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This subreddit is usually for serious topics but I can’t keep this to myself. Killling someone because they are in pain is extremely dumb. I was watching this show and a guy got beat up really badly. No permanent damage yes he was in a coma but he would’ve woken up and been fine. His mother proceedes to kill him to “put him out of his misery” I turned off the show then and there. I can’t do it. PAIN IS TEMPORARY. If she had waited literally a week he would’ve been fine. Then years later in the show she says she misses her son. I hate when people die because they are “put out of their misery” when their misery only lasts not even a week. Like cmon. Another show. Mafia boss friend gets kidnapped. So mafia boss kills friend so friend wouldn’t have to be tortured. Unless they are permanently disabling him, once again the pain will be temporary. Lets say you break a bone and in that exact moment you break a bone your parent kills uou to put you out your misery. You broke this bone years ago. Very painful. So you’d rather be dead than endure the pain for a couple days?? Yeah no. Killing someone for temporary pain is so stupid to me and it makes it super hard to watch the show after. Just had to say it.

I didn't like him ever. I'm queer, I'm trans, I'm afab. I'm a minor, I can't vote. If I could vote, I'd definitely not vote for him. Seeing people from some other western areas blaming americans as a whole for this, saying that we all deserve it. I am so FUCKING TIRED of being excused as another Trump dick rider. I didn't vote for that sad man, I never wanted him to win, quit blaming me for it!

And as an American, I am sorry. I'm completely fine with you all not buying American products anymore.

Writing this here because it's the internet and its anonymous, nobody knows my reddit account or is going to bother finding it which gives me a bit of solace. Also what I'm writing here isn't going to make much sense more likely than not because I'm typing the thoughts I have as I think of them.

I'm just tired of being alive, I hate the idea that now that I'm an adult I have to work to live for the rest of my life, though I'm hardly the first person to think this. But everywhere I go or every time I try to do something I feel out of place. Example: I work at a school as a tutor, my colleagues are college educated adults who are able to actively help the kids we work with and guide them to the answers of whatever question they have, and then theres me, someone whos not much older than these kids, not in college nor college educated, and quite frankly is kinda stupid. Not much to say on this matter honestly.

I've only gotten more depressed as I've gotten older, which I'm sure is a relatively common thing, though I'd be lying if I didn't say I've had a feeling of depression my entire life. Recently my anxiety has gone through the roof to the point where I've started having anxiety attacks, which I think was going to happen at some point but was bolstered by a particularly terrible high I had and certain political events. I always feel as if I'm being watched (though I have felt like this since I was a kid) and judged by others. I often go to see live music and have to go outside every few minutes to calm down.

I'd start on how I feel lonely constantly too, even when I'm with friends or family, or how I feel like having a girlfriend would solve all my issues even though I know thats not true but I'd probably sound like some incel NEET loser lmao

Therapy is probably a good idea but even writing this out now I feel like some pathetic loser who can't deal with his emotions, so I have no idea how I'd talk about it to a real person.

Ok thats all I have to say thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

I'll admit that I much prefer the pre-movie seasons, but I do enjoy many episodes from the later seasons. I think it was until season 9 when I noticed a huge drop in quality. The animation is over the top, which wouldn't be a problem if they used it well instead of relying on it to be funny. The same goes for their "wacky faces." Way too much and you can tell they're trying to create the next meme. The jokes overall just don't land at all.

I don't really care if the show has bouncy animation or they mess with the continuity (which I don't understand that complaint because the continuity doesn't exist), I just want the jokes to be funny. I feel like the old team that worked on Spongebob were visionaries or something because earlier episodes hit HARD. I swear, Spongebob jokes are their own category of humor.

I'm fine with them saying that Spongebob met everyone at a camp or Patrick's house is actually a turtle or whatever wacky idea they have, just make it FUNNY. It's such a unique show that it sucks to see how unenjoyable it is now.

I’m a geek but this really bothers me. Wearing a helmet with light blasting onto your face to support the perfect camera shot = you wouldn’t be able to see anything. You’d be blinded and only see light.

Trivial to some; annoying as hell to me

This isn't really a rant more like me. Just being sad and needing somebody to listen to me. The people in my life already listened to me about this, but I wanted to share it with others.

Back in October our oldest cat had passed away. It was my dad's cat and it was really rough watching him say goodbye.

