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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 |
I ran into a past bad customer... | (This happened yesterday, while the story linked happened a few months ago.)
My husband and I are done shopping at the local grocery store. We are next in line at the self-checkouts. There are only two self-checkouts open at the time, and both have customers who have just started their transactions. We have maybe 15 i... | 5,269 | 223 | 0.96 | 1,432,150,793 | TalesFromRetail |
Scientists Find No Evidence That Depression Is Caused by “Chemical Imbalance” or Low Serotonin Levels | Don'tcha just love "suicidal ideation" as a common side effect of your anti-depressant?
While there may be no quantifiable link between serotonin and mood, do you wanna know what serotonin is *definitely* linked to? LSD.
Do you wanna know what has wildly unpredictable and polar-opposite effects on mood, depending on ... | 12,911 | 1,539 | 0.86 | 1,659,169,407 | psychology |
ELI5: What is 'gaslighting' and some examples? | I hear the term 'gaslighting' used often but I can't get my head around it. | 22,470 | 1,831 | 0.9 | 1,544,667,539 | explainlikeimfive |
I am a North Korean defector who was trafficked and sold as a bride in China AMA | ***Update*** I am logging off! Thank you so much for all the great questions! I can tell by the questions that many people here care about the North Korean people and know that they are different from the regime. I wish I had more time to answer more questions but it is my last night in America before going back to Sou... | 50,785 | 4,152 | 0.85 | 1,508,110,872 | IAmA |
"They are cutting power to the sever room today" | I've been out of the office for about a month so the day to day happenings such as construction and desk moves etc. have not been communicated to me.
This morning I get to the office at 7:30AM and one of the facilities guys comes up to me and casually says: "The electricians are cutting power to the server room ... | 6,742 | 254 | 0.98 | 1,642,431,641 | talesfromtechsupport |
Stan Lee has passed away at 95 years old | As many of you know today is day that many of us have dreaded. Stan Lee has passed away at the age of 95. He leaves behind a legacy of superheroes and stories that have touched many people's lives for decades. We wanted to make this thread to honor and remember this wonderful man, so please use it discuss his life, his... | 175,367 | 27,767 | 0.87 | 1,542,052,467 | AskReddit |
LPT: Make it a rule for yourself to NEVER insult how another person finds joy or expresses joy | I.e their hobbies and their smile. It’s incredibly sad when some covers their mouth or face in the middle of a joyous moment because they were always told that the gap in their teeth looks weird or that they have an overbite.
In addition, seeing people never share anything about what makes them happy because their par... | 77,848 | 2,586 | 0.83 | 1,646,314,821 | LifeProTips |
Paperless voting machines are just waiting to be hacked in 2020. We are a POLITICO cybersecurity reporter and a voting security expert – ask us anything. | Intelligence officials have repeatedly warned that Russian hackers will return to plague the 2020 presidential election, but the decentralized and underfunded U.S. election system has proven difficult to secure. While disinformation and breaches of political campaigns have deservedly received widespread attention, anot... | 45,515 | 3,425 | 0.86 | 1,565,883,171 | IAmA |
AITA for walking out of the Airport when I saw my husband's mom standing there with her luggage? |
I F30 don't have the best relationship with my husband's mom. Since day one she tried to make remarks and compare me to her ??. She then tried to get on my good side and started overly praising everything I do and sometimes even copying me like that one time when she LITERALLY dyied her hair purple just like mine and... | 50,023 | 6,276 | 0.97 | 1,652,297,235 | AmItheAsshole |
5:45AM call from "friend of a friend" for tech support. WTF? | I'm sitting here stewing in my own juices. Damn home phone (which I keep because the security system uses) started ringing at 5:45am. Yes I was asleep goddamn it. I don't get to it quickly enough and the answering machine picks it up and hang up. Then I hear my mobile phone start ringing downstairs... must be some kind... | 8,726 | 1,030 | 0.91 | 1,445,340,013 | talesfromtechsupport |
This is just a reminder that Bank of America charges $144 a year to have a basic checking account, and will change your account type over automatically after you graduate, or charge you when you're looking for a job | So if you're recently graduated, unemployed, or have another life event don't be surprised to see a $12 a month "account maintenance fee" if your account has a penny under $1500 at any time throughout the month.
Edit: Congratulations to all the students graduating this month and the next. I know bank fees are the last... | 28,454 | 2,877 | 0.88 | 1,495,194,796 | PersonalFinance |
They were going to charge £400? | Sorry for formatting on mobile.
So me will be me
Customer will be Cust
I work in retail in a uk electronics retailer and this tale takes place today and yesterday.
