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Heads up: The federal government just filed suit against Navient, claiming they scammed millions of borrowers between 2010-2015 to the tune of $4 billion. This is huge. | The suit was filed January 18th 2017, by the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) against Navient.
First, know that the CFPB has requested that the Court order Navient to comply with the following actions, among others:
1. Restitution to consumers harmed by Navient's conduct;
2. Disgorgement of all ill-gotte... | 27,039 | 1,938 | 0.91 | 1,484,795,776 | PersonalFinance |
Reddit won’t let me block or report HeGetsUs ads | Title basically but the app and website continue to show ads from the Jesus brainwashing group called HeGetsUs. I tap on block that account and it still comes up. I tap on Report and the app tells me I can’t report them. How much money did they have to spend to prevent me from blocking their manipulative bullshit?? | 549 | 161 | 0.96 | 1,676,801,053 | help |
Got my first job as a developer! | Finally!
After 9 months of purely studying and nothing else. Started from absolute 0 and landed my first job in Data Science on a marketing company.
Have to say it was very hard since I know no developers at all and had no one to ask from help.
Still feels weird and definitely have a stromg case of imposter syndrome... | 3,224 | 251 | 0.97 | 1,595,315,410 | Python |
Similar to increasing wealth gap, are we experiencing an increasing educational gap? Are well-educated getting more educated and under-educated staying under-educated? | Edit: Thanks everyone for many different perspectives and interesting arguments!
One statistic brought up was global educational attainment rising overall, which is a quite well-known development, and I'm glad it is taking place.
Another point brought up was education and degrees. In this question, I don't necessaril... | 21,885 | 243 | 0.84 | 1,517,681,683 | askscience |
CMV: Biden’s vaccine “mandate” has a multitude of precedence. It will not send the US into some authoritarian regime. | The Supreme Court already ruled 7-2 on the side of compulsory vaccines in 1905. The court decided that the right to individual liberty in regards to vaccination is not above the rights of the collective. This is just one case of precedence out of dozens.
[Jacobson vs. Massachusetts](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jac... | 12,578 | 2,926 | 0.82 | 1,631,249,173 | changemyview |
This is my first post on reddit. | I need help using reddit please explain the basics, I’ve seen it’s a little bit complicated. | 519 | 145 | 0.96 | 1,595,513,632 | help |
CMV: Anti-vaxxers who have a child die to a preventable disease should be charged for murder/manslaughter at minimum. | At this point in technology, where almost everything is available for public viewing on the internet, there is no reason for anyone to be an anti-vaxxer. There is literally tens of thousands of legitimate scientifically proven articles on why vaccines are a good thing and less than 100 of the opposing argument in the s... | 11,119 | 604 | 0.92 | 1,583,671,593 | changemyview |
AITA for my response to my sister's boyfriend's "brutal honesty"? |
My F35 sister F27 started dating one of those "brutally honest" guys few months ago. He can be quite rude and make backhanded comments about me and the family sometimes which is bothersome but my sister says he's not malicious but is just the brutally honest time and we should get used to it.
I visited my parents ... | 38,643 | 4,888 | 0.97 | 1,642,421,304 | AmItheAsshole |
CMV: Donald Trump has not made a single lasting positive impact on the USA during his term as president. | I write this because I am tired of the wild goose chase that is finding examples of his success. Anything surrounding Donald Trump is shrouded in divisive language and biased opinions. Liberals will have you believe he has done nothing, while conservatives will tout his unlimited success. I must be missing it, because ... | 36,281 | 5,097 | 0.74 | 1,599,747,097 | changemyview |
Company-wide email + 30,000 employees + auto-responders = ... | I witnessed this astounding IT meltdown around 2004 in a large academic organization.
An employee decided to send a broad solicitation about her need for a local apartment. She happened to discover and use an all-employees@org.edu type of email address that included everyone. And by "everyone," I mean every employee i... | 11,383 | 728 | 0.96 | 1,453,393,164 | talesfromtechsupport |
rant: Stop putting movie images as the book covers! | Seriously! I hate it, it takes so much of the imagination out of it for me. I can't say I LOVE Amy Adams, so my reading of Sharp Objects was seriously hindered by imagining her as the main character nonstop. Why put real photographs of people on book covers anyway!
I honestly think the state of book covers is atrociou... | 48,769 | 1,462 | 0.89 | 1,571,616,831 | books |
ELI5: How does your body burn 2000 calories a day, but you have to run a mile to burn 100 extra? | Basically the title. I saw this thing about how much you have to exercise to burn off certain foods and was wondering how your body burns so many calories by doing nothing. | 29,815 | 3,403 | 0.93 | 1,578,499,603 | explainlikeimfive |
AITA for not waking up my girlfriend for her exam after I overheard her calling me a little bitch? | My girlfriend has online summer courses and she had an exam for one of them this morning.
I usually wake her up for pretty much everything because she sleeps through her phone alarm no matter how long it buzzes or how many she sets.
