One thread, every answer read
The things a crowd said we have quietly normalised — and the answers the same thread refused to let stand
What this thread actually said we have normalised
Across all 1073 captured comments the answers cluster hard: infant circumcision is the top answer by a wide margin, then cameras pointed at strangers, heavy drinking, self-diagnosis, flaking on plans, being alone and driving. Almost every one of those answers was argued with by the people replying to it, so this guide keeps each objection beside the answer it disputes and treats every medical, legal and parenting claim in the thread as one commenter's reported opinion rather than as advice.
- Infant circumcision — the top answer, and the argument it never won
- Cameras pointed at strangers, and the ones aimed at people who cannot object
- Drinking, gambling and smoking — with the pushback each one drew
- Self-diagnosis, and the people who have the diagnosis answering back
- Flaking, ghosting and “protecting my peace”
- Where the thread argued with its own answers, including its medical claims
- None of this is verified and none of it is advice
Cameras pointed at other peopleThe most repeated complaint outside the top answer: being recorded by a stranger who never asked. 40 records.
Filming strangers and putting it onlineA camera pointed at somebody who never agreed to be in the shot.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Filming strangers and putting it online
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Filming strangers and putting it online
Appears when: Filming strangers and putting it online
What the pattern means: The complaint splits in two and the records make the split explicit: the filming, and then the posting. Several commenters say the second half is the part that should never have become routine, and the examples they reach for are ordinary rather than extreme — a proposal in a restaurant, a street interview with a microphone, a stranger's bad afternoon uploaded to an audience that will never meet them.
What commenters described: This weird asking strangers questions on the street with a mic and a cameraman. Have we lost the plot?
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
This one really gets me, especially with people who are clearly mentally unwell and children.
And being a general menace to provoke it in the first place.
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Filming without consent
I fear that someone is gonna film me while I am in public looking like a ogre and then they post that on internet and everyone makes fun of me 😭😭
I have never seen that happen in real life.
What the counts show
The exact phrase “actually fully legal to film anything” recurs across 2 of the 13 source records in Filming strangers and putting it online; the complete archive stays available below.
What commenters explicitly report
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Provoking the reaction, then filming itRecords describing the confrontation being manufactured so that there is something worth posting.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Provoking the reaction, then filming it
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Provoking the reaction, then filming it
Appears when: Provoking the reaction, then filming it
What the pattern means: Two records, and they describe a mechanism rather than a mood: behave badly enough to produce a reaction, then film the reaction. A hotel worker reports being filmed for enforcing a pool rule and describes the threat of a public video being used as leverage in an otherwise trivial dispute.
What commenters described: I work at a condo hotel and people have filmed me just because I told them their toddlers are not permitted in the hot tub. People have learned they can bully others by threatening them with a public video
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
I work at a condo hotel and people have filmed me just because I told them their toddlers are not permitted in the hot tub. People have learned they can bully others by threatening them with a public video
Good on you tho, don’t put their babies in in there
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And being a general menace to provoke it in the first place.
I work at a condo hotel and people have filmed me just because I told them their toddlers are not permitted in the hot tub. People have learned they can bully others by threatening them with a public video
What the counts show
This report keeps all 2 source records for Provoking the reaction, then filming it together and surfaces traceable examples without converting anecdotes into proof.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
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“It’s legal in public” — the argument that answer drewA reply branch that turned into a legal argument about what public space actually permits.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: “It’s legal in public” — the argument that answer drew
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“It’s legal in public” — the argument that answer drew
Appears when: “It’s legal in public” — the argument that answer drew
What the pattern means: An impromptu legal argument broke out under the filming answer, and it is the most specific thing in this theme. The point of agreement is that recording in public is generally lawful. The point commenters kept pressing is that lawfulness settles nothing about whether it is decent — and one reply argues the conduct people actually object to, getting in someone's face and threatening them, is already a separate offence.
What commenters described: Hey cool, but… More important than informing people of the right to record in public is informing people what the legal definition of assault is (in most parts of the US anyway). Because as soon as that person starts to get up in someone’s face and make threats, it no longer matters that they are allowed to film, the real issue is that assault is occurring and is illegal (in the states anyway). Most people do not mind someone minding their own business and calmly filming in public. That is not what most people are objecting to, they are objecting to the assault part of it that often occurs when the person filming is trying to generate internet content. If more people understood they were experiencing assault and that assault is illegal, we might actually start to see the worst types of public filming vanish naturally because of laws already in place. So anyway, if someone is in your face yelling at you (and you did nothing wrong, so not self defense on their part) especially if they are literally threatening you, that’s assault and is illegal.
Limit: Legal claims made by anonymous commenters about one jurisdiction. Recording and assault law differ by country and by state; nothing here is a statement of the law where you are.
What replies pushed back on2
Hey cool, but… More important than informing people of the right to record in public is informing people what the legal definition of assault is (in most parts of the US anyway). Because as soon as that person starts to get up in someone’s face and make threats, it no longer matters that they are allowed to film, the real issue is that assault is occurring and is illegal (in the states anyway). Most people do not mind someone minding their own business and calmly filming in public. That is not what most people are objecting to, they are objecting to the assault part of it that often occurs when the person filming is trying to generate internet content. If more people understood they were experiencing assault and that assault is illegal, we might actually start to see the worst types of public filming vanish naturally because of laws already in place. So anyway, if someone is in your face yelling at you (and you did nothing wrong, so not self defense on their part) especially if they are literally threatening you, that’s assault and is illegal.
Just need to clarify, you absolutely have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public. "Reasonableness" is the standard by which the US Supreme Court determines whether one's right to privacy has been violated. Since it appears that you disagree with those stating there is no right to privacy while in public, I thought I'd explain that this, indeed, is the law of the land in the US.
Where commenters report limits
Hey cool, but… More important than informing people of the right to record in public is informing people what the legal definition of assault is (in most parts of the US anyway). Because as soon as that person starts to get up in someone’s face and make threats, it no longer matters that they are allowed to film, the real issue is that assault is occurring and is illegal (in the states anyway). Most people do not mind someone minding their own business and calmly filming in public. That is not what most people are objecting to, they are objecting to the assault part of it that often occurs when the person filming is trying to generate internet content. If more people understood they were experiencing assault and that assault is illegal, we might actually start to see the worst types of public filming vanish naturally because of laws already in place. So anyway, if someone is in your face yelling at you (and you did nothing wrong, so not self defense on their part) especially if they are literally threatening you, that’s assault and is illegal.
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And the people claiming you have no right to privacy in public. Wtf Edit: no\* privacy
And I agree and did the same. Thanks for bringing that to everyone's attention.
I'm thankfully not in the US.
What the counts show
The exact phrase “right to privacy” recurs across 3 of the 9 source records in “It’s legal in public” — the argument that answer drew; the complete archive stays available below.
What commenters explicitly report
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Filming people who cannot push backCameras aimed at children, at people in crisis, and at people whose safety depends on not being seen.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Filming people who cannot push back
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Filming people who cannot push back
Appears when: Filming people who cannot push back
What the pattern means: These records single out subjects who cannot meaningfully object: people who are homeless or in psychiatric crisis, and children. Two parents describe the anxiety as newly specific since having a daughter. One commenter widens it to friends, arguing that being filmed in order to be laughed at is the same act whatever the relationship.
What commenters described: Recording people. Especially when you know they are homeless and/or addicted doing strange things. It’s usually a mental illness that put them in that position. People like to mock them and that’s just cruel AF.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
And the people claiming you have no right to privacy in public. Wtf Edit: no\* privacy
Recording ANYBODY to make fun of them, even your friends. I sort of understand younger folks' relevance to go to gatherings & have fun; they're terrified they'll become a "viral video"
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This one really gets me, especially with people who are clearly mentally unwell and children.
But they're not doing it out of kindness, they're doing it for clicks, and forcing the person to feature in a video that will be broadcast across the world without their knowledge or consent. I'm mortified when people film near me in public, I can't imagine being vulnerable and desperate and having my image broadcast on the internet because some dickhead wanted some 'likes'.
I mean it's cringe to do that, but they're still giving someone who is probably hungry some food.
What the counts show
This report keeps all 10 source records for Filming people who cannot push back together and surfaces traceable examples without converting anecdotes into proof.
What commenters explicitly report
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Cameras that are simply always onWearables, number-plate readers and street cameras, named as recording that nobody opted into.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Cameras that are simply always on
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Cameras that are simply always on
Appears when: Cameras that are simply always on
What the pattern means: Rather than a person holding a phone, these name infrastructure: smart glasses, street cameras, plate-reader networks. What commenters report is the speed of the change more than the technology itself — the sense that it arrived without there ever being a moment where anyone was asked.
What commenters described: So scary how quickly this has been normalised and the pervert glasses are just awful.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added1
"Hey Meta, stop recording" Allegedly. If they get upset, they're just telling on themselves.
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So scary how quickly this has been normalised and the pervert glasses are just awful.
Get ready for FLOCK
Cameras everywhere
What the counts show
This report keeps all 6 source records for Cameras that are simply always on together and surfaces traceable examples without converting anecdotes into proof.
What commenters explicitly report
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What people publish about themselvesThe other half of the camera problem — what people hand over without being asked at all. 44 records.
Sharing every detail of a lifeHow much of an ordinary life now goes online as the default setting.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Sharing every detail of a life
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Sharing every detail of a life
Appears when: Sharing every detail of a life
What the pattern means: The common version of oversharing here is not one disclosure but a default: a life documented unless some reason not to comes up. The records that add detail point at what travels along with it — family conflict, children, an address — and one reframes the whole habit as living on the internet rather than posting to it.
What commenters described: Living your entire life on the internet. Exploiting children for clicks, airing family drama, giving personal details, announcing your location.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
I would add, posting Photos of your children to this as well. It's too much.
I just upvoted this. And then wrote a message to you.
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Sharing every detail of your life with the internet
Using social media.
Oversharing on social media.
What the counts show
The exact phrase “posting everything online” recurs across 2 of the 11 source records in Sharing every detail of a life; the complete archive stays available below.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
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Location, data and the identity you hand overThe specific details commenters said give away more than people realise.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Location, data and the identity you hand over
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Location, data and the identity you hand over
Appears when: Location, data and the identity you hand over
What the pattern means: The one privacy node the thread argued with itself about. The answer calls permanent location sharing strange; replies separate passive tracking for a lost phone from somebody checking where you are, and one commenter pushes back hard that between consenting adults it is convenience and safety rather than surveillance. Around that sit smaller records about details that identify a person without anyone noticing — a name, a group invite, a sign in a front yard.
What commenters described: Location tracking. It’s weird. People can try and justify it all they want, but it’s weird to normalize tracking somebody on a tracking device 24/7. The only time it’s acceptable is when it’s a parent doing it to their young child.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
I get why some people have passive location tracking for if the device is stolen or the person goes missing, but the ones where people are constantly checking it is ridiculous. You don’t need to know where your (non-toddler) children, friends, or spouse is at all times.
You get to decide what is and isn’t acceptable for consenting adults?? My husband and I both find it preferable, more convenient, and SAFER than the alternative of texting or calling someone who may be in transit (e.g., if I can see that he’s already left the store where I remembered something we need, it saves him from looking at his phone while he should be paying attention to his surroundings instead of reading a text). If either of us wants to turn off our own location, of course we are free to do so. Who are YOU to say it’s unacceptable for us to use that feature?
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Location tracking. It’s weird. People can try and justify it all they want, but it’s weird to normalize tracking somebody on a tracking device 24/7. The only time it’s acceptable is when it’s a parent doing it to their young child.
Yeah, that doesn't actually happen.
Sorry, what? Like you think nobody's email should have their real name attached to it? Why?
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What the counts show
The exact phrase “on social media” recurs across 2 of the 13 source records in Location, data and the identity you hand over; the complete archive stays available below.
What commenters explicitly report
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The phone that is never put downChecking and scrolling, including from commenters describing the reflex in themselves.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: The phone that is never put down
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The phone that is never put down
Appears when: The phone that is never put down
What the pattern means: The answer is short and popular; what makes the node useful is that several replies describe the habit in the writer rather than in other people. One records losing a phone for a week and being angry at how much of an ordinary life turned out to run through it. Another argues the reflex is not vanity but simply where everything now arrives.
What commenters described: 100%, the older I get though the worse I am. I'll be an ipad granny at this rate, won't take my tablets without my tablet. If it wasn't so normalised then we'd be less likely to give in and we'd all be better off for it.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added1
1) there has *always* been people who made a career out of reviewing things. There’s a reason Michelin star restaurants are a thing. 2) there’s literally no difference between streaming and live tv.
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Constant phone checking
Normalizing phone usage at dinner table.
Streaming. Watching someone watch something is weird. Or you can frame it as: you consuming someone else consuming something without any of the tangible benefits. It’s an odd interest and I do silently judge people for it.
What the counts show
The exact phrase “on our phones” recurs across 2 of the 16 source records in The phone that is never put down; the complete archive stays available below.
What commenters explicitly report
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Saying it online as though nobody is listeningPosting on the assumption that it is anonymous, or that it does not follow you.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Saying it online as though nobody is listening
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Saying it online as though nobody is listening
Appears when: Saying it online as though nobody is listening
What the pattern means: Four short records about the same miscalculation: writing as though the account is anonymous and the words will stay where they were typed. What they name is not the cruelty itself but the belief that it is free.
What commenters described: Talking shit on the internet thinking there will be no real life consequences
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
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Talking shit on the internet thinking there will be no real life consequences
Talking shit on the internet and thinking they are anonymous.
Being rude and hateful to people on social media.
What the counts show
The exact phrase “talking shit on the internet” recurs across 2 of the 4 source records in Saying it online as though nobody is listening; the complete archive stays available below.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
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Drink, smoke and betLegal, advertised, and named by more commenters than any other group of substances. 115 records.
Heavy drinking, and drinking at allThe thread's second-largest answer, and the commenters who widened it from heavy drinking to drinking.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Heavy drinking, and drinking at all
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Heavy drinking, and drinking at all
Appears when: Heavy drinking, and drinking at all
What the pattern means: The thread's second-biggest answer arrived as heavy drinking and the first reply immediately widened it to drinking as such. What the records report is ordinariness rather than extremes — nearly every adult activity organised around it — and the commenters who stopped describe noticing the scale of it only afterwards.
What commenters described: Honestly, kind of drinking in general. We have just socially accepted drinking poison that is genuinely bad for you in multiple ways and can cause you to be a danger to yourself and others. I’m not a teetotaler or anything like that, it just surprises me sometimes when I really think about it.
Limit: Personal accounts of drinking and of quitting, not clinical evidence. Where a commenter cites a health body, the citation is theirs and is not checked here.
What the replies added2
Honestly, kind of drinking in general. We have just socially accepted drinking poison that is genuinely bad for you in multiple ways and can cause you to be a danger to yourself and others. I’m not a teetotaler or anything like that, it just surprises me sometimes when I really think about it.
It fucks me up that weed in many places is illegal, with concentrated forms being a felony (Texas), but alcohol is advertised and available everywhere and easily one of the worst intoxicants
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Honestly, kind of drinking in general. We have just socially accepted drinking poison that is genuinely bad for you in multiple ways and can cause you to be a danger to yourself and others. I’m not a teetotaler or anything like that, it just surprises me sometimes when I really think about it.
I'd actually say casual drinking even...
Everything is drugs today
What the counts show
The exact phrase “the prospective of just plain observation” recurs across 2 of the 26 source records in Heavy drinking, and drinking at all; the complete archive stays available below.
What commenters explicitly report
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Alcohol measured against every other drugAnswers that set alcohol beside cannabis and tobacco and ask why the legal one is the accepted one.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Alcohol measured against every other drug
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Alcohol measured against every other drug
Appears when: Alcohol measured against every other drug
What the pattern means: The comparison the thread kept returning to: a legal, advertised drug set beside ones that carry criminal penalties. Commenters name lobbying as the explanation and point at the etiquette gap — a conference where brandy is poured and then driven home from. A counterweight comes from inside the same branch, arguing that cannabis advocates overstate their case just as badly.
