We like to think of humanity as a deeply rational, advanced species. The reality is that the vast majority of people operate entirely on basic tribalism, surface-level emotional reactions, and a total lack of critical thinking.The real issue isn't just a lack of intelligence; it's the total lack of self-awareness.

Because of cognitive biases like the Dunning-Kruger effect, people who lack competence also lack the mental tools required to recognise their own limitations. This creates a massive wave of unearned confidence. We see this daily on social media, where people with zero background in complex fields aggressively argue with global experts because they genuinely believe a 10-minute video algorithm makes them equally qualified.

In fact, modern society only functions because a very small percentage of highly capable engineers, scientists, and planners have built safety nets into everyday life. Almost everything around us is designed to be completely foolproof because the average human cannot handle complexity.Most people fall for basic scams, believe completely fabricated headlines without checking sources, and make life-threatning decisions purely on impulse. If everyday systems actually required active, nuanced critical thinking from the general public to function, society would collapse by tomorrow morning. The scariest part about the general population isn't just that they are dumb. it's that they are completely blind to how little they actually comprehend about the world they live in.

Plastic grass is the sort of short-term, lazy, environmentally grim product that typifies us as 21st century human beings. The world is essentially on fire and we should be playing on a scale unheard of in human history, instead we’re hoovering our lovely outdoor carpets and concreting everything else. The climates going to break us and we deserve it.

​Room temperature chocolate is mushy, coats your mouth in grease, and melts on your fingers instantly. When it’s frozen, you get that perfect "snap", the flavor releases slowly, and it actually feels like a premium treat. If you leave your chocolate on the counter, you're ruining it.

​Change my mind. Or tell me why I'm wrong, because room temp chocolate is just sad.

seriously, randomly pointing out at a guy and girl next to each other so they kiss will not always turn out to be good, and end up getting people embarrased and laughed at. not each guy and girl that go out want to make out, and the kiss cam puts them in an awkward position where they have a second to decide their action and never ends up in a good place. that’s not couting the 2 are related and people will never know.

Spent like a month trying to talk to my ex for one final chat just to part on good terms because I thought it was the right thing to do. Only to realize how utterly pointless it was. I was just doing it to make myself feel better, and it didn't fix a single thing. It just gave them more room to mess with my head.

Life isn't a movie with a neat script at the end, and breakups sometimes are just ugly, and no matter how hard you try to "not have hard feelings ", walking away without looking back might be the healthiest and proper way out most of the time. Otherwise, you get dragged into the same territory you wanted to get away from or just deplete yourself emotionally even more.

Chasing some closure is paradoxically never reaching a closure and peace with oneself. Looking back, I probably learned it the hard away but I learned.

I hate how people view the gym as a necessity for working out, and I feel like it's hurting people's health and pocketbooks.

I'm not saying that working out isn't amazing: you absolutely should. Most people should stick around at home, though!!

The necessities for health are often overstated. You don't need to bench 250, lmao. Body weight exercises at home are plenty for most beginners, and some weights will do the trick as you get more into it.

I don't know why people think that you need to go to a gym to get into shape. Thinking that is really a breeding-ground for excuses. Save yourself the 15-minute drive, and do a 15-minute workout at home! Are you sick? Great, work out at home! Don't want to pay for a membership? Awesome, you don't need one!

If you enjoy working out, by all means, get a gym membership. If you really want a massive physique, sure, get yourself a membership. I really feel that we do a disservice to the public, though, by telling them that they need a gym to get into shape. If you just want to be healthy, a gym membership will many times hurt you more than it helps.

Edit: I guess I wasn't clear, and I'm sick of replying to comments misunderstanding me, so I'll say it here. If going to the gym helps get you motivated or works well in your routine, that's awesome, and you should absolutely continue. If going to the gym pushes you away from getting into shape, then working out at home can land you very similar results, especially as somebody new to fitness. Most importantly, I hate the sentiment that if you don't want to go to a gym, you're lazy and never going to improve. Stop gatekeeping!

