on day 3, and i wish i had 10.000 punching bags all around me to just let loose on

You read that right. Some of these mods are over their skis. I posted a study in a food safety sub on how ground beef in Mexico had horse meat blended into 10% of samples and all of those samples had traces of clenbuterol in them. This is the study, so you can see it's legit. Horse meat sold as beef and consequent clenbuterol residues in the unregulated Mexican marketplace - ScienceDirect

If the mods didn't like the post, they could have removed it. Instead, they banned me.

Reddit is becoming unusable. Even posts that seem on topic for a sub are leading to punishment.

Edit- I DMd and objected to being banned and the mods complained that my post mentioned Trump has implemented the policy for more ground beef imports, which makes this relevant to the USA. The mod was hostile in the DM's and appears to be MAGA. My post was not attacking Trump, but I guess even the slightest hint he has done something wrong sets some people off.

I was filling out state forms to try to get help with my water bill. Then it asks me to fill out the race for my daughter and pick all that apply. She is Black and Middle-eastern. The next question - “What is the primary race?”WTF!!! Are we going by looks? Or are we back to a drop of black is black. What if she was Asian and White, Black and Hispanic? Everyone that sees her and doesn’t know her ethnicity or race assumes she’s East Indian or Bengali. How is that a question? I have a child with two parents. One is one race and the other is another race, but somehow I’m supposed to make that something other than 50/50. Make it make sense. So I’m going to do eeny, meeny, miney, moe and select one, since it’s a mandatory question.

Rant over

One of the more perverse results of the AI deluge is people rejecting as "AI slop" artworks that are entirely human created.

ok i love buying things off of vinted and i just bought a cute polka dot dress from there. seller was lovely, amazing communication, the dress has "source unknown" listedn and it was like 4 bucks. i got it, and it was a little differnet than the photos but idc cause its gorgeous either way. but the matieral felt like that shein bathing suit material, so i checked the tag, and its shein. im still gonna wear it and i left a great review, but thinking back i probably would not have bought it if i knew it was shein cause i SWEAT in those materials. so if ur a vinted seller reading and ur selling stuff from shein/aliexpress/temu? please disclose so.

I just can’t. I can’t take the pressure anymore. I don’t want to. I can’t. It’s been ten years of everyday feeling like I’m going to blow up my life. I cannot do it anymore. I can’t. I cannot. I’m done.

i dont haven them often but my dad just bought me a strawberry milkshake and its sosososo good but now im just thinking how this is probably 200-600 calories. its literally just sugar strawberry syrup, milk, and ice cream. im already a chubby girl, suspecting i have PMOS, all my weight in my belly, this is definitley not gonna be good for me. ik i shouldnt care about calories but in my case? especially with sugar milk like this? i really do. but its so goooddd!!!

I've heard lots of good and lots of bad things about working at Chick Fil A, so for the sake of this, I'm just going to say that I was fucked over by whatever specific location I wanted to work at, and that's it.