So a customer comes up to me looking for a new laptop, I show him around a few of the laptops and he states he needs something portable but powerful, of... | 13,533 | 280 | 0.95 | 1,495,137,507 | TalesFromRetail |
CMV: PragerU should not be allowed to call itself a "university." | [PragerU](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PragerU) is an American media company that specializes in producing propaganda for the [American conservative ideology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States#:~:text=Conservatism%20in%20the%20United%20States%20is%20a%20political%20and%20social,%2C%20prot... | 11,080 | 1,465 | 0.83 | 1,608,485,322 | changemyview |
In a recent interview with Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson claimed: "Now, in many ways, the first book was the Bible. I mean, literally." To what extent (if at all) is this true? | You can watch him make this claim [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt9K6kmpx44) at 1:02, and I've transcribed it below:
>Now, in many ways, the first book was the Bible. I mean, literally. Because, at one point, there was only one book. Like, as far as our Western culture is concerned, there was one book. And, f... | 7,688 | 548 | 0.92 | 1,643,655,661 | AskHistorians |
CMV: The body positivity movement is a failure and always will be, because it says that "everyone is beautiful" when it should say "your worth is not dependent on beauty". | Historically, Western women's worth was tied to their beauty, because according to society their role inife was to attract a good man, marry him and make him happy. The problem is that even after women started being recognized as equal to men and entered the workforce, their beauty continued to be unjustly tied to the... | 23,955 | 932 | 0.87 | 1,620,849,085 | changemyview |
A troll has been downvoting me. What can I do? | I signed up Reddit today, but made like two posts and two comments. Then at one moment all of them got minus 1 upvote, in a matter of seconds, which means a user viewed my profile and downvoted everything. Made another comment for a test and it got downvoted in a few seconds. Which means someone is stalking my account ... | 660 | 121 | 0.91 | 1,566,747,122 | help |
I’m Ameya Pawar, I’m a non-millionaire running for governor of Illinois against two super wealthy businessmen who’ve never held public office, AMA! (x-post /r/Political_Revolution) | https://www.reddit.com/r/Political_Revolution/comments/6bwxbn/im_ameya_pawar_im_a_nonmillionaire_running_for/ | 48,012 | 1 | 0.68 | 1,495,123,247 | IAmA |
When I was a kid, my dad kept a second family in our basement. | Growing up, I thought everyone had a second family in their basement. In retrospect, I understand how ridiculous that sounds… but it was all I’d ever known.
I knew that every night, my dad tented the leftovers from dinner with foil, got up without a word, and carried the plate to the basement. I’d listen from my room ... | 13,681 | 245 | 0.98 | 1,600,173,905 | NoSleep |
GE freezes pensions for 20,000 employees - aka why I always urge people to invest in their own retirement funds | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ge-to-freeze-pensions-for-about-20000-employees-stock-surges-2019-10-07
I see a lot of posts here about pensions vs 401ks, or people who say "I'm not worried because I've got a great pension plan", or something to that effect.
Well, this is a stark reminder that pensions are not bull... | 15,045 | 1,235 | 0.94 | 1,570,452,251 | PersonalFinance |
LPT: Your company didn’t know you existed before you applied and won’t notice you when you’re gone. Take care of yourself. | That’s it. | 126,469 | 2,528 | 0.94 | 1,613,440,927 | LifeProTips |
Here's a photo and translation of a Soviet soldier's last note hidden in an empty rifle cartridge. Found by amateur archeologists with his remains just a couple weeks ago. | Here's a photo and text in Russian.
http://pryf.livejournal.com/8868642.html
As far as I know it was a common practice to hide a note in an empty cartridge. It would help identify the body and gave an opportunity to send a message to the relatives. This note was found with remains of three soldiers between villages Or... | 16,070 | 1,501 | 0.91 | 1,471,754,246 | history |
"Can't you just buy it for me?" | Hello TFR! I come bearing a tale that is one of the most ridiculous customer encounters I've had in my almost 17 years of retail experience. So buckle up, kids. It's gonna be a wild ride.
The characters:
Me: Assistant Manager/slave
SW: Senile Woman, as there's really no other explanation
Relevant to the story: W... | 6,462 | 128 | 0.95 | 1,495,911,429 | TalesFromRetail |
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 ... | 18,209 | 1,558 | 0.91 | 1,515,947,344 | personalfinance |
The Supreme Court just officially overturned roe vs wade. Abortion is now illegal in many states. Vote every single anti choice bastard out of office in November. | Register to vote.
[find your state, scroll down, click the link and follow the instructions to register to vote.](https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/electronic-or-online-voter-registration.aspx)
Then share the link with everyone you know.
Then take ten friends with you to vote.
[aid access](https... | 82,873 | 4,690 | 0.76 | 1,656,080,051 | TwoXChromosomes |
Do not ever visit Egypt | I am an American man who came to visit Egypt, but I felt so extremely unwelcome.
I went to the pyramids of Giza and they were truly majestic, but I couldn't walk more than a few steps without being harassed and hustled by the many of the touts trying to sell things or services. They were trying to sell me camel and ho... | 18,918 | 2,313 | 0.87 | 1,663,571,424 | travel |
If you have a child with my son in the future, we will not love them the same way we love our other grandchildren, because they will be half black. | Today I took my significant other and his parents out to eat for the first time.We've been dating for over a year and have put off meeting his parents because they're racist. That statement above was dropped in the middle of dinner. Unpromted.