She has joked that I’m her butler before and within the context of a relationship i... | 38,356 | 1,640 | 0.96 | 1,590,856,856 | AmItheAsshole |
Modern Warfare needs 1TB of RAM... | Hi all, mandatory LTL, FTP. On mobile so formatting will be a bit sketchy and disclaimer, not in Tech Support but hopefully will be eventually after completing my Comp-Sci degree.
Was in a TeamViewer session with a colleague but 10 brief minutes ago when I discovered to my distaste that his 2TB HDD was filled to the b... | 9,891 | 523 | 0.93 | 1,493,809,597 | talesfromtechsupport |
CMV: Warren and Sanders are not radicals, they are moderate social democrats by European standards | This view is based on some doing some basic research on both Sander's and Warren's websites. They both have proposed systemic changes that will tackle economic inequality. Progressive taxation, a wealth tax, a higher minimum wage, etc. It's mostly about reversing the past few decades that reduced taxes on the wealthy a... | 11,876 | 1,053 | 0.8 | 1,581,778,103 | changemyview |
Aita for telling my brother he got exactly what he deserved when he pushed his girlfriend away for being a “gold digger”? | My brother is a very hardworking man and at 27 he is now very wealthy and doing well for himself. He’s been with this girl for six months and throughout the time we have gotten close because we both like hair, makeup, and shopping. I never knew there was anything wrong with their relationship except when she texted me ... | 41,583 | 2,842 | 0.96 | 1,604,338,817 | AmItheAsshole |
Stop Spending Money on Food! -- BUY A CROCKPOT | **Holy shit at the money people spend on food!**
And I was the exact same way when I landed my first job out of college. You know what I'm talking about--biscuit and Starbucks on the way to work, lunch out with coworkers and pizza and beer at the local tavern for dinner! Every night! All week! Professional money s... | 46,158 | 4,182 | 0.77 | 1,506,910,425 | PersonalFinance |
The universe is said to be around 23% dark matter, 72% dark energy and 5% ordinary matter. If we don't know what dark matter and dark energy are, where do the percentages come from? | Edit: I just want to clarify, I'm aware of what dark matter and dark energy are. I'm by no means an expert, but I do have a basic idea. I'm wondering specifically how we got those particular numbers for them. | 16,618 | 946 | 0.9 | 1,520,454,426 | askscience |
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... | 27,395 | 1,954 | 0.9 | 1,499,921,110 | personalfinance |
CMV: Transgender women should not be allowed to compete in cisgender women’s sports due to unfair biological advantage | I want to start by saying I do not intend to be transphobic. I think it’s wonderful laws are finally acknowledging transgender persons as a protected class. Sports seems to be the exception—partially because it brings up issues of sex rather than gender.
My granddaughter is a swimmer and was 14th in the state at the l... | 17,077 | 2,525 | 0.72 | 1,611,434,629 | changemyview |
Please please please god vaccinate your kids | I'm sitting alone drinking to much again and just need to get this off my chest. Three years ago I had a baby girl, her name was Emily and I loved her more than anything in this entire fucked up world. She was a mistake and I'd only been getting my shit together when I found out I was going to have her. I spent a long ... | 45,843 | 3,218 | 0.79 | 1,484,109,238 | TwoXChromosomes |
Why do people have to be so stimulated all the time? It makes me sad | … I’m guilty of this so I’m definitely not bitching, just having a realisation!
Yesterday my boyfriend dropped me at the pharmacy to run in and collect a prescription. I was in there for all of 2 minutes.
I came back and he was sat in the car playing his football game on his phone. I made a joke about how he couldn’t... | 2,241 | 275 | 0.96 | 1,705,974,943 | SimpleLiving |
Why does electricity always hum at a B-flat pitch? | Whenever I pass a power plant or hear a lot of electricity running through my house, I always hear that pitch.
Edit: To those asking, I am a musician.
| 15,133 | 783 | 0.87 | 1,503,856,850 | askscience |
AITA for dropping our dinner on the ground and walking out when my boyfriend asked me "What's for dinner tonight, b*tch?" | I was over my boyfriend's apartment this weekend and I was cooking dinner because he was studying for exams. I made pasta and a chunky sauce with meatballs and veggies. I told him dinner was ready and he goes "what's for dinner tonight, B*TCH" ... With like a lot of emphasis on the last word.
