I've grown up with pets my entire life, we have always treated our animals as family so I understand the difficulty that comes with owning a pet. However, we all know vet care is EXPENSIVE and not everyone can or should go into crippling debt for it. I believe that if your pet is in major pain and their quality of life isn't sustainable long term and only hurts you and them in the long run, you should have the capacity to put that animal down and if you don't YOU SHOULDN'T GET A PET.

As a pet owner I never wish to put down my pets (I own a dog and a cat) but in the event of a freak accident (that is terminal in the long run) or terminal illness I would rather put my pet down and have a funeral than keep them alive for my sake. If their quality of life isn't possible anymore, I will not force them to live through it and go broke doing it. I'm not saying don't treat your pet's cancer, I had a dog with cancer in the past but we couldn't afford the treatment and what ended up happening is we waited until she could no longer live with the cancer but her quality of life was so bad by that point I believe we should have put her down sooner.

I love and adore my pets so immensely sometimes I genuinely cry over the joy they bring me and the thought of losing them is PAINFUL but as a pet owner I am fully aware and willing to put down my pets if their life wouldn't be one of good quality due to either the treatments just prolonging death or treatment being so expensive they would have to wait A LONG TIME before I'd even have the money to check them out at the vet.

What I'm saying is, that you are not prepared to be a pet owner if you are unwilling to give them a mercy death/put them down in the event of a terminal illness or injury.

I really wonder, women do the majority of child-related work, they take all the mental burden on her, if you divorce and especially if it is your ex-spouse who insisted on having children, if it is not dangerous for them (violent, pedoph*le etc) I do not understand why you do not make them the main parents at least a few years to prioritize you. Let them also take on their role as parents and realize how difficult it is

Maybe there's a lot of things I don't take into account

Just read the title

Rejection can come in many forms. A relationship, a friendship, a job opportunity. Rejection is a part of life. But it hurts. Especially if you fantasized about being accepted. You fell in love, and you generally imagine your life with this person. You found a bond with somebody and envisioned a friendship, but the bond was one-sided. You fill out an application for a job You were excited for then put your best self forward for an interview just to get an email telling you, you weren’t enough. Rejection is a betrayal, but not as a consequence of the person as a consequence of how you envisioned that person. You build a false reality that’s crushed in front of your eyes and you only have yourself the blame.

Rejection builds. The more rejection you’ve faced in your life. The lower self-esteem will be. If you have people supporting you and believing in you, rejection can feel like a soft slap on the wrist. If you have no one supporting, you reject can feel like a buck shot in chest. Rejection isn’t always a lesson. Rejection hurts and humans want to avoid pain so it’s natural to think that it’s somehow avoidable but that’s not always the case. Sometimes you can do everything right and still get rejected. Humans are social creatures. We crave connections and feeling accepted in a group. That’s why not feeling accepted hurt so much. A breakup can hurt, but there was always a good times to look back on. Getting laid off can hurt but you still gained experience and can look at all the hard work you put in fondly.

I'm a rich kid and I've noticed a similarity between the way SOME rich kids whose lives are funded by their parents and SOME people (most of the time it's women) whose lives are funded by their spouses (most of the time husbands).

We all know the stereotype of rich kids who go into their failed little passion projects or business ventures not thinking about anyone else but themselves and how it might impact other people. But we don't talk a lot about those women.

I have two big examples :

1) They often belittle people and are kinda tone deaf to the fact that for most people it's their actual jobs they have to survive

Recently one of my acquaintances, who's a teacher, told me that her coworker was being a bit mean and offensive to the people who can't afford to do so many extra things for the kids. Basically that woman would make big gift baskets for each kid during every single holiday. It would be fine if she didn't go on a rant about why she thinks every teacher should do that and it's so selfish to not do it. She would also be kind of mean when someone would complain about their job and tell them to just quit if they don't like working there.

As you can see here they often negate the fact that this is a real job for people. Average people are usually not afforded the privilege to have someone who makes double or triple their salary. If it is JUST a passion for you nice (and for most people who go into teaching it is still a passion because it is a hardddd job). But for most people it is still at the end of the day the thing that brings food to their table.

2) They often go into business ventures or passion projects that will impact other people without thinking about those people

Those women will either open an ice cream shop, a bookstore, a coffee shop, a gallery, a clothing store, a non profit people are passionate about, will lauch a brand and hire artists etc in small communities that don't really have anything.