10 days ago our second oldest had passed away in our home 10 minutes before my shift ended so I didn't even get to say goodbye. They said she cried and then she was gone. I had to come home and prepare her to be transported to the cremation center.

Today our current oldest living cat that I've had since I was a teenager. I'm in my mid-twies now. It was just diagnosed with breast cancer. It's not her lungs and she's doing okay, but depending on how bad it is we might be losing her too.

My boyfriend was driving his car to go get me something at the mall and his car shut off Midway in the middle of the road. Sounds like it's the alternator so that's going to be a few hundred dollars.

Trying to manage my chronic illness while not having the insurance to see the doctors so I can just finish my education. Get my license for cosmetology. It's just a struggle.

Thanks for listening. That's all I have to say.

Who’s hired and who flies are two separate things. The hiring team has no impact on who flies.

Just like any career you gotta pass the tests. Doesn’t matter who’s in the seat were evaluated the same. It’s standardized. I’ve had really good captains, FOs, students, and instructors from all walks of life. Same with the bad ones.

If people want to debate hiring practices that’s fine but don’t let anyone tell you she wasn’t worthy of that seat because it’s not true. She passed the exact same tests as everyone else and would not be in that position if she weren’t competent.

We make it a point in aviation not to criticize those who make mistakes because it’s very likely given the situation we all would.

Whenever people online are in a topic of obesity in Japan, they said that the reason why there’s less obesity it’s because there’s Metabo Law but here’s something that people have gotten wrong the whole time especially the foreigners online. They misinterpreted that with the Metabo Law, it’s illegal to be big. People online who lacks deep understanding or know nothing about Japan’s Metabo Law is are dumb weebs. Now look at Japan and its people in a realistic view:

Do you ever see a Japanese Person who is big or specifically a Sumo wrestler who is getting a fine for breaking a Metabo Law? 

Do you ever see the criminal record or criminal history of Japanese people being fat?

Do you see a Police arresting a Japanese Person who is fat? 

The answer is NO, it’s completely misunderstood and yet those dumb foriegn weebs online are keep misinterpreting and spreading all over the internet and even the Western medias and they began circle jerking with each other. The reason why dumb foreign weebs online think it’s illegal to fat in Japan is because they see the word “Law” and for them what they easily refer to is something that is legal or illegal if it’s illegal, it’s a crime but it’s actually not since there is no evidences of fat Japanese people getting arrested of a fine even Sumo Wrestlers. “Metabo Law” is not illegal and a crime. They mistranslated it from Japanese to English because they’re familiar with the word “Law” which they pretend to think that it’s easy to define when it’s really not when it comes with the word “Metabo Law” which is a Japanese word. In 2008 Metabo Law is for Japanese citizens between the ages of 40 and 74 to meet certain waistline measurements each year that’s what it’s referring to not what the foreigners online or most importantly online Weebs think it really means who have knows nothing about Japan.

So to wrap this up, whoever believe that it’s really illegal to fat in Japan that they’ll get a fine or getting arrested, is an absolute foreign weeb who knows nothing or lack deep understanding about Japan’s “Metabo Law” and rethink this for real: It’s NOT illegal and a crime to be big in Japan. Japanese people are welcoming to people who are coming to Japan regardless if they’re obese or not. Seriously, do foreign weebs pretend to be an expert of Japan’s Metabo Law just because they’ve listened to misinformation on Western Medias thinking that being fat is really illegal? No because they clearly no nothing about Japan’s Metabo Law by pretending to think that it’s really illegal to be fat but it’s not that’s a distorted version of the Metabo Law and it’s oversimplifying.

“DON’T EVER LISTEN TO THE INTERNET, WESTERN MEDIAS AND OF COURSE THE WEEBS WHEN THEY’RE MISINTERPRETING JAPAN’S METABO LAW”

Here’s the proofs that it’s false:

Snopeshttps://www.snopes.comIs It Illegal to Be Fat in Japan?

Japan's Fat Tax: Is It Illegal to Be Fat in Japan? - plus size japanese fashion

I feel like I'm living in a post-covid dystopian nightmare. I drag myself to my job, then drag myself home. The town I live in is always completely empty. Restaurants, bars, all shut down (except for tourists on weekends). And everyone I know just isolates at home with their digital media. It wasn't like this before Covid. Now everything seems like an empty, depressing wasteland.

