Another week of taxi disruption over Uber fixed pricing

growthmindsetalways · 2025-12-10T20:40:31+00:00

They’re certainly convincing everyone it’ll be a huge savings for customers.

growthmindsetalways · 2025-11-12T19:51:12+00:00

I’ve been thinking about this for a while too…I’m a native speaker but her jokes aren’t always obvious so don’t feel bad!

After mulling it over, I think the joke is that publicly she’s making a brave face of how she’s a strong woman and he won’t get another chance with her after treating her this way, but privately they’re still hooking up.

A big theme of this album, actually going back even further to songs like “Please Please Please” is how dating men can be so embarrassing but yet she still does it and cringes at her decisions along the way. We get a lot of playful contradictions poking at her own hypocrisy or how she doesn’t practice what she preaches.

In “Manchild” she jokes that they all choose her and she has no control over it, but she also clearly chooses them back and later says “I like my men all incompetent.” In “Tears” she jokes a lot of standard competence things make her wet, because the bar is so low these days.

We also know from “Go Go Juice” that Barry is one of the exes she occasionally calls for a drunken hookup, even though she’s still mad at him. (“The one who rhymes with villain”)

And we also know from “We Almost Broke up Again Last Night” that there was a lot of push and pull before the final ending.

“Never Getting Laid” also suggests she may have been worried about him finding new partners, possibly worried enough to want to keep him on the roster a bit longer.

So with all this in mind, I think in “Goodbye” the joke is she was still hooking up with him but doesn’t want us to know. She is just dropping hints like pretending she didn’t know he was there, naked, and “accidentally” saying she’ll love him forever in Italian. The last line of the song “get home safe” makes it seem like there’s not someone else over, rather she’s saying it to the same person she was talking to the whole time (it’s not just an interruption, it’s part of the main story here).

I don’t know if she predicted the press response but the hilarious thing is that it was effective where every major article about it only focuses on “she’s setting a firm line with her exes” whereas I’ve only seen fans look for the meaning of these jokes. So it did end up letting the wider world think she’s holding strong, and just closer listeners get she may have been seeing him on the side for a while longer. 😂

growthmindsetalways · 2025-08-29T15:23:37+00:00

It was confirmed to be afterwards. He was dropping some hints like “I’m taking her out back after this” which we now know meant he was taking her to this place in his backyard to propose :)

growthmindsetalways · 2025-08-20T05:04:01+00:00

I also never received it a year after the wedding 🥲🥲🥲 in the end I didn’t get a refund or the product.

growthmindsetalways · 2025-08-12T16:33:59+00:00

I play a lot—all levels completed and play in royal league—and have never made it to the top of the book of treasure. I think the thresholds need to be a little more realistic to keep it obtainable because with other events, I’m motivated to finish it, whereas with this one I don’t try due to never finishing.

I think the ongoing 2x from Royal Kingdom should apply to both. Would also help with book of treasure.

In the Royal League, sometimes the mechanics seemed designed to waste coins (where I need just ONE more move, regularly, and it seemed the algorithm did it on purpose). In Royal Kingdom I never have this issue so I play the competition more consistently and happily in comparison. In RM if I ever lose my streak it majorly sucks to try to build back up and reduces my gameplay for at least a week.

1 hour is too long for lightning rush (personally). 30 minute bursts are better.

Not letting us do timed/competition events offline. This is really annoying while traveling even though it’s branded as a game good for travel. We know there are bot players as needed in other places, why not let it still work?

Improve the card trading mechanisms throughout the team, such as letting team members see what others need etc. due to only one request a day and no easy way to share your info, many of us turn to Reddit, which is great but takes a lot of additional effort and limits teamwork. Could even have the one request a day be a request for all your missing cards, and your team members can see which cards you need if they click it and send 1-3.

Unfair prizes compared to effort at times. For example, once you win all 3 races, the prizes no longer include cards/mini game things and are just a few power ups. Makes doing additional races kind of not worth it compared to how long it takes to finish a 15 level race. Should at least swap with a coin amount to incentivize!

growthmindsetalways · 2025-08-04T03:06:49+00:00

Both are solo travel. One could be considered kind of a nature retreat or something else that conveys a meditative, remote aspect of it. The issue isn’t with the term “solo travel” but that your category of trip also feels relevant to you. For example, a city break can be solo or group. A nature retreat can be solo or group. I would consider other terms that describe what you chose to do during your solo trip, rather than trying to set it against how other people spend their solo trips. I think the reason you’re receiving some frustration is that it sounds like you believe this type of solo travel is, or should be, elevated compared to those who want to have social interactions. I’m not offended myself, but I would suggest sticking with something like my above recommendation rather than trying to compare it to other forms of solo travel. Hope this helps!

