/r/ProblemsOfTheWorld

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A subreddit to discuss any and all problems in the world.

You may have been directed here after posting to /r/worldproblems, which is actually a meta-discussion sub for the World Problems community writing project. If so, please go to /r/MakeItChange instead.

A subreddit to discuss any and all problems in the world.

You may have been directed here after posting to /r/worldproblems, which is actually a meta-discussion sub for the World Problems community writing project.

RULES

  1. Be civil.

  2. Avoid ad hominems in your discussions / arguments.

  3. Only downvote if the post or comment really doesn't contribute to the discussion in some way. It is not an "I disagree with your worldview, therefore fuck you" button.

  4. Remember that some people posting here might have put a lot of thought into their posts and have mulled the ideas for a long time, so, don't just be dismissive. If you don't feel like giving a post its due time, don't participate in the thread.

/r/ProblemsOfTheWorld

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Should I Leave My Friends?

Should I Leave My Friends?

So I 13 F I Have A Friend Group Of Like 6{5 Girls 1 Boy} I Would Like To Know If They Are Toxic I Will Tell You Some Shit They Have Done One Girl {Who Is No Longer in The Group} 12 F At December She Abs I And One Other Friend Were fighting Then She Called Me A ‘Fat Cow’ I Have Had problems with My Wight Before The Part They Hurt The Most Was The Other Girl {13 F} She Knows That I Have Had This Problem And That I Cut My Self Because Of That But She Did Fucking Nothing I Run away Crying While The 2 Laughed The Months Later {Today} The One Boy In The Group Throw A Ball At Me It hit My Ear Were A Piercing Was {I Got It Done In February} And It Was Blooding But No Really Cared He Did Say Sorry But Then Got Mad When I Yelled At Him And My Other Friends Got Mad At Me Too No Helped Me Or Anything It Just Sucked Ass But To Be Fair They Are Fun To Be With Like Today One Other Friend{12 F} Was Helping Me With Spanish Shit But Before They She Was Annoyed With Me Because I Don’t Talk To Her For Like 2 Minutes And My Other Friends And I We Habe Fun And Shit A Lot But I Just Feel Like They Care When I Get Hurt…So Reddit Are My Friends Toxic? Or What?

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2024/04/24
23:06 UTC

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!

TFW you got stuck and have no idea what to do!

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2024/04/20
09:46 UTC

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bf mom is smothering us

I need advice or for someone to tell me if im truly in the wrong. my bf(M18) and I(F20) have been together for almost a year and a half. to give a back story of our relationship so yall dont think im a weirdo lol. we met in high school i was a sophomore he was a freshman and i met him through my best friend who is also one of his best friends. we dated for like a week broke up because i was ready for a real relationship i was only 16 at the time. fast forward we get back together and me and him are amazing together. our views align so well. we never argue and when we do i would even call them arguments id call them small disagreements because we talk them out right away. the only issue is his mom…he an only child and grew up with just his mom and his moms side of the family. she had him pretty young she was 21 or 22 i think . i met her she seemed really nice she gave me a hug and we talked like normal. for the first part of our relationship we went long distance because i was in college in a different city three hours away and he was still a senior in high school. summer time came and we finally got to see each other more often but it seemed like she always had a issue with him coming to see me. she would make up excuses on why he couldnt go even though he has his own car a job and pays for his own gas and splits his insurance of his car with his mom. i just found it annoying because it got to a point were i hadnt seen him in two weeks because she kept saying no. fast forward hes now a freshman in college and im in college still 3hrs away i was in a situation with my roommates where they would bully me because i was the youngest in the apartment. it took a toll on my mental health and i needed a break. reached out to my boyfriend and he booked me a ticket to see him . i was there for a week. called my parents the day i got down there to let them know i was there everything was fine up until his mom got tired of me being there…they all came down without our knowledge and it wasn’t pretty. ever since then she told me she forbids us to move in together until we are married and it’s constantly talking bad about me even when i have done nothing but respect her despite the things she has said to me and about me. I honestly just think its because he was a virgin when we started dating again and we started having sex. maybe she has a fear of him ending up in the situation she was but we arent dumb. we dont have sex unless its with a condom and i have my bc appointment next week because she kept hounding me about getting on it so i did it to please her.

long story short am i wrong for wanting to asking my boyfriend to tell his mom to back of our relationship?

