ordered chinese earlier and my fortune cookie had an actual ad inside it

like are you fucking kidding me

we already have ads before videos, in the middle of videos, on every website, at the gas pump and now somehow we've reached the point where a cookie needs to advertise something too

who even thinks of this stuff??

i know it's not some huge problem but it's genuinely getting so annoying how nothing can just exist anymore without a company finding a way to squeeze money out of it

it's a fortune cookie ffs just let me read my fake prediction about becoming rich and move on with my life

Oh, you're 18? Great! You're officially an adult and should now be able to support yourself since your mind has apparently become so mature.

You can take on life-changing debt with outrageous interest rates and gamble on a career in a particular job sector, or you could sign your life away to the government and fight in wars you have absolutely no control over.

You can acquire a criminal record that could ruin the rest of your life, potentially trapping you in an endless cycle of going in and out of jail.

You can legally work, but you'll be taxed heavily because you're single and have no dependents. You also get to pay for all sorts of wonderful things, such as banking fees, government-issued identification cards, and more.

Oh, you want to drive a commercial vehicle across state lines for a private company? Nope! Can't do that because it's illegal, even though we proudly claim to be the "land of the free." We'll happily restrict your career opportunities in the meantime because again your brain is underdeveloped and so only those 21+ can do it and even then that's a gamble its more like 23 to 25 and up can do it.

Want to rent a car? Can't do that either! You need to be 25 because statistics apparently show that you'll find some way to kill yourself with it.

Oh, you want to drink? Sorry, can't do that because, medically speaking, your brain isn't fully developed. However, we'll gladly trust you to carry a massive rifle onto a battlefield and fight for your country.

Oh, you want to exercise your Second Amendment rights? Well, you can't purchase handguns from licensed dealers because we say so. However, we'll happily trust you with a massive rifle the size of Texas that can hold 30+ rounds.

Oh, you want car insurance, something that's legally required in 48 states to drive on public roadways? Well, good luck affording it because statistics apparently show that your undeveloped brain will somehow cause you to hit someone else on the road.

Oh, you want a steady career? Great! I hope you enjoy destroying your body through physically demanding labor or sticking it out in college, where you'll gamble your financial future on a particular career field for four years while paying outrageously high tuition costs.

Of course, colleges will generously offer you a few discounts because they're just so kind. Then, even after graduating, you'll find employers demanding years of experience for entry-level positions because apparently they need Mr. Uncle Sam himself, the perfect human being, to perform the job.

If you couldn't tell, I genuinely hate how this country actively discriminates against 18 to 20 year old's while providing them with very few realistic pathways toward financial independence and stable careers.

We're constantly told that turning 18 means becoming an adult, yet we're denied many of the opportunities, privileges, and freedoms that supposedly come with adulthood.

We're considered mature enough to take on massive financial obligations, face serious criminal consequences, pay taxes, and even die fighting for our country. Yet, somehow, we're not mature enough to make other basic decisions about our own lives.

And then, magically, when we turn 21, we're suddenly treated as "real adults."

Apparently, we're old enough to carry the responsibilities of adulthood, but not old enough to enjoy all of its freedoms.

I know “how come” is grammatically acceptable. I know it’s an established idiom. But every time I hear or read it, something in my brain goes, “Why. The word you want is why.”

For whatever reason, “How come you did that?” sounds less intelligent to me than “Why did you do that?” I realize that’s an unfair association. Plenty of intelligent, articulate people say it, and I probably use expressions that give someone else the same reaction.

But knowing all that hasn’t made it sound any better to me. I still get hung up on the words themselves. How come? I understand what you’re asking, but my brain apparently needs to inspect the sentence before allowing it through.

I don’t correct people over it. There’s nothing to correct. I just quietly dislike it with an enthusiasm it absolutely hasn’t earned.

Does anyone else have a perfectly acceptable word or phrase that gives them an irrationally bad impression of the speaker, even when they know that impression isn’t fair?

It is "For all *intents* and *purposes.*" People who mash these words together make me irrationally angry.

Going to scream this one from the rooftops because this man is exactly what is wrong with people. Just read. Holy crap. Smh. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if that was a bot because this level of ignorance CANNOT be real… right? 😭😭

I hate when I park far away from everyone in an almost empty parking lot and come back to someone parked right next to me. Like.. WHY?? I parked all the way over here for a reason!!

You'll be arguing right? They pull a post from 4 months ago (you've changed your views) and tell everyone everything. These types of are mean, do you agree?

Every time someone says “ATM machine,” my brain fills in “automated teller machine machine.” Same with “PIN number” and “VIN number.”

It’s a tiny thing, but it bothers me enough that I’ve decided to be a little annoying about it.

From now on, if someone says “ATM machine,” I’m going to find a way to say “automated ATM” later in the conversation. You need my VIN number? Sure, let me find my vehicle VIN. Talking about your PIN number? Well, I should probably change my personal PIN.

I want to say it casually enough that it makes them pause for a second and wonder what just happened, it maybe not even notice at all.

And if nobody notices, fuck it. Automated ATM machine. Vehicle VIN number. Personal PIN number.

Who's with me?

An example is wanting to paste markdown into Confluence. Instead of just writing code that convents markdown into whatever the hell Confluence uses, instead now, there is an option to ask their AI to improve the formatting of what you are pasting. So, instead of developing it once and then cheaply applying it with each paste, they are burning through many times more resources with each paste to have AI figure it all out from scratch - each and every time.

(And being able to paste markdown or just something with \r\n line endings and having it do a very basic conversion is something I've wanted for about 10 years. Same with pasting into Jira. Use AI to write a conversion! These are not complicated conversions. They could at least write a conversion to handle the most basic stuff: line endings, bold, and italics.)