What commenters described: It fucks me up that weed in many places is illegal, with concentrated forms being a felony (Texas), but alcohol is advertised and available everywhere and easily one of the worst intoxicants
Limit: Comparative harm claims made by commenters, in both directions, and not verified on this page.
What the replies added2
I just got back from a business conference. I was offered drinking and cigars. Can't we normalize pizza and bongs? The worst part these guys were chugging brandy then getting in a car.
I'm tired of stoners acting like they're superior to alcoholics tbh
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It fucks me up that weed in many places is illegal, with concentrated forms being a felony (Texas), but alcohol is advertised and available everywhere and easily one of the worst intoxicants
The stigma around weed is one of the most ridiculous things ever lol, weed is genuinely one of the most harmless drugs.
Nah it’s that weed is superior to alcohol rather than stoners being superior to alcoholics
What the counts show
The exact phrase “superior to alcoholics” recurs across 2 of the 15 source records in Alcohol measured against every other drug; the complete archive stays available below.
What commenters explicitly report
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Whether cannabis causes psychosis — the sharpest medical dispute hereA short, sharp exchange in which several commenters corrected the claim as it was stated. Nothing in it is verified on this page.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Whether cannabis causes psychosis — the sharpest medical dispute here
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Whether cannabis causes psychosis — the sharpest medical dispute here
Appears when: Whether cannabis causes psychosis — the sharpest medical dispute here
What the pattern means: One commenter asserted that too much cannabis causes schizophrenia and was corrected inside the same branch by several others, in two languages. The distinction they draw is between triggering psychosis in someone already predisposed and causing the illness. A further reply keeps two separate arguments apart: that smoking anything harms you is not the same claim at all. This page settles none of it — what it records is that the thread's own participants did not let the original assertion stand.
What commenters described: It can trigger it in individuals that are predisposed, but does not cause it. If that were true we'd have a LOT more schizophrenics.
Limit: An unresolved medical argument between anonymous commenters. The correction offered here — that cannabis may trigger psychosis in someone predisposed rather than cause schizophrenia — is the thread's own claim, not this page's finding.
What the replies added2
Le cannabis peut déclencher une psychose déjà présente, il ne provoque en aucun cas la schizophrénie.
It doesnt cause it, stop spreading disinformation.
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Le cannabis peut déclencher une psychose déjà présente, il ne provoque en aucun cas la schizophrénie.
Talk to ER staff. They are increasingly treating people with mental psychotic breaks. They believe it is from the ultra potency of marijuana. Psychotic breaks are not schizophrenia. I do understand your point though.
I've seen it first hand
What the counts show
The exact phrase “it doesnt cause” recurs across 2 of the 13 source records in Whether cannabis causes psychosis — the sharpest medical dispute here; the complete archive stays available below.
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Gambling built into everythingBetting arriving through sports coverage, phone apps, prediction markets and game mechanics.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Gambling built into everything
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Gambling built into everything
Appears when: Gambling built into everything
What the pattern means: The answer names a delivery mechanism rather than a vice: betting arriving through sports broadcasts, phone apps, prediction markets and loot mechanics in games sold to children. One record describes a friend who could not afford medication for a sick cat while maxing credit cards on bets, and several ask why these advertisements are permitted when cigarette ones are not.
What commenters described: Gambling. Can't watch a sports game without sports betting advertising. Then there's all the other online casinos and things like Ploymarket etc.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added1
A previous friend of mine would complain about always being broke & would vent to me often. I was supportive until I found out he figured he couldn't afford medication for his ill cat, but still felt he could smoke (over a pack a day), drink beer to the point of intoxication daily & gamble enough to max out his credit cards monthly Yes, addiction is a bitch but if you choose to let you ill cat get worse because your "needs" come first, when they are basically luxuries, then we are going to have a problem
Where commenters report limits
Unfortunately society is making it easier and easier for alcoholics and gamblers. You can have alcohol delivered as you bet online.
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Gambling. Can't watch a sports game without sports betting advertising. Then there's all the other online casinos and things like Ploymarket etc.
I’ve noticed an uptick in advertising online gambling to women. Are the boys running out of money or are the gambling sites trying to double their take? Tough to say but I’m hoping the ladies don’t fall for it
My state is very prone to wildfires and people were using kalshi to bet on them. Which could lead to arson. It's too much with sports and way too much with other options.
What the counts show
Within 13 source records, 0 explicitly report a benefit and 1 explicitly report a limit or failure. These are attributed experiences, not effectiveness data.
What commenters explicitly report
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Smoking, and the smoke other people breatheSmoking as an answer — plus the commenters who replied that this one has in fact been de-normalised.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Smoking, and the smoke other people breathe
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Smoking, and the smoke other people breathe
Appears when: Smoking, and the smoke other people breathe
What the pattern means: Smoking appears here mostly in terms of bystanders, and the node's most-liked record makes a strong numerical claim about second-hand smoke that two replies reject as plainly wrong. The other notable thing is disagreement about the premise: several commenters argue smoking is the one item on this whole list that genuinely has been de-normalised, and one reports two years without cigarettes.
What commenters described: Smoking, especially around others. You're literally killing everyone around you and poisoning the earth. It's so incredibly selfish and narcissistic. 2nd hand smoke is over 100x worse for your health than smoking directly as there's no filter for 2nd hand smoke, and the buds that are left over posions the soil and prevents plants and other organisms from growing. If you want to slowly kill yourself that's fine, but don't be taking others down with you.
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What the replies added2
There was a time I would’ve made some kind of wisecrack about you being lame, but you actually are right. Two years free of cigarettes! Let’s go.
It’s funny to me how many celebrities would go on rants about cutting friends out of their lives if they weren’t vaccinated for covid. However, there are so many of them photographed smoking in public. I just think it’s very hypocritical behavior because they are not considering anyone else’s health blowing that smoke around.
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Smoking, especially around others. You're literally killing everyone around you and poisoning the earth. It's so incredibly selfish and narcissistic. 2nd hand smoke is over 100x worse for your health than smoking directly as there's no filter for 2nd hand smoke, and the buds that are left over posions the soil and prevents plants and other organisms from growing. If you want to slowly kill yourself that's fine, but don't be taking others down with you.
I live in Vegas, where most casinos and many bars let everyone smoke inside. If they had to walk outside to take a smoke break, they would leave their gambling machines - this is also why at many bars you drink for free if you’re gambling
It really depends where you live I guess. Where I am, especially among the younger population, smoking is rampant
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The exact phrase “2nd hand smoke” recurs across 3 of the 10 source records in Smoking, and the smoke other people breathe; the complete archive stays available below.
What commenters explicitly report
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Infant circumcision — the thread’s top answer and its longest argumentThe top answer by a wide margin, and by far the least settled argument in the thread. 234 records.
Surgery on someone who cannot consentThe top answer as it was actually argued: a permanent decision taken before the person can be asked.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Surgery on someone who cannot consent
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Surgery on someone who cannot consent
Appears when: Surgery on someone who cannot consent
What the pattern means: Stripped of the argument around it, the thread's top answer is about who decides. The records that state it plainly frame it as a permanent, non-urgent change made before the person can be asked, and several describe their own view shifting only once they left the setting that made it routine. One commenter reaches for having had their ears pierced as a baby as the nearest comparison they have.
What commenters described: I used to see nothing wrong with it just because it’s so normal with the people I grew up. But now I obviously understand why it’s fucked up and most of the time unnecessary
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What the replies added2
Sorry but "I'm surprised you can even ejaculate" is dramatic
Yeah that's one of the weirdest cultural practices I've ever seen. Common in the states. Not a done thing in Ireland that's for sure and id be very sad if it was done to me. The amount of nerve endings you guys are missing is criminal! I'm surprised you can even ejaculate!
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Circumcising children who don't need it.
I was so conflicted in 2000. Logically I knew it was wrong. But being from small town Pa I knew most were around me and I personally heard women talk about men badly if they weren’t. I assumed as time went on people would become more educated and stigma of not having it done would fade. But I couldn’t bank on it. Turns out I moved to another smallish town that is still behind and I made right decision. It sucked and I wish even the option would go away unless someone has a reason for it
Actual psychological horror for me personally. Its just so... what the fuck
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The exact phrase “cutting off a piece of skin” recurs across 2 of the 20 source records in Surgery on someone who cannot consent; the complete archive stays available below.
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Hygiene, nursing homes and the caregiving argumentThe largest branch in the corpus: care and hospital workers describing what they saw, and the replies disputing what it justifies. First-hand accounts, not evidence.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Hygiene, nursing homes and the caregiving argument
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Hygiene, nursing homes and the caregiving argument
Appears when: Hygiene, nursing homes and the caregiving argument
What the pattern means: The largest branch in the entire corpus, and it is a specific argument rather than a general one. Commenters who say they work in hospitals and long-term care describe elderly patients who could not be kept clean, and parents say that is why they chose the procedure. The replies do not dispute what those workers say they saw; they dispute what follows from it — that a care system's failure is being addressed on an infant's body, and that most of the world manages the same anatomy without surgery.
What commenters described: I’ve learned in American medicine, where our elders end up alone or in the care of caregivers, depending on the patients ailments, it can make it extremely difficult to keep uncircumcised men clean properly. Yeast infections, bacterial infections, even sepsis or UTI.
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What the replies added1
I was very torn on having my son circumcised, but I have a friend who is an RN. She works in labor and delivery predominately, but she has also worked in the senior care, hospice, obesity, and trauma centers. Across the board she says them men who are uncircumcised are at significantly higher risk of infection and it’s very obvious the amount of pain they are in. I understand your perspective, but the truth of the matter is the US healthcare system is so thoroughly flawed it has made this a necessary precaution for most of us parents here who just want to set our kids up for the most successful and safe lives possible. I did ask her if she thought my son would be ok to make that decision on his own as an adult, but she assured me in her experience most babies don’t even cry, and there are less complications. Ultimately we decided to have it done when he was born for those reasons, but please understand that it is a decision a lot of parents here don’t take lightly; we are trapped by a significantly broken system.
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It is not a minority of people who end up in nursing homes unfortunately.
That’s an opinion. It’s very much a real issue & is worth as many words as possible to get the point across that our country is not like yours unfortunately. Be grateful. Do better.
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The other 98% of the world doesn't mutilate our babies and we still manage to keep our penises clean, though.
You would think, wouldn't you. Again, I have no control over idiots or what they teach thier kids. I only know what i saw.
My son was not circumcised in the hospital when I had him and my mother in law absolutely freaked out and insisted we have it done because of hygiene purposes, that apparently little boys have a hard time cleaning themselves and it could be a huge problem if it’s not done. I’m a woman so I really don’t know. But I found out that way that it’s a hygiene thing.
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Across 63 source records, the most common observable tactic structure is “Turn it into a game” (3 records). This is a wording pattern, not a measured outcome.
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What the health claims were said to rest onRecords trading claims about infection, transmission and what the evidence shows. Reported claims only; none is checked here.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: What the health claims were said to rest on
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What the health claims were said to rest on
Appears when: What the health claims were said to rest on
What the pattern means: Where the branch above trades experience, this one trades claims: infection rates, transmission, phimosis, how insurers classify the procedure, and repeated instructions to go and look it up. The most useful records are the ones asking for the evidence rather than asserting it, and one commenter answers their own question by explaining why an honest comparison of sensation is close to impossible to construct.
What commenters described: Please elaborate on these "health related ways" it's beneficial. Insurance companies have decided it's an elective cosmetic procedure & we're not seeing mass health issues in developed countries where circumcision is rare. If a man washes himself properly it's not an issue.
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What the replies added2
I've 44 years experience and from all the people I know nobody is getting diseases or skin ailments and nobody gets circumcised. Again 67% of the males are not circumcised in the world and I guarantee there's no difference in the statistics with these diseases and skin ailments for this majority of people. It's nonsense.
There can be genuine reasons - just one example is phimosis, which is where the foreskin of the penis is very tight and can either be only partially able to be or completely unable to be retracted, which can make cleaning the penis properly very difficult and there is a risk of infections, difficulty peeing, to name a few. Sometimes it can be treated with steroids cream to basically thin the skin so it can eventually be stretched like a regular foreskin can be, or stretched otherwise somehow, but if that doesn't work then surgery is the only.other "fix" for it.
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There can be genuine reasons - just one example is phimosis, which is where the foreskin of the penis is very tight and can either be only partially able to be or completely unable to be retracted, which can make cleaning the penis properly very difficult and there is a risk of infections, difficulty peeing, to name a few. Sometimes it can be treated with steroids cream to basically thin the skin so it can eventually be stretched like a regular foreskin can be, or stretched otherwise somehow, but if that doesn't work then surgery is the only.other "fix" for it.
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Sometimes it's medically suggested to avoid recurring infections.
What IS the medical science you’re referring to? You’re so confident you’re correct, why would you need google to look it up when you could just say what you’re talking about?
Except that male circumcision has been proven to beneficial in many health related ways. Its benefits far outweigh the *extremely* rare downsides.
What the counts show
The exact phrase “people who have had” recurs across 2 of the 39 source records in What the health claims were said to rest on; the complete archive stays available below.
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Religion, culture and “it is just what you do”Where commenters said the practice came from, and how they said it stopped being a decision at all.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Religion, culture and “it is just what you do”
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Religion, culture and “it is just what you do”
Appears when: Religion, culture and “it is just what you do”
What the pattern means: These records treat the practice as a cultural fact rather than a medical one and try to account for how it became automatic: religious obligation, an American origin story involving Kellogg that several commenters backed with links they posted themselves, and the plain observation that most of the world does not do it. A second strand reports the pressure running the other way, with partners and relatives treating the uncircumcised body as the deviation.
What commenters described: I find it difficult to reply to this one. I was circumcised as a baby, and I asked my parents why. They were told by their doctor at the time that it was to prevent future infections. Apparently there had been if you pardon the expression, a rash of these, and they were recommending circumcision as a result. I’ve since noticed that such recommendations, wax and wane over time. The question of it being medically necessary seems to go through cycles. As I say, I have difficulty replying to this one.
Limit: Historical and cultural accounts as commenters gave them, including sourced links they posted themselves. The sources are theirs and have not been evaluated here.
What the replies added1
How confidently incorrect you are. Do you know the diseases and skin ailments you’re prone to having foreskin?
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Yeah that's one of the weirdest cultural practices I've ever seen. Common in the states. Not a done thing in Ireland that's for sure and id be very sad if it was done to me. The amount of nerve endings you guys are missing is criminal! I'm surprised you can even ejaculate!
You are correct but I was referring to the origins of circumcision in America. Kellogg is the sole reason its such a widespread practice there
The amount of American women who wouldn't sleep with someone who is uncircumcised makes it worth being circumcised.
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Across 44 source records, the most common observable tactic structure is “Attach it to an existing routine” (2 records). This is a wording pattern, not a measured outcome.
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The men it was done to, answering backAnswers from people the procedure was performed on — reporting opposite experiences of it.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: The men it was done to, answering back
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The men it was done to, answering back
Appears when: The men it was done to, answering back
What the pattern means: The people the thread is talking about answer, in both directions, and the disagreement is not resolvable from outside. Some report no sense of loss and mild irritation at being told they were harmed. Others report specific damage, a corrective procedure, or simply that they would have liked the choice. One commenter's objection is to the conversation itself — that discussions like this one leave him self-conscious about a body he was otherwise fine with.
What commenters described: Child circumcision survivor here. My penis is fine and sex is lovely, thank you for the concern. I've literally never met someone circumcised including myself who ever gave a flying fuck. Obviously i dont speak for everyone but I'm not out here mourning a foreskin I never knew. I miss it about as much as I miss my umbilical cord. Im not saying I'm going to have that done to my children when they are born, I understand why people are against it, it's just ridiculous how much discourse there is about it especially when its people that aren't. Dont circumcise your kids, fantastic, move on. I've never felt more affected by it than when conversations like this leave me feeling self conscious.