Before that little comments were said.
"Don't worry CoroBora, we'll pay ... | 59,417 | 2,156 | 0.79 | 1,612,664,834 | TwoXChromosomes |
I spent a month at my grandmother’s and it was pure bliss. | I’m 17 and decided to spend the first month of lockdown with her so she didn’t go crazy alone:
She lives rurally, only really uses the house phone, does have wi-fi but only uses it for news and netflix. She definitely has a disdain towards all ‘non-essential’ uses of technology and, honestly? I look up to her, and res... | 3,746 | 93 | 0.99 | 1,587,760,037 | SimpleLiving |
LPT: When a job interviewer asks, "What's your biggest weakness?", interpret the question in practical terms rather than in terms of personality faults. | "Sometimes I let people take advantage of me", or "I take criticism personally" are bad answers. "I'm too honest" or "I work too hard", even if they believe you, make you sound like you'll be irritating to be around or you'll burn out.
Instead, say something like, "My biggest weakness with regards to this job is, I ha... | 101,348 | 3,386 | 0.93 | 1,644,016,744 | LifeProTips |
No sir, I can't show you how to commit a federal crime | The repair company I work at is a small business and has two locations, one of which is in an interesting area. As such, we get a lot of interesting people. This guy came in yesterday.
**$User:** "Hi, can you show me how to access someone's text messages? I found some tutorials on YouTube but they didn't work"
*I a... | 16,204 | 814 | 0.94 | 1,497,363,063 | talesfromtechsupport |
LPT: Greyhound racing is now illegal in Florida after the midterm, which will leave a lot of good dogs in need of homes. If you're considering adopting a dog, please research Greyhounds and see if they'd be right for your family. | Since this has gained a lot of popularity, I want to add in that anyone with questions should visit the good people of r/Greyhounds.
They can help you decide if you're ready for a retired racer, prepare you for the difficulties that come with adopting one, and clear up any questions you may have about the breed. They ... | 75,812 | 2,098 | 0.88 | 1,541,693,918 | LifeProTips |
Is this tweet correct? “The average 18 year old student in, say, York in AD 800 (the middle of the so-called "Dark Ages") had read more, knew more languages, was better trained in logic, could read more music, knew more mathematics and astronomy than the average student from a university today.” | https://twitter.com/johnpauldickson/status/1278997229068406789?s=20 | 8,951 | 320 | 0.94 | 1,593,931,475 | AskHistorians |
UPDATE: AITA for "imposing my culture" even though I thought I was just being nice? | [Link to original post](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/t622tm/aita_for_imposing_my_culture_even_though_i/)
First of all I just want to thank everyone for the overwhelming support and replies on my first post. I'm looking forward to going over to everyone's houses for dinner and I'll be sure to bring a... | 38,737 | 1,524 | 0.99 | 1,647,035,770 | AmItheAsshole |
Priests raped nuns, priests raped children, priests forced nuns to have abortions, catholic schools knowingly hired pedophiles ... and the Catholic Church covered it all up. Yet Catholics want to lecture the world about the morality of abortion and lgbt issues? No thanks. Secular values are better. | Catholic values: rape, rape, more rape, enabling pedophiles, opposing abortion and gay rights.
Yet they think they somehow have a leg to stand on in terms of lecturing the world about morality considering all the evil shit the church has enabled and covered up?
Fuck no. | 43,929 | 2,109 | 0.75 | 1,553,519,874 | TwoXChromosomes |
My dead girlfriend keeps messaging me on Facebook. I’ve got the screenshots. I don’t know what to do. | Tonight’s kind of a catalyst for this post. I just received another message, and it’s worse than any of the others.
My girlfriend died on the 7th of August, 2012. She was involved in a three car collision driving home from work when someone ran a red light. She passed away within minutes on the scene.
We had been da... | 21,874 | 7,000 | 0.93 | 1,404,225,504 | NoSleep |
Someone used my credit card and ordered two 256gb iPhone X's to my house. | Weird thing happened to me recently...
I received a call from visa asking if I had recently made some large purchases . I replied "no I haven't ".
**The charges:**
$5000 ( triggered fraud alert)
$800 (went through, iPhone on contract maybe?)
$800 (went through)
The bank then told me someone just calle... | 24,986 | 1,777 | 0.89 | 1,516,558,700 | PersonalFinance |
I gave my boyfriend flowers to piss off his sexist uncle. | My boyfriend's paternal uncle is very misogynist and old fashioned. He tries to berate my bf for not engaging in behaviours that fall into the realm of toxic masculinity. My boyfriend, being the strong and confident man that he is, either shuts him down or laughs his comments off.
