u/Truthishere1

Our HVAC maintenance company stores refrigerant cylinders, cleaning solvents, and lubricants on our building's mechanical penthouse level. They've been doing this for years and nobody has ever questioned it because they're the contractor's chemicals.

A new HVAC vendor recently mentioned that some of these products require secondary containment to prevent spills from entering the roof drainage system. Apparently certain refrigerant oils or cleaning solvents could flow into storm drains and create an environmental mess.

I also realized we dont have SDSs on file for any of these chemicals. I assumed that was the contractor's responsibility, but after reading more about multi-employer worksite requirements, I'm questioning whether we need those SDSs accessible in our building too.

Is secondary containment on mechanical penthouses a common requirement, or is this new vendor being overly cautious?

Clean concealer is one of those categories that just keeps disappointing me. Too sheer, creases by mid morning, or both. Gone through more options than I'd like to admit trying to find something that actually behaves like a real concealer.

Read enough reddit threads about clean concealer to know the category was a mess, then stumbled on ogee's complexion concealer in one of them. Eight options deep and it's genuinely the first one that hasn't let me down, builds without looking heavy and holds through a full workday without creasing

The undertone range is limited which is the honest limitation. But within what they offer the colors are accurate to their description, which is not always the case with clean brands.

Flat brush to apply, light press with translucent powder to set, and it just stays put.

I was going through a can of dry shampoo every three weeks. Fine hair, oily roots by noon, dry shampoo was just part of the routine at that point, something I'd accepted as the price of having the hair type I have. It never occurred to me that the dry shampoo might be making the oiliness worse rather than just managing it.

A friend who switched to a shampoo bar kept telling me her scalp had settled and she was washing less. I didn't believe her. My scalp had been oily my entire adult life and no shampoo was going to change that, or so I thought.

I switched mostly out of curiosity and mild skepticism. The first two weeks were rough, roots felt greasier than normal and I almost went back to my old shampoo twice. Week three something shifted. My roots were staying fresher longer than they had in years, not dramatically, but noticeably. By the end of the month I'd used dry shampoo twice instead of every other day.

I've been using the kitsch rosemary biotin bar and what I think happened is the sulfate stripping I was doing with my old shampoo was triggering my scalp to overproduce oil constantly to compensate, and the dry shampoo was just absorbing the excess without ever addressing why the excess was there. Switching to something gentler broke the cycle.

I still have oily hair. But I wash every three days now instead of every day and a half, and I haven't bought dry shampoo in two months. For fine oily hair that felt like an impossible outcome six months ago.

Writing this 9 months and 42k into figuring out something that wasnt supposed to be hard. Ive been in B2B SEO for 19 years. ran SEO at three startups, two acquisitions. last year i wrote a 2000 word LinkedIn post mocking llms.txt and the GEO consultancy gold rush. it got reshared by people in my circle.

Then in march our CEO opened ChatGPT in a board prep meeting. asked for the top 3 companies in our category. recommended 3. one was our biggest competitor. we were not in there. Thankfully I wasn't fired but still I could not explain it. our organic SEO had been climbing for 12 months. we outrank that competitor on every buying intent keyword that matters to us.

We ended up spending 42k over 9 months on two agencies trying to figure it out.

The first one charged 7k a month. set up llms.txt, schema across top 30 pages, AI-overview rewrites for 12 articles. their dashboards showed every LLM crawler hitting our site. actual citations did not move. They tried to upsell llms-full.txt for month 4 and I pulled out. Hard lesson learned.

Second one, 10k a month, on month 6 now. refused to write llms.txt at all. their thesis is LLMs match on confirmation across sources, not formatting hacks. they rebuilt our content engine around being cited by other people, not optimizing our own pages.

Took 4 months before anything showed in ChatGPT. month 5 we got cited on half our category prompts. by month 6 we were showing on a third of the buyer-intent prompts where our competitor used to dominate.

GEO isnt actually a rebrand. but most agencies branded as GEO are selling formatting changes that confirm crawlers can read your site. not interventions that change whether an LLM picks you over a competitor in the answer. still figuring out what to call what actually worked for us. doesnt fit cleanly under SEO or GEO.

I got a check for $47 from something called ""capital one consumer data settlement administrator."" It looks like a real check, has a routing number, and came with a one-page letter about a data breach settlement. I don't remember signing up for anything related to this.

I googled the settlement name and there is in fact a class action case involving a capital one data breach from a few years back. I had a capital one card at some point so I guess I was automatically included as a class member. Is it normal to receive a check without having actively filed anything, and is there any reason not to cash it. Also are there other cases like this where I might be in the class without knowing it?