u/Friendly-Extent1814

Trying to make friends IRL is a nightmare, but online isn’t much better 😭

So I’m a goth girl, and I’ve been trying to make new friends , nothing crazy, just people to vibe with. But whenever I try to approach someone in person (same gender or opposite) to start a normal convo, I can literally see the tension on their faces. Like I’m an alien or something. It’s exhausting.

Online is totally different , people actually relate to me, we have good convos, and for a second I feel like I’m not so weird. But then I mention I’m goth, and suddenly the topic switches to either:

Sexual stuff (“show me your dress and thighs” etc.)

Religious lectures (“you’re not a real Muslim,” “you worship the devil,” “you’re possessed by a jinn”)

Like… I just want friends. Normal, respectful friends. What do I even do at this point? 😭

TL;DR: Goth girl can’t make friends IRL because people act like she’s an alien, and online people either get creepy or preachy when she mentions she’s goth.

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u/Friendly-Extent1814 — 9 hours ago

Muweilah area… should I just go to a clinic or try fixing this myself?

So lately my hearing has been a bit off, like slightly muffled, and I’m pretty sure it’s just earwax buildup. I’ve always been the type to just use q tips and not think too much about it, but now I’m realizing that probably wasn’t the best habit.

I haven’t booked anything yet because I don’t really know where to go around Muweilah. I’d rather get it properly cleaned than keep guessing at home, but I’m also wondering if it’s something simple enough to deal with myself.

I did end up trying one of those camera tools, Bebird, just to see what’s going on inside. It was actually kind of helpful to understand the situation, but also made me hesitate because I’m not sure how safe it is to actually remove anything on my own.

Now I’m stuck deciding if I should just go to a clinic and be done with it or keep trying at home.

Has anyone around here found a good place for ear cleaning, or had decent results doing it yourself?

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u/Friendly-Extent1814 — 13 hours ago

I’m considering botox for forehead lines at 28 am I too early?

I'm 28 and I've started noticing lines on my forehead that don't fully go away when my face is relaxed. Its not that deep, but they're there and they bother me, I have a friend who's 31 and got botox done last year and I keep thinking about it. The information online doesn’t make it any better. Some say starting before 30 causes muscle atrophy over time, others that preventative botox in your late 20s is fine if the lines are already forming, idk who to believe. Also im based in Lucknow and have no idea how to find the right place for this, like, I have no shortage of clinics and salons offering it but I don't know how to separate quality from somewhere that shouldn't be near a syringe. That part worries me more than the procedure itself. So a few questions I have: should the doctor be assessing the face while it's moving before deciding on units, what does a proper consultation should look like, and does it matter going back to the same doctor each time? I would love to know also what first timers in botox had for experiences

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u/Friendly-Extent1814 — 1 day ago

The importance of definitions early in content

I keep noticing is how much smoother content feels when it defines its key terms early instead of assuming everyone already knows the frame. That matters for human readers, but I think it matters even more for LLMs. If the model gets a clear definition near the start, it has a stronger anchor for everything that follows. If the meaning stays vague for too long, the rest of the piece can drift or get interpreted too broadly.

This feels especially important in topics where the same word can mean slightly different things depending on context. Growth, quality, authority, memory, optimization, all of those can get slippery fast if the content does not pin them down. I am starting to think early definitions are one of the easiest ways to make content easier to summarize and harder to misread.

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u/Friendly-Extent1814 — 1 day ago