The uncle doesn't like me one bit.... | 52,697 | 1,813 | 0.85 | 1,574,005,670 | TwoXChromosomes |
Minimalist Snobs | Its actually getting a little too common now. Somebody would post an image of their creation or something they own and immediately some idiot would come and comment on how he shouldn't have that because its not minimal.
Like that tattoo guy, he posted a nice pic of his minimal tattoo. So here comes keyboard warrior an... | 2,676 | 236 | 0.91 | 1,484,496,642 | Minimalism |
Why are there so many medieval paintings of people battling large snails? | If you do some research, you'll find there's a weird number of people battling snails from medieval times. I compiled a few I found but there's many more.
https://imgur.com/a/VjHxz
Why is this? Did snails have some kind of significance? | 8,784 | 171 | 0.96 | 1,448,233,048 | AskHistorians |
ELI5: what is a hedge-fund? | I’ve been trying to follow the Wall Street bets situations, but I can’t find a simple definition of hedge funds. Help? | 23,673 | 515 | 0.94 | 1,611,814,554 | explainlikeimfive |
The spiders that live in Buckingham Palace now are probably the descendants of the spiders that lived there during Victorian times - it's a whole parallel royal family but with spiders | Amirite? | 111,236 | 1,081 | 0.93 | 1,542,549,831 | Showerthoughts |
What's the deal with karma and was reddit always like that? | I can't remember having such problems when I used reddit years ago. I can't even see any karma requirements on the different subs around here but sure do hope that I can post at least here. It seems that I can't post a thing in ANY of the subs that interest me and I'm forced to write random comments here and there hopi... | 408 | 46 | 0.96 | 1,557,405,215 | help |
I asked Discover Card to lower my APR, just to see if they would, and they gave me 0% for 12 months. Doesn't hurt to ask. | I don't carry a balance month to month, was just curious. Thought I'd share. | 20,436 | 1,425 | 0.92 | 1,521,657,112 | personalfinance |
Equifax Will Allow Consumers To Lock & Unlock Their Credit Report For Free For Life | Interim Equifax CEO’s Message in Wall Street Journal:
On behalf of Equifax , I want to express my sincere and total apology to every consumer affected by our recent data breach. People across the country and around the world, including our friends and family members, put their trust in our company. We didn’t live up t... | 21,291 | 1,350 | 0.92 | 1,506,617,998 | PersonalFinance |
New to Reddit. 90 days sober. Trying to get my life and money back on track. | 29 yr/male/single got into some bad habits. no excuses. trying to get back on track with my life. have $400 in savings. able to save 100 to 150 monthly. ideas and suggestions appreciated. | 16,637 | 797 | 0.85 | 1,511,187,544 | personalfinance |
Hey Assholes, you're doing it wrong. | Since we just blew past 800,000 subscribers, it occurs to me that a half million of you may have arrived here since the last time I ranted about voting on this sub. So, if you just got here from the front page or subscribed in the last month, first of all: Welcome to the sub! Second of all, cut your shit out, you're ru... | 39,052 | 1,377 | 0.94 | 1,558,654,969 | AmItheAsshole |
ELI5- What is gaslighting? | I have heard a wide variety of definitions of what it is but I truly don't understand, psychologically, what it means.
EDIT: I'm amazed by how many great responses there are here. It's some really great conversations about all different types of examples and I'm going to continue to read through them all. Thank you fo... | 24,139 | 2,096 | 0.89 | 1,639,943,836 | explainlikeimfive |
I quit my job at EA, where I worked on Burnout, sold my house and started an indie games studio with three friends. Tomorrow we release our next game. AMA! | Hello Reddit!
I’m Sean Murray, and I’m one part of a small indie dev called Hello Games.
I joined the industry straight out of Uni, worked for three years, became a technical director, lost my way, quit and made a game with my friends. That was Joe Danger. Tomorrow we're releasing our next game called No Man's Sky.
Y... | 58,554 | 8,061 | 0.74 | 1,470,693,525 | IAmA |
I have an unusual job. The pay is good, but I really hate the moaning sounds that go with it. | “So,” I croaked, ignoring her wince at my raspy voice, “you’re worried that your dead husband is haunting you when you fuck other men?”
