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  • What is a pet peeve that you inadvertently do yourself?

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  • What if we don't agree with the compliment?

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    In what ways are you self-indulgent?

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  • Well I just ate a buttload of cookies

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    How do you diminish the "aghh it's back to work" feeling at the beginning of the week?

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  • I'm afraid there's nothing you can do if your job truly is that terrible. I know changing jobs isn't easy or necessarily doable, but it seems like that's the only "real" option.

    I like going to work every day to see some of my coworkers.

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    How do you diminish the "aghh it's back to work" feeling at the beginning of the week?

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  • To me, CBT has always made it feel like my thoughts and feelings are not valid. As someone who has had invalidation problems with these my whole life it makes it feel really offensive.

    I know people get great things out of it, and that's good. But yeah not for everyone and (unfortunately??) it's the "trendy" thing with therapy nowadays. I just wish there was a therapy modality that acknowledges one's thoughts and feelings as valid, even if they aren't perfect, and instead finds ways to work with them instead of against them.

  • Hard truth

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  • Shrimp taste very similar to crawfish to me. I can't really tell the difference. I like both, though.

  • What do you think have we taken for granted before it was enshittified?

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  • Dollar Tree has essentially always been like that. It was never really there for "deals" because of what you mentioned. Usually the items were just smaller packages of things which is why they cost less to begin with.

    But it has always been fantastic for certain kinds of items:

    1. Birthday/greeting cards. They are always simpler and of lesser quality than at other stores. But is anyone really going to keep your card for a prolonged period of time? If they do, it's probably because of what you wrote in the card to personalized it, not because the card was fancy. I've seen greeting cards go for up to $10 in some drug stores which is pretty wild to me. Yes, they are more elaborate, but does it really matter when the cheaper one suffices?
    2. Gift bags. Same dealio as above.
    3. Wrapping paper in very particular circumstances. They have significantly less wrapping paper in the package than at other stores. But I find sometimes it's a good thing if you only want to wrap a present or two with that style of wrapping paper. If you want to wrap many things or if you want to use more of the same paper in the future, then I'd buy elsewhere to get a larger quantity.
    4. Letting kids pick out some cheap crap from the toy aisle.

    For basically anything else, it's not worth it imo. But the above have always been where it shines.

  • What do you think have we taken for granted before it was enshittified?

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  • The whole Disney World situation hits for me in particular. I was privileged growing up with my family being able to go there (altho I think my parents just had massive credit card debt lol). I know even when I was a kid it was ungodly expensive. But comparing when I was a kid to now in 2025 it is absolutely wild on the things they are nickel and diming people on.

    The whole fast pass converting to a paid model after it previously being a perk with a ticket was one of the most slap in the face things I had seen.

  • based on a true story

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  • Ehh...that doesn't necessarily pan out either. If I have no stimulation at all, my mind can swirl to 10001 different thoughts. What often works for me, personally, is to put on a YouTube video on my phone to help fall asleep. The trick is you want to find a long, relatively boring and not engaging one to sort of lull you to sleep. Make the mistake of putting on something too interesting and you're fucked.

    That's me, anyway. I don't always need thought distractions to sleep but often I do.

  • It's exactly the same as reading the reddit thread myself.

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  • Yeah, I never get these strange AI results.

    Except, the other day I wanted to convert some units and the AI results was having a fucking stroke for some reason. The numbers did not make sense at all. Never seen it do that before, but alas, I did not take a screenshot.

  • Pragearnant

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  • Does babby come out of man's pee hole or poop hole

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  • I really like this one. Maybe it would scare leaders to not become corrupt scum of the earth. Saving it for people who impact the most lived makes the most sense to me.

  • What happened to your high school bully?

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  • Idk if she was my bully necessarily, but the interactions with that group of people fucked with me. Anyway, she became a therapist which I thought was absolutely fucking wild. I wonder if she ever thinks about the way she acted as a teen.

  • What are ways to be kinder to yourself?

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  • Well, when people wrong me in very significant ways, I actually don't forgive and tolerate them. Especially when said people repeat the harmful behaviors to others over and over again, often without remorse. In that regard, I'm not necessarily being a ton different in the way I view myself. One of the problems is that I continue to do X even when I try not to.

    Idk if any of that made sense.

  • What are ways to be kinder to yourself?

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  • I hear this a lot. I know you're just answering the OP, but I just wanted to say I have a hard time with this. The point is that it's me and that I know better than to do X. So what then?

  • What's something common that in 20 years from now people won't believe we used to live this way?

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  • I just looked up your source. That is of new vehicles sold. While a good start, you're skipping my latter part about people not replacing their vehicles for a decade. Only 3% of vehicles globally on the road are EVs per the source.

  • What's something common that in 20 years from now people won't believe we used to live this way?

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  • Do you mean physical money in terms of paper/plastic/coins or money as a concept? If the latter, how would society function?

  • What's something common that in 20 years from now people won't believe we used to live this way?

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  • 20 years though? That's incredibly generous and unlikely imo.

    People are refusing to tackle the infrastructure issue of people charging their cars who do not own single family detached homes. It's a significant population of people for which owning an electric vehicle is a huge inconvenience. Public charging stations exist, but take significantly longer than the 2 minutes it takes to pump gas.

    The second big thing is that people simply don't replace their cars that often. Might be pulling this out of my ass, but I had read recently that the average person replaces their vehicle every 7-12 years...and it is often not with a brand new vehicle. Considering how electric cars still make a very small percentage of those on the road, I can't see 100% removal of gas vehicles in 20 years in only a few generations of vehicle ownership change.

    The Nissan Leaf came out around 15 years ago as the first big name, somewhat popularish electric vehicle. Yet in 2025 electric vehicles are nowhere close to even 50% of vehicles on the road.

    In the more distant future? Sure. 20 years ain't happening tho.

    But we'll see!

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    Young and dumb

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  • How is this a meme

  • What else should i invest in besides saving to buy a home?

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  • This is why I don't agree with the moneybro Redditors who seem to want you to put every penny into investing for retirement or working aggressively to pay down student loans or your mortgage...leaving little money to use for day to day enjoyment.

    We have absolutely no idea how long we will live. I think there's a healthy balance between investing for the future and enjoying the now.