Hello,
I need help or advice from anyone well suited to knowledge of hair health and specifically hair loss and thickening. I’m a teenager and as of last year I have started to notice my hair was pretty thin so I got into oiling my hair once a week before I washed my hair and doing daily scalp messages and this was about December last year and ever since then my hair hair has been falling out. I use Golab Beauty products and have heard nothing but good things so idk why I seem to be the only one with a problem. I chucked it up to the dread shed which I know is to happen but I know it’s not supposed to last more than about 8 weeks. I don’t have any allergies either and I’ve discontinued the products unsure of what to do now. Could my hair thinning be something else? I’m middle eastern which normally would put me into a group of people with darker thicker hair but I’ve been very fair since I was little, pale, light brown hair and now apparently thin hair too. I’m getting very scared as my hair is/was one of my best features and I’m trying not to stress out too much so I don’t lose more hair but it’s hard. I also want to mention no one in my family has any hair conditions like alopecia and there are no other genetic issue in my family. Can anyone help me? I’ll answer any questions that might help someone understand what the issue could be :)

I recently bought a relatively low-end office chair and when I got it, it would go up and down pretty easily. Now it barley even moves*. I've tried adding sowing-machine oil and then Vaseline (the petroleum jelly kind) and nothing has worked. I'm thinking about putting car oil on it. What should I do?
*It's hard to move down (but it goes up easily) and the wheels don't work well either, but the most important thing for me is the up and down

totally new to the francise, I see some nice discounts on Stream right now and deciding to give this francise a try. Was planing on going for WD Legion, but I see so many mixed reviews I am not sure what to do. What do you advise me to get?
https://strawpoll.com/polls/PbZqRV9dlyN

Lesser 'unknown account' for obvious reasons.
In a few weeks I hit 45 and i suppose I'm looking back on "life" and just feeling "meh" about everything
To be honest, there have been events and instances in my life which make me wonder why I'm still here.
I've a body full of scars both actual physical scars, and emotional ones too.
For the first time in 5 years I went out last week, chatted to complete strangers and had more than a few drinks. Some complemented my beard and hair (given the pandemic I've not been to a barbers so it's now passed my shoulders and its thick and wavy.) And I'll admit that boosted my confidence...
And one guy actually kissed me.....and I just froze. I apologised profusely afterwards and bought him drink and just left.
The problem is 11 years ago my previous partner, and 3 of his friends, beat me up, and r*ped me, after I said i was leaving because of the things he had done, including a previous physical assault.
The justice system was slow and it took 5 years for it to get to court, after he tried passing a shit load of his debt on me (125k in the local currency) but they were found guilty and the 4 of them are now spending between 8 and 18 years behind bars 300 miles away from where I now live.
The last 10 years of my life I've worked. It's all I've done. I've done two Masters had several promotions to the point where I've gone from the bottom of the pile to second in command. And whilst my job helps people - alot of people every year and not just in the city where I live but across the region and neighbouring countries- the rest of my life including my house is what could be called 'threadbare and minimal'.
I want to bring the walls down. But I know that brings the risk of being hurt again.....I cant let that happen.
But I really dont wanna spend whatever time I have left alone, and i cant just freeze up when someone kisses me or touches me...
It's been 11 years and I can barely deal with being touched, never mind even the thought of sex....which to tell the truth ive never really enjoyed whether it's been with a man or a woman.....

My puppy is about 7 months old and very healthy, active and bright. Last night while we were at a friends house she slept most of the time which seemed odd to me, but I figured we just wore her out. This morning she didn’t bounce on us and lick us like she normally does to wake us up. I took her out and she peed and pooped like normal, ate her breakfast and is now sleeping again.
Yesterday I took her for a jog for the first time ever. She has been extra active for several days since summer break started. The only things I notice otherwise are she’s a bit itchy and she is stretching more than normal.
We also just lost our other dog unexpectedly last month, she started acting weird one day and then was gone the next. I’m definitely hypersensitive because of that and can’t tell if I’m overreacting. Should I bring her to the vet?

My bf moved to a new apartment that only gives him one fob (per resident) he wants me to be able to visit whenever he wants (and he’s lazy having to go all the way downstairs just to open a door for me, don’t blame him) The fob opens the main building door and the apt door. I either wait for someone else to get in or out and then catch the door, which looks weird, or wait a while while he gets downstairs to open it. His apt door says “schlage” and the main apartment door looks like this https://imgur.com/a/ppjJy2Y Is there any way I could bypass this?

