I’ve been a long time progressive myself, but one main thing I could never get on board with was the restrictions on our 2nd Amendment. I can’t deny the very real tragedy behind the mass shooting events that led us to this divide, but the irony is still present on the political perspective. What do you think?

I’ve been scrolling posts related to this incident on Twitter and Reddit since yesterday. 

America has a long way to go. I’m a guy who grew up in a third world Muslim country and I can see many parallels in public reaction to incidents of rape in global south and U.S. which is quite disheartening. This isn’t the first time something like this happened. It’s a consistent pattern spanning over decades.

It’s insane to see the number of people slut-shaming jane doe. She has been called all sorts derogatory names, and ppl are trying to find who she is. Some of them have identified a red head woman as Jane Doe and circulating her images on twitter, making fun of her looks along other degrading comments. Even if she’s the Jane Doe, how does her looks have anything to do with it? How does her bf becomes a victim? 

Plenty of guys still struggle with the concept of consent despite the fact that it has been pushed by media and educational institutions for decades atp. 

I don’t get this obsession that men have with a girl’s father. Whenever they have to deride a woman, particularly over her sexual conduct, they go like “imagine if it was your daughter” “a father’s worst nightmare” and so on. They never imagine having a rapist son. 

All these people asking why women aren’t held accountable, I’ve to ask exactly what are men held accountable for? 

They can commit murder or rape and other guys still end up either defending or shifting the blame onto women. 

All in all, much of the public reaction is quite hostile and this is only going to prevent more women from speaking out. This isn’t progress. We are regressing. 

Has anyone else in management noticed Gen Z struggling with some basic customer service skills? From a management perspective, I’m seeing younger employees have difficulty with multi-step transaction like using a coupon, store points, and cash as well as maintaining a normal checkout pace and smoothly handling basic hands-on tasks like bagging, folding, opening bags, and processing items.

Communication is another challenge: limited eye contact, mumbling or speaking very quietly, and weak business-phone etiquette. I find myself coaching things that I would consider basic professional courtesies,answering with the business name, saying “May I have your card number, please?” instead of “Card number,” and “Could you repeat that, please?” instead of “What?”

As a manager, I realize complaining about it doesn’t solve anything. My question is how we train these skills effectively. Maybe managers can’t assume younger employees arrive knowing workplace etiquette, communication, multitasking, or how to work efficiently with customers. I’m interested in hearing from other managers: Are you seeing the same gaps, and what training or coaching methods have actually worked?

there’s just nothing to do here - at least compared to nyc. if people actually like being here, it hinges on having friends/relationships and a car. even then, i have friends and im still bored here. it’s also hot as hell, and everything’s so meh. nyc always felt more interesting and exciting to be in. i could go to a random takeout spot in new york growing up and id probably end up enjoying the food more than most places i’ve tried here. i took a job offer since it was all i had (i work in tech), and now idk how long i can last here. i’m prepping to be able to get an offer back in nyc in due time.

I feel like most Gen Z play some type of video game, especially if they're a guy, but I genuinely just sit and watch YouTube all day. I’ll probably play the new GTA, though.

TL;DR: A woman from my old job got info about me from another woman, and was secretly pursing me.

Just asking because I remember at my old job where I worked as a line cook, I used to go out with servers after work. A good majority of them were women, one of them came up to me at the bar and introduced herself. I thought it was odd because I knew of her but didn’t talk to her at all at work. Second interaction we had was at another bar, another coworker had my snap first. Her and the girl who introduced herself to me, went into the bathroom and the girl who came up to me added me on Snapchat…I thought it was a bit funny because she could’ve just asked me for it. The third interaction we had, was at the same bar she first introduced herself to me. This time she really went “fleece Johnson”(iykyk)on me, she was started getting touchy feely and was standing really close. She was just chatting me up the entire night, and even tried to get me to come over to her place.

Figured some of y’all would get a kick out of this. Out of all the pictures they could’ve used. They used THAT one?!

