i mean isn't it the point of the subreddit for us to share our own opinions that are not agreed upon by many? i dont get it
So it’s been months and months … I talk to my friends sometimes about this but why is our world going to dogs ? Why are the people in power so evil? Or why are the evil people in power? When I was in school we used to study the history, civics and other subjects and everywhere it was that the bad would always be overcome by good. Policies would be made to make sure no more wars happen, countries at war would shake hands and decide never again. Evil people were put in jail. I grew up believing that anything is possible if good people exist but right now why does everything look so dystopian ? Tech guys, millionaires, politicians, everyone who has power ? How can they be evil? And what is everyone else doing apart from reposting stuff ? Idk what to do like everyone else I’m also reposting, commenting in rage, praying in my heart all the time. We saw genocide live on our phones, we see so much bad all day. There’s no doubt that we are desensitised to certain level now. But deep inside I’m so scared. So so scared for the world, for me, for the children if we ever decide to have. Like I remember being so particular about not wasting water, not littering , taking care of animals, etc. Now I’m almost 30 and I’m the same person still. I know so many people still want to take care of the world and everyone is in their own way. But are the evil people outnumbering the good ones or are they just louder and have more power ? Probably latter. Just a rant. My heart feels heavy most of the time. A psycho calling to end a civilisation overnight. People, kids and animals and our beautiful planet being tortured for the ego of men who have 1 brain cell and zero morality. I wish I were still a kid in school thinking the world is perfect and bad people always lose.
I can't stand those who are in a position of power and money etc, who always say being homeless or in poverty is the persons fault, or a choice... "They should just get a job"... It's so much more than that, because what about those kicked out at a young age, or who haven't been able to find a job so they can't afford rent in this economy.. let alone food, clothes, water, or showering amenities. The way everything is run causes a bad cycle... You can't get a job without a home and can't get a home without a job unless you get lucky and someone helps you on your feet, granted then people could make it out of homelessness maybe, but.. for how long with how pricey everything is..
I get the "still lingering" Silent generation and Boomers don't get it. But millennials and GenX we know better! And yeah I'm calling out GenX, I'm an elder millennial & was raised by ya'll so I know how to square up 🤣.
But like seriously! I'm tired of the complaints of "you always have your headphones on" YES! Headphones, earbuds, and noise cancellers ETC! I MADE it known I am NOT a morning person! Just because I am conscious doesn't mean I am awake yet! I fucking need coffee & rammstein/trick daddy to help shake off the little bit of sleep I manage to grab each night!
I am FULLY aware that I get called antisocial and evil looking behind my back! SO! If my RBF scares you off then that means its working! I'm an introvert forced to conform to societal norms for the sake of maintaining my life span & lifestyle! So when you see me with earbuds in and chugging my double espresso caramel iced coffee, LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE, till it has kicked in and I can "adult human" for the day!
FUCK!
They be taking down posts left right and centre. Some subs don’t allow you to ask simple questions I was asking if there’s shorter placements I could do abroad etc and it got taken down because I should do my own research .. but I was doing my own research .. people here might have been able to help 😭
I hate social anxiety. I wish I wasn’t so scared. I wish I wasn’t so critical of myself. I wish I could just relax and be myself. I wish I didn’t feel a constant need to be likeable. I wish I didn’t feel like an annoying burden to everyone.
I know I am good, or at least I objectively know that. I love myself. I know I am a decent person. But the moment I have to interact with someone, I become really self conscious, awkward, and overcritical with myself. I had so much potential but I was just too scared to step out and chase the opportunities. I wish I could be a charismatic person who didn’t have to think twice about every little thing.
So this is a throw away account.
I am really bored, I have a 9 -5 job, as soon as I reach my home at 7, I have nothing to do.I have seen all the tv shows & few movies, they don't excite me now, I have tried gaming(playing FIFA career mode) but even that does not excite me, even on Sundays it feels boring.
That was my humble rant, thanks for listening, kind stranger
The 77,302,580 Americans who voted for Trump in 2024, I hope you are happy with what is happening to the world.
