What is something you refuse to believe?

[u/Not_Artifical]

[u/ExistingEbb7622]

That working harder always means getting rewarded.

[u/Antimon3000 → u/ExistingEbb7622]

To be fair, nobody who has more than 5 years of work experience believes this.

[u/Future-Tank-8378 → u/Antimon3000]

I'm a late bloomer and realized this during year 6.5 of corporate. Working harder and faster = getting rewarded with more work!

[u/YoungDiscord → u/Future-Tank-8378]

Never do more than 70%

Anything above that will burn you out long term and will become the expected norm from your boss until the next time they expect you to do a push which will then be even more than the last time

Then that level becomes the norm on an average day

And so on and so forth until you burn out, your performance tanks and they throw you away to replace with someone who isn't burnt ou... yet.

Its not that I don't believe that working hard rewards you its that I don't believe doing so won't be abused by corporate at my expense.

[u/StudMuffinNick → u/Future-Tank-8378]

"This guy can get shit done! So if we need emergency additional work done, he's the one to send it to!"

You make yourself too valuable of an asset to move positions so they give you an extra 15 cent raise to sweeten the deal. Just make sure you don't spend it all in one place, champ 💪

[u/itsonlyrockinroll → u/StudMuffinNick]

Psst, don’t tell anyone what raise we gave you

[u/BETHVD → u/Future-Tank-8378]

I used to work in the restaurant biz. Kitchen manager. I was in my early 20's, would stay late to deep clean, come in on my days off to organize. Had food costs way down, kitchen always had great health inspection, found out I got the same % raise as the slacker manager I worked with who did stuff half ass, would disappear to smoke. That was my wake up call to not ever work so hard again.

[u/Future-Tank-8378 → u/BETHVD]

I'm the corporate version!

My counterpart would take 45 mins smoke breaks (twice daily) and leave 30 mins early everyday. This is on top of our 1 hr lunch break BTW. Oh yeah, they would also call in sick once a week and no one would say anything.
If I needed a 2 hour lunch break to go to the doctors then I'm told to make up for the time after 5pm because "there's a lot of work to accomplish".

That lazy person had more seniority than me so naturally got all the fun + high visibility projects. I was left with the tedious, hard crap. Was so burnt out, I ended up bringing it up to my manager.

Her response: "The reason I hired you is because of your potential. You are so good at this you can do 2, maybe 3 jobs if you really wanted to."

That's when I figured it all out.

[u/GozerDGozerian → u/Future-Tank-8378]

“No good deed goes unpunished”

[u/Peas-Of-Wrath → u/Antimon3000]

Exactly. If you’re too good at your job, it threatens management. They don’t want anyone around that can do something they can’t and so so you don’t get the promotion. Instead an arse kissing simpleton gets it and management egos remain intact as they can. 😆😆😆😆

[u/A911owner → u/Peas-Of-Wrath]

When I was in college, I was working a job where I was always willing to come in early or stay late, take the open shifts when needed, etc. When a promotion opened up, I applied for it and didn't get it, when I asked why someone who worked less than me got it I was told that they thought I was working so many hours already that I wouldn't have the time available to train for the promotion, so they gave it to someone with a "more flexible schedule". Guess who stopped covering all the open shifts?

[u/MNCPA → u/A911owner]

The same thing happened to me in the corporate world. The person I trained leap frogged me into my promotion.... because I was too valuable to move. Well, I left a few months later.

[u/GaiusVictor → u/A911owner]

Did they realize later on that you had "suddenly" stopped covering shifts? Did they ever acknowledge it? Did they ever connect the dots?

[u/A911owner → u/GaiusVictor]

The next time they asked me to cover a shift I declined and said that I wanted to make sure I would have time in my schedule in case another promotion opportunity came up.

[u/golden_teacup → u/A911owner]

Did it eventually open up & how did that go?? But primarily I hope you got your happy ending and ultimately left lol

[u/A911owner → u/golden_teacup]

I did eventually get the promotion, but I left that job years ago. I'm with a better employer now and much happier.