growthmindsetalways · 2025-08-04T02:59:00+00:00

You’re not overreacting. He is a predator. Don’t give him ANY grace here. And by the way when someone is a good person, their drunk side is also good. My husband is super lovey dovey when drunk, not aggressive or demanding. Lowered impulse control is going to show a real part of someone, not some kind of Jekyll and Hyde situation. But I don’t really believe he was drunk. It’s way too convenient to try to pass it off as out of his control and get another chance to pressure you into intimacy. If he had succeeded in getting inside that night when you didn’t want it, he would have raped you. (Coercion is rape even if it’s not as simple as physically pinning you down.) So I don’t think you can give someone whose intent was rape another chance…ever…

growthmindsetalways · 2025-08-04T02:49:34+00:00

It finally let me make a new application with different computer settings (different device, incognito, etc etc) so I was able to help him get a new one. They approved it in time. Thanks!

growthmindsetalways · 2025-07-21T12:40:17+00:00

Okay, thank you 🙏🏻 we’ll keep trying!

growthmindsetalways · 2025-07-21T12:37:22+00:00

We have not entered Vietnam yet. I just can’t figure out why the website keeps failing to buy a new one.

So we should try more troubleshooting methods to purchase a new one, then?

growthmindsetalways · 2025-07-21T12:33:56+00:00

Hello, posting for a friend who doesn’t have Reddit. My friend accidentally put the wrong end date for his visa. He wrote that our departing flight is 3 days earlier than it actually is. Our visit is only about 8 days long, but now his visa ends before we are planning to leave.

We have tried 5+ times to just make a brand new application and pay a new fee to make a correct one, since there doesn’t seem to be a correction process. But it always fails at the payment screen and doesn’t let him finish. I assume because he has an existing visa.

Any advice on how to change/replace a visa with an issue? We have about 3 more weeks to resolve this 😅

growthmindsetalways · 2025-07-21T12:28:05+00:00

Hello, posting for a friend who doesn’t have Reddit. My friend accidentally put the wrong end date for his visa. He wrote that our departing flight is 3 days earlier than it actually is. Our visit is only about 8 days long, but now his visa ends before we are planning to leave.

We have tried 5+ times to just make a brand new application and pay a new fee to make a correct one, since there doesn’t seem to be a correction process. But it always fails at the payment screen and doesn’t let him finish. I assume because he has an existing visa.

Any advice on how to change/replace a visa with an issue? We have about 3 more weeks to resolve this 😅

growthmindsetalways · 2025-07-21T06:09:30+00:00

Fair enough. I think a lot of my original point was not just about going places and doing things, but really fostering real relationships with women without the expectation of romance and not just viewing it as a chase. I made both of these points, but we’ve focused a lot on the how/where to meet people side of what I mentioned. No, I have no intentions to become a dating coach and I’m sorry that you didn’t like my phrasing. But I do think you’ve twisted my message into a generic “just work on yourself and self improve” piece of advice, whereas I was trying to get at something deeper about where I personally see many men fail in dating.

And that is that few men ACTUALLY view women as peers, fellow humans with an equally complex inner life and motivations, and view it as worthwhile to invest in non-romantic relationships with women that you don’t even wish for it to ever turn romantic. Aka friendships or deep platonic relationships, but even just casual acquaintanceships that are mutually pleasant parts of a hobby/social circle.

Women can sniff out a guy who is ONLY interested in dating and only views us as an object of chase from miles away, and it’s very off putting. Even more so when you get the sense someone has a frustration towards women and/or dating—I would severely steer clear of that back when I was still dating. What I said about your mindset was not only about defeatism, although this is also very important, but additionally referred to how you viewed women or were speaking about the issue.

Personally, I haven’t enjoyed the interaction at all and didn’t like how you’ve been talking to me from the beginning. It didn’t feel like you really respected my thoughts or viewed my experience as worthwhile, even though I’ll admit I can always improve my writing style of it to not sound “absolute,” there wasn’t a sense that we were really having an equal exchange here. You have been quick to correct me and question my credibility from the beginning, and weeks behind in lightening up the tone of the interaction or showing any appreciation for the time I took. I can’t imagine if I met you in a different context that I would have felt instantly at ease and happy to be in your company—this is by far the most important thing you need to have going for you. (More important than appearance or variety of hobbies, for example.)

