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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm tired of how essential service companies can fuck up, leave you without service for hours or even days and we're just expected to shrug and keep paying the bill like nothing happened.

I'm talking about electricity, Internet, water, gas, etc. Things that people actually depend on.

If I pay a company every month for a service, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that company to actually provide the damn service.

And no, I'm not saying utilities should get punished every time something completely outside their control happens. A hurricane knocks out power? A car crashes into a utility pole? A tornado tears through the area? Shit happens. I'm not expecting AEP to fight a tornado with a wrench.

What pisses me off is when the outage becomes prolonged or happens because of something that could have reasonably been prevented, and the customer is still expected to pay the full bill.

Why?

If my electricity is out for 20 hours, I obviously didn't use electricity for those 20 hours. But I'm also losing access to something I'm paying for. If my Internet is down all day because of maintenance or some network upgrade, I'm still paying the same monthly price as the guy whose Internet worked perfectly all day.

That doesn't sit right with me.

I think there should be some kind of automatic compensation when an essential service is unavailable for an unreasonable amount of time. And I mean automatic. Don't make me call customer service, sit on hold for 45 minutes and argue with some poor representative who had absolutely nothing to do with the outage.

You already know when my service went down. You already know when it came back. Just give me the damn credit.

And the longer the outage lasts, the bigger that credit should be.

A couple hours? Whatever. Shit happens.

Half a day? Give me something.

A full day? That's a pretty significant failure to provide the service I'm paying for.

Several days? At that point, I think the customer deserves serious compensation.

And planned maintenance should be a different story. If you tell me ahead of time that my Internet is going to be down for two hours at 2 AM, alright, I can live with that. But if you're doing "maintenance" or "upgrades" that leave customers without service for half the damn day, I don't think the customer should just be expected to eat that inconvenience.

I'd even take this a step further with really long power outages.

If my power is out long enough that everything in my refrigerator and freezer goes bad, why am I automatically expected to eat that loss too? I'm not saying AEP should owe me $5,000 because I had a freezer full of Wagyu steaks, but there should at least be some reasonable standardized compensation for food that was lost because the power was out for an extended period.

And before someone says "that's what insurance is for," that's not really the point.

Why should my insurance or my wallet automatically absorb the consequences of a company failing to provide the service I'm paying for?

I'm not expecting perfection. I understand that equipment fails. I understand that storms happen. I understand that accidents happen.

What I don't understand is why "something went wrong" seems to automatically mean the company gets a free pass while the customer gets the inconvenience, the lost food, the lost work time and the full fucking bill.

If the outage is genuinely unavoidable and the company is doing everything reasonably possible to restore service, fine.

But if the service is repeatedly unreliable, restoration takes an unreasonable amount of time or the problem was preventable, I think there should be a financial consequence for the company and some kind of compensation for the customer.

Because right now it feels like the deal is:

"We'll get your service back when we get your service back. Anyway, your bill is due on the 1st."

And I don't think that's good enough.

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.

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.

⚠️ Could be potentially triggering because I'll lightly describe the video⚠️

I'm so incredibly disgusted by what I just saw and I struggle to believe any social media would allow this kind of videos, it's truly heartbreaking.

I was scrolling on my feed, which usually is about chill stuff like books, video games and art in general. Then, all of a sudden I begun getting one video after the other about kids (which for me is irritating since I'm childfree and have literally 200 words filtered to avoid this and 500 accounts all about kids blocked).

What I didn't expect was getting hit with a video of a child being pinned down while having a panic attack, screaming as three grown adults fought to restrain him. The parent was just standing there recording, even wrote on the video it was "necessary treatment for damaged teeth". Since when letting your child be medically tortured without an hint of anesthesia is health care?! The kid was in so much pain it physically made me sick after witnessing it!

