Saying that a celebrity «doesn’t age» goes beyond praising someone for their looks. It also tends to mean that you agree with whatever that celebrity has just done on a moral level, whether it be their politics, their cultural takes, or the football team they’re rooting for, especially on Twitter. This tweet about Anne Hathaway, …
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AITA?: How Reddit threads have become a morality compass, guiding society’s most complex queries through random strangers’ opinions
As teens, whenever something went wrong, most folks would go running to their friends to ask for advice. Whether mom and dad were arguing about the housing crisis or texts with your crush needed a flirtier angle, our teenaged selves sought feedback from the one person we knew would be there for us: Our best …
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34 Unorthodox Memes for Do-Gooders Fighting Their Demons
It’s really easy to be a bad person. From a young age, we learned that bullying made you the king of the playground and cheating on tests got you good grades if you never got caught, so at what point do little humans discern right and wrong? Sometimes doing the right thing doesn’t pay off …
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Cringey Times Hypocritical People Revealed Their Double Standards
I once had a manager who was a real stickler for the rules when it came to everyone else’s behavior, but had zero problem breaking protocol and taking stupid shortcuts whenever it suited him. I guess he thought the rules didn’t apply to him. He was always lurking around, telling people how to do their …
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People Argue About Whether Keeping Found Money is Ethical in Divided Thread
When I was a teenager, some friends and I were hanging out in a park one evening when we came across a wallet lying in the grass. We opened it up to see if there was an ID and sure enough, there was, along with sixty bucks. Right away, we all agreed to bring it …
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