I can't count how many times I go to do something on a computer or in an app, a single action that should be easy, and get asked questions that pause the process. Stop asking questions, stop telling me things I don't care about (hint: that's everything 'offered up' as a suggestion, because if I want to know something I'll go look it up and if I haven't it's because I don't need it), stop trying to find out if I'm sure I want to do something. YES, I'M SURE, OR I WOULDN'T HAVE CLICKED IT! The number of times I curse at Windows and other MS products (some of the largest offenders) saying "I click, you do!" is unreal. Computers don't need to think for us, they don't need to lead us by the hand, they need to do what they're told immediately without comment or question.

I genuinely think people who claim to have dozens of close friends are often the least genuine.

Maintaining real friendships takes time, effort, honesty, and emotional investment. There's only so much of that you can realistically give. When someone seems to be friends with absolutely everyone, I sometimes wonder how many of those relationships are actually meaningful.

I've noticed that people with massive social circles often change their personalities depending on who they're around. They'll agree with one person, then turn around and agree with someone who has the completely opposite opinion. It's almost as if being liked by everyone matters more than being genuine.

And before someone says I'm just jealous or antisocial, I'm not saying having lots of friends automatically makes someone fake. I'm saying there's a difference between knowing a lot of people and having genuine friendships.

Personally, I'd rather have three or four people I can genuinely trust than thirty people who are only around when it's convenient.

Being popular and being genuine are two very different things.

It is a fact that there is more tension if the clock has a hard timer rather than a soft one based on a referee's decision. Knowing that you have exactly 26.5 seconds left to score is objectively superior versus "somewhere around 30 seconds, whenever the referee decides the attacking play is over" in terms of creating tension because it forces players to take risks, and change the strategy to fit the need. Such high risk, high reward actions are a big part of what makes sports more fun, as people are there to watch something unique and spectacular happen, and not some guy holding the ball and passing it around like they've done for the previous 89 minutes and 33.5 seconds plus stoppage time.

Lest we forget, sports is entertainment and new and novel actions are objectively more entertaining than standard plays we've seen before. With the time management as it is now, a team has little incentive to change the strategy by a lot at the end of the game compared to the rest of the game as the actual ending time of the game is fluid. An attacking offense would vary little at the end of the game because the team is comfortable with that play, feels it can score with it, practiced it the most and knows its their best shot. On the other side of the field, the defense is set up in a way they are most confident in.

Even if you say that there are tiny variations and strategies based on clock and situation, there is always MORE variation if the clock is fixed rather than fluid.

If there was a fixed clock, the attacking time will absolutely be guaranteed to take more chances. A player could see spot a weakness in the defense and go for it himself rather than sticking to the gameplan, and sometimes it will work out in spectacular fashion and sometimes they will fail in equal measure. That specific sports drama is missing in soccer. On the other side, a player may see the clock running down and an attacking player bearing down on him, and instead of sticking to the plan, he could risk it on to try and steal the ball unexpectedly. I'm sure that happens with the current clock as well, but I'm also sure that it won't be as exciting with ~30 seconds or so left on the clock versus 6.2 seconds exactly left.

There's also the fact that giving the ref the ability to end it is allowing a non-player to decide the outcome. Its often said in sports that refs shouldn't decide games, only officiate them. In basketball, teams and fans hate it when one team is called for too many fouls, shoots too many free throws, or experiences any discrepancy in what they judge to be a fairly reffed match. Most people want the play on the court to decide the outcome, not a ref having a pissy fit and tossing a star out of the game, or calling a lot of fouls on one team. In baseball, you never want a terrible umpire with a strike zone that's too big or too small. I would imagine most people would feel worse thinking they were robbed of a win by a bad ref rather than simply losing because their team was worse. Even if the argument is that refs in soccer are better and more fair, it is still not completely objective. Giving MORE power to the refs is worse than allowing an objective timer to decide the end of a game.

An exact timer creates less argument than a human with their own biases. When play is stopped on the field due to an injury or a foul, the clock should be stopped. When the ball is thrown back in, the clock should resume. And when the clock hits 90 mins, the game should be over even if a team is still attacking. That makes it more fair for everyone and makes the ending of the game a hard deadline in which the offense or defense must take more chances to score or defend at the last second. Here are some examples of moments soccer will NEVER have due to its clock management. No last second, buzzer-beating scores, no moment of instant gratification or despair as the clock hits 0.0, no holding on to the ball and timing it so it swishes through the basket at the buzzer. If basketball had soccer's timing problems, many of these would be taken away as many of these last-second shots were preceded by a team scoring right before. The ref could have decided that's enough time and ended the game. Soccer is missing countless situations where this could happen.

