As a medical student who started clinicals, the amount of work and disgusting shit that some doctors have to do relative to their compensation is a crime. Yes they make good money but it isn’t enough. It’s been normalized that a doctor “just” has to save patients lives everyday.

I wasn’t sure how to title this but it’s an observation I’ve made over the past three or so years. I know many people in my life who are on ozempic now and I’m genuinely worried about them, mentally and physically. They aren’t putting in the work to be healthy, but instead have simply withered away, losing fat, sure, but more concerningly muscle. None of them have changed their diets all that much, still drink soda or crap willed with excessive sugar. Most of them all regularly eat super processed foods. The frequency or portion sizes have just changed. But here’s my biggest critique and concern, especially for the younger people I know: all of them report the drug “turning off the food noise.” Food noise might be common but it’s not necessarily “normal,” or certainly shouldn’t be some accepted given for life. Have ANY of them tried proper therapy, DBT or CBT for their food noise? Not that I know of. Have any of them tried OA (overeaters anonymous, a FREE 12-step program accessible daily through zoom meetings on your handy dandy smart phone)? No.

I think sooooo many more people have various eating disorders or disordered eating and just can’t admit it to themselves and are scared of putting in the emotional/psychological work. Because recovery is fucking hard. I’m in recovery and have been sober for 4 years next month. I get it. But kind of like going on suboxone, ozempic and losing weight doesn’t actually take away food noise, it puts it on mute. It’s still there. And I think drug companies take advantage of desperate people, especially women. I’m worried about people, especially women, who have no plan to come off of it, lose a ton of muscle, and who will be more prone to osteoporosis or other issues later on.

What I’m seeing among so many loved ones TERRIFIES me. But at the end of the day, it’s Not my problem. I’m not on it. Anyway, that‘s my hot take.

edited for a typo.

Okay, I think only older Gen Zs (2000s) and Millennials might understand this.

Remember when we used to actually play outside? And I don't mean playing with friends, playing with a ball or whatever, I mean, when we went out to actually explore and do random kid sh*te.

Well, I personally believe all kids need this experience in their lives because for a lot of kids, this phenomenon happens. When you try to help a bug but accidentally kill it and feel horrible about it, or when you get so curious, 'What would happen if I cut this worm in half?' And then you do it. Over and over before an adult scolds you and explains why it's bad, or you then understand, 'Oh, I actually hurt it..'

Because remember, kids are born into this world with nothing but curiosity. That's why it's so, so important for kids to explore on their own, make mistakes, try things even if it's stupid. Because that's the only way they'll learn until they're in their 20s and their common sense start to actually common sense.

How many of us had morbid curiosity? Maybe poured salt on a snail, burned a spider, cut up a worm, whatever else, and either learned from an adult why that's bad through scolding and started feeling sadness, guilt, remorse, or they just started understanding after the fact how they just hurt a creature, and started feeling bad? In my opinion, THAT is how empathy forms.

Like, you develop emotions. They're not developed as soon as you get out of the womb. You have them. But that doesn't mean they're developed. That's why you hear, 'emotionally stunted'. That's when someone didn't develop their emotions as they should have in their youth.

Like, how are you supposed to feel remorse when you've never felt remorse before? How are you supposed to feel guilty when you've never felt guilty before?

Obviously, I'm not saying hours outside will make a child grow up into the most amazing person ever. That's not what I'm saying. Other factors are...well, factors.

Like, you know those kids who are so entitled they can't feel a single drop of anything like guilt, remorse, empathy, or sympathy and are coddled by their parents? That's the problem. The parents aren't letting those kids make mistakes and learn from them. They're keeping those kids from literally feeling certain emotions.

Like, what would happen if you, as a kid, ripped someone's doll up? If you were scolded and taught it's wrong, you'd grow up taking care of other people's stuff when left in your care, correct?

But as soon as your parents, whom as a child you believe and trust more than literally anyone in the world because your brain and instincts are literally wired that way, tell you, 'You did nothing wrong, that child deserved it, blah blah blah', the chance for any regret to bloom vanishes, and in it's place you'd start feeling smug, entitled, etc.

So yea. Those are my reasons for believing kids should go outside, make mistakes, accidentally kill insects and reptiles, maybe yank a cat's tail, and feel bad afterward.

P.S: I didn't know what tag to apply 😅

Because your name is your identity, if someone makes fun of it they basically strip your identity away and make you very shy and insecure. I had an issue where I was getting depressed because everyone was making fun of my name and rhyming it with other words. And sadly it absolutely is not taken seriously by anyone.

I keep seeing the "cutting is harder than bulking" and in bodybuilding I agree for sure because to get really lean you will have to feel a bit hungry, but as someone trying to go from like 30% bodyfat to 20% and being midway to it, it's really not that bad.

