I love popping zits and seeing puss come out. I don’t get them nearly as much as I did in the past and I was just fantasizing about popping them. I love the sharp pain with the final release of puss from the pressurized area. Is this crazy, or more universal than I realize?

I just don't buy it. The 8 hour number has been purported to be the necessary and optimal amount of sleep for most humans, even for the vast majority, and yet the majority seem to do well on an average of something like 6-7.5 hours.

I used to do well on an average of 7-7.5 hours, and now I'm doing even better on 6-7 after properly supplementing my body with vitamins (I simply began taking vitamin D for a month).

Even when I used to sleep for an average of 7.25 hours, it was rare for me to sleep for 8. I just can't believe that it was necessary for me to sleep for that long on all those nights, except for those that I did.

Your body will simply tell you if you're undersleeping. I don't even know if it's even physically possible for most people to consistently sleep for 8 hours once they're an adult.

Now, you might think that what I'm addressing is just statements of the past: "Everyone is recommending 7-9 hours now, OP. The 8 hour myth is dead."

However, I just read some post somewhere from 2 years ago from someone who put out "Most adults need 8-9 hours to function optimally", which gained a considerable amount of traction, and it's probably because they included that they're a "sleep scientist" and that "This is supported by a pretty robust body of research". But every study on sleep concludes something different anyway, so it just doesn't help at all. (Idea: Just listen to your own body for once instead of inconclusive research.)

All that comments like these do is make people who are sleeping any less than 8 hours worry about their health when it's usually not necessary (because it's usually not an issue), and places a huge feeling of inadequacy on that person who thinks that they're dying earlier because they sleep for 6 hours most nights, or 6.5 hours, or 7 hours, and not 8.

It annoys me about how often these arguments come up they achieve nothing it's almost always a women claiming that life is a women is hard than a man's. Or a man claiming that life as a man is harder than a women's. But no matter which gender you are you are more inclined to say your gender has it tougher because that's the only way you've lived. A man might not understand a women's pain and think they have a worse and vise versa. These arguments are counterproductive because if you say you have it tougher because you're a man or a women then you're undermining the hardships of the other gender.

human beings were not designed to have so much on demand stimuli, and now that we have it, we’re going fucking insane. everything from the death of the mom and pop shop to the sky high rates of anxiety and depression are attributable to cell phones one way or another. even as someone who has more or less had a direct internet connection since i was five, i can confidently say it’s those damn phones ruining our lives.

I live in Maine and this mentality drives me crazy and I know it's like this everywhere.

Somebody posts how nice it is to live somewhere and people always shout something like "Yeah and stop moving here it's making it harder for the locals!"

So what? This is the U.S. where we have a right to move anywhere we want across state lines. You're not any more deserving of a home in town than someone from New York or Texas or whatever.

People move across the globe to give their kids a better life and people in the U.S. get mad when they have to move 20 minutes.

I don't get why people don't like them. Especially in the hot months.

Lettuce, tomato, cucumber, some type of bean, capsicum, pickled onions, a protein like chicken beef or tofu, maybe some type of cheese, and some lemon juice.

They can be really refreshing.

they can easily be the best part of the meal if they're balanced correctly.

You hear this frequently, or you have that one friend who is famous for this. They don’t want to actually go to the party or go to the movies with a group of friends, but they want to be invited every time.

It’s basically “I don’t want to actually make the effort to meet you halfway in maintaining this friendship, but I want you to continue to put in effort to include me. It feels these days like we’ve taken the “you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to, nobody is entitled to your time” logic and forgot the part of how friendships take effort and energy to maintain, and sometimes that includes showing up for people even when the lure of your comfort zone is calling.

Eventually, if you communicate with your actions that you don’t really want to do things with your social circle, they’ll just start to assume you don’t want to spend time with them and stop including you.

I so sick of kids not being allowed to have any boundaries. I'm so sick of videos of kids being humiliated posted online.

I recently saw a video of a kid's ipad being taken away from them all over tiktok. I'm not arguing against the ipad being taken away from them. What i am questioning is why the this sort of an interaction was being recorded and then posted all over the internet for everyone to see. I'm also irritated with people shoving a camera into kids faces and then not respecting the fact they don't want to be bothered or recorded. so they get mad at the kid for the kid being mad at them. It's like they were looking to produce a negative reaction out of the child and have every intention of humiliating or punishing them for having an attitude when thats what they wanted in the first place. some of these negative interactions with kids would not have occurred if just would have minded your business and stayed in your lane. if an animal is allowed to have boundaries, so do kids. know when to leave somebody alone, especially a child, if your not their parent/guardian then stop acting like you have authority over them. if you have that much of a concern then bring it up to their parent/guardian.

