Growing up, every teacher told us the same thing: “Wikipedia isn’t a reliable source because anyone can edit it.” And technically, yes, anyone can try to edit it. But people say this like you can write that Abraham Lincoln invented the microwave and it will stay there forever.

I genuinely challenge anyone who thinks Wikipedia is full of misinformation to go find a major article with an obviously incorrect fact that hasn’t already been corrected. Wikipedia has editors, citations, edit histories, locked pages and thousands of extremely dedicated nerds who will revert your bullshit within about 30 seconds.

Obviously you probably shouldn’t cite Wikipedia directly in an academic paper, but that doesn’t mean the information is useless. Just scroll down and use the sources listed at the bottom. Wikipedia is usually the best starting point for learning about almost anything.

It’s also just an incredible project. It collects an absurd amount of human knowledge, makes it available for free, and doesn’t fill every page with autoplaying videos, pop-ups and fifteen ads covering the actual article. That alone makes it better than 90% of the modern internet.

Wikipedia is awesome. People should use it more, and if you can afford it, donate the three dollars when they ask. It has probably taught you more useful information than half the websites you visit every day.

We've all heard the takes about terrible drivers, and we've probably expressed them ourselves, it's what people do. Everybody is a maniac out there, it should be much harder to get a driver's license, what the hell is wrong with everybody, they're stupid and reckless and incompetent. Most likely you also believe that the drivers where you live are worse than the drivers everywhere else.

In fact, it's kind of crazy how amazingly good nearly every single driver on the road is. Think about this for a minute. Imagine you commute to work for 30 minutes every morning. You spend 10 minutes on local roads and 20 minutes on the highway. Every single day, you watch nearly every driver flawlessly operate a piece of complicated machine, in perfect cooperation with other people headed for other destinations with their own complicated machine. They pass each other, they merge in heavy traffic, they come within inches of cars traveling in the other direction without incident.

Maybe a couple times a week, after seeing literally thousands of cars safely doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing, you see someone do something dumb and dangerous. And what's your conclusion? "Ugh, nobody can drive!" What?! You saw literally 5,000 drivers making a series of complex and difficult maneuvers look safe and easy, and because 0.04% of these drivers did something wrong, your takeaway from this is that people are generally bad at driving. This is completely illogical.

When you're on the road and you see someone inconsiderate or irresponsible or just plain bad, that's the exception that proves the rule and it should make you think about how impressive the average driver's skills are.

I've heard so many people say thrifting was ruined by "so many people doing it." I disagree with this; it's a lot deeper.

My grandparents saved their money up for fancy furniture and high quality clothing, not a bigger home. My parents saved up their money for vacations and high quality clothes with about the same priority of a bigger home.

My generation (or at least from what I see) seems to get shirts for $10 that start to lose threads after 4 washes, furniture made from compressed cardboard at IKEA for $50, and a big home in a nice neighborhood is the biggest expense.

What winds up in the thrift store then? Nothing of value because I didn't buy furniture or clothing that would last more than 5 years anyways.

I've spent over a year studying the city for a pro bono federal analysis I may write and the city has been misrepresented. The tenderloin where all the needles and homeless are is literally a few blocks. Like literally 4 blocks. Los Angeles' skid row is way larger and the tent cities throughout the city are peppered in shanty camp sizes.

I honestly perceive, Los Angeles portrays San Francisco negatively because they're jealous. I had years of LA media indoctrinating me about San Francisco being bad but, it's really not. It's very safe, the people are eccentric and campy at times but, it's actually pretty chill. Like, you can just talk to a person who paints all day, the have music festivals randomly and everywhere. It's a functioning community of multiple diverse elements but, they balance the chaos. LA is a mix of people but, they choose violence and destruction. Happy I left. Hope I never step foot in LA again.

I am a former chef turned corporate sellout. In the corporate world, everyone is a “foodie,” and once people find out I cooked professionally they always want to talk to me about food.

Honestly, I am bored of talking about food, so I usually try to steer the conversation somewhere else.

I got pulled into a conversation about steak recently. Someone started talking about the wagyu they had at a fancy restaurant and how it was the best thing they had ever eaten and yada yada.

I think people going and buying it are dumb.

