What should I do if this gets discovered? There are a few ways it could be discovered accidentally. Please don’t give me sympathy or tell me to tell my dad. Also if anyone has tips on how to lie that would be appreciated.

Please don’t give any sympathy, I’ve been laughing about this with my girlfriend. And this is my dad’s brother and I’m 99% certain about this. I’m sure it’s through cheating and not through anything else. I want purely advice on how to lie and what I should do if this heats discovered.

I was just thinking about this, and my Grandfather worked for Caterpillar in Michigan right outta high school. He always joked he got over on the company because his pension after retirement was larger than his yearly salary. Granted, he did stay with the same company all his career.

Now, guaranteed pensions are largely strictly reserved for higher level corporate people (CEO, CFO, CMO…etc) while the average employee now is encouraged to contribute a portion of his paycheck to a 401k. Shifting the financial cost and investment risk to the worker. Even though companies have only gotten more profitable since 40-50 years ago.

So now, instead of having a guaranteed and defined benefit in retirement, your retirement can completely hinge on market performance.

How can this be seen as anything else than greed by large investment companies who wanna increase their AUM and have your funds in their control? So they lobbied for more “sustainable” investment vehicles. Because a 401k follows you from job to job whereas a pension does not. So it sounds better on paper.

Thoughts?

Edit: I should add some nuance to this and say I understand why most mid-size or mom and pop companies benefit from no pensions. Why in the hell are trillion dollar companies, that we all know would get bailed out if they failed, not doing pensions anymore. They would have higher employee loyalty. We all know Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Large Banks…etc will never be allowed to fail.

I have a large bust, 40DDD and I am constantly running into the bathroom during a work day to freshen up. Ive tried baby powder, creams, even kept paper towels under them which I know isn't ideal but I am going crazy nothing keeps them dry and I feel disgusting

This is not all meant to be insulting to overweight people, genuinely I couldn't care what anyone looks like.

I have a full-time job plus hobbies plus I need to sleep, how am I supposed to find time to make food or go out to eat, and 3+ times a day at that. I don't understand what I'm missing, even if you're eating something nutrient dense like eggs you would still need to eat like 30 to reach 2000 cal a day which is completely unreasonable. Even something unhealthy like a donut is 300 cals according to google so you would need 2 per meal which is more reasonable but still a lot. All that is ignoring the fact that most or at least some of the things you're going to eat are like rice and vegetables and other lower calorie things.

I suppose I kind of get it if you are drinking a lot of soda or energy drinks, since that doesn't really fill you up, but I can't be the only person that doesn't like carbonated drinks. Or if you are an athlete with protein shakes who portions out meals to make sure they get enough. But I don't understand how the average Joe doesn't struggle with this at all or has the opposite problem. What am I missing?

Edit: by maintain I mean keeping weight on

I recently watched a new documentary on fried chicken on netflix, which REALLY put me off kfc and other similar places.

They were naming a couple of large franchises, and also brought up the sustainable chicken forum, which the companies in it also happen to own. But mcdonalds was not brought up once which I found incredibly odd.

I assumed that mcdonalds chickens are from the same place. I would still be surprised if they arent. But what is the actual deal with their chickens? why werent they mentioned about being poorly looked after as well?

Honest question,

If for some reason my leg had to be amputated, could i make the explicit request for the leg to be given to me once amputated? It's a part of me, i own it more than anything else in that world, seems only logical to ask for it after separation.

I won't lie, this is a two layer question. The main reason would be to try and cook some of it, just to know how it tastes. It's litteraly my own body, so to me, it feels completely fine ethically, even if its a bit weird. But at this point you can either throw it away or do something with it, and i'd choose the latter. Is it ok from a legal perspective?

And no i'm not a psycho, just curious. And no i'm not planning on making something happen to my leg ^^

Not sure if its breaking the rule 8 of the sub, but i wanted to ask

edit: ok i'm sorry, this felt like natural curiosity but maybe i should talk to someone after reading the comments :(

Not just your pets, but random animals like birds or other wildlife. Do you say "hello there!" or whatever, to animals you see? My wife and I both do this and I'm wondering if it's weird or normal.