It's not "torture" like a lot of people suggest and I was just lazy and depressed honestly. I mentioned it in the title and will still say that there are solution if you have hormonal issues.

I can eat 2200 calories a day and still lose weight. I started doing home workouts so I have a bit more freedom with what I eat and I can eat outside without issues. I simply stopped doing dumb shit when I eat out, I don't do 4000+ dinners out with friends, but like 2k-2,5k and compensate with a long walk.

Of course I have moments where I would destroy 4 McDonalds large menù, have done worse, but the feeling of needing to do it is much weaker now, and because of that I eat 1 and am fine and happy because I did not disappoint myself.

Y'all believe fit people eat only healthy food but that's not true, I really really believe in CICO, like I WILL have the weekly deficit, so I happen to eat junk at times, but if you did everything right you will see how little that affects anything if controlled.

Anyone in 2026 that will make up excuses, unless it's hormonal (which is fixed with 1 pill most of the times) you will lose weight in a caloric deficit, and if you aren't you are not tracking properly. You are not a unicorn, you are just lying to yourself.

E: this post is not to attack overweight people, I have been overweight in my life. I am criticizing the excuses made over diet. I don't like people calling others "fatties" in the comments, it's not that type of post, stop it

Back before Ozempic and other “miracle drugs” for weight loss, people had to earn their toned body through good eating, exercise, and discipline. Ozempic bypasses all of this and lets the fatties shed pounds the easy way. And, let’s face it, not all of the Lard-o Calrissians have some thyroid disorder: they simply chose the path of least resistance (Twinkies and fries). Ultimately I don’t hate ozempic because it is getting people to lose weight, but most of the people on this drug would have stayed fat and unmotivated without it.

You can't blame a company for a consumer's conscious choice to buy things they don't need. The excuse is always the same: I want to have fun, so what everyone does it, and the worst, well then I guess I should'nt buy anything.

People need to be honest to themselves and state that they are okay with human trafficking and slavery and so much worse, if it means they get their chocolate, toys, and waste.

The only reason I still use reddit myself is because I'm big on nostalgia and a have a soft spot for my NEET neckbeard phase when I'd be on reddit all day.

But when I say I slept with around 40 women in the past three years since being a virgin or that I made a 500k net worth that I grew during that time while working multiple jobs, people call bullshit because "someone who could do that wouldn't be on reddit".

And when I share how I grew or how the average person can do just as well as me if not better, there's always something dismissive reason as to why that's not the case.

I don't get it.

And this isnt just me. There's a bunch of successful people I know who occasionally post on reddit and will get mass downvoted when the advice they gave is actually the reason for their success. It's almost as if a lot of people are too inexperienced to clock it

I hate the fact that some parents wait until their kids grow up to divorce. The arguing, passive aggressive comments, the insulting each other just hurts the children more than if their parents split.
Now I don’t have split parents, but they need a divorce, so I could be very wrong, but I’m personally so sick of living in a household where my parents despise each other and refuse to separate.

Dementia is a living hell people should be saved from, and that means saving them from themselves. Doing stupid shit like getting a pacemaker to ensure your heart doesn't stop when you've refused to go to the neurologist for over a decade is going to ensure our elder care facilities get even more overloaded with people whose minds are gone but their bodies just won't die. It's wild that people will even perform such procedures on extremely old people without necessitating a cognitive evaluation first, since iirc people over the age of 80 have a 50/50 chance of being symptomatic of some form of dementia.

I’ve noticed that if you’re extremely negative or extremely positive; you don’t have a hot take.

The best hot takes have between a 40-60% upvote:downvote ratio as people in this subreddit don’t know whether to upvote or downvote great hot takes.

They also tend to have several comments attacking everything but the actual argument you have in place

For this post whataboutism is defined as deflecting an issue by raising a different issue or accusing the other person of hypocrisy, and straw manning is defined as mishandling an opponent's argument by distorting, exaggerating, or oversimplifying it to make it easier to attack.

Not all "what about" questions are bad. It depends on whether you are actually trying to help solve the problem.

A good example of this is if I post, "We should ban cats from going outside so they stop killing birds," it is totally fair to ask, "What about stray cats with no homes? What do we do with them?" This is a good question because it points out a real problem with the plan. Also notice how I said cats as a whole and did not specify that I was referring to pet cats, therefore it’s not unreasonable for people to question the logistics*.*

I recently posted that it should be mandatory for girls over 16 to be tested for uterine health conditions (like PCOS or endometriosis). As someone who has endometriosis and friends with same and other uterine conditions, these illnesses mess with hormones and make it hard to focus during exams. Putting it on their medical record would help them get extra help during tests. It would also be beneficial for girls with parents who don’t take their health seriously.