Limit: Individual accounts that directly contradict one another. Nothing in them generalises to anyone else's experience.
What the replies added1
My friend got circumcised in high school after his girlfriend laughed at his aardvark penis. He said he regretted not getting it done when he was younger.
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It's not that dramatic. My ex and his brother got circumcised in adulthood. No complaints.
True, but these things aren’t mutually exclusive. I deeply value being kind and respectful and supportive and many other traits that I think are positive. I’m just also grateful women like my body.
You’ll never experience a handjob with foreskin. You have no idea what you’re missing out on. You’ll never experience your foreskin slowly peeling back as well. And girls say anything when a dicks in their face.
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The exact phrase “only seen one” recurs across 3 of the 29 source records in The men it was done to, answering back; the complete archive stays available below.
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Parents who declined, and what they were toldThe small group describing the reaction they got for saying no.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Parents who declined, and what they were told
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Parents who declined, and what they were told
Appears when: Parents who declined, and what they were told
What the pattern means: Five records, all describing the same surprise: that declining a non-essential procedure produced a fight. Pressure from both sides of a family, a relative threatening to arrange it herself, disapproval from strangers. One commenter reports the decision being confirmed for them afterwards, when local parents began organising over procedures that had gone wrong.
What commenters described: We decided against it for our son and both sides of the family gave us so much shit. It was insane. Come to find out, the local mom's group has someone organizing a lawsuit because so many kiddos in my area had botched circumcisms. It only served to confirm our choice.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
Can I ask what background you are both from. Because here it is not a thing at all. And our dicks have not fallen off and our women are pleased greatly. Well the last bit. I hope.
Crazy your family is THAT concerned over your son’s penis. 🤦♂️
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We decided against it for our son and both sides of the family gave us so much shit. It was insane. Come to find out, the local mom's group has someone organizing a lawsuit because so many kiddos in my area had botched circumcisms. It only served to confirm our choice.
Same. My sister told me she was going to take him and get it done herself. It’s insane how people get so worked up when someone thinks for themselves and opts out of unnecessarily chopping off a newborn’s fully functioning body part.
Crazy your family is THAT concerned over your son’s penis. 🤦♂️
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Within 5 source records, 1 ask a question and 0 explicitly say they intend to try the idea; neither signal is treated as an outcome.
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Where the argument stopped being about the questionComparisons, counter-comparisons and derailments that pulled the branch away from the answer it started from.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Where the argument stopped being about the question
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Where the argument stopped being about the question
Appears when: Where the argument stopped being about the question
What the pattern means: A seventh of this theme is not about the behaviour at all. The branch turned first on a rhetorical jab about sensation, then on whether female genital cutting makes the comparison invalid, then on abortion and transition care. The records are kept because they are the honest shape of the thread — its top answer never got a clean hearing — rather than because they advance it.
What commenters described: Sorry but "I'm surprised you can even ejaculate" is dramatic
Limit: Derailments and comparisons, kept so the shape of the thread is visible. They are not answers to the question.
What replies pushed back on2
And, people defending this are even worse. To me, this is almost no different than abortions and transitioning kids. Why shouldn't abortion and transjtioning kids be allowed and this is? Look, I get that what stays between the doctors and the pataionts/pataions company. However, just like abortion and transitioning kids. It's never about the actual reasoning for the action. Stuff like this is almost always an agenda. And, people like you who defend this type of stuff and say that "it should be allowed" are almost the most concerning ones in the end. Because, you're denfending something that shouldn't be legalized to begin with. Do you people also allow and defends rapes as well?
Erm, disagree. If people are slowly starting to call "making kids transisitioming at a young age" pedephilia. Then, this should fit that definition as well.
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Sorry but "I'm surprised you can even ejaculate" is dramatic
Dude, what are you even doing, like what do you expect someone to say to that? Do you think that's actually compassion or backhanded and an excuse just to dig at them
Erm, disagree. If people are slowly starting to call "making kids transisitioming at a young age" pedephilia. Then, this should fit that definition as well.
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Across 34 source records, the most common observable tactic structure is “Change the sentence” (3 records). This is a wording pattern, not a measured outcome.
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Naming your own mindDiagnosis as identity — and the commenters who have the diagnosis answering back. 46 records.
Self-diagnosing a disorderA diagnosis arrived at from a feed rather than an assessment.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Self-diagnosing a disorder
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Self-diagnosing a disorder
Appears when: Self-diagnosing a disorder
What the pattern means: The complaint is narrower than it first looks. Almost nobody here objects to a person recognising themselves in a description; what the records object to is the diagnosis used as a standing excuse, or worn as an identity. Several commenters who are themselves diagnosed draw exactly that line, and one argues the actual tell is not self-diagnosis but building a personality around a label.
What commenters described: As someone that’s on the spectrum, I am so tired of the self diagnosed crowd that uses it as an excuse for everything.
Limit: Opinions about other people's diagnoses, from commenters who are not clinicians. Several records in the neighbouring nodes reject the premise outright.
What the replies added2
It'd probably help if getting a diagnosis didn't cost thousands, while also being undiagnosed often leads to poverty.
As someone that’s on the spectrum, I am so tired of the self diagnosed crowd that uses it as an excuse for everything.
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Self diagnosing mental disorders
It was really easy to get diagnosed with ADHD. Basically you fill out a survey that describes many many normal human experiences and if you check a bunch of them, you have ADHD. Not to discount people who really struggle, but anyone and their dog can get a diagnosis if they want one.
Physical diagnoses too bro.
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The exact phrase “doesnt hurt anyone” recurs across 2 of the 16 source records in Self-diagnosing a disorder; the complete archive stays available below.
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Why people said they do it: cost, waiting lists and being missedThe first reply that answer drew: what an assessment costs, and who never gets offered one.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Why people said they do it: cost, waiting lists and being missed
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Why people said they do it: cost, waiting lists and being missed
Appears when: Why people said they do it: cost, waiting lists and being missed
What the pattern means: The first reply that answer drew, and it reframes it. Assessment costs thousands; going undiagnosed has costs of its own; and several commenters describe having to name the condition themselves before any professional would test for it. One reports a decade of wrong labels first. Read together they argue that self-diagnosis is often the only route left rather than a pose.
What commenters described: It'd probably help if getting a diagnosis didn't cost thousands, while also being undiagnosed often leads to poverty.
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What the replies added2
Agreed on this. It’s one thing to say you have XYZ because it’s ’popular’ or ‘in’ or gets you followers or you and others think it’s quirky. It’s another to know damn well you have a thing but are unable to afford to get it diagnosed and treated by a professional. Not everyone out there who is not professionally diagnosed with something just simply does not have it because a doctor never said you did. Also, people are a lot more aware about these things these days. There’s more studies and talks about things like adhd and ocd and autism (being such a broad spectrum as it is) and that’s great! People who have struggled their whole lives can put a finger on the cause and go from there. Some have the means to get it official and deal via therapy, meds, whatever. A lot of people do not have that option, and should not be invalidated because of it
I had to fight and seek out every diagnosis I have. It sounds like I was asking for it when I put it like that, but I’ve been diagnosed again and again with exactly the same thing when every doctor questions it and wants their own take on it. Always the same conclusion. In college it was first bipolar 2. I was skeptical but pretty sure. I went in, got tested, got medicated. It took about 8 years to get stable with the billion med changes that happened between different doctors and simply failing so many and being labeled treatment resistant. Then about a decade later after others mentioned it and my therapist agreed, it was seeking Autism and questioning ADHD but I wasn’t very convinced on that one at all. Whole neurodivergent spectrum there they saw clearly in the intake before the testing even began. There’s also the Irlen Syndrome I questioned and sought testing for and was amazed at the results and what I learned. Oh about halfway between BP2 and AuDHD was PMDD. That took TONS of research and years of mood tracking. Most recently it’s the hEDS I suspect with confirmed hypermobility and dysautonomia with doctors recording the changes in my blood pressure after electrolytes and changes in so many things, and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, all three of which were unofficially confirmed by one doctor but not being the official specialists who diagnose them, even with multiple doctors agreeing, it’s still unofficial. I started H1 and H2 antihistamines and mast cell stabilizers and I’m doing better in many ways! All doctor recommended, and in some cases prescribed, treatments. It takes someone advocating for themselves to make things happen. I was like 31 when I got my AuDHD diagnosis. I had already experienced severe depression for a decade by the time I got my bipolar diagnosis. Thanks, mom, for calling the doctor that hinted I was depressed a “quack” and saying we’d never listen to him again. Then thanks, mom, for threatening to disown me when I came out about my bipolar diagnosis to her. Now we’re totally good and close and I love my mom so much and I’m sad we don’t have much time left due to her (genetic) ALS. I need to get tested.
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It'd probably help if getting a diagnosis didn't cost thousands, while also being undiagnosed often leads to poverty.
Or if they told you what diagnosis you have when u get an assessment for mental health
How else is someone supposed to get diagnosed? I had several therapists and a psychiatrist, the only diagnosis I ever got from them was depression. It took me recognizing my symptoms in other peoples descriptions and specifically asking for a diagnosis to actually get diagnosed.
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Within 5 source records, 1 ask a question and 0 explicitly say they intend to try the idea; neither signal is treated as an outcome.
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Diagnosing everybody elseRecords that turn the complaint around onto people who diagnose others.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Diagnosing everybody else
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Diagnosing everybody else
Appears when: Diagnosing everybody else
What the pattern means: The mirror image of the complaint above, and a few commenters think it is the larger problem: labelling other people, with 'narcissist' the word they name over and over. One record points at the recommendation algorithms pushing that vocabulary; another at clinicians over-applying categories from the manual.
What commenters described: Diagnosing other people is a much bigger social problem than self-diagnosis.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added1
Diagnosing other people is a much bigger social problem than self-diagnosis.
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Applying the “narcissistic” title to literally everyone
Or diagnosing others. If I see one more person call everyone in their lives narcissist I’ll probably lose it.
File this next to "Everyone is a narc" posts.
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Therapy words used looselySpecific words commenters said have lost their meaning in everyday use.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Therapy words used loosely
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Therapy words used loosely
Appears when: Therapy words used loosely
What the pattern means: Specific words rather than a general mood: gaslighting used to mean lying, trauma used to mean an unpleasant time. The most useful record works through what gaslighting actually describes with an example. Another reports the loss running the other way — having been through it, the commenter now avoids the word because nobody hears any weight in it.
What commenters described: People using therapy speak in everyday language when they have no idea what it means. Thinking mainly of "gaslight," which is NOT a synonym for "lying" or "trying to convince yourself to do something."
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
For gaslighting, I like to use the example of catching a partner cheating. Are you accusing them based on suspicious behaviors and they say no? If they’re lying, they’re lying. That’s not gaslighting. Gaslighting is when you see the messages and catch them doing things, and they try to convince you that you didn’t see what you saw. They try to break you mentally. You know what you saw but now you’re questioning it because they are tripping you out.
Or the overuse of the word 'trauma'. Once you've been through it, you can spot pretty easily what's actual trauma and what was just an unpleasant time for someone?? And it makes you less likely to use the word to describe your experiences because people don't seem to grasp the gravity of it anymore.
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People using therapy speak in everyday language when they have no idea what it means. Thinking mainly of "gaslight," which is NOT a synonym for "lying" or "trying to convince yourself to do something."
Or the overuse of the word 'trauma'. Once you've been through it, you can spot pretty easily what's actual trauma and what was just an unpleasant time for someone?? And it makes you less likely to use the word to describe your experiences because people don't seem to grasp the gravity of it anymore.
Therapy speak in the everyday. Using speaker phone in public. Not using headphones in public.
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The exact phrase “therapy speak in” recurs across 2 of the 4 source records in Therapy words used loosely; the complete archive stays available below.
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The people who have the diagnosis, answeringCommenters living with the conditions being discussed, describing what the loose talk costs — and disagreeing with each other about how to respond to it.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: The people who have the diagnosis, answering
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The people who have the diagnosis, answering
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What the pattern means: The branch's own subjects reply, and they do not agree with each other. Some describe what the casual version costs them — OCD treated as a quirk while they are at risk of losing a job. Others push back on the complaint itself, arguing that assuming somebody is lying about an illness is worse than being wrong about them, and that people joke about serious diagnoses precisely to test whether it is safe to mention them at all.
What commenters described: Omg yes! I have OCD, and it's gotten so bad I'm struggling to sleep, can barely function and am at risk of losing my job. I had to talk to my doctor earlier today because of how bad it's gotten. I'm so sick of people saying stupid bullshit 'triggers their OCD', and then acting like it's some funny quirk.
Limit: First-person accounts of living with a condition, including descriptions of acute distress. They are experiences, not clinical descriptions, and the commenters disagree with each other.
What the replies added1
Tbh it's not easy to tell if someone is or is not telling the truth when they're lightheartedly talking about having a serious mental illness. I am diagnosed bipolar, and it's pretty much ruined my life multiple times before I got diagnosed and treated. But the way I usually talk about it would make you assume that I'm "lying for attention". I joke about it. I joke about wanting to be in hypomania because it's fun and energy drinks aren't cutting it. Someone overhearing me definitely would assume I'm not bipolar and am just trivializing the illness. I also have OCD (diagnosed and moderately managed). Yes it's torturous. Yes it's annoying when someone says they have it and it doesn't sound like they're describing the actual pattern of the illness. But it's always better to lead with grace & kindness than to dismiss someone who is opening up and being vulnerable. Making jokes is a common, safe way to test someone's reaction to you opening up about something vulnerable (like mental illness).
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Omg yes! I have OCD, and it's gotten so bad I'm struggling to sleep, can barely function and am at risk of losing my job. I had to talk to my doctor earlier today because of how bad it's gotten. I'm so sick of people saying stupid bullshit 'triggers their OCD', and then acting like it's some funny quirk.
If you choose to be offended I’m sorry but so be it. My comment is very obviously referring to people who do not actually have these disorders but use a fake diagnosis to excuse away their behavior. OCD, autism and ADHD are not just “cleaning too much” and “poor social skills” and “small attention span”. It’s so much more. Hence why my comment is referring to only those symptoms when people automatically assume they themselves must have a disorder, which is offensive to those that actually have been diagnosed. I thought that was obvious
DSM-V has a new category for OCPD, precisely for things that aren't as serious
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Across 15 source records, the most common observable tactic structure is “Attach it to an existing routine” (2 records). This is a wording pattern, not a measured outcome.
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Plans, promises and disappearingWhat happens to a commitment once keeping it costs something. 41 records.
Flaking, no-shows and the party nobody came toPlans agreed to and then dropped, and the events left half empty.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Flaking, no-shows and the party nobody came to
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Flaking, no-shows and the party nobody came to
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What the pattern means: These answers are not about one cancelled coffee but about events with a fixed date: a child's birthday, a wedding, a fortieth. Several commenters report the majority of confirmed guests dropping out at the last minute. The reasoning offered is about reciprocity rather than manners — one record puts it as wanting a community without being a member of one.
What commenters described: Being flakey around plans/events. There is really nothing sadder than planning a kids birthday or wedding and half the people who said they'd come cancel or no-show. It's actively harming the social fabric of this country.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
100% agree. Everyone is “protecting their peace” and everyone is a main character. People don’t even have a decency to let people know ahead of time.
Everyone wants to be a part of a community but no one wants to participate in theirs. Even if I don’t want to go to my plans, I still go if I said I would because I value my community.
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Flaking, ghosting, lying, etc;
only to an extent. at the end of the day it requires the people, the members of the community, to actually feel like they should be investing in it. "Everyone wants a village, no one wants to be a villager."
Thank you and I'm sorry to hear for your bf as well. I took it as a lesson on who truly mattered the whole time. Sounds like your bf has two good friends in life!
