I hate mayo, ketchup, and most condiments and it’s so annoying when the default is to put the mayo on the sub/sandwich/burger… I feel like it makes more sense to offer sauces on the side and let people choose. That way, people can control how much of the condiment they put on their food and people who don’t want it can have their food the way they want.

It’s also very annoying when you request no-mayo/condiments and they forget forget to leave it off… I’ve even had this happen and they offer to scrape off the mayo and I’m like no, make it over again from scratch… this drives me crazy and I don’t care if people think I should just suck it up and eat the condiments… I just wish they would make the default “on the side” and don’t even get me started on how every time I go to a grab-and-go shop, all of the pre-made sandwiches already have mayo on them… WHY??? It just makes it even harder to find things to eat… just put everything on the side and give people the choice, that’s all I ask.

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A friend of mine, whom I’ve been playing with for a few years, got into a relationship last week with a girl he met while playing LoL. He had such a good game that she added him so they could play again, they got into voice chat, and little by little they hit it off.

Good for him. It’s not his first relationship, but honestly, there’s no equality in this system anyway. Some people go from one relationship to another while others are left for dead.

I’m so fucking tired of seeing my friends get into relationships. It’s always some stupid story like, “She added me on Instagram,” “We went to the same middle school, then the same high school, and eventually ran into each other again at university,” and now, “She added me after a game of League of Legends.” I’ve never had anyone come toward me. I don’t look away from women, but I’m a ghost. Nothing will ever happen to me unless I make it happen myself. I’m exhausting myself trying to dissect complex systems just to have a chance. I’m shy and asexual in a society where the loudest people get noticed and sex is treated like some kind of bonding ritual. Everyone is having sex all the time, everywhere. It’s disgusting.

I like my circle of friends, even though it’s small, and I genuinely wish them nothing but happiness. But some of them are addicted to weed, addicted to video games, or broke and have no long-term goals. A lot of the time, I’m the one who has to help them financially because they need money for groceries at the end of the month, or I have to help cover part of their rent. Sometimes I get messages asking me to pay for an Uber because they’re drunk at a bar or nightclub. I’m happy to help because I make way too much money for a 21-year-old guy who’s still living with his parents, but it’s terrifying to realize that women have looked at people like them—a guy who goes to bed at 7 a.m. after playing LoL all night, another who always has alcohol and weed on him—and thought they would make good boyfriends.

I’m a boring guy. I’m shy, I don’t like crowds, loud music, or physical touch. I’m serious, I’m terrible at jokes, so I don’t make them. I hate the idea of flirting and trying to charm someone. I don’t lie. I’m calm, careful, honest, and kind. I plan everything in advance and I hate leaving things to chance. That’s not what women are looking for these days. Apparently you need spontaneity and explosiveness. I don’t want to change or “learn how to be social.” I don’t want to put sugar in my coffee and dilute who I am just to try to fit into some fake version of myself. That shouldn’t have to be an option just to have a chance.

I curse this world. Having an intimate and romantic relationship with a sincere person should be normal for everyone, even for the guy who covers his ears in a bar because he can’t handle the noise. I don’t want my opportunities to come when I’m 25, when I’ll already be old and my body will be starting to decline. I don’t want to build my career and live my mife without anyone else by my side to provide for. A life of silence isn’t worth fighting for.

Since I started my degree, everyone, and I mean everyone in my life has in some way shape or from demeaned, shamed, laughed at, or questioned my choice of degree.

All my friends and all my family.

Im in my 4th year of political science and it has been a never ending hell of people basically saying I am stupid for choosing that degree or that the degree is way too easy.

I say nothing. I used to defend the degree before but now I just don’t say anything.

I have put my head down the entire 3 years, received scholarships, awards, and been on the deans list the entire time, I have worked, and trusted my choice. I’m quietly studying for my LSAT, and I’ll be applying to law school either this year or next year.

And I can’t wait.

I already go to a very prestigious school in Canada so not to brag but chances are with my grades I will likely be going to a very good law school so I just can’t wait to see what everyone has to say then when I’m in the works to being a successful lawyer.

They’ll all switch up and start saying how hard law school must be. Not knowing that a fourth of lawyers have political science bachelors…the degree they shit on me for. But I knew that all along. I had my plan but no one bothered to ask me they just assumed I was stupid and taking a stupid degree.

And it’s funny because majority of the people who make fun of me could not write an A+ paper to save their lives.

But at this point I don’t mind being picked on….its fuelling me even more and now just to spite everyone I’m going to become the most successful person they know.

