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Planning a trip to the boundary waters this summer and the mosquitoes there are legendary. Trying to figure out my bug protection strategy and I'm getting conflicting advice.

Currently I have permethrin treated clothing and a thermacell. Thinking about adding some kind of repellent sticker for my hat and backpack for when I'm hiking during the day and the thermacell isn't practical.

I picked up bugmd squito stickers that use citronella. Also looking at the para kito wristbands and the off clip on.

For people who've done serious mosquito territory camping, what combination actually kept you sane? I don't expect perfection, just wanting to reduce bites from "50 per day" to something manageable.

Genuine question because the landscape changed so much in the last year and I can't find recent answers.

A year ago everyone was using emulators and rotating proxies. Now half the threads say emulators are dead, residential proxies are flagged, and you need cloud phones or you're done. The other half says cloud phones are overpriced and unnecessary if you do warming right.

For anyone actually running 5+ accounts profitably right now, what's your stack looking like?

Specifically curious about: 1.Are you on cloud phones, real phones, or emulators? 2.Mobile proxies or ISP proxies? 3.How long is your warm up phase before first post? 4.Are you spinning content per account or running the same uploads with minor changes?

Not looking for theory, looking for what's actually keeping accounts alive in the current TikTok detection environment. Drop your setup if you're comfortable sharing.

!cqs

Okay so context I've been slowly getting into fragrances over the last year or so. Started with the usual suspects, Dior Sauvage, Acqua di Gio, you know how it goes. I'm trying to explore a bit more but the sourcing situation in India is genuinely confusing me.

My city has maybe two or three stores that sell anything beyond the basics and even those are mostly just Davidoff, CK, and whatever Hugo Boss flanker came out last year. Sephora is not an option for me unless I'm in Bangalore or Mumbai.

Tried buying from a random seller online once and I'm still not 100% sure what I received was real. Smelled slightly off from the sample I'd tried at the airport. Never again.

So what's the actual move here for people who want to explore properly without

1. Getting scammed with fake product

2. Paying 40% more than the MRP for the privilege of buying from a "trusted" source

3. Waiting 3 weeks for international shipping

Has anyone had consistently good experiences with a particular platform or seller? Genuinely asking, not looking for dupe recommendations, want the real stuff.

Hey guys, would love some input here. So we've been testing an AI SDR flow where it drafts outbound emails, but compliance wants human approval on EVERYTHING before it goes out, which makes sense, but the current setup is rough. To give more context, its like a project management tool that we are trying to sell to construction, and we use AI to spot a general contractor that is working on a new development, pulls in that context, and drafts something personal and relevant on the fly. But then compliance steps in…. So now the AI drafts something, it sits in a queue, someone reviews it, THEN it finally sends…. But I feel like by that point you've basically killed all the speed that made using an agent worthwhile in the first place??? How are you guys handling this? Basically, Im wondering what the cleanest way is to keep humans in the loop without the review process becoming the new slowdown…

freelance developer, 6 clients on average. I've been through at least 5 different notion setups in 2 years trying to find one that doesn't fall apart after a month. ranking them by survival time.

attempt 1: one big table with everything (lasted 3 weeks)

columns for client, task, status, due date, priority, notes. sounded simple. became a mess immediately. 50+ rows with no hierarchy. couldn't tell at a glance what was urgent. scrolling through the whole table to find one task was painful. died because I stopped looking at it.

attempt 2: separate page per client (lasted 6 weeks)

better. each client had their own page with a task list, notes section, and communication log. problem was I couldn't see everything across clients in one view. I'd finish a task for client A and not realize client B had something due tomorrow because I hadn't opened their page.

attempt 3: kanban board with client tags (lasted 2 months)

getting closer. one kanban board, tasks moved through columns (to do, in progress, review, done), filtered by client tag. this worked for a while. died when I had too many tasks in "to do" and the board became overwhelming. also I kept forgetting to move cards between columns.

attempt 4: databases linked together (lasted 4 months)

clients database, projects database, tasks database, all linked with relations and rollups. this was the most "notion-brained" setup. very powerful. also very fragile. if I forgot to link something the whole system broke. and every time I added a task I had to set 4 properties which was too much friction.

attempt 5: simplified version of attempt 4 (current, 7 months and counting)

two databases: projects and tasks. projects have a client property, a status, and a next deadline. tasks have a project relation and a status. that's it. no priority levels, no tags, no elaborate rollups.

