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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/atomicskier76 on 2023-09-03 19:44:17.

This is someone i care about. Have seen twice out of work since accident. Saying “hi” just gets “hi” and silence. This person owes me exactly zero conversation, i understand that. They were previously very chatty and hows it going was the opener. How do i open with kindness and also not pressure conversation if they dont want to talk?

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/shrekonshrooms22 on 2023-09-03 23:01:11.

I am in no way trying to be disrespectful, I simply want to be able to understand this matter better.

A few years ago, everyone I have ever heard saying they are trans underwent hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery. If someone was still on hormone therapy, they would say that they are in the process of transitioning but wouldn’t actually say they are trans.

Nowadays I notice that there are more and more people stating they are trans without even starting hormone therapy. I understand there is a difference between psychology versus physically transitioning, but back in the day being trans meant you have finished the entire process and transitioning meant you were still in the process, and that there was a diference between identifying yourself as the opposite gender (which is psychological) and the actual transition (which was physical).

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Cheese_Cream on 2023-09-03 21:53:10.

I’m counting things like mushrooms as well even though they aren’t technically plants.

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Old_Familiar_Stain on 2023-09-03 21:52:47.

Wouldn't it be much more cost effective if all the family members including grandparents, spouses and children, would keep living together in a big house, share the rent, instead of everyone paying their own rent? And you would always have someone to watch your kids, and the grandparents wouldn't feel lonely. And all appliances could be shared, even cars. Imagine how much money you could save.I mean, this is such a simple concept, but I don't understand why literally no one is doing that.

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/shittyminty on 2023-09-03 20:38:54.

So my future husband and I got our cake samples yesterday and they were TERRIBLE. You’d think “oh why don’t you just use another bakery?” In a normal situation you’d be right but our venue is a package deal so pretty much everything you’d contract out is included, including the cake. They have a bakery they use for this specific part of the deal.

Well, we drove an hour to pick up the samples, and refrigerated them until dinner. We started sampling the strawberry one, it was ok, then the mango, had a slight chemical back taste to it, then lemon raspberry, decent, red velvet, kind of bland, and then the chocolates. I love chocolate but these were awful. The mocha had the most over powering coffee flavor in a bad way, and a slight chemical taste. Then dulce de leche. This one was the one I was most excited about. We took one bite and both looked at each other like “wtf did we just eat.” It straight up tasted like plastic and chemicals, it was the worst cake I’ve ever tasted. Not to mention the frosting on all was this weird white paste with no flavoring.

So now I’m at an impasse. Nothing was really that good and if we get one we’re going to settle for lemon raspberry.

My question is do guests really eat that much cake for me to be worried about this or should I let it go and serve mediocre cake?

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/MiMadoka on 2023-09-03 19:28:34.

I hate brushing my teeth. It is one of the worst parts of my day. Toothpaste taste absolutely disgusting and the taste coats my mouth for so long. I admittedly don't brush my teeth twice every single day; I have really good teeth according to the dentist, never have cavities or anything, which I do not understand how, but I want to brush my teeth twice everyday. I am 20 years old, and I'm not very smart, but wouldn't making toothpaste taste better make people more inclined to brush regularly?

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/zojacks on 2023-09-03 18:22:07.

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/No-Necessary-4623 on 2023-09-03 15:21:23.

I (33F) just moved into a new building in NYC with a doorman. I’ve never lived in a building with a doorman before and I’m not quite sure what the etiquette is. I smile and say “hi” every time I leave and enter the building, but for whatever reason I feel a bit awkward. Am I being too friendly / fake? Whats the right way to act?

It might be worth mentioned that I’ve just recently moved back to NYC after living abroad for about 10 years.

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Jerswar on 2023-09-03 14:19:15.

I don't know how many Karen/Sovereign Citizen videos I've watched, where someone has to have the police called on them because they just refuse to leave. What follows is usually either a tantrum, or a flood of confused faux-legalese, leading to an arrest.

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Sunapr1 on 2023-09-03 18:05:39.

Seriously I am of understanding that current times people usually just date at later age and is mostly working on yourself and even if it's the current statistics 30s are still young. I know many people in mid 30 found and married each other and I am living in leaning conservative country infact

I m 28 and just started looking for people and has success, so everytime I see people commenting that they feel loss of hope at age 25 and 30,;it makes me feel confused

Tell me I am not taking crazy pills and I believe some of you may have have a story to share too

EDIT i get it might be troublesome but I don't think it's really all hope is lost or definately not to extend people think

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Odd-Cryptographer275 on 2023-09-03 16:16:16.

I like telling my bf “you are precious”, “I’m thankful for you”, “you are handsome”, or “you’re loved”

Every time he hears it he says nooo I’m not sure if he actually doesn’t like to hear them or just pretends so

I think most of the girls like words of affirmation but I have fewer cases for guys. How would you feel if your gf says them? Should I stop saying them?

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/sneakybrownoser on 2023-09-03 16:22:42.

“Where are my car keys?” “Hand me the keys”

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Commercial-Nature-64 on 2023-09-03 15:43:49.

This is in reference to someone saying that Democrats were for slavery and Republicans abolished it (Lincoln). The reply is inevitably “that was before the party switch”.

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Genesius_Prime on 2023-09-03 15:11:10.

