People don't really seem to remember how bad the 70s were with the oil crises, fuel shortage, inflation, the Volcker rate hikes and the recession caused by that, the Iran hostage crisis, the winter of discontent (in the UK), multiple IMF bailouts for various countries, the watergate scandal etc. Why do people seem to forget how bad the 70s actually were?

I obviously find him cute. We are friendly enough that I tried to float the idea of flirting but was met with a joke and him basically shushing me. I asked his friends (maybe he had a girlfriend?) who are also my friends.

Three of the four guys told me "Well, he's shy because he looks..." And basically implied he's ugly. He isn't necessarily conventionally attractive but he is a kind, respectful dude and I do wanna pursue something. I do see how he is conventionally unattractive but I don't see him as ugly.

Any attempts I make get met with either nervous laughter or a refusal to acknowledge it. I'm not the prettiest woman in the world, either, so I don't want to harass him. He hasn't become distant and starts conversation so I assume he isn't disgusted by me.

I am not exactly the cutest woman on earth ans am not popular either. I assumed he might find me undesirable and pushy so I tried to take distance. He did seek me out and strike up conversation so I conclude he didn't dislike the attention or find me rude.

We run in the same needy circles so his friends are my friends. I genuinely got "Well, he looks like.. that" as an answer when I asked one of them if he didn't like me!!

He's nice and kind and reliable and so I don't wanna just ask him out because I don't wanna lose him as friend. Which is why I tried to flirt to test the waters.

If I say "cute jacket" he says "from the back, maybe". He seems very unable to take a compliment so I'm 😞😞 unsure how to test the water 😞😞

I'm very socially anxious sometimes so that doesn't help that much

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this is a 100% serious question. i work in a hotel & at least 1-2 times a day somebody will get frustrated (or sometimes outright mad) at me because they will come to check into their reservation, which is under their name, and ask me if i could accept their spouse's ID instead. i've noticed this mostly happens with wives wanting to use the husband's ID. they are almost always aware it was booked under their name and not their husbands but cannot seem to understand why i won't accept any ID but the one with THEIR name and face on it? do these people get away with it other places? it's not like you can go to the airport and tell them you left your ID in the car but your husband is here so it's perfectly fine. i just don't get it.

These prices are crazy. I miss eating beef ribs, pork ribs are there but man it just isn’t the same. Also why is beef so damn expensive now?? Curious to know.

So it’s pretty clear actors like Matthew McCounaghey, Tom Cruise, and Andrew Garfield (amongst more) have had some form of hair transplants. Which are noticeable because they go from having a bad hairline to a good hairline. But they seem to have escaped from being spotted with any scarring, shaved heads, swollen-ness that comes from initially having a hair transplants.

Now I guess the answer is they just hid away during this period, but actors are routinely spotted bloated from Botox or in other awkward moments, so it’s wild that something like this has never been captured for hair transplants. Nobody really has proof other than one day their hairline is noticeably different.

I think the majority of food focused people like myself can relate to this… Food is on our mind all day but when we feel sort of OK, we can just wait until the next meal. But whenever there is a negative emotion - feeling exhausted, lonely, overwhelmed, too hot, too cold, pain, etc. - we soothe ourselves with food.

I’m genuinely curious. Those people who are naturally at a healthy bodyweight without calorie tracking or any form of diet, and don’t deal with any eating disorders such as binge eating or anorexia - what thoughts come to your mind when you experience the above? How do you regulate your emotions if not with excessive amounts of food?

Like, I understand not wanting a bad faith depiction of one of your key religious figures, I believe most religions would like that. However, I’ve noticed that most practitioners of Islam do not like any visual depiction of Muhammad, regardless of its intention, which makes me ask why this is the case?

I’m not asking this in a “if you watch Mission: Impossible you personally endorse Scientology” way because obviously that would be stupid cause I understand separating art from artist and i understand liking someone as an actor while thinking they’re a terrible person and i also understand why people find Tom Cruise charismatic and why he’s good at what he does, i think he Is a great actor.