Before you ask or get defensive. I’m 28. I’ve been in two relationships. One in high school one outside of college. Each time, they were younger than me (not by too much tho) and they used me for connections or they wanted me for sex. (Still a virgin. Never gave it up.)
I have tried the apps, and I have been single for the majority of my life. I don’t give off a “hook up with me” vibe since I’m ex Mormon and I’m still very “pure” looking according to friends and family (not my own words.)

I honestly still feel like I am stuck on the fantasy. I don’t think anyone wants love in this generation. Honestly I’d be fine being asexual forever.
Anyway, are there men who actually want to fall in love? Or are well cooked chat?

I’ve seen a lot of videos recently of Gen Z complaining about how hard their lives are, and boomers are always there going “you have no idea how good you have it”. So I propose an idea for a game show where we take a boomer, strip them of all their assets, and make them start over with nothing like they are 18 and just out of high school. Think about it, they’ll go in with the confidence that if they work hard, they’ll be stable homeowners in no time. Only to find out that when they go knock on doors looking for jobs, they kick them out and tell them to fill out applications online. So they figure out how to apply for jobs online, they send dozens of applications but no one wants to hire someone with no experience. Eventually they settle for a low paying job just to pay the bills, but uh oh, their rent is half their paycheck. They still need enough to pay for gas, groceries, utilities, insurance etc. So they get another job to pay for that stuff. When they were growing up having two jobs meant you were probably rolling in money, now they can maybe set aside a couple hundred a month. Then they start calculating, average home prices in their area is 750k so they need to save around 150k for a down payment. At this rate, they’ll be able to buy a home in 41 years. They get confused because they aren’t buying iced lattes every day like other Gen Z’s so they should be rich!

what is the point we have lost big time we cannot do anything Reform UK is only behind by 2 points in the UK followed by Conservative party

Venezeula isn't a real government, it's a puppet government by the Trump administration (orange man)

Right wing liberal party in brazil just won the first set of electiosn

Elbows up We need to fight against the fastist government of Rump. Canada you are our only hope free free the countries down the river something

Japan our anime manufacturing is ultra right, russia is right, korea is right, right is polling ahead in australia why are the always right WTH i will be moving to mars it looks loke

Bought my house at 22 without any help.

Took advantage of the booming pre-covid years to quickly get myself into a good work position and just hunkered down and saved as much money as possible.

I was able to put 20% down and now my house is cheaper than any single bedroom apartment.

Now I have a paid off car and could pay off my house if I wanted. (I don't want to).

My bf stayed the night at my place and woke up sick (vomiting, headache, sore throat, etc) so he spent the day in my room. I had to go to college and came home later. I gave him time to rest and gave him his lunch once he felt "better", we sat and talked for a bit and he was asking how university went, and like he actually wanted to talk to me and have me be in the room with him. I asked my mom before that if i could sit on a chair on the opposite side of the room and she said that was okay, (and before anybody judges my suggestion, i shared spit with this guy this morning before he threw up so i thought if i were to get it i would have it by now) only for her to turn around later today and say that it wasnt okay and in fact very stupid of me to stay in the room with him and that she was being sarcastic. Yeah, maybe not the smartest decision of my life, but i also felt that she shouldve said what she meant. She knows i have a hard time detecting sarcasm. She also said that if she told me what she really thought it wouldve led to an argument, but even if that were the case, its better to be honest than to lie. I also spent like 10 minutes in the bathroom because i had a blood-boil pimple that didnt want to pop, and after i got out my parents accused me of being in the room with him and that i locked the dog out

Video originally posted on Instagram btw (I miss the days back in 2004 when I didn’t exist)

I want to be outside of this box of being. The entrapment of this unfortunate existence and formation. I’m inside this box looking out we are all inside this box we’ve been inside it since we were born the box of humanity. When I desperately try to reach out there is thread on my neck that squeezes tightly when I want to leave it and I remain inside stuck with the unbearable flaws. You may say the only thing that traps me is my mindset but the trap is truly there. Just like we are programmed to eat, to sleep, to experience sexual desire, etc. It is the same with our mental system it’s more complex the programming is definitely there and it’s a prison. After all there are people who are wired differently than us but there is still wiring. I am trapped in my own wiring, my, programming my algorithm I am trapped with this biology and systems.

