When you are a kid, it’s easy to look at a 9-5 like it’s a constrictive indicator of a boring life. They can’t understand how somebody who goes to work every day, does the same thing, and goes home can possibly be happy. When you’re young, adult life can sound like an escape from the …
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35 Memes if You Need a Friend in This World
I’ve been hearing about «the male loneliness epidemic» a lot recently. A lot of people rag on it, saying it’s a slippery slope into incel ideology, but I disagree. I think we’re kidding ourselves if we think that loneliness isn’t a structural problem that hurts the lives of many men and women. Once you become …
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‘Most people I’ve known peaked somewhere between 25 and 30’: Youngsters debate whether your 20s or 30s are your true prime
Ever since I was a teenager, I’ve been afraid of «peaking.» The idea of reaching a point where you feel like «everything’s downhill from here» was and still is terrifying. I remember being in the car with my high school girlfriend’s dad, and we talked about peaking in high school. I mentioned not wanting to …
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40+ of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (April 20, 2024)
It’s so fun to witness a trend cycle in its entirety. To watch a meme be born, watch it thrive, perhaps even participate in its proliferation, see its demise, and then if you stick around long enough, watch it inevitably return. To be on Twitter is to watch this unfold in real-time. If you’re lucky …
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40 Memes That Let The Sunshine In
Listen up, residents of the Northern Hemisphere! If you’re in the same general region that I’m in, you’ve probably been experiencing several days of beautiful warm weather this past week. I don’t know about y’all, but I am 100% here for it. I always struggle with the question, «What is your favorite season,» but the …
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Job posting demands 10 years experience using Generative AI, despite ChatGPT coming out less than 2 years ago: ‘Ideal candidate will have good time-travelling skills’
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that job applications often ask for more than they need. They want to appeal to smart, qualified candidates and do so by setting their expectations to the moon and hoping that someone who is realistically qualified still applies despite the requests for years and years of experience. I don’t like …
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‘If people did this population would be 73’: Life coach claims people need to have their life together before dating, gets roasted for her high standards
Everybody has some periods of their life when they are unfit for dating. For me, that was my first couple of years of college. I wasn’t sexless for lack of trying, but I had several problems that were keeping me from finding romantic connections: I had cystic acne, I gained about 15 pounds, I had …
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40 of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (April 13, 2024)
There are some things you only have the pleasure of knowing about if you go on Twitter. There are memes, stories, inside jokes, and hot takes that only those privy to the deep annals of the bird app have access to. But let me tell you, for every gold nugget, there are tons and tons …
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Bored therapist texts during session, can’t understand why patient gets angry and leaves: ‘Do I wait for him to apologize?’
I’m always amazed when somebody has never had a bad therapist. You can always tell who they are because they talk about therapy as if it is a miraculous cure to any problem or social ill that you harbor. I’m sure many of us have heard some well-meaning person talking about how people who don’t …
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‘My son screamed for the last 4 hours’: Parents share the worst travel strategies they’ve tried while traveling with kids
Traveling with kids can’t be easy. I like to think that I was a pretty easy kid to handle overall, but I remember one particularly horrible car ride that my parents will never forget. I believe we were driving from Wisconsin back to Illinois, and the sun was in my eyes the entire ride. Instead …
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