For the most part, life is fairly predictable. You can go about your daily routine with almost no hiccups, which is why we’re caught off guard when something wildly unhinged happens.
They can be a chain of events so ridiculous they sound like fiction. It may urge you to vent about them to make sense of what happened, or simply confirm you’re not the only person baffled by the absurdity.
That’s what the Rant subreddit is for, and the name alone says it all. But here are some posts from the page to give you a clearer idea.
#1 Stop Bringing Your Dog Everywhere

I work in a hospital as security. Today one of the other guards came across a lady scolding her chihuahua for s****ing on the floor. She cleaned it up and we contacted housekeeping to sanitizer that section of carpet.
Before anyone leaps in with 'Service Animals' and invisible disabilities, no, the rodent sized creature wearing a Bejeweled collar while shaking and s***ting on the floor was not a service animal. It was a purse accessory.
I don't care if it's your 'precious baby's stop bringing your dogs into restaurants, grocery stores, and for absolute f***s sake don't bring them into a hospital.
Before anyone leaps in with 'Service Animals' and invisible disabilities, no, the rodent sized creature wearing a Bejeweled collar while shaking and s***ting on the floor was not a service animal. It was a purse accessory.
I don't care if it's your 'precious baby's stop bringing your dogs into restaurants, grocery stores, and for absolute f***s sake don't bring them into a hospital.
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#2 We Don’t Agree
WE DON’T AGREE ON YOUR RACIST F**KIN OPINIONS AND STOP. ASSUMING. THAT. I DO. BECAUSE. I LOOK. LIKE YOU!!!! I am so. F**king. SICK of people assuming that I hold the same discriminatory opinions that they do based on the way that I look. Deep South healthcare worker here, and problematic patients as well as overworked (or lazy, checked out) coworkers are rampant. Which I can deal with, it’s the normal since Covid. What I (white blonde female late 20s) can’t deal with are primarily fellow white females, of all ages, behind closed doors assuming that because I look like them that they can let all the fucking disgusting words roll out of their mouth, thinking that I will listen to it, or worse, agree with them.
They don’t even lead with “I don’t mean to be racist, but” they just say this ugly s**t to me assuming that it is a safe space because we look similarly. No, I don’t wanna hear your f**king opinion about “The Blacks” or “The Mexicans” THEY ARE HISPANICS NOT MEXICANS UNTIL OTHERWISE CLARIFIED. People of ALL COLORS deserve the SAME quality of treatment! It doesn’t matter their level of education, their insurance status, or personal bias. It doesn’t even matter if they are rude.
This word vomit s**t has happened too many times. Someone I thought was a good person, a good HCW, then the door shuts and I hear a comment like “If they don’t like it, they should just go back to Africa! You know what I mean?” Are you kidding me? You stupid racist F**K. Someone ACTUALLY SAID THIS TO ME. On top of their vile discriminatory comments, it is also low key racist to assume that Becky will agree with you because she looks like you. Get the f**k out of here, you make my race a f**king embarrassment.
I am so glad that my parents put me in immersion school so that I grew up being usually the only white girl in the class until mid-high school. So glad they taught me right.
Racist f**ks: keep your mouths shut around me. I don’t want to hear it and WE DO NOT AGREE.
They don’t even lead with “I don’t mean to be racist, but” they just say this ugly s**t to me assuming that it is a safe space because we look similarly. No, I don’t wanna hear your f**king opinion about “The Blacks” or “The Mexicans” THEY ARE HISPANICS NOT MEXICANS UNTIL OTHERWISE CLARIFIED. People of ALL COLORS deserve the SAME quality of treatment! It doesn’t matter their level of education, their insurance status, or personal bias. It doesn’t even matter if they are rude.
This word vomit s**t has happened too many times. Someone I thought was a good person, a good HCW, then the door shuts and I hear a comment like “If they don’t like it, they should just go back to Africa! You know what I mean?” Are you kidding me? You stupid racist F**K. Someone ACTUALLY SAID THIS TO ME. On top of their vile discriminatory comments, it is also low key racist to assume that Becky will agree with you because she looks like you. Get the f**k out of here, you make my race a f**king embarrassment.
I am so glad that my parents put me in immersion school so that I grew up being usually the only white girl in the class until mid-high school. So glad they taught me right.
Racist f**ks: keep your mouths shut around me. I don’t want to hear it and WE DO NOT AGREE.
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#3 Nobody Cares If You Think Abortion Is Horribly Wrong

Abortion is the most HUMANE way for a woman to get rid of a future child she genuinely does NOT want. It’s as simple as that. You cannot change my opinion on this. It is the most humane option.
Nothing—and I mean nothing—will ever convince me that:
Placing a baby into the foster care system, is more humane than abortion.
Struggling to raise a child while being financially, emotionally, or mentally unstable, is more humane than abortion.
Having a child realize they weren't wanted by their mother, is more humane than abortion.
