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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 |
The previous tenant of my new flat left a survival guide. It’s time to end this madness. | Last time: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/clvga9/the_previous_tenant_of_my_new_flat_left_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app
When I saw her out the window, garden shears being gripped by both hands and a maniacal expression on her face, I just stood still.
I was frozen to the spot in shock. I felt no ... | 14,722 | 643 | 0.96 | 1,565,137,227 | NoSleep |
"Your Internet link is down." "That might be because it's on fire." | This is my all-time favorite interaction with tech support.
Late one December evening a number of years ago, I got an unexpected call from my boss. He said there was a fire at the office, and I might want to come in and see what was going on.
So I did. By the time I got there, the fire was on its way out, and I and... | 9,070 | 366 | 0.99 | 1,510,667,462 | talesfromtechsupport |
Maria on the Moon | “Did you know that early astronomers thought there were oceans on the moon?” I asked, looking up from my book.
My mom shifted in her bed, a tangle of IV tubes shifting with her. “Of course. The moon seems like the perfect place to find an ocean.”
“What a shame we never found water then,” I said. “Because those false ... | 21,995 | 679 | 0.99 | 1,579,802,358 | NoSleep |
I made a free alternative to Photoshop, that is used by 7 million people. Ask me Anything! | Hi, my name is Ivan Kutskir, I am 29 y.o. and I live in Prague, the Czech Republic. I created [Photopea](https://www.photopea.com/) , an advanced image editor which works in a web browser. There were 7 million visitors in July.
I started to work on it in 2012, the first version was published in 2013, it was just my ho... | 59,457 | 2,896 | 0.92 | 1,597,256,857 | IAmA |
If you put a Garden in the ISS, Could you have infinite oxygen? | Because it can create oxygen and u can feed it with co2?
Edit: Jesus this is most updoots ive ever gotten thanks fam. Also thanks for responses
Edit 2: My karma just tripled. thanks homies | 17,785 | 855 | 0.82 | 1,507,635,631 | askscience |
CMV: Pulling out of Afghanistan was the right decision and the Taliban takeover doesn't change that. | I am 100% convinced that Biden made the correct decision. This is a war that has been going on for 20 years, and for what? Billions of dollars and thousands of lives wasted. I'm so tired of hearing the same old excuses about why we (the U.S.) needed to stay. Yes, of course, entering the war was a mistake and it would'v... | 11,539 | 1,686 | 0.87 | 1,629,177,962 | changemyview |
I just discovered that Wells Fargo account login is not case sensitive for password. Switch your logins to Two factor authentication ASAP! | EDIT: Many of you are asking about how to enable two factor authentication for Wells Fargo, see the comment below: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/66n4li/i_just_discovered_that_wells_fargo_account_login/dgjuo1u | 15,747 | 1,477 | 0.9 | 1,492,749,781 | PersonalFinance |
We are the same amount of time from WWII as they were from the Civil War as they were from the American Revolution. (About 80 yr each). | Today - 2019
(80 years)
World War II - 1939
(78 years)
The Civil War - 1861
(81 years)
American Revolution - 1780
Interesting to put into perspective how we view World War II, as far as time goes, is similar to how those during WWII thought of the Civil War and so on.
Edit - my basic math skills were lac... | 13,327 | 459 | 0.93 | 1,556,242,153 | history |
I just graduated from medical school, and my new hospital has some very strange rules | You probably think that all doctors are filthy rich, because I sure as hell did in the beginning. Eight years and a fistful of premature gray hairs later, I’m just a few hundred thousand dollars poorer than “broke.” That would matter if I had a family to provide for, but the long hours in med school have led to an end ... | 12,949 | 265 | 0.98 | 1,571,313,931 | NoSleep |
It's impossible to be truly happy while working 40+ hours a week. | Humans did not evolve over millions of years to sit 8+ hours in an unventilated room and look at excel spreadsheets. We did not evolve to sit in traffic for 2 hours every day. We did not evolve to go back from work to our apartment and mindlessly consume.
We evolved to spend a few hours every day satisfying our basic... | 2,706 | 553 | 0.87 | 1,597,311,789 | SimpleLiving |
The previous tenant of my new flat left a survival guide. I’m not sure I want to live here anymore. |
I moved in with my boyfriend yesterday. We’ve been together for 5 years now and we’re old and wise enough to settle down and finally leave our parents houses. He just turned 24 and I’m 22. He’s the love of my life. His name is Jamie and I couldn’t be happier to be living with him.