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The exact phrase “i dont want to” recurs across 2 of the 17 source records in Flaking, no-shows and the party nobody came to; the complete archive stays available below.
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Ghosting, cutting contact, and lies that cost nothingContact ended without a word, and the small dishonesty that travels with it.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Ghosting, cutting contact, and lies that cost nothing
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Ghosting, cutting contact, and lies that cost nothing
Appears when: Ghosting, cutting contact, and lies that cost nothing
What the pattern means: Where flaking is about an event, this is about ending a relationship without saying so. The accounts are long and specific: a close friendship ended by text, an engagement ended by text. The complaint is the absence of a sentence rather than the decision. The small lies grouped here belong for the same reason — they cost the teller nothing and leave the other person holding something false.
What commenters described: Lost one of my closest friends to this. We had a falling out and she catastrophized, thinking I was going to do something I would never do. She ended our friendship via text and will probably never speak to me again because she needs to “protect her peace”. I miss her a lot, but it was an incredibly shitty thing to do especially since I actively tried to mend things. But now she acts like I never mattered. Hell, maybe I never did. Ironically every time I see her she looks miserable. I had other friends to fall back on, she doesn’t. It’s really tragic.
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What the replies added1
Professional victimhood, they are toddlers, nothing is their fault Alot of people are enablers, i think its more common with females than males If a woman is dumped by a man her friends will say things such as, he didnt deserve you, you are worth more, etc; basically not holding her accountable But if the reverse happens and she was a decent partner, his friends will tell him he is an idiot and he ruined it These people then remain immature and always blame others For that indian guy above, i would just tell him exactly how you feel and say if you want me in your life you have to change, if not, then this is where we part ways
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Lost one of my closest friends to this. We had a falling out and she catastrophized, thinking I was going to do something I would never do. She ended our friendship via text and will probably never speak to me again because she needs to “protect her peace”. I miss her a lot, but it was an incredibly shitty thing to do especially since I actively tried to mend things. But now she acts like I never mattered. Hell, maybe I never did. Ironically every time I see her she looks miserable. I had other friends to fall back on, she doesn’t. It’s really tragic.
Oh dang, that would explain a lot. I can understand being mad at me but she seemed convinced I was trying to manipulate her. I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure she was in psychosis by that point. I’m honestly not sure I’ve ever known her while she wasn’t manic, a lot of her behavior seemed like it but it wasn’t off-putting at that point. But the complete personality change she had in March scared me.
I won’t lie, it doesn’t feel like that. I’ve never had a friend hurt me like that before. She’s bipolar and will likely do this over and over again. I wish I could be there for her but she would rather stay angry forever.
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Within 14 source records, 1 ask a question and 0 explicitly say they intend to try the idea; neither signal is treated as an outcome.
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“Protecting my peace” as the reason givenOne phrase, named repeatedly as the cover story rather than the reason.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: “Protecting my peace” as the reason given
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“Protecting my peace” as the reason given
Appears when: “Protecting my peace” as the reason given
What the pattern means: One phrase, named repeatedly as the thing that changed. Commenters do not dispute the underlying idea; the sharpest record explains it as a therapeutic tool built for people who cannot say no at all, later adopted by people who were already avoidant. The objection is to a vocabulary that makes dropping people sound like health.
What commenters described: Yep, they call it self care, i call it selfish care
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added1
Professional victimhood, they are toddlers, nothing is their fault Alot of people are enablers, i think its more common with females than males If a woman is dumped by a man her friends will say things such as, he didnt deserve you, you are worth more, etc; basically not holding her accountable But if the reverse happens and she was a decent partner, his friends will tell him he is an idiot and he ruined it These people then remain immature and always blame others For that indian guy above, i would just tell him exactly how you feel and say if you want me in your life you have to change, if not, then this is where we part ways
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100% agree. Everyone is “protecting their peace” and everyone is a main character. People don’t even have a decency to let people know ahead of time.
Professional victimhood, they are toddlers, nothing is their fault Alot of people are enablers, i think its more common with females than males If a woman is dumped by a man her friends will say things such as, he didnt deserve you, you are worth more, etc; basically not holding her accountable But if the reverse happens and she was a decent partner, his friends will tell him he is an idiot and he ruined it These people then remain immature and always blame others For that indian guy above, i would just tell him exactly how you feel and say if you want me in your life you have to change, if not, then this is where we part ways
That's why I no longer say "protecting my peace" I started staying " to protect my sanity, or at least what is left of it." Cause I enjoy chaos, but I get burnt out easily due to past life events I am still working through and my sanity and ability to do things outweigh having peace.
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The exact phrase “and everyone is a main character” recurs across 2 of the 8 source records in “Protecting my peace” as the reason given; the complete archive stays available below.
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What it costs the person left waitingThe two records that describe a cancelled plan from the other side.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: What it costs the person left waiting
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What it costs the person left waiting
Appears when: What it costs the person left waiting
What the pattern means: Only two records take the other seat, and they say something the rest of the theme does not: the injury is the promise, not the absence. One parent describes the isolation of people who say they will come by and never do; the other would rather be told no than be given hope.
What commenters described: I can tolerate not wanting to spend time with me, but dont lie and make false promises, it hurts more since you give them hope
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added1
I can tolerate not wanting to spend time with me, but dont lie and make false promises, it hurts more since you give them hope
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I can tolerate not wanting to spend time with me, but dont lie and make false promises, it hurts more since you give them hope
I totally agree with this. Being a parent is the most isolating thing I’ve ever experienced. No one wants to hang out with you. No one checks on you. They say they wanna come by and never do.
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Being aloneIsolation as an answer, and the objection that some people simply prefer their own company. 22 records.
Time alone as the default settingSolitude as the shape of an ordinary week rather than a choice made once.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Time alone as the default setting
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Time alone as the default setting
Appears when: Time alone as the default setting
What the pattern means: The answer treats solitude as an outcome rather than a preference — entertainment that removes the reason to leave, work schedules that never align, a housing market that keeps moving people on. One commenter reports it as something they do and agree with, which is the tone of most of this group.
What commenters described: Being alone. Too many Americans spend too much time alone (I think) because we have too much instantly available entertainment. The surgeon general called this out a couple of years ago as a serious health issue.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
Our infrastructure is shot too. Driving somewhere to spend money is a requirement, nearly. Neighborhoods are built more like prisons or fortresses, vs neighborhoods. To go anywhere, costs money. Most parks for Americans are not walkable. Rather require driving a car to. Destruction of third spaces. Overworked.
Goes both ways. Some people can’t be alone for any length of time. I’d say those folks may have a problem too.
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Being alone. Too many Americans spend too much time alone (I think) because we have too much instantly available entertainment. The surgeon general called this out a couple of years ago as a serious health issue.
Work schedules fuck up me, my bf, and the cousins we like to hang out with. Its like they plan households to where someone is gone everyday, too tired to hang out, or nightshifted so theyre only awake at night.
The amount of social (physical) isolation everyone seems to have. And to go with that cell phone/ social media addictions.
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This report keeps all 6 source records for Time alone as the default setting together and surfaces traceable examples without converting anecdotes into proof.
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Where community used to happenThe places and infrastructure commenters said used to make company automatic.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Where community used to happen
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Where community used to happen
Appears when: Where community used to happen
What the pattern means: The reply that took over the answer, and it is about built environment: neighbourhoods you cannot walk out of, third places that closed, everywhere reachable only by car and only by spending. Commenters describe the walkable version as a utopia and then immediately price it, noting that the few places that already work that way are the most expensive in the country.
What commenters described: Our infrastructure is shot too. Driving somewhere to spend money is a requirement, nearly. Neighborhoods are built more like prisons or fortresses, vs neighborhoods. To go anywhere, costs money. Most parks for Americans are not walkable. Rather require driving a car to. Destruction of third spaces. Overworked.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
Ugh it's sad that a walkable city where you work your 4 days a week job that has a livable wage, can easily go to your local farmers market via public transport, then can go home to your communal living space and exchange a quick convo with a neighbor is a utopia for some americans.
That same utopia is several thousand dollars a month due to massive demand in addition to near impossible to find. Seems impossible 🤷 I'm going to keep riding transit, car free is amazing. Use it or loose it!
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Our infrastructure is shot too. Driving somewhere to spend money is a requirement, nearly. Neighborhoods are built more like prisons or fortresses, vs neighborhoods. To go anywhere, costs money. Most parks for Americans are not walkable. Rather require driving a car to. Destruction of third spaces. Overworked.
Bruhhh that suckkksss. I can just think of those AK neighborhoods in my mind right now, the adults whatever. But the children are being absolutely robbed....
I was going to say this. I live in a city that has quite a lot of all of this and we have some of the highest cost of living in the country, top 5 if you don't count CA & NYC.
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The exact phrase “communal living space” recurs across 2 of the 11 source records in Where community used to happen; the complete archive stays available below.
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The objection: solitude is not lonelinessThe counter-argument raised inside the same branch, by people who want to be left alone.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: The objection: solitude is not loneliness
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The objection: solitude is not loneliness
Appears when: The objection: solitude is not loneliness
What the pattern means: The counter-argument, raised inside the same branch and worth as much as the answer: people who cannot tolerate being alone may have the problem, boredom does something useful, and being made to socialise is its own harm. One record draws the line the group settles on — loneliness is the involuntary version.
What commenters described: Being alone if you don't want to be alone is unhealthy I guess. But if you want to be alone, being forced to socialize is unhealthy.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
I agree. And people who always need to be doing something... Brain scientists will tell you that you are your most creative when you are bored.
What one person calls loneliness another calls solitude.
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Goes both ways. Some people can’t be alone for any length of time. I’d say those folks may have a problem too.
Loneliness is involuntary.
What one person calls loneliness another calls solitude.
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Within 5 source records, 1 ask a question and 0 explicitly say they intend to try the idea; neither signal is treated as an outcome.
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Cars, roads and drivingA risk taken daily by nearly everyone, and the argument about whether it has to be. 45 records.
Driving itself, treated as unremarkableA daily risk several commenters called the largest one most people take.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Driving itself, treated as unremarkable
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Driving itself, treated as unremarkable
Appears when: Driving itself, treated as unremarkable
What the pattern means: The framing is risk against familiarity: a leading cause of death that most people are obliged to do daily and therefore stop registering. One commenter's whole contribution is to be more careful than you think you already are; another describes needing medication to drive with her baby in the car. And one record declines the premise outright — some people enjoy it.
What commenters described: Driving. It remains a leading cause of fatalities, yet it's so thoroughly normalized that most of us are forced to drive just to live.
Limit: Risk framing as commenters expressed it; no figure in this node is sourced or checked.
What the replies added1
Similarly, how the (correct) idea that people who can’t be safe on the road shouldn’t drive is combined with the (incorrect) idea that anyone who struggles to get places just isn’t trying hard enough. Even when non-driving methods are technically possible, they’re often not remotely viable especially for people who are already vulnerable (kids, disabled people, the elderly, etc). Those vulnerable people are disproportionately represented in those who can’t or shouldn’t drive…
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Driving. It remains a leading cause of fatalities, yet it's so thoroughly normalized that most of us are forced to drive just to live.
The auto manufacturers could do a lot to make driving safer, in tandem with government regulation and investment in infrastructure, but we’ve chosen to not address the issue at all.
Oh I should have thought of that
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Within 11 source records, 1 ask a question and 0 explicitly say they intend to try the idea; neither signal is treated as an outcome.
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What people do while they are drivingPhones, rage and the specific habits behind the wheel.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: What people do while they are driving
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What people do while they are driving
Appears when: What people do while they are driving
What the pattern means: The specific behaviours rather than the activity: a phone in hand, rage, stopping on a motorway shoulder, licences nobody ever re-tests. One commenter reports seeing drivers scrolling social feeds rather than merely glancing at a screen.
What commenters described: Staring at a phone while driving.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added1
I have noticed more people actually SCROLLING on social media while driving! Insane
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Staring at a phone while driving.
Using your phone while driving. You shouldn't do it, there are fines for doing it, yet sooo many people don't care because they've been doing it for years and they didn't crash, therefore they're super awesome drivers and they can do it.
walking at cross walks, newcomers to Canada really are not to good with driving here
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The exact phrase “phone while driving” recurs across 2 of the 8 source records in What people do while they are driving; the complete archive stays available below.
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Car dependence, and whether it is really inevitableThe long argument about whether the size of the country makes any of this unavoidable.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Car dependence, and whether it is really inevitable
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Car dependence, and whether it is really inevitable
Appears when: Car dependence, and whether it is really inevitable
What the pattern means: The longest argument in this theme is about whether geography settles it. One side says the country is simply too big; the other points at China's rail network, at the fact that the United States was already large before cars existed, and at freight, parking and zoning as the real reasons. The most concrete records stop arguing in the abstract — a commenter who could take a train to work except that reaching the station on foot is impossible.
What commenters described: Amazing fact of the day: The US was big before cars were invented. Please forgive my exasperation. In all seriousness, people once crossed the country on trains regularly, and modern high-speed rail would far outpace cars for mid-length trips. For long trips, we have planes. For short trips, honestly, horses are way cooler than cars and trucks. But American transport infrastructure only invests massively into cars. Cars feel essential because they're the only short-to-mid-range option the government meaningfully supports now. Cars are so normalized that we forget the world was only recently reshaped to serve them.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
China is essentially the same size as the US and has an elaborate high-speed train network
Amazing fact of the day: The US was big before cars were invented. Please forgive my exasperation. In all seriousness, people once crossed the country on trains regularly, and modern high-speed rail would far outpace cars for mid-length trips. For long trips, we have planes. For short trips, honestly, horses are way cooler than cars and trucks. But American transport infrastructure only invests massively into cars. Cars feel essential because they're the only short-to-mid-range option the government meaningfully supports now. Cars are so normalized that we forget the world was only recently reshaped to serve them.
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China is essentially the same size as the US and has an elaborate high-speed train network
This is a complex issue. The fact that almost all the train track in the US is privately owned is one huge barrier to that. Decades of dismantling of train infrastructure is another problem. All those "rail trails" are great for walking / biking, sure, but they used to be active rail lines and they never will be again. In my town, a small town of about 18,000 people, I could in theory take a train to the town I work in. But the train station is about 4 miles from my house, there are no sidewalks or shoulders on a lot of the roads, and making that trek in the winter would be brutal. There's a little bit of bus transportation in my town but not anywhere near my area. And the Amtrak schedules are such that even if I could get to the train station, they wouldn't get me to or from work at the right times.
This is just such nonsense. The majority of the population is Urban. Small cities can make use of public transport, bike lanes and sidewalks.
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Across 26 source records, the most common observable tactic structure is “Turn it into a game” (2 records). This is a wording pattern, not a measured outcome.
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How strangers get treatedBehaviour aimed at people who did not choose to be near it. 62 records.
Rudeness taken as normalGeneral answers about how strangers are now treated by default.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Rudeness taken as normal
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Rudeness taken as normal
Appears when: Rudeness taken as normal
What the pattern means: The general form of the complaint, and a striking share of it comes from people who deal with the public for a living. Retail and service workers report the decline as something they can date. The remedy proposed in the theme's top record — bring public shaming back — is one the thread starts arguing about a few records later.
What commenters described: Yes. I know. I've been working in retail for 20 years. Our basic social structures are declining rapidly. It's so depressing...
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
✨Behavioral correction✨ Oh how I wish it was more present..
Was at the dentists today in their tiny waiting room (I'm so glad I don't have to pay more for a huge extravagant building.) Two different people were talking on speakerphone, both kept raising their voices as the other one did. Zero consideration for anyone else.
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Too many people have become comfortable being rude and obnoxious in public. Bring back public shaming.
It’s a top down problem
This saddens me deeply. The casualness in your message and underwritten adaptation.. :( Here 🤲🏽♥️
What the counts show
The exact phrase “being rude to strangers” recurs across 2 of the 15 source records in Rudeness taken as normal; the complete archive stays available below.
