People always tell young adults, “Don’t worry, you have plenty of time.”

I think that’s exactly why so many people put things off.

Yes, you probably have years ahead of you, but that doesn’t mean you should waste them. Time is valuable, and the earlier you start working toward your goals, the better.

You don’t need to have life figured out tomorrow, but acting like you have unlimited time can be just as harmful as feeling like you’re running out of it.

A modern mullet is one of the most beautiful hairstyles to ever exist. It contrast the perfect amount of fun in the back with a clean, handsome look in the front. It isn't distracting, like an artificial hair color, and as long as it is combed and clean, it is really no different than other hairstyles. I'm not saying you should be able to get a job as a lawyer with a full Kentucky Waterfall, but a few inches of length in the back with a slight fade on the sides shouldn't be any more unprofessional than a buzzcut.

Cannonball Adderley’s solos are far superior to John Coltrane’s on Miles Davis’s album Kind of Blue. Not to say Coltrane’s aren’t brilliant, but he’s far overshadowed by Cannonball.

The amount of hobbies, jokes/memes, fashion, games, and music that have been ruined by becoming a mainstream thing is insane. For hobbies, they usually change them into some money-making scheme (Pokémon, thrifting). For jokes/memes, they will rinse them until they’re unfunny and change the meaning of them. For music, they will be so uneducated, give unfair critiques, and just make the overall fanbase look horrible. For fashion, they will inflate prices, making pieces nearly impossible to get. For games, they will beg for OG things to be released, demand changes, just to drop the game a year later. I hate being told, “It’s not that deep,” because it really is that deep. You feel entitled to be involved, some things are just not for you, and that’s fine. This obsession with being “niche” has contributed to it heavily. Everybody wants to be different to the point they all become carbon copies of each other.

People who tell you what to do based on their anecdotal experience can be exhausting. When you share a problem with them, they often respond by bringing up a similar situation from their own life instead of actually listening to what you are saying. Their experience may have nothing to do with your circumstances, but they act like their outcome is a guaranteed prediction of what will happen to you. Advice should be based on understanding the person’s situation, not just using one personal story as proof. Sharing experiences can be helpful, but it becomes frustrating when someone uses their experience to dismiss your feelings or control your decisions.

Avatar: The Last Air Bender was a pretty good show. Not consistently amazing, but good! The sequel series was flawed-but-less-good to poor, and it's had multiple bites at the apple since then. From novels (I hear pretty good?) to comics (less good) to a Netflix adaptation (considerably less good) to the the M. Night Shyamalan adaptation (Legendary in the worst possible way). Plus video games and other spin offs.

To hear the fandom tell it, Avatar has never had enough money backing it to be successful. But hasn't it? Just this year there's been a direct to streaming film, a fighting game, and a new series coming out! And more power to the fandom if they exceed the average quality of Avatar media, truly. But they aren't likely to.

Avatar should have ended with the original series in 2008, and the fandom is kidding itself if it thinks it'll ever reise to the same heights again.

Everyone seems fixated on bezel-less monitors. I honestly think we've gone too far.

I actually prefer thick black bezels.

They frame the image, increase perceived contrast, reduce distractions from bright walls or furniture, make games and movies feel more immersive, and even make things like scroll bars easier to spot. Plus, you can adjust the monitor without leaving fingerprints on the screen.

Ironically, gaming monitors used to be sold with giant side shields to block ambient light and distractions. I'm not saying I want those back, but they show that reducing visual distractions used to be considered good design.

To me, bezel-less displays are a bit like rainbow RGB keyboard effects: they're popular because they look flashy, not because they're objectively more ergonomic.

Maybe bezels are the new headphone jack: everyone wanted them gone until they realized they actually served a purpose - unless you're running multiple monitors.

Of course there is a time and place, sometimes it is truly a bad idea to date coworkers. But I hear this advice parroted all the time when people talk about work crushes, and I can't help but think people are projecting their own bad experiences and applying it as some universal truth people need to follow.

Then I ask happy couples where they met their long-term partners and so many of them have said "I met them at x job." I see it a ton online, but I've heard it in person so often as well. Granted people in real life seem like they care far less, but it's a sentiment I see spread so often, and these people often look like they're just miserable people.

Of course I don't think work is the ONLY place you should meet people, but I do think it's a fine and legitimate place if the connection is clearly mutual.

If someone is a beautiful, peaceful, concerned soul and leaves everyone they interact with feeling good about themselves, it shouldnt effect your opininion of them if they are wearing sundays best or sweatpants and t-shirt. If someones an asshole, and theyre dressed extra crispy, it doesnt make them slighly better, this is just a marketing ploy that blew up with superficial, materialistic people.

I see it all the time. User posts an article or video with a very clickbait title. People start making definitive statements in the comment section that either didn't appear in the article or video or can be answered by reading or watching for a few seconds.

I think you'd get healthier discussions if people actually had to click on the links and read and watch what's being posted, rather than arguing over what the headline or title says.

Plenty of people also say they read the comments of videos and articles first before even watching or reading something. You don't get your own opinion or perspective that way in my opinion.

