The 'panic' around Lia Thomas was about creating a target people could point at while demanding exclusion. So much of what people “know” about Lia comes from manufactured outrage and years of misinformation repeated without context.

Her swimming career was far from exceptional; she did not come close to dominating the sport and is famous for a race in which she tied for 5th and was beaten by 4 other women.

We (The Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective (TACC)) commissioned this comic to break down the actual story.

Man hört immer wieder, dass Pflegekräfte zu schlecht bezahlt werden. Ich habe häufig schon von Leuten in meinem Umfeld und in anderen Subs auf Reddit das Gegenteil gehört/ gesehen.
Klar, es ist eine ehrbare Arbeit und ich gönne den Leuten jeden Cent. Aber warum das Gejammer? Nicht selten gehen Leute aus der Pflege, welche Vollzeit arbeiten, mit 3-4k netto nach Hause. Ich schließe da jetzt auch die Krankenpfleger mit ein.
Da kommen so einige mit abgeschlossenem Studium nur schwer oder niemals hin.
Natürlich bin ich mir bewusst, dass da auch steuerfreie Zulagen mit reinspielen.
Andere Berufe arbeiten allerdings ebenfalls im Schichtbetrieb und zu ungünstigen Zeiten.

Laut des Statistischen Bundesamtes arbeitete im Jahre 2023 jeder vierte Beschäftigte im Schichtdienst: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2025/04/PD25_N022_13.html

Die Menschen die im Sicherheitsgewerbe oder in der Gastronomie arbeiten jammern nicht so viel, so zumindest mein Eindruck. Und die verdienen auch trotz Schichtzulagen nicht so viel.

Nur Liebe für die Pflegekräfte und generell alle aus dem sozialen Sektor. Doch gerade bei Ersteren ist das Geschrei immer wieder groß.

Wydaje mi się, że obecnie jednym z poważniejszych problemów w Polsce jest rosnący egocentryzm i skupienie wyłącznie na własnej wygodzie, z całkowitym pominięciem szerszych skutków społecznych.

Przeglądając r/Polska i obserwując rzeczywistość, rzuca się w oczy kilka jaskrawych przykładów:

• Unijne cło na paczki z Chin - Reddit huczy od narzekań, że już nie można tanio kupić plastikowego gówna z AliExpress i Temu, które po pół roku trafi do śmietnika. Mało kogo obchodzi, że Europa przegrywa produkcyjnie z Chinami, a te cła to ochrona naszych własnych miejsc pracy.
• Każdy się cieszy z paczkomatu pod blokiem (albo wręcz przeciwnie: narzeka, że ma daleko do paczkomatu), ale nikt nie myśli o sąsiadach budzonych trzaskaniem skrytek o 3 w nocy. Nikt też nie myśli o lokalnych sklepach, które masowo padają (skoro nie potrafią dać niższej ceny niż Allegro Smart i Amazon Prime, to niech się zamykają). Za to Rafał Brzoska - milioner zatrudniający kurierów na umowach śmieciowych - staje się polskim Elonem Muskiem.
• Często powtarzający się wątek na r/Polska, czyli segregacja odpadów. Ubrania najlepiej pobrudzić tłuszczem, klejem lub farbą i wyrzucić do zmieszanych, bo o ile czas na chodzenie po galeriach handlowych się znalazł, to na wizytę w PSZOK już nie. Stary telewizor i opony też lepiej zostawić obok śmietnika, bo po co jechać i oddać za darmo raz na kilka lat.
• Zamawianie jedzenia przez Pyszne, Glovo, Wolt, Uber Eats, bo komuś nie chce się przejść 500 metrów do knajpy po odbiór osobisty. Jakiś imigrant z Indii czy Pakistanu przywiezie na rowerze w mrozie, upale, słońcu i ulewie. Rozjedzie przy okazji kilku przechodniów pędząc po chodniku, bo ma płacone za czas dostawy. Nowoczesne niewolnictwo ubrane w ładną aplikację dla naszej wygody (SaaS, Slave as a Service).
• W każdym tygodniu kilka postów o Żabkach. Tak, to bardzo wygodne, że można kupić hotdoga o 22:59 w niedzielę, zamiast po prostu zrobić sobie kanapkę w domu. Ale nikt nie zastanawia się, jak ta sieć traktuje franczyzobiorców (no tak, wiadomo: "chcącemu nie dzieje się krzywda", bo przecież dorośli ludzie sami podpisali umowę), ani że alkohol, papierosy, energetyki, hazard (Lotto, zdrapki) i śmieciowe jedzenie dostępne co 100 metrów prowadzą do powolnej degeneracji naszego społeczeństwa.
• Kolejnym problemem wynikającym z indywidualizmu jest jeżdżenie samochodem zamiast komunikacją miejską. Nawet na krótkich dystansach i nawet wtedy, gdy parking kosztuje więcej niż bilet. Bo własna muzyka, klimatyzacja, wentylowane fotele i choinka zapachowa dają takie poczucie komfortu, że lepiej zakorkować miasto pięćdziesięcioma jednoosobowymi samochodami, niż wypełnić jeden autobus przegubowy. W dodatku takie podejście jest przekazywane na kolejne pokolenie, bo w pełni sprawni nastolatkowie są podwożeni przez rodziców pod same drzwi szkoły. Skutkiem tej samochodozy jest to, że pod względem liczby śmiertelnych wypadków drogowych per capita bliżej nam do Rosji i innych krajów trzeciego świata niż do Danii, Finlandii, Szwajcarii czy Norwegii.
• Ostatni aspekt to moda na wynajmowanie mieszkań na Airbnb, zamiast pójścia do hotelu czy pensjonatu. Nikt nie liczy, że każde takie mieszkanie to jedno mniej na wynajem długoterminowy dla ludzi, którzy w danym mieście mieszkają, pracują i płacą podatki. A potem posty na Reddicie o tym, że 3000 zł za kawalerkę to skandal i ktoś powinien coś z tym zrobić.