Whether you agree with my plan or not is not the point of this post you’re reading. The problem is that people instantly commented “Well, what about boys? Boys have hormone problems too!"

Bringing up boys on a post about uterine health fails basic logic for two reasons.

It creates a fake fight (Straw Man), I argued, "We should help girls with uterine conditions." Commenters twisted that to mean, "Only girls matter, and I hate boys." That is completely fake.
It assumes care is limited (Whataboutism), Helping one group does not mean you are taking away help from another group.

Also, if you’re born a boy, right, you don’t have a uterus, so boys have no relevance in the discussion.

Also, often times the OP will clarify or make exceptions in their post (for example, Everyone should get vaccinated against cancer …. except for people with autism or those allergic to the vaccine) and people will still go what about autistic people and those allergic?

I hate it when people twist the conversation just to feel included. If you want to talk about boys' health, go make your own post about it. Stop derailing ours.

At the end of the day, saying "I want to help one group" does not mean "I hate everyone else." Healthy debates only work when people actually listen to the specific topic being discussed. If you cannot look at a post about uterine health without shouting, "Well, what about boys?" you are not helping. You are just derailing the conversation. If you want to talk about a different issue, go make your own thread. Stop ruining everyone else's posts with textbook internet brain rot.

Every time I hear the average American talk about a topic like tipping, I understand why people love to do business here. It's because citizens are less likely to demand to be respected financially.

People get so angry when I say that tipping is out of control. But like most things, everyone will just allow themselves to be exploited and scammed. The same people who are scammed by the tipping system are the same people who support it.

Tipping is not something a employee should rely on to pay their bills and survive.

Individuals who don't tip, and now those who refuse to tip the cost of a meal, are depicted as villains. But the business owners and their business models are the true villains.

If you can't afford to pay your workers a liveable wage, then don't open a restaurant that relies on servers. Now we're expected to tip for takeout as well because "they handed you the bag."

It will keep expanding beyond the restaurant model because the system is continuously supported.

People who claim that menu prices will drastically increase do not know how restaurant economics works.

It should be illegal to have employees live on unguaranteed income.

I don’t understand why I see so many taken or married women with personal male trainers. A lot of those trainers don’t even look like what they preach. How are they supposed to help you build muscle or improve your cardio when they don’t seem to have much muscle or fitness themselves? It makes me cringe.
But the muscular ones are even more suspect because we know that if they are fit and muscular, whether naturally or through steroids, their testosterone could be higher than average, making them hornier and more likely to crash out.
And honestly, it’s annoying because it always seems like those guys have hidden intentions. I feel like they just want to smash their female clients. This is why, if your girl has a personal male trainer, don’t date her—or just smash her and leave

Im just reading the contents of the David case and i wonder how this guy is still alive, but obviously my point extends to any case of rape.

Cause that is an act that has no rational excuse in my mind, there are many illegal acts people get penalized for that i find in some scenarios completely okay to do, like shoplifting in smaller crimes and murder thats justified.

But i truly dont think the rape of a person male or female is such a horrid act there is so justification.

As an agnostic atheist i don’t believe in hell and i do want these freaks to suffer but if you have enough power even jail isnt an issue id rather not walk this earth with them on it.

I'm not really sure why this is the case, but it seems much more socially acceptable to talk about "porn addiction" than it is "masturbation addiction", and that's the hot take. I understand, and fully concede, that porn is certainly involved in the addiction, and that some people specifically use porn during each urgent scratch of the addiction, but it's being used as the fall guy for the deeper actual issue of masturbation addiction. It's not like the addiction was invented when porn came along. Plenty of tales of people masturbating endlessly on park benches and hunched over in dark alleys during the middle ages.

It's still embarrassing, but somehow it's much easier to look my boss in the eyes and say "sir, I'm sorry. I have a porn addiction" rather than "sir, I'm sorry. I'm addicted to masturbating in the office". Just sounds better.

I am a 4/10 face obese dude. I speed-ran through college, masters and PhD in my 20s and taking care of myself was kinda a secondary priority because money was tight. Now that I have enough money to do something for myself for better appearance, I am feeling more confident. I had good self esteem, but not a confidence...if that makes sense. Like, I didn't mop around what a piece of worthless turd I was, but I was a lot less outgoing.

I see the men of all ages, even kids, engaging in this lookmaxxing trend I am just wondering where things went wrong for them so much that they are all jumping into peptides, face-hammering (!), steroids, etc. I noticed a big increase in wanna-be gymflueners in last few years but now lookmaxxing trend is ....troubling to say the least. I want to say that I feel for them because the self-imposed pressure of "no one will go out with me" is real....but there is a strong undercurrent of resentment and anger directed at people general. It's just like "girls gotta have this XYZ body type" agenda from Hollywood and enterteinament but full of puss and venom.

