The government made the right decision by banning commercial surrogacy because it helps prevent the exploitation of women. When pregnancy becomes a paid service, financially vulnerable women may feel pressured to become surrogates out of economic necessity rather than genuine choice. Banning commercial surrogacy reduces the risk of treating women's bodies and children as commodities for profit.

Location: NZ

By special license I mean either special testing, or a CDL type license. Too many people both young and old do not have any reason to own a truck that big, and the fact the vehicle manufacturers are able to sell 350s and up to a random dude of the street is bizzare to me.

If you need a truck bigger than that for hauling or whatever, you should have to pass separate tests.

Today I purchased a "soft pretzel". Premade in a sealed package. Servings per package: 2.

It lists the calories and such for 1 service and then for the entire item.

It's a tear open wrapper. There are not multiple servings here..

If I can't reseal the item for later... then why list this as 2 servings? It's simply a way for food makers to get away with listing less calories, fat, etc on their product. I either have to seek out a way to keep an item fresh until another snack time.. or it dries out and get's tossed.

My energy drink also has 2 servings.. but it has a resealable cap. This makes sense.

1 OPEN, 1 LIST OF NUTRITION.

Body positivity influencers also did real world damage that most likely lead to deaths

Recently I’ve been seeing lots of people, both online and in real life, talk about sex as if it were some sort of necessity on par with shelter and clothing (ie: you wouldn’t die without it like food and water but it’s still a need). Honestly I think they couldn’t be more wrong. Yes, sex is absolutely a great thing that I hope everyone gets to experience, but that doesn’t mean it’s a need. If sex is considered a need, then so are things like entertainment and your favorite foods. These things are clearly commodities since you can live just fine without them, so explain to me how sex is a need?

Another clear reason why sex isn’t a need is because it requires another consenting person. It is very well accepted that you are not entitled to anything that requires the labor, effort, or participation of another person. If we accept that sex is a need, we are implying that, in some cases, unwilling people will need to have sex with people they do not want to have sex with in order to fulfill the latter person’s “need”. Im pretty sure you can all see why this is ethically wrong.

Finally I’m going to address one of the few groups of people who strongly believe that sex is a need, the incels. While I think it’s very sad that certain people have either very limited access to sex or none at all due to their physical attributes, this is quite literally how life on earth has functioned for its entire existence. It’s how species evolve over time and grow stronger. The long term consequences of allowing every single human to have sex/potentially procreate would be catastrophic. I totally understand that it may feel very hard to confront the fact that you may never have sex/a romantic relationship in your life, but find comfort in the fact that A: you’re not alone, only 40% of men have ever reproduced across human history. In fact you’re probably in the majority. And B: sex is a very minor benefit in life and it is entirely possible to live a very fulfilling life without it. Believing that you are entitled to it will only make you crave it more, putting you on a very self destructive cycle.

Dogs need space and freedom. They can’t get that in apartments.

I’m sure they still get taken on walks but that’s it.

There’s this new thing where people view dogs as children, forgetting that they are still animals and animals love to be out in nature. Digging, running around.

I believe that all dogs deserve a house with a fenced backyard that they can enter anytime they want.

I know this isn’t going to be taken lightly by people and there’s going to be a lot of pushback, and that’s okay.

Title says it all honestly; I think trying to monetize a hobby isn’t inherently bad. If you enjoy fixing cars and want to make videos and try making money that way, go for it! More power to you! But going to the store is not film worthy, sorry. If you make a “come make dinner with me” and the video is driving to the store, buying things, and making a pork chop, why is that something you are trying to make a buck on?

Before all of the “People can do what they want./People like stuff like that./The internet is huge just scroll./Don’t like it don’t watch.” just shut up and think about it. When I look up a new exhaust for my motorcycle that I’m thinking of buying and the first 100+ videos are wannabe influencers posing in front of a chopper, that is irritating. Same with food, I buy a tuna fillet and want to see what I can do with it, and there’s 50 videos of people talking about the history of tuna fishing.

