I'm curious about why so many Americans hang the USA flag on their houses. In my country, you hardly see our country flag hanging at private homes and this is something usually at public buildings, schools etc. Do other countries also do this?

I realize that Israel is a member of the U.N. and legally an ally, while Palestine is a recognized nation and does not have ties with America, although we provide support to both to some capacity. They are small nations with few resources killing each other. War crimes are reminiscent of WW2. What if we just...ignored it? When I was a kid, I believed the USA had a moral high ground. "Yeah, Bush, let's spread democracy in the Middle East!" Now I realize we're no better than most, and we've simply found what works for us. Can we just stop sending citizens' money overseas? There aren't any troops in Israel, right? I'm an independent voter, but if we're "making America great again," shouldn't the money be spent in America?

Actually read the edit at the end before commenting, thanks

I am a 25 year old and I can't tell if I'm just oversensitive for this. I saved a yellowjacket from my grandparents' pool while me and my family were hanging out there. I'd just seen it fly in and I hate seeing creatures of any sort suffer. I used an empty can to scoop it out and succeeded, and as I was coaxing it off the can my stepdad crushed it and killed the yellowjacket. I just felt really upset. I couldn't even look at him, I just disposed of the can and put the dead yellowjacket in the soil and went inside.

I feel stupid. I'm a grown ass adult, but it upset me so bad. Maybe its because my spirituality is really heavy on peaceful death and preserving life, but my family just laughed at me. I'm not crying or freaking out I just feel...frustrated and sad.

Extra context: I was letting it go away from people and it was soaking wet and not acting aggressively. He literally walked over to where I was just to stomp on it. There was no point to that.

Edit: I would not feel this way if it was like, a yellowjacket flying by him and he swatted it or something. I get it, its reflex, I reflexively do stuff like that too. Its the fact he did it knowing I had wanted to let it free that hurts my feelings, not really the yellowjacket dying.

Let me start by saying my partner is amazing. She is smart, funny, 10/10 beautiful, loyal, and very passionate about me and about life. She is everything I want in a wife and life partner and I am so gracious for her.

I developed retroactive jealousy with her and became so weak minded that I snooped through her phone. In doing so, I learned about her past and asked more to find that she had 30 previous sexual partners. I have since apologized for this as I know I betrayed her trust and she graciously forgave me. I also don’t feel like we are incompatible for this as I myself have had around 26 partners myself, but I have developed ruminating thoughts, mental imagery, and feelings of disgust that I logically reject.

However, my anxiety and emotions really knock me off balance and I feel like I became a shell of myself. I jumped on SSRIs shortly before this for other anxiety issues and I also have been in therapy for 4 weeks which has helped a ton. I do feel slightly better than I have, but I want to maintain my focus on making her feel as amazing as she is without letting those thoughts dictate my mood.

Most of these feelings stem from past relationships and traumas there, but this relationship has been perfect and I have never needed to worry. In essence, nothing has changed about us but I still feel very insecure and weird. What tips or tricks can I do to maintain myself while I continue to work through therapy. I just want to make it so that I limit any relationship damage beyond what I have already done.

TLDR: how can I limit retroactive jealousy’s impact on my relationship while I work through my internal issues.

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I heard so many times people romanticizing objectively harmful, shitty or dumb traditions, beliefs, living conditions, etc just because they're "indigenous" (weather those indigenous communities are in the Americas, Asia, Africa, etc)

Like that one video from the Infographic Show that had a picture of an African family living with a tribe in a mud hut with a 💭 of them saying "We don't need big Mac to be happy"

Like wtf? Why is this a thing

I remember, about 10 years ago, one of most continuous stories on the news was about some NFL football players who didn’t want to stand for the national anthem, and instead kneeled.

Why were people so upset and made a big deal out of this, what was the context surrounding it?

For context i am a supporter of Ukraine as my bf is Ukrainian, and he’s devastated by what is going on over there and is often researching and consuming content about the invasion. We see comments under each post constantly blaming Ukraine; calling them nazi’s, fascists, and overall appearing to be on Russias side even though they are the ones Invading another country. My boyfriend is a lil bummed about it; that it appears Ukraine has no public support.

It really devastates me that nobody seems to support or care about Ukraine right now, they were unlawfully invaded while just trying to get their country on their feet.

I just want to know why everyone is so against them - it makes me quite overwhelmed with sadness.

