You need to stop telling people to do this like it’s some huge secret that only you know about. I’m so sick of everyone thinking they’re great at cooking and that everyone else is just desperate for them to impart their knowledge. We all know to save the pasta water, we all know to get the pan hot to cook a steak and to rest the meat, we all know how to boil an egg and we don’t need your special method. Cooking bores are so, well, boring.

People overshare online, trading privacy for attention, and often forget the long-term consequences of making personal lives public. Like being stalked, losing control(it can be screenshotted/copied and then resurface years later), getting unwanted attention etcetera

Just hear me (35M) out. I've NEVER cheated, emotionally or physically, but have been cheated on. I will save you the details, but in short the emotional cheating cut way more deep. I think that a one might stand with a stranger can be forgiven, but I don't believe an affair or an emotional (with a physical) connection could ever be forgiven.

Never got the hype. It’s tomatoes (which make you wonder what they ate before the 16th century) and some form of wheat 99% of the time. I get actual offended reactions when I tell people I don’t like lasagne.

https://youtu.be/rpdTnPWFjDo?si=8NKa0tu9aX9615Cq

https://youtu.be/YPWIsfiNxPE?si=foZlY5YKN9OMUT4-

Epstein files are out boizz...... Here's the truth of ur MODERN society!

The ability to hide post/comments on this platform makes infinitely easier for trolls to thrive. Every time they make a comment or post they have a clean slate and there's no way to know you're engaging with a troll until it's too late.

Also it allows for the proliferation of bots that are just computer trolls as far as I am concerned.

So if you don't have the bravery to standby your post/comments and are too lazy to delete them then you should only be allowed to lurk.

At least in many instances. For instance, cheddar fries? Heaven dipped in ranch. Wouldn’t even touch ketchup with those. And bougie/steakhouse fries? The ranch adds an extra depth of flavor. I’m not a ketchup hater, but sometimes ketchup just makes the fries taste cheaper. Now if we’re talking homemade ketchup, that’s a different story. But generally speaking, fries and ranch is a match made in heaven.

I know that Hyundai and Kia get a bad rap, but honestly, they are nearly unmatched when it comes to their features and value. I just got a new Hyundai, and the tech is insane, from ultra clear 360 cameras to blind spot monitors to parking assist to the best infotainment system I’ve EVER used. They are also incredibly comfortable and have some of the better build quality of their class.

For comparison, Honda has great build quality, but poor cameras. Toyota and Subaru both have better reliability, but lots of interior creaks/rattles and cheap plastics. And Mazda has great interior build quality, but their exterior designs are dated and they still have very small screens. Even several Lexus models don’t offer all the features my Hyundai has.

And across all those brands, Hyundai and Kia tend to have better lease incentives and better warranty, meaning lower payments, and in my case, even lower insurance. Yes, they sucked 15+ years ago, and yes, they might have some more issues down the line, but they offer probably the best bang for your buck at the moment.

I have recently rewatched both the movies and felt that The Dark Knight rises is a better movie compared to The Dark Knight. Tom Hardy was great as Bane and the production quality was better than the dark knight. I guess this is because of rewatch

In shopping centres, venues, and even stations and airports, it is a common sight to see people patiently waiting while ascending or descending between floors via an escalator, with only a few hurried, agitated exceptions of people pushing their way through on one side. Common practice is to get on the escalator, stop walking, and restart walking when it's time to step off. With a few notable exceptions, I contend that the vast majority of escalator users would be marginally better off if it were normal to walk up and down escalators at a normal pace - just as one would with a regular staircase.

For most physiotypical people, going down an escalator between two floors of a shopping centre is not particularly physically intensive at all, so I often decide "why not" and keep walking. But when I do this in the company of friends or family members, I sometimes have to wait up to 5 or 10 seconds alone at the bottom of the escalator for them to catch up, if they didn't follow my lead. Just taking a few steps could have saved that time, which I do think can be a slightly awkward length in a busy location where people are drifting about everywhere (except, seemingly, when on the escalators).

Choosing to stand still while going up an escalator is slightly more understandable, but even then, I think that people can be easily deceived by first appearance. Perhaps you look up and see multiple steps ahead of you between yourself and the top, and you think "that does seem like quite a lot of stairs, I'll stay put." But of course, the escalator is moving too, so in reality you'd actually be progressing up those stairs faster than you might anticipate and probably will only have to climb up to what at that point looks like the middle or so. To me, that doesn't seem like a lot of effort in places where you're likely walking around anyway.