I inhaled a long drag of the cigarette, then took care to blow the smoke *just* far enough from her face to avoid being rude. She didn’t flinch, which meant she thought I had a lot to... | 17,460 | 370 | 0.98 | 1,553,172,225 | NoSleep |
My neighbor asked me to stop jogging because her son was watching | I don’t jog often, I don’t even like running, but last night while walking my dog, I needed to get home before being eaten alive by mosquitoes. I ran up one side of a cul de sac, and by the time I reached the end, a woman was standing in her yard, watching me. I didn’t think much of it. It’s summer and kids are out pla... | 55,576 | 4,520 | 0.88 | 1,563,631,162 | TwoXChromosomes |
DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?! I PUT PEOPLE IN JAIL!! | First and foremost, WHERE HAS THIS SUBREDDIT BEEN ALL MY LIFE?! I've sank the last 3 years of my life into the rental car business, literally doing everything from a management point of view, without all the fun benefits. Which also includes dealing with the crazies who expect us to know every little detail about the... | 5,602 | 219 | 0.95 | 1,464,539,965 | TalesFromRetail |
I am Aubrey Cottle a.k.a. Kirtaner. I am the founder of the hacker collective "Anonymous". Yes. Really. Ask me anything. | # MID 2021 UPDATE LOL
**New Twitter -** [**https://twitter.com/thatnotoriousk**](https://twitter.com/thatnotoriousk) **&&** [**https://phisher.io**](https://phisher.io)
# ORIGINAL POST BELOLOOOOOOWOWOLWOW
[https://twitter.com/Kirtaner/status/1322730329912782853](https://twitter.com/Kirtaner/status/132273032991278285... | 44,401 | 8,621 | 0.75 | 1,604,266,066 | IAmA |
The previous tenant of my new flat left a survival guide. Some people are too good for this world. | Last time: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/ckw07c/the_previous_tenant_of_my_new_flat_left_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app
I sat silent for a moment in shock that my plan had even worked. It seemed almost too simple, too easy. But here he was.
Derek had a kindly face, wrinkles around his eyes and chee... | 14,360 | 543 | 0.97 | 1,564,919,183 | NoSleep |
"I'm not paying by cash or card." | Back story is, I work at an Australian grocery store and have done so for 9 years.
So I was recently working in our self-serve area, guiding people where to go and whatnot, and some machines had issues so that they were only taking card transactions, since they didn't have enough cash in them to give change without i... | 5,959 | 381 | 0.95 | 1,496,323,865 | TalesFromRetail |
Got laid off and now the company that laid me off is trying to hire me back at a discount. | Three months ago I was laid off as part of a 60 person lay off in a small company of 125 people. I do Occupational Health and Safety work as I was the Manager. I was given unemployment; been searching for jobs.
Fast forward 3 months, tax bill passed, etc. I get a phone call from the president of the company asking... | 25,982 | 1,998 | 0.92 | 1,517,404,080 | PersonalFinance |
A coworker asked me for a hug last night. | I'm a server. I was in the kitchen to clock out after doing a double and fairly new guy from the kitchen asked me for a hug. I said, "no thank you." That should have been the end of it. It wasn't.
Instead, he tries turning it into a debate and says, "well you hugged [other female coworker], you can hug me too! Come on... | 50,961 | 1,552 | 0.77 | 1,545,083,949 | TwoXChromosomes |
I asked Discover Card to lower my APR, just to see if they would, and they gave me 0% for 12 months. Doesn't hurt to ask. | I don't carry a balance month to month, was just curious. Thought I'd share. | 20,430 | 1,425 | 0.92 | 1,521,657,112 | PersonalFinance |
Wikipedia built the biggest modern information hub using nothing but nerds' need to correct each other. | Edit : Thank you guys. There is no better feeling than waking up to reddit appreciating you.
Thanks for all the awards (There's only one. Dame it reddit, where are all the rich people who gives platinum)
Edit 2 : All right 3 awards, now just need 77 more to beat that kid with the nsfw comment about, "I don't go to wo... | 97,528 | 992 | 0.91 | 1,570,204,210 | Showerthoughts |
I got mocked by teenage girls today. | I'm a cart pusher and I don't deal with tons of customers. I did have a woman flip out and call me an idiot, but honestly I feel this was worse.
I saw these two girls, probably 17-19 years old, putting their cart up on the curb instead of a corral. I went over and said I would take it. What does one of them do? She ... | 7,210 | 635 | 0.93 | 1,456,538,698 | TalesFromRetail |
Why is reddit so horribly slow lately? | So, I've been waiting to post this, because every time I post it magically goes away, but for the past few days, reddit has been crawling slow for me.
It takes about 5+ seconds from initial page load to notification number appearing on the bell icon, if I open threads, comments keep loading and then I get "sorry, some... | 442 | 115 | 0.99 | 1,627,394,339 | help |
Ethiopia is building the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa, Egypt opposes the dam which it believes will reduce the amount of water that it gets, Ethiopia asserts that the dam will in fact increase water flow to Egypt by reducing evaporation on Egypt's Lake Nasser, How so? | [Egypt's dependency on the Nile in one picture](https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/DatabaseImages/ESC/large/ISS025/ISS025-E-9972.jpg)
[Sisi: Egypt Does Not Want War with Ethiopia, Sudan](https://www.ezega.com/News/NewsDetails/6211/Egypt-Does-Not-Want-War-with-Ethiopia-Sudan-el-Sisi)
[Cairo taps World Bank to mediate Ethiopian ... | 20,350 | 632 | 0.91 | 1,516,621,369 | askscience |
CMV: It’s wrong of businesses to ask me to tip for counter service | I’ll start by saying that I think tipping culture as a whole in the US sucks. Employee wages should not be subsidized with tips, employees should just but paid fair wages to begin with.