Forcing a woman to raise a child she does not want, is more humane than abortion.
Giving full custody to the father or another family member, is more humane than abortion. (And do not try to make me seem horrible for this one. I mean in cases where the woman really doesn’t want to have the baby, period. If she’s fine with having it, she just doesn’t want it, then this is a wonderful idea. My point is also that it still comes with the risk of the child being affected knowing that the mother didn’t want it.)
Do you understand how dangerous it is to force a baby into the care of a woman whose mental health may be deteriorating quickly? She could suffer from postpartum depression, worsening her mental state.
Not every woman will make the rational choice to give the baby up for adoption or to transfer custody. Some will lose themselves completely and might go as far as to harm the child. The risk of these outcomes only increases with abortion bans.
You can argue all you want that women should "be more careful" or "just keep their legs closed." But you'd have to be f**king stupid to believe that millions of women who have s*x for pleasure, without wanting to get pregnant, will simply stop.
Women who are a***cted to d**gs or likely to a**se a child aren’t going to stop having s*x either. Those who don’t want children won’t stop having s*x, so we need solutions for when pregnancy does happen. There are going to be many women who get pregnant when they didn’t want to, and there’s absolutely no stopping that.
If you believe abortion should only be available in cases of r**e or a***ult, then you don’t actually care about these “children” as much as you claim. If you did care, you’d know taking away abortion only harms them in the long run.
Nothing—and I mean nothing—will ever convince me that:
Placing a baby into the foster care system, is more humane than abortion.
Struggling to raise a child while being financially, emotionally, or mentally unstable, is more humane than abortion.
Having a child realize they weren't wanted by their mother, is more humane than abortion.
Forcing a woman to raise a child she does not want, is more humane than abortion.
Giving full custody to the father or another family member, is more humane than abortion. (And do not try to make me seem horrible for this one. I mean in cases where the woman really doesn’t want to have the baby, period. If she’s fine with having it, she just doesn’t want it, then this is a wonderful idea. My point is also that it still comes with the risk of the child being affected knowing that the mother didn’t want it.)
Do you understand how dangerous it is to force a baby into the care of a woman whose mental health may be deteriorating quickly? She could suffer from postpartum depression, worsening her mental state.
Not every woman will make the rational choice to give the baby up for adoption or to transfer custody. Some will lose themselves completely and might go as far as to harm the child. The risk of these outcomes only increases with abortion bans.
You can argue all you want that women should "be more careful" or "just keep their legs closed." But you'd have to be f**king stupid to believe that millions of women who have s*x for pleasure, without wanting to get pregnant, will simply stop.
Women who are a***cted to d**gs or likely to a**se a child aren’t going to stop having s*x either. Those who don’t want children won’t stop having s*x, so we need solutions for when pregnancy does happen. There are going to be many women who get pregnant when they didn’t want to, and there’s absolutely no stopping that.
If you believe abortion should only be available in cases of r**e or a***ult, then you don’t actually care about these “children” as much as you claim. If you did care, you’d know taking away abortion only harms them in the long run.
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#4 I Don't Understand How To Explain That You Should Care About Other People
You just should. It should be an intrinsic part of your humanity. You shouldn't need a reason to care about other people. You shouldn't need an incentive. You should just care about the wellbeing of other people.
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#5 Generative AI Is Immoral And I Hate It. Stop Using It

This f*****g s**t INFURIATES me, and ONLY OTHER ARTISTS seem to give a s**t. I am an artist of 30 years and my art was used to train this ai image s**t. I did not consent to that. I did not receive compensation for that. Neither did any of the other MILLIONS of artists who have been f****d over by this. And we sure AS F**K are not getting any new jobs because of this either. The industry has been F*****G DESTROYED.
People like to defend Generative ai by saying s**t like "i only use it for memes!" Or "i cant draaaww dont gatekeep art!" Or "some people are too disabled to draw!!" Or whatever but it is all b******t.
Using it for something small like memes is not a F*****G excuse. It is THE SAME EXACT THING and effects artists in the SAME EXACT WAY. Our art is STILL BEING STOLEN YOU F*****G MORON. HOW MUCH EFFORT WOULD IT TAKE FOR YOU TO CREATE A /F*****G MEME???/
The disability / lack of talent argument is so f*****g infuriating too. Like... Christy Browns body was almost entirely paralyzed so he learned to draw with his /f*****g toes/. Beethoveen was F*****G DEAF.
If you think you are not skilled enough or talented enough or good enough or "too disabled" to draw, if you think this is being "gatekept" then maybe you just need to admit that you don't give enough of a s**t to put any effort into learning a skill and would rathe s***w over working artists than take a single second to think or attempt to better yourself. Learn to draw you f*****g whiny babies. Stop defending a technology that literally steals from millions of artists. Stop f*****g using it.
People like to defend Generative ai by saying s**t like "i only use it for memes!" Or "i cant draaaww dont gatekeep art!" Or "some people are too disabled to draw!!" Or whatever but it is all b******t.
