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I am a full 41 weeks pregnant right now and I’m reflecting on my journey. Despite having an extremely symptomatic pregnancy and life stressors the absolute worst part has been people’s entitlement and intrusiveness to my life and body. People I have little relationship with all of a sudden think they can ask questions about my sex life, body and medical decisions. Asking “is it planned” has been normalized but is honestly extremely intrusive. Family members, acquaintances and even strangers all of a sudden decide it’s ok to voice their opinion or provide advice about my medical decisions. This includes people that have never had kids, or maybe one 30-40 years ago, including mostly males. People asking for details about my Drs appointments, bodily processes and private choices. I’m private by nature but this has been both extremely enlightening and disturbing how many people basically lose respect for a pregnant woman’s privacy and autonomy. It’s a lack of understanding, dare I say ignorance, complete inconsideration. If this is a mistake you’ve made, or fallen witness too please even minutely consider what you’re asking and how it would feel to be in that position.

Pieces of Garbage Walmart!

For 20 years living in rural Georgia we have traveled to the next city over for Walmart groceries. We don't have many options.

My 55 year old wife was arrested and held I. City jail for shoplifting. She apparently missed scanned 3 items in self check out. We have probably spent 20/30 grand over the years in groceries.

Done! And Done with self checkout BS!

To anyone who finds this post, especially small town folks who think they need Sams and Walmart please boycott.

Freakin self check out BS. FU Walmart never again!

I used to be a daddy’s girl until I was old enough to see how poorly he treated me and my mom. Some christmases my mom didn’t get anything because my brother and I were kids and my dad didn’t buy her anythin. I always felt awful because my mom always made sure we had a good Christmas and that we got what we wanted and then put in extra effort for grandparents and aunts and uncle. Since having a job and earning money, I try to go above and beyond for my mom to make sure she has a good Christmas - so I inform the family of what she would probably enjoy. My mom is a crafter and she sometimes adds in her own creations to the gifts so I suggest gift cards for the hobby stores she mostly buys supplies from JoAn’s fabrics and Michael’s usually have better deals on yarn and whatnot. The past couple of years she has purchased things that she knew my sister in law would like that she had found at outlet stores that would be difficult to find the item online for a good deal so she would buy it in store and ship it to my brother’s family. She has spent hundreds on shippin..My brother is military and he was gone for two weeks leading to Christmas so he didn’t have time to have her shipped any thing from stores… or that is his excuse, however, he has a wife who gets along great with my mom so my SIL could/should have sent her something. I’m so fucking tired of my mom getting the short stick and getting her feelings hurt. It hurts me to see her hurt.

Idk if it's because I'm fucking stupid or what but I absolutely hate technology they somehow manage to something as simple a logging a 15 step process I consider myself technologically illiterate and I hate it especially with how prevent technology is in today's society

I’ve recently been forced into the car market due to my current one breaking, and I’m woefully unimpressed with legacy automakers.

You’d think spending $60,000 on a car (more than the average Americans annual salary) would entitle you to a certain threshold of competency or, dare is say it? Luxury… you’d be wrong. My price range is really ~$40k but I’ve been checking out the “top of the line” trims to see what they’re working with, and it’s absurd.

I just test-drove a brand-new, 2025 $60,000 Jeep (yes, Jeep… $60k….) whose entertainment system is worse than my 2018 Ford Fusion SE, and the interior looked like it was from 1995. I checked out a nearly $65k Toyota (yes Toyota, $65k… wtf) and the screen latency was like a 2011 Amazon tablet. For a second I thought I developed Parkinson’s or something but no, it was just the screen tweaking.