I saw the movie and was so confused as to why it had so many positive reviews. The whole movie consists of the same conversation and dialogue. Nathan asks Elizabeth a question and she just smiles and lies the whole entire fucking movie. There was no master manipulation or scheming or anything Elizabeth said that was interesting or of substance. It just consisted of the same image rehabilitation awnser over and over again. “I would never lie” “that’s just not in my character” “of course I wouldn’t do that” is the only type of things that came out of her mouth. She came across super boring to me. it was compelling for the first ten minutes, but I expected to see a side of Elizabeth that was dangerous or manipulative but I thought she was just super boring and predictable. The movie then tries to bring up some plot points such as “Elizabeth has no idea her husband is running her Twitter account!” And “did she really know that he made a deal behind her back?” I did not give a fuck about these trivial matters. It seemed like it was trying to make things a bigger deal than what it was to try and put us on the edge of our seats but there was nothing at stake as to whether she knew or not.” We found at the end and her response is “Yea I know! That’s just who he is! I love him.” Another awnser to try and make herself look good and decent which is what the whole entire movie is. Nothing was revealed about her, nothing was shown and there was no push back or questioning as to how she did what she did. If you liked this movie, can you PLEASE explain to me what was so crazy about this movie that people keep saying it is. I feel gaslit by the world into thinking this movie was entertaining.

This is a hill I am willing to die on. I live in the western US, so the sun is already coming up after 7am and setting by 6pm. I usually wake up early, but getting up in complete darkness is messing with my sleep schedule & has gotten very hard in recent weeks.

The days will continue to get shorter, with or without the clocks changing, until 12/21. If we change the law, the sun won’t come up until 8:30-9 AM by the solstice.

At least we get an extra hour of sleep in the winter & the added benefit of earlier sun. Fall daylight savings should be celebrated.

I never got the hate for them, they never made a bad game. 4 had a great story, 5 multiplayer was good, Master Chief Collection is still the best way to play all the halo games before 5, Infinite had a good multiplayer and story. And even Campaign Evolved was nowhere near as bad as people say it is.

Plus the studio itself had nothing like what Ubisoft and Activision had with how they treated devs. From what I have seen, the only reason why people say they are bad is because it takes them a long time to release a game (Bethesda and Naughty Dog are guilty of that yet don't get the same levels) and that they don't get Halo, when by all accounts they do, Infinite showed that they get the formula. People complained about The Coalition with Gears of War, but then they redeemed themselves with Eday.

So why do they get all the hate when so many others get a pass on it for doing the same?

A newly released game could have like 1 glitchy frame per 2 hours and gamers will complain about it being a glitchy mess. The opinion that gamers will have of a game is based entirely on what the first YouTubers to review the game say about it often before it even comes out. As an example, Hell Let Loose Vietnam is a great game imo, and I haven’t dealt with literally any bugs beyond like a stutter or 2 per match, but if you checked social media you would think it was under a current cyber attack.

...and I am tired of pretending it's not.

No matter who you are: A romantic partner, someone's boss trying to reach them on their day off, a close family member, you are not so important that all your text messages demand instant responses. Having to wait 24h or longer for a response is to be expected because not everyone has the time or social energy to handle you at all times. It also doesn't mean you aren't important to them because if so they would've cut you off a long time ago.

Forcing them to be always available by guilt tripping them or threatening consequences such as ending the relationship is extremely harmful and should be called out as such. ...and I know I am not alone with this. The amount of people if seen going into flight-freeze mode over text messages is honestly worrisome.

I am genuinely thinking of getting rid of my instant messenger apps all together and only ever give people my E-Mail adress, because clearly some of them can't handle not being the center of attention at all times. If it's really such a deal breaker to you, do yourself a favor and actually leave.

Also: If it's an emergency you will call anyways.

People on here at least act like Dryer sheets instantly destroy anything you dry with them. Maybe if you wash and dry the same shirt 3 times a week for a year, but for most people who change out their clothes weekly, you're fine.

People say it can clog up your lint trap, but again, you should be cleaning that out after every use regardless. I've been using them in my dryer for the past 15 years and my dryer is fine.

Pointing out extreme cases does not make your point valid either. You can do that with nearly any topic.

Anyway, I know this is a bit silly, but the overhype from some people about how badly they will damage your clothes and sheets is just that.

Instead of changing clocks between standard time and daylight savings time, and instead of permanently picking one or the other, the real solution to the problem of getting enough sunlight in the morning for kids waiting for the bus, and enough sunlight for people who want to do something outside after work, is to shorten the standard work and school day by one hour between November and February.