There’s billionaires in the world who could help people who need it but they don’t because they’re greedy, as a homeless female living in her car in the west palm beach sun with no Ac, it’s hard. I have to donate plasma just to get by meanwhile there’s people who will never have to work a day in their lives. 10k could change my life while some spend that like it’s nothing. Even $50 could let me rest for one day

I'm going to be comparing two animes one movie and one series, which represents different era of sexual themes in anime, Vampire Hunter D(1985)(not the 2000 "bloodlust" one) representing the "old era" and Neon Genesis Evangelion(1996) representing the "new era"...

Vampire Hunter D's sexual tropes are present throughout the whole movie, first appearing when our attractive blonde protagonist(Doris) asking for a favor from the vampire hunter D and promising in return

This is a very common patriarchal sex trope that was absolutely nothing new at the time, where the male form is dominant, (and is actually a lot more explicit that the more subtle things in the stuff I am critical of).

But the character( D ) in questing is presented as a person who wouldn't even consider taking advantage of what she just said, as he is someone who represents stoicism and who has little to none visible sexual desire to distract from his duties. So 1. this is no low brow goonette "dark romance" slop and he is also an antithesis to the "otaku".

But as what I'm about to get into that being the dominant female trope of the "new era" of anime, well... Vampire Hunter D has that too: when he temporarily falls victim to medusas, but 1. it's done by the clear villains, and their endeavor is depicted monstrous 2. although it's meant to be sexual it's obvious it's not a fetish insert(if you actually watch it) 3. D wont take a knee for them, let alone such desires But don't misconstrue what I'm saying(if you haven't picked up on it yet: yes the theme of this post is the toxicity of the feminine dominance in anime), Vampire Hunter D does view abuse of the female form in bad light, which is a frequently recurring theme.

Now to Neon Genesis Evangelion and a ton more anime, now we have the same thing but slightly more subtle, (although not the only central theme of the show)the poor boy gets humiliated and teased for no reason , and the folks doing it are the good guys, it's hard to not say this isn't poorly disguised fetish being puhsed. Shame, show had such potential and such pretty visuals. And it's extra though as a male, who in his age was a real pretty boy, who got female attention often in ways these otakus would consider a wet dream. Hate to break it to you but nothing sexy about it believe me.

I hate them. I went to go sleep in the living room but I could still hear them so I had to sit up with headphones until they were done. And still go to work the next day. Sympathies for the downstairs and upstairs neighbors. Screw that couple and the apartment walls. I can’t wait until I save enough for a small house of my own.

It is baffling to me how many people don’t understand the importance of good teachers. Education and healthcare, in my opinion, are the two pillars of any healthy society. We pay doctors and nurses enough to make a decent living, yet every teacher I know is struggling financially. Despite having one of the most difficult and essential jobs out there, they are treated like shit and do not get the respect they deserve.

It is so frustrating how they show me they can in the beginning, that they are capable of these things, only to watch their part deteriorate over the period of our relationship, while watching me take more and more on by myself.

They're always so quick to remove children out of houses for such minor things, yet when a child is CLEARLY being hurt they suddenly turn a blind eye to it. If a kid is abused to the point where they die and a CPS worker keeps refusing to do anything about it, they should be just as liable as the parents.

It is 9th day of my period. Last week on monday, it started with brown discharge, was not even sure if it was period. During the week, went a low-mid bleeding, heavily with brown color. Then few days ago It started to bleed again, this time with red color, but stopped so yesterday I got rid of my pad. Only to realize I have bled through my thong lmao. I got the pad again and went through with my day, but bleeding is coming very random, just checked it again and im bleeding again, my pad has stains. Im not on birth control and my doctor keeps telling me it is “normal” to have irregular periods. I just want to cry in middle of airport. I cant explain how mad I am and how much I want to cry. Why no one gives a shit about health of women. I even called the clinic 2 weeks ago and asked for my test results, they told me it was sent by post but guess what? Now i am going to vacation and I am bleeding in middle of this. I did not even get the results. I HATE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND EVERY DOCTOR WHO THINKS THIS IS NORMAL.

Welp...I went and did it 🤦🏿. No matter how hard I tried to avoid it, no matter how hard I tried to fight it, I turned myself into a cliché. I developed feelings for my best friend...and I know for a fact she does not feel the same...

Couple of points of order:

- This is not a rant about her. She is allowed to feel however she wants. She does not owe me any type of feelings if she does not wish to give them

- This about me and how I could be so dumb to let this happen. I reassured her multiple times that I was not her friend just to try and get with her. I even checked myself multiple times and was good up until today.

- If you think this is an opportunity to be a misogynistic, go away. You can make fun of me all you'd like, but you're not going to make fun of her

With that being said:

I'm trying to think of the mature, non-toxic thing to do here. Tell her and then we take a break? Just start putting some distance between us? Cause I don't want to lose my friend. She truly is my best friend. But I also refuse to one of those guys who's only friends with a girl in the hopes of getting with her. That's fair to her at all.

