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What is the correct thing to do with my finances in my will with my troubled daughter.
Good afternoon Reddit, I have a question that I am completely stuck on. I am worth a few million (about 3) and I have three kids. Ideally I would like to give 1/3 to each kid. The problem is, one of my daughters loves drugs, alcohol, fast food and so on. I can't buy her a condo or a house because she wont be able to take care of it as I believe she has FAS (She is adopted, not our fault she has this)... therefore she can't learn and has the mentality of a 10 year old and the math skills of an 8 year old. I don't want her to feel like my will is a giant "fuck you" because i do love her, but i can't justify giving her the money, nor do i feel good not giving her the money.
What is the right thing to do? Or the least hurtful.
TLDR - If i give her money, she will physically hurt herself. If i dont, she will be hurt emotionally.
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The thought that prompted this question:
My roommate and I had just gotten out of my car on a snowy winter's day. The parking space I paid for was at the top of a parking garage with no roof, so it was covered in snow. I walked over to the edge to look around because everything was snow covered. At that moment, a police car drove up and the cop yells out, "Hey! Back away from the edge of the building! Stop throwing snow over the side!"
We weren't throwing any snow off the roof nor had the thought ever crossed my mind to do so. Trying to explain that I just wanted to see the view was met with more furious yelling, so no snow gazing that day.
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I'm super late to the party, but here we go.
Not that it matters. I grew up very poor in Arizona. There are some really bad parts of Arizona. My mother had 4 kids, 2 different dads, neither paid any child support. We moved from a van to different one bedroom apartments about every 6 months. My 6th grade year, I went to 7 different schools. I still to this day don't know how to make friends. Why make them, if in 6 months you'll never see them again. Didn't have a Christmas tree until I was 14 and living with my Aunt and Uncle, but that's a different story.
I was the oldest, and at 11 was "baby sitting" my 8 year old sister, my 5 year old and 4 year old half brothers. People talk about remembering their mother's saying that they "had already eaten" or "weren't hungry" I did that. My mother had a dream to be a country western singer, and decided that her dreams were more important than a steady job to feed her kids, so she would sleep all day and go out every single night with her "band" to sing at some bar, making maybe $50 every few nights. With food stamps and food pantries, we usually made due, but when we would be forced to move for non-payment of the rent, those food stamps sometimes didn't follow us until my mom could wake from a drunken stupor and make it to the government building and update our change of address. This meant sometimes weeks of food bought on maybe $50. For 4 kids. Spaghetti. It was cheap, and was almost like having a real meal, plus it was pretty easy for 10 year old me to make. Most of the time it was some sort of sandwich, usually super cheap peanut butter from giant paper jars, or cheese that came in blocks so large that you couldn't cut it with a regular knife. We were lucky to be in Arizona, where some apartment complexes had orange trees in the common yard. Those were usually my lunch in the summer, and often dinner. Kool aid... when you have kids that want something other than water to drink, you better hope you have the sugar to make it. I think I ate the leftovers that I made for my siblings nearly every single dinner. It wasn't even something I thought about, it was just easier, they had to eat.
Contrary to popular belief, it does actually get cold in Arizona, and I can remember the 4 of us kids crowded around the open gas stove set on 400 degrees because the electric bill had not been paid for a while and when you are 3 months behind, they want the full amount plus a reconnect fee, plus a deposit, plus a late fee... I think all the kids had an electric bill in our name growing up.
One morning after a long night of listening to her cry and be smacked around all night, I awoke to "Charlie" sleeping off a few days bender on the couch. Mom was still locked up in her room, probably drunk and bruised up. I broke down. I had a aluminum baseball bat that I had found in a dumpster. I hit sleeping "Charlie" so many times in the head and upper body that I blacked out from screaming. Found out later that he needed stitches to reconnect his eyebrow back to his head, and lost many teeth as well as a broken nose and two black eyes. Charlie never came back around and mom just drank more and fell deeper and deeper into depression. I was 10 years old.
My worst memory was going to school after an especially bad summer of moving around and being told that my dad had another family that he was living with and providing for, that had kids around my age. My mom had went and bought me some T-shirts from the local goodwill, and I wore one on my first day to a new school. It was pretty unique I remember, some strange design on the front, and lines sewn around the sleeves like racing stripes around my arms. I thought it was cool. First day, I was being bullied, and one boy comments, "Where did you get that shirt, Goodwill?" Of course I said no, no kid is ever going to admit that! He then tells the other kids, "I know you did, my mom donated all my old shitty clothes last year, that used to be my shirt!" I argued that it wasn't, and I didn't know where my mom had bought it. His initials on the tag did not help my case.
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Do you want to know the truth? Let's the animosity and let's have some real talk.
The idea that someone can know what kind of person I am or how hard I work (or diagnose me with a mental disorder) from 4 comments on Reddit is laughable, don't you think? Do you think I know you from the 4 Reddit comments you've sent me? Of course I don't!
If you actually knew me, you'd know I'm extremely kind to the people who support me. If you asked any of the people who've been purchasing my videos for the last 3 years, you'd know I am extremely sweet, I give them discounts when I know they're in financial trouble, I have long conversations with them about their families, their jobs, their lives, their struggles, and I do everything I can to make sure they're happy with the quality of my work. But you don't know me. You've seen 4 comments on Reddit and you think you can tell how hard I work, and what kind of person I am. When people stalk me (happens weekly, and one man turned up at my house with a knife), I will report them to every single authority I can. When people say mean things to me, I'm going to block them. But the people who support me (whether that's $100 a week or $10 every couple of months or hell no money, just kind comments), will tell you that I'm a sweet, kind, thoughtful and totally normal woman. And don't take that in a "I'm the nicest person in the world to my friends but God help the people who cross me" type of way, I'm not some typical Facebook-posting single-mom "If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best" psycho! But it's human nature to be kind and sweet to people who are kind and sweet to you, and to be not so kind and sweet to those who intend to hurt you and/or your business.
I could tell you how much work goes into a single video (if you think about the fact that a 90 minute movie takes about 2 years in total to conceptualise, organise, script, shoot, reshoot, edit, encode, distribute and market you'll understand how making a 20 minute video doesn't take me 20 minutes, and that's without even thinking about all the admin and marketing work I do outside of actually making videos, and how emotionally draining it is to deal with often very difficult people on a daily basis), but I don't need to justify that to you. Just as you don't need to justify anything about your life to me. We can't possibly know anything about each other from a few Reddit comments. There's a million aspects to our personalities and decades of life behind us. I don't even fully know the people who I've known for 10 years, let alone a stranger on the internet. Why should we be so hateful to people we don't know? Why do you have to call people such awful names (not just me, I peeped your history a little) for simply disagreeing with you? You don't think I work hard, and it's your right to have that opinion. I think I do work hard, and it's my right to have that opinion. Neither of us will never know each other, and neither of us will care about or even remember each other a week's time. So why have such hatred and animosity over something that doesn't matter? Let's remember that there is a whole human being, just like ourselves, behind the screen, and just chill out.
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I'm a 3rd year university student and I had a prank pulled on me in my first year that I will not forget.
I lived in residence on campus for two years, and I was turning 18 during the first semester final exams. After returning from my afternoon exam I strutted my way upstairs to my room and hopped in front of my computer. I checked my email and saw I had one unread - from my don. (A don for those who are unsure is the ruler/head honcho of a residence. There are Proctors/Residence Assistants that rule the halls but the Don is the big guns). My don was asking me to come down to his apartment at 9pm because he had something very important to discuss.
I proceeded down to his room. He opened the door and told me to come in and sit down.
The whole House Team was there (President, Vice President, and 5 Proctors).
I was seated in a chair in front of them all and I was quickly informed that they had received a letter from campus security stating that I had interaction with one of their officers recently and he "had noticed a substantial trace of marijuana on me".
After my don went on for a while about how seriously the university takes offences like this it came to where I was told "that security is going through your room tonight and with enough evidence this will lead to your eviction."
I was mortified.
All of a sudden 30 people burst out of his kitchen/bathroom/the walls/under the chair, I don't even know where, and they were yelling surprise.
Two manly, manly, manly, MANLY tears rolled down my face.
And all I could say was "So I'm not evicted?"
My parents were hiding too, so seeing them wasn't the best because it was like "oh fuuuuuck did they hear all of that?"
They did bring a huge spread in the lounge for the house.
Best prank I've ever experienced and to have so many people in on it just for me? Awesome.
What are your stories, Reddit??
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I 100% believe mattress stores are money laundering businesses right along with the dry cleaners and nightclubs.
People just don't buy mattresses frequently enough to justify having 14 mattress stores in one town. I am 32 and have only ever made one mattress purchase in my life. I still sleep on that mattress to this day and have recently decided to retire it when I move.
If it's not money laundering, something is being cooked up. Someone in another thread suspected someone involved with Mattress Firm was also involved in commercial real estate and was trying to drum up leases for his commercial properties.
