There are a lot of changes happening right now, new technologies which can offer another ways of making our lifes easier. Helping to improve our healthcare and many other industries, it gives potential to solve many serious issues.

But there are also new threats arising: wars, abuse of technology, climate change.

How do you imagine the future? You can mention the country you live in as well, because obvioulsy the future can look very differently for people living on the opposite sides of the Earth.

I won't graduate until May 2026. The people who adopted me only told me that I was adopted about 9 months ago, but even before I found out I was and still am mentally abused and I only realized that I was after being welcomed into my only friend's home, (my friend's parents welcomed me and treat me as there own) and helped me realize how manipulative and controlling my adoptive mom was and still is, I do not feel comfortable sharing specific details online. I want to leave the state that I'm in I don't like the town, county, or state that I'm in. I'm sorry if I'm not allowed to ask this type of stuff on here I'm just wanting some advice/guidance

There's a song by the band Chicago called 'hard Habit To Break" put out in 1984 about a failed relationship and part of the 1st verse says what I typed up in the text.

I find it hard to believe that 1 would invest in a relationship and not know what you have or had. if so then you're either don't wanna see it or change your mind about the relationship you had once it ends.

Any thoughts?

I have got a PhD offer in another country. And I am in a residential college now. I don't think life will ever get this great again. And i feel like I am running outta time. In a few months I will be out of this place. While it is impossible to slow time down. What do you recommend I do and what did you do in life after college. It feels nauseating that I will never be this young, with such a large social circle and mindless partying

So, when you scroll over somebody's profile name or profile picture on a Reddit thread, you get information such as their comment karma, post karma, and the date they joined Reddit. You also get the option to follow them or chat with them. This is the desktop experience. I'm not sure what it is like on mobile since I don't use Reddit on mobile.

What if there was also some type of metric that measured how frequently they respond to comments on their posts and replies to their comments?

I feel like this would make my experience a lot better because it would guide me on which users it's likely to have an actual conversation with.

Any thoughts?

Learning about yourself is a lifelong process. You change every day a little. You evolve with every song, every book, every article, every video, and every thought you come across. This is the reason sitting for once and defining yourself wouldn’t work. If you want to know yourself, you have to be interested in yourself for the rest of your life. :- The Art Of Being Alone (Renuka Gavrani)

I'm a 31 old average guy. I went to college, became a doctor, seeking to become an infectologist. I had two relationships at my life. Both great woman. I've been with some gorgeous girls as a single man also. Everithing my 15 years old version would have desired. Yet I feel extremely empty. I feel as as we grown an society and responsibilities got to us, we lost all of our potential as kids. I miss bein obsessed about random topics such as greek mythology. I miss feeling thrilled about going travelling, even if to a close rural city. I missed feel all the emotions watching something such as digimon as kid. I miss those goosebumps before kissing a girl for the first time. When we all became so damn shallow and simple.

I have had multiple interviews for multiple companies. Some of them interview me and some of them say "We aren't hiring right now" even when they still have a now hiring sign up. And another one told me that they couldn't find my application. Then he kept looking for it and after he found it he said "Yeah we have been slow in business lately. We aren't hiring right now." But even if he is telling the truth, then why did he wait until AFTER he found my application to tell me that?

I also had an interview with corporate for another company. I applied for a server position at that restaurant and after I applied the the interview was with someone who worked for their corporate office. She seemed happy with the inerview and told me she would call the store manager for the store I applied for. After a few days I still did not get a call back. Then after I left the corporate lady a voicemail she called me back and said "Sorry I was sick over the weekend. I will call the store manager on wednesday. Well its wednesday now and neither of the managers called me. When I called the store I was told "She is not here right now." (This was also the same company where one of the cooks made a facebook post about how his store is hiring. He posted it on the county job page)

When I had interviews with a couple of other places a couple of days ago they both told me they need to speak to another manager for my 2nd interview (I still was not notified about when that 2nd interview will be)

There are also some places that told me that they are ONLY hiring for night shift.

On my resume and applications i mentioned that I was a server at Waffle House for 2 years and a Shift leader at Dominos for 2 years and That I was a crew member at Wendys for a year. (I only mentioned the jobs that I lasted the longest at.) I also told them that my availablitity is from 9am to 9pm.

If they ask me about a gap in my resume I tell them that my ex/baby daddy wanted me to be a stay at home mom.