My wife and son both have unlimited vacations for their work (not same company). They both brag about it as if it's a great benefit. My wife hasn't taken more than 10 days off in recent years because she thinks it will look bad (she previously got 4 weeks before the switch to unlimited). And when she does, she's still checking emails and attending meetings. My son, who's only been with the company for about 8 months, asked for 1 friday off recently and was grilled by his manager.... he was asked if he was on track to meet all deadlines and his manager reviewed the statuses of all his tasks before approving the day off. They both still like the idea of being able to take more if they need to. lol

I'd much rather know specifically how many paid days I get per year, and just use them up without having to worry about who's analyzing it. Incidentally, I'm self-employed so paid vacations is foreign to me altogether

First notice how I said “evening”. Such as starting hours from 3pm-4pm all the way to 11pm-12am.

Overnight would obviously be difficult but still having similar perks to evening shift admittedly.

Day shift 9-5 grind or even 7am to 3pm is immensely overrated. Waking up is always a hassle. Almost always feels like you didn’t get enough sleep even if you did sleep 6-8 hours when you gotta wake up at 6am. Then get ready and try to leave on time with not even being awake for me than an hour or two. Then deal with traffic, burning up gas and time. Need to make an appointment for the dentist? Gotta take PTO or just not get paid for those hours you aren’t at work. Or sacrifice valuable time on your days off. Then guess what? Traffic again driving home.

Evening shifts you can sleep in, get your appointments done well before you have to go into work. Traffic is almost always way better (especially coming home) and you never have to worry about taking time off for petty things you can do during the morning or noon time. It allows for so much more freedom and flexibility than day time work hours while still feeling like you have a normal working schedule (to an extent). Management is also scarce during afternoon or overnight hours so you aren’t as micromanaged either in a lot of cases.

Now obviously you have people who have kids or whatever that want to be off afternoons for that, or people WFH or live 5 mins from work etc…there is always exceptions to the rule. But overall, evening work shifts run supreme.

Carrell has more range and is a more convincing dramatic actor than Leo.

Leo has more star power and Oscar nominations but as a craft, I think Carrell is just simply the better actor. He is more subtle and natural while Leo tends to overact a bit which takes away from his performances.

It is honestly so bland and lacking completely in any flavor. I am not a huge fan of fast food in general but chipotle is honestly the most disappointing option and refuse to eat it even when its free. I legitimately don't understand who would ever bother eating here except for gym bros who can get there macros. (which makes sense on the protein compared to other "fast" options). I feel like I am a crazy person thinking it is so bad, it seems everyone around me except my boyfriend all love it.

Every fucking riddle is built on the idea of “being clever” and “thinking outside the box,” but when you do actually answer the question with a legitimately correct answer, it pisses off the asker.

Riddles only work well in things like literature, where you can set up a premise that hints the guesser towards the right answer. You can come with anything in our vast world that fits the technical restrictions of the question, probably find a million different answers too. But your creativity in this regard does nothing but piss off the asker.

There are many people who just suck at driving and it boils down to not knowing or not respecting the rules of the road. You get your drivers license at 16 or 17 and then expect people to not develop bad habits once they’ve been driving for over a decade.

If there were a mandatory lottery for retesting drivers I think the quality would improve and we would weed out the neglectful drivers that cause the majority of accidents. As well it’s proven that retesting qualified professionals helps them keep their skills and knowledge up to date at their jobs. The only real downside I can think of is the extra cost the Department of Motor Vehicles would incur because it would require more staff.

Sure, they resemble cockroaches, the way the nest and breed and scurry around. What’s wrong with scavengers, honestly. Are we not scavengers ourselves, the way we scramble and scrounge to make a living and stay alive. It’s called the rat race for a reason. Yeah they were the perpetrators of the plague, but were you even alive then? You ever heard a rat squeak? It’s cute as fuck. They have close cousins who are revered as adorable pets, and yet you despise them because you are taught to. You are told to hate them. Don’t be a bootlicker.

I genuinely appreciate good apps and make it a point to rate them on the Play Store, either on my own or when the app reminds me. However, it’s annoying when the same app keeps nagging me to rate it, even after I already have!

Wouldn't it be great if app developers included an option in the reminder like, "I already rated the app"? This way, they can avoid spamming loyal users with unnecessary pop-ups. It’s a win-win for both users and developers—users get a better experience, and developers maintain goodwill.

When I was a kid, I hated most vegetables and a lot of other weird textures. I used to telly mom she liked stuff because she was old and her tastebuds were dead.

I didn't care for cheese until my late 20's.

I've always been willing to try things and as I've gotten older I guess my taste bud started dying because I like most everything now😜.