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If all gun owners need babysitting because a handful of them have gone on killing sprees, then surely all internet users need babysitting, because a lot more than a handful are looking at underage porn. In fact, I bet if we look at the data and do a little math, we'll find that a higher proportion of internet users traffic in child porn than gun owners going on sprees, meaning that your internet freedom is literally a bigger threat than my legal gun ownership.
And for the love of whatever you hold dear, educate yourself on basic civics and government. There are governments out there that actively babysit their people. We call them "totalitarian dictatorships", or "tyrannies" for short.
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/r/earthporn, /r/waterporn, /r/ArchitecturePorn, /r/roomporn etc.. (SFW porn reddits in other words)
If you like pics for the drawings/art, /r/drawing /r/learndrawing /r/drawforme, /r/photoshopbattles, /r/art
Possibly the imaginary subreddits too; /r/imaginarylandscapes, /r/imaginarymonsters, /r/imaginarycharacters, /r/imaginarytechnology /r/imaginarywildlands /r/imaginarybattlefields, /r/imaginarycityscapes, /r/imaginarystarscapes etc..
If you enjoy it because of the amateur photographers and/or want to learn how to take good pictures: /r/photography and /r/photocritique
If you like celeb pics, /r/celebs, /r/celebnsfw (NSFW), /r/celebfakes /r/CelebrityPussy (nsfw) /r/CelebrityButts (NSFW) etc...
Possibly /r/images, /r/pictures, /r/photos and such (I'm not familiar with these though)
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I'd definitely disagree with you there --- the meaning of a word is an immensely complex thing to break down, but the majority of meaning needs to come from environment. Mansplaining is currently an ideological word --- built into it is at least a partial expression of allegiance to that ideology, and at least partial ideological attack on its target.
In the future it could evolve into a less loaded word, for sure, but currently if used without qualification it is a loaded word, and that's informed by environment, not individual. For example, if the word started to spill into wider use outside of ideological boundaries, the ideological subtext would degrade and eventually disappear (and at that point I'd be fine with the word).
I do agree with you that statistically someone who has a problem with the word is more likely to be someone who doesn't have a problem with mansplaining, that seems like common sense. I disagree with the implication that anyone who is against the word mansplaining is pro 'men explaining things in a condescending manner to women', therefore any argument they'd pose is dismissable.
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Ours is super hard (110 parts per million) with lots of iron. When we moved in, there was a water softener that barely softened at all and did nothing for the iron. The shower was were orange, you could see exactly where the water drops hit the walls. Our white clothes came out of the wash yellow and orange. We couldn't drink it, and all the faucets, including one we installed when we moved in, are so caked with minerals that CLR won't touch it. We had to buy a new water softener, it cost $5000, plus another $1k for a reverse osmosis unit for drinking water.
When we lose power we also lose water after what's in the bladder is used up. This happened at our house warming party which sucked because you couldn't flush the toilet. We've since gotten a generator
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Usually? Yes. Those who've earned money after not having it tend to be kinder, more responsible, and better human beings. Those who were born into it tend to not always be that way. That's not a modern thing. History has proved many times that those born into money are worse people than their parents. Those aren't absolutes of course, and there are times where the complete opposite is true. But as a discussion of if having money makes you a better person, that's not the case.
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I'd explain how mothers of our species secrete milk to nourish our young.
And that through research and scientific advances we've created substitutes based on the milk of other species and even milk-like plant fluids to nourish infants that are without a biological mother or for cases where the mother cannot adequately sustain their infant.
And that we developed capitalism and pushed the substitute to the point that the biological norm is not the societal norm any more. That there is now a divide in society and the way infants are nourished is a huge source of controversy. That this controversy and the misinformation that goes with it has resulted in numerous infant deaths.
Honestly whatever the aliens do with us at that point is justified.
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This is obviously a worm, though, which are basically non-existent on linux, as it actually requires permission to run system programs.
He didn't give it permission to do anything, he didn't even know anything had happened. Not saying linux is immune to stuff like this, but it's much more secure than windows. I've had several major scares regarding viruses, malware, spyware, etc on my years on windows, but have been using exclusively linux since 2008 and have had literally not a single issue regarding malware.
It may exist, but it's hardly comparable in numbers or threat.
Don't know about Mac, but it's not widely used in computers or servers, so I doubt there is much effort put into making malware for it.
I agree about the plaintext, most online emails already disable images and such, and scan messages for stuff, but I wouldn't trust that fully.
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I have major depressive disorder, man. I literally *can't* just "lighten up a little". And I'm not annoyed by your comment. I'm just dispirited.
Yeah, strangers *shouldn't* be able to affect my mood, but guess what? It's not always a conscious choice. Maybe that'll change on day, when I have the time and ability and energy to develop better control over my emotions and crap, but for the vast majority of my life, it just hasn't been something I can conciously or consistently do outside of work, where it's a necessary part of the job description to constantly suppress your frustration and force positivity. Which still isn't even really the same thing you're talking about.
Yeah, it'd be great if we all could be in charge of our own moods all the time, and just decide to let everything slide right off our backs and get on with our lives, but that's just not reality for a lot of people. It just is what it is.
ETA: I do appreciate what you said, and I appreciate the point you're trying to make. But it's just not who I am, and I don't have it in me to make those kinds of changes right now.
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This story simply illustrates that some people have it bad due to situations entirely of their own doing and throwing them a bone won't necessarily make the situation any better. This doesn't mesh with their world view since it means eliminating these "evil forces" won't result in a global liberal utopia where everyone's life is perfect.
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Well, first of all, three hours was a long time ago and second of all, let's look at the top replies, sorted by "top"
1. [zeppo_shemp](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/15fgg4/people_who_are_consistently_late_whyhow_do_you_do/c7lzge9) "My boss consistently under-estimates the time required..." Not about himself.
2. Not an answer to the question.
3. [ricktencity](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/15fgg4/people_who_are_consistently_late_whyhow_do_you_do/c7lzml2) "For me it's pretty simple, horrible, horrible time management..." a real answer
4. [SAP_GOT_NOTHIN_ON_ME](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/15fgg4/people_who_are_consistently_late_whyhow_do_you_do/c7m0260) Ill ask my girlfriend. You'll have a reply by next Christmas." Not about himself.
6. [sororiteal](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/15fgg4/people_who_are_consistently_late_whyhow_do_you_do/c7m07q8) "There really isn't one legitimate excuse here. not about himself being late
7. [miranders](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/15fgg4/people_who_are_consistently_late_whyhow_do_you_do/c7lzcte) "I think a lot of people just think..." not about himself
8. [NotAPimp](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/15fgg4/people_who_are_consistently_late_whyhow_do_you_do/c7lzp0t) "Too many mirrors in my house..." a joke
9. [Meth_Useler](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/15fgg4/people_who_are_consistently_late_whyhow_do_you_do/c7m0dgw) "Because I'm a night person in a day world." ambiguous
10. [Richboy455](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/15fgg4/people_who_are_consistently_late_whyhow_do_you_do/c7m0ozr) "Working in the airline industry, this really annoys me..." not about himself
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As I understand it, it pretty much struck the entire hemisphere pretty quickly and pretty devastatingly, and is really the first wave of colonialism (sometimes called gray colonialism because it spread decades or even centuries ahead of any actual European presence in some areas). I don't know much about how the Spanish took down the Aztecs but it was a similar case as the Inca: a large, well-organized warring empire with a powerful army, taken down quickly by a small number of Spaniards. I think that the spread of disease can really explain a huge part of how Europeans got onto two continents that were fully-populated and could have easily repelled any (at least initial) European invasion had they been immune to the disease.
I think that also partly explains why Europeans saw indigenous people of the Americas as being savage and backwards and such. Part of it, of course, is just European thought, but also all societies in the Americas were depopulated and suffering long before the Europeans saw them, and of course the Europeans (at least in the 16th and 17th century) had no idea about germs or the risk of spreading their diseases to an unexposed population, so they just figured that what they saw was the natural order of things.
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Near the end of a school year, I found a stash of permanent markers in the staff room of the elementary school in which I taught. This school required all students to remove outdoor footwear and place them on shelves near the exits. On the last day of school, I put a gift marker in each shoe.
After school, I relaxed on the playground and watched. At any instant, I could see all stages of the prank play out: the surprised discovery, the opening and testing of the pen, the tentative line drawn on the stair rail, and the expanding cloud of graffiti spreading out from each doorway.
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When I was 4 I snuck out of my house one morning while my mom was sleeping to look for my dad (I woke up to see his car was gone & he always woke up early but my mom didn't so I would hang out with him). I had to get through a door with 3 locks, all sliding locks that were high up on the door, so I grabbed a chair & a toy sword then unlocked the door. I got to the front door of the house & found that it wasn't locked so I went outside & for some reason thought it was a good idea to get in my little kiddie pool (it was summer time) on my way looking for my dad... I left a trail of my clothes to the pool, got in, got out & proceeded to walk 2 houses away, naked, when a neighbor saw me & asked me what I was doing. She took me inside her house & called the cops... The cops came & by now my mom was awake & frantically looking for me. The cops ended up putting me in the cop car & drove me to my house that was 30 seconds away. They talked to my mom about how to keep me from doing this again, & eventually my dad got home & was told what had happened.