There are some idiots like that guy who hit his face with a hammer - and he still looks like an average dude lol - and they are pretty funny to ridicule, but calling them incels and losers altogether will only encourage them to grow in size.

Had a discussion with some friends yesterday about some girl who apparently thinks I’m creepy. They mention “Oh such and such is avoiding you because she’s weirded out by you” to which I responded “ok so?”. For about 10 minutes they’re just speculating on why she thinks that or just reiterating that she thinks I’m creepy and I continue to ask “ok what’s your point”. They make a lot of random reasons why I should care which don’t mean anything to me such as you should avoid her or something like that.

Why this girl feels this way, I don’t know and I really don’t care. I haven’t spoken to this girl in almost 2 months and even before that I had maybe 5 actual discussions with her over 5 months. If my presence makes her uncomfortable then it’s on her to deal with it but it’s not something that I need to think about.

I see this mainly happens with women towards men where men are meant to be responsible for the way someone feels about them but I think it applies to anyone and everyone. Your perception is not reality and of course you’re free to have your opinion, feelings and boundaries but you are responsible for your feelings, not them.

I’m noticing a trend I America specifically, but maybe in other places, where people are expected to change the way they behave and act just to appease others emotions.

It lets you feel good about yourself and strong and heroic without actually doing anything. You’re just gonna scare and confuse them with your intensity.

Like, what happens to Little Suzie after Mommy & Daddy unwittingly foam at the mouth telling her that they’re gonna slowly dismember her dear big brother for playing their “secret game” every time he’s left to watch her?

The method most empirically successful is teaching them about consent, unsafe behavior, the actual names of body parts, and fostering an environment where they understand they can come to you about anything and feel safe doing it.

Servers that complain about people not tipping are usually the shittiest servers. You don’t automatically get 20% for showing up, if you don’t like your pay go learn a marketable skill and change jobs.

(tw: suicide and mental health!!!)

Used cold take tag as I feel this is obvious.

Too many media outlets and adults are now resorting to labelling obvious suicides and attempts into "trends" or "tiktok challenges" too excuse their neglect of young people's mental health.

Ive seen articles that will be along the lines of "another teen killed by tiktok trend", for context the "challenge" was swallowing a copius and lethal amount of some pill which I cant remember its name. Whilst I appreciate that some of these are genuinly just dumb trends, but far too many obvious attempts are being labelled as them.

I believe this comes from adults downplaying mental health of young people to escape the reality they have probably neglected to care or seek help for their childrens mental health and now they are tragically gone, I know saying someone is responsible for their own child's death may come across as insensitive but I think its a reality in far too many cases.

Let me know your opinions⬇️

I appreciate this is poorly written writing isnt my thing.

It’s not a declining birth rate, it’s also a declining of family structure, general happiness, person connectivity, dating, life purpose, continuing your bloodline, and even general life satisfaction.

Why is it that only men care about these and genuinely want the best for society? It almost feels like women love the declining birth rate FOR THE SAKE of men not liking it, not so much for the betterment of themselves nor society.

Like why is there such a big ass difference between men’s and women’s sympathy for societal continuity, family values, etc? Once they knew that the declining birth rate will hurt men, they’re like, oh yes, that’s my mission from now on. It’s confusing as fuck.

And no, it’s not because of the economy, it’s like, maybe, 25-30% because of the economy, and 70-75% because of young women’s values changing. Not men’s values tho, they’re the same.

Note: please do not resort to name calling. It only makes you look dumber, nothing else.

Tipping is basically the restaurant giving you the option of not paying 20% of your bill.

Sounds great, why would you not save the 20%?

Except the management is making it crystal fucking clear, that if you don't, that 20% is coming out of the workers pay. Managers get their money regardless of what you tip.

So, really, you're just saying, "Fuck the workers, I'mma get mine."

And a preemptive fuck you to every comment coming that purposely misses the point of this little rant of mine. Some people really go out of their way to not understand shit and it comes from pedantic Redditors all the time. Show a modicum of critical thinking.

It used to be the case doing so was heavily stigmatised for a P-Star and so many avoided it, meaning you could watch pretty much any video and you didn't have to worry about seeing that sort of thing.

Now, it's like it's a hard condition for working in the industry. You HAVE to work with black male talent, and just, from the moment I see that, I struggle to ever watch that actress's work again. I've known many men say the same.

Anyway, that's a fairly contentious take, I'm sure. Which is what this sub seeks. So there. A sliver of truth we are pressured into never stating.