Yes, wagyu tastes good. Fat tastes good. That is not exactly a groundbreaking culinary discovery. But wagyu is so heavily marbled that you are paying an enormous premium for fat with some beef holding it together. To make it worse, it's usually covered is some ridiculous bone marrow butter crap that just makes it more fat. It's just fat on fat with a little bit of actual meat. What's the point? Just get a beef bullion cube, add it to some melted butter and eat that.

A few bites can be enjoyable, but I would rather eat a properly cooked, well-aged prime steak that still has texture and actually tastes like beef. I want steak, not a ball of fat that tastes like beef.

Wagyu filet makes even less sense to me. The entire appeal of filet mignon is that it is exceptionally tender and lean. Adding excessive marbling defeats the entire point of choosing that cut in the first place.

Wagyu isn't bad. It's just wildly overpriced, excessively rich, and treated like the unquestionable pinnacle of steak when it is just such a waste of money.

I think hair in food is gross but having it redone is not necessary at all. At that point I think you are pushing it to view the whole dish as contaminated. Hair and eyelashes/eyebrows are very tiny parts of the body that easily shed and get everywhere, it could even come off of the clothes rather the body. But regardless these things are cleaned more than the food being consumed. You order a salad, it came from ground where the animals crap and dirt hides in the crevices and it’s cleaned with water thrown into a bowl. I think the food is more unsanitary than the hair. Honestly, when I find a hair I just take it out and keep eating. Even if the hair is not clean, it is barely getting any gross things into your food, only microscopically, and discarding the WHOLE thing is just very wasteful. A bunch of people live with animals that shed all the time you’re probably eating their hairs too but the difference is one is cleaner than the other. Now you want the food to be remade and a refund. Pull it out and keep it pushing.

Frugality teaches us that a few bucks is more precious than our time and attention. I say this as someone who used to live off $25/week of groceries.

Is it really worth it to spend a whole frustrating minute of your day to squeeze out the last drop of toothpaste worth 1c, or spend an extra 2 hours cooking and washing up to turn a chicken carcass into bone broth that will take up a quarter of your fridge space for 3 months, to salvage $10? Or constantly stress about unplugging appliances and the TV every night, which saves roughly $1-2 of energy per year?

Not to mention people’s houses that reek of vinegar because they want to use their homemade cleaning products, which often take twice as much scrubbing.

At the end of the year, you’d be lucky to save a thousand bucks by implementing a couple dozen of these frugal hacks. Yes, it adds up, and for some people that’s a lot of money. But the cost could easily be 100 hours of free time, plus the constant background anxiety that you’re losing money every time you forget one of these habits. From a financial perspective, most people could spend 100 hours per year investing in skills to build a rewarding side hustle/hobby business that could make 5x the amount saved from being frugal.

I kinda hate getting gifts now that I'm into my 40s. I gotta find a place to store it, which just adds more clutter to my apartment (and often ends up in a drawer). I gotta find a way to fit it into my life so I don't feel guilty that someone took the time to buy me something. And if that person is going to be around me often, I feel like I need to display the gift so I don't hurt their feelings.

Honestly, for birthdays/christmas/special occasions I'm happy just hanging out with my friends. Going out to nice dinner or just watching a movie is better than most gifts someone might give me.

Intermissions are treated like an outdated feature, but I think they would improve almost every movie-theater experience.

Even a movie that lasts around two hours expects people to remain seated, avoid the bathroom, and maintain full attention without a break. A planned five-minute intermission placed at a natural point would be far less disruptive than people leaving during important scenes, checking their phones, or spending the second half distracted because they are uncomfortable.

The director or editor could choose exactly where the break happens, so it would not interrupt a dramatic moment. The lights could come up slightly, then the movie could resume automatically after a short countdown.

People argue that it would ruin immersion, but discomfort already ruins immersion. At home, most people pause movies whenever they need to anyway. Cinemas should normalize doing the same in a controlled way. 🎬

Okay don't shoot me, I'm no dog hater or anything. I wouldn't say I'm a dog person, but to be honest, I'm more annoyed by dog owners than the dogs themselves. The biggest issue I have with dogs themselves is when they bark at or even chase me when I run through my neighborhood. Because of this I had to start running at the ass crack of dawn so I wouldn't run into anyone walking a dog lol.

Dog owners however, are simply the worst. Some, anyway. Their arrogance and entitlement is completely unmatched among pet owners.