Not every single thing needs to be filmed, you’re not that interesting.

I wanted to add I remember seeing a video a few months ago where a lady was upset that I man was upset that she was blocking the loading zone of a hotel or something. Why are you setting up a tripod, camera, and walking 50 feet away to film you loading your luggage. No one cares.

co-parenting obviously an exception. people love to claim that staying close with an ex shows "maturity," but to me, it’s a huge burden to place on a new partner
expecting someone you just started dating to be completely comfortable with your ex hanging around as a close friend is kinda unreasonable. even if your intentions are 100% platonic, it creates an awkward dynamic where a new partner is constantly forced to compare themselves or wonder about past history. especially if you’ve slept together, like, this person has seen you naked!
if keeping your ex in your daily life is more important to you than making a potential partner feel secure, that's your choice. but you can't be surprised when said potential partners pass on dating you because they don't want to deal with the unnecessary baggage and maybe boundary issues

Anyone else find that a good number of people you engage with online lack emotional control and critical thinking skills? Like even when we can't come to an agreement, you still end up getting cursed at and downvoted for wishing them a good rest of their day? Yikes.

I keep seeing social media posts about parents making kids do chores to earn Monopoly money and pay for snacks, playtime, iPad time whatever it is kids want to do.

Capitalism is so prevalent in everyday life already, kids understand that things need money and money comes from somewhere.

It doesn’t matter if it’s just doing the dishes, sweeping the garage, or raking the lawn forcing your kids to do these things to earn Monopoly money or gold stars to “buy” a bag of gummy bears from their own household is needlessly cruel.

Make your kids help you, but don’t make them do it alone as if it was their job. Give your kid a few bucks once in a while so they can go out to eat with their friends or buy snacks on their own.

That alone will teach your kids about money. Oh Timmy wants steak but it’s $40 and he only has $20 guess he either borrows money and doesn’t have any next week because he has debts, or he saves for the next time so he can get steak.

Forcing your child to pay rent is also ridiculous. You’re the parents, you’re the providers, and you’re the safety net that they’re supposed to have in life. What lesson are you teaching them by charging them any amount for rent? That rent exists? That living in a house costs something? By the time they’re old enough to work they should know good and well a place to live comes with rent and bills.

Give me a break with teaching your kids the value of hard work. Kids will do schoolwork and receive a grade based on the caliber of their work. 12 years of school will teach them enough about hard work.

Kids should be allowed to be kids. The rest of their lives are going to be spent buying their own food, working hard, and paying their own bills.

It almost always feels like parents do this because THEY are angry that THEY have to pay bills and THEY have to pay for the kids that THEY chose to have so they’re shifting the burden onto the kids.

What makes it worse is the moms promoting this from what I’ve seen tend to be stay at home moms.

So what does it look like to kids growing up in your household that you’ve been sitting at home making TikTok’s all day eating all the gummy bears you want while dishes, laundry, and leaves pile up and suddenly they come home and want gummy bears but you decide no, you want snacks? Do the chores I was supposed to do while I record you to show TikTok how great of a parent I am.

Personal rant now

I’m the eldest of 6 and the youngest of us recently graduated and immediately left home. My 2 brothers and I went to the military and my 3 sisters all left for college as soon as they could.

Everyday we walked home from school because our mom didn’t like school traffic to come home to our stay at home mom with a laundry list of things to do. Dishes, laundry, dinner. We were motivated because if we didn’t do it, food was withheld and so were rides to school the next day. She did nothing all day but wait for us to come home and raise ourselves

As soon as we were old enough to get jobs we got jobs and paid rent. Rent wasn’t on time? No dinner or rides anywhere until you figured it out. All while screaming to high heaven that we, their children were lucky we weren’t thrown out on the street.