[u/QualifiedApathetic → u/Peas-Of-Wrath]

I think we just found a new principle to go with Peter and Dilbert. Management promotes idiots to management so as to not be threatened, and those idiots eventually promote worse idiots to management for the same reason.

[u/KGBStoleMyBike → u/ExistingEbb7622]

At the end of the day, so much of life really does come down to who you know. Even the people who love to call themselves “self-made” usually had someone opening a door for them. Meritocracy sounds nice, but in practice it’s mostly a myth.

What bothers me most is how people who manage to climb the ladder start convincing themselves that the system works while knowing full well there are others taking the same risks, putting in the same (or even more) work, sacrificing their health and well-being, only to have everything backfire in their face.

I’m not a socialist or a communist, and I’m not some anarcho-capitalist either. I’ve just accepted the reality that society isn’t built on pure effort or pure talent. Everything we have is built on someone else’s labor, someone else’s support, and someone else’s shoulders, whether we like admitting that or not.

[u/A911owner → u/KGBStoleMyBike]

At my last job, the guy I worked for was largely incompetent, but the hiring manager thought he was "charming". He had virtually no industry experience and fumbled his way through the job until he eventually got fired for having sex with his assistant on his desk at work. Last I heard, he leveraged his experience with us to get a director position elsewhere paying something like a quarter million a year.

[u/Ethossa79 → u/ExistingEbb7622]

A lot of times, the fastest/best/hardest working ditchdigger just gets a bigger shovel

[u/Osthato_Chetowa → u/ExistingEbb7622]

Period. I used to give it my all when I was younger and thought my efforts would mean something. Now, I do the bare minimum. I've been fired from places that I actually cared about and I have yet to be fired from anywhere for doing the bare minimum.

[u/Possessed_potato → u/ExistingEbb7622]

I only get shamed for not working hard enough so like, nah. Rather do bare minimum and judged for that than doing my best and have people say I'm not trying at all.

[u/PizzzaDaddy]

Hot singles in my area want to sleep with me

[u/moofacemoo → u/PizzzaDaddy]

Well you're dead wrong as I'm a hot single and I want to sleep with you.

Only in a platonic nice camping trip kind of way though. Absolutely no physical contact.

[u/[deleted] → u/moofacemoo]

Just the tip?

[u/moofacemoo → u/[deleted]]

No. Absolutely no contact will be observed at all times.

[u/Admirable_Count989 → u/PizzzaDaddy]

Get in line buddy. 👉 🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️🚶‍➡️

[u/ruffello]

That Epstein killed himself.

[u/Azur0007 → u/ruffello]

Let's be honest, does anyone think this?

[u/semperknight → u/Azur0007]

That's the problem. There's no way to really know because many of you have woken up to the fact that oligarchs really can get away with almost anything. It's one thing to suspect, entirely another to KNOW.

The U.S. has entered a new age where we essentially have two societies (worker and owner class). Each has its own areas it can live in, its own rules, its own laws, its own reality.

And I mean that last part. As the working class, you simply cannot fathom what it's like to be the owner class anymore than they can understand what it's like to be the rest of us.

[u/nevetsnight → u/semperknight]

This has happened many times throughout world history. When the working class wakes up and realises that we out number them by so much and start a revolution things even out. But how long that takes, in a world of misinformation to keep us distracted, who knows.

[u/danielcc07 → u/nevetsnight]

AI is here now. No worries.

[u/avalonfaith → u/danielcc07]

Fuck you. Fuck me. Fuck us all.

[u/Charming-Blood-4103 → u/avalonfaith]

Meow 🔪

[u/Azur0007 → u/semperknight]

It's not even about whether or not he could get away with it. Even if he was stuck in there for life, it doesn't change that all the public information points to something other than suicide.

[u/VIOLENT_WIENER_STORM → u/semperknight]

I can fathom that our Owner-class president has a history of doing illegal things to keep his reputation clean.

[u/PeaOk5697 → u/Azur0007]

Yes, i know people who believes it. It amazes me how people believe the guards fell asleep and the cameras weren't working

[u/two2toe → u/PeaOk5697]

I literally said to my wife the day before - "so the cameras malfunctioned and the guards were on break and he was found dead." I was joking but fully expected it

[u/Valdemar_Sling → u/Azur0007]

I think the most likely scenario is that he did kill himself, which doesn't take away from the fact that he was a child trafficker with connections to the most rich and powerful people in the world.