I’ve noticed this trend over the last few years where food shops that only offer counter service have been asking for tips. Places l... | 11,948 | 1,807 | 0.91 | 1,618,833,563 | changemyview |
UPDATE: AITA for sleeping top naked in my bedroom? | UPDATE: AITA for sleeping top naked in my room?
[Original Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/hlqn2c/aita_for_sleeping_top_naked_in_my_bedroom/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Hi everyone! I wanted to give an update on the situation since a lot of people were really concerned fo... | 42,705 | 2 | 0.97 | 1,597,186,034 | AmItheAsshole |
Please don't click on it that. Please don't. Please don't oh god pleas-- fuck. | Ever try to tech support someone with their equally technologically challenged husband/wife behind them telling them what to do?
Cx - Customer
Wf - Customer's Wife
> Me: Okay, click on the email I just sent you. Then click on the link inside it to reset your password.
>
> Cx: Okay... let me see
>
> Wf (in the ... | 8,810 | 612 | 0.94 | 1,471,063,985 | talesfromtechsupport |
Why do airplanes need to fly so high? | I get clearing more than 100 meters, for noise reduction and buildings. But why set cruising altitude at 33,000 feet and not just 1000 feet?
Edit oh fuck this post gained a lot of traction, thanks for all the replies this is now my highest upvoted post. Thanks guys and happy holidays 😊😊 | 19,562 | 1,963 | 0.83 | 1,513,368,621 | askscience |
To all the graduating high school seniors and those turning 18 - Get a bank account that's only in your name. | For minors, it's generally required for a parent to co-sign their bank accounts. Once you turn 18, it's best to establish an account in your name ONLY, so you have sole control of it. It would even be better if you can establish the account at a different bank/credit union than the one the minor account was in, to av... | 27,692 | 1,340 | 0.93 | 1,558,365,079 | personalfinance |
The Gunpowder Plot involved 36 barrels of gunpowder in an undercroft below the House of Lords. Just how big an explosion would 36 barrels of 1605 gunpowder have created, had they gone off? | I’m curious if such a blast would have successfully destroyed the House of Lords as planned, or been insufficient, or been gross overkill. | 17,139 | 644 | 0.93 | 1,541,462,302 | askscience |
Everyone is talking about the new upvote button but it's the same to me even after updating the app | Is it something only on desktop? | 447 | 83 | 0.99 | 1,573,204,639 | help |
I tracked the expenses for my German Shepherd Dog for one full year. | I see pet ownership discussed here a good bit. As someone who loves animals, I understand the reasoning for wanting a pet. I also understand the work and funds it takes to appropriately take care of a pet. Here are the direct costs (6.75% tax included) that I paid from May 5th 2019 - May 5th 2020
Food/Treats: $672
V... | 17,310 | 1,988 | 0.97 | 1,588,867,494 | personalfinance |
CMV: All these new cryptos plastered all over the front page are no different than your classic MLMs | Pretty much title. All the shit that is constantly being upvoted in the crypto moonshot sub and everywhere else that are constantly at the top of /r/all are no different than your classic MLMs. You’re hoping you can trick a bunch of people into buying after you so you can sell and make money at their expense.
Appare... | 11,461 | 622 | 0.93 | 1,620,680,406 | changemyview |
How did Vanilla become the "generic" flavor of ice cream? | Nowadays, "Vanilla" being the baseline type is so ubiquitous it's become part of general language, but how did a flavor originally derived from a Mexican flower gain such ubiquity? | 10,049 | 81 | 0.97 | 1,598,856,013 | AskHistorians |
"Could you bag my groceries as heavy as possible?" | I worked as a bagger at a small, family owned grocery store while I was in high school. One day a man came through the checkout with a full cart of groceries.
>Me: "Paper or plastic?"
>Customer: “I’d like double bagged paper and I’d like you to make each bag as heavy as you can.”
>Me: "Sure thing!"
A bit of a... | 7,208 | 210 | 0.95 | 1,448,479,371 | TalesFromRetail |
When someone is dying of hunger or thirst, is there a "point of no return" after which they are still alive but if they were given food or water their body would not be able to absorb it fast enough to survive? | And if this point exists, would someone who's past it still be conscious/aware? | 17,366 | 896 | 0.94 | 1,563,982,523 | askscience |
The physician in the autopsy of Charles II gave some very... colorful (if not medically impossible) descriptions like "heart the size of a peppercorn" and "did not contain a single drop of blood." What was going on in these autopsies? | I was reading Wikipedia's entry on the death of Charles II, and the autopsy report states that "did not contain a single drop of blood; his heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water."
Some of the... | 13,688 | 189 | 0.94 | 1,543,760,545 | AskHistorians |
I am no longer chasing success. i just want peace and slow living | I am only going to do things because I want to. Not because people will think I am cool. I used to want a big house, have lots of investments, become a succesful engineer, maybe make my own company while taking care of 3 kids, go travelling.
Screw all of that.