100% of the cars I’ve seen have been indisputably mediocre, and they all cost more than I can even fathom paying for so such junk. Cheap faux leather, plastic everything, no sun/moon roofs, no airflow customization, wack sound systems, horrendous wheels, uninspiring tires, and outdated software… oh and $300 for a key fob that does nothing other than unlock and start the car and is still built like a tic-tac tin?! WHERE IS MY MONEY GOING

Where are these $40,000 - $60,000 valuations coming from when not even the steering wheel or seat adjustments are automatic… in 2025… There’s zero excuse for a 2025 model (of any car) being less technologically advanced than my decade-old Ford Fusion. It’s seriously like they have Helen Keller designing these things… How hard is it to make a car not look like shit? I’d be hard-pressed to find a camera with video quality as shitty as whats in these $50k+ cars. Why can I not reverse in 4k HD? Why does a hands-free audio interface sound like im talking to Neil Armstrong on the moon in 1969? Why are gearboxes virtually identical to those of 1970? Why paint cheap plastic to have “wood grain” instead of just using nicer plastic even?! And why is a 30,000 mile service coverage treated like it’s worth something?! A car from 50 years ago was expected to go 30k miles without a hiccup…

Haven’t been in the market for a while, so this has been an eye-opening experience. I’m convinced legacy automakers want to go out of business. My old 2004 Ford Expedition was just as advanced/fancy as the new Grand Cherokee, except for a shitty $25 Bluetooth interface that I can order off Temu — BLACKBERRY WAS THE BEST PHONE IN 2004… LITERAL STONE AGE. I’m truly befuddled at how much technology can develop at the same time that legacy automakers are doing, well, nothing?

Im so sick of Boomers and their constant patronizing. Why do they always feel like they’re so morally superior to everyone else when they literally had the best economic opportunities of any generation ever? Most are out of touch with reality. I can’t wait till they’re gone and the world begins to recover from their horrible actions!

I can't even scroll the subreddit without seeing posts talk about how their quitting, how prices have gone up, how there too many collabs that the company won't listen to whatever they say.

And the worse part is they have the right to complain, and I get what they mean. What do I know, I wasn't there for the beginning But I love the game, and it keeps upsetting me see those posts. I may not play as much as I did before, but all I see is the game I fell in love with.

Are my expectations that low? Should I just give up on it. Despite how much I love it,and how it's a escape away from reality.

Im probably still gonna play it, and just keep getting upset that those posts

( I'm sorry if this doesn't make much sense, I kinda just want to scream my feelings into the void.)

Every day there's another shooting, stabbing, massacre, ect. It's been 3 days into 2025 and it won't stop. Every day the government hatches a new plan to fuck us. I'm so tired of it. I'm tired of being in the U.S. Everywhere feels like a danger. You can't even celebrate the new years outside without fear. Not even the fourth of July at the beach cause there's a shooting each time at the one near me. I wish I could be in Britain or Europe or some shit. I could get medical help or give birth without selling my soul for it. This is a laughing stock country. I just want peace and tranquility. The grass is always greener but this is getting ridiculous. Every day we're groomed into being more accustomed to bullshit being forced on us. I'm sick of it.

Edit: it says 26 comments but I can only see like 4 for some reason so

Everything is just so fucked. People on social media hiding behind screens, mocking you if you don't have perfect teeth or skin. You don't see people that don't know each other just strike up a conversation, even if you're on an 18 hour flight and it's gonna be awkward as hell if you don't. Everyone now has the social skills of a fucking napkin because of how much we've all been fucked by social media. Even in real life people are just being horrible to each other. Wars being fought in the name of who's fairytale should be believed. Nobody helping anyone in a wheelchair onto a train, or picking up something that fell out of someone's wallet. Why can't we just be fucking nice to each other for once?

When Facebook and Instagram reels do that stupid "HAHA YOU’VE BEEN ON THIS VIDEO FOR TOO LONG SO WE'RE GONNA REMIND YOU TO SWIPE UP BY BOUNCING THE VIDEO UPWARD TWO OR THREE TIMES, YOU FUCKING IDIOT."

LIKE. Let me doomscroll at my own fucking pace Zuckerberg, you lizard looking alien fuckbag.

Came across the complete total douchebag today. His name is Mark Driscoll and he may be one of the worst preachers I have ever heard. He did a sermon where he constantly patronized young men into believing that if you aren’t married and have no children on the horizon then you are a selfish human being. I can’t stand pastors like this who try to shame young men into following their idea of how a man should be. His idea of masculinity is driving a truck, drinking whiskey and shooting guns. I’m sorry bro but that’s not masculine that’s being a dumbass redneck. Last I checked Jesus nor Paul ever had wives or children. Don’t believe a word this clown says!!

