IRR = Interesting Reads on Reddit.

[original post date = 20 september 2017]

So what happens for this is I browse reddit a lot, and make bookmarks of stuff I think will be good for IRR. I did this on my laptop and then that laptop broke. I've since recovered the hard drive and the bookmarks, and now I have all these reddit links for that week's IRR.

To put it bluntly I'm really not feeling up to going through them and describing what made them especially interesting (if I could even remember) so here's a link dump of the stuff:

Although high school students may think popularity is of the utmost importance, a new study found that it may not lead to long-term happiness. What mattered more, according to the study, is whether the teens had close friendships they maintained over time. • r/science

Prison food worker: 'I was fired for refusing to serve rotten potatoes' • r/news

ELI5:Why do toddlers love to hand you things? • r/explainlikeimfive

What makes absolutely 0% sense to you? • r/AskReddit

The Legion Lonely: Why American men are generally more lonely than women. • r/TrueReddit

As a german I never fully understood Watergate. What happened and why was it such a scandal? • r/AskHistorians

Does anyone else feel like they became a different person after 30? • r/CasualConversation

Why does rape have such deep and long-lasting effects on victims? (*im nervous asking this, I'm not downplaying the seriousness, please be gentle with me) • r/NoStupidQuestions

What's an obscure unit of measurement and how is it used? • r/AskReddit
This one was really cool tbh

After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople - there are an estimated 30 million jobs in the U.S. that pay at least $55,000 per year and don’t require a bachelor’s degree. • r/TrueReddit