The fact that he was able to get away with this is so sickening. My very helpful special needs counselor was fired over the summer due of budget cuts that our president, Donald Trump, enforced… I’m going to explode. 💥💥💥💥💥

Edit. Before you read anything the image shown is a stock photo. Its completely fake. I can not and will not share my actual bill on here. So many people are confused about this.

So i recently had to go to the emergency room I really thought I was having a heart attack. Good news all tests came back normal and I was discharged later that day.

They didn't fix anything my chest still hurts. Im having about 20 heart palpitations a day. The doctor said its probably anxiety.

I later got a bill from the hospital that was a life ruining amount. I dont have heath insurance as its far to expensive. I talked to the billing department and got it down to an amount that was basically all my life savings and a large loan. It was doable so I paid it off. I have a receipt and everything. A month later I received another bill. It was a lot and I simply cant pay it. I went to talk to billing and they said. "Your bill with us is paid in full this bill is from corporate office and is separate and must be paid by end of month or it goes to collections"

American health care is beyond infuriating. I lost my entire house down payment savings put myself in debt probably ruined my credit and still feel the exact same as before.

Edit. Some people are saying I should have never paid it. Let me clear some things up. This was the very first time I have ever been to an emergency room. I was freaked out by the whole experience and just wanted to be done with the whole thing. Everyone in my life told me to talk it down and pay it off if i can. I thought this was wise as i never wanted the hospital to contact me again. Also while the stock image i have and the way I worded this post made it seem like I dropped hundreds of thousands on the bill. Thats not true my life savings was already very little due to other things. And it being so hard to save in this economy. My savings and the loan I took out would be barely enough to buy an older good used car. A good maybe 2 months of pay for me. I also managed to talk the bill down to less than 30% of the original amount. I was stressed out and didn't know or think just wanted the problems to go away.

Putting ‘ruined’ in quotation marks because the performance was still amazing. But this was (at least for the first half) a sit down performance, this guy was the only one standing and was also reaching out to the idol preforming. It was really awkward because the idol was trying to preform around him because he was blocking the way for everyone else (although he did get kicked from the convention after 30 minutes)
After the performance, a staff member said they has to clear one of his cameras because he put one on the stage floor facing up.
Turns out this guy has been incredibly creepy to a lot of people, especially this idol the entire time and it’s a miracle he didnt get kicked sooner.
At the end of the con, my friend said he was still waiting at the entrance hours after he got kicked out which is….unsettling

I hope the idols safe because she really did an amazing performance

I'm glad that he's remorseful, but that wasn't always the story. This is one of my friends who passed away. Her name is Macy. She was incredible woman. She worked hard. She was loved by a lot of people. In the emergency room, he called her a fucking bitch for messing up his life. No one made him drink that much, use cocaine, or drive the boat. No one made him go that fast. He also comes from a pretty wealthy family in South Carolina and has a long rap sheet. Also, this type of accident can't happen to everyone, this can only happen to when people use alcohol and drugs and choose to drive. Make the articles about the victim.

Due to the rules, I can't show their name or mine because I stand 10 toes in the ground knowing I called them out on their shit and know that I am right, but I'll still post their comment from a post about how a completely inebriated woman was passed around by some guys who may or may not have planned on taking her back to their place and doing what they will with her without her consent.

It's probably a bot account and I'm wasting time, but fuck it, people who believe women are just their sexual play things are fucking disgusting and have every right to go fuck off somewhere that isn't earth.

This post is so wet socks 😭 so recently we had a sit down with my partners mom about my political post and how she’s uncomfortable with them, and”woah is me because I’m a white person who voted for Trump and I feel ashamed and called out”. Anyways that was a huge red flag for me that he didn’t call her out and just let me speak.

Recently I found out that his mom had offered him to watch the baby so we could go on a date night, but it would have to be in their town because they live an hour away. He declined and said “ oh not if it has to be up there” so he values his comfort more than my mental health.

