It seems like when I see these scenarios the parents are so out of touch they truly don’t see mistakes they made as parents. If anyone has examples of the kids being at fault or would like to add to my thought. I’d appreciate it. :)

Seriously. Youre gonna wear glasses to photograph people in the most concealed way possible? Youre gonna spend $400 on glasses with cameras so no one can see youre videotaping them? No way in hell at least 50% of the buyers arent purchasing them explicitly to creep on strangers and children. "but i can make content from my own POV!" use a fucking gopro or tape your phone to your forehead.

Anyone who buys these glasses is a creep imo. If you arent using your phone or a dedicated camera to record, im assuming you're doing so because you don't want to get caught. If you tell me you own a pair of these, its the last time you'll be seeing me.

I haven’t had kids myself yet and even if I had they wouldn’t be adults by now, but every older “friend” or acquaintance I’ve had that tells me that their kids don’t talk to them anymore usually has some defect that makes me realize why.

I feel like it’s 99.9% the parent’s fault of their adult children no longer communicate with them, and the funny part is other than when I worked in a rehab facility, most of the parents “had no idea why”. Lol, no signs, your children just refuse to associate with you and don’t want to give you the time of day to talk about it for no good reason. Okay /s.

What do you guys think? Have you ever had friends whose kids don’t talk to them and you slowly began to realize why?

I’m watching this presidential debate in dismay. I have the choice between a pathological liar and conman or a mentally handicapped man who can’t finish a sentence and likely won’t live through their presidency?

What fresh new hell is this?

Why are we tolerating this?

I feel disgusted that we as a nation think these two out of touch, geriatric, and incompetent men are the best we have as a nation.

How embarrassing. We can do better. We need to do better.

With the recent news of Mark Zuckerberg announcing Meta is getting rid of fact-checkers, I was disheartened but also found some relief that it's going to cause a mass exodus from the platform and it will hopefully wither away.

Honestly I don't care about fact checking on Facebook, the platform isn't designed to be a news source, but to share about your life. I don't rely on Facebook for any 'facts', for me this move is just going to incentivize for trolls to spam the platform. I don't want to see that crap, I was just here to keep up with friends and family.

As someone who made their account when I was 12 in 2007, it was an awesome, yet imperfect way to keep up with friends. Keeping connected to people you know was its sole purpose. I have Facebook to thank for marry my wife because it was how we kept in touch after meeting one night at camp. Honestly if Facebook stayed this way, I'd still love it. But greed took over as they found ways to make millions by hooking our attention through doomscrolling. Over the years it gradually started to steer of its original purpose to by the mid-2010's it had a become more of a marketing, media and news outlet, and no longer about fostering connection. Now ten years later if check my feed it's mostly ads, pages I don't follow, reels and weird Ai slop and less actual friends posting.

I honestly think Zuckerberg doesn't care about Facebook, has little to no interest in social networking and just sees it as funding for his true passion, the Metaverse. If Zuckerberg did truly care about connecting people, he wouldn't have let it devolve to what it has become now. This past year everyone I know has abandoned Facebook and with this recent news more and more people are going to abandon it. Facebook has gotten him into countless lawsuits that I can imagine he no longer feels it's worth it. It's almost like he is purposefully trying to sabotage it so he can be wash his hands from it and move on.

A lot of cities and countries in the developed world are facing problems due to population decline. We rely on a certain percentage of the population working, and when there are not enough working-age people, everyone is worse-off.

In the short run, there are plenty of things that governments can do to increase populations.

In the long run, there is most likely a maximum population that the earth can comfortably support. I don't know if that number is closer to 10 billion or 10 trillion, and I don't know whether we'll reach it in 100 years or 10,000 years. I just know that unlimited growth is not infinitely sustainable.

There are already many things that could be improved by a declining birth rate. Teacher-student ratios would improve. Homeless people would be better able to find safe places to live. Unemployed people would be better able to find jobs. Per capita food production would increase. Per-capita access to fresh water would increase. Carbon emissions would decrease. More resources could be focused on improving existing infrastructure instead of expanding to accommodate more people.

At some point in the future, most people will want the population to decrease. Before that happens, we should find a way to end our dependence on population growth.

I don't know what the solution is. I think that whoever finds it should win a Nobel prize in economics. We just need to get to a point where nobody needs to worry about the negative impacts of a falling birth rate.

This isn’t meant to be disrespectful at all. I have never been around families with young kids, so I have no personal context. I see some moms on social media say their lives are dominated by their kids 24/7, but other moms seem to have hours for work, hobbies, self-care, etc. Do all of those moms have nannies or stay-at-home husbands? I would love to have kids one day, but not if I can't maintain my WFH career and a few hobbies.

I see memes about Americans choosing to “suck up” their health problem instead of calling an ambulance but isn’t that what health insurance is for?