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2024/02/21
02:56 UTC

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How do you utilise all your interests productively?

I have so many interests in so many things and I don know how to express or be productive with it. So I just sit there and procrastinate. Does anyone else have this problem? With the right tools, time and space, I know I could be something great, I just don't know where to start. SOS.

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2024/02/15
17:51 UTC

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Twisted testicle

I have a twisted left testicle for now two years and family and doctors and acquaintances all think I’m fine and if I could just get through to someone who could help I wouldn’t feel so hopeless and like I’m on the brink of death

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2024/01/31
04:08 UTC

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Paano ma restore ang gcash account na nareport ng hindi ko nman alam.

December 18,2023 @10am morning, nag open ako ng gcash account ko kasi mag sesend ako ng lod sa husband ko.. Pag open ko, may lumabas na submit a ticket, so nag tataka ako kung bakit, at anong nangyari. Ang ginawa ko, nag submit ako ng ticket base dun sa hiningi nila.. after a few hours December 18,2023 @ 8pm evening, naka received ako ng email mula sa gcash help center, nakasaad dun , na hold yong gcash account ko dahil sa may nag report na may na scam daw ko.. naka lagay sa baba ang transaction id number, date& time, mobile number ng sender na nag report sa akin.. Kailangan ko raw ma settle, paano nga po e wla nman akong ginawang scam or other illegal activity transactions.sana po ay ma guide ako para makuha ko yong funds ko na pangbili ko rin yun ng gatas ng baby ko,sana tulungan nyu ko mabalik ang gcash account ko.Ang tanong ko poh 1.Babalik pa poh ang gcash ko? 2.Paano ko makukuha ang funds ng gcash account ko na nareport? 3.At ilang araw akong maghihintay bago babalik ang gcash account ko. 4.ano ano pa poh ang dapat kung gawin para balik ang gcash account ko.

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2023/12/20
14:57 UTC

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Why do I cry when I’m gonna punch a person?

Basically I was with my friends, one of my friend bring a guy to workout with us, but, he was being annoying by try to punch and throw as a joke, we were chill but we tell him to calm down, but, he didn’t stop, and he Star pushing my friend and me more, I didn’t care too much about me I just get more mad when he did it to my friend, then my other friend throws him to the floor and say “hey bro stop you being annoying” he tell him as a joke and seriously, but, I’m the kid still didn’t listen, “ he was of our age 14” I give my hand to the kid to pick him up but he throws me to the locker, and then I really got mad and I push him to the lockers and carry him and throw him to the floor, I scream at him to fucking stop, but, then I realize that I was about to punch him and just Start crying. I cried for 30 minutes straight, he then stand up and say sorry cause he didn’t stop when he have too. I’m a person who suffer bully, so I’m sensitive. I didn’t punch the kid but I started saying sorry a lot of times. Can somebody tell me why I cried. Also it was my first time attacking somebody

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2023/09/13
02:36 UTC

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Youtube Your watch history is off problem homepage is not showing any video how to solve?

Solve this problem 100% website:- solve youtube watch history off problem

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2023/08/20
00:12 UTC

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Work

So my bosses are going to talk to me about a note that I left for them and I wrote this in June 28 of 2023 this year saying that I will be going on a trip for two weeks in September so I’m giving them a big notice before I’m going And I am going to start a second job so I won’t be able to work the days they want me to work but I can work Monday Tuesday Wednesday but my other job I’ll be working Thursday Friday Saturday, if they fire me because I am doing this are they in the wrong? I am giving them a big noticed and they’re just acting really cold towards me and everybody else’s Like I love this job but I just feel like I am just overworked there. And the second job is something that I really love and it’s with an ex boss that had a shut down her shop just for the summer and I didn’t know if she was going to open back up so I got this job at the salon and I’m going back to this coffee shop job and they pay about the same amount of money, but I am more interested in the coffee shop because I am less stressed and I’m more mentally stable there. What should I say to them if they try to fire me and what are the laws I live in Ks

