Finding relationships is really impossible these days. I, and many other people in gen z, missed the best chance to find a relationship because of the actions of the older gens like gen x, millennials, and boomers.

When covid struck, the old people in the government shut everything down, including college. They forced social isolation and online classes instead. Now out of college and having my entire youth wasted by the actions of the ignorant, it is seemingly much harder to find people to meet. Basically hardcore difficulty.

There are no third places or cheap event tickets like what the old gens used to have when they were young. For example, the Amazon online store have caused the closure of many malls across the country because of convenience over quality. The internet is destroying society sadly.

Such is similar with social media which has caused many people to stop making an effort to meet others irl. Gen z is now the most anti social generation in history because of the rise of social media. People paved roads to hurry through life and now theres barely any people walking down a path to greet each other.

I can only imagine how much worse the male loneliness epidemic will get it the future.

Hey, I’ve been seeing a lot of religious and even people who pretend to be religious just to sh*t on the LGBTQIA+ community.
I am a religious transgender homosexual man, and I know for a fact that it’s not any kind of sin in any possible way. It is definitely not a necessary component of Christian religious beliefs.

The religious texts and manuscripts still used today were written in a very different historical context from the one we’re living now, and treating those norms as eternal laws just takes off the moral message of the word faith in itself. Actually, the concepts of sexual orientation and gender identity did not exist when those first texts were written, so the people saying that the Bible is strictly against homosexuality and transsexuality are actively lying just to get their point across. If you want to see for yourself the arguments that proclaimed religious individuals use, you’ll notice that all of those passages that “condemn LGBTQIA+ individuals” are most frequently misinterpreted and taken out of the historical context they really belong in.
Religion in itself is a framework for community and ethics. The people who turn their faith around just to promote exclusion of a specific group or community are just reflecting their interpretation, rather than trying to express the essence of what is the point of a religious belief.
True believers would say that religious practices are based on empathy, justice and the defense of those who are marginalised, and that directly opposes the bigotry some are associating religion with.

Knowing this allows all of us (religious or not) to see that prejudice against others is not inherent to spirituality nor religion, it is just a reflection of human nature and rigidity, ultimately because genuine faith is rooted in love, compassion and dignity.

I remember a few days ago I was getting food from a place that offers free food like 2 days in a week and one of the Moids that was giving me the box of food

Had said "oh do you ever smile when you come here you always look sad" and then he pretended to do a face expression I do which was a very exaggerated sad face expression and I'm pretty sure that was his sly way of telling me to smile more

mind you I don't even know who this guy is or pay attention to him why are you paying so much attention to me?? When I don't even pay attention to you like

I have literally never seen this guy in my life maybe I did but I honestly never cared enough to recognize his face men need to stop commenting on how a womans face should look mind your fucking business fuck

That honestly disturbed me for 1 hour my whole mood literally changed because maybe if my face is deadpen all the time then it's probably because thats just my resting face duhh like omg i don't have to smile theirs nothing to smile about in life

And who's smiling when in a crowded place who's enjoying being around so many people in a line and mind you their were a lot of women who go to get free food who do not smile or who's faces are neutral but no he decided to specifically talk about me??

I hate moids so much and the person that was with me was saying it's not that serious he was just joking well don't play with me like that if you don't comment on other womens appearance then don't comment on mine I don't even play like that

I think proshippers are closeted pedophiles/ incest supporters because I saw post on the proship sub about asking what is your favourite child /adult ships then I commented on that sub that it's disgusting but I got 52 downnvotes losing some of my karma.

These weirdos say that it's fictional and it's hot and I thought too myself wtf? Like incest is bad like why the fuck would you support something that represents it even if fucking fictional.

These pedo supporters do not deserve their safe space and deserve to be judged by us anti shippers.

There was another post in the sub responding to a screenshot re-tweet of someone judging a person saying their attracted to Dora and June( minors btw). And most of the comments were kinda disgusted but say its fictional anyway but one comment outright says hes attracted to both of them.

I hate proshippers so much man.

Men always discuss women's body count, but not the men who are hook up Kings.

Most men aren't aware how forthcoming women are when they show their interest towards a man.