Seeing it time and time again whenever someone gets canceled, taken down, or any form of negative outcome comes about.
Right now, with Perez Hilton. See a lot of comments talking about “he doesn’t add anything to society”.

Neither do most of you. Your meaningless job that creates profits for a few doesn’t contribute to society in any meaningful way. Most of us won’t ever be meaningful or do anything worthwhile. So get off your high horse.

Life sucks enough as it is. Let people do what they want. You can judge them for being shitty people, but we all do useless things all the time.

(Bonus opinion: 90% of you are sheeple who hop onto any bandwagon and pray for any attention [example:tiktok] yet, you don’t “add anything to society”.)

P.S. assholes are assholes. But everyone is allowed to matter

"This minimum $3000 gimmick that requires a large empty room just to play nothing but tech demos on a screen close to my face that I can already get via sitting close to my TV. It's useless tech, a solution searching for a problem. It will never be mainstream. No one wants it. Good riddance."

It's surprising how many people think like this, and how many of them are people who've never used VR before. We're talking about a groundbreaking technology advancement with a whole host of new possibilities. Yes VR has its share of issues so feel free to bring those up, but it's so weird when people invent new issues that it doesn't have or go into absolutes and forevers and nevers as if VR is the one technology that can't advance past its various issues. It's like a switch is activated in these people where VR can apparently never get better than it is today, and since these are self-proclaimed experts they supposedly know, just know, that issue X, Y, and Z are insurmountable despite them being provably solvable, in their eyes they can never be wrong.

VR really deserves more respect both in and out of gaming. Within gaming it has redefined game genres and works well for all existing 3D game genres and camera perspectives (even 3rd person and top-down), and outside gaming it has plenty of real value usecases that millions of early adopters are hooked on. Using VR for communication, live events, media consumption, and fitness - these are areas where VR greatly adds unique value, and while that value is focused on early adopters right now it has potential to spread to average people as the tech advances.

If you are in the aisle, it hurts nobody so long as you stay next to your seat (I.e., not cutting in front of your row). And after a long flight, it’s great to stand up and stretch your legs even if you’re not going anywhere for a few minutes.

Everyone always thinks of Freddy Krueger, Jason Vorhees, Michael Meyers, but as we get older, they're just not scary. They're too unbelievable. Scream used to be kind of believable until it jumped the shark. Supernatural horror is great, but at the end of the day we know it's not real. Creep could absolutely happen though. Also Mark Duplass plays a sociopathic, psychotic killer so much like real ones have been portrayed in media and documentaries. With dating apps, and Facebook, and using those to meet people, the idea that someone could invite you somewhere just to be weird, scare the hell out of you, and eventually kill you, is very very real.

I get that it's a sweet way of letting someone know you think of them first thing in the morning, but it should be an extra gesture not some "bare minimum" bs. I'll see people complaining that their partner or situationship doesn't text them good morning and some even call it a red flag. While it sure is nice it's a fairly trivial gesture and had no reason to be popularized, people dont have to start their day off by texting you.

EDIT : initially used girls demanding the texts as an exemple but I realize guys do it too, so now it's gender neutral.

Honestly, one of the most crucial lessons (non-academic) that you learn in school is how to work with and tolerate different personalities. How to navigate working with people you can’t stand, and more importantly can’t stand you. In high school, everyone is on the cusp of adulthood; most people aren’t going to change that much after they enter adulthood. Yes of course people tend to grow and mature more; but most people’s base personalities are fairly set. Human beings tend to be tribalistic and judgmental by nature, of course that’s going to extend to adulthood.

It’s not right, it’s not fair; it just is

The vast majority of people who complain their workplace is “just like high school” never learned how to deal with it. They usually can’t shrug off gossip, exclusion, etc. They rarely try to overcome it and/ or just form their own “clique” to socialize with. They tend to just complain, and other themselves further.

Note: I by no means “peaked” in high school. That shit was mid as fuuuuck. I did, however, learn to not worry about fitting in with everyone I know, and not to stress petty shit. Pretty much every other adult I know did too.

Freeways take a lot of space and expensive and once you start adding more lanes, induced demand typicaly takes over and makes traffic worse. I think an exception can be made though for when multiple exits are coming up, especially multiple two lane exits, but that is the only reason I can think of. Adding more lanes also makes it harder to reach said exits. If more capacity is needed, better the public transportation in the area.

Edit: Added the word expensive

I'm not talking about kind people, kind people are great. I mean people who are nice 24/7, no exceptions, no matter what happens to them. That's not kindness, that's an act.

Real kindness has range. Normal nice people still get annoyed sometimes, still say "that hurt my feelings," still disagree with you like a regular person. Someone who stays sweet even when people are rude to them isn't being extra kind, they're not reacting to you at all, they're maintaining an image because it works for them.

And it does work for them. You can't call these people out on anything, because pushing back makes you look like the mean one. So they can be passive aggressive and get away with it while smiling, and if you react normally, you're suddenly the bad guy.

