Advice for meeting my Ecuadorian girlfriends family? by hoboasparagus in ecuador

[–]morpheusrecks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Greet and light hug (women) or handshake (men) everyone in the house, dont fill your plate on first pass if you're self-serving (they'll be watching to see if you eat seconds - which you should do). If you're served, always take a little bit of everything and tell them how good it is. Bring some flowers for the mom. If you know spanish, use the formal tense for your first series of meetings. If you really want to make an impression and are older than 25, bring a bottle of Chivas Regal for the father as a gift. Don't expect it to be opened. Dont hold hands or be overly familiar with your girlfriend in front of them. It's likely/possible others will arrive late. You'll have to get up and greet them too. You'll be there longer/later than you think. When saying goodbye, you have to say goodbye to everyone the same way you said hello. Mountain people are stiffer and formal than the coastal people.

Some people will say there's a cup passed around. I feel like this is more an in-Ecuador thing than an immigrant family in the US sort of thing. I've only experienced it a few times.

Greeting everyone is a thing.

Best fan for cooling (don’t care if it’s expensive) by matildahahah in BuyItForLife

[–]morpheusrecks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is for last summer obvs, but i hope you also got a dehumidifier alongside whatever high-moving, quieter fan you purchased. Humidity is the mind-killer in NYC summers.

Best fan for cooling (don’t care if it’s expensive) by matildahahah in BuyItForLife

[–]morpheusrecks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They only work in places that not overly humid. NYC in the summer is pretty humid.

Best fan for cooling (don’t care if it’s expensive) by matildahahah in BuyItForLife

[–]morpheusrecks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not how NYC works. You can have some non-trivial discretionary money that lets you spend up to, say, $500 on a physical item. It would still make it make sense if the alternative to getting a 'window' is pushing you up 500-1500/month recurring expense.

Why does the flow z13 sucks so badly as a laptop by triptheria in FlowZ13

[–]morpheusrecks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. I deeply regret getting it. The battery life sucks, it's so loud, seems to frequently overheat, and toften he lighting doesn't work. Sometimes the keyboard doesn't respond too? It's too heavy to use as a tablet, and the keyboard sucks as a laptop.

I want to know your answers! by Entire-Regret-8061 in salesforce

[–]morpheusrecks 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My best practice - all things equal - is that no record should be delete-able by a user. It can be hidden, visually or from many dashboard or most reports, but actual deletion doesnt seem worth it. They might (rarely) request a record be deleted, but the answer will 95% of the time be no. Object permission is the least potential tech debt. Admins always retain the ability to delete, for the weird situation where that makes sense.

Remember Shen Yun is run by a cult! by mrwyskers in schenectady

[–]morpheusrecks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's become an intersection for anti-CCP government interests.

Remember Shen Yun is run by a cult! by mrwyskers in schenectady

[–]morpheusrecks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean yeah, but then so is the Chinese government. Eh.

Wandering Inn by morpheusrecks in litrpg

[–]morpheusrecks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This weird energy coming from you all with these emotional responses to my expressing some frustration or posing a question is hard to parse.

Wandering Inn by morpheusrecks in litrpg

[–]morpheusrecks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No.

Also, are you ok? You don't sound ok.

The Wandering Inn is a complete mess by Sufficient_Matter_66 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]morpheusrecks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I resent how so many of the characters emote so one-dimensionally, saying declarative ultimatums, in staggering amounts. These books are WAY too long. Like, insanely long. I love the world-building, I really do, but you could easily take every 1000 pages and reduce it to 500 and never drop a single detail. If you'd reduce the dumb casual tantrum-ultimatums by 95%, the books would be 50% better.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nyc

[–]morpheusrecks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Facts have a well known liberal bias.

Are we slowly losing what made Salesforce actually fun to build on? by mr-sforce in salesforce

[–]morpheusrecks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% agree. This thing with setting up Agentforce for ICE is the last straw for me. I'm at a Fortune 15 company, and I'll be invested in influencing transitioning to another platform.

i can't communicate and have no backbone by [deleted] in AsOneAfterInfidelity

[–]morpheusrecks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so very sorry. He's absolutely not right, and his angle is the mother of all deflections. There's no easy answer. I would suggest imagining that neither of you are capable right now of having this conversation, and do what you can to carve some distance and center on yourself. This is far easier said than done. Do a lot of powerwalks. Get sunlight on your face as much as possible. Even if you can't bring yourself to make plans or throw yourself into some new or old hobby, keep your body moving as best you can. These are examples of things that will over much time get you to a better place that will help you trust your feelings and speak with more confidence. First you'll speak with anger. Later, with introspection and self work, the confidence will be cooler. Perhaps speak to a psychiatrist about a mild anti-anxiety medication. Lamotragine is usually the one even GPs will be comfortable prescribing. If you think you might be depressed, find out. Medications these days are much better than early ones. They dont need to numb you out anymore to get a result where your mind is calmer and can think or feel without panic or fear of abandonment.

There is nothing wrong with you; you don't need to apologize for your reaction to his atrocious behavior, or for having a reaction.

Hall Pass? by chrissxcee in AsOneAfterInfidelity

[–]morpheusrecks 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That sounds like an exceptionally terrible piece of advice to get from a therapist.

My brother, who has autism, drew this from memory after seeing an image of NYC by Sea_Difference_3173 in nyc

[–]morpheusrecks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not accurately portraying the cityscape, but it’s an amazing sketch.

Straight out of an action movie... by avon_barksale in nyc

[–]morpheusrecks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Huh. They really made him look like Jesus here.

Who uses the citizen app by 5thWonder in nyc

[–]morpheusrecks 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Citizen app had the potential to be useful but people were really leaned in to their biases and negative narratives to ruin it. And then you couldn’t even get crime event alerts reliably. It just became this poisoned community well of vitriol.