My package apparently juuuust nearly got here to a town within an hour of my house and they somehow sent it back to a city three hours away. The delivery details were deleted to make it look like it's been there since several days ago. Why does package tracking have to be so shitty? I was looking forward to that.

Fuck off.

It has been close to a year of job searching for me. I recently joined a WhatsApp tech community related to my background in the hopes of making new connections and finding new opportunities. I got to chat with two of the admins and they seemed kind and offered to have a call with me to help me out. I reached out multiple times with a link to my calendar and asking if they are still interested in meeting up but I have been ghosted or just ignored. I know people can be busy but if you don’t want to help at all why even bring it up on the first place?

Title.

I sit at this table that has the girls in my friend group and two other girls. The girl that sits next to me is one of the girls that’s not in my friend group, she’s one of my friend’s friends that dosent really have many other friends so she’s sitting with us. My mood on her changes a lot. Sometimes I like her, sometimes she annoys me. That’s kind of what happens with me and everyone every now and then if I spend a lot of time with them but I’m only around her at lunch. I also feel I have to say that three other girls in the friend group also don’t like her (there’s six total girls in the friend group (including me))or at least didn’t the last time my other friend asked them about it, which was like one month ago ish. Anyways, my opinion on her is really bipolar but like I asked in the server to see if one of the three (potentially two, I’m not sure if the other girl that’s not in the friend group likes her or not but I don’t really think she likes her either to be honest.) people that liked her wanted to switch seats with me because I find the girl next to me kind of annoying and the girl that’s friends with her took that personally. She kept on asking me a ton of questions like why I find her annoying and like what did she ever do to me to find her annoying and like I just can’t explain it. You know when you just find someone annoying and just can’t explain why? That’s kind of just my reason for finding her annoying. It’s not like I’m rude to her or anything, me finding her annoying dosent affect how I interact with her at all I just don’t like sitting there. Anyways, it felt like she was just personally attacking me for that and like I don’t like that. Anyways that was my rant.

The only financial change I've made this month was paying off my car loan and credit card. Thank you for coming to my rant.

There are two different types of rules in place in the world. 1. Important ones that keep people safe, you don’t kill, steal, go way over the speed limit, etc. 2. Common sense rules that are usually case by case and are made to keep idiots at bay.

Example 1: People who work at movie theatres or bars who card and deny people who are clearly old enough. Had a co worker cause a solid hour long ruckus because she refused to sell beer to literally like someone old enough to be my grandma. Tf is wrong with you lol. Same with the theatres like I had a kid deny me with a picture of my license at 20 years old. Like buddy you do realize I can pirate this movie on my phone right now or literally just look up actual porn or death videos like how ab you use your head.

Example 2: The gym worker who meticulously watched us until I left to kick my ex out of the gym because I was the pass holder and she was my guest and I technically have to be there. So many annoying things with this. Like 1 the majority of you are buried in your laptop with schoolwork you do not need to be doing this. And literally if I sit in the corner and stare at the wall my ex is good to workout np but the second I leave the building it’s a problem? Like can I be right outside the door? In my car? Is this causing you to lose profit? Will you somehow get in trouble for not catching her? (Hell no) like the fact you sat around and waited for me to leave then go into the locker room and kick her out in front of people is absolutely ridiculous.

Example 3: went to Tim Hortons and had a $1 coffee coupon. Proceeded to pay 2$ on my card when they tell me it’s another dollar. “Oops, here’s this coupon.” “Oh you actually have to finish paying for this one before you can use that now.” Oh really? No tf I don’t you idiot. I have worked like 4 different fast food jobs i know FOR A FACT you can cancel the order, refund me, comp it, get the manager, any known number of solutions in fact you actually owe me money. Honestly just stupid people.

Hard to think of another rn but you know what I mean. Another small example kinda is a guy I saw outside the gym leave and then look at me and go back and make sure the door shut behind him. (You have to scan your badge to get in) like my guy the place is empty. If I workout for free it doesn’t affect anyone else working out, any worker, or you in any way. The fact you are essentially just helping maximize profits for the ceo and hire ups who are millionaires is crazy.