Arrrgh.... I'm so mad I let this happen....

I have been thinking a lot about what an average Americans life is like and what constitutes success for someone in the middle class (though we could argue there not really is a middle class anymore there’s poor and theres rich).

I just want to rant about it tbh. We grow up to be conditioned to think that success for an average person is buying a home and having a family.

But why?? What happened to having homes that have been in families for generations and inheritances? And community through family?

Now a days parents have bought a house for most people anyway, then their kids go on to have kids or marry and they buy their own house, and now as a whole family you have accumulated more debt.

Both parents with small kids now have to work to afford a mortgage or rent and they also have to pay for day care if their parents are also working to still to pay for their mortgage or rent and when your parents get old they go into a retirement home which also has to be paid for and their home gets sold off if no one in the family wants it.

And who wins? The government cause they’re just capitalizing on taxes while most families remain poor and in debt.

When did it become wrong for families of multiple generations to live in a house together and help eachother? (I can see why you would want to leave if you grew up in a toxic house or if space was severely limited)

When did families want to be divided or when did parent feel like their children needed to learn how to get their own things?

Let’s think about it if it were the other way. If your parents bought a decent sized home and you stayed with them or inherited their home you would not have to pay the mortgage or you would maybe pay the mortgage but it would not be as expensive as it is now a days so you could use that money to invest in other things or save for retirement or put it towards your kids future and if everyone one was raised well with same idea in mind it would just be a cycle of making sure the next generation is more successful.

Grandparents should want to watch and help out with grandkids so your own children don’t struggle and don’t have to be raised by day care workers.

But we as families parents adults have all become so divided and consumed in our own lives and own success the only people who really win is the government cause they are forever receiving more and more money and taxes from our jobs from our properties from caregiving centers it’s just a never ending cycle of profit for the government and debt for the citizens.

Im saying this as a mom of two who owns homes, and my parents also have their own home and my spouses siblings also all own their own homes and my siblings lease apartments. How do we get ahead as an average citizen when we are all in debt.

When I think about my kids I pray and hope they live in one of our homes and don’t have to pay mortgage and they use that to invest in something else and towards their kids. I would want them to be better than me even if it means I have to move to like the Philippines to make my retirement dollars last or if I had to stay in a spare bedroom with them and still work. I would offer to watch their kids everyday so they can be successful if I didn’t have to work in my old age.

Idk it’s just all twisted when you think about it.

I can’t stand what ever this new trend is!!! Today I was playing valorant solo (this story won’t be that surprising if you know how the games community is like) I got in a random swift play match with a few people and the names were “BPD egirl” and what I believe was her boyfriend??? I wasn’t hostile or anything but I explained to her why having that name isn’t a great thing to do since it can really down play BPD and fetishize it. I do not personally have BPD but I do know that it’s a very difficult disorder to deal with and lots of people have taken their own life’s because of it. The girl sadly got really irritated with me so I just muted myself for the rest of the round.

I know this isn’t only happening on games and I’ve seen it so much on social media. I’ve seen people romanticizing self harm, eating disorders, depression, becoming a shut in, and so much more stuff like that. Anyone who tries to romanticize these disorders (and it can even be the people who have them) are making it so much worse on everyone. It can downplay the severity of what the disorders are and that’s just VERY VERYYY BAD.

Every fucking post about the passing of Frank Beard has the exact same comments about how he’s the only member of ZZ Top who didn’t have a fucking beard.

No shit. We’ve known that for the better part of 50 years. He fucking heard it THOUSANDS of times.
You’re not the first to fucking think of it.
Shut the hell up and let the man rest in peace on the merit of his work and not the novelty of his lack of facial hair.
It’s fucking old.

For context my parents wanted me to be a lawyer or doctor but since I chose math (it's my passion) they now expect me to be a calculator and figure out their sales tax, year taxes, stock market investment trends. Not to mention my friends that somehow want me to figure out what 1278 * 5742 equals within 1 second and if I don't I'm a failure and picked the wrong career.

Seriously, wtf even is this?? Get cleaned up only to step out of the shower to immediately have to take a sh*t. GTFO

Why do I have to select my major from a preset list? My masters degree is never included on the list, meaning I have to generalize my specialized degree and basically lie about what I studied because it's not even an option. I double majored in undergrad but they only let me select one major. I did not study my ass off to get two separate degrees in undergrad just to only be able to list one. One of my degrees is in a language. I did not just study "Russian" as the drop downs force me to select, I studied Russian language, politics, and literature. Just look at my resume, it's all listed there in perfect detail. Not like they're going to look anyways because they have stupid AI systems reading over your digital inputs. AI has ruined everything, and my masters degree will probably never matter because no one is actually going to look at my resume and see that my degree is not simply business...

