Seriously, what the actual fuck has happened to people? New Years is always a reminder of this for me and it gets worse every fucking year. Everywhere I look, it’s like no one knows how to just exist anymore. No one’s living in the goddamn moment—everyone’s too busy chasing some fake-ass Instagram aesthetic or curating their TikTok "brand" to even fucking live their real lives.

To the people I'm referencing: When was the last time you sat at a concert, a beautiful view or celebration and just felt something instead of holding up your fucking phone to capture it for people who don’t even give a shit? When did people start caring more about likes from strangers than actual goddamn human connections?

It's all so fucking empty. People post their "perfect" lives, their curated vacations, their fake-ass smiles—when in reality, most of them are probably fucking dead inside. They spend all this time trying to make other people think their life is worth something instead of actually doing anything that IS worth something.

And don’t even get me started on how everyone’s heads are fucking buried in their phones during meals, conversations, or even just walking down the fucking street. God forbid you make eye contact or smile at someone—nope, gotta check your notifications for the millionth fucking time today because, you know, that’s way more important than human interaction.

The whole thing feels like one giant fucking lie. A sad, hollow, disconnected, soul-sucking lie. And the worst part? Everyone just fucking accepts it. No one stops to question it. No one gives a shit that we’ve traded living, breathing, feeling lives for some bullshit dopamine hit from a fucking screen.

I just want to scream at everyone: PUT YOUR FUCKING PHONE DOWN! Stop chasing clout, stop trying to impress people who don’t matter, and just be fucking present for once in your life. Is that too much to fucking ask?

I’m so goddamn tired of watching people trade their souls for social media validation. It’s depressing as hell, and I’m over it. Fuck this disconnected, fake-ass world we’ve created.

Every day there's another shooting, stabbing, massacre, ect. It's been 3 days into 2025 and it won't stop. Every day the government hatches a new plan to fuck us. I'm so tired of it. I'm tired of being in the U.S. Everywhere feels like a danger. You can't even celebrate the new years outside without fear. Not even the fourth of July at the beach cause there's a shooting each time at the one near me. I wish I could be in Britain or Europe or some shit. I could get medical help or give birth without selling my soul for it. This is a laughing stock country. I just want peace and tranquility. The grass is always greener but this is getting ridiculous. Every day we're groomed into being more accustomed to bullshit being forced on us. I'm sick of it.

Edit: it says 26 comments but I can only see like 4 for some reason so

This is for the USA only. I'm an old fart who has lived in other countries, I'm well aware not all societies function this way, but here in good old "I love my guns more than kids' lives Freedomland":

Seeing posts like "Boomer is proud of being out and about with Covid" really steams my artichoke.

It's utterly ridiculous how cavalier people are with one another's health and safety in this country. The amount of "screw you, I got mine" has eroded any sense of community or social contract.

People simple do not care about others and it's both generational and political. Boomers tend to be egotistical (and resource hoarders out of touch with reality, and Gen Z is as well but out of necessity (they don't have anything to resource hoard so they need to look out for themselves)).

If you're sick and you are able to isolate without losing income or putting your family in jeopardy somehow- stay home. I don't care what you rationale is, disabled and immunocompromised people have the right to exist and live and your narcissism makes the world almost impossible for them. I have students who end up missing so much school as they have underlying conditions and some families send students in sick. Again- I'm well aware there isn't always a choice. This rant is not for those who truly have no choice as they do not have sick time/jobs where they are allowed to be sick.

Those really aren't the entitled people we alllllll know this rant is about.

Trust me, you're just not that important. Your job will survive without you- but you might be the reason someone else doesn't. Stay. Home.

Everything is just so fucked. People on social media hiding behind screens, mocking you if you don't have perfect teeth or skin. You don't see people that don't know each other just strike up a conversation, even if you're on an 18 hour flight and it's gonna be awkward as hell if you don't. Everyone now has the social skills of a fucking napkin because of how much we've all been fucked by social media. Even in real life people are just being horrible to each other. Wars being fought in the name of who's fairytale should be believed. Nobody helping anyone in a wheelchair onto a train, or picking up something that fell out of someone's wallet. Why can't we just be fucking nice to each other for once?

I don’t know what psychopath designed some of the American Airlines planes. These seats are designed to hold small children.

I am a slim and skinny woman 5’7”… barely any body fat, so if my elbows are tightly crammed between the arm rests, I can’t imagine what it’s like to be any larger.

