I have monolids, and doing eyeliner is a nightmare. I draw a line, open my eye, and it completely disappears. If I draw it thicker, it just transfers onto the upper part of my lid and smudges everywhere. What is the trick?
My wife and I used to argue all the time about what to watch because we were always cramped together on the bed trying to see a tiny laptop screen. After a while, we decided to setup my Dangbei MP1 Max projector which now in my store room. Honestly, it changed our weekends completely. Now we just lie back comfortably, project whatever we want onto the wall, and enjoy movies together like we have our own little cinema at home. The bigger screen makes everything feel more immersive, and even random things like cooking videos, YouTube clips, or stand-up comedy shows feel surprisingly fun to watch together. It turned our room into a much more relaxing and enjoyable space for both of us.
I genuinely thought I was just undateable on apps for a long time. I’m not even a bad looking guy irl, but every time someone took photos of me I looked stiff as hell. Weird smile, awkward posture, forced vibes. Even when friends tried helping me take “good” pics they somehow made me look worse lol. Most of my Tinder/Hinge photos were random selfies or blurry group pics and I was barely getting matches. At some point I started trying those AI dating photo tools everyone talks about. Honestly most of them were terrible. Super fake looking skin, weird perfect jawlines, fake luxury backgrounds, lifeless eyes. They honestly hurt my profile more than helped because girls can tell when something looks off. Luckily I already had 2 decent real photos that did okay. I’d get a few matches here and there but then everything would go dead again after a couple days. Then I randomly saw an Instagram ad for an AI tool that claimed it makes realistic smartphone-style dating photos instead of those “LinkedIn headshot” AI pics. They also said their AI was optimized for dating apps/female gaze and the templates were just normal everyday stuff like walking outside, sitting at a restaurant, casual portraits etc. I was skeptical af because every AI app before that looked fake, but I tried it anyway. Not exaggerating when I say the difference was insane. You can see the examples of photos i used - it’s always good to use AI photos alongside some real photos. Within like a week my Tinder literally hit the +99 likes thing for the first time ever. Conversations were easier too because the photos actually looked natural and like someone you’d meet in real life instead of an AI robot businessman.
Funny enough I’m actually in a relationship now, but I wanted to post this because I see so many guys blaming shadowbans or saying dating apps are impossible.
Looks obviously matter to some extent, but presentation matters WAY more than most men realize. Good photos can genuinely change everything. I attached a video of my tinder when I used it.
Am I the only one who actively talks to birds? Not like we are communicating and they can understand to give a response type of way. Because I do and my brother thinks I am crazy, lol. Birds perching on my windowsill is not novel. In fact, some wake me up with their beak ferociously hitting my closed windows. On some mornings, it is cute, on other days, I want to strangle them. So I took on a pet project and hung a small feeder just outside my window. It was so much easier picking one from the bird feeders from a local store as opposed to purchasing one from alibaba or amazon as I initially thought. I thought that will be the best way to keep them out of my window. The first two days, nothing showed up and my heart broke a little. Then I started asking my family members if they had seen Cole and his friends (the birds), yeah they looked at me crazily.
Then one morning I noticed a tiny bird perched on the edge, cautiously pecking at the seeds. Within a few minutes it flew away, but the next day it came back and this time it brought another one with it. Then Cole started visiting more often but away from my window. I just gesture incessantly when I see them and I know they see me.
Now the bird feeder has quietly become part of my daily routine. I go to add more seeds into the feeder before I make my morning coffee.
been going through a lot of tools lately and curious what people are actually running in practice.
not looking for the ones that sound good in a pitch. more curious about the ones that quietly became load-bearing, the tools you'd feel the absence of if they disappeared tomorrow.
for me it ended up being context recall. specifically: being able to ask ""what's the current status on X"" without having to know where to look first. changed the before-meeting ritual in a way I didn't expect.
what's yours and what does it actually do for your workflow?
Curious what people are actually running in their AI sales stacks right now in 2026.
Right now my setup is pretty simple:
Lead sourcing: LinkedIn Sales Nav
Enrichment / research: a mix of manual + some AI prompts
Cold email: Plusvibe (warmup + sending)
Basic AI usage: writing variations + personalization snippets
Volume: 200 emails/day across multiple inboxes/domains
Anyone using full AI SDR agents that are worth it not just hype?