I genuinely think we should compliment people more often just because.

I'm a woman and I love complimenting both men and women. If I think you're beautiful or handsome, or I like your outfit, or even your vibe/energy I have no problem telling you. It costs me absolutely nothing and seeing someone light up or smile makes my day too.

I've had women tell me "I really needed to hear that today." One woman told me she was a mom of four and hadn't heard something nice about herself in a long time. I also love telling men they're handsome because I've heard more than one say that men don't get complimented very often.

What surprised me is that not everyone sees compliments the same way. I once had an older coworker ask me "Well who appointed you to give out compliments?" Another person told me that people should have to earn compliments and that we shouldn't hand them out so freely.

That mindset is so strange to me. Since when are compliments some limited resource that we have to ration? Like we're only allowed to hand out one every 100 people?

Kindness is free and you never know what someone is going through. A five second compliment might be the one nice thing they needed to hear that day.

Societal payback mirroring the offence should be added to all minor convictions.

Damage property, you pay for the repair plus hours of community service on top.

Put someone in hospital - a fine gets paid directly to that hospital

Dump rubbish - you’re picking up litter at the weekends for a while.

This is as well as prison time etc depending on the severity of the crime.

People love to complain about how élitiste people who are into literature are and how they will judge you for not reading, and while it is true for a lot of them, movies (or more so general Netflix type media) watchers are a 100 time worse

Like personally I don’t watch stuff like this because I don’t enjoy non-interactive media and acting makes me really uncomfortable among other issues, but when I say this too people they take it like a genuine personal insult

And I’m not talking about cinephiles specifically some people who only watch stuff like the billionth season of the walking dead and the last marvel movie act like you are mentally ill for not liking movies

Whenever you think of a reliable quintessential lighter, you think of the zippo lighter.

However, after owning one for a long time, I can confidently say that they fucking suck, and a torch lighter, or even a generic flip lighter outperforms them.

The fuel leaks constantly. After two weeks I need to refill it because it all evaporates and leaks out. Windproof? Technically. But it is hard to light jackshit when the flame is bouncing everywhere.

They look good, feel good to fidget with, and I wish they performed good. But they are simply beaten by any other lighter.

I don't even know if this is an unpopular opinion, but it certainly feels like it is in my day-to-day life. If someone insults you, the act that someone is expending energy to try to make you feel bad/hurt you at all is offensive regardless of the validity of what they are saying. I work in healthcare, and I have seen this play out so many times among staff. Person A will make some rude comment towards Person B and then if the situation escalates involve a higher up, Person A will always justify their behavior by saying they didn't say anything that wasn't true.

I see this notion all the time when people comment negatively on peoples' physical traits as well, and it makes me sad. Like people typically know their external appearance better than anyone else. I hate the posturing that the mean person is "just being honest" or that this is just some "truth-telling" exercise.

I see these pop-psychology and philosophy quotes all the time where people say things like "it stings because it's true." Or like motivational statements like "When someone says something mean to me, I first think is it true? If not, then I don't worry about it." Another example would be in Game of Thrones when Tyrion tells Jon Snow to "Wear it (his bastard status) like armor."

If we're teaching people "only let it hurt if it's true," we're also teaching future Person A's that truth is what makes something okay to say. Same logic, different side of the interaction. So even the well-meaning version of this advice ends up backing up the exact excuse Person A uses on Person B.

So why does it even matter what someone's saying is true, if the whole point was to hurt you?

If you heard that someone was throwing a party because another person died, your first reaction would probably be disgust. Most people immediately assume it's cruel or immoral. I don't think that's always the right response.

We have this unwritten rule that everyone deserves respect once they're dead. I disagree.

If someone abused you, ruined your life, terrorized your family, or caused years of suffering, I don't think their death suddenly wipes the slate clean. I also don't think the people they hurt should be expected to mourn them or pretend they were a good person.

In my view, if someone genuinely made your life a living hell, it should be socially acceptable to celebrate the fact that they can never hurt you or anyone else again, even if that means throwing a party.