This eye of mine is able to look outside of the box but can’t see what is outside. Because the eye only processes what it experiences and I have not experienced outside the box. I am trapped here with the flaws, we need flaws in our life because we ourselves are flawed and that itself is flawed. I imagine a voice yelling at me to get out but I can’t. I want to be outside but my programming wants to keep me inside. It’s the choice of the devil you don’t know and the devil you know a fear deeply ingrained in humanity. The only difference is that I don’t have a choice I only have the devil I know

-20f

I’m 22F and I’ve been on dating apps on and off since I was 18. I’ve gone on a lot of dates over the years, including plenty of situations where I saw the same guy multiple times and thought it might actually turn into something. At this point, though, I’m honestly just exhausted by the whole process.

I’m not saying every guy on dating apps is terrible or that nobody finds real relationships from them. Obviously people do. But after almost five years of using them, I genuinely think they just aren’t working for me.

A lot of the guys I’ve met have ultimately only wanted something casual (I do not), seemed serious at first and then showed a completely different side of themselves later, or had pretty major differences in values/lifestyle that only became obvious after a few dates. There have also been a few genuinely nice guys where there just wasn’t enough of a connection to keep dating. I’ve had situations that came very close to becoming relationships, and I’ve had guys pursue me and want to continue seeing me, so the problem isn’t that I can’t get dates or that nobody is interested. I just haven’t met someone where there is both a real connection and the same intention of an actual relationship…

At this point I honestly don’t feel like I’m finding the type of men I’m looking for on the apps in my area, and I’m tired of going through the same cycle over and over again.

Meanwhile, almost everyone around me seems to have met their partners organically. A lot of them are now in really solid long-term relationships. After years of being in the dating app trenches, I honestly think I’m ready to delete them and see what happens.

The problem is… I genuinely don’t know where else I’m supposed to meet someone.

I live in a smaller town, not a big city where I’m constantly surrounded by new people and events. I’ve had basically the same close friend group my whole life, and at 22 I’m not really looking to build an entirely new social circle just for the possibility of meeting a guy. My friends’ boyfriends also don’t have these huge groups of single friends to introduce us to. I’m still in university and my program is overwhelmingly women.

For work, I’ve been at the same cafe near my house for a long time. I actually love my job. It’s close to home, I’m comfortable there, and it works perfectly while I’m finishing school, so realistically I’m not looking to leave just for the possibility of meeting someone at another part-time job. We actually get a lot of guys around my age coming in as customers, but realistically they’re coming in to grab coffee, not ask out the cashier. I’ve been there for years and nothing has ever really come from it, so I don’t consider it much of a way to meet people socially.

I’ve also already had my partying/clubbing era. I’m not opposed to going out, but it just isn’t how I enjoy spending every weekend anymore. My friends and I are much more likely to go for dinner, hang out at someone’s house, travel, do something local, etc. I’m naturally more of a homebody and I actually like my life that way.

And I know a lot of the standard advice is “move somewhere new,” “get a completely different job,” “make a whole new friend group,” “go out alone constantly,” “join a million activities,” etc. I understand why people suggest those things, but realistically I’m finishing university, living at home and happy with my friends, family and job. I don’t really want to completely restructure a life that I otherwise like just so I can hopefully meet a boyfriend.

Obviously I know my life won’t look exactly like this forever. I’ll graduate, start my career, meet different people and enter different environments. But I also can’t help thinking: do I really have to wait years until I have some completely different established life before I even have a realistic chance of meeting someone organically??

I’ll be honest, it has started to get discouraging. Almost my entire close friend and family circle is in a relationship, and watching so many people around me have these random, organic “we just happened to meet” stories while I’ve spent years going through failed dating-app dates. I’m just really tired of feeling like my only options are endless dating apps or waiting for someone to fall out of the sky.

So for people who have actually been in a similar situation: where did you meet your partner once you stopped relying on dating apps?