Throw away account, as my personal is well known. I (25f) have just recently started seeing/taking to someone younger than me for the first time (19m). I have always been with older men, anywhere from a year to a twenty year age gap. Even the thought of seeking a romantic relationship with someone younger than me is unusual for me. But he’s so kind, thoughtful, and is genuinely interested in me. My biggest issue is that we live in a very small town. He is a year younger than my oldest niece, and I see his parents when I go out to local bars. I’m worried about what people will say/think. I know shouldn’t worry about other’s opinions but small town drama travels fast (especially over social media) and I’m a local small business owner who can’t afford a bad name.
If you were in my position, would you pursue the relationship? When I spoke to him about it, he understood to a point, but asked if I would still see him in private. 🙁

I just finished watching BCS for the first time. My breaking point for Saul/Jimmy/Gene was in Nebraska when he started breaking into people's houses after drugging them at a bar.
There was no reason for Saul to do those break-ins. He wasn't a lawyer wanting the best for his client. He wasn't getting back at someone who had belittled him. He did not need the money. His activities in Nebraska were petty crimes and could have been worse if someone died from drug ingestion. And these crimes were after being given a clean start!
Many posters here think there is something symbolic about Saul changing his name. Jimmy's bad behaviour regardless of name makes me think otherwise.

Hey guys! I've been trying to work on my legs more recently, so a friend of mine has been getting me go do squats (without weight, and with the bar) but I have some problems with that. The biggest problem is that I can't get very low. I've tried different kinds of stretches, but nothing works, and I'm a very flexible person otherwise. I've never been able get low with squats, so I'm partially convinced this has to do with my bone structure and less with my flexibility.
Anyways, everyone is always telling me and trying to get me to go lower, but I just can't. My main question is, do I really need to go low with flat feet? If I put a plate under my heels then I can more comfortably get down, but without it it's just hard and hurts and I don't feel the burn in the right places. I went too hard recently and hurt my back just doing normal squats, which is what prompted me to make this post. Also, are there good alternatives to squats that work the same muscles? I find squats with the bar gives me a weird soreness in my arms (I've tried different postilions and nothing has helped either). I really don't like leg day as half the exercises just don't work for my body.
Any help appreciated!

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Last week I made a post about generating 2.5 million in sales for a client without spending a dime on ads. The thing is, I did this on a brand that already did over a million in sales the year before. I got a bunch of messages from people that don't already have established brands but thought they could benefit from organic traffic. So I made this post, I'll explain exactly how you can generate sales with literally nothing other than time and a website.
Quick disclaimer, it's 10x harder to make your first 10 sales if you don't have a marketing budget or an existing audience to market to. You're going to have to consistently spend multiple hours a day working to accomplish anything. Not just mindless work either, you're going to have to be a critical thinker and have a basic understanding of human psychology to see any type of success using these methods. If you don't have time to do that, you won't see any results from these methods and you might as well stop reading now.
Now that we've cleared that up let's get to the good stuff. Here's how you make your first 10 sales without spending any money on marketing.
In order to get sales you need traffic. You can't test anything or sell anything if no one visits your site.
So here are 3 ways to generate traffic for free:

1. Become a member of the community that your customers interact in

In my last post, I explained how I built a community from scratch, but at this point, I'm assuming you don't have time to spend 3 months building a community if you haven't even proven that anyone wants to buy your products. So I'm going to teach you how to piggyback off existing communities.
It is easier said than done, but 1 good post can get easily get you your first 5 sales. You can do this on Reddit, in Facebook groups, or any other type of niche relevant group/forum. If the people in these communities think you're trying to sell something you'll probably just get banned and people will actually get mad at you for trying to sell your products. The trick is being a casual, you want to put yourself in the shoes of your ideal customer. Don't even mention your products in your first 2-3 posts. Maybe ask niche relevant questions, or provide value in comments under other people's posts and show people that you have a genuine interest in the topic. Think of this like warming up your account.
Now when it's time to sell, you do it in the most discreet way possible. The better your product is, the easier it is to do this. This is the fastest way to find out if your product is actually useful and if there's actually demand for your product. The best way to promote your product and create brand recognition is with lifestyle content. Never post a product photo with a white background in a community group. NEVER!
I'll give you a few examples of how to post product pics correctly:
Example 1
niche: dog niche
product: dog collar
You take a dog to a beautiful place. Maybe a beach by the water and you get a whole photoshoot with the dog. Bring lots of treats and showcase a happy dog wearing the collar you sell. Now you don't post the entire photoshoot in the group. You post 1 picture, not necessarily the best picture or the most professional looking one. You want to post the picture that evokes the most emotion. It's the picture with the dog making a funny face, or another dog sniffing your dog's butt, or the pic with your dog in bliss chewing his favorite treat that goes viral. Pick a picture that'll start a discussion and reply to every single comment. Then, once the post does well, without a doubt someone will ask about your product. That's when you come in and give a shoutout to the site that you got it from. If no one does this, you can literally create a fake account and ask/answer the question on your own. You're basically creating the perception of product demand.
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Example 2
niche: food and beverage/electronics
Product: digital thermometer
Imagine... It's steak night, you fire up the BBQ and you want the perfect steaks! We're selling the dream of a perfectly cooked steak, not a digital thermometer. You post 2 pictures. Picture 1 is the steak on the grill with the thermometer showing the perfect temperature. Picture 2 shows the perfectly sliced steak being served. Try to capture someone that stirs emotions in the picture, whether it's a happy grandma, a kid with the steak on his fork, or a hungry pet drooling and looking at your plate. Emotion is what sells the product. Make sure you have a caption that conveys the message that you're trying to send. Use something short and simple but also try your best to convey a story. Further, convey the imagery in the comments ex. "Inlaws are over, got this thermometer to make sure everything was cooked perfectly, Now everyone thinks I actually know how to cook."
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Example 3
Niche: candles
Product: candle
"Midterms are around the corner, sparked my favorite scent to set the mood tonight" (caption for the post in studying group or collage group) + a picture of an opened textbook and candle in the background, but you can clearly still see the candle label. This example is for the people who have general products. It may actually be harder for you to sell a candle in a candle subreddit because there are just too many options. So you get into the mind of your customers, you imagine the scenario your customer is in when they use your product, and you sell the feeling of enjoying the product in a situation that they've experienced before.
In the comments, you describe the scent in detail and you talk about how you prefer this candle over the one you got at Bath and Body Works because it's made from natural materials.
If you do this right, consistently. Eventually one of your posts will go viral and without a doubt that will convert into a sale.
2. Grow social media organically
This is a lot easier if you can afford to order the product that you sell. But it's still possible to make this work if you can't get the product in your hands.
With this method, you're essentially picking up a new part-time job. You are now a social media manager, you work 20 hours a week and create and post new content on multiple platforms every single day. You want to take advantage of platforms that favor new accounts. A great place to start is Tiktok but Instagram reels is pretty good too. Tiktok boosts the reach of new accounts, you can see a lot of success blitzing a new Tiktok account (2-5 posts a day). The Instagram algorithm boosts accounts that post a lot of reels because for a good while Tiktok was destroying them with short term content. (Fun fact this feud between platforms is so deep that if you make a video on Tiktok and you cross-post it on Instagram without removing the Tiktok watermark, the Instagram algorithm will suppress the reach of the video)
You want to focus on making short videos with a focus on real-life use cases of your product. I'd break this down into 3 steps.
A. Research
B. Content Testing
C. Doubling down on what gets traction
It can take weeks or even months to get a good feel for how to create engaging content. The true key is consistency. At the end of the day, it's gonna come down to volume. Not just any volume, but a high volume of quality content. Whatever platform that you decide to use, I suggest watching at least 4 hours of content on youtube from experts on the platform. You'll pick up a bunch of tricks and tips. It's important that you understand how the algorithm works on different platforms to see any type of success doing this. I wouldn't suggest attempting to scale on more than 3 platforms at once. In fact, it's actually better to focus on 1 platform and do it well over splitting your time into other platforms trying to scale 3 pages at the same time. Don't spread yourself too thin.
3. Elite cart protection
If you do under 10k a month most email marketing is irrelevant. People with startup brands book calls with me all the time and I tell them the same thing. You need traffic before there's anything I can do to help you other than give some basic advice. However, there are 3 automated email flows that actually can make an impact at this point. These flows are the welcome series, the abandoned cart, and the browse abandonment. Most email platforms are free and they charge based on volume. So in most cases, this won't cost you anything. Sites like Klaviyo make it very easy to set up the basics. Don't overthink this at all, at this point you don't need beautiful designs or stand-out copywriting. You simply need to just follow up with the interested potential customers that visit your site. A healthy store converts 3% of its traffic, 7/10 people who add things to their cart don't complete a purchase. You have a second chance at converting 97% of the people that visit your site if you actually follow up with them.
I've made entire posts about how to set flows up correctly so I won't be expanding on this much more.
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I know this post was a bit long-winded but if you've made it this far you must be serious. There's going to be a bunch of people that read this thread and take no action that'll stay at 0 sales. The beauty of life is that you get to choose what happens next.
With that being said, thanks so taking the time out of your day to read my post. I hope even some of the bigger brand owners were able to get something out of this post. I look forward to seeing some of you guys make your first few sales in the coming weeks. As always feel free to add onto things that I missed, or maybe share what worked for you. I'll reply to everything that I see.