Seriously, what the actual fuck has happened to people? New Years is always a reminder of this for me and it gets worse every fucking year. Everywhere I look, it’s like no one knows how to just exist anymore. No one’s living in the goddamn moment—everyone’s too busy chasing some fake-ass Instagram aesthetic or curating their TikTok "brand" to even fucking live their real lives.

To the people I'm referencing: When was the last time you sat at a concert, a beautiful view or celebration and just felt something instead of holding up your fucking phone to capture it for people who don’t even give a shit? When did people start caring more about likes from strangers than actual goddamn human connections?

It's all so fucking empty. People post their "perfect" lives, their curated vacations, their fake-ass smiles—when in reality, most of them are probably fucking dead inside. They spend all this time trying to make other people think their life is worth something instead of actually doing anything that IS worth something.

And don’t even get me started on how everyone’s heads are fucking buried in their phones during meals, conversations, or even just walking down the fucking street. God forbid you make eye contact or smile at someone—nope, gotta check your notifications for the millionth fucking time today because, you know, that’s way more important than human interaction.

The whole thing feels like one giant fucking lie. A sad, hollow, disconnected, soul-sucking lie. And the worst part? Everyone just fucking accepts it. No one stops to question it. No one gives a shit that we’ve traded living, breathing, feeling lives for some bullshit dopamine hit from a fucking screen.

I just want to scream at everyone: PUT YOUR FUCKING PHONE DOWN! Stop chasing clout, stop trying to impress people who don’t matter, and just be fucking present for once in your life. Is that too much to fucking ask?

I’m so goddamn tired of watching people trade their souls for social media validation. It’s depressing as hell, and I’m over it. Fuck this disconnected, fake-ass world we’ve created.

So in my pervious posts I was an up and coming technician to Assistant Manager and had my share of insane questions or strange information.

We run Chevron oil, Dexos, and carry anything your car needs. I've built a very good reputation and frequently see my customers out in town. We talk at gas stations, grocery store, church's, (small town things).

Our store is run by a Cooperation and has long liability policies. For instance.

Our blend oil, with or without stabilizers is 3k miles. Full synthetic is 5k. Premium full synthetic is 7500 Diseil oil 10k, full synthetic diseil oil is 15k.

So today I had a customer who, for the last year, didn't realize the blend IS dyno oil

I gave him a 3k sticker and he said the dealership told him 10k to 20k is good. I said

"Sir I promise that the oil you got won't. Frankly your vehicle is required to run full synthetic but I put in what you pay for."

He called the dealership and apparently he didn't know he voided his Warranty by running dyno. I shrugged, and it told "that happens a lot. If it's required it'll be in your paperwork"

His oil was black and burnt and he was stunned

"I only went 8k! What's it smoking? Why do I smell metal?!"

On here and other places they tell you 10k to 20k. Or lifetime. My company says if you go over what we told you and you experience any damage (even if it is clearly our fault) we are no longer liable.

So I'll ask reddit to show my customer and techs.

When is your oil change due?

For blend For synthetic For premium synthetic For Diesel For Synthetic diesel

This is for the USA only. I'm an old fart who has lived in other countries, I'm well aware not all societies function this way, but here in good old "I love my guns more than kids' lives Freedomland":

Seeing posts like "Boomer is proud of being out and about with Covid" really steams my artichoke.

It's utterly ridiculous how cavalier people are with one another's health and safety in this country. The amount of "screw you, I got mine" has eroded any sense of community or social contract.

People simple do not care about others and it's both generational and political. Boomers tend to be egotistical (and resource hoarders out of touch with reality, and Gen Z is as well but out of necessity (they don't have anything to resource hoard so they need to look out for themselves)).

If you're sick and you are able to isolate without losing income or putting your family in jeopardy somehow- stay home. I don't care what you rationale is, disabled and immunocompromised people have the right to exist and live and your narcissism makes the world almost impossible for them. I have students who end up missing so much school as they have underlying conditions and some families send students in sick. Again- I'm well aware there isn't always a choice. This rant is not for those who truly have no choice as they do not have sick time/jobs where they are allowed to be sick.

Those really aren't the entitled people we alllllll know this rant is about.

Trust me, you're just not that important. Your job will survive without you- but you might be the reason someone else doesn't. Stay. Home.