I hate all of you. I hate my family, I hate my friends. I hate everybody I’ve ever dated. I hate my country. I hate human society. I hate myself.
Almost nobody has ever taken the time to teach me anything in my entire life. I have never been allowed to follow my dreams. My whole life has been disappointment and witnessing the failure of everything I have been taught to believe in. But then, even at my weakest moments, I was told that this is a failure of my own self and character, despite doing everything I have been told to do. Even going the extra distance has never been enough, and never will.
I genuinely hope I have a stroke in my sleep so that I don’t have to deal with waking up in the morning to this stupid fucking life. These endless wars, endless disgusting greed and stupidity. But I won’t, and I will have to suck it up and “be strong” for people who never gave a fuck about me and simply use up my time and wellbeing for their own benefit, while I receive basically nothing in return. Nothing about my existence has ever mattered, or will ever matter, but I can’t talk about that or it’s “uncomfortable.”
There was never any choice in any of this. I’m not weak. I’m not stupid. Our world is a fucking joke and I’ll never be happy on this garbage fucking planet.
Fuck you all.
Would it be wrong to sell my virginity? It’s not like I’m saving it till after marriage btw. And in this ECONOMY where you can’t find a job despite have many degrees and tons of experience… it’s really tempting. Cause I have a dollar to my name, sold almost everything of value that I had, borrowed from many people.. I reached the end of ways to get money. Where do people go to sell it lol? Well it’s only that or YouTube fr.
Got pulled over last night because my stupid plate light and the officer asked me why I wasn’t wearing a seatbelt but I was it just than I’m fat asf😭🗿
Hello,
This is a throwaway acc lol.
So, I recently participated in a competition my uni hosts for money. I've done this before and won, for context. The prompt can be really anything (the past ones being mental health resources and substance abuse disorder), and the expectations for the solution can be something like an idea with a mockup to a functioning prototype. If they expect a functioning prototype, they usually up the prize money and length of time to work on the project. The second competition I've done, they want to try things out and the forced students to use AI and include how we used it in our presentation. Funny thing is, our group struggled on this aspect, since we hand-drew the graphics and I learned how to code through Youtube and other online spaces. Part of the reason I believe we won in this competition is that our other competitors took AI-use and ran with it, using AI to do the coding, drawing, presentation, etc. So, for this current competition (I'll refer to it as loneliness competition since that was the prompt, to solve the loneliness), they made an effort to note that they aren't wanting AI use in the competition since "AI doesn't know your lived experiences." So, this competition had a kick-off day, where we had to "ideate." it was stupid since I had already come up with an idea, so my group sped-ran through the ideation steps and started working on our idea. The prize money for the loneliness competition was less than my past competition, so I wasn't going to re-learn how to code and develop a functioning app. Plus, they only wanted a prototype. So, my team developed an idea like Pokemon Go meets Stardew Valley meets Cat Cafe, where students have a map of our campus and can find other players to gain ingredients to make items in their cafe. Once they hit a ping and walk toward the other player, they have a series of questions which are based off of previously noted interests that they have to ask each other. Once they ask these questions, they can gain the ingredient and make the bakery item to sell. The money they make can be used to upgrade a cafe or used in in-person events our game would host to get plushies, etc. I used NO AI for this solution, the idea came from my head. I traced all the graphics (separate tangent on how I did almost all the work + I don't know how to draw so I traced over graphics and added features, changed color schemes, etc). My CS-major co-collaborator was trying to use Figma AI to develop the app, but instead I used regular Figma to make a demo prototype (that doesn't work but the prize money was less, so why would I actually code). Then, we designed our presentation on Canva, wrote our own script, and pitched. I honestly thought we won at least third place, all the other solutions not only used AI to write the script, make the presentation, but also develop their website. As you can assume, mostly CS-majors competed (I'm a chem major), and their entire solution was a website where some target demographic would meet like-minded people based on similar interests. My CS collaborator and I noted that it was the exact same UI/UX, so I am 99.99% sure they all plugged in a prompt into some website-developing AI and got similar outputs since their prompts were the exact same. Since there were so many people competing, they took a few days to run the numbers and whatnot. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners were released today and the results were so unsurprising. The first place winner was some similarity designed website to match menopause women who suffered loss to similar women who suffered that same loss previously to give guidance. Their website, of course not only powered by AI, also included an AI chatbot to help these poor poor women. The pitch and idea was of course done by graduate-student men. The second solution was a website that helped lonely people through volunteering, essentially a website that conglomerates local volunteering using, believe it or not, AI. Now, I do believe that third place had a good idea that clearly had no AI use. I'm simply in disbelief by these results. I'm not saying I deserve to win, but the precedent set by the first two winners heavily-using AI in their solution, pitch, and presentation is terrifying. Either the judges (40's-50s) have no discernment to AI's use in their solution or they simply don't care and are looking for a target-audience that will pull the most amount of heart-strings.