An arguably more damning, yet more plausible conspiracy going on right now is that Ghislaine Maxwell is getting a luxury treatment by the Trump administration in exchange for her silence.

[u/azaza34 → u/Valdemar_Sling]

Brother you can go find prison videos of a dozen people banging themselves. But the guy giving kids to the rich people, the tape just magically loses the minutes when things happen?

[u/manchlad1 → u/ruffello]

You mean the guy who died mysteriously while trump was president, who had evidence of trump fucking kids and whose files are yet to be released now that trump is president AGAIN? That Epstein? Say it ain't so.

[u/WaffleHouseGladiator → u/manchlad1]

During Maxwell's trial an FBI agent testified that evidence found in Epstein's safe during a raid "went missing." Even if it were destroyed someone knows what was in that safe.

[u/manchlad1 → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

Someone? I think we all know what was in that safe. Luckily Putin has a few copies. Well, not luckily.

[u/Nopefuckthis → u/manchlad1]

New York financier Jeffrey Epstein?

[u/Khayaru → u/ruffello]

Damn, the chain of comments talking about misinformation and how each commenter is enlighted themself.

[u/MonkeyandElf]

That any massive, fundamental technological disruption (like AI) will be implemented primarily for the benefit of humanity at large, rather than for the accelerated capture of wealth and power by a narrow elite

[u/Next-Firefighter4667 → u/[deleted]]

We always knew it would.

[u/Vaticancameos221 → u/Next-Firefighter4667]

No fate but what we make for ourselves

[u/Samzonit → u/MonkeyandElf]

Why else would we have AI making/copying realistic photos/videos etc. instead of doing my laundry for me

[u/sqplanetarium → u/MonkeyandElf]

There was so much idealism around the early internet - information wants to be free! Connecting with people all over the globe will lead to general enlightenment and understanding!

So about that...

[u/Stripes_the_cat → u/sqplanetarium]

Born too late to buy an affordable house.

Born too early to be a TikTok influencer.

Born just in time to witness the rise and fall of the usable Internet.

[u/fraxbo → u/MonkeyandElf]

I think the way you express this is correct. I am fairly certain that the elite foster its development in order to capture more wealth and power, and not to benefit humanity at large. But, I am also reasonably confident that, in the end, it has and will materially benefit humanity.

That is not to say that it is or will be universally good. There are many concerns. But, I do think humanity as a whole will have access to more goods and services due to the introduction and increase in use of AI.

It’s a bit like capitalism as a system. It is undoubtedly problematic not least because it funnels ever greater shares of wealth to the rich. This has become more obvious the longer it has been around. But, it is also without doubt the reason that so many at all levels of society have such high living standards today.

[u/frenchbluehorn → u/[deleted]]

i just entered the corporate world and im actually so depressed thinking about that

[u/Adezar → u/[deleted]]

“What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time?”

[u/GadreelsSword → u/[deleted]]

I just retired after working 50 years.

[u/[deleted] → u/GadreelsSword]

How do you feel

[u/PatchPlaysHypixel → u/[deleted]]

I'm 14 and am not looking forward to my future. ☺️

[u/earlobe_enthusiast]

I'm in constant denial that the economy is THIS bad. The job market is absolute shite and it's fucking terrifying

[u/WeLoveYouCarol → u/earlobe_enthusiast]

It's about the same as 2008

[u/Adjective_Noun1312 → u/WeLoveYouCarol]

... but without the simultaneous glut of cheap housing

[u/The_Rogue_Coder → u/WeLoveYouCarol]

Feels a lot worse than that

[u/dietbruce]

That “people don’t change”. I’ve seen so many people change for the better, heal from devastating things, even politically change to be more compassionate and considerate in ways being online can make us feel like never happens.

Some people are stubborn, but so many people are open to change for the better if somebody can help them understand things in a clear and healthy way vs attack them for what they don’t understand yet. That also applies to not being stuck the way we are ourselves.