Ok so this dream is VERY weird because it links too what I’ve done the previous day. For a little bit of a backstory I ran a garage sale and I was exhausted due to how long I’d been awake and active.
Now to the dream / story.
This entire dream was in 1st person!!!
I was laying in bed for the night and nothing seemed off, maybe a little bit. My room was exactly the same in real life but the vibe just was uneasy, so I was able to tell that my dream wasn’t “actually real”. I just remember how I felt like I wasn’t in control of my body and it was in auto pilot, and here’s why. As tired as I was I got up (which I wasn’t trying to do) and went to my window that showed complete darkness. I was just standing there and saying stuff, but again I wasn’t trying too and everything just came out on it’s own. But I was saying random stuff and I remember seeing myself just act so weird because of how tired I was. There was also a point where I closed a folding door door to my stairs because it was so eerie and unsettling, always looking down and seeing it. This was next to the window fyi. I remember taking myself back to bed and throwing the blankets over myself. I said some nonsense here and there but I remember manly just wanting to go to sleep. What made me more aware that I was dreaming was how fast I was able to fall asleep, I am in fact not the type of person who can fall asleep that quickly unless I am very absolutely extremely exhausted. I won’t go into detail but then I had another dream in this dream since it was “supposedly” reality even though it wasn’t. That dream forwarded to more dreams within dreams so that was an experience.
When I woke up (actually) it was 5:30, 25 minutes before my alarm went off like it did in the dream. What’s weird was that I woke up in the same position I feel asleep in FROM the dream… I didn’t realize at first but as I started waking up I remembered the dream and was like “wtf this is not real”. Sadly it was but I don’t really know what to make of that dream.
If there’s anything that stood out and maybe has a meaning to why I dreamed about it let me know because I’ve never had a dream like that EVER..

Introduction

I've been a part of this community for long enough that maybe 3 people recognize the color of my shave towels when I post on /wicked_edge (they're purple). In /wetshaving, I occasionally make dick jokes with mammothben.
As a result, I've spent about an hour ruminating on this post and how to make the Maggard Meetup as awkward as possible. These are my memes and mine alone. I have rejected several cash offers to not post these findings, and I will not be stopped.

Grievance #1: Ending the Base Race

Background

In the before-fore times, the meta for soapmaking that every soapmaker followed was to get a handful of main scents that they keep the same, and release small tweaks to their soap base every 6 months to render the community's collection obsolete and generate a buying spree where people now had to get their favorite scents in the "latest and greatest" soap base.
Many consider this era the golden age of wetshaving, and Barrister and Mann was an active contributor to the base race. White Label/Black Label base, Glissant base, Latha base, Reserve base, Soft Heart base, and Excelsior base all helped encourage wetshavers across the world buy Seville multiple times in the hopes for better slickness, improved cushion (which is totally a thing), and the ultimate post-shave feel.
Then everything changed when the Omniberries attacked.

Omnibus

On September 29, 2021, a nuclear salvo was unleashed from the halls of barristerandmann.com. Leviathan was released in the Omnibus base, and soapmakers around the world waved the white flag on the base race.
Declaration Grooming's Milksteak, Sus Artisan Accoutrement's CK-6, Boob-label & Evans' Kaizen K2. These mainstays of American soap bases have remained stagnant ever since. Omnibus effectively ended the base race across the entire market, and led to the community consensus becoming "chase scents, not bases."

Why This Matters

This alone isn't problematic, having a stable set of great bases to choose from and allowing premiere soapmakers to focus on releasing more interesting scents in smaller batches is good for the community, for the industry, and the world.
The problem arises when old, established brands like Tabac take the end of the base race as a signal from the market that they can cut costs by moving their soaps onto to inferior bases. I'm not saying that it's Will's fault that tallow Tabac is now unobtanium, but you could make the argument that it's Will's fault that tallow Tabac is now unobtanium.

The Solution

The best way the community can address this issue is to write daily letters to Maurer & Wirtz that they need to bring back the tallow base for Tabac, and buy out Maggad Razors' stock of 4.1/4.2 base Saponificio Varesino soaps so they can restock everything in the 4.3 base.