I live in a small European country and ebay is pretty much the only way for me to get used and/or old stuff in english. But every time I want to buy something, be it DVD, book, game or anything, my search results are ABSOLUTELY FLOODED with sellers from Germany!

I JUST WANT TO BUY STUFF IN ENGLISH!!!!! FROM THE UK!!!!! PAL FUCKIN REGION!!!!! But noooooo we won't give you a filter for UK only, we don't care, we're fuckin ebay, what you gonna do sucker, go somewhere else?

And those German fuckin sellers, oh my fuckin God! YOU'RE SELLING INTERNATIONALLY MORON, GIVE US AT LEAST SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT INFO IN ENGLISH ABOUT THE SHIT YOU SELLING!!! LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, THE ITEM'S LANGUAGE MAYBE????? SO THAT I FUCKJIN KNOW IF IT'S IN ENGLISH OR GERMAN?????

I swear if I see "von" or "Zustand gut" ONE MORE FUCKIN TIME I'm gonna go apeshit!!!!

I live in an apartment building with a provided dumpster that's SUPPOSED to be for residents only. The parking lot is attached to a heavily-traveled main road in my town. Because of this, people who don't live here will pull up to the dumpster and throw away trash. Not just small bags though. Big bags of household trash, boxes, broken furniture, etc. There is a trash truck that empties it every other Monday, but it fills up in less than 3 days. There's a public dump not even 10 minutes away. I'm 8 months pregnant and my husband has a knee injury so it's much easier for us to be able to use the dumpster here. Why can't people just drive a couple miles down the road and use the public dump??? We pay for the dumpster as part of our rent, and it would be nice to be able to actually use it.

Generation Bravo just sounds more interesting. Replacing the Greek Naming Conventions and replacing them with a new Phoenetic system might better avoid the jokes that come with the name “Beta”.

Sure, that means we’ll call the generation after “Generation Charlie” but that’s a bridge we can cross as a society when we get there.

Sitting in this waiting room with about 10 or 15 open spots, and this dude coughing up a lung decides to sit right next to me. I asked him if he could move over politely to give me some personal space and gave me a mini lecture on how it's a "public space" and it "isn't weird to sit right next to someone" and proceeded to cough all over me.

Do these people not comprehend that personal space is a thing? It's weird to have someone choose to sit RIGHT NEXT to you especially on public transit when there's many other empty spaces.

Netflix and all these other garbage-tier streaming services have completely ruined the streaming space. What used to be a cheaper alternative to cable or satellite TV has now turned into something so much worse and a la carte. Motherfuckers are paying exorbitant prices and still getting long-ass ad breaks in the middle of programming and shit. Oh, but don’t worry—if you simply pay them even more money, you can "maybe" watch without ads!!!

Now, what you all shouldn’t do is invest in a NAS,harddrives, a VPN, and some cheap client to run PLEX or Jellyfin to host all your obviously legally acquired stuff. And you certainly shouldn't look into seedboxes or anything of the sort.

And you certainly shouldn't run a Docker container on the NAS or client to automate the acquisition of media using horrible programs like Sonarr, Radarr, or any such program, as that would simply streamline the process of acquiring this overpriced and no longer reasonably accessible content.

Does any average normal person want A.I.?

Everyone I speak to about it doesn't want it and thinks it's likely going to fuck up the world.

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?!?

I'd love to know if anyone has any arguments for or against A.I. in any application. I'm firmly against it and I seem to be in the majority, so I'm quite confused why there are SO many companies working on creating the best A.I. at the moment.

For folks who like to IM their co-workers with “hi” without including the reason why you’re pinging, please stop it and learn how to include your ask within the same message. I’m more likely to ignore you if you just ping me one-worded greetings. Ain’t nobody got time to chit chat with you like that.

I know its office gossip but I have been told that I am not likely to get the promotion I was in line for - instead its going to go to someone younger with less experience and credentialing. Supposedly we are all getting a chance to interview but I am wondering why bother if the fix is in - and the hiring practices have a history of doing just this so it would be totally on brand. And ....I can't bear the thoughts of starting a job search over again although I am half heartedly looking. There's plenty to like about the job, despite my boss being a micromanager - its the pay thats the problem. Well that and the lack of professional recognition. Thanks for letting me vent. If you are gonna comment, please be kind.