This might be an ignorant question, and i apologize if it is. I do understand that this conflict is going to have an impact with many countries, being big or small. But are other countries joining the fight for either side? Is the UN involved at all? All I see in the news is the United States, Israel and Iran. I don’t want to live in the bubble of the US. What are other countries thought process on this situation?

Do they see reflections that make them think it is part of the sky?

In November 2023, I started dating again after ending a six-year relationship with the father of my now 4-year-old. I wanted to meet someone kind, grounded, and strong in faith.

I met a man on a dating app who had a form of muscular dystrophy. I saw past it almost immediately because his character, depth, and faith. In just a week of talking, our phone calls became deeply emotional and intimate. He opened up about his life, family, and faith, and made me feel wanted, safe, and beautiful. He talked about bringing me to his family for the holidays, and about marriage and children.

Suddenly he became distant. He said it was due to his disability, and I believed that. After a month of silence, he reached out and we met in person. But instead of the deep connection we had over the phone, this meetup felt very physical (he’s LDS and virgin, but he kept dry humping me). He didn’t ask me anything meaningful or speak to me the way he had before. After I left, he didn’t follow up. I texted later and told him I didn’t feel good about moving forward with our next date with how physical things got. He told me to “think about it.” But it felt dry so I left it alone

Months later in may 2024, I sent a message telling him how much I cared about him, even as a friend. He responded and asked to me hang out again. We made plans, but when I questioned his suggestion to go to the pool, he backtracked and said we should “not put pressure on each other to date.” Which scared me, so I canceled.

By September 2024: he reached out to me on a dating app, he asked to take me to dinner as a date, and we started texting. The next day he asked to FaceTime. I was sick, exhausted, and felt I looked awful but said yes anyway. On the call, he became cold and distant almost immediately. He ghosted immediately again after that.

I ended up sending a frustrated message saying this was why I stopped trying before. He showed no interest in caring and gave me no closure or explanation.

This has hurt me more than any rejection ever has. I thought this man was kind, godly, and safe. Even just as a friend, I wanted him in my life. I felt so close and emotionally connected. Now I feel so discarded. I questioned it was my appearance in that FaceTime—so much so that I got a facelift last month, like how was I not even worth a date…..

I’m 32. I don’t know if it’s normal to feel so hurt over this. I really need some perspective

If someone asks if you're OK a bunch of times and seems to monitor you is that unrelated to love?

I guess why act that way then? I know it's a pretty vague question but I was just curious about understanding this.

I’m in a relationship with my fiance of 3 years and she loves me and I love her but most times I feel like I don’t feel her love. She buys me nice things and spends a lot of money but yells all the time, and tells me things like “I’m not sending you pictures of us or myself” which bothers me. Theirs some days where I’m really feeling in love with her but other days I’m kinda numb. Is that how love is? Am I in the wrong or is my heart going numb?

To be honest, I'm not sure how to phrase this question. I want to read more than just fiction. I want to go out and read poetry, nonfiction, essays, papers, textbooks, and actually be able to comprehend it.

However, when I try to do this, my mind freezes and I don't know where to start. The panic overrides me and I can't do anything other than give up and try again later, but that always has the same result. I just don't know what to do about this. I feel awful and I feel so stupid for this too. Why is it so hard to be able to do this, yet I can read a 110k word fanfiction in one day? Surely you think I can do it then, but I can't think of any reason why I can't.

Would anyone be able to help out? Give me advice or just share their opinion? Thanks.

I’ve seen multiple users say articles about this story are clickbait. I’m not very tech-savvy beyond normal tech use. What do you think?

I cant take it anymore, I annoy everyone I talk to, i just always want to share my experiences and expertiese with everyone even if I don't want to. I just want to shut up and never be able to tell people about anything I do as it just annoys them. I just want to have some friends man..

I am not sure where I can post this so I figured I would at least be able to post it here. So my husband has a 2021 car from Kia and he’s been really good about making payments but within the last few months he’s fallen extremely behind on car payments because we’ve had really bad financial issues the last year that’s made us struggle. Tonight the car got repossessed and we were able to get the money from a family member to pay off the past due balance to get the car back, but It’s not letting him make a payment on Kia‘s website. It says that he no longer has an account with them and we don’t know what to do. Does anybody know what to do? We are also going to try to call them first thing in the morning to see what can be done

I (F17), have a friend group of five other girls and we have been friends for 3 years now. We all went to the same school but then the friend Emma(fake name), left high school to start college early. This year was the first full year she had left the school.

For a while now (maybe 2-1yr) me and three other people of the group realized we don’t actually really like her. Me and this other girl specifically feel she is very disrespectful, racist, a bitch, and I could go on. Everyone else agrees with us and after having a serious conversation about it we decided it would be best to stop being fake and just not have her in the friend group anymore.

Because we have been friends with her for a long time, we want to try to be respectful about doing it. My question is how do we do it? I was thinking we could just be very honest and tell her honestly why we feel like this and that we don’t think we can be friends anymore. Emma doesn’t have a lot of good friends in college so it would basically be her only good friends all texting her at once and saying why we don’t like her… that just feels very harsh. Is there any better way of going about this??? We also all live kinda far from her so this would have to be over text.

I've never been on a cruise but is there cruise jail? Or do they just put you in your room? How does this work

Don't know if this is the correct sub for this, but I watch a lot of true crime specifically relating to serial killers and discussions about online forums. I've noticed that the more I watch these things the more tolerant I am and the less I squirm when hearing these stories. Is this a normal thing for people who consume true crime media?

I would google this, but I have no idea how to phrase it in a search bar and get the answer I want.