Using it for something small like memes is not a F*****G excuse. It is THE SAME EXACT THING and effects artists in the SAME EXACT WAY. Our art is STILL BEING STOLEN YOU F*****G MORON. HOW MUCH EFFORT WOULD IT TAKE FOR YOU TO CREATE A /F*****G MEME???/
The disability / lack of talent argument is so f*****g infuriating too. Like... Christy Browns body was almost entirely paralyzed so he learned to draw with his /f*****g toes/. Beethoveen was F*****G DEAF.
If you think you are not skilled enough or talented enough or good enough or "too disabled" to draw, if you think this is being "gatekept" then maybe you just need to admit that you don't give enough of a s**t to put any effort into learning a skill and would rathe s***w over working artists than take a single second to think or attempt to better yourself. Learn to draw you f*****g whiny babies. Stop defending a technology that literally steals from millions of artists. Stop f*****g using it.
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#6 I Hate That Others Don’t Understand The Impact Rape Has On Women
I can’t speak on behalf of all victims but I can on my own. It SUCKED for years and still does. It RUINS you. Imagine being called a s**t because YOU were r**ed.
Imagine being told YOU ruined the family because you told authorities. Imagine not knowing HOW to manage your PTSD while in high school. Imagine family asking YOU to tell the judge to give leniency to your own r**ists.
Imagine being asked to VISIT your r**ists in jail and prison. If your r**ists k***led themselves in prison, you are told it would be YOUR fault.
Imagine not getting FAFSA or financial help throughout college and you had to stay with random families on holidays because yours didn’t want you.
Imagine trying to k**l yourself but you end up hospitalized and ruining your body. Imagine being scared of the dark and having reoccurring dreams of being r**ed.
Imagine your r**ists, after serving their time in prison, telling you that YOU should get over it because you said you don’t trust them. No! I’m never forgetting what you did nor will I ever trust you. (The fact you even have a daughter is frightening enough. But you’re back in prison for domestic t***orism so at least she’s safe for now.)
I am lucky that I have a husband who doesn’t push s*x on me and lets me initiate it. Even if we go a month without s*x, he doesn’t hold it against me and I am SO DAMN LUCKY he is patient and realizes my experience with s*x has been traumatizing.
Reading a lot of content on Reddit just infuriates me. A bunch of insufferable people.
I’m damn lucky in a lot of things and proud of myself too. I only wish the best for other victims (men and women) and hope all have a good support group.
Edit: title should say “people”, not “women”. Men get r**ed too. I was just frustrated over a men’s subreddit and their lack of empathy over this topic.
Imagine being told YOU ruined the family because you told authorities. Imagine not knowing HOW to manage your PTSD while in high school. Imagine family asking YOU to tell the judge to give leniency to your own r**ists.
Imagine being asked to VISIT your r**ists in jail and prison. If your r**ists k***led themselves in prison, you are told it would be YOUR fault.
Imagine not getting FAFSA or financial help throughout college and you had to stay with random families on holidays because yours didn’t want you.
Imagine trying to k**l yourself but you end up hospitalized and ruining your body. Imagine being scared of the dark and having reoccurring dreams of being r**ed.
Imagine your r**ists, after serving their time in prison, telling you that YOU should get over it because you said you don’t trust them. No! I’m never forgetting what you did nor will I ever trust you. (The fact you even have a daughter is frightening enough. But you’re back in prison for domestic t***orism so at least she’s safe for now.)
I am lucky that I have a husband who doesn’t push s*x on me and lets me initiate it. Even if we go a month without s*x, he doesn’t hold it against me and I am SO DAMN LUCKY he is patient and realizes my experience with s*x has been traumatizing.
Reading a lot of content on Reddit just infuriates me. A bunch of insufferable people.
I’m damn lucky in a lot of things and proud of myself too. I only wish the best for other victims (men and women) and hope all have a good support group.
Edit: title should say “people”, not “women”. Men get r**ed too. I was just frustrated over a men’s subreddit and their lack of empathy over this topic.
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#7 My Mom Thinks She So Cool And I Finally Snapped

My mom makes it really hard to love her. She put me and my siblings through so much a***e and neglect as children. Some of the situations we were in would be a news headline today.
Well she was talking about how she has 4 kids and didn’t have to potty train a single one of us. She has talked about this so much. I finally snapped on her and told her having 4 kids and not raising a single one is not something to be proud of. Nobody cares that she let me and my sister sit in diapers until kindergarten where the teachers potty trained us. Nobody thinks it’s cool that she let my little brother wear diapers till he was 5 because she had a “personal diaper changer” (me and my sister). Until my grandma finally potty trained him. And lastly nobody thinks it’s cool she lost all of us to foster care before my youngest brother could be potty trained.
Nobody cares and I don’t know a single person who would actually think it’s cool except for her. She’s now a victim and says we all turned out OK so she must of did something right.
