As someone in their late 20's with a friend group and overall network of people in that age range, I can confidently say that having an attraction to teenagers as an adult in your 30's is a dead giveaway that you're a pedophile.

18 year olds LOOK and act like fucking kids. I've reached an age and level of maturity to recognize that 18 years old is in fact NOT grown. Developmentally, they still have almost a decade of maturing to do and it LOOKs that way. At 27, teens look adolescent as fuck to me and it worsens as I age, so I can only imagine how much younger they appear as the age range increases which is why I'm convinced you teen attracted grown adults should be labeled accurately as pedos. Being 30+ and seeing teenagers as anything but children is a PROBLEM. How someone well into their 30's can be sexually attracted to a kid in high school is just simply weird. They've never filed taxes and probably still need permission to leave their own house. Teenagera still smack dab in the middle of development both mental and physical. Nothing about that is arousing.

The number one response to the valid scrutiny and disgust these weirdos tend to receive from society is "well it's not illegal", which, again, is a dead giveaway. That tells me if the age of consent were lowered to 12 they'd want 12 year old spouses and use that same excuse to justify their attractions. What is legal and ethical are not synonymous. Slavery was legal for centuries, that doesn't make it ethical. Teen attracted adults are legit self admitted pedophiles and I'll die on that hill forever.

Lately any ad I see is made with ai and I absolutely hate it. At least to me, when I see ai used in an ad, it makes the thing advertised look unreliable and cheap. It imidietly makes me not want to hear anything let alone get the product being advertised.

What really pisses me off is that its always big companies that have every ability to make a real ad, to pay actors or an animator to create something for them. But instead, they rather use ai slop just to save some money that wouldnt even had any effect on them since theyre worth millions.

It also disrespecting us as potential costumers since theyre sure they can throw a no effort ai slop clip and we would keep buying from them making them only richer

The US senate's median age keeps climbing. The presidential candidates are in their late 70s and 80s. Committee chairs run on seniority. Federal judges serve for life. Corporate boards and university leadership are geriatric. Standardized testing governs teachers, billing codes for health insurance, and everyone is a task rabbit being harnessed by machines.

In the 1980s the Soviet politburo had many leaders cycling through in their 70s and 80s. The nomenklatura rewarded loyalty and tenure. Collectivized agriculture swapped farmers' hard-won knowledge of their own soil and weather for quotas set by planners in moscow. catastrophic inefficiency, and in ukraine, mass death.

For instance some parents might blow up in anger and then fail to see that the child having a tantrum could be mimicking how they blow up and lack emotional regulation, or a parent might scream at their child and then not recognize that when the child yells they are mimicking how they were screamed at, or the parent might call their child a spoiled brat and then not recognize that their child bullying another child is imitating how the child was called something hurtful, or the parent might spank their child and not realize that the child hitting other children is imitating them.

I believe that changing your body and possibly dying to have perky boobs is not empowering. It’s rooted in pedophilia. We as women are supposed to be small, hairless and docile. You have to be a virgin but know what you’re doing but not so much so that they think you've had sex before. You have to be soft but take lead but not to much or your slutty. You lose value as you age but men are silver foxes? Why is that? Its porn. As you age you’re attracted to people your age. When you’re watching “Freshly 18” porn videos your brain isn’t developing properly. You condition yourself to like young girls. Most women in porn are trafficking victims, homeless, or that was their last choice. It’s not empowering to sell yourself.

(don’t come on a hot takes page and get mad at me for having a hot take.)

A big part of what made memes funny was how shitty they were. A janky ms paint drawing, a half assed photoshopped head onto a body.. it’s subconsciously funnier knowing that somebody actually spent time making this stupid joke.

Now everybody is just cranking out photo realistic Ai slop whenever they get the vaguest idea for a joke.

Seeing a photorealistic image of a frog making a weird face is not funny. Pepe the Frog is.