I think it is always women who drop subtle hints at the man they like. Most men never get that. It is quite frustrating for most men, but that's just the way it is.

The whole pick up artist industry thrives on fooling men. If a man is below 6 feet and doesn't have the face, he will have a very hard time in todays dating scene.

I personally never judge men and never shame them if they don't get women. The traditional Christian values of getting married, having integrity and hard work is obsolete. At least in the current scenario. A man can afford to be an absolute jerk, as long as he is tall and handsome.

I am a 17 year old Chinese non binary boarding student in the UK and I want to get puberty blockers, even though it is probably too late for that. However, I have 6 big hurdles

1. The NHS doesn't allow puberty blockers for minors anymore, and even if I wait til I'm 18, they'll put me on a long waiting list and will need parental consent, buy then it's literally useless, and if I use private healthcare, that is way too expensive and also requires parental consent

2. Being Chinese, my parents believe in traditional values and have expressed multiple times that they "support the LGBTQ community but are disgusted by them" and there's no way that they would support me

3. If I get DIY HRT, then I still don't have money, and also the packages would be delivered to my school, where it WILL be checked to ensure students' safety. Even if it somehow sent to my house, my parents would check what it is

4. I have not found a single person IRL who is supportive of the LGBTQ+, I think about 95% of my school is homophobic and practically 100% are transphobic, meaning the "deliver it to a friend's house and ask them to give it to you" trick won't work either, because I have no friends

5. Even if I did acquire it, people IRL will notice the changes and question me, and it's especially bad if my parents find out because I will ABSOLUTELY be disowned, this goes for finding the actual puberty blockers itself

I've been looking for ways to get on puberty blockers for like 4 years now and I think it's probably too late anyway. I asked so many people on the internet and they have no clue either, I've been trying to make friends in real life too but they're all bigoted, and I'm sick of seeing my body becoming more and more intolerable while not being able to do anything about it. It's not fair and it's not even my fault, I did all I could, I even moved to a whole different country just to have a better chance and I failed, and it's not like I missed my chance because I didn't take it, it's entirely because of external factors.

I don't want to get on hormones because that will just give me secondary sexual characteristics of the opposite sex, which would still make me dysphoric. So am I just screwed? Because I heard on the internet that even if I SOMEHOW got puberty blockers right now, it's already too late since I've already been through puberty, I was hoping to stop bone growth so I could get androgynous proportions, but I guess my goal of wanting a completely androgynous body is literally impossible to achieve anymore.

THEYRE ALL SO FUCKING PICKY NO MY ART IS NOT PERFECT BUT I DONT SEE YOU PICKING UP A PEN OR EVEN A LIFE YOU SICK MOTHERFUCKERS fuck Toulouse and those pervs

We talk about lawyers and car salesman being the scum of the earth but I think the truth of it now is marketing. It's absolutely EVERYWHERE. In your face, all day, every day. Billboards, unsolicited calls, emails, social media, YouTube, news websites, apps, even the bloody petrol pump.

What I absolutely hate is that it is increasingly manipulative, misleading (outright lying at times), intrusive and now AI-generated.

What really gets me is the amount of mental energy we're expected to spend just navigating this crap.

Every time I see this stuff I'm actively checking if it is real of AI. How much is the claim likely to be factual or just bullshit.

I hate, hate hate the "hooks".... "You won't beleive what happens next" or "if you're over 40 you have to know this" or "watch to the end". If I see ANY of these - i'm outta here.

I am also fuming where genuine content is disguised as content. Fake reviews advertorials etc. Be gone will you!

There is some amazing content out there that I would like to support but when these tactics are employed - get lost.

You can't just ignore advertising anymore, you have to actively defend yourself against it. I don't object to businesses advertising their products. I just hate the insincerity, and the constant psychological games, dishonesty and intrusion.

I just want my attention and my time back.

Does anyone else feel utterly exhausted by having to question everything they're shown, or am I just becoming a grumpy old bastard?
(yes I get the irony of me ranting on reddit)

What the title says. I'm a college student studying engineering, and there's this group of guys that sit at the back of the class and have started to bother me a lot. Every single day.

