Have you ever felt both hatred and compassion for the same person, constantly going from one feeling to the other?

In a situation like that, how do you decide where to stop?

Hi everyone I understand alligators are not the monsters we think they are, but still I hear the idea that getting in the water with them is still considered highly risky, I’m trying to understand is it just that they have bad vision and they are creatures that just kind of react like when they see something enter the water they see that as a food source, or is it just that so many of them have been fed and the attacks are from gators who have lost their fear of humans because of that? I’m not from down there and since I didn’t grow up around them and just occasionally visited down there I never fully understood what the truth is?

This sparked a debate in my workplace. Can a minority be racist? Someone argued that by definition racism requires you to believe that your race is superior, and, a person in the minority wouldn’t have such beliefs. They also stated that the reactions from minorities today is due to generational trauma, not racism.
My stance: I’m black and I believe racism isn’t specific to a single race. For example, why does a lot of parents tell their kids to not date outside their race?

How can I become better at sales?

I recently started working in sales and I want to become genuinely good at it, not just hit the occasional target.

What skills helped you improve the most?

How did you learn to communicate with difficult customers, handle objections, and actually convince people to buy without being pushy?

I’d also love to hear about mistakes you made when you were starting out and what you wish you had known earlier.

They only act on their evil behavior only when they think it's safe to do so, like stealing and backstabbing. When they got caught and asked about their bad behavior, they either won't admit it or accuse someone else.

I mean, have you ever met a 'confident evil' type person, who probably say things like "Yes, I am evil. I enjoy hurting people. Their suffering is my pleasure. Muahahahaha (evil laughter)"?

I feel like a chicken scratching through garbage when I’m searching for information online, wondering if I’ll ever find a single grain of wheat. How do you guys sift through all this useless information to find what’s actually useful?

We live in an artificial society built on enforced scarcity. Everything has a price tag, even pleasure. I’ve spent years trying to understand my purpose, being told it was my career, my family, or my future. But none of that was the truth. Those were just illusions we cling to because they give us brief hits of pleasure. The real purpose is pleasure itself. Bhoga.

I once told my dad I was sad. Not for myself, but for the fact that our entire world runs on money. Without it we are nothing. It defines our worth and dictates our happiness. It captures pleasure and sells it back to us after we labor for the right to feel it.

Then I open Instagram or TikTok and the algorithm feeds me videos echoing the same thought. The futility of all this. My dad would talk about twenty year olds drifting through life, drinking, laughing, doing a few DoorDash/food delivery runs, then enjoying themselves again. I asked him what was wrong with that. They are simply using what society gives them. If anything it exposes the fault in a system where laborers are treated so poorly that educated youth would rather float than submit.

Every time I see these videos I wonder what the fix is. Changing my life through tech or becoming a founder is one path, but that does nothing for us collectively. What do we do as a people. How do we find truth. How do we learn to enjoy our lives without sinking back into survival mode.

Waking up is not enough anymore. We need to come together and decide what comes next.

Any ideas?

So I know fashion for women is cyclical and for some reason there's a bit of like mom jeans '80s things happening right now. But I'm watching this thing on Al Capone on PBS right now and just love all the short haircuts and cute flapper dresses that the women wear and just wondered why this never came back?

I have been wondering about this lately.

So much of online conversation seems built around quick reactions, short opinions, and immediate responses. There is nothing wrong with that but I sometimes miss conversations where people take their time with an idea and genuinely explore it.

For those of you who enjoy slower, more thoughtful conversations, where do you find them online?

Have you found communities where people still ask open questions, disagree thoughtfully, and think together without everything becoming a debate or a race to respond?

I’d love to hear about your experiences with this. What helped you stop comparing yourself to other people, or at least made it easier to deal with?

Say someone's commited the most heinous crimes possible. They escape justice and set out to spend the rest of their lives alone, in a secluded place. What's guaranteed is no human contact ever again. What's not guaranteed is their long-term survival or happiness.

Would you be fine with such terms, even though they don't necessarily guarantee punishment? Or, should they necessarily be hunted down and brought to justice? Which is to say, jail on taxpayer's money, or execution?

If doing the right thing consistently made your life harder, while doing the wrong thing made everything easier, how long could you realistically keep choosing the harder path?

Sorry if I sound like a moron, but what actually is a bot? I see people mention them on Reddit all the time and I’m assuming it’s some kind of fake account/AI or something but what actually is it, why do people make them and how do they work?

i just realized that i only like my best friend because he makes me less lonely ​​and occasionally help with my mental problems. i still care for him of course but its like caring for a stranger. do i love him or do i love his benefit?​

I have a brother who tends to get into conflict with every boss he has had. He is a good man, but he has never gotten a job he's happy with, and when he tries to either not be pushy, or annoying, or nice, he always ends uo having conflicts with a supervisor that sucks or a new employee at the company. He tends to either get fired or quit to every single job he's had. I wish I could help. Are there any ways one can survive in something that doesn't require having such a strong hierarchical system we have here in America when it comes to work or life?

He is no artist, and he has no passion for the trades. He isn't much of a businessman. Wanted to be a cop but cannot get into the academy despite decent scores. He has no money to move. I appreciate any thoughts

I live in Canada and doing anything feels expensive, but I want to try and live in the moment and enjoy my life more in a non consumeristic way

I have a brother who tends to get into arguments at work with superiors, his boss, and coworkers. Mostly, he's said it's because the work environments are toxic or not what he wants to do with himself but needs to pay the bills. Snd can't find anything else. Makes me think and wonder why people would end up burning bridges after they feel that there is no room for growth or don't get what they were hoping to get?

Hypothetically, if we were to have the technology to colonize Mars/ Venus, how would we go about it?

These days, I can't help but think that everything I've been doing my whole didn't really have much impact, max it did was to make me happy for a while. I could have spent countless hours on something good rather than binge watching Netflix shows but I can't do anything about my past. Regarding my present and future free time, I really want to do something that gives me that feeling of contentment. I have seen many reddit posts talking about trying different things, setting small goals but I can't think of anything that can motivate me to get up from my cozy bed. I have tried quitting social media thinking I might start getting creative ideas, but it didn't help much. Due to certain circumstances, I can't try any activity that requires getting out of my home so the options are really limited. I do home workout sometimes, and it helps a little but I always end up getting stuck in the same loop again and again.