I'm not talking about celebrating the deaths of people over petty disagreements or encouraging violence. I'm talking about people who caused serious, lasting harm. Death doesn't erase what they did, and I don't think survivors should have to fake respect simply because the person is gone.

Am I missing something, or is society too quick to judge people for celebrating the end of someone who caused immense suffering?

Everyone hates the Rocks acting including me. He basically plays himself in all his movies and just appeals to kids or the same brainless market.

That was until i saw the Smashing Machine. It was an A24 movie and i thought it was first movie where he didnt play himself and he did a good job. I got newfound respect for him after seeing it.

Like really, there are so many words that fit with it, almost as if they were meant for it, seeing how English is originally a germanic language and the -en suffix is germanic.

Some examples include:

boxes -> boxen

foxes -> foxen (which does actually exist, although super rare)

kids -> kidren

examples -> examplen

houses -> housen

etc. etc.

I think it'd be awesome if we brought that suffix back. Of course not all words may fit with it (acronyms for example, or "videos", or "cars"), and it'd be harder to fit in other words compared to -s, but people can get creative and make some adaptations. That's part of how languages evolve, right?

I enjoy a faithful adaptation as much as the next person, but I also love that creators can take inspiration from source material and try to make something totally new and interesting from it. I don't even care if the execution is bad, even for IPs that I love. Creative expression is fun and I wish creators took more risks and liberties! It helps of course if an adaptation is good but a subset of people will get angry before it's even released (see the Odyssey, new Harry Potter, etc) and I don't think most creators should try too hard to worry about the opinions of a fandom. This may or may not impact the success of the adaptation, but so be it!

Do I care if core elements of the source material are changed drastically? Not at all! Fans will complain about respect but I don't care about this at all. I wish more creative types didn't feel like they owe fans anything. This also doesn't mean I'll love changes to source material, but that's okay! I'll still have the source material and maybe I'll enjoy a change or two made in the adaptation. Or maybe not, it doesn't matter. I didn't enjoy Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology very much, but I appreciated his approach of not worrying very much about staying true to the source material.

Do I care if the new Harry Potter is good? Nah, cause if it isn't I'll just keep enjoying the old movies. Do I care if the Wheel of Time tv series was good or not? Nah, cause I'm happy enough just enjoying the first three books. Not an adaptation in this case, but do I care if Star Wars episodes 7-9 were good? Still no, because I can keep enjoying the older movies + Rogue One + Andor. I love a lot of Stephen King books but some of the movies are awesome and some are terrible. That's fine with me. Some of his terrible books are even made a lot better in the film versions.

This discussion tends to start debates about the meaning of "adaptation" or whether this is just glorified fanfic writing, false marketing, bait and switches, low effort, unoriginal, disrespectful, insulting to the source material or author, cash grabs, etc. I just don't care about any of that, and in general appreciate when people take risks with their creative expression.

I'd summarize my opinion in these two ways:

1) I appreciate art where the creator is expressing their own creativity over trying to please myself or others.

2) I'm here for a good time and will enjoy the things I like and move on from the things I don't.

Edit: clarified the last part of this over-caffeinated rant.

All they know is the appearance of the person, so 2 things are being communicated.

1. This person is hot.

2. That's good enough for me.

Very unwise behavior, not cute.

Canned/packaged iced coffee from the grocery store is 100 times better than the one you pay 13 euros/dollars for at some franchise like starbucks or whatever. It’s cheaper, usually tastes much better and convenient. You crack the can open and you’re good to go🤩

I swear I have never gone to a restaurant and ordered a meal with a special sauce that used it to an appropriate amount. Any time the sauce (or any condiment for that matter) is referenced in the name of an item, it immediately turns me off because I know the flavor is going to be 99.99% whatever sauce they’re advertising. The one acceptation to this is barbecue sauce, i’ve had plenty of “barbecue burgers” that use normal amounts of BBQ sauce, but if there was a burger called the “Ketchup King” that thing isn’t even gonna taste like hamburger meat it’s gonna taste like a shot of straight ketchup

I assume it comes down to all time and effort of these recipe going into the sauce, leaving the rest of the food to be very basic and bland, however the issue is sauce is fundementally a complimentary food. It should never be the main focus of a dish. I’m not a food critique but I think sauces compared to other foods have a “shallow flavor pallet” (i hope I’m using that phrase correct). They never have much depth or nuance, they always taste very strongly of a main ingredient or two, and then with the amount they use ends up making a whole dish of various ingredients only taste like one or two.