I am 35, female, in good shape, 2 kids, full time job, and I find often at night that I get completely exhausted once it hits 9pm. I feel like I can nap or sleep at any time, from 9/10pm-7am. That's like... 9-10 hours a night. You can imagine this doesn't leave me with much time to myself.

How can I sleep less? Is it something I can train myself to do? Why do I sleep more than other people, such as much husband who sleeps 8 hours a night regularly?

I thought that this algorithm that has years of my habits would be able to predict even like 3/10 times, but it honestly can't figure anything out.

I've noticed this pattern in my own life and among my friends, and it always confuses me. From my experience, it feels like a mental switch flips at night. Almost like our comfort levels change depending on the position of the sun? I'm curious if there is an actual psychological phenomenon where nighttime lowers our inhibitions, or if we are just conditioned to view the day as "business time" and the night as "personal time."

I have a good home life. I live at home and I’m in my 20s. I genuinely dread coming home after work because I just know there is nothing to look forward to and I will just sit in bed for the next five hours.

My friends never wanna do anything after work because they’re tired . I don’t wanna do stuff by myself. I signed up for the gym today to to have something to look forward to after work, so I hope it works. What do you guys do?

I just wanna know what keeps you going in life now?

Every dog that I’ve adopted was a neutered adult. They all had a tattoo of a female or male symbol with a slash through it to mark them as neutered. The tattoos always look professional. Clearly, tattooing neutered dogs with this symbol has become a common practice, at least in the US. That means that someone (okay, many someones) out there is responsible for tattooing dogs. So…who is it? Do vet clinic and spay organizations contract out to a tattoo artist? Does someone on staff study tattooing for this purpose?

To preface, this is strictly an etymology question. I'm not trying to parrot the moronic conservative talking point "I'm not homophobic, I'm not 'scared' of gay people," or anything similar to that.

I'm genuinely curious about when and why the term "phobia," which originates from the Greek word "phóbos" meaning "fear" or "panic" and whose primary usage (as a suffix) in English was primarily used to describe intense, often irrational, fears of various things. Like an irrational fear of spiders being arachnophobia or an irrational fear of deep open water being thalassophobia. All of these words derived from the phobia suffix follow along with the original Greek meaning of describing an intense fear.

However, in modern times many words have the phobia suffix tacked on to describe intense aversion to or hatred of something (I'll just use "aversion" for brevity from here on out) rather than the fear of that thing. The obvious examples are homophobia, the aversion towards homosexual people, Islamophobia, the aversion of Islamic people, etc. From a purely etymology standpoint, these words with the phobia suffix don't quite seem to make sense.

There are even other uses of the phobia suffix that aren't refering to fear, strictly speaking. The most obvious examples that I can think of are hydophobic and lipophobic to describe materials that repel water or oil, respectively. These make a bit more sense to me than the others, since ascribing any sort of emotional reaction to chemical substances is a bit silly regardless, and I suppose a substance repelling another substance could be interpreted as "fear" but even in this case I think a prefix or suffix meaning "aversion to" would still be more apt.

Which brings me to my sort of second question. We have other Greek prefixes and suffixes that can precisely describe this feeling of aversion, in fact, we already commonly use them in other words. The prefix "miso-", derived from the Greek word "misos" already perfectly describes such a feeling and we have other words to prove it. Misogyny, misandry, misanthropy all describe the aversion towards women, men, or people in general, and there are plenty of other words that follow the same pattern of expressing aversion, not fear, of something.

Likewise, the similarly derived suffix "-misia" accomplishes the same thing by denoting an aversion, not a fear. So terms like homophobia could instead be replaced by homomisia which clearly describes the fact that they have feelings of hatred and not fear.

I'm not advocating that society drops all previous usage of these "-phobic" words and replaces their usage with "miso-" or "-misia" words. Instead, I'm more curious why the words that we *do* use developed along this route instead of the other aforementioned routes, especially since there were already existing examples of words and prefixes/suffixes that better described these beliefs and attitude as aversion or hatred rather than fear.

Edits: Fixing typos.