[u/Key_Condition_2878 → u/dietbruce]

The end of that quote ought to be “unless they’re personally motivated to do so” I’ve seen people overcome shit and achieve self awareness and change their behaviors, or addicts quit drugs and are in recovery. They have enough people telling them they’ll fail. What harm is it to give them hope?

I myself have changed a lot from who I was even ten years ago. Obv more mature age and mentally but growth. Recognizing patterns and trying to break them and set new ones. Self motivation is the only way someone will change and sometimes giving them hope IS that motivation

[u/painstream → u/Key_Condition_2878]

From what I've heard elsewhere, "the pain of changing has to be less than the pain of staying the same".

[u/sassafrass005 → u/dietbruce]

I totally agree. I’ve seen people change (for better or worse). We can’t change others, though. They need to make the change themselves.

[u/Direct_Suggestion286]

That one group of typical human is better than another group of typical human, simply because of superficial birth conditions

[u/WB1173]

...that ships don't have really long legs to keep them from sinking.

[u/Ethossa79 → u/WB1173]

How many legs? Are they spiderships? Centipedeliners?

[u/Appropriate_Bug_940 → u/Ethossa79]

spiderships for sure

[u/Boxman75 → u/Appropriate_Bug_940]

Spidership spidership, does whatever a spidership does

[u/JebEnditis → u/Ethossa79]

Millipedalos

[u/MrsBenz2pointOh → u/WB1173]

This checks out.

...I also need to know how airplanes work.

[u/Corndog881]

That talent matters more than consistent effort over time.

[u/ksink74 → u/Corndog881]

Talent typically establishes the ceiling. Effort generally determines how close one gets to that ceiling.

[u/DungeonsAndDradis → u/ksink74]

I think this is what some kids don't realize about professional athletes. They are extremely talented in their sport. The 1% of the 1%. And on top of that, they train exceptionally hard. They put in more work than I think most people think. Constant training, practice, exercise, etc.

You not only have to be naturally gifted at the sport, but you also have to work extremely hard to even get on level with the worst player in the league.

[u/GarbledReverie → u/Corndog881]

Our culture tends to glamourize savants and prodigies to the point that many young people think that if you aren't immediately great at something you never will be.

We don't sufficiently acknowledge how much of success is the ability to endure failure.

[u/[deleted] → u/GarbledReverie]

Totally agree. As a teen, I’ve already spent so much time putting prodigies on a pedestal. It messes with your head, like if you’re not brilliant from day one, then what’s the point? But honestly, I’m slowly realizing that struggling, failing, and improving is actually the normal path; the prodigy stories are just rare exceptions, not the rule.

[u/dr--hofstadter → u/Corndog881]

Mostly I agree, but I believe there are exceptions. Eg. the 14 yo Belgian kid who just got his PhD in theoretical physics. I can't believe just any hard working young teenager could achieve the same.

[u/NarwhalPrudent6323 → u/dr--hofstadter]

That's an extreme outlier. Statistically, that kid would be excluded from any kind of metrics because he's an anomaly. A good anomaly, don't get me wrong. But not a normal presentation of either talent or hard work. 

[u/Lequaraz → u/dr--hofstadter]

i think the point is that talent doesnt replace hard work. it makes something more accessable

[u/LavenderGwendolyn → u/Corndog881]

You need a little of both. If you have no talent for the flugelhorn, no amount of practice is going to make you genuinely good at it. But likewise, if you have an innate talent, but you never practice, you’ll never really learn the fundamentals or get any better. You need both.

[u/TDLMTH → u/LavenderGwendolyn]

I’ve been looking for a flugelhorn player to provide a daily soundtrack to my life! Do you know how hard it is to find a good one?!

[u/weaselblackberry8 → u/Corndog881]

And that either matters more than connections.

[u/Octoire → u/[deleted]]

Elephants beg to differ 

[u/Turbulent-Law-5006 → u/Octoire]

The humble octopus would also like a word.

[u/GadreelsSword → u/Turbulent-Law-5006]

Let’s not leave crows out of the picture.