Like seriously did we learn NOTHING from COVED!?! I’m currently dealing with the flu for the first time in my life. I got it from working at a restaurant and so many people were coughing around me and on me! It’s not that hard to just stay home when you are sick! A guy came in and coughed right in my friend’s face and all he said was “oh oh sorry” after she made a face at him! Stay home if you’re sick! It’s not that f*cking hard!

Trump's tariffs are just a way to gain leverage. The Canadian markets responded in a way that indicates investors didn't think the tariffs would actually happen. He's just trying to bully us into doing whatever he wants.

And we did it.

He's kicked the can down the road for 30 more days because, like every school yard bully knows, you want to keep the threat going as a way to get whatever you want.

I don't know the details of the current Trump/Trudeau deal. Something something boarder fentynal. The US/Mexico boarder has 10x the drug traffic than US/Canada.

I don't care what Trump asks Canada to do, we should say 'no'. Make his electorate feel the pain of this bozzo's idiotic and disgraceful actions. It's the only way to deal with a bully.

I wish the bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and lotion would come in smaller sizes. I don’t want to get a huge bottle of something I’ve never tried, but all I see are these large containers, aside from the few offerings for travel.

mfs asking me what we should eat for dinner and I GAVE 3 DIFFERENT SUGGESTIONS

if you know you DON’T want something then wouldn’t you have some general idea of what you DO WANT??? I’m hungry asf so I don’t even care what we eat but I guess we’ll just FUCKING STARVE SINCE YALL CAN’T MAKE UP YOUR MIND YOU BASTARDS

EDIT: made chili

I've waited about a week for the va to get a record for my immunization.

Well it turns out I need another form as they never told me this! I have to wait another bloody week to request shot records.

As the title says. Why would anyone film and then publish on the internet how to ice a cake with a colander over it and three different colors of melted icing??? Using blue, green, and pink, it winds up looking like a hot turd on a cold day. I would only do this to a cake if I hated the person I was giving it to!

Let's start with the blue in the middle, see how it dribbles down the sides and onto the counter?

Then the green in the middle, then the pink. Now let's take the blue and go in a clockwise direction, and do the green in a counter-clockwise direction, and then just dump the pink in the middle again.

Okay, let's take the colander off to see how it....whoops! Let's make a flower design with the pink here on the top, now with the blue, and finish it off with the green.

You take your two chopsticks/dowel rods to lift off the colander...oh wait, it needs some more green in a cross fashion and then blue diagonally and then pink in another diagonal. We can add some blue in the center, some pink outside of that, and green on the outer edge for a great marbled effect!

Okay, let's lift off the colander [slowly takes the bowl off to reveal a disgusting brownish-purple disaster]. Take the chopstick/dowel rod and draw a line this way on top and then a line perpendicular to that...see all that marbling?! Now, take a ginormous butcher knife and cut down one of the lines and then the other line so that your piece is a quarter of the cake [at this point, I thought that maybe the melted icing would drip down the sliced edges of the cake...but no].

There was no marbling, just a mess and a ruined cake. 3 minutes of my life gone for->!fucking!<-ever.

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None of these fucks give a damn. They’re all mobsters and insider traders. We lost our nation long ago. The question is, how do we get it back?

Edit: wake up People, we are not enemies! We have got to come back together somehow.

I always hear people say relationships are hard work, but is it always supposed to feel like that?

I keep going back and forth in my head wondering if it is worth the heartache every time we argue. Is it just me? Am I not capable of healthy love? Maybe I’ve manifested this — I’ve always said stability is boring and now here I am, crying.

I wish it made any sense at all to me how two people can have a fulfilling love story without the toxicity. It’s not my fault I crave chaos and peace simultaneously. I have my mother’s sensitive, caring heart and my father’s negativity.

It hurts to love someone more than anything you’ve ever loved before. The pain is addictive and hard to give up on. It feels like an emotional relapse every time we bicker and ignore each other. The pain pushes me to pray for an end. I don’t want anymore pain, but it’s satisfying to feel it all pour out of my eyes.

It’s so good, though. I love her. But it’s hard and painful. It’s my fault. I cause this. I love her. I could never leave her, and maybe that’s what hurts the most.