I read in another post that for LG TVs, any Dolby Mat signals received by the tv from Apple TV 4K is converted into DD+ (including the Atmos data) and transmitted to sound bar via ARC. Is this possible with S95B?
Context: I just purchased a S95b recently that comes with a free S800b ultra slim sound bar. I understand that S800b does not have a pass through port and no eARC port (which means no lossless Dolby Atmos). I also have an Apple TV 4K 2022. I understand that Apple TV will take any DA signals and package it into Dolby MAT to send over via HDMI.
Am considering to sell the S800b to get a Q800b if I cant get any Atmos signal from my Apple TV (I am fine with lossy atmos) hence I do not really want to open up the sound bar at this stage
Anyone with such a configuration as well? Did you manage to get Atmos audio from your sources?

Most friends I go out with and have a great time with, and I feel calm cool and confident with them. But I have a couple friends who talk super loud about dumb stuff and are just generally retarded and embarrassing when out at parties/bars/clubs. They don’t even drink that much - I’m a lightweight and am on meds that make me get drunk faster and I’m fine while they’re acting a fool. They were talking so loud at this bar that this table of girls turned around and glared at us. I literally have shushed them before. The thing is I love these friends, they’re some of my closest, and we always have a good time in other settings. But I guess there’s some people you just can’t go out with. Idk. Anyone relate or have good stories?

Ouch.

So, here’s what I came up with for if Imagine Dragons toured Origins.
DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction

Part 1: The Beginning of the Tour

On December 21, 2018, Imagine Dragons announced the first US Leg for the Origins Tour, originally set from March 6 to April 17, 2019, with shows in Atlanta, Jacksonville, Tampa, Sunrise, Columbia, Raleigh, New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Boise, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City. 2 weeks later, they announced shows for Canada, lasting from April 28 to May 26, 2019, with shows in Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Victoria, Ontario, Winnipeg, Moncton, Saskatoon, Calgary, Vancouver, and Edmonton.
On January 27, 2019, the band announced Europe tour dates, lasting from June 6 to July 27, 2019, with shows in Riga, Vienna, Prague, Rome, Odense, Berlin, Madrid, Stockholm, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Kyiv, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Frankfurt, Werchter, and Gdynia.
On March 6, 2019, the Origins Tour began in Atlanta, GA. Opening Acts included Grouplove, Lil Wayne, and Elisa. In Canada, Yungblud replaced Grouplove for opening act, after Grouplove completed touring with Imagine Dragons on the US leg.
On April 20, 2019, tour dates were announced for South America and Central America, lasting from August 31 to November 6, 2019. With shows in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Quito, Lima, Caracas, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Mexico City, Monterrey, and Guadalajara.

Part 2: Europe, Latin America, and addition of more dates

On June 6, 2019, Imagine Dragons brought the Origins Tour to Europe, beginning in Riga, Latvia. Opening Acts included Grace Vanderwaal (again), and AJR.
Just like in years past, they omitted the acoustic set for festivals.
On August 31, 2019, the Latin American tour began in Rio de Janeiro. Opening acts included K.Flay, Lil Wayne, and AJR
On December 6, 2019, one month after the Latin America Leg ended, Imagine Dragons announced 2020 tour dates for North America, lasting from January 28 to March 20, 2020, with shows in Boca Raton, Orlando, Tallahassee, Montgomery, Nashville, Austin, Dallas, New Orleans, Dallas, Albuquerque, Philadelphia, Detroit, Minneapolis, Denver, Las Vegas, Kansas City, and Boston.
On December 14, they announced dates for Asia, Oceania, and South Africa, lasting from April 5 to June 26, 2020.