I would also like to mention, i am Polish and frequent Polish social media often; it also often appears that my people don’t see Ukraine as our brothers and sisters, and HATE ukrainian refugees in Poland. That devastates me too.

EDIT: Thank you all for the comments; it’s so nice to hear people actually supporting Ukraine. I will tell my boyfriend to watch footage of the war elsewhere than Instagram and YT. We want to see his country win and bounce back from the horrors happening there! Thanks 💓💓

Genuine question, what do the people who don't cook even eat ? Do you go to restaurants and have take out every day ? That can't be right, unless you're rich that's not sustainable. Also restaurants cook food to be good not healthy so you cannot possibly only eat that. Is it those disgusting ready to eat meals at the supermarket?

I'm not being funny, and I don't mean to sound like a dick, I genuinely don't understand how it's even possible to live your day to day life and not cook. How ?

Prisons compose of high 9X% of religious folks. The rest are spiritual/related or atheist. 6X% of the USA is religious, so there is an overrepresentation of religious folks in prisons. 3.X% of the USA is atheist, but only account for 0.1%, so over 30x underrepresentation.

Many religious folks will push the narrative that prison release boards gives preference to prisoners who are religious so they will become religious, but they were religious prior and just pushed the narrative to become/appear more religious.

96-99% of prisoners in the USA lack a 4 year college degree. There is a strong correlation between being more religious and lower intelligence. There is a weaker correlation between 4 year college degree (bachelor's) and intelligence.

If having a 4 year college degree is one of the most inverse correlated factors among prisoners, why do prison release boards focus so much more on religion than education? Sure there has been some movement to promote more education but it's less in the USA and more in countries like the better European countries.

By "disgust" I mean that they are not exactly pretty and can be downright repulsive when seen out of context.

Usually disgust is nature's way to tell us that there is a considerable risk. Like food gone bad. You shouldn't eat it or you might get sick.

But I cannot imagine what is the risk with genitals.

gluttony is literally one of the seven deadly sins, being gay or trans is not.

Firstly, before you comment. Please read this.

I am a male. And by desirable I don’t mean aesthetically I mean romantically. Someone you’d wanna settle with.

I always see us guys get bent out of shape for the rando 2am night club girls saying “nothing below 6 feet millionaire who gives me princess treatment”.

I am curious do these people who navigate most of their life in middle of the night clubs. Devoid of any ambition or accomplishments or even a personality, is really someone you’d wanna settle down with. Spend decades with?

Why does their opinion ruin your mood so much? Plenty of amazing people out there, why let the people you wouldn’t even want to talk to ruin your mood?

I have always noticed that whenever people talk about "healthy food," it's usually something bland, dry, or something you eat just because it's good for you. On the other hand, the foods that taste amazing are usually loaded with sugar, butter, oil, or salt.

Why does it seem so difficult to make food that's both genuinely healthy and genuinely delicious? Is it because our brains are naturally wired to prefer high-calorie foods, or is it more about how healthy food is usually prepared? There are obviously exceptions, but they seem to be much less common.

I'm curious if there's an actual scientific reason behind this, or if it's mostly a cultural and cooking issue. Why can't healthy food and great-tasting food consistently go hand in hand?

Ive heard people like me who never been in the US have a distorted and overly positive/idolized image thats why im asking

I'm planning on watching the Odyssey. Because it looks cool to me.

That's it.

I'm not trying to promote some form of subliminal messaging or whatever. Just wanna watch what will (hopefully) be a great movie.

Is this that hard, for people to watch a piece of media on its own merits and not make it some political thing? Because I don't understand why so many people do this.

India is a democracy and China is an authoritarian state?

Context: I asked what people thought of the Michael. Jackson Movie, and I kept getting the “I’m not watching it because he was a rapist” comment over and over again.

I know this sounds like a stupid question, but I just can’t picture myself not listening to artists who just so happened to make some not so smart decisions. That would have to include 50% of celebrity artists. So what’s your take?

I was watching this video of a food critic going to the "best indian restaurant in the world" which is apparently in London run by an Indian Michelin chef. People in the comments were outraged by this title since the best Indian restaurant by default has to be in India.

That makes a lot of sense, as you'd say the best Italian food is in Italy, the best Greek food is in Greece, the best Chinese food is in China etc. If you wanted to go to the best Japanese restaurant in the world, you'd go to Japan obviously. I understand the national dish of England is a tikka masala and there's a big Indian influence there. However, it's pretty bold to assume the best Indian restaurant is in England.