My student's mom showed me her 'for you' page and it was just videos of her own kid

She said the app figured out she was a parent from her search history and now her whole feed is just other people's children. Has anyone else seen an algorithm lock someone into a single identity like that?

I started using a cold jade roller after my glycolic acid peels and the results are way better

I had a few clients in my Phoenix studio who were getting red and puffy for hours after their 20% glycolic peels. I tried a trick from a class I took last year and started keeping two jade rollers in the mini fridge. Rolling for about 90 seconds right after the peel neutralizer really calms the skin down fast. Has anyone else tried using cold tools to manage post-peel inflammation?

Had a coolant line blow out on our old Haas VF2 last Friday, sprayed everywhere. What's your go-to fix for a quick seal?

My brother-in-law hit me with a flat earth take at a BBQ and I can't stop thinking about it

We were at a family thing in Austin last weekend, grilling burgers, and out of nowhere he goes, 'You ever think about how they never show you the curve from a commercial plane window?' He wasn't even being a troll, he was dead serious. He started talking about the Antarctic treaty and how no one can just go explore it freely. I laughed it off at first, but the way he laid it out, piece by piece with this calm certainty, got under my skin. It wasn't the usual YouTube rant stuff. He's a smart guy, an electrician, and he was using basic logic to poke holes in what we're told. It made me realize I've never actually checked any of this for myself, I just accepted it. Now I'm down a rabbit hole trying to find simple, solid proof the earth is round that isn't from NASA. Has anyone else had a normal conversation with someone that completely flipped a 'settled' topic for them?

Appreciation post: finally figured out why my characters felt flat

I kept reading prompts where people said to give a character a flaw, so I'd write 'she's clumsy' or 'he's stubborn', but they still felt like cardboard. After a workshop in Austin last week, the instructor pointed out my flaws weren't actually causing problems in the story. How do you make a character's flaw actually drive the plot forward?

I realized I was the problem in my marriage when I found the list of 'apologies I deserved' from my ex, dated three years ago.

Vent: My attempt to forge a tiny decorative dragon ended with a very confused squirrel.

I was trying to make a small dragon figure for a garden stake, using some leftover mild steel and a torch, but I must have gotten the scale wrong because it came out looking like a weird, lumpy acorn. A squirrel in my yard actually ran off with it, tried to bury it, then just sat there staring at the spot like its world view was broken. Has anyone else had a project get totally misinterpreted by local wildlife?

Remember when you could just leave the hose running and nobody said a thing?

I was watering my mom's garden in Phoenix last summer, and the old plastic connector on the spigot just cracked wide open. Water shot everywhere for maybe ten minutes before I noticed. I felt awful, like I wasted a whole swimming pool's worth in a drought area. I ended up fixing it with a brass fitting from the hardware store, but it made me start timing my watering to just 15 minutes, early in the morning. Has anyone else had a small mess turn into a bigger habit change?

Appreciation post: The old guy at the scrap yard in Toledo told me to always pre-heat my crucible with a slow flame for 15 minutes, not a hot one.

Talking to my friend in Chicago made me drop my habit tracker

She said her bullet journal was just a list of things she didn't do, and it was making her feel bad. I looked at my own tracker from March and saw I only hit my water goal 4 times. I realized I was just tracking failure. Does anyone else feel like some spreads just make you feel worse?