With food and shelter covered, I’d want something to keep me busy. A whole year alone is a long time.

Why is Trump buying oil from Russia?
Why are republicans and MAGA suddenly okay with this?

You better!

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Or was it a fully built EV with motors, battery pack, etc like you’d expect in something like a Tesla model 3 ?

Is it that I'm just more aware of it? It's exhausting. Reddit stinks more like Twitter every day IMO. Thoughts? (Can't wait for the bot response)

With insane inflation (greed) doubling or tripling prices over the past decade, I've stopped buying a lot of nonessential things. I'm not talking about necessities like food, medicine, or basic clothing. I'm talking about electronics, concerts, movies, nicer clothes, and other entertainment and consumer goods.

I can afford to spend more, but I'm so offended by prices that I refuse on principle. I'll see a sweater I like for $90 and close the page because a nice sweater should cost $40. Or a band I like will charge $130 for tickets that cost $50 a few years ago. I make enough money that I can afford it, but fuck that. I'm not paying those prices.

What is going to take for people to stop shopping? It seems like most Americans will just keep spending until they run out of money and max out their credit cards. I feel like that is why corporations can get away with charging these excessive prices.

Is everyone satisfied with how everything turned out?

Im curious how people reconcile two expectations I see placed on women, because they seem quite incompatible.

From a young age, many women are taught to take precautions around unfamiliar men. We’re told to watch our drinks, avoid isolated situations, recognize warning signs, be careful who we trust, and exercise judgment about who we allow into our lives.

These precautions aren’t based on the belief that most men are dangerous. They’re based on the fact that we cant reliably determine which individuals might be dangerous before getting to know them.

Yet I’ve noticed that many men interpret women taking these precautions as making a judgment about their specific character.

If a woman crosses the street at night, a man might interpret that as her deciding he’s personally threatening. If she covers her drink, he might interpret it as an accusation that he would drug her. If she declines an offer for a ride, he might feel that she’s unfairly assuming he has bad intentions.

But it’s a distinction that gets overlooked.

“I don’t know whether you’re safe” isnt the same statement as “I believe you’re dangerous.” When I cross the street to avoid an unfamiliar man at night, I’m not necessarily making a judgment about him singularly. I don’t know anything about him and that’s the point.

I’m making a general precautionary decision in a situation where I have limited information and where the consequences of misjudging someone’s intentions could be serious.

If he’s perfectly harmless, which he probably is, I’ve taken a small precaution that wasn’t necessary in hindsight. If he isn’t, that precaution might have helped me avoid a dangerous situation.

That doesn’t mean every precaution is equally reasonable, that women are incapable of unfairly stereotyping men, or that men are wrong to feel uncomfortable when they believe someone is afraid of them.

It means that someone’s discomfort with a precaution doesn’t, by itself, establish that the precaution was unreasonable or an accusation of wrongdoing.
And this brings me to the second part of the contradiction.

In conversations about dating and relationships, I frequently encounter the argument that women need to “take accountability” for choosing men who eventually mistreat them.

If a boyfriend cheats, people ask why she didn’t recognize his character sooner.

If a man abandons his responsibilities as a father, people ask why she chose to have children with him.

If a relationship becomes abusive, people question why she didn’t notice the warning signs or leave earlier.

To be clear, I absolutely believe adults should use judgment in their relationships, recognize warning signs when possible, and reflect on their decisions. Women aren’t exempt from personal responsibility, and there are situations where someone knowingly ignores serious problems.

But being responsible for your own choices isnt the same as being responsible for another adult’s decision to lie, cheat, abandon their children, or abuse someone.

We can acknowledge that people should make informed decisions without transferring moral responsibility for someone else’s actions onto them.

More importantly, if the expectation is that women should be better at identifying potentially harmful partners before they’re harmed, then surely that requires allowing women to exercise some caution and selectivity in the first place.

If a woman trusts someone who later mistreats her, she’s told she should’ve been more careful.

If she exercises caution around someone who turns out to be harmless, she may be told she’s unfairly suspicious.

If she overlooks warning signs, she’s got poor judgment.

If she screens people carefully, shes distrustful or assuming the worst.

If she doesn’t protect herself, she’s told to take responsibility for her safety.

If she does protect herself, now she’s making blameless men feel bad.

I’m not claiming every man makes both arguments, that these reactions are equally common, or that any particular man who advocates personal responsibility necessarily objects to women’s precautions.

I’m saying how can both expectations realistically be applied together?

Because theres a fundamental problem with expecting women to identify dangerous men without ever making harmless men feel unfairly distrusted:

You cant reliably distinguish a dangerous stranger from a harmless one when you have basically no information.

Someone can appear friendly, respectful, and trustworthy while concealing harmful intentions. someone who initially appears intimidating may be harmless.

That uncertainty is why precautions exist in the first place.

The purpose of a precaution isn’t to establish that someone is guilty. It’s to reduce exposure to a potential risk when you don’t have enough information to rule it out.

People lock their doors without believing their neighbors are burglars. They avoid leaving valuables unattended without believing everyone nearby is a thief. They decline to share personal information with strangers without assuming every stranger intends to exploit them.

We generally understand that taking precautions against possible misconduct isn’t equivalent to accusing a particular individual of intending to commit it.

I do think men are entitled to have feelings about these interactions. Absolutely I can see how Being perceived as potentially threatening when you have no intention of hurting anyone would be hurtful.

But having an understandable emotional reaction doesn’t mean another person wronged you or is obligated to change their boundaries to not make you feel bad.

So I’m interested in what people think women should do in these situations, rather than simply being told they should have known better after something goes wrong.

We hear a lot about what catches men's eyes, but what about the other way around? When you look at a guy, what physical part or feature instantly flips the switch and gets you physically or mentally excited?

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This isn’t something that can be helped. So why is it so hard for women who have big feet to find the same cute shoe as someone with a size 6 foot? 😔 (This is more so about inside of stores).

A year ago I started an anime figure collection and now I’m thinking about starting a Pokémon card collection. What about you guys?

Biologically speaking, that doesn't really make sense... Isn't it just an illusion created by the contrast, since men's sex drive drops significantly in their 30s compared to their 20s?

Please specify F/M in your response, as I would like to see opinions from both genders.

Either your personal cash or if you work at a register, do you orient the bills to be face up & facing the same direction? Or just stack it as it comes?

From all of the news and the general direction of events around the world, does it seem to anyone else like we’ve passed the point of no return?

By events I mean pretty much most things.
- we’re starting to see more serious events caused by climate change
- Far right parties on the rise
- every growing division
- Capitalism and continual transfer of wealth
- life becoming more unaffordable generally
- social media
- general lack of money across most government s
- multiple wars raging and escalating
- everything Donald Trump is doing and the long term consequences for the US
- & more

With all of these things happening at the same time, I just can’t see how we turn it around.

Like romantic. That’s how I feel and I feel really dumb that way.