Historia lubi się powtarzać. Egocentryzm szlachty był przyczyną upadku Rzeczypospolitej. Nasz współczesny egocentryzm (podsycany przez korporacje i algorytmy bazujący na big data) powoli rozmontowuje tkankę społeczną. Jeśli nie zaczniemy dostrzegać szerszej perspektywy, skończymy jako zatomizowani konsumenci w kraju, który traci konkurencyjność, czystość i bezpieczeństwo.

For some context, my girlfriend and I are expecting a baby girl in December.
She is 25 weeks along and everything is going wonderful. Despite some small family drama, it’s all worked out now.
My younger brother (3.5 year age gap) has a girlfriend, we’ll call her “A”, Both of which went to the same high school as my girlfriend and I. They just graduated this past school year. Before the baby was announced to family only. And to this day, it’s still only within the family , with some exceptions, including A. So no social media posts, etc. long story short, “A” had a graduation party, in june, and this was when everything was relatively cool. We all got along as brothers and girlfriends but haven’t really hung out or were necessarily close. But considered family. A looks up to my girl, a little too much, but she doesn’t have any role models. And my girlfriend is very successful. So we normally just let it go.

Well, at the graduation party (this was early on in the pregnancy, but after we announced to family, not showing quite yet) A decided to tell her friends. Who I think forgot to consider that since we went to a relatively small school, that her friends knew of us, and also have older siblings our age. So since A decided to open her mouth to the world, the word got around quick and eventually lead to my girlfriend and I getting some messages asking if she was pregnant. We ignored them. But it wasn’t hard to find the leaky faucet. Regardless, since that was my girlfriend’s 1 and only request to everyone was to keep it between us. And A failed to do that. My girlfriend refuses to speak to her.

This is about 3 months later at this point and the baby shower is coming up. My mom says that if A isn’t invited on our behalf, my mom will invite her, and if we have a problem with that she will no longer fund the baby shower. Now I don’t care who funds it. I don’t really even need her funds. But I think this is unfair. The shower is about my girlfriend’s baby. Not about A, who’s funding it, or even me. It’s my girlfriend’s baby and the baby. I don’t really know how to navigate this now that it’s gotten pretty awkward after that conversation last night. And I can’t blame my girl because i think A was very immature and disrespectful toward our wishes.

I need some advice, maybe some other thoughts. Thanks in advance. Please let me know if I need to provide more context. Ask any questions!!

EDIT—
This isn’t entirely a money thing. I’m doing just fine. I don’t need anyone’s money. But I also won’t decline a family’s contribution in any way. I’m more or less wanted to see if it was weird of her to hold that against me.
And if I should tell her to keep her money. Or try to work through this as it is how along with the stipulations.