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After tonight, I'm asking for your tips to keep all my food fresh so I can avoid this happening again.
I'm a young guy living on my own. Cleanliness is something I strive for, but sometimes you just say "fuck it" and things get messy.
So I'm going through cleaning out my fridge for the first time in a long time, and I nearly lost it. Everything was moldy/disgusting. I think my spaghetti leftovers were muttering threats the entire time. I mean, look at [it](http://i.imgur.com/NXyKp.jpg).
The fruits and veggies, bread, meat, it was all terrible. I don't gag easily, but god damn. My dinner was bobbing around in my throat the entire time.
So what are your tips to keep everything fresh? I hate having to throw stuff out as often as I do.
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/u/Karakui has the power to watch all pilot episodes and read all pilot scripts before release. If /u/Karakui deems a pilot episode or script "terrible shit", that show/movie is never allowed to be shown to anyone. Owners may appeal these decisions, however, if their new pilot script isn't any better, /u/Karakui may slap them with a large haddock. Similarly, /u/Karakui may demand that cancelled shows or movies that never received the sequels or prequels they require be reincarnated and continued.
This way, /u/Karakui will become the most powerful and most loved person in the world: the person who prevents anything like Twilight ever existing again, and the sole person capable of bringing back Firefly.
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This was story told to me by my mom (and has been repeated almost every time we pass where the restaurant used to be).
In the earlier years of their relationship, they decided to go on a date to this local place and was rumored to have good food. They were excited but when they got there, things started going down hill. The staff was fine but the wait time was awful. When the food finally did come out, the waitress (or waiter, my mom couldn't remember really) mistepped and spilled the food on my mom. Like over her head.
They apologized, comped the food, and made them new entrées. But the damage had been done and they never went back. They apparently stayed open alittle while after but eventually closed.
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Slightly similar story (not really just in general a connection with dentist and pulling teeth). I have never liked doing to my childhood dentist and what happened to my brother cemented the fact I would never go back to that office.
So my brother went in to have a tooth pulled after a 18 hour firefighting shift, not only did the dentist not wait till the numbing agent was working but he pulled the wrong tooth. This isn't an "oops the pliers slipped to the wrong tooth" situation, this was on the wrong side of the jaw. Then after pulling out a perfectly healthy tooth, the dentist wanted to charge him to have the correct tooth pulled out in addition to the tooth he incorrectly pulled out.
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Well probably not so silly, but I once had to stop sexytiming to not poop in the bed. After a long day of drinking at a friends summerplace, I quite surprisingly ended up with a female companion for the night. Everything started off well, but after a few minutes, while I was on top, I distinctly remember that I literally started crowning so I had to remain perfectly still to keep it in. Well the girl took the lack of motion as me having just finished and never in my life have I been happier about a girl thinking that I'm a 2-minute-man. I think I was around 16 at the time so if u can imagine how horny kids that age are, u can imagine how badly I had to poop when I gave up sexytime for it.
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It started cheesy, then got cheesier and cheesier, until it was finally too cheesy for me. The final straw that broke the camel's back for me happened in those crossover episodes when all the superheroes line up next to each other, and opposite of them is a line of nazis with machine guns, and instead of firing said guns they all start running towards the heroes and get the shit kicked out of them.
That was the moment when I said "Nope, I'm out. I'm done with this whole CW DC universe. This is stupid!"
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I had a mechanical failure on my motorbike about 5 years ago now that led to a pretty decent crash. The bike landed on top of me after I high-sided it and the handlebar landed on my collarbone, less than 5mm closer the centre of my body and the handlebar would have pieced and potentially broken my neck.
A second time much more recently a buddy and I crashed a car into a tree on a mountain. We hit the tree at about 60km/h but it was the only tree on the side of the road protecting us from a ~30-50m cliff drop. That one got the heart racing.
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I feel I am a good photographer and could really shine with the right tools, and more importantly, with more time dedicated to the craft.
I fell in love with the art of photography a while back and since have been too busy with my job to be able to focus on it and enjoy it. If I could drop everything and do one thing with my life it would be becoming a fine-art photographer with galleries and exhibits and whatnot.
The most important road-block to me chasing my dream is time. Hopefully, one day soon, I will be able to focus more on getting back on track with it. We'll see though.
I understand full well that it's not the camera that makes good photos, however, after immersing myself into the medium and (in my eyes) mastering a lot of it, better equipment would make achieving my visions much easier. But, as is the case in many ventures, money is a limiting factor and of that I have very little to use on the stuff I love (only on the stuff I *have* to).
Who knows what will happen? The events will pan out and I'll have to try my best to achieve my goals.
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Do you think that shows like forensic detectives and FBI files help show potential killers how to get away with murder?
I feel like these shows can serve to teach people how to get away with murder by exposing all the secrets the FBI and police use in catching killers. Have u ever heard of someone doing this? Do you think that its good that they're on tv?
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I mean dude, it's October, i don't remember September. Nothing happened, I went to work, I went to the cinema one night I know that.... but fuck.
Oh that's another thing kids can look forward too, just going home, cooking and then going to bed. Nothing cool is going to happen, there's no ringing mates to hang out, because they're doing exactly the same. Food, get in a quick bit of whatever chill out time you can. If you're lucky then it's Wednesday and Great British bake
-off is on. Shit can be real monotonous.
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What commonly used grammatical errors really irritate you?
We all know that, seemingly, the common users of the internet today are unable to differentiate between their, there and they're. But what other errors do you see regularly?
One that truly annoys me is the usage of "literally".
Literally means that what you just said ACTUALLY happened... "The song was so bad it literally made my ears bleed" means just that. That your ears actually bled because the song was so terrible. An unlikely scenario!
So, I ask you, Reddit. What errors annoy you?
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Advice on how to convince my mom to divorce my dad?
My dad has been unemployed since 2001, he's morbidly obese, verbally abusive, manipulate, controlling, and basically treats us as his personal servants. He has his good moments, and I love him - but I can't live with him anymore.
If I'm really in trouble he'll help me. And I know he loves me. Some days are good. Some days everything is fine and we can live together. But so often I have to convince myself not to hurt him. I'll have to leave the house for a day because I can't stand to be around him when he's in one of his moods.
I haven't heard my parents actually have a conversation in years that didn't end in a fight. They haven't slept in the same room since I has 10. They don't do anything. There is no mutual relationship. There is no love. My dad went to florida for a week and we realized how much better life was without him. How normal life could good be when he didn't have to be afraid of how he'd react if we did something, or what the repercussions would be.
She's afraid of loosing the house. Our financial situation is so bad she's afraid if she changes the situation at all she'll just loose everything. We get federal aid right now because the number of people in the house to income ratio, and if that changes we'll loose the only support we have that lets us live week to week. I started working when I was 14 to help pay the bills - but I'm in college now and can't contribute what I used to.
I've been telling my mother for years that she needs to divorce him - but she works a 'pay-by-the hour-job' and doesn't have enough money for a lawyer. She was just crying to me on the phone about how her day went putting up with his crap, and repeatedly said if she had a gun she would have shot him. I don't think she'd go to an abuse clinic. I don't know if they'd help anyways - not for being married to a manipulative asshole. And my dad is very personable and social. He's good at getting people to side with him. She doesn't know how to get out this situation, and I don't know how to advise her.
Can reddit give me any advice as to what to do? I love my mom too much to let this go on.
**General pissed off Rant about his habits that will probably read as petty general family problems:** He blows all my mothers money going to bars every night, and steal my checks if he somes some extra cash. He shuts off our internet and hot water for fun (or just annoyed at the world), eats all the food then tells us 'too bad go buy your own food'-then proceeds to eat most of the food we make for ourselves. He'll demand that I make him a sandwich. Knowing I'm allergic to tuna he'll make it all the time then yell at me to grow up and deal with it when I run out of the house. If he goes shopping he'll purposly buy food he knows the rest of the family doesn't eat (and tuna) - so he can hord it for himself,etc.If he want's something thats ours, he just takes it. Like my last computer. And PS2(for the dvd player). Things I bought with my own money - but apparently I owe him for everything he bought me as a child and everything he does for me (the occasional ride if he's going out anyways). If something needs to be fixed, he'll yell at us till we do it, as he watches on telling us we're doing it wrong. He called my brother's cell while he was at school thursday- getting my brother detention, then laughed about it. It ment my brother needed to be to school two hours earlier, and he just didn't care. He rarely takes an interest in my siblings or my life - didn't help at all in the college searching/applying process. He wanted us to go, and he wants us to succeed, he just can't be bothered to help or provide any sort of guidance. My sister saved up to send herself to paris on her senior trip, and he took 400$ out out of her account as soon as she got there so she had no spending money. Almost every day he makes my mother late for work because he needs her to do something for him and it can't wait. My mother works full time then comes home and ends up doing stuff for him all weekend while he never lifts a finger-and it's driving her insane. I'm afraid someday he'll push her over the edge, and my moms a friggan saint. I don't want that to happen.
