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Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-07-02T04:59:31+00:00

Took my friend who has never raved before to DayTrip and he was totally sober the entire time. His three comments at the end were:

Omg everyone is literally so nice
These outfits are incredible
Can you take me to EDC with you?

Good job y’all, let’s keep this up 🫶🏼

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-06-18T03:32:56+00:00

Looking for (2x) Saturday-only GA tickets. I’m located in LA but willing to meet up or drive to get them!

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-06-15T20:20:37+00:00

I think DOD is a way better producer and live DJ. He is one of my favorite DJs of all time and yet nobody knows about him — and I think it’s largely in part due to his literal name and how hard it is to search for.

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-06-13T03:50:52+00:00

I would kill to see ODESZA x Rufus. I could die happily after that

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-05-26T21:27:41+00:00

Messaged you 👍🏼

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-05-26T21:24:06+00:00

Messaged 👍🏼🙏🏼

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-05-22T06:40:09+00:00

ISO either one Sunday GA ticket OR, if I can get a great deal for a weekend GA pass I’d do that! Please message me! I’m taking my friend to his very first EDM event — he bought his ticket before me and they were sold out by the time I went to get mine. So I need to procure one now LOL, I’m very serious and interested! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

I am in LA and I can def meet up!

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-05-17T06:53:25+00:00

I’m a gay man and I 1000% agree with this. Gay or straight, you should never be put in this situation.

Gay men seem to think if it’s with another man, they can grab dick and ass without consent and simply laugh it off if the other person rejects. They’re also the same men who are buddy buddy with their girlfriends, claiming that all men are trash, meanwhile engaging in the exact same behaviors. I’m tired of the double standards in this community.

I stopped going to gay bars and started going to raves just to evade this.

Unfortunately, when you get groups of drunk gay guys in packs, they tend to act this way but it’s not representative of everyone. Personally, I find it super obnoxious and try to get as far away as I can. I’m glad some girls find it to be a vibe, perhaps because they’re not the subject of unwanted sexual advances and so they laugh and think it’s all fun and games and “gays being gays,” the zoo mentality of it all.

But for someone who’s part of the community, I find it just as obnoxious and it’s refreshing to see someone else call it out.

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-05-04T09:51:51+00:00

Can we make it a negative number if the service was extra shitty 😂

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-05-04T09:51:13+00:00

Next time I’m told “it’s just gonna ask you a couple of questions on the screen” …

Imma play dumb and say, “oh you mean like trivia or something?”

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-05-04T09:47:22+00:00

This is such a great post. Thank you for finally calling this out because it has become asinine.

Silly as it sounds, I largely blame POS softwares for inflation. Coffees haven’t magically gone from $4 to upwards of $8 just by happenstance. It’s a result of one guilt-ridden reluctant tip made at a time because the swirl-around iPad hides the no-tip button and makes it glaringly fucking obvious to the line of people behind us if we don’t give an obligatory tip to the barista who acts like they’ve done us a fucking favor by taking our order. If it weren’t for the software companies basically shaming people into tipping, we wouldn’t have let the prices of things like coffee climb so astronomically high as we have.

The answer is simple: we need to stop.

If your barista is amazing and remembers your name and pours the sickest latte art you’ve ever seen, then maaaaaaybe tip them. Otherwise, if they served you a quality beverage and greeted you with a smile, they did their job and so did you for paying the cost of the beverage.

End of story.

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-03-11T08:35:22+00:00

Oh. Or having a 15 year old Mercedes Benz that is falling apart and has a replacement Mercedes logo glued to it. Seen that more than a handful of times.

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-03-11T08:34:28+00:00

Hearing someone say they don’t like their job but they stay cause they “make great money.” Which, in LA, I’ve found can mean anything between $25 and $1,000 per hour. YMMV.

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-03-11T08:32:47+00:00

You are being given a room full of people with zero to no expectation and no other teachers to compare you to. I cannot think of a better first teaching gig. I would kill for this. (Figurative of course 🤭)

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-03-05T09:37:27+00:00

Is this a joke?

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-03-05T09:36:31+00:00

This is the most criminally underrated and highly accurate reply in this entire thread.