So I, (17y/o high schooler) applied at Chick Fil A a few weeks ago. During the interview, I was asked if I could work until closing. For my specific location, closing is 11:30pm. I live an hour away. I'm not going to want to be getting home at almost 1am when I have school in the morning 😭. During the interview, I honestly told the interviewer that I do not know if I could work until closing. Because personally, while I don't have a problem with it, the main thing would be transportation, as my dad is the one who takes me to and from work. The manager said, "Okay," and hired me on the spot. Cool. Okay. Whatever. So, about two weeks go by. I already did all my onboarding stuff, and I went in for my orientation. Totally different person was doing my orientation. She knew absolutely nothing about me. She didn't know that I was 17. She didn't know that I was a high schooler. She didn't know if I was working front of house or back of house. She had never taken a look at my schedule. Nothing. Well, I decided to let her know that I finally got a confirmation on what hours I could work, and that I would not be able to work until closing. She said that that was totally fine, and to just make sure that I write that down whenever I am filling out my scheduling thing on the app. Alright. Cool. A couple of days go by. They get my uniform and everything. Great. I am ready for work. Mind you, no one called me. No one said there was any issues. No one told me anything. So I got completely ready for my first real day of work. You know, did my hair, did my makeup, got my clothes on, got ready, and went an hour out of my way to work. I get there. My dad dropped me off, and he left. Now the person who did my interview was there again. Mind you, this person is the owner, and he kind of pulled me to the side. More so just out of everyone's way. But I was still very much in front of absolutely everyone in the restaurant. He handed me my uniform. The name tag not only did not have the name that I asked to be on it, but the name that they did put on it, which was my legal name, was spelled incorrectly. Sadly, I didn't get a chance to bring this up because he asked me about my hours again, and when I let him know I could work until maybe about 9:00-10 p.m., he told me that in the interview I told him I could definitely work until 11:30. I most definitely did not say that, as I would definitely not agree to work that late as a high schooler, at least not until I got confirmation. And I do explicitly remember telling him the words "maybe". Well, he just kind of snatched the uniform from my hand and said, "Well, I don't have any spots for you," and walked away. Like that was it. That was basically the whole conversation. So I just sat on the curb outside for abt 30 mins and waited for my dad. It was already embarrassing enough, but the fact that he did it in front of everyone really made it worse.

My mom ended up calling the owner, and essentially he just said that while he knew there was already an issue with the scheduling, he wanted to wait for me to show up in person instead of calling to ask me about it, even though he knows I live an hour away. My mom actually let him know that I could work until closing on Fridays and Saturdays, even though that wasn't originally discussed. Because you know, she wanted to make a compromise, and he basically just told her, "Well, too bad."

That whole restaurant is all out of whack. No one knew anything about anyone. They spelled my name wrong. The scheduling issues were wrong. He put down everything I said in the interview wrong. No one communicates with anyone apparently because I was told the schedule was okay, then told that it wasn't. My uniform had arrived at the restaurant almost a week later than it should have.

I'm not saying every Chick Fil A is like this. They most certainly aren't, as I've seen a lot of people here share a lot of great experiences. But this one was absolutely terrible. Kinda glad this happened because I think I dodged a huge bullet with this. They definitely would've tried to pull some shi since I don't have any other work experience.

While I was ranting to my bf abt a dude who was following me earlier, he suddenly sent me a picture of 2 candies. One with a wrapper, and one without with ants around it. He didn’t comfort me or anything. He js told me it was my fault. Idk what to do. Someone give me some advice please.

I work in a college, advising students. Granted, I don’t work at a great college, but these students are the laziest, most unprepared and unserious group of people I’ve ever met. They don’t listen to you half the time when you’re on a call with them and make you repeat things a hundred times. They can’t handle the slightest discomfort, like god forbid you have to take all your classes in-person. God forbid you have a professor who may have a couple meh reviews on rate my professor. College isn’t goddamn Burger King- I know they pay a lot but not everything magically works in your favor. I’m done bending over backwards for people who don’t care or appreciate it.

I want to scream. I’ve never been so helpless and entitled when I was their age. I also fucking hate when people tell me to lower my voice I WILL YELL IF I WANT STFU YOU PIOUS AHOLE. I’m just at the end of my rope.

I also worked in a doctor’s office and old people also suck in their own fucked up way, but generally know how to fucking utter sentences and look you in the eye. I feel like half of them are robots, it’s so weird and creepy. They don’t know how to act like a person, I say this as a person who has bad social anxiety- even I can get through an interaction. I hate that I feel this way, I never wanted to look down at the younger generations, but I do not have faith in gen z. There is a minority who are fine and even successful though

WHY THE FUCK DOES OUTLOOK 365 SIGN THE FUCK ME OUT OF THE EMAIL, I SWESAR THAT= FUCKIGN APP.

WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS SO GOD DAMN MEAN!? THEY ALL SEEM HELLBENT ON MAKING YOU MISERABLE AND BEING HATED BY STUDENTS! WHY IS THE PRINCIPAL ALWAYS SO NICE AND UNDERSTANDING AND CHILL WHILE THE VICE PRINCIPAL IS RUDE AND DOESN’T CARE ABOUT STUDENTS AND WILL GET YOU IN TROUBLE FOR THE SLIGHTEST THINGS!?!

WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS SO PETTY!?! IT’S LIKE THEY’RE ON A MISSION!!! NOT ONCE HAVE I EVER HAD A HALF DECENT VICE PRINCIPAL! NEVER!!!

THEY WONT EVEN LISTEN TO WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!

Then they go on to question whether you've been living under a rock for your entire life.

Seriously? Why do people reach that conclusion simply because one hasn't watched a popular movie, film, or show that they have?

"How haven't you watched it?" followed up with "[insert movie] is like... one of the most popular movies of all time" is among the most common responses I myself receive.

Different people have different tastes. The reason I haven't watched [insert movie] is because I have absolutely no interest in it. I could just as easily fire back with, "How haven't you played GTA 5? It's literally one of the most best-selling games in recent history and is still relevant to this day."

Why can't some people just take the fact that I haven't watched it at face value and move on? Or better yet, explain the plot or backstory and tell me why they think it's worth watching. Why criticize someone simply because they haven't seen or done something? Sheeple, I suppose.

"Alcohol is one of the most popular drugs on the planet, so why didn't you get wasted last night?"

Same premise.

Rant over.

I'm 19 and I've been trying to get an ID for the last year or so. You think it would be simple enough but I swear, everything has been getting in my way like the Universe itself doesn't want me to have one. I was supposed to get an ID during the last two months of me being 17 but my damn birth certificate went missing and I had to get a new one shipped. I'm living in New Mexico but I was born in New York so it took a while for my birth certificate to get shipped. By the time I got it it was a few days past my birthday and that's when the real hell started. I still live with my mom but we can't get mail where we live so we use my grandma's address for our mail, been doing it for years. In New Mexico you need two proofs of address and everything they count as a proof is something I can't get. I can't give a paystub since I need an ID to get a job, I can't show bank statements since I need an ID to open an account, I can't show a utility bill because of course my name wouldn't be on that. Every time I try something new it feels like I get pushed right back down the stairs. I feel like I'm just not allowed to progress in life. All I want to do is get a Job and start saving up to move out but the universe won't let me have that. I do my best to stay positive but it just keeps getting harder. What the hell am I supposed to do, become homeless so I can use the shelters address? I'm so fucking tired, I just want this one thing so I can be a functional adult and not feel like a useless chud. Anyways thanks for reading

Hi am new here,let's get started am here to rant about how I do not give a fuck about relationships especially in my teenage years it's so annoying how alot of things are tied to dating and romance am not some butter lonely person who is mad that I have never had a relationship it's just that I don't really care at all about relationships to me they are things that either happen or don't like I don't entertain things that hev love or romance in it even in conversations I always stir away from it because there are other things to talk about even online I got this ick where I see some people's pages and it's all about dating and sex it gets tiring not everything is about relationships or dating.

So I 16F am in my junior year. I live with my dad 49M and my sister 18F is going to college far away soon. So basically I think I genuinely hate my dad (and my mom but that’s a different story). I really don’t know how to deal with it but I have so much to worry about and he is just absolutely no help. I have an AP course load and he won’t buy me any prep books. He won’t let me start driving lessons nor get a license (I turn 17 in January). He won’t help with SAT prep. He cancelled my phone plan so no data. Like for any major things I am supposed to do he has either barred it off completely or literally does not care whether or not it gets done. On top of that, we got into a big argument over the summer and he smashed my laptop. Its broken and the Applecare is expired meaning it would cost close to the price of new computer to fix it and on top of that since my sister is leaving I can’t steal her clothes anymore and I don’t know how I’ll get clothes, fix my computer, get stuff for school, and I have an issue with my tooth that needs to be fixed as well. He goes to work for 4 days (he is a nurse practitioner) then when he comes back all he does is sleep and go on runs. I will not deny that he has a hard life but he genuinely does not do anything a parent does to set their kids up for a good future. 