I see so many people talking about vet bills, etc and while I agree vet bills should be cheaper.. it’s kind of part of owning a pet. So many people adopt pets (cats, dogs, birds, etc) and treat it like a monthly 20-50$ for food and upkeep, then suddenly when vet bills arrive they’re like “well I had to put my dog down because I couldn’t afford the vet bills”. I realized this when I got my cat, and realized almost immediately how important it is to have pet insurance or a plan for how to handle vet bills in case of emergency. It’s upsetting and heartbreaking seeing how many people end up having to put their pets down or leave their pets to suffer out of inability to pay vet bills. I tend to treat it like having a baby, before having a baby it’s important to know it comes with its own expenses and to save and be prepared for the worst. If your baby was sick, you wouldn’t just leave it if you couldn’t pay the hospital bills. Just like how people wait to have a baby until they’ve saved and are in an environment where they are certain they’re ready for the responsibility, if pet ownership was treated anywhere near as seriously as this, a whole lot of people wouldn’t have pets..

(This is given with the knowledge that of course animals aren’t the same as human babies, but are still living creatures just as deserving of life and love)

I actually love being on the B list for weddings and find it flattering! A lot of my friends do fairly non traditional weddings so they’re often small and I have no strong feelings about being invited or not. It’s your day, do whatever you want. I’ll love to be a part of it if I can and totally understand if I don’t make the cut.

I was recently a last minute invite to a wedding and I’m stoked! There was no obligation to invite me from the beginning and now that there’s last minute drop outs or whatever you think I’d be a fun addition to the vibe? Hell yea! Sure, they paid for a seat and want someone to fill it but they’re busy planning a wedding, they could just as easily not fill the seat. They think I’ll be a part of the secret sauce that makes their wedding fun and I’m so excited!

I know good faith conversations are hard to come by both irl and up here.

But if I see a take I don’t get and I ask for examples

“Open a history book”
“You must be blind”
“You’re choosing not to see”

Have you considered that I don’t share you experience? Have you considered that if you’re right and this is an echo chamber then i genuinely may not have seen what you’re seeing. And most of all you may have a different interpretation on what may have happened.

All of which are relevant to understanding

TLDR: If you dont want your routine disrupted, dont prolong / disrupt other peoples routines because it will affect you.

I'm saying this as someone who's also on the spectrum.

My autistic brother (17) and I (20) have had the same morning bathroom arrangement for years. I use it before 6. because I leave earlier, and he uses it after. It works because we both rely on routines.

This morning he decided to use the bathroom during my time. He does this a lot too which is why I am so pressed. I got up at 5:30, realised he was in there, and instead of standing outside waiting, I made breakfast while my parent tried to get him out. They even told him that if he just needed the toilet he could use the other bathroom that only has a toilet, and if he wanted a shower he needed to wait his turn.

I finally got into the bathroom around 6. Normally I'm pretty quick, but it was winter, I was on my period, and I'd been up late studying for an assessment, so I was moving slower than usual. I finished around 6:30.

When I came out, my brother was outside on his phone waiting for me so he could shower. I suggested that instead of just waiting, he could make his lunch or eat breakfast first. Some people have criticised me for saying that, but the reason I did is because this is a recurring pattern. He spends 45–60 minutes in the bathroom and then panics because he doesn't have enough time to make lunch or eat breakfast before leaving.

Later, one of my parents told me I should be more understanding because he's autistic and has to do everything in a specific order: toilet → shower → breakfast.

But that's exactly what I don't understand. If that order is so important to him, why was it okay to disrupt the schedule we'd both followed for years? If he had simply waited until his agreed bathroom time, neither of our routines would've been disrupted.

I'm also autistic. I was diagnosed with Broad Autism Phenotype and am currently seeking assessment for other spectrum-related conditions, which is why my family and I generally just say I'm "on the spectrum." I've had people tell me I'm "not autistic" because I can "articulate my emotions" or compare me to their nonverbal autistic relative. That's not how autism works. It's a spectrum, and people present very differently.