I love my girlfriend alot but she drives me crazy when I go and pick up food for her. She's the type of person that can't just eat the order how it comes. She wants thousands of substitutions, a lil bit of this a lil bit of that, get rid of this, and swap this for that. It's such a headache especially considering most of the time the restaurants ALWAYS get it wrong. And I don't blame them for that. They probably have a rhythm going that's just been interrupted by this complicated baboon order. The worst part is, when they mess up she won't eat it and will make me go back to the restaurant and not come back until it's done correctly. Why do some people do this? She's not the only person I've seen do this when ordering food. What is so hard about eating it how it comes. Why do we have to make the most simple order into a complicated trigonometry formula of substitution. I love you babe but you struck a nerve tonight. Thanks for reading my dumb rant

Not this sub, this sub is cool, but Reddit as a whole.

It has turned into something that it never was "back in the day." It was a place where people with opposing views could come and have honest discord but go about their day afterward. It was a place where you could find the answer to anything and count on it being the best answer on the internet. It was a place where you could find and be part of any community.

I don't know what changed, but it doesn't feel the same. Everything is one-sided now; the quality of information has been muddied, and there's a system of "cold censorship" that prevents people from voicing their opinions for fear of losing karma. People here will delete you from Reddit if they disagree with you, the same people who are crying about free speech. The hypocrisy is strong now, and it's just not "nice" to be here anymore. I just wish people would get along.... we are all people. There's no need to complicate everything with extra classifications. People.

oh my god I hate my neighbours why are they always so LOUD. I NEED TO GET UP IN 6 HOURS SHUT UPPPPPP

I can't sit my ass down and not stare at everything around me and i don't know how to fix this cus this is something that I do subconsciously like I dont realize that im staring at random people when I do and I don't even think of anything when im staring at somebody like im literally just staring at someone or something just to stare at something

And I keep making eye contacts with people when I notice that theyre staring in my direction and sometimes make them uncomfortable so I gotta fucking stop this but I DONT KNOW HOW TO FIX IT

Why is there so much content on the OJ Simpson trial!!! Netflix has a new docuseries out and I’m just perplexed! What else is there to know about the case that every other documentary hasn’t shown!? I am 27, I wasn’t even born when the infamous murders occurred. But I swear I know the ins and out of the entire case!

To make matters worse the Netflix docuseries is in the top 10!! lol so there’s obviously STILL interest till this day!

I only straighten my hair once or twice a year, usually at a salon. The one I typically go to wasn’t available, but I wanted my hair straightened for an event. I booked an appointment at a curly hair specialist and specifically asked if they straighten hair. They said yes.

When I arrived, the stylist started detangling my hair and casually mentioned that they don’t usually straighten hair at the salon. I cringed because why tell me this now? But since I was already there, I hesitated but decided to continue. She was friendly and talkative at first, but as she straightened my hair, I noticed it looking fluffy. I assumed she had some technique to fix it. Halfway through, she stopped, looked at me in the mirror, and smiled like she was waiting for my reaction. But I was obviously upset. I told her it was still puffy.

That’s when things went sour. Her friendly tone dropped, and she got defensive. She wasn’t yelling, but her change in tone made me anxious. She said it was impossible to get my hair fully straight because it was too thick, then went on about how damaged my hair was and how bad my split ends were. I had trimmed my split ends a month ago and knew I needed another, but her comments made me feel horrible. Also I’ve had my hair pinned straight in the middle of humid summer in the tropics so I didn’t understand how it was so fluffy?

The whole situation was so awkward. I felt so anxious that I cringed, apologized, and tried to act friendly just to get through it. I paid, left, and cried when I got home. Usually, I’m not a pushover, but this really got to me. Walking out of beauty service feeling ugly was the worst.

Also after she got defensive she kept pushing a consultation service on how to care for my curls, implying I wasn’t taking good care of them. This seemed like an unfair judgement to make as I’m coming in for full service, there is not need for me to pre-prep as I never have to do this at the salon I go to so of cause my hair wasn’t the “best”.

Even just ignoring the fact that this world is ableist and that has NEVER been your or anyone's fault, the idea of failure itself is deeply deeply flawed and ultimately just deters us from being our best.
Only at 27 years old have I finally realized that life is not like our grades in school where you either pass or fail, and that everything I thought I "failed" genuinely made me a more experienced knowledgable person. even using the failed class example, the idea you learned nothing had you not earned a passing grade is all wrong. If you take the class again, you'd still know more than the people taking it for the first time and that would still make a difference in your ability to absorb that information a second time. That does not make that first try a waste. Objective failure is an absolute myth. There is no such thing. The idea that trying something and not meeting a specific metric by a certain length of time, is evidence that we are simply not good at, not smart enough, or incapable of meeting that metric and the entire exercise of learning it was a waste, is the WORST imaginable interpretation of learning.