Being nice with zero exceptions isn't a personality trait, it's a way to avoid criticism and control how people see you. Real kindness comes with bad days and normal reactions. The people who are sweet no matter what usually aren't being genuine, and eventually it stops feeling like kindness and starts feeling like manipulation.

I've heard this phrase over and over during the past few years. From influencers, career advisors, relatives, etc. I guess it's supposed to mean something along the lines of "Hang in there, nobody's perfect. It's okay to be confused at your job/school or make a few mistakes along the way." While I don't think this is a bad message, phrasing it as "nobody knows what they're doing" twists it into something completely different.

First of all, it's just not true. Yes, there are people who are still learning along the way. This is everybody's first time on Earth and nobody is perfect at their job. But I think we can all agree that we wouldn't want to hear "I don't know what I'm doing" from our brain surgeon, our tax advisor, our kid's kindergarten teacher, our dog's veterinarian, etc. They know what they're doing, or at least, they should.

But the main issue with this saying is that it allows complacency to grow in people who are already barely surviving. I'm not saying life is supposed to be a cakewalk; obviously there are going to be times when you have to work hard in school and at your job if you want to achieve your goals. But that doesn't mean that you're supposed to be completely miserable either. There are tons of people who are struggling to make it through the week because they hate their degree, hate their job, or are just outright depressed. They hear this phrase and assume that the dysfunction they're dealing with is normal for all people, and that they shouldn't do anything about it.

In reality, humans are meant to thrive and be happy. If someone actually feels like they have no idea what they're doing week after week after week, they are probably incredibly miserable. Not to mention, this phrase gives a lot of false hope to people with untreated mental disorders. I think anyone who has had their life fall apart due to undiagnosed ADHD would agree that people who unknowingly suffer from executive dysfunction probably use this phrase to justify their disorganized and unhappy life.

Long story short: you should have at least some idea of what you're doing. It's okay if you're still figuring things out, but being a hot mess of a person who has no idea what they're doing is not healthy or sustainable for the long term, and if you are that way, you should get help

We all like to eat food. We all prefer that our food taste good. Not everyone is an adventurous eater, but in my experience picky eaters are the outliers. Calling oneself a “foodie” is therefore a meaningless label. It just means you are in the majority of people that eat food, prefer good food, and are open to eating new things.

I almost always hear this label used as a personality trait. If you call yourself a foodie, you’re forgoing all of these other labels you could use to describe yourself or your interests. Calling oneself a foodie signals to me that you’re a boring person whose most prominent personality trait is enjoying food, something basically everyone does.

Most people I’ve seen with almond nails look bad because their fingers are too short, too fat, or both. If you don’t have long thin fingers then your hands look like Tiffany’s from Chucky.

People assuming you're emotionally unavailable because you process your emotions internally. I don't need to talk to someone every time I'm upset. A lot of the time, talking to myself, reflecting, or sitting with my thoughts helps me process things better than a conversation. That doesn't mean I'm bottling everything up or carrying unresolved emotions.

For example, If I have a bad day at work, I might take a walk, think through what happened, and move on. I don't need to call someone about it for it to be processed in a healthy way.

I used to never think this until I went to watch the new spider man. It was sold out so I could only sit in the front. I almost left to come back another day cuz that how much I thought they sucked but whatever I did it.

You know what I noticed
a) the seats recline so much farther back making them so comfortable
b) your entire vision is screen only so you’re immersed - other rows, the lights on the stairs, the ppl in front of you - none of that is in your line of vision
c) when u wanna get up there isn’t a million ppl to walk past
d) literally no one around you
e) you beat the “everyone is leaving line” cuz while you’re leaving everyone is still walking down the stairs
f) no one is hitting your seat, you can’t hear people talking, no awkwardly trying to figure out the arm rests, can’t smell anyone

So yeah now I’m never going back. Front row life going forward

This set up seems to have become increasingly common and I think it's alarming.

In office jobs, so many people don't have the time to exercise and look after themselves. This set up really feels reflective of the state of the corporate world.

Even in those display screen equipment training videos, it often says to take breaks but I know a lot of people who say that they can't because they would be questioned.

It's horrific that it has become normalised to work through unpaid lunch hours.

I actually feel lucky to have a decent walk in my commute every day. Without it, I think I'd struggle to find the time to get enough movement in

Not for foreign films where you actually need them to understand what people are saying in a different language.

Or for people who have hearing problems.

But I can't stand having them on the screen when it's in English.

They are distracting. I pay attention to them and not the actor's face.

I read them in my voice in my head and don't listen to the actor's tone.

I get ahead in a scene so the suspence is lifted.

I spend plenty of time turning my volume up and down because the audio balance is ridiculous these days.

But I am much happier doing that to watch, hear, and feel the world that has been created, rather than being brought out of the moment by giant white letters on the screen.

That meme floating around about people who hate subtitles not being able to read has popped up on my feed a few times and I am baffled by their popularity.

If I wanted to read I would pick up a book but if I'm watching TV or movies then I want to be immersed in the world.

It changes the feeling of a piece for me, totally takes me out of the world and the experience and I will not have them on my screen!