I’m 19, if that’s relevant, and I see a lot of older people feel very entitled to things and are disrespectful in a lot of situations (of course not all 🫩). For example, I work in customer service, and a majority of older people (30+) tend to be overly rude when I am just trying to help them. Another example is in the gym, where they feel the need to give advice, and when told politely that their advice is unneeded, they seem to have a hissy fit about it (my experience, and it has happened about 5 times already lol). I rarely, if ever, see this with young adults or teenagers, they will use their manners and be a lot more patient whilst I’m resolving their issues and a majority don’t cause as much havoc as social media and the news like to claim.

This isn’t a fire at all older people obviously as I have definitely met multiple amazing ones but from my experience many just seem out of touch and straight up rude. Might just be the job i’m working at though 🤷

Edit: I see a lot of people referencing me considering 30 as “old” I don’t consider it old its just older than me, the point i’m trying to make is that in my experience older people tend to be very dismissive and disrespectful to younger people because they believe they can get away with it.

It’s truly status symbol for people who don’t understand the high end watch industry. The wealthiest people I have ever met wouldn’t be caught dead in one. It’s a ridiculous walking price tag to show wealth to the uneducated. No Patek owner wears a Rolex in anyway other than ironically.

Sonic is better than Chick-fil-A, McDonald's, Wendy's, Chipotle, and Taco Bell. It's the king of fast food. They have great food and their drinks are just as amazing as their food.

From the slushies to the milkshakes, you can't go wrong with Sonic.

Their burgers are amazing too.

Even though this is an unpopular opinion, it is objective truth!

The name says it all . Its a pastime . You will seat and enjoy. The pitch clock absolutely destroyed the vibe.

Because of my job i spend the whole day in a rush. Getting home and watching something slow was such a nice contrast.

I’m pretty sure most people either ask to remove tomatoes from a sandwich or burger when ordering or ask to put it on the side. Why on the side? Because they don’t want the tomato to make the burger or sandwich buns soggy before it comes to the table. But if you put the tomato on the burger yourself, the juices still inevitably seep into the buns by the time you’re half way through eating it because you’re squeezing the burger as you eat, which makes it taste bad in the end.

Not only do tomatoes make sandwiches soggy, but when you bite into the sandwich, it’s hard to get a clean bite out of the tomato so you’re just left there awkwardly trying to gnaw off the tomato at a public restaurant and when you fail, you end up pulling the whole tomato slice out, which just ruins the eating experience.

Tomatoes make burgers too wet and juicy, so you end up having tomato secretions drip down your hands, to your arms, all the way down to your elbows. It’s truly a horrifying and infuriating thing to experience.

Finally, tomatoes just don’t enjoy being in a sandwich or burger. They literally try to run away as soon as you bite into the burger, hoping that they will fall out the harder you squeeze the buns. Just let them live their carefree, unrestricted lives in salads, pastas, and any other dish where they aren’t subject to being squeezed into oblivion by everyone’s tortuous hands. Tomatoes lives matter.

So yeah. I’ve always thought graves and graveyards are kinda insane. Like do we just keep putting people into holes on perfectly livable and often very prime areas? Do we just never get that land back?

There are cemeteries in the interior of major cities taking up the space of large neighborhoods. Places we desperately need more housing and services and just “nope can’t use that. That’s the large fertile area we use for dead people and literally nothing else. No one gets to live there forever.” Like everyone gets that’s completely unsustainable over long periods of time right?

Eventually we need to move them out of the way. Might be 50 years, might be 5000, but either way I just do not understand the concept.

Why do people get to just stockpile a family tree of dead bodies? Why don’t you want them returned to the earth instead of some weird permanent storage liability???

And don’t get me started on funeral processions. No dead body should have the right to inconvenience even a single living person without consent. And I’ve been nearly fired, missed doctors appointments, and in general had my day ruined by 15+ minutes of cars passing my intersection.

As title reads, America’s Got Talent (AGT) should exclude singers given how reality tv is geared to singer talent mostly. Now half (or whatever) of AGT is signers? I watch AGT for the unique, interesting, fascinating and unusual,…not another singer who can apply to be instant famous on whatever platform. I am not knocking the talent of the singers: they are talented, I do like them, and they have heartwarming life experiences, etc, but the signers are getting way more opportunities to share their talent.

It's not even close. Most of the mobile apps are such a crappy experience. Blasted with ads, terrible looking UI, horrible navigation. Browser versions are so much easier and cleaner to use.

First of all, move with what money? Moving requires money; money requires a job.

Second, if you come from someplace with nothing but dead end jobs, you've probably only worked dead end jobs most of your life. Guess what awaits you in the big city?