I apologize if this reads as petty - but my sister didn't want to go to college because she was afraid my mom might kill herself if she didn't have backup putting up with my dad day to day. After the call I got today with my mom crying and ranting, I just needed to ask for advice. Thanks.
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> You should be able to exist and enjoy things without paying a fee to do experience them a particular way. There's nothing natural about buffering your experience with reality.
This is one of the main reasons that i pass up a lot of things with my friends. "wanna have a drink/smoke a bowl/etc before we do this thing?"
not really. it will be enjoyable for me enough in the state i am currently in, why do i need to buffer myself EVERY DAMN TIME?
so i only do such activities on occasion and in leisure. i enjoy keeping the different experiences separate. i've seen enough people end up feeling a need to change their perception before doing things we all used to enjoy without any substances beforehand. just a good walk or something like that.
i'm not against it by any means, but i feel like it's just not who i am, and that i'm fine also experiencing things in my natural sober human state.
great post man, i hope a lot of people read and understand this.
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Uniforms are supposed to reduce instances of violence and reduce culture clash. When people are young and meet people from different backgrounds, uniforms can reduce the tensions. Once the tensions are reduced, there tends to be less instances of physical conflict. In short, it helps provide a better learning environment.
Teachers are not students. They are in the school to provide a very specific function.
I don't see a problem with uniforms for both groups, as long as the uniforms are different.
I'm not a teacher, nor do I play one on television.
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Found questionable message on girlfriend's phone. Should I be concerned?
So I was messing around with my girlfriend's phone the other day and up pops a Facebook message "Hey sexy" from some guy.
I asked her about it, and she said he's just some creep. She showed me some of the messages and it did seem as though she was trying to get rid of him, but she still answered every message he sent. I asked her if she could remove him from her Facebook, and she said no.
I don't want to turn it into a big thing if it doesn't need to be. But, should I be concerned?
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I also laughed at my father's funeral. Hopefully no one noticed.
My father wasn't perfect, he loved to take the piss out of everyone and his laugh is pretty much the only thing I remember, and his attempt to hold back tears when he knew he couldn't cope.
Sitting quietly listening to the priest trying to describe my father as a perfect person just made me laugh. And Could only imagine my father randomly beeping his car horn to scare the poor fucker to death.
I know the priest was disgusted I was smiling and staring into space as he pointed me out then looked away.
But hey Ho everyone was crying and I got to see my dad one last time, even if it was all in my head.
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Is rape worse than murder? Why is okay to joke about murder but not about rape?
I just attended a sexual violence meeting and it got me thinking. The speaker was discussing how it's not okay to say "That exam really raped me!", and I wondered does that mean it's not okay to say "That exam really killed me".
I have a sense that most of the arguments will say that the first sentence ("That exam really raped me") creates a society where rape is accepted or ignored. Also, please mention the word banana in your post if you've read this far. How does using the word "rape" casually change society whereas words like "kill", "murder" or "beat up" don't?
Thanks for your time, and I apologize if there is a better subreddit for this. I thought AskReddit would be big enough and have varied enough opinions (As opposed to r/feminism or r/mensrights or what have you).
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Idk, some drugs are actually dangerous and addictive and really fun all at the same time. It's probably a good thing that some of the drugs we've invented are made legally difficult to get.
To be fair, even if you could get heroin at the local pharmacy without a prescription, not everyone would do it recreationally, just like not everyone drinks or smokes, but it's still a good thing that it's not casually available as it would cause far more harm than any good it might do.
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College students are strange in that respect. I had a class that I was required to take to graduate with my BA and they only had 2 per semester. Yeah... So anyway I get to the class and it's jammed. Like people sitting in the aisles, standing on the sides and back of the room, etc. People start filing out of the room so I stand up and say "No. This class is needed for graduation and I'm not spending another semester here for one lousy class. I'm going to the department head and I suggest the rest of you come with me as there is power in numbers". So I (and about 25 other students) went upstairs to the DH and complained about it. We all got put in the online class (reserved for distance learning students) and graduated on time.
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On one hand... I make more than plenty and I'm never truly in a financial tight spot, my work-life balance is fair enough since a lot of my time is spent working remote (save for meetings that demand a physical presence and other bureaucratic baloney), and I generally don't find the work to be *too* overwhelming. It's a pretty sweet deal.
But on the other hand... I do feel like I'm underpaid despite my workload only getting bigger with each passing month, I don't think I have any prospects for a raise, and I haven't been allowed to use my vacation time whatsoever. So, superpositionally, it's a shitty deal.
And yet, life goes on.
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Honestly I agree if it's ultra cheap. I have my license but I got it 12 years ago. I started driving again last year for the first time since I got it. I shouldn't have been allowed to just go out and drive, but it's not illegal. My boyfriend has been insisting that I drive his new car and I did the other day, but I'm so terrified I'll damage it that Its nerve wracking to drive. Its really nice to drive though, really easy. His old car was awful in comparison, but I wasn't scared of hurting it because it was old and getting ready to be scrapped.
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I feel obligated to reply to this one...created an account for it even! I'm a girl who played wow like it was my job, in what they called the "vanilla" version I was in a world top guild. I started playing just before I went to college, I was a top student and though I didn't think so at the time rather good looking. I was dating a guy who played, but he wasn't quite as into it as I ended up being. I developed the crazy sleep schedules and blew off going to class, I think I even missed an exam or two because I didn't realize which day it was. I ended up leaving my boyfriend, dropping out of school and moving 1/2 way across the country to be with a guy that I had met in the game (we'd met in person a few times prior to moving).
While I was with the new guy, I joined a world level raiding guild (vanilla) and we both raided like it was a job. No friends, rarely left the house, crazy weird sleeping schedule. That obviously didn't end up working out....what did end up working out is that the connections that I made with people in that guild. I'm friends with many of them on Facebook, met a few in "real life", watched their kids grow up (or them grow up themselves). When you spend that much time with people, even online, you generally get to know who they are. Though I stopped playing 2+ years ago (with the exception of Jan/Feb 2010 where I finally had some down time and wanted to relax a bit only to discover that I couldn't play and not want to be competitive at it). I consider many of them to be very good friends and would love to help them in any way I can.
My blurb out of the way:
Have you talked to her about the way that you feel? Sometimes the shock of a serious conversation about where you think things are going can help us girls. You may want to ask about her friends in the game, take some time to get to know more about them. This sounds strange, but it will start a dialogue. You can transition that to asking if they have movie recommendations (as an example), use this to get out of the house and see them. While I was raiding I ended up getting a part time waitressing job, not glamorous but it did mean I was interacting with people and I certainly didn't want them to know I was playing video games in my free time. For me, being able to keep in touch with the people I used to play with (forums, facebook) really helped when I wasn't playing.
Honestly...you could also just kill the internet connection. I realize this sounds a little harsh, since you use it too, but it sounds like you are low on cash. Paying $15 per month + internet costs + other living expenses. Internet and WoW are not things that you NEED to have to survive. Throw this in there with the "relationship talk" and how you really want her help to figure this out.
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Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the penis. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. - Capt. Koons
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It's a double edge sword sometimes, because I hate giving up control a lot of time, but it is essential in this industry, you HAVE to work as a team to get things done. Sometimes you get the reverse and you have a person who is supposed to be an expert and really just does enough to get by. In the end I have to make up for it, when it should be something I shouldn't have to worry about. That's when you are having to babysit your own engineers because you can't be 100% sure they did what you asked of them.
I would love to work with someone like your wife who take pride in their work, and can see all the little things we are never able to focus on.
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Are there any social conventions that
you are sure you have right, and all
your friends have it wrong?
I am the only one in my group of friends who has a place suitable for throwing parties. Again and again, my friends keep expecting me to serve dinner at my parties instead of what I consider party food. I am dead set on the idea that I am right and that people should not expect to be served dinner at, for example, a Halloween Party.
DEA have a situation like that? Where they are sure that their friends collectively are totally wrong about a social norm or convention?
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I can't say one in particular but it's either the ict teacher who wouldn't help me sort out a computer left me standing up for multiple lessons all because I missed the first lesson (this went on for the entire first term until we got a new teacher, or the teacher who did nothing to help me when some kid 3 years older than me broke my rib by ramming into me full speed from the other side of the grounds, my entire class was there and she blindly believed him and didn't bother to ask a single one of them all because "my friend pushed me into him"
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By being a religion DUH!
Honestly though:
>In relation to the sexual transmission of the disease, the Church teaches that sexual abstinence before marriage, and monogamy inside marriage, are a better means of limiting the spread of the epidemic than is the use of condoms. The Church's position on AIDS prevention is controversial because it contradicts scientific consensus, according to which condom use is the most effective strategy for the prevention of HIV/AIDS. It follows that if the church had promoted condom use since the 1980s, a significant proportion of 30 million AIDS deaths could have been prevented.
