
Fashion week said “barefoot luxury” and my brain took it personally
At this point I can’t even tell if this is high fashion or someone who forgot their shoes while rushing out the door 😭

At this point I can’t even tell if this is high fashion or someone who forgot their shoes while rushing out the door 😭
Alright I've gone through enough of these that I feel like I have something worth sharing. Most portable power stations die quietly by Saturday afternoon and you don't notice until you open the fridge and everything's warm. Here's what I've actually seen hold up.
Jackery 1000 v2 , good for day trips, solid build, but 1kWh doesn't stretch across two nights of fridge use realistically. Works fine if you're also running off your truck alternator or have solar, but standalone it's a one-night option.
EcoFlow DELTA 2 Max , bigger, heavier, legitimately capable of running a fridge through a weekend if you're not doing anything crazy with other loads. The solar input is strong and the charging speed on AC is great if you get back to hookups between nights. Expensive but it earns it.
Goal Zero Yeti 1000X , popular in overlanding circles, well-built, but the weight for what you get is a little rough, and the 1kWh cap puts it in the same boat as the Jackery for full-weekend use.
Worksport COR , handled everything, kept a fridge cold for over 30 hours and when one pack ran low I just swapped in the second one, no waiting. Never had that option with anything else I've used. You're not killing time until it recharges, you just pull one battery, drop another in, and you're running again. For actual multi-night truck camping without hookups that's kind of a big deal.
If you only go out for one night, any of these work. Two-plus nights without hookups, COR or DELTA 2 Max are the only two I'd trust to not ruin a trip.
Doctor suggested hyperbaric therapy as an option for my chronic migraines. I have an initial consultation scheduled and want to come prepared with good questions.
I have been reading research on the mechanisms. Some research shows significant reduction in migraine frequency and intensity. I am optimistic about trying this as part of my migraine management plan.
Questions I am planning to ask:
What frequency and duration do you recommend for migraine management?
How long before most people notice changes in migraine patterns?
Should I continue my current migraine medications during treatment?
What metrics should I track to evaluate if this is helping?
What other questions would be useful to ask at the initial consultation? For people using this for migraines specifically, what do you wish you had asked or known before starting?
Looking forward to trying this new approach and seeing if it helps my migraine management.
Seeing small roaches near the dishwasher and under the sink. Pretty sure they're german roaches based on the size and the two stripes. My dog's food and water bowls are right there in the kitchen so whatever I use needs to be safe.
I've been spraying bugmd essential pest concentrate along the baseboards and under the sink when I lock the dog out for a couple hours. It seems to help reduce what I'm seeing but I know german roaches need more than just a contact spray.
I also sealed a gap around the dishwasher water line with steel wool and caulk. And I've been running the garbage out every single night instead of letting it sit.
What else should I be doing? Especially interested in hearing from anyone who's dealt with german roaches in an apartment with pets.
impressive. deeply concerning. but impressive.
I know snack posts are everywhere but I wanted to share what actually stuck for me because I tried a LOT of stuff that didn't. 31F, 5'6, been eating at 1500 since December and down 22 lbs. The thing that made the biggest difference honestly wasn't my meals, it was figuring out snacks that stopped me from blowing my budget at night.
What I eat almost every single day:
Greek yogurt (the plain nonfat kind) with cinnamon and a few drops of vanilla extract. About 100 cals and it tastes way better than it sounds.
Baby carrots with mustard. Weird combo but I love it. Maybe 40 cals.
A handful of frozen cherries. The tartness helps when I need something refreshing.
Air popped popcorn with nutritional yeast. Like 90 cals for a big bowl.
Shameless gummies on days when nothing else is going to cut it for the sugar craving.
The pattern I noticed is that everything I actually stick with is stuff I can eat a decent amount of without going over 100 cals. Volume matters way more to me than how "healthy" something sounds on paper.
Extract from Is AHCC actually useful or just expensive placebo stuff?
I’ve been sick a weird amount this past year (every cold that goes around the office finds me), and it hit me again last week when my coworker joked I should “just buy an immune system on Amazon.” That kinda stuck in my head so I started googling late at night, as one does.
I ended up reading about AHCC supplements that are made from mushroom mycelium and supposedly help natural killer cells/T-cells and all that. One of the ones I saw was on Amazon, link looked like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G26QWY7S and it claims to be pure, no fillers, made in the US etc. The price isn’t insane, but not cheap either.
Has anyone here actually taken AHCC for a while and noticed any real difference, or is this more “feel good for buying vitamins” stuff? Any side effects I should know about? Also, if it is useful, how do you even tell which brands are trustworthy and which are just slapping a fancy label on rice flour?
i run a bookkeeping and CFO advisory firm, 3 people, mostly serving e-commerce and SaaS companies. for years i told myself outbound wasn't worth my time because i was busy enough with referrals.
then i did the math
average client stays with us 26 months
avg monthly retainer is $2,400
LTV per client is $62,400.
i was spending $0 to find those clients, which it’s pretty good. But i now spend about $200/month on tooling and 2-3 hours a week on outbound. LinkedIn targeting for founders and finance leads, outreach through linked helper, and do only calls myself. we've onboarded 6 outbound clients in 8 months. That's ~ $374,000 in LTV from $1,600 in tool costs and maybe 100 hours of time.
i don't know why it took me so long to just do the math. if you're sitting on a high-LTV service and doing zero proactive outbound you are leaving an embarrassing amount of money on the table.
Who wants free advice??
I'm a property manager for a small office building. Our maintenance team keeps aerosol lubricants, spray paint, adhesives, and cleaning products in a utility closet, roughly twenty-five to thirty aerosol cans plus some quart-size solvent containers.
During a recent fire inspection the inspector mentioned we might need an approved flammable storage cabinet depending on the total aggregate quantity of flammable liquids. Those cabinets run anywhere from $500 to $2,000.
I'm not even sure which products are classified as flammable liquids. Some aerosol cans have the GHS flame pictogram, others don't, and I don't know whether aerosols and regular containers are counted separately for maximum allowable quantity calculations.
Before spending money on a cabinet, I want to understand the actual requirement. Do our quantities trigger it, or was the inspector being overly cautious?
driving somewhere? in this economy?
Open to YA or NA!
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