I was fed up, I'd had a ... | 50,608 | 1,809 | 0.92 | 1,662,914,144 | AmItheAsshole |
CMV: The “alt right” does not reflect real conservatives in the slightest. As a conservative, it’s incredibly frustrating to watch. | Ok, what the hell is going on with the Republican Party? What even is a conservative anymore? Every conservative I talk to just spews on about how they love trump and what he is doing. Do they even care about real conservatism? Do they care about the free market, hands off government, lower taxes? Literally the only is... | 11,913 | 2,230 | 0.78 | 1,597,267,340 | changemyview |
LPT: Go to your Reddit inbox, click the three dots on top and select "Mark all as read" to remove that annoying number at the bottom. | Edit: u/iwantmyteslanow had posted this in AskReddit too (which I saw after posting here) | 82,403 | 3,119 | 0.88 | 1,585,723,223 | LifeProTips |
AITA for kicking my SiL out after she threw away most of my single use baby products and even formula? | I'm 19f, I have a 3 week old baby girl. I do still live with my parents, but since I pay rent equally, they say I can have just as much of a say in who comes and goes from the house as they do. I've never actually taken advantage of this rule until recently enough. I have a brother, who's 26 and his wife is 24. They're... | 38,915 | 2,087 | 0.88 | 1,628,081,415 | AmItheAsshole |
Grandparents have lost $30k to lottery scams. They took out a $150k loan to pay for another. How can I help? | My grandparents (80 and 85, Georgia) get phonecalls from "the Department of Treasury" letting them know they have won $xxx, xxx and all they need to do is send $1000 to some person for "taxes" and then they will receive the money.
To my knowledge, they have sent $30k in total.
The situation at hand: my grandma got a ... | 18,208 | 1,558 | 0.91 | 1,515,947,344 | PersonalFinance |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time. | Horror story or romantic comedy? | 29,980 | 466 | 0.94 | 1,518,619,824 | WritingPrompts |
As a former car salesman, these are the common fallacies that people used to justify purchasing a new car. | There are 4 basic reasons people came in to purchase a car.
Current car is messy:
I sold a ton of cars to people who's current car they hated simply because it was dirty. Some elbow grease or paying for a good detail could have saved them $20k.
Wanted new technology:
I sold $50k cars weekly because of Bluetooth capab... | 21,230 | 4,121 | 0.92 | 1,550,547,701 | personalfinance |
LPT: Every gun is always loaded at all times and can discharge for no reason at all. | This should always be your mindset. Mindfully, never point a firearm at anything you do not intent to kill. Never put your finger in the trigger guard unless you are ready to shoot. A firearm should only ever be considered "not loaded" once it has been dissembled. Do not tolerate bad firearm etiquette from those around... | 75,154 | 3,995 | 0.85 | 1,595,258,657 | LifeProTips |
Just lost my only parent today at the age of 19, I don't know what my first steps are. | Hello, I only recently came back to my college dorm after having to drive back home to talk to officers to inform me that my last parent has passed away.
I do not have any other adult relatives to rely upon.
I will admit right now, I am naive and young. I don't know a single thing about the real world yet and how f... | 19,884 | 1,156 | 0.9 | 1,511,245,303 | PersonalFinance |
"You must be her boss" | A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, I was a young soldier. I loved the army. I wanted to make it my career. I did it for a long time.
I got injured. I couldn't do the job I was trained on anymore. So I got out and looked for other jobs.
I do medical screening now. I'm older than everyone but two people in the en... | 9,972 | 257 | 0.95 | 1,505,552,729 | TalesFromRetail |
IamA FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel who voted for Net Neutrality, AMA! | Hi Everyone! I’m FCC Commissioner [Jessica Rosenworcel](https://www.fcc.gov/about/leadership/jessica-rosenworcel). [I voted for net neutrality](https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/941361089387876352). I believe you should be able to go where you want and do what you want online without your internet provider getting ... | 59,160 | 3,242 | 0.77 | 1,515,788,516 | IAmA |
Be careful what you say in public | My wife and I were at Panera eating breakfast and we noticed a lady be hind us talking on the phone very loudly. We couldn’t help over hearing her talk about a bill not being paid. We were a little annoyed but not a big deal because it was a public restaurant. We were not trying to listen but were shocked when she ann... | 34,137 | 1,653 | 0.91 | 1,565,099,143 | personalfinance |
AITA for not giving my sister her wedding dress because she didn't invited my underage son? | I (40m) have a sister (30f) who is getting married in a week. The groom proposed to her a year ago at a family dinner that left everyone speechless, but very happy for them as they are longtime companions. During this dinner, my sister asked my son (17m) to make her wedding dress. My son has always loved design and fas... | 38,976 | 4,766 | 0.96 | 1,677,569,581 | AmItheAsshole |
The Monster Under your Bed isn't Always there to Scare You | I was lying alone in my room when I heard the voice, deep and crackly, coming from beneath my bed.
“Hey,” the voice called out.
I told myself I was just imagining it.
“Hey kid,” the voice repeated.