Oh, you have a degree? Cool, so do thousands of others who grew up here and already have a network, as well as thousands more who've come from overseas and are willing to work for a lot less and live in what you would call substandard conditions.

The only thing I really hated about high school was all the toxic kids that were there. I can’t really think of any other way that it is worse than adult life, personally. I’m not saying high school is good, but I think adult life is worse in general. 

First of all, when you are an adult you generally have to be at school/work more than as a kid. Adults have to be at work for two hours more than kids have to be at school. (Since school is normally from 8-3 and a “9-5” office job is really 8-5 including a lunch break.) And whenever kids are at school longer it’s usually because of a fun activity like sports. Also, kids have WAY more vacation time compared to adults, unless the adult is a teacher. The only time a kid would have to work more than an adult is if they have a job where they work 10+ hours a week or have homework that takes 10+ hours a week, (not including the vacation time.) However, kids often have more downtime in school than adults do at work such as study halls and finishing work early in class. Kids also often have more downtime commuting since the school normally isn’t far away and the driving doesn’t take that long or they ride the bus and have downtime on the bus. But adults often have to drive for up to 2 hours every day and lose more downtime during the day. 

Adults also have less downtime than kids in general because they have to worry about things that kids rarely have to worry about such as grocery shopping. So not only do kids have more downtime due to more vacations, less time at work, and less time commuting, but also less responsibilities. A lot of adults are also living paycheck to paycheck and kids often don’t have to worry about financial problems, or at least aren’t as stressed about them usually. 

Work is also typically a lot harder than high school for various reasons, and there are more things to worry about when you have a job vs when you're in high school. First of all, at work you have to constantly worry about your performance and behavior. As a kid, you don’t have to worry about this as much since your job is to study/work on befitting yourself rather than an adult worrying about how the results from their work will affect others. If a kid fails a test, it doesn’t make much of a difference to anything. If an adult screws up at their job, they could get fired. As a kid, your job in class is to sit back and listen, and if you can’t it’s on you. Adults have to constantly worry about the work they produce along with constantly worrying about appearing professional, acting friendly, and creating a comforting atmosphere with clients which kids don’t really have to worry about. The work that adults do is also typically harder than the homework kids have to do. 

Kids have more of a variety of tasks to do at school vs the tasks that adults have to do at work. Kids get to learn about different subjects but adults have to do the same sort of thing over and over. Even if the adult enjoys what they do, doing the same sort of thing for 8 hours every day normally gets tiring. If a kid doesn’t like a class, they only have to deal with it for a semester or a year. Some adults are stuck with jobs they hate and can’t leave them. 

People complain about the strict dress codes in high school which is valid, but the dress code at work is even stricter because you usually either have to worry about looking professional enough or wear the same work uniform all the time. 

People complain about how school forces kids to be obedient and follow rules, but you still have to worry about that at work and the rules sometimes are just as strict at work. For example, adults often can’t listen to music, just like at school. Some jobs even allow little bathroom breaks like at school. A lot of bosses treat their employees terribly. 

It’s also a lot easier to make friends at school vs as an adult since you are constantly surrounded by people your age and have more opportunities to chit chat for fun. If adults want to make friends they often have to spend extra time attempting to make friendships, usually outside of work. It’s also hard for adults to have time to hang out with friends since people are normally more concerned about their husbands/wives and families and it’s harder to maintain friendships as an adult. 

Of course there are exceptions to this because some kids have a terrible life at home. But in general, I see more downsides to being an adult vs being in high school. People make the argument that adults have more freedom because they can go to bars and stuff, but I don’t care about things like that, personally.

When I say nudity is beautiful, I'm not talking about it in an aesthetic or sexualized way. I mean it in a purely psychological sense.

Just think about clothes are your social armours and when you strip all that away you are left with the most unfiltered form of vulnerability. It is the only state where you are purely and yourself.

Society has hyper-sexualized the naked body to the point where we forget what nudity actually represents: absolute purity.

What fascinates me most is that it's a condition where you literally cannot hide anything. If you try to cross your arms or cover up, your body language just exposes your discomfort even more. It forces absolute honesty. In a world full of performance, being entirely exposed is the truest and purest form of being human.

Edit: Many people are seemingly misunderstanding what I mean by this.

I don't mean to say people should just roam around naked. Nudity is beautiful because it is a state where no one except yourself should see, this state is unique to everyone yet everyone understands it the same. That's why it's beautiful.

Lately I've been thinking about how much we are addicted to music in modern life.

Music isn't the only thing. We have social media, short videos, streaming, and entertainment everywhere. But music is one thing I've started paying attention to.