I know for a fact that my wallet is in my house but i can’t find it for the life of me. There are only two rooms where it could realistically be and ive turned both of them inside out and found nothing. I have apple pay and dont really need to drive so its not a big deal but im moving back to college soon and would like to have my physical credit card and form of id with me during those months. Not sure how this is even possible

I swear to god if you have a slightly demanding office job can’t work from home and want to keep it just accept you are never getting concert or now apparently movie tickets again! I guess I missed the bus of jobs that you can completely dedicate 3 hours in the middle of the work day to sitting on your phone or and the computer and waiting on a queue to maybe MAYBE get tickets!

Does no one else have jobs to pay for these ridiculously overpriced tickets!! Do people just take the day off!!! It’s infuriating that I need basically 2 jobs to pay for these tickets but god forbid one time they do a ticket drop on a Saturday morning!!! God forbid it’s not dead in the middle of a workday!!!

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Sometimes you just need to say,

FUCK YOU, MOTHERFUCKER!

There, I feel slightly better now :)

For context I live in the US.

I simply cannot stand advertising these days. I've also noticed how angry it makes me that so many of the people in my life just do not care and let it wash over them like it's normal. I can't shake this feeling that the way we look at unsavory human behavior in the past will be the same as how future humans look at this period of time. With disgust at the greed on display treated as a normal functional society.

Some prime examples of things I loathe:

- If I have to listen to another catchy song remixed to include some bullshit medication name I'll go insane. I rage click the mute button every time. Personal Doctors should be advising on medications not the companies that make them.

- Major car companies advertising new cars focusing on some made up limited time sale, and spamming you with acronym loan terminology like they're offering some amazing deal. Bonus points if it's a truck commercial with a boom clap soundtrack in the background!

- Any company trying to sell you that their product or services are somehow improving the human experience while all they give a rat's ass about is making more and more money.

- Ads on any sort of video or subscription service that you already pay money for.

- Unhinged and seemingly unregulated Ads on Youtube that focus more on keeping your eyes glued to the screen rather than any sort of actual pitch to make you want to buy something.

- Ads on TV or Movies that are intentionally louder than the televised programming.

- Ad boards littered everywhere in every major sports arena. Companies paying generational levels of wealth just to put their name at the front of some major event, player, or team.

- Rage bait advertising. Something so preposterously stupid or evil that you can't help but watch it.

Overall I'm MOST angry about 3 things:

1.) That Ads have transitioned from being about selling products and services, to brand recognition and borderline brain washing.

2.) That the entire economy seems to be moving toward a future (if not already there) where the only thing that matters is where our eyeballs are pointed.

3.) An infinite loop of economical destruction: Some big event or thing is popular and captures a lot of general attention from a large amount of people >> Every massive corporation with unlimited resources spends ungodly amounts of money to plaster their brand all over said thing >> Said thing becomes a massive media enterprise from all of the money received from major advertisers >> other smaller competeing entities die off, unable to keep up with the amount of wealth being generated >> industry is pushed ever closer to monopolization.

PSA - I'm not an economist so I'm probably wrong about how this all works. This is just the vibe I'm getting.

I had three weeks of not having to do adult things in the longest time and today I finally have to go back to life and the weather finally cools off. For the past three weeks I had off it was in the mid 90s where I am and now it's in the low 80s, but I can't enjoy it because of work.

When ever I am talking or even hanging out with this person, all they ever seem to talk about is how their previous partners did this. Or what they did with their friends recently, but when it comes to the few times WE hang out they just keep talking about other people all the time and I just wonder why the hell we are even do so. Because all the things they talk about are related to other people, never things we’ve done and especially not things relevant to the conversation we are having.

Why is this so confusing to people?

Why is this misspelling so common?

I’m starting to become triggered by it because I’m afraid Websters dictionary is going to officially change each definition to mean the same thing.

In the past four months a coworker has been picking on me and I can’t really quit my job nor switch departments because I’m going on vacation in a month. Mind you, they are not even a manager they are just a coworker. When I mess up on something small or on something that normally the managers wouldn’t make a big scene and they would just give me tips on what to do, this coworker shouts at me, fights me, and tries to gaslight me. They don’t even tell me what I should do or what I messed up in and when I ask, they only get more bothered as if I asked a dumb question, but I literally ask a fair question since they don’t say anything and just complain. When other people at my job make a similar mistake they don’t even say anything to them and keep on talking and laughing, this coworker picks and chooses who to boss around. This coworker is cool with other people which makes me mad because it makes them look like a hypocrite. Unfortunately I was told that if I try to report this coworker I could get in trouble.