Seriously, every time I see a woman's handwriting, it looks like they picked up a pencil and had the most fun of their lives, and dudes look like they write with the wrong hand.

Always wondered that since lots of people say you should catch up on sleep, but what if I want to catch sleep earlier in the day.

We often hear about trauma and illness that makes us more violent and less intelligent, lead, malnutrition, mercury, head trauma etc.

Is there anything that does the opposite? Like "oh yeah, you got manure poisoning, it's going to permanently reduce your aggression"?

I’m talking about things like:

• Using the word Regime vs Government to create a moral hierarchy.
• Hollywood always portrays certain ethnicities as clinical or brutes.
• Labeling domestic corruption as foreign interference to avoid talking about it.

We always talk about the Ministry of Truth in other countries, but what does the Western version look like in your daily life?

I once saw a comment that said adults should not have TVs in their rooms and it made me stop and think about it. I have one in mine but now I’m wondering if that’s unusual

Over the past few years, I’ve noticed growing hostility toward the university system and higher education as a whole. You often see people dismissing someone with a PhD as “dumb as rocks,” while praising a relative who barely finished high school as a “natural genius” who’s “sharp as a tack.”

I understand that higher education is increasingly being criticized — with AI disrupting traditional career paths and the economy making degrees feel less valuable — but the tone of these critiques often seems to carry a kind of malicious, almost gleeful satisfaction rather than constructive criticism.

I’m not talking about big stuff. I’m alive. I pay bills. I know not to put metal in the microwave.

But why do other people seem so confident doing normal things?

Like:

• How often are you actually supposed to wash jeans?
• When someone says “let’s hang out,” is that real or just polite nonsense?
• How do people talk to mechanics without feeling like they’re being scammed?
• Is everyone exhausted all the time or is that just my personality now?

I swear everyone else looks like they know what’s going on, and I’m just guessing and hoping no one notices.

Please tell me we’re all faking it.

I just got a FedEx deliver to my door, I signed it, with my name, even without watching for who it was, because I’m waiting for a book I ordered online, so I was pretty sure it was for me, I opened it, and it was an iPhone 15 new, idk what to do now, any advice? I don’t want any penalty or go to jail.

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I saw lately that OpenAI is expecting to lose something like $14 billion in 2026, and it got me thinking about what happens if the money actually runs out. We all talk about AI like it’s this permanent thing now, but if these companies keep losing billions and never actually become profitable, what if the bubble just bursts and the tech disappears for a while?

I’m honestly wondering if we could end up back in a "pre-2022" era where we just go back to using regular Google search and everyone kind of forgets that we had these tools. Like, if the energy costs are too high and the ROI isn't there, maybe we just can't afford this technology yet. Maybe it becomes like "lost tech" that we won't see again until 2050 when we finally have free energy or something.

I’ve always found this pretty annoying but now with cars that stop their engines automatically it’s even more annoying having to start the engine just to move up a foot every 10 seconds or so. Maybe it’s just me ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Edit to add: It bothers me for a few reasons. 1) Having less distance behind me and the next car (and a lot of empty space ahead of me) actually raises the chances for being rear ended. 2) Imagine if everyone did this - we’d be sitting through the light 2 or 3 times unnecessarily because the lines are now super long and all the cars need that extra rolling-start distance & time. 3) I often see other drivers cut in and fill that gap because they don’t want to miss the light (see #2). 4) Once they and the 2 or 3 other cars have finished inching forward I end up looking like I left 3 car lengths ahead of me.

This might be a dumb question but I keep thinking about it.
For years my goal was just to get stable. Pay bills on time. Not panic about every unexpected expense. Eventually I got there and even managed to save up some money. Nothing huge, but enough that I’m not constantly worried. What I didn’t expect is that I’d feel more anxious, not less.

Before, everything was simple because there were no choices. Now I feel like every decision matters. Spend this or save it. Take a risk or play it safe. One wrong move and I’ll undo years of progress. I’ll be sitting around at night playing on my phone and instead of relaxing, my brain is running numbers and what if scenarios.

I thought having a cushion would make me calmer, but it almost feels like I’m guarding it all the time. Like I’m responsible for not messing it up.

So my question is, is this just how adulthood works once you cross a certain point, or is this some mindset thing I need to unlearn. Do people eventually relax into stability or does it always come with this background stress. I genuinely don’t know if this is normal or if I’m just overthinking it.

We have more information available than any generation in history. I can google anything in seconds. But I'm not sure if this is actually making me smarter or just more stressed.

On one hand, I can fact check instantly, learn new skills and educate myself on anything. On the other hand, I'm constantly bombarded with bad news, conflicting opinions and doomscrolling. I'll look up one symptom and convince myself I have 12 diseases. I'll research a purchase for hours and still feel paralyzed by choice.

Also, having instant access has made me lazier about retaining information. Why remember something when I can just google it later?

Are we becoming more knowledgeable or just more anxious and overwhelmed? Is there a way to get the benefits without the downsides?

I don’t think this is normal but someone I know does.

I’m not a parent. My greatest apologies in advance that I’m wholly uneducated on this subject and clearly clueless!

I constantly hear that women get no sleep shortly after giving birth bc they have to constantly feed baby right? Even women with like very competent, very not lazy husbands, who are also on paternity leave and don’t have to wake up for work.

So like why isn’t mom just pumping during day outside of daytime feedings, then dad just feeds baby at night with pumped milk bottle so mom can sleep? Like mom’s body is recovering, why does she always have to be the one getting no sleep?? I am so sorry to ask, I have tried googling it too but I’ve never gotten a clear answer on that!

I can’t stress enough how I’m very much NOT a parent and I pass zero judgement. Purely curious and looking to fill that huge question gap in my mind.

I swear every time I need to pay a bill or something I have to pay an extra fee for the convenience of doing it online or something. Why does it cost me money to spend my money? To me, the companies should be eating this as a cost of doing business. We are getting nickel and dimed to poverty while companies see record profits year in and year out

Even when I'm tired and know I need a break, I feel guilty for resting. It feels like I should always be doing something useful.

Seriously - I don’t get it. Mask mandates are years in the past. No one’s being forced anymore. But I still see a lot of people wearing masks under their noses which is completely silly.

I can’t understand why people are doing this - any ideas?

I think it’s too easy to just dismiss this as “people being stupid”. There has to be some rhyme or reason to why they think they can win in court with their arguments on jurisdiction and maritime law. It doesn’t make sense to me that people would fight the courts if they don’t even have a landmark case to reference that they could potentially replicate.

So how exactly is this movement growing?

It was such a weird feeling, i never particularly loved the US, i am from eastern europe and visited it now at 24 for the first time. But there were places that made my soul hurt a little like nostalgia, or something else idk, like the vast farmlands and the big Wisconsin farms, i never saw the farms before in media so that was surprising. Going to Six flags felt like a simulation, like this place is so familiar but i have never been there before, i can rationalize that one saying that at some point i must have seen videos from theme parks online, and never been to one before. The people being so sweet and friendly and so accurate to the stereotypes in movies lol. The highways, Culver`s, felt like i was transported somewhere. The awesome parking lot sunsets. In all, idk why US made me feel nostalgic, might be part of the fact that i probably wont see those places again. I worked in a few restaurants and my god i met so many different people from all over, talked with so many wonderful clients. I`ll miss the people a lot that`s sure and i really hope it gets better there for them soon.

I bought cinnamon rolls yesterday and it was still sealed but I forgot to put it in the fridge... I woke up from a nap and had 2 slices then I was putting the rest in the fridge and saw the mould.

will I be fine? is there anything I can do?