I've been a freelance camera operator in the Miami market for years and there are a handful of things that clients flying in from other cities consistently underestimate about producing here that I wish someone would just tell them upfront.
The heat and humidity are not just a comfort issue, they affect equipment, they affect how long you can realistically shoot outside before the crew starts struggling, and they affect location choices in ways that don't translate from markets like New York or Chicago.
The bilingual crew reality means that some of the best operators in the market work more comfortably in Spanish and client communication that doesn't account for that creates friction that is entirely avoidable.
The tourism and hospitality saturation of the market means there's enormous competition for locations, permits, and crew on certain weekends, and a company without established relationships in the market is going to run into walls that a local company navigates before you even know there was a wall.
four evaluations, eight years, I wish I was being dramatic
first one at 23, the psychologist spent most of the session asking if I'd had friends in primary school, and I had friends, I worked extremely hard for them and never quite understood how they worked but technically yes, friends, and she said anxious and socially sensitive, try therapy
second at 26 with similar questions and a different conclusion: borderline traits, and I went on a mood stabilizer for a year, nothing changed, and I stopped taking it
third at 29 was the most thorough one, and the psychologist said my profile was "consistent with autism in some ways" but I didn't meet full criteria, and I asked which criteria and she said something about theory of mind that I genuinely didn't understand and was too exhausted to push on
fourth last year at 31 where I went in prepared, knew the diagnostic criteria, had done years of research, and the psychologist said I seemed "very self aware for someone who was autistic" and used that as a point against the diagnosis
I am so tired, has anyone found an evaluation that actually works for adults who present this way or am I just going to keep collecting wrong answers indefinitely
Hello everyone, I am a U.S. citizen planning a possible move to Portugal with my spouse under the D7 route. My main source of income is distributions from a U.S. Traditional IRA rollover that originally came from a 401(k).
I am trying to understand how Portugal actually taxes these distributions in real life, especially for people already living there as tax residents. My questions are:
* Was your U.S. IRA / 401(k) treated as Categoria H (pension income)?
* Did Portugal give you credit for taxes already withheld in the United States?
* Did any accountant or tax lawyer successfully apply Article 54 of the Portuguese CIRS or any partial exclusion rule to your IRA distributions?
* Was your entire 1099-R taxed in Portugal, or only part of it?
* Did being married and filing jointly help significantly?
I am finding a lot of conflicting information online, so I would really appreciate hearing from someone with direct personal experience. Thank you very much
Not a dramatic story. No near-bankruptcy moment, no single decision that changed everything. Just a few things I worked out slowly that I wish I'd figured out earlier.
The biggest one is that the admin work expands to fill whatever time you give it. When I was less busy, estimates took an hour because I had an hour. When I got busier, they somehow still took an hour because the habit was set. The time didn't come from somewhere else. It came from evenings and weekends and the mental space between jobs. That's a slow drain that's hard to see until you change it.
The second thing is that systemising the estimating workflow was more valuable than any marketing I did in year one. Getting estimates out faster didn't just save time. It closed more jobs, because the customer who gets a quote same day is a different conversation than the one who gets it three days later when they've already talked to two other electricians.
The tools I use now, Bizzen for estimating and invoicing and separate accounting software for the books, aren't complicated. The system matters more than the specific software. But having something built around the actual field workflow rather than adapted from generic small business tools made a real difference in whether I'd actually use it.
Just found out about the 3pl concept and basically it's someone else's facility where you store your inventory and they ship orders for you. The BC specific part is where it gets annoying because options are genuinely more limited here than in the US.
When I compared providers specifically for BC coverage, shiphype was the first one that kept coming up because they have a company owned location in richmond, close enough to YVR and the border that cross-border shipping to the states doesn't become a whole thing. shipbob has some canadian reach but through partner facilities which a few people warned me about.
Still trying to figure out what actually matters when picking one. I keep seeing people mention stuff like real time inventory sync and how the monthly fees are structured, but honestly not sure yet what's worth caring about vs what's just noise. If anyone here has gone through this for a BC based shopify store, what did you end up prioritizing?
Would also love to know if there are smaller BC 3pls worth looking at that don't show up in the usual reddit threads.