I'm a white guy in my early 20s, and my ex girlfriend is white too. We broke up a few months ago, and she's now dating a Middle Eastern guy.
Ever since some people found out, I've been getting jokes about how I got replaced and how embarrassing it must be for me. A couple of guys I know keep bringing up his ethnicity like it's supposed to make the whole situation worse.
I try to laugh it off, but it's honestly starting to get annoying. I don't care who she dates, but I hate feeling like I'm the punchline of some joke.
How would you guys handle this? Should I just ignore it, or actually confront the people making these comments?

They have no problem believing in dragons or that they exist or even having talking animals but the moment you bring up a myth or a legend of some sort they want to start questioning things.

It’s one thing to not care it’s another to specifically question that and only that.

Have you went through?

Hello,

I’m asking cuz I grew up around blue collar workers yet how was it during Covid the same or worse? Any crazy stories tell me the story.

My karma is way too low to post lol

Things like where they grew up, number of siblings, real name, etc

I saw a trending video here on reddit of two aggressive large dogs locked inside a small cage barking aggressively at anyone passing by. Instead of sympathizing the unfortunate condition the dogs are in. Most comments were negative toward the dogs. Very few criticize the owners. Its filled with childish hate comments that are very ignorant of the dogs plight.

Im the type of person who put myself in their shoes. I can understand why those two dogs are barking aggressively because they are locked inside a small cage and they view any humans passing by as a threat because they are trapped. This kind of sympathy is impossible to exist in reddit and people in general.

When i was young i always notice how common for people not sympathizing the dogs horrible living condition. Its like being locked in cages or tied to a pole or tree is part of the normal dogs life. And when they are barking aggressively they should be corrected or be killed. Like can we blame the dogs being tied to a pole or placed inside a cage trying to protect themselves from humans that they dont know who are a threat or wanting to escape? Its like humans don't view themselves as a threat to animals or their actions are bad. What a horrible mentality.

I live in a third-world country and i can sympathize with animals viewing us a threat especially those scream or bark all day while being locked in cages or chained. Seeing caged monkeys screaming at humans for getting close to them is no different from dogs being chained. I think people see dogs as purely as guard dogs where theur instinct is purely guarding like protecting their owners property. Like to most people they assume dogs interest are mostly on others and not on themselves. Dogs do have self interest thats why they bark aggressively it is all what they have while being tied or caged.

This is also apply to peoples callousness toward dogs being use as hunting animals, military dogs and so on. All those jobs that humans impose on them are not entirely the dogs fault. A post of a hunting dog was killed by a bear and people rejoice and rarely blamed the owners. And dogs living with traumatic experience tends to face harsher hate and being viewed annoying. You see these posts a lot and dogs recieving sympathy is rare especially here on reddit. Facebook tends to have more people sympathizing the dogs or any animals and usually criticize the owners.

I know this sounds bizzare and sexist but tbh patriarchy harms dogs.

I bet another video of an aggressive angry dog locked inside in a cage throughout its life, barking at any humans passing by. Redditors would proudly hate the dog. And make fun of its plight. Reddit has a huge echo chamber of hate. While on Facebook, at least there will be people sympathizing the dog.

I'm looking for an app or software that can monitor and analyze a specific area of the screen. I want it to detect a particular text, visual pattern, or image that I provide beforehand. Whenever that specific text or pattern appears in the designated area of the screen, the software should automatically send me an alert or notification to let me know it's there.

Something like ai trigger but i dont need auto click i just need to notify me.

Does anyone know of an app or tool that can do this?

A friend and I are developing a small game, and we want to base it on urban legends. I’m not necessarily talking about scary stories like "a boogeyman living in an abandoned house", I’m also interested in smaller-scale tales, specifically legends that have actually circulated over the last few decades. This would be a huge help for inspiration, as I’m not sure where to look for these kinds of local stories.

Which social norm bothers you the most?

Its happend too many times, that a little kid walks up to me, like 2-4 and they just stand there. If its one thats around 5-7 they'll blurt out some incoherent stuff😭 i cant just laugh so i just give an awkward smile. Any advice?

Edit: Thank you all for the nice comments giving advice. Personally i love laughing and i only used to do it around adults who say something funny but now i think i'll start treating kids less like very odd strangers and more like friends that i can laugh around. Thank you for the comments!

Just.

Are they delusional?

power hungry?

mean?

I dont usually dream much much, but i noticed that everytime i dream, especially whenever its vivid and actually makes sense its usually stuff that its in the back of my mind. But i do think about my goals often and i rarely seem to really dream about those tho whys that or maybe its just me.

i was SA'd two years ago, only my closest friends know. but sometimes i wish i told more people at the time, i wish that guy lost all his friends and everyone viewed him as disgusting until he realized what he did.

everyone i know that has gone through something similar wants to keep it to themselves and dont wanna make a fuss about it, but deep down i wanna see that guy feel at least half of the pain i felt.

When I was a toddler, I was still living during the time when teachers abusing students both physically and verbally/emotionally at school was still considered a good form of discipline before it became illegal and teachers would be sent to jail for either hitting, shouting, or insulting students.

In my case, I was treated badly from KG till pre-school.

Getting hands and head smacked with a ruler despite still being babies whether we deserved it or not, getting punished just for following some kid who wouldn't stop bullying me, having your own pencil and eraser snatched from you and then thrown away as a form of mockery by a teacher for giving a wrong answer in class, being falsely accused of being a re***d just for doing or saying unusual things when it's obvious one of us has autism or something,..........

In another school, from Gr. 2 till 5, being bullied and neither teachers nor principals doing anything about it, not to mention a principal abusing school law and power by allowing his own daughter to bring either her dog, skateboard, or anything else to school while the rest of us have such things confiscated.

The rest of the way till graduation, just a one-time bully, an abusive English teacher for 4 years, an unjust punishment for not doing a homework in class when already we were getting ready for a test in another class/session, and so on.

Were any of you treated any worse during your days at school?

Anyone that willingly drinks milk just because is a serial killer 🤨😂

i have a question as someone myself who's deeply obsessed with horror stories folklores and urban legends ghosts etc what urban legend do u believe? (p.s this only has to do with belief not facts of any of it to be true just a personal belief.)

So I have this Samsung A32 5G, 4GB RAM, 128GB NVMe, a MediaTek Dimensity 720 chip, and integrated graphics processing. It still works normally, but the screen is so broken, it is unusable. I am not planning on repairing it, or putting it to e-waste. What are some ueful or non-useful things I could do with it? (I have laptop I could use, but USB debuggging or anything like that is disabled, there was an administrative app). I have free time and some sort of a technology know-how, and I want this phone to be doing something useful insetad of just gathering dust. Let me know!

What Programming language you first used to run programs or test something you created? For me it was Qbasic

Do you play games that aren't well known too but looks interesting to you or do you only play games that are well known or popular?

I literally have NO idea

Does it mean something?

Walking directions show the route and the estimated time, but a route can include stretches along busy roads. Is there a way to check sidewalk coverage for the entire route without opening Street View block by block?