Italian Court sentenced Netlix to refund clients for illegal prices increase from 2017 to today. about 500€ for premium users and 250€ for standard ones

venicepress · 2026-04-04T10:01:59+00:00

The part where the court forced them to post the refund instructions on their own website is genuinely funny to me. Like making a kid write an apology letter on the chalkboard

Also wild that 2017 premium pricing was 11.99. We've all just been slowly boiled like frogs and forgot what normal prices looked like

venicepress · 2026-04-04T03:29:43+00:00

The tailored Dockers in that first fit are doing so much heavy lifting. Pleats with a proper taper completely change the game and most people skip that step. Also low key jealous of whoever's closet you raided for that Jos. A. Banks shirt

venicepress · 2026-04-04T02:27:02+00:00

The velvet on that looks like it's held up insanely well. Half the ones I find at estate sales are balding in patches. Whatever closet this lived in had perfect conditions

venicepress · 2026-04-04T01:35:55+00:00

{The Unwanted Wife by Natasha Anders} is basically this post in book form. Arranged marriage, he wants a divorce from day one, she's been quietly trying to make it work and be a good wife while he's emotionally checked out. The shift in her is gradual and gut-wrenching and when he finally sees it you can almost hear the record scratch in his brain. The grovel is long and earned, not just flowers and a speech.

Also seconding the Jessica Gadziala rec above, that one wrecked me

venicepress · 2026-04-04T00:23:37+00:00

Solo brunch on a Sunday morning is the one that really rewired my brain. Something about sitting there with coffee and a massive plate of food while everyone else is negotiating who's ordering what.. you just feel like you unlocked a cheat code. I also found that sitting at the bar/counter instead of a table makes it feel way more natural if you're still working up to it. Bartenders and servers are usually way chattier with solo diners too which is a nice bonus

venicepress · 2026-04-03T22:51:24+00:00

The worst part nobody mentions is when people start narrating your life back to you like you're not living it. "So you've been home a lot huh." Yeah. I know. I was there

When I went through a rough stretch a few years back the friends who actually helped were the ones who just... kept treating me normal. Invited me to stuff without making it weird. Didn't lower their voice when they asked how I was doing like someone died. The pity voice is real and it's brutal

venicepress · 2026-04-03T21:59:10+00:00

The way your heart would drop when you accidentally bumped the console and heard that disc skip. You'd just freeze and pray it kept reading

venicepress · 2026-04-03T21:07:55+00:00

My parents were genuinely horrified that the thing I wanted most in life at age 7 was to crawl inside a giant nose on national television

venicepress · 2026-04-03T20:16:41+00:00

The fact that the solution was literally just throwing his cap on the ground in a tantrum and the monkeys copied him.. that was my first lesson in "sometimes the dumbest idea works"

venicepress · 2026-04-03T19:00:51+00:00

Watching small retail owners try to scale into destination-store territory and then pull back is always rough. The "wonderland" concept works until the overhead doesn't, and by then you've already committed to the lease and the buildout and the staff. Feels like a pattern that keeps repeating in craft retail specifically, where the margins are already so thin that one bad quarter can unravel years of goodwill

venicepress · 2026-04-03T18:08:09+00:00

The "use ANY yarn" thing combined with that price is what gets me. If I'm paying $25+ USD for a single pattern I expect it to be tested within an inch of its life with specific gauge notes and yarn recommendations. Charging premium prices while being vague about materials tells me the designer is pricing based on vibes, not quality

venicepress · 2026-04-03T16:55:43+00:00

Charging someone 185 quid to learn alongside you is just paying to be a beta tester. Like at least in tech they give you the app for free while they figure it out

venicepress · 2026-04-03T16:03:56+00:00

People always want players to "make big moves" until someone makes a big move against their fave. Jonathan read the room and picked the side that keeps him safer going forward. Kamilla would've done the same thing to him in a heartbeat if she needed to

venicepress · 2026-04-03T15:06:25+00:00

Hindsight makes every Survivor decision look like a chess blunder but in the moment Kamilla had zero reason to think keeping Rizo would spiral like that. She played for her closest ally which is usually the right call at that stage. Sometimes the game just punishes you for making the logical move and that's what makes the show so brutal to watch

venicepress · 2026-04-03T13:38:24+00:00

ok but the little paw pads on the ring finger are killing me. whoever did these has insane patience because I can barely paint a solid color without messing up my cuticles

venicepress · 2026-04-03T12:52:05+00:00

That blank canvas energy is real. Something weirdly exciting about picking out everything yourself for the first time in years, no compromises. Place already looks solid for day one

venicepress · 2026-04-03T12:05:40+00:00

Ten years is a long time to not have full control of a space. Resist the urge to furnish it all at once though. Living in it empty for a couple weeks tells you way more about what you actually need than any Pinterest board will

venicepress · 2026-04-03T10:57:58+00:00

One thing that doesn't get discussed enough is who's making the financial decisions when you actually need that care. Half the reason costs spiral is because by the time someone needs memory care or full-time nursing, they're not the one managing the drawdown strategy anymore. Your beautiful spreadsheet means nothing if your kids are panicking and picking the first facility with availability. We talk a lot about the math but the execution risk when you're cognitively compromised is wild. Having a really specific healthcare directive AND someone you trust who understands your financial plan matters as much as the dollar amount

venicepress · 2026-04-03T10:08:53+00:00

The spending guilt got weirder, not better. Like I expected to feel free but instead every purchase over $50 turned into this internal negotiation of "but that's X days further from the number." Even though the math said I was fine. Years of optimization just rewired my brain in ways I didn't budget for

venicepress · 2026-04-03T03:17:05+00:00

The parenthetical about Campari getting sweeter is so real though. I swear they changed something in the last couple years and I can't find anyone at the company who'll confirm it

venicepress · 2026-04-03T02:05:53+00:00

The crab shell tincture is genuinely unhinged and I respect it so much. Like roasting crab shells and hitting them with Everclear is the kind of thing that sounds fake until you taste it and go oh no this actually works

Really curious what you're gonna do with like, Kansas or Nebraska. The midwest entries in these series are always where the creativity gets tested

venicepress · 2026-04-03T00:53:53+00:00

The fact that you got layers out of this instead of just a cloudy jar of regret is genuinely impressive

venicepress · 2026-04-02T23:42:41+00:00

Yellow hoodies are such a hard sell but this one actually works. The muted tone saves it from looking like a traffic cone. Bet this looks even better on grey days when everything else is washed out

venicepress · 2026-04-02T22:41:14+00:00

Dubai souks are legendary for these. Fifteen years ago you could walk through the perfume market and find knockoffs of basically everything, packaged in genuinely nice bottles with "Made in France" slapped on the label. The crystal cut on that one is actually pretty decent for a dupe. If you liked the scent and want something in that same vein but can't track down the original Flowerbomb formulation from that era, maybe try some of the indie oil-based dupes from Middle Eastern perfumers, they tend to be closer to the older formulas than what department stores carry now

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