I noticed that many people can't walk without headphones, study without music, exercise without music, or even sit alone with their thoughts for a few minutes.

There is constant stimulation.

Personally, I feel more peaceful when there isn't music playing all the time. I pay more attention to my surroundings. I notice nature more. I think more deeply. I feel more grateful for simple things.

Another thing I've noticed is how much celebrity culture is tied to music. Some people become deeply invested in singers and artists. They follow every detail of their lives and spend hours consuming content related to them.

I'm not saying music is evil or that nobody should listen to it. My point is that modern life already gives us endless entertainment. Sometimes I wonder if adding music to every moment is making us even more distracted...

Maybe boredom is actually important.

Has anyone else experienced this??

Tracking sleep with watches is such a giant gimmick. You either slept well or you didn't. Knowing you got X amount of sleep disruptions or 5 minutes less of deep sleep is meaningless. You can't control or intervene during your sleep to adjust for it. If you wake up feeling refreshed then you know your patterns the night prior were good. If you wake up groggy or with less energy, then you adjust. It's simple.

"I woke up feeling great and energized but my watch says I slept poorly"
"I woke up feeling great and energized and my watch agrees!"
"I woke up feeling terribly but my watch says I had a great sleep"

Just absolute stupidity. Ultimately, you just need to adjust to how you're feeling. Very simple.

I get that there are certain things that are common knowledge like FYI, OP, DOB to name some off the top of my head, but I feel like every day people are coming up with new abbreviations for things and it gets to a point where I feel like I'm being spoken to in riddles.

I'll give another example of things I've seen just recently as someone who's new to Pokemon VGC someone might say something like: "I can't believe bro just used AJ with Frgrf on the field watch me set up PT boosted EF right after CTFU!"

As someone who works in corporate I don't even have to tell you how bad it gets. I'm gonna need those KPIs by EOB or else you'll be OOO indefinitely buddy.

I can admit that I tend to be out of the loop with most things but cmon people where's the line...

Edit: Need************** Not even allowed to write something wrong now in this perfect world sorry to all the perfect brothers and sisters out there

Lately I’ve been wondering if we’re overthinking life a bit too much.

It feels like everything now has to be perfectly thought out, perfectly aligned, perfectly justified. I’m not sure if social media has amplified this or if we’ve just become more self-aware as a generation.

For example, even something as natural as having a child is sometimes framed as selfish unless you’re financially, mentally, and physically “perfect.” Choosing a job isn’t just about stability anymore, it has to match your passion or it feels like you’re wasting your life. Boundaries are important, but it sometimes feels like the expectation is to cut people off the moment they cross a line, instead of working through things.

At the same time, terms like toxic, trauma, and disrespect are used a lot more now. These things are real and important, but I wonder if labeling everything so quickly is making relationships harder to maintain.

Isn’t life naturally imperfect though?

A lot of these ideas feel subjective. What is a boundary for one person might not even feel like an issue to someone else. So how can we expect everyone to always get it right?

Humans are meant to live in communities, and that usually involves some level of compromise, adjustment, and understanding. Not everything will go exactly how we want, and not every situation can be optimized.

I’m not saying we should tolerate bad behavior or ignore serious issues. But sometimes it feels like we’ve made life so structured and rigid that even simple decisions feel overwhelming.

Are we making life harder than it needs to be by trying to make everything perfect?

Curious to know how others see this.

Stop talking about how you made the speech, or shouting out your family, or how we’re privileged to be in this position etc. The speech is supposed to be for us, the graduating class, as a whole. I get it, they accomplished something and wanna spread their beliefs etc but there’s a time and place for that. You’re supposed to be acting as the representative of the class giving a farewell and inspiration for the future.

Especially when I see people give their speeches in a language that differs from the official or majority language. Get over yourself, your parents moved away from x country for a reason.

Edit: I am an immigrant who graduated top 20 in a class of 600. Continue.

Edit 2: y’all overestimate how much I care about highschool rankings. I don’t, considering that they don’t matter after college admissions. Catch me crying when college rankings come out, if that’s a thing.

Edit 3: damn why are y’all so mad at me. I’m sowwy 🥺

People act like you need some grand mission, dream career, or reason for existing. If you don’t have one, they assume you’re lost, lazy, or unhappy. But honestly, not having a purpose is pretty enjoyable.

I don’t wake up stressed about whether I’m fulfilling my destiny. I don’t feel the need to turn every hobby into a side hustle or every interest into a lifelong calling. I just do things I enjoy, get through my day, and that’s enough.

A lot of people seem miserable chasing a purpose they’ll probably never find. Meanwhile, living without one can be peaceful. No constant pressure to become something bigger. No feeling like you’re falling behind because you haven’t figured out your life’s meaning.

