u/WestMaintenance1787

Just wanted to share my experience. I've been using a Hooga panel for several months, just 4 minutes a day. I mostly noticed one effect: my adult acne was gone just a few days after I started using it.

My skin has become a bit better when it comes to its structure too but I had sculptra a year ago and also started weight lifting last autumn, so I'm not sure which factor has played a role. Overall, I wasn't sure what played the biggest role.

Now I had a week long vacation abroad and didn't take my panel with me of course. This means one week without RLT. After 4-5 days my acne was back.

Back at home and with my RLT device, it's gone again. I'm surprised that the relationship is so direct in my case.

I'm currently wearing a basic smart/ sports watch that tracks my pulse, HVR, menstrual cycle and similar.

I'm thinking about upgrading to one that allows you to track what you did and finds correlations. I mean you input that e.g you drank a coffee or took magnesium and after several days you see that the days with/without coffee are better in terms of HVR.

Is it worth it? If you have experience with this functionality, does it help you?

I'm a visitor in Berlin. I'm looking for a place where I can spend a few hours working on my laptop. I need internet access and air conditioning. It's not a problem if I have to buy a coffee or a meal of course.

Any library or restaurant that doesn't hate you when you occupy a table working? Wedding or some neighbouring area would be perfect.

I'm planning to visit Berlin for around 2 weeks. I will be attending a lot of events, so moving through Berlin and to towns such as Potsdam will be important.

I'm based in another European country. I have to decide if it's better to go by car or train.

Would somebody who's living there with a car please comment on the availability of parking slots: free ones and those paid? I will probably be sleeping in an airbnb, not a hotel, so I don't count on the host having a parking slot for guests.

I know it's possible to use S-bahn/ U-bahn while you're there but given that I will be taking a lot of stuff with me I want also to explore the car path.

Kiedyś potwornie dużo czytałam. Książki, które zrobiły na mnie największe wrażenie to było wszystko Dostojewskiego, "Catch .44", "Mdłości" Sartre'a. Poza tym lubiłam reportaże np. Kapuścińskiego.

To było 20 lat temu. Teraz czytam co najwyżej poradniki, dokumentację techniczną, czasami prasę (uwielbiam długie reportaże w The New Yorker).

Zauważyłam, że bardzo straciłam też umiejętność skupienia na książkach. Z trudnością przychodzi mi przeczytanie 2 stron bez sprawdzania mediów społecznościowych.

Chcę z tym walczyć.

Poradźcie jakąś dobrą współczesną literaturę.

I'm a F a bit over 40, interested in men. I've been on dating sites for a longer while, looking for a relationship.

What does a person's goal of "long‑term, but short‑term OK" (or similar phrasing on apps other than Tinder) actually mean?

I've always been puzzled by this. From your experience, is it just a "nicer" way of saying: "I'm looking for something casual, but most women don't want casual, so I'll phrase it in a more acceptable way"?

Because my alternative interpretation would be: "I want something long‑term, but I'm afraid that if I say that, the woman will treat even one date, two dates as a serious commitment." But that interpretation feels a bit insulting to men (and women if they write something similar).

Now again a guy with this description matched with me, and in his second message he wrote, unprompted: "I'm looking for someone for a relationship, but you never know if we will like each other. Chemistry and how we get along is the most important. I don't want to force anything."

I mean… isn't it always like that? You can't force anything anyway. Is it normal for people to hedge this much, or is this actually strange? I know you can't read their minds, but maybe you have yourself a similar description and can throw some light on the possible interpretation.

I'm at a loss. I used to have 50+ reactions per post on average, with some over 500. I used to have thousands of impressions.

I then had around 2-3 weeks of no posting - not sure if it played any role.

I now post in the same style and for the same target group as before but the reach is absolutely horrible. E.g. yesterday I posted and got 6 reactions in the first 30 minutes. The post got displayed to just 300 people in total and got 20 reactions. 20 reactions for 300 impressions doesn't seem a bad statistics so why hasn't the post been displayed to a normal number of people?

There's no link in the post. There's a nice picture. The topic is interesting to my target group - similar posts got me plenty of reactions before.

I'm an AI cloud engineer who works for a corporate that works with big companies, helping them implement AI solutions. I love working with technology and customers, no problem there. The salary is great. But the corporate culture is toxic, full of backstabbing, extreme hours, and gaslighting. It's costing me my sanity.

I'm looking for my next step. What would you do?

Apart from cloud/AI, I'm skilled in these areas:

1. Investing in the stock market
2. Art: I love art history and have experience in renovations (houses, furniture)
3. Speaking several foreign languages fluently with experience living abroad for many years (various European countries, US)
4. Teaching (experience as a lecturer) and presenting at conferences
5. Research (solid background and hands-on experience)
6. Writing

I have a driver's license, a car, and I'm based in Europe. I don't really have that many contacts (see 3.).