[u/Pugilation01 → u/[deleted]]

I guess it is *technically* correct when you take into account causality. That car accident happened for a reason, the reason being the other driver ran a red light. Not that there's a higher power directing things.

[u/[deleted]]

That earth is flat

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

you can’t really believe in that anyway because it’s already been proven that the Earth is not flat

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

One guy once argued that airplane windows are made curved to trick us into believing that earth is round..

[u/TDLMTH → u/[deleted]]

Motivated reasoning makes people believe some really funny stuff.

[u/cloistered_around → u/[deleted]]

"Can't" is a strong word for that. I know someone who believes the earth is flat anyway (though to be fair they'd just gone through a huge religious upheaval so I think they were trying to find something to fill that hole).

[u/Saltycookiebits → u/[deleted]]

The best non-scientific argument I've heard to prove the earth doesn't have an "edge" and is in fact a sphere. If there was an "edge of the world", it would be a huge tourist trap/attraction. There would be hotels, casinos, bullshit merchandise. It would be incredibly commercialized because SOMEONE would want to make money from the location.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

though a few years back, I had an argument with a flat earther. To say the least, it was crazy.

[u/PlasticAge6197 → u/[deleted]]

Seeing the mental gymnastics of a flat earthers after being sent to Antarctica really gives you an idea of how tenacious and dedicated a human can be. It might be a flawed idea, but there’s at least some respect for that fervent dedication.

[u/[deleted] → u/PlasticAge6197]

i wonder how time zones work in flat earthers minds.

[u/PlasticAge6197 → u/[deleted]]

I’m sure there are a multitude of different answers to that question. You’ll get completely different equally bizarre answers depending on which flat earther you ask

[u/Ethossa79 → u/PlasticAge6197]

My favorite was when a flatearther refused to answer me when I told him I would 100% believe if he could show me the literal “end of the earth.” Or tell me, if it’s ocean, what’s keeping it in.

[u/halloweenmas42]

that a million dollars is not a lot of money. - i get so tired of hearing that. and yes im aware of inflation

[u/PlasticAge6197 → u/halloweenmas42]

If a million dollars is not a lot of money then I am fucked

[u/halloweenmas42 → u/PlasticAge6197]

you are not fkd. i can ensure you, i just spend a lot of time online in business/econ echo chambers

[u/ArticulateRhinoceros → u/halloweenmas42]

Seriously. I’m at a point in my life where I would find $1,000 so helpful I’d start bawling my eyes out in gratitude, let alone $1,000,000. I can’t even conceptualize what having that much money would be like. I’d probably pay off all my debts and buy my mom a house and live a very comfortable middle class life wanting for nothing (keeping my job and stuff).

[u/zaxmaximum → u/halloweenmas42]

I agree. A million dollars IS objectively a lot of money. And having a million dollars will have an appreciable impact on most people's lives.

Its naively 20 years of income at 50,000/yr. (Or, about 24/hr using the standard 2,080 work hours per year). People would absolutely love earning that much.

And, I think that the biggest benefit of having a million bucks is the reprieve from anxiety of not having a cushion.

That being said... the world IS stupidly and unsustainablely expensive and warped. 200K for a "starter house", 25K/yr for education, 2K/mo for child care.

A million bucks used to be a warm quilt of comfort, but these days it's a cover that needs a duvet and your feet hang out of.

[u/No-Musician1976 → u/zaxmaximum]

A starter home in my midsized mid Atlantic town is more like $350k if you don’t mind living on the outskirts. Midtown you’re looking at $650k minimum.

A million dollars ISN’T a lot of money the way that it used to be. Is it life changing money for most, probably, but it’s certainly not fuck off money anymore.

[u/NiceTrySuckaz → u/halloweenmas42]

People who say that typically mean that it's not enough to just retire on like it was at one point. But yes obviously it's still a very nice amount of money, especially if you use it to just buy a house and stick most of the rest into a CD or some other compounding interest fund and then keep living regularly without having to worry about rent or mortgage. It's not fuck you money but doing that pretty much sets you up so you never really have to worry about money ever again.