I go to class, sit down quietly, minding my own business (I and my best friend are massive introverts). And then these guys will sit behind us and start calling me names. Usually I tell them to shut up or threaten to report them to the authorities but it doesn't work because deep down they and I know damn well the authorities won't do shit.

Today in our linear algebra class he used a word which made me lose my temper and I shouted at him in front of the class. And get this, the professor started glaring at ME as if I had done something wrong. The words he was using were loud enough for her to hear, and she could have said something to him but chose to give me the death stare.

I literally was so angry I felt angry tears come out of my eyes but I composed myself because I didn't want to cry in front of everyone. Now I'm sitting in the library writing this and holding back tears, again.

For some more context, there was a conflict in our batch due to which my classmates do not like me and my best friend since one of our previous semesters. I was the class rep at the time and these guys had organised a mass bunk that I wasn't a part of since I didn't want to upset the professor who had high expectations from me (not everyone has the guts to participate in a mass bunk) and some girls of our class had a fight with my best friend. So they do not like us. So even if there was some sort of intervention, they'd prolly take those guys' side instead of ours.

I'm so upset rn I've started hating coming to college.

hello !! new to reddit and i need to rant about this because i have no one to talk to and this is probably going to be long so i'll try to shorten it as best as i can

basically july 2023 i'm scrolling on tinder single never had a boyfriend before freshly 21 and basically desperate i match with a guy and we start dating around mid july i had a job working part time at a grocery store and he was unempolyed at the moment kicker was we lived 30 mins away from each other and i didn't have my license at the time so he did all the driving.

fast foward to 2024 and some shit went down between him and his dad and he had to move out luckily in febuary he got a new full time job kicker again it was an hour drive both ways be he needed the job so he took it so at just 8 months of dating we move into a 1 bedroom apartment with each other paying $1,670 a month in rent and just after 2 months of living there he didn't make probation and got fired weeks before his 90 days was up great he had around 6k left in his bank account and it took another 2 months for him to get another job working part time at subway barely getting scheduled so he started working where i was working but we knew we needed to move out when our lease was up and that's exactly what we did.

fast foward april 2025 we move out into a cheaper 2 bedroom apartment paying $1,400 in rent my fiancé again had found himself another full time job and quite the grocery store and then at the end of may i found out i was pregnant and a month later my fiancé got fired again the grocery store took him back and then 2 months later he found another full time job and still currently works there and our son is now almost a year old

in this time we've had to get a new used car which turned out to be a lemon and we had it for less than a year due to it's constant need of repairs we now have a new car which we still owe on and we have a wedding to pay for still but we're just at a constant struggle for money and we basically never gain we just recently got into a accident and had to pay to repair the car and we also just finished paying for my schooling and i just feel like we're constantly getting kicked down and i don't know how to get out of this hole

The whole reddit karma system just seems stupid to me. You want to ask a question on something specific? Oh great you found reddit, and you found a perfect forum to ask said question. You go make an account to ask that question? NO, YOU NEED KARMA.

So instead you look for similar communities. THERE ARE NONE THAT YOU CAN TALK IN, YOU NEED KARMA.

"great" you think, "just need to browse some interesting topics and leave comments that people like."

NO, I'M BORING. nobody is browsing comments in r/birdwatching and giving likes to people who think said bird looks cool. No car lover is civilised enough to understand that vans are the best vehicles. Great, now you're stuck, because you have no interest in random trending stuff, and you have no social skills to leave good comments that people like.

Oh and the idea of karma itself is stupid, it pushes you to become a people pleaser. Forget about your opinions, if you have them, you'll never gain a voice. You need to push whatever is trending right now. If you land into a world where people don't like pigeons? If you go against the grain and say pigeons are cute, you get cut out of 3 random reddits you look at, it forces an echo chamber into creation, and that's before the algorithm force feeds you. Why does reddit karma exist?! I get bots exist, but damn just make a captcha instead of making reddit useless to people who don't like to talk as often. I use reddit because I've got questions, and answers for questions, not because I want to talk about Donald trump making frog sounds, but I can't ask or answer questions because I have no KARMA