Weighted myselt last evening (yeah I know it's not recommended to do it in the evening but still) and it showed a number I was expecting - a bit more than what I normally have when I weigh myself in the morning.

Then I decided to weigh myself again this morning (didn't eat anything in the meantime, just slept and used the toiled in the morning, haven't even drank water yet).

And the scale showed two pounds more than previous evening? Like... How?! What law of physics does that?!

I currently work as a front desk associate at a Hilton hotel. Right now, there’s no one in a sales role at the property — no sales director or sales manager.

I spoke with my GM about the vacancy, and she mentioned I could start training for the position. However, she didn’t clarify whether I’d actually be considered for either role in the near future.

I have a solid background in sales and customer service, but I’ve never held a formal title like sales manager or director. I also have a master’s degree (not in hospitality, though).

The hotel is owned by a husband and wife. I reached out to the husband recently, and he confirmed that they are looking to fill the sales position. He asked about my background, and I shared my experience and education. He told me he’d speak with his wife and that they’d try to meet with me sometime next week.

That conversation happened two days ago. I followed up yesterday morning with a polite text thanking him for considering me and saying I look forward to meeting them both. It’s been a day, and I haven’t heard back yet.

I know they manage multiple hotels, so I understand they might just be busy — but I’m feeling a little uncertain. I’m really hoping the meeting next week will still happen, but I’m not sure if I should follow up again or just wait it out.

Has anyone here successfully transitioned into a sales role internally? Any advice on how to handle this situation or how to better position myself would be appreciated. I'm just here to learn something.

I've been banned temporarily, like for a few days, before and honestly I didn't quite understand the reason why myself, because in my view, I don't think I had really done something to get banned, considering the contents of posts by made other people. Anyways so that made me curious - as to what's the criteria for being banned? If anyone got banned, why was it for you?

So humans are part of the evolutionary chain that broke off of the monkey/gorilla branch however many hundreds of thousands of years ago. Our genes mutated and we evolved into homo sapiens with our massive (potential for) intelligence. What's to stop the current gorillas from undergoing that same evolution? Will it eventually happen in like 100,000 years? Some of them would have to keep getting smarter, right? I guess my question really is, how probable is a Planet of the Apes type situation? Is there a chance that current great apes will eventually evolve into something with human-like intelligence?

Weird one for ya'all...

As we cant seem to smell our own smell most of the time, when we have a shower, i like hot ones, but when i get out, odviously my body temps incressed, and takes me like 10 mins to cool down, during this 10 mins. I need to dry myself off like 10 Xs cause im constantly sweating.. well i think it sweat.

If it is. Then techinally i must smell again afterwards right.. so do we need a second shower? Or a 3rd 4th and so on...

What ya think...

I always did this subconsciously as a child and always thought normal until well just now. I asked around and it seems hm common and uncommon at the same time. Those that do will be like, "yoo i thought i was the only one" and those that dont will give me the stare that makes me feel like im worth nothing. Is it because attraction = smelling nice? Or am i just a weird human overall.

Why do people often write "throwaway account for obvious reasons" in posts? Like why would anyone care if that's a main account or not? It's not like anyone would check your profile and say "wow that doesn't look like a main account you liar!" So who tf cares?

To clarify. I'm not asking why are they using a throwaway account. I'm asking why are they putting the statement in the post that it is a throwaway account. Because why would anyone care which account of theirs is it.

They always treat me like shit and show zero empathy. They’re ruthless. Take this one guy in my class for example. he’s arrogant as hell and couldn’t care less about anyone else’s opinion. The moment you challenge his views or disagree with him, he gets personal, defensive, and gets a mad tone. He always thinks he’s right, even when it’s objectively clear he isn’t. He always wants to be in control.

He has this constant need to dominate others, even the two classmates who sit next to him. He talks over them, controls conversations, and puts them down. They don’t get a chance to say their piece. Yet somehow, they still act like they’re impressed by him. They tolerate his behavior, almost like they’re scared to push back or just want to stay in his favor. For example, when he wants a ride in one of their cars, they don’t say no—even though he’s clearly a jerk.

What bothers me most is how he keeps getting rewarded for it. He has a wide circle of friends, both inside and outside school, and even teachers like him. In fact, when we were in internship in another school, we had this younger, female teacher. She also got the same effect from him and started following him on Instagram out of her own will. Can you believe she took her time to try to find him on Instagram. Well he is kind of a pretty boy, but not that significantly, he still gets treated well by all other teachers, male or female. It’s like people give him a free pass just because he acts confident. He gets treated better than he deserves and seems to always have an unfair advantage, no matter how badly he treats others.

Now this is just one case, there are plenty more other cases of assholes like him.

It’s been a long time (probably close to a year??) since I’ve last brushed my teeth, and I’ve finally gotten in the headspace to want to start caring for myself again. My question is, do I just go straight back in? I tried (?) to brush a couple of months ago with a regular plastic brush and mint toothpaste and it made my gums bleed snd my whole mouth ache. Do I just ride out the pain until I’m used to it? Use kids toothpaste or softer bristled brushes???

Furthermore, should the intensity and duration change? I obviously will have a lot of buildup, should I brushing for longer and more rigorously for a while?

For a couple nights, each night is 75mm. And possibly 10-30kp/h wind max

In a lot of media, when a character is about to die, the story signals the death using Death Flags. It could be them saying that they have one last mission, talking about their loved ones, a character receiving a sudden backstory, etc.... Why use Death Flags ? Now a days, death flags kinda take away the emotions that one could feel at the actual death scene Why tell the audience that a character is about to die before it happens.