No respect whatsoever, people will do absolutely anything for a few sympathy likes on social media

Ok so I haven't interacted with people in public settings for a *long* time so I don't know whether this is me forgetting it happens as frequently in real life or if this is something that happens from the protection or distance of a keyboard...

But I get really miffed when people take a few words or things you've stated and build this whole story of who are from it? And are so sure enough to relay these things as if they're fact?

I used reddit as a form of interaction with people because I generally don't in real life so I'm not sure if this is a 'here' or 'internet' thing, but within the last few days alone I've been called labelled racist (for questioning a TV shows differing treatment of certain people), lazy for discussing some things my disability stops me doing, inferred that I'm exaggerating my disability because I was able to use public transport (they even assumed & said 'independently' which not only wasn't stated but also isn't true) & have no ability to self reflect when I've been in & out of therapy most of my life...

This is such an irk to my because how do people convince themselves they know so much of life's variables they've got everyone read? How do people think they know my life story from a sentence or paragraph or two?

There are civilians and military personnel. That's it. If you're not an active member of the armed forces, you're a civilian.

Lately, I've been catching more and more mis-uses of the word "civilian" as used by police officers, which means they are self proclaiming to be military personnel. Added, I found a couple places defining non-civilian to pretty much include your average armed security guard and cash delivery workers as non-civilian.

The police carry firearms as a means of self defense (expanding to the defense of others). The police are not required to retreat in any state and are governed by the same laws as all other civilians with extra employer policies set by their city. They are not subject to court marshals and do not follow military ranks, routines, pay structures, and many many other things. They can be sued civilly and charged criminally, and even their qualified immunity is under scrutiny for widespread corruption and abuse.

Also, there are statuses that are different in definition. Someone who picks up a weapon as a means of warfare is a combatant, and there are specific and general criteria for warfare, combatant, forces, etc.

I'm curious to see what others think on the subject. Am I wrong? I come from a military family, so to me, claiming to not be a civilian is akin to stolen valor.

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Seriously, what the fuck is the thought process when someone coughs or sneezes into their hand and then immediately grabs a door handle or shopping cart? Does the thinking just stop at “covered my mouth, job done”? Does what happens afterward never enter the equation?

And why do some people make a fist first? What do they think that accomplishes?

You have an elbow. Please use it before we all have to shake hands with whatever you just coughed up.

Annoyed

You know what? I think MTA should start paying homeless people few dollars for them to gather the trash and tossed it into garbage. By using plastic bags like the way you pick up poop

What do yall think? I'm taking the downtown 2 train and someone litter paper, a piece of fry, and the empty box of i think its look like Kenndy fried chicken size. It's common sense to place it in there but.. Idk. Here is photo of it ( disgusting)

ABOVE / BELOW this post

Yes thats transit job but what about the ones that doesn't pay just hop , this is another reason why they increasing fare

It isn't rocket science people; if you have a empty bag of stuff take it with you do your part. "Ohh I'm not perfect the saying nobody perfect " wtf does that have to do with what you bring to the train or anywhere . How can you just continue to liter liter and liter DAILY! It's really Grind my gears

The ones that clean up there space and travel with either a food bag and eat and then place in bag after finishing it; Shout out to you! Now thats how you we keep space clean every where so we can feel relief of clear area, having people tripping & stepping over your belongings is no good people.

Who am I? A person that cares

I’m 29M I live in San Diego CA. I just got back from Tennessee and I was in the Smokey mountains on a lake. Going swimming and I heard this guy with a long white beard greasy hair and along white beard and he said the N word. And I went up and confronted him and I call him a dumbass. And he said saying the N word isn’t racist I don’t hate black people. He said it’s a subculture in ghettos that’s the problem. And I called him out and I said no, no no no no no. You don’t get to sanitize the word. It’s a disgusting, Sickening word. And then he says well I work with Black people all the time he says he had black friends. They say it all the time. he said Black people use racial slurs against whites all the time like honky and Cracker Barrel. This is insane. You cannot sanitize the N-word and try to act like oh it’s a harmless word. From the beginning, it was always used as a derogatory slur. And this is what pisses me off about racist people is they love to act like they’re such victims. And then they say dumb shit like why can’t I take pride and being white?

Look I’m a white man, but I take pride in my race now because it’s not something I chose it just happened to be what I was born at. You don’t take pride in your skin color just like you don’t take pride and being a man or a woman or being tall or being short because it’s all genetic it’s not anything that you had to do. You know you can take pride and take pride and things like I don’t know a career your family things you’ve actually accomplished things that actually required hard work. And that’s the problem with white racist, especially in the south they love to act like their race. There’s so much better than all the others. My message to these white trash motherfuckers is like so it’s like they think that they’re so much smarter than any other race when they’re missing half of their teeth and they look like total inbreds. And they’re living out of a trailer and what are they even do for work? I don’t know. Do they just sell crystal meth. It’s like these people live in a trailer. They have no life and they don’t even have a high school diploma and these people are idiotic enough these white trash trailer park people to think that they’re smarter and better than Barack Obama or Oprah Winfrey, Kamala Harris Neil Degrasse Tyson. Or Eddie Murphy, Morgan freedmen, Denzel Washington or Cornell west. It’s insane it just shows that’s racists are mostly people who have miserable lives they have got nothing going for them and instead working hard to improve their lives or living situations they would rather whine and bitch about other people because they don’t look like them. These people are completely pathetic.

We’ve all seen them . The people who go on the entrance and stop right in the middle of the doorway. The people who block the aisles . The people who walk painfully slow . why can’t people just MOVE ?

I try to make sure whenever I’m in stores I walk at a brisk pace and don’t block areas of the store where’s there a lot of foot traffic . but it seems like so many people don’t give a fuck about anyone else but themselves