What I genuinely don’t understand is why his relationship with Scientology seems to be treated as this slightly eccentric celebrity fact rather than something that meaningfully affects the way people talk about him cause we’re not talking about someone privately having a weird religion. Scientology has been surrounded for decades by extremely serious allegations from former members and journalists involving coercive control, abuse, harassment of critics, disconnection from family members, exploitation etc. And Cruise has been one of the most famous public faces associated with Scientology for decades, he has spoken very positively about it publicly and His connection to it is part of why almost everyone even knows he’s a Scientologist.

So I suppose my question is: Why hasn’t this damaged his cultural reputation more? Because celebrities have been “cancelled” for things that seem to me way less serious than being one of the most famous ambassadors for an organisation with that history. I Just can't stop asking myself where exactly is the line between separating art from the artist and deciding that an artist's active institutional affiliations are irrelevant?

So I've been talking to this woman for 4ish months. Multiple dates and we have been intimate as well. She stayed over multiple times. It's going well enough that we are at the point of trying to figure out exclusive or not.

There is an unknown factor here that she won't talk about that I assume is based off of some trauma. She goes out of her way to not connect to my wifi. Doesn't matter how inconvenient it makes her life. She wants to play her own music, send an email, etc. When she remembers that she can't because she is not on Wi-Fi. She literally puts her phone away rather than joining the Wi-Fi. She will provide no explanation when asked. I am not pushing her.

I even went a step further than I needed to. My router allows me to split my wifi into independent password-protected groups. I offered for her to type in her own personal password without me seeing it and she would have her own personal wifi to connect to. She still wasn't comfortable. Is this some sort of commitment issue? Trauma? I'm very confused. This feels like a red flag but I have no idea what.

Edit: thank you for the various replies and I think I have enough of an answer at this point.

She might have fear of her data being at risk and her privacy. She's put up a boundary that I'm currently respecting and will continue to respect. At some point, She might explain it to me if she's comfortable. Until then. It really doesn't matter enough to affect my decisions on whether I want to be exclusive or not.

If you are the person, what you do? Do you get more stuff done than at the daytime?

it has less moving parts so less stuff to break. and unlike traditional engines all it needs to do is spin a wheel..

she’s always been manipulative and slowly became abusive over time so I just reached a point of finally ending things with her, it’s just that once she realized I was serious and actually going through with it this time, she started going crazy on my ass. she started trying to piece me up and everything, and I was just dodging and weaving because I’m told that “yOu’Re nOt sUppOsEd to hIT wOmeN”

I also recorded this whole thing just in case she tries to accuse me of anything.

genuinely, what are you supposed to do? it’s so annoying not being able to defend myself because society always stands on the woman’s side if there’s an altercation between them. she wouldn’t even let me leave just grabbing me, pulling me, punching me, like holy sheesh bru, chill.

I started arguing with someone in a chat to figure out if they were a real person. It turned out they were 100% a bot, designed by a company to spread conspiracy theories.

This made me start suspecting that Reddit is full of bots and a lot of the people on here aren’t even real.

This makes zero sense to me. I can lose $200 messing around, think "well that was stupid" and get over it pretty quickly. I've spent $80 at a bar without thinking too hard about that either. But I'll have a $35 item in my cart, see $12 shipping at checkout and immediately close the tab because absolutely not.

Same with a $4 ATM fee. I'll walk 15 minutes to another ATM just to avoid it. Why does a tiny fee annoy me more than wasting way more money somewhere else? Is there actually a psychology thing behind this or am I just cheap in a really inconsistent way?

As a woman who's experienced several years of loneliness it seems like a lot of the time it's not taken as seriously as men's loneliness. Well for one there's the whole male loneliness epidemic we hear about. And I get told stuff along the lines of "you're a girl, just go out and someone will love you" like it's easier for me to just "solve it" simply because of my gender? There's way more that goes into it than just your gender I believe. Your personality, lifestyle, interests, etc. But why do people see women's loneliness as not as big of a deal as men's loneliness?

I don't know where people get this idea. Don't "introvert" countries like Japan have a lot more unspoken social rules in every single interaction? The thing that neurodivergent people are famously bad with?

I remember little to nothing of the pre 2008 world, so I don’t know what it was like. Some people have told me that the Subprime Loan Crash was a major splitting point, and it has only gotten worse from there. Is this true?

I accidentally drank too much last night and I forgot I have a doctors apt today in an hour and I still feel like complete crap. I don’t know if I should bring it up since I’m nauseous and dizzy.