When we decided to make the leap we... | 29,118 | 492 | 0.99 | 1,564,178,216 | NoSleep |
Bill would make personal finance class a graduation requirement for SC high school students | My state is trying to make Personal Finance a required class for graduation. I think this is something we've needed for a long time. -- it made me wonder if any other states are doing this.
http://www.wistv.com/2019/01/12/bill-would-make-personal-finance-class-graduation-requirement-sc-high-school-students/ | 20,568 | 720 | 0.97 | 1,547,390,517 | personalfinance |
META: This sub is moving towards a value system that frequently doesn't align with the rest of the world | I’ve enjoyed reading and posting on this sub for many months now, and I feel like I’ve noticed a disconcerting trend, lately. Over time, more and more of the posts seem to have A- a universal consensus on every post, with any dissenters massively downvoted and B- a shift towards judgments that seem (to me at least) to ... | 80,914 | 6,164 | 0.92 | 1,568,998,300 | AmItheAsshole |
I work security at Disney World... well, I mean I did. | I work in security at Disney World, the happiest place on Earth. Typically, I wouldn’t say where I work as obviously there are some pretty strict rules about things employees can put online, but I just don’t think I can tell this properly without that context. And, honestly, I think this may be it for me anyway with th... | 20,696 | 641 | 0.98 | 1,528,231,573 | NoSleep |
Craziest (unheard of) characters from history | Hi I'm doing some research and trying to build up a list of unique and fascinating historical characters or events that people wouldn't necessarily have heard of.
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This guy is one of my favourites - not exactly unknown but still a fairly obscure one:
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'He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, ... | 12,950 | 1,807 | 0.93 | 1,543,859,884 | history |
CMV: Statistics is much more valuable than Trigonometry and should be the focus in schools | I've been out of school for quite a while, so perhaps some things have changed. My understanding is that most high school curriculums cover algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and for advanced students, pre-calculus or calculus. I'm not aware of a national standard that requires statistics.
For most people, algebra - geo... | 19,477 | 1,306 | 0.9 | 1,607,705,964 | changemyview |
The Chernobyl disaster was a coverup of something terrifying | Narrations:
[Mr. Creeps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pylxyu24g1g)
[The Dark Somnium](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rDRRXlCdC4)
**TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP DMing ME ID THE STORY IS TRUE**: Please see the description and nature of the subreddit where it is posted.
You probably heard about touris... | 16,351 | 430 | 0.97 | 1,560,186,366 | NoSleep |
I negotiated salary for the first time ever, and I got what I wanted! | Last Tuesday, I did something irresponsible for the sake of my mental health and quit a job where I was miserable, without another job lined up. As the sole income provider this was a huge gamble, but I had an interview on Friday that I was feeling really confident about.
I should pause here to note two things: 1) I'... | 20,936 | 927 | 0.89 | 1,516,679,866 | PersonalFinance |
AITA for telling a social worker the real reason my sister wants a foster kid? | So this is a throw away account. While my sister doesn't use reddit, we have mutual friends who do.
I'm a 28F and I have a sister (36F) For the sake of story, I'll just call Jane. Jane is married to "Bob" and they have two kids, boy and a girl. My niece and nephew are wonderful kids and no trouble at all. They fight a... | 42,226 | 2,083 | 0.95 | 1,594,919,641 | AmItheAsshole |
Macy's new employees are encouraged to open a store credit card (26% APR) to obtain their employee discount | I recently picked up a part-time seasonal position at Macy's for some extra holiday cash. I've been working in retail off and on over the past 15 years, and am familiar with the hiring and management practices at a lot of places, but it's been a few years since I've worked for a big retailer like Macy's. I was very sur... | 19,475 | 1,634 | 0.89 | 1,510,251,295 | PersonalFinance |
Learned a horrifying fact today about store credit cards... | I work for a provider of store brand credit cards (think Victoria's Secret, Banana Republic, etc.). The *average* time it takes a customer to pay off a *single* *purchase* is **six years**. And these are cards with an APR of 29.99% typically. | 16,038 | 3,168 | 0.91 | 1,513,608,127 | personalfinance |
Has anyone heard of the Left/Right Game? (Part 10)(Final) | Well then… here we are.