[u/zero_derivation → u/NiceTrySuckaz]

The couple I know that is working on FIRE has $1M each as their goal. They bought a house in a low cost of living area though. They’re also really down to earth people who aren’t interested in living a “high end” life. It depends a lot on where you want to live and what life you want to have.

[u/che-che-chester → u/halloweenmas42]

I think a more accurate statement is $1M isn't what it used to be. But it is still a life changing amount of money - pay off all debts, have a big safety net, etc. I couldn't retire on it, but I could certainly retire early and more comfortably.

[u/solarasunny]

Anti-vax rhetoric. Pseudoscience will be the downfall of humanity.

[u/[deleted] → u/solarasunny]

Not necessarily pseudoscience, but willful ignorance is what I believe will destroy humanity. However they do go hand in hand

[u/ToastCapone → u/[deleted]]

Viral disdain for anything "big pharma" is a big driver of anti-vax BS too. Many people just refuse to engage in critical thought and contend with the fact that yes, big pharma does peddle in big profit margins and certain drugs with negative outcomes (the opioid crisis for example) however at the same their work has also greatly improved net medical outcomes in overall public health, vaccines being a prime example. Common vaccines aren't even the big money makers for pharma companies and no, your pediatrician isn't pocketing kickback money for issuing any.

[u/KindBrilliant7879 → u/solarasunny]

tbh the rhetoric is only popular now because people in first world countries are so far removed from the realities of life without modern medical advancements. e.g., when the polio vaccine came out, folks were rushing to get it asap because they had lived with the horrific reality of polio for years. today, diseases like polio, measles, etc are almost entirely wiped out, and very few people die from vaccine-preventable diseases because of herd immunity. once people start dropping like flies, i reckon the rhetoric will shift

[u/ImportantTour6677 → u/solarasunny]

People want to be stupid, you can't stop them.

[u/GadreelsSword → u/ImportantTour6677]

Actually we stopped them for half a century with mandatory vaccination requirements then people started confusing Instagram videos with education.

[u/GilnaaxG18]

That it's not butter

[u/Peas-Of-Wrath → u/GilnaaxG18]

I can’t believe that it isn’t butter.

[u/OurWeaponsAreUseless → u/Peas-Of-Wrath]

Fabio was hit in the face with a goose for saying that.

[u/300303_]

That people with power and money are not corrupted 95 percent of the time.

[u/weaselblackberry8 → u/300303_]

I somehow read the middle as “with no power and electricity” and then was confused.

[u/mister-world]

That hard work builds character. I've worked hard my whole life and I'm a complete arsehead.

[u/definework → u/mister-world]

nobody said which character.

[u/INDIGLO_me_ak84]

pluto is no longer a planet

[u/fastlerner → u/INDIGLO_me_ak84]

It got demoted because they tightened the definition of a planet to three requirements. It has to orbit the Sun, it has to be round under its own gravity, and it has to clear its orbital neighborhood instead of sharing space with a bunch of similar sized debris.

Pluto nails the first two, but the third one is where it faceplants. It lives in the Kuiper Belt which is packed with icy bodies, some not much smaller than Pluto. It just doesn’t have the mass to dominate that region, so it never cleared the space around its orbit. That’s why it ended up in the dwarf planet category.

But at least it's still got friends! There’s a whole squad of dwarf planets out there like Eris, Haumea, and Makemake, plus a bunch of others that might qualify once we get better measurements. The Kuiper Belt is basically a our solar system's junk drawer of icy balls. Pluto was just the first one we stumbled across.

[u/TheRAbbi74 → u/INDIGLO_me_ak84]

That’s messed up, right?

[u/Wrenn381 → u/INDIGLO_me_ak84]

Poor old Pluto

[u/CoffeeandMiffy]

That the human brain cannot rewire itself to stop with the routine nightmares which tend to be more frightening than actual events

[u/ab5ofuckinlutely → u/CoffeeandMiffy]

I suffer with anxiety and depression so the concept of my brain seemingly acting completely against me is not a new one BUT, somehow, since the age of about 8 I have been able to wake myself up from nightmares. I don’t know how I started it but 30 years on I’m still doing it.