I drew my knees up to my chest and ducked my head under the blanket, trying to shut out the voice and the cold wind t... | 15,747 | 304 | 0.97 | 1,518,612,103 | NoSleep |
I am Max Brooks, author of World War Z, and I am here to discuss the coronavirus. Let’s talk about why my fictional zombie book was banned by the very real government of China. AMA. | Let’s talk about survival. Individuals, groups, nations. Let’s talk about how fictional threats can teach us real survival skills. Let’s talk about why my fictional zombie book, “World War Z” was [banned by the very real government of China](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/china-barred-my-dystopian-novel-about-h... | 50,262 | 3,989 | 0.82 | 1,584,030,609 | IAmA |
META: An Historical Overview of 9/11, as the 20 Year Rule Enters 2021 | Hello everyone and welcome to 2021! As most readers are aware, we use a 20 Year Rule which rolls over every new year. Most years, the newly available topics are fairly mundane, but as we've been noting for some time, 2021 is different. Despite jokes to the contrary, we are *not* implementing the 21 Year Rule. We are, t... | 10,818 | 613 | 0.96 | 1,609,512,584 | AskHistorians |
$2,214 at Wendy’s... | Hi everyone, while going over transactions in preparation for filing my taxes, I noticed quite a large charge on my business checking from Wendy’s. I thought I must have bought lunch for my crew, but then it struck me as odd that the amount was $70 even. So I checked the account for all Wendy’s transactions, and it loo... | 18,235 | 328 | 0.95 | 1,594,005,530 | PersonalFinance |
Doing interesting things doesn't make you an interesting person | I am a full-time traveler and an avid reader. Because of the intersection of these two passions, I end up reading a lot of travel memoirs. And boy, most of them are just terrible.
Why? I think about this a lot, and the answer I've come to is that a lot of people conflate ***doing interesting things*** with ***being an... | 2,800 | 247 | 0.96 | 1,646,662,461 | SimpleLiving |
Why is it that during winter it's not uncommon to have days with abnormally high temperature and summer-like weather, but in the summer it never drops to winter-like weather for a day? | I live in the USA Midwest | 37,680 | 953 | 0.87 | 1,519,143,817 | askscience |
Have you ever seen a customer explode before? It's awesome! | Long. TL;DR at the bottom.
When I worked at a *insert biggest retail chain in America here*, we had an odd, but easily understandable way to display and sell our TVs. If the TV has ONE price tag on it, that means that was the price for the TV in box and the display was NOT for sale. If the TV had *two*, one would be c... | 6,100 | 212 | 0.99 | 1,537,355,689 | TalesFromRetail |
UPDATE, AITA for despising my mentally handicap sister? | I'm back like I said I would be,. My [original post](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/awyi8k/aita_for_despising_my_mentally_handicap_sister/) got a lot of attention and seeing as you guys seem interested, here's my update.
Well, since that day I made the post i've been staying with my grandfather. The w... | 72,784 | 1,974 | 0.96 | 1,552,322,462 | AmItheAsshole |
I'm a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I have some stories to tell | I wasn't sure where else to post these stories, so I figured I'd share them here. I've been an SAR officer for a few years now, and along the way I've seen some things that I think you guys will be interested in.
* I have a pretty good track record for finding missing people. Most of the time they just wander off the... | 31,527 | 1,377 | 0.99 | 1,440,554,601 | NoSleep |
AITA for kicking out one of my bridesmaids for showing up in the wrong dress? | My (23F) wedding was back on Saturday December 31st and I'm still getting backlash from this, so I want to know if this was an AH move.
In the country I live in it's currently winter, and we get a fair amount of snow so my wedding was a winter themed wedding. The color theme was forest green and gold. My dress was obv... | 45,540 | 5,448 | 0.92 | 1,673,617,976 | AmItheAsshole |
"I don't have a credit card!" | I work at an ice cream shop, and when children come in with their parents, I sometimes like to playfully ask the kids if they wanted to pay instead of the parents. It gets the kids talking (if they're not too shy!) and it makes the parents chuckle.
Today, I asked a little girl in a dress if she was going to pay, and ... | 5,172 | 109 | 0.94 | 1,434,251,032 | TalesFromRetail |
AITA for using flash cards to explain to my brother and his wife why they can't bring their rainbow baby to my wedding? |
My fiancee (F) and I (M) are getting married. We've decided wedding's gonna be childfree. No hate towards children just to keep it more organized and contained.
My brother 'Chris' (M) and his wife (F) have a 3 yro son who everyone calls "miracle" or "rainbow" baby. He came after several failed pregnancies that laste... | 43,260 | 6,497 | 0.97 | 1,669,667,902 | AmItheAsshole |
When Boris Yeltsin visited Texas in 1990, he went to a grocery store and was shocked by the abundance of food. This shattered his view of Communism and led to him reforming Russia. With all the Russian spies, how did the government officials not know about the condition of America before this? |
I don’t have sources, but I also have heard that Gorbachev didn’t believe the grocery stores were real when he visited the US. Like he thought that it and the roads were built specifically for his visit. It just seems like if there were Russian spies, the high up officials would already know this stuff.
**Edit** So... | 10,451 | 248 | 0.9 | 1,522,005,170 | AskHistorians |
CMV: Donald Trump will be re-elected in a landslide. | Yes, he is currently trailing Joe Biden in most polls. However, I believe that Trump will not only win, but win handily. There are a few reasons why.
1. Biden is a centrist, unlikely to energize younger, more progressive voters. All he has done is alienate progressives with his promises to veto Medicare For All if it ... | 14,593 | 2,903 | 0.79 | 1,586,724,684 | changemyview |
I had 1.25k reddit coins, and never spent any of them. | I just checked and now i only have 250. What happened to them?!?! I never spent them. | 432 | 142 | 0.99 | 1,589,054,164 | help |
LPT: From here on out, make "What was your company's COVID response?" a standard interview question. | I work in software. My whole company has been working from home for the past two months, and performing at 100%. Now management is forcing us all to come back into the office on June 1st, for no discernible reason.