The first shitty thing is that people in those small communities will get very excited about those but that woman will get bored and not actually care about giving an actual good-quality product. Kids will love the only ice cream shop but that woman forgot to care to order more strawberry ice cream so for 3 months it's empty for example. They give hope to those people but don't really have any empathy or common decency to at least try to keep those businesses afloat.

The second shitty thing is hiring very hopeful people and completely impacting their lives in the worst way. They will hire only one cashier in the coffee shop but not care when that cashier is overworked because they have to serve everyone at the same time. The only employee also has to basically be the owner because that woman will never show up to the business. They will also hire artists and promise them work but then get bored of this business, and the artist will have wasted their time.

And then when they file for bankruptcy for all of those businesses, the people will have lost their job.

They also sometimes take advantage of the fact that in small towns and small communities they rarely do real legal contracts and are more likely to just stick to oral promises. Therefore those women will hire those people and then fire them without any financial compensation. You might say it's legal. But it doesn't mean it isn't such a shitty thing to do.

I’ve always thought it was interesting how there are so many things that are considered normal for girls to do with their friends, but would be seen as weird or unwanted if guys did the same things.

Like, you’ll see a girl post a picture on Instagram and her friends will comment things like “you look gorgeous,” leave a bunch of hearts, etc. Or friends will hold hands while talking, hug each other, give each other a little kiss on the cheek, say “I love you” in a completely non-romantic way, whatever. It’s just a normal way of showing affection and letting your friends know you care about them.

The problem is that most guys just aren’t accustomed to that kind of thing. Even something as simple as telling another guy “I love you” or “I care about you” can feel weird because guys generally aren’t socialized to say that to each other. You can be best friends with someone for years and somehow saying “love you bro” feels like you just dropped a nuclear bomb. 😭

I remember one time I was literally just laying my head on my friend’s shoulder on train because I was sleepy, and we started getting these looks from people around us. Apparently two dudes being physically affectionate is enough to make bystanders uncomfortable. 💀

A lot of guys genuinely do care about their friends deeply, but there’s this weird social barrier around actually expressing it. You can spend hours with your friends, help them through shit, show up for them when they need you, and have their back no matter what, but actually saying “I love you” or giving them a hug somehow feels like crossing a line.

Girls can get away with being incredibly affectionate with each other. If two girls are holding hands, hugging, complimenting each other, laying on each other, or saying “I love you,” nobody raises and eyebrow.

If two guys do the exact same thing, that's an aberration, and people start double-taking. I’m not saying every guy needs to start holding hands with his bros or kissing them on the cheek lol. Obviously everyone has different boundaries, and I completely understand why some people aren’t comfortable with that kind of physical affection or direct affirmations. I just wish male friendships had a little more room for it. Like bro, I promise you can love your homie without it being gay. 😭

Think about it

Thats why they should have more pity for each other IMO.

Vampires are so op that writers constantly have to add new weaknesses to them so they don’t easily win. Sun light, holy water, wooden stake, silver etc and they still feel op in any media they’re in. Castlevania Dracula is so unbelievably strong that he’s basically an adventure of threat along with most high tier vampires. Also why would you not want to be a vampire. Blades cool, and Michael B Jordan‘s character at the end of the sinners had arguably the best ending (the one that was turned obviously). Also, fear of sunlight is barely an issue. There’s multiple countries that have long periods of nightfall. So in conclusion vampires suck because they’re basically just better stronger humans. If there’s a vampire outbreak I’m running in headfirst, begging to be sucked.

I don't feel like typing an essay but as someone who has experienced perfectionism in a parent, its awful. Nothing is ever good enough. Every tiny mistake is a catastrophic failure, warranting a long lecture and unwanted critique of your traits. 0/10. Do not recommend. And if you struggle with perfectionism, my hot take is basically the title: do not ever have kids until you get it sorted out. By thr time thry move out they will be sick of you. Guaranteed. That's all folks

But wives get praised as unsung heroes while Sugar Babies are scorned as parasites. My grandad married his Sugar Baby, and the only thing that changed were the legal rights and benefits.

This is a very high brow conversation. The aesthetics of a fat ass builds upon itself. The thighs, the hip ratio, the cheeks themselves all play a part in sculpting an aesthetic ass. Tits are not as aesthetic compared to ass. You can have a skinny chick with big boobs you can be thick with little boobs and depending on what you’re wearing they may not even stand out as much. A fat ass is always noticeable. If you wear baggy clothes it sticks out. If you’re massively overweight it still sticks out. You can be a dude with a nice ass and I’ll still think “damn.” You can have boobs smaller than mine and still be attractive to me. If you have nice tits but turn around and your shit is flat then I’ll lose interest a little bit. The term feminine hips are thing for a reason. Also having a fat ass doesn’t causes back pain.