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2023/07/03
04:00 UTC

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I feel like nobody understands me

Today I was in the kitchen eating some food, for some context I’m 17 and my sister is 19, as I was eating my sister told my mom that she doesn’t want to eat the pasta she was making and yo put some away for her so that she can make a different type, a minute goes by and my mom tells her that I can fry some bacon for the pasta she wanted to make for herself and I told her that I didn’t want to because I just took a shower and I didn’t want to smell like food, this is probably a partial reason, I think that i actually didn’t want to because I hate to do things I never ask for, for example, when I am hungry, I never ask my sister to cook for me, maybe because I just know she won’t do it and because I like to cook my own food, anyway, as I was telling them I didn’t want to my mom told me that my sister just got home from work and I didn’t do anything all day, that this is the least I can do for her, but I told her I just don’t want to, then it all started, my mom telling me that she always gives me money when I don’t have any and that she does a lot of things for me and I never do anything for her, and I explained to my mom that I never ever asked her to cook food for me when I got home from work and I just don’t see why I have to do that if she never does it for me, I work probably 10 hours straight serving and she is a hairstylist, now I’m not saying in any way that the job I do is herder than hers because every job is hard in it’s own way, but I don’t often complain that I get home from work tired and just find any excuse to just blame everyone else for everything that I find hard in my life, and of course my parents took my sisters side, as it always happens, I am always the brat that complains and can’t do anything, that I’m ungrateful and so on. As she was eating the pasta I told her sorry, and for a minute there was silence, and when she got up I told her that “ you really don’t think u did something wrong do you” and she said “no I don’t” and I told her “ you understand that every time you gave me money I felt bad, and I told you I was going to give it back every time” ( I currently don’t work anymore but I will in a couple of weeks) she said “ that’s not what this is about” and I told her “ why did you bring up the fact that you always give me money then” and she walked out of the kitchen. I feel so bad that every time I try to communicate whit her she just pushes me away, it’s probably because when I tell her I’m sorry and that I acknowledge that she feels like she didn’t win, because she can never do that, she always has to be right, and to admit that maybe she was in the wrong too ? Oh hell no. So tell me please, oh and btw it’s not the first time this is happening and every time I’m the bad guy, and I know I’m not, but she doesn’t want to hear my reasons because maybe then my behavior would be explained and she wouldn’t win, but I just don’t know how to stop feeling like this, how to just make them understand me, and that my reasons are valid and they come from trauma that they gave me. I just want this cycle to stop.

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2023/05/22
18:20 UTC

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I need honest opinions

I’ve been dating this lady for almost 2 yrs now I’m (46) and she’s (42). She’s had 2 kids ages 21(b) 13(g). Her son is in the last years of college (he’s on a scholarship) and her daughter goes to a charter school (her and the father pays for). She keeps bringing up the fact about how much money she makes compared to what I make (the difference is about 2.5 times what I make) Yes we have been having our problems and now money seems to to the topic at hand. Now yes I did disclose to her how much I make and all my bills and it didn’t seem to be a problem at the time now it’s starting to show it’s head when her and her daughters father had a discussion about this weekends events. Long story short I’m wondering if I should stay or should I just walk away. Honest opinions please.

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2023/04/23
23:41 UTC

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I have obsessions. Ask your questions

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2023/04/23
16:45 UTC

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Missing my ex

Dear whoever reads this I honestly miss my ex but he’s a ignorant fuck that sucks I wish he wouldn’t notice my existence but he doesn’t

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2022/08/13
05:35 UTC

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I hate the woman/family my aunt married to

Context: my aunt was 11 when she found this girl, and they started chatting. Her mom and my grandma were kind of friends, and my aunt started dating her because she was so deprived of attention and finally found someone who gave it to her.

