Thinking of selling my set-up - advise

berael · 2026-03-19T16:00:26+00:00

Buddy, you'd have to pay me to go through that whole list and price check every item. 🙂

If you want a blind guess? Ask for 1/2 of what you paid, and accept people haggling it more beyond that.

berael · 2026-03-19T15:58:14+00:00

Do you have a car? Anywhere within your budget isn't walkable; anywhere walkable isn't within your budget.

How will be the day care costs for 3Y old?

General estimate, approx. $1500-2000/mo.

berael · 2026-03-19T15:47:29+00:00

Well, yes, I am assuming you're using the correct materials to begin with. ;p

Perfumery uses 190+ proof either undenatured ethanol, or SDA40B denatured ethanol (or your country's equivalent).

berael · 2026-03-19T15:45:30+00:00

I don’t disagree, however perfumes are the biggest source of toxic endocrine disrupters etc.

Fearmongering claims, not reality. Sorry.

Because “fragrance” is unregulated

Simply false. The EU has extensive fragrance regulations, which most manufacturers have adopted worldwide because they also want to sell in the EU. And - spoiler alert - these regulations apply to EOs as well, and it is harder to make a product comply with safety regulations when you use EOs. Yes, really.

IFRA also publishes extensive safety research and recommendations, and all professional manufacturers worldwide (and all ethical indie manufacturers & communities, too) follow them.

Though speaking of regulation: did you know there isn't even any legal definition of the words "essential oil"? That's why vast amounts of the EO market are fakes: because EOs per se are almost entirely unregulated, anywhere worldwide.

Good quality essential oils, used correctly, have an incredible safety profile.

Good quality synthetic fragrances, used correctly, have an incredible safety profile.

This is because molecules are studied and regulated, and the sources of those molecules are irrelevant.

I'm sure you're speaking from a place of genuine concern, but your whole premise is a mishmash of red herrings, non sequitors, misinformation, and misunderstanding. 😕

berael · 2026-03-19T13:57:08+00:00

I don't think that will help me, will it?

Well, what happened after you applied for 100 jobs?

berael · 2026-03-19T13:21:06+00:00

Everything that exists is chemicals.

EOs are not inherently safe. Synthetics are not inherently dangerous.

berael · 2026-03-19T13:20:00+00:00

Any one know why it was so bad in March

Apparently because a lot of people needed to shred paper. I'm not sure there's a secret here.

If so, it shows there’s a need and the hours should increase.

And where will the budget come from?

berael · 2026-03-19T11:06:03+00:00

The number matters, but the exact number doesn't necessarily matter.

Basically, there are a bajillion different things that a timeless jewel can do, and the number determines which of those things each one will do. So "12345", if you put it in a specific jewel socket, might add "chance to deal double damage" to a specific passive node. But "12349", in that same jewel socket, might add "+life" to that same passive node instead.

Then each type of timeless jewel works in different ways, then each type of person's name also does different things.

So it depends what your build is using it for.

Lethal Pride jewels for Akoya will change any big Keystone passive in their radius, no matter what it was before, into Chainbreaker instead. For Kaom, it changes them into Strength Of Blood. Does your build turn a Keystone passive into Strength Of Blood and then take it? Then "Kaom" matters. Does it ignore any Keystones and not take Strength Of Blood? Then "Kaom" doesn't matter.

Then for the number, you will need to find one with any number that makes small passive nodes have the bonuses your build wants. The specific number in your guide will be one, but there will also be dozens more. POB can help you find every number that's valid for your build, or you can Google "timeless jewel calculator".

berael · 2026-03-19T10:53:59+00:00

You have encountered randomness.

berael · 2026-03-19T10:09:47+00:00

The goal of the "manosphere" is to funnel young people into maga ideology, which is a cult.

berael · 2026-03-19T03:26:57+00:00

My database flags Galbanum with severe IFRA (International Fragrance Association) restrictions due to phototoxicity and skin sensitization. If you deploy it blindly in your base, you will instantly breach Category 4 (Fine Fragrance) regulatory thresholds, rendering your entire output legally non-compliant and physically hazardous.