Grievance #2: Financial Abuse

Background

Every few years, the copyright expiration date on Mickey Mouse looms near and Disney lobbies the US government to extend the copyright expiration date so that Disney can maintain their stranglehold on The Mouse, despite their eager use of public domain IP like Sherlock Holmes and King Arthur. Is Will literally Big Soap? I'm not saying he is, I'm just asking questions.

Mousse de Saxe

Will has a whole blog post on how he came about his formulation of Mousse de Saxe, and while it's a very interesting story and his formulation of MdS has become catnip for wetshavers, it's also become something of a crutch in his soapmaking. MdS features in Beadelaire, Full Measure of Man, Lavanille, Le Grand Chypre, and most recently in Vespers.

Why This Matters

Although many of us in the community have no thrill anymore, MdS remains the inimitable constant source of thrill at all of /wetshaving cannot resist. L'appel du mousse is the compelling urge one feels to buy at least a sample (I just need a taste!) of Will's latest release featuring Mousse de Saxe. Will knows this fact about us. He knows it well. My sources tell me Will has bought several jetskis with the money he's earned from abusing this fact about us. And he can't keep getting away with it.

The Solution

Since the turn of the new millennium, sex strikes have proven effective in Colombia, The Phillippines, South Sudan, Togo, and elsewhere. By withholding that which their oppressors desire until behavior is changed, peace can be achieved. So to everyone at the Maggard Meetup, I call upon you to refrain from complimenting Will's scent-making until he releases Mousse de Saxe as a standalone dropper that can be added to soaps and aftershaves a la Declaration Grooming's menthol dropper. Si se puede!

Grievance #3: Olfactory Abuse

Background

It is at this point in the post that I must concede, Will is the superior meme-meister. This absolute madlad is at the gigabrain Dr. Manhattan level of the soapmaking world, except instead of moving to Mars he's decided to dead-ass fuck with us. Seville prints more money than the Nintendo Switch, he's got MdS for whenever he wants the cash to buy another jetski, and Omnibus ensures no other soapmaker will encroach on his soap base superiority. How do I know he's decided to stunt on our noses? Because of 2 scent notes.

Cilantro and Cum

Let's start with Cilantro. When the Four Horsemen series was announced, the wetshaving community was awash with curiosity and speculation about what each of the four horsemen would smell like. Would it be like how Noble Otter tackled the "Firefighter" theme without actually making a soap that smelled like a fire?
No. War would smell like an actual war crime. How does one scent a war crime? Apparently with Cilantro. I have it on good authority that Will devised the scent profile for War when eating tacos for taco tuesday and the topic of how cilantro tastes like soap to some people with a specific gene. "Well what would happen if I added an ingredient that tastes like soap to my actual soap?" and off he went. His friends and family didn't see him for days. The Cleveland Browns found a post-it note that had "Cilantro No Matter What" scribbled on it. And some time later, a scent that could curdle Wholly Kaw's Creme Fraiche base was brought to market. Will knew that we'd buy all 4 scents, get all matchy-matchy, and even dickhole the aftershaves. And then the SOTD's began. "My wife hates this," "my cat peed on the tub when I left it open to dry," "why has god forsaken me?" Guess who was laughing his ass off from Mars? Our very own Dr. Manhattan.
For those of us familiar with Pear Tree blossoms, they have a very particular scent. The kind of scent that makes guys inspect their pant leg and say "I'm fairly certain I didn't miss." The kind of scent that makes women think "Oh gross, honey I told you to change your underwear after last night." That's right, Pear Tree blossoms smell like cum. So when Will was considering what scent to re-release for Spring 2023, did he select fan favorite Paganini's Violin or the fruity fougere Passiflora? (Both of which he relased bath soaps for in February). No, he chose the cum soap. The soap that's supposed to remind you of the time you took a walk through Central Park and rounded a corner only to be accosted by a masturbating homeless man.
I tried to give Will the benefit of the doubt, and asked point blank "Is the pear blossom accord in Rhapsody going to be as, well... pear blossom-y as the original Rhapsody formulation?" to which he responded "Why would I change it?" He knew. He knew what he was doing when he originally released the soap, and he knew why I was asking if he had changed it in the re-release. Dr. Manhattan was laughing on Mars again.

Why This Matters

This matters because Will still hasn't re-released Roam and I need the matching aftershave in my life. There are only so many fresh tubs of Roam out there that j33pguy13 can source for me. Instead, Will chooses to re-release Rhapsody and put together what may go down in history as the most infamous multi-scent meme soap release in history with the Four Horsemen. This is a personal attack on my love for Roam and I will not stand for it.

