right after mr modi ‘advised’ everyone to not buy gold this year and to stop going out as much and when people started to question this, they decided to conduct reneet it’s like a trend now, has anyone else noticed it or is it just me?
So I was riding with a coworker last week and his ""stock"" diesel wagon pulled way harder than mine, and he casually mentioned he's using some external tuning box instead of a normal remap. Now my brain's been stuck on this.
I daily a 2018 GTI, mostly city with some highway trips, and I’d love a bit more punch without nuking fuel economy or risking warranty drama. While googling around late last night I kept seeing these smartphone-controlled piggyback chips that claim like +30% power and better mpg, including one called GÄN Tuning and a couple similar brands.
I get that a proper dyno tune is always the gold standard, but maybe I’m overthinking this for a mild street setup. Are these plug-in boxes actually safe for long-term use, or are they just running everything lean and spicy until something pops?
Anyone here run one for more than a year? How’s reliability, fuel consumption, and did your dealer ever notice or care? If you’d do it again, which brands would you trust and which ones would you avoid?"
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okay this might be a hot take but chivalry is just patriarchy in a way that it benefits women(yeah the 0.01%) i feel like if a guy feels responsible or is pressurised to be responsible for your bills or the things you want, he will definitely expect you to do something for him which is a human behaviour until it’s patriarchal(which it definitely is) getting gifts and giving flowers and everything isn’t a problem, expecting someone to pay for the whole date, pay all the house bills and everything is 100% a problem babe because what if the guy starts expecting you to take care of all the household work
this might come off as pickme or rude but trust me this is fueling patriarchy in ways you can’t even imagine and this has to stopped unconditional love is a very beautiful thing except it’s not real honey, even your parents expect you to get good grades after they pay for your education
(Don’t get me wrong or anything and please give my opinion a thought)
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Every time I try using a treadmill, I get bored faster than I expect.
Running outside feels more engaging, even if it’s harder physically. On a treadmill, it feels repetitive and I find myself constantly checking the time. At the same time, I can’t ignore how convenient it is, especially when the weather is bad or I don’t feel like going out. For people who use treadmills regularly, does it get easier over time, or is it always something you have to mentally push through?
thrifting in delhi makes it even best was casually roaming in sabzi mandi and heard some bhaiya shouting 150 ka 2 tshirt and lowkey most of them were branded not even from India they all were imported like they even had qr to scan and i even checked few with Google search and got exact results. okay so I got a Adidas jersey of Manu Samoa those who don't know they are rugby football team and dude when I checked the price of the jersey on ebay i got stunned it was 190 euro... even though ebay doesn't work in India but that jersey was must for me and I brought it. and the condition of the jersey was so clean and well maintained even the buttons of the jersey was labeled with Adidas I checked the tagand it was 100% original 😳 i felt so lucky.
okay so some sources of mine from cbse, confirmed that result MIGHT be out on 11th of May...😭😭😭😭
not confirmed with officals but result will be out this week and there are high chances of it coming starting of this week.
i hope we all will ace the exam 🙏🏻
is it worth investing the amount on blinkit franchise?
and is it fixed that they'll charge that amount or the amount can be negotiate? most people ive asked said that price depends on the location and the size of your property. I am pretty sure about the location but not sure about the size of the property help me bout this. as well also want a contact of any dark store owner from Delhi.
Okay, show me and my family are planning to open your blinket, dark store.The area is around palam. ok, so I checked the prices like the investment we have to do. I asked chatgpt and It was showing me around. It should be around 8lc. to 1 crore. Which is obviously too much so like I was digging into it. And it advised me to open a small dark store which I think it would be more reliable for me and then you can see the charges said that for small dark stores, it will be around 12lc To 2lc, or something.. So I need suggestions like if any of you like, have a dark store or you have experience in this field please tell if its the true info.
I've been looking into AI roleplay platforms and Character AI and Chai AI keep coming up as the top two. Haven't really used either seriously yet but from what I've seen they both look solid for RP.
Before I commit time to one, for people who've actually used them:
Which one is better for deep, sustained roleplay? Like stories that build over multiple sessions, not just quick chats.
- How's the memory? Is Chai better?
- Does one have features the other doesn't?
- Is NSFW ai rp possible?
And honestly, if neither is the best for serious roleplay, what is?
Open to other platforms if something else does it better.
Just want real opinions before I pick one. Thanks.
ok hear me out because I know this sounds backwards
everyone's told you to keep good notes right? capture everything, tag it properly, build a second brain, review it regularly
so I did that. spent real time building a Notion system, tagging everything, doing weekly reviews, checking my notes before every meeting
time spent on context switching went down a little but the system maintenance cost was maybe higher than the problem
then I tested something different. I stopped trying to organize everything in advance and switched to on-demand voice recall using whatever is currently open on my screen
example:
old approach: ""check my Notion notes for last week's discussion about the pricing strategy""
new approach: ""what did we decide about pricing?"" said out loud, app reads current screen context, answers in 3 seconds
one requires you to have organized things correctly in advance. the other just works with what's there
context recovery time went from 10 minutes per switch to under 30 seconds
turns out people don't care that you built a good system. they care if you can find what you need when you need it
anyone else find this? or am I just approaching context differently than everyone else.
