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Context: Mid-30s, Bay Area. Currently making $240k W-2 in tech. On top of that, I also do content creation that's grown to around $60-$80k/r. At this point, it probaby isn't much of a side hustle anymore. My account has been growing pretty quickly, which I can assure.

My net worth is around $1.8M, mostly in a brokerage acc and vested equity, plus some rental real estate.

Rn, I'm just reporting the content income on Schedule C and tracking deductions for things like editing, software and equipment. It works, but I don't have much confident that I'm optimizing everything.

Would love to hear from anyone who's been in a similar situation with both W-2 income and a growing business. Did you get like tax consultants for high net worth individuals, or you have this CPA who handle everything

I've been testing a few AI ad generators lately because our team is producing far more creative variations than we were a year ago.

I expected these tools to solve most of the production bottleneck, but that hasn't really been my experience. They're great at generating concepts, headlines, and initial creatives, but once client revisions, multiple formats, different aspect ratios, and platform-specific assets come into play, there's still a lot of manual work.

Some tools seem excellent for brainstorming, while others get much closer to production-ready output.

For those managing campaigns at scale, has an AI ad generator genuinely become part of your day-to-day workflow?

Or do you still see most of these tools as idea generators rather than something that meaningfully speeds up production from start to finish?

I've got an older Accord that's been surprisingly reliable, so I've been trying to keep it as close to factory spec as possible when replacing things.

Lately I've noticed a lot of people recommending aftermarket parts for basically everything because they're cheaper and easier to get. Sometimes the price difference is huge, so I get the appeal.

At the same time, I've had a few aftermarket parts over the years that either didn't fit quite right or didn't last nearly as long as I expected.

For those of you who work on your own Hondas, do you still go out of your way to buy OEM Honda parts, or do you only use OEM for certain components? Curious where people draw the line these days

I've been researching red light therapy masks recently, but most reviews seem to focus on a single concern.

Some people are using them primarily for acne, others for redness and inflammation, while many are focused on fine lines and other signs of aging.

My situation is a bit more complicated because I'm dealing with a mix of all three. I still get occasional breakouts, have some lingering redness, and I'm starting to notice the early signs of aging that seem to appear overnight.

For those who've used a red light therapy mask consistently for several months, did you find certain devices worked better across multiple concerns, or did most masks produce fairly similar results in real-world use?

At this point, I'm much more interested in hearing honest long-term experiences than reading another marketing page or influencer review.

What improvements were actually noticeable for you, what took the longest to show results, and were there any masks that genuinely stood out from the rest?

I've been seeing more discussion around the KLOW peptide blend lately and was curious what people's actual experiences have been from a research perspective.

Most of the conversations I find either mention it briefly or focus on one specific component of the blend, but there doesn't seem to be much discussion about how researchers are evaluating it as a complete stack.

For those who have spent time looking into it, what made you interested in KLOW in the first place? Was it the convenience of having multiple compounds together or something else entirely?

I'm also curious whether people pay more attention to the formulation itself or the quality controls from the supplier. It seems like with blends, transparency and testing become even more important.

Maybe I'm spending too much time looking at creative, but lately I've noticed that I often can't immediately tell whether certain ads were built traditionally or with AI.

A year ago it felt obvious. Weird hands, strange product details, awkward copy, generic-looking people. Now some of the AI ads showing up in my feeds look surprisingly polished.

At the same time, I've also seen some absolutely terrible AI ads that somehow made it into production. The difference between the best and worst examples seems massive right now.

For advertisers actually using AI ads at scale, are you seeing meaningful performance improvements or is the main benefit still speed and lower production costs?

Curious whether people are using AI mostly for testing concepts, creating final creatives, or somewhere in between.

So I've been trying to pull listing data from Facebook Marketplace for a price tracking project. Nothing complicated, just title, price, location, and seller info for a specific category and area. Sounds simple on paper.

Tried BeautifulSoup first, obviously doesn't work because the page is fully JS rendered. Moved to Selenium and Playwright, got some data initially but started hitting login walls and bot detection within a day or two. Found a few GitHub repos for facebook marketplace scrapers but most of them are either outdated or just stopped working.

Is there a reliable way to do this in Python right now or has Meta locked it down to the point where the only real option is a paid API? Genuinely asking, not opposed to paying for something if it actually works but want to understand what the landscape looks like before I commit to anything.