And the entitled man next me is constantly banging into me. I’m a relatively heavy sleeper, but I was awoken from how careless he was with banging into me every 10 seconds. Like… do you realize there is a person next to you?

No one is happy with these small ass seats, but… you should try to be considerate of those next to you… and I guess his wife doesn’t care either because when I walked up to sit, she switched seats with him to make him take the middle seat (I’m window)

it’s genuinely sickening how we are packed on here like sardines and I am forced to be constantly touched by someone without my consent.

Fuck American Airlines. 🤣🖕

Does any average normal person want A.I.?

Everyone I speak to about it doesn't want it and thinks it's likely going to fuck up the world.

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?!?

I'd love to know if anyone has any arguments for or against A.I. in any application. I'm firmly against it and I seem to be in the majority, so I'm quite confused why there are SO many companies working on creating the best A.I. at the moment.

Came across the complete total douchebag today. His name is Mark Driscoll and he may be one of the worst preachers I have ever heard. He did a sermon where he constantly patronized young men into believing that if you aren’t married and have no children on the horizon then you are a selfish human being. I can’t stand pastors like this who try to shame young men into following their idea of how a man should be. His idea of masculinity is driving a truck, drinking whiskey and shooting guns. I’m sorry bro but that’s not masculine that’s being a dumbass redneck. Last I checked Jesus nor Paul ever had wives or children. Don’t believe a word this clown says!!

I hate having my photo taken, and always have.

I am so frustrated with being painted as "difficult" or "unusual" for refusing to be in photos. I always refuse politely...the first two times they ask. Any push for a photo after that is met with a firm and hard refusal, and I am immediately treated with shock, disgust or anger. I shouldn't have to feel bad for the boundaries I set, right?

Why do people need to act as though I have personally offended their ancestors or spat on the grave of a loved one, when all I have done is decline a photo opportunity?

It completely sours the occasion for me, and makes it difficult to want to be around people at all.

Lost our cat right before the new year. Got a bunch of posters, posted on socials and sites, and walked the neighborhood a lot. Come new years eve we are dead tired and went to bed at 10. 12:30am hits and we get a phone call. I jump out of bed cause it must be that someone found our cat! Answer the phone and all I get in response is "MEOW!" and they hang up.

And no we haven't found our cat yet.

For folks who like to IM their co-workers with “hi” without including the reason why you’re pinging, please stop it and learn how to include your ask within the same message. I’m more likely to ignore you if you just ping me one-worded greetings. Ain’t nobody got time to chit chat with you like that.

I used to be a daddy’s girl until I was old enough to see how poorly he treated me and my mom. Some christmases my mom didn’t get anything because my brother and I were kids and my dad didn’t buy her anythin. I always felt awful because my mom always made sure we had a good Christmas and that we got what we wanted and then put in extra effort for grandparents and aunts and uncle. Since having a job and earning money, I try to go above and beyond for my mom to make sure she has a good Christmas - so I inform the family of what she would probably enjoy. My mom is a crafter and she sometimes adds in her own creations to the gifts so I suggest gift cards for the hobby stores she mostly buys supplies from JoAn’s fabrics and Michael’s usually have better deals on yarn and whatnot. The past couple of years she has purchased things that she knew my sister in law would like that she had found at outlet stores that would be difficult to find the item online for a good deal so she would buy it in store and ship it to my brother’s family. She has spent hundreds on shippin..My brother is military and he was gone for two weeks leading to Christmas so he didn’t have time to have her shipped any thing from stores… or that is his excuse, however, he has a wife who gets along great with my mom so my SIL could/should have sent her something. I’m so fucking tired of my mom getting the short stick and getting her feelings hurt. It hurts me to see her hurt.

Fuck off.

I don’t know what psychopath designed some of the American Airlines planes. These seats are designed to hold small children.

I am a slim and skinny woman 5’7”… barely any body fat, so if my elbows are tightly crammed between the arm rests, I can’t imagine what it’s like to be any larger.

And the entitled man next me is constantly banging into me. I’m a relatively heavy sleeper, but I was awoken from how careless he was with banging into me every 10 seconds. Like… do you realize there is a person next to you?

No one is happy with these small ass seats, but… you should try to be considerate of those next to you… and I guess his wife doesn’t care either because when I walked up to sit, she switched seats with him to make him take the middle seat (I’m window)

it’s genuinely sickening how we are packed on here like sardines and I am forced to be constantly touched by someone without my consent.