I have to be honest; when I posted the first of these logs from my bedroom in North London, I didn’t think it would go very far. After all, why would it? I wasn’t a regular contributor to this site, nor a seasoned veteran of the paranormal. I was just a man who missed his friend, seeking a few ... | 14,201 | 991 | 0.96 | 1,517,652,004 | NoSleep |
Dragon customer doesn't understand how restraining orders work. | I got my first real job when I was 14, in the deli section of the local supermarket.
To explain this story, I need to add a bit of background: My little sister was being brutally bullied at school by this girl who would follow her home from school taunting her (She lived nowhere near us, so why she was putting in so m... | 5,633 | 178 | 0.99 | 1,539,646,262 | TalesFromRetail |
For everyone shopping on Amazon's Prime Day: "savings" from sales aren't savings if you weren't already planning on buying the item. | This is a trap a lot of people fall into (myself included): just because it's a "good deal" doesn't mean you "saved" money by buying it, it's still money that you spent!
This might be obvious to most people but it's a good reminder that pops up on here occasionally and has stopped me from making some dumb purchases on... | 39,523 | 1,890 | 0.85 | 1,531,747,161 | PersonalFinance |
Somebody at google was just like "yea, just have someone drive down every road on fucking earth". | And you know what? They did it. | 126,551 | 2,376 | 0.93 | 1,512,311,904 | Showerthoughts |
Pro life catholic: I won’t donate to planned parenthood, even if the majority of what they do is good, because I disagree with abortion. Same catholic: I’ll still donate to the Catholic Church, even if they covered up child rape, because the majority of what they do is good. | Someone ( hat tip to /u/twentyfive_shmeckles ) made this comparison yesterday in another thread and I thought it was spot on.
Pro lifers are willing to demonize planned parenthood and overlook the tons of amazing work they do because they also provide abortion services.
However, the same pro lifer will go to the Ca... | 44,817 | 2,055 | 0.73 | 1,552,570,488 | TwoXChromosomes |
LPT: Strict parents can turn their kids into more effective liars because children who are afraid to tell the truth learn more deceptive behaviors to avoid getting in trouble. Set reasonable rules and expectations for your child, Reward positive behavior and Accept mistakes as a chance for learning. | Edit: Relevant study for anyone interested: [Here](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1080/01650250143000373)
Edit2: You guys are really great, I've really enjoyed reading through your personal experiences :) Please stop messaging me asking for acting advice though, what did you see on my profile that made you think ... | 97,552 | 2,456 | 0.92 | 1,588,527,724 | LifeProTips |
I just spent my first year as a free man after being wrongfully convicted and incarcerated for 23 years. AMA | I'm Ricky Kidd. In 1997, I was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for double homicide — a crime I didn’t commit. I couldn’t afford a lawyer, and the public defender I was assigned didn’t have time or the resources to prove my innocence. I spent 23 years behind bars trying to prove the things my public ... | 48,122 | 2,335 | 0.91 | 1,605,886,358 | IAmA |
I Met a Demon on the Tokyo Subway | This story is a retelling of something that happened to me when I was seven years old. As the years have gone by and I’ve grown up, I’ve realized that the story cannot possibly be true, yet I can’t shake the feeling that it is.
It happened in Tokyo, in the subway station. I was standing with my father when I saw the d... | 13,071 | 335 | 0.97 | 1,512,748,093 | NoSleep |
I wasn't even mad. I was more impressed she held onto a receipt for that long | So this happened fairly early into my promotion as ASM for a retail store. At the time, I was still kind of unsure about some of my decisions, but I knew for a fact I could not help this woman.
A woman came into the store with like 8 bags full of deco pillows. I wasn't looking forward to this, as our deco pillow sect... | 5,122 | 269 | 0.94 | 1,475,510,658 | TalesFromRetail |
I'm going into my senior year in high school and I work a LOT year round and save all my money. I should be graduating high school with a little over $30,000 | What would you do with all that money after graduating high school? | 17,683 | 2,706 | 0.79 | 1,502,371,197 | PersonalFinance |
MIT just released a huge archive of Noam Chomsky's work dating back 60-years | https://libraries.mit.edu/chomsky/ | 15,465 | 537 | 0.89 | 1,490,649,657 | philosophy |
"HALP! I'm hosting a conference late at night that I never told anybody about and surprisingly the building is closed!" / "are you stupid?" | As some of you will know, I work an out of hours service desk which provides general IT support to a few different businesses out of hours when their normal IT people have gone home. These businesses are often hundreds of miles away and my access to their internal systems is usually anywhere from extremely limited to n... | 7,019 | 578 | 0.93 | 1,474,455,083 | talesfromtechsupport |
AITA for telling my extended family how many men (roughly) my sister has slept with after she outed our youngest brother as a virgin? | We had a family dinner this evening. My family has four kids in total: me, my elder sister (29F), younger sister (24F) and youngest brother (22M).
