u/CakeDayOrDeath
TIL The Boxcar Children, a series that starts out with four homeless orphan children living in a boxcar, was criticized when it first came out for depicting children living without parental supervision. Critics said it would encourage children to be rebellious.
en.wikipedia.orgWhy did the *exits* to the library lock in the Locked in the Library episode?
I understand locking the entrances once the library is closed, but why did they lock in a way where someone also couldn't exit? It's stupid and also really dangerous. Arthur and Francine could've died if there was a fire.
I guess it's possible that there was a fire exit and Arthur and Francine just didn't find it. Buildings in the US have been legally required to have fire exits since the 1800s, and it has been illegal to lock them since the 1940s.
Is the VFD eye symbol copyrighted?
I want to get a custom item with a quote from ASOUE, and I kind of want to ask them to add an image of the VFD eye to it. However, I'm wondering if this would be considered theft, piracy, or something similar.
I'm asking someone on Etsy to do this, and asking someone to do copyrighted designs violates Etsy's TOS.
E.g. would it be morally wrong and/or violate Etsy TOS to send the person a link to one of the designs on this wiki page? https://snicket.fandom.com/wiki/V.F.D._Eye
America's Next Top Model
Is it me or were there an unusual amount of contestants on the show with unique and/or creatively spelled names? I have low key wondered if they were more likely to select people with those types of names.
Is it possible to have delusions and be pretty consistently aware that they're probably not true?
I am aware that this was paranoia, but I didn't know that this might be psychosis.
Back before I was medicated for bipolar disorder, I was having this belief that I couldn't admit to doing any bad things online, even in private messages, because various people, even the cashier at the store, would hack my accounts and see those things. I also thought sometimes that I couldn't think about doing certain bad things around certain people because they would know that I was thinking about it.
However, I was often able to tell myself that this was probably not true and sounded ridiculous. I thought it was just severe anxiety. It often manifested the way my anxiety does in general: I don't think this is true, but what if it is? I even told a couple of friends that I have these thoughts but I don't think they're rational.
I've heard that for people with psychosis, that they're not able to tell themselves that these thoughts are not true and are not rational. I'm also not sure how these paranoid episodes could happen this rarely since I was undermedicated until very recently.
Was what I was experiencing psychosis?
Certain people in online prediabetes communities starter pack
These communities were helpful back when I was prediabetic, but man, some people were over the top.
Kids discover that they were part of the weirdest custody agreement ever.
reddit.comA rich dude tries to use a pineapple to run away from his problems.
reddit.comI didn't get perfect accuracy today because the NWL doesn't consider this to be a word. I'm annoyed.
Does the wizarding world just not understand the concept of animal cruelty?
The stuff that kids do to animals in the series can be kind of horrifying.
In the fifth book, the students have to vanish mice and then kittens during Transfiguration. Even if this is painless for the mice and kittens, they are effectively killing small animals just because they can.
In the fourth book, when they're turning hedgehogs into pincushions, Professor McGonagall says to a student that his pincushion still curls up in fright when someone approaches it with a pin. This implies that there's a spectrum of incomplete transfiguration and that there's a possibility that a hedgehog can be close enough to a pincushion that it can't move while getting stabbed with pins.
There are other cases of incomplete transfiguration where animals end up deformed. Sure they can be put right, but it has to be so unpleasant for the animal until then.
Thoughts on this?
When an OP asks a question, and all the comments actually answering the question get downvoted.
This happens all the time, typically when someone asks a question about a controversial topic. I may not agree with the people who answer the question, but the purpose of the OP asking the question was to hear from those people.
Edit: I realized I should've given an example. There was an AskReddit thread about a month ago where an OP asked women who slept with married men to share why they did it. The top comments were mostly women saying they wouldn't do that, and the comments from women who were sharing why they had slept with married men were downvoted.
I submitted a data request and then realized that some images I sent years ago had grids. Am I going to get banned?
I just created a data request for an account I've had for years. I then noticed that I've sent photos years ago that have grids on them e.g. a meme with a keyboard, a photo of a window.
I'm worried about my account getting flagged by the process of the app gathering and reviewing all this data. Am I being overly anxious?