Fuck American Airlines. 🤣🖕

I was speaking with a friend and she mentioned that she doesn’t understand why people choose to ignore the truth when it’s right in front of them. Confused, I pressed the issue a bit and we talked.

Come to find out she fully believes that a certain news source is 100% true. Why? Because they say so.

The gist of the conversation was:

“So what is your opinion on [issue]?” ”Oh, they say that [basically word for word the newscaster opinion] happened and they have proof of it”

“Where did the proof come from? How do you know it’s real?” ”Because they proved it”

“Who proved it?” ”[her news source] has real evidence of [opinion on issue]”

“Well I head from [my news sources] that-“ ”They’re lying to you, you know. They don’t have proof and [her news] said [my news] is lying so they’re lying because [her news] is true”

“So my media is always lying and your media is always truthful?” ”Yes. Your media shows you lies and what you want to see to make you violent. They show you anything but the proof of what’s really happening out there. [her news] said so”

…

Yet she fully disagrees with me saying “I think there is really no truth in this day and age. Something happens and both sides of the media spin it in their own ways to drive engagement and make money. At this point, it’s not about sharing the truth. It hasn’t been for many years”. She literally lives in a different, scarier world of her own design voluntarily.

I tried to keep this nondescript and not political. This isn’t even really about politics, just the rampant consumption of any media and immediately believing it because it’s either convenient or they say they’re telling the truth.

I know this is company based and I’m not at all saying the workers who get a lot of time, don’t deserve it but I am saying that people working physically demanding jobs deserve at least just as much time. I’ve noticed that many people working in factories, warehouses, construction, etc, typically get a lot less time off than office workers who sit at a desk or home on a laptop all day. Why is this ? It seems so unfair.

I hear so many office workers talking about how they get 2 weeks off for the holidays and unlimited PTO and shit like that meanwhile I got one day off that I had to make up on my usual day off at my factory job. And guess what ? HR got the entire week off for Christmas. The people that do the physical work only get 1 day and the people who sit in an office sending emails and writing reports all day get a whole ass week ? My companies excuse was that they’re on a different payroll.

My whole body is sore and I can’t even have time off? Why is it that office workers seem to get so much time off anyways? Is the company so successful that you can afford to shutdown for a whole 2 weeks, that’s so cool. Yes this rant is out of jealously and I’m not at all saying that every office worker gets that amount of time off, I’m sure a lot of you don’t and if you did then I’m not insulting you, I’m just saying I’m happy for you and jealous of you and wish people working physical jobs could get a break too.

I know I choose the company I work for and whatever but come on, these people working physically demanding jobs deserve more time off with their families too.

I’m so tired of cancer taking people I love. FUCK CANCER

When Facebook and Instagram reels do that stupid "HAHA YOU’VE BEEN ON THIS VIDEO FOR TOO LONG SO WE'RE GONNA REMIND YOU TO SWIPE UP BY BOUNCING THE VIDEO UPWARD TWO OR THREE TIMES, YOU FUCKING IDIOT."

LIKE. Let me doomscroll at my own fucking pace Zuckerberg, you lizard looking alien fuckbag.

I am a full 41 weeks pregnant right now and I’m reflecting on my journey. Despite having an extremely symptomatic pregnancy and life stressors the absolute worst part has been people’s entitlement and intrusiveness to my life and body. People I have little relationship with all of a sudden think they can ask questions about my sex life, body and medical decisions. Asking “is it planned” has been normalized but is honestly extremely intrusive. Family members, acquaintances and even strangers all of a sudden decide it’s ok to voice their opinion or provide advice about my medical decisions. This includes people that have never had kids, or maybe one 30-40 years ago, including mostly males. People asking for details about my Drs appointments, bodily processes and private choices. I’m private by nature but this has been both extremely enlightening and disturbing how many people basically lose respect for a pregnant woman’s privacy and autonomy. It’s a lack of understanding, dare I say ignorance, complete inconsideration. If this is a mistake you’ve made, or fallen witness too please even minutely consider what you’re asking and how it would feel to be in that position.

No, you made the claim and act like your are the authority on the subject. If this is as dangerous as you say it is then you would not tell me "do my own research". You would be panicking instead of acting all superior. You just want to manipulate people and when people present evidence calling you out you just act as if that proves you right somehow or call us liars.