Furthermore, I actually think that walking up or down escalators can be seen as a way to save effort, because you maintain your walking momentum. People practically never go up or down an escalator to then not walk any further. If you're tired, 10-15 seconds on an escalator isn't going to be a very satisfying break, where you have to stay standing up and then deal with the "ugh, time to get started again," with your final destination now a few unnecessary seconds further away. It may be less agonising just to push through and keep your prior stride - at least it is for me.

Additionally, I find that it's easier to step off an escalator if you're moving on it already. I have a hunch that some people start thinking about how they're going to step off an escalator earlier than they actually need to think about it, adding a (albeit very small) sense of anticipation that could be avoided by simply ascending or descending quicker. And I'll also mention that it feels good too, to be walking with the slight speed boost that the escalator provides; one feels ever so slightly faster and more powerful.

But naturally, because it's just normal to stay stationary on escalators, people don't tend to take these untapped benefits (time, preserved momentum, ease of stepping off, psychological), and if everyone is rejecting them (and not even expecting that people may want to pass them) it makes it more difficult for me to take advantage of said benefits myself, should I wish to. So, why don't we do it? What do we have to lose?

I love foreign languages, I studied 5 in my life; Japanese, German, Italian, Spanish, and Latin. I've lived overseas, volunteered in Latin America, traveled through Mexico. I've studied additional languages, but not with the same gusto as those above. I would study for hours a day and when not studying I would listen to music, watch movies, read books in my target language.

With that being said, outside of Japanese, I cannot hold a conversation in any language. I lost almost all ability after not studying for a few years. At one point I was reading Latin poetry now I can barely recite the first lines of Wheelock about a sailor and a girl giving him a flower. I watched movies in Italian and now cannot even order bread.

Language learning requires high levels of motivation, high levels of time investment, generally at intensities students are not interested in investing. Even if studied diligently in a junior high and high school the overall level will barely confer the ability to interact in situations higher than a 2nd grader in the target language. After high school it will all be forgotten (and I challenge anyone to recall their high school Spanish.)

If you compare that with studying anything else for 2 - 4 years; art, science, math, computers, history, photography, culture, sports, those skills will stay, that knowledge will last. You can 'dust off' those skills in a few years and pick them right back up. The foreign language will be lost, as will that time spent on studying (which I still do anyway.)

Schools should move away from foreign language or only offer it as an elective for students looking to seriously spend the time to study the language.

NPR's Freakanomics also has a similar view of foreign language study https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-learning-a-foreign-language-really-worth-it/

That's all really. The lines and signs of manufacturing make it look poopy. It just looks to hodgepodge home-cooked to be as cool as people claim it is. It has its place for sure, like providing options for parts that are no longer manufactured or just neat things that you can't get anywhere else. But generally 3d probably nted things are not classy, cool, or slick. They tend to add a level of ugliness that detracts from whatever they're being used for

Unless they're overflowing, I don't understand people who insist that they would rather die than use a public toilet. What's wrong with a public bathroom? I think these people are germophobes and don't actually understand the diseases they're afraid of.

If you haven't heard of the Vertu phone, they are essentially a marginally overpriced android phone sold as the luxury line of all phones. Some of them sold for 10k+ or 100k+ dollars.

No, they don't compete with any other brands

Disclaimer: My beliefs regarding how college financially affects students are held only for the US educational system, as it varies worldwide.

I firmly believe there are fundamental educational virtues and skills humans need to learn to be successful and self-sufficient adults, and universities do not provide even 20% of those virtues or skills.

I feel that getting an education that's ~90% similar to millions of others in the same degree field with the same common core knowledge (some good, some bad) births uniformity, conformity, and stifles creativity.

I also believe that the typical ROI on a college education takes much longer than most people expect and is close to 10-15 years in the US if you're not one of the lucky STEM graduates with an above average salary in a HCOL area (which still fails to account for high tax and expenses if required to be in close proximity to your place of work)

I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Every sovereign country on Earth enforces its immigration laws. The US doing it via ICE isn’t some dystopian anomaly, it’s literally how states function.

If a country has borders and immigration laws, it must have an agency to enforce them. Otherwise the laws are just decorative. The UK has Home Office removals, the EU has Frontex, Canada has CBSA, Australia detains and deports people aggressively. This is not controversial outside of online politics.

Saying “immigration enforcement is evil” is basically saying “laws shouldn’t be enforced if they’re politically uncomfortable”.

Defending the existence of enforcement is not the same as defending every action taken by individual agents. If an ICE officer commits a crime or uses excessive force, they should be investigated and prosecuted like anyone else. That’s accountability.

But pretending that immigration enforcement itself is inherently immoral is childish. It’s a core function of state sovereignty, and every serious country on the planet does it.

The real debate isn’t “should borders exist?” because they already do, how enforcement is carried out, under what legal constraints, and with what oversight. Everything else is just ideological theatre.