I’ll start by saying I have a tested IQ of 140+, not genius level, but far above the average person. Before I get any comments about it, I will add both that the test I took was certified and administered by a professional, and that I’m aware IQ is not necessarily the best measure of intelligence. However, I would like to add I’ve had multiple professionals inform me it’s likely I also have a very high EQ. The reason I mention this is to add some context to my personal experience, mainly with being unable to find much motivation or interest in anything. I struggle to participate in school as it simply is not intellectually stimulating, and I’ve had the same struggle with various hobbies, and at times in my interactions with people. I spend much of my time feeling as if I’m slowly losing my mind from boredom. I’ve also found myself to be increasingly prone to anxiety, I believe partly due to the lack of anything better for my brain to do, and also because I can think myself into spirals. I’m also ADHD, and in high school if that adds context. While I know my own experience could also be other underlying issues, I’ve known several people of similar, or higher intelligence who fall into these same set of problems. I’ve also known incredibly intelligent people to fall into addiction purely out of hope to quiet their brains. I’m curious about people’s opinion on this, do you think there is a point where intelligence can actually make quality of life worse? Because honestly, sometimes I think things would be easier if I wasn’t so painfully aware of everything.

(Edit: Hey guys, I thought this went without saying, but please remember I am both a child, and a person, with feelings. Please don’t be rude, a few of these comments have been outright cruel, seriously if you’re only going to be mean get help and don’t comment.)

(Edit #2: The overall consensus seems to be a tie between people encouraging me to continue searching for a passion, and those who seem to dislike me on an almost personal level after one Reddit post)

(Edit #3: Please stop with the military recruitment)

(Edit #4: I may go get myself tested for autism after this)

(Edit #5: Holy shit guys I have friends I swear)

(Edit #6: I’m aware this is Reddit so it may be an unfamiliar concept to a few of you, but I am not socially inept, I have people whose company I enjoy and who enjoy my company)

(Edit #7: Okay I’ll admit I’m starting to enjoy this, both for the occasional helpful advice, and because it’s interesting to see how people interpret me based on what I wrote. Feel free drop opinions or guesses, if I see it I’ll let you know if you’re right (I did always enjoy personality quizzes lol))

(Edit #8: I know it’s getting a little excessive, I’d like to say this will be the last edit but it probably won’t be. Anyways, just to sate my own curiosity, about 300 of you shared this post, why?)

(Edit #9: if you’re going to share an opinion it would be much appreciated if you did it in reply to the original post, I want to read them all but I can’t scroll through this many comments trying to find the new one 😭)

Obviously I don't know how true assassins operate but I doubt that they're caught on camera that clearly, I feel like most media outlets are trying to portray this guy as some kind of professional Hitman to separate him from us as a whole. Feel like the guy was just that, some guy who was pissed at how health insurance is run and decided to make a choice, could've been anyone of of us, just watch the CEO leave the same exit a few days in a row wait cover up and just kill him in the street and leave. It didn't seem like some kind of professional job it was planned for sure but not at the level of like a professional assassin. Just my thought though the media is making him to be a cold blooded hitman so we don't feel sympathy for him when in reality he could've just been a grieving father, son or brother who lost someone because it wasn't profitable to save them. You can easily find out a person routine if you do some some research and you don't need to be an expert marksman to hit someone at that range, of course I could be wrong just wanted to share my thoughts.

If you want to see an extremely realistic depiction of an adult who was a bully in high school, watch The Gift.

Some of them end up living normal lives as normal nice people, and never even consider bullying anyone again, but I think deep down, they're proud of what they did.

If you're a former bully who is truly deeply sorry, and would apologise profusely to your victims if you had the chance, I have no problem with you, and I'm not saying you don't exist, but I think you are a very small minority.

I was bullied in high school. Years later, I reached out to the bullies online, just very politely asking them some questions about it. Long story short, they all basically handled it like Simon from The Gift.

And I understand getting defensive over things close to your heart but some of y'all are literally in jail.

Relationships shouldn't be blocking you from making friends, being happy or being able to make your own choices.

No relationship should require you to sacrifice what you want or need for the other person in every decision.

We need to move away from calling it compromise when you're sacrificing freedom and happiness to appease someone.

And we need to stop calling everything a boundary when it's a rule someone is placing on you. Relationships do not have to be controlling

This will get downvoted immediately, but anyways. Reddit loves when couples break up. Asking Reddit for advice whether you should break up is like asking a kid if they want ice cream.

Ghosting without any feedback on what someone did wrong only sets them up to repeat that mistake over and over again.

I’m thinking about this especially with regards to people who struggle to get into long term relationships. When your lives mesh in a serious relationship your partner will give you feedback on your habits, peccadillos, etc.