Well she was talking about how she has 4 kids and didn’t have to potty train a single one of us. She has talked about this so much. I finally snapped on her and told her having 4 kids and not raising a single one is not something to be proud of. Nobody cares that she let me and my sister sit in diapers until kindergarten where the teachers potty trained us. Nobody thinks it’s cool that she let my little brother wear diapers till he was 5 because she had a “personal diaper changer” (me and my sister). Until my grandma finally potty trained him. And lastly nobody thinks it’s cool she lost all of us to foster care before my youngest brother could be potty trained.
Nobody cares and I don’t know a single person who would actually think it’s cool except for her. She’s now a victim and says we all turned out OK so she must of did something right.
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#8 I Absolutely Loathe The Fact That They're Remaking Harry Potter And Its A Sign Of A Grander Societal Problem

Not just Harry Potter, but all the meaningless remakes of films we already have, like all the live-action remakes. They make no sense to me. It's a sign that we have stalled as a society. Rather than take risks and make and adapt new things, we stick to what worked in the past and tarnish our memory of it.
Taking risks and sticking through with something is somehow frowned upon or avoided. Look at Amazon and the Wheel of Time series. They decided to cancel it just after it was starting to pick up. Why? Because they weren't generating enough profit. As if Amazon as a company wasn't worth Billions and taking risks that could pay off was complete insanity to them.
There are so many series that could be adapted other than Harry Potter. I've had enough Harry Potter to last me a lifetime. Why can't we have an EarthSea cycle adaptation instead? A similar students of magic concept done wonderfully. There are so many other things we could be doing, but we keep using the same old franchises until they're nothing but meaningless hollow husks, a mere shadow of what they once were.
Taking risks and sticking through with something is somehow frowned upon or avoided. Look at Amazon and the Wheel of Time series. They decided to cancel it just after it was starting to pick up. Why? Because they weren't generating enough profit. As if Amazon as a company wasn't worth Billions and taking risks that could pay off was complete insanity to them.
There are so many series that could be adapted other than Harry Potter. I've had enough Harry Potter to last me a lifetime. Why can't we have an EarthSea cycle adaptation instead? A similar students of magic concept done wonderfully. There are so many other things we could be doing, but we keep using the same old franchises until they're nothing but meaningless hollow husks, a mere shadow of what they once were.
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#9 I'm So Tired Of My Soon To Be Former Friend's Predatory Behaviour Towards Young Women

It’s always the same about how they have no clue what they want, and have no life experiences.
No s**t. You’re a 25 year old man spawn camping 18 year olds on their first week out of high school.
When I tell him to just date a woman our age, he tells me the vast majority of us are too cynical, hypergamous and “used”.
He was an upstanding guy until his ex broke up with him a month ago, then he suddenly decided he’ll have nothing to do with any woman who has been on this earth before 2006.
I’m so tired and grossed out hearing him talk about how 18 year old's willing to cut off their friends to prove their loyalty to him. How quick they are to want to marry or get in a committed relationship with him just because he buys them a small trinket.
I’ve tried to tell him he’s taking advantage of their naivety and that deep down, he knows that what he’s doing is wrong. But I’m starting to think I’m wrong about him, and I just want to walk away from it all.
He really was a cool dude, and so kind.
Edit: everyone here defending his behavior or saying my issues are about the age gap are missing the point.
If I love-bombed a bunch of lonely men at the same time, promising to be their wife to use them for free meals with no intention of committing, you guys would 100% accuse me of being a manipulative gold-digger.
Keep the same energy.
No s**t. You’re a 25 year old man spawn camping 18 year olds on their first week out of high school.
When I tell him to just date a woman our age, he tells me the vast majority of us are too cynical, hypergamous and “used”.
He was an upstanding guy until his ex broke up with him a month ago, then he suddenly decided he’ll have nothing to do with any woman who has been on this earth before 2006.
I’m so tired and grossed out hearing him talk about how 18 year old's willing to cut off their friends to prove their loyalty to him. How quick they are to want to marry or get in a committed relationship with him just because he buys them a small trinket.
I’ve tried to tell him he’s taking advantage of their naivety and that deep down, he knows that what he’s doing is wrong. But I’m starting to think I’m wrong about him, and I just want to walk away from it all.
He really was a cool dude, and so kind.
Edit: everyone here defending his behavior or saying my issues are about the age gap are missing the point.
If I love-bombed a bunch of lonely men at the same time, promising to be their wife to use them for free meals with no intention of committing, you guys would 100% accuse me of being a manipulative gold-digger.
Keep the same energy.
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#10 Actually, 100 Tampons Is The Perfect Amount To Take To Space For 6 Days
So there's this story of Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, that goes viral like twice a year: during the preparations, the engineers asked her how many tampons they should send with her, and if 100 was the right number?
And it's always such a big funny ha ha like "wow nasa knows nothing about women! How stupid can you get!"
My argument is ACTUALLY 100 tampons is a great amount to take to space. Why?
