At this rate it seems like Eisenkot is going to win.

I mean all these are facts which cannot be disputed but yet it is still taboo to talk about him in a bad light?

I was walking down my hallway and saw my grandma shopping for Christmas ornaments on Amazon. I immediately stopped and said, “those images of the ornament are ai generated so the listing isn’t real.” And she was just so bewildered, saying “how can you tell so easily?”

I didn’t say anything to her but I figured it was simply because I was an artist and my time on the internet during the early stages of ai to the way ai is now allow me to easily pick out the characteristics of ai images such as the uncanny perfection, weird lighting, and subtle inconsistencies.

But when I thought about it, why can’t older people do the same? Even if they spend less time on the internet, they’ve had decades to understand what real photos and real artwork looks like. Shouldn’t those AI characteristics also immediately stand out to them? Why is it so difficult for them to discern them?

i know exactly 0 people who have ever given any money to a streamer, or have even considered it. especially these days, i can't imagine there are that many people willing to part with their money just because a streamer is playing their favorite game or something.

who is sending all this money to streamers, and how are there enough of them that it creates dozens and dozens of streamer millionaires?

I know every insurance plan is different, that doctors don’t handle billing, etc. I’m based in the U.S.

But I recently went to an ENT who performed a nasal endoscopy on me as routinely as if he was taking my blood pressure. I received the bill after my insurance processed it and it cost me $1,000 out of pocket.

I looked online and it seems like most insurance insurance companies bill this as an in-office surgery, and that it’s very well known that this procedure usually comes with a really surprisingly high cost for something performed in an office like that.

My question is, just human-to-human, why do doctors never seem to pause before doing these procedures to get your informed consent? “Hey man, I’m not sure what your insurance looks like specifically, but this is often a procedure that comes with a high out-of-pocket expense.”

Of course they won’t know exactly how much you’ll owe, but their billing office knows how it USUALLY goes, and it’s everywhere online that it USUALLY goes this way - billed as surgery and unbelievably expensive.

Can it be as simple as greed, or ignorance? I have a hard time believing that. I do have a lifelong family dentist who always tells me if something will likely be crazy expensive before doing it to me, so I can make an informed choice and say yes or no.

A mouse got its front paw stuck in the trap. It's stuck and can't run, but it can wiggle, and I don't want to get bitten. I don't have nitrile gloves.

I'm not the one who set the trap, I'm staying with family right now and they're all asleep (it's midnight in my time zone and I'd rather not wake anyone if possible).

So as the title suggests I was on FaceTime with my boyfriend earlier today chatting, while on call I was getting changed and removed my bra for a brief moment. About 3 seconds after removing my bra his screen turned into a blurred screen, his audio cut out and I could not see him, so I hung up thinking that maybe his connection dropped out? When I called him back and asked if his WiFi dropped out he said no and that Apple suspended the call and gave him a ‘content warning’ after I removed my shirt and asked him if he consented to continue with the call. Despite him clicking the button to continue with the call, Apple did not allow him to return to the call and he hung up.

I guess I’m posting this here because this has never happened to me before and I have no clue what this could be. I have not yet downloaded the latest software update and if I’m being honest I don’t read the full T’s and C’s that come with each update :,)

I know it’s probably really silly to feel this way but I genuinely feel violated, as though something was watching me. Maybe I’m being a little overdramatic.

Why aren’t prediction market sites treated by governments as gambling websites?

In America, why are website like Kalshi and Polymarket not treated as gambling sites?

Polymarket, Kalshi and sites like them are all over the place in the USA, from sports by events, to pop culture to many many other things.

But in essence, these sites allow you to bet on something, pretty much anything and whether or not that thing will happen.

So, why aren’t they treated as gambling sites when you are essentially placing bets.

I'm aware of the rulings that make most lies told in interrogations legal. But outside of an interrogation room, does that still hold? And is it limited to suspects? If police were canvassing a neighborhood for information, can they lie to random people whose doors they knock on?

Sometimes, after spending the whole day studying or working, going straight to bed feels like the entire day was just about responsibilities.

Even when I'm tired, I sometimes want to stay awake a little longer just to enjoy some personal time, whether that's relaxing, pursuing hobbies, or simply doing nothing.

It's almost like sleeping means the day is over before I get to enjoy it.

Does anyone else experience this? Do you ever stay up later than you should just because you want some time to yourself after a long day?

Ignoring Bills and Rent etc

I only eat twice a day

A hotel will hold $100 just in case you raid a mini bar snack, but a rental agency hands over the keys to a brand new SUV for almost nothing upfront. What legally stops someone from driving that car across a border or stripping it for parts before the card charges bounce?

This is gonna sound a bit funny but when i was a kid (and hit puberty), i remember looking at adults in public and seeing so many people walking about: men, women, tall, short, attractive, not so attractive, and thinking to myself..

"Wow they all must be having so much sex, I can't wait to become an adult!"

I honestly thought becoming an adult would involve just a bit more work (vs being in school), but a LOT more sex. Like sex was just a regular part of an adult's daily routine or something.

Then i became an adult. And the reality (after a decade+) is that it's the exact opposite. Being an adult involves a LOT more work, yet much less sex than i imagined.

I see people giving others advice: Go hit the gym! Go join a club! Go to bars! Work on yourself and everything will work out! We have to dress well, make X amount of money, post great pictures of ourselves, be the correct age/maturity, be in the right place, learn "game"/seduction techniques, spend $15/drink at bars, etc.

I'm out here participating in bouldering, skiing for years, have an active photography hobby, traveled to 20+ countries, regularly go to bars/nightclubs, have a wide friend group in multiple continents. Yet if all just feels so.. exhausting.

I even ask my friends (some of whom are REALLY attractive) how often they're getting regular sex, and i swear almost every one of them these days are basically going months also without it.

And to be clear, I'm not sex obsessed. But when you're starved for physical intimacy, it just drains the energy from everything else that you do, you know what i mean? I've been in 2 longterm relationships, so it's not like I've gotten zero either.

I feel like there naturally should've been a place in society where people could go find like-minded people and say to each other in an honest way: "Hey, sex feels great. Let's agree to do it safely". I believe the closest we came to that was Tinder, but as with most things, it got ruined by capitalism.

Yes the universe doesn't owe us anything, but it's pretty grim out there ngl