And it tastes about the same as regular milk, maybe a bit sweeter.
Preheats in half the time? The smart people can tell me why this is stupid. Thank you.
I read about embodied cognition in behavioral economics and tested this for a month. My "quick trip" grocery bills dropped from ~$45 to ~$30 on average. I didn't buy less food — I just stopped grabbing snacks I didn't actually want.
The mechanism is simple: when your arm starts getting sore around aisle 4, every item gets a subconscious cost-benefit analysis. That $5 bag of chips suddenly feels expensive because your body is literally paying for it. With a cart, weight is invisible, so your brain treats the store like an all-you-can-grab buffet.
If you only need 3-4 items, skip the basket entirely and carry them in your hands. You'll be in and out in under 5 minutes because your brain wants to drop the load.
Obviously this doesn't apply to weekly family shops or heavy items like water/soda. Use it for the "I just need dinner ingredients" trips where 70% of a cart would normally be impulse grabs.
This is less a LPT about the benefits of a bidet, which everyone should already know are completely game changing as far as daily bodily functions, and more about their mostly overlooked secondary function.
A bidet, at least mine, can function as a very quick, mostly incognito (how much relates directly to the aforementioned quickness) emergency genital shower for impromptu adult activity. As anyone who has advanced beyond, or skipped right over, the "as long as I get mine" amateur hour of their carnal interactions with other consenting adults basic cleanliness, or "freshness" to use a tired marketing term, is usually step number one. [Kink shaming unintended] Of course, sometimes the daily shower is either going to be way too early or late to be helpful. Not to mention how presumptuous taking a shower can seem, or how quickly momentum can grind to a screeching halt suggesting one can be depending on the situation. From experience, I can attest to how clutch a bidet can be in those scenarios.
I doubt it's necessary but just to pad out the post, for example: Running into the cute cashier just getting off their shift as you head home after exercising at the park; the crush you've been in bed for the last three days over suddenly showing up because as soon as they arrived at the restaurant they realized who was really right for them all along; bae texting you, "my [parents/roommates/kids] are leaving in 10 minutes". In the past I would awkwardly try to splash water from the sink while standing on my tip toes only to get a cramp in my calf and accidentally bring an entire handful of water all over my pants/underwear. Now there's someone knocking and asking if I'm okay because I'm stamping my foot on the floor, look like I pissed myself, still have soap all over my dick and balls, and the sink and floor are covered in water. Not to mention still being horny so having to quietly clean everything up, make up some story about the sink spraying me ("But I fixed it don't worry") only for things to immediately stop and be asked why my dick tastes like soap. And, "Because you've got a dirty mouth," said coyly with a suggestive smirk is NOT the way to play it off.
With a bidet, the water comes to you, over the toilet and mine even has a little dryer to assist! It's quick, easy, and can be done without disrupting the natural flow of things. If you don't have a bidet, I highly recommend it!
>!(Sidenote: be careful not to accidentally blast yourself in the face trying to look down and angle correctly while rinsing off your groin)!<
Keep a consistent sleep and wake time, even on weekends and vacation. Consistency is key. Then take a walk in the sunshine without sunglasses every morning to anchor your circadian rhythm. No naps late in the day. If you do, 20 minute power naps in the afternoon are fine, but not late and not long. No screens within 1-2 hours of sleep time. No screens within the first 30 minutes of waking. Then do your deep focus work within a few hours of waking. Again, consistency is key.
You’ll be sleeping so well in no time
I just experienced a situation where I saw an older gentleman fall on an escalator. Everybody immediately nearby panicked and watched or tried walking up the moving escalator in an attempt to help the gentleman up.
I ran over and hit the shut off button located on the bottom of the escalator by the right hand rail as fast as I could. Thankfully the older gentleman was okay, but suffered minor scratches on his arm, hand, and back.
It's important to know that shut off buttons are not universally on the right, but they are REQUIRED to be somewhere easily accessible on both the top and bottom, usually found somewhere near the handrail.
I used to work for an event space that had numerous funerals and weddings. I designated a "funeral outfit" and a "wedding outfit" that were my go-tos for when these events happened.
I also used them in my personal life. Wedding outfit was also graduations outfit, seeing a friend in a play, baby showers, etc. Launder after the event, put it back in the closet but separate from day to day wear. You don't need a new outfit for every event - unless you are the focus of the event no one is clocking what you're wearing.
Saves time and thought when these events come up. Just go to your closet, grab the outfit and you're good to go. You can add accessories to customizes/add pops of color as appropriate.
It makes it way easier to get it all off of your hands too.
A lot of wasted work happens when people polish the part that is still moving.
For example, if I am making a client deck, I would ask,
“Are the numbers final yet, or can they still change?”
