r/10thDentist

Forget about all the usual arguments against double spaces after periods. It looks weird, it makes you look old… modern technology fixed the problem with typewriters… we get it.

I’m a young(ish) double spacer in my early 30s. I didn’t start until I was forced to in law school. But now I won’t stop because I think it makes my writing better. Let me explain.

The double space forces your mind to take an extra millisecond after a sentence. This is way more useful than most realize.

For one, it’s a tiny mental break. A reward for a sentence completed.

But more importantly, it distinguishes the period from all other punctuation in a way that fits the purpose of the period.

A period is final. Complete. The end of the sentence. It gets 3 taps (the period and two spaces). “Tap, tap-tap.”

A comma is less final, so it’s just a simple “tap.”

The weirder punctuation, like question marks, get a slower double tap (shift and ?). “Tap..tap.”

If you type a lot and fast, the “tap, tap-tap” period forces you to take an extra millisecond to acknowledge the completeness of your sentence.

Over time I believe that this will make you a better writer. Knowing when to end a sentence is important! The extra space allows you to feel it. It becomes more intuitive.

Bonus: you can use it as a proofreading tool! Go back and read each sentence and remove the double space when you are done. That’s what I do for certain docs! It lets you check off each sentence as correct. And then no one will think you are old!

Disclaimer: I have been to therapy and a very close family member of mine is a therapist.

It's become a cliché on Reddit that the answer to almost any problem is simply "go to therapy," as though therapy were a one stop solution to every personal struggle. I've been on Reddit for 5+ years, and I don't remember this being nearly as prevalent back then. It feels like the sentiment has exploded over the past few years. At the same time, I'm constantly hearing popular podcasters read ads for online therapy companies like BetterHelp. Maybe these things are unrelated, but the timing has made me question how much of this cultural shift has been driven by marketing.

What really brought this home for me is how often people respond to a difference of opinion with "you need therapy." I can express a perfectly ordinary perspective, and if it doesn't align with another Redditor's worldview, the assumption seems to be that something must be psychologically wrong with me. Apparently, the disagreement itself is evidence that I need professional help.

Since when did therapy become the default explanation for why someone thinks differently? It seems like a reductive way to approach something as complex as the human mind. Not every disagreement is a symptom, not every unconventional opinion is a sign of dysfunction, and not every personal struggle can be solved by talking to a therapist.

To be clear, I'm not arguing that therapy is inherently bad or that there is some grand conspiracy (therapy industrial complex) behind it. Therapy can be genuinely helpful, and there are situations where professional help is needed. But there's also a massive financial incentive for the mental health industry to expand the number of people who believe they absolutely need its services. When a culture starts treating deviations from socially accepted opinions or behaviors as evidence of psychological dysfunction, it creates a convenient market for an industry that profits from addressing that dysfunction.

Ironically, even after posting this, I am sure there will be more than a handful of NPCs that will try to dig through my post history, find any controversial opinion that I have made, and claim that I am deeply troubled and need therapy.

like okay yeah they r a stranger but it’s not like they’re aliens if i see a hot guy on halloween who’s my type im gonna approach him & we may make out who cares!! “but herpes” yeah, that’s true, but better than hiv or gonorrhea. im probably never gonna see the dude again sooo why not just have some mouth fun 😺

Kale is hearty and easy to grow. It can be eaten raw or cooked. You can sautée it with some garlic and olive oil in just a couple minutes and it’s delicious! I also add it to soups and a lot of sauces, where it completely takes on all the other flavors.

As we generally see people say the traditional "you're welcome" when someone thanks for any reason but I feel like nodding with a warm gesture gives a 100x better feeling of warmth and satisfaction too .

I saw somewhere when a lady was thanking a guy who helped her in his own way .

She whispered "Thank you" from a distance and that guy responded with a warm nod , a slow nod in affirmation.....i don't know why but it hit me that it felt so good compared to saying the traditional reply .

Maybe it's because I don't see many or more like almost no one doing the same , that it made me feel good cuz it was different or it's just that this nodding process itself is touching.

The same happened to me like one day I was just visiting a flower show going on in my city ( it only occurs once a year ) and there was this old lady that came up to me asking for some help regarding her snapchat , she wanted to click pics but didn't know how to see those pics once she is done clicking. I myself don't use snapchat but anyways I helped her out . She thanked me and I nodded . I was overwhelmed that I helped someone out and on my nodding part too .

"Nod so fine

It's sinfully divine" :Q

My wife is a vet & I've just read a post about a cat having worms and the owner being unable to afford the vet. Lots of sympathetic comments.

I get it. Times are hard and vet bills are expensive. But IMO if you cannot afford to provide medical care for your pet, you shouldn't own it.

I've heard various things:

"*But I rescued her!*"

Rescued how? She's in a really bad condition. Maybe don't drag her from the frying pan into the fire.

"*She is my one joy in life and you want to take her away*"

What about **the animal**? It doesn't exist to comfort and entertain you at the expense of it's own welfare.

This usually gets shot down as a classist thing - but if you don't have medical insurance (or significant funds to use in case), you should *not* own an animal.

there is something so therapeutic about grocery stores. like as a kid i used to find them boring but now im 20 and i love going to grocery stores. just something so electric about going into a nicely lit or dim grocery store, not too big and bright like walmart, i love shoprite, stop & shop, target. aldi’s feels too much like a warehouse, and costco is…well costco. but it just feels like peak life sometimes going into a shoprite in the afternoon, the front store big windows creating a natural sunlight while everyone’s doing their thing. looking at all the selections of food, the fresh fruits, the pastries, the beverages and that smell as you walk past the already made food. filling your cart with whatever and going up to the self checkout, scanning items.

i think this is why i love being a cashier, i miss my cashier job at dollar tree honestly. sure i was tired at times but i loved scanning items, listening to the pos sounds & talking to a diverse network of customers, including the crazy ones which i laugh about as a memory. counting money and telling them to have a great day. you know how people say they love the feeling of walking out of a movie theater? that’s how i feel about grocery stores. i love feeling the outside air against me as i get my groceries and go :) it just feels so, idk how to explain it. i just love grocery stores, i feel this way about retail stores like kohls, and only kohl’s, it feels so 2013 every time i step inside there with the pop music playing and it’s warm air but not too hot, while the middle aged ladies shop. finding cute little hair products and the isle of random lip balms (my kohl’s has the regular eos lip balms again!!) i love the vibes of it all. its just a really nice outing.