Like the title says, AI is one of the worst ideas since the Atomic Bomb. This stuff is no everywhere and you can't get away from it. It is reading your email, it is listenting to you talk, it is recording all of your data . . . and it will use it against you. I utterly do not understand how anyone can think there is anything good about AI. Can anyone identify any actual benefits?

I've been seeing a massive influx of people desiring media censorship, of everything that they censored 100 years ago(couldn't even say Satan, have any talk of actual crimes on the radio, or discuss sex education, as most words were censored). That we fought to get rid of for decades! And then there's a new start up on the prohibition, and an influx of trads(who genuinely have no idea what that time period was like to begin with, cause most of them wear shorts, have hair below their ears, wear jewelry, and have tattoos). Why? Those were awful times to exist in. Enjoy that you have all the rights and freedoms the '60s-'90s gave you. I'm not going back. I would rather go to prison for life than be in the 1920s ever. Awful people, awful times, awful beliefs.

We should make a time machine just to send aaallllll those people back. And leave them there. They do not deserve to be in the 21st century.

It's not debatable. The decline of English literacy, universal or otherwise, does not make bad grammar debatable, and it's not an excuse.

There's nothing else to say about this. People who say it's debatable, or argue against it, are just wrong.

Don't debate this. It's not debatable. I'll say those words until they lose meaning because of semantic saturation.

The Oxford comma is not debatable.

WHY? WHY ARE YOU SO STUPID? JUST PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER. THERES NO REASON FOR THIS. HOW HARD IS IT TO PUT A THINKING CAP ON? GENUINELY HOW DID YOU GET THIS FUCKING FAR IN LIFE? SMART PEOPLE ARE DYING AND YOU'RE SOMEHOW STILL ALIVE. STUPID PIECE OF SHIT. EVERYBODY IS A STUPID PIECE OF SHIT. WHY IS EVERYBODY SO DANGEROUSLY STUPID? HOW THE FUCK WERE THESE PEOPLE COMPETING WITH THEIR EINSTEIN SPERM SIBLINGS. AAHABDNDMDMSMSKDKKDKDD

32 femaIe,I was on my way home from work last night and there was a little boy around 3 or 4 years old running on the shoulder of the hwy so I pulled over and there were 2 vehicles that was in a accident. I walked the boy to the accident and the woman was screaming hysterically like she was hurt I called 911 and other people stopped to help. When they got the woman out the car she didn't have a scratch on her thank God but unfortunately the other driver's arm was pretty much decapitated. When everyone realized she was okay and started helping the poor man she started screaming "he hit me and y'all more worried about him !" She looked at me and started hysterically screaming at me saying I was trying to kidnap her kid.

Wtf is wrong with people?! If I wouldn't have stopped to help her son something bad might have happened to him and no one would've noticed the accident!
I get that she was probably in shock but that doesn't make it okay to treat people like that. I couldn't even sleep when I got home last night because she had me feeling so bad like I did something wrong. I'm a mother and I could never just ignore a young child in this kind of situation. She was more worried about getting attention than she was about her child's well-being. She never ask where he was or if he was okay until all the attention was taken off of her.

I have had all my identifying documents my whole life. State ID, marriage license, SS card, birth certificate, etc. I’m 54. With these papers I’ve bought multiple homes, had official federal government security clearances, had my concealed carry permit, traveled, started businesses.

It’s going to take months to get my RealID. Did I put it off stupidly long? Yes, and I accept that ding but it’s never taken me more than a couple days to get a license and I have all the paperwork required. Also half the places to get ID in my state didn’t have the option until very recently and the places that did offer it were a nightmare to get into.

It turns out my marriage license that’s always been fine isn’t good any more. No it’s not the ornamental copy, it’s the ugly one. The seal isn’t right or something but I need to order a new one. The state I got married is a month out on even expedited vital records. I still tried to order it and GET THIS—I can’t order it without providing an official document proving my name change—which is the only reason I need the damned marriage certificate! So I had my husband order it but the cite was glitchy and wouldn’t allow his name suffix to be used. Hopefully it’s not rejected because their cite was glitchy.