What commenters explicitly report
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What other people are made to sit throughNoise, smell and space — behaviour whose cost lands on whoever happens to be nearby.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: What other people are made to sit through
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What other people are made to sit through
Appears when: What other people are made to sit through
What the pattern means: Not rudeness aimed at anyone in particular, but behaviour whose cost lands on whoever happens to be nearby: speakerphones in waiting rooms, video calls on public transport, Bluetooth speakers, noise through a shared wall, people stopping dead in a crowd. The unifying complaint is a shared space being used as a private one.
What commenters described: Talking on the phone in public transport or watching a video without earbuds. We don’t want to hear about your like, have some respect for other ppl
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
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Being really selfish when you share walls or floors and being loud or noisy and being entitled about being able to be inconsiderate.
Your video call in public. I assure you are not that important.
Taking explosive shits in the work bathroom
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This report keeps all 9 source records for What other people are made to sit through together and surfaces traceable examples without converting anecdotes into proof.
What commenters explicitly report
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Jokes with a targetHumour aimed at a person, and what commenters said it is really doing.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Jokes with a target
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Jokes with a target
Appears when: Jokes with a target
What the pattern means: Humour used as cover, with 'I'm just being honest' as the standard alibi. The records name the forms: remarks about weight or appearance, insults offered as affection between friends, ripping as a way to look quick in front of an audience. One commenter describes it from the receiving end at industry events and calls the effect dehumanising rather than merely unfunny.
What commenters described: Over opinionated, making comments about people’s appearance or weight (obvious things someone can’t fix in five minutes or less) & using the excuse that they’re just ‘honest’ when it’s completely out of context.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
I hate that shit. "I'm just laying down facts, not my problem if you can't handle honesty." But their facts are just mean opinions.
Im too old for all that shit (mid 20’s so not that old lol) Honestly i just call em out “yo i didn’t like that” in a respectful tone ofc
Where commenters report limits
After frequenting gala events that included celebrities and theater groups, I started feeling like an object of use to boost other people's egos. It made me think of when I started noticing this culture in the 90s with shows like Beavis and Butthead and Southpark and then many panel shows with celebrities where celebrities often would rip on each other all in good fun and good spirits. As a regular person that works behind the scenes, I am ok with being ripped on by my friend groups and family as we all know each other and the humor is often inside jokes that make sense to us. Unfortunately ripping culture is now mainstream and the humor from the person delivering a rip has become more about them boosting their own ego while appearing quick on their toes rather than being actual clever or humorous statements. The feeling of sitting at a table with a celebrity and having them suddenly deliver a rip to me while everyone chuckles feels dehumanizing when I'm not a part of a click of people and even a solid response is met with another rips that is unfunny and mean spirited.
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Racism Bullying Sarcasm Competition Judgment Wisecracks for laughs instead of patience and kindness is especially important
I hate that shit. "I'm just laying down facts, not my problem if you can't handle honesty." But their facts are just mean opinions.
The last one is so frustrating. I don’t mind a few good natured wisecracks.. but It’s gotten to the point where if that’s your whole personality I can’t establish any kind of connection with them. Everyone is so desperate to be funny (or the class clown) now for attention. They focus more on the funny part than actually helping
What the counts show
Within 10 source records, 0 explicitly report a benefit and 1 explicitly report a limit or failure. These are attributed experiences, not effectiveness data.
What commenters explicitly report
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Swearing, yelling and the volume of ordinary speechAnswers about tone, and the immediate replies asking who exactly it hurts.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Swearing, yelling and the volume of ordinary speech
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Swearing, yelling and the volume of ordinary speech
Appears when: Swearing, yelling and the volume of ordinary speech
What the pattern means: A cluster about register, and the pushback is immediate and unusually blunt: who exactly is being hurt. The answers that hold up are the ones making an argument rather than a complaint — that swearing works by scarcity, or that permanent anger has become a resting state rather than a reaction to anything.
What commenters described: Curse words have more impact the fewer times they are used.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
Curse words have more impact the fewer times they are used.
Cursing is like seasoning on food. Some people prefer their language more spicy than others.
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Cursing all the time. It’s no longer edgy.
Cursing is like seasoning on food. Some people prefer their language more spicy than others.
You don’t have to cuss 24/7 to get a point across.
What the counts show
Across 14 source records, the most common observable tactic structure is “Remove a step” (2 records). This is a wording pattern, not a measured outcome.
What commenters explicitly report
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Observable tactic structures
Counts show source records whose wording matches the tactic structure; biological explanations remain commenter claims unless separately checked below.
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Shaming, cancelling and who actually gets held to itTwo opposite answers sitting in one place: bring public shaming back, and stop cancelling people.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Shaming, cancelling and who actually gets held to it
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Shaming, cancelling and who actually gets held to it
Appears when: Shaming, cancelling and who actually gets held to it
What the pattern means: Two opposite answers land in the same place. Some commenters want public shaming restored as a brake on behaviour; others find the accusation cycle exhausting and refuse to take part. The record that reconciles them argues the mechanism is simply pointed at the wrong people — that the figures who would most deserve it are the ones it never reaches.
What commenters described: Then you get the not cancelling of people who deserve to be shunned from society, hedge fund managers who destroy businesses, health care CEOs who fire all the staff who know the place and work well together then hire locums, people who authorise poisoning of water ways because the fine is cheaper than the clean up. These people need to be ashamed to show their face in public but instead are celebrated as innovative businessmen.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
I agree with this to some extent. But if someone gets called out for being abusive enough, it can totally affect the way I see their art and make me not interested in their work anymore. Louis CK is a good example; IMO a lot of his art focused on identifying and dealing with the same exact demons he was unleashing on women trying to get a foothold as comedians.
Then you get the not cancelling of people who deserve to be shunned from society, hedge fund managers who destroy businesses, health care CEOs who fire all the staff who know the place and work well together then hire locums, people who authorise poisoning of water ways because the fine is cheaper than the clean up. These people need to be ashamed to show their face in public but instead are celebrated as innovative businessmen.
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Canceling everyone for every little thing or “allegation”. It’s absolutely EXHAUSTING trying to keep up with what everyone is being accused of from one day to the next and then being attacked on social media if you don’t blindly follow the crowd in boycotting. I refuse to partake in it. I don’t pay any attention to the media or what anyone allegedly did in their personal life. If the music or movies are good, that’s all I care about. Most of the celebrities that have been deemed “canceled”, I still listen to their music/watch their movies/ follow them on social media.
Usually by what they say out loud but how far are we talking with allegations? If it’s Aziz Ansari on a bad date, not a big deal. If it’s Chris Brown beating women, kind of a bigger deal. I’m not one to jump down anyone’s throat for every little thing but I’m also not into giving an abuser the benefit of the doubt. That’s just my view but we’ve all got different thresholds. All I’m saying is, cancellation never has backlash in these times.
Do you have any examples? One reason why I am forgiving Louis CK is because he seems quite feminist in his standup.
What the counts show
The exact phrase “of people who” recurs across 2 of the 11 source records in Shaming, cancelling and who actually gets held to it; the complete archive stays available below.
What commenters explicitly report
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The animals caught in itThree answers where the party unable to object is not a person.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: The animals caught in it
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The animals caught in it
Appears when: The animals caught in it
What the pattern means: Three answers where the party unable to object is not a person: feeding wild animals for video, dogs taken into shops and bars, and the industrial relationship with animals generally. The bear record is the most specific about consequence — the animal that gets fed is the animal that later gets destroyed.
What commenters described: Feeding wild animals. Especially bears. It’s the worst . Please stop watching TikTok videos of people feeding bears. A fed bear is a dead bear. They are getting euthanized right and left in asheville NC because people keep feeding them and basically training them to not be afraid to go in houses etc. it’s enraging. Selfish people
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
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Commodifying, exploiting, abusing, killing, and consuming nonhuman sentient individuals. It’s unconscionable.
Bringing dogs to public places they should not be at. I’ve seen dogs at supermarkets and department stores more and more of late. I saw one at Macy’s last week. Earlier this year I counted 4 dogs in a supermarket in one visit. I don’t think any of them were genuine service dogs. I have a relative in a nursing home that we bring a dog to visit to lift her spirits and glad we are able to do that, but if there are other residents that have allergies or fear of dogs I worry if our action is intruding on another. Dogs at hardware stores seems to be the norm now. People bring dogs to breweries. In my state food is not sold at breweries, so food contamination isn’t really a concern, but when it gets crowded inside trying to walk with dogs at my feet is a tripping hazard. And sometimes the dogs go after each other.
Feeding wild animals. Especially bears. It’s the worst . Please stop watching TikTok videos of people feeding bears. A fed bear is a dead bear. They are getting euthanized right and left in asheville NC because people keep feeding them and basically training them to not be afraid to go in houses etc. it’s enraging. Selfish people
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This report keeps all 3 source records for The animals caught in it together and surfaces traceable examples without converting anecdotes into proof.
What commenters explicitly report
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Politics, power and what a country gets used toAnswers about a threshold that moved without anyone agreeing to move it. 42 records.
Accepting things that used to be unacceptableAnswers about a threshold that moved while everyone watched.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Accepting things that used to be unacceptable
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Accepting things that used to be unacceptable
Appears when: Accepting things that used to be unacceptable
What the pattern means: Answers about a threshold rather than an act. What the records name is the absence of reaction: a presidency, constitutional breaches, capitalism itself, all treated as weather. One commenter's phrasing is that the frightening part is how comfortable everyone appears to be with it.
What commenters described: Accepting a nightmare president without much protest.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
It scares me that people are just.. ok with the destruction of social order.
He didn’t fade until the end. He was absolutely the right man in the wheelhouse in early 2022. Imagine if it had been Orange Chicken? Russia would be in France now.
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Accepting a nightmare president without much protest.
There are plenty of protests through…
A lot of people spoke up against Zombie Biden.
What the counts show
Within 17 source records, 1 ask a question and 0 explicitly say they intend to try the idea; neither signal is treated as an outcome.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
Browse the original comments17 preserved records · 17 of 17 source records accounted for
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Police, force and violencePolicing and weaponry, with a reply disputing that any of it is new.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Police, force and violence
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Police, force and violence
Appears when: Police, force and violence
What the pattern means: The answer names militarised policing; the two substantial replies dispute the story rather than the concern, arguing there was never a peace-officer era to return to and that what actually changed is the equipment and the existence of footage. Alongside them sit records about calls for violence entering ordinary speech.
What commenters described: It is a bit ahistorical to say that they transformed from peace officers. Many police departments in this country were founded as slave catchers. They brutally enforced Jim Crow laws. They participated in lynchings. They participated in the genocide of native people. I think this idea that they used to be good, but now are bad is simply because we did not used to have body camera footage and cell phone videos of their abusive and violent tactics. I assure you the police who were filling prisons with young black men in the 80's and 90's "war on drugs" Crack cocaine epidemic era were not "peace officers." They were corrupt violent racists. The police have always existed to protect the interests of the dominant socio-economic/racial group. But I do agree that the military weaponry and mass surveillance technology they have now is deeply problematic.
Limit: Historical claims about policing made by commenters and disputed within the same node.
What the replies added2
It is a bit ahistorical to say that they transformed from peace officers. Many police departments in this country were founded as slave catchers. They brutally enforced Jim Crow laws. They participated in lynchings. They participated in the genocide of native people. I think this idea that they used to be good, but now are bad is simply because we did not used to have body camera footage and cell phone videos of their abusive and violent tactics. I assure you the police who were filling prisons with young black men in the 80's and 90's "war on drugs" Crack cocaine epidemic era were not "peace officers." They were corrupt violent racists. The police have always existed to protect the interests of the dominant socio-economic/racial group. But I do agree that the military weaponry and mass surveillance technology they have now is deeply problematic.
There’s no transformation. They were never for the people. They’re the original slave catchers, evolved into enforcers of segregation from “whites and colored folk”, and eventually evolved into general protectors of property. There was never a period where they protected the people. Just nowadays, since people cohabitate more regardless of race or ethnicity, it’s become more blatant how violent they are since white people are catching their strays too.
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Militarization of police. They've transformed from "peace officers" to "Law Enforcement - Strategic Weapons Assault Teams"
There’s no transformation. They were never for the people. They’re the original slave catchers, evolved into enforcers of segregation from “whites and colored folk”, and eventually evolved into general protectors of property. There was never a period where they protected the people. Just nowadays, since people cohabitate more regardless of race or ethnicity, it’s become more blatant how violent they are since white people are catching their strays too.
Murder..in Japan (a real society) it’s highly dishonorable, they even have a phrase for it “Satsujin wa damedayo, warui koda ne” but in the U.S. it’s the norm…
What the counts show
The exact phrase “transformed from peace officers” recurs across 2 of the 7 source records in Police, force and violence; the complete archive stays available below.
What commenters explicitly report
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Bigotry moving into ordinary speechContempt for a group, named as something now said out loud.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Bigotry moving into ordinary speech
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Bigotry moving into ordinary speech
Appears when: Bigotry moving into ordinary speech
What the pattern means: The complaint is about relocation rather than novelty: contempt for women and minorities said openly, and from official positions. The most detailed record lists specific institutional reversals; another argues the phenomenon is inseparable from tribalism in general. A single reply asks for the same concern to be extended to men, and is left where it landed.
What commenters described: Bullying, gaslighting and degrading women and minorities. Our political US leadership does it regularly and is normalizing intolerance.
Limit: Political claims as commenters made them, including specific institutional assertions this page has not checked.
What the replies added2
And then saying we’re intolerant for not accepting their hateful rhetoric as if it should be welcomed. Meanwhile diversity of experience and thought is being pointedly eliminated in military and government leadership. First time in over a decade that zero female Navy officers are getting promoted to admiral, existing female and POC general officers getting removed, DEI being rolled back to such a point that state-funded universities have had to remove such simple statements as “all are welcome here” from their socials. It’s BAD. And it’s systematic.
Can’t we include everyone? You haven’t noticed the flip since the 80s? All tv dads are morons and mom is brilliant…especially white dads… I like your point, but we don’t increase the total sum by reducing anyone else. Reduce bad actors and behavior only
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Bullying, gaslighting and degrading women and minorities. Our political US leadership does it regularly and is normalizing intolerance.
letting people get away with misogyny... racism... homophobia, etc. even as a joke. one is coping, the other is allowing hate into supposedly safe spaces, dividing what could be community.
Racism, transphobia, misogyny.
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What the counts show
Across 13 source records, the most common observable tactic structure is “Turn it into a game” (2 records). This is a wording pattern, not a measured outcome.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
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Browse the original comments13 preserved records · 13 of 13 source records accounted for
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Cutting off family over politics — and the argument about thatAn answer that its own replies refused immediately.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Cutting off family over politics — and the argument about that
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Cutting off family over politics — and the argument about that
Appears when: Cutting off family over politics — and the argument about that
What the pattern means: An answer its own replies refused within minutes. The objection is that the disagreement was never about policy in the abstract: one commenter describes a relative who attended their wedding and votes against their marriage. The node is here as an example of an answer the thread declined to accept, not as a finding.
What commenters described: Nah, if someone in my family is actively supporting and voting for homophobic policies after having come to my gay wedding, I'm not wasting my energy keeping them around.
Limit: An answer the thread rejected, kept visible with the rejection. Both are opinion.
What the replies added2
They didn't cut you off because of taxes, they cut you off because you support a pedo conman that shits on the Constitution and half of America. Its a moral failing.
Nah, if someone in my family is actively supporting and voting for homophobic policies after having come to my gay wedding, I'm not wasting my energy keeping them around.
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They didn't cut you off because of taxes, they cut you off because you support a pedo conman that shits on the Constitution and half of America. Its a moral failing.
Nah, if someone in my family is actively supporting and voting for homophobic policies after having come to my gay wedding, I'm not wasting my energy keeping them around.