I added a single dashboard page with three views: tasks due this week, tasks by client, and projects with upcoming deadlines. I look at this page every morning for 2 minutes and that's my plan.

for capturing things throughout the day, especially after client calls, I talk through action items using Willow Voice, an AI voice dictation tool, and paste them directly into the relevant project page. "ok sarah wants the nav redesigned by next friday, needs to match the mockup she sent on monday, and she wants the contact form moved above the fold." then I break that into individual tasks later.

the reason this setup stuck is it has the lowest friction of anything I've tried. adding a task takes 10 seconds. checking what's due takes 2 minutes. everything else is noise I removed.

what's your notion setup for client work? especially curious about freelancers who've found something that survived more than a few months.

quarterly business review. client we've had for two years. results this quarter were genuinely down. i knew they would ask. i had a whole prepared explanation about market conditions, a change in their ad spend, and a platform algorithm update we had flagged three months ago.client's cmo asked 'so what happened this quarter' and i just started talking. and kept talking. and by the end of four minutes i had somehow given a vague answer about 'a challenging environment across the board' that didn't include any of the specific factors i had prepared to explain.the cmo said 'okay, so what are we doing differently next quarter' which is the polite way of saying the explanation wasn't satisfying.i've been in client services for six years. i know how to handle a bad quarter conversation. something about the pressure of the room and not wanting to seem like i was making excuses made me go vague instead of specific.specificity was exactly what they needed and i gave them the opposite. how do you stay on your prepared narrative when a tense client question makes your brain want to go safe.

I have been heavy my entire life, and eating was basically my main hobby and how I handled stress. I started running Reta four months back and I am down 50 pounds. Everyone around me thinks I am doing great, but I actually feel completely miserable. Just the thought of eating pizza makes my stomach turn now. I go out with friends and just sit there staring at a cup of water. It is like this stuff killed my appetite but also wiped out the only thing that gave me dopamine. How do you guys find anything enjoyable when the one thing you loved just makes you feel sick now?

I've been sitting on this for a few weeks trying to figure out how to write it without it sounding like a before and after story, because it's not really that, everything is still hard, but something is different.

I did my evaluation through the Sachs Center mostly because I'd read that they specifically work with adults who've spent years developing compensatory strategies, which is a clinical way of saying people who built an enormous amount of scaffolding to appear fine. I am extremely that person. The session was a focused 2 to 2.5 hour clinical interview with a PhD psychologist, with standardized rating scales I'd filled out beforehand, and the diagnostic letter came the same day. I added the full report and that arrived shortly after. Four to five pages, specific and readable.

The part that got me was a section describing how my attention and working memory patterns interact with my emotional regulation. I'd always known those two things were both problems but I'd been treating them as separate, one was executive function and one was just being sensitive. Turns out they're connected in a specific way that has a name and a mechanism and I'd been compensating for both simultaneously without knowing they were the same underlying thing.

I don't know that it changes what I do on a Tuesday morning, but knowing the actual shape of what I'm working with is genuinely not nothing.

I want to throw my laptop out of my window right now, from the last week i am trying to complete my literature review, my guide is not helping me at all, so I decided to lurk in this sub and literally found lots of posts recommending various tools that can help, I was desperate and decided to use them so that I can have some help and it made me so mad because they were not helpful at all, I mean If a tool can’t perform the basic task of highlighting the exact sentence in a PDF without linking to a 404 page or a journal homepage it is useless.

If I have to read the whole ass paper myself why would I use the tool???

I wasted my time and decided to go back to JASTOR nd highlighters.

My fellow scholars please go the library instead of sitting in front of a screen and wasting time on these pathetic tools.