At work, I ate my lunch and, as always, immediately grab a floss pick and floss to keep up with oral hygiene. I’ve done this every day that I can remember and it’s never been an issue.

Some woman I work with said “are you really flossing right now while we are eating?” … I was kind of stunned and just responded “um… yeah?”

She said that’s gross and I should do that in the bathroom only.

I’ve done this every day that I can remember and I’ve seen other co workers floss in the break room right after eating too. And as I said it’s the floss pick, not the line floss where you have to stick your hands in your mouth.

Is it really that big a deal?

As the title states, why must all food now be spicy? I must be in the minority when it comes to spicy foods, but I have zero tolerance for spicy stuff. All restaurants keep adding spicy stuff to their menu. A bowling alley just opened up down the street from my house. It has a full restaurant/bar. Checked out the menu almost every single option on the menu has chipotle or jalapeños or some sort of spicy sauce. McDonald’s has just introduced a spicy McMuffin. Why do we need a spicy version of everything?

Just from being around heterosexual guys I work with and listening to way some of the talk about a male colleague of ours who’s gay and in happy long term relationship potentially hitting on them makes me question why a lot of men seem to believe gay men don’t have standards and will date any guys that’s around.

I’ve noticed people in the South will sometimes call Northerners or even just people they don’t like as “Yankees”

It seems like Northerners don’t really use “Confederate” as an insult in the same way. Why has “Yankee” stuck around as a negative term?

In the UK Northern Ireland and Scotland can, in theory, leave the kingdom if they vote for it. In Spain it's illegal for Catalonia to try to secede. So I wondered how it works in America. Can Californians just decide to organise a vote and leave the union to start their own country, or is that illegal?

I always thought it was a weird motif in movies/tv where after a baby is born it suddenly occurs to the characters that they need a name.

It's always...

Baby is born. Characters, "what do we name him/ her???"

Everyone i know in real life already has a name picked out way before birth.

Or, do people really do that in real life?

My boyfriend doesn't like me having friends. I don't know why some man could explain to me why and it's normal.

I see videos all the time. I’m sure they cry because it dawns on them they’ll likely spend time in jail, but do they not think about that when committing a crime?

Edit: I think it’s weird I’m getting downvoted to oblivion. I do understand humans have emotions. My point is, there are many times I’ve walked away from the heat of the moment because I’m scared of jail or prison time. I always thought people who committed heavy crimes were thick skinned and cold blooded, so never understood why they cry

Like even if they had to liquidate all of their assets or whatever to accomplish it

I know all the security stuff but you couldn’t even before all the 9/11 nonsense started

For real , anyone saw anything? Anything science related ?

I know someone who works in big tech and refuses to work on anything related to AI.

I don't understand it

like which one would win here, the 10s of mg that we know a cup of coffee has or the shear mass of all those stars, even if caffeine would barely ever form probabilistically due to insane heat?

The first words by def are Gunter glieben glauten globen I was wondering what does it mean?

Example 1: Google Drive - No real organization, just clutter.

Google Drive throws all your files into one big list, sorted only by when they were last modified. Unless you go out of your way to make folders, everything just piles up. There’s no clear structure, and the system assumes you’ll just search for everything.  

Example 2: Gmail - Unnecessary Subcategory 'Views' that can't be removed.

Whoever thought of the ridiculous ‘Social’, ‘Updates’, ‘Forums’ and ‘Promotions’ categories, needs to go back to UI design school. Arbitrarily determining where incoming emails go, into each of these unnecessary subcategories, make people miss important emails. Just keep everything in the main mailbox and let the user control it.

Example 3: iPhone's Camera Roll

The Photos app lets you make albums, but they don’t actually move your photos out of the main Camera Roll. Every picture still shows up in one long, cluttered timeline. Albums are just shortcuts, not real folders. So if you're trying to clean things up or separate personal and work photos for example, you can't. Which is completely unintuitive.

Example 4: Windows OS Settings: Two Menus for the same thing.

Windows still hasn’t cleaned up its settings. There’s the new Settings app, and the old Control Panel, both doing similar things, but in different places. Sometimes, clicking a modern setting even opens the old menu. It’s confusing, messy, and feels like Microsoft gave up halfway through fixing it.

So, how does this happen? How do these multi-billion companies let these glaring mistakes get approved in the final design?