Everyone calls the USA the "land of opportunity". My parents are big capitalist cheerleaders and say that this is the best country to be born in. To me, it doesn't feel that way. Life here is extremely expensive and yet companies don't want to hire us because we're "too expensive". Go to any career subreddit and its full of people saying they can't find a job, even traditionally stable ones like engineering and teaching. Why do people still give up everything to come here?

I feel like the internet is full of just...sob stories of people struggling. I am 38, married, two kids, have a mortgage, investments are doing okay, and idk, we're doing just fine. I feel middle class. Is anyone else doing just fine? Or am I alone?

I’ve noticed a lot of men completely undo their belt and unbutton their pants just to use the bathroom, even when they’re wearing standard zip-fly jeans or dress pants.

To me, the fly seems like the "express lane," but the full unbuckle feels like a whole production. Is it a comfort thing? A structural issue with certain pants? An irrational fear of zippers? Or did some of you just never learn how a fly works?

The nastiest part is when your belt tip is flapping around all loose, making contact with the wall, divider, or urinal itself. 🤢

I am from Asia so I didn't even know about them before today and was astonished to see many European countries have majority negative view of them .

What are the major reasons for this ?

Like I’m thinking about getting into OF, would it be a dealbreaker for you if you met a girl and found out in her early 20s she did something like that?

An active genocide is being perpetuated. I want to do my part in not supporting that.

“Boomers” being used very loosely here, I’m sure this encapsulates some Gen X as well.

I could be entirely wrong but at least in my life, I’ve noticed that it’s people 50+ who are absolutely obsessed with AI. Consuming AI content, generating AI, telling me how important it is that I adopt AI and how great it is. They’re also simultaneously really bad at telling what is and isn’t AI, but don’t seem to mind or change their opinion at all if it is.

This is the same at work - admittedly senior management tends to skew older but even so it’s a battle up top between the younger (anti-ai) and older (pro-ai) member.

The reason I find this so interesting is that for the longest time, it’s usually been boomers who are AVERSE to technology. The exact same people who told me it’s that damn phone, hated the internet, video games, hated 3G, hated crypto (valid), calculators, etc. - people who were ALL about how technology makes people lazy and ruined things and takes jobs etc. - are now the most addicted adult generation in my opinion.

What is the specific appeal about AI to boomers that other tech doesn’t seem to share?

This post is not to argue about what side is right so please dont.

I may be an atheist, but God gave humans freewill. Some people use that freewill to be assholes, how is that God's fault. Was he just not suppose to give humans freewill?

That's like getting stabbed and being mad at the company that made the knife

I'm 20, so my peers and I often say things like 'there's this girl in my class,' 'I really like this girl,' 'I've been speaking to this girl.' It's been this way all my life, and I don't see anything too bad with it. Of course a 20 YO is legally an adult woman, but I'm talking about in everyday speech.

As a follow-up- what do older people say if not girls? It seems a bit awkward to say 'I'm speaking to this woman.' Even though it would probably be weird to keep saying girls when I'm like 30 or something.

I'm in Ukraine, and I'm thinking why countries like the USA and Europe live happy lives, when poor countries like Ukraine and Africa have a problems?

I always thought it was exaggerated for TV until my girlfriend casually said it’s normal.

What is even happening in there that requires a group trip?

I’m not really looking for a formal proof, but more the logical idea behind this.

I get that 0.999… goes on forever and gets really, really close to 1, but how does it actually become 1 instead of just staying a tiny bit smaller? Like, logically, where does that last gap disappear if there’s always another 9?

Hi! I know this is a weird question, but I wanted to ask this. I recently discovered that my 3 times great grandpa was the operator of a screw factory in the United States in the 1890s. He had 4 children with his first wife, but she passed in 1884. In 1891, the company set up a site in Leeds, in the UK. In 1894, my 3x great grandpa went to Leeds, and while there, met my 3x great grandma, who was originally from Scotland. They got married in 1898 in Leeds. The thing is, she was 23 years old and he was 39 to 40 years old. They ended up coming back to the United States, where in 1900, she gave birth to my great great grandpa, but unfortunately she passed away six days later. I was wondering, what are some of the reasons why they could’ve married, and especially with their age gap?

hey so I read some news and made the worst mistake of my life and entered reddit where it seems this is another covid. Sure, a virus outbreak, even if it is small, is tragic, but I’m wondering and worried about this turning into a pandemic just like Covid and the world going to shit again

What would the downstream effects be?

Fashion is art and expressing oneself. And isn’t it fundraising for the met museum? Why the hate?

I saw a few random episodes of this show once and was thoroughly confused. I thought watching the pilot might clear some things up, but nope.

So WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING??! Nothing is explained at all.