u/Dr1ftk

I feel like im losing my mind trying to practice advanced eyeshadow techniques. every single beauty guru tutorial out there assumes you have this massive, perfectly symmetrical canvas that stays the exact same every single day

my reality is so different. depending on how I slept, how much water i drank, or if my allergies are acting up, my eyes look completely different each morning. yesterday i had a decent amount of visible lid space. today? My left eye decided to get super puffy and swallow my eyeliner completely, while the right one looks totally normal

it makes practicing cut creases or even basic shadow placement so insanely frustrating. ive just started keeping some d-up strips in my makeup bag just to deal with the uneven days. if one side is being stubborn and dropping too low, I'll just use a piece of double eyelid tape to force a matching crease so I can actually finish my eyeshadow without wanting to throw my expensive brushes across the room.

does anyone else deal with daily shifting eyelids? how do you even practice blending consistency when your literal face keeps changing the rules on you? im so tired of re-learning my own eye anatomy every morning just to do a basic smoky eye

Because I feel like knowing it was already in the past would be crushing. But maybe knowing would make you appreciate it more. Not sure which way I land on this

my folks are coming down to visit for the end of the semester and my dad is already complaining about miami traffic in our group chat. last time they visited I took them over to south beach and it was an absolute disaster. Way too loud, my mom hated the club music playing at 6pm, and the prices baiscally gave my dad a panic attack

Im trying to keep them strictly around the gables or coconut grove this time so we don't have to deal with I-95 at all. I booked a table at Bayshore club for friday afternoon cause we can catch their happy hour and honestly looking at the sailboats usually keeps my dad quiet for a little bit. But I still need like three more solid places to feed them over the weekend.

it needs to be quiet enough that they don't have to yell across the table (so definetly nowhere near sandbar or anywhere directly by campus) and ideally not a place that charges 45 bucks for a basic salad..

where do u guys usually drag your families when they come to the U? my social battery is already draining just thinking about navigating this weekend.

I've been using Sennheiser HD560S for about a year now. I really like the detail and soundstage but I'm finding the treble a bit too much for longer listening sessions. Sometimes cymbals and certain vocals feel harsh to me. I've tried EQ but I'd rather just find something that works out of the box. I mostly listen to indie rock, folk, and acoustic stuff but also some electronic now and then. I want similar clarity and imaging but with smoother treble and maybe a tiny bit more warmth in the mids. I'm considering HD600 or HD6XX but I'm worried they might feel too narrow compared to the 560S. Also heard about the Aune AR5000 but I don't know much about them. Any recommendations around 300to300to400? Open back only. I have a JDS Atom stack so power isn't an issue.

ngl I had a complete sensory meltdown at the store today and i am still recovering. why is it that every "standard" brand thinks we want to smell like industrial-strength vanilla or "ocean breeze" from a mile away? it feels so invasive. i literally had to leave my cart and just walk out because the cleaning aisle was too loud (idk if that makes sense but you guys probably get it)

Ive been trying to be so much more intentional with what I put on my body because my skin and my nose just cant take the harshness anymore. I recently switched to a japanese brand called botanist and it's been such a relief. it’s a hypoallergenic body wash and it actually feels... soft? like, the scent doesn't pierce through my brain and the texture isnt that weird slimy film that never washes off.

idk, i'm just so tired of the world being turned up to 11 all the time. do you guys have any "safe" products that don't feel like a sensory assault? i feel like I spend half my life just trying to filter out the noise of big corporate brands and their overhyped trends. it’s honestly just exhausting to manage.

I’m trying to build a small internal wiki for my team covering common Excel workflows, formula examples, and troubleshooting steps. Right now it’s a messy folder of loose notes and screenshots. Does anyone here maintain something similar for their office or department? I’d love to hear how you structure it, what tools you use (SharePoint, OneNote, something else), and how you actually get people to follow it instead of just asking you the same questions every week. Do you embed Excel files directly, or just document steps with screenshots? Also curious if anyone links out to the official Microsoft docs or the r/excel wiki for deeper dives. Trying to avoid reinventing the wheel here.

Honestly just hit my breaking point with my custom python scripts this week. spent the last two months fine tuning a momentum setup for Base and ETH, thinking my logic was finally solid enough to at least break even. nope.

if you aren't paying for premium private RPCs or running institutional grade infrastructure right now, you are literally just food for MEV bots. I watched my script execute perfectly on a dip yesterday only to get instantly front-run and sandwiched so hard I lost like 15% to slippage and gas alone. it's just exhausting tbh. retail algorithmic trading on evm chains feels completely dead unless you have massive capital to absorb the failed transactions

Im probably just going to pivot and rewrite the whole logic for solana where the network fees don't ruin my life every time the bot miscalculates a micro-trend.

Started feeding some new price data into my backtester this morning just to see how it handles different volatility. honestly looking at the sheer daily volume on stuff like bonk coin and other established ecosystem tokens makes me realize i should have just been scalping high liquidity pairs from day one instead of hunting obscure new token launches. at least there the orderbook actually absorbs the automated trades normally without ripping my face off.

idk. just needed to vent. feels like fighting algorithms with millions in funding is a losing battle. might just switch to using one of those premade TG bots for a while and take a break from coding.

Seriously though. I’ll get a full 8 hours, no wake-ups, decent room temp, blackout curtains, all that. And then I wake up feeling like I got hit by a truck.

Is there something obvious I’m missing? And for those of you who fixed this for yourselves, what actually made the difference?

Visiting for the first time and seeing mixed info online. Some people say you can just walk in anywhere. Others say even small family places need booking days ahead. What's the real deal for a casual dinner in September? Don't want to be the clueless tourist who can't get a table. Thanks.

Not looking for advice or pity. Just need to say it somewhere. The heavy kind of tired that sleep doesn’t fix. Anyone else feel like they’re just going through the motions today?

No wing. Manual. Naturally aspirated flat-six that revs to 9,000rpm. Subtle enough to park anywhere. Fast enough to embarrass almost anything on a back road. I know the purists want the wing. I know the turbo crowd thinks NA is obsolete. I know the air-cooled people think nothing after 1998 counts

But if you had to design the perfect 911 from first principles - driver's car, daily usable, no compromises in the wrong direction - I'm not sure how you'd end up anywhere else.

What's your pick for the definitive 911, and what's your actual argument for it?

I just wrapped up 14 days moving from Athens to Naxos and Milos, and honestly, the internet made me worry about the wrong things. Everyone tells you to book ferries early, but nobody mentions that the "fast" ferries are basically floating bumpy tin cans if the wind picks up, if you’re prone to seasickness, take the bigger Blue Star ships even if they take an hour longer. Also, if you’re heading to the islands, skip the heavy suitcase. Dragging a 50lb bag over cobblestones and up Santorini stairs is a specialized form of torture I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

My biggest takeaway? Don't over-schedule your days. Some of our best memories were just sitting at a random taverna in a village we weren't planning to visit, drinking 5€ carafes of house wine and eating the best Greek salad of our lives. If you’re stressed about your itinerary, just pick two islands and actually see them instead of rushing through five. Happy to answer any specific questions about ferries, food, or hiking spots!