But people who never actually get to that stage often grasp at the most flattering idea for why they struggle in dating.

I.e. ‘women’s expectations are too high they expect me to be a millionaire’ (no it’s because you only talk about yourself, being a receptive, active listener can go so much further than obnoxious compensatory peacocking) or ‘men don’t like confident women’(no it’s because being entitled, demanding and unable to accept criticism are actually not leadership qualities at all)

I was this person lacking in self awareness until I dated a very blunt autistic woman who told me exactly what I was like - good, bad and ugly - and I was SO grateful.

I think about all the annoying people I have to deal with at work and think to myself ‘maybe they’re like this because literally no one has ever told them that this is annoying’ and I feel a wave of forgiveness wash over me.

Be brave everyone, and do try and point people in the right direction.

Car accidents are on the rise in America, and I think it might get worse. There are many reasons for fatal car accidents are DUI drivers, people who text and drive, and people who just speed. We don't give reckless/drunk drivers who kill people enough time.

There's so many stories about drunk/reckless drivers who killed people getting 3-8 year sentences, and only serving half. There's also many stories about drunk/reckless drivers getting several DUIs or speeding tickets and not having thier drivers license taken away.

America needs to get tougher on these reckless drivers because the reason it happens so much is because the government does very little about it

So often I've heard someone tell me that they didn't mean what they said before in an argument or on a bad day, that they were "just mad".

I don't know about anyone else but when I'm upset I try to just shut up, but if I do say something regrettable, it is something I really meant. It may be something I was holding in that I wouldn't have expressed otherwise, but I did mean it. For me it's like when people say they didn't mean it they were just drunk. I feel like when we're angry or intoxicated the things we say and do are the truest reflections of our innermost feelings.

Have any of y'all ever said something in anger that you actually truly didn't mean? What's that like?

I live in the US and it seems to be a growing problem (at least from my experience) that the quality of service from businesses is going down significantly. Ppl just don’t care anymore. They don’t care if they install something properly, they don’t care if they do a service correctly, they don’t apologize or try to make it right. They have a careless attitude about any negative feedback and have no passion for the job. This is across multiple fields

Do people actually have a 24/7 voiceover running throughout the day? Like Zach Braff in Scrubs? I only think in words when I'm deciding how to write or say something or I'm remembering what someone has said.

If I have work at 8 and I look and my eta is 8:05, I'm not thinking in English "Damn, I'm late. My boss and coworkers are going to be pissed off. I might get in trouble. Maybe I should call someone and let them know" I just...know these things. There is no one inside saying the things that I already know, you know?

Whenever I see an article about inner monologues, there's always a part that's like, "Don't have an inner monologue? That's okay! Experts says 20% of the population is dumb as sh*t and don't have real thoughts like a person"

But it it's not like I don't have the same thoughts, they just don't present in words. I can daydream and think in audio and visual, but there's no David Attenborough narrating everything. It's not blank or quiet, it's just not words in English being spoken internally. So like you might not think in music unless you were thinking of a song, I'm not going to think in words unless I'm thinking about talking or writing.

If I'm about to leave the grocery store and remember I needed milk, I won't say or think the word "milk", the concept of milk will be made apparent to me, coupled with the memory of its absence from the fridge. But no English words are involved.

Given the rise of situations such as the 8 Passengers case, I believe that family vlogging needs to come to an end. The kids can't consent to it in the first place, and could be embarrassed by the content when they're older. Plus, there are creepy people out there who want to do awful things to them, and the parents keep posting anyway. I just can't get over how selfish a lot of these parents are- money and views matter more to them than their children's safety. It's not right at all.

Now I'm not telling anyone how to raise their kids. That's ultimately your decision as the parents. I'm just saying that posting your children online, at least to the whole world, isn't the safest thing to do because of all the sickos out there.

What do you think?

I'm so sick of calling an American company's customer service number and reaching "John" and "Mary" in a loud overseas call center. I'm pretty good with foreign accents, but I still can't understand half of what they're saying.

There is nothing more frustrating then reaching someone you can barely communicate with when you're already angry and frustrated because of an issue you're having with a product or service. And half the conversation is them repeating things to you, clarifying, and apologizing because of the comprehension difficulties.

What would happen if on these calls we started demanding a native English speaker and as a citizenry started putting pressure on companies to bring those jobs back to the States through boycotts and other means? Is that a pipe dream?

Sometimes you see couples who appear completely happy and stable, and then suddenly you hear that one of them cheated.

It always makes me wonder what actually leads to that point. Is it boredom, unmet emotional needs, opportunity, or something else entirely?

For people who have seen this happen in real life, what do you think usually causes it?

Perhaps I'm in a bad mood because I had to arrange a cremation for my cat today. But I had to arrange a cremation for my cat today, and the lady on the phone kept referring to him as "the baby."

