Wayne Goss has been making skincare videos that are straight up dumb as hell for a while now, but his recent one (link) telling people to layer two extremely strong acid products by The Ordinary goes beyond being dumb. It's promoting something that can actively cause a ton of irritation and destroy people's moisture barriers.
The Ordinary explicitly tells people NOT to combine their different acid products. The red peeling solution is so strong that it's actually been banned in Canada and Australia, and there's a class action lawsuit against the company for selling a product that can burn people's skin off.
So for Wayne to blatantly disregard Deciem's instructions and also to just promote ignorance by telling people to layer this already extremely potent acid with The Ordinary's 2% salicylic acid mask is just irresponsible.
Damaging your moisture barrier by doing stuff like this is going to cause a ton of other problems that you want to avoid. A whole bunch of issues like acne and signs of aging can be helped by having a strong moisture barrier, so this is only going to backfire in a ton of different ways.
I'm honestly starting to think makeup influencers should stop talking about skincare. A lot of them are just jumping in now and promoting so many stupid "hacks" without doing even bare minimum research.
Hey everyone, this is my first post in this subreddit.
So, I started getting into American graphic novels and graphic novel series around 5 years ago. But, I wasn't ever really into any of the traditional "superhero" types of stuff, nor any of the stuff that was really heavily fantasy-style with like magical people flying around and demons and spells or stuff like that.
I mean, I could handle a LITTLE bit of supernatural, or especially realistic or semi-realistic sci-fi types of stuff. But, just not that full blown ultra-supernatural stuff, you know?
So, for example, some of my favorite American graphic novel series were stuff like:
- Scalped
- Y: The Last Man
- Transmetropolitan (maybe not a great example, since the main character is kind of borderline superhero-ish, but it's in more of a sci-fi way than ultra-supernatural-fantasy, and also the writing is really good, and the artwork is sort of realism-based in terms of the setting that the characters are walking around, like it looks like a very futuristic, but still "normal"-style-artwork-ish vibe or whatever)
- The Walking Dead (although I thought the writing could've been considerably better) (but I still enjoyed it in the overall grand scheme of things, as a series, given the general subject-matter at hand, of regular, non-supernatural people trying to survive a zombie apocalypse scenario)
- Criminal
Not sure if maybe that'll help give people an idea of the types of stuff I'm into as far as American graphic series, as far as knowing of what some equivalent sub-genre manga might be relative to that.
So far, when I've asked people at book stores this question, the manga that has been recommended to me so far has been:
- Monster
- Bakuman
- Akira
And I was relatively happy with these recomendations, like, compared to most of the other manga I have browsed so far, these definitely seemed to have a more subdued, non-supernatural (well, to a degree anyway), "realistic" sort of vibe, with regular-person sorts of characters, and regular, actual Tokyo (well, not Akira I guess, but the other two) sorts of city-settings, rather than, you know, flying around on dragons on foreign moons in distant galaxies or in supervillain lairs underneath the crust of the earth or what have you, etc)
JUST TO BE CLEAR: I don't have anything against "non-realistic"/ultra-supernatural manga. Like, I'm not a "hater" of that stuff or anything. I fully comprehend that most manga is of that style and that there i
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Sick and tired of the whole romanticised "good cop with a dark past, who nevertheless tries his best" trope.
Thank you in advance!
I recently moved back to this city from Europe after several years and I'm blown away by how much more difficult it has become to live here overall, and I'm genuinely curious about what we can do to address this.
I know housing in this city has been astronomical for decades but it's getting even worse, now even food is becoming out of reach for many. Many people can't even afford children. Homelessness is worse than it ever was along with opioid-related deaths. I see many people commenting on this sub about his difficult it has become for the average person to live here, or how unsafe it is in certain areas.
And it's not like we can make more money to compensate. Salaries continue to be relatively low compared to other big, comparable cities like Seattle, San Fran or Toronto, whether that's actually due to the "sunshine tax" or not is beyond me.
I'm not claiming to be a policy expert here and I don't have the answers, but I'm simply just curious: What can we, as ordinary citizens, do to address these issues that seem to only be getting worse?
I've kinda had my fill of chosen ones or lost princes or any other such tomfoolery, I just want to find some fantasy novels about ordinary people who are drawn into extraordinary events in fantasy worlds.
The first thing that comes to mind is To Kill a Mockingbird, but I also recently read the storied life of AJ Fikry and that falls into the category. I'm working on a list of about 10 books for something and I'm not opposed to novels from all genre as long as it is fiction. Thanks for any suggestions!
What ordinary people? Barely anyone speaks it fluently. If he really wants to connect with ordinary people, Tongan, Samoan, Hindi and Mandarin would all be more relevant.
National: Labour, but more so.
2024 looking grim.
E: to be clear, I'm not suggesting that: a) learning Maori is a bad thing/people shouldn't b) Maori aren't ordinary people (amazed that this even needs to be said).
The intended point was an observation that we have a leader of the opposition who seems not to realise that Ardern was voted back in by a majority in 2020 pretty much purely based on COVID, not her views on culture. In addition, we have an opposition leader who appears not to know ordinary New Zealanders very well at all if he thinks that he'll connect with them by speaking a language that the overwhelming majority of them don't. That suggests a real failure of either intelligence or advice.
Ok so I don't know how to ask this properly so excuse my title if it's vague to you (English is also not my main) but I'm requesting movies that are about a single incident/accident/event etc happening to an ordinary person coincidentally and suddenly changing her/his life forever. BUT their lives have to be going downhill lol, not getting better. Also the main characters should be ordinary citizens, not criminals in advance. Let me give you some examples for a clearer explanation.