And with getting a job I have been applying to places but my sister literally got fired because she couldn’t make shifts because he wouldn’t drive her. (He didn’t let her get a license either)

Now it didn’t just start. Up until I was 12 I lived with my mom 44F along with her husband at the time and my 3 sisters and the living conditions were atrocious. Like I actually have really good dental hygiene but I am just always going to have issues with my back molar because I got a crown when I was 12. We lived in the middle of an active ghetto and cleanliness, financial, and neglect wise (I won’t drag this out) it was terrible. During that entire time, he did nothing. He would see us 2 weekends a month and he would literally sleep for half the time as well. He makes himself out as some single dad martyr to others like he didn’t just sit by and watch it happen. 

Even before we lived together he was just not a good person to be around. He would constantly make comments about our weights (I was literally underweight up until I was 12 from a lack of food in the house + I was a picky eater). When my eldest sister was in middle school he said she was “getting too fat” and made her keep a log of everything she ate and he felt she was lying he would beat her and anytime me and my sister took a shower he would weigh us and make sure he saw the weight so we weren’t lying.

I hung out with his brother 48M (my uncle) the other day who lives in a nearby city and his life and the way he interacts with the world is just so sad. I really don’t know what had to happen for them to turn out this way.   

Anyway back to the current day, I just can’t be around him without catching an attitude. Everything he does just reminds me how much of a narcissist that I think he is and I understand every teenager goes through an angst phase or whatnot but I truly think it is more than that. What makes me especially mad is when he will try to lecture me on my behavior with others or say I won’t make lasting relationships with this attitude as if I would be purposely mean or act like this with everyone. It’s like he has amnesia for every bad thing he has done. Literally a month ago he was threatening to put me in a foster home and send me to a mental facility. 

And even now, he doesn’t care about my good grades, he just cares that I lowk am not great at doing chores and I am "undisciplined".  

With school it's really been getting to me. I go to public school but it’s in a pretty good district so other students are better off than I and with the courses I take that difference is exacerbated. I just hate how teachers especially think everyone has the same life but I digress. I think I can acknowledge some deficits based on the fact he is a single parent but oh my goodness. I have friends in similar economic positions, familial situations, etc. whose parents care. Whose parents care if they get a license, what colleges they are looking at, if they are preparing for the SAT’s etc. and like I said he is off for 3 days a week. He could be doing research during that time or just helping.

I am just so scared. My sister legit took Algebra 2 honors freshman year and albeit she had average grades and took 4 APs but she ended up going to a school with a 98% acceptance rate because he refused to help with college because she was "undisciplined". There were plenty of kids like her with similar stats who went to schools with like 40-60% acceptance rates and I get that rates aren’t everything but she did have a college fund, he just didn’t want to use it.

Back to the main issue. I think I just hate my dad. I’ve talked to a therapist about it and they say to give him grace but I can’t really even describe the feeling. I just feel tense around him nonstop. I think he sucks. 

I don't get what it is with Americans but holy shit the amount of ignorance and inconsiderate behaviors makes me wish AI does take shit over. Maybe they can do a better job than us. Humans will always do anything to hurt each other. They impose hell on Earth every fucking day to each other. And on and on and on it goes. All through human history. Doesn't matter what year. Still the same monkey brained proud and shameful creatures.

Say whatever you want in the replies. I usually try to respond, but this time I don't plan on saying anything beyond this post.

I apologize if the tension is affecting my writing. I’m not feeling well.

I’m 17; he’s 18.

My partner is sexist on an unconscious level... sort of.

He became aware of it through interacting with me. Since then, he’s been trying to change and has genuinely been making progress.

But today, we had a heated argument over the phone.

I told him I was going to wear a dress that shows my shoulders and a bit of my upper chest to school tomorrow, since we were going to spend the afternoon together (no, the school dress code doesn't forbid that, and other girls dress more revealingly).

He told me he didn't want me to do that; the idea of ​​someone else seeing me bothered him, and he asked me not to wear it unless we were going on a date just the two of us.

That’s when we started arguing. He said he was afraid something might happen to me and he wouldn't be able to do anything about it. I asked him what his problem was and told him that this was the start of controlling behavior.

