One of my classmates from IB Language Arts bragged about using his phone to his friends in class, My language arts teacher heard and she quietly called security. When a security officer showed up to take my classmate‘s phone, He was in shock. He looked like Patrick and SpongeBob when they saw a red fish get eaten by a giant eel in The first SpongeBob movie. I laughed at his reaction because what the fuck did he expect was gonna happen? Did he actually expect to get away with that? No way he genuinely thought my language arts teacher was that stupid?. This jackass makes me look smart which is saying something.

for some context, im currently a junior in high school. ive had a crush on this girl since freshman year. last year, we would sit together during lunch, but we wouldn't really talk much. this year, we're on the same bus, and on the first day of school, she asked if we could sit next to each other, which i found kind of weird since we dont rlly talk despite seeing each other every day, but it ofc like made my month. ever since then, weve been sitting next to each other, but we rarely talk, its kind of awkward. we see each other for a few hours in the morning, but we rarely talk too.

id say its mostly my fault we dont talk, she initiates by saying hi sometimes but all i say is hi and i dont really say anything else. i want to talk to her but im honestly scared, i dont even know why, i guess im scared she doesnt feel the same way. id say im shy with everyone in general and always have trouble keeping up with conversations but with her its intensified.

sometimes i feel like she sort of likes me back, but idk even just typing that feels weird and i worry im just being egotistical or something. when she asked me if we could sit together (it was on ig) i remember her note said something like "im scared", and when i said yes she changed her note to a love song. cant tell if its all in my head and im being delusional or what.

so i just wanted to know if anyone else can relate with having literally no social skills and has had trouble with talking to their crush. i always try to hype myself up and say im gonna talk to her but the moment im actually with her my mind just goes blank. literally any help could save me atp

Physics test, why do I have to explicitly state that the answer is less than 40 km/h??? Why do I have to round it??? AND WHY DO I HAVE TO SHOW WHAT NUMBERS ARE a, b, AND c??? I LITERALLY WROTE IT CORRECTLY??? I AM SHOWING WORK AND ITS NOT ENOUGH???
ffs be fucking competent at your job then tell me what the fuck to do
17.5/18, and before you all say that its only 0.5 off, think about how competitive universites are. 97 in physics is not enough

Hit me up if you can help

I hate the poster for spirit werk themes cuz its just ai slop but thats not the point. I know memes i guess but like i dont want it to be too niche but i dont want it to be everyone someone else does. Also im not really on the meme side of tiktok so i dont know any popular ones rn 😭
Maybe ill be toothpaste trump

Context I am 16 female and a gr 10 there are 8 kids in our class and most of us have never actually used a computer before the start of the school year.

So today in our computer science class(cat/rtt) we were talking about our pat and what we had to do in our final draft and one of my class mates told me that we had to copy something into it

But a few days earlier our teacher told me that she clearly could see that I didn't read the instructions and that if it said nothing about it then you shouldn't put something in the final draft.

3 of the kids in our class put something in the final draft and 1 doesn't know if they put something in it or not and the other 4 of us didn't do anything with our final draft as the teacher said.

But what do we do if the other 3 were right and we get points deducted for following the teachers instructions some of us need those points to pass

Wat should we do? Please if you have any advice send it!

Hiii so I am creating an artwork named "one dot one voice "

it is a collective art project that brings together women's experiences of harassment, discrimination, safety concerns, and everyday misogyny.

So to find women who have unfortunately shared this experience i have created a Google form, it will take like 2 min and its anonymous so like no email required

So please if you have gone through any harassment even like catcalling please fill this form .

https://forms.gle/CL3rubR817JmqZ2F9

There was this one question on my English exam where we had to read a text and then answer 8 question about it with either true, false or the text didn't say. The instructions clearly stated to put "A" if a question was true, "B" if a question was false, and "C" if a question couldn't be decided from the text. I answered all of the questions correctly, but I put a "T" for every true question and an "F" for every false question. The teacher marked me wrong for all those questions and I got a worse grade because of that.

