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…

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 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.

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

So I saw A Minecraft Movie yesterday, and even though the theater experience was fun and chaotic, I personally thought the film was absolutely terrible. It's a film that is definitely targeted towards children, but treats children as if they were stupid. Now, if you liked it and saw something I didn't, thats great. That's not what this post is about. But I've noticed a trend in recent years when a movie like Minecraft, or The Super Mario Bros. Movie, or Moana 2 releases and gets negative feedback due to a lazy story or bad writing, there's a subsect of people who will say something along the lines of

"It's a movie that's made for kids, why did you expect a good story?"

This is a stupid ass argument. Some of the greatest films of all time have been movies made for children. The work of Studio Ghibli, Pixar, hell even in recent years we've had films like The Wild Robot, Flow, Puss in Boots The Last Wish, Spider-Verse, etc; no one says these comments about any of these films. Thats because these are films that actively tried to tell a good story that is meaningful and fun. These movies tried. Roger Ebert has a quote, and correct me if I get the wording wrong, where he said "if a kids movie can only be enjoyed by children, then it's not a good kids movie".

I think this argument genuinely irks me for a wide variety of reasons, and they're almost all personal. I work with kids, movies have always been my passion, and debating is something I have a lot of interest in and deeply care about. This argument sucks in all three of these categories.

1) it treats children like they're stupid and can't handle films with any sort of subtlety. Kids are smarter than the majority give them credit for. They don't need every single thing spelled out, for the most part they'll be able to figure it out. It implies that children are too stupid for good movies so they need dumbed down slop. But again, there are children's movies that have stood the test of time and are universally beloved and remembered for being amazing for all ages, and show that children can handle more than a story that explains every single thing that happens.

2) This also implies that films don't need to try. We're in kind of a rough spot right now with blockbusters, there are some truly amazing ones, but so many are soulless, corporate, and just lazy. This kind of mentality does not push studios to make better movies, it's telling them that it's okay to be content with garbage. That they shouldn't try harder even though they have over 100 million dollars to make something worth paying money for. It just paves the way for more forgettable, meaningless garbage that only exists to profit off of an existing IP.

3) This is just a bad argument and doesn't work in really any capacity. It inadvertently agrees with the original argument that the story is bad, but tries to use it as a defense. It's like if I was to talk about a book with a friend, and I say "I thought the writing was pretty bad and kinda lazy" and they respond with "well it's a book for Teenage Girls, why did you expect it to have good writing? It's not made for you, just turn off your brain and have fun with it" ignoring the fact that good books for that audience exist, and just because it's made for an audience that you're not a part of doesn't excuse it from being poorly made. Along with this, the "turn off your brain and have fun with it" argument also doesn't work. If I don't have fun playing Basketball and someone tells me to just have fun while playing, i'm not gonna have fun. I like dumb fun movies. The Sonic films are a good example. They're dumb, but the characters are well written enough that I still care about what's going on in the story and I care what happens. I'm not going to ignore every problem a film has because "I'm supposed to be having fun"

I know this was a long ramble, and if you have fun with these kinds of films, that's genuinely awesome and I'm so happy for you. But the argument itself is lazy, doesn't encourage good conversation, and shows a lack of media literacy/acceptance for bad entertainment.

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.

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.

please pray for me. that’s the post lol being a cashier fucking sucks only 2.5 hrs left of my shift hopefully

I've been working with a very immature shift lead at work lately. He's been dating one of our co-workers. I wouldn't care if they were able to separate their work relationship from their personal relationship; but they can't.

Whenever they work together, they have to take their breaks together, and they always have to do so in their car. They take more breaks than is necessary. Every time there aren't any orders up on the screen, they are out in their car, even if it means leaving the store unstaffed.

His girlfriend never has to do any cleaning, dishes, or helping with the closing procedures. This, and their excessive "breaks," means more work at closing, and no one wants to work with him. I can see why now; the shift lead spends most of his down time making out with his girlfriend in their car instead of helping out with clean up. No one wants to be there at 1 am doing dishes!

Well, recently, the store manager had enough when they both didn't show up for their shift. He almost got fired on the spot but was given a last chance.