Cutting off family because of political views.
What the counts show
This report keeps all 5 source records for Cutting off family over politics — and the argument about that together and surfaces traceable examples without converting anecdotes into proof.
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Men and womenThe most contested theme in the corpus; a large share of it is the argument rather than the answers. 71 records.
Violence and contempt toward men, on screen and offAnswers about how men are shown and handled, including the bumbling-sitcom-dad complaint.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Violence and contempt toward men, on screen and off
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Violence and contempt toward men, on screen and off
Appears when: Violence and contempt toward men, on screen and off
What the pattern means: The specific complaint is about a comedic convention — men hit, kicked or slapped as a punchline, and the bumbling husband who cannot run a household. One reply argues the convention damages both parties, teaching one group that incompetence is expected and the other that absorbing it is the job. A separate strand challenges the men-as-protectors idea from the opposite side.
What commenters described: Being verbally and/or physically abusive towards men. TV shows and movies are especially guilty of this. Kicking a man in the balls is not some fucking comedic bit. It's disgusting.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
Almost as disgusting as "Repeal the 19th" trending on Twitter
It’s crazy how many kids shows would normalize slapping men
Source-record spotlights
Being verbally and/or physically abusive towards men. TV shows and movies are especially guilty of this. Kicking a man in the balls is not some fucking comedic bit. It's disgusting.
It’s really a shame how men have created their own prisons
It’s crazy how many kid shows normalize slapping.
What the counts show
The exact phrase “its crazy how many” recurs across 2 of the 12 source records in Violence and contempt toward men, on screen and off; the complete archive stays available below.
What commenters explicitly report
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Browse the original comments12 preserved records · 12 of 12 source records accounted for
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“Tearing down men”, and the reply thread that became the argumentThe most contested branch in the corpus: an answer whose replies turned into the thread's largest fight.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: “Tearing down men”, and the reply thread that became the argument
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“Tearing down men”, and the reply thread that became the argument
Appears when: “Tearing down men”, and the reply thread that became the argument
What the pattern means: The most contested branch in the corpus, and it stopped being a list of behaviours almost immediately. The arguments actually made: that men's mental health gets raised in response to women organising rather than organised for; that services for male victims are under-resourced; and, from several commenters, that the replies to the answer are themselves the evidence for it. Almost none of it is resolvable, and it is kept in one place so a reader can see the shape of the argument rather than a winner.
What commenters described: Men complain that "no one cares about mens mental health" but I never see any men organizing awareness events/organizations. I never see men championing therapy or building emotional intelligence. Men suffer and then take it out on everyone else with violence or turning to fascism instead of doing the work to improve yalls situations
Limit: The most contested node in the corpus. Statistical and historical claims are traded in both directions and none is verified here; read it as an argument, not as a set of findings.
What the replies added2
1. No, it's upwards of 2-10%. Either way, excusing it away because of the percentage isn't making you look good. 2. Nobody needs to pretend. It happens. 3. No, I won't 'get the actual fuck out of here'. Women lose more, but men are on the receiving end more. 4. Incorrect. 5. You're also leaving out the lack of reporting by men due to being shamed. The causes of death among the rest of the demographics of non-pregnant people are almost identical, except with men dying in each category more.
"Men try to improve their situations. However, women can falsely accuse them, spread rumors, try to break their lives, empty their bank accounts, take their kids away, commit dna fraud, isolate them" While I'm sure there are female psychopaths out there, the only time I've ever known women to keep kkds away from their fathers there was a very good reason. No one wants a broken family for funsies. All of that behavior is still less than the amount of violence men commit daily. Men kill women significantly more than the reverse.
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It's not normalised enough tbh. If men would police each other the way women do to other women, there'd be no need. A teen got gang raped on holiday, the people doing it asked a random group of 5 men going past the hotel room if they wanted to join in and instead of helping her they raped her too. Sort yourselves out, absolute animals.
Wrong wrong wrong. You’re wrong. Women do not have that level of power over men. Especially not today.
If women policed women, false accusations, paternity fraud, romance fraud, and the increasing trend of rape of young male students wouldn't be an issue. Men have had their lives ended while on holiday because their wives planned it. A woman just strangled her kids, and women were at the courthouse and online posting their support for her. Sounds like there are plenty of animals that need to sort themselves out.
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What the counts show
Across 33 source records, the most common observable tactic structure is “Swap instead of subtract” (3 records). This is a wording pattern, not a measured outcome.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
Observable tactic structures
Counts show source records whose wording matches the tactic structure; biological explanations remain commenter claims unless separately checked below.
Browse the original comments33 preserved records · 33 of 33 source records accounted for
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Misogyny, and what women said they take for itAnswers naming the treatment of women as the normalised thing.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Misogyny, and what women said they take for it
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Misogyny, and what women said they take for it
Appears when: Misogyny, and what women said they take for it
What the pattern means: The counterpart answers, mostly short: misogyny itself, violence against women, and the abuse that follows women who speak about it in public. One record refers to a child-killing case that also appears in the branch above — the same event cited by both sides for opposite purposes, which is a fair summary of this theme.
What commenters described: The abuse and attacks women endure for standing for women. Abusing women especially in public has become normal.
Limit: Short answers plus one reference to a criminal case that other commenters cite for the opposite purpose. Neither reading is endorsed here.
Source-record spotlights
Sexist jokes. Women doing sh\*t for men. Giving kids smartphones.
Apparently , strangling your three kids to death with exercise bands and blaming it on the mental health system
The abuse and attacks women endure for standing for women. Abusing women especially in public has become normal.
What the counts show
This report keeps all 5 source records for Misogyny, and what women said they take for it together and surfaces traceable examples without converting anecdotes into proof.
What commenters explicitly report
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Where the gender argument became about the arguersThe point at which both sides stopped naming behaviours and started scoring each other.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Where the gender argument became about the arguers
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Where the gender argument became about the arguers
Appears when: Where the gender argument became about the arguers
What the pattern means: The point where the two branches above stop naming behaviours. The records trade grievance ledgers — voting rights, statistics, who stayed silent about what — and several are explicit that they are answering a side rather than a claim. They are grouped rather than dropped because the volume is the finding: this is where a large share of the theme's records went.
What commenters described: You know what's funny, I never felt the need to do this until abortion and voting rights came under attack. Since yall want to stay silent on those, why should we care about your complaints? Legitimately, if I saw more men stand up to misogyny I would be more supportive.
Limit: Records grouped for honesty about where the theme's volume went. Little of it is a claim about behaviour at all.
What the replies added2
You know what's funny, I never felt the need to do this until abortion and voting rights came under attack. Since yall want to stay silent on those, why should we care about your complaints? Legitimately, if I saw more men stand up to misogyny I would be more supportive.
Completely different issue. Two things can be true
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Almost as disgusting as "Repeal the 19th" trending on Twitter
You're very welcome. Have a good day
You said that men should be torn down and demonized more. This is literally the problem. This literally led to the return of the orange idiot (along with the warmongering of the last administration, and yes, the orange idiot chickened out on peace, fuck that guy). Go after toxic individuals all you like, but treating men as a group and pretending we were all red hatters if we didn't accept every woke catechism was.......problematic.
What the counts show
The exact phrase “hatter then youll try to understand” recurs across 2 of the 21 source records in Where the gender argument became about the arguers; the complete archive stays available below.
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Children and the adults around themAnswers where the person affected is too young to have a say. 28 records.
Children as contentChildren posted online by the adults who are supposed to be protecting them.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Children as content
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Children as content
Appears when: Children as content
What the pattern means: Nine commenters arrive at the same thing independently: a child's image, name and routine published by their own parents. The most developed record makes the argument about time rather than embarrassment — the child cannot consent to a permanent, searchable audience, and sharing the same moment privately costs nothing.
What commenters described: Recording children for public content before they can understand what a permanent audience means.A cute moment can be shared privately without turning someone else’s childhood into searchable material.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
Source-record spotlights
This includes parents that film their kids for content and post it online. Irks me out.
Posting videos of children on social media...that are then saved hundreds of thousands of times by strangers doing god knows what with them
Recording children for public content before they can understand what a permanent audience means.A cute moment can be shared privately without turning someone else’s childhood into searchable material.
Related evidence elsewhere in the index
What the counts show
The exact phrase “on social media” recurs across 3 of the 9 source records in Children as content; the complete archive stays available below.
What commenters explicitly report
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Screens and apps in a child’s handsThe devices and apps commenters said children are handed too early.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Screens and apps in a child’s hands
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Screens and apps in a child’s hands
Appears when: Screens and apps in a child’s hands
What the pattern means: Three records about devices handed over early and supervised late. The most specific describes reading children's live locations over their shoulders at a public event. Another names the sequence directly: give the device, then blame the website for what the child finds on it.
What commenters described: Letting kids use SnapChat. It’s horrifying. If you’re near a group of kids or at a sporting event or concert where you can look over shoulders and see their phones, they’re all using SnapChat WITH THEIR LOCATIONS ON. Me, a stranger, I can now see where a dozen kids that I do not know are located. And that’s \*if\* they’re actually other kids. Get your kids off SnapChat (and any other form of social media).
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
Source-record spotlights
Children buying products at Sephora. Adults behaving like children. Just the role reversal between adults and children in general as a society lately.
Letting kids use SnapChat. It’s horrifying. If you’re near a group of kids or at a sporting event or concert where you can look over shoulders and see their phones, they’re all using SnapChat WITH THEIR LOCATIONS ON. Me, a stranger, I can now see where a dozen kids that I do not know are located. And that’s \*if\* they’re actually other kids. Get your kids off SnapChat (and any other form of social media).
giving ipads and such to kids younger than 14 yo, then blaming websites for "exposing the kid to unsafe stuff"
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How children are raisedParenting practices named as normalised harms, from corporal punishment to sleep training.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: How children are raised
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How children are raised
Appears when: How children are raised
What the pattern means: Parenting practices named as normalised harm rather than preference: corporal punishment, religious indoctrination, sleep training, and the breastfeeding rhetoric one mother reports being on the receiving end of while unable to produce milk. The most unusual record is about performance — a parent whose children told him that adults using an exaggerated television voice read to them as untrustworthy.
What commenters described: Talking to children like you're a character in a tv show. You know, like super exaggerated facial expressions and the purposeful exaggerated inflections in tone. Yeah...Kids eventually learn its fake and then question the authenticity of every person who uses it. Been through it with both my kids, where they came to me and expressed that they now felt that all adults who did that were untrustworthy and off putting and they were glad I didnt do that.
Limit: Parenting opinions, several of them strongly worded and none of them verified. Nothing here is guidance about a real child.
What the replies added1
Is that really how it is? I don't have kids so I honestly don't know. But in my area there are a lot of well-maintained parks with clean, safe playground equipment and stuff like that. I feel like there are more spaces set up specifically for children now than there ever were when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s. But on the other hand, we could just wander the woods and have a grand ol' time without anyone calling the police on our parents for being neglectful.
Source-record spotlights
Corporal punishment on children
Is that really how it is? I don't have kids so I honestly don't know. But in my area there are a lot of well-maintained parks with clean, safe playground equipment and stuff like that. I feel like there are more spaces set up specifically for children now than there ever were when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s. But on the other hand, we could just wander the woods and have a grand ol' time without anyone calling the police on our parents for being neglectful.
The Cry it Out method for babies and children.
What the counts show
Within 9 source records, 2 ask a question and 0 explicitly say they intend to try the idea; neither signal is treated as an outcome.
What commenters explicitly report
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Pressure, protection and the questions people askPressure around having children, and harms commenters said adults avoid naming.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Pressure, protection and the questions people ask
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Pressure, protection and the questions people ask
Appears when: Pressure, protection and the questions people ask
What the pattern means: Two kinds of pressure sit together here. One is interrogation about children and marriage, reported as relentless and as something other countries do not put into small talk. The other is blunter: a few very short records naming harm to children as the thing that has been normalised, with no elaboration offered.
What commenters described: Asking women if they have kids, when they're going to have kids, commenting on them having kids in the future, asking why they don't have kids... and on and on. Just shut up. Having a uterus is not the most important and interesting aspect about a woman's life. Other countries do not obsess about these questions in their small talk.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added1
Yeah, I'm pushing 40 and after like the 6th time people asked me and I responded with a long winded answer as to why, I just say, "no and I have no desire to be a mother." and shut that shut down
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Asking women if they have kids, when they're going to have kids, commenting on them having kids in the future, asking why they don't have kids... and on and on. Just shut up. Having a uterus is not the most important and interesting aspect about a woman's life. Other countries do not obsess about these questions in their small talk.
Yeah, I'm pushing 40 and after like the 6th time people asked me and I responded with a long winded answer as to why, I just say, "no and I have no desire to be a mother." and shut that shut down
Asking, if you have or want to have kids.
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This report keeps all 7 source records for Pressure, protection and the questions people ask together and surfaces traceable examples without converting anecdotes into proof.
What commenters explicitly report
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Bodies, food and medicineHealth answers — reported opinion throughout, and not verified anywhere on this page. 27 records.
Weight, eating and the denial around itWeight and food as answers, with a reply arguing the problem is being misdiagnosed.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Weight, eating and the denial around it
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Weight, eating and the denial around it
Appears when: Weight, eating and the denial around it
What the pattern means: The answer names weight; the reply does the more interesting work, arguing that people who deny the problem generally know, and that treating it as a character failure misreads it as badly as telling an anorexic person to eat. Around them sit records about sugar, portion sizes and eating for reasons that have nothing to do with hunger.
What commenters described: I think most people denying it's a problem, know it's one deep down but use denial to cope. Being overweight is a mental issue, it's like expecting an anorexic person to just eat. Both groups have an unhealthy relationship with food which is a very hard thing to improve.
Limit: Opinions about other people's weight and eating, including a commenter's own reframing of it as a mental-health issue. No clinical claim here is checked.
What the replies added2
I think most people denying it's a problem, know it's one deep down but use denial to cope. Being overweight is a mental issue, it's like expecting an anorexic person to just eat. Both groups have an unhealthy relationship with food which is a very hard thing to improve.
Or not recognizing what the real problem is. My cousin told me she gained a lot of weight due to having a desk job… as she simultaneously fed us her insanely massive, home baked cinnamon roles with 2x butter. 🤷🏻♀️
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I think most people denying it's a problem, know it's one deep down but use denial to cope. Being overweight is a mental issue, it's like expecting an anorexic person to just eat. Both groups have an unhealthy relationship with food which is a very hard thing to improve.
Or not recognizing what the real problem is. My cousin told me she gained a lot of weight due to having a desk job… as she simultaneously fed us her insanely massive, home baked cinnamon roles with 2x butter. 🤷🏻♀️
Takeout. Eating out. Takeaway coffee.
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Appearance as a permanent projectCosmetic work, tattoos and the glow-up — with commenters disputing whether any of it matters.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Appearance as a permanent project
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Appearance as a permanent project
Appears when: Appearance as a permanent project
What the pattern means: Cosmetic injections, facial tattoos, permanent hair removal, the endless glow-up. The disagreement is generational and the thread has it directly: an answer worries about sixty years of consequences, and two commenters with twenty years of piercings reply that the identical warning was issued about all tattoos and did not survive contact with time.
What commenters described: All of the facial tattoos and piercing. Is any thought given to how it will affect your life over the next 60 years?
Limit: A generational disagreement about consequences, with both sides arguing from their own case.
What the replies added2
The answer is “not at all” That same thought process was used for *any* tattoo a couple decades ago, now you look like an idiot if you say that.
I've had a double nose piercing for 20 years. I guess I'll let you know in another 40 how I've continued my completely normal life.
Source-record spotlights
All of the facial tattoos and piercing. Is any thought given to how it will affect your life over the next 60 years?
I've had a double nose piercing for 20 years. I guess I'll let you know in another 40 how I've continued my completely normal life.
Wearing pajamas 24-7.