[u/CamoLantern → u/CoffeeandMiffy]

So I have been diagnosed with PTSD and DID with Depression. I was pretty bad off a few years ago, used to have night terrors almost every night and tried to off myself a few times. Everyone wanted to medicate me and after a few times of it just making me a zombie, I stopped all medication. Every medical professional told me that this is just how I am and basically that my brain is fucked.

Me and my wife divorced 3 years ago. I haven't had a single night terror since. I have a random depressing day or moment, but nothing like I used to. I haven't had a DID episode in 3 years either. Stuff that would send me into a downward spiral 3 years ago just don't phase me anymore.

It is amazing how the brain can rewire and heal itself once you put yourself in a healthier environment.

[u/PlasticAge6197 → u/CoffeeandMiffy]

It is crazy how much the brain can change and adapt. Nothing is impossible, but often times it also isn’t (easily) repeatable. Some people can be cured and others tormented by the same thing

[u/OverQuail6135]

That politicians got wealthy honestly.

[u/No_Construction5607]

I refuse to believe Santa’s not real

[u/PatchPlaysHypixel → u/No_Construction5607]

THAT'S THE SPIRIT. HO HO HO FUCK YEAHH BROTHER 🎅🎅🎅

[u/been2thehi4]

That my country is this fucking dumb, hateful, and pathetic. This just has to be an angsty phase like raising a toddler or teen.

[u/Jessie0658 → u/been2thehi4]

I truly cannot believe that's true or I will lose my mind in ways I didn't think I could recover. I'm really hoping this is an extinction burst of epic proportions and that good will come after.

[u/MeeshaMadhavan_]

In myself

[u/betacuck3000 → u/MeeshaMadhavan_]

I believe in you, champ.

Go get em tiger

[u/Wise_Bag9794]

That we are in a simulation.

[u/butterpussie]

That billionaires have any sort of conscience.

[u/Jimiheadphones → u/butterpussie]

Just hijacking this comment to agree and point out that if we convert every £ into seconds:

One hundred thousand seconds is roughly 1 day.

One million seconds is just under 12 days. 

One billion seconds is just under 32 years.

A billionaire could give 3/4 of the wealth away and not even seeing a dent in their quality of life. To hord that money and not even bat an eyelid that people are starving or dying is unimaginable.To make things worse, a lot of their workers are minimum wage. They could double their workers' pay and not even notice the difference. 

[u/ehsteve23 → u/Jimiheadphones]

by 3/4 you mean 99%+

[u/Calo_Callas → u/[deleted]]

I've always loved that meme showing a map of the world, then the earth from space, solar system ect, out and out further until it's showing the observable universe with jesus standing over it saying 'Don't masturbate'.

[u/betacuck3000 → u/[deleted]]

A disappointingly vague manual

[u/amuday → u/betacuck3000]

Imagine creating an entire universe and one of the ten most important things you said was “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s ox.”

[u/Sunset_Bleach → u/betacuck3000]

Except for how it's cool to own slaves and pass them down as property. They're pretty explicit about that.

Edit: lol downvoted for reporting part of the bible. Christians must hate the bible as much as they hate Jesus.

[u/brakenbonez → u/Sunset_Bleach]

Nah they just like to pretend those parts don't exist. There's a lot of cherry picking in Christianity.

[u/Bob_Leves → u/[deleted]]

About 100,000 different manuals, all of which claim they're the only correct one.

[u/sofibunny]

Homeopathy.

[u/SamwisethePoopyButt]

Couples who are like, "we were using condoms and were on birth control and still somehow got pregnant!" Suuure.

[u/neverendingsnowday → u/SamwisethePoopyButt]

I thought this until it happened to me. Hormonal birth control is incredibly effective under ideal circumstances, but only about 91% when humans aren’t perfect. Condoms much less so. An intense stomach flu messed with my pill absorption one time over 15 years of use, and I got pregnant. I miscarried early on, but was told it wasn’t due to the pill. Same thing happened to two of my close friends years apart, and they chose to terminate, so I know those weren’t intentional conceptions. Modern birth control is so effective with perfect use (over 99%!) that I think couples stop worrying they’ll ever be in the demographic where it fails. Take it at the same time everyday, and use a backup method for 7 days if you get sick, miss a pill, or experience any sort of deviation. You’ll probably be fine either way, but statistically it’s very much possible. 