Today, all of us drivers returned at the same time to hear him say; "I might lose my job because someone said something to [the boss]!" Then his girlfriend says, "I quit" and runs out of the store with him chasing after her. It was a sight to behold! I pretended to be busy with dishes so nobody could see me laughing at the high school drama club performance they were putting on for all the customers walking by out front.

He would rather accuse one of us for getting him fired rather than look at his own actions and admit his behavior is to blame. One statement to the boss isn't what put his job on the line; it was his constant shitty attitude.

Oh, and these are grown ass adults in their 30s. I've worked with high schoolers who are more mature than these two.

I feel like this is more of an thing a lot of people do, but I see this constantly. Whether talking about the writing of a show or movie or game, game design, or other things like that (usually with entertainment, people are constantly acting like the thing they’re talking about is bad because of it. A show has a few problems with its writing or plot? The show is bad. A game has a couple undesirable mechanics? The game is bad. I think it’s a symptom of the kind of black-and-white, either toxically positive or toxically negative viewpoints the internet promotes, but please, before you make a final judgement, think about whether the thing you’re talking about is a net positive or a net negative.

I’ve read quite a few posts that think ghosting is acceptable and you don’t owe anyone an explanation as to why you don’t like them. I disagree with that sentiment. Tell someone why you don’t think things will workout. Does it suck? Will some people not take it well? Well, making the decision to never talk to someone or see them ever again is an interesting decision that I think deserves an explanation. Did you get the ick? Do I not look like you expected? Did I say something wrong or is there some sort of incompatibility? The other party is putting in time and effort, and it’s completely ignored by the ghoster. My time and energy is just as valuable as yours, grow up, be respectful, communicate.

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?

its cycle I cannot escape,

you need money and intelligence to get the money to get a clean/allergy free home

You need money to get help or health care

The lack of sleep makes me essentially useless

Each day I become more mentally disabled due to allergies and inability to sleep.

It's early onset dementia

my brain never gets to reset/ detoxify.

I had multiple head traumas as a kid, and the lack of sleep has compounded into a state

where all I can do is sit around and dissociate the days away

Does anyone else dislike someone so much that the sound of their voice makes you want to smash their face in?

That’s how I feel about my mom’s boyfriend. I hate the word hate but I’m truly getting close to hating him. I (24 F) let my mom move into my house while her house was being fixed. Her house was very old so they have been redoing almost everything, it’s taken about 7 or 8 months and they’ll finally be done at the end of this month. But while she’s been living here with me, after a month she let her bum ass boyfriend move in. TO MY HOUSE! Didn’t even ask me! He just showed up one day and she told me he needed a place to stay. This dude doesn’t have a job, doesn’t help me pay bills, makes a mess and doesn’t clean up after himself. He’s literally like 50 years old. Me and him have gotten into a few verbal exchanges and he always complains to my mom about how I’m disrespectful. I work 2 jobs and I’m a full time grad student, and he sits in my living room playing video games all fucking day! And the times we’ve gotten into it was because he said “I have to deal with a lot living with your dogs.” THE FUCKING AUDACITY!!! You’re lucky I’m even allowing you to stay here!

I love my mom but her choice in men is atrocious and I didn’t want to be rude so I didn’t bring it up at the time. But it truly pissed/pisses me off. I have 4 dogs who don’t really like men and it’s been hell with him here. I can’t let them roam like I used to because I’m nervous they may bite him (which atp I don’t give a fuck.) My entire routine is fucked and I only have to deal with this for a few more weeks but god damn! I wake up everyday annoyed, everytime I hear his voice I want to punch him, around month 3 I stopped talking to him fully, I literally act like he’s not there. And everytime I tried to talk to my mom she defends him like crazy so I just stopped talking about it.

I just needed to rant. Literally only have a few more weeks and I’ll have my house back to myself. It’s been a long 7 months and lately his existence has been on my last nerve even more than it already was.

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?

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.

I hate timers on washing machines. My machine said 42 minutes left. I set another timer for 45 minutes to remind me to go upstairs. I get up there and the machine has 12 minutes left.

