Nothing says trash to me like twerking. You can take the most gorgeous, elegant woman, and make her twerk to some rap music and it completely ruins the attraction for me. And to constantly see women doing that to themselves. It's like saying, "You know how high-up beautiful I just seemed? Well, now I'm going to completely ruin that and look as cheap and tasteless and I possibly can." It takes someone who I perceive as capable of making me a very lucky man if they were to give me some of their attention, and makes me feel like my attention would be wasted on them.

There's some sense you get that you're supposed to treat cultural trends as subjective, but I can't help but see twerking as attached to shitty culture. It's about having no taste or intelligence. Why do we celebrate that? Even worse, you get a sense that some women have gotten the idea that this kind of display is somehow weirdly feminist and empowering. En masse, they hop on social media to twerk and dance like idiots, and I don't remotely get the appeal.

Like all seriously it sucks horribly.

A little background I'm a single father who has full custody for the last 4 years, the past year iv been trying to date and get back out there, and oh boy it has been horrible. Last three relationships have been lack of a better word been fucked. Now I'm upfront about this and before it goes anywhere I give an out before moving the relationship into a more serious tone. Take these last three, first one was more into my kids then into me and started to do stuff i was not ok with, the second one got off her medicine and started to have episodes and i try working it out but it kept getting worst, and the last one was just stringing me along useing me as a side piece. Like I knew that dateing was going to suck but wtf, they are not the only ones just the ones that made it to that point where i starts bring up meeting my kids. Now I know that I have baggage and issues but I don't do drugs, I got a good career, with a house and car just feels like all I'm missing is a partner but at this rate I don't think it worth the trouble.

By the word "Late", I mean after elementary school. The word itself is new, but the concept is as old as civilization, at least. Do parents not teach their children to think about how others feel with regard to their actions?

I see posts with people saying :

• "When I was posted to _______ as a soldier I started to wonder how the locals felt about me, and how I would feel in their shoes."
• "As a teenager it hit me that other people have friends, family, hopes, fears, hobbies, dreams, and emotions similar to mine or vastly different, but they all have them"
• "My son just came out as gay and I realized LGBTQ people are just the same as everyone else in all the ways that matter"

Yeah, I am happy that you realize you are not the center of all and that everyone you meet is a whole person with emotions, passions, thoughts, fears, dreams and all else, but what took you so long? Obviously it is better to discover the completeness of others sometime, rather than never, but why do we not learn this when we are learning how to lie?

If I can imagine that you are thinking in a certain way based on what I have seen you observe then why is it hard for me to realize your mind is part of a whole person? Theory of Mind is an ability most of us develop by age 5, (I feel bad for those who lack it), and which is essential for smooth social interaction.

Why then do so many adults cringe over the fact that someone has preferences, passions, interests, or tastes different from their own. I understand how difficult it is to comprehend some political differences, but those are usually in tension with the opinions of others and often based on different experience, education, and cultural influence. In our modern world of "alternate facts" it can be a sore challenge to understand the other.

But as far as simple likes, dislikes, interest, or preferences why is it hard to accept other views. Why on earth do people say things like:

• Men who drink milk give the ick
• I hate math and only wierdos like it.
• You're so stupid since you don't know _______________ (insert esoteric thing)
• Broccoli is disgusting and I can't understand why anyone eats it
• That (type of music) is horrible why do you like it?

Jesus fucking Christ, this is absolutely horrifying and dystopian. I typed my name and birth town and country into Chat GPT, and ask if it knew anything about me, and he knows my age and where I study. And when I asked it about my Reddit profile (not this one), he know about the kinds of political opinions I associated with. How and why? Why is this even legal? If a fucking future communist government can figure out my anti-communist political leanings through fucking GhatGPT spying on my Reddit account that is anonymous, I don't know what to do.

I genuinely can't articulate how scary I find this. I asked Deep Seak and it refused to tell anything on the basis of privacy protection. How does a Chinese program care more about my privacy than an American one? I feel like I live in a Black Mirror episode. This shit is unbelievably scary. This is not normal.

I’m genuinely done with society. As a woman who’s been told they look average, people never respect me at all. Especially not men. Whenever I’m in a group with them for literally anything, even if it’s for LITERALLY WORK they never bother to look or talk to me, and even when I speak up, I get ignored. I thought it was just a them problem, but when a pretty girl walks over(no hate to them) they just become the nicest people. This has been a problem my entire life, just being constantly being ignored, disrespected, and overlooked. I’m literally invisible to them and not respected at all. I’m genuinely so fcking tired of this, if anyone has some advice, please let me know. And no, it is not because I am quiet. I smile and I am an amicable person, people pleaser at time but I am working on it. I am genuinely fcking tired of people saying men have it hard but women have it so much harder.