I'm so sick of hearing "Do you own research" who claim this nation is under attack on all sides but for some reason doesn't want to inform us like we are all in on it. I hate monolithic thinking.

I’ve heard so many people at work just flush and then leave! I don’t get it!! Washing your hands is not hard. There is no good reason you need to skip washing your hands. I’m sick and TIRED of these grown adults who don’t know how to wash their hands.

Please everybody WASH YOUR HANDS!

I live rural Australia. It's 8.34 am. I just got in my door. My feet are burning, I have skinned peeled off them. I'm so effing tired. My car broke down 2 towns over at 1am this morning. I had no choice but to start walking. And not one effing person would stop and give me a lift. When it's dark out, I get it. But daylight started at close to 430 am and it was pretty obvious that I was a small female carrying a puppy. People are putrid. Sorry about my rant.

Time blindness is associated with neurodiversity like ADHD.

Many aspects of neurodiversity like ADHD and ASD can be dismissed with this idea of “everyone a bit autistic” or “everyone’s a bit hyperactive”

Yes many aspects of neurodiversity are present in neurotypical people.

But it’s about degree and impact.

Time blindness in particular seems to be often ignored and brushed off.

I have ADHD and dyslexia. I struggle massively with time blindness and I kinda get why it’s so dismissed. It’s an incredibly hard thing to explain so people don’t understand it.

Time blindness is different for everyone.

But here’s how I’d best describe it for me

Theoretically I understand time, I can read a clock, I know how many seconds are in a minute, how many minutes in an hour and so on.

But I have no practical concept of time.

I could have walked the same path a hundred times but I cannot tell you how long it takes, I can’t even estimate.

If you sit me in a room without a clock then came back a while later. I would have no idea how much time has passed. I don’t know what time feels like.

10 minute and two hours feel no different to me.

It’s not like I think most people can accurately estimate time. But they can make an educated guess. I can’t.

If I asked someone how long it takes them to walk to their local shop they could probably give me a rough estimate. You ask me that question. I have no idea.

My way of understanding time is different.

I time common journeys I make. I know the walk to my local shop takes me 5-7 minutes because I’ve timed it. I know the shop is 0.2 miles away because I goggled it.

So if I’m walking to meet someone and they ask me how long I’ll be. My only way to tell is to google the distance and do the maths . 0.6 miles that will take me 15-21 minutes.

If I’m leaving to go somewhere and you tell me we’re leaving in 15 minutes. I could wait 5 minutes or 30 minutes. It would feel the same to me. I have no concept of how much time has passed. So I’ll put on an alarm.

My life is run by alarms and notes. I have 214 alarms currently on my phone. I have an alarm set for every hour of the day I’m awake (I turn them off for school and such) That is the only way I can have an idea of how much time has passed.

I have a notes page. It contains how long it takes to walk regular routes. Yes you can use google maps to get the time, and I often do. But I walk much quicker than the average person, there are certain paths not logged on goggle maps and I can’t rely on mobile data. It’s divided into sections. School, shops, transport etc. Home to station: 25-30 minutes Home to highstreet: 30-40 minutes And so on.

I quite like walking so I don’t mind longer journeys when my health allows for them. But public transport is worse. Trains aren’t as bad due to how they function. Cars are okay as you can use satnav But buses, with the amount of delays and stops. There’s no way for me to time the journey as it changes so heavily

I know almost everyone has experienced time running away with itself. The saying “time flies when your having fun” exists for a reason I know there that whole thing that time feels like it goes quicker when your enjoying yourself and slower when your bored.

But that isn’t an occasional experience. It’s every day of my life. It’s not that I feel time goes quickly or slowly. It’s that I don’t feel it at all.

I look at my clock 14:00. A while later I look at it again. 14:04. Okay 4 minutes has passed, that’s what 4 minutes feels like. So I’ll try and look at it again when I feel another 4 minutes have passed. So 14:08. I look at my clock again 14:47.

I cannot estimate how long a task will take me.

Linear tasks that are similar every time, I time them. Then I know. Like showers. Basic shower, shower and hair wash, shower hair wash and shave etc.

When I do these tasks I set four alarms. Let’s say a task takes 20 minutes. I’ll set 1/4 5 minutes 2/4 10 minutes 3/4 15 minutes 4/4 20 minutes This helps keep me on track. If I don’t keep myself on track then I’ll take longer and I have no idea how much longer.