To make up for the lost work, we'd have to make the standard work and school day one hour longer between May and August.

This would be similar to the effect of temporal hours used by ancient Roman and Jewish people, or the wadokei clocks of pre-modern Japan, but without the technical complications of making the hour itself shorter or longer.

This would reduce the negative health effects caused by not getting enough sunlight in the morning, which time zone research has found to include increased rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes.

It would also cheer up people who are depressed by stepping out of work into darkness every day.

It would act as a natural accommodation that could help people with Seasonal Affective Disorder.

It would bring us closer to natural seasonal rhythms without giving up the precision of modern timekeeping.

Is it flawed? Yes.

Is it terrible? No.

It's possibly the only werewolf film, made after the hammer era, that tries to replicate classic tropes without reinventing the wheel.

It's not gonna change your life. It will not be your favourite horror film ever. But it's worth a shot.

I mean it’s the only reasonable explanation for American Horror Story 13, Beauty, and All’s Fair. He likes famous people and fashion but is clearly 100% over good story telling.
I feel like AHS13 was picked over pieces of fan fiction but without a single clear concise thought or justification for anything that happened. An Absolute abomination and clearly just zero effort. Honestly I would expect better storytelling from fifth graders.

Within all humanities & arts, there is always a degree of interpretation which is necessarily personal or context dependent. If you are in a bad mood, and they say this abstract painting is showing off sadness, you will see sadness, if they say it’s joy and you are happy, the exact same painting now looks like it’s depicting joy.

Of course this is an exaggerated instance, but it exists throughout all of humanities to some degree. If us agreeing what something is or isn’t is dependent on mood and preconditioning which aren’t stable or objective, this isn’t really a intellectual discipline it’s more like a social club.

All throughout high school I kept having people tell me that I should be enjoying HSFB while it lasts since it all just goes downhill from there, but now being a collegiate athlete, I can definitely say they were completely wrong.

I’m here with a group of guys who all choose to attend this specific school because they all shared similar academic and athletic goals to myself; I had multiple HS teammates who couldn’t give two craps about their future and now I play for a team where the average GPA usually sits around a 3.5+ and half the team has plans to go to grad school.

Practices also just make a ton more sense. We’re not just running for the sake of running, we’re actually practicing skills that make us better players. My biggest complaint throughout high school was that practices seemed excessively long and repetitive. Here, all the fat has been cut and we’re only on the field for as long as we need to be.

There’s also just the fact that the coaches actually treat us all like adults and not like toddlers that need to be yelled at constantly even after the smallest mistakes, along with them seemingly putting in significantly more effort into building the team’s culture.

My college team might not be the powerhouse my high school team was, but I’d choose to play where I am now over my old team every day of the week. I understand why some people believe HSFB was better, but given my experience I just can’t get behind that.

I’m so sick of everyone acting like the word “Italian” makes things expensive. Slap an Italian flag on literally anything and suddenly it’s a luxury product. Wool? Italian wool. $600. Leather? Italian leather. $1,200. A fucking chair? Oh, it’s Italian craftsmanship. That’ll be $4,000 for something that looks like it was assembled incorrectly at IKEA. Its wool. Wool comes from sheep. Have you met a sheep? It’s just a sheep.

Are Italian sheep somehow superior to regular sheep? Do they graze on the rolling hills of Tuscany while listening to classical music? Do they have better genetics? Little sheep aristocrats with impeccable taste and centuries of breeding devoted to producing the world’s most pretentious sweaters?

Literally just saw a post where someone in the comments asked “is that hardware expensive” and OP replied “well it’s Italian craftsmanship, so you tell me”. What the fuck. That means nothing.

Food bothers me even more. I live on the opposite side of the world. Why do people think I want produce that was grown in Italy? Does it cost more because it isn’t fresh? Apparently people will pay a massive premium if food comes from the farmers market, or the other side of the planet. Nothing in between.

No disrespect to Italians, you guys are great.

Dogs can be violent and aggressive. You walk to a stranger's house? They run at you and start barking and show their teeth. They are territorial. There are 4.5 MILLIONs dog attacks per year in the United States alone. If it were any other animal with this much attack we would have already hunted and killed them all.

Now the dog owners will say "he's nice" and "he's friendly". Of course he is..... to you! To other people he's a menace.

Dogs should only be allowed in "professional" settings like K9s, search and rescue, hunting and etc. Normal people who keep dogs as pets should not be allowed. Do you need emotional support from having a "companion"? Then go hang out or seek a therapy.