I feel like everyone under the sun, Americans and Non-Americans complain about how terrible the US is and how it’s just the most horrible country ever.

Here’s the thing, I do think that it’s important to criticize a country and discuss solutions. But that’s just it, most people who complain about how terrible the US is don’t have any and just say that we’re heading towards our own demise and, respectfully, if you think it’s that bad and think all these other countries are so much better, then leave.

I get that the US is not perfect and there are things we could improve on. But most people who complain about how terrible the US is are (not all but most), quite frankly, very privileged Americans who have an idealized view of what the rest of the world is like. A lot of them are middle class Americans who compare the US to a third world country or a Dystopia. I’m sorry but that to me speaks to how privileged you are if you think your life would be better in an actual third-world country than in the US. Again, I am well aware that the US is not perfect, or even close, and that there are countries who probably are doing things better than us.

We’re not a third world country because we don’t already have thousands of years worth of heritage like many other countries do.

We aren’t a third world country just because we have an obesity problem. In fact, that’s very much a first world country problem.

We aren’t a third world country because we have rich people. Every country has rich people.

We aren’t a third world country because our food is not as authentic as food in other countries.

Yes, those are all ones I’ve heard.

I just needed to get this off my chest because sometimes I am surrounded by people who hate my country. I am tired of being the only person in some rooms who is not allowed to say they are happy about where they came from while everyone else gets to be extremely prideful in where they came from. And I’m tired of people implying that there is some inherent sin in being American.

You can't describe any god damn situation ever with out some saying "you'll jinx it". I hate it.

"Its a nice day" " dont say that you'll jinx it"

"Its slow today" "dont say that, you'll jinx it"

Just. Everything. I can't say anything without SOMEONE saying "you'll jinx it".

And if it does happen, people say"shouldnt have said anything" but if it doesnt then there's silence. Just cause the possibility is there doesn't mean you speak ot into existence. Its so annoying. Hate how superstitious people are.

She seriously has the highest ego ever and acts like every little thing she does is a huge accomplishment. Makes me so freaking mad. She’s literally stupid too, just glazes herself so much online that everyone falls for it when in reality everything about her is fake and fabricated (including her nose!). No but seriously non of her accomplishments are special, I’m a couple years younger and accomplished more than her yet ya don’t see me going on the internet bragging about stuff she PAYS to do…like buddy, if you’re paying for something it’s not an achievement. Also she started school late yet acts like she’s a genius and calls herself “youngest person to blah blah” um no…not really…I obviously would never say this to anyone, just wanna rant about it anonymously

I’m trying to stay alive and inspire other people to do the same, but it’s so hard when I’m physically struggling this much. I want my old life back. Why did my life have to go in this direction? It’s not fair. My body is too broken to ever return to normal. I was bedridden for seven months. When you’re stuck in a bed for seven months, your body forgets how to do fucking everything. It’s been almost two years, and the difference in my physical state is noticeably better, but it’s so hard to not think of all the negative aspects of my body and life. I just want to be in a normal body again

Just thought I’d put this out there to see if anyone else feels the same as I do.

In my generation, people are always talking about their fling and how they want something more and how the other is so selfish and blah blah blah and I just cannot stand seeing the words “What are we?” on an ig reel for another second.

And although I haven’t exactly experienced that kind of thing, I have experienced not being wanted countless of times, so I get the pain, but I stay away from the person because the thoughts piss me off and I don’t even want to hear that person’s name coming out of my mouth so nobody will hear jackshit about it. I know not everybody is the same, but bro, I feel like I’ll actually go insane if I see someone complaining about their complicated relationship one more damn time on the fucking internet and in real life. Obviously people can talk about it but I can never get away from the topic no matter how many times I stop those kinds of posts from getting into my feed or stay in quiet spaces.

I just wish that people could talk about love like the way it is, mutual and peaceful, and of course, genuine.

And that’s that.

They are completely inefficient from a time standpoint. If the things you need can't fit in a backpack under the seat in front of you, just check the bag. I've been on probably close to 100 flights and have never once used the overhead compartment. Every mouth breathing dumbass messing with the overhead compartment takes 6x as much time as they actually need to figure out how to get their shit in and close the door; and god forbid it's a full flight and people start competing for overhead space, then you'll have people walking against the group to try and stow their poorly planned luggage. Then, once you arrive at your destination it takes forever for everyone to dick around and get their shit out of the compartment.

The boarding/unboarding process would be infinitely faster and more efficient if everyone would just check their bags.