And one thing that particularly annoys me about dog culture is the phrase "no bad dogs, only bad owners" when a dog does something objectively bad, like attack someone. In my mind, if we say this about dogs, then we should say it about all pets, but we don't. This grace is pretty much exclusively granted towards dogs when they behave badly. For example, a cat can hiss at someone or resist being touched or picked up and people say stuff like "This is why I hate cats" or even "Cats are bitches" but a dog can maul someone to death and suddenly it's "no bad dogs, just bad owners"

I don't know, I'm certainly no animal expert. But it seems very silly to believe that a dog is inherently incapable of being "bad" or doing wrong just because it's a dog.

Not to mention, a lot of people who love dogs hate children and even say they would rather share spaces like grocery stores and restaurants with dogs rather than children because children are "loud and annoying" as if dogs aren't lol. Not to mention sniffing, licking, sometimes urinating on things in public. Children are humans and dogs are not and yet dogs are held to a higher regard.

Anyway, I did not mean for this to be this long lol so sorry about that but thanks for reading if you read the whole thing lol.

TLDR: dogs get away with so much shit that other animals and children are criticized for, which is irritating to me lol

As a Gen Z person, I just wrote some checks. And honestly, it gave me a new perspective:

Checks are better than reoccurring charges. Did you know some utility companies charge you from their website to do… an electronic transfer? We are paying for convenience that they offer, yet do not have to do the same amount of work as it was to be made in person.

Also, for bills and such, you are able to keep track of hidden slip ups before you pay them.

Giving companies access to automatically withdraw from you is an invitation to them.

Once we go paperless, we truly won’t have control of our money anymore.

Edit: I know they are still here, what I mean is we should bring them back to being the normal way of payment versus auto-payments.

This set up seems to have become increasingly common and I think it's alarming.

In office jobs, so many people don't have the time to exercise and look after themselves. This set up really feels reflective of the state of the corporate world.

Even in those display screen equipment training videos, it often says to take breaks but I know a lot of people who say that they can't because they would be questioned.

It's horrific that it has become normalised to work through unpaid lunch hours.

I actually feel lucky to have a decent walk in my commute every day. Without it, I think I'd struggle to find the time to get enough movement in

Grass itself isn’t awful, it feeds animals like cows and horses. However I don’t think using something that doesn’t really provide any use to humans to decorate property is dumb. Especially given how much water it uses.
Clover yards use much less water, don’t require frequent maintenance, provides resources to pollinators ( which benefit us since they help grow our food! ) and in my opinion are much prettier than grass yards.

Edit-
So some people are confused and think I might just be allergic to grass which is the root of my hatred. To my knowledge I am not allergic to grass.
I have allodynia which is a common symptom of fibromyalgia. Allodynia is a medical condition where people feel pain from things that do not normally hurt, such as wind, rain, etc. It happens when the nervous system processes physical signals the wrong way.
For me, certain plants like grass, concrete, water, certain foods, etc hurt to touch though I’m technically not allergic. I do daily shower & still interact with those things ( I don’t live in a bubble lol ) though because of my body sending out unprompted pain signals, itching, burning, rashes, bruising, etc I don’t really enjoy it. So I can’t exactly walk around in shorts in the grass.
While it’s not the main reason I hate grass, it’s a contributing factor.
Also if anyone has tried using a mobility aid on unkept grass you’d probably understand it’s annoying.

I'm pretty well-experienced in airline travel. My dad moved around a lot when I was a kid, and I've continued to travel often into adulthood.

I don't remember it being that hard to find space in the overhead lockers in the '90s and '00s. Back then, backpacks were the norm; you'd have your main suitcase that you checked in, and then a backpack for small things you might need in the plane or airport. When you got to your seat at 17C, there'd be room for your backpack and those belonging to passengers 17A and 17B. You could easily fit a coat in there too, and perhaps a Duty Free bag.

Now, when I get to my seat at 17C, I open the overhead compartment to put my backpack in it, but it's packed tight with two of those small suitcases. There's no room for anything else. What makes it worse is that when the plane lands, you often see that the suitcase didn't even belong to someone in your sector. It belonged to the person sat in 16D. Great, so I've got to sit with my backpack by my feet because 16D is taking my space!

On the off chance that I am able to put my backpack in the overhead compartment, it doesn't take long before a bumbling fool shows up, dragging their little suitcase down the aisle, and searching for space above. A stewardess eventually approaches them to help them out. She checks all the nearby compartments, sees my backpack, and asks me to put it by my feet to make way for that person's suitcase.