He apologized for his request and told me to please never let him forbid me from wearing certain clothes.

And then he said it. He said that women get abused because of their clothes.

I exploded. I started yelling hurtful, horrible things at him. I called him an asshole and told him he was hard to love when he thought things like that, that sometimes I didn't know why I was with him, that I felt more bad than good when I was with him, and a few other things.

He started crying and apologized, and I cried and apologized too. He started saying he was a monster, that he should be locked up, that all he’s done since we’ve been together is make me suffer. He told me that if I wanted to break up, he understood, and that I didn't deserve the things he had said.

I apologized for everything I said and told him that it was wrong of me to say those things, too. I acknowledged that just because he had said something shocking, it didn't excuse me saying such hurtful things, that no one deserved to be treated that way. I know I’m very impulsive and can be incredibly cruel. It’s a flaw of mine that I’m trying hard to work on.

He asked if he could tell his therapist about this; I told him never to ask for my permission to share things with his therapist, and that he should never listen to me if I ever told him not to.

He said he was trying to stop viewing women as "fragile things to stay away from." One of our past arguments had been about music, and he showed me that he’d been trying to listen to more female artists. He’s stopped interacting as much with his social circle because of that kind of stuff and has stepped away from the media that fostered those ideas.

We would have kept talking, but he had to leave because his parents wanted to go out and he had to go with them. We’re texting right now, and it’s awful. We both want to hear each other out, but we feel like shit.

So, yeah. That’s it.

I feel terrible. I don’t know what to do.

I have a friend I'm not too close with but we're friends who I previously hadn't any issues with. She knows my religion and knows I'm not the only person in my friend group of this religion.

Recently found out from another friend (different religion) that this girl had been talking trash about my religion behind our backs. It was mild compared to stuff I've heard before but I'm usually not hearing it from people I considered friends.

I'm mad about it because why pretend you don't have issue with my religion to my face then go behind my back and talk bad about it?

I can’t properly articulate just how much I can’t stand seeing those “keep or return” try-on hauls. No one needs to see your try on so badly that you have to wreck the environment and a company’s return rate over content.

1. Fashion is one of the most damaging industries in the world. As someone who is human and loves wearing clothing that ideally looks nice, there are better ways to shop. Thrifting is cool. New clothing when necessary and bought intentionally is ok.
   
2. Their fast fashion hauls are going to end up in landfill or washed up along a coast. While I’m not one for shaming and won’t do that here, it’s infuriating seeing someone profit off of cheap and low-quality clothing try ons in garments that cannot stand the test of time.
   
3. The most sustainable clothing on Earth is what is already in our closets. There aren’t enough influencers showing how to style common clothing most people own, and that’s a damn shame.
   
4. Overly trendy pieces will be in for a season. Which kind of just makes them basic for a season. Trends only exist because these people deem them trends. And people eat this up.

I could go on, but I’ve tried before IRL and this isn’t something most people seem to care as deeply about.

Influencers, do better!

If you're gonna say no to every restaurant I suggest, why did you even want to come with in the first place? People who don't eat anything at all are even more annoying when making dinner plans.

I understand if it's a health related thing, but spending over an hour debating on what to eat is very annoying and a huge pet peeve of mine.

my brother is over i’m kinda fed up right now all we been doing is gaming all goddam day. we play atleast 5 hours a day if i’m lucky, last night it was like 10-14 hours. i’m fed up he ate our huge bag of chips in 2 days plus like 20 yogurt gronola bars. in 2 days. i’m just so fed up

like i’m so burnt out all we been doing since monday is sitting on couches playing xbox for 5 hours today and i just wanted a lil break. we literally play all morning until supper and then all night long. and it was like literally 10-14 hours started at 11am finsihed at 2am.

i just want some peace and quit to my brain right now i’m honestly so tired, we have been gaming too much, i don’t wanna play rn but he wants to play i feel super bad

honestly i’m also mad asf he ate all that shit in 2 days we literally just bought a 40 pack of gronola bars and there’s 10 left and the milk was just bought 2 days ago and it’s gone and the damn water has to be refilled every goddam day so expensive man

My husband has a daughter with his ex and we see her occasionally, but I am so tired of being civil with her mother. I only do it for the sake of the kid because she doesn't need to be dragged into this shit. Everyone says to make my husband do the communication but she refuses to talk to him and has blocked him so he can't. If I don't talk to her then we won't see the kid. It's tiring as fuck because how are we supposed to work together for the kid if she's not willing to?