I don't want to work for a company that cares so little about the health of employees and their families... | 83,767 | 3,166 | 0.86 | 1,590,169,843 | LifeProTips |
Icantputspacesinmytitles | I can’t put spaces in the titles of posts | 1,202 | 146 | 0.99 | 1,586,919,389 | help |
Seriously, get and use a credit card | I've encountered many people, both in my personal life and online, that insist upon using a debit card for their purchases, instead of using a credit card -- either because they don't yet have one, or because they have some fear of using a credit card. There are literally no cons to using a credit card if, and here's t... | 22,062 | 4,125 | 0.77 | 1,500,648,206 | personalfinance |
When a new IT department head steals the prestige e-mail address from long time employee and lives to regret it. | A number of years back I was working for a company that had been around for many years, I was only relatively new myself but there were still a couple of "old guard" senior engineers around who had been there from the start. The kind that knows where all the obscure, undocumented insider stuff is and can fix most probl... | 8,736 | 380 | 0.97 | 1,643,696,594 | talesfromtechsupport |
Why do so many people get excited over tax refunds when it is basically an interest free loan to the government? | I know many people, especially in my age bracket (19-22), look forward to tax season for this reason. Some even plan for large purchases once the check arrives. Why is getting your money "back" something to be excited about? Isn't giving paying too much in taxes a bad thing?
Edit: I appreciate all the responses. Will ... | 15,977 | 397 | 0.78 | 1,479,058,648 | PersonalFinance |
CMV: politicians should be required to wear NASCAR-style jumpsuits showing all their major sponsors. | In recent days some have decried the POTUS and FDOTUS brazenly ignoring federal ethics laws by posing with a certain company's bean products.
But I welcome it. The ethics rules really just obscure behind a thin veneer the truth of American politics: namely, many politicians are just in it for their friends and donors... | 30,118 | 851 | 0.89 | 1,594,907,258 | changemyview |
Bank of America is refusing to give back $9,800 to my dad's account after someone fraudulently stole his funds. | On the night of November 1st/early morning of November 2nd, someone made 8 separate withdrawals of $600 each(Total $4800) at ATM machines in Tarrytown, White Plains, and lower Manhattan from my dad's account and then phone transferred another $5000 from his savings account to his checking account. Then the thief made t... | 15,226 | 1,464 | 0.9 | 1,479,488,839 | personalfinance |
Is it possible with ancient cultures that we are falsely misled to think they took their beliefs entirely seriously? I.E similar to someone in 3000 years discovering all our Santa decor... | I have always been troubled that there is a lack of humor possibilities without tonal context in reviewing ancient culture. Have we not considered that some of it - maybe cat statues, are just ancient memes or were a gag?
Edit: are there any examples of this where historians later realized “oh that was kind of a joke... | 19,580 | 347 | 0.94 | 1,609,221,666 | AskHistorians |
CMV: being a conservative is the least Christ-like political view | From what I know, Christ was essentially a radical leftist. He was all about helping and loving the poor, hungry, disabled, outcast. He would feed 10 people just in case one was going hungry. He flipped a table when banks were trying to take advantage of people. He was anti-capitalist and pro social responsibility to s... | 34,758 | 3,726 | 0.72 | 1,610,472,988 | changemyview |
AITA for demanding my sister pay rent for living-at-home with my parents and refusing to pay my rent until she does? | Background: I graduated from college 4 years ago live at home with my parents. My sister graduated 2 years ago and also lives with my parents. We both got jobs pretty much straight out of college. I pay my parents $800/month in rent since my first paycheck.
This is a throwaway and it's still fresh and I'm really emoti... | 39,355 | 2,833 | 0.91 | 1,568,297,632 | AmItheAsshole |
I fixed it, I want the free food promised to me, mom. | My mom is sweet, but she has this notion she shouldn't bother me unless its important.
My phone rang last week while I was home. Day off.
> Mom: "Do you have a minute honey? My internet doesn't work, either computer, nor the tablet either.. I was thinking maybe you could come have dinner later and look at it? I boug... | 7,778 | 446 | 0.94 | 1,415,880,859 | talesfromtechsupport |
AITA for sleeping naked on top of the covers to teach my flatmate's gf a lesson? | New to reddit, please bare with.
So I (21, guy) live with my childhood best friend (22, also a guy) and have done for 2 years now. Up until last week, things were perfect between us.
However, he recently got a new girlfriend (23, lady) and she honestly seems absolutely great except for one thing; she seemingly has ... | 47,422 | 6,071 | 0.93 | 1,567,884,099 | AmItheAsshole |
My ex wanted to throw away our relationship over my period. Yesterday I signed and bought his half of our house. | Edit- I’ve been getting a lot of messages saying that I threw my relationship away too quickly over this.