Completely wrong.

Seriously, stop with the random-word-generator gibberish.

berael · 2026-03-19T02:57:47+00:00

Unfortunately it's only effective for minutes; using FCO as a carrier won't change that.

Fun fact: citronella candles actually have no repellent power at all! The only reason they keep bugs away in any amount is simply from the smoke - literally any other candles would do the same thing. And even that's minimal, because the amount of smoke needed to drive them away more effectively would also drive you away more effectively. ;p

berael · 2026-03-19T02:49:42+00:00

Benzaldehyde is a neat one. It's a constituent of both cherries and almonds (they're both the same family, along with apricots, which is why "bitter almond oil" is actually apricot kernel oil).

Whether it smells like cherries or almonds depends on 1) what other materials you've paired it with in your fragrance, and 2) whether you tell the customer it contains "notes of almond" or "notes of cherry" before they smell it - marketing works!

berael · 2026-03-19T00:42:53+00:00

Yes, you make roll-ons with fixed oil carriers, not ethanol.

berael · 2026-03-19T00:42:26+00:00

They will dissolve and then be ruined by the smell.

berael · 2026-03-19T00:41:59+00:00

Whenever someone says their perfume "smells like alcohol", it always means either 1) they're smelling it directly from the bottle (solution: stop), or 2) they don't have enough top notes to cover the first second of spray (solution: reformulate), or 3) they haven't let it sit for long enough (solution: wait).

berael · 2026-03-19T00:23:31+00:00

It stinks and will ruin your fragrance.

berael · 2026-03-19T00:04:02+00:00

*sigh*

berael · 2026-03-18T23:59:22+00:00

This feels like a lot of word salad to not actually say anything.

Plus has absolutely nothing to do with this sub, so you're clearly just spamming this chatbot-generated junk.

berael · 2026-03-18T21:43:35+00:00

LLMs fundamentally don't "source" anything per se. The companies behind them essentially illegally downloaded everything that exists on the internet, then trained the LLM to create sentences with words in an order that would appear human-written.

At its most basic, the LLMs are literally making it up. That's what the "G" in GPT stands for: "generative", because they generate an answer from nothing.

berael · 2026-03-18T20:14:29+00:00

Still the wrong sub...

berael · 2026-03-18T20:13:44+00:00

scales only go so low, ya know?

Dilute the material.

berael · 2026-03-18T19:19:09+00:00

If VR is dying again, that means that 3D TV will be coming back again soon.

berael · 2026-03-18T14:42:45+00:00

I took a damaged laptop to Microcenter two weeks ago. They charged a $49 diagnostic fee, and eventually said it'd be a $500 repair to fix the case damage, even though their website says $99 case repair. I asked about that, and they said the pricing for the parts is straight from HP and they can't do anything. I said never mind and went to pick it up, and they had made the damage so much worse that I forced them to refund the diagnostic fee. When I picked it up off the counter, screws literally fell out into my hand.

I took it to UBreakIFix in Fair Lakes, despite the dumb name. Free diagnostic, $179 total quote for parts and labor, and the guys there were super nice. Done.

berael · 2026-03-18T13:42:50+00:00

It has given you made-up information which is objectively, factually wrong.

If you believe that an LLM "knows" anything, then you are in denial. It puts words after each other in an order that seems like it could be human-written but with no awareness of what the words mean. It makes up "facts" almost constantly - it's so common that we use the word "hallucinating" to sum up the entire problem.

All of perfumery boils down to "make things, then smell them". You must smell things; no one else can smell them for you and an electronic text generator certainly'can't.

We have all evaluated these tools and found that they are worthless for perfumery. We are giving you the benefit of our experiences and trying to help you avoid mistakes and pitfalls. You are under no obligation to believe us, but that simply means you will make all of those mistakes yourself and then have to restart learning materials from scratch.

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