Just wanted to rant,
Bye and thank you
Im so fed up 😑 for context I live in the UK . For 5 years I have been dealing with bowel and gut issues ie dihorea, constipation , bloating , urgency , abdo pain as well as non gastro symptoms like fatigue , indegestion , feeling sick , leg and joint pain ( been going on since childhood ) and the past couple of years breathing problems ( tight chest especially when exercising) i cant exert myself too much and by that I mean i cant even walk 5 min to the shops without getting out of breath , I have been poked and prodded and had cameras up my ass and down my throat , ive done everything theyve told me to do , ive tried every medication theyve suggested, I workout 5 times a week , I eat healthy and yet im still getting issues . So I go to the doctor . I go back time and time again and I am getting no where. I got told today to stop eating ultra processed food . If she had taken the time ( the GP) to actually listen to me rather than trying to rush the appointment because she was behind ( the receptionist warned me was) then she would know i don't eat food like that and haven't in nearly 5 fucking years . Its one of the first things I cut out and then caffeine , fizzy drinks , alcohol, garlic , onion and lactose. I am miserable . Every single day . Just miserable. I dont know what to do anymore. It feels like I should just stop eating and then the constant feeling awful would stop .
I just went on the Xbox support Reddit page and I got like 20 comments half of them were just being aggressive for no reason and half were misunderstanding the question. After I found the soloution from like the one person who was helpful they STILL were aggressive. Asking for help for anything on this site is insufferable
It's a B.S. term used by women who think THEY'RE stressed out, NEVER thinking of anyone but themselves. What do they think their husbands do all day at work?
Play poker? Race go carts? ASK your partner what they do all day at work. You might be surprised to learn you AREN'T the only one dealing with things mentally and emotionally?
You're just the only one making your stress THEIR problem. Talk to your partners, people! Lean on each other, instead of making it a competition about who's dealing with the most.
And I'll tell you something else.. give a man a problem, and most will try to solve it. Tell him HE'S the problem, and he'll solve THAT, too. Just not the way you'd like. Start treating your partner like a PARTNER, instead of the obstacle between you, and your happiness.
It'll pay dividends. Trust me, or don't. But 17 years of marriage doesn't happen without learning how to navigate a few minefields.
Unless you have more than 1 hostage, there's no point in having a hostage.
Let's look at this from a logical perspective:
Your ultimate goal in a hostage situation is leaving without going to jail. You're threatening someone that, if you don't get to leave, you're going to kill someone else. But, if you shoot the hostage, you're going to jail.
If the cop shoots the hostage, which does happen, you're going to jail.
If you don't shoot the hostage, you're going to jail.
Hostages are for buying time, not bargaining. Once you're bargaining with hostages, the game is pretty much already over.
