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Personally I pretty much always use sunglasses as long as there's just a wee bit of sunlight

Since gas hit $6 a gallon, I calculated my monthly fuel bill. 40 miles to work (round trip), 4 days a week. I drive the speed limit, tires properly inflated, no excessive trips. Regular unleaded. $400!!!

I know that very few people do like their jobs but some people do like their jobs.

This genuinely baffles me and I wonder if anyone else has the same issues. Like my body could be shutting down or straight up be ill yet the minute I step into the ER or a hospital suddenly my body wants to start working properly and act like all the issues and symptoms it was showing before suddenly don't exist. Does this happen to anyone else?

I’ve been in a position multiple times where a friend will bring up how they want plastic surgery, and I never know what to say. It’s not like they ask me what I think anyway, but am i supposed to convince them not to because they’re already pretty? I feel like being happy for them is just as bad. This topic just makes me overthink my responses way too much and I always end up trying to change the conversation because I just don’t know how I’m supposed to respond!

Ignoring calls and messages gets more common everyday. It has happened at some point with everyone. People I love, people I don't, people I know and strangers I just met, in the last ten years midconversation they will just never reply and in the future never explain why. Why does it still hurt? I should be familiar enough with it by now to not care. If anything I am just getting angrier with each new ghost. Is the only way to defeat this to start ghosting people first?

are humans really desensitised and is it a problem? i’ve seen so many people say that social media is making us desensitised to things like injury, death or graphic situations in general but wasn’t there a time on earth (like way way way way back) where our specie was just hunting and killing and learning how to survive js out in the wild. like they faced death and graphic things everyday? just like every other wild animal. so why is it a problem that we see it on social media?

Some backstory: I have one of those bed frames where the backboard is shelves and I keep my books on top of my backboard. I do have a large amount of books on the shelf, to the point where I can no longer stuff anymore books in there. I also have some books and an Eeyore (from winnie the pooh) plushie stacked on top of the books on the shelf. Now to the question: nearly once a week, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" slips out of the book shelf and onto my pillow, along with my Eeyore plushy. The Eeyore is pretty pushed back from the edge of the book it sits on. I have tried moving Dorian Gray into different places in the shelf, but it always falls. Is this because of the pressure from the other books? If so, why does the Eeyore always fall? sorry if this sounds like a dumb question.

Like on soda bottles, do people unscrew them clockwise in the southern hemisphere?

Will they just be forgotten about and randomly unfreeze when the project loses funding in the future

Which do you prefer?

Turning back the clock? Or permanently keeping the time as it is?

Currently, it will stay lighter out in the evening, but will have later sunrises.

So I'm watching Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning right now.

I know that Tom Cruise does a lot of his own stunts in the films.

I also know that there are extreme mountaineers (as one of many examples), such as Alex Hannold, who compete in extreme sports, where, in this case, he climbs the most extreme mountains etc with no ropes whatsoever!

What I'm asking is, are there ACTUAL real life incidents whereby, kind of similar to Tom Cruise films (probably not to that extent), where their strength and agility is SO INCREDIBLE, that they actually survive, due to their wit, strength, and I guess miraculous actions?

Like REAL LIFE situations??

Thanks

This is actually a multi part question as the witness reports of the scene of the execution make me feel like I have forgotten how to read English. Like the witnesses are reporting on a half remembered fever dream as opposed to the reports of people specifically chosen because of their ability to report what they have witnessed.

1. The witnesses report that a rock, or something like a rock, was placed on a table through a panel in the execution chamber after the lethal drug was administered. Then the rock was like taken away. Then it was put back. But then it was taken away. What the hell is the rock? Why the rock? WHAT IS THE ROCK AND WHAT DOES IT SIGNIFY? It is driving me nuts that people are reporting witnessing something like that, which is strange, and no one is even trying to explain it. I have looked and there is no record of what the rock means. They put a panel on the execution chamber I assume specifically for the rock and does it have historical significance?

To be extremely clear, I assume it is some signal that they are waiting for the drugs to take effect or it means the person is deceased or something. Like “stone dead” but why a rock? I would like to have an actual cited source as to why the state of Tennessee performs this bizarre ritual which no one seems to understand.

2. Were the witnesses specifically chosen by Tennessee because they were actually very stupid and bad at reporting things? There were actual reporters in the witness area who are reporting things in a way I can only describe as having the same mental clarity and acuity of a very small child. They were reporting Christina as “snoring”, like that is the report. That she was loudly snoring. Again no one is attempting to provide context to what the hell that means. Were there no doctors as witnesses? To be a witness to an execution in Tennessee do you have to have a head injury and not know what like, extreme respiratory distress is? No they reported her “snoring” like oh, she just got tuckered out by the lethal injection not working and is taking a little snooze.

3. What is the point in having witnesses at all if they reported things as if they were children telling about how their parents told them at the hospital that their grandma was alright, she’s just going to sleep for a long time and she’s very tired so they needed to leave the hospital so the doctors could tuck her in. Like what is even the point?

I wanted to be a pilot so I could escape this dump and go wherever I wanted. I'm unemployed right now so not much to say about that.

Guys don't always ask for much, but little things can mean a lot. What is a simple detail or action that really sticks with you?

Personally, alone! I need the time to breathe and get myself together. I’ll reach out when I feel better

Would the population drop 99 percent

I have a proper drug test tomorrow but im worried i may not pass it. i bought one of those at home ones and two lines have shown one being clear the other being quite faint but still obviously there. the instructions say even the faintest of lines is considered safe. HELP

I finally left my minimum wage retail job as of yesterday. I've gotten so tired of making $18/hour in 2026 in a goddamned vhcol area after finishing my cs degree. I made $18/hour in 2019, before college (close to $30/hour in 2026 dollars in terms of purchasing power). I'm free, finally. No savings or anything. I had to pay off like 30k in student loans making $18/hour.

I have been making less than 66% of what I made as an 18 year old in terms of purchasing power 7 years later, after graduating college and everything. I was horrified at the realization. That's why I quit.

The Despair I felt from this is what creates criminals, what causes the end of lives... this Despair is causing 10x the level of Deaths to Despair compared to the Great Depression. *That*, my friends, is the true state of this country.

I'm now unemployed. I'm a NINJA. No Income, no Job, no Assets. I'm the dark of the night. The Despair that haunts humanity, that will end our society as it stands.

If I was kicked out at 18, I'd have become a homeless criminal and/or a drug addict by 19. I cannot afford rent, so given that, it's financially irresponsible to exist. This is the end of my career, or lack thereof.

I can't even get a gosh darned sales role that pays $25/hour. What a dream that'd be, over a 33% pay bump from what I've made this year... only to still make less than what I made when I was 18.

I have no money for another round of schooling, nor any real work experience. Just swe internships... and retail. I can't pivot with that. So what do I do?

It’s not really a big deal but I was invited to a pretty big Halloween party on October 31st and I really want to go because I’ve never been to a party before you know? However, I really want to go to the Steve lacy concert which is the same day and it’s literally only 50 dollars for a ticket. He’s also going on the day before but It’s much more expensive. It’s like 140 dollars for one ticket and I’m thinking of paying it because I really want to go but at the same time I really want to save money.

Should I just pay the extra money so I can go to the concert and Halloween party or should I skip it so I can save 90 dollars?