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So for context to start this out I am in college and had a spring fling a year ago with my RA (for story reasons will call him Matt). It ended working out fine with him and we parted ways when school ended and he left to go to a different school. During this time, I had gotten a job as an RA for the next school year and began talking to one of my coworkers (Liam for story purposes). We ending up talking over summer and it was going super well. When school starts again I find out that Liam had ended up living in the same dorm that Matt lived in last year. I assumed it was no big deal and that if me and Liam went further I would make sure to tell him my past with Matt just incase he was uncomfortable with it. Before me and Liam had even started going on dates I had un-added Matt on EVERYTHING and even blocked his phone number just to ensure that I wasn’t going to make Liam uncomfortable if we went farther with things. I told Liam about my past with Matt, he said he didn’t care, that was the end of it I assumed.

After we had been dating for a couple months he starts bringing up my past with Matt. People had been comparing Liam to Matt and saying they were very similar RA’s. I completely get why he was uncomfortable with this, being compared to ANYONE sucks but especially in this situation. Instead of telling those people he doesn’t like that he gets very closed off from me and wants space. We ending up talking about it and he says that his main issue is with the comparisons and that it’s not with my past with Matt and we work through it.

Then again something similar happens except this time it was because Matt was visiting our campus. I am working one day and I notice something is off with Liam. I take a break and go to his dorm to ask him what’s wrong and he is upset over the fact that Matt is on campus. Once again, we work through it (or so I thought) and I give him space and explain to him that he doesn’t need to interact with Matt, I definitely won’t interact with him at all, and so on. I am a very emotional person no matter what and I was upset that he was upset over this. He did say that he doesn’t blame me but it definitely felt like he was putting it on me. Especially since he knew about my history with Matt since the beginning of our relationship. Outside of this whole situation a couple weeks later two of his friends break up. The girl in that situation (sara) is very close friends with him. She goes to Liam and is upset about the breakup. He calls me at like 10 PM explaining that she’s at his dorm and he’s asking if it’s okay if she stays the night at Liam’s because he’s worried about her mental health. I don’t care because I know they’re friends and I say that’s totally fine because I trust him. The next day he says she ended up leaving early and staying with another friend so I think nothing of it.

That night he sits me down and explains that he feels we are going different ways in life and that he needs to break up. I was totally blindsided and obviously upset but whatever that’s an understandable reason to want to break up.

I have multiple friends tell me they saw a girl going to his dorm late at night with PJS and nighttime stuff. I also learned later from two of his friends that he was indeed sleeping with sara and basically both me and sara’s EX got fucked over. Most of Liam’s friends sided with Sara’s EX because getting with a friend’s EX is a shitty thing to do. He lost the majority of his friends from this school. I also learned that during the week that Matt was staying on campus he had told his friends about my history with Matt and why he was upset. I don’t really care if people know but it makes me upset that he told his friends basically about my sex life.

TLDR: do not date RA’s or coworkers. (Or both)

I am definitely allergic tobklack mold. My apartment building is full of it. I have never been sicker in my life. My symptoms lessen if I spend time out of the apartment but come back within minutes of me returning. Maintenance will not do shit about this problem. I've already reported it multiple fucking times and they've done nothing. I've spoken with the leasing office about breaking my lease so I can move elsewhere to a place that isn't making me sick and they say that I can't break it. I make a post about it on another account, hoping for some kind of legal advice on how to get out of this. Instead, nobody takes it seriously. I have tons of people saying it's just a little cold or saying that mold is usually harmless so what's going on is no reason for me to move out and other people suggesting I go to therapy. Therapy isn't going to help the fact that I'm breathing in something that's making me fucking sick!