I had a conversation with my friend (mid 30s) about this the other day and he pointed out that he has never received a genuine apology from a woman in his life. A true apology without excusing it away.

Yes this sounds ridiculous at first but looking at my life I can't say I've experienced that either. But I'm just one dude and it's not like these kinda things happen often with men either of course!

It's a rare thing for anyone to take full accountability and it's one of the most respectable things someone can do. So really for my own mental well being I would love to hear examples of when it's happened to you with a woman. (doesn't have to be romantic)

What was that like for you? How did it happen and what was the context?

EDIT: Thank you for all the comments this was a very healing post for me.

I know we’re on Reddit but I wanted to drop this prayer for my brothers:

God, please give us the humility to recognize when we have hurt someone and the courage to take full responsibility without excuses or expecting anything in return. Please bring healing to everyone still waiting for an apology - and if it never comes, help them find peace without it. Amen. 🙏

That subreddit literally mentions a rule against whataboutism. Yet it openly promotes whataboutism.

My gf hasn’t been feeling the greatest since yesterday. It started as congestion but then said she was feeling better last night so I assumed she’d be back to normal today. She was sleeping but I had to get our puppy situated & I was kind of making some noise but it lasted no more than a couple minutes. She got up & left the room. I thought she was going to the kitchen to get water or something then some time passed so I texted her.

& let me add this, I understand she’s not feeling well. I don’t even care she went to the car to sleep. It’s the fact this has been an issue (her leaving without saying anything) that I keep telling her I don’t like. I also feel like it’s weird to leave the whole house to sleep in a car bc someone is making a little noise for a few minutes. Idk but now I feel like an asshole lmao.

EDIT: I had the bathroom light on bc I was cleaning up our puppy’s mess & was also quietly singing bc it’s a habit I have when doing something. I didn’t purposely wake my gf up. The negative/rude responses are crazy. This post wasn’t an argument to have with people about what noises I was making. It was simply asking if I was overreacting bc my gf left the house to go to our car to sleep without saying anything.

LAST EDIT: I ended up apologizing to her when she came back in the house. I understand I sound like a full blown narcissist by focusing on what bothered me instead of focusing on what bothered her & made her leave the house. Thank you for all the comments, good & bad. Definitely a learning lesson 🤍

(Aus Wahlgründen muss ich gerade leider kürzer treten)

Wat mij altijd opvalt aan asielmigranten die status hebben gekregen of naturaliseert zijn is dat een behoorlijk deel gebrekkig Nederlands kan en vaak in hun eigen taal/cultuur blijft hangen.

Waar asielmigranten wel in uitblinken is hoe snel geïntegreerd zij lijken te zijn met het volladen van goedkope rommel in winkelkarren en -mandjes bij de Action, IKEA, Nettorama etc., het op reis gaan (vaak vliegen) naar hun land van herkomst (of de regio), het hebben van een auto voor de deur etc. Nu begrijp ik heel goed dat als je uit een arm land komt dat het milieu je je reet zou roesten, maar dit is toch opvallend.

Maar als je hier een analyse over zou maken zal men al snel tot de conclusie komen dat zelfs als iemand slechts op Nederlands bijstandsniveau of minimunloonniveau zou leven, dat dat extreem veel slechter is qua ecologische voetafdruk en milieuvervuiling dan wanneer deze asielmigranten in hun hongerige plaggenhutjes zonder vliegvakanties hadden gebleven.

Nu vroeg ik mij af: is asielmigratie van veelal niet-westerse arme landen naar het rijke Nederland/Europa niet heel slecht voor het milieu? En waarom is links dan zo'n voorstander van het massaal naar binnen halen van asielmigranten terwijl het een ramp is voor het milieu en de natuur in Nederland (ook qua stikstof) en op wereldschaal? Is dit de zoveelste cognitieve dissonantie van links?

The more we let them add unpolled items and features to the game, the more Jagex will do it. This sets a bad precedent for the future of the game.

They didn't ban calculators when they did everything for the kids. Ai is a TOOL! Using it in school is the perfect use case.