I just want a cozy home, nice warm meal, slow days, read... | 2,377 | 139 | 0.99 | 1,662,286,183 | SimpleLiving |
I am a doctor and 4.5 years ago, I was sexually assaulted in the hospital by another doctor. I was retaliated against by USC and leaders of Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center. This week, the medical board of CA, revoked the rapist’s license. | For too long, women, and other victims of sexual assault and harassment have been intimidated, silenced and retaliated against for speaking out. As a medical trainee, I was forced to work in a hostile work environment because I asked for a separate schedule from the guy who assaulted me. I was harassed, ignored and eve... | 48,691 | 570 | 0.9 | 1,589,732,925 | TwoXChromosomes |
Hi Reddit! I am Chris Hansen, former host of Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator and Crime Watch. Take a seat....and ask me anything. | Hi Reddit!
I'm Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator and Crime Watch Daily.
Here to answer anything from the Reddit community and will be answering [with video responses via Cameo](https://cameoama.com/home)
Proof: https://imgur.com/a/hxzwZcc
Let's do this......ask me anything!
**edit:** Big thanks ... | 49,474 | 6,650 | 0.82 | 1,583,769,950 | IAmA |
If someone was to cover their eyes for a year straight without seeing any light, would it just be really bright when they take it off then slowly adjust back to normal or would it have a permanent affect on the persons vision? | Edit: Well I'm pretty satisfied with all the answers as they seem to come to similar conclusions. Thanks! | 18,903 | 962 | 0.9 | 1,510,080,541 | askscience |
Yuo're prboably albe to raed tihs setencne. Deos tihs wrok in non-alhabpet lanugaegs lkie Chneise? | It's well known that you can fairly easily read English when the letters are jumbled up, as long as the first and last letters are in the right place. But does this also work in languages that don't use true alphabets, like abjads (Arabic), syllabaries (Japanese and Korean) and logographs (Chinese and Japanese)? | 16,668 | 930 | 0.79 | 1,590,924,853 | askscience |
Today I realised I live in the future | I got a call at work today. A woman called me claiming to be Google Maps, and she wanted to know our opening hours. We went through what hours we were open for weekdays, clarified the weekends, and said goodbye. She never told me her name, and her responses were a bit odd, but I put it down to a language/cultural barri... | 6,067 | 319 | 0.99 | 1,526,463,871 | TalesFromRetail |
I got added to a vulgar private subreddit, how do I report it. help | I got added to a subreddit for rapists and pedophiles.
There doesn't seem to be a option to report it.
The people on these sites are beyond human filth, how can I report it? | 558 | 36 | 1 | 1,601,894,778 | help |
Am I being censored? | I'm new to reddit, have commented like 5 times and my karma is at -5 and received a message saying the following comment had been removed:
" You're right of course. I guess I was thinking about extreme poverty and forgetting that when you're poor the priority is to avoid discrimination hence the importance of appearan... | 407 | 87 | 0.94 | 1,609,346,678 | help |
AITA for wearing a wedding dress at a wedding? | So my friend 20f and I 19m have been friends for a few years and she recently got engaged.
A week ago I got a dm from her for a small costume party she was hosting as a celebration for her getting engaged. I asked if there was a theme and she said there wasn’t. I’m a cosplayer so I had a lot of choices.
I didn’t want... | 39,592 | 6,607 | 0.94 | 1,677,677,065 | AmItheAsshole |
AITA for "announcing" that my dad's not paying my college tuition | My aunt and uncle are paying for my cousins college.
My dad had a college fund for me, but he had stipulations like he wanted nothing below a B for grades and to pre approve any classes I take, weekly meetings to discuss grades and a bunch of other stuff. Which would be fine if you have a normal dad. Mine isn't.
... | 51,662 | 2,852 | 0.9 | 1,625,681,504 | AmItheAsshole |
AITA for getting my daughter a hotel room entirely for herself after her stepsisters made her sleep on the floor? | My dad passed away 2 weeks ago. Me, my wife 'Candace' and my daughter (16) 'Shiloh' and her stepsisters (19) & (17) flew to my hometown to attend the funeral. After that we got 2 hotel rooms (one for me and Candace, one for the girls).
While I was in the room, I got a call from Shiloh at 11pm crying and sounded like ... | 42,266 | 7,937 | 0.88 | 1,673,350,198 | AmItheAsshole |
It was useless, so I removed it | I used to work at a small structural engineering firm (~10 engineers) as a project engineer, so I used to deal with client inquiries about our projects once we had released the blueprints for the construction of the project. Most of the time we did house projects that never presented a challenge for the construction en... | 6,605 | 356 | 0.94 | 1,486,325,885 | talesfromtechsupport |
[WP] as an amputee you experience phantom arm syndrome. Then one day you realize you can use it to punch ghosts. | Edit: thank you for the gold strangers! | 20,715 | 329 | 0.93 | 1,543,444,308 | WritingPrompts |
I was in prison for 15 years. There was a skinwalker in there with us. | A little background first. I was serving a 15-year sentence in a penitentiary in southern Arizona. What I was in there for isn't important. During my stay there, there were countless things that happened that no one could explain, and even more that no one wanted to know more about.