If you feel that way, then you are welcomed to your opinion. Some things aren’t fixable to me and there’s no going back. To some it’s cheating or abuse.
While there was no physical abuse my boyfriend watched me be ... | 48,858 | 2,343 | 0.83 | 1,576,345,819 | TwoXChromosomes |
Glory to Arstotzka! | A lady came into my work to sell something using her passport as ID. Something didn't look right. I stared at it a bit before noticing that the expiration date was in a slightly different font than the other dates on the passport. I held it up to the light and saw a rectangular outline around the date. I ran my thumbna... | 13,062 | 307 | 0.95 | 1,487,326,445 | TalesFromRetail |
Christopher Columbus was arrested and ostracised for a long list of well documented tyrannical and brutal acts in the New World, and for incompetence as governor of Spain's earliest colonies. How did he go from a disgraced figure to one who is celebrated by statues, and even his own holiday? | I notice that a lot of commemorations of Christopher Columbus, including his holiday, came about in the late 19th century or later. What happened then to cause this new veneration of a man who was evil even by the standards of the folks who brought us the Spanish Inquisition? I also find it strange that he is commemora... | 9,749 | 140 | 0.95 | 1,591,969,867 | AskHistorians |
I'm Alan Sealls, your friendly neighborhood meteorologist who woke up one day to Reddit calling me the "Best weatherman ever" AMA. | Hello Reddit!
I'm Alan Sealls, the longtime Chief Meteorologist at WKRG-TV in Mobile, Alabama who woke up one day and was being called the "Best Weatherman Ever" by so many of you on Reddit.
How bizarre this all has been, but also so rewarding! I went from educating folks in our viewing area to now talking about w... | 92,910 | 4,095 | 0.88 | 1,505,241,716 | IAmA |
ELI5: If the whole purpose of a fruit/vegetable is to spread seeds by being eaten and what out, why are chilly peppers doing there best to prevent this? | Edit: I meant eaten and shat out on eaten and “what out” | 21,613 | 1,623 | 0.88 | 1,591,293,347 | explainlikeimfive |
Worth The Retail Horrors | Heyo. Normal apologies since I'm on mobile blah blah.
I'm currently a Cashier at a big brand grocery store that also sells toys, makeup, etc. But this story takes place back when I was still a Parcel and Bagger. So around March I believe.
I was bagging as per usual and had just finished up my current customer and spe... | 5,096 | 125 | 0.99 | 1,527,509,198 | TalesFromRetail |
Idk which teenage girl needs to hear this, but you are not mature for your age, he's just a predator | I've been seeing so many posts recently on this sub about how many women came to the realization that they had been groomed in their teens by much older men.
Listen. If you are 16, there is basically zero reason for an adult man to approach you for a relationship. Zero. You will change astronomically in your teens and... | 50,036 | 1,137 | 0.93 | 1,626,817,253 | TwoXChromosomes |
Got to give a firearms lesson yesterday | So I go out to a call where the desktop is not powering on. Go out there and the first thing I find is a Springfield XD 9mm sitting on top of the machine. This client is kinda known for keeping random guns in random places and I know the lady who's computer this is knows jack shit about guns.
I point to it and say "... | 7,472 | 312 | 0.92 | 1,493,208,776 | talesfromtechsupport |
Stephen Hawking megathread | We were sad to learn that noted physicist, cosmologist, and author [Stephen Hawking](http://www.hawking.org.uk/) has passed away. In the spirit of AskScience, we will try to answer questions about Stephen Hawking's work and life, so feel free to ask your questions below.
Links:
* [BBC](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-4339... | 65,837 | 1,636 | 0.85 | 1,521,003,828 | askscience |
Forrest Gump tells the story of a "slow-witted" yet simple man, who serendipitously witnesses and directly and positively impacts many historical events, from sports to war to politics to business to disease, etc. Has anybody in history accidentally "Forrest Gumped" their way into history? | Particularly unrelated historical events such as the many examples throughout the novel or book. A nobody whose meer presence or interaction influenced more than one historical event. Any time frame.
Also, not somebody that witness two or more unrelated events, but somebody that partook, even if it was like Forrest pe... | 14,270 | 2,323 | 0.86 | 1,479,315,049 | history |
My employer deposited my paycheck into another co-worker's bank account and is refusing to reverse the mistake for 3 days. | I went to pick up my paycheck just now and saw it had been direct deposited into an account I don't own or have access to. I am still on probation at this job and am not eligible for direct deposit yet and did not sign any forms. I brought this to the attention of the office manager who immediately called the payroll... | 15,932 | 486 | 0.88 | 1,507,304,663 | personalfinance |
Where's the Wifi | I work for an ISP that deals only in DSL-type connections. No satellite/mobile anything.
>**Client**: Hello. Where's the wifi?
>**Me**: I'm sorry sir. You're going to have to be a bit more specific?
