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Every person on the planet is unique. But when it comes down to it, we are far more alike than it might seem. No matter what country we live in or what language we speak, there are plenty of things we can all relate to, like our brain deciding bedtime is the perfect moment to replay every embarrassing thing we have ever said. If anyone has figured out how to stop that, by the way, please let us know.
And r/meirl has made an entire community out of exactly that. One of the most popular subreddits on the platform, it is entirely dedicated to funny memes and relatable posts that hit a little too close to home. Scroll down to feel both seen and called out.
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Really, when you think about it, it is incredible how connected we all are as people, even when we live at opposite ends of the world. Whether someone is in North America or South Asia, they equally know the comfort of a home cooked meal prepared with love. The food might be different, but the feeling hardly is.
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Roman Arendt 11 hours ago
The sound editing in series (TV or streaming) nowadays often makes it necessary to turn on subtitles. And don't get me started on the lighting...
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Clare 1283 10 hours ago
If I went on a field trip with the ppl I work with, it would be like being on a school field trip again!
When Bad Bunny released his latest album with the famous white plastic chairs on the cover, he did not just speak to Puerto Ricans or the Latin American community. So many people around the world know exactly what it was like to spend late summer evenings having the best conversations of their lives on those chairs.
And then there are the experiences that need no cultural context at all. Having a crush, falling in love, finding a favorite song, laughing with friends, going through loss. These are things that belong to everyone.
But how close we are as people goes even further than shared feelings and memories. Consider, for instance, how fascinating it is that all of us exist as one species. Among animals, there are countless species and subspecies with enormous differences between them.
We humans are an unusual group in that sense. Even though we may have different skin tones, hair, eye colors, and features, we are all homo sapiens—wise humans—and biologically, any two people on earth are essentially the same.
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Robert Millar 10 hours ago
It's to panic people into a decision they probably wouldn't have made otherwise.
According to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the DNA of all human beings living today is 99.9% alike. We all have roots extending back 300,000 years to the emergence of the first modern humans in Africa, and more than 6 million years to the evolution of the earliest human species.
In evolutionary terms, that is not a long time, and it means there has been little opportunity for significant genetic divergence to occur. We all share the same basic body plan, brain structure, nervous system, and physiological processes. In the most literal sense, we are built the same way.
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Clare 1283 10 hours ago
I hate these things. For some unknown reason, they induce panic if I don't have both parts.
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Culturally, the similarities run deeper than most people might expect too. A study from UC Riverside collected data from more than 15,000 university students across 62 countries, looking at how people in different parts of the world experience everyday situations.
The findings were striking. Researchers found that people across the globe tend to have similar, mostly positive social interactions on a daily basis.
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Multa Nocte (she/her/86 47) 12 hours ago
Correction: If you were doing a statistics practical you WERE in hell.
“Even though individuals within the same country have more similar experiences than those in different countries, the differences are barely noticeable,” said Daniel Lee, the lead author of the paper published in the Journal of Personality. “The world is a much more similar and unified place than we once thought.”
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Jerome Lenovo 11 hours ago
or books .... still works fine. Has better information than realsupersayan2008 or machopitcho98
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OutsiderDogMom 10 hours ago
It was two decades ago when I met then-partner's friends. They only talked about their common friends, what they had done together in the past and things only they knew about after which I got "wow, you're so quiet, do you ever talk"...
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Multa Nocte (she/her/86 47) 12 hours ago
My paternal great-grandparents moved from France to the US and I have moved from the US back to France.
The study did find some nuances. In more individualistic countries, everyday situations were more likely to be described as enjoyable and competitive. In countries scoring higher in neuroticism, situations were more likely to involve negative emotions. In countries higher in openness, situations were more likely to involve things like music.
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Optimus Octopus 8 hours ago
Jumping off the climbing gym at recess is probably why my knees creak every time I get out of a chair.
So if you came here and found yourself relating to strangers on the internet—congratulations. That is a genuinely wonderful thing, and probably something that deserves its own post on r/meirl.
How much we share across all our differences is worth holding onto, and is just as important as everything that makes each of us our own person.
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Luke || Kira (he/she) 8 hours ago
Me as a husband: "Woman, go to the kitchen! I've cooked you something nice and I want you to taste it ^^"
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Beak Hookage 8 hours ago
Someone actually used my doorbell yesterday and I just about jumped out of my skin.
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Laszlo Larthlanc 4 hours ago
I have a friend whose work has caused her to hire a cleaning lady to come in once a week. She cleans the house before the cleaning lady comes over.
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Tina Girard 9 hours ago
The BANG didn't wake him up? Or, you know, the sharp blow to the head?
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Michael Melfa 11 hours ago
My quarantine was going home to home to do service calls wearing a mask and hearing everyone's 2 cents about masks, covid, and vaccines.
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Beak Hookage 8 hours ago
Incorrect; the actual reply would be "I o orry", spoken around what I'm still 100% convinced is a couple of full-sized couches the guy shoved in there first.
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Lost Panda 11 hours ago
Not sure how old that post is, but the UNO licensed PC UNO game you can do just that, so either they changed the rule to allow it, or the person running that social media account doesn't know how to play UNO
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Rali Meyer 4 hours ago
yeah, like comments, like: "Perfectly packaged. Boxes' angles were all 90 degrees. 5/5 can recommend." No mention about the content at all
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