Part 3: Early end + Covid-19

On January 28, 2020, Imagine Dragons began the new US leg of the tour in Boca Raton, FL.
With a new coronavirus being unleashed in Wuhan, China, Imagine Dragons announced that they will put the shows in the neighboring countries, including Hong Kong, on hold while the countries deal with this new outbreak.
Nonetheless, the continued touring the US. On March 11, 2020, Covid-19 was declared a pandemic by the WHO. Luckily the band performed at Las Vegas, their hometown, when the declaration was made. But 2 days later, lockdown orders were put in place. The Kansas City show was not scheduled until March 18, so they did not leave yet. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the tour dates were postponed on March 15, 2020, and the tour was ultimately cancelled on May 2, 2020, bringing an early end to the tour. After the cancellation of the remainder of the Origins Tour, refunds were made available to all fans who ordered tickets before the cancellation.

Hi!
My wife and I (33m&33f) are travelling to the US in early September for our honeymoon.
We start in Vegas and fly into NYC on September 6th for 4-5 nights and thinking of going up state for a few days to a log cabin somewhere (recommendations welcome)
We’re look for ideas on where to stay and what to do. Budget friendly hotel or Airbnb looking at around 300US a night. Would love to find somewhere with a buzz but not necessarily as intense as Times Square. Thinking pubs/bars, cafes, restaurants, activities all in walking distance, geared toward a younger couple!
Cheers, James & Zibby

Hi!
My wife and I (33m&33f) are travelling to the US in early September for our honeymoon.
We start in Vegas and fly into NYC on September 6th for 4-5 nights and thinking of going up state for a few days to a log cabin somewhere (recommendations welcome)
We’re look for ideas on where to stay and what to do. Budget friendly hotel or Airbnb looking at around 300US a night. Would love to find somewhere with a buzz but not necessarily as intense as Times Square. Thinking pubs/bars, cafes, restaurants, activities all in walking distance, geared toward a younger couple!
Cheers, James & Zibby

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My ex (27f) and I (34m) started dating on December 11th 2022.
We became very close very fast, to the point she would spend nearly every night at my house even accompany me on a 4 day vacation I was originally going to go on wlone.
We have had numerous arguments mostly from a lack of boundaries, high expectations, and her viewing sex as transactional (former stripper).
While I've had my own issues, such as over texting, over reacting, calling when she wants time to figure things out. My ex is often very quick to anger, will often to threaten to leave if I talk about an issue or my feelings.
We've been broken up since early April. From there she did not pull down social media photos or block me, she kept allowing me or engaging in hanging out with me. Alluding to hope we could fix things, I've done numerous things to do what she's asked to change my behaviors that are problematic. She doesn't really compromise on any of hers. I've forgiven her for actions, she says she forgives me.
A weekend prior to this one, she had shown up solo to my work party and I ended up talking to her. She came to my house we had a fun night, then we discussed our breakup and what she needed. She told me how she loved me more than anyone and cares and eventually wants to be with me.
She promised we would be exclusive during this period while she gets it together and figures things out. We spent that Thursday til last Monday together.
On Tuesday I call her to try and cheer her up because she's having money problems, I offer to help her by paying her to do some work for me and I also send her 100 on venmo for free
She explains she's going to do postmates, I say ok, full well knowing she's most likely going to audition at a strip club. When i say that she's made me wait for 3 hours to get the answer that she won't be coming to help me. She gets upset saying I'm purposefully trying to make her feel bad. I ask for a short 5 min phone call. She won't give it to me, and is sending short dismissive texts and blaming me for "all our calls are long"
Throughout the night I call it that she's lying, she eventually answers a call from me around 1241 saying she doesn't have to tell me anything. (This is directly after she had told me were exclusive the weekend prior I even make mention of this) I had planned to tell her I knew she was doing a stripping audition and it's okay on the phone.
I find myself anxious and upset, and I decide that this breakup has been very drawn out and I'm going to drop her contacts off the next day. As I drive by her house I see a man leaving. I take a picture and send it to her on instagram
She eventually talks to me comes clean that she got the real job she wanted but went to a stripping audition last night, got the job there too but she qont be taking the job as a stripper. Then explained she went to the bar we met at and ended up hanging out with a guy and doing cocaine. She claims her and this man only made out for a minute or so, no cuddling cause she felt weird then he left.
She comes to my house and tries to make things better, we eventually get hot and heavy and I say 'it was only kissing?' Figuring that if this is what she needed to know she needs to be with me, fine.
She confirms it wasn't only kissing and if it wasn't she wouldn't have sex with me because that would be messed up.
I end up contacting the guy on instagram (she told me his name, and I have seen him at the bar before. Very easy to find his ig) he says she's telling the truth.
I try to talk to my ex, she's being very angry that I'm pushing the conversation of if it's the real truth and why does she keep flip flopping back snd forth between being in love and pushing me away and now light cheating.
Later I talk to the guy she cheated with, and get out of him that they did more than just kiss, and that they just didn't have sex because of cocaine making it so he can't get hard.
I immediately tell my ex how she's a lying mean person for doing all this, and not only lying to begin with but to get mad at me about telling her she's lying even more.
Since then, we've been hanging out and I have been trying to push it aside and think "well if this is what she needed to know she wants to be with me"
Now she's telling me that she wants to remain single, but loves and cares about me and I'm the best sex and am so much more attractive etc. But she wants to be single because I'm "too sensitive" and says now it'll be annoying because I will want to know where she is or who she's with, which I explain is entirely her doing for breaking the trust.
Before this the reason was her "not feeling safe" which she feels safe with me now..
What am I dealing with here? I've been very kind to this woman, I've spent thousands on her, I've excused bad behavior, I've treated her like a queen. She won't let me go, but she won't be with me, and now she's suito cheating
There's lots of details outside of just this, but it feels like I'm in a catch 22 nothing will make this woman see reason and she tends to blame me for everything..
Is she a narcissistic person? What is this