I SWEARRR BRO I'M HAPPY IF THEY'RE HAPPY AND THAT'S GOOD FOR THEM AND STUFF BUT NOT ONE OF MY FRIENDS IS OVER THEIR EX AND IM SICKKK OF IT 😭😭😭 all those words of trying to comfort them and all the advices, nonneee of them meant shittt. sometimes i think something is wrong with me for not having anybody to miss or yearn for in my 20 years of living. i just don't get it why would they do this they weren't even happy in the relationship and it's not like they're not self aware
It’s like they are allergic to making a good name for themselves, a while back movies and games were all about wondering how to grab people’s attention but now it’s pandering when not needed , for me I want to entertain people make them happy so why can’t corporations make that choice , they rely on drama to make that pathetic excuse. It’s like me saying I am making you a chocolate cake and when I serve it broccoli falls out and I shame you for it and go on a rant on how vegetables are healthier the sugar
Okay so I have a friend who is a Guy and I've know him for 2 years. In the span of those 2 years, he has had 2 girlfriends (he is currently with the second girl) and I've heard all about her because he always talks about his relationship problems to me. He has also talked to me about how he is insecure about his appearance.
During both of his relationships, he has sent me videos of girls he finds hot and making comments about them being hot. I don't really say anything because, I mean, It's not my relationship but something that pissed me off was that he had messaged me complaining about how his girlfriend had liked a guys thirst trap and I guess it triggered his insecurities or whatever. Anyway, something that I don't get it why he has an issue with his girlfriend liking a guys instagram reel when he constantly sends me girls and tells me how hot he finds them and makes other kind of sexual comments.
I guess to him it's fine to spam videos of girls because his girlfriend liked one video of some guy, idk.
I just need to get this out. for context I'm a 27 male living in southern ontario. I grew up in poverty, raised by a single mom who had a lot of mental issues and somehow someway I came out of the other side with a decent head on my shoulders. I've worked full time since I was 18, yeah I never went to post secondary school for a lot of reasons. mainly cause I saw the writing on the wall, why throw myself into debt when my peers who went to collage or university were ending up in the same boat wage wise as Im in only with debt up to their eyeballs.
For no after highschool education I do alright for myself, I work full time 40 hours a week in a small warehouse as a forklift driver, basically run the warehouse not just order picking but helping manage deliveries and asns etc. I make $29.68 an hour, get a real good bonus around Christmas time every year and I cleared just over 60k last year.
What's really getting to me, I just signed a lease to move into a one bedroom basement apartment, it's nice enough and my landlord lives in the main house which I dont love but he seems decent enough so far. But I can't stop thinking this isn't fair. I'm not thinking I should be able to buy a house or a brand new car on this income, that's not realistic. And I've accepted where things are ill likely never retire. But damn it I work hard, I don't have issues I go to work everyday work my butt off pulled myself away from where I grew up and I can't even afford a simple private little apartment in an apartment building. I don't want much, just a quiet little apartment where my partner and I can be left alone afford enough to get by comfortably without much stress, take care of a cat or two. Don't even wanna travel or get a super nice car or anything like that, I'm not looking to rank in a bunch of money. I just feel like with what I do and what I earn what I'm asking for isn't too much.
But no everywhere I look I get told, just do gigs on the side, or try getting into trades. those things take time and money. if you ask me you should be working to live not living to work. sure if I spent every waking moment grinding away. get off work and jump on Uber eats delivering food until I have to go to bed maybe then I might be able to scarp up $2400+ a month for 600 Square foot apartment in a shitty building. but whats the point then.
I just feel like I deserve just a little bit more then what I get, I just want to work my decent full time job, come home to a quiet apartment that's not underneath a house I could never dream of affording. that has natural light in the day time and not be throwing up from the stress of worrying I might fall financially at any moment if anything outsidw of the norm happens. I really don't think that's too much to ask.
As a young adult man in his mid to late 20s, who's worked hard, not abused the system taken care of myself and mine as best I can I feel failed by the "systems there to protect" shame on the politicians who sold us out. Shame on the greedy demons who just want to see numbers on a screen increase at the cost of people's life's and dignity.
I'm tried.
sorry if I broke any rules or anything I don't post a lot but I've been really really struggling mentally lately and needed an outlet to just get this out.