I also always try to make sure I look presentable during the interviews. Nice clothes, nice makeup, etc. I also mention that I live close by.

For context I am a woman. I am a single mom. I have one child. I am white. I am 29 years old.

I use to have an easy time finding a new job before I became a mom but now ever since I became a mom its been harder to find a job. I am starting to wonder if me being a mom is part of the reason employers seem picky about me.

Every kind of civilization has it's flaws and wins but we seem to be losing in this one for lack of fellow feeling. But how much can you really be expected to feel for people you don't know or have any direct dealings with or relation to? Were we actually evolved to function like that? I don't think so. Yet the bubble-vacum option-way of life isn't quite right either. Is there a middleground or is it to some extent every man for himself?

Do they not realise just how deranged they appear when they won’t stop obsessing over someone who clearly doesn’t want them in their life?

They then end up playing the victim like you have done something wrong to them when you barely even know who they are if it all.

If they are narcissists they end up cyberstalking you and getting others to join in to also stalk you. They smear you behind your back. Gossiping about you. Can go on for years as well. All while playing the victim. What is the matter with these people?

So I know that a nuclear warhead works by detonating a bunch of explosives surrounding a core to compress it and make it explode, but could we take this to the extreme? by that i mean, what if we used thermonuclear explosives to surround a small mass, say the size of a golf ball, (any kind of mass works, though the denser the better) and then use the thermonuclear explosives to compress it into a black hole, which would be so small that it would immediately dissipate due to hawking radiation releasing it's mass as a ridiculously large amount of energy. for every milligram of mass you get a return of 89K Megajoules of energy, so i just wonder would thermonuclear explosives be powerful enough to compress a mass that much?

“I forgive you.”

Does forgiveness exist outside of language?

What process is represented by the word “forgiveness”?

”I ask for your forgiveness.”

Is that request a threat? A surrender? A stop-gap?

So in October I stopped taking psych meds because now that I live on my own I have no external stressors and was given a plethora of diagnoses.That I believe do not fit me.My support team is carefully monitoring my symptoms or lack thereof.

As of this last week in January I’m struggling a lot to keep my head above water. My hiatus from meds is finished on march 21.i met with my therapist and she said since I am struggling I could use this period as a opportunity to even further show how well I can do off meds(paraphrasing). I,however,promised my psychiatrist I would take medication at the first sign of me becoming unstable.

I have a mood stabilizer in my apartment that he approved of for times like this.My whole hiatus I’ve done exceedingly well.I just got ghost by the only friend I had and it’s making me feel unstable.Messing with my sleep and I’m hyper vigilant and just overall not at peace anymore.

I was thinking I could take the mood stabilizer and not tell anyone but that feels wrong.I thought I could take and tell my psychiatrist but then it proves I can’t handle stress which defeats my hiatus. I could also challenge myself like my therapist wants but then it lets my psychiatrist down. I just wanted to show how well I could do without it and so they can truly assess my diagnosis.on the other hand if I were to take my medication it would also show that I understand that I have to take care of my health and that would show growth and maturity.

During Gilded Age, one of major plot points of Season 2 is the whole union storyline.

Mr. Russell, richest man in the country and owner of the Railroad Company, needs to find a way to deal with the union. He literally spells it out:

"We will import a ridiculous amount of immigrants, by lobbying the bureaucrats, suppressing wages, allowing the working class to fight amongst themselves, so that we can continue getting richer"

For some reason, this is an unpopular thing to say these days especially on Reddit. No one is allowed to be anti-immigration. Kudos to HBO.

That in Japan, homes depreciate so quickly that many houses lose half their value within a decade, and after 30 years, they’re often considered nearly worthless. This is the opposite of how real estate works in many other countries, especially the United States, where properties typically appreciate and people struggle with finding the proper housing even when making a decent living.

The world can be a confusing place, with people facing different struggles to live and survive. In some countries, safe housing is still a luxury that doesn’t exist for many.

Let's assume that there is a family: parents with 3 children.

And that family belong to the lower middle class.

Suppose if there is not sufficient food for everyone during dinner, should the parent give up his or her food for the children?

Will the parent be in the wrong if they try to eat their fill first and then give the balance food (which might not be enough for the children) to the children?

Is the mother in the wrong if she tells the children to let the father eat first because he will need strength to go to work to earn for the family?