Shall we just look today at Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the astronauts who went up for 8 days and ended up stuck there for 9 months?
I could probably end the whole argument there. But I'll add a few more points.
THERE ARE NO F**KING SHOPS IN SPACE! Whatever you take up there is what you have! There's no popping out to grab more if you run out. In general, NASA plans absolutely everything to have an almost absurd level of redundancy, because what the hell do you do if you need something and don't have it... And you're in space? There is no resupply drop on a 6 day space flight!
The tampons they sent apparently came in boxes of 50. Tampons are pretty small and light. So you're sending one box, but you want to plan for redundancy... Well then send two boxes. It's like an extra 100g.
She was the first American woman in space. NASA had no data on what impact going to space was going to have on the menstrual cycle. (Russian women had been to space, but Russia and Nasa were very much not communicating at that time.) So you might want to say I'm a huge sexist idiot for asking it, but WHAT IF prolonged zero gravity for some reason had an impact on her menstrual cycle? Who's to say that it absolutely, definitively won't? With no prior data on it?
WHAT IF something about prolonged zero gravity or the launch or the changing circadian rhythms or literally just stress in general prompted her to start to have the heaviest period possible, and you sent her up there with 24 tampons, and she ran out on day 4?
Even if we don't think that will happen - can you agree that it's a POSSIBILITY in the realms of reality that someone can suddenly just have an extremely heavy period, for no reason? I know my periods are not always like clockwork predictable. They have sometimes in my life come early or late. They have sometimes been heavier. At least once in my life my period lasted double the usual number of days. And specifically travel, stress and circadian rhythm changes affect my cycle!!
I truly don't think it's ridiculous to think: "we can not be 100% sure what's going to happen once she gets up there, so let's just send enough tampons that she could have the heaviest period she's ever had for 6 days straight and not run out, because they weigh almost nothing and it would be extremely inconvenient and unpleasant if she ran out up there with no way to get more."
It's true that many industries are woefully lacking in data and understanding of women and women's bodies. But this isn't that. We should be talking about the 50 years where car manufacturers only tested with male crash test dummies and all the pharmaceutical companies that only test on men because women's hormonal cycle 'confuses the data' and all those such instances instead of beating this dead horse every six months.
And it's always such a big funny ha ha like "wow nasa knows nothing about women! How stupid can you get!"
My argument is ACTUALLY 100 tampons is a great amount to take to space. Why?
Shall we just look today at Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the astronauts who went up for 8 days and ended up stuck there for 9 months?
I could probably end the whole argument there. But I'll add a few more points.
THERE ARE NO F**KING SHOPS IN SPACE! Whatever you take up there is what you have! There's no popping out to grab more if you run out. In general, NASA plans absolutely everything to have an almost absurd level of redundancy, because what the hell do you do if you need something and don't have it... And you're in space? There is no resupply drop on a 6 day space flight!
The tampons they sent apparently came in boxes of 50. Tampons are pretty small and light. So you're sending one box, but you want to plan for redundancy... Well then send two boxes. It's like an extra 100g.
She was the first American woman in space. NASA had no data on what impact going to space was going to have on the menstrual cycle. (Russian women had been to space, but Russia and Nasa were very much not communicating at that time.) So you might want to say I'm a huge sexist idiot for asking it, but WHAT IF prolonged zero gravity for some reason had an impact on her menstrual cycle? Who's to say that it absolutely, definitively won't? With no prior data on it?
WHAT IF something about prolonged zero gravity or the launch or the changing circadian rhythms or literally just stress in general prompted her to start to have the heaviest period possible, and you sent her up there with 24 tampons, and she ran out on day 4?
Even if we don't think that will happen - can you agree that it's a POSSIBILITY in the realms of reality that someone can suddenly just have an extremely heavy period, for no reason? I know my periods are not always like clockwork predictable. They have sometimes in my life come early or late. They have sometimes been heavier. At least once in my life my period lasted double the usual number of days. And specifically travel, stress and circadian rhythm changes affect my cycle!!
I truly don't think it's ridiculous to think: "we can not be 100% sure what's going to happen once she gets up there, so let's just send enough tampons that she could have the heaviest period she's ever had for 6 days straight and not run out, because they weigh almost nothing and it would be extremely inconvenient and unpleasant if she ran out up there with no way to get more."
It's true that many industries are woefully lacking in data and understanding of women and women's bodies. But this isn't that. We should be talking about the 50 years where car manufacturers only tested with male crash test dummies and all the pharmaceutical companies that only test on men because women's hormonal cycle 'confuses the data' and all those such instances instead of beating this dead horse every six months.
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#11 Get Ready America. Screwworms Are Coming Your Way
Let me explain -
Screwworms, to the uninformed, are flies that burrow into animal flesh via wound or orifice (that means your eyes, or a tiny bug bite) and lay eggs, which then... eat you alive (myiasis). You can d*e within 6-8 days from an infection, and it has major consequences on livestock industries.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has worked collaboratively with US states and central and south american countries (meaning, funding them) to eradicate screwworms using sterile male flies to create a "barrier". This has been an ongoing project since the 50s. The fly was pushed as far south as Panama.