If they can still change, I wait before fixing every slide.
Do not polish the part that is still moving.
I travel a lot and want to share my experience. To make sure I always have access to my documents and important photos, I always save everything to cloud storage and make sure to remember my password and login. This really came in handy once when I went on a trip to Portugal. Let me know if you have any other travel tips
For most of my life, I have been bouncing from therapist to therapist that my insurance covers. I thought therapy simply didn’t work for me until I researched therapists in my area that specialize in my issues and found a perfect match that I noticed did not take insurance, but offered a sliding scale.
When I asked why they did not accept any form of insurance and only accepted out of pocket payments, she explained that their practice did not accept insurance because insurance companies dictate treatment plans that they are able to offer. If a practice accepts insurance, these licensed therapists cannot offer treatment that they believe is best suited to your needs if insurance doesn’t cover it, even if you’re willing to pay out of pocket for that particular treatment.
If you are in need of therapy (and I believe most people are) and you are financially capable of paying out of pocket (most practices offer sliding scale payments based on income), you WILL get the best results.
I am almost 30 years old and can’t believe how much growth I’ve experienced in the past 7 months by going to a therapist that can fully customize treatment based on needs and not based on therapeutic practices that are approved by insurance.
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I’m supposed to work hybrid but mostly in the field going to office’s and other places to visit with customers to talk about upcoming needs and demoing products. However I’m finding my self to be too bogged down with the quote/order creation and sometimes last minute estimating that comes across where I spend a good amount of time looking at drawings on the computer. On top of that I’m expected to be logging everything into a crm and tracking most things to a T. And taking time to strategize.
There’s also the logistical tracking of things & checking of documents & writing emails that take plenty of time away. I just don’t know how to balance it yet I guess. Feels like I can’t balance the computer work with actually going out and talking to my customer where they work at. I feel like I’m only good at understanding how our products work in multiple applications - and I understand how our business works internally. However I’m not that great at outside sales yet really, I’m just there when my customers need me.
Since starting my job search, I’ve realized that most people prepare for interviews by staring at a screen and reading bullet points about their achievements. But when the actual interview starts, my brain usually goes blank because my mouth hasn’t practiced actually saying the words out loud. In my opinion, interview preparation should be treated more like a sport, because you need repetition and measurable feedback to improve your fluency. Instead of just reading, try finding a simulated environment or an AI tool specifically designed for practicing career conversations. I like this approach because it gives me immediate feedback on how well I did, and it can even help check my pronunciation. Usually, the problems are small mistakes caused by a lack of confidence, and it’s much better to practice for 10 minutes every day than to spend hours staring at a passive document.
You may need them to reset a password and get into an old account.
Currently buying a house and need an old statement. Can't get in online and calling customer service is a nightmare. If I'd kept my old card I could reset my online password and get all the info I need.
It's on the right side of the page under the "about" section. That's where the downloads are.
Edit: releases section. It's not a tab.
I’m Italian, lived in two different countries that weren't Italy. spent the first months in each one asking the standard newcomer questions: where should I live, where should I eat, what should I see. All the answers were useful, but they didn't actually help me fit in anywhere.
The question that did help came by accident. I asked a coworker what foreigners get wrong here that locals notice but never say. She gave me a list of things I’d been doing for months without realizing. Don’t ring the doorbell after 22:00 because the entire building considers it a crime. Saying "Wie geht's?" to a cashier means asking about their lower back pain unless you signal otherwise. Don’t show up at someone's apartment without texting first, ever, even close friends. Tipping more than 10% reads as weird, not generous. And at the grocery checkout, you bag your own bags fast, or the next person starts piling their things on top of yours.
Every one of those was something I’d been getting wrong. And the locals had been quietly registering it.
The magic of this question is that it pulls out the unspoken rules locals don't think to mention because they assume everyone knows. These are the cultural defaults you'd otherwise learn the hard way, by accidentally offending someone or having a friend direct enough to actually tell you. Ask it within the first month. Ask it of multiple people from different backgrounds. Write the answers down.
It’s a government label that indicates the flour is higher quality than a normal baguette. It’s available in any « boulangerie » and some have gotten to only do tradition and dont even do regular baguettes anymore. If you ask for a « baguette tradition » you’d be technically right, but if you just say « Une tradition » you’ll sound even more local.
Many people have credit cards or debit cards that they rarely use but whose use requires a PIN number. I have found that using the last 4 digits of an old phone number for the PIN and writing the first three numbers on the card with a sharpie does the trick. For example if your home phone number as a kid was 848-1773 make the PIN 1773 and write 848 on the card with a sharpie. Works for keypads on garage door openers too.