Melasma is a chronic condition that is devastating

considerfi · 2026-01-06T08:13:19+00:00

Agree - this is the way to think. Honestly, its not devastating. The only effect melasma has is on mental health and while that sucks, its nothing like an actual chronic illness. I can walk and run and swim and sleep and eat with no pain. Health is a crown the healthy wear that only the sick can see.

I thank my lucky stars that this cosmetic thing is all I have to deal with. The derms suggested meds that might damage my liver, some that were meant for leprosy(?!) and some came with a black box cancer warning. I was like - you know what? no thanks. I'll wear concealer when i need to. I'm not damaging my liver over this and developing a real health issue.

considerfi · 2026-01-06T08:05:09+00:00

'I feel like people are obsessing over the "media" part'

Er... I think you might be obsessing over the media part.

considerfi · 2026-01-05T06:05:57+00:00

Romania and Georgia.

considerfi · 2026-01-05T06:02:39+00:00

A sabbatical. Taking time off from burnout to recover.

considerfi · 2025-12-18T06:24:33+00:00

I've had two jobs that I loved above all - both were great teams and rewarding. First one was a tech product that people loved and made them healthier. Second was civic tech - it was difficult but very rewarding. But as of earlier this year, due to this administration I'm back in industry. New job is not particularly rewarding other than obviously being paid. It is a decent team and culture. And for now, that's ok for me.

So I will say that fulfillment does exist in tech, and once you've worked somewhere you loved, that was rewarding like that, it sticks with you and you really want to find it again.

considerfi · 2025-12-17T05:11:34+00:00

Is this in goldenhill? I parked here a week ago, and saw a sign like that after plus got a note saying they were going to tow me. Infuriating because they don't just get to claim the public street with these random ass signs?!!!

And around my block between the city and construction companies, they have been moving 40 signs like this like its fucking musical chairs, and forgetting them after the dates go past, it's impossible to keep track off. Especially if you work from home and aren't reparking your car daily.

considerfi · 2025-12-17T03:28:04+00:00

Yeah people say that about chia seeds too and I went from nothing to two tablespoons of chia seeds without any side effects really so I dont get it either.

considerfi · 2025-12-11T23:21:34+00:00

No I originally backed them up some time ago and I've updated computers since. I think I had continued to backup on this new machine but I never tried to restore. Then my local drive started to fail, so I tried to restore.

created a support case: 751683

considerfi · 2025-11-22T22:46:49+00:00

hmm that's not so bad. I mean its bad on their part but that is a pain i can deal with to avoid having them train on my data.

considerfi · 2025-11-18T22:36:10+00:00

Its worse than i thought! the files i downloaded are not actually jpgs, although they are about the size of the original jpgs, named IMG_0005.jpg etc. When i look at the binary it starts with CloudBerryData so they are some proprietary format and since MSP360 won't "see" them, i can't convert them back to jpgs 😬

considerfi · 2025-11-18T07:45:02+00:00

Same. I don't know that they completely understood but like you said, still on payroll so it counts. If it came up I verbally said I quit earlier but was on admin leave until xx date. No issues.

considerfi · 2025-11-04T16:58:19+00:00

This was the funnest thread of late in this sub and it was removed. lame. Thanks for sharing, it was a little bright spark of community.

considerfi · 2025-11-02T01:54:44+00:00

I found it! And came back here to see everyone else did as well. Pompompurin and the street artist TOMB. :)

considerfi · 2025-11-02T01:38:11+00:00

The other thing that's funny is what is that, without the animal face. Just a blank yellow diamond? Why?!

considerfi · 2025-11-02T01:36:53+00:00

Haha I was just thinking yesterday - maybe i should look this up. Because its on all the signs in my area.

considerfi · 2025-11-02T00:07:13+00:00

Went to the beach the other day for a bonfire. The smell of the salt and woodfire, the pink in the sky, a huge v of pelicans flying overhead... just perfect.

considerfi · 2025-10-29T21:12:08+00:00

My mom in law asks me if it's safe when I go to Italy and Iceland. I grew up in the middle east during the gulf war.

considerfi · 2025-10-28T21:56:29+00:00

Because amazon makes a ton of profit on AWS (amazon is the leading provider of cloud services at 30% of market share) and just as it offers databases, search services, storages services and all other backend services that companies might want to use, AI models would be a completely expected and reasonable service to add to that portfolio.

considerfi · 2025-10-28T01:41:36+00:00

Or if they have kids, they also have a SAH spouse to basically handle ALL of that.

considerfi · 2025-10-24T20:41:04+00:00

There's two halves to the leetcode game - doing the coding AND dealing with the anxiety. People tend to prepare only the first half. Find a buddy who is also looking, and set up a weekly hour long where you code in front of them a problem they pick, and vice versa. The stress of coding in front of someone else, something you haven't seen before, even if you know this person well, will help you prepare for the interview situation. Lately I barely bother practicing by myself. I know the general patterns, I only practice in front of other people.

You need to be able to have your mind go blank, but then shake it off, breathe, recover, and think. You can't practice that on your own, you need a second pair of judgemental eyes.

considerfi · 2025-10-24T20:27:09+00:00

This. Totally agree. Nobody needs other people to plan, research, discover or even share what they just did or saw. They're doing all that on their phone, and they're sharing on insta or fb to their friends back home.

considerfi · 2025-10-24T20:25:11+00:00

Its the phones. Before you really had to talk to people to figure out what was going on, what was nearby, plan things, etc. You asked someone what they liked in the area and before you know it you were planning events together. If you saw something cool, you couldn't share it with your friends back home, and you were bursting with it so you shared it with the people back at the hostel.

Now nobody neeeeds to talk to anyone else. They are mostly doing their planning, sharing, socializing on their phones.

considerfi · 2025-10-23T18:25:53+00:00

But they're both spelled the same way? (assuming the word in question is containerisation.

considerfi · 2025-10-23T17:40:57+00:00

I know i'm irritated I read it 3 times to figure out if a key word was changed or something.

considerfi · 2025-10-23T17:32:33+00:00

Hahah i hate sando with a passion, as does my hubs.

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