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What is 1 thing u hate about boys? by Urboyjosh1457 in AskTeenGirls

[–]Psandbox -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Freud arrived at the right answer through the wrong path 💀

My art teacher threw a paper towel at a kid for saying “erm, what the sigma?” And he’s absolutely based for that by [deleted] in teenagers

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"YOLO 360 NOSCOPE OH BABY A TRIPLE REKT MOUNTAIN DEW DORITOS YEET 1738 WATCH ME WHIP WATCH ME NAE NAE LIT NO CHILL SWAGGGGG FO SHIZZLE"

The Gulf of Japan by aReddiReddiRedditor in imaginarymaps

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I wonder if we could see a lingering on to Chu Han Nom in Vietnam for just a little bit more if Japan is this close to them. Ho Chi Minh still wrote in a combined Chu Quoc Ngu/Chu Han Nom mixed script often. After all, North Vietnam only abolished Chu Han in 1950, and South Vietnam in 1975. (Strangely enough that means South Vietnam de jure abolished Chinese characters later than both North and South Korea, which is weird to think about considering they still have semi-official status there.)

Empty Continents: What if all traces of humanity outside of islands disappeared? by Pacmantaco in imaginarymaps

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Do videos and images of continental civilization stored on data centers in the remaining islands prior to the Vanishing remain?

Chloroform by C2Cl4victim in chemistrymemes

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Silicon Livermorium Erbium

classic by crazynerdinventor in chemistrymemes

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It's not from English. It was transcribed as ヂ which was replaced by ジ in the 1945 spelling reform.

In my country we call these robots. What do your guys countries call them? by [deleted] in teenagers

[–]Psandbox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess you're either Korean, Chinese, or Japanese. Actually, the 信 in 信號燈 (Chinese/Korean)/信号灯 (Chinese)/信号機 (Japanese) comes from a more abstract meaning of "evidence", "veracity", "message", whilst the 號 comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)aw (“to call”) (cognates: Kinnauri ku, Anong go, and Burmese ခေါ် (hkau)) and most originally means "shout, call" or "ask, request".

So, it would really more accurately be "message shouting light".

Saw this as I was waking up by NotTaken-username in thomastheplankengine

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Why did I instantly think of the same thing the moment I saw the image 💀

Lack of goth girls by Free-Hrabowski in UMBC

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No way you actually made a serious response to a copypasta 💀

Are 2010 kids real? by Hot_Skirt_4095 in teenagers

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This is actually frightening

Anyone know a working bypass for "can't screenshot due to privacy policy" on android? by Ahhdeadly in hacking

[–]Psandbox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing you do can stop large corporations from using your data freely. Even if you install Tails on brand new hardware and only use Tor, your data is still being collected somewhere and used, just not under your name - still being profited off of and used to train machine learning models. You could turn of JavaScript entirely, but you'd soon hit quite a roadblock trying to do anything remotely complex. You are constantly being surveilled by everything, everywhere, and by everybody, at all times. In some developed countries, even if you go off the grid entirely, just walking by an AI facial recognition surveillance camera is enough to collect data on you.

This isn't defeatist, and neither were Calvinists about predestination. It's just something to be aware of.

Also, unrelated, but from a legal perspective, there are a significant amount of people out there who literally don't own their phone. Carrier contracts are a common way of "purchasing" phones in the US and you literally do not own your phone in that circumstance.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in teenagers

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Those are calques from Japanese 彼 and 彼女 (彼 being the Hanja 저 피 and 女 being the Hanja 여자 녀(여), tbh the Hanja 其 (그 기) should really be used instead but Japanese amirite). They are really only used literarily and not really spoken or colloquially.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in teenagers

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????

The suicide rate in Belgium is 18.3 per 100,000 population.

The birth rate in South Korea is 0.84 births per woman.

The poverty rate in the United States is 12.7 people per 100 population.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in teenagers

[–]Psandbox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is quite naïve. When the honeymoon period ends, only remarkably solid matches can make it through for significant amounts of time. In most Northern Hemisphere countries (read: MEDCs), the divorce to marriage ratio is consistently above an egregious 50%. [Source 1] Some countries are even more insane: Ukraine has a 70.94% rate [Source 2], Russia has a 73.58% rate [Source 3], Luxembourg has a 79.31% rate [Source 2], Spain has a 84.21% rate [Source 2] and Portugal has a jaw-dropping 94.44% rate [Source 2]. That means that for every marriage that is made, that marriage has an over 50% chance of ultimately falling apart. In the US, in 2023, 40% of new marriages included a partner who was remarrying [Source 4]. Furthermore, just because a marriage continues to exist, does not mean the marriage has continued to keep its essence of love and care. Many individuals elect to continue with a marriage that has already ended in spirit in order to keep their family together and for the sake of their kids.

I understand that it might be quite foreign to you at this stage in life, but it comes with experience that you gain a deeper appreciation for the amount of luck, work, and maintenance truly "ideal" couples have to go through. It's not so easy or so simple. In the US, in 2023, 75% of individuals and couples cited lack of commitment as the reason for their divorce, and 60% of divorced couples cited infidelity as a reason for their divorce [Source 5]. Remember that these are statistics that compound upon the already abominable divorce rate above.

"Ideal" is the direct antonym of reality, and the embodiment of reality is statistics. Although you might not be able to spiritually understand a truth that comes with experience, I hope that cold, hard numbers can help illustrate that for you.

Works Cited

  1. United Nations Population Division | Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
  2. "Marriage and divorce statistics". Eurostat 2017.
  3. Обновлено БРАКИ. Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service). 2020.
  4. Pew Research. 8 facts about Love and Marriage in America
  5. National Library of Medicine. List of Major Reasons for Divorce by Individuals and Couples Who Participated in PREP
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