Why bother having the kids do menial and tedious tasks when ai can do it for them? It's going to be apparent that any school banning ai is going to be left behind and the luddites are going to suffer because of it

These kids are going to have a shock when they leave school and while everybody else can rely on Ai efficiently, they'll be stuck thinking and doing everything manually

it's a madness

Firstly I know I sound a wee bit cranky but I live extremely close to the fireworks that have been going off just now and other than retroactively seeing a post on Reddit and Ocean Terminal (they weren't the organiser) having made a Facebook post I'm struggling to find the actual organiser or any form of official heads up (which I'm going to assume they're not entitled to do).

I probably sound petty but I'm dealing with a dog hyperventilating and he'll be set back for weeks to even go out walking now and a proper heads up from the organiser would've been nice for me to go out of the area at the time

I'm a trans woman whos been looking for friends into fgs but find it hard to make form any. Theres no locals in my area and discords I can find games but make no connections with anyone beyond the game. I play a lot of avatar legends since im a huge fan of the the avatar the last airbender series. I do play sf6 and guilty gear but I currently dont have any interest in anything besides avatar legends. Would love to learn from someone how to play. Im not a beginner but im not advanced either. If interested in feel free to hmu and I will tell u more about myself if you like!

It has been about seven years since graduation and i have never told a single soul what i did. There was this guy, let's call him Tyler, who made my life a total living hell from freshman to senior year. He wasnt just a "mean kid" he was a genuine psychopath who targeted me because i was quiet. He tripped me in the halls, threw my backpack in the trash, and even made jokes about my mom when she was going through chemo. Everyone loved him though because he was the star of the soccer team and had that golden boy charm that teachers fall for. He had a full ride scholarship to a great state school and everything was handed to him on a silver platter.

The week of final exams senior year i decided i was done being the victim. Tyler was failing his AP History class and needed at least a B to keep his scholarship and graduate. I spent two days practicing his handwriting and i made these incredibly detailed cheat sheets on tiny scraps of paper. During the final exam i made sure to sit right behind him. About halfway through the test when the proctor was walking down the opposite aisle i "accidentally" knocked my water bottle over. In the confusion i slid the cheat sheets under his desk and kicked them just far enough so they were visible. Then i raised my hand and whispered to the teacher that i thought Tyler dropped something. He got caught red handed and because he already had a few disciplinary marks for "minor" stuff they didnt go easy on him. He got an automatic zero, got expelled two weeks before graduation, and lost his scholarship.

I saw him a few months ago when i went back to my hometown for the weekend. He was working at a local tire shop looking ten years older than he actually is and smelling like cheap cigarettes. He never went to college and his "golden boy" life basically ended that day in the gym. I know people say you should forgive and move on but honestly? Seeing him like that gave me the best feeling in the world. I thought id eventually feel guilty for basically sabotaging his entire future over high school bullshit but i dont. Every time i remember the look on his face when the principal led him out of the room i just feel this weird sense of peace. I guess some people just get what they deserve eventually.

I paid my friend TWENTY dollars to make me a new back drop for my laptop.

A WEEK, a singular WEEK and he gets back to me with this!

I’m telling him to do something with his artistic side, maybe do commissions for people, but he says “I don’t see myself drawing on a computer for a living”

Fair, I can’t and won’t force someone to follow a specific life path, but at the same time… he had me thinking this was AI, I checked and to my surprise I wasn’t conned out of $20!

What an interesting fellow

Nein, verdammt. Ich will keine News zu GTA. Keine Scherze oder Memes. Es juckt mich auch nicht, was PlayStations nun kosten. Ja ich bin Gamer. Aber ich fand GTA 5 schon scheiße. Total überladen. Unstrukturiert. Wie ein amerikanisches Fast Food Buffet. Lieblos hingerotzt und Hauptsache viel. Die „Jokes“ nicht vom Typ „Wink mit dem Zaunpfahl“ sondern Holzhammer. Ich habe in dem Spiel (5) etwa 3,5 Stunden verbracht und konnte den Hype null nachvollziehen das schlimmste war der Multiplayer. Kaum gespawnt schon tot. Ich dachte es wäre ein PC Problem und habe es auf der PS3 auch gehabt - genauso blöd.

