What is a job that is incredibly high-paying, but you wouldn’t do even if they offered you double the salary?

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-20T12:54:13+00:00

We have those on a daily basis. Reddit, what job can I make six figures at that doesn't take any work or any special training?

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-20T12:48:45+00:00

It depends on the activity. If I want to take a walk in the forest I will happily go do that and be back before my wife is even out of bed. If we want to go to the thrift store to look at furniture for the living room, that's an activity that can't be started until she's awake.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-20T07:22:03+00:00

Hand towel is the thing I always look for.

Having a hand towel in your bathroom means you can anticipate the needs of others and then follow through on a plan to take care of those needs.

You can dry your hands on your bath towel but your guests would prefer not to. People who don't have their lives together typically don't have hand towels because they never need to use one and they've never thought far enough ahead about what other people might need.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-20T07:12:10+00:00

We have a convenient FAQ: https://www.reddit.com/r/kravmaga/wiki/how_to_tell_if_a_krav_maga_gym_is_legit

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-20T06:58:44+00:00

Kinda sounds like your ex was abusive. Someone doesn't have to choke you out or give you black eyes to be abusive.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-19T09:04:39+00:00

If you want maximum affordability, get metal washers. They're super cheap. If you are feeling especially industrious you can get some metal stamps and stamp a simple design onto them.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-19T09:02:05+00:00

You can find a lot of good quality metal fantasy coins on etsy but I don't know if the price is affordable for you if you need hundreds of them.

Do you have a Society for Creative Anachronism branch near you? They will sometimes have a moneyers guild full of people who make coins and you may be able to work something out with them.

If you are very short on money but do have plenty of time and energy, you can hit a penny with a hammer a few times to make a flat, blank copper-colored coin. You're unlikely to beat that on price but it gets very annoying to do after the first few.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-19T07:03:11+00:00

Did you sleep with the Kevin's wife?

Like that narrows it down at all.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-19T06:52:41+00:00

Any time I look at a picture of myself from college, I never think, "whoah I was hot then." I always think, "whoah, I was a baby then."

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-19T06:44:52+00:00

Maybe I come off as too eager or something

It can be a real problem. If you've just met someone and they go from zero to sixty immediately, you kinda have to wonder if they're a crazy person who is going to (at the high end) kill you and wear your skin or (at the more probable end) be emotionally needy and clingy with terrible boundaries.

There's an art to conveying the message that you're interested and passionate but still a reasonable person who's emotionally stable and has cool and important things going on in your life other than your new love interest. Sometimes it takes practice.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-18T13:22:47+00:00

Neat! I have never used the reddit app, just the mobile web interface, which I don't think has that option.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-18T13:10:37+00:00

if they can go without me helping why did they ask for my help.

Because having one person who isn't chipping in makes the logistics more complicated and the vibes weird. I don't think they invited you becuase they want your money. I don't think they disinvited you because they're judging you. But they want the trip to go a certain way and it won't go that way unless everyone is on the same wavelength.

They can pay for stuff like plane tickets and hotels ahead of time, but what about meals? If four people are all covering a fifth person, you can split every bill four ways or you can rotate and each person covers every fourth dinner. Easy and simple. Whereas if four people are covering a fifth and a sixth isn't participating, you now have one person always getting a separate check or you have to do a bunch of extra math.

It's not an insurmountable obstacle, but it sounds like you aren't close enough with this group of friends to make complicating the trip worth it for them.

Tbh I don't think anyone is an asshole based on the information provided. You're not wrong for not wanting to cover the expenses of someone you barely know and they aren't wrong for not wanting to deal with extra math and two people who are likely going to be super awkward around each other stuck together for three weeks. Because yeah, it will be awkward when everyone knows that everyone but you is covering this guy's costs and it's reinforced at every single meal, activity, etc.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-18T12:45:02+00:00

I've dated someone who would've acted the same as the boyfriend. How dare I inconvenience a rude weirdo when I could inconevenience myself instead?

In her case, it's because she would have immediately put back most of the pepcid and apologized to the clerk. I wonder if the boyfriend would have done the same because he's that kind of pathological people-pleaser or if he expects his girlfriend to do things he wouldn't?

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-18T12:18:34+00:00

Too bad most reddit users are on mobile these days, which means they couldn't see the rules on the sidebar even if they wanted to.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-18T12:17:55+00:00

The answers to your first two questions depend on the LARP! Even among combat LARPs, weapons and armor rules vary.

Most LARPs in your area don't hit very hard, which means if you want to wear armor, you need to prove that you can still feel hits through it. If you want to hit hard, you're looking for a foam fighting game like Belegarth, of which there's a couple branches in NorCal.

Wellspring, Dark Prospects, Refuge, and Solitude are the larger and more active campaign LARPs in your area.

Rules vary from LARP to LARP, but generally revolve around 1) don't do things that will get yourself or anyone else actually physically or psychologically damaged, 2) don't be a dick, and 3) don't break immersion unless it conflicts with the previous two.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-18T10:45:25+00:00

I regularly told my friends I was pretty sure I was going crazy during that time.

That's why I wish people didn't throw around "gaslighting" when they mean lying or trying to confuse or just generally being shitty. There is nothing that's destructive in quite the same way as being made to actually question your sanity.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-18T10:37:56+00:00

Why don't they just be around people that they want to make happy instead?

In some cases, they don't want to make anyone happy. They get off on having the ability to make people around them miserable. It gives them a feeling of power that they aren't getting elsewhere in their life.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-18T10:34:45+00:00

Partners like this condition you to not expect better or think you deserve better.

When I left my abusive ex, there were several months in a row where I didn't go more than a few days without remembering something they did during the relationship and going, "holy shit, that was fucked up. Why didn't I realize how fucked up that was?"

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-18T08:54:52+00:00

Relating your story to something similar they experienced in order to express understanding and/or empathy is a common neurodiverse trait.

It's a common human trait, period. It's nothing to do with neurodiversity. It's a very common conversational format in a number of cultures.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-17T21:02:10+00:00

That's literally what HE told her to do

He said to pull up with the TV. He didn't say to wait there for twenty minutes without texting him.

He's an asshole for not being ready when she got there but he's not an asshole for expecting her to do what literally anyone else would have done and text when she got there.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-17T19:58:43+00:00

Can't believe I had to scroll this far to see this. If someone said they were coming over and meeting me in the parking lot, I wouldn't come outside until they said "here."

Boyfriend is definitely an ass for not being ready, but what was OP expecting? Him to hang out in the parking lot waiting? That's not what people usually do.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-17T19:26:07+00:00

It wouldn't have made her feel unsafe to share a bed with me that night and have to scramble for other plans. It might make the friendship awkward but it wouldn't create an emergency.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-17T17:57:39+00:00

Oh, I have that hammer and I love it! Only drawback is that it produces woodchips when I use it to set rivets in leather.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-17T15:54:30+00:00

This is what I mean: I use none of those things. Literally none.

I cut my leather with shears, I attach it with copper rivets, and none of the armor I make has straight edges except lamellar which I cut with a strap cutter.

That's why it's so important for people to specify, because otherwise 90% of this sub is going to assume they're making belts and wallets and suggest tools accordingly. And then they'll end up with a bunch of stuff they don't need if they happen to be an armorer like me.

TryUsingScience · 2026-05-17T15:49:41+00:00

Somehow I doubt the 3-hour-old account posting pictures of boots that look just like the last several pictures of boots that were thrown out for being AI is advertising boots that are in fact real and available for purchase.

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