I saw The Odyssey and was soooooo confused on all the hype. There were cool technical moments, and it had a stacked cast, sure, but overall it fell flat for me. Especially as an adaptation! Nolan destroyed so many of the female characters' stories and somehow made it feel more regressive than the original from ANCIENT F'ING GREECE. I think some acting noms (maybe even wins) along with tech wins are warranted, but it being hailed as this unbeatable frontrunner for BEST PICTURE??? To put it up with movies like Parasite, Silence of the Lambs, Chicago, 12 Years a Slave, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and all these other movies that are some of the absolute best in their entire genres feels insane to me. Even compared to Nolan's previous Best Picture contenders, Inception, Dunkirk, and, of course, Oppenheimer, which he won for, it feels like such a downgrade.

ESPECIALLY when we have two movies that are arguably the best films ever made in their genres: Wildwood and You Can See Everything. I'd much rather either of them win, and I think they deserve it more than The Odyssey. They genuinely are the best animated film and documentary I've ever watched, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about either one since seeing them. If you haven't seen either of them yet, PLEASE DO! THEY ARE SO GOOD! Wildwood took 16 years, is human-made stop motion (1,400+ people worked on it), and it's a mature, beautiful story that definitely deserves to be recognized in Best Picture and be the first animated winner. The hate it's getting because its main female character (a child by the way) isn't "hot" enough is absolutely insane

You know what actually scares me? Seeing the real side of how humans actually feel during everything going on in the world. The good guys are turning into bad guys, while the bad guys are trying to play the hero. Each of them have their own motives, but what matters most is the following. To think, there are human beings out there who support the truly disgusting, ON PURPOSE. There are human beings out there who just choose to stay in the middle... what do you even stand for? Then there are the ones like me, the ones who know that something must actually be done in order for things to actually make a difference. For some reason, it takes so long for those who deserve it to be punished. Why is that? As someone who is a victim of such heinous and disgusting events, I'd have full rights to go on the offensive... it breaks my heart that the world has come to this.

I'm just ranting because I need to get this out. I want to say this I do believe that evil people exist, but the vast majority people are just traumatized. The vast majority of people that you are engaging with are not narcissists. They're just traumatized people who are emotionally immature. And that's literally it. We are a country (world honestly) of millions of people who are emotionally immature, who don't know how to regulate ourselves, don't know how to identify our emotions, don't know how to know when we're triggered and when we're not triggered. And don't know how to act when we're triggered because we were raised by generations upon generations of people who also were triggered and don't know how to understand that they were triggered or fix that or anything like that. So they took it out on their kids and taught their kids shitty ways of engaging with other people and dealing with their emotions and so on and so forth. We are all blind and going around in the fucking dark. We're traumatized. We're scared. We don't know how to trust anybody. We don't know how to trust ourselves because there are so many emotionally unintelligent people. And the really frustrating thing about understanding trauma and emotions and things like that is that we have enough information now to understand just how fucked up we are and just how starved we are for emotionally intelligent relationships and conversations. But the fun flip side is that our society does not give us the resources to actually fix that. So basically, we are aware enough to know that we are in a desert and we are fucking starving for emotional interactions. We are thirsting for it. And yet we don't know where to find good, clean water. We don't know where to find good clean water. It is not accessible to us. And I mean that in terms of social emotional learning courses, in terms of therapy and good therapy and therapeutic spaces. A lot of people are told to just go to therapy with no other context or explanation or guidance on how to actually find a therapist that's right for them. There are tons of different kinds of therapists that engage in a ton of different kinds of therapy and different therapies work for different people. Different modalities work for different people. Different modalities work for different diagnoses and problems and issues and so on and so forth. And a big thing is finding a therapist that you connect with. And that's just a specific thing. You never really know who you're going to connect with until you talk to them. And when you finally get to somebody, you have already been on a waitlist for God only knows how long, have had to spend a stupid amount of money because health insurance is shit and have had to answer a bunch of what feels like bullshit questions just to even try to talk to somebody for once. And then you get there and you realize that you really don't click. And this person really isn't right for you. Not necessarily that they're a bad therapist because there are bad therapists. But a lot of times they just may not be the right therapist for you. Just like in a lot of relationships, that person may not necessarily be a bad person. They're just not the right person for you. Or you and that other person have been triggered and traumatized and don't know how to communicate or notice when you're triggered, notice how to calm yourself down, notice how to take accountability for the things that you say and do when you are triggered. Because in a lot of arguments, both people have engaged in shitty behavior that they need to take accountability for. An argument is not always just one person did something terrible. It takes at minimum two people to have an argument The vast majority of us are really just fumbling around in the dark and don't know who to trust or how to find ways to build confidence in our ability to find good people all the time. And think about this: the fact that like in order to learn what you like and what you don't like in relationships, you have to actually get into relationships. And a lot of times you wind up getting in relationships at your teenage years or your 20s for people who are in those relationships. And just like you're emotionally immature in your teens and 20s and a lot of people in their 30s and 40s and 50s because of the aforementioned stuff, so is the other person. And so you have this dynamic where y'all hurt each other because you don't know what to do. And then you grow up with this mentality. A lot of people grow up with this mentality that everyone is bad, that everyone's a shitty person, that everyone that they engage with is just toxic or narcissistic or that they're just a magnet for shitty people, when the reality is there's just a fuck ton of emotionally unintelligent people And nine times out of ten, if you have experience dating, it was when both of you were teenagers or in your early 20s and didn't know what you were doing. It doesn't mean your hurt wasn't real. It doesn't mean the pain wasn't real. It doesn't mean the relationship wasn't real. But putting that in that context hopefully can help you understand that there are probably things that you did that weren't okay for that person, just like there are things that that person did that were not okay for you. And neither of you has to be evil to do wrong. Sometimes y'all can just do wrong. Or sometimes you guys just aren't compatible dating-wise, but you're compatible friends-wise. And that happens. And no one needs to be a bad person. Sometimes it's just that. In fact, a lot of times it's just that.

