u/willmorris92

pulled this one last weekend on my buddy who thinks he’s unprankable. stuck a fake light switch prank sticker right next to his actual light switch and waited.

dude walked in, flicked the real one, then spent a full minute staring at the fake one like it was some kind of glitch in the matrix. finally goes “wait… when did they put a second switch here??”

i almost died laughing. no big setup, no mess, just pure brain short-circuit. still my favorite 2-dollar investment ever.

Got my septum done two weeks ago and I'm trying to figure out how to keep it happy while coaching football. I sweat like crazy at practice and my nose runs the whole time. I'm constantly wiping my face with my sleeve and I know that's not great for a fresh piercing.

The crusties build up and I want to clean it, but my piercer said to leave it alone. Easier said than done when you're out on the field yelling at kids all day. I rinse with sterile saline when I get home, but by the next morning it's crusted up again. I also do a lot of hiking on weekends and the dust gets up in there too.

Feels like I'm fighting an uphill battle. Anyone else deal with a septum while doing physical work or being outside a lot? I just want to make sure I'm not setting myself up for a problem down the road. The healing process is new territory for me. Any advice on keeping it clean without overdoing it would be great.

swear to god I don't know how you full time guys do this without destroying your joints. just spent the last 3 evenings after work manually stripping a mountain of old wire my uncle pulled from a demo job.

The youtube videos make it look so satisfying and easy but nobody mentions the insane hand cramps. Pretty sure im bleeding under my thumbnails rn. the old plastic sheathing is so ridiculously stiff and tough to slice through clean.

Im officially tapping out, my week is ruined lmao. I have a pile of aluminum extrusion too but im not even gonna bother trying to break it down perfectly, just tossing everything in the bed of the truck and heading to Langille's metal recycling tomorrow morning so I can finally get my garage floor back.

Seriously tho do you guys use special gloves or just build up crazy calluses over the years? my hands are literally vibrating.

Coaching football pays the bills and I love it, but I've been picking up Python and some light automation stuff between practices. The trouble is my learning comes in weird bursts. Film review on Tuesday, maybe an hour of coding Wednesday, nothing for four days because of a road game. I tried the whole build-a-project-every-weekend thing and burned out fast. Baking bread taught me that good things need time to rise, but tech moves fast and I worry about losing ground. What actually works for steady progress when your schedule is a mess? Do you block time like a meeting, or squeeze it in where you can? I'm not looking to become a senior dev in six months. Just want to keep the door open without letting my current team down. Hiking clears my head but it does not push commits. Curious how others with chaotic schedules handle this, especially if you came from a field where nobody around you speaks tech.

been looking at BYD’s electric buses and wondering why you don’t hear much about them in smaller US fleets.

rural school districts run old diesel buses for years, and the maintenance costs can get pretty ugly. an electric bus costs more upfront, but the lower maintenance might change the math

the tricky part is charging. a bus doing long rural routes and away games can’t exactly rely on a charger every few miles

does anyone here know how realistic BYD, Yutong, or other chinese electric buses would be for something like this? are these companies actually trying to enter the US fleet market, or are regulations and charging infrastructure basically keeping them out?

I am so sick of paying absurd fees for "institutional grade" tick data only to realize my backtester is filling orders that would literally never exist in a live order book. Just wasted like two weeks tuning a mean reversion strat that apparently relies on infinite liquidity at the bid. cool..

Lately tbh instead of renewing these overpriced data subscriptions I've just been letting my python scripts run live on a funded fast challenge account to stress test the execution logic. Its honestly cheaper than my monthly data bill and I actually get to see how the bot handles real spread widening and actual slippage during the NY open

is anyone else just raw dogging forward tests in production at this point? seeing a strategy print a 3.5 sharpe in a local backtest and then immediately shit the bed in a live environment is actually destroying my sanity

my ceiling started leaking in the hallway like two weeks ago. and I swear trying to get someone out here to even look at it has been a whole ordeal. everyone is either booked out till next year or they want to charge you an arm and a leg just to come out. not to mention the door knockers after that last storm, ugh. don't even get me started on how much this area has changed feels like every patch of grass is turning into a subdivision. was just about to give up and try to tarp it myself (bad idea lol).

tired of everything being so complicated. is it just me or is everyone else dealing with this too?

