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10 seconds for US$10,000 | First time posting to this sub and Reddit so here goes:-
This story happened when I first joined my current company, and while I was not the one that actually had to deal with the problem, I was by-standing and heard the juicy parts from my mentor himself.
Exactly 2 days before a major festive celebration, we get a c... | 7,004 | 419 | 0.99 | 1,612,436,840 | talesfromtechsupport |
AITA for laughing when my son came home from meeting his girlfriend's parents because he chose to behave like he does at home? | My son burps a lot while eating. I have tried telling him multiple times that it is rude. I've told him to slow down so he doesn't swallow air with his food. I've told him that it is disgusting.
My wife will instantly jump in to defend him. She will say that's just the way he is and that it's not his fault.
The th... | 44,860 | 3,786 | 0.95 | 1,695,570,469 | AmItheAsshole |
LPT as you get older, do your best to get used to being taught things by people younger than you, respecting them for their knowledge. don't condescend because of their age or take it as a hit to your own ego. | I'm almost 30 it's getting to the point where I'm getting older and I'm still learning.
For example I'm taking voice lessons from someone who's about 10 years younger than me.
I remember how my parents acted when being taught something, or shown something, they would just write it off as something the "kids" can deal... | 82,414 | 1,381 | 0.85 | 1,653,261,305 | LifeProTips |
TIL that Tsar Nicholas II asked his first cousin, King George V of England, for political asylum in Britain during the Russian Revolution. George rejected it, and Nicholas was executed soon after. Did King George ever express remorse after Nicholas was killed? | I've been reading about WW1 a lot recently, and I know that George and Nicholas were very close to one another. I read that King George's reason for rejecting Nicholas's asylum request was due to fears of a similar revolution in England being agitated by Nicholas's presence in Britain. However, I could not find anythin... | 9,897 | 196 | 0.91 | 1,506,549,615 | AskHistorians |
Tomorrow, 152 years ago, John Wilkes Booth walked unseen into President Lincoln's personal booth, took out a pistol, shot him, and managed to escape even after breaking his leg. Why did Lincoln have seemingly no personal security and how did it compare to other world leaders at the time? | I was watching the Ken Burns "Civil War" documentary series earlier this month and it simply astounds me how little care seemed to be taken for Lincoln's personal security. This was despite many, many seemingly obvious red flags including:
* Confederate agents, only a few months prior, [had set a series of fires in N... | 8,337 | 142 | 0.92 | 1,492,178,511 | AskHistorians |
My wife has been peeking at me from around corners and behind furniture. It's gone from weird to terrifying |
My wife "Lynn" and I have been together for six years and married for 11 months. Our entire history together has been very normal and never once have I noticed any weird behaviors or red flags. I can't stress enough how out of character this whole thing is for her.
Lynn is very kind, intelligent and thoughtful. ... | 70,317 | 1,276 | 1 | 1,645,162,815 | NoSleep |
AITA For suing my girlfriend after she had my 1967 impala project taken to the scrapyard? | I'll try to keep this short. I had a [1967 Impala 4 door](https://i.imgur.com/HLBPpTF.jpg) that I bought in Feb 2019. A couple months ago I bought my first house that had a 2.5 car garage. I moved the car in and started tearing it down for a complete restoration. I had the body in one bay and the chassis in another, pl... | 70,813 | 2,741 | 0.98 | 1,590,536,145 | AmItheAsshole |
LPT: Before ending a serious relationship, change 100% of all of your Passwords and remove your account info / auto login on ALL devices | I'm in the midst of hiring which is no small thing in this COVID world. I had one applicant who stood head and shoulders above the rest, she was exactly what my org was looking for.
Unfortunately, during the interview process she informed us via email she was no longer interested in the opportunity. So, we moved o... | 76,209 | 2,084 | 0.93 | 1,602,111,670 | LifeProTips |
I am actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. You may remember me as Jaime Lannister on GoT... I've just launched a platform for grassroots giving called Dandi. AMA! | Hi. I’m excited to share Dandi with you. [www.dandi.io](https://dandi.io/)
Confronted by the enormous challenges we face both locally and globally, it’s easy to feel powerless and overwhelmed.