However, the "president" has been making all these decisions about "funding other countries" like it doesn't impact the USA. What if he cuts these programs? Screwworms have already been detected since 2023 in Costa Rica.
And guess what, it was detected in Mexico as of November 2024.
For example, the recent South Africa cut - What about how that funding helped study and control HIV, Malaria, Yellow Fever, Dengue, West Nile Virus? What about using other preventive vaccines, like polio, to reduce its spread?
The US is not a closed system. What happens in other parts of the world will affect it.
Screwworms, to the uninformed, are flies that burrow into animal flesh via wound or orifice (that means your eyes, or a tiny bug bite) and lay eggs, which then... eat you alive (myiasis). You can d*e within 6-8 days from an infection, and it has major consequences on livestock industries.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has worked collaboratively with US states and central and south american countries (meaning, funding them) to eradicate screwworms using sterile male flies to create a "barrier". This has been an ongoing project since the 50s. The fly was pushed as far south as Panama.
However, the "president" has been making all these decisions about "funding other countries" like it doesn't impact the USA. What if he cuts these programs? Screwworms have already been detected since 2023 in Costa Rica.
And guess what, it was detected in Mexico as of November 2024.
For example, the recent South Africa cut - What about how that funding helped study and control HIV, Malaria, Yellow Fever, Dengue, West Nile Virus? What about using other preventive vaccines, like polio, to reduce its spread?
The US is not a closed system. What happens in other parts of the world will affect it.
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#12 Why Do People Behave So Poorly?

I’m a 54 year old man. My daughter had my first grandchild 6 months ago. While she was pregnant, my younger daughter (16), my pregnant older daughter and I went out to dinner. My youngest gets at a nearby table with friends for a bit, and while my oldest and I sat there, we noticed a table with older people staring at us. It happened to be at the table next to where my youngest was temporarily sitting. I knew what the stares were about, but didn’t want to tell my very pregnant daughter that these people thought her and I were a couple. A couple of minutes later my daughter comes and blurts out to my pregnant daughter that the people sitting next to her were so grossed out that an old guy got a young woman pregnant. I got up and walked over and told them I was her father, and their assumption was gross. The rant comes from the fact my daughter won’t go out to eat or anywhere with me unless my youngest is there, or my ex-wife (her mother). All because a couple of Karens went with the worst option rather than the simplest…that a man was out to eat with his two daughters.
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#13 I Hate The American Healthcare System
My mother died when I was 10. She started having heart pain but couldn't afford an ambulance. She died of that heart attack.
When I was in 6th grade I started having serious health pain. I almost had a heart attack.
On Christmas day, last month I started having serious heart pain. So fearful of dying on Christmas of all f**king days I went to the er.
$4959.49
That's what I owe.
That's half of what I make in a year practically. I don't even have half of that in my savings.
I have doctor's visits to pay for, medications, rent, bills.
And now I'm going to have to go heavily into to debt all because I was afraid to die.
You know a system is F**KED when I'm wishing that I had either ACTUALLY DIED. Or that I should've stayed home and just rode it out.
F**k the system. I'm going to go cry into my pillow.
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#14 Refusing To Be Unkind To People Because They're Fat Is Not The Same Thing As "Glorifying Obesity."
it's ok to compliment their outfits, if you like them. It's ok if you find one attractive. It's ok to have sex with them if you want to.
It's ok to tell people to stfu and mind their business when they give unnecessary and unsolicited criticism about your or anyone else's body size.
it's okay to tell those people that their opinions about others' bodies don't matter. No matter how much they gaslight and concern-troll you and tell you you're heartless or dishonest or unhelpful.
Shaming rarely results in lasting behavior changes.
Being kind, outwardly nonjudgmental, and letting adults deal with their own bodies between themselves and their doctors is not "coddling" or "enabling."
It's simply not being a jerk.
It's ok to tell people to stfu and mind their business when they give unnecessary and unsolicited criticism about your or anyone else's body size.
it's okay to tell those people that their opinions about others' bodies don't matter. No matter how much they gaslight and concern-troll you and tell you you're heartless or dishonest or unhelpful.
Shaming rarely results in lasting behavior changes.
Being kind, outwardly nonjudgmental, and letting adults deal with their own bodies between themselves and their doctors is not "coddling" or "enabling."
It's simply not being a jerk.