Been rewatching Community during the offseason and this question keeps coming back to me. Like genuinely, if Greendale had a football program, who actually leads that locker room?

Jeff is the obvious answer on the surface. He talks a good game, he can rally people when it counts, and that speech energy is real. But he folds when things get hard and it's always about Jeff first. You can't build a team around that.

Abed would see every play before it happened, which is wild, but getting him to communicate it to ten other guys in real time is a whole different problem.

My honest answer is Shirley. People sleep on her but she commands a room without even trying. She gets people moving through a mix of warmth and quiet pressure, and that's not something you can manufacture. That's just leadership. Troy is a close second because the guy has natural buyin from everyone around him before he even opens his mouth.

Pierce would get the team kicked out of a conference. That's all I'll say there.

honestly losing my mind this week. leadership just announced they’re adding yet ANOTHER reporting requirement to our sf instance

Like guys... I am paid to sell. Not to write a psychological profile in the notes section for a 45 second cold call

The actual sales tech we have is fine, we just use cloud talk for the dials and it logs the activity automatically anyway. But no, now revops wants us to manually tag the "buyer readiness temperature" on a scale of 1-10 for every single interaction

Who actually comes up with this stuff?? I swear the higher up you go in management, the further you get from reality. just let us do our jobs

I was crossing the street in Midtown. Green light, walk signal on, and I was in the crosswalk

A guy on an e-bike ran straight into me. Didn't even slow down. I hit the ground hard. He looked back, then took off

I've got bruises all down my side and a sprained ligament in my wrist. I'm on sick leave for two weeks. I can't work. I can't drive properly…

I filed a police report. The officer looked at me and said they won't bother looking for him. My injuries aren't "serious enough."

Serious enough? I can barely type. I can't lift my kid. But apparently that doesn't count

A friend mentioned I could sue the city. Unsafe crosswalks, poor lighting and something like that. But I have no idea if that's even a real thing

im a pretty crunchy mom - cloth diapers, homemade baby food, avoid unnecessary chemicals, all that. but after my second kid i just can't lose the weight. been 2 years and i'm still carrying an extra 30lbs that won't budge no matter what i do.

been reading about tirzepatide and i'm torn. part of me feels like it's cheating or too medical. but another part of me is exhausted from trying everything and getting nowhere.

a couple of the moms in my local group mentioned it helped with inflammation and food noise - like they stopped obsessing over food.

i'm not looking for medical advice, just wondering if any other crunchy-ish moms have tried this and how you reconciled it with the natural living mindset. did you feel guilty? was it worth it?

been to hundreds of matches, seen plenty of late goals on TV, but something about being in the stadium when it happened hit completely differently. whole section around me just went silent for a solid ten seconds before the away end erupted.

been going down a rabbit hole on this and i cannot figure out the pattern

did a bunch of test searches for service providers in my industry and ChatGPT just keeps recommending the same competitors. completely ignores my site — which is annoying because we're not a nobody. decent authority, solid reviews, been around long enough to expect at least occasional mentions

so what actually determines who gets recommended when someone asks an AI for a direct business suggestion?

is it on-page content structure? third party mentions across forums and review sites? PR coverage? or is it just whatever got baked into training data and there's nothing you can do until the next model update

i keep seeing "GEO" (generative engine optimisation) thrown around but everything i read is vague and contradictory. one article says write more FAQ content, another says go hard on off-site mentions, another says just wait it out

has anyone actually moved the needle on this and traced it back to something specific they did

feels like everyone's guessing right now and whoever cracks it first is going to have a serious edge

just got back from my driving school circuit and honestly my brain is completely fried. stalling a manual car in the august heat for two hours will do that to you tbh

Anyway I get home, still sweating, and immediately get a ping that our crowd marketing server is throwing 502s. I usually do all my server management on windows, but my main pc was tied up so I grabbed a borrowed macbook just to get it fixed quick

I swear, staring at the macos terminal while physically exhausted is a special kind of torture. I know its unix based and supposed to be easier, but my putty muscle memory was completely useless. got so paranoid about messing up the connection string that I actually had to look at a server mania cheat sheet just to remember how to properly pass my ed25519 key in the native terminal without syntax errors

Finally got in and restarted the python scripts and it's fine now. but kinda wild how fast you forget absolute fundamentals when you're stressed and out of your element. anyone else completely lose the ability to type basic commands when forced to use a different OS in a panic?