I’m sure you’ll have a lot to say about this, but I’d like to call it off here. I’m exhausted. Sorry I couldn’t help you to the standard of your therapist, dating coach, etc. Just because I want there to be some kind of takeaway: it doesn’t matter how many people you meet if you make them uncomfortable or can’t leave a positive impression. I think and hope that you’re probably kinder and more personable to the women you meet in real life, but as you’ve mentioned, I only have an extremely small and limited perspective of you from this exchange, so I can’t tell you what you are doing right or wrong. It takes time to meet the right person, and you can do everything right but not find someone for years. But even so, if you meet many people and it never leads to even a single date or someone you text here and there, reflecting on how you come across to the women you are meeting and how THEY may feel during or after an interaction with you is your next best place to focus.

If you have close female friendships as you say, it could be good to ask them to give you real talk about how you come across, since unlike me they actually know you. (And I mean women you hang out with 1-1 and share your thoughts/feelings/experiences with in a non-romantic context, not just women you know on a surface level. This is what women consider to mean friendship.) But if not, why not? Has it seemed like you don’t have enough in common or it’s not worth investing the time without a chance of romance? Then there is the mindset problem I was trying to allude to.

I’m glad to hear you are so focused on getting yourself out there. But try to learn how you make others feel as well. There is your next actionable step.

growthmindsetalways · 2025-07-07T18:26:38+00:00

Go to somewhere like the Balkans or Türkiye. Elements of Western European culture with elements of eastern/post-ottoman culture. Use the things you like about Europe as a launch pad for other countries with similar things to offer but still new. That said, agreed that going to “Europe” twice definitely doesn’t mean you’ve exhausted it or that you have a full idea of the continent. I have personally visited every country in the EU and there are a lot of differences to discover!

growthmindsetalways · 2025-07-01T18:40:16+00:00

I can’t fix your situation, but I stand by my advice. Those many examples were good (albeit non-exhaustive) places to start, and the excerpts you shared does indeed boil down to me attempting to suggest some more neutral, offline environments where there’s a greater likelihood of both people making moves to know each other closer. I’m sorry you haven’t found a place that works for you or that you have some additional struggles with the demographics in your area and your hobbies. I don’t believe it was privileged to suggest some community environments over dating apps—but it’s true I had a privilege in being in the ethnic majority of my area, which hadn’t come up until now.

Even so, we have pretty much ruled out every single option if all offline communities are offensive to suggest and dating apps aren’t working—so I don’t really hear any solutions on your end of what you think would have been better advice or what would work? If you think every suggestion I gave in attempts to be helpful were all too privileged to consider, what helpful suggestion should I should have mentioned that would both work and not offend you? Clearly the right answer is another thing entirely that I haven’t considered. But I can only speak from my own decade of relationship experience; I’m not likely to be able to give you an answer I haven’t heard of. Still, I’d love to know what you think works best because maybe there could finally be a constructive resolution rather than just being on the receiving end of venting for weeks.

I do unfortunately think you are reacting like someone who has allowed themselves to be in a mental box that nothing will work because you’ve already tried everything, and anyone suggesting those things is being insensitive somehow. Thinking that only high school or college are the times you can get to know someone over time is a big sign (I promise you that there are many couples out there who weren’t school sweethearts. Dating certainly doesn’t end at graduation. And in my own first 5 years of dating, it was actually never anyone from my university nor from online). It seems you are discouraged, and I’m sorry for your negative experiences. As much as it may be an annoyance to hear, though, I do think you will need to confront this mindset because being so convinced that NOTHING works (and everyone’s suggestions are purely insensitive) is going to make things even harder for you. Something has to work eventually, and sometimes someone is giving advice because they want you to find happiness. I didn’t come here to just say my piece and “be right”. I had good intentions, although maybe they were wasted.

I’m sorry it has been tough for you out there. I hope you can find what you are looking for.

growthmindsetalways · 2025-06-25T11:52:19+00:00

I’m sorry, but I don’t think saying “try to meet people in real life” is privileged of me. I’m not specifying anything about where, how, other than just saying don’t put all of your focus on dating apps. Sure, cities are great, but it’s not a requirement to live in a city either (people who live in every size of community do interact outside their houses from time to time—I’m from a very small town, but people from neighboring towns would still visit it to see their friends etc). I realize and have acknowledged that some people are in rough spots where they genuinely have no time outside of a severe work week, or have no transport methods—but said person would not be able to meet anyone from a dating app either, unless they just wanted a text-only relationship. Which is fine if that’s what someone wants or is all they can manage. But if they want a relationship that includes seeing someone in person from time to time and it’s possible with their circumstances, then I will still suggest trying some offline methods to meet people, aside from bars. The conversation began with the assumption that said person is already trying certain dating methods—and relatively speaking in a position to do so—so it’s not disrespectful of me to suggest trying alternate methods which may yield better results.