This is applicable quite well on Reddit. But can easily be applied in other situations as well.

A common example is splitting things into extremes.

This is an example of such enormous generalizations that dialogue becomes incredibly difficult.

Another one would be when things are reduced to mockery or a direct ad-hominem on someone

What I mean is that many people deliberately approach a post to attack it and not continue the dialogue. This is obviously because of the anonymous nature of the communication but what does this say about humanity as a whole? Is mankind destined to sneer and ridicule others as long as masks are provided?

It really has made me see the social internet as a place primarily for the immature and fanatical. I have gotten into some good discussions and my content on YouTube typically has a positive reception, but here on Reddit, Instagram, etc... things are always reduced to such negative generalized assumptions.

I’m looking for advice on how to start better conversations in two different family dynamics:

1. My partner’s mom loves sharing about her past, but it turns into a lecture. She has a lot of interesting life experiences, and I enjoy hearing about them, but often, it starts to feel like she’s delivering a history lesson rather than sharing a story that invites a two-way conversation. I’d love to find ways to engage more meaningfully—maybe by asking the right kind of follow-up questions or steering the conversation so I can also share my own experiences. Has anyone found good ways to make these kinds of interactions more conversational?
2. Some relatives in my family are emotionally closed off, and I want to start deeper conversations without being awkward. Classic Asian family dynamic—some people I’m just not super close to, and emotions aren’t really talked about much. I’d love to ask something interesting that’s generationally appropriate and not too deep right away but has the potential to lead to a real conversation. I often get stuck thinking of what to ask beyond surface-level things like work or school. Any good icebreakers or topics that have worked for you in a similar situation?

Would love to hear any ideas or success stories!

I honestly think she’d be met with violence. Given Selena’s popularity and influence in the Latin community as well as how violent her murder was, it wouldn’t surprise me if people still felt like “an eye for an eye” was necessary or justified.

I have seen lots of companies lately creating humanoid robots that walk , shake hands and communicate like humans . Yet for me they feel like puppets or toys that has very low functionality compared to Humans. Like I saw the videos where people was conversing with robots as if they are going to replace your human companions . Like imagine a guy coming back from work only to talk "normal" to a robot that always provide generic answers lol. Like that must be the most depressing thing ever .

I watched a TV drama once where scientists were discussing whether a female monkey would sacrifice their life for their baby.

One scientist said given the right circumstances a mother would sacrifice their baby due to the theory of self preservation.

They tried to explain this in a very dark and incredibly unethical experiment whereby a mother and baby monkey were placed in a cage and the cage floor was heated so much so that the mother could no longer cope with her feet being burned any longer so sacrificed their baby to stand on it, demonstrating self preservation.

I was wondering how true this actually was and how valid the results could be in a mother child situation?

I’ve been thinking a lot about the relationship between power and corruption. You often hear the phrase, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," but is it really true? Is it the nature of power itself that corrupts people, or is it more about the kind of people who seek power in the first place?

I lost my father during COVID. It has been five years now. I often dream about him, where he suddenly disappears and leaves us alone, but then he comes back into our lives. In those dreams, I feel so lost yet so happy to see him again. However, when I wake up, I realize it was just a dream, and my heart breaks. Sometimes, I cry in the dream, but the tears feel real.

I have very few friends here, and they are all busy. I often feel lost and far away from my family. My husband is my only strength, and I feel so happy when I’m around him, but I can’t always express my sadness to him. I work from home, so it feels very lonely. I don’t feel like eating or doing anything, and I have no one to talk to.

I will start this with I am a male in my late 20s. Though there is mentions of parallels to my gf or ex its not intending for you to comment on the relationship but rather challenge my views through the most relevant situation in which it arose. My current and ex gf have both made comments that I think often in black and white, and admittedly am pretty stubborn when I take a position, while they think more in the grey. Both have admitted in their own words they are big people pleasers. I believe I often try to understand people and give the benefit of the doubt, I often have a higher tolerance on trying to communicate more openly and listen to what they are saying vs the words they used. I think a big issue is I usually come to a conclusion/opinion on something and stand firm until new evidence is brought up. I subscribe to the thoughts “If you stand for nothing you’ll fall for anything”, “Bend enough and you’ll break”. When I was younger I used to be able to rationalize anything but it made me make decisions/actions that I wouldn’t be proud of. One of the turning points is when I thought about if I would be happy the way I am acting/thinking if my hypothetical kids/or other children were seeing me do or doing themselves. Here is some issues were these comments have come in to play:

My gf has a friend but kind of a friend of a friend who has admitted to cheating on their SO. The SO has no idea and is marrying them, I have no idea who this person is. I think this friend of a friend for sure could’ve been going through a bad time and made a mistake albeit this thing happened over a period of time not a once occurrence. I don’t think this friend of a friend is by any means a horrible person but they did a really shitty thing and continue to for keeping this secret. My thoughts is my gf should distance themselves and not hang out with this person. I think this friend of a friend is not acting or is currently a good person until these actions are corrected. They think it doesn’t matter as it doesn’t affect them and it’s not their responsibility to “correct” or “punish” their friend for something that doesn’t affect them. This has caused some contention between us. It has culminated into me being bugged that she wont stand up to this bad action and I have declared I refuse to attend their wedding if this isn’t resolved. I am not saying she has to cut them out for good but if they continue to deceive someone they claim to love I don’t think they are being a good person and we shouldn’t associate with them. Now if they come clean and whichever way they would take their relationship id be so unbothered and happy they finally corrected their wrong.

Now as for my own personal struggles with it. My best friend in college’s gf who I was also friends with cheated on him. I unfortunately found out and told him, she came clean about everything and why. They separated for a while but ended up working out and got married. In my eyes she is not a bad person, in fact i trust her a ton so much so that we do business together and she has a lot of access to my personal info.

Another example is my friend cheated on his SO when we were young like 18. I told him I cant be friends with him and distanced myself at the time if he continues to not right his wrong. He eventually confessed they unfortunately tried but failed and now he’s still one of my best friends and I am still friendly with his ex.

Now for both of those stories I don’t think they are bad people for doing those things but they did bad things. I can understand why they did it and how their relationship was on the rocks and not being fulfilled. One was a one time drunken mistake the other not feeling fulfilled. Both regretted it but both made bad choices and only took responsibility later. However in my eyes the outcome was they did a bad thing and I stand in my position when you do some action or thing that as bad, I get the circumstances, hell for one of them I totally got it feeling neglected in a relationship as I felt this in a previous relationship and lead to the end of a relationship but not cheating, but at the end of the day two wrongs don’t make it right, and you did a bad thing and now you have to make it right.

I don’t see where my line of thunking is too black and white. Yes I stand firm in my beliefs and opinions but I don’t only see them as bad or good, I understand the nuances and the whys however the end action is bad, therefore you should stand on that if you think its bad.

Im 17F and this boy 17M I couild tell he is attracted to me, so we kinda got to know each other a bit, im a very impulsive person, so I asked him if I couild come over the day I have no practice the thing is he let's me so we go to his house and at first im very stiff, I had no intention of doing anything, im kinda emotionally unavailable and have bad avoidment attachment so I was awkward. all a sudden one conversation to the next I tell him straight up I've never had a kiss, he thinks im lying completely, so he offers me a kiss. So I had to think about it because do I really want my first kiss to be with a guy I barley know and I just so happen to be in his house, one things to the next and eventually I'm like ok, for the plot. We start making out and it gets super heated. Like im an awful kisser and he says he couild tell I wasn't lying when he started to kiss me, so we start making out, and all a sudden he gets super hard, so I get on top of him and he starts to dry hump me a bit. It felt good but I was shy because I've never done that stuff so I just let him do it not really reciprocating it, but it felt good. Next things to the next I keep kissing him, all over his face because he was letting me kinda use him, I kissed his lips, neck, eyes, nose, cheeks and he also kissed me alot we also did everything like cuddling and hugging. The reason it's messy is I think it was like a freinds with benefits thing, he used me to get something and I used him. im not entirely upset but I want more, I want to do more stuff with him. I dont regret anything because im turning 18 soon and he's my first, but at the same time I know he's not loyal and I'm bad at commitment due to the fear of being trapped in a relationship, I want to do more stuff with him though and I still feel so turnt on just thinking about it.

I consider myself to be pretty traditionally masculine. I go to gym, enjoy sports, drink beer and like pick-up trucks. My biggest drem is to become a farmer someday on our family-farm. And Im so annoyed and frustrated with these influencers who promote real masculinity as it would only mean speaking condescendingly about women, thinking like men are the ”strongest gender” and masculinity would in anway be under threat.

