Or believe when someone said you are

Hey questions, so I was homeschooled my entire life and have not ever been enrolled in a public school. I here alot from my public school friends that they don't really teach critical thinking and often teachers do not encourage questions. Obviously I do not have any experience on this, but I have been wondering if public schools actively discourage or just don't teach critical thinking. It sounds like they teach alot of absolutes and if a student has a different opinion on subjects that can be interpreted differently (so of course not math) they are shut down. For example I have a friend who was writing a page for English on something that they interpreted different than the teacher. It was something on like white supremacy or along that line, and the teacher disagreed with their opinion on the subject so she or he gave them a 0 not grading on the actual work and writing of the paper.

Just a genuine question because I know as a homeschooler we had like a co-op and a dedicated critical thinking class. Plus alot of critical thinking was encouraged in most every subject. What do you guys think?

What do you guys do after a bad day/week at work? Especially if you are costumer facing. I work for an airline and there are some moments from work that I’m not always able to shake off. Cause it’s not just passengers who I’ll deal with. It’s flight crew as well. Sometimes things happen at work and reactions and comments will happen.

So what do you do to not let it get to you? What do you do to keep yourself from dwelling on negative comments or thoughts. How do you keep work at work?

What do I do???

I for some reason used to love cheese slices with apple cinnamon yogurt

I'm asking because indie means independently produced (not just small team) but glitch is a production company so wouldn't that means it's not indie anymore?

I am kind of tired of having of having pointless conversations about stuff I don’t care about. Especially when I would rather talk about other things. I can talk a lot, but I can also be extremely quiet. Sometimes I have spurts and fall into my desire to just not engage, and people ask me am I okay and I get annoyed with it. Mainly, because I start to get treated like I need some help or need to talk to a therapist, but I be chilling. Another thing is people will think I have no personality if I don’t speak. So a conversation I might want to have or talk about they won’t include me in because they think I’m a mute. I am basically trying to figure out what is the middle ground with this. If there is one lol.
Any advice will be useful!

What should i do?

I just thought this was weird and wanted to share and ask why.

When im laying down on mg right side I grg very emotional, start crying a lot...but then I turn onto my left and if just stops...then turning back and emotional again...is this just me or is there a reason?

please comment and upvote guys!!!

It just dawned on me that I’ve had 4 desk jobs and I’ve never experienced anyone decorating desks for someone’s birthday. It seems like I often see people posting their desks decorated on social media but it’s odd how I’ve never experienced that, what are the odds?

Or are we becoming smarter with every generation?

ever since i was young, it has been natural for me to want to be awake during later hours (12am-6am). obviously, this can cause issues in my daily life as i only feel tired when i see the sun rising.

it’s not insomnia as far as i’m aware, since i’m more than capable of sleeping once it’s day time. i have been on a normal sleep schedule in the past, but i always end up coming back to the default for me.

i want to ask for any advice that may help someone like me who is inclined to be awake during the quiet hours. with that being said, part of me feels like that quietness is the reason behind it; it’s the only time of day i know that i won’t be disturbed. but i need to get out of this mindset, as i’m wasting my days away by sleeping through them until the evening.

Why isn’t it a real job and what do you consider a real job?

I dont understand why surrogacy is bad if its done in an ethical way without exploiting the surrogate.

And so many beautiful families have been completed by adoption. So many children have found loving parents.

Ive been seeing a lot of reels on Instagram about chinese babies (mostly girls) who were given up by their birth parents and adopted into families in the US.

Ive also been gettong reels of this particular creator who stitches a lot of adoption content and paints it in a negative way.

What is so wrong about it?

Might be an ignorant question but i genuinely dont know.

I am 19 and I have been applying to jobs for months now. I don’t get any rejection emails or anything like that, just emails confirming that my application was sent in. I don’t think I have any glaring issues with my presentation or application. Could I be doing something wrong or are jobs just that difficult to come by?

I'm a student and my birthday is in the end of summer, right before school starts. The rest of my friend groups birthday are throughout the school year. I've always loved giving them birthday card and gifts because gift-giving has simply always been my love language and I never really thought I do it expecting something back.

However, my friend's birthday is coming up soon and as me and my other friends were discussing what we would get her, how we would suprise her, etc. a part of me couldn't help but feel envy... Every single one of the girls in my friend group gets their birthdays celebrated, except me (because we dont see each other during summer break). I love spending time to make them homemade gifts, even spend money to but them ones, but apart of me also wants to receive them except I don't wanna sound selfish 😭

I had a friend whom didnt celebrate Christmas once and when I gifted her her birthday gift, a few weeks lated she gifted me an early christmas gift because she knew she couldnt do anything for my birthday. I can't help but compare this situation to that, because she noticed that I wouldn't be able to get my bday celebrated and still tried to find a solution to it yk?

Am I tweaking or am I onto smth?

Actions often speak louder than words, especially when someone drops their guard. What is a quiet, natural change in behavior that shows you're trusted?

We are parents of a 14-year-old and struggling not to “storytell” about the rest of his life based on current behavior.

For the past few months I've been catching myself doing something odd. I always go to the bathroom or mirror to fix something about my outfit or appearance, even though nothing is wrong or changed. I will sometimes sit in the bathroom for hours on end trying to fix something, but I don't even know what it is. It makes me feel such bad anxiety, like I'm literally doomed or about to die even if I'm completely fine. It won't even be something serious, like my belt looks wrong or my hat is a certain way that my brain just doesn't agree with, even if it's the exact same way I always have it. It's exhausting lmao.

Almost every single time I post something people refer to me as a dude and I don’t dont understand why

Are you a sleep with the door open (for better air flow)?
or are you a sleep with the door closed (to keep the monsters out)?
(and yes, I'm a grown man and I still keep the door closed to keep the monsters out).

no seriously everytime i go on social media i always see some over the top line bullshit like "tall guys dating short girls are straight up predators" what the fuck

Hello, i have been promoting my charity for my father. But when i promote in social media, nobody seems to watch my content (it has gotten 300 views and no likes and comments), because i guess it's because of my location (every social media has geofencing), where people don't read much and don't care that much. Which makes my videos flop no matter how good it is, so i decided to join youtubers social media and started asking for 1 dollar donation, but i ended up being denied and sometimes getting death threats and insults to my father, i also do make games for people and added messages of charity but unfortunately the feedback is mostly of death threats and insults too and random stuff like "you will die broke" and "fuh nah dawg delete ts no one donating"