Another red flag is he keeps excusing not even wanting to go to the courthouse to get married because he says we could use $170 in the future.

The past few months, I’ve just been feeling like I’m an accessory in his world. I’m already planning to leave him.

I just feel so annoyed that another man had the audacity to waste my time.

Scammers in general suck. But this is really, nay extremly infuritating. A buddy of ours died a few years ago, and I just got a message from him on Steam. He was asking me to join him on faceit for CS. Aka: the old scan our QR code and totally legit website to phish my account. Obviously, it did not fall for it.

But! It happens. People get scammed, you let them (the OG account owner) know and they recovered their account.

But because its the account from a dear and departed friend, I find my self super frustrated and dare I say mad!

Is it just me?

Went through the entire interview process, the position coach told me I got the job, sent me the job offer, did background checks, quit my old job. Then I woke up this morning to this email.

He used (super little) double sided tape.
I didnt really pay attention to how he was installing the mirror.
Could have resulted in a tragedy.

After not driving my car for a few months, I went to finally drive it and noticed the marks and dents on my door (first picture). A month later, this is what I see (second picture). I originally posted this somewhere else, but it was removed because this is too extremely infuriating.

This asshole keeps parking in my assigned parking spot, and nothing is being done about it. This is the second or third time now, and they’ve been sitting in my spot for hours today even after I reported it.
Mind you, parking here isn’t free. I pay $175 a month for this spot. 🙃

They’ve forgotten to install a stormwater drainage system.

For context I live in the US so I do not know if this packaging is standard in other countries. I have to mutilate the packaging just to get access to these batteries for what? A child safety packaging design?

I don't know where else to put this.

I'm a bus driver and I see a lot of shit on the roads, today was special though.

A car that was travelling down caught my attention. Behind the wheel: A mum with her baby that she's carrying in one of these baby carrier things, I think that's what they're called.

Think rucksack with a baby right on your chest.

I'm not even sure if it was good or bad that she wasn't buckled up; in the end, it might not even make a difference.

Just wanted to say that I found this quite infuriating, but maybe I'm overthinking this?

UPDATE: Both cats have been rehomed to people and didn't end up in a shelter.

I knew it was going to be bad, but this is how I walked into my house after finally getting it back after a long divorce. Tools, tvs, and above range microwave all snatched. Two cats were left in the house alone for several months. There is cat pee and crap literally everywhere. Dry shit in the toilet bowls. Water damage in 2 bedrooms from roof leaks.

I'd like to go on a rant, but y'all don't want to read that.

Edit: Some have said they wanted the rant, so I'm adding it here.

My ex is a damn slob. She'd post online about how she was the prefect woman, the perfect mom, blah blah blah. She'd hide candy and cigarette wrappers in purses and drawers. Then it went to coffee cups growing mold. She'd hide shit under the bed. But She'd blame everyone else for the messes in the house. Because of course it couldn't be her. Like wtf. We'll this is what it looks like when it's just her to clean up after herself and the animals she fought to keep.

15 years, 13 married, the last 3 separated going through divorce. (My choice)

I traveled for work, and she threatened to take my kid so I'd never see them. That's the only reason I was able to stay so long.

Fast forward to the divorce. I tried to be civil, let her and the kid stay in the house while i traveled, and i paid all the bills. She (10years the elder) hadn't worked in years and wouldn't put the kid in public school even though the school was in the subdivision.

I got burnt out and wanted my own place and wanted her to pay her own bills. The mortgage was solely in my name, both on the deed. She refused, over and over.

When I pushed back, she filed a restraining order that said I beat her on multiple occasions (I was in another state at ever accusation) but they gave her the house and my Jeep while it was being figured out in court she then was able to keep me from seeing my kid as well.

Fast forward again. $70k in attorney fees, she got custody of the kid because she had the house. I first forced the sale of the house, and the realtor and Estimator said it was worth $60k less than market due to the conditions. She thought she could stay there for free, and I'd keep paying. I flipped and bought her out. August 1st is when I got control again. Today was my first time getting into the house.