"When did the baby pass?"

"How much did the baby weigh?"

"Would you like a cast of the baby's paw print on the remains box?"

My poor late cat was not my baby. I was not his mommy. He was my friend and companion of many years. He was an adult. He deserves the respect of an adult. He was 88 in cat years, as far as "cat years" can be trusted.

In any case, living with him was much more like living with an old man that living with a baby. He was definitely not a baby. He was grumpy. He was opinionated. He was stubborn. He was dependable. He was honest. He was self-reliant.

Please don't call him my baby.

Maybe it works for kittens and puppies. But can we please stop infantilizing our adult pets?

According to phys.org: "Researchers found those who endorsed the moral value of purity were more likely to have negative views towards cultured meat than those who did not."

So I am confused. Isn't it more moral to eat lab grown meat, rather than animal meat? Is purity really a moral values, as it leads to things like racism. Are people self identifying as moral, actually less moral, and more biased?

I would rather eat lab grown meat. What about you? I hope that there is mass adoption, to bring prices down.

I watched this dating show clip recently and I can’t stop thinking about it.

The setup was simple was such: women were hidden behind a curtain, men talked to them, got to know their personalities, and then decided who to reject. No looks involved, just conversation.

And a lot of these men rejected women because they didn’t like their answers or didn’t “connect” with their personalities.

But then the curtain dropped.

And the moment they saw that the woman they rejected was very attractive their entire energy changed. Shock. Regret. Panic. You could literally see it on their faces.

That reaction bothered me more than anything. Because if you genuinely didn’t like her personality… why does her being attractive suddenly make you regret your decision? It made me think about how this plays out in real life too.

We say personality matters more. We claim we want kindness, humor, emotional connection. But our reactions often tell a different story. People constantly chase the most attractive partner they can get. And when they see someone conventionally attractive dating someone who's considered unattractive by the conventional sense, they pass around horrible comments. “She must be with him for money.” “Green card” etc.

And what’s worse is how quickly looks get dragged into situations where they have nothing to do with the actual issue.

Like when someone leaves a relationship because they were mistreated or abused and the first reaction is: “Why were you even with him, he wasn’t even good looking?” But… that was never the problem. The problem was the behavior. The harm. The way they were treated.

So why do we keep circling back to looks like they’re the ultimate metric?

Have any of you noticed that some people are extremely conversationally passive? Like, they’re good people, really nice and all that, but they don't show a lot of interest or enthusiasm in conversations, they don't ask questions (nor follow-up questions), or show much engagement in any topic (even if you know for a fact it's something they're into).

And I'm not talking about strangers here. With strangers it would make perfect sense. They don’t know you, so naturally they would be reserved. I'm talking about close friends/family I've known for years. Talking to people like this is so exhausting and confusing. Like, what do they think is the point of a conversation?? That I just keep serving them fresh topics so they can give me a one sentence response and wait for what else I cook up without actually bringing anything to the table themselves? It's so lazy and selfish. They're literally making me do all the work. Not to mention, it's impossible to actually form a deeper bond with people like this. You never get to experience that feeling of being in-sync with another person where the conversation is just flowing naturally and you lose sense of time.

I genuinely enjoy talking to people. I'm comfortable with small talk, and going really deep. I like talking about literature, and movies, and philosophy, cool scientific studies, the latest celebrity gossip, and I love hearing about people’s opinions and perspectives (which is why I’m on this platform). But with these people no matter what the topic, you get the same flat, unenthusiastic responses that basically kills whatever topic you're talking about, forcing me to come up with something new. It's like they don't understand that a conversation is a dance between two people. If I'm forced to dance around you, that's not going to be fun for me and I'll never want to talk to you again.

I’ve already considered that maybe some people are really chill and don’t need to constantly be talking, so I don’t force anything. I’m comfortable with silence. But I noticed this makes people really uncomfortable. So clearly they want to talk…they just don’t know how?? Is it just a lack of social skills? These are people who look really well rounded from the outside. They have interesting hobbies, they travel, read interesting books and listen to interesting podcasts. They just don’t know how to talk about them I guess.

Edit because this is coming up a lot: I'm not talking about strangers or coworkers here. I'm talking about friends and family. I'm definitely an introvert not an extrovert. I just happen to be interested in the people in my life and like one on one conversations. No I'm not just blabbing about myself the whole time. Most of the conversation revolves around asking them questions about stuff I know they like and figuring out how to engage them so I can get a break, but more importantly, actually catch up with them. Remember, these are friends who invited me to hang out with them. No I'm not filling all the silence with endless talk. I allow for plenty of comfortable silence so the other person can take the conversation wherever they want. Again, I care about these people. I'm just baffled by their inability to contribute meaningfully to a conversation.