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#15 I'm Really Starting To Believe It's A Manipulation Thing From Older Men

So if you’re not familiar with hinge it’s a dating site, I’m 21F I get likes from older men all the time and recently I’ve come to catch that a lot of them would lie about their age and remove 10-15 years and I snoop and later find out. so today I got a like from an older guy age was displayed 43 and he looks wayyy older so I just accepted him, I was bored and I messaged “who do you expect to believe you’re 43” then he goes on to say he is actually 43 and turns 44 in October. I just can’t believe it so I search him up and truth is HE’S not 43 like initially figured. So then Instead of calling him out I just messaged him and said “haha that’s so funny because I’m 41” after he read my message he asked “but you’re profile says 21” I didn’t respond but 5 minutes later he unmatched😭😭
To me this just affirms the manipulation narrative that these men really are looking for young girls because it’s easier to manipulate then older women because let’s say I was 41 I still looked the same on my profile so it’s not the “young women look better” narrative. Also it’s not about fertility because on his profile it says “has kids” and “want no more kids”. He already started off his message trying to manipulate me into thinking he was 43 and he’s not the only older man on these apps doing this. What is wrong with these older men.
To me this just affirms the manipulation narrative that these men really are looking for young girls because it’s easier to manipulate then older women because let’s say I was 41 I still looked the same on my profile so it’s not the “young women look better” narrative. Also it’s not about fertility because on his profile it says “has kids” and “want no more kids”. He already started off his message trying to manipulate me into thinking he was 43 and he’s not the only older man on these apps doing this. What is wrong with these older men.
15points
#16 Directtv Needs To Be Charged With Elderly A**se

My wife recently started a job at a call center for DIRECTTV. (Well the 3rd party that directtv pays as their customer service)
We both thought that it would be hard because she was going to be screamed at all day. Instead, it’s gut wrenching to hear that 99.99% of calls are someone over 60 and asking why their bill is a little higher than “NORMAL”. Normal I come to find out is like 250$/mo for most tv packages.
All of the calls are because they have ANOTHER 3rd party company that sells them promotions (free channels for X time) and promise no strings. Well the string is the channels are like 100$ a channel and automatically start charging u when the trials ends with no warning unless u check your paper bill (because they’re elderly)
Most of the calls are old people literally crying asking why they their bill is 800$ and how they’re on social security and can’t afford that and cancel with like 1k+ debt.
Please please please inform your elderly that commercial-free tv is like 15$/app and you can watch what you want whenever!! It’s every single call!!
Their entire business model is to exploit old people they even say in their training that this is how most of their calls go.
We both thought that it would be hard because she was going to be screamed at all day. Instead, it’s gut wrenching to hear that 99.99% of calls are someone over 60 and asking why their bill is a little higher than “NORMAL”. Normal I come to find out is like 250$/mo for most tv packages.
All of the calls are because they have ANOTHER 3rd party company that sells them promotions (free channels for X time) and promise no strings. Well the string is the channels are like 100$ a channel and automatically start charging u when the trials ends with no warning unless u check your paper bill (because they’re elderly)
Most of the calls are old people literally crying asking why they their bill is 800$ and how they’re on social security and can’t afford that and cancel with like 1k+ debt.
Please please please inform your elderly that commercial-free tv is like 15$/app and you can watch what you want whenever!! It’s every single call!!
Their entire business model is to exploit old people they even say in their training that this is how most of their calls go.
15points
#17 I Caught An Incurable Parasitic Fungal Infection From Simply Breathing At The Wrong Time/Place And I'm Angry About It

(Title edit: Currently no cure. Hopefully it'll be fully curable someday.)
Valley Fever / Coccidioidomycosis can go f*** itself. 30 years in Arizona and it finally got me for the first time. My immune system's bat [nonsense] crazy response to it put me in the ER twice and had me needing a walker to even get out of bed.
I'm mad that I have to worry about this fungus in my lungs for the rest of my life. Seriously? I have a kid to raise and more life to live. I just have to hope my immune system can keep it trapped and that it never reactivates and spreads to other parts of my body? Every headache I have makes me paranoid it's meningitis. My back and neck are so sore - has it spread to my spine? How stupid.
I'm mad that finding a cure isn't "lucrative enough." Research is still pretty limited. Most Arizonans don't even know what valley fever really is or what it entails. Most doctors still misdiagnose and mistreat it. The anti-fungals some of us have to take wreak havoc on our body. (All this could be said for most illnesses, sadly.) Now I have to worry about my liver function and get it checked every 3 months? Cool. I guess going bald from the meds is the better alternative to hepatotoxicity.
I'm mad that my insurance provider denied my chest CT, which was ordered by my doctor, because they determined it was "not medically necessary." The double pneumonia the ER diagnosed determined that was a lie. Who are they to decide what's medically necessary over my doctor?!
I'm mad that I used to go hiking, gardening in my backyard, enjoyed breezy days, driving with my windows rolled down - all without a second thought. Now, I drive by construction sites and mutter expletives under my breath like a nut job as I watch them kick up dirt that I now assume has these evil spores in it. Somehow I feel betrayed by the place I've always called home, which feels stupid in itself.