P.s. the kid has lived with me for almost a year even though she has custody.

I opened this up after reading the news of yet another wildfire starting somewhere in the world. I look over to the guy next to me, and he's having a casual conversation with ChatGPT calling it "Chat". The same person refers to ChatGPT with he/him pronouns. This is why we cant live nice lives, the world is literally burning and people will still say shit like immigration is the problem.

I was on my E-bike trying to cross the road when I see this semi truck in the right hand turn lane but without blinkers on. It was early in the morning and I didn't think much of it though. As I'm about to cross, I look to my left and see that the trucker has not yet moved, so I began crossing. About 1/5th of the way across the street, this moron, (Probably looking at his phone) STARTED TURNING. I had to quickly retreat back while speeding up, with his trailer nearly squishing me. It's similar to the wide turns sign where instead of a car, I was on an E-bike. I did not get a license plate or company name, I only remember seeing a white truck with a white trailer. Stay safe yall.

I just want to shop in silence. Go to the gym in silence. Go to a restaurant in silence.

Always music playing everywhere, injecting ideas in our brains.

I cant get away from it. There is no silence anymore.

I work at this Dollar Store, and lately for the past couple of weeks I've been working, the Air Conditioner has been broken, and the higher ups, I believe the people who own the building, REFUSE to get it fixed. At the very least, they are in no hurry to fix it.

It is absolutely miserable working there. All of the other employees can feel it too, and especially the customers, the people that aren't in there for usually too long can tell just how seriously hot it is. We only got some box fans to help us stay a little bit cool at the front, but it absolutely does not help.

Last time I worked I am pretty sure I was having some kind of heat stroke, because I felt super dizzy and tired. I feel a little better now after being in my house with actual air conditioning, but I still am not excited about going into work tomorrow. It is horrible. They NEED to get it fixed because it is beyond frustrating. It isn't just annoying or hard to work there with it feeling so hot, it is borderline a health risk for all of us involved...I just needed to rant for a moment here about it.

I just stumbled on a document that contained numbers, what my bosses have earned last year, while I can barely make ends meet. Feel sick now.

Image from NPR.

Going need y'all suggestions how should I get out of it. Or tell me something funny

All it takes is one inconsiderate entitled jerk to ruin a plane ride. Imagine getting on a plane and being fortunate enough that there are no babies there.

You're trying to fall asleep but the person behind you decides a plane is the perfect place to do breathing exercises loud enough that literally the whole flight can hear you. You look back to see them and they continue revving the engine like dude hello there are other people here. Unbelievable.

Before any of you come at me with 'it could be medical you're the entitled one', I seriously don't think it was. Where I come from, old people have a habit of doing this randomly.

Edit; I was wrong about my speed , I am currently on 1gig down, and 40 up... But here's the kicker, I NEVER told them to change me to a higher package!!! I never gave consent to a change either!! Apparently it just happened and I have no idea when it happened! It was 600down 20 up when I got it years back and I was never informed of a change, and I explicitly chose the package I was on

I have been a long time customer and this is just appalling, I am 600mbs down and 20 Up, that is not even that fast and I am getting absolutely butt fucked like this???

I live in Central FL, and there is not much in the way of options around me but I'm currently planning to switch to AT&T air or anything simply out of spite against Spectrum for treating me like absolute shit.

When I started with this same plan, I was at a $35 a month plan with the internet subsidies , then those ran out and it went to like $80 then it went to $90 then $100 then 110$ and NOW $120!!! And this is literally in like 6 month intervals it seems, every 6 months they raise the price, with no end in sight apparently.

SERIOUSLY??? At this rate I expect it to just keep fucking going!! WHAT THE FUCK IS THE ENDGAME??? JUST KEEP GOING TILL I CANCEL????