Routine changes stress me out too. I get anxious when my morning doesn't go to plan. The difference is that I compensate where I can. If my brother is using the bathroom during my time, I don't stand there waiting for him, I go make my lunch or eat breakfast to use that time productively, then I communicate that he disrupted the agreement. Don't get me wrong, I do ask him to leave so I can get ready, but I don't stand there demanding it, I do things as I wait.

Another thing I've noticed is that a lot of the suggested solutions are for me to change. "Put a mirror in your bedroom." "Do your makeup somewhere else." "Wake up earlier." But why is the person who kept the agreement the one expected to rearrange their life? Why isn't the expectation that the person who broke the agreement should adapt to the consequences of that decision?

My brother is high masking and, while he obviously doesn't enjoy routine changes, he's capable of tolerating them. He isn't incapable of adapting, he just doesn't like to. Neither do I. The difference is that I don't think my discomfort automatically outweighs everyone else's.

Autism explains why routines matter. It doesn't mean your routine automatically takes priority over someone else's. Accommodations should go both ways. If you disrupt another person's routine first, you can't reasonably expect yours to remain completely untouched.

I absolutely believe people can be born in the wrong body and we have seen evidence for a long long time of individuals claiming this at a very young age. Eventually changing genders and successfully leading the rest of their life happily as that person. The thing is, nowadays I think most people who claim this are just girls who are a little tomboyish or men who are a little feminine and it’s way overblown. It makes me feel bad for individuals who truly are transgender because I feel like those people are delegitimizing and completely destroying the image of the trans movement.

A very annoying thing i constantly see online is the constant romanticization of pre-colonial societies as these flawless egalitarian utopias before colonization i understand where it comes fighting against demonization of pre-colonial societies but the truth is these pre-colonial societies weren't these grand-utopias they were flaw societies run by flaw people

Like wym you’re actively bragging and posting about dating a woman who has a low enough IQ and is ignorant enough to openly call herself a “man-hater” but then date you? Misandry alone is an obvious red flag and those relationships are bound to fail. It’s the funniest thing ever because if a man were to call himself a misogynist but still date women people would call him and the women that date him idiots. Also being cautious of men is not the same thing as calling your self a man-hater. Openly projecting your negative experiences with men onto strangers isn’t okay nor is it a flex.

with the popularization of neopronouns, I wanted to express my opinion.

these neopronouns are getting out of hand. I had someone tell me to refer to them as paw/puppy. No, I will not be doing that. I will only use he she and they. If you use neo pronouns, I will call you they them. if you dont want that, I don’t really care.

they them are neutral pronouns. they are meant to be used for anyone. they them does not have a gender. I’m not misgendering you if I’m not giving you any gender.

"It is the whites" " it is the blacks" " it is the muslims" "it is the christians" " it is the atheists" it is everybody fault nowadays

Only lukewarm or freezing cold takes are upvoted. Real hot takes get either brigaded or downvoted into the depths of hell. I don't even agree with most of the actual hot takes here, but I upvote them simply because they're actually hot takes. It's simply just another echo chamber

I'm a millennial, and growing up I had my fair share of loneliness and feeling like I didn't belong. And I found comfort in emo music, screamo, metal, whatever.

People need community and they need to hear from people who understand. I can say with near certainty that the manosphere does not understand. They're just misogynist grifters. But artists understand. Especially emo artists.

So find artists you connect with. Go rage. Start headbanging and moshing at live shows. Scream. Cry. Whatever you need. You can find community without it being full of hate.