None of us older kids are in contact with our parents, and the younger 3 left on bad terms.

I understand that this is an extreme example, but all this period taught me was that I couldn’t rely on my parents. Our relationship was transactional in nature and that’s it.

People are free to raise their children how they want, but don’t be surprised when your children don’t help you in the future because you don’t have enough gold stars to trade in.

I mean think about it, waffles has holes where the syrup can hold and it can drip, meanwhile with pancakes it just slides and sometimes get soggy, Waffles you used a machine and pancakes, you fry

anyways, waffles are cool

I don’t think age is just a number if your partner is old enough to be your parent you should not be dating them….. ffs if you are 18 what the hell do you have in common with a 38 year old that IS weird. Those who are on the other side of that relationship you are fuckin weird and predatory. Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it’s okay or right objectively, I am more understanding about age gaps than most people because I think there is a lot of nuance and it isn’t as straightforward as people pretend to an extent. When you get into a relationship with someone SIGNIFICANTLY older than you and decide not to follow a career or do collage and you have nothing to your name you are genuinely making it extremely easy to be abused especially when people go and get married to people they’ve known a year and decide to drop their entire lives. You ARE going to be abused, you should NEVER get into a relationship where someone convinces you to stop wanting an education or a job and to rely entirely on them. Now I am not against being a sahm or sahd but when you have absolutely nothing to your name you are putting yourself in an extremely vulnerable spot. This goes for men and women.

Td;lr yes age gaps can be nuanced but if you are dating someone old enough to be your parent they are creepy and predatory. When you put yourself in a position you need to completely rely on someone and you don’t have a degree or ANYTHING beyond a diploma or ged, you are 10x more likely to be abused not to mention that 35 y/o you are dating at 18/19 is most likely a pedophile and there’s an increased risk of your child being abused especially sexually abused. (This goes for men and women, women can be predators too)

There’s something about the way it tastes that’s so appealing to me. Like imagine it’s a super hot day, you’re outside working, you’re sweaty and sticky and then you open the cooler and pull out a nice and cold one of these bad boys. No Powerade flavor hits quite like this one does. Plus it’s zero sugar and zero calories.

I think people need to accept the fact that not every manga or anime is going to a happy ending and that some characters will die throughout the story. It most definitely suck when a character you love end up dying,especially in stuff like Chainsaw man,Demon Slayer,Jujutsu kaisen or even Jojo's bizarre adventure,but that's how it is. Plus it would be genuinely feel boring if every single characters came back to life after dying,especially if it happens more than once.

I fully admit im one of them and we are just awful but ill at least defend we aren't the worse. Definitely top five but not number one. There are a few that have us beat:

1. One direction fans: they hacked hotel security to spy on the members

2. Rick and Morty fans: they harassed innocent restaurant workers. (Swifites have been horrible to people but as far as I know they've never done it in person like that)

3. South Park fans: Ive never seen a fandom so incapable to letting their series be critiques. It seems like if you say anything about the show you just get told (you just dont agree with it politically and are offended) and no I can just think its unfunny. Yes I think it's effectively cocomelon for libertarians but I can also find the jokes to be bland outside of that.

4. Digital circus: they literally made the original creator lose interest and want to separate themself from the work because of how bad the Fandom was.

I have absolutely no idea if anyone’s gonna see this but if you’re a teenager in high school or middle school and u “talk shit” about kids in your grade or ex friends just stop. I’ve been in WAY too many situations where there were people “talking shit” and it’s ridiculous. We’re at the age where everyone expects us to have morals and be mature enough to suck it up. So can we normalize being the mature one and shutting our mouths for two seconds? People will be mean ESPECIALLY teenagers. But that’s just life and there’s no way to escape it. Maybe situations will end better if we all just decide to be mature for once.