And I sometimes feel that me being as a being masculine man I promote those idiotic values just by being the way I am. And would not like to feel this way since actually only people being threat to masculinity is people who associate it with need to put others down.

This is kinda incoherent assembly of my feelings but I hope some people would get my point.

I placed an order fairly large with a small business. I then got contacted by them because they were concerned about my order understandably and asked if I would mind canceling my order and doing it a little bit out of time where I buy a couple of items waiting a long while after receiving it and then Place another order if I like it even though I know I'm going to like it and it's exactly what I want and need.

So I emailed them back and ask them to please reconsider letting me do the full order I was extremely polite really buttered their behind like a piece of bread with compliments and kindness. While also reassuring them I would not be one of those people who returns my product after it's been sent out to get my money back and I would not get my order and do a chargeback. Like a lot of people have been doing lately which I think is disgusting and I made sure to tell them that.

Sent it off and never received a response whatsoever. So 5 days later I sent them a very polite message asking about my order and again no response. Then days later half of my order gets sent out while I get charged for the entire order. Something that I'm not going to lie made me really mad and I still have not received any response from them for either email. Now I wouldn't be so mad if they would have only charged me for the stuff they sent out.

But no they charged me for everything and I'm not receiving everything. A bunch of my stuff is still sitting there in my orders saying awaiting shipment and it's been more than 2 weeks now which is past their time that they put on the website as to when things will be shipped out. Also on the website the stuff that they didn't ship out yet in my order is still in stock with multiple of each item being available.

Because on the website it tells you how many they have of each product. So I don't know what's going on and there's no phone number for me to contact which is really frustrating or I would. I mean do I contact them a third time to probably be ignored again and not get a response. I truly don't know because what am I supposed to do I can't do a chargeback for only half the items and on top of that I told them that was something I would never do.

Which I would like to stick to my word on. Also I noticed something weird when they shipped out my order. I went to go track it and it says that it's coming all the way from China but on the contact us page of this company it says they're in the UK and has a UK address written there. Plus in all their videos they do on every social media platform they have.

You will see them packing people's orders themselves. So it doesn't make sense to me how they're packing people's orders in the UK where they're supposedly located when their products are being sent out from China. Like make that make sense because I can't. All that being said though what should I do because I spent $2,215 for my order with the exchange because I'm Canadian. The original cost in uk money was $1,494.13. The company is called anxiety bookshelf .com any thoughts or help is appreciated.

I am asking this because genuinely, do we believe "Everyone is capable of redemption" too blindly, to the point that I am starting to feel like it makes no sense.

I don't say that no one is capable of redemption. Some people, misguided or driven by emotions, some without any choices, may do terrible stuffs, but with kindness, and someone to hold their hand to go on a different path, they can change their life for good

But, what about those who commits unforgivable sins, those who refuse to change, and those who love doing horrible deeds? Do you want to give monsters like politicians or corporates, or worse, Ted Bundy, another chance? Or, you would spit on their graves after death, you condemn them, you are forever disgusted by them, heck, you even get rid of them personally given the chance?

I took a bus to go to uni, as I do every day. Today it was overcrowded and pretty much there was no space where i was standing. At some point i felt a few strands of the top back of my hair being stuck somewhere and pulled. I turn around and see this woman pulling her hand away and some random man who didnt know her or me moving. Now i get quite paranoid when my exams are approaching and come up with crazy theories but did this woman actually pulled my hair with bad intentions? My hair is naturally dark blonde and she was black so maybe they seemed interesting to her and wanted to feel them but as the bus sped up she lost balance and accidentally grabbed them, maybe my hair was actually stuck in this mans moving device and thats why he moved a little? Is it possible for the hair grabbing to be an action of envy? Should i be scared? I know im being paranoid but i cant stop overthinking. Btw i didnt react in any way when this happened i remained silent to avoid conflict.

I used to keep things super simple in conversations—just “yeah,” “ohh,” and little reactions without sharing much of myself. It felt safe, but honestly, it made socializing a chore.

Then I started saying whatever came to mind and talking more freely. Without even meaning to, I became way more expressive, and suddenly, socializing started feeling fun. People are responding differently too—it’s like I’m finally showing my personality, and they actually connect with me more.

Anyone else noticed this kind of change?