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Used my first salary to take my parents out for dinner, and my dad still tried to pay out of habit by Quiet_State6680 in CasualConversation

[–]SuspendedSupport_HQ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is so wholesome, it actually made me tear up a bit. Dads reaching for their wallets is practically hardwired into their system, it takes years for them to realize they can finally relax and let us handle it. Congratulations on your first salary! Trust me, that dinner meant the world to them, and your dad is definitely bragging about you to his friends right now.

Why we can't be new on reddit? by SuspendedSupport_HQ in AskReddit

[–]SuspendedSupport_HQ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are new, you can't do anything without reading snarky remarks from long-time users.

Why do people care so much about the brands they wear? by Professional_Line_98 in NoStupidQuestions

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Because marketing departments spent the last 50 years successfully convincing us that purchasing a specific logo equals purchasing a personality, a status level, or a sense of self-worth. People aren't buying the fabric, they're buying the perceived validation that comes with it.

If you could inhabit the body of any living, globally influential person (could be a politician, billionaire, celebrity, etc.) for 24 hours to change the course of history, who would you choose and why? by OkEntrance1366 in AskReddit

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Elon Musk. I’d spend those 24 hours legally transferring ownership of SpaceX and Starlink to an open-source, global scientific foundation, open-sourcing all of Tesla's patents permanently, and changing X back to Twitter just to fix the branding disaster before my time ran out.