For the past 4 years, I have been lucky to work for the UNDP as a goodwill ambassador and have seen not only the real chal... | 51,027 | 3,457 | 0.88 | 1,600,699,181 | IAmA |
The terrifying note addressed to my six-year-old son | My wife and I are beside ourselves right now. This is the type of thing you see in the movies, but now it’s happening to us.
Yesterday evening, a little after six, my wife and I were in the kitchen cooking dinner when my six-year-old (almost 7) son Kyle walked in from the back patio. He was holding a folded piece of p... | 12,687 | 780 | 0.95 | 1,491,406,587 | NoSleep |
ELI5: If I enter a password wrong thrice, the system locks me out. How are hackers able to attempt millions of combinations of passwords without the system locking them out? | Edit: Thank you everyone who’s taken out time to explain it to me. I’ve learnt so much. Appreciate it.
Yes, I do use ‘thrice’ in my conversation whenever required. I’m glad it amused so many of you. | 25,484 | 1,348 | 0.93 | 1,592,194,920 | explainlikeimfive |
CMV: Bernie Sanders would've been a better democratic nominee than Joe Biden | If you go back into Bernie Sander's past, you won't find many horrible fuck-ups. Sure, he did party and honeymoon in the soviet union but that's really it - and that's not even very horrible. [Joe Biden sided with segregationists back in the day](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/joe-biden-didn-t-just-compromise-segr... | 23,718 | 2,515 | 0.71 | 1,596,689,919 | changemyview |
My job is watching a woman trapped in a room. Part Two. |
[Part One]( https://redd.it/brco33)
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I thought about the camera above me and took my hand away from my face. I rolled back to the desk and sat there, trying to stop from shaking, trying to make myself take a breath. Think about it slow. The first thing was, should I hit a button?
The red button was for an e... | 16,203 | 280 | 0.98 | 1,558,550,933 | NoSleep |
Restaurant made a mistake and charged me $228 on a $19 bill. It's a reminder to monitor your accounts and keep your receipts. | I went out to dinner on Saturday night. After splitting the check with my girlfriend, the bill came to $19. Used one of my credit cards, left a tip, kept my receipt and walked out. That charge had been pending until today where it posted as a $228 charge. It would have been easy enough to slip buy if I didn't check my ... | 20,524 | 1,427 | 0.92 | 1,515,006,261 | personalfinance |
Is there a limit to how many times a person can downvote my post? | Hey I started posting on Reddit about 2 weeks ago and just about today I realize that I have -7 Karma points. I'm pretty sure I had like +4 before and I think only one person is down voting because I have an argument with him. I used to not care about Karma points but I also don't want my Karma to be at negative. This ... | 719 | 27 | 0.94 | 1,561,344,489 | help |
"You have an employee here that SMOKES and TEXTS." | I work at a pet store, primarily responsible for maintaining/caring for our fish selection, birds, reptiles, small animals, and the like. Sometimes I sell them to folks who actually have a clue about owning an animal. This happened yesterday.