What the counts show
Within 8 source records, 2 ask a question and 0 explicitly say they intend to try the idea; neither signal is treated as an outcome.
What commenters explicitly report
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Risks people said we quietly stopped mitigatingVaccines, masks, food inspection and prescribed medication, named as risks that stopped being treated as risks. Reported opinion, not medical guidance.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Risks people said we quietly stopped mitigating
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Risks people said we quietly stopped mitigating
Appears when: Risks people said we quietly stopped mitigating
What the pattern means: A group of answers arguing that precautions lapsed without any decision being taken: vaccination, masking in clinical settings, food inspection, and one long record about antidepressant withdrawal. What they share is a claim that the default moved rather than the evidence. The claims themselves are the commenters' and are checked nowhere on this page.
What commenters described: Not vaccinating (cough cough largest measles outbreak in the US since 1991 when they at least did something about it and added in the second does and then it was basically gone in the 2000s)
Limit: Vaccine, masking, food-safety and prescribed-medication claims made by commenters. This page verifies none of them; the long antidepressant record in particular is one person's account and is not a reason to change a prescription.
What the replies added1
The government has shut down and severely downsized any infrastructures or systems that were doing checks. It’s gonna get worse. So…🫠
Source-record spotlights
Not vaccinating (cough cough largest measles outbreak in the US since 1991 when they at least did something about it and added in the second does and then it was basically gone in the 2000s)
Traveling, particularly through international airports, without a high quality respirator.
Catching COVID. Even if the initial infection feels like nothing, it can still cause a lot of long-term, serious damage.
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Sex and relationshipsAnswers about intimacy, and the replies telling them to mind their own business. 38 records.
Meeting, sleeping with and marrying strangersAnswers about casual sex and meeting strangers — and the replies that refused the premise outright.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Meeting, sleeping with and marrying strangers
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Meeting, sleeping with and marrying strangers
Appears when: Meeting, sleeping with and marrying strangers
What the pattern means: An answer about promiscuity that its own replies refused: if nobody is being harmed, what is the objection, and the puritan version does more damage. A separate strand about dating apps gets the same treatment — a warning about flying across the country to meet someone is answered by two commenters with fourteen and twenty-two years of marriage.
What commenters described: Being a puritan is far more harmful. I see the Baptist ladies who married at 19 now divorced and hanging out at dive bars trying to sow their wild oats that they didn't sow back in their twenties, and it's sad.
Limit: Moral positions and personal outcomes, including two that directly contradict the warning they reply to.
What the replies added2
Being a puritan is far more harmful. I see the Baptist ladies who married at 19 now divorced and hanging out at dive bars trying to sow their wild oats that they didn't sow back in their twenties, and it's sad.
I met a guy on FB who lived on another continent. We are celebrating 14 years of marriage next month.
Source-record spotlights
As long as it isn't hurting anyone, why care?
When I met my wife she lived 1000 miles away in another country. We met on a dating site before "apps" were a thing. Been together 22 years, married for 10.
Being sexually promiscuous
What the counts show
Within 11 source records, 2 ask a question and 0 explicitly say they intend to try the idea; neither signal is treated as an outcome.
What commenters explicitly report
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Porn, fetish and what gets sexualisedWhere commenters said sexual content stops being a private matter.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Porn, fetish and what gets sexualised
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Porn, fetish and what gets sexualised
Appears when: Porn, fetish and what gets sexualised
What the pattern means: Answers naming pornography and the industry behind it, clothing marketed to teenagers, and fetishes practised on people who never agreed to be part of them. The industry claims are the commenters' own. The clearest line the group draws is about consent: the objection is not to the interest but to a bystander being conscripted into it.
What commenters described: Engaging with porn… the porn industry is an abusive vile industry that enables sex trafficking.
Limit: Claims about an industry, made by commenters and not checked here. Some supporting records describe non-consensual sexual behaviour in explicit terms.
What the replies added1
It’s one thing to show them under clothes cool but blatantly having them out just to have titties out is —something..
Source-record spotlights
Sexualized clothes for teens.
It’s one thing to show them under clothes cool but blatantly having them out just to have titties out is —something..
Provocative clothing esp where there may be families /children. For context I’m 31 & I’m so sick of seeing bare nipples that aren’t feeding , ass cracks, ass cheeks, and just hella skin. Can we be more modest and mindful
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Within 11 source records, 2 ask a question and 0 explicitly say they intend to try the idea; neither signal is treated as an outcome.
What commenters explicitly report
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Cheating, consent and honesty between partnersDishonesty inside a relationship, including one record arguing that a withheld truth voids consent.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Cheating, consent and honesty between partners
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Cheating, consent and honesty between partners
Appears when: Cheating, consent and honesty between partners
What the pattern means: The most developed record is regional: a commenter describes a saying in South Africa that treats a partner's infidelity as expected, and argues the outrage around it is performative. The rest of the group is about the same asymmetry — who the arrangement is permitted to apply to — and one record makes a harder argument, that consent obtained by withholding the truth is not consent at all.
What commenters described: Cheating is so normalised in South Africa. There is a saying that shows just how normalised and expected it is: at the end of the day he comes home to me (more or less the translation). There sad part it is low key encouraged. Oh the might be some performative outrage but no real calling out.
Limit: Accounts of one country's norms as one commenter describes them, plus a contested argument about what makes consent informed.
What the replies added2
And it’s never about women. Men don’t say, “At the end of the day she comes girls to me”. It’s women being boo boo the fool.
I had to search what this is. All I can say it yikes.
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Cheating is so normalised in South Africa. There is a saying that shows just how normalised and expected it is: at the end of the day he comes home to me (more or less the translation). There sad part it is low key encouraged. Oh the might be some performative outrage but no real calling out.
Withholding or even straight up lying to get consent. If someone wouldnt continue a relationship with you if they knew you were cheating, and you do not tell them. Its SA. Full consent is informed.
controlling behavior. i think society has normalized being controlling in relationships and friendships.
What the counts show
The exact phrase “at the end of the day” recurs across 2 of the 8 source records in Cheating, consent and honesty between partners; the complete archive stays available below.
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Relationship structures people said to think twice aboutArrangements named as entered into without much thought about the cost.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Relationship structures people said to think twice about
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Relationship structures people said to think twice about
Appears when: Relationship structures people said to think twice about
What the pattern means: Arrangements entered into faster than they are thought about: a threesome inside an existing relationship, sex work, sex as a coping mechanism, marriage itself. Most of these records are careful rather than moralising — the threesome answer says that if it works it works — and one reply widens it, noting that the same caution applies to relationships generally.
What commenters described: Threesomes if you're in a relationship - I've heard from multiple friends that this irreparably changes the dynamic. If it works it works, but it sounds like people really need to think about it more before saying yes.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
I'm fine with women choosing to do something like working at a strip club or doing OnlyFans because she genuinely wants to do that kind of work. What I'm not fine with is late-stage capitalism eroding the social fabric to the point where some women find that the only way they can make rent is to engage in sex work. I don't want to hear "but she could just get a job doing..." That's the thing - these days finding any job is so difficult that it's entirely possible that someone can find themselves in a position where sex work would allow them to pay the bills and literally *nothing* else will.
That's true of relationships in general, threesome or not.
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Threesomes if you're in a relationship - I've heard from multiple friends that this irreparably changes the dynamic. If it works it works, but it sounds like people really need to think about it more before saying yes.
Getting married and having kids. Also hyperfixating on physical attraction.
That's true of relationships in general, threesome or not.
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This report keeps all 8 source records for Relationship structures people said to think twice about together and surfaces traceable examples without converting anecdotes into proof.
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Money, work and statusDebt, housing, hours, and the things people let themselves be measured by. 35 records.
Debt, and buying what you cannot affordBorrowing to buy, and the culture built around it.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Debt, and buying what you cannot afford
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Debt, and buying what you cannot afford
Appears when: Debt, and buying what you cannot afford
What the pattern means: High-interest credit for ordinary consumption, and the culture that keeps the purchase coming: replacing things that still work, tipping as a substitute for wages, third-party delivery at several times the price. One commenter in the UK reports the pattern as recently imported and so far mostly visible online.
What commenters described: Using high interest credit cards for things you can’t really afford.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
OK, I definitely agree with the fact that third-party delivery services are just not worth it. I've only used one maybe twice and at least once they botched the order.
Is that really as big a thing today as it used to be? Most people are too broke to live that way. You can only do it on credit for so long before banks just won't issue you any more credit.
Source-record spotlights
Using high interest credit cards for things you can’t really afford.
OK, I definitely agree with the fact that third-party delivery services are just not worth it. I've only used one maybe twice and at least once they botched the order.
Is that really as big a thing today as it used to be? Most people are too broke to live that way. You can only do it on credit for so long before banks just won't issue you any more credit.
What the counts show
The exact phrase “things you cant” recurs across 2 of the 12 source records in Debt, and buying what you cannot afford; the complete archive stays available below.
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Housing prices, treated as a fact of lifeOne answer about overpaying, and the branch working out who can still buy at all.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Housing prices, treated as a fact of life
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Housing prices, treated as a fact of life
Appears when: Housing prices, treated as a fact of life
What the pattern means: One answer about paying far above value, and a branch that turns it into arithmetic: buyers purchasing a monthly payment rather than a price, owners who got in before a crash, and no obvious route for anyone arriving now. The disagreement is definitional — a house is worth what somebody pays — and the reply narrows the claim to the last two or three years rather than the market as such.
What commenters described: Paying $100,000 more than a house is worth.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
I guess I meant 100k more than it’d be 2-3 years ago. It’s ridiculous right now. I don’t know how people do it.
Agreed, prices are nuts. We were only able to buy our first home because we bought in 2009, when home prices had just crashed. I don't understand how young people are supposed to get into homeownership now. Have a wealthy family, I guess?
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Paying $100,000 more than a house is worth.
If they bought it 10 years ago maybe.
Do you mean that much over asking price? That's a ridiculously large amount of money! On the other hand, a house is only "worth" what someone is willing to pay for it.
What the counts show
Within 9 source records, 3 ask a question and 0 explicitly say they intend to try the idea; neither signal is treated as an outcome.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
Browse the original comments9 preserved records · 9 of 9 source records accounted for
Archive: 9 index entries preserve 9 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Overwork worn as a badgeHours presented as an achievement.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Overwork worn as a badge
Source-backed answers are shown before diagnostics; the complete source archive remains below.
Overwork worn as a badge
Appears when: Overwork worn as a badge
What the pattern means: Not the hours but the display: what commenters object to is the boast rather than the shift. Several separate genuine need from performance, and one describes the tell precisely — three hours of sleep in a week, reported with a smile.
What commenters described: Picking up overtime time constantly, working as hard as you can all the time and actually bragging about it. This isn’t normal, you need at least a little bit of time where you’re not putting your body under extreme stress.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
Ugh the busy brag. I remember as a kid adults working 9-5 and there being much more downtime. Hussle culture doesn’t benefit anyone.
Totally agree sometimes it’s necessary but yeah having a sense of superiority because you’re burning yourself out is just dumb.
Source-record spotlights
Picking up overtime time constantly, working as hard as you can all the time and actually bragging about it. This isn’t normal, you need at least a little bit of time where you’re not putting your body under extreme stress.
Grind culture influencers.
What it takes to get into Ivy League colleges. These kids are going on burn-out level to get through HS classes, along with AP/Community college credits, a sport, an instrument, community engagement, research projects, businesses…etc. These are the people who go on to become leaders in our society and what we call “exceptional” is really either a well funded parents who are paying other adults to make these things happen for their kids, or a kid that is normalizing an unsustainable pace. With how much college graduates impact and shape corporate America, future teachers and political leaders, this crazy ask has a direct impact on every facet of our country. It shouldn’t be allowed.
What the counts show
Within 7 source records, 1 ask a question and 0 explicitly say they intend to try the idea; neither signal is treated as an outcome.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
Browse the original comments7 preserved records · 7 of 7 source records accounted for
Archive: 7 index entries preserve 7 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Status, clout and who gets admiredFame, followings and wealth as things people organise themselves around.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Status, clout and who gets admired
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Status, clout and who gets admired
Appears when: Status, clout and who gets admired
What the pattern means: Fame and following as things people organise themselves around: stan culture, clout chasing, wealth treated as merit. The branch under the top record spends most of its length on the etymology of the word rather than on the behaviour, which is a small illustration of the theme in its own right.
What commenters described: Stan culture with celebrities.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added1
At first I thought that meant obsessive, like Stan from the Eminem video.
Source-record spotlights
Stan culture with celebrities.
Oh lol I had no idea
Social climbing / constantly wanting to be the center of attention
What the counts show
This report keeps all 7 source records for Status, clout and who gets admired together and surfaces traceable examples without converting anecdotes into proof.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
Browse the original comments7 preserved records · 7 of 7 source records accounted for
Archive: 7 index entries preserve 7 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Belief, information and how people decide thingsWhere facts come from, and what happens when they do not arrive. 39 records.
Handing the thinking to AIA cluster of short answers naming AI use itself as the normalised risk.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Handing the thinking to AI
Source-backed answers are shown before diagnostics; the complete source archive remains below.
Handing the thinking to AI
Appears when: Handing the thinking to AI
What the pattern means: Ten short records, most of them a single line, naming AI use itself as the normalised risk. Where they expand, the worry is capability rather than accuracy: the practice of reasoning through something is what gets lost. One commenter who used it only for grammar during a technical master's describes even that as more trouble than it was worth.
What commenters described: Using AI for EVERYTHING!! People shouldn’t be relying on what it says as fact, and it’s making people stupid; they just don’t know how to think critically anymore or have a single expression without it.
Limit: Short opinions about AI use, mostly asserted rather than argued.
What the replies added2
Also: people chatting with AI like it's a person. It's the canned responses of people who wrote stuff years or decades ago hoovered up from the Internet.
Yep!! AI can be useful but when I was getting my masters degree in an extremely technical field; graduated in May. My classmates would use AI to write their discussions or help them write papers… it was completely obvious and sooo frustrating… the only thing I wanted AI to do was fix my grammar in these huge 20+ page papers and even then it would try to mess with my wording so I gave up on it lol
Source-record spotlights
Social media but that ship has sailed. AI will finish the job.
Using and simping for AI
Yep!! AI can be useful but when I was getting my masters degree in an extremely technical field; graduated in May. My classmates would use AI to write their discussions or help them write papers… it was completely obvious and sooo frustrating… the only thing I wanted AI to do was fix my grammar in these huge 20+ page papers and even then it would try to mess with my wording so I gave up on it lol
What the counts show
This report keeps all 10 source records for Handing the thinking to AI together and surfaces traceable examples without converting anecdotes into proof.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
Browse the original comments10 preserved records · 10 of 10 source records accounted for
Archive: 10 index entries preserve 10 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Not knowing, and being comfortable with itNot reading, not knowing, and refusing to be corrected.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Not knowing, and being comfortable with it
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Not knowing, and being comfortable with it
Appears when: Not knowing, and being comfortable with it
What the pattern means: Two related answers: not reading, and the pride some people take in announcing it. The record that generalises best is about correction — being wrong treated as an injury to defend rather than something to update, which is a different problem from not knowing in the first place.
What commenters described: Feeling ashamed of getting something wrong or not knowing something. People should just say ‘oh I learned something new’ and move on. Digging your heels in to remain stupid for the sake of your ego is infuriating.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
And then bragging about it (a few of my friends do this 😭)
“I haven’t opened a book since high school!” And you’re…proud of that? 😬
Source-record spotlights
And then bragging about it (a few of my friends do this 😭)
People Defending their views rather than being flexible in their views and when they are challenged they respond with anger rather than listening
Feelings as facts with no reflection
What the counts show
Within 8 source records, 1 ask a question and 0 explicitly say they intend to try the idea; neither signal is treated as an outcome.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
Browse the original comments8 preserved records · 8 of 8 source records accounted for
Archive: 8 index entries preserve 8 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Telling other people how to liveThe inverse answer: commenting on choices that are nobody else's business.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Telling other people how to live
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Telling other people how to live
Appears when: Telling other people how to live
What the pattern means: The inverse of most of this thread, and it belongs here for that reason: commenters naming unsolicited judgement about choices that affect nobody else. The examples given are pointed — bathroom policing, think-of-the-children as a general-purpose veto, and protection imposed on a group that says it does not want it.