I was 14 at the start of the year, and I weighed only 47.2kg—skinny, weak. I hated it. Every time I looked at myself, I hated how I looked. I’d look at guys like David Laid, all strong and shredded, and think, "Why can’t that be me?" I knew I didn’t want to stay like this forever. So, I set a goal of 60kg by the end of the year. I was gonna bulk up, get stronger, was not gonna be that skinny kid anymore. For three months straight, I worked harder than ever. I pushed myself beyond anything I thought I could do. Push-ups, squats, lunges, crunches, planks—whatever it took to get bigger. I spent all my lunch money and savings on protein, meals, and snacks. I quit gaming, spent less time studying, and spent all of my free time training. I didn’t even care if I wasn’t hungry; I forced myself to eat. I tracked every calorie. I weighed myself every day. I researched everything—muscle gain, supplements, exercise techniques. Gradually, the scale started moving: 48kg, 49kg, 50.1kg. I was getting somewhere. I wasn’t huge yet, but I was finally stronger. I felt proud of my body. My abs started showing, and my arms and legs were thicker and fuller. I was finally starting to look like the person I wanted to be. And then, all of a sudden, it all came crashing down. It started with a sore throat, blood in my phlegm, and a little muscle ache. I thought it was just a cold and nothing too serious. But then it hit me like a truck—on day 3, I had a 39°C fever, body aches so bad it felt like I was being crushed, and diarrhoea every single day. I was getting weaker and drained, and by Day 7, I couldn’t even eat much without throwing up. I couldn’t sleep from the constant coughing. I couldn’t even lie down without feeling like my lungs would collapse. By Day 8, I had difficulty breathing, and my body was completely spent. I went to the clinic. The tests came back, and they told me—pneumonia. One of my lungs was infected. All that effort, all those sacrifices, went up in flames. I went from grinding every day to lying in a hospital bed, hooked up to machines. The next week was hell—pain, exhaustion, uncontrollable coughing. When I finally weighed myself again, I weighed 46.2kg. I’d lost 4kg in just one week. FOUR KILOS. All that muscle I built? Poof. All the effort, all the sweat, all the sacrifices—it was all wiped out in two weeks. I didn’t deserve this. I didn’t ask for this. I invested everything—my time, focus, grades, money—and it was all taken away in a week. It felt like I was robbed. I was crushed. I was back at square one, but even worse. I was weaker than I’d ever been. I’d lost everything I worked for, everything I poured myself into. Three months of grinding, all wasted. I felt like I was back to being that weak, skinny kid I hated. 

(For those who use pounds, 4kg is about 8.8 pounds—almost 9 pounds of muscle, gone in an instant.)

My friend went MIA on me and the last text I got from her was that her parents are searching her room for any devices left and she is planning to stay with her grandparent's

A lot of my friends online tell me that my friend is scammer and I should cut contact but I don't think she's a scammer, I've known her for close to 6 months now and she hasn't asked me for anything, we've video called before so I know she is a real person but my friends online keep telling me that "Did the audio match up with the lip movement? it could be AI" or "It's a honeypot scam, they are just fattening you up."

6 months and no signs of a scam, besides would a scammer really go as far as to create stupid inside jokes, cry over an ex boyfriend or be friends with me for 6 months for a payday? I don't think so

I see her as a good friend of mine and Im very concerned about what happened to her

I had a childhood of uncertainty. I crave stability. I haven't becom jaded.

My choices in my adult life have been a mix of " be like water" and "well, shit. Do it now or never"

I was hurt tonight. I don't blame her for the choice. She has autonomy I am no one's keeper.

But God damn. Don't make out with a dude at my work infront of my friends.

Sure, I understand we wouldn't have worked out in the long run. She is more focused and accomplished.

Im all heart, humor and no accomplishments that look good on linked in.

She sought me out in the beginning so I assumed she was ok with who I am.

Ahhhh fuck. Whatever. She came to my restaurant. And started making out with the owners, girlfriends brother.

Right infront of me.

We had a few dates and I assumed we were on the same level.

I'm a fool. I'm too hopeful

You pay for the over priced hotel to gain access to the park 1hr before it opens to the general public. You enter to find that 90% of the rides aren’t open until the general opening time. It could just be a UK thing as we used to getting screwed over. Billing your stay as having early opening access is totally misleading.

I hate my mind. I thought it was a thing. It wasn't. I gotta stop pretending life will be good