Long story short: my wife of 14 years had an affair and left me. She made the vast majority of the money, I had a flexible job that let me take the kids to appointments, keep cars maintained, practical stuff like that.

I’m now basically starting over in another state, and a super rural part of the state as well. I feel hopeless that I’ll ever meet anyone again, let alone someone that shares my interests and finds a dad bod attractive.

I feel like dating apps are a non-starter as I’m not photogenic at all. I don’t drink either. And I’m guessing the part where I’m divorced and have kids will be a hindrance too. Maybe I should just go be a monk or something.

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/koolaid613 on 2023-09-03 14:37:21.

I often see questions like "whats the hardest part of being a woman/man", and most of the responses are from average women/men with a fairly standard gender presentation. But being a masculine woman or feminine man often comes with unique challenges- what are some of those challenges?

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Responsible_Roll7065 on 2023-09-03 14:36:19.

I used to be able to find exactly what I was looking for. I know boolean, use quotes, can filter by website or by filetype, etc. but over the past few years it seems like I can get less and less. I use a variety of search engines and while some are better than others, these issues seem to occur on all of them. The other day I was trying to find a forum post with hints and item lists related to the mobile game I play.

I've accessed this page before know the title and even exact phrases. One search engine gave four pages of results and none of them were this page. Google did not have the web page anywhere in the first few pages of search results. Anyway, I ended up having to go into my browser history to find what I was looking for. What's changed, is it all just SEO? Have I gotten worse at searching?

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/cookedfood_ on 2023-09-03 14:12:30.

I've often heard about how lots of young teen boys get sucked into things associated with incelism and hating progressives. Some of the boys at my school seem hold much more minor ideas of this type (like saying "I gotta listen to a woman talk for three whole hours" when learning about having to watch a three hour long lecture video), although I haven't heard anyone calling themselves an alpha, calling girls whores, or calling others snowflakes and such.

Personally, the most anti progressive I ever got was having a problem specifically with the name of feminism itself, but never further than that. I'm not sure if that even counts as against progress though, since my motive for that thought was that a name change would clean it from the some of the damage done by both feminist extremists and people who thought the whole movement revolved around the ideas of said extremists. My reasoning was that the extremists would refuse to go along with the change out of simple stubbornness and delusion, and people who were progressive would just let the name "feminism" rot while coming out under another name with a clean slate. I wasn't even sure if there was a dedicated website or hub for feminism, which only would only make it harder to clarify feminism's goals and make it easier to haters to slander feminism and hinder progression.

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/r21md on 2023-09-03 13:24:33.

Been at college for a few years now and noticed I really haven't been able to make any close friends. Some old friends I have that are the same age seem completely uninterested in even finding new people to talk to. With people I've gotten to know, I almost always have to be the sole person initiating conversation. It feels like if we are in the same class or club we can be acquaintances, but the last chance to be real friends was meeting during first-year orientation. When I was a minor you could just talk to people and become friends. Am I just unlucky, or is this shift in behavior common as people get older?

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/seffpierce on 2023-09-03 11:34:03.

Well in my 30s and I only recently discovered that you are supposed to brush your teeth, then spit out the toothpaste NOT rinse it out with water 🤯

Seems I've been doing it wrong my whole life.

Apparently, after brushing you spit instead of rinsing to keep as much toothpaste as possible on your teeth so that the flouride can help prevent tooth decay.

Who else has been rinsing their entire lives? I'm curious.

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Accomplished_Cup6537 on 2023-09-03 05:55:50.

As the title said I'm a single Dad with an 11 year old daugher living with me. I also have a girlfriend who does not live with me. My daughers mom is not in the picture. My daugher just started to get her period and I'm wondering would it be easier for me to talk to her about this or should I get my GF to do it (she's totally willing to btw)

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Shamon_Yu on 2023-09-03 06:45:04.

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/anonymous_24601 on 2023-09-03 02:13:19.

There are literal memes about this. This doesn’t happen to me on any other social media platform. I’ll make what I think is an innocent post and people are just so unbelievably angry in the comments. Just responding to someone who disagree with you gets you downvoted. I see it happen to people who make nice posts all the time.

I had someone tell me I was wrong about my undertone in a makeup subreddit, even though the mods were the ones who typed me💀 Also posted asking for advice in the PTSD sub and someone told me off for not knowing the answer. A guy got aggressively downvoted for disagreeing with me in another sub, even though I marked the post as * discussion. *

I get that there are angry and pretentious people on the internet, but why do most of them seem to be on Reddit?! I genuinely don’t understand. I also feel really bad for people who get ripped apart and are clearly not mentally in a good space.

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/pakled_guy on 2023-09-03 01:32:31.

Original Title: The year I turn 52, my wife turns 48 and this year will also contain our 25th anniversary. Between us we'll have 100 years of life and 50 years of married existence between the two of us. Any suggestions on how to mark those nice, roundish numbers?

It just seems notable somehow. We have kids but there's nothing numerically interesting about them that year :)

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/IDontWipe55 on 2023-09-03 01:44:51.

From my experience this always seems to the the case and I want to know why

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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/ChuggiePilgrim on 2023-09-03 00:35:35.

Here in the US, Mexican food is loved. There is at least one Mexican restaurant in every town of at least 2k folks. Is it just a proximity thing or is this food that damn good and everybody across the world knows it? Are there as many Mexican restaurants in other parts of the world?