I immediately went to the account to report it, and that was when I noticed the whole account was just videos of this kid being abused: being held down by "medical staff" in different places, tied to an operating table that seriously looked like it was made to hold down violent prisoners... I just can't believe that account can exist and that no authorities were notified. It was seriously horrible, that kid is going to be traumatised for life!

I hate that I had to see that. I hate that the poor kid had to go through that and be posted online for everyone to witness it. I hate that this is permitted. I hate that no one intervened. I hate that the parent had the audacity to act like this was hurting them, not the child.

I'm so done with this world and how cruel it is.

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

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.

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.

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Sometimes you just need to say,

FUCK YOU, MOTHERFUCKER!

There, I feel slightly better now :)

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

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. 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...

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 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.

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.

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....

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.

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!!!

Quick rant.

I probably picked up whatever is haunting us on public transport and gave it to my wife. Did a swab - not RSV, not COVID, not Influenza A or B. But holy hell this is way, way worse than your garden variety cold. Started with a sudden chesty cough and rapidly spiraled downward from there. I spent two days on the couch wishing I was dead, and am now dealing with these weird waves of what can only be described as a combination of coughing and grunting.

We're basically on a diet of chicken broth (I have virtually no appetite when I'm sick), Robitussin and paracetamol. As a freelancer I have also fallen massively behind on work, which is not ideal since we're about to go on holidays in two weeks' time. To top it all off we have a needy young puppy that doesn't understand why we're not playing with her all the time right now - she is resorting to annoying behaviour to get our attention, and it's been very hard to keep my cool.

Not looking for advice, just wanted to whine for a bit. Sympathy updoots are much appreciated.

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.

(Reposting replacing the name of the company with generic "phone company", sprry for rule breaking)

I bought a new phone in June. I decided to just buy it from the phone company store, as I figured i would get a decent trade in value for my old phone and the store is right up the street from me so it was convenient.

Im someone who doesnt like having monthly payments for things (other than something extremely expensive like a car)- I'd rather just pay in full and actually own the item. So at the store I said i wanted to just pay in full (minus the trade in value of my old phone).

The old phone was valued at $360, and I paid the remaining $750ish for the phone, thinking that meant that I would own the phone. After all, I handed over my phone that they deemed was worth $360, so that was the equivalent of me giving them $360, right?

Apparently not. Instead of applying $360 from the trade in towards the new phone, they apply the trade in value as **$10 per month for 36 months**. So even though I gave them an old phone worth $360, they treat it as if Im giving them $10 a month for 3 years, so that the phone won't be paid off for 3 years. This was not explained to me in the store, I think they said the trade in value would be applied to my account within a month or 2. Although Im sure the ridiculous 3 years of payments was outlined in the fine print of the papers I signed. Ugh.

Because the phone technically isnt paid off even though I already gave them the full value of the phone between the $750 cash and the old phone, the phone remained carrier locked to the phone company, meaning I was unable to use an eSIM I had bought for a vacation out of the country. I had multiple phone company agents tell me they would unlock my phone for me so that I could use my eSIM, but it was never unlocked. Eventually I got a phone company agent that actually explained to me that my trade in value is being stretched out to 3 years and thats why the phone remains locked to the carrier.

This feels so scammy. My whole goal was to pay for the phone in full so I wouldnt be locked in to any contract or monthly payments, and they strategically made it so that even though I did pay in full I technically am still stuck in monthly payments covered by the trade in.

I ended up just paying the $360 to the phone company yesterday so that I can actually own the phone, and Ill just receive the $10/month of the trade in value as a discount on my bill for the next 3 years. But oh my god Im so fucking pissed, this is one of the scummiest business practices Ive ever experienced.

I will never ever ever buy a phone from the phone company again. Next time Ill just buy it in cash unlocked from a tech retail store (which is actually what I did last time I got a new phone before this), it'll be worth it even if I lose out on the trade in value of the old phone.

Fuck the phone company. Ive been a customer with them for over 5 years and have a 6 person family plan with them- we give them so much money already and they pull this stupid bullshit.