The Solution

Will, re-release Roam and all is forgiven.

Grievance #4: Feet

Preface

I'm a heterosexual male, but that shouldn't matter when it comes to shaving products or labels. Yes, we drank beer. My friends and I. Boys and girls. Yes, we drank beer. I liked beer. Still like beer. We drank beer.

The Problem

Lavender, Interrupted has been to Will as At the Mountains of Madness has been to Guillermo Del Toro. Everyone wants to see it. Will wants to make it. But the creative ambition of the project makes the promised project almost un-makeable. Lavender, Interrupted had been long promised as an evolution of the lauded Lavanille scent, but faced delays and reformulations, and further delays.
And now, today, many of you will go to the Maggard Meetup anticipating getting a full bottle or sample of the long awaited fragrance. And I can't say I'm not jealous.
I'm really jealous.
But lets wind the clock back to Tuesday March 21, 2023 and remember the Deals/New Products thread from that day.
"Happy Tuesday!
Just wanted to drop in quickly to let you all know that the Q2 2023 Release Schedule is now posted on our blog and that it features a sneak peek at a mockup for Lavender, Interrupted packaging."
Will wanted us to see the packaging. Not a new blog post on how he put the final touches on the fragrance. Not a picture of the bottle it would be sold in. He wanted us to see the picture of sexy feet he put on the box. He postponed Lavender, Interrupted and strung us along just so that his feet pics could get maximum exposure with minimum heat. Are those Will's feet on the box of Lavender, Interrupted? Why does will want us to see pictures of his feet in thigh-high stockings? I'm not saying they are Will's feet on the packaging of Lavender, Interrupted. I'm just asking questions.

The Solution

Nothing really to be done about this other than be mad about discovering new about ourselves. Just accept that we're all going to love this fragrance and that the box with sexy feet on it will be in many wetshavers' dens, delighting Will that his feet pics are going to be all over the sub's mail call threads for years to come.

Conclusion

I'm not sure why you read this far. It's lot to take in, I know. I'm intentionally avoiding a few smaller topics of less import, like... Night Music having poo notes. I'm not going to critique Will/Barrister and Mann beyond that, because it's already been established that he's straight up fucking with us with some of these scents and I am 100% here for it.
I've been wracked with guilt holding onto this knowledge while wetshavers around the world continue to buy Will's wonderful products, but I realized the potential hilarity of pointing out Will's sexy feet pics the morning of the Maggard Meetup was too much to pass up. My intention is just to meme one everyone tangentially related to what I've posted here, and to get Roam a proper re-release. I will not source any of my claims, and I expect you to do your own research. Take my word for it.
After all of this though, I am convinced that Will is an absolute gigachad in the wetshaving world. Please join me in encouraging Will to re-release Roam.
TL;DR Does this sub even have mods anymore? Why is this post still up?

Hi, I‘m a daily and active level 50 player from Germany - Munich/Augsburg with 5 couch stops.
Looking for a few new friends who can open my gifts(at best daily). Since I‘m on a EXP hunt, I would love to have some gifts too if you couldn‘t open your gift today or we‘re about to increase the level.
Will also invite for raiding if you are online.
If you want to coordinate friendship levels please send me a PM in reddit, but please don‘t block by sending / opening no gift!.
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Does anyone have an invite code for Bluesky here? I’ve been waiting for months to no avail and would pay for a code. Just send me your offer! I uninstalled Twitter months ago and now that even Reddit is killing off all 3rd party apps and is getting greedy I need a new platform.
Would pay via PayPal.
Thanks!

Hello everyone, after playing Dark souls 1/2/3, Bloodborne and now Elden Ring (also a bit of games that are referred to as "Soulslikes"). I would like to try a level 1 run. Although I'm not sure where to start or what to do. Currently I'm looking at Elden Ring since it's the newest one and I had the most fun with, but I'm open for suggestions and any advice for any of the games. I'm more on the casual side of playing but want to atleast try and experience it. Thank you for reading and any responses.

