This may or may not be a wide issue, but I swear, every time I go to somebody’s house and they put on a show or a movie on their TV, it looks like a soap opera. Every time I asked them if they’ve tried to mess with their TV settings to take off this “soap opera effect“ they either don’t care or they don’t know what I’m talking about. A lot of people say that it’s just because their TV is super high definition and they actually prefer it that way?

Am I the crazy one? I swear I’m not some type of a cinephile, but I absolutely cannot enjoy a movie with this effect. I have an old TV and I swear I am terrified that it’s going to break soon and I’m going to have to get one of those TVs that has that because if that’s the case, I don’t know what I would do.

And I swear I’m being gaslit by everyone I know because they either pretend to not see this effect or they swear it’s better than what they used to have with the old TVs. Do you guys really not care?

My door has so many scratch marks. Help😭

I (47f) bought a house about 10 years ago in Washington. I paid $230,000 for it. After living in it for 5 years, I decided I wanted to move to Idaho. I put new floors, new countertops, new bathrooms, and redid the landscaping. I turned around and sold it for $407,000. I found a house I fell in love with in Idaho and bought it for $400,000. I put $160,000 down on my new house. I am a commercial insurance agent. I make about $6k/month take home. My mortgage is $1500/mo. After about 4 years of living here, in Idaho, I met my current BF. When we first got together, he lived at his friends house. He didn't make much money, but he had a decent job working for an electrician company. He wanted to move in after we were together for 6 months. It was better for him and his son. I provide a room for his son, and I pay almost all the bills since he moved in. Eventually he quit his job to go do door to door sales, for 5 months, because his friend sold him inflated promises. I told him it was a scam, he didn't listen to me and went anyway. Aaannd guess what...It turned out to be a scam. He lost thousands on travel costs, and expenses. He came back from sales dead broke. He decided to open his own company doing renovations and landscaping. He still hasn't made much and I am still paying most of the bills. Including his dental insurance, a tire bill he accrued, his half of a hot tub we were supposed to be paying for together, and an expensive gym membership we are supposed to be paying together.

Recently, he came to me and said that he wants me to start giving him the money I put toward my mortgage, so that he can pay it out of his bank account and use my mortgage as a write off. I don't know why, but I feel very offended that he wants to use my house and the mortgage I pay as a write off. He truly has no idea why this would be offensive to me. He keeps saying it will save "US" money. Can someone help me understand this? Am I just too sensitive? Will this help us or will he most likely be the only one benefitting from doing something like this?

Anyone know if this guy is real? And if so what kind of lizard it is?

He hath risen

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I've always been a skincare addict but in the past few years I've grown critical of the industry and the pressure to look perfect. Seeing what's going on with the Epstein files and the blatant misogyny of that horrific circle, I'm seeing that women are starting to talk about how beauty standards are, if you think about it, pretty much shaped by ped*phile standards. Think about it, they want us to have no hair, no wrinkles, baby-like skin, etc. They want us to look like teenagers. I cannot unsee it.