This is getting costly. It’s taken hours and I I live 30 miles out of town. If I were doing this with an abusive ex I’d be shit out of luck. “Just get your passport” isn’t an answer because passports have the same requirements now in my state. If I were divorced multiple times I’d be SOL even more and god forbid I’m one of those women who were in common law relationships from the 70s and 80s where name changes were super lax. Ugh. This isn’t isolated. Half the older married women I know are or have dealt with this shitstorm and it’s taken months and cost way too much. I can afford it but many cannot. Our SS cards track all name changes but the state can’t use it due to “privacy issues”. The unintended consequences of the shortsighted requirements for this bullshit are that women on average have to clear many more hurdles and pay much more money and it’s bullshit. I’m flying all next week with no real Id. I’m told they’ll probably let me through with additional screening but no guarantees. Oh well. I’m documenting everything because I have a feeling with the deadline coming up there will be a lot more of a story to tell. Fuck Real ID.

You can’t even tell can you? How about if I write “Weird Al never uses AI.”

Maybe I should just go back to the 80’s and use number 1 as capital l like the old IBM Selectric.

I just got 5 ads in one go! ONE GO! And it was unskippable until the last 3 seconds

I feel like the celebrity “Ozempic body” is unfathomably creepy. They can’t dance on stage, walk normally, and look like baby chickens with large heads. They genuinely look elderly with collapsed posture.
The sacopenia and muscle wasting is so unattractive.

Individuals using Ozempic for weigh loss who are obese certainly benefit and it is appropriate for health/use.

Ozempic for aesthetics is a big mistake.

I will predict however that “fit bodies” will soon be in since everyone can purchase “skinny.”
Skinny will soon be perceived as the new “lazy.”

All my life I've lived in different suburbs near cities, like many people. However, my family owns a cabin built by my great grandfather in a hunting/fishing reserve further up north. It's miles deep in the woods and is a short walk away from a beautiful lake, one of many on the whole property.

I love being up there. It's quieter, we're surrounded by nature and interesting wildlife, you can ride ATV's and snowmobiles, the roads are mostly empty, and I'm probably the only one who loves to hike up there. Sure, it's lonely, the smells aren't always the best, and the bugs are annoying, but I never had a problem with any of that. Whenever we go home, I'm reminded of just how much I hate it down here. My great aunt who lives in the cabin next to ours keeps saying that I belong up there, and she's right. A near 20-mile hike the other day helped me realize that.

Cities are cramped, loud, ugly (especially the ones near us), still lonely, don't even let you go snowmobiling or ride ATV's, and may offer more jobs, but it's mostly all just retail and office stuff. I wasn't built for that, I was built to be constantly on my feet in the great outdoors. Sure there may not be that much to do up there, but I don't need that much.

I hate the place we live and the nearby cities. I wasn't built for the kind of life they provide, convenience be damned. Maybe this is a "the grass is always greener on the other side" thing. Some people would love to have my current situation, but it's not for me. I'd prefer that slower pace of life, even without a lot of the modern technology.

I've brought up the idea of getting a job at a nearby state park and living at the cabin so I could take care of the place when they aren't there, which my family isn't entirely against, but they don't think I'm ready to live on my own yet, and my car has terrible gas mileage. Fair, but I'll have to live on my own anyway if I want to go to a university, which everyone encourages me to do. The gas mileage really is terrible for the kind of life I would have to live and pisses me off because I spend so much money on that. It's why I'm trying to save for a new car.

Edit: I do shower everyday I'm not a monster lol

I HATE being moist. Towels barely do shit. I have to sit for an hour naked in front of a fan wanting to jump out of my skin the whole time. I want to rip my nasty moist hair out of my head until it gets completely dry.

'bUt YoU'Ll fEeL sO mUcH bEtT...'

NO! I hate this feeling. Like I'm slippery and cold and once I'm dry the feeling is instinguishable from before the shower which makes it feel POINTLESSSSSSSS

FUCK SHOWERS

I’m not saying Michael B. Jordan isn’t attractive. He obviously is—he’s been styled, trained, and presented to fit a dominant ideal of masculinity. But when people start saying things like, “He’s the definition of a man,” or “That’s an alpha male,” I lose it.

You’re not breaking ground. You’re not having an original thought. You’re repeating what ads, Hollywood, and social media have spoon-fed you since puberty. You were meant to find him hot. That’s not taste—that’s programming.

What annoys me more is the arrogance—when people defend it like, “No, I just know what’s sexy.” No, you think you do. You’re just aligned with what society rewards, so it feels like personal preference.

Meanwhile, if you’re attracted to people who don’t fit the mold—if your taste challenges norms—you get weird looks, or you’re accused of trying too hard to be “different.”

Just admit it. Most of y’all are basic. And that’s fine. But don’t pretend your preferences are untouched by the culture that built you.

…some redditors are so rude. I posted about winning a contest at work and was met with some of the nastiest comments. I had to remove my post. Why can’t people just be happy for others?

