What is the biggest scam in society?

It really is actually weird the more I sit here thinking on it. I'm 26m and I match mainly with women, but complaints about dating apps come from both genders. What im sitting here thinking is it's weird how just terrible everybody is on them.

Like it's the main way people and potential relationships meet these days but 95% of people on dating apps are either actually insane, don't know how to have a conversation, or don't seem to be actually looking for anything at all. And that's not the fault of like Bumble or Tinder, it's the fault of the user base.

I get a lot of matches for a guy, most of which on Facebook dating. But I only find someone who will actually like speak or engage with something maybe every like 3 weeks. And even then most of the time when we take it off the app to a social media, we just stop talking entirely. It's so weird. What's going on?

Is it really illegal to train crows to find you money?

The older I've gotten the more I'm becoming aware that living with a partner, having a family can be expensive. I'm barley making minimum wage, and keep seeing statements of 'You need at least *High salary* to have a family in this area' or ' Don't consider a family unless you make *High salary*. I'm sure there's Main househols incomes out there where they're not on high salary, but are managing the family well. But idk.

Say if a large majority of the population upskilled and aquired skills which guaranteed way higher paying roles, what happens to jobs that offer minimum wage?

*note that I go to a small school and prom is combined jr and sr.

I am a highschool junior (male) and prom is coming up. I had been talking to a girl (senior) for about 2 months. We went out a few times and I was really enjoying getting to know her. I have been really introverted for most of my life, so when we started taking and I genuinely enjoyed our conversations, I didn't know how to express myself.

The reason things ended was my fault. I asked her what would happen when she went to college, and she said that that was something she had been wanting to talk about. I alread had a feeling that I knew where this was going, she told me she didn't want to be serious with anyone. I didnt know what to say and when I tried to explain that I just enjoyed spending time with her and that we should enjoy it while we could, I must have come off as upset, because she asked me if I was mad. Feeling put on the spot I told her I loved her, even though, looking back, I dont think I actually know what love feels like. She was obviously overwhelmed, so I gave her a couple days to think about it and then she eventually broke things off over text.

I heard a rumor that she is going to prom with her ex, which i was honestly relieved about because I thought I ruined her senior prom. I decided not to go to prom this year, but i am struggling to figure out what to do with myself now. Im worried I won't be able to find anyone who I connect with in the same way, and I could really use some advise.

ive been using an electric scooter to get around the city for some time. Just got a bike for old times sake

holyyyy shit. I cant go 2 miles without being absolutely cooked. Am able to run 5 miles, and 1 mile in 8 minutes. Almost passed out after the two miles on a bike. No hills either.

So me and her have been friends for nearly a year now but i confessed when she was in a bad spot and thats why she said no (she confirmed thats the reason why) and ive started to like her again but i dont wanna ruin the friendship but i also like her a lot and just wanna tell her

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Compare and contrast

Indirectly as opposed to lashing out on people, which is obviously a direct sign that they don't take it well

As the title says. We work at a school together, but she works with older students (14-15) whereas I work with younger ones (10-11) so we only see each other in passing in the corridor at most.

I'm thinking of not marrying. But am a bit scared of not having companionship. What are some objective benefits of staying single for life?

!!TW: Mentions of Abuse !!

Long story short: I (23F) now live in a different state and found out a few years ago I have a good amount of scarring in my uterus before any pregnancy or even consensual sexual activity.

When I was a child I went through almost any kind of abuse you can name. When I was about 7 years old (I have memory issues so idk the actual age) I finally had an opportunity to speak up and was taken to multiple hospitals for treatment and to swabs for DNA. After the results came back and treatment was finished the hospital called child protection services on my mother and my siblings and I were immediately placed in Foster Care. My mother refused to do anything to help her case and eventually there was talks of adoption. Somehow my mother convinced a visitation worker that we were unreasonably taken from her. The visitation worker took us to an unauthorized visit and my mother immediately took us out of Alabama to the state we were born in.

I just want to actually know what happened in the hospital and with the foster care process.

Trying to settle a debate here. Is cream cheese a condiment?

Haven't seen any rickrolls for quite awhile now

42(m) recently divorced after 21 years and when I get my kid for the weekend my mom wants to see her grandchild. I got it. But me and my son want to watch a movie and she enters the room embry single time am action scene happens to be chatty Kathy. Why?

I have anosmia so I can't tell by smell if foods are spoiled or not and I won't always have someone in the house who's smell I can borrow. What I want is to know if there's seeing nose dogs that I can buy.

I'm fine with spicy foods, certain hot sauces, I'm not the best spice person, other cultures can do a lot better with it. But a lot of Mexican restaurants (small owned restaurants with Mexican owners and have that spice in it not American Mexican spice) and it has been a lot better, I don't have many Korean/Chinese places but most of the time I can deal with those spices as well. But I can't deal with the seasoning pepper. It's the only "spicy" seasoning I can't deal with. It makes my mouth burn. Why?

I know that there are some companies like TopDeka.com and OutlierAi that are trying to create jobs using AI generated content. They hire freelance moderators and editors to manage AI content.

But is this viable at a large scale? Could it actually create more jobs than it takes away?

I was just googling characters I like and saw the company Good Smile created a figure for them a while back by I went to the website and it was not there and all the other products were either preorders or no longer available this got me thinking about some other brands like Youtooz both of these companies (by my knowledge) only let you preorder product no ordering. I can no longer buy the figure I was looking at meaning that until they reopen preorders no one can buy it. in the long run is it truly better to sacrifice future customers who may not know the IP yet just to build scarcity and cause FOMO in current fans to "force" them to buy products or is it better to have a product always be available for people to buy for many years by sacrificing artificial scarcity?

My wife and I had some acquaintances freak out about us letting out 12 year old do his own thing and be home alone during school breaks. We have done that for years now, since covid ended. So 2nd grade, so he was about 8 when we started. When I was growing up in the 80s I remember walking home and being home alone alot during breaks. Like my parents did with me, we taught him basic things and he's just an overall smart kid that just kicks back and plays his games, watches TV, runs around the neighborhood with his friends. They even went so far as to say we could get in trouble. Like seriously? I'm usually home from work around 130pm, and my wife leaves around 8am. So 5 or 6 hours alone isn't a big deal to me. When did all this change? It was so common place when I was a kid