But it should be mentioned that:
>The Catholic Church is the largest private provider of care to HIV/AIDS patients in the world, providing approximately one quarter of all HIV treatment and care. United Nations bodies co-operate closely with the Church on the provision of patient care, and in eliminating infections in children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_HIV/AIDS
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thank you. hopefully this discussion will stay at minimum civil...and possibly even amount to a frank exchange of viewpoints. The thorny issue to me IS that the culture in question is...
1)toxic and maladaptive.
2)that it is a corporate creation designed to shape buying habits and send young black men into the for-profit prison system.
3)that it is designed to drive a huge social rift between blacks and whites when our real enemies are the parasitic elite sociopaths at the top. One well-coordinated 'race riot' and scared white people will celebrate having military troops patrolling our streets...endgame for the police state.
Tell me that these points are racist. I'd say Huey Freeman would have my back on all three points.
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The fact that there were studies proving him right at the time and people still dismissing it tells something about how stubborn people are.
How are you going to convince people there are tons and tons and tons of tiny organisms pretty much everywhere, that we can't see, simultaneously keeping us alive and making us sick without sounding like a complete lunatic?
New concepts take a lot of time to get generally accepted.
Take for instance imaginary numbers in mathematics. (They're not actually imaginary, they're just as real as real numbers by the way, but that's a discussion for a different time)
When someone tells you that stuff, they basically say: well i² = -1, depending on how deep you are into mathematics you might right now still think:
*Well, I'm sure they use it, but they just made it up, there is no number that is -1 when multiplied with itself.*
And if you're more familiar with imaginary numbers, you can probably still imagine what people found it hard to grasp when first confronted with them.
Well people thought the same way about **negative numbers** in the past, and even about **zero** for a long time. I know it's hard to wrap your head around that with your current knowledge, but it's literally the same thing. Imagine how freaking impossible it would be to sell the concept of imaginary numbers to people that barely can grasp the idea of negative numbers.
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There have been a few things. Once I opened the backdoor to my garden, dropped my shorts and tried to pee. My mum found me during that one.
I often get this thing where I'll dream about my exact surroundings and it's like I'm lying awake in bed, then I'll see either a big spider or a bunch of bugs or a rat etc and run away, I always then wake up in the spot I ran to. It's annoying and really creepy if anyone is in the room with me.
Once when I was about 6 my mum heard me walking around during the night and watched me go downstairs and open the front door, then go back up to bed.
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What are some lesser known bits of history (modern or ancient) that blow your mind?
Mine: During WWII, in order to bypass underwater defense nets and solve the problem of hitting a very small target from above, the British used barel bombs that they spun into high RPM before dropping them from the plane, making them skip across the water, bypass the underwater nets, and because they were spinning, hit the dams they were trying to bomb going straight up and back down before exploding.
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In countries that have things like universal healthcare they don't increase everyone's taxes to pay for the smokers. They make a pack of cigarettes that normally would cost 5 dollars cost 25 dollars. 20 in taxes and 5 for the cigarettes themselves. They do the same for soda and for fast food among other things, although I don't think to the degree they do for cigarettes. That extra amount in taxes goes into funding healthcare.
Point being, the people making poor life decisions, like smoking cigarettes, are the ones paying the extra taxes, not everyone else.
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My dog ate a dead rotten fish that washed up on the shore of a lake and ended up with a tape worm that was a centimeter wide and I don't even know how long. It was such a rare type of parasite that the vet had to send away the sample to figure out what it was.
I gave her 2 different types of vet prescribed pills to kill this thing and it still wouldn't die.
That and then the countless stories of her bringing me "presents".
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The point is, if someone is in need, asking you for help, and you can instantly and effortlessly help them at no cost to yourself, you’d be monstrously immoral to deny them. Jesus does exactly that based on tribal/religious affiliation. For the “love your neighbor” and “love your enemies” talk, Jesus refuses to do either.
Now, that *is* in line with the context of everything Jesus says, and with all the Old Testament scripture. However, we’re constantly told that Jesus is the pinnacle of morality, yet he does not act in a moral way, and instead is quite immoral, even by the standards of people who purport to worship him.
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My niece has accused three different men of raping her. The first two she admitted she lied after they both spent more than five years in prison.
The first one was even beaten to the point they had him on a ventilator because of what she claimed. He still has health issues to this day.
Though, she has serious problems. She made a bomb threat against her school and has told her therapist she likes hearing toddlers and babies cry out in pain.
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Going to London & Barcelona; what MUST i do?
Hi guys, I'm going to London & Barcelona for the first time in less than two weeks and need some ideas on where to go, what to eat, what the weather is like, shopping, etc....
I am interested in checking out local places aside from the "touristy" things.
Please feel free to provide any tips, pointers, ideas, or anything that would make my trip ENJOYABLE.
I love drinking and the nightlife as well, so give me some beer recommendations and cool bars to go to.
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I have a very similiar renter that we got rid of about a year ago. Almost identical stories. Except with her, she put pad locks on all the bedrooms and was renting them out to people. When she left, she left _SO MUCH STUFF_ (mattresses, dressers, couches, CLOTHES) I can't even begin to tell you. And not one piece of it was reusable. Roaches were everywhere, she bred dogs in there for a period of time and they shit everywhere on the floor. Live roaches were living in the hinges of the cabinets _INSIDE THE HINGES_. We filled and I mean filled a 30 foot dumpster to the top with her things. On the day we were emptying the place out, 2 guys came by and asked why we were throwing out their stuff. First question was "Who are you guys?" and they were the ones renting the rooms out. We told them sorry but your friend ditched the place and they pretty much said "damn that sucks"
You might ask why we weren't checking on our properties. Our handyman had been in there 3-4 months before she moved out and said it was fine in there. I called Section 8 housing to report her and they said "That just sounds like normal wear and tear to a house" Insurance said the same thing.. So did Police when we called them for vandalism. $7000 later, it was rented again.
We have 9 other rental properties and haven't had anything close to this type of situation in any other place.
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They can be white, red, yellow or purple too.
IIRC carrots are orange because oranges are orange or at least that's what I was taught.
Orange, originally named Arausio after the Celtic god, is a city in Provence. In the 16th century this guy from Nassau, HRE inherited the title of Prince of Orange, founding the branch Oranje-Nassau. He was Willem de Zwijger (dat is weliswaar een geuzennaam) and would later become Stadhouder of the Netherlands. The house of Oranje-Nassau still rules there today.
Seperately the Moors had brought the orange fruit from the Indian and Muslim realms to Europe. The evolution of the Sanskrit word "naranga" probably went something like Sanskrit->Persian->Arabic->romance languages to end up as "orange" in French.
In the 17th century the Dutch started using the colour of a ripe orange to describe the colour between red and yellow, and used it in all kinds of heraldry and symbolism, most notably the Prinsenvlag. Carrots were selectively bred to yield only "oranje" specimens. The Dutch were also traders and colonists so perhaps that's why orange carrots are so widespread.
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This reminded me of something similar that happened to my boyfriend and myself except he didn't say a word. So we were at the mall and sat down on a bench to talk for a second and he asked me if I wanted to get food but I told him I was not hungry. Anyway I noticed this really sketchy guy like slowly getting closer and closer to my boyfriend and my gut feeling that something bad was about to happen was going crazy. When he was almost near my boyfriend I caught him glance to the corner of the mall so I turned and looked and saw this second sketchy guy give him a subtle thumbs up and the first guy sat down next to my boyfriend. I turned to him and casually said you know I could go for some food lets go to the food court. He stood up said okay and away we walked. He never asked why or said but you just said you weren't hungry and for that I was thankful. To this day I still don't know if something would have happened if we hadn't moved.
EDIT: iPhones are hard
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My sisters car. Peering into compartments and door storage areas and finding all kids of filth and suddenly wondering if you are secretly sitting in filth. Not to mention she finally took her car into a shop HERE in my northeast state (it's an NYC living car mind you) to get the break squeal and LOUD CLUNKING fixed. "Your rear trailing arm is pretty broken, how were you driving this car?" And her being defensive that it was a "new york city car". Yes I get it, but that doesn't make it a less horrid car. I still don't understand how her plates are so crumpled
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Honestly it isnt that difficult. Neural networks can be used to analyze popular songs and using that data make a similar song with pacing and tune. The songs probably wouldn't be able to have lyrics or anything but it still be pretty advanced. The one problem I think we'd have is that lots of different songs have completely different styles and that might become confusing to the AI.
To be quite honest I think we should expect artificially created music to be mainstream in the near future. Maybe in only 3 to 5 years or so.
