Month: April 2021

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What’s a Harsh Fact of Life You’ve Come to Realize? People Shared Their Thoughts.

It’s part of the process of growing up, but sometimes life can be downright cruel.

Things that you thought would be easy turn out to be really difficult and other things that you believed were going to be awful end up being no big deal. Life is funny that way.

You live and you learn, people…

What’s a hard fact of life that you’ve learned?

Here’s how AskReddit users responded.

1. Sorry to hear that.

“After losing a parent I’m very aware of my own and other’s mortality.

Mine both passed in 2017. Adult orphanhood sucks hard.”

2. Doesn’t always work out.

“That not everyone you form a bond with in life is meant to stick around forever.”

3. That’s life.

“”It’s possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness that is life.”

Jean-Luc Picard”

4. True.

“You can only help a person so much until they have to help themselves.”

5. You’re not alone.

“I way overestimated my intelligence and importance growing up.”

6. THIS.

“It’s not that the world is out to get you.

It just doesn’t care.”

7. Not the right fit.

“Sometimes you can give your absolute all, 110% effort, but it just doesn’t fit.

You might be the world’s best florist, but if the person you try to make bouquets for is allergic to flowers, it’s over before it begins.”

8. Too bad.

“Very few people actually care about the truth.

Everyone will claim they do, but challenge a belief they are emotionally attached to and most of them will fight you to the death, sometimes literally, sometimes their own, rather than accept a fact they don’t like.”

9. Doesn’t mean much.

“Loyalty to your employer means nothing.

I learned this lesson really early in my career. Literally the first real job I had out of college. I worked my *ss off because I was always told that the harder your work, the better off you’ll be. I worked crazy hours. 60+ hour weeks, on-call 24/7, volunteering weekends, etc.

Then the 2008 recession hit. I was the first one out of the door. Just walked in one day, boss came by my desk and told me to give up my badge and get out. No goodbye, no apologies, no recognition of the work I’d done for the year I was there. No nothing. Just get the f*ck out.

Never again.”

10. Yup.

“Most famous people aren’t worth idolizing.”

11. Unfortunately…

“Bad things happen to good people.

Life isn’t fair and the universe doesnt give a sh*t about you or your feelings.”

12. Life can be lonely.

“I could die tomorrow in my sleep, and it would take days for me to be missed.

And even then the number of people who’d be sad- not “aw, that’s terrible. So what’s for lunch?” but actually sad- is in a single digit.”

Now we’d like to hear from you.

What hard facts have you learned in your life?

Talk to us in the comments!

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People Admitted Not Safe for Work Facts About Themselves

We all have a little bit of a frisky side. Or a kinky side. Or maybe even a dangerous side.

And that means you, too!

Are you ready to hear some true confessions from folks who went on the record?

What are some NSFW facts about yourself?

Here’s what AskReddit users had to say.

1. Cool party trick.

“When flaccid, I can pull the head of my penis back inside of itself.

I’m cut. I’ve honestly never asked anyone if they can do it, so it might just be a normal d*ck function. I can also pop both testicles back up inside myself.

So if I do it all at once, I’ve got an empty sack dangling under an inside out d*ck until I let go.”

2. To each their own…

“My last s*xual encounter involved me riding a guy who slapped me, so I slapped him back and we were slapping each other for a good 5 more seconds until he came really hard.

It was f*cking hot.”

3. Grossed out.

“One time I was absolutely hammered getting a bl*wjob and I accidentally peed in the girl’s mouth.

I’ll admit, not my finest moment.”

4. Boom!

“I joined The Mile High Club about 15 years ago.

TBH, outside of bragging rights it’s not really that fun.”

5. Jeez…

“Once I reached my hand down the back of my pants to spread my b*tt cheeks apart to muffle the sound of a fart.

I didn’t want the chick I was hanging out with to hear it.

I sh*t in my hand.”

6. I don’t think we got caught.

“Me and my girlfriend lived in a student apartment complex sometime ago, before we moved out, we went ahead and banged on all 8 floors of the building.

In the elevator, the laundry room, the stairway, the gym (the mirrors were great here), the common room, and multiple balconies etc. my girlfriend even got totally naked for a few of the sessions.

We did it at 2am on a Sunday night and got back to our own apartment at like 3:30am.

We didn’t get caught. I think.”

7. Very unique.

“I have a noticeable birthmark on the shaft of my penis.

It’s a large spot on top that has a line the whole way around.

