If you do get a chance, listen to the last minute or so of the first linked video. It's a jailhouse phone message from Kai to anyone who might be listening. I don't think it's worth reposting because it's not q-related and I only felt it appropriate for an open-topic thread.

People will do what they can while they can. We already had people working 2-3 jobs even when the times were good for much of the country. Jobs are available, but all the people not working have to have a reason not to. Maybe the gibs are still being handed out, and I don't think there have been nearly as many vaxx deaths as some here think.

There are places still hiring, I know hundreds of people who got vaxxed in friends, family, coworkers, staff, students. Etc. The only death I've heard of from someone who got vaxxed was cancer that she already was fighting for years, and a car accident.

And people need money to live, where are they getting it from for there to be this many jobs in this shit economy? I haven't checked if unemployment has been extended and whatnot but I know of someone who is still getting paid not to work because she doesn't want to work for less than she was making pre-pandemic which means the gibs have to be good enough to warrant that, still.

But when that dries up, people will complain about how life just isn't sustainable at the rate they're getting paid, but still do it out of necessity.

Seth C. Rich

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(Arguably using some letters twice and using a mirror, but that is the
way some of us see the world. Double meanings and smoke and mirrors.)

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich / Seth Conrad Rich

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Could be, but you'll be hard pressed to enjoy many things that don't have some fucked up shit somewhere along the way.

I love Tom Ford but I limit myself to a top of $120 a bottle and I really REALLY have to love the scent. My YSL Y le parfum cost about 120 after real bargain hunting, and I kind if regret it. Love the scent, fell in love with it using a tester on a strip, but the thing is a skin scent, has no projection. Also, it doesn't last too long.

I just ordered the Y eau de parfum version whose formulation is supposed to be very very long lasting and projects like a beast.

I found the 10pml for 89 bucks plus tax which is obscenely cheap from a highly rated ebay seller. I know the tells of an authentic, so when it comes in I'll see if it is. I also found great deals on r/fragranceswap on new in box bottles of my kouros and spicebomb extreme. They have a lot of niche and higher end stuff for sale. I did get scammed by one user because I drunk ordered and didn't realize he had been banned and didn't comment on my post, rather messaged me directly.

Users there have a flair that tells you how many sales/purchases they made so you can more easily trust, and if they don't comment on your [WTB] (willing to buy) post, they are likely banned and cannot comment so that should have been a red flag.

But drunk me got anxious, saw a great deal, paid $200 for 3 lightly used bottles (chanel parfum, Jean Paul Gaultier Ultra Male, and YSL Y edp)

Hey dude. I figure, unless you're into fragrances specifically, people will think it's a waste of money and it may rub someone the wrong way/seem childish. I can be that way with booze. Some people won't drink the cheap stuff. But from my eyes, I drink for effect (and my body is quite tolerant) so for me, that $12 1.75ml of "Russian vodka" made in Tennessee is a no Brainer, while some won't drink anything cheaper than $50 a regular size bottle.

They may cite taste, smoothness, etc, but to me personally it's not worth it. I figure some people will spritz on a grocery store bottle of nautica and say, "cologne is cologne" while for me I chase projection, performance, and a bit more elaborate scent in a fragrance. So I understand why someone would downvote, even in an open talk thread.

I wear my stuff for me more than anything, I'll wear stuff daily, even for walking my dog, or lounging on my couch after work, the same way I'll listen to music to please my ears. Look at a gorgeous painting/photograph to please my eyes, prepare a tasty meal to enjoy, enjoy a session of acupuncture to relax my body, or use high threadcount sheets and a comfortable bed. The olfactory scent is criminally underrated, and that $100 3.3oz bottle of fragrance is about 1000 sprays, which makes a bottle last a hell of a long time even if you apply it multiple times a day.

I also bargain hunt and check multiple sites that still deliver authentic product such as aurafragrance, worldofwatches (discount code welcomeback10 for an extra 10% off), fragrancenet (though that hasn't been the cheapest in a while) and gander a bit on shopping.google.com which searches multiple sites for the same product.

It's awesome that you can share with your wife, it's something harmless that you can enjoy together, and olfactory scent is the primary driver of memory association, like when you catch a whiff of something that brings you back to childhood in an instant.

I do have a preference to traditionally masculine scents with musk, amber, incense, smokiness, and woodsy profiles but I will definitely give the memo fragrances a shot, even if it's as a decant, those are new to me.

Versace eros has a very fresh green apple opening and base notes are Tonka bean and vanilla which are very present from opening through dry down and as the remaining skin scents that linger for hours on end. Eros flame has some spices and opens with mandarin orange instead. But they share the same DNA if you like sweet scents that can be unisex.

Which of the two memo do you prefer from which you recommended? Sorry for the long post 😅

Edit: ah those memo scents are priced like niche scents and seem to have moderate sillage and performance, definitely curious. I looked them up and they seem like something I'd spray on when I've got some time to myself and want to sit down and enjoy something. Citrus based openings like bergamot and lemon, but a fusion of masks and teas in the heart and base notes, definitely has me Intrigued.