My boyfriend is an alcoholic. I’ve caught him hiding liquor over and over again. The most depressing times are when I found it behind the litter boxes and when he left to get me my medication the day I got released from the hospital after emergency surgery and he came back smelling of liquor, sure enough I found a bottle in the house.
This weekend is his cousins wedding. We had conversations about how we were going to deal with this and he PROMISED he wouldn’t drink. He had about a two week streak of being sober. I walked away from our table at the rehearsal for no more than 5 mins last night and he chugged a whole beer while I was gone. Then when I got upset in the car, said it was “peer pressure” but also told me to shut the fuck up when I expressed that wasn’t an excuse and that I was super upset. We got to our hotel and I said he had to sleep on the pull out couch, bc no way I was sleeping next to him. He responded by saying he was going to get blackout drunk at the wedding today.
I’m exhausted. I’m thinking about just telling his whole family he has a problem tbh. I can’t do this on my own anymore. I have no one to confide it and no one to talk to. I don’t want to have to watch him like a baby and I don’t want him to make an ass of himself at this wedding. We were supposed to have a nice weekend and now I just want to go home. I surrounded by people I only half know and feel so alone. I cried the whole drive home and he didn’t even care. He thought I was being ridiculous. I barely got any sleep last night bc I’m honestly just so stressed about him. It’s been almost 6 years of this. I’m tired.

Hello! I need your advice on something that is happening to me at my current company.
Long story short: I asked for a promotion for a role I am basically already doing, was denied because the company is “not promoting anybody in any department until the company situation is fixed”. This week, they announced someone else in another department was promoted, but the company situation they mentioned, is not fixed! (And its not going to be anytime soon, it’s revenue related)
It was already difficult for me to ask for this promotion and I took the rejection hard, but what should I do now? Should I bring this up again? How would you deal with it? I really don’t want to be rejected and lied to again, but not talking about it its just weird.

My boy Samson is the sweetest damn dog. I raised him from 7 weeks old just to be a big teddy bear.
He has natural guardian instincts. He always gets in between me and a stranger when we go on walks. He stands tall when someone comes to the door, or walks by our apartment balcony.
He’s such a good dog.
I’ve gotten mugged twice this year just walking to our local grocery store. Someone tried to pull my girlfriend into their car at a gas station near our home. We are a bit shaken to say the least.
We feel so much safer when we walk around with Sam, but he’s skittish. He’s just too sweet. He loves people and loves pets. He’s such a good boy. I don’t even know if he’s capable of what I’m thinking.
Am I asking too much to train him to aggressively protect us? To really be a defense dog? He’s an excellent deterrent, but I know he would cower if I was getting my ass beat.
I don’t know what to do.

Hello, 25 y.o. Suffering from ED. Im eating healthy, exercise, tried tribulus and l- cittuline but nothing helps. Im alcoholic, so i guess alco messed with my blood flow ( i also notices smallet vrins on my arms) . Im 1 year clean , but i still have ed . Only option for me right now is viagra ... I never used that,i know from people, that it works really well, but i also heard, it can have bad side effects. What are your thoughts, experiences ? Also i want to ask, does viagra cure ed, or after you stop taking it, you still suffer from it ? Thanks

If I choose to align with nation A in their conflict against nation B, either due to existing alliances or upon request, will my lack of action towards nation A affect how nation B perceives me?
With the prospect of shared victories in alliances now being a factor, I see a greater motivation to actively participate in wars. Both allies can reap the benefits of defeating a common adversary. However, when a nation essentially coerces me into joining their conflict, unless my territory is physically located between the two warring nations, it appears there are no significant diplomatic repercussions if I opt for a passive role, simply acknowledging the war without actively contributing (maybe a small hit to legitimacy from not committing, but not to opinion, as far as I know).
Let's say a stronger nation demands my participation, threatening to wage war against me if I refuse, and I comply just to maintain peace but contribute nothing. It seems like this doesn't alter their perception of me. But shouldn't there be some degree of disappointment or dissatisfaction if I fail to aid them as expected?

I am 19 for the last 10 months I have had multiple setbacks in my career(would like to discuss that in dms). I became a bit cold cause of that, and yeah I know I should be soft but life man. So anyways first that has started affecting my relationship getting less committing from my end(idk how she still here). My family has felt the change as well. I might have became miserable, cause I get angry alot and it's just down right fucking up my life now. And I don't wanna end up hurting them and hating me. Pls help before its too late.

I have been working for myself the last decade so now switching to an employer is totally new for me.
How much should I put down for withholding if I am starting June 11th and my yearly gross salary will be $125k?
I don't want to withhold more than necessary from my paycheck but also don't want a large tax bill at end of year either.
Will be filing married jointly in FL. No other income or kids yet.