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Wondering what the best spaces to network are that are non tradition. steam rooms? gyms? Casa?

Specifcally NYC

It seems kind of insane to me that gay marriage in America has only been legal for around 10 years when homosexuality has clearly existed throughout all of human history. There were also multiple ancient societies where same sex relationships were either accepted or at least not treated as some extreme moral issue.

So I am curious historically why homosexuality became so taboo in so many cultures, especially in the West.

I am also curious why acceptance of homosexuality is often framed as a uniquely modern or progressive idea when there are many historical examples of societies where same-sex relationships were tolerated or even normalized long before the modern era. Why do we tend to think of acceptance as something new if it has existed at different points throughout history?

I know this is not true or I hope. Can anyone who felt the same please give me story of how this is not true so I can use this as fuel for my brain to not trick me. Thank you!

I have been doing EMDR for about a year, but it can make me feel different every time. I have gotten through most of the harder processing work and am sort of slamming it at this point, sometimes doing 45 minutes straight in sessions.

I find:
Day 1: exhaustion
Day 2: hyper emotional
Day 3: emotional
Day 4: calm and relaxed

Obviously, these could correlate with other things, but I was wondering if anyone knows the science behind how long it takes the brain to process through the full cycle, or what other people’s experiences have been.

This question is for people that have interviewed lots of people. What works better? I know this can vary, but for someone with 2 to 6 years of experience, I always thought your background walkthrough should be around 5 minutes. Should it really be closer to 2 minutes? How much time should you spend talking about each role? How much detail should you go into?

Today in an interview I was specifically asked what my current or former manager would say I was bad at in my job. I honestly just could not deal with that line of questioning anymore, so I told her I was an absolute beast at my job and that every single manager I have ever worked for would say that any weakness or struggle I had, I overcame within 48 hours and never asked the same question twice. She then pressed me and I said I don't torelate people around me to not be good at their job. She said ok then acted annoyed and moved on.

these questions ARE SO ANNOYING, I know the point is self awareness, but come on sorry I am good at my job.

At Chipotle he raised prices four times between 2021-2023, while he quietly cut quality, ruined the brand, and shrank the portions. Pocketed over $100M across his tenure while the stock ran 773% due to his short term strategy and before demand could decrease. Then left as the shrinkflation backlash went viral. People caught on to the horrible quality and the labor cost cuts as well. Same-store sales fell 1.7% in 2025, first annual decline since 2016, stock down 37%.

At Starbucks the short-term playbook is different but the structural problem is identical. He's buying traffic with labor wages and benefits rose from 27.4% of sales in 2019 to 31.9% in 2025 and it's working. Q2 just posted 7.1% same store sales growth, the strongest traffic performance in three years. But operating margin has collapsed from 15.4% in 2019 to 7.9% in 2025. He's admitted the company needs to cut $2 billion in costs to get back to pre pandemic margins by 2028.

Here's the trap: the traffic recovery is built on more baristas and better experience. The moment he cuts labor to recover margins, the experience degrades and the customers leave again. He's explicitly ruled out discounting, coffee prices are up 18% year on year, and a $9 latte has a ceiling.

My guess is the 2028 margin targets slip, the narrative breaks, and he's gone leaving whoever comes next to explain why the turnaround didn't actually fix anything structural.

PS: Taco Bell is the outlier genuine turnaround, held up after he left. Everything since follows the same arc. But I don't think he had the clout to be able to do that then.

Just a thought happy to be wrong but just a trend I noticed but not tons of data points don't know how many companies this man plans being the CEO.

So I moved back from Europe a couple of years ago to NYC, and it has gotten so expensive, like beyond anything I have seen before. Many people have told me it is because a lot of people are moving from other cities, meaning other very rich people are leaving Boston, Philly, DC LA, SF, etc., and coming to NYC.

Which got me thinking, why doesn’t the USA have another world-class city (please don’t come in the comments and tell me how great Austin, Texas is, I mean like world-class London, Paris, NYC, Hong Kong, etc.).

We need to consider building a new city or making another one more attractive. So many people are coming to New York City. Imagine if Europe only had London???

So two questions really:

1. Why is it so good??? I am addicted to their creams and cleanser have never tried the serums or sunscreen but would love to. Anyone know the secret sauce?

2. Anything that even comes close? it is so expensive or ways to make it cheaper?

I would love to support local businesses for all the obvious reasons, and I understand they cannot have the supply chain margins of Target or Whole Foods. Would be happy to pay the extra dollar or 50 cents (if that was the case). But I actually hit my wall today when I went to buy a Coke at a local bodega and it was $6. These store owners don’t label anything and charge so insanely that I have actually stopped going altogether and now just go to Whole Foods. I hate this, but seriously it has gotten out of control.

Tired of being interviews in my apartment. But the ones at wework are like 50 dollars for a half hour. Anyone have cheaper options?