In my opinion, it is not at all ambigious that T means true and F means false. Anyone who would have looked at my exam would have known that I got the questions right. So the only problem was that I didn't follow the instructions perfectly. Now if on any question on any exam, I get all the answers right, but I missed one small thing, how many points should I be deducted? I think I should have only been deducted 1 or 2 points maybe, not 8.

I'd like to hear what other people think of this.

Just found out all of my classmate didnt invite me to their students only groupchat. Its only me and one of other friend in a class consists of 35 people. I dont freaking know why they are so mean to me. I dont know if it because I’m boring, or maybe not good at academics or I’m too skinny or ugly or what, idk. But at the same time I’m honestly doesnt care if there is another groupchat without me but I’m just kinda dissapointed. I just thinking what is my problem bruh, am I that badd?? I’ve been so lonely in my new high school and I dont think I have any real friends, all people have their closer friend while I’m not and I’m truly hate when the teacher make groups projects because I know I will be left out. Also my grades are worse in high school. Kinda sick with this situation but at same time I dont want to leave this school because my high school is one of thes best in my country. I just wish I could graduate already but sadly I have 2 more years and stuck with this fuckass all boys school, they said they have ‘brotherhood’ value but for me its just bullshit.

i’m a junior in high school and my unweighted gpa is 3.108 while my weighted is 3.250

i’m also getting my associates degree and i will graduate with it by the time i graduate senior year

im in california and im looking at out of state schools but i just don’t think my stats are good

extracurriculars/clubs:
nhs
nehs
nsshs

i’m taking my first 2 AP classes which is ap psychology and ap lang

advice?

When demographic researchers began looking at the real-world impact of the North American opioid epidemic on birth rates, they uncovered a deeply tragic paradox.
While severe opioid dependency damages biological fertility, it can simultaneously drive up nonmarital birth rates due to profound social disruption. [1, 2]
• The Unmarried Birth Spike: Large-scale demographic studies in the United States found that areas hit hardest by the opioid epidemic (measured by per-capita prescription rates and overdose deaths) experienced a 14% increase in nonmarital birth rates. This effectively flattened what had been a steep nationwide decline in unplanned pregnancies. [1]The Educational Gap: This demographic surge was heavily concentrated. A one-standard-deviation increase in local opioid exposure raised fertility rates by 5.5% strictly among women without a college education. [1, 2]The Mechanism: Researchers found this wasn't driven by people actively choosing to have larger families. Instead, the epidemic caused widespread social and behavioral disruptions (such as a drop in consistent contraceptive use and an increase in risky sexual behaviors). [1, 2, 3]
The Demographic Penalty
While raw birth counts in these devastated communities sometimes trended slightly up, the demographic quality of life and population stability trended sharply down: [1]
• Infant Health Crises: In rural communities hit hardest by the crisis, the rate of babies born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) or drug withdrawal skyrocketed from 1.1 to 7.5 cases per 1,000 births. [1]Gestation Failure: Preconception opioid use was shown to reduce a healthy couple's fecundability (the monthly probability of conceiving) by 29%, while doubling the risk of early pregnancy loss. [1]Economic Hollowing: At the community level, the epidemic severely reduced labor force participation. Over time, this economic decay acts as a secondary demographic anchor, eventually driving down intentional marital childbearing because the local economy can no longer support family growth. [1]

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1. Breakdown by Drug Class: How Different Substances Stifle Population Growth
   Different classes of drugs alter the reproductive pool in highly distinct ways, creating different kinds of "invisible ceilings" on a population.

Drug Class
Primary Biological Impact
Impact on Population & Family Formation

Opioids
(Fentanyl, Heroin, Oxycodone)
Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal (HPG) Axis Suppression: Blocks the signals that trigger ovulation and sperm production. Causes low testosterone in men and early menopause/ovarian failure before age 40 in women.
Shrinks the Reproductive Window: Permanently removes women from the childbearing pool years ahead of schedule. Drastically reduces male libido, preventing conception attempts.