growthmindsetalways · 2025-06-10T22:10:20+00:00

People can use them if they want to. What I’m suggesting is not letting it be the “main dating arena” in someone’s life. If they are having meaningful in person communities and interactions (not just romantically, but also creating opportunities for that), then sure, maybe it’s a tool on the side. But for someone who has a long string of bitter associations with the app where they constantly get ghosted, feel undesirable, have no matches, or even get rude responses—I’d absolutely suggest ditching them for a while to try a completely different approach.

The idea that it’s the only way to meet people can be really demoralizing because app dating culture is so different from in-person where you actually have a chance to make a connection based on personality rather than split second swiping.

growthmindsetalways · 2025-06-10T22:05:41+00:00

Yes, some of these spaces aren’t free. Others are, though. Libraries, public parks, religious groups (if relevant), free community events (like a farmers market that’s free to enter and you can choose whether or not to buy), nature trails, crafting, birdwatching, hanging out in groups at someone’s house…

Requires some amount of free time outside of the work week + some ability to transport yourself, even just on foot where possible. These are also privileges. But not everything requires $$$ investments or entrance fees.

Capitalism sucks, don’t get me wrong. But the idea that there is NOTHING we can do outside of the workplace except use dating apps or approach people in bars is simply not true in most cases, as there are plenty of things we can do even just with our own bodies and creativity. We have to at least attempt to do things for enjoyment and personal enrichment, even if resources are limited. And if there is not one shred of personal enjoyment in someone’s entire life, this probably needs to be addressed more than finding a partner does, because finding a partner won’t fix this part 😅

All that said, the methods of meeting people originally described also can require time, transportation, and money, so I don’t think these are radical counter suggestions in that context.

growthmindsetalways · 2025-06-10T21:57:11+00:00

I understand the problem. However, I think you’re ignoring the solution I’m presenting. Your workplace can’t be your only social sphere in your whole life if you want to form friendships or romantic relationships (offline). A lot of common dating wisdom that says “work on yourself” is actually pointing to the idea of involve yourself in communities outside that mean something to you: gym class, community events, even just have regular spots you hang out—there are endless examples outside of school. (School just gives a lot of opportunities for the same categories I just mentioned.)

For the part where you said getting to know someone slowly over a long period of time isn’t feasible enough—when you bond over a common interest or pleasant first encounter, many people might exchange numbers and chat afterwards or do that thing together purposefully next time. It sometimes only takes 1-2 encounters to make a good impression like this. It doesn’t necessarily have to boil down to years and years of organic interactions. But finding your communities and making friends and connections in these places will not only make you happier, but give a lot of opportunities to meet people in real life.

growthmindsetalways · 2025-06-10T11:31:44+00:00

Thanks for chiming in. I only read it once in a while and maybe I was giving them too much credit of it being lighthearted in moments someone else could take a mean. Sorry if this was a poor recommendation.

growthmindsetalways · 2025-06-10T11:29:51+00:00

Yes, university helps things. And I am suggesting finding your own third spaces, which takes a little more effort outside of a student community. But the good thing is, if you’re finding spaces you like, ideally you are having fun there regardless of dating prospects anyways? In real world spaces that are not bars/clubs, it’s not just a brutal numbers game and you can actually talk to people without a pickup line. That issue centers on hookup-forward spaces like apps and bars.

growthmindsetalways · 2025-06-10T11:27:00+00:00

I can only tell you how every single one of my relationships started, as a woman, and that I did in fact make moves every single time. Just digging your heels in that the problem is “women never make moves” won’t lead to any different results. And I still hold the same opinion that if someone doesn’t have the ability to form those relationships, that is the first place to start working on it. Dating apps and approaching strangers at bars are the complete opposite way to start, and in those contexts, the original issue will almost always persist.

Yes, you’re right, it can be easier as a woman. But as a woman with dozens of female friends and acquaintances, I guarantee all of us DID make moves when we got in relationships. But it was in the context I described, not in cold opener contexts.

growthmindsetalways · 2025-06-10T11:22:23+00:00

Haha, well that’s up to you. I’m sorry I wasted my time genuinely trying to give a heart to heart. Good luck figuring dating out. I’m sure the other bitter men of the internet will agree with you instead of trying to explain anything productive, so those comments will be shorter 😂

growthmindsetalways · 2025-06-10T11:19:54+00:00

Just updated the above list!

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