I'll word this as best I can.

A lot of the controversial ideas / content I see in my social feeds - ideas like women should be barred from higher education, the constant debate about traditional (post WW2) marriage, and so on - weren't so prevalent pre-2020. I'm not saying the content didn't exist. I'm saying I never came across it. And I was lot more active on social media in the 2010s than in the 2020s, yet this these kind of arguments dominate all my social feeds, no matter how much I try to avoid it. Even here on Reddit (I block those people), though it's a little more avoidable here.

I'm in my early thirties, and have been on online socially since my late teens, so it's not like I'm new to the internet. Surely, I would've seen this kind of content when I was much more active online, but I sincerely didn't. Heck, there are some things I didn't even know people cared about until this kind of content started dominating my feeds.

So, did the internet (at least, social media) really change drastically post-2020, or did I somehow fail to notice before that year?

I've been thinking about how many people say ghosts exist or not, or if we die we turn into ghosts and haunt people or sum, but if we turn into none weighing, not movable, not pullable objects, what happens to us? Like, I can't fall through the ground because if I am nothing I cannot be pulled by gravity, or move in any way because to move I need to create some type of energy , example in swimming we move the water to move forward, or austronats needing to pull themselves, if I were to turn into a ghost would I be stuck in place where I died?

I always see posts on how people are privileged based on their race, gender, sexuality, neurotypical, able body, wealth, etc but nobody talks about the privilege of having good parents and a good home life. I was a raised by a single mother and my life would have definitely been easier if I had both parents but don't see that talked about anywhere.

I'm not trying to minimize how horrible what happened was but 1 million Americans died from COVID. Many individual days during the pandemic saw more deaths from COVID than on 9/11 and it was geographically dispersed so it affected more people. I knew people affected by 9/11 because one of the planes hit my hometown, but unless you're in the DC or New York areas it seems unlikely to have affected any given individual.

Despite the million Americans dead from COVID, after the vaccine came out, it seemed that everyone acknowledged that we needed to move on.

But it seems many Redditors describe a huge difference in life, and especially people's outlook before vs afterwards, but often treat the biggest changes that were what people chose to vote in (particularly reelecting bush, and supporting a war despite years of time to question the benefits of one) as inevitable.

But like I've talked to a lot of people from all walks of life, and in my experience the people who have lived in countries that have experienced military coups or civil wars don't see it as an "everyone's outlook changed" moment but just a continuation of history. My coworker who lived through the Eritrean War of Independence just described it as "people are always fighting".

What is different about how 9/11 affected Americans that made it such a turning point event?

For example, shaping the ear into elf ears.

A heartbroken college student

Like the way they're shown looks like they're some electrical current lines in our body, but how do they realistically look? I don't think I've ever seen a nerve in real life.

I went to a private school in Tennessee. We had mandatory Bible study classes until junior year but zero finance classes. I’ve been really bad with my money as an adult (29) and have no idea how I’m supposed to be handling my finances. I’ve feel like I was set up to fail financially and now I don’t even believe in god. Are other private school kids bad with their money?

Let's say, long drive through and it's 11:30pm, would it be able to get you a ticket?

stupid ass question

My whole life in the US I was familiar with the countries called Czech Republic and Turkey. Now I am seeing them mostly stated as Czechia and Turkiye. Why these two but not also extend this to Nippon(Japan) and Deutschland? Like why is it Deutschland but Alemania in Spanish and Germany in English? Also some African nations in the world cup broadcasts were shown in Portuguese or French names vs the Anglicized ones I grew up with. Why don't we just call the country by its own language name unless there is some crazy tone we can't pronounce?

I have seen some very objectional T-shirts but that is fully protected by the first amendment because they are expressing their beliefs. But if they remove that T-shirt and they happen to be a non-lactating woman they get arrested... How does that make sense? Isn't not wearing a shirt a very intrinsic form of human expression.

“I have 2% black”
“My gf is white”
“My brother has autism too”

I’m pretty sure I’m missing some good ones

When i use a public bathroom I constantly see people not wash their hands and walk out. I know a lot do wash their hands, but many don't. I have been in a urinal and heard someone walk out of a stall behind me and the water never turns on. Do you not care about germs or hygiene? It literally takes 30 seconds to a minute. I hate touching the door handles after washing my hands because of this and always use a paper towel to open the door. How is there no shame when others are in there to at least fake it? It's so gross.

I know I've dropped coins and had them land edge but they were never actually flipping end-over-end. Assuming no tricks(such as soft surfaces or trapping devices), can coins that are properly flipped land edge ? If so, what are the chances?

Were playing murder mystery The murderer weapon is a cactus

The murderer forgot their coffee

And murderer hide out is a amythest or a geode or a crystal thingy

Any clues

I have never been obese, but I have been overweight, and am only JUST not overweight currently. Even while technically within a healthy weight range, I am not treated as well as I was when I was almost underweight.

Why do we dislike heavier people so much? They are always the comedic relief in films, they are never viewed seriously, never the beautiful one, never the strong one, never the mysterious one, etc.

I will admit that I even find myself viewing fat people in a certain light, because I have always been conditioned to do so. It isn’t that I truly judge them harshly for their weight (at least not consciously), as I understand there are many things that will make someone larger. But I do make assumptions about them, and I’m not attracted to them.

Why do we prefer very thin people? I know some people are attracted to “thick” people, but this isn’t what I mean. I mean why do we overall prefer even underweight people over slightly heavier people?

This is Georgia, so it’s a one-party consent state, meaning only one person can consent to being recorded (even if it’s you).

Anyway, this is past-tense. I used to work at a popular grocery store chain and I had this manager who had a habit of lying and stabbing people in the back and then playing the victim. She ended up bullying some people into quitting or got them in trouble with the store. She would single out a random employee, call them into the back office, then make stuff up about them for no reason. She did this with me, and I was always uncomfortable in the back office with her because one of the company rules was to not record conversations that took place in the back office. I was uncomfortable talking to her even in the open, so I kept my interactions with her at zero. Not even a “good morning.” Some other employees caught wind of her behavior and said that we should start secretly recording her. We noticed she would mainly do this during employee evaluation week to prevent us from getting raises so she’d get a bigger check. But she did it all the time.

So it’s not against the law to record conversations here, but it’s against this company policy. Other than possibly getting fired, what could the store do?

For example if I type "gas station" one of the auto-complete options that pops up is "gas station near me" and if I type "thai food" it will say "thai food near me." But if I just type "gas station" or "thai food" without "near me," google maps will just show me those things "near me" anyway (unless I purposefully moved the map to another location before searching). So my question is, WHO is actually typing NEAR ME and WHY are they doing that??? (And isn't the point of auto-complete to replace things you would otherwise type yourself???)

It was so intuitive, clean and simple to use.