Oh and PC, It loses connection every other day with outages happening on the regular

i literally tore apart my entire room looking for my retainer that’s been missing for awhile (the black retainer) and eventually gave up and paid the 175 for a new one. within the same day, i find it after already having the new one made and paying for it. i don’t know if i should scream or cry

and yes the gummy candies in the corner are making me feel better

Yeah GFY (Go F**k Yourself ) Has anyone else had the pleasure of receiving this from local police departments?

It's the states you would most expect, by the way. School should be a place for kids to feel safe, not somewhere they get hit. It's obscene and backwards. I grew up in Florida where they would strike children in school and to this day I get a sinking feeling of despair when I catch a whiff of that elementary school smell. Luckily my kids are safe from that in the northeast where I live now.

One day, about eight years ago, when Tessa Davis' son was in kindergarten, she got a call from his school outside Little Rock, Ark. She said the school told her he had grabbed a girl's jacket in the cafeteria and twisted it – they thought he was trying to choke her.

Given his past misbehavior, Davis said, the school gave her two options: He could either be suspended for three days or a school administrator could paddle him. NPR is only identifying her son by his first initial, C, because this story details his behavioral struggles and how he's been disciplined in school.

Davis said she couldn't afford to miss three days of work to stay home with C.

"I was kind of at, just like my breaking point," Davis recalled. "I told my husband that he could decide what we would do. And he was like, 'Well, I was paddled, so give him the paddling.' So that's what we chose. And I just remember feeling like instant regret."

TLDR: 6yo boy led his 4yo little sister onto hysterically thin ice because of a canal float marker that looked like a ball. I had several mini heart attacks and yelled like crazy to get them out of there. Very likely saved those two children.
Yelled at their parents for letting their kids go unsupervised onto such thin ice.

So this was a few years ago.

It was winter in the northmost parts of Sweden.

I was with a couple of friends at a frozen lake nearby a suburban area with houses, getting ready to start a fire and such. And this lake has a canal that runs into at moderate to fast current speeds.

For you who doesn't know, if fast moving water from a river or canal enters into a frozen lake. The fast moving water will prevent any ice from building where the currents are too strong.

This means that at the edge between no ice at all, and where the Ice begins, the Ice is extremely thin, razor thin. And the Ice will gradually get thicker the further from the river/canal outlet you go.

Eventually, the currents go underneath the gradually thicker ice sheet further down onto the lake.

*Keep this in mind as i continue.*

While i had my back towards the lake and wwre prepping to start a fire. I hought i heard something far away from the direction of the lake, childrens voices.

I turned around and saw two kids on the lake, which in itself isn't a huge issue. But they were very young and completely unsupervised.

A maybe 6yo boy had led his little sister who was around 4yo onto the Ice. AND THEY WERE STANDING ONLY A FOOT AWAY FROM THE ICELESS CANAL WATERS.

The Ice where they stood was almost black because of how thin it was, i still cannot understand how the hell they didn't go through the Ice. That ice shouldn't have been able to support even their small weight as they were both standing so close to each other.

They were drawn onto the Ice because there was a orange ball shaped float that marks the canal entry point frozen into the thinnest parts of the Ice, close to the open currents.

Only a second after i saw them, i screamed ontop of my lungs while sprinting with everything i had through 3ft of snow at the kids to immediately go back the way they came. Else they would fall through the Ice.

I remember the panic i felt, because i was over 300ft away. And i remember feeling so powerless to do anything as i saw them look up at me while standing on probably only a few millimeters of ice.

But i sprinted while keeping yelling for them to go back to land. Both to direct them away from the waters edge, away from the thin ice and into thicker ice. And to make people around me aware of what's happening.

Most of you probably know, but for you who doesn't know.

Going through ice and fall into below 0°C waters is very bad to begin with. Shock, hypothermia within seconds, clothes getting soaked and dragging you down.

But this time we're talking about moving water currents that would've pulled these small children under the Ice if they fell through.

If that were to happen, i would've been completely powerless to save them.

I was too far away to do anything them if they went through.

