ArcticAmphibian
@ArcticAmphibian@lemmus.org
The shore is cool, but dry. Back into the comforting murk.
- Comment on Help me out here 4 months ago:
To betray one’s own heart in the interest of profit, such a cost is fair.
- Comment on Help me out here 4 months ago:
“$3 million/year, 1 night/week.”
- Comment on I need to wake up early 5 months ago:
Or an Amazfit band (Mi band but the more western-sold version). The Band 5 is pretty cheap and has a decent buzzer.
- Comment on How would you decorate this room? 6 months ago:
If a fan falls in a closed room but nobody is around to hear it, did it make a sound?
- Comment on I mean have they seen our stipends 6 months ago:
The purpose is to attract them to businesses. The elderly are least likely to spontaneously decide to go out.
- Comment on arthropods 6 months ago:
Don’t move to the American Southeast. Look up palmetto bugs.
- Comment on Anon caused 9/11 7 months ago:
Nowhere in the US Flag Code does it say to bring the flag if it touches the ground. The code says separately that you shouldn’t let it touch the ground, and that if it is too damaged for display it is to be disposed of by burning. Not that accidentally touching the ground automatically necessitates burning.
- Comment on When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why? 7 months ago:
He’s saying that HISTORICALLY women were viewed as such. That’s his guess at what logic prehistoric humans went through, not his own.
- Comment on ))<>(( 7 months ago:
$((A+B))
- Comment on top shelf 10 months ago:
‘Shitpost’ and ‘Shiptoast’ are similar (1 extra vowel and a pair of contiguous consonants switched) so the joke is a pun on the phrase ‘quality shitpost.’
- Comment on Sophie's choice 70s edition 10 months ago:
French philosophy is also responsible for our country’s system of government. Montisquieu argued for separation of powers, natural (inalienable) rights and the right to revolution comes from Locke, the social contract with individual liberties comes from Rousseau. Our constitution is a bunch of French philosophy shoved together into a very (for the time) unique Enlightenment-based government.
- Comment on AITA for not wanting my future MIL in the delivery room? 1 year ago:
Yeah, you’re NTA. You’re the one giving birth, and your word is final. At least make them wait until after the birth is complete and you and the baby are cleaned up. It sounds like your fiancee needs to learn to stand against his mother more often.
- Comment on M*A*S*H in space? 1 year ago:
The difficult thing about planet-side battles in Star Trek is the phasers. When one is hit with a phaser on high power, there is nothing left worth saving by a medic. Weapons in Trek are too efficient to make surface war particularly entertaining.
- Comment on WIBTA if due to my wife's health i sought my needs elsewhere? 1 year ago:
As long as she doesn’t find out? In this case, no. She’s not in the state to be making that decision with you, and if she was well, she’d want you to be happy. But for her, don’t see anyone regularly. Hookups are fine, cheating is not.
- Comment on AITA for not letting my friend bring her boyfriend to my wedding? 1 year ago:
You’re NTA, but this will definitely have an effect on the relationship between you and your friend.
- Comment on AITA for being ‘rude’ to my daughter’s school and friends’ parents? 1 year ago:
The school is NTA, they were doing their job. You are NTA, you explained it reasonably well. Your wife is TA for worrying more about her social standing than her daughter getting picked up.
- Comment on AITA for screaming at my oldest because he didn't call me when his brother showed up at his apartment at 4 in the morning? 1 year ago:
Yes, YTA. Ian shouldn’t be sneaking out to go drinking at 15, but he was responsible enough to go to Joseph’s apartment instead of staying someplace unsafe. Ian is the one that you can be mad at, not Joseph. Joseph was nice enough to take care of your son, who was clearly less afraid of his brother than you, and made sure that you would be contacted via his girlfriend. He let Ian recover from the worst of the alcohol before sending him home, and that speaks volumes about how you parent your children.
Thank Joseph for looking out for his brother, and calmly ask him to send you a text sooner next time. Ask Ian why he snuck out, and avoid over-punishing (he will do it again).
- Comment on AITA for not taking my sister's parrot (which I "promised" to take care of at 9)? 1 year ago:
NTA. Forget the people - think about the bird. Explain to Jane that if she loves the bird, she should let you find it a home that’s more suited to it. That bird will be miserable and depressed in your cramped little apartment, left alone for most of the day. These birds need interaction to be healthy. For the sake of the bird, do NOT keep it if you’re not a good fit.
- Comment on WIBTA for not inviting my mom's family to her funeral after she went NC with them years ago 1 year ago:
NTA. Those people weren’t family. They were blood relatives, but the word ‘family’ means a sense of love and trust that was clearly not present. You can tell them where the grave is after a quiet ceremony has passed and they can pay respects later. Be careful not to announce the ceremony too loudly, as they may seek to attend against your wishes.
- Comment on AITA for not wanting to « fire » my maid to please my girlfriend ? 1 year ago:
NTA. Your wife IS overreacting, but that’s probably because she’s still embarrassed about the whole shower incident. Ask her to hold off on deciding what to do until everyone is calmed down, then calmly talk it out with her. Maybe she’ll be fine with Amy doing the dishes and cleaning but not clothes, for example, and once she has calmed she will be more open to such compromises.