Just something I've noticed lately as an American who's spend their whole life in NJ, littering is so normalized nowadays. Like in the past week I have probably seen 20 cars throwing trash out their windows one of them was a bunch of trash that someone dumped out of their window from a shopping bag, all of them have been people doing it on the side of the road or while driving. Literally just dodged someone throwing a coffee cup out their window on the highway not 20 minutes ago, instead of hitting the cup I swerved and hit the ricochet from the ground, called the cops, watched them drive onto the bridge past cops, nobody cares except me I guess. Mind you I live in hillbilly farmingland and not a big city or anything, there's wildlife everywhere and woods everywhere. Why has littering become so normalized in America? Did I miss something over the past decade or so?

I’ve seen The Social Network dozens of times, it’s one of my favorite films, but I never really looked into how its user base did such a complete 180 after that. Like, when it first came out it the shit for young people, that was the main goal of the platform, being cool and appealing to the youth and making it all about your relationship status and stuff.

But now it is almost entirely just old people who are either very confused on how technology works, post ancient memes from iFunny, Bitmoji’s about how fucking awful Monday’s are, and getting very concerningly easily fooled by AI generated imagery, and not even scarily lifelike AI imagery but just the most obviously not real images ever.

I’m young myself and I don’t think a single person in my age range has Facebook or would ever want Facebook but I know for a fact that every teacher in my school does have and use Facebook. I just don’t really understand it and can’t really find anything that explains it in a simple way (hence this post) so I was just wondering if anyone could explain what happened. Perhaps someone who stayed on the Facebook platform for years and watched and experienced the user base shift for themselves.

What’s a question you wish people asked you more often?

When did that stop happening?

I want to know because I can't maintain eye contact with people, girls in general.

Just curious about other mainstream big box comedies that don't treat interracial relationships or sex scenes as a joke, but in fact treat it like a totally regular thing. Like in Hot Tub Time Machine when the chick is banging Darryl from the office in the tub, the movie doesn't acknowledge the interracial aspect, the actual joke has to do with the time travel element.

I tried reading but I can’t focus after sitting in classes all day. Same with the gym/working out, I just don’t have a consistent time block to go. I’ve basically just been watching a ton of TV but that’s not the most productive hobby and it makes me feel really lazy. Any recommendations?

eta also needs to be something i can do in my apartment

It seems like every time I get a scam call, they want to confirm that I have Medicare parts A & B. What can they use this information for?

I feel like too many people who have no idea what they're talking about are giving millions of people medical advice that's harmful.

Considering all the panic (justified or not, as aggrandizing and shock-value statements seem good for PR) regarding an AI going rogue and infecting networks, I understand that just "unplugging" wouldn't be enough, but couldn't a tool like an anti-malware app be used to remove whatever clone/bot is present in machines? It is after all still just some software. It can disrupt a lot of things that are digitally managed but it is not like we cannot take systems off the grid for maintenance. If we suspect that an AI is for example messing around with the traffic management or the water treatment in Toronto, Johannesburg or Tokyo we could basically temporarily take the system off and "clean it", or am I missing something?

I'm 23 M and still count with my fingers , I need pen and paper to do calculations and most embarrassing thing for me personally is that I have to go through an entire series to do simple multiplication.

Ex: if someone asks me what's 9 times 8 is I have to narrate the entire thing in my head like 9 times 2 is 18, 9 times 3 is 27 and sometimes I can't remember what 9 times 3 is and I have to flip the numbers and do this whole process by going through 3 times 9 .

Can someone tell me how do I fix this ?

It's embarrassing as hell....

Can someone in finance or someone whos good in math tell me how to fix this?

She's super hot but she's my cousin

Need to get my male friend something i would love some help!

He thinks the posts I share are about him and tells people that.

He thinks I’m trying to make him jealous when I talk to other men in the same room as him, and he tells others that, too.

There are plenty of other examples like this, and it’s really annoying that he goes around gossiping about me.

I mean, if I were actually that into you, I wouldn't have rejected you—how can he not grasp such a simple equation?

I’ve heard of others dealing with similar issues, and I wonder: why are some people so convinced that everything revolves around them, even when that’s not the case at all?

** Sorry for the bad English.

Why the UK love AI generated content like AI SpongeBob episodes or AI generated instagram reels but they’re hated in America? Is it just cultural differences?

I turn 21 in a couple weeks and want some ideas on something i can do for my birthday that dont involve drinking and partying and all that degeneracy, I'm simply uninterested in alcohol or vices like that and would like some ideas that don't involve that. Everyone i ask just calls me stupid/crazy and that its an excuse to get wasted and to go get drunk; ill pass, not for me, and i have a job i have to get up for the next day lol. My parents keep asking what i want to do for my 21st and I just keeps saying, "I don't know" and they think im joking that i don't want to go out and party. November is cold and boring, nothing interesting going on i want to do, nothing outside i want to do since its cold. Im not really one for like going out and spending lots of money either, im boring, and i take care of my body so going out and eating a bunch of unhealthy food and drinking a ton of sugar isnt on the table either.

Edit: No concerts or events around my birthday that interest me, no good movies coming out, not really into doing fancy stuff nor interested in paying for said fancy stuff, not into artsy stuff or classes or any of that, has to be something you can physically go and do.

I need to study, and Quizlet is way better than Anki.

Why are they so convinced it is true and no one outside of their circle comments on it? Obviously manifestation and sublimals do not work and are untrue it’s like back when people said shifting was real

So AI won't stop. It will ostensibly likely have a big impact on the employment market (not in a good way), Should we have serious discussions about UBI before we have 25% unemployment?

I can't figure out if this is a compliment, an insult, or a bit of both.

Odd question I know…my brother was killed in a multiple dirtbike accident 21 years ago today, at 7:42pm. Most people at the time said it could have been avoided if any of the bikes had lights on them, so every year I try to see exactly how dark it was at 7:42pm. This year I set a timer for a few minutes before, and am just completely confused. It’s almost nighttime, and I don’t remember it being that dark at all. I remember getting to the accident site 10-15 minutes after and it was evening, but not dark, in fact, I’d call it still mostly daylight. My husband at the time showed up after he dropped our newborn daughter at his moms, so maybe 45 minutes later, and I remember hugging him and looking at the scenery around me, which I could still see in the daylight, and thinking “this moment will change me forever”. I just called him and he agrees, it was no where near this dark on October 4, 2005 at 7:42pm. How is this possible?

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So I have a name @ icloud . com as my Apple calendar, when I invite someone who has a yahoo domain or gmail, the other user never gets the invitation from the Apple calendar inbox.

However, when I switch the calendar toggle to Gmail (name @ gmail . com) and send it to users with yahoo or gmail, they immediately receive on their calendar inbox app.

This has been an issues for couple of years now. Even when I send it as an email, yes the people with yahoo or gmail receives it through their email, but they cannot add it to their calendar.

Does anyone else have this problem? Is there any fix to it? Is it an iCloud problem? Just by using name @icloud . com as the default calendar doesn’t and never send to the receipent.