EVERY SINGLE THING you tried to learn has changed you as a person, expanded your world view and does in fact contribute to who you are today. I say this as a person who worked a crappy job and got let go without any warning, then used that on my resume to get a much better one. I say this as a person who got in a minor traffic collision as a teen and was told I'd never make a good driver, then years later, found the motivation to get behind the wheel and now drives every day and have not had a single incident since. I did not fail, I just needed more time to succeed, and that does not make the time it took a waste, that does not make me a worse driver today than anyone else. The first try is not a waste, nor the second, nor the third. Because it has never ever been this black and white. Learning isn't linear, sometimes you literally just can't learn something without doing it wrong. You are not a failure, and whoever told you that failed you.

Oh, my bad! I didn’t realize the solar system had a restraining order against me. Yeah, let’s ignore personal responsibility and let Jupiter’s gravitational pull decide if we deserve human rights.

“Oh, you’re a Gemini? Can’t trust you.” Ma’am, You’re worried about star signs when the only thing written in your destiny is missed c.o.u.r.t dates and an eviction notice. But yeah, tell me more about how my moon sign is the real problem.

And why is it always the broke ones who care the most about astrology? Talking about, “I could never date a Taurus.” Meanwhile, your baby daddy is a Sagittarius, and the only “rising sign” in your life is your overdraft fees.

Apparently, being a Cancer means I’m “too emotional.” NO, KAREN, I just don’t like you. Meanwhile, Aries act like they’re one traffic jam away from a felony charge, Libras are too busy being “indecisive” (a.k.a. unemployed)

Astrology is just space segregation. The planets ain’t got NOTHING to do with why you’re a bad person—don't be allergic to accountability.

So, My MSI laptop received a firmware update which for some reason needed me to input my Bitlocker key when it loaded back up. To do this I logged into my Microsoft account and then it asked my to confirm my recovery email (Gmail). I have two similar Gmail accounts so tried both only to be informed they where wrong (they weren't).

I then spent the next two hours on the Support pages and chat trying to get this fixed and the best the support agents (yes, 3 agents) could come up with was for me to fill out a form which would reset my security information... in 30 days. At this point I miserably complained to friend of mine who works in IT who told me to try installing the Authenticator on my phone and enter the same two emails, which immediately worked.

So yeah, turns out the webpage is just utterly broken at times and refuses to accept any email as correct, cheers Microsoft, thank you so much for the two hours of stress...

AND WHY IS YOUR FREE PHONE NUMBER SO INCREDIBLY USELESS!!!, LET ME SPEAK TO A REAL PRESSON GOD DAMNIT!

You and your friends rented out the house i grew up in and love. Your rent is very reasonable. I've replaced the stove and oven AND gave you a buncha stuff to help you out. You've yet to pay the rent on time.

Wtf??

PAY YOUR FRIKKEN RENT

I run, i take care of myself, i'm 17 so my life hasen't even peaked yet. I work in a hospital , i earned my EMT liscnese and am a CMA, i've had to watch traumatic things, i've had humans throw up blood on me, die and drop to the floor, and more. I genuinley hope people think i'm a good human and i hope the man upstairs thinks that too. I don't vap, i maybe have had a drink or two to be cool on a friday night one tiime, but i;ve never anything crazy. I workout every day for at least 3-4 hours, i am a long distance runner, i do immense training and have induced nothing but health into my daily life. Dialed down to the calorie, the microgram, the protien, every carb, everything. I just recently have had great chest pains, trouble sleeping, lots of fitigue. I work nights at the hospital, and have had toruble sleeping. I went in for sleeping pills just recently, and they found a problem with my heart. Every time i experience, stress whether it's from a mental strress or physical stres, my heart is inable to handle it. I now need open heart surgery. I'm not saying because i work in a hospital or becasue i care about my health, i deserve not to have a heart condition. But i see this a lot- my mom has no interest in being involved in my medical stuff which i am happy about but i hate making decisions. I've taken dozens of philsophy and ethics classes- and i can tell you none of them have given a good reason as to why bad things happen to humans. I'm honestly just frustrated and have no clue why even plan for a future at this point.