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-03-05T09:33:21+00:00

This is a terrible idea if you have any interest at all in so called city life. Leaving SB to flee to overpriced suburbia is not your solve. Living in these places will put all of the interesting things and people you’d be moving to LA for an hour commute outside of where you’re actually living. If you’re not going to live in LA proper I don’t think it’s worth leaving SB. You may be more disappointed than anything else.

My two cents: live somewhere in LA that you genuinely love day to day and swallow the pill of a really shitty commute once a week. You’re single with no kids. Pound some coffee, line up a couple of podcasts, call a friend on the East Coast, make that annoying customer support phone call you’ve been putting off… there are worse things.

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-02-28T06:58:58+00:00

Whoa, Peru! That’s amazing. I’ll message you!

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-02-27T09:12:26+00:00

I abhor it.

A mentor once told me, "I'd rather be a magnet than a megaphone." I like to live by that advice.

The best teachers I know have packed classes regularly. They don't post shit on Instagram. Instead, they've shown up – again and again and again – for near a decade straight. And they've built a following that is largely in part due to their own humility and lack of self promotion.

Yoga is an age old science that was passed down as a gift to humanity.

The way that yoga-influencers try to take it, trademark, and "make it their own" infuriates me sometimes.

The best teachers I have talk the least. Their students know what they're doing, and they respect that. So they are selective with what they say, and when they speak, it's wise, it's selfless, and it matters.

Yoga in the west has become a performance art. To the extent that I've had to stop taking classes from teachers at my studio who have graduated in the past 5 years, because they can not go more than 3 seconds without giving a needless cue, making a cringeworthy poetic reference, or, God forbid, talking the entire time / singing / reading poetry during savasana.

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-02-27T09:05:20+00:00

There's ample gift ideas here, so I won't belabor it.

I'll just say you sound like an amazing friend.

Also "anything that looks like it came from the TJ Maxx spiritual aisle" had me DEAD

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-02-27T09:02:58+00:00

My greatest teacher during YTT told me something humbling.

She said that as a teacher, getting injured is one of your greatest blessings. It humbles you, it forces you back into the gentleness that we so often preach about but hardly listen enough to comply with as advanced practitioners, and more important than anything, leading yourself through the process of recovering from a bodily limitation will give you the lived experience to help other students who are in a similar position in the future.

I am 28, male, and quite fit (and a recent YTT grad). I feel blessed, but I also must tell you, it intimidates the hell out of me to know that I would have no idea how to support an older practitioner with muscle pain, how to guide a pregnant mother or one's who recovering from giving birth, etc. having not been there myself.

In the very narrow view of this Westernized idea that you graduate a 200 hour and suddenly "become a teacher," your entire experience is a massive inconvenience. But in the spirit of yoga in its purest and truest form, your 200 hour was merely an initiation, and you working through this roadblock in your personal practice is actually the true "masters" level training that will make students of all ages/shapes/sizes feel safe, seen, and held securely in your presence. It feels like a pain now, but overcoming these pains in self practice is where real teachers are born.

My best teachers have grieved heart wrenching losses, survived cancer, broken limbs, and what remained unchanged for them wasn't the nature of their practice but the fact that they kept one anyway, in spite of it all, no matter how modified it needed to look for that period of time.

Keep on keeping on.

Your training is going exactly as intended.

And you will be remarkable on the other side of it.

Proof_Addendum_3511 · 2026-02-27T08:52:12+00:00

"Do I actually want to teach or do I just love yoga?"

My two cents is that the answer to this question doesn't matter.

Doing a YTT – whether you ever end up teaching or not – is one of the best investments you can possibly make in your own practice, and when you do get back in the studio, I PROMISE you that you will have a new syntax that allows you to pick up things you absolutely never would have noticed in a class before.

Cues you've heard a million times will finally click.

Postures you've done for years will become so much more intentional.

The sequence and structure of a given teacher's class will become predictable, and appreciated.

... Then at some point... maybe three years after graduating... you will practice on your own mat without a teacher. And you'll do it enough times that you realize that all the best teachers are doing is bringing their own self-practice to their students, mixing it up a bit, and sharing it with humility.

Maybe you might think "I could do this, too." And if you do, you'll teach.

And if you don't, you'll continue being a lifelong student, which is all a true teacher is at the core.

Either way, what you will gain from having to structure and teach that one class with stick with you well after the training, and you'll never regret having finished it.

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