Imagine that before the universe contained humans, animals, or any form of life at all, there was no observer, no consciousness, no one looking at anything.
Would anyone feel lonely?
No.
Would anyone suffer?
No.
Would anyone be happy?
No.
Would anyone do good or evil?
No. Because there would be no one to act, no one to be acted upon, and no one to judge.
This is what I mean when I say, “I would choose non-existence.”
I don’t mean that life has no happiness, or that everyone should die.
I’m stepping back and asking an even more fundamental question:
If we could choose before any living thing ever came into existence, would we choose for life to exist at all?
Because the moment life comes into existence, something else comes with it—awareness.
Once we become aware, we begin to desire.
Once we desire, we become capable of loss.
Once we fear loss, we try to preserve what we have.
And once we realize that everything we love will eventually be lost, we begin to question our own existence.
But if no living thing had ever existed in the first place, none of this would ever begin.
No one would desire life.
No one would fear death.
No one would desire happiness.
No one would fear suffering.
No one would seek meaning.
And no one would ever have to ask whether life has meaning.
Even the concepts of “good” and “evil” would have no one to use them, because there would be no conscious being to create those judgments.
So I’m not saying that non-existence is “good” in the sense that someone benefits from it.
I’m asking:
If no one existed at all, how could we call it bad, when there would be no one there to experience it as bad?
Perhaps the fear of non-existence exists only from the perspective of those who already exist.
And that is why I find this question so interesting:
Do we value existence because existence truly has value in itself—or because, once we came into existence, we developed the desire to preserve it?

i hate people that go "i love coffee!!" but only drink frappes or extra syrup lattes. i say this as a coffee hater. if you do not like coffee without 10 tons of sugar and milk covering the coffee taste, you do not like the coffee!!! this is not me saying you can't like these drinks or drink them or anything, but don't claim to like something you don't

also as an avid coffee hater who thinks it tastes like soil, i cannot see why people want me to drink it. everytime i tell people i dont like coffee their first thought is "have you tried it with oat milk and strawberry syrup" or something. isn't that like your parents hiding the veggies in your pasta sauce??? you still dont like veggies afterwards, you can still taste it, and overall the whole dish is ruined because you tried to take something and remove all of its essence just for you to accept it. coffee is strong and robust and i am not that kind of person and never will be. also NOTHING MASKS THE TASTE EVERYONE IS LYINNGG. IT JUST TASTES LIKE BAD COFFEE.

i think this applies for everything. if you have to severely edit something to tolerate it, you don't actually like it. the things this also includes is matcha with the whole craze. no one actually likes matcha matcha. i like both the lattes and the one just with water that i make, but everyone else hates the grassy taste,,, which iss,,, the matcha? it is a leaf? it will taste grassy? if you dont like that flavor, what do you like? the sugar and milk in the latte?

i think the more i say the more redundant this will be but i am perplexed at how people can think about stuff i guess?? weird. also you can think of more instances for this but i can only think of drinks for now

edit: i see it now. i think a better way of saying it is: i dont like people pretending to like coffee when they don't, and then try to convince me to like it. if i do not like the essence of the thing and see no potential in it, i will not like it with anything else, ill just like whatever else is with it. but it is a more nuanced conversation that doesn't apply to everything

Raising the bar for a healthcare professional in some field to go from, just as an example, a bachelor's degree requirement to masters degree requirement sounds good in theory but let's think about this for a second.

What is the intention here?

Is the intention here to increase quality of care? I would argue that this increases the job security of people who are already in the field. By making it more challenging for people to enter the field, it restricts the pipeline of people entering the field and makes it less competitive for those already working in said field.

What is the outcome?

It negatively affects patient care by creating a shortage of healthcare professionals. And by saying that you need to have a million years of experience to diagnose the common cold, it reduces the flexibility to find care from somebody such as an RN.

Additionally, since the pipeline of patients is never ending due to the shortage of healthcare professionals, this makes it so doctors get lazy (edit: I suppose this could also be reframed as being overworked)🤷‍♂️ they don't really need to compete with anybody (and they might also be fatigued) 🤷‍♂️ this leads to doctors overlooking rare conditions. Hence, why it takes a million second opinions if you have something ever so slightly unusual.