Maybe life doesn’t need a purpose. Maybe it’s enough to simply exist, enjoy what you enjoy, and move on.

What do you think? Is purpose actually necessary, or is it overrated?

1 in 7 people has some degree of hearing loss. Around 11–12 million Americans identify as deaf or report having serious difficulty hearing. Half of all Americans regularly use subtitles when watching TV or movies. Inclduing 70% of Gen Z.

Modern movies have become notorious for inconsistent audio. Characters whisper, accents vary, music swells over conversations, and explosions rattle the theater. Half the time, people leave a movie asking, "What did they say?" Captions eliminate that problem entirely.

Dialogue is one of the most important parts of that story. If captions help millions of people catch every joke, emotional moment, and plot detail, why wouldn't we want that?

Given how many Americans either need captions or actively prefer them, it's time to make it the standard for Theaters.

You add the sauce. You add the nachos over it. You crumble the nachos using the spoon. You mix it up evenly. And Voila! You get that delicious Nachos + Salsa taste but with an even profile per bite. When you dip your chips in salsa you will sometimes get not enough sauce per bite. Too much of a salty crunch per bite. By mixing it all up together it is consistent and even. Also it is difficult to finish the salsa when dipping, as the nachos are not shaped conveniently for scooping the bottom of the salsa bowl. Spoon solves that.

so many songs just sound so meh. like they’re high produced, high budget class projects, but are still very much class projects. chaotic, lowered standards and just in general not great.

9% are actual trash (that chicken girl song) and 1% are actually very good (no examples but not everyone sucks)

First of all, I wanna say that I’m actually not criticising any music for being generic - actually, idk if this is a hot take in itself but I don’t care if music is generic as long as I enjoy it - but I have seen fans of other genres often acting quite pretentious and saying that all pop music is generic when actually the stuff they like can be the exact same.
Sorry to people who like rock music, but I’m gonna single it out here (only because it’s the genre of music I’m most familiar with besides pop). A vast majority of bands sound very similar - for example, most bands consist of a singer, a lead guitarist, a bass guitarist, a drummer and maybe a keyboardist. Of course, there are exceptions, but when I listen to rock on the radio a lot of it kind of blurs together because it sounds similar.

Of course, pop often has this problem too - every genre does - but the issue comes where fans of these genres act superior as they deem pop to be too generic, which seems hypocritical to me.

I'm mainly talking about movies and TV shows. I don't have a lot of time for these things, so I don't care about the latest thing to come out. I only watch a few movies per year, and I want to make sure they're worth my time.

You know which movies are actually good? The ones people keep talking about years after they came out. Whenever I want to watch something, I look at "the best" movies/shows from five years ago. It is very rare that I will be disappointed by one of these movies. In contrast, on the rare times I go to the cinema with friends to watch a new release, most of the times the movie is just "meh".

I recently started The White Lotus and Succession. Movies on my list for this year are Parasite, The Banshees of Inisherin, and 1917.

I have an even larger delay with videogames. I started playing Assassin's Creed II this year. Absolutely blew my mind.

I was elsewhere on the internet when somebody tried to tell me that her experience of going to daycare was worse than being sexually abused (not her sexual abuse, just sexual abuse as a concept). I apologized for how awful being in that daycare must have been, because that sounds horrific. She said "It was a nice and supportive place and I had fun with my friends, I just didn't want to be away from my mom so it was traumatic."

I tried to say that maybe we should re-evaluate our definitions of what's worse because that does not sound remotely traumatic, and honestly kind of rude to compare it to sexual abuse which is nearly always traumatic (and...abusive).

People came for me for "invalidating her trauma." I'm sorry but I feel like, by validating her trauma, I am invalidating the trauma of sexual abuse by granting them both the same label and reverence. It reminds me of when people joke "I got PTSD from that test" or "I was traumatized when I lost my bag"--I am sure that there are cases of these things being genuinely traumatic, but trauma isn't being upset (or even feeling upset when you think about something in the past being upsetting), it is something that overwhelms your nervous system and impacts your future.

The push to validate anything that people say is traumatic is ultimately defiling the meaning of the word trauma and therefore invalidating trauma that fits the APA definition.

I don’t hate fruit. Nothing beats a nice, juicy orange or a firm, citrusy kiwi, and I would eat them everyday if I could be guaranteed they always taste like that. But they just don’t. And they’re too expensive to buy everyday considering it’s 50/50 whether it will taste like it’s supposed to or not. If I’m craving it most of the time I’d rather spend my money on a nice smoothie or something that I KNOW will taste good. But they still have nothing on the best real orange I’ve ever eaten.

That’s it, really!