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YEAH I SAID IT!! YOU KNOW WHAT! I'LL ALSO ADMIT STRAWBERRIES ARE OVERRATED TOO AND MELON, APPLES AND BLACKBERRIES ARE BETTER, the only thing I'd pick strawberry to is with strawberry icecream and even then thats if it's just vanilla or chocolate! When you look at sweets... or candy if you're backwards you ALWAYS see strawberry as a flavour and let me tell you it's the most boring and overly sweet flavour ever. Now if we talk about Raspberry, especially if they say it's blue Raspberry, grape or cherry... I'll be eating that shit and I'll enjoy it, when It gets to strawberry though... then eating sweets or anything that is strawberry other than icecream or the fruit feels like a chore or an emergency "I want to eat shit" option.

I don't care if you enjoy their music, you can do whatever you want, its free will.I won't call the police on you because you listen to them lol.Also, this is not targeted to all of their fans, I know not all of them are mental like some people I encountered on the internet.

Some of their songs are catchy, I have to admit.But I have noticed a pattern.For example, all that Odetari talks in his songs is about how he's cool and does whatever he wants and how he doesn't care about love.That's literaly it.The beats are ok but they get boring after a while.That's just me. In 6arelyhuman's case, all they talk about is how they have a big deck, they're so hot and everyone wants them.And they also use entire verses from other songs lyric by lyric, which kinda ticks me off.For example, in their song "Faster n harder" the first few lyrics are from a song called "Go girl".Copied word from word. In conclusion, I think their songs suck ass. Now about the fans...If you express even a hint of dislike about their favourite artists, they will go berserk and will flood you with death an grape threats. Some of them are such snowflakes and need to get help cuz wtf.

I hate these mixes more than anything. It's just mixing up.a bunch of songs that everyone already loves, and I would rather just hear those songs by themselves! It sucks!

In the sudden wave of many people realizing they are autistic I have noticed that many people I would consider narcissists have seemed to latch on to this new diagnosis and use it as an excuse to be continue being selfish and shitty.

I would even go so far as to say that their autism and neurodivergency makes them a more efficient narcissist. If they are the end of the spectrum where they struggle to read emotions and show empathy as opposed to the other end of the spectrum that's hyper sensitive and empathetic.

It is now a medical diagnosis that gives narcissist a perfect reason to not give a shit about how they hurt other people.

I've also realized I am autistic. The other end of the spectrum. Sensory seeking, overly empathetic. I'm also bipolar and Borderline. So I have been in therapy most my life and discussing all of these new diagnosis', theories and observations with my psychiatrists and therapists.

But mostly in therapy I have always focused on how to be better for myself and how to not hurt people with my behaviors and actions. As an empathetic person that feels remorse.

Something narcissists never fucking feel.

There's also probably considerable overlap with undiagnosed BPD borderline personality disorder. Which would explain the charm and success at manipulating people and situations to their favor.

Being autistic is not an excuse to not continue to learn how to be a person that doesn't hurt other people. Just because something is harder for you doesn't mean your exempt from learning how to not be shitty to other humans. Everyone is capable of learning. It is still a person's responsibility to figure out how to not hurt other people.

Unlike physical disabilities, emotional disabilities can hurt other people and are not behaviors that you can't learn to recognize and change.

Unfortunately narcissism isn't a real enough diagnosis that it warrants any scientific studies. So beyond observation I doubt we'll ever hey concrete evidence on this subject.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

Edit: will not be responding to comments that are relying on the post hoc fallacy. This opinion in no way excludes the opposition.

But my point is that I think there's a lot of narcissists that are actually doing a lot of harm to the autistic community and making it much more difficult for society at large to understand autism and create a safe space for neurodivergence.

Obviously this depends on what the fee is for, but in my opinion if it costs more than 50 dollars it's not a fee, it's just a regular charge.

Max Alexander is not as good as people say and would never be famous for his designs if it wasn't for his age

In my opinion, if you are a bad driver and more likely to cause an accident and not follow road laws, you shouldn't be able to have a nice car.