You do not get to claim you are a fan of something; book, game, movie, music, TV show, artist's work, if you bullied them for it in school. Two girls who work in my local Dunkin were playing Clarity (a popular gacha song) and it upsets me SO MUCH cause they were once the type to bully others for listening to that stuff in school.

In my personal opinion, if you bully others then turn around and like the same thing youre bullying people for, you are not a fan, you are a poser I will not be arguing with others about this

So for context, I’m a musician part time, mostly I make music every once in a while. I’ve been having a lot of relationships troubles. My girlfriend of more than one and a half years is saying shit like “I feel empty in this relationship “ “I don’t do anything “ “I’m only hurting you “. We have been in a long distance for the most part and she barely calls these days, all we did for months now is just argue one after the other fucking argument, and finally something tucked her off again as usual and another argument I just thought it’s regular and she would be back soon to the usual but this time maybe it wasn’t and when all of this text exchange was going on, the mic I’ve been using for about two years now falls down from the stand and break, as I see it’s only the frame thankfully the main disc ( sensor ) and the capsule seem unharmed it’s just the grill and frame but still man damn it, I barely can afford gas these days and this shit happens it just pissed me off soo bad I couldn’t do shit. I don’t know where to put this anger at so I’ve been indulging in repeated pushups till failure 🥀 and I’m still pissed off and hence ranting about it

Simply just tired of argumenters, people think it’s English only/English class when there’s multiple languages on the internet, and just to simply argue over nothing cause they think they’re “right” lol like get over yourselves no one’s perfect

I (17F) have been dating my boyfriend (18m) for 7 months, i love him so much it genuinely hurts. I have very heavy issues with dealing with relationships, and i especially feel super jealous. He has so many friends, he’s in a really good friend group and is regularly invited to parties. He’s extremely introverted and quite socially awkward (which i definitely am too). He’s so great and I love him a ton, but I have very very few friends. I lag behind socially quite heavily. I grew up without any friends and made my first “proper” friendship last year, which is very late. This is also due to me being very bad at keeping in contact with people, both online and irl.

I’m autistic and have quite bad anxiety so i generally struggle a lot with making friends but i feel like i try very hard to bond with people, but i’m very loud and open, though extremely including and have been complimented for my social skills and inclusivity a lot, especially if i’ve had a few drops of alcohol.. though I believe the reason I don’t make friends is because I follow very text-book social rules.