Extended family attended our family dinner. So all of our significant others, our cousins, aunts and uncles etc. During the dinner my elder sister and youngest brother got ... | 54,124 | 5,147 | 0.92 | 1,564,233,111 | AmItheAsshole |
I just found out my die hard Catholic father just walked out of church. | At mass on Sunday they praised the decision to overturn Roe and my father got up and walked out. He then asked my mother to tell their nun friend they are going to join an Episcopalian church. He threw out their lawn sign saying he was a proud member of the church. I am lost for words. It is a joke in our family that i... | 64,426 | 1,381 | 0.83 | 1,656,453,722 | TwoXChromosomes |
Should r/Python participate in the June 12th Blackout protesting the API changes |
"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
This is a long one, so I'm putting the TLDR up top:
# TLDR
A blackout has been proposed for June 12-14 to protest the API changes and extreme cost.
The r/Python community seems very vocal about joining the blackout and I would like the r... | 3,621 | 337 | 0.96 | 1,686,115,761 | Python |
What is with the new logo? | On mobile browser I’m getting this terribly ugly new 3D looking logo. Is this the new face of Reddit? | 422 | 286 | 0.98 | 1,701,288,646 | help |
I made the mistake of posting an unpopular opinion | So I have been a reddit lurker for a few years. in the last month I've tried to be more involved by posting more threads and comments. I made the mistake of making a post that was unpopular. Not trolling or being mean, just unpopular. I didn't realize that I should only post things that are popular rehashed opinions. N... | 630 | 317 | 0.81 | 1,704,037,310 | help |
Exit polls show that 76% of white evangelicals still supported the pussy grabber who raw dogged a porn star. Never, and I mean NEVER, let them lecture you about modesty or morality or abortion ever again. They don't give a fuck about morals. They only care about power. | These people love to lecture women about modesty.
These people love to slut shame.
These people are the first to ask what a woman was wearing before taking her sexual assault seriously.
These people love to shame women for embracing their sexuality.
These people love to lecture the world about morality.
These... | 50,710 | 1,449 | 0.74 | 1,605,026,638 | TwoXChromosomes |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court Justice, passed at 87 | As many of you know, today [Ruth Bader Ginsburg](https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-dead/index.html) passed away at 87. She was affectionately known as Notorious R.B.G. She joined the Supreme Court in 1993 under Bill Clinton and despite battling cancer 5 times during her term, she faithfully fu... | 99,517 | 10,349 | 0.82 | 1,600,476,132 | AskReddit |
"Wii U games cannot play in a Switch. DISCS ARE NOT CARTRIDGES..." | Hey guys! Another tale from the video game shop! I haven't posted in a while, not many weirdos lately.
This guy came in and wanted a Switch. Pretty normal. He got Breath of the Wild for WiiU and asked if it would play.
Me: No sir. The Wii U will only use optical discs. The Switch uses small cartridges. The exact game... | 5,231 | 606 | 0.93 | 1,492,717,962 | TalesFromRetail |
Hey, it's Brian Baumgartner! I portrayed Kevin Malone (accounting guru and chili master) on NBC's The Office and I'm here today to discuss my new podcast, “An Oral History of The Office", Ask Me Anything! | Hey, it's [Brian Baumgartner](https://www.instagram.com/bbbaumgartner/)! I portrayed Kevin Malone (accounting guru and chili master) on NBC's The Office and I'm here today to discuss my new podcast, “An Oral History of The Office", hosted by yours truly. I've teamed up with Spotify to give you a show that features inte... | 54,188 | 3,799 | 0.87 | 1,594,141,165 | IAmA |
Just spent four months in jail. I read over thirty books and I feel like I’ve been born again. | “” | 32,210 | 1,500 | 0.88 | 1,525,093,950 | books |
eli5: How comes when you buy vitamins separately, they all come in these large capsules/tablets, but when you buy multivitamins, they can squeeze every vitamin in a tiny tablet? | Edit: Thanks for all the replies, didn’t expect such a simple question to blow up. To all the people being mad for no reason, have a day off for once. | 21,696 | 1,141 | 0.93 | 1,605,606,801 | explainlikeimfive |
Checking my builder's home warranty saved me $38,000 on repairs | I bought a townhome in 2009 that I now use as a rental property. Last summer when I was visiting the home I noticed the floor in the kitchen had sunk a couple inches. I'd heard previously from my neighbors that they'd had the same problem.