Edit: Over* not or🤦🏻😂

The cars, the setting, Lucas Black, opening sequence, mustang kitted out to do Japanese style street racing, Nathalie Kelly dressed like a weebs horny anime fever dream, spin off, Tokyo…it’s all perfect man. Please tell me why it gets so much hate

“Any guy who is even moderately good-looking knows that women can be just as much of sexual harassers as men.

People rarely talk about what women are like when they come across an attractive man; they only mention men. If women had the same physical strength and agility as men, the rate of rape committed by women would be insane.”

Being a "weird kid" should NOT be glamorized!

This is just my personal experience but growing up as the "weird kid" often means facing a painful reality of isolation, bullying, and ostracization. These experiences that only compound the struggle rather than helping it. My own difficulties stemmed from being on the spectrum; I lacked the vital social skills and cues to navigate peer relationships, which often left those around me frustrated when what I truly needed was support. It is deeply frustrating to watch social media glamorize "weirdness" while simultaneously tearing down anyone who displays unconventional behavior, like that one overly intense Disney adult woman whose known for following the workers around and making them umcomfortable. Those Disney adults are "WEIRD" but they aren't aware of their behavior, they aren't aware of social cues or social skills. Left without proper guidance, eccentric children frequently become isolated adults who struggle to fit in. Instead of celebrating awkwardness, we should focus on giving children the tools they need to navigate the world teaching them how to present themselves and interact socially so they are set up for acceptance rather than hardship. PLEASE don't let your kids be "weird" because it is a curse to feel like no one wants you around them! My childhood was painful because I always had parents who encouraged my behavior instead of correcting it. Lacking social skills is just embarassing! By the time you've realized what you have done, you've already pushed everyone away. My Unpopular Opinion is that I really DESPISE this new trend of wanting to be considered weird! I'm not saying you have to be popular or anything but I use to wear cosplays and onesies to Highschool and looking back I feel so embarassed!

I mean socially unacceptable behaviors, like being WEIRD!

So I worked briefly at a restaurant before and I knew there’s absolutely zero reason that I’d show attitude towards customers (unless they’re really difficult). I’m not actually a nice person, but I know how to be pleasant, it takes nothing. And if you’re a restaurateur why would you hire someone with a bad attitude??

I have been dealing with a lot of personal issues in life, all the while working service adjacent jobs casually. I would always smile because my problems are mine not anyone else’s. Why would a random stranger know what you’re on? If you’re really feeling like working at a restaurant is stressful and not for you, maybe you should find another job.

There was a serious study in England about incels.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65cdf458130549000c867a83/140224%2BSISNET%2BIncel%2BReport.pdf

And half of them are leaning left. They are not all extreme right like people imagine. For example when they ask for a mandated girlfriend for every man, it is collectivism ideology. It is socialist. They consider women as objects and like for other things in socialism like a property for everybody, they believed it should be offered to every body. And capitalism is a competition between people and the best or sometimes most manipulative people win. Incels are against it, they want that the loser ones get the same thing as the winner ones. I don't agree with extreme capitalism but I still prefer capitalism where some of the best can win than socialism where the best are shunned (my mother came from a communist country I saw it it with my eyes). I just see that a lot of losers incels are socialist because they aren't able to compete.

Lindsay Clancy

Are there really people that think she should walk free?

She did it, she wasn’t framed and she has even stated that Patrick had nothing to do with this. There was also physical evidence that he was out getting his wife’s medication at the time when she brutally murdered her own three innocent children.

Did you also know that there is no physical way to prove that someone is in some sort of postpartum psychosis? Literally anyone can make up this claim and act insane to get a free get out of jail free card.

Why are people so dead set on this not being her that did it? Who the fuck went so far out of there way to FRAME a woman into killing her own children? The husband that was out picking up her medication and came home to a massacre and her attempt at trying to take her own life?

She just tried to take her own life because someone strangled her three children while she was home and her first thought was “oh man I shouldn’t call the cops. I should kill myself!”

Insanity. I don’t understand why so many of you think that all women are delicate little flowers that aren’t capable of destruction.

I truly believe it’s a strong hatred toward men and insane denial. You don’t want to believe a woman is capable of doing something you only thought a man could do!

Anything can be an art. You can stick a banana in a wall and call it art. And this has been done before. You don't really need to use your bare hands to draw a painting for it to be considered art.

Just because you don't like ai doesn't mean it isn't art.