I'm on a long 9-hour shift and having a smoke break outside of the shop. The... | 7,812 | 267 | 0.88 | 1,505,674,355 | TalesFromRetail |
With people under quarantine and practicing social distancing, are we seeing a decrease in the number of people getting the flu vs. expectations? | Curious how well all these actions are working, assuming the flu and covid-19 are spread similarly. | 16,543 | 634 | 0.93 | 1,584,061,302 | askscience |
U.S. to Cut Rates on Student Loans for First Time in 3 Years | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.credible.com/blog/data-insights/us-cut-student-loan-rates/\n\nQuote from article\n\n*The new rates on federal student loans, effective from July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020, will be:*\n\n*Undergraduates: 4.53% (down 10% from the 5.05% rate in effect during 2018-19)*\n\n*Graduate students: 6.08% (down 8% from the old rate of 6.6%)*\n\n*Grad and parent PLUS loans: 7.08% (down 7% from the previous rate of 7.6%)*\n\n\nArticle also states this could mean a total of 2.9billion saved by undergraduates." | 21,907 | 67 | 0.94 | 1,557,343,252 | PersonalFinance |
LPT: It is important to know when to stop arguing with people, and simply let them be wrong. | You don't have to waste your energy everytime. | 90,674 | 2,324 | 0.93 | 1,587,416,706 | LifeProTips |
I stood up to the kid at my school who kept asking me if he could "eat me out"... | Two weeks ago I was sitting on the bus on my way home from school when a freshman (who a few weeks prior basically bludgeoned a classmate and was never caught for it) leaned toward me from across the isle, pulled out my headphones, and whispered... "Can I eat you out?" in my ear. At first I was simply shocked- I asked ... | 45,895 | 2,128 | 0.71 | 1,495,684,155 | TwoXChromosomes |
AskHistorians and uncertainty surrounding the future of API access | **Update June 11, 2023: We have decided to join the protest. Read the announcement [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/146xzgk/meta_tomorrow_askhistorians_will_go_private/?).**
On [April 18, 2023, Reddit announced it would begin charging for access to its API](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/tech... | 12,382 | 296 | 0.98 | 1,686,092,015 | AskHistorians |
180 days later, Bank of America is refusing to refund over $700 in fraudulent charges made in Texas while we were 800 miles away in Illinois. | Back in July we were wrapping up our yearly road trip to Illinois. We purchased gas around 8 or 9am right before we started the 12 hour trip to Texas.
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Two hours into the trip my wife gets a notification on her phone from Bank of America alerting her to fruadulent charges being made. We only have one debit ca... | 15,293 | 1,361 | 0.97 | 1,546,543,842 | personalfinance |
AITA for telling the girl who kissed my boyfriend for a play that she is desperate and pathetic? | I (19f) study drama at uni, and my boyfriend is on the same course. My boyfriend is a really good-looking guy, but he doesn't seem to know it. He gets a lot of attention from girls and for the most part, doesn't seem to get that they're flirting with him. I'm not generally annoyed by this, and never really say anything... | 44,252 | 4,247 | 0.87 | 1,573,223,122 | AmItheAsshole |
CMV: The transgender movement is based entirely on socially-constructed gender stereotypes, and wouldn't exist if we truly just let people do and be what they want. | I want to start by saying that I am not anti-trans, but that I don't think I understand it. It seems to me that if stereotypes about gender like "boys wear shorts, play video games, and wrestle" and "girls wear skirts, put on makeup, and dance" didn't exist, there wouldn't be a need for the trans movement. If we just l... | 12,666 | 2,324 | 0.75 | 1,618,411,578 | changemyview |
With the surprising number of commenters in various subreddits that continue to confidently assert that the Holocaust is a hoax, it’s worth reviewing the prosecution and conviction of Adolf Eichmann. | On May 11 1960, Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi Lieutenant Colonel and one of the primary logistical facilitators of the Holocaust, was captured by Israeli agents in Argentina where he had fled to avoid capture and prosecution. His trial in Israel was attended by journalists from major newspapers worldwide and tapes of the cove... | 22,386 | 1,171 | 0.86 | 1,525,264,696 | history |
LPT: Telling someone that a movie/book has a great twist is, in itself, a major spoiler. Don’t do that. | I’ve often seen people try to raise interest in movies by saying something like “oh plus there’s an AMAZING twist ending”. It might be common sense for most, but simply saying this can ruin how someone experiences that movie because now they’re guessing what the twist could be the whole time. When you know a twist is c... | 78,490 | 2,078 | 0.88 | 1,597,328,238 | LifeProTips |
7 years ago I decided to walk every block in NYC. I've now covered more than 9,000 miles on foot, with a few hundred left to go. AMA! | My name is Matt Green. About a decade ago I quit my civil engineering job and spent 5 months walking 3,100 miles across the United States, from Rockaway Beach, NYC, to Rockaway Beach, Oregon. After returning to the East Coast, I drifted around and worked odd jobs for a while before deciding to take on another walking p... | 43,079 | 2,453 | 0.86 | 1,552,663,912 | IAmA |
TIL that Ancient Greek ruins were actually colourful. What's your favourite history fact that didn't necessarily make waves, but changed how we thought a period of time looked? | 2 other examples I love are that Dinosaurs had feathers and Vikings helmets didn't have horns. Reading about these minor changes in history really made me realise that no matter how much we think we know; history never fails to surprise us and turn our "facts" on its head. | 23,926 | 4,505 | 0.88 | 1,499,182,631 | history |
Engineer is doing drugs!! No. No they aren't. | This just happened...
