TO BE CLEAR, By useless I mean "Ineffective at doing what they intend to do". In this context, that means identifying the person in question Basically any time a signature is used. it's purpose is useless. Here are some examples: 1. A signature at the bottom of a formal email, next to their name…

I should preface this by saying I have absolutely no background in economics. I haven't arrived at the view I'm about to outline through research, but simply through thinking about it. The reason I'm making this post is to hopefully hear from people who have a better grasp on this stuff than me. I'm…

Some time ago, a friend of mine found out through DNA test is not the father of either his son and daugther. Both of them are relatively young. He filed for divorce and obtained it, but since then he has to pay child support which comes out as more than half his paycheck. Plus he has rent and bills…

For the purpose of this post I will be defining intelligent life as an organism with comparable or superior mental capabilities to our own. I feel like it's a fairly commonly held belief especially among relatively young people that not only is there probably some intelligent life out there, but…

T-K (transitional Kindergarten) students, and I would argue kindergarten as well, probably through most of early elementary, should not receive homework at all, especially graded homework. My son is 5 years old, as of yesterday, but he’s been enrolled in a transitional kindergarten program at the…

I have been a volunteer tax preparer and seen firsthand how the bureaucratic minutia can overwhelm some people (especially low-income folks) and lead to late fees and other penalties when they fill out their taxes incorrectly. I'm not sure what good reason there is to make everyone do it themselves…

I admit it will be very difficult to change my view as I feel very strongly on this but I am open to reconsidering my view. 1. The term is completely unpronounceable in Spanish the way that people intend for it to be pronounced. If the people for whom the word is intended cannot even…

For context, I live in Scotland, which does have mask mandates from the government, and recently traveled to England, which does not (I think they might have starting yesterday because of the decepticon varient or whatever, but they didn't when I travelled a month or so ago). In Scotland, 95% of…

It's funny these posts I see like. "I told a guy I wouldn't date him and now he won't talk to me??" It's such a strange perspective. I have friends because we share specific hobbies or have known each other since we were kids. Romantic relationships are a different thing. I've had women say they…

Firstly I have to preface that although i did face bullying/harassment based on my sexual orientation, size and general physical appearance, I've never faced racial discrimination. So i only have a partial experience of the things I'll be talking about. I also wanna say that i entirely acknowledge…

I totally understand there are valid reasons to take a nice warm bath. If you're looking to relax, or soothe your muscles for instance, then I get the whole bath thing. I'm pretty sure baths are really good for exfoliating skin as well. However when we are talking about cleanliness I would argue…

Simple and short. Twitter allows all sorts of racism, and race baiting against "whites" like it's perfectly fine. All this does is creates an even deeper division How many tweets, that still exist today, did you see about the Christmas parade victims deserving it. Or it being karma. How many…

Racism is inherently a collectivist ideology: people from one group are taught to view themselves as inherently superior to another group based on their collective identity and the positive attributes they associate it with at the expense of another group whom they view as inferior. White supremacy…

Video games have surely prevented death and injury to millions of people in the world by distracting their players and preventing them from drug relapses/suicide/depression, possibly assault, alcoholism, drunk driving, and possibly hundreds more generally-death or injury prone circumstances. I…

Nowadays, women who enter religious orders must be eighteen and leaving at any time is permissible, even if you've sworn your vows. Dispensation is a very real thing and even then, fully joining takes years (I know someone who just got her final vows and she started in 2007). There are dozens of…

Imagine you’re walking down the street and see someone with a sign that says “If you’re having a bad day, you can hug me”. You hug the person, maybe talk to them about your troubles and go on about your day. Except then they stop you and say “hey this is actually a social experiment. Can I use you…

Now hear me out before. I really REALLY lack and proper education on the subject but I’ve heard from many their disapproval to the concept and at the same time heard friends speaking of it as ”get rich quick” schemes, which imo sounds to good to be true. Now I really want to become knowledgeable on…

It got me thinking about it after I read the testimony of this black woman from South Africa. She moved to another country and went to the doctor. Although the woman didn't show any related symptoms, the doctor requested her do an HIV test "because she is from Africa". The patient sees this as…

This attitude is especially prevalent on twitter: "Nordstrom is a multi-billion dollar company, who cares if they lose a few thousand dollars worth of inventory, they can just replace it." The way people frame it, the people who are against smash and grabs are the problem because they aren't talking…

1. Real communism may have not ever been achieved, but it has certainly been attempted, and to ignore that ignores the real and tangible contributions of real people to the theory and practice of socialism. Mao, Lenin, Castro and Stalin all read and wrote extensively about Marxist…

When I google "Darrell Brooks" and look at news in the past 24 hours, the only major outlets having any stories about this are Fox News and New York Post. CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, Washington Post, New York Times are all missing. There are also some local smaller outlets reporting on this. This should…

For a while I have supported the death penalty, but I now realise that the argument of executing innocent people is above all. As long as there is a risk of executing innocent people, the death penalty should not exist in society. It is estimated that at least 4% of people on death row are…

I'll never enjoy seeing someone getting hurt or killed no matter how "bad" of a person they are. even if they were literally Hitler. It happens often on reddit that I see posts about vigilante violence, or for example bikes being left unsupervised and trapped to hurt the thief, and people in the…

I (41F) have worked since I was 15 and hated every minute of it. Work just takes away from stuff I would rather be doing and honestly it depresses me and angers me so much that even during my off time I often don't end up doing what I want to do because I'm so pissed that I had to work and dread…

This happens to include this sub, although as per Rule D I am not talking about this sub in particular (and I DO still think it is entirely possible to change my mind--see below.) Anyway, this is how it goes on any sub not devoted to humor or neutral topics (i.e. without any political, social or…