When I bought the home, the builder had given a 2/10 warranty which covered the... | 16,576 | 640 | 0.95 | 1,566,423,428 | personalfinance |
Your parents took decades to furnish their house | If you're just starting out, remember that it took your parents decades to collect all the furniture, decorations, appliances, etc you are used to having around. It's easy to forget this because you started remembering things a long while after they started out together, so it feels like that's how a house should alwa... | 27,389 | 1,954 | 0.9 | 1,499,921,110 | PersonalFinance |
LPT: If you own a Samsung smart TV that has ads, you can block them by adding ads.samsung.com to your block list on your internet router | Have a Samsung smart TVs with ads that were annoying as hell. Found out they can be blocked and tried it. It worked! | 82,025 | 2,597 | 0.96 | 1,628,107,729 | LifeProTips |
AITA for silently getting up and walking out of the restaurant during NYE dinner after I was told to pay for everyone at the table (my inlaws)? |
I f32 recently inherited a good amount of money from my mom. I keep the money in a seperate account as I still haven't decided what to do with it and I didn't want it to go to waste.
I noticed my husband constantly bringing up the inheritance money and making countless suggestions as to how I should spend it. Anothe... | 48,171 | 5,922 | 0.9 | 1,672,594,187 | AmItheAsshole |
UI, change it back! | It just switched for me, it looks like absolute crap, everything is too big, change it back please, it sucks hard!
Edit: to add more, it's too similar to the phone one without being one (I'm on browser), posts take so much space but the text is super little, there is wasted space on the right on the main page and the ... | 415 | 142 | 0.98 | 1,707,415,117 | help |
In ww1 when the soldiers on the battlefields had to stop fighting mid-battle because the war ended did they just throw down there weapons? Or did they awkwardly just walk back to their separate camps? | Specifically soldiers that were in the middle of a fight or battle when the war ended, did they just awkwardly stare down the dude they were shooting at 20 minutes ago?
Also what was packing up like? Did separate countries just watch the other pack up all of their stuff and just walk back?
Sorry if my question is wor... | 15,494 | 995 | 0.89 | 1,542,118,533 | history |
John Bogle, who founded Vanguard and revolutionized retirement savings, dies at 89 | Someone who did more to change personal finance and investments than almost anyone in U.S. history.
[http://www.philly.com/business/a/john-bogle-dead-vanguard-obituary-20190116.html?\_\_vfz=medium%3Dsharebar](http://www.philly.com/business/a/john-bogle-dead-vanguard-obituary-20190116.html?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar) | 20,240 | 479 | 0.93 | 1,547,677,015 | PersonalFinance |
Republicans have introduced a bill which would ban abortion nationwide. We told you this would happen. The only way to stop this is to vote democrat from city council to president. Never let a Republican get close to power… ever again. If we won in Kansas, we can win anywhere. Register to vote. Now. | [republicans introduce bill to ban abortion nationwide.](https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3640849-graham-introduces-nationwide-15-week-abortion-ban-legislation/amp/)
We told you this would happen. First chance they get, they are going to try to ban abortion nationwide.
Never let them even get that chance. The *... | 53,001 | 1,282 | 0.8 | 1,663,769,869 | TwoXChromosomes |
I am Dr. Jane Goodall, a scientist, conservationist, peacemaker, and mentor. AMA. | I'm Dr. Jane Goodall. I'm a scientist and conservationist. I've spent decades studying chimpanzees and their remarkable similarities to humans. My latest project is my first-ever online class, focused on animal intelligence, conservation, and how you can take action against the biggest threats facing our planet. You ca... | 71,842 | 5,169 | 0.84 | 1,505,322,135 | IAmA |
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