So, I had a laptop system board fail. Under warranty. No problem.
Engineer comes on site. Does the job. All good.
10 minutes later, I'm called down to where he was working by a member of management saying that he must have been doing drugs in there because there's a syringe in the bin. There's... | 15,549 | 811 | 0.95 | 1,485,862,733 | talesfromtechsupport |
My brother was banned from reddit due to posting the meme text of "I am 12 what is this". The appeal was rejected. What can he do? | My brother is an active redditor and has a post history spanning back 10 years or so. As a comment reply he jokingly wrote "I am 12 what is this" referring to the meme. He is clearly not 12 and his account was created years ago. His account and IP address have both been suspended. He went through the appeals process an... | 1,262 | 119 | 0.99 | 1,566,337,866 | help |
I am Bill Nye and I’m here to dare I say it…. save the world. Ask Me Anything! | Hi everyone! I’m Bill Nye and my new Netflix series Bill Nye Saves the World launches this Friday, April 21, just in time for Earth Day! The 13 episodes tackle topics from climate change to space exploration to genetically modified foods.
- Check out the trailer: https://www.facebook.com/BillNyeSavestheWorld/videos... | 58,175 | 10,766 | 0.69 | 1,492,612,350 | IAmA |
I am Steven Pruitt, the Wikipedian with over 3 million edits. Ask me anything! | I'm Steven Pruitt - Wikipedia user name Ser Amantio di Nicolao - and I was featured on CBS Saturday Morning a few weeks ago due to the fact that I'm the top editor, by edit count, on the English Wikipedia. Here's my user page:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ser\_Amantio\_di\_Nicolao](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... | 68,016 | 3,969 | 0.86 | 1,550,971,912 | IAmA |
Update: AITA for not wanting to hide that my moms are gay to my girlfriend’s parents? | Original post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/m2zhf5/aita_for_not_wanting_to_hide_that_my_moms_are_gay/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
So we broke up. Yesterday since it had already been days of us not talking. I listened to ur comments and decided to ask how would she feel if I t... | 38,625 | 1,435 | 0.97 | 1,615,830,886 | AmItheAsshole |
My job is watching a woman trapped in a room. Part Four. | [Part One](https://redd.it/brco33)
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[Part Two](https://redd.it/brsj8v)
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[Part Three](https://redd.it/bsg2az)
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I had to do something, and I had to do it right now. If Melanie was somehow a fake, that meant they must have sent her. And if they sent her, that meant they knew. They knew about the messages... | 14,595 | 240 | 0.98 | 1,558,956,315 | NoSleep |
We have our first female vice president in history | Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! (That's happy screaming)
Congratulations Vice President Harris! | 47,415 | 1,228 | 0.77 | 1,604,766,962 | TwoXChromosomes |
Telling a dangerously overweight person not to lose weight because they're beautiful is like telling an alcoholic not to stop drinking because they're fun. | Disclaimer: being "overweight" doesn't matter to me and I don't hate people who are. However, there is a point where your weight is seriously endangering your health.
Edit: Thanks for the gold! I didn't expect this to be so popular.
Edit II: the point I'm trying to make is that in both cases it is wrong to encoura... | 99,206 | 3,975 | 0.85 | 1,538,968,658 | Showerthoughts |
I'm a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I have some stories to tell (Part 3!) | Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/
Part 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3ijnt6/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/
Well, once again, you guys have blown me away with your staggering amount of responses to my stories! Th... | 13,777 | 1,373 | 0.97 | 1,440,727,822 | NoSleep |
I had a disturbing conversation with my 7-year-old daughter. | "Dad, *dad*! I saw a *zombie*!"