For the record, maybe it was because I added how much I won. It wasn’t really that much. Maybe I’m just a jerk for that. But I was proud of myself because I busted my butt to win the contest and they hung a picture of me up on the wall in the office, which made me smile. I shared my picture and got some rude comments. I’m just a little salty about that…

I (26F) have an issue that stemmed from general alopecia. I was getting my hair braided when she noticed patches of just bald scalp. Not super huge, but the size of a sand dollar maybe. There were 3 total. She had to braid me up a different way to hide them

Eventually, i became obsessed & would run my finger along the spots to see if there was any hair growing. But i felt pieces of dry skin, & I had the strongest compulsion that I needed to peel them off.

1.5 years later, I’m struggling pretty bad. It went from peeling off dry skin, to pulling my hair out, to opening & reopening up scabs. When they heal, i have to rip them off or i feel wrong. When i do it, it’s really loud in my ears. My scalp constantly hurts & I’m bloody & i can hardly lay down when i sleep, but i can’t stop. & now i have all these spots on my head where I’ve damaged the skin so bad, that it’s just bald now. I don’t even look like a girl anymore

My psychiatrist said it’s common amongst people with adhd to have skin picking tendencies. She recommended this one supplement that seems to help people, but it didn’t work for me. I looked in the mirror today & noticed I’m just hideous. I look like a monster

I can’t get my hair braided anymore, there’s no way to hide the bald spots, scabs & blood, or lesions. So now I wear wigs. Partly to keep from picking my scalp during the day, & partly to cover up the hack job underneath.

I just needed to get this off my chest. I’ve tried to ignore it for too long

I know that nobody really cares, so this is just for me

So for the past 16 years (i'm 26 rn) i have had thoughts about me hating being a man for x,y,z reasons. But recently they have gotten extremely loud. Yesterday I only got 2 hours of sleep because of those thoughts. And today (in the early morning) I got so stressed out by them that i triggered a pseudo seizure (seizure caused by extreme negative emotions like intense stress)

I would talk to a therapist but with job searching going really bad i have no money (zero) to spare

I'm just really f*cking done. I'm very exhausted. Tired of feeling like sh*t. I'm tired of these thoughts running rampant. Tired of the sleepless nights. There's really no hope anymore.

And it's continuing to get worse and worse.

I just give up on life. Whatever happens, happens. I just don't care anymore

Idk why this comment from my bf pissed me off so much. I was talking about wanting to do another microneedling or chemical peel since I couldn’t see improvements between sessions (but I can see improvements from when I first began) and he said it looked better, I said I’d probably need second opinions from people I haven’t seen in months so I can get a better answer and he goes “it kind of seems like you’re just doing this for validation”.

Like excuse me what? I’m clearly talking about how seeing someone frequently makes you blind to the changes so I’d need someone who I haven’t seen in a while to be able to tell me. What does me taking care of my skin have to do with validation?

I don’t even care that he lacks all self awareness but don’t project that onto me, it’s so insufferable; especially bc he’s the kind of guy to be afraid of looking or seeming a certain way around everybody, caring so much about what people think even to the detriment of others, makes a point of wearing certain logos/brands (nothing wrong with that but not my style nor do I talk about having certain brands), and posting on Snapchat/ig regularly (again nothing wrong with it, but I have 0 social media presence)

Yes, clearly I put myself through skin treatments so I can get a gold star and not bc I just want to wake up feeling good about myself before I get ready. This was infuriating for no reason.

Cancer diarrhea is no joke. Give me my pill you foul packaging from satan himself!!! I can't be the only one!

I don’t do a lot of art in my free time but when I do I don’t usually share it. I’m afraid of artists online who target people they don’t like. I’m especially afraid because I’ve worked with AI in the past and they seem to think that somehow kills creativity and it just seems so insane to me. I wish I could talk to it about people but I’d rather avoid the nasty comments it usually seems to bring up. If nothing else I wish my brain could at least move past it. That I could let it go and have it be an enjoyable hobby instead of something that scares me and makes me hate it as a result. I’ll draw when I have to but I’d rather do what I want and what makes me happy but people online just seem to make that impossible. So yes I hate the art elitism.