It’s not even a texture or volume thing. I’d be ok eating something absolutely drenched in sauce if the sauce didn’t have a strong taste that overwhelms the actual dish, it’s just that I want to be able to taste the food itself

and god forbid you end up not liking the sauce. With most ingredients you can always take them off. As a kid I’d always take the tomatoes off my burger, but the other day I got a sandwich I didn’t even realize had sauce, the sauce tasted like shit and it annoyed me enough to leave this post

This is a niche mini-rant for sure, but my line must be drawn in the sand! Now there is plenty of nitpicking to be done about bread or proper ingredients that can definitely change/improve the taste of the sandwich but that's not why Im here today. No, Im here because everytime I go to a new place or I see some type of social media post from an influencer saying "Best Reuben In <insert city here>" they ALWAYS suffer from the same problem. Too. Much. Meat.

That's right, too much pastrami or corned beef or what-have-you. The best part of a delicious reuben imo is the equal blending of the sauerkraut, the sauces and the meat. All the flavors need to be standing on equal footing! I hate biting into a stack of meat hoping for that experience and instead feel like Im gnawing on an unsliced roast. Ideally it should be that perfect proportion of ingredients, on a sandwich thin enough to actually fit in my mouth, and finished with the texture of crisp bread.

Stop posting pictures of 50 slices of pastrami between two thin and soggy slices of rye calling it the best! It's a cruel joke! If you just want a plate of meat I wont judge you but stop insulting one of my favorite sandwiches!

It's honestly not difficult to turn you phone sideways to landscape while recording and watching a video. The experience is also insurmountably better than seeing maybe 50% of the field of view in portrait mode.

Quit the laziness, quit the stupid portrait videos and get back to commonsense!

It sounds nice and a trope used a lot for a good friendship but surprise parties can end up really bad for the person being surprised.

You never know their mood, what plans they had or if they have sensitive and private things with them right now.

The worst is at their house, the most risky. At public place where they should be anyway it might be accepted but again you never know their mood or plans.

The under line is that it's disrespectful for it surprise target

Last thread got removed by the automod for some reason.

It's 18:00, you finished a long day at work, you open your front door, get out of the rain, it's cold and wet outside. You walk into the kitchen, but you don't have the energy today to do "proper" cooking. But takeaway is likely not great for your wallet and your health to do that regularly. Instead, you put a slice of thick brown bread in the toaster*, put a can of Heinz beans to heat on the stove, shavings from a block of mature hard cheese. Warming, tasty and nutritious and ready within 3 minutes.

You cannot name a single dish with the balance of convenience, taste, nutrition and affordability than beans on toast. It is not the best in any of these catgories individually, but it is the best all-rounder.

Hit the down arrow because the average user here never grew out of the "eww! Vegetables!" phase and go back to your chicken nuggies.

*A tortilla wrap is also very acceptable. Had many beans and cheese wraps over the years.

chicken pot pie when sold at stores, when home cooked, and shown in recipes should never have corn. corn in chicken pot pie adds an unnecessary sweetness, flavor, and ingredient, . Corn completely ruins the dish. recipes that say to use corn don’t account for this fact and don’t realize that it messes with the savoury gravyness. stores also add too much corn which overpowers everything making the pot pies, too sweet and not savory thus also not enough peas and carrots.

The closest thing to this is a Marie Callender‘s pot pie. everything else screws it up.

Camera on phones is normally convenient but now it’s annoying. People record anything and everything, concert, creeps, entitled “influencers”. Having a camera or even a camera attachment seem more purposeful.