After dating for 7 years, they finally married, and I hate having her kids coming over because they always smell so musty, and disgusting. I hate breathing the same air as them, it makes my throat itch and my balls sweat they’re so disgusting that she doesn’t even encourage her son to take a shower (btw, she had her kids at 15 cause she got banged up and raped by a sex offender). I just can’t stand the sight, smell, and presence of them. What should I do?

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2022/04/24
18:32 UTC

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Future of the world

Hopefully this is a good place to put this... Y'know I used to be glad to live in this time and age, but now that I'm older and know more, I know that every time has their own problems and this might not be the best time to be in. I mean with Global Warming the pandemic, the WW3 thing, and everything else, It's got ya thinking that it's the end of the world. I wish I could go back to the times that I didn't know about this.

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2022/04/07
16:18 UTC

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Animal Rescue Channels

A youtuber named Nick Crowley covered this (go watch it) but i just hate it, my problem is that youtubers will "save" animals from fake situations and make a lot of money. These animals tend to get hurt through everyone of these videos. I've seen them put snakes on puppies, and it just disgusts me. Youtube seems to not be taking these channels down, and the videos are monetized so they make thousands for hurting animals. One channel had posted a video of a puppy stuck under a gate, then they made another video where the puppy was DEAD ON THE ROAD. If you find any of these channels, please tell Youtube about it. They need to realise that this is a serious problem. If youtube doesn't do anything... then so many animals will die, maybe they will start taking animals from people's houses and harm them. This isn't okay, please report these people. If you know their location, or know them... please call the cops.

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2021/04/28
20:49 UTC

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https://www.mobiroller.com/ DON'T USE THEM! SCAMMERS!!

Here is the final of 7 emails I sent them...

Just so you have my questions and concerns in one email...I published my app on you play store, why does it not have my name Aaron Barth Martinson on it? It has some random name of Yayınlanma Tarihi on it. The app does not seem accessible when I try to open it, can you show me that the app is working and how to access it? I just want my app to be put on the google play store when it is working, with my name on it, since I spent hours making it, and upgraded to your pro deal.  If you cannot help me with these questions I will not be continuing to use your app creator and I would appreciate you taking my app that I designed off your page. Thank you.

Please Respond, Earnestly, Aaron Barth Martinson

HERE IS THERE RESPONSE WHICH IS PROBABLY AUTOMATED AND EXACTLY THE SAME AS EVERY REPLY THEY GAVE ME:

Your message has been received and is currently being reviewed by our team.For your reference, this ticket id is #66053.

THIS SCAMMER SITE HAS POSTED UP MY APP THAT I MADE WITH SOMEONE ELSE'S NAME ON IT, on top of it I can not access the app I spent so many hours making, and I paid for there pro membership for a month to work on the app, that appears they are not only posted on their forum but also copy righted it under someone else's name in Turkey when they post it. This appears to be their scam, you build it and do all the work, say you are ready to post it, they post it, and get credit it for it, everything, and you cannot even access it!

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2021/04/27
19:30 UTC

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I know 12 errors in the USA thermonuclear weapon control system

Personally I reported SEVERAL errors in the Ada compiler (most likely this compiler is used in the USA thermonuclear rockets control system because, accordingly my understanding, other compilers of Ada are even worse), EACH one of which can cause undefined behavior (this scientific term means ANYTHING like starting the rockets without a command or bursting them at a random date without flying at the USA territory, or even probably a hacker taking control over them trough first sizing a military satellite). And what? They don't want to correct the errors without me paying them. (They just don't respond.)

Most likely this catastrophe won't happen, but due to like 1% of this happening, if I were you I would seriously consider selling your house to pay to correct these errors, even if you are an egoist because your house can be burned at any time anyway.

I have reported total 12 bugs in this compiler. (12 is a very big number for counting errors in a nuclear control system.) Here is the list of those 5 of the 12 bugs that are very dangerous:

Please share this message. Please write to your President and local authorities.