I even won a contest with it once as a teenager because it was “unique” and “more impressive than a bare bland one”.”

8. Whoa.

“My first under-the-clothes s*xual experience was getting “serviced” by two female friends simultaneously, at a very young age.

I then proceeded to not have a single s*xual encounter with anyone until the age of 19.

It f*cked me up.”

9. Young and dumb.

“Banged my college GF in public a few times.

She got off on it, and being in my early 20s, I was horny and did not care.”

10. You’re a trooper.

“I once dislocated my shoulder while having awesome kinky s*x with my girlfriend.

Popped it back in and kept going.”

11. Power move.

“May or may not have banged a hooker over the railing of a balcony above an ongoing wedding.”

12. Stackin’ that cash.

“I was an online cam s*x girl for a year whilst I was at University.

I made lots of money and enjoyed regularly chatting with my regular fans.”

13. Memories…

“The most intense orgasm I ever had was caused by drunk mast**bation in a school toilet.

Three decades later I still remember that special occasion.”

Okay, it’s time to come clean…

What’s a NSFW fact about you?

Spill your guts in the comments!

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People Who Believe They Threw Their Lives Away Talk About Where It All Went Wrong

Do you know anyone who believes that they threw their life away and that it’s beyond repair?

It’s a sad fact of life but it’s also a true fact that it does happen to quite a few people out there.

If you think you threw your life away, where do you believe it went wrong?

Here’s what folks on AskReddit had to say about this.

1. Thought it was normal.

“Started working at a restaurant at 14 surrounded by drugs and alcohol.

I thought is was completely normal behavior for adults and chefs I looked up to until I was 37 and realized I have a huge alcohol problem and lost everything I own.

I’m 17 months sober now.”

2. Addiction problem.

“I had my own landscape company i employed 5 others but I had a addiction problem with cocaine. At the the time I didn’t know I had severe mental health problems.

I have BPD DPD and bipolar disorder 1 with psychosis. I woke up one day and couldn’t do it anymore. I left the company to the lads I worked with. Since then I haven’t worked in years I’ve lost count how many times I’ve been hospitalised. I tried to end my life but ended up in a coma.

I’m doing better now despite going through a divorce I’m on antipsychotic meds and I’m doing good now but could never go back to work.”

3. This is life now.

“I got lazy with education from a very young age, and in the end my brain just lacked the ability to apply to anything that required real effort.

Then I stopped caring, just got a decent enough job and that was it. This is life now.”

4. Didn’t take school seriously.

“I coasted through high school, made good grades but did not do well on the SAT.

Had to take something like “remedial math” my first semester of college because my SAT math section score was below their standard but my overall score was in their acceptance range (which is very low). College kicked my *ss the whole way through.

I made it out with a GPA that is so embarrassing I never put it on a single resume and never gave it out. I’ve been from laughable job to laughable job but managing to scrape by.

I would love to have a higher level of education to achieve a better career, but after years of being in the workforce I don’t think I could actually do it. It’s like my level of brain power has dropped off significantly to even worse levels than before.

No way I could earn a masters degree. I feel like I wasted my life by not taking school seriously in high school. I could have gone to a much better university and gotten a better degree and better GPA and not have to take these soul crushing jobs.”

5. Down the wrong road.

“I was in a car accident when I was 15. Had what they called a “closed head injury”.

I dropped out of school twice, however I did end up graduating, like barely. Stared smoking weed, then cocaine, became an alcoholic, started smoking meth, f*cked off good jobs, shoplifting, and the list could go on. I’m 41 now, and became a mom 3.5 years ago and have completely turned my life around, as far as drugs and drinking, but I still suffer with depression and anxiety.

I believe my brain injury had a lot to do with my crazy behavior, and still effects my mental health.”

6. Very sad.

“I got married at 18 because it was expected of me.

Wasted 36 years with an extremely abusive spouse, primarily out of fear.

I’m free now. He died 8 years ago. I’m trying to make up for lost time, but that’s a lot of wasted time to make up for.”

7. Feeling trapped.

“So I’m a third year medical student and going to medical school is my biggest regret.

I should have chosen the career path I initially wanted but I let people tell me where to go.

Problem is I’m gonna be in too much debt to do anything else.”

8. Depression.

“I got really depressed when I was in my early 20s so I f*cked everything up and isolated myself for a few years.

Despite a good degree that kind of killed it for me.”

9. Environmental factors.

“Like with many people, I think it went wrong around 18-25.

