u/newintownla

My (41m) gf (31f) and I have been together for 5 years now. She's had depression for the entirety of our relationship, but something changed in her last year. She had a mental break that ended up with her being admitted to the psychiatric hospital, and she really hasn't been the same since then. Before, her depression was mostly pretty mild and manageable. But now she's in such a low state, that she's telling me she's willing to give up this relationship. She keeps telling me it's because I've changed and I'm not the same person I used to be. That may be partially true, because I've become less and less sympathetic and more numb to her depressive episodes, but she is a totally different person than she was before. She would never want to leave me, but now she just doesn't seem to care.

I just told her I loved her as she left for a therapy appointment a few minutes ago and she just replied with a "sure."

I'm at the point now where I just want to leave, but it's so hard to do. We've built such a nice life together, but I feel it slipping away every day.

Gf and I are driving down Worden near Point Loma. There's road construction and a detour at the bottom of the hill. The silver Jaguar in front of us drives all the way up to the worker directing traffic, then proceeds to lay on his horn while advancing toward the worker as he's telling him he has to turn right and take the detour. The guy finally turns and screeches his tires on the way out.

I spoke to the worker for a minute and he was almost sure that guy was gonna hit him.

Wtf is going through these people's minds when they pull this shit?

I think this applies to any modern TV show these days. Seasons are around 10 episodes and go something like this: episode 1 introduces characters, episode 2 sets up the plot, then episodes 3 though 9 are giant nothing burgers and pointless cliffhangers where nothing happens to advance the story to anything meaningful, then episode 10 ends up being the biggest disappointment of all.

It feels like every episode is just an excuse to get the viewer to watch the next one with hopes that something interesting might actually happen. But no, it almost never does. I think the last season of The Boys is a good example of this. Also, The Testaments.

Maybe these shows should just be 10 part mini series and that's it. Band of Brothers is a great example of how a show can be good and memorable. Every single episode of that show had a purpose and something memorable about it. Modern TV just feels like every episode is just an ad for the next episode.

I think it's long past due for me to cancel these streaming subscriptions. They're absolute garbage now.

I commented in a thread earlier today about what years makes up the xennial generation. Apparently saying I think the cutoff was a whole 1 year later than the agreed upon range in that sub makes me a "snowflake" and a "typical millennial."

Why are people on reddit incapable of having a friendly discussion anymore? Everyone is so far up their own ass here that they can't even have a civil discussion about something totally arbitrary. Why are people on this app such miserable cunts?

For anyone who manages client sites on retainer, the thing that always seemed rough to me is the client noticing something broke before you do. A form silently failing, a layout shifting after a plugin update, an SSL cert lapsing. So I sketched out a concept for a tool that watches for that stuff. It will do screenshot comparisons to catch visual breakage, submit forms to confirm they still work, SSL/domain expiry alerts, and a white-label report you could hand the client. Put together a rough landing page just to think through it.

I'm looking for some feedback. Would anyone here find this useful?

So when I was doing retainer work, the thing that drove me nuts was clients emailing me about a broken form or some layout that shifted before I even knew something was off. It made me look asleep at the wheel even though I was doing the work. And the monitoring tools I tried mostly just watch a URL and ping you, which is fine for one page but useless when you've got like 20 client sites and you also need to actually show the client you're on top of things.

So I started building SiteWarden. It takes screenshots and compares them to a baseline so you catch visual stuff, actually submits the forms to make sure the confirmation email shows up, warns you about SSL and domain expiry, and spits out a white-label report you can send the client. All organized by client instead of one giant list of URLs.

It's still early and honestly I'm trying to work out what people actually care about. So if you manage sites for clients, what's the thing that's burned you in front of a client before? And would you pay to be able to prove you were watching, or is it really just the monitoring you want?