I’m a HUGE people pleaser, have been told so several times. It’s super annoying cause it feels like people think i’m kind cause i’m scared of what people think rather than because I actually am, which might be true but whatever. I struggle with finding a middle ground of being too much and too little and often switch between the two, so that might also be an issue..
Also another issue if not obvious is that i overthink mine and everybody around me’s body language and how they act.

My boyfriend has had friends since he was very little, and has about 5-6 very close friends. I have 1 relatively close friend who I love very much, but I am far from her closest. I really really want to make more friends or be part of a friend group but i severely struggle with doing so. I don’t understand how it comes so incredibly simple for so many guys, and even several of my girl friends though i perceive it generally seems harder. He goes on trips with them, has poker nights regularly, plays video games with them every single day etc. I am very overly reliant on him and he really isn’t on me.

I know he loves me very much, but i also know that if we were to break up he’d have a lot of shoulders to cry on, i’d genuinely have none. I feel so alone and envious, I wanna be a dumb teenager and go to a lot of parties and i want my boyfriend to be an addition to my life and not my entire life. We regularly argue cause i get angry at him for really petty and small stuff i get super jealous of. I think i struggle with letting him be individually him and forget me for a bit, cause forgetting him for a bit seems genuinely impossible.

I have a lot of hobbies, generally more than i can keep up with but i struggle with making friends there as well. I’m extremely emotional and very bad at hiding my feelings, if i’m just a little bit sad i’ll just start crying. There is so much wrong with me and I am currently trying to find a psychologist but it’s really hard where I live and i have a few struggles with my doctors currently, so I just wanted to get this off my chest.

Currently a manager at a restaurant in SoCal, so im already dealing with people high all the time. But the actual level of cognitive decline is getting worse week by week, especially in adults.

Number one thing is it seems people past the age of 30 just dont care to read, or dont have the skills to do so. Someone asked me dead to my face "is there any other meat on the ham and cheese omelet?" Like oh my god, id understand fully if a child asked this, but when theres a big ass picture of it, and youre a fully grown adult asking me that....

Second one is people calling to ask what time do we open. I have checked the google listing 10 times in the past month, it is fine and accurate, our hours have never changed, why are you calling me to ask the hours...when you google a place it shows you the hours literally front and center.

Lastly, and the most frustrating one, is that people can not think for themselves. They need immediate access to an answer to the simplest things, and refuse to even try to solve things for themselves. Someone walks in to the restaurant, and before even looking at the menu (im literally watching them) they ask me right away 3-4 questions "Do you guys have eggs? Can you do an omelet?? What kind of veggies do you have????" They haven't taken a single look at the menu yet. STOP DOING THIS PLEASE

I watch my brothers kids after school and they are literally constantly on their phones watching youtube shorts its insane.

i rented a chompsaw (cardboard saw) from the library(was on hold for like 3 months before we finally got it) and they used it 2 days and havent touched it since.

and after being on their phone pretty much all morning one of their phones was almost dead and wanted me to charge it and I said like they can take a break for while you've had hours on it. then the oldest said "no plug it in or im telling mom" and "plug it in NOW"

I just want to rant. I am so frustrated with myself. I used to be loud and confident, but now I am too quiet and afraid to talk to people. It is hard for me to make eye contact and communicate with someone I want to talk to. I have also lost confidence in myself and my appearance.

Please stop telling us to relax. It’s not helpful.

Also please stop saying “well maybe it isn’t meant to be, you need to prepare for that” like no crap it’s not a gurantee? Is anything in life a guarantee??

Would you tell a women who recently got pregnant, “You know you might have a miscarriage, they are really common in the first trimester, so prepare for that” NO because that’s cruel.

It amazes me how people think they have such original thoughts. You don’t think everytime my period comes I think if it will ever happen?

Stop offering your kids, “Oh you can have mine!” no I don’t want them.

And stop suggesting adoption or surrogacy.

And if it was easy for you to concieve AWESOME! But why are you telling me this as I just told you in struggling?