Let’s say I get in the shower, to clean and wash my hair. No alarms. I do what I need, get out, dry off, leave.

I know how long it takes based on my timed speed. But without the alarms keeping me on track it could have taken me 3x longer. I have no idea why, no idea what happens, where that time goes.

But tasks that differ, like cleaning my room. It depends on how much there is to clean. I can’t look at my room and tell you how long it will take to clean.

It could take an hour or three. I have no way of understanding it.

School work is the worst. I accepted a long time ago that work like that will take me longer than it takes most. As I have dyslexic and ADHD worded information takes me longer to process and I’m easily distracted.

But how much longer, or how long it should take a typical person. I have no idea. Let’s say I have 10 exam questions to do. I have no way of understanding how long it might take me.

Coursework is the hardest. I’ve never done particularly well at exams especially because of my ADHD and dyslexia so I’m more suited to coursework. But coursework has no end. I can go off on tangents and write way too much making it take far longer than it should. Add the fact I have no concept of time, I often run out of time.

I’ve learnt to use other tools not just alarms as they aren’t always practical.

I can roughly estimate the time based on the sun, but in the darkest of winter and brightest of summer it’s much harder. I can use TV shows, knowing how long an episode is to understand how much time has passed.

My time blindness isn’t caused by bad time management.

My time blindness is caused by me having no practical concept of time which causes bad time management.

It’s not laziness or an excuse. I’ve tried and tired my whole life to gain a practical concept of time.

I’d sit and try to do something for X amount of time. To try and learn what time felt like. I’d sit down and plan to colour for 15 minutes. I’d start with alarms so I got a sense of what 15 minutes feels like, then try without alarms.

I’d get my parents to test me. Randomly ask how long it’s been since blank.

Nothing worked.

Yes I’m late, I don’t complete tasks on time, I run out of time to do things. And yes this is annoying for other people.

But I am only part of your life. This is my life, my whole life.

I’m not saying it isn’t annoying nor am I saying I deserve unreasonable accommodation.

But I don’t mean to do it. It’s not laziness or a lack of caring.

I spend my whole life constantly stressed, worrying about time, worrying about completing things and getting things done

I live in an apartment building with a provided dumpster that's SUPPOSED to be for residents only. The parking lot is attached to a heavily-traveled main road in my town. Because of this, people who don't live here will pull up to the dumpster and throw away trash. Not just small bags though. Big bags of household trash, boxes, broken furniture, etc. There is a trash truck that empties it every other Monday, but it fills up in less than 3 days. There's a public dump not even 10 minutes away. I'm 8 months pregnant and my husband has a knee injury so it's much easier for us to be able to use the dumpster here. Why can't people just drive a couple miles down the road and use the public dump??? We pay for the dumpster as part of our rent, and it would be nice to be able to actually use it.

Pieces of Garbage Walmart!

For 20 years living in rural Georgia we have traveled to the next city over for Walmart groceries. We don't have many options.

My 55 year old wife was arrested and held I. City jail for shoplifting. She apparently missed scanned 3 items in self check out. We have probably spent 20/30 grand over the years in groceries.

Done! And Done with self checkout BS!

To anyone who finds this post, especially small town folks who think they need Sams and Walmart please boycott.

Freakin self check out BS. FU Walmart never again!

The title is pretty much self-explanatory, and I'm sick of it (pun not intended). But I keep getting sick because other people cannot seem to stay home when they're contagious.

You would think that after a global pandemic, people would be more conscious of their own health, but nope. I just got back from a trip to visit family for the holidays, and on the one-hour plane ride, it was practically a symphony of laughs, and everywhere I went (mostly just smaller restaurants), it was constant sneezing, nose-blowing, etcetera. Then just two days ago, I went to the movies only to have a woman behind me coughing like there was no tomorrow without any effort to cover her mouth. Mind you, the theater was full.

And of course, here I am sick as I type this. In fact, the same thing happened last year. I went to the movies, and someone next to me was practically heaving from how hard she was coughing. She then put on a mask over halfway through the movie as if the damage had not already been done.

Look, I totally get that some people have to work or need to tend to urgent matters, but I'm referring to things that are strictly not necessary when sick, such as movies, theme parks, or date nights. And even then, if you absolutely HAVE to go, why can't you just social distance and/or wear a mask?

Anyway, rant over. Time to go hydrate and stay in bed because I care about other people's well-being.