I was in the kitchen making tea when my little girl came rushing in. She ran through the back door so fast she almost tripped up the step. I poured boiling water from the kettle into a mug, hardly looking up.
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah, I did! Its face was all pale and messed up! It was *gross*... | 22,136 | 382 | 0.99 | 1,584,266,502 | NoSleep |
I HAVE TO move out at 18, what do I do? | I won't bring up the specific details, but long story short, my parents are legitimately crazy, one of those extreme situations where everything I do must be kept secret (talking to friends, working a normal job, etc).
Luckily in the middle of last year I got a job with my brother, he told my parents he would not pay ... | 15,476 | 2,291 | 0.91 | 1,553,181,103 | PersonalFinance |
There's No Crying in I.T. |
Me: Retail I.T. This is Daniel.
DM: Hey Daniel. This is ******** district manager of ****. I'm in a big bind here. I'm doing a presentation in 15 minutes and my laptop crashed. I'm kind of freaking out here and don't know what to do.
Me: Oh no. Well I'll have to have a desktop tech give you a call and help ... | 6,398 | 280 | 0.95 | 1,476,404,651 | talesfromtechsupport |
A collectible 50p. | On mobile, so apologies. Before I start, we need some backstory. Here in England we have 50p coins, and some of them are decorated to celebrate someone, an event, or landmark. These can be quite collectible. Last year a series of 5 coins was released to celebrate the author Beatrix Potter, and certainly the older gener... | 10,986 | 236 | 0.97 | 1,508,411,879 | TalesFromRetail |
I can’t breathe. Black lives matter. | As the gap of the political divide in our world grows deeper, we would like to take a few minutes of your time or express our support of equal treatment, equal justice, to express solidarity with groups which have been marginalized for too long, and to outright say black lives matter. The AskReddit moderators have deci... | 96,756 | 6,724 | 0.79 | 1,591,143,244 | AskReddit |
CMV: Cultural appropriation is not a thing. Culture is inherently meant to be shared. | I strongly believe that those calling people racist for having a specific hairstyle or wearing a specific style of clothing are assholes. Cultural appropriation isn't a thing. Cultural by it's very nature is meant to be shared, not just with people of one culture, but by people of every culture.
That being said, thin... | 14,614 | 1,448 | 0.81 | 1,606,316,742 | changemyview |
CMV: If Trump gets re-elected, I have to accept that the people and the government have spoken and I am just incompatible with the US. | So basically if Trump gets reelected I'm seriously considering moving somewhere else. I should say that I thought I loved this country but maybe I loved a version of it that doesn't actually exist. I figure that the country has spoken and what I'm hearing is that it's a theocratic oligarchy. People are increasingly una... | 20,705 | 1,108 | 0.79 | 1,601,224,195 | changemyview |
A user is following me about reddit and recently posted a picture of my son and my name and address. | This is not my usual user name. I am posting anonymously as she or he is reading everything I post so I need to protect my privacy as much as possible.
Who is the best person to escalate this to?
When it involves my son, it makes everything very serious.
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**Update**
User is now posting pictures of my front... | 480 | 118 | 0.98 | 1,585,837,015 | help |
How I got fired and un-fired in the same day. | So this one goes back to '99 or so. I was working in the corporate headquarters of a very large telco, responsible for the email system for HQ - about 1100 users at the time. Like all the sysadmins at HQ, I was a contractor, working through a bodyshop outsourcer.
My boss was a guy I'll call S. S was the site manager... | 7,093 | 447 | 0.96 | 1,490,704,658 | talesfromtechsupport |
AITA because I refuse to go and visit my special needs stepsister in hospital even though she’s very sick? I low key hate her. | I’m 15 years old. I have a stepsister who is a couple years older than me and she is really seriously disabled. I’m not sure what’s wrong with her because no one ever wants to discuss it with me but she’s non verbal, breaks her bones a lot, and has severe epilepsy and will have many fitting episodes. She also doesn’t u... | 38,513 | 4,291 | 0.89 | 1,567,954,116 | AmItheAsshole |
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