Was more or less pushed by various environmental factors into a direction, without really thinking about who I was or who I wanted to be. I just followed societal/parental expectations and sure enough ended up in a career I care little about, and feel like a zombie on a daily basis, like dying.

What sucks is that before 18, I never had a bad time. I cared for school, I always tried to do my best. But after 18 everything went too quick, I had to pick a career, etc.

Now at 30+, I feel nothing for my life & career, but I’m also in the paradox that I don’t want to start all over again to go for a career that really interests me, because going through college/university all over again just feels too much of a battle (going from working professional with money to unemployed year 1 student).

I just feel that just a small window of a couple years (18-25) decided my entire life for me and ruined it forever.

My only advice for people is to gain some maturity, ask themselves what they truly want to be, and only then embark on studies. You need intention in life. Parental expectations or being a good boy trying to do his best isn’t enough.”

10. Feel like a zombie.

“26 years old now: good career, married, planning for children, and nothing is necessarily wrong.

I listened to people who I respected while growing up and ended up in an objectively great position in life. Even my parents’ peers/friends say they wish their children were in my position.

And yet, the days gloss by. I feel like a zombie. I feel like I made a mistake between 18-25, but don’t know what it is. I want to restart, but now I have obligations with family planning and a mortgage.

I love my spouse, but I could take so many more risks if I were single. Going with the flow is not the way.”

11. All alone.

“I focused too much on the long term.

I needed to graduate college so I neglected any potential relationships. Then I needed to get career stability so I neglected any potential relationships. Then I needed to get financial stability so I neglected any potential relationships.

Then I woke up at 40 in the middle of a pandemic all alone and realized I have nothing that is worthwhile.”

How about you?

Do you feel this way?

If so, tell us about it in the comments.

We’d love to hear from you.

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Plant-Based “Stem Cells” Could Possibly Drive an Environmental Revolution

For the last couple of years, my family has been making a conscious effort to buy less plastic.

Certainly we try to avoid single-use plastics, but even for things that we’ll use again and again we try to find more durable, organic or metal alternatives.

But of course, there’s often an environmental cost to wooden items, too. It presents a conundrum.

Until now. Are you ready to have your mind blown? Lab. Grown. Furniture.

I warned you.

Image credit: Goashape via Unsplash

Wooden furniture is gorgeous, and plant fibers are supremely useful for other everyday items too, like clothing.

That’s why bamboo has become so popular–it grows quickly, with less environmental impact.

But now a PhD candidate at MIT, Ashley Beckwith, and her co-author, Luis Fernando Velásquez-García, have a brilliant plan to reduce waste and environmental impacts even further by growing wood in useful shapes (like 2 by 4’s) right in a lab.

The MIT research team has been working with zinnia tissue, and they published their findings recently in the Journal of Cleaner Production.

As Fast Company reports, their goal is to:

…quickly produce in a lab what would take decades to grow in nature. From there, they could even coax wood tissue to grow into fully-formed shapes—like, say, a table—in order to mitigate the environmental harm of the logging and construction industries.

It’s not a completely new concept. Velásquez-García, a scientist in the university’s Microsystems Technology Lab, explains it in pretty simple terms.

“The plant cells are similar to stem cells. They have the potential to be many things.”

And it’s not just human stem cells. Other scientists have had similar success with lab grown meat products.

So isolating the ability to reduce plants down to a version of a stem cell is just the first step.

Like the meat manufactures who want to grow only the most desirable parts of the animal, Beckwith and team have similar plans for their saplings.

“Trees grow in tall cylindrical poles, and we rarely use tall cylindrical poles in industrial applications.

So you end up shaving off a bunch of material that you spent 20 years growing and that ends up being a waste product.”

Rather than stopping with just growing trees, the team could grow planks, or, rather like 3D printing, they could even guide the development of the plant fiber into the exact shape for its intended purpose.

Of course not every manufacturer has a noble drive to safe the planet.

That’s why this new process is so exciting. It’s so easy, that when compared with the cost of logging, transportation, and everything that goes into cutting down trees to shape them into boards, lab grown trees could actually come out on top, at a lower cost!

Image credit: Lukasz Szmigiel via Unsplash

If the idea of lab-grown veggies freaks you out though, don’t worry. The folks in charge don’t see this being a process that is used to grow food. More like the kinds of plants used to make clothes and industrial materials. There are so many things that could be made from biodegradable plant fibers! Deforestation could become a thing of the past! At least due to human consumption.

How’s that for exciting? Did it blow your mind?

Tell us what you think in the comments!

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