>**Client**: I'm paying for this service! This is terrible, it hasn't been here for about a week now! It's usually r... | 6,588 | 254 | 0.96 | 1,487,169,757 | talesfromtechsupport |
The all-green picture with "red" strawberries picture. Do I see red because I know ripe strawberries are red? | This picture seems to be popular this week:
https://i.redditmedia.com/BU23cX5feW7AjHZKnS69Dio9QWDurnRb6A3vx9XZojo.png?w=1024&s=c99d09cef7f72ae2f40c3ae63fd1e53c
If you were to ask someone who has never seen strawberries before, would they still say they look red? (i.e: am I "seeing" red because I know strawberries ar... | 18,659 | 1,300 | 0.85 | 1,488,469,368 | askscience |
My sugar daddy asks me for weird favors | His Tinder profile said he was 45, but he looked to be in his early thirties at most.
*Looking for a sugar baby. $700 weekly. No sex.*
It sounded too good to be true, but, as a broke university student, I was willing to take my chances. I swiped right, and Tinder let me know it was a match. His message came seconds... | 73,171 | 1,392 | 0.99 | 1,571,256,036 | NoSleep |
[WP] you are yourself, on Christmas Day, reading this on reddit, you are told that you are loved and accepted for who you are, and to have a happy holiday season, and a great new year! | EDIT: oh my god, this post accounts for 50% of my karma, it’s also the first reddit gold I’ve ever gotten, thank you so much reddit, this was an amazing Christmas gift! | 21,357 | 305 | 0.87 | 1,514,176,426 | WritingPrompts |
A moderator threatened to get my account banned from Reddit, and I have seen proof that he/she has done so before. Where do I go for help? Or to report the mod? | Edit: If you're just now seeing this, I have contacted staff to no avail. They're actively ignoring me and promoting censorship. Hence why the post was locked. It was the mod team of r/News and I have the screenshots to prove it. | 585 | 49 | 0.99 | 1,592,305,301 | help |
I’m a reporter who investigated a Florida psychiatric hospital that earns millions by trapping patients against their will. Ask me anything. | I’m Neil Bedi, an investigative reporter at the Tampa Bay Times (you might remember me from this [2017 AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6vbfpe/were_reporters_who_investigated_a_power_plant/)). I spent the last several months looking [into a psychiatric hospital that forcibly holds patients for days longer th... | 47,925 | 2,829 | 0.93 | 1,569,938,514 | IAmA |
A Package Marked “Return to sender” | My neighbor is one of those annoying wannabe YouTube personalities. Over the years, I’ve seen him cough out cinnamon, lay flat on the hood of his car as it slowly creeps down the driveway, and douse himself in lukewarm water, all the while screaming *epic win*, *epic fail*, or, fuck, *epic maintenance of the status quo... | 22,925 | 494 | 0.98 | 1,482,158,455 | NoSleep |
I'm Jordan Mechner. Thirty years ago, I made a game called Prince of Persia. Now I'm releasing my 1980s game-dev journals as a book. AMA! | Thirty years ago, I made a game called Prince of Persia. Later, I worked with Ubisoft (as game designer) and Walt Disney Pictures (as screenwriter) to relaunch the franchise with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time––the game in 2003, the movie in 2010.
Now we're celebrating the original game's 30th anniversary with a ... | 46,635 | 2,262 | 0.92 | 1,588,260,536 | IAmA |
Raising the taxes of graduate students by as much as 300% will be a disaster for the USA | Science and technology development has been the story of the past 100 years. The discoveries and innovations are progressing at a dazzling rate, much of this lead by researchers at universities in the USA. At these universities, a substantial amount of the work is done by graduate students, who work long hours (80 ho... | 124,374 | 10,875 | 0.81 | 1,511,108,647 | science |
ELI5 Why do people seem to age so incredibly fast after a traumatic experience? | For example a woman I know seemed to have aged at least ten years in a very short time after her grandchild died in an accident. | 22,873 | 1,107 | 0.93 | 1,605,278,247 | explainlikeimfive |
Me and a friend got a warning for apparent “Vote Manipulation” | Me and my friend both use reddit and were at my apartment gaming and must have upvoted or downvoted the same post or comment because we both got this warning today, accusing us both of vote manipulation. I’m worried now that it may have happened multiple times and we don’t want reddit to delete both our accounts over s... | 392 | 121 | 0.93 | 1,707,219,215 | help |
We are Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald from the Oscar-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR. AUAA. | Hello reddit!
Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald here together in Los Angeles, joined by Edward Snowden from Moscow.
A little bit of context: Laura is a filmmaker and journalist and the
director of CITIZENFOUR, which last night won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
The film debuts on HBO tonight at 9PM ... | 79,187 | 10,576 | 0.8 | 1,424,718,210 | IAmA |
TransUnion burying their credit freeze to sell their own credit monitoring product TrueIdentity | I'm not sure where to post this, but noticed something had changed on the TransUnion website about freezing credit this morning when I was giving links to family so they could freeze theirs.