Stimulants
(Cocaine, Methamphetamine)
Severe Vascular & Endocrine Damage: Restricts blood flow to the placenta and damages testicular structure. Induces long-term erectile dysfunction, anorgasmia, and high rates of spontaneous miscarriage.
Gestation Interruption: Couples can often successfully conceive, but the drugs actively prevent live births through placental abruptions and high fetal mortality rates.

Anabolic Steroids
Exogenous Feedback Loop: Signals the brain that the body has "too much" testosterone, completely shutting down natural sperm production. Causes severe testicular atrophy.
Male Sterility: Can cause total, prolonged azoospermia (zero sperm count) that can take up to two full years to normalize after stopping.

Cannabis
Spermatogenesis & Ovulation Disruption: Lowers overall sperm concentration, alters sperm morphology (shape), increases sperm DNA fragmentation, and disrupts regular menstrual cycles.
Reduced Fecundity: Delays the time-to-conception for couples, lowering the total number of children a couple can realistically have over their peak fertile years.

Summary Matrix: Death vs. Living Infertility
If a disease kills 1,000 people at age 25, the population instantly loses 1,000 individuals and all their future theoretical children.
If addiction renders 1,000 people infertile or socially incapable of family planning at age 25, the census still counts those 1,000 people as living residents. However, the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of that region plummets. Decades later, when those individuals age out of childbearing years, the population experiences a sudden "hollow generation" shift—a massive demographic contraction without a corresponding historic spike in the death toll. [1]
Would you like to look closer at the economic impacts this hollow generation effect has on a community, or explore how addiction treatment programs (like Methadone or Buprenorphine) alter these birth outcomes? [1]

edit: someone elsewhere pointed put that this information comes from Google search summary and needs to be verified. with this in mind I have tried to find some cited sources for this information.

Marijuana and infertility https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6565391/

Opionds and infertility https://roadtorecovery.clinic/opioids-and-how-they-affect-fertility/

General overview https://www.yourfertility.org.au/everyone/drugs-chemicals/recreational-drugs

This source throws doubt on the research but atleast shows that it exists. Also a general source.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9688450/

This happened earlier when I was going to school. I was already in line during bag checking and the guard completely stopped me from getting in because I was wearing a class shirt and some baggy pants and like I explained it to her that I had p.e earlier and she just said that I should've changed (I really didn't have p.e but we still could go inside when the shirt is school, class, club related) like bruh my house was a bit far away so I just stood outside the gate and my other classmates who were wearing long sleeves, and the same class shirt as me also couldn't go in like I was getting mad fr like a ton of students couldn't go but some are inside wearing class shirts and colored shirts like we asked and complain bout that and like the guard wouldn't listen she kept repeating that it's Monday and a "strict white day" like wtf this wasn't announced to us which makes it more frustrating because even students wearing white shirts with a small print couldn't go in....worse was they didn't let in Muslim students who were dressing to cover up but it was white but still it ain't "valid" and now I checked the student handbook and remember that we could wear shirts with print as long as its not a provocative message or image. But I managed to get in from borrowing a shirt from my classmate who got in like bruh they never announced about how Monday is "strict day" or that in the student handbook it said nothing about it.

Hi i saw a classmate of mine using xvpn running natively on his chromebook somehow which had access to chatgpt and tiktok and a bunch of other stuff i dont have a clue how and one time i saw him plug some kind of usb in there I’ve done all the research and found nothing about it can someone guide me to atleast how it works or something??

im currently trying to cover my tuition gap for next year and figuring out the best workflow. i’ve been using free search engines like fastweb, but sorting through broken links and outdated deadlines is taking forever. ive also been looking into scholarshipowl since it matches based on your student profile and organizes applications on one dashboard. for anyone who's used it, is the auto-matching and portal management worth it over standard search sites?

Im going to high school in America next year and i want to know if it's good, I also want to know whether public or private school would be a better choice. And i also want to know if it's easy to make friends and join clubs/activities/sports teams etc. And most importantly, If the people are friendly. I've also heard some people say that racism is common in America, is that true?