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These People’s NDA Agreements Have Lapsed, And They Have Some Stories To Tell

I’ve often wondered whether or not people who are asked to and agree to sign a NDA before taking or keeping a job ever regret it. Like…do they find out things they can’t forget? Things they wish they didn’t know? Or, like me, do they just realized that they’re terrible at keeping secrets when they’ve...

10 Toxic Behaviors Society Pretends Are Romantic

If you ask this girl, there are way too many things in the books and movies that are made out to be romantic but are decidedly not at all. Most of them we can let slide, because everyone deserves their weird fantasies and whatever, but when those norms start to slide into reality, maybe it’s...

Has Discipline At Home Ceased To Exist? Let’s Discuss.

Discipline is a hot-button topic among parents, caregivers, and child-development experts everywhere these days. Everyone has an opinion, everyone is sure that they’re right, and yes, there can sometimes be warfare in a Target as a result. This old-school thinker has taken to Reddit to suggest that parents aren’t disciplining their kids at all, and...

14 People’s Thoughts on Whether or Not a “Good News” Channel Would Fly

There’s pretty much a consensus that the current 24/7 news cycle really isn’t doing anyone any good. We can relay the actual news of the day in the regularly scheduled hours – morning, noon, and evening, so everything that goes in between is just fluff designed to whip people into a frenzy. This Redditor thinks...

15 People Respond To The Idea That Pirating Media Is OK If The Original Creator No Longer Benefits

We all know – even if we don’t want to or pretend not to – that pirating things like movies, books, and video games is harmful to the artists who create them. You’re taking money out of their pockets and food out of their mouths and all of that. What if a license has expired,...

People Discuss the Statement “Doing Well in School Doesn’t Require You to Be Smart, It Requires You to Work Hard”

It really is kind of odd who ends up doing well in school and who doesn’t. Some of the smartest people I knew when I was younger got terrible grades or even dropped out of high school just because they didn’t like dealing with the structure. On the other hand, some people I knew who...

Should Bereavement Leave Extend To The Loss Of A Beloved Pet?

Listen, I honestly believe that anyone who would argue that people don’t legitimately grieve the loss of a beloved family pet either a) has never had and lost such a pet or b) is some kind of sociopath. That said, the majority of employers and people who make decisions about company leave don’t go in...

Why Is It Harder to Fall Back to Sleep When You Don’t Have Any Obligations? Here’s What People Said.

You’ve been there before: your alarm is set for 6:30 am for work and you wake up out of nowhere at 3:15… You breathe a sigh of relief and immediately fall back asleep for another few hours before your workday starts. But you’ve also been HERE: you got nothing going on, it’s Saturday, you wake...

16 People Give Their Thoughts On Whether Or Not Basic Home Repair Skills Should Be Taught In Schools

Back in the day, we all had to take a “home economics” class and also a shop class of some sort that felt like you were an inch away from losing a finger most days. I don’t remember these things being optional, at least not the first ones, and I have to say, I have...

18 Women Get Answers To Some Of Their Most Burning Questions For Men

There are tons of things we wish we could ask the opposite sex, but sometimes, we don’t – often because we don’t feel like, for one reason or another, we’ll really get a straight answer. That’s what the internet is for, though, because what’s the harm in answering honestly if neither party knows each other...

14 People Share Unconventional Hacks That Saved Their Marriages

Everyone’s marriage is different. Honestly, if you’re married for any length of time your own marriage will be different from one year, one decade, one season of life to the next. The one constant is that if you want things to last, you have to be willing to be flexible, to try different things, and...

How The Vanderbilt Family Blew Through Their Entire Fortune

You might think that, since you know the Vanderbilt name and it’s even on a big, prestigious university and everything, that they must have gone out of this world with more money than they entered it with…but you would be wrong. If you love sordid tales of America’s past, buckle up – because the story...

Doctor Wants to Know if They’re a Jerk for Refusing to See a Friend’s Partner Without an Appointment

It’s gotta be tough to be a doctor or a dentist and to always have people hitting you up for free medical advice. And you know it probably happens all the time… Now, go ahead and check out a story from Reddit’s “Am I The A**hole?” page from a doctor who wants to know if...

Debate: “The Body Positivity Movement Is a Failure Because It Says That “Everyone Is Beautiful” When It Should Say “Your Worth Is Not Dependent on Beauty”

There’s a whole lot of talk these days about the body positivity movement and what exactly defines beauty. But is it a bad thing because it puts too much emphasis on society believing that the self-worth of humans revolves around their looks? Something to think about… Is the body positivity movement a failure? Here’s what...