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I’m pan and trans but this didn’t happen to me. It happened to a couple of my close friends. We were all attending a Christian private school (which funny enough I started because of bullying for being gay in public school.) The school had a big no-gays-allowed policy and it was so enforced that they stopped selling name brand chips because of the rainbow Doritos thing that happened when I was in the 8th grade. It was me my friend and her girlfriend, and 3 other bisexual students who formed the unofficial secret gay clique . We also had our token straight friend. One day we are all chilling at lunch when the principal came up and pulled all of of them except for me and straight friend from lunch and pulled them to the office. It turns out that the school had suspected all of them of “perverse sexual activities” and somehow managed to skip over me. They called their parents and outed them all and threatened to expel them unless they ‘repented’ and sought counciling
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So right now my work goes through and pens over everyone’s time sheets. I work at a pool and my boss says that you only get paid from the minute to pool opens to the minute it closes. Well, sometimes people take a while to get out of the pool and you have to move stuff when they do get out so it may take an extra five-ten minutes. If you put this on the time sheet they will cross it out and write a new time. How illegal is this? It’s a part time job because I’m a teenager, so I’m not sure how much I can do about this.
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I used to be the IT department for a small high school. I don't mean that I worked for the IT department, I was the only IT staff. I setup the domain, imaged the computers, everything.
I was also in charge of the inventory and requesting that the district pay for new equipment, and had free reign over pretty much everything related to electronic devices. Anyways, I'm also a huge server guy in my home life. I have an almost full server rack in one of my closets. I would always order high capacity hard drives, sometimes multiple times per month. My excuse was that the hard drives in our main Windows server were failing a lot. I never had a single drive fail in that server the whole time I was working there. I pocketed all of those hard drives, they're still running in my home NAS to this day.
It wasn't just hard drives either. Monitors, power supplies, DVD drives, KVMs, UPS, you name it. I probably took around 75k worth of equipment using the school's IT budget.
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Irate customers used to come into the McDonalds I worked at bitching that their food was stone cold.
It wasn’t cold when served to them, so what happened?
They’d driven home to Castlemaine, at least a 30 minute drive away. And they expected the food to remain piping hot until they got home. 🙄
Another customer ordered a value meal, and sat down to eat it. She ate the burger first, and left the fries sitting on the tray while she fiddled with her phone. After around forty five minutes she comes up with her now super cold fries and complains that they didn’t stay hot.
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Ok so.. I bite. One of my childhood nicknames is Barricuda. My brother and I are Irish twins. He always wanted to wrestle to assert dominance and I am a fiery feisty pistol of a lass. Home boy once threw me over his shoulder and I sank my fangs into his back and wouldn’t let go for dear life.
He still has the scar.
I grew up in the dirty south, in the SouthEast part of USA. We have alligators and crocodiles. Once on a school field trip, an animal educator had us bite down on a piece of equipment that told us our bite pressure. My jaw strength was super high.. so high the educator seemed almost spooked. That was the day I found out I just might be a lizard person.
Apparently my jaw strength is on par with a juvenile alligator. Come fight me
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Best teacher I've ever had was my English teacher in final year of high school. Mrs R. She totally renewed my faith in school. I had a really hard time prior to her class. Went to a really strict school with a whole bunch of unnecessary rules that I hated.. I was pretty much just waiting to get out of there but Mrs R. totally changed that for me. She challenged me to think about things on a deeper level and encouraged me to pursue a life with purpose. It took me five years to decide what that would look like but I'm proud to say I am currently studying to become a social worker. Actually ran into her at my university the other week. Had to reign in the crazy and stop myself from telling her she's the reason I am where I am today. She already knows how much her class meant to me. It's amazing the difference it can make having someone unconditionally believe in you and challenge you because they know you can do better. I don't think I'll ever forget the influence she had on me.
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I don't think about celebrities.
Honestly if a movie or game promotes itself by saying "we've got moviestar mcmovieface!", I know that there's nothing of substance in that piece of media; especially if it's like a sole A lister.
Honestly if there's one voice I'm tired of hearing, it's Ryan Reynolds - he never plays a role, he just gets into costume and continues to be Ryan Reynolds to the point where there's no discernible difference between Deadpool and Pikachu. Finally, he's the lead in "Buried", the worst film I have ever suffered through.
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We actually learned about these in my European literature class.
They'd then pretty much try to explain away most or some of the sudden turns in plot. And after they'd say who was right and who was wrong and who gets the gold sword or whatever the driving plot force was. And if it really needed an exclamation point they'd kill all the bad guys and resurrect any dead good guys.
This is a really bare bones attempt at me trying to explain this, so I apologize if I'm off the mark on anything
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Hey man, my family didn't take me seriously either when i told them i wanted to die so I get it. I ended up on a wild ride trying to get therapy without paying an arm and a leg. Is your school having in person classes? Honestly your life is worth more than a degree so taking time off is an option. If you're able or your school offers it, finding a decent therapist also can really help. If you don't like them the first few meetings, I suggest moving on since they're unlikely to change. Once you find one you really connect with and who seems to actually care about your well being, it can help loads like it did for me. Take care of yourself okay?
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I'd argue that instead of obsession it's more the acceptance of mental illness. 50 years ago you would get shunned and told to get over it if you had any form of mental trauma. Now social sciences are figuring out exactly how fragile our mind is to trauma and the (very) long lasting consequences of an untreated trauma. It's good to see that the vocality of trauma's and mental illnesses has also gone up, leading to a general acceptance that these illnesses are in fact serious illnesses and not something to get 'over with'.
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During the Great Toilet Paper Crisis 2020 we discovered that a national manufacturer was located just down the road in our little city. "We're doing the best we can!" "Please be patient, we're working round the clock to fill orders!" "Support local business!"
Yeah, well we all cheered when the supermarkets were able to re-stock, except I noticed that what used to be a 9 roll packet was now an 8 roll packet, for the same price. They were doing the best business they had in years, yet were still happy to rip us off. Bastards.
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DAE else think a "maturity" test instead of absolute age limit would be more appropriate?
I've been seeing a lot of posts in the last few months / year about how arbitrary the drinking / driving / voting / what have you age is too old / young. So does anyone else think maybe for certain situations, something like a "maturity" test would be more appropriate? For example, instead of arguing the drinking age should be 25 / 16 year olds are perfectly capable of conducting themselves around alcohol, we could argue something like a drinking "license" for anyone under a certain limit. In my head this would be much like allowing for certain restrictions on driving licenses - I was allowed to drive at night even though I didn't have my night license because I had an evening / night job.
I haven't thought out the downsides (more regulation / shouldn't parents be more responsible) or the upsides (don't have to hear about teenagers saying they're perfectly responsible drinkers) very much; I just want to know what other people think.
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I took honors and advanced placement classes, but got mostly C’s and D’s. I would ace all the tests and class work, but was too lazy to do the homework. I almost turned it around in college and I got A’s and B’s with a singular D. I graduated from a university with a near 50% drop out rate. But after that my laziness and procrastination honestly just compounded as I’ve gotten older, so I’ve never really learned and maintained a useful job skill.
So I ended up working miserable customer service and retail jobs for the last 8 years. I got into a manufacturing job last year and made a concentrated effort to improve my work ethic. The pay is alright at best, but I’ve managed to become my boss’s right hand man. In turn he’s been cool about it and is constantly saying good things to his boss and the next two levels of management. So it’s gotten to the point that all three levels of management lean on me when they need someone to get shit done, or need advice on how to tackle a work order.
Recently they have all been talking to me about a promotion, asking if I’m interested and letting me know that I’m their first recommendation when a slot opens up. So it’s taken about a decade of watching all my friends and peers become successful, but I think I’m starting to turn it around.
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It's not 5 billion people. It's like MAYBE 5 million. Maybe. Probably less.
The way you stop the golf club from watering its lawn isn't by "cutting" all the golfers from the planet. You do it by cutting the guy in charge of the golf club. Then the golfers can either golf without perfect grass or they can not golf, as they please.
Same goes for plastic bags in grocery stores. You don't take the axe to the people who are shopping, you take the axe to the executive who keeps offering plastic bags in his grocery stores.
Same with the cars. You don't take the axe tot he people who need to get from A to B. You take the axe to the automobile executive who is pushing big gas guzzlers and lobbying for reduced public transit.
This is true for ALL areas of life. We, as a society, can either expect BILLIONS to all change their way or demand that a tiny handful change their way instead.
The tiny handful want us blaming each other instead of them. And comments like yours are doing their work for them.
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I have crippling existential crises that are completely random. I never know what they're about, all I know is that at times I just drop to the ground, shaking and looking at my hands as if they were covered in blood or something and that I look absolutely terrified when I do it. I always hurt when I come to afterwards. Hurt as in the full body post workout hurt. The hurt only lasts for a minute and everything is fine. It's gotten to the point where I can feel one coming and head off to the bathroom and sit down on the toilet while it happens.
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If being homosexual is a choice, it follows that being strait is also a choice as it's choosing the opposite of being homosexual...
* Ask him if he CHOSE to be straight. He'll say yes.
* Then point out that you didn't CHOOSE to be straight (Assuming you are, if not get someone who is to make this point) you've always just known.
* Then point out that if he didn't always just know, and had to make a choice, then there are clearly some repressed sexual identity issues at hand.