Ran into a former player this weekend and we ended up talking for an hour about concerts we'd both been to recently. He said something that stuck with me. He'd seen a massive arena act and a smaller club show in the same month, and the club show was the one he kept thinking about weeks later, even though the production was nothing compared to the arena.

That got me thinking about what actually separates a show that stays with you from one that just kind of happens. It's not always the big production or even the setlist. I've been to shows where everything looked perfect on paper and walked out feeling nothing. Then seen artists in tiny rooms who locked into something that felt completely real, and the whole place responded to it.

I wonder how much of it is venue size, how much is the crowd feeding back into the performance, and how much comes down to whether the artist seems present or just going through the motions. There's also the question of whether you can predict ahead of time which shows are going to hit that way, or if it's always just a gamble.

Curious what shows people actually remember and what made them land the way they did. Not talking about the biggest or flashiest, just the ones that actually stuck.

so i been using my cameo for vinyl decals and htv for like 2 years. and honestly im so tired of weeding. especially when i do multi color designs. layering vinyl is such a pain. one wrong move and the whole thing is ruined

i started looking for alternatives. tried printable htv but the colors looked washed out and it felt cheap. plus you still have to cut it out and weed it anyway

then i heard about dtf transfers from someone in another sub. basically you get the print already on film and you just press it. no cutting. no weeding. no layering

now i use my silhouette for paper crafts and stencils. but for shirts dtf all the way

anyone else made the switch from vinyl to dtf. what do you still use your cutter for

lifting weights consistently for a while now and I'm definitely getting stronger. but I feel like Im getting stiffer too. like my range of motion is actually getting worse, in my shoulders and hips.

I stretch, I foam roll, I do the whole mobility thing. but nothing seems to really help with the tightness. it's like my muscles are just getting shorter and more compact or something lol.

friend suggested reformer pilates for mobility work. said it helped her cause its not just static stretching, it's moving through ranges with resistance.

looking at some home pilates reformer options but not sure if it's worth it. anyone here tried this approach? did it help with tightness or am I better off just stretching more?

As you can guess I'm planning to propose and my girlfriend has been dropping hints for months. The thing is that she wants a 2 carat halo ring with diamonds. She kinda loves lots of sparkle

I've been saving. But I'm not rich and my budget is just $2,000. Maybe a little more if I stretch…

Looked at local jewelry stores and they laughed at me. One salesperson literally said something like my engagement is "not happening" when I told him my budget. Another tried to sell me a 0.5-carat for $3,000 and it was tiny. Not what she wants…

Then I found Ritani with their lab grown diamonds. 2 halo engagement rings and they’re beautiful. Well within my budget. I actually found a few options for under $2,000

It looks perfect. I’d say too perfect…

I'm skeptical. What's the catch? Is the diamond actually good quality? Will the setting fall apart? Will she love it or notice it's not the same as a natural diamond?

I've read good things about lab-grown diamonds. They're real diamonds. Chemically identical. But cheaper. It makes sense. But I'm still scared…

Well I need a reality check before I click buy. I don't want to mess this up. She deserves something beautiful. I just want to give it to her

Not "possession isn't everything" — the small patterns that clicked and made the game feel different.

For me: fullbacks tucking inside during buildup. Once I saw it, those "boring" possession phases made sense as space manipulation, not sideways passing.

What changed it for you?

every morning id scroll through twitter and reddit looking for some secret strategy that would blow up my business. read about funnels. read about hooks. read about viral loops. bought courses. watched youtube videos. consumed so much growth content i could probably teach a class on it.

and my business stayed fine not bad not great.

last year i hired a guy to help with some random stuff super practical dude. he asked me why i wasnt on google maps. i said i sell online. its not relevant.

he looked at me like i had two heads.

turns out people search for products locally all the time for what i sell (handmade furniture). i had a profile i set up years ago and never touched. photos were trash description was empty.

spent maybe 3 hours fixing it. added good photos. wrote a proper description. filled out all the categories.

within 6 weeks i had 5 new clients from people within 20 miles of my workshop. not a massive number but they all came from google maps free traffic.

anyway. anyone else chase shiny objects for way too long?