Boston Celtics Game 7 home history (pre-Tatum, Brown and Smart as a trio):

Game 7 round	Opponent	Result
1957 Finals	St. Louis Hawks	Won 125-123 (2OT)
1959 Division Finals	Syracuse Nationals	Won 130-125
1960 Finals	St. Louis Hawks	Won 122-103
1962 Division Finals	Philadelphia Warriors	Won 109-107
1962 Finals	Los Angeles Lakers	Won 110-107 (OT)
1963 Division Finals	Cincinnati Royals	Won 142-131
1965 Division Finals	Philadelphia 76ers	Won 110-109
1966 Finals	Los Angeles Lakers	Won 95-93
1973 Conference Finals	New York Knicks	Lost 94-78
1981 Conference Finals	Philadelphia 76ers	Won 91-90
1982 Conference Finals	Philadelphia 76ers	Lost 120-106
1984 Conference Semifinals	New York Knicks	Won 121-104
1984 Finals	Los Angeles Lakers	Won 111-102
1987 Conference Semifinals	Milwaukee Bucks	Won 119-113
1987 Conference Finals	Detroit Pistons	Won 117-114
1988 Conference Semifinals	Atlanta Hawks	Won 118-116
2005 First Round	Indiana Pacers	Lost 97-70
2008 First Round	Atlanta Hawks	Won 99-65
2008 Conference Semifinals	Cleveland Cavaliers	Won 97-92
2009 First Round	Chicago Bulls	Won 109-99
2009 Conference Semifinals	Orlando Magic	Lost 101-82
2012 Conference Semifinals	Philadelphia 76ers	Won 85-75
2017 Conference Semifinals	Washington Wizards	Won 115-105

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Tatum-Brown-Smart in Game 7s:

Game 7 round	Opponent	Result
2018 Eastern 1st round	Milwaukee Bucks (home)	Won 112-96
2018 Eastern Conference Finals	Cleveland Cavaliers (home)	Lost 87-79
2020 Eastern Conference Semis	Toronto Raptors (bubble)	Won 92-87
2022 Eastern Conference Semis	Milwaukee Bucks (home)	Won 109-81
2022 Eastern Conference Finals	Miami Heat (road)	Won 100-96
2023 Eastern Conference Semis	Philadelphia 76ers (home)	Won 112-88