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Yeah exactly my point. But the government’s researchers and investors often have to invest in projects that *do not lead to any tangiable financial return*. It can be an intangiable result, like deterring foreign aggression, or reducing bottlenecks in the justice department, but *none of these results pay for themselves.*
A business’s researchers and investors can’t make investments that don’t recoup the monetary loss in some way or the business will die. A government sometimes has to in order to provide a certain level of order, stability, and safety.
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You shouldn't do this. He laughed, but then he said seriously, please don't ever do that. He explained that the parrot does not forget these things. The parrot will grow old with him too. And if you teach it these things, the joke will stop being funny very quickly. Especially as he realizes his own kids will have to hear these things.
It's about as funny as tattooing someone while they are drunk, or teaching someone's dog to hurt someone.
Don't do this.
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It's not daily, but you sometimes have multiple shootings/day, which pretty much adds up to one per day. And no, I don't just mean 'school shootings' when I think about 'mass shooting'
>More people are dying in Central and South America due to the same cause then people in the U.S.
There are no developed nations in that part of the world. Comparing yourselves to them basically means 'we're better than some poor drug war-torn shitholes'
> the u.k. is experiencing stabbing deaths at a higher rate then they ever have.
Still their murder rate is way below yours...maybe because a knife isn't as effective at killing many people quickly as a gun is?
Nobody in Europe uses an Electoral College system, it's not just Russia.
>If we didn’t use the electoral college then California would decide how the country would be run every four years because their population is too massive and unsustainable. America is too large to let one state decide that which is why the electoral college allows each state to have a fair input when it comes to elections.
California(liberal) has 11.9% of the US population. Texas(conservative) has 9% and Florida(conservative) has 6.5%. No, California wouldn't alone decide who the next president is. What's unfair is having someone from Wyoming having more of a say than someone from California or Texas.
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> *The proper response to bad speech is more speech. Not complete social isolation.*
I would say that there really is no "proper response" to what you perceive as bad speech. It seems that in your opinion, talking it out or voicing your dissent (arguing) is the proper reaction if someone says something you (or the bulk of society) disagree with. I would say that may apply in some cases, but is definitely not an absolute. I will forward the opinion that sometimes, no reactionary speech or not engaging in a debate or argument is actually a form of "free speech".
In a perfect world, where people who disagree are both open to hearing each others arguments and are willing to fairly analyze each others position, debate fairly, and be open to changing their opinion if proven wrong, then what you say makes sense. Have you ever argued with someone whose viewpoint can be proven to be demonstrably incorrect but they refuse to admit or accept that fact though? How do you deal with someone who will not appreciate or accept logic or facts or evidence, or who will not acknowledge their own ignorance of the subject at hand? At that point, ignoring them and refusing to associate or engage them in what will be, due to their behavior, a "dead end" discussion, may very well be the best option.
People have a right to not listen to a viewpoint they disagree with, and have a right to ignore or shun a person or group that forwards a viewpoint they disagree with. If someone becomes socially isolated because the viewpoints (viewpoints they have every right to express) are deemed so extreme or demonstrably incorrect, that is their problem.
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What are some songs that you could have sworn say something other than what the lyrics are supposed to be?
Two examples I have: (sorry they're both fairly cheesy)
1. The Pussycat Dolls-When I grow up ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0K46C82v9o )
Supposedly they say "groupies", but I could've sworn they say "boobies" which confused me a considerable amount the first time I listened to it.
2. S Club 7-Don't stop moving ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2q3FJTFgtk )
Where the robotic voice supposedly says "Don't stop moving to the S Club beat" I could've sworn that it says "Arse crack beat".
So Reddit, are there any songs that you listen to and used to think that the lyrics were something else?
Oh, and as a bonus, if you listen to [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vho-d1QM_aI&feature=related) at the part where they go into the "Damn who's a sexy bitch", can anyone else hear it as "sexy fish" or is that just me?
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My recommendation would be to start with The Bends. It's a nice mix of their more traditional stuff like you would find on Pablo Honey, but still provides insight into where they would go with OK Computer and Kid A. Having this understanding, made me have an even greater appreciation for OK Computer and Kid A.
If you just want to jump in to what makes Radiohead great, Kid A is the one that did it for me. In my opinion (and I'm sure many people will disagree), as amazing as OK Computer is, everything seemed to come together better for me on Kid A. Just my two cents.
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It's awful. I have both Dissociate Identity Disorder (DID, also/formerly know as Multiple Personality Disorder) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). You push people away but regret it later. And overall display seemingly "toxic" traits. That's just BPD. DID is an entirely different story and to save everybody's time, it's people being under the impression you're crazy or a lunatic. I've lost many friends and past partners from them not understanding/being accepting of this. It's made me afraid to tell people I suffer with co-morbidity.
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TBH, I think it's sad that people dont want to be a part of raising their kids. I'm a dad and love my newborn. I'd hate to have none of these bonding memories. I'm laughing now after the fact. No such thing as 50/50 work. What's easy for one parent might be hard for the other. My philosophy is we do what we can and the rest we try to solve together. Otherwise, you end up like all the other poster over on r/relationships and r/newparents looking for confirmation from randos on reddit.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2022-02-03 01:25:08
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Puppies are a lot of work. Depending on how young you get them, they will need to go out every couple of hours at least, they need played with and walked a lot, they will chew up everything that they can get their mouths on, and the 2nd they are awake you will be awake (normally pretty early). With all of that in mind, as long as you have the time and energy and patience, they are a beautiful addition. I love my puppy and I am so happy that I got to raise him from a 4 month old until he passed away. He is my baby and I would do it over again in a heart beat. If you're considering getting one because you're at home and looking for something to do (and I don't mean that negatively) then I would consider looking at fostering puppies to get an idea of how much work they will be before you commit to adopting one forever.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2020-04-13 16:01:48
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When I was 21 my dad passed away and I moved back to my hometown from across the country. I was temporarily staying with my cousin who was a cellphone salesman at the time. I got rid of my cell phone from the carrier on the other side of the country and was waiting on my first paycheck to get a new one. So he let me borrow his one night so I could talk to a girl I was rekindling a thing with.
I step into my the bathroom and take a quick unoriginal pic of my junk, facing down at the floor and send it off. Next day my cousin comes home from work early.
A customer was interested in the same phone he had, so he let her mess with his for a minute. Manager hears it and send him home early after almost firing him.
The whole family knows about it now and it's brought up at every ~~Thabksgiving~~ Thanksgiving dinner.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2017-10-20 05:46:33
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To be honest, it was an awful experience. To a large part, that was my own fault, though. Basically, I had never been very popular with the girls, plus my girlfriend back home broke up with me a few months before I traveled to the U.S.. So, I didn't exactly feel good about myself in this respect. Now, arriving in America, I was suddenly super popular. All the girls at my school went crazy over me. They'd shyly tell me how cute I am and stuff like this. I even had girls who came up to me in the hallway and gave me little gifts. Being an exchange student from Western Europe kinda turned me into a rock star lol. This was a completely new experience for me and I didn't know how to handle it. I think I got a little drunk on all the female interest. So when prom approached, there was this very sweet girl who I knew really wanted to go to prom with me. She was too shy to say it, so I went by her home and asked her (made a poster with hearts on it, gave her chocolates etc). I think she had a huge crush on me right there. Until then, everything was fine. But two weeks later, another girl came to me and kinda begged me to go to prom with her. I should've just said "no, I already have a date" but I was too weak to do so. Instead, I created a situation where I basically had two dates.
All the other guys were a bit envious but my two girls absolutely hated it (understandably so). At the time I thought it wasn't a big deal. It was only when I got a bit older that I realized how unfair I had been to them (especially to my first date). The three of us went to prom together and... it was really awkward. During dinner, I made an effort to talk to both of them but they refused to talk to each other (yet sat at the same table). Later when we went to the main location where people were dancing etc., they both abandoned me. I ended up wandering the hallways of that building for hours waiting for time to pass so I could go home while my two dates were hanging out with other guys and didn't want to talk to me anymore. It really sucked but I learned my lesson lol.
I also went to homecoming though and that was a really fun and nice experience. It felt more relaxed and less orchestrated than prom. My date was another exchange student, a very sweet girl from Japan who spoke practically no English (or maybe she was too shy to say anything) except when I told her something, she always made big eyes and said: "eeeeally????" (really?) lol I showed her how to dance waltz and I think she really liked that. Somehow we were able to communicate without using a lot of words. I also got to hang out a bit with the guy friends I made at that school and this was very nice, too.
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2022-05-19 14:26:40
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My boss is burnt out, how can we let her know how much we appreciate her?
I work for a corporate-run veterinary practice. I've been with the company for years and have worked under lots of veterinarians, jet because they get worked into the ground.
I transferred to a new hospital almost a year ago and found a new love for my job with the change of co-workers and specifically one of the doctors I now work with. She's been practicing for years, but had to come to the company when her private practice failed. She does good medicine, cares for her patients and her team and we haven't even hit the busy time of the year yet, and we're slammed. This means long days, late nights of notes, and she also has to then drive two hours home and then two hours back the next day. You can see that it's just wearing her out and last night she admitted to me that if something didn't change, she's gone.
