

something I've been wanting to write up for a while because I see people in this community going in circles and I think this framing might help

the masking that comes from autism makes ADHD harder to see, because the autistic rigidity and rule following can compensate for ADHD impulsivity in ways that look like control from the outside, and the ADHD impulsivity can make autism harder to see because it introduces a kind of social spontaneity that doesn't fit the stereotyped presentation, and in a combined presentation both conditions are simultaneously masking each other and standard evaluation tools aren't built to account for that

I went through the Sachs Center because they specifically assess for AuDHD as a combined presentation not two parallel tracks, and the evaluation was designed to look at how the conditions interact, and the report addressed that interaction directly, and it wasn't two diagnoses listed on the same page but a clinical picture that explained how the combination produces specific patterns that neither diagnosis alone would predict

there's a real shortage of practices that do this well and it's worth the effort to find one if this is your situation

I’m 44 and ever since I started working from home my eating habits got so bad without me even realizing it 😩

During the day I’d do fine then nighttime would hit and suddenly I was eating snacks while watching TV every single evening. It honestly started feeling automatic at some point.

I kept seeing people talk about Retatrutide online lately so I decided to try it pretty recently. Wasn’t expecting much because I feel like every life changing thing ends up disappointing eventually lol.

But the weirdest difference so far is how much calmer I feel around food now. I can actually sit and watch a movie without immediately wanting chips chocolate ice cream whatever is in the kitchen 😂

Also this sounds random but I don’t look as tired lately. Not in a dramatic way or anything. I just look less drained in the mornings and even my under eyes seem a little better somehow.

Still really early for me so I’m trying not to get ahead of myself but now I’m curious if other women around this age noticed small changes like this too besides just weight loss? TBH I NEED SOME GENUINE SUGGESTIONS😅.

Got a recurring question in enterprise deals, what are best practices for secure b2b payments when we're the saas vendor accepting 6 to 7 figure annual contracts from finance and ops teams? Procurement teams are getting sharper about this so sharing what's working in our deals.

The security practices that close faster: enforce ach or wire for initial invoices (cards for convenience only after trust built), document your full payment chain from acceptance to settlement, implement multi party approval for payments above a threshold, reconcile payments to invoices automatically with webhook confirmation, and keep audit trails for every payment initiated and settled.

One big shift we've seen is buyers asking about stablecoin settlement, which honestly caught us off guard the first few times. Some procurement teams come in skeptical (treating it as crypto) and some come in curious because their cfo read something about faster cross border settlement. Either way, the question we get is the same: how does the money actually move and who is regulated where.

Having a clean answer about the rails (whether traditional ach, wire, or stablecoin settlement on the backend) is becoming part of the standard procurement diligence packet, not a separate crypto conversation.

Before we thought about stablecoins ourselves, this question was a huge issue. About a year ago procurement at a fortune 500 buyer asked us specifically which licensed entity moves the funds between collection and settlement, and the vague answer we had at the time stalled the deal for 6 weeks. Now we name the infrastructure provider directly and call out their compliance posture. The platform we use is built on cybrid which holds us msb licensing and canada registration, and being able to point to the regulated entity by name has become table stakes in our compliance reviews.

Procurement asks about payment security in about 70% of our enterprise deals now. Having real answers shortens the due diligence cycle by weeks. Naming the regulated infrastructure provider directly is a stronger answer than just naming the consumer brand on your invoices when the buyer wants to understand the compliance chain.

What are other saas sales folks doing on payment security? Particularly interested in how you handle questions about cross border or stablecoin settlement when it comes up.

got my results last thursday and I've been trying to find the right words since

I suspected for years, since my late 20s, but I kept not pursuing it properly because I function mostly and there was always a part of me thinking if I was really struggling I would have failed something visible by now, and I haven't failed anything visible, I have a job, a relationship, an apartment that is chaotic but not uninhabitable, so on paper I'm fine

off paper I haven't finished a personal project in six years, I am fifteen minutes late to every single social engagement of my adult life without exception, I've reread the same paragraph seventeen times and retained nothing, and I cry after phone calls sometimes because navigating real time conversation is genuinely depleting and I have never been able to explain that to anyone who hasn't felt it

the Sachs Center was the first evaluation where the report captured how much effort is required to achieve adequate functioning, and seeing that in a clinical document from an actual psychologist was something I didn't know I needed until I had it

the grief is for the years before I knew, the relief is for what comes after, and both are real and they coexist in a way I wasn't prepared for

Nurse manager of a 38 bed unit. Finally got a real recognition budget approved this year after fighting for it for two cycles. Hospital procurement is a 12 week nightmare so I'm going around them and running this myself. I'm not sorry about it. Top 5 platforms I tested for unit recognition:

Snappy. Recognition-first design with a polished recipient UX, smaller catalog overall but the moments feel considered. SwagUp. Solid for batch recognition orders, kit-builder works fine, less optimized for the individual recognition moments that come up between formal programs. SwaggyMed. Best healthcare-specific fit, catalog built for clinical staff with scrub-compatible layering, individual ordering replaces the sizing spreadsheet. Sendoso. Enterprise option with strong logistics, more capability than we need at unit scale and the pricing reflects that. Custom Ink. Bulk-order vendor that's decent for a single batch, not really built for ongoing recognition use throughout the year.

Nobody warns you about the timing problem with nursing recognition. Procurement at our hospital takes 11 to 12 weeks. Recognition that arrives three months after the moment has passed isn't recognition, it's delayed appreciation that lands flat. Speed beats catalog depth for unit-level work.

Not a new vegan but I feel like I finally nailed my snack game after way too long of just eating hummus and pretending that was enough variety. Wanted to share what I actually buy weekly in case anyone's in the same rut.

Edamame with sea salt. I buy the frozen bags and just microwave a bowl for something savory and satisfying.

Roasted chickpeas. I make a big batch with smoked paprika and cumin on sundays. They last all week in a jar and they're so crunchy.

Dates stuffed with almond butter. Sounds basic but it's genuinely one of the best sweet snacks I've ever had, vegan or not.

Shameless gummies for the candy thing. They're vegan which is honestly rare for gummy candy since most use gelatin.

Apple slices with sunflower seed butter for something quick and no prep required.

Frozen mango chunks eaten straight from the bag. Takes forever to eat because they're frozen solid.

The biggest shift for me was just buying this stuff in advance instead of figuring it out when I was already hungry. When I'm hungry I make bad choices. When I'm prepared I eat well. That's basically the whole secret.

Right, so every time I searched this I got either a lawyer's blog from 2023 or someone trying to sell me consultancy. So here's what we actually went through.

We run an online gaming platform, turnkey setup through SOFTSWISS. Saw the Polymarket numbers, saw what Kalshi was doing in the US, thought - our players want this. Engagement product, higher ARPU, longer sessions. That was the pitch internally.

The regulatory mess is real

Europe is a complete patchwork right now. France banned Polymarket. Belgium, Italy, Poland, Romania - all banned it. Germany and Spain still grey. UK Gambling Commission says you'd need a gambling licence but hasn't issued specific guidance. Gibraltar just licensed ADI Predictstreet, probably the first properly regulated one on the continent.

We spent three months on legal opinions across three jurisdictions. Every lawyer said something slightly different. The core question - is your product gambling or a financial derivative? That changes everything. We went gambling classification, stuck to sports and entertainment outcomes only (no elections, no financial events - that's where it gets properly complicated), made sure our existing licence covered it.

The tech was the easy bit

SOFTSWISS already had the prediction markets module built. Binary outcomes, yes/no contracts, the lot. We didn't build anything from scratch. The bigger lift was compliance - responsible gambling tools, KYC flows, updated terms. If you're going crypto settlement, MiCA adds another layer on top. We kept it fiat for launch specifically to avoid that.

What actually works

Engagement is genuinely good. Players who come in for prediction markets stick around longer and cross-sell into sports better than almost any other product we've tested. Harder than expected: market curation, setting initial probabilities, managing liquidity. And player education - a lot of users didn't immediately get the binary format. We added an explainer before the firstbefore first bet, which helpedhelped a lot.

Do not underestimate the regulatory groundwork. Get proper local legal advice for every market you want to operate in - "Europe generally" doesn't exist in gambling law. The tech barrier is lower than you'd think. Everything around the tech is where you actually spend your time.

Happy to answer questions if anyone's going through the same.

Our IT team is 4 people supporting 600. About 2 months ago we got tired of personal DMs being the primary inbound channel and stuck an AI agent in slack to intercept. Not a huge project. Couple sprints of config.

Wins are boring but real. Password resets, MFA, SSO for new hires. Any access request where approval flow is already documented. Most VPN questions unless they're weird.

What it still can't do. Policy exceptions, which it shouldn't. Hardware is manual because MDM isn't hooked up. And the ""it worked yesterday"" pattern where someone genuinely has to look at what changed.

We're on risotto. 18 workflows to set up in the first 3 weeks, not a quick thing. But tuesday mornings went from chaos to boring, which was the whole goal.

Anyone else running an agent in slack for IT? Curious what worked past tier-1.