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2021/01/03
22:26 UTC

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How modern scientific ethic may block a science

In this article I consider a hypothetical situation when a scientist blocks research in a certain area instead of advancing it. Looks like that I found a possible loophole in modern science practices and ethics. Maybe this situation has come real?

For the example of the situation I will consider the real situation with my research. I can’t concisely enough prove that the situation with me is real (you may ask if my amateur research is a crackpottery and I can’t prove you otherwise except of forcing you to spend days reading many pages with formulas). But this does not matter for the scientific thesis (or rather hypothesis) of this article, because a similar enough situation obviously can happen (if not with me then with somebody other) because clearly the probability densities of the “coordinates” are not extremely low and there are not so many “coordinates”.

So, in the first year of the university study I discovered a new mathematical axiom that leads to a new big fundamental branch of mathematics. Later I was forced to be withdrawn from the university by religious discrimination (as a Protestant almost dying of hunger in Russia), not receiving any degree.

I withdrew from the degree obtaining, but not from the research. So after years I produced a hundreds of pages text with a new fundamental branch of mathematics. Now my discoveries include among other a generalization of limit for an arbitrary (even discontinuous) function at every point, so allowing to research discontinuous analysis, and a definition of “space in general” (I exaggerated: in fact, it encompasses just all these kinds spaces that are met in general topology, for example, topological spaces, uniform spaces, and metric spaces, locales, and frames.) and many other related things.

I did also another, unrelated, discovery: I discovered an algebraic axiomatic system for “formulas” or kinda theory of infinite formulas. Funny enough, mathematicians produced axiomatic theories for almost everything but like the babushka from a joke forgot to search the glasses on her own nose forgot to axiomatize formulas. In my personal opinion, this axiomatic theory is the base for the future electronics, probably.

Because I had not enough money to buy the right of my work to be paid (it is called “scientific degree”), I had no incentive to publish journal articles and published just one (I’d say of a mediocre scientific value) journal article [1] on a related topic.

So instead of writing articles I switched to a holistic approach of writing it as a long monograph, not doing the pseudo-scientific “surgery” of cutting this “living” book into parts.

Being misled by widespread claims that publishing open access would increase adoption of my work, I put Creative Commons on my book. As it turned out it does not apply to amateurs because the book publishers don’t publish open access work unless paid big money for and there is no way for an amateur to obtain funding except as by being unusually successful in running his own business. (I tell it as the world best expert in amateur science. :-).)

Later I succeeded to publish my monograph [2] (to be precise an old version of my book) with a Russian publisher INFRA-M. They published even despite it is open access.

When I send my article about generalized limit to a journal, the journals repeatedly “politely” say that it does not conform to their standards. I strongly guess that the real reason is: They realize that they need to obtain a copy from a Russian language site to check if my monograph to which I refer in the article to verify that I really published it and they don’t want to read my book to verify proofs in the article.

I also tried to publish in arXiv, but:

  • As not being affiliated with an institution, I had no default submission rights and so sought approval (being mostly ignored) from somebody already published for a long time to be allowed to be published.

  • I received approval after all and published my book and several shorter articles at arXiv. Shortly after publication they were removed. I asked the moderation why they were removed and received no explanation. Apparently they choose to train my brain by forcing me to guess their reasoning. Maybe the removal was because I submitted too many articles in a single day (I asked if it was the case, but they choose to ignore an undermensh.), maybe because they assumed that my claims are too grandiose to be likely true.

  • They told that I need to publish in a peer reviewed journal before publishing in arXiv.

  • Later I tried to submit again and it was again removed:

    • “Our moderators request that you limit your submissions to those that have already been published in mainstream conventional journals. Submissions that do not contain a journal reference and/or DOI (that resolves to a journal's website) will be removed. If a significant number of your articles have been published over a reasonable period of time, we will reconsider this status.”
  • So, I’ve submitted an article published in a mainstream conventional journal with a reference to journal website. [1]

  • They decided that they should apply lying (see the quote from the email above) to mitigate undermenshes and removed this article, too.