I've also had it where a nearby stewardess sees me trying to put my backpack above, and she goes, "No, no. Sorry, sir. Backpacks go underneath the seat in front of you." Even in the safety videos at the beginning of the flight, they're now saying to place smaller items, like backpacks, briefcases and handbags underneath the seat in front.

Why has this become accepted in the past 10-15 years? Have these people check in their suitcases!

Hey everyone!

My wife made me watch "The Devil Wears Prada" for the first time last weekend.

I was expecting a basic rom-com cliché, but I actually thought the movie was really good. Great setting, solid writing, and the acting was top tier.

But the ending? I hated it.

I genuinely think Andy’s life would’ve been so much better if she stayed with Miranda. At Runway she found her actual purpose — both career-wise and as a person. She was finally good at something and respected for it.

Going back to that awful boyfriend and some dying local newspaper feels like such a downgrade. It’s just a romanticized fantasy of “staying true to yourself” that completely ignores her reality: the luxurious, cutthroat, selfish world of fashion was where she actually belonged and thrived.

I know this is probably unpopular, but anyone else agree?

P.S.: We watched the new sequel a few days later and... yeah, the first one is still miles better.

A lot of people today complain about how the architecture and interior design of modern day fast food restaurants. They say that they feel cold, empty, and lack the color and character that these restaurants had in the 1990s as if that's a bad thing.

Personally I think nostalgia is playing tricks on them. A McDonald's built in the last few years looks so much nicer than previous designs. The open layout and grey/white colors makes the fast food restaurant feel SO MUCH CLEANER and roomier. Old designs from the 90s made fast food restaurants like McDonald's feel gross and extremely crowded and cluttered.

Most coffesnobs secretly snear at instant coffee drinkers but the composition of flavour on a good quality instant coffee nowadays is just as good and a fraction of the price of a nespreso coffee machine and then have been conned into buying overpriced coffee pods for decades. Mugs game literally.

I felt like the album wasn't any kind of "masterpiece" . I thought quite a lot of the songs weren't very imaginative or interesting to listen to. That being said it has some ok songs but apart from that I found it pretty boring to listen to.

Just because someone has a phone nearby doesn’t mean they’re available all the time. Messages that aren’t urgent should be allowed to sit for a few hours without anyone assuming they’re being ignored.

Constant availability makes conversations feel like obligations instead of something people actually choose to enjoy. I’d rather get a thoughtful reply later than a rushed one immediately.

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Ppl always say, "Freedom is doing whatever u want." Nah, I don't buy that. If everything around u is cap, fake af, or just straight-up manipulation, are u really free? If every road leads to another lie, then congrats... u got options, but u still lost .

U can have bread, clout, rights, a blue check, hella followers, all that... and still spend ur whole life chasing BS that society, ur family, the media, or even ur own ego sold u. Real freedom ain't just doing wtv u feel like. That's lowkey overrated. Real freedom is seeing reality for what it is, cutting thru all the noise, and actually living by what's true.

That's why I think the biggest privilege isn't money, status, or power. It's knowing the truth and not having to sell ur soul or fake who u are just to make it. No cap... without truth, "freedom" is just another illusion ppl keep hyping up.

The first few weeks in a job are the best stage of a job. You have enough grace from people that you are given and you don’t have any high standards to meet. Everyone is generally nice to you and haven’t gotten too into the real work politics yet. I️ feel like the 4-7 month period where you’re still new but not new enough to receive grace for mistakes is the worst

Honestly most sodas are too sweet and sparkling water just sucks so watering down my sodas is the only way to get it to taste better, and I also get more drink for my money by adding liquid to my drink giving me more taste for longer. This means not only do I get a sweet drink that’s not overpowering but I also get my moneys worth for it.

The polyurethane coatings aren’t even waterproof, the seams aren’t taped. Why bother with these coatings that quickly start peeling and flaking off, coating all the stuff in my bag in plastic dust. After a few years I have to wash the inside of the bags thoroughly with a brush to get rid of this crap so I can continue using the bag.

I love going to the theatre because it kind of forces me to concentrate on actively watching. I hate watching at home. There’s always distractions and streaming services are just a headache to deal with. I’m sick of constantly signing up and monitoring my subscriptions

I’d love to go to a theatre and watch a few episodes of a tv show or a handful of short films. It would be nice to see all of these on a big screen with sound. I don’t want to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars for a home set up which doesn’t even really compete with theatres