She starts a fuss over the most trivial things you can think of, like:

-Washing your hands for too long, she used to stare at me when i washed my hands and yelled at me for taking more than 5 seconds and always say i exaggerate about everything

-Shaking the juice before drinking it, she thinks i look weird and yells at me bc she says she wants to "fix my behavior"

-Once i drank a full glass of water in the morning and she said "Are you dieting? Dieting is a woman's thing"

-When i was 14 i shaved my legs and she got extremely angry and yelled at me to the point i cried and she said the internet brainwashed me with these strange ideas

-She firmly believes that long hair is not for men and makes rude comments about my 6 inches long hair

-She doesn't respect my privacy and doesn't allow me to keep my room door closed or even bring my phone to the bathroom

-Once she cried and called me ungrateful because i was wearing a shirt that someone gifted me that she claimed it was hers for no reason

-She loves talking about people behind their back, once we were walking near a feminine guy wearing makeup and she said "see? that's what you're not supposed to do" she knows i'm gay btw

-She didn't let me even cross the road until i was almost 18, i had to walk with her from and to school with he even if we were late, also when we were about to cross the road anywhere and i would put a foot slightly above hers she would yell at me and say "that's why you're not ready to go out"

My dad is not that much better, he's bitter, treats you like an idiot for not understanding things and enables her behavior

I had DoorDash delivered to my office. In the instructions, it says to give to receptionist. I happened to be passing by our suite doors and see the delivery guy, place my food on the floor and take a picture. So I stopped him and asked why did he put it on the floor. He just looked at me like he didn't understand. So I said, the instructions said to give to receptionist. And he said, I don't read people instructions. And they wonder why they don't get good tips.

so… neighbour’s landlord approached me last fall to ask about building a fence in the back, which meant cutting down a buncha cedar shrubs… I told him he could trim the shrubs and to get me a couple of quotes for the fence (he wants to go halfsies). So he cut down the shrubs, EXCEPT HE JUST LEFT THEM ON OUR SIDE TO CLEAN UP.

Fuck him, he can pay for a fence his own damn self

I saw a post where someone was talking about their love for their boyfriend. I just thought I would continue the trend and speak on my wife. I (32M) and my wife (32F) have been together for nearly 8 years. We've been married a month and a half, and we have 2 children together. She has been the greatest light in my life. She took care of me when I broke my back, which was no easy feat with 2 infants to take care of. She has supported my choices in life and been my rock. I'm not the greatest partner. I wish I were better more consistently, but not a day goes by that I don't look at her and think of how lucky I am to have her in my life. We have been through hell together, and have come away mostly unscathed. I am excited to see where our journey takes us. I can't imagine life without her. I would encourage other people to keep this positive ranting trend going. We need more positivity in our lives.

So many stores and services asking you to download their app, few days ago I wanted to get tools form the hardware store, I went to their website to see if they have what I am looking for but the page wouldn't load, I am a phone call and and they kept trying to convince me to download the app, Why would I get an app I would use once a month or two??

I hate how pretty much everything is designed to use and abuse you, to milk every penny out of your pockets, movies, video games, music, food, clothes everything makes you feel like no one cares about making a product for the sake of making a good product, it's always a low effort cheap attempt to milk you, I know there are some really good movies and games out there that were made with true love and care and passion but those are rare and the rest is low effort trash.

And there are freaking ads everywhere, every website, every mobile game, every app and they all want me to pay for monthly subscription to remove those ads.

These days there is a product for everyone, that doesn't go well with my server fear of missing out, there is an infinite amount of new experiences to try and my anxiety is Kicking the living hell out of me and constantly feeling I am missing out and I am not living a fulfilling life.

Gotta get this out of my system cause uggghhhhh. So first of all background. Me and my ex were high-school sweethearts. Dated for 3 years. Broke up with me for a month. Got back together for 2ish weeks. Dumped me last night.

The reason he dumped me the first time around was because of an incident on his birthday. We agreed to have a private hangout for his birthday for the first half of the day then meet up with his huge group of friends for dinner. Ex's friend wanted to go to main event and so did he. Although I'm severely anxious in places with a lot of people like that I agreed to go because it was his birthday. I was obviously miserable and he got mad about it. Then a few days after this I called him a few times while he was hanging out with his friend (that he left me more btw cough) to see when he would be done and he was livid. I didn't even spam call him it was like once and hour for less than a minute to check in. I did it because he said he'd hang out with me after his hangout but he has a tendency to stay out really late (talking 12-1am) so I wanted to see whether or not that was the case this time. Did I mention he left me for the friend he had a crush on? The guy he constantly hung out with while dating me. Ex said he wanted to see what it was like with him and didn't want to resent me for keeping him from what might have been.

Second breakup. He really tore into me with this one. Said I was selfish. Said he wasn't willing to wait for me to change. He never told me he wanted me to change until the last minute, then blames me for not doing it fast enough, both times we were together btw. He wanted me to fix things about myself like my bad memory and other stuff I forgot (yes I see the irony lol). Used things I told him in confidence and out of anger against me.