However, my wife on the other hand, won't try things because she had it when she was, like, nine and hasn't tried it since. She was the one who actually got me liking cheese.

Today I tried to get her to try some goat cheese in an egg burrito that I know she'd really like if she didn't know it was there.

I just find the whole underwear thing is goofy now. I like the new 52 run and I liked Henry Cavill´s version. I think the suit looks more modern. Just my opinion. Anyone else???

That’s it. Everyone seemed to hype it up and enjoyed reading it in high school. I know it’s a classic but I never understood why it was so “great”. It was all over the place and never seemed to have a nice full circle moment.

If you don’t like or mess with me at all, why do you act we’re still friends when you’re around me, but you say weird shit behind my back? I’m not a charity case. You don’t have to be my friend. If you don’t like me, tell me straight up and don’t make it personal.

Stop wasting people’s time and just tell it to them straight and unfriend them. Don’t act like a snake and then mess with people’s feelings for no reason. Have some self respect.

AAA games barely even release anymore. Each one takes 7 years to produce because it "has to be open world" with every buttcheek hair fully modelled.

I want to actually play new games on my ps5 before the whole console generation ends.

Make games linear again!

Stop with this open world bullshit.

I'll play God of War 3 before Assassin's Creed Valhalla any day because at least it's FOCUSED.

First, let me say, I get it. I get the yearning for the simpler times and the warmth of childhood and days gone by. People have done this since people have been around and I'm not saying nostalgia is a bad thing in its own right.

But the social media trends and mindset where the fondness of childhood memories and things we all remember are becoming obsessive and downright obnoxious to a point where it seems impossible to have any positive emotion in the current world is unhealthy to me.

I see so many comments about how things don't look the same, don't feel the same, will never be the same, leading up to a semblance of it being impossible to find any good in the current world. I think this mindset is actually contributing to the real and noticeable trend of people being more depressed.

This coupled with nonstop scrolling doesn't help matters. But what inspired me to write this was a tiktok i watched of someone posting simple photos from outside and the caption was "when did life stop feeling like this?" #nostalgia And I commented "when people started living their lives through their phones." Obviously I'm guilty of excessive phone use myself but the point is, nothing is stopping anyone from going out and enjoying the simple things in life.

Another thing with nostalgia too is we always tend to look at the past with rose colored glasses. Yes I definitely miss aspects of being a kid but how easily we forget the things that aren't so great. Can't drive, have no money, the pure suck of getting up to go to school to sit on classes all day and then have to take more work home, not getting to decide what you eat (usually) or how strongly we felt negative emotions or just simply how confusing and angst inducing being a kid really could be. Stressing about grades and friends and being liked and validated and petty drama and bullying and then having to figure out what the hell you do after high school. Growing up and figuring it all out sucks and it sucks from an early age on.

I did not have a bad childhood overall and was very loved at home. I just think we tend to forget that life as a whole is hard, and while there is nothing wrong with appreciating some of the things we took for granted about being a kid, what are we taking for granted right now that we don't even realize? I feel very lucky to have a good job and a home and the ability to do most things on my terms and having found a wonderful life partner. And making my own decisions and learning every day and having means to travel and do things that i could only dream about with the limitations of being a kid. We just forget to appreciate the good about where we're at and live in the moment. Wishing and pining and obsessing for "the good old days" deprives us of any opportunity to experience happiness in the moment.

When you are boarding, it’s acceptable to let someone know you are sitting next to them, or perhaps say a simple hello. You should always treat others with courtesy, particularly the flight crew (eg, politely letting a seat mate know you need to use the restroom, placing a drink order). And it’s occasionally ok to strike up a conversation while deplaning as the other person is no longer trapped. Other than that, quietly keep to yourself.

The chances the person next to you just wants a moment to themselves is high. They had a long work trip. They are returning from a funeral. They are leaving school after finals. Even if they are relaxed, the chances they want to spend the flight speaking with a stranger who has a solid 50% chance of being insane is also low. No good can come of cornering someone in a tiny metal tube with no escape at 30,000 feet for multiple hours. It can only make someone feel trapped, desperate, and claustrophobic. And we’d all rather just listen to music, work, or watch a movie.

As a bonus, if you are flying with a friend or family member and yelling or speaking loudly you are also a monster. We are all trapped with you. Use your inside voice. No one wants you shouting about your life for three hours six inches from their head. Speak in hushed tones and politely.

Pop-Tarts are basically just edible cardboard with a thin layer of artificially flavored goo trying to pass as nostalgia. They’re the ultimate “look better than they taste” snack. People defend them like it’s a personal attack on their childhood, but let’s be real—half of them don’t even finish the crusts.