Now scientific ethics comes to play:

  • I would possibly re-publish the book as several articles in journals, but scientific ethics forbids to publish in research journals results already published elsewhere and my book is published by INFRA-M. Moreover, to split it into parts and communicate with journals is much work and would possibly take years (while I also need to earn money). So, it is near to impossible to re-publish my book as journal articles.

Therefore it is greatly hindered to publish my (accordingly to the considered be it hypothetical or real situation, producing a big scientific revolution) articles in an “ethical” way.

I also tried to formalize my research in a proof assistant (a computer program that checks correctness of math proofs), among other reasons to publish it in their database of computer-checked proofs, but I found that not every genius is able to use such software in the state of hardness to use it has in this decade (even despite the fact that I was able to make several small new results in the fields of computer-assisted proofs research in the way of trying to rewrite my book in a computer language).

Funny? I may have blocked science development: I can’t publish on this topic and nobody other can publish on this topic because scientific ethics forbids to publish results discovered by others.

So, it looks like that a fundamental research topic (not only my research but also everything that would depend on it!) became non-publishable (to be precise non-reviewable) at all. It’s like genetics and cybernetics in Stalin’s USSR, but now the trouble covers the entire Earth.

Maybe this problem will incidentally resolve (for example, if I earn enough money to save the science to be blocked (for centuries?)), but it looks like the possibility that this problem or a similar problem (e.g. with another amateur researcher) may grow big. Maybe we already have past instances of similar problems of different size of impact on development of science with other researchers (not necessarily not finished education, they may for example just lose the diploma during a flight, or even deliberately block science).

As a possible solution I propose to create a site for re-publishing open access works (including books) of another publishers for free. Another important direction is helping me (and others) to receive a Bachelor degree in mathematics without spending money.

Please forgive me for being light-minded, I lightly assumed that the problem would likely “dissolve” by itself. Now you need to solve it if you have a university connection.

Bibliography

1: Victor Porton, Filters on Posets and Generalizations, 2012

2: Victor Porton, Algebraic General Topology. Volume 1, 2019

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2021/01/03
05:15 UTC

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Envirmental health

Tell me whats affect is garbage and waste is happening on earth. send videos of trash harmin our plants. also please share.

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2020/12/07
20:23 UTC

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Hey guys this one is really special. It's a german shortfilm with english subtitles and goes really deep. The ending is intriguing and the overall message is great. Check it out

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2020/11/20
11:07 UTC

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Don't Be Shelfish. #ShopResponsibly

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2020/03/24
02:03 UTC

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I think 2019 was only a bad year because we stated realising how fucked up our planet actually is...

I feel bad for the next generation of kids, we've possible ruined there future, all because we're selfish, greedy and trying to find every possible way of making money. Money that gets spent on stupid things, things that we don't really need, we want. People in other nations are dying all the because the government wants more money,  they don't get great healthcare, water, electricity, like....shit some don't even get access to a home, we always going on and on about politics talking this politician who done this and that politician done that, yet we couldn't notice a homeless man, starving, rotting away... Alone. He was one of us too at one point and through 1 silly mistake that he widely regrets, he was isolated. We keep talking about how global warming is ruining the world but we have no one to blame but ourselves, we're destroying what kids now-a-days look up to, there own future. We're destroying oceans and streets all because of people being lazy, selfish and ignorant, our fucking lungs of the earth are dying yet WW3 is rising, WW3 is something that we don't we don't need right now, something that we will never need at all. I'm just scared, that my kids won't ever see the future before them. Im just speaking MY thoughts and opinions on this...

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2020/01/12
00:20 UTC

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#HardNotLife

Im kinda having trouble with my life. I look to God but my problems dont resolve. I have no luck on jobs. No matter how interested i am in one, i wont get a call back. Looking for house , no luck either. I have no money. Im barley making it.

0 Comments
2019/06/11
04:55 UTC

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