It all started with a prison legen... | 15,197 | 246 | 0.98 | 1,574,682,462 | NoSleep |
I'm not your IT. | Ok so this little gem started yesterday, currently working in managed print industry - customer logs a call saying no devices in a building are working, so definitely server/software related.
I log in with their IT, the server is freezing and when logging in with a new account there is a disk space error. So i inform ... | 7,738 | 720 | 0.93 | 1,470,734,874 | talesfromtechsupport |
My husband insists on keeping this one painting of a woman | When my husband and I first got married and moved in together, we had a few fights. On personal space, on chores… and on décor.
Namely, my husband insisted on keeping this weird painting of a woman.
“Who is she?” I’d asked when I first saw it, leaned against a mountain of moving boxes.
“Dunno. Got it at a rummage sa... | 20,443 | 253 | 0.99 | 1,649,120,192 | NoSleep |
Now that it's been a few months with the JFK Assassination Files being released, is there anything we didn't already know? Anything groundbreaking? | Did Oliver Stone tell us everything we need to know? I feel like the administration made a big deal of making sure the papers were released on the 25th anniversary, but nothing after that. | 8,314 | 156 | 0.94 | 1,514,993,035 | AskHistorians |
Reminder: Khan Academy still has basic explanations on taxes in the U.S. This should help you with understanding tax brackets, deductions, and other related information. | I try to do this every tax season, and I felt the need to remind people that this resource exists. There are some simple explanations of tax law in the U.S. over at Khan Academy. Here are a couple links:
* [Introduction to Tax Brackets](https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/taxes-topic/taxe... | 18,231 | 381 | 0.93 | 1,484,053,671 | personalfinance |
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 | 15,743 | 1,477 | 0.9 | 1,492,749,781 | personalfinance |
AskHistorians is closing to new posts from 8:30 PM EDT to 12 PM EDT tomorrow to protest the reddit admins' providing a home for hate speech. | AskHistorians is not accepting new posts or responses, in protest against Reddit’s lack of action against racism and hate on the site.
Reddit has announced [its alignment with antiracist protesters](https://twitter.com/reddit/status/1267643352851247106?s=20). We demand to know: where are the actions to back up the wor... | 33,934 | 3 | 0.77 | 1,591,144,199 | AskHistorians |
Got banned from r/dankmemes for being European... I’m Canadian | Wow, didn’t think my first silver AND platinum would be on something like this! Guess it pays off to rant ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | 572 | 258 | 0.99 | 1,553,733,164 | help |
IamA survivor of Stalin’s Communist dictatorship and I'm back on the 100th anniversary of the Communist Revolution to answer questions. My father was executed by the secret police and I am here to discuss Communism and life in a Communist society. Ask me anything. | Hello, my name is Anatole Konstantin. You can click [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2dt68p/iama_survivor_of_stalins_dictatorship_my_father/) and [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4xum3y/iama_survivor_of_stalins_dictatorship_and_im_back/) to read my previous AMAs about growing up under Stalin, ... | 55,637 | 16,442 | 0.74 | 1,514,655,154 | IAmA |
Don't you hate it when a book cover gets replaced with the movie related cover? | No, not really no. I just don't get how this is a problem unless you're trying to complete a set and want them to look the same, I get that
I have started to see and hear people complain all over again about the Witcher series now they have released the books with Henry Cavil on the cover. Why is it a problem? Have yo... | 33,262 | 1,534 | 0.79 | 1,578,738,212 | books |
Dear men at the pool: I know what you're doing. Stop. | So I'm lap swimming, and we have 7 swim lanes. 7. That is a ridiculous number of lanes. And, as per usual at this time in the morning, they're all occupied. Now, usually, you share lanes under these circumstances. Not a problem.
Except this time I'm somehow the only woman swimming, in the crappy shallow lane.
Man c... | 48,302 | 2,783 | 0.76 | 1,595,948,487 | TwoXChromosomes |
In 30 minutes, at 8:30 PM EDT, /r/AskHistorians will be going dark for one hour in protest of broken promises by the Admins | #Edit IV: It appears the feature has been rolled back from the subreddit, and a few others I checked. ~~We will stay tuned for an official announcement by the Admins, but it looks like we have been successful.~~ And now confirmed by the admins. Thank you everyone for your support over the last 12 hours.
#Edit III: [Ch... | 30,162 | 1,024 | 0.93 | 1,588,204,822 | AskHistorians |
ELI5: When toddlers talk ‘gibberish’ are they just making random noises or are they attempting to speak an English sentence that just comes out muddled up? | I mean like 18mnths+ that are already grasping parts of the English language. | 27,044 | 1,800 | 0.89 | 1,545,484,423 | explainlikeimfive |
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