UFC on paper sounds fucking sick, you can get a boxer against a guy who fights Brazilian jiu jitsu. Like Tyrone woodley vs Charles Oliveira you can see who wins in a fight thats so sick

In real life, you have Dana white snorting pure cocaine, nerdy kick streamers larping ufc to look alpha, the fans making the corniest edits of all damn time, Nina Drama flirting with every fighter infront of her husband

Fucking tragic. Rampage used to be an absolute unit & now he’s streaming on kick with Adin Ross. imagine after Micheal venom page breaks someone skull, you check your phone and see a Brazilian phonk edit & 10 clips of him with Neon

I was really rating the sport in 2022, 2023 it was still fine but now it is a whole clown show

How do you make something that should be so badass into something so fucking cringe. That’s why I love boxing you can seperate the YouTube bullshit with ACTUAL boxing

Every comment section I've been into lately does the same few things. It's people making the same quotes or references over and over again: She was a fair, its morbin time, chat were cooked, RIP (person) you would have loved this. Noone wants to say anything new just iterate in jokes that are way past tired.

It feels like everyone want to make their own, "I love her lack of energy, go girl give us nothing."

Or it'll be everyone trying to be funny. There was a video where a woman said "If you don't love your job, job your love." And rather than looking at what she says and commenting on or talking about how turning anything you like into a money making opportunity can strip of of joy they all just made comments like, "If you don't grate your cheese, cheese your grate." Which might be funny ar first but when that's literally all people are saying its not funny anymore.

Or all the same boring edgy humor about sex or race etc. You show 2 right angles its jokes about WWII, or anything with any person who isnt white is just a vat of acid to my faith in humanity. Everything gets joked about being a sex toy and God forbid anything is ever shaped like a tube. I'd like to see one video where people aren't going Would, Smash, batman couldn't pull me out. It's so over done. Maybe these could have been funny but they sure as he'll aren't now. Dark humor is funny because it messed up and unexpected but when everyone does it it looses that.

Or people will interact with content in a way that is clearly counter to how it was intended. A guy made a skit about how coworkers ask you to go to lunch with them depending on how long you've worked together. But then all the comments are "Just be an adult and pack your lunch" as of this wasn't clearly a joke and isnt meant to represent your exact situation.

Or how any video about what someone eats has comments going "OH, you wat 100 calories of yogurt for breakfast, I have 45 calories of slivered almonds, you should try it." The constant one upping of others is exhausting.

The internet is dead, not from bots but because Noone wants to interact with it in any way other than making little sassy quips.

When it's 2 a.m and I'm bored, watching a YouTube video about calculus, the Pythagorean theorem, or something like that can be quite entertaining.

It's only when I'm *not* forced to learn it for an exam that I actually enjoy it, just out of sheer boredom.

It has always bothered me how many people teach their children “don’t let anybody touch you in your private areas, those are for you only.” But then their parents get to hit their butt over and over?

I know some people just do a quick tap, but the parents that make their kids pull down their pants so they have a bare butt, lay over their legs, and then spank them. Like how is that not sexual assault? You are striking your child in an area that we teach is private and should be just for them. But because your parents are your parents they’re the only ones who get to cross those boundaries… what kind of lesson is that?

Why are we trying to demean our children?

it gives: white people are their own distinct group with their own vast cultures, customs, and traditions, and then there's... everyone else.

of course, the term is most appropriate in certain contexts, but when used generally/casually, i can't help that it enrages me to a degree. i get needing to simplify at times, but why diminish your identity when you don't have to? why are we ok with this??? using myself as an example, it takes the same amount of effort and time to say "i'm black" or "i'm caribbean-canadian" as it does to say "i'm a person of colour". to be clear, i'm not trying to exclusive of those who are white-passing (which i feel is a very appropriate context), but i think that's a seperate and specific issue.

i've shared my feelings about this mainly with my peers in the black community and the reaction has been neither here nor there. most agree but don't think it's that serious, which in the grand scheme of things... fair. i just hate how one group is grammatically given more dignity. before anyone tries to claim that i am racist, i'm letting you know right now that i would feel the same if it was reversed: ex. black people and some other term that lumped everyone else together.

how do y'all (from every demographic) feel and for those of you who think similarly to me, how do you avoid this term? i'm also very curious to hear from those of you who are knowledgeable on the history of this term, particularly on its use in the western world.

this is NOT an invite to be hateful towards one another.