Hey all, few years ago I was deep in the doomscrolling pit. Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, brain genuinely feeling like wet bread by 11pm every night. I'm a PM at Google and I honestly started getting scared I was getting dumber month by month. So I made a rule for myself: every single day, something goes into my brain that actually deserves to be there.
Three years later, halfway through my online psych masters, hundreds of books deep, daily learning is probably the highest ROI habit I've ever built. It compounds harder than money honestly. Here's my current stack:
#1 - Obsidian. I'm an INTJ and the dopamine I get from a perfectly organized vault is borderline concerning. Book notes, podcast takeaways, random research papers I discover at 1am, everything linked/tagged/connected like a conspiracy board. Half the fun is honestly just searching my own brain later and rediscovering ideas.
Big flaw though: organizing knowledge can become its own form of procrastination. I have like 700+ videos sitting in my YouTube watch later that I've beautifully categorized and never actually watched. Filing knowledge FEELS productive in the same way buying gym clothes feels like fitness. It's not the same thing. Had to learn that the hard way.
#2 - Maven. This is where I go for cutting-edge AI and PM stuff. Cohort-based courses taught by people actually shipping products in industry instead of academics recycling the same 2018 case studies. One course every few months is honestly my max as a working adult.
Main downside is price. Most are like $1k-$2k+. I've done two so far and keep debating whether to do more. I genuinely don't understand people who take like 5+ of these a year. How do you people have both the money AND time?? If that's you pls explain your life setup.
#3 - BeFreed. One of my ex-Google colleagues built this, so I originally downloaded it just to support him, but now I'm genuinely addicted to it. I used to use Blinkist because I liked the idea of learning during commutes, but I quit after like 2 blinks. Everything felt shallow and disconnected, like random isolated facts with no progression.
BeFreed is basically what I wanted Blinkist to become. You put in your goals/interests/current level and it builds an actual personalized learning path instead of throwing random summaries at you. You can also customize narration style, depth, voice, etc. I have mine set to the roasting/humorous style and it's weirdly entertaining, like having a smart friend aggressively explain concepts to you during your commute.
Honestly the dopamine hit is doing half the consistency work for me. Daily learning got WAY easier once it stopped feeling like homework.
Biggest downside is it's still pretty new, so occasionally some UX flows feel a little confusing. Doesn't really affect the core functionality though. It's basically replaced podcasts for me at this point.
#4 - Tiimo. I have ADHD and this is one of the only productivity apps that hasn't ended up abandoned after 2 weeks. The UI is genuinely beautiful and calm, which matters WAY more than productivity people admit. If an app is ugly or overwhelming, my brain simply refuses to open it.
I use it for gym, daily reading, meditation, walking my dog, all the basic human maintenance stuff. The points/badges/gamification thing sounds gimmicky until you realize your monkey brain absolutely falls for it every time. I've stayed consistent for 8+ months now which honestly would've sounded impossible to me a few years ago.
Tiimo + my morning reading block is genuinely what pulled me out of the doomscrolling spiral.
Honestly the bigger realization for me is this: almost every good thing that's happened in my life over the last few years traces back to replacing 30 mins of scrolling with 30 mins of actual input.
Promotion at work. Grad school. Better communication skills. Feeling smarter in conversations. Having thoughts that aren't just recycled TikTok takes.
Your brain literally becomes what you feed it. And neuroscience backs this up too, neuroplasticity absolutely does not stop in your 20s despite what people online say.
Read every day. Even 10 pages.
It's probably the most underrated cheat code I know.
What's in everyone else's daily learning stack? Always looking for more stuff to add :))
(NO HATE TO ANY TECHNIQUE I MIGHT NOT BE THE BEST IN IT IM VERY SURE IM JUST SHARING WHAT HAPPENED WITH ME AND I KNOW EVERYONE HERE IS SO KIND YALL WOULDNT MIND MY DUMB LITTLE QUESTIONS AND NOTICED THINGS) im sorry for being a metaphor freak in the title but what im about to tell you is so far the key manifestation has always been very unintentional and instant for me, everytime it has happened with me i didn’t realise it until a while and it was almost like a miracle, it’s like I’ve noticed this happening with me with small things but when i try to do it intentionally i mess up some or the other way okay so if i randomly think about getting some free data as my daily pack it over and then im like screw it let me do something else I can’t be on my phone anymore then boom i randomly got it from god knows where? i have noticed this whenever i have mentally and physically(yes at times) prepared myself for the worst case if things didn’t work out they work out in the most outstanding way ever okay enough bullshit now lemme come to the fact, i might sound a little crazy but yesterday I finished stranger things and I felt that one could possibly achieve anything they desire as long as they desire it So I pleaded to the universe to guide me through my manifestations and how to excel in it like explain me in my dream tonight and being the poet I think god played a little metaphorical game in which I got a dream of two wives being there and accused of cheating like the one who seemed tat she must have been cheating and sleeping around was the good one and the one who seemed like she is the love of the husbands life was the one cheating and I used this little thing in my head and realised that whenever I used to manifest like everyone like subliminal and law of assumption and thinking about it in my mind feeling positive feeling like it’ll happen it never happened but whenever I did this little thing of mine that I mentioned it happened and peekaboo I think that’s it but I’m still a bit confused because I’ve always just manifested unintentionally how canmake it intentional and quick?