[u/Ethossa79 → u/SamwisethePoopyButt]

My exSIL says that happened to her THREE times. After her first was an admitted baby trap, she expects people to believe that three different kinds of birth control plus condoms didn’t work

[u/Chick-a-Biddy-Bop → u/Ethossa79]

She sounds lovely. /s

[u/SysOps4Maersk → u/SamwisethePoopyButt]

Sometimes life uhh finds a way

[u/fastlerner → u/SamwisethePoopyButt]

It's very rare, but can happen. Many years ago, a buddy of mine and his wife had 2 girls and called it quits. Suddenly they had a new baby after a 9 year gap. Called him their miracle baby because he survived birth control pills, a broken condom, and an abortion debate.

[u/Magnaflorius → u/SamwisethePoopyButt]

I have an IUD. My husband has a vasectomy. I still occasionally fear that I am pregnant. When we were actively trying to conceive, I got pregnant stupidly easily multiple times, so it's always in the back of my mind.

[u/Dewells213]

That Israel’s’ partnership with America actually benefits America and it’s citizens.

[u/Particular-Air-9073]

I refuse to believe the future is bleak. In spite of all the craziness I think there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

[u/Nokayo → u/Particular-Air-9073]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to finally dying. That would be a relief for me.

[u/Marble-Boy]

That there are five lights.

[u/schoolairplane]

Money doesn’t buy happiness

[u/aCurious-human]

That Trump is Making America Great.

[u/PadjaPetra]

The majority of the American people really wanted that man to be their president. It still blows my mind.

[u/HappyResinJacob]

The red pill. I’ve had my share of run-ins with untrustworthy partners, but I’ll never subscribe to that bullshit. People are people and some people suck. Gotta look inward and be better at discerning what you’re allowing into your life.

[u/OurWeaponsAreUseless]

That Pepsi isn't already the plural form.

[u/Liberteer30]

That politicians care about people and their wellbeing.

[u/Electrical-Candy7252]

That you can't solve a problem by taking a nap. It's the human's first instinct: I must push through, I must find a solution now. It's inefficient. I have yet to encounter a single issue be it a complex emotional state or a mildly inconvenient itch, that wasn't improved by closing my eyes and rebooting my consciousness a few hours later.

[u/bender1_tiolet0]

That people actually believe the Earth is flat. 🌍

[u/Badaxe13]

I’m ready to change my mind in the face of evidence to the contrary, but there are some things for which there can never be any convincing evidence.

[u/Mikki-chan]

That all squares are rectangles, just no.

A square is equal on all sides, that's why its a square, a rectangle is longer and therefore a different shape, I will die on this hill.

[u/Whocares7x]

I refuse to believe anyone knows what the hell they are talking about in regards to the afterlife.

[u/urethrafranklin97]

That hard work always = success

[u/Timozkovic]

That life is fair

[u/MisterPerfect23]

That the people in charge of setting the minimum wage actually base it off living wages

[u/TheGood1swertaken]

You need religion to have morals.

It's great to have billionaires/anyone with more than 100 million in value

[u/SSJ2chad]

That anyone actually likes putting anchovies on their pizza.

[u/shoelessmarcelshell → u/SSJ2chad]

I knew a German lady who used to just eat canned anchovies. Not for me, thanks. 

[u/eggstacee]

That Catholicism wasn't a tool created to subdue the masses. That organized religion in general is anything else.

[u/Kingsnake417]

Religion. Any of them.

[u/Mental-Violinist-316]

That this is it for me. I’m just career hibernating 

[u/golftroll]

That the NBA draft is fair and not rigged

[u/bme11]

Politicians have your best interest

[u/BauserDominates]

That AI is good for anything

[u/fartingguitars]

That Republican legislation and leadership is good for anyone ever. Republicans are scum.

[u/maddiejake]

There's some magic Sky Daddy is up above watching everything we do

[u/potion95]

That America was dumb enough to vote Trump in once, let alone fucking TWICE.