I froze my credit the day after news about the Equifax breach broke, and it looks like TransUnion has since changed their site ... | 30,757 | 1,956 | 0.93 | 1,505,311,672 | personalfinance |
How do I disable this new asinine TikTok video view? | I absolutely hate it and I want to switch back to the regular view. Is there any setting to change it? It's ridiculous that Reddit adopted this new bootleg TikTok view in the first place, it's completely pointless. | 365 | 47 | 0.99 | 1,643,951,558 | help |
UPDATE AITA for not sharing my medical history before being pranked? | Link to original post- [https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/gflupe/aita\_for\_not\_sharing\_medical\_history\_before\_being/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/gflupe/aita_for_not_sharing_medical_history_before_being/)
Heyo! I had a few folks message me over the last couple of months, the ... | 47,893 | 595 | 0.98 | 1,596,217,433 | AmItheAsshole |
The previous tenant of my new flat left a survival guide. Last night my survival was threatened. | How it began
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/ci94do/the_previous_tenant_of_my_new_flat_left_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app
And what happened next
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/cinu8u/the_previous_tenant_of_my_new_flat_left_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app
When I finally caught up ... | 15,981 | 406 | 0.97 | 1,564,439,937 | NoSleep |
I was Goofy at Walt Disney World for over 20 years! AMA! (This post is not for those who wish to preserve the Disney Magic) | If you'd like to preserve the magical guest experience at the Disney theme parks I suggest you stop reading now. Hi there! this is [me](http://i.imgur.com/CDPaYgj.jpg) and it's nice to meet you. I worked at Walt Disney World for over [twenty-five years](http://i.imgur.com/bHRvqkq.jpg)! I was a [Bandit](http://i.imgur.c... | 71,645 | 12,835 | 0.88 | 1,481,210,532 | IAmA |
Girlfriend applied for a job, within 24 hours they hired her, and sent her a check for $4,000 to buy supplies. Scam? | I dont know if this is the right place to post this.
My girlfriend applied to a job at a place called HCI group. Within one conversation online they hired her, and said they will send her a check for $4,000 to buy necessary equipment like software.
This morning, she received an overnight check from Patelco Credit Un... | 29,408 | 1,879 | 0.9 | 1,490,885,399 | personalfinance |
An interesting way to view life: Look at yourself from the future | A comment I saw on this subreddit got me thinking, and it's actually an interesting way to think. This might help reassess what you are spending time doing and how you can make your life simpler.
Go into the mind/mindset of yourself in the future. What do you think older you wishes younger you had done?
I thought thi... | 2,248 | 120 | 0.99 | 1,704,395,841 | SimpleLiving |
(Update) Found out I was being paid less than entry level employees, what do I do? | Hey guys! A couple weeks ago I posted about a situation at work where I was promoted to an admin and clinical position, and found out that I was being paid at least a dollar less than entry level employees. I was making $14/hr while others were making anywhere between $14.50 - $15/hr. I asked for advice, and the post B... | 22,722 | 938 | 0.89 | 1,487,362,616 | personalfinance |
HR managers HATE this one trick | Every office has their special users. The ones who can't figure out anything technical, everything is an emergency, and everything has to function exactly the same or they can't work. At my job, it is the HR lady. Since she is just HR, all her problems boil down to a printer error, excel, word, reboot and it works t... | 10,438 | 648 | 0.94 | 1,486,674,183 | talesfromtechsupport |
My Sleep Paralysis Demon is Actually A Pretty Chill Guy | My first memory of sleep paralysis happened when I was ten years old. I remember because it was the night my parents took me to see Shrek 2 for getting good marks on my report card. It was an evening show, so we got in late and my mom tucked me straight into bed when we got home.
It was around four am when I woke up, ... | 20,254 | 623 | 0.99 | 1,599,233,234 | NoSleep |
Finally went off on customer, and totally got away with it. | So I work part time at a convenience store while going to college on my GI bill. Really it's just to keep me busy while I'm not in school or gaming.
We recently had two people quit so my part time hours for the last couple weeks have been full time. Stretched between full time school, full time work and full time gami... | 5,953 | 218 | 0.98 | 1,557,095,117 | TalesFromRetail |
i went hiking by myself yesterday 🌳 | the weather was so nice and it was very peaceful,, there were lots of wild flowers growing too 🌼 | 2,880 | 85 | 1 | 1,681,150,142 | SimpleLiving |
AITA for making a scene of my adult son and sticking my nose in his marriage | I’m 60 and bad with the whole text thing on mobiles so I’m hoping I won’t be judged on my grammar
Here’s the important background my daughter in law (32) and son(33) have 3 children aged 3 years 2 years and 4 months . He convinced her to be a stay at home mom and sell her business by telling her how good of a childh... | 40,148 | 3,041 | 0.97 | 1,628,463,814 | AmItheAsshole |
I thought I was paranoid, but I got phished. Read my shameful account of said phishing so they don't get you too. | I have different passwords for every website I log into, 2-factor authentication when possible; I thought I knew all the scams and could spot them a mile away. This one still got me.
I was meeting a friend at a bar. Two drinks in I got a call from someone identified by my phone as Wells Fargo. I'm fully aware this co... | 24,467 | 1,861 | 0.91 | 1,519,192,259 | personalfinance |
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