So I have a type. Basically men who look a bit like Bad Bunny and speak multiple languages (Spanish, Arabic and Hebrew to name a few) who are monotheistic but fairly spiritual. I asked ChatGPT to give me the type of guy I'll marry and it said a very specific kind of man with a very specific spiritual background who is definitely Mediterranean. I feel like I'll never find this. My Dad said I look like a white woman who chases any brown man but the fact is most of the men I've got along with on a deeper level have been like this. Think basically a Muslim or Jewish guy who talks my head off about some ancient philosopher or some Middle Eastern dish. Weirdly none of them looked like Bad Bunny 🤣 they apparently weren't even conventionally attractive. My family want me to marry a Catholic from the UK but I don't believe the same as them and I'm not attracted to pasty men who like going for pints or fishing. My Dad is pasty but in our town, not many pasty men are up for a conversation about religion or politics and as a pale person who has been told I look ill when not in the sun, I've become very unnatracted to pale skin. Do I want something unrealistic?

Whenever people talk about China’s cities and whatever else new thing they just constructed, they love to attach that same old lying media crap. No one has given a shit. Does the media ever talk about any countries cities or infrastructure at length? No they report news, things that generally affect things on a local, national or world stage. It’s China is doing that then they report it. High speed rail is not world news. Skyscrapers are not world news. Americans know enough about China the same way they know about Singapore, pretty much nothing.

I am blind myself, and I am surprised to find out that people are not focusing on making self driving cars for blind people or kids. Tesla can make self driving cars, but why not for people with driving disabilities? Now, of course, I could be wrong, and somebody could be working on a car for people with driving disabilities, or there is a car like that around, but I have never heard of a single car made for this purpose.

my vent got 800 views in an hour zero upvotes zero downvotes no comments, am i evil did i say something awful someone help me out this is the worse kind of torture

Everything is slower than it was in 2006, when it should definitely be faster. Everything is littered with ads, demands that you sign in via Google, or shoving a privacy notice in your face as if you actually have a choice about "how we use your data." A lot of stuff is paywalled now, the stuff that isn't is AI-generated slop, scammy, or straight up propaganda. Search is terrible; if you type something in it will just show you what it wants you to buy based on something you might have looked up 6 months ago, even if it's totally unrelated. If you misspell the smallest word it acts like you are speaking a foreign language. Wikipedia is terrible with this too; you must be a perfect speller to find what you're looking for, in 25 years they can't be bothered with any kind of suggestion algorithm. Plus they're always hitting you up for money like they're running the site from under a bridge somewhere. If you have anything important to do your password will never work, even if you saved it in a manager. Then you will get an error message telling you to contact support, but there's no support to contact. Stuff like Canva is so bloated with unnecessary features it's unusable. Everybody wants you to use their chatbot but chatbots just spit out namby-pamby pollyanna crap that doesn't apply in the real world. They exist in an alternate vanilla dimension where everything works as intended and everybody is reasonable and calm. Even the user-generated content on YouTube/Tiktok is all desperate people trying to make a buck because there are no legitimate jobs. So there's no authenticity, and no consensus. You can watch videos on why everyone needs to hustle and grind to get ahead and then watch the same amount on why it's pointless and everyone should give up. There's no meaning and no point to using it anymore. I'm logging off now.

So pretty much for my 20 years of life I have lived to be a nice person. I know that might sound egotistical but its true. I always try to do what's rights and be nice to others since there is no point in being mean

If someone needs to borrow something i say yes, if someone needs help moving i say yes, someone needs a ride i say yes, if someone needs advice i say yes, ect I put everything down to help them and do the right thing

But as time has gone on it gets more tiring. Like tomorrow i have a friend who is a fire fighter doing a free pancakes morning im going to, It goes from 9am to 1pm and i was going to get up at 11am to go support him. But now 2 friends of his and mine found out they need a ride ( one has yet to get is license even tho they has been able to for a LONG while now and the other just cant use the family car that day since there parents need it ) so i with out thinking have offered to give them both a ride but now have to get up at 9am to pick them both up at 10am

which means i have to go to bed earlier and which means less time i can stay up watching the shows i want to watch which i know is petty but its whats going threw my mind

thats just a small example but there is other stuff like 2 weeks ago my friend and there brother saying there getting paid to help clean out an office building basement for a family friend and offered to cut me in. I spent from 2pm to 10pm doing a little more then 1/3 of the hard work for 100 bucks in the end which yes is nice but i hated, i left legit sneezing dust, sore, and tired more so then my fucking factory job. But i didnt complain because im a nice person

hell its even gotten into toxic relationships where i let myself be mentally abused for to long and why? because i was being a nice person

not to mention all these family gathers where my family says the most bullshit redneck stuff, passive aggressive stuff, or just puts this pressure for me to find love and have a kid even tho im 20. Yet i cant complain because IM NICE and saying anything would change that

thats all just a few examples of the top of my head from recent times but there's tons more

its just so tiring and i feel like a petty and bad person for it

is it wrong to wish that i didn't have one day where i can be the selfish one where people drop what ever there doing to be nice to me with no complaints or passive aggressive comments?