I know that as a receptionist I can make adjustments to make things easier and I know the team will be willing to do anything it takes to keep her on board, but I also want to encourage her and let her know how much we love and appreciate all the time and effort she puts into our little hospital.
TL;DR- vet that I've worked with is working so hard, she's ready to quit. How can we give her the boost she needs?
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In a very similar vein the male version of her: James Corden. Even the UK doesn't want him back. It's a running joke that the US can keep him now he's theirs now.
Also hilarious I saw they did a Hot Ones video with James just the other day and posted it today. Almost every comment was people going oh so James did the show to try to fix his reputation after the whole restaurant incident the other week and his follow up shitty "apology". Nice try James it didn't work. You didn't look funny or relatable again because you ate hot sauce while answering questions. Nice try male Ellen Degeneres.
\*Edited to spell Corden the right way.
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Oh, I heartily suggest you go on with your life pretending you still don't know it exists. It's like the dumbest guys involved in the Fast & the Furious series got together with the dumbest guys who made Vin Diesel's XXX and decided to reboot Point Break together but agreed it didn't need to be that deep because it was just a fun action movie. It's like rebooting Forrest Gump and honestly coming up with Simple Jack on purpose. Except Simple Jack is probably better than the Point Break reboot.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2022-04-17 02:15:42
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Life is a frame of mind. If you think your future will be shitty, you will always find a way to demean the most joyous parts and dwell on the shitty parts.
You'll find that just being assertive, confident, and optimistic will bring good things to you. Women will find you more attractive, people will find trust in your spunk and afford you more opportunities in all spheres of life.
I'm all for big picture thinking, it can really show you what is actually important. If you really like thinking about these topics, you should consider looking into philosophy, perhaps check out /r/philosophy for places to start. Just fight the grain, that's my advice.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2011-01-30 03:17:34
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Dear Reddit: Do you think that in the future Christianity will be the new mythology?
A couple thousand years ago everyone knew that Zeus was a mad adulterer and Poseidon caused all the floods. But now those beliefs have become old fables, myths to mess around with to make big blockbuster movies. Do you think that in the future Christianity will become this?
I know I won't be around, but I'm hoping for a kung fu jesus fighting the romans as judas cackles in a black robe with his pet lion.
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2009-12-13 23:08:56
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Atheism isn't saying there is no god. Atheism is the rejection of the unsupported claim that there is a god. It takes no amount of faith to reject an unsupported claim.
And in light of there being no indication whatsoever that gods do exist, every indication that gods are a product of the human imagination, and hard evidence that humans have invented gods, even the positive claim that gods don't exist does of course not require any faith. Just like with vampires, unicorns and leprechauns.
But of course you had to leave this here, even though nobody asked, and in doing so you presented a prime example of what's not to like about Christianity.
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Almost had something going on with a similar girl too. Though wasn't told something too personal "yet", she tells me stuff on other people a few times and once I jokingly called her out on it. I mean, we're not that close and she's telling me stuff like this.
I always had that saying in my head where it goes something like "a person talking about other people behind someone's back will also talk about you behind your back" so I'm pretty sure she babbled to someone about me at some point. Though not as deceiving by making digging up stuff like this as an agenda, the fact she doesn't keep stuff to herself most of the time is a turn off. I start to think majority of girls are like this.
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I used to have an issue where in one of my bottom incisors, I started having a ridiculous amount of pain that would barely ever go away, at which point we found out that I had developed a very rare condition wherein a tooth was growing inside of my tooth and that, in fact, it was not my tooth that was hurting but instead a nerve under my tooth had been exposed by a very small hole in between my gum and my tooth that had appeared because of it, allowing saliva to touch the nerve, which hurt. A lot. Ended up just getting the whole mess removed and now I have a gap on my bottom row of teeth.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2020-07-20 15:25:28
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I had been dating this girl for a few months and I thought things were going really well. Then she dropped me all of a sudden like a sack of wet laundry. I couldn't figure out why. It really hurt, because we had a lot of friends in common, and she seemed to be completely unphased by the whole ordeal, while I was left with a ton of emotional baggage.
We had a few weeks of arguments when I came to the conclusion that my worst nightmare had come true: She was deliberately trying to torture me. She was going out of her way to cause me emotional distress, and she knew exactly how to do it. Upon this realization I decided to become celibate.
I'd had an okcupid account that was active a few months earlier, and there were a lot of messages I'd never responded to. So, I reactivated it, went through every one, and sent a message that explained very little other than that it was important to my mental stability that I meet up with someone as soon as possible. Within a few hours I was meeting a girl at a bar up the street. I'll call her Katie. Katie and I had a few drinks when I got a text from "Shirley."
The next night I was still in bad sorts. My friend "Jenny" was hanging out with me and she seemed to be picking up on this. I'd never thought of Jenny in a sexual way, even though she used to be a model. She'd dated a few of my older friends, and she was quite a bit older than me, but how much older, I've never known--Old enough that it would be rude to ask. She drove me home, because I'd become very drunk, then took me to my room to make sure I got safely to bed. Then, she blew me. It wasn't one of the best blow jobs I've ever received, because I was so drunk, but it was good enough that the next time I saw her, I asked her if she could do it again, and she obliged. That was the best blow job I've ever had.
The night after Jenny first blew me, Katie asked if we could hang out again. I said sure. She seemed confused. I was as well. She asked me to keep in touch, but we drifted apart. I've been meaning to reciprocate the good oral she gave me, but I haven't had the chance, seeing as how neither of us is interested in our philandering going public.
anyway, a year later I still have baggage about how that girl treated me. I don't want to get into details.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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I actually enjoyed the Black Fleet Crisis. It introduced the Fallanassi, who were a sect of Force users that ascribed to a completely different ideology than either the Jedi or Sith, and used the Force in different ways (most notably to create elaborate illusions). The political intrigue was interesting, but fairly predictable. The Yevethan were suitably hateable, but not overly complex. I also liked Lando and Lobot's story on the Teljkon vagabond.
The big problem was with Luke's story. He gets drawn into this quest to find this woman's hidden civilization. He goes along with her because she tells him that his mother is with her people, and she's still alive. In the last book it's revealed that she lied to Luke, and knows nothing about his mother.
At the time it came out I was really interested to hopefully learn about Luke and Leia's mom. This was potentially huge in 1996, before the prequels were in development. Now it seems like a pretty flimsy pretense that is constantly relied on. Everywhere they go, Luke's like, "is my mom here? Where's my mom? I wanna meet my mom!" I just want to scream at him, "you're mom's dead, dude!"
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2017-09-22 19:21:45
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Especially without the aide of a female overlord. Every commercial out there has the guy being completely dumbfounded by the intricacies of reality.
[Case in point](http://current.com/shows/infomania/90569059_sarah-haskins-in-target-women-doofy-husbands.htm)
Hate that girls think all guys want is sex, or that all guys will cheat or think about cheating. I've been with my wife for the past 11 years and literally since day one, I have *honestly* never once so much as even looked at a girl in a sexual manner. It's not something I would ever do, and it's not something that guys "just want to do".
I'm a pretty strong guy but my wife, although much weaker than me, still puts up a VERY impressive fight when we play wrestle. Girls don't get enough credit for that type of stuff.
Not all girls are interested in shoes, shopping and clothes, while detesting gore, violence and raunchiness. My wife mildly likes to get new clothes and shoes but isn't obsessed like the stereotype, and she loves horror/action/sci-fi movies as much as the next guy.
Not all guys are into sports and/or cars. I HATE sports with a passion and while I know my way around computer software/hardware pretty damn well, I couldn't tell you the first thing about a car engine, beyond the fact that gas makes the engine go. That's the extent of my "manly motorhead knowledge".
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2012-05-02 22:05:00
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Is there something you have done in a video game that you regret to this day? If so, then what?
I've been reading about many disturbing moments in games, and realized that we all have our moments in where we have made pretty bad decisions. So, I've created this ask in order to find out what has happened. If I had to choose a moment I regret doing in a video game, then I'd have to say getting the achievement "King Henry VIII" in Fable III. In order to get this achievement, you must, as a king, marry 6 women, and execute 2 of your spouses. It's not my proudest decision, and it still haunts me to this day.
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I work in a Walgreens and I do run into a few crazies if I'm at the register. Most recently like last week, a woman with a basket full of food, a few drinks, and dog food didn't have enough for all of that and her cigarettes. I get it sometimes you need to have a smoke. She didn't put aside her cigarettes so her dog and child could eat. No She increasingly got rid of everything she had until her card wasn't declined anymore. Ended up with 2 cokes and a pack of Marlboro as she only had 10 dollars to her name. To me, it's a disgusting selfish thing for you not to think about everybody else. Her child and dog were probably hungry but she just needed her cigarettes and 2 sodas to live. The worst is when a lady sacrificed her baby's diapers for a pack of cigarettes.
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2023-03-16T01:43:55.831260+00:00
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2017-08-08 02:43:13
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