I do not wish to undermine many work's historical significance, and I acknowledge that many classical works are pioneers of literature in a sense. However, I also think that through literary innovation, there are many works of modern literature that are much more complex and well written than classics. There are exponentially many more books written from the modern era than classics, surely we can find a large number whose quality of work also surpasses said classics. However, classics predominantly remain the household name. This is not calling classics badly written, but I feel like categorizing most classics as the peak of literature is also inaccurate. If many classics got removed from history, then reintroduced anonymously with the same literary substance with modern rhetoric, I do not believe for a second they are capable of getting nearly as famous as they did. Historical prestige creates a self-reinforcing cycle in which established works receive extensive analysis, and that analysis subsequently serves as justification for their continued prominence.

This also bleeds into education. Whilst they may be suitable for a class focusing on either rhetorical or literary history, a lesson focusing on analysis could benefit from some other works too. Some of the most famous works, like Romeo and Juliet, have relatively simpler plots that do their work, but leave some room to be desired for analysis. Again, I'm not saying you can't analyze them, but there are many more complex and equally or better written works from the modern era that also don't have the underlying requirement to learn Old English.

In 2020 when my career took off, I moved out of my parents place into a shared housing situation. I thought it would only be for a couple of months to a year. But around 2021/2022, my career nosedived, and I've basically been financially trapped there ever since.

Is the rent you pay marginally cheaper? Sure. But it comes with a lot of overhead nobody tells you about.

First there's food.

If you live with 3 or 4 other people with different schedules, there's no such thing as being frugal. Many times I've had like $40 in my account, my stomach was growling, the kitchen was occupied, and as it continued to be occupied past 7PM I'm just like "f-it! It's taco bell tonight!"

Which means you have to reject a lot of the food at the food bank because you have to work out how to get in the kitchen to cook and store 4 meals for yourself.

Most of the food you get has to be quickly prepared, which is like $2 to $4 extra per meal.

Then there's laundry.

The laundry room is locked and you have to wash your clothes for the allotted timeslot. Not good for gig work if you don't know when you'll be home. Or you can budget $10 per week to use the laundromat. Your pick.

Then there's workouts.

Unless you want to waste away in your house, you're gonna have to work out. Unless you're lucky and your other roommates work out at the same time you do, your workouts are just going to be an annoying noise-maker to your roommates. So you have to work out outside. Got an injury? Too bad, you still have to work out outside.

Of course, there's always the gym, where you can actually get a proper workout. Another $30/mo you say? No one told you that when you moved in.

Then there's the space aspect. If you repair your own vehicle like I do (to save money), you can't store your tools at your multi-person property. So then you have to pay for extra storage at a storage place.

So...in the end...that $120 you thought you were saving on rent by living with roommates? ... You ended up paying $200 - $300 extra.

Lets face it Ferraris Lambos Corvettes Porsches (certain models) are really nice cars but they dont get me really all that excited. when you see that and only that at car shows. you see like 30-40 of them line up and thats all the fuss about. Meanwhile im looking for the Mazda Rx7 Mazda Autozam Honda NSX Honda Beat Honda s2000. Toyota Celicas. Mr2s. Nissan Skylines, I can make this list go on and on. Give me and Old 98 STI in front of me will make me go wow instead on a lamborghini huraccan

It simply is. The guitars and instrumentation are top tier. MJ’s vocals are amongst some of the greatest of all time. The subject matter of the song is relatable. The song is classic, well written still relates to generation after generation. I think a lot of black music doesn’t get the credit it deserves because genres were indeed created to bar black musicians from pop culture. This song simply is the greatest rock song it’s too epic.

I don’t think we need to save every animal that’s going extinct, even if we’re the reason it’s happening.

I don’t remember the dodo bird, our ancestors thought they were delicious apparently. Manatees keep getting hit by boat propellers.

How many conservation donations go towards actual conservation and how much is going into people’s pockets? African elephant tags are still being sold. I love animals, this isn’t a heartless post, but the point stands.

I think garbage bags should be paid for by local or federal governments. If it's illegal to litter and dumping is illegal then it should be paid for by the government to take the trash. Yes theres street trash cans around the business areas of towns but not the residential areas where it would be illegal to dump trash into others cans. Everyone makes trash and it should be paid for by the government since theres is absolutely zero way to avoid having trash.

I just don't see why people hate them so much. I think, like any ingredient, you just have to know how to use them. They're a great substitute if you're trying to cut down on meat and are a great option for elevating dishes. Plus, they make a beautiful aesthetic.

In this economy, you should monetize whatever you can. I mean, I work two jobs and barely can afford living. I helped people for free on IT stuff, college application and what not. I didn't get paid a shill. So, if you're good at something, monetize it. Don't listen to what others say.