I have been watching quite a few romantic movies lately and I have noticed that in almost every single one, either the protagonist or the love interest end up cheating on their current partener in the name of "true love". It's always framed in such a way that we are happy about it and don't really see it as something bad, even tho it should be .

Every Christmas romance is always busy person from a busy city comes back to their little town where they meet their highschool ex. Their ex is full of life and joy and Christmas spirit unlike the cold un-jolly actual partener. So the main character either starts an emotional affair with the ex or a straight up full affair. The movie culminantes with the main character breaking the heart of their partener in favor of their ex and that s supposed to be THE HAPPY ENDING.

And it isn't just Christmas movie, basically most romantic movies of any kind have some sort of cheating premise. why? if they want to convey that you are never gonna be happy with a partener that doesn't match your vibe or whatever and to not settle for an ok relationship and go for something great, THEY CAN MAKE THE COUPLE BREAK UP FIRST. Why do they always have to realise their true love WHILE with someone else?? Why are we justifying the fact that the character cheated?

In conclusion, it s annoying, predictable, and stupid . Make the character break up their relationship before starting an emotional/physical affair. It will make the movie more enjoyable if I don't have to feel bad about the innocent 3rd party who gets cheated on.

Every week I see a post about in a drama subreddit how someone's husband/fiancé/boyfriend asked them for permission to DNA test their kid and make sure it's really his and how offended they are.

They will say something like "I have never even so much looked at a man ever since dating my husband much less had physical relationships. To be sure I am not tempted I have taken to wearing blindfolds whenever I leave the house. I have killed multiple people in driving accidents but its all worth it to make hubby happy. Should I leave him?" I am exaggerating for effect but sadly not a lot.

The post will get a lot of popularity and people will say to leave etc etc. Why does this annoy me? Because the post is fake. Yes, all of them. Want to know how I know? BECAUSE YOU DON'T NEED PERMISSION FROM YOUR SPOUSE TO DO A DNA TEST ON YOUR CHILD. And yet despite this people keep falling for it. I don't think if you have your stupid, I just think you have never done a DNA/ancestry test before.

I know most posts on drama subreddits are fake but can they at least be believable? I know now that I have made this post they are just going to change it from the husband asking permission to the wife finding out from seeing the test in the mail or something like that but at least its in the realm of possibility. I am tired of seeing the same obviously fake story over and over and over.

I spend most of my life currently working or in school. I get belittled by those closest to me about my school, because they think $19/hr is enough to be comfortable starting a family with. But to be fair to them, I'm utterly alone and it's not looking like it's gonna change any time soon. Anyone I remotely express interest ends up running in the other direction or feigning interest before leaving me high and dry. I hate myself, I'm losing control of my eating habits and slowly gaining weight a better version of me worked hard to lose. I hate it. I hate where my life is right now.

This is specifically relating to fictional art not, like a blues song or a poem about the loss of loved ones. I keep seeing people talk about how AI is going to take the humanity out of all art, tv, movies, music, shows etc, but I simply just don't care about 90% of it. The reason AI is shit right now is because it creates a shit product. If in 10 years it can create a fantasy story with a coherent and compelling narrative I actually don't give a fuck if it was created by a human or not. Same goes for a video game or a top 100 summer bop. I'd go as far to say as the amount of "soul" put into tons of INCREDIBLY popular current human made media and AI is already the same at exactly zero. Milf Manor is a WILDLY popular show and I promise there is absolutely no human soul put into anything in that show. Same goes for every isekai with the exact same plot as the other. They are simply money making machines. I guess my point is that for stuff that actually requires a human to make it and gets it's power from the fact that it was made by a human who felt things, there will always be a market for real humans to make those things because people want to connect with another person when consuming them. But when it comes to generic content that is consumed en masse so you can have it on the TV while you are scrolling TikTok it's functionally no different from the slop already being made by humans.

Like most people, I need to grocery shop to live. I work 9-5, M-F, so most of my grocery shopping happens on weekends…along with most other people. The result? Everyone and their dog is at Costco.

I don’t love any of the grocery stores. If I was swimming in gold I would shop at local grocery stores, but Costco is Cost-effective, so Costco it is. Most other people that go there I guess feel the same way. That’s a problem, because, for me at least, that many people aimlessly pushing carts around, taking their sweet time and not being aware of others around them is the most aggravating thing in the world.

People seem to lose all sense of etiquette when they scan their cards and walk through those doors. It’s like Costco zombification. Oh sure, take up the whole aisle with your family of 8. Leave your cart in the middle and obstruct other people. Oh yeah, you can park there right in front of the entrance. It’s okay that you sneezed on the produce…

Like, I’m stating an opinion and everyone has to attack me by projecting their negative opinions and feelings on me. Why?

Like, just because you had no friends gives you no right to project your fucking life on me! Go watch Fox News if you want “realistic” stories!