Und dann dieser ganze „Leak“ Hype. Pfui.
Mal davon ab: Leute habt ihr kein Leben? Keine anderen Hobbys? Es gibt so viele Spiele auf der Welt - dieses Eine ist doch jetzt schon eine Enttäuschung. Und ich weiß jetzt schon, dass es einen Shitstorm nach dem Anderen geben wird, die Leute es lieben und hassen werden und ein riesiger Medienrummel werden wird. Selbst in der „general interest“ Presse. Und die Leute werden es trotzdem kaufen. Sie werden es spielen. Sie werden sich durchbeißen wie Leute ihr Steak in einem miesen Restaurant mit schickem Ambiente. Aber in dem Restaurant isst doch immer influencer XY und deswegen würgt man sich den Müll rein. Es wird wieder 5-6 Highlights geben die dann 10.000-Fach hoch und runter gefeiert werden.

Die ersten Titel waren ja wirklich witzig und neu. Innovativ. Kreativ. Wild. Seit San Andreas ist die Franchise einfach kaputt-monetarisiert. Würden sie sich wenigstens mal richtig was trauen. Politische Statements klar darstellen. Eindeutige Aussagen. Ertragen, von Seiten Shit abzubekommen. Aber es wird wieder dieser „wir sind unpolitisch“, „hihi, eine Referenz mit Pfiff“ Mist.

GTA VI wird wie Fastfood vom Discounter. Es wird wie diese Mikrowellenburger. Befriedigend. Irgendwie. Aber nicht geil. Dafür viel. Man ist lange damit beschäftigt. Man zwängt es sich rein. Ist ja schließlich bezahlt.

Let's start off by stating what should be the obvious but i know someone already got the wrong idea. I don't care about Israel or the fact that it's made fun of. That is not the point and this post is not political and barely has anything to do with real life events. What I'm actually saying is that i believe that the trend of using these stupid ass images or the Israel related comments that has been around since 2021 is unbelievably unfunny (at least to me). These "Jokes" come down to this formula:

I see something I don't agree with / i don't like

Israel related comment that will get 13k likes

To me, this trend is not that different than YouTube shorts kids commenting "Bro's aura +99999999💀💀💀💀💀👹🔥🔥" or "FIX BUGROCK MAJONG" trying insanely hard to be funny by just copy pasting what other people are saying. People who use Israel "jokes" KNOW they aren't funny and can't come up with original insults or jokes so they just result to using the couple buzzwords that appeal to the larger crowd. What's the larger crowd you may ask? On YouTube shorts, it's 8 years old who are still stuck with slang used 5 years ago like rizz and aura; anywhere else (where the Israel comments thrive) the audience is mostly edgy 15 year olds or 27 year old gym bros who think eating raw meat is the secret to perfect health. These people i just mentioned, are the exact same: they see funny word that totally hasn't been used another five bajillion times without variation? They like, creating an echo chamber where everyone is just jerking each other off for saying the most repetitive nonsense buzzwords that are currently trending.

Now obviously, I don't think i need to get into the logistics of why repeating the same fucking dogshit joke over and over again is bad. If the first two times reading the "+7k" comment i may have smiled, now, the same thing just makes my eyes roll 360 degrees, which doesn't sound like anything happened, but it's actually painful.

What I'm going to say though is that the Israel jokes are arguably worse than YouTube shorts comments. The YouTube shorts comments are kind of self contained and, at their core, are totally innocent. Yes, it is unfunny to see the same bot comments saying the same stuff over and over but they're only on one platform and, most importantly, aren't exploiting a sensitive topic for likes. Israel jokes are EVERYWHERE now, inescapable almost which is insane for being about a tragedy going on as i type this rant. Imagine being in Palestine, your family across the country are fucking dying and then you turn on your phone to people unironicallly saying that this or that is "Israeli media". Are you joking??? I've watched Hazbin hotel, stranger who says Hazbin hotel is Israeli slop, and i can tell you that the series is dogshit but for an actual reason; YOU on the other hand just jump on a trend capitalizing off of suffering to farm likes because you're an attention starved hoe.

I want to end this rant by saying that I'm not anti comedy or a snowflake. I've laughed at my fair share of 9/11 jokes and I'll keep doing it but there's a reason why i laugh at it. Because 9/11 jokes are actual jokes. I don't think I'd hate this trend so much if the jokes didn't boil down to "ERM this is actually not true, therefore: ISRAEL. Checkmate"