What commenters described: Everyone telling others how to live when it’s not affecting anyone but the person doing it. Bonus points if the only reason a grown adult can’t is because think of the children. The one that’s annoying me the most rn is people who don’t know any trans people and still say they shouldn’t be using bathrooms/be in public. I’ve jumped through the hoops let me be.
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
Source-record spotlights
Everyone telling others how to live when it’s not affecting anyone but the person doing it. Bonus points if the only reason a grown adult can’t is because think of the children. The one that’s annoying me the most rn is people who don’t know any trans people and still say they shouldn’t be using bathrooms/be in public. I’ve jumped through the hoops let me be.
Being overly cautious of everything
being incredibly judgemental of the relatively innocuous but inconvenient behaviour of strangers while at the same time excusing genuinely violent/alarming behaviour because of mental illness/addiction. i see it in my city’s subreddit all the time.
What the counts show
This report keeps all 6 source records for Telling other people how to live together and surfaces traceable examples without converting anecdotes into proof.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
Browse the original comments6 preserved records · 6 of 6 source records accounted for
Archive: 6 index entries preserve 6 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Religion treated as the default, and the objections to thatReligion named as normalised, and the records pushing back on that framing.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Religion treated as the default, and the objections to that
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Religion treated as the default, and the objections to that
Appears when: Religion treated as the default, and the objections to that
What the pattern means: Religion named as normalised, in registers from a single word to a short argument about whether morality that requires a threat counts as morality. The group is kept intact rather than trimmed because one record pushes precisely the other way, objecting to science being used to dismiss what it has not explained.
What commenters described: Genuinely being religious. It's just... Rediculous. If you need the threat of eternal damnation to be good, then you aren't a good person at all But also it's just silly in general. I stopped believing in Santa Clause when I was like 6 to 8 years old. Why do people continue to believe in fairytales beyond that?
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
Source-record spotlights
Religious psychosis
Religion and organised spirituality.
Demonising Christianity across TV and film whilst allowing other religions a free pass.
What the counts show
Within 6 source records, 1 ask a question and 0 explicitly say they intend to try the idea; neither signal is treated as an outcome.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
Browse the original comments6 preserved records · 6 of 6 source records accounted for
Archive: 6 index entries preserve 6 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Turning inwardAnswers about attention pointed back at the self. 23 records.
Self-care that turned into self-focusAnswers arguing that a therapeutic idea got repurposed into something else.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Self-care that turned into self-focus
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Self-care that turned into self-focus
Appears when: Self-care that turned into self-focus
What the pattern means: The argument is that a useful idea got repurposed. The most substantive record separates the products from the practice — a ten-step routine and a fully planned day are not care if sleep, food and movement are missing — and the exchange under it lands on 'I deserve' as the phrase where the shift happens.
What commenters described: I think people are just investing in the wrong types of self care, which creates selfishness & exhaustion They think using 100 expensive beauty products, having a 10 step skincare routine, planning out every second of your day, constantly eating like shit, not exercising, staying up late when they have to get up early, and DOOMSCROLLING are all self care when they’re really not Self care should be basic needs first (stable shelter, food, hydration, sleep, sunlight, exercise) then social needs/mental health needs (you can switch the last 2 around but physical health MUST come first)
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added2
I think people are just investing in the wrong types of self care, which creates selfishness & exhaustion They think using 100 expensive beauty products, having a 10 step skincare routine, planning out every second of your day, constantly eating like shit, not exercising, staying up late when they have to get up early, and DOOMSCROLLING are all self care when they’re really not Self care should be basic needs first (stable shelter, food, hydration, sleep, sunlight, exercise) then social needs/mental health needs (you can switch the last 2 around but physical health MUST come first)
I agree with all of that! Especially social conditioning and having wrong ideas about what health and self care actually are (people think self care is putting hedonism over physical health to make themselves feel better *emotionally* not *physically)*
Source-record spotlights
Self affirmation/self love. It’s gone a little too far IMO… All this me me me thing has created some really bad side effects, from relationships and friendships and beyond. Somewhere along the line we forgot us and others…
Toxic positivity; spending too much time on antisocial media; lack of depth in conversations.
Affective empathy. It's a trauma response with marketing.
What the counts show
This report keeps all 7 source records for Self-care that turned into self-focus together and surfaces traceable examples without converting anecdotes into proof.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
Browse the original comments7 preserved records · 7 of 7 source records accounted for
Archive: 7 index entries preserve 7 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Main-character energy and entitlementShort answers naming a way of moving through the world.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Main-character energy and entitlement
Source-backed answers are shown before diagnostics; the complete source archive remains below.
Main-character energy and entitlement
Appears when: Main-character energy and entitlement
What the pattern means: Short answers naming a stance rather than an action: entitlement, no accountability, other people treated as scenery. The one record that expands it makes the social argument — the pose only works by pretending there is no society to be responsible to.
What commenters described: “main character energy” - it’s just pretending narcissism is fine and we don’t live in a society and have to be respectful and responsible for the world we live in or people in it
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
Source-record spotlights
Lack of accountability.
Selfishness of human race
“main character energy” - it’s just pretending narcissism is fine and we don’t live in a society and have to be respectful and responsible for the world we live in or people in it
What the counts show
This report keeps all 5 source records for Main-character energy and entitlement together and surfaces traceable examples without converting anecdotes into proof.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
Browse the original comments5 preserved records · 5 of 5 source records accounted for
Archive: 5 index entries preserve 5 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Avoiding anything that feels hardDiscomfort, boredom and conflict treated as things to be eliminated.
Pattern card naming the normalised behaviour, what commenters reported about it, and what the thread itself disputed: Avoiding anything that feels hard
Source-backed answers are shown before diagnostics; the complete source archive remains below.
Avoiding anything that feels hard
Appears when: Avoiding anything that feels hard
What the pattern means: The longest record here argues that permanent comfort was sold rather than chosen, and that boredom and mild discomfort do work which removing them prevents — written by somebody who describes a life of addictions. Around it sit the smaller versions: apathy, and the reply that apathy is exhaustion; and being pleasant to people who are not, which two commenters name as avoidance rather than kindness.
What commenters described: I think people are getting way too obsessed with avoiding discomfort as well as boredom, you're not supposed to be happy 24/7, our mood is supposed to ebb and flow Assuming your baseline neutral way of existing should be happy and engaged leads to feeling like something is wrong when that's missing, take it from me, I've struggled with addictions my whole life But the constant pursuit of dopemine is something modern society has pushed on you so that when it's missing, they can sell you stuff it's especially bad with the hyper personalized algorithmic bubbles we all live under Even though studies have shown that things like boredom are actually healthy for us, the calm moments help our brain process our experiences and kind of... log information And learning to be OK with discomfort is how we learn to coexist with other people in society, because you're not always going to agree with how other people interact with the world, but you shouldn't let it ruin your day People feeling like they're entitled to never feel any discomfort ever has honestly lead to a lot of bigotry, because people conflate feeling bad with having been wronged People need to learn that feeling unhappy or irritated or angry or any other negative feeling isn't something that you need to immediately fix, it's just part of being human, and you should let those feelings arrive and naturally pass through you without struggling against them
Limit: Reported opinion only. These are things commenters said we have normalised; nothing here is verified, several answers are contradicted a few records later by other commenters, and none of it is advice.
What the replies added1
I think people are getting way too obsessed with avoiding discomfort as well as boredom, you're not supposed to be happy 24/7, our mood is supposed to ebb and flow Assuming your baseline neutral way of existing should be happy and engaged leads to feeling like something is wrong when that's missing, take it from me, I've struggled with addictions my whole life But the constant pursuit of dopemine is something modern society has pushed on you so that when it's missing, they can sell you stuff it's especially bad with the hyper personalized algorithmic bubbles we all live under Even though studies have shown that things like boredom are actually healthy for us, the calm moments help our brain process our experiences and kind of... log information And learning to be OK with discomfort is how we learn to coexist with other people in society, because you're not always going to agree with how other people interact with the world, but you shouldn't let it ruin your day People feeling like they're entitled to never feel any discomfort ever has honestly lead to a lot of bigotry, because people conflate feeling bad with having been wronged People need to learn that feeling unhappy or irritated or angry or any other negative feeling isn't something that you need to immediately fix, it's just part of being human, and you should let those feelings arrive and naturally pass through you without struggling against them
Source-record spotlights
Apathy. People need to start caring about stuff again.
Oh man! I mean, enabling jerks is a behavior that’s almost always problematic, but being a human carpet and making avoidance your lifestyle has terrible consequences, good on you for calling out that sadly common modality.
Being polite to people who are impolite, people respect the boundaries of an environment over an individual. I don’t mean cause a scene. But sometimes I’d rather see collective effort to challenge rudeness over collective effort to ignore it.
What the counts show
The exact phrase “people need to” recurs across 2 of the 11 source records in Avoiding anything that feels hard; the complete archive stays available below.
What commenters explicitly report
These buckets are a deterministic partition based on explicit phrasing in the source text; they are not sentiment scores or effectiveness findings.
Browse the original comments11 preserved records · 11 of 11 source records accounted for
Archive: 11 index entries preserve 11 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
How this catalog was built
Source: Reddit comments — 1 thread, 1073 comments (290 top-level, 783 replies)
Selected comments from the discussion
This export carries real like counts and timestamps. The first 18 are the most resonant on-topic top-level comment from each stage of the discussion, ranked by resonance within their arrival-time cohort so later arrivals are not penalised for having had less time to accumulate likes. The last 6 received no likes at all and were chosen for the specificity of what they describe.
How the discussion breaks down
Relative volume of distinct source-backed records across every reviewed category in this corpus.
Infant circumcision — the thread’s top answer and its longest argument
234 distinct coded comment records7 normalized answers
Drink, smoke and bet
115 distinct coded comment records6 normalized answers
Men and women
71 distinct coded comment records4 normalized answers
How strangers get treated
62 distinct coded comment records6 normalized answers
Naming your own mind
46 distinct coded comment records5 normalized answers
Cars, roads and driving
45 distinct coded comment records3 normalized answers
What people publish about themselves
44 distinct coded comment records4 normalized answers
Politics, power and what a country gets used to
42 distinct coded comment records4 normalized answers
Plans, promises and disappearing
41 distinct coded comment records4 normalized answers
Cameras pointed at other people
40 distinct coded comment records5 normalized answers
Belief, information and how people decide things
39 distinct coded comment records5 normalized answers
Sex and relationships
38 distinct coded comment records4 normalized answers
Money, work and status
35 distinct coded comment records4 normalized answers
Children and the adults around them
28 distinct coded comment records4 normalized answers
Bodies, food and medicine
27 distinct coded comment records3 normalized answers
Turning inward
23 distinct coded comment records3 normalized answers
Being alone
22 distinct coded comment records3 normalized answers
Nearly every answer here was argued with
This thread does not agree with itself. 783 of its 1073 records are replies (73%), and a large share of them exist to argue with the answer immediately above them. That is the single most consistent finding in the corpus: almost every widely-liked answer here drew a reply from somebody who does the thing, thinks the answer proves nothing, or reads the same evidence the other way.
Some of the pushback disputes the premise. Under the loneliness answer: “Goes both ways. Some people can’t be alone for any length of time. I’d say those folks may have a problem too.” and, more plainly, “What one person calls loneliness another calls solitude.” Under location sharing: “You get to decide what is and isn’t acceptable for consenting adults?? My husband and I both find it preferable, more convenient, and SAFER than the alternative of texting or calling someone who may be in transit (e.g., if I can see that he’s already left the store where I remembered something we need, it saves him from looking at his phone while he should be paying attention to his surroundings instead of reading a text). If either of us wants to turn off our own location, of course we are free to do so. Who are YOU to say it’s unacceptable for us to use that feature?” Under facial tattoos: “The answer is “not at all” That same thought process was used for *any* tattoo a couple decades ago, now you look like an idiot if you say that.” Under promiscuity: “As long as it isn't hurting anyone, why care?” And under streaming: “1) there has *always* been people who made a career out of reviewing things. There’s a reason Michelin star restaurants are a thing. 2) there’s literally no difference between streaming and live tv.”
Some of it disputes a fact. The claim that second-hand smoke is worse than smoking drew “2nd hand smoke is not worse for you. This is an absurd take I dislike smoking but ffs, this is just ignorant”; the claim that cannabis causes schizophrenia drew “It doesnt cause it, stop spreading disinformation.” and a longer correction. The self-diagnosis answer drew the sharpest reply in that branch: “The irony that your analysis is just as invalid as someone self diagnosis, if not more so since you don't actually know their symptoms and behaviors day in day out. And OCD people already doubt themselves enough. Autistic people already get called asses enough.” The article does not adjudicate any of these. They are recorded here because a reader deciding what to make of an answer needs to see that the thread itself did not settle it.
And some of it comes from the people being described. Under constant phone checking: “100%, the older I get though the worse I am. I'll be an ipad granny at this rate, won't take my tablets without my tablet. If it wasn't so normalised then we'd be less likely to give in and we'd all be better off for it.” Under smoking: “There was a time I would’ve made some kind of wisecrack about you being lame, but you actually are right. Two years free of cigarettes! Let’s go.” Under apathy: “I would like to but I'm too exhausted from existing.” Under the cannabis argument: “I'm not sure what your stance on weed is here, but I'm addicted to it and I agree that its hard-core defendants go way overboard with it. "Natural" is a made-up religious concept. Chemicals are natural, what the hell do people think we're made of? However, weed detractors also demonize it. Everything in excess is bad. This includes substances that can be otherwise helpful, or even just fun, to people in the right conditions So no, weed is not a miracle, but it's not the devil's plant either. And it definitely doesn't cause schizophrenia. Saying as a nursing assistant and weed addict with a schizophrenic ex-partner.”
That is why the sub-patterns below keep the objection in the same place as the answer. Of the 74 sub-patterns, several exist only to hold disagreement — The objection: solitude is not loneliness, “It’s a social lubricant” — the pushback inside the thread, The people who have the diagnosis, answering and Car dependence, and whether it is really inevitable among them.
Browse the original comments1,073 audited comments and replies
Dataset, coverage, and methodology
How this was counted
The working unit is a comment record, not a person and not a distinct behaviour. All 1073 canonical comments from this one thread (290 top-level, 783 replies) were read in four passes and each was assigned to exactly one sub-pattern or one exclusion bucket.
952 records name a behaviour the commenter said people should be more cautious of, or argue directly with one, and all 952 appear in the complete index below. The other 121 break down as agreements, one-line dismissals and GIFs (44), insults and exchanges about the arguers (27), jokes and tangents that leave the question (15), questions put to another commenter (13), automated moderator notices (8), commentary about the thread itself (5), sympathy or advice offered to another commenter (3), records naming an account or a private individual (2), records writing a word with “@” in place of a letter, which the mention redactor cannot tell from an account handle (2), and fragments and text the platform had already removed (2).
952 counts classified comment records, not distinct behaviours. Repeats were deliberately kept: nine records name posting children online and each stays its own row rather than being merged into one.
Scores are the raw numbers as captured. The first hour of this thread holds 49.0% of all its score, so a ranking by raw score would mostly rank arrival time; themes and sub-patterns are ordered by how many records they hold, not by popularity.
Nothing here is verified beyond what people typed. Health, safety, legal and parenting claims in this thread are reported as the claims of the commenters who made them, several are disputed a few records later by other commenters, and none should be read as guidance. A strongly-worded answer with a high score is still one person's opinion arriving early.
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