Queen & Slim - ordinary black couple becoming legends for BLM movement after accidentally killing a racist cop
Good Time - a botched bank robbery making him go to jail and his brother trying to get him outta jail
Night Teeth - a fun Netflix movie about a college guy being the driver of two vampires accidentally and trying to run away from the hunters
The Vast of Night - in the 1950s a radio operator discovers an audio that change the whole town's future
Victoria - a night out in Berlin turns potentially deadly
Sean logged it. And with Mallory being on the pod too, it all makes sense.
In the English world, there are moments when someone will speak a word that they've never heard but have read often so they get the pronunciation wrong. Since its English, the accepted pronunciation can be different from the spelling. But, usually, pronouncing the spelling can get you close enough that people will guess the word. With kanji, it can be quite different.
So, how does the equivalent phenomena play out in Japanese?
I studied this because fossil fuels really ruin living conditions in many cities of the third world, it seemed like a way to help others and to become self-employed. https://youtu.be/UbgJXZ8EScs?t=12
I hope I can crowdfund this technology and open source the design files. My background is environmental sciences and ecology, If i manage to build a technology company, I will research back yard robots that micromanage organic food production in the garden using artifical intelligence recognition of plants and animals, because I hate the way that tractors are used to chemically grow food, I think it's one of the humanities major vices. The project page is www.easybatterybox.com
Here is an example;
>The 4th largest BTC address just added a massive 43,000 BTC! This wallet has never sold a single BTC in its history and now holds almost $5BN worth
Here is another example;
>The 3rd largest Bitcoin whale wallet added 179 more BTC today at $43.5k for a total of $7.8M.
As you can see, 3rd and 4th largest bitcoin addresses, AKA Whales bought the dip while everyone else panicking.
We've seen this countless of times. Average folks panicking over dip, meanwhile whales buying the dip. Every fucking time.
When will we stop panicking and start taking advantage of this opportunity?
He hates crypto because ordinary people make money before his eyes but he can't because he doesn't understand it and afraid to accept it because his mind is old fashioned.
I am a bit curious because although I only read some of the novels, and technology is clearly described in it, we see it from the POV of nobles, aristocrats and high ranking members of organisations like the Guild or the Bene Gesserit.
Do the ordinary people of Caladan and the other worlds have access to gadgets like fridges, TV, washing machines? Can they access information systems like our Internet? Do they have personal gadgets like Walkmans iPods or laptops?
Disclaimer: I love quest, sf, fantasy, mysteries and suspense writing. This post is about something different.
In the past few years I've read extraordinary novels about ordinary people, encountering the ups and downs of an uneventful life. I've found these novels to be truly fascinating.
It's as if the authors have a way of picking out the details and events that make me want to know more about their characters without relying on fast-paced plot or extraordinary situations. Or if the reality is extraordinary (Millet, Murakami) the characters act like ordinary people making the same sort of decisions most of us make in our day-to-day lives.
The writing is beautiful and nearly poetic, yet easy to read and the story flows. The authors have figured out the secret to writing and use it to keep me interested in the uninteresting. Here's some of the authors I'm thinking about:
Jane Gardam particularly Old Filth
Helen Humphries Wild Dogs
Lydia Millet How the Dead Dream
Haruki_Murakami After Dark
Does anyone know if there is a term for this type of writing?
Can you suggest other authors who excel in this "genre"?
A lot of people care about what X did or what Y said while they don't know each other in reality and this is stupid. People find this interesting only because their life is so boring and they don't have anything else to enjoy better than this. It doesn't help you in life with nothing talking with your friends how a person you've never talked to in reality, looks like when it has a bad day or how they should live their live. Yes, people are social beings but this is very low effort and very stupid to do so.
You might talk about a tragedy that happend to someone close to you to inform your friends about it so they'll act cautios when talking to that person, but it doesn't help you with nothing that a guy you've never spoke to that he is poor or rich or whatever. Gossip is really low-iq social interaction and most of the times unecessary.
Life is not a reality show about comedy, drama or tragedy nor any regular TV Show with people overreacting to stupid jokes or getting shocked to useless information about TV Stars. People copycat a lot of bad behaviours as gossip, discouraging people, taunting, bullying people . People likes to criticize but never want to be criticized or they just ignore their own value and focus on other's.
A lot of people have a big ego and spread hate to others just to feel superior but in fact they are nobody, or at least nobody important as they think. Overconfident personality is idolized and the defensive response when people with that personality are attacked is giving hate or taunting back to people.
The people that matter in our society and real values live in anonymity while ordinary people with fake values are overrated only because they shout louder and attract the attention more to them. There are a lot of extraordinary people but the only one who tend to get famous are people who seem very confident and that look / sound superior or the people that are already rich.
Here and there you can see a lot of cute faces and sexy bodies that make a lot of money both women and men just for their appereance and not by modeling to sell a product or any sort of talent but Instagram / Tiktok / Youtube / adult sites or sites that include adult content for exclusive subscribers. Sex and beauty really sells well even without context or any special talent.
Is sad cause internet can trick the brain in a lot of ways. Seeing a hot woman or a hot man and buying content from them is like getting lied cause our brain doesn't make a diffe
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Here is an example;
>The 4th largest BTC address just added a massive 43,000 BTC! This wallet has never sold a single BTC in its history and now holds almost $5BN worth
Here is another example;
>The 3rd largest Bitcoin whale wallet added 179 more BTC today at $43.5k for a total of $7.8M.
As you can see, 3rd and 4th largest bitcoin addresses, AKA Whales bought the dip while everyone else panicking.
We've seen this countless of times. Average folks panicking over dip, meanwhile whales buying the dip. Every fucking time.
When will we stop panicking and start taking advantage of this opportunity?
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