I'm mad that I'm so worried that my child and husband will get it, too. Do we move to another state? Am I overreacting? I avoided it for 30 years, surely it's not that big of a deal? Everyone else makes it seem like it's not that big of a deal. "I thought only dogs get valley fever." "I know a guy who had it and was fine."
I'm mad that I feel guilty that so many people have it way worse than me while I'm over here just... mad. And scared. And anxious, paranoid, exhausted, sick. Granted, I'm grateful to be alive and am more considerate of those living with chronic and/or "invisible" illness. Couldn't I have learned these lessons without the incurable fungus, though?!
Sigh... Thanks for coming to my fungus talk.
Valley Fever / Coccidioidomycosis can go f*** itself. 30 years in Arizona and it finally got me for the first time. My immune system's bat [nonsense] crazy response to it put me in the ER twice and had me needing a walker to even get out of bed.
I'm mad that I have to worry about this fungus in my lungs for the rest of my life. Seriously? I have a kid to raise and more life to live. I just have to hope my immune system can keep it trapped and that it never reactivates and spreads to other parts of my body? Every headache I have makes me paranoid it's meningitis. My back and neck are so sore - has it spread to my spine? How stupid.
I'm mad that finding a cure isn't "lucrative enough." Research is still pretty limited. Most Arizonans don't even know what valley fever really is or what it entails. Most doctors still misdiagnose and mistreat it. The anti-fungals some of us have to take wreak havoc on our body. (All this could be said for most illnesses, sadly.) Now I have to worry about my liver function and get it checked every 3 months? Cool. I guess going bald from the meds is the better alternative to hepatotoxicity.
I'm mad that my insurance provider denied my chest CT, which was ordered by my doctor, because they determined it was "not medically necessary." The double pneumonia the ER diagnosed determined that was a lie. Who are they to decide what's medically necessary over my doctor?!
I'm mad that I used to go hiking, gardening in my backyard, enjoyed breezy days, driving with my windows rolled down - all without a second thought. Now, I drive by construction sites and mutter expletives under my breath like a nut job as I watch them kick up dirt that I now assume has these evil spores in it. Somehow I feel betrayed by the place I've always called home, which feels stupid in itself.
I'm mad that I'm so worried that my child and husband will get it, too. Do we move to another state? Am I overreacting? I avoided it for 30 years, surely it's not that big of a deal? Everyone else makes it seem like it's not that big of a deal. "I thought only dogs get valley fever." "I know a guy who had it and was fine."
I'm mad that I feel guilty that so many people have it way worse than me while I'm over here just... mad. And scared. And anxious, paranoid, exhausted, sick. Granted, I'm grateful to be alive and am more considerate of those living with chronic and/or "invisible" illness. Couldn't I have learned these lessons without the incurable fungus, though?!
Sigh... Thanks for coming to my fungus talk.
15points
#18 Youtube Chefs Who Act Like They're Using Things Everybody Has

"Today we'll be making this cheap version of a dish using random ingredients we have laying around the house, even the average joe can make this."
They proceed to grab some filet mignon they had just laying around the house, seasoned with Himalayan truffle butter and Taiwanese golden once in a century pepper flakes that they just happened to find in the back of their cabinet. "Ok, now season with cheese! This cheese only comes out to 57¢ a serving." they say as they use a cheese that can only be ordered by the half wheel from a farm in Vermont for $859. Oh, can't forget the pasta! It's super easy to make. Let me just pull out that old $800 pasta machine I had floating around the kitchen cabinets.
F**k y*u, food YouTubers, did you forget what it's like to be a normal person with a normal kitchen?
They proceed to grab some filet mignon they had just laying around the house, seasoned with Himalayan truffle butter and Taiwanese golden once in a century pepper flakes that they just happened to find in the back of their cabinet. "Ok, now season with cheese! This cheese only comes out to 57¢ a serving." they say as they use a cheese that can only be ordered by the half wheel from a farm in Vermont for $859. Oh, can't forget the pasta! It's super easy to make. Let me just pull out that old $800 pasta machine I had floating around the kitchen cabinets.
F**k y*u, food YouTubers, did you forget what it's like to be a normal person with a normal kitchen?
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#19 People Who Depend On AI Are Pathetic
All I see are ads ans videos of people being like. "Using ai to write me a grocery list" "using ai to help me start a conversation with someone at a party" "using ai to tell me what to say to my gfs dad" "using ai to function as a normal human being" it's pathetic, it's embarrassing! I don't care if they have social anxiety, learn how to function without a machine telling you what to do. And those ads promoting it are even worse! I don't expect us to immediately fall into some dystopia or anything, but this is just disrespectful to yourself at this point. There is nothing anyone can say to me to make me sympathize with ai users, let alone the people who promote ai like it's a must have.
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#20 If The Economy Is So Bad, Why Is Everyone Getting Door Dash?!
I find door dash to be the most frivolous waste of money. Yet every restaurant I go to has a parade of door dash going in and out!
If you can afford to pay $25 for your cold Taco Bell to be dropped at your door you should complain about egg prices .
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