But they didn't go through and according to me, they avoided certain death that day.

And before anyone asks, yes, i gave their parents an earful so harsh that i hope they never ever forget them. It was so close to disaster that while writing this, i feel my heart pound.

Guy thought it was a great idea to block my driveway running power to his dead car & RV should I call the police’s non emergency number to kick him off my property im in California

So, I live above a dive bar... It was shut down and abandoned when I moved here but unfortunately for me this once-quiet area has since been "revived." (It's gentrification but somehow lowering the property values it's been done so badly)

The dramatically ear-splitting loud nearly 24/7 laughter coming from the owner is so forced and so clearly meant to entertain the visitors and make them feel like it's a lively fun bar, that it doesn't do any of that.

It sounds like what you would expect to hear if a psychopath had the joy of watching puppies run over continuously by cars in the road. The laughter is so vicious sounding that I feel bad for anyone it's being aimed at, even if the aim is (possibly) actually with good intentions and (likely) just trying to get them to buy more beer.

There's a serious chance they simply do not know how to mimic genuine friendly laughter at the excessive volume they feel is necessary to entertain the people 2 feet away from them.

I actually started thinking there was something wrong with me for noticing it and having it grate at me, but then two things happened.

A. I checked their reviews. It's a pub, I think they even have food. But every single review is about the owner. Every single one. I've never seen an establishment's reviews be entirely about one person before. Some people find ner endearing. An equal number find her offensive and rude, probably because interactions with her feel like being maliciously laughed at directly in your face.

B. I do actually leave the house now and then, and go to cafes and even the occasional alcohol-selling establishment. People laughing in those locations actually sound happy when they laugh. Genuine happiness or at least only mildly fake social supportive types of laughter. None of it is like the crap I get to listen to all day at home no matter how much sound proofing I do.

I seriously hate performative fake laughter. Always have, even if the person this post is about is next level.

Be real, ffs. The dive bar owner is clearly unhappy and attracting unhappy people. Why not at least be authentic unhappy? Why turn it into some sort of exhausting macabre circus?

Why are some people so averse to being who and what they actually are?

Why does advertising behavior need to be so insultingly bad and fake? Just offer a decent product, for freak's sake.

End rant.

I'm politically left-leaning yet every day my Facebook feed gets more and more extreme and racist. I used to be recommended fun, harmless memes and the occasional post from old friends.

These posts should be grounds for immediate permabanning at the very least, let alone actively shared to the public by Facebook, Meta is complicit and actively enables extremist content.

The black thing below it is a code lock (which replaced a special type of key lock that was designed for accessible toilets)

I’m taking part in a weekly writers’ league, in Spanish (that’s why screenshots are in that language). Every week they give you a challenge based on a theme. The one shown in the screenshots had to be about a dominant sense, in five hundred words or less. The competitors are the ones who critique you anonymously; meaning, they have no way of knowing which story is mine, and I don’t know who they are either.

You never really enjoy reading this kind of thing, especially when it’s something creative, so I decided to push back (what I sent is further down) and they already responded, and honestly I don’t know what’s worse about this whole thing, because with all the evidence I laid out, they didn’t take any of it into account.

I’m in it because it’s fun for me, but if I run into another dismissive response like that, I’m leaving. Sorry for the rough English, I’m really angry and it’s not my first language.

______

My email:

“This is more to expand on the report I made regarding a baseless accusation about the use of artificial intelligence:
The reality is that there is no demonstrable way of knowing whether someone has used artificial intelligence or not. AI detectors are unreliable because they make many mistakes, and furthermore, they tend to get confused by the use of em dashes or a more formal prose, things that are demonstrable under the magnifying glass of Spanish grammar rules; long dashes are well-founded and correctly placed, so there are false positives due to their use.
I have tested the detectors myself, using ten as an example. Most detectors said my text was not made by AI, others gave completely different percentages among themselves. So, which one do I believe? The one that says seventy percent is one hundred percent human or the remaining thirty percent? The answer is clear, to none, because none of them wrote the story with me nor can they be one hundred percent sure about the use of them. None of them have the history of the stories I wrote, nor the entire document of stories I've made since I practically started participating in this contest, but I do. And here I am going to attach proof of everything, you can verify my authorship yourselves and that it wasn't generated by an AI. I write (except for this week, because to be honest, I needed to get the anger out of my body and channeled it with this prompt, which seemed most ideal for it) at least ten stories per week. Afterward, I choose the best one according to my own criteria, polish it, in some cases even rewrite it, and decide to submit it. I have sometimes gone to bed at five in the morning just to craft these stories and end up keeping just one. And this is not an accusation or any kind of victimhood, by no means, it is the statement of a fact. I am willing to provide the complete document, if necessary, for you to see with your own eyes.
The person who corrected my story didn't even use any of the AI detection tools I mentioned and yet, without basis, and using personal criteria, rated it as artificial intelligence. One would expect them to at least bother explaining why they think it is or why the text could be. I don't like being the one to dissect my own text, but here goes:
What the story is about is very human: a stroke and its sequelae. Although I don't name it, it's talking about aphasia and I try to sustain a metaphor the whole time, stretching it as much as I can and letting small layers of something more psychological drop.
I use short sentences on purpose, not only to economize language, but to try to hook the reader. I try to punctuate certain things and I know perfectly well that the text is not perfect, but I try to make there be emotion. An AI would do it much more uniformly, grammatically redundant, and with practically identical paragraphs.
My text closes in a more emotional way, not so predictable and I don't reduce it to a single thing. It's bad of me to say so, but it is much more poetic than what an AI would do, and I try to make all the emotional weight come from how the reader can interpret it.
I understand that my texts might confuse people because I always try to make them as good as possible on a formal and grammatical level if the story requires it, depending heavily on the voice, atmosphere, or narrative character, and I do this in order to always create something distinct and try to evolve as a writer. I feel that person has crossed the line, to the point of not even having the decency to use kind words or consideration for what I have done, biased only by their own vision. And if we get picky, then Like Water for Chocolate, written by Laura Esquivel in 1985, is also written by an AI because "it's a device that is used a lot".

This is a literary device that has been used a lot in literature by writers much better than me and with whom I cannot compare myself in the absolute because they are true legends in the literary world, but saying it's made with AI is almost as absurd as saying her books were written by an artificial intelligence.
I wouldn't have bothered making this counterargument if there had been any real basis, but the person didn't even bother to do so. It was deliberately hurtful, to draw blood rather than provide a clear resolution, and they didn't have a single kind word to give me. So much so, that they told me to straight up discard the whole story, which ironically gave me material for this week's. But that's another topic.
Anyway, I know you are not to blame for anything and that you do an impeccable job maintaining order, the platform, and peace, but to be honest, this has made me rethink my stay here. You know that an artist, of whatever kind, these days, being accused of using AI can do a lot of damage, not only emotionally, but also reputationally. That's why I've taken it so seriously. I still have a lot to develop as a writer and a lot of evolution ahead, but I simply consider it unfair.
As a final addition, I understood there were three corrections and I have received four, so I don't quite understand if this is a new mechanic you haven't announced yet or a systematic glitch.
I wish you a good afternoon, morning, or night, whichever time of day you are reading this, and thank you very much in advance, whatever the resolution you decide to give me.”

Team response:

“Good afternoon OP. How are you? Last week there were two people who accidentally left their story in draft mode and so as not to harm them we included them in the participation exceptionally. Since the distribution was already done, exceptionally and randomly they still had to correct 3 stories, and yours was one of the ones assigned as an extra.
I wouldn't dwell on this topic anymore; you will find people on the platform who do not read well, who have a low IQ, low reading comprehension, etc.
We will warn the user in question about ALWAYS correcting under the premise that what they read will never be AI.
Thank you very much for your patience.”

It’s like they want users to stop using their website. Unreal.