Where’s the empathy people.

* ALSO these conversations are usually always started by the OTHER person. Yeah no one takes joy in just randomly discussing TTC, only a handful of ppl in my life know and I wish they didn’t tbh

I remember being a kid growing up without extra money. I got a Christmas one year because the church sponsored our family, we had actual roaches that would eat our food if we left it unattended in our own home, the bullying at school (one year from a teacher), endless expectation that you would do better than your parents, etc...

Well I did. I have a household income of over $130k between my husband and I, own a 2,000+ sqft home and get to travel to see friends who moved away. I finally made it happen and decide to get into hobbies I wanted to get into as a kid such as TCG or Disney collectables or video games.

Everything is being scalped. I couldn't get my hands on anything without paying a stupid amount of money for it. It wasn't just limited to hobbies either. When my husband and I had a baby, we discovered that he had to be on a specific formula. I would go to the store and try to get it, but it was always sold out. I saw a woman (noticed her because of her cart + the pink/yellow hair she had) at the check-out with the entire inventory of this formula. I asked her if I could have just one can, and she said "for $80 you can." I was horrified.

I started joining online mom groups for my area, trying to offer free photography shoots in exchange for cans of formula. Found this same lady in there reselling the formula for $80 a can (she paid $32 at the time). Then this continued for Millie Moon diapers, the only brand that didn't cause issues for my son. Again, always sold out on shelves but always available online in our local mom groups for double the price.

This lady had the audacity to tell me she was a single mother and this is how she supported herself and her kids. She had to create a business, and she was just being entrepreneur and that I shouldn't be so upset when supporting a "local small business".

Turned to online big box stores, had a subscription for formula and diapers set up but even online these stores were always sold out. It was insane to think I couldn't even care for my own child because people were scalping baby formula and diapers.

So not only could I not get into any hobbies, I couldn't even take care of my kid because of scalpers. Want to play TCG (not just collect, actually go to a local shop and play it with friends to save your sanity from being a parent all day?) gotta pay a premium for that on top of it already being a luxury to have the extra money to pay retail for it. Want a spirit jersey to wear to work or Disney Ears for your Disney wall at the office so you don't have to stare at blank walls all day? "oh we aren't scalpers. We are personal shoppers with a fee and you also have to pay S&H on top of the "processing" fee of your payment through cash app."

want to feed and diaper your kid so they don't starve or sit in their own mess and get sick? gotta pay a "local small business" for that at double the price.

Then the issues with the gaming industry on top of all that is another story. I had paid for the same game three times because the license kept expiring before I finally gave up on playing video games. And no, it wasn't pirated or anything. I bought it from the online store from my console and the third time on the computer through steam and it still wouldn't stop expiring so it didn't even matter where I was playing the game either.

there's just not any more joy in life at this point. You can't afford hobbies because of scalpers. You can't afford a kid because of scalpers. You can't afford video games because of how pricey everything is, scalped consoles and even this new "you don't actually own anything" mentality the industry has.

Reselling should require a permit, even if it's some "single parent just trying to earn some cash" and it should be regulated. It's gotten so out of hand across all industries from entertainment to basic needs that someone needs to either ban it altogether or penalize people for overdoing it.

As a kid, I had nothing. As an adult with adult money, it still feels like I'm that kid being told "oh sorry, you don't have enough for that in your piggy bank." when I literally have $100 for a $30 item but they want $300 for it.

and lastly, I shouldn't have to wait 2 hours in line for my coffee just because the company wants to give away nee-dohs with coffee purchases. Get over yourselves already and get real jobs, not some fake online business you think you deserve to have just because you have the free time to stalk isles like a creep for toys when real parents with real full-time jobs that keep them from being able to just go and get it from the store are just trying to make their kids happy and their own lives a bit more bearable when they actually do have time to themselves. Resellers, "legitimate business" or not are just a scummy as anyone else who takes advantage of other people.

Anyway, now that I've got that out of the way. Back to making people more money than they need and paying me as little as possible to create bigger profits for themselves while I'm just trying to make enough money to pay $80 for a $32 can of formula for my kid because someone else is allergic to getting a job.

