re: Dad, 76, executes daughter-in-law at family wedding in front of guests

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Also allows women to divorce for frivolous reasons such as wanting to join the slut life.

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Dudes will unironically type out something like this and then wonder about the male loneliness epidemic

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Good news doesn’t sell. And it doesn’t keep you addicted to scrolling. And you don’t share it. Worse, if you’re having a bad day you will stop scrolling if you see good news.

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This. If you listen to what appears to be fairly well adjusted, normal people, you would think we live in a dystopian hell scape. The truth is there has never been a better time to be alive and living in the United States or most of the world for that matter. A gracious plenty of posters on these boards will openly admit they fear leaving home unless they have a gun on them and they are not alone, that sentiment is shared by a pile of folks. The amount of irrational fear that people carry around with them daily, coupled with a never ending supply of doomsday news and the sky is falling messages and way too many people are terrified of one another and convinced the world is about to come crashing down around them and all of us. It is really sad. This used to be pretty common for old folks but it is all age groups today. I don't know that we ever overcome the fear of the unlikely....other than simply reminding one another that the unlikely is, after all, unlikely....

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Humans have always been frickin pieces of shite. Its in our nature.

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It simply isn't. Humans are, for the most part, nurturing and caring. Random acts of simple kindness are infinitely higher in number than random acts of unthinkable violence. This is so true that almost no one bothers to acknowledge a random act of simple kindness....some of us might wave a hand in thanks to another driver who leaves room for us to pull into traffic but let a driver cut us off in traffic and almost universally we lose our shite for some period of time...because the former is far more common than the latter.


Just from an anecdotal perspective it gripes me no end for someone to let a door swing closed when they know someone else is about to enter it....at a convenience store for example. In my experience about 95 times out of 100 a total stranger will hold the door for anyone and a few of the remaining 5 are simply spaced out for a second and did not think to do it...it is a rare individual who will let it close intentionally, so much so that it is highly noticeable when it happens. This type of day to day encounter is important to remember, most folks are pretty damned nice....to the point that the rare a-hole you run across is notable.

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It simply isn't. Humans are, for the most part, nurturing and caring. Random acts of simple kindness are infinitely higher in number than random acts of unthinkable violence. This is so true that almost no one bothers to acknowledge a random act of simple kindness....some of us might wave a hand in thanks to another driver who leaves room for us to pull into traffic but let a driver cut us off in traffic and almost universally we lose our shite for some period of time...because the former is far more common than the latter.


Just from an anecdotal perspective it gripes me no end for someone to let a door swing closed when they know someone else is about to enter it....at a convenience store for example. In my experience about 95 times out of 100 a total stranger will hold the door for anyone and a few of the remaining 5 are simply spaced out for a second and did not think to do it...it is a rare individual who will let it close intentionally, so much so that it is highly noticeable when it happens. This type of day to day encounter is important to remember, most folks are pretty damned nice....to the point that the rare a-hole you run across is notable.

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you're wearing modern day rose colored glasses with a heavy american tint.

most of human existence has been filled with slavery, rape, murder, theft, and all manner of violence, corruption, and dishonesty. in fact, most of the rest of the world still lives that today to a lesser degree.

you have no idea what you're talking about.

It's been a hot summer up here. People are getting crazy. They're not used to this shite.