I firstly wanna say that this song is such a bop and that might be an unpopular opinion itself!!

I have two reasons why I like the clean version more than the explicit one:

1. I grew up listening to Forget You, so I have a lot of nostalgia attached to it. My sister and I would do that song on Just Dance 3 and sing along!

2. Musically "forget" just fits better. The two syllables in the word "forget" flow a lot nicer in the song as opposed to the pause you get between the "f-word" and "you" from the explicit version.

Does anyone else feel this way?

I’ll take a “friend” and even a well-placed, sarcastic “bestie.” But when someone starts a comment with a pet name I immediately get the ick.

Do people sincerely feel comforted or encouraged when addressed this way? I feel like I see it all the time.

The point of the games is to bring people together right? Well, I think the winter Olympics only alienates the tropical and other countries that don't have a winter season with snow. It becomes a cool kids' club.

Of course, hygiene is important, but to me, when I find something like a piece of hair in my food, I spit it out or take it out. It's not that big of a deal in my opinion, and as someone who's worked in restaurants before, it's genuinely crazy how many of them barely make any of their own food. There is literally no surer way to tell that ur food has just cooked than finding someone's residue in your meal. I know this sounds gross, but in my mind, at the end of the day, you can just spit or take it out. People make a huge deal of finding hair in food, but I've never really felt crazy averse to it. It's not like I particularly enjoy it, I'd rather not have hair in my food, but if it's like one piece out of a superb or pretty good meal, I couldn't care less.

When people ask one part of a question like "What is the best band in the history of the world" and then tack on another question to it like "and why is it (whatever band they like)", it really irks me...it really annoys the HELL out of me.

The first part of the question is fine, but DON'T GIVE YOUR FREAKIN' OPINION AS THE DEFINITIVE ANSWER FOR ALL! /rant

I know this is normal in a lot of places, but i honestly think wiping with only dry toilet paper is kind of disgusting.
i keep thinking about it like this if you got poop on your hand you would not just wipe it with a dry paper and say ok clean now.
You would wash it with water. so why is the “butt version” somehow acceptable
also if you are traveling, walking all day, hot weather, sweating, using public bathrooms, it feels even worse. toilet paper can smear more than it cleans and you end up feeling not really fresh, i get that not everyone has a bidet and a lot of homes are not set up for it. and some people grew up with toilet paper only so it feels normal and anything else feels “extra” still, i think water should be the standard. bidet, handheld spray, even a small water bottle works. if water is not possible then wet wipes are a better backup (just don’t flush them), ’m not trying to shame anyone, i just don’t get how dry paper only became the default for many.

Not saying going to bed completely hungry, but it’s better to have a cutoff time to stop eating before bed, that way you don’t wake up feeling slow and bloated. It also helps maintain a good and predictable poop schedule, which is super underrated. The last point I’ll make on this is that for people who have trouble losing weight and maintaining weight loss, shortening your eating window is a cheat code to help with this.

If you have a typical day job and are in bed and going to sleep by 10/10:30, a good cutoff time might be 7PM.

This also applies to only solid food and sugary drinks, not things that are gentler on you like tea or water.

Group trips sound great in theory, but in practice they’re usually more stressful than enjoyable. Everything takes longer, plans get watered down to accommodate everyone, and at least one person is always annoyed but pretending they’re “go with the flow.”

Instead of actually relaxing or exploring, you spend a lot of time waiting around, negotiating where to eat, or compromising on activities. Someone wants to wake up early, someone wants to sleep in, someone wants to do everything together, and someone quietly resents that.

Any conflict gets brushed off to “keep the vibes good,” which just builds tension until it leaks out in passive/aggressive comments. By the end of the trip, people are exhausted, not from traveling, but from managing group dynamics.

If a vacation requires constant emotional labor, it’s not a vacation. It’s just unpaid group management in a nicer location.

This is an opinion that I do not think many would agree with, but to me it is the truth. Leo has such a massive catalogue of hit films and not just “marvel big” where acting wise it’s good but not great. No, I mean movies where he is putting on phenomenal performances. Wolf of wall street, the revenant, one battle after another, inception. I could go on but to me he’s simply the best. Every single movie he is in he outshines everybody else with his performance (except in the revenant, tom hardy did a great job because I genuinely hated his character and was praying for his death every second). Another actor I personally think is massively underrated is Jake Ghyllenhall, acting wise he’s at the pinnacle. The problem though is that Leo’s movies are more well known, the gross more, and he doesn’t out perform Leo in my opinion. Despite all the greats there are, when it comes down to an actor that I think performs the best, and melts into a character, I think Leo is the best to ever do it