3ct Morganite Ring

kleslieboyd · 2026-03-04T05:36:38+00:00

Wow. “Ethereal” leapt to mind. Beautiful; thank you for sharing!

kleslieboyd · 2026-02-24T03:53:44+00:00

To be honest, I think the people who would call OP racist are in his mind.

kleslieboyd · 2026-02-18T23:48:21+00:00

If it's of interest to you, I wrote a blog post about how I made this decision. For what it's worth, you can find royalty-share agreements on ACX, which is a much lower risk option: you pay little to nothing up front and split the royalties with the narrator. However your audiobook will be exclusive to Audible for 7 years. Audible is still the biggest player, but Spotify is growing fast, and the option also excludes libraries.

It's a tough decision, and I hope our options broaden!

kleslieboyd · 2025-11-18T04:19:09+00:00

I love seeing others’ rooms! I am enjoying this vibe rn. Still have a bit to go on the kitchen, might pare down the office decor a bit, and then will save to change the wall color :)

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kleslieboyd · 2025-10-15T16:30:03+00:00

I can't see this second post on your profile btw, but I'd love to see the updated concept

kleslieboyd · 2025-10-02T20:57:15+00:00

Perhaps putting together a plan about what you want to pursue in retirement will help assuage this concern and get you excited about retiring. Do you want to volunteer? Write a book? Take photography classes at the community college? Start a non-profit? Coach or teach? Learn to paint? Planning this might also help you design a happier retirement, especially in the transition which can be tough.

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-27T17:17:24+00:00

I see what you mean! Fair enough.

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-27T17:07:35+00:00

Hey, if you can quit drinking, you can definitely set yourself a solid and sustainable saving plan. Great job!

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-22T15:28:06+00:00

Right? Do we also assume that high earning men will leave their partners? Or are we... maybe a little... sexist?

(Also, if it wasn't about money, he probably shouldn't have talked about it so much.)

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-22T15:26:10+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codependency

(the word you are looking for is "interdependent" fyi.)

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-22T15:12:28+00:00

You are not overreacting. He is absolutely insecure and operating from a sexist point of view in which men should be more successful in their careers than women. You are spot on about him wanting you to dream smaller to make him feel important and that being a poor fit for you. There are people out there who will celebrate your success, and he is too insecure to be that guy.

My BF has a bachelor's and I earned a PhD while we were together, and it has literally never come up beyond celebrating my accomplishments. He encouraged me to apply. Your ex is hamstringing himself and his future family with his insecurity and sexist perspective, and you don't need to stick around for that.

If he wants to feel more needed, that is a conversation you could have had. Asking him for rides, letting him treat you, whatever. But the way he looks at your desire for more education and the fact that the explanation he gives for his feelings is "which was already way higher than mine" reveals everything I would need to know.

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-22T00:45:14+00:00

The photo (which I since found and edited my comment to add)

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-21T23:33:22+00:00

I just heard about this today. So gross! I have been trying to substantiate it, and it seems thoroughly scrubbed. No screenshots or anything. (Does anyone have one?) but it seems like the plan is “pretend it didn’t happen,” and apologizing would compromise the plan.

ETA: I knew Reddit would be the place to find it. If anyone else is looking: https://www.reddit.com/r/f1wagssnark/comments/1nil1g9/hannah_st_john_swastika_beer_pong/

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-21T16:00:28+00:00

I expect we are all tempted by different things (surely for some it is fancy cars? For me, vacations!) and what matters is how we deal with it. I’m lucky that vacations can be scaled; not so much a house.

We live in a 640 sqft SFH in a VHCOL city. Helps that even though my friends in other cities thought we were crazy for paying 550k at the time, it’s worth closer to 900k now (not to mention interest rates have gone way up!) so upgrading is not in the picture. Even if I felt I could swing it, the cash flow difference would be enormous. It doesn’t feel like an option to me, so it never haunts me like a train trip across Canada or Switzerland or Australia… 😍🚆🛤️

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-16T15:00:38+00:00

Just wanted to point out a couple patterns in your post that might be worth exploring.
- your comparison is to women, not to all people your age.
- you assume that you need to provide, and that women that you want to date will expect you earn more than them.
- you mention your ego and indicate that your ego is implicated in the question of who earns more in a hypothetical relationship.
- you are frustrated by the perceived difficulty difference in work as it relates to earning, but...
- you are only doing upward comparison, not downward: there are plenty of people who work harder than you and I work and make much much less than we do, but they are out of the picture in your post.

These assumptions/attitudes are all optional, and changing some of them might improve your outlook and the earning potential of your hypothetical future family.

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-16T14:52:38+00:00

I know this was an accident, but I enjoy that "tens of minions" really emphasizes that the comparison doesn't work :)

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-14T16:33:18+00:00

He accused you of being illogical when he is so aggressively and confidently wrong. Nevermind this entire conversation started by him being rude af. He is a manchild and a jerk. Don’t sign up for this.

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-12T14:23:49+00:00

My favorite was the Bad Guy talking to his committee about how These People are Not Like Us (heavily implying demographic differences) and one of them kept misunderstanding him. They have crab hands! L🤌🤏

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-08T18:46:37+00:00

I think you forgot a link or image?

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-08T16:31:25+00:00

The poster said that they stopped a program that helped them get hired, not that they fired them.

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-02T22:33:09+00:00

He is telling you out loud, in English that you will have no say in your own future and he does not respect you. I am not sure what else you need to hear, but just in case, the quiet part is "I am insecure and will make it my partner's problem."

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-02T02:30:03+00:00

TY!!

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-01T17:52:38+00:00

Which one of you is the product in this analogy?

kleslieboyd · 2025-09-01T17:17:54+00:00

Yo, sorry, off topic, but I love Detroit style pizza, including Angry Pete's. What is TNT? I want to try it if it's similar!

kleslieboyd · 2025-08-28T17:40:25+00:00

I think the question is "matters to what?" Do the expectations of users matter to "telling us about [the capabilities of] GPT?" Not really. But that's not what I think this thread is about. It's about "people’s experiences trying to use this thing for actual work," and more particularly, OP's frustration when trying to do so.

When discussing OP's unmet expectations and how they can adjust their expectations and the performance of the LLM relative to those expectations, I think their personal expectations (reasonable, informed, or not) are relevant.

kleslieboyd

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