This isn't going to be long. If a company requires an employee to be an unpaid intern before becoming a paid employee, they should be required to house them and feed them. Simple as that. It's basically indentured servitude otherwise. All volunteer work that is 40 hours a week or 3 full days or…

I believe that all rational agents have a right to bodily autonomy, and are allowed to alter or engage their own body in whatever way they see fit so long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of others. This would somewhat exclude young children, infants, and animals which is why we do certain…

Imagine if tomorrow, the government said that they would be removing all indicators of "control" on roads! No more lines separating lanes, no more stop signs, speed limits, red lights, green lights, pedestrian crossing signs etc... nothing! You have total freedom to drive how YOU want to drive…

I'll start by saying that I know most of Reddit agrees with me, but the common belief among right-wing folks seems to be that Kyle Rittenhouse was doing the right thing during the Kenosha unrest, and that his acquittal is a victory for the right to self defense in the US, so I want to give those…

As a fat person, I’m tired of seeing morbidly obese people embrace body positivity and glorify their horrible health choices. I understand a lot of things come into play with gaining weight. I’m not talking about 200 lb people, but people who are 300+ lbs believing they are healthy and that there’s…

I’m sure you’ve heard of everything that’s going on in the US right now, and I can’t help but ask myself what the country will look like in a few years. As you probably know, gerrymandering allows a party (both Democrats and Republicans do this) to essentially determine election results ahead of…

With a near 50/50 split in politics amongst Americans, taking a strong political stance is flat out foolish, why would you potentially eliminate half your customer base? Business and politics has no reason to be in association. Companies today taking strong progressive stances are being blackballed…

I hold this view because EVERY source I've seen that casts doubt on the safety or efficacy of the Covid vaccine goes right back to right-wing politics. They're political sources, they're published on political websites, they're bloggers who also post right-wing political view. Any non-political…

So my title may be a bit confusing. But there's a lot of anti-incel posts on reddit. Incels whine all day about how women don't date short men how women see short men as "not real men" etc etc. People, rightfully call them out and tell them to stop whining. However, I've seen people talk about how…

Ghosts, demons, deities, mythical creatures all of these claim to exist all of which are only propped up by anecdotal evidence. Video surveillance everywhere, everyone with a video recorder in their pockets, yet no evidence of anything abnormal. Mediums and psychics always being exposed as fruads.…

I believe that actions speak louder than words. If you are aware of and complain about the practices of a corporation - or even just a small business, I suppose - but you continue to spend your money there, then what you’re really saying is that the value of those goods and services outweigh the…

I have noticed that on social media, those who argue with incels tell them to get laid out of spite of making the incel mad. I will agree, making incels mad is quite funny. However, telling them to get laid will not stop them from hating women. The creation of incels goes far deeper than the…

I’m not sure how common it is around the US but you can usually tell when a crime is committed by a minority by the lack of description given. My local news will give a description of white people no problem even when it doesn’t necessarily matter. But when it’s a minority group it’s extra…

Most products/services involve endless paragraphs of legal jargon and terminology which simply cannot be described as accessible for the average consumer hence, as many surveys on the matter suggest, most consumers skim read or do not acknowledge, to any extent, said T&C's despite their acceptance…

IMO, a “smaller government” would have a reduced foreign military presence, strive for decreased incarceration and recidivism rates, (including the removal of privatized prison systems which drain resources and cost the states a lot of $$$) less police presence, end the war on drugs, remove laws…

As a longtime proponent and donor to Criminal Justice Reform initiatives, I am extremely distraught by the reaction to the verdict by so called "liberals" who spent much of last year praising BLM protests and have, at times, done some actual good work in terms of criminal justice (Campaign…

Under normal circumstances, the only reason to do this is to either prove a point (i.e., it's 'merica and we got our right to our gun) or to intimidate people. If there is active unrest and you want to sit on the roof of your own store or something like that with a rifle (like many of the Korean…

Ultimately, I think this doesn't go far enough; I think we ought to have socialized healthcare for everyone. But I do understand the arguments against it. However, I don't think that any of these arguments hold up when we're talking about children. Since children can't hold jobs, no amount of hard…

So I did not follow the Rittenhouse case on the news. I don’t watch live news, I don’t watch streams, I tend to, in general, steer clear of this kind of stuff. My only real understanding of what was going on with the Rittenhouse case was the few threads I read on here and a couple clips I saw/heard…

Until two years Ago I used to live in a neighborhood in Germany with a lot of Turkish and Russian immigrants. Most of them are very nice people. Regardless of their language skills. But I don't get why someone would live in a foreign country for 10 plus years (or even in second generation) and not…

I'm trans and I use whether or not someone have their pronouns in their signature as a sign of if they're safe to come out to or not. People that don't have their pronouns in their signature aren't guaranteed to be transphobic, but it's impossible to tell without additional context and information…

Nuclear energy gets some bad press, but most of this is unfounded. Nuclear energy has unfortunately suffered some pretty large PR disasters in the past (Chernobyl, Fukushima etc) and this has understandably shaken public trust in its safety. Despite its bad rep, nuclear energy has consistently been…

I see so many comments bring his race into the reason he got off, but if you really look at everything it’s because down to the data: he didn’t break any laws. So while I agree it was a bad situation to be in, and that how things played out is a tragedy, he still was held accountable to the extent…

My girlfriend has started following people who claim to be doctors on Tik Tok. She’s started telling me things like “did you know women aren’t provided any kind of pain medication after giving birth?”. That just sounds ridiculous, so I asked her where she learned it from. I told her any doctor that…

Edit: to clarify, I'm referring to the LEGAL right. As long as neither request nor refusal results in or calls for physical harm to either party, both are strictly matters of social contract, and fall outside the purview of law. Personal interpretation: a reasonable person should try their best…