Nervt mich das alles einfach nur noch. Mit meinem Vorgesetzten Anfang des Jahres einen Internen Stellenwechsel klargemacht. Wir brauchen aber einen Nachfolger welchen ich noch anlernen soll. Ist jetzt aber auch 8 Monate her. Macht mir auch keiner irgendwie den Eindruck dass der Wechsel Priorität hat. Ich sitz hier einfach nur noch auf Arbeit und mach nicht mal mehr Dienst nach Vorschrift. Bin Mental und körperlich am Ende. Seit November 25 mit Bandscheibenvorfall zu kämpfen. Mal mehr mal weniger. Deswegen auch der Wechsel. OK, mir egal ich such was anderes. Jaaaa nein mach ich nicht. Wonach such ich überhaupt? Keine Ahnung. In meinen gelernten Beruf kann ich körperlich nicht mehr. Und alles neue überfordert mich mental und wirft die Frage auf: Krieg ich das hin? hab ich da Bock drauf? Selbst auf Frau und Kind kann ich nicht. Komm Zuhause an und bin einfach nur am Ende und genervt. I dont know. Einfach am Ende mit meiner Energie

I (21f) am in my 3rd year studying television and my bf (19m) is in his 2nd year studying astrophysics. Despite him studying this, he has always wanted to make films. I’ve supported him with this ever since he had mentioned it. I have also told him that if he needs any help with anything then he can always come to me for guidance since I have a lot of experience in that area.

Last night he got home and told me that he had made a film. I was excited to see and when he showed me, the scenes were filmed in Japan. My bf has never been to Japan and it’s been on his bucket list for years, and he said that he had made the film himself using ai. He showed me the paragraphs he wrote for every single scene and said that he directed the whole thing. As someone who is planning to work in the film industry, ai is seen as a threat to workers and people’s creativity. I’m not going to sit here and say that I have never used ai, I have. However in my opinion ai should only be used as a last resort tool and to not overtake the whole production process, as what my boyfriend had done.

I told him that he has the creativity for it, but advised him not to use ai next time. I reminded him that if he ever wants to make a film or needs help, to ask me since I have my own film camera and as I have mentioned above, have experience. He got a bit defensive and kept mentioning that ai was better, cheaper (despite him paying £80 to ‘create’ those scenes), and that my industry will use it more in the future.

I personally think that ai can be useful, as i said as a last resort tool. However that’s only for the media industry/personal use. I think that with proper ai development it can be good in science, diagnostics etc. I had told him this, and had also mentioned that ai is a growing threat to people’s jobs and careers and to think of how many camera operators, production assistants, editors etc would be out of jobs if ai were to be used more in the future.

That’s when he told me that I can work in another industry if ai takes over mine. I got really frustrated because in my opinion that isn’t what should happen at all. I’ve been studying to work in the industry for years and it’s something that I have been passionate about since I was young. So what’s the point of even studying/continuing my course and working in an industry that isn’t relevant to my course? We went back and forth about it and eventually I just dropped it because I hate arguing.

After a few hours I had calmed down and I approached him about it again, this time more calmer. I reminded him about how human creativity is a gift and we must embrace it. I told him to be more patient with his dreams and to build more experience with working with film cameras, editing, and even advised him on some internships, work experience, online classes he could take, how you can easily make a film with a small budget, and understanding the importance with the different roles in film. I had then asked him what he wanted to do after he graduated and he said that he wanted to work with Ai engineering. I just agreed to disagreed because I didn’t want to go back and forth with him and I also hate arguing with people in general.

The thing is that he DOES have the creativity and ambition for film. Although he put all the notes on his phone for each specific scene into ai, they were extremely detailed so I do know that he has an eye for detail which is a really good skill in film. However I do feel like he could better improve these skills but instead he’s just going to ai.

As I have said, I think ai can be useful for the science department and much more, but media is not one of those industries. I understand that me and my bf have different opinions about it due to what we are studying and our separate upbringing (I grew up in Scotland, he grew up in China) so I do understand that we have different opinions about it. I know that we agreed to disagreed about it but I feel like there is something more that I should mention, something more that I should do. Is there anything that I can do?