What's the worst book you've ever read, discounting self published crap?

I bought my mom Jo Watson's Among Others half a decade ago for mother's day.

I didn't know much about the industry so I thought that it winning the Hugo meant it had to be at least of decent quality. It was so bad that she said it had to read it too

300 pages of the most pretentious precious child crap

Redditor

Wow. Small world. I actually swiped right on you a few weeks ago.

Her

Who you?

I'm in school right now so I can be a contributing partner to my relationship/marriage. You are right, I won't bat an eye on people who are not stable financially at this age, because altho I'm not atm, I'm certain I will be once I finish my degree.

Chad onry

Noticer

I've never had so much trouble diagnosing a profile.

First of all, I'm curious as to what you're asking for because theres no way you don't have lots of options. Is there something particular you're looking for?

My first deep impression is that these pics are spread out over a long time, like a decade. I then realized that small changes in styling, and prep resulted in what looked like large age changes. You might drop the oversized tshirt pic and make the one where your hair frames your pic your main one.

Lastly, and really importantly, you are going to have to realize that what you are looking for in these comments is not something you are likely going to find. I commend your school, but after 25, no one with self respect is going to date someone for 2 months and have them go off to school for 9. What am I supposed to do, just wait and hope you don't change your mind or get a job offer elsewhere? If you only want to date for marriage, it's probably best to do that post grad.

Were all photos taken recently (within the last 6 months)? The only reason why I ask is because there's a slight difference between body shape and hairstyles / colour. Some guys may wonder which version of yourself will show up if they ask you out.

>You're very cute and look healthy so your pictures are not a problem. Prompts show your personality and the things you like, which are things a ton of guys like. Really there aren't any issues with any of that.

These pics are not decades apart from each other, that I'm sure of!

It's an odd scenario to be in. If you are looking for a financially stable above average looking guy, similar age as you, then it's going to take a lot of luck without having very similar hobbies and not being super attractive. Now sure a lot of redditors will say you are super cute and they will swipe right but it's not hard to picture the quintessential redditors and I don't think they are your target pool. Like most women, you will get lots of likes and even if the guys are serious, most will quit after a certain time so it will really all come down to luck unless you are dating guys with poor options.

You can say pretty much the same thing to any female's profile review post in here, which makes your comment kind of rude and a downer. Idk what hurt you but I sincerely hope you will find peace within yourself. Take care.

Also here the full texts in case she decides to delete it and we at /r/drama co are all about perseverance:

My updated profile. I got rid of 1 and added 2 new photos : https://i.imgur.com/gallery/2jgQlRM

https://i.imgur.com/gallery/OjgRDof

Edited: I have seen quite a few questions asking why I don't date/look for a relationship where I go to school/ that me leaving for school again is an issue, that my situation might be a problem for well-established men with a set lifestyle (which is one of my criteria).

To give you all a brief answer, the school I go to is in a rural area where there is very little diversity. I have tried dating men who are local there but most of them have little exposure to people outside of their culture. It's even harder when their mindsets are of a country one, whereas I'm more of a city/ suburban person.

Since I'm an undergrad, most of my classmates are 10 years younger than me, and I'm there for my study, so the thought of dating any of them is even more ludicrous. How about older students or grad students, you say? I want to date to get marriage. But I don't plan to live where I go to school. Therefore I don't see the point of dating someone and getting involved emotionally to finally break things off when I move back to my home state.

I feel more comfortable dating where I know I can build a family eventually. And it is in this home state where my parents are at, with a more diverse culture, a big Vietnamese community, and the people are less xenophobic. Especially with my current age, I don't want to wait for 2 more years to permanently move back here and start dating. I'll be too old by that time to have kids with the husband. So, I will take any chance I've got when I'm back home this time, to mindfully date and only date for marriage. I'm pretty set on this path, and if someone is just as serious, they will agree with my thinking and try to make things work for both of us. End of the edit.

Idk why I bothered covering my location, you can clearly see it from my post history lol. Anyways, after taking a break from Reddit to refocus on myself and my mental health, I'm finally at a better place in terms of health and mindset. Seeing that I'm leaving this godforsaken college town to go back home for summer in a few days, I'm ready to meet new people and build some connections along the way. Therefore I need your honest opinions on what impression my profile gives off. What can I do to improve it? Should I change anything?

There is a prompt about the biggest risk you've taken and I wrote: leaving the comfort of home to study for my bachelor's out of state at the age of 30. I have plan to move back home after my graduation, and I'm only home now for summer. I forgot to take a screenshot of it. The prompt is to let the local guys know I'll be back once I'm done with my education, so anyone who's got a long term plan won't feel too deterred that I'll be leaving in 2 months.

I'm very excited about my dating prospect this time! Probably because I've been loving myself more, treating myself with care, patience and compassion. It's true you really need to love yourself before anyone can love you. I have more than enough love for myself now, it's time to share the love with others (or just one more person xD)

im incredibvly drunk

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1789466593220775976

That poor horse 😞 pic.twitter.com/xudVHL5hCH

— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) May 11, 2024

That neighbor is clearly struggling

“U.S. Army specifications for pack mules state that 'American mules can carry up to 20 percent of their body weight (150 to 300 pounds) for 15 to 20 miles per day in mountains,'”

It's a total fricking lie.

Back when I came of age around 2010 and there was a popular white privilege checklist. It was all stuff like, "when I go shopping, I can be confidemt that someone of my race will be there." Just a bunch of items that came down to, "I am the default race" in order to try to make a list that applies to white people of all income and status levels.