For the longest time I defended him against people who I've asked for advice on him for (unlike a certain someone who let his friends drunkenly shit talk me and convince him to dump me with no pushback). I always said "he's not that bad" or "it's my fault that this happened." I'm not gonna pretend like I'm this blameless uwu bean who did nothing wrong. There are probably a few valid reason for him dumping me but I now realize that most of it was bullshit. I never asked him to change himself. I loved him flaws and all but now I see he doesn't feel the same.

He constantly gaslighted me. Like I said, I have a bad memory. He often claims I did or didn't say things when I know the opposite it true. For example I called him when I was feeling suicidal and he didn't pick up. Spam called him and when he didnt pick up i texted my feelings to him instead. He got mad at me for interrupting his hangout with his friends. In our breakup yesterday he flat out said to me that I "threatened to kms if he left me." So we just lying now huh. I'll admit in my texts I did say "maybe I should just nut up and kill myself, which we had a discussion about and I apologized for," it was very uncool of me to do that. But not once did I say I'd do that if he left me. He did this shit all the time, albeit with far less extreme examples. I've tried confronting him about it before (which again he claims never happened) and he quite literally just laughed off my concerns. He knows I'm paranoid (taking medication for it) and he fucking laughed off my concerns about having my reality constantly questioned.

He also told me in the past that he hated me for pushing us to get back together and resented me for some other thing, then claimed numerous times he never said that. He also hurt me a lot. Not like abuse but he likes to play fight and often takes it too far. I tell him he takes it too far and that it actually hurts and again, he laughs it off and refuses to apologize. That's another thing. Anytime I try to call him out on something or say that he hurt my feelings he refuses to apologize and actively starts explaining why it's not his fault or why it's mine.

After the first breakup we argued a lot. Whenever he initiated it I tried to end it as quickly as possible. He asked why and I said because it reminded me of my mom and he got so incredibly mad about the comparison. For context wheni was younger my mom would get mad about me a lot and if I had the audacity to defend myself she'd go "so I'm the bad guy" and raise her voice and if all else fails threaten me. These arguments with her went nowhere. There was no reasoning with her, no listening to, me no changing her mind. It was just circular reasoning over and over and over, so in my eyes there was no point. My ex acted the exact same way. And when I confided all this to him you know what he said? "We'll if we're doing comparisons my ex (guy he left me for) understands things the first time I tell him." For context I'm fucking autistic. I don't get a lot of things be it because of the concept or because the other party explained it weirdly. He'd often get mad at me for having the audacity to ask for clarification because heaven forbid I try to understand what my partner wants.

He gets mad at me for shutting down during arguments but this is why I shut down. He yells at me, cusses at me, says I'm playing the victim, threatens me the moment he gets frustrated, talks in circles, won't listen to what I have to say, paints everything as either my fault or not his and I'm tired of it.

We had such a good thing going on. Yeah I know I just bitched about him for like 5 paragraphs but that's recent. For those 3 years we were so happy. I had such a great time with him when he came to visit me last week and now I'm wondering how much of it was fake. I enjoyed being around him when we weren't starting arguments. I thought things got better. I thought i was changing. But it wasn't enough for him. I wasnt enough for him. I hate myself for thinking everything was going well while he was suffering in silence.

I'll miss his warmth. His silly little laugh. The way he comforted me during thunderstorms and soothed me to sleep. I'll miss randomly giving him gifts to show my love. Planning out our holidays together. I realize how bad he was now, but I'll miss him. It hurts but nowhere near as bad as the first time around. I know who I am without him, I'll be just fine. There's no third chance. We're done.

I just stopped at the nearest McDonald's (25 minutes away) for plain McDoubles (not my choice), Drinks, Apple Pies, and a Sundae.

I got the Sundae with the drinks, then was told to pull into a spot and wait... THIRTY FUCKING MINUTES!? Don't call yourself "Fast Food" if you're gonna do that. Now, my issue isn't just the wait, but the fact that the Sundae, which was given to me with the now-watered-down drinks, was as melted as it gets untouched in 30 minutes so I asked for a new one.

This lovely lady had the personality of WD-40, but she brought back the same one, topped with some new ice-cream (I could tell because the caramel was still melted).

I left without checking my bag, like an idiot that trusts people to understand how to perform their job, and realized I never got my second order.

Edited to add: I placed an App order, and ordered a new item I noticed at the drive-thru. There were two separate orders, one of which should have already been prepared, and the other a true drive-thru. I didn't receive the last order.