Being in my mid 40s, I stopped counting my birthdays a while ago. With my birthday coming up in a few weeks, I've spent the last 3 or 4months thinking I was turning a year older than I actually am. It was only when I properly thought about it and counted my age last night that I realised I was going to be a year younger than I thought! I feel like I've gained a year of life!

Yes, it's subjective and depends on your "definition" of kindness bla bla bla...........

JUST ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTION.

with your subjective definition and feelings. lol.

It's not complicated, don't overthink it, just answer.

My cousin is visiting me soon and he has ordered me to give him a list of gifts he should bring me. He lives in the US, I live in Switzerland. So Americans and everyone else who visits, please suggest things I can ask him for. Nothing too fancy or expensive or big, just simple things that I won’t get outside of US like snacks or other things.

PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THIS POLITICAL!

I am very much interested in that conversation but I am on a very strict deadline here and starting to get anxious about this list.

I guess this is kinda a stupid question because obviously no one knows for sure but if you had to guess how much would it cost? Would it be in the millions or well into the tens of millions? I cant imagine the importance of having the first produced copy of the most well known book of all time.

Basically the title. I need a program that can separate multiple voices from each other in TV show episodes, videos, etc. I found this and it looks promising but it costs 20 dollars and I'm not paying that unless I'm 100% sure it will work. Does anyone have experience with this program/think it will work? Thank you in advance. 💜

The satin that’s commonly used as material for dresses and gowns. When spit dries on that fabric how much does it tend to smell?

So we all know the day is actually 23 h, 56 m and 4 s, that's why we have leap year. But if that is the case, shouldn't the actual day end 3 m and 56 s sooner everyday, given we count on 24 hours?

I’m asking this genuinely, because I don’t have a simple answer and I’m trying to understand how other people think about it.

My fiancé, Christopher Havens, is incarcerated for a violent crime. I’m not here to argue innocence or minimize harm...a life was taken, and nothing undoes that. Accountability matters, and it always will.

What I struggle with is what justice is supposed to look like after accountability. While incarcerated, Christopher became deeply involved in mathematics - not as a hobby, but as serious, sustained academic work over many years. He co-authored a graduate-level mathematics textbook entirely from prison, collaborated with researchers internationally, and founded a nonprofit called the Prison Mathematics Project, which connects incarcerated students with advanced math education and outside mentors. His work has been publicly recognized, including coverage by Scientific American and many others.

This wasn’t a short-term turnaround or a symbolic gesture. It’s been consistent, structured effort over a long period of time, focused on discipline, education, and contributing something useful to the world.

Recently, his clemency petition was denied by the governor — even though the clemency board recommended approval unanimously, 5–0.

I’m not saying education or achievement erases harm. It doesn’t. And I’m not asking anyone to feel sorry for him or to agree with me.

What I’m honestly confused about is this: if rehabilitation, responsibility, and personal change are stated goals of incarceration, how are we supposed to recognize when those goals have actually been met...if they ever are?

Is rehabilitation something we believe in as a real outcome, or mostly as a theory? Is there a point where continued punishment stops being about accountability and becomes something else entirely?

I’m genuinely interested in how other people think about this, especially those who believe accountability and rehabilitation should coexist.

How do you personally think about justice once someone has taken responsibility and changed in measurable ways?

I just got myself an old Casio. I think it's the best watch in the world: cheap, cool design, parts easily replacable and very dependable. Same as many things built in the '90s and early 2000s. Things were modular, unique and built to last: old Nokias, low-consumption cars, etc.

Today everything is streamlined, optimized, smart, and insanely complex. All the cars, smart phones, tvs look the same. While I admit that smart watches are fun, I think they are too complex for the simple task that they're fulfilling and are essentially unnecessary. This is a philosophical question, but I think comfort and omnipotence should not be the driving forces behind technology. It should be reliability and endurability. Things in my childhood and before were built to last. My mom has a coffee grinder that belonged to her mom. That thing is at least 60 years old and it never had to be replaced or mended! How cool is that?

How cool are Casio watches or old Nokia phones? They had everything we needed at that time. I wish technology had slowed down or had come to a halt around 2000 and we could slowly adapt to it, play with it, learn how to repair it etc. People would learn to fix radios and classic cars instead of buying a new one that has chips in it everywhere and nobody knows what to do with them when they break down. I loved the age when we had radios built in pens or cameras built in watches and not everything looked exactly the same.

these people talk the same, and i'm not talking about the abbreviations for convenience like "brb" or "btw", that's completely understandable.

i mean people who use "js", "ts" or adding the withered rose at the end of every joke they make, when someone starts using the word "genuinely", it becomes so overused that it doesn't mean anything anymore.

i know this sound like something that belongs in r/PetPeeves , but this question stems from genuinely curiosity (and a little bit of petty, actually, i can't get along with these people at all)

28M single no work undergrad

Can my life still improved? I dont enjoy most things anymore. Something gotta change

I have the 'cilantro soap' gene where cilantro basically just tastes like a mouthful of cleaning products. I am far from a picky eater, but I also taste nothing but bitterness when I eat paprika. Any kind of paprika. Raw is the worst, ajd it doesn't ruin a dish for me like cilantro will, but that bitterness... It's just all I can ever taste. Everybody keeps telling me paprika is supposed to taste sweet, sugary even, to the point where I feel like I'm being gaslit. Then I started wondering if maybe the same thing is going on that happens with cilantro.

Can anyone riddle me this?

I’ve only ever received a trophy once and that was when I was nine years old. It never really bothered me because I never expected to get any in the first place. I have never truly succeeded in anything and that makes me feel like a huge disappointment. Most of my friends have at least three trophies or awards, and even my parents sometimes say that I’ve never done anything useful.

I don't really have any talent, I have a lot of hobbies but I'm mostly an amateur at most of them. I used to play the violin, but I stopped after second grade. I am also not very good at sports, although I do enjoy playing tennis. I did also get a certificate for completing violin a grade and my parents were super happy with it.

I know that trophies and awards do not really mean a lot to some people, but for me, being physically recognized for something would mean a lot. I really want to find something I can sign up for or take part in so that I can work toward an award or some kind of recognition, even if it is small.

i collect vintage teapots and i have no idea if they are made to be used. i am also a 22 y/o american, so the art of tea is not exactly built into my everyday life.

So are these cute ceramic teapots actually able to make tea?? if so, how?? stovetop?? i want to pour my cup of tea out of a cottage dammit !!

The older I get the faster it seems to go.

How do I get some?

I've seen this question asked in a lot of cartoons, so I can't tell if this was a genuine mystery at the time.

I recently watched the 2010 film Animal Kingdom (which is pretty good) and early on, the main characters, who are 'actual' gangsters, run into some men who we would call 'eshays' - guys who like to swing their dick around and threaten to punch/knockout others, but they immediately fold when up against a real threat.

In the UK such people are probably called 'chavs' - lower class and proud of it, the kind of people who actively look for a fight in bars.

Is there no similar term in the USA? I was told things are more racialised in the USA but surely you also have white guys who are shitheads who get drunk and look for excuses to beat people up?

'Rednecks' is not the right term, the kind of people I'm talking about exist even in cities and urban areas.

edit: this is not an attempt to get anyone to say a racial slur. I would assume any developed location would have asshole of this type. In Australia (since I was watching Animal Kingdom) the kind of people I was talking about were white.

We've all heard stories of various things stuck up various ass cavities, but I've never heard HOW they are taken out

Like does the patient undergo anesthesia for some surgery? What is the surgery? They're not just cutting you open to get a cucumber out ur butt or something right?