I went on an excursion into town today and I noticed the population was like 90% south Asian, 9.9% black, and yours truly.

I love being the town white. No one treats you any differently, because it's not like they've never seen a white person before, but you get to be the only one who is special looking. The onion ring in a bag of fries. What the frick are minorities playing at acting all mad? My only complaint is that my race would mean that people would look at me funny if I tried pulling off the forehead dot.

Universal white privilege DEBUNKED

Case closed.

Driver ejected a couple hundred feet away,

Quake boomers!

Started a few shows, all of which I probably wont keep watching unless someone tells me they are good: 'Bibliophile Princess', 'As Miss Belzebub Likes It' and 'Summoned To Another World For A Second Time'.

I also watched 'Hikikomari Kyuuketsuki no Monmon', was okay I guess.

Then, after so much 'meh', I decided to rewatch something I knew I liked, and remembered that 'Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-San' got a second season. Its a very good show, I hope it gets another season. The male lead is a loser, but they managed to make him not an annoying cute twink, like most anime with loser male leads fail to do. Plus nagatoro is cute.

Also it has a marsey reference?!?

Then I wanted more of the teasing stuff, and the only two shows which are that way I remeber are 'Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-San' and the anime with the girl with the Sugoi Dekai shirt. I latter I remember not finding that good, though still okay, but when I watched Takagi-San back in 2019 I liked it a lot, and I havent seen season 3 or the movie yet, so I rewatched it, and just started season 3. I still like it, though its much slower than nagatoro, which is to be expected considering the setting, but it picks up the pace in season 2. Im looking forward to the rest.

Thats it for the week, !anime let me know if there are more shows like nagatoro that I somehow missed.

@Aevann pin pls

Seriously whats the point of a latvia, portugal or a montenegro

Holy shit that show is so bad. I'd say that I'm slightly "I fricking love science" inclined (as some of you might've seen from one of my recent posts), but this shit drove even me mad. There's so much pseudoscientific, pseudophilosophical pretentious bullshit, my eyes rolled so far back I could see my own brain. Everything is bad about it, everything. The idea is stupid, the plot is r-slurred, the actors are trash, the neo-dudebro dialogue is cringe, the whole idea with the alien VR is like the Matrix if it was released 30 years too late and made as gay as possible.

God, I've watched 2 episodes of this and I'm not watching another one. Absolute trash. And don't tell me the book is better, I don't believe it. There's nothing salvageable here. Everything is bad and I could list it for hours

It should have been me

https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1cobmhx/will_climate_change_get_bad_enough_for_millions/?sort=controversial

!ifrickinglovescience the doomers at /r/climatechange are discussing the prospects of mass American migration to reddit's favorite country, Canada

I see hordes of people flooded out of their homes in Florida traveling north in migrant caravans for safety, especially as they traverse the Deer River gap in the Adirondacks. Fox News will opine on how unfair it is that Canada isn't letting them in.

Leopards ate my face amerite?

I think it will depend on government responses. The US is trying to build walls and privatize all our social nets. We are cannibalizing the public good. If Project 2025 comes to fruition we will be dramatically dropping the quality of life for almost all citizens.

If Canada has better accommodations- affordable healthcare, available housing or land, and possibly a more stable government then yes I do expect there will be an Exodus.

If we get to the point where the Arctic sea is navigable then Canada will be prime to become an exporter of rare metals from deep sea mining too.

Without appropriate water management most of the western and middle United States will suffer the Dust Bowl again. Our entire corn belt is grown with aquifer water - that will become too low and too expensive to use at some point.

I'm not as familiar with the concerns of Canada, but because they have such large tracts of land not currently in use, they may have a strong economy while others flail.

If you're a trump supporter , please stay in the flooding.

The collapse will probably be so quick and global, that Canada won't be any better off. More than just temperature, it'll be massive famine that will be our demise, which Canada is already on the edge of w prairie crop yields on the decline already.

Peak apocalyptic doomerism

Dunno , but if the United States falls to the cycles of cancerous fascist self destruction hopefully Canada will already have a long standing NATO presence to aid in sorting out possible US climate refugees , rather than yet more self defeating behavior like militarily seizing Canadian territory.

It is quite possible Canada could end up in the position Ukraine currently finds itself in as fascist/authoritarian states are quite fond of inventing histories and rationalizations for invading their neighbors.

If the Canadian government was actually taking the likely course of predicted climate change along with the continued weakening of US representative government seriously , Canada would be working to re- constitute /revive it's Nuclear weapons program , incentive the large number of Canadian nuclear weapons scientist current working in the US to return that expertise home asap....

Surely Europe will defend Canada from evil Christofascist American aggression

!nooticers

https://twitter.com/maks_nafo_fella/status/1789601542711976073

Instead of admitting they did this, they again started bs stories that Russian shot them self, in 2024.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_December_2023_Belgorod_shelling

So they in the past used unguided rm-70 MRLS to hit Belgorod but today it wasn't them because it doesn't suits their rhetorics ?

They just lost 9 villages around Kharkov, they are short on manpower and they motivate Russian

17 year old leddit account. Janny on 60+ subreddits

He locked it, kitty

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has been fired.

Shoigu, a close partner to Putin, led the Russian MOD for over 11 years. pic.twitter.com/4wI09VjVRG

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) May 12, 2024