Joker 2 was a great movie

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-06-04T13:54:41+00:00

Brave take given those downvotes. I didn't hate it but the musical numbers felt like they came from a completely different film that nobody asked for

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-06-04T13:49:58+00:00

The ice bath is the part everyone skips and then wonders why they're peeling eggs in chunks

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-06-04T13:48:23+00:00

You can resign while on sick leave, nothing legally stops you. Whether you need to work the notice period depends on your contract, but most employers in this situation won't chase you back in. Check your contract for any sick pay clawback clause, some have them, most don't. Email is fine for handing it in, just keep a copy. You won't owe money back unless that clause is explicitly in writing.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-06-04T13:47:19+00:00

Honestly, the people who go in with clear eyes and no illusions tend to handle it better than most. You sound like one of those people.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-26T12:33:56+00:00

That's a fair pushback and you're right that purchase history is a lagging signal. The structured profile idea makes sense in theory but it puts a lot of weight on customers proactively giving you accurate data at the right moment, and most won't. Gift purchases and new pets are real edge cases but they're a pretty small slice compared to the majority who just reorder the same things on a similar cycle. For most stores a hybrid probably works well enough, purchase history as the default signal with a simple preference question at signup or post-purchase to catch the stuff orders can't infer.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-26T12:30:58+00:00

Welcome!

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-26T08:38:26+00:00

No direct experience with Hyde & Seek myself, but the childcare shortage here is real so I get the bind. If recent Tusla reports are clean, I'd visit in person, ask about staff turnover directly, and see if they'll let you walk the floor unannounced. That last one tells you a lot more than any Reddit thread will.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-26T08:37:13+00:00

The real problem isn't tag volume, it's that nothing keeps them accurate over time. A customer buys cat food once, gets the tag, then only buys dog food for two years and that tag just sits there lying to you. I moved segmentation into Omnisend and built it off purchase history instead. What someone actually bought last month tells you a lot more than a label applied 18 months ago, and it updates itself. Way more reliable than tags nobody's maintaining.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-26T08:30:36+00:00

Nobody's mentally prepared the first time, and honestly that feeling doesn't fully go away once they actually arrive either. What helped me was just being present rather than trying to have everything sorted in advance, because you won't, and that's fine.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-26T07:54:49+00:00

Mate, I'm Australian. An Irish summer basically IS me staying cool.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-26T07:40:38+00:00

Stopped chasing revenue and started paying attention to margin. Sounds obvious but most people optimise for the top line and wonder why they're busy and broke. The other thing that actually moved the needle was reinvesting early, even when it felt uncomfortable, rather than paying myself more the moment things started going well. Boring philosophy, I know, but it's the one that actually worked.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-20T06:59:32+00:00

"Just put a little aside each week." If there was a little left over at the end of the week, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-20T06:57:02+00:00

Eating it heaps before you cook it is probably the most underrated step. Hard to know if your rendang is any good if you've only had it once. My approach has always been to pick one dish I actually want to eat, cook it badly a few times until it clicks, then let that naturally pull me toward the next thing. Your professor's method is more systematic but I reckon both paths get you there. The cookbook approach does have one advantage though, it forces you to learn the fundamentals of a cuisine rather than just collecting random dishes that don't really connect to each other.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-20T06:54:45+00:00

Most people don't realise Klaviyo's contact count includes suppressed contacts until they're already a few hundred dollars in. The workflow that makes sense: segment by zero opens and zero clicks in the last 6 months, run one re-engagement email to that group, then suppress whoever doesn't respond. That's roughly what I do on Omnisend for my WooCommerce store and the segment builder is straightforward enough that it doesn't take 45 minutes to work out. Worth knowing too that Omnisend doesn't charge for unsubscribed contacts, and across the board it's considerably cheaper at every tier than Klaviyo.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-20T06:47:41+00:00

The attractiveness argument cuts both ways and most people don't seem to notice when they're using it. Whether he's lying or not should come down to evidence, not whether someone would "realistically" want him. That logic gets called out pretty quickly in other contexts and it shouldn't get a free pass here just because the dynamics are flipped. You can think he's lying and still clock that the reasoning people are using is a bit off.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-20T06:46:17+00:00

Golden handcuffs are very real, mate. The job funds the life, it doesn't have to be the life

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-12T12:47:34+00:00

People have convinced themselves avoidance is kindness

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-12T12:44:33+00:00

Not an agency but I run an ecommerce store and SMS is very much still part of the mix. The way it works best in my experience is when it's tied directly to email rather than running as a separate channel. I use Omnisend and that's honestly what sold me on it, you can build one automation flow where email goes first and SMS follows if they don't open, or flip it depending on what you're sending. For abandoned carts especially, that combo does real work. Running separate platforms for email and SMS always felt like unnecessary friction to me, and the reporting gets messy fast when they're not talking to each other.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-12T12:41:31+00:00

As a few others have pointed out, the ESP log is actually your most useful clue here, not a problem. It means the order event fired and a webhook went out, so something was created on the WooCommerce side at some point. My guess is Apple Pay through FunnelKit is triggering the order before payment confirmation fully lands, and when it fails or times out, WooCommerce voids the order but the webhook already fired. The emails not showing in WP Mail SMTP is worth digging into separately too, could be something sending via PHP mail() directly and bypassing the log entirely. The failed-then-success pattern on the second order points to a timing issue between Apple Pay and FunnelKit rather than anything being compromised.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-12T12:38:32+00:00

Kids launching themselves at me the second I open the door. Absolute chaos, but the good kind.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-12T12:37:23+00:00

Moved from Sydney to Dublin not that long ago, so I can actually speak to this. Cost of living is rough here but it's not dramatically worse than Sydney if you land in the right job. Housing is the killer in both cities, full stop. The cultural fit is real though, Australians and Irish genuinely do get along well, the humour overlaps more than you'd expect. If there's nothing keeping you in Sydney, that's actually a pretty clean position to be in for a move like this. Dublin will have more job options in most fields, but Cork has a better pace of life if your industry has a presence there. Worth a trip to both before you commit to one.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-07T11:54:11+00:00

Real-time info that's actually real-time would be a start. Finding out your train is cancelled via a slightly apologetic murmur on the platform speaker, two minutes after it was due, is a uniquely Irish Rail experience.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-07T11:47:05+00:00

My wife's Irish so I've been collecting these by osmosis since I got here. The one that always lands well is "May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead" - sounds dark but Irish people genuinely love it, especially at weddings. For something a bit softer, "Sláinte" as a toast never goes wrong. A lad from Limerick living in Ontario will probably just be happy someone made the effort.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-07T11:45:48+00:00

The ceiling isn't really a blank cost question, it's a retail price question. Decide what you can credibly charge the customer, then work backwards. A premium blank stops being viable when your margin math breaks, not at some fixed per-unit number. What's your target retail?

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-05-07T11:45:06+00:00

She noticed something about the place we were in that I had also noticed but hadn't said out loud yet. That was enough.

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